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THE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON", MONDAY, DEOlSMmW, 20, 1009. COAST CITIES IN FIGHTJFOR FAIR Drawn Battle Now Being Waned Be h Iwcen San. Diego and San It rmncfeeo fop Fair. r.ARTHNaTON, Dm. 20 A drawn lull.; Lclwccn Snn FrtUii?i'o mid Snn DIcro, Cnlifomin, is one o tha bipgest things in congressional shows on tho boards for this winter. The nrenn is nt present in neulrn ground somewhere between the com mittees on expositions nnd foreign but it appears now that before the issue is decided tho forces of the two cities may have to meet somewhere on the Mojavo desert and fight it out The question is whether there shall be nn international exposition in 1915 nt San Frnncifeco or nt San Diego Tho proposition thus to celebrate the opening of the Panama cannl started out on on tho Pacific coast last summer when tho gate receipts nt the Scatttle Exposition began to pile up in such a gratifying quantity. There is still some dispute as to which city first broached the idea, but both are represented here in numbers try ing to get federal recognition. Rep resentative Smith, who hails from the San Diego district, nnd Rcpre Bentntivo Kahn of San Francisco, are going to be tho star performers Smith is known as tho '"-getter" of the California delegation. He has gone about securing tbe exposition in n typically bmith way a process of stealing up a back alley into the Ill The R SSSjf wo, iit ( gF W B9r MtCUr r JFf Caw fct J 4H3 J c.Mtun. m Iff tinsA fi nhl' iverman y Siwmrt Edward White J dooryard before one knows he's around, and then walking away with the goods. His bill is a simple little thing. It is merely n resolution au thorizing the president to invite the nations of the. Pacific to an interna tional exposition nt San Diego in 1915, when the executive is satisfied that the citiens of Snn Diego have raised a million dollars. It doesn't ask for any money from Uncle Sam. Smith doesn't intend to do that yet. Quite a harmless looking little measure, but if Smith can get it though it will amount to federal rec ognition of the claims of San Diego. "And then some fine afternoon, we will get our fingers into the trens ury," Smith confides to his friends. The proposed fair is to be called, under the Smith bill, the Panama California exposition. Smith got President Taft's promise that the canal woild be finished by 1915 be fore he nut in his bill. Snn Francisco's claims to the right to celebrate the completion of the big ditch are being urged by Ju lius Kahn. jhc going tolry (5 gt a line Tothem STARTING TO GET BREAKFAST LITTLE GIRL BURNS TO DEATH CHICAGO, Ills., Dec. 20. Mary, Fix years old, Charles, four, and Jnmes two, children of John Par omin, were burned todeath in their homo early today while the little girl was attempting to get breakfast for her parents. Pnromia nnd his wife arose early this morning and went to n shed in the rear of their home to butcher n cow. Fifteen minutes Inter Mrs Paromm saw smoke pouring from her kitchen, nnd rushed to the house. Strtechod lifeless on the floor, their bodies seared and shriveled, lay the two younger children. Mary lay at their side. As her mother entered tho room sho raised herself nnd gasped: "I was getting breakfast for mammn." Sho died within a few minutes. It is thought Mary's clothing caught fire from tho stove nnd that the flames were communicated to tho clothes of tho other children. AN EVERY WITH RILEY AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. O. Loroy Hall will deliver his famous lecturo "An Evening with Riloy," for tho benefit of tho men's club Tuesday night, December 21, at tho Presbyterian church. Thero will bo musical features in addition and a largo nttendanco is looked for. This will bo tho Inst opportunity to honr this lecture in Medford ns Mr. Hall leaves sbortlv for his Coos Bi charge. Tonight nt Grants Pass Mr. null will deliver tho same lecture for tho benefit of tho commercial club. CHRISTMAS NUMBER ROGUE MAGAZINE IS SPLENDID Tho Christmas number of tho Roguo Magazine is off tho press and Editor Brown is receiving many con compliments as to its holiday dress nnd tho material which it contains. It is ono of tho best numbers yet is sued and is ropleto with little stories of life in tho Rogue river valley. vessels." Bradford turned abruptly and brush ed toward the tug, followed by Carroll and Mlna. At the wipe of tho pter was the tug's captain. Marsh, listening to earnest expostulation by a half dozen of the lending men of the town, among whom were both Ncwmark nnd Orde, "Gentlemen," said ho crisply, "I'm entirely willing to take all personal risks. Tho thing Is hazardous, and it's Mr. Ordo's tug. It's for him to say whether he wants to risk her." "Good Lord, man. what's the tug In a case like thlsr cried Orde, "I thought