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THE WEATHER
Fair tonight and tomorrow.
zQPerj:ent, of the People of the Rogue River Valley Read the jtf ail Tribune
Medford Mail Tribune
BARGAINS
Christmas and Otherwise by
Reading Ads In Todays Issue.
The Mciaifo of tlio XUngi.
White Fair weather.
Hhie Ilnln or Bnow.
Wlilto and blui. Locnl showers
Hlnck irlnnKUlnr Ahovo while,
uiirmur; below whltp, coblcr
White with black cantor Cold.
JiMFTII YWAU.
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DKOIUMBKR. 19, 1910.
NO. 231
E EXPEODES IN HEART
GOTHAM: NINE KIEEED
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JULIANAJOCK'SFATENOWINHflNDS LAND FRAUD CAR OF DYNAMIT
OF JURY; GIDSINGARGUMFNTSHEARD CASES SOON OF CROWDED
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EARLY VERDICT
IS EXPECTED:
Prosecution Attorney Leaves No
Stone Unturned to Show Jury
That Mock Was Deliberate in His
Killing Judge Kelly Makes Strong
Pica.
At 2:u o'clock tills afternoon tliu
Mock jury had not returned.
After a trial of three days' duration
(lie .lullan A. Mock case was handed
to tho Jury at 12: 15 Monday nfter
neon. An early verdict Is expected.
The trial was u bitterly fought legal
but Up, a stubborn prosecution con
ducted by 11. F. Mulkey loft no stone
unturned to show to tlio jury that
Mock went deliberately to tho Mc
Mulleu homo for the purpose of cre
ating a row with Smith. The witnesses
for tho prohocutlon wore not extreme
ly strong, none but the small boy
were willing to swear that Mock
struck tho first blow, but tho argu
ment of tho prosecution both In
tho opening and closing was strong.
The argument showed tho friendly
meeting and greeting of tho men, the
admission of Smith that Mqck had
treated him as a genUemnn while on
the hunt; the quarrel provoked by
Mock, and flnn'.ly tho fatal blows
htrnck by Mock with a deadly weapon
while his adversary was unarmed.
.ludgo Kelly, for the defense, show
ed that Mock was of good character,
that tlio men with whom he worked
thought'well of him, that his employ
er thought well of him and that he
wns In poor ealth nml physically un
able to battle with a strong man like
Smith. Mr. Kelly showed tho Jury
how Smith was In the habit of carry
ing a gun, that he had bragged of
killing a man with a knifo In Texas,
that In his belief Smith had a gun on
his person at the time of tho fight,
and, could ho have reached it, would
hao taken tho life of Mock. Mr.
Kelly showed how nobly Mock shield
ed his wife, that at no time had ho
In ought her Into tho affair other than
to nay that she told him about the
dog. That Mock had not Intended to
kill Smith, that had he have had that
Intention ho could have severed his
head tioni his body. Mr. Kelly re
reired the jury to the straightforward
story of tlio defendant and how ut
terly the state had failed in shaking
that evidence in any manner; that
his client had dono as ho said, de
fended himself and his wlfo's honor,
that he bollovod Smith had a gun and.
"self-preservation boing the first law
of nature," pulled his knlfo and
struck tho fatal blow, not with the
Intention of murdor, but with the in
tention of defending hlnibelf against
a dangerous onoiny. Mr. Kelly's ar
gument was calm, sound and unemo
tional. Ho hold tho closest attention
ol the jury, and all must admit that
Mr. Mock rocolvod a fair and Inipai
tial trial and wiib defended ably and
well.
TRUCE BETWEEN AUTHORITIES;
AND I. W. W. BROKEN
rliP.SNO, Oil., !)''' 1. T1";
truce between civil authorities and
member of the Industrial W'orkei
t the World, b.V which 1 Industrial
in jail hero lor vagrancy were to be
v..i.'.,w.il nondiiiL' the hearing of .1
test ciim) was abruptly endude today
1
y otficials of the Worker- who Ho
itied the district attorney' officii
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that the ameomout was on.
