If You've Anything to Buy or Sell, Try Advertising in the Tribune-It Brings Quick Results ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES OIQedforril Daily ntme. The Weather 'air Muiilit; light frost, except lit'Hr t'tuift. SntiinlH v, 'nir, warmer. THIRD YEAR. AlKDFORD, Oil, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1908. No. 4:5. EX-CONVICT SEEN WITH I JURY MURDERESS W fill II L D W II M A N MURDERED Mrs. Anna Aldrlch of Walla Walla Met Death from the Blows of a Blunt Insturment. PORTLAND, May 8. A special dis patch to the Kvening Telegram from Wnlln Walla sayn that the coroner's jury found a vioh'Ut ileath for Mrs. Anna AMrich and that the death blows were enuneri by a bhint instrument in the hands of persons unknown. Bud Barnes, the man necum'd of the atro cious murder of the aged woman, does not know that the body has been found or that the mattox handle with which tho crime is believed to have been com mitted, Is iu the hands of tho police. Ramos protests that tho woman will bo found alive nnd that lie is innocent of the crime. LATE LOOM. NEWS. . Mr. und Mrs. YV. K. Finney of Jack sonville wore in Medford Thursday. The latter left for Jduho tho same evoning to visit relatives living near Lewiston. Mr. nnd Mrs. 8. T. Kandry of Tolo made Medford friends n visit Thursday afternoon. Miss Jttmul Byrne of Big Applrgate is visiting in Medford. Jos. Kchaska nf Urania Pass, the suc cessful contractor, made Medford n business visit Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Mnrk Whipple spent Wednesday in Medford and Jackson ville. Kcv. Mr. Uiercke of Portland, a Ger man preacher, has been holding serv ices in this county. Nr. Swanson, who has been in Klam ath county for some time past, iB vis iting ill this section. Mrs. K. II. Picket has returmil from n short viHit at Portland. J. A. Harvey, the Ashland attorney, was in Medford nnd Jacksonville the forepart of tho week. .Mrs. Charles Prim, Miss Amelia llritt and Mrs. tins Newbury of Jacksonville made a trip to Ashland Wednesday on business connected with O. K. S. Jiib. Wells of Ashlnnd, a pioneer of Itoguo Hirer valley, spent Wednesday in Medford. A. I.. C'usiek, operator in government lands, aad his wife returned from the south Thursday evening. . Kd Salt marsh of Appli gnte has gone to Wan Francisco to behold I'ncle Sam s navy. J. Phlegar, who is in ehnrgo of Smith &. Molony's shoe storo at Jacksonville, was a Medford visitor Wednesday eve ning. Miss Jennie Kitto hns returned to Jacksonville after visiting his sister, Mrs. William Dean of Kesnick, Hal. J. D. Oagnou, who hns tho contract for building the Catholic, buildings in the southwestern part of Medford, is progressing nicely with tho work. The roof on one of the buildings will be finished this week. Mrs. X. lie Lamatter nf Portland, who hns been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Daura McKinstry of Orants Pass, will soon have for Indiana, accompauied by her mother. Mrs. M. A. llerry. Mr. and Mrs. K. B. Pow of Jackson ville were in Medford W'ednosdny morn ing. fleorge II. Church hns returned from a hunting expedition in Blue Ledge dis trict, and looks like it agreed with him. Ralph Jennings, the Applegnte gran ger, did business in Jaeksonvilel Wed nesday. A. Jeldness. the well known miner, was in Medford the first of the week, on his return to Portland from the Ne vada mining camps. Upon the petition of the Grnnts Pass Water eompunv, Judge Hanna has is (mod a temporary injunction against the eitv of flrants Pass restraining it from putting in force the new water rates established n few weeks ago. These rates were to be in force this month, hut tho injunction brings tho water users back to thoso recently established by the company. The hearing on the injunction is set for June 1 in the judge's chamber at .lacssonville. Mrs. Claude Dullarhide has Wrn at Jacksonville, visiting relatives. She has now gone to Butte Falls to join her hus imnd, who is employed at the Crater I.ake T.uuilter company's mill. James Morton of Phoenix nnd his family, were in Medford Thursday nf ternottn, trailing with our mntchants. County Judge Jewell of Jirtcphine fountv, ill less thnn two year has mar ricd .17 eonples. Arthur and Fred Kleinhammer of Ap plaata pasaed through Medford Thura- El Evidence