Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 24, 1916, SECOND EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextMedford Mail Tribune SECOND EDITION WEATHER t'n'l llnl, I tn I n or Hum, Mat. .V.ft, Mln. ii.fi, lr. .10 d . r,,. f fill Ytnr. Dull' Truth Year MKDFORD OHKUOX. MOMUY, JAM'AKY 21. Wlti XO. G0 GMef JUstlJc White Renders Opinion 6 Holdlnn That Tax Is Not Unconsti tutional DccausG' It Was Retroac tive Govcrnracnt's Potter to Tax Has Existed From Beolroitog. 101 TUX GERMAN NAVAL ELECTRIC TRACKS AND BRIDGE WASHED OUT IN STORM FLOOD AT LOS 1GELES STORM BLOCKS LAW UPHELD BY AIRSHIPS RAID j-v--"" TT TRAFFIGBYLAND SUPREMECOURT BUSH COAST feU-,. J ,- J ANDSEAINWEST YiI$lIK I n Zi!!5P5 "SiSiW" 1 il sFSlfeg-sig-aate " ' gWtffJWWJgBMBSl I ( viHiMMbiuHK- ili- t TsSx- j7 X v - fr, , y i?WPRMss"K5:JSi, " sia MULATTO BLAMES FLOOD CONDITIONS -f- ' HIE COMPANION !N YUMA VALLEY JSS FOR ELOPEMENT FA5I IMPROVING "K " - WASHINGTON, Jon. 21. Tlio mil premo court tifltny uphold the eonsti tutiunnlity of tRo incomo tax law. Chief JtiHtico White announced tlio decision in tlio case of Frank II. llnisliabcr, Htorkholdcr of tlio Union I'ncific ltailrond coinanyf which sought to avoid paying the tux on the ground that it was unconstitutional. Most of Justice White's opinion was diroctod toward overriding the contention Hint the income tnx nmondmont provided a hitherto un known power of tnxnlion. Going far into tlie history of income tnx legis lation the ohiof jiiMtice concluded the argument uOh without morit. Advancing to other points, the chief jit-ttee held that tho tax wn not un-eon-titulionnl because il wan retro mtive. The arRiimcnt that the lnw was un-cn-titiitioiuil hooiiuoe labor, agrirul tur and IfitfticliltTitUotynnixationa linil such were oxemyfftyie chief jus tice held, was answered by decision under tho corporation tax Jhw. He snul the )oint was only another illus tration of un erroneous assumption Hint the tux was imposed under it new power coTifoired upon the government In the sixteenth nniendinent, whereas it was a )owor rcoogniaod to exist front the beginning of the government or tint-, decision defining tho taxing power previously londored were ap j'lu.ilile to it. Grouping of other contentions n,'iiuist tho law, nil baed on tho clause of tho constitution ruirug uniformity in taxation, Chief Justice Y!uf. pronounced them nil lacking in nicnt, but of previous decisions which determined that tho clouso exacted (i '. a gcogrnphieal uniformity. Bombs Dropped on Station Barraaks and Docks of Dover Raid Follows Similar Attack on East Coast of Kent, In 8hlch One Was Killed and Six Wounded. W..UU.,, nun, ,, iimuu I Hungannn troops hnvo occupied tho important town of Scutari, J in northern Albania, according to a Stofnni News neonov dis- "" t imtcli lrom Athens. $ HKItlltX. Jan. 21 Miv wirelnos (n Sayville). The Gonnan admiralty if sued the followinar tedav: "A Ovrman navnl aeroplane during the night of January 2,,..3 dropped bomlm on the station, barracks and docks of Dover." A later official Mnteraonl issued by the Herman admiralty un?: "Two fii'l-mnn nnvnl nnrniilnnna mi January 23 dropped bombs on avia- lion aliens in iiougiiam, to tno west of Dover. Heavy firca wore eloarly observed." LIMB FlflOOS CAUSE ENORMOUS PROPERTY LOSS I'EOIUA, 111. Jan. 21 With the Illinois rlvor btlll rising realdenU a'ong tho lowland toda were fleeing o rafcty. Ilundrods have lieen roa rucii iQtm tholr liomea by boata. In i""nv placoa dykes have broken and luabo farm land is Inundate!. Hciorts from points up and down the I '"la ludloato enormous damage to f.' in oroporty amj, livestock. Scores of dond oattle and iiorses r to ho soon floating down stream. i'tuiilrcili of cabin boat along the 1'vwr rlvg;g have broken from their oorlngs afld either sunk or floated au,i. I'rom Iwliton and Havana eome rf I'orta that countryside around these 1 v HR is flooded. The Spoon rlrer at I wlston Is roportod