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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY", AIWST 13, 1012
NO. 122
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PASSES
L TARIFF
OVER THE VETO
Nineteen Republican Insurants Vote
With Democrats Clark Rules That
It Takes Two-thirds of Those Vol
Inu Aye antl No to Pass
Debate Proceeds and Follows Vote
Senator Clark nnd President Tnft
are Both Utterly Assailed
WASHINGTON, Auk. 13. Hy
ttrni'o ur a ruling mado by Speaker
Chirk the Iioiiho today panned tint
wool tariff revision bill ovor l'mul
duiit 'I'aft'n voto by it vuto of 174 to
HO. Nineteen republican Insurants
voted with tho democrats.
On tho voto n At flntt announced
by tint speaker tho democratlc-ln-niirrtoiit
alllanrn Apparently bad
failed to pans tint bill by two votes.
Ton iiiOinbitrM who hnd paired with
almontees voted iin present,
Clark ruled Unit It took only two
thlnU of tho members votliiK "ayo"
or "no" to puna tho bill and nil ml thai
two-thirds had no voted "ayo" mid
that lint bill was passed.
A violent ilintu followed, tho
rrpuhllcaiin bitterly attacking Clark.
On this Underwood madu n point or
order, thus flnnlly enabling tho
speaker to declare tho bill pained.
Before the volo waa taken, Con
Kretmnnit Cnnnou of Illinois, Hill of
Connecticut, Greene of Iowa and Ut
ter or Ithodo Island defended I'rcsl
dent Taft'a veto of tho wool bill.
Utter avcuiod thg democrat of
playing politics In foisting respons-
Iblllly for the wool bill on tho pre I
dnt.
IMUKorald of New York took a
HnitillH,.OiflrdiWtMml culled Ilia
wool ronort of 'the tariff board metro
Kucm work, Hcflln of Alabama,
poKe, denouncing rrciiueni inn nnu
tho republlcttn party generally
The proKreimve who voted to ro-
pudlnto tho Taft veto were: Akin,
New York; Young, Anthony and
Pitnmt. Kaunas; Morso and Cooer,
Wisconsin; Htoenomon, Davis. Ander
on, Itolgcfon, Lindbergh nnd Miller,
Minnesota; Kent, Calif.; Utterly
Oregon; La Follotto and Warburtatt,
WnihliiKton; Norrl nnd Hloanc, Ne
braska; Storens, Minnesota, and
Woods, lown.
Gardner cf Massachusetts bitterly
appealed from tho rulliiK or Speaker
Chirk, lie won followed by Miinn of
IIIIiioIm, who comlderod tho prece
dent correct.
BERLIN, Auk. 13. Three tlimtR
iiint persons are known to linvo been
killed In nn earthquake whleli rooked
Uoulli Kiihtern Turkey, according to
n message jimt received liero by the
Tugcbhitl, from Us eorospondent nt
Constantinople,
Moro tluui 00,000 porsons nro
homeless iiiul starving, An active
ernler in hIho reported to have, up
penred on (lie Atlantis Hide of the
Hon of Munnorn.
Later doHpatuhos received hero lu
ilioiito that (iomlitioiiH avo much worse
in tho disturbed region of Turkey
than tbo earlier advices Htntoil. Sup
)lemoiitiiry messages received to
iilflil Hay tbnt ninny persons oiiught
under the tottering walls nro h t III
ullvo but Hlowly starving to death.
Tbo Turkish government in said to
bo doing their utinoHt for tbo rellof
of tbo HiifforerH, but officials tuiiuit
tbeir inability lo uopu with the
situation,
Unless outside aid is oxtonded it
onlco, it 1h .feared thousands Svill
perinb from oxpoMiiro and lack of
food.
MODOC GOLD STRIKES
TO BE INVESTIGATED
WABllINdTON, Auk. IS. An ox
pert InvoHtlgatiou In Modoo county,
Cnl., wiih ordered by tbo ffeologieal
Hiirvcy department lioro today.
