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TrTrsaeSiW fcrttoiy.. XftWto &W M v " FIRST SECTION PAGES 1 TO 8 1UFUI YEAR. ASHLAND TURNS DOWN TROLLEY LINE REFUSES TO Application of John R. Allen for Trol ley Lino Franchise Is Defeated by 28 Votes Voto Was Unlit, There Being 428 Cast Gas Franchise Is Given to J. R. Anderson. ASHLAND, Juno 11. By n voto of 128 to 200 Ashland today turned down tho application of John It. AN luii for n trolloy lino franohiHo with in the nlty. Tho voto wiih light, about one-half of tho voting strength of tho citv being reprohoutd. At tho tiaio u franchise for a giiH plant wan granted to J. It. Anderson hy a voto of :nr to 101. Tho voto by wards was iih follews: Trolley Line. Voh. First ward 87 Second ward 07 Third ward -1(1 No. 77 Total J00 Gas Franchise. Ych. First ward 131 Second ward 10.r Third ward 70 1128 No. 30 :n 37 Total 31fi 101 Tho elation wiih h hotly contented one, every moBHhnok in town being in ovidonco. It wiih evident hooh after tho polls opened that oven Home of thoHo who had signed the Coin- mureial olub'w recommendation for franehiho were working secretly against it. Tho voto ngaitiHt the franchise wn haviest in the business iltHtriutH. A majority of the inoreliantH openly fought it. MohI of tho older nisi dentii oppoHed it. Tho supporters woro uioHtly young men and tho new er comers among tho IniHincHH men. A Initio labor voto wiih polled for the franchise, and dcHpito tho opposition of tho .Southern Pacific, the First, or tho railroad ward, was tho only ono carried for tho franchise. An interesting feature wiih red pla cards signed by two physicians, "When Yqit Voto "Iiomomhor Jacksonville, which read: "Tho ltailroad Passed It Hy." Whethor Mr. Allen will abandon the enterprise or build, leaving Ash land out, Iiiih fiol yet boeu iiiado public PARTY PLUNGE OFF IE TO DEATI! 1'OltTLANI), Juno 11.- Two worn, en, both inmates of Essie Wutkin .s notorious Vauuoiivei' resort, and three men, ono of them a .Mahout named Day, in a Stevens Duryea au tomobile, plunged off the Oregon slough bridge 700 feet this sido of tho Vancouver furry landing tliiH morning. The maohiuo tore through the heavy guard rail at the approach to tho bridge, It wan hurrying to wards tho Owl ferry to embark tho party. The parly was Into and tho spoodjd machine did not notice (ho ourvo. Tho machine dropped forty feet and all were drowned. Grappling for the bodies continued tonight. Tho party had boon alt ho Quelle rostnimiul until .11 o'olook yesterday owning, and loft to inako the last Vancouver boat. , Cltistora of lights along tho curbs would prow a thousand fold mora nttractlva than tho prosont ovorhond llghtH, Why not ohango tho systom, nt loast on Main otroot? GIVE ALLEN FRANCHISE BRIDG Medford FAKE INJURY QUEEN, KNOWN HERETO JAIL Mrs. Maud Johnson Sentenced to One to Five Years In Penitentiary Will Bo Taken to Walla Walla Next Week to Benin Serving Sentence. VANCOUVER, Wimh., Juno 11. Mnt. Maud JolmHon, Hontoncnd to one to flvo years It tho penitentiary for defrauding tho Northern Pacific rall- ronil hy feigning Injury In April, 1909, will ho taken to Walla Walla to ho Kin her term In tho ponltontinry some tliuo next wcok. Tho woman linn walvod hor prlvl loco of appeal to tho nupromo rourt Mrs. Johnson hns boon conflnod in nt n conBldornhlo dlBtanco from tho tho county Jail bIiico hor conviction hoimo In which ho lived. It wnB ly ahout flvo wookH, hut this tlmo will K ,y t10 hI!o of tho creok and on not ho deducted from hor Hontcnco. on ,do of tho head was n deep brulno iim h1k had Maid hIio would appeal. During tho threo yearn of her ra- rer when ho Ih alleged to hnvo folgn- od Injuries !;j no !cs '"tan 15 ruses th claim r-eitP for the rntnpnnlor Mint rinld th irono'- ny that Mrn n 'ohiiKon netted about IfiOOO hy her HoiiperntloiiR. Mth, Johnson was known In tlilr J city, having clioaon Medford as n flcono for hor operation!. Sho war. for