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MH Medford Mail Tribune TT7S;!rT5?5S?cSii; :l I SECOND EDITION ,tt YY XL.JX I rilLK. ' I'nlr Tonight nd Tno4y May. H5.B, Mln. -It), Hiiin. .7 Forty-flfth Tenr. Dully Tenth Yenr. MEDFOKD. OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 12, 1915 NO. J15 EIO BUILDINGS TORN INTO JECES BY TERRIBLE OHIO CYCLONE PUT BREACH UP N SEVERE FIGHT TO E T ey CAMZA m NO GERMANS GAIN BIT OF MEXICO: NOW OCCUPIED EMM ONW ST FIN S- I- President anil Lanslnn Begin Work Independently on Reply to Kaiser's Recent Missive Upon Submarine Warfare-Will Clearly define the United States' Position. WASHINGTON, July 12. Tho sit uation between Clorninny nrul the United StatcH Iiiib taken on audi n Borlons anil critical chnractor that tho policy of tho Amorlcan government will rcqulro lengthy nnd dollbcrato consideration that It may havo tho firmness which tho clrcuniBtancos require. TIiIb wan tho Rlatcmcnt mado to day In high offlcla Iqunrlors. Secre tary Lansing Is tithing sovoral daB to oxamlno tho Cierman reply, may not go to Cornish, N. II., after all, to rotifer with President Wilson. Tho original plan, It was explained, was for tho president nnd Mr. LanHlng to confer nnd then havo tho secre tary of stnto draft a noto to bo sub- nilttod to tho cabinet on tho prcsl ilcnt'u roturn to Washington. Now tho belief Is that tho president nnd Mr. Lansing, working independently, will prcpnro memoranda and confer after their Ideas hnvo matured. To Soo Hcnistoi-ff Count von Hcnistorff, tho Gorman nmbassador, has naked Secretary Lansing If ho wishes to oco him nnd tho secretary Is understood to havo replied that lie does after ho has enro fully examined tho situation. The ambassador Is socking information on tho attitude of tho American govern ment toward tho German reply. After Mr. Lansing has consulted President Wilson, It Is not unlikely that soma Intimation will bo given to tho Gor man nmbnssndor of tho seriousness with which tho United States govern ment regnrds tho crisis. Illusion llcglns Work Secretnry Lansing has begun work on a draft of it reply to Germany, but has not given nnyono tho slightest Inkling of his views. Such Intima tions, however, ns lias boon receiv ed from tho white houso nB woli ns tho stato department point to tho framing of n policy which will ox pross even more emphatically than boforo tho vlows of tho United Stntos government and tho belief Is growing that thn next noto may Include somo Idea of the Intentions of tho Amorl can government If Its douiunds nro not mot, Tho genoral comment In executive quarters today was that tho next Amorlcan noto would deflno tho po sition of tho United Stntos more clonr ly, so Hint normally'.! subsequent nttl tudo would definitely dotormlno whether diplomatic rolutlons woro to bo continued. E AT CENTRAL POINT A railroad grade crossing has cost another nutomobllo and nearly cost another life. J. It. IlobliiBon of Central Point had a nnrrow oscnpo from death Sat urday evening, whon a southbound Southorn Pacific train crashed Into an auto ho was driving nt a grado crossing nonr that city. Tho machine was hurled ton feot in tho air, and alighted bottom side up. Postmaster Hnlph Woodford of this city who wit nessed tho collision appraises the present valeu of tho maehlno nt twen ty five cents. Robinson escaped with out a scratch. 'Woodford nnd Horace Pelton pass od In front of tho train, nnd passed Hobinson going in tho opposite di rection. Pelton shouted a warning to Hobinson. Woodford looked be hind him in time t seo the mnchlno In the nlr. Tho onglno struck tho auto in the roar. They stoppod tholr .machine and rushed to the wrock ago In time to holp the driver orawl from beneath tho wrecked oar. There are three grade crossings In the three miles of tjie Central Point Tolo soetion of the Pacific highway on the route adopted by the county commissioners. 