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KJB&liSiFiinTiHlIin - . i J ltfctf?fc SSSffiKJaS fc "Better Apologize for tKe Weather Now Than the Fruit Later' '"O'Gara Medford Mail Tribune BANK CLEARINGS v TODAY $62,322.10 THE WEATHER Fair tonight and tomorrow. Th Mnr of th nagi. White Fair weather, liluo Itoln or snow. Whlto and blue Local showen Black triangular Above white, warmer; below white, colder. Whlto with black center Cold. & FIFTH YEAR. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY. JANUARY 16, 1911. No. 255. "" " " " "" . II III mil i- ' ' ! II . RUSK GIVES EGGLESTON AND WESTERN! IMPORTANT PEACES FISHERIES TO COOS COUNTY Eastern Oregon Steam Roller Put In Motion and Thompson Charged With Making Deals Gets No Chairmanship Eaton Gets Place. SALEM, Jan. 1C. Tho Jackson coirtity delegation Tared extremely well at tho hands of Speaker Rusk today in the matter of committee as signments. Representative Westerlnnd re ceived the chairmanship ot the com mittee on horticulture and got places on the committee on mining and tho one on hanking. Representative Eggleston got the chairmanship of tho committee on statistics and emigration and a place on tho committee on roads and high ways and also a place on the commit tee on ways and means. Senator Von der Hellen, In the son ate, also fared well. He received tho chairmanship of tho committee on roads and highways, which at this session is most Important. Ho was also placed on the ' committees on banking, counties, federal relations, fishing industries and public lands. Tho committee appointments in the house wore surprising. Tho caBtern Oregon steam roller was put in mo tion and Thompson, who was charged with making deals for politics, gets no chairmanship. Eaton, Rusk's principal opponent, gets enrolled bills, while engrossed bills goes to Lelnoweber. Entou loses tho com mittee on rules nnd tho samo goes to Clemens of Portland. Fisheries goes to Pierce of Coos and Curry. TAIHMAHY WARS Despite This, However, He Seems Certain of Going to United States Senate Dix's Influence Will Prob ably Go to Shepard. AL11ANY. X. V., Jan. 1C That Now York's noxt United States sena tor, dosplto tho wry faces made by Tummnny" hall, will bo Edward M Shopurd Is tho gonoral Impression here, where the democratic legislative j cuuacns Is In tho worst muddle even this state has scon in years. Headed by Charles F. Murphy, the Tummnny members nro Insisting that I the plum go to William F. Sheohan, but this tho up-state members vigor ously oppose and declare that the state will surely go republican at tho next election if tho Tammany in fluence bo allowed to spread. (iovornor John A. Dix's advisers have informed him of this statement and It Is boleved to be probable that at the final caucus of tho purty to night his Influence will bo so thrown to S'.iepard that Tammany will be foned into line. BELIEVE CANAl SHOULD BE NEUTRAL BOSTON. Jan. 1C A Btatement ombodyuif? ix reason why tho Pan ama canal nould be kot neutral, signed by noted mon nnd women from all irts of tho country Is being permed with much intorost and wide ly dtacused today In official circle, itavld Starr Jordan. proeldont of Stanford unluralty. Richard 01ne. former seiutuv of state, and Wil liam Dean H-wi-IU au- among the slgni-j.- ON SHEPARD - -H- 4-. RESOLUTION BALLINGER DECLARES UNWORTHY WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. Hi. A resolution tlei'lnr in Secretary of Hie Interior Hnllinger an unfaithful pub lic servant and assertiii'i lie should not longer lie retained in ofiico, was introduced to day by Senator Purcell of North Dakota. Purcell was a member of the Hnllinger-Pinchot investi gating committee. DISPATCHERS TO ASK MORE PAY Will Demand $25 a Month More Say Their Work Has More Than Doubled During Past Year Owing to Salary Increase. PORTLAND, Jan. 1C Train dis patchers employed on all northwest ern roads today presented demands for a salary Increase of $25 a month. Trainmasters also made a demand for a substantial