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otW Sfl wv.tf'- w Medford Mail Tribune CLEARINGS Itnnk clearings today were WEATHER Fair today and Friday, liar., JJO.ilO; Temp., 50. FORTIETH YEAR. jEDE0RDf OREGON, TIITKSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1911. No. 288. 140 MILLIONS ASKED TO RUN GOVERNMENT Sunday Civil Appropiration Bill Re ported to the House Largest Sin gle Item is Forty-five Millions for Panama Canal Construction. TAFT ASKS COIN FOR TARIFF COMMISSION Three Million for Panama Fortifica cation Twenty-one Million for Public Buildings. WASHINGTON', I). C, FoK 23. The sundry civil sorvlco 1)111, carry ing ?1 10,510,000 was reported to the house today. Thin, while $25,131, 00ft over the bill of last year, Is $1-1,-18(1,000 under the estimates. The largest single Item In the bill Is $15,500,000 for the Panama canal, an Increase of $7,500,000 over the estimates. For public buildings $21,-311,2-15 is appropriated, an Increase of $10,000,000. The measure prob ably will be passed by tho house un dor suspension of tho rules. Despairing ot forcing the senate to pass his tariff commission bill, Pres ident Taft is centering his efforts to secure $400,000 to continue the pres ent board by nn appropriation la the sundry civil bill. If tho provision passes, tho next house will have no opportunity to Interfere with the tar iff board. For tho economy board $75,000, a decrease of $25,000; commerce com mission, $1,S15,000, an lncreaso of $455,000; for removal of tho wreck of tho battleship Maine, $350,000; river and harbor Improvements, $7, 02S.077, a decrease or $1,700,000; for an army supply depot nt Fort Mason, San Francisco. $200, M0; to contlnuo reconstruction of the hall of the liouso of representatives in tho Hummer time, $30. 000.. Tho bill appropriates $12,000 for oil paintings of 15 past and present members of the United Slates su preme court. It was based on testi mony by Artist Rosenthal of Phila delphia that tho justicos had told him thoy were all too poor to pay for the work out of their own pockets. Rosenthal said that Justice Harlan told him ho would liko to have his portrait painted, but that ho had "borrowed $1000 when he was mar ried and still owed that amount." F MAY BE VETOED Mayor Lachmond May Sit Down on Salem, Falls City and Western and Prevent Spanning Willamette River Vith a Bridge. M n s SAUS.M, Or.. Feb. 23. Thet May 1 or Ltichiuund may veto tho 35 years rruohUe grunted to the Salem, Falls City and Western railroad at the last meeting of the city council Is tho lat est development in the fight that has been wnged by the- road for permis sion to lay Its tracks on Union street and to span tho Willamette river with u $100,000 bridge. While tho mayor, who is out of the city today, has not publicly doclared that he will use his ax on tho Iran ohlse, It Is well known that ho has been apposed to the franchise. It U said he will send a message to the nonncll at an early date stating his objections to the franchise. The main opposition to tho grant ing of the franchise Is believed to be due to the fact that the road was to use steam, It uelug contended that a atoam road would make the street unpleasant as a residence district. It is believed by some that the council will override the mayor's veto. Kaiser's Son to Travel. BERLIN. Feb. 23. 1'rinM Adal bert, Kaier Wilhelw's third ii. will hail shortly for Uraiil aboard u Ger man battleship to wake a tour of German settlements, according In n uoiuu'i'iuviit tdu. VEHEMENT PROTESTS PACIFIC COAST SCARE TAFT ON JAP TREATY I hulled Conferences With Lodge and Other leaders Followed by a Telegram (o Johnson. WASHINGTON, D. C, Fob. .23. Hurried conferences with Senator Lodge and other leaders of tho sen ate today Indicated that President Taft is alarmed over tho prospect ot failure for his, now Japanese treaty as the result of a flood of telegraphic protests from the Pacific coast. President Taft this afternoon sent tho following telegram to Governor Johnson of Califernia: "The resolutions you transmitted received. Tho treaty Includes Japan's assurances regarding a continuance of tho present arrangement exactly such as you approved when tho sec retary of state and I explained them to you. Won't you explain this to your legislature and thus prevent any action arising by reason of misunder standing." E EATS LYE WHILE AT PLAY Infant Child of the Rev. T. Matlock Finds Quantity of Lye While Play ing and Narrowly Escapes Fatal Burns Only Year Old. The prompo