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Newspaper Page TextMedford Mail Tribune SECOND EDITION WEATHER Occasional Ilnln HatHi-day. 31nv. BH.r; Mln. at. foiiy-fifth Yenr. IMllv Trnlli Yrnr, MEDFORD OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21. 1916 NO. 258 HA 1 ES E Jailer Overpowered and Six Prisoners Taken Five Found Riddled With Bullets, Hanglnq on Tree One Is Still Missing Accused of Killing Sheriff. ALBANY, Gil, Jnn. 21. Five no groos (liken from tho North county jiiil nl Sylvester, woro liujivl to ono limb of a trco on tho otttsklits of Htnikvillo, some timo during tliu nilit. Tliu bodies containing ninny bullet holes were cold wliun found this morning. Four of the victims wore of ono fiunily Felix, Luko nnd three son. Sheriff Morclnnd was hilled nt tliu I nko homo when lie went there to nr ret it negro. It is estimated there were- thiily or forty men in tho lynching party, which traveled in automobiles. Tele phone wiH out of S'lvestcr wcio cut before tho mid on tho roiiutv jiiil. Six negroes were tnkeu from the l.riMoii. Tho bodies of fivo wero found. What beeunio of tho other in not yot known. Sl Negroes Taken SYLVKSTKH, (In., ,lun. '-M. Six negroes vcro taken from tho jail hero IiihI night by n lynching party. They woro being hold an htispoots in con nectiou with the killing of Sheriff Moichiiid of I.ec county. Several automobile appeared nt tho jail hint i.ight currying uion who overpowered tliu jailer, took tho six negroes mill started northward to ward Sahhor, whoro Sheriff Moro lund in buried. Boforo tho bodies tfero out down they woro viewed by many persons from surrounding country. Tho iiij ipiot at Loosburg was of short dur ation nd tho jury brought in n or; diet of "donth by strnngubjlion and gunshot wounds at the hands of un known parties." Sheriff Only Saw Tlnro SYLVESTBH, On., Jan. 21. Only throe of the mon who took the-negroes from the jail hero and lynched them weie sou ley Sheriff L. A. J'ott. Tho men brought n bound negro to the door," tho sheriff said today, "ami said they wanted to koep him in jail over ni(ht. Thov jxiinteil a pis tol at mo, to.ik away my keys and lorecd mo into tho bathroom. Two guarded mo and tho other went into tho jail. In a littlo whilo I hoard a "brill whiMh'. My raptor suddenly lift me and in u minute or two I heard M'ornl automobile", going rap nll noithwnrd." F SEIZES COPIES OF I'AUM .Ian :M The seizure yos uda throughout Franc of alt cop ies of tho Petit Partition anil tho Jour nal by order of the censor's buroau bus raised a storm of protests the entire press. The Parlslen belongs to Senator Jean Dupuy and the Journal to Sen ator Charles Humbert. They liavo circulations of over a million copies oai-h and both are regarded as In fjtiuntlal publications whtolt have al ways compiled with the request of the censorship. The reason for the censor, the Journal sas. was the publication of the note gtren out yesterday by the consul of Montenegro In Paris. Us publication nt first was author ised but later was ordered stopped. In the meantime the editions for the provinces had been printed and u out and the censorship without noti cing tire editors or publishers tel egraphed to evsry town in France ordering the police to seise all cop ies at the two newspapers containing th9ote. A tew hours later author ity 'twas again given for the ubltca tlon of the note with a few slight al terations but the police hsd si ready executed their order which hate oc ra!on i the K'iit out'nn -t of crit- HANGS5NE6R0 ON HE RE REN CENSOR PARI NEWSPAPERS TEUTONS RENEW BATTLE AGAINST MONTENEGRINS Invaders Resume Progress Across Tiny Kingdom King Nicholas and Sons to Fight to Bitter End Aid c Requested of Allies Prime Minis ter and Queen Arrive in Italy. PAH IS, Jan. 20. The qencvn cor respondent of tho Temps says that according to dispatches from Vienna nn notivo renewal of military opera tions bus been undertaken by tho Austrian in Montenegro. General Koevoss' army is in movement, ac cording to those advices, and ono Auhtro-IIungnrinn division is acting in tho unornl Cettinjo-l'odgoritzn direction, while another in moving south along tho Adriatic coast to ward Antivnri. Other detachments of loss strength arc reported to bo in Albnnia within fifteen kilometers of .Scutari. Fight to Hitter Hud PAHIS, Jan. 20. The Montenegrin consul in Paris makes tho official announcement that all negotiations between .Montenegro and Austria have been broken off and that -Montenegro has decided to fight to tho bitter ond. Tho official announcement from tin consulate snys: "I, a zn re Miouohekovileli, tho primo minister, mid tho minister of foreign affairs of Montenegro, arrived at Ilrindihi lust night, accompanying Queen iMilcna and tho princesses "on thoir way to Franco. Ho telegraphed to Louis Brunei. Montenegrin charge d'affaires at Paris, that tho king and .