addition to the re muneration they now receive. Tho dispatchers based their de mand on tho grounds that their work has practically doubled recently, ow ing to tho rapid growth of traffic, while their salaries have practically remained stationary. As further reason they declare that trainmen employed in lesser capacities receive higher pay. The average salary of dispatchers in the west Is $110. If the demands are not acted upon before June, the dispatchers say that they will organize as a labor union and present their de mands as a union. The dispatchers gave notice of their intentions a fow days ago. Tho general manaEors stato 'that In tho absence of official Information they could not consider tho Increaso that tho men will ask. J. P. O'llrlen of tho Harrlman system said yesterday that ho knows nothing of tho wants of the men, excepting what ho has learned from outsldo sources, BITTER ATTACK Western Shippers Declare That Pro posed Increase Will Cost Them $12,000,000 Annually Watering Stocks Blamed. WASHINGTON, Jan. 1C Declar ing that the proposod Increase In rail road rates will cost not less than $12,000,000 annually, wostem ship pers today made a most bitter attack on tho proposed advance at tho final hoarlng of the niattor before the in- terstate commerco commission. Tho loss, thoy assorted, was reck-, oned definitely on the sixty commod- ltles directly affocted, but they) nvorred that tho sum would bo still further Increased by sympathetic In-,' creasos on other articles not dofln ttoly specified. Combatting assertions of the rail roads, the shippers doclared that traf fic profits on tho roads had Increased enormously in recent years, and that If tho not returns wore smallor It was becauso of the watering of stocks and tho transference of oxponsos by tho roads to hldo their roal condition. Someone's necessity iik indicated HIGHER RATES in n clnssiiied ud s probably yourwant ads that contain opportuniti uplMirt'irMtv fr on BOARD REJECTS ASYLUM SITE Recent Lands Purchased at Pendle ton Are Not Accepted Governor Sends Special Message to Legisla ture Regarding It. SALEM, Jan. 1C. The stato board consisting of Governor West and Treasurer Kay today decided to re ject tho lands purchased at Pendleton for n site for the Eastern Oregon asylum for tho Insane. They have asked a committee of five prominent citizens, including Stato Engineer Lewis, to net in conjunction with a Joint conimltteo of the legislature to examine tho site and report to tho legislature, either condemning it or asking nuthorlty to purchase addi tional lands, as none of tho 32 acres purchased for about $40,000 by tho outgoing governor and stato treas urer affords a suitable building plnco for tho $1,000,000 structure to bo erected. Governor West this afternoon sent a special message to the legislature on the subject, making tho above recommendations. LODGE MAY LOSE SEAT IN SENATE Although His Re-Eclcction Is Pro claimed to tho World as Being Cer tain His Friends Are Becoming Nervous Foss Bitterly Opposing. BOSTON, Jan. 10. Although pro claiming to the world at largo that Senator Henry Cabot Lodgo Is sure of re-election to tho United States souato on tho first ballot in tho leg islature tomorrow, ovldence that his supporters nro not n little nervous Is seen hero today in the announcement that Congressman Augustus Gardner, Lodge's son-In-,lnw, and Senator Mur ray Crane will he here this afternoon from Washington to stiffen the bnttle line for tho "scholar In politics." Steady and persistent opposition to tho roturn of Lodgo to the senate by Governor Eugene N. Foss a per sonal enemy Is admitted to have been mnklng the work of Congress man Butler Ames In opposing Lodgo much enslor than It otherwise would have been, and tho "standpat" ton doiiclos of Lodgo, coupled with the In fluence of Foss and Ames make his victory If ho Is victorious only ono bought after hard fighting. Tho ar rival of Crane and Gardner on tho scono Is oxpected greatly to strengthen tho hands of