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A tircrton Hll(ieal sJecle1-'' City Ms!! .-? i i. i $ Medford Mail Tribune SECOND EDITION WEATHER 1'alr tonight mul Sntimtrtjr. Mav, 70, .Mln. 12. fiirtym-roml Y Ditlly Hnvciilh nr Ymr MEDFORD, OttlSCION, TOJDAY, MAY 10, 1012. No. 42. AS TAFT RUSHES NOSEGAY FORAGED MAN WON HER 5500,000 LEGACY. I'M ONLY ONE I PRACTICED BY CITY COUNCIL 10 WILL PROBABLY E T SAYS TEDOY ENJOIN a ' Li NAN ARCHBALD GOT II 0,000 OUT OF COAL BARGAIN MfflK MY ASSISTANCE N BOSSES W 0 BRIDGE LaW--- j K Special Brldno Levy Loaned to Other Funds Storm Sewers Built and Sewer System Kept In Repair by Money Received for Road District. But Little Money Expended on Road Work In District Outside City Uses Made ot Money Secured. Ily direct taxation llm city of Mud. ford, through it city council hits pro viitfil 4l'J,5-IM.r-l for Initio purpoNCH during tliu past two yearn- .rU.":i.lr in Itlll mid .tO.MIII.'JII iii 1)1 1'J. Not oiii; penny or thin amount Iiiih been expended a h yd fur bridge iui' posuH. Of tin1 iiiiiiniiit provided liy it one mill tux in HMO, puid in lull, $17(111 Iiiih been loaned o other fund $10(10 to the intnreht fund mid 7(I0 to tliu htreet mid road fund. The first uiuoiiut ruined wax for the purpusu of mining the prescnl bridge over Hear week to JiioUon boulevard. I lie reeeut tux levy niiide by the eilv eouneil ealled for niiotlieF tux of one mill, furnishing .(I.'IJ for (h hiiine purpoxe. A eilv eleeliou Iiiih nmv been eulled to votu bunds "not to eeeed .i'J0,(M0" fur the puivoHe of pitying the cltyV hhitre of a new bridge over Hear en-nk nt the line of Ka-t Main street. If this new bridge costs over $10,. (MM), the eily will puv the eoimtv .-Mil,. fiOU. if it uonIh less thuu $10,01)0 the eity will pay (he county .! 1,000. Oilier I'niitto Awtllnhlo. The iM-WIU.UIl in evidently to be exK'iidei far the moving of the prof enTHtruntTiYctVer.lJcitr- ereek to Jackson hiiulevard. The approaches to the new bridge on .Main street are to be taken euro ol out of the difference between $20,1100 and the i:t,r00 or the 11,000 to be paid to (he county. Hut there uro other funds provided for bridge purposes. From the spc eial road lux provided by llm county and levied on the Medford road din Iriet rlie eily thin year will receive i:i,lil2. From the street mid toad tax levied liV the city the city this year will receive auullier $11801, making a total amount of $2;i,f)HI available for street and road purposes. Froin all funds for htreet and road purposes this year by direct taxation the city luth !j-:.ri,ti;ir nvailable, $12 mil for bridges antl $2:i,0HII for htreet and roads if segregated. If the $20,(100 bond issue carries it will make available lor this year for htreet and i-oiiiIk (including bridges) the sum of $V,(i:iri. Itoml Fund for Hcwcih. It is alhii possible that a greater hum than this hIioiiIiI he available for roadh and bridges. The money re ceived during the past three yea in for htreet and road purposes has been used to cover a number of other items such as newer upkeep -$2700 was expended front this fund for a storm hewer eonhtrueled by the city n year and u half tigo. It is the custom of the city council to place the money received front the npeeial road lax levied on the road district together with the street and road fund raised by direct taxation levied by the city lit mm common fund known us the street and road fund. Front this fund the eily engineer's office Iiiih been mitiutuiued, the streets of the eily swept, the sewer system Kept In repair, a storm sewer (Contlauod on Page c.) FARMER BEATS WIFE TO DEATH IN BED HNAVHU, Pu May to. Armed with a pokor, Krank Attlo, a wealthy farmer of Frankfort Springs, near here, early today c-allod IiIb wife, a former society hollo of Jjaat Liver pool, Ohio, rroin hor bed and beat her head and face Into an ttnrenog nlznhlo mass, Hhu was dead whon neighbors arrived at tho farm Iioiiho. Attlo alleged that ho killed his wife hociMisu she tried to murder two chlldron by his first wlfo, Veto of Entlro Legislation, Executive and Judicial Appropriation Bill is Threatened In Order to Save Com mercc Court. Democrats Plan to Abolish Present Tariff Board and Consolidate Sev eral Important Bureaus. WAHIIINGTON, May tit. -The hniiHo Hi In afternoon overwhelmingly panned the lughUntlvu Judicial appro, prlatlou bill iik amended by provl mIoiih lo abolUh the commerce rourt. to letala