SUBSCRIBERS ratlin to kI pniir will )ii on rtllvtrrt by phoning of. flc by a p. in. Medford Mail Tribune WEATHER Clcnr Mnx J(MJ, Mln 87, Ilnr i!0.m Dully Hlxlli Yeiir. I'mly-KliMl Vr-iir AJIODJi'OkD, OKKUON, TIMS DAY, JULY 38, J911. No. 100. $1000 IS ALL 1 PIK FOR SMI Pre-election Campaign Puhllclty Bill Passes Semite Lliiilllnn Candidates for the Toun to Ten Cents a Voter House Democrats Likely Refuse, CONTROLLER DAY INOUinY WORRYING ADMINISTRATION UIKIY MONEY WANTI-D. Wlckcphnm Makes Special Trip to Chlcauo to Consult With Former Vice President Fairbanks. WASHINGTON, I). C. July IK. It Ik iri'ilict'if today I tut t tin limine will icl'uwc to concur in tint pic.clci' lion eutiimigu publicity hill adopted .c.lcrdiiy in (lit senate. Democratic leaders ill tllii llOIIHu d lint fnor a number tit' ituu'iiiliiii'iitt added hi tlit senate. That amendment cover ing lupciiHtw in primary euiiipnigiiw i piirtieulntly repugnant, it n ax scried. Tim hill was finally panned liy the Hfiiiilt! fixing the limit of Id t'iil ii oer. Ciiiuliiltiti'ri t'tir tin sennit a in limited in mi c.pemliluiii nl $1000 in ilin piiimiry ami gciicr.il elections. CongrcHMiunii Rucker (demociitt MiNMoiiri) chairman nt' the Imii'i1 eniniaitlee on the campaign publicity lull, Haiti tin afternoon that he be lieved Him sciiulc ami hoime. would leaeh mi agreement mi the measure ami Unit it would finallv ho enacted into law. Ilo tlipercditcd icMirh that the hoime would block the pan iigt of the hill us miici'd hy the sen ate, nsNertiiig that with a row minor changes h tiHIuvt-il the house would aeeept the hill. Reports that the Intent turn in Ihn Controller hay situation is cans, ing the iiilmiiiinlriitinn considerable worry have heen -iv'ti nilililinn.il color hy it Secret eoufereiiee uhi'h took place loilny al Chicago between Atlornc General Wiekcrsliuui ami rormer Vict President Charles W. Fairbanks, during which, it in in inoieil, Fairbanks gave iiifoniiali.in regarding the Hituatiou in AIiimI.h gained during his vinit to (he uotrh cm territory. FIGHTS 10 KEEP CHOLERA 001 Ml Officials Maklno Desperate Efforts to Check Spread of the Plague In Tenement District of New York Strict Quarantine Is Enforced. BHHHHHBL 'Li' .H Secretary of tho TreitMiiry Mar VciikIi Iiiih Installed a new wushiiiit muchluo In the Iniri'iiu of cniuuvlui: mid pi In tint:, at WiiNhliigtou, which will make illrly paper money now again, Hy thin device tho government hopes fo mm Mineral hiniilreit tlmiin mid dollar!. Dirty hills liiHteail of be ing tleHtroyeil will he returned to tliu hunks clean an new. ASK MINERS TO MELT NEXT AT MEDFORD Delegation of Grants Pass Mining Congress Working for Next Semi Annual Session Here Yrcka is Leading Opponent for Honor. REVIVAL OF INDUSTRY IS PREDICTED BY ALL WATER RECEIPTS REELECT GROWTH Quarter's Business Shows $500 In crease Over Previous Three Months t Increase In Number of Consumers and Extensions of Mains. Quartz Mining Taking a Boom In Southern Oregon Large Num ber of Delegates From Medford. ORCHARD SE NINE ACRES L FORJ 0,000 9 C. C. Hall Sells1 Fruit Grove Just Coming Into Bearing, Near Central Point, to Michigan Man Planted to Choice Varieties. V I SCO U XT KITCHEN Eli TO RULE EGYPT. INCREASED VALUE OF LAND IS SHOWN BY TRANSACTION NHW YOltK. July 1 K. ICmillcliiK that ir cholera obtains a foothold In tho crowded Italian sections on tho upper eiiHt Hldu or Manhattan that It will ho it lH'rculeaii labor to check Hit Bpruad, official! or tho city health department, aided hy experts from tho public health ami Marino Iloapl tal Horvlc.ti at WiiHhliiKtou, art today putting Into' effect tho moxt utrliiKfiit ipmruntluti roKiilatloiiH. A deiipornto flKht will ho iiuido to prevent tho en trance of tho phiKiio which, If un controlled, mluht depopulate, n lari;o part of tho city. An purl of tho precaution! of tho health authorlth'H, not only will all linnilKrantH from Italy ho hold for ohHcrvatlou, for ton day! at Hoff uiiiu'h Inland, hut all cabin "immuinK oni, uiiIonh thoy can Hhow thoy havo not huuu In porta whoro cholera Ih provalent, will ho hactorloUmlcally oxanilnod. 