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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1910.
No. 147.
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BALLINGER
DISREGARDS
COMMITTEE
Denies All Charges of Misconduct
and Reiterates Statement-That He
Will Remain" In' Public Life Judiio
Hanford Makes a Speech Defend
ed the Secretary., r
SEATTLE, Wimli., Sept. 8. Sou
ivtnry of Urn Interior It A. Uallin
ger, before (100 inoiubom of ilio
Commercial nnd Arotio clulm hist
night, again voiced IiIh ilotonniiiutioii
to continue in office nnd to diiim
gard nil public clamor for his re
tirement. In declaring IiIh attitude
on conservation, tlio secretary made
it clear that liu wuh following tint
policies of tlio president of tlio Unit
ed States, nnd his initnner of enun
ciating tlio word "president" left no
room to ilotilil IiIh nntlptttliy to nny
policies of mi ox-president.
Ho Haul tlmt tlio ono great roqui
nito of llio honest, putriolio American
today was tlio courage of Iiih coiivio
tioiiN, lliu courage to witlmtmid tlio
fmiitticiKin and muckraking of tlio
ilitdiiiiH'rtt Icndura of tho irrcHpons
ililo mob, It wuh u timo when Am
erica htul greatest need of sanity to
combat tlio "isms" that wero abroad
in tlio land. Hu advocated a strict
following of tlit law and the cou
Htitntion for tlio iwrpottiatioit of tlio
government.
Speaking in connection with tlio
notion of member, of tlio Dnllingcr
l'inchol invcntimitiri oonunitteo at
MilinonpoliH yesterday, when a reso
Iiilion censuring tlio secretary of tho
interior wax brought up. Halliugor
said:
"With my consciousness of rcoli
tudu in ovory nut, publio and private,
and' with my determination to go for
ward in tho Bimio path, I do not l'o.vr
tho criticism of nny man or Hot of
men.
"It lias been wait! that tho criti
cism of mou. whether true or untrue,
has made mo unfit to hold offieo. It
thin is tho chho, tliou ovory public
(Continued on Page Eight.)
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COMMITTEE IS
MEETING SUCCESS
Nearly $1000 Has Been Raised With
Which to Insure Exhibition of
Fruit at the National "Apple Show
at Spokane.
Nearly $1000 'linn boon pledged for
tho pJurpoBo of assisting local or
chardlHto la making mi exhibit nt tho
National Applo Show In Spolcauo this
fall, nccordlng to a report mndo to
tho Commercial club at Its rogular
mooting Wednesday night. Two cars
aro to bo shipped to tho uhow If plans
do not miscarry, ono of Spltzonborgs
and tho other of Nowtown Plpplna.
In ordor that fancy fruit bo nvall
ublo for exhibition purpoaos In tho
spring tho secrotary of tho club was
ItiHtructod to purchaso GO half boxes
of fruit and placo It In cold storage
Tho commlttoo nppolntod to export
tho books of Socrotnry Conrad ro
portod that they had found every
thing satisfactory.
Stops aro to bo taken soon to forco
payment of nil delinquent dues or
names will bo stricken from tho
momborshlp rolls.
Guilty of Two Murders.
CANTON. O., Sept. 8. Clotus
Wilumnn -was found guilty of mur
ilor in tlio firnt degroa for tho killing
of Mr. and Mrs. Wurrou E. Koons,
Mrs. Wilaman'H parontH. Tho jury
mndo no rooommendntion of moroy
and the vordlot curried witli it tho
doath penalty. Wllamuu was arrotU
od in Chicago a few daya aftor tho
niurdor lnfit April.
CRIPPENON
TRIAI MUCH
AGITATED
Announcement That Chemists for
Crown Have Discovered Poison in
Mutilated Body Causes Doctor
Much Anxiety Has Worn and
Hangard Appearance. v
LONDON, Sept. 8. Dr. Hawloy II.
Crlppon, tho American doatlnt, nc-
! of tho murder of his wife,
Hollo Elmoro Crlppon, wan plainly
agitated today when tho hcarlngot
Ida case wnrf resumed In tho Dow
ntreot pollco court.
Evidently tho announcomeut that
chomlMtH for tho crown had discover
ed ovldenccu of hyoncln In tho mu
tilated body due from tho collar of
tho Crlppeus' North Loudon homo,
nnd which Is alleged by tho govern
ment to iavo been tlio body of Mrs.
