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MAY ABIDE BY CANAL RULINGS TAFT LEADS IN CALIFORNIA. OHIO REFUSES SUFFRAGE. Easy Victory Expected By Progres Initiative and Referendum and Liquor sives Does Not Materialize. Amendments Are Carritd. INDUSTRIAL DEV PROGRESS * PMENT AND OUR HOME STATE San Francisco—Roosevelt Progress Columbus, Ohio — The women of ives suffered unexpected reverses in Ohio failed in their effort to gain the BIGGER FAIR URGED. ROAD NEARS END. many instances in the California pri maries, and in some congressional dis ballot,' according to early returns. tricts where the Bull Moose forces While the earliest figures on which J. H. Booth Proposes State Show to Grading Is Finished and Rails Laid were absolutey confident of victory, this result is based come almost from Cost $1.000.000 Most of Way to Friend. especially so through the redistricting Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus. To Salem—A $1,000,000 state fair is Dufur —The work of extending the of the state, they have found them the plan that J. H. Booth, of Rose Great Southern railroad from this city ledo and Dayton, it was in those selves defeated. In districts where English Study Question—Washington easy victory for the Roosevelt candi places where the suffragists waged burg. president of the Oregon State Board of Agriculture, hopes to see to Friend, about ten miles distant, is Believes Objections Will Stop dates had been predicted, notably in their most determined fights and poli worked out. He believes that at least nearing completion, and it is expected When Fully Understood. the third, the Taft vote is running far ticians said the result would not be $1.000,000 should be appropriated by that regular trains will be in opera ahead of the Roosevelt Progressive changed by the final returns. the legislature, not all at once, how tion to Friend within a month. count. The women, it is said, will not give ever, and that some definite plan be The Roosevelt forces, however, up their fight for the ballot, but plan adopted for the permanent upbuilding Rails are being laid on the last two Washington, D. C.—In diplematic miles of the work, the grading being circles here it is believed that the de claim that the election has given them to use the initiative and referendum of the fair. lay by Great Britain in asking for ar control of the state machinery, and if to gain another vote. “The university and agricultural all finished and the rails laid up to The cities of the state uniformly college and other state institutions are bitration of the free tolls section of this claim is borne out, as incomplete within about two miles of the pro- the Panama Canal act is an indication returns indicate, it assures the selec voted in favor of all amendments but given appropriations almost without posed terminus, and work trains are tion of Roosevelt-Johnson electors at suffrage. The farming communities stint.” said Mr. Booth. “While prob that the London foreign office event the state convention at Sacramento, voted against the amendments as a ably they need the money and deserve being operated over the new road for ually will abandon that plan. It has been said that the foreign September 24. This result has been, whole, but there was little likelihood it, I believe that there is no greater this distance. office was withholding formal action however, more or less counted upon by that they could offset the big urban educational factor in the state than Sixty-pound rails are being used pending a careful study of the act. It the Taft leaders on account of the majorities. the state fair. This is essentially an and the roadbed and bridges are being large personal popularity of Governor About half the state vote was cast. agricultural state. is believed that when the British gov Any move which The initiative and referendum has tends toward developing the state’s constructed in the best possible man ernment comes to understand that the Johnson, the vice presidential candi free toll provision of the act applies date on the Roosevelt Progressive been adopted, according to the first agricultural interests to the highest ner so that the heaviest kind of traffic 950 precincts out of 5197 in the state. point of efficiency is, financially and can be run over the road when com only to American coastwise trade, in tickeL Secondary in interest only to the It received 63,093 votes for and 33,085 which British shipping cannot partici in every other way. an upbuilding pleted. pate in any event, the reason for an sharply-drawn contest between the against. The liquor license had car factor in the state’s progress. Taft and Roosevelt faction of the Re- After the completion of this exten ried by 55,341 to 20,942. appeal for arbitration will disappear. ‘ By setting out a definite plan for pubican party was the nomination of The suffrage vote from 950 pre the state fair grounds and obtaining sion the line from here to The Dalles will be repaired, both roadbed and 11 representatives, the primary being cincts showed 36,063 for to 55,139 “Diplomacy Likely to Fail. stated amounts biennially to be used bridges, and put in first-class shape. the first congressional contest since against. The country districts were London — Regret at the spirit in toward working out that plan, the 1 he extension of the terminus will which the Panama