Medfor WEATHER d Mail Tribune v3. A Continued i-nln; trace snow. .FORTIETH YEAR. Local Conservationists Are Wiring Friends In Legislature to Support House Bill 50 Calling for Appro priation of $100,000. MANY BUSINESS MEN ARE URGING MATTER Orcflon Is Only State Not Appropri alhifl Fund for Purposes Want Intelligent Action On Matter. In an endeavor ( secure Hit pas sage of II01180 Hill 50, calling fin an uppropiiation of $100,000 toward tlio formation and iiuiintuinance of a state forestry bureau and Jue pn tiol s.Vblcin, when it conies up before (lie ways and means committee ol tbe senate and houe at Salem to morrow, local conservationists an urging that every one interested in inc movement jorwuru personal tele grams to the chairman of each com mittee requesting them to favor Hie approprintion. A large number of local business men have forwarded such teolgrnniB. Kupervinor M. L. Kriekon of the Crater lake national forest, reeeieil a telegram fiom II. T. Allen, former ly raited States forester in charge of this district but now secretary i the Western Forestry and Con-erva-lion acociatiou, lequesting lam i put the matter before as many loce! men as possible nnd to nk them tn telegraph their sentiments, on tin subject to either State Senator II If. Albee, chairman of thu;eonunitti on wn.w. and mean-, of the senate Representative J. I). Abbott, chni. man of the corresponding cominittu in the house. According to information scat tered about the state in pamphlet bejying ibe signaliireH of the Oregmi State Conservation commission; tin Oregon Stale Hoard of Fore-dry; the Oregon Forest Fire association; the Oregon Conservation uxxncintieii: and the Western Forestry uud Con servation association, the state of Oregon is the only one which at prc.--ent makes no provision for lighting forest fire. Cndcr the proposed law. a stale forester Mould bo appointed wh would have power to nrtal offend ers jigainst any foi-ctry lawn that ine now in foreo or mav he passed am! he would also bo supplied the nec essary funds to carry on prosecu tions. Me idffl this, the fund would pro vide fur (he enrrviuir on of aa cdu- 'tiopi.il (.-implicit by the slat"' i'mmiii tin' pulilit ."'il .imoiig linibei 1 1 III is. AFTER Local Business Men Arc Colcctino. Shipping Bills and Receipts Rail road Must Now Refund Extra Money Collected. Mwlford merchants and shippers are collecting their shipping bills and receipts pieparatory to collecting; the i hate from the Southern Pacific for not enforcing the reduction In rates o nk rod In effect last October by toe si.ite railroad commission and which were protested on appeal to the fed- ial circuit court by the railroad. The decision of tbe court last week iirdoivtl the reduction into effect and the railroad aust now refund Hi.' extra money collected . I he reduction to Wed ford is about j i. ... r cent and the yearly coat to the Si.uiiern Paclfle in southern Oregon i, . rituatad at $160,000, which in. it s that tbia amount of money is ..iv.. I 10 the people, of this section. i 'i.- saving to Med ford shippers is about $2300 a month. The state railroad commission has . ! n.ord In its office a statement n x all shipments made during V ,' II ' In' llll Hll.t )f I i ill STA1E 10 GIVE FUND FOR FIRE F16HTENG IS R REBATES Jersey Prosecutor Plans War On Big Cold Storage Concerns. Tafewi S. VS2Si I rN.IVVs?KSiN? I HI iiranit i Hit V - ' aw 3&&i?W!!MWp&mm m A I M:r -J&sUn V gifeggL PMOra.edfrk)HT.g?PAUL THOMPSON 1 PIERRE P. The condemnation of the practices of cold storage concerns made in bis inaugural address by Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey has tired anew the indictment hopes of Prosecutor Pierre P Gnrven of Hudson county. Governor WiNon asked the legislature to enact a law to govern this business, and the cold storage men of Jersey City, Iloboken and other points opposite New York city are apprehensive of more grand jury proceedings. Prosecutor