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CLEARINGS
Hank clearings t inlay wcro
WEATHER
Clear Max. 72, Mln. 2,
$ 17,(100.00.
Mean 52.
FORTIETH YEAR.
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1911.
No. 311.
COUNCIL TO KILL TROLLEY FRANCHISE
ORDERS CITY
ATTORNEY TO
DRAW PAPERS
Council Holds Special Session and
Adopts Resolution Instructing City
Attorney to Start at Once on Ac
tion Necessary to Annul Franchise.
RECENTLY ATTEMPTED TO
HOLD RIGHT WITH TIES
Franchise Was Granted Over a Year
Ayo to John R. Allen of New
York Who Failed to Build.
At a special meeting of tlio city
council held this morning a resolu
tion was adopted Instructing tho city
'attorney to draw up a resolution an
nulling tho Allen electric trolley
franchise Tho city attorney was giv
en hurry up ordors nnd tho resolu
tion to ho prepared hy him will ho
acted upon as soon as It can ho
drawn. Councilman Miller moved tho
resolution Instructing tho city attor
ney, which found a second In Coun
cilman Watt. Tho mnttcr was passed
unnnlmously.
Somo mouths ago tho time limit on
the franchise expired, hut an effort
was nindo to hold It hy placing a
nunihor of ties upon tho streets of
tho city. Tho city maintains, how
ever, that tho necessary work to hold
tho franchlso had not hecn dono nnd
that tho present holder of the fran
clilso, A. Welsh of Eugene, was not'
acting in good faith when ho placed
tho ties upon the streets of tho city.
Tho franchlso was granted John
It. Allen of New York city, who re
vived tho defunct Pacific & Eastern
railroad, at tho same tlmo thnt he
secured franchises in Grants Pass
and Ashlnnd. Mr. Allen planned at
thnt time to construct a trolley lino
throughout tho valley, hut his plnuB
went nstrny.
The action of tho city follows a
long delay, In which tho company
now holding tho franchlso was given
ovory opportunity to construct tho
, road. As thoy do not seem to ho pre
paring to piny hall, tho council would
wipe out tho old franchlso In order
thnt ono might he granted to any por
flon who mado nn application for a
franchlso In good faith.
TUFT TO BOOKER:
II VERY SORRY
President Sympathizes With Leader
of Black Raco for Misfortune
Which Has Overtaken Him in New
York.
NKW YORK, March 22.--Sympu.
thy by tho president of tho United
Slates for Hookor T. Washington and
confidonco in his intogrity were ex
pressed today by William II. Tuft in
a lot tor to the negro educator, who
wafe boaton liQro by Albert Ulrioh, a
dont motor, who licensed Washington
of being a "Pooping Tom."
"Dour Dr. Washington," Tuft
wrote, "I inn greatly distressed nt
your misfortune, and hapten to ex
press my sympathy. I hopo you soon
will rouovor from the wound inflict
od bv insaiio subiiiciouiiii's or vio-
iojiauofcs, unci 1 dosiro to assure yoU(
uf my. confidence in you, your iiiteg
rity, your morality, your ojinrsoter
mid to oxpress my appreciation of thoj
fuot that you arc of tho highlit n-j
fulnoe. to your ruce, a well t
nil tho people of the couiitryy. it
would bo n national Ion-. If this un
toward iuoidoat in n.v way impaired
yimr grunt jwwor in the olutian of
one of our mjst difficult problems
J waul you (o know that your trwnds
rg landing by you itl every trial
I aw proud to siibjcrihi M)') !,i
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PEOPLES LAW
Investigations Now Under Way by
Hume Attorneys Which May Result
in a Battle in the Court Have
Been Active of Late in Salem .
ROGUE FISH PROTECTIVE
ASS'N'WILL PUT UP FIGHT
If Case is Carried Into Court It Will
Be Carried Through Every Court
Before River is Reopened.
SAL13M. Or., March 22. To test
tho validity of tho act passed hy the
people at tho last general election in
which tho wnters of the Rogue river
aro closed to nil kinds of fishing ex
cept by hook and line, It Is under
stood on good authority that attor
neys for tho Iliuno Interests aro rank
ing investigations which may result
In a fight in tho courts.
Grounds for the contest will he
found in an nlleged unconstitution
ality of tho people's net. It will ho
contonded that tho provisions of this
act fall under tho police power of tho
stnto. ,It will also ho contended thnt
tho pollco jiowor Is to regulnto and
not to Inhibit nnd that tho act us
passed hy tho people is phtinly nn in
hibition. With these contentions in view it
will bo dcclnred that neither tho lcg
Islnturo nor tho people havo a consti
tutional right to pnsB an act of this
nature, which Is plainly and simply
Inhibitory In Its nature and In its con
struction.
