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V, '11 Is- i IS If ) ftm.i Medford Mail Tribune SECTION ONE , ,PAGES 1 TO 8. MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1910. No. 281. FOURTH YEAR. COUNTY COURT GRANTS AN ELECTRIC ROAD FRANCHISE CHAROT FAILED TO REACH POLE However French Exploration Party Made Valuable Scientific Discov eries Sickness Prevailed Durinu Lonn Trip In Anarctlc Regions. LONDON, .Hcli. 12, Although Or, Jean Charcot failed In lila attempt to rench tho Houth pole, dlspatcho horn todny from tho Hronch explorer de clare thnt tho party mndo valuable scientific discoveries nnTTthnt th'n ex pedition wn "altogether satisfac tory." According to th ('dispatches, the ex plorors Kot n fnr ns latitude 70 de KTith nouth anil lotiKltude 120 do Kress west. Thin plncod the expedition well within tint Antarctic circle, hut at n distance of ten degree to tho north of tin) poHltlon reached by Lieutenant Scott In 1U02. Hltkne PrvnllMl. Hlckiiei nnd dlsonso ravaged tho French expedition, Judging from tho dispatches. Twenty mon who com poncd tho party were nick during the greater part of tho winter at Poter man'it Inland, nearly all of them suf fering from, scurvy It was feared for n time that they would havo to give up their expedition on account of sickness, hut Charcot finally complot ed tho "French map" an far as Adel (Continued on I'ngo 8.) SALE OF L A Little Over II: Acres Set In Younu Trees Brings $15,000 W. F. Rau Makes Purchase. John ICInerk Iihh Just Bold 12 acres of land lying one and one-lmlf miles northeast of Medford to J. H. Noddy for 10500. T)ils represents Just a portion of tho profits which Mr, Klnorlc has nccumulnted during his sovon years' residence. 1 Ho came horo to Medford with 11800 woven years ago and Invented In roul proprty. Dy Judicious pur chases nnd tlmojy Boiling ho now owns city lots which ho can turn Into $0000 cold uliitoloons any tlmo ho wants to say tho word, Ho hns flomo proporty In Reno, Nov,, nnd will go thoro nnd dlsposo of It, aftor which ho Intends roturnlng nnd Investing In moro lloguo nivor vnlloy dirt. Thoro Ib nothing llko It, ho thinks. And can you blamo him? GOLD HILL TIMBER FOR USE MAKING MATCHES GOLD HILL, Feb. 12. Mattclios mndo from timbor shippod to Port land from Gold Hill will shortly bo on sulo lioro. Snmplos hnvo boon ro coived nnd loHtod by Moritt & Co., who find thnt thoy nvo in overy way tho o(iml of tho host brands of firo BtioltB now on tho market. Lnut Novombor n ronrosontntlvo of a Portland rout oh factory wna horo, nnd toolc somo snmplo lumbor from Morritt & Co'h. mill on Sardine, orook. It wna sugar and yellow plnu and llio loatts given it havo proven 80 satisfactory thnt tho factory do elroa to contract for l,argo qmintlttiofl of tho timbor, to ho Shipped in Au gust, whou its shipping weight will bo tho loast, as it is dryost nt that tirao.y MAKES BANNER AND MAY USE ALL 60 FOOT ROADS IN COUNTY American Development Company Se cures Rlnht From County Court to Construct and Operate Electric Roads Throuohout Jackson Co. The American Development coin puny, n corporation of Portland, linn npplicd to the county eouit for a fniiichit-o iHinniltiug them to build ilincs of (electric railroad over or along tho tI0-foot county rondrf of JackHon county nnd the court ban granted tho company the period of thirty day within which to select and dcHignnte to them a through line from such point on either side of Kogue river whore -It eroshes tho county line between tho counticH of .laekhou ami Jotcphiiio to Mich point on upper Hear crock HouthenHtorly from tho city of Ashlnnd nR it may Holcct nnd tho further period of un til Janunrv 1, within which to build, equip and place in prncticnl operation five milcH of unid main or through line, no part of which is to bo within any incorpornttcd city or town, nnd the further period of one venr from