the iiiIuIh and aasay offlccn ami lo coiiftulldiitc Hoverul hun-aini In the national Koveriimeut, WASHINGTON, May 10. That I'rcnldeiil Tixh will veto I ho entlro Icgbdiidvc, executive and Judicial appropriation bill rather than nee the nbolltiliiueut of the Court of Com merce I the belief here today of tunny member of coiiKn-HH. Itopro- Hcutatlvo Drbtcolt of New York and ItcprcHcututlvn Htoveim of .Mlnucapo- Hh, who are clone to (he ad in In Intra tlou, are organizing the frleudH of the rouiiuerre court In the Iioiibo to day and will put up a determined fight uKuliiHt Hi abollxlimetil when the uncut Ion comes up for final pirn HiiKe. Tltey plan lo put every cott Kreaman on record mid a Hcpatatu vole will be demanded on the clause calling for the rotirl'H abollHliment. It watt learned today that the democratic fortcH plan to abollHh tliu tiri'iteul tariff lioanl and coiiiollilntc the bureau of ntatlatlc ami mnntt fiirtiirem with the hiirenu of foreign relation, forming a.inrw bureau of tlomoMIc nttii foreign commerce. LANE IS PROBING WASHINGTON, May 10. - Com mlKBloncr Franklin K. I.nuo of the Intcmtutc commerce comnilhslon lu making an analyalH today of all the tcHtlmnny In the exprexu combine In vcHtlKatlon. He will HUlimlt thn re- KttltM of bin work to the cummitudon Hhortly and that body will make a report, ImpoHlng new regulation!! on the cxprcHH compuiiIcH. It Is expected that the report will show nvor-rupltallzutlon, exorbitant earning and extortionate and tin Kyutcinutlc rateH. lit congrcHH It Ih declared that the express coinpanlca are going to be out of l)iiulueun. THREE SLIGHT QUAKES MAKE MEXICO SHAKE MEXICO CITY, Muy 10. Threo hIIkIU enrtlwjuaUes were felt here to day, hut there wan no daninr.o and but little oxcltemeiit. Iteporta re ceived hero today from outlying din IrlclH place the number Killed u ea terday'u (pialio at 17. WARRANT OUT A wnrrunt wuk ihMieil Friday ngniiiHt W. Tyler .Smith, circulator and url'iHt of the Hun, charging uk Huttlt and battery by ,101111 HilliugH, nit employe of (Nuiiiciliuim Mitchell ut bin carriage shop. Smith eulled to collect a circulation bill i'rom Hil lings niitl claims he wiih roundly abus ed by both Mitchell and Hillings, be cuiiMi of his connection with tho newspaper, and upon being assaulted by Hillings, knocked the littler down, whereupon Mitchell challenged him to fihl. Hut there is ns much difference between Mitchell's story mid Smitli'n As there is between an ice ereuni soda mid u ('. & 0. highball, Mitchell mui! ho simply Iodic Smith by (he hiiottldur mid led him to the door, whereupon Smith grew nbiisivo, Mitchell says the strongest word lie used wiih some thing like "i'eaee. bo still." lie ills- olniins any language on his part.up whore Qlonn Taylor wiih to tako which could by interpreted by the ovw tlo work for a iioininu sulury." Fact That Railroad Had Two Cases Pcndlnii in Commerce Court Re sulted In Option on Coal Pile Being Given to Associate Judge Archliald Impeachment Hcarinp Underway In Washington Got 150,000 Tons for Very Small Sum. WAB1IINOTON. May 10. IiivchII Kittlou of the chargeH UKaliiBl .ludfje Archbald of the commerce court wan continued today before, the Iioiiko Ju diciary committee, with the recalling of ICdward WllllauiH, who was (tokh examtned In regard to Archhald'H alleged ncKOtlalloiiH to buy a cull coul dk from the Krle railroad of Moxalc, l'n., for fSUUO and mill It for VJO.OOO. Iintge Wrote l-ltcr. WllllauiH tCHtlflcd that IiIk "katy did" culm pile of the Krlo railroad wan prevlounly offered to tho Dupont I'owder company for 1-000. He and JtulKo Arcubald, ho ntateil, were "held up" for HG00 for the Krle'a Intercut In the pile alone. John Rob ertson, the other owner, accordlpg to WllllauiH, demanded $3500 more for bin share. The wltnesH teittlfled that when he opened negotiations with Captain May, manager of the Krlo rallreiu: nuil properties, ho thought a letter from Judge Archbald would help putdt (ho deal along. Ho declared that May was aware that Archbald was a United Stated Judge, ub the Krlo railroad had cantddornhlc liti gation In hid court. He admitted that ho tliotiKht the fact that Archbald wan u United States Judge would help hi in to close the deal. Whon miked If ho thought the Krlo reftiHCd to close tho deal be cause they heard the department of Justtco was luvcHtlKiitlug, WllllauiH said ho did not know. Ho admitted that he and Archbald had