Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 15, 1916, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextPUGE FOUR Medford mail tribune AN NKWSPAPEK PUBUHHKI KVKHY AFT Kit NOON KXCEJ'T HllNDAY HY THE , MKpl'OllD I'ltJNTI.NG CO ; "offke Mull Tribune HulldlnK, 25-27-28 North "lr etrtot; telephone &, Th Democratic Timea, th Mrdford Mail. The MeuforU Tribune, The tsouth em OrtiTOiiluu The Ashland Tribune. GEO HOE PUTNAM, Editor STJBBCIlIPTXOZf EATEBI One yenr. by mull 15-00 One month, by until 50 I'tT month, delivered by carrier In Modford, Jhcwntx, JtickHonvlUe And (Vntral 'olnt f0 BMurdny only, by mall, per yenr.... 2.00 Wwkly. ptr ypar 1.50 Official Paper of the City of Medford. Official Paper of Jnckson County. Kntered an second -c In mh inattcr at Mrtirord, Oregon, under the act of March S, J879. Btrorn Ctrculutlon for 191B-S4C6 Pull leased wire Ansoclutcd I'rftHB dis-pnu-hea. EM-TEES A JOll 1'OK 1IOMKK ny I'linrlm II. llrlxcoll If Homer were alive today , I wonder what he'd writo; I bol he wouldn't wnste Ii In tlmo On tbiit old Torjun fight. He'd find no many human things. All ready to his pen; He'd chuck tho Grecian goddess stuff, And write of moral men. The things that Hauler's goddesses And Gods were wont to da, Were thought to be heroic then And somewhat graceful too. , But now If Homer wore alive, He'd find that things worth while Are dono by mon and womon who Huvo liuvo beat his gods a mlio. I think he'd wrlle nri epic verse, About a telephone, A Bonnet to a gentleman Who makes the Ice cream cone. Ho'd throw his Iliad away, Forget the wars of Greece; And write a deathless ode about The land that lives In peace. , A MlnenapolU genius finds that by reading a novel backwards tho plot Isn't changed and It's finished beforo It la started. Turning it shoe horn Is a cheap and also leads bt being tormed eccentric harmful wap of passing tho tlmo ami or wabbly In the walnut. At tho annual mooting of tho Porch Climber? of America it was resolved that the blacklist provall on all Es quimaux because, of ther failure to provldo porches on their domiciles. 1HI OYU KNOW THAT ' The follow that wrote ".Morrlly wo Abll Along, Roll Along, Hull Along" didn't have Jelly rolls In mind. Very few steeplejncks strat In paint ing a flagpole at the hotttom. ' Don't let your nose got Into other people's business. That's why a fork In used In eating pie. oxlv nr.MitoxKS. No babies alound Sign on the Chicago movie. PIII'KIj AND FNl'Ati ilia wnn stubbed six times In the roundhouse. Hickvlllo Mush, "Hl-OOKS" AT THE I'AffK THIS SI NDAY NKiHT Materialization of the spirits Unit Inhabit tho world Just beyond tho senses, Is what nr. Kddy. proposes to make till) main portion of his psychic demonstration at tho I'ngo theater this Sunday night. It Is said Dr. Kddy has dono much In the occult world that Is unbelievable to htm who has not seen Ills demonstrations and ex periments, and It Is said he has been mentioned In connection with the chair of experimental enthusiasm Hint is to be established at the Smithson ian Institute at Washington. Instead of calling for the tllm cabinet and the shaded lamp, It Is said Or. Kddy gives n!s demonstrations In tho full glare of tho lights und in front of the rom ttilttoe from tho audience, Bcsldts the psychic demonstrations that Or. Kddy makes manifest, he brings t'le spirit land beforo the spectators m that those, who came to doubt, no away convinced that there ts more in the psychic world than would appear possible to the man who does not loo'; below tho surface. The other exper.' mon's will Include supernatural vis ions, slute writing, floating tables and chairs. S28t NOTICE! Irrigation district meeting will be lield ot Ouk Grove school house on Medford-Jncksomillo road, nt 8 p. m. Saturday, December Id, 1910. Every, one conic tSlgned) COMMITTEE. Typewriter paper ot all kinds at Medford I'rlutlng Co. SHEARING WALL STREET is again slioariritf the luniks. The op erators of the Cliieago wheal pit are in the same pleasurable occupation. The German peace offer furn ishes the excuse for trimming the suckers this time. For some time stocks have been steadily boomed. Whenever the country becomes prosperous an era of Sec illation follows. The stock exchange offers the quickest and easiest way to make money also to lose it, Moreover, its in any gambling game, the professional dealers and players manipulate the cards, in addition to taking a rake off on each hand. The public is