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MEDFORD, OttlSCION, TOJDAY, MAY 10, 1012.
No. 42.
AS
TAFT RUSHES
NOSEGAY FORAGED MAN WON HER 5500,000 LEGACY.
I'M ONLY ONE
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CITY COUNCIL
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SAYS TEDOY
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ARCHBALD GOT
II 0,000 OUT OF
COAL BARGAIN
MfflK MY
ASSISTANCE
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BRIDGE
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Special Brldno Levy Loaned to Other
Funds Storm Sewers Built and
Sewer System Kept In Repair by
Money Received for Road District.
But Little Money Expended on Road
Work In District Outside City
Uses Made ot Money Secured.
Ily direct taxation llm city of Mud.
ford, through it city council hits pro
viitfil 4l'J,5-IM.r-l for Initio purpoNCH
during tliu past two yearn- .rU.":i.lr
in Itlll mid .tO.MIII.'JII iii 1)1 1'J.
Not oiii; penny or thin amount Iiiih
been expended a h yd fur bridge iui'
posuH. Of tin1 iiiiiiniiit provided liy it one
mill tux in HMO, puid in lull, $17(111
Iiiih been loaned o other fund
$10(10 to the intnreht fund mid 7(I0
to tliu htreet mid road fund.
The first uiuoiiut ruined wax for
the purpusu of mining the prescnl
bridge over Hear week to JiioUon
boulevard.
I lie reeeut tux levy niiide by the
eilv eouneil ealled for niiotlieF tux of
one mill, furnishing .(I.'IJ for (h
hiiine purpoxe.
A eilv eleeliou Iiiih nmv been eulled
to votu bunds "not to eeeed .i'J0,(M0"
fur the puivoHe of pitying the cltyV
hhitre of a new bridge over Hear
en-nk nt the line of Ka-t Main street.
If this new bridge costs over $10,.
(MM), the eily will puv the eoimtv .-Mil,.
fiOU. if it uonIh less thuu $10,01)0
the eity will pay (he county .! 1,000.
Oilier I'niitto Awtllnhlo.
The iM-WIU.UIl in evidently to be
exK'iidei far the moving of the prof
enTHtruntTiYctVer.lJcitr- ereek to
Jackson hiiulevard.
The approaches to the new bridge
on .Main street are to be taken euro ol
out of the difference between $20,1100
and the i:t,r00 or the 11,000 to be
paid to (he county.
Hut there uro other funds provided
for bridge purposes. From the spc
eial road lux provided by llm county
and levied on the Medford road din
Iriet rlie eily thin year will receive
i:i,lil2.
From the street mid toad tax levied
liV the city the city this year will
receive auullier $11801, making a total
amount of $2;i,f)HI available for
street and road purposes.
Froin all funds for htreet and road
purposes this year by direct taxation
the city luth !j-:.ri,ti;ir nvailable, $12
mil for bridges antl $2:i,0HII for htreet
and roads if segregated.
If the $20,(100 bond issue carries
it will make available lor this year
for htreet and i-oiiiIk (including
bridges) the sum of $V,(i:iri.
Itoml Fund for Hcwcih.
It is alhii possible that a greater
hum than this hIioiiIiI he available for
roadh and bridges. The money re
ceived during the past three yea in
for htreet and road purposes has
been used to cover a number of other
items such as newer upkeep -$2700
was expended front this fund for a
storm hewer eonhtrueled by the city
n year and u half tigo.
It is the custom of the city council
to place the money received front the
npeeial road lax levied on the road
district together with the street and
road fund raised by direct taxation
levied by the city lit mm common fund
known us the street and road fund.
Front this fund the eily engineer's
office Iiiih been mitiutuiued, the
streets of the eily swept, the sewer
system Kept In repair, a storm sewer
(Contlauod on Page c.)