-yobKdwaiVlwTAVTheXdyOnithysw the government have energetically re fused all the Austrian conditions and that Montenegro will continue the war to tho bitter end. King With Troops ' "King Nicholas and his two sons remain with the troops to organize the resist mice and facilitate, in case of nocessityy, tho retreat of tho val orous troops. Tho king expresses tho hope that tho allies will eventually provide him with effective aid in ex tricating tho army, as has already been done for tho Serbian army. ''The premier is waiting at Bun disi fur the diplomatic body, which Ik due to arrive there toilav, and with the membeis of which ho will travel to Lyons." ALBANY, N. Y Jan. Jl. -Gov or nor Whitman tQdny removed John B. Itilcy, fatato euporintondent of pris ons, from office. Ooornor Whitman issued an opin ion sustaining charges of misconduct ill offico preferred bv himself. Those charges had to do with tho transfer of convicts, number of the Wclfnro association organised by former War don Osborne, from Sing Sing to Clin ton prison. The deposed superintendent issued a statement saying Governor Whit man bad catered to maudlin scnti inctulitist". rather than to ju-tice. TO BROOKLYNBRIDGETAKEN NEW YUK. Jan. 21. -The police announced toda that with the Arrest last night of Muhaele Grasiano, while currying a uitcutm containing a bomb, they believed they had thwarted a plan to blow up the Brooklyn bridge or Be new municipal building. Grasiano as arretted af ter be had been trailed from the mun icipal buildiujr to the bridgepromen ade. The bomb (gas found to be con structed so us to explode with tre meudou force. O Tlu- "houib -quad" aUo arrested I. .jliiilili. diSui in cnuiieition With REMOVED ASSOPERI DE ALL FRANCE POIS FAITH IN JOFFRE GGNCCAt ojOrOC JOFFRE PLEADS FOR l'AHIS, Jan. '-'l.Genernl Joffro nays tho best thing now is for tho civilians to do tlveir part: "If only tho civilians will hold firm, Hint is the essential thing," said tho Prcncb-i!oniinandur-in-ohiof to n deputation .'from the National Hailrond Men's un ion, formed to help the war sufferers. "If Frenchmen keep htcady wo shall have irtory, not immediately or even soon, but eventually." The head of the deputation said: "There is ono thiug which encour ages us above nil otliors. 0It is that tho comiunndcr-iu-ehicf enjoyn tho confidence of every one of the pcoplo who don't say 'Goneral Joffro,' httt 'our Joffro' or 'Giandfntlicr Joffrc' " Tho general seemed moro deeply tottclR'd than ho cared to feliow. Then he said gravely: "I hau only one object, tho salva tion of the country. After that I jiall disappear." AT LONDON, Jan. 21. -A Hetiter dis pateh from Amsterdam snya that nt the banquet gion in Nish on Tuesday last on the occasion of tho presence thoro of Kmpcror Willfuui nnff King rcrdiuand, both tuonaichs delivered addresses, King Pcrdiuand thanked tho otu peror for his visit. "Tho world learned (o know with surpruo and admiration the strength of Germany and of her allies," said the king, "and believes in the invinci bility of tho German army under the guidance and leadership of its em peror." Kmpcror William in his address thanked King Fenliiiuud us chief of tho Twelfth Balkan intautry regi ment. "Your woi(b provo," said Knipcror William, "that wo, in estimating this hour, are filled with the same feel ing. Challenged by our oneiiuos, wo and our loyal allies lime boon struck at the ory root of our strength. Wo found a hard fight which soon sprufd farther. When Turkey, threatened by tliu same ouuinies, joined us, and by stubborn fighting ruaseugd her world's position, your majesty's pru dence reeogniaod that, tho hour had eotne for Bulgariu to bring fenvard your old good claims and to smooth the way lor your brao country to a glorious future. Your