THE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON", MONDAY, DEOlSMmW, 20, 1009.
COAST CITIES IN
FIGHTJFOR FAIR
Drawn Battle Now Being Waned Be
h Iwcen San. Diego and San
It rmncfeeo fop
Fair.
r.ARTHNaTON, Dm. 20 A drawn
lull.; Lclwccn Snn FrtUii?i'o mid
Snn DIcro, Cnlifomin, is one o tha
bipgest things in congressional shows
on tho boards for this winter.
The nrenn is nt present in neulrn
ground somewhere between the com
mittees on expositions nnd foreign
but it appears now that before the
issue is decided tho forces of the two
cities may have to meet somewhere
on the Mojavo desert and fight it
out
The question is whether there shall
be nn international exposition in 1915
nt San Frnncifeco or nt San Diego
Tho proposition thus to celebrate the
opening of the Panama cannl started
out on on tho Pacific coast last
summer when tho gate receipts nt the
Scatttle Exposition began to pile up
in such a gratifying quantity. There
is still some dispute as to which city
first broached the idea, but both
are represented here in numbers try
ing to get federal recognition. Rep
resentative Smith, who hails from
the San Diego district, nnd Rcpre
Bentntivo Kahn of San Francisco,
are going to be tho star performers
Smith is known as tho '"-getter" of
the California delegation. He has
gone about securing tbe exposition
in n typically bmith way a process
of stealing up a back alley into the
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dooryard before one knows he's
around, and then walking away with
the goods. His bill is a simple little
thing. It is merely n resolution au
thorizing the president to invite the
nations of the. Pacific to an interna
tional exposition nt San Diego in
1915, when the executive is satisfied
that the citiens of Snn Diego have
raised a million dollars. It doesn't
ask for any money from Uncle Sam.
Smith doesn't intend to do that
yet. Quite a harmless looking little
measure, but if Smith can get it
though it will amount to federal rec
ognition of the claims of San Diego.
"And then some fine afternoon, we
will get our fingers into the trens
ury," Smith confides to his friends.
The proposed fair is to be called,
under the Smith bill, the Panama
California exposition. Smith got
President Taft's promise that the
canal woild be finished by 1915 be
fore he nut in his bill.
Snn Francisco's claims to the
right to celebrate the completion of
the big ditch are being urged by Ju
lius Kahn.
jhc going tolry (5 gt a line Tothem
STARTING TO GET BREAKFAST
LITTLE GIRL BURNS TO DEATH
CHICAGO, Ills., Dec. 20. Mary,
Fix years old, Charles, four, and
Jnmes two, children of John Par
omin, were burned todeath in their
homo early today while the little girl
was attempting to get breakfast for
her parents.
Pnromia nnd his wife arose early
this morning and went to n shed in
the rear of their home to butcher n
cow. Fifteen minutes Inter Mrs
Paromm saw smoke pouring from
her kitchen, nnd rushed to the house.
Strtechod lifeless on the floor, their
bodies seared and shriveled, lay the
two younger children. Mary lay at
their side. As her mother entered
tho room sho raised herself nnd
gasped: "I was getting breakfast
for mammn." Sho died within a few
minutes.
It is thought Mary's clothing
caught fire from tho stove nnd that
the flames were communicated to tho
clothes of tho other children.
AN EVERY WITH RILEY
AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Rev. O. Loroy Hall will deliver his
famous lecturo "An Evening with
Riloy," for tho benefit of tho men's
club Tuesday night, December 21, at
tho Presbyterian church. Thero will
bo musical features in addition and
a largo nttendanco is looked for.
This will bo tho Inst opportunity to
honr this lecture in Medford ns Mr.
Hall leaves sbortlv for his Coos Bi
charge.
Tonight nt Grants Pass Mr. null
will deliver tho same lecture for tho
benefit of tho commercial club.
CHRISTMAS NUMBER ROGUE
MAGAZINE IS SPLENDID
Tho Christmas number of tho
Roguo Magazine is off tho press and
Editor Brown is receiving many con
compliments as to its holiday dress
nnd tho material which it contains.
It is ono of tho best numbers yet is
sued and is ropleto with little stories
of life in tho Rogue river valley.
vessels."
Bradford turned abruptly and brush
ed toward the tug, followed by Carroll
and Mlna. At the wipe of tho pter
was the tug's captain. Marsh, listening
to earnest expostulation by a half
dozen of the lending men of the town,
among whom were both Ncwmark nnd
Orde,
"Gentlemen," said ho crisply, "I'm
entirely willing to take all personal
risks. Tho thing Is hazardous, and it's
Mr. Ordo's tug. It's for him to say
whether he wants to risk her."
"Good Lord, man. what's the tug In
a case like thlsr cried Orde,
"I thought so," replied Captain
Marsh. "I'll take her out If I can get a
crew, narvey, step up here."
Tho engineer hoisted his long figure
through the doorway.
