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Newspaper Page TextHi. b ffrenon ll!toTlcal Ji City Hall Medtord Mail Tribune SECOND EDITION WEATHER IUIr tonight and Tnwwlay Mux. m Mitt, 4M. rirty-Pimt1 Tr. hnlly Hovrnili Yi-nr. .MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SRPTBM W3It 30, 1912. NO. 163, 'a.1 K i. i -i .' TURNING LIGHT ON CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS Scunto Commlttco Resumes Probe With Son of Former Treasurer on Stnnd Bliss' Letters Fall to Men tion Standard Oil Contributions. Letter to Bliss From Roosevelt Is Rend In Which Colonel Degs Him to Act Bliss Durncd Papers. WASHINGTON', Sept. ao. Tim IllOht HWflCpillg in vestigation of "big 1 business" iii io!i - tics nvcr liiilit in IliD United States was begun Iniluy by ii Hict'jii hi'iiulo committee. Fiiinii- rial and, political giants of Hut mi (ion aro iiwaitiiu: &&5S3.' witness stand or deal. How fur has "big business" gone in , influencing legislation in both Hki Hmulii "nil Iiouhu? Miut hcuntors ami representa tives linvi) been in intimate eorro Ioiiiiiicu with "trust" heads f TIu'ho arc some of the princip-il questions (o bo brought out by scores of wilncn-es ordered to appear bc forn (bo oommitcoo Tim investigation loiliiy in being conducted by n sclent committee of fivn fcnutorH under uitlbority of Hid SOCItllcd "PeiirOHO ri'HOllllioil" pUMU'd by illuminate lunt August just be forn congress adjourned. Senator Clnpp, tlin Miuiicnntn progressive in clintr iiiiin. Other committeemen nro Keiin tiir'Ollver,(rep.,';Pu.), Jones, (rep., Wash.), Poiuoniuo, (Dtin., ().), unit Pnynlor, (l)i'iii,, Ky.) Awaiting examination regarding campaign contributions nro Col. Roosevelt, George II. Cork'l.viiii, Geo. W. Perkins, Cornelius N. Hliss, jr., Sitnalor Dixml, Roosevelt's cipopnigu manager; Treasurer Sheldon of the nulioiinl republican committee, unit iiutf-eouvciitiou managers of do v. Woodrow Wilson, Speaker Clark, Rrp. Oscar Underwood, Gov. liar tnoii, of Ohio, nml other candidates at tbu icecut party conventions. Illlxs Called First Cornelius Miss of Now York wns tho i I rut witness called by t ho iiunnto ciiinpulKii contributions Invosllga (Ion rommlttco hern todny when tho prober renewed thulr Investigation of contribution to tho republican cam PhIrii of 1 1 0 1 . Wins Ih n sou of tho Into CornclltiH N. IIIIhh who wan treasurer of tho republican niitlonnl committee In MO. John I). Archbobl (ontlttod rccoiil ly Hint tho Htaiitlard Oil Co. contrl liutoil $125,000 to tho republicans In UiOl, tho inoiioy being paid to tho treasurer. Thoddnro Roosevelt who headed tho republican tlckul In 100 1 (Continued on Pntro Thrcii) E CAItSON, Nov., Hoot. 30. Picking the lock of hlu coll In tho doath chnmbor of tbo Htato ponltonUnry hero, Fred HMunnr, sentenced to dlo for tho murtlqr of a woman at Hliyo lite, panned through tho gallows room which had noon propnrod for hla oxo cation and ucalod tho Jail yard to anfoty. Sklunor eHcapod yoatorday hut tho fuel wiih kept Hucrot until to day. Tho oBcnpo wiifl ono of tho niont daring In tho hUtory ot tho peni tentiary, Sklunor, an oxport uloo trlolun, hud boon feigning liifmnlty. Ho oft a dummy In hlu bod In tho douthcoll, fooling tho guarda who inado hourly rounds. Making Ills way to tho prison yard through tho gallows room. Skinner wont to tho electric. foncp guarding tho Rotith outlet. Ilo Hhort-clroultcd tho cur rent and climbed over. Thon bo ro stored tho circuit and flod to the luouutiUipj, 1H M&V. ITOHniviti Jsr BHJ m MNED MAN PICKS H MAKES CUMFT ETFGETAWAY I IS HANDED ROAST I t 1 , Hi Htule Printer IHinnhmy RICHARDSON. BEAR STATE PRINTER, IS KACKAMKN'TO. Si-pl. ;IU. KiimhI Willinin llii'liiirilhiui, htntc printer for Ciilifoinin, Iiiim jiiHt loccni'il from Orvpoii Home iutori'Mtm-; Htntt'ini'tils roiii'uriiin bin nffh'u wbicb are lio- 1 1 1 tc j 1 1 1 1 1 i m I n.' 1 1 tliroii)boiit