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MT5DF0RD MATT. TUTBTOni!, ltfTCDFOKD. ORKOON. TIIl'WHDAY, JULY 8, 1913
DEATH ROLL OF
MBSOUR
STORM
PLACED AI SEVEN
WIND
AND
AN
CAUSE
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REE DEATHS
DIM
HANGING DAY;PUBLIC PICNIC TO iSEEFIVE MEN DIE
HT. LOUIH, Mo., .Iillv 8.-WcportH
ciuly lodity from ennUim AHmhoiiM,
Mllifilt wiih HWepl li v a lomtido Into
yesterday, shun tttnt won pumotiH
were killed nnd Hcvorn! seoto injured.
Tlio dniniijje (o biiildinp mid crop1
i'h cHlimalcd at between $fi00,0()O mid
$1,000,000.
One of tlio icmnrkulilu fen Hues of
tlio tonmdp wns tlio munll number of
dcntlis considering tlio untitle of the
property dniiinue. Tints in tlio eity
of St. Clinrlos, Ifl'J 8o.iinro bloekx
worepnrtiiillv demolmlied,biit not ne
life wiih loat there. Kmtv of the
fdxlv building which formed the town
of St. Peter were blown to frntr
jtieiit, but only friiplit iitjiiriim woio
reported from Hint place. Oilnioie,
Jlo., wob wiped out abi'osl eomplcto
ly, yet only one iniiti wiih found dead
there. Hot ween (lilmoin and Wenta
ville, n Wabash pimciiKor train,
known ns tlio Colorado Limited,
crossed the path of lin storm and
tlio firHl four eoachei ill the rain
wero neatly picked up hv the wind
mid laid to ono Hide of the rijjltl of
way. Nol a person wiih in hired ner-
ioiihIv in lliiH aeeident. Those in tlio
ditched enrH ran buck to the five pim
fioiiKof coaeheH left ntiitiilinu on the
tiaekH. TIu'ho were coupled to the
tender mid the train proceeded on itn
journey.
Two miles west of OTnllnn tlio
wind lifted a bnV off the mad, ear
ried it with tlio burse, and lhrcu on
oiipantH through the air for 12(10
yards and then hurled it to the
ground. Dan Mino, the driver, enenp
cd with a few brnincs, lint IiIm wife
and their ono child were kilted.
At Dardenue, Mo., tlio home of
'riionuiH Fin he rlv wiih demolish) d mid
in it died Mrs. Flaheitv mid (heir two
child) en, while her IiiihIihikI eHcaped
with n few ciiIk. Kifly other homes
in this town were reduced to splinters
mid Iniek piles.
PR FISHWAY
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 8
'I'lie wind and rain slottii which swept
ccnl ml and Hoiitliem liidiaiin hint
niitlil caiixed three fatnlitiun, ttimi.V
injuiicH mid much property and crop
diiiniiKC
Indliuiiipolis, Hrnzil, llieknell, Miir
tiiiHille, Teiie Haute, Ureeneiml!,
ViucentKM and Muticic felt the florin
most. J n nil llie.se eitieto an tinpre
eedented rainfall wiih repoited, ac
companied hv hlh winds. Streets
were Hooded, telephono polos blown
down mid in ninny iimtmieon houses
wieeked.
At ViuccuticH a brewery mid a Fur
niture factory collapxcd under the
(tnle and near Viiieennoi, the faini
home of Tom Kiley, wits blown down
and Riley's datiKbter killed. Silnc
Mellon, ni'ht engineer, wiih ciiulit
beneath the. falling wiiIIm of the brew
ery mid fatally injiiied.
At (Ireeneitslle, u priHoner in the
Htate ieiial fann was struck by lijjht
ninc while walking in a field mid
killed. Two companioiiH ueie htiiiin
ed, hut were rcived.
At Martinsville, Floyd Oaken, mi
electrician, wiih electrocuted while
repairing n broken wire. The storm
knocked out the lifjhtint,' system mid
left the city in darknoNM.
llieknell, Ind., tepnrted that houses
were unroofed ami Iree weto up
rooted there. ,
Torre llaulo mid Muiieio repoiled
no Iohh of life, but much propoity
daniii:c. The village! of Toad Hop,
near Torro llaiile. was under five feet
of water,' but all the residents were
reniowd.
At Liifayulto tlio Minimi railtoad
reported a 1000-foot landslide over
Hh ti iicKm nour Lomi,
Itural soul ions detail ibtmiiKes to
the miiii crop and to wheat in the
Hhoek.
Mississippi Gallows to Be Worked
Overtime While Girls and Doys,
Mothers Willi Babes In Their Arms
Stand by to Watch Death Wrllli
Iiiqs of Hanrjman's Victims.
HV MttiMIUtICK H.
