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i, tnts,?fiJjTVS!, grenon WWLm p.iiw Mill h4S city Hn Hiai. ,CCm j- c r y L Medford Mail Tribune SECOND EDITION WEATHER Fair anil wirriner. Max &i .MIm. 41. Kiirly-Mni'dinl Vinr. DhIIv- Hnveiitli Vcnr 207 CONTESTS TO BE 0ECIDEO rinlil (or Scats Will Occupy Entire Tlmt! of Republican National Com mittee From June G Until Couven tlon Meets. Taft Claims 570 Delegates, Roosevelt GG7. Clark 470, Wilson 358, Under wood 02. CHICAGO, ,li I. Willi itH 207 contest between Tii ft mill UoiMt'W'lt filed mill n score nunc planned, it in probable thin tlm fight for scats will occupy (Ini entire time nl' tin Rcpu lit'iui iiittiiinul commitlo limn Juno (I, iiulil in'iiilv time I'm- (In convention til Hltllt June 1H. AiIIumciiIn nl' President Tiil't i' MM't ('(ilillli'l KooncMtlt In collie In Chil'llgO. If I tlOH, duty NII.V, it will indicate tlmt ho intends to Imlt if Pinident Taft is ritttiitiit t 1. Tim following clitium mill figures in.- made liv malingers: Republicans IMcgulit in convention. 1078. NYiMtoMirv to noiiiiiiulc, r:ill. Claimed fur Tall, 570. Claimed for Roosevelt, 507. Conceded to Taft liy Hoohi'vu'i malinger, 185. Conceded to itiMihi'Volt liv Taft malingers, 122. I'uiuMriictod delegates, 122. Deiuocnil Delegate in I'onvi'iitioii, 1092. NeooHNtir.w.to nominal!, 728. Claimed for Clink. -170. Claimed for WiIhoii, :irK. Conceded Clink liv Wilson, :i(ll). Conceded Wihon hv Chirk. Kill. Ciiliihtrni'toil delegates, J 50. TO It In now known or a certainly I hut Dm party of famous gcngrnpli iith from all sections of tlm world will vltilt Orator Luko his sinner iih guests of tlio Mod ford Comorelal club. "Science", ii monthly publlea tlon, nuinlloiiH Cutter Lake an ono of tlio points In tlm northwest to ho visited and nays: Tlio lint Includes forty goograph ' urn from Hlxtoeii dlforcut conntrli'H; most of Out delegates being profes sots In unlvoraltlos or officers of national MfOKruplilo societies. Tlio character of tlio party will ho suffi ciently Indicated hy unnnuiielng tlm coming "f l'nrtseh and DrjKalHUI; Morxlmchor and Jaeger, of Germany; (liillols, Margorlo and Vaehor, of Franco; CIiImiIiii, llcoklt and Falcon er, of Groat Itrltiiln; Nlornioyor and Ooatroleh, of Holland; Locolnto, of Belgium: ili'ltran, of Hpiiln; Sllva Tollos, of Portugal; Bruckner and Oboihiiuinior, of Austria; Choluoky ami Tolokl, of Hungary, Cvljlc, of Horvla; Doiitilausk and Sohokolsky, of UiihhIii; AndorsHon, of Hwodou; OlufHon, of Ijonniiirk; llrunhos, Chalx mill NuHfllmum, of Switzerland, mid Caluhitl, Marnolll and Vlneeguorrn, of Italy. It Ih safe to Hay that no muih gathering of geographical crowned IioiiiIh Iiiih over been brought from Europe to America. Tlio Americana ulrcady enlisted, oltlior iih round-trip or hh toniKrury members, lucludo, ninoiiK profi'HHorH of Ki'OKiaphy, UurrowB and CowIhh, if CIiIchkh; HrlKlium, of ColKto; Uowman, of Yiilo; Davlu and Ward of Harvard; HoiIbo and JohiiHon, of Co linnhla; Kouuotuuu, of Cincinnati; Joffoi-Hou, of YpHllantl, and Martin ami Whltlioolt, f WIhcohhIh, iih well ax a uuinhur of uclimllflo inun from varloiiH partH of tlio country ropro Hontliu; HiihJoctB allied to KcoBraphy. l'rofuHHor W..M. Dnvh, of Harvard UnlvoiHlty, Iiiih boon appointod dlroc tor of tlio (ixi)iirnlon. Tlio party Iiiih HO round-trip iniiinhur and hoiiio 20 or inoro liiipnrnry niomliora. .Jack Hondi'liiliH' Donvor toiuu, win nor of tlio WchIoiii loai;uo poununt laHt hoiiboii, la out lu front mid going tit rout;. FOR DELEGATES GEOGRAPHERS OF MAN NATIONS IT CRATER T TTO Rebels Concentrated nt Lcrdo, Near Torrcon, and Orozco's Rlnlit Winn Under Campa Cut Off and Sur rounded. Madero Wlnklnn at Outrnnes of Reb els to Arouse People to Frenzy of Extermination Them. WASHINGTON, .lime 1. Tlmt .i ili'fiftiv,. baltlf, which will cither fin ally criinli (Iciieral Oioco anil It's Mexican icIicIh, or will iuileliuileiy prolmiK liin uliililv to defy the Ma ilero covciiimeiil, in Imminent today, Ik the rxpreed belief-of officials of (be htaln department