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o Oregon Hlston. ,,, City Hull Medford Mail Tribune SECOND EDITION WEATHER. It.tln. Mn v., IB niln., U7 Hoi. Hunt., 0,1 Per CoiU. Dally Hlxtli Ywir. Korty.Klmt Yitr. MJODFORD, 0UI500N, WIODNUSIMY, )K(MMmi 27, 1911. No. 208. J SJlN'' ' ' " j CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENCY IS OPENED IN OHIO Ln Folleltc Addresses Hiino Crowd In Tail's Own State, Outllnlnn His Views on Progressive Issues How Bcforo the People DISCUSSES RESULTS REACHED IN WISCONSIN Says He Stands (or tho Nomination of All Candidates by Direct Primary Law. NOTED BUSINESS MAN HONORED DY FRANCE YOUNOSTOWN, ()., Dee. 'J7.-A.l-drosing a rich! crowd hero, Senator Robert M. Lit Pollotio of Wlm'oiinin today opened tlio progressive cam paign whioh IiIm adherents hope will IhiiiI him in ilio providential chair I .it Pollolto ilUciiMntit at length Hit nwulU ui'i'diiipliclu'il liy Ii'ih policies in WImciiunui. lid hiiIiI, in purt: "Tin) progrotmivo movement tmliiv is h k purely tint outgrowth of eon- ditlong us wore the revolution or tho civil war. It in a people's movement In tint copied cause. "The nation bus rofiled Iy Wis consin' civic evolution. At tin be ginning of our program of hinlation il wns iowod with alarm ami de nounced iim extreme ami radical. To day it Iuih compmrcd nil opposition ami hit compelled the approval of every enlightened commonwealth in America." l.a Folleltc thou recited at length tlio conditions in WJMi'oiiMin before Ids riiii) to Miwir in tint tdntn and liUult'd tlu; reform accomplished hero aft tlio nwull of tlio long fight against rivllcge. ''Tho progressives stand for the tioinination of all officer, from prov ident to tho coroner, by primaries," Mild l.a Fallot to. "The rPHniit sys titin initnjw that tho voter entrusts hi suffrage to tho precinct delegate, who paHtiiM it to the city delegate, who give it to tho district delegate, who IihihIh it to tho stale delegate, who finally trade it for something ho want hininulf," Referring to ln recall, thn Wiseon hiii senator Niiid: "I favor tho rooall of judges. I huvo uh high roHpoot for tho jmlioiary iim Iuih any mini, hut I don't huliovo tho jmlioiary is unno tified. There have boon corrupt judges and I Miy one of tho greatest uioiiiioom to society is the crooked judge. If they are honest (hoy will not ho dis turhod umlor tho rooall." La Pollotio Maid, however, that ho advocated a greater percentage of signature on the rooall petition for judge tliuii for any other oflieo. . IIIIIIIIBl)"H aiH JOHN eNAMAKFfe, The onipr of tlio J?ffloii of Honor linn Jut been conferred on Air. John Wnmimnl r by tho "rrtich govern incut. Tbe honor wnn kIvcii In reoj, tl- tlon of Mr. Wnnnmnkor' groat iervlccn to the Frrncl people urjng tlu recent (I miHlrou ttoHl In Franco uu for bU emlneiK'o In tlio builu.i world. ORGANIZA ON OE 8EEE TRUST S A 0 ARE Arthur Vccdcr, Organizer of tho Com nine, Tells Details of Gigantic Merger Standard Oil Made It Pos sible by Advanclnn $15,000,000. FOR YEARS PACKERS FAILED TO ARRIVE AT AGREEMENT At One Time Merger Would' Have Been Success Only for Ed ward H. Harrlman. CREATION BUREAU TON PARKS IS FIRST MOVE So Writes Will G. Steel From Wash luQton, Sayliifi It Is Possible to Do But Little Until This Matter Is Disposed Of Report to Be Printed. CHICAGO, III., Dee. '27. Arthur di f tho eouib fn MN ARRESTED TMSJN PALS Gcorno Brldiies, Charnctl With At tempt to Dynamite Monesscr Mills, Declares That Ho Will Make Com plete Confession. AKWIvSKHN, I'n., Dee. l7.