'i'i. ....Mi.mwiiiimmt wiii, made us a
in. in ..--- - . . i .
which ha
lilluil ''l-HhlinV mil OHO.
cloggod its court calendar all winter
wiM bo lenowod with yicieae zeal.
"Wo will flood your jaiU and co.t
tho county a fortune to support H,,
but wo viil not compromise," wo the
substance "f thoiufonnatioii.
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The old ideas about store adver
tising dio hardbut 'ihoy die, never
theless. Store advertising nowaday"
hn nwa value.
deli, and it was slated that ibtf'.W , , . . .
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GREAT 1U
OF BUILDINGS
ARE UHOER WAY
Regardless of Weather Conditions
Conditions Building Continues Un
abated in Medford Much Im
provement and Repair Under Way.
That eMilford is rapidly forging to
I lie front regardless of weather con cen con
diteons: that here people are un-
shnke in their confidence of her fu
(uie and (hat unprecedented pros
perity bus Mettled down to permanent
business, is evidenced by a building
census taken Monday morning. In
the part of the city visited. It was
loiiud that crows of workmen were
busy on IKS dill'crent buildings and
these buildings range lroin a inodo.-il
bungalow to a skyscraper. Ninety-''
eight buildings ate not all the build
ings under course of construction, as
not one-third of- the town was cov
eted, but there are !)S buildings un
der course of construction within a
radius of eight blocks of the cross
ing of Front and Plaint slrecrs.
Fart bur out in the newer additions
there are many new buildings under
course of const ruction, these, how
ever, have not been enumerated but
it is a conservative estimate to say
they are 50 ip number.
Aside fio'n tuo uor buildings there
is an immense amount of repilir and
inipiovcmunt work. Houses are be
ing moved to new locations and re
modeled, the sound of the hammer
and the saw is everywhere to be
heard. Not only are new buildings
going up, but new streets are being
ojeued. Alleys improved, water
nipes placed in residences, electric
lights and telephones installed and
the properly -in every way improved
and modernized.
From estimates furnished by dif
ferent contractors, it is learned tb.it
no S.S-, than .'11)11 new buildings will
be commenced as soon as material
can be placed upon the gioiind.
Some few of ijio-o are business build
ings, but the greater portion of them
are cottages, not cottages for rent,
but homes for men who have lo
cated with their families within the
nasi year. With the advent of good
weather theie will not be' an idle car
penter, painter, plumber, bricklayer
or plasterer in the city as the woik
already in siuht is mote than the
present number ot workmen in the
citv can do on contract time.
On every hand buildings are
springing up as if by magic and al
though this is the pooiest season for
building work, the hum of the saw
and sound of the liaimuar is houriv
piocbuuiuig that Mfdtoid is building
into n pcimitiiciit, progressive, pios
pcroiis and modern citv.
MS IS
KIDDIES THEME
Every Toy Shop in Town Is Now
Great Center of Interest to the Lit
tle Tots Great and Varied Display
Offered.
"To Toylaad, tho llomu of Santa
Claii' is the rallying cry among the
obildiuu those day. Tlio toy shops
at tlio local store are the Meccu of
all true Kris Kriugle worshippers and
tboiisnuds of pilgrims nro there ever.v
"U ii-i.-.m nu ... muin inn
speak to Santa Clau who walks
about tho store is a sight to sea. His
genial lace ami dancing e.w some
tune thaw tlieut out, but in most
cae they speak with downcast e.c.
ai'nul to be too familiar with this an
nually important man who i expect
ed to muke glad their heart when
Christinas dawn calls them from
their beds. Some ot I lit we ones,
(rnnllniK-il mi 1'iitft 4 t
HIS
LOOKS FN PLACE
TO DOILD A CITY
OF RETIREMENT
English Pastor Reaches Medford on
Lengthy Trip to Chooso Site for
City in Which Quiet Alone Will
Prevail.
llcv. Henry M. Johnstone, D. D.,
of JJurtou, England, the home of the
world's largest browing institutions,
in which city hu has preached the
gospel for ;J5 years, was in Medford,
Monday. Mr. Johnstone left Eng
land three months ago and since that
time has traveled through Canada
including the Northwest Territory
and British Columbia then coming to
the I'acific States. The while haired
minister is of excellent address,
scholarly and kindly disposed. When
asked the object of bis visit Mr.
