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CLEARINGS
Hunk clearings today were
WEATHER
Fair Tonight.
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FORTIETH YEAR.
AffiDFOKD, OR1WOX, THURSDAY, F10BRVAKY 16, 1911.
jno. 282.
ITTEE SPLITS
ROGUE FISH BILL
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Will REPORT
I0SENATE
Three Favor Bill Openlngg Rogue
River to Commercial Fishing While
Three Oppose Fight Will Be Close
On Floor of Senate.
DEBATE IN COMMITTEE
LASTS FOR MANY HOURS
Rush of Work Comes in Order That
Legislature May Complete Work
By Next Saturday.
SALEM, Or., Pob. 10. Standing
three in favor of and two against, tho
senate coinmlttco on fisheries will
probably report to the sennto this
afternoon on tho Pierco fish bill, re
opening Hoguo river, which was clos
ed by tho peoplo at largo at tho elec
tion in November by a majority of
lG.Ilin votes.
This report will precipitato a fight
on the floor of tho sennto which will
he uxcoedingljfc close. Great Interest
Is being dlsplayod in tho bill, owing
to the fact that It forms tho first at
tack made by tho legislature on a law
passed by tho peoplo.
Hearing Lengthy.
Tho hearing before tho fisheries
committee of tho sennto was hold
last night and lasted until after mid
night, the dobato beginning nt 8
o'clock. J. E. Enynrt, W. P. Isaacs,
Gus Newbury, George Putnam of Med
ford. and W. M. Davis of Portland
spenklng against tho bill, whilo Nor
ton and Smith of Grants Pass, Pierco
of Coos, Hume brothers, Kensey, Hu
mason and Munsoy of Gold Beach
spoko In favor of the measure.
The usual arguments were made.
Gus Newbury made a strong nppeal to
sustain tho people's law.
Hill Is Postponed.
Senator Kollaher's bill providing
for regulation of porpotual franchise
held by Iho Portland Gas company
was indefinitely postponed in tho sen
ate this morning. Only seven sena
tors Dimmlck, Kellaher, Miller, 011
vor, Patton, McColloch and Joseph
votod for tho bill.
During tho dobnte Prosldent Sell
ing tried to oxplaln his attitudo In
having tho minority report against
tho measure substituted for tho ma
jority by mnklng tho statomont that
it was referrod to tho senators from
Portland for their consideration and
not to tho Multnomah members of
the lower house who approvod of the
measure. Kollaher accused the Port
land sonators of attempting to mnnlp
ulnto tho bill to kill it. This brought
Malnrkey to nil foot, who attackod
tho motives of Kellfthor by accusing
lilm of "playing polities."
Whipping PoM Goes.
Tho Orogon whipping Jioit was
ubollshod by tho senate. Buchanan's
bill doing away with this mothod of
punishing wife boators was passod In
tho sonato over the governor's voto
by n vote of 22 to S. The bill was
pnfiiod in tho home Monday ami now
becomofl a Irw without the govern
or's approval.
Tho Ainme bill, which provides
that assignments of wages for loans
by a married roan shall bo signed by
tho wife, and which the senate mado
Ineffective by several amendments,
was disapproved today by the homo.
This bill la aimed at the men who
lend money to worklngnieu who sign
awny all rights to their wages as se
curity for the loan. It passed the
house, but the senate eliminated the
clause requiring the wife's consent
to the transaction.
Itiihliud With Work.
Only two days more remain of the
20th legislatlre session and both
houiee are swamped with business.
Sevornl bills yet remain to be acted
upon and many of the committees
are working night and day to get
them out of their hands. The ses-
iCuntinuttl vn I'a.'f I )
OREGON TRUNK WILL
REACH MEDFORD IN
THE NEXT TWO YEARS
So Says ,lolm 1 Stevens, "Who Hearts
Hill's Companies In Oregon-
Work Will lie Hushed.
John P. Stevens, who hends nlj of
tho Hill linos anil companies In Ore
gon, stated yesterday at the celebra
tion at Madras that tho Oregon Trunk
lino would be completed to Medford
within tho next two years.
This positivo declaration on tho
part of Mr. Stevons assures the rush
ing of work on tho Pacific & Eastern
across tho Cascades to nn eastern
connection, as to build this lino fully
two years are needed.
Yesterday Madras celebrated tho
opening of the railroad to that point.
