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JiUFTH YE Alt.
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1910.
No. 27.
INSURGENTS TAKE IIP DEFI
HURLED
Representative Fowler Introduces
Resolution Which, If Adopted,
Will Virtually Rob Speaker of All
Power Except That of Mere .Pre-
sldlttt) Officer.
"IT IS FINAL STEP TO
SECURE OUR FREEDOM"
Declares Dissolution of Speaker's
Power Js Absolutely Essential to
Restoration of Freo Representa
tive Government.
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Tlio challenge of Speaker
Cannon, which was today
taken up by Fowler, wnb ns
follows:
Unload Republicans that lo
not approve of the pcnonul
ity of the spoakker join with
a solid minority, I will reinuin
speaker until the -1th of
March.
When November come you
(Minority Leader Clark) will
find that the cltlrouthip lmvu
proved you a false prophet
again.
Our friends nre nlu'nyx
ready to voto for cx'H-ndi-Hires
in their respective dis
tricts. The tariff bill hn nlrcndy
brought an laureate of rev
enue in comparison with Inst
year of over .$50,000,000.
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WASHINGTON, I). C, April 21.--Introducing
a resolution whiuh, if
adopted, will Ht rip the speaker of
nil Mtwor except that of a moro pro
biding officer, Representative Chan.
N. Fowler of Now Jorsoy, today vir
tually nccoptcd Cnnuou'rt challenge
to follow up the rules victory.
"It Is the final ritep to insure tho
absoluto frccdm of tho house," Fow
ler doclnrod.
Tho roBolution creates two com
mittoos of tho members of tho house,
0110 from tho minority and 0110 from
tho majority, empowered to soloot
all members of tho standing com
mittees. Tho resolution directs .tho consua
buroau to draw six parnllol linos run-,
mug north nnd south nnd dividing
tho country, ns fur ns practicable,
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w iu .
thnt of tho othor. 1
Tlio houso members within each;
soction will soloet 0110 of thoir nuni
bor as a membor of tho committeo
on committees.
Seven Domooratlo congressmen
will thus Boloot tho Doniooratio mem
bers of tho standing committoos and
soven RopttblicntiB will soloct tho Re-
(Continued on Page 5.)
Rescuing Party Frantically
Endeavoring To Reach 40
Miners Buried by Explosion
BIRMINGHAM, Aln., April 21.
(Thb Tonnoosoo Mining company's hos
pltal oar today took a numbor of gas
holmots to Mulgn, whoro prepara
tions aro bolng mndo to sond mon
Into tho mlno whoro 1G whlto mon
and 2G nogroos woro ontombod by an
explosion Into yostorday.
Tho mlno wns badly wrockod, nnd
tho work of roscun In nrnvlni- ,11 fM.
cult, It la bollovod nono of thoso lm
prlsonod In tho death pit survlvod,
It la bollovod that tho 40 minors
ontombod In tho Mulga mlno of tho
Birmingham Railway, Coal and Iron
company are doad.
Tho roaoitors, who worked fran
tically nil night, attempting to re-
movo tho twlstod Iron cago which
blocked tho shaft, doclaro that tho
PEAKER
CANNON
TEDDY TO
TAFTREGIWE?
Such Is Statement Made Today by
Prominent Advisor of President
Says .Roosevelt Gave His Word to
That Effect.
WASHINGTON, I). C, April 21.
"Iloosovolt, upon his return to Am
onon. will support tlio present mi
ministration from tho ground tip."
This positivo statement today wns
inndo by one of tho most prominent
of Tn ft 'h adviners, nnd i tho Into
sensntiou in iKilitical circles hero.
Tho statement was inndo in such a
way that tho inference wns plainly
intended to bo drawn that Roosevelt
has given his word to Tnft and thn
tlio inner circles of Tuft's friends
are aware of this fatjt.
lite statement coming after tho
announcement yesterday that Sen
ator Root is soon to depart for Tho
1 luetic, and the belief that ho will
see Roosevelt while abroad, lias in-
creiised interest in the statement.
Tho matter is widely discussed by
IMiliticiaiiH here.
BUSINESS MEN'S
TRIP TO CRATER
Steel and Jenkins Plan Trip This
Summer to Crater Lake by Dusl
ness Men of Portland Similar to
One Next Week.
W. II. Jenkins, traveling passenger
nKcnt of tho Southern Pacific, and
Will O. Steel of tho Crater Lnko com
pauy havo started work on tontntlvo
plans which It cnrrlod out will result
In a business mon's excursion from
Portland to Crater Lnko this summer
similar to tho ono to bo run next
week from Portland to southorn Oro
Ron points.
