Medford daily tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1906-1909, May 28, 1909, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textedford Daily Tribune FOURTH YEAR. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1909. No. 60. M .RAIN CONTINUES OVER THE VALLEY At Noon 35-100 of an Inch Had Fell en Lighter Precipitation ' Towards Northern End of Valley. , GREAT CLOUDBURST NEAR ASHLAND THIS MORNING : Rain Was General Over Willamette Valley and as Far South as Glendale. During the present storm in Med fonl 33-100 of mi inch of ruin bus fallen, which means thousands upon thousands of dollars to local u chardists and fruit growers. No rain fell nt Grants Pass and the precipi tation at Centra) Point was not as heavy as near this city, although HODie rain has fallen and materially benefited the orchids of that vicinity. In the mountains of Ashland a cloudburst was experienced on Fri day morning. This did hut little dam nge, although it caused the creeks iu that vicinity to raise very rapidly for n time. The weather report for today pre dictflshowers for tonight and Satur day. ' Colder wenther will follow. To the northward the rainstorm has been general. The Willamette valley has experienced n splendid rain which has advanced as far south as Glendale. A report from Grants Pass this afternoon is to effect that showers are falling in that vicinity and will do much good. ANNAPOLIS NAVAL BOYS WAGER SOCKS AND SHIRTS AXXAPOMS. Md..' May 28. Ev ery midshipman with the price of a railway ticket is preparing today to desert Annapolis fur Wc-t Point, where tomorrow's annual baseball battle between the navv and army will be fought. In addition to a $3000 pool wager offered by the army and promptly snapped t bv the navy adherents, thousand- of dollars in in dividual wagers will probably change hands after the game. Some of the middies are "soaking" all their avail able chattels to back the navy nine. At breakfast formation one of the captains made the following speech to his company: "T want yon men to back the team as it never has been before . T don't care whether it wins or lnse. we want to show the army what navy spirit is. We have covered all the money Ihey have scut down so far. but you have got to stand by to cover a lot more. Tf yon haven't got the money now go out and pawn your 'socks, pawn your shirts, pawn any Vlliing. jn-t so you raie it. j "Tn my plebe year we had what we :Vacw wiii n losing team, but we cov ered every cent the Wot Pointer could raise at even money, and large ';umi that army officers at different posts sent iu to bet. AVe are going to do the nnu thing tin year." JuiwwrcnTA nnvrpuno m VISIT 0REQ0N LATER I Governor Pen-on ha received a letter from Governor Johnson of Min ?neota declining the imitation of the y governor of Oregon to visit Salem on 'his wnv to or from the Seattle e uwxition. Governor Johnson snv That he will come we-t with hi staff tnd nnfurnllv will want to return ilb them, but hone to visit nt Sn Vm and Portland at s,me future time. rtownrrt r a icon ni i men, t ai., ic in Bedford on n hort huune trip. M'CLOUD BOYS GO ON STRIKE FORJORE PAY Box Factory Sawmills and Sash and Door Plant Are Tied Up Delegation to Call on the Loggers. LABORERS WANT TWENTY FIVE CENTS A DAY MORE Oven 1000 Men Are In the Strike- Say They Will Not Let Others Take Places in Mills: ! MVLOUD, Cal., May 28. The box factory, sawmills and sash and door plant of the MeCloud River ; Lumber company arc tied up as. the result of a strike by a thousand em- : ployes. They want n raise of 2.r cents a day for common labor, or $2 per. A delegation is on its way to the ; mountains to induce the loggers to ! quit. The strikers say that they will not ; allow outsiders to take their places in the different factories. GOVERNMENT TIMBER IS RAPIDLY CHANGING HANDS ! Figures of government limber sales on the national forests in Oregon and Washington given out yesterday by the Portland office of the forest 'service show strikingly that confi- : dence in the lumber business Is fully restored and that un era of increas ed activity is at hand. Since timber : purchased on national forests must be cut immediately, contracts run- i ning from tine to five years, these transactions indicate the actual slate of business more accurately than pri vate sttunpnge sales, which are often only speculative. Transactions are now pending ex ecution of papers and practically rcr tain to go through involving five times as much timber as was sold during the last ten months. Met ween July 1 of last year and May 25, 17 i purchasers bought national forest timber in this, district, 04 of the sales being in Alaska. 