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MEDFORD, OR., MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1907
No. 'J33
VOL. II.
IS RAILROADED TO JA
TRIBUNE EDITOR ARRESTED
-'MID RUSHED TO PRISON
fciven no Chance to Secure Bail and Not Told
What Arrest Was for But Compelled to Spend
Night in Jail-Offended Grand Jury-Was Denied
Communication With Friends.
KOSEBURG, Or., Dec. 23. George could not get word to his friends or
Putnam, editor of the Medford Tri- i telegraph, because the deputy who made
. , . , A the iirreat refused such courtesies. Ho
btme, was arrested at in.dn.ght Sntur- t) jn until miir
day night on the northbound train at ' ,00n the next iliy when Sheriff Mc
EoHeburg on a charge of libel and tak- . Clallen received a wire from Sheriff
en to the county jail of Douglas county I Jackson atnting that Putnam could be
and held a prisoner until the arrival released upon $:W0 bond,
of Deputy Sheriff D. B. Grant from I Sheriff MeC'lnllen notified V. L. Wim
Jacksonville Sunday afternoon, when berly, editor of the Roseburg Review,
bail in the sum of '$300 was arranged, an old friend of Mr. Putnam's of the
! Putnam had been indicted Saturday latter 's predicament. He at once volun
afternoon by the Jackson county grand teered to go on the bond. Senator A.
. jury before he had left Medford for C. Marsters also volunteered bail. The
Portland, where he was to spend the news had reached Medford and Port
' Christmas holidays with his mother, but land, and offers of assistance were re
. ..' he was not notified. The sheriff wait- coived from each place.
; cd until he was on his way, so ho would I Bail Is Arranged.
have to spend tfhe night in jail.
The indictment was the result ot a
criticism made of the grand jury by
The Tribune last week, when District
Attorney Clarence L. Reames and the
grand jurors failed to indict President
W, S. Barnum of the Rogue River Val
ley Railway company for attempting to
kill Mayor J. F. Roddy with an ax.
Omitted Bail Clause. "
In the phone order of arrest nothing
was said by Sheriff Jackson as to r?
lease on bail. Mr. Putnam could not.
find out what lie was arrested for and
OLD-TIME TRAGEDIES
1 ' F.EOALLED BY PIONEER
Janus K. Twogood, a piono-r citizen
of Boise Idaho, and one of the earliest
residents of Jacksonville, writing in
the Bois Capital News of recent date
on the text "Thou Shalt Not Kill,"
tells the story of two early-day trage
dies in this county.
"I will cite two cases in southern
Oregon which happened in the '". In
those times everybody 'packed' a g;m
who was able to own one. I plead
guilty to the charge myself. 1 was
strapped to a young colt during the day
and nights I slept with it under my
head. That was from 1-."1 to ISoG, dur
ing the Rogue river Indian war.
"Simeon Oldham, a sporting man
from Rock Creek, Mo., crossed the
plains' in the early times and settled in
the Willamette valley. He went out to
Yreka. Cal., in the summer of '52,
with a little sorrel race horse that he
calb-d the 'Gold Digger.' It was truly
1 1 1.1 morn rlfl I
iiii:ni-'i, iu iii i. ...... " k "
in a quarter-nine uasu in secouos
than most men dig all summer. On his
return trip the horse got lame and he
left him with inn at Goose creek. It
was there 1 first got Acquainted with
Oldham, as fine a man as one would
wish to meet.
"In after years, when southern Ore
gon got more thickly settled, they had
a race course near Jacksonville, It was
here on this track nti" spring in the
'0s that Mr. Oldham got into an alter
cation with Dr. Alexander, a noble,
good man. Everybody was hi friend.
Mr. Oldham must have been under the
influence of liquor, but that is no ex
cuse. He pulled his gun and shot the
doctor drad. He was tried and acquit
ted by a 'lower court,' but the brand
of Cain was placed upon his brow, and,
like other, he became a wanderer upon
the face of ,(he earth, and never knew
what 'p:ice on earth, good will to men'
was afterwards. He wandered up
here to Boise in the early 'p'O and then
drifted i " t" Silver city, wtc n
young man shot him.