Onrven brought Indictments against several of them last year, but it was held that the law wus not sulllcient to sustain them. Now Mr. (Jarven Intends visiting Trenton nnd supplying data about the industry to the lawniakeis. New York may hnvo a cold .storage In w soon, nnd another effort will be made to pass a similar measure In Massachusetts. IE FISH BILL H LEGISLATURE As Introduced It Cannot Pass It Prohibits Catching of Stcelhcads and Permits Taking of Salmon No Limit On Size of Mesh. SALK.W, Or., .Ian. HO The long awaited Iltifne iish bill, reopening the Rogue river to eoniniereial fishing, ha , made its appearance. Tlii' bill it u short one. It prohib its the catching of stuelhead in the Ifogue liver, and permits the taking of salmon below the mouth of the Illinois all times of 3 ear, providing so dosed season. As introduced tlio bill cannot pass. N'o limit is placed 011 size of mesh used and no clause defiucb a steel head, which under the laws of Ore gon is classed as a fiihiion. Thoahsence of a closed season ha .intagonized the Columbia river in leresU and the bill is xenerally re garded ns a I rick 011 the purl of thi ll nines to bog il all. Ciilhiets will catch salmon and Mcclhcad both, unless large mesh is specified' and under existing condi tions, the steelhead will ho classed a .1 salmon, so the Humes will be en abled to do as they please without ic triction. ivuu Iluinanson nnd I). F. Keasev, wliu are negotiating the eule of the piopcrtv for the Hume estate, Mrs. If. I). 1 1 tunc, widow of the "Lord ol 1 he Ifogue," and Herbert Hume au nt constant attendant)!) and lobbying insistuntly iu behalf of the meas ure. Mexico Concentrates Troops. SAN' DIKflO. Cal.. Jan. 30. It w.ts'next fortnight. He is enthusiastic reported today lrom Tia J nana., over the showing made by both arm- the .Mexican line, and f roni makeu. Km enad.i, the capital of Lower ("a!-; Mr. Neff wll handle tho Locomobile if.'ini.i. ihrt all the government' at the Crater Lake garage, and ox-aniif-d men that could be spared pacta to sell a number of thoso high trom oidinarv police duty had beon' priced cara that are famous for ent to Alexienli. I standing up under all kinds of condi Sacramento River Up. SACRAMLNTO, (a!., Jan. 20. I rwjucei Hoat tho time, tires bo The Sacramento rher at this point ,ag reiuced a third and othor repairs is at 24.5 feel today and wih a eon- j proportion. tinuation of the rain floods are prob-i able. ! Signboard Kills Many. According to the reeord of tbe In-1 PHILADELPHIA. Pa.. Jan. 30.--i-al weather bureau, January has had Three persons were killed and sev- a greater rainfall than any year in the past 31 years. . ...... bate figured upon each and between 6Aofl and $7000 must be dlstrlbut- MTCDFORD, GARVEN. CONTINGENT TO AUTO SHOW BACK Many Agencies Arc Secured by Lo cal People Many New Models Arc Offered for This Season's Trade. Medford's contingent to tho auto show at Portland has returned, woll pleased with now models offered and predicting a lively year. All of tho leading ninkos showod the now mod els, and moro classy cnr.s woro never exhibited. Among thoso returning Monday were Colonel V. h. Ton Voile, Ross Klino, Jack Flynn, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Naff and John Merrill. What was universally admired aR tho handsomest car on display was purebnsed by Mr. Merrill. It Is a four-pnsFonger. foro-door, 00 It. p. Locomobile, ollvo greon color. It will be shipped to Medford In the aoxt tea days. Colonel Ton Velio purchased two carloads of new model Uuicks, which be declares are among tho automo bile lenders of tho season. Among ihoin Is tho new foro-door Hulck that replaces the old model 17, tho now model 21, which takes tho placo of modol 19; model 27, which ho thinks 1m designed especially for this country, being slightly largor than last year's model 10, Is a five-passenger, four-Inch clyinders, and selec tive transmission. Kumbor 