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3OTTII YEAR.
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1910.
NO. 238 o(
FIRST AERIAL
TEDDY WILL
BUCK HAND
LEADERS GET
LONG TERMS
Stork Is Hovering Over the
Throne of Great Britain.
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UNPREPARED
FOR WARFARE
STATES WOOD
WOMEN MAY
DISFRANCHISE
MEN VOTERS
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LOS ANGELES
United States Coultl Not Resist Hos
tile Moves of Any First-Class Na
tion Is Testimony of Chief of Staff
Before' House Committee.
Not Powder Enoun.li to Last Through
One First-Class Engagement
Lessons df 1812 and Spanish
American Wars Cited.
- WASHINGTON, D. ?., Dec. 27,
That (he United Slate, i not pre
pared to inu'el the hostile moves oi
any firsl-clims nation is the lesli
liiony of General Leonard Wood,
ehieL of stuff, given before the house
committee on military affair.-,, and
made public today. The ammunition
at the disposal of the nrniy, he tes
tified,, would not last through a sin
gle engagement, and other conditions
are equally had. Genetal Wood ex
plained his plans for reorganizing
the militia and urged Unit a more
mobile force be ready at all times t-
lake the field.
"There is no use talking about
our patriotism and fighting ipinli
ties,'" General Wood told the com
mittee. "We have them, but wo mu-l
lemember thai this capital was lost
to a force less than that of its de
fender, nnd that it was abandoned
(Continued from Vuko 1.)
TO CHANGE
JACKSON STREET
Property Owjiers Would Make Name
of Street Uniform Throughout
Will Be Known in Future as Jack
son Boulevard.
With tho tax levy embracing a one
mill tax for the purpose of construct
ing a concrete bildgo across Boar
creek on Jackson street tho proporty
owners on that street have started
a movement to have tho name of tho
street changed to "JacK&on boule
vard." This will mako tho name
conform throughout as It Is known
as a "boulevard" oast of tho creek
and a "strcot" on tho west side.
Jackson boulevard whon paved
next year and with tho bridge con
structed will bo tho finest street In
tho city owing to tho fact that It Is
rt might as an arrow, and stretches
ft om city limits to elt Units.
BURGLARS MAKE
HAUL IN THEATRE
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 27. Safe
crackors blow open tho steel safo at
the Holllg theatre at Seventh and
Taylor streets Sunday night nnd so
cured $2100. Tho rqeclpts of Inst
night's porformanco of "The Iltirgo
mastor." Tho robbery was discov
ered today whon tho manager W,
Bangle wont to tho basement to open
tho big vault. ,
Captain of Dotoctlvc3 Mooro was
callod and after a cursory examina
tions aid that tho work was done by.
oxports. Tho robbors loft no clow.
Evldonco Indlcatos that tl'O crocks
mon employed nitroglycerin to pry
tho heavy steel door loose. Thoy
used gunny sacks and cam-as sconory
to iimfflo tho noise of tho explosion.
Manager Pnnglo nnd Mrs. Pangle,
who occupied apaitmonts on tho top
floor of tho ihoutio building woro not
awakened whon tho exyloeivo lot go.
Tho Heillg was recontly opened and
Is one of tho highest priced thoatros
in tho city.
CHICAGO. IH.. Do- -' ,1,lck
Cuduhy and his fnnnor wife, both
of whom art; in Pasadena, ChI., are
not to remarry. noooiding to Mr
John li. Cudnhv.
"The report from Pasdena that
n reooiictliiUion botwowi tho two is
about to take piano, and tlmt they
avo going to remarry, i untrue,"
wild Mr. Cudnhv.
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Entries Comprise Every Aviator Par
ticipating in Big Meet Five Laps
Over Ten-Mile Course for Purse of
$5000 Records tu Be Lowered.
Hoxscy, Who Flew OvcnElcvcn Thou
sand Feet in the Air Yesterday, to
Attempt to Beat His Record
Quintette of Birdmen to Shoo't.
LOS ANGELES, Cul., Dec. 27.