"Simeon was a brother of J. B. Old
ham, ex sheriff of Ada county, whom
nil the old-timer? kn-w and respected
s m man. although n gambler. He w;is
s trrie um Meel and 'on the square.
ever ady to exi3 the itl hand
nnd share h Mire with hi fellow
nan. TVy dn make
kind
t ut ho Aai
0!i LIBEL INDICTMENT
On tho arrival or Deputy liemr
Grant the bail was urrunged.
11 My imprisonment was an outrage.
Bail money would have been furnished
just as quickly last night as today,"
said Mr. Putnam, " if I had only been
given a chance, but I wasn't.
"I am sure I don't know who I li
beled. Perhaps some people hear the
truth so rarely that it sounds like a
libel. It looks like petty spitewnrk to
me. ' '
Mr. Putnam left last night to spend
fhristmiis in Portland.
"There was a Captain Abel George,
captain of a volunteer company during
the Rogue river Judian war ot 1.m-;ju.
Tie was a fine-looking man, with a nice
family, and was a neighbor ot ours,
living l.'t miles south of us. Some time
after the war he went out to Jackson
ville and got full of booze, and went
into ('luggage & Drum a livery stable,
where a colored man wjus getting onto
his horse. George jumped on behind,
in his wild, crazy fit; they both fell off,
and the colored man was dead. George
was tried and acquitted by a 'lower
court,' but his life- was wrecked.
"And there was 'Ace' Abbott. In
the early '50s, when 1 first knew him,
he was a good man, but something of a
bluffer. He lived south of us. in the
same county, near Kerbyville. He, too,
had to get his man with a gun I think
he was a colored man. Abbott was
tried and turned loose by a 'lower
court,' but his life was wrecked.
" Billy Abbott carried the mail on
horseback, and stopped with us in the
fall of T.-, during the war. Thev all
i came up
here in V3 and settled in Gar
ev. At phteerville one dav
nin v.,
j'Ace' got into a shooting scrape with
'others. When the smoke chared away
it was found that lie had killed his
brother Hilly. Abbott was again tried
bv the Mower court' and swung clear.
He sent for me to come up and buy his
ranch in the .whiter of ls7', 1 went
up aim lounu two tee? or snow ami mm
not purchase the ranch. Abbott sold it
in 171 or 1S72. left the country and
w.-nt to Texas, where he could g--t rid
of his troubles, as he thought, but alas!
th" poor deluded man found a .judg
ment hanging over him from a higher
court that said: 'Thou shalt not kill.'
It set him crazy conscience would not
down, so he parsed in his cheek, going
via the double-barreled shotgun route.
Oh! if men mM only stop to think!"
RECEIVER NAMED TOR
GLENDALE STATE BANt
In the circuit court Judge
appointed a receiver for tin
State bank of Glend;Je, Or.,
stitntion fjflled to open its
business after the holidavf!
Ila milton
Glendale
which in
doors for
-lo-ed. J.
D. VVinehell was :i,pointel, with bonds
;t 'J'V,u(i. The receiver was appoint
ed upon petition of K. T:. ItedhVM and
K- J"nes. who nll.gv that the bank
'intf bit rtiiift-t melt nt
TESTIMONY
IS AGIST
Sensational Testimony
Against Powers and His
Chances of Acquittal
Growing Dimmer.
CKOHGKTOWX, Dec. 23. J. L. Hop
kins gave sensational testimony at the
trial of Caleb Powers today. He
counted a conversation he had with
Yontsoy two days before Goebel was
shot, in which Youtsey said: 1 sent
to Cincinnati for cartridges that will
fix lii tn (inclining Goebel), and I will
give $100 to any man who will fire
the shot; but if I can't get anyone else
to do the work 1 will do it myself.
Alberton Helton, in whoso possession
was found a rifle with which Goebel
was shot, identified the weapon and
said someone in the crowd gathered
about Powers' office handed him
weapon. He was not sure, but thought
it was the man who had been pointed
out to him as Yautaey. Helton also do
tailed a conversation he heard between
Voutsey and J. B. Moo on the day Goo
bid was shot in which Voutsey said
Dick Holmes had promised to kill Goe
bel, but had gone back on him. Yout
sey added: "If I can't get anybody
else to shoot him, 1 will do it myself."
