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e " y, ,- m u"1 Medford Mail Tribune WEATHER CLEARINGS Hank clearings today vroro $20,155.51. Ilniu; Manner. fortieth year. MEDFOKD, OREGON, "WEDNESDAY, FKBRrARY 1, 1911. No. 269. GREAT EXPLOSION ROCK YORK - SF OF D EE ES TODAY IS BILL A Monster From the Rogue M fl JJ JERSEY ALL ALONG BROADWAY PERFECT SHOWER OF GLASS FALLS: MAN SHAKEN FROM BUILDING'S ROOF Nearly Every Pane of Glass in Morgan's Office, the Produce Exchange and in the Standard Oil and Sinner Buildings Shattered Hundreds of Minor Accidents Occur Fruit Vfindor is Nearly Decapitated By Fall ing Shower of Glass. NEW YORK, Feb. 1. Several workmen wcro severely Injured today when n enr of dynamite exploded on pier No. 10, .lersoy City, destroy ing the pier and n barge and wrecking the terminus o'f tlio Central railroad of New Jersey. The bodies of two men believed to have been members of the crew of tlio barge Catherine V which was destroyed by tlio explosion, wero lccoveicd this afternoon. No trace has been found of the other three mem beis of the baigo's crow. With a roar which resounded all over Now York city, tlio explosion went off and the lower end of Manhattan island was shaken as though br an earthquake. One lower Manhattan fruit vendor was nearly de capitated by falling glass and a workman was shaken from the roof of a skyscraper and was fatally hurt. The shock of the explosion was felt most severely at the Battery, which Is directly across the North reiver from tlio Jersey City pier. The intensity of the tremor lessened as it moved northward, but at Je Plcr pont Morgan's office, the Produce Ex-mango nnd in the Standard Oil, the Singer and the Customs House buildings practically every pano of glass was shattoiod. All along lower Broadway a perfect shower of glass fell into the Btrewt and the lack of fatalities is ruatded as miraculous. The numerous accidents caused by the blast resulted in half a dozen simultaneous calls for tho police reserves and In tlio streets the blue coats stopped hundieds of runawnys, where horses, struck and cut by fall ing glass, had bolted. 537 QUAKES IN WEEK AI Latest Estimate of Loss of Life Dur ing Eruption Places Number at 400 Volcano Continues Vrry Active. MANILA, Feb. 1. Within tlio In-t week ami up to today the seismograph at tlio Manila observatory lias record ed .V.17 enrthshookn, borne of them of considerable foieu. Tlio latest etdimnto of tlio dead through the eruption of Mount Tanl places tho number at '100. The vo! eiyio continues active and showers ol mud and stones nro still falling ov er the adjacent country. COUNTY COURT IS IN SESSION Regular Session Opened Today Largo Amount of Business to Be Considered Road Work Is Being Considered. The regular sosslon of tlio county court opened today in Jacksonville and will remain in session for two or threo days. A large amount ol routine business is on hand to be takon of. Road mattors will couio in for con sideration, and tho court will outline its plans for the ienon nctivitie TAFT CANCELS HIS TRIP DOWN SOUTH WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 1. Prosidont Taft this afternoon cancel led all ougngonicuts for hi propros ed Southern trip in March with the preoption of a single day at Atlanta. No reason whs asigned, but the ac tion of the ohiof oxecntne is believ ed to indicate the probability of an iitia kOthiun of congress. M CITY PIER: HEAVY DAI WARREN ESCAPES JAHENTENCE President Taft Commutes Sentence Passed on Fred Warren, Publisher of "Appeal to Reason." Warren Asked for No Commutation. WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 1. -President Taft today commuted the six months sentence of Fred War ren, editor of tho Socialist pape,, "The Appeal to Heason." Warren hud asked lor no commutation. TEXAS MAN IN HINWS PEACE Mayor W. R. Canon Puts W. B. Hall at Work on Police' Force Came Here From Texas and Has Had Experience. Mayor W. II. Canon has appoint ed W. 15. Hall, who eanio bete from Texas, to tho placo on the police forco left vacant by the resignation of William Ilinton. Mr. Hall has bad considerable exporionco in police work. Probably in another month the no lico of the city