Catkins Items. The Seattle mine started tip today. Mr. Lundgren has struck it rich at bis copper mine. Miss Maud Byrne is visiting friends in Jacksonville. Mr. and Mrs. Adams are visiting friends in Phoenix. Mr. and Mrs. \V. Louden were in Jacksonville last Friday. Cary Cudv of Steamboat is visiting Mr. McKee for a few days. R. W. W atkins made a business trip to Jacksonville this week. G. F. and J. P. Collins u . Monday morning h r Klamath Falls. John Louden has been visiting frit nds at the Seattle mine for the past week. Eagle Point Items, Dick Bessie has been in Eagle Point for the last week. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Morine of Elk Creek were in town Monday. Bert Peachy and Robert Jonas of this place started for Ft. Klamath Thursday. Josie Pool w ho has been very sick for the last two weeks is recovering at this writing. Miss Mattie Taylor started for Fort Klamath last week to visit her friend, Mrs. Hoyt. Miss Laura and Annie Nichols went tn Jacksonville for the Fourth and re- turned home Sunday. Miss Lottie Taylor, who has be< n stav­ ing with Mrs. Dan Norris on Big Sticky, returned home Thursday. Miss Bertha Wylaml of Wellen was visiting her sister, Mrs. John Daley of this place one dav this week. A number of our young men went to Big Butte and Lost Creek on the Fourth ami all report having a tine time. Mrs. Geo. Daley who has been quite sick with chicken |>ox is reported as be­ ing able to be up and around at this writing. Bruce Buck has arrived from Jackson­ ville. He comes to w ork on his copper mine. P. J. Sullivan is doing his assessment work on his copper mine on Cook and Green creek. The copper mine will go on w ith their work fora while yet. There are four­ teen men working. Frank Faucettand Otto Jelness made a Down About Woodville flying trip to Jacksonville Sunday to w it­ ness the ball game. Miss Badger closed a successful term of E. J. Langley and J. Terrx have been school in Woodville last Friday and re­ hauling quartz for the past two weeks. turned to her home in Ashland. They w ill soon start up their quartz mill. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. I.ance of 1’oots A very large crowd came up from Ap­ Creek have gone to the Tolman Soda plegate and Ruch to spend their Fourth Springs for several months, for the l»en here. liverybody reported a good time. efit of Mrs. I.ance's health. The drilling machine, which was used A very interesting ball game was by Robt. Ghristian on the Lance place, played here on the Fourth betwet n Wat­ kins and Ruch for a purse of twentv has been taken to Kanes Creek about 2 dollars. The score was teed. Prices reasonable. I limber and Stone Act. Tile repeal of the timber and stone act will be, according to Senator Gibson of Montana, one of the most important measures affecting the West, that will come before the next session of Congress. The bill for this rejieal has been reported favorable by the committee on Public Lands of the Senate, but has not been acted on. The contest on it promises to be one of the fights of the session. It is not a party measure ami it seems that the representatives of the Western States are not a unit in favor of it. The min­ ing interests so far as heard from, are in favor of repeal because they know that in many cases much undeveloped miner­ al land has already laen grabbed under the pretense that it is valuable “chiefly for its stone and timber," and those who favor the settlement of the States of the far West with a bona fide population such as the homestead law encourages, ought to be a unit in favor of repeal. The party who takes up public land for its timber or stone is rarely an actual settler, but is often a dummy or adven­ turer in the hands of speculators who who have no intention to settle down and live in the community. The hope of manv Western States lies in the com­ ing of small farmers to take and hold the public lands. The Homestead Law, w hich requires five years’ residence, en­ courages this, while the titula r and stone act encourages mere speculation and monopolybv non-residents. According to Senator Gibson, Wyom- ning, all the Western States se< ms to Why this should 1»e opposed to repeal, be so does not appear, The new irriga- tion law will render available thousands of acres of land that may at the present time l»e regarded as of no value except for its “stone,” and which, after irriga tion has reached it, will be of great value MEAT HENRY W. ORTH, MARKET PROP ALL KINDS OF FRESH MEATS :: WHOLESALE and RETAIL :: Special attention given to orders from a distance for Mining Camps and Mills. Meats shipped promptly and in firs t -cla ss co ndit io n. ^¡yhat is it Proportionate in price that has given vou more lasting satisfaction than JI Fine Portrait The pleasure derived from most ]x»ssessions is temporary but a portrait is a human document and is often the oulv means bv which you are remembered. BEALL makes 'em at the The WAYSIDE STUDIO 3 Miles Northeast of Jacksonville THE BIG LAND AGENTS MEDFORD. - OREGON We have the largest and best list in Southern Oregon of Fruit, Alfalfa, Dairy and Stock Lands, limber Lands, Alining Bargains and Town Property. Dealers in Sewing Machines, Lime, Cepient and We Shingles wool and mohair IOWA . . LUMBER COMPANY 1177/ till an order promptly for one hoard or a million feet of lumber. Rough and dressed lum­ ber, mouldings, door and w indow frames and casings, dimension timbers-everyt hing com­ plete furnished for a house, ham, bridge or any other wooden structure. Our dressed Lumbor is equal in quality and finish to any on tho Pau Hie Coast Shipments by car to any point in the I’nited States promptly made. Highest market price paid for lumber from any mill in Southern ( )regon. The LUMBER IOWA Saw Mill and Planing COMPANY Mill Jacksonville, for agricultural purpose. ft would lie singular imb ed if, while the government is expending millions to redeem arid lands, it should afterward be discovered that these same lands had in the mean­ time, under the timber and stone act passed into the ownership of syndicates who had crowded out the actual settler ami maintained at the ex|x use of the government the most odious of all mono­ polies, says thePacific Coast Miner. I he Coming I vent. Chautauqua at Ashland, July 15 24. Eleventh year; Great speakers—Senator Doliver, Congressman Champ Clark, Germaine, the magician, and others. Fine schools; better and better; reduced rates on R. R. Come ami bring “the folks." Write Secretary. G. F. B illings . I or Sale. 1500 |»ound draft horses suitable for hauling heavy freight. Apply to Matt Calhoun, Phoenix, Oregon. 40 inch mount vernon draper rluck, wagon cover duck. 50 inch hla< k enamel carriage duck for sale at Nunan's, Jack­ sonville. Oregon FURNITURE UNDERTAKING I have on ha ml a hill line of household and kitchen furniture. ! do funernldircct ingand undertaking as a special tea tn re. Jd( ksonville,