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7TTrWBB WTftvy -rip-w-nrr-jgy Receipts From Vater Rents Increased Over 1 1Q Per Cent in 191Q Over 1909 Medford Mail Tribune M . ! BANK CLEARANCES TODAY $46,920.21 THE WEATHIR Cloudy tonight and tomorrow. The Menage of the rtefa. White Fair weather. Blue- Haln or snow. White and blue Local showers Black trtnnnular Above white. Warmer; below white, colder. Whits with black center Cold FIFTH YEAR. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1911. NO. 245 WlfT 'Wffl?vTt'm'iftiNW VRgy "WfnK 'ffii FOG CAUSE OF WRECK ON fl.P. FIVE ARE KILLED North Coast Limited Plunges Into End of Burlinflton Passenger Train Two Pullman Cars Tele scoped Terrific Impact. Train Load of Doctors and Nurses Rushed to Scene From Spokane Railroad Men Say Small Loss of Life Is Remarkable. SI'OKANH, Wash.. Jan. 4. Five persona were killed and seven seri ously Injured In a rear end collision between No. 2, the North Coast Lim ited, on tlio Northern Pacific, and No. 12, a Burlington passenger train, liotli eastbound, on the main lino of the Northern Pacific at Cheney to duy. Tlio dead: G. L. WARRRN, Davenport, Wash. W. It. STARR, express messenger on No. 2. O. 13. DROWN, 2514 South H street, Omaha, Neb. Two porters on tho Burlington train. Two Pullman cars on the" Burling ton train wero telescoped. Tho cn glno and an express car on the North Coast Limited wero totnlly wrecked hut all of the trainmen escaped with tholr lives oxcept It. R. Starr, the express messenger. Tho wreck was duo to a fog which hid tho roar of the Burlington train from tho view of tho engine men on tho North oCast. Tho Bnr lington wns going ilto tho aiding in tho yards in tho east end of Cheney when tho North Coast train, running at a high into of speed, daahed into It. Tho limited had tho right of way and tho track wns supposed to ho In tho clear. Tho two traliiB camo to gether with n terrific impact that aroused the wholo town. Cheney Is situated 40 nil'es east of Spokane. Two calls woro sont to Spokano for medical and aid and n special train was sent out loaded with nurses and doctors and railway officials. An hour later another special loaded with doctorB and nurses was sent to Cheney. After tho rescuo work began a numhor of persons wero seen to crawl from under tho wrcckngo without :i scratch. Railroad men say that tho compar atively small loss of Ufo la romurka blo considering tho destruction wrought to tho two sleepers and tho express car.. The dead and injured nro being placed aboard u special train to bo brought to hospitals and morgues In Spokane. ROADS ARE FINED A GREAT AMOUNT PHILADELPHIA, Pn Jan. 4.-I'.-rtv thousand dollar.-, lino-, wert ii-m-wiI against the Philadelphia & Rending liiilroud, tho Lehigh Valley iiixl the Bethlehem Steel company toihn for violating interstate com merce laws. Tlio Bethlehem cotn pan necVrted cancellation of dc manage charges from the railroad, which the court held was cnuivuleut to rebating. Tho railroads were also lined fur failure to publish tariff xclu'dule. Tho companies were punished foi conviction of two of the 310 counts itg.unt them. MAYOR APPOINTS CITY INSPECTOR Mavnr Canon last night an nounced his appolntmont of F. II. Hazelton to tho position of plumbing inspector rocontly made vacant through tho resignation of J. S. Schnurr Mr Schnur gave up Ha post In order to make an extended visit to tho PJlHt OUAKE KILLS HUNDREDS IN CENIRAL ASIA Property Loss in Turkestan Esti mated at $2,000,000 Falling Walls Crush Life From Hundreds of People Great Suffering. Details Meagre, Owing to Dostrtic " tion of Telegraph Lines Damage Spreads Over Wide Area Thou sands Are Without Shelter. TASIIEND, Asiatic Russia, Jan, '4. Many porsons wero killed and mil lions of dollars worth of property were destroyed by an carthquako that shook Centrnl Asia today. Tho disturbance was usually sovero and lasted more than five minutes. Turkestan province wns the center of tho disturbance, according to re ports from tho affected zone that have reached here. Bokhara, Tur koman, Darla and other sub-divisions were Included In the path of tho earthquake. Many porsons in tho different cities aro reported killed. Tho property loss In Turkestan is roughly estimated at $2,000,000, al though damaged, telegraph lines makes It almost Impossible to securo accurate reports. Tho shock was