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-rr otuw 0W rsW W$ Medford Mail Tribune CLEARINGS I in nk clcnrings today it era $32,1 11.21. WEATHER Occasional ithowcra. liar. 20.7-1; Temp, mean BO FORTIETH YEAB. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAECII 10, 1911. No. 301. JITED STATES TO INVADE MEXICO AT "FIRST NECESSARY CAUSE FOR ACTION" (4 'V. VEIL OF SECRECY SAYS Army Will Check Any Secesseonary Moves on Part of People of Lower California Will Prevent Destruction of American Property and Fili busteringArmy Will Not Hesiiaie to invade Mexico If It Be Deemed Necessary to Maintain the Diaz Regime Taft Decided on Move After Conference With Mexican Ambassador Diaz Wants Help. ABROAD PRESIDENT TAFT'S PRIVATE CAR, MOUNT AIRY, Gu. March JO. Tho forces of. the United Stntes stnml ready lo invade Mexico Mit Uio "first necessary cause for action." They will chock any sceess ionury moves on the part oC tho people of Lowor California from tho Diaz confederation; the troops will prevent tho destruction of American properly; they will patrol the border nnd prevent filibustering, and, fin ally tho original excuse of mobilization practice maneuvers will bo engaged in by both land nnd sea forces. The administration makes no further attempt to cloak the army's ac tivity under the, term maneuvers. U is admitted that tbu tinny of mob ilization on pay becomd an army of pacification, and that the forces nro gathering in Arizona nnd California to aid President Diaz in sup pressing the Mexican insurrection. Tho nnny will not hesitato to invade Mexico if it be deemed neces sary to maintain tho Diaz regime. A plnn wheroby the American and Mexican federal armios will act together has boon decided upon at a conference between President Taft and Mexican Ambassador do la Barm. The conference followed n series of exchanges between the .diplomatic, representatives of both countries. Taft was notified that Diaz oxpeoted the United States to cut off com pletely the sources of insurgent supplies north of tho Mexican lino. All this was freely admitted today to correspondents board the presi dential train. , Lower California is regarded by tho administration as tho dangci spot. It Avas pointed jmt that tho great peninsula holds Magdalena Bay, which commands tho mid-Pacific coasts of (he American contin ent. Tho territory is filled with Japanese nnd insurectos. If it should bo occupied by an unfiiendly power both Moxico nnd tho United Stntes would bt continually menaced. Diaz irf not able now to send enough troops to Lower California to quell the insurrection there. A revo lutionary government might be esta blished, which Japan could control easily, nnd thereby obtain a foothold on tho Amoricau continent and a banc for Eastern Pacific operations. OFFICERS THINK QUICK MOBILIZATION ORDERED TO CONVINCE PUBLIC SAN ANTONIO, Texas, March 10 Army officers hero expressed to day tho boliof that tho chief reason for the hurried movement of troop-, to tho Texas frontier was to give the public: a chaiico lo view tho efficiency of (ho army in quick mobilization. If any do feels existed, it wns said, they would bo sure to hhow at this time and swift remedies applied. San Antonio, is rapidly taking on the appearauco of an urmcil camp Tho troops nro arriving on nil trains, and as fast as they detrain they are set to work pitching unmp. Already water japes havo been laid in innnv of the company streets. Major Harry Wilkins, chief of tho subsistence department arrived lodaj and took charge of tho lask of feed ing tho soldiers. Foodstuffs con signed lo packers nro nrriving in cnrlond loth from Fort Worth, Dallas and Houston. ALASKAN TROOPS ARE ORDERED TO BE HELD IN READINESS SEATTLE, Wash., March 10 -Officers in charge at Fort Law ton arc extremely reticont today, but it i- a certainty that all preparation have boon mado for the quick tranfr ol troons stationed hero to Southern California when tho word to move is rccoivod from Washington. Troop at Fort William 11. Seward and F.rt Lisciim in Vnldoz, Alaska, nio nlbo under waiting orders, it beenme known today. There nro four com pnuios of tho 25th infantry, (color ed) at Fort Lnwtou nnd five com panies in