Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 18, 1916, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text0WrsW0reBOn library i MEDFO nn mum . FORECAST TONIGHT AND SUNDAY OWA-SIONAI, MAIN. WEATHER Maximum Vtortly 34; Mfuhmuu T nitty :J0, Forty-sixth Tear. rv-.Lllv Eleventh Year.. MKDFOTiR ORIHiOX. SATl'KllAY. NOVKM UFM 1S. 11)lt NO. 20(5 fOUR KILLED, FILL ERS HURT. GRAND PRIZE RACE. SANTA WI LEWIS JACKSON'S ALL FOREIGNERS 'WILSON WINS Ml SMASHES INPAUSLI CALIFORNIA Bf ! TELEPHONE POLE BV VILLA BAND 3500 F1VJRALITY ; Driver, Spectator and Lemonade Vendor Killed Outright; Mechan ician and Motion-Picture Camera Man Dying Cars Traveling at the rate of 86 Miles an Hour. QUEEN TURNS HER PALACE INTO A HOSPITAL Chinese Refugee Reports That Ban dits Have Siain Foreigners, Looted Stores, Arrested Natives and Held Them for Ransom Five or Six t Americans Among Number. STATE CANNO T SANTA MONICA, Nov. 18. Four persons wero killed, a fifth is ctyinK and a number wore hurt today when Lowls JackBon's car in the 13th lap of the Grand Prize race collided with a telephone polo and was thrown against two trees which were snapped off by tho blow. Jackson's lefis were cut off and he was dead when a hospital was reached. His mcchiniclan was un reached. Tho tree had to be cut down to remove his body, which was almost severed. His mechanician, John Shrianda, and J. S. Harrlgan, a spectator, were injured, but will re cover. Harold Edgerton, a spectator and a woman leinonado vendor were klllod instantly. S. L. Jenkins, a mo tion picture camera man, was report ed dying. Kliclitnen Clara Start. Eighteen cars started today at 10- second intervals, Moosie leading the waq. Five cars, manned by Oldl'leld, Thomas, Lentz, Doldon and an un designated driver were withdrawn r t'l'qtn th start.- - -:, - Itesta led at tho fifth lap with Pullen, Cooper, Wilcox and the Held following. Kesta's time, was 29;02. 2S.8 seconds better than Alton made in tho Vanderbllt Thursday. Alten withdrew in the second lap with a broken piston. dtesta held his lend at tho tenth lap. His time was 58:46.8, an aver age of S6 miles an hour. Cooper was second with Rickenbachor and Wilcox trailing. Pullen turned over on the wide curve on the point of the triangular course. Neither Pullen nor his mechanician were hurt. Altken Leadlrur. Wilcox led, on tho fifteenth lap with Itesta, Itlckeuhachcr, Cooper, and Ruckstoll following. Wilcox's time was 1 :26.27, an average of 87.22 miles an hour. Officials reported Jackson and his mechanician, John Shrands, were slightly, hurt. No ono in the crowd was injured. Jackson's car was com pletely wrecked. Wilcox led at the 20th lap with Uickcnbacher, Cooper and the field following. At the start of tho 21st lap Aitken relieved Wilcox, it was announced, j lor the remainder of the race. , Altken In Wilcox's car led at the 2.',th lap. His time was 2:2:34, an average of more than 8fi miles. Hlekenbaelier, Cooper and the field '.;nlled. Altken was leading at the .10th lap. with an average speed of 80. B miles an hour. His time was 2:54:2.",. Cooper ran second, five minutes be hind and Patterson third, two laps In the rear. Altken widened his lead slightly on the 35th lap with Cooper running second and Patterson third. Aitken's time was. 3:24:05, an average speed of 86.4 miles an hour. EI, PASO, Tex., Nov. IS. A Chin ese refugee who arrived in .lunrez lute last ii it: 1 1 1 on the Mexican passenger train nrontiiti i Nothing in Official Canvass to Affect , President's Unofficial Majority! County Authorities Still Holding! Up Larger Counties to Complete Official Recount. J S, It SACIiAMF.NTO, Oil., Nov. IS. Willi the official canvass of thiily- t 'out nil I nine mil of fil'ly-ci;:!it counties tin-, report ! j-.,.d tmliiv, Socroiurv nl' State Jor- l'r,im .limine., t'liilniiiliiia, that pr:i : tically nil nl' tile foreigners