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THE MEDPORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1910.
CALHOUN HINTS .
AT DARK PLOT
A?ks District Attorney Flckcrt to In-
At ft. ll...i..tAitn ' I
vcsugaic ucrinm myMcnuua
Ads Which Appeared in a
Frisco Newspaper.
Another
hipment
SAN FRANCISCO. Cnl., Fob. 23. ;
District Attorney Firkort is work- J
ing today upon n mysterious- series
of cryptograms, bearing upon the !
Kraft cases,- which havo been sub- 1
mittcd to him by Patrick Calhoun,
indicted head of the United Rail
roads, with a request that they be
carefully investigated. The orypto
pums were printed in n San Fran
cisco morning paper under the head
ing of "porsnnn! advertisements," '
between May 23, 100S, and August
4, 1909. Willimn R. Stone, a watch- I
maker of Oakland, noticed the ad-'
vertiscments and worked out a key
By using only the first letter of each
word. Tn this way he found that
the messages dealt with the graft
cases and included the names of;
Calhotw, the prospective jurors nnd(
other persons prominent in the cases ;
thnt the investigations showed the ,
advertisements were presented to
the "Los Angeles papers and were ,
telegraphed here the night before '
publication. Amman, who made the
arrangements, sent the nds to the 1
office by special delivery letters, i
which were usually posted at the1
Main postoffice in Lo Angeles. '
Stone followed the messages
closely nnd at length submitted them,
io Patrick Ca'liun, who in turn sub-1
aitted them to the district nttornev.
It is asserted that some ofiSlhe mes-
snjres referred to threatsJgagainst
Calhoun nnd others apparently re
fer to the death of Chief of oPlieo
3'ggyi who was lost in the bay. wh
he is supposed to have fallen off Hip
police launch. It is averted that
some of them refer to the dynamit
ing ontrages and other thrilling fea-
tares of the prosecutions,
It is stated today that the paper n
which the advertisements appeared
nbm&ted them to Detective 'Wil
liam J. Burns nnd former District
.Attorney Langdon of the prosecu
tion, nnd that after going over them
Sums declared that they were the
work of someone connected with the
iefense.
There were 40 of the cryptograms
jn all. The following which ap
peared July 29, 1909, is an example:
"Accounts muddled. Inventory
not very essential. Some thing in
demnit3T good. All the items not
given. Have instructed stockhold
ers defer every action till hearing."
Translation: "Am investigating his
eath."
The body of S. P. Flynn, historian
of the graft prosecution, who is said
to have had ranch valuable infor
mation regarding the cases, was
fonnd hanging from a pair of
clothes hooks in his room in San
Jose on July 20, 1909.
NEWTOWN and SPITZENBERG Apple Trees
Jut Arrived From the Dalles Nursery
IMI IHI M MtIMM I I I I MMMM ! IUM Mil I I I I II I M I I I ll Ml I
4060 Cornice Pear Trees on Hand 4000
A.
i 2500 Peach Trees, Be& Grade Standard Varieties
Planters are Respedfully Invited to Examine My Stock
at 519 Oakdald Avenue
BENSON'S
BARGAINS
It Will Pay You to Looks These Up
Five-room house in .Benson addition, lacing east; hou
just completed; price $800, $400 cash, balance $20.
monthly.
ouse
00'
'Five-room bungalow on West Tenth street; south front;.
! price. .$1350, half cash, balance in one year at. 0 per cent
Tenth street will soon bo paved. ,
Warner
THE PIONEER NURSERYMAN
INSURGENTS HOLD HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS "jMUL PATIENT 'HAM FINEO FOR "
WESTERNJCARAGUA WILL GIVE DINNER! SCALJSTO DEATH j HITTINGJMALL BOY
Officials of Hadriz Administration Special Domestic Science Class Will Careless Nurses Let Helpless Man Coyle Johnson, In Trying to Induce
Preparing to Flee From Man- Serve a Dinner to Invited , Suffer In Bath Tub In Yreka Small Boys to Go Home, Com-
agua to the Capitol. Guests on Friday. Institution. mils Technical Assault.
He Got Rich Quick.
