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mi!!'7 THE WEATHER Fair tonight and tomorrow. zQPerj:ent, of the People of the Rogue River Valley Read the jtf ail Tribune Medford Mail Tribune BARGAINS Christmas and Otherwise by Reading Ads In Todays Issue. The Mciaifo of tlio XUngi. White Fair weather. Hhie Ilnln or Bnow. Wlilto and blui. Locnl showers Hlnck irlnnKUlnr Ahovo while, uiirmur; below whltp, coblcr White with black cantor Cold. JiMFTII YWAU. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DKOIUMBKR. 19, 1910. NO. 231 E EXPEODES IN HEART GOTHAM: NINE KIEEED r ' . m JULIANAJOCK'SFATENOWINHflNDS LAND FRAUD CAR OF DYNAMIT OF JURY; GIDSINGARGUMFNTSHEARD CASES SOON OF CROWDED S d ) j EARLY VERDICT IS EXPECTED: Prosecution Attorney Leaves No Stone Unturned to Show Jury That Mock Was Deliberate in His Killing Judge Kelly Makes Strong Pica. At 2:u o'clock tills afternoon tliu Mock jury had not returned. After a trial of three days' duration (lie .lullan A. Mock case was handed to tho Jury at 12: 15 Monday nfter neon. An early verdict Is expected. The trial was u bitterly fought legal but Up, a stubborn prosecution con ducted by 11. F. Mulkey loft no stone unturned to show to tlio jury that Mock went deliberately to tho Mc Mulleu homo for the purpose of cre ating a row with Smith. The witnesses for tho prohocutlon wore not extreme ly strong, none but the small boy were willing to swear that Mock struck tho first blow, but tho argu ment of tho prosecution both In tho opening and closing was strong. The argument showed tho friendly meeting and greeting of tho men, the admission of Smith that Mqck had treated him as a genUemnn while on the hunt; the quarrel provoked by Mock, and flnn'.ly tho fatal blows htrnck by Mock with a deadly weapon while his adversary was unarmed. .ludgo Kelly, for the defense, show ed that Mock was of good character, that tlio men with whom he worked thought'well of him, that his employ er thought well of him and that he wns In poor ealth nml physically un able to battle with a strong man like Smith. Mr. Kelly showed tho Jury how Smith was In the habit of carry ing a gun, that he had bragged of killing a man with a knifo In Texas, that In his belief Smith had a gun on his person at the time of tho fight, and, could ho have reached it, would hao taken tho life of Mock. Mr. Kelly showed how nobly Mock shield ed his wife, that at no time had ho In ought her Into tho affair other than to nay that she told him about the dog. That Mock had not Intended to kill Smith, that had he have had that Intention ho could have severed his head tioni his body. Mr. Kelly re reired the jury to the straightforward story of tlio defendant and how ut terly the state had failed in shaking that evidence in any manner; that his client had dono as ho said, de fended himself and his wlfo's honor, that he bollovod Smith had a gun and. "self-preservation boing the first law of nature," pulled his knlfo and struck tho fatal blow, not with the Intention of murdor, but with the in tention of defending hlnibelf against a dangerous onoiny. Mr. Kelly's ar gument was calm, sound and unemo tional. Ho hold tho closest attention ol the jury, and all must admit that Mr. Mock rocolvod a fair and Inipai tial trial and wiib defended ably and well. TRUCE BETWEEN AUTHORITIES; AND I. W. W. BROKEN rliP.SNO, Oil., !)''' 1. T1"; truce between civil authorities and member of the Industrial W'orkei t the World, b.V which 1 Industrial in jail hero lor vagrancy were to be v..i.'.,w.il nondiiiL' the hearing of .1 test ciim) was abruptly endude today 1 y otficials of the Worker- who Ho itied the district attorney' officii I that the ameomout was on. 'i'i. ....Mi.mwiiiimmt wiii, made us a in. in ..--- - . . i . which ha lilluil ''l-HhlinV mil OHO. cloggod its court calendar all winter wiM bo lenowod with yicieae zeal. "Wo will flood your jaiU and co.t tho county a fortune to support H,, but wo viil not compromise," wo the substance "f thoiufonnatioii. . 1 The old ideas about store adver tising dio hardbut 'ihoy die, never theless. Store advertising nowaday" hn nwa value. deli, and it was slated that ibtf'.W , , . . . . i GREAT 1U OF BUILDINGS ARE UHOER WAY Regardless of Weather Conditions Conditions Building Continues Un abated in Medford Much Im provement and Repair Under Way. That eMilford is rapidly forging to I lie front regardless of weather con cen con diteons: that here people are un- shnke in their confidence of her fu (uie and (hat unprecedented pros perity bus Mettled down to permanent business, is evidenced by a building census taken Monday morning. In the part of the city visited. It was loiiud that crows of workmen were busy on IKS dill'crent buildings and these buildings range lroin a inodo.