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Fall Lewtl Wire Report.
Medford
FIRST SECTION
PAGES 1 TO 8
Tho OBly paper la the irerll
published In a chy tho 4m ef
Mosford having a 1chm4 wire.
MBDFOTU) OREGON. SUNDAY, MAHOH 27, 1910,
No. 5.
BARBER COMPANY IS LOW
BIDDER
MIDDLE WEST IS
S
Wilson of Hood River Claims That
Middle West Wormy Apples Are
Labeled "Oregon" and Shipped to
Markets of the East California Is
Also a Sufferer.
POHTIANI, Mnrch SC. That
worm-eaten apples of tho middle
wtsteru states liavo boon boxed, shlp
lol east nm! boon sold fur Hood HIv
or, Hokuo Klvor and California stock
In tho chance Hindu by Joseph Wilson
of Hood It Ivor, who has Just returned
from Washington, whoro ho wont in
tho Interests of his section to dofcat
tho Lafoan npplo hill.
It is allozol that fruit labeled
"Oregon I'ancy nowtown Pippins"
woro recently sold In Now York at
07 Park Uow. It In said that thoso
applet) woro from tho middle west
and woro worra-caten.
Wntconvllta, Cal., growors woro
first blamed, but they say that tho
complaint had boon niado before and
It has boon traced to tho middle
west.
Tho statement of Wilson has c re
nted n Herniation In all tho npplo
growing sections of tho wont.
TO ERECT SUB-TREASURY
IQIUlSia ULIONVNId 00SIUJ
WASHINGTON, March 2C Irea
Idont Tnft today nont letters sum
moning Illcinrd Ilnrtholdt, qhnlrmnn'
of tho house committee on public
buildings, nnd Nathan 11, Scott, chair
man' of tho sonato coinmlt,teo, to dls
. cuss with htm tho necessity of ap
propriating Hiifflclent mouoy to oroct
n nub treasury hulldlnK In tho flnnn
clal district of San Francisco.
FUNDJMING
Commission Has Said But Little of
Lato, Out List Steadily Grows
Chairman Root Busy With Stenog
rapher on Campaign Over State.
Tho fund for tho Crntor Lako high
way still otoadlly continues to grow,
although the committee has of lato
had llttlo to say. Tho work Is going
ahead Btoadlly and tho list shows
gratifying growth.
Tho commission Is now beginning
to dovoto its attention to othor flec
tions nnd ns prollmlnnry work Is
Bonding out 'a multitude ot letters
to pnvo tho way for personal work.
Among thoso who havo signed tho
list since- tho ltoll of Honor wns last
puhllshod nro: Q. h. Trolchlor, J .V,
Palmer, J, S. Vilas, M. D. Glovor, J,
O. Goro, II, von dor Ifollon, C. B.
Whlslor, W. H. Crows', 8. 8. Alkon
nnd I, M, Lyon,
MAE WOOD AFTER PART
OF THE PLATT ESTATE
JULBSnURO, Col,, March 2G.
Mao Wood announcod today that sho '
would tako stopn at onco to pontest!
tho will of former Sonntor Thomas
C. Piatt, whloh boquonths his ontlro
fortuno to his throo uouo.
"It Is not tho monoy, hut vindica
tion,' I sook," Bho said, as sho 'an
nnuncod hor dotormlnation,
Sonntor Plntt's will was probated
In Now York yosforday,
Miss Wood declared sho would
start a fight to bronk tho will and
soQiiro an intorost in tho estate ns
part of a "widow's right.'
CHARGED WITH
GROSS FRAUD
CA
HIGHWAY
ON STREET PAVING
BIDS ARE MUCH
LOWER THAN AT
LAST0FFER1NG
Warren Construction Company Did
Not Offer Bid Paving Will Bo
Done at Saving From $50,000 to
$75,000 Barber Company " Will
Probably Be Given Contract.
Rids for paving nearly ten miles of
Medford streets woro opened Satur
day night, uud in nil probability the
Harbor Asphalt company will be
awarded the contract us the lowest
bidder. Clark & Hcnory Const ruc
tion Co. of Snoramcuto wero clone
HOCondH. Othor bids woro received
from tho Ilninsomo-Cruminey Co. of
Oakland and tho Warren tj nimby Co.
of Rochester, N. V. Tho Warren
Construction Co. uud the Fnirchild
& Wilton Co. of Los Angeles did not
hid.