4 "!TII1I(J AHulHt'ant Hurgoou Oenoral Cofor, who wiih Ioiik Pioiulnunt In United Rtatou health work on tho l'aulflo ConHt and who Ifl pornonul roproBeu tatlvo of HurROon Qonoral Wynmn, today Ir InHpoctlnu tho dotontlon choloni cam pa on Iloffnian'o and Bwlnhurno'H Iflland. Atdlnpr In tho luapoctlon In Dr, Ilormnn UlgRa, n Hpoclallflt nttuohud to tho Now Yorlj health dopuctnioiit. No now ciiHoa of oholoru woro o portoil hoio today. City Ifoeordcr Tulfcr'n rcjorl to tho w liter committee of tliu oity council at itn incctiin- tont-lit will hljow iui iiireait pf apjiroximately f.ltlO- in water rcceiptH for tliu imuitliH of June, July and August over thoHu fur .Mnroli, April anil Hay. 'I'lie rcceiptH fnun water uncrrt Tor June, Julv ami Auxunt thiiK far liiue been .ftUHI7.ll. Tliero in (lclimpient f I'Jtlll, which when paid will make a grand total of .f7K(17.2l. The incrcuho of .1(10 for the thicc Hununer months oer the Hnnc mouth.s !h the result or water main e.lciiHion and a corrcxioudiu in erciiHti in the number of coiiHiimers RECALL MAKER ONDER ARREST nOHHMMUJ, Oro., July IS.-- Al h'KlUK that J. O. Dralvo, Intended to hrliiK tho adiiilnJMtratlon of Juntlco In DoukIiih County and In tho Htato In to contempt ami to Hcmidallzo ami vllllfy Jiiduo John H. Coho and JiuIko J. V. Hamilton, JiiiIkch of tho uecond Judicial dlHtrld or tho Htato or Ore Kim ami to caiitio It to bo hellovcd that Judt;o Hamilton was aldlni? and HHHlHtliiR In tho dofeiiHo of Itoy Mc Clallan, who wiih recendy tried for murder In thla county, JiiiIko llaiull- ton Iiiih Hworu to a complaint charKliiK Dralio with llhol. UraUo wiih arrcHtud and tho ciiho will ho heard Friday. STOKE ASSAILANTS INDICTED BY JURY QUANTS PAHS. Or., July 18. Tlic Southern Ort'Kon mid Northurn Cahrorniu Mining coiiKrcHH convened in tliw city today with u p'li'Tal at tendance of jniniiie; oK!rators from the 1'aeifio .State. Already u con- tent Iiiih developed between Medford, Or., and Yrcka, (Jul., Tor tliu honor of entertaining the next hciui-iiuimn! meeting. i Ih couceiled hy coimervativo mining invcHlorH that the intluntry in the territory under junHilictioti of thin coiiKrcHrt in in the way of it lively revival of tpiartz mining, mi iudiiHtry which Iiiih lacKcd jtince the panio of 1007. A number of nule or mininj; properlien are expected to rcrtult from the meeting here at this time. Among thone jircKcnt from Mell aril lire: Harry Stoddard, K. ('. Irelnud, J. A. Wohterluiid, J. W. DrcrtHler, Robert Kiiht. I,. C. llnm rai, O. K. Hotw, W. H. Harr, Joe IlammerHley, IMgar Harer, II. S Dudlity, J. II. 3Iefcty, II. H. IHx, Dr. C. If. Ray, J. Demtner, Wil liam Ct.lvij,', J. II. Carkin, Z. Cnm- erou, V. V. Streets, L. I J. Hrown, R HoHwell, Kd Kntlrewfl. A. II. Davis Dr. J. K. Retldy. Waller McCailum. Colonel Frank II. Ray, W. A. Mar vin and Joe Itoenior. WILDE DREADS NEW CHARGES SAN FRANCISCO, Cat., July 18. Argument over the attempt of the authorities of Portland, Or., inter ested in tliu wrecked Oregon Trust & Savings hunk, to vxtruilito Ixmis J. Wildu began today before Governor Johnson. ..Attorney Ktlwitrt A. Luctv of San Dit'Ko, reprcnentiiig Wilde, presented reahOiiH why his client should not be given into the custody of tliu Oregon officials. He declared, however, that Wildu is now in Sou iDego and will not further contest extradition in casu Governor Johnson decides against him. Track of 64 Acres of Which This Is Pa'rt, Sold 10, Years Ago for $3000; Now IVorth $50,000. C. C. Hall yestJnhiy sold his nine acre apple unil K)or orchard to H. A. Latta of Two Jtucrs, Mich., for $10,0111). The orchard is just coming into hearing. It is situated north and east of Cent nil Point and is near the celebrated iferritt apple orchard. This land is part of a 64 acre tract which William Holmes of Medford purchased in 1010 for $3000. Later Mr. Homes Hold one ncre of the land upon which the buildings stood and five acres of implanted land to