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SEVENTY-THIRD YEAR SALEM, OREGON. FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 121923. i t i;PRICBFTVIICi:NT3 UVJ rn zn LrxL . - - i - .. - i- - m .i nt -: RUTH'S BAT 1IER . FORilEES fjew York Americans Defeat nationals in Second Game of World Series at Polo . Grounds . ; DIG BAMBINO'S FEAT MAKES WORLD HISTORY C:neralship of McGraw Not So Apparent Yesterday as On Opening Day NEW YORK, Oct. 11. (By The Associated Press.) Babe Rath crossed with mighty strides the threshold! of' world's series glory that has .been barred to him for two years. ' Driving out two thun dering home run thrusts in sac eessive Innings, a feat unparalled la championship baseball history. Rath was the dynamo- In the pow erful attack, that enabled the New York Yankees to turn the tables en the Giants; capture the second game of the series by a score of 4 to 2 and square the count with the world's titleholders In the 1123 straggle for diamond supre macy. ! - f ' Bats Tanks Into IJad First up in the fourth. inning, vita the score- tied at one-all. the r -it slugger put the .Yankees in i. y lead with-a terrific, towering that landed atop the second t r of the right field grandstand .2.1 started the downfall of Hugh "cQ-iiHaq,.. Giant ..ase.i. anther i au w ma g wa u uk a?viw tlrj bat on his next turn at bat la the fifth, the Babe crashed one JacSUeatley" southpaw slants i-.to the lower right field stands, a -it blow was the climax of the game; Yankee rictory was clinch ed then and. thereafter It proved merely;' a formality to carry on to the finish. j t- , Pennock Masters, Giants --. It was a spectacular, triumph for the Yankees. ' whose ' punch "naatered John UcGraw's strategy and gave them; the first world's series j rictory they hare known Since the fifth name ot the 1921 championship- apan over which eight defeats and one tie haTe been the disastrous portion of the American league, champions. It was a brilliant day for Herb Pen Dock, fragile left hander. ! who twirled the Giants Into subjection An masterful fashion; and Joe Dn gan,. fleet footed third sacker, whose; marvelloua defensive play brought him repeatedly into the limelight. Day of Days for Ruth ; But' oyer and above the mere outcome of the game, the brilliant cogs that fitted into the winning Yankee machine, It was the day of days for Ruth, baseball's star of Stars, who had come into his own and found the end of the rainbow of world's series fame for which he had sought before I In . rain. True, Ruth earned hie spurs as a pitcher, hanging up a record of ,29 scoreless innings in champion ship play that still stands, but it was batting laurels that the great est home run hitter of -all j time was seeking and he gained them today. No matter what he does the rest of the series, his place among series immortals 4s secure. Thus it was -a triumph even greater tor Ruth than, ! for the Yankees; the ascendancy of brute forcei, the power of the wallop orer j the tactical genius of. John MeGraw, baseball's -matter mind. For behind the struggle for pre- - mleri diamond honors from the start: has been the greatest drama of all, the matching of Rnth's dy namic individuality against . the strategy of the gray-haired," silent leader of the Giants. . Tvo year; ago, Ruth ;w dlcapped h the series by injuries; j (Continued on page 2) ;;; THE WEATHER; OREGON: Friday, fair; gentle northerly winds. 16 CAt WEATHER" (Thursday) . . Maximum temperature, 71. Minimum temperature, 49. River, -4.8: falling. Ttainfalt. none. i Atmosphere, - clear lad, .northeast'' - y I Box j Score Yankees , 1 - AB R H PO A E Witt, cf .... 5 0 0 1 0 0 Dugan, 3b , . , . 4 0 12-3 0 Ruth, rf .l."..3e 2 2 3 0 0 R. Meuscl. If 4 0 1 4 0 0 Pipp, lb. 3 Lly 1 13 0 0 Ward. 2b 4 1 2 3 4 0 Schang, c ... 4 0 ,11 0 0 Scott, as . . ?4 ; 0 2 0" 6 0 Pennock, p ... 3 0 0 0 1 0 Totals ....34, 4 10 27 14 0 ; -Giants j ; r AB R H PO A E Bancroft, se.. .4 0 0 0 6,0 Groh. 3b . ... 