Mombors of tho Ilumo family havo
been In tho city recontly Investigat
ing questions of this character.
Whether the state could ho mado a
party to an action of this kind Is a
question thnt has not been determin
ed, hut it is considered possiblo that
tho master tlsh warden might bo in
cluded should such an action bo com
menced. Mombers of the Itoguo River Fish
Protective association havo been ex
pecting such t movo on tho part of
tho Iluinos since Governor West ve
toed tho Plerco fish bill, pnssed by
tho legislature, which would havo an
nulled tho peoples law passed In
November. They are prepared to fight
the caso through all the courts if nec
essary In order to dotormlno whothor
n monopoly of natural resources can
ho maintained in dofiance of tho will
of tho peoplo at large.
Should tho enso bo fought It Is not
unlikely thnt time will seo It ovent
ually before tho United States su
preme court for decision.
A
Says His Wife Called His Father a
D d Old Fool" and That She
at All Times Treated Him in a
Cruel and Inhuman Manner.
SALKM. Or., .March 22-Charging
Hint within two months ufter thoy
wero married when bin used father
applied to him for u sinull loan that
hi wifo 11w into h fury and called
hi fHthor a "ilamuod old fool" and
h "liaysoad" nud other names too in
deeont to spread upon tho records of
the court, nnd that from thnt time
she begun a coure of systeinutio,
eruel and inhuiujui treatment con
sisting in treating with dirrospect an
aged aunt, the slamming of doors in
lbs faees of friends and in accusing
him with infidelity before his olid
drtn and friends, I lower C. Da von-,
port, America's greatest nrtnonit,
UhUv connttouoed divor&f proceed-
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DAVENPORT ASKS
SEPARATION
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MANIAC KEPT IN CAGE
BY MOTHER, 30 YEARS
CHICAGO, 111., March 22.
Six husky deputies today
snnred George Odetta, n rav
ing maniac through tho bars
of u steel cage in the garret of
Ids mother's home near Wuit
kegnn today preparatory to
placing him in tho Klgin in
sune asylum. Tlie man had
been kept in tho engo for
nearly 30 years and Iiis com
mit tment to tho asylum fol
lows the (lenth of his mother,
02, who hnd remained by his
sido since she was 02, seldom
dom leaving the garrot where
sho prepared his food nnd nt
tcinptod to lighten the burden
of his miserable life.
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Eight Hundred Men Were Imperiled
Tons of Slato Crash Down on
Miners Crushing Their Bodies Al
most Beyond Recognition.
PITTSHIJUG, Pn., March 22.
Nino miners were killed early today
by a fnll of slato at tho Hazel mine,
near Cnnnonsburg.
Ono American David llonloy
wns among those killed. Eight hun
dred men wore at work whon tho ac
cident occurred.
According to reports, tho victims
woro ontorlng tho inino on a. coal car,
when It Jumped tho track, demolish
ing tho posts supporting tho roof.
With tho caving In of tho roof, tons
of slate crashed dowu on tho minors,
crushing their bodies ulinost boyond
recognition.
OfficlnlB of tho I'ittsburg-nuffalo
Coal company deny that tho car
jumped tho track and assert that
tho slate fell from tho roof of the
car. Tho inino wns closed following
tho accident nnd work will not bo re
sumed until after tho funerals of tho
vlctlnjs.
SOCIALISTS ARE
GIVEN JOBBING
Women, at School Board Election in
Milwaukee, put Socialist Candi
dates to the Bad Women Were
Spurred Into Action hy Clergymen
MILWAUKEE, Wis., March 22.
Defeating tho socialist candidates for
the school board, tho hotbed for so
cialists, Milwaukee women nro recog
nized as u political power which hud
nullified all precedents. They pollod
10,000.
When two socialists wero nnmliin
ated for the school hoard, tho women
named 12 nou-partlsau candidates to
opposo them. Four of tho 11 candi
dates woro to bo elected and tho
women concentrated their political
powor against tho socialists. In somo
of tho residential districts tho wom
en outnumbered tho men, but at nil
tho polla throughout tho city tho
womon wero outnumborod by the
male votors two to ono. Tholr boI
Idarlty, however, won tho day.
Ono of tho reasons for tho women's
opposition to the socialists was hit
tor donuniilutlon of tho socialist con
trol of the city by Catholic and Lu
theran olorgymon.
onport, in the uircuit court of this
county.
