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J ", T-. ' Tf XIV fV "THf -7 - -w- "5"T" "" V" " T """J WW7'"'" "?' ;"T -?rv Ffp$5$$ x. '' H The Good Ship 1911 Has Come Into Port Bearing Cargo of Unpreccntcd Prosperity For Mc4ford Medford Mail Tribune .-. & THEWJCATHIft Clotuly tonight and tomorrow 1 11 y Th XtMaf of tfct HAffC Whlt( Fair weather. Uluo Ilaln or snow. . White and blue Local snowera Black trlnngular Above white, warmer; below white, colder. "White with black center Cold. V- Bank Holiday Today f p,' WSjWWIe1 ffifFT? WTT '-T--j?rF t-t Jr - H i m 1 ! FIFTH YEAR. L L S Full" Five Hundred People Preset at Ceremony of Instituting Central Labor Council in the" City Smok cr Held in Angle Opera House. K A H 0 W ORGANIZED Charter Has Been Received From the American Federation of Labor It is Read and Framed Speeches Are Made Reception Held. . -0 . (Kully uOO iict))lo wore present n' Anglo's opera house Sunday after noon to witness the ceremony of in stalling Hie Medford Central Labor couneil, under charter of the Ameri can Federation of Labor. Tlie itortra were opened to- the pub lie at 11 a. 'm. and from that time until :t i. 111. throngs of people came and went, during which time a boun teous luncheon was served, which wnf enjoyed by all,' At 3 p. 111. the meeting was called to order by C. W. Sherwood, presi dent of the Central Labor Council The reading of. the charter and in stallation ceremony was conducted by Frrtnk Colvill, state "organizer of the Aiueiieal Federation of Labor. After the council was duly obli gated, several piomiuent men of tin city, among whom were Mayor Can on,' Win. W. Eifert, E. P. M. Ditt ner, E. R. Wollers and many othei men prominent1 in business and lain 1 circles, made speeches. The session closed with n I'-out from the management of the Ugo theater, who presorted two of hiu jjtjrforjnqrsjn. ,a. .vnudo.'ille fgketuh, which was crijoye'd" immensely by all prosenl. The Central Labor Couneil start the new, year enjoying peace and harmony among all unions under its jurisdiction and will extend eveiy effort within its power to keep ui the present conditions. OREGON SUPPLY PULP DEMAND Portland Man Says That Supply h Diminishing Rapidly, Bringing Or egon Product to the Front Plenty of Spruco In State. That ,Oregu.n is destined to become the chief pulp producing state in the Union ,is, the belief of E. Z. Fergu son of J'or.tlaud, who has been mak the papor material supply in tho south mid central states. ''It is a well-known fact that tu pulp supply in tho Mississippi valley is being depleted at a rapid rate and it, is believed that it will bo a mattei of only a Sew years that tho supply will bo entirely txlinustcd there. Pa por manufacturers in tho middle states have realized the situutioa there and are alreau looking to the Pacific coast for wood pulp niuteii al for i'ul tiro use," said Mr. Eergu soh in discussing the subject. "The Oregon hemlock is consider ed particularly well suited for pa per making. The supply in this stale is. large," being scattered throughout the fir forests. Tho hemlock i spurned by loggers n few years ago, but it now forms a largo part of the' log production in ninny of tho camps "Great (piuutitics of spruco and white fir are also used annually b. tho paper mills in the Columbia river .' section, Ono of tho Inrge camp produced about 2." per cent of hem lock and spruce during ho presort season. This stock would have been n dmi: 011 the market had it not been 'for tho paper mills, "Piipor mills of tho coast hoo. during the pat few mouths, made povornl big pui chases of this kind of stuff. Over 0000 acre.s of hetn loqk, sMruce nipl fir timber have been old to papermuking concern dining tho past few weeks., "V ' . The store that pays n lot of money for space in which to sn.v something Jo tou must IicHjVo that what it say j imiHirlaul to you. MAYOR DISCUSSES NEW CHARTER Says He Had Nothing to Do With Amendments to Be Voted On, But Left It to Seven Capable Business Men of the City. To the Editer: Permit Mile to say a word with reference to the charter amendment which is to be voted on. I had nothing to do with the prep aration of these amendments. 1 ap pointed n commission of seven cap able business and professional men and turned the whole matter over l.i them. I never snokc to a member of the commission or to the city at torney about these amendments; did not know what was. being done and never saw or read them until they were presented to the council. 