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.,. iwBfl0P??w,T;fl my k i; -, B. I' K. r .i V. Vmm FOTTTC MEDEOKP fllAlL TRIBUNE AN "lNnmBNni:NT NEVHl'Arr.rT PUIUilHIIKI) JJVKUV AITIJHNOON JJ.XOISIT KUNPAY 1IY TIIK Miiut'qitu riti.NTiMi co. Offlco Mull Trlliuno Unllillni?, S5-:7-S Worm Tir wlr-ot tclnmonc 76. The IJcmncrftlle Tlnlr, The Mrdfonl Mali, Tim MeOront Tribune, The South ern OrcRonlnn, Tho Anlilnml Tribune. SUBSCRIPTION RATrS , rM ...AM .. ,M..1I ...... JS.VU .00 Ono nionih, by mull. ivr month, ilpllvorcd bv rnrrlrr In Meiiroril. I'liornlx, JuckHonvlllo nnd Central Tolni ........ -.. ..60 Snturilny only, by mall, prr yenr 5.00 Weekly, ir yor . ... i-&o Official Pnncr of llm City of Mnlfort. Offlclnl I'nncr of JupJckoii County. i:ntpril n (ciml-clnKS mnitrr nt Medford, OrcROti, under tho act of M-irch 3, 1S7P. Sworn Circulation for 1914, 2SS8. l-'ull lcnticil wire Associated Press dls patclicn. 3&tt EOF E PAHIS, Jan. lfi. Tho correspond ent ot tlio Kxcdtsior in Home wires that ho learns officially that 3G.000 j)orons wcro hilled nnd 45,000 In jured In tho earthquake. Newspaper specials from Home nfireo that tho Rreat mortality is at trihutablo to tho method of dry con struction employed In tho nffected region, the stones being piled upon each other without mortar. The only bulldlnss which escaped total destruction tvero tho modern houses built of reinforced concrete. Tho torlous landillJo which lias occurred at Montecorvlno Novella, which sent masses ot earth from tho mountalntttdfl Into tho Fuclno canal, damming that stream, threatens to add a flood to the other calamities In tho region. Gangs of men arc work ing strenously to remove tho obstruc tion. CREATE OFFICE OF PUBLIC DEFENDER SALEM. Oro., Jan. 16. Tho of fice of public defender will bo created In every county of 75,000 population or more, should a bill Introduced In tho house today by Hoprescntative Lewis bo enacted into law. Tho bill makes it tho duty of pub lic defenders to defend all persons who are financially able to employ counsel, and also to prosecute actions for tho collection of wages for those who are not able to employ counsel In cases In which tho sum involvea does not exceed ?100, and to defend porsonnin all civil litigation in which, In his Judgment, they are being per secuted. " OF STATE HEALTH BOARD SALEM, Or., Jan. 10. Two new Tneiiilicrii f Hie iac' l"nl f Iieullh linve been njtointi'il by (Km-rnor Wilbycnmbe, and Dr. Andrew C. Smith was renpjwintPiI, the 6nns of offieo C three of the obi memberi terminating today. The two memberi who have not formerly bcrvoil, that wore selected by Ibo governor, nre: )r. M. U. MareclhiB, city heallb of-fii-ir of Portland, and Dr. A. C. See ley of Hoscburg. Members wboso tenus expired Himullaneouhly with that of Dr. Smith, but who wero not reappointed, are: Dr. A. C. Kinney of Axtorin, and Dr. T. J. llipnins of Ua l;cr. Tho bold-over memberri arc Dr. K..A. Pierce, l'oitlnml; Dr. W. II. Moive, Salem, and Dr. E. H. Pickel, Jli'dlonl. TAKE GUADALAJARA VI'.KA 01U Jan. 10. Aceortlins to official information reaching Vera Cruz today, tho town of Ouadalnjorn ban been recaptured by the Currnnxn leader, Oeneral Dieguoz. Quadalajara was taken by the Villa troopt. in Oeceinlicr, tho Oorrnnza troops under Dieguez evacuating the ytosliion and withdrawing to Qiuinot lan. SMISER ELECTED AS. ALASKAN ATTORNEY WJARUWCITO. Jan,. 