out of Its bank, spring noarby roadways and farm 1'ierty to a depth of four or five f( ' t Tho stage of the watr Is at the 1 -iipt point on rocord. Tho Spoon river levee feSeh pro '' thou3--nila of acres of farm bind below Ittfcna, 25 miles south 01 here, broke today. A score or 1 "re of fuiyjlles fled to higher s-'-'und. Havana. Lewlston and Du ' ' Mills aro completely Iglated fi"iii each other. PRESDEN I OTfl V VSHIN'GTON. J' " Vtetl "' rt Wilson remitted today a to "".ind dqllar fine imposed on J " Bullock, convicted in a federal court several years ago of defraud-'"-i tbe goveruwent in bids for coal ' r 1'orts Darla. St. Michael and Ms " 't 4A Alaska. Uullock has serv rl a jd.l sentence which expires io- Thc official Ilritioh account of tho Oermnn aeroplane attack as given out yofdcrdny nid that the euit coawt of Kent was visited early Sunday morn ing by a lioMilo aeroplane whiuh drop ped fliue homliH, killing one person and injuring ix. A Second Haiti The German report doos not men tion the second raid, i-aid by the Hrit-b-h war office to havo been made on Ihe iQst eoast of Kent by two sou tanes shortly after noon yesterday. Dover is one of the chief portH of communication between Knglnnd and the continent. It has the finest har bor on the channel ami since the com pletion of the harbor works In 100(1 it has been un important naval station. It has extensive docks and navnl oa tnblishments and a large garrison. HKItLIX, Jan. 21. The following official statement was given out to du by German army headipinrters: Mel. IbmilMrdcd "Western frent: There havo been lively artillery and noropluno notions. An enemy squadron bombarded Motr, where bombs fell on the bishop' dwelling and Qi a liouso in tho hospi tal court. Two civilians woro killed and eight wounded. One aoroplnno was shot down and its inmntcs mndo prisoners. "German aviators havo bombardod railway and military estnblishmonlH behind tho onemy's front. In several air engagements the Germans had tho upper hand. "KnMtflw frent: German artillery shelled nml set on fire a Uuasiau rail loud tram north of Dvinilt. "lialknn frent: fta oneoiy air Mpiudron eoiniDg from Greok soil bombarded Motmstir. There woro cenil insualties in killed and wouialed among the inhabitants." SI ik to mum CLIFToN. An, Jan. l'l. Strik ing i-oniH-r iiiiiui-. ! the Metcalf dis- tntt oied lodn to accept the prop osition of the managyn or the tnree owrats companies and return to u-nrk. The miners of thy two other district. Clinton and Morenei, wore to meet late today and were expected ta take similar action. This prac tically ends the strike of several thousand miner which began Septem ber 11, 1!13. DAY IN CONGRESS WAhrTINOToN', Jan 21-Senate: Hr-'udier General. Crothier and Mui ombe ili.-iued anm reorganua- in belorc mihtun uttaars commit tee. Heue: H.umed debate on Shackleford 5,tHM),tKH good roads bill. Militan and naal arTairs romssii ,e coniinu-d heanog ' the na' iou.il diUUe. Gales ncac'ilnn 94 Miles an Hour Sweep Coast Shlpplnti Crippled Railroad Transportation Halted Rescue Work In Arizona Canadian Pacific Tied Up by Heavy Snows. I'ncific lllcctrlc tracks and wild go near Mcrton, n autiurh of Juvt Angeles, Cnl., lOidcr water during nootfci which ttlil n iflllllim tlollnr dam nco to ni-oiHTty. jii unusual rntlifnll forcctl rivers over Uiclr Iwyilts, MMiiIIng n wave of water over n lingo nrtvi. SALT DAKK CITY, Vtah, Jan. 21. Raymond Dodds, a mulatto, aaid by the jiolico to havo compelled Mrs. Viola Hood of San Diego, Cnl., to clopo with him, surrendered today to the police. Dodds said ho read in n newspaper that the police were seek ing him nnd decided to give himself up to avoid trouble. The negro says Mrs. Hood urged him to louvo San Diego with her nnd that ho did not use any threats upon her. He snys they arrived hero from Los Angeles together last night and remained at a hotel. ' Later Jim. Hood surrendered to tho police. Sho confirms Dodds' stoiy, so