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TIIK WICATHICH
UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION
Ftill Leased Wlro Report,
Tonight and tomorrow Pair
nad vmrin.
Tho only paper la the worli
published In a city the Bin f J
Medford having a leased wlr.
FIFTH YEAR.
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2G, 1910.
No. 136.
NOW BELIEVED AT LEAST
175 PERISHED IN FIRES
EIRE SITUATION IMPROVES;
RAIN SEEMS TO BE IMMINENT
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Uncle Sam's Home Finished After
117 Years by the Hanging of Doors.
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DAMAGE DONE
IS ESTIMATED
AT SI 5.000,000
Five Hundred Homeless and 2000
Out of Work In Clark County,
Washington Fires for Most Part
Arc Under Control.
t DrwAiinn, wusu., auk. ju. wmi
roncli succeeding dny reports from tho
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forest flro xoiio of Idaho and Mon-
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M now believed that at least. 17G nor-
tho family of Enoch Komlnll worn
sons wore killed In tho holocuust of ,,, wnH n wltneMB nt tho coroner's
Inst week. Inquest Into tho tragedy horo today.
Many reports or tho discovery of i Many tlmcH Mrs. Stnrhuck wns ill
ImdlcH continue to pour Into Wnl- J roc tod by Coroner Krunk Illnckburn
lace, Missoula, Ilutto mid Spokane to raise her volco no that tho Jury
from tho flro-swept dUtrfctc. ' men could hunr her testimony.
The greatest lows of life, from all
Indications, occurred In tho St. Joo
fire, which otlll rages. I'robnbly 100
persons met death In this district.
No Towns In Danger.
None of tho Idaho nnd Montana
towns nro endangered, according to
reports reaching here oirly today.
In fact, It Is believed Unit tho criti
cal stage of tho flros has passed and
that the slttinttnu Is mending.
Today It Is cloudy and cool horo ( W. A. Cockrill, who testified thatjio
nnd It is expected that tho long pray- discovered that tho Kendalls had din
ed for rain will fall soon. ! appeared, nnd Judgo t D, Trooper,
With a Htendy downpour, forestry ' who told of tho finding of tho vlc
offlclals say, tho fires that hnvo col-, tims' bodies.
lected such a terrible toll already
will como to mi ond.
Men conversant with tho situation
sny that tho damago douo by tho
fires will reach SIC, 000, 000. More
conservative mon cut this estimate on
tho ground thnt the damngo may not
bo as had as pictured,
Tho Clonrwator district flro of Idn
lio continues to burn floreoly.
Parties Turn Up.
Official recoidB of tho forest sorv
Iro do not Include scoros of mon who
have boon flghrtlng the forest fires
In Washington Idnho mid Montnnn.
This hns been proven by tho arrival
of severnl pnrtlon of fire fighters In
this city during tho p.mt few ilnya
who have reported concerning par
ties heretofore unheard from. For
this and other reasons tho official
list of tho flro victims probnbly la
far from nccurcto and tho total num
ber of dead icidcubtedly will never
ho known, as many a lonely settlor
nnd traveler must have perished,
lenvlng no record behind, Tho list of
end and missing today follews:
List of Fatalities.
United Stnton forest omployes, Idn
ho nnd Montana, 100.
Settlors mid flro fighters, St, Joo
valley, Idaho, CO.
At Newport, Wash., 3.
At Wallace, Idnho, I. (Doos not
Include dead flro fighters),
At Mullan and Spoknno, 3,
Total, 1(10.
Missing:
(Continnod on Paco M
OVER 90,000,000 OE OS NOW
Director Durand of Census Bureau Gives Out First Official Statement
Gain From Immigration Has Not Been as Great as Was Ex
pectedOver 100,000,000, Countlnfi Filipinos.
