Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 20, 1916, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextVAGI YOVll MEDFORD MAIN 'TUJIiUNK MKDFOKM), OKlttiOX, WKDXKSDA V, DKCKMDKK 20. WW MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE AN I.IKPKNIi:NT NI'WSI'Al'KIl )M.iM,istn:ii iakuv .mtkhmmiN KXTKl'T SCNIJAV II V Tllli .MKl'FOliU I'UINTINO fO WflVH Mull Trilium- Hu!ltlinj,', i'j-l'T-'K Kuril) Kir turret; li-lrptmne 7".. The rJimocniUi' TJrm-H. th- Mnlfonl Mall. Tin? M.u.fml Tiil.iin..-. Tlx- Huulii-(-in Or--k on -.a r'l Tlie Ashland Triljuiu. GKOItOi: ri'TNAM, I-Milor SUBSCRIPTION BATES: Onn yt-ur, by mail $ :.. on One llionth. iiv mill SW l'.-r montli, ilrllvtMcil by c;trii.-r in .Medlora. fljo.iuv, JjK:lii-Ol.vi!It and CVntral i'Jiiit f.O Sutur-My oniv. by mail, jut y-'ir.... 2.00 M'rrklv, p.-r yt-ur l '-0 ortk-lal Pa jut wf thy Oily of .Medford. Official Paper f Jiu-lcum f'mmty. Kul'Ti-ii lis H'-eoiul-rliiis mittlrr at Mclfonl, Oivgoii, uiuirr Ihe tu't uf .Miueli . 1S79. Hworn i.'ireut.itlni' fr IMS 24T.C I-'UH lOilfied Wiif; Assnchltf-'l i'reHH lla- HERRINGS ACROSS THE TRAIL A EM-TEES HNAI, NOTHK We haven't heard anything about the ' J.ulju" thai went south with our "10111110" soino time aito. Not that we miss the overcoat so iimcli, hut there was a four-hit piece, a meal ticket and a elmir culler, I'or which we saved ui cotiiuim for six month, all 111 the iiiHide pocket. ' j " . IHI VOl' KNOW THAT Very few hardware dealers Hell Imminent by the pound. Jii the dry stales It Isn't llio eus tonie to treat the druuKisl! Could anybody tell uh who it was wrote Grey's Kleity? SO.MIO SHillT About the most astoiiiiiliiiK sluht In tho world is to see Xew York's sky lino Kolni! across the Hudson river In a ferry boat. Cornell Widow. Some of tho movies around the land are charuliiK a potato for admis sion. Wonder If they're kooiI for a box? A Seattle, man has Invented a butcher's scale with a uroove In It that holds the butcher's thumb more comfortably than the old kind. CIIIHSTMAS HINTS To make a lilt with the wile's folks buy the mothor-lii-lnw a nice set of poker chilis. The. janitor ought to bo tlckeled with' a' coal' shovel. ' llo'll never use It nni! it can he dragged over tho basement ' floor to make noise and Keep tho tetiaments uwuUo. . For Her A corncob pipe. For lllm A tlddlede-wlnks set. MOMK niltlSTJIAS KlfitiKSTIONS For Harney Dreyfus Hiihuneil portrait of Georno SIsler. For Jawn .Mctlraw A maxim sl loncer. i llobblo Wallace An old ago pon idon. Jess Wlllnril "How to Spend My Money' by .lawn l. Connie Mnck Nice mnrblo tomb stone. The baby would appreciate u goon razor. TO ID SECRETARY SANTA ItOSA. ' al., Pec. 20 Luth er Hurbiink, bolauical cvolutionlsl, announced here today that he will mnrry Miss Kliznbeth Waters, his secretary, tomororw lu Hall Francisco. Iturbauk Is 67 years old. The bride Is a unlive of Hastings. Mich. Iturbuiik was divorced Irom his first wife 20 years hk. He met .Miss Waters two years ago i)i New York and Induced her In come to Calllorula and become his secretary. JU'SK in Hie newspapers, attacks upon tin- Canal com liniiv. defamation of the citv's water simply, are till herrings drawn across the trail to divert attention from the main subject the creation of an irrigation district. It is hoped by the appeal to prejudice and personality to influence voters against th only practical means whereby irrigation can he secured. Those who oppose the formation of the district do so because they are opposed to irrigation. They would oppose any and all other projects that forced the use of water upon them, just as bitterly. Many of those opposing are large property owners who have opposed every public improve ment ever proposed and are born reactionaries. Many of them do not begin to realize in yields what, they should from their holdings because they lack water and have not foresight enougji to understand that water will enable them either to least! or sell out at high prices, if they are too unprogressi ye to utilize the water themselves. It would he much better for the valley and i'or the prop erty owner as well, if the large farms were cut up into small tracts, with a family upon each twenty or forty acre farm. With water this can be accomplished. Without water, it is an impossibility. The selection of a source of water supply' is up to the directors elected by the various districts. I opposition tickets, candidates opposed to irrigation in any form, it is hoped to confuse the voters and kill the prospects of irri gation. This, like the venomous appeals to passion, are simply part of the politics played by the reactionaries. A board of directors opposed to irrigation would simply vote to exclude all the laud in the district and thereby kiil the project. And this is the probable intention. The best answer to vicious and uncalled-for attacks