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MEDFORD, OREGON, AVEDNESDAY, A PHIL 20, 1910.
JiMKTJl YKAH.
No. 26.
TIIIC WICATlIICIt.
V
ROCHESTER
REPUDIATES
TARIFF BILL
First Follower of Jefferson to De
Chosen In His District In Twenty
Years, Gets a Majority of Five
Thousand In Republican Strong-hold.
LOOSENING OF PARTY
LINES IN NEW YORK
Defeated Candidate for Many Years
Doss of G. 0. P. In His District
The Tariff Is Blamed for tho Result.
Trying to Get
Early Hearing
Hty Attorney VUlt OruntN l'nas In
mi Kiiilntvor to Have Jitdgo CnU
IcIiin Hat L'uw for Karly Trial.
PINCHOT HINTS
THAT HE HAS A
BOMB T
0 HURL
Says Ke
Has Something Interesting to Tell
American People When He Returns
to tho States, But Says Not What
It Is.
Tho city attorney is in Grants
Puss toilny interviewing Judge I M, Deposed Chief Forester
CulkiiiH in onlor to determine when
it it. t 't.i M....1... '
me i'hnc ai wyi cuy vH. .n. r. iiiiim,
for a right of way ncriH the Hun
ley prumikuH on Little llntte crock
can uo Hot lor trim, us way inane
ncccanry by (he uuprcmu court de
cision of Tuesday.
.Tmlrn CnlkiiiH n hhort timo ai'o
adjourned tho circuit court in hi SAYS CONFLICT AT HOME
county until May 12, It i the mis
sion of the city attorney in Grants
Pass today to boo if Calkins will not
return to thin county and hear the
enso cnrlior thnu thut, or if this is
impossible, to have him call in an
other judgo to hear the cose, which
Judgo Calkins has tlic power to do,
City Salaries
Given Boost
Council in Mngnnninioua Frame of
Mind Vole to Italo Three
KtnployrV SnlnrJe.
Tho city council was in a mnpnnn-
imouB mood Inst night' nt their regu
lar meeting, and as a result three
salaries of city employes were boost
ed upon recommendation of the fin
ance committee.
Dr. Shearer, city health officer,
was given $50 n month instead of
$25; the driver of tho fire tenra was
FORMER BOSS
SAYS RULE Blf
BOSSES ENDED
West Main Is
Nearly Paved
Council Viimhh Ordinance Declaring
Cost of Work Clnrke-llencry
Co. Still Held Up.
ROCHESTER, N. Y April 20.
Jiunoa II. Havens, democrat, support
er of Hughca In tho last guhurnntorlnl
election, liuw been elected to conKrcwt
over George Aldrldgo In the 32d New
York (lUtrlct and polltlclnna see hu
important from tho election,
Tho fight Ih admitted by tho lend-
era of both parties, nud tlm election
of HaveriH ineniiM, they declare, the
repudiation of the now revenuo law
by Uochenter, a manufacturing city
directly affected by tho mcatiura and
in all Monroe county, whoro tho law
wan blamed for tho high coat of llv
Ing.
Further, tho victory marks tho
looaonlng of party lines, tho advent
of ho independent Yotor In tho oast,
and la audi n victory na thoao won
by luaurgonta in wcatorn atatca.
rinit lit Twenty Year.
Slnco Hopreaontntlvo Qrcenlcaf,
democrat, waa olocted In tho 33d dia
trlct In 1800 no othor followor of
Jofferaon hna boon sont to congrosa,
and tho district has boon conaidored
normally republican by about C000
mnjorlty.
JameH II. Pcrklna, whoso death
caused tho vacancy Havena haa been
elected to fill, received n plurality
of 10.0C7 In 1808. Havena, yeatoN
day, was elected by a plurality of
D385, thus achlovlng practically tho
nominal republican plurality of the
district.
Aldrldgo, tho dofeatod candidate
linn for yearn been tho head of tho
republican mncblno In Monroo county,
which forms tho district. Personal an
imosities, which IiIm political activ
ities ontatlod aro conaidored by aomo
republicans as tho oauso of his de
feat. Most political loadora, repub
lican and democrat, boo only ono
reason for tho royersal In sentlraont
that swept tho towns and outlying
districts n8 thoroughly as It did tho
city of Rochoator Itsolf, and this ono
renson is tho unpopularity of tho
MOR
TERRITORY
(Continued on Page 8.)
E
WANTS IN CITY
Residents of District Southwest of
City Ask to Be Admitted Special
Election to Be Held May 24 to
Voto on Question.
