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City Hall .-l Medford Mail Tribune SECOND EDITION WEATHER Max. r,l, Mlu. as, Hum. 10. Rainfall last night, tlll) 9 Dally HI mti yvnr 'of(v.'lrnl Yimr MEDFORD, ORIOOON, FRIDAY, ALAKCir 15, V.)2. No. 800. I ! f , i I i SCORES OF IN IN ffl IS AFTER ALIENS Outlaws, Seventeen Stronii, arc Hcatl ed (or North Carolina Line, as Fast as Their Mountain Panics Can Carry Them Mllltla Is Out. Bandits Aro Well Supplied With Guns and Ammunition and Desperate Dattlo is Expected. HILL.HVILI.r3, Vii., March K.. l'idty Hotly Ayoru, aged Kl years, called from her hoiuo In tho llluo Itldgo mountains to testify for Floyd AIIimi, tlio bandit, died hero HiIh af ternoon from u wound Inflicted liy n tray bullet In )()Httrilny'K shooting otirulvul In Jmlt Maimlo'n couit room. TIiIh brings '' 1 lt- of dead up to fmir. Tlio lUt may ho lu epmned to flvo boforo night, iih iu hope In hold out for Juror Ktuiirt I-'owlur, wliii iiIho was struck ly a stray inlmllt. An unconfirmed report from IIIIIh vlllo Hiiyw Hint oiio of tho detectives Kent from ItlrlimoiKl wan alulti lit a uiountalu inrt while pursuing tlio Aliens. It dnvdoped HiIh afternoon that Floyd Allou attempted to rut his throat when ho wiih forimitly arrest ed. In iiililttlou to a broken log tho prisoner Ih suffering from throe bui ld wounds. Ho Ih not expected to live. Am AfliT Them. Armed with Wlnchestmn ami MlWOd (iff SIlotgllllH tlio Alton gang who livid a rarnlval of death In tho nourl yesterday at Illllsvllla today 'arotJdVtKliiKlrfnmt out of tho.viiMt- tinitHCi of tho Muo Rldgo mountains with sroroB of determined men In full iiiinmll. Tho jiohhok nru com- ihm of members of hoiiio of Vir ginia's flml families, including tho liwIeiH, HowIoKm, Fuddls, Kanes and MurnlitillH. who aro delerinlued to avenge tlio liaiidltM t'ourtroom sloughtor. Reports horn today nay tint out lawn, 17 strong, aro raring for tho North Carollu.i hordor on fast nH their rugged mountain ponies can irnrry thorn, Hundreds of citizens and deputy sheriffs aro scattered along tho hordor lluo and It Ih not believed thai (ho bandits ran i;eL by them without u terrific struggle. Mllltla In Out. Two companion of Htalo mllltla will leuvo hero loilay for tho scene of tho shooting. lllllHVlthi Ik literally shak ing with terror boeuiiRo of a report that tho Allium Intend doubling on tholr tracks mill rolurn lioro to res cue Kloyil Allou, who lien danger ously wounded In tho Jail hero, Tho lllllsvlllo authorities havo wired Governor Mann asking that one of tho companion remain thoro to pro tent tho roHldontH. YoHtorday'n shuotlng lion wiih Htarted by Flo;d, Hltlnoy and Jack Allou, brothers, and II mountaineer frlendn. All but Kloyil oscupod, al though It Ih bullovud that Sldnoy Al len, loader of tlio gang, wiih soveroly wounded, Tho bandits aro known to ho well Hiipplled with ammunition, and a mooting butweon tho outlawa and tho ileputlon Ih nlmoHt curtain to result In moro rnHiiallleH. WASHINGTON, 1). C, Murch ir. Hy n vote of 11 to 8 tlio Iiouho Inlur utalo ami foreign commorro commit teo today doubled to report favor ably on tho bill of IluproHoututlvo HIiiik of Toiinoiisoo abolishing tho United Hluloa commerco court, Taconm to Practice. TACOMA, Wh., March J5. With Hi n Hntler, buttery eouoh, oxpodod lo iirrivo Bimiluy with a litineh of youiiK hopefuls from Onliforuiu, tlio Tncoiuu TigorH vill Hturt biiHolnll priiolioo Monday al'tonioon iiiHteml ol' wuiliiipc I'or Miiroh 120 iih planned. Caiiiiiiu MlkQ riyiioh Ih optiiniwtio over roporlH rouolVod about tho now men ho Imu aini'd, MAY ABQLSH NEW MM R OUT IN'I IsUIsSTS CLUBWOMEN IN IlliK NhW SOCIETY laBBBHiTBBBBBB& BLV ' WTVBBBR jre VTMbVI Jmm af 'BBBlBaW BBBr9B?