Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 13, 1911, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextI a irrcnon HIT6?TeM loewpJJ Medford Mail Tribune SUBSCRIBERS I'nllliiif to iret inpr will Imva iiiib lUllvemrt by ylioutuir of flee by U p. 111. WEATHER I Clear' nuil winner. Mux, !(), I Mln. W2 ltd. Hutu. 7.1. b lHy Hixiii Vnir. I'oiiy I lint vmr MMDjVOJtD, OlfcNUON, MONDAY, NOVKAIHIOIfc 13, 1011. No. 202. c? 48 LIVES ARE AT MERCY OF WAVES HAND TO HAND FIGHT RAGES AT N ANKING SCORE DEAD, PROPERTY LOSS ENORMOUS, RESULT STORM midline price PLACED ON HEAD GENERAL HAUN Rclifls Vow Vctifjcnucc (or Terrific Slnuiihtcr Onlcrril hy Mnncliu Lender ricvolutionlsts Take Cie Foo Without Mcctlnu Resistance. ANTI-FOREIGN SENTIMENT IS SAID TO BE INCREASING Drtcrjntcs From All South China Ex pected to Attend the National Assembly. SHANGHAI. Nov. I3.-Klglilmg Hintri pllwt of tlui ilwul who full In HlO l'ttCONl Mmichu massacre, tobolH nitil Imperialists todny mo In u lintul to Itmnl buttle In tlu mihuilm of Nan king, wlilltt burning IiiiIIUIiikn aru crushing down In unison with thu tliiiintnr of thu gnus. Thu ruWtfl. after Hm.uI Iiik suppllo. hogmi thv t'ltnck hy netting flro to various parts of Nanking to covur tholr iiiovHiiumtM. Tho bat tin In re ported In dUpntchos tceolvod huro to lutr hewn In progrett for hour, with thu I win ii In ilouht. Tho iwo fortius are nmIiI to bo fighting desperately hnnil to Imud, from lruot to struct through (ho hunting city. JUO.OOO IttmiHll. (Irlin determination to avengo tho ntHMMcro of thousands at Nanking I avowed In t'lupnteho front n domm rob! chief, mill n reward of $200, 000 U offered for tho head of Gun cnil Chung IIhiiii, tho Mitnrhtt com niHiKlur, on wIionu ardors thu iiiiih wicnt liWRnn. lilhimtclu'H from Che Koo today say tlii rebels httvo formally oeeiiplud thHt city without resistance from tho Imperialists. Duluxutos from all Hottth China aru expected to attend tho national MmuMiitily huro and hoiiio of'lhu load urn havu n I run dy arrlvud. Thu robots nro nnwiHy over Russia's reported nendliiK of a detachment of Cossacks to Pokln ami tholr illtuiulotuilu Is Kiently IncriHtHuil hy ropotts that, do splto Washington denials, Antoilca Ih luadliiK movement to "Intornntlou nllxo" tho wholo of tho rluh and piipiilmiH YutiKtuo KlitttK valley. AiitLKorolgu Nolo Hounded. Ah a ruHiilt of thuKu reports, and- forulgn uuiitlinout Ih dally growing anionic tho IoImiIh. Tho most onllght (ined among tho foua of thu Mniichu dynasty bulhivo that China la on tho ovo of an awakonlni; which Hpeedlly will place It among tlip groat powont and thoy hlttorly oppono any move munl of thu natlonn which would, In tho vary hour of ItH birth, cripple tho rupiihllii which thoy bollovo will at no distant day dominate tho far cast. Itopnrtu frnm I'd It In today aru Unit Yiinn Hlil Kill Ih hIIU conferring with tho advisors of tho omporor In thu capital. It Ih understood that Yuan Ih urging tltn omporor to abdicate If tho rohulH wll gunrnntoo lil por iiomtl imfoly and provldo him with a llfu puiiHlon. Prlcos Lower. NMW YORK, Nov. III. At tho opening of toda'H titoelc market pi Iiuh wuro gonurally lowor than Sat tirday'it uIohIuk. I.ohli;h Vnlloy and Allien luau Tolophouo IohI a point, Union Pacific, Howling, Southern l'n clflo and United Btjilon Steol profurrud droppud :pt mid Ht. l'uul wfl down Vt. Huolc IhIuiuI profurrod Knlnod n point, Later dodlluo wuh Htopped and thu nmrkut wont nuarly to Sutunluyla high flijuruB. P Tho nimkot cloiuiil Jioavy tuul Hloady, JJoiidfj worq firm, l BRUTALLY MISTREATED SBSfezg GIRL 01 TRIAL i All Kansas Excited hy Case Against Fifteen Young Men Who Arc Said to Have Grossly Mistreated Miss Mary Chamberlain. . r- ., LINCOLN, Kmisan, Nov. 13. -Willi every room in llm two hotels of which Lincoln boasted engaged for week in advance and hoarding place filluil, Linuolii today prepared lo go through niio of Ilia most treu iioiih pcn'oili of it iwi'iuii tho trial of fiflei'ii prominent cili.