1 be lieved1 and still believe that these men were competent to do (his work, land there were other matters de- (Continued on Page 2.) "VARSITY" CLUB NEARLY READY Rooms of the Club in the New Mail Tribune Building Are Finished Furniture Will Be Installed itf Them This Week. The rooms in tho ' Mail Tribune building to be occupied by the Uni versity club are already, completed and the furnituic for them i being installed. The club occupies three rooms rut the' secohd'floor" Troiit of' Ihe now building and will bo able to hold 111.; opening of the club within a few days. RETURN TO HEAR OF MOTHER'S DEATH Just returned from a visit to tholr mother in Shoboycan Falls, Wis., and happy In tho thought that thoy .had loft her so much improved in health, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Trowbridge and Hen. J. Trowbridge woro astounded, as thoy stepped off tho train hero Sunday afternoon, at tho reeoipt of a telegram informing them of tho elder Mrs. Trowbrldgo's sudden death. , They had made tho trip to their formor homo upon tho receipt, some time ago, of news that their mothor was ailing. When thoy left her to return hero she was apparently fully recovered. ' Owing to the great distance they will bo unable to attend tlie funeral. If you can even persuade a small number of thu people, who read and are influenced by classified adver tising in this newspaper, to take a look at your properly, you'll find a NGENIOUS PLAN When tho present administration took office Jess than one-fourth of tho city of Medford hnd water mains. The contract for tho now gravity system had been let and K100.000 of bonds had 'been sold lo pay tho cost. Without distributing mains, however, tho gravity sy&teni would be of little vuluo and wouid produce little revenue. Thero wasn't a dollar in tho city treasury to pay for any more tmiine fto'the contrary, $12,000 Jiad beon borrowed from tho gravity money, lo pay for the mains already laid. The city had already borrowed to the fail limit permitted by the charter to got the money for the gravitveystem, Tho situation was a serious oiu The interest on (he water, bonds amounting to about $20,000 a year, must bo paid either by salos of wa ter or" by higher taxes. The public health imperatively demanded an adequate distribution of pine water 1MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY. JANUARY 2, 1911, ELECTION OF PEOPLE PLAN Using Lorlmer Scandal as Lever, Followers of Bristow of Kansas Will Endeavor to Force Throuqh Congress Direct Election Bill. House Is Certain fo Pass Such a Measure .Method Would Avoid Sccandal, Say Leaders Primary Laws Supported. Washington; d. c, Jan. 2.-- Using the Lorimer scandal as a lev er, the followers of Senator Bris tow of Kansas will ondeavor to force through tho present session of congress a resolution providing for n constitutional amendment for tho direct election of United States senators. The measure would be certain to pass tho 'house if it wcro forced through the senate, H is be lieved. Senator Bristow and his followers have held n number of conferences recently. Thoy believe the time is ripe to try to secure tlie passage of such a masure. . "If we succeed in passing this res olution," 'Said Bristow today, "it will make tho session, ono of tho most importnnt in years. Tho frqm crs of tho constitution originally in tended the president and vice-president to bo elected by an electoral college instead of by direct vote. The purpose of the framers has lieen nul lified for nioro than half a century. The timp has como again, in my judgment, the people are deninndiiitr that the' constitution bo amended to permit tlfbm lo directly choose I heir sonnlors." 46. NEW ARCS ARE SOON TO DE READY Rogue River Electric Company "is Rushing Work of Installing Addi tional Street Lights Recently Or dered by City Council. . Work is being rushed , by tho Rogue River Electric company op tho installation of the 40 new arc lights on various streets in tho city recently ordered by the city cbuii cicl. Tho now lights havo been placed on streets which havo heretofore been in darkness and when the juico Is turned on the city will bo far better lighted than ever before. Every day some tore-patrons who night to como to your storo go else where to their own and your dis ulvantage because your ndvertUs iiu was not nuito impelling enougn. SENATORS BY WHEREBY MEDFORD SECURED $90,000 WORTH OF WAFER MAINS throughout tho city. Typhoid fovcr was becoming alarmingly prevalent and tho fair name of tho city was la joopardy. The manner in which this situa tion was mot and solved nnd tho promptness and thoroughness' with which tho work of extending tho dis tributing system was carried out is one of tho finest achievements of the present administration. After carefully studying into the matter a plan of assessing adjacent property, for tho cost of tho new mains was adopted. Tho assess ments were divided into ten annual installments, so as not to make t li.