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BANK CLEARINGS v
TODAY
$62,322.10
THE WEATHER
Fair tonight and tomorrow.
Th Mnr of th nagi.
White Fair weather,
liluo Itoln or snow.
Whlto and blue Local showen
Black triangular Above white,
warmer; below white, colder.
Whlto with black center Cold.
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FIFTH YEAR.
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY. JANUARY 16, 1911.
No. 255.
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RUSK GIVES EGGLESTON AND
WESTERN! IMPORTANT PEACES
FISHERIES TO
COOS COUNTY
Eastern Oregon Steam Roller Put In
Motion and Thompson Charged
With Making Deals Gets No
Chairmanship Eaton Gets Place.
SALEM, Jan. 1C. Tho Jackson
coirtity delegation Tared extremely
well at tho hands of Speaker Rusk
today in the matter of committee as
signments. Representative Westerlnnd re
ceived the chairmanship ot the com
mittee on horticulture and got places
on the committee on mining and tho
one on hanking.
Representative Eggleston got the
chairmanship of tho committee on
statistics and emigration and a place
on tho committee on roads and high
ways and also a place on the commit
tee on ways and means.
Senator Von der Hellen, In the son
ate, also fared well. He received tho
chairmanship of tho committee on
roads and highways, which at this
session is most Important. Ho was
also placed on the ' committees on
banking, counties, federal relations,
fishing industries and public lands.
Tho committee appointments in the
house wore surprising. Tho caBtern
Oregon steam roller was put in mo
tion and Thompson, who was charged
with making deals for politics, gets
no chairmanship. Eaton, Rusk's
principal opponent, gets enrolled
bills, while engrossed bills goes to
Lelnoweber. Entou loses tho com
mittee on rules nnd tho samo goes to
Clemens of Portland. Fisheries goes
to Pierce of Coos and Curry.
TAIHMAHY WARS
Despite This, However, He Seems
Certain of Going to United States
Senate Dix's Influence Will Prob
ably Go to Shepard.
AL11ANY. X. V., Jan. 1C That
Now York's noxt United States sena
tor, dosplto tho wry faces made by
Tummnny" hall, will bo Edward M
Shopurd Is tho gonoral Impression
here, where the democratic legislative j
cuuacns Is In tho worst muddle even
this state has scon in years.
Headed by Charles F. Murphy, the
Tummnny members nro Insisting that I
the plum go to William F. Sheohan,
but this tho up-state members vigor
ously oppose and declare that the
state will surely go republican at tho
next election if tho Tammany in
fluence bo allowed to spread.
(iovornor John A. Dix's advisers
have informed him of this statement
and It Is boleved to be probable that
at the final caucus of tho purty to
night his Influence will bo so thrown
to S'.iepard that Tammany will be
foned into line.
BELIEVE CANAl
SHOULD BE NEUTRAL
BOSTON. Jan. 1C A Btatement
ombodyuif? ix reason why tho Pan
ama canal nould be kot neutral,
signed by noted mon nnd women
from all irts of tho country Is being
permed with much intorost and wide
ly dtacused today In official circle,
itavld Starr Jordan. proeldont of
Stanford unluralty. Richard 01ne.
former seiutuv of state, and Wil
liam Dean H-wi-IU au- among the
slgni-j.-
ON SHEPARD
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RESOLUTION
BALLINGER
DECLARES
UNWORTHY
WASHINGTON, D. C,
Jan. Hi. A resolution tlei'lnr
in Secretary of Hie Interior
Hnllinger an unfaithful pub
lic servant and assertiii'i lie
should not longer lie retained
in ofiico, was introduced to
day by Senator Purcell of
North Dakota.
Purcell was a member of
the Hnllinger-Pinchot investi
gating committee.
DISPATCHERS TO
ASK MORE PAY
Will Demand $25 a Month More
Say Their Work Has More Than
Doubled During Past Year Owing
to Salary Increase.
PORTLAND, Jan. 1C Train dis
patchers employed on all northwest
ern roads today presented demands
for a salary Increase of $25 a month.
Trainmasters also made a demand
for a substantial addition to the re
muneration they now receive.