Tho bids brought a material rcduo-
tion in th'o cost of paving .from thoxe
opened on March 8. Ou ji comptirn-
tivo basis, tho paving will be done at
u saving of from $50,000 to $7r,000
to tho projwrly-owner, - -lws than
previous bids. A reduction it) mndo
ujwii nearly all items included in the
HjecificatioiiH. Kxcavation will eoHt
much lesfl than previously done for.
Uccord Urn 3JI1.
Although tho Clarko-IIcnory Co.
wero lowest on Gas A Harbor pave
ment by IVj cents, they wero 15
cents higher on excavation. On
Clans II, Harbor, they wore i cents
higher. Tho total number of square
yards is estimated nt 203,000. The
total excavation is approximated at
70,000 cubic yards.
Engineer Oscar Huber of the Bnr-
her Paving Co. said: "This is thr
lowest bid ever mndo ou the const.
It is lower thnn our recent Portland
bid of $1.-14 for Class C. whenjho
(Continued on Pngo 8.)
SCHEME PROVES
A GREAT BOOM
No Longer Need Orchardist of the
Roguo River Valley Sit Up Nights
Keeping Tab on Weather They
Just -Call Central and Then Sleep.
Thanks to Professor P. J. O'Garn,
tho orchardist of the Roguo Itiver
vnlloy need not sit trp no moro o'
nights keeping tnb on nn inaccurate
thermometer for fear of n midden
cold snap which might imperil his
orchanl. For now nil ho has to do
is to call up tho J rod ford telephouo
contra! nnd then can go to bed nnd
sloop tho sleep of tho just.
Lnto InHt night Professor O'Gnra
dropped in nt tho Mail Tribune of
fice 'What's tho weather, professor!"
nskod tho cub reporter.
"Don't bothor mo ank central,"
was bis nnswor.
"Hollo, central! Can you give mo
tbu wonthorf"
"Cloudy, with rain. Dow point 21),
No dnngor from frost," road off tho
girl in n hurry.
And Rho was very nioo nbout it,
too, nnd dosorvos publio acknowledg
ment. I
Thou tho oub did n littlo intorviow-l
ing of central nnd found she wns an
swering "wonthor calls" from nil
pnrls of tho vnlloy.
'Tls n great sehomo, and Profos
fior O'Gnra should bo tbnnkod.
J. P. AHkons of Woodvillo was
among Hioro who visited this citv
Saturday,
MINIMUM RAT
WITH CANADA IS
NOW HOPED FOR
Although Result of Conferences Has
Not Been Made Public, It Is Re
garded That Trade War Will Be
Averted and That Old Relations
Will Continue Unabated.
WASHINGTON, March 2C That
a trado war with Canada will bo
averted and tho minimum tariff bo
declared effective for Canadian Im
ports Is tho Ktnoral belief hero to
day, follow I i'K conferences between
Minister of Finance Kidding aad
Minister of Rullways Graham of Can
ada with tho stato department nnd
with President Taft.
Just what was accomplished at
these conferences Ikib not been mndo
public, but the conferences following
tho rcwet conferences between Taft
and Govrrnor General Earl Grey, at
which tho tariff was discussed, shows
that tbu stato department and tho
president rcallzo tho Importance of
tho XHtter.
-Hope Mlulramn Tariff.
It la tho scneral belief in official
circles hero that If tho Canadian gov
erosient makes oven tho tfflghtcst
concession that Tnft will rule Cana
da Ju not unduly Jlscrlnilnntlvo
against tho United Stntea, In tho
inwintng of tho language of tho tariff
Mil, and that tho minimum Snrlff will
therefore bo declared In -dffect be
tween tho two countries.
Tnft has already declareU thaf tho
whole matter In not a 'Question of
what tho Uultcd States -wo did liko to
do, but a question of tho Interpreta
tion of tho now tariff law. In ordor.
It Is bollovec', to make tho minimum
tariff operative, oome slight dlscrlm
Inntons n favor of tho United States
must bo made.
It Is believed that this mattor has
RICE HERE
NEXT TUESDAY
Manager of Spokane National Apple
Show to Meet With Commercial
Club to Interest Local Fruit-Grow
ers In This 'Year's Skew,
Eon IT. Hico, secretHTy-managor
of ,tho japoknno national applo show,
w&l arrivo in Medfortl next Tuesday
to meet local fruit men io interest
them in this year's apple show pro
jeet. A meeting of tho Cwninoroinl
club -will probably bo called ito moot
Mr. Hico.