(iiM for .lit InriiiiK ami feiitlieriiij; of n yottiiK nuil licuiilil'iil girl, Minn Mnry CIiuiii lierlnin. Tho pnnuinened of the men chary I'd with thu InrriiiK lutt nroiufd the eiiiintr.Hii!e (o a high pitch of t. I'itcmunt. Coiiuly Allorney iMeCnndletw di eltitux lie will ihiiiiunil tiiu full peunl- ly -ono year in jail nuil a fine of $1,- DIM) for each of the guilty parties. On llio nilit of August 7 IiihI Minn Chamberlain, with her escort, a liar- her, Hlarlcii in n litiiru.v for n lanei at (lie Mcliooi Iioiiko where she taught wniio three milen nwuv. Sliortlv nfl or puHNiiiK llm ouULirlM of thu town, throe miiHlicil men appeared in front of tho veitiulo, and rougliiy ordered I lie gill (o gut out. Ilur OMoort did not inlerfore. The mun I hen Heircil tho gill nuil earrieil lier to n lioiifiro nearby, whoro hevenil oilier nmHknd men lielped lo l rip her ami apply a oo.it o fiur nuil feathers. Tito application finished, they Vanished. l-'ifleen young nien wore tiicii tr restcil. They were of Shinty Hcinl, tho (own where (he hcIioo Ikiiiho was located. Kcconi, her eeorl, entered it plea of fjtiilly nod wan Boulciido to Hervo twoho months, MAY JAIL BEEF TRUST MAGNATES Among tho Defendants Aro Louis F. Swift, Edward F. Swift, J. Ogdcn Armour and Edward Morris Ro stralnt of Trade Charged. CIUCAOO, ills., Nov. 1U. Ten linroiis of tho "meal trust" tiro today eaeli facing- u fiuo of .ffiQOO, ami a year in jail for allowed monopoly mid teslraiut of t rado as tho result of a nine years' iiivostij,'utiou hy tho gov ei'iiinent, wliieli enilod them to trial kni'n Illulei the Kbni'innii niill-l I'nvl M(Tv- Noveinhur 120. Among llio dofoinlnntH nro Louis l- Bwll't, Kilwnrtl 1 Swift, J. Og.leu Atmoiir iiml Ktlwurd Morris, " MEN 10 TARRED AD TEED BlulLY COLD WEATHER HOLDS MIDDLE WEST Zero Weather Grips Territory De vested Saturday Nlojit hy Tornado Reports Mcajjre Owlnu to Breaks in Communication. STORM WORST IN YEARS IN GREAT LAKES REGION Many Vessels Are Beached Hospit als of Chlcnno Filled With Victims. CI MCA (SO, III.. Nov. 13. Scoruu of puriMMiM aru dead mid t;reat Biiffur ItiK provallH uiiioiik thu poor today as a result of a violent. Dtorm which Iiuh been KvvuupliiK thu mlddlo wot for tho pant two days, leaving a train of (levnHtatlon In Uk wake. Thu prop city damiiKu already totaln millions. Tho wtHtthur U hlttorly cold. HuvUod raporta rocolveil huro Indi cate that 12 Uvoh woru loot In Wis CjOiihIh b n tornado. Today xuro wcaliiur Krlp tho dovastated torrl- tory. Commtiiilcatlou hau not yot been rutitoroil and thu roporta aro muitKru. I'mfii to Death. John Dudley of Grand Forks, N. !)., and Jtwopli Kuppo of Htmh City, Minn., were found fror.on to death near their homes. Kuppo porinhed In tryliiK to Mwlm anhoro after tho high wind had Hwampod his hunting boat. Thu Htoriu Ih tho worst In tho his tory of tho urout lnko roglon for )(HirH. Half a score of lako veasola worn beached by tho vlolonco of tho tomputit and Hovoral largo ahlpa wurd driven entirely acroHH I'iko Michigan. Tho government llfo twvora wuro fun oil to keep n :tG-hotir vigil. Throo porsotiH porlRhod In Chicago as n result of tho lntutiBO cold, and tho ItoHpltalH nro filled with other victim. Tho known dond nro W-lll lam .tohntmn, Theodoro LlmiOHon and Harry Ureon. Tornado Sweeps Illinois. Iteports ft otii Virginia, 111., nro that $200,000 datuago wuh douo hy n tornado which awopt that uuctlon Saturday nlcht