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MTlPFOTiP MATT, TRTTiUXK MEnFOKP, Ofir.fiO. Til PREPAY. nEPEMUKR U. 101fi. FADE TTITJER PROVIDES REBATE The Medynski plan for the solu tion of Medford's naviiiK prohlcin was presented to a crowd of 250 people, gathered In the small hall of the Natatorium last night. The speakers or tho evening were, Miss Anna Jof for.v, who presided, V. J. Newman, a local attorney Interested in'tho pass iiiR of tho measure and F. V. Me dynski, father of the measure. Tho meeting was opened by' Miss .Teffery, who read the pending Initia tive mcasuro and the ordinance, which will be put into effect In event the measure is passed. With the use of the charts pro pared by Colonel Howard A. Hanson, corporation counsel for Seattle, who was employed by the city to work out a plan for the solution of Medford fi nances in general. Mr. Newman who followed, outlined the merits of the Medynski measure and analyzed tho Hanson plan. Only SllKbt Difference. The Medynski measure, as ex plained, a sit is now beliiK initialed, is different from the measure which was defeated n year rko only In the method of refunding. The measure last year proposed tho refunding of the entire amount paid by 'property owners for paving assessments with cash, to be raised by the sale of bonds to cover the total outstanding paving indebtedness. Realizing the difficulty of dispos ing of nearly a million dollars wort't cf bonds at one flotation under the terms called for, which provide that they shall bear interest at 5 per cent, and shall be sold at or above par. the fathers of tho present measuer have provided that in event tho entire flo tation cannot be made favorably, that r per cent bonds in the sum of $"icn, Ooo shall bo sold and tho balance shall be issued to property owners, vl'c have paid paving assessments, in the form of 3 per cent time warrants, one-twentieth of which shall be re funded each year until the entire Is sue. Is retired. , l'mviiles Kcvnluution. The plan also proposes an entire revaluation of property within the city; tho raising of valuations on properly on paved streets and the lowering of valuations on unpaved streets. The history of the paving question of Medford was outlined by Mr. New man, beginning at the time the first pavement was laid and ending at th present time. He stated that the present Medynski plan is an out growth in part of the report filed with the council 1S months ago. Mr. Newman deplored the paying out of city money to an outsider. Col onel Hanson for working out a plan wh'-n eight attorneys of this city, who have labored for tho past IS months on the so-called iiO-no plan without any visible progress were not paid even for their stenographer's fees. This ."0-"0 plan, Mr. Newman stated, was the most advantageous Vlan for the solution of the paving jiroblem. The Hanson plan, Mr. Newman con tinued, would leave the city exactly where she is today with no progress toward freedom from debt made. Following .Mr. Newman. Mr. Me dynski spoke briefly of the merits of his plan and of his Interest in the rights of "the masses." which led him to champion their cause. Mr. Medynski said in part: "You were also told at that time, that if you would defeat the Medyns ki plan, the council would give you a better measure. Some of you de pended on that deceiving promise, , you waited a whole year with no re sults. Finally some of the disap pointed ones became very uneasy, and came to me asking if I would put up the measure again. I told them the people had defeated it, and the people must he the ones to resubmit it if it came up again. Thereupon, they pre vailed upon Mr. Fehl to resubmit it for them, and the measure Is up for you to decide. "Some people seem to think and maintain it will be harder to pay for this paving as a public debt in twenty yearly installments than it would bo to pay for it as a private debt in ten yearly Installments, the debt being the same amount, and virtually the same people having the debt to pay in either case. Thi3 is an absurdity for wo all know that It would be easier to pay one-twentieth of the debt as an Installment each year for 20 years, than It would be to pay one tenth of the debt as an installment each year for ten years.'' YOUNG GIANT ATTRACTS CROWD t 'tN a ! ' i M "f I . I A....... I n w t j mx , , J X 3t SvLS rS.U. V;.t " A.fc8w . il fa) "4 - r IL. -i, g Citizens of aioux City, la., are being treated to an unusual sight a boy who measures 7 feet, 11 iuc!:;s. Ilernard Koyue, who lives tear Olo, In northwest Iowa, is in Sioux City to lay In a tui ply of clothes. Everything he wears has to be made to order. He wears No. 11 shoes, and No. lit collar. He has reinsed many circus offers, preferring farm life. TI:c young giant is shown here beta-eon two men, each of whom "measures 5 foot 10 inches. lf 14. Lake great lakes more than ninety millions have been made. Involved 111 tho matter is also the project dreamed of for years by Chi cago, of u Lake to the Gulf commer cial water route through tho Des I' lames river to the Mississippi. Fishing In the Rogue (From the Portland Oregonlan.) The sportsmen of Oregon, or some of them, had a convention in Portland the other day, and endeavored to find a solution to a few of tho many prob lems which ever arise to vex the angler and the hunter. Their discus sions were interesting and perhaps