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'"I In, SPro. fanl "(I She Soclt Medtord Mail Tribune SECOND EDITION WEATHER Knlr tonight nml Tuesday- Mn. 4:1; Mlii. n; IVo. .01. Ht-fir . fort ylhlr1 Teinr. DnllyICIwlilli Yr. ! . I - . . . . ... ..H.t AT BRYANJEXAS Commercial Club Wires Half of Pop ulation Unaccounted for Esti mates of Drowned Short of Truth hy Hundreds News Delayed. Estimate of a Thousand Dead e- llevcd Too Small Great Property Damage Throughout District. POUT WOIITII, Tn Doc. N. -A (tor nnititltiK I ho survl vnrn of tint tloodswcpl Urates river valley, thu Commercial club nl llrnii, To x tin, tele graphed hero this nrtoriinon Hint, out of n population of 12,000, thorn were mUsIng nix thousand. IIOIJHTON, Tex., Dec. s. i:mi-iiinti-n of tlio number drowned In tho floods which swept Central mid Kotithrrn Tonxn taut week wero be lieved hero Icitlny to have fallen nhorl of Hid truth perhaps by hundred. Tho mint iilnrmliiK message was from Hran, whence tho locnl com mercial rluli, which hml been Inves IlKntliiK tho llrnzo river valley nit. tinllon, telegraphed that half tho voi le) papulation of 12,000 was miss Inc. That COOO linil perished In tho Urates valley nlouo wti not believed, hut that tho number of victim ran IiIkIi Into tho hundreds was gravel fin roil. At Iflit 10(H) DtNiil Much of tho submerged country In cluded rural districts from which ac rurnto Information wan not quickly obtainable, explaining why todny'n alarming Information was no slow In reiirhliiK tho outside woril. It wna beginning to he believed, too, tlmt tho number or deaths In thn valleys of tho Colorado and Trite Uy river, nml of their smaller tri butaries waa vastly larger than was supposed earlier. Tho guess, made In aomo quarters early today, that n total of 1000 had perished, wan' generally thntiKht nt thu time It waa made, to bo an enor mous, exaggeration. This nfternoon tho rommon vluw wna that It would bo found far too Htunll, Larger numbers of tho victim, caught llko trapped rata In tho up per stories or on tho roofa of their homea, In troca or on comparatively high Kround, muat linvu wntched In npony whllo tho water roio slowly, Inch by Inch, nnd finally nwopt them "way to death, (Continued on puga I.) 197 PASSENGERS RESCUED AT SEA ll.MiTI.MOHK, .Mil., Dee. 8. Wireless dispatches received horo to iluy Hlnteil llm Htciiiiiar Qiiurnmoi-u liiul rescued 107 passengers from mi ni her Hlciiinor which win burning "t KOII. Tlio Quornmoro kiiIIciI for hivor pool Friday. Willi oilier vessels it caught wirolitHH fulls for assistance tit 'J o'clock Sunday morning, mid rcuohod llio burning vessel two hottrn Inter. At tirst it wiih renin ted tlmt llio burning Hlonmer wns Hid Mnllory liner ltio (Irumlo, hut officials, of tlio company denied tlio report. They Hiiid tlio ltio Grande did not curry liny piiBHCiiKi'rs, AeeoriliiiK to thu wireli'hH, tlio pan bc'iikiuh wero lowered in tho lifeliontu nml worn Irinsforron to llio Quern moru without excitement or piuiio, Tlio rcKoito wan initio r()0 miles eant of Diamoml hIioiiIh, and wltiln a boulhwcht Rain wan lilnwiiif;, Tho wircloHB jrnvo tho iiiiino of the Ijiirnlnj? vchhcI iih tho ltiuj,'rnnd. No niii'Ii Hliip h lihlod, howoyur, so it wau preHiinicil n mlHtahe hail been made ill llio iiumg, 0 0 REPORTED MISSUOOD FROM BURNING P U-Jff into INSANITY NY QUESTION RAISED Unfrocked Priest and Confessed Mur derer and Counterfeiter Before Bar of Justice Insists He Is Sane and Admits All Accusations. Former Immaculate Clergyman Piti able Sight, With Pasty Face, Sun ken Eyes and Stubble Beard. Ni:V VOIJIC, Dec. H. -IIiiiih Schmidt, unfrocked prlent mid con foHHcd murderer nml coiiuterlVitcr, unit to (rial today for the killinc of IiIh Hwcethratt, Anna Aumuller, a pretty Oenmiii uirl, who hud once worked in a reelory where Schmhlt lived n curate. Only ono ipiehtioii wiih at iMic wiih Kehiniill mute or n luniiticT He admitted hiixim; killed the