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M"RI)KOKI). OUMCIOX, AIOXDAY, MAUf'II HO, 11)11.
NO. 7
ASQUITH SUCCEEDS SEELY AS WAR
WHEN LATTER RESIGNS
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PREMIERS COUP
OUTWITS TORIES
SMS WET
John Seelv fusions War Portfolio on
Account of Army Muddle AsqulHt
Takes Office, Rcsluning Sent In
Parliament to Stand for Re-election
Viscount Mcrley Expected to nesljjn
Cabinet Post of Lord President of
Council Election In East Fife.
LONDON, Muroh JO. John Seelx
resigned Imliiv Hritih war sroro
lury iiml Premier llmhcit II. Asipnth
took uir his Mirlfnllu,
Asipiilll hilUHolf UllllOlllieod what
Iiml been done. Tim premier limy
hutil iiiiv portfolio ho please or even
morn limn one. 'I'll i Aquith will ilo.
Ho uiih nlniiilv first lord of the
treasury ami mil continue us such.
Sccly wiii, of innrr, foioed fttnii
office hv tin iHiiilnvi,iy arising
from hi surrender lo tin army load
ers, who insisted that ho pnnnl-n not
to iixi! troops to force home rule on
UMrr. It (1H expected seotlllt
Motley would iiIno Iiiiv lo iolgn the
cabinet pot of Iniil president of tin
1'inMii'il since n miw thi memnruu
iluni Sccly gave lo llrigadicr Oenrrul
(lough making I In rriiiiri'il promise.
Morloy l.lkily lo Resign
Morloy ndptifoiAin Iho houo of
buds this afternoon (lint hi' saw the
paragraph hti!iMiiirntl.v repudiated
iiy I'ri'inii'r Asittllh iiml raised no nb
Jri'liuii lo thi'in Im'i'iiiim' he supposed
the other cabinet number Iiml ap
proved them.
I.nnl Ciir.oii thereupon asked 1 1 1 tit
why hi, like Sooly, iliil nut reditu, anil
Morlov ri'pliril he wotihl make n
stutoinint toiuotruw. Tin general
impression wit tluit (Iiih statement
would lake Iho form of announce
ment of hit retirement.
Afli'r explaining in the hntio of
commons tho now cabinet uirnitgc
mint ho Iiml made, Asiptith said ho
would ii'mkii dissent in pailmmeiit us
East I'ifoV representative ami go Im.
foro tho people at a hy-elcction for
return to office an head of tho war
office.
The East Fife eleeUon wilt will he
issued lomoiiow mill probably will
fix the election for April IX Colonel
A-piot was the conservative ohoscu
to oppose the piemier at the polls.
Ah ho lit practically rerialn of vic
tory In l.'iiHt rife, ho will by thin
meniiH regularise IHk position nn
holder of the war portfolio and at
the name time linvo Herurod whnt the
LlliernU will consider nn electoral en
dorsomciit of his policy without n
illnrioliitlon of, parliament nud n gen
eral eloetlon, which tho Conservatives
illicit rurry.
An Adroit Maneuver
Tho niunouvor was evorywhero re
garded an one of the most adroit la
Iho hlMtory of Itrlt IhIi pnlltlrs. Tho
uiioxportednuHs with which It wan an
noiinceil completely illMirgitulzod the
oppoMlte and threw tho Liberal-Labor-Irish
coalition mnmlierH of
parliament Into a frenzy of oiilhtm
liiHin, DeHplto War MlulHter Heely'H ro
tlrument, Kluld Mumhal Blr John
I'renrh and Adjutant (Uniorul Blr
John Kwurt rofnuud In wlthdruw
(Continued on pmi a.)
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NKW YOIIK, Mureh :ill, A koihI
uudeiloue marked the opeuiiiK of the
stock market today, with prices hold
ing close lo IiinI week's close. Change
were confined lo a slight I'liielion, ox.
eepl for it few Hpeciallies, which were
weak, Ameilcuu Tobacco diopplug 'J
and Aiuciicaii Car 'J. American Cnr
and Kliiihhakei', on Hie oilier hand,
ino iihoul a point.
llonds weie easy.
The imiikel closed klemly,
FEDERALS STILL
HOLD
ON
AGAINST VILLA
Velasco's Force Reduced to 3000
Battle In Streets Ratjlntj, Tliotitjli
Rebels Reported as Still Galnlnu
Ground.
Rebel Dead Estimated at 1500 Villa
Reported Wounded and Taken
From the Field.
