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POTJI YEAR.
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 38, 1910.
No. 102.
SCORES OF BLOODY RIOTS ARE
W
OVER
GREAT FRENCH
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BEING REPEATED
Military Authorities Arc Throwing
Heavy Bodies of Troops Into the
Cities to Stem Revolutionary Tide
Fighting and Bomb-Throwing
BAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, July -8.
HcoreH of bloody riots In which riot
ers nnil poden nllko miffo'cd swept
Spain ycatcnluy and today.
AlthoiiKh dUphtchcH from Madrid
nro censored cloiioly, authoritative In
formntlou lma boon received Hint
flpn'n Im on tho ovo of tho greatest
revolution In hor history.
Tho forccn nt work against tho
Spanish crown nnd cnhlnet r.ro sim
ilar to tliono of tho gront Kronen rev
olution, Secret soclotlcn In n dozen
cltlcn havo rocolvod upon concortod
nctlon nnd n uror.t "strike" Ih spread
ing throughout tho peninsula.
Alrendy In Barcelona, Illlliao, Go
ronn, Snntador, Oljon nnd Saragossa
strikes havo been declared. Tho mil,
Itnry nuthorJtlCB hnvo thrown heavy
bodies of troopn Into tho cities to
Htom tha revolutionary tldo,
Tho KOi10r.1l opinion horn la that
Spain In nflnmo with revolt nnd Hint
tho klnK and cabinet, after yester
day's conference, are prepnrlnR to
Huupond tho constitution and dcclaro
martial law.
Ban 8ebnntlnn on tho northern const
and Hnrcclonn on tho Moi'ltarrnnonn,
both adjacent to Frnnce, havo been
mado tho hcadquartors of tho plot
ters, It la Mid.
Hnrcclonn, owing to tho strong gnr
rUon placed thoro lnat week by Gou
oral Woylor, was roported quiot today.
Fighting nnd bomb throwing la gen
eral In other parts of Spain, but tho
government Is suppressing tho disor
ders. Underlying tho demands of tho pop
ulnco for tho curtnllment of tho pow
ers of tho church In Bpnln la tho rap
Id growth of tho ropubll'ni! party,
with Its doslro for tho abolishment
of tho crown nnd tho cortea and for
tho oHtnhllsl in en t of a roprcsontntlvo
body elected by tho peoplo.
Tho republicans hnvo been nldod by
tholr brethren of Franco nnd by bo
clnllHtlo nnd anarchistic soclotlon In
other cnpltnlH of Europe. These havo
supplied tho Spanish agitators with
futidH and mnny promlucnt socialist
londors havo promlsod pcrsonnl nld
In tho npproachlng crisis.
It Is hollo vod hero, tho summer
capital, thnt King Alfonso hnti been
kept In Ignorance of tho strength of
tho rovolutlonnry movomont nnd of
tho weakness of his own party, It la
admitted thnt tho iirmy Is oaten with
sedition nnd thnt tho secret societies
havo worked BitccoBsfully In tho nrmy,
so thnt mnny of Its offlcors nnd men
aro rendy to Jolt
REVOLUTION
MRS. CRIPPENS BODY GOES
TO LONDON PAUPERS GRAVE
LONDON, July 18. Tho mutilat
ed, dismembered, limo-ontoti body
taken from the collar of ill) Ililldrop
CroHconl, tho former homo of Dr.
Hiiwloy II. Crippen, will go to it puu
por'H grnvo today and will ho classed
in tho official records of tho coroner
in tho list of unidentified dead.
Tho groat murder mystery of Isl
ington hoenmo deeper today follow
ing tho preliminary honring by tho
coroiior, whon Dr. Marshall, tho po
lice Hiirgcou, slated that thoro win
no lugnl ovidenco to show that tho
body wiih that of u woman, much less
thnt of Mrs, Crippen,
Tho strongest link in the chain of
suspicion attaching Crippon's nnino
, o tho piystory is tho disiiiipoiirunoo
of Mrs. Crippon, tlio ullegod flight of
I)r, Crippen with Mile. Leneve, his
typist, nnd tho comploto fniltiro of
SUNNY
SPAN
UNCLE SAM MAKES
CHANGE IN SIZE
OE LOT WANTED
Will Consider Proposals for Lot 1 00
Feet in Depth With 20-Foot Alley
In Rear Probably Several Addi
tional Lots Will Now Be Offered.
Tho supervising architect of tho
United States treasury department
has advised Postmaster Woodford
thnt proposalu for tho salo of prop
erty for tho now federal building In
this city would bo considered for Iota
having n depth of 100 feet with a
110-foot alloy In tho rear, provided
tho width of tho property 1b such as
to give approximately tho nrcn first
called for, which waB for a lot 14 Ox
140 lu slzo.
This makes It possible for moro
proposals to bo mado and tho numbor
of those nlrondy tondored will prob
ably bo considerably Increased.