dlHCUBHOd tho writing of a letter by tho Judge, while the deal was not yet consum mated, and said that Archbald told hint to see llrownell, tho vlco presi dent and general counsel for the Krlo railroad. Secured the Option. "Old you ever ny that tho Judgo declared ho would see llrownell, and that ho might hurt him If ho re fused to do fliirh a Hinull tiling?" nHked Congressman Clayton, the Ju diciary committee chairman. "I snld that the JiuIbo had two cases before him Involving tho Krlo iiillroail," replied WllllauiH. "They had not been tried )ot, Archbald said he wa well acquainted with Captain May. He might do him boiiio harm, not that he could do llrownell any harm." Williams testified that Judge Archbald sent him nKiiln to seo May, with the result that tho witness fin ally secured tho desired option on tho culm pile, although paying $2000 nioro than vita previously nuked. Williams estimated that tho Krlo railroad's Interest In the culm pile (Continued on PnKo 8.) FOR Si ARTIST wildest flight of fancy us "fight lulk." When linked concerning tho it f fair, Mitchell launched into u tirade against the newspapers of Medford, which lie declared, with sundry em bellishments were the worst ever. Hu declared that publication of eity no tices was u graft that ho intended to abolish, "Tho only proposition in tho nnturo of graft which has been submitted to the eity council since I have been u member of it has come from the nowspupors. And I want yon to know that they eitimol hold up this city while I urn a member of tho city council." Questioned about the withdrawal of the municipal judge amendment and tho one regulating prize fights, Mitchell Hilidj "It was because wo were misrepresented, It is said that wo would pay $1800 a year for a judge whereas wo had it all framed y3W.., - Nl33PbROTHy L Mlrt Dorothy ltiUetiniu, the daughter ot Sidney ISatcman, proprietor of a. .s.mport iKinrdlng houc. who has been made rl-ber by SoOO.000 through the rtlll of Kom 1U Wlnani, of llultlinore, declines to discuss her good fortune. A rttiry bi being told of bow a iKiuipiet picked by Mm llatt-m.in at Newport :nufd the nscI U.iltlmoro uijii to taUe an Intercut In the girl, who now figures ui hi will L OF F, E PORTLAND, Ore May 10.An gerfd by a roriHitflnn-ot Attor ney General Crawford on the obli gation of Oregon delegatos to tho national republican convention, sup porters of Colonel Uoosevelt today are urging tho recall of the state official. In bis opinion, an off-hand one, Crawford held that Inasmuch as Colonel Itoosevelt did not In tho re eclvo a clear majority of all repub- cent primary election In Oregon re llcan votes cast, tho Taft members of tho Oregon delegation were not obliged to vote for Itoosovelt. All members of tho delegation are on record as against tho attornoy general's Interpretation of tho law and announce they will voto for Colonel Itoosevelt as long ns ho has a chance to win, ho being clearly the choice of the voters. Itoosevelt adherents tire preparing a letter to the attornoy general re questing a formal opinion on the primary law and If Crawford ad hered to his original opinion, they say they probabl will try to recall him. SLOOP PENSACOU TORN TO SAN niANClSfO, Muy 10.- Tutu to hits for the sake of its copper bills mid fasteners, the old sloop IVn-u-eoltt, for years the training ship at tho government station ut Yetba Hueiia Island, sank off Hunter's I'oint here tnduv within n few min utes after the wrecking orew had itbaiiboued it. Tho I'cusneolu was recently t-'ohl by tho government to Henry .1. ling ers, who ordered its demolition. Tho ship passed through tluvuivil war anil uuicii in tho promotion ot ninny a naval officer. ELKS TO CONDUCT IRELAND FUNERAL Medford l.o"V'Q No. 11 US, Henevolent and Protective ()r dpr of Elks will conduct tho funeral of Edwtml C. Ireland at their hall on Wast Sixth street Saturday afternoon nt !1:'.I0 o'clock. All friends nro cordially invitca to attorn! theso services. Thu remains will bo shipped east for interment. N CRAWFORD R S ADVIC SHREDS 'ATEffAN MOrO J, I, Aur mmrir LIVES OF 10,000 NKW OULKANS. La.. May 10. The lives ot 20,000 persons living In the district of New Hhoades nro se riously menaced today by tho flood waters of the Mississippi river. Gov ernment officials hero regard the situation there so serious that they ordered all available launches, motor boats and bnrges to rush to the scene to rcscuo