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W& rsttV 0 nVfc Medford Mail Tribune FIRST SECTION WEATHER & Occnsionnl showers. i No. 278. FORTIETH YEAK. FOURTEEN PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, EKDIUTARY 12, 1911. TWO SECTIONS. GOOD ROADS BILL WILL PASS MONDAY 'A . i M V E S REACHED BY Thompson of Lake Suggests Change Which Assures Passage of Bills Hot Fight Takes Place in House Everything is Rosy Now. ., ,. GOVERNOR WEST VETOES ANTI-WHIPPING POST BILL Prospects Tonight Indicate End of Wordy War Over Measures for Better Highways. SALHM, Feb. 11 Tim house this afternoon fought out thu last serious differences of opinion in regard to thu good roads hills and smoothed the way i'or their passage next Monday. For a half hour a bitter battle was waged over the Gill bond ing nut but it was finally ended by Hcpresuntiitivc Thompson of Lake eounty with a suggestion i'or another compromise acceptable to both Tac tions. The Gift 1111 provided originally that before the people of any county could vote on a bond issue I'or good roads purposes that it would be nec essary to btate on which roads the money would he spent. The special committee on roads reported this measure with tins provision stricken out. Gill immediately started a i'iglft with the statement that that provision was the most important of any in any of the good roads bills and that if it bo removed ho would work against the pa&snge of all of the bills? Gill was supported by Nounor and Huntington of Douglas. They asserted that the people should know where they were going to spend the money. Chairman McKiiinoy staled that if the provision was re tained that sectional jealousy would be aroused. Thou followed a free for all bittor fight. As the bill was coming to a vote, Thompson of Lake poured oil on the atormy waters with a compromise asking that the bill be referred back to the commilteo to bo changed so as to leavo the matter optional with the people whether they or not they would Mo to have certain roads fixed first. This was embraced and tranquility wns restored. There is little doubt but that the good roads billa will go sailing through the hoiic on .Monday. SALKM, Ore, Feb. 11. The fam ous Siohel whipping post law which provides corporeal punishment for wife beaters will remain on the Ore gon statute books. Governor West (day applied the veto to the bill io poaling the law. House bill 1120, introduced by Hoproscntutive Sutton, for the ap ljointmont of judges and clerks of cluution precincts, pushed the hoiuo this forenoon. The bill provulos lor the, election of three additional jud ges' and clerks for every precinct, whoso duties will bo to count the bal lots as thoy are cost. This measure will groatly facilitate the work of making early election re turns, as the work of counting the miinpliuiited ballots under the pres ent system takes considerable time and final results are not known for several days after an election is held. Tho good roads squabble which consumed tho ojitlro day yesterday in the house, threatened for a timo U break loose again when the session oponed this morning. McKiuiicy beaded off tho trouble, howoer. by getting through a motion aiitlioriziiiK the sponker to appoint u committee for the purMse of oouaiileriiiir all the road hills now before both house wiih the view of preiariiig one bill which will incorporate the essential features of all the other. . McKinuoy's motion i ii,i the nature of a comproniU to withdraw opfwui tion from onomios of' the Man-iti- r luoacura. Tlia Ottiniuittee &H.M(il by the spi'uker is oomi,o88d t .Mf- COMPOMIS LEGISLATORS (Continued on page 3 ) IF REBELS WIN FIRS! BAIIIE SUCCESS SURE I Much Depends On Outcome of Con flict at Jaurez and Explains Why Orozco Is So Slow to Give Battle Navarro Approaches from South EVERYTHING STAKED ON REBELS' FIRST FIGHT All Bridges Burned Impeding Prog ress of Federal Commander Who Is On Way to Relief. KL PASO, Feb. 11. Many rumor. are afloat but not much is occurring in Juarez tonight. General Alanai with 'J00 insiirroelos is three mile south of Guadalupe. Orozco cani' into El Paso last night and visit tho insurrecto leaders here, so In cannot be very far from the horde tonight. Ho has about il)0 troop General lilauco with 4'Jo men