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rzx&vsso&gggizi -g "nurj -.- . A .J MEDTORD MAIL TRIBUNE FIRST SECTION PAGES 1 TO 8 Full Leaned Wire Report. l T ' "' T fl The only paper in the worU nuhllnhn.1 In n p.ltv tlm bIia nt "J Mcdford' having a leaned win. I i fOTTHYEAK. MJflDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1910. No. 184. , COUNTY GAINS $10,000,000 IN WEALTH ASSESSED VALUATION OF JACKSON IS a,ooo,ooo LAST YEAR $26,000,000 During tlio tviHt year Jackson comity Ima Incroimod $10,000,000 In valuation, according to tlio figures of County AHnoiior Grlovo. Hvory product In tlio county hIiowh u ma terial caln, hut Medford loudn nil. Tlio mniuHayd valuation of JnckHon county, iih determined by tlio county niwoHHor uno your iiko wan f2G,000, 000. TIiIh year It will hu In tlio neli;li horhood or 130,000,000, nltliour.li tho oxnet figures will not ho known until tlio Btnto tax cuuuulHHlon flxcii tlio valuation of railroads and other corporations In tho county. Tho advance mado In tho valua tion of tho county !n In keeping with GOLF CLUB 10 BE ORGANIZED: ALL PLANS ARE MADE Properly East of Hillcrcst Will Bo Slto Gojf Course Will Bo Laid Out, Clubhouse Built ami Tennis ..Courts Constructed. Stops nro being Inkon for tlio or guniruliuti of n Golf ami Country club, with links covering Bonio 20u ncros oaHt of Medford on tho Hill oruAt road. All tlie preliminaries liuvo boon arranged for llio taking ovor of tho propurty ntifl "llio oinni.iitiou of tho club. It is the intoiiliou to establish a .golf course of ntiiu holes in tlio first instance, together with lonuiM courtH. A clubhouse wilt also ho constructed and tutor tlio golf ooiin.0 will lu increased to niuo holes. ' Tlio intention in to form a coun try oluli in all tlio naiiii) implies. At the present time tlio organization has nearly f)0 signers nnd liv lho fii-1 of tlio year oxpoot to double tho uutnher. Tlio grounds 1,ro admirably situ- ntud lor golt iuui u ncuuiuui io:a-1 tiou for a clubhouse overlooking (ho valley and at the hiiuio timu riving u good view of tho links Iiiih liuou k leoted. Tho distunco .from the ven tral part of tlio city to (ho clubhouse Ih bo short that any one who wishes to make wild swats at an elusiio white ball can indulge in (lie upoU without requiring an uiuiiuliiuce in ordor to got homo. Tlio project itf ono which should incut with tlio approbation of every lover 1)f outdoor exercise Too ninny of wo iiiHido workers fail of tho noeossury exorcise inMho open, and tho game of folf in tho game that givos tho maximum amount of tramping with tho iniuiniuui of net ually violent effort. LOGGERS SHUT DOWN MILLS Deplorable Condition of Market for Lumber Responsible Prices Will Not Be AffectedHundreds of Men Aro Idle. AUiailDiaiON, Oct. 22, rHoprOHOii. tntlvos of ovory loggliy? company In tho Gray's Harbor country today decided to shut down all, tho caiupa In this Boctlon "within tho noxt 00 davu for an Indoflnlto norlod, Hun dreds of mon will bo thrown out of work as a result" of tuiupoiiBlou of operations in tho woods. In Gholialls county slxtoon camps hnvo nlrondy coaaod operations ow ing to tho doplornblo condition of tho markot for lumber. Prices will not bo affoctod by tho ourtnllmont of tho output, according to tho log-goru, tho inuny Improvements mado along I linos of development of various re- tiourcoH duil iik tho year and tho erection or tunny hulldliiKU through out tho valley. Tho nHHOHHinont roll now, without railroad rolling Htock and road hod, telephone UneH and telegraph linen, and othor foreli;u coriioratlona shown tnxnblo property worth (30,220, 989. Tho UHKOHHor estimates that tho to tal will ho In tho neighborhood of jao.'ooo.ooo. Following Ih tho nHHCHBinont of tho various products In tho ceunty: Antloeh, $201,358; Applcgnto, (Cmitlmn-il nn piujo8 ) FIREBUGS" WILL SOON BE ASKED 10 EXPLAIN FIRE Witnesses Arc Summoned to Appear In Court In Relation With Forest Fires In Elk Creek CountryFor estry Officials Active. A numbor of witnesses have been summoned