Bomo tlmo nt tho Hotel Nash and , wiih treated thoro for nn Imnglnnrv lllnoBn nH a result of trawling on the ! Southern Pacific, endeavoring In thlf j way to secure damages. ' HIS SECRETARY Winston Churchill Is Given Stinging Rebuke Because He Toltl Kino. He Did Not Agree With Him Jn His Plans. LONDON', Juno 11. Home Secre tary WliiBton Churchill Is Bald today to ho much worried because of a Btliiglug rohuko ndmlnlntorod hy King George. During his majesty's reception to tho cabinet monihors nt Marlborough houso early tills wook ho dtBciiRKod tho political flltuntlon with Churchill. , Aftor tho king had expressed IiIb vIowb on n eortaln mnttor, Churchill Ih reported to haw said: "1 do not agroo with your majesty thoro." Tho king wnH at first puzzlod hy tho In terruption, which was unprecedented, then ho grow unmistakably angry. "Loavo my prosonco immediately." Tho unfortuiiato secretary quickly loft tho royal prosonco. Ho has bcon Been llttlo In public places slnro the occurrence TO USE OIL ON NORTH BANK ROAD PORTLAND, Or, Juno 11. Tho Spokane, Portland nnd Seattle rail road has closod a threo-year contract with the Associated Oil company of California mid will use fuel oil in all of Its locomotives, Tho burnorn nro now holng converted. Tho entire North llankuystom will ho using oil fuel hy .September 1, This Ih tho biggest oil contract placed In tho northwest In rocent years and will call for sovoral mil lions of bunds. To hnndlo this quan tity will roqulro sovornl largo tank utonmors, tho first of those, tho J. A. Chtuislor, dollvorod hor first car go at tho ABsoclntod tunics at Ltnnton Inst night. Tho Ohnnslor has Just como out from tho Newport Nows port nuil Is said to ho tho finest oll-tankor on tho Pacific coast. KNG REBUKE MEDFORD, AGED MAN FOUND ON TRAIL CREEK J. H. Hart, Well Known In County, Is Found Lylnn by Water's Edge Coroner Summoned to Investi gate Death. J. II. Hart, who ia woll known throughout Jnckson county, was found dead at hlw homo on Trail creek 20 iiiIIoh nhovo Englo Point Friday afternoon. Owing to certain clrctim Btnnco.M surrounding tho location of tho hody when found, tho coroner was nummoncd and wont up Saturday to conduct an Inquest. Tho hody was found hy nolghbors wfc!ch may have heon the cause of death. However, tho theory advanc- ,., ttnB that tho aged man had died Hiuldonly of henrt failure, , Mr. Hart Ib tho fnthor-ln-lnw of Dee iirmlMhnw and 1h ono nf tho old time re 'dents of Jackson county. LAWLER MUST EXPLAIN ACTIONS Assistant Attorney General Oscar Lawlcr Will Be Summoned Before Concessional Committee in Near Future. WASHINGTON, D. C, Juno 11. Assistant Attou.ey General Oscar Lawlcr will bo summoned hoforo tho houso rules ccnimlttco soon to tell why ho lmpr's.nod Mexican rofugocs vlon ho was United States district attorney at Los Augolcs, Cal. John Kenneth Turner, magnzlno writer, declared tho Diaz agents woro artlvo In making arrests in bouthorn Callfnrnlo. Ohamp Clark, a mom- ber of tho commttteo, dolarcd nn Investigation ought to bo s r.rtod. "T'icso eb?.rges ought to bo inves tigated," snld Clark. "Tho corrt rec ords of Arlzou and California should bo produced so that they could bo gono into tnoroughiy. Lawlor Is hero and can bo called." Protests Diaz. Congressman Fassott objeetod to allowing Diaz to ho called n murdoror by tlioso who pronontod tho charges. Tumor charged that fodornl socrot service oponUlves, Unltod States mar shals, army officers and Toxao rang ers had conspired with Moxlenn agents to suppress tho Moxlcan lib eral moveniont fostered In tho Unltod States. Ho called tho commlttco's attention to tho fact that VUlaroal, Magon and Hlvora, Moxlcan liberal leadors, nro now Imprlsonod In tho Unltod States. Lawlor, ho said, con ducted tho casos against thorn. 