Alnska. CRUISERS FIGHTING THEIR WAY TO MEXICAN PORTS IN HEAVY HURRICANE NEW YORK. March 10. Tlie cruisers Montana, North Carolina and Tennessee are stonmim? South ward in the fnoo of ft terrific stl RENT; TAFT PACIFICATION IS INTENT LOWER CALIFORNIA, SCENE OE ACTIVITY, IS CRITICAL POINT Government Fears That Japan May Gain Frathold There and Prove Serious Menaco to United States and Western Hemisphere. LOS ANGKLKS. Cal., March 10. Activity In Lower California, whoro It Is planned to establish u "social republic," Is, according to cnBtern ad vices today, tho dotermlning cause in tho action of tho United States in sending troops to tho bordor to help tho Diaz government. Tho fear that Lowor California and part of north ern Moxico might become a separate nation is said to havo decided tho ad ministration that tho tlmo to act had come. Tho movement in Lower Cali fornia had Its Inception hero. Whilo tho InHiiiTccloB in Lower California styled thoniHolves "rovo lutlonlstfj," they wero n separato body with entirely different nlms than those on tho mainland of Mexico, who followed General Francisco Ma doro. Tho Lowor California movo mont was organized by tho Mexican revolutionary junta In Los Angoles. It wiib planned to bcIzo tho peninsula, drlvo out tho fedcrnl troops and es tablish a separato government, inde pendent regardless of which faction socurod control of Mexico propor. Tho plan was to mako tho govern ment socialistic, nnd socialists In both Moxico nnd tho United States wero appealed to. Klcardo Florcs Magon, editor of tho socialist paper La Ilov- oluclon and head of tho Lob Angolcs junta, waB to ho nnmod provisional (Continued on pace 8.) JAPS SEE ANNEXATION IN MOVE Mobilization is "Moro Aggressive and Displays Mora Hostility Than Would Be Shown By Mere Scries of Maneuvers" Says "Hoch- ing" Ultimate Object is Annexation of Canada Mexico TOKIO, March 10. "Tho activity of tho American forces in mobilizing on tho Mexican frontier is mast sig nificant," tho Hochiuj says editorial ly today. "It Is moro aggrossivo and displays moro hostility than would bo shown by a mere series of maneu vers." The paper adds that tho concen tration of troops and warships Is a sign of approaching realization of pn-AinorIennlm; that thcro la no 15,000,000 IS LOSS IN STORM Every Section of California Suffered Heavily in Recent Flood Which Has Swept it From Siskiyou to San Diego. THOUSANDS OF ACRES ARE HEAVILY DAMAGED Houses in Sections arc Inundated- Scores of Horses on Ranges Were Killed by Storm. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., March 10. Five million dollars was considered ti conservative estimate today of tho loss caused by floods which hnvo provniled tonight and many of tho larger, streams still overflowing their banks, this estimate mny fall shoit of tho actual loss. News from Santa Barbnra today snid that tho damago in that county would exceed 1,000,000. Tn tho Santa Marin, district over 1,000 acres have been devastated of crops. Tho 70,000 gallon resorvoir of tho Union Oil coinpnny is n complete wreck. Los Angeles and vicinity has suf fered to tho extent of $250,000. The loss to alfalfa and garden truck alone is' placed at $100,000. It was feared today that snows fnllinc in the mountains would cause tho Los An geles river to overflow tho city's hot loin lands. Heavy dnmago wns in wliclcd on bridges of tho Salt Lake Itailrond by tho San Gabriel river. All traffic between Niles, Snn Joso, Newark nnd Irvington has been out off by tho destruction of the bridgo across Niles Canyon Creek. More ill mi a score of houses at Colusa nro inundated by tho break ing of tho leveo nnd tho water jn some of the struots is five foot deep, At Red Rock scores of horses on tho ranges were killed in tho storms LEYVA READY TO ATTACKJTIA JUANA Orders Insurrcctors to Pack Their Kits Preparatory to a Movo on Enscnada Will Strike at Tla Juana First: MEXICALI, Mexico, March 10. Acting under orders from flenornl Loyvn tho iiihurtcctos at Mexieali to day packed their kits preparatory to rcmovo to Knsonndn. Beyond uti nonnciug that Tin Juann would be attacked, General Leyva did not give out his plans. Apparently authentic reports wero that tiro rcbol bnnd