Work on tho extension is being rush
ed. English Papers Warn Canada to Be
ware of Reciprocity Agreement
With United States Unless She
Would Be Swallowed.
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LONDON, Feb. 1G. President
Tnfl's flat disavowal of Chump
Clark's speech in congress predict
ing tlie nun.utimi of Canada as n
certainly if reciprocity comes, is
taken very differently 'by Hie Liber-il
and Conservative organs here today.
Tlie Liberal papers prniso Tnft ffnd
deny that America intends to absorb
Canada. The Conservative pa puis
declare Unit Ttift's disavowal docs
not reflect (lie true sentiment of
American statesmen.
The Uloue says;
"Naturally Tnft repudiated Clark's
referring to reciprocity as the road
to annexation, hut this repudiation
covers only tlie president himself.
Tho fact remniiis that tlie thought
embodied in Clink's nnnoxation talk
seems to be one permanent in the
minds of other Americans whoso
engernons certainly will enu&o a storm
of protest."
Tlie Conservative papers generally
warn Canada to beware of reciproc
ity limes sho is willing to be swal
lowed by the United Statcn.
I LOVE?
Young Girl Suicides Rather Than
Give Up Young Man for Seven
Long Lonely Years Prevision In
Will Cause of Trouble.
UDALL, Kan., Pob. 10. Kathor
Ine Haines, IS, heiress to a fortune,
Is a suicide today, having killed
herself rather than comply with a
provision In her tathor's will, which
disinherited her If sho marriod a cor
taln young man beforo sho was 2G.
"POET OF THE SIERRAS"
IS SERIOUSLY ILL
PORTLAND, Or., Feb. 30. Called
to Oukland, Cal., where his brother,
Joaquin Miller, "the oet of the Sior
rus," is rejMirted to bo seriously ill
at hi home there, George Molvin Mil
ler of Kugene, left for California
today. According to the telegram
received the fatuous California char
acter in seriously ill.
McKinley May Be Senator.
SPRINGFIELD. HI., Fei. Ifl.--Friendi
of Congressman McKinley
are dicusi.ing the ioaibility of hi
becoming Tinted States. senator in
case Loriiuer hould he ousted. It l
generally understood here that when
AfeKinley used his influence t elect
Adkins speaker of the Illinois house
ho agreed to support McKinley in the1
eveit hi eer making a tight for the
i ciutol'lnp.
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ANNEXATION IS
BIG BUGABOO
WHAT IS Fl
WITHOU
LABOR UNIONS
RAISE$50Q,QOO
Los Angeles to Be Scene of Great
est Struggle Between Unions and
Open Shop Advocates Ever Seen
in History According to Gompcrs.
WILL BE BIGGEST FIGHT .
OF ITS KIND EVER SEEN
It Is the Intention of Capital, They
Say, to Stamp Out Unionism
In Southern California.
' WASHINGTON, ). C, Feb. 10.
Aniiouuceuient that $300,000 is being
raised by the unions of the country
to finance the struggle of tho unions
of Los Angeles against "open shop"
conditions, wns mado hero today by
President Samuel L. (tampers of tho
American Federation of Labor. Its
collection, it is said, will mnrk the
opening of the higgesl fight between
capital and labor that the United
Slates has ever seen.
Appealing to nil union men to con
tribute to the war in the naino of
"justice and liberty," Gompcrs today
is sending out an nppeal for funds lo
various cities, and Secretary Frank
Morrison of (lie federation announced
that already contributions are
streaming in. - "
Miller Fight Abend.
The union lenders declare that the
National Association of Manufac
turers is backing the Morchauts and
Mnnuinctiircis
association of Los
Angeles in its fight against union
ism and it is the intention to utterly
stamp out the union movement in
the southern California city.
Although the labor leaders refused
to confirm rumors that today's ac
tion follows a decision reached at u
secret conference in St.- Louis when
tho AmoncairM'oderntion hold its con
vention there Inst fall, it is gener
ally accepted hero as true that the
movement is the culmination of care
fully formed plnns made at that time.
At the time of the convention, repre
sentatives of the labor interests on
tho Pacific coast are said to have
talked at length witli Gompcrs and
the' executive officers nnd lenders
of the federation urging Hint union
labor coneontrato its ontiro forco for
the fight' in Lo Angeles.
(tampers Asked lo Act.