permitted to win a little money in order to make the speculative fever epidemic. Stocks are sent higher and higher as the dear public invests more and more upon margins, and feverishly counts its paper winnings. When the manipulators figure they have forced stocks as high as they can profitably, concerted selling "short" on the first, occasion breaks the market and breaks the specu lator. The paper profits vanish in a twinkling and the ac count "is sold out." The lamb is shorn, and his golden fleece further enriches Wall street coffers. Stocks are worth intrinsically just what they pay in dividends. The fictitious value, added or removed, does not affect their real valuation merely furnishes a vehicle for lite professional to rob the sucker who gambles on mar gins. If the activities of (lie stock exchange stopped here it would lie no worse t lian any it doesn't. The constant draining of the idle money into unscrupulous hands has concentrated wealth to a danger ous degree, and the iin.rket operators do not hesitate to use their power to wreck established institutions and indus tries in order ro reap additional ioruincs m the wrecking ami the rehabilitation, to tile The public pavs lor the speculative dance in increased prices upon prodm ts of industry and in excessive freight rates. The .same system obtains of the famous "corners" it who was fleeced, but t,Jie game consisted or trimming the producer by forcing' down the price of grain below the cost of production. Agitation and organization of producers stopped this, and it is iMr. Ultimate Consumer who is now the eventual victim of the system. The general public, pays the parasites of the grain pit in increased cost of living. THE HIGH COST OP GIVING RIGHT now everything is high cost, of living. Just as i a warning, however, about another week, it is going to switch for a time to high cost of giving. . Folk with the proper Christmas spirit, won't be af fected. Those, who give to get, or give for the impression it leaves, will be hit. And they usually are hit hard. With some people it might come down to almost a ques tion of "Shall we eat this week, or shall we give So-and-so a Christmas present!" Jii a case like that the real Christ mas spirit gets lost in the shuffle. Too many people get Christmas and Valentine . clay mixed. The latter used to be a time when we traded valen tines and let it go at that. But not, So with Christinas. There .is a real live spirit attached to Christmas. And in giving to friends, folk might better send a pos tal that they could afford, than go broke on something sent for the showing it makes. it is not what you give, but the spirit in which you give it, that counts. HOW THE LLOYD H10 was born George, and christened David. Orphaned early, he went with his mother to live with an uncle named Lloyd. : In honor of his mother's brother, the youngster called himself not plain David George, hut David Lloyd George., In his early political career he was called Mr. George. But the emphasis he put on the Lloyd got people into the habit of using also his middle name; he became Mr. Lloyd George. The English "Who's Who" inserts-a hyphen, probably reasoning that if custom couples the two names in speech they should also he coupled in print. The best English usage, however, is still Lloyd George, without the hyphen. L LOXIM1N', Pee. I V-Premier t'liunt Von Per Linden, udilrcs-,in;,' the loner house of the Dutch inrlin niciil vcstenliiy, said llial the Dutch government Mill believe there i denser of lliilliinil heintr dialed into the war, according to a dispatch to Hciitcr's from Tile Hague. The pre mier was spe;ikiiic on the budget and said thul tile country's munitions supply should be considerably in eieased ami thai in icw of the in ternational situation, it was unavoid able that sill 'l'iricnt military foncs he kept at the immediate disposal ol tho qo eminent. CAPLAN S CASE GOES TO JURY CMCE AGAIN ,1.0S AXGKI.KS, Col., Dec. 1 r. - The case of David Cuplun, on trial, lor the second timo for the nftii-der of Charles HaKeiiy, one of twenty men llllo In the lie' ti n -tlon or the l.OS Angeles Times building October I 1910, was lilven to n Jury in the su perior court today. The Jury dis agreed in the first trial last May. lifEDFORD MATL TRTBTTNE, MEDFORD, ORWiOX. FRIDAY, T1KCKM15KU Vk 1010. THE LAMBS other gambling device but demoralization ot the people in the wheat pit. In the days was not only the speculator GOT INTO GEORGE I LONDON, Dec. IS. The resigna tion of Premier Drntiauo of ltumanla is reported by the Budapest news paper Avitlng as quoted In an Ex change Telegraph dispatch rrom Co penhagen. A recent dispatch from Jussy the provisional capital ot Rumania, said al Itho niemncrs of the Itumaiiinn cabinet had resigned with the excep tion ot the premier. (Ol'KNliAGP.N, Pee. IS. The Ucrliti l.ol;nl Anzcigir says it lenms that .Major Kins! llnsscimuiiu of the national liberals in the rcielistnis has proposed a ineetinu' of the rrichslnf: Dunlin muiittee in order to discus.