Orison by WilhH Uiitmiwuy who ih Irving to ili'fi'iit an iniliiitisii miMir.iiri' that will remove bim us Main printer in thai rommonui'allli. Tin; Oregon official ik bobliii up Itit'liuroVoii'ri offii'u Uh a Hbamo ami xraiulal ami Iticliaril hoii in mighty wmtb. Duuiiiway, while known mIuU1 printrr, i tucroly lilrcil to ilo tbo rttati) prinliuc nl contract ratcM. He hires non-union printorx. IK Ik mak ing a laili expenditure for adver Umiic to defeat no initiative bill drafted by tho Portland eentral la bor council. Tho bill iiIh the Mate printrr t'n.nyihiry, jiuil provTdw that bo'Miall "oator'lnto'a coutrarl" for the labor to bo performed. That meatiH that lie mint cuter into a con tract with tbo (utcrnatioual Typo graphical ami other unions in the priuliiitf. Diinniway, Kicliarilfon in inform ed, pies into tho iiownnpern with ficurcri which purport to hhow that Htatc-owucd priutiiii- ptniitn are ul ways UHOii for raft ami ruinous es travacanco. Ho ipiotes fipires from tbu malodorous Shannon leime in Californm, but makes it appear that tin name condition now prevails. Y DOCniiAH, ArU , Sopt 30 Uofu Keen from Southern Kouora thlit mora liii; Hay that tit lenat 1,000 YaipiU aro on tho warpath la tho wild country of (iunyimiH ami nil tho rondo nro un- Htlfo. Tho rofitKoox uIho lirliiR reportn that tho rubul iloiroilattonn havo rend ered thoiiHatiilH homoloHH throiiKliout Houorn nml nx fow cropH havo boon planted tlioy nro faeliiK a condition of famluo. Tho rubolH turned tholr horweu Iooho Into tho floldn, whoro tho KrowhiK eropti wore, and killed tho cattle of tho Hottlom. LEADERS HEAVY EUN W H MAN HI NORTHERN MEXICO ON SIB MARKET LLOYD-GEORGE IS .NKW YOHIC, Sepl. :il).Heaviuess in tlionaderH, including Steel, Head ing, Amalgamated and Union Paoifiu, featured today's stock market at the opening. Substantial gains, howovor, in soveral specialties including Paci fic! Mail, and Lackawanna Stool, the latter advancing three points, offset in a measure this heaviness. Conflicting conditions of various sorts tended to givo an irregular touo to tho market. Loudon's final quo tations for American shares were lower, followed by heavy Helling for London account on tbu opening hero, Money oponotl nl Hix per cent and soon advanced to (I l-'J, cunning a Hotbuok of operations. American bankers soourod more than $5,000,000 gold in Loudon. The inarket closed strong. Uomls wero steady, TRIAL 0 LEADERS OPENS ATSA1EH MA After Lylnu In Jail for Seven Months J. J. Ettor, A. Glovcnnltti and A. Caruso Arc Brought to Trial In Superior Court Murder Is Charge Case Attracts Moro Attention Than Any Olher Since Moycr-Haywood Pcttlhonc Trial In Idaho. li.WVIfiCNCK, .IfiifH., Sct. :w. Krct'iliiK even (lit lirnlalllltvi In flicted licro upon tfxlUc xtrlkcrn tlur liiK tliii lalxii' war, l.n)n-iuo Mdlcc, In n riot this afternoon owed clulx, lilnckJnrkH nml even vtituou Ioiikuch In n (rrrlblo puul.liinciit ileal t out in union men who went out on it one day Htrlkc as u protrM aialnht tho Hltor anil Mlovniiulttl Irlnls In Kuleiu. More (linn i netiro vcrr hurt nml iimny ii rr ex ted early toibiy when u roll Marled at the Wood nml Ayer mills hut tho climax of Ilia trouble rnmo this nfirniiMiii t the Hirrt'lt mill. Ah (Iioho who krtit nt work wcrr rciurnliiK from lunch n hnml of strikers appeared on the hccjio. Home tnuutn iii'iti hurled nml In a mlnuto tin Millrn roerveH, hlnck JntkH and Mugon (oncur In hand, eharned on the Mrlkcrn. Scorcn were knocked KcnM'lest and minis of them, lyluj; unconscious on the Kround, wrro iH-nteu fearfully. SAhH.M, Miish., Sept. III). - -.losepli .). llttor, Alturo (lioveiinitti ami An tonia ('nriiM after lyiu in jail al Lawrence, Mush., since January .10, bail uiiwux been rufiiH'il by tlic courtri duriiiK Hut huven montliH of their incarceration, were brought to trial today in the superior court. Kttpr, ami Oiovunnitti, bold, of. New