majesty's nu. tion in arms added on bntilunn lane of glorj- to another in the mtory of iHiigana. "In order to srive axnrossion to mv feelings for such deeds sjd to the feelings of all Germnny, I nave beg ged your majesty to aocept the dig- wily or a Prussian field marshal, and I, with my army, am hnppv that you, in accepting it, also in this sefte. bo- come one of us. n "With firmest confidence I raise mv gluss to lbs we4s0e or your mnj c(9's house, t the Metorv of the gluin.u-. Bulgari.m .iimvOand to Bul- if jgSgBgSgSBgSBgSBgSBgSBgSBgSlV CIVILIAN FR EN V KASER mm FERDINAND HEALTH Nl BANQUET VILLA CAPTURE DENIED; DANDIT HIDING IN HILLS Carranza Officials Refute Stories of Capture Willi Several Hundred Followers Is Safe in Tarahumarc Mountains, West of Guerrero Capture Impossible EL PASO, Toxa. Jan. Sl.xrDonlal from Carranza official aourccs that Francisco Vllta had been captured, as reported from Chihuahua, was niip plcmcntcd today by statements from Villa partlsann hero, allcgod to bo based on rollablo Information that ho and several hundred followers wcro Bafo in tho Tarahumaro moun tains, west of Ouorrcro. In tho fantiicHBCs of theso omuu talns, every Inch of Vhloh ho has known since tho days wjieu, as a brig and, ho Bitccossfully evaded every soldier Torflrlo ninr could Bend against him, thoy declared Villa was now awaiting tho development of tho movement Marled against Carranza by Genornl llonjamln Argumodo, tho Arrlota brothors, and others. Ho would bo next heard from, thoy an sorted, when ho struck a blow at tho Carranza forces now being concen trated at Torrcon to tnko tho field against tho rebel movement which has becomo fairly well developed, General Jaclnton Trovlno, Carran za military chief of Chihuahua was oxpected to arrlvo nt Torrcon today or tomorrow to tako charge of tho now nrmy. Ilcforo leaving Chihua hua City yestorday Trovlno appointed General LuIb Herrora supremo chlof of Chihuahua. It vng Hurrora who Ravo tho AsBoclatofl Press a state ment denying tho report that Villa had been caught and-was being brought in for oxocutlon. i -- FORD DELEGATES THE HAGUE, Jan 21. Aftor be ing detained nearly a wcok by tho Gorman military authorities who had refused permission to crosa Germany, thlrty-thrco Scandinavian members of tho Ford peace, oxpcdltlon reached their homos today, It Is announced hero. It is added that thalr dotoji tion besides bolng extromoly nnPoy ing to all the Scandinavians caused particular hardships to sovornl who had dutloN to perform at homo. Tho American membera and alter nate of tho neutral conjorouce who had their preparations for departuro mndo several days ago and had been awaiting a ruling by tho Corning ao thorlUea wore Informed today that thoy would bo permlttod to pass through Gorman territory in a soalod oar on their way to Stockholm. Thoy will loavo hero at noon today. Tho Scandlnalan clcotlon com mltteos liavo elected thulr candidates and altornatoH for inemborHhlp In tho noutral conference and tho Dutch committee will mako their appoint ments hCun o A GUAYM.NH, Mexico, Jan. '.'0, by radio to San Diego, Cal., Jan. 21 Tho campaign against tho YaquI In dians Is npw progressing favorably and latost roports show that Carran za troops huvo occupied a Ygflui stronghold at Los Palares and In a skirmish near San Javier succeed ed In driving off a dutachod band of Indians and capturing 300 head of eattlo and 100 horses. General Urfhlejo, the YaquI chief who commanded the Yarjuls operat ing with General Villa and who, with General Fruetuoso Monde, who led the Carranza foroes inQpls vicinity had left the Indian country for Guadalajara together with Msndos. Generals Jesug Trujlllo, and Hands rns tho Mayo Indian chief Uachomo. The latter two led the Indians In their attacks upon the American colony at Los Mochlos, Stnaloa, last Novem fflUfD OA ber, Gl COMPANION OF SLAIN DOCTOR aBgf M2tJHgHJHsV HtOw gssgggcf MI55 EMILY BURGER. Office assistant of Dr. V. C. Mohr of I'rnudcnoe, H. I., who, its wituesa nt trial of his wife and two ncgroea held for the crime, told how doctor was- killed and hho Henottsly wounded while dmuig in nuto. TATE GONCLUDEr EVIDENCE AGAINST E PltOMDKNCIS, H. L, Jan. 21. Tho tate today virtually completed tho direct presentation of itu testi mony against Mrs. Klizabcth Midir nnd two negroes, Cecil