LATE LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
Clarence U lieames lo tf Sunday for
Berkeley, Cal., where he will spend
the holidays with his aged mother.
Mrs. C. I. Hutchison and her daugh
ter, Miss Fern, returned Monday morn
ing from Portland, where they have
spent the past two or three months. Miss
Kern has been taking a special course
in music and has progressed rapidly.
J. M. Potter, formerly editor rof The
Tribune, was in Medford Monday. He
is now located at Seattle, and with his
Ash In nd.
There was an unusually interesting
program at the M. K. church last night.
Mr. Krause, with the choir, which she
had drilled for several weeks, rendered
several superb anthems. The music was
of a high order. The pastor, Itov. Mr.
lieuter, preached a brief ; hristmas ser
mon frorn the text, "When they saw
the star th-y rejoiced with exceeding
great joy," Matt. 11:1". which in spite
of the storm was heard by a large con
gregation of attentive listeners.
Klder I. i. Mi near died at his home
on Griffin creek Sunday uioruiu of
coneer of t lie stomach. The funeral
services will be held at the Dun hard
church in Talent Tuesday morning at
POWERS
MAMMOTH ILLUSTRATED EDITION.
The Medford Daily Tribune will soon
of ten thousand copies to be distributed
ten sts of the Kouue Kiver valley.
The various departments will h.- edited by the most prominent or
clmidirts. milling and business mci. public officials and practical farm
ers. It will be beautifully illustrated, printed on book paper, with a
handsome fruit design cover, nurl will contain a symposium of facts,
illustrative and representative of the horticultural, agricultural, irri
gation, lumbering, mining educational, r al estate, linaiiei:! ami oilier
vast int'-nMs of the world's greatest apple and pear region the
Rogue Rivfr valley, in. -hiding Medford, its metropolis. Transporta
tion facilities, phenomenal growth and future development of a Great
er Southern Oregon.
The object i:i publishing this man in.
world, demonstrate and give true facts
to encourage the colonization of the u;:o
er valley.
("npies of this edition will be
the Southern Pacific, Santa Pe.
(treat. Northern, Vni'Mi Pacific,
Central and many other eastern
libraries throughout the I'nited
refill--, the pre, the government
N w York. Hosfon and San Francis
and Kurope ami
4 company and Pa
4 Hni'Virg Arnerie
aboard the ocean 1 1
if ic ( 'oast Ste!Mah j
in. North German
i' an at.d manv ot In
; i - a r. -lllel t li'1 gl'
1 1 h diti'ii will
r t rans A t la ut V
be. giving pu.'
.o uo.r,. to r
e the Rogue I."
ers ami adv rtio
bee- aTtMllted. U
E
VOTING
15 QUIET AT
Several Mines are
Being
Opepated With Miners
Forces Under a Heavy
Guard.
GOLDFIKLD, Dec. 23. With 50 men
underground, the Mohawk mine started
up today, after having been shut down
for over three months, tho Consolr
dated mill and the Nevada-Goldfield Up-
dliction workB arc also running. Sheriff
Ingalls added a large number of depu
ties to his force today. Many men nre
being paid by tho Mineowners' associa
tion to act as guards ami patrolmen.
Owners assert that a large number of
strikebreakers will be brought in this
week. Very few strikers have returned
to work.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.1. Appeals to
President Roosevelt to have tho federal
troops remain in Goldfield in the opinion
of White House officials indicated a
desire on tho part of the senders to rely
solely upon the national government
for protection. Koosevelt takes the po
sition that the stato of Nevada should
exhaust every means in its power to
control the situation and that federal
interference should be supplemental
only to the efforts being made by the
state. Nothing indicates that the state
is taking any action.
11 o'clock. Interment will take place
in Talent cemetery.
John Potter, who is attending the
Oregon agricultural college, has re
turned to Medford to spend the holi
days. Kalph Jennings, now engaged in min
ing on Applegate, made Medford a busi
ness visit Monday.
L. H. Drown, It. M. Collins and J. P.
Roberts have returned from their trip
to the north.
SENATOR NIXON SAYS
ROOSEVELT IS RIGHT
WASHINGTON', Dec. 23. After a
consultation with the presiden today.
Senator Nixon of Nevada expressed his
opinion that Roosevelt could not very
well modify his order directing the with
drawal of troops from Gohlficld.
