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Medford Mail
ukitki press association
Full Leased Wire Report.
FIRST SECTION
PAGES 1 TO 8
Tlio only papor In the world
published In a city tbo size of
Modford having a leased wire.
FOURTH YEAR.
Nf RDKOIfD OREGON, SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 1910.
No. 209.
100,000 MEN
TRIKE
PHILADELPHIA
Tribune
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NO FUEL, NO MILK, NO BREAD
CITY FACES GREAT CRM!
UNION!
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SIS RECOGNIZE THAT
IS BATTLING
ITS LIFE: LONG FIGHT CE
UNIONISM
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Trade Loss to Business Concerns Will Run From Two to Three Millions
DallyMayor Issues Proclamation Forbidding Alt Street Gather
ingsDirector Says 8000 Police Will Make Presence of Troops Un
necessary Entire Body of Men Engaged in Building Trades Has
Quit Work and All Building Operations Have Ceased.
ANOTHER NEW
LARGE BRICK
TO BE ERECTED
LOCALLY NO
FREIGHT
'MOVES
Dr. F. C. Pago Disposes of Old
Webb Property at Sixth and Bart
lett for $15,000 Hills Tract of
461 Acres "Sells for $30,000 Will
Plant and Subdivide.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 5. Hiiro are the causes which
led to n htriko thnt threntons to ho the grentost In the history of
America:
Five hundred union men wero discharged by the Philadelphia
Rapid Transit company "for the good of tho RCtvico."
The- unions demanded their reinstatement nnd mndo n sup
plementary demand for 25 cents nn hour.
The corapnuy refused to soniply with the demand in r.nv re
spect. On February 10 0000 mon struck, nnd since have indulged in
frequent riots.
Tho company lcfuncd to recognize tht union, but' offered to
meet the men ns Individuals.
Tho carmen rofueod to so meet tho company.
All efforts toward arbitration failed.
Central Labor Council threatened to call n general Btriko of
union men throughout the city.
General Htriko culled at midnight, Mnrch 4.
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PHILADELPHIA, Mnrch S. front of tho car burn at Thirty-sixth
With nn iudutonninnto number of-aud tfnrkot streets. Six policemen
men variously ostiinntod from 75,- who hnd roliovtd six officers nt the
000 to 150,000 on strike today, Phil- barn aroiiRod tho angor of a crowd
ndclphia faeeH tho moHt sorious In-jof loiterers. Tho mon threatened,
bor war in tho history of Amorien. but no soon as a riot cull was sound-
All day roporta wore received of cd they fled.
tho
various labor unlonH joining
largo forccH already out.
It Ik OHtimnted thnt business con
Tho Philadelphia Ilnpid Transit
officials roported that they wore op
orating 030 curs out of 1800 which
eerne will lose botweon $2,000,000, are used under normal conditions
and $3,000,000 ,aly ns long ns a
.general btriko romnina effective.
This evening a mob of 8000 strik
en attacked n car and mnutod the
crow. Tho pollco charged tho niob'uso 0f tho city forco of polico on
strike duty for more thnn 24 hours.
Many Police on Duty.
It was nniiouuccd thnt this son-
ieo would bo continued. This will
necessitate prnolienlly continuous
and roundly clubbed thorn.
Ono hundrod and fiftv arrest
woro made this afternoon. Mayor
T?vtilirn ant1, Im will liMnt. H.a
striko by Monday and declares tlnt.-f
only ono-third of tho union mon in
tho city responded to tho call.
Rioting took place in sovorni boo
Uona of tho city tonight, but nothing
serious.
HtiNliirH Paralyzed.
Business who not paralyzed today
to tho extent predicted by labor i
leadors, but tho general unrest I
throughout the trade indicated that
a oomploto prostration, impondod.
Tonight bach sido proclaims a
victory. Tho union men sco success
Afiirftti wnntliA.. mill nn nn1
save for tho nitifnllv Ktnnll
amounts persons mny tako
home in baskets.
No bread savo for thnt
which mothors may bnke,
provided tlioy hnvo tho fuel.
No milk snvo that procur
ed poraonally from orenmor
ios. TIiobo three conditions nro
tho throatoncd result of tho
gront Btriko of union laboring
men throughout tho city.
Drivers Go Out.
Tho coal wagon, milk wagon nnd
bakery wngon drivers planned to
In tho walkout, while tho employers1 ,aio final deliveries today nnd thou
say thnt fowor union men wnlked out join tho rapidly growing ranks of tho
wiun mo loauers prcuicicu, strikers.
First Disturbance. I Families face tho greatest bread
Tho first disturbance ooourrcd in I (Continued on Pngo 4.)
