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VjvCtfUSa tt&MStMM Mm mm City Hi . yi'jgf SUBSCRIBERS X'Alllnir to vt puptr wHI litvi ono (Illvtrt by iilionlnif of rioo by II i, in. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE WEATHER Fair Max H8. Hoi Iliiml illly 1!!) r cent. Mln 1(1. ill 1 liiilly itlxlli Vi-iir. Pmiyi'lrl Vnnr MEDFORD, OUWIQN", Tlll'RSDAV, Al'CJTKTa, 1911. No. 111. GOOD ROADS FOR JACKSON SEEM CERTAIN Leading Taxpayers of County Call On County Court and Urgo That Body to Call Special Election to Authorize Indebtedness. WILL ACT ON MATTEn LATE THIS AFTERNOON Little Doubt Out That Court Will Call Election Many Spenk- Are Heard. If lliu nx)iritMMliin of a largo number nf tln lending " payors of tho oiin ly liiivi imy welr.ht with tho county ton rt (hut body will thin afternoon mil tt special rounly election for tin1 pnrpiiM) of authorising and Imlobti'd mm on the part of tint county for tho imrpoHH of wiiHtructltiK ,uo ,"',,l Hy"" Kim of highways In llm statu In thin utility. A groat number of tax P' r iliiHi'itiutitil upon thu court Wi'diu-s-iliiy uftitrtiooii and liootil for bot Ittr roiuln. Many addroiuM-H woro made unit tint county court Muted tlmt they woulil tunkn n ilitcliiloii III tint miiltttr Thurmluy iiflurnnoii. It l believed Hint .tho court will cnll micli nn "dec tlon None of tho HpcoclicK inndo during tint afternoon was nppluudml like tlict nut ninilo by 0. C. llookiimu, of llm pioneer banker of Jnrkunnvlllo who Htutcil thnl If tho county should votu to Umiio wnrrniitn for tho purpOHo of hullilliiK honor rotulH thul ho would tnhtt'-JlOti.'MiO'Of tho lnHunnt pnr. Ho uracil tho court to cull nunh an tlcctloii. A largo nuuihur of uponkorit from Mod ford uddromiod tho court, Auioiik thowo wiih Dr. J. I Itodtly. J. I.. llam montloy. John M. Hoot. I.. K. Wnko iiiiiii mill John l. Olwoll. On of tho prlnrlpul toplcB up for dlHciiKHloti whm tho question whether ImiiiiU or warrants Hhould ho Umiod. HoiiiIh nro tho mom profomhht If n wny ran ho found to Irnuie thorn. ()lhorNlnt warrants iniittt ho und, TO BE PROBED? Attorney General Wickcrsham Fin ishes Investigation of National City Company and It May Lead to Connrnsslonal Inquiry. WAHIIINUTON, I). C, Auk. Whothor thu "bank truut" will ho tho subject of government Investigation will ho mado public Hhortly when At tonioy (lonural Wlckoriihnui ntibmltH IiIm roport on tho mutter to Secretary of tho TroiiHiiry MuoVoagh. It In un derstood thnl WIckorHham Iiiih con cluded his Investigation and that tho icporl la now In tho liaudu of his itlonogrnphorH. WlekoiHhniu'a Investigation wiih mado In tho particular eimo of tho National City Company, a corporation recently formud by tho National City llnnlc of Now York. Tho Nallonul Company Ih wild to bo tho parallel or other compnuloH In other cIIIch. It la wild tho roport Ih unfavnrahlo to thu trust compiuiloH, specifically stating that dopoBltti or stockH and bonds with thorn miiHt bo bouafldo, HOUSE 10 PISS OREGON GIVEN N ADD ON I CONGRESSMAN PEACE PACTS SID M Senate Adopts Without Rollcall House Bill Flxlnii the Number of Representatives In the Next Con gress at 133 Burton Amendments REAPPORTIONMENT LEFT TO STATE LEGISLATURES Candidates' for the House Can Be Renominated in the Same Way as Candidates for Governor. WASHINGTON, 1). C, Auir. 3. Willi the deinuoriilio hIoiiiii roller m good HtiapUf llmro iH every o.Npeutu lion today Unit the Iioiiku will puss Hie Underwood ootlou sohi'diilo 10- visiou hill liel'oro adjournment. It imposes an average duty of 217 per (unit ndyiilorom on ootlou munuluo luroH, against npproNlnmtoly i8 pot" ci'iil under tin present law. WASHINGTON' I). ('., Auk. ' Tho senate today adopted without rollcall tho house hill fixing thu iitimhci' of roproHoiilnlivoN in Iho not ongiesM at i:i;i. Ah piiMhi'd the hill wiih changed in twii particiilarH, hnlh of them amend inriilH hy Senator Hiirtou, One pro vides Unit niiididntus for the hoiihc might ho nominated in tho sumo man nur iik aiulidalort .for tho iovcrn hliip. Tho oilier wiih tlmt rc-dih-Irictiut; hIiiiII he