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Orenon Mlnto'lca? tMftty city Hnll M Medford Mail Tribune WEATHER Fair and warm Mux 9t Mln (II; Ho! Hum ill). SECOND EDITION I'driy-Ki'dMiil Yi'r, Dully Hnvwith Vi'iir. SUFFRAGETTES PLOT DEATH OF ninzliuj Chair Thrown Into Crowded Theatre at Duhlltt to Destroy Structure Eluht Women With Gunpowder and Inflamahles Taken One of the Prisoners Threw Hatchet at Asiiulth as He Rode to Hotel All In Custody Eniillshwomeii, MUHLIN, July 111. Klwlit Hiiffni getlcs went til rested today, dunged uilli complicity in llht pint liiHt night In burn Hid Theater Itnynl, where Picinicr AHitillli Ih Id speak tonight. (limMiw!orr (lioltiiiu mill other in I'IiiiiiiiIiIch were ruiiiiil In their lodg ing. Tim tiuttioritit'H arc iiivtMtiK'liK whether the suffragettes plotted to dynamite ur In Inirn llii' theatre, niul whether tlii eight women miller ar um acted independently or hud or ganized HiipMrt. All tlm prisoners arc l-!ui;liiliviiiii I'll. It i believed t lift t till) WOlllllll who throw u blur.inir I'lmir fiiuii n box tit tin Theater Royal hint night is iiiihiiil' those arrested. Another tf tin eight women who threw it hatchet nt Asipiith us In rode to tin (lrc Iiiiiii hotel alter his urriviil lien from Loudon. Tin Hrttiui of tin nrcmicr in he- ini carefully unaided. The jmiIicc lit'lifvo that the prisoners eatiii' lien to start a disturbance anil a demon stration of violenee which would far oetlui(low any of the window smnshiiu: ninl rioliiiKH recently con ducted by suffrngcttcK ill I.iiiitlou. .In lutalialloil, It i thought, for the manner in which Premier Asittith gave tho KiigliMi Hiiffrngettcs tlm flip when hi left bunion early Wed ucsditv morning to fill a leetiiM en gagement here, miffrauettcs In -t night attempted to break up the incctiiii; which he wiih itddrcsMiug at the Itoyal theater here. Asipiith in eouipniiy with .lohn Itednioinl, the. Irish lioiiu rule leader wax scheduled to speak on tlm Inline nile ipieHlion. niul when Asinth, who followed Iteiliuoiul on the program appeared on the stage the score or morn suffragettes in tlm theater be gan a deiuoiiHtratiiiu. one woman, oe ciipyiui; a box near the sIiikc, hurl ing a t laming chair at the premier. In the riot which followed Redmond wax slightly Iiijtncd in the face Ahqiiilh escaped without injury. LORIMER LEAVES CAPITAL BY AUTO FOR CHICAGO WASHINGTON, JhIv ll. Kxwll eil from tlm United States senate, William l.oriiucr today Iclt Wit-diing-I nit for Chicago by iiiitomohile, Lori mer wiih accoiupanicd only by Wil liam Cooke, his chief lieutenant. If he motors the cutiie distance lm will leach Chicago next Tuesday. SAN KHANOISCO, July 111. Son sational developments arc expected today in tlm case of Charles O. Heal, self-styled heir to .fl ,000,000, when lm returns from Virginia i" oustody of officoi-H to answer to a charge, of cuihcxr.ling $10,000 worth of diiiiu oiiiIh from Iho Forest Jewelry com pany of thin city. Iteid, with his foster brother, Leslie Wheeler Iteid, who is now in jail here, is jointly ac cused by Mrs. Caroline Swears, an employe of the jewelry company. Leslie lfeid hun been in jail here for more than a week, coiinlnntly at tended hy his bride of a few months, in default of fiOO bail. The cap ture of the older brothor in Virginia destroys all h f rt'h'asu tE-tn jail, as Cluuies Iteid was supposed lo be raising money in the cast with which lo secure both young men their freedom, Pertinent questions regardiug transactions between Mrs. Swears and Charles Held were not allowed at the preliminary hearing of Leslie ltcid, but it in said will ho brought out when Charles Iteid re! urns, ISHPRM FWELRY 1 TAKEN IN VIRGINIA PROBE HI " ARCHBALD HAS CONGRESS!". TWO WEEKS TO AIRSCANUAL I PREPARE CASE OF CONVENTION Senate Sits as High Court ot Im peachment and Gives Archhald Until July 29 to Prepare Defense to Charlies Against Him. Will Try and Dispose of thu Case Uefore an Adjournment is Taken fur the Summer. WASHINGTON, July I!). Sit ling 11 " Inch coin t of impeachment, the senate today wave .Inline Arch hald of the commerce court until duly till to prepare hi-, defense to the charges against him. ludic.itions are that the senate dc sires to push the trial to a eonclus ion before the adjournment of the present session. After