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THIS WKATIIEIt.
itXBUNE
Tonight and Tuesday
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OKWIOX. MONDAY. .MXl'MtV. 24. 1010.
No. 2G4.
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PESTILENCE.H
THREATENS
Pcccnt Storms Drcak Water nnd Sew
er Mains Qravo Danger ot S-i-vcre
Epidemic of Typhoid Famil
ies Flco From tlio Possibilities if
Grave Dancer.
PAIIIB, Jnn. 2. Threatened with
a water famine because of broken
mnlna nnd cnndultH and with nn opl
domic of dlfioiiRO bocaima sowora havo
burnt nnd flooded subways and streets
with a mans of foul rofuto, Paris to
day In fnco to fnco with a critical
situation.
Klvo iirrandlitiinontH, or departmen
tal division, already aro without wa-i
(cr for domestic purposes, although
the lower sections of tlio city aro
flooded with tlio overflow from tlio
swollen 8(duefl In many (dnccu the,
"sowers havo poured their floods of
refuse about broken water malnn and
the authorities limy bo compelled to!
Iahiio ordiTH to provont the use of
municipal water.
Subvii)N Huhmrwtl.
Tlio Movers alno havo emptied their
contents Into tlio damaged nubwny
tubes, nnd unless a way to ventilate
the tuunlH In dovleod, the entire sys
tem will bo paralyzed.
Btopi nr being taken by the au
thorities to guard against a typhoid
epidemic, Persons In tlio dUtrlcl
whoro the sowers aro broken havo
been advised to tako tempornry resl
denco elsewhere If possible.
Tlio btiHement of tlio famous Lou
vro I flooded. Tlio galleries aro
damp and Irreparable damage to pic-,
tun-H and planter rout It) threatened..
The heating plant was put out of
commlimloii by the waters which Mill
are. rising. u . . j
4 Ivry, a suburb of 20,000 popil-l
Utlon, Is Isolated, The streets of
tlio town are Inundated and many J
bulldlnKs damaged. In eastern and
southern Franco 100,000 porsons artji
homeloBB according to reports I g
brouKht hero today. Many of thorn
aro destitute, and tlio suffering In
many districts Is acute.
PARIS
PAMN AFTER HOBSON'S RECOR
v 'J ? JT.
Comes Near Shntterlno World; Rccoord as Champion Target for Kisses
., Pretty Wcmcn-'Grcat Reception In San Francisco Mmo.
,,r" Paullian Some Sore.
SAN MANOiBCo, Cftl., Jnn. 24.
LoiiIh i'uulhnii, liroukor ol' noriiil
world recordH today enmo very hoar
MliatlDr'mg Die world's reoorxt estab
lished by Hichmoml PonrMlVi llolmou,
ns tho champion target tor tlio kisscH
of women.
Tho hero of tft nir, though offuHi
velv cortiint Vn liis Fronoh iniuinur.
doos not Mlnro to tnko'nway tho lau- ono, cinorRini; from tho tush, tri
rols of 1io horo of tho son. Nor Itniiphnntly iloulared that she had kiss
doort Wine. Paullian onthiiHo of tho'ed him. ,
tTAUAN IS MYSTERIOUSLY
MURDERED IN PORTLAND
POnTLAND, Or., Jan. 24. Tho
poltco today aro soarchlnir tor n cluo
that will load to tho Idontltv of tho
man who laBt night shot nnd klllod
Domlnlco Abanls at tho cornor of
Hood and Lincoln AtrootB, Although
nobody witnessed tho shooting, two
mon roportod to tho pollco todny thnt
tlioy hud soon n mnn lclcUlng tho
prostrrito Italian Inunodlatoly follow
ing tho shooting, nnd no ho lying 1y'
lug In tho streot.
To Tost Tax Law.
WASniNOTON, Jan. 21. Motions
Booking for nn early honrlng of tho
suit to test tho constitutionality of
tho corporation tnx provision of tho
new Pnyno-Aldrleh thrift law woro
mado In tho supromo court ot tho
United States today.
NEY NEARSI
END OF i
CASE l
Spends Entire Morning Rendlhrj Let
ters, In Effort to Connect Hermann
With Conspiracy Wins Advan
tage After Lengthy Argument Re
garding Admittance of Evidence.
