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AlEDJfOItD, OltKOON, MONDAY, MAY 29, 3911.
No. f8.
DIRECTORY JUST ISSUED SHOWS THIS
CITY'S POPULATION NOW TO BE 11,625
INCREASE IN
OTHER LINES
PROVE GROWTH
Probing Trust
Census Taken Ono Year Ago Gave
Medford 8840 Out Increase Since
Thru Justifies the Claim Based on
Names In New Directory.
1250 PEOPLE LISTED
IN BOOK JUST ISSUED
Ratio as Usnl by Directory Com
pany Country Over Is Two anil
Onc-hnlf Per Name.
iiiiimK'ViiprfiiiiiiiiiiiiiiH
D tf M Git, x.1 cun v
rioro ht jiowwxju .
Mr Mrtillllrml) Ih conducting Hut
t'iiii:iHMlniml liniulry lulu tho affairs
of tlm I'nHi'il HtuU'M HI'H'l Corpora
IIimi, which In furnishing HciiHatlontil
revelations.
Aceoldhlg , (In) colUpllciH of tin')
new dlicotoiy Cur .IiicI;hiiii Miiiut
vvhmh in juM nil' llu' nti'HM of Hie!
.Medford Printing company, Mcdiord,
luiri ii inHtliilt(iii nl' 1 1 ,5'J."i people.
I'Immi' hid -rjAO name in h diice-,
lory under llio Medford clnxMiftcu-
lion. TIiIh number of iiiiiii-h is it I - j
wnyn multiplied hy '."j in order to' Two Burlington Filers Meet at Indl
uniTmiiic i in- population, unii'li given
EIGHT PERISH IN
HEAD ONCOLLISIOH
START AFTER
UNIVERSITY
Mrs. Harrlman to Be Urged to Es
tablish Her Memorial to the Rail
road Magnate In the Rogue River
Valley anil Not Nevada.
LOCAL BOOSTERS TO
GET BEHIND REQUEST
Local Advantages Pointed Out as
Being Superior to Any
Others On tho Coast.
AETER AID FOR
NEW HARBOR
Crescent City Men Arrived to Get Aid
From Commercial Club In Securing
Government Aid tor Coast Harbor
Project.
ACCOMPANIED COLONEL
BIDDLE TO GRANTS PASS
Four Government Engineers Looking
Over Inland Territory for Pur-
of Getting1 Information.
litis oily I l.ll'.Vi people.
Tlm census taken in April, UHtl,
gave IIiIh city HSIt) hut it wits known
Hint tin- 1(1,0(111 mark wart piiHt lust
rail. Since that tiin ptmlal 're
ceipt, luiiilt icpinilH ami building op
erations have uoiiHliiutly increased
allowing n nival growth in wiiln-
tllll.- ,.n,Mi i- , ,,
Tim new directory contains lll.'l
pagan mill Is tho best ever issued in
thin I'nnnty. Tho gathering or ilula
started in February iiml wan complet
ed rapiilly, the Medford Printing
company issuing it a week abend of
schedule time.
W. It. Soiimtt, Collector, is now
diidrihiiliug dm volitinn. It will fill
n Kri'at want in tlm city as it is up-to-date.
FIVE KILLED IN
AUTO COLLISION
Electric Car Strikes Auto Filled With
Merry Plrulerrs Child Alone Es
capes, All Others Being Frarfully
Mangled in Crash.
nnola, Nebraska Both Engineers
Dead Steam Pipes Scald and
Cook Injured Engineer Disobeyed
I.OH ANHKI.KS, Oil . May 2H. -l.lllht
I lu.ol Kauruiaii, hoIo survivor
of a many party of six mitulxlfl,
wIiuhi) machine wiih run ilnwn mi tin
Don iiny Itnml crossing near Whltller
hy a Whltllcr-l.oH Angeles Pacific
electric car, Iiiih today a Hllght rhnneo
In KTovcr. Despite tho fact llml hIio
received a compound of tho skull,
lout an eye, which wan loin fiiun Ith
itoclmt ami Ih HUffwiiig finm com
pound find urns of hath arum, phy
idclaiiH nl tho Whll I lor iioHpllal nay
Imr wonderful vitality may pull lior
through,
'I'lin other ummhorH of (ho party
illnil alumni Imitautly, uuvur realizing
what Hi ruck I hum.
