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MEDITORD, OUISOOtf, JWIIMY, jUJUUST 25, 39J3.
No. 133.
HORSE KILLED
BOYS RUCK IN
THUGS ROB AND
ARMBYHUNTER
Mcrl M. Payne Has Narrow Escape
From Death In Timber When Horse
Ho Was Lcailliin Is Mistaken (or
Deer Youthful Hunters to Blame.
BULLET PASSED THROUGH
SLEEVE OF YOUTH'S COAT
Youthful Marks men From Klamath
Falls Aro Allowed to Go Father
Grateful for Son's Escape.
Mcrl II, I'uyno, tlm young mm of
Henry M. Payne, a Hluckriilnpr who
owiih a iniii'li on upper Hoguo liver
lutil u very narrow iwiipo fntin death
while In the timber above the ranch.
when two boys from Kluiiiutli Fall
liilntonk tint nuddlu liorni) Jilting
Payne wan lending for 11 deer and
nhot It. Tim lnnu wart killed by tint
find linllnt mid young I'ayno win
scratched on tlm arm by I lie second
hliot, 1I10 bullet punning through tho
sleeve (if bin emit. llirt ftXe'itcd
cries wer heard jut In tune to pro
vent 11 tragedy.
Tlm two boyrt from Klamalli Falls
did not gio their iiamex mid were
allowed to pi by the hid' father
when thoy hud paid for tlm borne.
Mr. I'ayno ulutcs that ha wits hi
thankful that bin Hon was not kilted
that bo could not find it in bin heart
to prnrtcotito the two earulcxH young
htern. Tbo boys who did the idiooliiig
nlatc that they noticed tbo borne
traveling through tbo brush on tbo
trail nud thought it wiih 11 deer. Tak
.lug. burrktL.nJmw,lbpy-J'irodaKiuii
hurriedly," thU bullet HtriMng .viiniiir
Payne' nnn junl scratching it.
I'uHo thereupon cried out and theur
Nhoutrt iipprim'd tbo buys of what
they bad done, They made no nt
tempi to got away but came, for
wind nud offered In u with Mr
I'ayue, who wiik in the lleighbotbood,
and face the eouheipiuucex. lint
they were freed.
25 oia
CHOIR LOFT FALLS
Sixty Injured in Panic Precipitated
by Tumullnn Gallery Conjjrcija
tlon Pinned to Floor by Fnlllnp
Timbers.
BEAT MAN:TAKE
$300 UNO ELEE
George Klbby, Aijcd Knife Grinder.
Is Assaulted and Savlnus Stolen
Cries Briii( Nclfjhbors to His Help
In Time to Save Life.
POLICE BELIEVE THEY HAVE
CLUE TO THUGS' IDENTITIES
Klbby Was Known ns Man Who
Carefully Saved His Earnings
This Probably Cause.
POSKN, Uornutny, Aug. 25.-Twenty-fivo
persons wero killed and
(10 injured today when tlm choir loft
in tbo church at lliuiuw, near hero,
cnllnpHcd. Pitnio ruigued following
thu uratdi, and it wiih by more good
fortune (bat tbo death lint wits not
greater.
When tbo pillow supporting thu
loft began to crack anil show signs
of giving way under the heavy bur
den, poisons in tlm church daubed
for thu doors. Meiiiibqrs of thu choir
could ut got down tbo littlo stairway,
many of them jumping over tbo rail
ing to thu floor.
railing limbers pinned 11 number
oT the congregation to the, floor and
It wiih with oxtromo difficulty that
ruHuuni-H could chop their way to tho
impriHoiicd viuliuiK.
Thu boHpllalH am crowded with
llm injured and tho , death roll is
o.pcoted to grow.
DEMOCRATS TO MEET
NEXT IN BALTIMORE
WASHINGTON, 1). 0., Aug. 25.