Johnstone replied.
"1 am representing a largo colony
of people who desire to. retire from
active business life and build a citv
all their own. A city without a sa
loon, without a theatre, without r.
show of any kind; a city containing
one central church, one general store;
no trades, no business activities;
just a (piiet home in which a people
well-supplied with the world's goods
can live in perfect retirement. We
do not mean by this that our people
do not love the theatre, and other
amusements, but that our aim is lo
locale near a city iir which all this
may be found. We do not claim to
bo building a holy city, for there i
none holy by him that sent us, hut
us. We desire to build a ipiiet home
city, whore the aged may rest in
peace and the young may pursue
their studies without being inter
rupted by the environments of a busy
business mart. We cxnect to creel
and maintain the finest of schools,
lo have a perfect city government in
which no contention shall arise. Peo
ple may think this impossible, but
not so with our people. We know
each other and have maintained our
organization in Hurton, and Minion
is one of the wickedest cities, in all
England, aside from London.
"Want a clean city, not only mor
ally clean, but clean in a sanitary
ivav. We want parks and drives,
sidewalks, paved streets, and fouu
laiiis, flowers and statuary and ha
ample means to provide them all.
"Where wo shnll locate T -do not
know. Canada was prefcrcd when I
left England, but I find a better cli
mate in the coast states and shall
spend some mouths before report
ing." Wov Johnstone ok the 10 o'clock
train for firnnts I'ass and will iv
lurn here on Wednesday of this
week. V. '
FIVE MINERS ARE
BLOWN TO BITS
Fifty Men Are in Mino When Ex
plosion Occurss Over 20 Are
Burned Premature Shot Is Re
sponsible for Accident.
FAIUMOL'NT, W. Va., Dec. 10.
Five minors are reported to havo boon
killed and nearly 20 burned In an
explosion In tho Consolidated Coal
company's mine at Chlofton today.
Fifty moa wor in tho mino at tho
time of the explosion. It Is bollovod
that a premature shot caused tho ac
cldont. Tho men woro blown to frag,
nionta.
The store that makes its ndvortis
ing valuable to you oarns your sup
port. Every day some store's ad
vertising is particularly valuable lo
vou and you can discover which
store and what advertisement in u
few moment s.
AI AN END
Decisive Action Is Expected Whether
Cases Will End in General Fiasco
or Not Rests With Hency Is Non
committal as to Course He Will
Pursue.
PORTLAND. Or., Hoc. 10. The
Oregon land fraud cases, which were
prosecuted In tho federal courts sev
eral years ago by Francis J. Henoy,
are about to terminate. Henoy la in
Portland today for tho purpose- of
bringing tho famous cases to a fin
ish. Whether tho Ulnnlo will bo a
general fiasco of all cases pending,
with the dismissal of the cases and a
batch of pardons, or a renewed ef
fort to convict former Congressman
Dinger Hermann and J. N. William
son and lo sontonco Franklin l'lercc
Slays, Wlllard Jones nml Thndeus Pot
ter to prison now rests with Henoy.
It Is believed that decisive action will
6o taken this week.
Those In closo touch with tho sit
uation hold to the opinion that a mo
tion for tho dismissal ot tho cases
against Williamson and Hermann will
be 'made. This opinion is based on
an Intimation from Hency that he
does not Intend to romaln long In the
northwest.
It Is asserted that tho ca3cs have
grown so antiquated duo to tho fact
that Henoy has made no effort to try
them, that tho witnesses nro scat
tered. Mays, Potter and Jones wero con
victed and sentenced to pay heavy
fines and servo short jail sentences.
