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Ill nkL MEDFORD J! Tribune jtfil 'U. . ' , SECOND EDITION WEATHER Probably .Snow TliurwUjr. Miu. fltf, .Mill. SI, 1'r. .06 TorlT-flfh Yur. Dwll) -1 niii Vr BEDFORD OKIttlON. WEDNESDAY, .JANIZARY 26, 191(3 NO. 262 il m o p o m m o i i H .1 o Ii 19 AGREEMENT IN mm case SENT 10 BERLIN Bcrnstorff and Lanslnn Redraft Agreement to Represent Views of United StatesIncludes All of the President's Contentions Believe It Will Do Acceptable to Kaiser. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. The Lu sltanla agreomont was redrafted to day by Count Von Hornstortf, tho German ambassador nnd Secretary Lansing to ropresqnt thu views of tho Unltod Statos nnd wan forwarded to tho Ilorlln foreign office. Word of whether tho Gorman Government will accept It In Its tentative form Ih ox poctod wltliln a wook. Aftor a conference between tho sec retary nnd ambassador, tho latter made a now tentative draft which In ludos all tho contentions of tho Unit ed Statos. If, as is intimated today, the new draft Ig fully accoptablo to tho Unlt od States thoro la reason for believ ing It will bo acceptable to Germany. Germany's latest proposal In the J.usltunla negotiations having fail ed to satisfy 9'rostdont WIlBon and Secretary LaniQng, tf?o nmbassador, It wan said, was to subnet another tontatlvo proposal for settlement, cm bodying tho requirements of tho United State. Tho Unltod Statos, It wdi nuthfoita tlvely stated, would Insist upon hold ing tho German govornmont to "u Htrlct accountability" for the loss of American Uvea nnd desires that tho Gorman government admit, In offoct that y Ih liable In law for tho llvou of noutraU lost in tho commission of an iQt against a voescl of tho onomy. Teutonic diplomatic circles still weto optimistic today regarding tho outcome dosplto tho I'nlted States' refusal to accept th laft proposal. 5 APPROVE COURSE OF LABOR PARTY UIMSTOL, Enalar.d, Jan. 5fl. T Uritish labor conference adopted to 9nyby a vole of 1,847,(H0 against 200,009 a resolution entirely op looting tho aetionoof tho rmrlin'ment nry 'nor party in co-operating with 0other political imrliffc in the natiogal recruiting campaign. 0 The first resolution wag moved by James Sestnn, on,hehalf of the Na tional Union o Doekworkors. The ftsolulion eiprecsog tho horror of the conference at tho ntrooitios commit ted by Germany oOd hor allies, and pledges the conference to ttsftist the government an fur a possible 'to prosecute (he wnr Kueeosufully. .Mr. Sexton said lie a nM)Md to militarism, but that the war must be won. "If Germany wins," he continued, 'not'rtTijjr cNc on God's earth mat ter." Sexton' motion was adopted. KL TA'SO, Tex., Jan. 2 The Jwdies of7l)enjamin $nell and Frank Woods, American eofrUojs, have been found west of Cwsihairuehic, accord ing to mt uuciifjriuoI report lrom western Chibusua, rtaching here to-(f) day. Suell and Woods were rejwrtetl last week to have loft rufihuiruieliio with Hoy and Uolin RranAr to rescue the father of the latter. Dr. David Km mer, who had bflfn wounded ia the leg by a bandit antirho as mdiog in tha mountaiaa. A report to tha Carransa eonsulate here today stated that a force of Villa tro opeAting near San Mig uel on the Sonora-Cbihuuhua state line, h.id beut joined l ii -mull band it i .iri.m.i soldiei-. in the nrigbkor li'" d .Hid lnott'd tin -ituriliuit-a .it :. 1'idlu JLr luuj BIS WORKMEN HOYS BOBIE REPORTED ND PORTER CHARLTON BACK; WIFE HE KILLED WHILE ON THEIR HONEYMOON IN ITALY jr v : NLW YOHK J.ji .o 1 ortcr ( i rlton, a youiiB American convicted In Italy of killing his wife In 1910 at I.nko Como, arrived horn today on the steamship America Charlton was released from prison In Novem ber, his sentence having expired. Charlton refused to discuss his enso. Ho said ho would stay In New York n few days and then proceed to San Juan, I'orto Itico, to rejoin his parents. o MRS. MM TAKES CONTRABAND IN STAND IN DEFENSE POSTAL MAIL BAGS DENYING HER GULT SEIZED &Y BRIM " o , o . 