FARMER BEATS WIFE
TO DEATH IN BED
HNAVHU, Pu May to. Armed
with a pokor, Krank Attlo, a wealthy
farmer of Frankfort Springs, near
here, early today c-allod IiIb wife, a
former society hollo of Jjaat Liver
pool, Ohio, rroin hor bed and beat
her head and face Into an ttnrenog
nlznhlo mass, Hhu was dead whon
neighbors arrived at tho farm Iioiiho.
Attlo alleged that ho killed his
wife hociMisu she tried to murder
two chlldron by his first wlfo,
Veto of Entlro Legislation, Executive
and Judicial Appropriation Bill is
Threatened In Order to Save Com
mercc Court.
Democrats Plan to Abolish Present
Tariff Board and Consolidate Sev
eral Important Bureaus.
WAHIIINGTON, May tit. -The
hniiHo Hi In afternoon overwhelmingly
panned the lughUntlvu Judicial appro,
prlatlou bill iik amended by provl
mIoiih lo abolUh the commerce rourt.
to letala the iiiIuIh and aasay offlccn
ami lo coiiftulldiitc Hoverul hun-aini In
the national Koveriimeut,
WASHINGTON, May 10. That
I'rcnldeiil Tixh will veto I ho entlro
Icgbdiidvc, executive and Judicial
appropriation bill rather than nee the
nbolltiliiueut of the Court of Com
merce I the belief here today of
tunny member of coiiKn-HH. Itopro-
Hcutatlvo Drbtcolt of New York and
ItcprcHcututlvn Htoveim of .Mlnucapo-
Hh, who are clone to (he ad in In Intra
tlou, are organizing the frleudH of
the rouiiuerre court In the Iioiibo to
day and will put up a determined
fight uKuliiHt Hi abollxlimetil when
the uncut Ion comes up for final pirn
HiiKe. Tltey plan lo put every cott
Kreaman on record mid a Hcpatatu
vole will be demanded on the clause
calling for the rotirl'H abollHliment.
It watt learned today that the
democratic fortcH plan to abollHh tliu
tiri'iteul tariff lioanl and coiiiollilntc
the bureau of ntatlatlc ami mnntt
fiirtiirem with the hiirenu of foreign
relation, forming a.inrw bureau of
tlomoMIc nttii foreign commerce.
LANE IS PROBING
WASHINGTON, May 10. - Com
mlKBloncr Franklin K. I.nuo of the
Intcmtutc commerce comnilhslon lu
making an analyalH today of all the
tcHtlmnny In the exprexu combine In
vcHtlKatlon. He will HUlimlt thn re-
KttltM of bin work to the cummitudon
Hhortly and that body will make a
report, ImpoHlng new regulation!! on
the cxprcHH compuiiIcH.
It Is expected that the report will
show nvor-rupltallzutlon, exorbitant
earning and extortionate and tin
Kyutcinutlc rateH.
lit congrcHH It Ih declared that the
express coinpanlca are going to be
out of l)iiulueun.
THREE SLIGHT QUAKES
MAKE MEXICO SHAKE
MEXICO CITY, Muy 10. Threo
hIIkIU enrtlwjuaUes were felt here to
day, hut there wan no daninr.o and
but little oxcltemeiit. Iteporta re
ceived hero today from outlying din
IrlclH place the number Killed u ea
terday'u (pialio at 17.
WARRANT OUT
A wnrrunt wuk ihMieil Friday
ngniiiHt W. Tyler .Smith, circulator
and url'iHt of the Hun, charging uk
Huttlt and battery by ,101111 HilliugH,
nit employe of (Nuiiiciliuim Mitchell
ut bin carriage shop. Smith eulled
to collect a circulation bill i'rom Hil
lings niitl claims he wiih roundly abus
ed by both Mitchell and Hillings, be
cuiiMi of his connection with tho
newspaper, and upon being assaulted
by Hillings, knocked the littler down,
whereupon Mitchell challenged him to
fihl.
