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FORTY-FIRST YEAR.
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 1, 1911.
No. 34.
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BRIBE TAKING
Burns to Take Charge of His Opera
tors' Work in Columbus Claim
They Have Evidence That at Least
Fifty Members Were Bribed.
CLAIM THAT MANY WILL
TURN STATE'S EVIDENCE
Members of Both Houses Loudly De
mand an Investigation, Which
May Mean Immunity.
COLUMBUS. O.. May 1. Sidetracking
for tho present evop tho Inipqrtant dyna
mlto caso in Los Angeles, William J.
IlurnH will arrlvo liero tomorrow to takf
personal charge of tho work of his de
tectives In what thoy clnlm will bo tho
greatest hoodtlng scandul ever exposed
In thu legislature of any American stuto.
Arrested nftor thoy had arranged to
bribe Dr. George N.ye, a Btato repre
sentative, threo of Burns' men were to
day arraigned and held In $5000 hall
each, after thoy had been trapped by
Nye with tho aid of Speaker Vlnlng.
rifty Take Bribes.
Undeterred by their arrest, tho detec
tives say that In six weeks' work here
thoy have gathered proof that at least
r0 members of tho legislature havo been
soliciting anu ucccptlng bribes. Tlloy
declare themselves most confident of the
result of tholr probo and assert, that
most of the legislators will turn state's
evidence to save their skins when tho
tiutli comes out.
Since tho rovolntlon of tho scandal
members of both houses of tho legisla
ture are loudly demanding an Invnestl
gation, despite tho protests of tho au
thorities that this may mean Immunity
for tho crooks.
Faces an Investigation.
COLUMBUS, Ohio. Muy 1. Through
the arrest hero of K. S, Harrison, A. O.
H.illey and D.ivld Perry, threo detectives
employed by William J. Hums' agency,
tho Ohio leglsluturu today faces a grand
Jury probe for alleged boodllng during
tho present session. Under tho supposi
tion that tho dutecttves were lobylsts,
the three men wero taken Into cuHtody.
Thoy uro accused of havjng attempted
to bribe Dr, Qeorgo H. Nye, a represen
tative, and wero arrested after Nye and
Speaker Vlnlng had laid a trap for
them.
No sooner wero they arrested, how
ever, than the threo men Identified them
selves as Burns operatives and an
nounced that they hud evidence of cor
ruption agalustat least 20 members of
the legislature which would be present
ed to tho grand Jury tomorrow. Not
withstanding this charge, the three
sleuths wereurtalgned today and re
leased In $5000 bonds each on the bri
bery charge.
Tho detectives nllege that 19 membors
of tho state senato alono are involved
In the crookedness they havo unearthed
They arc are alleged to havo been re
tained by a largo manufacturers' asso
ciation which was being bled, nnd to
havo obtained their evidence by a dic
taphone. Story of Arrests.
Tho story of tho arrests as given out
by Nye Is that Bailey anl Horry first
gave tho legislator $100 cash for his
support against a bill limiting the work
ing hours of women to nine dally. Nye
then conforrcd with Speaker Vlnlng and
the latter arranged to havo Nye accept
nnothor bribe.
Harrison, tho detective In charge mean
while had arranged for tho other bribe.
He had fitted up a room adjoining tho
ono where Nye was to accept a bribe
with n dictaphone and had a stenograph
er ready to take down tho conversation.
Under these circumstances, Nye accept
ed tho second bribe. The arrests fol
lowed and then both sides found they
wero double-crossed.
It Is feared here that the arrest of the
detectives will cripple the Investigation
of the legislature which was under way
They had been working for six weeks
and In attempting to determine If Nye
wero susceptible, made It possible for
the representative and Speaker Vlnlng
to trap them.
Cop Translates Z,tla.
PORTLAND. Or.. May
1 "
Copla ox
h.imullae fjt."
This translated means "Plenty of
iuurt bottles of beer." according to Pa
trolman Nlles today.
While walking his beat last night Nlles
found T. Hed buying six quarts of the
beverage nt drug store. The Sunday
oloslng law obtain In Oregon and Reed
was arrested. The patrolman translated
thr "jt" part of the prescription Reed
held and left the other part for experts
to figure out.