3 lMlOVIUKNCK, It. I.. Jan. Mrs. tilunbcth Mohr. on trial 2(1. -with two negroes, Cecil Ilrown and Henry Spellmnn, for thu murder of her hus band, Dr. C. Franklin Mohr, took the witness staint to.luy in her own de fense. Attorney dishing, outlining tho do fense, laid the evidence would show tlu Dr. Mohr was a faithless nnd erjiel hushnjid. "We are not goiug to uittempt to work thu so-called 'ifti- written law.-, lie said. "I would not have Ifto temerity Ps prosent such n defense." "It in tnie that Mix. Jfohr was jealous of her husband," said Cn Ax ing. "She fasved him in spite rcS long and untold abuse. She hoped for a reconciliation some day. Dr. Mohr was n man of charming perHomH nn$ was kind and generous when he dosired. Mrs. Mohr wished to prc enrvo his Jjfo, not to destroy it." Mrs. Mohr appeared self poGsed and began tho story of her married life. Bho said sh9 was first msrrled .May 15, 1003, at Ilr&klyn and that Charles Mohr, Jr., was born In 1900, and Virginia Mohr In 108. "When did you have your first se rious dlsaireomont with the doctor?" "In February. 1908. Tha doctoH had been drinking and taking drugs and ho fVe me a dreadful beating. I tnlfl him T U'ns snlnv fn laiva lilm HIo told me I had no record of my marrlago and told ros to get out. I got out tha next d." Mrs, Mohr told of a second mar rlago coromony being parforinsd May 2-), 1009, at Lynn, Mass. Mrs. Mohr said that at the sec ond ceremony Dr. Mohr made all the statements and she did no,h know whother he made any misstatements. "Did Dr. Mohr in 1909-10-11-11 (Continued on page two) QBKLIX, Jan. 26 (by wireless to Say villa) .The delegates of the Montenegrin go eminent at 0 o'clock last night akned artielee providing for theQayigg down of the nrmsflbf the Montenegrin forces, according to announcement made by the Auetro Hungarian headquarters. Autro-Hunguriun troops, the Mutement mill-., iMi(.it-l portions of the Iliili.in Hi-ition- near (Klatiu himI took in-.iiin.r Ul'7 -olilui-, )ii' lud- MONTENEGRO AAN LAYING DOWN ARM j T c K.Tmur, - iteTitH3.f ' . LONDON', Jan. 2(1.- The British foreijtH offise today published n list of goods in postal mail bags of tho central powers tnken from the Dutoli steamships Frisin, outwnrd bound; Tubantia, inwanl bound, and the Hyndam.0 nRMH from the Frisin eontained rolled B;old chains, gold ear rings, brneelots, rings nnd brooches, nnd drugs, dyes, oleographs nnd mnohine needlos. Tho Tubnntin's bags eontained four sacks of rubber in iwiekotg marked "samples without alue," of n total weight of 7.T,J pounds, and nddrossed to Hamburg from Hrnzil; and nlso seven (Mckots of wool from Uruguay to Ilorlln of sample size. Tlio Ifyndam's mail bags nrc nlleRcd to hAve eontained 00 per eent news papers, 30 per cent projMgnnda and 10 per eent goodK, "nil of onemy or igin," nnd addicted in most easos to firms with flerroan names in the United States. ED BY BERLIN PAPER IIUnLIX, Jan. 26, via London. Colonel W. M. House, personal rep resentative of President Wilson ar rived today In Irlin from Paris. A correspondent or the Lokal An leiger Interviewed Colonel House at Karlsruhe and found him "very re served" regarding the purpose of his trip. q mo correspondent ciescriaes mm as l I maldnff Ilia IniR.Autnn .f m mm1 well Intentlontnl observer without any anti-German prejudices, who de plores the world war and Its horrors In moving words." HOW GERMANS ARE MASSING F0 -? THFt 'v ...