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"WEATHER Maximum yesterday, 51 ; minimum today, 23; precipitation, .01. FORECAST Tonilit and tomorro w, fair and light frost tonight Torty-Htxth Year. Ually -Eleventh Year. MEDFOUD. OREOOX, FRIDAY, MAHCTf 10. 1917. NO. 304. th.istj . m VMwn r. n APPEALS TO PATRIDTISWI OF STRIKERS President Wilson Appoints Mediators - Memhers of Cabinet and of Coun cil of National Defense and Sends Personal Appeal to Representatives of Both Sides Urging That They Do Everything to Co-Operate With Mediation Committee. WASHINGTON, March lti. Presi dent Wilson Into today Kent n per sonal appeal to the representatives of the two sides in the railroad contro versy urging that they do everything possible to co-operate- with the me diation committee. President's Appeal. The president's appeal follows: "I deem it my duty and right to appeal to you in this time of national peril to open again to the question? at issue between the railroads and their operatives with a view to ac commodation or settlement. jWlth my approval, a committee of the Council of National Defense is about to seek u conference wlih you with that end In view. "A goneral interruption oj the railway traffic of the country at tills lime would entail a dangor to the nation which I have the right to enter my most solemn and earnest protest. "It is now the duty of every pa triotic man to bring matters of this sort to Immediate accommodation. The safety of the country against manifest perils affecting Its own peace and the peace of the whole world makes a convention absolute ly imperative and seem to me to render any other choice or action In conceivable." WASHINGTON, March 16. the Council ot National Defense, includ ing several cabinet members nt n ak'etinjr hero today took up the flirentcned nation-wide railroad strike and it was indicated that some action looking to a prevention of the strike miht lie taken. The aclion decided upon was to have Secretaries Lane and Wilson nnd Daniel Willard and. Samuel Gompers, members of the advisory commission of the Council of National Defense, confer at once with repre sentatives of both sides. This action was expected by the president nnd his advisers to nvert the strike. Ask Postponement, Secretary Baker announced after the cabinet meeting that the Council f National Defense, with the ap proval of President Wilson, had de cided upon this step. Arrangements for conferences with the representa tives of the two sides will bo made nt once. The mediators, spcakintr for Presi (Continued on Pago Eight.) DEFINE ATTITUDE WASHINGTON, March 16. Five Latin-American governments have ac cepted In principle a formal sugges tion from Ecuador that delegates from the republics of North, Soith and Central America, assemble im mediately for the purpose of "tak ing necessary measures for securim; In continental expression principally for the guarantee of the rights of neutrality and It Is possible for the al leviation of the rigors of war." Additional acceptances are expect ed soon by the government of Ecu r.dnr. The United States has not lnl cat ed Its attitude toward the confer ence. It Is known that at least one of the larger South American repub lics will follow whatever course the I'nited States pursues. GENERAL VIEW OF PETROSRfltV RHnwrG ADMIRALTY B SUPPLY OF F Muriford nnd the Kuguu rivur vnl Iiy will be forced to depend upon pro- diwts raised nt lnme nnd upon those; brought in by e.'iprcss imcdrdin to, Iofnl food dealers it' the embargo an nounced by the Southern Pacific con tinues in cft'eet. The embargo order stales that no perishable freight will be accepted that will not reach its destination bv noon tomorrow. Freight not perishable is being ac cepted subject to delay. lhe plans for a walkout as staled in news dispatches this morning will not stop service in the Western sec tion until March 21. Before that time a large quantity of foodstuffs is ex pected to be moved at the consigner's risk. Following the stopping of freight traffic, local dealers htate that if necessary to protect local customers, they will bring in food products by express. The Vnion Meat Co., branch at Mcdford will suffer most heavily from a freight embargo as they bring here from Portland in average of 80(H) pounds per week, smoked and cured meats and lard comprising most ot the shipments although some froh meat is also shipped in. An embargo will prnbably stiffen the local poultry market as San Fran cisco where most of t lie local poultry is shipped consumes quantities of middle western poultry. Jn event that supply is cut off the demand for western poultry will be greatly increased. Egg prices, in event of a rail tieup will probabyl drop, as San Francisco and Portland, which absorb the local output both ship great quan tities east ; Porthihft to Miho and Montana and San Francisco to Xe vada and Arizona. ' Local stores will be out of fresh vegetables, except t hose raised lo cally, by the first of the week, accord ing to the Med ford Fruit Co. Bana nas also will be off the market nt that time. The company is well stocked with potatoes and other heav ier commodities which will bold out fr a considerable time. .A telegram was received by C. ('. Chapman, man ager of the company this afternoon, stating that a ear of fruit and vege tables ordered from San Francisco, will not be shipjH'd until the embargo is lifted. 