KANSAS CITY. oM., Feb. 23.--George
E. Nicholson, who, it is re
ported, is to marry Mrs. Anderson,
a stenographer at the Planters' ho
tel in St. Louis, has a remarkable
business career. Ten years ago he
was a day laborer at loin, Kan.
Two years ago, when he left Kan
sas to make his homo in Kansas
City, ho was reputed to be the
wealthiest man in the Sunflower
Btate, He is now rated at $4,000,
000. Last November, when he ap
plied for $1,500,000 in a lump, it
was said to be the largest applica
tion for insurance ever made at one
"time. Nicholson recently started n
movement to merge the cement inter
ests of four states."
PAID TO ENTER HEAVEN:
NOT THERE YET, HE SUES
PITTSBURG, Pa., Feb. 23. In
suit for $5000, filed against the Rev,
"William J. Herre of Hellevtie, Jamos
Annable of Rose Point, Lawrence
county, a former parishioner, al
leges that he gave land worth this
amount to the minister fivo years
ago to insuro his admittance to
heaven. Annable alleges in his com
plaint that it was understood the
minister was not to dispose of the
land until after the soul of Annable
liad reached heaven. Annable
on to say that he was forced to take
a trip south for his health and that'
upon Ins return he found the minis
ter had disposed of 4he property,
Jio naively ends his complaint by
saying ne iinrt ascertained there is
another method to get to heaven,
mid that this method in much rnoro
jeure than entrance by purchasing.
Revival Meetings.
Hear W. Theo. Matlock tonight at
,th Christian clfureh on "A Poor
sJlarKain and a Wise Choice," 7:30.
BLUE FIELDS, Nicaragua. Feb.
23. The provisional army is in
complete control of Western Naca
ragua and officials of the Madriz
administration are preparing to flee
from Managua, the capital, accord
ing to advices from the front today.
Details of operations are lacking be
cause of the slight means of com
munication. The only ways of communication
are by courier and military tele
graph. Tho telegraph practically is
useless because of a strict- censor
ship and a great amount of the news
permitted to be carried is colored ?o
sustain the belief of insurgent suc
cess. According to dispatches, the men
in tho administration army are de
serting to the insurgents.
The army of General Estrada,
which is believed to be drawing near
Managua, is in four divisions, which
are advancing nnder a general plan
to besiege the capital.
TOMBSTONES SET AFIRE
IN BROOKLYN CEMETERY
NEW YORK, Feb. 23. "Please,
mister," said an excited boy to a
Brooklyn policeman, "please come
quick. The graveyard is on fire."
"Lead me to it," said the police
man; "I never saw a fire like that."
Sure enough, flames were leaping
from broken columns and gates njur
to plain tombstones. Investigation
showed that tho stones were in ro
ality pine wood treated with a prep
aration which made them look like
marble. The cemetery is largely
owned by families too poor to afford
even true granite. Some vandal, it
is supposed, set the fire.
Hunt's Opinion on Hlnh Cost.
A. F. Hunt, tho well known live
stock dealer and former Ashland
resident, is quoted by Portland
newspaper aa follows: "Instead of
all this talk of high priced meat hurt
ing tho packer it is stabbing the pro
ducer who Is the Ufo-blood. of our
country. Hit him and see how soon
tho effect of tho blow will be felt lu
tho city. Tho secret of the high cost
of living Is that there are too many
consumers and not enough producers
too many want to JIvo In tho cities
and towns while the farmer and the
ranchers aro neglected. Ashland
Tidings.
Tho girls of the special class in
domestic science at the Mcdford high
school will give a
their skill in the
serving a dinner to a number of in
vited guests at tho high school
building on Friday' evening, Febru-,
ary 25, at 6 o'clock. j
The dinner will be prepared and
served by the girls of the class
without any assistance or supervis
ion, and will show whnt Miss Mc
Dermott's tutelage has accomplished
during tho past few months.
YREKA. Cal., Fob. 23. William
Booth died at the county hospital In
demonstration of .this place on February H as the re
culinary art by!?uU of carelessness on the part of
inu viuyiujvo uk iliu iuoiliuiiuu Willi
let him scald In a bathtub.
An Indian Relic.
