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" rtmmti CJreflOn Hlilwlwa! goifjfe City Hall - t SUBSCRIBERS VfttUnir to a ppr will ana dtltvmd by plionlutf of (lot tijr 0 v. m Medford Mail Tribune WEATHER ShowersMax. 84; Mta. M lU'l. iiumUi. bbj I'wc, ao, Dnlly Hlxth Ycitr. Korly'l'lrwt Yrwr. riRST STRIKE MAY STAR! MEDJTOlttVOREGOtf, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER G, 1911. No. 143. TOMORROW WAR PANIC AL0N6 BORDER 0 GERMANY Officials of Illinois Central System Federation Appeals to Internation al Officers Asking Them (u Ap prove a Strike on Railroads. KRUTTSCHNITT DECLARES NEGOTIATIONS AT END Statement of Government That Am icable Aurccment With France Has Been Reached Does Not Quiet Ex citementRuns Made on Banks. FRENCH PAPERS ASSERT SETTLEMENT EFFECTED Southern Pacific Will Have Nothlnu Further to Say to System Chiefs. CIIICA(K), Illrt., Sept. II. -Tho liiMl actual strike in (lit! big hibor threatening the weMcrii niilniiulH inav Hlurt tomorrow mi lliu IIUmoIh iVn tral' providing tint international of ficer of Hid federation of nhop em ploye Ntttiuliun tint notion of till! Id i:ul iiwii. Official of tin- Illinom Central bvh tern feilointiou today apealcd In lliu intiTiintiinial officio, now in Kan Fruueinco, miking tlu'in to approve a htrikc. Tim intiirnatliinal officero probably wilt report Into thin after noon, l)ineuHiing tlu position of the llur riinan linot) iih to recognition of the tiliopnu'ii'H federation, Oenernl Man ager KruttNchnitt on IiIh arrival here today deelared his negative nimwor to lliu men while ho wan in San Fran cIkco wan final. lie naid not hint; would induce him to change his po uilion. Krutttfchuitt Haid he had nothinu to do villi tin) eonlnivcnty mm affect ing (ha JllinoU Central and that lie had arranged for no conference villi I'rettidetit Markluun of that road. Short Talks on Proposed Road Bond Issue France Given Position Desired In Morocco and Germany Economic Equality. HKItLIN, Kept. (l.r-Kxciteinenl wide hahiioxt approached panio reign lhioiihoiit lliu proviuccH of (iunnany today ax the romilt of the war scare. Tho nihil of depositors to withdraw their money from bunka in Mctz, Slot tin and other place in grwing dour ly and tlioiiHandK of thomi with hiiiiiII amotiulH in baukH uru withdrawing them. Fearing that the panic will extend here, the Merlin bankers today de termined to iiiMHt on legal notice be ing given befre they will allow with drawal. All nlong the Franco-Oar-man frontier tho rcidcutH are vildly excited and tho iiKHiirnuco of tho gov eniuient that no war is probable are failing to allay the excitement in the leant. PAULS, Kepi. TWOHY BIDS FOR MACADAM ROAD County Court Will Take Action To morrow In Regard to Bid Offered by Contractor to Build Central Point Road. ' The county court will open a bid put in by John Twohy for the con struction of n rock macadam road between thin city and Central Point early tomorrow nml if the bid i deemed n fair one Mr. Twohy will be awarded the work. Tho new Hpe cificntionH for tho improvement of tho road provide for Hie grnnding to be thirty feet wide with a twenty foot rock niacadnm roadbed. Sometime ago tho couutv proponed In improve the road by laying nu as phalt mneadaiu, The Clark & Hosi ery CoiihI motion company wan awarded Iho contract but later de clined to go ahead with tho work and nccept payment in county warrantH. TIiIh Ictl tho county lo change the HpcoificnllonR with tho rcHitlt that John Twohy Iiiih hid for tho work. Tho mnlter will bo definitely decided nt Thurmhty'ti hchhioii of tho couit. ARMERS F, START AFTER TAFT ST. PAUL, Bout, C. -Denouncing ProHldent Taft, congroBsmon, hoiiii (orH, thu "Intorcsta" hud Canndlan roclproolty, 1000 fnrmors gathered at tho MlunoHotn stuto fair today nud perfected an organization thnt will aettvoly partlolpnto in Mlnnosota pol. Itlco. Tho organization may develop Into u national movement for tho bouoflt of ngrlculturlHta, Tho loaders today declared that tho farmora control ono-thlrd of tho roun try'a voto and alioulil Htnnd togothor, Irrospootlvo of parties. EL8AN, Ul.Wlth tho understand. Ing that thoy would marry If oaoh proved Butlafactory to tho other, Wll imii I). Shorimm of Wllllamsport, Pn., and MIbh Mattdo Blioniuin, kept Iioiiko three dnyu at hor mothor'u homo, 0. Thnt practical Hcttleuiont of the dispute in Moroo- enu