X — I a shaft, which does not need to be down vrn deep, and a tunnel run each way ISSI I'll ON from the shaft ¡it right angles to the flow of w.'iter to give a storage reservoir. In FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK taking electricity from a distant power AND station the current comes in at a high Huiro* voltage and transformers are required to step down the current to a volt ige that Hntrml in the of J mu k »on vi I!«- Jin k«MH» l ounty, Off'goii, mm Arconti < I mam matter can la- used on the pumping motor anil the light system, and these transformers Miss Katharine Chpman, Mr». J. H. Reeve could la- placed in the same building with 11 U) the rest of the machinery. A pumping Ml station located beyond the fair grounds Full stock of Seasonable Hats trirned to order in the would afiord Medford a supply of water , • Latest style. :::::::: Cl.'KKIM, T imms both in quality and quantity the equal of Thr Mriituirl mi :-! I he Weekly Oregonian will any town in Southern Dragon and it I h - M-ni to nix-n>lip, m for a year The Henil nel give« the Jackson comity new« and (hr orc- wi^uld not la- expensive to install. K'.aiuoi xn< »lli.- .tai. ii.ilK.nul alni woiiil u,u« Orders taken for tailor made suits, and perfect fits The trend of the times is for niunieijial lima a reader 1« aide to cover the entire new« held at ala,ut I hr price of but one paper. guaranteed. :::::::: ownership of public utilities and for Medford to disfxmc of its light and water rMIAl.ht HM-MII'TIONS The Jn< kMHIVlII«- I m - til I lie I Dressmaking and General Sewing will I m - «ent to any address, st any poatofficc in plant is but to take a step I »ack wards and the I nurd Slate«, lor four week» lor III cent«. one that the taxpayers will rue in the ___________________________ _______ / All «ulnt riptioii», regular or trial, will tar prompt ly «toi>|x-aiiy. The argument of the faction now good* for a run of the town, there no night operator at Central Point there and not by the bayonet as in Europe favoring the turning these public utilities now being several cases here, it licing so is no one to receive the mails from the where armed force but makes it grow the over to a private corporation is that the severe that several adultshave lreenquite trains. As the postoffice department more, but bv educating the boys and the light ami water plants have been a source sick with it. Thl» disease was brought would not likely pay for a special carrier girls to love the Stars and the Stripes and of loss to the city and they attribute from Lower Applegate where it is quite to meet both night trains the plan is to to know and to appreciate the grand gov­ much of the city’s debt to that source. prevalent. Long before the mumps have ask that the Portland and north mail ernment for which Washington strived The truth i*. that these statements are disapj>earef the case for son ville, for that disease is now on the on to Medford and then brought back more patriotism is taught in the schools had Medford been paying the price for Lower Applegate and in Medford. Both with the San Francisco and south mail tne less need is there for soldiers and lights ami water that is |>aid in other business and the schools have been on the 4:19a. m. train and left off at police. To the credit of the greater towns the size of Mulford where these utilities arc owned by a private company seriously handicapped in Jacksonville Central Point, the special carrier to number of schools of Jackson county fine this winter by the smallpox epidemic care for it until the jx>stotfice is opened. programs of patriotic exercises were had the cost to the taxpayer's would have 1 and now if the town is to suffer from the This additional mail service for Central on Washington's Birthday that were Ix-cn far greater than it has bet n to them mumps, the measles and the other con­ Point is an imperative need for the resi­ entered into with a will by the children under municipal ownership. tagious discis«-s that may pass through dents of all Upper Rogue River Valley and the teachers and which were w itness- To the profit side of the water plant the counthv it is a hard commentary on and there is no doubt but what the post­ ed by many patrons ot the school. And must credited the fire hydrants, street American indifference to the enforcement office department will grant so reasonable Washington’s birthday is a good day to sprinkling, sewer flushing ami the fire of sanitary laws. To Ire plain it does a request which would give such needed renew the patriotism of the older people drills. 1'ml< r city ownership no charge seem as though the average American is improvement to the mail service of the for many of us need to be reminded of ts made for water for the sixty odd firr hydrants, the hundreds of thousands of quite as lax as a Hindoo or a Chinaman 12 postoffices at the small expense to the our duty to our country and to safeguard in liis easv going methods of controlling department of one trip a day to a carrier our liberties, ami teachers do well in get­ gallons used for street sprinkling, and preventable diseases. Were the present from the depot to the Central Point post­ ting the patrons of their schools to attend the qu.inities used tor flushing sewers nor quarantine laws enforced with rigor for office. all patriotic exercises. for that used by the hose companies one year there would l»e an end to small­ for fire drills ami cleaning apparatus and pox, measles, whooping cough, mumps, Once more Jacksonville is to have re- hose. The amount juiid to a private A dispatch in the Oregonian from scarlet fever, and diptheria ami the thou­ s pec table, passable sidewalks for the company for all this water would at the Washington announces that A. M. Wood­ sand of deaths and physical wrecks that councilmen have undertaken an active end of each year make a hole in the tax- ford has been confirmed by the senate as are caused each year, together with the crusade for this much needed public im­ payer's pocket b< <>ks. The Medford postmaster at Medford to succeeded Geo. broken homes, sorrow and financial dis- provement and there