Lodgo. Crnnoiias great Influence throughout tho stato, Po litical promises will be used unspar ingly to aid Lodge as his defeat, fol lowing upon retirement of Senators Halo and Aldrlch, would mean tho prnclcal passing of tho most strongly standpat warrioru of New England, and tho coming Into power of a free I irauo element wnicu is imigiii uiuur- jy by all the big tarlff-beneflttlng intorests of this pail of the country, p0r a time It was expected that Colonel Roosevelt would bo on hand when tho bnllot Is taken tomorrow, hut this Is now believed Improbable. Roosevelt Is expectod to repl with an oleventh hour broadBfdo to recent abortions by Congressman Ames that ho and Lodgo had ongaged In some rather equivocal political deals, and this. Lodge's frlonds hope, will aid in holding in lino legislators whoso support la considered doubtful. Perhaps most of vour "had luck" consists hi failing to answer the PITTMAN DEAD; MURDERHRGE IS EMCIED Coroner Holding Inquest This Af ternoonMany Witnesses Called Mother Will Br Forced to Go On Stand and TesUfy. SELF DEFENSE WILL to PROBABLY BE DEFENSE Robinson Now In County Jail Many Features Will Be Brought Out at Trial; Coroner . C. KoUok will hold mi inquest this nfternoon over the re mains of Sidney Pittman who died curly Sunday morning ul the South ern Oregon hospital ns the result of injuries suutnined in n quarrel with Clin rles Robinson lust Monday nighl. An effort will be made, to secure tes timony which will show to whut ex tent Robinson was provoked hy the dead man, Robinson, in the menu time, sticking btendfastly to his for mer usscrlion Hint ho only hit Pitt miiu with n shovel nfter the latter had attempted to stub him with u knife. Among the witnesses who will he called upon to testify, is Robinson's mother. She, it is tillered, cuine to this city from Uoscburg in company with the dead man on the Friday before Pittman was struck down. On the day of their arrival here Pitt inan told a bartender in a Front street saloon, whom lie had know in Eugene a year ago, that his "wife" was here with him and it was at the direction of this man that Pitliuau went to the South Grape street room ing house, in front of which the quar rel between him and Hobiiihon oc curred, nnd secured a room. He had ii womuu with him at these lodgings and Robinson, when arrested told Ihe people that she was his mother mid that it was while he was in her room that Pitlmuii came in nnd picked tiie la tu I (piarrcl will) him. Pittmuu died at the hospital early Sunday morning without over having regained coiiseiousiieMj. He was admitted to that institution Ia.,t Tuesday morning after hnving been seen walking "up and down S. Cen tral avenue in a dazed condition. An operation performed on Pittman Tuesday by, (lily Pliysio'jan J. II Shearer resulted in the removal of a large blood clot Iroiu his brain but the arteries in the neighborhood a!' the compound fractuie of the skull inflicted by the blow with the shovel were so badlv ruptiiicd (lint the in jured iniiu win beyon hope of rocin ory. Itohinsoii, wlio in now being he) I by the county nuthnnties in default of $5000 bail on a charge of ussuult with a deadly weniion will be brought to the iuqiic-i, (lie finding of the coroner's jury at which will de cide whether the 1'i-yenr-old bov bo held to answer to a charge of murder or of asauit WORK STARTSTOON A HUGE HOISB, Ida., .Ian. HI. Tltu recla illation bureau in tin city hit ,jut been notified by Seendury Ilulliugor that $1,000,000 of tho leolamation bond issue appropriated by con ress at the In! ifcinn will bu used immediately to commence con struction work on what the svrvico iiMxerU will bu the laiaot irrigation dam in the world. This dam will bo on tho Itoino river, ')' miles' north cast of thitf oily. The water will h iiMod on (ho Payette-lioise irrigation project, coinpi'isinjf 70,000 ueru The dam will be .'118 feet liien. ruiMiitf the water m the rescnoir m 212 feet It will cist fi.no.UOO, fii.il mv iu n ri'M-noir ul lr0,000 Ul