mid that several hun dred persona nro homeless. Tho Indications nro that as n ro ault of thu Biiddoii cold, lako shipping will bo tied up for woolen. Along tho Canadlnn hordor wheat traffic Ih con gested. Tho elovntora nro Janimod with grain mid tho railroads nro un able to handle It rapidly enough. SECOND TRIAL REFUSED BEATTIE Only tho Governor Now Stands Be tween Convicted Young Wlfo Slay er and Doath Powerful Influence to Bo Brought to Bear. HICIIMOND, Ya., Nov. 13. Tho supremo court of appuals today ro fused to Rrant another trial to Hen ry Clay lU'ittlio, Jr., oonvieted of thu murder of his wife ami Kunleuced to death in tho oleotriq chair. As a re btilt only (ho governor now stands ho twoon tho wealthy young wifo-slayoi' ami dentil. Tho attorneys who havo arrangc-il themselves behind Hoattio nro plan ning to. Iiring powerful influence) to hoar with thu governor to sootiro a commutatioii of thu death sentence or at least a postponoinont of tho ex ecution, wliieli in set for Novomlier 01 PALACE AT PEKIN THREATENED YOUNG EMPEROR AND 5UITE FLEE. I ' . " ' LIVES MILOOIS INIMKARE City Recking Wltlijnith as Result cf Strike-Cold Weather Alone Is Prcvcntlnn Epidemic New York Militia In Readiness. . - JL - NKW Y0UK.??6T-33. Sew York"! Ih today recking with putrid garbago and thu situation Is menacing tho live of millions. Streets aro piled high In filth and In nil tho city but tun, almost tnwlow, garbago wagons aro operating, mid those nccompnnlod by 60 foot, 10 mounted nnd two pa trol whkouk loaded with policemen. ConilllkniH nro worao than they havu over btwu In tho city's history, but thu striking city garKngo collect ors aro In complete control of tho situation nnd are as obdurnto as May-! or GH)nor, uho dealares thoy will either return to work under thu con ditions ho offers or remain out. Thoy say thoy will not go back to work until they win their point and that thoy will not bo compelled to remain out Ions. Public opinion, topped by Indignation and general foar of nn epidemic of some sort resulting from tho filth, Is running high nnd tho sympathies of tho public nro with tho strikers. City offlriMlt) admit that 710 tons of garbago remain uncollected and that only tho cold wonthor provonts an epidemic. Three thousand pounds of carbolic powder has boon sea tie rod throuxh the district suffering most and more Is belus: distributed today. It Is roported that sovoral New York stnto mllttla regiments havo boon ordered to hold thomsulvos In roudliiess for sttiko duty, nnd thoy will bo cmIIoiI should tho situation warrant Interferons) upon tho part of Governor DIx. NEW WITNESS Venireman Says Ho Was Near Otis' Home Morning Bomb Exploded and That He Belelvcs Dynamlto Was Used to Destroy tho Times. LOS AKG1CLKS, Nov. 13. Tho not result of this morning's session of the JloNnmiira murder trial was tho dovelopinonl of a m w state's vitllos, Fred r. W'ohh, and Uiq passing for oauso hy thu delVtiso of T. J. (.Jreen, a atook raiser. Webh deolnreil that lie was so firmly convinced that dynamilo was used to destroy llio Times that it would ho ahnofct imnosibo to get enough ovideueo to prove the con trary to hi, sulinfaution. When Harrow a-ked him how ho M IN DANGER DEVELOPED RDDGERS FALLS SIX MILES FRDMJIIS GOAL Birdman Suffers Slight Concussion of the Brain Following Plunge to Earth Plowed Ground Alone 'Saves Him From Death. l'ASADKNA. Cnl.f Nov. IRSSSf ntor C. 1 Rodgcrs is today sttffof- ing from a slight concussion of the bruin following a plunge to earth i: Ins aeroplane when but six miles from his long sought goal, tho Pn eifio ocean, late yesterday afternoon. Dr. P. C. K. MnttUou, wlio is in con stant ntendaanee on the birdman at the Hotel .Murylmid, said