Medford Mail Tribune
SECOND
EDITION
WEATHER
l-'fllr, AVnrmer Tuesday.
May. T, Mln. 17.
f
Forty-fifth Yenr.
Dally Ttnth Yrar.
SUITTORESTORE
Unsold Portion of 0. & C. Land Grant
Amounting to 2,300,000 acres, Val
ued at $50,000,000, Kept hy Rail
road Congress Given Six Months
to Regulate Future Sales.
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Approximately $1150,000 in
taxes for Mio post two years is
duo .Jackson county from tlmt
portion of the 0. & ('. limit unint
wilhip,ita borders, .-
LANDGRANTLOS
BY GOVERNMEN
WASHINGTON, Juno 21. The
government toil--1 lost ils unit in the
Mipreine court lo forfeit the unsold
portion of tin dromon & rulifornln
railroad land maul, imiouulini' to
Home 2,:t00,000 ncios and valued at
' $iiO,000,000.
. The railway company wan enjoin
ed, however, from futuro sales in
violation of the conditions of tlie
' uranl. until consress lias Inul icasoi
able tiiuo to act.
Justice. McKcnnn, for tho courl,
held tho government's position in
claiming tho conditions to tho grant
about sale weio eomiitioiis for which
n violation worked n forfeiture, was
untenable. The court held the con
ditions wcro in the nature of en forc
ible "covenants." Ho said eoncress
would havu six months for action 'n
tho case .
Itccoiisldcratiou Asked
Solicitor General Davis asked the
court to reconsider and restore the
case to tho docket for rc-nrgunient.
'J'lio application was taken under con
sideration. Tho unit was instituted in necord
nnco with a resolution of congress in
the federal district court of Oregon
on September I, 11108. Tho govern
liieut claimed that the railroad had
forfeited its rights bv having violat
ed n provision which required it to
Kill in not more than Kifl-acro tracts,
for not mo! e than $2..'(l an acre, and
only to actual settlor. The govern
ment sought to prove that tho com
pany had sold in largo tracts to tim
ber companies at inoio than $2.50 an
acre, and had adopted a policy to sell
no moro to nnv purchaser for the
time being.
Tho railroad contended that tho
proision was not effective, because
the lauds wcro unfit for settlement,
and furthermore, urged that tho gov
ernment was slopped fiout iaiiug tho
question of torfcitinc because of long
uc(tiio(.cenco in tio company's disre
gard of tho ulling provision.
Squatters Intervene
About sity-fivo persons who went
upon the lauds and claimed (o be act
ual settlers, within the meaning of the
law, brought u cross complaint, ask
ing that tho railroad company h held
to be a trustee for actual settlers and
icipiired to sell to tlicin. Some HOIK)
persons who have not gone upon Ijie
laud to make settlements, but who
have applied to the miliond company
to pui chase 1(10 ncics, intervened
with a petition that the company he
inquired, as a trustee, to convey
lands to them. ,
The lato of Oregon intervened
with tho claim that tho state levied
nearly half n million dollars taxes a
year on tho lauds and asked that the
lauds not be forfeited to the govern
ment, in which case the taxes might
bo lot, but that tho railroad bo re
quited to sell them tor tho luajolit
of tho government.
Tho Union Trust Company of New
York, trustee under n mortgage given
on tho land tu Foeuro $20,000,000
bonds ued in building the railroad,
also intervened.
YAQUiSDEFEAf
N'OOALl.S, Am, June 21 Mexi
can hiililierx cnt to protect .foreign
r in the Yuqui vallov have boon de
fetited by the Indimis in two battle,
according to Mi. Herman C. I.ouf-
fer of Lo Angelo., who arrived to
day from Cocari, notir the scone of
the fighting. In ono of thu battle the
Mieuu soldiers lo.t twenty-five
jncu. Yetrly In a fight near Jirl.
Oil kilometers south of F.inmluio, they
1d1 ioit) men and a machine gun.
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PROTEST USE OF fclpf -T SEPARATE FROM
RAG fit BRITOKS W m mm
WASHINGTON', .lime 21. New
icpre&cntutions to (treat Hritaiu on
the use of the American flat' li Kii"
lish steamers iirohablv will be made
in the note which is hciiu; prepaicd
to deal with further iutert upturns lo
neutral eonuueiee. It wns hinted of
ficially todav that as individual com
plaints of siich instances had come
to the state department they bad been
laid befoie the London foreign office,
but that the next note would aain
deal with the subject Kenerally.
At the state depaitmeul todav it
was said no official information was
at hand on the ficrmuu charge that
the subuiaiine U-'-'tl was rammed ami
sunk by u HritWi steamer flying the
Swedish colors. Amciicau ol'ticials,
while not admittiutr that the case ban
a bearing on the neKotiations with
(lennany, aie curious to know how
the German admiralty uot its iufor
matioii, iuaMiiiich as cveisone on the
I'-'JO wa-. reported lo-t.
