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rORTLAD, ORtGOX, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4. 1911.
PRICE FIV.E CENTS. .
PRISONER STEALS
INITIATIVE GOES
BANKER WALKS 485
BULLETS FLY IN
SHIP, WITH VALUED
PROMISES TO BE
TURKISH PEOPLE
GLAMOR FOR VI
Reinforcements Sent
to Ottoman Fleet.
BOY'S JAIL BIBLE
MILES FOR HEALTH
CARGO, IS ASHORE
STEAMER EDITH STRIKES NOT
FAR. FROM WRANGELL.
TO HIGHEST COURT
KEPT, SAYS TUFT
Fears of Objectors to
Be Overcome.
STRIKE BATTLE
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NOT SEEN SINCE TOVTH.
SEATTLE MAN TRAMPS FROM
SEATTLE TO MEDFORD.
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VOLUJiTtERS ARE PLENTIFUL
Replies of Powers to Interven
tion Plea Disappoints.
CABINET WORRY GROWING
Telegram. Tell of Sinking of Motor
Ttoat. by Italian Sea-Fighter
Dirinz Lively Chan of
Saltan's Destroyer.
CONSTANTINOPLE. Ovt . Turkl.B
telegram, today reported that an Italian
warship had .unk two motor - boat,
near llodelda, a port on the Red Sea.
and puraued the Turkish torpedo-boat
destroyer Petklshevult.
Thla new, circulated In the streets.
Mrved to Inrreaee the popular clamor
for battle, and citizen, by th. hundred,
volunteered their services, either on
land or .ea. Ke.pUe the fact that
Turkey ha. appealed to th. power, to
Intervene the people want to fight. And
Turkey I. coin ahead with prepara
tion for war.
A large number of volunteer., both
LM and sailors, well officered, de-P.rt-d
for the Iardanelle.. where th.
larger portion of the fleet Is awaiting
order,. Two batlrshlps. th. Messudlch
and the Assar-I-Tewf Ik. and th. tor
ped. crul-er. Berk-I-Satvet. have .ailed
from the Golden Horn to Join It.
rtrallea Sattafaeiary.
Replies to th. Port.', appeal hav.
.been received from roo.t of th. pow
er., but they give Uttl. ..tlafaction.
In eff.ct the power. ay they will b.
unabl. to offer mediation until th.
Port, .ugget. a ba.i. of .ettlement on
th. line, of Italy, demand..
The Austrian Ambassador had a long
Interview with th. C.rand Vlsier and
.1 la announced th. Russian Ambassa
lor will Tt.lt him tomorrow, but It 1.
,u..tlonabl. whether Said Pasha will
able to remain in offlc. another
lf.
Aaatrla Give Owaraate.
It la understood that Austria has
tiven a guarantee to Turkey that th.
.atu. quo In the Balkan, will b.
maintained. Mehm.d Faaha. .on of
Sheikh Abd-l-Kd.r. the last Alge
rian .overelgn, haa asked the Sultan
to allow him to return to Tripoli for
th. purpo.. of rousing all Mussulman.
In Africa to repel the Italian Invasion.
Th. Grand Vizier'. Inability to form
a cabinet I. causing th. Sultan great
worry. Hllml Pasha reolutely refused
to enter th. cabinet, aa It la lacking
a well-defined policy.
Sine. Bald Paaha took office, th.
Ministry ha. had three all-night sit
tings, in addition to prolonged dellber
auona during the day. and the physical
strain Is beginning- to tell on th. ag.d
viaier.
raretga afcls Mf.
Th. port, ha notified the embaale.
that neutral cargoes In Italian bottom,
will be respected, with th. exception of
contraband articles.
Th. Oerman Consulate I. besieged by
4000 Italians, who wish passports per
mitting them to leav. th. country. Thl.
city Is cut off from communication by
cable with Tripoli and Is In the dark
regarding .vents there.
It 1. rumored that a prominent Egyp
tian baa offered to organise Jtf.000
Egyptian, to march against the Italians
at Tripoli.
