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FORTIETH YEAB.
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAECII 10, 1911.
No. 301.
JITED STATES TO INVADE MEXICO AT
"FIRST NECESSARY CAUSE FOR ACTION"
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VEIL OF SECRECY
SAYS
Army Will Check Any Secesseonary Moves on Part of People of Lower
California Will Prevent Destruction of American Property and Fili
busteringArmy Will Not Hesiiaie to invade Mexico If It Be Deemed
Necessary to Maintain the Diaz Regime Taft Decided on Move
After Conference With Mexican Ambassador Diaz Wants Help.
ABROAD PRESIDENT TAFT'S PRIVATE CAR, MOUNT AIRY, Gu.
March JO. Tho forces of. the United Stntes stnml ready lo invade Mexico
Mit Uio "first necessary cause for action." They will chock any sceess
ionury moves on the part oC tho people of Lowor California from tho
Diaz confederation; the troops will prevent tho destruction of American
properly; they will patrol the border nnd prevent filibustering, and, fin
ally tho original excuse of mobilization practice maneuvers will bo
engaged in by both land nnd sea forces.
The administration makes no further attempt to cloak the army's ac
tivity under the, term maneuvers. U is admitted that tbu tinny of mob
ilization on pay becomd an army of pacification, and that the forces
nro gathering in Arizona nnd California to aid President Diaz in sup
pressing the Mexican insurrection.
Tho nnny will not hesitato to invade Mexico if it be deemed neces
sary to maintain tho Diaz regime.
A plnn wheroby the American and Mexican federal armios will act
together has boon decided upon at a conference between President Taft
and Mexican Ambassador do la Barm. The conference followed n series
of exchanges between the .diplomatic, representatives of both countries.
Taft was notified that Diaz oxpeoted the United States to cut off com
pletely the sources of insurgent supplies north of tho Mexican lino.
All this was freely admitted today
to correspondents board the presi
dential train. ,
Lower California is regarded by
tho administration as tho dangci
spot. It Avas pointed jmt that tho
great peninsula holds Magdalena
Bay, which commands tho mid-Pacific
coasts of (he American contin
ent. Tho territory is filled with
Japanese nnd insurectos. If it should
bo occupied by an unfiiendly power
both Moxico nnd tho United Stntes
would bt continually menaced.
Diaz irf not able now to send
enough troops to Lower California to
quell the insurrection there. A revo
lutionary government might be esta
blished, which Japan could control
easily, nnd thereby obtain a foothold
on tho Amoricau continent and a banc
for Eastern Pacific operations.
OFFICERS THINK QUICK
MOBILIZATION ORDERED
TO CONVINCE PUBLIC
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, March 10
Army officers hero expressed to
day tho boliof that tho chief reason
for the hurried movement of troop-,
to tho Texas frontier was to give the
public: a chaiico lo view tho efficiency
of (ho army in quick mobilization. If
any do feels existed, it wns said, they
would bo sure to hhow at this time
and swift remedies applied.
San Antonio, is rapidly taking on
the appearauco of an urmcil camp
Tho troops nro arriving on nil trains,
and as fast as they detrain they are
set to work pitching unmp. Already
water japes havo been laid in innnv
of the company streets.
Major Harry Wilkins, chief of tho
subsistence department arrived lodaj
and took charge of tho lask of feed
ing tho soldiers. Foodstuffs con
signed lo packers nro nrriving in
cnrlond loth from Fort Worth, Dallas
and Houston.
ALASKAN TROOPS
ARE ORDERED TO BE
HELD IN READINESS
SEATTLE, Wash., March 10 -Officers
in charge at Fort Law ton arc
extremely reticont today, but it i- a
certainty that all preparation have
boon mado for the quick tranfr ol
troons stationed hero to Southern
California when tho word to move is
rccoivod from Washington. Troop
at Fort William 11. Seward and F.rt
Lisciim in Vnldoz, Alaska, nio nlbo
under waiting orders, it beenme
known today. There nro four com
pnuios of tho 25th infantry, (color
ed) at Fort Lnwtou nnd five com
panies in Alnska.
CRUISERS FIGHTING THEIR
WAY TO MEXICAN PORTS
IN HEAVY HURRICANE
NEW YORK. March 10. Tlie
cruisers Montana, North Carolina
and Tennessee are stonmim? South
ward in the fnoo of ft terrific stl
RENT; TAFT
PACIFICATION IS INTENT
LOWER CALIFORNIA,
SCENE OE ACTIVITY,
IS CRITICAL POINT
Government Fears That Japan May
Gain Frathold There and Prove
Serious Menaco to United States
and Western Hemisphere.