Dnvonport preface, hi ooinpliiint
with tho statement that since his
marriage hu has been u wanderer,
that he has lm-d in Sn Fraiioisoo,
New York and Orange, x. J., but that
he hits always looked upon Silvortou,
Ore., as his home. He was born and
reared in thin littla Oregon town and
oonaidflrs it kic botiia in flbiiK his
ncium tur 'cpMmitoti from hi wifo.
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LICENSE LAW
Council Adopts Ordinance Which Will
Strictly Regulate Sale of Liquor in
City Saloons to Close at Midnight
and at 11:30 on Saturday Night.
SOCIAL CLUBS MUST PAY
ANNUAL LICENSE OF $200
Must Not Sell Liquor on Sundays or
After Hours Much Other Busi
ness Transacted by Council.
The city council nt its mcetiiifr
Tuesdny night adopted n model
liquor liecnso law which provides for
n mora strict regulation of the local
saloons than over before enforced in
the city. The ordinance was passed
despite protest by liquor dealers, ex
pressed by William M. Colvig, their
attorney.
The sulient points of tho new ordinance-
nro ns follews:
Closini; of saloons nt 12 midnight,
nnd ut 11:30 Sntun'lay nights, to re
main closed Sundays nnd until 5
o'clock in tho morning1.
Kcmovnl of screens above five feet
from the sidownlks.i
Kcmovnl of nllHfrtls Jnd dice oi
other pimbling devices.
Chairs and tables must go.
A license of .-i20() a year for social
clubs.
Clubs must not sell liquor on Sun
day or after closing- hours, which nre
fixed in uccord with saloons.
('lubs must not sell liquor to be
carried from tho club rooms nor lo
non-nicnibcrs.
Druggists may sell liquor on n pre
scription but only once on a single
prescription.
Wives or members of the family
of a habitual drunlmrd may servo no
tice to (he chief of police not lo al
low liquor to bo sold to the drunk
ard and saloons when notified must
not sell to them.
The ordinance with a few minor
changes wns passed.
Other IliislnchH.
The council trausucted much other
business, chief among which was the
appointment of Oluu Armspigcr ns
city engineer.
W. M. Holmes would havo tho city
limits extended to embrace territory
oast of Oakdalu avenue south to the
county road and oust to Hear creek.
Ho addressed the council to that of'
feet nud was told to get out peti
tions. An ordinance carrying out tho pro pre pro
viseons: of the amendment to the city
churtor, adopted nt the recent elec
tion giving the council pou'er to issue
bonds to the amount of WW, 000, with
passed. The bonds to the umouiit
of $JIO,000 nro for the purpose of
paying indebtedness incurred for
trunk storm nnd snnitury sewors, for
replacing Kast Main street wooden
pipe with iron pipe, and $8000 for the
pureluibo of new fire-fighting appa
ratus, The bonds nro to become duo
nnd payable April 1, 1021.
I'lat of Kurdiok addition wns pre
sented. .Moved by Worlinnn that it
be nocoptcd when properly signed up.
.Motion adopted.
Liquor application of J. W, Slinger
presented and grunted.
O. 10. Mnrhall auks that Holly
street be extended from city limits to
county road and offers to pay ox
poiiKo of engineering, to be reim
bursed when street is finally part
of oily. Thh. will bo dono under
arrangement covering uiihw of this
kind.
Seolt V. l)uis was grunted n per
mit to erect a fireproof gnrago on
Front street betwoon Kighth street
and Ninth street.
T. W. ThouiHs whs granted permis
sion to erect addition to rear of
building on West .Main street now oo
uupicd by (hu II, mid 0. onsh sluro
The application was mndo through
Power mid Heovee, urohltocla.
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TAFT ASSURES JAPS
OF FRIENDLY FEELING "
WASH1NOTON, D. C, ""
iMiirch 22. To personally as-
sure the Japanese ambassador "
thnt the present relations bo-
tween Japan nnd the United
"" States nro entirely sulisfuc- ""
" lory, President Tuft invited
" Huron Uchida to call at tho
White House this nfteriioon.
The president wished to in- ""
" form the nmbassador that ""
" there was no ground for tho
"" belief thnt tho present mili-
titry maneuvers on the Texns ""
' frontier wcro unfriendly to
"" (ho Japanese nation, bu( (hat ""
" tho immediate eauso for tho ""
mobilizntion wns the apparent ""
(lunger of n .crisis in Mexican
" internntional affnirs. ""
AUSTRALIA NOW
FEARSJAPANESE
Latest Oisplay of Activity of Yellow
Race as Settlers Has Been Dis
covered In New Caledonia Will
Soon Outnumber the French.