Turkey haa a thoroughly Kuropesn
army and during th. recent revolution
In that country the most modern de
vice. wre used, such as armored auto
mobile.. Th. first reorganliatlon of
the Turkish army, according to Euro
pean Ideas, took plai-e In 141. In th.
war. of 1SS and 17 further reorgan
isations occurred In ISSi Colonel Von
der Ootta completely modernised the
Turkish army. Ha I. "till In th. serv-!-
of Turkey and I. assisted kj II
other German officer
t krlsttaaa If Ilsrrea.
A the Arab trloe. and all Chrlsllon.
are exempt from mliltary service, the
who'.e burden of th. army tall, on the
ll.v.W Moslem, who are les. than
one-hair the population. But It hs.
been decreed that In the future Chris
tian residing In Turkey .hall do mil
itary ervlr.
The total active strength of the
Turhleh army Is about S0.o men .nd
the reserve 1. even greater In number..
Hair's standing army in I1.-111
numbered 21.0Q0 men and 14.0 of
ficers, but a far rreater number could
be put In the field. Th. Italian navy
consists. In vessels commissioned, built
or building, of 1 battleahlpa. armored
cruisers. 17 unarmored cruiser, and
gun vessels. IS destroyer., an equal
number of flrst-clasa torpedohoate and
22 submarlnea
In th. naval force there are approx
imately ll.Oeo men. teamen for th.
fleet are recruited by conscrlpttnn and
all man following th. seafaring life of
I. year, of ag. must serv. at sea for
II month or mora.
Tripoli, th. Vllavet of the Ottoman
Empire, which la being eovetd by Italy,
haa been a "political football"- for age.
Since lt annexation by th Cartha-
tCaalu4d ea Fag 1 i
lYrlghter lilts In Heavy Ftt; t Lain
Honr of Night, With $250.
000 Salmon Catch.
SEATTLE. Oct. . Th. Alaska Pteam-
h!p Company-, .teel freight steamer
Edith la ashore on Level Island. Sum
ner Strait, not far from WrangelL
Alaska. The Edith I resting on aoft
sand and her owner, believe they will
be able to save her.
Message received late today from
Captain Jame. Panlels. master of th.
Edith, .ay th. freighter struck at 11
o'clock laat night, during a heavy fog.
The Edith waa southbound front Skag
way and has a cargo conltlng of 60.
.00 case of salmon, valued at t;S0.O0O.
The Alaskan liner Alameda, which I
en route from Valdez to Seattle, ha
been notified by wireless to go to th.
aid of the Edith and scow, have been
ent from Wrangell to take off part
of the cargo. The water I amooth and
It I believed the .teamer I. undam
aged. The Edith la a .teel steamship of
I5 ton. gro. register. She waa built
at Sunderland. England. In 1ISJ. and
carries a cr.w of 11 officer, and men.
BIG CORPORATION TARGET
Receiver for Western Steel Firm
Akert In Scuttle Court.
SEATTLE. Waih, Oct. I. (Special.)
Judge King Dykeman cited th. West
ern Steel Corporation today to .how
cause why a receiver should not b
appointed for the company on October
(. at 1:10 o'clock. The order waa Is
sued on the petition of Aaron Rome,
who ha. claim of fSOT.lS against th.
company for scrap Iron, he says he
sold In August.
It I. charged by I Lome that the com
pany owe. large .urn. to diver, per
son, and corporation, that It Is un
able to pay.-
PRUNES TO BE EXPORTED
Clark County'a First Carload I
Rilled for Europe.
VANCOUVER. Wash, Oct. 1. (Spe
cial.) Th. first carload of prune, dried
lo Clark County thla year wa. shipped
East today by the J. K. Armsby Com
pany. The consignment la billed for
export and will b .hipped direct' to
New Tork. where It will b. transferred
to a (teamer for Europe. E. L. French,
of Ellsworth, also a heavy prune ship
per, completed a car for shipment to
day. Th. rain of ye.terday and today will
hav. a tendency to Injure the prune
further In the parta of the county
where the fruit I. not gathered.
CREW LEAVESBOAT ADRIFT
Big Steamer Now In Path of Vessels
on Lake Superior.