-Col-IiiJmIiij in liiH eol hero today, (leorijo Hiidf-oM, itrrortted on NUHpioion of liavlni; lioon implicated in a uiKiiulio ooiiHpiraov o blow up tlio Moiioshqii' iii'iIIh, doehuoH (hat hu will miiko u complete cotifoHMon in whioh' bo will flirnirth tho iiiiuioh of all those coll ected with thn d.vunmlto.nlot. "I am Holnjf to olon nnyHolf. I won't tnlco nil tho blniiio," )i'iiltOh hiiIiI. "Tho rortt of thorn miiht take their modielno, juhI like mo." INDIANA REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE MEETS INIHANAPOijIH, luil,, DoC. 27.--Divided Into two factloiiH as tlio ro null or Cliiilnunn I.oo'h ntntomolit that J'roHliJont Tuft eunnot carry Inillunii, tho Htulo raniibllcun commlttoo mot lioro today. Tlio first tout of HtroiiKth will cninu thin uftornoon whon a voto will bo tnkon on a dntu for roorKim-. izliiK tlio commlttoo. Tho quoHtlon or n proHldontlul pilnmry uIho will bo (IIhciihroiI, Will 0. Steel, who in at WnHiiin lou, D. ('.,'iu I he iittoruMtM of tho ap propriation for tho Crater Lake Na tional park, under date of December 'Jl, write an foIlewN: "After it jjnwit lonl of delay the war department Kot a move on itclf and Major Morrow' report wiih moiiI to cotu;rcttN, but not until Much time iim uotliiuL' could bo done until after tho holiday. Kou thou I fancy it will bo imposritblo to do iinythinj; definite in tho irominoH, until the mat ter of a bureau of national parks is nettled. ,lut now it hcoiiih pretty cer tain that tlio Smoot bill will pasH the -somite and probably tho house, but it is uniiitf to take a. lot of work by everybody intcrohlcd in tho welfare of our parks. 1 Imvo no doubt as to tho support of tho Wol, hut I am u little afraid of the Knst. Morrow's report wiim ordnred print ed, mid will appear iim II. D. IV26 Momo limo noxt week. It whm ordorod illiihlrateil, whioh 1 suppooo iiiviuin tho map. "Tho interior department i exhibit ing in tho public library hero a fine fot of viowM of tho national parlJs, and it i uttraetim; n ureut deal of alteutioii. Among thoiu are 'JO of KiMor's bohl, till eolorod, and they are univeiMiilly aokiiowledKed to bo uwny and beyond everything olxo in the col lection. All of tboin pro of Crater Lake. Ileoauso of their merit they occupy the bont light, tho bout loca tioii, tho boMt of ovorylhing I hut ouii ho given them. "I have an appointment with Sen ator Hmoot tomorrow uiorninir. nt which limo I hope it will bo possible to outline a campaign hero that will ho effective. "I enclose n clipping from tho Washington Star relating to tho pie turoM on exhibit." Tho clipping follews: "A collodion of views of koiuo of tho--striking hooiioh in mhiiq of tho larger national pnrks Iiiik boon placed (Hi exhibition in tho public library of tho District of Columbia. 'Two'nty two pictures, (ho work of 1 II. Kisor, and regarded as remarkable both in tho scones represented and in tho wondrous coloring, depict somo of the beauty spots, in tho Crater Lake Nn tional park in Oregon. This lake is situated in tho crnlor of an oxtinot volcauo'nud tlio views represented mo wonderful combinations of watery clouds, rooks and forests, 'Hut fanny a sea of sapphire,' writes Jouuuiii Miller, 'sot around by a compnel cir clo of (ho great grixrly rook of Yo somite. It does not socni so sublime at first, but tlio moto is in your own eye. It is groat, great, but It takes you days to see how groat. It lies L'OOI) foot tmdur your foot, and as it reflects its walls so perfectly that you cannot (ell tho wnll from iho re flodlou iu the intensely blue water, rgnuier which Iho beef trust was ovolved, again occupied thu stand today when the trial of tho Chicago packers was resumed iu tho United States circuit court hero. Heforo commencing anew the exam ination of Vcuder, Special Attorney (Icueral Wilorsou announced that it will take a week to introduce evidence of a historical character tracing the