January J, 1011', within which to build, equip nnd plnco in practical operation the bnlnnce of mini main or through line. i lie eoitri aico nninrcti mat tlio company Mm 1 1 hnvo until Juno 1, 11110, within which o select nnd don lirnnto to them the feeders or con necling lines and tho rendu over or nlong which they Hlinll bo constructed and shall have until January 1, 101'J, within which time to build, equip nnd havo in praeticnl operation all eleelrie linen on the roods no desig nated. It waw further ordered thnt upon the fulfilment of tho selecting nnd dewitfimtinc wilhiu the times fctnted the innd( over or nlonu' which to build, nnd biiildiui;, eipipim; and op erating all of (be line within the timert stated, that tho company oi ls xuccoflKf.rri shall hnvo the riubt to (Continued on Pago 8.) HUGE RANciTsOLD; TO BEjUBDIVIDED Half Million Deal In Crook County Land Is to Be Subdivided- and Will Help Populate State. PORTLAND, Feb. 12,Tho Bnld- wln Sheep & Land company has sold 20,000 acres of Crook county lnnd to it syndicate composod of Portland, Scuttle nod Astoria capitalists for $150,000. Tho land is to bo sub-divided mid is important in that it shows a tondouoy of Oregon to divide largo estates in to small farms for tho puropso of Hottling tho country horotoforo al most uuinhabitod. EATS HAM, WITH BARREL OF KALE AS SIDE DISH WASHINGTON. Fob. 12. TaUo ono ton-pound boilod hnm, tho skin, fat nnd nil but tho bono inoludod, two gallons of wntor, ono kog of kalo, woiL'h'inc forty nouiids wlion dry, nnd two gallons of boor; pour slowly into tho mnw of a healthy human bolng in two hours and forly fivo niiiuitos; lot tho niixturo sottlo until nssurod of success and tho ro. Biilt will bo a gastronomio freak or "goiirmachor" (old fnshionod slang for gourmand, Jamos Fay of Modford spout Sat urday In Jacksonville, LEADERS PUN TO REGAIN IP HAND Republican State Central Committee Quiety Adopts Plan Whereby Old Convention Methods Will Be Taken In Hand Assembly July 21. PORTLAND, Or.. Feb. 12. The political lenders of Multnomah coun ty are to romo into their own ngntn according to a plan mapped t out ly the state Kepuiilicuu central commit teo nt its meeting this afternoon. Their plnn ih to tnko the form of n state iiHscmbly with n po-ib!o mem bership of 1218. The plan in for a huue nsfiembly of Republican leaders to bo held in Hid on July 21 to nominate tho candidates for nil state office. The delegates aro to bo chosen by matts mcctiucH to be held in ench precinct of ench county in tho state. -"Ex-Judge M, C. Gcorgo of Portf lnud wan chosen to lend the nsficm bly to victory. Gcorgo was elected fltnto chairman to succeed II. M. Cnko who recently resigned. Tito meeting which was held this afternoon was orderly in every re spect and no heated arguments bo sultcd ns wna expected. The affair savored much of tho.ncttion of a con vention nfter n caucus hnd been held. MANY INJURED IN TROLLEY ACCIDENT NEAR FRISCO URRKEl.RY, Cnl.. Feb. 12. A scoro of persons were Injured, somo fatally, when a llorkoley trnln on tho Key Houto pier about two miles from tho shore, telescoped hn Oakland train which had stopped for signals early todny. r A heavy fog enveloped tho plor, nnd tho motormnn of tho Herkoloy train did not observe the danger In time to reduce tho momentum of his train, which was travolInK out tho pier nt a rapid rate. Tho force of tho collision emnshod the smoking car of tho Oakland train. 