Tho dispatchers based their de
mand on tho grounds that their work
has practically doubled recently, ow
ing to tho rapid growth of traffic,
while their salaries have practically
remained stationary. As further
reason they declare that trainmen
employed in lesser capacities receive
higher pay. The average salary of
dispatchers in the west Is $110.
If the demands are not acted
upon before June, the dispatchers
say that they will organize as a
labor union and present their de
mands as a union.
The dispatchers gave notice of
their intentions a fow days ago. Tho
general manaEors stato 'that In tho
absence of official Information they
could not consider tho Increaso that
tho men will ask. J. P. O'llrlen of
tho Harrlman system said yesterday
that ho knows nothing of tho wants
of the men, excepting what ho has
learned from outsldo sources,
BITTER ATTACK
Western Shippers Declare That Pro
posed Increase Will Cost Them
$12,000,000 Annually Watering
Stocks Blamed.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1C Declar
ing that the proposod Increase In rail
road rates will cost not less than
$12,000,000 annually, wostem ship
pers today made a most bitter attack
on tho proposed advance at tho final
hoarlng of the niattor before the in-
terstate commerco commission.
Tho loss, thoy assorted, was reck-,
oned definitely on the sixty commod-
ltles directly affocted, but they)
nvorred that tho sum would bo still
further Increased by sympathetic In-,'
creasos on other articles not dofln
ttoly specified.
Combatting assertions of the rail
roads, the shippers doclared that traf
fic profits on tho roads had Increased
enormously in recent years, and that
If tho not returns wore smallor It was
becauso of the watering of stocks and
tho transference of oxponsos by tho
roads to hldo their roal condition.
Someone's necessity iik indicated
HIGHER RATES
in n clnssiiied ud s probably yourwant ads that contain opportuniti
uplMirt'irMtv fr on
BOARD REJECTS
ASYLUM SITE
Recent Lands Purchased at Pendle
ton Are Not Accepted Governor
Sends Special Message to Legisla
ture Regarding It.
SALEM, Jan. 1C. The stato board
consisting of Governor West and
Treasurer Kay today decided to re
ject tho lands purchased at Pendleton
for n site for the Eastern Oregon
asylum for tho Insane. They have
asked a committee of five prominent
citizens, including Stato Engineer
Lewis, to net in conjunction with a
Joint conimltteo of the legislature to
examine tho site and report to tho
legislature, either condemning it or
asking nuthorlty to purchase addi
tional lands, as none of tho 32 acres
purchased for about $40,000 by tho
outgoing governor and stato treas
urer affords a suitable building plnco
for tho $1,000,000 structure to bo
erected.
Governor West this afternoon sent
a special message to the legislature
on the subject, making tho above
recommendations.
LODGE MAY LOSE
SEAT IN SENATE
Although His Re-Eclcction Is Pro
claimed to tho World as Being Cer
tain His Friends Are Becoming
Nervous Foss Bitterly Opposing.
BOSTON, Jan. 10. Although pro
claiming to the world at largo that
Senator Henry Cabot Lodgo Is sure
of re-election to tho United States
souato on tho first ballot in tho leg
islature tomorrow, ovldence that his
supporters nro not n little nervous Is
seen hero today in the announcement
that Congressman Augustus Gardner,
Lodge's son-In-,lnw, and Senator Mur
ray Crane will he here this afternoon
from Washington to stiffen the bnttle
line for tho "scholar In politics."
Steady and persistent opposition
to tho roturn of Lodgo to the senate
by Governor Eugene N. Foss a per
sonal enemy Is admitted to have
been mnklng the work of Congress
man Butler Ames In opposing Lodgo
much enslor than It otherwise would
have been, and tho "standpat" ton
doiiclos of Lodgo, coupled with the In
fluence of Foss and Ames make his
victory If ho Is victorious only ono
bought after hard fighting. Tho ar
rival of Crane and Gardner on tho
scono Is oxpected greatly to strengthen
tho hands of Lodgo. Crnnoiias great
Influence throughout tho stato, Po
litical promises will be used unspar
ingly to aid Lodge as his defeat, fol
lowing upon retirement of Senators
Halo and Aldrlch, would mean tho
prnclcal passing of tho most strongly
standpat warrioru of New England,
and tho coming Into power of a free
I irauo element wnicu is imigiii uiuur-
jy by all the big tarlff-beneflttlng
intorests of this pail of the country,
p0r a time It was expected that
Colonel Roosevelt would bo on hand
when tho bnllot Is taken tomorrow,
hut this Is now believed Improbable.