38 in Washington, and 08 in Oregon. The total quan tity of timber sold was 71. 0(17.000 feet. oT which about 0,000.000 was i in Alaska forests. 01.000.000 in Washington forests, and U.0001011 in small sales tm Oregon forests. i Applications are now being exam ined and sale seems almost assured for :tH0.0o0.0"0 feet. Of tins, about :i.0(l().00(l feet is in Alaska. 2-"0.000.-uOil iu Oregon and 127.000.000 in Washington. Si nnipage prices of fered range from .$1 a thousand in Alaska to from $2 to $3 in Oregon and Washington. It is expected that this increased demand will continue and that the year 1000 will show a total of national forest timber sale business in the Pacific northwest many lime- larger Ihau that of even Ihe best I'J-inonlh periods during the lumbering boom of three or four year.-- ago. This i- (' intere-t to the general public beeaii-e a quarter of the receipts from national fore-Ms go ' to the road and -rhool funds of the cumitie- in winch they are -ituated. ASKS COIN FOR BUILDING AND OREGON VOLUNTEERS WASHINGTON'. May 2ft. Hepre sentative Elli today introduced a bill euthoriring the appropriation of $75. Ortft f.r the purchase of a site and the erection of a public huilding at The Dalles. Or. Al-n n lull niithorizine , the payment to officers and men of i the Second Oregon volunteer-, who j saw service in the Philippine, oi i travel pjiy to the full extent anlhor jized by sections 128fl and 1200 nf I the Revised Statutes. i GIRLS TO HAVE HE OF THEIR ' LIVEUT FAIR Party Will Have Splendid Trip, All of the Trimmings Will Be Furnished Free of Charge. SIDE TRIPS WILL AFFORD SPLENDID AMUSEMENT Trip Will Not Be a Gift but Result of Honest Work Get Into the Race and Get Busy. When the seven young women who will be the guests of the Tfibuue at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacifie Kxpocitiou leave Med lord they are going to have the lime of their young lives iu their own way. The party will be chape roned by come matron who will be named by the young lady receiving the highest number of votes in the contest, and no "horrid man" will be allowed to encroach. Leaving Medford hi a Pullman ear, the party will reach Portland on Sun day morning, and a trip wilt be made to Council Crest and other points of interest. Then the party will be dined at 'one of the principal cafes. Iu the evening the facilities of the North Coast Limited will be invoked, and the bevy of old maids will be off for Seattle . Of etui res the principal attraction there will be the big exposition, but n great deal of other entertainments will be provided, including automobile rides, theatre parties etc.. and not one young woman will be required to open her pockclhook once so far ns the trip is conserned. Kverythiug is iaid for, and there will be dull hours for none of them. After spending six or seven days at the fair, the party will be taken aboard one of the palatini Sound steamers, ami a trip to the (iifiint. old. Knglish city of Victoria will be made. At this session of the year Paget Sound, the finest inland hodv of water m the world, is seen at it's best. Any young woman who does not know where she is tii to spend her vacation cannot do liiter than to try for a place iu this arty. It will be a trip long to be rcjenihe red. and Ihe participants iu it'&fdensiires will have ihe ndded kuouJ.dge that it is unt il with the help ants should see that cast earlv and often. on the Tlrd. of July, will personnel of the party. STEAMSHIP AND DRAW A PRIZE The fan rVnuciseo & Portland Stciitiiiip company of Portland will give prize of .."0 for the niot ap propriate unmet for the two new inOlr-ton -learner for the San rran- iind Portland line. Each per- "nggesting name will give their name and addre. and rea-on why mime should be appropriate to or charaeteri-tic of the -tnte of Oregon. Tn caw a -ingle name is seleeted from t wo different competitor's. $"fl will he divided between each. This com petition is inaugurated solely with a vv to allow the people of Oregon to naive these ship suggestive tn the ''interest.. of this Mate. The liN lo-e .Tune SPRECKELS SAYS HE IS NOT TO WED MISS CASE PATt'S. Mny 28. Hnui PpreekeN t,iri nf the sugar