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UNITKO PRIMS ASSOCIATION
Full Leased Wlro Report.
I'HM WICATIIICIt
Tonight mill lohiorrow- Fair
ninl vs turn.
Tho only papor In tho world
published In n city tho alzs of
Mod ford having a loasod wire.
FIFTH YEAR.
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1910.
No. 128.
fiVf'tt
GREAT FOREST FIRE RAGING
NEAR BASE ML M'LOUGHLIN
RANGERS MAY
NEED SOLDIERS
TO FIGHT FIRE
Flames on Ashland Divide Still Ratio
Unchecked Dcsnlto Efforts of 100
Men FIro at Mosquito Swamp
Worst In Local Of Ice's Experience
Willi forest fire raging on tlio
Ashland divide, which J 01) desper
ately figh'ting men huvo licmi iiiiuhlu
to control iih yet mill with J (100 ncrcn
hiirnctl over near MosiiuitH Hwaitip
anil tho 11 ro still unchecked despite
tho efforts of tliu range it may bo
that troops will ho that troops will
ho called to chock tho fliuncH. The
fircH are spreading rapidly ami lr a
change (loon not como noon it in not
unlikely that troops will ho reticst
cd. Tho local office Htill holiovcH that
tliey havti tho situation whoro it can
ho oontrolod hut if it spreads uiiich
further thou, may ho forced to ask
aid.
Tho fires hack of Ashland con
tinue to hum today and the force
fighting the flamoH has lieeu in
croiiHcil. TIii'h firo luiri not yot ronch
od government timhor hut h up
preaching it.
The situation near the base of .Ml.
McLotighlin is the one that in giv
ing tho finest ry hoyH trouhle. So
far it iH raging unchecked.
The local field division of the for
estry di'pnitmeut is having the time
of its life controlling tho numerous
fires springing l all directioiiH.
Some of them aro being drought
under control hut ahout tho timo the
tired ranger or assistant figures on
rusting himself after from -18 to 00
hours Imttliug with the flames ho iH
called to a fire, most likely in the
other end of his district mid repeats
the performance.
Tlio principal fires are ahout the
huso of .Mt. McLaughlin. The fires
nhoiit Mosipiito Kwwnmp and Kour
Bit creek, are still raging, mid a now
one, on tho divide between Fish Lake
oefund Lake O' the Woods, on the
line of the canal being built by the
Hogitu River Canal .company, was
reported by Ranged Wright lust, night.
Supervisor Hrlckson had loft
Wright at Luko of tho Woods that
morning, making for Four-MUo mid
Four-lilt ford on foot, as their horses
had escaped during tho night. Act
ing Supervisor .Swooning oxpocto to
hoar from Mr. Erlckuou by phono
from Mosquito Bwamp this nftor
noon and Imvo more data on tho flro,
willed Is one of tho largost In tho his
tory of tho local forestry department.
Over 1000 acres have already boon
burned over.
Forest Clork Shannon loft Wed
nesday afternoon to Invoatlguto tho
Wagner and Coloman crook fires.
HEY BACK:
MUCHPLEASED
1). F. Mulkoy, Insurgent cmulldato
for congress In tills district, has re
turned from n trip north and statos
that ho Is much ploasod with the
reception accorded him In tho dis
tricts north,
"Everywhere I received assur
ances of support," states Mr, Mul
key. "InsiirKoiiey hns ninny friends
lu Oregon men who oppose maohlno
ruled politics."
Mr, Mulkoy loaves soon for Coos
Hay to meet his frloudu lu that sec
tion, Frank Rcilil broke n hundred
straight in practice ulioqt lust year
and next day hud lost his oyo. Tues
day ho broke II) out of fill in prnelico.
"The hoodoo is gone," said nu ad
miring shooter. "If ho had brokon
Uioko 50 straight it would huvo boon J
tho snmo us last year,"
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I WITH THE MUNICIPAL FOLK 1
I' '' I I II , i ml
UP TO WORTMAN
TO GET TANK DOWN
It's now up to Harry O. Wort
man, councilman from tho Second
ward, to boo that tho old wator tow
er, which has stood for years and
Horvod the city as a wator supply, Is
wrecked. His fellow councllmou put
It unreservedly lu Ills hands liutt night
and told him to go nftor It.