combinations of tho packers with each other since tlio inception of the industry. Vceder'H testimony and records have shown that for yours prior to the formation of the final combine thu packers sought consolidation, which they wcro unable to perfect because of the enormous amount of watered stock it was proposed to carry. In 11X12 they were temporarily forced to abandon their plans because tho late H. II. Harriman refused to invest m),00(,()OU iu tho combine. Vendor- produced the records of negotiations leading up to tho forma tion of tho National Packing com pany. A series of options and con traetK were read showing flint in Juno, J02, the defendants acquired the United Hoof company, the Fowler Packing company, tho Hammond properties ami the St. Louis Dressed Hoei and Provision company. Fur ther records showed that the Kiibn, Irfieli & Co., .lacob Schiff and tho Standard Oil interests in December, 11)02, advanced sufficient funds to eiiuhlo tho packers to tako up tho options on all properties secured. Six months Inter tho National Pack ing company was launched. Vecder doelnred that Kiibn, I.oeb & Co. and James Stillman of tho New York City National bank for the Standard Oil intorusts advanced $lfi,000,000 for the formation of tho combine, thu packers contributing $8,000,000, hut being forced to pledge nil tho properties they sought to merge, ami which were capitalized at more than $:IOO,000,000, as security tor the loan. They repaid tho $15, 000,000 within throe years. Financial Empetor Is Said to Be Failing in Health ltnrrnt 1IhiIcIioji from New York nro I" the effect that the health of J. I'lcrpont Morgan, the financing. Is falling, mill to such mi extent that tils friends nro greatly worried concerning him. He may soon l forced to rvtlro from active IiohIoc.ss. T R OF WRITE SLAVERS AT PARIS ROCKS ERA GE ANGLO-GERMAN 1 MORE THAN Hideous Orgies Conducted at Editor Flachon's Villa Said to Outdo the Atrocities Credited to Sodom in Its Wickedest Day. PORTLAND TO AID ITS UNEMPLOYED PORTLAND, Ore., Dee. 27, Tho city council today appropriated $10,- 000 with which to kIvo work to tho unemployed of Portland. Tho money will bo cxpondod umlor tho direction of tho ways and iiiouiib commlttoo of which Councilman Uur Kiird hi cbulraa. Men who need work, particularly bonds of families, will bo given Jobs nt road making, treo trimming, street cleaning, etc. It. Is estimated that thero aro G0Q0 unemployed men In Portland. Vessel Lost. OinitAI.TAIt, Doc. 27. -Another vobhoI In today found to lmvo boon lost during tho recent storms on tho liny of lllBciiy. tho (lorimtu atonmor Chins going down with all luuulu while on her way from Hamburg to Aloxnndrln, Sho la tho third known to lmvo sunk. you have a continuous and unbroken circular wnll of 21 miles to contem plate at a glance, all of which lies '2000 foot, and seems to lio 4000 foot below. Yet so bright, yet so intensely blue is tlio lake that it kouuih at times, from some points of view, to lift right in your face.' "Those pictures will ho on exhibi tion until January !," PARIS, Dec. 27. Nineteen prison ers accused of being involved in the most sensational white tduvo scandal hero iu many years were arraigned today in tlio court of correction. They included Victor r'lnchon, u former editor and close friend of former Pre mier Hriand; Gaston AJard. a rich munufaoturer, and Madame Uuilmou, who is alleged to have conducted tho white slave ngonev which supplied rich men with child victims, The defendants also included sev eral mothers who admitted they had sold their children, some of whom weitt only 11 years old. A dozen bankers and government officials lmvo fled from Franco to ceenpo proseoutiou. It is alleged that