Given to Police MURDERED PAWNBROKER SHORTLY BEFORE CRIME Terrible Accusation Resting Against Him-Reputa-ble Farmer Says He Saw Grimes Leaving City Saturday on Foot-Martin Prepares Alibi. . : PORTLAND, May 8. Attorney W. li. McGarry, invited to bo one of tho conn sol to defend Edward Hugh Martin, mt- lor urreat charged with tho alleged murder of Nathau Wolff last Friday ovoning, and who declined the offer to participate in the defeuao of the ac cused man, today injected into the mys tery what may develop into evidence which will free Martin from tho ter rible accusation resting against him, or show that ho was not ulono iu the al leged murderer of tho pawnbroker. McGarry went .before tho police au thorities and related that a reputable farmer named Thomas Dodsou, residing near Oregon City, had reported to him that ho had seen a man nainod Grimes in Wolff's store on tho evening of I lie murder. Dodsou says he knows Grimes to bo an ex-convict who had served a term in the Folsou Cal.) penitentiary for murderous assault upon a pawn broker in San Francisco. Detectives have been sent to interviow Dodsou, who alleged that Grimes was seen leav ing the city ou foot Saturday morning. Acting as a grand jury today, IVp- uty District Attorney John II. Steven non took the testimony of six detec tives againBt Martin, and decided Hint the evidence ia the hands of the police was sufficient to warrant his further loll-iil ion. What was regarded yesterday as em phulie, the testimony ot A. . I' iclus, who saw Martin in Wolff's Btoro on the evening of the eriimy is today louked upon only as partly conclusive as Fields will not swear positively ho saw Mar tin, but that tho man ''looked like FIRE SWEEPS TWO BLOCKS OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA ATLANTA. Ga., May S Two solid business blocks of Atlanta lay in ruins today as a result of a fire which threatened for a time to carry its de struction to the entire business section of the city. The loss in conservatively Htimntetl at H, ft M,t )(). The Terminal hotel, one of the lurg sl iu the citv, is iu ruins. The 200 gnosis all escaped. Several smaller ho tels were destroyed, bat there was no loss of life. The fire started in the Sell lessinger-Meyer Ha king company, supposed to bo due to defective wiring, as attempts to operate the electric ele vator immediately after the fire broke toil were unsuccessful. Owing to wafer pressure being poor, the fire got beyond control in the high wind Mowing. 1 1 war only by the greatest effort and total disregard of personal danger that the firemen final ly got the upper hand. LARGE TRUBT COMPANY IN OHIO MAKES ASSIGNMENT CLEVELAND, O., May X. The Euc lid Avenue Trust company today made an assignment to the Cb veland Trust company in the insolvency court. No statement of asset s or liabilities was given. Tho last statement issued showed $l,70o,ooo liabilities nnd the same amount of assets. day, en mute home to Ashland, whre they have been visiting their father, who is in critical condition. At tho state conference of the Fret Methodist, held nt Portland during the past week, the following appointments were made: Orants Pass district, N. Welter, presiding elder; Grants Pass, Woodrith und He ldou, to be supplied ; Murphy and Missouri Flat and Wil liams Creek, A. W. Countryman; Ash kind and Tangent, L. R.o illackmnn; Phoenix and Central Point. H. K. Krei br; Klamath Falls. K. D. Creepy. J. II. Drown, conference missionary. It. G. Smith, H. D. Norton and O. II. Iiniham of Grants rw, well known at t..rne. made Medford a visit Thurs day. Sirs. l,ouis I'lrich of Jarknvillc jH-nt Friday with M-dford relatives. Mr. nnd Mrs. William I'lri'h were over from Eagle Point Thursday, visit ing relative and fre-nd li ing in Md ford and Jacksonville. May Free Martin from him, ' ' Tlie ease against Martin stands this way: The police have discovered a shirt, covered vtiiJt blood and bearing a lauu dry mark identical to that on three shirts that tho prisoner purchased a short tinio ago. They have found an overcoat which is said to bo similar to one worn by him, also covered with Idood. They have the evidence of his wife, given the day following his ar rest, to the effect that ho came home wearing an entirely new suit of clothes on tho night of the murder; that