dune liv Hlato leix- latin Oh otccpl in tliono hIiiIoh wiiero lint initiative uiiil rofcreudtim in in force wlicre tlione Iiiwh iitlht ho in-voked, T VNG ANKER COMMITS SUICIDE Former President of Pearl, III.. Bank, Charged With Embezzle ment of $40,000, Kills Himself With Penknife In Jail Cell. HAN FHANOMCO, Cal Auk. 3. Caroy A. Maiikor, former bank provi dent of Pearl, III., who wuh churned with omhozzlomout of $-10,000 and who gave hlniKolf up hero IuhI week, died today at tho KmorKoucy Houpt lal iih a roHiill of mdf Inflicted stab wo ii ml m In tho neck from a niHty pen knife. Chief White Ih iiuxIouh to as certain whether tho knife was pasH od to tho baukor-prlHoner at tho stu tlon. ' .Manker'H death Ih tho tragic, cli max of a three yoara oviihIoii of jus tice, llo fled from Pearl in Decem ber, 1U0S, Immediately followhiK tho oxpouo of IiIh $10,000 embezzlement. TakliiK hlfl family of throe daughttirH and one mm to IOiikIo, Nobranka, to live with IiIh wife's mother, ho hur ried to Canada, llo returned to this country later and lust April came woHt. llo worked aH carpenter, draughtsman, waiter and dishwasher under an assumed name. Whon Man kor reached San Francisco ho wuh pcuulloBH nnd 111. A hotel keeper kiivo him food nnd endeavored to find employment for him. KuIIIiik to se cure work, Mauker decided that ho could stand It no longer, wont to thu police station and Hurreudored himself. TWO NATIONS Treaties Between United States and Great Britain and France Signed In Presence of President and Cab inetMost Sweeping Measure. ALL DISPUTED QUESTIONS SETTLED BY ARBITRATION Signatory Powers Agree to Refer Every Issue, Even Those Con cerning National Honor. WAHIINICITON. I). c. Auk. a. In tho pioboiico of his cabinet mem bers, who woro Invited specially for tho occasion, President Tnft signed tho most HwocpliiK arbitration meas ures In tho history of tho country. Secrotury of State Knox brought the treaties to tho white house. Am bassador James Ilryco carno from his summer homo at Heal Harbor, Mo., to sign for Great llrltaln. Grout surprise was expressed when It wus discovered at tho last moment that Kranco was not represented by an officer of the diplomatic service. At tho eleventh hour, howover, Vis count Saint Phalle, vlco consul of Franco nt New York, wuh designated by tho French government to wlt ueiH tho sinning In behalf of his country, tho French chnrR 'daffnlres being unable to reach Washington in time. Thu treaties signed today nro prac tically Identical. They bind tho sig natory powers to nrbltrato nil dls ptileH unsettled by diplomatic ex change, oven Including Questions of national honor. They nru believed forovor to have dono away with the podslblllty of war between Great Bri tain or Franco and tho United States. Tho treaty between Great llrltaln nnd tho United States wns signed at 3:H o'clock. Secretnry Knox, for tho United Statcu and Ambassador Dryco signed tho Anglo-American treaty, while President Tnft and Secretaries Nagcl and "Wilson looked on. Knox then signed n copy of tho French treaty Identical with thnl which had been nl ready signed In Paris, WJlIl HERO TO BE GUEST JlT WHITE HOUSE. PJII 2 ' WYffl HI udHnEv3nBH I k ii " ' .. u IIIH till jtt!Mati3fc&.!!mtyi IIH III! iiv 39(Biiic9?vu yj tpppppk j mil Ull iiri fik ii 'Ui h II ml M'Bjfi32M7 Hv K -it-LIIIIBI i IIIH III KBmkAmJmiK9L v,t'4'i lllll Ml rKWSmKKbiCilm'.'M' Ull I In nHH:'H'-'MlRlnfisVVlllliHl4 II III uKHBIBk-su.i lilySTrT Bkm'' ?Bi III III lfltej Jl V99lf 4JH5v Bs'B III nil K?ZKtJtWCmtfiiKcUll!i 111 ci l"fri Aiiii?al, Togo yu1 iJtxSSiT TMOTCftW TMOTMSAnt Adiiilml Count Ilelliarlilm Toko, hero of the lattle of tlie Sea of Jup un, Mill ho nrvlvfd nnd oiitortalncd In Washington on August O hy rt'i rieiiliillve! of the United Slates government. Ho will aUo Ik; a guest of Clio rroMltlciit t tlie White Hoiiho. ADMIRAL TOGO SENDS GREETINGS BY WIRELESS 10 AMERICAN NATION ; LAW SUITS BEGUN TO Fl I'OKTLANI), Or. Auk. 3. Fol lowing tlie discovery tlmt liuntlreds of mimes appearing on tlie rotVreu iluin nelitiou uoaiust the Universitv of Oregon