felt as far north an Semlllnstak province. Verny City, the capital, was damaged at least $250,000. Many fatalities also woro reported near there. Tho nenws has been received large ly by courier from the affected dis tricts. According to stories told, tho quako tumbled buildings to tho ground, crushing hundreds of per sons. Tho damago extends over a wide area. From tho outlying dis tricts practically no reports have been received, tl Is rumored that tho huts of thousand of peasantn have been rocolved. It Is rumored thnt tho huts of thousands of peasants havo been levolod and that many of them are without sholtor. GALLAGHER IS GIVEN 12 YEARS JERSEY CITY, N. J.. Jan. 4. Juiues J. Gallagher, who shot Mayor William J. Gnynor on the dock of the "Kaiser Wilhelm der Grouse, war. today sentenced to 12 years in the ponitentiary for his attack on Com missioner William Kdwurds. Ed wards r-eized Gallagher just after shooting und the assault charge on which ho was tried grew out of the struggle Unit followed heforo he was overpowered. New Jo!) for Gilmore. CHICAGO, 111., Jan. 4. lluwy Gilmore, who, as Packy MeFui hind's manager, was largely responsible tor tho spoctnculnr rise of the stock yards scrapper, signed n contract todav to act as a matchmaker for the Red River Athletic club of Win nipeg. Gilmore will leave tonight foi tho Canadian city. It is his inten tion to nrrango n series of cham pionship lights and put Winnipeg on the map s n fight center. The present administration luis labored earnestly to keep taxes within hounds. Nothing hurts n city with prospective investors more than an oxoesim'e tax rutev Accordingly, in spito of the growth of the oily mid its increasing needs no more monoy was levied for the oity for the cur rent year than for the preceding year. Had there been no demands on this money excepting tho operating xpeiises of the city, it would not have been difficult, with direful inuuuiremeut, to amply provide for the needs of the citv Hut tjiere wero other nnd henw demands which had to he met from tin iuoiu'v in order to presene thft irrdit of the ci( w ME RD'S GREAT GROWTH OF CITY BY IS COMING HERE Local Agent for Firm of Packers Denies Reports That Firm Has Acquired Location for Warehouse Here May Be Other Firm Coming. Reports received in this city Tuesday to the effect that tho Cud ahy Packing company had acquired proporty here upon which to erect u branch of the Portland establish ment were vigorously denied today by E. A. Welch, manager of the Med ford Grocery company and repre sentative for tho Cuduliy interests here. According to tho original report, tho Cudnhy Packing company hail secured a parcel of property in the north end of town fronting on n Southern Pacific railroad spur. Rumors that negotiations wero be ing carried on betwo.cn owners of property in that vicinity and n firm of packers have been rifo for some time past, tho mimes of tho Cudnh," Und the National Packing companies having been frequently uientioned in connection with the deal. Through Mr. Welch uud the Med ford Grocery company the Cudnhy company has been represented here for tho last six years, tho old ware house of the grocery firm, situated on tho railroad, light of way .just north of Main street being given over almost exclusively to their interests. TO REORGANIZE SECRET E WASHINGTON, D. C, .Tn. 4. Tho United States secret service, which for many years iias been tho creat crlmo detecting force of tho govern ment, Is shortly to bo supplanted by a detective bureau, nonw bolng or ganized by tho department of jus tice. Arrangements to establish per manent headquarters in nil tho prin cipal cities of the country aro under way. Cities already agreed upon as cen ters of tho now system aro Seattlo, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San An tonio, New Orleans, St. Louis, Kan sas ICty, Denver, Buffalo, Chicago, Now York, Philadelphia, Boston uid Atlanta, Ga. BOWERMAN APPOINTS PHELPS TO A JUDGESHIP SALEM, Or., Jan. 4. The follow ing appointments were made by Act ing Governor Bowcrnnui teday: Dr. Heibert S. Nichols of Portland, member of the state hoard of med ical examiners, to servo until Feb ruary 28, 1014, vice Dr. Osinon Royal, deceased; It. L. Hunt of lin ker City, member of tho state bond of pharmacy, to serve until May 20, 1014; (1. W. Phelps, circuit judge of tho sixth judicial district, to