"Harvey," said Captain Marsh brisk'
ly, "we're going to try to get n line
aboard those vessels, Ifs dangerous,
Will you gor
"Tcu all sola', sunl" be asked.
"Of course."
"I reckon I'll done half to go, too,"
said Harvey simply. He swung light
ly back to the uneasy craft below him.
"I want a man with me at tho wheel,
two to handle the lines and ono to fire
for Harvey," said Captain Marsh
"That's our job," announced the life
saving captain.
"Well, come on, then.'
Captain Marsh shook the band which
Orde. stooping, offered him.
"I'll try to bring her back all right.
sir," said he.
"To h with tho tugr cried Orde
'Bring yourself back!"
Marsh entered the pilothouse.
"Cast off!" he cried. The "Jangler"
called for full speed ahead.
Bravo chaps! Brave chaps!" said
Dr. McMullon to Carroll. "But, do you
know, to my mind, the bravest of them
all arc that nigger and his fireman
nallod down In the hold where they
can't see nor know what's going on."
Tho tug had rounded the end of tho
pier. The first of her thousand ene
mies, sweeping in from tho open, had
truck her fair.
"She can stand that, all right," said
ono of the life saving crew. "But wait
till she drops down to the vessels."
The Sprite was now so distant that
the loom of the great seas swallowed
her from view save when she rose on
the crest of somo mighty billow.
"There, she's turned now!" cried
some one.
Beneath the trail of black smoko
she had shifted direction. With star
tling swiftness the Sprite darted out of
the horizon into full view. For tbe
first time the spectators realized tho
size and weight of the seas. One mo
ment tho whole of her deck was visi
ble, tho next her bow alone showed
high ns the back suction caught her
and dragged her Into the hollow. A
ca rose behind. Nothing of the tug
was to be seen. It seemed that no
power could prevent her being over
whelmed. Yet somehow always she
staggered out of the gulf until she was
again cast forward like a chip.
"Maybo they ain't catchln' p'tlcular
h at that wheel to hold her from
yawlngr' muttered tho tug captain.
The Sprite rushed at the outer line
of breakers. The combers crested and
fell with a roar, just as in milder
weather the surf breaks on the beach,
A woman in tho crowd screamed. But
at tbe edge of destruction the Sprite
came to n shuddering stop. Her now
crful propellers hnd been set to tho
reverse. Thus sho hovered on the edge
of tho breakers, awaiting her chance.
If ono of tho waves should happen to
crest and break, the water, catching
tho tug on her flat stern deck, would
indubitably bury her. The situation
was awful in its extreme simplicity.
Would Captain Marsh seo his opportu
nity beforo the law of chances would
bring along the wave that would over
whelm him?
Two or three of tho townsmen walk
ed up nnd down. Ono woman prayed
aloud In short hysterical sentences.
"O God, save them! O Lord, O
Lord!"
Ordo stood on top of a half burled
Jog, his ontlre being concontratcd on
tho maneuver being executed. Only
Nowmark apparently remained ns calm
as ever.
Suddenly, without warning, occurred
ono of those Inexplicable lulls that In-
lernoso often nmld tho wildest up
roars. Between two waves tho Sprlto
darted forward directly for tho near
est of the wrecks.
"She'll collide!" somo ono shrieked.
But the tug swerved nnd turned on a
long diagonal across tho end of the
bar.
Marsh had chosen his moment with
oxactltude. He had taken advantage
of tho brief lull of Jumbled seas after
tho "thrco largest waves" had swept
by. let In shallow water and with
tho strong Inshore set, even that lull
was all too short. Tho Sprite was
staggered by tho breakers; her speed
was checked; her stern was dragged
around. She tore herself from tho
grasp of tho current. Enveloped In a
blinding hail of spray, sho struggled
desperately to extricate herself beforo
tho resumption of tho larger seas
should roll her over to destruction. Al
ready Jhsojarger seas were racing in
from tho opeh.
Far out in tho lake against tho tum
bling horizon Carroll saw heave up for
a second the shoulder of a mighty
wave. And Instinctively she perceived,
this wave as a deadly enemy of the
ltttlo tug and saw It bending all Its
great energies to hurrylug In ou time
to catch the victim before It could es
cape. Her whole being was conccn
trated In n continually shifting calcu
latlon of tho respective distances be
tween the tug and the piers, the tug
and the relentlessly advancing wave.
"Oh. go!" she exhorted the Sprlto
under her breath.
Huge and towering, the wave catno
on now calmly and deliberately. Tho
Sprite was off the end of tho pier
when the wave lifted her, Just in the
position her enemy would have select
cd to crush her life out against the
cribs. Slowly the tug rose against Its
shoulder, was lifted onward, poised
and then with a swift forward thrust
the wavo broke, smothering the pier
and lighthouse beneath tons of water.
A low, agonized wall broke from tho
crowd. And then and then over be
yond tho pier they saw gliding a at
tered black stack from which still pour
ed defiantly clouds of gray raoko.
The Sprite was safe.