npnropriulion wcr. forger- ioK, civil proceedingri to have (lie pe tition ilcclared invalid will he com menced immediately by tlie university hoard of regent'. Federal Judge llenu, a member of Iho board, said tlmt (lie suit prob ably would ixt Hturted in thu name of a Eugene, Or., tii.Npayer. Several profossionnl petition eirou lators nro under nrrest in connection with tlie forgeries found in tlio documents. CUM CHURCH PROPERTY FOR H TO HOTEL MEDFORD Tho Hau-Mohr Company closod n deal today whereby thoy hocomo thn owners of tho Christian church prop erty, corner of WoBt Sixth and Ivy HtreotH, Tho prlco paid waB $1.1,000 and tho property Iiiih a frontage- of 140 foot on Ivy Btreet and 100 foot on Sixth street. Tho Hau-Mohr Company Is tho leasee of tho now Modford hotol nnd tho recent purchiiHo inado by tho com pany Is property joining tho hotol on tho north. Tho company will at onco com mence tho construction of a building wliloh will ho 100 foot (loop with a frontage of GO foot on Ivy stroot. TIiIh building will bo used for sam ple i'ooiuh for commercial mon, Bleep ing apart montu for tho hotol holp and a gnrago. Tho garngo will ho used for Htnbltng tho hotol bus and for tho accommodatloiiH of guests of tho ho tel only nnd In no sonso will It bo n public garage. Tho sample rooms" will bo finished In hard wood nnd in ouch room thoro will ho electric lights tolophouo and lavatory. In all probability tho building will bo two BtorlcB high. It la to bo com pleted and ready for occupancy hy 8optombor 10th. Tho romnlndor of tho quarter block of land which tho purchase covorB, that part fronting on Sixth Btroot, will bo covorod with a business block, probably next season, hut In tho anonntlmu tho church peo ple will bo pormlttod to occupy It with tholr church and will continue to hold services thoro unltl a now alto Ib Bolectod, NEW YOKIC, Anp. 3. Admiral Togo today sent a message to tli" United Press from the steamer Lus itania, which wnn, then off Nantueket. evjire.-hing ttic RTatitude nnd pleas ure his iwrtilioiilns tint gucpt of the nation inspire!. -, Toco snid: "I um looking- forward with tho greatest, plcu.siirc.to my visit in your great country. I wish to express ray gratitude to President Tnft and hw cabinet for theiiivitntion nnd to the American people for the kind wel come which I am assured they will give. .My greatest wisn uas oeen io, it-it the rutted Slates. J "I am eotninc in the spirit of r. student and an anxious inquirer to sec your wonderful civilization and learn something of your marvelous progress in science, manufacture and commerce. I nm going to leave ray program entirely in the hands of the American people, knowing thnt 1 shall he well looked after. I have just experienced the time of my life ut the coronation of King George Everv hand wns extended in friend ship to me. I nm looking forward to an equnlly good time in America and mv heart is filled with grntitude and friendship." NO PROGRESSIVE JRICH RECLUSE MEASURES YET Insurgents Hope to Pass Bills for Direct Election of Senators and for Publication of Campaign Ex penses Before Session Ends. WASUIKOTON',. D. C, Aug. 3. With not u singlo measure hearing tho "progressive" btnmp finally ap proved us yet by congress at the present session, lenders of tlmt fac tion of tho rcpuhlieun party today declared they had strong hopes of getting somo of their measures made law. Tho hills for tho direct election ot senators and for publicity of cam paign expenses by congressional and senatorial candidates, they believe will he passed before, tho session ends. Hutu measures nro today in conference, nlo is tho huFulletto wool bill. The httiteluuul measure is cerium of support when it comes before the senate and the houso bill providing for its re-submission to tho voters probably will bo adopted. The bill as passed provides for an increnso in lopresontution us fol lows: Alabama 1' California 3, Colorado 1, Florida 1, Georgia 1, Idaho 1, Illi nois 'J, Louisiana 1, Massachusetts J, Michigan 1, .Minnesota 1, Montana 1, New Jersey ', Now York 15, North Dakota 