to appear before the fed eral district court at Portluud in relation to the forest fires in the 101k reek country last fall. lOvidoneo lias been hoeuretf pointing directly to ono party, which, after being depu tized us firefighters, deliberately set other fires. Tho accused men were- uractieally caught "with tho goods" and sumo ttoiibutiounl developments are expected from tlio investigation. For tlio past few weeks binco tho fires in tlio Orator nntional forest have been extinguished tlio forestry nlTiidnlu 1 in ve been conducting u ports which roaehod them during the course of tho fires in August. Tho Kupunoniug of witnesses to court is tlio direct outcome of thitf investi gation. - m i l Brooklyn Hotel Burns. NIOW YORK, Oct. 22. Tho Clar endon hotel in Brooklyn caught fire in tho niulit and at 8:15 this morning wiib burning fiercely. Hohorl Buddie, an engineer, was burned, probably fatally. DARROW IS TO ' DEFEND DIETZ Speaker for Orcflon Home Rule As sociation Will Go East 'Soon to Take Dofcnso of tho Noted Wis consin Man. PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. 22. Glar onco Darrow, apakor and formor atlornoy In tlio Stounonborg caso, tonight slgnlflod his willingness to procood to Wlutors, Wis., and act as atlornoy for tho d,ofonuo of John I Dlotz, who for dayB dotlod tho authmltlea to tako him from hlfl cab- .lii on a grant claimed' uudor tho Jurisdiction of lumbor doalorB of Mllwaukoo and othor cltloa. Dlot-. claimed that ho could not lm removed fiom his claim on ac count of his huvliiR mado armed ro BlHtanco .to deputies tonrlag down a dam on his claim for tho purpoao of lotting logs down n stream. Dar row rocolvod a inossatto tonight ask ing hlni whothor ho would tako tho caso whon through with his work In Oregon for tho Home Itulo nssocla tloiv and ho ropllod that ho would. HAN VKAN0I8C0, Oct. 22. Tlio noigliboiliood of Webster nml Oak slrootH is today in u stalo of high toiihiou us u result of threatening blnekinnilipir lollors recoived by B. KulseliiuHki, a merchant living at 301) Webster street. CRIPPEN IS GUILTY; MUST HANG TT ONDON, Oct. 22. Stnmlliis I" Lliuvo hoard their doom, Dr. II. II. Crlppen, convicted of wlfo mur would bo hanged on either Novombor 14 or November 15. "And I ndvhfo you -to entortalu no hopo of escaping the gallows," slono In pronouncing tho sontonco. Crlppen nrono briskly to learn his fate. Jle seemed fairly com verdict of tho Jury, but as tho sontenco of "death was pronounced ho b In a trance. As Lord Alvernlono concluded, Crlppon said: "I still protest my Innocence," Tho prlsonor then relapsed Into u stupor and remained In that condition until long after ho wan taken to his coll. " . (Con tinned on pnga 8.) " BALLOONS SAIL UNCHECKED INTO . FAR COLD NORTH America II Sweeps Northward Over, Dense. Canadian Forest Indian Runners Are Sent Out in Order to Locate Its Descent. MONTREAL, Oct. 22. The first news for four days of the balloon America II of the United Stated and tho Dusscldorf of Germany, that were last seen crossing tho groat lakes, reached hero today in a tele gram from 1'ogamasing. Tho jiics sago said that one balloon had been seen lauding 50 miles west of Hint; another was reported sailing along in tho teeth of a galo 300 miles lo tho west, headed toward Hudson liny. Holiof expeditious wore boing formed and have been rushed to. the sections where tlio Imllooti was re ported to have lauded, and it is ex Dcctcd that within 2-1 hours ouio definite nowa of the two balloons will bo recoived. Tlio gas hag that came down is believed to bo tho Dusscldorf. 