Hut there is ns much difference
between Mitchell's story mid Smitli'n
As there is between an ice ereuni soda
mid u ('. & 0. highball, Mitchell mui!
ho simply Iodic Smith by (he hiiottldur
mid led him to the door, whereupon
Smith grew nbiisivo, Mitchell says
the strongest word lie used wiih some
thing like "i'eaee. bo still." lie ills-
olniins any language on his part.up whore Qlonn Taylor wiih to tako
which could by interpreted by the ovw tlo work for a iioininu sulury."
Fact That Railroad Had Two Cases
Pcndlnii in Commerce Court Re
sulted In Option on Coal Pile Being
Given to Associate Judge Archliald
Impeachment Hcarinp Underway In
Washington Got 150,000 Tons for
Very Small Sum.
WAB1IINOTON. May 10. IiivchII
Kittlou of the chargeH UKaliiBl .ludfje
Archbald of the commerce court wan
continued today before, the Iioiiko Ju
diciary committee, with the recalling
of ICdward WllllauiH, who was (tokh
examtned In regard to Archhald'H
alleged ncKOtlalloiiH to buy a cull
coul dk from the Krle railroad of
Moxalc, l'n., for fSUUO and mill It
for VJO.OOO.
Iintge Wrote l-ltcr.
WllllauiH tCHtlflcd that IiIk "katy
did" culm pile of the Krlo railroad
wan prevlounly offered to tho Dupont
I'owder company for 1-000. He and
JtulKo Arcubald, ho ntateil, were
"held up" for HG00 for the Krle'a
Intercut In the pile alone. John Rob
ertson, the other owner, accordlpg
to WllllauiH, demanded $3500 more
for bin share.
The wltnesH teittlfled that when he
opened negotiations with Captain
May, manager of the Krlo rallreiu:
nuil properties, ho thought a letter
from Judge Archbald would help
putdt (ho deal along. Ho declared
that May was aware that Archbald
was a United Stated Judge, ub the
Krlo railroad had cantddornhlc liti
gation In hid court. He admitted that
ho tliotiKht the fact that Archbald
wan u United States Judge would
help hi in to close the deal.
Whon miked If ho thought the
Krlo reftiHCd to close tho deal be
cause they heard the department of
Justtco was luvcHtlKiitlug, WllllauiH
said ho did not know. Ho admitted
that he and Archbald had dlHCUBHOd
tho writing of a letter by tho Judge,
while the deal was not yet consum
mated, and said that Archbald told
hint to see llrownell, tho vlco presi
dent and general counsel for the
Krlo railroad.
Secured the Option.
"Old you ever ny that tho Judgo
declared ho would see llrownell, and
that ho might hurt him If ho re
fused to do fliirh a Hinull tiling?"
nHked Congressman Clayton, the Ju
diciary committee chairman.
"I snld that the JiuIbo had two
cases before him Involving tho Krlo
iiillroail," replied WllllauiH. "They
had not been tried )ot, Archbald
said he wa well acquainted with
Captain May. He might do him boiiio
harm, not that he could do llrownell
any harm."
Williams testified that Judge
Archbald sent him nKiiln to seo May,
with the result that tho witness fin
ally secured tho desired option on
tho culm pile, although paying $2000
nioro than vita previously nuked.
Williams estimated that tho Krlo
railroad's Interest In the culm pile
(Continued on PnKo 8.)
FOR Si ARTIST
wildest flight of fancy us "fight
lulk."
When linked concerning tho it f fair,
Mitchell launched into u tirade
against the newspapers of Medford,
which lie declared, with sundry em
bellishments were the worst ever. Hu
declared that publication of eity no
tices was u graft that ho intended to
abolish,
"Tho only proposition in tho nnturo
of graft which has been submitted to
the eity council since I have been u
member of it has come from the
nowspupors. And I want yon to know
that they eitimol hold up this city
while I urn a member of tho city
council."
Questioned about the withdrawal
of the municipal judge amendment
and tho one regulating prize fights,
Mitchell Hilidj "It was because wo
were misrepresented, It is said that
wo would pay $1800 a year for a
judge whereas wo had it all framed
y3W.., - Nl33PbROTHy L
Mlrt Dorothy ltiUetiniu, the daughter ot Sidney ISatcman, proprietor of a.
