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1OTTH YEAR.
MEDFORD, (MIMON, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1910.
No. 108.
V
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UP
BY
City Executive of Rldjicway Vlrulnln
Is Assassinated While Slccplnu In
Garden In Hammock Swlnnlnrj Be
tween Trees Country Is Scoured
Dy Posse.
HIDOKWXV, Vn.. July 25. May
or A. II. IloiiHumau wau killed today
hy tho explosion of a dynamlto bomb
whlrh wau hurled at lilm by nn un
idontiriod poreon,
HoiiHumnn waH lying In bin ham
mode In front of his homo when tho
bomb was thrown. Tho explosion
mutllr.toil tho mayor's body terribly
and tho features wore almoHl unrccog
nlrnblo, Mombcru of tho family and frlendH
of tho mayor nro at a loan to account
for tho assassination.
Mayor IloiiHomnti wan literally torn
to pieces, though ho did not dlo for
novum! ho lira r.ftor tho oxploHlon.
Ills arniH and Iorh woro torn from
tho body and tho torso and face woro
horribly mangled.
Houseman retired to tho garden
nurrouudlng l.ln suburban homo
shortly after midnight to ueek relief
Jroin tho oppresslvo heat. Ho wno
In tho hammock, HiiRpended bctweon
two t recti near a clump of biiHhoH. Ho
had not been out of the house 15
minutes when tho family wero nwnk
tmod by a terrific report that aroused
tho entire neighborhood.
Soon after tho body had boon re
moved to the hotiHO scores of nolgh
bo rn flocked to tho Houseman resl
denco and Inquired tho cause- of tho
disturbance. Fearing that rlntH mlKht
occur, tho family announced that n
giant firecracker had oxplodod.
At daylight the shorlff was noti
fied of tho assassination. Ho called
together hovuniI of the town's load
ing citizens and a posse of 500 men
was quickly .ircoslzcil. With tho aid
of bloodhounds tho surrounding coun
try Ih boln; scoured. Tho pollco In
nearby cities hnvo been notified and
nro on tho outlook for tho aRsaaeln.
It Is belloved that tho bomb was
thrown by a una who had hidden
himself In the hushes near tho ham
mock. PEAR PACKING
SCHOOL OPENS
Over 40 Students Appear at the
Openlnrj of the School Teaching
Only Those Who Intend to Work
This Season.
With over 40 students, tho pear
packing school under tho nusplcos of
tho Roguo Hlvor Fruit & Produco as
sociation oponod Mouday morning,
and puckers nro being drilled on a
propor handling of fruit. Tho asso
ciation has sont out u request for
jiourH for uso In tho school.
A competent corps of teachers,
comprised of tho moat export puck
era In tho valley, Is in charge,
Bach pupil will bo given two days'
instruction In tho art of packing pours
which Is expected to put tho tyros
In shape to make n good pack.
No ono will bo taught who doos not
Intend to follow tho business of puck
Ing through tho season, as there aro
so many willing applicants that tho
time of tho liiHtructorn will bo en
tirely taken up. Tho association
would bo glnd to teach nil, but nro
compelled to confine their efforts to
thoco who oxpect to work.
Sortors and plckors will bo noodod
by tho association as soon as tho
season commences, and porsnns wish
ing this class of employment should
roglster at tho association building
bo that thoy can bo glvon work ns
fast uu It dovolops.
MAY
OWN
I
HUNDRED DEAR IN
ITALIAN HURRYCANE
MILAN, July 2G. Ono hun
dred (loud and inoro tlinn
G00 I n J ii roil Ih todny'H outt
urn tp of tho dnmngo caused
Ly n groat hurrlcnno Unit
ccwopt not thorn Italy Batur
dny. Many towiiH and villages
wiiro wiped out by tho gale.
f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f UHH H
Five Perish at Philadelphia and 12 j
in New York Scores of Prostra
tlons Reported Hottest Weather
HOT WAVE
IMLLu WIANT
Of Season AlontJ Atlantic Coast ' Ih In a crltlc-.l condition today. Ono
. ' report that Lo was dead gained cir
culation a m one tho strikers and
their sympathizers and a ronownl of
PHILADELPHIA, I'a July 26. tho troublo wju threatened this morn
Pollco and hospital rocords todny at-! Ing. Afterwards It was found that
,-ih,,... fiv .innth. m vn.torJnv'n In J " r'"- wns unfounded. Tho mon,
teiiBO heat. Scores woro prostrated.
