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tA-' H OUft NfcW kW6tW w Medford Mail Tribune CLEARINGS Hank clearings today were WEATHER $:U ,1)0 1.00. Occasional showers. FORTIETH YEAR. MEDFORD, OREGON, TLtURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1911. No. 276. T!' X -5 . OREGON TAKES A STAND AGAINST RECIPROCITY MEASURE Atiimc Bill Fixing Responsibility of Telephone and Telegraph Com pany's Passes Housa By Narrow Shave . SEVERAL CHANGES ARE MADE IN GAME LAWS Governor Vetoes Bill on Ground That It Would Simply Encumber Statute Books. SALltti, Ore, Fob. J). The Amme hill fixing the responsibility of tele phono find telegraph companies passed in the house today by a close shave. The measure makes void the printed contract on the hack of each telegram blank and compels telegraph com panies to repeat messages without Quaking an extra charge. Representa tives of telegraph and telephone com panies tried to have the hill defeat ed, nud Thompson camo to their aid in tho house, but the hill got through by a narrow margin . The Oregon delegation in congress was called on today to oppose tho Canadian reciprocity agreement now before the national body. A house joint memorial revolution introduced by Fouls of Mullnnmuh County urg ing the Oregon senators and congress men to fight the agreement, was pas sed in the house without much op position. Several bills passed in the house this afternoon make numerous, chang es in tho stato game laws. House bill 08, by Fonts, provides a penalty for anyone having over Ho ducks in his possession at one time, and the Church Bill amends the game law to allow sportsmen the privilege of kill iii" five deer regardless of sex. A license of .f.'iO is provided for non resident hunters in Wallowa County to prevent tho Indians from hunting door in that county during the open season. House bill '240, introduced by tho Clatsop County delegation, pro hibits the future- propagation or pro tection of Dolly Varden trout. An amended bill prepared by W. L. I1! n ley, the Oregon naturalist, which creates icfiigo for birds and game, passed without opposition. The bill provides t luit all lands owned by th state Khali be bird and game prcsorves and the &)te game warden is empow ered to nmj;(f contracts with owners of privjfln land, for the creation of additional prei-cncs. SonalpY NTijlUiglinin bill to pre vent the ifd location of linseed oil was vctrtxl today hv the governor. This is (lie second time the governo Iiiim exercised the veto power, the other measure turned down bv him being also a Nottingham bill. In hi veto message the governor calls the hill useless and ineffective and says it would serve no other purpose than io encumber the stnfulo books. Tho entire morning session of tip donate was taken up today bv tho de bate of Malarkey's public utility bill. Senator Joseph of Portland spoke aim in si the measure and occupied the senate floor for an hour in discussing it section by section. He made the statement that the passage of the bi'l would build up n slate wide political machine, and would encroach on the initiative rights of the people. Senator Kellaher accused the auth or of being under the influence ot' certain cororaiion men. u iiecur- od that President Joseph .losclyn ot ' The Portland, Railway, Light and Power company, wa backing the Lai 11. 1 FERRIS TURNED DOWN j BY PRESIDENT DIAZj SAN FRANCISCO, (V... Feb. 0. In nil "official" nu'M.iiL'e "deadhead- od" over the eminent telegraph! wires President Porn trio Iiumt Mex ico has declined to turn over Lower California to Richard Ferris, of U Angeles. "I cannot accept your prop osition,; must refuaa energetically, ' i'j;.-..j u n:.i .wfuiil tol , y T. i . :.. ..f thjbr tha war department to watch tha cede to hun IJ WU In tb Mexican revolt. afoMM republic. I'.rri. today wt J dQ u Texflg President !).,.. a second message aA-. ing him ti reconsider. 