Look for the ad that tvllx yo who
wants to find the Job 70c ha, -a 1 offer.
WILL MATCH HIS
WITS WITH BURNS
Who has been retained to defend the
MoNamara brothers In tho Los Angeles
dynamite case. Be defended William D.
Haywood.
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LEFT III DARK
Fire Destroys Winchester Plant of
Water and Light Company Fire
Started in Engine Room $50,000
Loss.
ROSEnURO, Or., May l.Roncburg Is
Without electric lltrht nr nmver tmlnv n
a result of a fro nt midnight which des-
troyed thu Winchester plant of tho local
water und light company. Tho loss Is
estimated tit IG0.000, with JU'.OOQ Insur
ance. Tho flro started In tho engine
room.
Socialist Sail to Be rorger.
PORTLAND, May 1. Otto Newman,
socialist candidate for councilman from
the Fourth ward, Is under urrest today
charged with forgery In connection with
tho paving petition frauds. Ho was In
dicted by tho grand Jury.
Newman circulated one of tho Initia
tive paving petitions. It Is alleged bo
with other circulators signed many fic
titious names to tho petition.
Select Site Soon,
SAN FRANCISCO, May 1. Tho direc
tors o ftho Pnnnmn-Paclflc exposition
will, It Is believe, announce tho selcc-
Hon of a slto for tho fair at a meeting i
scheduled for May 10,
PORTLAND, Or.. May 1. Tholr wages
cut from IS to $1.75 per diem, 300 la
borers employed by Baker und Scar
pell! Brothers went on a strike today.
Tho men aro unorgunlzed
them aro foreigners.
Most of
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NEW YORK. May 1 -The Sundny
Itdy of Possum Trot," perhaps the
most beloved woman In certain sections
of the south. Is In New York. Having
given her life und all her fortune to the
uplifting of the log cabin lxs and girls
of the mountain regions of Georgia. Al
abama and Tennessee, she has come
boldly to the metropolis, and nest week
at tho Hotel Astor proposes to tell a)
distinguished audience of New Yorkers y
REFORM MAY
BE
Senate Judiciary Committee Reports
Favorably on Resolution Submit
ting a Constitutional Amendment
for the Direct Election of Senators.
SUTHERLAND AMENDMENT
TURNED DOWN BY COMMITTEE
Heyburn Protests Report on Ground
That Judiciary Committee Is
Not Yet in Evidence.
"WASHINGTON, D. C. May 1. The
senate Judiciary committee reported fa
vorably today on tho resolution submit
ting u constitutional nmondment for tho
direct election of United States senators.
Tho measure has already passed tho
house.
The committee voted down tho Suth
erland amendment, which caused tho de
feat of tho direction election resolution
at the last session of congress. Tho vote
on the proposition was five to six. Tho
committee then voted, 7 to 0, to rec
ommend tho adoption of the resolution
In tho form In which It passed tho house
This gives tho states control of elec
tions. Tho Sutherland amendment pro
vided that tho senate should have su
pervision over elections.
Tho Bell Call.
Senators Clark, Dillingham, Suther
land, Brown and Root favored tho Suth
erland amendment. Senators Chilton,
Culberson, Overman, Bacon, Cummins
and Corah opposed It. On tho voto on
ll, nu"Ptln of tho resolution as passed
Uy tUo houo, tho following voted in fa
vor or t no measure:
'Chilton, Culberson, Overman, Bacon,
Cummins, Borah and Brown.
Tlio favorable report was then made
to tho senate.
Sonator Heyburn protested against tho
report on tho ground that it seemed
hasty and III advised. Ho pointed out
that tho judiciary commlttco did not
come Into existence until noon today.
"Thero was no Judiciary committee au
thorized to report until noon," ho suld.
"Tho commlttco meeting at which this
measure was discussed wns nothing but
nn assemblage of Individuals, and not a
genuine committee meeting."
Tho protest was not ueted upon.
Charles aarwlii Dead.
Charles Garwln, tho 3-year-old son of
George Andrews, died early Monday
morning of stomach trouble. Ho was
feeling well Saturday and Sunday and
was fooling- slightly Indisposed about 1
o'clock Monday morning. Ho becamo
Vvorso and a physician was called, but
arrived too late to bo of any assistance.