York-, nre orKiiu'ucrK for tho Indus- trial Workers of the World. They aro ciiarued witn iicinj: accessories before tbo fact to the murder of An nie Lopimi, (ho woman striker, shot during a clardi between police and mill operatives in Lawence, on Mon day, January 27. Caruso is charged with murder in the fiit drumo in connection with the woman's death. Attracts Much Attention No trip I of n labor leader in the United States, excepting tbo McNa mara and the fatuous Moycr-Hay-wood-I'ettiboiie trial in Idaho, bus attracted such attention as today's. The history of tbo cumj dates back to tho passage by tbo Icptdaturc of Massachusetts tbo law limiting tho working week in industrial iiihlitn (ions to 51 hours. Mill owners and other big employers of labor through out the htate bud fought the passage of such a law bitteily and witli ev ery poshible weaMiu. It was finally passed, however, to go into effect on January 1, 1DIU. For months prior to tbo fir-,t of tho year, organizers for Industrial Workers of tbu World, bud been quietly organizing the un skilled labor of Lawrence's great mill system which include tho Amer ican Woolen company. On the first pay day aftor tho 51-hour ti week hud gone into effect, the men, wom en, boys and girls who worked in the mills found that in every iustattee they bad boon docked two hours llll i t t . it it i pay liiu uiii( mctmngs nt mo va nous lumoniutuus' wwro aro some forty working in tho Law ronoo mills (Continued on Page Tiireo) LONDON, Sept. 30. llritibli land owners allowed anxiety today at the news that Chancellor of tho Excheq uer Lloyil-Oeorgo will ho ready either October 7, when pailiiimeiit ro-eou-venos, or very soon afterwards, def initely to announce details of his program for "freeing the laud for the bonofit Of the people." "Lloyd-Georgo is at heart n singlo taxcr," said ono of his closest friends and advisors an American, today. "Ah u practical statesman," ho continued, "George appreciates that it would not do to nttemp to put Eng land on a single tax basis all at once but that this is the end toward which ho is working. Ho proposes, by ever increasing taxes on laud to break up tho jam-monopoly," A SINGLE-TAXER it:trr. i, n. r, r-u. L EXPLOSION ST INJURES THREE Ah the result of an explosion in tbo Hu7.r.urd mine Sunday morning, II. A. Gardner of this city lies near death while Mark Applcgate and W. McSlnunhan, a blacksmith, were ser iously injured. Several shots were placed in tbo initio nt an early hour Sunday. All but one exploded and, after watting two hours, the men ro-entered the mine ami began picking out tho charge The uuexplodcd ohnrgc then wont off. Dr. K. II. Porter was summoned from this city, tie did not reach the sccno until late in the afternoon but states that he believes all will recov er, although Gardner was very badly injured. TAFTITES TAKE CASE INTO THE COURTS SAN FHANCISCO, Sept. :t0 Tall leaders hero today expect to make application in tho state supreme court for a writ of maudato to compel Secretary of State Jordan to put the designatien: "Republican" after the thirteen electors nominated by tho bolting Tuft minority ut the Sacra mento convention and to refm-o the designation to the Koosuvelt electors chosen by the majority. Tho mandamus is sought on the ground that the ball moosers, being no longer "republicans" havo no right to convene as republicans, nor to put on the ballot electors who will go on us republicans bat decline to vote for tbu lepiiblicau nominee, Tuft. MYSTERY STILL SURROUNDS FINDING OF BABY'S CORPSE I.OS ANGELKS, Sept. :it). Mys tery still surrounds tho finding of ,i two "months old baby crushed into a fruitbox and lef in tho men's public room of a Ios Angeles skyscraper early last week. Although hundreds of men and wo men havo viewed tho remains of tho child none could see auv resemblance to any child tlioy Know. Tho coroner