PL'LUTH. Mlnn Ort. J. Abandoned
by her ere w of II men. the .teamer A.
L, Hopkins. laden with lumber. I.
adrift on Lake Superior In the path of
vessel, bound to and from the head
of the lakes.
The new. reached Puluth late toduy
from Ashland, whither the crew wa.
taken by the ore carrier Dickey. The
crew waa picked up at t o'clock today.
PHOTOGRAPHS SHOWING TYPES OF SOLDIERS OF EUROPEAN NATIONS NOW WARRING
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TARIFF IS TO BE REVISED
President at Denver Talks Also
on Conservation.
DEFENDS LEASING SYSTEM
Capital Will Come and West Will
Receive Its Share of Approprla
tinna ratience Enjoined
In Solving Problems.
DENVER. Oct. I. Whan President
Taft wa. taken for a two hours' au
tomobile ride tonight and was hurled
along at a .peed varying from 35 to
4S mile, an hour. It waa only an Inci
dent of one of the most .trenuou. day.
he ha. .pent since leaving Beverly,
more than two week. ago. The President-.
Denver host, kept him on the
go from early morning until late to
night, when he left for Cheyenne.
Mr. Taft made two Important
speeches In the course of the day. the
first to the public lands convention
and the second to the members of the
Republican organisation. Including tha
tat. central committee and variou.
county committees. The President
talked politics to the Republican com
mitteemen and outlined the position of
the Republican party, as he Interpret
ed it.
Growth. Moat Be legitimate.
"We ar. In favor of progress and
construction." he said. "We ar. In
favor of prosperity and of doing noth
ing that will interfere with th. busi
ness growth of this country, provided
that business growth be along lines
that are legitimate and within the stat
ute. There la not any desire on our part
to "hit corporations Just becauae they
are corporations. And If they are con.
trlbutlng to the growth of the coun
try. If they are furnishing a large wage
fund for the support of wage-earners,
and ar. engaged in that kind of work
that Is evidence of enterprise, w. ar.
to encourage them. not discourage
them.
Xm A plo ay oa Tariff.
"The question of the tariff," Mr.
Taft added. "I think all Republicans
sgree upon. W. are in favor of a
tariff that will enable the manufac
turer, of tht. country that are depend
ent upon the tariff to live and to meet
competition from other countries. We
are not making any apology in the
slightest for the blocking of those bills
that failed to sustain that measure in
respect to tariff protection."
The President took a fling at "some
tariff reformers," when he said:
"There seems to be a little miscon
ception as to what my duty was In re
spect to signing the tariff bills passed
at the recent session of Congress on
(ConcIutUJ on ! 3.)
Sacred Volume Discovered, Thief
Cries and He Is Allowed to Keep
It Circus Tales Amuse. t
Stealing a Blbl. so that he might
read words of th. New Te.tament.
which he explained ha had not read
sine, ha waa a lltU. boy In New Tork.
Charles Relff. better known as
"Dutch." a prisoner In th. city Jail,
last night took the little volume from a
fellow prisoner and conveyed It .ecreU
ly to his bunk, where he read It for two
hours before he waa found out. Search
ing for bis little black Te.tament.
the other prisoner finally found it In
"Dutch's" possession and took it away
from hire. "Dutch" cried bitterly when
the volume was taken from him. and
he was allowed to keep it.
Several days ago the mother of on.
of the prisoners, coming to visit him.
brought a small black leather copy of
the New Testament.. Relff. who waa
watching the meeting between mother
and son. asked for the use of the book,
but was refused. Sine, then he has
been keeping watch on the boy, try
ing to get the volume when he waa
not looking. When th. boy went to
th. hydrant last night for a drink,
"Dutch" took the volume and hid It.
Relff, who was arrested for drunk
enness two weeks ago and aentenced
to serve a term In the city Jail, says
he was once a clown In the Rlngling
circus. Occasionally he declares he is
one of the Rlngling brothers, the old
est In the night, when be tends the
fires in the police station, the officers'
room and th. Jail, "Dutch" amuses the
men, with Imitations of animals, with
Jokes and antics of a clown. He is a
favorite with the prisoners In the Jail,
being handy with tools and needle and
thread, and willing to work.