calling of medical as sistance this morning probably sav ed tho life of the young child of tho Itev. T. Matlock, who, whllo playing around tho liouso at 14 Portland ave nue, secured ' a quantity of concen trated lyo and was busily engaged In gorging tho poison when discovered by Mrs. Matlock. How' the child, who is only 1 year old, secured tho lyo Is not known, but It is believed that a small amount of it had been left lying around and was picked up by tho child. Dr. II. 13. Porter was summoned and Immediately administered drugs to neutralize the effect of tho poison. Although badly burned about the mouth, It Is not thought that any stars will remain to mar tho baby's features. YREKA MURDERER YRFKA, Oil., Feb. 211. Posses are out today near Gilla, a little mining camp in the Salmon mountains, 70 mile southwest of here, in search oL' George Nichols, who is wanted on his own confession of having shot and killed his partner, John Dob bins. Nichols, waving a rifle, ran through Gilla shouting "1 have killed John Dobbins. Now I'm going to kill myself." Thou he disappeared in the hriitih. Nichols is thought to be insane. Dobbin' body was found at his claim wilh three bullet holes through tho head. ALLEGED BRIBER TAKES SLAP AT NEWSPAPERS SPRINGFIF.LD, HI., Feb. 'J3. Stung by the unwelcome publicity l.e has received since the beginning of the Lorimer ease, Representative Lee O'Neill Drown today took a slap at his newspaper enemies. Drown in troduced u libel hill modeled on the Kuglish law. Under its provisions it does not matter whether a publi cation is true or untruo if it injures anyone. In such a case a lino of .f'J(JOI) and imprisonment for a year is provided as the penally. STATE SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS SUNDAY BASEBALL INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., Feb. 23.--Suuduy baseball wa endorsed here today when the state supreme court u-fheld the eoutibtutionality of law passed by the last legislature per mitting professional games on the seventh day. 'lite decision reversed one rendered by the Marion county circuit court. Joaquin Miller Improved. OAKLAND. Cal.. Feb. 33. Joa. quia Miller, poet of the Sierras, crit ically ill here, U reported .-.liuhtly inipnittil l'ili(. JSP TREATY TRACED AWAY FOR BIG EAIR California's Right to Exclude Asi atics Surrendered in Exchange for Taft's Support of Panama Pacific Exposition for 1915. STATE SENATE CENSURES OFFICIALS FOR PROMISES Messan.es Laid Before Legislature Menace to. the Future of Coast Declare Sacramento Solons. SACRAMENTO, Cal., Feb. '23. Tho Japanese question was placed squarely before the stnte senate lhi afternoon following the receipt from Washington of messages and press despatches disclosing the terms on which California, through her rep resentatives, official and unofficial, at home and at Washington, ex changed the stale's alleged right to exclude Asiatics in return for the administration's support of San Francisco for tho Panama exposi tion. Senator Sanford demanded that tlie scnato adopt tho committee sub stitute for his resolution calling upon Washington to restrict Asiatic im migration. Ho admitted that his purpose was to amend tho cnmmil mittco measure so as to place every phase of the California situation be foro congress. Officials Accused.' Sanford called the roll on Cali fornia's representatives in Washing ton in congress on Governor John son and on the leaders of the leg islature, showing their exact stand on the Japanese question, and charg ing them with attempting to defe il the will of the ptpiplc in entering iu'o a compact wilh the federal authori ties to tho detriment of California interests. Senator Wright endeavored to gain the floor to object to the adoption of the resolution for the purpose of pre venting Sanford's amendments Doynton moved that the amendments be printed in the journal without be ing read. This aroused Sbanahan, who ob jected to any attempt lo smother an -ti-Jupnueso legislation. At this juncture Walker moved to lay the wholo mater on the table. On Shiin ahau's point or order, Walker w.is overruled. Idick of llackboue. Senator Cuininctli attacked lli" loghslalure for displaying "lack of baokbouo" and read the telegram from l'ruMdcnl Taft to Governor Johnson, referring to the compact the governor entored into with the president, and secretary of stnte, Caininelti also referred to Johnson's recent denial of that compact and declared that tho disposition of the legislature was to be double-faced