I
QUAKE-SLAUGHTERS
3000 IN TURKEY.
50,000 STARVING
POSTAL MS
GRANTED RIGHT
TO ORGANIZE
Oarred From Any Orijanlzatlon Conn
Jenanclnn Strikes, Hollow Victory
Is Won by Government Employes
In Senate After Loup Debate
Wjlit to Appeal to Conyrcss Ovrr
Head of Posma&ter General Also
Given Czar Rule Ends
WAHIUNdTON, Auk. U.-llarred
from nfflllntlon with any orKtmUa-
lion countenaiicInK NtrlkeM or lock
oiKh. United Htatea ponlal clerk won
a hollow victory In the m-iiuto today
when that body by a vote oMii to 7
decided to kIvi thin branch of tho
Kovernmeiit nervlro the rlKht to or
Knnlie. The volltiK followed a aplrl
ttsl debate In which HenatnrH I.a Toi
lette of Wlicouiln, Hoot of New York
and Smith of South Carolina took u
prominent part.
Keuatorrt m Follotto and Smith
look tho position that thoro were no
lawn to prevent poHt.il clerlti from
ori'.anUliiK or dct'larlni; u Htrlku If
they' were dUsatliried with their
cotnpeuiuitlon and working coudl
tloiiM. Senator Itoot took n)iarp la
ami with thin ntuud, declarliiK bit
terly that no orKunltntlou ithonld bo
allowed which would bo In a position
to cripple tho Kovernmenl service
uven In tho sllehteat degree. Other
fionntom Maw behind tho movement
an attempt to co-opernto with tho
American Federation of Iabor and
bitterly fought tho measure. Still
other nwortitd that aa the Aniorlcnn
Fderatton ltnlf cannot call a strike,
the provliton could not ponrihly af
fect that .Mil. .s..
Tho poital clerk won a victory,
lftto of ,h'0 n,n0ndinont, granting thorn
however, by tho adoption In tho son-
tho right to apponl to congreia ovor
tho head of thu pontmaiiter general,
whoiio word horctoforo hua been final.
During tho progretm of tho delrato
Bomitor Cummins mild that striken
by pontal clorkn "would bo little leas
than IreiiKon."
Tho umendment was then adopted
providing tho right to any government
employe to furnish congress with In
formation, and It specifically directed
that nuch employe waa not to bo In
terfered with.
Senator iJourno then w'thdrow hla
amendment.
Senator Heed'a amendment jwr-
mlltlug employes to organize, but
forbidding their affiliation with
"Blrlklng" organlintloiiH was then
adopted.
POST OFFICE DENIES
IA FOLLETTES
WASHINQTON, Aug. 13. OfflcInlH
or tho post offlco department donlod
today tho charges mndo by Senator
LuFollotto In tho sonnto , yesterday
that lottora from railway mmll clorka
addressed to him had boon opeuod
and oxamluod,
Tho letters In Question wero In ro
ply to a circular sont out by Senator
La Follotto seeking data regarding al
leged coorclvo methods of tho postal
officials to provont omployos from
organUntlon.
Lu llletto Intlmatod that bocauao
of tho confidential information con
cern In ir tho "hamsBlng" mothods
employed ugalnst tho clorks contained
In thoso lettors, a number of clorka
had boon disciplined by their super
iors. POPULISTS TO ENDORSE
WILSON OR ROOSEVELT
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 13. When
the Populist's nniionul convention
met hero today it was announced tbnt
tbo prly would not put u tieUot of
its own in tbo field. It wiih believed
oitbor Colonel Itoosqvolt, tbo progres
sive nominee, or Governor Wilson, the
domoeratio nominee, would bo en
dorsed, General Booth Dying
LONDON, Aug. 13,Tho condition
of (lonoral William Hototh, head of
tho Salvation Army, Ib critical this
ovonlng. Hooth's rocovory from ro
cout IllnouH, .which wns Uiought prob
nblo Is now bellovod to bo unlllcoly,
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- ifL 1--" GOVERNOR WILSON DEUVEHINQ HIS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
Hi- liOVERiNOJS. WfLSON
Tho "Utile While Home" at Sea Girt, .V. J was urnuiided by a ttirons of ten thousuud ptruoiis bcu Oouruur WUaon, v,ttb Uoicruur Marxhall,
of Indiana, at hia aide, made IiU apeech accepting Hie democratic noiiilunliou fur 1'rvbldcnL
BARNES TO BOSS APPROPRIATION FORiTRAIN DERAILED
TUFTS CAMPAIGN
NEW YOllK, Aug. 13. Charles D.