Innnmuch ns n car of Rogue River
applos enrriod off tho sweepstakes
pnzo last yenr at tho show, it ib ho
lioved that,enr8 will bo entered from
this section again; Mr, Rico writes
that other districts are -coming
through strong.
THREE MEN MEET VIOLENT
DEATHS IN CHICAGO
SEATTLE, Wash., March 26,
Three mon mot sudden deaths In
Scnttlo today, ono dropping doad and
!two mooting death undor engines.
John Slmmonds, a track wnlkor,
10 yeara old, was killed by a Great
Northern train at mllo post No, 10.
P. B. Mooro, a Bwltchmnn, 50 yonrs
ot ago, stoppod off a switch engine
dlroctly in front ot nnothor onglno
In tho Northon I'ncltlo yardB. noth
legs woro out off and ho died on tho
way to tho hospital.
Danlol Wood foil dead whilo walk
ing homo from tho Pacific nmmonln
and chemical works, woro ho was
night watchman.
REN
HDRTAGE Of
lil 1 00 IS
FOUND
Adotph Schultz, Treasurer of Jack
sonville Lodge ef Redmen, Is Ar
rested Charted With Embezzlement
a
of Money Given Into His Hands
i I
for Safe Keeping.
Charged with having embezzled
$1100 from tho Oregohian Pocahon
tas" Tribe, No. 1, I. 0. It. M., in
Jacksonville, while acting as secre
tary of tho tribe, Adofph Schultz was
nrrcstcd Saturday afternoon in Ash
land by Deputy Sheriff Ulricb. The
nows of Schultz's shortage in his
accounts came us. a great surprise
to his friends.
Orogoninn Pocahontas had not
been coming through with the great
council dues and State Organizer J.
II. Fitzgerald was, Kent to Jacksonville
to look into matters.. He found a
shortage aggregating some $1100 and
tho tribe took measures tuwnrd ap
prehending Schultz.
Tho delinquent treasurer had
plenty of opportunity to wicnpe,
should such have been his intention,
but he seems to be ns much puzzled
as to how such n targe vhortace
could have occurredl ns -are tho
members of the orderiihctKSolvcs.
The preliminary hearing will "bo
held nt Jacksonville Monday. In tfho
meantime, Schultz is in 1ho comity
jnil.
Canadian representative and tas a
rcwnlt tiro ministers who .attended
tho conferences linvo suggested some
sllglit clianges under tho law may
1)0 granted. Thoy will soon return
to Canada and the matter nvlll bo
taken up with tho governor 'general.
Officials fljntgulno.
It Is declared la unofficial circles
here that aegotlafions hsvo prog
ressed far enough so that definite
points to bo conceded have beon dis
cussed and tlint the granting of these
would mean a proclamation by tho
president putting the minimum sched
ules into offoct.
AS PLANT TO BE
IN NORTH END
Anderson Buys Block Near Old Dis
tillery In North End of City on
Centra Avenue and. Will Locate
Httw Gas Plant Thenc
J. TL Anderson, who was on Fri
day granted a 33-ycar franchise for
a gua pbuit in iko oife and is to
start work nt onco on u $100,000
plant, has purchased a 'block of land
on North Central avenue near tho
old distillery as a site far tho plant.
Mr. Anderson states that ho is do
inir all in kls power to jret .the work
started. Telegraphic orders havo
boon dispatched for material and in
30 days notivo construction work
should start. Hv tho t Dims t? lii-;
frnuehiso ho must be furnishing gas
in eight months to residents of the
city.
DESPONDENT YOUNG
MAN SLAYS HIMSELF
OAKLAND, Cal., March 25. Do-
rtpondoney is given iw a 1-en.son today
to explain tho miiouIo of Walter
Decker of Carson, Nov., in Lincoln
Park Into last night. Tho pnrk is
within a stouo's throw of tho homo
of Mrs. Birdio Speeht, with whom tho
man was infatuated. On tho body
wns found n uoto addressed to
"Donrost Bort." Tho noto road:
"You nro to bo thankful that Von
nro in tho laud of tho living. Tho
night wo wont over to tho citv
(Tuesday) I had intended to end it
nil nnd tako you with mo, hut my
plans woro foiled b you giving mo
tho slip."
ONLY A MIRACLE CAN SAVE
TOWNS
1000 LICENSE
S TO BE ASKED
OE SALOON MEN
Currently Reported That at Next
'Meeting of City Council License
Committee Will Submit New Or
dinance Raising License $200 Year
In the City.