tho polieo said. Dodds according to tho police, said Mrs. Hood had urged him nt intorvnla for a year to clopo with her aniUhai sho provided tho funds with which they trnvelod whon they left San Di ogo lust Friday. Mm. Hood has consonted In return to San Diego, if desired, on condition that Dodds bo allowed to go free, the police said. In quoting tho womnn tho polioo said alio hnd asserted that tho plans of the couple included being married in Salt Lake under assumed iininos nnd then going to Chicugo to mnke their home. In hor fctory to the police Mrs. Hood said that whon sho nnd foddo ar rived hero last night thoy went to n rooming bouse, Dodds afterward sending hor to a hotel, remarking thnt tho rooming house wns "not Q moral place." Dodds spoilt tho night nt a rooming houso for colored porsons, according to n siipidumentury stnto- pient to tho police after ho surren dered. o - LOS AXOKLKS, Cnl., Jan. 21. V. L. Hood of S.un Diogo, who arrived hero Saturday to aid the authorities in sonrohing for his wife and Ray mond Dodds, a negro chauffeur, as serted today that ho would louvo im mediately for Salt I.ke, where Dodds surrendered. Hood iKifd he did not believe state ments of tho negro that .Mrs. Hood uccompnnied him willingly. "I am going to her aid as soon as Mssible," Hood added. Informed of his wife's surrender to tho polioo of Salt Iko City, Van Leo Hood today tuado the following statement: "positively will not condone any willful, guilty or overt act on the part of my wife, but I will yet stake my life on her virtuo, honor and inno. cenee and I will spend the remain der of my life and all tho means I have and that I can obtain in prov ing her character and honor nnd In punishing hor assailant." . C. C. ALONE IN YUMA VALLEY FAST YUMA, Ariz., Jan. 2 1. Yuma wan crowded today with rofugooa from tho low section who had boon driven from their homos by tho flood of tho Colorado" rivor. Water in tho Colo rado dropped fivo feet during tho night and as n consequence conditions were much improved. John Soddon arrived here today from tho Hard Indian reservation unit oPlho Yuma project on the California sido of tho river, bringing first re pot ta of tho situation in that section. Seddon said ho took refuse on the roof of his liouso nnd floated about in tho flood waters for Hiv hours. Whilo in this predicament, ho anw a man, n woman and two children float by, clinging to a vohiclo of some kind. lie was powerless to as sist them nnd suid ho behoved thoy hnd been drowned. Most of tho furmura, Seddon said, hud lost nil of their livestock. Rolicf parties to aid tli6 sufferers of the Hard reservation nnd other flood districts lett Yuma today. CHINESE REBELS L CON fRO YUNNAN SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., Jan. 21. .Chinoso revolutionist lenders nt Shanghai cabled today to Toog King Chonc, president of tho Chinoso Ito public association hero, asking him in nponl io tho people of tho United States, in tho narao of Hie Chinoso io public, "not to recognize Yuan Shi Kai as oinperor, because the United States was the first of tho Kwcrs to refogniao the Chine republic, nnd, as a sister ropublic, the United States should aid China to maiiituiu tho re publican form of government." The cable itipeated previous report that Yunnan proiuuc wus controlled completely li? the revolutionists. Srcchiien prowncc, adjoining Yunnan on the north, ihe rrvululiouiski baid, was controlled iilnm-t completely b their force. PERSIA SUNK BY A switch ciiglno (lumped on a Mitall Island made hy fluoil witters In Arroyo Sec, a lcprwdon within tho city Ihnlt.s of I.os Augclc. Sl lives wcro lost In the Monti anil flood which hit the hiiilly at tho sumo time. VILLA PREPARING NEW CAMPAIGN A HEARST'S EXPENSE KL PASO, Tex., Jan. 2 1 Mexican arrivals from Madera, Chihunhun, today reported General I'ranoisoo Villa was nt Santa Ann 'on the lkib rieora ranch, the Ilea rat property, making pro'mrtttious for