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Medford Mail Tribune UMTET) PKfCSg ASSOCIATION Full Lcaaet! Wire Report. Tonight unit TutiHiliiy Cloudy, ocrtiHloiml nlmwora, No danger of front unlowt tilty cltmrH. Tno onlypaper Ihi the world published, ha city1 the sine of Medford having a loased wire. MEDFORD, OREGON, AfONUAY, APJUL 31, 1910. immi yeak. No18. Tlllfi W1CAT1IKIL STANDARD Oil CASE Will Supremo Court Announces That Re Downed Caso Is to Bo Reheard Reason Given Is That Only Seven of the Justices Now Sitting Heard tlio Argument on the Appeal. TOBACCO CASE ALSO TO COME UP AGAIN Wall Street Has More Fussy Uneasy Mondays Ahead for a While May Be That Court Is Hopelessly Divid ed Over Cases. WA8HIN0TON. D. 0., April II. Tho appeal of tho Standard Oil enso from tlio duclalon of tlio Unftod flUtoH circuit court In Rt. Louis du clnrlug tho )rganUatlon n comblna tlou n rontrnlnt of trade nntl ordering tho compnuy'K dissolution will ho reheard hy tho supremo court of tho United State. Tho decision waa an notmci'd when t: o court convoncil to day. Tho reason for tho ro-hoarlng Ik thnl only mivun Justlcos now tilttlng lioartl tho argument In tho appeal. It requires n mnjorlty of tho full court to render n decision. WT.h only iovon member tilttlng In tho enno, .Mioiild moro than two Justlcon dlRHent, no doclclon could ho ronchod. Juntlca Moody did not hear tho nr- Kiimcnt hecautio of llluctis and Jus tlco nrower, who hoard tho ovldonco, died recontly. Nor Tolmrco Case, Hither. Tho supremo court for tho oamo reason Iiiih decided to rohoar tho to bacco truit case. Tho decUlon was announced by Chief JiiBtlco Fuller shortly, after tho court aasomblod. Itrwnn genorally predicted that tho court mlfiht decide that a rohoarlng of thoao Important caHca would bo nocoaaary after tho death of Juatlco IJrowor. Canon ImiortAtit. Tho canes nro conoldorod among tho most Important that tho aupromo court hat handled In rocont years. They will glvo tho dopartmont of Jua tlco procodont In futuro truat pros ecutions nnd will docldo tho moit important quoatlon In tho prosont form of bis combination., tho legal ity of tho holding company. 801110 of tho attornoyo hero discuss ing tho action of tho court In decid ing that a rohonrlng In noccssary declare that tho action hIiowb that tho court In divided on tho casoa and thnt a declalon could not bo handod down because five Jimtlcoa do not airrnn. 'rnnv iiMimrn ffiinr rim urn- ticca linvo doubtlcas oncli reached a conclusion In tho canoa and It has been found that tho court Is hopoloas ly dtvldod and a rehearing Is nocoa ary. This tlioy think portends tho over-ruling of tho lowor court In both -CABCB, Willi Street Passed. NHW YORK, April 11. Tho de cision of tho supromo court today to rohoar tho Standnrd Oil appeal and tho tobacco trust caso was rocolvod with doe) Intorost In Wall street. Al though tho first ottoct ooomod ro Assuring, gossips lator In tho morn ing Indicated that tho financial cir cled rogardod tho action as one tend , Ing to longthon a porlod of auapons'o that has boon felt over slnco tho casoa first found their way to tho court. Hvor Blnco Monday morning tho court haa hoard tho argumont in tho alight uneasiness, waiting to hoar tho doctslon. This doclalon In caaoa bo foro tho supromo court nro haudod down on Mondays Always wljon lm portnnV mnttora rotloctlng on finan cial affairs aro boforo tho court, Mon day Is an unoiiBy day In tho atroot. Tho Standard Oil enso and tho to bacco trust caso havo provod no ox coptlon. Moro Hml Mondays. Instead of having a' final qulotlng offoot, financial circles thoroforo ex pect tho porlod of unoasy Mondays to be extended still furthor, REHEARD Uncle Joe May Yet Lose Auto InMirwntfl unit DfiiuxTiit Voto Not to Accept Confervnco ll'Krt on LoglMlntlvo imtl Judicial Hill. WASHINGTON, D. C, April 11. It lookB like Bpealuir Cannon will not got "that ntitomobllo" nftor all. Today tho house on nyo nod nay vote declined to npprovo of tho con ference report on the legislative and lliillrl.il hill. I In tho bill wbh an Item for $2000 for tho maintenance of nn automo bile for tho npeakor of tho house. It was n notlceablo fact that 23 liiHurgontB voted with tho democrats agalost