8722 KILLED
ON RAILROADS
OEU.S.INYEAR
Great Majority Aro Trainmen 59,
626 Persons Were InjuredRoads
Carried Durinn Year 891,000,000
Passcnncrs.
WASHINGTON, D. C, July IS.
Railroads of tho United Stntcs killed
8722 persons, injured riO,C2G during
tho yenr ending Juno 30, 1910, ac
cording to n synopsis of tho annunl
report of tho lutcrstnto commorco
commission glvon out today.
Tho roport shows that 253 passon
gers woro killed nnd 10,000 Injured;
1.14-1 trnlnmon mot death nnd 29,000
were Injured, Tho numbor of tros
pnssora killed was 4944. Ono passon
gor wnu killed to ovory 3, GOO, 000
cnrrled. Tho total numbor of pas
Bongors carried waB 891,000,000. Tho
pr vnluo of outatandlng stock Is gov
on (it SI, 750,000,000.
To Build Torpedo-Boats.
LONDON, July 18. The ndmirnl
ty, nfter conducting n series of prno-
tieo operations with submarines nnd
heavy toimngo warships, iiiiiiounecd
today Hint tlio experiments have
hIiowii tho growing vnluo of under
soil torpodo-bonts and that further
mnnouvors with tho little craft will
ho curried on.
tho polioo to offer nny other solu
tion thiiii that of wife murdoi
Inquest Adjourned,
Tho coroner heard the testimony
of police officials today and then
adjourned tho inquest for one mouth.
In the interim Scotland Yard must
first establish beyond doubt that
Mrs. Crippen is dead. Tho whole
fabric of tlio murder theory ih built
about that surmise. Her disappcav
uiico is one point in their favor, but
tho remains found in Islington luivu
not boon legally identified.
Dr. Marshall's tostimony was tho
most seusatiounl disclosure yet made
by tlio authorities in connection with
tho mystery, It boars out tho state
mont of Dr, Popper, tho govorinnont
analyst, given exclusively to tlio
United Press, that tho polico hiu'o
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GREAT DAMAGE
DONE BY FOREST
FIRE IN IDAHO
One Man Insane, Many Settlers
Homeless as Result of Conflagra
tion Which Destroyed Mills anil
Timber Worth Tens of Thousands
WALLACE, Idaho, July 18. Ono
man has boon driven insane, half n
doeon settlors' homos have been de
stroyed, tons of thousands of dol
lars' worth of timbor has. burned,
mills of ono mining company havo
been wiped out by a forest firo which
is burning in tho Pine Crook district
today. Tlio flamos, according to last
reports, woro rapidly advancing to
ward Kellogg Poak, Ono hundred
and, fifty men fought tho furious
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HERBERT QUICK
Order for the Paper Today
UNCLE SAM MAY
BE FORCED TO
RESTORE ORDER
Secretary Knox May Invoke the
Amended Monroe Doctrine in Or
der to Restore Peaco In Central
America.
WASHINGTON, D. C July IS.
Tho amended Monroe doctrine na
enunclntod by former Prosldont
Itoosovelt may bo Invoked by Secre
tary Knox within nN short tlmo as
tho guiding principle for tho United
States In endeavoring to put an ond
to tho troubles in Nicaragua.
Itl s admitted by tho stato dopart
mont officials that it Is only a mat
tor of tlmo boforo tho Madrlz roglmo
will bo brought to n decision. Tho
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MORE STEEL HERE
EOR USE ON THE
PACIEICSEASTERN
Eight Cars Have Arrived and Work
of Laying Track Is Undertaken
Will Bo Running Trains Into Butte
Falls Before September 15.
With tho arrival of six additional
cars of steol for tho Pacific & Eastorn
railway, making eight to arrive of
tho 4C on tho way, work hns been
resumed on laying track an tho road,
and It is believed now that by Sop
tombor 15 trains will bo running in
and out of Uutto Falls.
The track laying farcu has been
lavgoly Increased and thoro will bo
no letup until tho work is complet
ed. Tho contractors will havo tho
lino to Uutto Falls graded soon.
FREIGHT WRECK
24 CARS ARE
FOREST FIRE NOW
MOSQUITO SWAMP
Men Are Needed to Fight a Fire on
NG
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the Forest R'eserve, Which Also mulr, Causes Bad Wreck Train
Threatens Settlers Men to Be men Are Killed Sunday EveaiM't
Sent From Medford to Assist.
A forest flro Is raging In tho vi
cinity of tho Mosquito swamp station
ncr the headwaters of Willow creek
and at tho base of Mt. McaLughlln.
A force of men is being organized
in Medford tj go to the assistance of
tho rangers and the citizens.
Tho location of tho fire is Just
across tho forest reserve lino and
there Is danger of it coming over the
divide to Little Butte and 'doing dam
age to settlers in that valley.