wero entrenched in the mountains bo youd Pichacho Pass and it was ex pected that tho first brush would occur thore. Genoral Loyvn granted tho war correspondents permission to uccoin- pany his army. doubt that America's ultlmato object Is tho annexation of Canada, Moxico and tho southern republics, but that it is confronted with two obstacles of tho Latins ambition and tho possi ble growth of Moxico and a powerful confederacy of southern republics. Tho Japaneso press in general makes no comment on the military activity in the United States and no official cognizance has been publicly tnkpn of tho nmtieuvors, -t- THIS IS WHY UNCLE SAM IS SO VERY BUSY WITH HIS SOLDIERS f Tho administration admits tho mobilization of troops is to protect American Intorcsts In Moxico. Thcso Investments exceed n billion nnd n half dollars nnd wero largely so curod through Bpeclnl conces sions by Diaz. Th chlnf holders nre: Tho MorBan-GuggonhoIni syndicate, controlling tho cop per output. Tho Continental Ilubbor company, holds concessions In nearly ovory Mexican Btato. Tho Wators-Plnrco Oil com pnly, hns a practical monop oly of tho oil business throughout Mcxlcall. Tho Wells Fargo Express company, practical oxprcss monopoly. Amorlcnns hnvo largo rail road holdings. British interests oxecod half a billion dollars. f 4-ttt WEATHER MEN TO 1W1EC0RDS District Forecaster Beals, of the Portland Office, Completes Arran gements Whereby Weather Men all Over Valley Will-Post Each Other, As tho .result of n .tour of the southern part of tho state just com pleted by A. E. Deals, United State- distriot weather forocastor, will hendqunrters in Portlnnd, overy sec tion will contribute dajly tho maxi mum, minimum and moan conditions to tho Portland office, for distribu tion among tho other sections. Mr. Bonis returned lo this city today to commence work upon the in stallation of tho weather bureau ap paratus received hero today from tho departmental headquartors in Washington, D. C. IIo has made ar rangements .with tho loenl wenlher innu in Ashland and Jacksonville to keep tho offico heio posted wilh re gard to (ho ntniosphorio conditions in their localities, and has established n system of communication between the offices throughout this seclioii which will ennblo each lo keep in formed iih to tho exact conditions in tho territory bordering on nil sides that which each has under ob servation. All of tho npparatus for the local station is now on tho ground nnd will bo instnlled ns soon as possible. Tho station for the instruments havo lieen prepared upon tho roif of tho Gnrnott-Corey hardware t'or.i p(any's building and tho movements of tho .instruments will nt nil times bo known in the weather offico. on tho top floor of the building, as the recording instruments for each of tho mnchinos will bo Iocntod there Tho recording dinls wjll bo connected with tho machines thoinscIvo by u system of wiring. A now set of weather flngs is be ing mndo nnd thoso, flown from tho flng-staff of tho Onrnotl-Corey building nnd visiblo all over town, will bo placed in commission ns soon ns finished. An nccurnto nnd eomploto record of tho temperature, wind conditions (iiul all other conditions affecting the wenlher, will bo kept on record by Professor P. J. O'Gnrn, and the daily weather chart will bo pouted is on of tho Main street windows of the Garnet-Corey hardware fctorc in such a wny ns to bo visible from I bo strcot. Couple Die Together. READING, Pn., Mnrob 10. Agree ing to end their lives together rnthor than face public contempt in tho air ing of charges brought by tho wife against her husband, Samuel Adam, aged 515, nnd hit wife, Mary aged 20. committed suicide on their farm near Ifnmmburg. Their bodies wero found hanging from ft rafter in their homo uml brought bore todny. INTEREST IN ELECTION Bonds Issue Totaling $38,000 At tracts But Little Atcntlon Reg istration Law Effecting Voters at City Elections is Also Up. : ONLY 38 VOTES IN LARGEST WARD AT NOON Balloting Receives a Slight Impetus at Noon Hour But Very Light Total is Predicted. Less interest has been displayed in tho special election being held to day than over beforo. Up to noon today, but thirty-eight votes had