tho acccplnnco of tho roport. Cannon has boon having a hard time keeping that "automobilo" for htu ubo In the government oxponso account. Whon tho ninttor camo beforo tho conforonco no troublo was experi enced In porauadlng tho mombors to voto n $2 COO appropriation for tho automobilo for tho vice-president Tho conference declined to foist tho same oxpensen on tho government for tho oxponso for tho malnton'anco of a mnchluo for tho Bpeakor. Tho ap propriation was stricken from tho bill. Later 'I wan placed In another paragraph nnd It appeared that tho speaker would be allowed In tho ma chine unlcopt by the government after all. The action of tho houso has dashed thcflo expectation!) to tho ground and pronpectH are that Undo Joo will bo compelled to pny strcot car face. Given $5 A Day Boys Will Work (,'oiihUM .SuiH'rviHOr Hendricks Hero nnd Maker Arrniigeiiietita for Looil Men to KtiT on Cciihus Work. H. J. Hendricks, avIio bus charge of the work of taking tho census for thin district was in Modford Sunduy making arrangements for tho taking of tho census in this oily. It will be remembered Unit tho enumerators who took tho ixniniuntiou and were appointed refused to take up their work when thoy found that only three conts n iwimo would bo paid for tho work, stating that they had under stood that they wcro to roccive $0 a dny. Mr. Houdncks mado arrangements with tho enumerators whoreby ho will pny them $5 u day. With this understanding ihey huvo all agreed to return' to work. Tho taking of the coiisus starts noxt Fndny, April 15 lho cnumoratorH for tho city nro 3L F. McCowan, J. T. Summervillo, W. hiKonhnrt nnd George II. Miller. Mail To Eagle Point By P. 6c E. Contract Awarded for Currying Mall Will Knock Out Star Route Will Petition for Rural Delivery. Word hnB boon rocoived ui tho lo oal postoffico thnt tho Pacific & Eastern have been awarded a con tract for carrying tho mail betwoon this oity nnd Eaglo Point. The Berv ico will ko iuto offoot noxt Monday, April 18. Tho mail hnB boon carried for Homo months on tho Laglo Point stngo. This will Kivo Eaglo Point a hotter mail sorvioo nB thoy will rtooivo two mnllB a day. Tho only inconvonieneo it will work will bo to about 25 rosi (leutH along tho shu' routo botwoon hero nnd Englo Point, which is to bo discontinued. Over two yoara ngo thoso pooplo nppliod for a rural rouio. hut so far nouo has boon oatnblialiod, It is now probablo howovor that n now petition will bo olroulnted nnd mioli a routo established, othorwioo tliORo pooplo will liuvo to got thlr mail oithor in Modford or Eaglo Point, A part of (tho day's work" for you should bo to ndvortiso thnt prop erty whothor yoii'ro looking for i tenant or a buyor. IS. THILL WINS HER CASE Judge Calkins Decides Famous Drnd shaw Case by. Awarding to Efflo May Terrill 80 Acre Tract Claimed by Her Has Been Fought for Two Years. LEE BRADSHAW AND STONE LOSE ORCHARD Oral Contract With Father Held to Be Good Although She Left Place After It Had Been Alloted to Her and She Was to Live Upon It. Mrs. Efflo May Terrill has been awarded by Judgo Calkins tho 80 acro field awarded to her by her father, tho lato W. II. Dradahaw, and over which a legal battlo has been waged for tho past two years. The raso Ib ono of tho moat noted legal battles fought In tho local cir cuit court for aomo tlmo. It grow out of nn oral contract entered Into by tho elder DradBhaw and his chil dren aomo years beforo his doath In which ho allotted them different por tions of his place known then as tho Upham place, but now as tho Dradahaw with tho understanding that If they lived upon tho placo thoy would each bo glvca deeds. Lator Mrs. Terrill loft tho placo and tho older Dradshaw sold tho place to Leo Urndsbaw and Gcorgo W. Stono, a brother-in-law, for 310,000. This ,was paid, and in cash. In his decision Judgo Calkins states that ho Is satisfied as to tho original contract and that Mrs. Terrill Is on- tltlod to her 80 acres. Ho says fur ther: "I do not think tho principle of estoppel will apply In thla cnao, for that prlnclplo Is applies to cases whero tho allonco haa misled Inno cent persons. I do aot think that tho dofondanta In thlB caso stand In tho position of Innocent persons, for