In I'nrml had been killed' hy Villa bandits. lie said tlmse 'killed included the American, (leniiini, Chinese, Hebrew, dim niinuunecil thai n Tors had been found lis yet to ii fleet President Wilson's uiinlfieiul plurality of ninii'', lllllll :i."iOII Miles over Charles K. i llie'hes. Tliirlv-nine eimnlies have i French and Arab residents ef the nlreadv been i uled by the seere mining ennii. lie also said a linilh-er-in-liiw nl' Theodore lloeniuller ul .liiniilez had received eoiifiinialioii of the kill'.ig of lloemuller and his fam ily in 1,'n mi. The Chinese refuuee said llie gen eral belief in Juarez was thai Kdsjar Koek, flermnn consular aent in l'lir- I, had been killed at Snnla Kosnlia. Five Americans re known In have reached Culiaean, Sinaloa, from Pnr ral. Killed Koieigiu-l'S. I'niled Slates government repre- .sentatives heie have also received liraetieally the same report from a Chinese i'cl'iif.'co who arrived in Jua rez last night. These reports ngree thai Villa and his bandits, after e- uiitii.y the milling town, ordeivd the forei'Jllers killed, looted the store arrested llianv of the natives anil held them for ransom ami eominittei oilier depredations. The Chinese rcliigce who arrived last uiplit said at least twenty Chin ese hail been killed in I'arral and that fit teen Arabs, Hebrews and Syr ians had heel) put to death, lie did not kimw the number of the mlier foreigners who were killed, although he said another Chinese who lied from I'arral hail told him in .limine. is mmmmm Warn RASE MuNEY R R OPERATION PROVESSUCCESS State Treasurer Kay Points Out That Under Tax Limitation Bill Passed hy People State Is Limited to Nearly Half a Million Less Than Spent a Year Ago. tarv of stale. ( niiiily iiiiliioriiics arc slill holding up the larger coun ties, trying t niplete their nllifial recount. Prneiiioiii Wilson's nlurallty ill Cal ifornia will be approximately :'. T r, 0 ; (Jueen Marie of lliimania has turned her palace inlo a hospital for votes when the official count of pros-: wounded soldiers and nets as nurse. She is a daughter of the late I lake iilential ballots in the stale Is com- j of Edinburgh, second son of (Ju l Victoria of England. pletcd. This estimate was That tile passage of the Ill-eon siidi red and faultily drawn lax lliiilla ONE METHOD OF PRICE CONTROL Tl Control hy Government Competition Proven Only Beneficial Remedy for Reducing High Cost of Living In vestigation, Prosecution and Fed eral and State Control Fail. 11 Y llll.SON' llAltllNKIt'. WASHINGTON. Nov. IS. In view Hon bill Initiated by the Tnxpn.ver's of llie high cost of living agltatlou made on the ; basis of official returns from all hut three of the .IS counties In the state. : and estimates of Hughes' probable . gain in the other three. I Only Three t'ntinlshed. j All counties except' Alameda. I.os j Angeles and San Francisco have com- j plcted t,huir official count. Tabula-1 lion of the returns nf .",5 counties, gave Hughes a total of 212. Htl? and Wilson 22!t!li:i4. This Is a lead for Wilson of in. 9.17. i In tho unofficial returns Hughes' plurality tn Alameda county was 77H and in l.o:; Angeles county 21.- 3 33, while Wilson carried San Fran-j cisro county by Ifi.OiU. This gives; Hughes a lead in the three counties! of 12, 11.13. Deducting this rroin Wil- j son's had in the other ",5 counties) Wilson is shown to be leading by j 3 !IS 4 It was estimated today that Hughes s. ul' the foreigners had been . lp( ain fn .lnnieda. Kan Francisco I thai "a put to dentil. Five or Six Americans. Of the loleigliers heiicwd tn hac been in I'arral when Villa entered, there were at least live, and probab ly M.. Americans. Five of the eleven Americans left two days before the town was evacuated, and reached Ciiliaenii, a message received by the Alvaradn .Milling & Hilling Co. here states. In addition tn these five, there