It wan authoritatively ntatotl burn to
day that enough ilomncratlo national
coiumltloonion aro pledged to mako
curtain tho Holootlon of llnlllinoro for
tbo next national convention, Several
ohor cities which Bought tho moot
ing plneo at whleh tho next domocrut
lo iitaudiird-henrorH will bo chosen,
aio roportoil to huvo withdrawn,
Ilaltlnioro InturuHlH hnvo pledged
f 100,000 to HQuuro tbo gathering,
A bund of murderous tbug Tlitim
day night imtmultcd (Icorgo Klbby,
tin nged Knife giiuder at bis home 011
Apple street in thin city, nud escaped
with over &I0U, which re-prcm-iits the
savings of the old man. Thu crifh
of tho nged man ptohnbly saved him
from death oh hu wiih making u
Htrenuoim effort to miimi bin money.
A neighbor who rushed to his ishsihI-
aueo wax just in limu to frighten tin
thugs away.
The police rounded up every huh
pieiiirt character in tlm city follow
ing tlm iiHHiiutt nud have huver.tl
clues which they believe will lead to
thu capturu of iho men engaging in
llio nttiiuk, nltliougb it is an accept
ed theory that ut least tbreo of the
men mado 11 getaway to thu north
on thu Shasta Limited which paused
through town at Uu)() a. in.
Kibby, irt well known in tho oit,
making bin living by grinding kuivc.
Itealinug that he is old ho is careful
of hiii money and !h Having it to
guard agaiuxt want when tbo time
rumen when he will bo able to work
no more. Thin condition gave rixu to
the report that hu m mora or Ion til
n miner and hu wait reputed to have
Imn xiniugrt hidden away in the old
slnick in which hu make bis home.
It is belioNcd that theno rcpoits led
to thu attack.
Kibby left for homo about DtHO
o'olook Thurrtdav evening and iih be
walked into his yard a man accosted
him. Stoipiug to answer hu heard
11 noise behind him and turned in
limn to hco more men bearing down
upon him. Heforo ho could move
ho wan struck on tho bead. Hu be
gan to cry for holp nud neighbors re
Hpouded but not before thu thugs had
secured the old inau'H porno and made
11 getawny.
Kibby Htatert that he docH not re
gret thu lohH of tho money so much as
hn linen thu fact that thu men got
away, llo offered the mini to the
polieo 118 a reward Hhoiild thoy be
able to apprehend nud convict the
guilty pnrliert. llu declined to give
tho naturo of thu evidence which be
linn secured.
Thirteen suspicious eliaraeterH
wero rounded up by the pultun Thurs
day night and put through a strict
examination. Nothing could he
learned from litem, however, nud with
tbo exception of three or four who
had wotk in tho city thoy weru told
to hit thu ties out of town,
TEDDY'S PRESS AfiENT
BOOSTS GOV. WILSON
QUICK TIE-UP
OE
HARRMAN
IS PLANNED
Workmen of System Anxious to Go
Out Next Week Unless Company
Staves Off Trouble by Agreeing to
fteconnlze New Union Merger.
SYSTEM FEDERATION IS '
BONE OF CONTENTION
Strike Vote Almost Unanimous In
Favor of Walkout On All
Lines Affected.
NWW YORK, Aug. 35. Lengthy
oology of novornor Woodrow Wllaon
of Now Joraoy by Honry Neodhum
called tho ttdmlulBtrattou'H prosa
ngont during Thoodoro Hoosovult'a
term nn president, publlHhod In tbo
Outlook today, canned much comiuout
Itoro.
SupporterH of WllHon for tbo dom
oerntlo presidential nomination I10
llovo tbo article M an Indication that
ItooHovolt In not opposed to Wilson's
nontlunllon. J . h
JUDGE TRIMBLE IS
G.A.R. COMMANDER
IT m
UOniKRTKH, N. Y Aug. 25.
Judge Harvey Trimblu of Illinois was
clouted ponunnndor-in-cliiof o tho
fl. A. It. lioio today.