10. Presi dent WiJKon lujfs hulrvriofl J. A Sniiner for 'Uniled $fttb aKoraoy for the division of Alahka. Tho wnniiuition '.will be "M'dJ " DRY CONSTRUCTION CAS GREAT QUAK MORTALITY PROHIBITION RUSSIA ANB OREGON RUSSIA is. out oountry which has genuine prohibition. This was ninth' possible by tho absolnto monopoly by tho government of tho liquor business. An artiolo in tho ttoviow of Reviews iloscribos tho rosult as follews: The governmont's Intention ov'idently was to keep tho drlnkshopa closed only tor a short time, in order to fnctlttato tho conrentratton and moblllin tlon or Hoops. Hut once tho people hud n taste of real prohibition, the Cnr's administration found that It was lot -nsy to return to Its old ways and resume Its profitable business. Tho, people rose up as ouo man, iltv mandlng tho contlimnnro ot prohibition. Peasants who had been hard drinkers before Joined in a general enthusiasm that greeted this move ment. Tho press did ita best to uphold tho people, and tho government, which needed the nation's sympathy as nover buforo, was forced to capitulate. Tho result tins been n regenerated nnd rovolutioulxed Hussln. Crime has been diminished JO per cent, or ovrn mote. "Wlfe-beatlng has ceased almost entirely. Children who had never seen their fathers sober and al ways feared them now beheld thorn with astonishment nnd asked thslr mothers. "Will papa always bo so?" hi conversation the wonderful change that has conio over Hussln through her sobriety tnko,s precedence oven oxer tho war, especially among women, "What a i'aroo, compared to Russian prohibition, will Oregon prohibition be under the law proposed by tho com mittee of one hundred and presented to the legislature. Instead of a prohibition measure, it should be labelled "a bill to promote booze guzzling at homo and build up the whisky trust in other states.' The bill forbids the manufacture or sale of liquor in Oregon, but permits a wholesale mail-order booze industry. It shuts down Oregon breweries and wineries, forbills saloons or drug stores from selling liquor, forbids club lockers, but permits any one to ship in from without the state five gallons of whisky or wine or twenty gallons of malt liquors in each month! 2 Tow much more does tho most confirmed drunkard desire? "What a difference between real prohibition and the proposed Oregon article ! If prohibition confers the benefits its advocates claim, if liquor does the damage it is alleged to, let us give real prohibition a trial and forbid not only the manufacture or sale, but importing of all varieties of booze. NICKEL-IN-THE-SLOT FRAUD f OUNTY ATTORNEY order out all nickel - in - the support of all law-abiding citizens. The law on the subject reads as follews: Section 2112. Any person or persons who shall conduct, maintain, or operate, either as owner or owners, proprietor or proprietors, lessee or lessees, employe or employers, agent or agents, or who shall play or use any nickel-in-the-slot machine or other devlco of like character wherein there enters any elemont ot chance, whether the same be played for money, checks, credits, or other thing or representative of value, sball be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upori conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $100, and In default of payment of tho fine Im posed shall be imprisoned In the county Jail ono dny for ench $2,00 thereof. Section 2113. In all prosecutions under this act for conducting, main taining, or operating any such machine or device, proof of the possession of such machine or device, or of permitting the same to be or remain in any public placo owned or controlled by the person ho prosecuted, convenient for use, shall be prima facie ovldenco' against such person of violation of this act. There is no more barefaced robberv practiced than these slot machines. The player has not one (.'banco in a hundred of breaking even. They are purposely made with an overwhelming percentage m ravor ot the "house" and their victims are principally partially intoxicated men. They are as efficient in getting the coin as the process of "rolling" practiced in pioneer days and in the dives of city slums. The pretense that they give a package of chewing gum with every nickel played is a barefaced subterfuge. No gum is forthcoming on any of the machines played in Bed ford. Furthermore, if a player docs by chance turn a winning combination, he is paid in drink or cigar checks, not in