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University News Office & (? Medford Mail Tribune CLEARINGS Unuk clearings today were $'!(), 17.18. weather: Clear liar. U0.70, Ma. 80.5 Alln. mi, Mean til. FORTY-FIRST YEAR. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY. MARCH 31, 1911. No. 8. r '. V 4 iT el kr . &-i V . CHILI KIDNAPPED 12,000 IS PAID BV FRANTIC FATHER Four Men Force Mother at Revol ver's Point to Dress Child and De liver Him to Them Refuse Her Offers of Jewelry for Child. WHEN $12,000 IS PAID CHILD IS RESTORED Is Grandchild of Judge Waldo, Gen eral Counsel for Santa Fe Rall- ro.-.d C- tv;n r, M..u!i dl. Iiut u!- t K ur inn .' k ' i Kiaadch'Itl ot J'iU" I..' -lull- h t. "i ' t'.. ill it I i '.'fc't'''!. nnd returned him o ts al . vuiwn of $VJ 0fo had bctn ui. nure WVOni is-iv '.hUv . ti liit Ififinnin rf b -i o i- 'J nj ri'ii ir.aK The ki4"v4tt8f inrrl at K.' t ts Vefpm Mud ttyt baby vteiin w i the lu-jaiWhf wmi 61' Altrnv.) A. T. 17" (?, . I Oi. WedndMisjy ro'jrfit .i uiid.ngiit .'...,. . -.,... i hunt, four mtuked nv pp.Tr.d n me Fiofurh villa, con.ad Mrs. R,r ft Vrilli revo.'vor tid ordered hr to lake ln?r oliiUl fTttu its miI., -e mui uu oe.ii-rr in nu. luriu. . ,y , ) 1' mi iI iffitft .liiwliension or irv ( r ,. ... h..bj, "Mra. JRa'Htb of fried the kid-j nufwra -ill hr jvur . id ili Wj Tl "! ' tli:-y ' mid spur. ' pjj.. fj t p- P J mm !',, -.if "rfrlv vii-'d aid ' !' '' "' ih' kid'mih'tjs t,af.,"'t ny tjwnit.-. -rtni U t' kfrr dei..'. r.itjr MViOxO t.) Mib l( htnn hf ri"' " 111. iit dt i .w-i' mliot. tin i ' t,v it v c.-' r.i'i )i-wi 'ur.Hit.i r..u Ji iiu k' -.y: w -1' i, V-' J. 'f- i. .r.-rw 'Nits told to ro W'.i ' th 1 r-. of In r I., ! 1,0.. t. ,r . ml: '"ll T,d,lV i'f. .i. ' ' ' i uout(!,' I 'i n I .i i 'i '' Al day Tliiirsday tno i.vii'i ' kidnaped child endured the killing siibpuiiH nnd at the Appointed houi Hint ni'lit (he red lilit i'liiined iVom tho doMfjnnted window-. Aceoniini; to instructions, William Holers, the child's uncle, tlwn left in an auloiiiohile for Onama, l." miles east of Las Yejjns, where lie had liubcii instructed to pay over the 1110110'. When Holers arrived at the designated spot tho four masked men stepped out of their eonceahnont and ordered him to keep hi- hands on the steering wheel of his machine. Then they hcarehed his pockets, got the $12,000 m cash nnd the letter of in struction they had leit. Hogers was instructed to go to Kearne'b Gap, 1.") miles in nonther direction, whore he was told how to find the child. Hoger.-, complied to the letter and found the child asloap in an arroyo in tho mountains. The bnby had boon carefully coutred with a blanket and, screoned from the chilly winds, was sleeping roundly. Putting on all speed, Itogors nt once returned to East Los Vegas and delivered the. baby to his mothor. Ho thou gnvo tho alarm and within an hour the hunt wns on for the kidnap ers. No trace, however, was found, and today it is bolioved the four luuc made good their escape. SIX ABE KILLED BY T Cyclone Destroys Town in Alabama! .. ,nn r- unncac Uilnorl UU uvcr luu rami imugn "'H"u ... ., , court was marclful ss the prtsonor From Face of the Earth Several w 0Bjy a ua and bis first crime 'and because b plwtdM slcknosa is lniue, the of hte poverty. j He stole a pair of men's shoe ., iri.ni cu'from tke Hoya,l cute rooming house persons are deiid nd lour wriously'J injured todsy turn the ri-ult of a cv- elosa whkh dostroyod Umeun, - r . A...u,.. Ii .iiifnl .Monrut) eoMBj miroe eounty lt mgm. More than 100 farw hout- er, oulirelv demolished and tree ana crop throughout the entire dwi net about the town wt-ro levthd to the Would Swap Saddle for Toga j& j& j& - j& Buffalo Bill Is Out 'After Senatorship KEr- Hvi09KBnHB March 31. -It Ik stated here that Colonel William lldl) plans to loitnrl out his career as one of the grouty vost by becoming tho first United States senator from dony the report. Colonel Cody has established a ' permanent camp In the Santa Oatnllim mountains. a dozen buildings In It, and he rules like an Arab tyrle, from which he can look down on rolling ort where there Is room for 20,000,000 persons. sneiaaro n.'