remained in I'arral. acenrding tn the mining m the I Americans : .1 ib Mcvers. E. W'. Palmer, Will- lege in in Seoll, who is not the -on of llen- eral Hugh I.. Seolt, (ion. nil Senlt s son Merrill having left l'arial many i months liel'oie: Henry Sehafer. I!. I'. Cowell nliil llr. Thomas Flaliliagan. However, llie oi'lieinls of llie Alva radn Mining company think it is pos sible that Flaiinagan made the trip to Culiai'iin with the party in charge of Leslie Webb, who lett on Novem ber '-'. The (lennaiis said to have been m the I'arral district when Villa look po-scssion of the town were: I.eo pnldo, Adolplin and Carlos Iwniisky. brothers: iTIiemlore lloemuller. E. Stierlin of Santa Harbara. n suburb of I'arral: Dr. Hugo Sehrneder. Ilen- I ST. I'.U'I,. Minn.. Nov. 1 S. The! LONDON, Nov. 18 British at , complete official vole of -Minnesota, tacks last night resulted In further , tn0 ,f n was maile to read that neither I announced today, by Keerelary ol ; progress for Oeneral Hum's troops In u1(, Htato nor any tax-levying district State Julius A. Kehmahl. save Hughes ! the field or their new offensive niove a plurality of 3!Hi. 'I'he vote was j nicnt north of the Anere bruok. 'Hughes, 17!),.",.",:!: Wilson. 17:), 157. j Striking northeast from lleaiiniont- The complete official vole on Cull- llaniel and north rroni lleaurourt, the ed States senator was: i llritish pushed buck the (lerman lines Kellogg, republican. 18.1.171; Law-1 In each case, London annoiiiices lo 1 lr-r, democrat. 117,5 1:1: Calderwood. ; day. The Cermans countered with ! prohibition. 7SJ-I',. Kellnkk's pin- their artillery, heavily shelling Ilcull ' rality G7. Hi's. 1 mont-llamel and turning their guns Tho final complete vote of su- also on llebutcrne. and Los Angeles counties will total about 23u when the official returns there are completed. This would ' leave Wil.-'on's lead in the state 37.14. o Precincts Thrown Out. j Secretary of State Jordan announc-, ed that he had requested the Itepuh- Mean and Democratic stale chairmen! to send representatives to Sacramento I to watch the official tally there and j to assist his men in compiling the fig- j ures. He is anxious to have all par-1 owing! ties satisfied, when lie certifies the official returns lo the electoral col- i preme court justice: j Anderson. 1 .12. 1 87; CJninn. ' 34 S. Quinn's plurality, .1,1111. I At lliachcs. south nf the Snmine. 1.17,-! near Peronne, the Germans attacked ;the French lines, but according to ' Paris, were repulsed. ! The t'lnnk inc operations of the Ser bians have brought them lo a point In the heights northwest of Iven, due east of Monastir. On the south. and that Is the principal agitation today In Washington the success end failure of the different remedies employed hy the rederal government in meeting the question has been re viewed by the officials of the various departments with the result that one method of price control has been found to show beneficial results, namely. control by gov "iniuent com petition. The pare us post went Inlo compe tition Iih the express companies ar.d the lvxult was beneficial to both the public and the express companies. The former got a real reduction in V.arce'. prices with vastly Increased facilities, while the express compan ies awoke from their lethargy and ileveloned an enormous new lino of !:nsim.ss so that the past year showed a profit of 31)1) per cent.