Crlppen, has caused tho doctor much
anxiety. Ho wns startled Tuesday
by tlio announcement that traces of
tho drug has been found and today
he wnH worn nnd haggard looking
when tho hearing was roouraed.
Ho conversed with Mllo. Loreno
while tho tifnl wns hi progress to
day, speaking or tho dlscovory to
hor. Tho girl, who fled to America
with tho doctor, shows signs of tho
strain of tho trial, and hor answers
wero short and eho scorned to -pay
little attention to tho utterance of
tho accused man,
( Co n U nu od on Page Four.)
TROOPS LAND TO
PRESERVE ORDER
PANAMA. Sept. 8. Two hundred
innilnca and eight rapid flro guns
wero landed today from tl-o United
States cruiser Tncoma to proveut
any outbreak nt Friday's election.
Tho situation hero Is consldorod
grnco. Trouble Is almost certain to
ensue, 'It Is bellovod, nnd rioting or
a serious nature Is feared.
Colonel Goothnls, chief onglneor
la charge or tho construction of tho
Panama cnnnl, thinks that American
annexation may bo necessary. Tho
radicals aro doomed unfit to govorn
mid tho election of. Samuol Lowls,
leader of tho consorvatlvoa, is re
garded ns tho only way out of tho
difficulty.
Klaw to Tour Northwest.
NEW YOHK, Sept. 8 Mnro Klaw,
tho theatrical manager nnd magnate,
member of the firm of Klaw & Kr
liingor, who, with Charles Frohmnn
and smaller managers, typify the
so-called trust, will Hlart on n tour
of the northwest Saturday.
CONVENTION WILL
Delegates to Conservation Congress Decldo to EllmlnaU Sessions To
morrow and to Declare Formal Adjournment Forester Al
len of Oregon Makes a Speech.
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ST. PAUL, Sept. 8. Tho resolu
tions committee of tlio national con
servation congress today by a vote
of 411 to Jl ndoptod a plank in itrf vo
port favoring tho fodoral control of
power hUoh.
ST. PAUL. Minn., Sept. 8. To
nlivlit will hoo tho closing hohhiou of
tlui 11)10 conservation congress.
Shortly after tho dologatotf had
been called to order today by Presi
dent linker, it was decided to elim
inate; tlio HOHsionH planned for to
morrow and to declare lormai ad
journment tonight.
Tlio introduction or pontics nun
conservation affairs' wuh the Hiibject.
of addresses W Fororttor ' Allen of
Oregon, J. W. Whipple of Now York
Moissant, After Flight Across English
Channel, Plans Aluminium Aeroplane.
.1 1I111 Mowwuit, tin' juti! k V.uorlcnii uvlator who recently Hew from Paris to within u few miles of Loudon,
KtuJand, alighting but om c 011 French soil after he left the capital, now has a plnn for the construction of an alu
minium Ibluir machine, which, he dochres, will be superior to all others now In use. Moissant uses the mono
plane liiKti'iul of the biplane Htyle of air craft, nnd his success In reaching Uuglaud teuds to prove that tho less planes
there are to manipulate the loss trouble there Is for the mlator.
JUDGE CALKINS STOPS ASHLAND FROM INTERFERING
WITH THE WORK OF HOME TELEPHONE COMPANY
Circuit Judco 1 M. Cnlkiim
Thursday morning issue da tempo
rary restrainiiiR ordor enjoining tho
city f Ashland from interfering with
any work which tho Home Teleophono
company may wish to onrry on in
that city. Tho company went into
court this morning nnd started suit
to do nwnv with certain notion takei
bv the Ashland city counoil. Colvig
Dog Show Soon.
SAN MATKO, Cal.. Sept. 8.-The
ai-L-Oht field over entered will com
pete in tlio sixth annual bench show
f tho San Mateo Kennel club, which
opeiiK on tho gronnilH of tho Ponin-
itihi hotel next Sunday aftornoou.
CLOSE TONIGHT
and Amos L. Ponde. Allou demand
ed that tho efficials: to which the
conservation of natural resources!
has been entrusted bo permitted to
prost'euto -their duties without polit
ical interference.
Judge Short of Fresno, Cal., dis
cussed conservation from the stand
point of capital.
