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..,-. ,.- 4rfJ - A--AMvlVV,W.tW.U.'(:tr n Medford Mail Tribune SECOND EDITION WEATHER Ilflln tonight ,nn1 8Htdjr Mux. 80; Min. 10. I'orty.tlilnl Year. Dilllv KlMlilli Vrnr. MICDFORJ), OltKGON, HATl'I'DAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 3013. NO. 1G2 'rrt y SCIENCE HEALER F Mrs. Rebecca P. Gay, Divorced Wife nf John Gay, Multl-Mllllonalre of San Dlciio, Brutally Murdered In Los Angeles. No Clues Left liy Assailant and Mo tive Unknown White Slave Gang Suspected, I.OH ANUKLKH, Col., Hojit. '-'7. Mr. Itiihcccn 1'. (lay, a Clirlutliwi Heloiiee prnetltlouor, divorced wlfo of John (liiy, inultliiilllloiialrn or Han nirKo, wan foil ml murdered In her olllco lit n downtown officii building early toiln Him linit been boatun our (tin bond until her lira In uxutlmt, wllli it plocn of 3-8 Inch Knnulno wrapped In brown paper. Tim plpo Iny beiddo her hotly. Thn murderer evidently liml tried In drag thn hotly to a window open liiic Into uu ulndintt, to throw it to tho court below. Falling. b had cov ered It with hook nuil Christian Hcleiiro llternlurn pulled from n tnblo. 1'ounil by Jnnlirr Tho hotly was foil ml by a char woman, who screamed ami then fainted. Janitor hearing her out cry nollflml tho police. Tim floor anil wall of tho officii were spattered with blood. Tabic nuil chairs were overturned. Coroner llnrtwcll examined tho hoily and alil life hail been extinct at lcat ton hour. Night Watch men at tho building declared no ono had entered or left tho building Mncn 7 o'clock liwt nlKht. to thn bct of tludr kuowlcdco. Mr. Oay was nbout 65 year of ouo. Bhn wa among tho bit known Clirlitlan Hclonco practitioner of Los Angeles. jtt Keen Alho Friday Mr (lay wa lnl ecn allvo by hor friend when lm left her room at llm MaRallii apartment early yettor ilnv to to to her office. Hho said ho would return beforo night. Her hat and coal woro found today on a tnblo In tho offlro. lyliiK beld.i her hnudbiuU. Detective believe ii, un nbout to loavn her office when tho murder win committed. Thn murderer did hi work with fiendish abandon. Bplurtn of blood stained tho colling abovo tho body mid bloody wlp of hair woro scat tered about thn room. Killed by (Inn 1Mm tfoveral teoth, knocked from tho woman's Jaw by tlm force of tho pa pipe blow, woro scattered on tho floor. Tho Jaw wa broken. The gas pipe apparently had been nirefitlly preparod for It part. It had been wrapped and wound with brown wrapping paper, possibly to deaden tho hoiiiuI of the blow. It I held by tho pollco a tho only poh nltilo cluo to tho murdor yet un earthed. A promising Hun for tho searchers for Mr. Oay' murderor wa opened up Into today when It becamo known that Hho and other cnriHiinn ttcicucu practitioner hero had been threat ened with death by a gang of whlto Hlavora who nporated under tho gulo of ChrlHllun Hclonco prnctltloncr. (lay 111 nt I Home HAN DIF.aO, Cnl Hopl. 27. John (Iny U confined to IiIb bed In hlH homo nt Lnkosldo today, hnvluis been 111 for somo tlmo. "MrH. llebocca I. (lay and I woro nnurrlod In the Parlnh of Iborvlllo, I.n., December 30, 1877," Oay said to a reporter. Her immo beforo our 'iunr Hugo wiih llobocca I. Connor, and hor homo wnH In Natchez, Miss. "I havo Rcon hor only onco slnco our divorce" F. MADIMO, Sept. 27.- The Spanish government decided filially todnv lo piirliuipalo in tho Puiiiiniii Pacific, exposition in Sun Francisco In UN 5. Spain, it wiih announced, will ho rep resented liy private iih well us offic ial oxhibllb. . , IIUNOSIAIN IN 0 BULDNG PARTICIPATES A MS KILLING W BBU1G E Clyde Wilkinson of Kokorno, Intl., Confesses to Murdering Spouse Took Her Into Cornfield, Beat Her Badly and Threw Her into Grave. Remains Found liy Neighbors, Wlm Continued Search for Two Weeks After Family Moved Away. KOKO.MO, I ii.l.. Kepi. J7. (Mli Wilkinson confomed today Hint lie Hindered hi wife, Aiiiui. He milled that he believed he did it liy lufryin her ulive. Of (bin, however, lie wiih not ipiile mire. It wn xmiible (hut he wiih