NKW OKLHANS, La
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ct min ol protqst is Koiug up it II ovor
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KANSAS CITY GREETS
OLD LIBERTY BELL
J. II. Drlccoll, deputy district emtio
warden, microiixor to Ham Kamlry, Is
lu tlio city today on official html
licfiH, HtepK towardH mippreHsliiK fUli
poachers aro under way, tlio vlolntorn
aloiis tlio lower rlcr resortltiK to
most any ineaiiH to cntch Null. He
pa I rB aro bcliiK iniulo to tlio flohway
at Anient dam, po Hint a largo flow
will bo available durliiK tlio low
water porlod. Tlio rnpnlra aro boltiK
made on the north atilo, and will bo
competed today and tlio flidiway then
reopened. Mr. Drlncoll In mnktiiK his
headiiuartorn at Aaliliutil for the pren-out.
ROCKEFELLER CELEBRATES
SEVENTY-SIXTH BIRTHDAY
, i ,MI t
NKW YORK, duly H. John 1.
Hockefeller celebiated the 7ith aniii
vernary of Ins birth toda on ho e
lale at l'oeantiro HilU, Tnrr,town,
K. Y. Mr. Kockelcller planned to pla
a round of eoll' on In own links, dine
ulh In children and Kraitdchildtcn
mid spend a ipnet da with Ins fam
ily and friends.
KANSAS CITY, July 8 Tlio Llb-
ert Hell arrived hero today, IIh roni
liiK belnjj iimiQiincud by tho IiIowIhr
of wnlgtlu8',aM over tho city. Tlio
ear upon which. the relic In makltitf
Hit eroHH rountry trip wiih drawn nto
tho InuliieHH Kocllon on a Hiding
whoro coroiiioiilim In Itn honor wero
hold, (lovornor Major of MlBBottrl
and Major Jotit or Kiiuhiih City par
ticipated lu tho oxorclxoH with many
otherH, prominent mnoiiK whom woVo
dencondantH of nlKiierH of tho Decla
ration of Independence.
AI Reich Bests Tom Savano
Ni:V YOIIK, July 8. AI Itolcli,
tho local liouvywolKlit, by a remark
able flnlKh In tlio limt round, out
pointed Jim SnviiKo of OratiKo, N. J.,
lu their ten round bout hero liiBt
ulKht. Kolrh welshed L'OU and Sav
iiko l!)!l poiiudH.
NOTICI'I
I'aBBoiiKer ami uioitmiiKor Hervlco
by auto Medford to KiikIo Point and
return, leaving NiihIi hotel 8::t() a. in.
and 0 00 p. m. Hotiirn from KiikIo
Point at convenience or passeimorH.
Trip via Central Point If requested
CbarKOH roaBouable. W. I. MapCH,
roKlRtered chaiiffour. HI
Minsissippl and other pu'rln
eouiitrv over "hniiKiiiutf day,"
nut 0, in thin njate. .
On lhat'dt.Y fivo murderers ,fi
pay the death penalty, two of (hem
mo white men, the other me no
KrocH. On August f miothur negro
will be handed.
Six liniiKiiipi in two days in Mi
iMippi am every ono will bo a holi
day event.
The exeeutiotiH will be in broad
daylight, there will be no limit on tho
number of person to attend and any
one can witneHH the Ki'iiesmne ovciiIh.
Scratch of I'eu Will Kino Tho.ic Jlen
Tlie Horatcb of a pea in the liuuils
of (lovornor Karl Brewer of .IiiekMui,
Miss., cmi save all these men,
Strnui; appeals me hciuj; piepared
by frientlH mid rclutiwn of the con
demiied men to have him commute I fie
M'tilences to liTe imprisonment, their
main nriiiiicnt Ikmiic that the whole
sale executions will he ns uiiieli of u
stuin on the hislory of Mississiipi an
tho Iiiiiiciiik of Leo M. Flunk would
havo been on (lent gin.
The two while men scheduled to die
on the pillow are S. L. .lolinsnn,
eonvieled of the murder of a man
named A. F. lit ewer in duly, lOLl,
mid J. 'I'nbor, civil war veteran, con
victed of inuideriiiK his dniijjhtcr-in-Inw.
The negroes ure: Diiuymi Wal
ker, eonvieled tdnyur of Tom Scales
in .IcfferHon county, September,
lll; Peler Uolen mid II. Sealed,
Hlayora of Will Taylor in Oktibbeha
county, October, 1111 1.
The man who will hang August 5 is
Will" Pelluiore, negro, who wiih eon
icled of killing his cousin, Kn'w
I'ellmore, mid wounding two oilier
rclutivoH. The execution will bo stag
ed in Port (libson, Miss.
So bntlpiroiiK liave been iiuiny of
the leceiitilyuiiebiugH and so Mtrougly
luiH moh spirit ruled at public exeeu
tiotfs that a wave of sentiment
against "liiingings" already is being
fell in this part of tho country.