And he's going.
Today ho Is looking for a man
who will undertake tho job. Tho
city dads figure that tho material
mid tanks In tho top of tho tower
will bo worth tho work of carrying
them away. They wero thoroforo
somuwhnt Jolted Inst night, when
tliey opened bids and found that
Shasta mid Anient wanted $500 for
tho Job while Fltz and Grace offor
ed to do It for S237.G0. Hoth bids
wero rejected. Tdon Wormian was
given tho Job.
As a matter of fact, tho old tow
er Is worth hauling away for tho
material and probebly Mr. Wortman
will have no trouble In getting a man
to do It.
COUNCIL TO .MUI5T CLAltK.
City IhuU Will Meet at .1 o'clock
Tills Afternoon.
Tho city council will meet tills nft
ornoon at 5 o'clock with W. It. Clark,
senior member o( the Clark & Hon
ory Construction company, for tho
purpoBo of arranging tho paving pro
gram. It appears at thlo tlnio that tho
company will bo unable to comploto
paving this scr-son, but much of it
will bo hold ovor until noxt season.
It Is for tho purposo of choosing tho
noxt streets to worgk upon tdnt tho
meeting this afternoon was called.
Jirt'll ROUTINE BUSINESS.
Council Considers Much HunIiicsn, Im
portant but of Houtlim .Nature.
Much business of a purely lonttno
nature was consl dored by tho city
council last evening.
Tho Home Telophono company was
given back tholr chock of $1000 do
posited to guarantoo $2500 worth of
work lu six months, tholr contract
(Continued from Papo 4.
SHERIFF BATTLES
Falls Fatally Wounded But Before Losing Consciousness Kills One of His
Asallants Fight Comes Quickly But Sheriff Holds His Ground
Without Flinching.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Aug. 17.--I
it a fight with three horse thieves tit
noon today in the yard of tho city
jail, Sheriff llotipt was wounded in
tho abdomen, but boforo losing cou
seiousues tho Sheriff killed one of
his assailants.
A posse in an automobile is pursu
ing the other bandits. (
Sheriff Houpt was fatally wound
ed and his brother, Sid, seriously
shot in tho buttlo with tho two thugs.
The man killed by the sheriff has
been identified us flcorge Chitwood.
Ono of the othor guuweilders, a
brother of the dead bandit, ii At
large.
The Chitwood brothers have been
sought by tho 'officers for some time.
Thin morning, without warning, tlioy
entered the office of sheriff Houpt,
hoth heavily armed, and surrendered
themselves Houpt culled a convey
ance and putting his two prisoners in
to it stinted to drive them to the
jail building. Suddenly Oeorgo Chit
wood pulled a rovolver from under
tho Bont of tho wagon, whore it had
evidontly boon couoonlod by n con
federate, nnd oponod JSro on. tho
PAR PAID TOR
MEDFORD BONDS
Hltls were poncd by the city coun
cil nt their regular meeting Tuesday
night for $32,750 West Mnln City
Improvement bonds. Tho bonds wero
nwnrded tlio Gorman-American Trust
company of Chicago who bid par and
accrued Interest.
Other bids wore received, but this
was considered tho best. It seems
that tho city's credit Is oxcollcnt for
the state of tho bond market Is any
thing but satisfactory, yet local
bonds tiro In demand.
Tho bonds wero a portion of an
Issue for tho paving of West Main
by the Warren Construction company.
.MUCH Hl'ILDI.Nf; EVIDENT
Severn! Iliilldlngs Come llcforv City
Council for Permit.
Testifying to the Largo amount of
building going on In Medford nt tho
present time, tho cfty council was
forced to dovoto considerable of Its
tlnio to tho consideration of plnns
for now buildings nt Its meeting on
Tuesday ovonlng.
Tho Hool Medford plans woro dis
cussed by tho city dadB and approv
ed. Tho necessary permit for Its
erection wns granted.
Tho Medford Nntlonnl bank ap
plied for a permit to erect an nddltlon
to their present building and had
tho request grnntod.
