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The Weather
Maximum yesterday 76
Minimum today , t4
Predictions
Fair.
Dally Sixteenth Tear.
Weekly Fifty-First Tear.
MEDFORD, OKEGOX, SATURDAY, JUXE 4, 1921
NO. 64
MEDFORD
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REPORT PUEBLO, COLORADO
PRACTICALLY WIPED OUT
LOSSES ARE INCALCULABLE
Thriving Colorado City Swept by Raging Torrents and Entire
Eastern Part of State Reported Under Water Homes
Washed Away, People By Thousands Flee to High Lands
Fires Add to Horror All Wires Down, Render Accurate
Reports Impossible Succession of Cloud Bursts Cause of
Disaster A. P. Attempts to Reach Pueblo By Airplane.
Life Loss 1,500 to 3,000
PUEBLO, Colo., June 4. (By
the Associated Press.) The
loss of lire from the great flood
which came rushing upon the
city of Puehlo from the over-
flowing of the Arkansas and
Fountuin rivers last night, at
1:45 o'clock this afternoon was
variously estimated between
1,500 and 3,000 persons. The
property loss will exceed $10,-
000,000, according to estimate
made at this hour.
All the fires that were burn-
ing at daylight have been ex-
tinguished.
The loss of life was due to the
fact that the people did not take
warning. "
rUEBLO. Juno 4. Signals were
set out at six o'clock last night, but
duo to the fact that- the waters came
up with such suddenness, it was Im
possible for hundreds to escape.
The flooding of the Fountain river
early this morning made the situa
tion worse as it is supposed to have
caused a stilt greater loss of life.
Buggetlons have come from promi
nent citizens that the Immediate need
of Pueblo are tents, fresh water food,
bedding and milk for the babies.
For the past hour or so an air
plane has been circling the city, ap
parently seeking a lundlng place.
It Is believed to carry a correspon
dent of the Associated Press, .sent
tfrom Denver this morning.
DENVER, Colo., Juno 4. With the
latest report from Pueblo, which
however, remains unconfirmed, to the
effect that the death toll of the flood
which swept that city last night might
possibly reach several hundred, de
tails of the terrible havoc wrought by
cloudbursts through the eastern half
of Colorado began to come into Den
ver at noon today. From all over tho
stricken area, which embraces all
that part of tho state lying east of
the Rocky mountains, come reports of
homes washed away, peoplo by the
hundreds fleeing to high lands,
thousands of head of livestock drown
ed and millions of dollars damage
done to crops and property.
Just before noon a specal repre
sentative of the Associated Press left
Denver in an airplune in an attempt
to. reach Pueblo.
The damage caused by the flood In
Pueblo Is variously estimated, but tho
most authentic figures pluce it at
over two million dollars In tho rail
road yards alono nnd at more thVa
four millions to other property In tho
city. Tho railroad yards are a sea of
mud and slime, strewn with wrecked
box cars and railroad equipment.
Itnngcrg Take Charge.
The Colorado State Rangers, under
command of Colunol Pat Homrock,
have taken charge in the city to pre
vent looting and to establish as soon
ns possible temporary shelters for tho
hundreds of homeless people. The
greatest suffering is reported from
the Grove district, in Puehlo, a section
inhabited mostly by foreigners and
steel mill workers.
Wire communication with Puehlo
is being re-established slowly. Thus
CHESTER. ACCUSED OF
SOCIETY GIRL
KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 4. Dcn
sel Chester was acquitted by a Jury
here this afternon of the murder of
Miss Florence Barton.
The Jury was out only twenty min
utes. Judge Latshaw had gone out to
lunch and it took a few minutes to
locate him. when the verdict was
reached. Chester was brought into
the court room and entered- leaning
on a cane.
When the verdict had been read.
Chester, smiling broadly, walked over
and shook hands with the Jurors and
smiled ble thanks.
far tho telegraph and press wire ser
vice has been irregular and must of
the traffic over- the big commercial
company lines has consisted of state
official business. Denver officials
predict, however, a service close to
normal within 48 hours.