i about 18 miles south of Jnurez wait ing to intercept Navarro's fedora column. General Canyo, tho new revolu tionary leader, with 100 men, nisi i$ awaiting Navarro. A half dozet other generals with forces are in tin vicinity. Navarro with 1200 feder alists is advancing steadily north ward. If he is whipped in the firs' clash the revolution will probably become formidable; if not, tho rebel lion will bo discredited in man? quarters. EL PASO, Tow, Feb. 11. -A staff correspondent of the United Press traversed tho qntlro position of the robels who are besieging Juarez to day. The correspondent found tho tdex Ican Northwestern railway bridge, flvo miles south of Juarez, on Nre, with seven rebels on guard. Thoy snld the ronuilnder of General Oroz co's force was In tho hills and appear ed satisfied tnn't the rebel leader had good reasons for his delay In attack ing Juaroz. "Wo have 1200 men waiting for Navarro," they said. "When ho gets near Juarez we will easily beat him, capture his artillery and then wo will take Juarez without trouble" Reports that Navarro's force al ready has boon destroyed aro dis credited even by tho Insurroctos. Ho Is variously estimated to bo 20, 40 or 70 miles south of Juarez, where the correspondent says thoro aro 850 fedorals In garrison. Tho Jefo Polit ico of Juarez Is confident tho rebels will not attack tho city. Tho correspondent's trip today dis closed no traces of any insurrectos oxcopt thoso guarding tho brldgo, al though as tho woather was chilly, small fires were visible among the hills. "Tho war," ho concluded, "might continue for a year as It Is today with no dnmugo oxcopt to tho buslnoss of northern Mexico and southern Tox as." EL PASO. Tex., Fob. 11. Hot flghtlnR botwoon tho troops undor (unoral Navarro and numerous ImmlB of roliols Is In progress noar San Joso, 73 mllos Houtli of Juaroz, ac cording to niossongors from tho fed- oral gonoral who roachod Juaroz to-J day. Navarro sont word that at tho hoad of 1500 troops ho was fighting his way northward, ropalrlng urldgos on tho Moxlcan National railway and hoatln.g off from tlmo to tlnio robot hand. All tho bridges 'south of Juaroz aro said to havo boon burnod by tlio insiirreetos to prevent nny pos sibility of tho fedorals In tho city making a sally .to tho aid of tho re lieving force. Itebel forcos aro Im proving ranchors as thoy paws and by tlio time Juaroz Is reached thoy expect U have S000 men under arms. AvUtor Hamilton, who yesterday flew over Juarez at an altitude of lofto feet, today dtecuwwd hla fout. I traveled at about 60 in ilea an hour." lie said, "and I do not bulla vo ll'tiiitinun' on i'ngo '2.) Defying the Will of the People In Li'inin !' flw nvii'nrl will nf tlio nnnnlp. in violation of ('aini)aiiril DiedirOH and promises, spuming the principles they were elected to sustain a majority of the House of Representatives at Salem has shown its contempt of popular legislation by passing a bill nullifying the initiation bill passed by a majority of 16,315 at the last general election which closed the .Rogue river to commercial fishing. Members ot the legislature who have placed themselves on record as being superior in judgment to the people of Oregon, as knowing better what the people wauled than the people them selves, comprise not only the stand-patters, who lose no opportunity to vote against progressive legislation, but also those whose ejection was due wholly to their pledges not to tamper with the peoples' laws. kiw! Such vociferous legislators as Senator Fonts, V. .1. Clemens, James Cole, W. .11. Ohatten, James M. Ambrose, J'. (1. Bryant, of the Multnomah delegation, elected not because of merit, but because of their flatant belief in popular government, and their statement 1, direct primary and initiation and referendum platform, deliberately be traved their constituency and repudiated their platform at the first opportunity, at the beck of a corporation lobby, organized and maintained solely to effect a sale of prop erty involved. H . The logue river fishing quarrel is no stranger to the people of Oregon. J or a score of vears, the conflict between.tho contending interests has waged at every session of the-legislature. As long as it was left to the legislature, the wishes and desires of the