WASHINGTON, Aug. '211. Com
plotiou of tliu present census will
show u population in tho Unit cd
States liutwoon 00,000,000 am! 01,-
000,000, according to (lie first offi-
il statement iniulo by Director 1),
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Durmul of the census bureau,
mhod today, Adding to this the
nililo population of the Philip-
nea doubtless will givu a total of
100,000,000, I
Although it wuh hoped tluit llio
United States propur would return
this total, (uileuliitloiiH arc fur
enough mlvmicod now to predict with.
cortniuty that tho nuuibor will bo!
yumM'
MRS. STARRUCK
REPEATS STORY
OF JAPANESE
Woman Who Owns Ranch on Which
Kendall Murder Occurred Is Wit
ness Before Coroner's Jury Re
poats What Jap Said to Her.
HANTA K08A Cut., Aug. SO.
Heavily veiled and Hponklng In nuch
low tones Hint iiho could hardly ho
board In tho courtroom, Mm. Mnr-
gnrot K. Stnrhuck, on whoso ranch
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Mrs. Stnrhuck repeated tho story
she formerly told District Attorney
Lea,' regarding the visit of Henry
, Yamnguchl to her homo In Oakland
and of his confession thnt ho had
killed Tom Kendall and Kondall's
parents after they had attacked him.
She declnred that she did not know
tho present whereabouts' of the Jap
anese Other witnesses this morning wero
Answering District Attorney
Lea,
, Mrs, Stnrhuck told of tho dramatic
arrival at her homo of tho Jnpnneso
Yamnguchl. Ho camo to hor door
on Mondny night, July 25. In an
swer to a violent ringing of tho boll
Mrs. Stnrhuck admlttod I tin. found
ho had had no supper and took him
' Into tho kitchen, whoro with hor own
hnnds sho prepared lunch for him.
Tho Japanese had with him tho dog
' from to Kendall ranch.
"Did you steal tho dog?" asked
Mrs, Starbuck of Yamnguchl.
( "No, I fought with tho wholo Kon-
, dnll family," Mrs. Stnrhuck swore
wns tho answer given by tho Jnpn
iioso, although sho said ho told hor
"Tom Kendall slapped mo and shot
nt me. Mrs. Kcndnll enmo nt mo with
nn nx nnd I did 'em nil up tho wholo
family."
Methodists May Dance.
VICTORIA, B. C, Aug. 20. Tho
specific restrictions in (lie Methodist
oiiiircli discipline dealing with the
mom! I'oiiiluol of its members, in
cluding dancing, theater-going, oto.,
have been swept nwuy and in their
place lias been substituted a geueiMl
admonition im to guild conduct, such
us is consistent with u Christian lifo.
The change wns el'l'eeted by tho gon
ern! eonferenee n( its session yoslor
ilny afternoon.
Occasionally wo moot a man whoso
traln(of thought reminds us of a row
of flnt cars.
Himillor.
"Tho not gain from inmiigralion,"
said Durum), "during tho Inst leu
vein's litis not been us large us might
he supposed. For example, inimigm-
lion from 1001 to 1007 into the Unit-
ed Status wn only (l,Ji0,(J00 in
round iiuniliers. Fully 1 ,'227,000 of
those peoplo returned to tho country
from which thoy enmo, leaving a (o-
tal inoronso in population from iiu-
migration during theso .vears of only
4,202,000. Ho it can ho soon that
about -11 per cent of all immigrants
in theso years added nothing to tho
total population,"
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CopyrlKht, 1310. by American I'rons Atmoclntlon.
At Inst I'lK'le Sum can close Ills doers on whom nnd what nation he pleases. It has been 117 years since he start
ed to build his home, commonly known us the eupltol. and tit Inst be has hung the doors great big bronze doors
eight feet wide and thirteen feet hlgh-at the entrance to the house of representatives wing. Of course there have
been doors In nearly the same place before, but they have been temporary ones, Just until the real ones were An
lulled. Over the doors there Is u transom on which nro flinircs representing America In n chnrlot drawn by Horn and
led by a child, signifying the superiority of Intellect over brute force... Jtrsltli the chariot walk Architecture. Litera
ture, Painting. Music. .Sculpture, Mining, Commerce nnd Industry. On one ldc of the transom panels is a figure of
Thomiis Jefferson nnd on the other side one of ltcujumlii Prunkllu. Medallions nt the four corners represent Pea
Itody. founder of educational Institutions; Kmerxon. philosepher: ijenice Maun, educator, and Johns I26pklna. mer
chant and philanthropist.