"Tlio honesty and integrity of the
federal government in all its dopart
nlontH," ho declared, "becomos more
of intorost to tho individual ns ho
aeoumulatoB nionoy, and to' combina
tions of capital,"
Short urged a bottoV understand
ing between capital interested in
power sites and tho authorities con
trolling them.
& Itcmucs appear for tho plaintiff.
TJ10 Miit follow, difficulty which
the company has been having recent
ly with Ashland. At a recent meet
ing of the city council n report wns
brought in by -n committee stating
tlmt tho company had not perform
ed the noeerwnry amount of work in
ho city to hold a franchise voted
hem some mouths ngo by tho people,
and recommended that it bo declar-
TED REFUSES TO
BREAK BREAD
WITH LORIHER
Emphatically Declines to Sit at the
Same Table With Illinois Senator.
Who Is Accused of luylnrj His
Way Into Senale. .
FREEPOKT, 111., Sept. Si Thoo
doro Roo8ovolt today emphatically
declined to sit nt a table with Sen
ator Lorlmor of Ulln'ols'nt tho bou
quet tonight to bo glvon'ln Kooso
volt's honor by the Hamilton club
of Chicago.
Lorlmor's olectlon to tho sonato
and subsequent charges of Irrogu
larltlos resulted In legislative and
court "charges, some of which aro
npw pending, nnd tho calling to task
of certain legislators alleged to have
boon concornod In tho matter,
Upon learning that Lorlmor would
ttond tho dinner tonight, Roosorolt
s:.ld:
"Lorlmor represents tho antithesis
I ,1 . . wi.n.1 !! 1 mill 1 I " "
(Continued on Pagt 8.)
ed null and void. The council nt that
time simply adopted the report. At
n Inter meeting the mayor issued or
ders to the chief of polico to arrest
nny workmen who might nttempt to
carry on work under the franchise.
Tho company has now carried the
ease into court nnd nn order re
M mining the Ashland officials has
been ordered. The case will be
iieard sooik t
Native Sons Gather.
SAN FHANCISCO, Sept. 8. -Soventy-five
thousand visiting N.i
tivo Sons and Daughters thronged
the streets today prepnring to cele
brate tomorrow the GOth nnniver.su y
of California's birth ns a state.
ACTION VOID SAYS SUTHERLAND
Member of Ballinner Investigation Committee Says Action Taken Wed
nesday Is of No Effect Another Meeting Is to Be Held To
morrowMore Members Will Bo Present.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sopt. 8.
'As far as tho real offect on tho
action of tho commltteo and Its find
ings," said Sonator Sutherland, a
monibor of tho Balllngor-Plnchot In
vestigating commlttoe, who with
Ropresonatlvo McCall of Massachu
setts, boltod yesterday beforo n voto
was taken m tho resolution censur
ing the socrotnry or tho tntorlar,
"tho inombors might ns well havo
framed jthor resolution on tho street
comer and told tho noarost pollco-
man."
Sonator Sutherland Admitted that
tho autl-Bnlllnger momborsvstolo a
march on tho frlonds of tho secre
REGISTER!
LIST AS YET
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Medford List Not as Great by 700
as Last Year Total In County bv
2064, While at the Last Election
5000 Voted Republicans Are in n
Majority.
Kith the date for closing the reg
istration books only six days distant
Medford lacks 700 names of having
as large a registration as last year.
Other districts of tho county are
In as bad a way, although everything
possible has been done to remind ilio
voters that tho registration books
are soon to be closed, thero is no in
crease in tho number registering. To
date 2064 have registered in tho
county, which at tho last election
over 5000 voted.
Last year Medford had over 800
registered voters in each of her two
precincts. Thus far less than 1000
have come forward to assert their
right as citizens.
Figures in Ashland precincts as
segregated In tho county clerk's of
fice show that over four republicans
aro registering to every democrat,
and that socialists, prohibitionists
and independents aro running neck
and neck In tho race as far as num
bers aro concerned, each represent
ing about one-seventeenth, of the re
publican registration.
WILL SHOW WHY TED
DID NOT PROSEGOTE
NEW YORK. Sept. 8. The New-
York World today prints the first
of a series of articles by George E.