Tho weather continued hot today,
wltl. tho humidity unusually high.
Hundreds of persons slept on roofs
and In tho Btrcots Inst nluht.
NBW YOItK. July 25. Now York
Is sweltorlng under nnothor 24 hours
of terrific hen!. Twelve ilcnil ami 100
proHlrntlonv Is tho record of tho pres
ent hot spell, which began yestorday.
Tho mercury touched 93 dogrocB In
tho shade at 4 o'clock yesterday aft
ernoon. Tho weather bureau offers
no hopo of coolor woathor.
PORTLAND MAN
SHOT M STREET
Footpads Beat and Rob R. H. Irwin
In Front of His Residence Had
Few Dollars Identltl of Assailant
Unknown.
PORTLAND, Or., July 25. R. H.
Irwin, secretary of tho Inland Irri
gation company, was Bhot early to
day in front of his homo, GIG North
rup street, by two strangers. Whllo
his injuries nro serious, it Ib bolioved
Irwin will rocovor.
Nclgobors declare that Irwin wns
engaged In a rough and tumblo scuf
flo with two mon just n fow moments
before tho shot wns fired. Irwin
doclnres that ho has no idea of thu
Identity of his nssnllants, who es
caped, FIFTEEN INQUIRES IN
TROLLY CAR ACCIDENT
l'OHTLANl), Ore., July 2S. An
invesliirntion to bo held of n col
lision between nn eleetrio work car
nml 11 Ciuiulero intorurlnui wlneli
crashed together nonr Horing, just
outside tho city limits, Saturday
nii'lii. iMinfiiiL' tho iniiirv nf 18 nor-i'0
"1 . .1... ...n ... -'-, ,r - - - i.
SOUR.
NATION WIDE BOYCOTT AGAINST KING ALFONSO
NOBODY BUT NOBILITY SPEAK TO MONARCH
PAItIS, July 2G.Tho donth ot 178
poraoiiB In tho Ilnrcoloim riots a year
ago will bo commomorntod tomorrow
by rovolutlonlsts throughout Spain.
Hvory offort has boon mado by tho
Spanish authorities to provont n colo
brntlon ot tho bloody rioting, but tho
republicans confidently assorted that
tho colobrntloiiH will tnlto plnco and
that If tho troops Intorforo tho Dnrce
lonn rlotH will bo BiirpnsEod.
Ono of tho features of tho now turn
of nffalrH in Spain Ib tho national
boycott OKnlust KlnR Alfonso. Whor
ovor tho klnc nppoars in publlo fow
pcoplo buvo tho nobility turn out to
Kreot him, Tho throngs that for
merly marked tho monarch's public
j RIOTING BY
!j STRIKERS AT
! QflllTU fifdin
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Louis Frccl, Grand Trunk Car Rc-
1 palrer is Shot and Fellow Employ
J cs Stone Pinkertons Troops May
i Be Ordered Out to Restore Or
derLine May lie Blocked.
SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 25.
Itlotlng has broken out hero as a
result of tho shooting of Fred Frcol
J In tho Grand Trunk strike, and troops
may bo sont horo. Frcol, a car re
. pnlrcr, was shot lato yesterday and
howovor, nro in an ugly mood and
tho situation Is causing nnxioty.
President Hays. It Is said, will ask
federal protection if tho rioting be
comes serious. Ho has determined,
officials of the road 1'oro say, to
seek federal assistance if mall trains
are blocked by tho strikers.