PORTLAND, Or., Jan. 24. Proso
cutor Money Is on tho last leg of his
presentation of tho government's
caso against Ulnger Hermann, ox
coinmlssloner of the Konoral land of
fice, now on trial In tho United States
court before Judge Wolvorton.
All during tho inornltiK session Ho
ney has been rending tho letters writ
ten by J. A. Zabrlskli, an attorney
of Tucson, Arlr., who wrote, the com
missioner In 1002 tolling of tho ac
tlona of tho llyde-Uenson ring In se
curing school laud In California and
Oregon throtiKh tho creation of for-
Hi reserves, tiio letters of Zabrls
klo, tfio replies of Hermann, tho let
tors of J. II. Bnydor. ZnbrUkle's In
formnnt, and a former omployo of
Hyde, the renresentutlvo of Sneclnl
Agont HolsliiKer, who saw Zahrlskle
and Snyder, all were ready before tho
Jury, ovor the strenuous objections
of Colonel Worthlngton.
Ilnnl Argument,
All of Saturday was taken tin In an
argument between the attorneys ovor
the admission of tho evidence Judge
Wolverton hold that It could bo In
troduced to show that Hermann had
been Informed of the workings of tho
llyde-Ilenson combination nnd thai
ho approved tho Hluo .Mountain with
drawals at about the same time this
Information had beon given to him.
Thlo morning Worthlngton rcnow-
ed his objections, contending that ho
necessarily was going too far In his
claims for the ovldonco. Judgo Wol
vorton hold with Honey.
It 1b tho expectation of tho govern
ment to show through tho evidence
that Is now going In that Herman
had n full knowlodiro of tho wov In
which forest reserves wore bolng cre
ated for tho benefit of school land
speculators, and thnt In tho fnco of
, K'nnllnuxl nn iav J I
I'll
iWVect. She is quito satisfied to
imvo him confine his conquests, to tho
upper air.
Scores of San Prnuclsco wotuon
Hurroundod tho llttlo Frenchman
whou ho nppearod at tho norodroino
today. Doeoiis of women Indulged
n veritnhlo hnrgnin counter rush to
touch his hands' qr hit) clothes, while
SUSPECTED TRAIN ROBBERS
ARRESTED IN JEFFERSON CITY
JBFFEH80N CITY, Mo., Jan. 24.
Suspected ot liolng momhors ot tho
qunrtot of bnndlts that hold up tho
Missouri Pacific oxprosa noar Euro
ka, Mo., lust Saturday and escaped
after looting the mall car and at
tempting unsuccessfully to crack a
isafo Jn tho oxpross car, two mon woro
'nrrestod horo today. Thoy woro par
tially lilontlflod by inombors ot tho
train's crow.
NOTED PITCHER MAY
COACH HARVARD NINE
, TOLEDO, Ohio , Jan. 24. Addle
Josh, of Clovoland, tho ornok Amer
ican loaguo pitcher, todny was offer
, od the position as ooaoh of tho llar
ivnrd hasohnll tonni. Ho asked per
mission from Mnnngor McQuire to
not upon tho offor. I
c. v. zoit.v
President
- The Hutchason Company -
Formerly Unker-Hutchason Comp'y.
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MIUI.VKIIV ItHAOV-TO-WUAIt IHtV HOODS SIIOH.H
Medford, Oregon, Jan. 2-1, 191 0.
To tho Public: . . . '
For over two years-this store has advertised eoiitiiiumislT, chang
ing our store news daily, andjilways felling the truth.
We consider the Mail Tribune the best medium hi scmtliern Ore
gon. Tn the past sixty days our business has increased fully 50 per i'ent,
due largely to our advertising in this paper. .
X F. HUTCHASON.
PEOPLE AND GOVERNMENT Willi
PACKERS HOLD
STOCK ON RANGE,
RAISING PRICES
Crusade Aoalnst High Prices Still
Spreading Cudahy Says Prices
Will Come Down But That Farm
ers Alone Will Suffer.
NKW YOHK, Jan. 24. The wnr
fnro tmalnst tho IiIkI' ptlrea of meat?
was given renewed Imp-miH hero to
day, with thousands signing tint)
meat pledgers, which It was announc
ed that not only will an official In
vestlKatlon be made, but a lav? will
bo demanded prohibiting anyone
from UcopltiK food In cold storage
more than sixty days.