Speedy legislation ngalnst actual op
ponents and against timo was prom
ised as tho bis attraction at Domin-
guez aviation field today. Entries
for tho first aerial derby ovor held
Included almost ovory aviator partic
ipating in tho meet, with tho ex
ception of Hubert Latham, whoso An
toinette monoplane was co severely
damaged last evening that several
days must olaj-sc before It can bo
put Into commission again. Tho raco
was scheduloti to bo started at 4
o'clock.
Flvo laps ovor tho 10-rallo course
was tho dlctauco announced; tho
purse $5000. Radley, present holder
of the world's speed tecord In a
Ulerlot monoplr.r.o; Curtlss, In a
Curtlbs biplane; Hoxscy and Brook
Ins In Wright Llplanes; Parmalco In
tho dlnilnutlvo baby Wrlgl.t and Ely
(Continued on Price 4.i
LABOR COUNCIL
GETS AJHARTER
American- Federation of Labor Au
thorizes Creation of Central Labor
Council Here Big Smoker Is
Planned for Sunday.
The Central Labor Council of Med
ford has received Its charter from
tho American Federation of Labor
and will celebrate Its arrival Sunday
by giving a smoker In tho Anglo
opera houso to which tho public is
cordially Invltod. Every business
man in tho city Is urged to bo present.
During tho afternoon tho chnrter
will bo read and framed.
Tho union men of tho city havo re
cently been showing great nctlvlty In
organizing tho various trades. In
consequence locnl unions of tho fol
lowing have been fermed: Prlntors,
palntors, barbers, granlto cutters,
bricklayers, carpenters nnd Joiners,
electrical workers, cooks, waiters and
waitresses, machinists. Tho muni
clans are now organizing.
Every advertisement of a store
srives to somebody pel haps to many
people their first impressions of
that "tore. And first impressions
abide with Strang persistence.
ED
Popular Man About Town Discusses
Political Situation and Reasons
for His Candidacy.
"I soo by tho pnpors," said Hon. Ed
Root, woll known clubman, racon
teur and man about town, "that Us
upon season agnln for candidates, so
ploaso announce my candidacy for
mayor. I only consont to sacrifice
mysolf for the public good, because I
need tho money.
"I see Its tho fashion for candldntos
to got testimonials. I'vo sent for
some and got thorn coming equal to
any hirod girl's in tho country. When
you read thorn you'll think I'm al
most as good as peruna to take.
"What's my platform jjolng to bo?
Well, almost anything to get the
votes.' I promise tho wots low li
censes and plenty of thorn a wide
open town. Every restaurant man
can servo booze with his meals It'll
be tlte only way I know to got a free
drink. I
"I promlne C o drys to annul the
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Bill to Deprive Males of Ballot in
Colorado to Be Introduced in Leg
islation in Retaliation of One
Aimed Against Equal Suffrage.
Fight Promises ,to Be a Warm One
Political Graves Promised Legis
lators Who Participate Say Wo
men Have Failed to Make Good.
DENVER, Col., Dec. 27. A bill
to deprive men of tho ballot In Colo
rado will bo Introduced In tho stato
legislature if ono now being framed
by men Intondod to dl3franchlso wo
men Is prccontcd nt tho coming ses
sion. That Is tho answer tho suffra
ges of Colorado havo ready for tho
men who are now seeking to form a
mascullno otlng monopoly.
The fight promises to bo a warm
one. Thero nro both mon and wo
men In tho legislature, and tho wo
mon members, forowarncd of tho
move tho mon are planning, havo
mapped out a campaign of opposi
tion that will, It Is predicted, bo spec
tacular. Incidentally, tho woman
leaders prophesy, tho mon who are
"bravo" enough to introduce any bill
seeking a constitutional amendment
depriving tholr "sisters" of tho ballot
will bo laid away In neat Httlo pollt
leal gravos with headstones especially
carved for them by tho lc'lslntor-
esscs.
The men who nro seeking to havo
only tho Adam brand of voters In
Colorado bnso their nrguraents in fa-
for of the bill on tho allegation that
women havo failed to mako good as
voters. The women, In tho fight they
will mnko to continue as voters, In
tend to use tho samo nrgumont
against tho men. Not only will thoy
contond that the mnso'ilino portion
of Colorado has shown that It Is un
trustworthy, subject to bribery, 11
loglcal and easily duped, but thoy
will point out that tho experiment of
mascullno suffrage hns boon tried for
a good many moro years than has
vomnn suffrage, and that tho failure
tho mon havo mado Is thoroforo a
much, moro powerful argument for
taking tho ballot from thera.