Archbnhl's defense is in, tin house prosecutors will he gixcn uutl August ,'tl to reply. Attorney A. S. Worthingtou for Archhald stated today that the jur ist would plead not utility. Archbald's name was tlyice shout ed aloud hv the hcrgeuit-iit-'nrius when he entered thu senate cham ber. Attorney Worthingtou then an nounced tlm jurist's preenec and prcHcntcd a written request for a reasonable time to formulate a de fense. Senator Clark', Wyoming, moved that Archhald be ordered to reply by July iM, but the date was later chium-ed to July 211. F.veu to this Worthingtou objected, requesting twenty day. Congressman Clayton thought four or five days would be ample for tlm hoiisu prosecutors ami on his statement August 'II was set as the time limit whuii all plcinlinj:-, including the house prosecutors,' re ply to Archbald's answer, should be presented. NBW VOUIx, July 19. Tbnt the lik truiiH-Atluutlc liners Mauretniila and Orbit lo panned no close to huRci IccIhtkh on tlm trlji over that thono iiboiird were forced to wear heavy wraps, was tho Htatomenl nmdo by tlm pitHHeiiKcrH when tlm ocean Krey IiouiiiIh arrived In IIiIh port today. Onu IcoIiitk encountered, It wan nlateil, wiih 1,000 feet Ioiik and 50 feet nbovo tho water. A story also wiih told nnd corro borated that tho Mauretaiiln xvhllo riiniiliiK throiir.h n foj:, dlHcerned nil IrelmrK a ipiartor of a inllo ahead, directly In her path. Tho liner wiih forced to count to a dead atop, and chnnr.0 hor course, to avoid tho born. CharlcH Frohinan, tko theatrical producer, wiih aboard tho Mauritania, IFORD'S SKATTLB, July ll).--Judgo C. II. Iluuford's speech agaiiiht the l'in chot policies before the national conservation congress in September, 1 111)1). nnd testimony of attorneys in the (lill recall, and the Seattle, Ken ton and Southern injunction suits, featured this morning's session be fore the congressional probe commit tee. iranford's conservation speech was made an exhibit in connection with thu testimony concerning the Ilauford Irrigation company. In tho testimony of (Icorgo II. IMuinmer, western sales agent for tho Northern l'acifie railway, it was shown that the Ilauford company obtained thou sands of acres of hind in eastern Washington which the federal leclu matioii service desired held in re serve if possible. The exhibit was allowed to go into the record as tending to show personal reasonn for Judge llanforil'H activity against tho government rooluniatioii depart ment. Walter Shaffner, attorney for Hi ram Gill, in tho injunction suit to BIG STEAMERS SCRAPE ICEBERGS M.I3I)F0UD, ORlfflQN, J'MUDAV, JULY 10, Attacks Upon Nomination of Presi dent Taft to Be Made In Both Houses Next Week and Defense by Root and Others Will Follow. Charue of Stolen Delegates to Be Refuted and Roosevelt's Actions Assailed hy Bartholin. WASHINGTON, July l!l-Attacks 011 the nomiiiatiou of I'lcidcut Tail as bitter as those at Chicago and de fense of the lepiiblicau coueutioii action fully as hot will be aired in congress next week. The entire Chi cago convention controversy probab ly will he fought over again. Tup PrxMoli.nl 'I'n II. Sentilor Hoot plans to speak in the senate, while l nii(,'rcsMiiuii Diiriuoiui auo louueo will uphold bis cause in the liouc. Knot ami Senator Crnuc of .Mnssa chusetts are now collcclini; data. It in iilniiiii.il dial all sncccliCM will he Hi ven out for Ht'iierul ditribution .is caiupaiK'ii uocuuicui. "I am prvpiiriiic a sm'cc1i refuting tin. Uiiiihkvi.1I idinrces nf 'xtoluii dele- Hates' at Chicago. I will show how viciously baseless these charges are. CoiiKrcssuuiii .Moiuloll plans to make a M'liarato mk'ccIi L'iiiiL' in detail the actions of tlie credential committee in sentmi: the Taft contestants." Notified of the Taft plan to dis credit the lfoo-cvclt movement, Colt Hreshinan Norris of Nebraska said: "The progressives will have soine thiiiu to say if the Taftites try that scheme. 1 shall insist on beiuu' heard I.. ....,!. l tin. Tul' I iiii.ii niul will dis it -.,. " ... ..... ... .-...