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.''
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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.
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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.
May each o9 yo9 gifts fill an
empty place in somebody s
heart An'mayyo9 Chris'mtts
O dreams be the sweeter for the
. happiness a the little kiddies
). tht Santa Clau3ahnost forgot
sa . (taw
Is rflSill
lit; pT&W
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AND may your old pipe be the
sweeter for beins filled with
mellow VELVET.
If vou are one of Velvet Joe's friends,
remember that his simple, kindly geniality is remarkably
akin to the genuine tobacco comfort found in every pipeful
of VELVET, The Smoolhest Smoking Tobacco. For
there's a. true friendliness
in Kentucky's best Burley
tobacco, when that aged-in-the-wood
mellowing has
changed it into VELVET.
VELVET Holiday -
Humidors have the
new convenient Ash
Tray top.
11 Or: Tin J
Me' al-'irtsci Bags
Out! Pound GLvis Humidors
i ' :0f! 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
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if SHOPPING
lil DAY5
CHraSTMAS
Christmas Shopping Off With a Rush
rsi;i i ;. pi;i;si, js watcii-wokii oi tiik si;aso.
p New riii'M.nm (mmmIh Arriving laily.
; tie
We have mm ta ntial L.ii'l,s lor
Mtlle t't)4 to the l'iowii u;i.s.
Have you iein The New Her
aldic Pattern In Powers Pro.-; 1 1 7
AVare? We have It on dl-'piay jit
our store.
-li'fcersoll W ate lies priced from
?l.?r to fo' a 7-Jewol move-
nirnt, anil U-enr L'uniiinteed nobl
case A bejiutv,
--Jilnniond Kd-:e pfu ket Kulvf-K,
Over J"in nltlreiit pattcriif to se
lect or f in. AN umiranteed. dia
mond Kdu' if !' quality pjeil'
Buy Dad
a Safety Razor
$1.00 to $5.00
Culver?
from
ul P
e to
i rctilitloi's. priced
$."..'iu. Tills i" ihi
nil-year tzft
cial'd by all-
that will be npi
every inem''cr of the family. I'roin
The Little
Hummer Bicycle
r;ir bo,M anil t-'lrlii 11.75
VELOCIPEDES
ROLLER SKATES
COASTER WAGONS
SLEDS
- Id.lliMiIld Kd-I"' .-'
Hi!--. AM lllllt 'lie
A ift HjhI any lady
iears and &
name tmpl.i
Is proud of.
- T!u hirce
merchandise
t line of this class of
In Medrord.
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