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mmmimmrmmmnmm!im!iemim Now is the Time to Subscribe to the Mail Tribune, and Help Some Young Lady to Win the Prize She Seeks. "" WTOTTlTnTTOrTonltfi. Tlm Maaantfo of tlio ring. White I'll 1 1' Wi'lltlllT, H'tin lliilti or miow Whit" mill iilile - l.neiil hIiowitm I II iicli irliuiKiiliir AImivii wlilln, wiiriniTi liidow while, rolilnr Wlilio with lilfit'lt ciihlcr Cold Medford Mail Tribune Full Leaned Wire Ilcport. Tho only pnpor In tho worW published In ft city tho nlsn of If rwt fnFil tin vlner n tnnantl w3va M '""" " ,v"""" "" 11 MEDFORD, OM300N, WLDNIOSIM Y, OCTOBER 2G, 19.10. IWrHYJCAR. No. 187. BRIDGEAPPROACHESCRUMBLE;EXPL0SI0N0NCARfflLLCRESTCOMICEPEARS SHOWS PATTERSON'S ABILITY AVERAGE $10 BOX IN LONDON GUN-BOAT com SSIONER TRIYNGTOPATCH UP POOR WORK Bridge Acr'Js Bear Creek Near Cen tral Point Falls to Stand Even Un til Jul) Is Completed Loam Used Instead of Sand for Mixing. Tim Central Point bridge Ih a MtatiilltiK, (if rnlhor throiitoiw to be come u crumbling inoiiuiimnt to County Conimlmiloimr Joshua Pnt tornon'H ntilllty no a bridge builder. Tim bridge I.iib boon In procoHH of rebuilding bIiico early RUininor, forc ing everyone to fonl IK'ar Creole In order to rroHM tho stream, anil tho probabilities aro that tho winter floods will iirrlvo before the bridge ran again bo lined tbat Ih, If It htlll Manila up. Instead of rontrnctlni; tho repairs anil giving tlm owrk to tlm lowoHt bidder with a time limit, CommlH nloner Patterson followed his uhiwiI mothoil of hnvliiK the county do tho work by day labor and ban taken all mininmr and iiiohI of autumn for It. At each end of tho brldr.o commit retaining walls for tho approaches have been constructed. Tlm north wnll of tho oat npproach, nbout r0 fool Iciiik a..d 12 foot high, though but recently completed, ban egrncked from end to end from ItH own weight To braco It Mr. Patterson hint boon busy tbo pant Hovoral dayH, boring holoH tbrounh It and running Iron rodti to bold It toKothor. . ItoHldoutB who watched tho con Htructlon Hny that, lnstond of select od Hbarp Hand and gravel bolng used for tho coi.croto, Handy loam wnB used, which nrcountn for tho crack 'Iiik wiiIIh. It lu ovldont that tho wallH wore not reinforced with Iron or Htool ImrH, aB would bo required cif contractors, but then tho county noovr doo nnytlilitK with spoclflca tlonn. Central Point people nro wonder ing whether tho wiiIIh will continue to btand after pressure Is put upon tlmm, If they crumble without any, and whether tho first time Hear Creek net" rampage, there will bo any brldio loft. lUNTMTLET Thirteen Applicants for Position of Ranner Take Examinations Con ducted by W. 0. Warner, Civil Service Examiner. Thirteen applicants for tho iost limi of foiost runner run tho gauntlet before (lie examiners of the forest survioe Monday and Tuesday of this week. The written examination was con ducted by W. 0. Wnnier, eiil en ice examiner, at the high school ltuildiuir. Monday, anil the field tests wore hold uiiiler the supervision of M. L. Eriokson, N. S. Nwoniiing imil J.-E. (Irilihle of the foYcsl office in Med ford. Tho IokIh isistod of bridling, saddling and riding n horse (no lironehoH), packing n horse, any rog iilatiou liileli being allowed; bundling a rompiuiH and measuring u tract of ground liy pacing and other stunts. While tho candidates as a rulo came through the tests in good shupo, as one grir..ly-bonrdod old minor ro- ' marked, when ho turned n.kay from tho scone, "I'd hnto like h 1 to trust my grubstnko on a pack animal puck-. od like some, of those were." "The following is n list of tho np- , piieantH: V, L. Carlton, A. L. T'onohoy, A. S. Kerby, D. L, Hummel, L. H. Noil. A, L. Eisonhiirt, J, M. Hook, 11. A. Nnson, K. A. Thompson! Frank Allen, Tom C. Whito, II. 13. JaooiiIz, W. S. rnmpholl. To write a property-soiling nd U simply to writo tho truth about tho .property and print it more than onoo, if noocssurry. MBRYO RANGERS ROGERS REACHES LOSANGELES:HAS FIFTY SUBPOENAS Has Himself Sworn In as Deputy Sheriff In Order That He Might Scrvo Warrants In PersonRe fuses to Give Out Names. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 2tl. Annoil with 50 or more subpoenas, which it is understood will ho horvud on residents of this city, Attorney Karl Honors, speoial investigator of the Times dynamiting eases, arrived from l.os AncoIeH today. Tho subpoenas were issued in I.os Auuclch and Honors had himself sworn in as a deputy sheriff in or der thai ho may serve tho warranto in iiersou and tlius keep his move ments more xeeret than lie has been able so far to do. Tho subpoena HUinmon wituosies to appear at the coroner's iiKiuesl and they will oe used to secure witnesses before the special nrand jurv which was empan eled in los Anneles yecterdav. Honors refused to untnc the per sons for whom the subHieuns were intended until after lie had served them, hut it is uiiderntood that m--eral men prominent in the Inlwr world are included. BUTCHERS ALL DIG UP n BUCKS Proprietors of Every Market in Town Fined for Use of Frcczlne, Which Is Misdemeanor Under Orcnoii Puro Food Law. The proprietors of every meat market but one lu town wcro taken Into court Tucsdny to aiiRwer to n eharno of having violated tho Or Kou pure food laws by tho uro of a proparatlon called Froozlno, In tended to preserve tho color on tho aiirfaco of chopped meats and bo lonnn, and tbo uro of which was admitted by tho stato foo Inspector to bo approved by tbo United States Kovorumoiit. Still It Ir a misde meanor under tbo Oregon law to uso It. The local meat men, relying upon permluHlon of Undo Sam to uso tho article, employed It In tholr busl iicHH, as It Ih guaranteed harmless. They plead guilty and pnld $25 fine each, ami tl.ero wbb a "ditching" of the preparation at once. "Wo won't uho anything of that nature from now on," Hay tbo butch ers. "Wo thought wo wore within the law lu using a harmlcBH coloring which Increased tho attractiveness of tho attractiveness of our goods of certain grades, but as it Ih against tlm law, which wo did not know, wo cut 41 out from now on," IS PUTONpH Gold Hill Railroad & Lumber Com pany Hits tho Bumps John A. Baxter Says Ho Will See That tlio Creditors Aro Protected. W..T. O'lhien of the Hallway Kiiuipiuciit eompauay of Portland lias attached tho property of the Child Hill Hailroad & Lumber com pany for n bill of ifl'JD-l.'Jl, $000 of tlio amount beinn for tlio rental of a locomotive. John A. Baxter of the compniiv states that iusido of ten days a de murrer will ho filed mid that he will do his host to protuot tho interest, of ovor.y creditor. This evoiiiun tlio company is pluu illnn to give tin option to a Portmnd man who savs he will lot thorn kliow soon whether ho will take tho rail road, tonothor with other property not the company's. m m t STEEL IS M WITHIN FOUR MILES OF FALLS Work Proiircsslnji Rapidly on Pa cific & Eastern Remodclinii of Brick House to Serve as Tempo rary Depot In City Under Way. Steel on the 1'aeifie & ICustein railroad has been laid to a point within four iiiileu of Hutto Falls, where it is anain halted by bridn? work. Two more trestles uro to b erected and then the progress into the city of the hills will be most ripd. Chief ICnninoer Cleric state, that tin work will be completed between the .th and 10th of next mouth. Work is processing rapidly on the remodeliuc of the brick house jut across Hear creek, which will serve as a temporary depot until the line nver the CaKcades has been complet ed. The ceneral offices of the Pa cific & Eastern will als be moved across tho creek. Work is also be iuc rushed on the depot nt Hanle Point. A biiildinc is also to be erect ed at Butte Falls at once, plans for which nre now beinc prepared. WEST BRANDS OREGONIANS STATEMENT ON MILEAGE A LYING BIT. OF LIBELOUS SLANDER WATSON SAVS WEST IS CHOICE Correspondent Who Has Accompan ied Candidate. Throughout Cam paign Sanrjuinc as to Anti-Assembly Candidates' Chances. Halpli Wntson, special correspond ent of the Portland Journal, who nc- companled Oswald West through eastern Oregon, Joined Mr. West In . Portland Orenonian's statement eon Metlford Tuesday. Ho stnted that corning the mileage which 1 collected ho thought, without doubt, tbnt Mr. liVom the government and turned over West would bo elected by a largo ' majorlty. "Kvorywhoro lu eastern Oregon flntterlng recoptlons woro tmdorod Mr. West. In somo of tho towns, like Weston, Umatilla and Condon, the entire community turned out to cheer him," said Mr. Watson. "I was with Chamberlain In his cam paign for senator, and' at this tlino of tho campaign his prospecta woro not nearly so bright