Earle. former receiver of tho 1'enn-
svlvania Refining company, design
ed to show that Theodore Roosevelt,
when president, refused to prosecute
tlm iif!ir trust. Tho articles are
being written, Enrlo says, because of
Roosevelt's attack on tho supreme
court of the United States.
According to the story printed to
day, Earle says that bo asked
Roosevelt and Chnrles Bonaparte,
then attornov-cenernl, to proceed
ngainst the trust. Both refused to
take any notion, he says.
Six Victims in a Duel.
LAYTON. Okla., Sept. 8.Accord-
ing to a report received bore, five
men and one woman havo either been
killed or seriously mounded in a duel
which took placo nbout 16 miles from
Waters. A. Buelov and two Rawls
brothers aro said to havo been the
prineipnR
tary and t' sit tho action yesterday
wns a surprise,
lloth Suthorland and McCall, in
their statements, did not lntimato
that they considered tho resolution
unjust, but it la bpl)eved that both
will support Balllnger when tho final
voto Is tnkon.
Both Represontatlvo Donby and
Representative Olmstead will bo pres
ent at tho mooting of tho commlttoo
tomorrow, Sonator Flotcher and
Uopresontatlvo Graham today aro for
mulating a report upholding ho Gla
yls charges. It is said that this doc
umont will bo adopted as hto minor
ity roport 04 tho commlttoo. The
Balllngerltcs' expect a tie vqto to
morrow when tho vote Is taken,
FIRES WERE
SET SAYS
ERCKSON
No Doubt in Supervisor's Mind lut
That Firebugs Caused Much af tht
Damage Done in Crater Ferest
Several Started Where No Hunters
Would Havve Gone.
That the recent forest fires whick
havo been sweeping ove.r tho differ
ent sections of tho Crater national
forest were set is the belief of M.
L. Erickson, supervisor ..of tho for
est, who reached Medford today
from "the front," where ho has beea
directing the fight against tho flames
for the past month.
"The fires wore undoubtedly sat
out," states Mr. Erickson, "as un
mistakable evidence of this fact has
been found. Piro started in places
where no hunter would penetrate. I
have hopes that a few of the mis
creants wjll be fonnd and proso
cuted. "It was very discouraging to fight
fire for 20 or 24 hours and then
when your worn-out men tried to
snatch a moment's sleep to find tnat
new fires were started. Ono night
six, to my knowledge, were set out."
Back to rortlaad.
Assistant Forester Buck of the
Portland office, who has been ia
charge of the work here whilo Mr.
Erickson was in the field, will, leave
poon for" Portland., Mr. BuckwoH
much credit for himself in lianoling
lite work in this city umj renewed his
former acquaintances here, having
been in charge of the Crater forest
previous to his promotion. To his
genoralship was duo tho earlv check
ing of the fires which raged on every
baud on his arrival.
ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 8.
Francis J. Heuey, at present a prac
ticing New York nttornoy, has taken
tho stump against James A. Tav
ney, cnudidnto for congress in the
first Minnesota district. Tawney is
opposed by Sydney Anderson, a
young lawyer.
PLAT FILED OF
ROGOELnNDSJItC.
One Hundred and Ninety-three
Forty-Acre Blocks Are Shown an
the Plat Filed with the County
Recorder.
Fred N. Cummings, manager of
Roguelands, Inc., has filed the plat
or tho company's property with the
recorder of Jackson county.
Tho plat shows 193 40-acre blocks,
with streots on ovory side. Thacoua
ty roads including what is known as
"Tho Desort Boulevard" aro 60 foot
wide, whilo all othor streets are 40
foot.
Roguelands Irrigated orchard tracts
will bo plowed, leveled, irrigated and
set to trees. Each 40-acro tract a
shown by the plat will be fenced
with a Page wlro fence wl(h white
posts.
Tho company has alroady contract
ed for tho dovolopment of COO acres
of tho area, and these tracts will be
plowed and leveled the coming sea
son. Mr. Cummings has Just authorized
tho sales department of the company
to place on tho, market a small pay
mont dovolopment contract, and In
viow of tho fact that there have been
so many applications for orchards oa
tho email payment plan, the Gompany
feels cortalu that a large number of
theBO contracts will be sold locally,
for tho payments are so small that
nearly anyone who can save a -few
dollars every month to meet the pay
ments can now become the owner at
an orchard.
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