Take the public executions at Hay
Springs, Miss., and Abeidecu, Miss.
Kxriirslons to h'co .Men Hanged
You would have thought the towns
were holding n county fair or slice!
earuixal instead of hangings. Vo
pie entne fiont ever' diieelion. Kiom
Laurel, Miss., a dozen miles or so
from Hay Springs, an excursion train
wiih run. It earned neaily 1000 per
nous. The negro in the ease wits Meno
Johnson. He had hold up and nibbed
a lumber company pay ear, shot and
killed tho paymaster mid wounded
two other while men. Houses on reli
ed mid searched. A deputy sheriff
stumbled over him in the woods near
the scene, of (ho crime. He had bur
ied .f'JIKlll mid was digging up some
of it "fo Kin."
Thiit night in the Hay Springs jail
Sheriff ('.. dime and twenty deputies
stood gun rd.
At midnight a mob came from Lau
rel and demanded that the negro he
Mil tendered.
The sheriff told the mob to "conic
and get him."
Alter an hour's wait he scut out a
zss w " " "
' i: vy " "" m. "
Wbeiv flxo men will Ik liangel! Scene at a public execution a( Hay Kprlngs, .MKs. Tlio cnntil as as
Joilal as If at a plenle. Nolo (be noinaii xxillt a baby In her alius ataiiillng In (lie fotvgiound.
nie.Hsenger with a nolo that tend like
this;
"Say, I'm getting tiled of wniting.
I xvnnt to go to bed, nnd if you fel
lows aro going to get Moho you'd hot
tor hurry up." .
Tho HJierirf bluffed 'em out.
A week later, after a fair trial, tho
negro was condemned to death. i
A scaffold was oreeled in the cotiil
house yanl and the boniirof superL
visora of the county ordered a pubf
Iki execution.
Oramerev men mid hoys in an auto
mobile went to St. JnuiON o.xluimed
tho bullet-riddled body. A rope wns
tied around tho feel and the olhor end
to the rear of the auto.
Through St. Juntos onto tho ferry
nnd through the streets of Hnimercy,
a town of 8000, the gruesome proces
sion weiit at high spoi?d.
Tom to slirudB, tho corpse finally
uiih buried on (ho river bank.
The (Iramerey horror wim almost
l'lotiruox and J. M. Ma.s, a police
juror of Greenwood, and two deputy
sheriffs woio in the mobs.
It was also brought out that Miss
Heo Alexander, u manicurist, lode in
tho "murder auto" that took one of
tho victims front the Shrexeport jail.
On tho witness stand she said she
saw preparations for burning the tie
gro at tho stake, hut, sickening, turn
ed away as the flames fhired'up.
Sex en Thousand See
mil
wi
uiiRlng
Seven thousand men, women
children, Hunio bnjiios, xyyro
IIUSHOH.
I.. .J .. .ii il. t It
nisi a wcck aiior uie nay opnnga
ease the morbid got another "trcat'
negro nuir-y ",""
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nt Aberdeen, Miss
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uerer, eouiiemncii (o.ileatu, lcll in a
fniul two days beforo tho day of liis
execution.
'Unices were built on the scaffold
lo hold his unconscious foim while
the trap wiih set and bpiuug.
Mote than ,r)000 persons saw thai
horror.
Some of tho recent lyncbings mid
oxen executions in Louisiana mid
Mississippi huyo been revolting.
J Here n one in iarlieular. II oc
furred at St. James, La., across the
rivor from Grninorey, La., 6n Mav 8,
HIM, and the loxoltiug details lone
never before been published.
Tito ni'iero in the ease, Sylvester
Washington, shot and killed u deputy
sheriff at Gramercy and escaped to
the woods aetoss I lu river.
The uo.xt afternoon a mob corner
ed the fugitive hiding under a corn
crib on a plantation,
A pitched battle followed. When
the fugitive's ammunition gnvo out,
someone in (he mob crawled to the
crib and set il afire.
Ciiivvil Has No Mercy for Condemned
Thu negro came from hi hiding
place mid everyone look a shot lor
luck!
The body was buried mid the mob
dispersed. That evening sevetnl
lu the inxostrguTToTPTTV'rsTnte- ,iuu
paiisb officials of thu wluilesale
l.x itching-, Dr. A. llerold, pmi-li cor
oner, swore that l)r A. I) Iletiberofl
L Deafness Cannot Be Cured
Iit lfM'al ni'l'llrnllcm". as ttirr rannut ri'orti tin
illm,t'il imrlloii of tho cor TIhtm U onlr '
y to cum drafiimn. mul Hint 1 y rnflitllutlMiv
il rrtnrllp. Dufni-m In rmonl tir mi InHmnpil
romllllon of I lio mucu llntta of lix l:u(rhlnn
TulM-. Whfn tills lulxi l Infliini'il )nn lini
rumMIng muimI vr lniTfrrt lirorlne iii'l Vthrn
t l rntlrt'lr rliionl IK-afnmi l llir h-iult. anil
mli'u Hid liillimuiiitlnn run Ix tnken out nl
lils tiitH miurnl lo lt ixirinnl cotnlUloii, limr
tilt lll Is, ilntnqrrit forrrrri nine co nut l
en arc raiifil T X'atarrli. nhlrh la nnllilne but
n Indiirncl mmllllnn of (tin muruua aurfarra.
