Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 24, 1913, SECOND EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textt4'4fKftfctV-4 . v r.Sfsa.- Tl Street rtf Medford Mail Tribune SECOND EDITION WEATHER Ittin IoiiIkIH nml Tucntliiy Mat. (II; Mln. . furlyUilfil Tir Dully Klwhtli Vwr MTCDKOUN ORl'XJON, MONDAY, NOVIOMRIW 21, 191.'!. NO. 210 ffil BULLIS TEARS E Trolley Dullilcr Permitted by Mayor and Council to Do as Ho Pleases, Altlioufih He Has No Franchise Across Drldyc. Claims Annie Too Sharp, Out Gcrlg Says It Is So Purposely to Make Cars Go Slow. .Meilford's now 510,000 conorolo Iniilcit i being turn up liy K. K. Ilnlti for his trolley line. Accord inir to KnnintMT Willimn (lorig of th I'. V I'.., muter whoso supervision tho bridge won onuntniutoil, thin notion will mnleiiully damage tho bridge, nml i entirely uncalled fur. This noon work was begun touring up lln truck on tin1 west end of ''" bridge. (Ily Knginoer Aninpnr km id Hint ho did not know lV uliocn authority tlm work huh permitted to proceed, No one seemed to know. 'I'lio Mnllis I'nmpiiuy linn no frnii i'IiIdd on tlu bridge, nor nny liaht to tear up tho truck or niter it. I'u dor tlio franchise, tlio I'ompnuy !i pcimlntdon to iiho tlio bridge, nit 1 , pays nu iiuminl sum for it mho, but no richt to lay rail upon it. Tlm llullirt cotnpnny has ijll iileir: objected to tlio sharp angle of the rail laid upon tlio bridge. This nn tin was, however, placed Ihere. lv design, hinted Mr. Orrt, to force trolley earn to Mow down who.i lra t-r.iii; tho bridge. Mayor Purdln wild this afternoon Unit nM fur n he know no notion would i tuki'ii to stop Hid llulliV. nml Mint iiiwuiiuoh ns thev hud u fraudiNe, thorn wn no way to atop thorn. Ho nit III tlm reason was to cliinitintn a shnrp nngle, mid (hut tin rlty engineer lintl drnwn tl linen for tluit purpoo. Tin) mnyor nNo do elurrd tlmt ho did not see liow the Hullm' woro cut going to p'l re turns on the monoy thoy nro invoi- lnc Tlm !nmk In laid cast of tlm bridge mid pnrl of tin) concrete ir fnoo n in. There Is no foundation un der the lien, except lirokcn rock or lirokeu coimrelo. Turn material TilN the excavation to tlm lops of Hie lies. Tlieu coiierele in put in tut to t.f the tics. Tlm result, miv niit- eors, will tin thnl when pressure, i placed on the. rails, the lien, resting on Iopho foundation, will give, the ennerete crnek nnd wnter n't under, nud the track uradually go to p-eoo Hut the council in willing. MADERO KILLED III HKATTI.ti, Wash., Nov. 2 4. Tho neeount of tlio iloath of Mudoro, given liy a fornior forolgu diplomat, now resident of Souttlo, who wuh In Mexico tit tlio tlmo of tlio killing, differs ma terially from that by llonry I.uiio Wllhou. Tlm diplomat') vorbton follewa: "When Kollx Dins aticcoodocl In In tercHtliiK (Ittnornl Iluortu In Ills plan to ovurthrow Miuluro nml nrroot him, lluiy rotlroil to tho Uultod Stutcu om luiKuy for a conforonco. "audi an action la nlmoat without precoilout and could im huva boon without tlio Hiiuctloit of tho Amorlcnn unibiiHHiulor. "After Mndnro'a arroat, Huorta at tumptud to kill him by offering him not hi UK to ont but moat, Maduro ho lm; a Htrlet vegctaiinu. This would havii ovuiittially roaulted In Muiloro'u doiith, but no that ot Buaruz, for tho vli-n-iireHliloiit ato moat and coutlnuod healthy. "Tho reason for tho kllllni; of tlicHo two moil, waR bocniiBo they had lenmud dmliiB tho first day nt their Imprisonment, nil of tho dotalls of tlio denlliiKH between Standard Oil mill Iluortu ami between tho HothHdilldH InteieatH and KelU lMax. "Thoy know too much and for foltod tliolr Uvea na a roault," IIP N W G 0 AY A LS KNOWING TOO MUC IS hoer a ran E Scores of Mexicans Appeal to For el(in Diplomats for Protection Against Conscription No Format' Itles Surround Methods. Squad of Soldiers Search Cafes and Shops and Seize Whoever Is De sired for Service. MKXK'O CITV, Kov. JI.