1 FALL ON WESTGATE LONDON, March 16. The war of fice announces that at fi:30 today a hostile airplane dropped homhd on I W'estgate. There was no 'casualties a a ft the material damftze reported t was sligM. Wen sate I about SO I Miles from London. E LONDON, March Hi. A portion of the town of Bakubah, on the right bank of the Diala river about thirty miles northeast of Bagdad, lias been occupied by the British, it was an nounced in n report received today from (icncrnl Maude, in command of the British Tigris forces. The Turks continue to fall back on the right bank of the Tigris. PKTIiOCIiAI), March (. Kassiau troops have dislodged the Turkish forces from their fortified positions on the summit of Narlcshkian, to the west of Kermansbah, in northwes tern Persia, says an official state ment issued today by the Kussian war department. BFIiLlN, March lti. An attack with strong forces was begun by French troops on lhe Macedonian front yesterday in the region of Monaslir. Today's beadqiiiirters re port says the, French entered ad vanced trenches at one point, but otherwise were repulsed. II KILLED By I BOSTON, March 10. Two persons were killed by an explosion in the Suffolk county court house today. The explosion occurred in a wash room on the second floor of the building. A hole was torn In the floor. A police official said it was tho explosion of a bomb. The police admitted that their pres ent theory was that there had been a preiiu'.turo explosion of a bomb or bombs while In the hands of two men who were carrying them to tho court house with murderous Intent. TIiIh theory would place the responsibility on the Men who were killed. The two dead men were believed, from pieces of their clothing picked up, to have been soldierB. Judge Loring was holding a ses sion of the superior court In a room adjoining that In which the explos ion occurred. N KV YUKK, March lb As one of the first steps to deal with tin disorganization of transportation, which will be caused by the railway strike, the national conference com mittee of railway managers has in formed the individual railroads that an embargo on all peri-bable freight is adi-id!e. UILDING IN FOREGROUND AND WINTER PALACE NOW IN POSSESSION OF REVOLUTIONISTS. STRIK ORDER REPUDIATED ON SOME SYSTEMS Withdrawals From Bri,l!ierhootl An nounced On Many Railroads Do Not Consider Grand Chiefs Have Power to Call Out Men Without First Submitting Matter to Vote. XKW YOliK, Miirdi 'flip one humlifd (iiMioial fhniniii'ii of the ti otli(". li(ioIs of I lie eustiTii linos met here (winy to urrane details fur the slrike culled for Saturday. The managers were informed lh;'.l the engineers on the Santa T'e system had wired Iheir fjrnnd chief they Iiud withdrawn and would refuse to ohey the strike order. The conductors and eiifjinecri on the St. Louis imd Southwestern have withdrawn, according to wend reach inj; the managers and on the III .imis Central lhe firemen have announced Iheir intention to withdraw. "I don't believe it," said (T. II. Sines, vice president ot the lirothcr hood of Trainmen, when lhe man agers' reports of wthdrawals were culled lo his attention. "Tim lust re ports we hail from St. Louis anil the railroads entering Ihcre showed the vide there for a strike was solid." Jlr. Lee, when informed of the re ports, discredited Iheni. lie insisted that all the men who look the slrike vole would stand by it and strike. l'eporls received from various parts of the con'drv by lhe railroad mannfrcrs indicated', they declared, organized withdrawal by some of the roads' employes from the brother hoods' agreement to strike. Ifeporls declared to have been re ceived from roads in the east and south were that the engineers nnd conductors did not con-idcr the i;rand chiefs had authority to (rail out the men without fir-t siibmiltine; the strike question t" a new vote. nio EMBARGO ON FOOD WASH LVGTO.N", March 1 fi. The American government has nmdo a f irthor reply to General Carranza's proposal to embargo shipments of 'o&u and munitions to the European toKgeren rj as a means of brlnRtntf rface. , it will not be made puMir o".Il after it haH reached Mex'-o f "itv . T:ie Inked States has declined to taKe any such action. Ki'jS.-"" ArZr ENTERS RENO BY SAM KIIAKCISCO. Mirfcli,10. President C. 'M.Levev ot tho Western Pacific railroad nnouncec; today (hut the Western Pacific will gain entry to Reno, Nov., in competition with the Southern Pacific by purchaso of 10o miles of tho Ncvada-Callfornla- OrcKon railroad. Tho California rail road commission will be asked to sanction tho deal whereby the West ern Pacific will acquire the N. C. O. line from llaekstaff, California to Heno, a distance of fifty-five miles and forty miles of road between Blalrsden through Chileoot to Plumas Junction, negotiations for which aro underway. The Nevada-Callfornia-Oregon lino extending from Lakcview, Ore, to Heno, has been mentioned In connec tion with tho Western Pacific as a pOHslhlo route by wlwci the Hill In terests could outer California. Slor.X KALLS, S. f., March US. A March snow slorm, which in many places reached the intensity of a bliz zard, was general over Soulb Da kota last nijjht ami today. A hi;;h jrale accompanied the snow. Tem peratures throughout lhe siate were moderate and little suffering is re ported. Kail traffic throughout the state as well as all other travel, is se riously demoralized. Moc-L of the roads running into Sioux Kalis have cancelled all schedules until their lines can be opened with snow plows. Hcports fnmi lhe western and central portions of the state indieale a com plete suspension of tram service. Over the western section, the storm was the worst of the winter, accord ing to reports received here. The snow fall here reached nearly a fool early today. Street ear and all vehicles were at a standstill. HEAVIEST SNOW PALL IN UTAH'S HISTORY SALT LAK 15 CITY, March Ifi. Tho heaviest snow storm In the. his tory of Utah, according to United States Wenther Forecaster A. If. Thlessen, completely paralyzed city traffic, today. Twenty Inches of snow have fallen In the InH ?,( hours, . - v- ..