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CIlfCAOO, III Aug. 2.-1.-Following
tho luueipt of telegramri from tlie
memberrt of tho udviuory board 1
thu Harriman linen, SyHlem Federa
tion declaring that they could no
longer prevent tho kIiojhiicii from
Htrlkiug, I'rchideut J. V. Klino of the
International lirotherhoud of lllack
MnitliK' Hclperrt, today telegraphed
Hoborl H. Lovutt, cbuiratnn of t!a
board of directors of tho Ilarrnnan
linen in New York, nuking that be
grant n conferenco to tbo employe
of thu road to ucrt a general btnke.
Kline Haid: "My object in to
avert, if poHsible, ti national calami
ty. If Iovutt cotiheutrt to giu the
men of tho System Federation ..
hearing our committee will proceed
immediately to New York. If Lovott
instructs Kmttchnitt to grant us the
heating hu haw rcfttHcd, we will meet
him any w hero in thu went he deuircs."
CHICAGO, III., Aug. 'Jo. Order
to strike over thu whole Hurriinnii
rtystem nro predicted by labor lendun
hero todny as the almost certain re
sult of thu conference of labor lead
en to bo held in Kansas City Mon
day. If their predictions nro real
ized, 12,000 carmen' 7000 machinists,
2000 hoilormnkers, 2000 blacksmith
and 1000 sheet metal worker wib
lay down their tools in 11 struggle ex
tending from Chicago to thu Pacific
coast nud from tho Canadian bordei
to tbo Gulf of Mexico.
Involved in thu fight, if .it come,
probably will be tbo shopmen of the
Santa Fc, thu Illinois Central nud
tho Chicago and Northwestern. Strike
ballots have been taken on nil thc-e
roads nnd tho men today declare thai
unless substantial betterments are
granted them, thoy will fight to the
finish.
Railroad officials hero today as
sert that all preparations hnvo hew
completed by tho Hurriman line's u
withstand a shopmen's strike now,
Hid that if tho men do win, it will nc
only after iih hard and bitter a figitl
as unionism lias known in any rail
road conflict.
To perfect tlieso arrangements and
to bo on tho ground when tho blow
falls it being expeotod tbo first
clash will come on tbo Pacific coast
is said to bo tho real motive for
Gcnorul Manager Jufitis Krutt
schnitl'rt hurried trip to Sifh Fran
cisco, which began Inst night. Krutt
tJohuitt realizes, it is said, that the
decision for war or peaeo will come
ut tho Kansas City meeting Monday,
and that from there will go tbo final
word to tbo coast.
Summing up of tbo strike ballots
taken on tho Harriman lines' tho Illi
nois Central, thu Santa Fo nud the
Chicago nud Northwestern will be
fiutshod in Knnsiis City Monday by
tho international presidents of most
of tho various crafts employed in the
uhops of tbo railroads. Thoro aro ox
pouted lo bo present Michael O'Sulli
vau, president of tho sheet metal
wovkerH, Jitiui'H Franklin, of tho
boilortnakors; James O'ConncII, of the
nuicliinislH, nud F. M. Ryan, of tho
Carmen's unions.
WHh tho result of tho slj'iko bnl
lots in their bunds, tho union leaders,
it is said, will mako a last demand
on tho railroad oxequtives, nud on
tho reply to this demand will bnng
tho Issues of peaoo or war.
:.1AN WHO WILL PROSECUTE BEATTIE FOR WIFE MURDER.
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Low-Record In Stocks.
NEW YOKIC, Aug. 25.AI tho
opening of tho slock nmrkot today
soiling i)f sfooks was resumed. Lo
liigh Valloy and Amalgnmaled Cop
por oslublislifd a now low record with
n deolino of 1 point each. United
States; Stool, Southorn Pacific, Road
ing, Northorn Pacific nnd Krlo lost
substantial fractions, Cunuditm Pn-
BEATTIE IKES
A
HAD
R
T
Is Conducting His Own Defense at
Murder Trial Deputy Sheriff
Tells of His Connection With the
Case and Its Investination.