8 TITLE C. L. Rcamcs Says Cardwell Heirs Have No Claim to Property Widow Had Right to Sell. Clarenco L. Reames, who Is tho attornoy for Jerry Nunnn In tho mat tor of tho Cnrdwoll estate, Is positive that thoro will bo no litigation over tho matter, "Tho Cardwol holra have no claim whntovor on tho land now In pos session of Mr, Nunan," said Mr. Reames. ."Tho will of J. A. Cardwell expressly states that his widow, who was namod as executrix, should hnvo powor to dlsposo of tho proporty ns sho saw fit, and thnt cnrrlod with It tho right to soil or mortgago any or nil of It. Mr. Nunnn hns been In nd vorso nnd undisputed popsscBslon of the land for Id yenrs and t wis con voyod to him and received by him In good faith, all of which will hnvo Its weight whenovor tho mnttor of tho tltlo Is brought Into court." FASHIONABLE WOMEN TO PLOW SCHOOL GARDEN VENICE. Cnl.. Fob. 12. Women of tho Pick and Shovel Club, a fash ionable organisation which has un dertaken tho task of benuttifying this oltv. will "man" nlows on Sat urday, wllon a two-aoro garden at the public school is to bo cultivated. PEOPLE ARE 10 VIE ON GRANT Council Will Order Special Election Tuesday Evening on Charter Amendment Giving Council Right to Grant Gas Plant Franchise for Period ol 30 Years in Medford. On next Tuesday evening the city council will In nil probability decldu to submit to a vote of the peopjo a charter amendment allowing them to Brnnt a franchise for a kos plant in tho city for a period of 30 years. They havo now power to grant such a right for 30 yoars. J. It. Anderson, of Pasadena of tho Ontario-Upland Gas company, who has recently applied for a franchlbc for a gas plant In Medford, left Sat urday after a conference with the mayor and tho city council, wherein they a creed to submit the proposi tion for an extended gas franchise to tho people nnd a popular election. Said Mr, Anderson before ho left: "I mean business and nave no time for tom-foolory, neither 1 or any one elso will construct a gas plant In Medford on a ton-year franchise, but If autliQtltytls; g:iated lo tho council fo give us n franchise for a longer ... . ' . ft. Imtiuu, we win u' gin worn immcai atoly and Inslile of a, year will ex pend $100,000. "If onythloc Is done on tho gas plant In Medford, speedy action Is dcslrnblo for mnlno must be laid boforc tho streets aro paved, and ac tion on this account muse be rushed. Wo aro not asking a franchise for promotion purposes, in order to hawk It around to n purchaser, but will be- (Continncd on Pno 5.) HAPPY MEDIUM IS TUFT'S Says Administration Will Bring All Illegal Combinations Into Court But Will Try Not Excite Unfaith. . NEW YORK. Fob. 12. President Tuft spoke boforo tho Now York Re publican club horo tonight nnd clearly outlined his politics in connection with tho trusts. Ho sta'tod that bo would adhere to; tho plan of tho ad ministration to bring all Ulegnl com bl latlons into court, but that bo had no Idea of advocating n Bonsntloual crueado Unit would affect tho coun try's flnnucos, His speech was well received nnd tnkon to mean that tho president, whllo determined not to lot the cor porations get tho upper hnnd, hdwlll tnko no unfeaslblo stop calculated to disturb contldonco In American capi tal. CORNER STONE WILL BE LAIDMARCH 1 Bishop Scadding Will. Preside nt the Formal Ceremony of Laying St. Mark's Cornerstone. Tho formal laying of tho cornor- stoiio of 8t. Mark's Episcopal church now under construction on Holly stroot will occur on March 1. Bishop Charles Scadding of the dlo- coso of Orogon will presldo at tho coromonlcs and will plnco tho stono, Tho chinch will when complotod bo ono of the flnost church odlflcos In southern Orogon, and n sourco of prldo, not only to tho congregation of St. Mark's, who havo laboroij long and faithfully to this end, hut to tho cltlons of Medford at largeifts well, AM BINGER HERMANN CASE IS NOW IN HANDS OF JURY COMMITTEE 1ST Rapid Progress is Made in Organiza- 0 tion of Rogue River Valley Fruit Exchange Work Necessarily Slow as Every Detail is Considered. Hapld progress Is being made In the organization tof a central Rogue Itlver valley fruit exchange by tho committee appointed for that pur pose. Every detail and possible com plication Is being considered, and the organization planned upon broad and comprehensive