question is being the addition of three new congression expected to change this result, how state fair could be developed into one al districts by the reapportionment at probably necessitate the moving of the ever. discussed on this side of the Atlantic of the most magnificent features of The liquor license proposal provides the state, that would repay the money trainmen and their families to Friend. is expressed by the Westminster Ga the last special session of the state The officers of the Great Southern zette, the government organ, whose legislature, based upon the 1910 cen that licenses to traffic in liquor shall expended in many ways. company are seriously considering the be granted, subject to laws that may editor, J. Alfred Spencer, is consider sus. “Upon the nucleus which we have advisability of purchasing some sort Scant returns in several districts in be enacted by the legislature. It does ed as possibly the next British ambas we could build up tc the final attain of a motor car to add to their passen which the Progressives had predicted not affect the present liquor laws. sador at Washington. ment of the scheme for a great fair. ger service. It is yet undecided The charges of “Yankee perfidy,’’ easy victory for their candidates indi Every improvement which is put in whether they will purchase a gasoline cate unexpected reverses for the ROOSEVELT THIRD. it says in an editorial, have had the the grounds should be a permanent motor or a car propelled by an electric effect that might have been expected Roosevelt men, notably in the third, one. which Taft leaders declared was storage battery. However, as soon Regular Republicans Maintain Lead in in the American retort that Europe is “There should be good walks, good as the business warrants the addi “ carved out ” by the legislature ex strewn with examples of this perfidy. Vermont Election. buildings, a cattle judging arena elec tional service, it will be made as sug This only serves to “generate heat pressly to insure the certainty of the trically lighted, so that judging could gested. Montpelier, Vt. — The Roosevelt Pro election of Frank R. Devlin, a Roose where light is wanted.” The difficulties gressive ticket ran a poor third in the be done at night. velt stalwart. The addition of a motor car will cut It is likely, continues the Gazette, state elections in Vermont, with the that we have encountered this year the running time to The Dalles and that diplomacy will fail to arrive at a Taft Republicans winning by a vote of with the rains should be obviated by return nearly half, and be of great MILWAUKIE FIRE $50,000. settlement, in which case the govern almost double that of the Progressive all permanent covered buildings. convenience to the people along the ment’s course clearly is to ask for ar candidate and the Democrats far out We hope to have a permanent pavilion line. bitration. In conclusion, it says, Portland Suburb Hard Hit—Califor numbering the Bull Moose party’s constructed with the $50,000 which The Great Southern expects a large President Taft is so deeply committed nia Resort Also Burns. vote. In fact the Roosevelt ticket the last legislature appropriated, and freight business, both in grain and in to the principle of arbitration that his Portland — Fire believed to have obtained less than one-quarter of the which, we trust, will be given us by refusal to submit the question cannot started in the rear of the Milwaukie total vote of the state, according to the next legislature overriding the fruit, this fall, and is making prepar ations for handling this traffic. be conceived. governor’s veto. Appeal print shop at 1 o’clock Wed almost complete returns. “The fair should be placed in a po nesday morning swept one entire The Republican plurality, while ARMY POLICE FOR ALASKA. MEDFORD WILL BUILD ROAD. block on Main street between Wash large, will lack some votes of being a sition where it will be able to handle ington and Jefferson streets at Mil majority, and as a result the election the crowds whether the weather is System Like That of Canada Being waukie, Or., a suburb of Portland, for governor is certain to be thrown wet or dry, a place provided where Citizens Determined to Have Rail Considered by War Department. agricultural lectures can be given doing damage estimated at $50,000. into the legislature. Line to Seaport. daily for the farmers, and the entire Returns for governor from 217 out San Francisco—The problem of giv The fire razed the entire block, in Medford—Medford is to have a rail ing Alaska a thorough military police cluding the postoffice. Only the Sell of 246 cities and towns gave: Fletch show given over to the agricultural system may be solved in the near fu wood fire appartatus from Portland er, Republican, 23,602; Howe, Demo interests. The agricultural and stock road to the coast. Tired of promises ture, not by the stationing of a regi was able to reach the scene. Water crat, 18,250; Metzger, Progressive, displays at the fair I place first, and by railroad companies and outsiders, ment or more of soldiers there, scat was pumped from the river to quench 14,220; Smith, Prohibition, 1425; the amusements last. The fair is for prominent Medford business men have educational purposes, and it is toward Suiter, Socialist, 1006. tering the troops through the territor the flames. decided to do the