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Medford Mail Tribune
SECOND
EDITION
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MI3DJ70RD, OMWOtf, WIODN'KSDA V, MAKCII 27, 1912.
No. 'I.
SHALL MEDFORD
THE BLUE L
K
BUILD A RAILROAD
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CALLED FOR
MONDAY EVE
Citizens to Discuss Possibility of
Btilldlnu Railroad to Mine Towue,
Owner of Properly, Promises to
Start Operations If Road Is Built.
Means Bin Payroll and Steady Work
for Several Hundred Men Prom
ises 2000 Tons Minimum Output.
UuitliPM man and eMmim of Med
fonl httvo called mux muotluic for
Monday pvomIhk next hi Uio .Mmirord
thanler to illm'UM (ho promotion of
a railroad to tho llltiu I.mIk copper
mliio, 30 mill MHitliwiwi of Mud
ford. AwurHttcoH Imvn littMt received
from Hobi. S. Towuo tliui ho w f ll m
one cnwl m iMrno enuroninillUK plant
at the ttilt mill npernto with i Jnrno
payroll, prurldm! wieh n railroad In
built. Hond buyer greo to flimuro
Uio project. troviilltiK h few mile
of railroad r firm coimtriieled.
Way ami tiifwiiH to nfriiiM tlin fiuiilK
for construction work will bo ill.
ctHwod at Uto meeting,
TIu following wire Imvo heen re
ceived by Dr. .1. F Roddy, who nold
tho IIIiih I(Ibi in Mr. Tiiwim. from
lliii Intlor Hi Now Ynik:
New York. March 10.
We it r littunwtiiit h;i linviiig ioil
liijiliV JtFlly'F(!'Vminii w-hnHi' Ik
llkoly w might ilo If m adeptee:
coiii.'OMtriUldii mill uhlpmetit of prod
ui't. Tbl woiilil bu 2000 toiiM pr
maiilli win! upwards. Whnl freight
Tfilo Id .Mdford could ho iiimiIu on
UlHl IoiiuhkoT If ml" low ohoiikIi,
lllVltlRHttO might Hlllipt Hint
tliluk It unit likely tlmt on fnrtlur
plan mid oroct plant for wunn by dull
ou mntv. ItOHT. H. TOWNK.
New York. Mai eh 111.
If you can proiuoto tho IiiiIIiIIiik of
UlO rod I think there l no doiiht
wo will opomto thu mine. I do not
fool like HiilworllihiK for Mtoek or
hands. Our luvoiitnient In iiiIiiIok
Mild uiotnllumlcal plant would be
IkI'ho. ilopo you will tuireeil.
UOIIT. H. TOW NIC.
Now York, Oei-eniber SI, ISMl.
Door Mr. Itmldy: I buvo your fit
vor of Ont'onilier II. I nuree with
ynu It Ik lii(nrmtliiK Unit tho Suutli
eru I'uulflt! ho (avornbly ImpienHeil
with IlileienlH of IiiiIIiIIiik a load io
ward' or piiHl tho llluo l.mlwe. The
proimrty Iium w lamo tiniiiime of me
dovolopHil. I think It ran nnfely he
eillluil upWHrdu of X00.0IMI toilH. The
outlook for KM further duvolopuiuut
Ih kooiI, I do not tako any very hi
the lutoroit at UiIm tlnio In tryhiK to
put tluiL biiforo tliemi puoplo inyxolf.
Tliiiio U no ohjiiitlou to your hIiiUiik
whalovin you euro to, howuvor, In
the mutter. Yoiiih truly,
UOIIT TOWNW.
HOCK ISLAND, III . March 27.
With one (lend, onu dying, uluo In
hiiMpltulH tleHporately wounded and
lour otlioiH hurt iih a nwult of u Imt
t lei bolwuun tho pollcu ami a mob
liiliirlaled over local political dovel
opmonlH, civil law U pracllcally huh
pouilud lioro today.
rlluto mllltluniuu uio imtrullhiK all
Uio hU'oiiIh of tho city, and all mi
Iooiih In Uio oorporato llmltu have
liuon cluHOil. Kour compunluti of mil
itia uio uiulor annti and four oUioch
lire walling for u rail to tho kccuu
or tho troulilo. Tho en tiro tdxth roHi
mout Iihh boon oi'ilureil hero,
Tho ilnUiiK beRiin iih Uio roault of
a political flKht which Iihh liuon iiik
Iiik foe a month between Harry
(Continued on J'ayo 0.)
IETH6
Il DTiNG RESULTS
IN MARTIAL LI
. IT ROCK ISLAND
TARIFF BOARD BRITAIN'S
IS DENOUNCED COAL STRIKE V,
I BY DEMOCRATS NEARING END
Theory and Methods of Tail's Put
Scheme Declared Erroneous and
Untenable Voluminous Report on
Introduction of Wool Dill.
Analysis of Board's Flndiiis Failed
to Reveal Anything That Requires
n Single Change in Measure.
WA8IUNCJTON. I), ('., March 27.
- UoiioiiHrluu ilit theory ami moth
od of Uio tariff board aa "urrHiiooiiK
mill untenable." tho democrat or tlm
homo ways hihI menu committee to
day filed with tho Iiouku u voluin
luoii repoil on tho Introduction of
tho Under ood wool Mil. vetoed by
tho pionlilciit hod. miiuinor.
Tho commit 1h declare tlmt tho
tariff board nm absolutely no nm
oim for cIihiiki In tho hill inhmkhI
In it yHr. After reviewing tlm pnwl
doiil'a oto, tho committor votrd (ho
roport on tho oiIkIiihI bill tlnU It
"would h trifling with tho people to
Klvo fitrthor consideration to ropub
llcan couiuoIk of inoro delay."
Tim coniiulttoo bun inndo it iiiroful
analyala of the roport of tho tariff
himrd In order to Interpret tho fluil
Iiihh null to dluovor In whut part Icit
lnr the ioiiiinllle'K hill of tho hint
Mwlqii ' diffovtlve, tho roport
Kiote: "Tli Ik mhhIjsiU Iihh fullml to
revrtnl unytlibiK tliNt noiulnm n ln-
Kin iIihiiho In tho nitiMi fixed In the
rotoniltieo'a bill.
"Aa nhouu In tho uiinlylK, the
ilntu of tho report of tho tariff
IhihiiIm Iihh found to bo dlffuae and
imyileiiintlc and to proeut IiimIkiiH-
I emit fltiilliiK.
"Th theory of applying tariff du-
Ilea Mct'iiriliiiK to (ho difference on
tho coat of production In thin and
fuielmi oniiutrlcn, upon which the
hoard Iihh projoctod and prepared Km
niport. It entirely errouooiiK and un
teuahle. Tluwo peiHoim who are will
Iiik to oserl(Mk tho luck of theoret
ical Hoiimluc and of HtatlMtlcal ac
urncy. will find tho data of tho re
port too fiHKmentiiry and lucouipleto
to admit of coiicIuhIoiim with refer
ence to int.! of tariff duty. The re
port leoveii the iiie(on of tho tailff
ilulliw on wool mm much uuxolvcd iih
lief ore the tmlff Umnl wiih formed."
SENATOR TAYLOR OF
TENNESSEE DYING
WA.SIIINUTON. D. (' . March 27. -United
Statex Senator Kohert Love
Ta) lor of TouncHHec U reportod ilyhiK
hero thlrt afternoon following an op
oration for null utoiieM. For a time
Heuator Twylor Hhowed Improvement,
but ho xufforeil a relapno today and
Ih uiicoiihcIouk.
SECOND 6RAND
Gold Hill Parties Try to Secure In
dictment of Former Commissioner
Davis No Irregularities Found hy
Prohcrs,
After a two days' huhhIoii, tho now
i;nind Jury TucKilay afternoon ro
portod to tho court that It had found
no ItTOKUlnritlcK and no Knift In
county court tranuactlouH, and ad
journed until tho AiiKUMt tdtlliiK.
biivlui; returned ono luillctmeut, This
Ih tho Hocond iwaud Jury to oxoner
ato' tho county court.