- -- cuss at length the illviml frauds which resulted in Tuft's so-called victory." Other progressives plan to aid Norris in his fiht in the house, while Senators Clapp and Cummins are planning to defend Colonel Roosevelt in the sonato. Considerable building is beiun donu iiIoiik the line of the l'acifie Knslcrn bt'tween Medford and KukI Point, in the way of warehouses and shipping stations to facilitate the shipment of produce cl,',,v'" in (but section. The Hoj;iH' Wive Fruit and Produce association has just constructed it large warehouse at Davis to handle fruit from that section while Hokuc lands, Inc., have built two ware houses to handle shipments from their tracts which arc increusiiu: rapidly. Although sonar has been inudo in thl) I'hllllpplncH for centuries, thu flrHt modorn mill was opened ouly a few weeks iiko. RECALL ACTION prevent Ilia recall election in 1011, testified that Judge Ilauford told him ho did not want to stop the elec tion, but merely to prevent unlawful expenditure of money. Shnffner was attorney for Wan I; II. Scobey, a non-resident, who owned property which would Iiuve been affected to tho extent of seven cents by the elec tion, Wihuon Tucker, attorney on the opposing side, testified that in his opinion the only question hoforo llun ford, was one of jurisdiction. He also said that any kind of an order, such as restraining the comptroller from spending money on tho re election, would have the effect of jeopardizing the holding of tho recall election. Seott Calhoun, corporation eoun sol at that time, testified briefly in the Seattle, Kenton nnd Southern ease in which Judge Ilauford enjoin ed the Hainer Valley people "from refusing to pay nioro than a five cent fare," He was followed hy Howard 1), Hughes, assistant corporation counsel. N 1 A SEASTERN TOLEDO'S $180,000 MUNICIPAL MARKET OPEN FOR BUSINESS. TOLtUOS . Toledo's 51S0.CO0 mnrkct bouse In South Krle street the city's Intent municipal acquisition, nud snld to be (be InrRiMt luuulclpul market bouse under .roof In Ohio and the most modern In the country, baa been otlkl.tlly opened for buidiicsrt. Alaror llrand Whltlock and Mrs. Wbltluck and Service Director Col well participated lu the icreinoulalt. Seon-s of market gardeners and produce growers, city ofllclnli and hundreds of citizens attended ' Mr. Col well briefly recited the history of the nmtketnnd ezpresxed the hope that mnrketlu In Tnlcd will cYr.iiti.illy become do toputur with the buying public that district markets will be established. TURKISH FORTS AT CONSTANTIXOPI.K. July 19. VlKllnnee of the Turkish forts on thu Dardanelles today prevented the forcing of Unit passage by eight Italian torpedo boats this morning nnd probably prevented a bombard ment of this city. It Is reported that two of tho Italian warships wero sunk and others damaged by tho cannonade. , At 2 o'clock ihM morning tho warchllKhtB of tho Turkish forts re vealed tho Italian flotilla trying to pass and Immediately tho cannon of tho forts on both tho European and Asiatic shores broken Into a furious roar. Unable to reply to the storm of shot and shell from tho Turkish batteries, tho Italian fleet fled to tho open waters of tho Aeglan sea. Had tho Italians succeeded In passing tho Dardanelea tho fleet ot obsolete Turkish warships In tho Sea of Marmora would hnvo been at their mercy and a bombardment of Constantinople would nlmost surely have followed. As a result of the Italian attempt Turkey today again notified thu powers that tho Dardanelles Is closed to the shipping of the world. IFORD MADE ARTICLES STARTS The first meeting of the .''.Made in Medford" committee was held this morning and plans laid for active work which will commence immed iately. Three beautiful prizes will be given for the best dusigu to bo used for advertising, the details of which will be given Inter. The first prize donat ed is a beautiful cedar chest made and decorated by the Mission Furni ture Works. A uieelinir of jobbers, and innuiifuctuiei-. will be held at f o'clock p. in. Saturday afternoon at the office of the Medford lienlty & Improvement Co., -HHi M. 1 vx: II. Co. Huilding. FIRE IN Y0SEMITE PARK DESTROYS TOURIST CAMP YOSKMITK. Cal July 19. Camp Curry la lu partial ruins today, fol lowing a J20.000 flro thoro. Many of tho guests lost tholr personal ef fects and sixty or seventy tents xvero doatroyed. Tho flro started la tho laundry ad joining tho dining room, lu which several hundred guests woro eating at tho tlino. Tho dining room, xvaa saved. Camp Curry Is tho largost resort In tho Yosomlto Valloy. TOULON, July 