3 11 0 - 1 0 Frjsch, 2b . ..4 0 2 2 6 0 Young, t .... 4 0 2 0 0 2 E. Meusel If.. 4 1 2 4 0 0 Cunningm cf.. 4 0 0 1 0 0 Kelly, lb ....4 0 1 1 1 0 SnyderJ n. .4 l0 0 : 2 1 0 McQuillan, p..l 0 0 0 0 0 Bentley, p I ..2 0 1 1 2 0 Gowdy, s . r . .1 0 0 0 0 0 Stengel, cf . ; .0 0 0 1 0 0 Jackson, zx?..l 0 0 (T 0 0 Totals , .435 I 1 27 17 2 z Batted ; . for . Cunningham In the eighth..' : I j y, zs Batted for Bentley in 9 th. ( Two base hits, Bentley, Dugan; home .runs, iWard, " E. Meusel, Ruth (2 ) ; double plays, Bancroft to Frlsch to Kelly 2; Scott to Ward to Plpp; left on bases, Yanks 8. Giants 7; baser on balls, off McQuillan 2. off Pennock 1, Bentley 2; struck out by McQui llan 1 ( R. Meusel ; ) by Pennock 1 (Kelly). Hits off McQuillan 6 in 3 2-3 innings;; off Bentley 5 in 5 1-3 Innings; off Pennock 9 in 9 innings. Hit by pitcher, by Bent ley (Pennock.) Winning pitcher, Pennock;; losing pitcher, McQuil lan. . -Umpires, O'Day at ' plate; Nallin at first ; 1 Hart ,' at second i Erans at third. Time, 2 hours, 7 minutes. ' ' . v -. ; - : .' II. It No Valuable ExpressBW Nothing Known of Con- tents of Mail Bags : PORTLAND., Or.. Oct.- .11. According to information, recelTed late . today atLthe offices of .the Southern' Pacific company here, the passengers on the San Fran cisco Express were not endangered when the train was held up and the mall car blown up at Tunnel 13, Southern Oregon today. C was held up at the portal of the "The first section of the train tunnel," 'the report said. "The mail . car, was . blown,, up, . killing the mail clerk. I When Conductor Merret went forward he found Engineer Bates and Fireman Seng both dead from shots; through the head. Brakeman C. O. John son had" been shot In the chest and died two hours after the. hold up. The trainmaster from Horn brook got a light engine and pull ed the west end of the train out of the tunnel with the mall car biasing. .The second section of the train came up and pulled the rear; end : of the train 'out at the other, end of the tunnel. The mail car meanwhile was put on a siding at. White Point and the fire was i extinguished at 2 : 5 0 p. - m." Express company officials here said no shipments of especial val ue were In their car on the train. Postal officials, silenced by gOT ernmental regulations, declined to say whether any money shipment were in e mail car. ? fc V - The train would hare been due at Oakland at 8 a.' m., Friday. Records All Broken By .1 " Willamette Registration -Crowding- facilities to the break-ing-point, 784 students are now registered in - all . departments of Willamette unirersyy. ; Of this number 6 8 are in "the College of Liberal Arts". 119 in the School of Music. 5 2 in Kimball School of Theology and 7 in the College of taw.' ' SfMf ... " -- , .1 ' . Efforts are being continued to handle this large enrollment Dur ing the earlier part ot tne wees; 100 new chairs were bought; for nun. in? oarercrowded . classrooms. Erentually the university through the" million dollar endowment ob tained last year will be able to handle this number with ease bat at present the comparatively smaii rpvRn tin obtained from this fund Is 'consumed , in. meeting the cost cf the new rscasiua. ; RUTH'S FEAT I- UNEQU ALLED IN GAME ANNALS Home Rons Knocked Yester day are Likely to Be Re- . membered for All Time NEW YORK, Oct. 11. (By the Associated Press) When the last baseball is tossed and the tar paulin is pulled over the diamond to cover it for all time, and when the records of the game are com piled with finality, in all probabil ity one mark will stand out un equalled at the top of the list. Alongside the record will be the name of . George Herman Ruth. And, If the compiler is human he'll add In parenthesis. Babe. . Ruth's .diamond history is too well known to be detailed again. Everyone knows that . he first gained fame as a pitcher when he went to the ' Boston American league club from the . Baltimore Orioles and that