Roosevelt Is expectod to repl with
an oleventh hour broadBfdo to recent
abortions by Congressman Ames that
ho and Lodgo had ongaged In some
rather equivocal political deals, and
this. Lodge's frlonds hope, will aid
in holding in lino legislators whoso
support la considered doubtful.
Perhaps most of vour "had luck"
consists hi failing to answer the
PITTMAN DEAD;
MURDERHRGE
IS EMCIED
Coroner Holding Inquest This Af
ternoonMany Witnesses Called
Mother Will Br Forced to Go On
Stand and TesUfy.
SELF DEFENSE WILL
to
PROBABLY BE DEFENSE
Robinson Now In County Jail
Many Features Will Be
Brought Out at Trial;
Coroner . C. KoUok will hold mi
inquest this nfternoon over the re
mains of Sidney Pittman who died
curly Sunday morning ul the South
ern Oregon hospital ns the result of
injuries suutnined in n quarrel with
Clin rles Robinson lust Monday nighl.
An effort will be made, to secure tes
timony which will show to whut ex
tent Robinson was provoked hy the
dead man, Robinson, in the menu
time, sticking btendfastly to his for
mer usscrlion Hint ho only hit Pitt
miiu with n shovel nfter the latter
had attempted to stub him with u
knife.
Among the witnesses who will he
called upon to testify, is Robinson's
mother. She, it is tillered, cuine to
this city from Uoscburg in company
with the dead man on the Friday
before Pittman was struck down. On
the day of their arrival here Pitt
inan told a bartender in a Front
street saloon, whom lie had know in
Eugene a year ago, that his "wife"
was here with him and it was at the
direction of this man that Pitliuau
went to the South Grape street room
ing house, in front of which the quar
rel between him and Hobiiihon oc
curred, nnd secured a room. He had
ii womuu with him at these lodgings
and Robinson, when arrested told Ihe
people that she was his mother mid
that it was while he was in her room
that Pitlmuii came in nnd picked tiie
la tu I (piarrcl will) him.
Pittmuu died at the hospital early
Sunday morning without over having
regained coiiseiousiieMj. He was
admitted to that institution Ia.,t
Tuesday morning after hnving been
seen walking "up and down S. Cen
tral avenue in a dazed condition. An
operation performed on Pittman
Tuesday by, (lily Pliysio'jan J. II
Shearer resulted in the removal of
a large blood clot Iroiu his brain but
the arteries in the neighborhood a!'
the compound fractuie of the skull
inflicted by the blow with the shovel
were so badlv ruptiiicd (lint the in
jured iniiu win beyon hope of rocin
ory. Itohinsoii, wlio in now being he) I
by the county nuthnnties in default
of $5000 bail on a charge of ussuult
with a deadly weniion will be
brought to the iuqiic-i, (lie finding of
the coroner's jury at which will de
cide whether the 1'i-yenr-old bov
bo held to answer to a charge of
murder or of asauit
WORK STARTSTOON
A HUGE
HOISB, Ida., .Ian. HI. Tltu recla
illation bureau in tin city hit ,jut
been notified by Seendury Ilulliugor
that $1,000,000 of tho leolamation
bond issue appropriated by con
ress at the In! ifcinn will bu
used immediately to commence con
struction work on what the svrvico
iiMxerU will bu the laiaot irrigation
dam in the world. This dam will bo
on tho Itoino river, ')' miles' north
cast of thitf oily. The water will h
iiMod on (ho Payette-lioise irrigation
project, coinpi'isinjf 70,000 ueru
The dam will be .'118 feet liien.
ruiMiitf the water m the rescnoir m
212 feet It will cist fi.no.UOO,
fii.il mv iu n ri'M-noir ul lr0,000
Ul C t ft t (,lpli(lt.
Atlee Pomerene, Ohio's New Senator,
Example of Self Made Man.