ho ex plained the cuts on his face by saying ho had received them in a fight over a game of cards nn explanation differ ing from that he hns since made and the diet that he is said to hnve bor rowed a revolver on tho afternoon pre vious to tho .murder of Wolff. Also, he had a valuable watch in Wolff's shop which was taken, together with what cash was in the drawer at the time of the murder. Martin either explains or denies ev ery incriminating fact that has been produced against him. lie claimed that he had a complete alibi, ia proving which hut wife will be h witness; that he bought three shirts, hut that he can account for all three o them, and that his wife will or can loll where they are; that the collar found iu Wolff's shop was of a make and shape that he never has been known to wear; that it is a 1(1 instead of a )f!i his size and that the col lar and necktie he wore on Friday night last are the same as he wore when ar rested a turndown collar and n black an dwhite figured necktie. NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS RICHMOND, Va., May 8. Before the uatioiial conference of Charities and Corrections today, papers were rend by Miss Kate Jlullidny Olaghorn, tho New Vork statistician of the tenement-house department; Frederick K. Hoffman, of Newark, N. J., and Mrs. Harriet Ful mer of Chicago. Hoffman, who is tho statistician of the Prudential Insurance company of America, stated to the con ference his attitude on old age pen sions. He held that tho agitation for state pensions was ill-advised and that its continuation will remove many in centives for thrift among the working people. BODIES OF VICTIMS SHIPPED FROM CHICAGO? . LA POltTK, Ltd., May S. It is the opinion of the authorities that Mrs. Ouinncss had accomplices in Chicago and that after prospective victims had b-en lured to that city to he- robbed ;;nd murdered their bodies were shipped to this city in order to keep the Chi cago police from gaining knowledge of the crime. The sheriff has notified the Chicago police to be on the look out lor a Jiang in that city, believed to be in the wholesale murder business for purposes of collecting insurance money. The gang is believed to have disposed of part of t he bodies in La PRINCE ZU EULENBURO ARRESTED FOR DEPRAVITY BERLIN, May H. Prince Philip Zu Eulenliurg was today placed under ac tual arrest ns n result of the testi mony of two men nt the prince's bed side yesterday, to the effect that the prince was guilty of wrongful nctions with them !." years ago. The arrest was to do with the testimony of the prince in the trial of Maximilian Harden, id itor of Die Xiikunft, who nccused high officials itf various depraved m-ts. liar den wan led Ip'iiilty of libel. Alleged Blackmailer Caught. NEW Yol.'K. May i. Edwnrd E. I'.renn.-in. a lawyer of tutto,.wis ar retted in the office of Augustus Heinzc tod:.)-, clirgd with attempting to ei tort 40tuou from Heioze. ADMIRAL won FLY FLAG AGAIN Evans MiiGh Fatigued by Yesterday's Festivltes- Unable to Take Part In Metcalf Review SAN FRANCISCO, May 8. Secre tary of the Navy Metcalf, on the quarter-deck of the gunboat Vorktown, to day reviewed 44 assembled ships, the combined Atlantic and Pacific fleets nt anchor off Oakland fairway of tho har bor. Admiral Evans was not well enough today to go on board the Connecticut to participate in tho review of the fleet by Metcalf, and the time of his departure for Washington is In doubt, but will probably be tomorrow. Yester day V festivities greatly fatigued tho admirnl. 1'nless plans are changed Admiral Ev ans will not again fly his flag on the Connecticut or again set foot upon the aflerbridge of the flagship. Tho day for the review wnH brilliant with sun shine and the harbor crowded with launches nnd excursion craft. ' Each ship, with four long lines of anchor age ground, was decorated with dress ing lines of vari colored flags. As the Vorktown steamed out from the Oak land Mole (he -whips began to salute with 17 guns iu unison, and as she beamed up and down the lanes be tween the ships, individual salutes were fired by each of the vessels participat ing in I he review. After the review the flag and commanding officers were received on board the York town, which cast anchor near the Mole. A' silver service was presented