ii trendy ileiul when he threw her liilo Hid grave he hail hiniM'lf llllNlilV till),'. ITnlil reeenlly Will.iiiMin, UU wife ami their two young miiih lixed on ti f n nn near Kokniiid. IIiihIiiiiiiI nml wife iiinrreeil nnd (he hitter left the fnnu. Augiit -8 olie iliMnppenrcd from Kokomo, About two week later Will;iimuii Hold bin hehuigiugK mid went wiih hit koiih lo IigmiH port. found In Cornfield III the meantime, neighbor hud been hunting fr tho wife. Thej eoiillnueil their Mcnrch after Wilkiu hiiii had lefl. Today they found the woman' body in it grnvo in the cornfield on the Wilkinxnn form. It lay face downward with the leg douhled up, for Die grave wa too hort. Though bndty ilceouiHihed, the face wm rreoguiable. The okull had been rninhrd in. The mlicn nt I.ogniiRwirt were eoiuinuuii'iileil with by wire. WH kiiiHon wa nrn'tlid nml brought hero nt once. On bin nrriwil he miiile a full eonfcHsion. "I lured Aimn to her death Aug lint JH," he Hiiid, "by telling her thai mir hoy, three ycarH of nge, was iek nml needed her. Mnkr I'ull Coiifekoii "She came nnd I look her into (he cornfield, where I begged for n ree oneilialion. She rel'iineil, no knocked her down nnd kicked her nn Hie heml. "I dug her grave right where ho fell nnd threw her in. I think xhe wiih ulive when I did it. Then I filled tin tho mvo, "I told the hoyn their mother had gone nwny, never to relnrn." The police here admit that when MrH. Wilkinson left for tho farm hho asked that n policeman ho sent with her, iih she feared her husband, hut they refused, telling her hho wiih in no danger. A ohwo watch in being kept over Wilkinson lent he ntlempt suicide. GOT $200,000 N'KV (llll.KANS, I.U., Sept. 27. That tho three hiign of money stolen in the hold-up of nn Alabama, (heat Southern passenger train near Tus caloosa early jostcrday probably contained initio tliuii .f '.'00,0(1(1 wiih tho declaration here thin afternoon of John Wogau, assistant chief of tho 8uh-treuHiirv. The money, he Hold, was consigned lo Louisiana nnd Alabama bunks, STAY OF EXECUTION SAN FRANCISCO, Cut., Sept. 127. F. Drovv Caminelti nnd Maury I. Diggs, eonvioted of vvhito sluvery lio cuubu of their elopement lo llouo wiih I.olu Norriii nml Marsha War riiigton, uiul sculeneod to tho peni tentiary, vvero given nil additional Htay of exeoutioii of twenly daya to duy, in order to perfect their appeal, Attorneys Devlin and Wlooilvvorlh up ponml beforo United States Judge Van Fleet anil stated that it wiih a physical impossibility o get the pa pern in Hhapo. Tho government made no opposition to tho pica. . . WOMAN AV TRAIN B A SCENE ' L'IJ'j ' M.LJ, J-ill JL I MMMMIUUMMM j . Mmmww i mil I II , JiiillilllJti J III the Ihird ml of "The I.n re." the nresentiilion of which in New York Iiiih caused uu investigation by the grand jury there, it ono of the most dramatic scenes of the piece. A no cret service man of the goverbment, having in the second net rescued nnj 120 MILES HOUR FLYING RECORD BY IIIIKI.MS, France. Sept. 27. Avi utor Provost was declared winner today in the French elimination con testa preparatory to tho race Mon day for tho .In m eft (lordou lleuuctt trophy. Tho judge placed hit river ago bpced at J2Q inilos nn hour. Avi ntors VcdrincH nml Oilbcrt 'cere re npcctively second nnd third. Tho only American pilot who will flv In tho race Monday is Charles Woymann, who, much to the French contestants' nmiisciucnt, tho aviat ors' nrt being nn American invention, lint entered n French machine. He hat made cousiderablv better than 100 miles nn hour in il, however, and hi chances were today considered even with Frovosfn. The boot judges expressed tho opinion that ono of these two would win. The present holder of the trouhv Ih Vodrines, who won it Inst year nt u speed of 10(1 1-0 miles nn hour, and will try Monday to win it ngnin. Kuglish, nclgian, Italian nnd Ger man aviators also will compete. 50,000 ALBANIANS VIF.NNA, Sept. 27.