Madamo Guilmen sold the girls on a commission basis, giving tho mother-, (rifling Minis out of tho huge nmounts reoeivod from tho wealthy debauchees to whom she pandered. The proseoutiou alloges that hideous orgies wore conducted at Flachon's villus in tho country, whoro bis rich associates used tho little girl in rovolry, outdoing, tho utrocitioh credited to Sodom iu it's wickedest day. SISTER TO FLEE FROM PERSIA SOON WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec, 27. United States Minister liiissoll cabled tho state department from Teborau that W. Morgan Sinister, the Ameri can treasurer genoraj uf Purcia, will leayo that country bj tho Wus&inn route within u few days, This means that Kuan'm has gained tho first ami most important of her demands, and that Shunter gone, the resistance of tbe Persians to Russian domination is likely soon to die down. MERE POSSIBILITY J. Ramsay MacDonald, Leader, of Labor Party in House of Commons, Throws New Light on Present Deli catc Situation. LONDON, Dee. 27. War betweou Kngland and Germany is more than a more jHissibjIity. If it comes it will be duo to the sins of tho British foroigu office, which, made up of muu of aristocratic lonuiugs, has conducted tho count ry'n international relations with uttor dUr regard of the modern British spirit of democracy. These views wore voiced" to the United Press today by J. Ramsay MacDonald, lender of the Labor party iu tho house of commons, iu nn in terview iu whioh bo throws a now light on tho eircmubtaucos leading up to the present delieato situation be tween the two great powers nud jus tifies tho campaign now being g con ducted by himself and his colleagues for tho regeneration of tho foreign office. DEBATERS FIND USELESS HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION GOLD HILL, Ore., Dec. '27.Set (iug the chick of odueatioiial progress back at least a half coptury, a de bate between pupils of the Gold Hill high school on tho question, "Re solved, That a high school eduoation is beneficial," resulted in a decision for tho negative by a unuuimous voto of tho judges. Patrons and taxpay ers of tho loeal school have since taken up the subject nud tlio debato has been briskly reopened, as thoy consider that if there is any question whatever concerning tlio beuofioial or nonboneficial effects of a high school education, thev should know it, espe cially iu viow of the fact that thoy aro now paying an increased school tax by reason of tho recent oreotioii of a handsome now high school build at a cost of $20,000. ROSSIA PERSISTS IN POLICY TO AMERICAN JEWS Bill Is Introduced in the Duma to Raise the Tariff on All American Goods 100 Per Cent Exclusion of Jews Will Be Maintained. ST. PETERSBURG, Dee. 27. Fre.-di evidence of tho determination of Russia to exclude all Ameriean Jews from this country despite pro tests by tho United States was given in the duian today in a bill introduced by loaders of tho Nationalist party, which, with tho Octobcrists, controls tlio assembly. Former Premier Gucb koff's bill raiding tho tariff on all Ameriean goods 100 por cent was also introduced. Introduction of these s, which if thoy nro pressed, is otpuvulont to their passage, is taken as tantamount to an open declaration of tariff war against the United States. Tho ac tion is believed to bo taken at this tinio iu order to give warning that Russian regulations for tlio exclusion of Jews will bo maintained cvon though thov result iu a eompleto sev erance of trade relations with America. ui v AMOY. China, Dee. 27. Aesns .sinntion was to have boon tho fato of Tao-tai, Yuan nud Cha Yo, tho mili tary oonimandor, if a plot, discovered hero among the llonahose troops,' had matured, JURY