Brown and Henry Spcllman, on trial lio.ro for tho murder of tho woman's husband, Dr. I. Franklin Mohr. Ooorgo W. Healis, tho negro chatif four who confessed that ho took purl in a murder plot alleged to have been instigated by .Mr. .Mohr, finished his testimony just before tho luncheon recess. Questioned nlternnlolv by counsel for tho two negro dofeiidunta and by I lie prosecuting attorney on orosa and re-diroet oximiinntion, ho was laken over Mirious details of his three days' testimony without materially ohting ing it. When ho left tho stand it waw believed that tho state had only n lew witnesses- to lollow boforo it rested. Mrs. Floroneo Barney, proprietor ol the h0uso in wbieh Mrs. Mohr liv ed, testified that she saw lloalis in the hallway nt Mrs. Mohr's door about 7 o'clock on tliu night of tho Mioolnig. At another lime sho saw a negro in tho hammock on tho piazza. Sho admitted Mrs. Mohr told hoi Brow n had Msited her after his dis charge bv Dr. Mohr. OF SEIZED AS BASE FOR SUBMARINES LONDON, Jan 21 Helzure b tlo trench of tho Grook Island oJ Corfu Is now knowu to have been duo chief ly to tho location thoio of an Austro- German submarine base A second base bus been located In tho narrow channel but a eon Corfu and (ho Al banian const. Most of the suhina rlnOralds in tho eastern Modltorran ean have been directed from the two bases by a fleot embracing Gurmau as wall a AustrifQ craft. SuOtQrtno activity of the Germans In the North 8eu havolargel) abatsd, owing to InternatOI eompllOtlous and the rolentlosa waQare of JlrUtsh destroyers. Acoordlng to tho TOst li$ormntlon only two small under w;r ciQ't of the Gormans remain In the Nor 16?' Sea. Co-operation of Qernftn Oubma rlnes with Austrlaji craft In oOra tlons against Italrsm shipping is re garded here as of political signifi cance. It having been stated on good authority that Italy would deelare war against Germany If it should be established that German submarines had contributed to the loss of Italian sun'. ACCUSED m ISLAND CORFU IS OUT FLOOD GATE MA AM Serious Damage to Irrigation System Threatened Colorado River Ris ing Rapidly Flood Vavo Eighteen Inches High Rustling Down Stream Traffic Crippled Through Arizona. YUMA, Ariz., Jim. 'Jl. A telegram received today by Southern l'noifio railrond officials from thoir agent nt Dome, fifty miles nbovo Yuma, on tho Oiln river, said Hint n flood wnvo eighteen inches high wna rushing on Hint place, nnd unless it was diverted bofoio reaching tho Imperial intake dam KcnoiiR dntnngc to tho irrigation project ossibly would result. Tho Colorado .river hero roso n half foot within an hour and a half before noon. Ono of the largog intakes gate nt (ho diversion dam of tho Imperial valley irrigation project wiih carried away by flood waters of Iho Colorado river IiiHt night, according to reports received hero today from Ilniilon Heading. Tho loss of this gate will throw nt least .'1000 second feet of wntor into the canals, entlin.igoring tunny of the levees. Mood conditions continued todny throughout Arizona, where rain has been fulling all wcok, crippling traf fic, damaging property and, accord ing to reports, causing the loss of mo of hix lixos. Flood wat era of tho rivers and slreuniH were reported to bo Homcwhiit lower today. Clearing weather throughout tho slnto was be lieved in prusago tuo ciitl of tliu storm. Bisbco, Douglas, N'ognles and other .towns in A1I7011U still were out off from communication both by wire and railroad. ESCAPED SPY NKW YOItK, Jnn. 21.o-Caplnln William M. Offloy, chief of tho local buroau of Investigation of tho do pnrtment of Justlco, rccolvod todny a letter from Ignatius T. Troblch Lincoln, tho confessed Gorman spy who escaped fiom n United Stntoa deputy marshal Katurday, in which tho wrltor offorod to mirroudor at onco If guaranteed Immunity from pnmicutlon on the forgery charge which caused his urrost last Augiist. Tho fojgory charge was proforrud by tho IlrltUh ronmilnln hero and ho was bolng hold In Brooklyn, ponding oxtradltlou to Kngluud. Lincoln, a Hungarian by birth, but a naturalised ICntillsh eltUcn and a former member of the British par liament, contended nftor his arrost that tho Hrltiah authorities did not wlnO to try him on tho forgery charge but to execute him for his foroor osplonugo work in behalf of the Gcr man wr Intelligence office. IS SIf AL WEAPONS L1TTLU HOCK, Arl... Jan. 21.