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lorlcal iw!e!i .(jnsflpn J Medford Mail Tribune UNITKD I'KHSH ASSOCIATION Pull Leaned Wlro Itcport. TIIIC WIOATIIKK. Tonight mill tomorrow Fair mill warm Tho only paper In the wort published In a city ths ium tA u Medford bavin u loaied wtr. fifth YEAR. MEDFORD, OREOON, TUE3JMY, JULY 19, 1910. No. 103. MOB NEARLY LYNCHES NEGRO PORTER ., JV 1 ' gfjffl . i 'i I L INSULT; IS ARRESTED Negro Pullman Porter Taken From Train and Lodged In Jail Victim Is Daunhtcr of Well-known Resi dents Grants Pass Indignation Runs High In Neighboring City. Lnurn Moan, 16. tho daughter of Joseph Moimi, United 8tntca In ml com iiilmilonor at (IrantH I'nnB, wqh tho vic tim of nil r.ttomptcd nHHiiult nt tho hnmlH of J. IC. Hnndorx, a negro Pull man porter, thin morning on train No, IC between Kugono nnd Hoko burg. Tho girl did not toll lior story until )io loft tho train .it Grants Pawn, nnd then only to her father, who Immediately notified Sheriff Htmiioll of Joseph Ino county. A large crowd of inon nt tho dopot got wind of the affair nnd upon their making threntH of lynchltiK tho negro wnn not taken off tho train hy tho Hhorlff until Jones rreolc, four miles from Ornntn I'aan. was reached. Hoportn from Grant I'bhh nro to the offect that fooling Is running IiIrIi against tho negro. According to tho glrl'ii story, San ders cntno to hor north In tho early morning bourn nnd offered hor aomo candy. Thin nho refiiflcd and thon unyH tho negro InHiilted hor. Further than thin tho i;lrl will not toll hor Htory, hut nho Ih uninjured. Hor threntH to nrouxo other pnnxcnKora cniiHed tho negro to leavo hor. According to trainmen on No, ID, SnnderH Ih n comparatively new em ploye of tho Pullman company. HeporlH from Grants Pans aro to the effect that fooling Ih running high nnd that Sheriff Iturnell Ih taking full , innnHiireH to protect hla prisoner. Ho took tho prisoner bnck to Grants Pans, where ho Ih lodged In Jail. MIhb Mobh Ih upokon very highly of in Ornntn P.irh, ever hulng retiring hy unture. She Is n pretty child of hardly IC summera. Hor mother wnu formerly Mlna Jounlo Jncknon of Jack Bonvllle. Tho Jaclcuon family woro pioneer settlors. E h PLAN FOR HEW CONGRESSMEN New Apportionment as Result of Re cent Census Already Being Con sidered Ono to 350,000 Popula tion May Be Ratio. WASHINGTON, I). C. July 10. That a new apportionment for eon grosHinnnl roproseu In lion in nlromly Iiointr planned by the Ilopublicnn lenders Iiiih become known horo. Tito plan in to prevent u great inereiiKo of representation from tho Southern HtntuH, whieh it is fenreil hy the llo publicnn lenders, would endanger the "liniiHo machine." It in predicted that the moinbor ship in tho liousu under the new ap portionment will not he moro than 410, jib ugniiiRt tho present member ship of 118(1. It iH expected tho ratio of apportionment will bo one repre sentative to every 1220,000 persons. Tho prosont ratio ih ono to 104,182. Prom figureK thnt nlromly linvo been given out by the centals bureau it iH estimated by tho congressmen that tho population of tho Houth is about 20,000,000, and thin would givo two more representatives under the apportionment planned. ItopublionuR fear that tljo incronso in population in Oklahoma will give tho now atuto additional representatives. ASKTHAT 3 BE PAVED City Dads Will Meet This Evening and Consider Much Important Bus inessAssessment Ordinances for Sewers and for Paving Are to Be Considered. Tho paving of thrco additional HtreotH In tho city will ho petitioned for nt tho regulnr meeting of tho city council thlH evening, and will In nil probability ho ordered. Property ownora have requested tho paving of Went Tenth street from Kir to Oak dnle, Mistletoe from Sovonth to Tenth nnd D street from Eighth to Twelfth atreotu. It Is undorntood tli ut a number of othor petitions for paving nro now holng circulated. Tho property owners on Aider Htreot will petition this ovonlng for a wnter main and thoso on North Fir will nHk thnt both wntor nnd sower mains ho laid on their Htrcct. Tho council will this ovonlng pass an ntiBosmnont ordinance declaring tho coat of lnylng tho ccwor on Jack son strcot. Tho cost Is SC cents per front foot of property, Ono nHfloKHuicnt ordinance for pav ing will bo passed. This is for Gen chhoo street, which is 24 feet wldo nnd tho cost will bo approximately $.1.70 a front foot. Other minor biiHlneRs will be trans acted. I OF NEGLECTING WIFE John Stewart, laborer, was bound over to nppenr before tho grand jury .Monday next on n charge of falling to biipimrt his wife. It is nllcgod that in spite of the fact that Mrs. Stewart was ill, her husband neglected hor nnd failed to provide her with the neoessurios of life. The woman was taken to the county hospital nnd Stewart was ar rested nnd bound over on his prelim inary trial. FOLK DESCRIBES Ex-Governor of Missouri and Presi dential Candidate on tho Awaken ing of the Public Conscience. Before ono of tho largest audi ences over assembled at Ashland, do soph V. Polk, former governor of Missouri, who won fnmo au prose cuting attorney in exposing tho grafters, mid who is mentioned as a candidate for tho Demooratia nomin ation for tho presidency, spoke en tertainingly on tho awakening of tho public conscience in tho matter of government and the nation-wide bat tle against corruption nnd for clean govorniuont. His lecture, which was tho sti)r attraction of tho Ashland Cliuutaiupia, was interrupted with t'rc(iient applause and at its con clusion a public reception was ten dered Mr. Folk. Mr. Polk spoko in part as follows? Groat Awakening. Thoro lias bcon a grout awakening on tho subject of individual responsi bility for the affairs of city, state and nation within tho last few years. The public conHoiouco has boon arousod against evils nnd things aro not tolerated now that a few years ago wero submitfod'to in silonco, Will T NEUTRAL ON CANDIDATES Ex-President Will Not Indorse Any Ono tor Office, But Hopes to See Progressive Platforms Adopted hy Various Republican Conventions This Fall. NEW YORK, July 19. "I havo nevor recommended any man for of fice nnd I do not intend to do so OiIb year," said Theodore Hoosovelt In n Htntemont Issued today shortly aftor tho vUlt of Judge Klnknldo of Ohio, who 1b a candidate for tho republic an nomination for governor. "I hopo progressive platforms will (Continued on Pnga 8.) SLEWING TELLS OF TRAIN WRECK For 24 Hours Passengers Were Forced to Wait Until Tracks Were Cleared-Broken Flange Cause of Disaster One Man Killed. Robert Slewing of Orhiud, Cn'., u former resident of Medford, arrived Monday evening to visit old friends in this city, having been delayed 24 hen: by the freight wreck on the Southern neifie Sunday. Mr. Slewing states that tho wreck was one of tho worst be has over viewed. Kight cars were piled in the ditch nnd one man was killed. It seems that tho engine hail two flat cars ahead of it, besides a heavy train. A flango on the foremost car broke and disaster was upon them. As the train was running fast in order to muko a siding to pass No. 10, the ernsh was terrific. The en gineer and firemen snt in the en gine, on the top df which were piled two freight cars. Neither was in jured. For 2-1 hours the passengers were forced to wait until the trucks were ngnin opened to traffic. 0 V BATTLE BETWEEN SPECIAL INTERESTS ANO CLEAN GOVERNMENT the movement toward litghor ideals go on? Will not the people soon forget? linvo not the people nlrendy forgotten, and will not things bo al lowed to go in tho snmo old way as they wero before tho awakening of the people? Thoso questions nro be ing asked all over tho country today. Reforms sometimes die, but revo lutions nevor go backward, and n revolution has been wrought in tho conscience of men. Tho nwnkening is merely a determination to have the government of city, sjnto nnd nation represent tho public interest and not spooinl privilege. In tho battlo against privilego somo fights must bo lost. With each fight lost wo should not lose courngo, but fight all tho harder; with each fight won wo should not becomo upnthotic, and think nil hns been won. Issues Heclouded. If tho issue could bo represented squarely between publio rights nnd special privilego everywhere, there would bo no doubt as to tho out come. For tho majority of tho peo plo hero and everywhere will do right when they know, right. Tho repre sentatives of privilogo aro too shrewd to permit a plain issuo botween pub lio rights nnd special privilege to go before tho pcoplo1.' Thoy adroitly President Butler Peck of Columbia .university has n row on her hnnds that promises to involve n number of prominent educator. Professor Hnrry Thurston Peek wn sued for $50,000 brench of promise. President Butler asked Peck to resign. Peck refuses nnd dcelnres Butler bns been running the univer sity with n Inch hnnd. Butler ndmits thnt Peck wrote his speech which bo will deliver in LnVtn before the University of Berlin in October. The Oermnn mnv refune ..i hear the address now. THOUSANDS C OUT