. i. ,,a4in .. m , !" "'" THAW ACftlN TO SfcEK FREE DOM Mrs. Thaw Prepares to Wage An- Governor Whips legislature Into other Legal Battle on "Behalf of Line on Income Tax Amendment Son Says Harry's Privileges Removes All Immediate Danger of Have Been Curtailed at Matteawan 2CEW YORK, March 31. Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw is. preparing to day to wage another legal battle for the release of her aon, Harry K. Thaw, slayer of Stanford White, from Matteawan asylum. Two wooks ago Thaw was removed to a ward in which are several violently insane persons," and Mrs. Thaw contends that Harry has boon deprived of his; daily exercise ami that ho is not per mitted to smoke or read or uso a knife. Dr. Hnker, noting superintendent of Matteawan denied that Tlmw'i privilege had been cuit. tiled. JUDGECALKINSTEMPERS JUSTICE WITH MERCY, Harney Ballard, charged with lar- cc-n from a building, was allowed (to enter a plea of slmplo larwny. Judge Calkins ImpoMd a sontancs of ;Co days. Sentence was suipondod on !good bhav!or. Larceny of a bulldinii is felony, slinnle larcny a misdemeanor. Tli -verI1ent u gv,g' . m(.h a,t(,niloI1 ,u tilo dtveloiinntl Qt POU8try I exacted to tiro- (llloe nougU fueI to 8l,H)lv tli homo . - J - JSI M ME TO RECONSIDER Amendment's Defeat. AUGUSTA, Mo., March 31. Undor the whip of Governor 1'laisted, the Mniuo legislature lato yesterday rowrsud its earlirtr action and rati fied the proposed federal income tax nmotidmeut. This removes all imme diate danger of the amendment's de feat. After the legislature had turned down the proposed law Governor L'laistod threatened to veto moabiires indiscriminately. Ho pointed out that the douioortaic platform in Maine hud pledged tho part to favor the amendment, and after n hot fight both JmiisfK reversed the antago nistic v .to ihev had taken earlier. DEMOCRATS 10 REPORT ON WOOL TOMORROW WASHINGTON, I). C, March 31. In order to make a report tomor row tho new democratic ways and men ijs committee is rushing through its work today. Aftor ptfeutiiiK '! recommenda tions on organization it i believed that tho committee will submit only one ravUeil tariff schedule. ThU will bo the wool schedule. Orchardists to Meet. TJyi Rojfue River Horticultural so ciety will tiicet tomorrow afternoon ftt 2 p, in. The now constitution will oome up for adoption and also change In by laws. Aftor tho regular session of busi ness tho society will hear a loeturo prepared by Professor O'fl.tru on "Lead Arm-mite Sprujiiur." Alt mem ber are mged to attend. AFFINITY SCBflFS ON HUBBY AGAIN 0. J. Ellcr, Who Came to Medford and Took Wife Back When She Was Hungry, is Driven From Home hy Affinity. THIS TIME ELLER ASKS POLICE FOR ASSISTANCE Hard Luck Follows on Trail of Man Who Seemed Willing to Stand for Almost Anything. CH1CO, March 31. O. J. Ellcr of this city has shown thai he is a long suffering man but the limit to his forebcarnnco has been reached. First ho gave his wife to her affin ity and when sho was hungry fook her back but now that the affinity has kicked him out of his own home ho swears that it is too much and has applied to tho police for assist ance in righting his matrimonial wrongs. Eller is the man, who, in October, gave his wife to n star boarder nnd waved them n fond farewell when they loft to tako up life togother in Medford, Or. Later when tho wife wrote that she was hungry ho went to Medford nnd brought the woman back with him, her affinity follow ing on tho noxt train, and who, on