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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1908.
No. 202.
FRANCO-GERMAN TROUBLE
NARROW ESCAPE INSISTANT DEMAND THAT
iiiiiru mninir
WAS STCPENDOOS BLUFF
Wntll DlblbLt DETPB ABMf ATF TUDAlm?
i Li Lit numvniL iiinviML
AND AUTO
NEITHER ONE
DARED
Mow Light Thrown on the
Matter, by Mail From
Correspondents Whose
Reports Were Censured
LONDON ,Nov. 11. Tho recent Fran-eo-Germ
an difficulty which was exploit
ed m threatening a terrific war be
tween the two powers, has been exposed
m a stupendous bluff, according to ad
vices received here today from French
reports. The new light on tho turbu
lent Casa Blanca incident Is thrown
by the reports of tho correspondents
who sent their news by mail to nvoid
the telegraph censorship.
Neither nation dared to declare wnr
t the time, the correspondents Bay. The
f'reneh government was so insecure, ow-
.' ing to the financial depression and re-
ligious unrest, that a defeat by Ger
many would undoubtedly liavo meant
a second commune and tho fall of the
republic.
Whftt.War Would Mean.
A trifling success on tho Oermnn fron
tier: would have Bitfficod to fire the
entire nation with military ardor to
. retrieve the Franco-Prussian war of
'1870. The French government was gam
bling on that possibility nnd so adopt
ed an energetic attitude .before the
world. Germany wholly cognizant of
the disorganization in her own army and
.- navy, was putting up a strong bluff,
it is said.
. The constant fomenting of the Mo
roccan disputes by Germany indicates to
France that a conflict with Germany is
only a matter of time, but no effort
will be spared by Frnnce to avoid an
outbreak now.
Officials and financiers here believe
that a conflict is inevitable, owing prin
cipally to the radical racial differences
between the two nations, and their con
stant strife, but the time is not yot
ripe for a struggle.
When it comes, Kngland unquestion
ably will lend naval support to France,
but would not aid her with her military
forces.
yOUBTBEN-YEAR-OLD '
GIRL ELOPES WITH LOVER
- BAN BERNARDINO, Cal., Nov. 11.
Wrapped in a blanket, her only gar
ment, Juantta Puont, a pretty little 14-year-old
Mexican girl, is today fleeing
ovor the bills with her lover, Kafnel
Munro, a mr.n 30 yearn of age, and
there is littlo hopo of the trail ore, sent
Out by the maidon'n irate father, over
taking the pair.
Munro had lived in the Puerto house
hold at Colton. His infntuntion for ihe
young daughter of the household
brought protests from her parents. They
ordered him from tho house and took
tbeir child to the raisin-drying colony
tit Etiwandn.
Munro learned of their whereabouts
atd early Sunday stole into tho little
town nnd intuitively found the house
. la which tho Pnente family had sought
shelter.
When tho sun rose tho disappear
aaee of the girl was discovered.
All her garmentn were as she had
left them on retiring for the night be
fore, but a blanket was missing from
- the bed.
The girl's father r.otified the minor
ities and swore that his chiH hed been
. kidnaped. Relatives and friends ef the
ptir, who sympathized with them, de
clare that it was simply an elopement
. and that by this time the lovers are well
on their way across the hills toward
Mexico.
ENGINEER OTJMMTNOS
TO WORK NEAR THE PASS
Engineer F. M. Cummiugs. who has
been for tho past year in the employ
of the citv of Medford, hns accepted
a position with the Josephine Irriga
tion ft Power company, recently or
ganic! in Grants Pnss for tho purpose
of placing that portion of the valley
under water. Engineer Cnmmings will
bring a vast amount of experience and
learning to bear on the work and will
-prove a valuable man for the new com
paay.
ARE TO SIGN
T
TONIGHT
Hamilton Plans to
Get At
Work on Pish Lake Line
As Soon As Possible
Water In July
A contract with I. L. Hamilton nnd
the adoption of an ordinnnco authoriz
ing tho same will bo the principal mat
ters to come before a meeting of the
ctiy council, who will probably meet
Wednesday evening.