- burden fnll too heavily on property owners, nnd bonds woro issued 'i defray tho cost of tlie mains, these bonds to bo retired ns the assess ments were collected in. Had the plan stopped hero, it would have worked an injustice, because thoso property owners had already paid taxes and suffered tho whole city to be bonded to pay for tho mnijis al ready laid. This would have metiiit that theo property owners, aftar helping to ) a,v for the mams already TO SPEND 11 5,000 . - IMPROVING HOTEL John Sheridan of Seattle, Who. Re cently Purchased Rcddy Interest in Nash Hotel, Announces That Great Improvements Will Be Made John Sheridan, formerly of Se attle, who has assumed n half inter est in the Nash hotel for a consid eration said tolmvo been $2-1,000, announced today that $15,000 will be expended for improvements tit once, Among other things, rooms to tiring tho total number ip to 75 will be added; Tunning hot and cold wa ter will bo installed' and a large number of bnths, . with private and public, will bo put in. Contracts, for ti .privato branch telephono exchanger with instru ments in all rooms, has already been signed with tlfo Pnch'ic system, nud as most of the material is already here, this feature tyill bo installed by next week. i 'The new order oftlpngs calls for tho removal of the main stnirvay to a position at the sTiutji end of the lobby, making that s'pn'oo larger and more sightly. f The entire intorioujs now under going changes at thdjjiandfl of dee orators. " Mr. Poll, who will manage the ho tel, cnnio to Medford last July. Ho was formerly connected, for a pe riod of 20 yearrf, with tho Hotel I)a cotah at Qraild Forks, N. Dak. LOCAL SETTING "Wjdow of Sterlingjjjlne" ShqwiaJ Savoy Shows Jackson County's Famous Placer Mine .and Power Dam at Gold Ray. There is being shown at tho Savoy theatre at pieaent a comedy film "The Widow uf Slorllng," In which Jackson county's fnmouB placer mlnu is shown, as well as tho country near Gold Ray, whore tho power dam nnd depot is shown. Tho film, thus de pleting local scenes is of more than ordinary Interest to Medford people. Tlie picture wus tnkon last Hum mer with a number of othors by tho Solig Poloscopo company who woro induced to como horo by Manager K. O. Hubbard of tho theatre. Mr. Hubbard disclaims writing the llbrota for tho comedy but Intimate friends are thrusting that honor upon him. Tho-film will bo shown for tho last time this ovonlng. Othors with local setting will follow. BURNS AND HOGAN.ARE PREPARING FOR MATCH SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Jan. 2. I'Vtiukic Burns, who is matched lo fight One-Round llogau before the Broadway Athletic club, the latter part of thin month, will begin t null ing for tho match sonic fimo Ibis week. laid, would be compelled to bear the entiro cost of their own. Mayor Canon proposed that lo meet Ibis objection, each properlv owner who made any payment on a water main iihsohMiieiit should bo given a cortiticato good in payment for that amount of water to bo used on the premises. This meant, in ef fect, that tho cost of the mains would bo paid bv the salo of the sur plus water which would othorwiso go to waste. This plan was also adopt ed. To carry this plan' into effect a charter amendment was, necessaty. Much labor and considerable time was required to work out all the do tails, call an election and secure lite approval of the voters. It was July before tho city was ready to start with tho actual work. In a little over a year, undor this, plan, (he city hns laid about four teen milos of water mains at a cot of over $00,000. The soles of water have increased so enormously thnl today (ho inter est on the whole cot of tho water bonds Is being paid by tho revenues COMEDY WITH JAP ACTIVITY IN PHILIPPINES IS CONFIRMED Ordlnanco Department Announces That It Has in Its Possession Mines and Maps Taken .From Spies During Past Week. - . k Sensation Is Caused In Islands Two Spies Were Arrested Last September Japan Can Take Isl ands Any Time They Wish. MANILA, Jan. 2. Confirmation of Unito.l Press dispatches that ex plosives intended for mining Manila harbor had been found in Japanese hands hero was furnished in posi tive form today8 when the