Governor Mnsshnll hns seat Adju
tant Genornl McKee to South IJond
to keep In cloiio touch with tho situ
ation, and It t' oro Ib any indication
that tho local nut' orltlcs cannot copo
wit), tho situation, state troops will
bo ordorcd out.
Free! was Bhot by Plnkorton strike
breakers and tho clash can sod tho
flare-up of tho strlkors. Dox cars
In tho yards woro sot on flro and n
number of enrs woro destroyed In
splto of tho efforts of tho guards to
provent disorder. Clashes botweon
tho Plnkerton guards and tho strik
ers nml tho sympathizers woro fre
quent and shotc woro flrod by both
sides.
Tho Pinkertons wero stoned, but
no ono was sovoroly Injured In tho
rioting.
Tho strikers, it is said, havo threat
ened to block tho Grand Trunk horo
and tho officlnlu fear that tho shoot
ing of Frcel may result In sorloua
dlsordors. Thoy nro guarding tho
tracks today. It Is feared that an
effort may bo mado to block tho
yards and tlo up trnffic.
INVESTIGATE DEATH OF
CHINESE GAMBLERS
SAN FRANCISCO, July 2.1. -Tho
Chinese Six Companies, representing
the loutlintr merchants of Chiimtlown
todny petitioned Council General Li
Yunjr Yew to request Chinese minis
ter Clmui Yn Tonic to ask tho state
department to investigate tho death
n f Wong Dick, an aged Chinaumu,
shot in thu police in do on n gambling
houso hero.
The Chiuuese allege (lie sliootiuir
of Wong Diek was not in self" lo
fonse, ns wns claimed by policeman
MoKiieliorn, who fired the fatal shot.
Tho Siberian club, whoro Wong
l" w,,s k"lc"- , wn raided last
WB0 "" ,,, i,, were compelled
HKlit lor
iiiuir loves, alter enter
ing the rooms ot the club.
appearances nro Inciting now and it
Is said that tho Blight wolghs hoavlly
upon tho young king.
In sovornl cltlos Alfonso hns mot
dostllo demonstrations nnd ovory
whoro ho la Burrouiulod by a heavy
guard of plckod troops.
Tho Spanish censorship lu becoming
moro strict ovory day nnd tho nlort
noss of tho censors loada to tho bo
llef In Franco that sorlous outbreaks
already havo occurrod. It la known
that nil tho principal cltlos nro strong
ly garrisoned and thnt tho Spanish
officials nro standing on tho odgo ot
a suppressed but turbulent political
volcano,
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V. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., has gone to work. After a long siege of yachtlDg and antoaoblle racing young Vanderbilt
has decided that be will go to work as assistant to President Drown of tho New York Central lines. Mr. Vanderbilt
has worked before, but never long and bard. He has been president of the electric street car lines owned by the
Central, but that position did not keep him busy. For the past two years the young manbe Is but thirty-two
years of age has been In training for his new position, according to the railroad report. In "Wall street the report
la taken a mwinlnicat the Vanderbilt familr ts asatn comlnc into control of the system.
GARFIELD MAY
BY NOMINEE
Former Secretary of Interior Will
Probably Head Republican Force
Rcflulars Anxious to Secure En
tlorsement for Taft.
COLUMBUS.. O., July 25. Poli
ticians today declare tho choice for
tho republican nomination for gov
ernor tomorrow when tho stnto con
vention meets will Ho botweon former
Secretary of tho Interior James R.
Garfield and former Lieutenant Gov
ernor Wnrron Harding.
Tho Cox-Burton-Dick combination
of tho republican regulars nro plan
ning to offer a compromlso to tho
Garfield adherents. It Is said todny,
giving them tho nomination If thoy
will ngreo to endorso tho Tnft ad
ministration. Garfield, It is said, will agree to
nothing furthor than tho endorsement
of "Tnft's Intontlons." Tho result la
likely to bo on of tho biggest fights
,tho republicans of Ohlb havo ovor
faced, and ho Taft administration
Is likely to go without tho repub
lican "O. K." of tho president's homo
stnto.
