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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1913)
"J- J i m ' i J ii "JFmU EIGHT IU..I ...ijujt :rm MOTOR STRUCK BY LOCOMOTIVE ffiN INJURED Helper Etifllno Smashes Into Roflue River Motor Car at Ament Dam Broken Arms, Ribs, Bruises and Cuts Amend Passengers Results. Motor on Schedule Time Badly Dam aged but Engine Running Light, Escapes Injury To Probe Cause. GRANTS PASS, Or., Mny 24. Sovcn of tho fifteen passengers aboard Southern Pacific motorbont No 32, running from Ashland to Grants Pass Inst night were moro or loss injured when n light engine struck tho motor in tho mar, tho ncci dent occurring threo miles east of the city, nt Sanders' station. The injured are: Mrs. Emma Daniels, Butto Creek, arm broken. Claudo Harden, Grants Pass, two ril fractured. Mrs. Mike Calvin, Grants Pass, two ribs broken. Sam Ellis, Grants Pass, leg badly bruised. W. F. LcClnirc, Grants Pass, ar tnbruiscd. Mrs. Moore, Grants Pass, cuts in head. Mnrtin Brown, tcctb knocked out and cut and bruised over body. Brown was thrown twenty feet through a window of the motor. Engineer Gocttsche, of the motor wax cut in tho forehead and scalp and has a sprained back. Tho motor hnd stopped at Amcnt dnm to take passengers and wan just getting under way again when the en gine, running light to assist No. H over tho hill, struck it in tho rear. Tho motor was on time and the stop was a regular one. Tho engine wm 'only slightly damaged. Engineer Denning and his fireman both es caped injury. The rear trucks of the motor were thrown from the track and Conductor Hall was hurled from tho motor but was uninjured. A board of inquiry' will probe the cause. ASHLAND JAIL YAWNS FOR FAMOUS AUTO SPEEDERS Tho Mail Tribuno is in receipt of the following telegram from Ashland: Ashland, Ore., May 24. Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore. Hon. E. V. Carter, Col. F. I). Wag ner, Major G. S. Butler and Lieut FJoyd Dickey, chauffeur, left Ash land Plata at 8 o'clock this morning on n trip to Sun Diego, Cut., via tho Siskiyou route by nutomobile in or der to compare notes in favor of re duced grade over the mountains. He ports from city recorder's office state that the party exceeded speed limits ere leaving the boulevard mid on their return will bo held amend able to municipal statutes. COMMERCIAL CLUH. 'sHH J!fejHafcM!afc HHHrV . 'He4 - vTntwuMUm TwlTi mUmt nn r , , ry , JWm 4M The rapid flro gum of rollicking humor will be primed and ready for action next Monday, May 2G, when Eddie For, III seven merry children and his big company of Broadway girls open their engagement at tho Page theater In tho new musical TO FLY FROM PADUCAH TO ST. LOUIS BY AEROPLANE PADUCAH, Ivy., May 21. Aun (nr Anthony Jantius ascended here at 0 o clock this morning in n hydro plane for n flight to St. Loui. If 4 followed the Ohio river to Cairo, ex pecting to complete tho two hundred and five miles in four hours. Juunus planned to sto at Cape Ghirardcau for fuel. He was ac companied bv n machinist. FLOOR GIVES IN. (Continued from page 1.) when the floor collapsed, talking to n policeman, who fell into the hole, Topphnm barelyescnping. Toppham said to a United Press reperter: 'The scene was awful indescrib able. Without an instant's warning tho whole section of tho floor gnvo way, and amid wild cries of women BUD ANDERSON FIRST OF THE 'IS?! BUD WILL HEAVE ONE WITH Medford Ball Park MFDFOTCT) MATL' TttTBTJtfR, Scene From Eddy Foys "Over farce, "Over tho Hlvcr" Mr Foy has been surrounded b a cast of unusual excellence nt Worbn and Luescher, his producing man agcrB. are great liullcvers In cut hit: their various companies' with talent of the very beet reftnrdlcus of tho size y- i " m - mw nud shrieks of mun, the htniggliug muss of humanity shot downward to the sands below. Kllletl by TlmlH-m. "Many were killed by striking the timber which support the auditor ium. Others were emptied to death under tho muss of human bodies above them. Three Long Honcli p li"emeii went in with the crowd, one was seriously injured, the other two escaping. "We worked for an hoar to remove the bodies. I feel Hint u mistake was made by Homebody in keeping the auditorium door locked until after the pnrado resulting in a mast of leoplc rushing into the building ut once. Twenty little flower girls barely escaped death in the catastrophe. Thoy had ju-t passed over the section of floor that caved in when the crash cainc. The injured arc scattered all over Medford vs. Central Point, THREE-GAME SERIES FOR A BATTERIES- Medford"Anderson Hurd and Hill; 'W "-V-" -: v