1 . . . HOLD ON THERE, JUAREZ! MEDFORD CAN SPRING A REVOLUTION, HERSELF As Moody n llnttlc as Was Kvcr Wag ed in City of Juarez Is Indulged in on Outskirts of Town. Thoir minds fired by thrilling talcs of the doings of thoir patriot broth ers across the border. Jose Cardina and Antonio Cistotn, Mexican laborers employed at the oil tanks at tho north end of town, yesterday accomplished the Mexican equivalent of "liokoring up" and as tho result were both land ed in tho city jail by Constable Singlor and former city policeman doe Mcin sic. The session began when Cardena, his vocal organs almost puralizcd from tho effects of a peroration de livered in condemnation of Diaz the Oppressor, discovered the whero-with-which to purchase plenty canobebri and immediately proceeded to do that (Continued on Prise 4.) Humes Rogue River Fish Bill Mullify ing Peoples Measure is Passed By the House Thirty-two in Favor SADKM, Or., Feb. I). J'lie house today defied the iieoplc'.s will by pass ing Hume's Koguu Kivci- fisli bill, nullifying the measure passed in No vember by the people by a majority of over 1(1,000 votes. The bill was passed by tho follow ing vete: Ayes 2, noes Hi. Itepiesenlutlvcs We.Merlund mid llu chauuii spoke in opposition to the passage -of the measure. ID LOWER HOUSE Assistant Secretary of State Bill Passes After Fight This Gives Corey Power to Vote at all Board Meetings. STATU HOUSE, Salem, Or., Fob. 9. With tho tension at breaking point, tho deop sllonco being jarred niogaphonlcally by tho voice of tho reading clerk and tho responses of members, tho house yostorday, by a vote of 32 to 25, passed Senator How ormau's bill making tho chief clerk In tho offlco of the secretary of stato tho deputy of that official and allow ing him. In tho absence of the sec retary, to sit as a member of the state boards. Politics cut a largo fig ure In tho debate, and tho delibera tions of tho house woro at times stormy and at oUiors dramatic. Thompson accused (Sovornor West of sondlng his private secretary Into the chamber to "throw tho foar of CSod Into mombors." Nouner rohuked Fonts vohomontly for saying that Secretary of Stato Honson probably would not iecovor from his Illness, declaring his remarks not only to bo unkind 'but entirely out of pjoco. Mc Klnuoy hrandod Fonts as a politician who registers as a republican and votes as a democrat, and made a forceful appeal to republicans to show their colors. Hrownhlll absolutely do fled Speaker Husk when orderod to take his seat, making It nocessary for the seigeant at arms to be ordered to seat him. DUTY ALONG BORDER SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Feb. 0, P narrow escape from death at Fort Sam Houston, where ho made a hazardous descent after the englno of bis aeroplane clogged while 1C00 feat high, Lieutenant Foulis of tho United States signal corps Intonds to continue bis flights along the Mexl- can border FouIIm has been ordered HOUSE DEFIES PEOPLESLAW M K RATE CASE BE IARD FRIDAY Examiner Prouty of Interstate Com merce Commission Will Reach Med ford Tomorrow Morning and Will Hear Case at Once. MEDFORD SEEKS LOWER RATES ON 23 COMMODITIES Medford Traffic Bureau Will Put in Much Testimony Railroad Of ficials Also to Come. Examiner Prouty of the interstate commerce commission will arrive la .Medford Friday morning for tho pur poso of taking testimony in Uio Med ford traffic bureau's commodity rate case. Tho hearing is scheduled to begin at 11 o'clock at tho Commorcial club rooms. Tho Medford traffic bureau Is seek ing lower rates on 23 commodities and some time ago lodged tho com plaint. A laro number of local men will appear as witnesses. It Is expected that tho Southern Pacific will have a largo number of thoir representatives present for the purpose of testifying. FAMINE RIDDEN CHINA FREEZES Terrible Cold Spell Adds to Horrors of Famine Situation Babes, Once Fdod, Now Drug on Market Mil lion Starving and Deceased. NANKING, Feb. !). That 1,000,000 people