$500 ForfeitThe Tribune Guarantees Twice the Paid Circulation in City or Country of the Morning Mail UNITED PRESS DISPATCHES By far the largest and beat news report of any paper In Southern Oregon. Dtfteffisrcl Paly GrOnine. The Weather Fair tonight except raiu Dear coast. Wednesday, fair southeast; cloud iueus followed by raiu northwest por tioD. Winds shift iug to southerly. THIRD YEAR. MEDFORD, ORbXHlX, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1908. No. 189. JUDGE A S DECIS S AFFIRMED hahn m MORE VOTERS IN AC HON A y AWN MB SHI Registration Books Show Big Increase Since June Election-Republicans the High Party Republicans 2S72 Democrats 1227 Socialists loi Independent! 2S:t Prohibitionists 04 Not given 018 Total .... Total in June .4 100 Increase in five months lofiS That is the tale told by the registra tion books in the county clerk's office at the present time. An increase of 1063 registered voters in five months, truly a remarkable growth. Of course. there were a largo number of voters sworn in during the June election, but the most votes cast, that on (he United States sonntorship, totaled only -1:102. It is also of interest to mile thai while the republicans number more than all of the other parties combined, still Chamberlain (Pein.) was given a plu rality over other candidates, including Cnko (Hop.) . ROOSEVELT TO BE EDITOR? LOEB REFUSES TO DENY WASHINGTON, Oct: 27. Nerotary Loob refused today to affirm or deny the correctness of the report that Pres ident lloosevelt has made nrrnngemeiils to become an associate editor .on his return from Africa. The president in not granting audi ences to those who would like to ask questions us to plans to be executed after he quits office. Dr. Lyman Abbott, the editor of the Outlook, have the following statement: "The Outlook has no comment what ever to make upon the statement made in the daily press connecting President ltnosevelt's name with its editorial staff. After he leaves the presidency Mr. Tioosevelt will have numerous oppor tunities and will of course make his own choice of what his future work is to be. When the proper time comes he will Rive, presumably, authoritatively, some announcement of his plans. Until then no one, eertainly not the Outlook, has nnv authority or right to speak for him."' NEW CLEARING HOUSE FOR CALIFORNIA BANKS SAN FRANCISCO, Cel., Oct. 27. Representatives of the lending banks of the state began signing the roll to day of membership in n new California Mate clearing house. The plan of the organization was adopted at the final meeting of the central board late yes terday and a constitution and bylaws have been adopted. Every hank in the state is eligible for membership. The objects are to improve and .roni7then the banking system of the state, to provide for thorough examin ation into the affairs of every bank ins corporation to protect the interest of tho bankers and the public and to prevent improper conduct of any bank. The state will he distributed into II division with an expert examiner in each district. PRINCE HENRY TAKES TRIP THROUGH THE AIR FRIDElfCHAFOX. Oct. 27. Prince Henry of Prussia today made an as rension in tho re construct I'd Zpphn airship. The count says that the new dirigible is much letter than the one that was lost during the attempt to make a flight lasting 21 hours. A great crowd gathered to see the air monster rise with tho prince aboard. The ascension was entirely successful nnd the balloon with Captain Mwh- as pilot started in the direction of Cere lingon. WATER SUPPLY. Does Medford nnd its surrounding country want 300 inches of water by gravity or would they rather have .0. OOO inches by pumping, especially when the pumping will cost less! This is the question for voters to consider. SPEAKS TO M IN Bryan Holds a 4 a. m. Meeting For Night Work ers at Request of Com mittee Newspaper Men NEW YOIJK, Oct. 27. William ,T. Itrvan held one of the most remarkable political meetings on record at 4 o'clock this morning in City Hall park, when lie addressed several thousand night workers whose hours make it impossi bio fur them to attend regular meetings. Bryan stood upon the Bteps of the city hall and the crowd gathered in the nark about him. J he men came from power houses, telegraph offices, street' car houses, all-night restaurants, morn ing newspapers and other places where work never stops. The