'Set tlers saw tho -balloon come to tho earth nt nightfull, but none was able to stalo its exact lauding place or obtain any Iraco of its occupants. Tlie othor balloon, presumably tho Amoriea II, was high in tho air and was about to pass ovor a dense for- (Continued 6ntmRo8.) MINT EMPLOYEE PROVES A THIEF United States Secret Service Man Succeeds in Getting Confession From Man Arrested Had Robbed Mint of Moro Than $10,000. SAN VHANC1SCO, Oct. 22. Uniled Staler sourot service oper ator Ilany Idlffitt thio aftornoon arrested and scoured a confession from Waller Power of -1035 Geary street of having robbed the United States mint' during tho past year of Mnoro than !?1 0,000. Other arrests may follow within a short time. Fewer had been a helper in tlio em ploy ofv tliQ mini for tho lust thrco yours and was among tlio most trusted employes. Early last Sep tember Superintendent Sweony dis covered that between $100 and $301) in golVI deposits wore boing stolen from tlio mint.- Harry Moffitf was ipimudiately put on tho ease and within a brief time niter ho had hoard (lint tlio thol'ts wore commit ted iu the refining room he an nounced to -Sweony that FowoV prob ably wan tho guilty man, Accom panied by Or-A. Porter, Moffitt this afternoon went lo tho mint nnd plan ed Power under nrrost, o brought him hoforo Siiporintcudont Sweony and nfter being thoroughly swoatod Power mado u full confession. Ho was astonished when, ho lenrnod that tlio bullion ho had stolon nnd sold to wholesale jowolors hnd boon turn ed over by tliom lo (ho secret sorv ico ngouts. Powor is 31 yonrs old and was only recently mnrried. You "pay" for noglootlng to road olaealflod ndvortlsomonta and eomo tlnio8 you pay a big prico. Maybo It's In tl-o guleo of too much -out or of too Biiinll vngoa. Inovlhbly, you "pay." Old Ilnlley court at a bar whoro iicor "I Imploro you tq make your poac VESSEL LOST; 60 PASSENGERS AREJROWNED Every Effort to Save Victims of the Storm Were Futile Fiercest Gale in Months Sweeps the Southern Seas. ,: MO DK JANKIHO. ii oo . Forly-fivo pnssciiL'crs nnd 15J mem bers of tho ;rew of ' the steamer Wnlley were drowned eff I'nrn. in a terrifio south Atlantic sloruY that raged yesterday. Word wasjjreceiv cd here today that 75 passengers and crew have been rescued The vessel was a total loss. There is small doubt thats't Jensl 50 persons on the ill-fated Jj3camer perished. Every cffortf'ttTScj'ilio victims' of ttio storm was futile. Tho storm that forced tho Wiillev on tho rocky projections near the Arrozales lighthouse, ofLPara, was ono of the fiercest that has swept the coast hero in months. All efforts to reach tlio doomed craft were unsuc cessful.. 200 ACRES ARE SOLD AT M000 Parjo and Knight Sell Ranch Just South of Talent for $200 an Acre Ninety Acres Planted to Younfl Trees. Tin? 200-ncro ranch owned by Page & Knight, about a 'mile sonlh of Talent, along tho main oour.ty road, was sold last evening to T. 10. Snlie of Texas, tho qonsidoration being $200 an aoro, or 10,000. Ninety acres of tho tract is planted to young trees. Tho prico nl which tlio Inta own ers sold is not a great advanco over tho price thoy paid for tho property and tlio i mnrovonients fliov have made. Mr. Salio may consider that ho has mado a splendid pur-ilmsc and nn investment which is -.urc to bo rcinunorntivo. MAYOR CANON FALLS A Mayor Canon is nnolhor of those of llio Medford people who have nc eoptod bad chocks. After n chnso of several mouths, ono Will Teotors, as ho was known hero, wus taken iu chiirg on a oom plaiut fiom Willows, Cal on a charge of having collected nionoy on fulso representation. Marshal Haul inoruly of Gold Hill mado, llio nrrost, on instructions from California of fieors, and brought Teotors, or Tate, as ho was known liovo, baforo Jus tice Canon, Tho justice released tho prisoner on $200 cush bail, represent ed by a chock, and when llio ehoek was prosentod Saturday, morning I horo wore no funds, In tho juoan tiuio llio accused had plnood all tho distance possible1 bolweou himself and Medford. Lalor tlio chock was mado good liv his partner, but Teotors is" still at largo. hh of murderers and other criminals dor, this afternoon learned that ho added Lord Chief Justice Alvor- o with God." poMbd while tho court announced the ccame perceptibly paler and seemed FEDERAL COURT TO HEAR CASE ON RATES JIEIE SOON Injunction Suit Brouflhtby Southern Pacific Against Railroad Commis sion to Be Argued in This City Many Witnesses From Medfond. The