-KcoreM of MexlemiN nppenled to foicimi mp loinata hero today for protection nKiiluat roiiHcriptiuii into President Huertii'rt nimy. A remnrknhle fentnrc of tlio rnno wan that inoM of tlm npprnU ciiine from woini'ii whom the president ih drnftitii; Into service for duly an eookn nnd'niin.iH. UN coiiKeriplinn methods, tlinnisli primitixe, nro effective. Sjipindt of Mildicro are nent out to nrour the Ktreetrt nml rnnnnrk the enfcti for likely cnudidateH, and whenever one In neen Im or hho In iinprenned Klrnljjhtwnv Into Horviee. There nro no fnniiiililicfl whntever. Amoni the applicant for nld nt the Unit od SlntcH oinltnMy were mi need woman nnd her two dnui;htciH, all of whom had heeu ended on for commUxiirv duty. rhnru'D iVAfftiirrn O'ShniiKhnonHy, like the ri'M of the foreign diplo liint here, will compelled to tell llwwto mid other applicant for protection that. imiMimich na thev wore citir.ei)). of Mexico, ho wuh i)rer)vtH In do nnvthiuc for them. Kcportti were icoolvod todny of ten hjcoiihcipii'iitiiil lintllct between fed c rain ami rchoN, 10 DEBATE OVER CURRENCY BILL WASHINGTON', Nov. t I. An other precedent wn Kmntdiod to hmitlicreeim todny when n cabinet member appeared in portion on the Hcnnto floor to hear n debate in wliielt bin department lis specially iutoroHted. Jt wan Secrelury of the Tronwir Willinm (1. MoAdoo, nud tho Jebato relnted to tlm currency (piestto.i. .i)Adno Bat on tho democratic, side ami lintciicd intently, thotiuli of eourne Im hud uotluni- to pay. He promihod to ntteml future currency kosmoiih whenever posaihle. It wuh predicted Hint thov will extend mcr threo inontliH. Senator Owen opened tho diaciih k!oi Immcdiutelv l'ollowlni; tho re pot t Hindu by tho iidmiuixtrntmu demnuraiio memherri of tho hanking nml ourreney oommitleo opposiui; ft central hank with branches, .Sena tor Hitchcock wan scheduled to fol low Owen. Fl L WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. l'rebi- don(. Wilson npent today putting the iiuiHliiug totiehea to 'Ids meahiign to uougreHH, It will go to (ho pi inter tomorrow, 'lhu prosident plana per- Houally to rend tho message at a joint! Hcsbion of tho house nud sen ate, tho exact data to ho determined nt consultations to ha held soon with tlm lenders of tho two branches of oongroHfl. It was believed tho reading of the meHHngo probably would ho delayed on account of tho fact that tho ex tra session iiiiih into tho regular term. Tlio message, It ia understood, dealH villi Mexico only to tho extent of explaining what tho government liuu douo up to duto, wmwss AS AM OK M10 LISIEN W ON INISHFS ANN MESSAGE JAMES GLEAS0N, CHICAGO'S NEW CHIEF OF POLICE Bf'jB i Val kkkkVV ' i'4kkkH Cnplnin Jninen fllijif.ou of tlm Shnkexpinre iivenuu Motion, Cln oiiko, haa been npoiuled chief of police in plnee of .luhn McWeeny, roMinicd. lie has grown up from the ranka under the civil horvico rulea. Tlm couniKe of the new chief has heeu tried. Ilia capture of car-barn robherH after nu idl-dny right nt Millcrx, Ind., M'veral yenrn ago con Uy the npiHiiiitmciit the report that Mayor llarriMiti favored mim ing u woman for the place is ihs p laod of. If tho inuvor ever hud Modi a ibonulil he reconsidered II. SAY WANAMAKER Fi WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 1. Tlmt o.x.l'ostmnator (lenernl John Wuiin mnker's sou, Itoduinu, watt wanted by federnl inveMigntors in connec tion with tho inquiry they nro push ing into charges that the great Wan munker mercantile cslablihbments in New York and I'hilndolphln profited enormously by n series of customs frauds extending over n period of fifteen years, was reported on high authority hero today. Wannmnker, Sr., tried for four bourn Saturday to explain why no question of "crsoiinl guilt" was in volved in tho eases ho settled with Secretary of tho Treasury Mac Veagh for $100,000 durihg the elos in tr moments of President Tuft's ad ministration. Tlm government was understood to have htroug circumstantial evi dence, hut not many witnesses to support its claim that lingo quan tities of dutiable goods were import ed by tho Wannmnker houses marked "samples,1 which, under tho law, nro not dutiable. Itndmiin Wanamaker was said to ho in Palis, WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. Francis