8000 MEN AT WORK ON CANAL MAY STRIKE COLON, Juno 11. El.jht thousand union mon working on tho Panama canal may strike If their doinnnds for Incroasos of 20 por cont pay aro not granted by tho gowrnmont. Tho unionists nro paid by tho hour, while tho other employes nro paid rogular salaries and aro nllnwod a month's vacation on pay. Tho unionists do- niand an Incronco of tho hourly scalo. If, howovor, a vacation on pay Is grantod tho union mon, It Is oxpoct ed, that tho domnnds will bo withdrawn, DEAD NEAR CABIN Mail Tribune ORECION, SUNDAY, JUNE Senate Adopts Chamberlain's Amend ment Providing $15,000 for Sur veying Roads Throughout Crater Lake National Park Heidel Makes Good Progress. WASHINGTON, Juno. 10. "" Geomo Putnam. Medford. "" WASIIINGTON, Juno. 10. George Putnam, Medford, Ore.: Tho senate today adopted Chamberlain's amend ment to tho sundry civil ap propriation bill appropriat ing 15000 for th purpose of surveying roads in the Crnto Lake National park. (Signed) JONATHAN BOUKNE, JR. G. E. CHAMBERLAIN. '" Ore.: Tho senate today J i flnittital il triililflltl't nnintwl- t" -- -f-f-- Tho above telegram was received in Medford lato Friday evening and shows that tho Oregon senators have bn making good oiftliir promises to got nn appropriation from tho fod ornl government to build roads throughout the national park, making it more nccofoiblo. Thoro is at pres ent $5,O0Q available for building a road in tho Crater national forest so that an expeuditur of $20,000 above Prospect i assured this year. Engineer lleidel is making rapid progress with the survey of the pro posed Crater Lake highway from Trail to the national park. Ho hn. already located his road around Piimio hill ond on to Prospect, nnd is now working up Hogtio river just abovo Trail. Within a fow weeks ho will havo tho lino from Trail u0 lo cated. Ho has also done consider able work in tho national forest. The lino located is a spludid one and ho has succeeded in finding n grndo of loss than 4 por cent. IS Malady Pronounced Incurablo Court Physicians Issuo Official Denials But It Is Known That King Is Suffering Greatly. MADRID, Juno 11. In spite of of ficial denials of reports that King Alfonso is suffering sorious illness, it beeauio known today that the Span ish monarch has tuberculosis of the throat. The diseaso is pronounced incurable. . PINCHOT IS STILL SILENT ST. PAUL, Minn., Juno 11. Formor Chlof Foroator Plnchot and formor Secrotary of tho Intorlor Jnmos R. Garflold arrived horo today to nttoad tho banquot of tho national conser vation congress horo, Plnchot said that ho did not know what tho plans of Colonel Ror.aovolt, who has con- sontod to attond tho conservation con vention, aro. Evory day la this city a fow moro peoplo Join tho llsta of thoso who buy advortlsod things who patronlzo ad vortlsod storosl $1 5,0001 ROAD SURVEY NEARCRAIER KNG ALFONSO RM TUBERCULOSIS 12, 19i0. SEATTLE FIRE CAUSES L OF 31 ,000,000 No One Was Killed But Many Are Homeless Conflagration Worst in History of Puget Sound Metropolis Gale Drops Checking Flames. SEATTLE, Wash., Juno 11. No one was killed in the firo thr.t swept over the north end of tho business district last night. Only two men were injured seriously. Both aro fire men. J. L. Eager ran a uail In his foot and was taken to tho city hos pital. George Bent was overcome by gas and aleo was sent to tho city hos pital. An inspection of tho ruins thin morning shows that tho loss will total between $800, C00 and $1,000,000. The three firemen who ,it was be lieved, had been crushed by falling walls, escaped. Many of thoso who were missing wore accounted for today at tho homes of friends. Fully 300 persons are homeless. Clouds of smoke nro still rolling out of tho ruins today and few of tho firemen left the scene until long aft or daylight. The conflagration was tho worst in the history of Seattle, with tho single exception of tho great firo of 1889. Ashes of burning shingles and sparks were carried for blocks. Blocks away pcoplo hauled their household goods into tho street on tho advice of tho police. Furniture