will all be in uni form tib tins mutter is being adjust ed. EXPLOSION IN QUARRY DEALS DEATH TO MEN VICTORIA, H. C. Fob. 1. News reached bora tin aftomoon of an oploion in a quarry at Tod Croek Cement Works, a few milos from Victoria in whioh a Chinaman, Joe Sing was instantly killed and three other Chinese were seriously injuiod. The cause of the explosion is not known. The dead and injured were brought to Victoria in automobile. No while 'men were injured, it i said. FINAL FIGHT FOR FAIR FRIDAY Senate Committee Will at That Time Listen to Arguments By IRiva Cities Boosters Want Small Fair in Washington. WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 1. The final fight for tho location of the Panama exposition has been delayed until Friday. Tho senate committee on industrial expositions will then Hston to arguments by tlio New Or leans and San Francisco boosters. To day, Instead of giving all its tlmo to the claims of the rival cities, tho com mitteemen heard a request from Washington for an '.'official celebra tion" of the completion of tho Pan ama canal. H. B. McFarland, representing the local chamber of commerco and tho hoard of trade, explained that tho celebration planned would not inter fere with tho exposition plans made by New Orleans and San Francisco. Tlio Washington exposition, ho said, would be a small one, and it was plan ned to hold It in Potomac park. Governor Sanders of Louisiana ap peared bofoio tho committee for a short time bofoio McKarland made his plea. "If it is a question of monoy," said Sanders, "Now Orleans has moro than San Francisco ever dared have- Ten millions will go further in New Or leans than in San Francisco under existing conditions." Ho referred to the opportunity to develop trade with South Amorlca through tho influonco of an exposi tion. This, ho said, was of far great er importance than tho trade of tho orient. Thcodoro A. Bell or California then spoko briefly for San Francisco. Ho discussed tho Japancso question nnd said thnt tho San Francisco delega tion hero had received telegrams of ongratulatlon from tho Japanoso con sul and tho moro, important Japancso and Chinese merchants of tho western city. Tho San Francisco boosters aro very confident of ultimate success. EXTRA SESSION IS Senator Brown Lays Down Law to His Fellows in the Senate Lorimer Case and Popular Election of Sena tors arc Important. WASHINGTON, D. C, Fob. l."De cido tho Loiimor caso, popular oloc tlon of sonators, tho tariff commis sion nnd tho Sulloway bill, proposing, a lovollng of votorans' ponslons, or prepare for an extra sosslon of con gress." This was tho way bonator Brown of Nobroska today laid down tho law to his follows in tho sonato. "It must bo understood now," said Brown, "thnt If any of those ques tions Is put ovor to nnothor session, soma of tho appropriation hills will go ovor also. This is not u throat. It is nn ultimatum. I am stating a simple fact, and it Is woll, with four working wooks ahead, that jou should understand It. If congress adjourns without action on thoso moasuros it will adjourn without action on some appropriation bills. This will make an extra session necossary, Burglars Escape. VISALIA, Cal., Fob. 1. After sawing through a wall of the county jail here, Mike Ltirkins and Mike liurke, held on a burglary charge, are being sought by a -.lieriif Mie to day. Two "Haw-." inipron-el from cuu kniM-o were iound lit their eel! PASSING BAY IN LEGISLATURE Many Bills go Safely Through Third Reading Largo Number Will Ba Acted on This Afternoon Much i Headway is Made. SELLING CALLS ABRAHAM DOWN GOOD AND HARD Duniway Said to Bo Behind a Bill Formed to Make Trouble for Portland People SALEM, Or., Feb. 1. Today Is "bill passins day" in tho houso and sennte. Sevoral bills went safely through tho third reading In both houses and many moro will pass dur in tho afternoon sosslon. Bills passed in tho senato are: sen ate bill 131, by-Abraham, relating to tho requisition of fugitives from jus tice; sonato bill 147, by Ollvor, which fixes tho salary of tho superintendent of schools on' Wallowa county; sonato bill 181, by Agniham, providing for tho care and maintenance of como torles, and senate