ON STRIKE TORONTO, Out., July 19. Thou sands of men went out today in one of tho biggest rnilrond strikes Can ada has ever known nnd no trains are running over 4."i00 miles of the mnin lino of the Grand Trunk rnil rond. Tho men struck simultaneously nnd the rond is completely tied tip. Ynrdnien, trainmen, conductors, bag gngemen nnd shopmen quit work nnd with n defense fund of moro thnn a million dollnrs n month nro ready to fight tho officials of the road to a finish. More than 4000 vardmen, con ductors, trainmen and baggagemen nro out and 5000 shopmen mo af fected. Enemies of the People Always Unit ed, While Good Government Forces Don't Pull Toflether. manage to complicate tho main issue with other questions so ns to bowil dor men of oven tho best intentions. By confusing the issuo tho repre- 'sontntives of privilege divide the forces in opposition. Thoso who object to reform do not usually put their protost upon the true ground, but thoy seek somo othor protext. They nsk why is not this or thnt done? If ono examines tho sourco of n complaint like this ho will usually find that it is not bo causo of a desire that reform bo mudo moro thorough, but to discredit what has been done. If ono siucero ly desiros progress in tho way of hotter things, instead of criticism ho will givo his help in tho accomplish ment of tho things wished for. Re form always progresses by degrees ovorything cannot bo dono in n day. No Injury to State. Ono of tho obstnclos to tho prog ress of righteousness overywhoro is the mistaken view that it injures a and Professor Columbia at War. TAFT NAMES WASHINGTON, July 19. It was learned today that President Taft has decided to appoint Whitfield McKln ley, a prominent colored man, col lector ot customs nt Washington. The office Is a remunerative one, pnylng $4500 a year. McKlnley, It Is said, received tho backing of many lending colored men In different parts of tho United States. The defense fund of the union it. snid to bo $1,350,000 monthly nnd more bns been promised. A few mnil trains wero allowed to leave the terminals todny by tho strikers, who declare they will not interfere in nnv way with the hand ling of the mails, but that tbev will allow no othor trains to be moved. city or stnte to piioonto wrongdo ing, 1 havo henid men deplore the exposure of publio corruption be causo it hurts a city; 1 havo seen men oppose the enforcement of law against gambling nnd liquor law lessness becnuso it injures the stnte; I havo heard men object to prosecut ing trust end monopolies becnuso it hurts business. Such viows nre entirely false. No city can bo injured by tho enforce ment of tho peoplo's laws; to do oth erwise is to substitute tho will of the official for the laws of tho people, nnd thnt is tyranny. No stnto can be hurt by opposing grafting; to do otherwise is to connive at it. There is no socrot remedy known for eviN of this chnrnctor. Thoy cannot be cured by hiding them. The disgrace is not in their correction, but in sub mission to them with supine indif ference. Highest Civic Virtue. It is well for a state to display its virtues and not parado its faults, but it should not bo forgotten thnt the highest civic virtno is in tho over throw of civio depravity. Oraftors, whether in St. Louis, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco or Pittsburg, always endeavor to have it appear that n fight aguiost thrm is a slnn- NEGROOFFCER DEATH IN FLAMES! FOREST EIRE Two Persons Known to Be Dead and Hundreds of Thousands of Stand ing Timber Destroyed Blaze Threatens to Destroy Entire Idaho Washington Belt. SPOKANE, Wash., July 19. Two persons, a woman and a baby girl, are known to be dead, several men are missing and standing timber and property to the value of hundreds of thousands have been consumed by forest fires which are burning in Northeastern Washington nnd in tho Idaho Panhandle today. The dead: MISS PEARL BREWEN, 22, a schoolteacher. Her one-year-old niece, daughter of Hon. J. S. Wyman, Plains, Mont. Rnin is the firefighters' only hope, otherwise a general conflagration of the i orest'districts is feared. Miss Breweu and her niece met n horrible death in the schoolteacher's little cabin on Mill creek, 18 miles from Colville, Wnsh. The young wo man nnd tho bnby wero sunonnded by a fire which, it is asserted, wa started by a farmer who was clear ing his ranch of brush. W. A. Trowbridge, who lived on a neighboring ranch, has been urrested nnd charged with starting the fire. He will be brought to Spokane today by Sheriff