meeting' was held at tho request of n committee of morning newspaper men. In his address llryan confined his re marks to much the same arguments as he made at the monster meeting at Madison Square (lumen last night. H'e dwelt upon the labor question and ex plained points in I lie democratic plat form for the benefit of labor and dis cussed the anti-injunction proposition. Human Derelicts Slumbered. The night workers gave him u rous ing recept ion and cheered like college rooters. A peculiar phase of the strange meeting was the fact that a half ho.en human derelicts asleep on the park benches were not. disturbed, but snored serenely through the cheering and ex citi ment. Arguments of tho labor ques lion did not dispel their drowsiness. With the glimmering of lights from windows In-re and there in the lowering olliee buildings, the early morning cry of the uewsbov, the uncertain half light of the dawning day nod the scene in the park, when the enthusiastic crowd cheered the candidate, made the meeting one to be remembered long by all who attended it. Itrvan retired about . o'clock. lie was up again, apparently refreshed, at 10 o'clock and delivered an nddress to the Hrondwav business men at tho headouarters of the Acorns, where he was given a warm n-cepl ion. AMBASSADOR RfilD BUYS DAUGHTER HOME LONDON, Oct. 27. London society is looking forward today to good times :il Chilton lodge, the new home of Mrs. Tohn Ward, daughter of Ambassador lieid. which has been purchased for the American woman bv her father at cost of half a million. It is announced todnv that Mrs. Ward will spend 100, i it'll I on improvements, nlthough Sir Wil limn Pierce, the original owner, recent lv spent a half million putting the plae in order. .The hist three owners could not afofrd to keep Chilton lodge, so it has been sold three times during the past three months. The estate is Head wedding gift lo his daughter. He promised her the jock of any country estate in England and she took this over 4:t of the stateliest homes in Eng land. WINTER HAS SET IN EASTERN PART OF OREGON PIM N EVILLE, Or., Oct. 27. Winter lias s"t in in earnest in mid-Oregon, there having In n very heavy frost every mornig for the lnt fortnight, snow twice in the cily and on the high hills nearly every day and rain five days, some of it freezing as it fell. All roads are frozen hard at night with corres ponding softness due to excessive moits u re when the mm strikes them in day time. Travel, both bv stage and wagon. is greatly i in pencil, mm im- coin d Hi-end from then ort h nnd from the snowcapped Ca-cad' s mot of the time. It will be a fortnight remembered as inhering in tho winter of 1.10S-9. MEDFORDS FUTURE PROSPERITY. The future prosperity of Medford de- nd on (! products "f the surround ing cuntrv. This w;M ne guarmiieeu bv w:iter, Th most economical plan f,ir fumi-hing thin water in abundance is bv pumping frm Ib-gii river. It n ml be pumped in order t" rover the vnrving elevation of the foothills nnd other land. Xo gravitv ditch can cover these foot hill, neither have theiy sufficient water. CITY CHARTER NULLIFIES LOCAL IT E Will Endeavor to EleGt a Dry Coundl in January to Close Up Saloons "What wo have done in the past is not a cireumstnneo to what wo will do in the future the way of fighting the j loons in Medford," said Shortio Oar uett- Tuesday upon learning of the de cision of the supremo court upholding the city charter. "We know now where wo are and will fight harder than ever before. ' ' Tho prohibitionists lost no time Tues lay in getting together after the news gurding the decision was passed around. Immediately a ticket will be placed in tho field for the city election in January, when I hire councilaten find the qiayor will have to be elected. -Mr. Carneit is prominently mentioned as tit.1 nnditlate for mayor. "One thing about the decision," con tinned Mr. duruelt, "is I hut wo know where we stand. We know now that we musl elect a cooiiucil that will make Medford dry. We will now begin to fight." Council men Trowbridge, Ha for and Olwell go out in Jnniuuy, nsdoes Mayor Hoddv. This will leave Councilmen Merrick and Worlmau (dry) and Coun i-ilnian Eifert (wet) on the council. I'he wets must elect, two councilmen and a mayor to keep the town open, and the prohibitionists must elect two ouucilmon to close 1 ho saloons, The fight promises to be a hard one. TO IRRIGATE OVER 300 THOUSAND ACRES OF LAND KLAMATH FALLS, Oct. 27, M. T. Williams, enuntv survevor of Klamath county has gone to Lakeview to take harge of the engineering work of the Valley Land company for its hugh ir Lake, Klamath and Uarney counties. Tho Valley Land company is the suc cessor of tho Oregon and California Land company. It has also acquired the Drews valley reservoir site, owned by the Hewitt Land company. The com pany controls over .'