MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, jUEDEOTCD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 1911.
PGE THREE
Si
WARNER UlfDS
BIG CONVENTION
Oregon Retailers Will Meet Next
Vear In This City Mr. Warner Is
Chosen a Director of the State
Association.
MAN FORCED TO
WRITE BIG CHECK
Is Beaten By Man and Locked In
Room Notifies Police By Drop
ping Not Out of Window Pay
ment On Check is Stopped.
BOY THRASHED:
FATHER PROTESTS
Irate Parent Takes Matter of Pun
ishment Up With School oBard
Matters Satlsfatcorily Adjusted,
State's Sujcrintendent Collins.
SALEM, Or., Jan. 28. After a
spirited contest In the convention of
the Oregon Retail Merchants asso
ciation between Portland, Cottago
Grove and Medford, the latter town
was named as the placo for holding
tho next nnnual convention. Port
land merchants strongly supported
Medford and tho final vote showed
that the southern Oregon city had
won by almost 2 to 1 majority.
K. N. Warner of Medford led tho
fight for his home city.
A resolution couched in stinging
terms was directed against the whole
sale dealers who nwlce a practice of
selling direct to tho consumers after
loading the retail merchant up with
goods.
A resolution Indorsing Pendleton
as tho placo for holding tho "Round
up" wns passed with a whoop and
the entire delegation shouted "Lot
'er buck." San Francisco received
the hearty endorsement of the asso
ciation In her fight to securo the
Panama exposition, whllo tho plan
to hold a centennial at Astoria next
year mot the hearty approval of the
convention.
The good roads bills now before
the Oregon legislature also woro in
dorsed and tho present peddlers' li
cense law and tho garnishment law
wero approved by resolution.
A hard light is to be made lo se
cure the passage f a net weight
bill and the oommittco appointed at
yesterday's meeting are bending
every effort toward .securing it
passage.
A vote of thanks was given to the
lllilioe club and other Salem organi
zations that had extended courtesies
to tho visiting delegates.
The prevailing sentiment at to
day's meeting was that tho scop'
and membership of the organization
should bo extended to include every
retail mereliant in the state of Or
egon, and it is probable thai paid
organizers wil bo sent all over tli"
state in an effort to strengthen the
work and functions of tho associa
tion. The meeting adjourned at r::i7
this afternoon, after ono of (ho most
succesful conventions ever held by
tho organization.
Tho following new officers wore
elected: V. A. Perry, of Jloullon
ton, president; II. Alexander of Pen
dleton, first vice-president; V. A.
Hell of Eugene, second vice-president;
E. Hrayford of Hood Hive.,
third vice-president; Charles $. Mer
rick, secretary; Thomas Watts of
Reuben, treasurer. The new elected
directors of the association are: H.
N. Warner of Medford; C M. Kpploy
of Salem; A. .7, Henderson of Spring
field; J. C. Man, Dan Kellaher, V.
V. Funk of Portland; J. G. Snoil
grass of LaGrande, and J. W. Camp
bell of Hermiston.
SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 2 S. Bad
ly beaten about tho face and body,
and held r prisoner in his room at
tho Martinique hotel, while two men
and a woman attempted to cash a
check for $250, which they forced
from him, was the experience of John
R. Robey, president and mnnagcr of
tho Golden West Raking company,
last night, according to his story to
tho police.
Suffering terribly from his beat
ing, Roboy was unnblo to attempt an
escape until this morning, when,
dragging himself to a desk, ho scrib
bled a note and dropped it from his
window.
A pnsserby picked it up nnd read:
"Notify the First National bank to
stop payment on $250 check. Tell
tho police I am a prisoner in room
431, Martlnlquo hotel."
Tho man who found tho note hur
ried down tho Btrect and met Ser
geant Pencea and Patrolman Hum
phrey. They hurried to tho Mar
tlnlquo and after releasing Roboy
went to tho apartments of a benutl
ful young woman and a big, good
looking young man. Another man
was arrested as ho was attempting
to cash a $250 check bearing the sig
nature of Robey. Payment on the
check had been refused. All throe
are held at the city Jail without a
charge.