he first became celebrated as a world's series pitcher. Notable as were his achievements on the mound they did not compare with the prodig ious batting that he accomplished when he came to the New York Yankees as a; center fielder , and slugger extraordinary. He ' holds the record for home run hitting. But he has partici pated in numerous ' world's series this is his third since Joining the Yanks he always failed miserably to hit in; the October classic? A wheel slipped; something went wrong; Ruth couldn't 4 do much damage to world series pitchers unUl today. And today he came into his own, his two home runs being the margin by which his team triumphed over the . Giants and evened the series. ' The victory today meant much for his -team. mates. It restored their confidence with the tremen dous psychological advantage that entails and it enables them to go to aleep tonight in the knowledge that when they next take the field they tritaTt3fa1tven "lermsT and, according to some critics, bet ter than that since the Giants have used up four pitchers. ; , EUGETiE RECEIVES WORD OF Telephdne? Man Taps Wires and. Sends Word ot kod bery to Home Office EUGENS, Or., Oct. 11 Eugene was perhaps the first city on the coast to receive, the news of the holdup of Southern Pacific train No. ; 13 in northern ' , California early this afternoon. 1. Just as soon as the bandit gang had disappeared, J. M. Lamb of this city, : who was a passenger on the train on his way td Klam ath Falls and who is district time keeper, for the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company, climbed a nearby, telephone ' pole and with an instrument which " he always carries, sent word of the holdup to the office of the telephone com pany here, and to his wife stating that he escaped the rain ot bul lets. ... ii Legislature Meets and .Ap points Committee to Con-: sider Acts of Governor : OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. Oct. 11. (Br The Associated Press.) Plans for holding- a court of Im peachment to review the official conduct of, elective state officers mbred forward tonight with ap parently nothing to Impede their progress-' Ignoring for the; time recommendations of - Governor J. C Walwton that his bill opposing the Ku KIuz Klan be immediate ly considered, house members to day at the opening session by a unanimous vote .authorized ; their speaker, W. D. McBee, to name a committee of investigation and 1m peaehment to inquire into all : of fenses charged against ' Impeach ment state officials. -,s. . , 'The 'house then recessed, until tomorrow afternoon -when the per sonnel of the committee is expect ed to be announced. The senate awaiting; the lead of the ' house, where all impeachment. action or iginates, -previously . had recessed until tomorrow ncrritag. HOLDUP OUOIHHS BEGIN SESS O LABOR FAVORS More Stringent Laws Will . Be Advocated Before Next 1 Congress; Collie Labor tn Hawaii Opposed jj'j WOULD ASSIST H0B0 TO ASSIST HIMSELF - , , - . . J Batteries of publicity to le I Turned on I WW Said fa i Seek AF). Destruction PORTLAND, Or., Oct. 11. (By The Associated, 1 Press) More stringent immigration laws, with reduction in present quotas will be sought , from the sixty-eighth congress, according to .action tak en by the American Federation of Labor convention here today.; l Protest against ! importation ot coolie labor into Hawaii was Vole ed by the contention which adopt ed resolutions declaring there was no labor scarcity in 1 Hawaii, that would justify introduction of coolie labor4 ' The Japanese question was brought before the convention by Paul Scharrenberg, San Francisco of the Seaman's union, and Jere L. Sullivan, Cincinnati of the Ho tel and ' Restaurant Workers' un ion. 'I Scharrenberg referred" to conditions In Hawaii and asserted that the same would have prevail ed In California If the people of that state had not agitated against W Jkk bMaWsVMaMtiSaB aW MJSVSESSBttkSBMSlSVStf9,,Bf4l ' :iv v nit : ' ' Sullivan spoke of the rapid mul tiplication of Japanese In this country and said this was a real menace.: : -: f'-',..