- Meantime It was found that regu lation l.y investigation has tailed, as lor Instance in the Investigation of t'.'ij'd pri-es two years ago, four yparV ago and eight years ago by tho de partment of labor stultstics, the de partment nf justice and a special com mittee appointed by congress. . An other instance Is Hie recent Inquiry In the state can raise more money one into I he increased cost of gasoline Tiy year than It raised the preceding year, the fedoral trade commission. I. ensue, passed by the people nt the recent flection, has put tile state, as well as many counties and niunieipall t'e In a bad predicament, Is shown by the following letter to The Mall Tribune from Stale Treasurer Thom as II. Kay. who shows ttiat the meas ure prohibits the unto from spending wlihin seventeen per cent of what It spent a year ago: To the Editor: Inasmuch as there has been 'Con siderable discussion pertaining to Ihe i; per cent tux limitation bill, which was lately passed, I desire to make known my position on Ibis measure. 1 opposed this hill before the elec tion, on the ground that It did not apply as was Intended by lis makers, and under Its provisions the state could not raise within $583,000 of as much next year as was intended It. should raise by Ihe makers of the bill. Object of .Measure. The object of tho bill was to pro vent the state or a.ny Uix-dovylug disc tili t In the slate from spending more money one year than it had spent the preceding year, plus li per cent, but plus (i per cent, which Is quite a dif ferent proposition. Note the differ ence between the word "rnlsed" and "expended." For Instance, the state of Oregon required to pay the run ItcguliiMon by Slierumn anti-trust law prosecutions lias also-failed, us shown by the government's success ful prosecution of the Standard Oil and other trusts. The canvass in San Francisco and Los Angeles counties is proceeding slowly. In a few precincts in both counties the commissioners have dis ecvered small errors which led the republican or democratic watchers to (Continued on Page Six.) 7,I7H in Wisconsin. MILWACKKK. Wis., Nov. IS. Charles Evans Hughes carried Wis consln in the recent election hy n plu rality of 27.178 voles, over President French are in the outskirts of Kan Wilson, according to practically coin-; ena. five miles from Monastir. plete returns. Only In two or three; countries are llie returns Incomplete j IH'CH AIIKST, Nov. IS. The inl and these are estimated. : maiiians have made considerable pro- For Cniteil Stales senator, Hobert 1 gress on the Transylvanian front In M. LnFolletle, republican, has a pin- j the region of Dragoslnvele, Ihe war rnlity or 113 111s over William F. : office announced. Wolfe. I i llKliLIN, Nov. IS.- Efforts of Itu- Swedish Steamer Sunk i manians to hurl back the German LONDON. No. IS. - l.ho'iEs Ship-! troops in Hitniaiiia. northeast of Cam ping agency anlioilli 1 that Hie I ' eie u-o.o-m ,.,. j Swedish sleiiincr 'fiiva, ol 'J-Jilli Ions j war nttice announced, with heavy 'gross, is believed lo have been sunk. ' losses to the attackers. ' SALEM, Ore.. Xor. IS. Over 300 prisoners at the Oregon state peni tentiary crowded into the meeting of the state board of control in the prison auditorium yesterday and de manded the resignation of Deputy Warden !.. C. Sherwoodi it became known here today. The men left their work In defiance lo Sherwood's orders that they go to their cells. When they refused Sher wood pleaded with the board to give them on audience, saying he feared a riot. THREE HUGHES, THREE VIEWS, THREE WATERL0OS (Continued on Page Six.) i i imiufi I IAIL KLTLKtliUUlVI ! ON ADAMSON LAWj AM- 1. ,s Alii WASHINGTON', Nov. 18. A refer endiini of the country'fl trade bodies in the railroad situation will be j ordered by the National Council ofj the t'nited States Chamber of Com-J merce. members attending a Special t meeting of the council said here to- day. The meeting was called to dts i uss the Adainson eight-hour law from the standpoint of Hie nation's I UsIllCsS interests. The referendum Is considered ne 'essaiy to get fuller opinions of business concerning govern inrnt ownership and other questions. 