succeed II. J. Bean, who lesigned to become one of tho justices of the supreme couit. CREDIT HAS When tho present administration took office they found that a trunk sewer had just been completed along Riverside avenue and thnt tho city owed the contractors $20,000, There was no money in the treasury lo meet the bill. No provision had been made for its payment. The cpst could not be assessed because the notice of intention to order the im provement, which is nbholutely no cer,sarv Jo a valid assessment had never been given nnd tho time for giving it wus long past. There was nothing to do but to attempt to cut the other funds to th lowest posshlo point nnd thus save enough to make the contractor a substantial piiMiient and induce them to wait for the balance This was iIoih', hix thousand dollars was ANNUAL DENIES CUDAHY C REPORT OE WATER RECEIPTS DODDLE III YEAR V- Diirinn 1910 Over a Half Million Dollars Was Taken in and Expend ed hy City New Year Starts With a Balance of Nearly $30,000. WATElt RKCKIPTS. -f During tho past three years -f f great growth has been mado -f In water rccoipts In tho city, -f -f This Is Bhown by tho follow- -f lng figures, which nro tho to- -f -f tal receipts from water rontB -f -f each year: 4- '1907 $3, G0C. 07 190S C.901.C5 -f 1909 9,818.1g -f 1910 20,901.82 According to City Recorder Tolfer tho receipts In, 1911 will exceed ?2C,000 from -f -f water rents. - Reflecting tho great growth of the city during tho past year, tho annual report of L. L. Jacobs, city treasurer, was filed with tho city council nt its regulnr meeting Tuesday evening. Tho report covers a dozen sheets of paper whereas last yoar hut a third that number was Tequlrcd. Thero aro now 96 funds to ho looked after, whcreaB a llttlo ovor a year ago but 14 wero required. During tho past year tho city ro colved from all sources, taxes, rents, (Continued on Page 2.) 4 - FOSTER TELLS FACTS AS TO CERTAIN MATTERS f To tho Editer: Itnforrlng -f f to criticism concerning tho K. -f Mnln street water main bolng -f laid too closo to tho Btirfaco -f f hy tho city engineer, to per- -f -f nilt the pavomont bolng laid, -f will Btato that tho city engln- -f f eor had nothing to do with -f f tho construction. f With reforonco to tho -f 4- grades on West Tonth Btrcot, -f f will state that theso wero es- 4 4- tahllBhed boforo my torm of -f 4- offlco, and It was of ton neces- -f 4- Bary to conform with' "old 4- 4- work in placo." -f 4- Regarding tho East Main 4- 4- sower, will stato that tho same -f 4- la bolng used aa rapidly as 4- 4- tho lioiiso connections aro 4 4- mado. 4- 4- Concerning the "extra cost" 4- 4- on account of rock hnv- 4- 4- lng occurred In tho trench, 4- 4- permit mo to stato that 4- 4- tho bid for this Bower waB 4 4- mado at the time, nnd for tho 4- samo prlco, as was hid for all 4- othor sowors throughout tho 4- city, under tho late Jacobson 4- 4- Bade contract. Respectfully, 4- 4- HARRY K. FOSTER, 4- 4- City Englueor. 4- 4- . 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4- BEEN MAINTAINED saved out of the running expenses of the citv and paid to the contrnctoi . There is still duo thorn $14,000, and the revised charter which is to be voted on contains u provision nil t honing a bond issue to complete the payment. Nor was this the only additional payment that had to be met. As has been stated before, $12,000 bad been taken from the gravity water system money to pay for distributing mains prior to the beginning of Mayor Canon's icim. The gravity-system wuh completed for less than the es timated cost, but by reason of this withdrawn! the fund nt the cud lack ed $0000 of luiMiig enough to fin ish the payments due n tho gravity work 'i lie contractors hud iiuished their work and had to bo paid and REELECTED TREASURER CITY FIRE LOSS IN 1910 ONLY $1400 Chief Amann Files Annual Report Showing Work of Fire Department for Past Year Thirty-eight Fire Alarms, 604 Men Responded. Tho total loss by fire hi tho city of Medford during the yenr 1910, according 16 tho annual report of, Eugene Amnuu, fire chief, filed with the city council, was $1400, jju which tho insurance amounted to .