Thot disfranchisement movement
sentiment, tho women say, Is a re
sult of recent opopsltlon of Mrs.
Elizabeth Goddard of Colorado
Springs,- a former suffragotte, to tho
votes for women Idea. Because ono
woman says women aro not capablo
of voting, Is no argunont, tho wo
men favoring equal suffrago say,
against the sytom. There nro plon
ty of women In the stato who have
given as much attention to tho matter
as Mrs. Goddard, they say, who are
f'rmly convinced that tho votes of
women have i layed an Important
parti n thcadvanccment of reform In
tho state. Most of tho reform, It
will beadded, has been to correct tho
mlstnkes that men havo mado.
charter and enforco prohibition and
me and Plerco are organizing a citi
zens leaguo for good government
for Ed Root ngalnst tho flold. And
me and Bert Anderson aro doing tho
snme thing with an Improvement
league on tho wost tddo. I toll you
what, whon Jt comos to politics
thoy'vo all got to take tholr hats off
to your Undo Ed. I'll get both tho
wot and dry voto.
"I wear whlskors In tho
wlntor time, so I'll got tho mossback
vote, and shnvo clean (once a week)
in summor, to I'll got the progressive
voto. You can't boat my combination.
"I'vo promised to mako Moso Bark
dull fruit Inspector and flro John 01
well out of the exhibit building.
John's too smart for them real estate
fellors, so I'm going to help thorn out
to got their votes and thoro's enough
of them to oloct mo. I'd mako Doc
Koene chief of pollco only I'm. ufrnid
he ain't got no llconso.
"I promlco to lot ovory woman In
Modfo'rd to wear a hobblo Bklrt and
to make W. J. Drumhlll, city engin
eer, so streets can bo paved without
coat to tho property nwneie. Branson
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PREPARING TO
WELCOME 1911
This Year's Greeting to New Year in
Medford Is Already Being Planned
Cafes-to Remain Open and Watch
Meetings Planned.
Preparations are already under
way for n proper observation of the
coming of the new year on next Sat
urday night. Local cafes will jo
nmiii open and music will he provid
ed. Aside from downtown guther
ings, several of the, churches will
hold watch meetings.
Medford boasts of having as met
ropolitan a greeting for tho now yeur
as tho larger cities on tiie const, and
from plans now being inude, this
year's welcome to a new year will
not fall below the usual Htundatd.
SEYFERLJCrTsUCCEEDS
CHIEF JAMES H0RAN
CHICAGO, III., Dec. 127. Charles
Soyferlieh, who 'look charge of Chi
cago's fire department alter Chu "
James lloran and Assistant Miirsbi.l
Murroughs were killed in (lie ruins
of the beef wurehouso of Nelson
Morris Ac Co. at the recent slock-vnrd-
fire, has been named to head
the department.
will got Baker's Job keeping tho sew
ers clean and I ho Saturday Review
will he my official organ nnd poet lar
iat. Every new comor's advice on
how to run tho town will bo followed
and If tho corbllats aro clncoro and
really want tho mllleulun: all thoy
gotta do Is to voato for Ed Root, tho
poopul's choice and It will bo hero.
"Whnt nia I going to do mysolfV
Well, I don't intend to hustlo llko I
havo to now, I won't got up at C
o'clock, wade around mttdholos and
see what's gotta bo dono and hold a
hobo court boforo breakfast and thou
work all day llko tho present mayor
a mayor otter bo above such
things. I'll look after tho graft and
thoro ain't going to be no core to
this apple.
"UnborupuIo.'B parsons nro circu
lating lies about mo. They say I
ain't n rosldoT of tho oily. I nre.
My hat Is my effico and I aloep In
It. Don't Vols Ivo mo a legal real
donee? I am In tho rago to stay."
Thereupon Mr. Root, having dis
cussed city pol'tlca, left for tho Nat.
ntorlum, It aloo being about that
tltnr of the via ,
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UNIVERSITY CLUB
nun OPEN
New Quarters In Mall Tribune Build
ing Arc Ncaring Completion and
Soon Will Be Ready for Occu
pancy Aro Up-to-Datc.