Illlles, former secretary to President
Taft at;d now chairman of tho repub
lican national committee, went to
Chicago today to open western head
(junrttTB for tho coming campaign.
Ueforo his departuro mills ap
pointed William Hnrnes Jr., of New
York to havo active charge of a great
part of tho Taft campaign ns chair
man of tho ndvlsory committee.
Other members of tho committee ap
pointed nre:
Senator Burton of Ohio, Austin
Colgast, of New Jersey; Thomna Do
vino, of Colerado: (lovernor Oolds
borough, of Maryland ; John Hayes
Hammond, Mary S. Now nnd Joseph
Keating of Indiana; (icorgo Sheldon,
Adolph Lowlsohn nud Herbert Par
sons of Now York; Senator Llppltt,
of Ithodo Island; David Mulvnne, of
Kansas; John Wnunmakor of Penn
sylvania and Fred Upham of Illinois.
In'tholr campaign nrrnngemonts.
tho Taft managers took a leaf out
of tho "hull mooso" book .and ap
pointed MIhs Helen lloawoll of Now
York and Miss Muliol Iloardmnn of
Philadelphia to take ohargo of tho
woman vote lu tho equal suffrage
states.
ON ANGEL ISLAND
SAN ritANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 13.
Steering too flno a courso around tho
treacherous bunk off Angol Island,
thu liiltlsh Steamer Strnthardlo,
with Captain I.iunont at tho helm,
wont nshoro on tho rocky bottom of
tho west sldo of tho Island shortly
before noon today. Tho powerful
tinny tug Slocum nud threo tugs nro
standing by ready to glvo tho Strat-
hardlo a lino It necessary.
Tho Strnthardlo was bound In from
Ualtlmoro with fi 100 tons of coal for
tho government. Tho vessel la vnl-
ued at $200,000 and curried n crow
of eighty men. Aa tho steamer
grounded nt high tldo It will bo dif
ficult to float her.
ALDERMANIC PROBE
STARTS IN SEPTEMBER
NEW YORK. Aul'. 13. Emory
Hacklier, attorney for tbo oonunitteo
of nldoymop who will iuvohtigato
alleged grafting mothods of Now York
Dolieo officials, niiuouueud thin
moriviue; that tbo inquiry would open
hero September i.
OR
RE-ELECTION
HEARS GOVERNDR iODHOUl WILSON'S SPEECH
GOVERNOR
CM LAKE TO
BE 0111050,000
On necouut of Mroni; opposition
from the bouse, Crater Lake will he
lucky to hoourv nn appropnatiou of
$.ril),000 uconliue; to n telegram re
ceived from .Senator 'Bourne. It is
evident that llu weakness of Oregon
in the lower botiho miiy prove fatal to
the measure, Oregon congressmen
hnving twico penuitled the deleat of
the bill.
Senator Hourne ii milking a fining
figbt for tbiH ameiubucut, ns shown
by the following telegram:
Washington, I). C, Aug. 12, 1012.
Geo. i'utunm,
Jledfonl, Oie. ,
Bitter" figbt beingmnde by boue
conferee agaiut mj senate amend
ment appropriation hundred thous
and for Crater Lake. Think I can
get fifty thousand and is this will be
recognition of project and in my
opinion big iclorj in view of atti
tude of hoiioo conferees. Fifty
thousand probably more than can be
lined this season,
JONATHAN BOUKNj:, Jr.
AS
VANCOUVER. 11. C. Aug. 13,
Declaring that Mount McKlnloy, that
much dlsciisRod Alnsknti peak, tho
highest on tho North Amoricnu con
tinent, will novor bo climbed unless
tho expedition attempting It Is pro
pared to spend six wuoUs, If neces
sary awaiting favorable weather to
climb tho last 500 feot of tho peak,
Mori Lnvoy, tho guhlo and photo
grapher of tho Pnrker-Browno expe
dition, has Just nrrhed, Tho party
soourod proof that Dr. Frederick A.
Cook, of alleged polar- fnmo, novor
reached tho oummlt of Mount Mc
Klnloy ns ho had clnlmod.