CHIiSTKUFIKLD COUIITHOUSK.
Vn Aug. 25. Stung from bis stolid
ity for tho flrntrtlmu since hU arrest
for tho murder,? blB.wtfo on .the
Midlothian iIkc nenr Itlchmond,
Henry C. Hcnttlo, Jr., todny hoard
evidence pointing to Iilmsolf as tbo
iiHsanidn nnd grow voluble on consul
tation with his attorneys.
Hcnttlo was startled by tbo testi
mony of Deputy Sheriff Snyder, who
swore- that tho prisoner bad made
Krnvely confllctiuR;utatoments to him
of tho hnppeuingb on tbo night of the
tragedy.
Sydnor derlnrcd ho lintl been told
by Keattlo that tho fatal shot was
fired front a position which would
hnvo been Imposulblo wero Heattlo'u
story true, an don cross-examination
his tale of tho conversation was false.
YOUTH DENIES GUILT
OF TRIPLE MURDER
IIOONVILLH, Intl., Aug. 25. Wil
liam Leo Is not In tho least concern
ed today and feels certain that ho
can prove that ho did not murder his
parents and littlo brother nnd then
sot flro to tho houso, burning tholr
bodies to a crisp.
Miss Minna Taylor, to whom tho
youth wins to hnvo boon married last
night, testified nt thr coroner's In
quest that she know nothing of tbo
crime, nnd was positlvo that Loo Is
innocent.
YOUTH OF 14 ELOPES
WITH SWEETHEART, 13
SAN DKHNAItniNO, Cnl., Aug. 25.
With his young dream of lovo
rudely shuttered by nn angry pnrent,
Italph Tcrenary, 14, Is determined to
miiKo tho girl of his cltolco, littlo
Miss Test) 1 0 Powmon, 13, his wlfo.
Toronary almost succoodod yesterday.
A. It. llowmnn. a wonlthy rancher
of Cotton, ovcttook his dnugh as sho
was fleeing to Snn nornardluo with
bor youthful Loehlnvar. When Toro-
nary hoard tho footsteps of tho nu-
gry parent, bo drow a ntlnlntturo re
volvor, whleh ho lovolod at bis pur
suer, but Papa Uowmnn caught him
nnd handed him n sound spnnklng.
"I'll marry Tesslo or bust," wns
tho only comment Toronary had to
mnUo todny on his near-olopomont
and Its Htul fiuule,
oifio was firm, tising t Lntor tho
market became nioru uulivo und tho
downward movement wns ehooke.V
btu lltp lccoverieaWero feeblo and
sotbauks followed.
Tho murkot closed steady.
Honda woi'o fiim.
TRAIN WRECKED
THIRTY ARE DEAD
Passenger Train Goes Over Bridge
With Four Cars Cars Arc Lying
In Water Temporary Bridges Are
Constructed.
ROCHESTER, X. Y., Aug. 2r.
Twenty-seven bodies wore taken
from the Mitgh valley up to J
o clock1. Tho work of rescue is hand
Icnpped by tho fact that tho cars are
lying m water and it hns been ncc
essnry to construct temporary
bridges to them.
Lehigh valley passenger train No.
4 went over a bridge at 12:30 p. m.,
today. Thirty arc reported killed
nnd (10 injured. AH tho physicians
and nurses in this vicinity have been
called upon. The train was east
bound nnd carried a number of G. A.
R. veterans from thu Rochester convention.
THREE MILLION DOLLARS
ASTOItlA, Or., Aug. 25. Tho
cotupleto catch and pack of royal Chi
nook salmon In tho Columbia river
this season Is valued at approximate
ly $0,000,000, according to figures
obtained hero today. This is an In
crease of 33 per cent over tho 1009
pack.
To tho fisherman this moans S3,
000,000 In actual cash.
According to cannery men, tho en
tire pack has been disposed of al
rendy, most of tho salmon going to
markets on tho Atlantic seaboard.