They appealed their cases to the court
of appeals and lost. It Is said they
have agreed to' pay tho fines If par
doned. Strong recommendations! for
leaioacy have been made to President
Tart by friends of tho men, and It Is
understood that tho pardons will ho
granted If Henoy does not too serious
ly opposo them.
Henoy Is non-committal as to tho
course ho Intends to pursue. Ho de
clined to talk concerning tho Her
mann and Williamson cases, saying
that ho first wanted to refresh his
memory on certain points.
Hermann was acquitted In tho caso
tried In Washington adn tho jury dis
agreed at his trial for alleged land
frauds In Portland.
Williamson was tried for alloged
frauds three tlmos. Ho was twice ac
quitted and convicted the third time.
Ho won a no wtrlnl on an appeal.
NEILL IS TRYING
TO AVERT GREAT
RAILWAY STRIKE
Still Conferring Willi Engineers Em
ployed on Sixty-Ono Roads to Pre
vent Them From Walking Out
Engineers Want Increase of 17
Per Cent.
CHlCACiO, Doc. 10. Charles P.
N'elll, commlSHiouor of labor, Is en
deavoring today to avert tho fulfill
ment of throats by President War
ren S. Stono of the Drothorhood of
Locomotive FiiKluecrs that unlotw tho
inon omployod on til western rail
roads get an Increase of wagos de
manded a strike on tho toads will bo
ordered before Christmas.
.Vol It conferred this morning with
officials of the railroads, and prepar
ed this afternoon for a conference
with tho engineers. Tho commission
er declined to predht what might bo
tho outcomo of the conference.
Tho on g I news ssiiert that any of-1
fer of settlement of less than an in-,
crease of from HI to 17 par cunt will
bo unsatisfactory.
Every day some More-patrons who
ought to coino to vour store o else-when-
-to Iheir own and your dis
advantage because our advciti---i
i "X was nut quite unpi-lling finic.;,i
KERSH JURY ISl
STILL OUT; ARE
UNABLE AGREE
Further Instructions Asked Yester
day Afternoon Strain Is Telling
on Woman If Complicity Is
Shown Site is Guilty Says Judge
PORTLAND, Or., Doc. 19. Retir
ing for deliberations at 5:15 p. in.
Saturday, tho Jury In vhoso hands
rests tho fate of Mrs. Carrlo Korsh,
charged with complicity In tho mur
der of William Johnson, was still out
at 1 o'clock today. Tho jury had been
out 11 hours nt this lime.
Mrs. Korsh Is very weak as a result
of the ordeal through which she has
passed.
Yesterday foronoon tho jury re
quested further Instructions from
.ludgo Morrow, but it was not until
II o'clock that all parties concorncd
In the trial hnd been brought together
In the courtroom.
Several jurors asked particularly
for Instructions as to what constitu
ted first degree murder. This point
was not missed by. Mrs. Kersh, and
she showed every ovldonco of fear
when sho was half carrlod from tho
courtroom by tho jail matron.
The Instructions glvon Saturday
were repeated almost In their ontlro
ty and the court made It clear that If
tho jury believed that a conspiracy
existed between Mrs. Kersu and Jesse
Webb to kill Johnson that a verdict
of murder In the first degree should
bo returned.
Tho court said Hint four vordlcts
could bo found murdor in tlio first
degree, murder In tho second degree,
manslaughter or acquittal.
Want-advertise aggressively if
the need to sell that properly is urg
ent. MANY BACKING UP
STAND OF SEATTLE STAR
SIOATTI.n, Wash., Dec. 10. A
storm of protests from the city and
from tho outside havo piled Into tho
Seattle Star office following tho sen
tencing of two editors of tlio Star late
Friday afternoon for contompt of
court.
Tlio Fremont Ilaptlst church con
gregation yesterday unanimously
passed a 10, 000-word resolution com
mending the editors and pledging
their utmost support in their fight
for the people of tlio Duwamlsh val
ley, now at the mercy of tlio traction
trust.