C t ft t (,lpli(lt. Atlee Pomerene, Ohio's New Senator, Example of Self Made Man. Lieutenant Governor Elect Atleo Pomerene, progressive Democrat, who tins been selected as tho next United States senator from Ohio, succeeding Charles Dick, is a self inado man. He was horn at Merlin, O., forty-seven years ago, a poor boy. Ho worked his way through school nnd through Prince ton. Ho practiced law In Canton. In 1008 ho was a candidate for tho Demo cratic nomination for governor nud was defeated hy Harmon. In November ho was Harmon's running mate. Ho is married, but has no children. Through Pomercno's selection a coal miner mny become governor of Ohio. Wllllnm Green, president pro tern, of tho senate, will succeed to tho otllco of nonten ant governor. Should Governor Harmon becomo tho Democratic candidate for president ho probably would resign as governor nnd Senntor Green would succeed him. Green was a former president of tho Ohio miners. DID YOU SEE THE JEFF-JACK FILMS They Were Shown Saturday Night While Certain Worthy Gentlemen Were Conferring as Best Way of Stopping Them Here. While several prominent citizens were eiignged last Saturday night iu adapting the words "Thosu piotures shall not bhow tonight" ol that old "Curfew" stunt a wily nud oily pro moter, aided and abetted by a local uuprcssurio, pulled oft the Jut'i' Joliusou fight fiasco pictures under their very noses. The alurm that caused the whole sale rehearsing of tho anvil chorus was, 1 st iccoived Saturday morning when a telephone message from tlrants Pai,s wag received heiu tell ing that the man with the universally tabooed films was heading this way. Immediately tho central girls wero muilo as busy us central girls would have you bulievo they always are putting the dreadful news around amouf several congregations, with the result that the aforemen tioned song, to have beu worked for the especial benefit of Mayor Cuuou this morning, was faithfully ic rehearsed. Hut as theimmorlnl bard once put it "there's inimy a slip," etc, tor, while the dutiful citizens were lushing ihtfiuoolvcb into a state ol frenzy preparatory to douiniiiliug that a ban be place don the showing of the films huie, the wily promoter, with thcnxsiMuuco of tho mnuiige meat of tho Savoy theater, put th pictures on shortly after JO o'clock Saturday night. Only u low wuru prcucut, and those paid no admission and early Sunday morning tho story of tho fall of the hope of the white race, neatly coiled around a film holder together with the man that owns it departed from our midst as quietly lib thoy had eomo. Tho pictures are said no have bun good lupiodiiutiuus of the oiiginul encounter which, as everyone know, ran a clone seuoud to Cook's alleged polar adventure from (lie stand point of a "houx." Idaho's Census. WASHINGTON, I). C. Jan. 1(1. The population of the following Idaho eitios was announced by the ceiisii-, biiiT.iu todav : (hi in d'Ali-iu. 7202 I,' ui-tou Ml4i Poi Uill.i, 'M10, Twin 1-ulls "iJ"H. TALENT BONDS FOR NEW SCHOOL District Votes $27,500 With Which to Erect Splendid New School Build ingHave Secured Five Acre Tract as Site. Hy the overwhelming majority ot 511 (o -1 the Talent whool district voted iu favor of a bond issue of $27,501)' Saturday, with which to erect u modern school building. A site covering five acres of land has beu iifiiuiretl. The plans for the new school will soon bo prepared. The new building will be one of the most handsome country schools iu ihe valley, KETCHlL'SSLAYER PLACED ON TRIAL SPRINGFIELD, Mi Jan. 10 Tho trial or Walter Diploy and Goldlo Smith, tho man and woman accused of tho murder of Mlddlowolght Cham pion Stanley ICetchol, was begun hero today. ICetchol, tho dofonso Will at tempt to prove, was shot by Diploy when tho flglitor nttoniptod to force his attentions on tho Smith woman, who wuh DIploy'B common law wife. Tho stato will attempt to show that Diploy and tho woman conspired to rob ICetchol nud that it was In tho prOHOcutlnn of this design that the killing