here. Official reports received hr va that the reheln are concciitnit'tit; nl Lento, nenr Torrcon. .Meanwhile, it i Hiiid, fdiieral Hhiniuet, the f-ilcnil eoiiimaiider, Iiiih necceilcd in cutting off Orn.eo'H rinlil wiiiK, under cnni mauil of (lenernl Caiapn, who i hhi roumled in a mountainous nlle. Hlampiet is preparing to iViniinl t'ampa'H uiieouditiouiil Mirn'tider. The federalH are at the khuo time piepariiu; for a ceueiiil iihniiuII on the main ichc) aiuiv nt Lcrdo. If Orojr.ro h nble to hold Lcrdo it will he a hard blow to the federal-, im it will enable him to meiince the fedcial stolen at Torrcon. SAN' FltA.NTI.SCO Cnl.. Jinn- '. That PrcMident Mndcro of Mexico i winkinit at the outrage pcrpctratcil on women and children b' rebelH ami liamlitH lo uet tin people to a point wbetv I buy will rise jit frenzy a-aiii.! the mamuderK wnrt the bunlcii of ntoric told here today by 1(10 Amer ican rcl'iifcc who arrived from Mex ico on the United State triiiixMiit lliifonl. About fifty of the rct'iipcc. stripped of their valuable by .Mex ican liauilitN, nt once became ward of the eitv. Of thin number -S weio Uiven (Uiuleih in teiitH erected at th I'tesidio, anil live women mul eiht ehililren are lioini; eared lor b char itable oinni.nliouH. L LEAGUE F01ED Klrhy S. Miller returned to Med ford Saturday after attending u ineet Ini; at Salem of men front wirloiiH HcctlotiH of the Htato who aro Intorent- ed lu a movement to reform tho preH eul educational rtlBtem of tho Htato, Tho "lCducntlonnl lleforut Leaguo" wiirt orKaulxed and meetliiKH aro to bo arraui'.ed lu vnrlotm partn of tho Htato to work up InteroHt In tho re form. Mr. Miller will enllHt tho aid of a largo number of local peo ple lu tho movement. Amoiik' thoHO who attended the mooting at Salem win C. K, Spouce, of Lenta; W. S. U'llon of Oregon City, ,I(,h. Shafer of Httgono, L. U. Alder- mau of Saloin, F. J. Miller or Salent, (ieorgo Iteher of Medford, H, H. Mil ler of Portland, W. K. Nowall of (IiiHton, A. II, Haton of Kugono, F. 0. Young of Kugono anil K. S. Miller of Medford. NORTHWEST CROP IS Tho nroHpoetrt itro vory bright for a large crop in the Northwest which will ho worth .f 10,0(10,000, according to CliurlcH A. Mnlboouf of the North westuru Fruit Hxehauge, who in in Meilfor (Ifor tv whort business trip. Mr. Mnlboouf is confident of goou liriecrt fur Northweslont fruit this full. "According to advices wo Imvo in our office," states Mr. Mulhoouf, "tho orop this year in the Northwest will ho u splendid one. In mtditlon to this wo Imvo perfected a Hjlendld selling agency ilnd I tiolioyo Hint wo will bo able to ninko it splendid show ing on prices this year. Tho outlook is very good." MMNEN 0 Z 0 I'.IMJIi REFORM WORTH 15.000,000 MEDFORD, DIRIGIBLE FALLS THOUSAND FEET Balloon Akron With Six Passcntjers Aboard Takes Lofty Tumble Which Scares Vanlman So That He Aban dons Contemplated Flight. Wellman's Associate Admits Un known Faults of Airship Render Crosslno of Ocean Impracticable ATLANTIC CITY, N. .1 , Juno I -After falling I.UUO feet lu bin dirig ible bullooii "Akron" with ulx panned gers aboard, during a trial flight hero toduy, Melvln Vanluinu auiioilnc oil that lie will abandon hi Intention of attempting a flight acroHH the At lantic ocean In the balloon. Vanlman and his priHBeiigers cruis ed about MuifCHHfiilly for fifty min utes after their tiHcent, when, Hiid dcnly tho big dlrlKlble Hwoopeil down without warning, dropping on the mirfaco of tlio wutorx of an Inlet near Ilrlgautlne. After repairing tho "Akron," Vani llism reahcouded and continued his trip siirccHHfully. He admitted later that hbt leaolutlou to abandon the triitiH-Atbtntlc flight was directly due to the accident today. Vanlman was uiiHOcfatcd with Wal ter Wellmau In Atlantic City Inst Hummer, when Welluinn made an uu HiiccoKKful attempt to perfect a dirigi ble which would crottH the Atlantic. GOTHAM HOTEL NKW YOItK. Juno 1.