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v-r- w hWT SffiK,- Medford Mail Tribune SECOND EDITION WEATHER Fnlr- Warmer, Miw. tW, Mlii. lo. Pony. third Vfitr, Dully IMnlilll Yrnr. MFiDirOUD, OIHttlON, Tl'KSDAV, .Jl'NM 10, WW. NO. 08, SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS RIGHT OE STATE COMMISSIONS TO REGULATE INTRA-STATE DA TCP nniLU OREGON UW OF 1907 VALID Statute Crcntliifi Slate Railroad Com mission Upfictii Portland Railway, Lliihl anil Power Company Loses Oreiicn City Rale Case. mollis if State Public Utility Boards Uplieltl JurlsiHctlon of Stale Fin ally Settled. WASIIINOTON, Juno 10. -T. I'uili'il Slnti'H supreme court today deemed miIIiI tin Oregon Inw of 1(1(17 clouting a htitli- rniltiniil com-iiii-hiuii iiml Niixtiiiiuil (lint coininis .ion's older ti the I'ortluml Ituilwuy, I.ihIiI Miitl Tower i'oiiiiiiiiv tlit ! iij il to icducc liv fite cent lln' fares on its Milwaukee. Oik., mid Otcgon City iulcriithuti divisions. Tho court lii'M Hint llio rntcs to Orison Cltv ami Milwnukee way Miinlx dm compared with tin- fare to Lent woto not ucecsurilv unreason able but were dWerimiuntory, mil unlet i'l the eompunv lo reduce tho Hire nml lo give tin pnwiigi'r free transfer triilKiv4 within the limit of Portland, Tim court uUo mis. taiin'il tlo Oregon railrniiil cominis- sion's older to ti'aiiliiln the Cure lo lln Oak lroi district. Altorni-v Ocncrnl Meltcynolds wild luilav of tln i'iii': "Tin' decision is an oIinoIiiIo defi nitioii of (In- right of tin stale pub In utilillnft commission. It sets at icxl. oiico mill for all, the ipinstioii of (lie right of a slate commission to icgulnle tnlrnDlnto rate." Senator Nelson said; 'I ito not think congress wilj ,l tempt to lake from I Im plate tin) power to control inlrii-stntc rates. I heartily tinny wllli tin principles laid down mnl consider this oiiu of tin inoxl impoilmit derisions In years. ('oiniiicrcc Cotninitxioiii-r McCord said: "It is ciiitainly a coned in terirclalIon of the Inw. It effect will lie wholesome." Supremo court mljonrncil until Monilnv wilhotit il ding anv of the iciiiaiiiiiiK rati" eases RATE DECISIONS SAN FUANf IBCO, Cal Juno 10. -In the opinion r John W. J-Miel-man, provident of (he California rtul road commission its consistent poll ny in regard to rate rulings wan up h'elil ly tin) Ullilcil Htnles supremo eoiiit decision In Um Minnesota eases. F.shclmiiu declares that the decisions of the California eoinmis hIoii, lowering freight ami pnssongor iiiteM throughout tint state, me now .immune from further utlnek. "Tho commissioners ami the rnil roailH have lieen e(pinlly anxious," hiiIiI President F.shohunu today, "that Din principle Involved (the right lo regulate Inlm-stiilo rules) hIioiiIiI he filially determined. So far an the Culifniiiiu eoininlrtsluiior Is eonc.eriied il certainly can vluw with pleasure thin dcclsfifu which servos to Justify every ael!oi hereby taken hy ll in mailers uoilniulng to railvonil rules. "All In il, I ('orlnlnly regard tint decision us distinctly to the iidvmil line or Ciilllornliii firnl lieommo It ntlifieri nil ,111" rate tlvelHlmiH of thi coumiiKHloii, mnl Hceoudly heemiso It nffoidri a coiibervallve niildu for up piniHiiIrt on railioiul propeity, upon which rnti'rt in the I'liluro iiiiihI iiccoh tmrily he IiiihciI." GERMAN GIRL DEFEATS AMERICAN AT TENNIS PARIS, .Tuna 10. l'Viiulelu Hellc of (lermmiy loilny dufeuted MIhs Ityiiu of California hero in Iho Inter iiitllouiil HtinUflunlH, The Hfovo M 0-J, 8-U. ASSERTS COURT NOW MINE FROM AIMS ITALY TO TRY CHARLTON OR WIFE MURDER Supreme Court Holds that Man Who Brutally Killed Drldo and Threw Dody In Trunk at Lake Como Must Oe Extrndlcted to Answer Crime. Construction of Treaty by State De partment Upheld Faces Life Sen tence In Uiuleruround Prison. WASIIISnTOS, .lune 10. The I'nitvil Slate Hiipii'iiiu com I today nfnniH'il the deeixion of New .Icrxcy cotirtx in ilitni-Hiiitr tin; application of Porte ('hntllnu, who killed lii wife, formerly Mary Scott Caxtle of San IVaiicixeo, for a writ of IiiiIj