Rain was still falling this morning
In northern Colorado and southeast
ern Wyoming, but It had ceased in
other parts of the area. After what
is characterized ns the heaviest June
rain in this city in 20 yeurs last night,
Denver today is going about its busi
ness under murky skies. Weather
forecasts Indicate continued showers
for Denver and the eastern slope of
Colorado while unsottled conditions
are prodicted for the western slope.
The precipitation at Pueblo was
reported at 2.92' inches.
Denver and Rio Grande, train No.
3 turned over whilejitanding still a
few miles outsldo of" Pueblo, accord
ing to a report to tho rnilrond offices
here. Tho nceident was caused by
tho undermining of tho roadbed by
the flood. The cars went over slowly
and passengers nro all believed to
have escaped, without severe injury.
Colorado Flood Summary.
DENVER, Colo., Juno 4. -Reports
to tho Associated Press at Denver In
dicate the following conditions at
outlying towns:
At LaFayette Entire town under
two feet of water; many residences
and business buildings ruined: dnm
age heavy, communication cut off.
At Longmont Three feet of water
in Main street: -communication cut
off: breaking of irrigation ditches
principal cause.
At Berthoud Crops damaged and
business sections Inundated.
At Loveland Two reservoirs, the
South Side and tho Ryan Gulch, broke
this mornmg. The iiillshoro dam,
five miles east, also broke, the con
crete headgates being washed entirely
away. Ten thousand acres of farm
land near Johnstown are inundated.
Damage will run Into hundreds of
thousands of dollnrs. Colorado and
Southern railroad tracks washed
away.
At Marshall Big Marshall dam
still holding, but all residents In the
vnlely have been ordered to seek
places of safety.
At Superior Colorado and South
ern tracks washed out, citizens fled
to safety by menns of rowboats.
At reeley All eastbound trains on
Chicago, Burlington and Qulncy rail
road detoured on account of floods.
At Frederick Town under throe
feet of water.
At Dacona Railroad bridge wash
ed out.
At Boulder Interurbnn car service
to Denver paralyzed, impossible to
run cars for five or six days, accord
ing to C. W. Richards, agent for the
interurbnn system in Denver.
At Erie, Colo. Thirty houses
washed away. Citizens were given
warning of impending rush of water,
but declined to leave. Bridges ap
proaching town washed out nnd rail
road tracks in vicinity destroyed.
At Estes Park Threo major
bridges over Big Thompson liver
swept away. Automobile highways
partially ruined.
At Sterling Four drowned nnd
damage running over $1,000,000.
Floods receding In the district.
At nroomfield Motorists cn route
from Denver to Boulder caught In
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ACQUITTED BY JURY
When Chester had finished thank
Ing the jury, a deputy marshal led
him back to the county jail, where he
is held charged with jumping a bond
in a case in which he Is charged
with the theft of a motor car.
The charge was filed aguinst him
before Miss Barton, was shot.
Emory Trapp, roreman of the Jury
said the reason the 11 men had voted
to free Chester was that the state had
not shown a motive for the murder.
As the verdict was announced, a
cheer went up from the crowd wait
ing In the street outside the criminal
court building.
Wife Terminates a
Home Brew Party
By Shooting Hubby
YAKIMA, Wash., Juno 4.
William Gnffnoy is critically
wounded In the hospital here.
His wlfo, Ellen, udmits firing the
bullet, which lodged close to
his heart, after a "honi'e brew'
party last night. She says that
following a quarrel he left the
house and when he returned,
kicked in the door utter railing
to answer hor query as to who
was knocking.
"When he kicked in tho door
I don't remember 1 guess I
shot him," is Mrs. Gaffney's
statement.
BEATEN BY A
PRINCETON, N. J., June 4 Prince
ton defeated tho University of Califor
nia In their crew race today.
The winner finished one and one
quarter lengths ahead over the mile
and three-quarters course of Luke Car
negie. Princeton took tho lead from the
start, rowing a 42 stroke to Califor
nia's 43 In the first half minute of the
race.