people of the territory involved counted lor little against tne loooy mauiiamm uy iie grasping fishing monopoly. So when the legislature of two years ago rofused to pass the master fish warden's bill designed as a compromise to remedy the situation, an u)i)cal was made, bv initiative petition to the people of Oregon for relief, and it was fimiiiitnl lir mi ivriwlwliiiimr AvmiiiiputR.fnr mid nirninst the initiative bill were itoinviiiinf ofinf nviiw vnfnv contained in this pamphlet twice as much space was used against the initiative meas ure as for it. In addition, much matter was printed in the newspapers concerning the measure. The people were posted upon the situation. 'If this is a local measure, it should be left to the three counties affected, and Hii imf in.i im.ifi' 1Vi- flio i-mfintimi lilll in fhii'i'V. .Insonliillo jnifl .Iju'IvKOH I'OlllirioK OX- cecded2200. Jackson count)', which contains the greatest H'lliiifiivmt! rmm flin hill ;i lnninvifv ni' -five to one. Rogue river fish have nave been spent, not m developing uregon, nut in rainornia. uniu tne tast year, even the supplies were purchased outside the state. For thirteen miles on both sides the river .iiil I'm. niilic m.li tsirlo lw mfllWll 1w l'lllfl IK OW11P1 1V lllO IllMllMHol r. il 111 Jl l.'lW 1H Oil lllll i.UI IllJIld i. in 11 U'liv i-iv ..,...., .... .-,. , ,. , - the statute books making it criminal to lana a seine or net along banks or bars, un less the fisher owns the hind. ' . The Rogue river is worth far more to Oregon commercially as a tourist attraction .10 4-lm fiiiipf fnifrliiirr cfinniii in Oi-fumn 1 m ti if is !i ji Rniii'in nl wojilf.li in ji mniinnnlx lO till. J IllV-Oli (lllilll ilblilliil ill vi vi, mil" " jw... w. .....w. ., .. .......,j,...t, mid a shabby living to its half paid fisherman. iMoney spending anglers from all parts of the country leave an ever increasing stream of revenue, and it is essential that the merciless slaughter of the J'iney tribe by commercial fishers cease for awhile, lest tho iisn nc exrenmnaieu. The Pierce bill is grossly defective. Drag nets and seines are permitted in the fall season. Gill nets can be stretched clear across the stream. Under it, the work of ex termination by fish hogs would merrily proceed and it would only be a question of a short time before failure in supplv would close down the cannery erected by the late "Lord of the Rogue." Will the senate listen to the lobby and override the expressed wish of the people? The next few days will tell the story. TWO MILLION ARE FACING FAMINE American Consul-Gcncral Wilder at Shanghai in Cable to Red Cross De clares That Two Million Must Be Aided at Once or Die. WASHINGTON. 1). C, Fob. 11.--Conobonititig Tinted Vivhh dt'spat ches, Amoricnn C'oiibjil Ocncrul Wil dor nt Sliangbai, in a cublo rocoivod by tho national Koil Crotw socioty .to day doi'laros that two million poisons in China will liu of starvation unlets givon imniediiito aid. Wihlor 8iiy that $500,000 ix needed at onco. The Hod Cros today cabled to China $5, 000 contributed by John I). Hocke t'eller. UNCLE SAM KNOWS HOW TO EVEN RATES WASHINGTON. 1). C , Feb 11 Loud howls of anguish reeound in tho offices of tho Baltimore & Ohio railroad here today following a do- cUIou by the comptroller of the tre. u ry. which ax a method of protection aguliiBt exorbitant freight ratei, would put the Interstate commerce commlftelon out of bualneu If It were generally adopted. Uncle Sam. after deciding that he hd leeii charged IS0.5S too much by the IlnJtliuore & Ohio, oslmly de duct (Ml that amount from mother shipment. '11 mil road appealed to tho comptroller for redress, but all he got was tin? (oiiiplaftiit biitlb-. lii'iini'ifv lf!vmv jivirmnmir now iiYl winced for the Pierce bill wtts yielded millionsor the monopoly in control. These millions STATE TIGHTENS PURSE Appropriation Bill Is Cut Ways and Means Committee Have the Bills Ready for Introduction in the Legislature. STATE CAPITAL, Saloni, Oro., Kob.ll. Carrying a grand .total of $1,019,965. -19, tho gonoral appropria tion and dbflcloncy bills havo boon appropriation and deficiency bills havo boon completed for submission to tho legislature. Tho ways and moans committee pruned $50,810 from tho ostlmntos in tho general ap propriation