10, for merly tho "White Streak," roappoar as No. 33, considerably largor, with foot coutrol. Tho Hulcks this year, he states, is superior to nny yot turn ed out In provlous years, . Mr. Klino took tho agency for tho lteo and Apperson Jack Rabbit cars and expects a carload within tho tions and use. Mr. Flynn brings tho oltoorlng news that auto sunnlles have boon eral badlv injured today when a signboard over a Market s treat ahua 0or- fell on the beads of a big thronif of hoppers. The ciowd br),k fr ,.,, ,.,lHi, ,in,ieilUMl in it n . p 1 -nil in llii- l-ii -1. OKlfiOON, MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1911. THAT $100,080 ROAD FUND IS STILL IN VAULT Fund Appropriated by Legislature Two Years Afjo for Building uf Highway to Crater Lake Has Not Yet Been Turned Back to State. MAY YET BE AVAILABLE FOR BUILDING OF ROAD Majority of Legislators Arc In Favor of Passing New Bill Which Will Find Favor In Court. There Is ? 100,000 In the vaults of tho stato treasurer, appropriated by tbe legislature of 1900 for the con struction of thu Crater Lake highway. At tho expiration of tho allotted tlino tho money will revert to tho stato. Tho use of this money Is precluded at present by tho decision of tho su preme court holding tho appropria tion unconstitutlounl, and the prob lem for Med ford to solvo Is to se cure the passago of a hill tha will find favor with tho supremo court perinlttliiK the use of this laonoy al ready appropriated. Inquiry at tho scdretary of state's offlco confirmed thp fact taat tho money was still on hand, untouched. Inquiry among legislators confirmed the fnct that a majority wero favor ably disposed towards tho use of tho appropriation for tho purposes It was made for Indeed, a majority of the senate comprises those senators who voted for the ineasiiro two years afo, while a largo number of present house members also wero friends of tho measuro, Including Speaker Uusk. The measure hns many friends at the capital and Inasmuch ns no now approprintion is needed, tho money already being provided for, should hnvo an easier timo in passing. A bill Is being drafted for Introduction this week which It Is hoped will avoid the defect of the previous bill. BRANDS TEDDY A Senator Davis Says T. R.'s Thirst for Dictatorship Was His Undoing Has Been Consigned by Public to a Political St. Helena. WASHINCTON, I). f, Jan. .10, Hradlng former President Itoosovolt as a defeated Napoleon who would spend bis remaining career In politi cal exile, Senator Jeff Davis of Ar kansas today delivered In tho sonato a spectacular summing up of tho "stronuous oiio'b" alleged downfall. "With a groat brain and matchless courage," Davis said of Itoouovelt In discussing popular elections, "In him Is blended an unquenchable thirst for power and placo. Ketad and almost Idolized by crowned heads while broad, ho returned and was accord ed such a reception as seldom falls to a returning hero. Hut for his undy ing thirst for dictatorship and his! unbridled ambition to rule, ho would have gone down In history as one of tho greatest statesmen. "But the people resnntod his 'now nationalism,' which was simply a re incarnation of the spirit of Hamilton Ism, and they gave him such a stun ning blow at tho rocont oloctlou that ho has been definitely consigned to a political St. Helena." WILL SENTENCE BURKE ONE WEEK FROM TODAY SANTA HOSV, f'al., Jnn. 30. Sentonce upon Dr. Wlllard P. Burke, convicted of having dynamited tho1 tent of Lu Ktta Smith, will be passed next Monday, arcordlng to Judge ISininett Sea ell, before whom tho fagod sanitarium proprietor appeared today. A raotiou for it new trial waa 1 filed today. ; The continuance was granted on. motion of Attorney Leppo, Dr. Hurke's coiiusel, who asked time to !pii-par- lii.i argiiue-iit for a new tilal 1 1 N English Nobleman Who Will Wed Miss Vivien Gould In February. gggRs!kiiiiKHBSiSftHi fi! fc'v J(t S l vtH&i iK f""41 