FIVE COMPANIES ARE HERE
. TO BID ON THE THIRTEEN
MILES OF STREET PAVING
'Fivo different paving companies
liavo thoir roprosontiitivos in Mod
ford ut tho proBout time to bid on
tho pnving of 13 miles of tho city's
stroots, tho bids for which nro to lie
rocolvod by tho city council noxt
Tuoeduy ovonliig. Tho roprofiontn
tivos linvo boon in tho oity for soma
days nnd will romnln until nftor tho
council tnkou notion.
The companies who will hi! nro
from tho various cities of tho coast
and are: Tbo Barber Asphalt com
pany of San Francisco, tho Rudolph
S. Pilomo oompnny of Tnoomn, tho
Fnlrohlld-Gilmoro.-Wilton compnny
of Los Angolos, tlio Rnnsomo-Cnim-mory
company of Oakland, Cnl., and
tlio Wnrron Construction compnny,
Tlio oity ongiuoor's offico has boon
busy for Bomo time gotting out sta
tistics regarding tho stroots to bo
improved and furnishing tho com
pnnios with data,
Otlior oompnunioB mny appoar to
bid on tho work boforo Tuosdoy.
Dr. F. C. Pago has disposed of his
property, knowu as tbo Webb plaeo,
on tbo corner of Sixth and Dartlett
streets, to parties who plan to erect
tins summer a modem four-story
building. Dr. Page withholds for tho
present tho names of the now own
era.
Tho prico paid was $15,009, which
was most reasonable, considering the
location nnd size of the lot, which
is 105x100. Judged by tho prico of
property in that neighborhood, tho
plnco was worth nearer $25,000 than
$15,000.
Tho new owners, according to Dr.
Page, plan to erect n four-story of
fico nnd store building of brick-
Work will start early in the summer.
IjiuiU hale.
Tho J. W. Mills tract of 101 ncrcs
has been sold for $30,000, tho pur
chaser being E. White of Minot. N
D. The tract consists of fruit land
lying four nnd one-half miles south
of Medford. Mr. Whito has 9omo verv
flnttoring offers for his bargain, but
has refused to soli, saying: "I have
looked over the valley verv cnrofullv
in tho past six weeks sinco coming
noro nnd loci thnt I havo purchased
ono of tho best largo tracts in the
vnlley."
Mr. Whito hns gront fnith in Med
ford and tho Roguo Rivor valley,
saying there is nothing like it. Ho
will in nil probability subdivide tho
tract into ten and twenty-ncro lots.
The snlo wns mado by D. II. Jack
son & Co.
Another Sale.
John D. Olwell hns comploted tho
snlo of tho old Hemworth plnco,
ownod by Tronson & Guthrie, lying
three nnd ono-hnlf miles north of
Modford, for $50,000. It wns purch
asod by F. W. Wade of Seattle,
Wash.
INSTRUCTION CAR
FOR R. R. EMPLOYES
One of the Five Larger Sized Cars
of the I. C. S. for Instruction of
Railroad Employes Is Here.
General Demoralization of Traffic
Over the West Forces So Many
Passenger Trains Through Med
ford That All Freight Engines and
Crews Are Pressed Into Service.
FIRST EASTERN MAIL IN
FIVE DAYS REACHES CITY
Local Office Posts Notices Not to
Load Freight at Present All
Freight Delayed for an Indefinite
Perlqd.
Owing to tho general demoraliza
tion of railroad traffic over the
coast, forcing tbo trains running enst
from Snn Francisco to come north
by way of Medford and Portland and
on east over tho O. R. & N., local
freight is at u standstill and will
remain so for an indefinite period.
Tho local offico of th1!) Southern Pa
cific company on Saturday posted
notices to shippers not to load
freight for shipment until further
notified.
Eight to ten extra passenger trains
nro passing through this city daily
nnd all tho freight engines and crews
nro pressed into servico moving tho
passenger trains, nnd as a result tho
regular passcuger trains are off their
schedule.
Eastern Mail
"Eastern mail consigned to Med
ford, flood bound for four days in
Idaho, was received at tho postof-
fico yesterday. Delayed mail will
hnvo boon distributed by this morn
ing, but tho paper mail may not
roach addresses for a day or two.
Tho consignment of deinyod mail
consisted of about 10 pouches of
first-class mattor and about 40
sacks of second nnd third-class mat
tor. Tho oity dolivory forco was put
at work on tho letter mnil, and the
greater part was out last night.
Tlio biiunuon.
Telegraphic advices received last
night indicates thnt tho Nevada
linos will not bo cleared for ten
mora days at least.
Tho westbound overland limited,
which loft Ogdon Monday afternoon,
pnssod through hero today on its
way to Snn Francisco.