No dotlnlto steps havo as yot boon
takon by Messrs. Stool and Jonklns
othor than to arrnngo a meeting lat
or when tho excursion will bo plan
nod.
u is pointed out that thero are
many business men In Portland who
hftV0 v8,tcd th , fc
nrranglng guch Bn 0XCurfl0n great
R00(I would r0flU,t
RUTH WILSON WILL NOT
LOSE SIGHT BY ACID
SAN FRANCISCO, April 21. Ruth
Wilson, tho 18-year-old victim of an
acid thrower, will rogaln her sight,
nccordlng to a bulletin Issued today
by tho physicians who havo boon at
tending her.
gaooB pormoato ovory crovlco of tho
mluo and It Is hardly posslblo for a
human bolng to oxlst In tho death pit.
Soon aftor tho oxploslon a large
forco of mon woro put to work in an
ottort to reach tho mon Imprlsonod
In tho shaft. Various means woro
omployod without success.
Sovornl partlos of roscuors attempt
oil to ontor tho mlno today, but each
tlmo woro drlvon out by tho gas
fumos boforo a trnco of tho ontomb
od minors could bo found.
As a rosult of tho tutllo attompts,
tho rosouors hnvo docldod that tho
only thing posolblo to bo dono will
bo to sot machinery to work to cloar
tho shaft of gas, aftor which It will
bo posslblo to ontor and romovo tho
bodlos from tho doath pit.
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GIRL BATTLES
FOR HER LIFE
WITH CONVICT
Breaks Away Long Enough to
Scream for Aid Brother-ln-Law
to Her Aid and Succeeds in Over
powering Burly Thug Was Re
cently Released From Prison.
RE-ENTERS HOUSE TO
ROB BENEFACTOR
Criminal Had Been Befriended by
Man Upon Whose Slster-In-Law
He Made the Attack Is Taken to
County Jail.
SAN QUENTIN, Cnl., April 21!-
Arottscd by tho screams of his sis
ter-in-law, Miss Kate Misomnnn,
who was fighting for her life with
Roy I' itch, nu ex-convict, who hnd
broken into the house early today,
II. C. Ilnlvcrsoti, general hupcrhitcn-
dent of construction nt Snn Quentin
penitentiary, rushed to her uid, and
after a desperate fight succeeded in
milking the burly thug n prisoner.
Iicforc he could subdue Fitch, Hul
vorsou was compelled to bent the
man into unconsciousness with his
buro fists.
Fitch was taken to tho county ja
nt Sail Rafael this forenoon. Hal
vcrson's house is within a stone's
throw of the prison walls, nnd U
within tho gates of (be penitentiary
grounds.
ritch was released from Snn
Quentin in Fcbritury, after serving a
threo years' sentence for grand Jar
runy committed at Snn Diego, Cnl.
Just previous to his release, Fitch
was detailed ns a cook in I Inl Ver
non's house. Ho was trusted aud
when given his freedom Ilnlverson
gave him a quantity of clothing nud
some money to start lifo anew.
Ilnlverson said thnt ho bcliovcd
that Fitch hnd retttrued to Sun
Quentin for tho purpose of "getting
nm" for somo fancied wrong. Fitch
says ho broko into tho houso for tho
purposo of getting something to oat.
Miss Mosunnn arrived recently to
isit with Mrs. Ilnlverson. Sho was
slcoping in tho front room. Shortly
beforo daylight sho wns awakened by
tho feeling that someone was m the
room. Tlio noxt moment the in
truder pounced oout of tho darkness
and grabbed her by tho throat. Sho
managed to brenk his grip and then
screamed for holp.
Halverson, wh'o was in tho next
room, ran into tiio apartment ana
saw Fitch. Tho ex-couvict pointed
"jimmy" nt him nnd told Halvor-
son thnt ho would shoot him if ho
approached.
Notwithstanding thnt ho behoved
tho roan held n gun, Ilnlverson clos
ed in and thch two fought savagely.
Halverson had beaten Fitch torribly
boforo tho prison guards arrived.
CITY ATTORNEY ROASTS
POLICE; IS REMOVED
ABERDEEN, Wash., April 21.