It Is contended that enough fish
Is In cold storago hero to teed the
population of the entire, city for a
yoar.
Millions ot eggs are known to bo
stored away, being held to keep up
tho prices,
Demand LoWer Prices.
Men who aro leading tho fight sny
that tho passage of tho sixty-day lim
itation law for cold storago food
would result tn an immediate de
crease In prices and relievo the situ
ation. Tho people are enthusiastic ovor
the announcement of District Attor
ney Whitman that ho will havo tho
grand jury Investigate the high prices
In this city. i
Ono wholesaler told Whltmnn to
day that If tho proposed law woro on-
ncted normal prices or ovon bolow
normal would bo forced Immediately.
Ho said that It would causa a loss at
prwioht for thoso doalors who havo
placed great quantities of monts, oggs
and fish In storago, but contonded
that within n short tlmo tho surplus
would bo disposed of.
WASHINGTON, D. C Jan. 24.--
With loading Chicago packers passing
tho blamo for high meat prices to tho
stock ralBors, It Is roportod horo to
day that tho war dopartmont Is In n
position to provo that tho packors
havo purchased all available stock
and aro holding them on tho rnngos,
or slaughtering only enough to main
tain present prices.
Rocontly tho commissary depart
ment of tho army was forcod to ask
tor a dotlcloncy appropriation of $2,
000,000 tu moot un advance of 8 to
11 conta por ration for onltstod mon.
An Investigation of tho causes tor
this advanco was ordorod Instituted
and ltl a said that army mon havo
disproved tlio statomont of tho pack
ors tliat thoro Is n scarcity of cattle
on tlio rnngos.
Will llrlng Down Prices.
MHAVAUKEH, Wis., Jan. 24.
That tho moat boycott which has bo-
como widespread throughout tho
'country probably will brlug down
CContlnutul on pag i,)
ONE MORE DAY.
Hut one day is left in which
to swell the membership of
the Medford Comcmrcinl Club
to GOO. Already the 500 mark
is passed. Don't let it be aid
that the club "fell down." Re
member COO by Tuesday night.
It's up to you, Mr. Booster.
REPORT IS FILED
ON WATERWAYS
Comisslon Makes RecomMendation
Regardlnq Development of Water
waysDiffers From President's.
WASHINGTON, Jnn. 24. Tho flrs
deflnlto outline of the governmental
policy to bo followed In the Improvo-
' ment of tho rivers and harbors of
tho Unltod States was Indicated to
day when tho national waterways
commission, created March 3 ot last
yoar, presented Its preliminary ro-
port to congress. With tho report Is
a discussion of tho policy tho com
mission recommends for dealing with
tho water power situation and it
understood to" express tho latest views
of tho administration on this mooted
question, a posltley lOmowhat dif
ferent from that taken by Prosldont
Taft In his, cohsorvatlvo message. A
sovoro denunciation of tho stifling ot
water transportation by railroads
.chaso of competing water routes Is
j mado by tho commission. To tho
plea that tho Improv inont ot wntor
! ways reduces rates by, railroads It
tho waterways aro not used tho com
mission sayB:
Does Not Indorse It.
"Tho commission, which fully rec
ognizes this fact, cannot indorse It as
a deslrnblo policy, it rests In tho
first plnco on tho transparent fallacy
that tho railroads constitute an on
trenched and uncoiitrollnblo monopo
ly which cannot bo reached by legis
lation or othor orderly and legal
methods.
As a romody for tl Is condition tho
commission recommends that whon
a railroad rates Is onco reducod to
moot wntor competition It cannot bo
raised until nftor a hearlug by tho
Intorstato commerce commission, It
should bo found that tho proposed
noto rate rests on changed conditions
othor than tho elimination of water
competition,
Wants Hates Fixed.
, Tho proposition to give tho Inter
state commorco commission tho pow
er to fix minimum rntos, below which
tho railroad cannot go waa condemn
ed by tho commission, but tho ma
jority of tho commission reconnnend
od that tho power bo given whon tho
rate cutting Is for tho purposo ot
destroying water commpetltlon.