-il bungalow to a skyscraper. Ninety-'' eight buildings ate not all the build ings under course of construction, as not one-third of- the town was cov eted, but there are !)S buildings un der course of construction within a radius of eight blocks of the cross ing of Front and Plaint slrecrs. Fart bur out in the newer additions there are many new buildings under course of const ruction, these, how ever, have not been enumerated but it is a conservative estimate to say they are 50 ip number. Aside fio'n tuo uor buildings there is an immense amount of repilir and inipiovcmunt work. Houses are be ing moved to new locations and re modeled, the sound of the hammer and the saw is everywhere to be heard. Not only are new buildings going up, but new streets are being ojeued. Alleys improved, water nipes placed in residences, electric lights and telephones installed and the properly -in every way improved and modernized. From estimates furnished by dif ferent contractors, it is learned tb.it no S.S-, than .'11)11 new buildings will be commenced as soon as material can be placed upon the gioiind. Some few of ijio-o are business build ings, but the greater portion of them are cottages, not cottages for rent, but homes for men who have lo cated with their families within the nasi year. With the advent of good weather theie will not be' an idle car penter, painter, plumber, bricklayer or plasterer in the city as the woik already in siuht is mote than the present number ot workmen in the citv can do on contract time. On every hand buildings are springing up as if by magic and al though this is the pooiest season for building work, the hum of the saw and sound of the liaimuar is houriv piocbuuiuig that Mfdtoid is building into n pcimitiiciit, progressive, pios pcroiis and modern citv. MS IS KIDDIES THEME Every Toy Shop in Town Is Now Great Center of Interest to the Lit tle Tots Great and Varied Display Offered. "To Toylaad, tho llomu of Santa Claii' is the rallying cry among the obildiuu those day. Tlio toy shops at tlio local store are the Meccu of all true Kris Kriugle worshippers and tboiisnuds of pilgrims nro there ever.v "U ii-i.-.m nu ... muin inn speak to Santa Clau who walks about tho store is a sight to sea. His genial lace ami dancing e.w some tune thaw tlieut out, but in most cae they speak with downcast e.c. ai'nul to be too familiar with this an nually important man who i expect ed to muke glad their heart when Christinas dawn calls them from their beds. Some ot I lit we ones, (rnnllniK-il mi 1'iitft 4 t HIS LOOKS FN PLACE TO DOILD A CITY OF RETIREMENT English Pastor Reaches Medford on Lengthy Trip to Chooso Site for City in Which Quiet Alone Will Prevail. llcv. Henry M. Johnstone, D. D., of JJurtou, England, the home of the world's largest browing institutions, in which city hu has preached the gospel for ;J5 years, was in Medford, Monday. Mr. Johnstone left Eng land three months ago and since that time has traveled through Canada including the Northwest Territory and British Columbia then coming to the I'acific States. The while haired minister is of excellent address, scholarly and kindly disposed. When asked the object of bis visit Mr. Johnstone replied. "1 am representing a largo colony of people who desire to. retire from active business life and build a citv all their own. A city without a sa loon, without a theatre, without r. show of any kind; a city containing one central church, one general store; no trades, no business activities; just a (piiet home in which a people well-supplied with the world's goods can live in perfect retirement. We do not mean by this that our people do not love the theatre, and other amusements, but that our aim is lo locale near a city iir which all this may be found. We do not claim to bo building a holy city, for there i none holy by him that sent us, hut us. We desire to build a ipiiet home city, whore the aged may rest in peace and the young may pursue their studies without being inter rupted by the environments of a busy business mart. We cxnect to creel and maintain the finest of schools, lo have a perfect city government in which no contention shall arise. Peo ple may think this impossible, but not so with our people. We know each other and have maintained our organization in Hurton, and Minion is one of the wickedest cities, in all England, aside from London. "Want a clean city, not only mor ally clean, but clean in a sanitary ivav. We want