ut, dix- memberiiic her body and hnvini; Hunk her nianulcd eorpnn in tho river. He htmxclf itihUled he wiih nite and refiioi'd to consult with the at torney npiHiiuted for him by the court. With hi pimtv face, hiinken oven, thick' fitubhh) of heard, hIoui-Ii-iiiK liptrn and dirty, unkempt dri-KH, iiio lormeriv immaculiile youiiK cerj;man wan a half terrific look inc and half pitiubla sight. Two hundred candidateH for jury duty were in the courtroom. It wiih expected Hid ompnuelliui; of a jur would lake a week'. Tracing tlio Crime A woman'iitorio win found tied In a pillow p an tho Jcnuy aldo of tho IIiiiUoii on Hoptembcr r. A faint leaf-ihaped marl: on onn ahouldor af forded Rcant Idea that thn vlcllm'a Identity over would bo unearthed. A few daa later tho lower part of tho torao from tho wulut to tho thlgha waa found In a almllar pillow nl lp which boro the trade mark of Itobln-aou-ltoKera Co., and tho number (0. The company had madn but twclvo of thcKo pillow all tf. They had been old to n retailor iiamvd Saclm, who ftirnlnlted tho jmllco with thu uamcN of thoKo to whom ho had no Id them. One of tho purchaser waa found to lnio hoiiKUl nlno two pillow, a chair, bedHprliiKM nnd n white enameled bed which had been moved to a four room apartment at 08 Ilradhunt avenue, which had boon leaned In tho tin mo of HniiH Schmidt. In tho mcan tlmo an autopny had allowed tho woman had been aubjectcd to a criminal operation and tho motive of tho crlmo waa thereby known. For flvo daya nnd nluhla tho Ilradhurat avonuo apartment waa watched and thou tho pollen hroko Into It. I'lil-HVellliiK .Mjstrry Thoro wiih no doubt tho crlmo had been committed there, for (ho i'lneo waa amcarcil with blood, lletldcs tho furulturo, wuro n packet of let torn iiddrcaaed to Anna Aumuollor unit two trunkB. A coat Iiuiik In tho closet with a letter to Anna Aumuol lor, and n photograph of linns Schmidt In th0 pocket. In tho bath room wero n butcher kulfo and u lart;o earpontar'a Haw. In tho let torn worn contained tho addresses of three nlncca whero tho K'rl hud worked. Oao of tlioso was Ht. .loHoph's Itectory. Tho police wont to tho other plncou flrat. Knthor Hchmldt met thorn ut tho door of (Contlnuod on page t.) DOPEO NEEDLE FEARED NI3W YORK, Doc. 8. Miss IIcbbIc McCnnn, ngod 21), who dlsappuarod from her homo horo liiHt Friday, wns HoiiRht today hy the Now York pollco. Sho In tho ilaiiRlitor of llohort U. Mc Cann, u wholesale Rrocor. A yomiR man acquaintance last huw tho Rlrl In Wall Stroot. Sho scarcely ropllod to lila grootliiB. MUs McCanu Is a Sunday school teacher lu Ht. Mark's Kplacopnl church, Flat hiiBh, nml la much Interested In Bot Moment work, Approhonslon was folt concerning her nnfoty aa a result of recent re portH that many white ulavo cade In horo are wielding neodlea dipped In hyoBclno, u powerful drug. MEDFORD. . 8 . - WAR REIGNS IN From Mohawk to Baltic Strikers and Sympathizers Battling With Dep uties and Strikebreakers At Some Points Firing Almost Incessant. Six Killed in Battle Sunday Long Roll of Fatalities Feared Gover nor Refuses to Act. CAI.UMKT, Mich., Dec. 8. Ileal war relKiicd today In tho JllchlKnn copiier mluo atrlko dUtrlct. hltn end of tho affected region, From Mohawk to Ilaltlc, at oppo atrlkura and their aympathlzora, wero bnttlliiK with deputies, itrlkobreak era and poca of cltltuna. At ooinc point flrliiR wan almoal Incnatant. No more deatha wero reported, hut tho orcn In which tho fighting wat lu progress wa so cxti-mlvo and now traveled so alowly that It was feared definite new would allow a lonR roll of fatalities. Tho clash followed yesterday's kil ling of strikebreaker In the Copper Itango consolidated mine. Military ami civil authorities blamed tuom- bera of tho Western Federation of Miners. I'nlon officials repudiated It nnd toloRraphcd to Governor Fcrrla asking for protection, which tho gor cmor rofinxul, leaving tho situation In thn hand of thn local