bill, but ut tho samo tlmo added In certain instances a total of $22 10, making a not decrouso of $18,570 In this bill. Tho appropriation bill roaches tho magnlflcont total of $807,920, whllo tho deficiency bill Includes sums which roach to $152,015.19. Not an Institution la Inciiudod, tho bills for tho various other Institutions" not be ing complotod by tho committee and will probably come oarly noxt wook. Ono of tho material cuts madu is In the appropriation for tho Stato oHard of Shuop Commlsblonors, tho cost of which for1 tho biennial porlod was estimated, at $21,000 and was cut to $2,600 by the committee. Teddy Speaks. ClHATi HAIMDK, Mioli., IMi. 11. Colonul HooMni-li urrived today uiid attended the Lincoln bauquet tonight u tile piyneiptil speaker he dicu.- iert Abrahiim l.iiic.iln uml progreKi . o republiounisin. Other spoakerw were W. O.'llniillev of KsnUi'lv. C- L'r"Hiiiiiii halm (luM't'iior Osbiiii. ii t iiuioriiiii unii made in the state printers mileage of the Rogue and its SLUR HURLED AT STATE PRINTER T In Plea for Flat Salary Bill Miller Declares Office Pays Too Well Dunniways Profit Huge Barrett Speaks In Defense. ' STATE CAPITOL. Salem, Oro., Fob. 11. Assertions that tho Stato Printer receive moro In a yonr than tho governor doets In four, and a declaration1 that tho Into Frank linker, former Stato Printer, had offered W. S. Dunhvny, prosont Incumbent, $20, 000 n year In oxchnngo for nn op portunity to do all of tho stato printing mid was rofiiMod, marked tho dobato In tho Sonato today when tho flat salary bill Introduced by Sona tor Miller appeared for final pas sago. ANDY CARNEGIE OUT FOR NEW TREATY WASIIINOTON, I). C, Feb. Jl. Androw Carnogie todny u out for tho Tuft polioy of roeipiocity with Can udu. In n luttor to .Senator Ituvor idgo tho iron master says: "Thoro is no possibility of nny In jury to Amorumu oommorco through free trade with Cumida. With soohil conditions iiluuticul in both countries thu (soul of transportation of any commodity will give Mifficiont tariff. Uoonomio qutwlintia nmy safely bo diseiudod. 1 prediet groat results from a frivudly a,ic(.iuent with ou' fellow AmorieuiiB North of the bol der," JL ,i4 TAFT HAS QUIT RS E In Speech at Springfield He Takes Radical Staiul Says Needless Tariffs Are Bail In This Day of Hi(h Cost of Living. RECIPROCITY MEASURE SURE TO PASS HOUSE Speaker Cannon anil Regulars Arc Against Bill Democrats Will Aid Its Passage. SPH1NOFIKLI), 111., PVib. 31.--rresident Tuft has broken with tho "stand put" clement, of tho Hopubli- cun party. Tho president made this niitiouiico- ineul this uflornooii in this city in n speech niiulo hero. Following closely upon tho news from Washington that tho Canadian reciprocity bill had been favorably reported by the ways and means com milteo and thu announcement that Speaker Cannon had written to State Senator Hniloy of the Illinois lugis lutiii'o in opposition to tlio hill, the president tool; u radical stand favor ing tho abolition of till "unnecessary high tariffs in these times of high prices" where theso tariffs aro un necded. President Taft was warmly praised for his stand in tho matter. It is said hero tonight that ho has scon tho writing on tlio wall and has taken u stand for the people. WASHINGTON, Fob. 11. Tn tho face of Speaker Cannon's opposition and the desertion of tho regulars, ('resident Tuft's reciprocity treaty with Canada is expected to pass through the houso oarly next week, through the aid of democratic votes. The real contest will take place in the senate where the president will meet with various forms of opposi tion. The reciprocity measure was re ported favorably to the houso today bv tlio ways and moans committee with six republicans and six democrat-, backing it, and with six repub licans and one democrat against it. The house democrats will volcoi idly for the bill. .1 i 500 ACRES WILL BE SET TO APPLES SOON KUOKNK. Or.. Feb. 11. Five hundred acres of good frijjt laud, now covered with trees uml undoi brush, near Lorniio,, 15 miles southwest of H I . 