is every reason to light and water plants have not yielded F. Merriman, whose term of office ex­ trus that follow in the wale of these dis­ exjiect that in the near future Jackson­ a direct profit to the city for the pired in January and who was not a candi­ eases would be a thing of the past. Chol- ville will have sidewalks that will be a reason that such a lage jiart of date for reappointment. Mr. Woodford rea has In-come extinct in the Uuited credit to the Town and not a disgrace as the service is required for public is a capable, careful man and he will be States ami yellow fever has had its last has lately been the case. During the re­ use, ami the plant has been under the quite sure to make an efficient post­ big epidemic for these diseases have been cent heavy rains Jacksonville h is been further handicap of having to lie rebuilt, master and his appointment will give so effectively controlled that it was im­ almost with« ut sidewalks for even the for when the city bought it at two prices general satisfaction to the citizens of possible for them to spread. The great plank and stone walks on the business from the private comp my formerly own­ Medford. fatality from these diseases aroused peo­ streets were merely a succession of lakes ing it there was not milch to buy of real ple until they would enforce rigorous and islands, the sinking in places of the worth except the franchise, that had lieen quarantine regulations. Were the con- board and the stones causing pools of Mr. John Develin of Applegate was in given free of charge to the company by | tageous diseases that now sweep over the water that were frequently shoetop deep. Jacksonville Wednesday. Mr. Develin the city. The machinery in the station land with the same regularity that sea­ Then another defect that it is proposed takes lively interest in the Japanese-Rus­ has been nearly ail replaced with new sons come ami go as fatal ascholera thev to remedy is the removal of the numer­ sian war for he is an old tuan-of wars ami larger engines, pumps, generators, man himself, serving three years and- too wo ild soon be stamped out. but as it ous steps, declivities and holes that are three months in the United States navy etc., making it practically a new first- is it will take several generations of edu­ in the sidewalks for in addition to these in the early ’50s. He served for two class station. All the poles for the orig­ cation along sanitary lines before the • obstructions making it very uncomforta­ years in the American East Indian siluad- inal light wires have been replaced ami preventable diseases that now make their ble for pedestrians they are dangerous ron and was a blue jacket on the San the wire system has been extended until Jacinto, a steam frigate of 84 guns and j annual harvest of death, sorrow and dis-1 and may cause some person to be serious­ having a crew of 350 men end 40 marines, it covers three times the area that it did tress, will lie eradicated from the land. ly injured and a damage suit against the and which was one of the crack fighting when the city assumed control, Almost — city. Good sidewalks are one of the best ships of Uncle Sam’s navy. The squad­ all the old water mains have lreen re­ ron was under the command of Commo­ Central Point, encouraged by the suc­ advertisments a town can have for strang­ dore Armstrong, who succeeded commo­ placed by new and larger pipe umi the system lias lieen extended until it takes cess of tha Jacksonville board of trade in ers judge largely a town’s standing and dore Perry, the American officer who forced Japan to open her ports to foreign I securing a morning mail service between prosperity by its sidewalks. in all parts of the city. trade and thus paved the wav for the Medford now has a firstclass light and Jacksonville and Medford, will make an wonderful progress that that remarkable There are evidently some tejchers in people have made. In 1855 Commodore water plant, as good as any town in Ore­ effort to secure an improvement to mail gon of its size and the city should retain service for that place and which will also Jackson county who have no conception Armstrong called at Vokahama with his possession of it. Ttie cost of fuel may bring a betterment of the mail service of of patriotism and their duty to instal it squadron having aboard the San Jocinto Consul General Harris, the first represen­ make it cheaper to the city to buy electric the II post offices that receive their mail in the minds of the youth who are in tative of the United States to the court jxiwer to operate the machinery, but the through Central Point. Under the pres­ their charge, or else they are woefully of Japan, and who was escorted to Tokio plant should lie held to supply power in ent schedule the southbound midnight lazy and want an excuse to dismiss their by a detachment of marines and blue­ jackets. Mr. Develin was not with the case of a breakdown to the power and as train and the northlxmnd early morning school at every’ opportunity possible, for i party that visited the Mikado's Capitol a protection against possible exhorbitant trains of the Southern Pacific leave no in several districts in this county no but he saw much of the Japanese and he rates for electric power. The station mail for Central Point, only the noon school was held on Washington’s Birth­ has great faith in their fighting qualities, should be moved to the southwest part of southbound and tile afternoon north­ day, the teachers taking advantage of the and as sailors he thinks that they will rank very close to American or British the city, where an underground sheet of bound trains leaving mail at that place, day as a legal holiday. The Sentinel tars. Of the outcome of the present war water that comes down from the hills be­ the mails by the night trains being trans­ does not hold th.it the regular lessons Mr. Develin is of the opinion that the yond can I k - readily tapped by means of ferred to these trains. This delays all should be held on that day, but the day Japs will be the victors. Jacksonville Millinery Dressmaking Parlors Spring Stock Received March 1