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Medford Mail Tribune
SECOND
EDITION
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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.
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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,
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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.