"I wonder If she got the lino aboard,"
speculated the tugboat captain at last.
Tho crowd surged over to the piers
again. Below tbem rose and fell tho
Sprite. All the fancy scrollwork of her
upper works, the cornice of her deck
honse, the light rigging of her cabin,
bad disappeared. The tall smokestack
was bent awry.
At sight of Marsh the crowd set np
a yell. He paid no attention
the life saving men tossed a mooring
lino ashore. It was seized by a dozen
men. Then for tbe first time somebody
noticed that, although the tng bad
come to a standstill, her screw was
still turning slowly over and over, hold
ing her against tbe erratic strong Jerk
"They iwj our," ht nxUU
were useful for light as well ns
warmth.
Ordo discovered tho two girls and
drew Carroll ono side.
"You'd better go home new, sweet
heart," .said ho. "Bobby '11 be waltlug
for you."
"I supposo so," she assented. "But
hasn't it been exciting? Whoso ves
sols wcro they, do you know?"
Onle glnnced at her strangely.
"They wcro ours," said he.
to bx co.tnaum.l
Prepaid RaJireaa Orders,
"SojaoUuuc which is of consider
known is tbe system of prepaid or
abl interest to tbe public generally
and wkicli u twfaaps not generally
darn now la affect btwen stations
ot the Southern Pacific company
and all points in the United BtaUs.
By me&na of this syntem tickets may
be purchased at Medford from any
pines in the United States and mail
ed or telegraphed direct to tho party
mailing to eome here. Sleeper no
eoBHBodations and eta all amounts of
cash in connection with these tiokets
Dj01- mny also be forwarded at tho same
time." tf
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MedfonL Oregon: This certifies
thai we hare sold Hall's Xexan Won
der for the ouxe f all kidney, hlftd-
der and rheumatic troubles for ten
years, and have never had a cem-
olai&i. It mrta wuk ux4 Msaaaeat
re&fif. M toys' tareatatat ia each Wat
tle. UtAUri rhaiMev.
CITY NOTICES.
(Continued from png0 3).
Soction 3. It ia further oniorer
that tho notice above urovided for
bo mibhshed thrco times iu tho Dnilv
Mnil Tribune n newotmtwr published
n'ul of ccuornl ciroulMion i" pnid
citv. in tt'o manner imividod bv or
dinnnco No. 250 of uid eitv.
The foroeoini.' ordinnncn was ias-
ed bv tho citv council of tho citv
of Medford on the 7. dnv of Do-
oember. 11)00, bv tho following vote
Morriok, nbaont: Kifort, nvo: Welch,
nvo; hmorick, nvo; Dommor nvo:
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Aiwroved Ducombor 8th, 1000,
W. II. CANON.
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"She'll collide!" tome one $hrtekcd.
Ing of n slender rope that ran through
her stern chocks nnd Into tbo water.
IIo got It n board!" yelled the, man,
pointing.
Another cheer broke out.
Tho life saving crow took charge.
It was necessary to pass tho line
Around tbo end of tho pier nnd back
to tho beach. This was n dangerous
Job nnd ono requiring considerable
power and Ingenuity, for tho strain on
the line Imposed by the waters was
terriuc, and tho breaking seas ren
dered work on tho piers extremely
hazardous.
A number of tho curlouH lingered
about thd Sprite. Marsh and Ordo
wero In consultation over the smashed
stern. Harvey leaned out his llttlo
square door.
"No," ho answered n query. "I
wasn't what you all would call scalrt
that Is, not really scalrt Jess n llttlo
no'vous. All I bad to do wuh to feed
her slabs nnd listen foil my bell. You
Bee, Cnp'n Mn'sh, he was In chn'go."
'o, sir," Captain Mnrsh wuh Haying
emphatically to his employer. "I can't
flguro It out except on ono thing. You
seo, It's Htovo from underneath. A son
would havo Hinnshed It from above.
That Inst sea must 've lifted us bodily
right ovor tho corner of the pier."
"Well, maybe," assented Ordo doubt
fully.
"Kuro thing," repeated Marsh, with
conviction.
"Well, you'd better not tell 'em so
unless you want to rank In with old
man Ananias," ended Ordo.
The wild and picturesque work of
rescue was under way. Tho lino had
been successfully brought to tho left
of the lighthouse. To It hnd been at
tached tho ropo nnd to that tho heavy
cable. These tho crow of tho schooner
had dragged out and made fast to u
mast. Tho shore end passed over a
tan scissors, wneu tho cablo was
tlghtonod tho breeches buoy was put j
Into commission, and beforo long the
first member of the crew was hauled
ashore, plunging In nnd out of tbo
waves as the ropo tightened or slack.
oned. Ho was a flaxen haired Nor
wegian. Tho crew and Us volunteers
worked quickly, Carroll and Minn
stayed until dusk and after, watching
tho long heavy labor of rescue. Tho
women making tho hot coffeo found
thou- sorvlcos becoming valuable. Big
Arcs of driftwood wprp Ignited. .They
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