The representatives of the pipo com
pany which is figuring with Mr. Ham
ilton ino. arrived in the eity and have
begun work upon the details of the
work. Material is to bo ordered nt
onco nnd tho work gotten under way,
and by the first day of next July Mr.
Hamilton expects to Imvo tho citizens
ot Medford drinking Fish lake water,
Hhortio is a very busy man nowadays.
Ho is holding conferences daily with
dHlWeut. business mmi and is figuring
on pipe and supplies until he hardly
knows where "ho is nt." With the
signing of the contract the work will
go forward without delay.
O. D. Vincent of the ditch company
and Shirley Baker ,of the Redwood
Manufacturing company of San Fran
cisco nre both in Medford lending their
assistance to Mr. Hamilton.
The surveys for the new line will be
undertaken shortly and the details in
the plans undertaken. The first ground
will be broken upon the reservoir site,
which will be completed first.
DISCOVERS MONEY
IN A PIG'S SQUEAL
CHICAGO, Nov. 11. An inventive
genius has discovered that there is
money in a pig's fiqucnl.
That, the late P. 1). Aimoiir said, was
the only thing tint w nt to waste nt
tho stockyards and it now has a cash
value,
Millici's of dollars' worth of squeals
have gone ot waste because1 it was not
known what use to make of them. But
now that their real value has beer, dis
covered, the public will have to pay
for the squeals just the same an it has
to pay for the hams, the loins and other
nnrts of the American porker.
Last Nahmlnv a man carrying a
camera and a machine for making
phonograph records picsentod himself
at the stockyards and asked permis
sion to take some pictures for use in a
Vcent theater to illustrate a pictorial
slide that is to lie entitled "A Day at
the Stockyards."
"I will first take a set nf moving
pictures," he said, "and then I will
jet a record for tho photongraph.
The man proceed M to can tho squeals
or hogs hoisted to death in the shack
ling pens.
KAISER TAEKS TOO MUCH
SPEAKERS IN REICHSTAG DEMAND THAT HIS INTERVIEWS BE
FIRST SUBMITTED
BERLIN, Nov. 11. The reichstagwas
packed today when the debate on the in
discretions of . the kaiser were contin
ual. Every available seat in the gal
leries was taken and there was no stand
ing room.
Herr Scrndor for the national liber
als. Iferr Hoffman for the united lib
erals, Herr Gamp for the conservatives,
Herr Norman for the imperialist con
servatives nnd Herr Zimmerman for
the Agrians led today's debate.
These leaders, all representing op
posing factions in the German parlia
ment, joined on the issue before, the
reichstng nnd all demanded a limita
tion of the kaiser's personal power.
The speakers demanded ft pledge that
the kaiser refrain from giving inter
1 5
VICTIMS
IN ONE
DAY
Two Wrecks Reported-
One Was Cause of Nine
Deaths, the Other Six
Many Injured
NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 11.
Nine persons nro known to have been
killed and a number injured in a rear
end collision on the New Orleans &
Northeastern railway at LHtlewoods,
12 miles from here, today.
The. bodies of the nine victims have
been taken from the wreckage nnd the
sojireh may reveal more.
A New Orleans & Great Northern
train collided with a Northeastern pas
senger train, which carried fivo coaeheB
and u baggage car.
All the coaches of the Northeastern
train were derailed and badly smashed.
The wreckage caught fire, but it was
anon Vxt iiigtiishcd.
Wrock Near Cheyenne.
DENVER Col., Nov. 11. Reports
from florin, near Cheyenne, Wyo., to
day say that six persons were killed
and three severely injured in a freight
wreck near that place todny.
The wreck was caused by an extra
freight train crashing into the caboose
of another freight train.
Engineer Schley, Conductor Murphy
and Fireman Christensen nre among the
dead. Three bodies stiW are in thf
wreckage and there is n possibility that
still another person was killed.
The collision occured nt ii point on
the I'nion Pacific, 11 miles west of here.
The caboose caught fire from the en
gine. IMPROVEMENT IN
MARKETS IN KLAMATH
KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Nov. 11.
There is a decided improvement in the
t itmber market over a year ago. Short
ly after the financial flurry of 1007 nil
the large timber syndicates withdrew
their buyers and until recently only a
few claims had changed, hands, and
those at a very low figure. During the
past two months the Weyerhaeuser
company has purchased a number of
claims in Klamath and Lake counties,
paying approximately 1 a thousand.