magnate, noon tn re turn to America, today denied the rMrt that he i engaged tn Miss Mary A. Case nf Portland. Or., who is here ciiltivntinp her voire. I a gift-lhev en Wied 'of llicir frieii.. Till' ciiiilu I llii'ir volc-Mn i fur Ihe lnJfl. ' di'tt'nnin 3w ! NAME 9 I full NEAR JS CITY Payrolls Will Pun Over $2000 a Day Money Is Nearly All Spent In This City. , EVERY PLANT INCREASING NUMBER OF MEN EMPLOYED Workmen Complain of Being "Held Up" in Northern California and On the Road. The demand fur lubor in the Rogue valley this year is rathor extraor dinary because of the uuukuuI work that is being done. None of the plants ot the valley are redudcing their forces, and most of them are incrcus ing, while the number of men needed for farm work will be quite the usual 200 or :100 on the farms or in the orchards. The Butte Kails and Kagle Point lumber mills will each increase their present force of ten men each to dou ble or triple that number, as their or ders are increasing to linos I the capacity of their plants. The telephone company is now working a force varying from 15 to 25 men as occasion demands. This, however, is due to the fact that the company is reconstructing its local exchange throughout. As a rule but one lineman is maintained for city needs us "trouble shooter." On the new water system neur Gold Hay the Condor Water & Power com pany is employing a forec averaging .'l."i men. This force will probably he maintained for a long time, but it may be reduced as the work nears eompletioil. The Pacific & Eastern railway is running several small gangs, includ ing about 8(1 men. The Fish Lake IHleb company is working about the same number of men, and the Med ford Mriek company employs 12 skill ed laborers on the new buildings they are erecting in the city. The Oregon Granite company has 15 men now on its rolls, and the larg est payroll is that of the water grav ity system for the city on which work .varying numbers, usually about 200 , men, are employed. From this it is seen that the outside figures show about K00 men employed at this time on various work here. Their payroll will average .2H00 daily, and a large' portion of this is spent in Medford and the county. Workmen Complain. The laborers who are making Med ford their Mecca at the present time are complaining bitterly of the treat ment accorded them in northern Cal ifornia and al stut ions along the rad. They say that Ihey are robbed at every turn, notwithstanding they earn their money in n very hard way and aiiuht be thought to be entitled to at least the ''regular rale-. In this city they say if they go to a place to get a room for a week they they are compelled to pay ''transient rale," and that the-e are nearly dou ble the rate charged residents. A number of men now iu town have jiaid -ti taxc- in Shastta county, and the aim Mint shown on their "identi ties" hardly ever more than $2 or Of the wages and the treatment of the Medford cmplovers, the men have only good words to ay. but they complain that they are charged loo much for necessities and entertain ment in the eitv. In the Turkish section at the Alas ka -Yukon -Pacific exposition at Sc uttle this summer will be a valuable exhibit nf rugs, brass E'indR, wood carving, lamp", rurin nnd oriental poods generally. ROMANCE OE WEST THEME IN HANLEY TRIAL Witnesses Tell of Frontier Battles Be tween Sheep Herders and Cow Boys Trial Progresses. CONFLICTING STORIES ARE TOLD BY WITNESSES Fence Was Erected to Keep Out Sheep Which Ruined Land for Cattle Grazing. l'OUTI.ANI), Or., Mny 'J8. Item inewiMici'K l' days in iMistcrii Olefin wlii'ii tlm rancher haled the settler wax Hie theme, of (he trial (if William llanley, accused bv the miv- erntnent nf illciruHv "I 0U0 acres nf public lands in Ilamey county. William K. Hyder, a ranch er, was called lo the stand by the defense, which desired lo show throimh him Ihe bad condition of the fence around (lie ("vornment land. Hyder said (hat when Peter French was inasler of (lie land nobody dared tn enter it. Dunlin iirnniin.' Rea son the stock of others was kept nut. lie told (if continual antnfroiiistn be tween the sheep and cattle men. He claimed that Hie sheep rendered (irnzinj; land unlit for Iheir stock In feed on. This i one nf the reasons tfie fence wus erected. William Allen, nunlcy'R foreman, testified thai the flocks nnd herds nf all Ihe people were allowed to feed in the llanley eneloRure. REAL