(flBB Hb'HHt9bHbT'9bVb1 ABvJBVBHHCIJHBXMvHBVnBB TBnK i M MISS TIIEOIIA CAUTEU. IE T WAHIIIMITON. I) I'.MHnhiri -Koeli't) uoiiH'ii of HiIh lty aro lend In i; ureal aid to MIhh Theora Carter, of Ken (tie, WiinIi., who In orKanlzlut; brnnrhi'H of the Horlty of (5ood Cheer tbroiiKbiitit (ho eountry. It Ih lioi,ynteiitlon to IntoreMt the club HtJmen of VaMbiiii;(ou In the noddy of which hIio Ih the founder and proMldont,. and to form In the ua tlou'ri capital a brnucb of thin or ganization of chuerfulucKH, Hutibblue and happlueffri. In the above dlnpalch one of the lirli;ht youiiK men of the Mall Trib une, and the Mnll Tribune has ev oral, neen Vindication upellcd with capital IctterH. I'or moiitliH ho Iiiih patiently borne tho Jlben of IiIh co- workorH, hoping URnltiHt hopo that time would prowthat ho wna not a victim of a hiiiIIo and a clever presa iiKOnt Htuut. Ueaderri of tlio Mall Tribune will remember that hoiiio mouthn upo HiIh paper one day publlHhed n Htory ha vlni; to do with tho organization of a local brautii of tho National (loud Cheer noddy by n Mitw Theora Carter of Heattle. They iiIho will rcmomber tho publication of a Htory In tho following Immio of how tho IcidliiK lady in tho "In Old Ken tucky" kIiow troupe put one over on a iiowh Hlnutli who Ktiould know bet ter. I'or It developed that tho or ganizer of tho (Jooil Cheer Hoclety wiih an "acton'on." Hut despite JlheH and JoKew at Ills expeiiHo for "falllni: for It," the pencil pusher maintained that Miss Carter wiih sin cere In her i;ieat work of organizing the noddy. Now It appear that either Miss Curler Ih Hlnccre, or the bright young man of the Mall Tribune Iiiir com pany, and at Washington, I). C, tuo. SOCIALISTSEXPECT 10 CARRY NEVADA CIIICAC.O, March in.- "Tho ho clullst party expecta this fall to car ry I tti flrHt Htate. Wo aro confldout that Nevada will bo tho first utalo to elect a socialist governor ami legis lature," This Htatemout was made today by MorrlH llllnultt, acting chairman of (ho Hoclullst national executive com mittee, "Harper's" Called Down TACOMA, WaBh., Murch in. Apologizing for printing 10-year-old p Id uie of Tacoma'ti down town district In u norlon of urtlulcu on weutern cities, llarper'H mngazlno will print u now one of tho city an it looks today. Tlio commercial club protested agaliiHl the old plcluro. SNOW IS AN AID TO lilNCObN, Null., March 15. Hum pored by nil eighteen inch full of snow nrined posses today continue iu pursuit of (tonviols Morloy, Taylor mid Powd who escaped yesterday from the Nebraska penitentiary tit LauoiiHtor, three miles south of hero, after assassinating Warden James II. Dolahuuly, Doputy Warden Charles Wngnor mid Ushor A. S. Hoilmnn. A.8 IS HESTUNG 5 COMPANY TWS1G ? PROSPECTS FOR LARGE FRUIT CROPS BRIGHT Never Has Outlook for Lanje Crop Been Better In noyuc River Valley Blossomlnn Period Has Been Satisfactory, Cool Weather at This Period of the Yrar Means Everything to the Fruitgrowers. AhiiIi' l'rom a lew oreliurdn where home itijinlieiotiH prtiuiuu' Iiuh lie mi done on ajiplc trceh the pruHcnt fruit mdicalioiiK were never better th.ui lliej mo now. In fiiet tliere never h.irf been u time in nil of the pant i'ruit produciiii; yearn of the Hugne nor valley when tin propped were iih fiulleriug iik they are at thin time. The MoKMiniiup Mriod lias been very much n-tardcd thin neiihon be ciuiKe of the cool, not cold, weather for the puht ten (Iiivh. During tins period the bloom Iiiih made no notice able advancement, which condition is the hct which possibly could be. The indications as pvcu out by I'rof. O'Onni, are that thin cool wea ther will continue for some days jet and that (here will he tin abundance of rain during all of tins mouth. The maximum temperature thus far in March thirt year Iiuh averaged 'JO de grees lower than March of Inst year. The few warm dayn of February brought out home of the blossom on apricot mid almond trees but the cooler weather ol March huh held tliehc back and no advancement is being made. This is alno truo of IH'tiuhnri nud it would not be surpris ing if this fruit did not show up iu full bloom for leu days yet. Apples and pears will not bo out until in April, hut there will he lots of them when they do show up mid the later they happen along the surer the crop. Hut why talk or think of losing n crop of fruit by frost witli modern appliances for smudging so lavishly scattered through the orchards. The orchardiHt who loses his crop by frost when it can so easily bo saved by smudging ih not entitled to any great amount of sympathy. SAYS 1. 