informa tion was given out by the ordnance department that it possessed a com plete mnp and a case of parapher nalia used in laying mines, obtained in recent raids. Where "the initio nlid materials woro found wtts not state 1. The information has caused a sen sation here. While it has been known that the Jnpancso in tho isl ands havo beeil very active, and thai tho authorities believed they wete endeavoring to plant mines ill the harbor, it was believed that tho wotk had gone no 'further than making maps au.d plans smuggling in small quantities of explosives. That a initio had actually been completed and o'iiers were being iniulo has startled the entire population of the islands. .A'htU. tho . miHtat-yaudcivilmii (horilios in the Philippines know ns curly us last September that Japan ese spies woro activo in tho archi pelago is tho statcmout matte todnv by Assistant Attorney-General Vil lamoor of (he Philippine government, who is horo in connection with friar lauds settlement. LICENSES FOR FISHING RUN OUT Anglers' and Hunters Must Renew Annual Permits Before Going Out Again Several Stopped on Sun day. Charles B. Gay, deputy fish and game warden, has issued u warning to local sportsmen bidding thorn, not to overlook the fact that all 1010 licenses havo run out and others must he secured before their luck is again tried out. Sunday a number of sportsmen woro leaving for the river when they woro allocked until they secured licenses. Tho, law doesn't consider forgotfulnesB an excuse. T of tho system. Tho tax levy for In-1 terest on city bonds has boon cut from 7 1-2 mills for lust yoar to 1 , mill for tho current yoar. In addi tion tho city has saved $8,500.00 which has been Invested in- those watermuln bonds and which will bo put into u sinking fund to puy off tho gravity bonds when thoy mature. I Nor Is this all. Thousands of dollars of tho certificates which woro given out to property owners paying In stallments on their assessments have been redeemed und cancollcd. The rovonuos of tho water systom the first month Mr. Canon was mayor amounted to a littlo over L'00, This month' they will amount to $200 cash ovor and nbovo tho wutor duos puld by cortlflcajes. Tho city of Portland has boon fighting and struggling for yearH over this samo problem of distrib uting mains and when leading Infan cies of that city woro approuched by Mayor Canoi. to purchase our bonds und our plan laid botoro thorn, thoy woro enthtislustla In tholr praises and stated that our system was far more scientific and cqulta- 00 YOU WANT TRIP TO CHINA? R. R. and S. S. Rules Make Neces sary Purchase of Two Tickets to Hongkong in Order Body of Local Chinaman May Be Shipped Home. Any vfhtlm of the "Wanderlust" hungering for an opportunity to vislt tho Celestial omplro freo of chargo can havo his wish gratified by coll ing on John A. Perl, a local under taker. Owing to tho death on Saturday morning through hoinbTimugo of Leon Fuuo Woo, a local Chloaman, Perl Is ablo to make tho foregoing offer and this morning said that no favoritism would bo obsorvod in awarding tho ticket but that "first como" should bo the first solved. Tho railroad and Bteamshlp com panies, require the purchase of two first class tickets whon a body is shipped and in this inHtanco, besides observing that requlromont, tho friends of toh dead man aro in com munication with tho San Francisco branch of '.Lloyd's" rolatlvo to tak ing out an Insurnnco policy on th'o body's safp arrival at. Hong-Kong, its destination. ., '. , Wee, the dead man, was Gl years old and was ono of tho oldent Chl ncso reHldonts in tho valloy. Ho waB a minor by occupation' and is sur vived by a wlfo and son, both of whom aio now In China. LOSES LEG WHILE PULLING STUMPS Woodville Man Is Badly Injured Lef Leg Is Caught In Cogs of En gineAmputation Is Found to Be Necessary. IL 1). Sanborn of Woodville lost his left leg Friday while "engaged in Jho work of stump-pulling for the Bagloy & Street Improvement com pany. Sanborn's 'foot slipped and iiis loft leg was caught in ono of the cogs on the donkey engine. The in jury was so severe that Dr. E. A Wood of Woodville, and Dr. Ander son of Central Point were obliged lo umpututa it above tho knee. Although tho operation was per formed successfully, Sanborn is in a critical condition. Sanborn is nhoil .'I!) years of age and lives in Woodville with his wife and child. Tho latest reports showed that he was resting easily and if no compli cations arise his recovery will hu as sured. If you aro working ut a "make shift" job, simply hocauso tho