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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1910.
No. 281.
FOURTH YEAR.
COUNTY COURT GRANTS AN
ELECTRIC ROAD FRANCHISE
CHAROT FAILED
TO REACH
POLE
However French Exploration Party
Made Valuable Scientific Discov
eries Sickness Prevailed Durinu
Lonn Trip In Anarctlc Regions.
LONDON, .Hcli. 12, Although Or,
Jean Charcot failed In lila attempt to
rench tho Houth pole, dlspatcho horn
todny from tho Hronch explorer de
clare thnt tho party mndo valuable
scientific discoveries nnTTthnt th'n ex
pedition wn "altogether satisfac
tory."
According to th ('dispatches, the ex
plorors Kot n fnr ns latitude 70 de
KTith nouth anil lotiKltude 120 do
Kress west.
Thin plncod the expedition well
within tint Antarctic circle, hut at n
distance of ten degree to tho north
of tin) poHltlon reached by Lieutenant
Scott In 1U02.
Hltkne PrvnllMl.
Hlckiiei nnd dlsonso ravaged tho
French expedition, Judging from tho
dispatches. Twenty mon who com
poncd tho party were nick during the
greater part of tho winter at Poter
man'it Inland, nearly all of them suf
fering from, scurvy It was feared for
n time that they would havo to give
up their expedition on account of
sickness, hut Charcot finally complot
ed tho "French map" an far as Adel
(Continued on I'ngo 8.)
SALE OF L
A Little Over II: Acres Set In
Younu Trees Brings $15,000
W. F. Rau Makes
Purchase.
John ICInerk Iihh Just Bold 12 acres
of land lying one and one-lmlf miles
northeast of Medford to J. H. Noddy
for 10500.
T)ils represents Just a portion of
tho profits which Mr, Klnorlc has
nccumulnted during his sovon years'
residence. 1
Ho came horo to Medford with
11800 woven years ago and Invented
In roul proprty. Dy Judicious pur
chases nnd tlmojy Boiling ho now
owns city lots which ho can turn Into
$0000 cold uliitoloons any tlmo ho
wants to say tho word,
Ho hns flomo proporty In Reno,
Nov,, nnd will go thoro nnd dlsposo
of It, aftor which ho Intends roturnlng
nnd Investing In moro lloguo nivor
vnlloy dirt. Thoro Ib nothing llko It,
ho thinks. And can you blamo him?
GOLD HILL TIMBER FOR
USE MAKING MATCHES
GOLD HILL, Feb. 12. Mattclios
mndo from timbor shippod to Port
land from Gold Hill will shortly bo
on sulo lioro. Snmplos hnvo boon ro
coived nnd loHtod by Moritt & Co.,
who find thnt thoy nvo in overy way
tho o(iml of tho host brands of firo
BtioltB now on tho market.
Lnut Novombor n ronrosontntlvo of
a Portland rout oh factory wna horo,
nnd toolc somo snmplo lumbor from
Morritt & Co'h. mill on Sardine,
orook. It wna sugar and yellow plnu
and llio loatts given it havo proven
80 satisfactory thnt tho factory do
elroa to contract for l,argo qmintlttiofl
of tho timbor, to ho Shipped in Au
gust, whou its shipping weight will
bo tho loast, as it is dryost nt that
tirao.y
MAKES
BANNER
AND
MAY USE ALL 60
FOOT ROADS
IN COUNTY
American Development Company Se
cures Rlnht From County Court to
Construct and Operate Electric
Roads Throuohout Jackson Co.
The American Development coin
puny, n corporation of Portland, linn
npplicd to the county eouit for a
fniiichit-o iHinniltiug them to build
ilincs of (electric railroad over or
along tho tI0-foot county rondrf of
JackHon county nnd the court ban
granted tho company the period of
thirty day within which to select
and dcHignnte to them a through line
from such point on either side of
Kogue river whore -It eroshes tho
county line between tho counticH of
.laekhou ami Jotcphiiio to Mich point
on upper Hear crock HouthenHtorly
from tho city of Ashlnnd nR it may
Holcct nnd tho further period of un
til Janunrv 1, within which to
build, equip and place in prncticnl
operation five milcH of unid main or
through line, no part of which is to
bo within any incorpornttcd city or
town, nnd the further period of one
venr from January J, 1011', within
which to build, equip nnd plnco in
practical operation the bnlnnce of
mini main or through line.
i lie eoitri aico nninrcti mat tlio
company Mm 1 1 hnvo until Juno 1,
11110, within which o select nnd don
lirnnto to them the feeders or con
necling lines and tho rendu over or
nlong which they Hlinll bo constructed
and shall have until January 1, 101'J,
within which time to build, equip
nnd havo in praeticnl operation all
eleelrie linen on the roods no desig
nated.
