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1 3 Medford Mail Tribune SECOND EDITION WEATHER Kulr tonight nnd Hntuntny. Max. KJ, Mln. -IN, ft KoMythlrd Vvnr, Ually KlKhth Yor. MEDFORD, Oltl'XION, l?ItII)AY, .MAY 2.'5, 1 01. 'I. No. 53. ?Jflon HhMw z"7 Second Sirtct JAPS KNEEL IN STET TO PRAY I GREEKS FIGHT i OR Mlkntlo's Temperature Hluhcr nml Contllllon Serious Pnnulnco In Trrtor Deve0imcnti lit Dispute Over Lnntl Lnw not Made Public. BUL6ARS OVER SPOLS 0 1 Stnte Department Think Illness Will not Interfere with Diplomatic Ne gotiations Chimin Is Dusy. Kltin Constantlne Leaves Athens for Salorlka to Assume Personal Com-ninmlt-Wllil Enthusiasm Amonq Populace Support Protest, FORCIBLY FEEDING A MILITANT SUFFRAGETTE IN AN ENGLI8H PRISON . j ft! WHICH IS NOW ABANDONED BECAUSE OF PUBLIC OUTCRY WAHIIINOTON, May ffil. Mom. hern of Iho Mate department hero do nol (n.'linvp lotlny that llm Mikado's illmrif will Inleifcro with tlm illph). inn I r negotiations mm a result nf lite Culitinifii bind lnw. Ambassador Chimin U preparing tlm JiipniioMi re joinder iiiiiIit cabled Instructions fruiii I lit Tokln foreign office, ll probably will he presented In Score liiry Hryiiu arty next week. TOKIO, May '. Allhough nffi. ollll lllllll'tillM issued III till) palace, III- ilnv ritrttlt thai there U little cause for nliinii, I In1 (Mipiiliifn of Tokio H in li'rriir lot Kmpcror Yolmllilln should succumb In piioiunonlii, nml HMiri'M or rcMiueuis tunny otieiuy kiH'll in the slroctM lo prny for llm life of their Mikmln. The orririul bulletin luilnv mil tninod little detail of llm emperor's COUllitiotl, llllt it U Hllill llinl llH trmpemturo has risen to lOH.-IO, III" pulse o IH) nml lilx it pi rut ion lo :il). Muring I ho pusl Iwciity-.four hour i U reported IiIm lciiiKmturr ranged from IMMA to 10:,j. One nr-tlio-Xirxt visitor tit tho Im. I w rm I I'nlnco wok Arthur lllnnohnrd secretnry ami char tl'nffiiint of Hie United Stnlc cmhnssy, lli on quired n to llm uniporor'n comllliau, nml nssined Hie Japanese govern inriil llinl tin gravest concern w fell in llm UjiIU'iI Slntos for llm health of Iho Ntrii'ki'ii ruler. No developments in Ilia Jnpnnsos. American trlmiK over Ihu Culi funiin uuti-nliou Innd lnw Imvo he mum public here, mul it is oxiwetcd llinl llm fori'iKii office will not pub lish Iho text nf the Aiiiprii'iin roply to Japan's protest while tho life of llm emperor in in danger. Land In Question Won by Greeks and Attempt Made by Bulrjars to Occu py Peaco Negotiations Progress. NOKIA, Mny UII. Ait official stulriimul issued heto lotlny declares tlm (lioekt wcio the aggrcssives in Iho clash now In progress between Hnlgniiuu nml MitI; troops nenr Hiilonlou, ATIICKH, Mny SKI. King Con sluntiim of (Iri'i'co nml his .lnff Mtnrlril from Allu'im toilny for Hu olili'li, wliero tho kiilk' will I like kt mimiiI roiiimuml of the Oreok (niopx mIhoIi tire in eonfliel nenr there with iliilKiirinnn. Tim crenleNi enlhiikliiHtn prewiilcil tliripiiliuiit Iho eily when Iho kinc do purled Ihin iifleriioiin mid the temper of Iho Hpnlneo hhoived tlml they would hrnrlily HiipMirl the (overn- merit tlm limit in prnteHtinc from Iliilunrinn nj;(;reH'mii tlm territory won from Turkey hy (I reck lilnml mul trrriNiiro. It in helieed hero, how. over, tlml llm otilhrenkH lietweeu tho (IreckK nml Millennium nenr Salon ikn will Im eoiiipoHed heforo limy lend to mi open mid neneral rupt r he twren (Ireere mid Hulnrm. wiiWiPr WrrSkt' &Jafelvv HHHHIH VPJI JiHwawaVaBK ''JBBBBBBBBWawaVJ MHlHHBBHHHEaHBBHHHBBHHHBH F, ARMERS FACE N BY A ENS STATES SISSON Unrestricted Admission of Orientals Spells Disaster for American Grow ersGovernment Exceeds Rlflhls In Making "Equal Nation" Treaty. PEAR CROP TO EQUAL APPLE IN MEDFORD REGION Probably a Couple Hundred More Cars of Pears Set Than First Es tlmated Drop Light In Most Or chardsGood Prices Indicated. Prostitution of Authority to use Coer cion against a state seeking