- Fifty thous and Albanians, with artillery nnd modern rifles, were refuted today advancing on the towns of Frilip, Frisivnd, Kitchevo nnd l.ctovo, now occupied liv Servin. It wns said it will he several days before Servia can mohilir.e n force to omioao tliem. CAPITALIST'S WIFE NKW YORK, Sept. 27.--"Not gull ty," waa tho plea entered hero today by Mr. Frank YVlborg, wifo ot a Cincinnati capitalist, Indicted by a federal grand Jury on a chargo ot smiiKKllug. Mrs. YVlborg, accompa nied by hor husband, entered hor plea beforo Judgo Hough. Mrs. VVIborg urrlvod horo Soptom- bor 5 with twenty trunks, Sho do- dared they contained only J500 worth ot duttablo goods. Tho trunks aro soUod and tho Indictment de clared they contained $5000 worth ot goods, Mrs. VVIborg was glvon un til October 13 to withdraw hor plea of not guilty. SAM LANGFORD MATCHED TO FIGHT JOE JEANETTE NEW YOHIC, Sept. 27. Sum Lnugford nnd Joo Jenuette, negro heavyweights, tm matched hero for n ton-vouud limit before tho flarden Alliletio club on October U. FRENCH AVIATOR NVADING EVA WHICH CAUSED TROUBLE FOR .innocent girl ho k . w from nn un lawful establishment, she took with,K,r' return. Sim had been er- her another girl, who had been de-1 ?' ,n,,,e'l' ,IWI, ,,, nrfit '""" ,u,mn" ... ., . broke in on the scene lo interrupt it. coved into the house. ,, .... , . ,,, ' , 1 , , The jilny is now being rewritten by Ono of Ihoso clmraeters known m t tho author, himself a government tho cnfct iik n "cadet" found the hid-.secret berviee agent, and this scene ing plm.'O of the young woiniiu, audi AT Y LD' NHW YOHIC. Bept. 27 Hotting opened hero today at even money on tho coming erle between tho New York Giant and Philadelphia Athle tics for the world' (cries. Tho Giants havo tho National championship prac tically w" but nAirt'wln ono more game to clinch tho pennant. In order to tic tho Giants for tho championship, Philadelphia must win all ot tho remaining games on tho schedule. McGraw ayg ho will win today's gnmo from flrooklyn and end the raco and then glvo his stars a rent for the world's sorles. Dotting commissioners havo wads ot money to plnco on McGrawv squad to win tho world's series but American I.eaguo money Is scarco. Tho condition ot Doylo nnd Snodgrass Is worrying the fans but McGraw says they will bo found In tho opening gamo of tho scries on October 7, ItOrilKSTKII. X. Y., Sept. 27. Thcodore Itooscvclt was here today in (tteudauee ul tho progressive con vention, lie was scheduled to ad dress (he convention this afternoon. Asked by reporters whether he would run for govrnor on tho progressive ticket, ho said ho might i-siio u statement later. NEW HAVEN SPENT HOSTON, Sept. 27.- Chiarnmii Mel.eod of tho stato publio service commission began an investigation today in tho charge that the Now Haven railroad spent 337,000 on the legislature tit its lust ce.vsion. en tering it on its books as "other ex penses." President Elliott of tho railroad expressed his willingness to furnish nil facts and figures desired. oownwardIenIncy NHW YOUK, Sept. 27. A down ward tondoncy markod tho oponlng of tho stock market today. Heading and Union Pacific woro unchanged but Stcol mid tho copper shares opened at a decline Later tstocka hold their ground fairly woll but Just boforo tho closo they sluidod oft again, Donds wero steady. Tho market closed lrrogular. BETTING OPEN EVEN 1NE NI E ROOSEVELT MAY RUN FOR GOVERNOR "THE LURE" getting in tried to induce the second will bo climtnnted. SULZER ASSERTS T Y GIVEN BY PECK ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 27. Gov ernor Sulzer'l l,iwver tadny hud the testimony to be offered in hit de fciiBO nt tho iin)caeliniei)t trial here, well in hand. Hesiilet what he will snv for him self, nnd fils wife's blory, thoyrely chiefly on John IIeniic.tey, who eon- ducted n special investigation for the J governor mid is hiiid to have evi dence involving the latter. s bitterest enemies in a plot to ruin him. Smarting under tho charge made by Stato Superintendent of Public Works Duncan Peck yesterday that Suler asked Peck to erjure himself, tho governor has iusi-ted that his at torneys recall