an oxtensixo campaign. It was said that ho hnd gathered 1000 men and hud tnkuu OOO coltH from tho Unhriuorn raneli for mounts, and wiih killing '2.10 bond of cattle daily mid drying the flush for provisions. KL I'ASO, Tex., Jan. 21. -Mexican officials said today that representa tions woro about to bo made by Gen eral Guvim, commandant nt Junroz, to General I'orshing, commanding United States troops tit Fort Bliss, re garding the shooting of a Mexican soldier by I'rivnte Harrison of the El I'nso provost guard last week. Goneml I'crahing refused tn discuss the waller, but it is understood a searching investigation in to be nn-li-t ii ted. FIFTEEHILi STATES RIGHT TO CONDEMN PIER T URKS SUBMARINE WASHINGTON, Jan. -.--The in terstate commerce commission has exclusive power to comiel railways to equip grain ears with bulkheads or bin doois, and state courts are with out )orsr, tk suursiM eourt deeided today itt the suit of Leslie O. LoomU. ot Buffalo agaiust the Lehigh Valley rudroud, WASHINGTON, J..n. 21. Unoffic ial dispatches from uhroud indicating that Turkey might a knowledge that one of her submarine sank the Brit ish liuor Persia promi to rovive the dipbiraatio features f that disaster. State deiwrtDtent official had no dispatches on the subjout today from Ambassador Morgctkag. Neither had they received any officwl word irom Ambassador I'eafieJd at Vieoua transmitting Austria's official dis avowal of any ooouetifHi with th disaster, rejorted uufflially last week. Until the intimation wm that Tur key might assume recfwaisibility, it wavs generally assumsj k effiisi quarters that tbs cauw of th slak ing of the liner would remain uu- kU'JAU, HI E P S N BUFFALO. N. Y., Jan. 21. Fif teen workmen were killed and as many more probably fatally injured in an explosion at the plant of tho Kelkcr Mower company in Harrison street here this afternoon. The boiler in the plant exploded with tcrrifi force. The Ihroe-story building crumpled and cowplttely buncd twoscors workmen. I'V es-(ajH-d uninjured. Firs broke out in the ruins. The explofion broke every (tane of glass in SchtKil i0, across the street from the wrecked factory, and threw the several hundred pupUs into a pa oic. Order was rostored ami the children marched out without injury. The blower company is operated under tk,e Lagtu cotopany, and man ufactuies glas, and ottery ware. GREECE SEEKING LOAN FROM ENTENTE ALLIES LONDON, Jan. 25. Reuter cr respondent in Atheus says that he eau "taie on gowl authority thot M-ifti,. tion Ubtuewu liUfctt rtMti tUi eaWat power for a loan are progressing fa Viabi uud uiv licurina' U euuelmiou. SITES IS UPHELD WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. - In a de cision of wide effect to walerpower development throughout tho United States, the supreme eourt hold today that slates possess the power to en act lawa authorising condemnation of power sites and water rights by right of eminent domain. Tho decision was announced by Justice Holmes in upholding tho con stitutionality of the Alabama water power condemnation statutes in eases touching tho improvement of Talla poosa rivor. "Tho priuciiKil argument," said Justice Holmes, "is that the purpose of tho condemnation is not a public one. In tho organic relations of mod em society it may sometimes bo bust to draw the lino that is supposed to give authority to the legisluturo to exercise eminent domain. "Hut to gather the streams fiom waste ami to draw from thorn energy, labor without brnins, and so to savo muiikind from trial, is a supply which next to intelligence is the very foun dation of all our achieements. If thnt purpose i not public we should In at a In- Io n what if." STANDARD OIL SAN FRANCISCO, Cnl., Jan. 21. Travel by land and Bea nnd commun ication of all Boris wcro out of joint today in tho vWstern ono-lhird of tho continent beonuso of ruin, snow nnd wind. Onlos reaching 04 miles nn hour swept the northern Pacific coast, but