LI. I'ASO, Tex., Ma i eh .'10. With
h i for if nhlc-hoilicd men reduc
ed, the lehelH helieM'd. to not morel
.1 .....,. ,1 ..! t-.. t...i I1
lllllll .ieu, uciirnu viiivii, iruriiii
eouiiiiander at Torreon, wan hlill re
hltiHK I ' " today, according to
n diNpateh filed ut that hour from
the nplilinu' front.
Tlie battle in TorieonV xlreelh wiik
tat ill mtriiii; when the iiieHii(;e wax
Kent, and although it wid, hinted that
the rebels weie hlowly unniint; ground
they udmitteil the MrucKlc the fed
itiiIn were Kirinj; the mriiiliiTH hiiiic
thinjj they had never dreannd of. It
wat estimated that fully 'J.VHI fed
era Is had heeu killed and u mnii.x
wounded. The rebel nn wiin alxo
ery heaxy, hut no figure were
Kiveii.
I .".(Ml Itelielh Stnlu
ArtivaU here from Chihuiihiiu ( it
said they believed at leiiht l.'idO eon
stilntioiinlitU hud iH't'ii killed. Of
their wounded, they nxcrl-d tiat
1100 had alreadv reached I'hihiiahua
Citv nud that the lioxpitalx at I'arral,
Jiiniiier. and Santa olia were filled.
One wounded rebel soldier at Chi
huahua City win ipioled ux mi Hi):
that (leiieral Villa win. hit by a bul
let and that he saw the icbcl leader
earned from the field. Constitution
nlist offieiaU ut Chihuahua City de
nied thi storv, howexer, mid it was
not jjeiierally lieliexed here.
Aecnrdiui; to other wounded men
who took part in the earlier filitiiiK
in the eiiriroim of Torreon, (leneral
ViIIii'h force very narrowly escaped
annihilation at (Ionic; ('niacin. The
federals pretended to letreat from
the town, the rebels pushed in aftei
them mid immediately several mines
exploded In tho streets', creatine
drcuilliil havoc, while at Hie same
lime a terrific machine gun and title
fire wax opened by fedeial soldiers
hidden behind the parapets which
surround the mofrt of most of the
ndobo houses,
(leneral HciniviiW brigade wiis
similarly entrapped ut .Sacramento
and lost twenty-five per eent of its
men, though it did succeed in eup
lurinn the town, and with it control
of the railioad eastward from Tor
reon. Ileuavidex wiik reported as
wounded, hut Huh was unconfirmed,
The rebels' were Miiiit to have exe
cuted many of the federal officers
they have captured mid to have given
their choice between execution and
joining the rebels' to the rank and
file, nearly all of whom accepted the
hitler alternative.
ORDER SEIGEL STORES
NI'AV YOlUx', March :). I'lilted
Sillies Judge Hough thin afternoon
ordered the disposal of the assets of
the Siegel Stoics corporation to the
creditors' orgniimitinu. This means
the reopening of tho corporation's
two big Moron here.
Ily compromising the claims of the
depositors in the Niegcl hank against
tho Siiupsoii-Cruvvford company mid
the Fourteenth street stoic, .fJ.'i.OOtl
will he paid within a week to Henry
Melville, the hunk'n receiver,
35,000 COAL MINERS
IN YORKSHIRE ON STRIKE
LONDON'. Mm Hi HO. Thulyfive
Ihoiisiuid Yorkshire eoal miners
struck today and as many mine me
to go out Thursday. They demand
blither pa),
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""I" HE unnrr ptclur thowt Sir
I Edward Canon Iniprctlnc Ida
Uliter Volunteer!, an army
which Mr. John E. Redmond iari
1 "never had the tlighleit Intention
I of flihtlnr." The lower pteluro
t
li ol Mr. Ketlmond
aklng
-perch at Tlpperary.
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1NSECURINGHARB0R
AT CRESCENT CITY
Jonathan Hourue, Jr., who was ie
ipiesled by the county couit to lep
resent Jackson county lit the Cres
cent City h.uhor hearimr, has wired
as follows;
"Washington, ). C, March 2S.
"lion. l- L. Ton Velle, county judge,
Medford, Or.
''It is alwajH a pleasure lo serve in
any way in my power Oregon, and
particularly Jackson and Josephine
counties. Please immediately mail
me detailed statement, giving pres
ent commerce of Crescent City, and
also available commerce, specifying
nature, probable annual amount and
vnlue, provided government improves
Crescent City huibor.
"JONATHAN llOl'l.'Ni:, Jit."
imwistIaffic
predicted by scoii
"Indications point to a very hcavv
woihl's fair truffle in HM.'i," stales
John M, Scott, geueial passenger
agent of the Southern Pacific rail
road, who spent Monday in Medford.
