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Important Committees are Assured for Jackson's Delegation
BANK CLEARINGS
TODAY
$27,056.81
Medford Mail Tribune
FIFTH. YEAR
MEDFORD, OKKflOff. THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1911
THE WEATHER M
Stoi'iuy t)iiilit and tomorrow. fJ
'71
The Monngra of the rif. -MB
Wliltc Knlr weather. If
Utuc Rntn or snow. ,t
White nnit bluo Local showers ' .i 5
Ulnck trlangulnr Above white, -' h
warnier; liclow white, colder. H'-1
Whlto with black contcr Cold fyJE
4h.
Mr lis
IDENTITY OF
Namo Is Sidney Pittman He Ar
rived In Medford Last Friday
With Woman Companion Came
Here From Roschurn Rock Used
In Assatdt.
MAN ARRESTED SEEN
AT ROOMS OF COUPLE
It Is Stated That Robinson, the Sus
pect, Told People That Woman
With Pittman Was His Mother
Police Spend Day Unraveling Mys
tery Suroundinfl Affair.
Clilirli's llolihmon, 18 your.-, old, was
arrested, by Cliiff or Polite ,T. O.
Shearer n( iiooii today jiikI lodged in
the city jail to invalt Hie outcome of
tin injuries of Sidney I'ittinau, now
lying at the Southern Oivgon hospi
tal with i compound fracture of Hie
skull.
Investigation of the affair by the
police this morning brought to light
the fact that the Injured man arrived
In Medford last Friday with a woman
companion. To A. Dllts, a bartend
er in a Front streot saloon, who know
him in lSugcnc about a yoar ago, ho
confided that his wife was with him
and that they had just arrived from
HoHoburg. He asked to bo directed
to suitable rooms and Dllts recom
i loaded a rooming house on Solth
Orape street. At the time Pittman
requested paper and envelopes, say
ing that ho wished to write to Hose
burg, and while talking produced
from an mclde pocket sovora post
cards and a small memorandum
book.
When searched nt the hospital
Tuesday morning his pockets were
empty.
Couple Took Ilooms.
At the South Grapo street house,
where ho said he was from Klamath
Falls, the man and woman wore giv
en a room. The woman attended to
the room horso'.f and until it was va
cated and a number of empty whisky
bottles wore found In It no other
person than Pittman or iho woman
wore In it.
Monday evening the man now un
der arrest appeared and la alloged
to have said that tho wonau was his
mot her.
Neighbors Hear Voire.
hater that ovonln;, neighbors
heard voices at tho front of tho house,
hoard a heavy rock, used ordinarily
to bold a sci eon door from shimming,
dropped to tho sidowalk and upon
making an investigation discovered
n man, bellovod to bo Iho prisoner,
in the act of tramping out blood
stains on the sidewalk to cover thorn
up.
Later that night tho night pollco
discovered PlUmnn lying on tho side
walk near Grape and Main stroots,
and, thinking him drunk, lodged him
in tho city Jail. Tho noxt day ho was
llboratod cntf waB taken to tho South
ern Orogon hospital by persons who
found him waudorlr.g nlmlossly along
South Central avenvo. An operation
thoro showed that he had auotainod
a compound frncturo of tho skull.
.Man I rneoiiM'loiis.
Kvor sl.ic his admittance to tho
hospital Pittman has boon uncon
gcloui and unable to talk.
Robinson, who will bo hold by tho
pollco as a suspoct. has alroady boon
arrested here for potty offonsoo twice,
tho laat time only gaining his llborty
after breaking a window at tho Nat
ntorlum. by tolling Chlof Shearer that
hie mother was hero sick and noodod
what attontlon ho could give hor.
IMttmoii. whoso chancot of recov
ery are wild to bo very slim, was born
in Owiikboro. Ky. A sister. Mrs. Ida
Lnhnr. living in Kvnnavlllo. Intl., has
M
W
KNOWN
boon 'communleatod with.
Tho woman believed to have been
tho oe with Pittman at the lodging
lOontinued on pace 8 )
u
EST
IN 1 YEARS
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Thermometer Dropped to 14 Above,
Which Was Four Degrees Colder
Than Coldest Last Year Snow
Storm Good Thinrj for Valley, Says
O'Gara.