parks and drives, sidewalks, paved streets, and fouu laiiis, flowers and statuary and ha ample means to provide them all. "Where wo shnll locate T -do not know. Canada was prefcrcd when I left England, but I find a better cli mate in the coast states and shall spend some mouths before report ing." Wov Johnstone ok the 10 o'clock train for firnnts I'ass and will iv lurn here on Wednesday of this week. V. ' FIVE MINERS ARE BLOWN TO BITS Fifty Men Are in Mino When Ex plosion Occurss Over 20 Are Burned Premature Shot Is Re sponsible for Accident. FAIUMOL'NT, W. Va., Dec. 10. Five minors are reported to havo boon killed and nearly 20 burned In an explosion In tho Consolidated Coal company's mine at Chlofton today. Fifty moa wor in tho mino at tho time of the explosion. It Is bollovod that a premature shot caused tho ac cldont. Tho men woro blown to frag, nionta. The store that makes its ndvortis ing valuable to you oarns your sup port. Every day some store's ad vertising is particularly valuable lo vou and you can discover which store and what advertisement in u few moment s. AI AN END Decisive Action Is Expected Whether Cases Will End in General Fiasco or Not Rests With Hency Is Non committal as to Course He Will Pursue. PORTLAND. Or., Hoc. 10. The Oregon land fraud cases, which were prosecuted In tho federal courts sev eral years ago by Francis J. Henoy, are about to terminate. Henoy la in Portland today for tho purpose- of bringing tho famous cases to a fin ish. Whether tho Ulnnlo will bo a general fiasco of all cases pending, with the dismissal of the cases and a batch of pardons, or a renewed ef fort to convict former Congressman Dinger Hermann and J. N. William son and lo sontonco Franklin l'lercc Slays, Wlllard Jones nml Thndeus Pot ter to prison now rests with Henoy. It Is believed that decisive action will 6o taken this week. Those In closo touch with tho sit uation hold to the opinion that a mo tion for tho dismissal ot tho cases against Williamson and Hermann will be 'made. This opinion is based on an Intimation from Hency that he does not Intend to romaln long In the northwest. It Is asserted that tho ca3cs have grown so antiquated duo to tho fact that Henoy has made no effort to try them, that tho witnesses nro scat tered. Mays, Potter and Jones wero con victed and sentenced to pay heavy fines and servo short jail sentences. They appealed their cases to the court of appeals and lost. It Is said they have agreed to' pay tho fines If par doned. Strong recommendations! for leaioacy have been made to President Tart by friends of tho men, and It Is understood that tho pardons will ho granted If Henoy does not too serious ly opposo them. Henoy Is non-committal as to tho course ho Intends to pursue. Ho de clined to talk concerning tho Her mann and Williamson cases, saying that ho first wanted to refresh his memory on certain points. Hermann was acquitted In tho caso tried In Washington adn tho jury dis agreed at his trial for alleged land frauds In Portland. Williamson was tried for alloged frauds three tlmos. Ho was twice ac quitted and convicted the third time. Ho won a no wtrlnl on an appeal. NEILL IS TRYING TO AVERT GREAT RAILWAY STRIKE Still Conferring Willi Engineers Em ployed on Sixty-Ono Roads to Pre vent Them From Walking Out Engineers Want Increase of 17 Per Cent. CHlCACiO, Doc. 10. Charles P. N'elll, commlSHiouor of labor, Is en deavoring today to avert tho fulfill ment of throats by President War ren S. Stono of the Drothorhood of Locomotive FiiKluecrs that unlotw tho inon omployod on til western rail roads get an Increase of wagos de manded a strike on tho toads will bo ordered before Christmas. .Vol It conferred this morning with officials of the railroads, and prepar ed this afternoon for a conference with tho engineers. Tho commission er declined to predht what might bo tho outcomo of the conference. Tho on g I news ssiiert that any of-1 fer of settlement of less than an in-, crease of from HI to 17 par cunt will bo unsatisfactory. Every day some More-patrons who ought to coino to vour store o else-when- -to Iheir own and your dis advantage because our advciti---i i "X was nut quite unpi-lling finic.;,i KERSH JURY ISl STILL OUT; ARE UNABLE AGREE Further Instructions Asked Yester day Afternoon Strain Is Telling on Woman If Complicity Is Shown Site is Guilty Says Judge PORTLAND, Or., Doc. 19. Retir ing for deliberations at 5:15 p. in. Saturday, tho Jury In vhoso hands rests tho fate of Mrs. Carrlo Korsh, charged with complicity In tho mur der of William Johnson, was still out at 1 o'clock today. Tho jury had been out 11 