1, Ohio 1, Oklahoma 3- Ore gon 1, Pennsylvania lf Hhodo Isl and 1, South Dakota 1, Washington 1, Utnh 1, West Virginia 1, Texas 2 Washington 'J. In tho 21 other stales now admit ted there is no chano in representa tion. Tho hill providos for one rep resentative ouch from Arizona and An umendiucut by Hoot (republi can, Now York) to retain Iho pres ent membership in tho houso was de feated, 23 to -17. An unieiidmunt hy Groniia (republican, North Dakota) to inuko it -105 was beaten, 22 to -17. Tho two amemltueuta wore intended DIES IN SECLUSION Multi-millionaire's Purposeless Life Ended Kept Standing Order for 18 Bottles of Ale and Three Quarts of Whisky Had Negroes Sing. LOS ANGELES, Cnl., Aug. 3. After four years spent as n recluse in a sunny apartment in the Hotel Van Nnys here, during which time ho was clad nearly always in paja mas, ''Major' William Arthur Phipps uiulti-milliouaire, is dead. Tho end followed an nttack of uraemia of 48 hours duration. In four years residence in tho ho tel Phipps loft his room hut twice. Ho had oO faoo towels and 70 napkins each day and had his bathtub filled at least 20 times eery 24 hours. Ho kept a standing order nt tho hotel bar for IS bottles of ulo and threo quarts of whisky. Onco each month he had u quartet of negroes come to his apartment and sing io him. Ho employed two valots1 each working a 10-hour shift: a negro waiter, a butler and a maid each for his wife and his mother-in-law who lived in an adjoining apartment. Phipps wns 5o years of age. FRANCE SIGNS PEACE TREATY WITH AMERICA PAH IS, Aug. 3. Franco placod to day her seal of approval on tho ar bitration treaty with tho Unltod States. Tho document was signed by Minister resolves, United States Am bassador Robert IJacon and M. Jur Bornud, Fronch ambassador to tho Unltod Statos, acting as wltnessos. to reduce tho soulhorn domoorntic representation which would bo in creased by the ro-iipportioumeiit as adopted, Hi AID GIRL WHO I S SPOUSE Moved by Plight of 19 Year Old Girl Wife, Who Murdered Husband Af ter Enduring Cruelty 15 Months, Social Leaders Plan Assistance. HAS NO REGRETS EXCEPT FOR HER SOBBING MOTHER Not Believed Any Jury Will Convict and If It Does, Governor Will Be Asked to Pardon. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal Aug. 3. Police Judgo Deasoy refused today to fix ball In the case of Anna Langley who shot and killed her husband, James Langley yeiiterday afternoon. although urged to do bo by Chief of Police White, Police Commissioner Joseph Sullivan and William McDon-old. "I will not establish such a prece dent," Judge Deaaey said. "I wish first to receive tho verdict of the cor oner's Jury. If you gentlemen can rush that matter I will at once set a low ball for the girl's release." Moved by tho plight of 19 years old Anna Langley, who today faces a charge of murder hero after having killed her husband when goaded to desperation by fifteen months ot abuse, clubwomen of tho city already are planning to save her from the punishment of the law. Few of them believe any Jury will convict the girl, but If a conviction Is obtained, petitions for pardon wilt be presented to Governor Johnson In the confidence that mercy will be shown. "I couldn't sleep last night," the girl wife said plteously. "It wasn't that I was afraid or had any regrets. It wasn't that. I was thinking of mother, though." Her clutch of her sobbing mother's arm tightened. "And It was a strango place to sleep, any way. Tho matron was so kind to me. Dut there were negro women, and awful people from tho Barbary coast, and talk such as I never heard. They kept coming and going all night. It was like some horrible procession. It was no place to Bleep. "No, I have no regrets at all. Thero is nothing to regret. I had to. Now I have mother again just as I had whon I was a little girl before I mar ried Jim and used to tell her everything." "Thero is one thing about it that comforts me," said tho girl. "Mother Is going to get back her girl. I don't know what they will do with mo. I don't think I caro much. I couldn't endure things as they