Richard Croker, Former Boss of New
York, Says People Are Tired of
Party Rule, as Results Are Not
Satisfactory to Them Tariff Is
Also Cause.
boosted from G0 to $75 a month,
while m lieu of civine Mrs. Telfer n
salary for her services ill the city re-
IS AS YET AT START .cor,,c offico.' Ilc"dor Tclft;r wil!
ncrcniicr receive j?j.ou a monin nmi(
pay his own assistant. .
n.. - i i ii i mi , i The work in each of these depart
Refuses to Reveal Anything Which ,ncntB ;B increftsinfC nvMay nnJ the
Transpired- at Meeting Between V008t in Bnln7 indicate that the
council appreciates mo incraif-o in
"PEOPLE ARE DOING
MORE THINKING NOW"
Himself and Roosevelt When They work.
Met Recently In Italy. J
LONDON, April 20. Glfford Pln-
Tlio residents of that section ly
ing between Dakota nvenuo nnd Oak
dale, running west to tho Frcdignr
place, on the county rond directly
southwest of tho city, have petitioned
to bo admitted into tho corporation,
and tho city council has ordered a
special election for tho purpose of
ndmitting them, to be held on May
21. From nil indications tho terri
tory will bo voted into the city.
Tho territory that its proposed to
admit embrnccs mnny of the recent
ly plnttcd additions in thnt section,
nnd it is very much to the ndvnntnce
of tho city n well as to themselves
that they bo admitted. These sec
tions aro rapidly building up nnd as
nil their interests nro in this city
it seems n wise move to attend to
them nt onco tho privileges nnd ob
ligations of tho city.
PITTSBURG B00DLER
CONVICTED BY JURY
PITTSBURGH, April 20 Former
Councilman M. L. Swift, Jr., chargod
with accoptlng n bribe, wob found
guilty by a Jury today.
Tho Jury deliberated only a fow
uilnutos nftor tho caso had . been
completed. Swift wns I .dieted nt tho
tlmo C7 niombers nnd formor mom-
bors of tho city council took advnn-
tttgo of a blankot Immunity contract
and confessed to tho court thnt thoy
had boon engaged In grafting, I
chot, deposed chief forester, has some
thing Interesting to toll tho American
people, according to bis statements
today.
Pinchot arrived horo last ovenlng.
ASHLAND VOTERS
WANT TO RIDE
Predicts That Next President and
House of Representatives Will Be
Democratic Praise for Gaynor
as Gotham's Mayor:
l.
NEW YORK, April 20. "Boss rule
in America is ended," declared Rich-
jard Croker today Just beforo sailing
tfor Ireland.
"Tho people aro weary of party
rule," declared tho ex-bosa of Now
pircd at these meetings ho refused to Year Electric. Road Franchise by two4,0,dar"cs or he "T0 J 8l new
Overwhclmlnfl Majority Allen Is j lect the best candidate they can. Then
tho voters will select freely from all
Certain to Get Rights Asked in Fall
in
reveal, but ho declared that when ho
reached the United States ho might j
have something important to say.
"U'a hm nnn. n ikn lmi.lnnlni. nt '
a great conflict In tho United States," 1 '
ho snld. "Uut not a word on that At ,ha c,eoUon hdd
auujeci now. inero wm do nmpie , , , , . , . ...
opportunity to talk when 1 return to Ash,nml for the P""0" of nmc"1
tho atatcs." j ing the charter granting-specif ic nu-
Plnchot Is en ronto to Iroland, thority to issue an clcyrio trolley
whoro ho will visit Sir Horaco Plunk- franchiso for a period of 50 years.
ott. Tho dato for his departure for , ... li;
I n linn ma, haa n .At 1 "
expressed themselves in favor of the
project. Out of less thnn 150 votes
cast, a majority of 59 wero in favor.
Already initiative petitions aro be
America has not been set.
BATTLE IS IMMINENT
IN CENTRAL AMERICA
tickets.
"Thero will still bo democrats and
republicans in name, but very often
the tlcketd will differ In namo only.
"Tho time is gone when Americans
will call one man to act and will leave
everything to his discretion. The
people nre going to do their own
thinking pretty soon."
Croker Inslsta that he 1b out of pol
itics. His Interest in affairs, he says,
is that of a man who haa played tho
game and is left an Interested spec
tator. Ho predicted that tho next house of
I Within n week, if weather condi
tions remain favorable, the Warren
Construction company will complete
the paving of West Mnin street. This
work has been progressing very rap
idly of late, weather conditions hav
ing been splendid.
The city council at its meeting
Tuesday evening passed an ordinance
declnring the cost of the improve
ment of West Main by tho laying of
hard-surface pavement and assessing
the snine on the property-owners.