-iis-v. ." ...... "Hj4ii5' 5nK.4'",V' - s.'. "l . . . 'j WW i:AK?i; oft" US AT KL PASO, Tex., March lft. lr- fial (.Viufirmation of the massacre of the employes of the Maistrti mint1 at Ml Oro, Duraiitfo, imdudinir Luis Seif;Ier, and Charles Winn, Ameri cans, has been received here by of ficials of ti mining company in the Magistral district. A Mexican em ploye reached the border last night from Ml Oro and said Seller, Winn and the Mexicans from the Magistral had gone to Ml Oro for safely and were surrounded by bandits when the messenger fled to the border. A band of rebels entered Ml Oro seven days ago, be said, but were driven off by the Mexicans led by Seigler and Winn. The bandits re turned the same night with on0 men he said, and surrounded tho bouse where the Americans were. Winn and Seigler were fighting from the root of the house when he fled, the Mexi can said, ami he believed tliey and Die Mexicans had been killed. Seigler's homo was in Chicago and Winn's in Pittsburg, according to the officials of I he company here, ul Ihoiih both have been in Mexico many years. Seigler was stipe rin tcndenl of the Magistral mine nnd Winn elect ricinn. KILLED BY VILL1STAS Kl PASO, Texas, March 10. Jone Maria Klores, u guldo and Interpre ter for Ucnoral Pondilng In Mexico, was executed near the Hublcora ranch In western Chlhuuhiia recently by Julio Acosta, a Villa leader, because of htB friendship for tho Americans, an American frori llatdcora reported on his arrival here today. A compan ion of Klores also was executed. ML PASO, Texas, March 10. Ilu mors of a new political alignment In Mexico with General Alvaro Obro- gon leading the opposition to Gen eral Carranza and the do facto g eminent have been In circulation here and In Juarez for tho past hours, having been brought here from the Interior by Mexican and for elgn refugees. Hi DUKE Ill AS TO LEAD ARMY Russian Revolution a Complete Suc cess Vigorous Prosecution of War Assured Czar Has Not Abdicated Yet, But Must Michael Regent Duma and Zems to Co-Operate In Restoring Normality of Life of Empire Food Problem Solved. .ONUON, March 16. Official ac tion by Great Ilritatn, France and It- nly In recognition of the provisional Kovorn incut of Russia, was taken in Potrograd yesterday, according to Router's Petrograu correspondent. LONDON, March 10. A. Reuter dispatch from Potrograd says that the emperor Is expected to arrive at the Tsarskoe-Selo palace and that several regiments with artillery are hastening to tho same place. LONDON, March 16. Tho abdica tion ot Emperor Nicholas and the appointment ot Grand Duke Michael as regent has not yet been carried Into effect, though It has been decid ed on by the executive power, Andrew Donar Law, chancellor of the ex chequer announced today In tho house of commons, - ; AiTONtlng Police. LONDON, March 10. A Pctrogrnd dispatch says that soldiers there were still enframed today in rounding up lhe police, thousands of whom have been imprisoned. All the polico stations have been destroyed or sacked nnd all .suspected houses searched l'or nmmunilion and amis. This dispatch reports that a train carrying Kmperor Nicholas was held up by soldiers. Tho empress is said to bo in n hysterical condition, while the crown princo is siil'fcrinjj from an attack of either mensels or scar let lever, l'riees jf provisions in l'etroftrad have fallen greatly. Nicholas to Command. I.ONIXXV, March 16. The Grand Duko Nicholas Is reported in a Reu- ter's dispatch from Petrograd to have reached tho Russian capital, probably to tako command of the troops. Grand Duko Nicholas, idol of the rtuslun army, and ranked as Russia's greatest master strategist, looms up as the big military figure of tho hour in tho cniplro which has just wit nessed a successful and almost blood less revolution and the abdication of Its omporor. Tho relinquishment of the throne by Nicholas II automatlcaly depriv ed him of IiIb rank as commander In chief of tho Russian armies. The heir to tho throno Is an InTant and Grand Duko Nicholas, named as re- (Continucd or. Page Eight.) LONDON, March 1(1. In discus. in' the Irish situation in tho house of commons today, Andrew lionnr Law, chancellor of the exchequer, declared the uttitucle of the nationalists might compel an appeal to the country on the ground t luifc lhe nationalists were wilting lo permit the government to get on with the war. Replying in the houso of commons today to a question of John Dilloh as to whether orders had been given lhe people of Dublin to remain in doors on St. Patrick's day, Andrew Ilonar Law, chancellor of tho ox chequer, said that Henry E. Duke, chief secretary for Ireland, had gone to that country. Mr. Bonnr Law said that he personally kne-v nothing about lhe matter, but would make inquiries.