hours nt this lime. Mrs. Korsh Is very weak as a result of the ordeal through which she has passed. Yesterday foronoon tho jury re quested further Instructions from .ludgo Morrow, but it was not until II o'clock that all parties concorncd In the trial hnd been brought together In the courtroom. Several jurors asked particularly for Instructions as to what constitu ted first degree murder. This point was not missed by. Mrs. Kersh, and she showed every ovldonco of fear when sho was half carrlod from tho courtroom by tho jail matron. The Instructions glvon Saturday were repeated almost In their ontlro ty and the court made It clear that If tho jury believed that a conspiracy existed between Mrs. Kersu and Jesse Webb to kill Johnson that a verdict of murder In the first degree should bo returned. Tho court said Hint four vordlcts could bo found murdor in tlio first degree, murder In tho second degree, manslaughter or acquittal. Want-advertise aggressively if the need to sell that properly is urg ent. MANY BACKING UP STAND OF SEATTLE STAR SIOATTI.n, Wash., Dec. 10. A storm of protests from the city and from tho outside havo piled Into tho Seattle Star office following tho sen tencing of two editors of tlio Star late Friday afternoon for contompt of court. Tlio Fremont Ilaptlst church con gregation yesterday unanimously passed a 10, 000-word resolution com mending the editors and pledging their utmost support in their fight for the people of tlio Duwamlsh val ley, now at the mercy of tlio traction trust. Willi store advertising so offoetive i hat every copy of this newspaper becomes a sidesman for you, you'll inid (bat business continues to im prove to the crgc of your capacity lo handle it. T BLOCK TRAFFIC Turn Back Railroad Trains Fierce Battle Believed to Be In Progress Widespread Indignation Follows Stopping of Trains. 13L PASO, Tex., Dee. 10.- IiiBiir Heuts stopped all Maxlco-Northwost-em railroad trains at Pedornnles to iIhj and ordered them to loturn. Tele graph ami telephone Hues beyond that point were cut. It was rumored that a flrre battle whs In progress on I the outskirts of Pedoraales. The action of the lusurrectos la In terfering with tho railiOHd traffic caused widespread expressions of in dignation. Scores of American sol- dlcrsof fortune, on healing the news. started for tho scene, suinu of them iiffi-iliiK to talvc the ti.iiiiK rmward. , 00 ONSS DY RUSH CLERKS ON QUI VIVE Great Groups Gather in Different Stores and at Postoffice Much Business Being Transacted at Postoffico and Express Office. With Christmas day less than a week away the holiday rush is now in full swing at the local postoffice. All day long groups of people stand be fore the stamp, reggistry and money order windows, patiently awaiting their turn. The Christinas business began about throe weeks ago, with pack ages and letters going to loreign countries. From that time to this there has been a daily increase, and this daily increase will continue right up to the evening of tho 'Jlth of De cember. There is a good chance that previous recoids of the local postot lico will bo broken this year. The daily average of money or ders to points in the United States during the past 20 days has been over ijilOU. This number does not include the foreign money orders, which have a largo total. Orders paid, ui)ou their receipt from outside points, Lave averaged 50 a day in the same period. Stamp .sales havo been running over sHOO a day, and about 75 packages have been registered every day foi the last three weeks. This niiinbci will greatly increase from now on. I 111 1 A ll in giving iioiKiay pointers lo tin general public, Postmaster Woodfori. wishes it to bo impressed upon the minds of the people that all Christ mas packages should ho earefull.v wrapped in good, tough paper; that in writing address the county as well uss Hie town should be put mi; that the return address should be placeU on tlie packages, and particularly on every registered package, for a reg istered package cannot be ucceptco unless it bears the return address; that all addresses on registered mail to froeign countries positively must be in ink; that all parcels of mer chandise take the fourth-class rale of I cent an ounce, counting the down weight as an ounce Hint is lo say, the smallest fraction of an ounce. Care should bo taken lo sci that tliiini, is sufficient postage on all such packages. If the county as well as the city is placed in the address it will greatly facilitate delivery, and insure the Christumns mail lieii: de livered on lime. Willi only tho town and the slate there might be delay, so