HIBERNIANS ARE
GATHERING EOR
. PORTLAND MEET
Thousands of Delegates Are Pouring
Into Convention City Preparatory
to Opening Session Tomorrow-
Many Important Matters.
PORTLAND. Or., July 18. Dele
gates to tho national convention of
the .Anclenl Order of Hibernians,
which convenes In Portland tomorrow
und continues throughout tho week,
aro pouring Into the city on every
train today.
When tho first session convened it
is estimated that 10,000 strangers,,
attracted to tho city by tho conven
tion, will be here.
Tho streets aro decorated and ev
ery shop window displays some em
blem of the order. Tho' delegates
have taken Portland by storm. Tho
Philadelphia delegation of 200 per
sons arrived lato last night. A few
of the California delegates have
reached Portland, and moro aro ex
pected today. Tho Massachusetts del
egation arrived today from Seattle,
where the party had stopped off for a
short visit.
All tho national officers, with tho
exception of Rev, John Kennedy, a
director, are in Portlnnd. Rev. Ken
nedy Is 111 at Seattle An Informal
meeting of tho delegates will bo held
tolnlght for tho purposo of "getting
acquainted."
"Wo expect to bring about a union
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IF PRESENT CONFERENCE FAILS
GREAT STRIKE WILL COMMENCE
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 18.
Although both sides aro hopeful that
an agreoraent may bo reached at a
conferenco betweon tho trainmen and
conductors of the Ponnsylvnnla rail
road men and General Mnnngor Mey
ers, It Is conceded on both sldea that
If tho conferonco falls a strike can
not bo averted.
Elaborate preparations havo beon
mndo for tho conferences. Tho unions
will bo represented by officials of tho
different organizations and represen
tatives from most of tho locals af
fected. It Is expected that tho whoo mat
ter will bo gono over from tho be
ginning and a detorralned effort will
bo mado to reach an agreement.
Loaders of tho unions and officials
of tho railroad aro reticent and neith
KILLS FOUR;
PILED IN DITCH
TRAFFIC ON S. P.
TIED UP FOR 24
HOURS: NO MAIL
Broken Rail at Gibbs, Near Duns-
Trains 24 Hours Late.
Four men were killed, 24 cars wer
piled In tho ditch, tho track torn up
for a quarter of a mllo and traffic
delayed 24 hours on the Southern
Pacific, when a freight train was
wrecked bolow Dunsmuir Sunday
morning, according to reports receiv
ed In this city. A broken rail Is
said to havo been responsible.
A number of local peoplo who plan
ned to leave for Portland Sunday eve
ning were unable to do so, as tha
northbound trains failed to com
through. They are reported duo thin
afternoon about 24 hours late.
The wreck Is said to havo been re
sponsible for the death of four oC
the train crew, but particulars are
meager. Twenty-four cars are said
to havo left the track.
No mall was received from the
south today, owing to tho blockade.
MAN POUND COMPLETELY
ARMORED HEAD TO FOOT
BOZBMTN, Mont.. July 18. Bozo
man is facing a genuine mystery to
day. Tho mystery Is a man who,
when arrested hero Saturday night,
on general suspicion, was found to
bo attired almost from head to foot
in a suit of homo made armor.
A steel plate was fitted on the in
side of his cap. On his foro arms
were two steel bracelets, which pro
tected his flesh from tho wrist to
elbow. Theso plates wero connected
with other ones which covered his
body by strips of cloth sewed togeth
er.
In addition to his armor, tho man
was a walking arsenal. In ono pock
et tho authorities found a 38 Colt's
automatic rovolvor, In another an old
fashioned "bulldog" revolver of Eng
lish pattern, besides soyeral knives
of varying lengths. The fellow gave
two names. As soon ns he learned
that ho was not arrested on any spe
cific chnrgo, ho refused to talk fur
ther or to explain his elaborate
scheme of protection against gullets
and knives.
THINKS HE HAS FAUND
A CURE FOR TUBERCULOSIS
PITTSBURG, Pa., July 18, An.
nouncement by Dr. S. O. Dixon, state
commissioner of health, that the
board has discovered a preventive for
tuborculosis which may soon bo used
ns a complcto specific Is today caus
ing much discussion In medical clr
clous. Tho discovery, Dr. Dixon said,
will bo equally efficient as a cure.
er will express an opinion as to the
probalilo outcome of tho conference.
Both Bides, meantime, aro preparing
for tho strugglo that is oxpoctod in
caso tho conferonco falls. Tho unions
It la said havo mado minute plans for
tho conduct of tho strlko and If It is
called they will bo ablo to tlo up the
railroad almost completely within a
very few houre nftor tho order takes
offect, It Is said,
On tho other hand, It Is said, the
officials havo mado plans for oper
ating undor tho difficulties that the
unions will throw In their way, aad
thoy will use ovory offort to preveat
n tleup of their business.
Army enuincors declare thnt the
Mnino enn't bo raised for $300,009,
Thou let's raise the mite.