It waw further ordered thnt upon
the fulfilment of tho selecting nnd
dewitfimtinc wilhiu the times fctnted
the innd( over or nlonu' which to
build, nnd biiildiui;, eipipim; and op
erating all of (be line within the
timert stated, that tho company oi
ls xuccoflKf.rri shall hnvo the riubt to
(Continued on Pago 8.)
HUGE RANciTsOLD;
TO BEjUBDIVIDED
Half Million Deal In Crook County
Land Is to Be Subdivided- and
Will Help Populate State.
PORTLAND, Feb. 12,Tho Bnld-
wln Sheep & Land company has sold
20,000 acres of Crook county lnnd
to it syndicate composod of Portland,
Scuttle nod Astoria capitalists for
$150,000.
Tho land is to bo sub-divided mid is
important in that it shows a tondouoy
of Oregon to divide largo estates in
to small farms for tho puropso of
Hottling tho country horotoforo al
most uuinhabitod.
EATS HAM, WITH BARREL
OF KALE AS SIDE DISH
WASHINGTON. Fob. 12. TaUo
ono ton-pound boilod hnm, tho skin,
fat nnd nil but tho bono inoludod,
two gallons of wntor, ono kog of
kalo, woiL'h'inc forty nouiids wlion
dry, nnd two gallons of boor; pour
slowly into tho mnw of a healthy
human bolng in two hours and forly
fivo niiiuitos; lot tho niixturo sottlo
until nssurod of success and tho ro.
Biilt will bo a gastronomio freak or
"goiirmachor" (old fnshionod slang
for gourmand,
Jamos Fay of Modford spout Sat
urday In Jacksonville,
LEADERS PUN TO
REGAIN
IP
HAND
Republican State Central Committee
Quiety Adopts Plan Whereby Old
Convention Methods Will Be Taken
In Hand Assembly July 21.
PORTLAND, Or.. Feb. 12. The
political lenders of Multnomah coun
ty are to romo into their own ngntn
according to a plan mapped t out ly
the state Kepuiilicuu central commit
teo nt its meeting this afternoon.
Their plnn ih to tnko the form of n
state iiHscmbly with n po-ib!o mem
bership of 1218.
The plan in for a huue nsfiembly of
Republican leaders to bo held in
Hid on July 21 to nominate tho
candidates for nil state office. The
delegates aro to bo chosen by matts
mcctiucH to be held in ench precinct
of ench county in tho state.
-"Ex-Judge M, C. Gcorgo of Portf
lnud wan chosen to lend the nsficm
bly to victory. Gcorgo was elected
fltnto chairman to succeed II. M.
Cnko who recently resigned.
Tito meeting which was held this
afternoon was orderly in every re
spect and no heated arguments bo
sultcd ns wna expected. The affair
savored much of tho.ncttion of a con
vention nfter n caucus hnd been held.
MANY INJURED IN TROLLEY
ACCIDENT NEAR FRISCO
URRKEl.RY, Cnl.. Feb. 12. A
scoro of persons were Injured, somo
fatally, when a llorkoley trnln on tho
Key Houto pier about two miles from
tho shore, telescoped hn Oakland
train which had stopped for signals
early todny. r
A heavy fog enveloped tho plor,
nnd tho motormnn of tho Herkoloy
train did not observe the danger In
time to reduce tho momentum of his
train, which was travolInK out tho
pier nt a rapid rate. Tho force of
tho collision emnshod the smoking
car of tho Oakland train.
8 TITLE
C. L. Rcamcs Says Cardwell Heirs
Have No Claim to Property
Widow Had Right to Sell.
Clarenco L. Reames, who Is tho
attornoy for Jerry Nunnn In tho mat
tor of tho Cnrdwoll estate, Is positive
that thoro will bo no litigation over
tho matter,
"Tho Cardwol holra have no claim
whntovor on tho land now In pos
session of Mr, Nunan," said Mr.
