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Medford Mail Tribune
UNITKD I'KHSH ASSOCIATION
Pull Leaned Wlro Itcport.
TIIIC WIOATIIKK.
Tonight mill tomorrow Fair
mill warm
Tho only paper In the wort
published In a city ths ium tA
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Medford bavin u loaied wtr.
fifth YEAR.
MEDFORD, OREOON, TUE3JMY, JULY 19, 1910.
No. 103.
MOB NEARLY LYNCHES NEGRO PORTER
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ARRESTED
Negro Pullman Porter Taken From
Train and Lodged In Jail Victim
Is Daunhtcr of Well-known Resi
dents Grants Pass Indignation
Runs High In Neighboring City.
Lnurn Moan, 16. tho daughter of
Joseph Moimi, United 8tntca In ml com
iiilmilonor at (IrantH I'nnB, wqh tho vic
tim of nil r.ttomptcd nHHiiult nt tho
hnmlH of J. IC. Hnndorx, a negro Pull
man porter, thin morning on train
No, IC between Kugono nnd Hoko
burg. Tho girl did not toll lior story
until )io loft tho train .it Grants
Pawn, nnd then only to her father,
who Immediately notified Sheriff
Htmiioll of Joseph Ino county. A large
crowd of inon nt tho dopot got wind
of the affair nnd upon their making
threntH of lynchltiK tho negro wnn
not taken off tho train hy tho Hhorlff
until Jones rreolc, four miles from
Ornntn I'aan. was reached. Hoportn
from Grant I'bhh nro to the offect
that fooling Is running IiIrIi against
tho negro.
According to tho glrl'ii story, San
ders cntno to hor north In tho early
morning bourn nnd offered hor aomo
candy. Thin nho refiiflcd and thon
unyH tho negro InHiilted hor. Further
than thin tho i;lrl will not toll hor
Htory, hut nho Ih uninjured. Hor
threntH to nrouxo other pnnxcnKora
cniiHed tho negro to leavo hor.
According to trainmen on No, ID,
SnnderH Ih n comparatively new em
ploye of tho Pullman company.
HeporlH from Grants Pans aro to
the effect that fooling Ih running high
nnd that Sheriff Iturnell Ih taking full
, innnHiireH to protect hla prisoner. Ho
took tho prisoner bnck to Grants
Pans, where ho Ih lodged In Jail.
MIhb Mobh Ih upokon very highly of
in Ornntn P.irh, ever hulng retiring
hy unture. She Is n pretty child of
hardly IC summera. Hor mother wnu
formerly Mlna Jounlo Jncknon of Jack
Bonvllle. Tho Jaclcuon family woro
pioneer settlors.
E
h PLAN FOR HEW
CONGRESSMEN
New Apportionment as Result of Re
cent Census Already Being Con
sidered Ono to 350,000 Popula
tion May Be Ratio.
WASHINGTON, I). C. July 10.
That a new apportionment for eon
grosHinnnl roproseu In lion in nlromly
Iiointr planned by the Ilopublicnn
lenders Iiiih become known horo. Tito
plan in to prevent u great inereiiKo of
representation from tho Southern
HtntuH, whieh it is fenreil hy the llo
publicnn lenders, would endanger
the "liniiHo machine."
It in predicted that the moinbor
ship in tho liousu under the new ap
portionment will not he moro than
410, jib ugniiiRt tho present member
ship of 118(1. It iH expected tho ratio
of apportionment will bo one repre
sentative to every 1220,000 persons.
Tho prosont ratio ih ono to 104,182.
Prom figureK thnt nlromly linvo
been given out by the centals bureau
it iH estimated by tho congressmen
that tho population of tho Houth is
about 20,000,000, and thin would givo
two more representatives under the
apportionment planned. ItopublionuR
fear that tljo incronso in population
in Oklahoma will give tho now atuto
additional representatives.
ASKTHAT
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BE PAVED
City Dads Will Meet This Evening
and Consider Much Important Bus
inessAssessment Ordinances for
Sewers and for Paving Are to Be
Considered.
Tho paving of thrco additional
HtreotH In tho city will ho petitioned
for nt tho regulnr meeting of tho
city council thlH evening, and will In
nil probability ho ordered. Property
ownora have requested tho paving of
Went Tenth street from Kir to Oak
dnle, Mistletoe from Sovonth to
Tenth nnd D street from Eighth to
Twelfth atreotu. It Is undorntood
tli ut a number of othor petitions for
paving nro now holng circulated.
Tho property owners on Aider
Htreot will petition this ovonlng for
a wnter main and thoso on North Fir
will nHk thnt both wntor nnd sower
mains ho laid on their Htrcct.
