OrwonHWorlcal SoplttK CUV Ha.l rr UMTKU I'ltKSH MHOHATIO.V I'M 1 1 l,.wd Wlin KciMirl. The only ittiir In tlio world ImiIiIIhImmI In h city tint hIzo or Mt'dfonl having n Icam'd wlro Medford Mail Tribune THE WKATJIKIl. Tonljrht and "Wednesday -Cloudy. Monday's Tomporaturo High Tt, low 3.1, rango 48, FOURTH YJSAK. MLODFORD, ORK(K)N,AVICi)NESI)AY, FEBHTARY 10, 1910. No. 284. NOB II IS James N. Smith Sells His 40 Acres on East Main Street to Philadel phia Man Is Sluhtly Residence Portion of City. WILL BE CUT INTO LOTS AND RESOLD Deal Was Partially Closed Several Days Ano, Out Was Not Finally Concluded Until Today. Tho negotiations for the biilo of the JiuiiPH N. Smith property on Iiiist Main Hired have reached it satgo where the bargain may bo'haid to ho definitely eoneliided. Tho proporty cotiipriHUH -10 no rut. mid a fraction, including the Nub Mill Miiiiniit, thtt rook (iiarry and tho home place of Mr. Smith. The purchase ;vax made scvoral days ago, hut had not hcen given out definitely until lately, although ru mors had heeu flying- nhout town for Homo time, llio purcunHorn are A 11. Scott and otherH of I'hiladelphia and tho prico was ((10,000 cuhIi. Outmdc of tho value of the prop erty an a nightly residence nection, it iiIho cnutaiiiH a valuable HaudHtone quarry, from which a great deal of tho foundation Mtnno for Medford buildings lias hern taken. Knginooin have hecn at work sur veying tho property and platting it, but Mr. Scott, who in hero, declines at proHcnt to give out anything con coming IiIh plans for the future. It is nafe to nay, howuver, that tho property will ho improved and will ovontnnlly become ono of tho tnoNt beautiful sections of tho city. BIG MEETING OF JI President W. K. Newell to Bo Sent to Washington by Willamette Fruit Men to Combat Lafean Dill. C. E. WhiHlor returnod yestorduy from a (rip north. "Thoro waB a rouning mooting at Eitgono Saturday," snid Mr, WhiH lor, "and frnitmon from tho Willam otto valloy woro prosont in lnrgo numbers. Thoy nro waking up in that part of tho state on tho Lafean box bill mutter, and at tho mooting at Eugono it was decided to send W. K. Newell, preflidont of tho Stnto Horticultural sooioty, to Washington to combat tho pnuaago of tho Lafean hill. That thing is not dead, by any means; it ia not ovon slooplng. Neith er nro tho follows, who are pushing it aalocp. Tho fruitgrowers must watch ovory comor from now until tho hill ia finally and completely burled, or thoy will Iobo out. Evory fruitgrow er and, iudeod, ovory mnn who is in terested in tho progroPH of tho fruit growing sections of tho northwost should bring ovory influonoo nnd ar gument posslblo to bonr to dofoat tho bill, and you can't mnko that too strong, either." MANAGER JONES WILL QUIT IF WOLGAST LOSES SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Fob. V.u -If Ad Wolgnst loses to Hnttling Nel son at Port Richmond on Washing ton's birthday his manager, Tom .Tones, will drop from tho fighting game, according to his positivo doo laration today, "I ant morally cortainly that my boy is going to win this fight," Jonos said. "Theroforo I nm going to back him with my pile, If ho loses, I'll bo down nnd out, and it will bo up to mo to got into another sort of gnnio. MINES SHUT 001; OVER Union Enqlncers' Attempt to Leavo Western Federation Results In a Tie-up of Butte Mines Smelting Works Close. THREE MINES RUNNING UNDER DIFFICULTIES ; Closlnn. Means Determination of Op- crators to Throw Off Domlna- tlon of Western Federation. HUTTI3, Mont.. Fob. 10. Kvory inlno In and around Hutto with the exception of the Silver llow, tho Ilork eley nnd tho Mountain Connolldatod Nimpondod operations today. The sunponslqn was tho result o an attompt on the part of tho union t'tiKlnt'or employed at tho miaou to separate from tho WcBtom Fedora tlon of Miners nnd organize a union to affiliate with tho International Englneor'a union. Nine TliniiNiiml Idle. It was cittlmatcd today that upflo men aro Idle. Tho smelting works