reaching this city took up his resi dence again with the Ellors. Since Mrs. Ellor's recent return to this- city Howcn, her nffinity hns been making his home with tliOEllers, who live by the Dayton road. Eller appealed to the liolico for a warrant today for Uowen's arrest stating that he got into n nuarrel with his wife's nflinity over. tUp ownership of a waicn aiiu unit nowcn assaulted him and threw him out of the house He declares that his wife took side with the affinity and tho two of them drove him away. It is understood that Eller had given tho watch to his wifo and that she turned it ovci to Bowon. Eller says he is incapable of .stand ing conditions longer and wants the authorities tq take a hand in the game. WAPPENSTEIN IS AGAIN ARRESTED Former Chief of Police Is at Liberty Under $65,000 Bonds Was Ar rested on Third Charge of Receiv ing Briho Money Yesterday. SEATTLE, Wiihh.,, March 31. Arrested for tho third time on the charge of having received a bribe, former Chief of Police Nynppeiibtein today is at liberty under $(55,000 bonds. Wappcnstein was arrested yester tlyu afternoon on the charge of ask ing and receiving a bribe of $1100 on July 5, PJ10, from Gideon Tapper and Clarence Gerald in return for an alleged promise not to intorfcre with the operations of tho Paris and Mid way, two disorderly houses. He was placed under $15,000 bonds in addi tion to the .")(), 000 bond that insured his liberty on the two other charges against him. Wapponstoin wns nt Aberdeen pre paring for a fishing trip when he vwis rooallod to Seattle by a hum; dis tanco telephone inossage from bis at torney, Will II. Morris. JUSTICE TAYLOR IS ERIENO TO CUPID Justlco Talor marriod two couples this week. On Wednesday at tho Nuuu hotel he marriod MIhs Lydla J. Roberts to A. L. Lamb. Hoth of tho partloB were tC yoars of ago. On Thursday ho Joined Maud Mil ler I'ornoll and John Hoyd Horrlot in tho bonds or wedlock. Ilotli lived in tho Apploguto valloy. V. Zann of Sams valley was ut Medford Monday, MORGAN PEANS BANKING TRUST t Wall Street Buzzing With Report That Big Interests Plan to Put All Small Local Banks and Trust Com panies Out of Business. GOVERNMENT WILL TRY TO STOP THE SCHEME Gentleman's Agreement Is Formed Morgan Grabs Four Banks In New York. NEW YORK. March 31. Wall Street today is buzzing with tho re port that Morgan, Rockefeller and the Kiihn-Loeb interests are plan ning to force all the small local banks and trust companies in the country out of business. Their pur chase of the Hnhk of Commerce, the Equitable Trust and other companies is taken as the first blow in the cam paign. The ostensible purpose of tho com bination's move, Wall Street, believes will be to prevent scandals in tho banking world but the real purpose, it is said, is tho formation of a money trust to dominate tho country and to gobble up tho proposed cen tra bank. Financiers say todnv that only prompt action by the gov ernment can prevent the scheme go ing through. Morgan, Kuhn-Loeb and Rockefel ler are known to have formed a "gentleman's agreement" after the 1007 panic. As a result Morgan gobbled four'banks when the North cm bank of New York went to Iho wall. Since then ho nnd his allies hnvo-gained control of the Hank of Commerce, and notwithstanding do- 'iials, Tinauciers here ussert thoro is ho doubt that tho huge funds of the Equitable are also in the power of the clique. RUSSIAN TROOPS TO Although Czar Expresses Satisfac tion at China's Reply to Demands Force Along Line is Rapidly Being Increased. VICTORIA, B. C, March 31. Tliough Russia is expressing satis faction at China's reply to Russian trade demands made recently, Hus sion forces are being increased along the frontiers of tho Chineso provinc of Hi nnd equipment is being added to also, according to dispatches to day brought by the Empress