ocuditioiiK Iiiih been readied ic the claim made Hi'ih afternoon in the Tempo. Tho paper iiyn: "If Iho information received from u reliable wmrco can bo believed, Ger many is difijtoHcd lo accord lo Franco the pohitinu sho dexires in Morocco (he cHlahlitihmcut of a virtual protec torate through Hiipport of Iho Sultan "Territorial compciiHiition il i be lieved, will not provoke further trou ble iih Franco if willing lo guarantee Uormany ccouomia epmlity in Mo roeco." NO. 1 NO EXPENSE TO THE PROPERTY OWNER. hi 1910, with im assessed valuation for taxable purposes, of all property in Jack hoii county of thirty-five million (lollurs, the county authorities apent for roads, high ways and bridges the aum o $90,974.72; for the year 191 1 the assessed valuation, .judg ing from the aa yet incomplete returns of the assessor, will probably be about $40,000,- 000; the increase being principally in railroad and city property. J figuring on the aame basis of expenditure as in J910, the road fund will amount to $110,828.25. which amount, of course, would he raised without increasing the rate of taxation over 1910. With a constant immigration of newcomers into our community, increasing yearly the number of individual taxpayers, and with the consequent improvement of all classes of property, we may confidently expect a gradual yearly increase in the as sessed valuation of taxable property in the county, and without increasing the present rate of taxation, there will be yearly available a larger and larger amount of money for the road fund. If the bond issue carries at the coming election, and we secure this large amount of money lor immediate use in building a magnificent system of good roads, we will then have to pay annually lor twenty years a Jixed charge of one hundred thousand dollars, not subject to anv increase at anv time, which sum will not onlv pay the semi-annual in terest on the bonds, but will also provide a sinking fund sufficient to pay the entire prin cipal of the bonds at maturity. The annual interest charge on the entire issue of bonds will be seventy-five thou sand dollars, when all of the work has been completed, and all of the bonds have been sold, which it is estimated will require at least three years from the time the work is started and the hrst issue ot bonds sold. During this period ot three veal's, while onlv part of the bonds are drawing interest, there will be large pavments into the sinking fund each year out of the hundred thousand dollars devoted to the purposes of interest and sinking iund, and after the entire lot lias been issued, and the interest charge grows to the full seventy-five thousand dollars yearly, there will still be an annual addition to the sinking fund of the balance of twenty-five thousand dollars. There will be the item of premiums realized on the sale of the bonds themselves, conservatively estimated at not less than fifty thousand dollars; this would be added to the amount in the sinking fund. All of this money placed in the sinking fund would be immediately available for loaning out to the fanners of Jackson county on real estate security, at a rate of interest not higher than six per cent; the annual additions and the interest earnings at this rate, compounded, being sufficient to provide the required sum of a million and a half to redeem the bonds at maturity. So we will have paid for our roads, under the bond issue, a fixed amount of only one hundred thousand dollars a 3'ear in taxes for twenty years, as against a constantly increasing amount annually under any other plan, starting, as we have seen, with a levy of 1911 at one hundred and ten thousand odd dollars, and adding to it every year indef initely, with only makeshift roads to show for it. PROSPECTS ARE BRIGHTER FOR LOCAL BRIDGE Beezer Bros., John Twohy, John Maney and Others Are Ready to Bid on Construction of New Structure Officials Eager. TWO SETS OF PUNS ARE NCW BEFORE COURT BEAM SURE OE ACQUITTAL BY THE JURY Prisoner Predicts That He Will Eat Sunday Dinner at Home Lawyers Wrestle Over Court's Instructions to the Jury. PARIS, Sept. (1. Franco nud fler many have practically effected n not' tlemeut of the Moroccan dispute and the detail of tho agreement reached will m made publio tdiortly, accord injr to a lending article in the Figaro today. Other paper reflecl tho same opin ion but