- ... . Efforts to organize migratory workers and to assist hoboes to assist themselves were ordered by the convention after It had taken acuon renouncing tne industrial Workers "of the World.. The ex ecutive council was instructed to turn the batteries of publicity on the I WW ,j which were alleged to be in the employ of interests seek ing to destroy organised labor. Election; of officers and selec tion of the next . convention city was made a special order for Fri day morning. The re-election of President Samuel Gompers and the other officers was predicted by convention leaders. ' ' El Paso! and Detroit were lead ing contenders for. the next con rention. according to convention talk .today. , ,..',.. t , r , Sleeting Date Changed Time for. opening of the annual convention was changed , from the first Monday in Octfeber to the third Monday In November so that the convention will not interfere with activities of labor In political campaigns. . i Stiff Company to Have Fines "Place of Business . I : .. : .. With the completion of the ad dition to I the H. It. Stiff . Furni ture company in about 10 daye this firm wiy have one of the largest businesses of this kind In Oregon outside of Portland. ; By means of the addition the' frontage ;on Court is increased from 60 to 90 feet. The property now has a depth ot 8 4 feet. A canopy shelter will be built over an outside entrance to the base ment, which has also been great ly enlarged. Temporary parti tions will be torn out soon.; throw ing the floors into one large room, giving an opportunity to 'display goods xa more advantage and to accommodate patrons. 1 f Since jits establishment 'in Sa lem the!H. I. Stiff company has gradually grown, until, when the new improvements are completed, the store will have a full , base ment, three floors and a mezsa nine floor. ; Under present plans the basement of the addition will be devoted to a bargain depart ment. These improvements will nearlyfreble the entire floor spaeC Duplicate stocks are now being, kept in two separate ware hotjses. which will be maintained fori this purpose. . " .; - U "tfhe. newadditlon matches the prfsent building and la being con. strueted for CoL Percy Willis by Albert A. Slewert contractor. The building will cost approximately 20,000 SMALL MISS : KILLED WHEN HORSE RUNS Yakima Girl Ties Halter "Rope Around Waist and Enraged , Aiiinml Tramples Her TAKIMaO Wash., Oct. 11 Constance Harold, 10, of Sunny side, while at play this morning tied a long halter rope ardund her waist and startled an already troublesome horse. The enraged animal dragged her ' a short disr tance then turned and trampled upon her. peath resulted In stantly. i Salem1 Realtors Think Prof its ShoDld Go to Better ment of Local Camp Discussion of the existing con ditions of the Salem auto camp grounds occupied the Marion-Polk County- Realtors r association at their, regular luncheon yesterday and resulted in the naming of the exocutive committee to wait -upon tbe city council with the recom mendation that all profits which might accrue from the grounds be turned back into a fund designat ed for the ' improvement of the ramping site, j The question was brought up by O. D. Socolofsky, who read the re port of the confmittee . from the civic' clubs of the city, regarding the camp; grounds. Mr. Socolof sky a suggestion that the realtors bulletin boards be erected giving the hours of worship and location of ' Salem churches met with ap proval. "That pastors of "the 'churches would weleome'the stranger in Ihe city even' though clad in the cus tomary tourist garb was the opin ion; expressed by Mr. Harris, an other advocate ' of the bulletin board. Vi Announcement that Mrs. Lelace Ellis would be associated with the Golden Rule Realty company was made , by Mrs.