Mr. Hall for $800. He also sold later to Mr. Hall un der contract, nuother five-acre tract, of the same land, but this Mr. Hall afterwnrds traded buck to Mr. Holmes receiving iu payment one work horse. This tract today could imsily liu sold for over $o000. Mr. Holmes does not state what he re ceived ror the r&tjwiuder ,,f i,;s 04. acre tract whcnMie disposed of it, but that is material in. so fnr ns this story goes. The fact, however, with regard -to i.ti-pr3Ct i;lu"5.,jjiny- be. tirieny Pinned up when it is told that three months ago the oil acres were sold hy E. F. Guthere to Guv V Chaffee of Grand Rapids, Mich., for 3'J,f00. and tliu recent purchaser would not take $40,000 for it at this time. Hy putting forth n little energy in addition almost anyone will he able to figure on that a 154 acre tract of land which 10 years ago had a vniue of $3000 is now worth very nearlv $f)0,000. Good authority upon fruit produc ing profits cbtumitcs that any part of this tract of land will pay for itself with two crops. POPULATION CENTER MOVES WESTWARD WASHINGTON. D. C, July " 18. Census bureau an- "" nouuecmcuts today fix the "" center of iHumlntion of the "" " ITltiln.t Kt.il.... C.iir i,,1 ,, l.i.lC " miles of I'nionville, Monroe "" county, Indiann, :U miles " west and seven-tenths of a "" mile north of whoro it was in "" 1000. Grtwth of the Pncitio " States is given ns tho reason "" for the shift. pppppppppppppppppppppppppHpjpjnjPL .M' HHB WRv?lt a IS MURDERED 2V7BP Lord Kitchener Is slated as Sirdar of Egypt, to bring peaco out of turmoil and quiet the country. REDUCED RATES ' DPOIUIBER Interstate Commerce Commission Or ders a Reduction In Rates From Points In Willamette Valley to San Francisco. ! WASHINGTON, D. C, July 18. Oregon and Washington lumber manuracturers who have beeu fight ing high Southern Pacific rates, won a big victory here today when the-In- ter-stato commerce commission or dered that road to cut Its rates SI. 50 per ton on rough green fir lumber and laths from all Willamette Valley points to San Francisco. 1 The $5 a ton rate, as applied to tho Wendllng branch of tho Southern Pacific, was declared unreasonable and a reduction to S3.75 was sug gested as reasonable on shipments from stations on tho west bank of tho Willamette. From all other points $3,50 was specified. Tho Willamette valley rntes have been in Iitigntion since 1007. The supreme court of tho Uuitod States lust February denied tho lc- (,-uiuy 01 iiiui mersintn eommoree commission's order of 1007 reducing tliu rates to $3.40 and $3.05. The T1 . rresciu ueeision makes the rates from tho cast bank of the Willam etto river, not including Wendliug $3.;"50 per ton and those from the west bank, north of Corvallis, $3.7."5 per ton. WILEY SLATED FOR REPRIMAND President Taft to Censure Pure Food Expert for Irregularities Secre Jary JNilson to Be Scapegoat of Cabinet Scandal and Likely Resign NHW YORK, July 18. Indict uients charging thorn with tho at tempted murder of Mlllionalro W. M. 1). Stoges woro returned by tho grand Jury hero today agaliiHt Lillian (Irah am anil Kthol Conrad, who shot tholr uldoiiy a(lmlrer In an apartment hero, ho alleged In an endeavor to black mail him for SLTi.OOO. Tho Indictments for attomptod munlor woro found against thu ad vli'o of UlHtrlct Attorney Whitman, who urged that hills charging felon ious iiHsault ho roturuud. CouiiHul for tho two gliia woro ill- rcctod to produco thorn In court to morrow to ploail. Alius Oiitlnim and MIhh Conrad, who hud boon out on lunula of 10,000 each, tiro iippeniinK In viuulovlllo at Hum moiHtoln's roof gardon us "Thoao Two Ulrlu." ROGUE RIVER VALLEY GINSENG YIELDS AT RATE AN ACRE FDR 3 YEAR OLD ROOTS OF S22.000 From a commercial point of vlow Jackbou county has an Industry which puts tho wonderful Comlco pours, Nuwtown applou mid all other money making fruits which havo mndo tho Iloguo River Valley world famous, ho far In tho buck grounds as to not entitle them to enter tho "also ran" liiiHti. This, as yet not fully developed In diiHtry Is nothing less thun thu pro position of glusoug root, which Iiiih yielded Its grower at tho rato of SU 2,000 an aero. Up near Prospect In tho heart of tho forest close to tho head waters of Rogue rlvor thoro lives ono 10. 