Lieutenant Governor Elect Atleo Pomerene, progressive Democrat, who
tins been selected as tho next United States senator from Ohio, succeeding
Charles Dick, is a self inado man. He was horn at Merlin, O., forty-seven
years ago, a poor boy. Ho worked his way through school nnd through Prince
ton. Ho practiced law In Canton. In 1008 ho was a candidate for tho Demo
cratic nomination for governor nud was defeated hy Harmon. In November ho
was Harmon's running mate. Ho is married, but has no children. Through
Pomercno's selection a coal miner mny become governor of Ohio. Wllllnm
Green, president pro tern, of tho senate, will succeed to tho otllco of nonten
ant governor. Should Governor Harmon becomo tho Democratic candidate
for president ho probably would resign as governor nnd Senntor Green would
succeed him. Green was a former president of tho Ohio miners.
DID YOU SEE THE
JEFF-JACK FILMS
They Were Shown Saturday Night
While Certain Worthy Gentlemen
Were Conferring as Best Way of
Stopping Them Here.
While several prominent citizens
were eiignged last Saturday night iu
adapting the words "Thosu piotures
shall not bhow tonight" ol that old
"Curfew" stunt a wily nud oily pro
moter, aided and abetted by a local
uuprcssurio, pulled oft the Jut'i'
Joliusou fight fiasco pictures under
their very noses.
The alurm that caused the whole
sale rehearsing of tho anvil chorus
was, 1 st iccoived Saturday morning
when a telephone message from
tlrants Pai,s wag received heiu tell
ing that the man with the universally
tabooed films was heading this way.
Immediately tho central girls
wero muilo as busy us central girls
would have you bulievo they always
are putting the dreadful news
around amouf several congregations,
with the result that the aforemen
tioned song, to have beu worked for
the especial benefit of Mayor Cuuou
this morning, was faithfully ic
rehearsed. Hut as theimmorlnl bard once
put it "there's inimy a slip," etc,
tor, while the dutiful citizens were
lushing ihtfiuoolvcb into a state ol
frenzy preparatory to douiniiiliug
that a ban be place don the showing
of the films huie, the wily promoter,
with thcnxsiMuuco of tho mnuiige
meat of tho Savoy theater, put th
pictures on shortly after JO o'clock
Saturday night.
Only u low wuru prcucut, and those
paid no admission and early Sunday
morning tho story of tho fall of the
hope of the white race, neatly coiled
around a film holder together with
the man that owns it departed from
our midst as quietly lib thoy had
eomo.
Tho pictures are said no have bun
good lupiodiiutiuus of the oiiginul
encounter which, as everyone know,
ran a clone seuoud to Cook's alleged
polar adventure from (lie stand
point of a "houx."
Idaho's Census.
WASHINGTON, I). C. Jan. 1(1.
The population of the following
Idaho eitios was announced by the
ceiisii-, biiiT.iu todav :
(hi in d'Ali-iu. 7202 I,' ui-tou
Ml4i Poi Uill.i, 'M10, Twin 1-ulls
"iJ"H.
TALENT BONDS
FOR NEW SCHOOL
District Votes $27,500 With Which to
Erect Splendid New School Build
ingHave Secured Five Acre
Tract as Site.
Hy the overwhelming majority ot
511 (o -1 the Talent whool district
voted iu favor of a bond issue of
$27,501)' Saturday, with which to
erect u modern school building. A
site covering five acres of land has
beu iifiiuiretl.
The plans for the new school will
soon bo prepared. The new building
will be one of the most handsome
country schools iu ihe valley,
KETCHlL'SSLAYER
PLACED ON TRIAL
SPRINGFIELD, Mi Jan. 10 Tho
trial or Walter Diploy and Goldlo
Smith, tho man and woman accused
of tho murder of Mlddlowolght Cham
pion Stanley ICetchol, was begun hero
today. ICetchol, tho dofonso Will at
tempt to prove, was shot by Diploy
when tho flglitor nttoniptod to force
his attentions on tho Smith woman,
who wuh DIploy'B common law wife.
Tho stato will attempt to show that
Diploy and tho woman conspired to
rob ICetchol nud that it was In tho
prOHOcutlnn of this design that the
killing occurred.