WOMAN TO JDEFEND MAN
Non-Support Is Charge Against
, Prisoner In Tacoma Jail.
TACOMA. Wash., Oct. S. (Special.)
A young weman lawyer defending a
man accused of failing to support his
family was the unusual situation de
veloped today when it was announced
that habeas corpus papers were to be
filed in the Superior Court in behalf
of Clyde Cole, a Kapowsin shingle
weaver, bound over to the County Jail
to await trial on a non-support charge.-
The attorney-la Mis. Melda Jaeger,
and it is her first criminal case. Ac
cording to Cole's representation to his
attorney, the non-support prosecution
was started by Cole's mother-in-law,
Mrs. Fannie Jones, who had never
given her consent to Cole's marriage
with her daughter. May. According to
Cole's representations. his wife is
willing to testify that he aupported her.
Cole is held In default of $100 bail.
30-YEAR MYSTERY CLEARS
Man Long Thought Dead Calmly
Walks Into Home of Parents.
BELLE FONTAINE, O., Oct. 3. After
being missing 30 years and given up
as dead, Rufus Heisler walked Into
his parents' home at West Mansfield
today. He has become wealthy as a
rancher in California. He gave no
reason for his sudden disappearance.
He left home SO years ago today to
go squirrel hunting and then disap
peared. .
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COXSTAXTIXOW.E, JEW FUOTOOBAPH OF MLTAX MOHAMMED OK
Test of Oregon System
Is Intended.
BASIC PRINCIPLE IS ATTACKED
Guaranty of Republican Form
of Government Invoked.
DEMOCRACY NOT MEANT
Telephone Company Appeals Tax De
cision, and Fate of Direct Legis
lation Througliout Nation x
Is In Balance.
WASHINGTON, Oct 8. The task of
attempting to put an end to all initia
tive and referendum legislation in this
country was begun today in the Su
preme Court of the United States.
Counsel for the Pacific Statea Tele
phone & Telegraph Company filed a
brief attacking a taxing law of Ore
gon because It was enacted under an
lnltlati vet clause of the state constitu
tion, which is alleged to be In violation
of the Federal Constitution.
It was urged that the failure of the
company to have a hearing before the
raising of Its taxes by the initiative
method placed the company at a dis
advantage with others taxed after be
ing heard by the State Legislature. In
this way. It was contended, equal pro
tection of the laws waa defined.
"Brute Force" la Result.
The Initiative amendment and the
Oregon tax are denounced as violative
of the right of each state to a "repub
lican form of government," which was
guaranteed by the Federal Constitution.
It is contended that in legislative as
semblies the minority rarely, if ever,
failed to moderate the wishes of the
majority, however powerful, but that
government by direct legislation was
government by "brute force."
Governor Wilson, of New Jersey, is
qouted as having said that a govern
ment must have its law-making body,
as "it can no more make laws through
its voters than it can make laws,
through Its newspapers."
Governor Wilson is also quoted as
saying: "Common counsel Is not ag
gregate counsel. It Is not a sum In
addition, counting heads. It is com
pounded out of many views, in actual
contact; it Is a living thing, made out
of the vital substances of many
minds, many personalities, many ex
periences; and It can be made up only
of the vital contacts of actual confer
ence, only in face-to-face debate, only
by word of mouth and the direct clash
of mind with mind."
le la Increasing.
Reference Is made to the contention
that the Initiative method of legisla
tion Is a check against corruption of
legislators.
"It were better," the telephone com
pany contends, "that the struggle
against a business corporation should
(Concluded onPage IS.)
FOR POSSESSION OF TRIPOLI
At End of Long Hike E. J. Vedder,
40 Tears Old, Says He Holds
Pedestrian Record for Trip.
MEDFORD. Or.. Oct. 3. (Special.)
Starting from Seattle a nervous wreck,
E. L Vedder. a banker of that city, ar
rived in Medford last week hale and
hearty, having covered the 4S5 miles
on foot, walking an average of 34 miles
a day. .