- C'QvicL, who esu(iHid iOan the statu penal tarui at Cumiuiiis, Uo inilus from here, Wwliiesday night, wet night robbed tho doxil at Moseow, Ark., flftcyii miles from Cuiuruns, and soeurcfl arms uud ainmunitiou shipped to n liardware tore at that place. Twelltyflo eoiQhfj), e.caped. Only live have buen eaittured. Beuausu oLfear thiJ some of tho more desperate members of tgjt us- peil band may hateeured guns, Afifty guurds searehiug tg woods have hoen gteu orders tuafo Ie Ufount, eonvioted of murder; Bluekie VVilliatgsi and Charles Owsus, also munlerers, bo taken dead or alive. IiewunU for 'Bluekie" Williams alone are taid to total l.U(J in a half doteu states. le wu a member of the Frank Miller-William La Trass gung and has utill to serto a 32-yeur t.iua lor murder in Kuusas. A UHMUNTY ESCAPED NV in FLOOD ILUNQIS TOWNS, cue Heavy Rains Cause Streams to Over flow Banks Ice Jams Threaten Deluge Water Five Feet Deep In Streets of Jollet and Residents oiStrfci.SflfityJuPoats. .. ., tfow- ft give on leavening gat until the dough it Is Colli at n fair mice a larrro rn far ho obltct If atrenoih nn.l nntliv u. .a.i. fully guaranteed under State and National jiraar. we tako all the cnances. Your not get better results with K C than any r used. )ur next grocery order, try some of the new hit paper from lime to time. Then you will Wing this vexing "Cost of Living" problem. All through tho valley of tho Dca- plainca i-iver tho water sprend far over the lowlands, reaching its height in the neighborhood of Joliet, whero Hint oity nnd several villages wcro flooded. Water inn five feet deep in the atrccts. Bookdnlc, i manufacturing town, reported six feci of wntor in tho streets and business suKpcndcd. Many residents unablo to obtain bonts or rafts aotight safety in upper stories of their homos, whoro thoy watched the water swirling about their houses and rising a foot nnd over nn hour. Kery policeman was nut on flood duty nnd scores of volunteers aided in tho rescue work. Ico Jam Chum's Floods Bliccls of water hprend over tho western suburbs of Chicago nnd hunts and hastily constructed rafts wero utilized. Aurora uud Klgin, on tho Fox river, mill intermediate towns of St. Chnrlcflv Batnvin ami Geneva, report cd high water and much damage. Southeastern Iowa nnd northeast em Missouri wero also in tho rain belt which entno up from Twxns. Hood waters swooping down tho Fox river und tho Illinois river drovo residents in low-lying districts in Ot tawa, Mnrsoillos und Utica from their homes. loo jams nt tortuous points in tho rivers ddiimmed tho waters uu threatened Hoods. Aurora, nnd Itockfonl Tliu hovon nrtosinn wells which furnish Aurora's wntor supply had been out off nt noon by inundations from tho Fox river. A wnrning was sent through tho Fox Ilivor valloy ad vising inhabitants to prepare for high water that might sweep aw'dy their homos. At Hnokford, 111., n rapid riso of tho Itoek river nnd its uonQucnts Hooded tho oust sido of tho oily. Ono school wus uloscd bcuuubu of (ho in ability of the pupils to reach tho sehoolhouso. Firemen and policemen woro busy negating fnnillioa in tlto in tiixlutcd district lo higher ground in boats and on rntu. U Of PF.KINO, Jan. 21. Tho corona turn of Yuuii Shi Kai as emporor of China has been postponod indofinito ly. The reason given officially is tho uprising in feoiithoni China. Tho foreign offico notified tho var ious legations toduy that tho Chiuoso government had decided that tho en thronement would tako sslaco oarly in February, but that Yuan Shi Kai had issued an order oanoolling tho ar nuigeinwtta in iew of tho disturb ance in Yunnan protitioo. No inll UMttion wile given us to when tho en thronement will tnko pluuo. Quvernmont officials obtlniutajlhat not more than i xmouths will bo re quired to iuict the disturbances iu tho south. ' 'i TOK'IO, Jan. 31. A cgnforcnqo between tho ompcror, tho cldor ktnleaiiion and tho tnombora of tho eubinct Ima 0 routed tho improssion that tho entcnto allies, under tho loudershin of Jannn. aro diiuuiaiin,. the possibility of ft now stop to so. cure postpouoraont of tho formation of a monnrohv in China until tlm enrl of tho European, tvar. mm YUAN A COnO!TIONIS ED REBELLION m 4 - 'r i t:.i uiui tut ir. '