10. lteports wide ly circulated today that a French torpedo hunt hud been 'cut in two in a collision off Corsica were offi cially denied hero todny. DARDANELLES REPULSE TALANS CAMPAIGN FOR 1012. IBO.OOO. MUNICIPAL MARMT, 9 DEAD, 5 LOST V KKN'O, Nov., July 10. -Nine .lead and fix u missinj:, necordins; to mes sages received here todav. was the toll of death when a cloudburst last night wied out the mining camp of Mnzuinn, New In addition to those known dead, nine persons xvere ser iously injured. Seven Troughs, an other camp reported destroyed, was not" seriously diunaged. Only ft cou ple of buildings there which stood in the path of the wall of water were swept away. When the cloudburst struck Mn zuma solid sheets of water fell. briiigiu; down the mountainside huge boulders, which, crnshini; and grind ing in the stream at the bottom of the valley where Mnzumn stood, abso lutely annihilated the camp. Bodies of those killed xvere found todny as far as three miles down the canyon. All the injured, so far recovered, are being taken to Lovelock, New, i'or treatment. Keseuers uro still searching nmonir the debris of the flood for five persons who are miss ing, and who, it is almost certain, have perished. STOCKTON WIDOW LEAVES ESTATE TO HER NEIGHBORS STOCKTON, Cal., July 19. "I hereby declare that I am a xvldow and that I have no children. I hereby bequeath and dovlso my property to persons lu this will named, all of whom, from tlmo extending from ono to forty years, have been kind and have shoxvn courtesies to me." lly this paragraph la tho will of tho late Jano Sanders, xvho resided for many years on a farm near this city, seven neighbors of the xvldow and their children wero today given her entire $20,000 estate. DIVORCEE TELLS POUTLAND, July 19. Hearing up well under a vigorous cross examina tion, Mrs. Helen M. Ooodeve, a pret ty young San Francisco divorceo told in Judge McGinn's court hero today her story of the alleged wrongs she had suffered at the hands of R. II. Thompson, junior, an adopted son of It. II. Thompson, senior, one of the heirs of the large estate of It. It. Thompson, a Portland pioneer. .Mrs. Goodevo is suing Thompson for .?.")(), 000 damages for alleged breach of promise to marry her. Mrs. Goodevo told of telling her friends in San Francisco of her com ing inniTtugo to the prominent young Portlander at whoso wish sho as sorted she procured a divoroo from her former husband. Shu describjd in detail tho numerous presents Unit hud been given her by California frionds. Among these frionds she mentioned a Mr. Casey of San Wwi eisco xvho she said had given her .f'JOO. Ah an illustration of the ma terial damage sho had suffered through Thompson's alleged broach iffl CLOUDBURS 11 AMP GIRL SHOT DOWN E DKNTKIi, Colo., July 19. Lured to a vacant lot and shot down be cause she refused to elope with a married man, Georgiana I.ichtenwal ter, a 19 year old stenographer, is dying here today. The alleged mur derer, Kugene Miller, is nt large. Miller had long heen attentive to the girl, clniming that he had been divorced. Two days u;o Miss Lieli teuwalter discovered that ho xvas married and jilted him. Last night he asked the ;;irl to meet him and say farewell, as he was going axvay. They met and he enticed her to a vacant lot, where he suddenly drew a re volver and fired sint blank at her twice. She fell as if dead, and he started to flee. The Kirl mnnnged to struggle lo her feet and, seeing this, Jliller re turned and fired two more shots at her. When found, the girl murmured that Miller had shot her. Three per sons saw Miller fleeing from the spot. PRINCE PALATINE WINS ECLIPSE STAKES, ENGLAND LONDON, July 19. T. Tnrking- ton's Prince Palatine, a .1 to I shot, xvon the Eclipse stakes at Snndowne Park today by a neck. Lord Derby's Steadfast was second, with J. H Joel's Lycnoit third. Jockey Malier rode the winner. The race was worth .foO.000. Yuan Shi Kai May Resign PeKIn, July 19. President Yuan Shi Kal threatened today to resign from tho presidency ot tho new Chineso republic, following tho ro- fusal of tho national assembly to con firm his cabinet appointments. ON THOMPSON oC promise, she testified that William H. Ilofias of Seattle, a "good friend' had bofore Thompson gave his al leged promise to marry her, present ed her with n