as West's are today. "Tho Biipport West is receiving comes from all quarters, from tho state grange, from organized labor, from merchants and shippers, and from fnrinortf. Tho ontlro nntl-ns-sonibly strongtb, regnrdlesa of party, Is for West. "Tho Southern I'nelfio and tho O. H. & N. are actlvoly fighting West. All nlong the O. R. & X. flaring pouters adorn the railroad yards, toll ing employes that reduction In rates moans reduced wagos. Kvory em ploye is receiving a personal letter from tho railroad officials telling thoni to vote for the railroad Inter ests by voting for Iloworm.in. I ex pect tho Southorn Pacific will do tho same. Yet West will got their votes." Crlppen Appeals. LONDON, Oct. 'JO Dr. Ilawley II. f'rippon, convicted of the inurdor of his wife. Belle Hlinoro Ciippon, and sentenced to hang November 8, an nounced today his decision to take an appeal from Lord Alvorstono's judgment to tho criminal court of appeals, Tho aiiuouneeuient w.is inado following u conference with Arthur Newton, Ciippon' attorney. Work-seekers read every help wanted nd. Your ad will get you np plieations from tho best of tho "oli-gibles," KILLS 50 Haytlan Ship La Libcrtc Sinks Fol lowed Explosion Great Hole Torn In Side Vessel Shrouded In Steam Cause of Explosion Is Not Given Officers Killed. PORT AU 1'HINCE, Ilayti, Oct. '20. Fiftv men, iiicludmc the rank inc oftieers and part of the erew of the Haytien ennbout La Libcrtc, are believed to have been drowned when the La Liberie sank early today off Port de Paix. The sinkiuc followed an explosion in the boiler room. Twenty men were reported rescued. The La Liberie sailed Monday, tiikiuc the officers northward. Accordinc to the ailwces, the ex plosion tore a crcat hole in one side! of the cunbont, which sank in n few minutes. Tho vessel was shrouded in steam and wild ccqfiisioii reicned on board. The crenter number of those miss inn leaped into the water without nt temptinn to launch the lifeboat. Thev were swept away by the waves and drowned within uinht of their les hasty companions. The cause of the explosion wns not niven in the first dispatches that reached here. MAKES STRONG SPEECH HERE Tells Facts-in Regard to Mileage in Connection With Trip to Washing ton Will Make Oregonian Retract When Campaign Is Over, He Says. "As mean and contemptible a ly ing bit of libelous slander as was ,.,.,. i,nblisb..d about nnv one is the to the Mate." stated Oswald West, anti-nshoinbly camiidato for gover nor in his speech at Medford Tues- day aiternoon. "Tho facts of the matter are these: 1 was -cut to Washington by the state railroad commission to scenic data on file in the offieo of tho in terstate commerce conmrission for ate in our effort to reduce express rat en in Southern Oiegon. As 1 wns taking the train, 1 was subpoenaed us u witness in the Biuger Hermann trial at Portland. I could only stay one day in Washington ami had to employ clerical labor to secure the statistics. "I wns sent to Washington at the expense of the state and 1 demanded that tho government reimburse the state for the money my trip cost. The government s.id they could not do it, nnd could only pay me the mileage. This I took, nnd deducting my oxpen-es while stopping in Port land as a witness, I iinmediatelv turned the balance over- to the statu, for the state was entitled to it. ''If the transaction was wrong, the federal 'officials- should not have permitted it. If it was wrong, 1 should have been prosecuted. But the only thing thev couldn't compre hend was why 1 didn't keep the money nivself. I ask you, wits this grafting? "As soon as the campaign is over 1 shall force the Oregonian to retract its lying accusations or go after them for libel. My retard is clean. No one can call me a grafter. I may md be the best man for governor, but 1 am not a grafter." Mr, West's remarks, which were made from an automobilo on Mniu street near Front, wore greeted wilh applause imd h mule u most favor able impression upon his audit i Continuing, ho explained tho railroad rate sitnntion and ronuosted nil (Continued on pngo 8.) LOCAL UNIONS TO FORM CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL Dclenates From Every Labor Union in City Meet to Form Central Body Will Work for Harmony of Laborers and Employers. Dclcnate.i from every organized la bor union in the city met