- the foreign political situation. The utiimM importance is attached to the pi.ipo-.cil uicctmi;, which i lo lie se cret, the newspaper adds. OF FREIGHT CARS WASHINGTON, Deo. IS. Drastic regulations adopted by the railroads went Into effect today with the ap proval of the inter-state commerce commissslon as emergency measures to relieve the shorluge of freight cars which for months has been a brake on the country's commerce and af fected the high cost of living. Tho remedy Is the railroads' own, propos ed by the car service commission bf the American Hallway association and formally approved by the federal commission. The first regulation provides that a consignee may havo the usual two days to unload a car and that there after demurrage shall be charged nt the rato of $1 for the first day, $2 for the second, $3 for the third and $.', for the fourUi and each succeeding day. Heretofore tho charge has been uniformly tl a day and many con signees, notably automobile concerns and coal dealers are declared to havo been glad to permit shipments to stand for long periods because the penalty was so small that It compared favorablp with warehouse charges. Another order Increases the daily rental paid by railroads to each other for cars from 45 to 7.1 cents per car, or about 70 per cent. Some eastern roads are said to havo from 5,000 to 10,000 foreign cars of a single type The order la expected to nialte serious difficulties for small roads which ncvur have bad sufficient equipment of their own. Tho rise in the price of coal is at tributed almost wholly to the car shortage aided by the alleged activity of speculators. i In respect to foodstuffs tho Batne situation is said to have applied, al though it lias been less acute. Recent orders of the commission which pro vide that receiving roads shall return box and refrigerator cars without de lay to the owning lines are said to be showing effect now. Further consideration of tho jirob- oms presented by tho shortage of cars is tho subject of a conference here today of officials of eastern roads. A nieetlug of some of tho chief ship pers of the country will ho held heir next week. , BLOCK IN ASHLAND ' DESTROYED BY FIRE ASHLAND, Ore.. .Dec. 15. Fire Thursday night destoryed a good portion of tho Allen-Cunningham block on North Main Btreet, oc c u pied by a bnkery, shoe shop, the Oregon Gas and Electric office and Mrs. Susie Allen's realty offices. Tho Cunningham portion was vacant and extensive rooming apartments ovor head. The flames wore discovered in the upper story. Tho loss was heavy as to building and stocks, with par tial Insurance. The properties are among the finest In the city.. Some furniture and fixtures were salvaged . The fire seems to have started In a room unsptnlrs where kindling wood was kept. Tho loss will total $15,000 to $20,000, on stock and building. Frank A. Cross of Carson City Alaska, snent the first of the week In Medford .is the guest of his sister, Mrs it, II. Ilutteii'ield and Mr. Dut terfieW. Mr. Cross Is en route from Alaska to Puos Kobles, Cal., where he will i rend the winter. He had with him an esklnio boy, 10 years of ase, whom bo brought to the I'nlted State to gl"e in education. The boy will enter the high school at Paso Holies Laugh When People Step On Your Feet Try this yourself then It along to others. It worksl pats Ouch !?!?!! This kind of rough talk will be heard loss here in town it people troubled with corns will follow tho simple advice of this Cincinnati authority, who claims that a few drops of a drug called freccone when applied to a tender, achiug corn stops soreness at once, and s-jon the corn dries ur. and lilts right out without pain, lie savs frcrrotic is an ether com pound which dries immediately and never inflames or even irritates the surrounding tissue or skin. A quarter of an outlet of freciono will cost very little at any ilrue store, but is autu- clent to remove every hard or soft corn or callus from one's feet. Millions of American women will welcome this announcement since the Inauguration ot the high lie.