deed to $r0,000 worth of property in Seattle. When she thought she xvas going to marry Thompson she testified sho gave the deed, which never been recorded, back to Ho fins. A deposition front Hobert K. flaut of Chicago in which Gaut said ho knew of, tho nlleged marriage agruo incut between Thompson and the plaintiff and had heard Thompson say ho xvas going to marry Mrs Goodevo, xvas produced. Numerous love letters xvero intro duced as well as inuoh evidence re garding lovers' strolls Thompson and Mrs, Goodovo xvero alleged to have taken in San Francisco. Tho love lotters supposedly xvritten by Tliomp son xvero addressod to "Hear Nell." Mrs, Goodovo xvas an excellent xvitness throughout. When it canio to tho "Dear Nell" part her voico trombled and her eyes filled with tears, LOPE WITH SU TOR NO. 101. BRIBE AFTER PLEA OF GUILTY MADE Lincoln Steffens Details His Efforts to Brinu McNamara Trial to a Close and End War Between Un ions and Manufacturers. McNamara Had Agreed to Confess Crime Before Franklin Attempted to Bribe Juror, Says Writer. LOS ANGELES. Cal., July 19. Lincoln Steffens magazine writer, continued on tho witness stand In the Darrow trial today, Earl Rogers, chief counsel for tho defenso, direct ing his examination. It was expected that Rogers would conclude his work, and that District Attorney Fredericks for tho defense .would take tho wit ness lato today or tomorrow. Steffens .testimony throughout outlined his personal efforts lo se cure an agreement that would end the trial of the McN'omara brothers for dynamiting tbo Los Angeles Times building. Ho explained tho connec tion of Clarence Darrow with tho ne gotiations for tho conplusjon of the case; told of his. Interviews with leading business men of Los Angeles to secure their consent to a plan for tho brothers to plead guilty, and re counted Darrow's Insistence through out the entire negotiations that both men. If possible, should bo saved from tho gallows, arguing that ono "victim" to' the state was nufflclent. IJramntlc Recital Steffens' testimony furnished ono ot tho most dramatic recitals of the trial. He was permitted to toll Ma story with few Interruptions, Judgo " Hutton. however, explaining that certain portions of tho testimony must bo regarded as hearsay. Steffens declared that, after work ing for days along Darrow's demand that "no one bo killed." ho received Information through O. P. Brant, tho man selected to put tho ploa-revlslon plan to District Attorney Fredericks, that Fredericks would be satisfied with pleas of guilty by both men, and would not demand tho death of James D. McNamara, tho man who planted the dynamite that destroyed tho Times building and took 21 lives. This was on November 23, 1911, he testified. Immediately arrow tele graphed to Samuel Gompors, presi dent of the American Federation of Labor, asking that an accredited rep resentative be sent to Los Angeles to consider a matter of the utmost Im portance. He suggester Olaf A. Tveltmoo, Anton Johannsen or Ed xvard V. Nockels of Chicago. Krectors Protest "There was some good natured bantering among us," Steffens said "as to which probably would bo mado the goat. Darrow declared that he did not care what tho result to him self xvould be, as his plain duty In this case xvas to save the life of J. B. McNamara, If ho could." Soon after this Steffens testified, Harry Chandler, business manager of tho Times, reported that Goneral (Continued on Page C) F NEW YORK, July 19. Consterna tlou reigned at police headquarters here today at tho spread of an un confirmed report that a gamblor had mado full confession of tho gam bling situation in Now York to Dis trict Attorney Whitman. Tho gam bler, whoso niuno was not rovoalod, xvas said to have beon given Im munity from prosecution la return for his confession. Whitman mado another demand today that tho pollco clear up the circumstances surrounding tho inur dor of Herman Rosenthal, who was Bhot shortly aftor ho accused tljo pollco of protecting tho gambling In terests. Jack Roso, William Shiiplro and Louis Llbby, the three men bus pocted of complicity In th ecrimo, re mained In tho Tombs prison today. Shapiro and Llbby are anxious to tell all thoy know In order to Becure Im munity but District Attorney Whit man has rotuaod to grant this. mm MAKES UU. NN 1 7