are starving and another 2, 000,000 are dying of disease in the plague-ridden sections of China is tho estimate hero today of the Rev. 10. C. Lohenstinc, who has just re turned from the .stricken districts. Only one-third of tho population of An Ilui province, Rev. Lobeustine says, will ho able to sustain life un assisted and other workers in tho famiuo districts report conditions in creasingly terrible as the days pass. So giave is the famine that even chil dren who have been sold by their parents for food aro now a drug on tho market and not enough food re mains to feed those who formerly pur chased the little ones. To add to the horrors of the situa tion, a cold wave has set in over the famine district and hundreds of thon at the last stages of exhaustion iroin i mimic and freezing to death. UNMARRIED MAY PAY LICENSE i i Elensbury Councilman Plan Ordin ances Taxing all UnMarried Men and Women $25 a Year Only Un proposcd May Escape. KLLIONSHURG. Wash., Feb. (.-- There is coneernutiou among the bachelors and the women who wear no wedding rings in FJIonssburg today. Tho reason is that tho FJIensburg couneilmon may adopt an ordinance taxing unmarried men and women $'23 a year onoh. The proposed ordinance was introduced in the couueil meet ing Inst night. The mouMiro provides that men who shall swear that thoy have- proposed to thrco unmarried and uuhetrothed women and givo their nnmos shall he exempt from the tax, and women who have nover received a proposal shall also ho exempt whila thoo that have rofusod a proposal shall bo taxed an additional $10. Sheehan Still Has 75 AL11ANY, N. Y., Feb. 0. The sena- torUl situation was unchanged today i when the bullot was taken. Sheehan had 75 ote,. , GRANTS WET MONDAY Saloons Prepare to Open Doors Early Next Monday Morning Will Carry Question to Highest Court is Rumor Move Made on "Q. T." WILL TRY OUT HOME RULE AMENDMENT Will Operate Under City Ordinance Fixing License at $800 a Year Claim They Have Right , Regardless of the recent ruling of tho circuit court which uphold the decision of District Attorney 1J. F. Mulkey that tho election at which the town was voted "wet" was ille gal, Grants Pass will bo wet on Mon day, If tho present plans of the wot element of that city aro allowed to materialize. According to a local man who re turned hero from that city this morn ing, thoro Is u movement on foot among tho adherents of tho wot cause In Grants Pass to make a test of the recent ruling of tho court, to carry tho question of whether or not tho local option law of tho stato Invali dates the recently enacted home rule amendment. Under the local option law GrantB Pass Is dry, and must remain In that condition for two years from last November boforo another election can bo held. This contontlon Is based on tho ruling of tho stato .attorney gen eral. Tho "wets,"' hawevor, claim that the homo rule ameadmont carried at thoTnst election nullifies tho provi sions of the local option law In so far as thoy affect what, under tho homo rulo amendment, constitutes a unit. Tho people of the city of Grants Pass aro almost solid in their do mands for a wet town, but are kept In a dry state by tho county voto. No Intimation has been received by tho authorities this morning of tho proposed move by tho wot forces, and until such tlmo as tho saloon doors aro actually thrown opon on Monday no action can bo taken. Tho city council recently enacted ordinances for the controlling of sa loons and fixed the liquor llconso at $800 a year. Any action taken Mon day will bo at tho hands of tho county authorities, as the city Is virtually un der a "wet" administration. LETTERS 10 SOON E Telephone and Telegraph Communica tion Will Soon Become so Cheap That Mail Will Be Discarded for Faster Method. NF.W YORK', Feb. . That tele phono and telegraph communication in the United State will so bo mi cheap that letters and mkIuI etud will become things of the past is the