with the people of the slate. Wright, who was a (rusted lieuten ant of President oRosovolt four yours ago in preventing anti-.lapn-nosu sentiment in California reach ing a focus in the legislature, urged delay in the matter.. He pleaded with the member not to be swept along by thu democrats and llin nuti Asiutie senators or by the applause of an excited gallery. ' Shauahaii mikI that if no decisive action were hik'ii by the legislature, amei'liii got' .100,000 citizens miglij (Cuntlntii'il on Pace 8 ) " BIG SLIDE ALTERS PLAN FOR CANAL COLON, Panama, Feb 2t. Plans for the Panama ennui may huc lo be altered to a great extent as the result of a big slide of earth and rook which today is being attacked At Culebra. Without warning: fiOO, 000 cubic yards of rock and earth slipped iuto the out. After it is re moved, it is believed that it will be necessary to enlarge the nriain of the oanal ami to remove Gold Hill bodily to prevent. the rwurrpuoe of lite slide MANITOBA ON RECORD AS BEING OPPOSED TO RECIPROCITY PLAN Galleries Cheer Premier Who Says Uncle Sam Has ltcen Trying to Cripple Canada for Years. "WINNIPEG, Man., Feb. 2.1. Man itoba today Is on rocord ns against reciprocity with the United States. At the close of a speech by Promlor Roblln in which he unalterably op posed tho reciprocity agreoment, the galleries broke Into cheers. Tho pre mier opposed tho proposed agree ment on economic, national nnd Im perial grounds. He said that tho Unit ed States for 35 years has been "on denvorlng to cripple Canada com mercially" and referred to tho sac rifices which Canada and especially eastern Canada has iniulo to build up Inter-provlncIal trade by railway construction. The liouso voted unanimously against tho measure. UTAH FRUIT RATES REDUCED Interstate Commerce Commission Holds That Railroads Have Dis criminated Against Utah Produc ers ami Order a Cut. WASHINGTON, 1). C, Feb. 23. Declaring that tho western railroads havo been discriminating against Utah frultgrowors in favor of those on the Pacific coast, tho interstate commerce commission today ordered substantial reductions in tho freight rates from Utah to tho east. ENSENADA AT MERCY OF B0L& INVADERS CA USX ICO, Cal., Feb. 2.1. -13nsen ada, the capital of the state of Lower California, Is at the mercy of tho In surgents and can bo taken whonover they aro ready to movo In, according to insurrocto leadors hero today. They state that a sufficient force has been bathered near hhiseiindii to take tho city without help from tho Mexican army, and thnt news nt any moment of tho fall of tho place would not sur prise them. Arrangements havo been inado with tho business men of Mex ican to pay tuxes and llcelnses as soon as Hnsennda Is in the hands of tho lnsurrectos, RAISE IN RATES WASHINGTON. I). ('., Feb. ''.'!. The stale commerce commission or dered reductions in freight rates on practically every known variety of merchandise transported by rail roads. The order which inn rim (he end of the great rate eases and tiffed ev ery railroad in the country, is a com plete victory for the shippers in the fight for lower traffic rail's. Tho decision in full wns delayed eight hours in order to prevent its publication before thu stock market clohcd. MUCH MARRIED WOMAN DIVORCES FIFTH HUSBAND SAN FRANC IS( O, Cal., I'Vb. 'J.I. -On the ground of cruelty, Judge Me gan today granted a divorce to Mrs Kdith May K'll-oin-Sannderhaus Coffey - Silver tone - Diinphy-Png-nuelo from Krne-t Pagnuelo, a Siiu Francisco attorney. With the decree today the court has freed Mrs. Pug mielo from four t her husband, death having churned the tifih. MONTANA DEMOCRATS CAUCUS FOR SENATOR IIFLKNA, Mmit., Feb. 23. -The democratic members of the legisla ture will confer here tonight in an effort to agree on r uaudidute for Luited Sin tee senator. A movement) was started this afternoon to elect j SM-:ikcr Mc)iifl Ui Hie office. N MY K WEST TO VETO PIERCE BILL Scleral Hundred Medford Voters Wire Governor Not to Permit Re peal of People's Law Closing. Rogue to Commercial Fishing. VETO OR EGLESTON BILL CAUSES SURPRISE Sportsmen Unable to Account for It If Commercial Fishing is Per mitted, Small Protection Left. The action of Governor West In vetoing the Fish Protective associa tion measuro. designed to prevent tho sale of stcelhead nnd trout caught In the Itnguo river has aroused local sportsmen and a telogram Blgned by several hundred prominent citizens was sent the governor Thursday ask ing that ho veto tho Plerco fish bill, reopening