that none of his injuries arc serious, nnd tlm'. lie will bo up ami about ngaaiti in a few das. Iiovu'd CiroutuI Saved Him. No oao is ponnittod to sco him. When friends saaw the machine drop like a plummet thoy oxpootod to find the aviator dead. Thoy found his head buried in the plowed field. Ho was quiely reloased from his pre dicament nnd taken to Pasadena 5u a special train. odgers is still unablo to voolleot how tho accident hnppoued. lie is in a dazed condition and at tulorvnL rofers iuoohorontly to his flight, ask ing his nttoudnuts if ho made n good lauding and whether the machine was damaged. When ids liend mechanic ian, who was permitted to see him this morning, told that tho plane was nearly intact ami that he made a good landing, considering tho dark ness, odgers, stoical birdiua.m that ho is, broke into tears and after a few minutes again rolnpsud into semi consciousness. Later, following a few lucid momoats,, he wanted to know how near lie had gotten to Long Reach and the Pnoifiu Ocean and how big thu crowd was that awuited liim. Itepaliiug Machine. At G a. m. Rodgers' inuoJiauioiaus left for tho scene of tho wrecked aeroplane to seo if it can bo repuiied for tho remaining six miles wliieli will complete tuatrameoutiuontni flight. If it is beyond icpuir the big H model Wright wliieli odgeis brought with him on the special tr.iiu from New York, will ho nssomblod and the last lap reeled off as s-ooa i Uodgers is sufficiently voeovorod. formed that opinion ho stated that lio was driving along tho road near General Otis' tho Saturday of tho explosion nnd heard and felt tho con cussion when a bomb, the doteotivos allego thoy found near tho Olis home, was dotonatod. It badly frightened him, ho said, nudproved to his satis faction that a bomb of similar kittd had demolished the Times. EVKRKTT, Wu.-Qn.nt Northern trains havo been suriously delayed by snow that is lying botweon throo nnd six feet deep bolweoni Leavon worth and Indej, i . IIIOUSILL HITS E: THREE MBLJMIIJIIRED Eva Rushford, Aged 14, Suffers Se vere Injury Gladys Hlnman Bad ly Bruised Jacksonville Auto Stage Running Without Lights. "ATtlfc result of an automobile ac cident on West Main street Sunday night, Eva Rushford, aged 14, lies at her home today with a fractured leg, Gladys J. Hlnman, aged 16, Is badly bruised nnd sufforlng from a serious shock, and Laurln E. Hlnman, aged IS, Is soverely bruised, tho car rl.igo In which thoy wore driving Is demolished and tho horso so badly bruised that It can hardly stand. Tho young peoplo wero struck by a mn chln? driven by Chauffeur Plorce and owned by Manager Gorst of tho Jacksonville stage line. Tho machine Is sId to havo beon running prac tically without lights, whllo young Iliniunn makes the serious charge that IJIerco was drunk at tho time of tho accident. Young Hlnman and tho two girls wero driving home on West Main aoout 9:30 o'clock Sunday evening. Tlu-y noticed a car coming rapidly down tho street, with an Intermittent light showing in front. Thoy drovo to tho curb on tholr sldo of tho street but in splto of this tho machine struck them and draggod them down tho road for nearly 100 feet. At this Instant ono of W. II. Bar naul's ears nrrlvod on tho scoae, and conveyed the Injured young puoplo to tholr homo, got a doctor and then wont to Jacksonville, whoro Mr. Gorst was called and brought to Medford. Constablo Slnglor showed up on tho scene onrly and stated today that tho tracks of tho automobilo were within nine- feet of tho curb on tho wrong sldo of the street. The car was without lights excepting for a pockot flash which was held by a man riding well forward on tho fon der. No arrosts havo boen niRdo but thoy nro expected to