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Ht. n- nFj 4!;,s i Medford Mail Tribune SECOND EDITION WEATHER iiFIr tonight nml ThnrmtJ Mav. nfl( MJn. JHtj lire. .OA. 1 ' irtirt jrthlrl rr tally Kls-hlli Year FULL DETAILS Account of Court Martial and Exe cution Received and Belnu Trans lated Army Surocoh to Examine ' Corpse When Widow Views It. Forclun Relations Committee Con siders Situation President Asked About Protection (or Americans. N'AKIIlNdTOS', IVIi. 2a. A l" tuilnl iiecoiint of William II. Kenton' court mill lint nml execution nt Jim re, was roecUed nt the nttitu tlcjutrt mi'tit this iiftcriiiiiui. It was in .SpiuiiNli nml it tmnxlutloii was pro grossing in rapidly ns pimnihlo. lu Minroo wns not stilted, imr wh i nniiiiuiK'i'il whether, when Imiwliitrd, it would In) publlnhcil. Secretory of Klnto Kryuii nn iiiiuiiccd offininllv Hint mi iirmv sur geon will examine Konlon's corpse when, in ueooid w'lh Clviirrnl Villa's pomiistlou, tlio wltlmv U allowed to hop it. Viilu agreed to this oxiimui ntiou by n properly iici'mliled rep nwentntlvc of Hip t'nlttd SlntfH got eminent. It una believed tin cxiim iimtiini wmilil flnw wlietlier !! ! wni killed out of luiiiil liv Villn or executed hj it firlwr HlllllllJ. American Clllen Killed Ilrynn hud tint iibnnOonod li i rf fort to hnvo. tlu Imilv ri'tnrnr.l ( tin fulled Stnt" i though tin1 Hugh-h CiUrrilliicnt signified tl would li" satisfied with mi nnny HurnftuiV VCrdil'l. Offirinl ciiiifTiuiitinu mum rncoixrd ii f riitnurH thnt t'lemento Yiigiirrr, ifrntli iirnr.-NnevMrlo. Karllcr reports hml it thnt Vngnrcr. wns killed liy fi'iliTii?, tint the Intrr vor Mon wiih that lio was executed li.v tin1 rebel. It Mil. Mllll ho WUS liiri'il into hi executioners' hand on tln promise of iiiilfiiinity for horses hi' hint lot. Seoiolury Ilrynn was closeted for Mitun tiini toilnv with thi members of th sounto foreign relations com mittee. "I detailed Hid facts ioii cornine; tho situation in Mexico," hi' hiiiil whrii ho emerged from tint com mittri' room, "mid tolil what tho gn eminent In iloiii" in onunoetion with tho Hciituii ennc." ll(iuo Heck Information ItrprrNi'iitntlvn Aincv of IVnnsyl Miniit mtroiluri'il toiliw in tho house n resolution linking, tho president if not ineomputlblo with the publio ni toioM, to inform tho lawmakers what slops huvo been taken to protect tho lives of Amorioiin nnd other foreign icsidonts in Mexico, nml to giw lo tnils of iiny outrages which hnvo oo CIIIICll. Tho rt'piilillcniiH plun to ilfiioiiiicn tho iiiliniiilhlrntioii'M MoNicnn policx tomorrow ulicii llio Iioiiho tliHonmoH tho uimy iippropimtion hill, TO PROTECT WATER CIIIASS VAI.LKV, Cnl., Feb. 2S. (Inn fii;htiii(; between 1'iirnu'i'H nml miuoirt on Slutu creek, thU county, nml employcrt of tho KnccImoi' iiiiiiinj; Wutor ooinpniiy wan thieuteiieil toiluy, Tho coinpnnv chilim tho crock wnlcr, onloreil oory olio to cenno iiNiu l nml iloMioycil the iniKulion illli'hcrt tuppluur It. Tho fuimeiri nml iiiiiiciH icpuliotl tho ilitchcH nml woio f.'uniiliii' them liulu- with hhot(,MiiiH, lltil'ri nml plhlolH. ILL WITH PNEUMONIA LONDON', l-'fli. 