Tho convention Is controlled by un
lnstructed delogates, according to n
poll conducted by Ohio uowspnpers.
Tho regulars fear that Garfield may
bo ablo to control theso dologntes,
and It Is for this reason, It is boliov
ed horo, that overtures havo boon
mado to Garfield in tho ai.turo ot a
compromlso.
Tho regulars nro oxtromoly anx
ious to glV'i tho Taft administration
tho approval of tho Ohio republicans.
Noxt to thnt thoy aro anxious to keop
tho mnttor from being fought out on
tho floor of tho convention, furnish
ing n rich bit of campaign material
for tho democrats who could point
to tho fact that tho president's own
stnto Is divided ugnlnst him.
With this situation dovolopod, tho
Gnrflold platform has proved nn of
fectlvo political club, which Is bolng
usod by tho progressives ngnlnst tho
regulars. It Is gonorally bolioved
horo that tho Gnrflold faction will bo
ablo to swing tho convention to tholr
platform, and to provent this tho reg
ulars nro willing to sacrifice tho gub
ernatorial nomination.
HEAT MUSE
OF TWO FIRES
High Temperature Causes Dust
Dust to Explode Causing Blaze
Which destroys $2,000,000 Worth
Property 50 Families Homeless.
CHICAGO, July 2.I. The lint wave
which has been mnkiuir th tempera
ture forrid in tho middle west is held
responsible for big fires which has
swept over the north-west art of the
city yesterday which caused a loss of
$2,000,00 nnd made ")0 families home
less. The North-western Malt and Grain
company's plnnt, said to bo the larg
est limiting plant in the yorld, wns
damaged to the extent of $1,300,000
and the brewery of Charles Ogren
and company, wns vertually destroy
ed, with a loss of $300,000.
It is asserted that the fire wns
caused from nn explosion of grain
dust in the plant and that the high
temperature wns responsible for the
explosion.
Nnno hns been known to have been
killed but sovornl persons have not
been nceouni"d for.
Whilo theso fires woro in progress
a largo bakery caught fire, from one
of ies ovens, nnd tho big building and
four residences burned.
NORTON SUPPLANTS HITCHCOCK AS DISPENSER
OF PLUMS FOR THE TAFT ADMINISTRATION
WASHINGTON, D. C, July 25.
A story thnt Postmaster General
Hitchcock hns been supplanted as tho
president's chief advisor by Charles
D. Norton, Tnft's now secretary, and
will leavo tho cabinet, is causing a
sllr in administration circles today.
""Hitchcock, It Is said, In tho earllor
days of tho Taft regime, wns permit
ted to direct tho distribution of much
of tho pntronago and many persons
on political missions woro roferred
to him. Ho wns a frequent visitor
at tho Whlto Houso and usunlly re
mained after cnblnot meetings to dis
cuss mnttors with tho presidont.
Since Norton hns boon secretary
Racing
Real Railroad Job.
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NEW AUTOMOBILE
BADLY WRECKED
Car Standing on Streets After Dark
Without Lights is Not Seen and
New Car Striking it, is Hurled Into
Telephone Pole.
What came nenr being a fatal ac
cident occurred Sunday evening on
West Mnin street, when a car driv
en by Clay Colo plunged into a tele
phono pole, cut It off and struck a
second pole. Ray Hodson was with
him la tho car which had no lights.
The accident wns not duo to any
carelessness on tho part of Mr. Cole.
He was driving along tho street when
a second car approached from the
rear. In front of Bert Anderson's
residence. Mr. Andorson's car was
standing without lights. Whon Mr.
Colo started to turn out for tho ap
proaching car his wheels struck An
derson's car, which ho had not seen.
This threw tho car from tho road
Into tho tolesraph polo.