Sinco the National Manufacturers'
association was backing tho "M. &
M." of Los Angeles and the forces
of the unions on the coast wore lianl
pressed, the const representative-,
nro said to huvo nfeked Gonipors o
lino up the forces of the workingnion
for a fight to a finish.
The intimation is Kivon out that
a fight to the end lias at last been
docided on, and that tho activity of
President (tampers and his assist
ants moans that the coast will sec
tho highest labor wnr in tho history
of tho country.
(."rent Hacking (.'hen. &
All along tho const, from Seattle
to Los Angeles, it is said, the labor
uions have for some time been un
seating their members 23 cents each
per week in preparation for the
struggle. To this fund, according '.
(tampers' admission today, will now
ho added the eah collected in the
east. Thu will give the Los Angeles
unions the greatest bucking ever
received by labor in any city for the
struggle which will decide whether
the southern California city and the
Pacifiu coast as a whole shall ho
dominated by the principle of the
open or the closed shop.
The intimation is given out here
that the struggle iu Los Angeles is
to be only one of a series. The un
ions, it is said, have determined to
"down" the open shop principle, and
then, their fight won in Io Angele,
to carry the war up the const to the
Canc.diau border,, Tbev nre deter
mined, it i, fleHarad, (hut the const
iut In iii.io'ii'-d lnn'i Mexico to
Cunoda, and will concentrate every
effort of the labor f..rces ol tli
whole country to stmt t.u ihe cru-.ub
for n W
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bune seeks to know just where its readers stand in this regard. b)V this purpose
it will give all a chance to register thejr views. Tho answers will ho compiled and
published in the Sunday issue of the Mail Tribune Sunday, .Februar.y 19. Your
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Medford, Or 1911.
To the Sunday Editor, Medford Mail Tribune.
Sir: Tu my estimation, Medford at the the present time needs more than auv
other thing
May we uso your nniuo?
(Mark with cross)
REBEL D L A Y IS
Navarro Having Been Drawn to the
North is Nov Out of the Way and
March Will Start at Once Upon
Chihuahua.
13L PASO, Tex., Fob. 10. The
puzzling Indlfforenco of tho Mexican
robols to General Navarro's relief of
Juarez Is bellovod to bo oxplnlnod to
doy by n scora of reports coming In
from thcsoulu that tho insurrectos
nro marching upon Chihuahua from
all points of tho compass. Friends of
tho revolutionary moveniont hero de
clare that tho city will bo captured
within ten iliivn. Innvlnir .Innroz nlsn
nt tll(J niorcy of tho ,.0i)o1h.
It is now genorally felt that Oroz
co's failure to glvo' battle to Navarro
on his march to Juaroz was duo, not
to fear of an encounter, but in Hue
with a cleverly laid plan to draw Na
vnrro tg the north, thus making It
easy to tako Chihuahua and thoroby
provide a rallying point for tho In
surrectos of tho Interior of tho state,
From Chihuahua, tho revolutionary
junta says, It will bo oasy to capture
Navarro and nil his troops, as com
mand of the Mexican Central railroad
will cuj. off the federal gonoral from
his bnso of supplies.
Fvldonco that thoso In tho nnor
councils of tho revolutionists do not
by any means regard their causo as
hopeless is soon todny In a flat re
fusal by tho Insurgent general, Cns
IlliiB, who Is In Jail horo for violation
of neutrality, to renounce tho cause
of tho rebels. Oovomor Ahuniudn,
tho foderal chief In Chihuahua state,
was nn old personal frlond of Cann
ing, and ploadod todny with tho In
surgent commander to desert the foes
of Diaz, return to Juaroz nnd be re
instated in nil his former honors.
Caslllus flatly refused, saying that he
plnced his duty beforo his friendship
and that ho by no means despaired of
tho ovarlhrownl of tho Diaz govern
ment. FORGERY USED 10
ELECT SHEEili '.
Assemhlyman Receives Letter to
Which Congressman's Name !s
Forged urging Him to Support
Sheehan In Senatorial Race.
NBW YOUK, Fell, 10. That for.
gery is being resorted to in attempt
to bioak tlie long senatorial deadlock
at Albany to elect William K. Shee
hun is asserted here today in spe
cial dispatches to the New York
World from th) statu capitul.