'J.r). MimuKor Cnl ImIiiiii of CIiIciiro iiiiiiuiiiu'i'il nt tho luiiehuoii IIiIk itl'loiuoou thnt Mini iiKr McOruw of tliu Now York (liimU wiih Hoiiouxly ill nml uniihlo to Iciivo IiIh room. Mcdrnw, ho Hiiiil, wiih Hlrliilicn with n llirciitiiiicil ut- tnck of pnciiiiHiiiiii, riluiilly licfoto BENTON CASE IN BRYAN'S HANDS IIUUII, PRESIDENT HUERTA AT A Saaaa aaavl'aaL mLSflW aaBBBBBBal Dcmilto liln trlnln nml tho tllffl- rult Im Im f t ii tl n liluiiii'lf In, I'rcnlitotit Hiiortn of .Mexico linn tlmo for iincliil nffnlm. In fnrt ho U ciijeylm: him olf to tho limit i:ry ovciiIiik I'f In onturtntnoil or ontcrtnltiii In tho ilny lluortst in n uioro Koiioral or colonn1 In thu Mi'xlcnti nrmy ho ilii! not nnorlntii wit It tliu boat xoclotv In tho rapltnl. Ili'lni: imrt or wliotu Indian, tho puro-blooilcl tipnnlunU hml no imo for him Tlioy rntlio" lookml down on him nml hi fanill) Hut nIiicii liln rlao to power ho linn provoil hlmmtlf thu Rtroni:cl man In Minli'o, nml now thorn) who ncorncil htm nru p,lml onourli to do him honor MEXICAN POLICY 10 WARIMNUTOX, Kub. 25 In tli hni.io todny I'unRrcumnan Alncy wu ovoro In hit criticisms of tho Maxl ran kltiinllen: . "Cou.tlilonsiuMuIcu-JjM itccoiuo lutolornlilo," ha mild "nml tho Amorl enn pooplo nro utiwIllliiK to hnvo thorn rontlnuo. Tho pcaco. itccitrlty nml koiiiI will of thin country with othor rouutrlon In ondnnporod. Pres ident WIIboh'ii policy In not IcndliiK iin toward penro, but IrrculBtlhly lownrd wnr. "Tho lime Iihn como to Intervono or to ndopi noiiio policy of dotorml. nnllon which will cniuo thcuo Inlol crahlo conitltloiu to comic " WEST STARTS FOR INGT BAI.IJM, Ore , I'ob 25 (Sovornor Wcht Ih prepnrlm: to Mart tiaturdn) for WimhliiBtou, I). ('., to ea npornto with thn Oropon doIcBiitlon In con Kron for tho ndJutmont of Mnto Innil inntlvni. Mijny worn ettlod by MU Torn Itobbi tho isovornor'H hoc rotniy, whon who In VnnhluKton nl fall, hut tho oxocutlvn U pnrtlcularly concornuil with tho bill now pcudluK In tho houm) nuthorUliiK tho c cIiuiiro of n Holld ploca of laud In tho Hnntlnm Nntlonul fori'Bt for school Nrnttcrod landM. Another ipiciitlou In tho rollnqulHhmonl of laud In tho Cooh liny wtiKon roml laud prnnt. VASIIIN(n't)NT, Vi-li. U.V Tlmt tho I'uili'il Slnli'i Hiipremo court hml drawn the Ico.h of tho puro fooil nml iIiiikx net by recent tleoiMons wiih tho declaration heio today of Dr. llarvoy W. Wiloj, fonuer chief cheniM In llio ilepnitmeiit of iijrl cult ui o. DiiM'Uhhiuu tho couit'rt inl iuj; in the blenched flour enso yen tonlay that adulteiation mu-l ho liuiiiii'ul In health to como within tho piohihitiou of llio liiw, Dr. WU'y Miiil: ''To peiiuit Urn uniesliii'leil mlili lion of poisons In foods unlem Mich can ho proved Hiieo.fionlly injurioiiH, is to pnralyxo that hedion of tho not rclntliiK to hauuful mlullciatiouH. Tho itouit iiIhii ilonlt u body blow to tho ilriu,' hcetion of tho law when it uuuouuccil, in tho Jiin'ii enncer ciiho, thut tliu ohiiiM) foibtddini,' falhC ami iiilHli'iiilinu' Htatcmcuts upplied only to Iho cou-.titucnls of tho uieili clues uml not to their tlnij? inoper tU'rf. "Acooitlliis lo tho coml'tf lulobt LEADING WAR SAYS CONGRESSMAN COURT EMASCULATES FOOD LAW MliWFOKD DIPLOMATIC RECEPTION E BY OAKIANi', l.il., IVIi. 2"i An nl tcrcitiou "vir miiiuliii'i' lintiin furn- hhi-il u iii m of humor m the Drown luiinlcr cnxe cont nucil 'odny i fore SuiM-noil JiiiIrc OjziU'ii. There iik n xliurp iliputu iih to whether the hnum in nucstioii, which the mur .Itrcil limn hml bonuht on credit nml noIiI to buy lliitwr, could b intro diiccil to the jury. Juil' Ogilm hcbl Hint Ihn lnililM cOtlld L'O ill. (U'SIUIC ABUS DROWN DROVE WIFE CRAZY ALLEGES DEFENSE tho fnqt thut ltl"y.'r,04l'l,i,0"i',oullUo4y,,. Illllll iiiiiru. .1 ijn-.il iui.-(i' .. line of ilcfcnip wnn iiuliciitcil in iicMinnH t' jurori nftor JiiiIro Or leu hml tliitu let down tho bnr. Mr. A,melin Drown, the nccuncil womun, nut immimihlc iik n ntnluo throughout tho inoniinp. her fnee cupM) rin her hlnck kIovciI hnndh, not chinciu nt tlio' jury, ii)iiK no nttention even to tlio fourteen women in court, who hitt beyond tho rail. They claim they nro Kirlliood friends of Mm. Drown nml hnvo como from Sun rruncifco nml other liny pointi. MS FORCE PRICES DOWN SOME Ni:V YOHK, IVb. 