JaaS ! BlBflHIiukih w I 1 IMMMMHHMM cos-YwiovvTvAt-a ricam John Graham Hope Horsley Heresford, lift It Huron Decles, who Is to wed MInh Vivien Gould, second daughter of George J. Gould, In I'Vbniary, accord lag to uuolllchil announcement, has a lung record ns a Hporlmniin and a soldier. He Is forty-four years of age and a typically robust IhigllMi olllcer In appear ance. Though his bride to be Is but eighteen, they hnvo ninny likes In com mon, pnrtlctilnrly hunting. Hnrou Pcclc Is also a polo pltiyer of International reputation. He Is lieutenant colonel of the Seventh hussars, winner of the distinguished service medal In the cumpulgu iignlusl the Mad Mullah, and also won renown In the Mntabele and Hoer wars TO REACHJUSBAND Wifo of Ranger W. C. Neff of Forest Service, Accompanied hy Children and Driver, Sleighs Over Deep Snows to Get Here. After a journey ovr tho Odessa road, during which her Blolgb was almost held solid by lingo drifts of snow, Mrs. W. U. Nefr, wlfo of Act ing Supervisor Noff of tho Grater niitlonal forest, arrived In this city from Klamath' Kails last night. She was accompanied by two chil dren and Dick Hrlghtonsteln of Klam ath Falls, who drove tho team. Tho Journey inquired ten hours to complete, despite tho fact that four heavy draft borsos, averaging In weight 1S00 pounds each, woro har nessed to tho conveyance Hevoral times vvliilo traversing tho Odofcsa road, snow to a dopth of ovor four feet was encountered and It was only by heroic work on tho part of tho driver and horsiw that tho sleigh was kept from being snowbound. As soon as Supervisor M. L. Krlek sou returns from an lnspeotlon tour, Hanger Neff will return to bis sta tion on Klamuth lake. Says Diamond Is Jonah. CHICAGO, Ml, Jan. 110. .May Vobe predicted that Kdward H. Mc Lean' gift of the famous Hope dia mond to his wife would result in misfortune. "Thu diamond was a 'Jonah,' " he said. It's touch blasted ovury one who ever owned it and I fear for Mrs. MeLeun. A year will toil; it' bud luck doesn't oveituko Mrs. Mc Lean pit ido that tune I will believe that the diamond bus lost ila spall." Archbishop Ryan Dying. IMHLAI)KLIMHA, la., Jan. 30. Weakened by his efforts in behalf of the firemen' benefit cause, Arch bishop (ttii, J0, is believed to bo dying today of heart disease, and praters in bis church have been linked of all Catholics, Tha Arc.i binbop wui) greatly interested in the firemen's lien f it and worked un ceasingly to make it a t.uocees. Dr. Anders I Tlaoe aaaouneed that bis ooudition was critical Aivlilii'-liup Kviiu'i be.ilib bun been I . llln' tm .1 V 1 .11' GRAVES SNOW - -" . IS NOTJ COURT In Reply to Complaint of Mcdford Traffic Bureau State Railroad Commission Points Out Its Stand inn In Bearing of Cases. SALHM, Or., Jan. HO. In roply to a communication from tho Medford traffic bureau requesting that tho state railroad commission law bo amended to compel both complainants. and defendants to submit their cases at tho first hearing of a complaint against a railroad, the state railroad commission lias replied as follews: "Apparently tho distinction bo- tweon a court and court procedure and the duties of an administrative body luivo bona overlooked. A court ordinarily determines rights as be tweeu two Individuals, Tho Ihhiios am usually simple and resolve them selves down to a narrow question of fact. If, howovor, as In equity casos, there la a complicated Issue of fact, very frequently the mnttor Is refer red to a rofureu and tho taking of toatlmony proceeds very much as be fore the commission, from timo to time until the relevant facta havo boon fully brought out. "On tho other baud, tho complain ant In a case Instituted before the commission in no souse of thu word has coutrol of the piiKeedlugs. It Is tho duty of the commission, when the complaint Is filed, to Investigate the matter lu such a mannor as to bring out all relevant facts, both from the standpoint of