1 SHOT DOVE OF PEACE CHICAGO. March 1C That tho "defeat of tho pcaco treaties must bo laid at tho door of Thoodoro UooHovolt," la tho Bubstanco of a Htatemout given out hero today by Hanker Uavld H. Forgan, bead or tho Taft club of Illinois. Tho statement Is an attack on tho motives of Colo nel Hooaovolt and declares that l.o "has sacrificed tho welfare of tho poople to promoto hlu 'own political and selfish ambition," I. W. W. March on Mills. AHUUUKHN, Wash., March 15. industrial Workers of tho World a00 strong marched on tho North Western mill plant at lloqulam today and persuaded, or forced, a lurgo per coutngo of tho common luborors to leave tho yards, ciud, gathering In numbers at every stop, marched on tho plant of tho Iloqulam Lumbor &. Khlnglo company at tho othor end of tho town, scaled a 12-foot picket fence and stopped work In tho mill yards, later departing with fully halt of tho yard forco among their num ber. J. A. Tbrnoy took train No. 14 Thursday ovonlng for Boattlo, whoro ho will romaln Rovoral days looking after buslnoHs matters, FLEEING CONVICTS no traiua loft tho city last night on account of tho terrifiu snowstorm it is believed that tho fugitives aro in hiding cither iu Lincoln or u suburb. Tho authorities admit they have sc oured no trace of tho murderers us the snoftill Iiiih completely covered their trucks. Investigation today shows that Morloy, Taylor und Dowd did tho shooting. Jr LITTLE HOPE OF SETTLEMENT IN ENGLAND'S I LHHSHi nHpivlLrM jBv tiff Ki Ji5fyiljfc'iBMBBMB83 ,m'B2HfkvE MEN OF THE GREAT vESTEEM COULtcev POMTVPJ2IDD, COMING OOT From prciMit IndhnllonH thrr li little likelihood of nn early Hcttlcment of Hie conl miners strike Id England. The tfltunjlon Is Indeed itrrloux. with thousand of people fa-1 lit; starvation as a result of the big labor war. The gov ernment li mukltig every eTort to adjust the difference The accompany lug picture shows the workmen of the Great VWMern colliery t I'ontyprldd going out on the Oral day of the strike DO. HARVEY WILEY E WASHINGTON, C, March J.- Dr. Harvey Wiley, the "pure food man," who offioiallv chief chemist of the bureau or ohemMry in the de partment of ngrioultiiru resigned to day. Wiley handed ' Ids le-ignntioii to .Secretary Wilson, "Wiley has re signed," said WUoii, "that is all I can say now." Qi A jKivvcrful tmnufacturers' lobby has bcc,n. ntWviKaaanimoualy Wiley, but his ifrjends have been standing stmincttly by the "pure food man." On learning today that Wiley had resigned Congressman Victor Mur dock of Knii-iis said: 'Nn single individual in (he coun try has stood mi long, so persistently and so successfully' ngaint the spe cial interest. Special privilege bus hampered him more than any other." NKW YORK, March lo -Manager of the Goodlioiuekceping Magazine announced here today that Dr. Har vey W. Wiley had nceopted a position as "director of a department of food, health mid sanitation," winch that magazine will establish at Washing ton. Wiley, the mugimno announces, will remain at Washington where ho will have his own library and be free to pursue his work in whatever man ner he sees fit. PEACE REIGNS AI LAWUKNTi:, Mass., March 15. -With strikes ended at six of tho tex tile mills of the city, prospects aro bright today for an early establish ment of industrial peace here. At seven of the mills tho strike is .still 'n effect hocauso the owners of thoo mills while uffecting nn increase in wages did not make the details of the advance sufficiently clear to satisfy tho strikers. About 7,000 operatives will return to work Monday. PORTLAND PLANS CONCERT TO GREET NEW YEAR POUTLANl), Oio., March lfi Mu sicians and others today aro plan ning to ushor In 101 a with an opon alr concert. Tho tontatlvo plan calls for tho drilling of a chorus of 1000 voices, It Is proposed to orcct a hugo grandstand In a contra! down town point and to strotc.lt a canvass ovor tho streets from skyscrupora to protect tho chorus and populaco from "poBslblo" Hhowors. , Marries Step sister, PALM HtiACII, Vhu, March 15.