imiirnliciision for shinninar was con- aidornbly rel'iovcd by reports that tho Admiral SoIUoy, lrom acnttio to ann KriiuciRcn with nbout 100 souls on board, vvns aafo and probably would make port hero Into today. For ninny hours she vvna not lieanl lrom. Tlio coastwise sloum schooner Ccn trnliu, from Grays Harbor to San Fnincisco, with four pnssongora, lost her deck load of lumber, but was re ported to bo beating nlong imdor hor own steam nfter huvlng boon blown out of her course. Tanker l)lnblel Tho tanker F. II. Uuok of tho As souiatod Oil company, reported off Pniva Itnv. OriiL'tin. with disabled steering genr, was tlio only other boat known to ho in (rouble. Whilo truffio ucross Montana wna reported more or loss obstructed, rail road transportation genoriilly allowed more promise than for a week. Six hundred men wcro at work at Corcn, WohIi.. elcurincr tho trnok there fol lowing uu iwuluuoho Saturday which swept two earn from tho Great North ern track, killing eight persons. ' ltcHOtiu nurtles nt Yuma. Ariz., be gan extending relief to ranchers mndo homeless by floods in tho Colorado river. TANKER LONDON, Jan. 21.- The standard Oil tank steamship I'elrolite, from Philadelphia, January :t, lor Copen hagen, with a cargo of Ktrocum, und the Norwegian steamship Mons, from iiultiuiore, January 1, foi I'bns tiania, with a cargo of wheat, rye and barley, have been taken into Kirk wall. i i i It wfu announced from Washing tun, January 17, that state depart ment offloied wore investigating an affidavit by Captain Thompson of the I'strolite that his vessel was fired ou and stopjwd by an Austriun sahuta- nue off Alexandria, Kg) pi, Decent her 5 last, and that supplies were re moved. The affidavit was said to declare that fourteen hot were fir ed at the ship, out' of wlni Ii crashed into t lie- engine imnii nod injured a Doltish Mi-aiiiun and t'oit I In- obiiiHr inc I'liiuiaiidcr touk oiii' ot tlie I 'it inlili-'j i n w iiboaid the siibmaiiiu' uud livid Una as a latui: ubdu he obtaiuel provisions from the tank rUalllnlllp. Canadian Pacific Itlockcil VANCOUVKR, IJ. C, Jan. 21. Snow bus offectuully tiod up truffio on tlio Canadian Paeifiu railroad and Canudinii Northoru Pnoifio railroad through tlio Cusuiidea, and no trans- (loiitinontal trains huvo onmo into Vanoouvor over oithor lino since Sat urday. Yostcrday'a through trains were cmicullcd by tho Canadian Pa eifiu railroad nnd tho Canadian Northern Pacific eastbpund oxpross was also annulled. Tho Canadian Pa eifiu railroad Imperial Limited, which loft Vancouver on Saturday night, lias bean hold nt Yale ponding n olunrnnco of tho main lino. Tho Can adian Pacific railroad is running a consolidated train out of hero nt 11 o'clock this morning in tho hopo that tho track will bu clou rod boforo night. Slides through the Sulkirks, in thq region of Rogers Pass, hnvo been coining down during the past thirty six hours, but tho Canadinn Pacific operating department huro reports that the track clearing gangs aro fliiu eessfiilly coping with them uud no long delays ure anticipated on that account. DIVORCE PETITION Fl LED BYMRS MOHR ALLEGED CRUELTY I'HOVIDKNCK, It. I., Jun. $1. Almost at the uolut of rostlng its ease, the prosecution today Introduced as evidence against Mrs. Bllwiboth Mohr, Cecil Drown uijd Henry SiolImau, Jointly on trial fur the murdor of tho woman's husband. Dr. C. Franklin Mohr, the dlvoroe petition which was filed by Mrs. Mohr Ft. 7, 191 1. The oJise was to havo oomo up for hoarlng September 1 last, tho day after Dr. Molir was killed. The petition as amended July 6, lull, charged cruelty, referrod to Dr. Motor's association with other women and contained tho chargo thut he had used drugs oxtonslvel.v. Strutt- maintenance for tlio wife, Insti'ud or absolute divorce, vvaa nak ed in tlx aii'uded bill. Tho dq em inent ni. i.r.HiKlit Into tho records of tin- .(.. iImoukIi introiUictlon by Itobert C. Hoot, asslstaut olork of tho court. 'T