job themselves. The same places in 1910 gave: that end we are constantly striving.” Papers were filed for the incorporation Wires from all parts of the town ies by companies, but by establishing a constabulary system modeled some except a tavern and the O. W. P. re Mead, Republican, 31,816; Watson, of the Medford & Crescent City Rail COVE CHERRIES STILL RIPE. what along the lines of the Northwest pair shops were down, and aid was Democrat, 15,803; Towle, Prohibi way company, and the preliminary tionist, 1052; Ordway, Socialist, 890. mounted police, which has accom summoned with difficulty. capitalization has been placed at $50,- Indications from these figures at C M. Stackland Thinks Oregon Is 000. plished wonderful results in Canada. Officers at the Presidio say that Los Angeles—Fi ré originating from midnight are roughly that the present Ideally Located. That such a road will be of incal such a system of mounted police is a defective flue at the Casino Cafe on vote will total: Republicans, 26,236; culable benefit to Medford and the Portland—Although the bulk of the being considered and may go through the pleasure pier at Ocean Park Democrats, 19,838; Roosevelt Pro Rogue River valley cannot bo gain cherry crop in Cove district has long If so, it would be under the jurisdic caused a loss of at least one life and a gressives, 16,429. since been gathered and marketed, said. It will open up a virgin mineral tion of the War department, the property damage estimated at $2,250,- cherries are still ripe in that section. and timber region, will tap the fertile EMPLOYES GET BONUSES. mounted officers being recruited from 000. For a time it threatened to dev C. M. Stackland, of Cove, was in Port but undeveloped Applegate valley, and the ranks of the army. astate the twin beach resorts of Ocean land, Saturday, and brought to the will bring a great reduction in freight Major George H. McManus, of the Park and Venice, 18 miles from Los Aggregate of $70,000 Distributed by Commercial club samples of Bing and rates. With the construction of the inspector general’s department, who Angeles. Carpet Mills Company. Royal Anne cherries he had picked Panama canal, it will mean that fruit has just returned from an inspection A high wind caused the flames to Yonkers, N. Y.—Bonuses aggrega from his own orchard, which are in and produce can be shipped by water tour of Alaska army posts, acknowl spread so rapidly that seven men were to Atlantic Coast ports, and incident edged that such a constabulary was caught at the end of the Frazer pier, ting $70,000 were distributed to 3100 perfect condition. Mr. Stackland is ally a delightful summer resort will being contemplated. “Personally,” on which the Casino was located, and employes in the mills of the Alexan a member of the firm of Stackland be within easy distance of this city. he said, “I believe that a system of were forced to jump into the breakers. der Smith & Sons Carpet company Bros., one of the largest fruitgrowing Men and women who concerns of the Cove district. this kind would work out well. Cer Six of them were rescued by life Wednesday. OREGON NATIVES GO EAST. Mr. Stackland had some interesting tainly if a corps as efficient as that of guards, who put out in boats. They have been in the employ of the com figures to offer concerning this year ’ s pany 10 years or more received checks the Northwest mounted police could were not in time, however, to save Couple to Devote Nine be developed, it would do much to pre the life of E. W. Leach, chef of the for amounts equal to 10 per cent of cherry crop. From 227 trees, growing Albany their wages for the six months ending on two acres, he sold 13 tons of Royal Month* to Extensive Tour. serve law and order in Alaska, possi Casino cafe. June 30. Those of between five and Anne cherries to a cannery for bly far more than a large number of Albany—Robert L. Burkhart, one of ten years’ standing received 5 per $1000. soldiers. ” Mount McKinley is Goal. “That the community may well en the best-known breeders of Jersey cent bonuses. Seattle — An expedition to climb This was the fourth time within a courage the fruitgrower,” says Mr. cattle on the Pacific Coast, ha* started “AMERICAN” CANAL LOOMS Mount McKinley next spring has been few years that the firm has thus re Stackland, “is indicated in the wages on a trip East, during which he will organized by C. E. Rusk, editor of the membered its older employes. Last paid to workers in the Cove cherry or inspect the leading Jersey herds of On May 20, last, Mr. Spokane Chamber of Commerce Prosser, Wash., Independent, reputed March $65,000 was paid to 500 five chards. My brother and I picked 16,- the country. to be the most skillful mountain Burkhart sold the Jersey herd which Would Drop Panama Appellation. 