opin ion oxprossud bore today by Presi dent Theodora N. Vail of tho now telograph and tolophonc merger, which tho government may proscuto as a combination in rostraint of grade. Mr. Vnil declared that contract-, md boon signed by which tho telo- phono wires would be used inter changeably in futu'n', and that the consequently groatcr return for the enpital invested by both tho Ameii- cau Tolophono and Telegraph com pany and tho Woatern Union would decreaso tho complirutive expunge 'that sweeping reductions in tolls for both telephone nnd telegraph uwo wu a certainty of the near future. "At $72 per mile for a telephone wire," said I'roaideui Vail, "whenever a man in New Yoik calls up Cliicao he has use of our pmrty, counting poles and equipment, to the value of $125,000. At 0 per cent this must return $fi0 per day. And the charges must ha high onou-h to cover ttii -. ITnder pur mw oonlr.icU those tele- nbone wires alio will he used for telegraph and with the fixed charge the same the rodiict.oii in tolls would be great." 1 Arkansas Congressman Opposes Caleb Powers Being Given Seat. f .crifltittKtlBBBBBBBBBBBBBlBBUBBBBBBBBfeav A new opponent to Caleb Powers being given a scat In the national houso of,rcprescntiitlves has urlsctMii Congressman Robert II. Macon of Arkansas. Powers was secretary of slate in Kentucky eleven years ago when Governor Goebcl wan slain, the shot being llretl from Powers' olllce In the statehouse at Frankfort. Powers was tried four times for the murder and convicted three times and was pardoned In 11)08. Since then he has campaigned for vln i dlcatlou through an elect Ion to congress. Tills he won bust full. Congressman Macon declares that If the Kentucky delegation does not take action against Powers he will present a resolution to have the matter taken up. "If the Re publicans could not sit with Roberts of 1'tnli because lie was accused of being a polygaiuKt," says Mr Macon, "the Democrats certainly cannot sit with a member onleled on the charge of murder and who is enjoying his liberty only by fin or of a purll-win e utlve." FIVE IMAN DIE ROOSEVELTSPAREO w A D! Street Car Plunges Through Opon; Draw Into the Sfichayan River Three Bodies Have Been Recover ed. SIIKIIOYGAN. Wis.. Fb. 9.- Five woman passengers were drowned when a street car plunged through an open drawbridge Into tho Sheboy gan river hero today. Threo bodies have been recovered. The conductor and motornuin jiimpud Just before tho accident. One of the dead women is Anna Mathls, a music teacher. RUSSIAN LION MEETS ZYBYSZ0 THIS EVENING NKW YORK, Feb. !. -Promising to pin ZylivuAco to- the mat twice within an hour and u half, Gsnrgo Hackeuschmldt. the Russian Hon, will meet the giant I'olo heie tonight. The promoters or the affair declare th'at if ilucketiscliiuldt makes good ho will havo a chain e to meet Champion Gotch. N.Y. NOT PUCE TOGA ADMANY. N. Y., Feb ! 1'uless William F. Sheehan witlidiuws from the race, It Is believed heie today that the New York legislauue will adjourn without election of a Full ed Slates senator to succeed Uepew. Indications are that Murphy and Taimuauy Hall will Insivt on Hhse hait's elecllou. They failed to fomi the Insurgent democrats at yester day's conference to support btm, how ever. The Quly thing depended on Ui force action Is tho fear that the ituxt legislature may be leiiuhlliui.. "mmK- AT Criticism by Mark Withdrawn at Last Moment at Estate's Request In in T. R, is Called' a "Showy Charla tan." NI5W YORK, Feb. O.