they knev s well as the plaintiff all of the transactions In tho matter; thoy ovldeatly wont aliead and purchased tho promises from tho oldor Drad Bhaw bollevlng that Efflo would not bo able to ontorce tho original con tract mado with 3or father." Tho caso will lie appealed to the aupresao court. , MINNES0TA LAND LOOKERS SEE VALLEY A party of Minnesota pcoplo who are looking over tho northwest, trnv cling in a special enr and chnperoncd by the Union Pnciuo and bouthorn Pacific officials wero in Medford Sunday noming and wero taken out in Mveral automobiles for n tour of Modford ntd its environs. There wero twenty people in tlio party nnd ovary ono of thin wero enthusiastic boosters of tho Rogue river valley whon tho rotnrnod. "Some of us will bo back to Med ford soon," snul ono, Wo haven't soon anything in our tour that com pares with this valley or tho city. You nro certainly, doing things horo, and a place whero things aro being dono is whoro tho progressive man wants to locate. If I had been told boforo I left tho cast that I would find a community like thin, wth paved etroote, automobiloc and as ivo n bunch of people as you havo in n sootion wo havo considered tis being on the 'outermost edg', I would hnv lnughod in his faoo. Although, not from Missouri, I have 'boon shown.' " Tho party will go to Klamath Falls and thon roturn oast over tho south ern routo. C0NSIDENE IS AFTER STRING OF THEATERS SEATTLE, Wash., April 11. John Considono of Sullivan & Consuhno, is on his way to California today to add n string of thontors to his vnurto villo circuit. Among tho doals will ho lho formal transfer of lho now Sprooklos thentor in Smi Francisco to his oirouit. Ho ins nnothor suoh donl under way in jos Atigoles and moro m othor Cali fornia cities, FINE VIEWS OF VALLEY TAKEN H. Relmers Leaves After thing $2000 Worth of Films In Securing Views of Local Orchards ki Blossoms and 4 Other Industries Will Return to Medford In the Fall. SECURES MANY VIEWS OF FAMOUS STERLING MINE Ray Dam Is Taken ami Many Fish Are Caught at Play by Camera Crater Lake and Mill Creek Falls Later. After spending aomo S2000 for films and using them all on scenes In tho Ilogno River valley, H. Ream ers of tho Sollg Polyscope company of Chicago left last oven Ing for San Francisco, whero the films will bo doveloped and moving picture reels mado up ready to bo placed on tholr rounds of 25,000 picture houses in tho United States whero oer 20,000, 000 people will vlow them. Beforo leaving Mr. Reamers stated that tho weather conditions tad been splen J did and that ho was certain ho had secured cxcentlonally fine nlctures. Mr. Reamers will return In tho fall and sccuro additional pictures, among which will bo tho picking and pack ing of fruit, Mill Creek falls and Crater Lake, which ho,vras not able to secure at thls aoaaoarot tho year. Among the pictures taken was ono of tho Gold Ray dam and of the Ster ling mlno. Tho former view was exceptionally good, 8howing the fish at play about the foot of tho dam. From this placo, also, a panoramic view was taken of Table Rock and Mt. Pitt Tho vlow of Sterling mlno jnhowa all phases of placor mining from start to finish and will probably bo a very Interesting picture. It Is probablo that tho plcturo of tho dam and of tho mlno will bo placed in ono film and sent out soon, whereas tho orchard vlows aro to bo retained un til fall, whon 'tho 'picking and pack ing fruit can bo added to one long film undor tho caption, "Fruit In dustry In tho Roguo Rlvt)r valley." Among tho views of the orchards takon was ono of tho Gore orchard at cloao rango, showing the multltudo of blossoms, a panorama of Bear creek, HUlcrcst and Snowy Butte. Probably theao views will advertise the valley moro than any ono single atunt that haa boen pulled off to data. B. a Hubbard of tho Savoy theater has mado arrangements to show thorn all hero aa soon aB thoy aro developed and sent out. It was duo to hla ef forts that thoy wero taken. PRETTY GIRL BATTLES FOR UFE WITH BURGLAR SAN FRANCISCO, CaL April 11 Miss Ilellon Bordon, a pretty young nursa at tho Lane hospital, is in a state bordering on norvous collapse today ns a result of & desperate con flict with a hurclar who