PORTLAND SHOPMEN ALL
PREPARING TO GO OUT
. PORTLAND' Or., Aug. 25. Fol
lowing the refusal of their demands
for u wago incronse by General Man
agor James 1 O'Brien' head of tbo
Ilarrimau system in tbo northwest,
700 shoimicn. cutnloved in tho Album
shops, aro preparing to stiiko.
It is md plans had been completed
for calling tho striko today but tho
arrival of a renro&entntivo of tho
Internntionnl Order of Railway Ma
chinists pruvented it. Local labor
leaders nro in conferenco regarding
a striko (his afternoon.
Upon the deeibion thoy nro expect
ing to leauh, bungs llio future polioy
ltorc.
Tho shopmen's demands, if
granted, would huvo entailed an ad
dilional expenditure of $34 1,000 niinu
allv liv tbo Southorn Pacific' and O.
W. R. & N., which is also n part of
tho Harriman system.
Hosick In Indianapolis.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Aug. 25.
Iioteotivo llofiiok appoarod nt tho
sheriff's offico beer at 3:30 o'clock
this nfternoon and surrendered liitu
solf. Ho furnished a bond for $10,
000. Hosiok said ho might remain
hero sovonu days,
MIA END
S RECORD
BREAKING TRIP
Sweeps Down Hudson River Past
Palisades, Rounds Cluster of Sky
scrapers and Lands Gracefully on
Governor's Island.
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS
VIEW HIS LAST FLIGHT
Thunderous Welcome Given Him
At No Time Today Did the
Aviator Have Trouble.
NEW YORK, Aug. 23. With every
pier along tho North river jammed
with cheering humanity nud with
every river eraft in the Hudson and
tlto harbor tied down, Aviator Hnrry
Atwood completed his record-breaking,
1204 mile flight here from St.
Louis this afternoon when he swept
down past the Pulisadcs, rounded the
cluster of skyscrapers at the south
end of .Manhattan and landed freely
and gracefully on Governor's island.
As be swept down through the
Hudson Atwood wns in plain view
of the hundreds of thousands who
lined both the Manhattan bank nnd
the summit of the Jersey Palisades.
Only 150 feet ui the air, ho wns lit
tle below the level of the onlookers
on the Jersey shore nud tho roar of
cheers and the waving of flags and
handkerchiefs greeted him ho bowed
right nud left time nnd again in ac
knowledgement of the welcome.
It had been expected that Atwood
would cut in across tho Bron and
come down Broadway but at the last
minuto ho decided at- Nyack. not to
attempt tho flight down the' cityV
main artery, but to stick to the river
as less dangerous.
Atwood left Nynck nt 1:40 o'clock
and throughout tho whole distance
of his flight today his progress wa
watched by crowds who had gathered
since morning to see the finish- of hi1?
spectacular flight. At no time dur
ing today's journey did the aviator
have any trouble and apparently was
in easy and perfect control of his
machine at nil times.
CHINESE ARRESTED FOR
ENSLAVING WHITE MEN
NEW ORLEANS, La., Aug. 25.
Cimrged with hnving maintained a
system of peonage over whito men
in tlto fishing settlements of the Bar
ataria Bar section, famous as the
headquarters of tlto noted niratc La-
fittcs, J. Jung Lee, a wealthy Chi
nese, is under arrest hero today.
Nine Americans, who say they were
shipped out of New Orleans and kept
under bondugo wero brought hero as
witnesses by tho government agents
who arrested Lee. Inconceivable
tales of barbarous treatment which
included workimr 30 hours without
rest 011 a diet of rico and water, aro
related by tho Amortoans.
PROSECUTION CLOSES
CASE AGAINST BELLBOY
NEW YORK, Aug. 25. Tho proso-
cutlon closed Its caso against Paul
Geldol by Introducing tho complete
confosslon made by tho bellboy now
on trial horo for tho murder of Wil
liam U. Jackbon, an agod million
aire
Tho confession said that Geldol
went to Jackson's room with tho In
tention of stealing enough mouoy to
onnblo his mother and slstor to llvo
hero. Ho did not mean to kill htm,
Tho dofonso opons tomorrow.