incidentally add that it may ho jiiHt n-well for Franco lo keep tho troop mid wnndiips in readiness for emergency. GEM THEIVES CONFESS PLOTS Amazinn History of Depredations in Europe and America, Including Murders, Dynamiting and Robber ies Related. HOSTON, Miihh., Sept. 0. Cap tured nt Trieste and brought hero to day for ( i lit on Iho charge of having robbed tho Ulliun jewelry ntoro of FIR.OOO worth of jowolry in Feb ruary, lt)l(), Jacob and Josoph Gold berg told the detectives nn amazing hiajory of auarchistio deprodatiotiH in America nml F.uropo, detailing murderH, dynnmiling and robborioH. Tho priHonors promised to toll lat er tho iimido story of tho Hound, ditch and Steiuo Mormon murderH in London n year ago, resulting in the calling out, of troops nud a sensation al street fight in which tha anarch isU headquarters woro finally burn ed. According to tho confessions today two men electrocuted at Chnrlcstown for complicity in the Forost Hill mur ders hero thrco yoars ago woro mom bora of n gang sworn to fight organ ized law and snoioty in ovory way possible. They declare that robborv wan only a secondary motive, assort ing that many places woro dynamited and no attompt mado to rob. Tho men claim to lmvo $(!0'000 in cash hidden in Europe. Tho Goldberg brothers woro nr- HAD MONEY TO BRIBE: NO BAIL Peter Bozus Is Locked Up, Being Un able to Raise $2000 Bond Fixed by Judge Calkins Will Enter His Plea Tomorrow Morning. Three Indictment woro returned Tueaday afternoon by tho grand Jury for tho attempted bribery of District Attorney Mulkcy by John Dennis,' John Snpolls and Peter Uonia, who nought to haw tho cnuo against Ilo- xus' brother, who is charged with murder, dismissed by Mulkvy for u money consideration. Tho Indictment ngnlnst Demus, however, was dismiss ed on motion of tho district attorney, as It developed that ho was not a party to tho attompt to bribe, but accompanied tho othors out of curios ity, UozuH and Sapolls woro arraign ed Wednesday morning and will ou ter their pleas Thursday morning. Sapolls was released on a ball ot IC00, while UozuH is confined In tho county Jail, not being able to secure ball, the unin being sot at J2000. No Indictment wus returned by the grand Jury against Mlko Spnnoa, who accompanied the young men to Jack sonville to call on Mr. Mulkey, as ho had nothing to do with tho offorlng of tho money. Tho case will bo tried next week. NAMEC0MMISS10N JOY RIDE ENDS THIS AFTERNOON County Court Meets in Regular Ses sion and Will Soon Take Action in Regard to Appointment of Highway Commission. THOUGHT FISH COMMISSIONER BIGGER MAN THAN PRESIDENT This afternoon or tomorrow tho county court will announce tho names of tho men chosen to act as a high way commission and adviso the coun ty court In the expenditure of the $1,500,000 bond issue, which is to bo voted on at tho last ot this month. Tho commissioners and Judgo Nell will give considerable Mmo to a dis cussion ot tho matte and roach somo decision In regard to tho matter. Tho county court mot in regular session this morning, but spent tho opening hours ot the session In audit ing bills. They will not reach tho matter of naming a commission for somo tlmo, probably Into this after noon. The JudKo and Commissioner Davis havo each prepared a list, while CommlsHlonor Owens has a number to suggest. It is not boliovod that tho thrco will havo any difficulty In get ting together In icgard to tho matter. HI CITY JML Three Young Men Take Three Girls and Spend Night at Grants Pass- Must Explain Their Actions to Mayor Canon. SANTA IMMURA. Oil., Sept. I). Jnok Marinoovitoh, fisherman, is not n citir.on of tho United States to day beeauso ho thought that 'tho of fieo of fish commissioner is tho highost in America, exceeding in au thority that of president. Judgo E. S, Crow told Mnincovltoh to go homo and study Amoriomi gov ernment for another mouth. PORTLAND, Or. "My son la hus ky, but ho ran't lick tho wholo com munity," wrote Mrs. L. M. Dovlln, u widow, who Just arrived from Lob Angolcs, Tho boy, who Is 15, will bo protected by tho pollco when ho re turns from tho country, whoro ho is recuperating from nlno victorious buttles. rainged today boforo udgo Lnwtou and pleaded not guilty to ihp Ulli.ui robbery ohargo. Thoy woro held to tho higher court with bonds nt .