LOS ANGKLKS. Cal., March 10.
Activity In Lower California, whoro
It Is planned to establish u "social
republic," Is, according to cnBtern ad
vices today, tho dotermlning cause
in tho action of tho United States in
sending troops to tho bordor to help
tho Diaz government. Tho fear that
Lowor California and part of north
ern Moxico might become a separate
nation is said to havo decided tho ad
ministration that tho tlmo to act had
come. Tho movement in Lower Cali
fornia had Its Inception hero.
Whilo tho InHiiiTccloB in Lower
California styled thoniHolves "rovo
lutlonlstfj," they wero n separato body
with entirely different nlms than
those on tho mainland of Mexico,
who followed General Francisco Ma
doro. Tho Lowor California movo
mont was organized by tho Mexican
revolutionary junta In Los Angoles.
It wiib planned to bcIzo tho peninsula,
drlvo out tho fedcrnl troops and es
tablish a separato government, inde
pendent regardless of which faction
socurod control of Mexico propor.
Tho plan was to mako tho govern
ment socialistic, nnd socialists In both
Moxico nnd tho United States wero
appealed to. Klcardo Florcs Magon,
editor of tho socialist paper La Ilov-
oluclon and head of tho Lob Angolcs
junta, waB to ho nnmod provisional
(Continued on pace 8.)
JAPS SEE ANNEXATION IN MOVE
Mobilization is "Moro Aggressive and Displays Mora Hostility Than
Would Be Shown By Mere Scries of Maneuvers" Says "Hoch-
ing" Ultimate Object is Annexation of Canada Mexico
TOKIO, March 10. "Tho activity
of tho American forces in mobilizing
on tho Mexican frontier is mast sig
nificant," tho Hochiuj says editorial
ly today. "It Is moro aggrossivo and
displays moro hostility than would bo
shown by a mere series of maneu
vers." The paper adds that tho concen
tration of troops and warships Is a
sign of approaching realization of
pn-AinorIennlm; that thcro la no
15,000,000 IS
LOSS IN STORM
Every Section of California Suffered
Heavily in Recent Flood Which Has
Swept it From Siskiyou to San
Diego.
THOUSANDS OF ACRES
ARE HEAVILY DAMAGED
Houses in Sections arc Inundated-
Scores of Horses on Ranges
Were Killed by Storm.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., March 10.
Five million dollars was considered
ti conservative estimate today of tho
loss caused by floods which hnvo
provniled tonight and many of tho
larger, streams still overflowing their
banks, this estimate mny fall shoit
of tho actual loss.
News from Santa Barbnra today
snid that tho damago in that county
would exceed 1,000,000. Tn tho
Santa Marin, district over 1,000 acres
have been devastated of crops. Tho
70,000 gallon resorvoir of tho Union
Oil coinpnny is n complete wreck.
Los Angeles and vicinity has suf
fered to tho extent of $250,000. The
loss to alfalfa and garden truck alone
is' placed at $100,000. It was feared
today that snows fnllinc in the
mountains would cause tho Los An
geles river to overflow tho city's hot
loin lands. Heavy dnmago wns in
wliclcd on bridges of tho Salt Lake
Itailrond by tho San Gabriel river.
All traffic between Niles, Snn
Joso, Newark nnd Irvington has been
out off by tho destruction of the
bridgo across Niles Canyon Creek.
More ill mi a score of houses at
Colusa nro inundated by tho break
ing of tho leveo nnd tho water jn
some of the struots is five foot deep,
At Red Rock scores of horses on
tho ranges were killed in tho storms
LEYVA READY TO
ATTACKJTIA JUANA
Orders Insurrcctors to Pack Their
Kits Preparatory to a Movo on
Enscnada Will Strike at Tla
Juana First:
MEXICALI, Mexico, March 10.
Acting under orders from flenornl
Loyvn tho iiihurtcctos at Mexieali to
day packed their kits preparatory to
rcmovo to Knsonndn. Beyond uti
nonnciug that Tin Juann would be
attacked, General Leyva did not give
out his plans. Apparently authentic
reports wero that tiro rcbol bnnd
wero entrenched in the mountains bo
youd Pichacho Pass and it was ex
pected that tho first brush would
occur thore.