Willi store advertising so offoetive
i hat every copy of this newspaper
becomes a sidesman for you, you'll
inid (bat business continues to im
prove to the crgc of your capacity
lo handle it.
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BLOCK TRAFFIC
Turn Back Railroad Trains Fierce
Battle Believed to Be In Progress
Widespread Indignation Follows
Stopping of Trains.
13L PASO, Tex., Dee. 10.- IiiBiir
Heuts stopped all Maxlco-Northwost-em
railroad trains at Pedornnles to
iIhj and ordered them to loturn. Tele
graph ami telephone Hues beyond that
point were cut. It was rumored
that a flrre battle whs In progress on
I the outskirts of Pedoraales.
The action of the lusurrectos la In
terfering with tho railiOHd traffic
caused widespread expressions of in
dignation. Scores of American sol-
dlcrsof fortune, on healing the news.
started for tho scene, suinu of them
iiffi-iliiK to talvc the ti.iiiiK rmward. ,
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ONSS
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RUSH
CLERKS
ON QUI VIVE
Great Groups Gather in Different
Stores and at Postoffice Much
Business Being Transacted at
Postoffico and Express Office.
With Christmas day less than a
week away the holiday rush is now in
full swing at the local postoffice. All
day long groups of people stand be
fore the stamp, reggistry and money
order windows, patiently awaiting
their turn.
The Christinas business began
about throe weeks ago, with pack
ages and letters going to loreign
countries. From that time to this
there has been a daily increase, and
this daily increase will continue right
up to the evening of tho 'Jlth of De
cember. There is a good chance that
previous recoids of the local postot
lico will bo broken this year.
The daily average of money or
ders to points in the United States
during the past 20 days has been
over ijilOU. This number does not
include the foreign money orders,
which have a largo total. Orders
paid, ui)ou their receipt from outside
points, Lave averaged 50 a day in the
same period.
Stamp .sales havo been running over
sHOO a day, and about 75 packages
have been registered every day foi
the last three weeks. This niiinbci
will greatly increase from now on.
I 111 1 A ll
in giving iioiKiay pointers lo tin
general public, Postmaster Woodfori.
wishes it to bo impressed upon the
minds of the people that all Christ
mas packages should ho earefull.v
wrapped in good, tough paper; that
in writing address the county as well
uss Hie town should be put mi; that
the return address should be placeU
on tlie packages, and particularly on
every registered package, for a reg
istered package cannot be ucceptco
unless it bears the return address;
that all addresses on registered mail
to froeign countries positively must
be in ink; that all parcels of mer
chandise take the fourth-class rale
of I cent an ounce, counting the
down weight as an ounce Hint is lo
say, the smallest fraction of an
ounce. Care should bo taken lo sci
that tliiini, is sufficient postage on all
such packages. If the county as well
as the city is placed in the address
it will greatly facilitate delivery, and
insure the Christumns mail lieii: de
livered on lime. Willi only tho town
and the slate there might be delay, so
great is tbu volume of Christmas
mail,
No return card is furnished with
registered mail unless requested, Tlu
words, "Not to bo opened until Christ
inas," or words to (hut effect, writ
ten on the outside of the package
mailed, makes it necessary to place
I list ela-s pos(,ige on the package.
OUAKE SLAYS
M PERSONS
Island Sinks Following Great Up
hcaval Several Islands Uulnhah
Mvi. Arc Also Missing Several ,
Persons Escanc in Boats l,, C6,M,C "tnick both ti,ll,lru"- 't
i crs.ons tscape in ooais. W(U iora, mlluUua ,)orro thoy wom
'found n sunt to a hospital.
