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i FAGK KTariT MEQ-Fonn mail TmnuNE, MHnKOKn, orkoon. Saturday, may 17, mm. LEAPS OFF TOP SKYSCRAPER TO INSTANT DEATH Cily Clerk of Oakland, California, Crazed by Insomnia, Jumps From Fourteenth Story of New City Hall Evcry Bone in Body Broken. LL FRUI I SHPPED W m MS I BE BRANDED NOW MISS MAC KINNEY. WHO HAS WORKED FOR KINDERGARTENS Asked for Permit to Enter Bulldinn and Questioned as to Whether Death Would Bo Instantaneous. OAKLAND, Cat., May 17. II. K. Mnglll, recently appointed city clerk of Oakland, committed sulcldo nt 10:30 o'clock this morning hero by Jumping from tho 14th story ot thu now city hall. Tho net wns committed lit plain view ot tho girl employed In Cap Well's department store, which nd Joins tho city hall. The nwe-strlck.cn witnesses saw a body plungo off tu sldo of tho 14 th story, land on a projection on tho 13th floor, bound up and then fall In a crumpled heap. U Instantly Killed. wncn round .Magma nccK was broken and practically every bono In his body was crushed. Tho body was removed to the morgue. MagtII this morning requested Commissioner Anderson for a per mit to go Into tho now city hall. Ho walked over to tho window and Kaicd up at tho Immense structure standing moro than 300 feet above tho ground. "What would happen to who fell otf that building?" ho asked. "Would ho loso conscious ness boforo ho struck tho ground?" "I am not suro whether ho would loso consciousness," said Wilkinson, who Is tho mayor's secretary, "but I think ho would bo dead boforo ho struck tho street." Leap from Coping. Maglll left tho room laughing and went Into tho now building. Tno men standing In Anderson's wlndo paw him enter tho building and no up to tho 14th stor;-. They watched him as ho walked about and then climbed up on tho coping. Ihuy saw him Jump and saw his 'ji-dy strike upon tho lower part of tfc3 building. Mnglll was 37 years of ago and had been married for 13 years. Ho caniq to Oakland from Pittsburg, la whero be was a newspaper man. Ho did newspaper work hero and wa deputy county clerk aud county sta tistician until his appointment :ts city clerk a month ago. Temporary insanity duo to in..-, nla, from which ho had been su'fer lng for more than a month, I nl to havo been tho causa of hb act. Ho told friends josterday tin ho was on tho verge of a breakdown Mnnngcr Mr Kenny oT the Produc ers Fruit Co. has proeured tho fol lowing officinl Mntcmcut rcgnnlitii: the branding of fruit for Now York. Kffectie June tho 1st, nil inxek nRes of fruit intended for sale in New York must bo marked ns fol fel fol eows: Grapes!, crates, net weight 24 lb. (1 ropes, baskets, net weight 0 lbs. Plums nnd prunes, crate:, net weight, '20 lb. Plums nnd prunes, baskets, net weight fi lbs. Apricots, crates net weight 20 lbs. Apricots, baskets, net weight lbs. Pears, boxes, net weight 4(1 ulw. Pears, V. boxes, net weight, 23 lbs. Peaches, boxes, cxnot number. Cherries, boxes, net weight 8 lh. i. nemos in carious nnxtw oou inin S cartons, net weight 20 ounce caeli. This is a new slnto law of New York, nnd nil shipments not properly marked will bo confiscated nnd the Rhlpiwrs of same will be out the cost of fruit, package nnd freight. CREATE FUND FOR CRA1ER LAKE PARK m 4; ' 'I Miss Mabel A. MacKlnncy has just retired ns president of the In ternational Kindergarten Union, which held tts annual meeting In Washington. Under her administra tion for the past two oars tho or ganisation has grown greatly, nnd sho left tho chief office with tho union In a flourishing condltfon. During the meeting sho presided with the dignity or a president ot tho United States senate, nnd parliamen tarians in Washington whero they nro plentiful remarked that sho was one of tho best presiding officers they had known. PUBLIC WR ED NOT 10 PURCHASE RAILROAD LAN PLUMBER SAYS CIIY HAS PLUMBING IRUST Clinrglng that a plumber's trust vxlsts in Mcdford and that it pre sents any newcomer from getting work hero, L. W. Chllds appeared bo foro the city council Friday night and asked that tho ordlnnnco which created an examining board of rival plumbers bo repealed. Chllds made a very dramatic appeal to tho council. It Is reported that Chllds is not a first class workman and that ho failed to pass an examination. Chllds states that tho examination was a farco. Tho council will go Jnto the mat ter next Tuesday night. WASHINGTON', May 17. To create n revenue fund in the Crater Lnko National Park, Representative Hnwley of Oregon Ims today intro duced the following bill in cengress: "That tho secretary of the interior is hereby authorized nnd directed to hold in his department all of the pro ceeds of all lenses, licenses, fran chises nnd permits of ever)- kind in the Crater Lake National Park nnd nil other revenue that may bo de rived from any sources connected with the park, to be known ns the Crater Lake National Park revenue fund, nnd that such revenue fund bhall bo extended under his direction in the management of the same, nnd the construction, repairs nnd im provements of the roads, trails nnd bridges in the reserve. REDDY TO CLOSE UP OLD CHANNEL MINE MENS E COLD Y U GKNKVA, Alny 17.