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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, jUEDEOTCD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 1911. PGE THREE Si WARNER UlfDS BIG CONVENTION Oregon Retailers Will Meet Next Vear In This City Mr. Warner Is Chosen a Director of the State Association. MAN FORCED TO WRITE BIG CHECK Is Beaten By Man and Locked In Room Notifies Police By Drop ping Not Out of Window Pay ment On Check is Stopped. BOY THRASHED: FATHER PROTESTS Irate Parent Takes Matter of Pun ishment Up With School oBard Matters Satlsfatcorily Adjusted, State's Sujcrintendent Collins. SALEM, Or., Jan. 28. After a spirited contest In the convention of the Oregon Retail Merchants asso ciation between Portland, Cottago Grove and Medford, the latter town was named as the placo for holding tho next nnnual convention. Port land merchants strongly supported Medford and tho final vote showed that the southern Oregon city had won by almost 2 to 1 majority. K. N. Warner of Medford led tho fight for his home city. A resolution couched in stinging terms was directed against the whole sale dealers who nwlce a practice of selling direct to tho consumers after loading the retail merchant up with goods. A resolution Indorsing Pendleton as tho placo for holding tho "Round up" wns passed with a whoop and the entire delegation shouted "Lot 'er buck." San Francisco received the hearty endorsement of the asso ciation In her fight to securo the Panama exposition, whllo tho plan to hold a centennial at Astoria next year mot the hearty approval of the convention. The good roads bills now before the Oregon legislature also woro in dorsed and tho present peddlers' li cense law and tho garnishment law wero approved by resolution. A hard light is to be made lo se cure the passage f a net weight bill and the oommittco appointed at yesterday's meeting are bending every effort toward .securing it passage. A vote of thanks was given to the lllilioe club and other Salem organi zations that had extended courtesies to tho visiting delegates. The prevailing sentiment at to day's meeting was that tho scop' and membership of the organization should bo extended to include every retail mereliant in the state of Or egon, and it is probable thai paid organizers wil bo sent all over tli" state in an effort to strengthen the work and functions of tho associa tion. The meeting adjourned at r::i7 this afternoon, after ono of (ho most succesful conventions ever held by tho organization. Tho following new officers wore elected: V. A. Perry, of Jloullon ton, president; II. Alexander of Pen dleton, first vice-president; V. A. Hell of Eugene, second vice-president; E. Hrayford of Hood Hive., third vice-president; Charles $. Mer rick, secretary; Thomas Watts of Reuben, treasurer. The new elected directors of the association are: H. N. Warner of Medford; C M. Kpploy of Salem; A. .7, Henderson of Spring field; J. C. Man, Dan Kellaher, V. V. Funk of Portland; J. G. Snoil grass of LaGrande, and J. W. Camp bell of Hermiston. SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 2 S. Bad ly beaten about tho face and body, and held r prisoner in his room at tho Martinique hotel, while two men and a woman attempted to cash a check for $250, which they forced from him, was the experience of John R. Robey, president and mnnagcr of tho Golden West Raking company, last night, according to his story to tho police. Suffering terribly from his beat ing, Roboy was unnblo to attempt an escape until this morning, when, dragging himself to a desk, ho scrib bled a note and dropped it from his window. A pnsserby picked it up nnd read: "Notify the First National bank to stop payment on $250 check. Tell tho police I am a prisoner in room 431, Martlnlquo hotel." Tho man who found tho note hur ried down tho Btrect and met Ser geant Pencea and Patrolman Hum phrey. They hurried to tho Mar tlnlquo and after releasing Roboy went to tho apartments of a benutl ful young woman and a big, good looking young man. Another man was arrested as ho was attempting to cash a $250 check bearing the sig nature of Robey. Payment on the check had been refused. All throe are held at the city Jail without a charge. "This young woman I know as Miss Richards," said Robey. "Sho has re sided at the Martlnlquo hotel for about a month. Her npartments are right across the hall from mine. Last night sho asked mo for a drink. I entered her room and sho shut tho door. No sooner had sho taken the drink when the door