.s.mport iKinrdlng houc. who has been made rl-ber by SoOO.000 through the
rtlll of Kom 1U Wlnani, of llultlinore, declines to discuss her good fortune.
A rttiry bi being told of bow a iKiuipiet picked by Mm llatt-m.in at Newport
:nufd the nscI U.iltlmoro uijii to taUe an Intercut In the girl, who now figures
ui hi will
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PORTLAND, Ore May 10.An
gerfd by a roriHitflnn-ot Attor
ney General Crawford on the obli
gation of Oregon delegatos to tho
national republican convention, sup
porters of Colonel Uoosevelt today
are urging tho recall of the state
official.
In bis opinion, an off-hand one,
Crawford held that Inasmuch as
Colonel Itoosevelt did not In tho re
eclvo a clear majority of all repub-
cent primary election In Oregon re
llcan votes cast, tho Taft members
of tho Oregon delegation were not
obliged to vote for Itoosovelt.
All members of tho delegation are
on record as against tho attornoy
general's Interpretation of tho law
and announce they will voto for
Colonel Itoosevelt as long ns ho has
a chance to win, ho being clearly the
choice of the voters.
Itoosevelt adherents tire preparing
a letter to the attornoy general re
questing a formal opinion on the
primary law and If Crawford ad
hered to his original opinion, they
say they probabl will try to recall
him.
SLOOP PENSACOU
TORN TO
SAN niANClSfO, Muy 10.- Tutu
to hits for the sake of its copper bills
mid fasteners, the old sloop IVn-u-eoltt,
for years the training ship at
tho government station ut Yetba
Hueiia Island, sank off Hunter's
I'oint here tnduv within n few min
utes after the wrecking orew had
itbaiiboued it.
Tho I'cusneolu was recently t-'ohl
by tho government to Henry .1. ling
ers, who ordered its demolition. Tho
ship passed through tluvuivil war anil
uuicii in tho promotion ot ninny a
naval officer.
ELKS TO CONDUCT
IRELAND FUNERAL
Medford l.o"V'Q No. 11 US,
Henevolent and Protective ()r
dpr of Elks will conduct tho
funeral of Edwtml C. Ireland
at their hall on Wast Sixth
street Saturday afternoon nt
!1:'.I0 o'clock. All friends nro
cordially invitca to attorn!
theso services. Thu remains
will bo shipped east for interment.
N
CRAWFORD
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ADVIC
SHREDS
'ATEffAN
MOrO J, I, Aur mmrir
LIVES OF 10,000
NKW OULKANS. La.. May 10.
The lives ot 20,000 persons living In
the district of New Hhoades nro se
riously menaced today by tho flood
waters of the Mississippi river. Gov
ernment officials hero regard the
situation there so serious that they
ordered all available launches, motor
boats and bnrges to rush to the
scene to rcscuo marooned residents.
The situation at half a dnien other
j Louisiana tewns: today was deBper
ate,
All telegraph wires Into Torras are
down, but couriers report tho situa
tion thero as alarming. Tho pres-
suro of the flood waters caused the
levee to crumble and tho crevasso
there Is a mile wide. A similar con
dition prevails at Morcauvllle. Thero
two breaks widened and, finally
Joining, poured a flood of water Into
tho town. Residents have fled to
higher ground but tho water te
gradually encroaching on this ter
ritory. Scores of homes havo been
swept away and the food supply Is
rapidly diminishing.
An organization of negroes com
plained today to Governor Sauds be
catiHo negroes uro being forced to
work on tho lovees. They received
no encouragement from tho gover
nor, who said:
"I ant working on th levees, us aro
all white men. You negroes aro no
better than any or the rest of us."
REBEL PARAGUANS
DEFEATED BY FEDERALS
ASUNCION, Paraguay, May 10.
A large forco of rebol soldiers under
tho couimand of forntor Presldont
Colonel Alvlno .lata, wero defeated
by government troops In tho vicinity
of Tlblcuury today.