were any long er anyway. It doesn't seem to mo that tho law would kill mo for shoot ing him after what ho said. Ho said that thing to me, aud said ho was going to kill me. Then I shot him. I bellovo they will let me go homo to my mother and try to be glu over." In tho neighborhood of tho Gaf- fney's homo, nothing Is heard but pralso of Anna Langley nnd condom nation for tho man who sought to degrade her. WILSON Ull! WORK OF HIS OWN CHEMIST Secretary of Agriculture Fotight Wi ley All Along tho Line and Uphold Manufacturers of Bcnzoate of Soda-Prcscrvcd Canned Goods. USED DEPARTMENT FUNDS TO PROTECT THOSE PROSECUTED Referee Board Organized and Put Into Action for the Very Purpose of Aiding Preservative Users. E THREATENS BRITIAN LONDON, Aug. 3. Tho prlco of mont and provisions today roso sharp ly as a, result of tho dockworkors' strlko and a widespread famlno is threatened. Den Tlllot, loador of the strikers, declared that tho International Trans- port Workers' Federation Is ready to Jolu tho strlko and tie up all shipping between American and Kuropoan ports. Replying to criticism of tho strlko becauso of tho food situation, Tlllot said: "1 caro as llttlo about iho pub He's food as tho public cares about ours." Edward Murphy Jr., Dead. LONO BRANCH, N. J., Aug. 3. Edward Murphy, jr., former New York senator and a power in demo oratio politics in that stale, died hero today. WASHINGTON, D. C.' Aug. 3. How James Wilson, secretary of ag riculture, fought the chief chemist of his own department, Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, and upheld the manufac turers of. bcnzoate of soda-preserved canned goods was revealed horo to day before tho houso committco which 13 investigating charges against Wiley. The disclosure came from Dr. Rcmsen, chairman of the hoard which pronounced beuzonte a safe preser vative in the face of Dr. Wiley's in sistence that it was injurious. Iterasen testified thnt funds wcro taken from the bureau of chemistry appropriation to pay the expenses of two members or his board who tes tified in Indiana against tho state in the prosecution hero of manu facturers who used henzonte. Hem sen said Secretary Wilson hnd au thorized the testimony given in In diana, saying that the accuracy of members of tho board had been ques tioned nnd it was their-duty, to du--. v- fend tliemsolves. -"v- ., Stenographic- notes of the heating Wils&o'rfnve to the saccharine fikfltiti facturers, introduced today, iiphgld the charge made by ReportcrVJVillis that Wilson had declared the ttem sen board wns appointed solelyj for their protection. The notes rend; "I must sny frankly to you men thnt the referee bonrd (the Rerase'rj board) was organized and put inttf action for the very purjwse of con serving theinterests of manufacturers so you would have u safe hearing." In the revised copy of Wilson's remark "sufo hearing" had been changed to "sane hearing." ir 'I . CI k"H SAM COEN TALKS OF FORGED NAMES Tells Judge Slater in Salem About Operations With Referendum Pe titionsMakes Complete Confes sion Regarding Forging of Names. SALEM, Or., Aug. 3. According to Judgo W. T. Slater of this city, Sam Cohen of Portland made a com plete confession before him yester day of frauds and forgerios in tho University of Oregon referendum pe tition. Cohen's confession brought to light no features, further than thoso which tho investigating com mittee found, but in telling of tho af fair, Cohen implicated men who nru already in jail in Portland or under nrrest, and ho gavo six other names of men who woro connected with tho Ellis petition frauds. REACTIONARY TONE IN STOCK MARKET NEW YORK, April 3. At tho oponliiE today tho stock market do volopod a reactionary tone. Thoro wns o, sprinkling of gains In tho active Issues but this was mora thun offset by losses olsowhoro. NaBhvllIo, Cat- tanooga and St. Louis lost 3 1-2; Genoral Klectrlo 1 3-4 and Utah Cop por 1 '1-1, Buying ordors In tho Standard stocks finally checked tho docltuo and recovery over yesterday's final prices woro goneral. Tho market closod firm, Uonda woro steady.