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IA f i ! " HDSDtfOMJ iVfjOT TRTBIWB, MEDFORD OREGON, TITimSDAY, JULY 8, 1D15 Kccrra THREE fs .1 ' iV s -ft 35 LIVES LOST MILLION DOLLARS LOS CINCINNATI CINCINNATI, ()., July 8. Tho most devastating Hlortn Unit ho vis. itod thin pity in bcvornl decades li secndcd nbout 0:30 o'clock Inst night, raged with cyclonic intensity for half nn hour, took n toll of lives estimated nt cloo to thirty-five and wrought property damage exceeding n million dollars. The total of fatalities' will lie increased within the next feu Iioiih, it seems certain, as nt least tea of those reported missing aro believed to liu under the ruin of five build ings that collapsed in Sixth street west of Mound. i TomImmI Loson Tuelvo The lint of dead includes twelve men of a crow of eighteen of the towbont Convoy, which went down during the storm. None of the bodies had been recovered. The Murui was equally severe over northern Kentucky ami the property damage there will almost equal that fiuflVrcd by this city. Only one death has been repotted from the Kentucky side of the jiver today. The crop damage was heavy. Cincinnati awoke this morning to find railroad service partially par alysed, its wire communicatioit with the outside world hampered to sueh nn extent that only press wires were available, its streets litteied with fallen trees, signs, roofs of houses and other wreckage that had been tossed there by the wind. Numerous church spires were blown down and with the wreckage in the streets not yet icmoved street car service was limited. From the other side of the Ohio river, in Newport, Covington, Fort Thomas and Fort .Mitchell, Ky., come reports of collapsed houses mid the street car service of those cities has been entirely suspended. In Outlying Districts lit the outlying districts of Cincin nati the property damage appears to be heavy, particulnily in the resident sections of Clifton, Avondale and College Hill. It was ascertained definitely today .that a special train on the Pennsyl vania rnilnmd, currying raceliorm from the recently ended meeting .nt Latonia, to (lie eastern trucks, wii wioeked at Terrace Park, n short distance from this city. Nineteen of what are considered the best horses that raced nt the Latonia meeting were killed. It was also reported that two caretakers were killed mid nineteen others injured, including several jockeys. The large racing stable of K. If. Bradley was on this train. LASUio SEE VALLEY MOVIES FATHER OF RECLAMATION DUMPED RECLAMATION IN THE PORK BARREL Director Newell Is Thrown Out of Service Which He Has Mailo-a s Great Success Congress Takes Over Spending of Money on Proj ects, Hence Junketing Trips. On account of the increasing de maud for a repetition of the Jackson county moving pictures, Messrs. Allen mid Withiugtou have leased the Star theater for Friday, July 0, and the entire six reels will tic shown, niter nooii-and evening, for positively the last tune, ns the pictures must he in San Francisco by the first of next week. Timo and prices will be so arranged as to give every one a last chance to see these wonderful pictures. BLUE LEDGE MAY BYT F, W. Cninahnn, superintendent of the llliio Ledge mine, is expected to return to .Medford this wouk from u mouth's trip in the eilst, where he eonfened with Robert S. Towue, owner of the Mine Ledge mine. Mr, Oarnahan has left New York and is o.vpcutcd to bring definite word re garding the proposal to haul ore from the. Hlue Ledge djstriet by autumn, bile truck. Mining men with claims in that district are awaiting Mr. Cai nahnn's return. At the prcent tunc topper i exceedingly high, the suppl being ued in the uiHnufnctiirc ot munitions of war for the Kihohiiii bidligorents. About J000 ton of ore are blocked out in the Hlue Ledae, iU milling being retnrdwl li the lack ot Imiisportntinn facilities Free Methodist Church District (Hrterty meeting .tt the Fre Methudi-t church, corner Tenth and Ivy. Senict. evcrv night j,t h oVIoek mid nrr th SuhUutli Our district elder. !. H. I. Dodge ui'i be wUh II ld other iiiiiitrr ! the ihktrift Y- unite imi ti, itu-.t -cr ucc. J V. Hrudlcj, Htiur. UY OILSON aATlDN'BH WASHINGTON, July S.