upon the city's water supply, raised as a far-fetched polit ical argument against the creation of an irrigation district, is the fact that since its installation there lias been no typhoid or other malignant disease due to bad water, in the city, where previously there were annual epidemics. The health of the city has been materially improved since the completion of the water svstein, as anv phvsician will testify. ' . ' ' As to possible pollution of the source, through infec I ion of the drainage tu'ea by its use as a cattle range during the summer, the answer is the creation of a federal re serve, including all the drainage area and prohibition of grazing within its limits. A bill should be drawn up by the city find presented the Oregon delegation in congress, and the land now in the forest reserve and in the (). it C. rail road land grant will be set aside, as in the case of the Dull Jfun reserve for Portland. As to the question of the city's title to the water, there is not the slightest doubt. . .ruder the Oregon laws, the title rests in the state, but the right to use it belongs to those who develop it and use it beneficially, as long as they use it and no one puts water-to a more beneficial use than the city, and no court will ever question its title. i!ut the city's water supply has nothing to do with the creation of an irrigation district a necessary preliminary to placing the valley under water. ' There seems every prospect that we are to have an other dry year. The total seasonal rainfall since Septein- Tlie average rainfall at this time of -a 'Seasonal deficiency of two-thirds A dry fall and winter always has Vet with the experience of three drv years and the prospects of a fourth, there are those who still assert that irrigation is not needed. There are none so blind as those who will not see, none so deaf as those that will not hear and none so stupid as those who will not learn. GEORGE'S REPLY 10 PEACE OFFER LONDON, Dec. 20. Premier Lloyd George's reply to Germany's peace proposal meets with a chorus of ap proval In the British press and the Kenerul comment Is that if Germany really wants peace she will, when the joint reply of the allies Is received, state terms which can form a basis of discussion. The .Manchester Guar dian says: "Premier Lloyd Georue has not shut tho door on peace with the re sounding clung for w hich some of his less balanced supporters in the press have been listening. It Is true he insisted on tho Impossibility of ac cepting the German invitation as it stands. In this he was ably second ed by Mr. Asqulth and will bo ap proved by the country. Tho German chancellor must be both more modest and more explicit before he can expect any favorable answer to liis invitation. Hut tho real danger in the situation which is offer creat ed was that the allies, this country In particular, might be led into an abrupt and sweeping refusal, not merely of tho actual invitation but of any proposal to discuss peaco terms. This snare Lloyd George has avoided." The Guardian says that as the speech Invited Germany to be moro explicit "we do not then cast out every idea of settlement and the neu- bcr 1 is :i.-l I inches, year is 10. I I inches the normal amount. meant a dry spring. quence.' The closing of the river would ho a great Injury and ft great injustice to the southwestern Oregon coast. Willi tho Brookings mill practically closed down it is the only payroll that Curry county has from the northern border to the California lino and many, even hundreds, depend upon this industry for their living. Loth shipping business of Coos Day and the biisiness,.of Coos county mer chants will suffer if the lower river Is closed and for this reason the re cent efforts or .the sportsmen has caused much consternation among the Coob county people. Would Ruin Curry County (From tho Coos Hay Harbor.) The movement starled by tho sportsmen of the state to bring about tho closing of the lower Hoguo river to commercial fishing becanso they iielleve, incorrectly, that It affects the angling In tho upper river. Is scarcely a fair one. Merely Tor the sake of angling they would destroy one of the big industries of the south ern Orege'i coast. Hut anyway the commercial fishing does not Insure the angling as It is steelbeads that 1 tho angler wants nnd those fish tho commercial fishermen are not allow . ed lo catch. If tho lower Rogue river is closed jto fishing it will he tho greatest blow I that the people of Curry county havo ever received. About $200,000 is ex pended In the shape of wages and pay I for fish every year In that locality. , If the Industry is ruined in order to satisfy tho sportsmen of .Inckson and .loseplilno counties, the families of Curry county must suffer in conse- TWICElPROVEN If ou suffer backache, sleepless nights, tired, dull days anil distress ing urii.ary disorders, don't experi ment. Read UiIh tw-ice-told testi mony, it's Medford testimony doubly proven. Mrs1.. Win. Charley, SOS N. Grapo St., Meilford,, says: "The kidney no tion was too frequent and the kidney seeretiohs were unnatural. Ilesides this, I had much pain in my back and sometimes, I could hardly bend or straighten up'. At night, It both ered me, too, and often I couldn't sleep. 