vans, hacks, taxlcabs and wagons hur ried to and from fleeing people and their effects. Only the startling drop In tho galo that had been lushing tho 60und pre vented their fears from being realized GRAIN CROP INLAND EMPIRE IS DAMAGED SPOKANE. Juno 11. Experts re port tho wheat and oat crops throughout tho country tributary to Spokauo in nn alarming condition becauso of a long dry spell without rain and much warm weather. Tho crop expectations of six weeks ago will bo cut in half. Only n smnll por tion of oats in Pnlouso remains, nnd it is declared that it is already too Into to sav tho crop about Quinoy and Wilson Creek from serious dnm agc. Much damngo has been dono today, especially in tho Big Bend country, bv tho hnrd dry wind that has been bweoping tho country nt a rate of 23 miles an hour. ATTACKS PROPOSED BOARD ON TARIFF WASHINGTON, 1). C, Juno 11 Senator Clay of Georgia today at tacked the proposed tariff board .n the senate, charging that tho present administration doc not intend to re vise tho tariff. In tho course of a reply to Clay, Senator Aldrich said that he did not believe that the people were turning against protection. NEW YORK. June 11. Tho United Statos circuit court this afternoon unanimously denied the injunction sought by tho Pullman company, ask ing that the inter-stato commerce commission bo restrained from order ing a reduction in tho prico of upper berths in sleeping ears. Tho court hold that tho company is cngngod in inter-stato commerce and thoroforo updor tho jurisdiction of tho commission. Tho court rojoot- ed tho company's plea that it oporatod "hotels on whcols," and also said that tho tostimpny showed that upper berths nro less desirablo than lower berths. s FIRST SPIKES IN NEW RAILROAD BE DRIVEN SOON Mrs. B. H. Harris Will Give First Spike in Kanes Creek Railroad Tap Tomorrow Elaborate Prep arations Made for Event. Tho ceremony of tho driving of the first spike on the new lino of railway which tho Gold Hill Railroad and Lumber company is building up Kanes creek will take placo Monday, in ac cordanco with a decision reached late Friday by company officials, says the News. Mrs. B. H. Harris, wife of the vice president of the company, will give tho sciko tho first tap that will, start it into tho tie. Eveo'thing is in read iness to proceed with the work as SQpji as the spike is driven. Three cars of steel were switched out on the spur from the junction yesterday. The grade has been completed and ties laid for threo miles. A program of speeches is being ar ranged, and tho people of Southern Oregon are invited to bo present. The millsite, located in n handsome oak grove, will be thrown open as a picnic ground, and nil who choose may bring lunches and spend the day beneath the grateful shade of some of tho handsomest trees in Southern Oregon. Tho mill structure, in which tho machinery is now installed, will bo nn object of interest, ns will nlso the nrtificial lake, from which the logs will be drawn up into tho mill. It is tho intention of tho company to have tho line completed as far ns tho newly-discovered eaves by the Fourth of July, and work will bo pushed to the utmost to this end. so that a big jireo excursion to the eaves can be I announced to be run on the day we eeleoraie. OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN BARRED FROM RUSSIA PARIS, June 11. Declaring that ho had applied to tho sfc.to depart ment to attempt to force his way Into Russia, Oscar Hammerstoln ad mitted today that ho had bee- barred from that country becauso ho Is a Jow. Tho rofusi.l of tho Russian authori ties to allow him to go to St. Potors burg Is a hard blow, ho declared, bo causo ho has Imporatlvo business en gagements with artists whom ho hop ed to bring to Amorlca. "It Is truo," ho said today, talk ing to nevspnper mon nt tho Grand hotel," that I havo boon rofused ad mittance to Russia. It Is a hard blow, I havo Imperative engage ments with artists