Tho funeral services will bo held from
itho homo of Edward Kndrows nt 2C North
Roosevelt street nt 10 o'clock Tuesday
morning.
- "THE ,5W.n-y LAD"
all about her work and how badly she
needs more money to keep her work go
ing. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Is going to
speak at Miss Berry's meeting next week
and many persons of prominence in the
social and business worlds will he there.
Among th.em aro Robert C. Ogden, Dr
Albert Shaw, Henry Hlgglnson of Bos-
ton; George W. IVrklns und Mrs
Wll-
Ham is. Rice
ADOPTED
TO CENTER ALL
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Chief Officials of Pacific States Tel
ephone Company Here to Determine)
Advisability of Erecting Building1
and Mrking Medford Division Point
HIGH PRAISE SOUNDED
FOR CITY BY OFFICIAL
Says in Point of Development Med
ford Has Passed Every
Coast City.
For the purposo of determining the
advisability of making -Mod ford their
Chler division point between Portland
nnd Sail Francisco, purchasing u lot and
erecting a building and moving to this
city all of their district offices which
Include a relay station nt Grants Pass,
construction and repair office at Rose
burg and u traffic manager's office ut
Eugene, a party of Pacific States Tel
ephone company officials aro visiting
the city. Tile party Includes G. B. Bifsh,
general commercial superintendent; W.
.1, Phillips, division commercial super
intendent, C, II. Moore, district com
mercial superintendent, and C. W, Bur
kett, superintendent pf real estuto and
supplies,, all of San Francisco. Accom
panying thorn aro W T. Teaiuc nnd J.
It. Davis of Portland.
Chief Division Point.
For some months It has been known
that (he telephone company Is planning
to make Medford Uwt chief division
point, duo chiefly to lis geographical lo
cation and Its rapid growth, It Iiuh been
thought advisable fur. the" company to
get "all of their nUHl'offlcef laiiiBHwI.
and Medford seems to bo tho most fa
vored city.
G, B. Bush hus not been In Medford
slnco the telephone exchange hero was
handled by ono operator and states that
he Is greatly surprised by the changes
found in this city. He says that while
ho hus known that Medford has made
tho greatest development of any city
served by his company on tho coast
during the past few years he Is surprised
to noto on every hand, tho great grains
which havo been made here slnco his
previous visit. .
' A Great little City.
"Medford Is certainly u great little
city," states" Mr. Bush, "and deserves
n.fucli commendation for tho growth she
has inado In tho last threo or four years.
No other city that I know of In the west
has developed more nnd from our stand
"point Medford In tho ono best of them
all. Development heie us shown by
use of tho telephone Is marvelous. Since
tho first of this yeur wo have Installed
200 new telephones." v
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LOS ANOHLICS, May'L After a four
hour battle against having his right nun
amputated, Louis Claik, victim of a
street car accident, has tho Injured mem
ber In Its proper place today, but prob-1
ably will loso his life. Today the In
jured limb showed signs of blood pois
oning. Tscoma's Station Opened.
TACOMA, Wash., May l.-Marklng nn
epoch In the commercial progress of Ta
coma will be tho formal dedication tills
evening of tho magnificent $7C0,000 un
ion passonger stntlon, which has Just
been comploted by the Hill railroad sys
tern on the Identical site of the dingy
old ono-story wooden building that serv
ed for many years as a depot.
THOUSANDS LOSE
HOMES BY FIRE
Bangor, Me., Suffers $6,000,000
Blaze Three Known to Be Dead;
Fifty Injured Flames Sweep Two
and a Half Miles.
BANGOR, Mo,. May 1. With three
know dead, 60 Injured und thousands
homeless, with tho city under martial
law and soldiers with loaded ilfles
guarding the bank vaults against loot
ers, Bangor today sees the last flickers
of a fire which has cost her betwetm
five and six million dollars and has
wiped out a section of the city two mllos
long and a quarter of a tulle wide.
The fire broke out shortly uftor mid
night last night and was not controlled
until 9 o'clock this morning. Dynamite
was used freely to ehet-k the progress
of the flames, but It hud gained suoh
headway ami the wind diove It forward
so fast that all offorts to stay Its dos
trustlve progr ss were of no avail.