That tho Southern Pacific depot Is
soon to bo moved is testified to by
the fact that tl.o company applied at
last night's meeting for permission
to movo It two blocks south. The
permission wiib granted.
XKW SEWER DISTRICT.
City Engineer Instructed to Prcmrv
.Map or SUtli Street.
Work Is to start In tlio Immedlnto
futuro upon tho laying of a storm
sewer on Sixth stroot from Riverside
to Ivy stroot. Tho city onglneor wns
Instructed last evening to prepnro
a map of tho sower district.
Tho now storm sowor Is to bo laid
deep enough to drain any basomonts
which may bo constructed on that
street and will bo largo onougli to
carry off all storm wator.
WITH BANDITS
sheriff. Although at such close
range, his first shots went wild. He
and his brother lonpud from tho ve
hicl into the crowded street.
Still shooting at Houpt, the bandits
dodged through the seining crowd,
pursued by tho sheriff and his broth
er, Sid, who wns riding a horse
the streets.
The bullets from tho revolver of
on,o of tho fleeing men struck Sid
Houpt's horse, felling the animal and
tossing the pursuer into tho air. As
ho struck tho pavement, Qcorgo Chit
wood paused a moment in his flight
nnd fired point blank at tho pros
trate num. Tho bullet took effect
uud the sheriff's brother lay where
he had fnllcn.
Tho sheriff himsolf took advantage
of George Chitwood's nioniontnry
pause and , aiming carefully, shot
him down, killing him instantly. Chit
wood's brother, aided by the shoot
ing, succeeded inreaehing an unguard
ed stnblo, whore ho seized a horso.
Galloping through tho street, ho turn
ed in his sndlo nnd shot at Sheriff
Houpt, wounding him fatally. Thou
ho succeeded in escaping,
AMENTCA!
IS FINALLY
AT AN END
Over Four Thousand Typewritten
Panes of Testimony Taken More
Than 200 Instruments Introduced
in Evidence Consummed More
Time Than Any Case Ever Heard
In Southern Oregon
The enso brought by' the Chicago
stockholders of tho Golden Drift
Miirig company of Grants Pass
against the Anient family, who wero
in control of tho corporation, hns
just been concluded nt Grants Pass
after continued sessions which be
gan on tho sixth day of June.
This case consumed more time than
any other enso ever tried in the dis
trict, not excepting the famous rnil
rond tax ense against Jackson
county.
The record when typewritten will
cover more thnn four thousand
pages, nnd the expense of transcrib
ing; will exceed $300.
More than two thousand instru
ments were introduced in evidence ns
exhibits. This is in addition to the
depositions of ono hundred nnd
twenty-five stockholders now being
taken in the cast.
A Stock Deal.
From tho evidence in the case it
would appear that C.A W. Ament
enured 'he Golden Driti.Mining com
pany to be organized purely to reap
a harvest for himself and associates
from the sale of tho stock, for it has
been shown that almost immediately
after the organization of the corpor
ation mid before it had any earning
enpneity, ho caused dividends of one
per cent per month to be paid on the
stock bold. This stimulated stock
sales so that approximately seven
hundred people invested their money
in this corporation. When the stock
Miles quit tho company quit paying
dividends nnd this finally resulted in
an effort by the flock holders to in
vestigate the corporation.
Stockholders Organize.
They nrgnnized into mi associa
tion mid appointed an executive com
mittee, who sent George E. Sanders
to Grants Pass purely for investiga
tion, and without any knowledge up
on their part that the transaction
vii other than straight.
An investigation resulted in mi ap
plication for a receiver, and a re
ceiver was appointed and directed
to take immediate chargo of the
property and of the books and rec
ords of the corporation. Exports
were put to work on the books, inves
tigating the accounts and stock sales
and the various transactions, and the
result of this investigation was dis
closed in the latter part of the testi
mony which has just been concluded.
(Continued on Page 4.
KILLED IN YELLOWSTONE
Miss Ross noilgo slstor of J. B.