There are also other buyers in the
field, and whde the sales arc slow and
I lie price is not the best, indications are
that the market for pine will be good
during 1!09. Much of the timber land
of this section has been absorbed by
th: large corporations, but there are
still vast areas in the hands of the en
trymen, and if the price comes up it is
likely that a number nf chums will be
sold. In some sections, where the land
is close to the lakes or tributary to a
sawmill the price in much higher than
in the remote sections where no cutting
can be done until a rnilroad is built.
TO FOREIGN OFFICE
views in the future without first sub
mitting his remarks to the ministers
of the foreign office.
"The dignity of the nation, to say
nothing of its 'safety, demands that
wo check the royal prerogative of sow
ing broadcast opinions that do not ir
the least reflect real German senti
ment,' dcclnrcd Norman at the close
of his speech.
The other speakers took the same
attitude. They resented, they said, the
statement of the emperor that the large
fleet of Germany was nimed against
Kngland.
It is thought todav that a hill limit
ing the personal power of the emperor
will lie intrrMltirml ftnrl (hnt ( 'hnncpllnr
' von Beulow Will resign in consequence
COLLIDE
Rapidly Traveling Machine
Hits Bicyde on South
Central Avenue-Rider
Thrown to the Sidewalk
Bruising Leg
C. W. Roberts narrowly escaped in
stunt death Wednesday morning, when
an automobile the identity of tho driv-
r heing unknown, collided with a bi
eyelo upon which ho was riding, throw
ing Roberts violently to tho sidownlk
near the tailoring parlors of W. W.
Eifert on South Central avenue. Rob
orts suffered a bruised leg and his
escape from instant death was marvel
ous, ns n few inches would havo result
ed in his being struck squarely and
hurled against one of tho buildings.
As it was, tho wheel wns reduced to a
wreck.
Tho driver of the mnchino stopped
down tho street, awaited until Roberts
picked himself up and then continued
serenely upon tho tenor of his wny.
1 ho number of tho machine, KO.t, wns
secured by Roberts, who will sue for
damages.
Swerved to One Side.
The tapping of tho water mains on
South Central avenue is in progress
a fact not noticed by tho driver of the
machine until he was nearly upon the
open ditch. Ho then swerved sharply
lo one side, ovidently not noticing Hub
erts until ho had struck him. The ma
chine at the time was traveling nt a
rate of over 15 miles an hour.
J. IT. Fitzgerald was tho first to reneh
the side of Roberts, ,ind assisted him to
rise.. Beyond n bruised limb ho was
uninjured, j
Mr. Roberts recently purchased the
wheel, paying $!; for it, I
FLASHES FROM THE WIRES.
American army officers are lenving
for their posts in tho six Cuban prov
inces from which they will net as super
visors of the rural guards as a further
precaution against trouble in the Cu
ban election of November 14.
Hope for the coasting bark Tho Isle
of Erin, and her crew of It), men hns
been abandoned. The bark was tost
hot ween the Irish and English const s,
and it is believed that sho undoubtedly
went d own with alt on board i n the
storm which swept the sea on Saturday.
C, E. Young, former secretary to
United States Senator John W. Dan
iel of Virginia, is in San Francisco city
prison n wait ing trial of numerous
barges of issuing fictitious checks for
small amounts.
Captain Rnald Amundsen of Sweden
is making preparations for another lec
ture tour of Europe to obtain funds foi
tho starting of his voyage in search
of the north pole.
In a futile effort to save his master
from being robbed by a masked high
wayman after midnight Wednesday
morning, a big St. Bernard dog owned
by F. W. Lutekiftcir, a saloonkeeper of
Portland was shot and instantly killed
by tho bandit.
George K. Willnrd, wife, daughter.
Miss Olive and Mrs. Irene Hays were
instantly killed in Red Bluff, when a
Southern Pacific train hit an nutomo
bilo in which they were riding. They
were hurled through the nir some 200
feet.
Bail hns been denied C. W. Morse,
the New York banker who has been
sentenced to 1.T years' imprisonment at
hard labor.