An effort wiir madu by Gold 1 1 111
part lea to nomiro tho ludlutmoiit of
(loo, L, DuvIh, former county com
mlHHlouor, who whh iicoiikoiI of hav
Ini; pui'chiiHeil county warrants at
Ichh than juir while an official of tho
county, .loo Ileumau and Lou Har
bor of Quid Hill toBtlfled that Mr.
Davis had cauhud huhiII warranto for
them at DO coats on tho dollar, Mr.
Davis toatiried Unit nclthei' thy Farm
ors & FrultBroworu hunk, nor ho
Coal Mine Operators Unanimously
Accept Terms Specified In Mini
mum Wane Bill Miners Hold Ref
erendum Ballot on the Bill.
j All England Rejoicing Over the Pro
liahlllly of Strike's Termination
Conservatives Support Measure,
LONDON, Mntfli '.T.Tlio coal
nihie oiioi'Hlot, in eonfoioiU'O licio to
day at which overy hij iniiiu in thu
eoiiiilrv wn lepieneultul unniiiiiioiwly
iiueuptt'il (ho terms iuii1utl In Ibtt
miiiitnuui WHite hill, now jR'iiilin in
pnrlittiiu'ut. The miiieix lire holding
a lefereuiluiu bullet to detoiiuiiie
whether to neuupt the hill mid il in
nApeeled they will not favorably, thu
biiinciiiK one of tho crualot imlustrinl
xlniKKioh in youiH to n elose.
LONDON, March J7. -All Kiifeliiml
is rejoieinK toilay over the probability
of the hi,' ininers' strike tenninatiii;
before the itul of the week. Thu Miil
den turn in affnii is due to the ef
fort!, of .1. It. Mell.uuilil, lender of the
iiniKorviiiii hihorilen in the Iioum of
eouiuioitP. who tliis nioruin aiiilrei-hcil
a ineetiutr of tlie Mityrg' Fcdoration,
pleailiuir with the men to noccpt the
minimum wage hill now pending in
parliauieiit.
The lioin-M of lonl is evpeetcil to
pah, the minimum wne hill before
adjourninent today. It probably will
be approved by Kinj: Oeoie tomor
row. In the event of the miners rejeetin
.MueDoiialil'M MtirKt'otion, the govern
ment will head troops to protect the
collieiien if the owner ileciile to re
Hume openttioiix. They wilt ho in
lructed to pivteet utrikobtenkcr, at
all haxHtdh.
The operator contend that the
Miner' I'Vileratiou is mi the vorir of
collapse, hut the miner iusUt they
couio couiinite die suikc nir an m
ilcfimto period.
WEALTHY PRISONER
OBJECTS TO PKOTO
OAKLAND. Till., Mnrch 127. In
vcMiyiiliuii it. Iioiiij; made today at thu
iiiftlisinlioit of I'robidcnt Tat'l into
the phntoxrnphiuj; of S. C. Lillis-, u
feilerul prinonor Mirviiif; hix inonthh i.i
the Alanieila county jail for unlaw
fully fencing public lands.
lllis is u wonlthy Ktochmaii who
was couviuteil in Krcsuo four years
JURY REPORTS FINDING i GRAFT
himself, had purchased any county
warrants below par. Ho stated that
several of tho bank's customeiB had
left money at thu hank for the pur
chase of warrants, and In a few Itt
M uncus tho hank, as a matter of ac
commodation, hud acted as tiKont for
those pei-Houu la buying a email
amount of warrants,
Kormer Hoadinaater Harmon,
among other witnesses appeared ho
foro tho Jurors hut acausiitloiiu wore
found unsupported hy evidence and
tho grand Jury filed (ho following
ropert:
"We, your grand Jury, convened
yesterday, thu 2 Ith Instant, having
disposed of whatever business came
boforo us, ami kuovylng of no further
duties at hand awaiting us, beg leave
to submit tho following repert:
"Wo have roturnod ono Indict
ment, "Wo have oxaiuliied Bovoral wit
uoBBOB who testified concerning thu
county court affairs not touched upon
hy tho previous grand Jury, and so
far as tho ovldeuoj boforo us shows
thtM'o has boon no fraud or graft on
...t
Kai?