The now iinrlors of tho University
cliib, in tile Mail Tribune building,
nre neuriug completion and will soon
bo ready for occupancy. The club
expects to have a bouse wurining the
first of tho year.
The -quarters nre leally very fine,
being finished in Oregon fir, burnt
instead of stained, nnd with oak
floors. Two largo fireplaces furn
ish bent. Large window seats
abound. The club will havo tho fin
est quarters in the city,
GENEillcS
STOCKS GO DOWN
Ni;V YOHIC, Dec. 27. The fent
uro'of today's stock market was the
decline in General Klectrie, presum
ably au a renult of the thrcutoii''d
prosecution of the alleged ."electrical
trust" by Iho federal government.
This issue opened at a decline of
l:,i nnd declined 2. The rest of
the list was inclined to weakness
Vetinghouse, Union Pacific, Rend
ing and Lohigb Valley lost a point ov
more.
Consolidated Gas mid Westevn
.M.i r viand woro exceptions to the de
clining stocks. The mat kut oloaod
firm.
Souris woro irregular.
JACKRABBITS DESTROY
ORCHARDS AT MONMOUTH
MONMOL'TU. Oro., Dec. 27. Tho
farmers In the surrounding country
have boon trying In ovory possible
way to find boino mothnd by which
thy can keep tho JackrabbltB from ru
ining tho many acros of young or
chards. Tho rabbit come In bandi,
and although many hunters havo
boen sent out to kill them, moro of
them continue to come in. Tho way
In which they Injure tho truoe is not
woll understood. From tho hills west
of this city tho rabbi I a oun bo Keen
feeding In the largo walnut orehnrda,
t cattle onu be seen grazing In n
field. Thro has beau a big Increase
In tho numhei of those rabbits during
tho punt year, and how they can ovor
bo killed off is perplexing the farmers
nnd frult'Towcm
Reported Alliance of President and
Colonel Repudiated No Under
standing Regarding Next Cam
paign Reached or Even Discussed.
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Former Executive Knows Nothing of
Reported Apportion of New York
Patronage to William Loch in Ex
change for State Delegation.
NEW YORK, Dec. 27. "All talk
of mo supporting Tnft In 15)12 Is
most absurd," said Colonel Theo
dore Roosovolt today.
That was tho colonel's answer to
tho story that ho and Taft had
reached an understanding regarding
tho presidential campaign two years
honco.
"Nothing llko that lias boon dis
cussed by mo," Roosovolt continued.
"So far as tho Rtntpmont Is con
corned thnt William Loob, Jr., lo
camo Taft'u (lleutonant to apportion
patronago, that goes to Now York,
In order to secure tho stato dele
gation for Taffc for president In 1912,
I know nothing of It."
Tho colonol was vigorous In mak
ing his donlnl. Ho omphnslzod tho
fnct that tho presidential possibilities
of 1012 had never been the subject
of any discussion between hiniBolt
and tho present chief executive
Tho reports of any such talk or of
any ngreomont reached In any othor
way by which ho was to throw his
Influence to Taft In tUoconilng cam
pain woro branded as simply un
true. Ho did not say whether ho had
discussed tho presidential possibili
ties with any ono olso.
TO FORM UNION
CHICAGO, III., Dec. 27. Tho Pull-
mn'n porters' union, It Is expected,
will bo formed as a result of a so
crot mooting of tho dusky gontle
uien who mnko up berths mid collect
tips. Tho portern hold a mooting
yesterday which It Is admitted was
only a preliminary step toward tho
formation of nu organization. It Is
understood thnt the movement Is the
icsultof dissatisfaction among tho
brush wlcldors becnuso tips have boon
decreasing ob tho cost of living nd
vanced. tl Is expected that thoy will
try to force tho advanco in tho wngos
Kr'titlv ili'innudi'il Hum llu I'lillniiin
company.
CARDS AT ONCE
Local Postal Clerks Have Strenuous
Time Distributing Pasteboards
Bearing Xmas Greetings Pouches
Full of Them.
if you didn't get that Christmas
card you woro oxpooting t'toiii Unit
fiieiid of yours, the chances ate that
it will drift in within (lie next day
of two. Today over 5000 of Ihoin
were received in the local office and
it has kept the force busy taking
euro of Ilium.