10 MOVE 10 CORNISH
WASHINGTON', dune 'J . ,,.,,.
rations for opening of the summer
white house at Coruioh, X. II., weio
beiiu today in anticipation of the
arrival of President Wilson, Servant",
and motor car went forward.
The president will o to Cnrnih by
wny of New York to see Colonel K.
M. Houe, his M'ivonal friend, who
recently returned fiom Kuioiie. H.
present plans he will leaxe here Wed
nesday and spend Thursda in New
Yoik with Colonel House,
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,nDFORD.
PRINCIPLES IN HIS LONG FIGHT 10 ESCAPE
NEW BR T SH LOAN
PUT OUT AI PAR
LONDON, .lane 21. Announce,
incut was made today by Reginald
AfclCcuuu, chancellor of the e
chequer, that the loan" of 'J.'iO.OIKI.ODII
pounds authorized by the house ol
commons last week for war paiposcr.
would be issued tonight.
The new loan will ho put out at
par and will bear P?. per cent inter
est. Mr. MerCennu's announcement wns
made in the house of commons. The
chancellor said the tato would have
tho l Split to repay the loan at par .in
lll2, but in liny ease it must lie re
paid in thiily vca is.
The chancellor emphasized the fact
that, in addiljou to putting: foivvard
a biisinivss transaction he wished to
appeal to the put riot inin of the conn-
'try lo "use its gigantic resource! to
cairy on tho war successfully jr
imisclvcs and our allies."
The chancellor xaid tho total ical
ixed deficit between revenue and ov
pendiliuo up to Inst Saturday
auioiiuted to .118.(100,0(10 pounds. The
daily war e.vpenditures now amount
to nearly ,fl,000,000 pounds, uud is
still inci casing.
WASHINGTON, June 21. Con-li-tutioualliy
of the Illinois pure food
law pmhihitiiig in effect sale of a
food preservative containing hone
acid was upheld today by the supieiao
court.
and Germs Are
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TOTALS A BILLION
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OKECJON, MONDAY, JUNK 21, 1915
l.eo 31. Crank, center, In tlio upMr
left band picture, I I )cm- old .laiy
IMinuau, foi'Alios murder I'rauk was
(Oiivlited; Im'Iiuv, Slieilff ( Wlnvler
.Arauuiiui. . In (lie upiH-r rlulit JkiikI
I coiner, Mrs, Iao 31, I'nink, whoso
Ion;; flubt ated lice liusttnnil, ami
I lielovv Iter, do v. John 31. Slaton of
' (I'orKla, who t'oiuuiutcil I'muk'N sen
' tenrc.
SAYS U.S. COURT
WASHINGTON', Juno 21. In n do
cltdon ro lirond un probably to annul
"Kranilfnthor clnuRo" onactments In
every southern stnto, which lias
ailojited hiicIi laws, tho nu)iromo court
today hold Invalid Oklahoma and
Maryland lcKhdatlnn aimed at re
stricting the iiokio vote. Tho iIcoIh
lun was ununlmoiiH.
Tho derision In tdinrt war that It
in n violation of thu Fifteenth amend
nleiit for a ntato to peloct arbitrar
ily a dato HtK'li ns 1800, and pro
vide that penoiiH not qunllflcd to
vnto on that dato or whoso nncoitora
'i oic not iiKillfied, ne barred from
vat hit; or must yubiolt to voting tosts
not required of tu.irs,
Tho court further hold that olec
Hon officials who sought to onforco
Hurh damns could bo bold amonablo
to law for den)InK parsons a rlfjht
to vole and that such officials could
not dlsroKard tho f.irt (bat tho Fif
teenth amendment had stricken out!
of tho htuto luw the word "whlto"
as a qualification of voting,
Mobelizing
The annual sexton of the American
GRANDPA
CLAUSE
11
VDD
IHE GALLOWS WHICH WAS WON I0DAY
T
IS
HELD FOR
JOLIKT, III, June 21.- A ncurn
trusty, u product ol the "honor sys
tem" among convicts at Johet peni
tentiary, was held in solitary con
liueiiient today pending' iuvcfligiiluui
of the minder of Mrs. Kdmund M, Al
len, wife of the prison waiden, whose
body, fearfully burned, was found on
a blazing bed in her apartments yes
leiday. Joseph Campbell, eouvictiuir of
killing n negro in Chicago five .vears
auo uud sentenced to serve an inde
terminate sentence of from one year
to life, was the convict under guard.
So far as is known, Campbell, chosen
as Mrs. Allen's personal servant un
der the honor system, is (he hint pur
sou known lo have seen Mrs. Allen
alive. Campbell in one of tho five
trusted convicts who had accc (o
the waiden'H uimrlmeuts.
Oflicmls believe 3rs. Allen was
binned lo death as she lay uiicoii
Heious on her bed, as her skull had
been iractured bv a blow, which
physician said had not caused her
death, Kvideuce also obtained indi
cates the slayer had sprinkled Hie
hcihlinir and Mrs. Allen's night cloth
itf with alcohol liefer touchiiiK n
match to it.