entered her room und attempted to choko her to doath whon sho screamed for holp, sho was sleeping near an open win dow in tho nurses' quartors when tho intruder ontorod. Sho was awakoned hy his footsteps obe scrarood and he grabbod hor by tho throat. "Don't do thnt again." he com manded. Tho young woman struggled 'with him and finaly wronched his hands loose. Then while sho grappled with tho thug sho soroamcu for assistance. Unablo to control hor, the man suddenly divod through tho open win dow just ns two houso physioians on torod tho doorwny to hor aid.. An oxoollont doscnption of tho muti is in possession of tho polioo. Grants Pass Gets Brick Depot. GRANTS PASS, Ore., April 11. Tlio now dopot for this city has boon changed from oonoroto to ' protisod hriok. Tho rnilrond company had in mind a oonoroto stvuoturo and plans woro drawn to that effent, but n numbor of oitUons npponlod to tljo company tor a ohnngo in tlio exterior appearance, Sensational Case Is Opened JZ? & j& jZ? Dr. Hyde Battling For Life PflHHHBMHj4; 'HBBBBB BBaflHaflaflp '"IsHPsbk BBBBHalH9BaBBBBHBlBHHBmi;fBBBBBH ibbbbbHibHbIbbbbbbbHbHE(kI I HB " KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 11. Tho trial of Dr. B. C. Hyde, ono of the leading physicians of this city, charged with having murdered Col onel Thomas H. Swope, a millionaire philanthropist, by administering strychnlno to him under guise of med icine, began here today. Tho trial la expected to prove one of tho most sensational in tho history UNREST IS FELT With Pinchot and Roosevelt Center ing and Beveridge Insurglng in In diana Uneasy Sleeps the Head That Rules the Gang. WASHINGTON, D. C, April 11. Theeo bo tho days ot political unrest In Washington. Two things aro dis turbing tho political calm. One Is the meeting ot Gttford Pinchot and Thoodoro Roosevelt In Itay. The ther Is the cancellation of tho pres ident's engagement to speak in In dlanapolla following tho action of tho republican stato convention there which, while endorsing Taft, virtual ly criticized tho Payno-Aldrlch tariff measure. Thoro Is a fooling that tho admin Istrntlon has "overlooked a bot" In not sending someone to Europe to confor with Roosovolt nnd gtvo him somo facts "on tho othor sldo" when 'Plnchoto has complotod his recital Tlio administration's rrionas seem to regrot that Senator Root declined Rosovolt's Invitation to go to Eu rope. Root Is closo to. tho admlntstra tlon and la also close to Roosovolt Ho Is hold In high ostoom by tlio former president, and as a roombor of Roosovolt's cabinet was given more dollcato missions to perform than anyono oxcopt Taft. Root, thoroforo, tho party loaders fool, would have been Jnst tho man to put tho disputes that havo arisen slnco Taft has been president before Roosovolt fairly, and to havo given him tho administration's attitude Such a presentation ot facts, they bellovo, would havo boon of vnst im portance in shaping Roosovelt's ac tion. That tlio Plnchot-Balllngor contro versy Is tho matter that Is cauBlng gravoat concern Is pretty evident to tho politicians here. Thoy aro still gossiping about an Incident that oc curred at tho banquet ot the District ot Columbia league ot Ropubllcan Clubs, Roprosontntlvo Longwoith at tho banquet In a brief addross men tioned tho nnmo ot Gttford Pinchot and tho nnmo brought choers. Pres ident Taft, who was at tho banquot, was plainly displeased, WASHINGTON of tho country- A heavy guard was present in the courtroom when the hearing began. All principals ,1a the caso were In attendance aAi their presence drew a great crowd to tho building. The early stages of the trial, such, as tho drawing of venires-and the selection ot Jurymen, held consider- (Continued on Page 8.) PINCHOT MEETS WITH ROOSEVELT Neither Will Tell of Interview Two Men Go for Walk and Teddy De lights Him Evidently From His Spirits. PORTO MAURIZIO, Italy, April 11. "Hello, Gifford. This is fine I" was Roosovelt's exclamation today on meeting Gifford Pinchot, former chief forester of the United States nnd ono of tho closest men to Roose velt in private and public life. Tho meeting of the former presi dent and his chief advisor of the "tennis cabinet" took plnce here at tho villa of Miss Carow, sister