(00,000 acres that it proposes to irrigate, nnd to colonize under the auction and auction bid sys tem, recently tried with great success in the San Luis valley in California. If. J. Martin president of the company states that about f000 contracts have ii I read v been sold, and that opening will be held in September of 1000. Work will be begun immediately, ns the undertaking is a large one, calling for several large dams for the storage of water nnd many miles of canal. The first land put. under irrigation will bo 00,000 acres on the west side f Coose Luke. It is expected that those waters will have water by W10. REPORTS OF TAFT GIVING OUT PROVE UNTRUE NEW VOIiK. Oct. 27. Iteports thai William II. Taft collapsed after his address in Brooklyn last night were denied todav at the home of his brother, Henrv W. Taft. where he spent the niirht. It was said at Iho Taft home that the candidate suffered ouly from a slight attack of hoarseness following tin speech mid that it was not serious nt all. At the time the statement was give 'out tin mornine- preparations were b ;;.g made for the start today on the tour) Through the state in the final cniitcM 1 . f the campaign. He is in fine trim r is said, and will havf 110 lifficult v o carrying out his schedule, -)UKE SETS AT REST DOUBT OF HIS WEDDINC' TP HI N, Oet. 27. Doubts concert :ig the wedding of the Doko d'AhniZ' .:nd Miss Katlo-ritie Elkins were s :.t rt today following the nnnouno . tent of the royal suitor that the Ame. lean heiress was to become his brid--:ne time in Xovemin-r. The duke aH. annonnrctl lliaT on 111s romrn to nan Hi wife would bo presented nt cont ' a n royal princess, thus disposing of the storv that her court honor- would be of the ordinary kind. WORK AT OPTION IN JUSTICE MOORE j WROTE THE OPINION ; UPHOLDING CHARTER Supremo Court riles Tliolr Opinion 111 the Case of Hull vs. Dunn Et Al. Medford Remains Wet at Discretion , or City Council. , SALEM, Or., Oct. 27. (Special.) The decree of Circuit .Tudge II. K. Han- mi enjoining tho county court of Jack- son county from making an order declar-t ing the result of a majority of the votes cast last .lit u (i in tho entire county in favor of prohibition and directing au absolute interdiction of the sale of intoxicating liquors so far as the man dale may affect tho city of Medford was affirmed by the supremo court to- i day in an opinion written by Justice j M ore. The decision upholds the char ! to enacted by the legislature exempt- t ini; the city from operation of local op: ion laws. Secured by Hall. i he injunction was secured by ,1. C. Hall, a saloon proprietor of Medford, gainst (Seorge . Dunn unty .pidge, and Joshua l'al lerson mid Uoorge Piowe, county commissioners, .consti tuting the county court of Jackson county, short ly after Jackson county was voted dry last June by tho electors voting ns a whole under the opinions of the local option taw. Attorneys Rob eit (f. Smith, E. K, Kelly and Snow & McCamaiit of Portland appeared for the cKpor.ilenl, Mall, while . M, V oivig vas the attorney for the appellant. The legislature in 1!HC enacted a Iiarter for tho cily of Medford in which lie power was conferred upon the coun il to tax, regulate and license the sale of intoxicating liquors, "irrespective of mv general laws of tho state on the ibject enacted by the legislature or the people at largo." Opinion on Charter. It is on this provision that Justice Moore bases his opinion mainly. This j charter was enacled one year nfter th provisions of the local option law be came effective, nnd it was then in orce in Jackson county, for Justice .oore holds that, though flio local op Con law was operative, the qualified . liters of Jackson eounly had irnt elect- I to make it potent in their county until Juno, Hius, utter the adoption t, the charter. Justice Moore also holds that the local option Inw does not pro- hibil the hiIo of intoxicating