suit able position is not to be had, begin a classified advertising campaign foi self-bottermcut. There is a grtod job for you and you can find it through advertising, Very likely thcro is no othor way to find it. bio than anything that had boon pro posed In that city, Leading bond buyers have beon sold, tho contractors paid mid the credit of tho city of Medford, in spite of tho heavy expenditures that have been made Is higher than over be fore This article would bo Incomplete without mentioning tho splcnudld Biipport tho city has rocelvod from tho local banks, Last Htimmor whon tho bond market was stagnant und It was temporarily Impossible to eeoll bonds in tho custom markets tho lo cal banks gave tho city magnificent support and tho administration was thoroby onabled to proceed without Interruption with this important work. It scarcely ploasani to contomplato what tho result would havo been had tho mayor and council been less ro 80ttrcoful and onorgetla in this omor goncy. It .cup scurcely bo doubted but that Medford would havo boon plunged Into a typhoid fovor epi demic from tho offects of which It would havo required yearH to re cover. NO. 243. BIG BLIZZARD SWEEPING THE MIDDLE WEST Intense Suffering in Cities In Chi cago Hundreds Aro Facing Danger of Losing Lives Man Frozen to Death in North Dakota. Cattle Are Unprotected and Scores Die No Relief in Sight-in iis marck, N. D Thermometer Drtts, to 26 Below Trains Strtetf. CHICAGO, 111., Jan. 2. AWtzzard unparalleled in recent ycarVt is mov ing eastward through , 10''" 'central western states todtty, loAving a wriko of prostrated wires and paralyzed traffic. The center of tho storm fs now in Michigan und by night it is expected that chill winds and snow will reach tho Atlantic const. Intense cold air aceompunics the storm, and in tho larger cities tho suffering is more intense. In Chi cago, whero tho thousands of strik ing garment workers aro practically destitute, tho charity organizations and tho city authorities report that tho calls for aid aro greator than thoy can fill. Oncy death from tho storni hns been reported. At Fargo, tf. p., wljolo tho mercury reached 18 below, Wil liam Thomas w,ns frozen to death. In o(her cities conditions urn described ns pitiful. Throughout, the ,orth'r. western country trains are, stalloVl and in tho cities streetcar (raffle, in at a standstill. Cattle and sheepmcp, according io reports today, woro not expecting' a Htorra nnd their hords and flockh wore unprotected. It is believed that thousands of hou'd of stock per ished. No rolicf from (ho snow and' cold is in sight. Tho coldest point on (ho nun) was Bismarck, N, I)., whero (ho government thormonleter dropped 'lo 20 bolow. OREGON HAS 7 PEOPLE TO MILE Rhode Island Has 508 Nevada Has Not One Complete Person to Each Square Mile of Territory Oregon Gains Some. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. Khodo Island liusT08.5 persons to. Ihe squnrn mile, thus, according to tho censug .bureau' figures, loading the lis,! of Hiatus in tho matter of 'dcitf ity of population. Nevudn, with only seven-tenths of a person to the mile, finds a phico at tho lower cud of the table giving these facts. Second in the density list, Massa chusetts supports 418.8 persons (o tho square mile; New Jersey, 337.7; Connecticut, '2'M.W, and Now York, 101.2. The other states possessing more than 100 to the. mile hqp Wyoming, boasting one and .ono luilf persons to Iho mile, nioro- than doubles Nevada, whilo Arizona, with 1.8, stands third from (he bottom. Montana, New Mexico, Idaho, Vta'.i, Ojogou, South Dakota, Colorado and Norlh Dukolu, all havo fewer 'per sons than ton to tho square mile. Of Ihe stolen of largo population, Washington takes" the lead in tho growth of density, having advahced from 7.8 to 17,1 per square milo-in (ho hist ten years, thus taking a pluco between Kunsast with 10,5, and Nebraska, vfth 16.fJ. Washington exceeds her neighbor, Oregon; with seven porsons to tho mile, by moro (hnu 10, nnd oven surpasses Califor nia with 15.2. Idaho increased from 1.0 to J1.0, and Oklnhoma from 11.4 to 23.0, Tho figures for othor Btntes .are: Indiana 75.3, Kentucky 5,7, Ten nesson 52.4, Virginia 51.2; Wogt Vir ginia 50.8, South Carolina 47.0,1 Michigan 48.9, Missouri 47,0, -Now Uampshiro 47.7, Norlh Carolina 45.3, Georgia 44.4, WisoQiishi 42.2, Ala bama 41.7, Towa 10, Vermont 30, Mississippi 38.8, Loutsiftim 30.5, Ar kansas 30, MiunoBota, 25.7.' Maine, 124.8, Texas 14,8, Florida 1317. !, tf J i " VVJl - KW1 i'H? reZjr 'Uf- I ,Vm Tmrit mtm rirm - 11 , . Mj