0 CROSSING COSTS AUTO Change of Ground at One Important Point Result of Continuous StruQ rjlc Wr-;.3d French Position Taken in Alsace and Evacuated Dead lock on Polish Frontier Continues. LONDON, .Inly 1'J. -ileuvy fight ing in several sectors of. the front in Franco has resulted in u change of ground at one important point where tho Oermans won n victory. They recaptured the cemetery nt Souohoz. possesion of wliioli 1ms loiij- been contested. Gorman liouilquiirters report a surprise nttnek near Allkiroh, in Al sace, resulting in the capture ! a Fieiieh noMtion along n fiOO-vnrd front. The captors ultimately retired voluntarily to their old line of trenches, tin official slntemont says, Inking some prisoners willi them. (ionium attnoks which followed violent onnuonnding in the Woevro region were repulsed, Pari reports. Uerlin concedes tli.it the French suc ceeded in penetrating the (ionium line in mi nssaultncnr Coinhres, hut de clares tliey were soon diiven out. On. Knsloni l-Yont Teutonic nnd Russian unnios urn in mi apparent dcmllock south of Lub lin, whore tho nnithwiird sweep of the Austro-Gorinnns was hulled last week, Pctrogrnd repoils continued fighting along tho front extending fiom Joscfow nnd Vislulii In Hioh uwn, approximately thirty miles to the eastward. Tho AustriaiiR have ngnin heoomo aggressive here, ue enrdiug to the Russian statement, but their attacks were tcpulHcd. Unoflioiul dispatches from Aits tiiim Jiendrpiurtors contain the Mnto iiu'nt that the Teutonio forces halted north of Krumiik because tho object of the campaign against Lemberg had been attained with the capture of that city ami the establishment of strong defensive positions to the north nnil cast. Italians Hoor( Success Several successes ulong Hie Aus-tro-Itnliau front lire reported by Ital ian nrmv hendiua iters in the dis tricts where the Itnliirn forces ure en gaged in an effort to clear the road to Trieste. Countor-nttneks liv the Austrian in tiie Isonzn vnlloy have been lcpulsod, it is declared. The Turkish war office records tla hombiiidincnt of (iabn Tope, near the tip of the (lullipoli poninsiila, by n cruiser, presumably British, which protected liv torpedo craft, fired 2011 shells without success. It is declar ed tho warship was hit and forced to withdraw. NEUTRALITY TALK PARIS, July l'-'.-A Hnvus dos patch from Madrid filed yosteidny bays : "Action of tho government in pro hibiting the discussion of Spanish neutrality was severely criticised at n public mooting today by several spoukors, who declared the piohihi tiou was a violation of tho constitu tion. Pablo A. Iglosins, a socialist leader, asseitcd violations of the eonsctitution were common in Spain, and demanded for each citizen tho right to discuss the question of nou trnJily. He attacked the 'phhiv'' attitude of the government regard ing the local labor agitation which ho snid might expand into a revolution ary movement. Rodrigo Soriano, unolhor radical, criticised Vusquez Mollny Candida, the Cailist leader, whom he ehnrgod with having spoken ill of Great Hrit uiu in it public speech." HKIUdN, July 12 The roport rocontly published that tho Hamburg-American Stoamshlp company had failed in consoquenco of hoavy losses sustained during the war. was denied here today by tho semi-official Wolff News agency. SPAIN PROHIBITS IMHIisllll mflHHHrBCsS iwV5" 'frA.ssilMMg HBHiH kiSBaBgBSa3cSgJsfrk , -jr After tho cjdoiio had passed for burled tlctlms. OF F PORTLAND, Or., Julv li. The govornmont's suit lor the forfeiture of 11(1,000 neros in southorn Oregon, known as