Genoral Loyvn granted tho war
correspondents permission to uccoin-
pany his army.
doubt that America's ultlmato object
Is tho annexation of Canada, Moxico
and tho southern republics, but that
it is confronted with two obstacles of
tho Latins ambition and tho possi
ble growth of Moxico and a powerful
confederacy of southern republics.
Tho Japaneso press in general
makes no comment on the military
activity in the United States and no
official cognizance has been publicly
tnkpn of tho nmtieuvors,
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THIS IS WHY UNCLE
SAM IS SO VERY BUSY
WITH HIS SOLDIERS
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Tho administration admits
tho mobilization of troops is
to protect American Intorcsts
In Moxico. Thcso Investments
exceed n billion nnd n half
dollars nnd wero largely so
curod through Bpeclnl conces
sions by Diaz.
Th chlnf holders nre:
Tho MorBan-GuggonhoIni
syndicate, controlling tho cop
per output.
Tho Continental Ilubbor
company, holds concessions In
nearly ovory Mexican Btato.
Tho Wators-Plnrco Oil com
pnly, hns a practical monop
oly of tho oil business
throughout Mcxlcall.
Tho Wells Fargo Express
company, practical oxprcss
monopoly.
Amorlcnns hnvo largo rail
road holdings.
British interests oxecod
half a billion dollars.
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WEATHER MEN TO
1W1EC0RDS
District Forecaster Beals, of the
Portland Office, Completes Arran
gements Whereby Weather Men all
Over Valley Will-Post Each Other,
As tho .result of n .tour of the
southern part of tho state just com
pleted by A. E. Deals, United State-
distriot weather forocastor, will
hendqunrters in Portlnnd, overy sec
tion will contribute dajly tho maxi
mum, minimum and moan conditions
to tho Portland office, for distribu
tion among tho other sections.
Mr. Bonis returned lo this city
today to commence work upon the in
stallation of tho weather bureau ap
paratus received hero today from
tho departmental headquartors in
Washington, D. C. IIo has made ar
rangements .with tho loenl wenlher
innu in Ashland and Jacksonville to
keep tho offico heio posted wilh re
gard to (ho ntniosphorio conditions in
their localities, and has established
n system of communication between
the offices throughout this seclioii
which will ennblo each lo keep in
formed iih to tho exact conditions
in tho territory bordering on nil
sides that which each has under ob
servation. All of tho npparatus for the local
station is now on tho ground nnd will
bo instnlled ns soon as possible.
Tho station for the instruments
havo lieen prepared upon tho roif
of tho Gnrnott-Corey hardware t'or.i
p(any's building and tho movements
of tho .instruments will nt nil times
bo known in the weather offico. on
tho top floor of the building, as the
recording instruments for each of
tho mnchinos will bo Iocntod there
Tho recording dinls wjll bo connected
with tho machines thoinscIvo by u
system of wiring.
A now set of weather flngs is be
ing mndo nnd thoso, flown from tho
flng-staff of tho Onrnotl-Corey
building nnd visiblo all over town,
will bo placed in commission ns soon
ns finished.
An nccurnto nnd eomploto record
of tho temperature, wind conditions
(iiul all other conditions affecting the
wenlher, will bo kept on record by
Professor P. J. O'Gnrn, and the
daily weather chart will bo pouted
is on of tho Main street windows of
the Garnet-Corey hardware fctorc in
such a wny ns to bo visible from I bo
strcot.
Couple Die Together.
READING, Pn., Mnrob 10. Agree
ing to end their lives together rnthor
than face public contempt in tho air
ing of charges brought by tho wife
against her husband, Samuel Adam,
aged 515, nnd hit wife, Mary aged 20.
committed suicide on their farm near
Ifnmmburg.
Their bodies wero found hanging
from ft rafter in their homo uml
brought bore todny.
INTEREST
IN ELECTION
Bonds Issue Totaling $38,000 At
tracts But Little Atcntlon Reg
istration Law Effecting Voters at
City Elections is Also Up. :
ONLY 38 VOTES IN
LARGEST WARD AT NOON
Balloting Receives a Slight Impetus
at Noon Hour But Very Light
Total is Predicted.
Less interest has been displayed
in tho special election being held to
day than over beforo. Up to noon
today, but thirty-eight votes had
i i ii t-t i r l ii.
ucen enst in uio bocoiui warn, ins
lnrgost in tho city, nnd tho other two
wni'ds showed u corresponding hick
of interest.