Tuesday eveninn and organized a central la bor council for this city. Temporal y orennizntion was effected nnd offi cers named and committeen apiwiiit ed. and at the next reculnr meeting bylaws will be adopted and perma nent orennizntion completed. The new council, when fully or ganized, will apply to the American Federation of Labor for a charter and it is expected to bring every trade in the city into the council. At present the local union-! represented are the carpenters nnd joiners print ers, painters, electricians nnd granite cutters. It will be the object of the council to proteetthe laboring clashes, fnni Mi employers with skilled lnbor and work for harmony. OEATH LIST IN ITALY 400 Government Attempts to Belittle Ex tent of Volcanic and Elemental Disturbances on the Shores of the Gulf of Salerno. NAPLES. Oct. 26. In splto of attempts of the government to bellt tlo the extent of the volcanic and elemental disturbances In the vicin ity of the Neopolltan bay and the Gulf of Salerno, it wns learned today that the minister of marine notified King Victor Emmanuel that tho death list from temblor, flood nnd eruption would exceed 400. The minister of mnrino also Is authority for the statement that the loss caused by the combined storm and earth disturbances nt present is incalculable. Ho added that the government officials had been in structed to make their official re ports of the loss of life and property purposely small, so that foreign tourist traffic would not bo deflect ed from the region and further loss thoreby accrue to the people of Na ples and Salerno. Tho worst dantftgo wns done at Isehla, where the minister of marine personally Is supervising the work of relief. Every coast town In the provinces of Salerno and Naples has been damaged. Tho water fronts and lower portions of tho towns nre filled with the flotsam of the sen. the bod ies of ninny persons and tho carcass es of animals. Inhabitants of sov oral smaller towns aro homoless nnd tho survivors, fearing fntnlno and postllonco, the spread of cholera and the lack of supplies, rush to tho aid In tho work of rescue. Word was received hero this aft ernoon that King IVctor Emmnnuol Is already on his way hero from Rome aboard a torpedo boat, oil will per sonally Inspect tho devastated area and direct measures for relief. Popo Plus has authorized tho cler gy tho government In tho work of nursing tho sick and wounded, feed ing the hungry and sheltering tho homeless, Derby Run. LONDON, Oct. 20. Tho Cnni bridgoshiro derbv wits run today be foro a large crowd. Christinas Daisy was the winner, Mustaplia second and llalcvon third. GENERAL STRIKE IN PENNSYLVANIA ON ELECTION OAY State Federation of Labor Calls Out All Union Workmen for Twelve Hour Strike To Make It Possible for All to Vote. "WILKESBARRE, Pa., Oct. 26. Pennsylvania will have a goncral strike on election day. Tho state federation of labor has called out all union workmen for November 8. The strike will last from 7 a. m. to 7 o'clock at night. The purpose of the strike is to make It possible for ev er working man to go to tho polls. Non-union men will be asked to Join the strikers and if the plane now formed are carried out and non-union co-operation Is secured the in dustries of Pennsylvania will be tied up completely election day. "The working men of Pennsylva nia, being true believers In democrat ic principles and popular govern ment, have resolved to Inaugurate a state-wide strike on November 8. The call for the walk-out says: "The purpose of the strike is to restore to the people of Pennsylva nia tho government of tho state. "From a political standpoint the affairs of the grand old common wealth arc a disgrace to a twentieth centur civilization. The black flag has been hoisted over the ramparts of the money lords and the only star of hope to check their plundering career is the true awakening of that force of united independence in po litical action. Further triumph of the black flag means the destruction of popular liberty." "Our duty, therefore, Is plain," tho call continues. "All worklngmen are hereby called on to make elec tion day a holiday In fact as well as In name, to gather at the polls In an orderly manner to work for the election of trade unionists to the sen ate and house of representatives of the state legislature, for representa tives