Medford Mail Tribune
SECOND
EDITION
WEATHER
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foiiy-fifth Yenr.
IMllv Trnlli Yrnr,
MEDFORD OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21. 1916
NO. 258
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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
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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-
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FERDINAND HEALTH
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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.
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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
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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
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Gl COMPANION
OF SLAIN DOCTOR
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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
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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.
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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
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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'.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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