PLENTY OF MOISTURE IN
SOIL FOR COMING YEAR
No End of Present Storm Is Yet In
Sight Weather Man Sends Clear
Nights and Cloudy Day Dawn
Was Bright With Promises Which
Did Not Materialize.
Wednesday nighl was the coldest
night Jledl'ord and the Uogite llivei
valley. The thermometer dropped to
14 above, which is lour degrees
colder than it was at any time last
year.
The present snow storm shows no
signs of abating as vet although the
sky lias, cleared a nuniher of times.
Tlie day. dawned with the sky elea
.tiid wive promise of a perfect day
It failed. howevcV, to materialize
for .soon after the sun was up s'
great hank of clouds rolled in.
The present storm is a .splendid
thing in the estimation of I'rofess'n
l J. O'Gara who stales flint it i
worth a great deal to the fruit oiop
of the valley. II insures a great
deal of moisture for the coining
vea r.
The fog of the past few weeks
litis been a good Cling in holdiiu
back the buds and has only had one
bad tendency and that is that it ha
retarded pruning.
No end of the storm is in ij:ht
according to the weather man, am'
although the sky clears oecasionalh
snow is predicted for tonight.
The cob! snap last night did eon
siderable damage in tin way of snap
ping water hydrants and plumber
have had a busy day of it.
The streets this afternoon ni
again slushy but last night and tin
morning were frozen over, cniiMir
nianv ii liaslv pedestrian to lake i
fall.'
I
IS A SWEDE
At Any Rate Letter Is Sent Commer
cial Club Which Stumps the Letter
Clerk, But Man Is Answered In
His Own Tongue.
f HHIHfH
I'ASADKXA. Jan. 1. 1011.
- Charles A. .Malbaouf. Med-
ferd: Harmed for jag vonl-
mint t'mM Iinni dunt Kliina
f ter oeh liiudct nr i trneteii
Kring .Medlord vorc tuokum
T far iiagm npphfMiiiiKur vnr
jnil Mm eder illust intrude
biock.vr.
llogiikliiungtffullt,
K. CARLSON'.
-
lii other word, Mr. farinoii, a na
tive of .Sweden, would come to tin
Kogno Itivor alloy and ioake hi
home hero. lie wthe lo know souu'
tUing of eanieiiter work, th oilman
and elo.es hi "Brief ei.ptole with i.
roquet Hint lie be .oni an illustrated
booklet.
Mr. Malboeuf, not lo h onldMi
called up a friend vera! in Swadish
ami answered the man in hi" ""'
tongue.
And so the ik "f giiiiinig --t
tier goe- incirih onward.
IS
ES
First Authentic
ROIN AND DETECTIVE.
- in jfe v-.rs.- v - . it jw ji wwwwf!
"Si ... "" ' ?T-I22S' . ..'. i -t. T kW tKfVutVo 1
Joseph f. Itoltln, the Inillctcd New York hanker, whose sk.ro(let uietluuN caused the suspension of tho North
ern lt:i nk of New Yoik and its nine branches and the Wellington Sin lugs li.ink, Is charged with tlie alleged theft
of .?M0,(!M from the lirsl uiiiued Institution. William Travels Jerome, ltnliln's lawyer, elaiuis that tho hanker is In
sane. Hobin. Iiom mime originally was Italiinovitch, ciniie to Amerka from UiihsIii about thirteen yours ago and
after he had learned the Kugllsh language became a repoiter. lie speedily abandoned the newspaper business and
became a Hiianclcr. For years he lived lu lavish style i ml was regarded1 as a millionaire. When arrested ho took
poison
JACKSON COUP'S DELEGATION
FOUR PERSONS SHOW POWE
BURIHO DEATH
Fire and Explosion In Store Endan
gers Life of Thirty Persons Fire
men 'Rescue Five Girls From the
Flames.
CONNHU.SVII.US; Pa., Jan. 12.
Kour poraoiiL uro bollovo." to havo
boeu klllod in an exploulon and tiro
In McCory's flvo and ten-cunt atorn
today. Thoro wore ISO persona In tho
store at the tlmo of tho oxploelon,
mout of them girl employes. It wae
at flrat reporto 1 that 25 persona hod
been klllod. but tint inanaKor aacorla
that moat of thove in iho hulldtiiK m-
capod.