Two venires of jurymen in the trial
of Roy Lamphere for tho murder of
Mrs. Belle (iunncss have been exhaust
ed nnd n third cnllel.
The first session of tho house com
mittee on ways and means was held
Tuepday in Washington to consider
revision of tho tariff. Lumbermen meet
') hursdav to talk of tnriff revision on
lumber.
The United States announced Wed
nesday its decision to recognize the
new government of Paraguay, which
was established as tho result of the
successful revolution last spring.
The fairest, women of the south are
in Atlanta, Ga., to attend the annual
convention of the United Daughters of
the Confederacy, which opened a three
lavs' sens in n this morning. .
Walter Cordova, s cook, is dead, his
widow is in a hospital suffering from
injuries inflicted by him, and E. R.
Smith is in Colfax, Wash., city jail as
the result of n tragedy that occurred
late Tuesday in the kitchen of the
Gnlvert hotel, where the three were em
ployed. Cordova quarreled with his
PRINCIPALS IN
NEW OFFICE FOR
WESTERN UNION
Officials Visit City and As
Result New Telegraph
Office May Be Had
In all probability the Western Union
Telegraph company will in the very
near future establish in this city a
separate office for Western Union bus
iness, Unit) relieving Hie Southern Pa
cific local foren nf a groat deal of
co m mere in 1 work. The city is attain
ing a size where such a step is a logical
one, nnd officials of the Western Union
while they have not stated definitely
that such an office would be established,
have given local people to understand
that they are favorably considering the
matter. .
During the first of the week It. T.
Reed of Seattle, the superintendent of
the Western Union, and E. A. Klipple,
superintendent of the Harriman tele
graph lines in Oregon, paid a visit to
Medford, where they considered tho ad
visability of such a step and, it is re
ported, they left in a favorable mood
for ordering the work. Tho local office
of the Southern Pacific has more and
more work on its hands and by reliev
ing them of the commercial telegraph
ing matters would be considerably si in
plified.
wife nnd was beating her to death when
Smith interceded.
Another posse with information that
Leo Bezzemer, who attempted to kid
nap E. P. English, a wealthy logger,
and hold him for ransom a few days
ago, in hiding in a logging cabin, start
ei Vteoiiesiiay irom j-whmic in sea re n oi
the fugitive.
Ten men called at the Cottage hospi- j
till in San Rafael, Cil,, and offered to (
have parts of t heir skin removed to
beg rafted on the body of Phillip Red
mond a railroad engineer, who was
scalded in a wreck near Nova t a Inst
July,
Reports being circulated in Milwau
kee ore to the effect that Boswell Mil
ler, chairman of the board of directors
of the Milwaukee road, will retire from
that position probably before the ncxt
annual meeting nnd that he will be sue-j
reeded by President A. .1. Enrling. j
Governor-elect Cosgrovo of Washing-
ton exMets to leavj Friday for Cnli-1
forma for the benefit of his health. 5
I Wit
SERVIAN TROUBLE.
DECLARES TED
PEACE ENEMY
College Professor Also
Scores Captain Hobson
and Rear Admiral Evans
PHILADELPHIA, Pa Nov. 11.
That President Roosevelt, winner of the
noble pea co prize, should be considered
an enemy of peace is astonishing the
members of Hie Kneads of Peace asso
ciation today.
Professor William Isaac Hull of
Swnrlhmore college is responsible for
tho statement of the members of the
local branch of the organization are
indignant today at what they term an
attack upon their idole.
"Theodore KouhcvcK is the most dnn
gerous enemy to the cnuse of interna
tional peace to be found in this coun
try, ' ' declared Professor Hull in an
address before a select audience of the
association last night. He followed this
up with the statement that Captain
Richmond Hobson anil Rear Admiral
Robley Evans, who are among tho fore
most advocates of the expansion of the
country's fighting strength, are great
ly thwarting the efforts that are being
mado to maintain peace.
LOCAL BOY ELECTED TO
OLEE CLUB AT O. A.
O.
CORVALLIS, Or., Nov. II. John F.
