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RS MEDPORD MAIL TRIBUNE UNITK1) PKK88 ASSOCIATION Full IcHflcd Wlro ltoport. tiii: wiflvniicit Tonlnlit mill tomorrow Fair and warm, Tho only papor In the world publlBhoJ In n city tho size of Medford having n loaned wlre iottjt year MEDFORD, ORJ3CJON, THURSDAY, AtWST IT, 19J0. No. 123. BALLINGER PASSES UP PE S Dissolution of Bathtub Trust Is Demanded By Uncle Sam Through His Attorney General. AS YET OUT CHARGE IN A GREATHAVOC IS WROUGHT Y J OF A Physicians Refuse to Say Mayor Will Ultimately Recover Question of Food Is Botlierlnu Them Say Conditions Arc Encotirajjlnfj Gnl laijher a Follower of Hearst. UOIIOKWN, N J. Aug. 11. Tho reticence of phynlrlniiH tegnrdlng tho condition of Mayor Wllllmn J. Oaynor of Now York city, wl o was nhot Toon day liy .lumen I). (Jiilkirher, a din charged city employe, Ih leading frlontlit of tho patient to fear that they aro withholding tho truth about hla chanccH of rcrovory from tho wound, Tho Miirgconn will not nay thnt Mayor Oaynor In out of danger, and thoy will not predict IiIh ultlmato re covery. Tho bout thoy will vnuchwnfo Ih tho hollof that If Infection don not not In today danger from that Kourco will havo pahikmI, WiiiiIh o Knl. Tho quoHtlou of uoiirlHhniont Ih worrying tho doctor). Oaynor weak ly IntilHtH upon more milmtantlal food than gruol and la becoming norvoun undor tho enforced Hparno diet. Tho doctom oppose giving tho patient nny Holld food, although Oaynor IiihIhIh that ho hi acciiHtomed to oat hoartlly and that If ! In present diet contlntiOH ho will hecomo weakened. Or. Rtnwnrt nt 0 o'clock Hnldr "Moyar Oaynor'a wound was drons ed recently. It looked clean and normal with no Indication of Infec tion. 1Mb condition In encouraging." (inynoe Cheerful. Mrs. Oaynor vlflltod lior husband thin morning, and Socrotnry Adam no n wan wlili tho mayor for a Hhort time. AdnuiHon upon cmorglng from tho hick room doclnrod that Oaynor wan very chcorful. "Since ho wan brought to tho hos pital," Adamnnn said, "tho niryor ban Hhown no curiosity regarding tho Identity of bin nutinlltint. When ho nuked who nhot him, no ore nt thnt tlmo know, and Hlnco then bo linH not ugnln liHiulrod. I think that If ho IniprovoH nt tho preHont rate." ho will noon ho nhln to go to tho Adirondack inountnlnH, Thnt will not bo for a week, however, as bo cannot bo mov ed boforo then." a KOMX)vimdr hkaiist Gallagher Calmly DInciikm-k Assault on Oaynor HuyN Ho llelleven In llcnrxt and Buying. .IKIlflRY CITY .v7.T Aug. 11. Continued on Pnjjo Fjvo FULTON HERE Former United States Senator Who Secured Federal Court for Mcd ford Is Spending Some Tlmo In Southern Orcfjou. r'uriuor United Slates Senator CluuleH W. Fulton, accompanied by Mrn. Fulton, Mr. nnd Mrs. C. E. Utinyou, Air. nnd Mrs. W. S. Hoine and A. (', Fulton arrived in Mudfortl WodncHdny nl'ternoon on an outing in this Hoetiou of the state. Tho party will spend a day or twow look ing over Iho valley nnd will then leave for Crater Luke. Mr. Fulton Iiiih long been u friend of thiH Houtiou, Ouo of his last acts before retiring from tho koiiuIo was to Hoouro for Medford u lenn of tho United States federal court. Ho spent home time huro last year in vestigating conditions with n view of finding n lomition for his son. Asked rogurdiug tho political sit nation in, Oregon, ho guve us his bo lio f that tho assembly candidates would nil win onsily. VACATION BY FLOODS Hundreds of Families Face Starva tionThousands of Homes Are In Ruins Great Suffering Through out Island of Hondo All Commu nication Is Blocked. TOKIO. Aug. 11. Iiicii'iisiiiu iiuinberH of fatalities and diHiisloiK fiom Hoods throughout the isla.id of Hondo lire icported today. Iliin dreds of persons in the prefect uie of Shimada, Shidziiokn and Tokio, are facing starvation, u thousand houses are in ruins, Inndfllidon are occurring in differeutu parts of lh" island and the region between Yoke liuma and Tokio is a sea of mud. Railroad, telogruph nnd telephone service is paralyzed and crops are ruined. TraliiN Stalled. Two trains with 700 passenger ahourd nro reported stalled near Kaiiayu station, on the Tokiadu (goveriimeut) lino with no provis ion. There is no way in which food and supplies can he sent to them. A train carrying .'