THE DAY IS SET
FOR DENVER CONVENTION
FKKXCir LICK. Tnd., Dec. 23.
Chairman Taggart of the democratic na- '
tionul committee today issued a formal
call for the national convention to meet
:it Denver Jul v 7, l!HS. I
a hor; itult oral flit ion
;r tie- world in the jn
h edition in to phow the
i the future immigrant and
upid lands of the Rogue Kiv-
placnl on every observation car of
Pennsylvania, New York f'eittral,
t'mmdian Pacific, Wabash, Illinois
railroad", in the public and Carnegie
S in the vaiioo publicity lu
im oij ration stations at Kllis ir-bmd.
., in M! 1'
thr-
bout A merica
of the Pf.-ifie M;l Steam-hip
rump:
.1 .yd. '
I m ,
of San Francisco, the
ard. VI,:'e Star. A hut
eh will carry these pa-
Ifo.ne1 Ri'.er -.alley.
. UU.t-ir.g h ome
than aevOrng that has
GOLDFIELD
j
A NIGHT IN PRISON
AND HOW IT
George Putnam Writes of
County Bastile-Had to
The Prisoners Live in a
His Companion.
By George Putnam.
1 am awakened at midnight from the
first deep slumber. The Pullman con
ductor with a lantern is peering into my
face.
" la this Mr. Putnami"
' ' Yes. ' '
' ' Then consider yourself under ar
rest. 1 am the deputy sheriff of Doug
las county. Hurry up and dress" says
a tall young man wearing a stur. j
"What am 1 arrested fori" 1 ask.
"On telephone request from the slier (
iff of Jackson county. Perjury, 1 think.,
A grand jury indictment." !
Then I remembered that 1 had heard j
threats of indictment for having dared j
to criticise a grand jury and a deputy
district attorney on some trumped-up
charge or other. I
"Is it necessary for me to spend tho
night iu jailf Can't I go to a hoel.
I will pay for a deputy to stand guard
and sleep with handcuffs," I urged.
"I have fritnds in Hoseburg who will
ouch for me and go hail if necessary."
Hut it is in vain. The jail for me.
I am even refused permit to send a
telegram.
I Become a Jailbird.
Going into the sheriff's office, my
coat, grp and umbrella are deposited.
We crocs ro the jail. The double steel
doors are nii1y unlocked and clank
and groan ominously as I enter.
"There is ,denty of wood to keep
Me' fire 'mi, and plenty of company.
1 v.-di phone Sheriff Jackson of your
arrest and n-e if he will let you out on
bar." say my ia'iler, departing after
the great doors are shut and bolted
lint he does not return.
The mil i not inviting. The air ih
foul. There is no ventilation. The f loot
is cement. The wulls, ceiling and sub
ciling and partitions are steel strips
v. ith three inch square openings be-tw-'ei!
-U one end of what mig i
st led the tciej lion room is a dilnp-da:-ed
table loaded with odds and ends of
fool, the n mil. tits of the prisoners' s p
per. On Miotlo r table is a pile of old
papers and a greasy bunch of ce 1 .
. rough h"m iiiadi bracket juts r-vi
the wall. laden with a miscellaneous
assortment of rubbish. On the floor is
a. pile of old magazines.
I Become Acquainted.
S-veral -l; lapidated chairs surround
the table. In one comer ot the room is
a bed, on which a mere boy is sleep
"f
Two biokeii off chairs and twe
f wood an -ever n . legs. On strings
b- hifd the stove hang prisoners umler
, v. i it!'1 washed ami drying.
"Hullo, ii.'irl u. r, " exclaims a man of
PI who emerge from one of the ci
clad onlv in a flannel shirt, which flops
against his hare legs. "Got any t
baeco,'"
Another prisoner, a m-re hoy, enter
Doth are h 1 M as -suspects in burglar
HOOD RIVER MADE
BIG MONEY ON APPLES
Complete r-turiM from lloo.l River's
l!to7 apple crop tdiow that it will receive
in round numbers jfim.UHO for its prod
m l, notwithstanding the money trouble,
car shortage ami reduced crop. -This is
approximately what the Hood liher
crop brought last year, when it was in
the neighborhood of lio.DOM boxes more,
and it is ae. fed for by the fact that
!i ;;.;.!;: 1 a. : ; -eh t.ug. r a ..T
age price.