oiih cm put lo prevent liU extiadiliou to Italy to utiwiil tiial. The ileriloii came three cnrn to a day after Mr. Charlton' hodv wiih fniiml in a trunk in I.aku Como, Italy. Clmrlton'M fnlhor in Paul Clmrl liiii, an inllmnlo friend of former President Tuft and former judge of Porto Itico, , Itrliln llrnliilly Slain The trunk rouliiiiiini; MH. Churl- Ioii'h liody was fouml .floating on the wider. Shu hml In-eu licat'ii into imcotihriousiieurt, tlirnxt into the trunk uud thrown into the water to drown. Her dealli eamo three inoittliii after her marriage to (Iharl ton, Mw. Charlton wiik Mary Scott daughter of II. II. Seolt of San Print- ci She wnn one of the helles if tho (loldeit (lain city nml prominent in Hocicty. In 1K07 nh heennii' the wife of Neville Cattle, mi attorney. He oh( hU fortune In litigation mid IiIh wife went on the hinge in it piny enlleil "The Prince: and Hutlcrlly,'' which opened at Stockton, Oil. Litter ulie winr divorced from Cimtle, who went (it Alaska, where he wiih tip (minted a United StntcK drntriet at torney. ,rn'tl In New Vork k Chmltoii met Mr. Cn-tle in New Work and they were married nflcr a lirief cotirtNhip. The couple left al most immediately for Italy. Three month later friend were shocked hy mtwH of Mr. Charlton murder. Charlton eluded the Ilnlinn million tic and Hailed for the United Stale hut wn nrretled n he rnme down the gnng)Innk of an ocean liner. In Ht'eking freedom hy haheitH cor pu preceeiliui: Cliitrlloii'H attor ney nlleged Hint tint New Jersey court erred in refusing to receive testimony of allegd insnnity nml for rcoguir.iug Italy' demand for his extradition in view of nlleged viola tlou of the extradition treaty hy that country- Since passing of a now pennl code. Italy ha refused to ree oguir. Ihi government' request for extradition from Italy to the United Slate of Italian cilinens ar rested in Italy. Tho New Jersey court dismissed the hahen corpus petition after former Secretary of Slate Knox, notwithstanding Italy' rofiiMiil lo give up citizen tinder the treaty, held thi country must eon (end' for it conslruetion of tho treaty, hy continuing to surrender iniso'nerJi arresled hero for crime committed In Itnly. Tho New Jer- Hoy court also deelared that I hurl ton' aliened iuauitv hhnuld ho innda iv point when ho t tried iu Italy mid not here, CHICACIO, Juno 10. Hororo re sinning hi trip today lo Lo Angelc, where ho i lo meet Hud Anderson, the Medford, Oregon, lightweight, in u twenty-round hunt July -1, Loiuih CrusH, tho Now Vork dentit, worked out hero iu a gyinuusiuin. The New Yorker nay ho expects to knock out Aiidurtion within fifteen round, NCHICAGOGYMNASIUM WAR men BULGARA AN VA UN Quarrel Over Spoils of Turkish War Results In Clash Near Mnkresh Servians Demand Territory now Held Only Powers Can Prevent. Russia Recalls Officers Loaned Both Nations and Will Remain Neutral In Impendlnn Struyijle. VIHNNA, June 10,-Tclcgrnpliic adtiee received hete today from Kelgrade state thnt hoxlilitie lie twrcu Ilulgnria and Servia have htarted, A serious encounter i re ported to huve occurred near Mai; lesli, in which iniiny Servimi wero killed. Tim Ilulgnrimi cnMiiiltle nre not known. IlKMHIAIli:. June 10. "Servin and Hulgaria arc hound to fight," said Minister of War Hoyiviteh here today, "unless the power enn induce Itiili'iirin In Kiiiibitiit In ti wviutrm of the Setho-lltilgiirinn treaty. In auy nii-iii tin, 'I'lirLiNli tcrritorv Servi.l now- holds must remain Servian. "It Itulgaiia idijccl to this war will fol low." That Itushia liclieve a Seili-Hal-gar war i certain was indicated to day when KiiHsiu recalled all offi cers of that nation serving with the Servian and Hulgaria u armies. These offii-cr were loaned to the Iwilknu state n instructor. Their recall indicate that Itussia intend to remain neutral in the impending struggle unless some other slat.' take Mile. L WASIIINOTON, June 10. Hie United States supreme court today declared valid the law requiring nil newspaper lo puhlih statements of their circulation mid