(HO persons is stalled near llorinouchi with no shel ter except that afforded by tho lialf roofod ears. The train cannot Jy reached by rescuers. Si hundred inhabitants in the rice field district of Sliiinnda have taken refuge in a Buddhist temple At Hohiuki and arc reported starving. Kngliieers Kiitoiuhcd. Thiitecn railway engineers iyc en tombed near Karuir.awa, where an euibiinkiucnt with washed away by the swollen torrents of the river Kokuuo. Wednesday night. The en gineers were trying to relievo their hclcngticrcd companion on the Mulled train when the accident oc euried, and they were buiied under the sliding earth. At Shud.uoku 1000 houses have either been submergor or washed nwnv in the floods thnt me growing gieatcr beeaue of the torrential n.ins. City a IjiUc. The citv of Tnkasaki, in the pie fecture of flunnnu, is practically 'a lake and the inhabitants are racing with the Hood to reach higher laud ill safely. Many of the lower districts in To kio itself aro under water and devas tated. Tho water near Tokio is ris ing nt the into of one foot an hour. There nro frequent landslide-., Re ports of casualties are constantly being icccived by the authorities. Tokio is isolated by rail and tele grnph. The railway station is doso- (Continued on I'ngo 5.) CIGARETTE COSTJ. S. 2,000,000 Member of Survey Party Carelessly Sets Fire in Grass, Forest Fire Re sults and Loss Is Great Thirty Different Fires Aro Raglny Throunhout Clearwater Reserve. LKWISTON. Idnho, Aug. -Tliirty forest fires, soiuo of they be yond hope of eontrnl, nro now raging in different parts of tho Clearwater forest reserve, according' to advices from Mnjor Krank A. Kenn, super intendent, who says an electrical storm Sunday night slutted at least 12 new ones. Tho fires aro scattered over au urea of V20 miles, nnd although thorn ure now 1)00 men on tho firo line, two troops of United Stales cavalry ure coming across the Lolo today and 7f volunteers from Spoknno nro now going in from ICooskia'. Tho forestry officials express but little hope of being able to do much until it rums, us tho high winds ereatod by tiio conflagration nro sweeping tho flames through tho forests faster than a man can walk, rangers re rjioto by Amvrlciiu I'rcrnt Aotlutioii. " I3veryls)dy who lias n tintluuli at lioine or hope- to have one or'ulio use a bathtub away from home nnd pays extra for "room and bath" Is Interested In the suit tiled at the Instance of Attorney General Wlckersbam for the dis solution of sixteen concerns uuiuufacturlug sanitary ontimoled Ironware. This combination is called the bathtub trust. The government claims to have proof th.it the -ixjeuu luutiufacturers havo entered into an agreement to control wholesale and retail price on their product throughout the United States, in violation of tho provisions of the Rhenium anti-trust law. and that tho trust is dictating prhe to the trade The annual output of the enameled Iron manufacturers N said to aggregate StUO.OOO.iWiu worth of goods It Is charged that tho combination alleged to bo lu existence Is cndcntorlng to raise prices to such au extent that an extra tax of $25,000,000 a year will be Imposed upon the user of their output. Clennltuos being next to ' dllm-s and much of tho product of the trust being used lu tho making of Imthtutm, the litigation proinl-t-H to rent.- !depred Interest. BODY FOUND IN LONDON WAS THAT OF WOMAN LONDON Aug. 11. Kxperts who have been examining tho body found In tho basement of Dr. II. Crlppen's home, today acsorted that it Is that of a woman who hnd undcrgono an operation before her dec.tb. This corroborates tho humor, cabled by tho Quoboc correspondent of tho Lon don Chronicle, thnt Crlppcn Intimat ed to tho Catu.dlnn offlctulH that his wlfo had died from tho offocts of an oporatlon performed by him. Furthor than this tho exports found nothing from which tho Iden tity of tho womnn could bo dotor mlned. porting many instances of the hhi.o traveling six miles uu hour. Major Kenn cMimntcs that at leant 10,000 acres of timber hnvo boon destroyed, entailing a loss of not less than a million dollars, beside tho enormous expense of fighting thu advance of tho fire. Over 100 pack animals ure em ployed in carrying provisions nnd supplies into tho firo zone, and with the arrival of reinforcements tho number will bo almost doubled. It is now settled boyond (piostion thnt tho fires, except those of Sun day night, wero started by tho