The Clark & Henery Construction
company are still held up from be
ginning work on East Main by non
nrrival of machinery. They are con
fident, however, of starting the work
in tho very near future.
MUST HAVE WATER
III LINE BY Ml
City Engineer Roberts Says That
June First Is Latest Date Water
Can Be Kept From Pipe Without
It Working Injury.
NEGRO UPRISING
STARTLES CUBA;
TROOPS READY
Believed Outbreak Has Been Caused
by Radical Politicians and Is Not
to Be Considered as Revolution
Against the Cuban Government
Fruits Dispatched.
DENY NEGROES'HAVE
YET STARTED RIOTINt
Govartw of Santa Clara Province
Requests That Treops Be Sent ts
His Aid Unrest Said to Be Great
in That Section. .
mt nw Amur. oaa .i-m... 'ing prepared to bo circulated within
' ; a few days asking tho city council to representatives and tho next president
""7" ; X, . V ;igrant to John It. Allen a trolley
mander of tbo gunboat Paducah, a franch5so . ,h t of A ,f , '
Dlueflelds, McaraKua. declares that ,,no n,rv ,,, ',,, V
tho army of Madrlz is within 15 miles
of tho city and a battlo is Imminent.
Tho revolutionists aro hastily prepar
ing for a last desporato stand, and
tho remnants of tho Estrada army
ford and Grants Pass.
will bo democratic
"Gaynor Is a good mayor,'' ho con
tinued. "A man with his positive con
victions of what tho city needs Is tit
iVcoyapa.
It is
bolloved that Es
It will bo remembered that when j to occupy the position and ho Is sure
Mr. Allen's application for a f ran-1 to be called to higher duties.
chiso wns first filed in Ashland tho ! "One deduction can bo drawn from
tho election in Rochester. Public feol-
be-
w, rv uuBu Ul w.u x,Blrun r,u, u coun(jil ,0 t tho , election in Rochester. Public f
nro being hurried to . niMHoN".' plication or to submit it to the poo- Ing is swinging to tho democrata
They havo been in tho vicinity of m , . ;.,. , r,n,ihiinn tnrirr t tpsi
I pic. Tho people themselves then took, cause the republican tariff is respon-
trnda wns outflanked nnd that tho
action under tho initiative law and
M nil' no if illA fvnnnlticik
Madrli soldiers by a ruso after tho;wou,dbo prated without further de
(Iglitlng nt Acoynpa a fow days ago i v
uuv Diuivii a itiuivu ou uuui
Mark Twain Better.
REDDING, Conn., April 20.
Mnrk Twnin passed a restful night
slblo for the high cost of living, and
tho people know it."
Investigating Accident.
VALLFJO, Cnl., April 20. A se
cret investigntion of the explosion on
tho cruisor Maryland recently in
Monterey Bay, which caused the
death of William Anderson, n water
Steamer Founders.
VANCOUVER, B. C, April 20.
Tho British India steomor Sntnra,
bound from Newcastle to Queensland
nnd seemed sliiihtly hotter todny. has foundered, according to a sno-! tender, nnd tho serious injury of
His condition, however, shows no im-jCinl onblo to tho World from Syd-- other members of tho crew, is in
provement of his enrdiuo trouble, nnd'noy today, nnd it is feared that her I progress here today. Tho inquiry
tho doctors said, that thoy could not 'pnssongors nnd crow, hnvo polished, , wns ordered by Rear -Admiral Hnr
toll which way his fight for health although their fate nt this timo is un-'her, commnndor of tho Pnc:fic cruis
wns going. Icortnin. I er fleet.
June 1 is the latest date, accord
ing to Engineer Roberts, that the
city pipe lino from the Bradshaw
drop can be void of water without
injury to tho pipe. After that date
the drying process in tho ground will
havo a bad effect ,
"June 1 is the latest tbo pipe
should go without wator," states Mr.
Roberts, "and every day after that,
unless a heavy rain should come,
which is not likely, tho pipe will be
injured to some extent.
"The winter has been an excep
tionally good ono for the pipo. It
has seasoned well and if water is
soon turned in all will be well.
"Should thero be no hope of get-
tine the city's water suit settled
soon some means must be provided
to protect tho pipo."
TWO MEN ARREST OVER
100 IN GAMBLING DEN
SEATTLE, Wash., April 20.
With drawn revolvers, Patrolmen
Opdyko nnd Humphrey last night
raided two Washington-street gam
bling houses and, despito ' n pnnio
among tho players, placed more than
100 under arrest. In the raid the
patrolmen demolished a carload of
Vurnijturo nnd gambling parnphor
nnlia nnd took to police headquarters
a sack containing poker chips and
playing cards nnd moro than $300.