$1000, Thirty-eight alarms wero turned in and 004 men answered calls. Tho cbst of maintaining the department was $4303.72. The statistic report of Chief Amann follews: Number of alarms, 38; number of feet hose laid, 15,000; total fi'-e loss, $1400; insurance on same, $1000; number men answering alarms, 004; fires in residences, (i; grass fires, 0; false alarms, 44; fires in woodsheds, 3; fires in restaurants, 2; flue fires, (1; lires in barns, l; fires in stores, 3; fires in garage, 1. Tho cost of kcoping up tho de partment summarized was: Salaries $147.'); keep of teams, $1417.72; men's salaries, $741; one team, $G7fi; expense ehiof's trip, $35. Chief Annum recommends the uur chasc of 1000 foot of two and one half inch hose and 200 feel of chem ical hose. He also urges the passage of an ordinance to regulate nisloS in public places, one for moro fire escapes, one regulating storage of gasoline and one preventing driving vehicles over fire hose. EXPLOSION KILLS EIGHT MINERS SYDNEY, N. S. W., Jun, 4.--Eight miners lost their lives yester day afternoon throuL'h the explosion of gas in a colliery of the Nuvu Sco tia Mining company's collieries here. Three others entombed in the mine were lescued. The miuo for nearly a mile is wrecked. Up to midnight six bodies had been recovered and a party of roi cuer.s enteied tho wrecked shaft till morning for the purposo of'coutiiiu intr search for the bodies of the miss ing two miners. On Sunday, in observance of New Year's day, tho colliery was not opeue (laud tho fans had been stopped, allowing the gas to accum ulate in the pit. It is believed one of the torches ignited this gas. White Sox Soon Busy. CHICAGO, 111., Jan. 4. Tlio spring training cainp of the Chicago White Sox will be opened February 28, according to an announcement made by Owner Charles Comiskoy today. Comiskoy is pieparing lo scud out notices to all tho players he lias signed for next season to re poit at Hot Springs, Tex., on or be fore that date. AND EVERY the city took anothor $0000 of iU1 money from other funds and paid the bill in full. Had this $12,000 been available it would have been easy to keep a larger street-cleaning crew at work. The city could have afforded more street lights. To have done thU would have been a pleasure. It is easy to do things when money if plentiful. It is not pleasant to do one's level bent, to work and plan fur eiubteeu hours a day mid take the abuse of the knockers. Hut Mayor Canon and tho council have believed that it was better to have u few less street lights and even a lit tle mud on the streets than to have the credit and good name of the citv impaired, Had the city bovn Kii"dv on eilher of these chum Us credit i SECOND STORM CLOSE INKS OF FIRST ONE Suffering Throughout Middle West ern States Is Intensified Train Service Demoralized Heavy Los to Livestock Reported. Hundreds Remain in Bed In Chicago in Order to Keep From Freezing to Death Coal Advances in Price Many Suffer. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jim. 4. Fol lowing on tho heels of the stoim that for three days has held the mid dle west in its grip, a second storm is raging in Minnesota, the Dnkotus mid Montana today.. At its highest tho thermometer registered 30 degrees below zero in several parts of tho state, and, it was oxpecled thnt the mercury would go oven lower tonight. Train service as far as Fnrgo is completely demoralized. Telegraph and telephone lines arc down in many sections nnd heavy loss to livestock is reported. CHICAGO. Jan. G. With the ther mometer steadily fulling, suffering from the cold wnvo is becoming more intense hero today. Hundreds of porsons in tho pooror classes spout today in bed in order to k (3p warm Inteuso Buffering is reported among tho striking garment workers Coul advanced 75 cents n ton to- .day. From all points throughout tho middle west a second storm is re ported to bo in progress. Traffic Is demoralized and communication is difficult. BERLIN. Jan. 4. Edmund Tlne tho French economist, figures tluil the maintenance of Europe's armei peace fooling in tho last 25 years cost 145,000,000,000 francs, approx imately $20,000,000,000, which in volved an increase in the public debt of tho European states from 105,000,000,000 to 151,000,000,000 francs and constantly excluded from productive industry 195,000 officers and 3,800,000 men. SEVENTEEN ARE BURNED TO DEATH MEXICO CITY, Mox Jan, 4. Soventeon persons were burned t death and 0 others severely injured in a 'fire which destroyed a diurui at Sail Luis Potosi, ending a New Year's celebration, it is learned