City Attorney A. M. Wndo vnented
ns offico in tho city hall today fol
lowing notico of his removal by tho
ity council Into lust night. Tho
council's notion .wns tnkon on recom
mendation by Mnyor Bonnott, nnd re
sulted from a controversy botweon
Wndo nnd tho polico dopnrtmont, in
to couruo of which tho methods of
tho polico woro caustically critioisod.
Sovoral days ago a man was or-
rostod, ehnrgod with stealing a dia
mond ring and hold for trial without
nil. Boforo his enso wns cnllod,
towovor. tho prisonor wns roleasod,
tho officor in chnrgo of tho station
oolnring ho hnd boon ordorod to do
so ovor tho tolcphono by n person ho
supposed wns tlio city nttornoy.
Wndo doniod issuing tho ordor nnd
mndo uncomplimentary observations
hioii displeased tho mnyor.
Lnst night Mnyor Bennett doolnr-
od thnt either tho polico or city nt
tornoy hud falsified nnd ono or tho
thor must go. Tho council wont
into oxooutivo sossion with Wndo in
ttendnnco,
Hughes To Get
Brewer's Seat?
rw York Him Huj-n Tuft Will Offer
Vnuicj'i Htiprcnio Benin to
Si-w Vork'w Executive.
NEW YORK, April. 21.-Tlie New
lork nun tins morning printed n
specinl dispatch from Washington
winch khvh! "It can lie Mated on
good authority that .iJreMdcnt Tnft
has decided to offer the vnenncy on
the supremo bench caused by the
death of Justico Brewer to Gover
nor Hughes of New Vork."
The article goes-on to tnte tlia
there in doubt that Hughes will ac
ccpt the offer, should it be made.
ROOSEVELT NOW
IN GAY PUREE
Signalizes His Entrance Into French
Capital by Hurling "Lie" at New
York Sun, Saying That the Edl
' tors Knew Better. ,
PARIS, April Sl.Parls bestirred
herself at an unusually early hour for
the French capital 11:30 to wel
como Theodoro Roosevelt. In spite
of tho untimely hourfor arising
great throng was present at the depot
to welcome the American,
Mnny notables were In the rotun
da of the station to welcome Roose
velt, among them being M. JuBserand,
French ambassador tolthe United
States.
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Tho Roosovelt party Stent to the
homo of American Ambassador Bacon
and remained thero until they at
tended a formal luncheon at tho cm
oassy. Later Roosevelt called upon
President Fallleres at his office, Pres
Idcnt Fallleres returned tho visit by
calling upon Roosevelt nt Ambassa
dor Bacon's home, Fallleres placed
his box at the Comodlo Francalso to
night nt tho disposal of tho Roosc-
velts. Tho bill Includes "Uncnpolco"
nnd "Oedlpo Rol."
In tho course of tho afternoon
Roosovelt commented on a dispatch
appearing In tho Now York Sun quot
ing him ns saying that tho Methodists
at Rome wero worso than tho Cntho
lies and that when ho returned to
America ho would take steps to have
them drlvon from Romo.
Roosovelt said:
"Tho statement is an unqualified
falsehood, and tho Sun rauBt havo
known it was a falsehood when it
printed It."
SOON TO CHANGE
P. S E.JSCHEDOLE
Afternoon Train Will Leave Medford
at 5 o'clock Instead of 3, as at
Present Will Help Ball Fans on
Sunday.
Tho Pacific & Enstorn Railroad
company Is planning to chango tho
attornoon echodulo of tho Baglo Point
limited so that tho hour of doparturo
for tho up-country metropolis will bo
5 o'clock Instead of 3 as at present.
Tho chango Is mado at tho request
of Eaglo Point patrons. It will glvo
thorn a longer tlmo to do thoir shop
ping In Medford and will allow tho
ball fans to enjoy Sunday gamos In
this city.
STAFFORD STUDENTS ARE
SEEING THINGS NOWADAYS
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal.,
April JJl. Do ghosts haunt tho ru
ins of tho Stanford library, which
wont down In tho earthquake of April
18, 1906? Do shados of former burn
ers of tho midnight oil or of dopartod
professoru sook to pursue tho undor-
graduatos with clanking chains and
othor well known shiver producers?
EFi
VISITORS PLAN
OF LOCAL CI
Commercial Club Appoints Committee
to Get 200 Automobiles to Take
Portland Business Men for Ride
Throough Valley Next Tuesday,
When They Reach Medford.
COMMITTEE NAMED TO
AID ENUMERATORS
April 27 Is Date of High Jinks and
Angle Opera House Is Place A
Good Time Is Promised for All
You Are Invited.