Hodgo of Klnmnth Falls, and War
ren Hodgo of Medford, was Instantly
killed by bolng thrown from a ruu
awny coach In tho Yollowstono park
on AugiiBt 7. Miss Hodgo spoilt sov
eral weeks In Medford during holi
day tlmo and niailo ninny frlonds
who will rogrot to lenrn of hor un
timely death, As described In tho Llv
lugstono, Mont., Enterprise, tho
team had gottoa beyond tho control
of tho drlvov and In leaping from tho
coach tho young girl wns killed,
Warren Hodgo loft horo Immodlato
ly on hearing tho nows, and took
chnrgo of tho remains of his sUtor
on tho trip to Ada, 0 whoro tho In
torment was mado, J. H. nculgo,
her othor brothor, Is In tho moun
tains on a hunting trip and could not
bo located.
While Miss Hodgo was in Medford
sho wrie a guest of Mr, and Mrs. W.
W. Elfert.
INSURGENTS SEND CALIFORNIA
RAILROAD MACHINE INTO DITCH
President Montt of Chile Dead
j& j& j& j& j& j&
Shooting of Caynor Hurried End
PRESIDENT MONTT
BREMEN, Aug. 17. Senor Pedro
Montt, president of tho republic of
Chile, lies dead In his hotel here,
having been stricken by heart fail
ure, superinduced by tho shock of
witnessed tho Gayuor shooting at
Hoboken. He had been troubled
with angina pectoris previously, but
not severely, fetal complications aris
ing only after the excitement follow
ing tho attempted assassination of
New York's mayor.
Sonor Montt was elected to the
Chilean presidency In 1906 for five
years' term. His policies nave been
popular In his country, where he has
DAHLMAN LEADS
Incomplete Returns Give Cowboy Mayor of Omaha Big Lead Over His
Opponent Schallenberger Thousands of farmers Kept From Polls
by Heavy Rain Storm.
LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. 17. Mayor
John Dahlman of Omaha defeated
Governor Shallenbergcr for the dem
ocratic nomination for governor in
yesterday's primaries, according 10
incomplete returns receivved todnv.
The republicans nominated Aldrich
for 'overnor over duly. Senator
Hurkett was endorsed ovor Whedon
by the republicans, and Hitchcock
over Metcalf, the Brynn caiididntc,
by the democrats. Final returns- will
probably not bo in before tomorow.
Dalmnan, an ''insurgent democrat,"
caricd his homo county (Douglas) by
1,000 outrunning Shalleuberger in
most of tho other larger cities nnd
towns as well. Lincoln and Lancast
er county gave Dahlman a majority
in spito of the report that Dahlman
wanted to take the capital from Lin
coln because the city tiad twice gone
"drv."
Shallenherger does not give up the
FAIR PROGRESS
SOIL
Fair progress Is reported by the
exports In charge of tho work of
making a soil survoy of Jackson
county nnd a larger crow Is now be
ing engaged to oxpodlto tho survey
throughout tills section boforo tho
wot season sots In. Sovor; 1 localities
havo already received attention, but
tho job Is proving to bo a yreator ono
than was realized, owing to tho topo
graphy of tho country, thoro bolng so
many slopes, pockets,, otc, encoun
tered In tho survoy, all of which havo
to bo taken Into conaldorntton In
order that tho work may bo consci
entiously nnd systematically dono.
Tho work Is In chargo of Messrs.
Lapham and Strnhom. Mr. Stra
horn Is tho asjlstant In chargo of
actual operations, whllo M. Lapham
Is acting as advisory mombor of the
exports having tho undertaking
SURVEY
AND EXECUTIVE MANSION
always stood high as a member of the
bar since his admission to It in 1868.
SANTIAGO DE CHILE, Aug. 17.
Nows of the death of President
Montt at Bremen has cast a gloom
over the Chilean capital, whero tho
executive was without an enemy.
Eias Hernandez, vice-president of
tho republic, has temporarily taken
Montt's seat" nnd probably will bo
elected to succeed him.
Montt's death will not result In
financial or other depression, accord
ing to Henry P. Fletcher, Amorlcan
minister to Chile.
IN NEBRASKA
contest and is relying on tho results
from tho rural districts to reverse
tho showing.