GRANTS PASS, Or., Feb. 23.
Walter Rick of Savago Creek
brought to tho Courier office a sec
tion of an oak trco which had two
bullets deeply embeded In tho wood.
Tho finder of this relic of tho early
history of Savago creek Is of tho
opinion that tho bullets were driven
Into the trco during an Indian raid
In that section of tho country, and
this may bo true. These laden' mis
siles havo been hlden away In the
oak for many years and it Is not Im
possible that Mr. Rick's specula
tions are correct.
Back From West Point.
Chester Tolman, younger son of J.
Crlt Tolman, aud a native son, is vis
iting relatives In Ashland, arriving a
few days ago from Seattle, whence
ho came from tho U. S. Mlllltary
Academy at West Point. Chestor
was appointed to the academy from
Alaska and successfully passed tho
entrance examination last year, but
his health failed under tho strenous
studies of school and ho Is now oft
on sick leave with tho hope of re
cuperatlng and being ablo to return
to school In June.
Tho facts have bcon guarded from
the public as much as pocslblc, and
havo only just becomo Known to the
newspaper men.
Booth waa past 80 years of age, and
was paralyzed from tho hips down to
such an extent that he could not help
himself. He was qulto feeble.
Two nurses carried the patient on
a sheet to the bathtub and placed him
in the tub. The tub was partly flllod
with water. Both nurses wont away
for about ten minutes that Is what
they told tho coroner and when they
returned they found Booth was badly
scalded. Ho was removed from tho hot
water, and every effort was made to
save him, but ho died 12 hours later.
Five-room modern house and good lot on South Fir street;,
a sua)) for a close-in home. Wo have this for a short
time only at $.1800; terms.
j"Ve have three five-room bungalows, .just completed, iu
i the West End, for rent at $ll per montn.
! Lot,, 100x100, on South Orange, with small house. The-
street' will be paved this year. This is a olose-in prop
erty and is a splendid location for a home. Tt is cheap-
at JF-'L'uuj-terms.
Twenty-acre orchard; 1G acres in 7-yoar-old Newtowns;
i 4 acres in 2-year-old Bartlett pears; four feet black loam
soil: three miles, fi "om Mcdford; pr.icc $111,000, half cash.
Best orchard buy in the valley.
Nine and fifty-four one-hundredths acres, within four
miles of Mcdford: near railroad station; MM 20-ycar-old
Spitzonbergs; 'JO -1-year-old Newtown grafts; 175 1-ycar-(
old Hose pears: So 1 -year-old Cornice pears and 151 2-year-old
Hose and CVnnico pears; should i roduce $IG50
in lfllO; jiricc $.0.".0, one-fourth cash, balance in three
years at 7 per cent.
Thirty-two acres within two miles of Mcdford: 27 acres
5, G and 7-year-old Bosc pears; -1 acres 2-year-old d'An-
, jou pears: good buildings and about $2000 worth of per
sonal property; price $2-1,000: torms.
Do You Realize
That Mcdford is one of the fastest growing cities in the
Before ox-officio .Mayor Eifert country, and that in a vcar or two any Lrood residence lot
this morning tho caso of the city of is going to be WOI'tll from $1000 lip?
.Mcuioru vs. 1.0 vie Johnson was i
heard.
Monday afternoon four small boys i
. . . i
woro pinywg on vncani grounds an- v
jncnt to Johnson's premises, among N
them being two sons of J. W. An-1
I Mil- 1 11. t .1 . i. . .
.xnac we are selling goou resiucnco lots, in tne best resi
dence section of tho city, surrounded by beautiful homes,
where water and sewer mains will soon bo laid, fit prices
that are within the reach of the smallest investor??
Do You Know
NO ATTEMPT WILL BE MADE
TO INDICT MOB LEADERS
WESTON IS ONE DAY
AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
The people who havo "too much of
this and too little of that" find each
other through tho For Sale and Ex
change ads.
SUNSniNE, Ariz., Feb. 23.
More than a day ahead of his sched
ule, Edward Payson Weston, tho pe
destrian, loft this station early this
morning on his eastward journey.