(Continued on pace 4,)
.1.1'. IU'T( IIAKO.V
Scrrttnry and TrHiir'r
:
:
:
t
ON MEAT TRUST
: GRAND JURY IS
READY TO PROBE'
NATIONAL TRUST
Attorney Sims Will Begin His Ar
raignment of Packers Today-
National Packing Company Has
Been Selected as Object of Attack.
CHICAGO, Jan. 24. With tho
eyes of nn aroused people upon them,
the great "barons" of the "meat
trust" are being placed on tho defen
sive today by the opening of the" sec
ond government attack upon the al
leged monopoly. Evidence belloved to
warrant criminal procedure against
the trust is ready to be laid before
the federal grand Jury hero at Its
meeting this afternoon.
Thirty Suhpcnacd.
Thirty subpepaes for witnesses to
appear before the inquisitors are in
the hands of federal deputy marshals
who aro serving the papers today.
Unltod States District Attorney
Sims, leading tho government's at
tack, will begin his arraignment of
tho packers, and his chief assistant,
James Wilkerson, will conduct tho
Examination In tho grand Jury room.
Tho National Packing company has
been selected ns tho chief object of
attack. A great number of tho wit
nesses summoned today arc officials
and employes of that corpbratlon.
Much Data Gather!.
Sims Is armd with data secured
by government ngents, who hnve been
working more or less secretly tn fur
therance of criminal proceduro
against tho men suspected ot being
responsible for tho present high
prices of meats through illegal com
binations In restraint ot trade.
It Is Intimated that Elms will not
attempt to securo the Indictment ot
Individual packors, but will probably
attempt to Indict them collectively.
It Is also said that Sims will submit
ovldenco upon which ho hopes for tlio
indictment of tho National Packing
company ns a corporation nnd ot di
rectors In other meat compnnles be
llovod to bo allied with tho National
Packing company.
Xothlng From rockers.
That tho packers will rofuso to tes
tify before tho grand Jury Is Inter
red by their refusal absolutely to
discuss the Investigation and by the
action of tholr attorneys not only In
declining to talk upon tho subject,
hut also In counselling tho packers to
sllonco.
Every attorney reputedly connect
ed with tho "trust" Is hero and tho
packers will prosont n formidable ar
ray of legal force in the forthcoming
struggle. In order to meet this, Pros
ecutor Sims has engaged It. W. Mo
darls as spoclal federal counsel to
assist him.
"High Prices WIU Itemnln."
Hope of relief from high prices of
meats through action against tho
EARLY DATE
FOR CITY
CASE
Attorney Neff Returns From Salem
With News That Case of City vs.
Hanley Will Be in Supreme Court
Soon After February II Exact
Date Not Yet Known.
City Attorney Neff has returned
from Salem where, he has been sever
al days endeavoring to secure an ear
ly date for the adjudication of the
Medford wner enso before tho su
premo court. Tho case has been ad
vanced to the first vacant day. Feb
ruary 11 or soon thereafter will no
doubt bo Bot as the day of hearing.
Tho exact date is not known owing
to tho exigencies of tho case, the su
premo court may be relied upon to
set the earliest date for the hearing
possible and render their detision
iwithin a few days. By tho first of
ir i. At . . . . . . . . . .
ijuircn ine mniicr snouid be settled
j so far as the Oregon courts ore con
cerned. ORIGINAL BOOSTER IS
VISITING IN MEDFORD
J. W. CnsCV. of PnrJlrtnd. frnvol!.,
J passenger and freight agent of the
Chicago, iniwuukee and St. Paul
I railway, is in Medford today.
I Mr. Casev is ono nf thn nld.Hmorvi
in the railroad business on the, coast
' and ia the man who, recognizing the
, future of the Rogue river valley, as .a
; fruit growing section, inducea J. II.
Stwoart, the "father of the orchard
Dusincss" here to invest in Jackson
t county proporty.
I He enn therefore justly claim tho
I'll Ait i . .
tiue 01 mo "original booster."
BALLINGER WITHDRAWS
MORE LAND FROM ENTRY
WASHINGTON, D. C. ,Jnn. 24.
Secretary of the Interior Balinger to
day withdrew from entry on the
ground thnt they contain possible
water power sites 17,332 ncres of
public lnnds in Idaho, 2649 news
along tho Walla Walla river in Ore
con nnd 24.152 in Utnh.
HIGH JINKS WILL BE MERRY
Committee on. Arrangements Plan Many Novel Stunts for Tommorrew.