- Ljiwur ri 1 Fl tt " M Mi J .Msaw. V.i frvrv )UMl ': -'42?' -BhUzmT- 1 (Ifiu.uii; and J1ii!l:.iIi..ii- bein bi.iiMiibiu nt i ,iIIk -' lin lintk, ir"i.!itr, hIdii0' the u : -w-TW""r. yT-' JAPAN RENEWS DEMANDS UPON CHINESEEMPiRE Note Embodying Seven Demands In cluded In Japanese Program of Last Spring Delivered Chinese Am bassador at Toklo Demands Full of Danger to China. LONDON', Jan. 26.r-The Japanese Government has delivered to tho Chin ese minister In Toklo for transmis sion to his government a noto em bodying seven demands which wore Included In tho Jnpaneso program of laBt spring, thu Mauchostor Guardian learns from Far Eastern sources. Tho Guardian oxprosses tho hopo that this news will bo "authorita tively contradfttod," ns tho demands when previously prosontcd woro full of danger to China's indopendonco nnd tholr gonoral effect would havo been to plnco China under tho tutol Ko of Japan. "It Is tho olm and hopo of Ilrltlsh policy," tho noto continues, "to see China strong and Indopond ont, developing peacefully without In torcuronco from any foreign power." Iertljr lo.stpnol "VVASHIN'OTON, Jan. 26. -Merely Riostponed and never definitely aban doned wns tho status of group flvo of tho Japanese demands upon China, as It was understood by officials here. Diplomats Bore question whether developments of tho mllltajy situa tion hi Kurois", tho dopondnnco of i Russia upsn Japan for munitions of wnr, and tho relations of Oront Ilrlt aln and Franco wltlo Japan for tho maintenance ofktholr Interests In tho Far Kast nave not placed tho allies In a position whore they may feel that thoy cannot nfford to take Issuo with Japan over a question which sho rngards as onn properly concerning only hersolf nnd Cfclna. Many of thorn fool that the only power In posi tion to many any etfectlvo protest Against renownl of tho Japanese de mands is tho Unltod States. Mast Objecllonnblo All tho articles In group five woro regarded as objectlonnblo by the Unltod Statos. Japan's demand for monopoly of railroad construction In parts of China was regarded ns dos ing a door to American opportunity. American mlsslnnrles objected to the Japanoso proposal to propaguto Hud- lihlsin In China and tho proposal to employ Japanese pollco In Chinese cities wob construed as an assump tion of sovereignty. ON ILL STREET NKW YOUK, Jan. 26 itocks wore almost buoyant at today's open ing of the United States Steel com mon dividend and that oorporstlon's record broaklng earning). Rteel oponod with ono lot of 16, 000 shares at 86 to SiQ compared with yesterday's closing price of 81. Gains of 1 to 2 points were made by numerous other Industrials and specialties, Inoltullng Anisrlcaii JSinelt Ing, Crucible Steel, Itepubllo Iron and Steel, Now York AAirake, Westing house, Haldwln and Amurleau l.oeo motlvo and Moxlran Petroloum. The entire list manlfostod ronow ed onergy. ST BUOYANT R GREAT ATTACK ON ALLIES' STRONGHOLD AT SALONIKI PORT xzyj'j&isy i- - - - &". -',27. f !. il ?E-r-r- j 0-tHM fiWWb' "" yimoTwrsaeV br:: r - - WiTwW , w,-. 2. .' Allien cut railrmid bridge in rn-p- Struniu r ' r lit Ilemnln-- ii t i In i k thri dtfiu d .idvuiiee l Tui K - jloi; rilroud fiuu X.iulhi, Iiulguud. WHERE 10,000 BUSH TROOPS ARE REPORIED SURROUNDED BY TURKS !PMNHHr-ivnBaMiBMRa qwUilAMU t, lINVIDMloU Kiit-cl-Anmrn, on the Tljnls not fnr from tho loaitlon of the Garden of Kden, heio the Ilrltlsh MtwapoUiinlii forrwi. 