earo Icssuosh of u government survey party encamped on tho Zolwny, among whom was a cigarette smok er, who throw a lighted match into a hank of dead fonts. This cigar otto will cost Uncle Sam not less than $2,000,000. BIG FIGHT IS CALLED OFF Langford-Kaufman Mill in Phila delphia Will Not Be Held Lann ford Says He Is in No Condition to Flflht. PHILADELPHIA. Pa., Aug. 11. The Langford-Kaufman fight ha been culled off. The fighters disa greed over the postponement and tho fiisb became so M ioniums thnt it wa decided to call the fight off alto gether. Langford ns-ked a week'?, post ponement yesterday, when it was de cided that the tight could not bo held lust night. He .said ho wax not in condition. Kaufmun refused to ngteo to a weck- delay and nftor a heated argument over the postpone ment today, Harry Kdwards, tho promoter, called the mntch off. Hob Dcady, representing Kauf- kiunn, notitied r.awnnis that unless Langford lived up to tho articles and fought tonight tliero would bo no scrap. Kdwards endeavored to per suade Langford to fight, saying it was not fair to disappoint tho spec tators, some of whom hud eomo from a coiisidernble distance. Langford replied stubbornly thnt ho did not feel light nnd that ho wouhl be beaten if ho fought tonight. He said ho would not outer tho ring. Kdwards announced that ho ex pects to substitute a Hurns-Kotchol or a Hurns-Kaufuian mutch soon. WASHINGTON, D. C Aug. 11 fleneral Leonard Wood, chief of staff, this afternoon ordered a bat talion of thoFourto6nth infantry to procood from American Lnko, Wash ington, to tho Coour iVAleno district, lIdnho, to fight forest fires. SEASICKNESS WAS GREATEST SURPRISE PARIS. Aug. 11. Moussn Ab Amnstnne. a Tounreg chieftain from Northern Africa, is in Paris today seeing the sights of modern civili zation for the first time. St root cars, electric and gas lights, railroads and the big store- are all wonderful, but the ehiettain declared nothing in his experiences so surprised him ns seasickness. Pittsburg wants to got lid of its smoke nuisnnce. What, and that smoke nuisance its best adverti-ing feature! CUTTING OF FENCE COSTS LIFE Woman, 45, Shoots Young Man Who Was Attempting to Cut a Fence Leading Through a Farm Woman Makes No Attempt to Escape and Is Placed Under Arrest. WKNATCHEE, Waoh., Aug. 10 through the place he found it fenced. James K. Sutton, 24 years old, Is Ho returned to his home, dead at tho homo of his parents, ten ' Later Jnmes B. Sutton, accompa nies west of "Wonatchee, and Mrs. nled by his sister, started for tho Holla Totten. 45 years old, Is In Jail Ileebo place in a buggy. As coon as horo chargod with having killed tho . ho arrived thero ho began to cut tho young man. .wires. Mrs. Totten, armed with a It Is alleged that Mrs. Totten fired shotaun, threatened to shoot him If tho shot thnt killed Sutton yesterday ho did not desist. Young Sutton paid aftornoon whllo ho was attempting to no nttentlon to her command. As ho cut n fenco lending through a farm t was cutting another wlro, his sldo owned by Mrs. Totton's mother. toward tho womnn she rnlsod hor Mrs. Anna A. Hebe, mothor of ' gun and fired, according to Sutton's Mrs. Totten, took up a farm ton sister. Tho heavy chargo struck tho years ago in Kicker's Canyon. A, victim In tho sldo of tho head, klll fow years later tho Sutton family I Ing him Instantly, moved Into tho canyon nbove tho j Miss Sutton Jumped from tho bug Iloobo farm. Thoro was no way of j e' and ran to hor home with tho sto gottlng to town oxcopt through tho try of tho tragedy, land ownod by tho woman, In tho i Sheriff Ferguson was notified by last two yoars quarrels frequently , tolephoqo and went to tho sceno In nroso betwoon tho families. nn automobile, whoro ho arrested Yestorday when tho father of i Mrs. Totten, who mado no effort to James Sutton nttompted to pass osoapo. THIS CITY Leaves Portland Tomorrow Evenlnrj and Will Visit Crater Lake To Spend Some Time Investigating Conditions at Klamath To Size Up Situation at Crater. -'-' Secretary Bnllinger will not visit Medford. He will leave Portland tomorrow evening for Weed on the Shnsta Lim ited and will proceed to Klamath Falls from there. He will visit the. lake from the Klamath side. PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 11. R. A. Ballinger." secretary of the interio-, arrived in Portlnnd today and was