Peck for cross-examination and comiiel him to fix the time- nnd place of the alleged conver sation nnd nlso to tell who was present at tho time. It wns said today by the gover nor's friends that thero wero wit nesses nt the interview and that Sulrer will have them put on the stand to prove Peck's statements a "deliberate lie." RIVAL CANAL IS T LONDON, Sopt. 27. Nolthor gov ernment nor financial circles today took very seriously tho hints In an article ot tho London Standard to tho effect that English capital contem plates backing construction of nn At- laiitic-Paclflo canal through Colom bia by way or tho Atrato nnd Cuplca rivers. In tho first plnco, It was said, tho governmont would bo suro to frown on nn entorprlso which the United States certainly would object to, and In tho second, a, rival to the Panama canal could not bo a paying proposition. Itopresontntlves of Poar 8on nnd Son, tho firm supposod to bo acting for tho capital said to bo in terested, would not discuss tho mat tor. 0. W. R. N. INVESTMENT TOTALS FIFTY MILLIONS SALEM, Or., Sept. 27. Tho O. W. R. & N. company has spent $00, OOO.fiOri for its railroad lines and enuipment in Oregon, according to un oxhnustivo report showing tho detail ed costs of tho construction niulbet tormciits nml equipment of tho com pany's lines since its beginning in this state, issued today by tho stnto railroud commission. Years have been spent in compiling tho data con tained in tho report. The total mile age of tho compnny's lines in Ore gon is 831.88 miles. PERIEDTES ION CONSIDERED RON WO S SUBSmuiEDHK IN D MONEY Discovery of Seven Washers in Four Sacks of Coin in San Francisco Mint Indicates Robbery on a Large Scale. No Clew to Thief, Who Was Prob ably Sllglit-of-Hantl Artist Among Workmen In Institution. WASHINGTON, Sept. 27. At whatever figure the San I'rancisco mint officials may estimate tho shortage in the institution's treas ure, all that they absolutely know, it was stnted nt the treasury depart ment today is that seven iron wash ers have been found scattered through four sacks of coin in place of as tnnny silver dollars. It was ndmittcd, however, that Di rector of tho Washington Mint Rob erts has ordered a piecc-by-piece count of tho governments entire re serve silver supply on the const, a total of $01,000,000. The task will take weeks. KcaW Still Unbroken Tnnsmuch an the seals wero un broken on the sacks in which the washers were found, Roberts believ ed some sleight-of-hand artist among the workmen who did the sacking was responsible for the thefts. He added that he did not believe the loss would prove very large. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 27. That it will bo weeks, probably, before the exact extent of the short age which hns been discovered In the mint hero is known wns admitted to dav by officials engaged in the in vestigation. There nre (50,000 bnri of gold and silver coin stored in the mint vaults nnd they nil will have to be gono through to determine how thoroughly tho thief did his work. Moro than this, it was practically impossible to learn from the local mint officinls, who replied to nearly every question that all information concerning the ense must come from Washington, which is itself not yet very fully informed. May Exceed $73,000 It was known, however, that the shortage is estimated at all the way from $.10,000 to $75,000, nnd that it may run still higher than tho latter figure. It was nlso clear that tho govern ment's loss might havo gono undis covered for a long time but for a slight miscalculation as to weight on tho thief's part, in tho substitu tion of tho iron washers for jtjU coin in the nionev bags he rifled. Tho moment it wns noticed that ono of the bags did not tip the cnle at exactly the correct figure tho oag wns opened nnd tho theft discovered, Tho opening of moro bngs followed, but whilo it is certniu that others had been tampered with, tho exait number discovered thus far wns not mado known outside tho mint itself today. MEETS APPROVAL WASHINGTON, Sept. 