ESTATE MEN ARE LOOKING FOR MANY PEOPLE Medl'nrd i,.al edale dealers are lookiuir l'o'".Viii'd willi salisfaclinn In the visits of u 1'rre nutiilicr of east ern excursionists in the near future. It was freely predicted Hint a big iiMoiu occasioned ny an nil lux nt in - tending settlers would occur this spring, nun uiimlrcils ot those inter ested by the real estate men nnd the commercial bodies bad inadc appoint ments, but when Ihey found thai thev could lake iu the exposition at Seat tle willi ciiuiparatively lillle extra ex pense on account of the extremely liberal fares offered liy (lie railroads, nearly all decided lo avail llieiuselvcs of the privilege, and to visit the va rious farming centers when llicv are nt 1 lift l bet, thai is lo say al Ihe bc giniiin; of harvest time. Probably no other section in south ern Oregon is so well advertised as Medford, and it is expected that many transfers of funning and city prop- ertv will lie inade (bis summer and fall. WOMEN WATCHING GREAT SALE WITH MUCH INTEREST i lEesidcuts of the alley, especially llie women, are watching with great den) of interest the announcement of; the treat sale which starts at linker- 1 HutcliU'-oii's e-tabli-hmcnt on Salur- j day morning. A number of splendid ha rgains are offered and no doubt , will be eargarly sei.ed up. MOB SHOOTS MAN THROUGH GRATES OF HIS CELL T Itll.KNK. Tex.. May 'JH. T'nable to gain an entrance into a jail here today, a mob fired through Ihe iron gratings and murdered Tom Harnett, recently convicted of murdering Alexander Sears, n wealthy catlle mnn. The jailor bad refused tn sur render the priKoner. William Stewart visited Ahland on Friday on bnsiniw. WEBSTER IS TO DEFEND CRATER LAKE ROAD BILL Noled Attorney of Portland Volun teers His Services to South ern Oregon on Behalf of Measure. SO ADVISED ATTORNEY REAMES OF THIS CITY Will Do So Free of Charge Other Portland Attorneys Say They WIII Help Him. Lionel L. Websler, county jn1;e of Alulluomnh county, and one of Ihe foremost attorneys of the statu, has volunteered his services on behalf of (lie Crater Lake mad bill and will filth! Alloniey McMahan in cnart. Juil;e Webster passed through Medford this nmruiiir uu hiH way north and notified Clarence L. lieamrs of his willingness to undor laku the defense of the hill. Judge Webster stales thai a number of at torneys in Portland have signified their willingness tn assist him in the matter. With Hindi an able man as Judge Websler defending the bill, no stone will be left unturned iu its behalf when Ihe mailer comes up in court. AUTO RACE STARTS JUNE I FROM NEW YORK CITY NKW YORK, May 2K. 11. was an nounced today that all are ready fnr Maynr McClellau In start the race from New York to the Heallle expo sition by automobile al '! o'clock in Ihe afternoon on June 1 from the city hall coincident with the opening of Ihe fair. Thet route will be from Albany through Syracuse, lliifl'alo, Cleveland, Toledo, Chicago and St. Louis. No schedule wesl of Si. Louis has liceu arranged, the coiilc-luuls being jn,,u. I ihe choice of routes. RAINFALL C0NTINMF0 to DO MUCH GOOD IN VALLEY A liijil rain ulreh " dun-d nearly all night a si Med to a greut extent Ihe work of the fir I rain, ii'itl fann er' arc no longer apprehcusix c, es pecially sjjiec there is promise of a si grciiter preeinilnlion tonight. No diiiMiige lo the small fruits by luiil is rep i led, and most of the nl falfa rnUciv ure i'dincd to think tlmt the third crmi will coin pit re fa vorably with those of other years. The second crop ) been cut in mts cases, nnd the ibird crop gets the benefit of vlnilecr precipitation may come. C0RBETT FINDS EXCUSE NOT TO FIGHT JOHNSON ( 'A h.v "S - Jumna .1 for. , . . . ,,, .nir iven Ha lo Jack Johnson, who has announced hi desire to box six rounds with "(entlemau .lim" in I'hil:ideliiia : '! hiive no de-ire or inlenliou lo fight Jack John-oil. He i- iu better IijiihU cow thnl Jeffrie- ha- iinder I taken to re-tore Ihe hoimr (o the t white nice. When I annoum-cd thai ! I wii.i willing to I'n.dit J.!iu-.u il was I far from my de-ire to get buck inlo the oln" fighting game. I I'elt merely ' that -omeoiie b:id lo challenge the black man who hail a chance lo de ; feat him. Vow that Jeffries has agreed to nee! him there w no occa sion for me to give any attention lo Johnson." Itank of Ashland vs. Jamew ftclm and1 H. Tf. Helm: action to reemvr money. K. M. Talking, attorney far plaintiff.