- Gertrude J. . M. Page. W H. Grabenhorst also an nounced that. It. E. Oberer, Port land, a brother-in-law, ; would be associated with his firm, - A. C. Bohrnstedt, president of the asso ciatiori. was unable to be present, having been called out of the city on business Thnrsday., Assessed Property Is Esti mated at $15,469,930 by County Assessor ; DALLAS, Or , Oct. 11. (Spe cial to The Statesman.) County Assessor. Fred J. Holman has Just completed the assessed valuation lor. Folk. county for the year 1923 and finds that the amount is $12, 469,930. From this amount $53. 000 has been deducted for old sol dier exemptions. -; Vy.'.V!' ;' The assessment for this year is divided as follows: k 139,831.23 acres of tillable land 'valued at $5,038,160; 139,821.23 acres non tillable land at $3,427,870: im provements on deeded or patented land,; $812,440; town and; city lots valued at $614,420; improve ments on town or city lots valued at $847,170; " Improvements on lands not deeded or patented val ced at $73,710; logging roads and rolling stock, value at $45,000; steamboats, sailboats, , stationary engines and i manufacturing ma chinery, valued at $382,950; mer chandise and stock in trade, $370, 560; farm machinery and auto mobiles, rained $135,610; money and notes and accounts, $31,310; shares of stock, -valued at $94, 000; hotel and Office furniture, etc.. $12,700; 3.570 - mules and horses with a value of $163,720; 8787 cattle, valued at $256,170; 19,413 sheep and goats valued at $70,950; 2906 hogs with a value placed at $26,790: 8,67 dogs val ued at $8920, and farm tractors with a .valuation; of $60,920. r OFFER STILL 4300D DETROIT. : Mich., Oct. 11. Henry : Ford's offer for the pur- chase of the Muscle Shoals pro ject in Alabama - Is still ' before I congress and will not . be with drawn," Ford said today.- WOULD IMPROVE Ctfl1 OBOI F VALUATIONS 111 . POLK ARE SIU WRECKED GiS !il . Mil W::m ivtiu luu mm w urn. Bomb Thrown Into Mall Car Causes Explosion Which Demolished Four Cars and Fires Another SALEM MAN, AL0NZ0 MAHAN, IS INJURED Employes at Tunnel Thought Boiler Exploded and De layed Search SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 11. No foot was obtained by bandits who robbed Southern Pacific train No. 13 near Siskiyon today, and killed three trainmen and a mail clerk, according to officials ot the rail way mail service here. The charred remains of two mail sacks with the contents destroyed were found in Tunnel 13, : where the robbery occurred after the mail car had been destroyed by flames, which followed the explosion of the bomb, believed to have been hurled by the holdup men, local officials announced. All the mall in the burned car also was de stroyed, according' to information received here, they said. v:; i Description Given ;" J Descriptions of two men who boarded the tender of the engine at Siskiyou have been obtained from railroad -employes who -.saw them, and identification is expect ed tq be an easy task, once they are appfehehded' 1 Ewas salot"";" The arrival of the train here Is being anxiously awaited. " . HILTS, Cal.", Oct. 11 Two ban dits who boarded the southbound Southern Pacific San Francisco ex press as it entered a tunnel near here shortly after noon today, Stopped the train 'and threw : a bomb Into the mall car, killing the mall clerk and wrecking the car. Four other cars were so badly damaged they could not be moved out of. the tunneL . The explosion wrecked the mail car so complete ly that no loot was obtained by the bandits., ' - Railroad employes said they saw Uwo men board the train just as It entered the tunnel. It is believed that the bandits weqs railroad em ployes or former railroad men and killed the trainmen when .they were recognised. .Then they stop ped the train and went back to the mail car, which had. been barricad ed by the clerk who refused to let the bandits enter. . ; 'i -'. Attempting to force an entrance they threw the explosive through a window, wrecking the car. . Tracks