MAKES REPORT LOS ANGELES, Cal., Doc. 27. Tho federal grand jury reported to United States Judge Wellborn today at 30:510 mid returned sevoral indict ments, none of whioh, it was said, ro fors. to tho dynamiting cases. Tho report wns filed and tho in vo.stigntors immediately rot urn cd to their investigation of the dynamiting onse. Tho contents of tlio roport wore not divulged. Dynamite Found. HOCUESTKR, Pa.. D,oa 27. Dyn ninlte enough to blow half of Roch ester was found in 'tho barns of tlio McDonald ami Ilartmnu contractors' supplies company lioro today. Twen ty four sticks ami 12 caps woro uncovered. YUAN DEMAND S PRESIDENCY OE CHINA 10 YEARS His Ambitions Cause Serious Hitch in Negotiations for Peace Rebel Leaders Refuse to Accept Condi tions He Tries to Enforce. CONFLICT WILL BE FOUGHT OUT IN FIELD HfglrPricc Is Set by Premier for His Desertion of Martchu x s Dynasty. : LQNDOtf, flee. 27. A serious hitch in thc: negotiation or peaco among tho Chinoesc royalists and revolutionists-is retried today its dispatches to' the fechnne .'Telegraph from Shanghai. To (ho ambition of Yimn Shi Kni is laid the possibility thnt A&r'mty continue. Yuan, the dis patohcfysny, fins' demanded that nn the price of desertion of the Mancliu dyiinly, he bo elected president of tjic new Chiiiosc "republic foe ten years. The rcb'dl leaders refuse to accept n republic under such condi tions, and unless Yunn recedes from his position it' is believed tho conflict will be fought out to a finish in tho feld. TOKIO, Dec. 27. Pekin dispatches received here today say that Premier Yuan Shi Kni is coasidcring his res ignation to tho throno immediately after reaching tho ly?st possible terms he cau!cttc.t.wjth thJipluUDrmihf. Many Manchu princes," rcnlizingTlfo futility of attempting to retain tho Manchu dynasty iu power, told Yuan Shi Kni that they nre ready to abdi cate. , Japanese officials think that Pre mier Yuan Shi Kai's Inns to hohj a convention of delegates representing all of the provinces iu China and per mitting them to decide the future fato of the empire is bound to fail. GOFEIN WITH CORSE BROKEN Steel Car Crashes Into Hearse and Hurls Body of Dead Woman Into Street Brakes Failed to Work, Causing Crash. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec 27. Struok by a street oar ho ortodav a hoarse was smauhed into kindling wood, tho coffin thrown into tho street and torn open and tho aomuo of Mrs. Barbara. Uogoli of Oakland was projected upon tho pavement. Tlio collision occurred while the fu neral recession was on ita way froiu tho mortuary chapel to a Greek church for the funeral ceremuiiy. Nicholas Rogoli, the husband, wns iu a carriage in tho rear of tho hcargo at the timo of tho accident. Tho brnkos rofuaod to hold the our on tho slippery rails and it ormhed into tho side of tho hearse. Tho car riage caroonod upon its sido into tho car and broke iu two, Hinnshcd from top to bottom. Tho coffin wnt hurled, into tho btrcot alongside tjio, car, breaking open. Tho woman's oti wrapped in its shroud, fell from tho coffin as the latter split on tho pave ment. Anothor bourse bore the body bunk to the undertaking parlors whore It was again prepared for burinl and u second funeral proeesstoij vij formed. ORANGE CROP PARTIALLY SAVED BY SMUDGING POTS SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., Dee. 27. Koorth from the citrus districts to. day bay that tlio probable dnmugo to tho orango crop as a result of Mon day night's frost will bo us low ng 12 por oont. The datmigo in mm fiued chiefly to VulqncfiujJ lemons and other grcon fruits, the nuveltf bc ii)K not seriously touched. $o fur ther damngo wns reported lust niht, as tho smudging of fruit was general. 4