"This young woman I know as Miss
Richards," said Robey. "Sho has re
sided at the Martlnlquo hotel for
about a month. Her npartments are
right across the hall from mine. Last
night sho asked mo for a drink. I
entered her room and sho shut tho
door. No sooner had sho taken the
drink when the door was burst open
and in rushed this man who calls
himself Barr, and Carroll.
"What do you mean by assaulting
my wife?' he demanded. I turned,
and to my astonishment to find tho
woman lying on tho bed with hor
head burled In tho covers." Then,
Roboy says ho was compelled to write
the check for $250 after being beaten.
"DEAD RINGER" FOR
RATE SCHEDULE UPHELD.
NEW YORK, Jan. 28. Mr. Carne
gie, I am frequently told that I re
semble you. I do not know who Is
tho more complimented, you or I, so
I enclose my likeness for your meas
urement. "Thanks," replied Andrew Carno
glo to this note from Lewis B. Reed
of Brooklyn, in a letter which the
latter made public today. "Thanks,
but you are too good looking far
too good looking a very handsome
man. I'm not."
Mr. Reed is 81 years old and n well
known resident of Brooklyn. Ills
friends have long contended that he
was a "dead ringer" for tho great
Iron master.
Tho sovero and summary punish
ment dealt out to an exasperating
youth at tho high school Inst Friday
by an exasperated, teacher armed
with a section of a rubber hose,
served to cause an irate parent to
appear before the school board at
their meeting Friday night with u
vigorous protest.
Tho incident, s well as can be
ascertained, is said to have started
when Professor Cudahy, of the com
mercial class in the high school, ex
asperated by tho actions of Menno
Davis, n l(i-year-old pupil in his
class, inflicted several largo welts
upon tho boy's back by pounding
that portion of his anatomy with a
long and limber piece of rubber, said
by somo of the witneses to tho nf
fair to have been a section of hose
pipe, and by others, u part of a rub
ber tire.
Whatever the implement used, the
father of tho Davis boy, who eon
duets the "Smoke club" on Front
streot, decided that tho punishmont
had been too severe nnd accordingly
appeared before the school board and
demanded that they tako official
cognizance of tho matter.
Just what happened at tho meet
ing is n mystery, as those members
of tho school board approached yes
terday on the subject assumed a
clam-liko attitude, but Superintend
ent U. S. Collins, when scon last
night, nsserted that the matter had
been satisfactorily adjusted.
Arthur Davis, tho father of the
hoy, also expressed himself ns sat
isfied with tho action of the school
board.
BODY OF MINER
HERE FOR BURIAL
Remains of Former Resident, Killed
In Colorado Mino Accident, Arc
Brought Back to Medford for
Burial Was Well Known Here.
E
BURIED
Goodwin Tries New Tack.
NEW YORK, Jan. 28. Nat Good
win's defonso In the divorce suit
brought ngalnst him by Edna Good
rich will question tho jurisdiction
of tho state court, it was reported
today. Mr. Goodwin contends that
his wife Is a resident of California,
where he lived, and that tho action
should bo brought there.
In today's hearing before Referee
J. Campbell Thompson, Mrs. Good
rich, tho plaintiff's mother, testified
that she and her daughter had lived
in hotels In New York for sovoral
years. Goodwin did not appear.
Tho hearing was held behind clos
ed doors.
Clerks Appeal to T. R.
ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 28. Colo
nel Theodore lioosovclt was brought
into tho controversy today between
Poslmaoter General Hitchcock and
tho railway mail clerks. At u se
cret meeting this afternoon the clerks
decided to petition the former pres
ident tp intercede- for them against
Hitchcock's "economy program."
Hasklns for Health.
Tho remains of the lato Columbus
Stembnugh, formerly superintendent
of the Sunnyside coal mines near
here, who was killed in ti mine acci
dent last week at llczlo, Col., ar
rived in this city yesterday nf tor
noon. They were accompanied oy
Mrs. Stembnugh; Mr. and Mrs. C.
M. Cook, thu deceased's daughter
and her husband; and their children.
Tho funeral will be held Monday
afternoon from tho Perl Undertak
ing company's chapel and interment
will follow at the I. 0. O. F. cem
etery. According to the present plans of
tho relatives who accompanied the
remains here, they will make their
future home in this city. Mr. Stem
bnugh, during his lifotime, was well
known in this oity.