-U, JOHN A. PERL UNDERTAKES lArty Ajxtstnnt ' fl fl. It AHT1.KTT Plionc M. 47a nil 47-J-l Automobile 1 leant Service. Imkulano Servlca, Cere tier CAUSE 10SS OF DIVER Kl IiKKA, ( al., Dee. IS. A mis take of two miles in reckoning was auioug the reports here today lo ac count for the wrecking of the sub marine 11-11, which piled up yester day on the beach north of the en trance to Humboldt Hay. Officers und crew were taken uboniil the mother ship Cheyenne, after being rescued by breeches buoy. The 11-3 luy today stern on to the waves, teth ered lo the shore und hidden by the AceorduiK to one account ol the accident, the subninrine flotil'n, pro ceeding down the const from Bremer ton, Wash., believed itself onptjsito Humboldt bar and tlicll-li turned to run into harbor. The mistake was liscovered when the little cm ft was union!.' the breakers. COMMUNICATION. To tho Editor: In r-?ply to tho last letter of the manager of the canal compaby I have to say fiat It seems that he would like to convert this controversy Into a dirty, lnud-slin lng, -persona! campaign. 11.3 is so ever ready with mis-statements and vindication that it seems nothing but nuid nnd dirt gave him any pleasure. All of this tends to Illustrate tlK condition In which the district would find Itself If It should go into partner ship with a corporation under such management. Ho Bays the canal compary hns not sold water for 10,000 acrei by prior contract, but only 5000 aces. Who was it that smoked him out on this question He wants my authority for saying it Is 10.000 acres, and of fers bis books. My authority Is the statement made by Porter J. Neff. attorney for the canal company, to me on last Saturday. Mr. Neff had nlso made the same statement several times prior thereto, so that my au thority was probably good. He did say that of this 10,000 acres 7,000 acres wero somp way controlled by tho canal company probnbly refer ring to the Roguelands ncreags. The canal company Intends, if it sells this district water, to sell off up to S.'.OOO acres; therefore, even if the contracts wore later than teh contracts with the district, the district would still have n partnership either with Mr. Drown and Ills company or with all of these others to whom water has been nnd will be sold. Hence, in tho event of cxpenslvo repairs the district would have much trouble and probably some litlgatlou about who was to make tho repairs or improvements. Sik'cific Answers Mr. Ilrown wants specific answers to certain questions, and hera they are: First. Whether I did not diaw the petition for 55,0000 acres to be supplied from this water supply. 1 did not. Ho knew the statement was false when he made it. Second. Ho wants to know If I did not draw tho boundaries to fit the canal company's water supply. 1 did not and he knew it was false when he stated it. CAFE HOLLAND lUlEAKFAST MENU. . 13c 5 - Hot Cakes and Coffee or Milk Biscuits nnd Coffee or Milk. 20c Waffles and Coffee or Milk. Pakcd Apple r.nd Toast or Coftce. o..-jc 2 Eggs, any style, or Sausage and Wheat Cakes or Buckwheat Cakes Fried Potatoes Biscuit and Coffeee or Milk. Stowed Prunes or. Baked Apple ROc Oat Meal Ham or i'acou and Eggs, any stye Fried Potatoes Biscuit or Hot Cakes Coffee or Milk Stewed Prunes or Baked Applo 3.-ic Oat Meal Small Sirloin Steak Fried Potatoes Toast or Biscuit or Hot Cakes Coffee or Milk Stowed Prunes or Baked Apple 4llo Sliced Orange Oat Meal Poached Eggs on Toast Fried Potatoes Toast or Biscuits Coffe or Milk Stewed Prunes or Baked Apple WE ALSO SKRVK MERCHANTS' lA'XCII 25c SUITSM LEIN ' fOR Lomts TO ORDER $25.00 UP Also Cleaning, Pressing and Altering 128 E, MAIN, UPSTAIRS madeN VjiEorofiD Thi,,i lie sav that I accepted i their money to recommend a contrast ,r ne and one-half acre feet. This i T.