T
FHOM COALMINE
WICLCII, W. Vu., March L'7. -Thir-ty-hi.
bodies wero recovered toilay
from the mine uf the United State
Coal mid Coke company, wliieh whs
wroeked hy a p. explosion. Thirty
other corpses Iihvo heon located in the
shaft, iukI will be recovered thU. uf
ternnon. Coroner Mct'iilloiiKh of MeDowc'l
county i inestif;uliii the eniise of
(lie uMilohion.
ap). lie arrived lit tho Alameda jail
several weeks ae aftor fijjhliiu; coii
ietiou since 1 UUS, nod was photo
graphed at (he piisou. He lm.s now
appealed to the president to force
Sheriff Harnett to withdraw his pic
ture from the piUen files nud to sur
render thu plates nm prints to him.
tho part of any of the county officials
and bo fur as (lie grand jury nfecer
talncd there sccins to have been the
ordinary caro anil system to the
county's mnnaKomoiit. in every In
stance supposed Irregularities report
ed wore proven to ho fallauious."
"Tho grand Jury does not under
take to make a general and final re
port upon tho affairs of tho county,
for suuh could not rosult from two
days' session. Hut from tho Alight
Inquiry wo tmulo (and wo candidly
considered all ovlikmco offered) wo
can find nothing to condemn and
huvo nothing to suggest. As a body
convonos the 20th day of August,
with ono week's tonuro, wo wIbIi to
state that wo will carefully hoar all
evidence Illuminating county affairs
that may ho convoyod from any and
all sources. Kotsiicct fully submitted.
"IRA SIIOUDY, formalin.
"HLMA N131L.
"T. J. Q'HAKA,
"F, W. SIPTKUS.
"J. C lUtOWN.
"O U. ItOSS.
"It. U, TOFT."
s
MORE
FOUND
THL HARNEST.
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P T S
J.
IdNCOLN, Neb., Mnrch 27. Dc
clnrins; that (loveruor Judsou Har
mon of Ohio, candidate for the demo
cratic nomination for president of the
I'nited Stoles is a conirrenital rcae-
tiouury and that his choice as a
standard hearer would ho ruinous to
tho democratic party, William Jen
uiiifjs Kryim today wrote a letter of
energetic disapproval to H. II. Moore,
of Columbus-, Ohio, manngor of Har
mon's political interests.
Tho let lor recite the bolting of the
demoerHtio ticket hy Harmon in 18IH5;
and his. record since that time, which
llryiiu alleges shows that the Ohio.iu
favored tho atteinids of tho ronotion
aries to control the party.
"The Harmon is a reactionary is
unquostioueil hy any fair-iniuded
iiiiiii,'1 sa.s the letter. "Since 3U0S
bis political influence has hueii
thrown to the side of Ihe reaction
aries - notablv when he appeared he-
fore the constitutional convention
Ohio ami advised its members to re
ject the initiative and referendum.
Surelv you cannot believe that a dem
ocratic cainlidato with such n record
will prove a popular leader at this
time, when nine-tenths of tho demo
crats ore progressives, and nearly
one-half of thu republicans arc
aroused to the importanco of taking
the government out of the control of
predatory interests,"
BOMBARDMENT KILLS
EIGHT AT MAZATLAN
Tl'CSON, Ari. March 27.-Light
persons nixdead and several are suf
fering from wounds today following a
bombardment of the port of Mazatlau
hy the Mexican rebel guuhoat Guer
rero. Five of tho dead are federals
and three rebels, according to reports
of the engagement received hero,
A force of rebels which siiuullaii
eously attacked Mazatlau from shore"
side woro turned hack.