this af ternoon to the battleship Nebraska and the armored cruiser California, (lov eruor Sheldon of Nebraska made the preaontut ion speech on board the bat t lesh i p which bears t he name of the state of which he is chief executive, and Oovernor Oillett made the presen tnl ion speech to tho cruiser Califor nia. EXHIBIT BUILDING IS PRIVATE ENTERPRISE 'Thre exists a misunderstanding about the exhibit building," soid .f. I). Olwell, referring to the action in the Commercial club relative to the club's taking charge of tho enterprise. "The exhibit building was built by prlvatt parties and hns been maintained at my own expeuso since built. The Rogue Hi vor Land company hns paid alt the expenses of cnrlng for the building nnd collecting the exhibits, or furnishing showcases and of entertaining exeunt ions. The building was built by money subscribed by personal friends at my so licitation nnd by myself. The lights were furnished freo by the Condor Wa ter k Power company through Colonel Hay at my solicitation. I admit there have been times when the exhibit was not kept up in ns good shape as it might have been, but all in all, it has had fairly good care and been a great nd vertisement to Medford, Today it ex cells anything along the Southern Pa cific iu the line nf exhibit buildings. "The Commercial club has never put up a dollar toward the exhibit und t herof ore has no turisdict ion in the matter. ' ' JEROME ON THE STAND. IN HIS OWN BEHALF NEW YORK, May During the proceedings before Commissioner Hand the charges ngainst District Attorney Jerome, Mr. .lerome defended himself in generul from the charge that ho did not strive sufficiently for indictment of accused persons in corporation cases, lb- said that in a quasi-judicial office like his he believed it to be tin offi cer's duty not In wast his time ami the public's money in obtaining indict no tits which he had evrv reason to belief the courts would iliNrniss. Mi. Jerome was still on th stand when the hearing was ad journal for the dav. lie will conttntm hi tent! moiiv. ! Orchard Is Reprieved. ItolsK. Idaho, May H.--Oovernor i flooding hns granted ft reprieve for , Harry Orchard to July 2, Th board of jpaidoui will meet July 1. FEED FROM RER HOME AND IS STILE ALIVE Remains Supposed to be Prove to Belong to Woman only Half Her Size More Skeletons Dug up in Back Yard of Woman Who Lured Her ViGtlms to Death. CHICAGO. May 8. A dispatch from La Porte, lud., says that Mrs. Delhi Guinness, who at tho back door of her farmhouse kept n private graveyard, is still alive. Careful measurements of the headlesa trunk of a woman found in tho ruins of the burned house, at first thought to be the body of Mrs, Guinness, resulted iu the astounding revelation nf a dead woman not more thau half tho size or weight of the siren who is supposed to have lured a score of men to death. The theory that part of the ttuinness fnrin at . La Porto was formerly a pri valo burying ground was advanced to lay by John Larson, nephew of Mrs. Gniuness, residiug in Chicago. Itecords i)f tho land show that from IMI to lS7:l the laud was owned by Dr. It. It. Car of La Porte. Larson believes the bones (host; of people buried by phy sicians. Authorities art trying to as- ertuin whether Car har a private bury ing ground on the place. LA PORTE, hid., May S. Two bod ies were turned up by diggers at the Guinness carnal farm today, one ap parently that of a man, the other sup HIGHER FREIGHT RATES FOR IMPROVING RAILROADS SANTA liAHDAIiA. Cal., May S.- Defore leaving for his home in Chicago, President E, P. Kipley, of the Santn Fe railroad, declared himself iu favor of an advance iu freight rates as the host means of obtaining money for needed improvements by rouds. Mr. Kipley declared that existing rates might ho almost doubled without the average consumer feeling it. Trans portation, he said, is the only commod ity the price of which has not advanced from W to 75 per cent in tho past ten von rs. ARNETT FARMt NEAR TOLO, BOLD TO A NEBRASKAN An important real estate deal for the week waH tho sale of the Arnett farm, t wo in ilea north west of t own , on t he Tolo road, to A. Flails, a recent nr rlvnl from Fairfield, Neb, The place contains f0 acres and the price was $10,- 000. The ploce is one of the most de sirable in