HILL ENGINEER
VISITS MEDFORD
Men Now at Work Locating Roatf
From Pelican Bay to Where It
Will Connect With tho Pacific &
Eastern.
h. F. Wakefield, the engineer who
located the line of tho Oregon Trunk
for the Hill interests, spent Friday
in .Medford, having como over from
Klamath Falls. Ho reports forces of
men at work in tho vicinity of Peli
can Hay, locating the commoting link
between the Oregon Trunk and the
Pacific A: Fnstern.
.Mr. Wakefield eomo limo since re
signed' from tho Oregon Trunk nnd
organized the Central Oregon Im
provement Co. to lay out townsilos
along the Hill line mid ussist in de
veloping the country. The im
provement company works in har
mony with the Oregon Trunk and i
by inmiy regarded as' a subsidiary
company.
The improvement company hns
platted the town of Crescent, form
erly known ns Odell. Contracts for
tho construction of the lull hue to
(l.io ...,:,,! I, ,.. nlioiiiilv Iimiii lilt 'Pint
Ililtr. I'lHIlt .mill i,,v;iii.(. ,wv.i in, . .v
Hill and llirrriinan lines come to
gether nt Crescent and tho located
Hnrrimun Klmuuth Fulls line mid the
proposed rond across Central Ore
gon to .Malliour eomu together there,
Some '200 lots have been sold. Cres
cent will be u division point on the
Oregon Trunk and the Natron-Vale
lino of tho Southern Pacific.- The
townsite is situated on the Little
Deschutes river, 100 miles from'
Klmuuth Falls, ll.r miles east of Eu
gene, '220 miles south of Celilo mid
r)0 miles south of llcnd. It is in the
center of a great timber boll.
A pint of another now town, to be
known us Wakefield, has recently
hctMi filed by tho siuue promoters, Il
is located on Heaver marsh, '2.r mile
Muti of CrcM'out, 18 miles due east
from Crator Lake. Hotels, siore-i
mill other buildings are to bo erected
by the company and extensive de
velopment follow.
Fred W. Monro of Medford and
I). V. Moor mill .John F. Flmi of tho
Moor-Elini company, with offices in
tho Fruitgrowers' Hank building, will
handle tho property in Medford for
tho Central . OejjojnInimjiyoment Co.
Surveyors at Work.
A party of nino men arrived in
Grants Push this morning to begin
active work surveying the ITimiman
lino from Giants Pass to Crescent
City.
MEDFORD HEN
LEADS WORLD
Denver Has Hen Which Lays Single
Egg Weighing 8yj Ounces Port
land Bests That With Daily Egg of
That Size, But Local Hen Is Best.
DENVER, Colo.. Aue. '20. Sud
den jump. in Rocky mountain tern
peratures flustered a Denver hen'reau of fisheries, visited the Ament
into forget fulness today. Sho broke
the union rules by Inying an egg six
and u lmlf ounces overweight. The
product hearing the union label is
never heavier than two ounces; tho
whopper that hns just been material
ized tips tho scales at 8V ounces.
The erring hen belongs to Mrs. A.
S. Scott, a poultry fancier of Den
ver. The egg has been placed on ex
hibition. PORTLAND, Or., Aug. '20. Tho
hen nt Denver thnt laid an egg which
weighed 8',i ounces has nothing. on a
hen belonging to Mrs. A. M. Craw
ford of Mount Tabor, easf of Port
land. Egged on by nothing but hor
own pride, tho hen for tho past
month has been laying eggs which
weighed from 7 to 8l oiineos.onch
dny. while the Denver hen, accord
ing to dispatches, has laid only one
huge egg, nnd' thnt was due, it i
aid, to the fluctuations of tempera
ture. The hen owned by Mrs. Crawford
is t cross between a Coohin-China
mid n Plymouth Rock.
Denver and Portland lions hno
little to crow over in regard to tho
size of eggs, unless they can do hot.
lor than 8Va ounces. For the past
two weeks A. N. Wells, a local fano-
i ier, has been showing his friends nn
egg laid by one of his full-blooded
Plymouth Rooks which tips the beam
nt )V ounces.