'J'). (Icncrnlly lower price-, umrkcil cnih truilin;,' in tock1 todny. .Mcxicmi Petroleum nml M. K. & T. ench hM 1. An of fort wns mnilo to influence tho mar ket by uncovering weak hpotH IhroiiKh Hpcculativo colliiix-;. l'rofes. xioual trailers coufiucil their attack piincipally to tho southwchtoru rail roml hlinroh. Later wcaknchN in this (roup hprciul In tho nenernl market. M. I. - T. common dropped !.. mid the picfcrreil 3. HoiiiIm were caov. Tho mmket clo-cil htciuly. . t.r1 v.l I l. ruliiit,', u iiiiiii may ailil Iraees of ac himie, hlryehnino ami other ilniRs to food with impunity. Tho fault, tie I'oiiliiie; lo tho court's decision, con hists in thu phriiNOt ''Which inny nrnvo luumfui to'lieallli;' ,Tluv jwo plo hhoibl ilomauil thut (lourcus im ibcdliltcly cllmiuulo- Hint jilinmc." , SPECULA r i. ii. i"dj 'JLTir. DSbbbbPVS IbbVbbm t' jI H IBbHB mK V 'Ml BBBBBBBLBIBBBBBBBBBH OREGON, WEDNESDAY, VUA REFUSES T Mexican Leader Will Allow Widow to View Remains, But Will Relntcr at Once Secomt Demand Made by Bryan Policy Htoflw Upon Result Ugly Rumors Current Bauch. Be lieved Slain Texans Likely to Recover Benten's Body Forcibly. WA8HINOTON, Kcb 25 Stronj? protauro on (leneral Villa to ur render William II. Denton' body wb brought today by he Waihlng ton administration. It wan hollared i'reldcnt Wlhion'H policy toward tho ,Mexlc.u robclfi hinged on the roiult. Tho ultutitlon unuctlonably was nioBt norlous. England was In coined hy Villa's refunnl to hand out Ilonton'n corpao to tho widow. Secretary of Klnto Ilrynn plainly won Kfefttly worrlod, though hn snld nothlnK. Ilo loft the prciildont'i army and navy recoptlon at 12 last nlKht and wont to the state depart ment, whoro ho spent most of tho rest of thn night. Ilrynn IUtm-w Demand He raro'ull' ro'read llio report hy United State Consul Letcher, at Chihuahua City, saylug that Villa would allow Mrs. Denton to soo her husband's body but would Immed iately re-Inter It. Then bo tent froth Instructions to 1otchcL In which It was understood he ronteJ In strong -. terms ins aemana on vina to sur render tho body at once. Tho local Mexican rebel Junta was also warned that the sdrulntstrhtlon Intends fully in Investigate the Uen-l tea case, wuelbor Villa likes It or "r . V&lv rumors were current. Tho statu 'department wns nearly con vinced that Oustav llauch, tho German-American aceiued hy Villa of being a federal spr. and Lawrence, tho Englishman who went from HI Paso to Juarez to look for Kenton, had been executed Not a clow could bo found to iho whereabouts of olther. Tcxaiii Mar Invade Army officers on tho board re ported an inu-nsc antl-Mexlcan feol Ing. Unless Villa surrondora Hen ton's body, (ho ad they were afraid his friends wt'uld cross tho border end attempt to recover It forcibly. They woro threatening to do so openly. A report was current bore that tho war department had ordered tho commanders of tho four United States border caalry posts to bp ready to take the field on short notice. llryan would not give out n state ment except to that tho Mexican genoral's first reply to tho demand for tho surrender of llenton's body wns a refusal even to let anyone aeo It, hut that when American Consul Lotchor told htm ho considered this unfrlnedly, Villa consented to let the widow vlow tho corpse In tho pres ence of American representatives. Tho secretary did not aay how ho replied to this proposition but it waa understood ho reiterated his de mand for tho body's delivery. It was Intimated, howovor, that It bo porslsled In his rofuwU tho govern ment might send an army surgeon to examine tho corpse CONVICT STABS MATE EMADE SALKM, Or., IVb. t5. Tluunas Clark, a convict nt tho Mnto penitciv tiury hero, toilnv stubbed Herman Hoyuolds, a follow-prlMiuor, iimuk a kilifo ho hml made himself. Tho men woro lioiin? led from their cells to clobe cimfincment in tho prison yard and llnrns ntndo llio ntlnck ns uioy left tho corridor. Itcyuolds wns se verely out ubout tho head mid hand. FRANK 60TCH FATHER 0FY0UN6 WRESTLER UUMIiOLDT, In.. Feb. 23.