to Protect Itself. IVnilile feeding limr prnetmnlly j burning hogim, hut wliwt nho rrfiKnl ' lo iet picture of dim oporhliou, nml GIRLS PROSTRATED Imen nhnmloiied in Oront llrilmuj l'' ' row woaklrlhi; Hriti-.lt Mnoe ilrt failure new. ml wwlw no in' V'"m wnXM K,Wnw '". ... ,, ,, . .. decidod on n now cuiiroo. Mm wm tlinrann of Mm. I'nnkhurM. Wic f , . , , , wiim Hont to pri-oti for a ou lenn Jlcrrlofore, Iho Hnlo-h pnoni when Iho cnmpuii;ii nf homhs mid itiient would not permit pliotoxrapherH Mm one Miowu lieru in the firxt to oomo to the I'mtcd Slater. In (Ids picture it will Ih neon that the phy hieinu in chargo w jwdiriuj: liipiid food down the mouth of the reonlci trant olC( for women Jiilvocnlo. HT, THREE MONARCHS E EXCHANG VIEWS IIKHLIN, May W.- AHIiuiibIi KaiHi-r Willmlni, Kiui; flonrifo of IJui; laud mid Cxar NMrlmliiH of Hiiuhiu are freely frnlornitiui; hero, iiuthiii); ri'hi'iuliliiiK n formul eoufeieueo of the nilerrt on national polioloH Iiiik yet been hold, ll In Kcuornlly believed, however, Hint tho three umimreliH are freely (xohnniliifr tholr views on Hu lopemi )ilillert mid it I felt that llm mnrrliiKd of tho Prinoosn Vie loriu I,iii!ho mid l'rinee K.rnest of ('tiiiiheilmid may yet u'o down In liU tory im Iho uvuul whleh iimrkcd mi era of hullor rolutlutiH belween (lor inaiiy, Kiiulaud mid IfiHuin. While, tho nmnurelm are holiiioh- IiIiil'. iireparathuiM for Iho uiiplial event art) coiiHtaully Iii'Iiik pushed. Tho capital in uy iih over in its his tory, tho hotels am jammed with visilorM and ovory pliiru in tho oily is alive with Hi;litseoinj; imlables from ul over Europe. NBW YOHK, Afay 8.1. A now low leeftrd fot' California Petroleum was established in tm stoek maiket today when it foil to Mfi'j. St. Louis mid Nan KrnnolHoo first preferred lost threo. WoHtorn Maryland nd viinccd two, hut tho Konural list was heavy, Intor HI. Louis and San Frauolsco 1'irHt proforrod InoronHod i)H loss to five points. Pennsylvania ronohud it now low level at 1011. HoiiiIh wore. Irregular, Tlm itiurkut olonuil fnhly atuady. I ntltu t.. i... . i ..HI. , ..wv.i", .mi.., jiw - "- (ul ntury of bow mulcrpiiltl RlrU are overcome by heat In laiimlrlen ilur- inc tin mimmer month win told In tlm Hlate neunlo wuko irolm commit, too horo toilny by n buiullo w nppor. Tho wUiiixh, n lCycnr-old ;('. ro uhoil &, 95 a week. hunt KUinumr, ho tmtlfleil, hliu faw lx fclrlM oorcomo by heat nni'.j lurried out. Hhu uitmlttod that a phyxlclun was kept near durlui; tho hot monlliN, but aid no emereii?) l.(Hilial arruiiKouieutu were uo vblod. Another itlrl founded that ft bo l.i ii workhiK In Ihu h.vuio l-auilry wliea who wan 14 yonm old. 000 FELLOWS LEAVE CITY ARER CONVENTION Tho oxoiliiH or llm convention ! Horn bui;au Thurailay ovohIiik at T o'clock whou tho upeclat train for tho north pulled out. Many o( tho delo- riUch Htnyod over until mornlUK. tbo Klk ontortalnliiK tlumo who woro membara ot that order. Tliu Klamath KiiIIn duloKatlnn, tho flral to urrlvu, Is alHo tho InHt to leavo, iih mn uy of tbom nro ntlll In tho city. During tho piirado Wednesday a hnrHo ran away and wan ho badly In jured that It had to bo killed A collection taken up at tho tumid lodao hohmIou paid tho owner, a hoiuo Htoador, fur IiIh oh. PRISON TERM FOR ASK THAW BRIBE NinV YOIIIC, May 2M. Convicted or MeokliiK, by brlbory, to rreo J lurry K, Thaw trom Mntttuwonn UBylum, ttomoy John Anluit va suntoneed horo today to Boryo from two to four years In Blag Blag prison, Auluit wih doolarod by Dr. John HiihhuII, formor HUiorlntoudout of Mattowonn, to Imvo uppronchod lilm with a S!!0,000 brlbo. Thaw, on tho wltnouR utaiid horo, corroborated IlltHMnll'H HlnrV Hllfrlllilllllv In in.ilni Jnliut'B conviction, LA FOLLEHE HITS DEMOCRATIC WAY OF TARIFF MAKING MADISON, Wis., Mnv 23. I'mlrr tho caption of "tariff makiuc; in tho dark," Senator Hubert M. I.aKollello of Wiseoiihin, in Iho current issue of Lnr'olictlo's