Waiden Allen wim in Wol Hndeu,
Iud., when tho murder was committed
lie was to havu been joined by Mrs.
Allen today,
Medie.il nso(iatioii opcii? todaj m San
NEGRO
U
MURDER
OF WARDEN' WIPE
WASHINGTON, Juno 11. In a far
ronuhlui; decision which crowns with
victory the government fight to
compel the ralliottdn to disassociate
htmeslvoH ftuui tholr coal companies,
tho vuproiuo rourt today ordered that
tho Lackawanna railroad bo enjoined
from transporting coal of tho Lack
awanna coal company lindor tho so
called WO!) rnntract, nnil rftvorsod
a decision of thu lower rourtu which
was against tho govornmout.
Department of Justice officials said
tho eouit'M decision was n clean cut
victory In tho government's long
fought easo lo compel dlsnssorlntlon
of the railroads and their coal com
panies. Its effect they said, Is far
leaching. Tho government charged that tho
contract by which Iho railroad sold
to tho roul company Its coal was not
n bona-fldo transaction and violat
ed both tho nntl-trust law and tho
commodities clamo of tho Hepburn
rate law, It Is tho second suit of
tho government against tho railroad
company under tho commodities
clause.
Justice La inn r announced the
court's unanimous decision and sent
tho rnsfl back for furthor proceedings.
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RESTORED 10 DOCKET
WASHINGTON, Juno 21. Tho su
preiuo court adjourned today for tho
summer without deoiding tho Inter
national Harvestor, Oregon minimum
wage rtnd other Important eases pond
ing. It will not meet again until Oc
tober. l''rauci-.co.)
NO. 78
LEO. M. FRANK'S
DEAIHSEI
IS
Governor Slaton of Gcoroia Com
mutes Sentence to Life Imprison
mentSays Action Means Polit
ical Obscurity for Himself, But
Would Rather Be Plowlnrj In Fields.
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MAU1KTTA, On.. June !.
T flikViirimV (slufnii tUt lii.tut
rn or, , Slaton,
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coininul
nited. llie sen!etiCl of Leo
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,ii ii rniiu. u- iiki mi iiirini ati mrv
T htire todivj', A ble-sirci) dummy
"slntiig to a telophoiuLjtole bore
T nn inseription, "Joh At, Slu "
" ton, Georgia's Irniior'iilivernor." "
"" Man Pliiignii. tlit ie m of the
T ivMifiil I'nelnrv mlirdiri t'linner- r
ly lesided heie. .
ATLANTA, Ga., June 21. Leo M.
Frank's death sentence was commut
ed to life imprisonment today by
Governor Slaton. Announcement of
the governor's decision came several
hours after Frank had been secretly
taken fiom the jail here and hurried
to the state prison farm at Milledgc
villc. Frank was sentenced to be
bunged heie tomorrow for the mur
der of Mary I'lmgan in April, 10 1 'I.
Governor Slaton still was jit his
country home when he announced his
decision. In making the announce
ment the governor dictated the fol
lowing brief statement:
Acts CoiisiTcutlously
"All that I ask is that tho people
of (leoigia lead my statement of tho
reasons why 1 commuted Leo M.
Frank's death sentence to life im
prisonment before theyi'fliis judg
meat. "Foellng lis I do about lhiv case, I
wouh he u murderer if 1 allowed this
man jo bang. It means that I must
live in obseurilv the rest of my days,
but L would rather he plowing in n
Hold llu.ui In feel for the rest of my
life (ial I had that man's blood on
my hands."
T)ii first official announcement of
tho govcinoi's decision was made at
8:12 o'clock this morning. Fxtra
editions of the local newspapers con
taining the unofficial announcement,
unused e.eitcd crowds to form,
Mounted police ami imtrolmcu made
ut least one nrrest. Comment disap
proving the decision was hcaitl in
the gatherings,
llcvleivs tho Tragedy
In his statement exhaustively, ex
plaining his reasons for commuting
Krniik's sentence, Gov'ernor Slaton
reviewed the circumstances surround
ing lli murder of .Mary IMiagan in
the National pencil factory here on
April '211, 10HI, the conviction ol
Frank uud bis appeals for olctneucv.
Continuing, the statement leads;
"The murder was n most lieinotH
one and the offender dexorves the
punishment of death. The only ques
tion is iih In tho identity of the criin
inul. The lcponsihllilv is upon the
people of Georgia to protect the he
of licr citueus and to maintaiu the
dignity of her laws, and if the
choice must be uiiide between the np
piohatiou of eilixens of other slates
and the eiiforeement of our law-'
against offenders, wo must choose
the latter alternative.
' Thu inn. f.inii.l llio .In.
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fondant guilty and with the execution
of the demonstration outside the
courtroom thero was no disorder.
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