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University Hews OfflM " Medford Mail Tribune CLEARINGS llank clearings today were ?.'IK,70 l.H. WEATHER Clenr Bar. .10.08; Mn.x. 05; Mln. :10; Menu .17.07. FOKTY-FJRST YEAR. MEDFORD. OREGON, MONDAY, MAttCII 27, 1911. No. 4. LEARS MAN or ALL BLAME Bring in Report Laying Blame for Saturday's Accident on Broken Brake Beam Many Witnesses Arc Examined. ALL OF INJURED PEOPLE ARE GETTING ALONG WELL Special Examiner for State Railroad Commission Investigates and Conciirrcs in Report. A special bonnl of inquiry sum moned Sunday composed of Southeri Pacific officials and three local met to invostifatc the cattle of the co! lision of the north bound motor iu number 15 from Portland Suturdu: morning; in which a score of uerson were badly injured brought in a re port Sunday evening; completely ex onerating the railroad men in chargi and laying; the blame on a brokei brake rod. The reort wut compilei by the board of inquiry after a com pletu investigation and a survey ot the wreck. Many witnesses were ex umincd. The report in full is publish ed elsewhere on this page. All of the persons injured in tin Binasliup Saturday are doing; niceh nnd will recover from their injuries None was hurt as seriously as first believed. V. C. Karle special examiner o the state railroad commission was ii Medford Sunday investigating the nf i&wti'.id-Htntvd to the board of in quiry that he concurred in their re port although he did not sign it. II stated that it was his belief that tin accident wns not due to the fauli of any person. Sunday lmndrods of persons fron this city visited the scene of tin wreck and many carried souvcniis away with them. The tracks fron the city to the Crater Lake junctioi were crowded nil afternoon. According; to the report of tin board the dnmnge to the engine 01 train 1."i will amount to some .f-'iO The damage to the motor was phtoei' at r00. The wrecked car was taken tr Rneliurg for repair on Sunday. II was in tow of a freight (rain am' was bound with chains in order tc keep it upright. The motor has been supplanted foi the time being by the little old stul train that previously made the trip. The motor will not be in commission again for a month. thoughTIiFnd is iidbnukbt Man Giving Name of George Brown Arrested In Salem Detective cf Portland Says Man Answers De scription. SALEM, Ore., March 27. A man given tho name of George Brown nnd who answers the description given out by the Portland police, wn( ar retted hero this morning on suspicion of being the murderor of little Bai bara Holzman of Portland. Detec tive Joo Day of Portland who is herir sjiys the man answers tho descrip tion. Day will leave with the prison er on thu Oregon Electric at 2 o'clock for Portland. Says Correspondent Hid. WASHINGTON, 1). C. Mured 27. Fearing injury to the Italian cele bration of the unity of that count r, Marquis Cusaui Confalouiori, Italian Ambassador to the United Statos to day made formal denial of statcinonU by n United Press corre.pondeit in Rome that Cholera, jJaguo and a threatened strike have endangered the success of tit Italian exposition Marquis Confaloniori doelarod that,; idatrue had nevor appeared in Italy, and that chulir.i there has been ex tant since January JO. 1 Official Report of Into the Collision MKDFORD, Ore., March 'JO, 1911. REPORT OP BOARD OF INQUIRY, MOTOR CAR No. (Kl, TRAIN No. 24, COLLIDING WITH TRAIN NO. 15, CRATER LAKE JUNCTION, 10:31, A. M., MARCH 25, 1011. Train No. 24, being motor ear 03, had an ordor to meet train No. T at Crater Lake Junction. No. 24 left Medford nt 10:28 a. m. When ap proximately :!()() feet from the south switch nt Crater Lake Junction, into which they were to enter, Motorman B. W. Riggs made n reduction of air to apply brakes, and found that brake applied and released at once, then made an emergency application without effect, then applied baud brak" without effect, reversed his engines, at the same time whistling for train No. 15 to back up. No. 24 was moving about ten miles per hour and No. 15 hnd juM started to move backward when collision occurred. The motor enr was well filled withe passengers, a number of whom were more or less injured but none fatally. The damage to the motor, car is estimated at $500.00, to engine on train No. 15, $50.00. No other damage to equipment, or to track; The board, after hearing the testimony of witnesses, made a