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TO . WtTT" - rrv r VfJ ;Trnv;' -I ,-??-' JWB T-irnr- "Tl!fW iv - ' pwiM Jijpi(U1liPI VJ ' To One And All a Merry Christmas SECTION ONE Medford Mail Tribune umm r the -wiiHihiil "m Cloudy tonight and toiikx-row. b dH Th KMAfferef VM T1m. ii " JH White Pair weather. i c ' 'SH Illtio Italn or snow. jH Whltu ami blue Local ehbwera Black triangular Above white, wanner J below white, colder. fs :) White with black center Cold. u jfll "'Ami FIFTH YEAR. . Ul" VI ) I I II ' THROWING OF ACID Strikers Grow Desperate in Chicago Garment Workers' War Strike breakers Are to Be Victims "Throw It Into Their Eyes" Is. the Order Sent Out. CHICAGO. Dec. IM.Tlmt leaders of tlu striking garment workers have distributed aid inning the striker-, with" instructions to throw it into t lie faces of the strikebreakers is- the confession which police allege Thoo philo Julilcinude to them. Julik, the police say, admitted lie threw acid "a. the face of Qas Olson yesterday. The i'ior.v liquid nte its wfly through 01 scn's eyeballs and left him sightless and suffering. The attack was a part of u care- fully planned crusade, the police as sert. Every precaution is being tak en to protect both the strikebreakers and the officers patrolling the fac tory district from attacks of the acid slingcrs. Jitlik says that the whole affair had been carefully planned and that the acid ho threw was part of a lot distributed among the strikers at a recent meeting, "Throw the acid straight into their eyes," the lenders are reported by Julik to have instructed the' men to whom' it -was. handed. "It will do the business." Julik wns not certain, the police say, whether any acid had been .given to the woman strikers. NUMBER 168? Twenty-nine Per Cent Increase Over Ono Year A.qo Is Sho.wn Two New Schools Aro to Be Erected jn the .Immediate Future. Tlio total number of gcIiooI chil dren in the Medford school district is 1CS2 according to Enumerator Ileasolman, who hhs jimt completed his count. This is S2 moro than ho estimated In recent figures given out for publication before the complete count had boon made. Thoiivcreaso since ono year ago is 38C, thcrp being 12D2 in tho district at that time. The Increa80 during tho past year has been 29 nor cent. Tho Medford schools have been crowded this year as novcr boforo. Tho school board lias cnlled for bids for ftho erection of two hdditlonals in tho city, ono on West Jackson and the other in Queen Anno, so that the Increased number of school children may bo taken care of. SIX PERSONS DIE: GRS ROUTE Six Gather for Pre-Christmas Cele bration and Are Found Uncon sciousAll Efforts to Save Are Futile. . , KENTON, O., Dec. 21. Six. per sons woro killed by illumrnatlng gas la an apartment in the LIntz hotel hero today. The dead: ' CHARLES LATHAM AND MRS. LATHAM". WILLIAM KENNEDY. PEARL KENNEDY, boii of Wil liam, aged 24. HARRY NEWCOMB, 23. MISS BAILEY, 21. Tho six persons had gathered for a pre-Chrlstmas reovl in a room of tho hotel. Tho management of tho hotel did not know of tho gathering until it was reportod tht thero was an odor of gas cumins from tho room. A bell boy was sent to investigate. He re ported that the door was locked, but 0 C HLOREN t -f4 4 t CARDINAL GIBBONS WRITES ON CHRISTMAS f f f f f f BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 24. Cardinal Gibbons prepared for thq United Pres3 tho fol lowing sentiment for Yule-tide-: "Christmas Is a day of gladness for all men. Not only do the more comfortablo share gifts wtih tho poorer, asking pravora In roturn, but each and al, rich, poor, young and old, n,&In aro aiado rich and youthful In the hopes and promises of tho new .born Savior and. all men seem to feel what all tho nnglco Bang at Bethlehem, "Glory to God In tho UlgheBtt- Poaco on Earth;; Good Will Toward Men." TO QUELL THEM External Application of Water Through a Three-inch Hose Re stores Discipline in Fresno Jail Promise to Be Good. FRESNO, Cal., Dec. 24. External application of water through a three Inch hose to the bodies of several score of Industrial Workers of tho World resulted today In the restonv f ion of discipline at tho city prison. After half a week of noise and dls order tho cells woro quiet this morn ing, the drenched inmates seeking high porches to get clear of tho four feet of water on the floor. FIro hoso and a fire engine woro called" Into play by the sheriff last night as a last resort. A hand hose wns used at