MEDF01TO, OKEflON. the River" of the salary roll. Tho nnulcal num ber nro typically modern and of a nature to hold tliolr lilting swing long In memory of tho auditor, Aa In all of Werba and l.ucscher's pro ductions, "Over tho Hlvcr" hns been treated with a lavish hand In the con tinuing and general vecnlc effects. l.ong Poach in private residences, hospitals and tcuiHirnrv hospitals. A platoon of I,os Angeles police is guarding tho building. A special train bearing physicians nud nurses from Los Angeles, accompanied by Mayor Alexander, has arrived nud assistance is being rendered. GERMAN USES FAIR AS CLUB ON TARIFF BERLIN, Mnv 21. A moxement to oppoo Gorman participation in the Panama Pacific cxKisitiou in Kan Francisco in 101." if the clause in the Underwood tnriff bill giving five por cent preference to goods iuinlcd in American bottoms is enacted, was started here this afternoon. Gorman manufacturers arc behind the moxe ment. ' It Is said Mrs. Lesllo Carter Is go Ing vaudovlllo next season In it new playlet. V,ClllicU A UlIlLr-lYllIlLy IC O.UUL YY USUJL1 y ;P v HIS RIGtyT AND Sunday, May SATURDAY, MAY 21, MARTY 13 FIRS! CHAMPION LOSING LIFE IN THE SAN FRANCISCO. Cnl., May 21 - The death In tho ring of Luther Mc Carty Is tho first tlmn In t,hn hlntory of pugilism that a world's rhnmploti has lost his life In such a manner. No champion, no far ns the records go, has even been seriously Injured In a ring bout, cither In the days ot baro fists or under modern rule. McCarty, It Is said, had been llv lug a fast life ulneo he heal Al "ulior In Los Angeles and that wlimi h mit Jim Flynn In lMilJulolphlu a fnw weeks ngo and later Frank Mortin u New York, he was far from tho rug' god man ho was when he defciitei'. Al Knuftunn and Al I'alxer. McCarty sprang Into fnmo a little less than two years ago, wh he knocked out Carl Morris In six rounds. After meeting two or thieo novices ho mot Jess Wlllanl In New York and was outpointed in 10 rounds. Ills next bnttlo of Impel tnuro was with Al Kaufman, winning by a knockout In two rounds. Jim Flynn was his next vl.tlm Flyiiu being so badly beaten th-U ilio fight was stopped. Al I'nUor war defeated In tho samn manner, the victory clvlng .McCarty the title of heavyweight whlto rcinmplon of th- world. McCarty was born In Lincoln, Ne'i March 17, IS!)!!, and was of In Una Irish imrentsge. Ills first HkIiI 'tool; place on January 7, 101 1, and unco then, Including today's fatal bout, ho had participated In 25, winning 15 of them by knockouts. Pclkoy, the new hinvvcli;!it champion of the world, Is a big, strong follow, fnU and clever. Ho was born In a Canadian hnnjlet 27 j ears nRO, hut was rnlsed and has mado his home In North A .In inn, Mass., slnco Infancy. He Is a steam filter by trado and began 'U'ltltu, two years aj;o. Ilo recently louulit a six-round draw with Tommy IIimh who then took him In chnrg. Pclkoy claims a 10. round declnloa over Jess Wlllard, knocked ouruily Morrls In two rounds. Soldier Kenrns In soven rounds, and has defeated r. number of lesser lights. Ho 's ji! i to bo a qulot. gentlemanly fello-v, and s married. LOW WAGES PAID DOMESTICS LURES GIRLS FROM COUNTRY 8T. I.OUIB, May 21-That tho work of waitress Is Just employment for girls; that thu low wages paid tho domestic servants In the country Is ono reason why country girls seek employment In tho cities and girls In steam laundries work In such In tense heat they often faint was testi fied today before the Missouri senate Investigation committee Tho testimony as to the relative desirability of work In restaurants for women was given by a girl In a local restaurant who said sho re ceived $7 por week and meals and averaged a dollar a day In tips. Hov oral girls; testified to working In de partments storos for from three to six and eight dollars per week. TO N Sunday May 25 ONE WITH HIS 1010. PAGE THEATER Monday, May 26 i PRICES CO CENTS TO $2.00. Tickets now on snlu nt tho llox Off Ire. Open Hiiuday, When you tire of rough, strong, high proof whiskey try the new Cyrus Noble. pure, mild w 1 yf, J. Viin Schtiyvcr & Co., General Agents Portland, Orcjon EESYT5SI IFJumLmrtril COSXEQ Hltunted tit tho flub of tho Principal Theater ami Hhopplng IMMrlrt Recently Itrdcrornti'd nuit Itcfumlihcd Throughout, and 'letter Kipilppcd Today than Kvcr lleforo Kiirox'nii Plan ltoonm ultliotit Imtli, f 1,00 per day nud up llooiiM uith hath, $2.00 ht dur and up (J. J. KAl'I'.MANN, .Manager. N. K. CLAUKK, AsM. .Mgr. PITCH $500 SIDE 4 FAMOUS LEFT 25, 3 P. M. 'Ki and mature R?rlIancTy famous Hotel Ho cd for the excellence- of i t$ Cuisine. European plan BET ' 'p j