1 drahaui and his finally, Thoy live upon a homostead of 100 acres which tho government guvo thorn, but not, however, until Mr. Graham had earn ed It hy faithful and continuous resi dence, mid hy luboious and thorough cultivation. Mr. Graham's labors have born directed almost entirely to tho planting mid cultivation of this peculiar hut profitable glusong plant mid now ho litis ouo-elghtli of an aero of them at a marketable ago, In fact ho has markotod some of his three year old roots at a piico which Most Profitable Crop Per Acre Yet Discovered Largest Plantation In the State at Prospect. Rooms too fabutouR toba worthy of tho credit which tho figures will bear out. Mr. Graham has proven that from one aero of land sot to ginseng plants, three year old, ho can pro duco $22,000 worth of roots. Three year old ginseng roots havo a market value of from SG to $S per pound, Ago and slrov greatly In creases tho mnrkot value por pound mid' roots from Sto 12 years old havo n marmot value of $20 per pound. A pecullur feature rognrdlng tho ginseng root Is that It has no market value olsewhoro than In China whoro tho light yol!6w roots aro usod by tho Chinese for overy concolvablo domes tic and medicinal purposo ami speci mens resembling tho liiuuau body of ten com maud tholr weight In gold bocaiiBO of supposed occult virtues, bunco tho efforts of grown In Amorlca to produco tho roots Is as grotesque ami ridiculous forms as possible, This may oftentimes bo accomplished In transplanting tho roots. That Mr. Graham Is making a crowning success of his vonturo in this country is vouchsafed for by Prof. p. j. O'Gara of this city, who Is tho government and county path ologist Tor this section and under whoso Inspection tho roots aro grown, a 8tato law requiring that tho plants bo inspectod three times during each yoar. .Mr. O'Gara returned Sunday from ono of these inspection trips. Thoro aro but few localities In North America whero glnsong can bo successfully grown mid only two of theso In Orogon, tho other locality bolng In a small favored spot of the Wlllamotto Valloy, uear Salom, The government Investigations In produc ing tho plant havo disclosed tho fact that tliero are no speclu of Insects which Injuro tho plaut and that no fungus diseases, which cannot bo oaslly eradicated, glvo It troublo. Mr. Grahum Is proparlng another enclosed section for planting. Mr, Graham's ginseng farm la tho largest and oldest In tho stato. Tho plants nro grown under a lattlco work and half uu aero Is ouclosod. WASIUNGTON, D. C, July 18. That President Taft will publicly reprimand Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief chemist of the department of agriculture for irregularities he is suid to have condoned, but that Dr. Wiley's job is safe, is reported on reliable authority Gere ns the way the chief executive will take out of the dilemma which threatens to disrupt his cabinet. Wiley is expected to receive the reprimand gracefully. Attorney General Wiekersham's decision against the "pure food man" Doing uius approved, only Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson will be left to bear the brunt of public pro tests. In viow of his thus being made "the goat" of tho affair, it is believed that Wilson probably will resign. Wiley today finished his reply to tho charges thnt ho had overpaid Dr. II. II. Rushy, a New York specialist, and Secretary Wilson took the docu ment to a cabinet meeting which "s considering the affair. NO THROWN NO Rl Body of John E. York of Grants Pass Found Tied About With Rope and Heavy Logging Chain In Stream By Boys Who Were In Swimming. SUSPICION FASTENED UPON TEAMSTER HALLEY WILKES Suspected Man Last Seen Friday Upon Roseburg Road Trav eling Alone. PARIS The condition of John W. Gates this afternoon Is very unsatis