Peace at Salt Lake.
SALT LAKH CITY, Utah, Aug. 35,
Itoproscntntlvoa of tho various
trades In tho Union Pacific shops
horo and at Ogdon say they aro not
preparing tor a strike. Local officials
of tho Harriman linos Bay thoro Is
nothing but frlondly feeling, und
thoy do not oxpoct a walkout.
Tho conforonco with Gouoral Man
agor Kruttschultt Is expected to bo
hold nt Ogdon tomorrow,
FOUR SUES
OR
STATE FARM
Choice of Locations tp Bc'Made This
Afternoon by Dr. Withycombe,
Director of State Experimental
Stations Who Is Here With loard.
HOUSE AND BARN MUST
GO FREE WITH THE LAND
Land at Tolo, Hillcrest, Davis ami
Roguelanrfs. With lulffHngs ,
Offered. t
Choice of our sites for an. experi
ment station havo bcon offered the
Corvnllls agricultural college and a
decision concerning thorn will be
mado this afternoon. Dr. Withy
combe, director of tho state experi
ment stations, has been in tho city
for the past two days discussing pre
liminaries, and Professor Relmcr
from North Carolina, who will have
charge of the station, lias been ex
amining proposed sites with Profes
sor Lewis, professor of pomology.
A site has been offered by Colonel
Frank Ray at Tolo. It consists of 15
acres of valley loam land, with house
and outbuildings, free water, light
and power, the land to be leased for
15 years free of cost.
The Becond offer is of 10 or 20
acres, as needed, part of bench land
nd part of hillside land, by the Rogue
River Canal company. The land is
under the ditch, and water will be
furnished free. There aro no build
ings upon this site. .-
Tho third offer Is from A. A. Da
vis, consisting of a similar quantity
of land along the Pacific & Eastorn
railroad, also under the "Fish Lake
ditch. Tho land is near tho Btalion of
Davis and Is quite level.
Tho fourth offer Is from J. A. TVea
terlund and R. H. Parsons, and con
sists of 15 acres of land adjoining
Hillcrest occhard, two miles east of
Medford, together with good house
and ranch buildings.
As the appropriation mado by the
state provides for ?500o annually,
none of which can bo used for build
ing construction or rentals, if the
above offers do not suit tho col lego
board, an effort will bo made to raise
tho necessary funds for building con
struction here.
HERR WINS BIG
AUTOMOBILE RACE
Fineshcs In Sensational Burst of
Speed Merz Crowds Winner at
Every Turn Averages 65 Miles
an Hour.
ELGIN, III., Aug. 25. Finishing la
a sensational burst of speed, Donald
Herr, driving a National 40, today
won tho Illinois trophy cup raco horo
by a margin of less than fivo seconds.
Charles Merz In anothor National
crowded tho wlnnor at ovory turn and
finished Bcconnd.
Avoraglng a speed of 64.4 miles an
hour, Hugh Hughes, In a Mercer, cov
ered 1G9.4G mllos In 3 hours 32 min
utes and 21 seconds and won the
Knuo county trophy cup. "W. P.
BarnoH, Jr., also driving a Morcor
finished second, 4 "" '
Tho Aurora cup was won by Mor
tlmor Roberta with au Abbott-Do-
trolt.
PRESIDENT OF STREET
RAILWAY IS ARRESTED
SEATTLE, Wash.. Aug. 25.
President W. R. Crawford of the
Seattle. Renton nud Southorn rail
way, was arrestod at 1 o'clock this
afternoon under tho stato public sor-
vlco commission net, passed by the
1911 legislature. This law Impose
a fluty not to oxcoed S1000 on any
street railroad company charging
moro than 5 cents for ono continuous
rldo within tho limits of any city.
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