In congress and to all candi dates for state offices friendly to the cause of clean politics and hon est government, to tho end that men and not dollars shall rulo in Penn sylvania." The call was signed by E. E. Greenwall, president; C. F. Qulnn, secretary-treasurer and seven vice presidents of the state federation of labor. TROOPS ASKED TO QUELL STRIKE Turbulence and Rioting Occurs in Jersey City, Owing to Trouble Be tween Union and Non-Union Ex press Wagon Drivers. JEKSEY CITY, N. J., Oct. "20. Kollowing turbulence and riot dur ing the last 24. hours in connection with the strike of express wagon drivers, the United States Express company today called upon Governor Fort to order out state troops to protect its nonunion drivers. The strike resulted from tho de mands of tho wagon helper for an increase in wages of .f." per mouth. The eonipnnv imported strikebreak ers, but were unnblo to move the wngons. When an attempt was made the uonuuionists wero attacked with stones and clubs nnd in somo in stances revolvers woro fired at them. LIFEBOAT FOUND IN THE NICK OF TIME L'ONDON. Oct. 2(1. Tossed about in a lifeboat in inidoeenu, the cap tain and four of the erew of tho American schooner Florence Leland woro rescued, according to a wireless dispatch received by Lloyds today, and tnkon aboard tho British steamer Commodore Tho Leland, it is believed, will bo a total loss. ORCHARD NEARS WORLD'S RECORD WHICH IT MADE Car Contained 428 Boxes of Choice Fruit Both High Marks in Lon don Market Are Held by Hlllcrest Marie World's Record in 1908. The Hillercst orchard, which holds tho world's record for prices paid for fancy fruit, its pears having boon sold in the London market for $10.0S a box two years ago, has agan nenr ly eqtinllod its former high marie. Returns have just been received from London on a car of Cornice pcnrsr containing 428 boxes, which averag ed an oven $10 a box only 8 cents lower than its previous record, which has never been touched by deciduoim fruit from any section of the globe. The Hillerest orchard is one of the finest properties n the Rogue River valley, as well as being one of the best-carcd-for orchards in the local district. Its product has con sistently been sold for top pricc3- throughout the markets o the world and the Intcst triumph cqmes without surprise to those wh'oknow tho or chard nnd the wny in which it is- managed. CniLD-WiFE TO ATTEND SCHOOL Man Marries Girl Twelve Years of Age and Nov is Informed That He Must Send Her to School in Ac cordance With Law. DENVER, Colo., Oct. 26. Al though a girl may be married in Colo rado at he age of 12, tho laws do not exempt her from attending school, according to Trunncy Officer Smith, who today sent the following notice to James II. Taylor, 3e: "'As tho records of the Maria Mitchell school show that your wit'o (aged 12) is not attending school, as required by tho compulsory school law. you aro hereby notified that un less sho is enrolled within five dnys nroeeedings will be stnrted against vou in the county court ns contrib utmg to juvenile deliiupieiiey. You will bo held liable to fino and im prisonment nnd tho child tuny bo sent to an industrial school for girls." Taylor's girl-wife was formerly Jennie Trammel. She was marriod to Taylor, who is a brothor of tho child's stepfather, several weeks ago by a justieo of tho peace. The mar riage caused great indignation at tho time. Commenting on tho child's non-nt-tendnneo. Superintendent of Schools Chadsey snid: "Not even iiinrriago can excuse u child under school ngo limit from at tending school. In Colorado the law docs not provide for tho husband's supromaey in cases of this charac ter." "OLD KINGIOLE GETS THREE YEAR CONTRACT CHICAGO, Oct. 2C "Old King Colo," tho young pitcher or tho Chi cago Cubs, who, with tho nB8stnnco of Mordocnl Brown, wns tho only man ablo to stay tho victorious ad vanco of tho Philadelphia Americana In tlio world's eorles Just cIohocJ, to day was glvon a threo years' con tract. Tho long term document cnlls for a salary twice that which Colo recolved in 1010. The pitcher will also receive a bonus of $1,000 for his good work trie season. Itis fortunnto for n real merchant if his corapotitor iu n live advertiser who, now and then, oven tries to "sot tho pace for him." It make storeiimkiug a task for men, f ' Hin3MwwaniKfawiWH