1 tried plasters and liniments for my back and medicines for my kidneys, hut none of them helped mo any. It was while I was feeling ill and discouraged that I heard of Doan's Kidney Pills and began taking them. In less than two weeks, I felt better. I took In all tour boxes w hen 1 felt well." (Statement given Sep tember 14, 1907.) ' On March IB, 1916, Mrs. Charley said: "I recommond Doan's Kidney Pills just as highly today as I did several years ago. I still consider them a medicine of merit and when ever It is necessnry for me to take a kidney remedy I use them, tor I know they are most reliable." Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy--get Doan's Kidney Pills thp same that Mrs. Charley has twice publicly rec ommended. Foster-Milburn Co. Props.. Duffalo. N. Y. IN TEXAS 221 .000 AI STIN, 'iVv, 1 )(M i:u. Vrt'siili'iu WIIsuh'h pliiiuHly in TV mis tit Uu No vember election was 2-O.iUlu, ac-conl-iiii; to Hie ntrit'lMl count nuiiouneetl toduy. Tlie nte Mnmi; Wilson HT. 1 !(&; Unfiles ii I. !!!. The lirolillii-1 tiou vote was Km:.', nml the socialist (M-)SUITSfp Victory f miyi TO ORDER $25.00 UP Also Cleaning, Pressing and Altering 128 E. MAIN. UPSTAIRS JOHN A. PERL UNDERTAKE IjiHj Avlitnnr. KM S. IIAKTI.FTT Phone M. 4",it ml 47-J-l Automobile Hearse barvlre. Imkulwac SorTlt. Csrontr CHRISTMAS JOY Every day in the year with a . Dodge Brothers Motor Car or a Hudson Super-Six GET IT TODAY BERNARD MOTOR CO. tral world cannot take exception to this attitude." The Guardian notes that the speech contained no hint of the crushing of (ierniany, but says discussion of any matter is conditioned on restitution in the truest farm, It continues, rep aration is Impossible for the deepest wrongs cannot be undone. I while the (hiialia wealher bureau gave 'die llieiiuomcler reading al ! o'clock j:is 1(1 below mid going down. SWELLS 10 MANAGE E OMAHA. Xeh., Dec. 'JO. lieconl breakiiif; temperature ' f-tr the pres ent seuson were experienced through out this section today. Valentine, Neb., reported the coldest as 'Jli de grees below zero, Sioux Fulls 22 de grees below, Sioux City l.'i below, Norfolk ." below, Lincoln (i below, The county court Wednesday muruinx appointed V. X. Wells su perintendent of the county poor farm ! for the ensuing year, vice Dr. J. 1''. iliart, reined. Mr. Wells lias been assistant superintendent "t Hie in stitution for several years. The county court io authorized the combining of the offices of coun ty health officer unit county physi cian anil appointed Dr. Theodore J. Miilmgrcn of I'lu ix to occupy the office i'or the ensuing year. The move is imule in the interest of economy. Tlie aniiuiil Christmas frolic of the University club is announced for Saturday evening-, December 23, in the following notice: "Attraction, Extraordinary, tyke club's freshly watered stock coot puny will present a dramatization of the bone dry act, entitled, 'Over the Hump to llornbrook,' followed by travel picture dealing with George Boone Carpenter's fearless pursuit of tlie African fauna (the Jlcdford Dianm leugue has dammed this pro duction, which insures a crowded house). "Tlie frolic will be preceded by the club's nnuuul Christmus dinner." I With Medford trade Is Medford made To You -Whoever You Are Wherever You Are erry Christmas and Happy New Year A M To our Patrons and to those who are to become our Patrons, we offer Long Experience Strict Management Burglar Proof Vaults, Protected by Electricity Able Service Sound Advice Net Wealth of Our Stockholders Over One Million Dollars DELROY GETCHELL, President R. F. ANTLE, Cashier Protest ius Prohibitive) Price Hardware Herald Published Seml-Occaslonally by Crater Lake Hardware Co. Written With Double-Bitted Brood Az. . VOL. 6. MEDFORD OREGON", 323 MAIN ST., DKC. 20. 1916. NO. 9 Our Loss Is Your Gain JLWS CHRISTMAS Big Shipment of Casseroles, Ramekins, Custard Cups, etc., slow in arriving Stock was oi'ilered for holiday season. In order to soil at onee, wc are going to sell them at actual cost. See Window Display. You can buy a (Jenuinc Ivoseville Pottery Co. Casserole from 90 up. See them. Ivaniekins in half dozen lots, 50c4; or 10c1 each. Custard Cups in half dozen lots, SOt4: or 10? each. Tea Puts in novel shapes, oOd and 60c1. Special for the Pabies A beautiful P.ahy Plate fur Sot1. Also Mugs. 25-. "We carry complete line of Velocipedes, Coaster W:i-ons, Sleds. Hand Cars, TJoller Skates, Foot balls, Sporting (ioods. etc. (let ("ir prices. Store Open Evenings.