27. Con struction of a pvenunent owned ruilroad connecting Nome, Fair banks nnd Vnldez wns approved to day by tho houso territories commit tee. A favorable report on the WSekersluuu bill, providing an issue of $35,000,000 worth of bonds for that purpose, already hns been made, THREE WORKMEN KILLED WHEN AIR CHEST EXPLODES I M I.ORIENT, Franco, Sept. 27. Three workmen wero killed nnd seven othors injured hero todny by a com pressed air chest, used in tho con struction of n quay, exploding when put in tho water. Weather Fotecast Oregon Fair east ;rain west por tion tonight; warmer southwest por tion; Sunday, rain, southorly winds, Increasing along tho north const. SA RAILROAD HORSES DIE IN $1 5.000 LIVERY STABLE BLAZE City's Business District Imperiled When Union Barn Burns Loose Hay Makes Firebrands Gasoline In Garages Worries. Defective Wiring Given as Origin of Spectacular Fire Friday Night Flames Spread Swiftly. , . Fire, caused cither by defentivo wiring, tho generally accepted' the ory, or smekini: in tho hay loft by nn unknown mnn, little credited, de stroyed the Union livery nnd feed stables on South Riverside nvcnuo last night nt 11 o'clock, nt nn esti mated damage totaling $15,000. Seven head of horses, thirteen wag ons nnd two dozen sets of harness nnd other equipment, two unoccu pied honses belonging to Mrs. L. R. Parker nnd nbout 500 tons of looso green hay were burned. The blnio wns tho most spectacular in tho his tory of the city, nnd for n time im periled the business district. Good work in preventing the spread of tho flames was done by the fire depart ment. The fire was discovered nt It o'clock byW. Williams, tho night wntchmnn nt the bnrn, who had lain down for a rest. His attention was nttractcd by tho kicking- of a horso ngninst the stall. He looked out the office door nnd the Inside of tho building wns n mass of flames. Alone he began the work of rcseiiintr the horses, who filled the nir with shrieks of agony nnd terror. Flames Spread Quickly Before the flames burst forth from the loft, henvv clouds of black smoko Tolled skyward. Night Policeman Cingcndo on West Main street snw this nnd ran to tho Commercial club to turn In the alarm. Ry this time, the building wns one solid moss of flames nnd beforo the firo depart ment left tho firo house the livery' stable wns doomed. Within n rndius of half a block of tho barn most nf tho garages of tho city arc located, nnd these, with their supply of gasoline, gave tho chief concern. Water wns turned on tlioso structures nnd tho nutos mov ed nway. Firebrands Fill Air When tho firo wns nt its height firebrands of liny ns big as hams floated occr tho city, nlighline; on tho roofs nf business houses. Live coals foil on Main street nnd tho roof of tho Warner, Wortmnn &, Gore storo wns fired, but wns extin guished lieforo it got a start. Rub bish collected in back ynrds in tho neighborhood was nlso lighted, fur ther imperiling tho danger. Tho poril from livo wires wns heightened by the poles catching nfiro, and tho unwillingness of tho fire-fighters to turn on tho hose, for fenr of being, shocked. Tho livery stable was owned by. nubhnrd brothers, valued nt $5000 and insured for $.1000. Ray Gnun yaw, owner of tho livery stnblo, car ried $1000 insurance on tho liny nml $500 on tho stock nml equipment. Tho two unoccupied dwellings, be longing to Mrs. L. R. Pnrkor, wqro (Continued oa paga S.) UP IN CORN FIELD KOKOMO, Ind., Sept. 27.r-ln what was ovidently n hnstily dug gravo in n conifiohj oil hor husband' farm nenr here, tho body of Mrs. Clydo Wilkinson wns found today by noighbors who havo been seeking her sinco sho disappeared August 29. Hor husband, who had been separat ed from hor for somo tlom, was lo cated at Logansport and nrrosted. Tho woman's skull had . been " ornsdied, she lind been tumbled hnst ily into the grave, faco dovvnwnrd, her bodv was badly deqomMsed nml tho gravo being too short, tho log wore doubled buckwnrd. Wilkinson sohl his possessions t hero n weok ngo and left tho" iicfoU-1 borhood. "-- V n o .i