Graham. In tho Colville district in Wash ington and in tho Coeur d'Aleuo nnd other parts of the Idaho Panhnndle the forests nre sens of flumes. Great stretches of land which were timber-covered n weeg ago, today arc covered with nshes. In some parts of Idaho the smoko is so thick that tho sun is obscured nnd nn unnatural twilight makes tho rnvuges of the fire fiend seem more awful. According to reports received here fires aro burning in tho Priest River national forest, in -the Wnrdner, Kei logg, Wallace nnd Colville districts. In Montana fires nre burning in the Blnckfoot country nnd in tho Mis soula district. Dispatches received horo stnto thnt big fires are burning in Cnnnda just north of the Wash ington state boundary and nre doing much dnmuge. Constant Vigilance Necessary to Protect Rights and Good Citizen ship the Greatest Essential. der ngainst tho city in which thoy operate. Criminal wealth when us sailed always tries to bido behind tho skirts of legitimate business mid claim that business is being attacked. Accordiug to their argument grafters should never bo assailed, lest somo iisMimo that nil in tho city aro graft ers, and lawlessness in business should not bo fought lest it bo siu pected that all busiuoss is lawless. In (ho work hoforo you thoro is no use for tho sword, but there is a stern demand for that courage shown by Americuns on so many battle fields. Tho spirit they exhibited as soldiers of war wo shold show as soldiers of peaco in the noblest work to which tho patriot cnu bo callod tho supremo nnd sublime effort to briug n littlo nearer day by day tho time when brothorhood nnd charity shall rule instead of avarice and greed; when special privilege in ev ery form shall bo destroyed and equal rights to all enthroned as tho ruling principlo of publio and tho (Continued on Page 8.) E CITY PIPE BY Gravity Water System Will Be Fin ished, Unless Unforseen Delay Oc curs and Little Butte Wafer WW Be Turned In Concrete Head works Nearly Completed. Unless something unforeseen devel ops, Medford's $350,000 gravity wa ter system will be comploted by next Saturday evening and Littlo Butto creek water turned in. Tho contrac tors arc making rapid progress and expect to Tiavo their work entirely completed July 23. Tho work would Ihive been com pleted a week earlier had It not bcoa for a scarcity of teams with which te handle pipo from Eagle Point to the Hanley ranch. This pipo will all have been delivered by Friday eve ning and as the pipe laying gang la keeping up with the teams, it will all be laid by Saturday evening. The work on the construction ot tho huge concreto headworks Is near ly completed. As water has already been placed in the pipo from SUnger's ranch to the Bradshaw drop. It will not take any considerable time to havo the water filling Medford's water mains. CITY OF ANGELS . MAY BE DRY Union Labor Leaders Combine With Prohibitionists on Account of Strike in Local Breweries and Stoppage of Picketing. LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 19. Los Angeles will becomo "dry" with in a year if tho campaign which will bo inaugurated next Monday by lo cal union labor lenders is successful. Following their recent declaration that thoy would endeavor to place this city in tho prohibition column, tho labor leaders announced that next Monday thoy will start circulating a petition to sccuro tho enactment of nuti-liquor legislation. A ninss meeting of union men and prohibitionists will bo held on Sun day ut which tho campaign will be outlined. According to tho city char tor nn initintivo petition must boar tho signatures of 7 per cent of (ho registered voters. About 2200 names will bo required. A strike of tho employes of the several local broworics, declared sov rnl weoks ago, is said by anti-labpr- itcs to bo the direct cause of the pro posed movement, the announcement of which followed closely upon tho passage by tho city council of an or dinance prohibiting picketing. Both the striking browors and motnl work ers horo havo picketed actively sinco tho declaring of their strikes. CUTHBERT RESIGNS AS COMPANY MANAGER IL M. Cuthbort hns resigned as muuager of tho Crator Lake Trans portation company has has been suc ceeded by J. C. Noff of Detroit, an nutnmobilo man of wido experience, Hy Saturday tho dining room at tho lodge, on the rim of the lalci, will bo oponcd nnd then people may board cither at Arnut's camp or on the lako's rim. Cultivate a personal prido in your ability to write .want ads that ac complish things. covin SATURDAY