Tho peak chosen by Dr. Cook for
tho fnko photograph has certain
topographical resoinblancos to tho
summit of Mount McKlnloy hut Is of
auolhor peak 10 miles away and only
lO'.OOO feet high.
NO AMERICAN FLAGS'
WANTED IN CANADA
SASKATOON. Snhk.. Am?. 13.
While mi American circus waa parad
ing bore this morning u squad of
Northwest Mounted I'olioo and a par
ty of citizens compelled the cirous
lunungeiueiit to take down all tbo
American flags they wero flying,
H
AGAIN
BAN
FAKIR
WILSON DEUVEHINQ HIS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
FIVE LOSE LIFE
KKKCHELUS, Wnh'n.. Aug 13.
As a result of the wreck of the
Olympian, tbo Milwaukee's crack
train, when the regulnr engine and
the helper jumped tho track nt the
bridge over the Coal Creek late yes
terday tifternoon, dragging tbo ox
press and baggage ears and day
coach with them to tbo creek bed
forty feet below killing five persons,
traffic is blocked today and the
trnins nro being run over tbo North
ern Pacifio track. It is expected
that tbo trncks will be cleared toniglirrj
The dead: Mrs. Simon Jurich. 201
Western Avenue, Seattle; Engineer
Al Townsend, Salem, Ore.;Kngineor
Henry Noble, Seattlo; Firemnn J. II.
Thimhell, Cedar Falls; and Fireman
II. Spencer, Taeoma.
Three persons were injured but will
recover. '
The train wns approaching the
summit of the Cascade Mountains
when tho forward tender wn de
railed. The Pullmans nud tourist
sleepers, dining nnd observation cars
and one baggage ear stayed on tho
rails.
K. C. Snyder, returning from the
Bull Moose convention, to which he
was a delegate said today that many
lives in tbo rear half of tho train
wero sned by the weight of the steel
baggnge ear which, though it loft
the rails, was too heavy to bo pulled
off the bridge.
WOMAN FALLS FROM TOP
OF PINNACLE PEAK
TACOMA, Wn., Aug. 13. Siezed
by dizziness as she gazen down from
tho summit of Pinnacle Peak yester
day, Miss Charlotte Hunt, ngod 30,
a Seattle school toacber, suddenly
pitched oil into space, her body being
picked up by other members if the
pleasure party 800 feot below in
Paradise valley. It was curried lo
the railroad in n pallet' of alpenstocks
and blankets by men nnd arrived ;,i
Taeoma earlv todav. Neailv everv
bone in the body bad been broken.
The other women, unnerved bv tho
accident were carried down the moun
tain by the men. Miss Hunt's mother
livus at Tama, Iowa.
WEST VIRGINIA MINERS
TO STRIKE AS PROTEST
CHARLESTON, W. Va., Aug. 13
As a statewide protest to tho notion
of tho authorities in sending militia
to the mines in tho Paint Creek
district, 70,000 coal miners in West
Virginia e.xpoet to bo called hit today,
At present (hero are 10,000 men on
stiiko in the district.
IN THE CASCADES
OF ACCEPTANCE.
STEAMER
STRIKES
AT SEA
MONTREAL, Quebec. Auiz. 13.
AH efforts by coast wireless stations
today to gel in touch with the Allan
Line Steamship Corsienn, carrying
200 passengers bound for Liverpool,,
which struck an iceberg late yester
day eas of Belle 1-le, near New
Fiundlnnd, so fur have failed. It is
not beliieved here that the vessel wns
seriously damaged. A messnge from
Captain Cook of the Corsienn in re
porting the accident to Allan Line
officials, said:
"Corsienn struck iceberg this after
noon. Stern injured above water
line. Ship taking no water. Will
prooed."
Officials of tho Allan Lino an
nounced later In the day that they
had received a second wireless report
from Captain Cook giving further de
tails and confirming his earlier mes
sage thnt tho Corsclan was not eer
ously damaged.
Tho second message stated that
tho engines of tho vessels wero re
versed when tha Iceberg was sighted;
that It merely touched tho bow, and
that tho slight damage sustained was
confined to that portion of tho liner
aim tho waterllne.