in some respects conclusive; but a decision reached as to at least one more question will not appeal to the general public, which regards sport as an evolution and sportsmanship as ; stectheads; and they say besides that something more than a mere couven-1 the proposed prohibition is no remedy The anglers desire to have the un restricted and uninterrupted right to fish for salmon, trout and other fish. Tho law now provides that steelheads may not be caught by seines or nets or sold. Tho Jackson county anglers claim that the cannery at the mouth of the river have, nevertheless, de stroyed the steelbead, and they want them penalized and restrained from all fishing. The reply of the down river fishermen Is that the charge Is false and that they do not molest the Hon, as having been founded in rea son, ethics, or justice. The sports men by a small vote declared that the Kogue Itiver ought to be closed to commercial fishing. The inspiration of this extraordi nary action is a few sportsmen of for the anglers, for during the pre vious closed period it was proved that tho spawning fish befouled the entire stream, and steelbead angling was no better than at tho present time. The whole issuo over Rogue Uiver is as to tho existence of the fishing Jackson county, who feel that the and canning industry, giving a liveli upper reaches of the Roguo River Jhoorl to several hundred men and were divinely placed for their pleas-1 keeping two canneries going. Shall lire and that recreation, not com-: they be shut down and the fishermen nierce, ought to be the chief utility of j denied the right to a livelihood, in its abounding fish life. A few years the interest of the upper-river sports ago they procured through the initia- j men? five passage by the people, of a law 1 As the situation Is. the sportsmen prohibiting commercial fishing with now get some of the fish in the results so disastrous that the legis- Rogue. What they desire Is all the lature later was obliged to repeal the fish for themselves, and none for the law and open the river to the fisher-, men who seek to muke a living in that men and the canners. way. CAUSE TOKK) PANIC $35,000 LIBEL VERDICT TOKIO, Deo. I I. News dispnU'lics from Xew York ver! the first in-j of $'J formation reaching liore of Germany's ; today XKW YOKK, Doc It. A verdict ,000 wan Rivni Uy a jury here in favor of Poli'-e Magistrate WASHINGTON", Dec. MUhigun and the other ure leaking. Chicago has illegally tupped thum and tho water is goiiiK out no fast that the harher entrances and channels between the lakes uro lieing shallowed. This Inconveniences shipping and threatens to burden the federal government with an addition ul expenditure of many millions to deepen the harbors and channels. Ah injunction to prevent the water theft Is pending in the I'nited St a tea Dis trict Court of the Northern District of Illinois has been pending sluco 1'ios but eight years is nothing to a court. The Secretary of war thinks it Is about time soineHiing was done and has commtinicated this opinion to congress. Tho troublo begun with Chicago's notion that the best way to dispose of its sewage would be to re verso the current of the Chicago river, which had become the. city's sewor and which was dumping tho sewage into the lake, whence the dtp drew Ms water supply, und to have the river flow from l,ako Michigan Into tho Illinois river and thence into the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico. Hevei'Me-d Itiver. For this purpose the city organized what is culled the "drainage district" and dug a thirty-foot channel con necting the upper fork of the Chicago river with the Illinois river. By cut ting the divide between the watershed of the Great Lakes and that of the Mississippi, -the course of the Chicago rivor, was in fact, reversed and it has been flowing "up hill" for a num ber of years, with water taken from Lake Michigan. Tho result, so far as sewage is concerned. Is beneficial to Chicago. The sewago is diluted and distributed over a wide precipitation area and Is undoubtedly dissipated and destroyed by tho action of the sun and air without contaminating tho Mississippi, but the waters of Lnke Michigan and tho other lakes are being lowered. When the canal was first opened application was mnde to the war de partment for permission to tap Lake Michigan. The war department felt that thn request was rather a grave ono ami declined to either deny or assent, and compromised by grunting a temporary license. Inver level of Luke, The growth of population In Chi cago makes necessary larger diver slons than thoso already made, per haps to the extent of 10,000 cubic feet per second, according to the sani tary district engineers. The United States lake survey estimates that this amount would lower the waters of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron nearly seven inches; of Lake Krie, about Va inches, and Lake Ontario about H inches, mean lake levels the reduction being much greater at lower water periods. The effect of such lowering it Is said of the lake levels, would be enormous losses to navigation interests, necessitating "large expenditures by the general government for the restoration and reorganization of river and harbor improvements on the Great Lukes and their conned ing waters, for which already appropriations aggregating Friday evening after choir practice