authorities. lliislncsa wna generally suspended and'among non-combatant through out the atrlko zone panic prevailed. The outlook for mora serious trou ble was most threatening. STATES CAMINETTI rOKThANI). Or., Dee. 8. A warning Unit the United .States i in danger of a Hindu invasion compar able to the wonleru movement of tho Jnpauoho nnd ChincHo unless the Hindu are made an excluded class, vtaH Koundcd by Anthony Caminetti, comuiishioner cotiornl of immigration of thn deparlment of labor, who reached I'ortlaud lodny. Tho com m'tHsinner Kcnoral irt on an official tour of thu west inspecting station of the department. In addition (o the Hindu question Caminetti is making u personal in vestigation of the immigration phase of the dread disease commonly call ed hookworm. ''The Hindu question is iuo.se seri ous, ' said Mr. Caminetti tmlay, "and for economic reasons which nre well known to all the people of this sec tion of the country, they should be kept out. Tho Hindu coolie class is milking a movement from India to oilier favorable climes. The l'acifio coast is one of tho places to which they desire to come. Tho department recontly denied (he application for udmillanco of sevenly-threo Hindus in Scalllo; their appeals to the courts of that district wero lost nnd now through their nltorneys the case is being uppcaled to the supremo court of tho united Stales. CONGRESS VOTES 10 WASHINGTON, Dee. 8. Hv nn overwhelming majority the houso of CALUMET MN ID 1U INVASION THREATENS NATION STOPBUILDINGWARSHIPS representatives today adopted tbo llonsloy resolution approving the sug gestion made by First Lord of tho Admiralty Winston Churchill of Eng land, that the world powers suspend naval construction for 0110 year. The resolution aulhorixcd l'resi dent Wilson to oo-opornto in tho ef fort to persuade other nations to join the agreement. Forty-two states have fixed a min imum number of hours ns a working week for children,, -, k - - OK KG OX, MONDAY, DKCJOMJJEIt 8, 19KI A TYPICAL SOLDIER OF CARRANZA FORCES; AGED FOURTEEN 4. T&,-rtMK - ti.-i?M- ' Ax t iassssF'' assMaf- sbbbbbbbbT ' ;fMm- t"" w& .x;.ij. ,7 -m J jt,AjjrdMj .11 GENERAL VILLA SHOWS HOW TO CUT LIVING COST KU PASO, Texas, Dec. S. General Villa today showed how to reduce tho high cost of living. Ho Issued a schedulo of food prices which dealers woro ordered not to exceed. If they did so, ho said he would confiscate their stocks and himself distribute them to tho needy. Tho prlco schedule varied some what with localities. At Juarez au-1 most other places throughout rebel- controlled Northorn Mexico, Villa tried to put them on tbo basis "usual in times of peace," At Chihuahua City, however, ho said provisions must bo Bold nt cost until tho res tnbllshmctit of railroad communica tion relieves tho present despcruto situation. ACT IS UPHELD I'OItTLAND. Ore., Dec. S. In i decision horo today Federal District Judge Dean upheld the constitu tionality of tho Wobh-Konyou act, which prohibits the shipment of li quor In n wot state to another which is. dry. Tho milt in which tho decision was handed down waa filed by F. Zim merman nnd company against tho O. W. H. & N. company In which a mandate wns uulced requiring tho road, to accept shipments of liquor consigned from Portland to lleyhurn, Idaho. Tho mandate was refused. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. Republi can senators pievontod tho democra tic loaders today from postponing consideration of tho Alaska govern-mont-ownod railroad bill. When consideration of tho mcasuro was taken up, Senator Poludextor of Washington Introduced a substitute .bill. It provided for tho establish ment. of Rovornmout-owncd steamship lines connecting a government-owned railroad with tho big transportation syutonts, It also provided for tho development of coal mines by tho govornmout mid private capital, , WEBB-KENYON SEATTLE WOMEN T El SEATTLE. Wash., Dec. 8. -At n mns8 niectiiig of Seattle