---TI10 sale of many of tho manuscripts of tho late Mark Twain at a Fifth avenue auc tion yesterday did not Include, as had been advertised, an artlclu ho had written criticising tho career of Roosevelt. It was withdrawn at thu lust mo ment by request of thu pstatu. The 1 32 R page autoblograph manu script of "A Double llarreled Detec tive Story" was sold to a dealer for $710. Tweuty-seveii pages of tho "Adams Dlury" went for $180. Thu total loalUed was $2750. Tho withdrawn article 011 Hoosovult refers to him as a "showy charla tan," adored as perhaps "no impost er of his creed had been adorod since the golden i.ilf " TAFT TO T VHI!IN;T( D IS Ulldel'Htiioil tddll) Tuft will soon inline c . Fib 0 It that President a new man for Cuited titutca marshal or Oregon, fol lowing the action of the seuate, which reconsidered Us recent adverse ac tion ou the uouilnatlou of lClmer II. Colwell as marshal. At the request of tha president, the senate reatured tbe nomination to tho aeuate list, from which It was with drawn by the president. Thin enable colwell to retire its if (heie bud been iiu objection, WAN MARSHALL MOVES MY CLOSE TO JUAREZ WALLS vSWHSftf Both Sides Today aro Restlny mi Their Arms Making no Attempt to Renew Fighting Cameras Aro Bared hy Federal Authorities. ;msft RECRUITS COME DAILY TO AID OF 0R0ZC0 Seems to Be a Method in His Delay Scores Said to Be Crossing Boundary Daily. V.h PASO. Texas. Feb. ;6rGolfti lial'ael Martinez. Dm Wit-midiHon P Juarez, today denied tlinta?rcpoHcd , engagement between NnvniToniul Blanco had occurred near Samalay ttca. lie said that so far as thu fed erals in duarcz knew, Navarro had not been lioard of since ho and his forco left Chihunhun. Gaining confidence from tho federal inactivity, Orozco today moved h'm outposts up to within easy range, of tho ninin plaza of Juarez, whore ho can easily pick off tho guards out sido tho Church of Our Lady of Guad- nloupo, in case tho fighting is renewed. lloth sides today are resting on their anas and no attempt is being mndo to maintain oven a. scmblanco of war fare Fearing insurgent spies, the Juarez authorities today barred all cameras from tho fortifications ,nnd u num ber of picture mnchines ntjd films woro seized. Three wounded insurrcctos who were shot in Sunday's engagement nonr Imuelie Crossed the Itio Grande at Yslutu tlii.s irtorning and u rived hero today. They had been without food or medicnl attention for four days and wore practically walking skele tons when thoy dragged themselves in to Fl Paso. That there may ho method in Orozco's delays is becoming evident to observers of his tactics. With every hour recruits, supplies cross tho boundary lino for his cninp, and all tho efforts of tho Amoriean troops on gunrd fail to stop their, passagq. Nineteen recruits for tho insurrcctos, including one American nud n Me.i can engineer, who will commnnd tho rebel engineer corps, crossed the rivor opposito the HI Paso smelter la-t night and all along the border iusur rccto sympathizers aro said to be 're luming to join in tho fight ngaiust Din. STILL Nil BATTLE! SHOCKSJUflREZ General Orozco Has as Yet Made No Move Anxiety Still Holds Mexican Town New Fortifications Being Thrown Up. FD PASO, Tex., Fob. 0. Tho sit uation ut Juarez was unchanged to day. Cionoral Orozco of tho revolu tionary foices was still encamped In tho hills west of tho city and Just across thu Itlo Grando from tho 121 Paso sinoltor. Hu was apparently waiting for uows from tho south, whoro, It Is said, robol bunds undor (ioncruls lilunco, Sanchez and Sa slllas were In ambush waiting to at tack the forco of 11000 Moxlcan reg ulars which Cleneral Navarro was re ported leading to the relief of Juaroz. While Orozco nnd his troops woro Inactive, tho most fovorlsh activity existed In Juaroz. Tho federals thero have worked night and day on now fortifications, as If thoy oxpoctod an at tat k. The streets and tho public buildings of tho town aro now said to huve all been mlnod and tho in tention of the foderals, It waB said, Is to fight to the last nud thon flea noross tho river Into Toxas, blowing the city to atoms as thoir last men passed ovor tho Hlo Grando. No news has boon recolved hero of Navarro slnco Ida forco loft Ghlhun hua City. Tolograph linos to tho south havo boeu down and If tho fodoials In Juaroz havo rocolvod any nows, It must havo coino by courlor. 'l-y 'H1 M