According lo tho nianngouionl. oiily
four poreoue known to havo been in
the building woro niiiwInB when the
fire was controlled ihortly aftor noon.
Klvo glrU aoverely burned woro
roscuud from tho building.
Soarcli of the rulue wni Inipoifllblo
iwlng to the Intenno boat after tho
firo was 'controlled, and jtollco and
firouien wero coiniHlIo.l to watt ho
foro endcivorliig, to find tho bodlos
of those uppoaed to havo been klll
od, The dainaio I eatlma'.ed at $luO,-
000.
BODY OF YOUNG BOY
IS FOUND IN FIELD
ALIiAXV, X. Y.. Jan. W 1'oli.w
today are endeavoring l etablifch
tbeidentitv of the hotly of a 5-year
old boy found in the outakirta of Al
bany. It i believed that the lad w.i
murdered. A bag of chocolate miuI
an einptv vial V?re found near Ihe
body. Tbe ioJio Iwlievo that be wnh
IwiMiiied "vilb earbolie atid.
Perhapa oiot f vour "bad fur-"
ciMikbl in telling lo uimwer the
tiint ad- lb ( ci'iif.iin iMrt unit t -
Pictures of Joseph G. Robin,
The Indicted New York Banker.
I
FLOQfili ,.K
a.
BIN
ZATION
Certain to Receive Important Com-
mittce Assignments Bill to Make
Salmon Netting In Roipie Lawful
Will Be Bitterly Opposed.
. KAMSil, ). dni). l'J. .laekaon
oomity'ti del alne: jot off rijilit in
the, oiga:ii..itinii of both uuiiuU) and
lioiiKu and ure nmurud good coiti
miltco appoiiitiiienta. Sojiulor Von
der Mullen got aboard thu Selling
Cimd wagon jus! nt tile, orileal lime
and hit vole uilnnlly iiiKured Mr.
Selling'H eleeiioM -i praaideut of lb-'
riounto. J lo was tho si.Utonlh hciih
tor to join Kellmir, trfvitiK him lb.
icMiuinilo majority.
c'lipltiiu i'lggJc-toii giuue very in1""
boinic chosen peakar, Jliat bow ncai
only those on i be rnpfdu know. Tb
Thoinixmn lorce uiyno ory ne.u
ceutetitiK uhii Kutiloalon iiiMleail '
Ka-k, who had pravionaly made ;
eompuct with the titigleatou Hiippoii.
JKi'eeuiu to iipn l'!4jl(istoii an aer
ond choice' Had U. ixmubed a -oud
bulbil. Kggl'sloji would litis e
been HMnk(r, and probably would be
anyway had it not hm for Multno
mah' illMt.llilice lor Haak.
Aa it i. ICgKleNlun ia aco high
with the owiiizaliutl ia undoubt--dlv
itlated tor impflrtwit ooiniaittne
J nsHitfiimoiit- eiuii(t a No mot
aboard the band uimi and exnu
to be made eb.'inMi of the horti
cultural COIDinitlee. U hart linked
for leave of ab enca tir aeveral da.
j AIism Laura Oe.rrett, whotte borne
I ia in Ashlaml. bill who Iiuk lieen
employed in ilcdf.rd aoute liine, baa
' been upixdnlcil -uoorapher by Ca.
i tain l$iPilkto!i.
The UlUlie in'"" 1- .1 e in evn!. n(.
i j m ,ii i! Vs it 'h. w 'II mil .
i.'iu'i' a lull li imxlifv the moHsure
1 1. --.id l ill.. i ' at the hint elr.
ii. ii ,i .,i.. In in. l.i -.nil. oil lii Hin ;
!isl
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LODGE
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JOSEPH G.TiOBIN
COFYR.GrtT 1QJO IY
AMUR. CAM PRESS
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GETS OEF RIGHT
10 Gl LOCAL
MEN PREFERENCE
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Will Await Deciijlnn On Plans for
New $25,000 Church Until Local
Architects Submit Plans.