great is tbu volume of Christmas mail, No return card is furnished with registered mail unless requested, Tlu words, "Not to bo opened until Christ inas," or words to (hut effect, writ ten on the outside of the package mailed, makes it necessary to place I list ela-s pos(,ige on the package. OUAKE SLAYS M PERSONS Island Sinks Following Great Up hcaval Several Islands Uulnhah Mvi. Arc Also Missing Several , Persons Escanc in Boats l,, C6,M,C "tnick both ti,ll,lru"- 't i crs.ons tscape in ooais. W(U iora, mlluUua ,)orro thoy wom 'found n sunt to a hospital. PORT LI.MON. Costa Rica. Dec, 19.: ' o mea.ttl.no 25,000 pqrsonfl -Seventy families, consisting of from ,""' ,7 ."'T'1, th ,,,Mlng r".,vei 150 to 170 persons In all, were drown- """ w ""lIt' fmint w,t tll " ed when the Island on which tlioy i " ',r,Vl' thwM ,Mll'k 80 that tho work lived was swallowed up by tho sea uf ouo in,fht on' during an earthquake Saturday. Tho , !' mirH,,lul hool of St. Pat siinkuu Island wan In the center of rkkI8 t,"t,ie,,ial l Forty-ninth street LIophko Lagoon. Word of tho on.'""'1 I'Mt" vno was badly dam. lauiity reached here early today. "ml HpV(mil 0"' woro slightly Llopago Ugoou Is a lake southeast '!J"ro 1)y ""torod glass. Tho Bl ot the city of San Salvador. It Is ,,B '""" 8ul,ool ,n n ton-tory build about five aud a half miles In length, i'"8 llt "nlnth street, was alsq Tho lagoon Is about 25 miles from (,Il,imS(l "? tho u,astL:', , )1H pa,.nc coast, In a mountainous i country. i - - ,..,,,--,.--,-. M'un! ilUKil oil J'ugn ) BUIDLIN6S ARE SHATTERED FOR Gas Tank in Milk Depot Explodes setting Off Car of Dynamite Every Man at Worn in Power House Was Killed Exact Cause Will Never Be Known. N13W YORK, Dec. 19. Nino per sons wero killed, eight nro missing and believed to be dead, and moro than ao persons woro injured in a terrific explosion today that wreckod tho Now York Central milk depot, tho railroad's carponter shop and tho power house oftho Now York, New Haven & Hartford railroad at Forty-ninth strcot and Lexington avenuo. Cursory investigation gavo rlso to a police theory that tho gas tank in the milk depot wns flrod by a spark from tho tiird rail of tho electric road of the Now York, Now Havon & Hart ford railroad, which passed near tho milk depot. On tho track stood a car of dynamite, and tlio dlsohargo or Uils explosion wrought tho groatest hnvoe. District Attorney Whitman, upon leoclvlng the pollco ropor' ns to tho causo of tho disaster, at onco ordorcd an Investigation. Within a few minutes after tho ex plosion pollco and flremon woro bringing maimed and bleeding bodies (from the ruins, while wounded mon, .voiueu niio cuiioren vyitnm a radius )l 12 blocks woro belnc hnrrlod to hospitals for treatmont. Tlio oxploslon occurrod shortly aft-u- S o'clock. The causo will novor lie known, as ovory man who was at worlt In the power ohuso wns killed. The disaster was so timed thnt hundrods of pcoplo woro converging to tho scoiio Just beforo tho boilers let go. A scoro of men woro blown Into the nlr and lator found dend or dying. Two men passing near tho plant wore blown ncross Lexington , 'ivonuo and tho skull of ono was piorced by a long splinter of glass. A street car on Loxlngton avenuo was hurled from tho tracks and top pled over onto an automobile owned by Charles S. Shopard. Ono of tho occupants of tho machine and two passengers In tho car wero killed. Others wero Bovoroly Injured. Within a inlnuto after tho explo; ' slon nmhulances from ovory part fol lowed firemen to tho ruins that mark-. ed tho big plnnt, and tho work or fighting tho flames and rescuing thu ' dead and Injured began. With tho nearby buildings In a shattered condition and threatening to topple ovor on tho rescuors, flre mon, police, physicians and nowspa por men carried scores of wounded to tho ambulances or placealho dead In an Improvised morgue in tho New York Contral Railroad yards. With tho first shock of tho explo sion, 500 children, patients in tho chldlren's Morcy hospital, bocamo paulc-strlckeu mid those able to loavo their cots rushed for the doors. A Hcore of tho little onos woro trampled? in the wild rush for safety. Every window in the hospltnl was blown la' and many of tho children anu nurses woro cut with broken gluss. Tho panic was checked beforo any of tlio patients was sorlously hurt. . At Lexington avunuo and KKty flmt Htreot school two piiplln only had arrived. Both wero Injured by the shock. A portion or ono of the walls foil out and heavy plaster from -. !Sr Sll- , Medford Mall Tribune Vaut ads bring results. MANY OK i t I I i . - .JUMiaaCII Xv mm H0fimjr?-