of Ja pan and the Dalekaya Okraiuu oi Vladivostok. Large forces of Russian troops' have readied Katu, and they were expected to movo on to Kolum, ac cording to the telegraphic, advices li I'ekin hcnt by the Chineso agent at Iviilum. It in reported also that tho provincial governor demanded troop to rowifct. Telegraphic advices to Pekin from Sing Sing wore to the offoet that several divisions of Russian troops including infantry, Cossack cavalry and artillerv have been mobilized in eastern Turkestan ready for an in vasion of China. WIEE ARE RECONCILED OAKLAND Cal., March 31. Joa quin Miller, the poot, accompanied by his daughtor Juuntta and his wifo, to whom he has boon reconciled aftor an ostrangnicnt of ten years, has loft Fablolu Hospital after throo weeks of serious Illness and today Is at "Tho Heights" his ploturosquo homo ut Frullvalo Tho trip was niado by automobile and tho venerable poet stood tho Journoy well. Throo airship trips ucross the un explored region of tho Island of New Guinea aro planned by Gorman sci entists to make obsorvatlonB to aid muu who plan to traverse It on foot. NN JOAQUIN PENAL SERVITUDE FOR 120-YEAR TERM FOR WHITE SLAVER f f f f f 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 If Charles Peters, who was arrested In this city, serves tho counts of nn indictment for white slavory which wns road to him in tho fedoral court in Portland yesterday, Fathor Tlmo will have to ex tend his life greatly. With tho possibility of something more than 120 years of penal servltudo before him, tho young man concluded It was up to him to right tho enso, nnd ho was given ono weok In which to plead. Ho is held for bringing Minnie Hill from Redding, Cat., to this city on more than one occasion, in violation of the white slavo law. Each trip may bo made three soparato counts of an indictment, and tho grand jury gnvo tho accused man tho limit. Minnie has been taken to tho liiBano asylum, whore sho Is rogarded as practical ly hopeless. Nick Cosmos, a Oreok who was ncciiBed with Potors, hub been vindicated of complicity by tho grand Jury. Potors was arrested In Mod ford and taken to Portland. -t- t -t- 4 Hi n4f NEW JERSEY MAY MAKE IT A CRIME TO WEAR HAREM SKIRT ON STREET Can Ho Sentenced to Imprisonment for No Ih'sh Titan Natural Life If Itlll Passes, us Seems Likely. TRENTON, N. J March 31. Any woman found woariiig a harem skirt shall bo adjudged guilty of a high misdemeanor and sentenced to im prisonment for no less than her nat ural life. This is the gist of a bill pending in the state legislature today ami which will likely pussV While Assemblyman Donnelly, author of the measure, was introduc ing the bill, women in the gallery hissed, nnd several wearing "near harems" beat a hasty retreat. NEW SALOON LAW GOES INTO EFFECT ON NEXT MONDAY llien All tho Saloons Must Have it Cleaning lTp Day New Hegu- latloiiH to lie Unforced. Tho now license ordlnanco rccontly passed by tho city council strictly logulntlng Medford saloons, will be nut in effect Monday, according to an announcement by Mayor W. H. Canon this morning. Thon tho sa loons must obsorvo tho now closing hours and other provisions. House Skates 12 Miles. WESTPORT, N. V March 30. Pcoplo living along the shore of Lake Cliamplain were astonished to sco a house running away across the ice. Tho owner of Willsboro Point, a peninsula opposite Burlington, wished to move a house about half n mile over the ice. While the work men were arranging the skids n great gust of wind struck the house and it started at a lively gait up tho hike. It was soon traveling at a 10-inile clip. The wight of the 40-foot two story building us it twisted, tumbled, twilled and turned terrified the fish hut colony. Tho house finally banged diagonally on a ridge and came to ,i standstill niter a l'J-milo run. Tries Suicide