- With 21 lending hotolH, hIx prominent rcatnu rants and two clulm KcrlouHly crippled and the Hotel Managers association Mtubboruly refusing to compromise, the jttrlko of tho walterB asHitmed grave proportlotiH hero today. Tho chief bone of contention Is the asso ciation's persistent refusal to recog nize tho waiters' union. So far there 1ms been no disorder. Tho union leaders declared that there were "J.riOO strikers out today. They declare the majority of tho strikebreakers Imported by tho hotel men Joined the union when they ar rived here, and refused to work. Tho hotels Imported a number of college boyB, but these proved unsat isfactory. Only a spirit of tolerance on the part of tho guests made It pos sible for some of the hotels to open their dining rooms today. Tito guests at tho Waldorf-Astoria, Knickerbocker, Plaza, Vauderbllt and Manhattan hotels tiro urging tho Man agers' association to crush tho Btrlko. BOYCOTT IS PLACED E SAN FKANCISCO, Juno 1 Adopt ing a recommendation of Its execu tive, tho San Francisco labor council by tin almost unanimous vote, today declared a boycott on tho San Fran cisco Examiner, In Bitpportlng tho striking pressmen, who wore called out some weeks ago following tho pressmen's strikes In Chicago. Officials of the council said that In declaring tho boycott tboy simply pursued tho snino course as that tak en by all tlio other nowHpapora In Chicago, which rallied to tlio Bitpport of tho Hearst papers when the latter Instituted tho open shop. SMITHS0N IS BARRED FROM OLYMPIC CONTEST SAN FKANCISCO, Cnl., Juno J. Forrest Sinlthsou, world's champion ltttrlor and a eandlduto for tho Amor lean team to tho Olympic games In 8wodon declared today that ho ltaa glvon up all hopo of reprcBontlng tho United States nt tlio games on account of tho attitude of tho Loa Angeles Athletic club In repudiating tho ath lete becntiHO ho competed unattached lu tho Olympic tryouta at Stanford two weeks ago, while a niotnbor of tho Los AugolcB club, NO ONE HURT WATERS STRIKE ORI'XJON, KATTUDAY, .Il'XK 1, 1912. Champ Clark Wins Rhode Island ,y .'..T.Ty y ... -' ct'OHt t ' sssbsssse .jHtV.i1"? J wiJ UjfijSjilSt&ti" tf'-t.jSslsSSSH jHjaytfyWB 9suc assssssssssDsssHssssssasssssssssssssssssssssssV C:h ai"P PUOVIDKNCK. ft I , June 1. throughout Rhode Ii!anl In the dent shown by practically complete retur Clark will get all tho ten delegates In Ilaltlmore. The vote Clark 5,712 PUBLIC MARKET llotweeii KMl and ,0 buvers pnt nixed the ptildii'ta,ikct before noon ilsiv and the tin-tttutiou experienced Uetween (Ml ami .00 buvers pat roni.e tod the lartiist bu-iue-s iit its history. A feature of the day was the nppenr anee of meats which .ohl at price ranging from five ccntij to ten cents a pound cheaper than thiiii the miiiic varieties hno been Milling up town. Chickens were in demand but the supply wits not huge and disappear ed rapidly. One man appeared with 18 dressed chickens and 'JO dor.cn eggs nml bad disMsed of his entile stock nt 7 :!." a. in. At noon seven sheep, one beef and severnl hogs had been soid. I Jerries wore nKo in demand hut the supply was ery light, only one both offering them during the morn ing hours. Seven crates had been sold sold before ! o'clock with only a few boxes left. At 0 o'clock over lot) buyers h.id visited the market showing that the housewives of the city tire going curly to market in order to got their choice of the dn's offerings. Tho.-e who delay their isit until nttoruoon ure apt to find that many lines have been sold out. The ineat booth proved a popultr feature today. Muyers thtongod before the two stalls occupied ly it rancher from Phoenix who offered fresh beef, pork and mutton. The nriees at which the meat was offered seemed very nttnictive to the buyers who kept the cutters busy. These stalls have been rutted by the month and meals will he regular feature hereafter. EO S10ATTLK, Wu., Junu 1. -"The fishing industr, in tho l'ttget Sound waters will he wiped out within ten years if the state of Washington does not adopt ittoro stringent laws and se to the enforcement of the laws already on tho statute hooks." John I'cnso llubooek, head of the Hritish Columbia