At the half mile mark both crews
had dropped their stroke to 30. The
orange and black ourstnen wero then
lending by one quarter length.
At the three quarter mile murk- the
crews were still rowing a 3li stroke
with Princeton one third of a length
ahead.
Both crows had Increased their
stroke to 38 at the one and one-quarter
mile murk. Princeton was still lead
ing hut there was little water showing
between the shells.
California started a sprint a quarter
of a mile from the finish, each crew
then rowing a 40 stroke with Prince
ton leading by a scant length.
Princeton oarsmen wene getting
more power out of their stroke and
gradually pulled farthor ahead as the
finish drew near. They crossed one
nnd one-quarter lengths ahead of tho
visiting oarsmen.
WESTERN MEET;
2 NEW
STAFF FIELD, Juno 4. Illinois
won the western conference track and
field meet today. . The lllinl scored
01 points, Michigan 3fl4 points, took
second and Wisconsin placed third
with 2ii. Notro Dume placed fourth
with 21) points.
CHICAO. Juno 4. Ono record wns
broken and another tied In the
twenty-first western conference field
md track meet todny. Murphy of
Notre Dome won tho high jump nt
six feet, 2 7-8 Inches. The old mark
wns held by Carl Johnson of Michi
gan. Tho record of 0 . 4-5 seconds was
tied by Hayes of Notre Dumo, who
won the 100-yard run.
Another new record wns made by
Hoffman of Michigan, who threw the
javelin 178 feet, 4 inches. He also
held tho old record of 172 feet, 4
Inches.
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2 YEARS PRISON
W J. Boyd, ronvlctod of forgery
wna sentenced to two years In irlnon
this morning by Judge F. M. ('till; I tin.
Sontenre upon J'eter Ktrailff and
Frank Kodat, found guilty Friday on
nn Indictment charging burglnry of
the Gold Hill bank laHt April was d
frred by the court until next Wed
nesday morning.
Rrltton-Khnde right Draw.
PORTLAND. June 4. Dave Khude
California welterweight, fought ttn
rounds to a draw Inst night with Jack
Brltton, welterweight champion of
the world.
CALIFORNIA I
SCANT MARGIN
JOHN ILL
NEAR CLASH
WltB POLES
British Reinforcements Rushed
to Silesia Area Allied Com
mission Working Hard to
Avoid Clash Polish Avia
tor Executed for Giving In
formation to English.
OPPF.LN, Silesia, Juno 4. (Ily As
sociated Press.) Fighting between
Germans and Poles continues in the
vicinity of Schlniisc.how, about five
miles northwest of Gross Strohlltz.
The castle owned by Count Stuhwitz
has been burned.
Tho llritish are gradually reinforc
ing their troops in tho plebiscite zone,
bringing in fresh soldiors nnd many
tanks. Tho inter-allied commission
for Silesia is reported to be consider
ing the disposition of allied troops
here so that clashes between the Poles
nnd llritish muy, if possible ho avoid
ed.
WARSAW, June 4. (fly Associated
Press.) Lieutenant Henry lwanlckl,
of tho Polish flying corps, convicted
by court martial of high treason In
disposing of military secrets to llrit
ish agents, kwns .executed Friday by a
firing squad at tho famous Wnrsuw
citadel. ' '
Lieutenant lwanlckl, who was em
ployed at tho war office, and sovernl
othor Poles were arrested soon after
the speech delivered in the house of
commons by Mr. Lloyd George, the
llritish prime minister, In which he
criticized Poland for not preventing
the Upper Silesian insurrection. The
others are being held for trial.
KATTOWITZ, Silesia, Juno 4.(By
Associated Press.) Drastic stops have
been taken by leaders of Polish Insur
gents to prevent plundering. Firing
squnds are busy every morning and
several times recently six men have
been executed at ono time for variotiB
reasons.
In spite of the severe discipline, the
tho Poles continue rioting und are re
ported to have robbed food convoys.