-i-On Jily 1, the United States reclamation ser vice becamo n pork bnrrcl. For 13 years tho reclamation ser vice has been unique In government work In that It has been non-political. It hns been notably trco from graft, as proved by many investigations and Its history Iihr been marked by success. All this Unto Frctlorck II. Newell has been Its director. Now tho reclamation service lias taken Its placo along with the polit ical navy yard, the spending ot money on useless waterways and tho main tenance of useless military posts. How Work Carried On When tho reclamation service was established and tiff to the present time the work was carried on with funds received from tho sale ot pub lic lands In tho nrld and seml-arld HUites of the west. These funds were used for the Irrigation work nnd re funded to the treasury by tho recla mation settlers. Theoretically the fund was to bo n continuing fund for tho Indefinite reclaiming of lands, Under n new law passed by con gress July 30, 19H, but which bo ennto effective July 1, money from tho sale ot public lands Is hereafter to bo put In the treasury and expend ed, not by reclamation experts, but by congress. At tho present moment this results In tho remnrkalilo spectaclo of a largo party of commlttco on appropriations congressmen Junketing through the west to decide on reclamation pro jects and how to spond reclamation money! In the menhwlillo another sorlcs of events havo practically romoved from the reclamation servlco Freder ick II. Newell, known nil over, tho country ns the father of reclamation Mr. Newell was tho first dirertor'nn pointed nftor'tliVinefiaitrn of tho re clamation net of 1902. ltallliiger-l'Inrhot Controversy Ono of tho causes of the famous Halllngor-I'lnchot controversy was tho announced purposo of Secretary Halllngcr to romovo Newell and turn over tho reclamation servlco to poli tics. Ilalllngcr's complete defeat en trenched Newell In his position nnd bis successful work went forward. When President Wilson wus elect cd nnd Lnno becamo secretary of tho Interior, tho conservationists woro inoro than satisfied. Ho was n con servatlonlst and In most mntters has continued to bo so. What has hap pened In tho case of Newell and tho reclamation service Is therefore diffi cult to understand. Hlght months nfter Secretary I.ano assumed office, ho began to reorgan ize tho reclamation servlco. In placo of a slnglo director director, ho sub stituted a commission of five mon. Theso were: F. II. Nawoll. directer: A. P, Ilnvfs, chief engineer, who had been In tho servlco from tho begin ning with Xowellj and throo western men who wero not either onglneers or specialists In Irrigation, Ono was .Will It. King, formorly Jusllco of tho supreme court of Oregon, and who came to the national cupltal as a rumored aspirant for several offices; W. A. Ityan, a California politician, formerly with Lnno n tho Interstnto commerce commission, nnd I, I), O'Donnell ot Montana, a banker and promoter of prlvnto Irrigation enter prises. Kllmlnntltig Authority Thus Novell's authority ns director wns really removed. Ho .became a minority member of a board whoso majority were not reclamation engi neers, but political appointees. Then camo tho congressional action which has overturned the entire re clamation policy. Oscar W. Under wood, democratic loader, ably assist ed by James It. Mnnn, republican bouso leader, and John J. Fitzgerald, appropriations chairman, put through whatd is called the "Underwoo amendment" to the reclamation ex tension act, profiling that boreaftor congress should make all approprla- Satfemm Infants ad Invalids HORLICK'S THE ORIGINAL MALTED MILK The Food-Drink for all Ages Rich milk, malted grain , in powder form. For infants, invalid uA growing