liquors, but merely prem-ribes a mode by which the enactment miiv become effective. In 1!0;i charters were nlso enacted by the legislature for Condon and Es - Iftcada, enilmdving similar provisions. nnd also for Hrownsville, Halsey and Junction City, in which 1his provision if absent. Credit Due Smith. To Attorney liobert O. Smith is due th credit for winning the case. During I he prohibition campaign, he repeatedly' predicted the result, and his opinion : waler recedes in the summer, win ne .01 the subject was printed by Tho Tri jetposod to the atmosphere nnd this I. nue at the time. The method of fight with the drainago from tho barnyurds ii g the case through injunction was; mid cattle pastures will give bacteria Mr. Smith's idea and the result is n and microbes enough to suit anybody, vindication of his judgment ns well ns t Filtration Ifl NecesBary. Judge Iliinna's decision in the case. Doe not Mr. Howard prove conclu forwhich the latter was roundly abused f sively thnt any water system that does tlf. lime. not include a system of filtration is To fight I he case, (he prohibitionist i dimply an iuvitation to disease and made up a purse and hired nn attorney ' death? Puro water cannot bo had from to carrv it to the supreme court. j any stream like Butte creek, flowing - i through an inhabited country. Tt may DECREASE IN EARNINGS OF OREAT NORTHERN ROADS ST. PA PL. Minn., Oct. 27. Although there is a decrease of l,K.'tH,0OO in tile earnings of the Great Northern railroad on the fiscal ver ending June .10, IfiOs, 1 he lMh animal report just issued b 1 !'0 road is coiinoereii nivnramo 111 'ew of the geio-ral business condition-!. 1 fie groin operating revenues were "4. -V'O.HiiO. Dining the period the oper eting expense were increased $."4,000, ("0. COMMERCIAL STUDENTS ELECT OUILD OFFICER!! At nn out lniiad ic meet ing of the ":iien(-i in the otnoiereial department ! the high ehool the following officer 1 - -re electi d for t he guild : Preiidint. Virgil Strang; vice pT-i-I. nt. Paul M' Donald; tr-Btiirer, lone Plynn; secretary, gn; coininillee, Hoitdib Vnn. AU nstance MeKilli- Verna Urif fin, ' Vera ;, HaelrlgK. MEDFORD FILTRATION NECESSARY Condor Company Replies to Howard's Missive Up on the Water Problem The Condor Water & Fewer company issues the following reply to J. H. Hew nrd: Mr. ,T. S. Howard's letter in Tues day's Mail throws some needed light on the water proposition of I. L, Hamilton. According to Mr. Howard, the "gravity wooden pipeline" that Hamilton pro- poses to build would "stand only about 150 elevation on pressure (lilt pounds per squnro inch), therefore it would require eight or ten miles of 20 inch sleel pipe to deliver I1O0 inches of water to the Medford reservoir. Would Be Without Water. Mr, Howard was writing about the Hater proposition, but what he says applies equally to the Fish lake plan. as the water pipe would begin at the tame elevation. Therefore, according to Mr. Howard, if the city of Medford would pay Mr, Hamilton 2"i-l,H( for a gravity wooden pipeline it would nev- r get any water because the pipe would break under the pressure and the city would be compelled to replace eight or ten miles with steel pipe at a cost of about $loO,uoo. Mr. Hamilton does not gun run lee or warrant ins pipeline 10 stand the pressure or any pressure. According to Mr. Howard, "a 20- inch pipe line with a fall of ten feet to the mile would deliver 2S0 minora' inches of water." No doubt Mr. How ard is correct. Taking his figures, Mr. Hamilton's HI inch pipe would de- liver much less water or about a nd of not more than ISO miners niche water. According to Mr. Howard h es limale, Mr. Hamilton could nut possi- bly deliver to the city 0U per cent of !tho water he proposes to supply. It this not (in important mailer to i consider before you cast your volet i Quality of Water. Mr. Howard makes another good point against, the l-'isli lake waler in showing up. the Hafer proposition. He snys: " I his covered, eievnte-i flume, way up in the air, will he ex posed to the hot summer sun, making die water almost hot in the flume, breeding all kinds of microbes and bnc- U'r'm and would be nn incubator of enough tvphoid germs to wipe the in habitants of our fair city off the . map." ! Well, how about the water from Lit- : tie Hntto J It unsses through tim e 1 cuttle ranches before it reaches the in i lake. If water