basis to -meet every emergency that may arise and to cre ate an organization that will success fully pick, pack and market the entire fruit crop of the Rogue River valley from Hell-gate to Ashland. Professor P. J. O'Gara. who Is play Ing a leading part In organization of tho exchange, stated before bo left town, Saturday that another meeting of the committee will bo held wed nesday at 10:45 o'clock In his office, when details of organization will be perfected. He stated: "Tho delay has not been caused by any discord or lack of harmony among members of tho committee. All are united for a common purpose. But the details to be attended to aromultltudlnous and It tak?s tlmo to thoroughly pre pare tho plans of organization. All the members are united In purpose and we will be ablo next week to publicly announce tho plans of tho new exchange." LAYING TRACK ON THE CRABTREE EXTENSION LEBANON, Or., Feb. 12. Track laying has been started on tho rail road between Crabtrco and Lebanon. Track has boon laid between Leaban on and the South Sautlam river. Plle drlvlng has ben completed on the trestle to about 2000 feet this sldo of the river. Tho work of completing tho new railroad bridge will be com menced .s soon ns practicable. LA FEAN BILL WILL BE OP ON MARCH 9 "Hawley Wires Whlsler to Try and Be In Washington Whn Committee is Ready to Act. WASHINGTON, Fob. 12. Hear ings on the La Fean bill will begin March 9. Agitation has aroused In terest. Suggest thnt representatives bo present horo nnd bo propared with full information and argumouts. Can you como? (Signed) W. C. HAWLEY. Such was a message received last ovenlng by C. E. Whlsler of this city, who recently returned from Wash ington, wbero ho wont ns a represen tative of the Rogue River Valley frultgrowors to fight tho La Fean bill. Tho matter will be taken up by local fruitgrowers soon,, and Mr. Whlslor may go east again. REQUISITION ISSUED FOR DALLES FORGER SALEM, Or., Feb. 11. Requisition upon Governor Hay of tho stato of Washington was issued by Goyonior Ponson yesterday far tho return to this stntto of F. E. Mills, wanted for forgery nt Tho Dallos. Mills is un der nrrost nt Spokane nnd will ho returned by Sheriff JLovi Chrisman of -Waaoo county, MEET AGAIN SOON RETIRED EARLY NO DECISON AS YET Heney Late Last Night Expressed Himself as Confident ef Favorable Verdict or That Jury Would Hang May Come In This Morning. I , PORTLAND. Or., Feb. 12. At a late hour tonight it was announced that the Dinger 'Hermann- Jury would J not be able to return a verdict until , morning. i Much surprise was expressed here today when the Hermann Jury did mot return a quick verdict. The im pression has been that Heney made a wea kcase. and that the Jury would be out onl ya few minutes. The Jury went out at 11:30 and at noon was relieved for luncb. A Ions delay during which the public showed an unexpected Interest by constant tele phone messages to newspaper offices. Francis- J. Heney at 1 0 o'clock to night believed be would either get a verdict favorable to the prosecution or that the Jury would bang. At that hour the Impression was that the Jury might have to retire for the night, it being forecasted that ono or two were holding out for a compromise and others were stub bornly set for not guilty. PORTLAND. Or.. Feb. 12. Dinger Hermann's fate is in tho bands of tho Jury. Upon the conclusion ot Judge Wolverton's charge to tho Jury, At torney Worth Ington for the defense read a list of exceptions to tho charge which ho asked to havo noted by the cour and following the swear ing in of the bailiffs the Jury retir ed. . , In his Instructions to the Jury the Judge said: "If the Jury finds that a conspiracy was entered Into between two or more of the defendants, including the de fendant on trial, even moro than three years prior to the finding of tho indictment, and that tho parties to (Continued