Christinas cards are always sido
l lucked by the poHlal clerks during
the holiday riu.li, as letters iuhI
package are more impoitaiit. This
caused the big influx today.
Per the firwt time in three weeks
it. mail train ainvcd today witliot.t
a pouch of Cliriktmus packaged for
Mudford. The local force has kept
the office clear, so premonts are,
probably all diatributed.
(IKN'KVA. Dee. 27. According to
ktutislies published by the .SwUo
newspapers, the number of climbers
killed in the Swiss and Italian Alps
from Oelohor 31, JDUO, to Ootohur
.11, 11)10, was HO, while 80 other
i limber wire MTimi-ly injured.
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Ignoring Threats of Violence, New
York Court Sends Kidnapers of
Children to Sing Sing for 25 Min
imum, 50 Years Maximum Sentence
Children Held for Ransom for, 20
Days and Returned When Money
Asked Was Left In Package Pris
oner Called King of Black Hand.
NEW YQIUC, Doc. 27. Ignoring
threat' of violence County Judgo
Paweett today passed scntcnci cm.
Stanislo Patlenza and Mary Rupp, '
alleged members'. pi! Iho Black Hand,
society, who vrorq ?c)tiv))tc.ti of hold-'...
ing two boys for rausonii Tho sen
tence decreed that tho two priaonou
must spend not less than 25 years
nor more than -10 years ami 10
months in Sing Sing prison.
Tho couple wore considered thu
ringlenders of tho Black Hand soci
ety in New York. Open threats were
mado against udgo Faweett if lie
dared to pass sentence upon them.
Tho notion of the judgo has brought
consternation to the ranks of tho ex
tortionists, it is alleged, mid mem
bers of the society aro reported by
tho polieo to bo fleeing from thu
city.
Patlcnzo and the Rapp woman
were convicted of liaving kidnaped
Michael Hizzio and Luisoppi Lougo,
both 8 years of ago. Tho children
woro held for ransom Tor 20 days
and were returned when the money
asked was put in a package and left
as instructed by the kidnapers. Tho
police arrested tho' pair ns they wore
about to.seizo tho money.
Judgo Fawcott sharply arraigiied
tho two prisoners ns lie passed sen
tence. "It is almost ttnboliovablo that you
could haVo hold two brokeu-licarlod
stolen children for 20 days, knowing
that their parents woro also suffer
ing during (his timo," said tho court
when imposing sentence on tho wo
man. "You havo no spirit or in
stinct of mother-love. It is stronger
in beusttf- nnd birds than in you."
Turning to Pattenzo, the judgo
centinued:
"You aro tho brains, the leader,
tho acknowledged king of tho 1Shi':k
Hand society. Your companion
would have confessed if an agent of
your organization had not called at
the jail and notified her that if she
lovoaled the secrets of your deed she
would bo killed. Criminals of your
typo should never have beon permit
ted to bind in this country. I te
grel that the law docs not permit tho
death penalty for such crimes."
MOCK TAKEN TO
PENITENTIARY
With George Carter, Convicted of
Theft, Murderer Leaves in Com
pany of Chief Shearer and Sam L.
Sandry Entered Prhon Today.
Julian A. Mock, sentenced to l'u'o
imprisonment for killing Jesse C.
Smith in this city lust September,
was taken to Salem Monday evening
to commence serving his sentence,
Willi Mock was George Carter, con
victed of theft, and sentenced to
fivo years' impiisoiiiuent. The two
mon were in the elturgo of'Chiof of
Police Shearer and Sam L. Sundry.
While waiting for thu train in tins
city .Mock reiterated thu statement
that ho was not guilty of intentional
murder mid that he was not (ho
coward be was accused of being.
Mock and Carter were shaoklud
together by the offioors jiv order to
proent auy attempt of escaping.
DAYTON, O., Dee. 27. An annu
ity ol' .f 1(100 fop Itiilph Johnstone's
widow was settled today by (ho
Wright brothers, for whom the avi
ator was winking when ho met death,
in Denver a few weeks, ago.