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. lidulirM Ulntt and Laurence Con versi, the two American Ikh. Imprisoned
In Juarez. Ja.ll and over whom there has been much diplomatic correspondence
between Washington und Mexico, have been pardoned by President Dlux. C. II.
CunwrHe, of (llendav, (V.t , (called on Henry Lane "Wilson, the American nm
b(ixndor, with letters from leading Americans In' Die United States The am
bassador nt once Mjjjit one of hlu under secretaries with Mr. Converse to tho ex
ecutive maulon, tohoro Mr C'onveise put his son's case directly before President
Wax. As a result of the plea of the boy's father General Diaz nt once pardoned
both Converse and Blntt
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Los Angeles District Attorney is Sent
Letter in Which His Life is Threat
ened Should McNamara Be Found
Guilty.
LOS ANOHLi:S, Cul.j May 1. A
tjire(itenlng,lijt.(er froin.g,?, Ijahnildt,
dated Now York city, ApiM'SlT, Wits'T-u-celved
by Ulstrlct Attorney I'ledurlcks
today.
The letter Is almost a duplluato of one
recently sunt to William J. Burns In
which the detective's life wns threat
ened. Fredericks would maka no comment
except to say that no amount of threats
would deter llio pioHecutlnn, und that
If thethreats weie put Into, effect nnd
lives token other men would oarry on
tho state's attempt to prove the guilt
or Innocence of the accused men.
Tho communication was written In u
somewhat ramming hand nnd vague
way, coitfnlns some obscenity and Is
apparently tho output of an Illiterate
person.' Tho envelope bears the post
mark "Times Square station,"
rord Dies.
LOS ANGHLICS. Cal May 1. A. P.
Ford, .president of tho Merchants Flro
Dispatch, who was shot by his wlfo last
Friday, died In a hospital horo today.
Tho shooting followed a breakfast tablo
quarrel.
"Red" Lopez Is
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NACO. M x M i f. R. A" Lop, tho
during '-reoioto 1 ader, who captured
the olty of Aguu I'rietu and drove its
little gurrlson ucioss the American boun
dary, Is teparted to have been shot by
fedetuls In the mountains west of this
place Lope vsus u fugitive from Jus
tlco, but he wus brae and possessed fur
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Assassinations and Executions Arc
Said to Be of Hourly Occurrence
Grave Fear is Felt for Safety of
Foreigners Troops May Join Rebs
HONGKONG, May 1 Dispatches from
Canton today ileularjjuio sjjjintlou.
thero Is desperate. Thero nio said to be
30,000 soldiers within tho walls of the
olty and It Is feared ninny of them will
Join the revolt at the first rebol suc
cess.
Assassinations and nxocutlonn nro said
to bo of hourly oooiinonco and grave
fear horn Is felt for tho safety of for
eigners, Two British gunboats havo ar
rived at Canton ami the American gun
hoat Wilmington Is nt Shamlun, tho for
eign concession, ready to protect the
lives and Intel ests of citizens of the
United States. ,
In tho districts around Canton the re
bellion Is spreading fast. Tho rebels
Imvo killed tho prefects at Hunting and
Hanskul nnd tho town of Fntshun has
been partially burned.
In Canton today tho outbreaks wore
hourly more serious. Tho vlcomy has
taken rofugo In tho admiralty, which Is
being assaulted by several hundred rob
els, It Is feuio,d that tho i Intern will
burn tho wholo city.
Look for tho nil that calls for you
nmong tho help wantod ads.
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He was a diseiplinurluu and guine to the
core. He fled from Agua l'rluta only
after two men higher In rank than he
und closer to Madera hail sneaked uoross
the American boundary am) surrendered
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Information in Possession of Detec
tive Burns Will Be Laid Before
Grand Jury Wednesday Believe It
Will Result in Indictment's.
SITUATION. IN LOS ANGELES
HAS CHANGED OVER NIGHT
Defense as Well as Prosecution is
Chary of DIvulving' Its Plans'
Hearing to Be Held Soon.