MHLHOUUNK, March 22. Tho
flow of Japanese Immigration south
ward In thu Pacific ocean continues
to glvo rlso to apprehensions In Aus
tralia. Tho Intest display of tho ac
tivity of tho yellow raco ns settlors
has been discovered In Now Cale
donia. Visitors to the Island who
havo returned here declare thnt (ho
number of Jnpancso thero has In
creased bo rapidly that thoy hid fair
to outnumber tho Krench. Tho ori
entals aro chiefly war vetorans who
havo completed their term of serv
ice) with tho army. It Is believed
that Japan Is preparing for a possi
ble eventuality of warfare and de
sires to bo In a position to solzo tho
Island nt any time necessary In ordor
to utilize It as a naval huso. While
there is, of course, no proof of nny
such Intention on tho part of Japan,
the Japanese who nro so radldly peo
pling the islands of tho Pacific nro
regarded as constituting a tuouaco to
tho policy of a "white Australia,"
BEEF BARONS ARE
HANDEDJ JOLT
Judge Carpenter Overrules Demurrer
to Indictments and Declares That
Immunity Baths of 1903 Do Not
Apply To Jail If Convicted.
CIIICA(K), March 22. Ton Chica
go beef barons woro brought meas
urably nearer to jail hero today In
case of their conviction for alleged
violations of tho Sherman untt-trust
law, whon United State Judge Car
penter ovorrulod n demurrer to In
dictments against them and declared
that the "Immunity bath" of 1903 did
not apply.
Tho packers affected nre: Louis,
Kdward and Charles Bwlft, Edward
Tllden, J. Ogden Armour, KrnnclB
Fowler, Arthur Mookor, Thomas Con
nor, Kdward Morris and Loula Hoy
man. Tho Indictments charge a criminal
conspiracy by tho packers, who nro
personally accused. On conviction
thoy would be liable to prison terms.
Women Win Small Favor.
I.ONMJOX, March 22.Sui:fra
gottos 'nre busing a hard time winning
their uaiixc with Ilntuli politicians
but tho over giillsnt uiivul officers
have capitulate). For tho first time
in KngliuidV history a British bat
tleship will be christened by a wo
man. Mrs. I'is Ilureoiirt, wifo of
tho scjjrQtury of stale for tho oolo
nos, will oriiok n buttle on the prow
of the lux- ' tgitomight Mounre.li,
which win u tMrthd Maryh 30.
FILIBUSTERS
I NEAR
MEXICAN BAY
This is Believed to Account for Re
cent Activity of United States
Ships in That Section Maydalena
Bay is Said to Be Base.
MANEUVERS HELD FOR
THEIR MORAL EFFECT
At Least So Says Washington Same
Reason as That Which Sent U. S.
Navy Around the World.
SAN 1)1 KGO, Cal., March 22.
Filibuslering nt Mngdnlona bay has
been going on over since tho outbreak
of tho border warfare, according to
two Mazatlau concession holders,
who havo arrived hero on tho Mexi
eun steamer Mnnuel Herrerrins. Ac
cording to their statements, the fili
buster in ti three masted schooner
rigged vessel with the funnel aft of
the mainmast and a register of about
IIOOO tons.
There is every reason, Ihey say,
for filibustering at Magdalenu buy,
as that location is the most practical
ono on the Pacific side for landing
men nnd munitions for Mexico. The
mouth of the Gulf of California is
too closely gunrded for vessels to
enter there, .nud I ho ocean const nil
along the wkst sido id (oo open for
prolonged operations, but ul Mngda
loan there is an inland const extend
ing norlhwurd 1f0 miles from the
southern point of Magdulonii bay,
which contains so many inline-
plnecs Hint it fleet of swiit torpedo
bonis would bo necessnry (o patrol
it. From nny of tho landings along
Ihnl inland const thero nro good
trails to the gulf side, I0 miles across,
where the munitions of war could be
taken nnd re-shipped safely for the
Mexican mainland.
WASHINGTON, 1). C.. March 22. -That
tho United Stntos mobilized
troops on the Mexicuii border lo
prove its preparedness lo cope with
mi event which thnt very prepared
ness would prevent is the oxplunution
given out here today ui official cir
cles of the present sil nation along the
Itio Grande.