The World dispatches declare th.it
Aeinblyuian Kcnnsdy recehed "j
letier purporting to hear the higiii-'
ture of Congressman Wilkin Sulaer
asking u'uo U support Sheeuan. Kul-
ier, the World de( lure, asserts thut
the letter in a "de-picublu and pi"-
jm-iteriiu Juig i .
M
(Signed)
WT PROBE IS
E
Method of Procedure Delays Action
By California Legislature Both
Houses to Take Hand in Investi
gation of Court.
SACKAMKNTO, Cal., Fob. 1G.
Quostlon of procedure by tho loglslu
turo In Its Investigation of tho state
suproino court today temporarily halt
cd tho Inquiry requested by tho Jus
tices Into their action In the ituof re
hearing decision.
"When tho communication of (ho
justices requesting an Investigation
was received It wns suggested that a
Joint committee of sennto and nesom
bly should undertake tho probo. To
day objection wns raised to this be
cause of the fact that ns Impeach-
moiit proceedings, If recomniendod,
would begin in tho assonibly, tho as
senibly members of any Joint com
mittee would bo In an Illegal posi
tion. Many of the legislators, there
fore, favored a preliminary Investi
gation by a senate noiuniltteo, possi
bly the committee on rules, so that If
Impeachment proceedings should fol
low, tho ussomblymon could bo In a
position of prosecutor without hnvlng
previously acted on the evidence.
ANTI-ANNEXATIONISTS
PLEASE JOHN BULL
IIIUAIH), III., Feb. III. It was
gonornlly predicted by uolitieians to
lay that the pro-reciprocity and
anti-niinexatiou speoches of Secre
tary of State Knox and Junius J. Hill,
tlie railroad magnate, delivered nt
u Imnquul given by the Chicago As
Hociutiou of Commerce Inst night will
do much toward quieting -the fcu'H
of Kiigluiul that the sentiment of the
American people favors the annexa
tion of Canada.
WOULD HAVE TAFT
NEGOTIATE WITH ENGLAND
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb, 10
Congressmun Bonnet of New York
Introduced in the house todny a reso
lution providing that Prosldont Tnft
be requested to contliiuo negotiations
with the British government to secure
he annexation of Canada to tho
lilted States.
JOHN D. AGAIN
FIGURES ON STREET
NEW YORK. Feb. 10. -John I).
Rockefeller, Kuhn ob k Co., nnd
the Deutsche bank absolutely control
the Missouri Pacific railroad today,
according to the New York News Hu
roHii, n Wall street organization.
Force "Hope" to Fight.
OKYAIIOMA"ciTY, Okla., Feb. 10.
Ill order to force Carl Morris, the
"Oklahoma white hope," Into the ring
with him, Fireman Jim Flyitu oM'u
oblo will follow the giant ex-rallroad-or
around tho country ImuIiik chal
lenges from the ringside evorywhore
Mn.ia
ui.7t7"i"i , nl
Hold-Up.MwRolj Prisoner,
WlMUSSUAilitl!:. I'a., Feb. 18.
The Wllkeeharn police today are
Kenrchlng for two masked bandits
who broke into ttio Jail at Warrior-
Yes.
No...
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TIM
IU VO I0K IS
E
Reported That Pneumonic Plague Is
Found All Business to and From
City Stopped Railroad Transpor
tation Under Medical Supervision.
ST. l'KTI3RSnUHG, Feb. lfi. Vlad
ivostok Is quarantined today following
tho reported discovery of a caso of
puouiuonlc plaguo there. Tho city
traffics to a large extent with Man
churln, where hundreds of plaguo vic
tims nro dying dally, and it Is he
Ileved the dlsenso lias boon commu
nicated ns a result.
All business relations with Mnnchu
rla have ceased, Hallway transpor
tation hctweon Vladivostok and the
plaguo district Is under medical su
pervision. Vladivostok authorities
aro taking ovory precaution to pro-
vent a spread of the dtBeaso In that
city.
No Boxing In Seattle
SKATTliK, Wnslt., Feb. 10.
Chief of Police Hannlck Iiiih come
out flat-fooled ugninst boxing exhi
bitions under tlie nuspiccs of the
various athletic clubs. An enter
tainment hud been planned by the
Hnllurd Athletic club, a local organ
ization for tonight but the chief is
sued orders this aftornooii forbidding
the show to go on.
No Change, Says Solous.