Weston intends to walk 35 miles to
day and spend the night at one of
tho small stations between Winslow
and Holbrook. Weston took his
customary Sunday rest on that day,
spending the day quietly at the home'
of a railroad employe at Sunshine.
Tho rest was welcome, as the vet
eran had covered 43 miles Saturday.
Not to read store ads is not
know "the best place to buy it."
to
CAIRO, 111., Feb. 22. It was re
ported hero today that no attempt
will be made to indict the loaders of
tho mob that stormed tho Cairo jail
t .
wnere a negro purse-snatcner was
imprisoned, nnd precipitated a riot
in which Alexandor ITalliday, son of
a former mayor of this citv. was
killed.
It was hinted thnt although Sher
iff Nellis is in possession of tho
names o the leaders, ho wonld risk
his life if he were to make them
known. Feeling horo is intense to
day and it is foared another out
break will occur.
Rumors that night-riders from
Kentucky and Missouri are planning
to come to Cairo and Jynch the next
negro arrested in the city were cur
rent todny. Tho authorities are in
vestigating a report that an anti
black society, formed primarily for
the protection of thoso who partici
pated in tho riots, is boing organized".
To Play at War.
SEATTLE. Wash.. Fob. 22. To
assist in testing tho vulnerability of
tne const defenses pf Ptigot Sound,
tho private yachts of Seattle and
probably Tacotnn. Everett. Bollini?-
ham and Olympia, will play at war
during tho joint coast defense exor
cises to bo held at Forts Worden,
Casey nnd Flaglor in July.
A placard In tho window tolls tho
neighbors about It a classified ad
gets tho attention of 'the prospective
tenant, or lodger.
derson.
Mrs. Johnson enmo out and called
to licr boy to come home, and tho
ynungstors 'on tho outsido mocked
her and "snssed her back." Johnson
went outside nnd ordorcd the boys
to go homo nnd was answered in
lnugungo more forciblo than polite, i
lie testified that he simply reached j
for the young Andorton ho was al- j
leged to havo assaulutod, with tho
intention of tnking him homo to ho
proporly disciplined. Tho two An-i
derson boys and Harold Fuller nil I
ngreeu mat rranK Anuorson was
struck by the doubled fist of John
son, whilo tho 10-year-old lnd wns
facing his opponent, tho blow loading
cm tho back of tho kid'i bond.
Johnson ndmittcd that ho laid his
hands on tho boy, which constitutes
n technicnl assault. In tho nrgu
ment Attorney Kelly for tho defend
ant rend a losoon to delinquent pnr
ents, mnking his plea from tho
standpoint (hnt homo training and
the observance of ordinarily good
breeding and manners would roliovc
householders of tho nocoBsity of
driving away from their premises ob
streperous and profnno small boys,
Whilo Judee Eifert appreciated tho
fact that Johnson had canso for his
act, tho law was violated, in his
opinion, so ho impos3d tho minimum
fine of $10.
Noted Olympia Girl Dead.
OLYJrPIA, Wash., Feb. 23.
Conntcfls Stnvra, whoso death is re
portod in a cablegram from Paris
today, was May Tilloy, a nativo 'of
Olympia, known to pioneers as tho
most beautiful girl ovor bom hero,
Sho was tho only dnughtor of Mr,
and Mrs, Rico Tilloy. Tho father
oporatod tho stage lino to Knlnmn
and wna woll-to-do. Sho was edu
cated in tho common schools of
Olympia nnd lator attendod St. IIol
en's hall at Portland. '
On nn eastern trip she met and
Inter married Charles Tilton, a
wealthy resident of Now Vork. Til
ton died und after a, few years she
married Count Stavra and had since
mndo her home In Paris. Sho waft
45 years of age,
Whether you want it for a home or as an investment,
why not get in on the ground floor and reap tho benefit of
the rise that is bound to come?
These Lots Run From
250 to
The huto that stands the
and tear tho Buick.
wear
A SMALL PAYMENT DOWN AND $10.00 MONTHLY.
Come to our office and we will bo pleased to show you.
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of the country and can furnish a buyer. Wc write f ire
and automobile insurance, sell surety bonds and rent
houses. We are properly equipped to handle your busi
ness. Give us a trial.
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