childrea. Pure nutrition, upbuilding i whole body, lavigorate uurw'ng motbira u4 the aged. Mora healthful thaa tea at coffee. Unl ye "HOmJOtCtf yeu may 9UktltUt9 lllB 'K? Frca'k-KTfewcill tlona for rcclnmntlon work. The bill Is suspicious enough for the sole rea son that these throo backed It. ll Is said that I.ano made no strong fight against It. Four months after tho passngo of this legislation, on December 3, 1911, Newell received a short letter from Secretary of the Interior Lane "trans ferring him to the position of con sulting engineer," nnd putting him on tho samo basis as other consulting engineers. Still Inter Secretary Lane abolished thn office of director of tho reclamn tton service, "consolidating tho posi tions of chief engineer and director, with A. P. Davis ns director and chief engineer. With this action Newell ccnBcd to hold any position except Hint of con sulting engineer, nnd ceased to 'exor cise any authority over tho policy of tho service whatever. Newell Is Discharged A letter sono followed from Sec retary Lnno informing Newell that on .March 8 his Job as "consulting engineer," nt n definite monthly sal nry, would terminate, except that If his advice should bo needed such advice would bo pnld for on a por diem basts. This left Newell on tho sidewalk. Ills activities as n consulting officer of the servlco mny bo Judged from the fact that ho Is now earning his living delivering lectures nt tho Uni versity ot Illinois. Xowull hns .spent his life In tho govcrnnicut"servlco at a comparative ly meager salary. Ills wns the brain that conceived and carrlod out tho great reclama tion works. He wns tho man who was Investi gated again nnd again, and always camo out with a clean record. Newell wns tho first man In tho government sorvlco to concclvo the Idea of water conservation. Ho wns tho man who Inspired tho engineering force under him, ns Uootbnls Inspir ed that forco on tho canal zone. And now that tho work Is begin ning to bear fruit, Newell is quietly shelved. GARRANZA GLAIMS VILLA WORSIED IN 12 JBIIR WHILE WASHINGTON, July 8. -The Cnr ranr.a forces have mi-died their at tnck on the convention forces defend ing Mexico City, up to within ten miles of the capitol. 'Their military trnins are, opetuting-that close to the city. State department dispatches fiotn Vera Cniz'todny give this icport. LAHKDO, Tex., .Inly 8. Cnrrntun authorities nt Nuevo Laredo, opposite here, announced today Hint ns the result of n twelve-hour battle yester day thev had captured leamolu nnd relieved Monterey and surrounding territory from immediate attack by Villa forces. Icaiuolc lies thirty-two miles north west of Monterey nnd to the north want of l'nredon, which the Cnrrnnr.n forces unsuccessfully tricd to take last Monday. "Villa forces lost ."(1(1 men killed, while the Curranzu casualties were light compared to the Villa losses," the nnuoiineetuciit said. The Car runzii forces had approximately 15, (1(10 men mid the Villa forces 10,000 men, it wns nunouueed. SUBMARINE KILLS T AMERICANS LONDON, July 8. Two Aineri can, Itiehard Martin, either of Chel sea, Mass., or Providence, H. I., nnd John Muhoncy, thought to have lived nt IJ'Jl Third avenue, New York, were killed hv the shell fire of the German submarine which uttacked the Jliit ish ship Anglo-C,;ilifoniinn. , ' " ' PLAN NARROW GAUGE TO RIDDLE LIME QUARRY ROSF.W'lta, Or., July 8. J. W. Illuiii, A. L. Keed, O..I2, Ilumeliii nnd II. 1). Wiignon of Porlluiid buve se cured rights-of-wnv for u six-mile narrow .gauge railroad from Greens to the Kiddle lime property and pro iposo to build a crusher nnd pulver izer to uiiike land plaster nnd other limo products. The cost of the uu doi Inking is ostjmuted ill nearly $.")(), 00(1. The lime quarry will be worked on a royalty basis. Ij is also reported that the Port land Cement company will resume work on its quarry by constructing a railroad mid installing more mueliin-cry. 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