gum. Of all tlie slot machines that over victimized the public, those now in Med ford are the crookedest. HOW TO SECURE PROSPERITY THERE can be no question but that the securing of a beet sugar factory is the greatest opportunity over offered the Rogue River valley, it involves no local ex penditure of capital and offers the greatest net return to the farmer of any crop he can produce a fixed market for all the energy and industry ha can invest. The beet sugar factory will mean the expenditure of three-quarters of a million dollars in the valley for con struction, li will furnish an annual market for 15,000 cords of wood. It will distribute among the growers a million dollars a- year to farmers and laborers of new money. Every person in the valley will profit by the establish ment ot the factory. Its benefits are multitudinous. It will fix permanent land values. In a few years one fac tory cannot begin to handle the beet crop that can be raised, and another will be necessary. Here is a chance to restore prosperity to the valley an abiding and lasting prosperity. Will you do your share to secure it? All you need do is to sign up for sonio acre age yourself, if you are a farmer, and get your neighbors to sign up. If not a farmer, make it a pofnt to oinduce your farmer acquaintances to sign up. A long pull, a strong pull and a pull all together and we can get that prosperity-producer for the valley. The Beginning of the End In nny general Biirvey of tho hia tory of the grout war in iU fifth inmilh, the moral rather than tho mili tary effect of the operations takgn fir.-t place,. For if tho Oermnta ntlne.Ii in the opening months might fairly bo likened to a forest firo hweepimr ir resjibtibly forward out va&l ijihtrtcts, ever widening its area of destruction and mounting ever higher in its vio lence, it is not less patent that, De cember come, there wan cast and west in Europo an evident Hliiekeniiig of tho firo growing competence on (lie purl of llioso whoso necessity it wuh to limit, control, extinguish tho blaze. Looking at Ibo fields of operation in December, it was1 plain that while MroDronn mxtt; Tummm KELLY'S determination to - slot machines will have the there had been no success "et in net unity extinguishing the conflagration, it bad been limited, circumscribed, confined to tho narrowest bounds since it broko out. In places it was actually flung back; at no poult was it permitted to ravaee n"nin manv of tho districts which it bud Mvppt over in Ihe early days of August and Sop tembcr. In September it wns Paris which John A. Perl UNDERTAKE Lady Asslsunt M B. BAni'LKTT PbOHM M. 47 B 4741 4nitiiile ItorvtM Dtvofy OotMr mDFOKD. omwox, sATrnmt, .taxahy in, had been in danger. In October, in N'oM'itibiT. the lleunnu drive for the M'm'iml, fur Calais and Duukiik, Ihieatened to eompur for tho kiiNcr thai "window on the elinlinel" which for all paii-tleiiuaiiH had been the dream of all dreaiUH, the tii'M step in the series which wan to acniivo for Germany her "place iu the Mm," Hut if in November and in the ter rible battle ot Ypiv-, of Flanders this Oernutu advance hud been lullted, in iWember it was clear that, like the march to Paris the swop to the ehnntiel had been defiutely repuNed. From Switzerland to the North Sea the great Oerinau ol'I'eiiMxe had come to a full slop, fallen dead, lost tln necessary number and force, bad sunk to the level oj" a mere siege op eration in which the Herman were more frequently on the defensive than the offensive, and one bv one town and ullage, in Flaudor. iu ArtoN, in Champagne, which had been cnolured iu the initial drives, were legained by allied ndvniiee, advances nieaMired b' rods, not miles, achieved in days, not hours. For this the explanation wus to be found, rather iu the eut than the weM", for while her western onmtnin was still nt a crisis (loiinany bad again, n before the buttle of the Marue, to hurrv envvnrd