Ail through trains to Snn Fran
cisco from the enst nro now being
dotourod over tho Oregon Short Lino
tracks. This nrrnngoment will con
tinuo until tho bridges and tracks
washed out by tho floods in Nevada
nro repaired.
Steamship Lines Included.
LIDE ON CANADIAN PACIFIC
SWEEPS 61 INTO ETERNITY
LADIES FO
NLY ONE
DNOT
UNO
N Y ON WH
1:111 llll
TERRIFIC AVALANCHE, WITH
GN
Movement for Hew Incinerator Un
dertaken by Ladies of Greater
Medford Club Is Favored by Ev
ery Business Man . Approached,
With the Exception of One Party.
THUNDER
Tlio handling of hoavy trains is
one of the things n railway trainman
must know nowndnys, and to this
ond tlio international correspondence
schools of Sornnton, Pa., hnvo
oquipped n number of cars, 12 in nil,
fivo of thorn boing full-sized, with
ovory oquipmont, and sovon of
smnilor oizo. Tboso oars nro oquipped
with nil tho mnohinory nocossnry to
illustrnto to tlio elnsses tho notunl
oporation of n train by moans of air
brnkos from n train of 30 cars down,
Tho prinoipni rnilwnys 'of tho
country hnvo n contraot with tho I.
C. S. for tho instruction of thoir
trainmen, nnd nttoudnnco is com
pulsory for at lonst tliroo looturos,
unloss unforsoon matters intorvono,
Tho oar is horo for tho purpose of
Instructing tho P, & E. trainmen
v WASHINGTON, D. C, March 5.
Tho houso intorstato commerce com
mittoo today decided to includo tho
steamship lines in tho paragraph in
tho interstate net prohibiting the
transportation eonipnnios from no
quiring nn interest in tho capital
stock of tho competing linos.
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POSTAL SAVINGS
BANK BILL PASSED
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WASHINGTON, m D. C
Mnrch 5. The sonnto this
nftornoon passed tho postal
savings bnnk bill, ono of tho
administrations demnndod by
Prosident Tnft.
Tho voto on tho postal
bnnk bill was 50 nyos to 22
nays.
Out of 275 men approached, by the
committee of the Greater Medford
club, only ono was' found who re
fused to sign the petition to the city
council to establish a plant for the
incineration of garbage. The oth
ers came through with their signa
tures at tho first asking and many
more would havo signed if they had
bad an inkling of tho move on foot.
However, tbo petitions when filed
with the recorder boro 274 names,
and 274 to 1 is about the proportion
of opposition to this most necessary
adjunct to a growing city.
The committee in chnrgo of the
petitions was comprised of Mrs. J.
F. Rcddy, Mrs. Edgar Hafer, Mtb.
Ed Andrews and Miss Putnam.
Nearly everything good in the way
of public improvements in Medford
has been first taken up by thei la
dies of the Greater Medford club.
When tbo club was first organized
it found the city park about the
poorest apology for a park on earth.
Thoy went to work to havo it put
in shape. "You can't do it" said the
pessimists. But they did.
Thoy wanted a fountain in the cen
tor of tho park. Tho "Can't Do It
club" got busy again. But the
Greater Medford club "did it."
Tho club wanted a library. They
got it.
Now thoy want a snnitnry incin
oration plant whoro garbage and
refuso may be destroyed,
Will they get it? Sure.
IDS ROAR, HURLS
TSELF UPON WORKTRAIN
Snow Slides Have Claimed 234 Victims During Past Week New Slide
Are Expected at Any Moment Scenes at Wellington Are Heartrend
ing Forty-seven Bodies Have Been Recovered There to Date Ffcrcft
Blizzard Rages Over Spot Where Death Reaped Many Uve Werfc
of Recovering Bodies Goes Steadily Onward. t
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During the past week two hundred and thirty-four men, wom
en and children are known to have lost their lives In tho north
west from avalanches. Additional slides are threatening rescu
ing parties and further tragic reports are expected at any mo
ment. The horrors began with the tragedy at Mace, a littlo town in
th Coeur d'Alene country, which was buried Monday. Tho dead
aro estimated at 60, although the list may crow.
Hardly bad this horror been recorder than one oc
curred at Wellington, overwhelming three trains, which were stall
ed by snow. The present number ot dead is placed at 113.
The latest i-prror to be reported was the one at Rogers Pass
on the Canadian Pacific yesterday, in which 61 men were swept to
their death. .
The situation Is acute over the northwest, as snow !s still fall
ing, heaping up huge new avalanches.
Fairbanks Dined.
LONDON. March 5. Former Vice
President Charles W. Fairbanks and
Mrs. Fairbanks woro the guosts of
tho Princo of Wales today nt a
luncheon given nt Marlborough
houso.