close inspection of the motor car, discovering broken brake hanger, which per mitted the brake beam to drop unto rail, rendering the brakes inopera tive, and it is our opinion that this hanger broke, at the time molormnn made first application of air brake to stop, as refered to above, and we find further that the accident was caused by brake hanger breaking on account of a concealed flaw. The board exonerates the railroad coiiipnny and its employes from all responsibility or blame for the accident. (Signed) J. M. KINNEY, Motor Car Expert, EDGAR IIAPER. Lumberman. II. G. NICKLSON, Furniture and Ildw. II. E. WILLIAMS, Capitalist. Dealer. CHINA GRANTS War is Averted by Celestial Empire Giving in Terms of Concession Have Not Been Made Public Con ditions all Met. PEKIN, March 27. War in the far east today is believed to have been averted by China's unreservedly granting of Russin's demands foi certain trado concessions in Mongo lia. The terms of the foreign boards note are not made public hero only the statement that Russia's condi tions have been met being made. SAURIES YET FQRJSHLAND Sunday Theaters May Still Be Run Bonds Are Issued for Paving of Street Intersections Over 800 Votes Cast. ASHLAND, Ore., March 27 A special election was held Saturday to voto on three propositions, the first whether to repeal the ordinance passed lately by the city council about closing the theaters on Sundays which was repealed by a vote of 4(i!) for and 300 against; tho second to decide about issuing; .$.'15,000 for pav ing streot intersections, which was carried by Ml to 208; third, to de cide for the second time whether tj give the mayor a salary of $00 por month and $.10 to conncilmen, which was lost by 51 1 to 283. The total vote cast was 835. GRAND JURY FREES BOY ON CHARGE OF STEALING The grand Jury ?t Harry Curry at liberty today. Curry was accused of Ktealing a watch from a pal of his. Tho two boys woro slightly In toxicated Saturday nlnht. Curry and his frlond went to tho Plaza for sup per. Hero, It was claimed, Curry llftod a watch worth J29.G0. He was arrestod by Chlof Hall and takon to Jacksonville Sunday by Dep uty Sheriff Shoarer. At the hoarlng It was provon that Curry was so far under the Inflttonce ot liquor that he did not know he had a watch. That thero was no Intent to stoat It; that In all probability his partner left It on tho chair or else after thoy went to bod together the boys misplaced tho watch. Curry was badly worried to think RUSSIA M D the Board of Inquiry of Motor and Train M. J. BUCKLEY. Asst. flenl. Mummer. F. .1. GRAHAM, Asst. Genl. Manager. L. R. FIELDS, Superintendent. T. W. YOUNGER, Asst. Superintendent. T. WILL NOT PROSECUTE Says Ulrich Did the "Manly Thing" as He Believed Colored Educator Was Kidnapped and Acted Ac cordingly. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 27. Further indication that Hooker T. Washington will not prosecute Albert Ulrich, his recent assailant, was shown today when Washington re iterated that Ulrich "did tho manly thing." "lie thought I was a kidnaper," said Dr. Washington, "and acted ac cordingly." IN BATTLESHIPS Deck of Old Texas Literally Torn to Pieces Splinters are Everywhere Entire Crew Would Have Been Wunded if on Board. WASHINGTON, D. C March 27. Tho elimination of ovory stick of wood from subsequent United States battleships has already been decided upon as one of tho Imperative re forms In Dreadnaught construction, as a result ot tho firing tests with tho San Marcos, which has just been wrecked, The wooden decks of the old battleship wero literally torn to pieces and splinters wero every where. Groat gashes two and three feet long wore cut below decks where wood has been largely used In the construction of officers' qttartors, tho havoc was even greater. It waB as serted that undoubtedly tho whole crow of tho San Marcos, had thoy been on board, would have been wounded by flying splinters. For tho woodon docks, it Is plan ned to substitute a corrugated steel. To provont tho quarters bolow tho outsldo deck from becoming too hot by radiation from tho steel deck above a doublo celling Is planned. Hit By Train. OAKLAND, Cnl.. March 27.--Struok by the San Jose local as he wan walking along tho First street trorile this morning, Edward Houston, a teamster, was instantly killed and his body hurled into the bny. Hous ton enrne here from Coalinga. that ho had boon accused of stoallng, as he has borne a good reputation up to this time. Attornoy Mulkoy stuted that he boliovod tho boy en tirely Innocent. Ho Is outplayed at tho Natatorlum. 