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Medford mail tribune
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GEO HOE PUTNAM, Editor
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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.
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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.
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