NEW YORK EORGER
I
HOT SPRINGS. Ark., Jan. 1C
Charlofl H Evorott, who Is wanted on
various charges of forgory proferrod
by New York banks, was arrested
hore today, accused of parsing a
forged draft for $1800 on tho Peo
ple's Snvluus bank of Soattlo,
IOyorott and thruo othors nppearod
at tho hotel and showed tho attaches
a large sum of niOnoy. A bellboy said
ho saw plluH of hank notes on u tablo
In tho room which was apportioned
into four pllos ns though It wero to
bo divided When Everett wuh ar
retted a search showed memoranda
whii h Indicated that V-30,000 had
4 been split up.
UGLY SCANDAL
AXES
NAVY
MR
Rear Admiral Barry, Commanding
Pacific Squadron, Retired From
His Command Will Force Grand
Jury Investigation.
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CHARGES PREFERRED BY
OFFICERS UNDER HIM
Six Sailors Said to Bo Involved Are
Held Incommunicado In Hospital
Details Are Unprintable
SAN FRANCISCO, Col., Jan. 10.
Either a court martini or n grand
Jury investigation today confronts
Rear Admiral Edward B. Barry,
commander of tho Pacific squadron,
who before evening will havo been
succeeded In his command by Rear
Admiral Chauncoy Thomas, as the re
sult, It Is said, of charges of moral
turpitude which have convulsed navy
circles tho country over.
This announcement was mnde to
day by District Attorney FIckert fol
lowing a consultation with Admiral
Thomas. "If charges calling for a
court martial nro made," said Flck
ort, "of course Admiral Barry will
iq 'first dealt with by tho navy de
partment. If no such charges nro
made tho county will tako cogni
zance of tho alleged offence which Is
said to havo been committed within
its limits."
Jtnck Tills Afternoon
Still Iu command of his flagship,
tho West Virginia, nnd accompanied
by tho cruiser Marylnnd, Admiral
Barry Is absent today on n 24 hour
coal testing cruise, and Is not expect
ed to roturn hoforo lato this after
noon, when tho formal transfer ot
his nuthorlty to Admiral Thomas will
tako placo. Whether tho retiring
admiral will recolvo .tho customary
honors upon relinquishing his com
mand Is as yot uncertain. Reports
nj-o current that the thirteen gun
imlute which Is usual on such occa
sions will not bo nccorded tho retir
ing officer and that tho officers ot
the ship will not row him ashore.
No confirmation of those reports Is
obtainable, tho offlcors of tho fleet,
now horo and Admiral Thomas stead
fastly refusing to talk of tho matter
Iu liny of Its phases.
Klv hallors Heltl
In connection with tho chnrges
against Admiral Barry, It Ib snid that
six sailors from tho West Virginia
are hold lucornunlcndo in tho Muro
Island naval hospital. Among them
Is L. A. Warner, tho sailor men
tioned in a statement by Admiral
Barry as ono of those In his cabin
whon officers of tho ship, peering
through a port hole, uro said to havo
wltnessod tho allegod criminal ac
tions of tho ngod admiral. Konnedy,
another sailor, said to havo been in
volved, Is said to havo vanished.
Court Martial Probable
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. Whllo
llttlo Information is obtalnabla horo
at tho navy dopartmont ns to tho do
talls of tho ugly scnndal which is
said to bo at tho bottom of Roar Ad
miral Barry's rotlromont from the
command of tho Pacific squadron,
tho linprosslon is general that a
court martial of that officer is prob
able. Admiral Barry's telegraphic ro
quost for rotlromont in tho offort to
get It horo boforo tho arrival of
uiallod charges by tho officers of his
flagship, tho cruiser West Virginia,
Is not expected to provo sufficient to
hush up tho affair, thoup.h such it
course Is urged by persons proml
nout In navy circles as tho best thins
for tho sorvlro, which, it Is declared,
could only bo seriously hurl; by any
probo Into tho affair,
Basis For Charges
Ono report ot tho incident cuvrent
hro among tho frlonds ot tho ac
cused admiral is that a hoy who had
been hurt In a football gumo was
detailed on uuard duty at his door,
Barry Is declared to h.vb Binyim-
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