Tho council will this ovonlng pass
an ntiBosmnont ordinance declaring
tho coat of lnylng tho ccwor on Jack
son strcot. Tho cost Is SC cents per
front foot of property,
Ono nHfloKHuicnt ordinance for pav
ing will bo passed. This is for Gen
chhoo street, which is 24 feet wldo
nnd tho cost will bo approximately
$.1.70 a front foot.
Other minor biiHlneRs will be trans
acted. I
OF NEGLECTING WIFE
John Stewart, laborer, was bound
over to nppenr before tho grand jury
.Monday next on n charge of falling
to biipimrt his wife.
It is nllcgod that in spite of the
fact that Mrs. Stewart was ill, her
husband neglected hor nnd failed to
provide her with the neoessurios of
life. The woman was taken to the
county hospital nnd Stewart was ar
rested nnd bound over on his prelim
inary trial.
FOLK DESCRIBES
Ex-Governor of Missouri and Presi
dential Candidate on tho Awaken
ing of the Public Conscience.
Before ono of tho largest audi
ences over assembled at Ashland, do
soph V. Polk, former governor of
Missouri, who won fnmo au prose
cuting attorney in exposing tho
grafters, mid who is mentioned as a
candidate for tho Demooratia nomin
ation for tho presidency, spoke en
tertainingly on tho awakening of tho
public conscience in tho matter of
government and the nation-wide bat
tle against corruption nnd for clean
govorniuont. His lecture, which was
tho sti)r attraction of tho Ashland
Cliuutaiupia, was interrupted with
t'rc(iient applause and at its con
clusion a public reception was ten
dered Mr. Folk.
Mr. Polk spoko in part as follows?
Groat Awakening.
Thoro lias bcon a grout awakening
on tho subject of individual responsi
bility for the affairs of city, state
and nation within tho last few years.
The public conHoiouco has boon
arousod against evils nnd things aro
not tolerated now that a few years
ago wero submitfod'to in silonco, Will
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NEUTRAL ON
CANDIDATES
Ex-President Will Not Indorse Any
Ono tor Office, But Hopes to See
Progressive Platforms Adopted hy
Various Republican Conventions
This Fall.
NEW YORK, July 19. "I havo
nevor recommended any man for of
fice nnd I do not intend to do so OiIb
year," said Theodore Hoosovelt In n
Htntemont Issued today shortly aftor
tho vUlt of Judge Klnknldo of Ohio,
who 1b a candidate for tho republic
an nomination for governor.
"I hopo progressive platforms will
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SLEWING TELLS
OF TRAIN WRECK
For 24 Hours Passengers Were
Forced to Wait Until Tracks Were
Cleared-Broken Flange Cause of
Disaster One Man Killed.
Robert Slewing of Orhiud, Cn'., u
former resident of Medford, arrived
Monday evening to visit old friends
in this city, having been delayed 24
hen: by the freight wreck on the
Southern neifie Sunday.
Mr. Slewing states that tho wreck
was one of tho worst be has over
viewed. Kight cars were piled in the
ditch nnd one man was killed. It
seems that tho engine hail two flat
cars ahead of it, besides a heavy
train. A flango on the foremost car
broke and disaster was upon them.
As the train was running fast in
order to muko a siding to pass No.
10, the ernsh was terrific. The en
gineer and firemen snt in the en
gine, on the top df which were piled
two freight cars. Neither was in
jured. For 2-1 hours the passengers
were forced to wait until the trucks
were ngnin opened to traffic.
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BATTLE BETWEEN SPECIAL INTERESTS ANO CLEAN GOVERNMENT
the movement toward litghor ideals
go on? Will not the people soon
forget? linvo not the people nlrendy
forgotten, and will not things bo al
lowed to go in tho snmo old way as
they wero before tho awakening of
the people? Thoso questions nro be
ing asked all over tho country today.
Reforms sometimes die, but revo
lutions nevor go backward, and n
revolution has been wrought in tho
conscience of men. Tho nwnkening
is merely a determination to have the
government of city, sjnto nnd nation
represent tho public interest and not
spooinl privilege. In tho battlo
against privilego somo fights must bo
lost. With each fight lost wo should
not lose courngo, but fight all tho
harder; with each fight won wo
should not becomo upnthotic, and
think nil hns been won.
Issues Heclouded.
If tho issue could bo represented
squarely between publio rights nnd
special privilego everywhere, there
would bo no doubt as to tho out
come. For tho majority of tho peo
plo hero and everywhere will do right
when they know, right. Tho repre
sentatives of privilogo aro too shrewd
to permit a plain issuo botween pub
lio rights nnd special privilege to go
before tho pcoplo1.' Thoy adroitly
President Butler
Peck of
Columbia .university has n row on her hnnds that promises to involve
n number of prominent educator. Professor Hnrry Thurston Peek wn
sued for $50,000 brench of promise. President Butler asked Peck to
resign. Peck refuses nnd dcelnres Butler bns been running the univer
sity with n Inch hnnd. Butler ndmits thnt Peck wrote his speech which
bo will deliver in LnVtn before the University of Berlin in October. The
Oermnn mnv refune ..i hear the address now.