Weekly, discusscH the defeat nf his proposal to instruet the seuntii fiumieo committeo to exam ine manufacturers, "So tariff legislation under demo eralie control is lo proceed exactly as under republican control, Iho editor ial Htiyn ill pari. "Tho Kulijoot Is not to be treated as an economic prob lem. It is lo bo Iho stake in a parti sou boxing game mid tho American people nro to suffer- tlm conse quences. "The Payne Inriff hill raised rales regardless of llm loudens in flicted on Iho consumer. Tbo course of democratic, -icmitors indi cates Iho Underwood"Fimmons, hill will fix rales regardless of the piico of production mid the wrongs it wilt inflict on wage earners mid legiti mate industry," PEOPLE INCAPABLE 'THREE CORNERED KILLED BY TRAIN iOUTr.A7n, Ore, Mny 23. An examination of Ills personal oru:c'.s today rovcaled tlm fact Hint A. I.o berg, .killed by an electric train wn none other than Alexander l.n'cTmrg, mi Austrian professor who caused a Fcnsntlou in a number of coiu. cit ies by Ills advocacy of sun worship- lug. On nrcount of his pocullnr teach ing ho wnu arrested oncu In Tacoma and ouro In Portland on a charge of Insanity, but an examination showed that bis mliul was more than ordi narily acute mid advanced. OF MAKING LAWS DECLAREfRIPPEY SANTA UAIMIAKA, Cat., Muy 23. Thnt tho peoplo aro no more cap nblo of making their own laws thin tficlr own shoe, nnd that California's stato Kovernnmnt Is tho worst of oil Is tho declaration today or Presi dent K. P. Itlpley, of tho Santa Ko railroad, who started today for Chi cago. The one redeeming fenturo of California's government, ho said, Is Its public utilities uct. Regarding the tariff changes be ing negotiated by the democratic fed oral administration, nnd tho pro posed Income tax, Itlpley declared they wero "not objectionable" nnd Intimated that some good might co mo from experiments with each. Ho uttnckoil tho Wilson admlnlitr tlon, however, for Its suggested ple.n to Invcutlgaic wngu schediittM. de claring Ihut difficulties bvUeo-i cap ital nnd labor cannot bo ndhMcd l.y law as they luvolvo u voiuuti.ry ngreomcut between employer i,nd employe. Tho railroad head was optimistic regarding tho present business out look, declaring that mUtukcu In gov ernment will not Injure propItv bo long as crop coudltlotiR tiro favor able. Itlpley flayed the present trout to ward radical legislation, decl-rlnK that such procedure Is advi-rso to stability of government. NO PROTESTS FILED THREE WOMEN GRADUATE FROM LAW DEPARTMENT PORTLAND, Ore., Mny 23. Among tho fifty-two students who Imvo today received limit degrees from tho lnw department of the University of Oregon nro three younjr women, Miss Nottn A. flarland, Miss Lydiu Alien May nnd Miss Gene vieve Thompson, mid two .Tnpnuoso, S. Zciiguchi and Seniehi Tomhiro, At tlm graduating exercises, Judge Guy O. II, Corliss, ox-chief justice of tlm North Dakota supreme, court, da. livvtcd Iho niincijml address, AGAINST A E FIGHT FOR MEAT TRADE OF WORLD CHICAGO, May JM. A three conicred fight by rival packers for the world s meat trade is in progress here today, according to the declara tions of Chicago stock yard officials. Lirnitlcs wealth is said to he be hind tho tluee factions and millions of dollars undoubtedly will he sacri ficed before supremacy is estah lUhcd. The priiicipills in the war nre business men f I.ns Angeles, who nre said to have raised $."1,000,000 to erect n union -tuck yards there; tho packers of Australia nnd Argen tine, mid the beef barons of Chicago, Kanxas City mid Onmhn. The hock ers of tho Ios Angeles movement are reported to have secured contracts with big entile ranch owners of Idaho, Wyoming, lTliii, New Mexico nnd Annum, who for yenn have been dealing with eastern stock yards, to Mnd their cattle to Lo Angeles, thus saving enormous sums in tranporlntion. Australia and Argentina expect to send their ments lo every stnto in tho country ns n re