- - Koy Kiisvvorlh Pierce, sop of Henry Clay Pierce, oil luagnuto of New York today has as a bride his step sister Miss Virginia Uurrovves. The two eloped from hwo and wero mar ried at West Palm Honeli. Tho elder Pioroo raibod strong objections when no iciirneu uQ coupm woro mnrnou, PURE FOOD MAN" RESIGNS HIS JOB LWREN MIDDLE WEST IS TIED IP WORST Si F CHICAGO, March 15.-Practically the entire middle west is tied up to day iu the worst blizzard of tho' win ter. All traffic on the big railroads centering in Chicugo is practically at a standstill while all suburban traffic is completely paralyzed. Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois and parts of Oklahoma, Iowa, Minnesota and tli.e Uakotas arc being swept by n terrific gale, accompanied bv 'a heavy fall of snow. Offiuialt; of the transcontinental lines have abandon ed effort to start more trains and arc endeavoring to get relief to pas sengers marooned on stalled trains. No castbound trains due early today have been reported up to now. The weather bureau is. unable ( promise any relief, predicting a con tinuation of the storm until at leant tomorrow. A terrific gale is svveopinp ovor the Great Lukes, and it is fen red that many craft" will bo unubleJo weather the storm. LINCOLN. NEB., March 1 Many trains aro stalled throughout Ne braska today and traffio is para lyzed. Mrs. William J. Bryan is a passenger on a train of the Missouri Pacific which is hold up 15 miles east of bore. The passengers pascil tho night on tho coaches, obtaining' food from nearby farm houses. Hun dreds of laborers are at work today in an effort to shovel nwuv tho snow drifts blockading the train. EXPRESS CHOICE NKW YOKK, -March 15. In uu ef fort to enforce a presidential primary in this state, a non-partisan presi dential primary league, with Norman Hapgood as its president, has opened headcpiartoi-s. Tho league will back the Hobiuson hill which providos tliot votors nt tho coming primary may write the nnmo of their choico for tho presidential nomination on their hul lo t. Mayor Locked Up. TACOMA, Wash., March 15. "Holp, help," rang a volco from tho fourth floor of tho city hndd shortly boforo midnight last night. "Ho ought to huvu left tho stuff nlono and ho wouldn't got tho 'D, Ts,' " mused Nightwatchmau Lin BE HDD NEW YORKERS HAY LA FOLLETTE SCORES TAFT ANO TEOOY MANDAN, N. D., Murch 15 Hot shot for both Taft and Hoosovolt for their failure to cripple, tho trusts in their foimer periods of office is being poured out through this stato by Sen ator La Follotto of Wisconsin in per sonal speeches which are a feature of a fiizzling fight for tho ropublican delegates which ia at its hoight today. BIG COAL MINE STRIKE. WITH 4.000,000 i SUFFERING COAL 5MEI55EIIDD5 LONDON, March 15. A confer ence here today between the coal op erators und, representatives resulted iu absolute failure, neither faction manif&sting a willingness to make concessions. It was announced to night that government officials would have the minimum wage scale bill in troduced in parliament probnbl$J nest Monday. . . , .li,,-,. . i LONDON," March 15. With -1,000,-000 persons throughout the Unit.'d Kingdom already diroctly affcoted, and the suffering rapidly increasing, the great coal strike situation grew more sorious today. Striving desperately to settle iu some way the industrial war before the millions of sufl'orers. are material ly itiereased iu number and their hardships augmented Premier A quith today brought the operators and the miners' representatives to gether with him for further conferen ces. The restlessness of the miners is increasing and it is feared that clashes may occur. SEEING THE TOWN SAN KKANCISCO, March 15. - Orcgoniuns, having finished llioir work of selecting u sito for tho state building at tho Panama Pacific ox position, today aro giving thomsolves up entirely to suiting their individual tastes and "sightseeing" of a differ ent nuturo. Nevada was a eloso see