trooiw nec essary In enforce victorv in Flanders to avoid the imminent di"iiM,er llu sian mnsxes hud nreoured iu Poland. KaM" and west, Hus-ian. French and Hritixh armies inereai-ed in numbers, in effectiveness, in material, purlieu lnily iu artillery, while Austrian re source and military value declined still more rapidly than before, and at last then seethed to be the ap'tronch of n time when (lernian numbers and cournpe, Oennnii efficiency and skill, would no longer avail to keep the bat tle lines mi both front' outside her own territory. Looking seiuvnnl, loo, the decisive defeat of the last (lertnnu fleet on the high seas always inevitable, given the superioriiv m me aiiieu navies served to otuplm'uo once more how fatally the net was beim: drawn about the fleiman cinpiie. It served to recall for all Americans the eircumstnnces of the confederacy, when Gettysburg lost and the Atlan tic blockade made effective the su periority in resources and numbers' of the north was established, and the civil war settled down to a process of attrition. Then came destruction by eamiMiigns in which neither skill, de votion nor valor could nvail against numbers, wealth and sea vaver. Thus for the mltside woibl Decem ber seemed to mark the beginning of the endnot iu the sene that the. ap proach of jK-aee was measurably has tened, not thnt the prospect of n long and terrible war was banished, hut ' simply in the sense that under the po litical conditions existing, while the ranks of her enemies remained un brokeu, thero was no longer any promise of ultimate Gvimnu i'tor. Germany's problem henceforth seem ed to be one of defense, not attack; of endurance, not comment. William II was not to conquer Europe n Na poluon did at Aiisterlitr. Germany wn not to control the continent u France bad a little more Hum a cen tury before. It remained to be seen whether the fjcriuan cmpcior could bold Uelgium n Fredeiiek the Great had held Sile-ia, against the combined military strength of Europe.- From "T,ho Courso of the Whr iu Decem ber," by Frank II. Simonds, iu the American Ifeview of Iteview.-, for Jan uary. A flood Ucsolutloii. To Jiolpjjiilld up Medford payrolls by smoking (lovcrnor Johnnon or Mt. Pitt cigar. THE PAGE Medford's Leading Theater SUNDAYTONLY Matinee andrEveiiliuj . ICh Alvvayn a llig Show at tho Page Special Great Feature The Thumb Print A Thrilling and Powerful Dctijctlvo nrnma In Four I'urtn Other Good Pictures (Jpcclalj,M anient program lj' Page Theatre Orchestra Humbly, Matinee li V. M, Cvcnliig at Adinlshlon O-tO-lSc RAISE IN WHEAT I PROBED BY T WVSIIlNOTON, .Inn. It'.. -I'lenl-dent Wilson today directed Attorney Oenoinl UreKory to iuvetli:ali wheth er thorn hud hcou any violation of liw In tho rlo of prlees of wheat and flour. The department of commerce prob ably will he linked by the president to furutrh Information showing whnt de gree of lurroiiso In exports of wheat and flour followed the outbreak of tho Kiiropeau war. .Mr. (Iregory him promlHcd prompt proHeeutlous on any evidence that IIIokuI combinations Iinvw .forced up tho prlre of wheat and fluuv or other food produetn. Ono IttvoHtluiitlou now helug con ducted In Chicago la being watched closely by iho department of Juitlleo. From various ttourcci miKRiwtlomt have been made to the president thnt an uinbnrgo be laid on wheat nnd flour oportx, to keep home price normal. Officials declined today to continent on any of them. 