1 III... ll... r.llgeue, nave jiihi iieuu mimi ny iw Dni-liiiir Laud & Timber Company, of Milwaukee, to tlio .Milwaukee Orchard company for $."0,000. Three hun dred acres of the tract will be set to apples just as soon as the land can bo cleared this spring. Most of tho aimlo treeu will bo Yellow New town Pippins and Spitzeuberg. (1. M. Mailey, who bus boon superinten dent of the la lite tract adjoining, owned bv' the Churchill-Matthews company, of Portland, wns named at superintendent of the other tract, mid will also have charge of tho work of setting out apple trees which will begin to arrive in a short time. FATHER OF GIRL WHO LOVED BARON, SHOCKED CHICAdO, III., Fob .11.--Dr. Ru dolph Menu, father of the Chicago girl who was once engaged to Oscar Hothschild, said toduy of the death of (he Austrian money king: "I am inexpressibly shocked. Are you sure the report of the baron's dentil is true' .Mrs. .Menu and Olg't aro in Unly, where they went for thu sake of Olga's heulth." Cyclono Thompson Wins. SVDNHY, N. S. W., Jnn. 11.-- "Cyclone Johnny" Thompson., the American fightor, was gtveii the de cision on H)inls ovor Hilly Pnpko, tlio former middle weight oluuiipiun of the world, in u 'JO round bout here toduy. I CITY SHOWS II IS ENTITLED TO LOWER RATES Case of Medford Traffic Bureau Comes to an End as Far as In troduction of Evidence Is Con cerned Railroad Witnesses Weak. "EXPERTS" ANSWER QUERIES WITH "I FORGET" Medford Merchants Make Good Showino In Fight for Better Freight Rates to This City Special Examiner Ward Prouty of tho Intorstato Comniorco Commission brought tho hearing of tho Medford Traffic Ilureaii's caso ugnlnst tho Southern Pacific railroad to a closd Saturday morning, following tho In troduction Into tho hearing by tho railroad's officials numorouB crnfty and smooth endeavors to belittle tho efforts of Attorney Frank II. McCuno, tho rato expert employed by tho traf fic bureau, by placing Incompetent witnesses upon tho stand to glvo "ex pert" testimony. Tho peoples caso was brought to n closo lato Friday afternoon, nnd, In order to allow tlio railroad officials to lonvo the city Saturday, Examlnor Prouty held an evening session Fri day. Loiiiislniry on Stand. Attornoy William D. Fonton, for tho railroad, opened his caso by plac ing II. E. Lounsbury, assistant gen: oral freight agent of tho Southern Pacific on tho stnnd. Under examina tion, Lounsbury stated that In his opinion Medford Is not ontltled to lowor freight rates on tho grounds that It Is too small a town. "GnintB Pass, ftosoburg, Snlom, and all of tho other towns nlong tho line," he said "are as equally ontltled to tho reduction ns Is Medford, and any reduction given to this city will constitute discrimination In Us favor." itato Sheets Shown. He Introduced rato Bheots showing the population of thlB city according to tho Inst census, and also that of tho county. "Several other towns along tho line," ho continued "rccelvo and dis tribute moro frolght than does Med ford, notwithstanding tho fact that thoy, too, aro operating undor the prosont rato adjustment." Questioned aa to tho prevailing rates and askod by Mr. Fonton to toll tho commission what methods had been used In computing them ho snld: "Tho rates at prosont in force from San Francisco to Medford and from Portlnnd nre proportionate. They aro based ou the samo proportionate rato that affects ovory other town along tho line. In the matter of establishing comodlty rates hero to allow for reductions In shipments of car load lots, this city cannot bo plac ed on a level with Portland or any other city now enjoying thoso rates. Itnsls of Hiicli ItatcN. "The things that go to establishing comodlty rates aro, production In ipiuntltles, either from manufactures or from the soli, and a volume of trufflo both ways from tho point In question. Population" he addod "Is ono ot he prime fnctora, and tho greater the population the lower tlio rates." He failed absolutely, however to make either theory hold undor ex amination by Attornoy McCuno and when pinned down on his statements regarding population endeavorod to add strength to his caso by adding "there nre other things to bo con sidered." "4 Asked by what moans tho presont conditions could bo alleviated, ho said: "Tba complaint can got tho rcllot sought by a readjustment of tho pres ent class rates. Comodlty rates aro unnecessary, Avoided Question, Us avoided answering a question whether present class rates aio un- (Continued on puso 3.) H v 1.' li hi I