A young German was captured near
this city yesterday and wus beaten to
death by tho Poles.
The food situation In the industrial
district near here Is serious. Thcro Is
no fresh meat and babies aro dying be
cause of luck of milk. No beer can he
secured, and because of tho insuffic
ient coal supply, lights are cut off at
eight o'clock at night.
National
At Chicago: It. II. E.
Brooklyn 4 9 2
Chicago 3 12 2
Batteries: Smith and Miller; Alex
ander, York and Daly, O'Farroll.
At Cincinnati:
Boston 5 10 0
Cincinnati ; 0 7 1
Batteries: McQuillan and O'Neill;
Luquo and Wlngo.
At Pittsburg:
New York 12 14 1
Pittsburg 0 14
Batteries: Douglas and Snyder;
Cooper, Morrison nnd Schmidt, Wil
son. American
At Boston R. II. K.
Cleveland 0 2 0
Boston 0 9 2
Batteries: Dngby and Thomas;
Jones and Huel.
At New York:
St. Louis 4 U 0
New York 9 12 2
'Butteries: Boland, Ilnyno, Pnlnicro
and Bevereld, Collins; Qulnn, Fergu
son, Shawkey and Schang.
At Washington:
Chicago 4 11 1
Washington 9 12 0
Batteries:. Wilkinson, Kerr and
Schnlk; Acosta and Gharrlty.
At Philadelphia:
Detroit 7 15 0
Philadelphia 5 8 2
Butteries: Khinke and Basslor
Rommel, Hasty and Perkins,
BASEBALL SCORES
Ex-Mob Leader Is
Columbia Graduate
With High Honors
NEW YOUK, June . Frank
Tun lien Im n m. 2S years old, one
time mob leader and radical agi
tator, was graduated from Col
umbia university this year 1141 an
honor student and won the key
of Phi lletu Kuppa. an honor
ary scholastic fraternity, it was
announced today. .
Tuunebaum, who served a
year In jail for leading a mob
imiilnst churches hero in HI 14
nnd scathingly denouncing all
laws when he was convicted, was
declared to have- discarded his
radical views.
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TILDEN WINS
OF THE WORLD
ST. CLOUD, Juno 4 (By Associat
ed Press. William T. Tllden of Phila
delphiu, the world's grass court tennis
champion, won tho world's hard court
tenuis singles championship here to
day, dofcating Washer of Belgium in
the finals In straight sets G-3, 0-3, (i ll
Tllden, in adding tho hard court
championship to his list of titles, calm
through tho tournament without at
uny tinio being really extended. The
Immense crowd which watched the
play today gave the champion an ova
tion such as never has boon given a
tennis player in Franco. It cheered
for fully five minutes uflor Tlldon's
beautiful pass down the side lines, out
of reach ot Washer as he plunged
toward tho net, won the match for the
champion. Tho Belgian throw both
hands in the air as a token of surren
der.
ST. CLOUD, Franco, Juno 4. (By
Associated Press.) Mile Suzanno
Lenglen nnd Mine. Guiding of Franco
won tho women's doubles world hard
court tonnls chaniplonBiilp today, de
feating Miss ilolmrtn nnd Mrs. Pen
cock of England In the finals 0-2, 6-2.
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SUNDAY AT 3.30
.;ni:F '
W.1 Lv'Chlldor's 'body has not yet
been recovered from tho Hoguo river,
but1 funeral services for Mrs. Child
era will be held Sunday at 3:30 p. m.
at the Rock Point cemetery, Hov. D.
A. Millard of Med ford officiating.
Although Coroner Perl nnd a corps
of volunteer assistant! searched all
day Friday nnd dragged tho river
and four men In boats continued to
drug the rivlr In tho vicinity of the
double drowning today, Mr. Chlldcrs'
body had not been located up to late
this afternoon.
Neither can the Ford car In which
tho couple want down he located, al
though special efforts In this line
huve been mado since the accident.