to Mrs. Roosovolt. Tho meeting, which had been plan ned several months ago before Roose velt will make up his mind as to his course of aotion politcallv upon conclusions formed after conference with Pinchot. Tho meeting wns early this morn ing, Pinchot having arrived horo un expected at midnight. After a few hours rest at the Pnlaco Hotel ho appeared at tho villa and was greet ed enthusiastically by Roosevelt. Tho greeting of Pinchot by Rooso volt was mado heartior hecauso tho colonel had not expeoted to see Pin chot so soon. Thoy clasped hands liko long lost brothors. It was almost n enso of falling into each others arms. Roosovolt drew Pinohot into the houso holding him affeotionntely by thoy reappeared and started for tho mountains for a stroll which lasted two hours. ''Nothing to give out," was tho simultaneous ojaoulation of both Roosovolt and Pinchot on their re turn. Pinchot let fall ono remark thnt may be taken to indicate that Roose velt had not repudiated Taft oven though rumor says that ho may bo contemplating suoh notion. Pinohot said that Roospvelt ex pressed surpriso at not receiving any porsonnl raossagos from Presidont Taft or from any mombors of Toft's official family, Pinohot said that he wil remain lero for soveral days, ne appeared to bo in excellent spirits after his walk with Roosevelt, , IS RAILROAD TO COilSr PUN SOUTHERN PACIFIC Indications Are That Such Plan Ix Being Considered-Line Up Csast From San Franctsce te Eureka to to Be Completed Officials Travel Fr&ffl Regue to Coast. NORTHERN CONNECTION MUST BE GAINED SOON Important Conference is Held in San Francisco Between Lwett and Ripley Who Decide ta Complete Northwestern Pacific to Cal. Line. " Here are the facts that in- " dicate that the Southern Pa- " cifio company is planning to " build through tho Applegate to 4 4 4 4- 4-4- Crescent City and on to Trin idad where it will connect with the railroads between that place and Eureka, Cal., and from there on down to San Francisco : It has been announced the Southern Pacific has definite ly docided upon tho expondi tudo of $11,000,000 to close the gap in tho main lino of tho Northwestern Pacific from Willits to Shiveley which will givo them a direct connection from Eureka and Trinidad to San Francisco. Oregon officials of the Southern Pacific last week mado a trip from Grants Pass to Crescent City and took great interest in all mat ters appertaining to tho re sources of that section. It would socm hardly feasi ble for tho Southern Pacifio to build a coast line to Eureka without continuing it to a northern connection, tho most feasible of which is out through the Applegate. Is tho Southern Pacific company planning to build a line from the Rogue river valley through the Ap plegate to the coast through Crescent City and from thore to connect with a line at Trinidad which passes through Eureka and on to San Fran. cisco? Viewing this question in tho lights of recent developments it seoms most feasible. That it is boing considorcoV is shown by two facts: First, that soveral officials of tho Southorn Pa cifio lines in Oregon, last weok made n trip from Grants Pass to Crescent City by automobile and toam and mado dotailed uquiry regarding min ing, timbor and agricultural re sources of that soction; second, th.it after a prolonged conference between Presidont Lovott of tho Southern Pa cifio and Prsident Ripley of the San ta Fo in San Francisco last week it has been anonunoed that it has been definitely doeidod to oxpeud $11,000,. 000 to close tho gap in the main lint of the Northwestern Pacifio frosa Willits to Shiveley, a distance of 3i0 miles, to connect with tho line from Shivoloy to Eureka which oxtends on to near the California line, not a great distanco. from Cresqont City, The Southorn Pacifio and Santa. Fo own jointly the Northwestern Pacifio road, and tho two presidents who mot in conference last week an nounced that tho time is here to round out tho system. Lovott and Riploy ngreod to build 110 miloa of road on the Northwest' era Paqifio, which will cost $100,000 mile. Somo work was reee-ntly started on the gap at both ends, It was deoidod at the conferenee to continno the work until the eap u (Continued on Page I.)