I'laiiH or a new 'jri.OOD church
edifice recently profered lo the
Firwt .Methodist Mpinenpal chinch l
outside areliiteetH have boon lai 1 on
Ihe table by Hie iiieinbiiraiil' the ci ;.i
mil tee bing the matter hi hand.
Another Met of plana in expected
thi'' week, and I bey loo will be
shelved until local aicliilnclH l..ic
been i;icii an opportiinily ( con.
pele. The pii.x.-(d mIo lor the tie
iliuiili h.i-. not Mt been secui'd
SALEM HAN'S BOOT
F
(MIHYKNNK. Vo . Jan VI. -The
froaou body of Itobcit Hreyle. of Sa
lem, Or., found on the prairie bore
Tueuday nlKht, U nt tho morKUo to
day awaiting advlcoa from Salem an
to Its final dlopoeltlou. Ilroylee had
been ehot and hilled, and the coron
er's jury, after a euraury InveatlKa-
'turn, brought In a verdict of murder
' by parties unknown. '
it la known that lireyles was allot
while attempting to duretul hlmaolf,
aa a fully loaded tevolver was found
, clasped tightly lu his hand. Dreyloa
(bad boon In Wyoming only a few
day Little I known concerning
him.
, tul Ii nil! In lulu il l.iubt l.
.1 i i -ii. 1 1 1 1 r, i .1 il it 1 duub
till It' lite eyilntiile (ll.ie U" oil le '
, ii. ! i ; 'I i i-i w IicIiii mf miii
I . .. . 1 1 . i m 1 a l In pi II-.
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"No. 252. " Vl
ED IN CITY JAIL
UN
ED NURSE
DAMAGES CASE
Says Wife of Poisoned Millionaire
Told Her That Fortune Teller Had
Predicted His Death and That
There Was No Hope for Him
Mrs. Schcnk Butted In.
TELLS STORY OF SEVERAL
SUBSTITUTED BOTTLES
Was Not Called When Chanties for
Worse Camo Doctor Ordered
Fresh Medicine- Purchased After
Hcnritifi Nurse's Story of Wife's
Actions.
WUI3KL1NO, V. Va Jan. 12.
On tho evenlnt; of tho fourth day or
tho Illness or John O. Schenlc, IiIh
wlfo camo Into tho room whom the
aurao attending him was Htaylng and
said that a fortune toller had inform
ed her that Schonk would die. That
wuh tho testimony today of MIbs Alma
Eviiiih, tho nurso who cared for
Schonk, first witness today In tho
trial of Mrs. Laura Schonk for tho
allowed poisoning of hor husband.
"Doesn't that inako you fool bad
ly?" the nurse said sho asked Mrs.
Schonk.
"No, I would rather know," tho
witness testified Mrs. Schonk replied.
Miss Kvaiia toBtlflcd Hint boforo au
tomoblllug with Schonk and herself
Mrs. Schonk, on October 21, brought
her husband a drink of water, which
he said tasted peculiarly. Later sho
said, sho was away from tho house
for an hour. Tho witness said when
she returned sho found Schcnk vio
lently uausoated. Sho had not beou
called, she said, although sho had
left her tolophono number.
Another drink given Schonk from
the bottlo of drinking water which
his wlfo had opened for him resulted
in further nnuuea, Mlus Evans testi
fied. Sho got nnothor bottlo of wa
ter and gavo tho ouo that had ap
parently caused Schonk'a sickness to
Dr. Hupp. Tho nurso said sho had
told tho doctor sho thought It was
poisoned.
Tho testimony of tho nurso rcgard-
(Contliuii'it on Pauo 8.)
TO DEEPLY PROBE
Washinnton Lcnlslaturc Will Proba
bly Apnoint Committee to Institute
Invcstlffatlon Guards Disrupted
for Some Time.
OLVMIMA, Wash., Jan. 12 At
tempts to probo tho affairs of the
national guard of Washington took
Hhapo today, when Hepreoutntlvc
I1' ia nk 1'. (Jons of King county asked
for tho appointment of a commit
too of two souatora and tbroo ropre
Meutatlvos to ItiHtltiito a thorough in
vostlaatlon. It Is chargod lu Ooss'
resolution that tho national guard Is
in a disrupted and unset Hod stnto. It
Is charged that Adjutant Qouoral
Llewelyn Is not legally In possession
I of the office; that funds appropriat
ed ior mo nauouai guaru iisuh woro
Improperly turned ovor to formor Ad
jutant Coueral LampliiK and that he
used them for his prhatu benefit.