'I'ho ilcud: .ioroinlnh Kaufiuuu, r2,
Long llonch. Harry Kaufinan, !l, IiIh
mm, Iva Kaiifimiu, UK, IiIh wlfo, Har
old K, llolllagHworth, 'J I, Mm. Har
old K. Ilolllugiiwniih, 20,
Hyo witnesses nay Hint tlm nuto
iiiulillo van Hi ruck with terrific, fnrco.
So fearful wiih thu Impact that tho
niittiilnn wnn thrown Into Whlftlnr
(dcclrld iitatlon, Hm huHilIni; holm;
partly doiuollwhod hy tho ortiBh. Mih.
Kaufimui, with imarly ovary hono In
lmr hody hrolton, wiih carried 200 root
oil tho car folmmr tuul thrown lm
twmm Hid traokR. All tlm othor vie
IIiiim Worn torrlhly inaiuslod,
INDIANOI.A, Ni-li., May 20.- At
lmis( cilil pcrtjuiitt worn killed uinly
today in a head-on colhViiiu wk( of
hern lictuccn two Murliiiliin fliers
N'o. l, etiHlliouml, mid N'o. l'J, wot-
llOliml, C.Npri'hH ttllillH.
Thu (iiipucmeii on Imth trains lire
dead and 11111113' paHM-nerd of liotli
trniiiH are injured, unme fatally.
Hreakiui; HleniupipeH scalded many f
llm injured, wlm hluwly eooked as
they were held, Hereainiu, in tlm
twinlcil iiicIiiIh of tlm wreck
Tlnv wreck wih eauxed u licit thu
i"ij;ncer uf Kn. 12 disoheyed his 01
deirt In take a Hwiteh at Ked Willow,
"IX lllllcH Urt of lie IT, Itolll tMIKtlHJ
were ivdilecd to Herap iron when they
met and fiu cars of tlm westbound
flier were derailed. The Imj.'Hiif'O
mid Muokcr of the eirstlmiind train
were nlno hiuashcd.
Hot It the Omaha and Denver base
lull eliilih of the Wenlern League were
on Hie wehthmiml triiiti en route lo
Denver. Several of the Denver play
ers were injured, one fatally.
Kelief trains with Mireous mid
ntirxcH lire en mule lo the hcciic of
the wreck.
I
Medfoid and tho IIoriio Illver Val
ley are to inako an effort lo have .Mrfl.
K. II. llnrrltiifin chono thU valley as
i Hlte for tho ncv unlvernlty which
Hhe Ih to cMahllnh an n memorial to
her liiiMbund, thu ftrcat railroad timK
mite The move wnn launched today
hy Dr. J. 1 Itetldy and all loyal "live
wIp'H" are expected to rally to the
Httpport of llm movement.
A telegram Ih to ho Rent to Mrs.
Ilnrrlmnii at once In calling her at
tention to tho ItoKiio Itiver Valley
ami 1(8 Hiiperlor advantaKcs for an
liiNtltutlon uf thlK kind.
According to Rtiturday'H dlnpatchcs
Mm. Harrlntnn Iiiih not na yet decided
upon a lorallon. Sho Bays It will be
on tlm Pacific Coast, and natncH No-t
vuda or California. However It lit
not thotiKht Hint thin will Interfere
with ltfl coming to OroKon.
Tho oHtnhllHhment of kiicIi a unl
vemlty, which Mrs. Hnrrlmnn Bays
Him will mnko "thu grcntost In the
world." will mean much to tho com
munity HccurliiK It an millions will
ho expended for hulldlnga and equip
ment. It Ih to ho expected that tho "Can't
do It" cluli will get a hammer out but
Medford will never pot anything un
Ichh hIio tries.
Tho climatic and natural arvrrih
tngeii of tho Itogun Hlvcr Valley nrc
nro Ideal to Hiirroundcd nucn nn
InHtltiitlou and these will all ho point
ed nut In tho telegram to Mm. Harrl
man.
Tho Into K. II. Harrlman was a
great boaster of tho Hogua Klver
Valley. It wiih duo to his pemonal
order that tho prcKcnt splendid de
pot wnn coiiHtructcd In thin city. Ho
named Hm valley "beautiful beyond
compare,".