Reames. ."Tho will of J. A. Cardwell
expressly states that his widow, who
was namod as executrix, should hnvo
powor to dlsposo of tho proporty ns
sho saw fit, and thnt cnrrlod with It
tho right to soil or mortgago any or
nil of It. Mr. Nunnn hns been In nd
vorso nnd undisputed popsscBslon of
the land for Id yenrs and t wis con
voyod to him and received by him In
good faith, all of which will hnvo Its
weight whenovor tho mnttor of tho
tltlo Is brought Into court."
FASHIONABLE WOMEN
TO PLOW SCHOOL GARDEN
VENICE. Cnl.. Fob. 12. Women
of tho Pick and Shovel Club, a fash
ionable organisation which has un
dertaken tho task of benuttifying
this oltv. will "man" nlows on Sat
urday, wllon a two-aoro garden at the
public school is to bo cultivated.
PEOPLE ARE
10 VIE ON
GRANT
Council Will Order Special Election
Tuesday Evening on Charter
Amendment Giving Council Right
to Grant Gas Plant Franchise for
Period ol 30 Years in Medford.
On next Tuesday evening the city
council will In nil probability decldu
to submit to a vote of the peopjo a
charter amendment allowing them
to Brnnt a franchise for a kos plant
in tho city for a period of 30 years.
They havo now power to grant such
a right for 30 yoars.
J. It. Anderson, of Pasadena of tho
Ontario-Upland Gas company, who
has recently applied for a franchlbc
for a gas plant In Medford, left Sat
urday after a conference with the
mayor and tho city council, wherein
they a creed to submit the proposi
tion for an extended gas franchise to
tho people nnd a popular election.
Said Mr, Anderson before ho left:
"I mean business and nave no time
for tom-foolory, neither 1 or any
one elso will construct a gas plant In
Medford on a ton-year franchise, but
If autliQtltytls; g:iated lo tho council
fo give us n franchise for a longer
... . ' . ft.
Imtiuu, we win u' gin worn immcai
atoly and Inslile of a, year will ex
pend $100,000.
"If onythloc Is done on tho gas
plant In Medford, speedy action Is
dcslrnblo for mnlno must be laid
boforc tho streets aro paved, and ac
tion on this account muse be rushed.
Wo aro not asking a franchise for
promotion purposes, in order to hawk
It around to n purchaser, but will be-
(Continncd on Pno 5.)
HAPPY MEDIUM
IS TUFT'S
Says Administration Will Bring All
Illegal Combinations Into Court
But Will Try Not Excite
Unfaith.
. NEW YORK. Fob. 12. President
Tuft spoke boforo tho Now York Re
publican club horo tonight nnd clearly
outlined his politics in connection
with tho trusts. Ho sta'tod that bo
would adhere to; tho plan of tho ad
ministration to bring all Ulegnl com
bl latlons into court, but that bo had
no Idea of advocating n Bonsntloual
crueado Unit would affect tho coun
try's flnnucos,
His speech was well received nnd
tnkon to mean that tho president,
whllo determined not to lot the cor
porations get tho upper hnnd, hdwlll
tnko no unfeaslblo stop calculated to
disturb contldonco In American capi
tal.
CORNER STONE WILL
BE LAIDMARCH 1
Bishop Scadding Will. Preside nt the
Formal Ceremony of Laying
St. Mark's Cornerstone.
Tho formal laying of tho cornor-
stoiio of 8t. Mark's Episcopal church
now under construction on Holly
stroot will occur on March 1.
Bishop Charles Scadding of the dlo-
coso of Orogon will presldo at tho
coromonlcs and will plnco tho stono,
Tho chinch will when complotod
bo ono of the flnost church odlflcos
In southern Orogon, and n sourco of
prldo, not only to tho congregation of
St. Mark's, who havo laboroij long
and faithfully to this end, hut to tho
cltlons of Medford at largeifts well,
AM
BINGER HERMANN CASE IS
NOW IN HANDS OF JURY
COMMITTEE 1ST
Rapid Progress is Made in Organiza-
0
tion of Rogue River Valley Fruit
Exchange Work Necessarily Slow
as Every Detail is Considered.