bill 182, Norton, relating to action arising ou con tracts Bills passed In tho houso are: houso bill 19, Qlejitons, amending tho act concerning insurnnco companies taking firo risks within tho state; house bill 3G, Brooks, relating to the summoning of juries; houso bill G7, Thompson, relnting to convoynnco of property by Insauo persons; houso bill 109, Graves, to provldo for giv ing a bond in all condemnation pro ceedings; houso bill 132, Abrnms, to provldo for tho estlbllshmont of the existence of foroign corporations do ing business lu tho stnto; houso bill 1215, Abrams, requiring secretary of stato to report to tho govornor all foreign corporations doing business in Oregon nnd piovlding for tho ad vertising of such associations thnt do not pay stato liconso fees. Abrnham of Douglas county was called to order today in tho senato by President Selling, who charged him with attempting to Inject poli tics and pcisoual spleen Into his speeches. A lively tilt took placo betweon tho two sonntors, which fi nally resulted In tho prosldont order ing Abrahams to tako his seat. Tho trouble started ovor tho dobato on sonato bill 131, introduced by Abrahams. Tho Douglas county man Impugned Soiling's motlvos in various matters that hnvo como boforo tho senate. Selling cnino back at tho sen ator and oponly nrcusod him of using his offico ns senator during this ses sion to vont his Hpleon on nil who op posed him politically and ordered him to keep within tho limits of do coney in tho future Tho startling announcomont was mndo In tho Iiouko this morning that Attorney Dunlwav of Portlnnd is be hind a "Joker" bill which is aimod to further ombarrass tho pooplo of Port land who nro trying to build the Bioadway bridge. Fonts detoctod tlio Jokor in nn apparently harmless meas- uro Introduced by Rcprosontatlvos Graves, which provides for giving n bond in condemnation proceedings Ho nskod that tho bill bo mndo n spociHl ordor for Monday, but his mo tion was lost and tho bill passod to third reading. Tho bill was introduced by Grnvos at tho roqucst of W6. Sims, an nt tomoy of Shcildan. FoutB nskod Graves if Sims was a railroad nttor noy, which Graves was unable to an 8wor. Thore is much mystory nt taohod to the bill, as D.mlway Is at tending the session this morning Fouta probably will take tho fight Into the Bonate or ask for reconsider ation of tho measure. Cigarette Men Sue. SAN FHA,N'!KCO. Cal., I'd.. J. Aliargyros and Company, cigarette manufacturer, "f Oakland, NVv York and Egvpi. today filed -nit f mi in h auU'i'Ogaiin.' $10,000 against th film of S. Anuia'yro. I ., , r 1' ' ' i .... J Tlio ucroiiipau.viug cut shows one of the monster Milmoit which nro found in Itoguc river ami which accasloually arc taken by hook and line. The cut is iimm! through the courtesy of (ho Itoguc Magnluo. WOmhU WUHl IV 0 r B H K il JZ? jZ? IS BACKED BY SHERIFF Aimed with u judgment in her fav or signed by Justice Muliudu of tho Supreme Com t of the State of Ore gon mid roinlotced by her uttoriiov. V. K. Philips, Deputy Sheriff Koberl Dow nnd n siiujjl army of eaipenteiH Mrs. Francos Snyder, widow of the lute Victor K. Snyder, swuopnd down ou the Offico Hnr shoitly after one o'clock this uftoinooii and stinted to diMimntlo it. Everything from the linoleum -vm tho floor to the fixture- hanging fiom the ceiling is olaimud by Mrw. Snyder uudcr tho ruling o? the court and on the sUonglh of the judgment John Harrington, pres ent occupant of the saloon, will be lcil this owning with nothing but a siilnou licence ami four Inyo wnll- Mis Siivdir, utter taking hhv--inn of the saloon (oduv pi-iHoimllv GREAT BLIZZARD GREAT GAIN III SWEEPS PLAINS POSTAL RECEIPTS Railroad Cancclls Its Train Schedules Seventy-nine Per Cent Gain is Shown Coal Famlnine Becomes Acute! Over January a Year Ago In the Street Car System Suffers, crease Was Over $700 During tho Greatly. WIXNIPKU, Man , Feb. 1. The praiiis West ol Winnipeg is U the grip of yet. another blizzard and trains on the dumdum I'mifio Rail way are badly delayed. 