Heiress Weds Engineer.
ABERDEEN, Wash., Aug. '2(1.--Aberdeen
discovered today that Miss
Carrie France, daughter of formor
Mayor Eugene France, a millionaire
timber owner, wns no longor Mjss
France, but Mrs. John Knox Suther
land, wife of a civil engineer in tho
employ of the Union Pacific on its
now Grays Harbor lino. Taking mi
automobile .Monday and speeding to
Montesano, the two woro married
about midnight by Justice Pottijoliu.
The justice was awnkonod from a
sound sleen to porform tho oorcmony.
They nianaeod to keep tho news a J
secret for three days.
FISH HATCHERY
AIMS HERE
Henry O'Malley Makes Regular Visit
of Inspection Blames Ament Dam
for Little Success of Bureau in
the Rogue.
Henry O'Mnlley, superintendent of
hatcheries for the United Stntes Bu-
dam Thursday nnd left Fridny for
the hatchery at Elk creek. Ho stntes
thnt the temporary fish ladder erect
ed at the Anient dam is not working
satisfactorily, on account of tho low
water, and that a largo run of snl
tnon is blocked below tho dam.
Mr. O'Malley states that but little
snecesh hns attended the efforts of
the bureau in the Rogue this year,
duo principally to the Ament dam's
blocking tho uscent of the fish. Duo
to unfavorable conditions, no eggs
will be taken on tho lower river this
fall.
Mr. O'Mnlley is preparing to so
cure Rainbow trout eggs next hcason
from Fish Luke in the Umpquas,
which will bo hatched at Elk creek
hatchery. On a recent trip Mr.
O'Mnlley found Fish Lake well stock
ed with rainbows. Ho advises that
as many applications as'possiblo for
trout fry bo made to tho bureau at
Washington to restock tho Rogue.
PERRY'S DEER ARE
LIKE BIG FISH
J. A. Perry and family returned
Friday from n trip to Crator Lake.
Klamath Falls and other points
along tho secnio route.
At the natural bridge, noar Uipou
ereek, Mr. Perry shot two doer whilo
seated in his automobile, hut was
unable to secure either one. Tho
deer woro on tho brink of tho gorge
which is iuneeossiblo nt that point,
nnd both fell over tho cliff. In spite
of all efforts, Mr. Perry was unablo
to roach' his ganio, although they
woro plainly visible. "Still," ro
markod Mr. Perry, "I can say that
1 have shot deor in Southern Ore
gon from an automobile, oven if I
didn't got thorn,"
An effective want ad makes your
buelness plan effective.
SMALL TOWN
NEAR CHICO IS
FIRE HEMMEO
Frantic Efforts Have Been Made to
Save It, But All Attempts to Check
Flames Have Been Futile Many
Messages Sent Asking Aid.
CHICO, Cnl., Aug. 26. Bordans,
a small town on the Humboldt road,
near here, is doomed to destruction
by fire. The men, women nnd chil
dren have been putting forth frantic
efforts since yesterday to turn the
approaching flames from their path,
today gave up all hope. A few of
the younger men arc exhausting their
Inst energies in a stand against the
blazing forests. All the buildings in
the town are of frame construction
nnd it is not believed thnt a single
one of them can be saved.
Messages imploring aid have pour
ed into Chico. All the townspeople
who have friends nt or near Bordans
have either set out for the scene of
the conflagration themselves or are
sending conveyances and supplies.
The hills about Bordans are over
run wtli campers at Jbis season of
the year. The campers are hemmed
in in the burned-over hills without
any means of reaching their homes in
tho valley. A stream fjwagons is
TSSving Chico today, ready' to load
on what may remain of the camp
ers' belongings and to bring the ref
ugees back. Although no fear for
life is felt, the situation is most dis
tressing. 4,100,000 DAILY
COMING TG CITY
Medford has "all the water" she
needs now nnd then some, Is the ver
dict of Water Superintendent Gault
after a trip over tho pipeline end a
measurement of the water coming
Into the reservoir.
"Sunday afternoon," said Mr.