The wit ire crop is now placed at
ll'i.nno l...es. about 7.",.ooi) nf which
wre handled bv tie- D.-cidson Fruit
-oinp.tuv. Their pui. has.- from the
lloo.t Kiver Apple Grower' union
amounted to I: :i L..cs, for which
they paid that oi-g.niat i-.n Go- good I
mm -if H t , 7 '' ' " ' . , or a-i average price
for fie- lot of !.! p r box for even
tl.it.g, T!." a-.eMte l,it i;.f wr.M 1.IH.
LIVE WTH
FEELS TO
T
Experience in Douglas
Sit up All Night-How
Twilight Gloom. Rats for
cases. "There are seven of us hero,
eight, with you," says the elder. All
tho beds arc full, but you can use initio
if you want and 1 will take the table.
My bunk's not very clean; they are all
inhabited. ' '
Rats for Company.
I thank my fellow jailbirds, but de
cline their courtesy, and they retire
for the night. I build up the fire and
try to read the two and three year-old
magazines, but tho light is too dim. A
huge rat comes out to keep me company.
I watch him as he runs back and forth '
on the floor nnd over the prisoners' un
sanitary bunks, greed shining in his
little beady eyes.
It is a dismal night, but my thoughts
are tropical enough. The drone of tho
steady downpour outside is interrupt
ed only by the creaks of tin sheet iron
floor as the prisoners turn uneasily in
their slumbers. The night seems end
less. Another rat joins the tirst, and
then another, but they scamper when
I move.
Twilight Marks tho Day.
Finally the darkness wears gradually
away ami the twilight t hat answers
for daylight creeps slowly in. The rats
have gone, and only the filth and squab
rr and misery that a boasted civiliza
tion reserves for its unfortunates shows
in the gray dawn of a Sabhath day, to
usher in elsewhere the meny Christmas
season. Hut there is no Christinas joy
here.
At :.-, o'clock it is still dark, but
the electric light goes out. At, o'clock
the prisoners awake and make their
dreary toilets. At o' !:-:' Sheriff
McClaltcn comes with I lw breakfast
basket. Two meiils a day only are
served prisoners. Itiscuits, fried pota
toes and meat comprise the menu, with
coffee. We eat on tin plates. There
is one fork and three teaspoons and no
knives for the eight of us. Then tho
prisoners clean house a-4 best they can
in t he dark. At noon it is st ill too
dark to see to read a paper. The pris
oners tell me their stories.
A Friend in Need,
The sheriff appears. The doors swing
open with tlo-ir customary clatter. My
name is called. I find with the sheriff
in old friend D. Wimberly, editor of
(he IbHehurg Review. The Hlieritf has
just, received a telegram nut hon.iiig
mv release on bonds. Mr. Wimberly
offers to go upon the bond, Meilford
iriends plume other friends to go, and
tn v dav in prison ends, 'in the after
noon train comes Deputy Sheriff Grant
of .lacksoii county and bail is ararnged.
Meanwhile, offers of help are phoned
from Portland and other places where
1 he news has spread,
"A friend in nee. I is a friend iu
tee.l. ' ' I shall always feel grateful
te Done who proved themselves friends
in i.eed.
so that growers in t 'i union received
tl Ci Ills more per hoy for their apple
(his vi ar than la-t. which a I m out eouals
In add it in ii to t he union crop, t he
Dawdsoji o.mpnuv handled S.linil boxes
from it her grow ers, ami about IlO.OOf)
hovf were hipped by independent,
growers ami the union, who sold iu the
neighborhood of IO.IHIM boxes of IlillCV
fruit included in the latter figure, none
of which went for less than tH H'i t. o. li.
a Ho'.l River.
DARR MINE HORROR
GROWS MORE AWFUL
j. ups i.i;i;k. pa., i. c in
alt :,! bodi. s have be. a e.-oei. d from
the I'.ifi mine and many mote were o
cjittd. Th" y. nviii-m tatr that a luiui
ber of iiiim M wen on tlo-ir klieiN. show
ing t 1: :t ' ') : W - jo a V ing W hi li the
black damp eiu. -l th ir d nth.
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