PLAN GREAT CAMP
ARMIES0F WORLD
San Francisco Springs New Stunt
for Her Panama Exposition Stu
pendous International Pageant.
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REVELSTOKB, B. C, March 5. the prostration of all telegraph wires.
Slxty-ono mon. 24 whites nnd 37 Jap- When the news of tho disaster
aneso, aro believed to be dead to- reached Revelstoke a special train
night at Rogers Pass on the Canadian wa3 mado up and 200 dtizens volua
Pacific road, as the result of a ter-;teered to accompany tho regular
rifle snowslldo that swept down on wrecking outfit to assist in the tre
two rotary snowplows engaged In ' mendous undertaking ot digging the
clearing the tracks oyer tho Selkirks railroad mon out of the debris. It
and burled tho workmen and loco-can hardly bo hoped that any of the
motives under a great masa ot snow, victims will be rescued alive,
rocks and trees shortly after mld-j Rescuers to Scene,
night. Only one body, that of Con- J Specials are now boing rushed from
ductor R. J. Buckley, has been re- Calgary, containing 200 men to starfc
covered. All tho others are under, tne WOrk ot digging from the eastern
tons of debris and it is not believed en,i 0f tno slide
that any aro alive. Rogers Pass Is the Highest railroad"
Shelf a Protection. ! point ln tho Selkirk range, and fross
With tho thunderous roar, thou-! elthor direction, east and west, steep
sands of tons of snow, rocks, trees j grades havo to bo negotiated by th
and other debris came tearing down : powerful mountain climbing engine,
the mountainside and complotely bur-j The portion of the lino Immediate
ter a Canadian Pacific rotary snow-1, y cnBt o Rogor8 Pa(tB , admltt
plow and a gang of men who were ( by a WtovA men to bo about the
clearing tho tracks of a small slide, mo8t dangerou8 piece ot track la the
which had occurred a tew hours be- Urholo mountain division, and it t
fore. Owing to there being a natural j thorefore protected by snowsheds
shelf at tho point where tho accident; faB noaa,bi0. Tha iine at this nolufc
happened, the plow was not swept
into tho valley thousands of feet be
low, but it Is at present burled with
its occupants, 25 whito mon and ten
is at an altitude of about 5000 feet,
and tho mountains tower above the
track for soveral more thousand feet,
thus nddlno trnmpnclmin vnlnMtv tn
Japanese, beneath a gigantic pile of ' ,nnBS of Bnow whon d8turbed audi
snow, which It is estimates will tako 8tnrt0d on its downward course.
at least two unys to tnorougniy ciear
up. i
Wires Aro Down.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cnl., March 5.
Tho proposition of issuing an in
vitation to all tho powers of tho
world to participato in a gigantic
military encampment to bo hold in
Snn Francisco m 1015 during tho
progress of the Pnnoma-Pncifio In
ternational Exposition, is boing se
riously considered by tho committoo
promoting tho exposition horo today,
According to tho plan tho encamp
ment would bo held in conjunction
with tho proposed intornationnl nn
vnl pageant,
It is boliovod that tho innovation
would bo woll received and noted up
on favorably by tho powors should
tlio invitation bo given.
Tho enonmpmont would bo tho
first of its kind in the history of tho
modorn world.
Warm Day and Rain.
The slide was caused by a warns'
dav belncr succeeded bv rnln. Dwlnv
The body of Conductor Buckley of to tho locntlon of tho Bl!dB.
the Ill-fated rotary has been reeov- was lrnp0Sslb,0( although It is report
ered. not having been burled so deep- d thnt four m rQ fitm nve Tnese
ly as those of his follows. Further1,
details are unobtainable because of (Continued on Page 4.)
FIRST DAY OF PORTLAND
AERIAL MEET MARRED BY
ACCIDENT TO AEROPLANE
PORTLAND, Mnrch 5. Port-1 Hnmiiton mado n fast demonstra-
Innd's first aviation meet came near tion flight nnd beat an automobile in
terminating today with a fntnl no
cidont when Forrost C. Smith
,a test raco covering three laps ot
son, tho Country club racetrack.
who holds tho world's rocord 120-, The duy wns n splendid one for
yard hurdle, essayed to fly in tho the moot, tho temporaturo boing mil4
fliirfinn liinlnnn nwnml Kv P Tlnitw I ' j
nun wiu ami uum.
Curtiss biplane ownod by E. Honry
Womme. Tho biplnno bnlkod and
Smitbson lost control. The machine
knocked down several people, struck
n policeman from his horse. Fivo
wmen wero slightly injured. No
sorious injuries were inflicted.
Hamilton has abnndonod his pro
posed attempt to encircle Mpuat
nood. This flight would mean tkt
he would have to cover a di4tuu
of 120 miles and encounter uukmi
currents of air.
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