so," replied Captain Marsh. "I'll take her out If I can get a crew, narvey, step up here." Tho engineer hoisted his long figure through the doorway. "Harvey," said Captain Marsh brisk' ly, "we're going to try to get n line aboard those vessels, Ifs dangerous, Will you gor "Tcu all sola', sunl" be asked. "Of course." "I reckon I'll done half to go, too," said Harvey simply. He swung light ly back to the uneasy craft below him. "I want a man with me at tho wheel, two to handle the lines and ono to fire for Harvey," said Captain Marsh "That's our job," announced the life saving captain. "Well, come on, then.' Captain Marsh shook the band which Orde. stooping, offered him. "I'll try to bring her back all right. sir," said he. "To h with tho tugr cried Orde 'Bring yourself back!" Marsh entered the pilothouse. "Cast off!" he cried. The "Jangler" called for full speed ahead. Bravo chaps! Brave chaps!" said Dr. McMullon to Carroll. "But, do you know, to my mind, the bravest of them all arc that nigger and his fireman nallod down In the hold where they can't see nor know what's going on." Tho tug had rounded the end of tho pier. The first of her thousand ene mies, sweeping in from tho open, had truck her fair. "She can stand that, all right," said ono of the life saving crew. "But wait till she drops down to the vessels." The Sprite was now so distant that the loom of the great seas swallowed her from view save when she rose on the crest of somo mighty billow. "There, she's turned now!" cried some one. Beneath the trail of black smoko she had shifted direction. With star tling swiftness the Sprite darted out of the horizon into full view. For tbe first time the spectators realized tho size and weight of the seas. One mo ment tho whole of her deck was visi ble, tho next her bow alone showed high ns the back suction caught her and dragged her Into the hollow. A ca rose behind. Nothing of the tug was to be seen. It seemed that no power could prevent her being over whelmed. Yet somehow always she staggered out of the gulf until she was again cast forward like a chip. "Maybo they ain't catchln' p'tlcular h at that wheel to hold her from yawlngr' muttered tho tug captain. The Sprite rushed at the outer line of breakers. The combers crested and fell with a roar, just as in milder weather the surf breaks on the beach, A woman in tho crowd screamed. But at tbe edge of destruction the Sprite came to n shuddering stop. Her now crful propellers hnd been set to tho reverse. Thus sho hovered on the edge of tho breakers, awaiting her chance. If ono of tho waves should happen to crest and break, the water, catching tho tug on her flat stern deck, would indubitably bury her. The situation was awful in its extreme simplicity. Would Captain Marsh seo his opportu nity beforo the law of chances would bring along the wave that would over whelm him? Two or three of tho townsmen walk ed up nnd down. Ono woman prayed aloud In short hysterical sentences. "O God, save them! O Lord, O Lord!" Ordo stood on top of a half burled Jog, his ontlre being concontratcd on tho maneuver being executed. Only Nowmark apparently remained ns calm as ever. Suddenly, without warning, occurred ono of those Inexplicable lulls that In- lernoso often nmld tho wildest up roars. Between two waves tho Sprlto darted forward directly for tho near est of the wrecks. "She'll collide!" somo ono shrieked. But the tug swerved nnd turned on a long diagonal across tho end of the bar. Marsh had chosen his moment with oxactltude. He had taken advantage of tho brief lull of Jumbled seas after tho "thrco largest waves" had swept by. let In shallow water and with tho strong Inshore set, even that lull was all too short. Tho Sprite was staggered by tho breakers; her speed was checked; her stern was dragged around. She tore herself from tho grasp of tho current. Enveloped In a blinding hail of spray, sho struggled desperately to extricate herself beforo tho resumption of tho larger seas should roll her over to destruction. Al ready Jhsojarger seas were racing in from tho opeh. Far out in tho lake against tho tum bling horizon Carroll saw heave up for a second the shoulder of a mighty wave. And Instinctively she perceived, this wave as a deadly enemy of the ltttlo tug and saw It bending all Its great energies to hurrylug In ou time to catch the victim before It could es cape. Her whole being was conccn trated In n continually shifting calcu latlon of tho respective distances be tween the tug and the piers, the tug and the relentlessly advancing wave. "Oh. go!" she exhorted the Sprlto under her breath. Huge and towering, the wave catno on now calmly and deliberately. Tho Sprite was off the end of tho pier when the wave lifted her, Just in the position her enemy would have select cd to crush her life out against the cribs. Slowly the tug rose