Found 4 -: The railroad employes at the en trance of the tunnel, seeing the train stop and hearing the explos ion thought the holler of the en gine had exploded. They started to Investigate and 'meantime the bandits disappeared. Sheriff Calkins of Yreka, who arrived at the scene shortly after the hold up, found the tracks of three men leading dver the hill away from the wreck. The belief that the holdup men were familiar ; with the. operation of trains was strengthened by in dications that the bandits first killed the engineer and firemen and then stopped the train. Salem Man Jsted N. Hassey, an express messen ger's helper, who was in the sec ond express car, two coaches be hind the main car, J declared . ' he heard, two shots, ....as the " train slowed down going -through the tunnel. , He said he jumped out of the car to run ahead to the mail car. As he did so, he declared, the explosion in the mail car knocked him to the ground. When he re corered he went with Conductor C. O. Merritt, who was in charge of the train, and Louis Grimm, an other trainman, to the front of the train,; where they found the bodies of the men who had been Shot.'. V "v, 'v"- ' - '"'"-"j Twenty passengers were cut by glass and bruised in the concus sion of the explosion, Hassey said. He gave the names of three as R. C. Doyle of San Francisco, George Gains of Seattle and Alonzo Mahan of Salenu: . . . . j. ; f Conductor Merritt "declared he believed the enginemen were slain when they recognised the bandits, who are believed to have boarded the 'train - at Siskiyon, , Southern Pacific South Bound Train NurrJL .13 Held Up As It Emerges From Tunnel " lit Southern Oregon-Mail Car So . E..l. ' Wrecked No Loot Taken, MEDFORD, Ore., Oct. ll--Southbourid Southern I . -cific train No. 13 was held up at i 12 i40 p. m. ,Thursd-y c mile south of Siskiyou and 17 miles south of Ashland, a lc:. -ly flag; and, helper, station, located at thev summit of t! 2 mountain range of the same name. ' Four men are dead, the only souls wto saw the tandit and two passengers sustained cuts from flying' glass abc-i the head, face and legs. : The dead are: , I ;. , ' . ' , t.' . S. L.jBates, engineer, age 55 yearst Dunsmuir, Cal f iftli on the list for long service on the Southern Pacific, . E.-Seng, fireman, age 23, Ashland, Ore. ; C. F. Daugherty, mail clerk, age 35 years, s - . . Coy le- O. J ohnson, age about 40 years, Ashland, Ore, brakeman, shot in the stomach. : ; i ; ; - B. Devine, . Vancouver1, B. ;C., passenger,5 received ,ct:b about the head from flying glass from windows of "the'smo!: ing car. ; : . !, ,, : .-l a v;'- -;: v' J"" A man giving the name of James Brown, but admittin g it is fictitious, to spare his children in Los Angeles,. Gal., th i worrj. of reading their father was hurt, received cuts cn th? face and a cut artery in his left leg,, near the ankle. Dovir.:: and 'Brown'.'-are, not seriously injured." - - : II Medford and Ashfapd Na . tional Guard- Companies ' : .Take Part in Search ' Further .details of the f wreck and robbery of Southern Pacific passenger train No. 13 in tunnel No. 13 in Jackson county were received here late last night by A d j n t a n t : General George A. White. , ; rr v ' ; !;:.:: . . The Information received by General White from County Judge Gardner and other authorities tn Jackson county confirms the ear lier reports that, four trainmen were killed. While the real eye witnesses are now dead; other trainmen and passengers saw two men stealing away into the moan tains with packs on their backs; presumably loot from the train. ' The . bandits left -:. behind ; them some gunny sacks and a quantity of pepper, doubtlessly - materials by which they hoped to avoid pur Butt by bloodhounds. They also left some of their clothing. Blood hounds have been ordered from Seattle and will probably-' arrive, on the eceno tomorrow according to General White's Information! , Detachments from the national guard companies