of former Sen ator V. A. Clark closed thU morn I n I- According to Genornl Managor John Gllllo of the AmalKamatud Cop per Mining company, tho Washoe smelters at Anaconda, employing 3000 men, tho IloBtou nnd Montana smelters at Great Falls, employing 2000 men, probably will have to close within four days. The three mines In this city which have not closed all bolotin to tho Amalgamated company. Thoy aro run nlng under difficulty with crippled forces. Trouble Long Ittvwlng. Tho trouble between tho hoist on Klneeru and tho minora has been of long standing and enntntned much bitterness on both sides. It reached ii point last fall whore the miners re fused to go Into tho shafts whoro on- gliioon who refused to affiliate with tho American Federation were om ployod. Tho miners demanded Hint tho en gineers elthor Join tho Western Fed eration or leave tho mines. This tho engineers refused to do and tho min ors appealed to tho operators to dis charge tho engineers or endure a strike BUYS FOR THREE SELLSJOR EIGHT W. L. Orr Makes a Neat Profit on East Side Property Loss Than Three Years, $5000 Advance. W. L. Orr has sold his rosidonco and business property on East Main, oornor of Gonossoo street, to J. C, Brown for a consideration of $8000. Mr. Orr purchased tho proporty just a fow years ago for $3000, nnd last year orootod a storo building fronting on Main for uso as a gro cery storo, at which placo ho has toon dome a nico little busiuoss, Mr. Urown paid $8000 for ono noro of land and tho buildings, hut allows Mr. Orr to koop tho grooory business. "I soli dirt," said Mr. Brown, "and don't want to ongngo in tho gro cery busiuoss for foar thnt suspicion might attach itsolf to tho sugar, though that is hardly possible with tho price Roguo River, valloy dirt will bo in a short timo," Mrs. M. M. Avory of Gold Hill was in Juodlord Wednesday, aooompan- od by Mrs. L. A, Shaw of Wost Con cord, Minn, PARI? THREA BY SEGOND aiuo, roil. -lu. ino river ocmu .till. T- 1 it ftM - O is rising again loony and tne noon situntion is assuming an alarming aspect. Indications nre that Paris is about to suffer auothor great dis aster. Houses nt Alfortsvillo and in othor low-lying suburbs of tho cap ita! nro being abandoned by their in habitants, who aro moving to the higher ground. WITH THE MUNICIPAL FOLK NO ONE PROTESTS STREET PAVING City Council at Appointed Meeting Finds No One Who Objects to tho Pavement of City's Streets. Not a singlo protost was voiced at ast evenings mooting of tho city council, although that was tho dato, sot for hoaring protosts in regard to ' paving of over ton miles of tho city's ; Btroots. Instead of protests, other portions woro filed, tho total amount of pavoment now asked amounting to over 12 milos. Resolutions to pavo the following stroots woro passed: Jackson fromj Riverside to Columbia, South Holly, from Main to Thirteenth, North j Poach from Mnin to Fourth, Summit , avonuo from Main to Fourth, Grape, from Sixth to Eighth. A petition to grade Cottago street was roforrod to tho streot and road committee. Tho residents of this stroot ask thnt gravol bo laid and tho snmo rolled down. A petition for a stroot in tho Anderson-Toft nddition and ono to grndo Rivorsido was roforrcd to tho stroot and road commit too. It is ovidont that this is the last wintor Modford will go without hard surf aco streets if tho peoplo havo tholr way. ' l t General rains throughout the country nnd melting snows nt the headwntors of tho Seino and Marne are responsible for tho serious con dition confronting tho city. A fur ther rise of four or five feet is pre dicted and today (ho Seino nt the Pont d'Austerliti measured a depth of 10 feet nnd 5 inches. Tho hydrometric bureau announced today that tho indications flro for a general riso for the next two days, nnd that it is possible tho river may, ff H CITY DADS WOULD SEE COLOR OF THE COIN Tho City council declined to tnko any action regarding tho submission of tho charter amendment allowing them to