is stored in Pish lake I and used for irrigation it will bo drawn ' off in the summer, Tho vegetation .that grows under water in reservoirs, the decaying trees in the lake an the j bo pure today and laden with disease 1 and death tomorrow. It may look clear and pure, but Iho microscope may re al dnnterons bacteria. But however pure it may be one month, a few months later may find disease nnd death stalk ing thn ugh a community owing to a contamination from settlers living along the st nam above tho point of intake. There i no wny to insure n gainst this except bv perfect filtration. Why Hositatc7 r Then why hesitate between that that which may mean health nnd long life or ickness and death to you and voiir fiimilv? Again, if vour water pipes beeoni" contaminated with mi erobes and bacteria from infected wa ter, no onn can over be sum when the water will again become pure nnd healthful. We have new pipes for dis tributing water. Every day we permit nnfiltered w- ter to past through them a-n nrtt rnrn nw n rink of mnkintr thPtn a breeding place of deadly microbes and bacteria. Once the water supply Is known to be dangerous, then your as.ur EW IN CONFLICT New Party Believes That All the Present Offers Should Be Rejected and Figure on 10,000 People A fourth party has been added to the conflict over the Bource of a water supply for Medford. This fourth party believes that nil the offers now before (he city should be rejected and that in stead the city should figure upon t water supply for 10,000 inhabitants in stead of JIO.OOO, and thereby savo the heavy bonded indebtedness and the high taxation, which is asserted will follow to make up the deficiency between the income and the fixed charge. Among those advocating tho rejection of all propositions nre a number of lead ing citizens unci property owners prom incut among them being J. C. Knyart, president of t ho Medford National bank. It is pointed out that the fixed charges on ;100,0()U of bunds will amount to over iWO.OOO a year, $15,000 for interest ami $li,000 for deprecia-j tioii; in addition there will be the cost f maintenance and operation and re-j pairs. I he c 1 1 v tt income now from wa- ! tor is from $0000 to $7000 n year. With 1 au nd equate water system this amount! ouhl be doubled within a few yeam. This would leave a large deficiency lo be met annnallv, and it would have to be mndo up by taxation It, is claimed that it is absurd to tax WATER a cily of oOOO for a system to supply j era 1 remuneration " if he would tell the :io,imi) and that tho burden on tho pres- fads. "I refused the offer made by enl will be heavier than circumstances ' tho democratic leaders," snid Burke, warrant. Xo mutter from what source j"and while the story of the land enter the water comes, a filtration plant will j prise has been published from a demo have to be eventually put in, in all ; cratic viewpoint, I did not receive n probability, and as long ns the water ! cent in connection with the exposure." has lo be filtered it does not make Hurke 's defiance of President Roose niucli difference from what source it 1 volt followed tho publication of a dis comes, mid the opposition to nil pres- patch from Washington containing what enl plans hold that it will be far cheap- 1 purported to be a statement of tho pres er and bolter to secure estimates for i Mont to the effect that Sherman had a smaller supply and let the distant future take care of itself. They hold that if a water system from the Rogue for a city of .'10,000 people can bo put j in for JtcjoO.OOO thnt a system thnt will supply 10,0110 people ought to be put in for one-third of this amount and savo the city the burden of heavy tax ation, and then, when tho city becomes a town of 10,000 Inhabitants, it will bo in far better shape to go after an in creased supply than it is at the present time. It is too late to finish a water system in time for next summer, and it is figured that it will be of more advantage in the long run to spend a little more money if necessary in en deavoring to solve the problem before plunging the city hopelessly in debt. EASY GRADE FOR THE MODOC NORTHERN KLAMATH FALLS, Oct. 27, The Modoc Northern railway surveying party , under Engineer B. F. Knowlton, is now working south from Tule Lake toward Al turns. The Modoc Northern is the road projected by the Southern Pncifie com pany form A It