PORT LI.MON. Costa Rica. Dec, 19.: ' o mea.ttl.no 25,000 pqrsonfl
-Seventy families, consisting of from ,""' ,7 ."'T'1, th ,,,Mlng r".,vei
150 to 170 persons In all, were drown- """ w ""lIt' fmint w,t tll "
ed when the Island on which tlioy i " ',r,Vl' thwM ,Mll'k 80 that tho work
lived was swallowed up by tho sea uf ouo in,fht on'
during an earthquake Saturday. Tho , !' mirH,,lul hool of St. Pat
siinkuu Island wan In the center of rkkI8 t,"t,ie,,ial l Forty-ninth street
LIophko Lagoon. Word of tho on.'""'1 I'Mt" vno was badly dam.
lauiity reached here early today. "ml HpV(mil 0"' woro slightly
Llopago Ugoou Is a lake southeast '!J"ro 1)y ""torod glass. Tho Bl
ot the city of San Salvador. It Is ,,B '""" 8ul,ool ,n n ton-tory build
about five aud a half miles In length, i'"8 llt "nlnth street, was alsq
Tho lagoon Is about 25 miles from (,Il,imS(l "? tho u,astL:',
, )1H pa,.nc coast, In a mountainous i
country. i
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BUIDLIN6S ARE
SHATTERED FOR
Gas Tank in Milk Depot Explodes
setting Off Car of Dynamite
Every Man at Worn in Power
House Was Killed Exact Cause
Will Never Be Known.
N13W YORK, Dec. 19. Nino per
sons wero killed, eight nro missing
and believed to be dead, and moro
than ao persons woro injured in a
terrific explosion today that wreckod
tho Now York Central milk depot,
tho railroad's carponter shop and tho
power house oftho Now York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad at Forty-ninth
strcot and Lexington avenuo.
Cursory investigation gavo rlso to
a police theory that tho gas tank in
the milk depot wns flrod by a spark
from tho tiird rail of tho electric road
of the Now York, Now Havon & Hart
ford railroad, which passed near tho
milk depot. On tho track stood a car
of dynamite, and tlio dlsohargo or Uils
explosion wrought tho groatest hnvoe.
District Attorney Whitman, upon
leoclvlng the pollco ropor' ns to tho
causo of tho disaster, at onco ordorcd
an Investigation.
Within a few minutes after tho ex
plosion pollco and flremon woro
bringing maimed and bleeding bodies
(from the ruins, while wounded mon,
.voiueu niio cuiioren vyitnm a radius
)l 12 blocks woro belnc hnrrlod to
hospitals for treatmont.
Tlio oxploslon occurrod shortly aft-u-
S o'clock. The causo will novor
lie known, as ovory man who was at
worlt In the power ohuso wns killed.
The disaster was so timed thnt
hundrods of pcoplo woro converging
to tho scoiio Just beforo tho boilers
let go. A scoro of men woro blown
Into the nlr and lator found dend or
dying. Two men passing near tho
plant wore blown ncross Lexington ,
'ivonuo and tho skull of ono was
piorced by a long splinter of glass.
A street car on Loxlngton avenuo
was hurled from tho tracks and top
pled over onto an automobile owned
by Charles S. Shopard. Ono of tho
occupants of tho machine and two
passengers In tho car wero killed.
Others wero Bovoroly Injured.
Within a inlnuto after tho explo; '
slon nmhulances from ovory part fol
lowed firemen to tho ruins that mark-.
ed tho big plnnt, and tho work or
fighting tho flames and rescuing thu '
dead and Injured began.
With tho nearby buildings In a
shattered condition and threatening
to topple ovor on tho rescuors, flre
mon, police, physicians and nowspa
por men carried scores of wounded
to tho ambulances or placealho dead
In an Improvised morgue in tho New
York Contral Railroad yards.
With tho first shock of tho explo
sion, 500 children, patients in tho
chldlren's Morcy hospital, bocamo
paulc-strlckeu mid those able to loavo
their cots rushed for the doors. A
Hcore of tho little onos woro trampled?
in the wild rush for safety. Every
window in the hospltnl was blown la'
and many of tho children anu nurses
woro cut with broken gluss. Tho
panic was checked beforo any of tlio
patients was sorlously hurt. .
At Lexington avunuo and KKty
flmt Htreot school two piiplln only
had arrived. Both wero Injured by
the shock. A portion or ono of the
walls foil out and heavy plaster from
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