Hapld progress Is being made In
the organization tof a central Rogue
Itlver valley fruit exchange by tho
committee appointed for that pur
pose. Every detail and possible com
plication Is being considered, and the
organization planned upon broad and
comprehensive basis to -meet every
emergency that may arise and to cre
ate an organization that will success
fully pick, pack and market the entire
fruit crop of the Rogue River valley
from Hell-gate to Ashland.
Professor P. J. O'Gara. who Is play
Ing a leading part In organization of
tho exchange, stated before bo left
town, Saturday that another meeting
of the committee will bo held wed
nesday at 10:45 o'clock In his office,
when details of organization will be
perfected. He stated: "Tho delay
has not been caused by any discord
or lack of harmony among members
of tho committee. All are united for
a common purpose. But the details
to be attended to aromultltudlnous
and It tak?s tlmo to thoroughly pre
pare tho plans of organization. All
the members are united In purpose
and we will be ablo next week to
publicly announce tho plans of tho
new exchange."
LAYING TRACK ON THE
CRABTREE EXTENSION
LEBANON, Or., Feb. 12. Track
laying has been started on tho rail
road between Crabtrco and Lebanon.
Track has boon laid between Leaban
on and the South Sautlam river. Plle
drlvlng has ben completed on the
trestle to about 2000 feet this sldo
of the river. Tho work of completing
tho new railroad bridge will be com
menced .s soon ns practicable.
LA FEAN BILL WILL BE
OP ON MARCH 9
"Hawley Wires Whlsler to Try and Be
In Washington Whn Committee
is Ready to Act.
WASHINGTON, Fob. 12. Hear
ings on the La Fean bill will begin
March 9. Agitation has aroused In
terest. Suggest thnt representatives
bo present horo nnd bo propared with
full information and argumouts. Can
you como?
(Signed) W. C. HAWLEY.
Such was a message received last
ovenlng by C. E. Whlsler of this city,
who recently returned from Wash
ington, wbero ho wont ns a represen
tative of the Rogue River Valley
frultgrowors to fight tho La Fean
bill.
Tho matter will be taken up by
local fruitgrowers soon,, and Mr.
Whlslor may go east again.
REQUISITION ISSUED
FOR DALLES FORGER
SALEM, Or., Feb. 11. Requisition
upon Governor Hay of tho stato of
Washington was issued by Goyonior
Ponson yesterday far tho return to
this stntto of F. E. Mills, wanted for
forgery nt Tho Dallos. Mills is un
der nrrost nt Spokane nnd will ho
returned by Sheriff JLovi Chrisman
of -Waaoo county,
MEET AGAIN
SOON
RETIRED EARLY
NO DECISON
AS YET
Heney Late Last Night Expressed
Himself as Confident ef Favorable
Verdict or That Jury Would Hang
May Come In This Morning.
I
, PORTLAND. Or., Feb. 12. At a
late hour tonight it was announced
that the Dinger 'Hermann- Jury would
J not be able to return a verdict until
, morning.
i Much surprise was expressed here
today when the Hermann Jury did
mot return a quick verdict. The im
pression has been that Heney made
a wea kcase. and that the Jury would
be out onl ya few minutes. The Jury
went out at 11:30 and at noon was
relieved for luncb. A Ions delay
during which the public showed an
unexpected Interest by constant tele
phone messages to newspaper offices.
Francis- J. Heney at 1 0 o'clock to
night believed be would either get
a verdict favorable to the prosecution
or that the Jury would bang.
At that hour the Impression was
that the Jury might have to retire for
the night, it being forecasted that
ono or two were holding out for a
compromise and others were stub
bornly set for not guilty.
PORTLAND. Or.. Feb. 12. Dinger
Hermann's fate is in tho bands of tho
Jury. Upon the conclusion ot Judge
Wolverton's charge to tho Jury, At
torney Worth Ington for the defense
read a list of exceptions to tho
charge which ho asked to havo noted
by the cour and following the swear
ing in of the bailiffs the Jury retir
ed. . ,
In his Instructions to the Jury the
Judge said:
"If the Jury finds that a conspiracy
was entered Into between two or more
of the defendants, including the de
fendant on trial, even moro than
three years prior to the finding of tho
indictment, and that tho parties to
(Continued on pnge 5.1
VICKSBURG SUFFERS
1,000,000 BLAZE
For Three Hours Flames Coulr Not
Be Checked Many Business
Houses Destroyed.