Evening Music and Joshes Will Be Features Big Membership is
in Sight W orklng for 600. jffi
With a splendid program, intor
spersod with many a novel stunt and
local josh, tho Medford Commercial
1 Clnb will entertain its friends nnd
members nt its annual high jinks
Tuesday evening in tho opera house.
Tho evening will bo most merry nnd
nil nro invited. A report will follow
tho program.
I Tho high jinks havo been nranged
to colcbrato tho passing of the GOO
EVEN MONEY ON THE
PICAT0 MEMSIC'S WATCH
LOS ANQBLES, Cal., Jan. 24.
"Even monoy and take your choice."
That is tho way tho fight faus, who
havo boon stung by tho early hotting
bee, look upon tho chances ot Frank
Plcato against Georgo Memslc, des
pite Momslc's splendid showing
against Wolgast recently
packors was somewhat mitigated by
tho statements of J. Ogdea Armour,
who, although refusing to discuss tho
grand Jury Investigation, commontod
freely on tho high moat problem.
"You can eliminate tho big pack
ors from tho situation, but tho high
prices will rentnln," said Armour.
"Prices are high bocauso tho laws of
nature cannot bo changed. Incroase
production and prices will fall."
RECALL
OUT
! MAYOR
SILL
Ashland In Throes of Greatest Ex-
cltement Since Town PumpWas,
moved From Public Square
Friends of Snell and Eggleston
Stand Staunchly by Them.
A8HLAND,- Or., Jan. 24. With a
petition being circulated asking for
I the recall of Mayor Snell and a sec
,ond petition out demanding that tb
, cley records be experted for a perlot
j extending back to the dato when Mi
F. .Kgglcston assumed tho duties 0
I city recorder, these bo parlous times
jln municipal circles. Charges ot
graft, Incompetence and discrimin
ation float out from every street cor
' nor group, and men who never tako
any interest In public affairs, unless
a scandal Is scented are busy telling
one another how things should bo
rua. And It Is "nuts" for the moss
back. Never since the town pump
was removed from tho plaza has thero
been such a wagging of heads and
a babel of tongues. And yet tho
situation, who nanalyzed, discloses
but a trace of reason in the conten
tions of both sides.
Tho. Ught Plant.
Be It known that the administra
tion foolishly undertook to build an
180,000 light plant for 8o,000 with
tho usual result, I. e., the money Is
gone and the plant Is something like
$10,000 from completion. In tho
course ot tho work several foremen
were dismissed for Incompetence,
honce several men and their friends
"demand an Investigation," which the
administration is not opposing.
On the othor side, water-users who
have been fined for delinquencies In
the matter of payments, and others,
who for various reasons .dislike Ret
cordor Eggleston, aro Insisting that
his accounts bo exported from the be
ginning. The recorder, whoso Integ
rity nas never before been question,
ed. looks upon tho proposed investl
gation as an "aspersion on bis char
acter, suh," and charges certalt
council men with being responslbli
for tho agitation, attributing to them
(Continued oniiar 5.)
IT
mark in membership. Already tlio
roll has reached 500 nud work is- un
derway to securo tho last 100 nnmey.
Everyono is working hard toward'
that end.
From all indications this year's
work of tho Medford commercial olub
will bo tho greatest ia its history.
What Medford was when the club was
organized and what the city is
is a striking example of its uosful-ness.
DAHLMANN. "COWBQY MAYOR". . ;
TO RUN FOR GOVERNOR .
) OMAHA, Nob., Jan. 24. In hi's
race for tho governorship of Nebras
ka Mayor John C. Dahlnian of Omaba
will canvass the stuto from oie, em
to the othor in a red nutpmohilo.
Alrondy Dahlnian had filed fur nom
ination nlthmiL'h the liOminatiiicr nri.
marlos will not bo hold until way into
the sutnmor nnd filing so early menus
I that tho mnyor must ir.curr tho ex
'ponso of a campaign thnt will con
tinue fully six months prior to the
priararios nnd four months longor in
tho ovont of his securing the domoo-
emtio nomination.
Tho plans of tho Hoguo llivor fruit
growers to form thCmsolvos into a
union so ns to luindlq fruit more road
ily aro fast hqing prepared. Definite
action is to bo taken soonV ' ' '
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