It is currently reported that at the
next meeting of the city council the
license committee will submit an or
dinance fixing the yearly license to
sell mnlt nnd vineous liquors nt
$1000 per annum. The present li-
censo is $800 a year.
The license committee refuses to
discuss nny of the phases of the
mntter, while the mnyor refuses to!
mnke n statement. rello are directly in Its patn, ana
Lato last evening n local business; their inhabitants, who have not al
mnn who is closely in touch with thcjrealy tied to places ot safety, are
administration stated that such nn panic-stricken. ,
ordinance would be introduced nt the
next remilnr mectinir.
The reason for raising the license
at this time is in order to give the
city bettor police protection by the
addition of new men. The additional ! Early today there1 wasan apparent
revenue to the citv will be in the 'lull In tho subterranean rumblings
neighborhood of $2000 a year.
:
GW Dlsannears.
PHOENIX, Ariz., Mnrch 26. The
police ot all Arizona cities wore In
structcd today to -Bearch for Ellen
Torgercon, forraorly a Salvation
Army girl, who disappeared mysto -
rloUBly last evenlag.
Miss ToTKorson came here from
l.os Angeles a week ago. She was
known to liave a considerable sum otj
money.
In her apnrtments tho money waaj
found. I
Tho young womnn was about 23
years old and was unusunlly hand
some. TEDDY GREETED
BY AMERICANS
Colonel Has Bully Time and '$ Dee
flokd many Times by Reception
Giveti Him by 700 Americans in
Cairo Greets-WuvTiHi-'Fang.
CA1BO, Egypt, March ,20. Colo
nel Theodore Roosovelt had a "bully"
time today and was "dee-lighted"
more often than ho has been in a
single dnv since he was President
Roosevelt. It was nil bocnuso of tho
reception given in this quaint city,
thousands of miles from homo, yet
more liko the old White llouso dnys
thnn nny reception smco ho loft
Washington.
Tho seven hundred Americans in
Cairo played tho star part in tho
day's proceedings whon they filed by
Roosovelt on tho garden torrnco of
tho Shoppard's hotel, shook hands in
American fashion, told him how glad
they woro to see him, suggested po
litical subjects which ho would not
discuss and "hoped to seo him
again" in tho Whito House.
It was a nico "homey' reception,
not quite so formal ns tho old Whito
House receptions, with tho same suit
of peoplo who used to greet Rooso
velt in Washington.
After tho reception there wns a
hurrie'd visit to a university, followed
by n luncheon with tho khodivo nnd
n call from Wu Ting Fong, formor
Chineso minister and an old friend
of tho ox-president. Tho Roosovelt
tooth glonmod in tho old Roosovelt
grin many times before ho "strenu
ous" day concluded with n dinnor
given by Consul Iddiugs.
IN PATH LAVA FLOW
25 SQUARE MILES
A MOLTEN LAKE
Danger to Life Is Practically Past,
But Property Loss Is Enormous
Two Villages Now in Direct Path
of Lava Eruption Last Evening
Increased in Volume.
CATANIA, March 26. Creeping
silently toward tho village of Bel
passo and Borcllo, the lava moss that
is rolling from tho 12 active craters
on Mount Aetna was rapidly increas
ed In volume late tonight.
It was estimated that tho molten
lake covered an area of 25 square
miles.
Tho villages of Belpasso and Bo-
A Miracle, to Save Towns.
' AlthoURh tho head of tho stream Is
I not more than ten miles from Its
I source, they believe only a miracle
can save their homes.
that havo ad.led terror to the sltua
tion, and for a time It was believed
th0 crisis of the eruption was passed.
i Tho rumblings recurred with tho
renewed violence about sundown and
,tho craters belched a fiery display
that was appalling.
j Violent Demonstration.
; Tho demonstration this ovening it
,was raid by cclentlsts who returned
from places of vantage near Bolpas-
so, was tho roost violent since the
evening of the second day of the
eruption.
Tho Internal fires of Mount Aetna
subsided slIgLtly today, the violence
of tho eruption from tho 12 craters
, decreased In Intensity and tho flow
' ot lava from the rifts In the moun
ERNIAN HOME
RULE ISCERTAIN
With Irish Party Casting DecldinR
Votes in Parliament, it Seems a
Certainty That Emerald Isle Will
at Last Gain Freedom.