first, but ho men in the cells successfully protected them selves by piling their bedding behind tho front bars. Tho Nro hoso swdpt away all these obstructions, but tho straw from tho mattresses closed tho Jail sewer and tho waer was slow In draining off. The shorlff addressed tho prisoners this morning, saying lip did not wish to treat them differ ently from tho othor prisoners, but thnt the prison rules must bo obey ed. Tho mon replied that they would be good, and as nn earnest of. their Indention not to risk another shower bath, tnoy accepted brcalnast this horning, the first food thoy hnvo ct en since entering tho Jail Thursday evening. BURY CHICAGO'S DEAD HEROES Great Crowds Follow Fire Boys as They Are Driven to Cemetery Chief Will Bo Burled on Monday CHICAGO, Dec. 24. Assistant Fire Marshal Burroughs and Captfln Pat rick Collins, who lost their lives in the firo thnt destroyeyd the beef warehouse of Nelson Morris & Co. nt tho Union stockyards, woro burled today. Great crowds followed tho bodies as they woro borne to tho cemotery. Tho funeral of Chlof Flro Marshal James Jlornn, killed In tho samo dis aster, will bo held Monday. Firomen aro still digging in tho ruins searching for bodies. Tho ,11st of dofd todny numbers 21. Twenty ono of these aro firemen, threo nro laborers employed by tho packing firm. It Is bollovcd that others may have been caught undor tho falling walls nnd tho search of tho rulnHis being conducted with tho greatest ex pedition possible that ho believed that lie saw bodies as ho looked over tho transom. En trance was forced Into tho room anil ho bodies removed. Efforts to rosuscltato thorn proved fruitless. Want -advertise for n new clerk or office-worker and your business routine will scurcoly be interrupted liv tiie twit of tho other ono. HOSE TURNED ON PRISONERS MEDFORD, MAXIM GUN TO CHECK STRIKE Railroad Men in Winnipeg Prepare to Defend Themselves Properly Strikers and Strikebreakers in a Great Battle Trained Strikebreak ers Armed and on Guard. t X WINNIPEG, Dec. 24. Following a revolver fight between strikebreak ers and tho 'striking car men of the Winnipeg street railway laBt night, tho railway management had a Max im rapid flro gun ordered from Hall fax nnd nro preparing to defend hom solves properlyr Thirty cars, carrying armed strike breakers were nttneked last night. After ninny shots had been exchang ed, tho non-union crows fled and tho strikers or their sympathizers took possession of tho cars ami ran them off tho track. Before tho polldo could Interfere ono car had been upso nnd burned. Indications nil go to show that only tho strictest measures will con trol the present situation. All the unlono seem to hnvo within their membership many In sympathy with the strikers. The cars woro all with drawn at 8 o'clock light night, as thoy were not safe from tho brick nnd stono throwers. The compnny so far has had 50 cf-rs wrecked or par tially so slnco the strike opened, and It Is feared that ono of their threo large terminal barns will bo burned. Armed guards patrol outside these' big buildings all night, whllo inside therd Is a-sufficient number of train ed Btrlkobrenkors on the alert to sally forth In enso an nssaulj; Is mado on tho compnny. Tho military has not yot been call ed, but aro in readiness to net if re quired. IAS SERVICES ATTHECHURCHES Appropriate and Elaborato Christ mas Services Will Be Held in Each and. Every Church in the City of Medford. The Medford churches will nil properly observe Christmas this year. For tho most purl appropriate song services hnvo been arranged and the services throughout will be in ac cord with tho spirit of tho day. Special services will bo held at the Presbyterian church Christmas mornpig. "Festival March" (Iteid); organ voluntary, "Hail, Emmanuel" (Hevily); chorus, "Christ Is Horn in Hethiohem" (Iliihn), Miss Phoebe irnnso; "Hail, Glorious Day" (Heir ly); solo, Norman .Merrill, with cho rus, "The Awakening" (Knglciiinn) ; offertory, "Postludo" (Goulmuntj, recessional. There will bo a general service in the evening. Christmas services will be held nt tho Baptist church Sunday morning, when speciul Christmas music, will be giyen by the choir. "0, Holy Night" (Adams) will bo sung by Mr. Whct sel; "In a Mangor Lowly" (Spirritt) by Miss llrnndley. An aiithein, "Un fold, Ye Portals" (Gounod) will be rendered by tho choir. Morning sormon., 11 o'clock; subject, "Tho In carnation and Ilirth of Christ"; eve ning service 7:110, subject, "Proof .Man I Ins mi Immortal Soul." Spe cial music nt both sorvieca. All are invited,. Cliiistinn Soiouco services Sunday at 11 n. in., subject of leasoii-scnnnn. "Christum Science." Sunday school at 10; testimonial meetings Wednes day nt 7:30. All are welcome. 