-Iutensc cold is a cure for leprosy, according to Prof. Itnould Pictet of Geneva, in ventor of n method of producing li quified uir. Ilcccnt experiments along thW line by American doctors in Hawnii, Professor Pictet says, havo been entirely successful. Li(uificd oxide of carbonate nt n tcmoruturo of 110 degrees below zero, Profosor Pictet state destroy the microbes of leprosy nnd entires diseased flesh to gradually regain its origiunl health nnd color. lie declares many cases havo been cured in Hawaii and that tho American go eminent is investigating tho cure. POItTI.ANI), Ore, May !7.- Tho general land offlVo tins today turned a warning to tho public to pay no location fees or take any other steps toward securing title to any of the Southern I'ncINo lands In western Oregon recently declared forfeited to tho government by Federal Judge Wolverton. This action was taken following reports ot tho alleged per nicious activities of nltoruOH and Individuals who nro seeking to lo cate homesteaders on this laud. Further hearings In tho no-called "Innocent purchasers" cases nro be ing held today before Miss Vivian Flexner, special examiner. Tho cases involved nro tho government against tho timber companies and other Indi viduals who purchased lauds In lar ger tracts than 1000 acres from the Oregon California railroad land grant, which was declared forfeited to tho government by Federal Judgo Wolverton several weeks ago. Should tho defendants provn that they pur chased tho lands under tho belief that thoy would secure n clear title, they will bo allowed to re-purchnsn tho lands from tho government at $2. RO per ncre. Tho hearings nro being conducted by Glenn H. Husted, special assistant to tho attorney general. STRAWBERRIES ARE AT Dr. Ilcddy, who is receiver for the Old Channel Mining company with properties located in the Gnlicc dis trict, has just returned from n visit to thu mine, having been nccompa nicd on the trip by Engineer Harmon nnd J. L. Harvey, says tho Grants Pass Courier. I)r. Iteddy expects to closo up the affairs of tho company nt an early dato ns possible, nnd will probably put the mine on the market ns soon ns it can bo done. The Old Cbnnnel is one of the most noted of tho placers of thu district, and has paid fortunes in yellow dust in the many years is hns been oper ated. Recently, however, it has bc- como involved, nnd Dr. Iteddy will straighten out tho eiitngleiiients ns rapidly us iKJssible. PORTER J. HEFF BOOSTS THE PUBLIC MARKET WINS AIRSHIP RACE KEY WEST TO CUBA HAVANA, May 17. Domingo I?o sillo, using n biplane without flouts todny won the $10,000 Jcy West to Ilnxnnu race. His only npimncut was Augustin Pnrlu in a hydroplane. Pnrln fell shortly niter tho start but wns rescued by a Cuban gunboat llotb Itonillo nnd Pnrln are Cubans. OF CALIFORNIA REVOLT U.NIVKKSITY OF OKEOO.V, Eug ene. May 17. Among tho principal speakers at the second session of tho fifth annual Oregon commonwealth conferenco Friday was Porter J. J. Xeff, former city attorney of Mcd ford, who described In detail tho working of tho municipal market at Mcdford declaring tho enterprise has been a splendid success, reducing tho cost ot living In Mcdford to tho con sumer and at tho tsamo tlmo encour aging the producer by tho facilities otfored. KAN FRANCISCO, Cnl May 17. Tho progresMvc democrats of Cal ifornia today started n revolt Hint will bo beard loudly in Washington against the npiointmcut by President Wilson of Thomas Fox ns or,tmus tcr of Sacramento. Fox is an old Southern Pacific po litical boss, u machine man of the old school, a reactionary, nnd n Hupxrt cr of Champ Clark ns against Wil hon for president, lie wns a dele gate to the national democratic con vention nnd one of the sixteen io bold out to the lust against Wilson. E OF NEW YORK, May 17. Bishop William Donno of thu Episcopal dio ceso of Albany, died hero curly to day in his iipurtmcuU nt thu .Man liattan Hotel. Ho arrived hero Tues day. His condition was not con sidered serious then but he bank rap. idly. Tho body will