i i ii t-t i r l ii. ucen enst in uio bocoiui warn, ins lnrgost in tho city, nnd tho other two wni'ds showed u corresponding hick of interest. The matters, boforc tho voters to day involve tho isuing of bonds to- tnlling n sum of $;I8,000 for im provements to tho "present sowor sys tem nnd for tho purchasing of now nppartus for tho firo department; tho cstnblishmonts of n registration law nffecting votors nt city electiens: and the providing for tho reimburse ment of persons, purchasors of city properly at delinquent tux salos. whoso titles aro invalidated in tho courts. Despite tho fine weather, be polls, which linve been open sincol) ooloak, hnvo boon empty, savo for tho elec tion officinls,, over hnlf tho tunc During tho noon hour tho bnlloting wns somowbat henvior thnt nt othor times during tho day, but notwith standing this slight impotous, (he smnllest number of votes evor ens! nt an oleclion in this city, in propor tion to tho numbor of volors, will be the record tonight unless tho uftor noon witnesses a decided change in tho attitude of tho voters. WILL FIGHT 0. S. IE NECESSARY So Say Mexican Rebel Leaders Who Resent Interference By United States Big Interests aro Blamed By Leaders. LOS ANGELES, (Jul., March 10 "If the United Stales insists, upon interfering with our fight in Moxico wo will shoot its soldiors tho same ns wo would the soldiers of Portfirio Diaz, This is iv fight betwucn Mexi cans and every momber of our army in Lower California will dio before Iboy will give up tho fight thoy have so nobly begun," said Librndo Rivera child' director of the Liberal brancn of tho Mexican revolution, comment ing mi tho mnholization of American (Continued on Puro 6,) 41 CANIORRA MEIERS ON TRIAL Members of Brigand Organization Which Has Scouraged Italy for Cen turies For Trial for Murder Many of tho Wltncscs, In timidated, Have Dlssapcared. VITBIino, Unly, Maroh 10. For-ty-ono mombers of tbu Camorra, Italy's brigand organization that has scourged tho country for centuries, will fuco trial tomorrow for murdor. In splto of the pracautlonB of tho au thorities tho terror of tho Camorrist name hits caused tho mysterious de parture of several witnesses and of two prospective Jurors. Tho pollco admit that witnesses hnvo been in timidated nnd many of tho important nnoH threatened with doath havo van. 4 f . .... . MAN LIVES WITHOUT STOMACH; CALLS TO SEE IT IN HOSPITAL PHILADELPHIA, ., Pa., March 10. All ho ugh B. J. Sykcs of Curdsler, Alberta, Canada, has no stomach, ho says he can rolish n meal as much as any man. Sykcs visited n local hospital to day, where tho operation of removing lilu kIiuiiikiIi was performed ten .weeks ago. "I wanted to see my stom ach just for old times' sake," he said, "I havo nothing against it, nUltnugh it cnused niu unlimited trouble for ton years before I got rid of it." Sinco leaving lh hospital Sykcs hns gained 4-1 pounds in weight. 4- 4- SHOCK ALMOST STARTED PANIC In Telegram to Manager Malboeuf, of the Commercial Club, John D. 01- wcll, Now in Chicago, Tells of Ex periencn's. Mnnagor Charles A. Malboeuf of tho Commercial club la In receipt of a tologram from John D. Olwoll tolling of tho tromendous snock felt in Chi cago as tho result of a disastrous powder explosion in PlonBant Prnl- rlo, Wis,, and Incidentally mention ing tho rosy conditions which ho finds In tho Windy City in tho way of deep interest in Medford and tho Iloguo Itlvor vnlloy. Mr. Olwoll has boon In Chicago for Bovoral weeks looking ovor tho ground in tho interest of prospoctlvo sales of orchards and fruit lands hero, and his wlro is of pecial IntercBt nt this tlmo when oven tho most pessimistic nro wiping tho dust out of tholr eyes and beginning to realize thnt Medford Is duo for tho greatest year In Its era of prosperity. Ills remarks aro In lino with tho ad vice coming from nil Hectlons of tho country both by correspondonco through the Commercial club and by prlvato sources. It Is now up to Mr. PIuvIiih to koop his watering cart out of tho othoronl during tho mouth of April, for tho multitudo will expect tho valley to bo on dress parade then. Mr. Olwoll BnyB: "Medford and Uoguo Itlvor vnlloy is the hcHt known and talked of place on tho Pacific coast by tho Chi cago people, and all Indentions point to very heavy movement of tho moro wealthy clement in that direction. Railroad people aro looking for tro meudnus travel westward this spring, and aro making preparations to han dle thorn. Everything looltB splendid. Tonight about 10 o'clock a big pow der mill blew up CO miles fiom hero, and tho plato glass on State street Is Hhattered In overy direction. 