GOULD LINES FEATURE
OF
NEW YORK, Aug. 13. Tho fea
ture of today's stock market was tho
strength of tho Gould issues and Erie.
Donvor nnd Rio Grando preferred
rose one, Tho 11111 Issues, Canadian
Pacific and Unitod States Steel wore
heavy. Tho tread of tho market wns
generally upward, and all stocks
fared bettor.
Tho market closod Btrong.
Bonds wero Irregular.
WATER FLOW
YEAR
PANAMA CANAL
WASHINGTON, Aug. 111. If ex
cavation continues at tho paco set
during July, it is expected Unit water
.will bo flowing within a year whore
tho great steam shovols today oro
working on tho Panama Cunal.
Ropoits publisbod hero today sjiow
that during July 2, (l!)3,f)38 cubic
yards of rock and earth were taken
out, compared with 2,1130,770 cubic
yards in June.
CEBERG
DAMAGES
SLIGHT
N HOWARD
I;
FAIALLY HURT
Meaner Details of Accident Reach His
Brothers, Horace and S. T. Jr., of
This City, Who Leave at Once for
Scene of Shooting, near Glemial
Is Interested in Medford Furniture &
Hardware Building Spent Time,
Here and in Glendale
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PROBABLY
Rev. John Howard, well known in
this city, being n brother of Horace
nnd S. T. Howard Jr., nnd interested
in tho Medford Furniture & Hardware
business block at Sixth nnd Central
wns probably fatally injured Tuesday
morning by being nccidently fthot,
while on a hunting trip about 20
miles from Qlendnie. Only meagre
details of the accident reached Med
ford, one report stating that doctors
find stnrted for the scene of th.
accident but with little hope of sav
ing Howard's life. Ho was shot
through the body. His brothers,
Horace nnd S. T. Jr., left immediately
in an automobile for the scene of tbo
accident.
Ilev. Mr. Howard wns well known
in this city. He is a singlo man nnd
divides bis time between Medford nud
Glendale where be has charge of tho
Presbyterinn church. Ho came to
Medford a few years ago and with
his brothers wns associated, with the
company which erected the Medfoni
Furniture & Hardware building, one
of the largest business blocks in
Medford.
Whether Mr. Howard wns shot by
another member of the party or
whether he accideutly disehurged , ij,(
gun is, not known. " Y.-
BURNS TO TESTIFY
E
NEW YORK, Aug. 13. District
Attorney Whitman nnd Detective
William J.' Bums met in tho criminal
court building here this, afternoon.
It was believed Bums would tectify
before tho trrand lurv toilnv nlmur
with eighteen other witnesses. Whit
man said be did not know just when
indictments would be returned.
District Attorney Whitman -today
investigated tho contents of Police
Lieutenants Becker's safe deposit box
nt tho Madison Safe Deposit com
pany. It wns learned that Mrs.
Becker made t fourteen visits there
between November nnd June.
OF
BECKER
REIGN
TERROR
raw
MURDER
F 2 MEXCANS
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 13. Accord
ing to advices received hero today,
a state of terror exists in Ixtnpt,
following tho slaughter of 200 natives
by a baud of Zapatistas who halted
thero on tho march to Tolucn, capital
of tho state of Mexico, only fifteen
miles noih. The town was gnrrisonod
by about 100 rurales.
Fighting occurred earlier in the ,
day near Tenciuo, and 000 federals
thero defeated the rebels.
lu a canyon north of Ticumnn, jllO
miles enst of Mexico City, a force
of Zapatistas attacked a passenger
train, and from ambush slaughtered
!I(J soldiers and more than 20 pas
sengors, aftorwards sotting fire to
tho train, according to meagre detailH
received bore, A fow of tho wounded
crawled out of tho way, thus esunp
iug the fate of those unnble to leave
tbo cars who wore bunted.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. Tkat ,
American lives and property art,
threatened hy the firing across the
international boundary if Mexiaaii
rebels concentrated at, Jusrex, w'hh'
tho message receiver here ,ody hy,
tho state department front Colonel
Steevor, commanding the Unittui
States troops & El Phso, Sltiever ,
denied reports Ihat a force of rbtn
had crosed into Arizona. -, . i
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