The inunoiivors are a notice to all
nations, tho officials declare, us the
world cruise of the buttleship fleet
wns it notification to Pupan, (hut the
United Stntos is prepared to main
tain pence, if necessnry, by War. It
is slated that from the very first
theiidininistriitiou did not expect nny
immediate- exigency.
craterIoTd in
hakdsmiity
Commission Meets and Formally
Turns It 07cr to County Will Be
Completed by June I Past Pumice
Hill Ray Underwrites Notes.
Al u meeting of (ho Crater Lake
highway commission at the rooms of
the Medford Commercial club, March
21, attended by Messrs. Knot, Davis,
lfny, Wntermun, Putnam, Woster
liinil, V. M. Colvig and Colonel
Frank II. Hay, the following motion
was made by J.A. W'esterliuid, sec
onded by K. H. Waterman nud unan
imously passed:
"WhereuH, tho county court of
Jackson county has agreed to as
sume ohurtfu of the Pumice hill grade
now being constructed under con
tra ut and to cotiipleto the sumo by
the fir.t of Juno under direction of
its onp"' t, providing a fund of $10,
000 b umsd ovr to ilio court by
the ('ruler lake eoniiuiMiou of tho
Medford Conuiuirajai elufr, the oQiiuty
(Continued on Pag I.)
W WY
TO LOVER; THEN
Chico Man Who Once Waved a Fond
Farewell, to Wifo and Gay Lothario
as They Left on Speeding Train
Comes to Medford; Takes Her Back
LOVER FOLLOWS COUPLE
TO THEIR CHICO RESIDENCE
Wife Tired of Life With Lover When
Funds Arc Gone, Wrote Hus
band, Who Comes After Her.
With n forvor equally ns ardent ns
thnt which filled hi in on tho dny that
ho took his wifo to tho Southern Pa
cific dopot nt Chico, Cal., and gave
her to another mnn and Baw them
swing out of sight on tho rear plat
form of tho train ns ho stood In tho
tracks wnvlng a fond ndlou, O. J.
Eller, section boss of tho Dutta Coun
ty railroad, hna taken hla wifo to
his homo ngnln aftor hor many wan
derings with tho other man. In fact,
Idler hns dono moro than this. When
ho learned thnt IiIb recreant spouso
and hor lover woro tint hroko in this
city ho enmo hero nnd took her homo
with him.
Hut It Bllor Imagined that In tak
ing his wifo back to Chfco thnt ho
had rid her of tho man to whom Bho
gavo herself last Novonihor ho was
mistaken, for Alexnndor Ilowon, tho
gay Lothario In tho caso, loft this
city for CI'Ipo Ihreo hours after Eller
loft with his wifo,
Kller kuvo up his wifo without a
nunlm to his best friend, Bowon, a
follow worker for tho Hutto County
railroad. Ilowon enmo to tho Kller
homo as u boarder. Ills friendship
for Mrs. Kller rlponod into lovo.
They decided thoy would olopo, hut
with Kller's permission. Kller read
ily gavo It. He helped his wifo pack
her belongings nnd on tho morning
thnt Ilowen and Kller's wifo wont
away Kller was thoro to hid thorn n
honrty farewell. This wiib last Octo
hor. Mowen and his friend's wifo, slnco
their departure from Chlco, havo not
traveled a pare that has led through
milk and honey. Thoro wero many
thorns In their path. Filially thoy
Kot to this city. Thoy lived for somo
tlmo on tho West Sido ns Mr. and
Mrs. Ilowen. Funds ran out and Mrs.
Kller folt ns though sho would llko
to heed tho floshpota of hor homo In
Chlco. She wrote her husband and ho
did tho unconventional thing again.
He enmo to Medford for hor nnd took
her back to his homo In Chlco last
Friday.
Three hours lator Ilowon was on
his way south.
AMERICANS FEAR
Martial Law Is Declared in Mininy
Town Soldiers Ordered Not to
Spnro Bullets If They Arc Found
Necessary.
iH:NLI), 111., Mulch 22. Feuring
the vengenueo of united foreign min
ors who nre on strike here, more than
1000 American workers today ra
fnsod to resume their places in the
mines despite offers of protection by
the troops who nro hero to preserve
ordor.
All last night tho militia camped
in tho center of (ho (own, which wus
doularcd under martial law by Colo
nol Lang, in eonuniuid, nud who or
dorod his soldiers not to spare bui
lds if thoy woro necessary to qnoll
tho expected outbreak,
"Shopping" that is based upon ml
reading is usuully a profitable, use
of ona'a time.
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