Heavy thuuder storms yesterday
prevented thousands of farmers from
going to tho polls and kept down the
Slmllenhorger vote. N
Dahlnmu was distinctly mi nnti
Bryun candidate and it is holiovod
mnnv democrats voted for him ns a
protest against Bryan's injection ofl
tho county option question into the'
democratic polities in tho state. Con
gressman Hitchcock, who received
tho democratic endorsement for Un
ited States senator, i running as
well ns Dahlman.
Senator Burkctt received only a
-small plurality in tho rural districts.
William Ilayward, secretary of tho
republican national eommitteo, was.
nominated for congress in tlio fifth
district by an overwhelming majori
ty. THINKSASSEMBLY
MEN WILL LOSE
That tho assembly candidates will
bo defeated In Multnomah county
and ovor tho state Is tho vlow advanc-
' od byb George E. Chamborlaln, Unit
ed States senator, who arrived In
Medford Tuesday atternoou on a
1 short business trip. Sonutor Chum
berlnln states, however, that ho is
not as familiar with outsldo districts
us with Multnomah, as ho hasn't boon
homo long enough to get la touch
I with tho situation.
Seuator Chamborlaln Is very much
gratified by tho spread of lntorost
ovor tho United States in what Is
known as tho "Oregon plan." Evdry
wlioro a great sontimont, ho says, Is
springing up In favor of tho direct
primary.
Au effective want ad makes your
business plan effective.
JOHNSON WINS
OVER CURRY BY
27.000 VOTES
Three Republican Insurgents Named
As Candidates For Congress Sen
atorship Vote Is Close Theodore
A. Bell Is Nominee of Democratis
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17. -Hiram
Johnson, progressive republic
an, Lincoln-Roosevelt leader, and
avowed Insurgent, set tho semaphore
signals that sent the so-called "rail
road machine" Into tho ditch in yes
terday's primary. Today's added
returns show that Johnson and his
Insurgent colleagues havo swept prac
tically everything boforo them in the
first primary In California. It is es
timated that Johnson received 70,
000 votes throughout the state to
Charles F. Curry's 43,000. Alden
Anderson, open champion of the
"machine," polled something like
25,000 rotes. The weak showing of
the Southern Pacific candidate was
one of the surprises of the voting.
'Twas a Landslide. '
Tho landslide of Johnson votes ta
believed to havo demoralized "the
organization." The machlno men
wero confident that Anderson would
carry every city and would receive
tho support of machlno factions
throughout the state. The size of tho
Johnson voto surprised them.
Tho organization's forces In real
ity were divided by tho presence of
Curry In tho field, according to the
leaders. Curry, as secretary of state,
always was a machlno man, and, al
though running ou his own initiative,
he polled a higher voto than Ander
son, who bore tho standard of tho
Espee. Tho voters, freed from re
straint of elated conventions, refut
ed tho system under which California
has previously existed, and directed
the machlno to the scrap heap polit
ically. A Solid Front.
Johnson presented a solid front,
and oven the candidacy of Philip A.
Stanton, deslgued, as somo believe,
to split tho voto In southern Califor
nia was of little account in tho to
tals'. Stanton's vote could havo gono
to either Curry or Anderson without
affecting Johnson's triumph.
Tho other gubernatorial candidate,
(Continued on Page 8.)
CAR SCARCITY
IS EXPECTED
Warning Sent Out by American RaTI
Association Warning Roads to da
Everything In Their Power to Pre
vent Trouble In Fall .&
CHICAGO, Aug. 17. While many
railroad officials Individually are
pleading poverty as an oxcubo for
advancing freight rates, tho volurao
of traffic throughout tho country, as
indicated by tho demand for freight
enrs, Is Increasing so rapidly that tho
American Rtllway association has 1b
suod a warning, urging tho roads to
do everything In tholr powor to pre
vont a car scarcity this fall.
Tho warning Is bolng circulated
through tho modlum of tho fortnight
ly bullotln ot the committee oa re
lations between railways of tho as
sociation, sent out by Arthur Hnlo,
chairman. This shows a decrease ot
25,000 In tho number of surplus
freight cars In tho United States
slnco tho previous report, reducing
tho total to 105,564, nnd yearly 100,
bolow tho figure of a yenr ago.
Tho beginning of the wheat move
ment Is said to bo responsible (or
tho qulckonod demand for box cars.