RATE SCHEDULE UPHELD.
(Continued from Paco 1.)
prived of its property or n fair ,
remuneration upon its invest
ment without duo process of
law, and wo believe wo woidd
not bo justified in restraining
operation of the now rates pend
ing tho final adjudication of the
case upon its merits.
"The application for the re
straining order must bo denied."
It is expected the Southern l'a
cifio company will appeal thu ease
to tho United States supreme court
W. D. Fcnton, attorney for the rail
road, is in California and members
of his offico said today they could
not state what action would bo tak
en. All tho members of tho state
railroad commission aro in Salem.
Argument of tlio Commission.
Tho granting or iho injunction was
opposed by Attorney J. N. Teal for
the railroad commission, on the
grounds that tho commission's onlo;
merely revised tho present class rates
from Portland to Mints on the
Southern Pacific within tho state
and placed these rates on something
like a parity with thoso of other rail
roads throughout the country.
Mr. Teal showed that the principal
changes made in existing rates were
in classes four and five, which,
using the table of comparison in gen
eral use in making class rales,
showed the company's chnrges to be
exesssivo. He i-lso showed that
thero was no danger of the pro
posed changes being confiscatory in
asmuch as tho Southern Pacific
company had flourished astonishiniy
in the past 10 years, exceeding all
other roads in the state and many
othors in the country in tho growth
in gros,s and net earnings.
Vital Legal Point Decided.
Tho most importunt feature of the
application for an injunction, in tin
minds of many, was that the railroad
Tho funeral of Grnco Throckmor
ton, who died nt her homo at Ruch,
Jackson county, last Wednesday of
ptomalno poisoning, wns held In tho
Jacksonville cemetery Friday after
noon. Rev. Mr. Enuis officiated at a
short sorvlco hold at tho grnvesldo.
Tho pallbearers woro Messrs. Roy
Offenbachcr, II. Offcnbacher, D.
Buckley, George Buckley, II. Per
noll nnd Robert Ray.
She wns poisoned early last week
by eating somo Blnw in which sho
had poured a can of canned cream.
hoped to prevent the Ptntn commis
sion from changing iutrn-stato rates
on the ground that such a ehnngo
would interfere with interstate rates,
whilo on the other hand they could
prevent tho interstnto commerce com
mission from changing purely state
rates, ns something entirely outside
of tho commission's control,
ANOTHER STREET IS
AFTER IMPROVEMENTS
Tho property holders on Gcucvn
avenuo filed a petition with City Re
corder llobcrt W. Telfor yesterday
afternoon requesting that tho citv
proceed to have that portion of their
street running between Main street
and Sherman nvenuo paved with as
phult at nn early date.
The street in question wns only
very recently opened up but sewer
and water mains have already been
laid along it.
CHAMPION BASKETBALL
TEAM TO PLAY HERE
Company "F" basketball team of
Portage, Wis., the A. A. U. cham
pion's of America will piny the local
basketball team on the Nutntorium
floor next Tuesday and Wednesday
evening.
Tho team is making n tour of the
west.
Chlcano Bowlers Lead.
ST. LOUIS. Jnn. 2 S. Chicago
forged to tho Trout In tho doublo
events at tho tournamont of tho Am
erican bowling congress today, whou
Ericson and Mnnuson, representing
tho windy city, rolled a total of 1229.
WESTERLUND HOME
ON BRIEF VISIT
J. A. Wcstcrlund, n member of
Jackson county's delegation in tho
stato legislature arrived in Medford
Saturday morning for a short visit
here. He will return to Snlem this
morning for a short visit here. Ho
will return to Salem this evening
with Captain M. F. Eggleston who is
also spending n few days at home.
Mr. Westerlund etntc9 that a
number of important horticultural
bills nro now being considered by tho
committee on horticulture of which
ho is tho ehninnnu in tho house. Pro
fessor O'Gnra, ia now suggesting a
numbor of matters which will lie
considered by the committee.
Mr. Wcstcrlund has tho distinc
tion of being tho lnrgcst man in tho
legislature, far outweighing any
other member.
Racing Resumed.
JAUREZ, Mexico, Jan. 28. Rac
ing was resumed at Terraz Park this
afternoon after a week's suspension
on account of tho bad condition of
the track.
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