Porter of Medford, a student at the
Oregon agricultural college, has been
lately elected a member of the male
Gluee club. The club is the first of
its kind ever formed at the college, but
under the leadership of Professor Ons
kins, who has had a great ileal of expe
rience in this work, it is sure nf a
brilliant success. It is composed of 24
voices, which were selected from .10
promising musicians. A number of con
certs will be given, nnd Inter a tour of
the state will probably be made.
The organization of a choral club
is another phase of the work which do
serves comment. This chorus contains
l.'iO voices, and is the largest ever form
ed in Oregon. In addition to this, a
women's glee club has been establish
ed with (Jenevievn Bntim-Oaskins as a
capable lender. A lively interest is be
ing shown by both men and women, and
the faculty nnd stmVmts nro looking
forward with pleasure to the many hnl
tlnnt concerts which arn to take place.
SOCIALISTS
IN GREAT
RIOT
Russia Tries to Act As a
Peace-maker But Advo
cates That Peter Leave
Throne Por Prince
VIKNNA, Nov. 11. Reports from
Bclgrndo today suy that Servia is on tbe
I un mo
. of the
vergo of civil war, as the rosult
insistent demunds that King Peter ab
tt.tr ah.
dicate tho tbrono In favor of Prince
Qcorgo. This would bo in the nature of
a step toward the punishment of the
present rcginio for what the people con
aider serious errors in the present erisis.
The army of Servia is divided In
Hontiment between the two factions, and
thero is immediate danger of most se
rious developments in tho situation.
Russia is trying to act as the peace
maker, but is advocating that King
Potor abdicate, offoring him rofuge and
income and compensation for loss of the
thrnnn,
Scores Are Injured.
BUDA PEST, Hungary, Nov.. 11..
Scores of persons wore injured, in a
volleut demonstration by the socialists
on tho streets in the heart of the. city
today before the police could Interfere.
The mobs -formed quickly after sev-1
ernl meetings lind been held at which
agitators spoke. As tho rioters started
through the streets they became wild
with excitement nnd the demonstration
ensued in which the police charged into
the crowds and forced them to disperse.
It is further stated that more demon
strations will be started.
Tho socialists are in sympathy with
tho Servians and nre opposed to the at
titude of the government in recent .
events.
RECORD FOR APPLES
FROM DAYTON, WASH.
DAYTON, Wash., Nov. li. Another
wondorful record for apple growing
in tho Touhcet valley comes from Po-
mona ranch, where, on three-tenths of
an acre of ground $774.25 vorth of
apples were grown this year. From
the .10 trees on the tract, 547 boxes of
apples were gathered an average of
18 boxes per tre There were 478
boxes which brought $1.50 a box and
75 boxes which sold at 75 cents. At
a similar rate of productiveness, an
acre of ground woud produce ' $2&80
worth of apples enough to keen three
ordinary fumilies a year. Pomona ranch,
where the npples were grown, has made
its owner, J. I.. Dumas, a fortune in
two seasons. There are 100 acres In
the orchard, which will produce 40,000
boxes of npples this yeor. The gross
receipts will probably reach $50,000.
MILWAUKEE fc 8T. PAUL
EARN SIX MILLIONS IN MONTH
fillCAdO, Nov. 11 The attontlon
of the railroad world was called today
to the stotement of the earnings of tbe
Milwaukee t St. I'nul rnilroad during
the month of September. The state
ment shows that the largest road in
process of construction of any road
that hns its September made public.
While other roads showed larger profits
none showed n better condition and
a greater increase of business.
The road s gross earnings tor Septem
ber were: $0,105,873, an increase of
$570,181 over September of last year.
September of last year was considered
good month.
ALL IT ALT OBSERVES
KINO VICTOR'S BIRTHDAY
ROM K, Itnly, Nov. II. All Italy Is
celebrating today the occasion of the
Mth birthday of King Victor Emanuel
II r, the thirdk ing of I'nited Italy. Pub
lib festivities are in progress in this
city, Florence Naples and Venice and
his majesty has been the recipient of
congratulatory messages from all the
reigning monarchs of Europe.
Handsome gifts were taken to the
palace from the roval families of En
ron.
Victor F.mannel was the only ton of
Humbert I and succeeded to the throne
en tbe death of bis father, July 14, 1900.