OTTAWA, Out., Feb. lb The
Canudian government has refused an
other request for a change in the ic
ciprocily agreement. This wns from
hook nnd writing hcrnp makers who
affirmed that if paper up to cents
u pound value were admitted free to
Cnnnda (hoy would be put out of
business.
WHITE TO TELL
OF PORK BARREL
i
Legislature Aroused Over Charges of I
Kansas Journalist and Asks Him to
Como Before Committee and
Explain.
TOPISKA. Kan., Feb. 1C Arou
ei over William Alien White's
charges that " 'the pork uarrol hnd
been opened by the presjont session
of tho legislature," tho statu senate
today naked White to appear before
thut body ami explain.
White declared today that he
would gladly explain his charges bo
fore the senate, and would ask each
senator, under oath, to tell what he
knew about "pork."
Snow In California.
HlVICItSinifl, Cal., Feb. 16 All
records for snowfall In Kevirslde
County were broken today when n
precipitation of six inches iu one hour
fell at Us unl ng. Flakes nearly as
large as saucers foil during the
height of the storm. The mountains
near Jtlvi-i side appear to bo under
several feet of allow.
HAM
RUSSIA SERVES
NOTICE SHE IS
TO WAR ON
CHINESE
Scuds Formal Announcement to
Powers Will Force Celestials to
Comply With Treaty of i88l
Preparations for Invasion.
IF CHINA RESISTS WAR
WILL BE INEVITABLE
Russia's Intentions Arc to First
Seize Border Town Chinese
Hlndcrlnn Merchants.
st. PFnwsnuita. Feb. 10.
Practical certainty Hint Huss'iti will
bo involved iu wnr witli China within
n few hours is seen hero today in a
publication by the nowspapor It etch
that the Russiun jvtivnrnmcnt plants
to occupy the Hi region iu Chinese
Turkestnn. Conferences nt the war
ministry today, it is believed, aro
over the prepnrutionn for the invas
ion. Hussinn is aggrieved over China's
alleged violation of the treaty of 1881
whereby Kusaiii evacuated Hi prov
ince nftur tin Occupation of'K) years,
in return for which Chinn promised
Russia commercial concessions in
Hi, Mongolia nnd Manchuria. Russia
ascrts that these rights have been
gradually curtailed.
To Sclzo Town.
UiiNsia's intention is declared lo
.bo to first seize the town of Kuldjn.
Its occupation will bo equivalent to
a declaration of war, hut actual hos
tilities are considered as unlikely, for
it is considered curtain that China
will yield. If China resists war is
inevitable.
Itussiu declares that China is hin
dering Russian morohnnttj in selling
ten in Chinoso territory and that Chi
na refuses to permit Kussian con
suls iu many of her cities.
LON'lJOtf, Feb. 10. Formal no
tice Hint Itussiu intends to make a
military demonstration ugainbt China
to forco compliance with the trcnty
of 1881, was sent to tho Ilritish for
eign office todny by the Huesiun gov
ernment. .It is understood that similar notes
have been cnt to the other powers.
INSURGENTS TO COLLIDE
WITH TROOPS TODAY
ISI. PASO, Tex.. Feb. 16. On a ro
port that the Mexican Insurgents
worn massing nt Guudnloupo, Gun
eral Navarro, tho fodoral comman
der hero, today sont threo troops of
cavalry with n mnchlno gun down
the valley to disperse thorn. It Is
possible that tho Insurgents niny ro
slst, though their policy of lato has
scorned to bo to conduct a guorrllla
warfare.
ANTI-ANNEXATIONISTS
PLEASE JOHN BULL
CHICAGO, III., Pub. 10. It was
generally predicted dby politicians
today that the pro-reoipmuity and
nnti-annexatiou spsechos of Secre
tary of State Knox and Junius J. Hill,
the railroad magnate, doliuvored nt
a hunqitet given by tho Chicago As
sociation of Coniuioruo last night
will do much towardd quioting Hiq
fears of England (hat the santiniant
of the American pooplo favors tho
animation of Canada.
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Elks Get Busy.
Wttrtf
PORTLAND. Or., Feb. 10. Deter
mined to raise an ontortuinniont fund
of $125,000 to he used in tho ovont
that Portland is successful in semir
ing the 1012 convention of (ho grand
lodge of Kike, a number of oauvago
ing committee of tho local lodgo bo
gaii work yesterday. It is boliovcd
thut the desired sum will huvo hcuu
MuWribod within thtoo days.