housewives, called by the West .Side Women's Improvement club, in the Grand the ater here todnv, the Washington Co operative nssocintion was formed to obtain the immediate lowering of egg prices to the consumer, to main tain or raise the prices to the nro iluccr nnd to secure remedial legis latiou on food prices. f WJicn tbo women nt the mass meeting resolved themselves into this organization they individually pledged themselves to abstain from tho tiso of cold 6torngo eggs nt price higher than 110 cents n dozen nnd fresh eggs nt n price higher tbnn 15 cents. There was n fair sprinkling of men in the uudiencc, ono or two of which headed u vigorous opposition to ev ery step taken by the organiznlion, and almost succeeded by dilatory tnctics in defonting the resolution pledging tho women to boycott . The nnmo ndoptcd by the organiza tion is intended to permit the mem bership of men ns well as women. SUIT 10 REPLEVIN L SALEM, Oro., Dec. 8. Suit to ro plovln 8000 state school fund notes from Stato Treasurer Kay will bo filed into today by District Attornoy Illngo In bohalt of tho stato. land board. The notes aggreg&to over ICOOO.OOO. KIiiro alleges that tho notes aro Illegally hold by tho stato treasurer, saying that the law requires thorn to bo 'in tho custody of tho stato laud board. Ho sots forth that George JJrown,' cjer.k ot tho board, mudo ap plication ;pr mo notes to mo stato treasuror, who rofusod to deliver them to him. Kay holds that ho is tho legal custodian ot tho notes. CONSIDER SACRAMENTO RIVER IMPROVEMENTS WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. The house rivers and hnrbnrs committee began consideration this nfternoon of proposed expenditures of $33,000,- 000 for tho improvement of the Sao ramento river, in California. Mem bers McClatehie nml Shiuii of the California reclamation hoard asked the committee to appropriate .f.'i.fitlu',. 000 and promised the state would provide u similar uiuvunt. COMBINE 0 LOWER GG AND FOOD PRICE WHyEWISONI)Efy$S TALKING PEACE AID CAUSE OF WITH CARRANZA WOMAN'S RIGHTS Villa Said to Have Had Bitter Quar rel With Carranza and to Have Seceded From Cause Dictator Or ders Protection of Foreigners. Zapatistas Filtering Fast Into Cap ital In Readiness for Outbreak Fugitives Fail to Reach Border. WASHINGTON. Dec. 8. Widely believed rcjmrts that President Hu ertn am General Carrnuza were talk ing pence circulated today in Mexico City. Cnrrnnza nnd General Villa were said to have had n bitter ounrrcl nnd Villa wns thought likely o secede from Cnrrnnza's cause. In case of fighting in Mexico City, Huertn ordered that foreigners mutt not bo molested nn order meaning he expected fighting, many thought. Zapatistas, the dreaded southern rebels, were reixirted filtering fast into Mexico City, presumably in rend inc for an outbreak there. General Villn ordered northern Mexican merchants to reduce prices of provisions to n pence bnis or less, or he would seize and distrib ute their stocks. Kxccpt n few bringing treasure with them. Chihuahua City's fugi tives had failed to reach the border, nnd there wns much curiosity ns to their fate. It wns. rejwrted that the rebels had cant it red Yxcuitlns; that the federal had won nt Trinehcra nnd Huitzilus; that federals were exjweling nil nt- tack nl Amccn. nnd the rebels nt Ojinngn, and that fighting wns in progress nt Ozumbn. AFTER BON'S JOB SAX FRANCISCO. Cal., Dec. 8. Strong indication that John E. Kshle mun, president of the state railroad commission, will bo the progressive candidate for governor of Califor nin was seen horo today in a tune fully guarded stutcment issued by him. It also was generally accepted ns meaning that Governor Johnson soon will announce bis candidacy ; succeed United States Senator Gc. K. Perkins, whose term expires next year. Asked flatly whether he would bo n enndidato for governor, Hiileuiun said: "I have nlways been nnd always will be behind Hiram Johnson for