Tho car, which was a now No. 19
Bulck, was wrecked. Tho young
men had 'taken It from tho garago
on a demonstration trip when tho
accident occurred. It was ownod by
Colonel P. L. Tou Velle.
ho Is said to havo been glvon first
plnco In the confidence of Taft. It Is
pointed out that tho now private sec
retary Is always nt tho right hand of
tho president. Whon Colonel Rooso
velt called at Bevorly, Norton romaln
ed nt tho president's side throughout
tho interviow. When Souator Crane
was summonod to discuss tho polit
ical situation throughout tho country,
Norton participated In tho conforonco.
Reports credit Hitchcock with tho
Intention of romovliig to Arlzonn,
where ho has business Interests and
where ho may become a candidate
for United States Bonator.
BEAR RAID
CUTS PRICES
OE STOCKS
Market Completely Demoralized hy
Onslaughts of Financiers Wh
Beat Down Prices Unmercifully
Slumps Reach Lowest Level of the
Year.
NBW YORK, July 25. The stock
market was complotoly demoralized
today as a result of bear raids by the
big financiers, who beat down price
unmercifully.
On liquidation, many of the lead
ing stocks slumped, reaching tho low
est levels of tho year In soveral in
stances. Brokers representing the
Rockefeller Interests sold United
States Steel r.nd Reading.
At tho opening of the market Rock
Island nnd Consolidated Gas lost
1 1-4; Erie second preferred 1 1-2,
and Atchhon 1 point, St. Paul, C. &
O., Reading and United States Steel
large fractions. After a recovory.
Increased selling orders again forced
the market to yield. American Loco
motive and Westlnghouse Electric
Io3t 2 1-4, Illinois Central and Wa
bash 1 3-4, Rock Island preferred
and Chicago Great Westorn 1 1-2,
United States Steel preferred and
Pennsylvania 1 3-8, and Union Pa
cific and Southern Pacific 1 1-4.
Other stocks dropped a point or more.
Before the end ot the hour thore was
another slight recovery.
The rally, however, wa3 short-lived.
Later U-iited States Rubber lost
2 1-4, AIIlo Chalmers preferred 2,
Atchison 1 5-8. nnd Loulsvlllo and
Nashville and Noriolk & Western
1 1-2. Tho coppero showed resist
ance to tho general slump.
Bonds wero easy.
The market closed weak.
T OF WAY
USE ON TRIAL
Condemnation Suit Brought by Pa
cific & Eastern Against J. J
Phipps and Others Heard Today at
Jacksonville Selecting a Jury.
Tho condemnr.tlon proceedings
brought by tho Pacific & Eastern
against I. J. Phipps and others for
a rlcht of way Into Medford was call
ed at 1 o'clock this afternoon In the
circuit court by Judge Calkins and
tho selection ot a jury commenced. A
largo number of witnesses have been
subponacd and It is probable that the
case will occupy several days.
Tho suit was Instituted by tho rail
road company upon Mr. Phipps' re
fusal to sell a right of way for what
tho company officials deomed a rea
onablo amount. Tho road Is attempt
ing to build Into Medford. At the
h nn thnt tho road bogan negotiating
for a right ot way Mr. Phipps enter
ed into an .-.groomont with O. D.
Woolvorton to soil him tho land. It
Is claimed that this transaction Is a
fictitious ono, mado In order to place
an oxcesslvo valuation on tho land.
This tho railroad company will on
donvor to prove.
When It wns found that a right of
way could not bo purchased at a
roasonnblo amount, condemnation
proceedings woro Instituted. In an
swer to tho complaint, Mr. Phipps
nskod $8000 for 1.75 acres of land
nnd S30.700 damages, making a to
tal of $38,700.
Vlco-Prosldent Gorlg will probably
bo tho first wltnoss called.
At tho cnnvonlng of court at 1
o'clock an ngroomont of couusol for
both sides tho court ordored that a
soon as tho jury was drawn they
should bo taken out to view tho prem
ises, boforo any oponlng statements
had boon mado,
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