the stream to commercial fishing. The veto ot the lOggleaton bill, which was only put through by hard work and was designed to rolnforco the Inltlatlvo bill and render the Itoguo really a closed stream, was a great disappointment to local anglers. With It In force, tho Pierce bill would not havo Interfered materially with the sport, but without It nnd with the Pierce bill, tho outlook Is not so bright. The governor has given no Intima tion of his stand on tho Plerco bill, though his supporters aro confident of a veto. Ashland sportsmen have also wired asking a voto. RELEASE OF RUEF IS UPHELD BEFORE COURT SAN" FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 2.'l. The action of the state supreme court in granting a rehearing to Abraham Ruef was upheld today by Attorney C. W. Cross, who answered the contentions of (Alorney General Webb Hint the order should bo re voked. Cross contended that as several of the present supremo jus tices helped to frniiie the constitu tiouul amendment of 1001 under which the Ifuef rehearing was grant ed, they were in a be tor position than, others to judge whether or not they bail lransgrescd the rules of the amendment. RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT AFTER WESTINGH0USE ST. PKTKKSIUJKO, Feb. :. Raiding Ihe offices of the Wosling house Hied rie .company hero today, the police seied every scrap of im pel relating lo Ihe electrification of the St. Petersburg Ktreet Railway company by the American concern. The Russian government dumuiid cd'that the Weslingliousii oompany immediately pay a penalty of $75,001) for i.llogod failure to live up to its contract. The company was orig inally fined .f.-)0),000, but the gov--eminent today remitted $l'J.r),000. CANADIAN CRUISER SEIZES AMERICAN CRAFT VANCOIVKR, II. C, Feb. 23. Slealiug in during Hie heavy fog this morning Ihe Caiiiidinii cruiser Rain bow was found anchored when the mist lifted at 10'oeloek and beside her was her tirst capture, tho Amer ican fishing schooner Kodric of liie Chlopee Killing company of Seattle. The alleged poacher win captured off Triuugle island, inside the three mile limit. SEATTLE TO CONTROL ITS SOURCE OF WATER WASHINGTON', D. C, IVb. 23. The house bill permitting Souttlo to purchase 22.000 acres of public land in the Cedar River basin and complete the ("fly's control of it water supply passed today. The price will - lie ftxed by esti mate. The iiliniinuui value of the titnbor is said to be $1.23 per acre. The govuritiiint is to retain title lo ihe mineral in I In- land, EXTRA SESSION GIVES DEMOCRATS CHANCE TO PLAY POLITICS Ollle James Says They Will Pass Fif teen Tariff Hills and Put Nine Investigations Under Way. WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 23. Threats of an extra session of con gress or a contlnuanco ot tho present session until the next presidential election were voiced hereby Olllo Jninos of KontuckjV "If Taft calls an extra session," said the Kontucklan, "wo will stny hero until tho election. Wo will pass 15 tariff bills, put nlno Investigating committees at work In tho federal departments, tho steel trust and tho pork barrel. Wo will glvo Wlckor sham nnd llalllnger something to think about." Tho way was opened for a ached-ule-by-schedulo rovlslon ot tho tariff today, when a resolution introduced by Senator Cummins, asking tho pres ident for all Information tho tnrlff board had collected on articles and commodities nnmed In tho Canadian reciprocity agreement, wns adopted. DUAL ATTACKS BY INSURGENTS Simultaneous Charges Upon Juarez and Chihuahua to Be Made Within a Few Days hy Revolutionists in Mexico. KU I'ASO, Tex.. Fob. 2 a. Slniul taneous attacks upon .lunrcz and Chi huahua are to bo mado within a fow days by tho revolutionists under Francis I. Mudoro, according to re pair men of tho Mexican National railroad, who returned hero today from the south. Tho rancour, men declaro that Ma doro already has 2000 men and sov eral pieces of artillory massed at Aliiiiuadti. Tho robel loador plans, they Bny, to take 1000 men nnd march on Chihuahua on which city other forces already aro marching, 3000 from the south and 1C00 from tho west. These figures, If verified, moan that the rebelB havo gathered by far tho greatest forco yet reported la tho rvolutlon and that, with nearly 0000 men at Mailoro's back, Chihuahua Is almost certain to fall. Madoro, It Is also reported, will leave 1000 of his forco at Ahumada to hold Navarro In check and when tho proper moment arrlvea will tako the