marooned residents. The situation at half a dnien other j Louisiana tewns: today was deBper ate, All telegraph wires Into Torras are down, but couriers report tho situa tion thero as alarming. Tho pres- suro of the flood waters caused the levee to crumble and tho crevasso there Is a mile wide. A similar con dition prevails at Morcauvllle. Thero two breaks widened and, finally Joining, poured a flood of water Into tho town. Residents have fled to higher ground but tho water te gradually encroaching on this ter ritory. Scores of homes havo been swept away and the food supply Is rapidly diminishing. An organization of negroes com plained today to Governor Sauds be catiHo negroes uro being forced to work on tho lovees. They received no encouragement from tho gover nor, who said: "I ant working on th levees, us aro all white men. You negroes aro no better than any or the rest of us." REBEL PARAGUANS DEFEATED BY FEDERALS ASUNCION, Paraguay, May 10. A large forco of rebol soldiers under tho couimand of forntor Presldont Colonel Alvlno .lata, wero defeated by government troops In tho vicinity of Tlblcuury today. REBELS EL PASO, Texas, May .--General Iluerta over a telegraph circuit via Laredo, Texas, and Torreon, to the Heriuijillo hattlelield, stated to day! "General Kohago cotnplelely routed an advance partv of 1,000 rebels at Zarugoza, near Hormijillo, killing 1)0 of them. General Villa's cavalry pur sued the fleeing iusiirrectos from the field. "Tuesday night we heard tho ad vance guard of the rebels coming, Villa nttacked their front nt tl o'clool; Thursday morning and almost imuiediutelv utter Villa arrived and flanked them with machine guns. Tho fight lasted until Thursday noon but finally panic seized tho rebels and tltey van like vats, MENACES ALONG Ml I IP MEXICAN "Just One Candidate Whom It is Possible to Nominate Against the Bosses and That Is Myself" As scrts Roosevelt. I "All Decent Citizens Believing in Rule of the People and Honesty in Pol itics Must Vote for Me." NKW YOHK, JIny 111. Ueeluring ilutly that "there i- just one candi date whom it is possible to nominate against the bosses' and that's my self," former President Theodore Itoogevclt, in u letter published here today by the Itoosevelt committee, expresed generally his view of the present situation in the prcsidcuthl fight. Addressed to Chairinait Caswell t.f the Minnesota Itoosevelt committee, the letter declares that President Tuft is the toed of the bosses, and that every vote not east for Itoose velt will tend to strengthen the hold of "the interests" on the iwoplc. The letter says in part: Taft's Uiipopuhirlly. "Nine statew held presidential pri maries or their eiiuivaleiit.. These tire the only states in which u free chance to express the KpuIiir will was given. Forty of their delegates to the Chicago national convention are instructed for President Tuft and t!l(5 are against him. He has curried but two of the nine Now Hampshire and Massachusetts. In all the states together three of every four of the republicans voting in the primaries were opposed to Tnft. "President Tait's eltanees for rc- nomination lie solely in his ability t secure delegate at Chicago who will misrepresent tho will of the peoptc. After a prolonged exiwrienec with me us president, practically all tlto big republican bosses disliked mo 'o heartily that they opposed Taft'-. nomination because 1 favored it. Af ter threo and a half years of exper ience with Tuft since he wns eleete. these sumo men aro heartily in favor or his reuouiiuution. They were op posed to me four years ago and are opposed to me now. The&e men in clude Gallinger of New Hampshire, Aid rich of Rhode Island, Penrose of Pennsylvania, Keating of Indiana. Lorimer of Illinois, Guggenheim and Evans of Colorado, Patrick Calhoun and the Southern Pacific erowd of California and tho Amalgamated Cop cr erowd of Montana. Just .Mo Alone. "Tho present fight is nation-wide. There is just one candidate whom it is possible to nominate against the bosses, and that is myself Every vote for any other candidate from now on is really a vote for Tuft iitt-l a vote for the bosses, whethei it is east in Minnesota, Massachusetts, Ohio, New Jersey or California. "I became a candidate when I was convinced that no other progressive could possibly bo nominated against Taft, The contest bus gone so fat- as to make it evident 1 certainly can be nominated either I will