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jvx CLEARINGS hank cu:aiunjh IH:I!I,US!7.75 Medford Mail Tribune WEATHER F,ilr Max 7S.", Mill II, Menu 58. Korty-I'lrm mr. Unity -HI Mh Vimr, i AlEDJfOItD, OltKOON, MONDAY, MAY 29, 3911. No. f8. DIRECTORY JUST ISSUED SHOWS THIS CITY'S POPULATION NOW TO BE 11,625 INCREASE IN OTHER LINES PROVE GROWTH Probing Trust Census Taken Ono Year Ago Gave Medford 8840 Out Increase Since Thru Justifies the Claim Based on Names In New Directory. 1250 PEOPLE LISTED IN BOOK JUST ISSUED Ratio as Usnl by Directory Com pany Country Over Is Two anil Onc-hnlf Per Name. iiiiimK'ViiprfiiiiiiiiiiiiiiH D tf M Git, x.1 cun v rioro ht jiowwxju . Mr Mrtillllrml) Ih conducting Hut t'iiii:iHMlniml liniulry lulu tho affairs of tlm I'nHi'il HtuU'M HI'H'l Corpora IIimi, which In furnishing HciiHatlontil revelations. Aceoldhlg , (In) colUpllciH of tin') new dlicotoiy Cur .IiicI;hiiii Miiiut vvhmh in juM nil' llu' nti'HM of Hie! .Medford Printing company, Mcdiord, luiri ii inHtliilt(iii nl' 1 1 ,5'J."i people. I'Immi' hid -rjAO name in h diice-, lory under llio Medford clnxMiftcu- lion. TIiIh number of iiiiiii-h is it I - j wnyn multiplied hy '."j in order to' Two Burlington Filers Meet at Indl uniTmiiic i in- population, unii'li given EIGHT PERISH IN HEAD ONCOLLISIOH START AFTER UNIVERSITY Mrs. Harrlman to Be Urged to Es tablish Her Memorial to the Rail road Magnate In the Rogue River Valley anil Not Nevada. LOCAL BOOSTERS TO GET BEHIND REQUEST Local Advantages Pointed Out as Being Superior to Any Others On tho Coast. AETER AID FOR NEW HARBOR Crescent City Men Arrived to Get Aid From Commercial Club In Securing Government Aid tor Coast Harbor Project. ACCOMPANIED COLONEL BIDDLE TO GRANTS PASS Four Government Engineers Looking Over Inland Territory for Pur- of Getting1 Information. litis oily I l.ll'.Vi people. Tlm census taken in April, UHtl, gave IIiIh city HSIt) hut it wits known Hint tin- 1(1,0(111 mark wart piiHt lust rail. Since that tiin ptmlal 're ceipt, luiiilt icpinilH ami building op erations have uoiiHliiutly increased allowing n nival growth in wiiln- tllll.- ,.n,Mi i- , ,, Tim new directory contains lll.'l pagan mill Is tho best ever issued in thin I'nnnty. Tho gathering or ilula started in February iiml wan complet ed rapiilly, the Medford Printing company issuing it a week abend of schedule time. W. It. Soiimtt, Collector, is now diidrihiiliug dm volitinn. It will fill n Kri'at want in tlm city as it is up-to-date. FIVE KILLED IN AUTO COLLISION Electric Car Strikes Auto Filled With Merry Plrulerrs Child Alone Es capes, All Others Being Frarfully Mangled in Crash. nnola, Nebraska Both Engineers Dead Steam Pipes Scald and Cook Injured Engineer Disobeyed I.OH ANHKI.KS, Oil . May 2H. -l.lllht I lu.ol Kauruiaii, hoIo survivor of a many party of six mitulxlfl, wIiuhi) machine wiih run ilnwn mi tin Don iiny Itnml crossing near Whltller hy a Whltllcr-l.oH Angeles Pacific electric car, Iiiih today a Hllght rhnneo In KTovcr. Despite tho fact llml hIio received a compound of tho skull, lout an eye, which wan loin fiiun Ith itoclmt ami Ih HUffwiiig finm com pound find urns of hath arum, phy idclaiiH nl tho Whll I lor iioHpllal nay Imr wonderful vitality may pull lior through, 'I'lin other ummhorH of (ho party illnil alumni Imitautly, uuvur realizing what Hi ruck I hum. 'I'ho ilcud: .ioroinlnh Kaufiuuu, r2, Long llonch. Harry Kaufinan, !l, IiIh mm, Iva Kaiifimiu, UK, IiIh wlfo, Har old K, llolllagHworth, 'J I, Mm. Har old K. Ilolllugiiwniih, 20, Hyo witnesses nay Hint tlm nuto iiiulillo van Hi ruck with terrific, fnrco. So fearful wiih thu Impact that tho niittiilnn wnn thrown Into Whlftlnr (dcclrld iitatlon, Hm huHilIni; holm; partly doiuollwhod hy tho ortiBh. Mih. Kaufimui, with imarly ovary hono In lmr hody hrolton, wiih carried 200 root oil tho car folmmr tuul thrown lm twmm Hid traokR. All tlm othor vie IIiiim Worn torrlhly inaiuslod, INDIANOI.A, Ni-li., May 20.- At lmis( cilil pcrtjuiitt worn killed uinly today in a head-on colhViiiu wk( of hern lictuccn two Murliiiliin fliers N'o. l, etiHlliouml, mid N'o. l'J, wot- llOliml, C.Npri'hH ttllillH. Thu (iiipucmeii on Imth trains lire dead and 11111113' paHM-nerd of liotli trniiiH are injured, unme fatally. Hreakiui; HleniupipeH scalded many f llm injured, wlm hluwly eooked as they were held, Hereainiu, in tlm twinlcil iiicIiiIh of tlm wreck Tlnv wreck wih eauxed u licit thu i"ij;ncer uf Kn. 12 disoheyed his 01 deirt In take a Hwiteh at Ked Willow, "IX lllllcH Urt of lie IT, Itolll tMIKtlHJ were ivdilecd to Herap iron when they met and fiu cars of tlm westbound flier were derailed. The Imj.'Hiif'O mid Muokcr of the eirstlmiind train were nlno hiuashcd. Hot It the Omaha and Denver base lull eliilih of the Wenlern League were on Hie wehthmiml triiiti en route lo Denver. Several of the Denver play ers were injured, one fatally. Kelief trains with Mireous mid ntirxcH lire en mule lo the hcciic of the wreck. I Medfoid and tho IIoriio Illver Val ley are to inako an effort lo have .Mrfl. K. II. llnrrltiifin chono thU valley as i Hlte for tho ncv unlvernlty which Hhe Ih to cMahllnh an n memorial to her liiiMbund, thu ftrcat railroad timK mite The move wnn launched today hy Dr. J. 1 Itetldy and all loyal "live wIp'H" are expected to rally to the Httpport of llm movement. A telegram Ih to ho Rent to Mrs. Ilnrrlmnii at once In calling her at tention to tho ItoKiio Itiver Valley ami 1(8 Hiiperlor advantaKcs for an liiNtltutlon uf thlK kind. According to Rtiturday'H dlnpatchcs Mm. Harrlntnn Iiiih not na yet decided upon a lorallon. Sho Bays It will be on tlm Pacific Coast, and natncH No-t vuda or California. However It lit not thotiKht Hint thin will Interfere with ltfl coming to OroKon. Tho oHtnhllHhment of kiicIi a unl vemlty, which Mrs. Hnrrlmnn Bays Him will mnko "thu grcntost In the world." will mean much to tho com munity HccurliiK It an millions will ho expended for hulldlnga and equip ment. It Ih to ho expected that tho "Can't do It" cluli will get a hammer out but Medford will never pot anything un Ichh hIio tries. Tho climatic and natural arvrrih tngeii of tho Itogun Hlvcr Valley nrc nro Ideal to Hiirroundcd nucn nn InHtltiitlou and these will all ho point ed nut In tho telegram to Mm. Harrl man. Tho Into K. II. Harrlman was a great boaster of tho Hogua Klver Valley. It wiih duo to his pemonal order that tho prcKcnt splendid de pot wnn coiiHtructcd In thin city. Ho named Hm valley "beautiful beyond compare,". Kveu If tlm valley falls to sccuro the liiHtltuHou, tho effort will .mean n great deal of ndvantagooua ad-vertlHlng, D. O. Donahue, 'fJcerge M. Kellnr. Judge .1. L. Childtf and Hiigeuc t'liin merfonl of Crescent City, utter ac companying Colonel Diddle, U. S. A.. iih fnr us Orrint Pass, arrived in Medford Bunilny evening for the pnr jmiko of getting 1 Medford to work hooBtiiig for tliOclcvelopmeiit of a new hnrtxir at Crescent City. They were met by Dr. J. F. Heddy who in lending them upsiMaucc in meeting local biiMiieKK man. Colonel Hiddlo left ibis morning for 8nn Frnncisco nftcr driving in an automobile from Crescent City to GruntH 1'ns.s whero1lic took tho train. Accompanying hirawcre three other government engineers, one in charge of work on the Columbia river nnd nuo nt The Dalle. All expressed lcniHclvcK as wonderfullv imiircssci) ...-:.:. iiy 1110 L'ouniry iryieu mm the ton nngo Fecn. "We nro going to have n harbor at Crescent City," staled Judge Child Ibis morning, "and we believe that Colonel Diddle will mnko n fnvorablc report nn tho matter. He lias been greatly impressed by whnt he has seen. "What wo want of ifedford is to get her business men boosting t'oi tho project. It will ihcmi even-thing to southern Oregon to get a harbor and a railroad from the interior tap ping the country." DIAZ, DETHRONED, ENJOYING QUIET Former Wife of Tobacco King feii 'P:X"'-lnj&KKz HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIH fydJPHjL v uBBBBBBBBBBr t 'BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBPrnrr I Pf -'1i' JBBpBBBJBBBBBBf -rt- ' II BBBiBBHBiBgfllvMBBIiBBBBHBWiWIK fct awn Wts Aucc Wcbb Du-t .Mm. Alice Webb Duke, once tlio wife of Hrorilc L. Duke, the multi mllllonnnlrc tolxicco king, is dying a pmipcr nt tlic Illinois State Hospital for (lit Insane. IS FOILED PLOT AGAINST NIADERO Details of Conspiracy to Slay Son of Insurgent Leader and Start a Coun , trr Revolution Revealed hy General VHJocn, the Boer War Veteran, Who Exposes Plot to Corrupt Him. 1'OKTIiAND, Or., May 'JO. Alfal fa is a ftplomlltl urjiclo of Immau diet, aticonling to CvK. Walern, a farmer of Spray, Or., who Ih in (odny, After oxptiiiin'ciiting for Homo lltim Wulorn HayH that nlfnlfa rootH properly eoiiked nni mllbhriiiiil ItiHly, HIi I'ASO, Texas, May 'JO. -Dotiuls of u plot lo kill Francisco 1. Madcro, jr., nnd lo Htarl 11 counter revolu tion in Mexico wore revealed hero today by Ucnerul Viljoen, the Doer war veteran, ul'ter thu mrcsl of two men who, Im says, attempted to cor rupt himself and General Orosco with the death of tlm rebel chieftain us (heir aim. Tlm men ncouHed are Daniel Devil lai'rt of Mexico City, who in in jail hero and W. F. Dunn, un Anmrican, who Jiiia been captured nl Monterey, Mexico, liehiiiit the two, Viljoen Hayri, Viih tho Ciontil'ico party of Mexico. They, nro Haiti lo have had the Bitpporl, spccifioally, of Andrea (ltuv.11 Oullun, nu nnti-Mudero lead er of iiCahtiila; General Figtmroa, the rebel chief in tlm houIIi, and Guuerul Treviue, eoiumaiidur of tho Dluz foreoH hi Monterey. That Dovillars imlually bribed Vij joon, nnd Oiobco to aid in tho plot is tlm Hour velcrtui'K declaration. For fivo dayrt newfipapor oorrospondontu of thu conspiracy but they wore Hworu lo secrecy. II wiih twice at tempted lo lure Dovillars into Mexico, autoinobiln riding, but ho refused to go and Saturday night, Madoro, who had been fully ndvUed of the plot, decided to arrest him on American soil, lie was captured in tho hotol lobby here on u warrant issued by Just loo of the el'aeo K, I. MeClintock, charging "conspiracy to murder Francisco Madero." Dunn was arrested at oMnlorey by William Smith, a private detectivo employed by Madero. Aftor his cap ture Smith wired: "Arrested Dunn hero, Ilavo got important papors." "This is only another iiislaueo of divine interposition," said Francisco Madero, sr., today in commenting on tlm diseovory of thu plot. "Actual miraclos havo saved my son's life a score of times in tho last thruo months, This plot might havo sue oucded but for the fact that my son's oneiaieK bargained with two of his most faithful goucrals. I bdiovo tlm CtcntifiooH made tho plot at the ho- Former President of Mexico at Vera Cruz Meeting Held Lauding Ma dero but No Demonstration Follows City is Filled With Soldiers. af the llolcl Sheldon here havo known best of Mexican grafters," VEKA CKUZ, Jlexioo, May 'JO. General Porfirio Diax is enjoying (piiet in this city today after passing 11 quiet Sabbath in his house over looking tho gulf, llo had no visitors except tho members of bis immediate party. Tho city is filled with soldiers who guard tho residence of tho fonnor president. Tho people seem content merely to discuss tho situation and no demonstrations of any kind have ocotlrred. There wns, howevor, a Hireling on tho I'lam lauding Madcro and tho revolution. There was some attempt to p to tho houso whore Dims is Rallying, hut tvo orators held the mob in check until tho oxeitcment had subsided. PORTLAND TO HONOR HER SOLDIER DEAD ALLEGED FORGER NABBED BY COPS Man Who Passed Checks on Model Clothing Store and Mordorf & Woolf Is Identified by Ben Ply-male. J. W. Decker, said to bo tho man who paased bad checks on Mordorf and Woolf and on tho Model Cloth ing Company, was arrested at tho Smoke Houso lust evening after be ing Identified by Hen Plymalo who took tho check at the Model Clothing Company's store Becker will be given a hearing this afternoon. Decker Is said to havo passed two checkB and then left for Kugene re turning Saturday. Ho was recogniz ed Sunday evening and his arrest followed. POUTLA&D, Or.. May 20. Suf fering from a complication of dis eases, Drigadier General Daniel W. Durke, U. S. A., retired, is believed to bo dying at his Hoyt street home today. PARADE ORDER IS ANNOUNCED J. W. Lawton Gives Out Positions in Parade Will Start in Front of Angle Opera House at 2 o'clock J. W. Lawton, Marshall of the Memorial day parade has announced tho following order of mnrch for to morrow: Parado will form in front of Angle Opera Houso in tho following order: Polico force, city officials and speaker of tho day, Medford Coronet band, Medford flro department. Ches ter A. Arthur Post G. A. It., Chester A. Arthur Kelief Corps. 2 1 llttlo girls with Kelief Corps, Sons of Veterans, order or D. P. O. E., ordor of I. O. O. P., school children and teachers. Marshall of tho day will place any orders who may wish to take part In parade. School children will meet at city park and receive their flags and bo marched down to Auglo Opera Houso. Parado o form at 2 o'clock sharp. BEATS WIFE TO DEATH WITH CLUB Itinerant Preacher Confesses to Murder of Spouso Because He Had Re ceived Occult Message Tha t Holy Rollers Would Influence Her to Wrong Doing Tries to Commit Suicide. 1'OUTIiAKI). Or., May 29. Under thu auspices of the various pots and relief con's of the G. A. It., Portland will honor her soldier dead tomorrow by a parado and appropriate oxer-1 head was bouton Into an unrecognl- eises. KLUCNSDUKC. Wash., May 29. (Holy Hollers at Friday Harbor at tempted to tako hor away from mo my suspicions wero redoubled. "I asked my wlfo soveral times to Jump in tho-river and end It all and onco I started to hurl her into tho stream, but sho wept and did not re sist so I lost heart. "Yesterday as wo walked along tho track I noticed tho sticks seomod built, built right to kill womon with. Finally I saw ono that was oxactly right. I said 'Kuril, I guoss I'll have to kill you,' sho cried, thon I hit her Following his confession that ho beat his wlfo to death with a club bc- causo hq had "received occult mes sages" that tho ijoly Kollera, "his enemies" would Influence hor ta wroug doing, T, II. Gardnor, an itin erant proachor, is in tha county jail today. Ho will bo examined for his sanity. Tho mmn surrendered him self, aftor ho had mado an unsuccess ful attempt to drown himself in an Irrigation ditch a mllo from Kittitas, whoro ho killed hor, Tho woman's tMHt T MEMORIAL DAY ISSUE. Tuesday being Memorial day, tho Mail Tiibuno will is sue at noon. All advertising copy must be in at an curly hour. UNCLE SAM WINS TOBACCO T RUST S E United States Supreme Court Decides That American Tobacco Company is a Monopoly in Restraint of Trade and Exists in Defiance of Law. HARLAN DISSENTS FROM OPINION OF ASSOCIATES Case is Reversed and Remanded to Lower Court to Secure Mod ification of Decision. WASHINGTON, May 29. Tlm United States suprecm court today decided that tho American Tobacco company (the tobacco trust) was a monojwly in restraint of trade and existed in defiance of the Sherman anti-trust luw. Chief Justice White rend the decision of the eoutr. Jus tice Harlan .dissented. - This wns the decision of the Unit ed States supremo court in effect, al though the case was reversed and re manded to the lower courf to secure a modification of the decision.' The caso which today's decision of the supreme court settles had Its In- coption in a ball of complaint' filed on July 10. 1007, beroro the United States circuit court Vor tho Southern district of New York. It was charged that tho $400,000,000 American To bocco Company had gradually acquir ed a monopoly of tho tobacco busi ness in the United States by a series of bold buccaneering exploits, had stifled competition and defied inde pendent dealers through a net work of subsidiary companies, operating as "Independent" dealers. The United States supreme court judged constitutional the "hours of service law" regulating the hours of employment of railrond dispatchers, engineers, firemen, conductors and brnkemen. It also ruled Jltat tho commerce commission hnd the right to requiro monthly reports from railroads show ing where employes had worked longer hours than those specified by law. FAST TIME MADE IN FRENCH AIRSHIP RACE and sho did not cry anymore." zablo mass. Gardner was arrested Gardnor admitted that ho had no rocontly nt Frlduy Harbor, whoro his grounds beyond tho "occult mossa sanlty had been questioned. Ho sue- ges" lo suspect hor of unfaithfulness, coeded In convincing tho officials Tho couplo wero married In Ylr that ho was saao thoroby regaining glnla ton years ago. Gardnor was his llborty. Gardnor Is 47 years of 'educated In tho Western Maryland ago and his wife was 25. Theological Seminary of tho Metho- "When I began recolvlng tho mes- dlst Episcopal Church. Ho has been f sages I spolco to my wlfo about thorn," flsald Gardnor, "and sho laughod nt rf- me. I was. suspicious that sho would I IIH-H H ' bo unfaithful to mo nnd when tho a street proachor for years and has travollod almost continuously slnco Mint ilnio. nronnhtnir bin Individual religious vlows. l'AlHS. May 29. The competitor in the I'aris-to-Turin air contest are today on the second lap of their long race. The start was made in Paris and the first top was at Avignon. An dre Mcnumunt mid Holaud Gurres were the first of tho contestants to arrive at the first tdago of tho flight, having covered the 101 miles in tho fast time of 12 hours mid '1.1 minutes The American contestant, Henry Waymnnu, wase unfortunate from tho start. His motor was out of order and lie was compelled to alight in 11 field near Treyes, where he broke his propeller. The prizes offered in tho contest aggregate moro than $100,000. Tho competitors havo until Juno 15 to cover tho entire distance of l'JOO miles. A CQALTRAIN FALLS E CHAUMJTTE, N. Q May 29. Killing both firemen and engineers, u double headed coal train crashed through a trostlo sovoral miles eouth of Dotswlck on tho Seaboard Air Line, Tho trostlo had boon weakoned by a flro and fell under tho wolght of the onglncB. Fifteen loaded steels earn followed tho locomotives Into Wal laco Croek. irl 4"1l