The resolution assorts that Colonel
John Kinzoy, recently dliuharged be
cause ho Insisted on a report of na
tional guard affairs to tho war de
partment, will teetlfy that many of
tho hlgbor officers aro uttorly in
uoiupotont. Other charges of a minor nature
aro also made. Tho guards havo
Luun (lUrupiod ever slnco Adjutant
ICeneral Ortlu Hamilton was dlschurg-
d win it discovered to ho short 75.
.'', and h"ni t'i the ponttontijty.
FK I
RD
milNRRIRI IS 1
RESULT OE ME
Pail of Scaldinn Hot Water Is
Thrown Over Her and Skin Graft
inji May Be Necessary Attaches
No Blame on Water Hurler Says
It Was Joke.
-I ,
SAYS HE DID NOT ' v .
KNOW ITjWAS.HOT
"Joke" Occurred Near Jackson
ville Where Girl Was Employed
Surfjcons Say She Will Recover If
No Complications Arise Condi
tion Is Favorable.
Miss Jl, L. Smith, formorly of
Preowator, Umatilla county, whom
tier father ntAv lives, but more ro
contly omployed ns nurso to tho 10-yoar-old
son of John Doltobonm In
.lackuonvUle, Is confined at tho
Southern Oregon hospital sufforlng
from a sovoroly scalded back, which,
sho says, sho received whllo ongagod
In a Joking altercation with William
Dolloboam, a brother of hor employ
er. Although so Boyorely scalded that,
she may havo to romaln In tho hospi
tal for a month besides probably hav
ing to undergo a skin grafting oper
ation, tho young woman rofusos ab
solutely to nttach any blamo on De
Itoboam and at every stigcostlon to
tho contrary firmly rollorr.toc tho as
sertion Hint sho end Doltoboam wcro
only Joking. Neither Doltoboam, who
Uvea In .Jacksonville, nor Mrs. Julian
A. Mock, who Is alleged to havo been
a witness to tho occurence, but who
Is now snld to bo In Medford, could
bo found.
According to Miss Smith, sho, Do
ltobonm and Mrs. Mock wcro In tho
DoUoboam homo, on Walker crook
noar Jacksonville. "A email pall of
water was on tho stoic," sho said,
"and I had turiod to leave tho room,
u I suddenly folt a drop of scald
ing hot water touch my hand. Tho
noxt minute tho wator that had struck
mo In tho back penetrated my clothes
and burned me. I called to them that
I was scalded and asked thorn to tear
tho burning clothes off mo.
"When I iiBkod DoUoboam why ho
had thrown tho hot wator," sho con
tinued, "ho told mo that ho did not
know that It was so hot a:iJ said that
only a inomout provlously ho had
been able to Immerse his hand in the
.ator."
Tho accident hnpponud ono weok
ago last Tuecday and tho Injured girl
was not brot gh't to tho hospital until
ast Friday night.
Surgeons who aro atti.:dlng her
iHsert that her back Is soiiously burn
ed, but that If no complications set
In sho will rocovor.
She baa been lu Medford for al
most three months, but has not been
to her home for almost a year. Hor
''atber will bo notlflod. of the acci
dent. PHONE SYSTEM
Larue Crew of Men Are Rushed to
Medford to Work On Intcrurhan
Lines Those In City Aro Also
Out of Order.
The profcont , snow storm bus
workod wmsidurablu bnVou with
the loonl phono syfiUine&iico'iuIly
mvitb tho iii (em rb tm linos. Tho fur-
uiors' Uncus are nearly nil dqwn mid
a liinjo crew of inuit lmvo been
niMliud here to repair the linen.
Woduohduv and tudnv a number
I nt" phones have been out of busiuws
ni the i-iiN. Itcpuir work is being;
i ru-lied tib rapidly as possible,
NOW
WRECKS