0 MO WO PEJC 15 TALKED By REBELS I Limontour Will Soon Meet Madero When Latter Will Present His De mands Complete Change is Want ed. ' DECLARE PEACEHS NOT TO BE THOUGHT OF NOW Diaz and Carrie Must Go Say Rebel Leaders Amer ca Must Not Interfere. KL PASO, Tex., March 27. The representatives of tho Insurgent Mex icans hero and tho federals In Juarez aro talking peaco tpday. The junta hero predicts that within the present week Minister Llmnntour lor Diaz will meet either horo or In Juarez with Francisco Madero, when tho lat ter will formally present his demands, on tho granting of vjhlclt will depend his cessation of further hostilities. That n complete ichaiiKe In Mex ico, and nothing lean will bo demand ed by tho Maderos 'was declared by Alfonso Madero. "Peace Is Impossible,1 he said, "un til Diaz and Corral go. It Is untruo thnt tho Insurgents have agreed to lay down their arms pending a settle ment the settlement must bo made first. ' "If America Intervenes In Moxlco It will moan a most bloody war. Tho Insurgents would Inimodlatoly cease opposing the federals' and would Join, with tho Diaz faction' In fighting the Americans. Wc will tqqione even morf al Intervention, nnd will fight to tWe death against nrmed Interference." Alfonso Mndero said that Llman tour had remained In Washington until he (Alfonso) had communicat ed with Francisco Madoro In tho flold 'and obtained a promise that Llman- toui's passago through tho Insurrec to territory would bo safeguarded. He said that tho rebels might easily have captured Llmautoiir had thoy desired to do so. SAN FRANCISCO, March 27. Uollof that tho Madero family, tho backbone of tho Moxlcan revolution, has received peaco proposals from former Ambassador do la Harra, which may end the revolution, Is general hero today. Alfonso and Ju lio Madero aro hero awaiting tho ar rival of GtiBtavo Madero and Fran cisco Madero, senior, from Washing ton, nnd tho family conference will be held either hero or In tho Chlhun liua mountains. Tho wholo question of poaco, It Is believed, hinges upon tho attitude of Francisco Madoro, Junior, the self styled provisional president of Mex ico. If ho accepts tho pcato plan, the rebellion will end. Reports from Moxlco today say that tho rebel activities aro Increasing and today the vigilance of tho American troops patrolling tho border Is re doubled. PANIC COMES AS RESULT OF FIRE Girls at Work in Clothing House of New York Are Startled By Cry of Fire Two are Seriously Injured as Result. NEW YORK, March 27. Nervous through their oi' the diaitor in the Triangle Shirtwaut Company's fac tory, 125 girls employed by tho oloth ing linn of Matron and Jncobson, in a 12 Htory building' on Weal Eigh teenth streot today wero panic mtriok en by tho cry of fire and two of them were seriously hurt in the stampede which followed. Howie Toreliinhki, wlioio coiifein was killed in the Triangle fire, fainted while at hor work and fell from hur chair. Than womoone &houtod "Ji'ro" and the rush to safety was on. The girls wero quieted after u dohpornto battle nt the oxits. Tho two mot sorioiisly injured wero takon to a hospital. S TOD c T T ILL EQUIPMENT HERE Clarke Hcncry Construction Company Plains to Begin Work on Jackson Street Soon Are Now Hauling ' Supplies. CITY LAYS WATER MAIN STUBS IN A HURRY Will Complete Present Contract By July First and Be Ready for More. Tho grading machinery having ar rived and camps established, the Clarke-Henoray Construction com pany plan to start work grading Jack son boulevard on Wednesday morn ing. Tho yaro now hauling material and supplies to that street, prepara tory to starting work. Meanwhile tho city is vory busy putting In stub sower and water mains for future use. Sunday thore was a scene of much activity on the street, hb tho city officials did not caro to delay the paving program. Tho graders arrived from Sacra mento Saturday ovonlng and wero un loaded and set up today. CampB havo been established and tho work on tho season's program will soon bo under way. "I bellevo that wo can got tho pres ent contract out of tho way before July," stated Arthur W. Clarke, su 'nerlntondent of the company, this morning, "as wo aro ready to follow closely on the heels ot the gradors. Wo got a Into start last