"Kasleiu rnilinao repioncntnlivo re
poil widespread interest throughout
the continent.
"The Crali'i Lake exclusion rates
will he well adveilised by the railroad
company and should lesull in In
creased truffle this summer. Condi
tions me hrighl for an extensive lour
IM Ihiffie."
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ROGUERIVERFSHNG !V LLA REPORTED
AT
BANQUET FRIDAY
'lhe second ! the Commercial
club's get-touelher bmupiets will he
held at the Hotel Medford Friday
uyeiiiiuj, April .1, at 8 o'clock. The
committee having this work in charge
has delayed this affair in a delennin
utiou to get nu cnUrtnimucut that
would he sufficiently attractive lo in
sure a largo attendaiiee. This has
been done. The piece, de resistance
for I'Viday evening's ontortniiuirvmt
will he the showing of mi exception
nllv fine series of moving picture
films by Stale (lame Warden W. 1.
Finley, illustiatnig every feature of
the fish mid game preservation work
in this stale.
Those films are tho most complete
in use, covering this particular Held.
They were shown at Portland recent
ly and made a hit. The stale oftice
has been boiuhaided with reigests for
tho films, and our Coiuiucrcial club
considers itself toitiinato in getting
them so proiuptlv tho result of our
having u representative at the Port-
laud gathering.
The moving pictures uiake a most
eiitertaiiiiiig nud iuatruotive show.
They illustrate the whole range of
fish and game iirpugulinir, the gath
ering of fish egg at tho rucks, their
fciliiixation mul hutching, the distri
bution of the "liugeilliigb" mid miiiic
line viinvtt of fihuig for minion in
lhe Willamette wuh iod mid lme, mid
Ily fishing for the sieoJhcml in Itogucj
river by local spoil-men.
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WOUNDED
TORREON ATTACK
Jl'AUKZ, Mow, March :10. No
news had been received from Ucncrul
Villa today later than 1 a. in. .ltehel
offiuinU owned they were noxious.
, They were hopeful the constitutional.
i-ts were still gaining ground at Tor
reon and yet they were fearful Villa
might have fallen into a trap.
Keports that Villa had been wound,
ed, though unconfirmed, worried
them, lleiiernl 'elueo, the federal
commaudor, had shown resource and
strategic ability mid his troops a
fighting spirit, it wns admitted, which
had astonished everyone. Tluit they
fi1l1.1 fititl illicit!! XI ll.ill tllili llililt'il
tllllllll V IIOIV4 11 ll II 1 IIVl IIVIIIll
something detinite and up-to-date the
constitutionalist mithnritiu frankly
admitted,
SHE CHOSEN FOR
POKTLAND, Or., March M.
With but one dissenting vote, the in
terstate bridge commission (hit, after
noon chose I'liion avenue in Port
land mid Washington stieel in Van
couver its lhe site for the approaches
of th hridiitf to he built over the Co
lumbia river connecting Oregon and
Waaluugloii. (loveiuor West wn- mil
present in person, hut lulegiaphed
nkihg thin hi vole he leeoided With
the majority nu the subject.
W 1 NS
AS INSULT TALK
President Styles Knowlands' Charge
as Crownimj Insult of a Number of
Insults Injected Into Tolls Debate
No Agreement With England.
Regrets Debate Has Degenerated Into
an Organized Attempt to Discredit
Administration.
WASHINGTON, Mnn-h :iO.-I'rcs-ident
Wilson todav resented as "the
rrown i:g insult" Hepresentutive
Know land's charge on the floor of the
'house that he entered into a haruaiti
with England whereby the exemption
clause of the Panama canal tolls act
would he cHm'nntcd in return for
England's snpimtt of America's Mex
ican Mliey. Replying to n specific
question ns to whether he had en
tercd into any deal with Sir William
Tyrol, President Wil-on said:
"Of rour-e that answers itself. It
is just the orownii insult of ii num
ber of insults that have been injected
into the tolls debate.
WlUon Tell Story
"The whole thing reminds ntc of the
story of a vcrv effective -debater who
sent a challenge into a county very
hostile (o Imii for n debate. The co-
pie down there did not like the job
very welt, hut they nut up the mail
they liked be-t. a big, htiskv fellow
named Tout. The challenger was riv
en the first hour of a two hours' de-
hate and had not .-(token more than
thirty minutes when it was evident
that he had convinced the audience
that he wit- on the right side. One of
Tom's partian- from the rear of the
hall, however, ro-e to his feet and
sheuted: 'Tom, call him a liar mid
make him fight.' That is the rtugc
this debate has reached."
The president was especially in
censed at Know land V allegations. He
said ho regretted that the debate had
degenerated into mi organized at
tempt to discredit his administration,
but he insisted that the repeal reso
lution was certain of passage.