tho Coos Hay wagon mad grunt, wns dociiled here today in fa vor of the government m the United States district court by Judge L. A. Wolverton. In dcelariiiL' tho land forfeited to the government the court followed the decision of the United Stntos su preme court 1n the California & Ore gon land grunt cases. Th.i decree onioiiiK tho tniithoru Oregon company from the wile of tho lands and relcru the disposilion ol Die land to congress for notion within eight months, after which time tho company may apply to the courts tor relief ill the event congress should fnjl to act. Judge Wolverton held that the oriLMiial terms of the gnmt had not boon complied vvilh in regard to wulo of the lands in lots not to exceed Hi" in. re (o actual settlers nt a maximum price ol $U..")0 an aire WASHINGTON, July 1-'. Navy department olfieiaU today awaited respoiisei. from the Hritish steam ships Houth Head and Ilaron Nay ior, laden with mule lor the Hiitish in my ami mw off tho South Atlnu tio coast, to a warning wirelessed ! them to watch out for bombs in their holds. Both voxels sailed from Now Orleans duly Otho Howth Head for Dublin and Holfjut'via Norfolk, and tho Ilaron Napior diioct for Avoumouth. Tho warning wan flvslioil out over the son from the Arlington Wilde station hint night utter the receipt by Secretary jhmiuU of u toJogruin from a Now Orleuna ijowwpgpor toll ing that a letter to tml pupar from a pemon who signed hiiuxelf as "Poniee'' fndleatcd that exploive had boon placed aboard the two voo feels, ' Tho writer of tho letter nlwi de clared hie iutentioii of killing ' !' Morgan and Sir Cecil SprinRiooJ the Itntwh NtnbfltMAdor, and eoiuplul ing the woik of KrieJi Mnontor, wljo oomiuitod kpioidu nweutly xfter wvuudiug ir Morgan, .00 ACRES SOUTHERN OREGON GRANT RFEITEO MULESHIPSWARNED BEWARE OF BOMBS over West .Sixth KtWk't, Cincinnati, i PROTEST AVERTS OF OtTA Y.MAS, Mexlro, .Inly 12. A general bombardment of (ItinyuuiH by tho Cnrrnii7a gunboat (luerrero plan ned for Monday, haH been prevent ed. Aftor a strong protest by Ad miral Thomas II. Howard of tho U. S. crulsor Colorado, nnd foreign con suls, tho Ciuorroro commander agreed to fire only upon Southern Pacific train ontorlng or leaving and tho Mexican stenmer Ilonitn, anchored In tho harbor. Tho commanding officer of tho (iuerrcro said the trains nnd steamer Honlta would bo fired upon hocnusu they havo been used by tho enemy In tho transportation of troops. Thn plan for the general bombnrd iiiont vvns only prevented after Ad miral Howard and tho French, Cer man, Drltlsh, Italian and American consuls railed upon tho Carrimza commander In Guerrero nnd made a vigorous protest In tho nnmo of hu manity. They Hindu tho trip from tho erulHor Colorado In tho admiral's barge. The timo for tho bonibnrdiunnt lind been set for 0 o'clock Monday morning, but tho Cuerraro command er agreed not to open flro upon tho trains and Honlta until C o'clock Mon day night. The Guerrero arrived hero Saturday and Immediately a blockado was declared- A schoonor which attempted to ontor port soon nftor'wnrd was stop pod and ordered to put to sent nfter its passonKorH had been permitted to land- A proto-t against tho blockade was mado h Admiral Howard and the foreign consuK WARSHIPBOMBARDMENT i FAILS AI GA CONSTANT INOPM3. July 12, via wireless to Merlin.