was burst open and in rushed this man who calls himself Barr, and Carroll. "What do you mean by assaulting my wife?' he demanded. I turned, and to my astonishment to find tho woman lying on tho bed with hor head burled In tho covers." Then, Roboy says ho was compelled to write the check for $250 after being beaten. "DEAD RINGER" FOR RATE SCHEDULE UPHELD. NEW YORK, Jan. 28. Mr. Carne gie, I am frequently told that I re semble you. I do not know who Is tho more complimented, you or I, so I enclose my likeness for your meas urement. "Thanks," replied Andrew Carno glo to this note from Lewis B. Reed of Brooklyn, in a letter which the latter made public today. "Thanks, but you are too good looking far too good looking a very handsome man. I'm not." Mr. Reed is 81 years old and n well known resident of Brooklyn. Ills friends have long contended that he was a "dead ringer" for tho great Iron master. Tho sovero and summary punish ment dealt out to an exasperating youth at tho high school Inst Friday by an exasperated, teacher armed with a section of a rubber hose, served to cause an irate parent to appear before the school board at their meeting Friday night with u vigorous protest. Tho incident, s well as can be ascertained, is said to have started when Professor Cudahy, of the com mercial class in the high school, ex asperated by tho actions of Menno Davis, n l(i-year-old pupil in his class, inflicted several largo welts upon tho boy's back by pounding that portion of his anatomy with a long and limber piece of rubber, said by somo of the witneses to tho nf fair to have been a section of hose pipe, and by others, u part of a rub ber tire. Whatever the implement used, the father of tho Davis boy, who eon duets the "Smoke club" on Front streot, decided that tho punishmont had been too severe nnd accordingly appeared before the school board and demanded that they tako official cognizance of tho matter. Just what happened at tho meet ing is n mystery, as those members of tho school board approached yes terday on the subject assumed a clam-liko attitude, but Superintend ent U. S. Collins, when scon last night, nsserted that the matter had been satisfactorily adjusted. Arthur Davis, tho father of the hoy, also expressed himself ns sat isfied with tho action of the school board. BODY OF MINER HERE FOR BURIAL Remains of Former Resident, Killed In Colorado Mino Accident, Arc Brought Back to Medford for Burial Was Well Known Here. E BURIED Goodwin Tries New Tack. NEW YORK, Jan. 28. Nat Good win's defonso In the divorce suit brought ngalnst him by Edna Good rich will question tho jurisdiction of tho state court, it was reported today. Mr. Goodwin contends that his wife Is a resident of California, where he lived, and that tho action should bo brought there. In today's hearing before Referee J. Campbell Thompson, Mrs. Good rich, tho plaintiff's mother, testified that she and her daughter had lived in hotels In New York for sovoral years. Goodwin did not appear. Tho hearing was held behind clos ed doors. Clerks Appeal to T. R. ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 28. Colo nel Theodore lioosovclt was brought into tho controversy today between Poslmaoter General Hitchcock and tho railway mail clerks. At u se cret meeting this afternoon the clerks decided to petition the former pres ident tp intercede- for them against Hitchcock's "economy program." Hasklns for Health. Tho remains of the lato Columbus Stembnugh, formerly superintendent of the Sunnyside coal mines near here, who was killed in ti mine acci dent last week at llczlo, Col., ar rived in this city yesterday nf tor noon. They were accompanied oy Mrs. Stembnugh; Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Cook, thu deceased's daughter and her husband; and their children. Tho funeral will be held Monday afternoon from tho Perl Undertak ing company's chapel and interment will follow at the I. 0. O. F. cem etery. According to the present plans of tho relatives who accompanied the remains here, they will make their future home in this city. Mr. Stem bnugh, during his lifotime, was well known in this oity. RATE SCHEDULE UPHELD. (Continued from Paco 1.) prived of its property or n fair , remuneration upon its invest ment without duo process of law, and wo believe wo woidd not bo justified in restraining operation of the now rates pend ing tho final adjudication of the case upon its merits. "The application for the re straining order must bo denied." It is expected the Southern l'a cifio