-MW, Frank (lotoh. wifo of tho heavy weight ohuiupion wrealler of the world 4'iivo birth lo a son hero to Uoy. 0 HAND OVER BENTON'S BODY tittlilUlAUY 25, 10M. 'MISS ZELIE EMERSON V. S. Jl ID ! BBBIB m maT H skfa .SBSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSi KFK A "" r vasssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssC?T ; . "afssssssssi A. ag!A" 'sssssssssssssssl-1W 1 saPaPaPaPaVk ty& VLPaPaPaPa- &k it r ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssasAsffn T. 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They barcn't deported an American cltlicn for nearly a hundred years," sbe said, "and If 1 am to be the tint one- It will only be after a flsbL" THREE MILITANTS" GET PRISON TERMS! LONDON. Fob. 23. Throo suffra gettes and thrco mnscullno sympa thizers with their cause, wont went to Jail here today, following their sppcaranco In Dow street pollco court. Lauranre Housman, tbo author and artist; Henry Novlnson, wnr corres pondent, II. U. Harbcn, Mrs. D. A. Thomas, wifo of a mlllolnalro coal mtno owner, and Miss K, Halg would hnvo been released had they given each a 125 bond to keep tho pcaco for six months, but for refusing will have to 6pend tho tlmo In prison instead. They woro accused of obstructing tho police during a street domonstratloa last night against Premier Astjutth's refusal to sco n sufragetto delega tion. Mss Phyllis llrndy was glvon eighteen months In prison nt bard labor on bolus found guilty of firing tho residence of tho widow of Field Marshal Sir George White. REBEL ATTACK UPON MEXICO CITY. Fob. 25 That n rebel attack on Mnuitlan had beguu wus. learned horo this uttoruoon. President Huortn was conuorlng the nows strictly, so that no dejulls woro obtainable. IT PAYS TO WITH SYMPATHIZERS Medford Mail Tribune: Giiiitlonien J ran a 2o-cont want ad in tho Mail Tribune, issue of Friday, lebruary 20, offering Duroo swino brooding stock for sale. As a result, I hnvo today, Monday, February 211, niado cash sales of over $200 worth of stock and have inquiries and prospects of sales of nearly $100 worth more. I wish to tluuik you for developing and maintain ing so offeetive an advertising medium. Yours trulv, AVELHOKN BEESON. Tnlont. Fob. 28. . JISKS FOR FEARS DEPORTATION 1M0YER BRUTALLY MINE ORGANIZER i HANCOCK, Mich., Feb. 20. Hm tnl lisie nt the hands of tliu mem bers of the Citizens' Alliunce, 'thorn ho held reKuisible for tho deporta tion of himself, and President Moycr of the WeMorn Federation of JDncri. from tho copper country boveral weeks npo, wns charged today by Chnrli'i. Tanner, n federation organ izer, before the congrohionnl inves tigators of tho Michigan mine btrikc. FirM, Tanner said, Sheriff Cruz of Houghton county mid a commit tee of citizeiw culled lit hw own mid MoycrV room in tho Scott hotel to demmul a public statement from Moycr urging tho lelatives of vic tims of the Calumet Christmiib evo firo innio to accept relief donations. Moor, Hie witness testified, re fused. Three minutes later, ho continued, a crowd of members of tho Citizen' Alliunce niched in. Ho stiid they bent Moycr nearly double and one iiiiiii pounded