- Bombardment of Turkish positions mi tho Galllpoli ponlnsulu by a warship again has proved futile, according to a stnto munt Issued tonight by tho Turkish war offUo. Tho communication fol fel fol eows: "Saturday afternoon nn onemy arulsor of tho Nelson typo, protaoted by four torpedo boats., appoared bo foro Oaba Tepe inuar the tip of tho peninsula) and flr&d two hundred shells at our iwsltlgns without sue co. The Turks lost quo killed and two wounilwl. Sovoral of our shells struek the ship and forcod It to withdraw." BOMBARDMENT CITY OF GUAYMAS Piiotogrnpli shows men searching the QUIET PREVAILS ALONG EiST LINE ;t ACSTRIAN ARMY HKADOCART KRS IN GAI.ICIA, Sunday, .Inly PJ. The relative xultxiilenoo of aetivity on tho part of tho Teutotiid allies during tho Inel week may he ex plained by the fuel that the goal sol for the Lemhorg campaign uliendy hiis been attained. This was the io (tnpturo of tin! city nnd the scouring of strong defensivo positions to the onstvviinl mid northward. These po sitions have now been scouted along tho line of the .loin I.ipu and Hug rivers and the ridge to tho uoithwnrd of Knisnik. The Russians attempted a counter offensive from Lublin against tho AiiMtro-Gerimm positions north of Krasnik, hiinging up heavy reinforce ments for thin purpose. Owing to thin movement the Austrian trooivs, which had ruxlied beyond the posi tions originally selected withdrew to the rid go where they have been huc cofibfully iosi(ing nil Rmtiiiuu at tacks. 'I'hoy feel sneiiro in their proxeul poHilioux nnd it Itf believed liere they can ho enmly held against whatever forces Russia enu thiovv against them. Indications now point to n period of tpiiet along the Russo-Gulioiiui front, while the Teutonio nllfe iue preparing for operations in other iiuirtcr. F HOC Hi:STi:it. N Y, .Tilly 12. Funeral services for tho Most Hev. James Kdwnrd (jiilgloy, Catholic archbishop of Chicago, who died in this city Saturday, woro hold today In St. Patrick's Cathodrnl, whoro a pontifical uinM of rou.ulom was cele brated by Illsliop Thomas K. Hlckoy of Itoihostur. A delegation or 100 priests and a iiumbor of layman from Chicago at tended as well ns priests from Hut falo, eastern dlocesoti nnd from Can ada, member of sisterhoods nnd dulo nations from vailout societies of tho Catholic church. Absolution was read over tho body by four vlsltlnu bishop nnd lllshop Illokey. Tho body l to bo takan to Chi cago on a special train of ton aura urn! iianttuiilliad til HIsllOll IllckOV ..r "-."'...'.. rr.i nno oiergy aU q sjiwcihi guuru, , ASSERTS 1 UNERAL SERVICE ELD UIGLEY wreckage of what had Ikhmi house. . . RUSSIANS END EASTERN ES TO MANILA, dulv 1'-'. Persons who have arrived hero from Saigcn, enpi lot of Kreiieh Cochin, China, report that nil vessels belonging to the Mes sage Ries Mill-Rimes which .have heoii engaged in far eastern traffic, ale be iug transformed into transports to carry Russian troops to llio Darda nollos. Whenever a vessel of the Message Ries fleet roaches Saigon it is said, the passengers lira trans ferred mid the freight unloaded, lif ter which a huge force of carpenters works ul top speed to make the iioooHvurv alterations. Tho ships are then sent to Vladivostok to take oif troops. Russia probably would benefit more than any other nation from the forming of tho Dardanelles and the full of Constantinople, but there have Iteoii no previous reports of an niithoritiitivo imtuio to the effect (hat Russian troops would ho scut to the (lullipoli peninsula to assist the allies in the operations there. Notwithstanding the warning given by District Attorney Kelly last ii.ln uary that resulted m the removal of niokcl-iu-tho-slnt iuucIiiiioh from ei rur stands and saloon, tho gambling devices have been iustulled again in tho past few days and aio running full blast once more. Tho slot machines puwumo to give a package of gum for every nickel played, but this is merely an evas ion of the law. No gum is given and tho elniiH-f- are one in a hundred of winning money hai k. Saloons pay in check-. .iod tor cigain or drinks. INCREASED RATES ON STEEL SUSPENDED WASHINGTON, July 12 -Tut