Wo will Bin' Ono lliiiiilrnt IMtlara fur any (
Tif 11,'afiiPM (raui-il lr rnlarrli) that raiinot tx
rurril Ijr Haifa Oatarrb furr. Hon.l fur clrcu
""- '."' I" J rilKNI'.Y i. CO., Toledo, O.
M'l liy OrnuRltla, 7So
Take Hall a Taullr 1111 for nnatlatluD.
TENNIS
CONIESI
FOR CHAMPIONSHIP
SOUTHERN
OREGON
The Medford Golf nnd Country
club aniiounecH that the uiinnal open
tennis tournament for the ehampiou
ship of southern Oiegon will bo held
on their court on July '21 and follow
ing days. This louruainent is held
under the ntispieeH of tho National
Lawn Tennis association, of which
the club is a moiVher, nnd will he open
to all players, whether residents of
Oregon or not.
The events will bo men's open sin
gles, men's open doubles, men's sin
gles, consolation, men's double eon.
solution. Suitablo prizes will bo
given in nil of tho events and tho
winner of tlio men's open ningles, in
addition lo iceeiving a hnnilsonio
trophy, will havo hm name inscribed
on the challenge trophy. This trophy
will become the property of any
pla.xer winning it three times, not nec
essarily in succession. Tlio present
holder is Ernest Adams.
All the tennis players in tlio Hogtio
Hiver vnlley nro cordially invited to
participate in this tournament and
any persons desiring to watch (he
piny during tournnnient week will ho
welcome. Entries will bo $1.50 for
men's open singles and $'2.f0 per team
for men's open doubles. No fees for
consolation events.
Entries eloo nt 0" p. in., Wednes-
day, July '21. Entries and all re
quests for further information should
bo nddressed to Houdinot Conner)
room 12011, First National Hank build
ing. Medford. Telephone Medford .1.
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No. 1 Lath
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Dimension $12.00
Flooring .
$15.
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Gold Hill
Central Point
Eagle Point
and Talent
Supplied at
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MONEY WITH ORDER
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Wlicro low prices prevail -at all times. Look over our prices and mako compar
isons and you will soon seo that wo can save you money on your purchases. Wo X
are not running sales, but wo aro making tho lowost overy-day prices that havo
over Leon made in this community.
A recent heavy purclmse of PILLOW
TUBING enables u lo well it at about
one-fourth less than usual.
IVpperell, '12-ineh 18
Pcpperell, lo-ineh 20
Indian Head, .2-ineh 20
Hope nieached Muslin S
Herki'ley, No. R Cjunbi'iu .'. 11
vS- Mleaehed Sheoting 1 v 2lr
!)-l nieached Shooting 24$
8-1 Hi-own Sheeting .: 20
!)-l Hi-own Sheeting 22p
7lnO (Jolden Rule Sheets L$
I2x;() Oases lo mat eh 1c;
NOTIONS
.I. &. l Coats' Thread . 4$
Coi'ticelli Silk Thrpad ......, S
Mercerized Croehdl Cotton 4$
Darning Cott'ou ,....w....a2
AVire Hair Tins 12
lox Assorted Ilmr'IMus 46
White Oilcloth- '206
('..loved Oilcloth 17
llrst Prints 5?
LADIES' UNDERWEAR AND
. HOSE
Union Suits 25, 436, 506
(iaire Vests from 5 up
Creiio Clowns G36 and 796
JJurson Seamless Hose 19
"Whit-Leathor I lose, for women, girls
and boys, guaranteed 15
MEN'S FURNISHINGS
.Men's Knit Union Suits C!)6
Poroftknil Union Suits S9
Utilbriggaii Union Suits Sfi6
Shirts and Drawers '256
J jest Dalbriggan Shirts and Drawers
at 436
Good Work Shirts, 3 for $1.00
Dest Work Shirts 436
Soft Collar Dress Whirls 53?
Dlaek Socks ;..... Q6
l-'our-iu-Hand Ties 136
Work Socks, per duz ....... SD6
S oz. Cotton Plannol Gloves tOt
Sailor Straw Hats $1.00
Dress Hats 1.39
If you are not satisfied with your purchase, your money will be refunded.
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