I'slt commission, with these words knocked all the harmony out of tho "Iturmonv moot ing" held here by Coventor Htly and a special seiintoiiiil couiuttlto, rep resenting tho stale of Washington; and Hahcook nud Douglas It. Moln- tyre, representing tho province of Urittslt Columbia to discus itsbtug problems. A number of "salmon barons" nt- tended the meeting tutd lost their tampers several tiiuea during Hub- oouk'a spocli. THRONGED m En ii WASHINGTONS THREATEN sm CtATzrrT. Sweeping victory for Champ Clark erratic presidential primaries was ns todty The returns show that to the democratic national convention ; Wilson I.j.10; Harmon 728. !T0 TEST VALIDITY OF AUTO LICENSE LAW IN OREGON In order to determine the validity of the -stsitu law which provides for an annual automobile tax arrests are to be made in this city within the next few days nnd a test case brought. Complaints will be sworn to this afternoon by Chief of Police Hittson charging the following men with driving an automobile without a state license number sis retiuired by the law: Frank Kiltie, Conro Fioni, George King, John Hoot, J. F. Merrill, W. II. (lore. Thomns How ard, C. K. Whister. II. E. Wortinaii, W. W. Ilstrmon, Horace Nicholson, Dr. Uurgoss and Jack Neff. It is claimed that inasmuch sis each of these men are taxed on nutomo bilcs that the state cannot collect a license for their operation. The ciue will be fought through. District At torney Mulkoy has not ns yet deter mined which of the men he will have arrested for the purpose of testing tho law. It it is sustained then the others will nNo be haled into court. AERONAUT HURT Prof. II. Thompson, tho neronaut who made the nscoitsioii Saturday afternoon from the Arnold's enrnival grounds, was injured but not serious ly by falling astride a fence nt Ninth and Ivy. He wits unable to cut the parachute loose. After reaching the height ot 1,000 feet, the balloon re liiauiod stationery for a few minutes oer the Mail Tribune bliilditig and then gradually descended, striking tho ground nt Ninth and Ivy streets. Only the absence t' wind prevented the total collapse of the balloon nud a fatal accident. THOUSANDS ATTEND LOF T DAYTON, Ohio, June 1. All com mercial and industrial operation was halted for 15 minute this afternoon during the fuuerul of tho Into Wilbur Wright. All traffic, steam and eleo tric, suspended operations for min utes, while tlio church bells tolled in memory of the dead aviator. Thousands' of persons visited the First Presbyterian church, whore, the body lay in state for thrco hours. Kov. Maurice Wilson conducted tho funeral obsequies, Interment was n Woodland. PARACHUTE m TARIFF BATTLE TO BE WAGED ALL SUMMER Underwood Instructed to Introduce Cotton Tariff Schedule Revision Measure, Identical With That Sub mitted Last Year. Hope of Adjourning Congress Prior to Convening of National Conven tions Abandoned. WASHINGTON, Juno 1. The house ways and means committee to day Instructed Chairman Oscar Un derwood to Introduce tlio cotton tariff schedule revision bill. The measure wilt be Indenttcal with that submitted last year, comprising reductions of from 25 to 40 per cent. It is believed that the decision to continue the fight for tariff revision means that hope of adjourning con gress prior to the convening of tho national conventions has been aban doned. TEDDY DROPS EIGHT ON ROOT OYSTER BAY, June 1. Colonel Roosevelt issued a statement this af ternoon indicating that he nnd his followers may drop the fight on Sen ator Elihu Root as temporary chair man of the Republican national con vention at Chicago. He said the Illi nois (relegation this afternoon had declared against making sstt issue of Root, insisting that he should not be considered as speaker for the con vention as a whole tit his opening ad dress. Roosevelt declared that he would take their suggestion 'under advisement." He also declared that the Maine and Illinois delegates will put up u fight for open sessions of the national committee which is bear ing the contests. lie asserted that the