Kveu If tlm valley falls to sccuro
the liiHtltuHou, tho effort will .mean
n great deal of ndvantagooua ad-vertlHlng,
D. O. Donahue, 'fJcerge M. Kellnr.
Judge .1. L. Childtf and Hiigeuc t'liin
merfonl of Crescent City, utter ac
companying Colonel Diddle, U. S. A..
iih fnr us Orrint Pass, arrived in
Medford Bunilny evening for the pnr
jmiko of getting 1 Medford to work
hooBtiiig for tliOclcvelopmeiit of a
new hnrtxir at Crescent City. They
were met by Dr. J. F. Heddy who in
lending them upsiMaucc in meeting
local biiMiieKK man.
Colonel Hiddlo left ibis morning
for 8nn Frnncisco nftcr driving in
an automobile from Crescent City to
GruntH 1'ns.s whero1lic took tho train.
Accompanying hirawcre three other
government engineers, one in charge
of work on the Columbia river nnd
nuo nt The Dalle. All expressed
lcniHclvcK as wonderfullv imiircssci)
...-:.:.
iiy 1110 L'ouniry iryieu mm the ton
nngo Fecn.
"We nro going to have n harbor at
Crescent City," staled Judge Child
Ibis morning, "and we believe that
Colonel Diddle will mnko n fnvorablc
report nn tho matter. He lias been
greatly impressed by whnt he has
seen.
"What wo want of ifedford is to
get her business men boosting t'oi
tho project. It will ihcmi even-thing
to southern Oregon to get a harbor
and a railroad from the interior tap
ping the country."
DIAZ, DETHRONED,
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.Mm. Alice Webb Duke, once tlio wife of Hrorilc L. Duke, the multi
mllllonnnlrc tolxicco king, is dying a pmipcr nt tlic Illinois State Hospital
for (lit Insane.
IS FOILED
PLOT AGAINST NIADERO
Details of Conspiracy to Slay Son of Insurgent Leader and Start a Coun
, trr Revolution Revealed hy General VHJocn, the Boer War
Veteran, Who Exposes Plot to Corrupt Him.
1'OKTIiAND, Or., May 'JO. Alfal
fa is a ftplomlltl urjiclo of Immau diet,
aticonling to CvK. Walern, a farmer
of Spray, Or., who Ih in (odny, After
oxptiiiin'ciiting for Homo lltim Wulorn
HayH that nlfnlfa rootH properly
eoiiked nni mllbhriiiiil ItiHly,
HIi I'ASO, Texas, May 'JO. -Dotiuls
of u plot lo kill Francisco 1. Madcro,
jr., nnd lo Htarl 11 counter revolu
tion in Mexico wore revealed hero
today by Ucnerul Viljoen, the Doer
war veteran, ul'ter thu mrcsl of two
men who, Im says, attempted to cor
rupt himself and General Orosco with
the death of tlm rebel chieftain us
(heir aim.
Tlm men ncouHed are Daniel Devil
lai'rt of Mexico City, who in in jail
hero and W. F. Dunn, un Anmrican,
who Jiiia been captured nl Monterey,
Mexico, liehiiiit the two, Viljoen
Hayri, Viih tho Ciontil'ico party of
Mexico. They, nro Haiti lo have had
the Bitpporl, spccifioally, of Andrea
(ltuv.11 Oullun, nu nnti-Mudero lead
er of iiCahtiila; General Figtmroa, the
rebel chief in tlm houIIi, and Guuerul
Treviue, eoiumaiidur of tho Dluz
foreoH hi Monterey.
That Dovillars imlually bribed Vij
joon, nnd Oiobco to aid in tho plot is
tlm Hour velcrtui'K declaration. For
fivo dayrt newfipapor oorrospondontu
of thu conspiracy but they wore
Hworu lo secrecy. II wiih twice at
tempted lo lure Dovillars into Mexico,
autoinobiln riding, but ho refused to
go and Saturday night, Madoro, who
had been fully ndvUed of the plot,
decided to arrest him on American
soil, lie was captured in tho hotol
lobby here on u warrant issued by
Just loo of the el'aeo K, I. MeClintock,
charging "conspiracy to murder
Francisco Madero."
Dunn was arrested at oMnlorey by
William Smith, a private detectivo
employed by Madero. Aftor his cap
ture Smith wired: "Arrested Dunn
hero, Ilavo got important papors."