the Kpworth League gives a reception lo its new members In the auditor ium of the First M. K. church. The attendance of all interested is urgent und a good time Is assured. peace proposal. The news was a sur-j prise and caused a panic on the stock f exchange. Shipping stocks tumbled j and were followed by other seciiri- ties until the governor's ordered tho j exchange closed until December 15.' The foreign office, the Bank of Japan ; and other influential circles have re-1 ceived no advices, but gave out in terviews expressing a firm belief that i the allies would not consider any 'proposition, which would leave Ger I many in her ante-war position, or anything approximating thereto. Joseph K. Corrigan in his suit against the liobbs-Merrill company of Indian apolis, Ind., publishers of George Bronson Howard's novel "God's Man,' hi which he -alleged he was libelled. He sued for $,im,,0OO damages. Cor riuan charged that one of the chlf characters in the novel was Intended to represent him and (hat it contained matter defamatory to him. BERLIN PAPERS ASK FOR "VICTORY PEACE !! BAZAAR Come and ee what Is Made in Ore gon at the Deuel Building, Decem ber 14. HI. In connection wUh pale. Is the bazaar many Xmas nriicle-. i-T BKKLIX, Dec. 1 I. The Krnez Zeltung expressed the fear Hi at any peace which to the entente allies does not bear the aspect of defeat would prove a pirat danger for Germany and be only an armistice. Die Post doubts the expediency the peace ofer. bin says il Is glad no neutral h;is been asked to mediate. The Taegiirclie Kundschau fears that i the entente allies will draw out the negotiations by making Impossible counter-proiiO'als, hoping to enlist the pressure from "neutral America." The Tages ZeJtunc says it wishes Dr. von Bf thniann-Hoilwf'-: had em phasized more strongly the f.ii t that Germany offered peace a- a vi-tor and that the peace lei ins niiitt ade quately reward Germany for the sac rifices she has made. Tho socialist organ,- Voi waerts. says a great und a uiiiuue feature in the offer Is thM It break with th" oiil tniditi-m tbut the d'-fr.it' d bide LAKE OF PISE IN KSLAVEA RISING FAST IIO.NOI.I I.I', T. II.. Dec. H. The '.aUc of flic within the crater "C Kil ana lias risi'n to within JfO :.vt of Mia rim and la cliinhini; raitiiliy. i'i o ('!?icr Thoniiis Augustus Jag 3 it, .Ir., (irictor of the Hawaiian volcr.no ol: i.i rvatory, said today It would i.rjh ,1ldy reach the top. He said th'.- iilie nomcnon wa uhi'arallcled in tiie la-t fjuartor century. A Woman's Trouble. INT HOI RULE ST. THOMAS, 11. W. I Hoc. 14. At a muss meeting held hero today tho following resolution was adopted and cabled to tho homo Rovcrnment at C'openhaRcn: "The island does not desire to ho tioverned like Torto Kico, but wishes to be pormltted lo lunmiKe its own af fairs under the federal government, American citizenship to be accorded immediately ou the transfer, the port to bo free and natives to bo given preference In appolntmentu to gov ernment positions." A delegation prohnbly will be sent to W'ashiiiKton lo support tho stand taken In this resolution. With Medford trade is Medford made Trnitldalr, Ore- j V'Mlii lrim,led with I VltML ' 1 j t!W,llhwl,Kl women suf i -fAmmi lot mill niter tak. iim-ZJKm m k ix.m.i. of ts-. noctor f ierce 8 'jxW tinp I was entirely r-Me.v'"i. M. K. .lottN.-OM. TroutUaIcfOregun, The miplity restorative power of Poet or fierce 'a Favorite Prescription ppeedily causes all womanly troubles to disappear compels the organs Ut properly perforin their natural func j tioiiK, coir'-cffl displacement., over- j comes irrcpilmilicK, removes pain r.nd j misery at. certain timc.i and brings j bivk health and fdrengih to iicnoutij . irritable and exhausted women. For all diseases peculiar to women, Ir. Pierre's ! avnrito Prescription is & powerful restorative. I'or nearly 50 yea in 't lias banished from lb) liveg of tens of thousands of women ' the pniu, worry, miery nnd dilreps i caused by irregularities nud diseases : of a feminine character. I AVhat I'r. PienVs Favorite Tre-! Rfriolion done for tlinii-rinfl it. i tne commencement off wj do- for you. (Jet it tht.1 very dny ! Iroin any mefhcnie th alcr, in cither ' liquid or tablet form, or Fend cents I to Dr. Pierce. Invalid?' Hot-, Kufi..lo, . Y., for trial box of tablets. 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Ak A II iipA thus ask for pca'e negotiations, j he uewpppper ; siiys thnt in view of the fact that ; French sorialiMs belonu to ft govern-j ment allied with Hus.-la und thus are f committed to It't-.-ia'n recently pro-j chtimed plans for conquest ,-and tliat lnirlish socialists have jn.Ht entered the TiritMi taliinet with a proKpou of fiulitiuy: to a finish, it cannot In ilule in troitK hope. that (lniianv'H overt urea Mil lead to puu c, (jHMtiovn f-f far? Are fnllv nnd propetly answered inT'ne P-oplc f'oni- i infui feline. .Metlicjil Adviser, by II. V. Pierce, M. I, It contains the I.ih.'a- nJe yonti; loan r wonum, U, or ' flaiiKliter, should bitV". HW pa'i i ' with color plate-, bound in cMh. Hy ' iMlil, prepaid ou receipt of ' tliincs l'ifitestliiK Probibitiie Priev Hardware Herald Written Willi I loul'le. Hilled Jtnmil Ax. I'll id KImmI Senil'Di'i-nsionaliy Cratev Lalie llafdunre Co. VOL. 0. MKIJKOKI) OltKlilKV, MAIN ST., IIKC. Ill hi. NO. S. 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