sult of the Mioeess their packers lime met with frozen meat in California, where it is being sold for four nnd five cents a pound less Hum the American product. Tho Chicago packers intend to retaliate, by invad ing the Loudon market nudf under selling the Australian and Argen tine packers. AUSTRALAN M I GUIS LIVING CO T WASHINGTON', May 23. No nek iiowledgmont ot labor protests against tbo appointment of Walter 11. Page as ambassador to tho court of St. James will bo made by tbo Amor lean Federation ot Uilior until Its executive offices convene next month. Secrotnry Trunk Morrison said to day that tliu federation ns yet lias received no formal complaint, al though It Is reported that tbo typo graphical union ot Loudon nnd tbo Contrul Federated union ot New York nro bitterly opposed to tbo for mer editor bf tho World's Work rop lesontliiR the United Stntoa In Lon don, and have requested that stepi bo takou to secure his withdrawal. Federation headquarters horo lists Pugo as a formidable opponent of unionism, SAN I-MIANCISCO, Cnl.. May 33.- "Flt for a king" was the vordlct to day of 300 men and women who at tended a bnnquot hero to test tho quality and food value of tbo ustru- linn meat with which Independent meat doalers are lowering the prlco of food In San Francisco. The bun. quot was given last night bv tho housowlves' league, and tbo guests were loud In tholr praises of tho im ported beer, lamb and mutton from tbo South seaa. T. A, Frleko of Victoria nnd Pat rick Hdward Cjulnn of Now South Wales, Australian commissioners, oxplalncd tho meat Invasion. "it Is not n mennco," tboy ..'aid, "but a boon to tho American house bold." Frleko maintained that Australia could furnish tho world with Us ia,cnt supply. WASHINGTON, .May 23.-I)ceInr- mg that unrestricted admission of nlicns would ruin the American fnr rnr hy throwing llm nation's land into the hands of a great corporation which would cop!o it with cheap im IHJrted labor, Heprouutntivtt Kisnon of Mi"dsipi continued in the house today his defense of tlm California alien laud legislation. The Missis. sippinn explained nt the outset thnt he did not intend to make n 'wnr Hjieech." Sisson's address was confined principally to the government's trea ty making- power. Ho nssortwl that the government had exceeded ill au thority in makiuc nn "equal nation" treaty with Jnpan. Ncgotlnl Publicly. Sisson demanded that hereafter nil treaties he negotiated publicly. He said in part "It is not n declaration nf war for the United Stotes to decline to ovcrrido tho righU of the sovereign stato at the dictation of n foreign power. If the American government, Vriih its nrtny. and nnvy nmlrutc force, which it has. fuiMior'to nny of tho stntcjv should tnko nwuy from nny Hafe the richt to control domestic concerns nnd deliver that stnte over to the tnerey of a flood of aliens then I tnnintnin that the federal pivernmont would prostitute its authority. Ilrlrut Farmers' Ituln. ''AVhnt would hecorae of tho Amer ican farmer of n corporation bought nil the best hinds in the country nnd cultivated them with Chinese, Japa nese, Hindu nnd other cheap lahort The great laud corjKimlion would es tablish its own commissary nnd compel its horde of aliens to pur chase everything fro nitho comlssary. It could make enormous profits and drive the independent fanner out of existence. "In California individuals nnd cor porations owning great tracts nre cultivating them with Hindu, Chi nese, Mexican and Japanese labor. These nre the men who desire to lease their lands for liiglt prices to this class ot labor." Reports From Eastern Reglens Shws Small Crop and Heavy Less From Frost and Freezes. After an exhaustive study of or chard conditions following an ex tended Inspection tour, Professo- O'Oara states thnt tlm probabilities arc that the pear crop In tho Medford district will equal tho apple crop at there will bo probably 200 cars ot pears moro than