THOUSANDS C
OUT ON STRIKE
TORONTO, Out., July 19. Thou
sands of men went out today in one
of tho biggest rnilrond strikes Can
ada has ever known nnd no trains
are running over 4."i00 miles of the
mnin lino of the Grand Trunk rnil
rond. Tho men struck simultaneously
nnd the rond is completely tied tip.
Ynrdnien, trainmen, conductors, bag
gngemen nnd shopmen quit work nnd
with n defense fund of moro thnn a
million dollnrs n month nro ready to
fight tho officials of the road to a
finish.
More than 4000 vardmen, con
ductors, trainmen and baggagemen
nro out and 5000 shopmen mo af
fected. Enemies of the People Always Unit
ed, While Good Government Forces
Don't Pull Toflether.
manage to complicate tho main issue
with other questions so ns to bowil
dor men of oven tho best intentions.
By confusing the issuo tho repre-
'sontntives of privilege divide the
forces in opposition.
Thoso who object to reform do not
usually put their protost upon the
true ground, but thoy seek somo
othor protext. They nsk why is not
this or thnt done? If ono examines
tho sourco of n complaint like this
ho will usually find that it is not bo
causo of a desire that reform bo
mudo moro thorough, but to discredit
what has been done. If ono siucero
ly desiros progress in tho way of
hotter things, instead of criticism ho
will givo his help in tho accomplish
ment of tho things wished for. Re
form always progresses by degrees
ovorything cannot bo dono in n
day.
No Injury to State.
Ono of tho obstnclos to tho prog
ress of righteousness overywhoro is
the mistaken view that it injures a
and Professor
Columbia at War.
TAFT NAMES
WASHINGTON, July 19. It was
learned today that President Taft has
decided to appoint Whitfield McKln
ley, a prominent colored man, col
lector ot customs nt Washington.
The office Is a remunerative one,
pnylng $4500 a year. McKlnley, It Is
said, received tho backing of many
lending colored men In different parts
of tho United States.
The defense fund of the union it.
snid to bo $1,350,000 monthly nnd
more bns been promised.
A few mnil trains wero allowed to
leave the terminals todny by tho
strikers, who declare they will not
interfere in nnv way with the hand
ling of the mails, but that tbev will
allow no othor trains to be moved.
city or stnte to piioonto wrongdo
ing, 1 havo henid men deplore the
exposure of publio corruption be
causo it hurts a city; 1 havo seen
men oppose the enforcement of law
against gambling nnd liquor law
lessness becnuso it injures the stnte;
I havo heard men object to prosecut
ing trust end monopolies becnuso it
hurts business.
Such viows nre entirely false. No
city can bo injured by tho enforce
ment of tho peoplo's laws; to do oth
erwise is to substitute tho will of the
official for the laws of tho people,
nnd thnt is tyranny. No stnto can
be hurt by opposing grafting; to do
otherwise is to connive at it. There
is no socrot remedy known for eviN
of this chnrnctor. Thoy cannot be
cured by hiding them. The disgrace
is not in their correction, but in sub
mission to them with supine indif
ference. Highest Civic Virtue.
It is well for a state to display its
virtues and not parado its faults, but
it should not bo forgotten thnt the
highest civic virtno is in tho over
throw of civio depravity. Oraftors,
whether in St. Louis, Philadelphia,
Chicago, San Francisco or Pittsburg,
always endeavor to have it appear
that n fight aguiost thrm is a slnn-
NEGROOFFCER
DEATH IN
FLAMES!
FOREST EIRE
Two Persons Known to Be Dead and
Hundreds of Thousands of Stand
ing Timber Destroyed Blaze
Threatens to Destroy Entire Idaho
Washington Belt.
SPOKANE, Wash., July 19. Two
persons, a woman and a baby girl,
are known to be dead, several men
are missing and standing timber and
property to the value of hundreds of
thousands have been consumed by
forest fires which are burning in
Northeastern Washington nnd in tho
Idaho Panhandle today.
The dead:
MISS PEARL BREWEN, 22, a
schoolteacher.
Her one-year-old niece, daughter
of Hon. J. S. Wyman, Plains, Mont.
Rnin is the firefighters' only hope,
otherwise a general conflagration of
the i orest'districts is feared.
Miss Breweu and her niece met n
horrible death in the schoolteacher's
little cabin on Mill creek, 18 miles
from Colville, Wnsh. The young wo
man nnd tho bnby wero sunonnded
by a fire which, it is asserted, wa
started by a farmer who was clear
ing his ranch of brush.