JACKSON, Miss., Feb. 12. A big
fire, which started at 2 o'clock this
afternoon and raged until 5 o'clock,
did damago In Vlcksburg, Miss.,
which amounts to over $1,000,000.
Many largo business blocks and
manufacturing plants 'wore destroy
ed. A high wind made It lmposslblo
for tho firemen to check tho flames.
RAILROAD HARDER ROAD
THAN JORDAN TO TRAVEL
GOLD HILL, Feb, 12. Jordan)
may bo n hard road to trnvol, but the '
railroad track between Gold Ray and 1
Gold Hill has soma pretensions to I
hurdnoss itsolf, especially wlion tho
niuht is ns dark as it was last Sun
day, whon Rov. T. J. narolton foot
ed tho sovon miles in an hour and a
half just in time to nnriounco tho
first hyum for tho services at tho
M. E. Church,
Thoro was mud upon tho skirts of
his priestly garments) nnd upon his
knees, and ho was jugt a Jittlo out
of breath. Ho had boon making n
postornl call betwoen Central Point
and Gold Ray, and walkod into tho
Jatter nlaco to catch tho first train
to Gold Hill. " ..
TWO SURVIV
IS
-WRECKED S.S.
CHANZY
One. Hundred Persons Perished
When Steamer Chanzy Went to
Bottom of Mediterranean Explo
sion Pre-bably Cause of Disaster.
26 TWO .,
CUIDADELA, l3land of Minorca,
Feb. 12. "Thore seemed to be Just
ono terrible scream as the vessel went
down. I don't know how I was spar
ed: it must have been a. miracle."
With these words, spoken feebly
shortly after ho regained conscious
ness today, Dluadcz, one of the two
survivors of tho wreck of the big
steamer General Chanzy, which went
to the bottom of the Mediterranean
with 155 persons .aboard her yester
day, began the first direct account ot
the disaster.
Wm Very Weak. ,
Tho man had barely' enougk
strength to speak, and his story was
told lna halting manner, as If his
mind were still unclear.
"We had been driven by a terrific
wind and I did not know where wa
wero when the boat suddenly struck
upon tho rocks with a terrific shock.
Then there was an awful, explosion;
I think it was the boilers,
""The ship went down llko a rock.
Tho detonation of the explosion had
hardly died away when she lurched
(Continued on Page 5.)
GOLD HILL MY
mm MILL
Possibilities Bright for Securing Mill
With Dally Capacity of 75,00
Feet a Day Will Employ
100 Men.
GOLD HILL, Feb. 12. The News
todny 6ays:
A saw mill with n capacity of
75,000 feet daily and a payroll of
upwards of 100 en, with auxiliary
mills for shingles, lath and s&ah. and
doors, and a branch lino railroad,
are possibilities for Gold Hill by rea
son of the sale of L. W. Smith's
Foot creek timber tract to a company,
of Walla Walla, Medford and east
ern capitalists. The ti ansae tion was
made last week, nnd a company is
now organizing, incorporation papersv
having already been applied for.
The purchase of tho Smith tract,
and purchases and opticus on other
smaller tracts, givos tho company
practically all tho fine timber on
Foots creek, between 4300 and -1500
ncros, bearing, nccordinc tci conser
vative ostimatto, 150,000,000 feot ot
pine and fir.
Three plncos are nossiblo In
for tho mill Gold Hill, Woodvillo and
a point two miles and a half north
of Woodvillo whoro Foots orook joins
Roguo rivor.
The incorporators of tho
pnny are willing to como to Gold
Hill if satisfactory nrrnngomonts
uuh uo mauo. uno oi tho strongest
arguments fgor locating, tho inil here
is tho fact that, according
mntos, thore aro at loast 00000 cordo
oi woou on the tract, and that J. V.
nughos of Salem, ono of tho awnors
of the Kancs orook limo quarry stat
ed recently that his big kiln would ho
ablo to take all tho wod thnt could
lid -cut from tho trnct. A rejfily mnr-
koi xor this wood, witliouhfthipping
it, except over the lumber company's
own railrny. whiph will bo built from
tho tract to tho mill, should ho an
(Continued on Pago 8.)