-If),-000 oaoh. Thoy woro unnblo to fum ibh suouviliw so were sont to jail. HORN MUST PLEAD MONDAY Man Charged With Contributing to the Delinquency f a Minor at Ashland Is Indicted by Grand Jury Has Bad Record. . Beeauso they took an automobile without permission and took three young girls to Grants Tass, where they kept them over night, Albert Noah, Ed Masslc and a young man known as "Chan" will appear before the mayor this afternoon on a charge of disorderly conduct. As the three girls who accompanied them aro over 16 years of ago, tho young men will escape prosecution on a statutory charge, but must explain their action to tho mayor. Two of tho girls who accompanted tho young men are Just 16 years of ago, tho third being 17. Thoy met tho young men Monday afternoon about 5 o'clock and the crowd is said to have gono to Grants Pass, where thoy spent tho ulght, returning Wed nesday about noon. Tho girls told their parents that the machine had broken down and that they had spent tho night at a farmer's homo. Tho machine which the young men took bolonged to Frank Hull. Noah has been a driver for Mr. Hull nnd told him that ho had a party to take out. On his return ho told Hull that i tho trip was his own. Mr. Hull states that as tho youug nen aro In enough trouble, that ho will not press this charge Chief Engineer Gerig of Pacific & i Eastern Says There Is Yet Time to Build Bridge. With Hoezer Bros., John D. Twi. hy, John Money and one or .wo oth ers ready to undertake the construc tion of the new bridge over Bear creek, with the members of the county court and city council eager to find some manner In which to get the work completed this fall, It begins to look as If the new structure to re place the present one over Bear creek will bo built this fall. A report to tho effect that Chief Engineer Gerig would enjoin the county from pro ceeding on the grounds that there is a great probability ot the bridge be ing checked in course ot construction by high water was exploded today, when Mr. Gerig stated that he still believed that there is plenty of time to complete the work before high water sets in. At present there are two sets of plans for the bridge being consider ed. One set Is the original plans which are known to be good, and the other is a set drawn by Beeaer Bros. The latter shows a far more sightly bridge, but a question has arisen as to its strength. As soon as these BEULAH BINF0RD SURE OF BEATTIE'S INNOCENCE Woman in Case ta Be Released Frew Custody ami fiees ta NewYark, CHESTERFIELD COURTHOUSE, Va., Sept. 6. Foe tho first time since he was arrested for the alleged mur der of his wife, Henry Clay Beattle, Jr., today asked for the dead wom an's baby. "1 would like to klsa the youngster," he said. "I have not sees him since they put me In hero." The baby Is at Dover, Del,, lta grandmother's.home, and, of course, could not bo brought to lta father. With nil testimony in the case In, the Jury spent today strolling about the grounds of tho courthouse here while tho lawyers and Judge Watsoa are In Richmond wrestling over legal arguments In the hope ot Influenc ing the judge's charge. Chesterfield Is deserted by the crowds which since the trial have flocked dally to the spectacle, eager to enjoy every detail of the most sensational murder trial Virginia has seen for decades. Bealah la CelL Beulaa Blnford, the womat hutha case, is still here in her cell. She Is bitterly disappointed at being balk ed of the limelight In which she ex- specifications are gone over by a com-l pected to shine as a witness, petent bridge engineer and approved "They wore afraid to put me on tho they will be acceptable to the county stand," she cried In her cell today, court. "Thoy knew I would tell tho truth Th county court met in regular ses- and they were afraid of the truth. I sion this morning and one of the mat-, could not believe that Henry killed tern they will discuss will be the bridge. Every effort is to be made to have the matter arranged so that the bridge will bo constructed. John Twohy and John Manely, both contractors ot note, are here to bid on the construction ot the bridge, so It a contract is let it will bo speedily fulfilled. M, F. Horn must fnco trial In tho circuit court on a chargo ot contrib uting to tho delinquency of a minor. Horn's offonso Is said to havo bocn committed at Ashland, whoro ho Is roportod to havo ondeavorod to In duco sovornl young girls