-ss fulse and ho knew it was when he stated it. Fourth. Ho says I drew a petition for a district Including sub-divisions adjoining Medford. I did not draw , litigation, ana uecauso j uau kuowh it i, kw Oie statement waslthe stream all my life and did not false when he made It. Now, as to the above: as I have heretofore exiiluliied. In taking this single employment to pass on the near creeg wuiur. i ihbimuu mai mo form of a contract I did not know ; contract should contain a provision the methods and rottenness of the that when these owners had paid o' canal companv, nor did I attempt tolon their contracts they should ow determine bow much water each of jthe water, ditches nnd canals nnd bo the farmers required. As beforj stat- at liberty to enter a district if ono ed 1 undertook only to pass cn the was to be created, it was because form of the contract, and I mado a provision for an investigation as to the water supply and required the canal company to pay substantially toward tho expense thereof. Mr. Carpenter llrew 1'ctition With reference to the petition for the irrigation district as ! have before stated, there was a public committee of which Mr. Carpenter was a mem ber. He had his office with mo; and I tendered to the commission my ser vices without any hope of fee or re ward. If the petition Included sub divisions the fact was not known to me. if it included land Irrigable only from the canal onipanj"s system, this fact was not known to me, and I should think it would have been very strange inasmuch as the commission investigated other water supplies such as Squaw lake and Buck lake. But even If these things were all true that .deos not answer uny question in this case, ir they nave drawn tncir district lines so as to allow these owners of many lots adjoining tho town to vote mortgages on the far mers, then they ought to draw in their lines and exclude thorn. They ought to draw their lines so as to take In those who want irrigation and leave out those who do not, and they ought not to represent that tho gov ernment said they have an availablo water supply of 32,000 acre feet, when it expressly said that the data was meagre nnd when the govern ment report made no pretense of say ing that this water supply was suffic ient for this proposition. The man ager of the canal company says if they have not water enough for the 20,000 acres they will reduce the price but they have 25,000 acres in the district, it would do the farmer a lot of good to have the amount of his mortgage reduced, nnd be forever tied up, if ho did not get water en ough. This is the death-bed confes sion of a man who revels in a mud slingtng campaign. 1 As to Hear Creek Xow as to my being responsible You want to West Coffee not merely "Jast Right"1 l PAGE THEATER Sunday, Night Spirit Power in the IJglit London Ojicn-l.lglit Seance A tat le rises four to five feet and floats :u midair. Spirit hau ls and fat"s are plainly seen and lecognied by friends. A guitir is played and passed around the room by an Invisible power. Flow ers are brought nnd passed to the audience by hands and plainly seen, and bells are rung, harps are plaped and other tests or start ling nature take place in the presence of these wonderful mediums. ALL AUK IWITEII for the farmers not getting Bear creek water briefly, the situation is this: I did not act for tho public m this matter but for private' parties who submitted their contracts to me. I disapproved tho contracts because the water waB then, as It is now, In think Its supply adequate. Tint prin cipally because it bound these land owners forever to the use of thlK te canal company wanted to corner this ucreage and fix it so It would forever he bound to take, water from tho company, that tho canal company persistently refused to allow a provis ion In the contract releasing the laud owners in tho event of thn creation of a district which wolud accommo date them. I think finally, after about a year, boiug such wholesome provision was Included. Hut the. cr.nal company had tied up with water permits the waters of Bear ercelt both above and below Medford, seeking to make it impossible to ob tain any irrigation except through R; and It wanted to bind thjso land owners permanently and not nllow them to make a change If a district were created. There are substantial orcluirdists who can verify this state ment. I desire, at this time, to npologi.o to the public for being compelled to rplly ns , have Th ,.nl,trovcrsy Illustrate however, that ns long as tho canal company is under Its present management it will bear watching. A. 12. REAM US. AMUSEMENTS, Southern Oregon's CJreatest l'liice of Aimiseuu'iit -TONIGHT THE LOVABLE Tn Fanciful TiohiuhTic I'ntrtJ mount Photoplay 'Little Lady Eileen" Also i GOOD COMEDY -TOMORROW- HEM RY B. WALTHALL n Ibsen's Masterpiece. "THE PILLARS OF SOCIETY" And Keystone Cometly, ''Vampire Ambrose' Regular Prices: Adults 15c; Children 5c December 17fh PAG E ' AND HIS COMPANY OF MEDIUMS