"This is only another iiislaueo of
divine interposition," said Francisco
Madero, sr., today in commenting on
tlm diseovory of thu plot. "Actual
miraclos havo saved my son's life a
score of times in tho last thruo
months, This plot might havo sue
oucded but for the fact that my son's
oneiaieK bargained with two of his
most faithful goucrals. I bdiovo tlm
CtcntifiooH made tho plot at the ho-
Former President of Mexico at Vera
Cruz Meeting Held Lauding Ma
dero but No Demonstration Follows
City is Filled With Soldiers.
af the llolcl Sheldon here havo known best of Mexican grafters,"
VEKA CKUZ, Jlexioo, May 'JO.
General Porfirio Diax is enjoying
(piiet in this city today after passing
11 quiet Sabbath in his house over
looking tho gulf, llo had no visitors
except tho members of bis immediate
party.
Tho city is filled with soldiers who
guard tho residence of tho fonnor
president. Tho people seem content
merely to discuss tho situation and
no demonstrations of any kind have
ocotlrred. There wns, howevor, a
Hireling on tho I'lam lauding Madcro
and tho revolution. There was some
attempt to p to tho houso whore Dims
is Rallying, hut tvo orators held the
mob in check until tho oxeitcment had
subsided.
PORTLAND TO HONOR
HER SOLDIER DEAD
ALLEGED FORGER
NABBED BY COPS
Man Who Passed Checks on Model
Clothing Store and Mordorf &
Woolf Is Identified by Ben Ply-male.
J. W. Decker, said to bo tho man
who paased bad checks on Mordorf
and Woolf and on tho Model Cloth
ing Company, was arrested at tho
Smoke Houso lust evening after be
ing Identified by Hen Plymalo who
took tho check at the Model Clothing
Company's store Becker will be
given a hearing this afternoon.
Decker Is said to havo passed two
checkB and then left for Kugene re
turning Saturday. Ho was recogniz
ed Sunday evening and his arrest followed.
POUTLA&D, Or.. May 20. Suf
fering from a complication of dis
eases, Drigadier General Daniel W.
Durke, U. S. A., retired, is believed
to bo dying at his Hoyt street home
today.
PARADE ORDER
IS
ANNOUNCED
J. W. Lawton Gives Out Positions in
Parade Will Start in Front of
Angle Opera House at 2 o'clock
J. W. Lawton, Marshall of the
Memorial day parade has announced
tho following order of mnrch for to
morrow: Parado will form in front of Angle
Opera Houso in tho following order:
Polico force, city officials and
speaker of tho day, Medford Coronet
band, Medford flro department. Ches
ter A. Arthur Post G. A. It., Chester
A. Arthur Kelief Corps. 2 1 llttlo girls
with Kelief Corps, Sons of Veterans,
order or D. P. O. E., ordor of I. O. O.
P., school children and teachers.
Marshall of tho day will place any
orders who may wish to take part In
parade.
School children will meet at city
park and receive their flags and bo
marched down to Auglo Opera Houso.
Parado o form at 2 o'clock sharp.
BEATS WIFE TO DEATH WITH CLUB
Itinerant Preacher Confesses to Murder of Spouso Because He Had Re
ceived Occult Message Tha t Holy Rollers Would Influence
Her to Wrong Doing Tries to Commit Suicide.
1'OUTIiAKI). Or., May 29. Under
thu auspices of the various pots and
relief con's of the G. A. It., Portland
will honor her soldier dead tomorrow
by a parado and appropriate oxer-1 head was bouton Into an unrecognl-
eises.
KLUCNSDUKC. Wash., May 29. (Holy Hollers at Friday Harbor at
tempted to tako hor away from mo
my suspicions wero redoubled.
"I asked my wlfo soveral times to
Jump in tho-river and end It all and
onco I started to hurl her into tho
stream, but sho wept and did not re
sist so I lost heart.
"Yesterday as wo walked along tho
track I noticed tho sticks seomod
built, built right to kill womon with.