to accom pany hm to a socludod spot. Ho was Indictod Tuesday afternoon by tho grand Jury. Ho v)lll bo arraigned and pload next Monday in tho circuit court. Horn is Bald to havo n bad rocord nt Canby, Or., whoro ho was Indicted for an ausault on a young girl, Ho is also said to havo jumped a hail of S1000. LOS ANGELES BANK VOLUNTARILY LIQUIDATES I.OS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. C John Wilson, special examiner for tho Los Ancgoles clearing association today is in complete charge of tho Oil nud Motnls bunk nnd according to announcement will eomplota ar rangements for its liquidation. It was stated that thero was no ran on Iho bank nnd that overy de positor is being paid promptly. Tho bank according to President L, L. F.lliott, is not in financial difficulty and tho liquidation is voluntary. RE-ELECTION OF TAFT PREDICTED BY WILSON LINCOLN, NEB.,' Sopt. 0. Strong lnudution of Prosidont Taft with a prodiotion that his ro-elootion is ul mots oertuin was, vojeed horo today by Sooretnry James Wilson of tho agricultural dspartmout. Speaking nt tho statu fair, Wilson said; RAILROAD FIGHTS FOR UNO 6RIUIT Southern Pacific to Make Stiff Fight to Retain Possession of Southern Oregon Property Flies Answer to Government's Suit. PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 0. The answer jiiht filed by tho Southern Pa cific to tho federal government's suit for tho recovery of J,273,000 acres of land in Southern Oregon, on the grounds that tho company litis no right to tho lands because it violntod provisions of tho grant, indicates that tho railroad will up n strong fight lo rotnin iossession on tho assertion that tho government accepted tnxes on tho unsold portions of tho tracts nnd for forty j-enrs failed to protest tho patenting of tho lands in ques tion. Tho Inmls included in tho grant nre valued nt approximately $70,000,000. Tho government alleges that tho company forfeited possession when it sold tho land in larger quantities than ICO ncros nnd nt moro than $2.50 an aero, ns provided for when tho grant was mado. SEATTLE TO ASK BIDS ON CITY TRACTION LINE SEATTLE, Wn., Sopt. 6. Coun cilman Oliver T. Eriekson has intro duced n resolution dirooting the board of publio works to call for bids for tho construction of tho proopsod mu nicipal enr lino. Tho oily railway will oxtoud from tho north to tho south city limits and will cost $000, 000. Construction probably will Lo gin within tho next fow months. his wife1. I know Paul Beattle lied. Why don't they let mo out ot Jail? The trial Is over and they can't uso me any more. Someone will suffer for this." Arguments In the case will be be gun tomorrow. Beattle Sure of Safety. Apparently firm In the belief that his acquittal Is a certainty, Beattle said this afternoon: "I will dine t home Sunday with my father, brother and sister. I have no doubt a verdict will be returned Saturday night, and I am certain that the Jury belleved( my story. We havo arranged tho family dinner to celebrato my re lease." "I'd give a million dollars to sco Henry eat his Sunday dlnnor at homo with his family. I believe he's Inno cent. No one knowing him as well as I could bollove otherwise," With the above words, Beulah Bln ford today announced her belief that Henry Clay, Jr., was not guilty of the murder of his wife. Although Beat tie, In testifying, classed her among the lowest of the low, tho girl appa rently bears no resentment Told by hor mother that Judge Watson and the attorneys for both the defense and prosecution had agreed to her release from Jail to morrow, Boulah said: "I'll tako the first uoat from Nor folk for New York." SEARCH FOR M0NA LISA IN PROGRESS IN AMERICA OLD ORCHARD, Mo Sopt. 6. tho famous painting "Mona Lisa," which was stolen from tho Louvre la Paris, is now being conductod In this country. Information leaking from the cus tom Iioubo today says the picture la bolloved to havo entered America through a Canadian port and to have beon shipped west, where a million aire Is said to bo negotiating for it. WASHINGTON PROPERTY WORTH NEARLY IILLI0N OLYMPIA, Wn., Sept. O.The to tal value of real and personal prop erty in Washington is $812,575,521, according to a roport just issued by Soorotary Koora of tho state tax com mission. This represents an increase of 3 por cont over 1010. or $21,60-1,- 102. I 1 if I ,i 1 VI wi A 1 Sf . ,'