Parly Not Disrupted
President Wilson said that not nil
of those opting him were partici
pating in the "campaign of misrepre
sentation." lie ttl-o declared he did
not expect the party to he disrupted
on account of the toll tli-pute. lie
.-aid the question xvas merely a capi
tal surgical operation and pointed to
two planks in the democratic plat
form declaring against Mtbsidie-,
cither direct or indirect.
The president added that if the in
ternational situation had not de
manded it, he would not have advo
cated the repeal, although he believed
free tolls to bo nothing more nor less
than a subsidy. lie said he believed
that as congress, over which he had
no jurisdiction, passed the law, it
would have rtniuined unchallenged by
the uihnitiistratioii if the iuteruatioiial
situation had not been a factor in the
ease.
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., March 30.
Though Nicholas Laiulo pleaded
guilty before United States Judge
Pooling today to violating tho Maim
white slave law, tho court retimed to
sentence him until Invcjtlgntlou con
vinced him that Laiulo was a real
"white sluvor."
I. undo admitted that ho and MWs
Hurrla came hero together from Pro
vidence, 11. I, MUs Hurrla, ho said,
Induced him to uiuko tho trip and
paid tho furos. I.uter she appeured
ngiilnst him before the fuderul gruttd
Jury.
Judge Pooling Intimated thut
tvIiIIo ho was opponud to uuy let-up
In white sluvo pronccutluiu, ho did
not think tho law should ho invoked
In ritac whuro vice wu not co miner-rlnlUcd.
ABOUT BARGAIN
PEACE OR WAR
WITHIN PARTY
OP TO SPEAKER
Belief Growing Chirk Will Net At
tack Wilson When He Closes De
bate Upon Canal Tolls Resolution
Trouhlc If He Wants It.
Tedious Debate Progresses In Con
gressMichigan Republican De
fends President.
WASHINGTON, .March 30. Tho
belief was growing this afternoon
that Speaker Clark will not attack
President Wilson when ho sneaki
aicalnst the canal tolls repeat resolu
tion. Hither Representative Adam
son or Representative. Covington
will reply to Clark, and they Inti
mated this afternoon that It dependol
entirely upon the speaker's addroits
Whether there would ho peace or'war.
Only nine of tho 20 hours allotted
for debate on the Sims resolution
had been spent when tho house met
at noon today. Tho session will end
at 7 o'clock this evening, leaving
four hours of debate for tomorrow.
Then will como trc voto on tho reso
lution Itself.
Republican Defend
Representative Hamilton ot Mich
igan, a republican, defended Presi
dent Wilson's stand on the tolls
question. " - - " . ' "
Seated In an Invalid's chair In front
of Speaker Clark's desk, Representa
tive L'Knglo, a sufferer from rheu
matism, denounced tho Sims resolu
tion and also Knglaud's attitude on
the tolls question.
Representative Knowland ot Cal
ifornia again reiterated this aftot'
noon tho charge that Sherley Ilenu
had reported in London that Presi
dent Wilson had agreed to tho tolbi
repeal and also that the peace con
tcnary appropriation would he voted
upon to the satisfaction ot England.
Their Master'H Voice
Representative Bell also spoko
against tho repeal.
"Tho democrats are listening to
their master's volco and aro brush
ing over treaty provisions with a fow
graceful sentences and nt tho samo
time giving out veiled forebodings,"
Dell said. "It wo believed all they
tell us wo might expect to hear mo
mentarily of tho Japaneso bombard
ing California and other nations
blowing up Now York and othor sea
bord cities. The people resent thoso
frantic appeals to break down tho
party's platform."
SCHIFF DENIES REPORT
OF BANK'S POSITION
WASHINGTON. March tlO. -Jacob
II. Sehiff denied hero this afternoon
if report from New York that he had
been oft'ered and hud accepted Iho
governorship of the federal regional
reserve bank board.
NEW YOKlx", March ail. The Dow
Jones ticker service adit out today
the following bulletin:
"It is reported on high authority
that President Wil-on lias offered
the position of governor of tho fed
eral regional hank reserve hoard to
Jacob 11. Sehiff, and that Sehiff uc
copied it."
II
EOR TOTERS OF GUNS
NEW YOIIK', Mm eh 00, Fifty,
five gunmen and one "gun girl" were
sentenced Ibid afternoon in general
sessions court here. Nearly nil th
men were given towns in King Siiv,
Elmirii mid on Illaekwcll's Island.
Kitriih Lippmaii, hu gnu Inter, wifs
It'tveii n term In Iho lUdl'otd reformatory.