128 North Grape stroot, north of Sher- mnn-i my musio House. The .services on Christmas dny nt tiie Catholio church will bo as fol fel fol eows: At midnight mass will bo cele brated in St. oscph's church at Jack Jack eonville: firt muss in Medford ai 7:'I0 a. in.; second ma in Medford nt 8 o'clock n. m.; third mass, which will be n Mileiim bieh m.i--. wjith u (Coutlnucd on I 'a to A ; OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1910. ENGINEERS AND ROADS N0WA6REE Commissioner Neill Announces That His Efforts to Prevent Strike Were Successful Railroads Agree to an Advance of Ten Per Cent in Wanes of the Men. CHICAGO, Deed 24. A settlement between tho engineers or tho 01 western railroads, and tho compnny officials has been reached nnd tho threatened stilko has boon averted. Tho fact of a" settlement was an nounced by Commissioner of Labor Charles P, Nolll, who has been nctlng as mediator. Tho sottlomonjt of tho ntrlko camo today after a number of conferences between Nolll and the railroad otf cials and engineers. It was an nounco'd yesterday that settlement or final break would bo apt to como to day. Tho engineers for tho past fow days have said that they woro tired of delay and that thoy would take definite action unless tho rnilroads mado concessions which thoy could reasonably consider. tl was known this morning thnt tho railroads had agreed to conces sions that thoy had declined to mako boforo, and It la bollevod that on their part tho engineers finally agreed to mako a number of concessions In the Interest of pence. Tho Bottfemont todny brings to nn end tho possibility of a strike of tho onglnoors on practically .ill lines west of tho Mississippi river. Tho thrcat encd'ntrllco Iii'volvetl ar(500 mon. The strlko vote wns taken by locnlS on all tho lines and the voto as tabulated In Chicago showed that moro than 05 per cent of tho men had voted to ctrlko unless wngo increases wero 'jjlvou by tho roads. Tho jiogotlatlons in Chicngo hnvo ben under way slnco December 12. tl is said that formal agreements would not be idgncd until this ovem Ing. Ho said that tho terms substan tially wcor that tho railroads had agreed to ndvances ovoraElng 10 1-J1 per cont with various differentials for special sorvlcos and tho adjust ment of working conditions hitherto unsatisfactory to thconlnccrs, Ho said that the differentials ngrccd to vcre: rony por coin uicrouHu uHiimun gor and subur' nn service, on pushorB and holponi on mixed traliiB, wreck trans and enowplowsr tho samo for helpers on thiough freight excopt that thoy shall rccolvo G5, conts wlien tho engineers" dlfforontlnl shall bo 75 conts lo $1. On way nnd local freights tho pay Is to bo 25 conts for switch engines. A dlfforontlnl of 50 cents on motor cars wns agreed upon. IIMIWN LAW CLEARS MAN J. Howard Green, Who Shot Profes sor Who Had Asked His Wife to Elope, Is Free Man Jury Was Out Only Ten Minutes. LOS ANGKMW, Deg. 24. J. Howard Green in i i'reo man today, luiviiiLT been oleand of n charge of murdering I'rol't-sor ThouiiiH B. Bkidmore. According to an ante mortem statement by Kkidmore, antl admitted an cidcin'o'ul CJreon'H trial, Skidnioro declined that Green had nhol him, but that lie "duborved to be Hhr." ; The jury deliberated but ten miii utoa mid returned u vurdiot of not guilty. " ' Following tho reading of the verd ict, Green wns embraced by hi two daughter uud hn wife, who wan in nocent of tiie tnigedy. According to Mrs. Guioii'b tc-tiiiipny, bho nnd Skidure had been friondH before her innniuge to Clreou, Iluecully Hkiduiore, who wn n profoHMir in u Texan college, chim to a Augelei-, he lestitied, nnd aked her to elope vwlli bun It v.ih ul (it 1 1 i i - that (be 1 "hooting occurred. i f- 16 STRIKERS SEN1 10 JAIL One Year Ear.h Is Meted Out to Men Followinn Their Conviction for Contempt of Court Jtitlrjc Says That Somebody Must Certainly Have Lied. DKNVKK, Colo., Dee. 21. Sixleon striking niineworkers of Lufuyette, Colo., began todny serving sentences of one year each in the county jail following conviction for contempt of court in violnting n temporary in junction to restrain strikers from in turfcring with the operation of the Northern Coal & Coke company's mines nt