From this fuct and because the water
l) so roily and murky from tho re
cant heavy rains It is altogether like
ly (hat Mr. Chllders' body will not
bo located until tho wuter clears,
which may bo a mattor of several
days. For this reason tho relatives
decided not to wait any longer hut
to hold the funeral of Mrs. Childorg
Sunday afternoon.
Coronet Perl Is undecided yet as
to whether to hold an inquest by a
coroner's Inquiry into the cause of
the auto collision. He and all others
familiar with tho circumstances fool
thut K. II. Woodley of Grants Pass,
the driver ot tho truck, was not to
blame.
Thr truck was the Grants Pass
Medford freight truck not owned or
operuted by the Interurbnn - Auto
.company of Modford, of which Wil
liam IewlR Is manager
Wlrth Is Sustained.
BERLIN, June 4. ( By. tho Asso
ciated Press.) The relchtsag today
voted confidence In the government
of Chancellor Wlrth. The vote was
21.1 to 77, with 48 members not vot
Ing.
CHAMPIONSHIP
KOREA IS IRELAND
NIPPON
A FALL, JELARES RUSSELL
Charles Edward Russell, Famous Newspaper Correspondent,
Declares Nothing Good Can Come to Japan From Adoption
of Prussian Methods in Ancient Oriental Kingdom Jap
Fails Utterly in Comprehension of Foreign Psychology
Blood and Iron Methods Sowing Whirlwind of Hate and Re
taliationKorea Has Prospered Under Jap Control.
By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL
Special Correspondent of the Mail
Tribune.
(Copyright, 1921, by tho Mail Tribuno)
TOK10), June 4. Tho Japanese havo
many admirable trails. They are, as
a people, industrious, sober, frugal,
loyal, hospltablo and lu their own way,
kind. Thoy are good designers, good
builders, keen merchants, excellent
handicrafts men. Thoy organize read
ily anil well; they havo a good faculty
for discipline and co-ordination. Tho
sense of beauty Is strong among them;
they havo a natural Instinct for har
mony In form and color. Yet with all
this endowment, behold, ono good
thing has been denied to them. They
huve absolutely no gift of psychology.
In other things clever on adaptable,
in psychology they nro dubs, Infants,
bunglers. They may bo ablo to under
stand fairly well their own montal pro-1
cossos; they haven't so much as n
guess nt tho mental processes of other
people. Perhaps the centuries of her-
mltngo before the days ot Perry have
now their ungonlul fruit; perhaps
thero Is some other ronson. Anyway,
the defect is undeniable und sorioita;
inoio serious than might nt first ap
pear. Take the Japanese ways In Ko
roa as one oxamplo. They ure riding
for a fall there und never suspect It.
Done Well in Korea
If we lay nsldo all question of the
morality of tho manner of their get
ting It, no one can dony that tho Jap
anese, In all material ways, have done
well In Korea, und to It. Tho morality
of their getting it, by tho way, is not
different from tho morality tho wes
tern nations havo always displayed
when acquiring territory In the Orlont,
but that Ib something wo might well
take up another time. Tho first point
now is thut when tho Japanese came
to Korea It was almost lnconceivubly
sunk In physical, moral, mental, na
tlonul nnd Industrial decline und Jap
an has boon its marvelous tonic and
rehabllltntor. Under the stimulus of
contuct with a raco of hardier and
sterner virtues tho Koreans have lost
their riaccldlty and come back to a
standard not unworthy of their his
tory; for they aro among tho most an
cient nnd distinguished of peoples.
The Jupanoso have revived agricul
ture, cxtendod it, Improved It with un
nstonlshlng Increaso of production.
Thoy have built roads whore wore no
roads boforo, opened new territory,
facilitated communication, romnde life
for tho bulk of tho inhabitants. They
found a country without a recognized
or uniform currency, with no adequate
system ot hanking or of business, no
security for life or property, practical
ly no schools and so far as a inator
ialist could see, no hope. Thoy Intro
duced uniform currency, hanks nnd
business order, security, quiet, meth
od, a complete system of courts and
lustlco. civilization in tho place of
prlmltlvo barbarism.