grant a 30-yonr franchise for a gas plant in tho city, owing to tho fniluro of tho appli cants putting up tho money to defrny election expenses. Eneh of tho two applicants had promised to do so, hut noither took tho necessary stops to show tho color of their coin. So tho mnttor went ovor. NEW FIRE DISTRICT PLACED IN EFFECT At Tuesday ovoninc's session of tho city council nn ordinance was passed extending tho firo limits as follows: Commonoing at tho corner 0,1 Ihirteonth from Newtown to of Mnin nnd Onkdalo, thonco north PoiK'h' 011 Fourteenth from Nowtown on Onkdalo to Fifth, thonco east to to Poftoh' on No,'th Oak from Jaok Grano. thonco north in finnnn.l. nnt smi to north end of streot. on Al to Hnrtlott, south to Fifth, east to Boar orook. south fn vtntii. wna Contrnl avonuo, south to Tenth, wost to - Grnpo, north to. Ninth, west to Oakdnlo, north to placo of boginning. A pormit was granted tho Biir (Continuod on pago 5.) 7 ENED S TORM go to tho high level of two weeks .ago, Following their custom at tho re cent flood, hundreds of poor families from tho suburbs aro flocking into tho city. They bring tales of dam age and disaster such as preceded the great flood of a fortnight ago. Tho present rise of tho waters is seriously hampering tho work of government engineers, who have been rushing the repairs to dykes and levees in and nbout Paris. WATER 10 SEWER Council Devotes Much of Its Time to Passage of Resolutions Or dering In New Mains Various Streets. on Although early in tho season, prop erty owners nro already after water and sower mains, nnd it looks as if 'this year in this particular as dur- j lftSt At tho mating 0f tho coun cil Tuosdny ovening mnny resolutions woro passed ordoring in wnter and sower mains. Lateral sowers wore uiuuivu uu lug luiiuuiufi ouuuio. uu Cottage streot, on Fourteonth from Now ton to Poach, on Thirteenth from Resolution pnssod ordoring cement wnlk 011 onst sit, of TPP street., Kosolutions ordoring wntor mains ' 011 tlio tollowing streots woro passed: moml from Mnin to om1 of stroot ,m I Jnokson from Central avenue to Yor-i Iuont "7 , Stownrt Wilson, A. D. Hodgson aml QoorRe MoCullook, prominont oitizons of Fargo, N. D., aro in Med- vford looking ovor tho country. MANS WANE QCIALISTS AND TROOPS Gathering of Socialists in Berlin Re fuse to Disperse When Order Is Given and Troops Charge Into Them. RIOTING GENERAL OVER COUNTRY OF KAISER BILL Many Victims Taken to Hospitals Suffering Terrible Mutilations pajnfui 9J3M S9J00S BERLIN, Feb. 16. Socialists and their sympathizers who gathered in the streets of Neumunstcr today and ! refused to disperse at tha orders of tho military, were charged by the troops and scores were taken to hos pitals suffering from horrible wounds. The soldiers sent to break up the , Socialistic demonstrations charged with fixed bayonets into compact masses of men who were unable, ow ing to the crowded streets, to escape I tho weapons of the troops. Driven at bay by their very num bers, the mobs turned on the soldiers J and hand-to-band conflicts raged in I the thoroughfares. Cavalry was I used to break up the fighting hordes and only when they were ridden down, trampled beneath horscs"hoofs or slashed with sabres did the Social ists break and run tomheltr in door-, ways, courts and houses. Those tnken to the hospitals were suffering from terrible mutilations. Mnny of the victims lost ears, noses or hands from the sabre slashes. Heads were laid open and deep stab wounds from bayonets were inflicted. Many of the injured aro in a precari ous condition and several may die. The toll of blood paid by the Social ists today emphasized the protests of their delegates when tho Prus sian government's new franchise bill was adopted. Following tho adoption of the measure, noting by bocinlists oc curred in various parts of the em pire. Tho disorders today aro an after- Imath of more than 50 riots through out the country Inst Sunday. Orders have been given to com manders of departments