Lafayette, or from threat ening nonunion umployes of the com pany. , , Judge Grecly Whitford, in pro iTouncing sontenco on tlio men yester day, denied it motion. for u stay of execution, but grunted nttornoys for tho defense !J() days in which to pre pare exceptions. Tho men are members of tho Unit ed, iWinoworkers of America, and thnt organisation and tlio Colorado Fed eration of Labor both are preparing to tnko the case to the higher courts. Judge Whitford, in passing sen tence, said that tho testimony was conflicting nnd that it was ovidcut that somebody had lied, lie said the defendant had defied the court's in junction and openly ussnulted non union minors in the streets of Lafay ette. IS City Officials Reply to Statements Made by W. J. Driimlilll Answer Is Prepared by Mayor and Street Committee. To tho Editer: If tho city officials took tlio time to answer every falsehood and mitX; representation that is uttered or pub lished against them they would have no time left to attend to tho city's work. Bui the complaint of one V. J. Druniliill has been so often repeated that further uilenco would doubtluM he construed by many as nn admis sion of tho truth of the charges. The facts are these: Mr. Druniliill hn never petitioned tho council lot a water main oil Hamilton ' street since the present admiuistriition enmo into office. Mr. Druniliill bus never petitioned the council ut nil I'm u water inuiu since the chariot amendment allowing" property to be uws ed for the cost of water inniiih was adopted by the tteoplo. The council has miide it u rule u.il to force iibsesuments against prop erly where tlio owners did not want it, except in exceptional canes whore it was nocessiirv to make the system circulating. It seems that on June .'), 1008, long before wo assumed office uud long before the charter amendment auth orizing' ussussiuonts for water main' was- passed, Mr. Druniliill and sev eral others did petition for a two inch water main on Hamilton stroot, to be laid at the expense of the city Tho oitv not thou having the money to grunt the petition, it was evidently pigeonholed. If Mr. Druiillilll bus prosoulcd to us the usual petition asking for i water main and thut (lie cost be us-Hc-ssod, ns was done by tlio other who at tend to their own buHiueks in stead of trying to abuse city official for tho way thoy iittond to theirs, lie could hnvo hud (his winter inuin long ago, for (he oily council has nlwiiy tried, to civo tiie preference in order ing in mains to tho strecti where thero woro tho most pooplo who would use water. Mr. Druiuhill's communication contain another false statement or iiiHJniiulini). No member of tho cuv council ha cicr at any time had f riu the citv's pipe lino or water RU1 ON t-t-ttttttt-t-t tt t f STORES WILL ALL BE CLOSED ON MONDAY Monday will bo generally ob served in Medford ns a holi day. Tho merchants of thu city and the banks "will keep hteir establishments closed for the most part and the few that do open will remnin open only until 10 o'cloe in tlio morn ing. r. Thero will be po courts open on Monday, ns tho statu law provides that if a holiday falls on Sunday tho day fol lowing shall bo observed as u holiday. This loads the banks to remain closed. So cat all you want of Hint Christians dinner, for on Monday you will have time to gel over it. f l t-f T TO THE AID OF Over $7,000,000 Distributed Among Employes of Industrial Corpora tions in Pittsburg Great Amount of Business in Gotham. PITTSBURG, Doc. 21. Paymas ters of the Industrial corporations In this city distributed $7,000,000 among tho steel workers In this city. TIiIh 1b tho largest distribution of money for this, purpose over distrib uted In tho state. Ono corporation in this city paid 7000 men on Friday so that its mon might bavo cash for the holidays. Tho men expressed groat satisfaction at tho action of tho corporation, as It allowed them to do tbolr Christmas shopping on time. NKW YORK, Dec. 2 1. Forty mil lion pieces of mail Is tho record for tho Now York poatofflco during tho holiday season, with an nverago of $300,000 n day poHtofflco rocolpjB. This breaks all records for any city In tho United Stntes, possibly tho world. HAVE SORROWFUL CHRISTMAS EVE Great Funeral Service Is Held Over Charred Remains of 186 Miners Taken From Deatli-Dcallnjj Enrj llsh Mine. MANCHKSTKU, Hng., Dec, 21. Christmas ovo In the village of Pro torlu, In the vicinity of tho Little llultou mine, where 28!) minors lost (liulr lives In an