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.
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