him on tho head with n lcvolvcr until it went off ami the bullet struck tho federation lender in tho back. "Then," said Tiinner, "llio men who were holding ne accused mo of filing tho shot." .s tboy woro dragged toward tho rndroad station Inter, according to tho witness' account, tholr arms woro kicked, struck ami threatened. Tho minors expected to finish tholr testimony today. ADVERTISE Jh REA A DECLARES NO. 288 DLWCD OTATCC L STILL AT LARGE New Ycrk Police Captain Names One of Witnesses Against Him as the Slayer of Rosenthal Was Drunk on Night of Crime. Refers to Death Hcuse as an Infern Believed Impossible te Cenvkt Becker in New Trial. NEW YOKK, Feb. W. Strong be lief thnt former Police Lieutenant Charles F. Ikckcr, yesterday granted n retrial on charges of murdering Qnmblcr Herman Koscnthnl, would he freed nt the second trinl, prevailed here today. Defense attorneys were confident thnt the notion of the cir. cuit court of nppeuls in criticising Justice John "A. Goff, who presided at the first triul, nnd of its attack on the udmixxibilitv of the evidence offered by Sam Schepps, indicated certain succchh for Keeker. Keeker probably will be returned to the Tombs here from the death house nt Sing Sing tomorrow. If lie is acquitted, he intends lo Heck rein statement to the police force nnd ue for bnck salary. An interview granted by Keeker lo n representative of tho New York World wus published here today. In it Keeker declared he believed tho slayer of Koscnthnl to be still at large and named one of the "wit ni-sbcs who testified nt his first trial as the actual murderer. ' "I have not the proof now." said Keeker, "but I believe this man is the slayer. According to his own testi mony he was drunk on the night of Hio murder, jyid did not, -remember , what happened, T- "I feel horry for those boys in the death house, for I do not Iirlievt they had anything to do with the nctunl killing of Rosenthal." Keeker referred to 'the death houso as an inferno, ndilifig: ''Imagine yourself sitting in n clulir facing another holding n cocked pis tol at your bend. That's tho wax.- I felt despite the fact that deep down in niv soul I knew thnt right would prevail." CARRANZA HELPLESS TO ENFORCE ORDERS nOUGLAS, Ariz.. Fob. 25. Members of tho constitutionalist Junta at Agua Prteta, Mexico, across the border from here, asserted to day that General Carranza cannot undertake to compel General Villa to surrender tho body of William If. Kenton, an English subject ho exe cuted last week. Carranza, thoy said, la without means to enforce, any orders he might Issuo to con stitutionalist field commanders. American army officers hero woro awaiting despatches today regarding the whereabouts of General Carran za. it Is known that he lias de parted from Hermoslllo for the bor der, but before leaving there n told newspaper correspondents that bo probably would make soveral stops eu route. Ho waa expected Jo arrive at Nogalos, however, bofore night. American Consul Slmplcb Is at Nogalos today, supposedly waltlns by Secrotary Bryan to request Car ranza to Interact himself In tho ro covcro) of Uontou's xbody. REFORM SCHOOL BETTER THAN HOME SALEM, Oro., Fob. 23. Footsore and mud-spattered from tholr long walk from Dallas, Ernest and Rlett ard Mlnty surprised Superintendent Will Halo of the state training aehoel for boys, today by appearing at Ot institution and asking for admission. Ernest had boon sent to tho school a oar and a half ago, but was parolad. Fooling ho liked tho school hotter than homo, bo ktarted baok, taking his brother with him. Tho mtpt Intendent has notified the by' parents, MURDERER r-i i j ;i, t