explosion, was mado the occasion of. n great f uncial service over tho bodies of 180 recovorcd dead. The charred and mangled rel ics will be consigned to a single grnvo nenr the initio. A' pitiable feature of the funeral Is the factt bat only CO bodies have been Identified. Scores of widows and orphans will gather bosldo tho treuclt-llko grave, uncertain whether tho bodies of their loved oncsllo within l or under tons of rock and earth In tho demolished mine. supply u single gallon of water opt side the city or in. any othor muuiior or at any different price tliiin every man in thu city who uus city wa ter. The Ktalcuiunt has been ropuatcdlv made that a member of the. council was' taking water from the city's pipe lino during tlio pail, summer lor ir rigating his laud outside of thu oily and that this was ono oiuifeo of tlio shortage of water. Onup uud for all, thiri statement is an absolute and uiuiualified falsehood. As statud above, no member of thu city council ver received one gallon of wutjr ffrom the city except for use in his iKiiifco or on nut luwii, tlio sumo us every one elso in tlio city bus ro (luivod water, and at thu same price. W. II.' CA'NDN, Mayor, V. J. KMEUU'K. (Minimum. J. L. Deminor, Street Committee Datid December 2'.l, 1010, CORPORA WORKING MEN : NO. 23G u VI ! SHOPPING 1 ! WAS HEAVY I f Best Business Medford Has Elver Seen, According to Local Merch antsBuyers Seemed to Have Plenty of Money With Which to Buy. Tho greatest Christmas buying business Medford hns ever scon enmo to n closo Inst evening In a blnzo of glorjv Until Into In tho evening tho stores In tho city waited on late com ers who Jammed tho aisles and allies trying to purchase that fa'lft thoy had forgotten or still undecided ns to tho naturo of tho girt to bo given. Tho rush last cvonlng wns tho greatest ovor scon In this city. Modford'a Christmas stockings today contain gifts worth more than half a million dollars. Tho local merchants nro unani mous In the fltntomoat that thoy on Joyed tho best Christmas business In the history of the city, The various big Btores down 'town roport nn ad vance of approximately -10 por cent over the Christmas, busliuees of last year. Nearly till of thorn aro cleaned up on Christmas goods, Morchants generally declaro that tho buyors had plenty of money to spend nnd bought moro and bottor Rifts than ovor before. Of courso tlio toy department and countors whore gamos for children nro offored nro always populai Just boforo Christmas but tho best indication of bow tho pcoplo fool Is fpund in somcfo;, oiuor (iopar:mcnts, nnd judging rrpin tho Jnunonco sales of solid1 silver, fancy glassware and cliina, and cloth ing, the storo managers doclnro that Medford pcoplo feol qspcclally com fortablo this year. In gonoral tho trond of tho trndo was toward usoful articles of a good grado. Trinkets nnd' ornainonts found a roady sale but tho grout In crease over last year was found In those clnsscs of goods that coino Into ubo every day. Medford had a great Christmas trnillug ora for tho jmBt threo weeks and today thoro Is Joy throughout tho city. It Is Indeed a Joyous Christ mas morn. TRAIN WRECK DEALS DEATH Two Passcnrjers and Four Trainmen Killed Accident Occurs in Heavy Snow Storm Express Hits Stand lii( Train. HUCYKUS. O., Dec. 21. Two pns seugers uud four trainmen were Kill od In tho wreck of two fnst Pennsyl vania railroad passenger trains at Navada, O., today. 'rW'Jcnd: WILLIAM, Fowler, passongor, Chi cago. F1U0D STKIN, passenger, Chicago. CHOUGH MOItTOX, lijggngenmn. CASS I). HI3J3UH, baggageman. C. C. GHAIO, engineer. C. C. MILLKIt, otiglueer. Tho trains, running togothor on tho sumo track on account of a freight wreck, camp togothor nt tor rifle speod. Ouo train was mado up entirely of Pullman sleepers. Tho othor train was a fast oxpress. The ftrnliiH had been ordered to stop nt Nevada, Tho Pullman train sjoppod, hut tho express oltbor misunderstood tho orders or failed to see tho signals, and rushed full speed, striking tho othor train bead-on. Tho standing ougtno was derailed and tho express crashed Into tho bag gago car, demolishing it nnd piling the Pullmans together along the tildo J of the track. Tho cctdent qcqurred in a iiquvy Biiowsiorm aim juo psprcBs ongliuvir was unoblo to Boo'tho!,tand Ing train. Every mlvortisomcnt of a store givos to somebody porhnpto i2r people tlioir first imnresstojwSB thnt store. And first imprwaiw nbide, with slruii); porsnUoueo. ll W1 d 3 ffW f 4VJ ffjp