The matters, boforc tho voters to
day involve tho isuing of bonds to-
tnlling n sum of $;I8,000 for im
provements to tho "present sowor sys
tem nnd for tho purchasing of now
nppartus for tho firo department;
tho cstnblishmonts of n registration
law nffecting votors nt city electiens:
and the providing for tho reimburse
ment of persons, purchasors of city
properly at delinquent tux salos.
whoso titles aro invalidated in tho
courts.
Despite tho fine weather, be polls,
which linve been open sincol) ooloak,
hnvo boon empty, savo for tho elec
tion officinls,, over hnlf tho tunc
During tho noon hour tho bnlloting
wns somowbat henvior thnt nt othor
times during tho day, but notwith
standing this slight impotous, (he
smnllest number of votes evor ens!
nt an oleclion in this city, in propor
tion to tho numbor of volors, will be
the record tonight unless tho uftor
noon witnesses a decided change in
tho attitude of tho voters.
WILL FIGHT 0. S.
IE NECESSARY
So Say Mexican Rebel Leaders Who
Resent Interference By United
States Big Interests aro Blamed
By Leaders.
LOS ANGELES, (Jul., March 10
"If the United Stales insists, upon
interfering with our fight in Moxico
wo will shoot its soldiors tho same
ns wo would the soldiers of Portfirio
Diaz, This is iv fight betwucn Mexi
cans and every momber of our army
in Lower California will dio before
Iboy will give up tho fight thoy have
so nobly begun," said Librndo Rivera
child' director of the Liberal brancn
of tho Mexican revolution, comment
ing mi tho mnholization of American
(Continued on Puro 6,)
41 CANIORRA MEIERS ON TRIAL
Members of Brigand Organization Which Has Scouraged Italy for Cen
turies For Trial for Murder Many of tho Wltncscs, In
timidated, Have Dlssapcared.
VITBIino, Unly, Maroh 10. For-ty-ono
mombers of tbu Camorra,
Italy's brigand organization that has
scourged tho country for centuries,
will fuco trial tomorrow for murdor.
In splto of the pracautlonB of tho au
thorities tho terror of tho Camorrist
name hits caused tho mysterious de
parture of several witnesses and of
two prospective Jurors. Tho pollco
admit that witnesses hnvo been in
timidated nnd many of tho important
nnoH threatened with doath havo van.
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MAN LIVES WITHOUT
STOMACH; CALLS TO
SEE IT IN HOSPITAL
PHILADELPHIA, ., Pa.,
March 10. All ho ugh B. J.
Sykcs of Curdsler, Alberta,
Canada, has no stomach, ho
says he can rolish n meal as
much as any man. Sykcs
visited n local hospital to
day, where tho operation of
removing lilu kIiuiiikiIi was
performed ten .weeks ago.
"I wanted to see my stom
ach just for old times' sake,"
he said, "I havo nothing
against it, nUltnugh it cnused
niu unlimited trouble for ton
years before I got rid of it."
Sinco leaving lh hospital
Sykcs hns gained 4-1 pounds
in weight.
4- 4-
SHOCK ALMOST
STARTED PANIC
In Telegram to Manager Malboeuf, of
the Commercial Club, John D. 01-
wcll, Now in Chicago, Tells of Ex
periencn's.
Mnnagor Charles A. Malboeuf of
tho Commercial club la In receipt of a
tologram from John D. Olwoll tolling
of tho tromendous snock felt in Chi
cago as tho result of a disastrous
powder explosion in PlonBant Prnl-
rlo, Wis,, and Incidentally mention
ing tho rosy conditions which ho finds
In tho Windy City in tho way of deep
interest in Medford and tho Iloguo
Itlvor vnlloy. Mr. Olwoll has boon In
Chicago for Bovoral weeks looking
ovor tho ground in tho interest of
prospoctlvo sales of orchards and
fruit lands hero, and his wlro is of
pecial IntercBt nt this tlmo when oven
tho most pessimistic nro wiping tho
dust out of tholr eyes and beginning
to realize thnt Medford Is duo for tho
greatest year In Its era of prosperity.
Ills remarks aro In lino with tho ad
vice coming from nil Hectlons of tho
country both by correspondonco
through the Commercial club and by
prlvato sources. It Is now up to Mr.
PIuvIiih to koop his watering cart out
of tho othoronl during tho mouth of
April, for tho multitudo will expect
tho valley to bo on dress parade then.
Mr. Olwoll BnyB:
"Medford and Uoguo Itlvor vnlloy
is the hcHt known and talked of
place on tho Pacific coast by tho Chi
cago people, and all Indentions point
to very heavy movement of tho moro
wealthy clement in that direction.