United Slates court will con vene in special session' in this city on Monday, November 14, for the ptirposo of hearing arguments nnd testimony iu the case of the. South ern Pacific railroad vs. the state railroad commission, in which a re straining order is asked by the rail road to prevent tho placing in oper ation of a reduction iu rates be tween Portlnnd nnd points of the Southern Pacific , south of Eugene, wliicll reduction was recently order ed by the railroad commission in nu opinion written by State Hailroad Commissioner Oswald Wqst. The case will bo heard by Exam iner Pugh. The cage is being heard in Medford, ns most of tlie witnesses subpoenaed are from this section. Recently a temiwrary restraining order by Judge Wolverton was issu ed which prevented the placing of the now rates in effect. If tlio com mission wins its case it will mean a saving of many thousands of dol lars annually to the business men of Mcdford nnd of Southern Oregon. LANGFORD GRABS MEL'S TITLE Manager Woodman, for. "Tar Baby," . Issues Sweeping Challenge to All Middleweight Aspirants of the Squared Circle. KANSAS CITY, Oct. 22. The middleweight championship of the world, mado ownerless through the death of Stanley KetcheJ, was offi cially usurped by Sam Langford here today. Manager Joo Woodman, act ing for tho Boston "Tar Baby," is sued a sweeping challenge to all as piring middloweights to como and tako tho title away. Woodman nnd Langford visited the offices of a local newspaper and U demonstrate that Langford could make the middleweight limit, he stepped on tho scales, tipping the beam at 100 pouuds, Ho declared it would bo easy to tako off tho eight excess pounds, as ho had not train ed for sovoral months. Woodman said his man would meet either Papko, Klaus or Hugo Kelly at any tiuio or placo'and under any con ditions thoy imposed, and .would hot any sum up to $10,000 that ho could boat them. Ho preferred to fight Papko first, behoving that the Illi nois Thundorbolt had tho host right to dispute tho Langford claim to tho championship. PUBLISHING HOUSE IN CHICAGO RAIDED CHICAGO, Oot. 22.--Secret sorv ico officers today raided tho of fices of a loading publishing house nnd, nccording lo roport, two of tlio officials hnvo heou placed imdor nr rost. Tho rnid followed tlio alloged is suance of millions of counterfoil Nicariiguuu notes which woro said to havo been widely circulated. Other arrosts aro oxpeotod to follow. AFTER Mill GAMELI FOR TEN INNINGS, CHICAGO CUBS WIN FOURTH GAM CIHCAC-O, Oct. 22. After bat tling gamely for ten innings in a game in which they solved Pitcher Bender's delivery, the Chic'agii Cubs won from tho Philadelphia Athletics by a score of 4 to 3 this afternoon. It was a superb gamo and saved the Nationals from what appeared to be certain defeat for the championship of the world. The great crowd that attended the game went frantic when the Cubs tied the, score, nnd became insane with joy when Archer crossed the p'ato in the tenth with the win ning run. "King" Cole," the young Chicago pitcher, was hit freely, but wonderful fielding behind him saved the vonno OSWALD WEST TO BE IN CITY THIS AFTERNOON Statement One Candidate for Gov ernor Is Due Today on 3:30 Train Will Be Velcomed by Local Supporters In Ashland Monday. Oswald West, stale railroad com missioner and Statement One can didate for governor, will arrive in Mcdford on the 3:30 o'clock train this afternoon. He will bo welcom ed by local supnortcrs aud visit with Medford people until 10 o'clock Mondnj morning, when ho will be taken on an automobile tour of the valley towns. Mr. West is scheduled to visit Cen tral Point at 10:30 o'clock Monday morning, Gold Hill nt nqon, Woou villo at 1:30 o'clock, Jacksonville at 3 o'clock. Fro mthere he will go. via Pho.cnix and Talent, to Ashland, whero he speaks Monday evening. Efforts are being mado to induce Mr. West to speak at Medford Tues day evening. It is not known what his schedule after leaving Ashland is, except that ho will spend a day each in Grants