factory to the attending physicians, who stato that tho patient's heat falls to respond to treatment. GRANTS PASS, Ore., July 18. Halley Wilkes alleged murder of John E. York was arrested this af ternoon at one o'clock at Glendale, twenty miles north of Grants Pass. It Is alleged that when Wlekcs was arrested today he had In his possess ion several of the horses belonging to York, having sold tho remainder. -GRANTS PASS, Ore., July 18. The discovery was made last evening about C o'clock that the body of a man had been found In tho Roguo river about ono hundred yards abovo tho city park on the south side of the river. The body was found by Geybert Harvey and other boys while bathing in tho river. Tho body was later brought ashore and Identified as thatof John E. York. Ho has a three quarter Inch rope around tho body, about the feet, and also a heavy logging chain, fifteen feet long around the neck. The boys wero at tracted by the sight of a foot stick ing out of the water. York was.probably murdered last Thursday night, July 1C. Ho camo here July 2 from Shanlko, Oregon, where he bad been hauling freight. After coming here ho was employed by Schell & Cchell for tho "Warron Construction Company for hauilng rock for tho street paving. Suspic ion has fastened on 'a man picked up by York near Medford named Halley Wilkes, 23 years old, weight 150, flvo feet S or 9. He had blue eyes. In flamed eyelids, red face, was smooth shaven had dark hatr and a reddish caste of couutence, apparently a drinking man. Ho had stoop should ers, woro dark clothes, a dark shirt and a black soft hat. Little Is known of Wilkes. Ho was very cratmed when at work. Wilkes has not been seen here since the murder. Ho was seen Friday last at 4 p. m., four miles north of Grants Pass QUARREL LONDON, July IS. Tho Franco Spanish difficulties In Morocco may yet involve Great Britain aud Gor mnny In a four comored dispute which may result In war Is feared lu diplomatic circles hero toduy. Tho tension between tho four pow ors, already grave through Gormany's landlng'of troops at Agadlr, is Inten slflod by arrest of French Consul at Alcazar today by Spanish troops. It Is not bol loved that Franco will swal low tho affront, and Great Britain, by community of Interest, Is oxpocted to lino up with tho French ropubllc if mnttors conio to a crisis. In vlow of tho fact that tho arrost of tho French consul followed a con- foronco nt San Sebastian botweon King Alfonso and Prlnco Ratlbor, tho Gorman ambussador, It Is bolloved Germany has glvon assurances that sho will back Spalu and that Alfonso took tho oxtromo step of arresting tho French consul, confldont that tho kalBor's lolglous would stand at his back lu case of troublo. TRUST GOBBLED SMALL CONCERN American Sugar Refining Company Grabbed Preferred Stock of Na tional and Backing Suit to Freeze Out Common Stockholders. NEW YORK, July 18. Washing ton B. Thomas, chairman of tho board of directors of tho American Sugar Refining company, was thu chief witness today before the house llurdwiuk uommittco which is inves tigating tho activities of tho alleged trust. Thomas unwillingly admitted thnt the trust had gobbled a lnrgo slmro of the preferred stock of tho Na tional Sugar Refining company, und that it is backing n chancory suit iu Now Jorsoy with tho object of forcing out tho common stockholders, prin cipal of whom is a son of Honry O. Havemoycr. Thomas admitted that tho Na tional company was in a position to become a potent fuotor in tho tnido if tho trust did not control it, und that real competition might result from its being foot looso. Full admission that in Soptcmhor, 1808, absolute domination of tho su gar trado wns aimed by himsolf and Hnvemoyor was drawn from Thomas' roluotant lips. Ho admitted that ho, Havemoyer, and other trust officials woro named as a" committee for tho purchaso of all competing companies, aui that thoy planned to fix tho priuo of sugar overywhero. lie ad ded, howovor, Hint no far aa be know, tho committco never mot, I J a 4