LONDON, Mnrch 26. With tho
Irish party casting tho deciding votes
hi tho now British parliament, home
rule for Ireland cannot but becomo
an ovon more imnortant issiin. fnr n
i? it .
iiiiiu. man ine nnvnnood nni nnnn.
omio legislation upon which tho Lib-
enu plurality's Heart is sot.
For it is quite obvious, through
this ndvanco legislation might bo
put through if tho Irish refrained
from VOtine at nil. nntliinr. irlmlnvA..
can bo dono with it against Irish
opposition, ttxeopt for the Lloyd
Georgo budget, which Ireland dis
likes, on account of the lin
clause, tho Nationalists do not par
ticularly care, one wnv nr Dm nil.ni.
about tho Liboral program. As a
coorcivo measure, in tho interests of
homo rule, they nro quite willing,
howovor, to opposo it, which makes
tho Irish domnnd, in fact, the cen
tral issue of the cominc soSsinn cn
erratic was the voting for tho fresh-
i.v ciiosen members of parliament
tlint tho Oldost nnlitininnc wnt-n nl
loss to docido, until within n dny or
two of tho end of the
how tho struggle was likoly to term-
mint).
Finally nn ncrnnmnnt lint- l.nn..
reached nnd it means homo rule fori
Ireland to a practical certainty but,
pnumuiy not nt the coming session
of parliamoiit. '
COUNTRY
UNDER
75 PER CENT OF
ROAD TO BUTTE
EALLS FINISHED
Tws New Eflin$ to Arrive Next
Week for Pacific & Eastern
Nearly 1000 Ken at Work an
From 20 to 30 Are Beirif Add(
Each Day Teams are Wanted.
Seventy-five per cent of tho coh-
strnction work on tho extension of
the Pacific & Eastern railroad ta
Butte Falls is completed, according
to Chief Engineer Gerig of the road,
and work is being rushed aa mnek
as possible, so as to complete the
road to the Falls in June.
Nearly 1000 men are employed at
present nnd from 20 to 30 are beiag
added each day. All of the teasas
available have been secured and
more are wanted.
Beyond Eagle Point steel is told
some six miles, while the right -of
way has been cleared to Bntte Falls
and the greater part of the exca
vation in tho cuts completed.
Next week two new engines wia
arrive for use on the Toad.
"The . 8tcanT6h"dreTS at present
working this sido of Eagle Point,
cutting down tho grade nnd making
a fill. Mr. Gerig is plnnning to rush
things this summer whilo "the going
is good."
tain began to slacken In their prog
resa southward. fr-r
Vol h mo Increases. ,jj
Tho volume of the lava flow has
Increased slightly, but tho great de
pressed area over which tho bead of
tho snake-liko mass Is passing has
caused a decreaso tn tho rate of ad
vanco.
Scenes throughout the night on thi
mountain and Its vicinity were awe
inspiring. Tho skies wero lit bj
fContinned on Page 8.)
S
ITS INITIAL TRIP
About 25 Business Men of Medford
Are Guests of Southern Pacific w
Trip to Ashland on Motor Car
Which Goes" Into Service Monday,
. --i
Somo 25 business men of Modfor'd
were the guests of tho Southern Pa
cific company Friday afternoon oa
n trip to Ashland and return on the
new gasoline motor, which Is to run
on tho Southern Pacific linos from
Grants Pass to Anhlnnrt. nnnl
J men of tho valley towns woro also
on tho trip.
Tho car la 55 feet long, buIU of
steel throughout, practically Indes
tructlblo and cnpablo of acquiring a
speed of 60 miles an hour. It In
equipped with a battery of six gaso
line motors, gonorntlng 250 horse
power, and weighs 00,000 pounds.
Tho car has passenger and smos
lng compartments nnd will seat com
fortahly about 00 people. Tho win
dows nro ulr tight, rainproof ani
dust proof and by a now mothod o'
vontllatlon through tho ontlro car in
four minutes. In cold weather the
car Is heated by plpeo carrying hot
water through tho ontlro length of
the car.
The car will leave Grants Pass ev
ery morning at 7; 30, arriving at
Ashland 0:30; will leave Ashland
1:30 p. m,, and arrive at Grants Pass
3:30. IOt will stop at all Interme
diate polnto. Tho aorvlco starts Mon
day, March 28.
J. A. McLoed of dUndale 13 in
Medford looking after business matt
tsrs.
MOTOR CAR MAKE