REBELS
EL PASO, Texas, May .--General
Iluerta over a telegraph circuit
via Laredo, Texas, and Torreon, to
the Heriuijillo hattlelield, stated to
day! "General Kohago cotnplelely routed
an advance partv of 1,000 rebels at
Zarugoza, near Hormijillo, killing 1)0
of them. General Villa's cavalry pur
sued the fleeing iusiirrectos from the
field.
"Tuesday night we heard tho ad
vance guard of the rebels coming,
Villa nttacked their front nt tl
o'clool; Thursday morning and almost
imuiediutelv utter Villa arrived and
flanked them with machine guns. Tho
fight lasted until Thursday noon but
finally panic seized tho rebels and
tltey van like vats,
MENACES
ALONG Ml I IP
MEXICAN
"Just One Candidate Whom It is
Possible to Nominate Against the
Bosses and That Is Myself" As
scrts Roosevelt.
I "All Decent Citizens Believing in Rule
of the People and Honesty in Pol
itics Must Vote for Me."
NKW YOHK, JIny 111. Ueeluring
ilutly that "there i- just one candi
date whom it is possible to nominate
against the bosses' and that's my
self," former President Theodore
Itoogevclt, in u letter published here
today by the Itoosevelt committee,
expresed generally his view of the
present situation in the prcsidcuthl
fight.
Addressed to Chairinait Caswell t.f
the Minnesota Itoosevelt committee,
the letter declares that President
Tuft is the toed of the bosses, and
that every vote not east for Itoose
velt will tend to strengthen the hold
of "the interests" on the iwoplc. The
letter says in part:
Taft's Uiipopuhirlly.
"Nine statew held presidential pri
maries or their eiiuivaleiit.. These
tire the only states in which u free
chance to express the KpuIiir will
was given. Forty of their delegates
to the Chicago national convention
are instructed for President Tuft and
t!l(5 are against him. He has curried
but two of the nine Now Hampshire
and Massachusetts. In all the states
together three of every four of the
republicans voting in the primaries
were opposed to Tnft.
"President Tait's eltanees for rc-
nomination lie solely in his ability t
secure delegate at Chicago who will
misrepresent tho will of the peoptc.
After a prolonged exiwrienec with me
us president, practically all tlto big
republican bosses disliked mo 'o
heartily that they opposed Taft'-.
nomination because 1 favored it. Af
ter threo and a half years of exper
ience with Tuft since he wns eleete.
these sumo men aro heartily in favor
or his reuouiiuution. They were op
posed to me four years ago and are
opposed to me now. The&e men in
clude Gallinger of New Hampshire,
Aid rich of Rhode Island, Penrose of
Pennsylvania, Keating of Indiana.
Lorimer of Illinois, Guggenheim and
Evans of Colorado, Patrick Calhoun
and the Southern Pacific erowd of
California and tho Amalgamated Cop
cr erowd of Montana.
Just .Mo Alone.
"Tho present fight is nation-wide.
There is just one candidate whom it
is possible to nominate against the
bosses, and that is myself Every
vote for any other candidate from
now on is really a vote for Tuft iitt-l
a vote for the bosses, whethei it is
east in Minnesota, Massachusetts,
Ohio, New Jersey or California.
"I became a candidate when I was
convinced that no other progressive
could possibly bo nominated against
Taft, The contest bus gone so fat-
as to make it evident 1 certainly can
be nominated either I will bo notn
iua ted or a reactionary will.
"It is also evident that every pro
gressive republican and every mutt
believing in decency and houusty in
polities, who is against boss rulu and
(Continued on Page Two.)
MEET DEFEAT
"General Salazar', rebels wero rout
ed at Cuatro Cii-nagas last night
This makes my position stronger than
ever."
Dispatches received hero today by
Mexican Consul Lloranto from Tor
reon state that ninety rebel soldlors
wero killed in tho engagotnont anil
J00 others wounded, The federal
loss was placedat 20 killed and seven
wounded.