follow. It Is roported that they will bo issued this aftornoou. LA F0LLETTE AND COL. BRYAN FAVORED SEATTLE, Wn., Nov. 13. Robort M, Ii Follotto loads ia favor for tho presidency among Soattlo ropubllcan., and William Jonnings Bryan londs among tho domocrats, according to a straw vote takoa by tho Soattlo Star. President Tuft Is last among tho list of sovoii candidates voted for. Federation Meets. ATLANTA, (In., Nov. 13. With ad dresses of welcome by Mayor Swauu of Atlanta, Governor Hoko Smith of 1 Goorgia, nnd a niunbor of labor of ficials of tho Atlanta oouuoll, thu convonlioii of tho Anioriuaii Federa tion of Labor, opouod her today. Twelve hundred delegate aro in at- tonduui'O. SCHOONER LIES HELPLESS NFAR NORTH HEAD1 Two Members of Crew Swept Into Sea All Efforts to Put a Life Line Aboard Are Unavailing Bar Tugs Unable to Get Near Wreck. WIND TODAY RAGES AT 30 MILES AN HOUR With Engines Dead Ship Is Absolute ly Unable to Help Herself Spectators Line Beach. NORTH HEAD, Wn., Nov. 13. Before sundown today tho lives of a largo number, perhaps all, of tho -48 passengers and crew aboard tho wrecked steam schooner "Washington probably will bo lost. Tho schooner went ashore last night. Two members of tno crow; alroady havo beon drowned. Thoy woro clinging, to Umbers on tho dccklond Of lumber aad" tho titnb'crs""wcrb swept overboard, tho sailors with them, .this morning. Tho Point Adams and Capo Disap pointment llfo sav'.ig crows nro ( standing by; so aro throo bar tugs, but at noon no lino has beon put aboard, and tho doomed schooner whoso fires have been put out, may be driven upon tho bunch at any moment. May Savo Some. Some of the passengers and crow may get nBhoro without drowning, but the vosaol will bo a total loss. Tho wind at North Head last night was 48 mltofl an hour and at 8 o'clock this morning it was 30 miles an hour. Tho'ruBsel, which left Portland for San Francisco Saturday, was driven on Peace Rock Spit yostorday whan Captain WInklo attompted to cross i the bar la tho faco of a rising galo. I.lfo Saera Helpless. Several attomptti to roach tho ship woro made by tho Point Adams llfo saving erow, but tho hugs comburs drovo their Uttlo boat back to shelter sud those on shoro woro compelled to stand helplessly by aad wtitoh. tho peoplo on the stranded ship mako their puny fight against tho oluinoiits until darkaeas hid the ship. Cuptala Stuart and his valiant band of life savors nro patrolling thu bunah this aftornoou, awaiting a favorable opportunity to launch their llfoboats and attempt to aid tho Imperiled wreck v'ctlmo. Captain Stuart said ho would make the attempt this attor-t noon with tho turn of tho tide and expressed the hopo that tho llfo sup ers might be ablo to get a lino aboard the doomed ship. Weather Moderating. The woather Is moderating. If tho surf continue us rough, howovar, as It was all forenoon, tho only rOQOursu loft Is tho honvy Lyo gun, Not tor years has tho outooino of a shipwreck In tho vlulnlty of tho Co lumbia rlvor been so much In doubt. Many porsous beeldos tho llfo snvlui; crows woro on the bonoh this aftor noou In a fronzy of anxloty, nbnoluta ly helpless to aid, and comnollud to stand by and watch tho gallant atrug glos of the ship against tho galo, tho driving rains and liugu combers' that outiod and crashed down upon hor ttnprotoctod decks. The ship lies almost in tho trough of tho soa and the billows hurled toward shoro by tho BQutlieagtorn galo strlko on 'hor qunrtor and ' fre quently obliterate hor from tho eight of tho watcher's on shoro. BIBRL1N. Plana for a gigantic trans-isthmian watorvay, rivalling tho Panama Canal, aro approved hro by Kaiser Wllholm. according to cur rant reports in Reriln today.