Railroad people aro looking for tro
meudnus travel westward this spring,
and aro making preparations to han
dle thorn. Everything looltB splendid.
Tonight about 10 o'clock a big pow
der mill blew up CO miles fiom hero,
and tho plato glass on State street Is
Hhattered In overy direction. 1 was
in tho Majestic theater, and thoro
camo very near being a panic. Tho
report and tho Jar woro Bomethlng
awful. I am sure there will bo a lot
of destruction ns tho result of It.
Not cortaln whon I will roturn homo,
us I am sowing a lot of Bccd for tho
Uoguo valloy."
I
(shod.
Tho specific crlmo Is the murdor of
fionunrro Cuocuoll and his wifo in
1U00. Knricl Alfono, loador of tho
band near Vltorbo, with his confed
oratos, will be on trial. Cuocuoll, a
formor mombor of tho Cnmorrn, bo
trayed the secrets of tho organiza
tion nnd is said to havo publicly s'ap-
ped tho fa co of Alfono. Tho man
wns lured to Torro del Credo and
slain. Simultaneously Slgnora Cuo
cuoll was murdered,
NO EXCUSE FOR
U. S. TO TAKE
A HAND IN
MEXICO
So Says Dr. Frances Vasquez Gomey,
Authorized Confidential Ant fw
Provisional Government f Mexlcci
In Exclusive Statement to Prew.
HAVE ABSOLUTE FAITH THAT
U. S. WILL NOT INTERFERE
Says All Is Desired is Elimination of
Graft, Right of Popular Suf-fragc-and
no Re-Elutions. . ,
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 10.
Dr. Francos Vusquez Gomez, nu
thorized confidential ngent of tho
provisional government of Mexico, of
which Francisco I. Madcro, is tho
bond, commenting on tho nrmy mobi
liznlioji on the American frontier
gavo tho following interview to tho
United Press teday:
(By Dr. Francisco Masquez Gomez)
(Copyright, 1011 by the Unitol
Press Association)
Wo hnvo not tho slightest fear
with .respect to tho alleged purpose
of tho American government to in
tervene in tho present struggle in
Moxico. In tho first plnco, this gov
ernment knows thnt tho vast majority
of Moxican pooplo nro unnltornbly
opposed to further oontiuuuuco of tho
Dinjs regime nnd tho system ho rep
resents. Wo hnvo ubsolulo faith Hint tho
United Stales under tho oircuni
stnnco will not interveno to provont
n viist majority from oxoouling tho
popular will. f there exists menaco
to lifo and property it has been creat
ed by Diaz, for ovoryono knows that
tho revolutionists hnvo taken pains
to protect foreigners nnd their prop
erty. Thoy hnvo gone so far ns to
pay in coin for qunrtonuustor nnd
ooinmissnry supplied which thoy hnvo
been forced to seize nnd you hnvo
yot to hour of n singlo American
citizen having been iiiolustcd by our
troops.
If this government believes chaos
and nuurchy nro imminent in Mox-
j,. jt my , Hll,j iat thin condi
tion only will nriso when soiuo tumul
tous outbreak demnuds "tho system''
destruction.
All rovolulioiinry movements and
nil fepontniieous uprisings of tho
people nro and will bo directed to
this end alone. All that is desired is
tho elimination of graft, tho right of
popular suffrage and no moro ro
elections, In rcgnrd to crcntijig n human
military chain nlon'g tho frontier com
posed of Americun troops in order
to provont nllegcd violations of
neutrality, it may surpriso you to
know that our forces hnvo received
munitions from Amorion for n con
siderable period and do not oxpoct
to receive any moro. Wo havo our
menus of innuiifuoturing nnd loading
ourlridgcs and ample supplies of
smokeless powdor and small arms.
Wo roally have no noeessity for fur
ther material of this sort.
Wo submit our onso to tho con
science o ftho froo Amoricnn pcop'o,
who certainly will not sympathize
with n grafting oligarchy ns against
n pooplo struggling for tho rights
guaranteed them b ythoir constitu
tion. "J c
Taccoma Men to Train. ?
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TACOMA, Wash., March. 10.
Twolvo membors of this years Tn-
comn Tigers of tho North Western
Longuo, sailed from Soattlo today on
tho Stoamor President bound for
Prcsno whero spring training Is to
bo done. At San Francisco tho play
ers will bo met by Captain Miko
Lynch, who wont ahead to negatm
tivo with Danny Long of the Seals
for n couple of players.
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