tho currier and tbe public gonerally, and In doing so It is not bound either by tho case mado by the complainant or tlio carrier, but Is permlttod to extend Its Investigations to tho limit In order that all facts may bu fully before It, In other words, Its procedure Is much tho saute as would bo that of a committee of a legislature and in no sense of tho word Is It a more umplro to sit for tho purpose of merely determin ing which party has borne tho bur den of proof. The responsibility Is with tbe commission and not with tbe complainant. "This waa presented before the su preme court of the United States In the Proctor and Gamble case, where the supreme court said of thu Inter state commerce commission that It acted generally iu the public Interest and that tho complainant which ap peared before It did not control tho proceedings, and that tbe public was not bound either by bis omissions lu (t ununited on l'.igo -.) COMMISSION CLEARINGS Hank clearings today wcro $33,0 11.10 No. 267. E 51 SPANISH WAR BILL PASSES Burial Plot In Rlverview Cemetery In Portland Will Be Purchased $4000 Is Appropriated Eloquence Marks Fight On Bill. ASTORIA FAILS TO GET THAT $100,000 Dr. Lcc Stcincr Will Have a Chance to Explain Before the House Press Association Under Fire. SALEM, Or., Jnn. .10. Houso bill Xo. 2H, which appropriates $1000 for tho purchaso of a burial plot in tho Klvorvlow comotory at Portland for voternns of tho Spanish war, passed In tho bouse this mronlng. It wns Introduced by Eggleston of Jnckson. Stcolbainmcr nnd Johnson of Ma rlqn blttorly assailed tho bill, which thoy tornied publlu oxtravaganco, and Huntington of Douglas county, who rocolved a big socialist voto at the Inst election, tried hard to havo tho bill dofentcd. Fonts of Multnomnh county, who wns a mombor of tho Second Oregon regiment, mndo an eloquent plea for tho passago of tho bill. Ills speech was tho best beard yot on tho floor of the houso, and bo was applauded by both tho members and gallorlos. Tho bill passed by a voto of 38 to 1G. AHtorltv Turned Down. Astoria was turned down by tho seunto today when tho bill asking for an approprintion of $100,000 to assist thnt city in its centennial colobra tlon was killed by n voto of 11 to 11. Tlio Astoria delegation Is mak ing nn effort to havo tho bill recon sidered nnd tho 'question of extend ing aid to tho fish town will probably recolvo some moro threshing out In tho senato olthor Tuesday or Wed nesday. Hlgolow of Multnomnh county to dny Introduced a bill In tho houso asking for nn appropriation to de fray tho preliminary expenses of a survey to bo mado by tho sonato for tho construction of a brdlgo across the Columbia river near Portland. Stcincr Will Mvplaln. Dr. Leo Stelnor, superintendent of tho stato asylum, will havo nn op portunity of nppearlng boforo tho houso nnd nnsworlng tho chnrges pre ferred against him. Tho committee on resolutions today roportod favor ably tho resolution presented Inst week asking thnt tho superintendent mako an explanation on tho floor of (Continued on pago 2,) TEMPER ATURE OP; Snow and Rain Is Forecast for To night To Date Season's Rainfall Is a Littlo Over 10 Inches No Change From Cloudy Weather Yet. Tho barometer lost Us grip this morning and took a tumblo, Indicat ing a little moro snow for tonight. The thermometer, this morning, how ever, was up, but a chill lu expected by nightfall. If thu chill comes, then rain will fall, otherwise it Is snow, Thu barometer camo down from ,'tl to 29 this morning. Tho tompora- turo reglstorod at 49. The total rainfall this season la soiuothlng over 10 Inches. This as sures plenty of molstuio for thu coin ing fruit crop. E NATION IS NEARING HER GRAVE KUKKKA. SPRINGS, Ark., Jan. 30. -Fi-'i'iid of Carrie Nation hoio nro iu receipt of nows that tho fumou anti-saloon erufiider i sinking rap idly ami that her death is mnitUMi- tauly expected, N'S M WN 11 M rxr5' 9tntftt UglMBW I'll.mr'