000 gallons of cherries from eight climber in the Pacific Northwest, and and ten-year employes and in August, acres, and the picking and packing he had been developing for several 1911, $40,000 was distributed among Spokane—Instead of the Panama Meri Lavoy, who was a member of cost $997.03. This means that $125 years for $17,000 at one of the largest canal, why not the American canal? the unsuccessful Herschel Parker ex the 10-year employes. A few years ago an acre was paid for labor in harvest public sales ever held in Oregon. Make Uncle Sam’s big ditch joining peditions of 1910 and 1912. Rusk, Mrs. Eva Smith Cochran, mother of Both Mr. and Mrs. Burkhart, who the Atlantic and the Pacific distinctly who is a member of the Portland Ma- Alexander Smith Cochran and Gifford ing the crop, which shows that the re are native Oregonians, have never turns from the cherry crop are widely A. Cochran, the heaviest stockholder, American. zamas, made an unsuccessful expedi visited the Atlantic Coast and they distributed $100,000 to the 20-year distributed throuhout the country. This is a suggestion which the tion to the mountain in 1910. will devote nine months to an exten “ Although Cove is one of the best- men and women. The Smith plapt is chamber of commerce will make to sive tour of the East. known cherry districts in the state, I the largest carpet manufactory in the the members of the American Geo $25,000 Bonds for Trainrobber. believe that there are great areas in world. graphical society, who will be in Spo Topeka—Wells Lounsberry, the rob Big Hop Yard is Down. Oregon, now lying idle, that could be kane on a special train early in Sep ber who held up six mail clerks on a cultivated and made to produce fruit Battle Won by Chinese. Grants Paas—Borne down with the tember. This action was decided up Union Pacific train between Kansas great crop of hops, with the added on at an executive meeting of the City and Topeka the morning of Au Chicago — “Governor Chao Erh just as good. ” weight of the rain on the dense foli trustees of the chamber of commerce. gust 22, is in jail here under $25,000 Hsun, of Manchuria, has telegraphed Rain Saves Loss From Fire. age, the entire Flanagan-Cornell hop The Geographical society party will bonds, awaiting action by the federal to the government,” says a dispatch Medford — Favorable climatic con yard of 100 acres lies flat on the rain- be the guests of the chamber. grand jury at Leavenworth October from Pekin, China, to the Chicago and efficient fire protection soaked ground, the supporting wires 14, and his wife and two children, Daily News, “that General Chang ditions have saved Jackson county more than having broken under the strain. Pick Forty Coal Miners Dead. Cho Lin attacked a large force of Philip and George, are on their way Mongolians near Tonanfu, defeating a million dollars this season. Accord ing had been in progress in the yard Lens, France — At least 40 coal back to Medford, Or. them after a 12-hour engagement. ing to M. L. Erickson, supervisor of for several days, but two weeks’ work miners are dead as the result of the | The Mongolians lost 1000 killed and the Forest service, there will be no is yet to be done before the crop is all explosion of firedamp in the Clarence Japs Not to Hire Whites. 700 taken prisoners. The Chinese more forest fires in 1912, the recent in the bale. A force of men is busy pit, near Bruay. Three of the rescu I j O s Angeles—Chief of Police Se ing party were among the killed and bastian has issued an imperative or captured five guns and much ammuni rains having eliminated the possibil raising the vines to supports, and if ity, the season of 1912 will establish a no further rain falls the quality of the others were injured trying to aid their der that proprietors of Chinese and tion. record in the history of forest fires in hops will not be damaged. entombed comrades. Further explo Japanese cafes and soda water stands Storm Dead Number 40. Southern Oregon. sions occurred and the entire pit is on must discharge immediately the 50 Pittaburg — The task of clearing Dalia* to Install Fountain*. fire. Mining engineers have decided white girls and women employed by Trout Stream Fished Out. that it must be sealed. Twenty-one them as waitresses and cashiers. away wreckage caused by the storm Dallas -To accommodate the travel Dufur—A petition requesting that ing public, the viaiting farmers and bodies had been brought to the sur White women and girls are out of of Sunday night and Monday pro gresses well at hundreds of points Fifteen Mile creek be stocked with the local citizens, Dallas la to have face at last accounts. place in resorts conducted by Orien throughout Western and Northern trout has recently been filed with the four public drinking founts ins in tals, the chief said. Pennsylvania, West Virginia and a late fish and game commission.. At stalled on four of the principal corners Trainman Urge Muzzles. portion of Ohio. The list of fatalities ne time Fifteen-Mile creek teemed of thia city. There is to be a large Salt Lake City—Muzzles for dogs is Fedarals to Fortify Juartz. now reaches 40. The loss is placed at ith trout, but at the present time one of the demands of the Western Juarez, Mexico — The federal gov $2,000,000. The principal sufferers iis creek is practically fished out. and fountain for horse* at the Main street intersection. A n effort is to be made Association of Baggage Agents, ernment, it is announced, will fortify are farmers and railroads. Saline which concluded its semi-annual con ’uarez with extensive earthworks and ville, O., was almost wiped out by nless it be stocked at an early date it to get the drinking fountains in be ill be next to impossible to locate a fore the Harvest Festival and School vention here Thurdaay. light and heavy artillery. the flood. ■h in this creek. children’s Fair, October 3, 4 and 5. Britain Expected to Abandon Arbitration Demand.