against Its shoulder, was lifted onward, poised and then with a swift forward thrust the wavo broke, smothering the pier and lighthouse beneath tons of water. A low, agonized wall broke from tho crowd. And then and then over be yond tho pier they saw gliding a at tered black stack from which still pour ed defiantly clouds of gray raoko. The Sprite was safe. "I wonder If she got the lino aboard," speculated the tugboat captain at last. Tho crowd surged over to the piers again. Below tbem rose and fell tho Sprite. All the fancy scrollwork of her upper works, the cornice of her deck honse, the light rigging of her cabin, bad disappeared. The tall smokestack was bent awry. At sight of Marsh the crowd set np a yell. He paid no attention the life saving men tossed a mooring lino ashore. It was seized by a dozen men. Then for tbe first time somebody noticed that, although the tng bad come to a standstill, her screw was still turning slowly over and over, hold ing her against tbe erratic strong Jerk "They iwj our," ht nxUU were useful for light as well ns warmth. Ordo discovered tho two girls and drew Carroll ono side. "You'd better go home new, sweet heart," .said ho. "Bobby '11 be waltlug for you." "I supposo so," she assented. "But hasn't it been exciting? Whoso ves sols wcro they, do you know?" Onle glnnced at her strangely. "They wcro ours," said he. to bx co.tnaum.l Prepaid RaJireaa Orders, "SojaoUuuc which is of consider known is tbe system of prepaid or abl interest to tbe public generally and wkicli u twfaaps not generally darn now la affect btwen stations ot the Southern Pacific company and all points in the United BtaUs. By me&na of this syntem tickets may be purchased at Medford from any pines in the United States and mail ed or telegraphed direct to tho party mailing to eome here. Sleeper no eoBHBodations and eta all amounts of cash in connection with these tiokets Dj01- mny also be forwarded at tho same time." tf w II: 7 T m 1 MedfonL Oregon: This certifies thai we hare sold Hall's Xexan Won der for the ouxe f all kidney, hlftd- der and rheumatic troubles for ten years, and have never had a cem- olai&i. It mrta wuk ux4 Msaaaeat re&fif. M toys' tareatatat ia each Wat tle. UtAUri rhaiMev. CITY NOTICES. (Continued from png0 3). Soction 3. It ia further oniorer that tho notice above urovided for bo mibhshed thrco times iu tho Dnilv Mnil Tribune n newotmtwr published n'ul of ccuornl ciroulMion i" pnid citv. in tt'o manner imividod bv or dinnnco No. 250 of uid eitv. The foroeoini.' ordinnncn was ias- ed bv tho citv council of tho citv of Medford on the 7. dnv of Do- oember. 11)00, bv tho following vote Morriok, nbaont: Kifort, nvo: Welch, nvo; hmorick, nvo; Dommor nvo: Wortmnn. nvo. Aiwroved Ducombor 8th, 1000, W. II. CANON. Mnvor. Mtcat: ROUT. W. THLFKU. Recorder. 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This was n dangerous Job nnd ono requiring considerable power and Ingenuity, for tho strain on the line Imposed by the waters was terriuc, and tho breaking seas ren dered work on tho piers extremely hazardous. A number of tho curlouH lingered about thd Sprite. Marsh and Ordo wero In consultation over the smashed stern. Harvey leaned out his llttlo square door. "No," ho answered n query. "I wasn't what you all would call scalrt that Is, not really scalrt Jess n llttlo no'vous. All I bad to do wuh to feed her slabs nnd listen foil my bell. You Bee, Cnp'n Mn'sh, he was In chn'go." 'o, sir," Captain Mnrsh wuh Haying emphatically to his employer. "I can't flguro It out except on ono thing. You seo, It's Htovo from underneath. A son would havo Hinnshed It from above. That Inst sea must 've lifted us bodily right ovor tho corner of the pier." "Well, maybe," assented Ordo doubt fully. "Kuro thing," repeated Marsh, with conviction. "Well, you'd better not tell 'em so unless you want to rank In with old man Ananias," ended Ordo. The wild and picturesque work of rescue was under way. Tho lino had been successfully brought to tho left of the lighthouse. To It hnd been at tached tho ropo nnd to that tho heavy cable. These tho crow of tho schooner had dragged out and made fast to u mast. Tho shore end passed over a tan scissors, wneu tho cablo was tlghtonod tho breeches buoy was put j Into commission, and beforo long the first member of the crew was hauled ashore, plunging In nnd out of tbo waves as the ropo tightened or slack. oned. Ho was a flaxen haired Nor wegian. Tho crew and Us volunteers worked quickly, Carroll and Minn stayed until dusk and after, watching tho long heavy labor of rescue. Tho women making tho hot coffeo found thou- sorvlcos becoming valuable. Big Arcs of driftwood wprp Ignited. .They J. E. ENYART, President JOHN S. ORTII, Cashier J. A. PERRY, Vico-Preflido.it W. B. JACKSON, Ase't Cashier. 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