to day. The victims woro largely llu1 wives and children of workiiigmcu. They had crowded into the church for n religious festival celebrating tho advent of tho new year. The church was decorated with mosses and flowers. A lighted caudle knocked from ils sconce after the congregation had been seated foil against the moss. Instantly the in terior of Iho edifice was in flumes The crowd struggled to tho narrow doorway and in the confusion to grl out many women mid children wore trampled upon. EMERGENCY MET would have been ruined and tho sale of any more of its bonds would have been out of iho question. This would have meant that all improve ments must stop short. Nothing has been said of these things, because it would have injured tho city's credit to have paraded the fact that the city was unable to meet is bills promptly, and tho city's credit was the one thing ml) re important than all else. But the time has now come when the facts may bo stated. These debts have been met and the levy for next year is sufficient to run the citv us it should bo run. Ouee again, in conclusion, let it be understood that these debts woro not of the present administration's mak ing. They were inherited and luno been paid, LONDON POLICE SET A WHALE CATCH NA London Papers Score Inefficiency of Their Police Force, as Shown by Yesterday's Battle Now Charged Three Men Held, Thousand at Bay. Five Hundred Detectives Searching for Friends of Dead Men, Whe Are Said to Be Planning Wholesale Vengeance for Affray. LONDON, Jan. 4. Tho battle in tho heart of London's cast end be tween police, firemen, Scots Guards and anarchists has brought down wholesalo criticism and charges of inefficiency on the heads of tho po lice department. Tho newspapers and tho public today join in tho cry against what is termed police inef ficiency. Tho long buttle, in which hundreds of men on one side failed to conquer a little baud of anar chists on tho other until muchiue guns set the building ablaze, is call ed by tho nowspapors today a glar ing example of the iiHclessucss of the London police. In order to liido their own ineffi ciency, it is charged, the polico tit tho end of tho encounter misrepre sented affairs. Only thrco bodies have been removed from the ruins of tho burned building. The polieo, ns soon us tho fight was over, al leged thnt seven men had been killed. This story, it is charged, wns told in order that the oxtromo measures used by thu offieors to capture tlio two men they sought might be par tially justified. "It was liko sotting n whale to catch a gnfit," is the way the Ex press Biupincd up the incident. Five hundred detectives iirnicd havo been sent into the districr, where friends of the dund luon aro supposod to bo quartered, and aro conducting a houso-to-houso search for them. It is feared that the soarch may terminate in another battle similar lo the desporate fight near tho Anarchist club. A slum girl, imprisoned and held by nnnrchists in Sydney street, who escaped and fled to a police sta tion, is said to havo told tho authori ties of the intended vengeance the anarchists nro planning, WOULD REGULATE AERIAL TRAFFIC HARTFORD, Conn., Jan. -I. Tlio regulation of aerjal flyhts is re garded as a matter of such import unco by Governor Simon Baldwin that he has incorporated in it his annual messago to the Connecticut legislature, rend today before that body. Wonion" .siiffrago in a modi fied form, direct election of Unite 1 Stales senators and an income tax also aro recommended. "Rapid balloons," the message says, "aro a menace lo the people ovor whose heads they fly. They also endanger property. It is not improbable that they will soon bo us'ed as a regular mode of transpor tation, and propqr regulation of the traffic should ho considered," EX- L VISIT THE CAPITOL No ehaiiL'e in tho iiorsnnnel of the office of tho comity recorder will ivj ......1.. ,.,..r, It... .! ,1....i! .. l T.' ...I IIIUIIU, ilQ UIU Ul'l'llllllllUll L A-It'll L. Colvig, tho new incumbent in tlio office, this morning. Miss Mary Peter will remain as deputy under the now regime, It. V. Burnett, tho retiring record er, spent todav in turning tho pa pers of tho otfico over to lilsi suc cessor, Mr Burnett will spend th rest of this month in a vuotttiuu, dur ing which time he will attend the lioutllli fif I lilt lllla lpui.hilut-a ill Salen WIL Tl n ,f7i t