on pnge 5.1 VICKSBURG SUFFERS 1,000,000 BLAZE For Three Hours Flames Coulr Not Be Checked Many Business Houses Destroyed. JACKSON, Miss., Feb. 12. A big fire, which started at 2 o'clock this afternoon and raged until 5 o'clock, did damago In Vlcksburg, Miss., which amounts to over $1,000,000. Many largo business blocks and manufacturing plants 'wore destroy ed. A high wind made It lmposslblo for tho firemen to check tho flames. RAILROAD HARDER ROAD THAN JORDAN TO TRAVEL GOLD HILL, Feb, 12. Jordan) may bo n hard road to trnvol, but the ' railroad track between Gold Ray and 1 Gold Hill has soma pretensions to I hurdnoss itsolf, especially wlion tho niuht is ns dark as it was last Sun day, whon Rov. T. J. narolton foot ed tho sovon miles in an hour and a half just in time to nnriounco tho first hyum for tho services at tho M. E. Church, Thoro was mud upon tho skirts of his priestly garments) nnd upon his knees, and ho was jugt a Jittlo out of breath. Ho had boon making n postornl call betwoen Central Point and Gold Ray, and walkod into tho Jatter nlaco to catch tho first train to Gold Hill. " .. TWO SURVIV IS -WRECKED S.S. CHANZY One. Hundred Persons Perished When Steamer Chanzy Went to Bottom of Mediterranean Explo sion Pre-bably Cause of Disaster. 26 TWO ., CUIDADELA, l3land of Minorca, Feb. 12. "Thore seemed to be Just ono terrible scream as the vessel went down. I don't know how I was spar ed: it must have been a. miracle." With these words, spoken feebly shortly after ho regained conscious ness today, Dluadcz, one of the two survivors of tho wreck of the big steamer General Chanzy, which went to the bottom of the Mediterranean with 155 persons .aboard her yester day, began the first direct account ot the disaster. Wm Very Weak. , Tho man had barely' enougk strength to speak, and his story was told lna halting manner, as If his mind were still unclear. "We had been driven by a terrific wind and I did not know where wa wero when the boat suddenly struck upon tho rocks with a terrific shock. Then there was an awful, explosion; I think it was the boilers, ""The ship went down llko a rock. Tho detonation of the explosion had hardly died away when she lurched (Continued on Page 5.) GOLD HILL MY mm MILL Possibilities Bright for Securing Mill With Dally Capacity of 75,00 Feet a Day Will Employ 100 Men. GOLD HILL, Feb. 12. The News todny 6ays: A saw mill with n capacity of 75,000 feet daily and a payroll of upwards of 100 en, with auxiliary mills for shingles, lath and s&ah. and doors, and a branch lino railroad, are possibilities for Gold Hill by rea son of the sale of L. W. Smith's Foot creek timber tract to a company, of Walla Walla, Medford and east ern capitalists. The ti ansae tion was made last week, nnd a company is now organizing, incorporation papersv having already been applied for. The purchase of tho Smith tract, and purchases and opticus on other smaller tracts, givos tho company practically all tho fine timber on Foots creek, between 4300 and -1500 ncros, bearing, nccordinc tci conser vative ostimatto, 150,000,000 feot ot pine and fir. Three plncos are nossiblo In for tho mill Gold Hill, Woodvillo and a point two miles and a half north of Woodvillo whoro Foots orook joins Roguo rivor. The incorporators of tho pnny are willing to como to Gold Hill if satisfactory nrrnngomonts uuh uo mauo. uno oi tho strongest arguments fgor locating, tho inil here is tho fact that, according mntos, thore aro at loast 00000 cordo oi woou on the tract, and that J. V. nughos of Salem, ono of tho awnors of the Kancs orook limo quarry stat ed recently that his big kiln would ho ablo to take all tho wod thnt could lid -cut from tho trnct. A rejfily mnr- koi xor this wood, witliouhfthipping it, except over the lumber company's own railrny. whiph will bo built from tho tract to tho mill, should ho an (Continued on Pago 8.)