10,000 htroiiR umler (!cn. Toni-nl nro Mirroundeil by tho Turks. Tho Ilrltlsh relief forco Is reportyl to have met detent. L DISIILIN, Jan. 20, by wireless. An official Turkish statement receiv ed hero today says Ilrltlsh forces In Mesopotamia mado nnothor attack upon tho Turks, but gave up tho ef fort after sustaining appalling loss es. nuitMN. Jan. 26, via London. A j;rent number of counter attacks were mio by tho Fronoh yostordny to ro- capturo the trenohos takon by the Gormnns oast of Nouvlllo, hut thoy woro remilsod nach tlmo after hand to hand flghtlnK. soys tho tatemftsnt Issued today by tho German army hoadquarters staff, o LONDON, Jan. J. llularlnn forcos nro said to hve sdvancod Into central Albania and to havo co mo In contact wlty Albanian troops under Kssnd Pasha, provisional pros Idont (f? Albania, who Is oo-operallng with the entente allies. Dispatches friAu Tirana, Albania, to llrludlsl, Italy, as furwsrdml by thiOKxohnngo Telegraph company say that an advanro guard of the Ilulgar lans has been defeated near IClbnssaii by Kssad Pasha's forces I VAXCOITKH, II. (, Jan 'J(l. With the arrival tbiinorning of four trains from the eaM, trsffio on the Canadian Pacific was all caught up, and tonight's tegular train is coming through practically on time. The weather up-country is becoming colder, and the indications nre against any immediate snowfall. Five track workers Niiffering from frost bitten bauds and feet were brought to the city this morning and taken to the hospital for treatment. Xone was hi soriouh condition. Traffic on the Canadian Northern Pacitic railroad is stilLst a aland- still and there is smalllikyHheud of train sen ice being renewed bufoto tho end of the week. r-i l ...f,. ' ' v- lUlsLJ-r UTtt v:i BRITISH SUSTAIN APPALLING OSES MESOPOTAMIA 'A-- - IV ft - ;'ib llllU rrdrs,g ' lrtmg.t 1(Jlt(kHi J Umirati rBKCttSi .'( Lsrue Turki-li lurcti from Dar uiii Hi ripnttfil "ii.cr. il at Xuntbi ,lr .idwiii'i 'ii .illu- at Sviluiiilu. TWO KILLED IN E SPOKANK, Wn., Jnn. 20.- -Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad pas senger trains immbors 17 and 18, onch known ns the Columblnn, col lided hoadon noar l.lnd, Wash., to day. Knglueer Oeorgo Hlggs nnd ono tramp wero killed and three other persons were bruised. Tho Injured wero Ullllnm Sohultx, 'englnoor of Xo. 18; I). F. Armstrong. flroman of No 17, and J. W. Wood ward, express mossetiKor of No. 17. Tho train crowsitworo from Spoknno. It Is bollevednV railroad officials that anothor tramp was buried In tho wreck a go. Ills body had not been ro. covorod four hours after tho wroek. No. 17, one of tho wrecked trains wns tho rogular trnns-coutlnontnl Co lumbian of the Milwaukee, nnd ac cording to0 the railroad officials was running as a second section of No. 17. Tho first soetlou of No. 17 was mado up here Inst night. Tho rogular No. 17 was reported five hours Into. The steel equipment of the trains saved the passengers from Injury. The engines were demolished Ac cording to a roport from l.lnd a mis take In tnln orders caused the col llrlon. AKTOItIA, Or., .Ian. 10.-The tug' Oneouta bus mm yet been unable to lo- Mi.fa fliu lr..,,.,!. Iniflf llmHvl uliit.li ' ..I. ,.i. ........ ,,... ......nt-., n.ii.t. was rcjHirted in dihtrcsn yesterdsy l.'i miles south of he Coliimbia river. No further word has been rweivwl from the oil tank si warn or Colonel li. L. Drake, which sent a wireless yes terday saying the Itayard was in trouble. A report that the Oaeonta had the Itayard in tow last niflit off the mouth of the Columbia proved today to have been incorrect, due to the misreading of a wireless messaue. Af- fter searching until late last night the Oneouta sent n message saying that she was coining into the rixer with out having found the bark. Farly today the tug came across the bar, but put out again toduv to continue the oeureli. RECOVER BODY OF SEATTI.K, WuOi. Jan. 20. -The body of IUIph Hiittiiinun of Wen ulchee, Vuh., aged H, wns found to day iu the debris ot the Oreut North em train wreck at Creu, being the seventh