Thoy introduced schools, they
brought In Ideas of sanitation nnd pub
lie henllh. Seoul, for Instance, the
capital of Korea, used to ho one of tho
filthiest places on earth. Tho Japanese
havo mnrveloiisly cleaned It, paved It,
351 CHILDREN IN ONE PUBLIC SCHOOL
NEVER HEARD OF 10 OMMMfflffi
(By International News Service)
N1CW YORK, Juno 4. District At
torney Lewis, speaking before the
South Congregational church, Brook
lyn, told of a recent test in a Brook
lyn school, mnde nt hW request, to
ascertain how many of the pupils
knew tho ten commandments.
Out of 1.373 children questioned
4!)9 did not know the commandments
nnd 351 children hnd never heard of
them. Asked to repeat the command
ments, some of the punlis gave these
The first commandment Is not to
shoot craps.
Don't marry.
Do not make lovo to your neigh
bor's wife.
OF JAPAN
ING TO
partly rebuilt It, reduced It to the reg
ularity nnd safety of a modern metro
polis. Prosperity Has Increased
All about the country they have
spread material blessings. Formerly
In the rural regions persons that by
thrift nnd Industry had managed to
gather a little money used never to
dure to live in accordance with their
means. To do so would bo to Insure
robbery. For the Bake of protection
all strovo to seem ns poor as possible;
inhabiting wretched, flimsy huts lest
brigands should suspect them of hav
ing something worth stealing. The soil
was very fertile no one dared to cul
tlvatb U to the limit. For roads there ,
wero only paths and trails. : -
When the Japanese came fewer than
ton per cont of tho Korean children,
had any chance at any kind of educa- -tlun,
public or private. There were all .-
told and of all kinds, 32 schools. Total ;
population 17,000,00032 Bchools. Ot
these 13 were public and .7 ..were i
schools conducted in foreign , lan
guages. By 1919 tinder Japanese manage
ment, there were In Korea 617 com- .;
moil schools, with nearly 90,000 en
rolled pupils. There were 18 . high
schools, 88 Industrial and commercial
schools, G special colleges and 749 pri-,
rate schools. Not satisfied with their,..
record the government had adopted a
plan to add 100 primary schools each
year for three years bo that the num
ber ot public common schools Is now
between 700 and 800 and the enroll
ment more than 100,000. The govern
ment had also planned the erection ot
a Korean university. , .
The cost of these great reforms has
not been saddled Indiscriminately
upon the people. The national trea
sury of Japan is contributing about
1,600,000 yen a year to higher educa
tion In Korea and for the rest the Jap
anese residents there are paying by
the household almost twenty times as'
much as the Koreans. .
Instruction In these schools Is In the
Korean language. The Japanese have
been accused ot a purpose to annihi
late this tongue and force everybody
to speak Jupanoso. They deny It and.
certainly no evidence exists that they
have any Idea of imitating the steam
roller methods that failed with the
Germans In Alsace and Lorraine, Jap
anese 1b studied In the Korean schools,
but bo fur as I could loam the Korean
language, history and - culture are
scrupulously respected.
Self Government Introduced
The Japanese have Introduced a
measure ot what thoy are pleased to
call self-government In Korea. I think
they are perfectly honest about It; to
their mind It represents a memorable
advance. Each province has Its pro
vincial council, two-thirds of the mem
bors of which are appointed by the
government from a list ot men chosen
by the voting of the members ot the
district. The members ot the village
municipal and village councils of that
councils are appointed by the district
magistrates and the members ot the
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Thero shall bo light.
The ten commandments weru the
ten amendments to the constitution.
Children must keep off the f tops r.t
strcot cars. , ,
Not to swear for anything... r .
Don't hitch on wagon?. . jj
Don't crook nnythlng. r-
Love thy neighbor's wife. ;
Don't swindle.
There shall be water.
Mr. Lewis declined to give the num
ber of the school in which the teBt
was made, but he declared it illus
truted tho need of some sort of moral
und religious training tor these chil
dren. . ,
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