HAVANA, Cuba. April 20. A
thousand troops, outfitted for an ex
tended stay, wero started for Santa
Clara province, 140 miles from Hav
ana, today, where tho negroes have
started an uprising.
It is believed the outbreak has beea
caused by radical politicians and I
not to be considered as a revolutloa
against the government.
For tho last two months there has.
been evldenco that an uprising waa
impending and tho government has
been fully prepared to cope with the
radicals at the first hint of violence.
A week ago the governor of the
provlnco telegraphed from Ssnt
Clara, the capital, urging the pres
ence of troops, owing to the unrest ot
the negroes.
It is believed that the outbreak,
which thus far has consisted of 1ft-
slpld rioting, will be stopped without
bloodshed, as tho presenco of tho sol
diers la certain to have a quieting ef
fect upon tbo dissatisfied citizens.
The troops are being transported
in a special train, and aro under the
command ot General Rivas.
Secretary of tho Interior Lopez de
nied today that the negroes have be
gun rioting, but tho fact that the
troops wero fully prepared for all ex
igencies before they left Havana tends
to disprove his official statement.
General Evarlsto, a negro agita
tor, Is held responsible for tho mani
fest unrest ot tho negroes of Eant
Clara. He 13 'a bitter enemy ot the
present administration.
BACHELOR'S DOUBLE WINS
BIG RACE IN LONDON
LONDON, April 19. Lowry'a en
try, "Bavcehlor'B JcamS.otaoincmfw
try, "Bachelor's Double," won tho city
and suburban stake race today, ani
tho $10,000 purso which went with
It;- The horse was a 25 to 1 shot.
Lord Carnarvon's "Mustapha"
came In second, with tho odds A to
1 to win.
IRRIGATION COMPANY IS MAKING GREAT HEADWAY
T?REI) N. CUMMINC-S hns stnrtod
J- out to conquer tho dusoit. By
moans of u subsoil plow and water
ho hopos to mnko a largo tract of
land just east of Agato, which lins
boon for years tho ono unproductive
spot hi tho Roguo Rivor vnlloy, u
veritable gnrdon land, if ho buc
coodfl ho will ndd sovornl thousand
noros to tho productive nroa of tho
Roguo Rivor volley, not a foot of
which can then bo tonnod nonpro
ductive That Mr, Cuminings will sueeeod
is shown by tho bucoosr ho Iiub had
with n fow noros nonr Agato, which,
until ho took hold of it, wns tho
moBt bnrron, nrid, unproductive hind
in tho vnlloy. Ho is obtaining won
dorful rosulta by tho uso of wntor, a
subsoil plow nnd n drag. IIo goes
about it in this way: First, tho laud
is broken to a dopth of two foot by
a subHoil plow; it in thou wntorod nnd
lovolod. This doBort land is n dosort
only booniiBo upon its eurfneo for n
dopth of n foot or so is n hnrd pan
just tho rovorso of most lauds,
with n fow foot of soil on top nnd it
hardpan undomonth. Whon this
crust is first broken it allows tho
roots to ontor tho Boil bononth, -which
has groat produotlyo quulltios, thou
Cummlngs Starts Out to Conquer the
"Desert," tho Only Non-Produc-tlvo
Land In the Valley.
with n lit tl o wntor a great ehnugo is
wrought. It is inconceivable to those
who havo bocomo fnmilinr with this
land to roalizo tho grcnt chaugo that
can bo mado, Mr. Cumtningfi fig.
uros that it can ho put in splendid
shapo for not moro than $25 an noro.
As nn Insurance,
Asido from making this desert
land, which oomprisos but n fraction
of tho vnlloy, produotivo, Mr, Cum
mingfl plans to irrignto tho ontiro
vnlloy, nnd in this wny is proving
tho groatost insurance agent tho
Roguo Rivor vnlloy has over scon. Ir
rigation in thiB vnlloy is nn insurnnoo
rather thnn n nooossity. Tho vnlloy
in a wny is n paradox, It needs wn
tor nnd yot it doos not nood wntor.
For yours tho vnlloy hns produced
tho vory finost of fruit without irri
gation, nud Btill with irrigation bottor
results nro obtninod. By furnishing
wntor tho orohnrdist knowB that ho
is indopondont of rainfall, nnd nl-
ttiougu nature bus ovor boon kindly
toward tho Roguo Rivor fruitmen, it
may soraotimo got in n ennkerons
framo of mind and then if tho water
is nt hand tho fruitmen need not
worry.
It is n formidnblo undortnking
which Mr. Cuminings Iuir tackled.