body ruioed. The boy's fittht-i ami iuli lister Wire ulo kill- id in the wrves aud his mother m juied. The oul uii-xiug bixly, that f J. II. Wil-on of Vaueouver, is be llevtd to bine been Uetroed when the dining eur wus bunted, HEAD-ON COLLISION PON MLWAKE WORD m Cf LED BAA CHILD SIX PERISH IN BLAZE GUTTING SAM BLOCK Thrco Workmen Killed by Leahlnu From Fourth-Story Windows to tha Pavement and Three Suffocated In tho Building Bulldlnn Used by Salvage Firm for Drying Hemp. BKATTLB, Wash., Jnn. 20. Six men were killed this mornme; in a firo that destroyed tho inferior of , tho Tnl. hot Wnlker buHUlm, a. ' fivo-stoty brick fitruoturo nt Jnekson street' rinU First nvenito south Thrco wero kill ed by lennJufr' f rom fourth-storj-Tvin-down to the pavement liplqf, rind three wero suffocnttrd in tho bttilduiif. Tho property loss is $10,000. The dead: Hay Wfnklomnn, bond of tho Wink Ionian Twino & llurlnp Co., Tacomn. Wash. Phillip Nishneffsky, np;ed 2C. Fine Dorosovsky, njred 28, married. . Friedman, njed 21. Simon Hronshcem. C. Uuekley, timekeeper, I'ortymd. The building wns beinL used by a hiiIviiko firm for tho drying of a liirj;o quantity of hemp thnt wns Nonked with water during tho firo of October 28 last, on tho Ditto Flnnncl lino pier. Thnt firo caused $1,000, 000 losn, nnd is generally believed to have been incendiary nnd caused by Persons who fought to prevent ship ment of munitions of wnr to Ilussin, tho burned dock hnvinj been used for Hivdi traffic. Twenty men were nt work in tho Tnlbot Wnlker building this morning when tho fire -was .discovered. It seemed to break out on nil five floorn nt once, and tho wholo interior of tho structure was soon nblnzc. Three men appeared nt the fourth story windows. One loaned boforo tho firo inen bolow oould mako any offort to catch him. He struok on his bond and was instantly killed. Tho other two woro cHiighl by blnnkota hold by fire men, but thoy broke through tho cloth and struok tho stono of tho pavement nnd woro so sovoroly injured that thoy died n few mintitoH after being taken to tho city hospital. Tho firemen supposed thnt nil tho workmen had been removod from tho building. On entering the building, howewr, they found three dond men. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. Presl dent Wilson summonod to tho whlto house today loadors of thesonato and house to lenrn tholr attltuda toward the shipping bill, a tariff commission, nnd the Philippines bill. Ho Indicat ed to thorn that la addition to thp preparedness program and revenue bills those th roo monsuros would be the principal ones baokod by tho ad ministration. Most of the leaders summoned op posed the shipping bill fn tho last congress. The president saw Ma Jorlty Leader Kltchln of tho houao, Chairman Fltjsgerald qf tho nppro riatlons oommltteo, Chairman Clarke of the sonnto commorco cotumlttco, Chairman Simmons of tho senalo fin aneo committee and Saaator Flotcher who led tho flKht for tho ship bill In the senuto In the Inst congross. Thu shipping bill which will be supported by tho administration does not Ineludo tho (outuro of tho old bill provided for continued operation of ships by the govornmont. Instead It providos that the government shall purchuse or build ships and thon loaso oi sell them to corporations or pri vate Individuals. Only In case no one offers to lease or buy tho ships does the bill allow ttfp government to operate them. The government cauliL buy back the ships at a reasonable arise for nuvnl uux'Harles In time of war. A nd 'sue of U0,60.000'for tho purchase er eouatruetlon of shin would be provided for by tho bill whlrh albt includes a shipping com uilsslou to control shipping rates, WILSON CONFERS WT LEADERS NEW LEGISLATION