ownership. Un der the decision all newspaper read ing notices ttiiint he lahelcd "adver tisement." , Constitutionality of the "publicity law" wit attacked ,y the Journal of Commerce and tho Lewi Piitdihhiug Co., of New York, the latter heing publishers of the Morning Telegraph. in test suit ngniiibt Postmaster Oeueral llileheick ami Postmaster Morgan, of New York. They do elared the new law ahridged the "freedom if tho press" ami asked for nn injunction to avoid compliance with the new regulation. The gov ernment contended thnt the now law, passed iu tho postoffice appropria tion hill August 'J I, 1012, did not liar the papers violating it frim the mail, hut that it cut off their 1-ccut-u-pound mailing privilege. lWtmn tor Oeueral Hurloson mid Attorney Oeueral MoKoynold recently were enjoined by tho court front enforc ing tho new law until it could render tho decision given today. SUFFRAGETTE KILLED "BY MISADVENTURE" KPSOM, KNCILANI), Juno 10 "Killed by nilHiulventiiiu" was tho vorillct of a coronur'a Jury hero today In tho cuko of Alls Kmlly Davidson, tho suffragette fatally Injured dur ing tho derby when bIio nolzod tho brldlu of King (loorgo's horse, Am nor, mid wont down beneath its huofs, Tho Jury took no cognizance thnt tho King's homo killed tho woman. Vast throng attended tho Inquest, Including tliousanilft of militant uf fragottos, wlumo ulcovc horo mourn tug biuula, PUBLICITY 0 NEWSPAPERS DECLARED VALIO RAILROAD PHYSICAL VALUATION I EXPERTS TO INVESTIGATE THE "FRISCO" ym im m" n lnJny Judge Clements of the Interstate Commerce Coininissinn says thai the five inrmhers of the no'trond physical valuation hoard, who have just hcgmi work in accord with an net of con gress, wil find their greatest immed iate opportunity In connection with AT A YEAR- SALARY WASHINGTON. Juno 10. Ctvll nenlco Job nt $0000 a year. It rather nn nttrnctlvo bait for Undo Hum to duiiglu before hi citizen In these days of high living uud high cost of living. ' Hut thcra Isn't nny stampede, to day for Hicho iiartlciilar high-salaried Jobs. In fact thero are. more, than enough Job for tho nvnllnblo supply of men. Highway and by waH today aro being scraped by tho government In a desKnite effort to secure enough men to fill tho ksI tlons. Tho biggest "man hunt" In tho history of tlio government Is In progress to find men, with tho big salary as a bait, who are big enough to hold down tho $G000 Jobs nml earn tho fnt salaries. Making physical valuation, of mil roads mid other common carrier is tho mammoth task for which tho big federal salaries nro offered. Tho Interstato commerce commission Is culling and sorting In an offort to find tho right ones for tho right places In the biggest work undertak en hy tho government since tho Pan ama canal was started. Tho govern moiit Is handicapped by hnrd-nud- fast civil service rules In Its search for competent men. Tho special engineering board of five men appointed by tho Interstato commerce commission to boss the physical valuation Job has chargo of selection of tho corps. Today tho board Is framing detail to secure the necessary forco of skilled engi neers, expert draughtsmen, account ants, siirvoyors, roilmou and other technical assistants. E RULE BILL LONDON, June 10. With the de lmte marked hy extreme bitterness, consideration of the hill providing homo rule for Ireland was resumed iu tho houso of commons today. The unioniM nro most hopeful of vic tory hut nro meeting with stubborn opposition. In opposing tho hill tils afternoon Lord Admiral Lord Chavles Here ford, paid: "If tho government send troop to Ireland to enforce homo lido 1 will offer my erviee to help tho Uulster inen." Horesford defied Iho, government to Bend troops against " people whoso only eriino is to sing the na tional mitheiu and to wave tho Union Juuk." GIVIL SERVICE JOBS 6000 HOM BITTERLY DEBATED JZ A. fttomjB'Son the receiver-hip of the "Frisco" ys- fimt. Tlinl r.ifnt. liuflllyi, itf n fif.lif ll. II t V.. ..I...... .1. ........ :.i..... lfL',.1 i t-ll . i. ii.iiniiiii, IIIV jll i rt,H-H, and James Speyer of New York, who till recently was the hanker for tho company, ha heeii thrown into the hands of n receiver. J. E HE ELOPEO WITH NEW YORK, Juno 10. Jcre ICuodc Cooke, the unfrocked Hemp stead clergyman, and Floret to. Whn ley, with whom he clojicd six yenrs ngo, were married 11 1 Stamford, Conn, tiday hy Justice of the Pcaco Fran cis Tipier. They returned immed iately to New York mid greeted their two children. "This" said Cooke, "Is the very happiest day of our lives," ami his wife nodded nssent. Asked whether she would itdvise other girl to do n she did, Morel tit sounded n solemn warning ngninst mtwedded love. "I nm perfectly happy," she said, "iu loving my hu-hnud mid children and heing loved hy them, and for thi reason I feel amply compensated for nny sacrifices 1 mny hnve made. My case worked out with countless hap pinuesses but it might not in others. "We suffered most in Ios Angeles and San FrnncNco, both before and after our identity became known. Hut in all our troubles wo never felt the pinch of hunger. At one time in I.OS Angeles Jerry had to pawn hi last ring, but he pit work immed iately afterwards. lie went to work as it mechanic, but we seemed to be better off than most people engaged in the same sort of work. "I always luwo prayed for what I have called tho big things in my life hnve prayed for them during these hix year. I also asked for grace to do tho staple, the little things, hut which sometime fuil of performance. 1 wns content, having a firm faith, that all would finally bo well, and now it is. "I nm very happy, but my ense has proven tho exception to the rule. Far and away tho greater number of cases nro dismal failures." CYCLISTS' DAY AT ROSE PORTLAND, Ore., June 10. Port motor cyclists entertuiued for the Hose festival today with n real nov elty when they put on the first motor eyclo parudo on tho Fneifio const. .More than 100 machines of all types beautifully decorated with national rose blooms were iu line. Tonight tho first illuminated pa rade will ho held, when IS flouts ele trieally depicting tho flowers nud gems of tho Oregon country will tra verse tho principal streets. More than :i()0 mon, women and children, dressed iu chnructcristiu costumes will participate in (ho payeunt, w KND OK WO AFFNTY L LIMBYIST N WILSONS OR LO 0 0 H M Former Governor Carter of Hawaii Representing the Sugar Trust Re ports That He Was Refused Ac cess to President. Witness Says Expenses Less Than $100,000 and That Sugar Planters Face Ruin Can't Raise Cocoanuts WASIIINOTON, June lO.-' For mer Oovcnior Oeorge C. Carter of Hawaii was a witness today in H13 "insidious lobby" investigation. He declared he wn sent to Washington by the Honolulu chamber of com- mcrcc. I Carter testified thnt he had in I scrtcd advertisement in newspapers, I opposing free sugar. AH such ndver i tisement. he snid, wero first e.xnm 1 incil by New York agents of Ha t wniinn sugar concerns. I The witness declared thnt the Hawaiian sugar interests sought a 1 hearing before the senate finance committee but thnt one of it mem bers advised them to "come back" and make their argument nftcr tho tariff bill passed. He said his or ganization was the Domestic Sugar Producers association nml that St represented almost every American producer. Carter testified Hint ho rniscd monoy to carry on hi campaign by assessing every sugar grower in Ha waii. The witness said his expenses had been less thnn $100,000, adding: "We prooso to carry our propa ganda ns far a we con. We must unvo tho land of our birth nud 75 per cent of our revenue comes from sugar. We have 82.000 children to educate and can't do it. "You tell us to ruiso cocoanuts, we can't. I might tell you of my treatment nt the white houso, but what' the use. I called at the white house and tried to make an en gagement for tho Hawaiian delega tion. The president refused, then ns u citizen, I asked to see tho president nml was given (tennission to sco him Wednesday. The secretary told me then that tho president' mind was made up." TIES