offensive, tho Abiimada lorco at tacking ,lua re, whllo tho larger body captures Chihuahua. JIM HILL IN FAVOR OF RECIPROCITY BILL MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., I'Vb. till. Answering the attack upon him In Senator Groiina because of his atti tude on reciprocity with Canada, James J. Hill said teday: "If Orouiiu is sincere in what he says, ho is ignorant of tbo facts. If he is insiuceru ho is a demagogue. The reciprocity treaty with Canada is the most important matter before the eiti.eiiH of this country since the civil war. If, after keeping Canada waiting for -10 years, we turn her down on our own invitation to par ticipate in a reeipdocily pact, our country uill Kiiffer. Kiiduud has been waiting and watching for jltt thai thing to happen." PUGILIST KAUFMAN WEDS AT PITTSBURG IMT.TSMURG, Pa., Feb. 'J.I. Al Kaufman, heavyweight pugilist, and his bride, who was Mis Almoin 1!. Koclos of Sail Francisco, are at the Fort Pitt hotel today. Miss Seelos arrived from San Fraiicir.cn yester day and wns met by the fighter. They were married late yesterday by Rev. J. O'Connor of St. Mary's Cath olic church. ROCKEFELLER'S PASTOR OFFERED FRISCO PULPIT SANTA MARMARA, Cal.. Feb. 23. Until he has had au opportunity lo look over tho situation at first hand, Dr. C. F. Akod, putsor of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church of New York, which John D. Rockefeller at tends, will withhold his answer to tho call given him by the 11 rat Congiega tiomil chuioh of San Francisco. WEST'S AX A 9 Governor Long on Vetoes but Short on Stenographers Announces That He Has Another Big Batch Ready for Tomorrow. STATE IMMIGRATION AGENT IS ABOLISHED Bee Inspector Dies Abornin' Klam ath County Loses Fish Hatchery and Portland a New Justice. SALEM, Or., Fob. 23. Governor West today vetoed hlno bills. Thoy are: liouso bill 301, concerning a stnte immigration agent; houso bill 308, regarding bee Inspector; senato bill 2G-I, for fish hntchery in Klam ath county; senato bill C, compelling station agents to post time of arrival of passenger trains; houso bill 119, concerning weeds on highways, com pelling abutting property owners to rouiovo them; sonatb bill 5, giving flvo days for filing of deeds for rec ord; liouso bill 159, additional Jus tice of tho ponco for Portland; sen ato bill 123, paying traveling expenses of students by University of Oregon; houso bill 303, experiment station In Morrow county. Th6 governor announced that ho had anothor big batch as Boon as thoy could be prepared. Ho Is long on vetoes but short on stunographors. Tho bill appropriating ?34 0,000 for roads probably will bo lp thq coming batch. COMMISSIONER TO PLACE WILLIAMS IN HIS NICHE SALKM, Or., Fob. 23. Governor West Jins naniotl Dr. T. h. Eliot, C. ). S. Wood and Gcorgo II. Mines of Portland members of the commis sion provided for by an act that was enacted by the late legislature ap propriating .$10,000 to orcct n slatuo of George IL Williams is the Mull of Famo at Washington. This commis sion will have full power lo select a sculptor, rcceivo the funds appro printed for the work and unveil tho statute at Washington. Oregon, in common with other stnles, is cnittled to two places in the hull of fame, and is one of tho few fitates so far unrepresented. The nverage coBt of each statue to the stutes has been from $0000 to $ il. '1,000. MOTHER STRIVES TO jAJIE SON Los Angeles Woman is Rushing to Aid of Her Son, Who is Held Pris oner as Rebel Spy at Juarez hy Mexican government. LOS ANGKLKS, Oul., Feb. 2a. Rushing to the aid of her son, Law rence F. Converse, 22, who is re ported held prisoner ns a rebol spy at Jiiuroz by (he Mexican govern ment, Mrs. C. II. Converse of Los Angeles today started for 121 Paso. Nearly frantic lost her sou he o,o euted before she rouuhus him, Mrs. Converse (eluyraphud request to the stute department at Washington, thu California and the Fuited States au thorities tit El Pso to use their in fluence in his behalf. Tho father of the boy, G. II. Con verso, a well known nttoruoy of this section, who nt present is in Ohio, also is spoiling toward HI Pano, aa eordiiig to a teulgram ruuetvod by his family heru. Young Converse in wcl known in southern California. At one time he was military instructor at Harvard r.chool horo aiid was a, member of the California national guard. According to pros reports, ho wttd oaptiiroil by General Navarro's forces while doing scant duty for thu rear guard ot Gouoral Orosoo's army. I v. Jf m 'Al :-m - :