At Wednesday night's meeting of
the Commercial club It was unanl
mously decided that an automobile
drive through the orchard section
be given tho visiting members of the
Portland business men's excursion
next Tuesday when they reach Med
ford. Thero will be over 100 vsitors
and It is desired to have at least 200
cars to greet them upon arrival. A
committee on program of entertain
ment was appointed as follows: A. H.
Miller, chairman; John S. Orth, J. S.
Perry, W. F. Isaacs and H. D. Mc-
Brlde. A reception committee to wel
come the visitors was appointed, con
sisting of W. II. Canon, F. B. Mer
rick, W. W. Elfort. J. B. Enyart, W. !
I. Vawter, W. S. Crowell, George L.
Davis, George Bordeau, George Put
nam, J. F. Heady, J. B. watt, E. u
Watterman, "W. H. Gore, J. M. Keene,
Colonel Frank Tou Velio, Dr. R. G,
Gale and T. E. Daniels. These as well
as other members aro requested to
bo present when tho excursion ar
rives.
Aid Census Enumerators.
A commltieo of five, consisting of
E. M: Andrews, Dr. L. Bundy, Sidney
Brown, J. C. Brown and J. W. Dress
ier, was appointed to aid the census
enumerators in securing names of
Medford residents. They will wait
upon hotels and rooming houses and
leavo blanks, and enlist the co-opora-
tlon of the proprietors nnd clerks In
seeing thnt no guest or lodger is
omitted. Tho secretary was Instruct
ed to send out five census blanks to
each member of the club with a lot
ter requesting that they secure tho
required data from persona not listed.
A committee of five, composed of
Messrs. Medynskl, Westerlund, Klum,
Nye nnd Root, were appointed to se-
curo pledges for monthly subscrip
tions for tho publicity fund for the
club for tho coming year, last year's
pledges having run out.
For nigh Jinks.
The high Jinks committee reported
thnt April 27 had seen sot as tho date
for tho club entertainment and that
tho Anglo opera houso had been se
cured.
Tho names of Dr. Edward P. Geary
of Portland, Or., was presented by
Will G, Steel, and S. F. Kolrns by
tho secretary, as new members and
were elected by acclamation.
Mr, Rosenbaum, chairman of the
building committee, read 14 options
received by tho club on available
sites for erecting a now club build
ing. Tho commlttoo was Instructed
to go over the options, recommend
tho one to bo accepted, and formulate
a plan for financing the purchase and
construction of a building. The com
mittee stated that the city council and
mayor had agreed to glvo tho club
free use of tho city hall, which would
savo J50 a month rent.
Tho matter of tho club taking space
at tho Chicago National Apple show
waB postponed until tho publicity
fund was raised.
F. II. Cowles of Big Sticky brought
up tho matter of an R. F. D. route
ovor thnt section of tho valley, and
roquestod tho co-operation and as
sistance of tho club In securing mall
sorvlco for a rich soction of the coun-
ry now ontlroly without mnll service
of any kind.
Mr. Cowles also spoke of tho wa-
tor situation and his romarks re
questing thnt n compromise bo offect-
od and tho wator problem finally
solved, mot with npplauso,
WO RID
OANLEY SAYS II
TO A
FINNS PROPOSE
TO DEFY CZAR
Diet Plans to Place People In Posi
tion to Resort to Vigorous Method
of Resistance After Letting the
World Know Truth of Situation.
HELSINGFORS, April 21. The
Finnish diet proposes to defy the
czar in the letter's attempt to rob
Finland of its constitution nnd lib
erties sad to make it a mere prov
ince of Russia. It is conceded that
the defiance will accomplish nothing.
No doubt is felt that Nicholas in
tends to push his program through,
whether the diet acquiesces or not.
The Finnish lawmakers' action will
raise a clean-cut issue, however, nnd
place the Finnish people in a posi
tion where they can resort to more
vigorous methods of resistance after
having let the world know that they
have done everything in their power
to defend themselves by peaceful
means against the establishment of
a despotic power over what has hith
erto been perhaps the freest country
(Continued on Page 5.)
MARK TWAIN IS
SLIGHTLY BETTER
Patient Comfortably Resting Today,
Although He Is Weaker Than at
Midnight Only Few Allowed in
Sick Room Heart Stimulated.
REDDING, Conn., April 21.
physlclan's bulletin Issued at
A
12
o'clock today announces that Mark
Twain Is weaker than he was at mid
night. The bulletin states that prob
ably ho will becomo weaker during
the day.