Mr. Vedder completed the Journey In
14 days, and it is believed that he holds
the pedestrian record for the distance.
He slept outdoors during the entire
trip and gained 15 pounds, besides en
Joying such an improvement In the con
dition of his eyes that he expressed his
Intention of throwing his glasses away.
The strain of business In Seattle was
too much for Mr. Vedder and, threat
ened with nervous breakdown, he was
advised by physicians to take a com
plete rest.
Hearing of the Rogue River valley, he
determined to walk to Medford, and
although he had never practiced long
distance walking, he was so accus
tomed to being on his feet and walking
to and from business that he had no
doubt as to his abilities in that direc
tion. Mr. Vedder is about 40 years old and
Is a native of New Tork City. . He left
Monday night for Portland and the
East and declared that he would re
turn to the Rogue River Valley next
Spring.
COMET'S HEAD MOSTLY GAS
Analysis Made at Lowell Observa
tory Is Announced.
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., Oct. 3. Specto
grams of Brooks' comet made last night
at the Lowell Observatory showed the
head was composed chiefly of cyanogen
and the tail of carbon monoxide with
some hydrocarbon and cyanogen.
There is virtually no continuous
spectrum; that is, the light is not
emitted by solid particles, but by gases.
This is almost exactly what Halley's
comraet showed with regard to the dif
ferent constitution of its head and tall,
except that the spectrum from solid
particles was there greater.
Bellowskl's comet is a striking ob
ject in the morning sky and its length
of tail this morning must have been
about 15 degrees. It makes at the
present moment the other angle of a
long Isosceles triagle with Venus and
Mercury.
SALARIES TAKE $202,050
City Engineer Hnrlbut Files 1911
Estimates With City Auditor.
City Engineer Hurlburt has filed with
City Auditor Barbur his estimates for
1912. He says he will need $141,715
from the street repair fund and $210,
292 from the general fund, or a total of
S352.037.
Of the amount required from th.
general fund $202,050 is to pay the sal
aries of the 173 employes, ranging from
185 to 200. The balance of J8242 is for
materials and supplies.
Of the $141,745 which it is estimated
will be required from the street re
pair fund, $78,045 is for salaries and
$63,700 for materials, team hire and
equipment. The salaries are for 7D
employes, 60 of whom will be laborers.
10 foremen, five bridge carpenters,
three traction engineers, six Inspec
tors, one clerk and one engineer.
FIRST CROP PAYS FOR LAND
John Seavey, of Eugene, Realises
1 4 0 Per Acre on Hops.
EUGENE, Or., Oct. 3. (Special.)
John Seavey, who lives Just southeast
of Eugene, has finished picking and
baling 13.000 pound, of first-crop hops
from 30 acres of Willamette River bot
tom land. The yard was set out two
years ago and this Is the first crop
harvested from It. The crop was sold
for 32 V, cents a pound, bringing In
a gross return of $4225, which is an
average of over $140 per acre, or more
than the first cost of the land.
The hops were of exceptionally good
quality, and the picking was unusually
rapid. Many women pickers averaged
$3 per day during the entire picking
season for the yard. Oscar Bean, ot
Springfield, earned $5.60 in one day
and in four days made $18.10.
PINCHOT MAY GET HEARING
Deposed Head of Forest Bureau
Leaves lor Valdez.
CORDOVA. Alaska, Oct. 3. Instead
of sailing for Seattle last-night as they
had planned. Senator Poindexter, of
Washington, and Glfford Pinchot, de
posed chief of the forest bureau, ex
tended their stay In Alaska.
Mr. Pinchot left for Valdex today
and Senator Poindexter went to Katalla
and the Bering River coal fields. So far
no public hearing has been given
Pinchot in Valdez and it is believed
that is his mission there. ;
100' BODIES COME ASHORE
Heavy Loss of Life In North Sea
' Storm Is Verified.
ANTWERP, Oct. 3. Two hundred
and forty Hve3 are known to have been
lost in wrecks of coasting craft dur
ing the storm of Sunday. More than
100 bodieB have been washed ashore.