declares ho will not bury tho body until every effort has been exhausted to ascertain the iden tity of and locate the parents or per-' sous who kjlM the buby, BUZZARD MINE ANOTHER VOLUNTEER MUCHWORKUNDER WAY IN CITY AT THE PRESENT TIME Planking on the new bridge across Ik'iir creek, on Jacksou boulevard is nearly fiuNhcd. This work will prac tically complete Mr. Perhnm's con tract, which, i in fact, completes the structure and opens it for travel in so far us his contract goes, but Street Commissioner IJokcr will need to fill in considerable dirt mid gravel at tbo east cm! approach before the bridge can be used for vehicle travel. Jacksou boulevard from the bridge cast about l'JOO feet to the pavement has been neither graded nor graveled and in its present condition would not bo passable during tho winter mouths, but this distance is to be graded, one small culvert put in and gnneled so that at least light veh icles can travel it during tho coming winter. Four of the footings for the new concrete bridge across Pear creek, on Main street arc already in and work is progressing rapidly on the other five footings required for the support of the now concrete struct lure. All these footings will bo put in before the actual bridge construc tion woik will bo commenced, this all being done ut this time in order to ho able to keep nway from high water which might interfere with this sub-structural work. Mr. Pcrhnm is jiorsonully superintending every part of this hub-structural work and ho. is unquestionably doing u good, service able piece of work. The excavations tuado for these footings uverago ten feet in depth, some of Ihem being fifteen feet deep. Tbo work of excavating lias been exceptionally difficult because of tho great amount of water encountered, but all of them havo boon puvdown to a solid cement gravel foundation. Other city improvements being made is the oil macadam paving be ing put in on Taylor street, by Shaw & Sehuell. The work is nearly com pleted nml will bo an experiment in this kind of paving, An eight-inch sewer is being put in for a distance of four blacks on Poitland u venue by Chelgren llros. Leonard Pros, have the ouibiiig all in on West Eleventh street oxcopt in a few places where largo shado trcos on the parking have interfered. SOFIA, Sopt, 30. Proclamation for tho mobilization of tho Bulgarian army was tuado by tho government horo toduy. Tuts step wms tnkon, It was announced, because of alarming nowB received horo concerning the concentration of Turkish troops a .2 T. OF GP.ANTS PASS, Or., Sept. 30. -Jessie Lnyton Rich has brought suit in the circuit court of this county asking that the marriage contract en tered into by her with Lawrence R. Hich. on February 14, Inst, be an nulled. Tn the complaint Mrs. Rich alleges that Rich caused her to marry him through the falsa and fraudulent representations that bo was an un married mnn when in truth ho was a married mnn whoio wife wns then living nml uudivorced. Mrs. Rich asks that the marriage bo annulled, she bo given back her maiden name, that Rich pay the costs and disbursements of Hie suit and that she have such other relief as may bo equitable. Complaint 5u tho action was served on Rich in the county jail, where ho is still confined, the requited $1,000 for bond money not having been forthcoming. NEW YORK, Sept. 30. Manugar John J. McGraw of the New York Nationals is today incensed at tho btntemeut made by Horace Kogel, owner of tho Philadelphia Nationals that umpires stole games for the New York Gianls. McGrnw said: "Fogcl and Murphy ought to be mudo to prove their wild assertions Hint umpires gave tho New York Giants tho pennant. Tlioy should bo forced to prove them or bo driven, out of baseball. It is strange, they're the only club owners casting reflections upon tho honesty of tho game." IRRIGATION CONGRESS OPENS AT SALT LAKE CITY SALT LAKE CITY