urns, Modoc county, north to connect with tho Catfornin North eastern in Klamath county, probobly at Midland, eight miles south of Klam ath Falls. As yet the surveying party has not encountered a single obstacle in secur ing easy grade and minimum curves, and it is likely that the first line will be made the permanent one. This road will tup the southern part of Klamath county, probobly touching tho town of Merrill, although, the coiitse of the survey north of Tule I, like is only conjecture ns yet. The rad will 11U0 furnish a direct outlet to the east for an immense amount of timber untouched nt this time. nnce of health is gone. It will "knock" voiir town nnd you will be compelled to boil your water, perhaps for yenrs, before you would feel safe in drinking it. Look at Kiigene, where they hud no filters, and tvphoid was in epidem ic for five veurs. They put in filters ....I I....I ...n-i. tt-nter Imt thA ninftS WCr full of germs, and bacteria, anrt 11 stm (the people had to boil and boil their wa- Iter. CONDOU WATER ft TOWF.R CO. NET USING TIGHTER Oil N Y JIM Burke Does Not Dispute Facts of Land Fraud Story But Says He Did Not Give It to Press LOS ANOELES, Cab, Oct. 27. De fying President lioosevelt or James Schoolcraft Sherman to produce any holdup letters written by him, and call ing former Senator T. M. Patterson of Colorado a "notorious liar," Edmund M. Hurke, the Los Angeles, attorney, accused of giving a statement to the New York World implicating the repub lican vice-presidential candidate in a New Mexican hind grab plot, today ad m it ted t hat t iie proposed statement "would not at this time seem right," Hurke explained that it was com rnou practice of corporations ten years ago to secure large tracts of land through "dummy onirics." "Companies would have individuals secure the laud and then transfer It to them," he said. "It was such a com moil procedure that many corporations did it. The New Mexico Land, Lumber & Development company differs from the others in the fact thnt it got no laud. That is all there is to it." Doos Not Dispute Facta. Once more reiterating his denial that ho gave the statement printed in the World, Hurke did not dispute the essen- Mini facts in the story. His efforts were alt directed toward proving thnt he was not the informant. He alleged that he had been approached by demo- cratic leaders who offend him "lib- evidently refused to pay any attention to a holdup letter. Says He Refused Offers. "When the democratic leadors sent men to me last August with their of fers, ' ' said Hurke, ' 1 1 hen T notified Mr. Sherman that the democrats wore planning to use tho land enterprise In a manner that would injure him in his enmpnign. A fter refusing the offers that were made to tempt me, T learned that the Hocky Mountain News of Den ver wus on the point of printing the story of the efforts to acquire land in New Mexico by Mr. Sherman, myself and others. I hurried to Denver and tried to provent tho i:so of tho story In this campaign. When I came away I was under the impression that I bad succeeded. T saw Senator Patterson and other men, but there was no conference. I snw them individual and it is untrue that I made a statement concerning; the land enterprises in the presence of Pat terson ami other witnssos. But Pat terson is apt to say anything; he is a notorious liar. People in (oluorsrto would not believe him on oath, in his own stale they call him "Tricky Tom." which gives some idea of the estimation in which he is held by thoso who have known im for years." CLARK SAYS MONTANA IS FOR NEBRASKAN LOS ANOELES. Oil.. Oct. 27. De claring that Chnnler may defeat Hughei and that the whole presidential nght renters in New York state, former Hinted States Senator W. A. Clark, is in Los Angeles today. New York will be the pivotal state Tuesday's election." said Senator Clark. "In my opinion who carries it will be the next president. I feel sure that Bryan will carry Ohio, Indiana and Montana. Montana is a strong republican state ordinarily, hut this year it will be in the demo cratic column. "The election is a tossup between Taft and Bryan, but I believe Bryan ; will be the victor. "The onuse of railroad torpidity tho fact that the rnilronds cannot hor--row monev from the banks. This U liwouani anou ny im- nuuwvni of dominating everything anu h threatened legislation against rail I rends.'