III
DEE WER Ji
RANK FRAUD
IN PRIMARIES
tl llrraKt
SMELTER TRUST IS
SAFE BECAUSE IT
AlOSTAFTJESjyS
WASHINGTON. D. C, March 27
Deuouucing Attorney General Wick-
endium's refusal to give the house
information regarding the existence
of u smelter trust as "astounding"
Congressman .John A. Martin .demo
crat) in the house today introduced
:i resolution demanding the hutitfu
iiiiiiiii! eoimnitteo investigate the al
leged uombiiie. Congressman Martin
said:
"It i un absolutely safe assertion
(hut there is a. smelter trust and that
the department of justice in protect
ing it is shirking its duty. This de
partment does not dare prosecute
this powerful ally of the Taft admin
istration. "Tho smelter trust is the most cor
rupting and renetiona'ry influence in
Kocky Mountain polities. Tho black
est pages in the history of Colorado
and there are no black in the his
tory of the American commonwealths
- -are written in the Guggenheim
checkbooks of 11)02 and lUOfl. x
-.Nr
PAYNE MUST PAY SUBSCRIPTION
In Test Case Jury Finds Subscribers to Crater Lake Highway Fund Must
Make Good Their ObligationsAffairs of Crater Lake Com
mittee of Commcrci al Club Aired in Court
After five minutes deliberation the
jury In tho case of tho Medford Com
mercial club vorsus M. IL Payno re
turned a vordlct for ?200 in favor
of tho plaintiff. Tho suit was
brought to seeuro paymont of a sub
scription miido to the club for the
building of the Crator Lake highway,
it was a tost caso, as many other
subscribers have withhold their pay
ments, hoping to escape payment.
About ?S000 Is duo the club on those
subscriptions, $5000 of which Is duo
tho hanks who underwrote the sub
scriptions. Mr. Payno sot up In defense tlmt
tho subscription hud been obtained
by false representations, that tho
SAYS COLON
Wholesale Charges Made hy Roose
velt Regarding Farcial Proceeding
Which Gave Taft 83 Delegates to
Seven for Teddy.
Governor Dix Considers Demand on
Legislature for Special Session to
Enact New Law.
NKW YOHIC, March 27. General
duiiiiueiatioii of the Now York iiriin-
' j. ...
nry, on Uio' face of the returns from
" t
which President Tuft's adherents
snowed under the Itooscvelt faction,
today make, the Taft forces fearful
that the primaries must be held agaii .
There is no doubt that the primary
was fareial and Governor Dix, it is
understood, is considering n demand
on tho legislature to enact remedial
laws.
Up til the very last minute tho
Hooacvelt men fought to have chang
es ordered in the ballots as a result
of the printer who supplied the ballots
was unable to fill his orders. Many
had no ballots at all and in others
.sample ballots were used. Today he
general sentiment is in favor of an
other primary.
If yesterday's rosult is permitted to
stand, President Taft wlll'liavc 83
New York delegates and Colonel
Roosevelt seven.
FORT WAYNE, Jnd March 27.
Wholesale charges of fraud wore
made by Colonel Theodoro Roosevelt
at Canton, Ohio, today, when ho was
shown the despatches indicating that
President Taft had carried the New
York primary election. Colonel
Roosevelt said:
"The vote ia New York state yes
terday, as iv whole, was not tho real
vote of the republican party. Outside
New York City tho primary was a
farce and in the city it was even a
greater farce. As it is, one-fourth
of the delegates ehosen are straight
Roosevelt men. Of the remainder tho
mnj'ority of those elected in New
York City have no more claim to sit
in the state convention than if they
had been sunt there by Tammany
Hall. They were elected by methods
more outrageous than the worst me
thods Tainmauy itself ever employed.
"In my speech tonight I shall take
up the mutter in detail, as to why tho
men chosen in Now York's prima ly
election in no way represent the re
publican party, nud why no action of
theirs should be accepted as repre
sentative of or binding on tho repub
lican party."
Modill MeConniek of Chicago, ono
of Colonel Roosevelt's chief political
advisors, called tho Taft adherents i.i
New York to task for what ho termed
"their political grand larcenv." Ilo
intimated that a contesting delegation
would he sent to the New York state
republican convention.
Commercial club had not construct
ed tho entire road, that Uio construe,
tlon already douo had been or no
benefit to him and that coiisciptoutly
ho should not bo compelled to pay
tho same.
The history of tho Bubscrlptlon list
ami of tho efforts of tho coiniuerclul
club to seeuro tho construction of tho
highway woro gono Into at longth
and tho probo Inserted into tho af
fairs of tho Orator Lake Highway
commission.
Minutes of the meeting, financial
roports, road and sundry oxpon60
Incurred were brought out, tho court
(Continued on J'agQ p.)