LOS ANORLKS. Cal May a. Infor
mation in tho possession of Detective
Uurns which ho will bring from tho east
jii his arrival here Wednesday will bo
laid bororo tho grand Jury In connec
tion with tho trial of John J. nnd James
U. McNamara on charges of having dy
namited tho Los Angeles Times, it was
Intimated today by representatives of
tho prosecution that this Information
would result In tho examination and
possible Indictment of two labor leaders,
both of whom nro In Ban Francisco.
Sid Schmlat Tell?
Tho alleged Information Is to tho ef
fect that David . Caplan nnd M. A
Schmidt, Biispected accomplices of James
II. McNamara in tho Times case, confid
ed to tho Sann Francisco men 'thrlr In
dention of destroying tho Times nnd
that afterwards thoy sought sholtor with
tfieso men.
While tho deflnlto time for tho arrival
)f Burns has not been announced, tho
prosecution expects thnt tho detective
will bo here Wednesday mornlnng. If
thin is unnect, tho preliminary hearing
of tho McNnmnars will bo hold that day.
everything is waiting on tho arrival of
Hums, although District Attornoy Fred
ericks doolared that ho Is ready to pro
ceed without him, having sufficient ovl
doneo nn hand to undertake tho prosecu
tion. Tho defense, however, Is not so
ready, and It Is not likely that Attorney
lob Harrlman will want tho prelimin
ary hearing before Wednesday at tho
earliest.
Situation Ohanffos.
Overnight tho Hlttiatlon here has
clmnged. Tho prosecution, after having
announced earjy last week Hint tho dls
trlot attorney's offico contained suffl
olent force for tho conduct of tho enso.
now ndmlts thnt It Is probable special
prosecutors will bo retained. This brings
forward Karl Rogers, deputy district
attornoy during tho deliberations of tho
grand Jury that Investigated the TlmoH
disaster, and holding the retainer of tho
Merchants und Mnnuufoturors' associa
tion, which Is In bitter controversy with
every union in Los Angeles. Rogora
now Is no longer with the M. & M., but
It Is thought that ho will bo employed
by the National Ki odors' association, In
whoso employ Burns Is said to be. This
would place sldu by sldo Rogers and
Burns, who were tho bitterest opponentrt
In the San Francisco graft prosecution
ami who matched wits hundreds of times
In phases or tho graft cases.
Was Mrs. McManlffal an Agent?
Tho prosecution would not confirm or
deny tho storj that Mrs. Ortlo MoMuu
igal acted as an agent of Bums In link
ing John MeNamara with tho younger
McNamara und McMnnlgal In tho dyna
mite eases.
Tho leport was that when McManlgal
was arrested, Burns nnd MoManlgol sent
Mrs McManlgal to John MoNamora with
a note saying that McMunlgul wus In
trouble und asking for monoy, U la
alliged that John McNamara told her
to tell McManlgal to keep Ills mouth
shout nnd everything would bo ull right,
..ml that the labor leador gave her 50.
Bums' agents horo profess to know
nothing a fthls story. They say thoy
havo received no Intimation of the
whereabouts of Caplan and Schmidt, nnd
It In hinted that Mayor Alexander will bo
iskeii to cull uponthe city council for
nu additional reward for tholr capture.
Mayor to Consult Burns.
Befoie doing this It Is likely that thu
mayor will consult with W. J. Burns.
Sunday maikod a gathering of the do
, fense clans. With tho arrival of Attor
ney Leo Rnppaport, the defense will bo
read yto proceed.
Andrew J. Unlaghor and, B. II. Rosen
thai of tho San Francisco labor council
arrived yisterday and conferred, with
loi al labor leaders.
Befonse Is Chary,
i Tho dofense s as chary as tho proso. '
utlon In divulging Its plans, hut It la
i hellevod that ouch slda will havo a retln
, uo of deteetlvou watching tho move
i inontM of the other. Gallagher and Ro-
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lonsthy Interview with tho MoNumars,
Tin accused men spent a quiet Sunday .
In their cells, nope attending church
services. Tho older McNamara express
ed a deslro to go to iha ocean beach dur
ing tho day and both MoNaumrs sent
out for meals, which they ato heartily.
In tho morning the hymns suns by prls-
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