both at Medford and at Ashland have gone fully armed to assist in the man hunt, not as members of the guard but as citizens with whatever posses may - be f ormed. A Their orders from General White are to give whatever assistance is j possible. Sheriff Terrell of Jackson county and a California sheriff from - an adjoining county are ;each: in charge of possesses. There ts said to be a network of roads and trails In the mountains and all these are to be j carefully watched. Should the bandits be cornered in some stronghold. General White said authority would be given for how. itzers.and high., explosives from National guard armories ' to . be used against them, i ' The southbound,, San Francis co express --which was beld , up near the California line, yesterday afternoon, passed through Salem at 10:45 Wednesday night and would' have been due; into Oak land at 8 o'clock this nornlng. jucjge Robinson ? of ( Polk ; County Is Recovering . DALLAS. Or., Oct.. ll.f-( Spe cial to The Statesmani.)- County Judge Aea B. Robinson who has been confined to his home in In dependence by Illness for the past 10 days is reported to'bo well oa the road-to recovery and la expect' ed to be at his office In the court house -wlth.ltt .Jfce n?x fgw days, . .Tne man, car of tne . train la a tangled mass of steel, and smoul dering;' ruinS, and'- Mail Cler !: Daugherty died in this car, I : body 'burned to a crisn by tLa i that followed 4he explosion. 1 ; The doors of tbe express car wer s forced by dynamite. All traffic t i thej Southern Pacific to the E: f was held ; nn until 8 : 3 0 , . ton ' 3 : , whUe' wrecking crews and trs!. : from Ashland and- Darunu'. cleared the tunnel of wreckaco. Story Pieced Out " .The story of the attempted LolJ up, as pieced together from clu:t and evidence at the scene. 13 ft follows: :,: . The train, tn charge of Conduc tor C.Q. Merritt of Ashland, sr rived at Siskiyou at 12 : 3 6 p.' s 1., and left that place at 12:8 p. n. Tbe 'ground above tbe west cvl of the tonnel, known as No. 1Z, i covered with a growth of tri. an ideal hiding place. Trac'., Walker Bonnsett passed thera &t noon and saw no signs of the t 1. - There is plenty of evidence t: t Engineer Bates and Fireman .... : were, murdered. ; Wounds c 1 1 powder marks prove that they C. l from a pistol ""Shot fired wL:: j pressed against their heads a:.. r the engine had been detached fron the train. They - lay beside their engine in pools ot blood. -- The ,-robbers .then ' returned to the mail car and with n eJectrl: battery set off a charge of nltra glycerine at the door that wrectei the . car, - Mail Clerk Daugiierty died within the barred doors. Hail pouches were ripped open by tb 3 force 'of the ' explosion and tt 3 store In the , car hurled off It j base. The car afterwards cau !it fire and was the funeral pyre of the postal employe. Too ieayy. a blast was used-by the bandits. . - When the sound of the explosion came, the first Impression of t3 train crew and passengers rrzi that fbeehglne- had blown nr. Conductor Merritt and hisirake man, accompanied by Johnson, af terwards seriously wounded, rusli ed out when the train stopped to determine . the trouble. John-0 n ran around Merritt, while the lat ter, and ,hls two assistants wcrd forced back by fumes from tLa tunnel. ;They heard eight stots. When the;r returned they tz:zl Johnson lying wounded. ' Confusion followed in the tin let of . Siskiyou., The tracks c 1 the fleeing desperadoes hadteca stamped out by the feet cf curi ous passengers. , Eherifi Calk'.r : of Siskiyou county, CaX, Snd Pro hibition Enforcement Officer E. B. Sandlfer of Jacksonville, Cr started oat posses. Members c l the national mard corn pan!: 3 ' Medford end Ashland were re : to the scene In automobiles. Tonight armed meu were gusr ' ing all roads leading from :: ' yon and the mountain trails t . being patrolled. - The dead were brought tsrk ? Ashland tonight and Corocr J A. Terl will bold an i-'iu' . '.