throughout Germany to hold themselves in read iness for activity nnd it is reported that if tho disorders increase troops may supplant tho police in the work of maintaining order. REAL ESTATE MEN AWAIT JAS. M'INTYRE Popular Comedian Is Buyer of Real . Estate and Ho May Join Others in the Rogue River Valley. There will bo a convention of real ostato men around tho theater during tho engagement of Molntyrc & Heath, for tho famous comedian, James Mo Intyro, is unquestionably tho larg est buyer of real ostato, whether it bo for farming purposes, mino do velopmeut or investmout, there is on tho American stngo. On ono of his wostorn visits sov oral years ago ho purchasod a cor- "or lot in Bollinghnm which could bo sum muuj' ui u mill uozcu umos us purchase prico; ho bought n largo share of tho stock of a Colorado min ing proporty simply beoauso its own er had helped him iu ono of tho "stranded rainstrol" days of yours boforo and is today drawiug substan tial dividends on it; ho owns groat traots of Long Island "roperty, to which Now York City is now turning for its outlot, and all ovor tho broud country nro to bo found nores boar ing his mark. . ....!.... L 1. 1 O . 1 1 TAFT MAY HAND ROAST I TO SOLONS Uniess Solons Get Busy on Legisla tive Program Outlined by Presi dent, He May Send In Special Mes sage of Forceful Terms. BEEN IN SESSION NOW FLEVEN WEEKS; LITTLE DONE I f Sponsors of Various Proposed New Bills Summoned to the Whlta House for Conference. WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 1L A special messago to congress, couched jn forceful language, may bo sent by President Taft within a few days unless the congressmen got busy on tho legislative program as outlined by President Tnft at the. beginning of tho present session. The congress has been in session' for 11 weeks and it is intimated that the president is becoming impatient because his program of legislation is practically untouched. Senator Beveridge, sponsor of tha Arizonn-New Mexico statehood measure; Senator Carter, who intro duced the postal bank bill, and Sen ator Borah, who has been entrusted with n number of Taft measures, were summoned to the White House today for n conference with tho pres ident. , More land Opened. " ii WASHINGTON, D. C, Fob. 16. The senate today passed a bill open ing lands in tho abandoned military reservations Nos. 23 and 24, in tho state of Washington, to homestead settlements. Tho allotment for oack entryman is limited to 20 acres at $2.50 per acre. JAPS GROW TIRED OE AMERCIAN SLURS Japanese Newspaper Says It Is Time They Came to Better Under standing With America, v TOKYO, Feb. Iff. 'We aro tirod' on tho auti-Japanism of American politicians," declared tho Asabi to day in an editorial which is typical of tho general comment upon 'the Hayes bill iu tho American congress. "Tho question of the naturalization of the Japanese in America is one of tho most important mnttors of the present time," continues tho AsahL. "The timo has ripened for Japan, to take a decisivo step toward co-operation with tho bettor elements of America such has that represented by former President Roosevelt. "It is timo for this country to bo gin negotiations with tho better classes of Araorioans looking toward tho legalization or naturalization of Japanese. Tho naturalization will bo the end of tho controversy. "Such nttnoks as that mado upon thho Japanoso in tho Hayes bill aro becoming wearisome. It is timo for Japan to not." Tho Asahi is ono of tho leading nowspapors of Japan nnd has a wide influence. Sinco tho roport was pub lished hero that a committoo had re ported tho Hayes bill favorably tho papors havo boon strong in thoir ex pressions of indignation. General Wood Very III. BALTIMORE, JId., Feb. 15. It was reported this afternoon that Ma jor General Leonard Wqod, who waa oporated on last wook at the Johns Hopkins hospital la in a sorlous con dition. Following tho operation Wood ral lied and tho surgeons anticipated his early recovory.