the valley nnd Mr. Dails se cured a bargain at that price. The placo has ten acres of young orchard nnd three quarters of an acre of straw berries, which Mr. Dails expects to bring .frtOO or more this senson. Mr. Dails will take immediate possession, hut will he obliged to return to Nehranka to lispose of his personal property ami to bring out his family. Twelve or ITi families of Mr. Dails neighbors are waiting for his report on this country, they having signified their intention nf selling their Nebraska sold nigs nnd com ing here if he found the country to his liking. Central Point IL-rald. D arrow Favors Harry Orchard. FORT SCOTT, Kan., May N.Clar nce S. Harrow, who defended Moyer, Haywood and Pettiboio nf the Western Federation of Miners, iu their trial at lloise, said he would sign a petition for me rev for Orchard. Harrow savs that he sympathizes with Orchard and that ho would like to see clemency shown hitn. harrow is here to defend Editor Warren, of the Appeal to Reason, a socialist puhlicntion, on n charge nf mis using the mails. MARRIED. I'KAKMIN OITHENS -At liiants Pass. April 27, l!los, William Dearmin and Miss Clcmriitins Cithern, both m tn b rs of traveling snake show. DCCK ELLIOTT -At Portland, at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr, nnd Mrs. Ihieji Elliott, April L. Mm. Frank Duck and Miss Mabel Elliott, fnrnierty of Medford ami Jaikson villi-. Mleddv" Patterson, tho baseball I player, who hns been employed iu Cal rormn ror some time pasi, is visnm n this Mrution. Those of Mrs. Guinness posed to be a woman. Doth skeletons had been articulated. Thus far only three of the eleven bodies have been identified. They are: Jennie Olson, the Hi year old foster daughter of Mrs. Guinness; Andrew Hegelein of Mans field. S. I)., tnid Ole I). Dudshurg of lohi. Wis. Justice Kiucaid stated today that in the trial of (toy Lnuiphere, one week before the homing of the home of Mrs. ttuiuncsK, who had Lauiphere arrested for trespass, she was questioned as to I he deal h of two husbands, and was asked point blank if they had been insured. Tho woman, who was com posed, suddenly began to tremble. Kin en id helieves that she has fled and committed suicide, fearing exposure of hed mode of life. On advice of her law yer she refused to answer the ipiest ions. JANKNVILLK, Wis., May S. Swan hihla Guinness, the daughter by (he second husband of M rs. Guinness, is hidden near here by relatives. She wns kidnaped from the Cuinuess place and brought hem for safely by her uncle. Steps will be taken to claim the estate for her. SPORTING NEWS. t 'en I nil Point was ttiken into camp at tl ouiity seat by the Jacksonville Second nine, but expects to do much belter next time. At New York, May o, Demurest of Chicago, chit mu ion amateur billiard inl of America, deflated l.e Hollo,, the Erench champion, by a score of 4(i to 2 Mi. Ho rati out the game on an un finished run of 14o and his average was 20, a high one. When the train passed through Grants Pass bearing the Portland hall tenm, there was A large delegation on hand to give Pernoll the glad hand. One native told Raftery that he knew Ibid when he used to curve a stone around a havstack ami kill a bird. Portland disappointed the flOOO fans who assembled at the Oregon metropolis Tuesday to see them wallop the Seals in the opening game of the season there. The visitors won by n score of 7 to 1, with Henley in the box. Garmtt and Dloomf icld did I he t wirling for the Delivers. The crowd was the largest ever seen in Portland on a like occas ion. Deft ing on the ,t- round fight at San Francisco Saturday night between Jack Twin Snllivnn and Stanley Kotehel has opened nnd many big wagers are being made. All hough Ketchel m the favo rite at 0 to in, the "wise"' bettors are putting their money down on the Iwild li en deft Dosloniitn. Dattling Nelson has placed jf i00 on Sullivan's chances and Joe Gans laid a like wnger, There is every indication that the big arena tn Ocean View will be packed. DAM NEAR SEATTLE IS DYNAMITED AT NIGHT SEATTLE. May s. - A hirge dam at l(aeiin:i P:irk, near (lie Male nniver hiIv. vw dynamited last uihi, destroy ing Hie laKo in the park, The county bridge w ;t wn-died n way and a rail -road lindtfi' on the Soma liratieh of the Northern Paeific. Trains