first estimated. Tho drop In most orchards has been very light and somo orchards, Men tint Creek, have record crops. The pros pect are that COO or 700 c of pears will be tiarrested by thi val ley. Indications point to the best price; for several years on account of nu almost universal crop shortage In tho fruit districts. Tbo Packer thus sod marlzes conditiens: EXPLOSION KILLS SAN DIEGO, Cnl., May 23, It. C, Smith, engineer nnd II. R Dock, chief mnclunihtH mate, were killed, mid Alma Miller, oiler, was fatally in jured horo today when n cylinder head blew out of tho port engine aboard tho United States torpedo bou distroyer Stewart, twenty miles off San Diego, Tho Stewart was cmslu nround outside the harbor, making one of tho rogulnr speed tests, when tliu ex plosion occurred. The warship im- modintely mndo for port. Tho two bodies woro sent to tho morgue, nnd Miller was taken to the Agnew Sani tarium. MEOWS JOY RIDE E Atlantic Section Frosted. Another and by far the most ruin ous frost that has visited the Atlan tic coast states this very frosty sp'Inn overspread Virginia, West VIrglnl.i, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and New York states last' Saturday and Sunday nights. Iteporta coWIdk from all-of these states indicate that c lor raous damage was done the Rrof'un crops. Virginia was again bit hard and the early fruits and yflgotat8 1b that state were bdlr 'damped, aad In some places entirely fired, out. This tlrae the eastern sho.-it it Virginia was hurt worse than, at any previous time this season. There la co telling to Just what extent t'.e general crop damage Is at this vrlt Irg. All reports, however, are of a discouraging nature. Peatli Crop Knocked Out. Reports from Virginia, Wt Vlr ElnJa and Maryland, many of. which wero received prior to the frwt or last Monday, Indicate that the poach ciop In many sections ot theso strlu has been killed by cold weather. No. clone has the frost been the canto of serious loss to orchardlsts, but truck growers complain of drouth, and a general shortening ot tr.i -i; crops. !os&ca In Michigan. Downgluc, Mich. There was it frost two or three times last week; froro Ice. Temperature as low as 2-t degrees. Fruit U killed. Reports to the Packer received this week from various Michigan fruit growing points told ot mora or less recent frost damage. At Lacota tho temperature dropped to Si de grees and it pet X finish to early strawberries, chorrtos, plums, v.'ich en nnd pears. Damage to peaohes la CO per cent und upples, pears, rcer rlea and plums will not show uu nitre than a quarter to a third of a crop. (Continued on page 2.) QUARREL OVER BLOOD MONEY "Tho entertainment provided the Admeu by Medford mudo a great hit with tjieni," declares John M. Srott, general passenger ageut ot tbo Southern Pacific company who vis ited Medford Friday on his return from the Sacramento convention. "Medford won golden opinions and tho ltogiio River valley mndo a de cided bit. Coutrasts with tho Sacra, mento valley were decidedly In favor ot tho Uoguo. Most of the Admon return next. Monday," OLVMPIA, Wash., May 23. Wbother tho heirs ot Charles I,a throp und Louis Ulnlr, who wero killed by outlaw John Tttrnow In tho Buino battlo in which Turnow was shot by Shorltf qilea Qutmby ure en-, titled to a portion of tho reward of-' fered by tho state la a question that, has been put squarely up to Gover nor LUtor, who In turn has asked the attornoy general for his opinion. It has now dqvelopod that Cbarle Lathrop left a sou living nt the homo of his uncle in Vermont. This son has put In. a format claim for one third or tho reward. No claim hns coma In from tho Ulalr estate nnd nono Is looked for. Olios Qtilmby, tho man who shot Turnow, has made format demand through Sheriff Mat thows of Chehalls county for tho ep tiro reward, Ponding the rendering of an opinion by the attorney geii- lral no money will be paid out. H rl 1 il tfl :