The patient Is resting comfortably
this afternoon.
In spite of his Increased weakness,
tho writer was brighter t6day than
he has been for a weok past. He gave
out a statement himself for the com
fort of his family. It was simply:
"I am thinking as well as ever. My
great trial Is that I cannot seo my
friends."
Twain's only daughter, her hus
band, the doctors and tho nurses are
tho ou'.y ones allowed In tho sick
room.
Albert BIgelow Payne, the author's
literary assistant for years, has been
refused permission to see him.
There aro conflicting talcs regard
ing the humorist and his lifelong
friend tho cigar. That he Is smok
ing, though In great moderation,
seems probable.
ROIW ON
Desperate Criminals Seize
Locomotive and Dash From
Prison Yards To Freedom
LEAVENWORTH, Knn April 21.
Five of tho most dangerous con
victs In tho fedoral prison overpow
ered tho crow of a switch engine In
tho prison yards, forced tho engineer
to run tho locomotlvo out into the
country and oscaped,
Two mon unarmed
woro quickly
rocapturod.
The others wero armed
and told tho englnoer that they would
not bo tnkon allvo. Forty guards of
tho prison and a company of soldlorsj It Is believed that tho fugitives get
boarded a special train and started their arms from ex-convlcts. T&e
In pursuit of the fugitives. oscapo from tho prison yard was o
The escuped convicts woro later ro- of tho most spectacular ever record
ported to be In hiding In a wlno eel- here. Tho convicts compelled tho ea
lar nine miles from tho prison. glneor to uso tho locomotlvo as a feat-
Tho convicts aro Arthur Hunt,torlng ram In breaking down tke
Frank Grlgwaro and Thomas Kent-' prison gate.
S WILLING
TROVERSY
Says He Will Meet the City Official
at Any Time and Will Entartahr
Any Proposition Made "luf If
the City Wants to Fight, I Am H
Quitter."
INSISTANT DEMAND IS
MADE FOR ARBITRATION-
General Sentiment Am wig iu$iner
Men Is to Avoid Further Utifa
tien Water Can The Be. SecwMl
in a Few Weeks.
An insistent demand that
the water problem bo sottlcd
by arbitration with M. P.
Hanlcy is evident in tho city
today. Business men arc all
seemingly of one mind in re
gard to tho matter and are
urging an early settlement of
the controversy.
It is a foregone conclusion
that, owing to the law's de
lay, the caso will bo kept in
court for an indefinite period,
and in tho meantime greater
loss would be sustained by in
jury to tho pipe line- than the
money necessary to pay Mr.
HanlGy for a 'settlement.
M. P. Hanloy, who tho city in su
ing for right of way for a pipe Un
across, bis LUUo Butte ranch, and
who in turn is sueing the city to
enforce his contract, wherein tho city
contracted for Wasson canyon wa
ter, states that he is willing to sub
mit tho matter to arbitration and to-
abido by its results.
"I am willing and anxious to set
tle tho controversy with tho city'
said Mr. Hanloy. "I am heavily in
terested in the city, and want to see
its water supply assured. I will
meet the mayor and council any time
and will entertain any proposition
made. I do not want to hold up' the
city, but I want what I think I ara
justly entitled to, but if the city in-
sistg on figntinR.f j. tnink
T have-
proved that I am not a quitter.
"I am willing to leave tho matter
to arbitration. I offered to com
promise last fall and tile city mighb
have had Wasson canyon water all
winter, but my proposal was not en
tertained. Whatever step is takes
should bo taken at once, before-fur-thor
complications ariso from a
chango in ownership of the landVr
General sentiment among -feuswesa
men is in favor of a compromise and
a speedy settlement of the water
proposition. Evory day that tbe
matter is delayed works an injury to
tho community, claim the property
owners. Even those who rabidly op
posed Wasson canyon now admit
that it is uo longer policy to con
tinue the litigation.
The city is now supplied by water-
(Continued on page 5.)
Ing, all sentenced to the prison for
liro. Hunt and Keating were ring
loaders In the prison broak of 1S"1,
when 26 prisoners escaped and tbree
wero killed by guards.
Following that escape Hunt aneV
Keating wero convicted of murdor an&
sentenced to life Imprisonment. Grig-
.ware was ono of tho Union Paclfl
train robbors recently sentenced from
.Omaha.
Ho was captured In Idahe-
after tho robbory.