Onco a Day. RICHMOND, Va., March 31. Clar once Moles every day tried to kill himself thus; Monday, gas; Tues day, attempted drowning; Wednes day, threw himself in path of street car; Thursday, hanging; Friday, tried to choke himself with a stick; Saturday, attempted to butt his brains out in police station coll, On the seventh day ho rested. New Code Out. Lord's new compilation of tho Or egon statutes is now out. It consists of three voluems of legal matter, with u combined total of 5758 paged exclusive of theiudieos. Tho now compilation is said to bo ono of the l'inoht printed. It is bound m buokram. Quakes Felt. LITTLK BOCK, Ark., March 31. Sharp earthquako shocks were ro ported ut noon today In the southoru section of ArkatiRUB. The vibrations luBtod 30 seconds, TIN E STILL Premature Publication of Reports That Diaz Has Agreed to Treat With Insurgents is Believed to Bo Responsible for Delay. ' " J i FUTURE MOVES WILL BE HELD FROM PUBLIC Friction Develops eBtwcen Members of Madero Family Father Would Save Property. SAN ANTONIO, Texas, March 31. Premature publication of reports that President Diaz has agreed to treat with the Mexican insurgents is bolioved hero today to bo responsi ble for the delay in the pence nego tiations. As Diaz refuses to ncgotiato pub licly with the "outlaws" it is believed nil future moves will bo secret, Gut that the president will sond envoys to Chihuahua to present proposals to Madoro, Thoro is no concealment here that thoro is friction among the members of tho Madero family. Francisco Ma doro, sr., is anxious to snve his prop erty. His Nuevo Leon bank at Mon terey is suffering through tho insur rection and his department store in the same city has boon closed by tho government. The eldor Madero is un popular with the rebels, who assert that ho is but lukewarm in their cnjiso. ' To add to the difficulties of those who seek peace it is said to bo un eortain in that Mngoii, the leader of the rebels in Lower California, will bo willing to negotiate. Gustavo Madoro denied today u report that Drauilo Hernandez, who is bearing penco proposals to Fran cisco Madero, has been captured by tho federals. LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 31. Ricardo Magon, head of tho revolu tionary junta in Los Angeles, whon told of United Press dispatches from San Antonio, Toxus. to the effect that ho was against pending penco negotiations, anid teday: "While I have not been officially approached on tho subject, you may say for mo that I will opjMiso any overtures for peueo that do not rec ognizo the demands of the insurrcc tos in full." EL PASO, Texas, March 31. Con flicting reports pro coming today from Douglas and Nognlos, Arizona, relative to a roortod battle at Ures Mexico, in which 1000 persons aro said to have been killed and wounded. American officials n( Nogales de clare the affray was merely a long distance skirmish botwoen 100 fed erals and 80 rebels. Douglas reports, on tho con'rury, insist that it was a big fight with many killed. No direct confirmation of either story has yet been obtained. COAL STRIKE IS SURE TO COME Michel Miners Take Decided Stand Against Continuing Work After Termination of Present Agreement Which Expires Today. FERNIE, B. C, March 31. Conl miners ut Michel have taken tho samo decided stand against continuing work after tho torminntiou of thu present ngreomont which expires to day, as did tho Fomio nnd Hosmor men. At last night's mass meeting thoro wero no dissenting votos from tho resolution to stand by tho action of tho district officers in efforts (o nrrango a now agreement with tho operators nt tho Calgury conference. Three thousand men now have de clared in favor of thoir officers and there is scarcely a doubt about the remainder of tho looal unions taking mo tmiuu action, ' WM ... r "mff- ( earth. - "