season, but this year wo will bo off early and asldo from this wo have our plant ready for operation." PAPERS ROAST NEWTORK FIRE Strong Editorial 'Condemnation of Saturday's Disaster is Voiced By Every Paper in New York New Laws Are Urged. NEW YORK, March 27. Edito rial condemnation of tho strongest sort Is voiced hero today by Now York nowBpapors as tho aftermath of Saturday's deadly fire. Some of the expressions follew: Times: New laws aro nooded. Tho enforcement of existing statutes Is Imperative. World; Loft buildings by the doz en are being built In Now York which are legal death traps. An enormous army of worklugmeu and women must sctarvo or, In tho law phraso, "assumo tho risk' of working In them." Tribune: It Is not tho act of God, but the net of man, responsibility for which Is so widely spread that It may never bo traced. American: This frightful catas trophe Is no more accident. It was a crime. The deaths wero murders, for which tho community Is responsible. I'ress: Responsibility Is too dif fuse, Tho grand jury and tho district attorney will do tholr best, but they will waver between this set of offend ers and that and so on, until finally thoy will feel llko Indicting nobody. Gaynor to Answer. NKW YORK, March 27. Although he declined to make ii statement, is believed today Hint Mayor flaynor is preparing to answer Magistrate Cnrrignn'a charge that tho "town is more open Hum under former police chief Dovery." Corrigau doolurod that gambling liouo, infamous resorts and graft are as rampant and profitable as ev er, that strong arm men operate j uncliooked, and that torious crimes go unpiininliud. "We havo had fifteen months of government by epintlti," said Corri gau, "and this is the result." The mnyorV auswor was that ho would mnko his reply in his "own way and at hid own time," n -TTTtttfHt HEAVY FROST TONIGHT Profesor P. J. 0'Gara is sued a warning to the local orchardists this afternoon to the affect that a heavy kill ing frost will occur tonight in low places. Call Medford tele phone central after 6 p. m. for further warning. f -f 4- 4- 4 PROFESSOR GETS IN BAD WITH WOMEN, HE SAYS THEY ARE GREAT BURDEN In First Stage She Was Slave In Sec- ond n Co-0Mrntlv' Laborer Now in Third Is Parasite. NI3W YOIUC. March 27. Profes sor Scltt Nearlng of tho economic de mrtmont of tho University ot Penn lylvnnla la "in bad" with tho women odny aB a result of a few remarks ho choso to make concerning them. Hero Is what ho said: "If the women of today continue to be the economic burdens to men Mint they now nro, thoy will ruin tltlp 'ountry Just as tho dissolute women of Uomo ruined that empire. "Tho woman of todny Is In the 'bird Btago. First, alio was tho slave creature that might bo beaten by nor lord and master. Socond, came i stato of co-operatlvo labor with the :ookstovo and tho loom. Now we have tho parasite woman. Tho whole Idea of tho woman of the middle nnd upper classes Is to spongo upon the men." ZERO WEATHER AGAIN PREVAILS THROUGHOUT THE EASTERN STATES General ltnlns and Snows Ave Pre. dieted Frost King's ltelgu Will Utnt a Week. WASHINGTON. IV C, March 2T Heginning today temperatures In low the zero murk i(i nn average wil wijiiiiii wiur mum iiimiio ciiiuiny mini of the rockieH, while relatively higl' temperatures will bo prevalent vos of the rocky mouutaiiiH, this week according to an according of tli weather hiirenu. General raiiiH are predicted for tin eastern states and snows in the great lakes region early this week with ai eastward movement o ft ho stonr area that was over the Missouri val ley Sunday. This will bo followed b. colder weather, tho statement do clarcs. Toward tho end of tho week warm er woather is promised for the ens' whilo lowered temperatures are pre dicted for the north west. MAN BELIEVES THAT DOUGHNUT EXPLODED; 'TWAS HIS REV0LVEF Takes Policeman, Doctor, Two Utirnon and Several Oilier to 1'oiivlmo 1 1 1 nt of Ills Krror. SAN FRANCISCO, Cnl.. March 27 It took one policeman, one doctoi two nurses and several employes sev eral hours today to convince Nick I'appas that he had not been wquud ed in an explosion of a doughnut I'appas' fondness for broiled dough nuts led him to order a plateful la( night. Tho pastry failed to please however, and in anger I'appas threw the "sinkers" to tho floor. A loud explosion followed nnd I'appas fell with a missile in his leg. The victim persisted in belioving that tho doughnut exploded until he was convinced that his revolver had fallen and been discharged simultan eously with his casting the doughnut from him. Explosion Wrecks Home. OAKLAND, Cnl., March 27. An cxplohion of unknown origin wreck ed the drying house of the California Giant Cap Works at Stoge early to day. The concussion wan distinctly felt at Herkoloy and gave riso to a roport that the powdor works at Pin ole had blown up. No one was ser iously injured and the dninago will not exceed .ffiOO. Three Aro Suicides. SKATTLB, Wash., March 27.