Gault, "Engineer Roberts r.nd I drove
to the head of tho pipeline nnd put
in tho next two days walking back
along the lino of the pipe. We walk
ed along that lino from the intake to
the reservoir and didn't find a leak
In tho whole lino that would let wa
ter enough out to satisfy the thirst of
a hummingbird. I had heard a num
ber of rumors concerning faulty con
struction, and that tho pipe wasn't
covered properly, but I failed to see
anything of tho kind. At tho res
ervoir wo made a weir measurement
of tho water and wero careful not to
overestimate, nnd wo estimated that
4,100,000 gnllons of water was com
ing Into tho reservoir overy 24 hours.
Tho city is now using some 2,000,000
gallons In ench 24 hours, just about
F
'States That Progressive Republicans
COLONEL
ORNINST
War of Insurgents Is Against Every Kind of Corruption,
Especially of Business and Politics. i
CARROLL. In., Aug. '20. Colonel
Roosovelt, when his attention was
called to the statement of Timothy
L. Woodruff of New York, that llio
republican fight in tho stnto hinged
on tho diroct primavy issuo, said this
afternoen:
. "Tho progressives favor direct
noininiitions substantially on tho
Hughes plan, hut this is not tho main
issuo.
"Tho principal Issue is that wo
stand against bossism, big or little,
and in favor of popular rule, not on
ly at elections, but in tho party or
ganization." Thus Roosevelt identified himself
WITH RENEWED
STRENGTH MEN
ATTACK FLAMES
Favorable Reports Are Received
From All Parts of Fire District
Only One Largo Fire Now Raitafl
Prospect Is Safe.
With a dampness in the air, giving
a promise of rain in tho near fu
ture, tho army of firefighters in the
Crater national forest took new
heart today and are making much
progress against the flames which
have wrought havoo in local forests
during the past week. Reports reach
ing Assistant Forester Buck today
were for tho most part favorable,
and if the ram comes, as is expect
ed, the fires will soon bo under full
control.
The day was featureless when
compared with the past week. Only
one severe fire is still sweeping the
count)', while the soldiers have suc
ceeded in checking the fires which
threatened Prospect and Ashland.
The chief fire today is one extend
ing from Short ereek to Little Elk.
This fire is making its way toward
Big Elk in nn alarming manner, and
a messenger was dispatched this
morning from Butte Falls to Super
visor Ericksou at Lodgo Pole telling
him of it and asking him to send as
large a force as possible to that sec
tion. The fire near Colestin, which
showed renewed fury Thursday eve
ning, is reported controlled today.
The fire between tho middle and
south forks of the Rogue has been
held by the soldiers and Prospect
is in no immediate danger.
The Four Bit fire is practically
under control, as is tho firo near
Dudley, on tho unsurveyed.
The Evans creek fire is being
cheeked.
Tho firo in tho vicinity of Mount
Pitt has broken away from the
fighters nnd is now on tho other side
of tho range. The flames are burn
ing on what is known as Three Mile
ereek, near Seven Milo. Mon have
been sent from Fort Klamath to holp
fight tho flames.
Tho latest messago from the scene
of tho blazo was received yesterday,
and stated that about seven miles of
fire front. had been controlled, but
thnt the fire continually breaks away
from the fighters, owing to the wind.
Part of tho firefighting orow js
camped at the head of Rnncheria
ereek. Tho fire seems to cover the
high country from Mount Pitt to
Rustler peak. There are two firos
on Mount Pitt nt a height of about
7000 feet.
half of tho available supply."
Mr. Gault further stated that he
was more than agreeably surprised at
tho charactor and quality of tho work
done.
Favor Direct Nominations Says
with tho progressives. ' Corrtinuing,
ho said:
"Above all. our war is ruthless
against overy species of corruption,
against un nllianco betweon corrupt
business and corrupt politics as to
which it hnabocn found the boss sys
tem offers peculiarly efficient and
objectionable means of communica
tion against domination of the party
mid public by spocinl interests,
whether those nro political, busines
or a compound of both."
Tho stntemont followed an hovfr
conforonco tho colonol had with Sen
ntor Cummins, who boarded -tut
train at Ames,
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