bo notn iua ted or a reactionary will. "It is also evident that every pro gressive republican and every mutt believing in decency and houusty in polities, who is against boss rulu and (Continued on Page Two.) MEET DEFEAT "General Salazar', rebels wero rout ed at Cuatro Cii-nagas last night This makes my position stronger than ever." Dispatches received hero today by Mexican Consul Lloranto from Tor reon state that ninety rebel soldlors wero killed in tho engagotnont anil J00 others wounded, The federal loss was placedat 20 killed and seven wounded. It was admitted ut rebel lieadiniar ters in Juarez that thu revolutionary forco had sustained it "slight "o verso" but it was declared that the federals lost several hundred men. Hoports received hero, from Ecn lou say the robols renewed tho attack on Hormojillo this morning. Ashland Man Gives Reasons for Threatened Injunction to Prevent County Court From Building Span Across Bear Creek at Medford. Says He Personally Examined Pres ent Structure and Pronounced It Good Enough for Medford. Denton Dowers of Ashland announ ces that he and S. A. Carlton of Ash land will probably enjoin the build ing of the Medford bridgo across Hear creek, ns previously stated in the Mail Tribune. lie gives his rea sons for his contemplated notion us follews: Ashland, May 0. To the editer: Will you please al low me space to reply to nrticlu pub lished in your paper of May 7th, headed "Ashland Man Muy Enjoin New Hridge." Last summer there was n petition by numerous taxpayers nnd prom inent citizens, presented to tho county court, asking for a bridge to bo built across Bear creek, on the road lead ing from Tolo to Eaglo Point, and Hybeo bridge on Rogipj river, nnd there was no attention given tho mat ter. I was requested by n number of people living in that district to call the court's attention (o the mat ter, nnd to tho great need of the bridge, which I did, nnd succeeded hi getting Judge Neil and Commission- ers Davis and Owens, n well us Roadmitstcr Harmon to go down nnd look the mntter over, and nil wero unanimous in paying that the bridgo was needed nnd that they would bitttot it. but asked a cert nipaBjt .sub scribed. IJuf nothing was iir5fleLtit cr I nsked them what they wero go ing to do abont the firidgc. Jttdgo Neil replied that they would have to drop the matter as they had no funds, so I let the mutter rest until this sprint: when I went to Judge Neil nnd asked him again, what they wero go ing to do, and if it wasn't possible lo give us some relief in tho way f building the bridge. Ho still pleaded poverty. I was in Jacksonville, May 1st, aud saw a number of Medford gentlemen at the county judge's office, and was informed by one of them of the prom ise that they had obtained from the county court to build the now bridgo in Medford. Last Mondny I was in Medford and 1 asked Mr. S. A. Carl ton to go with mo to inspect tho hridgu across Hear creek, which we found to be adequate to tho present deniituds, and Mr. Carlton agreed with me that if tho county court did not have funds to build bridges where mot needed, we would take some ac tion to see that they did not impover ish the county moro by building them where they wero not needed. Hut neither Mr. Carlton nor myself ever stated tliut wo opposed any improve ment in the county this year. There is not a man in Jnok&on county who favors improvements more than I do. Hut I want to seo tho county funds used whoro most needed, and not for the benefit of a favored few, ns was the case hut year, with a great deal of tho county money. If Medford was in need of u. bridge, aud it was the county's placo to build it, I would honrtilv endorse such action, or to make iinprovcmont4. whero needed ituy placo in tho county. I have no animosity against Modt'ord and give it credit for tho great im provement it has made, but felt it my duty us a citizen and taxpayer of Jackson county to lake some action against the wanton nnd tmbtisiuess- (Coiitlnuoa on I'ase 6.) FINAL DEFEAT OF MINT BILL LOST WASHINGTON, Muy 10. IJy a voto of 170 to III) the houo today adopted tho nmeifduiuiit iiilrodiecil by Itoprcsentativo Humphrey which calls pot only for the eontiuiwlwp of coinage at Sun Francisco, New Or leans and Curson City, but also for tho retention of six assay offiews; including tho one at Htwitle. 'file bill also provides for an hiihuhI ap propriation for uiRiUiiMMi. ' j, 1' (, l, i.,?Z.&;: