The Tribune Prints More Live Telegraph News than all Dailies in the State of Oregon South of Salem Combined I UNITED PPF m The Weather Fair and cooler tonight. Wednesday, fair; cooler east portion; westerly winds DISPATCHES By far the largest and beat news report of any paper In Southern Oregon. THIRD TEAR. MEDFORD, OREGOX, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1908. No. 159. SHOOTS WOMAN THEN COAL DEAL TURNS GUN ON HIMSELF! TELLS ABOUT IS HEARING olbune. PUTNAM IS WILL CALL AN ELECTION CAMBERS ASSAULTED o BY A THUG Editor of the Tribune Cowardly Attacked by Son of Former Sheriff JaGkson on Seventh St. While wnlkii.fr down West Seventh street in front of Uusscy's cash store near the Moore hotel, George Putnnm, editor of The Med ford Tribune, was Tuesday morning ussnulted by Earl .Tnckson, Bon of ex-Sheriff .lack mm, and a former deputy under his father. loung Jackson has a reputation as n thug and a bruiser, and won fame for himself while deputy Bheriff by string ing one of the prisoners up by his wrists in a cell of the county jail until his shrieks for mercy caused outsiders to break into the jail and release the tortured man. It was the publication of this story some months ago in The Tribune which evidently aroused young Jackson to revenge. Putnam's Story. Putnam's account of the assault is as follows: "I left the office of the Condor Water & Power company about 10 o'clock on my way down town, when, opposite Hussey 'b cash store, 1 was accosted by a young man, who asked me if my name was Putnam. 1 told l.iin that it was. IIo asked if I was tlio editor of The, Tribune. I replied yes. Ko said I had printed some sto ries about him, nud 1 asked htm what his name was, for I had never seen him before. With that ho struck me in t he fact mid the blow dazed me. Evidently a rain of blows follows, for I only remember staggering into Hus sey 's store and asking for a basin to wash the blood from my face. ' ' Tho assault took me by surprise. , I had never seen young Jackson and : would not know him if I saw him again, j 3 printed the news regarding his inhu- man treatment of a prison while he was a deputy sheriff last spring and had been on apparently friendly terms with his father since election, "Sheriff Jackson had me thrown in jail at Itoseburg on a trumped up charge last winter in the evident hope of forcing me to leave the country. The sou's vicious assault is along the same liaes as his father's actions in throwing me in jail. "People ought to know by this time, for this makes several times that I have been assaulted, that other than gratifying the innate brutal lust of the thug, there is nothing gained by physical violence. The assault will not affect the policy of The Tribune one way or the other. When officials arc delinquent in their duties to the pub lic, The Tribune will print the news. It is not afraid to tell the truth." Jackson a Sailor. Young Jackson was formerly a sailor in tin United States navy nnd is said there to have made quite a reputation for himself as a prize fighter. The story of his stringing a prisoner up by the wrists in the Jackson county jail is as follows: On March 10, 1907, four prisoners made a jailbreak and escaped to the hills. One of these was a man named fi a ming, who was brought back. Young .Im-kaon punished him by stringing him up by the wrists in the cell. A pair of handcuffs were fastened upon Oa nung, the chains being put through the iron lattice work of the cell above the prisoner's head. (" Newbury ad vised young Jackson not to string the prisoner up, but was ordered out. After being strung tip for about an hour, the cruelty of the punishment began to tell upon the prison, who yelled for mercy. Outsiders then took a hand in the matter and had the man re leased. Those who denied the story previous to election admitted that it was true in every particular afterwards. POSSE OF CITIZENS ARE OUT AFTER BUROLAR TAroMA, Wash.. Sept. 22. The bold est burglar that ever operated ii tins part of the country is being sought to day by n posse of citizens, and the city marshal, who made it possible for the criminal to make a display of his nerve. In broard daylight late yesterday aft rrnoon the officer caught the burglar in tho not of riflinff a store 'in Sum ner. The latter drew a revolver and Mil the marshal in one spot until ho hail finished his job. When the bur glar ran out of the door the officer scooted through another and organized n posse. Mayor Reddy and F. Osenbruggc who tt-ittt iknlr vil'Al hni'O ,the itatc fair at Salem, are borne again." FOR OCT. 15 Recorder Collins Says He Will Follow the Law As Regards Recall Petition May Be Enjoined Recorder Benjamin M. Collins will on next Friday issue a call for a spe cial election in the First ward for the recall of John D. dwell, councilman from that ward, as asked for in a peti tion filed with him for that purpose. The election will be held on Thursday, October 15, if no restraining order is gotten out in tho meantime and the ac tion declared illegal. Those who have signified their in tention of having their names removed from tho petition will be allowed to hand the recorder a statement to that effect, which will be nttached to the original peition. It is highly probable that the record er will be enjoined from calling for the election, owing to that part of the recall law which determines 25 per cent of the voters in the district in voking the net. The number is deter mined by the votes cast upon the elec tion of a supreme justice, nnd as the First ward has never constituted a dis trict voting upon this matter, it is im possible to npply the law in this case. Mr. Olwell has but three months more to serve after October 15, the day which will be named as election day. His term expires January 15, 1000. Unless restrained, tho recorder will issue the call for an election on Friday, the election to be held October 15. LATH LOCAL NEWS. J. T. Patton of Big Butte was in Med- ford on business Tuesday. . W. T. Moore who has been in Lake Creek district for some time past, is in Central Point again. Hu visited in Medford Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Deneff were down from Jacksonville Sunday after noon. E. D. Rose came in from Well en dis trict Saturday for a short stay in Med ford. G. T. Lawreutz and hiB family are now cortfortablv located at the place on the Medford-Jacksonvtlle road for- rlv owned by B. F. Whetstone. They will improve it considerably in the near future. MORE EVIDENCE THAT STEWAET IS EXILED Rl'OKAXK, Wash , Sept. 22. Presi dent Roosevelt 'a plans for the exile of Colonel Stewart am again not forth, this time in a letter received by Senator liavner of Maryland, and now publish ed with the president's permission. The communication was sent in reply to an inquiry. "I made a careful investigation of the rase of Colonel Stewart," the let ter begins, "and T have before me the repdort of Judge Advocate General Duval), and have looked at the original reports of Oenernls Oront, Murray and others. It npponrs that Colonel Stewnrt has been 41 years in tho nrmy nnd he re fuses to retire unless in- i ui;m" adier general. T shall certainly not mnko him a brigadier general because ho is grossly unfit, not merely to be a brigadier, but to hold his present rnnk. His usefulness has tieen diminishing He is a nuisance in the service, being both incompetent nnd temperamentally unfit to exercise command over enlist d men or to control officers. As Oen era! Biivnll reports It it is known throughout the artillery service mat Colonel Stewart is an "impossible" commanding officer." SHIP RETURNS TO REPORT LOSS OF MEN SEATTLE. Wash.. Sept. 22. Bring ing the newso f tho loss of two men during the stormy passage to Chi! gnik last spring, the American ship St I'anl ii.io returned from the can nery port. The unfortunates who lost their livfs during heavy weather in the Pacific were fiustnf Peterson, a Norwegian, nnd August Sundberg. a . mlandwer. Sundberg was lost at sea on April 10 while on the lookout. Ketchell Would Retire From Ring. ..OS AriEI.KS.Cal..S..pt. 22,-Stan lev Ketch. II i tndtay hailed as the Jar ,..t candidate for the "retired list of I prize fighter, and by Fan, are wondering whether he will ,..r to beat . ,. er in (be ring, gbm WATER ON DECK City Scavenger Can Find No Dumping Ground Filth Accumulating No sooner does tho water famino step from the limelight than tho dumping ground steps in. Yesterday The Tri bune a nn oil need that tho water famine was for a time abated, and today the matter claiming tho attention of conn oilmen and various city officials is the obtaining of a suitable dumping ground for the garbage of the city". G. W. Jones, the city scavenger, is having troubles of his own. He has no place to dump rcfuso and ho has countless calls to have garbage remov ed. He is between two fires and dis gusted. Well, that is his privilege. Some time ago one John Bain offer ed to tako care of all tho garbage of the city delivered at his place for $100 a year. This was easy money until some neighbors butted in nnd obtained an injunction, which stayed his little game. Ilia method of copping the elu sive bucks did not appeal to their nes thetic aease. They rebelled, and with an injunction cut off his revenue. Since that time fate has buffeted the gar bage man from one post to another. Ho seems nn outcast . upon the city map. It's a caso of "come in, but leave your dog outside." Tho committee is at work. Perhaps they can find somo placo big enough, bare enough, isolated enough and still accessible that can bo used as n dump ing .ground. MANY STUDENTS WANT PLACE IN POLYTECHNIC LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 22. Aft er 100 ambitious students hud stood in lino all night more than 000 boys nnd girls today besieged the polytechnic high school with applications for entrance But 225 vacancies in the lower classes existed and more than 300 applicants were doomed to disappointment. Yesterday afternoon "sooners" be gan to assemble in front of the high school. Seeing that there was going to bo a lino of applicants waiting at tho doors all night, Principal Francis stretched a line to prevent disputes ns to place, and upper class students acted as patrols. Tho unsuccessful applicants have the alternative of waiting until the next year to enter the polytechnic school or entering Los Angeles high school, where they will not have the advantage of technical courses. BEDE BLAMES IT ALL ONTO POOR UNCLE JOE DUM'TII, Minn., Sept. 22. Congress nian J. Adam Bede declares ho blames Speaker Cannon alone for his defeat last Tuesday and nsserts ho will try to make the Illinois representative re imburse him for tlio filing feo he paid to run for renomination. "I paid the fee and Cnnnon ran," said Bede today. "That was not fair on his part. I Bliall tell him so. Any way, Cannon had no right to run for congress outside of liis own state." STUDENTS MOUEN DEATH OF THEIR BENEFACTOR LAWRKNCK, Kan, Sept. 22. There j, universal mourning nmong the sttl- fl,.nts and tho faculty today ns the result of the death of Francis Huntington Hnow, one of the foumlers of the uni versity, who passed away at a sanita rium at Delfield. Wis., yesterday. The university was closed out of respect to the memory of the dead professor, who was beloved by professors and stu d uts alike. TAKING STEPS TO PREVENT FUEL FAMINE IN NEVADA J ToKlO, Japan, Sept. 22. The first KKN'O, Xcv., Sept. 22. FikI mer t-lall game this afternoon between chants throughout the state are pn-par- ,,lfl Waseda nine, the foremost Japanese ing today to lay in a supply of coal ; (.nin nn, itlv Washingtons of the Unit nnd wood to prevent the possibility of j Mates, resulted in n victory for the a fuel famine, such as was experienced Americans bv the score of 4 to 2. An last year. The Southern Pacific immense throng witnessed the game and piny has sent out a warning that I Krrnt onthusiasm was manifested by repetition of last year's famine may ' t((t tator. be exported unless early precautions are taken, as a shortage of cars will EXPERT MARK SMI W BROUGHT be felt as soon at the fall shipping be gms in earnest. J. K. land. Kelly spent Sunday in Ash- Abner Grimes of Jacksonville has , r-tiirii from Josephine count v, where I he spent W'eral weeks. REFUSAL TO LEAVE WITH HIM CAUSES DESPERATE DEED Machinist Murdered Member of Prom inent Los Angeles Family, Then Blows Top of His Own Head Off. VALLEJO, Cal., Sept. 22. Mrs. Har ry Magnus, daughter of a well known Los Angeles family, was shot and killed in her home here today by Charles Striburg, a machinist, who had been employed at the Mnro Island navy yard for several months. Striburg then turn ed Uio pistol on himself nnd blew the top of his head off. It is thought that the man tried to induce Mrs. Magnus to run nwny with him nnd that upon her refusal ho killed her and committed suicide.' There were no witnesses to tho shoot ing, which occurred shortly after Har ry Magnus, the husband, of tne mur dered woman, had gone to work at the navy yard. Striburg was seen to enter the Magnus cottage by neighbors and shortly afterward three shots were heard. The Police Arrive. When the police arrived Mrs. Magnus was lying in a pool of blood with a shot through her head and another in her arm. Striburg was lying on the noor with his face buried in n pillow and the top of his head blown off. In ins hand was a pistol, still smoking. The body of Mrs. Magnus was dressed as though she was preparing to go out when the fatal shot was fired. The room was jn confusion. Mcmbor of Prominent Family. Tho Magnuses have lived hero for the past seven years. Harry Magnus comes from a prominent family of Cor delia. Mrs. Magnus is the daughter of Mrs. Lonnders of Los Angeles. She was married to Mngnus at tho homo of er parents in Los Angeles Hevon years ago. Neighbors have noticed tho friend liness between tho dead woman nnd the murderer for some time. Striburg was seen to brenk into the house yesterday I iy the back door and stay there for several hours. He was employed as a mechanic at the navy yard until yesterday, when he took out his discharge, announcing that to was going to leave the country. He appeared to be excited nnd told his friends that they would never see him again. It was immediately nfter left the navy yard that ho visited the Magnus homo Marry Magnus, the husband of the murdered woman, was informed of tho double tragedy nnd is prostrated with grief. Ho refuses to make any state ment regarding the charges of the neighbors. TREMENDOUS CROWD GREETED BELL AT ASHLAND The second largest crowd ever gath ering in Ashland to hear a political speaker greeted Hon. Theodore A. Hell of California in the Chautauqua build ing last evening. The only crowd sur passing the one of last evening was that addressed by William J. Hrynn. Mr. Hell spent the greater part of his address upon tin personality of Mr. liryan. He spoke of the abuse heaped upon the Commoner when he first run for the preuidoney in 18!)0, and then quoted a speech of Senator IJever idge, in which the Indiana man said that Mr. liryan 's character was with--Hit a flaw. Jiell predicted a landslide for Bryan this yttir. He is on his way east to spenk in the interests of liryan. A number of local jteople went np to hear Hell speak, among them being J. C. Bruwn, W. W. Kifert, K. K. Kelly, jiob Smith, Oeorge Putnnm, Frank Tou Velle, Clarence Snyder, W. H. Canon, J. W. Hiimmerville nnd I M. Kershaw. AMEBIC AN8 BEAT JAPS AT NATIONAL OAME BACK SIVBVTY-OYS DUCHS Mepoirs. Payette ami Kickoff, the expert marksmen, i;pent Snndny after noon with Mr. Smith of Smith tt Mo lony on the river duck hunting. As b As B 1 this ;ed 71 I result everyone is cooking fowl inorning. the trio having bagged E Voices Materialize in Air From Steel Plate With out Apparent Motive Without any npparont motive, speech materializes off a steel wire when ever H. P, O'Reilly presses a button in a little machine ho is exhibiting in the Kugte Pharmacy, at tho present time. It sound impossihlc,abut it is an actual fact. Tt Bounds wierd, it is wierd, but It is true, nevertheless. The mac hi no which does it is the telegraphone. In looks it is not unlike a dictating phonograph. It standB on an ordinary table and Iiiib a long wire wound on two spools. When this inn chtno is started the wiro will run from one spool to tho other and absorb the record as it goes. All that is needed is to start it over and it will talk five miles at a stretch. The machines that are now booing put out run 20 minutes at Btretch, but tho siko of the spool can be changed to run 102 minutes. Tho variations of the machine are wide. It can bo connected to an or dinary telephono in a doctor's office and tako any messages that are left for him in his absence. Jt can keep a record of train orders sent ovor the telephono or automatically mnko memorandum of orders given to a storo by a customer. Tho machine is worth tuking a look at. Mr. O'Jteilly is horo doinonstrat ing it and is pleased to show it to all comers. As for the machine, it needs no en conium; tt spenks for itself. JACKSONVILLE ITEMS. Chris J. Keuuey left for Medical Lake, Wash., ono day last week, where he expects to remain for somo time for the benefit of his health. Miss Cordelia Renter has returned to Ashland to resume her studies at the Ashland commercial college. Attorney Oeorge H. Durham was up from flrants Pass last week attending ircuit court. Mrs. John F. Miter and sou and Mrs. Harry Lny nnd children spent tho day in Medford Thursday, the guests of Mrs. Fred Lay. (leorgn (iilbert Hnncroft and D. Lil liuu Lewis will appear in an entertain incut at the I. O. O. F. hall on Sep tembcr 2li, under tho auspices of the lodge. Miss Annie Broad has joined her sis ter, Mrs. Kate Dungey, at Williams ('reek, where she will spend the win ter. Mrs. Dungey is teaching school in that district. Mrs. Prnuk A. Bennett spent Satur- ilay with relatives living here. Mr. and Mrs. II. von dor Hellen of Wei hu were the guests of J. Nunan and familv last week. Miss Bertha Prim spent a few days Medford last week. Mrs. J. C, Sexton is helping in the Bunk of Jacksonville during the ab sence of Mr. Davis hi Portland. Arthur Baxter lias returned from an outing at Cinnabar and will return to his homo at San Francisco soon. Mr. Baxter comes up from San Francicco every summer to get the benefit of the water and baths to be had at that place. Miss Margaret McClallen passed through Medford on her way to Hose burg one day last week. Miss McClal len has been spending the past six months with her aunt, Mrs. J. C. t'otch ett, in Ookland, Cal. Miss Flora Thompson has begun her duties ns teacher in the Central Point school. Misses Mont a and Krvina Macglcy left for Portland Friday evening after n visit with their aunt, Miss Kstella Levy. (icorgo W. Trefren, the Ashland at torney, was in town on professional , business one day last week. Word was received that Hay Sexton hnd started home from M inueapolis, Kan., where he hns been spending the pnst month with his mother and father. FIGHT RESULTS IN THE DBATH OF ONI COMBATANT KL PASO, Tel., Sept. 22. C. M. Barber, an sutomobile ngent, was nr rested today on the charge ftf murder following the death of H. C Loomis, who was injured in a fight with Bar ber. The dispute which led to the fatal encounter was caused by a deference of opinion in an automobile deal. WEIRD MM On a i E Water Has Temperature of 40 Degrees-Over 2, ooo Miners Inches in One Spring Alone J. J. Cumbers of Ashland, who re cently in ado tho city an offer of 500 inches of water for $80,000, was in the city Monday en route to Jacksonville on business, nnd incidentally looking up tho status of his proposition. Mr. Cambers proposes to sell the city water from Buck lake. This water lias its sourco in springs, and, according to Mr, Cambers, has a temperature of 10 degrees at tho hottest time of the year. Tho elevntiou of tho springs is over 5000 feet, which is somo 3600 foet above this city. From Medford tho distnnco to the springs is four miles south nud 28 miles east, following section lines. At no place is the topography bucIi ns to mako a high pressure necessary. Wants City to Investigate. "All I want," said Mr. Cambers, "is to have the city investigate tho prop osition. ' The water which I offer is not lake water, but rather spring wa ter. Tho Inrgest spring has a flow of over 2000 minora' inches and I chat lengo aiiyono to find purer or better water. I make tho proposition because 1 am interested in all parts of tho val ley, and I boliovo no bettor sourco for a gravity water supply could bo found." Has Irrigation Project Mr. Cambers has an irrigation pro ject in view, and it Is highly probable that he will nupply the Bouthern part of tho valley with water for irrigation purposes, regnrdl ss of any action which Medford may tako. Tt will bo an oasy matter, ho claims, for h'm to put the water into the calley, nnd he is also nn ardent advocate of Irrigation In the valley. "I have resided in Itoguo River val ley for the past ten years," ho said, "and I know that water is needed nnd that it. will make the valley wonder fully productive, Tho fact that irri gation is not imperative1 baa been r sponsible for the lack of attention paid to this matter in the past." MANY OREGON TURKEYS TO THE PHILIPPINES PORTLAND, Or., Sept. 22. Uncle Sam's khaki-clad junglestnlkers in the Philippines will eat 10,000 Oregon tur keys next Thanksgiving day. The gov ernment contract to Kiipply tho army on the islands with tho piece do resistance of the Thanksgiving feast has been a- warded to the Union Meat company of Portland, and Max Woiss, tho Rosoburg merchant, hns been commissioned to scour the country about Oakland and Roseburg to get together the large order of feather duster birds, for immediate shipment to this city, whero they will bo killed nnd placed in cold storage for shipment to tho islands. Tho turkeys are being Bocured early in the season because it takes so long for a ship to reach the Islands and Uncle Sam doesn't want his fighting forces to miss their Thanksgiving din ner through any chnnco delay. Mr. Weiss will ship tho turkoys from Roseburg the 2llrd of this month. The contract price to bo paid for tho con signment is to be 18 cents a pound. INDEPENDENCE LEAOUE DTD NOT COMPLY WITH LAW UKNO, Nov., Hept. 22. It is thought today that the Independence party will not bo nblo to participnto in the Novcm bcr election in Nevada through fnilure to comply with all the requirements re garding tho attesting of 10 per cent of the voters to tlioir wish to havo that party place its nominee on tho state ticket. While tlio required number of signa tures were socurcd, It devoloped last nii;lit that those who filed tho petition fnilod to attest to the fact that the ftigncrn were qualified electors and as i result the petition is void. It is now loo Into to remedy the defect. NORTH DAKOTA 800N READY FOR LAUNCHING WAHIIINOTON'. D. C, Sept. 22. Ac riling to reports received at the navy l''pitrtment today, work on tho North Unkota, the new battleship under con struction nt Fore River, Mass., is near UC LAK ing completion and will be ready for lan automobile, or r.t least admltfl it, lnonrhing within the next two months. I according to the schedule of the atate The North Dakota Is designed to be one! board of enuaU7Ation on that class of of the speediest battleship afloat and wilt hn mmuwd fcv few war vessels t the world. COMPLETION Sunrise Mining Company Will Soon Have Control of the Mine-Either That Or a Law Suit It is highly probnblo that within tha nost two or threo dnys that the Sunriso Mining company will succeed in obtain ing control of tho conl mine southeast ' of tho city, ns n deal they have under negotiation with tho Pacific Coal com pany is coming to n successful termin ation, according to reports. Ino Pacific Coal company Bomo time ago entered into n contract with John Murphy of Chicago to deliver the mine to a company which Murphy was to orgnnize, tho contract prico being 125,00(1. Murphy returned east, or ganized his compnay, named it the SnnriBc Mining company, and roturned to take tho mine off tho hands of the Pacific Coal company. hilo Murphy wns organizing his company and raising the money to car ry on the work of development, the Pacific Coal company was having troub les of their own. The old officers of tho company resigned nnd for a while tho company was without a guiding hand in tho porson of a presidont. it tins boon this inlernnl strife that hns dclnyod tho dcul, oIho the Sunrise company would ho tho owners at tho present time. It looks at last, howover, ns If the deal will soon bo consummated. Tho Pacific Coal company is gotting Into sliapo to deliver according to their con tract. In tho meantimo the Medford Coal company nro sitting back nnd watching the deal with a great deal of Interest. TIiito is $2fi,000 coming to thorn In April, and it is n soureo of spoculation to thorn as to where their chock will como from. If anything should nriso to prevent tho delivery of tho mine as provided in tlio contract, it will probably mean a lawsuit on tho part of Murphy against tho Pncific Coal company. Ho it hus simmered down to a point whom it will cither menu a lawsuit or a fulfilling of n contract. CATHOLIC SCHOOL IS PROVING GREAT SUCCESS The Catholic school recently opened in this city is proving a great success. Over HO pupil nro enrolled at tho pres ent time, nnd more nro constantly pre senting themselves for enrollment. It is expected that tho number will ton tho 100 mark beforo the end of tho month. Archbishop ChriHtio is oxpectod in tho nenr future to bless the school. As soon ns the church is completed tlio nrchbishop will visit this city, to remain somo days. ENGINEERS OF O. P. B. THREATEN TO STRIKE WINNIPKO, Man., Sept. 22. That they will join tho striking machinists of the Canndinn Pncific railroad if tho company does not settle tho striko with in a woek Is the giBt of an ultimatum just issued by tho engineers of the sys tem. They intend to lny the facts be foro the railway commissioner at Ot tawa. It wns reported today that the rnilrond is preparing a statement In which it will offer to roinstate tho strikers under certain conditions. PICKPOCKETS FOLLOW BUFFALO BILL'S SHOW I1KLLINCIIAM, Wash., Sept. 22. In spite of the vigilance ef city detocttves three persons are today mourning the loss of an sggregato of 1 1000 taken from them by pickpockots who are fol lowing a wild west show around the country. Tho local police wore feeling rather happy ovor the fact that they hnd noticed none of this class of robbers when the victims reported their losses. FIV7 COUNTIES IN WASHINGTON WITHOUT AN AUTOMOBILE OLYMI'IA, Wash., Sept. 22. Not a citizen of Douglas, Ferry, Okanokan, Hwninania or Wahkiakum county owns 1 property. The atate assessor tun year 1 found motor cars as aaainst 172? mllW7. - "'