--Throo men, two whito nnd one Chin ese, killed tliemsolvoB todny. J, M. Slauo, u ronl ostato dealer shot hitiihulf; Wall Sing, a Chinese, hanged himself with a towol in his laundry, and floorgo Van, n Syrian fruit dealer of Dullard shot him self. Wah Sing's suioido is in (ho first in case the history of Seattle whoro a Chiuumaii took his own Hfo. 143 BODIES ARE RECOVERED Y POLICE; 14 Newspapers Raising Funds to Aid Destitute District Attorney In vestigatesUnion Labor Plans to Make Holocaust an Object Lesson. FUNERAL WILL BE ONE GREAT LONG PROCESSION New York Stircd to its Depths By Traged Seeking for Cause of Flames. NEW YORK, March 27. Ono hun dred and forty three blackened and mangled bodies, of which all but 30 nave been ldcutiticd, with 14 in hos pitals, of whom five will die, was tho final deatli toll this afternoon of the victims of tho Triangle- Waist company's fire in the Asch building. Four fifths of the dead wero girls. With every newspaper in tho city raising funds to aid the dostitute fam ilies of the toilors who perished in the fire trap; witli District Attorney Whitman necking to convict tiiose responsible for tho horror, nnd Fire Marshall Doers holding a strict ex amination into tho cause of tho dis aster, union labor is planning to mnko if the holocaust an object lesson Which will prevent such sqcrifico of life in the future. It has been ar ranged that tho funerals of the vic timti, or most, of them, will bo 'held tomorrow in ono great procession which will drive homo to Now Yorkers the need of adequate protection for its toilers. ICscapes Miraculous. Vetoran firemen today after n sur voy of the burned building, declared it was miraculous that anyone es caped alive. At noon today tho line of thoso seeking admittance to tho temporary morgues wore tho dead lie extended for six blocks. Only half n dozen of tho weeping womon, who composed the greater part of tho crowd, wero allowod in tile building at ono time. Declaring that IfiO lofty buildings aro in such condition that thoy nt any timo furnish a repition of Sat urday's firo and horror District At torney Wliituinn started an investiga tion, the result of which it is hoped will find a remedy for tho conditions existing. Laxity of Law. Whilo some officials say that tho laxity of tho law, rathor than any one's criminal negiigaiico, is respon sible for the toll of death exacted by the fire in the Ascen building, Whit man will ask the grand jury to probe the fire fully mid, if any persons havo been negligent, ho will demiuid a long prison term for them. Assistant District Attorneys Manloy, Dublin ami Hostwick havo been dotniled to probe the horror to tho bottom. Whitman differs from the expres sions of other officials and states that he belioves tho building inspec tion department of tho city has been criuiinaly lax. He is convinced that if there had been an nutomatin firo alarm in tho fifteen minutes would Have been saved and no lives lout. Doors Opened Inward. Whitman' investigation shows that tho liijr doors IcadiiiL' to the stairwav of the burned building opened in ward. Fire Chief Croker reports that ho found dozens of charred bod ies piled against thoso doors on tho ninth floor, iudieatiuc that tho fitsit girls arriving there hnd been unable to open doors inward owing to tlm crush ot their frenzied follow work ers, and that all of them, piled in heaps, died wildly battering against Hie bar to safety. Survivors of tho tracedv todav ns. sort that tho doors of tho Triangle hiurtwnist laetory woro looked when tho alarm of firo was uivon. Tt was also learned today that tho city budding dopartmont, which controlled tho Asoh buildiutr. had not rnmiirod tho plncing of firo escapes on tho st met uro when the horror occur red, Slay Havo Ileeii Cigarette. Whitman and his assistants nm examining fifty wilnosaos of tho 1iol- (Continued on Taa I.) n ? j r -