anything lie want. If he wants to run for senntor I will be back of him for senator. Hut Governor John son has not said what he intends to do. Until ho says that, I eertninlv could not say whether 1 intend to run for the governorship. It all de pends upon the stand Johnson takes." SAN FRANCISCO CALL I SAN FKANCISCO, Cal.. Dec. 8. Publisher F. W. KoIIocl' of the Call confirmed today the purchase by the tall 4'ubltshiug comimny of the Eve ning Tost, llnth papers are being issued today, but beginning tomor row will ho published as ono under the name of the Call and Post. FRENCH STATESMEN FIGHT DUEL; ONE WOUNDED ROMR, Dec. 8. Following a dis pute in tho chamber of deputies to day, Deputy Gamboretlu, liberal, and Deputy Do Felice-Gieffrida, social ist, fought a rapier duel, and the for mer was wounded. I.1P.AU, Itiissiu, Dee. 8.1 I.iouteu uut Mauschmidt fell with his hydro aeroplane into llio sea and was drowned, ESHLEMAN NO. 221 President Declines to Send Special Votes for Women Message to Con gress or to Incorporate Such Rec ommendation in Regular Message. Unless Congress Requests It, He Could Not Recommend Creation of a Special House Committee. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. Faring a big Huffrugist delegation, President Wilson refused lodny to send n spe cial message to congress urging that women be enfranchised. Hu declined also to incorporate Mich a recommendation in ono of bis regular mcungcs. Until congress remiesls it, be lidd ed, he could not recommend the crc- ntinn of n specini house committee to investigate the suffrage question. The suffragette conference wn picturesque. The committee march ed to the white house in the face of nu icy wind, determined to force the, president to speak. President Wilson stood in front of his big desk and received the com mittee. He appeared drawn nml haggard ns n result of bin recent .ill ness, but he shook hands cordially with Dr. Annn Howard Shaw nnd Mrs. Medill McConnlck nnd smiled nt the other women in fhc delega tion. ''We have made pilgrimages to tbo, capital every year," said Pr. Shim, "nnd wo always have been received courteously. Yet all jspff rage vies-. Mat ion has been buried In commit tee." CELEBRATE P HETCH HETCHY BILL SAN FIIANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 8. All San Francisco awaited today the actual signing by President Wilson of the I letch Hetchy bill, which pass ed the senate lute Saturday by it vole of -13 to 2o. Plans already have started for a demonstration here when tho flash from Washington tells; that tho president's signature has made tlio bill n law. "Wo will have the system built ami Ileteh Uetehv water flowing Into San Francisco within five , years,' was (lie promise today of City Engineer O'Shnugluicsay. The bill gives the eity the right to build a dam across tho mouth of thu I letch Hetchy valley, which will pro"W" vido a reservoir to hold 2-JK00000O,2 " 000 gallons of water; gives tbo city' the right to flood the floor of tho, valley, two-thirds of which the eity, owns nml ulso gives Sau Frtincisco rights of way nnd power rights val ued at $13,000,000. IN DR. CRAIG'S TRIAL SIIKI.UYVILLK, Ind.. Doc. 8. Counsol Tor Dr. Craig, charged with tho murder o( Dr. Helen Knabe aukoi tho court to Instruct tho Jury to ac quit. The prosecution, It was as sorted had tailed to make out a cuso. Arguments on tho motion begau at ouco. Tho prosecutlou rested at 1:45 following tho conclusion of tho tes timony of Mrs, Augusta Kuabo, Dr., Knabo's cousin, who was recalled for cross examination. Miss Knabo was so stricken with grief that she could1 hardly make herself understood. Asked to Identify tho bloody pillow found across her cousin's breant, she hugged it in her arms, rocked hor self to and fro and sobbed hysterloul- Detectlvo Maxwell, who did most of tho work of gathering evldnte against .Craig,, gave his reasonor believing tho prisoner guilty, " p Mf SAN FRANCISCO TO M I