It was admitted ut rebel lieadiniar
ters in Juarez that thu revolutionary
forco had sustained it "slight "o
verso" but it was declared that the
federals lost several hundred men.
Hoports received hero, from Ecn
lou say the robols renewed tho attack
on Hormojillo this morning.
Ashland Man Gives Reasons for
Threatened Injunction to Prevent
County Court From Building Span
Across Bear Creek at Medford.
Says He Personally Examined Pres
ent Structure and Pronounced It
Good Enough for Medford.
Denton Dowers of Ashland announ
ces that he and S. A. Carlton of Ash
land will probably enjoin the build
ing of the Medford bridgo across
Hear creek, ns previously stated in
the Mail Tribune. lie gives his rea
sons for his contemplated notion us
follews:
Ashland, May 0.
To the editer: Will you please al
low me space to reply to nrticlu pub
lished in your paper of May 7th,
headed "Ashland Man Muy Enjoin
New Hridge."
Last summer there was n petition
by numerous taxpayers nnd prom
inent citizens, presented to tho county
court, asking for a bridge to bo built
across Bear creek, on the road lead
ing from Tolo to Eaglo Point, and
Hybeo bridge on Rogipj river, nnd
there was no attention given tho mat
ter. I was requested by n number
of people living in that district to
call the court's attention (o the mat
ter, nnd to tho great need of the
bridge, which I did, nnd succeeded hi
getting Judge Neil and Commission-
ers Davis and Owens, n well us
Roadmitstcr Harmon to go down nnd
look the mntter over, and nil wero
unanimous in paying that the bridgo
was needed nnd that they would bitttot
it. but asked a cert nipaBjt .sub
scribed. IJuf nothing was iir5fleLtit
cr I nsked them what they wero go
ing to do abont the firidgc. Jttdgo
Neil replied that they would have to
drop the matter as they had no funds,
so I let the mutter rest until this
sprint: when I went to Judge Neil nnd
asked him again, what they wero go
ing to do, and if it wasn't possible lo
give us some relief in tho way f
building the bridge. Ho still pleaded
poverty.
I was in Jacksonville, May 1st, aud
saw a number of Medford gentlemen
at the county judge's office, and was
informed by one of them of the prom
ise that they had obtained from the
county court to build the now bridgo
in Medford. Last Mondny I was in
Medford and 1 asked Mr. S. A. Carl
ton to go with mo to inspect tho
hridgu across Hear creek, which we
found to be adequate to tho present
deniituds, and Mr. Carlton agreed
with me that if tho county court did
not have funds to build bridges where
mot needed, we would take some ac
tion to see that they did not impover
ish the county moro by building them
where they wero not needed. Hut
neither Mr. Carlton nor myself ever
stated tliut wo opposed any improve
ment in the county this year.
There is not a man in Jnok&on
county who favors improvements
more than I do. Hut I want to seo
tho county funds used whoro most
needed, and not for the benefit of a
favored few, ns was the case hut
year, with a great deal of tho county
money. If Medford was in need of u.
bridge, aud it was the county's placo
to build it, I would honrtilv endorse
such action, or to make iinprovcmont4.
whero needed ituy placo in tho county.
I have no animosity against Modt'ord
and give it credit for tho great im
provement it has made, but felt it
my duty us a citizen and taxpayer of
Jackson county to lake some action
against the wanton nnd tmbtisiuess-
(Coiitlnuoa on I'ase 6.)
FINAL DEFEAT OF
MINT BILL LOST
WASHINGTON, Muy 10. IJy a
voto of 170 to III) the houo today
adopted tho nmeifduiuiit iiilrodiecil
by Itoprcsentativo Humphrey which
calls pot only for the eontiuiwlwp of
coinage at Sun Francisco, New Or
leans and Curson City, but also for
tho retention of six assay offiews;
including tho one at Htwitle. 'file
bill also provides for an hiihuhI ap
propriation for uiRiUiiMMi. '
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