escorted to a local hotel by n party of friends. He will remain in Port land for two days. Ballinger, when besieged by re porters, stated that interviews must nlwnj's he preceded by formal a"p IKiintments nnd referred his would be interrogators to E. C. Finney of the interior department, who accom panied. Finney, first of all. conveyed Bol linger's emphasized assurance that the talk of his resignation either forced or voluntary, is pure non sense. Xcvor Hctrcats. "Mr. Ballinger never retreats un der fire. Ho fights until tho battle is won." said Finney. "Ballinger is all right," he added ns a tribute to his confidence. "And let me give yon positive as surance that the secretary is not re sponsible for any failure to appor tion funds for Oregon reclamation project as generously ns other states. The board of army engin eers inspects all the projects, thci makes its recommendations, and by these recommendations the president is governed, nnd by the president the secretary of the interior is gov erned." To Visit Klamath. "Mr. Ballinger will visit the Klam ath reclamation project when ho leaves Portland tomorrow evening The water-users down tliero have been making a lot of complaints to the effect thnt Director Newell had promised them a price of frbm $18 to $'J0 per acre, and now they havo to iinv 'SO an ncre. The secretary wishes to learn why Newell did not ( Continued on Page 5.) I Thomas G. Lea of Armour & Com pany Is Indicted by Special Grand Jury Landis Issues Bench War rant for Arrest of Man Who is Su perintendent of Pressed Beef. CHICAGO, III., Aug. 11. Thomas G. Lee, of Armour & Co., was today indicted for perjury by tho fcdoral grand jury that has been investigat ing the alleged packing trust. Tho indictment is the first that has been returned by tho special grand jury. It is reported that a number of oth ers will follow. Lee told tho jury, according to the indictment, that Thomas II. Piatt of Armours, did not attend tho daily meetings with the other packers, at which it is alleged tho day's prices on packing-house products wore fixed. Judge Landis issued a bench war rant for Lee, who is superintendent of the pressed beef department of Armour & Co. The jury reported to Judge Landis that in August three stenographers testified they had taken vital dictation from Lee, White and Russell, of Armour & Co. Thoy were asked to produce the notebooks containing the dictation. Superin tendent Edmunds of the Armour plant said the notebooks hnd been destroyed. Edmunds was examined bj- tho jury and said that A. R. Urion, at torney for the packing company, had ndvicd him to report thnt the hooks wero unavailable. The jurors asked that Judge Lan dis cite Urion. Michael Barrows, Jn3. Loftis, William Walsh, W. W. Shaw, W. A. Alexander and Assistant Gen eral Manager Willets, nil of the Ar mour company, to show why they should not bo adjudged guilty of con tempt of court nnd of obstructing justice. It is likely thnt the cita tions will be issued. CUPID TAKES A JOY RIDE J. W. Keyes and Miss Eva Patter son Wed In Automobile Friends Wish Them Trip Through Life O'er Road Devoid of Ruts. Cupid has taken a real Joy ride and Medford, the auto city, has set a now fashion In weddings, tho auto mobile marriage, tho very latest In hymeneal ceremonies. Tho origin ators of tho fashion nro two popular young people of Medford, Miss Eva Patterson and J. W. Koyes. Tho cer emony was performed Thursday morning by Archdeacon Cecnibers of tho Protestr.nt Episcopal church lu a Chnlmors-Dotrolt, and the youug couplo aro now speeding away oa their honoymoou. Mr. Chambers was Inspecting tho now St. Mark'a building, when he was hailed by Mr. Koyes, who askod him If ho wanted to tako r. Joy rldo. On an affirmative answer ho was whlrlod with tho prospective bride and groom, to Jacksonville, whoro a marrlago llcenso was procurod. Then tho auto spocded to Ashland, where lu a romantic cornor'of Aahland'a beautiful park, tho motor car stop ped long onough for tho weddlug cor- oniony. Tho brldo and groom loft for California and tho wltnesces roturn- cd home. Tho brldo la tho charming daugh ter of H. I). Pattorson, tho nuraery- mau, nnd tho groom ono of tho pro prietors of tho Valley Auto Co,, a rising young man of Medford, Whon "carrying" property gets -to ho too hard a taBk, "carry" some claBslflod advertising and sell out. A