UP RAILROAD 1.EWISTON, Idaho, June 10. Owing to (be hick of proper machin ery for removing tho obstructions, railroad tntffic on tho Clearwater Short Line will bo suspended for probably three days between Lewis ton and Stiles, on necouut of a dud burst washing debris nud timber on tho tracks for n distance of five hun dred feet. Tho cloudburst, which covered nn area of fifteen miles, did little other damage. Tho Clearwater river continues to subside and it is believed that tho period of extremely high water i past. E LONDON, June 10. Market speculators wero displeased today with the United States supreme court's decision in tho Minnesota rato oases and there was consider nblo selling of American shares. All American stocks declined from one to three jmints. Tomorrow is "set tlement day" nnd it is feared sovoru declines recently will cause fuilures. Caught in tho recent stock market slump, King Oeorge, it is reported hero, lost .$100,000 in tho decline of Canadian Pacific. H NEAR CHAMPIONSHIP LITIGATION Jacksonville Rancher Has Worn out Three District Attorneys Who Found That Jails Did net Cool His Arrter for Lawsuits. .v Filed VliMy-sIx Complaints lefore 1 One Grand Jw Committed Asylum by Jurfoe Tou ,Vele. to Tbfit W. J. Iloogcy Is tho champion liturnnt of the dorist BD'l a, near cham pion of the world wns adduced by evidence brought out in the hearing the Jacksonville rancher in Judge Ton Veil's court Tuesday on a chargo of insanity sworn to by District Attor ney K. E. Kelly nnd County Asses sor Grcirc, who ncctise the man who claims to bo n subject of King- George nnd nt tho snmo time ' an American citizen of litagants insanity nnd submitted court records -for nearly 20 yenrs past to show that there has scarcely been a time when Dooscy did not haye civil or criminal and most of the timo both kinds of actions pending in court.' floosejr flotno Fighter There can bo no question but thnt Boosey is a gool fighter, for ho. re fused to ncknowlcdge defeat .when even the- supremo court sent down finnl mnndates and frcmuhts,.cell io.. jail where ho wns imprisoned for contempt, challenged the justices, to n joint debato while he invoked thf aid of the king of England and tho president of tho United States ns their joint subject. Tn newspaper advertisements nnd in hnnd bills. ho has pleaded his cause, nud denounced lawyers, judges, governors and sen ators, lie has hired hnlts to roast the authorities in red-hot speeches, used nxes and shot guns to threaten neighbors, Jug ditches tn undermine adjoining fences, built barricades ncross county roads, borrowed Undo Sam's mail boxes to stop traffic nnd kept himself nnd family near bank ruptcy by porpotunl litigation over narrow strips of nlmost worthless land along his boundaries. Worn Out Tlirco Precutor Three district attorneys, A. E. Itenmes, 11. F. Mulkey and E. E. (Continued on pace 3.) ARTICLES SIGNED T JULY 4 SAN FRANCISCCv Juno J0-Artl-cles of agroement tor tho Wllllo Kltchle-Joo Klvera llghtwelgnt chum plonshlji battlo on July 4 wore sign ed hero this afternoon by Dllly No lan uud Joo Levy for Rltcblo and -ilvers respectively and by Promoter Kddlo Uraney oil behal! of the Tux edo Club, Tho only details that re main to bo settled aro tho saloctton of tho place of battlo and tbo ref eree. Nolun and Lovy had a short con ference before tho articles wero sign ed, and for a moment It looked as though thero would bo' a hitch. No lan wanted tho S 2,500 forfolt that tho articles cull for to go for both weight and appearance, but" Levy wautod It to go for weight alono, "It tho forfolt goes all for wolght. whoro does tho club got off In cubo thero la no fight?" asked Nolau. "I'll take caro 01 thnt," was Le vy's rejoinder, but after a little more argument Nolun won his point. "Now that that question Is out of- tho way," said Nolan, "Why not lot tho forfolt go as a side botT" Levy demurred, claiming he was not prepared to talk of side beta nt this tlmo. ; Tho articles were then signed without any mention ot thu referee bolug mudo, UE-VER i.