'THE SPOILERS" AT THE PAGE THEATER MONDAY "The Spollern" Is a Htory native to the noil of these slateH. It In typle ally American. It covers n period In the dovelopmont of tho Pugut Hound country and AlnnlM wneiem aiiven- luroH of nil nortH. noble nnd otherwlne ntniKRled with Bavago tenacity for fortune. (It In now ictold In inuvlng picture form by W. N. Helljc In nlu reels with n fidelity to detail that In truly MitWylng. The film drama In Intensely Interesting. Nothing llku tho hand to hand fight between 0en Itder and McNanmra has ovr Deen shown on the nago before, l would bo Imponnlhlo In npraltliig driunn. No glndltorlal combat or Aflclent Home wan fiercer or bloodier, nnd thin ntruggle ban tho added virtue of a true drnmatlc nliuntlon, the world old ntruggle between light and wrong, good nnd evil, condenned Into tho forms ot two chaructern of the ntory who have become familiar through provloun prenentatlons In the plot. It In tho Htory of modern American frontier life. Thin nunt wonderful picture In to recolvo ltd Initial pre- nentntlon In Medford nt the Page for a., rtititnimiiiiint nf tun itfiiti Htnrllni; January lKth, matinee nnd evening. YY Theatre iitio.w'.wo s.vrntn.vv .Mallucr.Ku'uIni; Mystery of the Sleeping House KpUorio No, a, "Zudorn" Complete Two Heels Mutual Weekly News Shorty Escapes Matrimony Two Heel Uroncho, Shoity Herlen Prlncens Comedy In Her Sleep 5 and IOc ANY SKAT n and 10c STAR Sunday. Only f SoUgpno Pmt Rival Stage Lines VJtngruph Fcjtturq Two PurtH Saved from a Life of Crime Kalom Koinody Ono Part Bud, Bill and the Waiter KMHiiny Hl'eelal, Two PurtH The Place, the Time and the Man Clcorgo Aden Pablo The Club Girls and the Four Times Veteran MATINEE AT TWO PEIDEN .imn SHOOTS SELF: FALLS SW PUANCiaCO, Cal., Jail Hi After pnvlug bin hotel hill III advance for two dn.v, Tlioinan Merkr of Point Hlehiiiond wenl iipntalrn to the room nnnlKiied him euily toduy, mutl.v livid awny htn coat, wabdcoiit and nhoen, carefully leaned out the window, no that no ntalun nhnithl rail on the carpel and shot IdliiHulf thioiiKli the bend. Ill body pluiiRml downwind 'i ntoilw Into I'ulou Hipmio. With Medford iraito in Medford miido THE PAGE Medford's Lentliiin Thcalrr It's Always a Big Show at tho Page ' ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAORDINARY By special arrangement with tho All Star jYoaturo Distributors, this Theater will present JANUARY 18th AND 19fh Afternoon and Evening ' The REX BEACH'S Red-blooded story of Alaska, pronounced by prosa and public tho greatest photo spectaclo over pro duced. The production all America is talking about. Tho admission, while nioro than our rogular prico, is less than for this great feature in many citios. en Lower Floor, 25c; BalcQny, lDc; Children, 15c. MUSIC FOR THIS ATTRACTION BY PAGE THEATRE ORCHESTRA THE PAGE Medford's Lending Theater. It's Always a Bin Show at the Pane SPECIAL GREAT FEATURE Box Office Attraction Company Presents the New York Lyceum Theater Success as Produced by Daniel Frohman THE THIEF By Henry Bernstein, Author of Samson, Israel, etc. Featiirlnn Dototliy Donnelly, Creator of Madam X. AN EPOCH-MAKING FEATURE This prcat Photo Masterpiece will only he shown Friday Nl-jlit, Sat urday Matinee nnd Evcnlnn MUSIC BY PAGE THEATRE ORCHESTRA ADMISSION 5, D A rT THEATRE f F A VJlL Thursday Jan. JU 1 BIG HfTW- TAmcr HIT! . TKxxikmmmu.ryyj'. vwMpnippf, wihpii M j i MStcdY jfM WflEMfl JtiSHPs ' JWQar TMK2 2Y fnWji ST iV STAfWD DY VRQlll)B?W2Tr fif w I ' fl&WfXWTEMU GftfAT TANGOE8QP& QWJUM QOtfUVes AtOTfi) COLONS PRICES 50c, 75q, $1,00, $1,50 Scat Sale Opens Tuesday. Mall Onjcrs Now. Pliono 418 'I'UIH IN NOT A .MOVI.VO I'MTl'ltK HIIUW LORD ROBERT'S ESTATE ! A M I tiVMOS ln I". I HI ). m Field Mnr dial lord ItnborU, who died In liiime NKVeiuber II of lunl vear, b'ti mi ent.(ie of :iSfi,0U0, all or whlnli oen lo bin Widow nnd .livughlern. Thin amount In itxclunlva ot ihojhmH' provlounly mdtled on bin family by Lord Kuhnrtn. Puneinl Vol he Fuiiernl wrvhton of Vol mm Cnmo run. wire or Xneh Cfunwiw. vrlll bo held at the Wtwsn " MuOowati elm pel. Hunda. .Inuunn I all at " no p. lit., Key. Shlchlx otfli'liUlllg. Intel uieiit III I O. O. F. ueinelery. TWO DAYS MONDAY AND TUESDAY January lUlli and I9lli Ft Iday-Saturday Matinee and Saturday Evcnlnn 10, 15 CENTS PPRAISES Spoilers Thursday, Jan. ZAMLECWWfm CQUICfiQOl UQQC33. ' i$m V i T.-H p y lt ' i,-, , , t Hi i-. . I , . . j ll I