W. A. Trowbridge, who lived on a
neighboring ranch, has been urrested
nnd charged with starting the fire.
He will be brought to Spokane today
by Sheriff Graham.
In tho Colville district in Wash
ington and in tho Coeur d'Aleuo nnd
other parts of the Idaho Panhnndle
the forests nre sens of flumes.
Great stretches of land which were
timber-covered n weeg ago, today arc
covered with nshes. In some parts
of Idaho the smoko is so thick that
tho sun is obscured nnd nn unnatural
twilight makes tho rnvuges of the
fire fiend seem more awful.
According to reports received here
fires aro burning in tho Priest River
national forest, in -the Wnrdner, Kei
logg, Wallace nnd Colville districts.
In Montana fires nre burning in the
Blnckfoot country nnd in tho Mis
soula district. Dispatches received
horo stnto thnt big fires are burning
in Cnnnda just north of the Wash
ington state boundary and nre doing
much dnmuge.
Constant Vigilance Necessary to
Protect Rights and Good Citizen
ship the Greatest Essential.
der ngainst tho city in which thoy
operate. Criminal wealth when us
sailed always tries to bido behind tho
skirts of legitimate business mid
claim that business is being attacked.
Accordiug to their argument grafters
should never bo assailed, lest somo
iisMimo that nil in tho city aro graft
ers, and lawlessness in business
should not bo fought lest it bo siu
pected that all busiuoss is lawless.
In (ho work hoforo you thoro is
no use for tho sword, but there is a
stern demand for that courage shown
by Americuns on so many battle
fields. Tho spirit they exhibited as
soldiers of war wo shold show as
soldiers of peaco in the noblest work
to which tho patriot cnu bo callod
tho supremo nnd sublime effort to
briug n littlo nearer day by day tho
time when brothorhood nnd charity
shall rule instead of avarice and
greed; when special privilege in ev
ery form shall bo destroyed and
equal rights to all enthroned as tho
ruling principlo of publio and tho
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CITY PIPE BY
Gravity Water System Will Be Fin
ished, Unless Unforseen Delay Oc
curs and Little Butte Wafer WW
Be Turned In Concrete Head
works Nearly Completed.
Unless something unforeseen devel
ops, Medford's $350,000 gravity wa
ter system will be comploted by next
Saturday evening and Littlo Butto
creek water turned in. Tho contrac
tors arc making rapid progress and
expect to Tiavo their work entirely
completed July 23.
Tho work would Ihive been com
pleted a week earlier had It not bcoa
for a scarcity of teams with which te
handle pipo from Eagle Point to the
Hanley ranch. This pipo will all
have been delivered by Friday eve
ning and as the pipe laying gang la
keeping up with the teams, it will all
be laid by Saturday evening.
The work on the construction ot
tho huge concreto headworks Is near
ly completed.
As water has already been placed
in the pipo from SUnger's ranch to
the Bradshaw drop. It will not take
any considerable time to havo the
water filling Medford's water mains.
CITY OF ANGELS .
MAY BE DRY
Union Labor Leaders Combine With
Prohibitionists on Account of
Strike in Local Breweries and
Stoppage of Picketing.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 19.
Los Angeles will becomo "dry" with
in a year if tho campaign which will
bo inaugurated next Monday by lo
cal union labor lenders is successful.
Following their recent declaration
that thoy would endeavor to place
this city in tho prohibition column,
tho labor leaders announced that next
Monday thoy will start circulating a
petition to sccuro tho enactment of
nuti-liquor legislation.
A ninss meeting of union men and
prohibitionists will bo held on Sun
day ut which tho campaign will be
outlined. According to tho city char
tor nn initintivo petition must boar
tho signatures of 7 per cent of (ho
registered voters. About 2200 names
will bo required.
A strike of tho employes of the
several local broworics, declared sov
rnl weoks ago, is said by anti-labpr-
itcs to bo the direct cause of the pro
posed movement, the announcement
of which followed closely upon tho
passage by tho city council of an or
dinance prohibiting picketing. Both
the striking browors and motnl work
ers horo havo picketed actively sinco
tho declaring of their strikes.
CUTHBERT RESIGNS AS
COMPANY MANAGER
IL M. Cuthbort hns resigned as
muuager of tho Crator Lake Trans
portation company has has been suc
ceeded by J. C. Noff of Detroit, an
nutnmobilo man of wido experience,
Hy Saturday tho dining room at
tho lodge, on the rim of the lalci, will
bo oponcd nnd then people may board
cither at Arnut's camp or on the
lako's rim.
Cultivate a personal prido in your
ability to write .want ads that ac
complish things.
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