nt St. Petersburg. If It will. plac:tto Russia any, I will agree to join tho Episcopalian or tho Baptist church, or even apply for membership In tho Greek elm. eh and thor. knock the "otoln" of my nntno. "I havo Instructed my Now York lnwyor to apply to tho state depart ment to seo If I can foico my way lu, but I am not vory hopoful of suc cess. It's an outrago and Amorlca should not tolon.to It." POCKET IS F LEADVILLE. Col., Juno 11. Min ors nro working today in a drift on tho GOO-foot lovol of n mine nonr horo, whoro threo mon in flvo min uses yestorday took out $12,000 In oro. An nttempt Is bolng mndo to follow tho win In which tho nuggets woro found. Revolt Suppressed, WASHINGTON, D. C, Juno 11. -Tho Mexican foroign minister today received a communication from tho governor of Yucatan that the Maya Indian rovolt had boeu suppressed, UNITED PKTCS8 ASSOCIATION Pull Leaacd Wlro Report. Tho only paper In the world published in a city the ilin of Mod ford bavins n loaned wlrt. No. 71. Mil Judge Webster and Maurice Eldrldue Address Interested Audience at Savoy Theater Methods of Build ing Roads Are Discussed, Also Steps to Provide Necessary Bonds. The man who was In any way In terested In tho construction of good roads missed it by not attending tho meeting at tho Savoy theater Satur day afternoon, when 5or over two hours Judge L. R. Webster, tho most enthusiastic good roads aivocato la the state, and M. O. Eldrldge, who has no superior In the art of road building, entertained an appreciative audience, which had assembled to hear them. Mr. Eldrldge opened tho meeting, but tho lights wont out and Judge Webster took up tho themo of the meeting, whllo tho Rogue River Elec tric company was fixing up tho diffi culty. Judge Webster paid tribute to his old homo nnd stateu"l!ir.t' this was tho only county In tho state outsldo of ono capable of building the proper kind of roads, but that, while the county board was doing tho best It could with tho knowledgo availablo. that it was Impossible to build roada unless you know how. The state o Oregon has tho best and cheapest ma terial for good roads In tho United States and it is simply a matter of using the materials to the best ad vantage. Mr. Eldrldge showed a number of views of different classes of road building and indicated tho best meth ods for road construction in south ern Oregon. Whilo tho macadam road was recommended for ordinary roads, the number of automobiles In, Jackson county requirod moro dura ble surfneo than tho macadamized road affords. Tho oiled surfaco ma cadam In Mr. Eldridgo'B opinion, makes a moro durable surfneo and at the same tlmo Is practically dustlcss. Should tho good roads association' deslro tho prosonco of n govornmont oxpert In order to instruct tho road builders of tho county, Lis sorvlces could bo secured by application to tho department. Commissioners Patterson and' Owens woro lntore3tod and appre ciative auditors, and propounded' some portlnont quorles, as tho lec ture proceeded. WOLGAST DISABLED IN SMALL B0LI1 MILWAUKEE. Wis., Juno ll.-y The disabling of Ad Woolgast, chum?' piou lightweight, in his bout wifh Jack Redmond last night, is believed; hero today to havo resulted from lack of training by Woolgast. Tho Wild oat had only threo days of training' for the bout, ami whoa Redmond hit' him on tho loft arm a "inusolo bruiso' developed that mado the champion'' arm useless for tho romaiuder of the milling. At first it was reported that Ad's arm was broken. Tito arm today, whilo soro and stiff, is much bottoV and probably will bo all right again within u wook. CHICAGO, Juno 11. Tho Com mercial National bank and tho Con tinental National hank consolidated today with a capital of $30,000,000, surplus $12,000,000 and deposits to the amount of $180,000,000. The morgor gives Chicago a bank ing Institution socond only to the N Hon City bank of Now York, GOOD ROADS AT MEETING if . 'Jlu!! H V It' I t'