ond to OregouiiiHs to tho selecting of a sito for her state building, selecting ground adjoining that taken by Ore gon. Mills to Start. LAWUKNCE, Mass., March 15. Thu strikos at the Atlantic and Kunhurdt mills hore wore called otf today by tho toxtile workers and operation in those o&tuhlishmoutg will bo resumed nt ouee. Minor differ ences have prevented a sotllcmont at tho Ailtugton, Pacific, Uswoco and Kvorott mills. The men employed by tho Internationa Paper company aro still out. It is expected that alt the diffi culties will bo adjusted in timo for the operatives to return to the mills on Monday. Senator La Follotto is nttucking both Tuft und Ifoosovelt on grounds of their failure to hit tho trusts and to revise tlio tariff downwind. Tho primaries will he held on Tuesday and the campaign is the fiercest tho state has ovor scon. Hoosovolt supporters are flooding the stuto and tho La Fol lotto men aro fighting back tooth und nail. GN NS NEGOTIATIONS AT ENO; STRIKE SEEMS CERTAIN Operators and Committee Represent ing Miners Announce Determina tion to Make No Further Conces sions. Original Demands on Part of Miners Still Stand and Hope of Adjust ment Ends. NEW YORK, .March 15. Practical certainty of a strike in the anthracite coal district camo hero today when negotiations looking to a settlement of wage differences wore abruptly ended. Both tho operators and tho committee representing the miners announced their determination to mako no furthor concessions. This means that, tho strike will begin at midnight, March 31, tinlosa one of the factions weakens. After a brief mcoting between the miners' representatives and the oper ators today their conference adjourn ed sine die. President White of tlio miners' organization presented mi answer to tho refusal of tho opera tors of their demands. After hearing the answer of tho miners, the operators announced that the original refusal of tho men's de mands still stood. TE ES POPULAR LAWS NEW YORK. March 15 Theodore Roosevelt In tho current Issuo of tho Outlook has an editorial entitled, "Conservation of Business Shall Wo Stranglo or Control It?" Roosevelt says In his Columbus speech that ho tried to make two things clear ono, that tho pooplo must govorn them sclvos and securo social and Indus trial justlco through gonulno popu lar govornmont; and tho other, that business must bo controlled, not strangled. Roosevelt assorts that though tho average American business man is thoroughly honost, when It comes to making trade agreements ho Is puz zled lest ho unwlttitngly transgress somo technicality In tho laws. Ho asserts this is ull wrong, and main tains that tho law should bo mado clear, and thoro should bo a compe tent administrative body to do for tho world of Industrial production what tho luterstato commorco com mission duos for Industrial transpor tation. Rig biiHlnoss must bo controlled by tho nation or state, and thero should bo laws enacted to provont ovor-cap-Itallzatlon and flagrant abuso of pow er lu exploiting pcoplo Bcoornlly for the bonoflt of tho fovv. Roosovelt says ho does not bollovo In making tho moro slzo In Itsolf criminal, but the slzo Implies poton tltallty for wrongdoing, and that thoro should bo laws providing for tho strict supervision of groat con cerns. Ho suys what tho pooplo want Is that tho evils of big business bo eradicated nud tholr advantages pre sorvod. It Is a hard question to solve, but Roosovelt says tho pooplo of this country can and they must solvo It by Insisting on not only Just but thorough control. SATES LOWERED III CALIFORNIA SAN JOSW, ('a!., March 1G -Call, fornla shlppors today aro roJolclnK ovor tho action of tho Houthoru l'a clflc rallroud In making 10,000 re ductions In rutos. llio reductions aro prompted by tho now cIuuho Iu tho railroad law boarlug an tho long and uhort haul. Tho cutting of ratcu Is aimed to eliminate tho system by which a lower rato was gruntod for a long haul thmi (or a short haul contained within tho former. Tho commodities affected Includo noarly till varieties or California product. 00Y