press should be represented at these hearings and reiterated that he will not go to Chicago "unless :i grnve emergency in the sliiiix! of un fair piny should arise." I T CHICAGO, June 1. Private cable gram received here today announce? tho death in Heidelberg, Gonnnny, of I). II. Hiiriiham, the noted American architect. IJurnhnm, who was tho chief archi tect in San Francisco's reconstruc tion following the grent fire, was touring the world, accompanied by his wife's son. He wns one of the most noted builders of the day, more tlinn 80 buildings in the heart of New York having been constructed from his plans. Rurulinm also served on the fiuo arts commission appointed to super vise the reconstruction of "United Statos public buildings at Washing ton, and also directed the building of severnl government buildings in tlio Philippines. IJuniham wns born in Henderson, N. Y., September 4, 1840. WIFE AND THEN SELF BUFFALO, N. Y., Juno 1. Believ ing that his wife's family influenced her to leave him, Ernest Staples toduy murdered his mother-in law, Mrs. M. Fillmore Brown, and futility woun ded his wifo, thou committed suicide. Following n tptarrol with tho Browns a week ugo, Staples proceed ed to tho Brown home nud after kill ing Mrs. Brown, shot his wifo while sho slept. Ho then chased his fnthor-in-law through tho fields nud when Brown escaped tho murderer shot himself through tho head. lis AU NHAM DEAD NO. 61. TO BE A WITNESS T Prominent Socialist Subpoenaed by State on Account of Implication by Bert Franklin Death Again Inter feres in Progress of Case. Friend of McNamaras Also Suiwnetv ed by State to Testify Was In Los Angeles at Time ef ExMlw. LOS ANGELES, Juno 1. Job Har. rlman, formerly associated with the counsel In tho McNamara case, whose name was yesterday mentioned In De tective Dert Franklin's testimony has been subpoenaed by the stato a witness In tho Darrow trial. He was summoned following Franklin's story In which the detective Intimated that tho 4,000 he Hays Darrow gave him for the purpose of bribing Lockwood was brought to Darrow by Harrlmau. Out of respect to tho late Judge Cyrus McNutt, associate counsel for the Darrow defense, who died nud denly last night, thero was no ses sion ot the Darrow bribery trial to day. A bench warrant for E. F. Sklllen, issued by Judge Hutton upon the re quest of District Attorney Fredericks, Is In the hands of the sheriff. He Is wanted by the state as a witness In the Darrow trial. It Is reported that Sklllen was a friend of James B. McNamara and was In Los Angeles at the time of the. Times explosion and is an Important witness for the state. MAY WAS BEST T! Weather report for the Montii o May, 1012, Medford, Oregen: Date Max. Min. Rain. 1 52 40 0.38, 2 f9 IJT.fl Trace ' 3 59 37 4 05 40 5 02 45 7 82 42 8 83 45 9 70 40 ... 10 77 37 11 82 37.5 .. 12 87 42 14 74. 40 Trace 15 70 48 .05 10 75 38.5 .. 17 80 43 18 82 45 19 05 50 20 57 40 .00 21 50 35.5.. .03 22 58 43 .13 23 04.5 37.5 .32 24 02.5 50.5 .03 25 08.5 51 Truce 20 05.5 52 .10 27 05 48 28 70 51.5 Trace 29 03 53.5 .52 31 84 41.5 .. Maximum, 87.5 degreeB, May 13; menu of maximum, -70.0 dogrees; nor tnnl menu maximum for Mny, 70 de grees; minimum, 35.5 degrees, May 21; menu of minimum, 43,5 degrees; normal of mean minimum for May, 43 degrees; precipitation, 2.45 in ches; normal precipitation, 1,72 inches, oxcess .73 inch; cloudy days, 14; partly cloudy days, 2; clear, 15; total precipitation since Sept. 1, 1911, 19.84 inches; normal precipita tion for same poriod, 25.04 inches; deficiency in prccipitution, 6,b9 inches. Tho month of Mny, 1912, litis' been ono of tho best recorded for the Rogue river valloy. All crops have flourished, and good harvests may bo expected. Tho excess precipita tion, avIiiIo dolnying cultivation, has been vory benofieitil. The deficiency in precipitation is duo to a shortage in tho montliH of Ootohor, November and December, 1911, wjticli really makes littlo difference. P. J. O'GARA, Special MotoorologU'ttl Observer, U. S. Weather Bureau. AHAN AM A MON HON no VM