Finally I saw ono that was oxactly
right. I said 'Kuril, I guoss I'll have
to kill you,' sho cried, thon I hit her
Following his confession that ho beat
his wlfo to death with a club bc-
causo hq had "received occult mes
sages" that tho ijoly Kollera, "his
enemies" would Influence hor ta
wroug doing, T, II. Gardnor, an itin
erant proachor, is in tha county jail
today. Ho will bo examined for his
sanity. Tho mmn surrendered him
self, aftor ho had mado an unsuccess
ful attempt to drown himself in an
Irrigation ditch a mllo from Kittitas,
whoro ho killed hor, Tho woman's
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MEMORIAL DAY ISSUE.
Tuesday being Memorial
day, tho Mail Tiibuno will is
sue at noon. All advertising
copy must be in at an curly
hour.
UNCLE SAM
WINS TOBACCO
T
RUST
S
E
United States Supreme Court Decides
That American Tobacco Company
is a Monopoly in Restraint of Trade
and Exists in Defiance of Law.
HARLAN DISSENTS FROM
OPINION OF ASSOCIATES
Case is Reversed and Remanded to
Lower Court to Secure Mod
ification of Decision.
WASHINGTON, May 29. Tlm
United States suprecm court today
decided that tho American Tobacco
company (the tobacco trust) was a
monojwly in restraint of trade and
existed in defiance of the Sherman
anti-trust luw. Chief Justice White
rend the decision of the eoutr. Jus
tice Harlan .dissented. -
This wns the decision of the Unit
ed States supremo court in effect, al
though the case was reversed and re
manded to the lower courf to secure
a modification of the decision.'
The caso which today's decision of
the supreme court settles had Its In-
coption in a ball of complaint' filed on
July 10. 1007, beroro the United
States circuit court Vor tho Southern
district of New York. It was charged
that tho $400,000,000 American To
bocco Company had gradually acquir
ed a monopoly of tho tobacco busi
ness in the United States by a series
of bold buccaneering exploits, had
stifled competition and defied inde
pendent dealers through a net work
of subsidiary companies, operating
as "Independent" dealers.
The United States supreme court
judged constitutional the "hours of
service law" regulating the hours of
employment of railrond dispatchers,
engineers, firemen, conductors and
brnkemen.
It also ruled Jltat tho commerce
commission hnd the right to requiro
monthly reports from railroads show
ing where employes had worked
longer hours than those specified by
law.
FAST TIME MADE IN
FRENCH AIRSHIP RACE
and sho did not cry anymore."
zablo mass. Gardner was arrested Gardnor admitted that ho had no
rocontly nt Frlduy Harbor, whoro his grounds beyond tho "occult mossa
sanlty had been questioned. Ho sue- ges" lo suspect hor of unfaithfulness,
coeded In convincing tho officials Tho couplo wero married In Ylr
that ho was saao thoroby regaining glnla ton years ago. Gardnor was
his llborty. Gardnor Is 47 years of 'educated In tho Western Maryland
ago and his wife was 25. Theological Seminary of tho Metho-
"When I began recolvlng tho mes- dlst Episcopal Church. Ho has been
f sages I spolco to my wlfo about thorn,"
flsald Gardnor, "and sho laughod nt
rf- me. I was. suspicious that sho would
I IIH-H H ' bo unfaithful to mo nnd when tho
a street proachor for years and has
travollod almost continuously slnco
Mint ilnio. nronnhtnir bin Individual
religious vlows.
l'AlHS. May 29. The competitor
in the I'aris-to-Turin air contest are
today on the second lap of their long
race. The start was made in Paris
and the first top was at Avignon. An
dre Mcnumunt mid Holaud Gurres
were the first of tho contestants to
arrive at the first tdago of tho flight,
having covered the 101 miles in tho
fast time of 12 hours mid '1.1 minutes
The American contestant, Henry
Waymnnu, wase unfortunate from tho
start. His motor was out of order
and lie was compelled to alight in 11
field near Treyes, where he broke his
propeller.
The prizes offered in tho contest
aggregate moro than $100,000. Tho
competitors havo until Juno 15 to
cover tho entire distance of l'JOO
miles.
A
CQALTRAIN FALLS
E
CHAUMJTTE, N. Q May 29.
Killing both firemen and engineers,
u double headed coal train crashed
through a trostlo sovoral miles eouth
of Dotswlck on tho Seaboard Air
Line,
Tho trostlo had boon weakoned by
a flro and fell under tho wolght of
the onglncB. Fifteen loaded steels earn
followed tho locomotives Into Wal
laco Croek.
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