cannot pasx. The plopotcd sale of the p.irk to the eitv hat moused a hitter feeling. Nash Hotel Arrivals. A. T. Kerr and wife. Portland: V. E. t'oiiio-r and wile. Mim Julia Whitney, Aihlinid; Mr. hi hi Mr. V-il Campbell. Klanoith Pail; S;iui S. ( iohlsui it h. Port land; Phil Simon, Sun Krancisco; E. C ( li-ttient, PortlHiol ; Fred Marc, Sail I 'm to-ist-o; S. Dloek, W illiani Jacoltv New York: A. E. Cheney, Portland; L. K. liiiak ami m ifo and maid. Hunk wood; J, T. Arnold. Sun Francisco; Oeo. I'lifuiiiu. city; L. Dover, J. Drag, Port laud; R. Hlemi. Sun Francisco; .1. E. SpatZ and wife. Fairfield; J. T. Scott and wife. Edgewood; II. N. Starr, Port laud; W, L. Whitmore, I'hicago; ,T, L. Damon. Seattle; C If. Westlrr, Ionia; A, c. Levy, Chicago. E County Judge and Com missioners Postpone Ex perting County Offices Until Afrer Election. All hope of having the books of the. county exported so that voters can find out the condition of county offices be fore election day vanished Thursday when County Judge (. W. Dunn and the county commissioners passed up the proposition until the., next; session. Expert Williams, of. the firm of W:i terhouse & -Co.,- of -Seattle, who have been experting books at Gleutlale, ap pea red before the board and was ques tioned regarding the cost of-experting. He stated thai it would probably amount to between $loail and $'J-H0 to go over the a mats of the past six years. Action was postponed so that if anything is wrong it will not be known until after election. An expert at Ashland offered last winter In examine the books on a per centage of t he amount saved to the county, but this offer nevev was con sidered. ... Dut little business was done by the commissions, .A saloon license whs grained Whipple of Woodvillo and viewers were appoint!! for several pro posed rends. RENO WOMAN'S VICTIM DIES OF HIS WOUND If A WIN liE. Nev., May Sf Jack Me Donga I, gambler, who mis shot on Fri day uiglit by a Woman known us Pearl Leslie, died late Saturday night from the wound. The woman has heea Re leased on a cash bail of ifclnim. The Les lie woman shot McDougal in her saloon after McDougal had thrown a glass and st ruck her in t he face, following a dispute over u money matter. CREW RESCUED FROM WRECKED SCHOONER NEW YORK, May H. -The crew of t he schooner Peter Rickmers, which went ashore here a week ago. was re moved today after the' stern of the stranded vessel had been knocked off by the heavy seas. The crew numbered 7- men. The res cue was effected after one of the most trying experiences .the lifesavers of this coast were ever called upon to face. No less thau a dozen times was the hope of saving the men upon the dooinedship all hut uluiudoiifd, and it was only nf ter trie easing of the gale ami terrific sea that the rescue was possible. Not a man lost his life. The great Ntei I diip, however, is a total wreck. DEMONSTRATION TRAIN ENDS SECOND SUCCESSFUL TOUlt SPOKANE. Wash.. May N.-r-Afler covering n distance of J0 miles nnd giving ttouo people a chance to listen to the lectures of f ice professors of Washington shite college, the Farmers' ed neat ion demonst rat ion train f ini-dit d a successful tour a! Walla Walla at noon lodav. From the start at Stnr buck to the HhmIi at Walla Wslla, the tour was one ovation fnon . interested and earnest, farmers. The demonstration train idea origin ated laig.-ly iu the mind of R. D. Miller. -..I i ..$ tl... i tt i, V K""'ri 'K 1,1 " I ct on puny. Three demount rat ion t ruin ' have resulted, the firt through the ! Pit loose. ;i sfcond just completing a tour of the Patahn, Touchet. and Walla I Walla vallevs, and the third tn oper ate in Central Oregon next week. ,The exhibit m consisted of urn ins. niase, ' fruits, fruit t rees. showing pests and ! maiiio-r of planting and pruninu. warden j and farm implement ami a thousand other thino of interest to the man who follows the plow. One handled and j forty three sample of wheat were 'shown. iiK'hidiuu all th standard va rieties grown in Washington, Oregon !nnd Idaho. The characteristics of the 'grain, and the advantages or disadvan tages of any 'partii-ulsr aiiety were brought out eleurly. Farmers were t deeply interested, us were their wive, j in the displny of the different guide and brands of flour shown. XAMN OK She v.'