1 was in tho Majestic theater, and thoro camo very near being a panic. Tho report and tho Jar woro Bomethlng awful. I am sure there will bo a lot of destruction ns tho result of It. Not cortaln whon I will roturn homo, us I am sowing a lot of Bccd for tho Uoguo valloy." I (shod. Tho specific crlmo Is the murdor of fionunrro Cuocuoll and his wifo in 1U00. Knricl Alfono, loador of tho band near Vltorbo, with his confed oratos, will be on trial. Cuocuoll, a formor mombor of tho Cnmorrn, bo trayed the secrets of tho organiza tion nnd is said to havo publicly s'ap- ped tho fa co of Alfono. Tho man wns lured to Torro del Credo and slain. Simultaneously Slgnora Cuo cuoll was murdered, NO EXCUSE FOR U. S. TO TAKE A HAND IN MEXICO So Says Dr. Frances Vasquez Gomey, Authorized Confidential Ant fw Provisional Government f Mexlcci In Exclusive Statement to Prew. HAVE ABSOLUTE FAITH THAT U. S. WILL NOT INTERFERE Says All Is Desired is Elimination of Graft, Right of Popular Suf-fragc-and no Re-Elutions. . , WASHINGTON, D. C, March 10. Dr. Francos Vusquez Gomez, nu thorized confidential ngent of tho provisional government of Mexico, of which Francisco I. Madcro, is tho bond, commenting on tho nrmy mobi liznlioji on the American frontier gavo tho following interview to tho United Press teday: (By Dr. Francisco Masquez Gomez) (Copyright, 1011 by the Unitol Press Association) Wo hnvo not tho slightest fear with .respect to tho alleged purpose of tho American government to in tervene in tho present struggle in Moxico. In tho first plnco, this gov ernment knows thnt tho vast majority of Moxican pooplo nro unnltornbly opposed to further oontiuuuuco of tho Dinjs regime nnd tho system ho rep resents. Wo hnvo ubsolulo faith Hint tho United Stales under tho oircuni stnnco will not interveno to provont n viist majority from oxoouling tho popular will. f there exists menaco to lifo and property it has been creat ed by Diaz, for ovoryono knows that tho revolutionists hnvo taken pains to protect foreigners nnd their prop erty. Thoy hnvo gone so far ns to pay in coin for qunrtonuustor nnd ooinmissnry supplied which thoy hnvo been forced to seize nnd you hnvo yot to hour of n singlo American citizen having been iiiolustcd by our troops. If this government believes chaos and nuurchy nro imminent in Mox- j,. jt my , Hll,j iat thin condi tion only will nriso when soiuo tumul tous outbreak demnuds "tho system'' destruction. All rovolulioiinry movements and nil fepontniieous uprisings of tho people nro and will bo directed to this end alone. All that is desired is tho elimination of graft, tho right of popular suffrage and no moro ro elections, In rcgnrd to crcntijig n human military chain nlon'g tho frontier com posed of Americun troops in order to provont nllegcd violations of neutrality, it may surpriso you to know that our forces hnvo received munitions from Amorion for n con siderable period and do not oxpoct to receive any moro. Wo havo our menus of innuiifuoturing nnd loading ourlridgcs and ample supplies of smokeless powdor and small arms. Wo roally have no noeessity for fur ther material of this sort. Wo submit our onso to tho con science o ftho froo Amoricnn pcop'o, who certainly will not sympathize with n grafting oligarchy ns against n pooplo struggling for tho rights guaranteed them b ythoir constitu tion. "J c Taccoma Men to Train. ? J-sri TACOMA, Wash., March. 10. Twolvo membors of this years Tn- comn Tigers of tho North Western Longuo, sailed from Soattlo today on tho Stoamor President bound for Prcsno whero spring training Is to bo done. At San Francisco tho play ers will bo met by Captain Miko Lynch, who wont ahead to negatm tivo with Danny Long of the Seals for n couple of players. rw m M r (Continual on Pag 5 ) .JiM M'-:Wg