bo taken to Al bany Into this afternoon. Even If You Don't Play Golft Go Fishing Paddle a Canoe f i r indulge in any kind e sport" you do like a change from your ordinary work-a-day clothes. Every man does. Every man likes to lok different" somstimes. Thsn every man should see oris or our new spring suit's, that is, if hs has $15.00 or more that he doesn t positivsjy need, be cause if he sees one, he II Luy oh?. Best of all you can fssl per- iecny sate, l ou ger all ygu pay for. We do hot antici pate cut pries sales on prices asked. HOW THIS WOMAN FOUND HEALTH Would not givo Lydia E,Pinlc- ham's Vegetable Compound for All Rest of Medicine in the World. Utlcn, Ohio." 1 sulferwl ovcrythlnjr from a fcmnlo weakness after Imby enme. 1 luul numb spells nnd wns ditty, had black sKta bo foro my eyes, my back nchctl mid I wns ro weak I coull hardly stand up. My fnco wns yellow, even my llngernalU were colorless nnd I had displacement. 1 took I.ydln E. Pink- ham's Vegetablo Compound and now I nm stout, well and healthy. I can do all my own work nnd can walk to town nnd back and not get tired. I would not give your Vegetable Compound for nil tho rent of tlfc medi cines In the world. I tried doctor's med icines nnd they did mo no good." Mrs. Mauv HAitt.invi.Nt:, K.F.D. No.1T, Utlcn, Ohio, Another Cnso. Nebo, III." I was ltothercd for ton years with female troubles nnd the doc tor! did not help me. I w ns so weak and, nervous thnt I could not do my work and every month I had to mndn rVw days In bed. 1 read so many loiters about Lydla K. Plnkham's Vegutnblo Com. pound curing fcmnlo troubles that I got abottle of It. It did mo more good than anything eluo I ever took and now It hni cured me. I feel better than I linvu for years and tell everybody what tho Com)ound linn done for me. I In-lleve I would not bo living to-dny but for thnt." Mrs. HeIB GnKKNariiCET, Nebo, llllnok Commencement Shoes .If llio young lady is going (o graduate, hIui will lio wauling mniii'thing lluU'A Very dioico in footworn. ISvtM'y young lady dcsiniH to appear at linr host, on thin important occasion. Wo aro showing sovoral linos of vory olioioo stylos of Whito Nuhuek, Satin anil Canvas Slippers, Nulmclc Mutton Oxfords and Shoos. Prices $1.70 to tflUH), all sizes ami widths. BEHLING flood Kit Shoo Storo Wo Liko To Fit Tho Hard To Fit Both roprosontativo of tho wliolo somo cordial spirit of tho West and tho bo3t in hotol sorvico The HOTEL JOSEPHINE Grants Pass Orogon "k si:i: tin: mvkv JK VI m.ui; mill) gB i tT Do you know that k Thp II thero in If ''c l A"'"" II IMPERIAL . II of yoar behind tho II ' . u Dlnmonds wo soli? Il HOTEL Aud do you know 1 I O'ntthe vniiicH I Portland. 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PHONE 67-J-2 Ono of tho finest offerings In mouths wug soon at tho public, mar ket toduy, all of tho Btalls bolnt; occupied. Tho offering wns very heavy, Kor tho first tlmo this season strawberries were offered. They woro of excellent quality. Ono of tho booths attracting the most attention was that or the Oak Orovo school, tho children offering largo quantities of produce grown In tholr own gardens. XOT1CK. A, II, Dougherty, tho Itawlelgh man, has moved his business to 4flG Uofttty street. 49 4 With Mcdford trnwn is Mcdford mmlo. An t Explanation Till- FKJI1T RimmNS TO BIO ttKCFAVFA) 11Y TILI3 ONLY DIM-XT ItlNOSIDR AVIRIO AT T1IK ISIS TniUATKIl ON iMAV 20 IS NOT THIS SI It VIC! It WHICH WAS FUKNISIIHI) AT TIII3 ANOLIO OI'HItA IIOUSI;: ON TIII: HUOWN-ANDEICSON KICniT AND NO AVESTKKN lTNION OIMMATOR WILL IIAVK ANY CONNECTION WITH THIS SRItVICE. KXl'RltT OPRRATOHS WILL LVN TUB ISIS WLRR AND TILR ACCOUNTS OK TIIR HOUNDS WLLL HR FULL AND AN ACCURATE- DRSCRIPTION OJ1 TIIR HOUT. TIIR RINGSIDE OPERATOR IS ACKNOWLEDGED TO HE TIIRRRSTFIOUT DESCRIRRR EVER EMPLOYED ON A PRESS AVI RR. TJIE REGULAR TSrS PROGRAAE WILL HE GIVEN BEGINNING AT 8:15 P. M THE ENTERTAINMENT WILL BE AS PROPER FOR WOA1 EN AS FOR MEN. '3(eami Jke , V do not take Substitutes or Imitations GctthcWcIl-Known UADI lUT'C. KoundPnckao TI WlLrV 9 ,?u.T I o rJ rr- .. .. MALTED MILK Mad In the largest, bast quipped and sanitary Malted Milk plant In the world Wc do not malic" milk products" Skim Milk, Condensed Milk, etc. But tho Original-Genuine HORLICK'S MALTED MILK Mado from pure, full-cream milk and tho extract of select malted grain, reduced to powder form, soluble in water. Tho Food-drink for AH Ages. MT ASK FOR "HORLICK'S" Used all over the Globe t The moat economical and nourishing light lunch. atJ&mecnSotlaJiwiiftun i' n3'jk'fft i4ns -fr tfV- r-ir - -'- - ju ft t M4 . '-n-- J ' - " i-m