company will appeal thu ease to tho United States supreme court W. D. Fcnton, attorney for the rail road, is in California and members of his offico said today they could not state what action would bo tak en. All tho members of tho state railroad commission aro in Salem. Argument of tlio Commission. Tho granting or iho injunction was opposed by Attorney J. N. Teal for the railroad commission, on the grounds that tho commission's onlo; merely revised tho present class rates from Portland to Mints on the Southern Pacific within tho state and placed these rates on something like a parity with thoso of other rail roads throughout the country. Mr. Teal showed that the principal changes made in existing rates were in classes four and five, which, using the table of comparison in gen eral use in making class rales, showed the company's chnrges to be exesssivo. He i-lso showed that thero was no danger of the pro posed changes being confiscatory in asmuch as tho Southern Pacific company had flourished astonishiniy in the past 10 years, exceeding all other roads in the state and many othors in the country in tho growth in gros,s and net earnings. Vital Legal Point Decided. Tho most importunt feature of the application for an injunction, in tin minds of many, was that the railroad Tho funeral of Grnco Throckmor ton, who died nt her homo at Ruch, Jackson county, last Wednesday of ptomalno poisoning, wns held In tho Jacksonville cemetery Friday after noon. Rev. Mr. Enuis officiated at a short sorvlco hold at tho grnvesldo. Tho pallbearers woro Messrs. Roy Offenbachcr, II. Offcnbacher, D. Buckley, George Buckley, II. Per noll nnd Robert Ray. She wns poisoned early last week by eating somo Blnw in which sho had poured a can of canned cream. hoped to prevent the Ptntn commis sion from changing iutrn-stato rates on the ground that such a ehnngo would interfere with interstate rates, whilo on the other hand they could prevent tho interstnto commerce com mission from changing purely state rates, ns something entirely outside of tho commission's control, ANOTHER STREET IS AFTER IMPROVEMENTS Tho property holders on Gcucvn avenuo filed a petition with City Re corder llobcrt W. Telfor yesterday afternoon requesting that tho citv proceed to have that portion of their street running between Main street and Sherman nvenuo paved with as phult at nn early date. The street in question wns only very recently opened up but sewer and water mains have already been laid along it. CHAMPION BASKETBALL TEAM TO PLAY HERE Company "F" basketball team of Portage, Wis., the A. A. U. cham pion's of America will piny the local basketball team on the Nutntorium floor next Tuesday and Wednesday evening. Tho team is making n tour of the west. Chlcano Bowlers Lead. ST. LOUIS. Jnn. 2 S. Chicago forged to tho Trout In tho doublo events at tho tournamont of tho Am erican bowling congress today, whou Ericson and Mnnuson, representing tho windy city, rolled a total of 1229. WESTERLUND HOME ON BRIEF VISIT J. A. Wcstcrlund, n member of Jackson county's delegation in tho stato legislature arrived in Medford Saturday morning for a short visit here. He will return to Snlem this morning for a short visit here. Ho will return to Salem this evening with Captain M. F. Eggleston who is also spending n few days at home. Mr. Westerlund etntc9 that a number of important horticultural bills nro now being considered by tho committee on horticulture of which ho is tho ehninnnu in tho house. Pro fessor O'Gnra, ia now suggesting a numbor of matters which will lie considered by the committee. Mr. Wcstcrlund has tho distinc tion of being tho lnrgcst man in tho legislature, far outweighing any other member. Racing Resumed. JAUREZ, Mexico, Jan. 28. Rac ing was resumed at Terraz Park this afternoon after a week's suspension on account of tho bad condition of the track. -.).r)r.T.Jrjfrj!jtjt Safety-Satisfaction-Economy jj Every woman likes to feel that her jewelry is solid and perfect that she has just what she paid for. Every woman likes to save money, too, consequently every woman ought to patronize us it means "" MMBM HBVHBBBBa-V SAFETY SATISFACTION ECONOMY The Locomotive Engineer and That Watch of Yours An engineer on a locomotive oils his engine a number of times each day, and the engine rests half of every day. Your watch runs day and night continuously but when did you have it oiled?' Are the delicate pivots grinding away on dry jewels, to their destruc tion? 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