Governor of Mississippi
Calls Troops.
BRICK THROWN, SHOTS REPLY
Strikebreakers, Fired Upon,
Answer With Fusillade.
TRAIN TAKES TO FLIGHT
Illinois Central Shops at McComb,
Miss., Scene of Sanguinary Con
flict Attack on Machine
Shops Now Feared.
JACKSON, Miss.. Oct. 3. In a fight
in the freight yards of the Illinois
Central at McComb City between
strikers today several persons are r
ported to have been killed and other
wounded. ' Governor Noel ordered out
troops at 7:30 o'clock tonight and two
companies are now hastening to the
scene. The special train bearing the
strike-breakers continued on its
Journey to New Orleans.
Citizens of Magnolia say that when
the train passed there at full speed
every coach window was. broken and
no one was visible at the openings, the
strike-breakers lying prone on tha
floor to escape bullets.
Work of Correcting Abnormal
Several hundred shots were ex
changed and among the strikers there
were numerous bruised and broken
heads. Many of the wounded were
carried to the headquarters of the
strikers and physicians were sum
moned. It Is said that several will die.
The fight at McComb occurred at
the freight shed, half a mile south of
the depot, closely following the first
encounter of the afternoon, in which
one tnan was seriously wounded.
The train bearing the strikebreaker,
had pulled down to the freight shed
and was standing on a sidetrack. More
than 1000 breakers assembled, words
were exchanged and It is asserted that
a striker hulred a brick among the
strikebreakers.
Immediately a fusillade of shots fol
lowed. The strikers opened fire on the
coach windows, at which the heads of
the strikebreakers could be seen. Sev
eral fell after the first volley.
Eire Returned From Train.
The occupants of the coaches re
turned the fire through the windows,
keeping well scattered. Occasionally,
when a strike-breaker bolder -than tha
rest, raised his head above the danger
line, he was greeted with a shower of
bullets and other missels.
The fight raged 20 minutes. Finally
the engineer of the train made a dash
for his locomotive, managed to get
aboard while the bullets were flying
thick about his head, opened the
throttle and pulled out at full speed.
The train did not stop at any point
south of McComb, going through Mag
nolia and Osyka at full speed. Realiz
ing the gravity of the situation and
fearing the striker, would attack th
machine shops, where eight strike
breakers are barricaled, citizens de
serted the streets early in the night.
STRIKEBREAKERS GUARDEt
Railroad Officers Seek Vandals Win
Poll Out Coupling Pins. ,
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3. Seventy
two strikebreakers . arrived here late
today from Chicago and were taken di
rectly to the Mission Bay shops of tlw
Southern Pacific here. - Forty unior
pickets were on duty when the strike
breakers entered the stockade and I
crowd of union sympathizers was gaxh.
ered about the shops but there was n
demonstration. The non-union men
will be fed and sheltered within the
stockade.
The strikers said tonight that a num
ber of the strikebreakers who arrived
today deserted within a few hours
There has been no violence here inc
the strike waa ordered.
Special railroad officers and Deput3
Sheriffs are searching for an alleged
strikers' who removed a coupling pin
from a Southern Pacific freight train
at West's Winery near Stockton today,
breaking the connections and causing
the train to separate. The Southern
Pacific officials also say that the
strikers have severed over 30 hose con
nections on trains arriving at Tracy.
The company has posted heavy guards
in the yards there and at Sacramento.
The1 blame for this work of vandal
Ism is denied by the strikers who as
sert that it is being done with inten
tion of casting discredit on their
unions.
Notice was Issued by H. J. Small, su
perintendent of motive power, and fix
ing midnight tomorrow as the tima
after which non of the striking men
would be taken back by the company
was posted today . at the local shops.
The offer waa made, it said, because
"a large number" of the men who
walked out had "regretted their action
and expressed a desire to return to
work."
Dr. Hyde to Be Tried This Month.
KANSAS CITY, Oct. 3. It was said
today that Dr. B. Clark Hyde will be)
placed on trial a second time on Oc
tober IS on a charge of murdering1
Colonel Thomas H. Swop.
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