occurred. NEW YORK EORGER I HOT SPRINGS. Ark., Jan. 1C Charlofl H Evorott, who Is wanted on various charges of forgory proferrod by New York banks, was arrested hore today, accused of parsing a forged draft for $1800 on tho Peo ple's Snvluus bank of Soattlo, IOyorott and thruo othors nppearod at tho hotel and showed tho attaches a large sum of niOnoy. A bellboy said ho saw plluH of hank notes on u tablo In tho room which was apportioned into four pllos ns though It wero to bo divided When Everett wuh ar retted a search showed memoranda whii h Indicated that V-30,000 had 4 been split up. UGLY SCANDAL AXES NAVY MR Rear Admiral Barry, Commanding Pacific Squadron, Retired From His Command Will Force Grand Jury Investigation. ' ".i,t;2 CHARGES PREFERRED BY OFFICERS UNDER HIM Six Sailors Said to Bo Involved Are Held Incommunicado In Hospital Details Are Unprintable SAN FRANCISCO, Col., Jan. 10. Either a court martini or n grand Jury investigation today confronts Rear Admiral Edward B. Barry, commander of tho Pacific squadron, who before evening will havo been succeeded In his command by Rear Admiral Chauncoy Thomas, as the re sult, It Is said, of charges of moral turpitude which have convulsed navy circles tho country over. This announcement was mnde to day by District Attorney FIckert fol lowing a consultation with Admiral Thomas. "If charges calling for a court martial nro made," said Flck ort, "of course Admiral Barry will iq 'first dealt with by tho navy de partment. If no such charges nro made tho county will tako cogni zance of tho alleged offence which Is said to havo been committed within its limits." Jtnck Tills Afternoon Still Iu command of his flagship, tho West Virginia, nnd accompanied by tho cruiser Marylnnd, Admiral Barry Is absent today on n 24 hour coal testing cruise, and Is not expect ed to roturn hoforo lato this after noon, when tho formal transfer ot his nuthorlty to Admiral Thomas will tako placo. Whether tho retiring admiral will recolvo .tho customary honors upon relinquishing his com mand Is as yot uncertain. Reports nj-o current that the thirteen gun imlute which Is usual on such occa sions will not bo nccorded tho retir ing officer and that tho officers ot the ship will not row him ashore. No confirmation of those reports Is obtainable, tho offlcors of tho fleet, now horo and Admiral Thomas stead fastly refusing to talk of tho matter Iu liny of Its phases. Klv hallors Heltl In connection with tho chnrges against Admiral Barry, It Ib snid that six sailors from tho West Virginia are hold lucornunlcndo in tho Muro Island naval hospital. Among them Is L. A. Warner, tho sailor men tioned in a statement by Admiral Barry as ono of those In his cabin whon officers of tho ship, peering through a port hole, uro said to havo wltnessod tho allegod criminal ac tions of tho ngod admiral. Konnedy, another sailor, said to havo been in volved, Is said to havo vanished. Court Martial Probable WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. Whllo llttlo Information is obtalnabla horo at tho navy dopartmont ns to tho do talls of tho ugly scnndal which is said to bo at tho bottom of Roar Ad miral Barry's rotlromont from the command of tho Pacific squadron, tho linprosslon is general that a court martial of that officer is prob able. Admiral Barry's telegraphic ro quost for rotlromont in tho offort to get It horo boforo tho arrival of uiallod charges by tho officers of his flagship, tho cruiser West Virginia, Is not expected to provo sufficient to hush up tho affair, thoup.h such it course Is urged by persons proml nout In navy circles as tho best thins for tho sorvlro, which, it Is declared, could only bo seriously hurl; by any probo Into tho affair, Basis For Charges Ono report ot tho incident cuvrent hro among tho frlonds ot tho ac cused admiral is that a hoy who had been hurt In a football gumo was detailed on uuard duty at his door, Barry Is declared to h.vb Binyim- ' (Oontlmiad qu'imr Or"" k if l-ys---'-iMafiier,7 ,-.-' 10-