II, Snyro of Now York nnd Prosldont Wilson's daughter JcbhIo will ho mar- fled at tho whlto house tomorrow, nud today thoy woro making tholr final propnratloiiH for tho coromony. Dr. Sylvostor lleach, who will offi ciate; f)r. (Ironfall, 'who will "stand up" with tho bridegroom nud scores ot ushors, gift bearers ami othors woro ntronmlng In and out ot tho oecuttlvo rosliloiu'o. A rohearsnl ot tho coromony was sot for (i:00 this nftornoon and after wards tho presents will ho shown to lutlmnto frlonds ot tho Wilson and Snyro families, In tho evening thoro will bo n dlnnor uml a dunco may follow, D AY B 1 RAUDS SAYRE-WLSON W TUESDAY TWO AW S AM 0 KILLED BY FALL More Lives Sacrificed In Airship Experiments when Lieutenants' Kclley and Ellington Arc Crushed to Death Beneath Huge Biplane. No Cause A&sJgned for Accident Machine Gliding to Earth When Nose of Biplane Tipped. SAN DIKflO, Oil., Nov. 21. Two more lives worn sacrificed todny to army aviation experiments here when Lieutenant Hugh M. Kclley nud Hoc ond Lieutenant Kric L. Klhngton wrro crushed to death beuenth a lingo Wright biplane, following n fall of nboul eighty feet on the pivcrn- tnent ntintion fiehl at North It-land, No cnuso hnd been assigned for tho accident tip to Into today. KelK ami Ellington hnd been in (he mr about five tnlnutos, making a perfect flight, nud were returning to the field for n lnnding. Tho innrhine wns clidinc like n great bird tnwntn tho enrth at whnLis declnred to hnve been n iionual (ingle, when sudden ly tho nose of the. hie biplane tipped. Full lo night Craft A cry went up from the wntchers below. It wns n double control ma chine nud both aviators are declared to havo made frantic efforts to right heir frail crnft. Their efforts were futile nnd tho biplnno fell crnsh ng lo tho ground, n nuws of twisted wreckage, n inilo from camp. The two aviators were instantly killed. When cn'mrntlctfruKhcd to the pile of splintered wood ami steel they found the mangled bodies partly pinned beneath the debris. There wns miming Dr. Wiley, tlio camp physician, could do. The heart of encb man hnd censed to bent. The faces of both were recognizable, but the bones of their bodies were bro ken and crushed. Hundred Seo Disaster Hundreds of San Diegnns wit nessed tho accident from windows nnd roofs of office buildings where they hnd been wntching in tho hope tlmt Lincoln Heaehoy would todny attempt to loop tho loop. Those who saw tho accident from this sido of he bay declnro that tho aviators wero uiakiiu; n beautiful lauding, when in a flash their machine stop ped, turned straight downward and dropped in n lino to tho island. vail souiffo E CHICAGO, Nov. 2 L That Theo doro Vail, president of tho Ameri can Tolophouo and Telegraph com pany, Bought at a mooting of Inde pendent tolophouo owner In Chcago In 1010 proposed n morgor of tho In dependent and Doll Intorests wns tho testimony hero today of Itlchard Val entino of Jaucsvlllo, Wis., president of tho Hock county, Wis., Tolophono company In tho government's suit for tho dissolution of tho so-called tolo phono trust. "Vail suggested," said Valentino, "that wo do something to stop 'ruin ous competition.' Ho proposed that In tho localities where tho Hell com pany had tho most subscribers that tho Hell company should absorb tho ludopondont company nnd that In lo calities whoro tho lndopondont com pany hud tho most that It should ab sorb tho Doll company. "Whoa Vail was asked who would boar tho expenses It tho exchanges consolidated ho said it should bo charged against tho publlo tor serv ice as tho publlo had benefited by tho competition, Tho lndopondont companlos, howovor, nover answorod tho suggestion." French Alvator Killed PARIS, Nov. 21. Aviator Cor beau fell with his ncronlnuo near Senlid todny, landed a roadway, was plorcod b.y n splinter of his bro - ken uiHuuiuQ uud died instuutly. COMBIN WITH HOME COMPANIES MISS ANNE MORGAN ESCAPES WITH FEATHERS When Mlis Annie Morgan, daugh ter of tho Into (Innnclcr, arrived the other day on tho great German steamship, tho Imperator, she had loino feathers