'Hie Grand Trunk Putifie Ua- caneell d its U'um hervioo. The street ear syeUtn to this oily Is being operate d with dif ficulty. Tliu ooul t. iminc is becom ing more acuta oiv lnur. ATTELL SAYS HE DID NOT TRAIN EN0UBH BAIriMl(r Mil., 1 ii I. -Monte Well, the San I'iiiihmhci lightfr to da uttrihiitc Iim Is -l ii i hi ,i ill'' can c ot his diii i l-i-l n.Jil ouiig litltv ui DulU.uuiu, Ir mm ? jZ? IB COURT DECREE i Huperinleuded its wrecking. Tho caso first attracted attention when, ahorlly alter tho death of Snyder in J 007 his widow endeavored to obtain from Harrington her hIiiuo of tho value of the saloon. Hariing ton claimed that Snyduis iuIciomI amounted to nil ami the legal battle stinted. It has waged through every oouit in the state siucu .Juno 11)07 and ended two wooks ago when Jiibtii e Multride handed down tho prosenl dc eiaiou. Tho lomowil of tho fixtures nnd rogaidless of the fuel that the phw c was ciowdcd with muii, calmly occiii ied the center of the bar room while willi Hciow drivers and claw ham ini'i-. her n ihCinblcd "wiickii's" com plctcd tlcir woik, Month. The receipts of the local post of fice fov Jauuary, 10 il show a gain over January, 3U10 ot I72I.S3 or 2lJ iwr ostt; la January, 1010 the tohl receipts were $2,4'U4i. During the month just ending ths reudpli ware $3,140.20. As Jauuury 's ope of the dullet months in the year the amount of buMiuek done is gjjnlifying as it tis iures u oon tinned gain for the year. Club to Meet. I , . Tli I1 io will be a ui'liiie; of the Miilioiil foiiiUHiciul (. IuIj thi-i t'cn- M PURSUED CHINESE FLEE THEIR HOMES Over Ojnc Thousand Deaths Occur Daily in Northern Manchuria From Plague Several Villages Have Been Abandoned and Burned. a I STARVING DOGS AND CATS ATTACK CORPSES Clad in Medicated Gauze all Whites Appear on Streets Physicians Say They are Helpless. PEKING, Fob. l.J-Death pursued Chinese fleeing fiom their homes aro spreading Pneumonic plague beyond all possible control of physicians, and today it is estininted thnt 1,000 vic tims die duily in Northern Manclui lia. , From Harbin, it is reported, nil towns within n radius of '200 miles aro infected. Somo viHuges have been deserted nnd burned'. , Funciuticn is n city of the dead, Of its 30,000 people, -1,000 have diod, ovor half hnvo fled aild those re maining nro kept within tho city lim its by soldiery. It is believed tho authorities will burn tho city. A now danger nppenred tjiis morn hnr when starving dogs nnd cals nt t racked tho corpses on tho streets. Soldiors hnvo been ordored to shoot every dog nnd cat in tho city. Tho ignorance nnd supersitition of tho inhabitants are causing tho phy Kiciaim trouble. Dond bodies nro sur reptitiously removed ailil thrown into vacant lots or hidden in ccllnrs bv surviving relutives attempting to es cape quarantine. From Ckdcu Norlhwnrd Chinese-, JnpanoBo and nil tho whites omploycd on tho railioads go nbout gnrbed from bead to foot in medicated gauzo wilh only small slita in the coverings to look through. Physicians arriving hero today ft om Ilnibiu lopoit Hint the plaguo situation thoro is- most grave, lio fugios nio sinuudiiiir tho conns of the disease nil over Manchuriu. Dr. Appeek, ono of tho nrrivnls, dechucs thnt the outbieak is harder to treat than the bubonic scourge, us the expectoration of tho victim 3 tho piincipal menus of infection nnd thih is becoming uiio of the most dif liculty pioblcins medical science m tho Oncnt litis over faced. E OF HIS SUCCESS Says in Next Sixty Days Ho Will Control all Parts of Entry De clines Aid of Americans in Rebel lion. , JIITACMIUCA, Ariz., Foh. 1 De claring that the Mexican robollkm Is for Mexicans, Francisco Mndero, iu surgont loador, today sent word that American aid is not solicited. Within 0 0 days, ho says, ho will control all ports of entry. A loport taut govornmont roops defeated tho robols at Sapuralpa la denied today. The instil roctos voluntarily aban doned the town. Captain Dabcock, In command or I'nlted Stntos troops on the hordor, declares neutrality laws aro belnc on forced. Japs Sell Bad Beef. SBATTLB, Wash., Feb. 1. Forty baof owreassos nllogod to hnvo been troalod by an embalming process bavu bean seised in five local eating houses operated by Japnnoao, Tho Japanese bought tho unfit moat for about i cents n pound, tho authori ties allege. MADERO SU fr" fTT!i