iff ot the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and other milroud naming incremicd nilcs on structural steel in ouilouds for Pacific coast points, Portland, Seattle and souiu interior towns, were suieuded today until November I'd b. tin. luliu'fettttc ci'inmereo ooiuniib-i. DARDANELLES NCEL-IN-SLOT MACHINES BACK rjhnnccs Improved of Recognition of Carrnnza Faction, Provided He Can Acqulro More Territory to tho North and Reopen Communication With United States. WASHINGTON, July IS. Ilricf dispatches renched the stnto depnit inont from Mexico City dated before tho occupation ot the capitol by Cur ia urn forces describing food condi tions as almost intolerable, hut offic ials believed the situation either had been relieved already by tho ohnne of authority or would ho remedied at) soon iih transportation with Vorn cruz wiih resumed. Stnto department officials whci artked today whether the occupat'on of Mexico City by Carrnnza would affect tho question of recognition, declared no definite consideration had been given to tho subject. Tltuv Hiiid, however, that il always seemed more favorable for recognition when one party in the conflict becomet dominant. Waiting for ()poi unity . Tho American government ha boon waiting many months for one ol the factions to get military Miptcht ney and sol up a provisional govern ment, giving promiso of stability. The United Slates now will watch care fully the nttitude and policy of the Carran.a authorities in Mexico Citv, hut there will bo no-decision, it is. be lieved, for some timo, ns to chnngo of policy on account of tho prcKsing'nn in re of tho (Ionium situation. - ' Heretofore possession of Moxini City has not been regarded of niuMi importance hv (iffieials liocarixc of. tho frequent change in authority, hut there nro now tndionliohTT' that if General Carranzn can Letter his po sition by further ncouisJtion-ofttcoU lory north of the capital nnd rco" ruing coinmunicatioii with tho Amrr loan bonier, his chances of obtitinm- ' the moral support of tho Uuit'-d Stales will mnteriallv improve. I'Vcdlng the .Starving Consul General Ilanna nt Monlev 'reported that last Friday he furnish ed com and American salt polk to JO.OOn porsons. Official reports giving detail of tho capture of Mexico City by Cr rniizu forces hud not reached the state department. Repulse of 2000 Cnmuiim I mops who attacked the Villa garrison nt Cnhullniin, Hnnoru, was announced today by the Villa agency. General Hoiiiiimlez, Villa commander at Pled, ins Negrns, telegraphed that Car riinza forces, altncking Mouelovn, hud been driven off toward I.ainpn r.os. E ROSKIU'RO, Or, Julv 1J. Chi li. Stimpson, nged 77, was arreted heio today at (he hospital of the Or egon Soldiers' home, charged with thi killing of Alexander Church. 8,' Viin old, by beating him on the hcaii'with a cane. According to the home untlioritio-t Stimpou asserts that Church Wft trying to take his slippers. Tld'io had been hard feelings between the men, it is said, Stimpson saying thV peoplo, including Church, had hcu laughing tit him, mid Church hid threatened to bent him. Stimprfou is hardly able to wtV. because of his age, and Church wit 4 o feeble that he could not walk tin suppoiteil. Church and Stlm)ion were both admitted to tho home in October last year, Church from Portland and Stimpon irom CW vulhs, Or. JOPLIN, July 12. A striko of nearly 5,000 lead and zinc, minora which began hero two weeka.ago end od today when overy mine In the dis trict rosuiuod otoratlons, There, was no settlement. Tho men wont back to the minus and asked for their placqa at tho old wago scalo. The mhicrs havo not asked recognition for their new formed, ujilon, ED SOLDIER K S COMPANION RS R 1 ,V'i- i u FCTT-l