on her hat, and tho cuatomB oflclals looked at them sus piciously. "Arc they aigrettes," sho was asked, for aigrettes cannot o Im ported to tho United States under the now tariff law. Actresses and society, women coming back from Kuropo who didn't know this law or tliounht.lt a was joke, had their aig rettes snipped from their millinery by unfeeling customs Inspectors. L FIGHT TO MEXICO CITY, Nov. 24. Thoro was no question today that In at tending yesterday's bullfight today President Hucrta mado a distinct "hit" with tho unthinking among his follow Mexicans. Tho so-called sport Is, In tho first placo, very dear to tho Mexican heart and to seo their great men show an Interest In It, gratifies thorn Im mensely. Asldo from this, they pointed out that tho president spent two hours In a mixed crowd of 20,- 000 peoplo, an easy mark for an as sasstn which was true, though ho was pretty closely watched by socrot servtco agents. This was applauded us a romarkablo exhibition ot tho executive's fearlcssnoss. It did nothing to rellovo tho Huerti government of tho financial embar rassments which aro pressing It more soverely dally. It seemed clear that Prcsldont Wilson has succeedod effectually in cutting off Huorta from nil outsldo sources ot supply. Ho has Increased tuxes to n point where thoy nro practically confiscatory, but busi ness Is so flat and ready monoy so scarco that to pay thorn Is a virtual Impossibility, and although tho show- Ins ot rovenucs Is Imposing, dn paper, llttlo actual cash Is fortltfomlug. I TO E BIRMINGHAM, Kugland, Nov. 21. Kliza Foibcs-Rohortsoii, n sister of Forbes-Hohcrtson, tho actor, wns sentenced today to two weeks' im prisonment for smashing n Loudon show window last July. Miss Rob ertson, who is ouo of the most mili tant of London's suffragettes, broke down when sonteneo wns pronounced. "I nm going to start n hunger strike," sho dcclnrod. "1 will not sleep, either, and they will have '.J releuso mo." Miss Robertson blamed Home Sec- MnjY MeKenim for tho failure f I",,,,HHai11 t0 K1""1 women miu ngui o uftrai;e. A ATTENDS IKE POPULARITY OF GOVERNMENT National Housewives' League De clares Egg Boycott to Force Down Prices and Investigation of Cold Storage Trust Is Ordered. Poultrymen and Retailers Say There Is No Unusual Scarcity of Eggs for the season. WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. Inves ligation of nil alleged cold storngo combine wuh ordered today by Attor ney General McKeyuolds. I'nited States district nltorncys nnd other employes of the detriment of jus tico were ordered to get complete fig tires beuritiu' on charges that nn al leged combine is withholding cpz nnd other products from the market in nn effort to boost prices. MeReywdth' order followed the receipt of the notification from the National Housewives' lentMio that the organization hnd declared nn egg boycott in nn effort to force down prices, nnd there wns positive evi dence of n speculators conspiracy tc keep supplies back. Price Is Artificial From cold storage sources cumo the plaint that the hens wero to blame, but there wiw information from both poiillrymcn and retnilcrs that neither of these two classes arc profiling by the present practically prohibitive prices. . McReynold said ho hud informa tion indicating that attempts hnd been mado to, coimr the ttx nnd veg etable markets. Tho invostigu'ion. ho snid, would cover nil the Inrcer cities nnd that if the evidence wnr rniit, the government will institute criminal nud civil prosccution-t tin der the pure food nud interstate commerce laws. m Hoycott Organized CHICAGO. Nov. 24. Mrs. Cnro lino niey, president of the Chienco Clenn Food club, announced todnv that she intended writing every wom en's mngn7ino in thocitv to enli their nld in n enmpaien nsnint f price of eggs. "T intend to appeal to cvorv hono wife in Chienco to quit nsin" einr until Mio price falls to 32 cents n dozen. This venr the whn1onlor are holding curlond lots nt 32 cent nnd tho women called off this year' proposed sale. BOYCOTT POLICY TO GET HUERTA WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. Presi dent Wilson was convinced today that his "diplomatic boycott' policy was boglnnlng to bo seriously felt la Mex ico City. Tho almluistrntlon attributed Pres ident Huertn'ti circulation of reports that that tho United States was about to rccognlzo him to a final desperate effort toward ro-establtshlng his crodlt sufficiently to float a loan tor paying the troops. Hutlro coutldeuco was expressed that ho would tall. Summlug everything up, tho ad ministration regarded tho Mexican outlook today as tolerably favorable. ON BANK OFF JAPAN YOKOHAMA. Nov. 24. Tugs woro still vainly trying today to got tho steamship Minnesota ot a sandbauk near Hlko-Slma, In tho Shlmouosokl straits. Tho MInnosota bound from Manila for Scuttle, via Honk Kong and Yoko hama, wont a shoro while trying to avoid a collision with a sailing craft. It carried GO cabin passengors, most ly Americans, H EGGS PROBED BY DECLARES WILSON 49 RALROADS T RAIE INCREASE Interstate Commerce Commission Hears Arguments In Favor of Ad vances In Tariffs East of Missis sippi Brandies Attorney. President of Baltimore & Ohio Says Rates Too Lew to Permit Lines From Making Profit. WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. The in teralnte commerce commission began hearings hero today to determine- whether forty-nine railroads east of the Mississippi nud south of tho Ohio nnd t'otomnc rivers shall ha permit ted to advance their, rates on nn av erage 0 per cent. m Louis D. Ilmn dcis of Boston is acting as tho com mission's attorney. President Daniel Willnrd of tho Baltimore & Ohio railroad testificn that the ndvnnces in rates wero ca sentinl to enable the road to make a reasonnblo profit. His testimony, with that of President Delano of tho Wabash rood, was expected to con sume two days. It was expected the commission would ndo against tho increase. President Willanl was tho spokes man for the forty-nine eastern roads. He pleaded advanced costs as tho reason for asking for increased rates. Ho declared that arbitration nml mediation had boosted the sal aries of employes nnd that snfety nnd labor laws had inernsed ex penses enormously. Willnrd declnred that tho roads affected earned $1G.:U1.000 loss for" the year ended June 30 Inst than for the year ended June 30, 1010. As a result of diminishing returns Willard snid the normal developments of tho railroads' facilities wns checked. ' Delano, who spoke for the linm enst of the Mississippi and west nt Pittsburg nnd Buffalo, declared thnt the prosperity nnd development of tho entire territory would bo jeopar dized if tho commission did not grnnt the road's permission to make tho increases in their mtes. WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. Henry Lane Wilson, former ambassador to Mexico, last night in an address hero likened tho diplomacy of tho Wilson ' administration to a Mother Hubbard which covers everything and touches nothing. "We nro now committed to a por icv in the Mexican situation," said Wilson, "which will lead to humili ation or require us lo plnv school master to every unruly republic be tween tho Rio Qrnudo nnd Capo Horn." Wilson told df tho efforts of tho diplomatic coqis nt Moxico City to save tho city from tho terrible bloodshed of tho ten davs of bom bardment just prior to the killing of Mitdero. "Tlio diplomats of tho Mexican army bore petitions to Mndorn to step usido and turn bis powers over to congress," said Wdsou. "When tho nnnv added its peti tion Madero, with his own hands, killed tho two officora who boro tho message. Subsequently Madoro fled and wns captured by tho revo lutionists uud later nssussiunted in roveiu'0 for tho death of tho officer lio killed. Huertn had nothing to do with it." SENT 10 TUXPAN WASHINGTON, Nov. 24, The American Duttloshlp Louisiana, with). Admiral Fletcher, commanding the United States fleet on the Mexican eastern coast on hoard, loft Vera Cruz x for Tuxpan today. Secretary of the Navy Daniels ordered the move, fear lug trouble la Tupan'o vicinity. III ASSERTS MADERO SLAIN REVENGE FOR TWO M PES m M ;. m t ' i i ,