Utah, Sept. 30. With tho Mormon tabernac,Io choir singing tho "Irrigation Ode," tio twentieth irrigation congress opened in the Mormon tabernacle hero today. Irrigation experts nro horo from every btutu, and most of tho foreign countries, Tho sessions will last four days during which discussions of toohiiioulitiea of irrigation will be taken up by the delegates. Many prominent men are scheduled to apouk, MR RICH ASKS ANNULLMEN HR MARRIAGE M'GRf ANGERED BY FUEL'S CHARGE UNCLESAMMAY TAKEHANDSOON MEXICAN WAR Only Outlook Is an Endless Continua tion of Revolution, Anarchy and Ruin From One End of Republic ts the Other. Conditions in Mexico Are Said ts le Far Worse Now Than They Have Ever Been Before. MEXICO CITY, Sept. 10. The government is not sufficiently strong to crush tho rebellion and the rebel arc not strong enough to overthrow the Mndcro administration, so that thi only outlook is an endless contin uation of revolution, anarchy and ruin from one end of Mexico to tho other. Thte will continue until "Uncle Sam h forced to intervene and end the trouble. Intelligent and unbiased opinion thus summed up the Moxicnn situa tion here todny following report cir culated in Washington that President Taft may call nn extra session of congress to authorize the sending of American troops across the border. Conditions Very Kail As a matter of cold fact, condi tions arc said to be far worse in Mexico today than they have ever been and aro getting worse all the time. Pence loving- citizens here to day privately admit they would wel come American invasion. Mexico has. no money to" prosecute, a Xoreijrn war and she could not mobilize an army sufficiently largo to adequately op pose the large and -well equipped, ferpe tho "United -States couht throw into this country on short Order. The republic could be Ukftfi U tkhV; twie and without a great loss. Eve Mexican patriots concede' this. But the pacification of Mexico and the restoration of peace and prosperity it is said, would be a far harder task. Undo Sam to Act In diplomatic circles just removed from the inner rinj- it is firmly be lieved that Maderp has been given lo understand by tho United States that'" the rebels must be crushed and decent conditions brought about within a specified time. Ambassador Wilson is said to have delivered a message to that effect from President Taft to Preuident Ma- dero. Mudero admits ho is at his wits end. He grows more unpopular every day and knows it- Ho knows there is likely to bo an uprising here in tho capital at any time. Uncle Sum May Act LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30. While diplomats arc avoiding any expre. (Coutinued on Pae Three) r-nirrfc4 TEDDYANDTAFTARE LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. 30. Speak ing through the editorial colmuns of The Commoner, William Jennings Bryan today professes to soe no es sential dlfferenco botwequ Preoldeut William II. Taft and Colonel TUeo doro Koosovolt. Doth stand, he says, for most of tho republican party's policies and tho causo for contention lu that each wants to be president. ''Qn essentials," sayu the editorial, ".Mr. Taft and Mr. Roosevelttare not far apart. Thoy agree on the tariff. It otlthor ono will write out his views on tho subject the other will have no difficulty In endorsing them. They both tako tho side ot the trusts against tho peoplo and the trust mag nates aro divided between them. Thoy agreo In applauding -the deci sion of the supreme court In ejacu lating the criminal anti-trust law, Thoy both favor Imperialism and they both prefer national to state reme dies. Tho chief point ef dlffereaee on national Issues saeias to be that thoy both want the same offlee. It would not be difficult fsr mm wh think as Mr. Taft awdssMreU, 4 to get together but far.lhelr fca'tfwt of each other," . BRYAN DECLARES OF SAME OPINION 111 VI 1 rfIfi'l m ' ? OJ, r fu