5 iK 'VX ning expenses of Its departments and I Regulation by federal control of institutions for the year I'.Hti. $:',-1 railroad frelglit rates has failed: See inn oon. In addition lo money raised the genernl railroad situation with from Indirect sources. The state car-1 particular attention to the five per rled over an unexpended balance from J cent Increase In freight rates grant 11111, of $.110. niH), and after deduct-: ed by the interstate commerce, com ing this amount from the anioiitit re- mission, and the prospective Increase quired, namely $3. 1 oit.Oilo It raised : promised by President Wilson, if but ir.u.uiiU for liili't. although it ) necessary to talie care of the eight spent $3,on,Oiio. Now, under the j hour day for railroad trainmen, provisions of this constitutional Regulation by state laws and state amendment, the slate can raise but 0 commissions has fulled as proved by per cent more than $:..1'IIMiiiii next(the recent Increases In the prices of year, or $.703,(in0, which Is $4U0.-1 bread and milk. Oho less lliun the amount expended In i This about covers the ground. Agl lli Id. ( ot Inn and threats of litigation may Admitted Ignorance. j temporarily check local and Individ Mr. Hubert Smith, secretary of the ; mil extortions, but the fundamentals Taxpayers' League, which body draft- of relief are found only In Ihe one In ed this bill, admitted, ill a discussion, j stance of regulation by the use olj wilh nie tieforo the Chamber of Com-1 government competition, merce in Portland, on Monday, Octo-1 her 2D, Hie cuniinltiee did not know, when drafting this measure, that thoj state had curried over a balance of, $r,,10,iiiiii Into this year's budget, i Therefore. Hie thought they were, placing Hie stale on nu equality Willi other municipalities by permitting it lo raise for 11)17 as much as it spent ! in linn and II per cent more, which j ASIIIMi I ON. Nov. 1H. The . would lie $:i.l0n,iiiiii plus li per cent, I weal her prediction.. ,ir the week be or $3,2811,0011, wbb h is $183. nun ' ginning Sunday. is-,.d by the more than II actually can raise under j eiitlier bureau i,iny. are: the provisions or the bill. As proof lioekv lain and plaleait rcg- of Oils, Mr. Smith, secretary of Ihe i ion-; I'a ir ami model ale temperatures Taxpayers' League, said In his argil, j "I beginning ol the week, followed hy ment In the voters' pamphlet, re-' un-cl I led weal her ami probable local -tiow t, in,--, lay : lair and colder weather niter, I'acilie sillies; I'llseftled, : Willi general rains in north l'acitie states j and iioiibcin California. Tcmcra- lure- moderate. (Continued on Page Five.) 10 VII COASTi IVtl-JMr- il'- th(' II.UIM', I h iuihv tin- tiitiH', ll-il it'- IIiilIu-- the Itl.-t-l, Their'.- Cti;i-. Kvnn ' Well. Id' "nt llU !!- Winn Wil-iMi, hi- riwtl, riinie )lnuin in. CMAl?UtV JZ S:ipi llnu -- f- jirudlu-i', i'.ill Alnni thr (i1mt, rut'- lienn 'J'fi-y !.-( in tl'itr wwU m' ;ti'MMTr.' ; S;iin, rhicl i. ( 'jiljnltji(l II;il!'-tiit!!lfM nillltidliirn, Iti -i'jIH'il W lli'll lie 1MI ierl tin in?. Cill II. . Ill!''ih i-lir-r I'M- rrjrrl iu i-i 1 ton : Xitey iiim v iihtme Ihe lihieli Itiil Ihe rri-'ii nut v he Ihiit Tiny ale 1 1 1 1 r I j - in ti.inn- ninl il ei ipthrii. !(, I HAN KUAM'ISCO, Nov. I l'n si- flt iit Wllsun teloKriipiieil It. A. Cruih r im, editor nit publisher of the San I'rnnelseu litllletili. lodiiv I lilt I p-et-1 ore of piibllr lulies woitlil not per eilt a vIMl to Sun Kmnelrn unil the Mii If ie const at Oils time Mlhoui.h he "hopptl for Kiieii h telrasc hh will rjnil'le me to clve mvne!f I ho pleasure j of Kin h a trip." Mr. Oolhers ha'l Invite. I Ihe prtU .1 Mil on the rar of Californin's Wil- (Jtl VOlP. WASItlXdTON, Nov. IS. Ah the ir-iill ul' Ihe ilrri-ii'ii In iiwuirl eftn iraets ur 1 1 mi i- luU!le-hip-. nnil six- jleen e-t ni.vt'i to privjtle linililetv. Ihe navy ilepurltueiil prolijiliiy Will -pern) ii,uini,HMU nvaihilile Tor iu prnvemriit n" government plants on llie navy nir at riiilailelphin tln Xorl'ulki ' ...