Pass and Roseburg. Anti-nssembly republicans and democrats will accompany Mr. West to Ashland. PRIZE WINNERS OFFTOWIKGLORY Car of Newtowns for Vancouver and Spokane Apple Shows Goes For wardFruit as Fine as Any Ever Grown. Tho finest cnrot yellow Newtown Pippins ovor dlspntchod from tho Roguo Rlvor valloy was sent north Inst ovonlng and will bo exhibited at tho Canadian International npplo show on October 31. Prom Vancou ver It will bo sent to Spokane and from thero It wrll bo forwarded to Chicago. Tho car contains C79 boxos of aa flao fruit as wes ovor grown In tho civilized world. Of this total GOO boxes comprlso tho carload of Now towns and tho other 79 boxos aro mndo up of ton box exhibits of dlt- foront varlotlos. Tho car of apples was grown on tho Ronshnw orchard and aro worthy In ovory roauo In ovory respect to ropre3ont tho Uoguo Rlvor valloy, tho premier fruit growing soctton of tho world, it tho International show. WANT IMMEDIATE ACTION ON NORTH CASE -..- WASHINGTON, Oot. 22. Rccom niondation for immediate action on charges ponding ngainst Immigration Commission or Hart II. North at San Francisco woro filed today with Soo rotnry Nagol by Immigration Com missioner Koofo. E:4-3 slcr many limes. Bender, who was thought to he invincible, was hit hard toward the end of tho gamo, and al most every hit counted. Tho fifth game "will bo played horo tomorrow. Although they had every reason .to bo clntcd, tho Philadelphia Athletics were not frivolous, and Connie Mack, their wily leader, this morn ing wore, tho jovinl appearance of a sepulchre as he conferred with his lieutenants over tho outlook. Mack looked as though ho were" tho loser instead of a winner, with a world's championship already within his grasp. (Continued on' Pace 2.) TIES SUSPECT IS NOW SAID TO. BE IN PORTLAND Detective Burns Appears in Oregon Metropolis, But Is Keeping In the Dark Man Who Posed as William N orris Said to Be Oregonlan. PORTLAND, Oct. 22?--ThV"srcno--' in the investigation of tho Los An geles Times dynamiting case has, shifted to Portland, inasmuch as tho. third man in tho Bryson incident was once a resident of this city and is supposed to have mado bis way to Portland after tho Times building was destroyed. Detective Burns arrived in Port land yesterday afternoon and this fact was not known until today. Burns cannot bo located this hvo ning nnd is keeping in tho dnrk. The man when ho lived in Port land went by tho name of David Capp, though ho gives the namo now of David Kaplan. Ho is beliovp.l to bo tho man who posed as William Morris when tho dynamite was puc chnscd. no is a Russian and is said to bo a nihilist. In ovory clue in vestigated so far Kaplan figures. His wife lives in San Francisco and she is quoted as saying that ho dis appeared from .their homo on October 5, saying ho was "going -into tho country." Developments In Frisco. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 22.--That startling disclosures hnvo been wired from Los Angeles to Chief of Police Sovmour this morning bearing on tho wrecking of tlio Times build ing, is tho rumor ubout police head quarters today, following a three hour conferenco between tho bond of the force and Mayor P. n. Mc Carthy, to which conferonco Andy Gallagher, secretary of tho labor (Continued on natro 8.) MADE BV GOTHAM Interesting and Novel Plan Is Inaug urated by Mayor Gaynor Whereby Mr. Common Pcoplo Can See His Money Spent. NEW YORK. Oot. 22. As inter esting an exposition as ovor charg ed a dollar at uio gato or Donated a midway of unoxoelied vice and virtue, Is in progress in Now York. It's tho famous "budget" exposition of tho Gaynor administration, and is conducted, frco of ohnrge, by tho City of Now York, to show tlio peo ple oxaotly how every cont of tuxes is expended, and what thoy aro get BUDGET H ting in uio manor or ucnuu, pionsura nnd protection for tho millions thoy pay annually into Futhor Knicker bocker's coffers. To tho avorngo citizen, the word mass of fignruIJFgohCHeETAOINN (Continued on pay "I",') " """ '