Whon his plans nro consummated ho
will hnvo constructed 350 miles of
distributing lntorals, n groat milongu
of main cnnnls and will hnvo expend
ed nonrly $2,000,000, but ho is con
fident of tho future nnd grows moro
enthusiastic as tho work progresses.
Much Work Bono.
Gront strides nro boing mado by
tho Roguo Rivor Canal company,!
Biiooossors to tho 1'isii tnko uitcu
company, in onrrying out thoir plans
to plnoo 55,000 acres in tho Roguo
Rivor vnlloy under irrigation nt an
ostimntod cost of nonrly $2,000,000,
but in spito of their host efforts tlv.o
Bystom can hardly bo completed
within fivo years, nlthough it is ox-
pootod that within' two years tho
throo mam oannla of tho company
will ho carrying wator. Whon com
plotod tho system will bo ono of tho
most oomprohonsivo found in nny
section of tho northwest and will
i
Littlo Butto creek to tho Brndshnw
drop, which, whon enlarged and
completed, will havo a capacity of
Prcil N, Cummlngs,
250 socond feet of wntor. Tho un-
oonsist of approximately 350 milos dortnking is n gignntio ono, nnd it is
of distributing 'laterals, nBldo from 'probably the grontost individual un
tho main canal from tho intako on 'dortnking in this section.
Throo Cannls.
Tho company nt the present timo
has a crow of men doing what work
(is possiblo on thoir low-lino canal,
(known as tho Ilopkins lateral, at tho
snrao timo furnishing water to the
lands covered by this ditch. Asido
from this construction work, they
havo n surveying party in the field,
nctually locating what will bo known
ns thoir high-lino canal, which will
follow tho foothills around tho val
ley above tho 401 ranch, Ifillcrest
nnd on south to Talent, from whoro
it will swing nrouud tho valloy back
of tho Burroll orchards on to tho
Jacksonville sohoolhouse and on to
tho foothills west of Central Point.
An intermediate canal is also undor
wny. This cnnnl will lio botwoon the
Ilopkins, or low-lino, onnnl and tho
high-lino, nnd will skirt south nnd
circle in just south of Medford.
From thoso throo mnin cnnnls innu
mornblo lntorals aro to bo construct
ed, so thnt onch -iO-acro tract in tho
vnlloy will bo plncod undor wntor.
At prosont tho construction .crow
is nt work on tho Von dor Holleu
plnoo on Yankee- crook, A great cut
has been mado from this oreok
around to whoro "tho flat country is
reached, nnd has been built with an
Gigantic Scheme for Irrigation of
55,000 Acres Rogue River Land
Is Rapidly Going Ahead.
eyo to tho futuro, having a capacity
of 175 second feet. It is plnnned to
construct a latoral from tho point
whoro tho Hopkins canal first
roaches tho dosort, west to Agato in
a straight lino,' a distance of fivo
miles, This will cover nu immense
ncrongo and will mako produotivo
what is now known ns "desert land,"
a great deal of which is owned by
tho Roguo Rivor Canal company.
A High Line Canal,
From tho- Bradshaw drop around
to Yankoo oreok tho company will
build a high-lino onnnl. In Yankee
oroek thoy will construct a powor-
houso, utilizing tho fall which thoy
oan attain thoro to lift water into
tho high-lino canal, which will pass
through tho Owens gap and hug tho
foothills until Talent is reached, i
Tho ncroagu which this canal will
placo undor wator is hown by he
fact that it will pass back of the 401,
shoot through ovor tho Hazolrigg di
vide, across tho upper end of tho
Morrick orchard, pass abovo Hill
crest, cut across Westerlund nnd
swing around the valley about the
north lino of tho Mountain View or
chard, near Talent. This will give
nn altitudo high enough for tho oanal
to pass bnck of the Burroll orchard
and cover that immense tract. This
cnnnl, whon completed, will xn
close to tho Jacksonville school and
from thonco on north to Central
Point.
Owing to tho fact that tho city ia
nt present receiving its wator BUpply
from tho Bradshaw drop, tho com
pany did not mako the improvements
in tho mnin canal from that point to
tho intako on Littlo Butto that thoy
wished. When complot6d this cnnil
will hiwj n width ou tho bottom of 13
foot nnd will bo deep enough to carry
a stroam throo fcot in depth, or 250
socond feot of wnter.
Tnkon all in nil, tho undertaking
is a gigantia ono. Before putting n
grading outfit iu tho field, the com
pany oxponded nearly $30,000 in
making a contour map of tho ynllpy
showing tho olevntion of ovory trncL
It is proving the greatest Individual
enterprise in Southern Oregon and
one that will mean much to the val
ley. .