MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREfJON, TmiRRDAY. JUNE 21. 1017
PAGE THREE
YEMEN TAKEN
WHILE TRIG TO
IT FEELS TO
the Riddle postoffice
There Is now no doubt that two of
the three burglars captured In Riddle
last Sunday night while attempting to
break Into the postoffice of that town
are Sam Slide and E. C. Collins, the
Phoenix postoffice burglars who at
their recent trial In this county were
freed because of a technical fault
the indictment.
B. J. Gallagher of Spokane, United
States postoffice inspector, who has
been Investigating the case and who
talked with the prisoners in the Rose
burg jail, arrived In Medford Tues
day and visitod police headquarters
where he at once Identified the photo
graphs there of Slide and Collins as
the two burglars caught at Riddle.
Inspector Gallagher hoped to get
trace here of the identity of a third
man under arrest who worked with
Slide and Collins, but returned to
Koseburg today without having any
success In this line.
Yeggs Are Ex-Convicts.
Slide and Collins are criminals with
known records, the former having
sorved a term In the Wulla Walla pen
itentiary In Washington, and Collins
a term In the San Quentln, California,
penitentiary
The arrest of the burglars at Riddle
was rather dramatis and was accom
panied by pistol firing. The first
known of the appearance of the trio
of burglars in Douglas county was last
Friday night when a store In Canyon-
vllle was broken Into and robbed.
Deputy Sheriff Hopkins was assigned
to investigate the case on Saturday
morning.
iHe first gained trace of the men by
wntrhine the unknown man of the
trio who had taken a room in the ho
tol at Riddle and made purchases of
groceries and supplies which he took
to Slide and Collins, who were camped
out in an orchard on the outskirts of
the cltyc -v
In a round about way Hopkins
irept up ,lo the orchard unobserved
1Hr enough to hear the trio planning
to break into
Sunday night
Story of Capture,
Late on Sunday night Sheriff Qulne
and Deputy Sheriffs Hopkins and
Unnnenbaueh concealed themselves
outside the postoffice building and
awaited the arrival of the burglars.
The latter did not show Up at the
planned time and the officers had al
most given them up when about 2 a.
m. Collins and Slide were observed
breaking into a blacksmith Bhop near
by from which they emerged with
tools.
The burglars then came on to the
Postoffice building and disappeared
around a corner of the structure.
Waiting awhile the officers then
started around the corner with drawn
revolvers and came upon Collins and
Slide just as they were prying up a
window.
The two burglars at once started to
run and the officers began shooting
at them. At the first shot fired Collins
dropped to the ground. It developed
lt'er that the reason he did so was
because he had a Dome 01 nuro gu-
cerine In his hand and was afraid a
bullet might hit it.
Itiui Into Burlier Wire.
Slide, who had started to run in
another direction, ran into a barbed
wire fence and bounded back, but got
up and succeeded In getting away. By
monrlng, however, Sheriff Qulne lo
cated him at the burglars' orchard
retreat and placed him under arrest.
In the meantime during the night
the sheriff's party arrested the third
burglar, or lookout fo Slide and Col
lins, In his room at the hotel.
All the prisoners refused to talk,
but Slide and Collins claimed tbey
were twin brothers and that their
names were Mathlson. They are sub
pected by the United States authori
ties of having committed a series of
postoffice burglaries in northwestern
states. On their persons were found
several articles stolen from the Can
yonvllle store, and wire fuses, caps
nltro-glycerlne and other parapherna
lia of safe-crackers.
IN 1 BATTLE
Dr. Robert W. Clancv is in receipt
of u letter dated May , written by
his cousin, 23 years old, Lieut. E. C.
Clancy, No. 12 squadron. Royal flying
cofp8,rne7 wliich'was written fo
the officer's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
C. U. Ciliary, of Stirling, Out. The
letter shows the workings of the mind
of the young Cunndian who tho being
worshipped as n hero by his comrades
evidently thought more ot the tolks
at home. The letter reads in part as
follows :
France, 4-5-1.
Denrest Mother, Dad und All:
Well, 1 have good news for you all
today. Yesterday afternoon I nhol
down a Hun plane. My squadron
has been o;:t hrrc nearly 13 months
and it is only the third machine thai
has been brought down by the squad
ron in that time. So of course all the
fellows are as tickled as coons.
The artillery plane we drive can
only go about 85 miles an hour,
whereas Fritz, in his scouting plane.
was going 120 lo 130 miles nn hour,
he was reully going rings ull
around us.
Suddenly I heard a funny noise
around us and the next second n Hun
plune was going at us pell niell. 1
grabbed my machine gun and let him
have all the lead he wanted. Jlo put
his nose down and crashed to the
ground. The pilot wondered what I
was shooting at when I first started;
I never before experienced the
same sensation as I did when I saw
the Hun plane crashing. I just felt
like crawling back and hugging my
pilot. He is a prince of a fellow
about my own age.
Another squudron saw tho Hun
come down, und when it . was an
nounced wjio brought it down they
sent all kinds of compliments. My
C. 0. is simply tickled to death that
one of his squadron brought uown
a Uuiif because with our slow ma
chines we are supposed to be gone
when a Hun scout attacks us.
Don't worn-, mother, for you sec
I am quite capable of taking care of
myself:" ' " ..
Muy 5, - .
Well, here I am scribbling a line
to von again. This is a peach .f a
day over here, but very hot and sul
try. Expect to go up in the air in a
few minutes, so just thought 1 would
get busy and write before I went up.
Flew over miy ridge. V hen
left the front line trenches there nine
weeks ago yon couldn't put your head
above the purupet, and now there is a
big camp where our front lines used to
be and observation balloons nre tloat
ing over the ridge where the Hun
used to be. All this hus happened in
nine weeks, so you can imagine how-
hot things arc over here now.
I suppose dud has the farm nil
in seed by now. Tell lnra that I will
put it in next year if all goes well
Bringing down that Hun is going to
help me wonderfully in getting pro
motions.
Will ring off now. Cheerio, .ill.
Your affectionate son,
ED.
OS c.
Warning against swindlers operat
ing in 0. & C. land grant hinds is sent
out by the department of the interior
as follows :
' Attention has again been directed
to the fact that many inquiries are
being made to officials of this and
other departments relative to the
opening to settlement of the lands
within the limits of the grant to the
Oregon & California Railroad com
pany in Oregon, title to which was
declared to be reverted in the United
States by the act of June 9, 191G, (39
Stat., 218.)
Classification First.
Under tho terms ot' the act, no dis
positions can be made of the lands re
vested in the United States until
after duo classification thereof and
the payment- of the taxes ,as provided
by section 0. The land department has
been exercising due diligence in the
matter of classifications as well as
the ascertainment of the taxes ac
crued and unpaid, but on account of
t ie litigation instituted by the railroad
company, calling into question the
constiitutionality of the act, final ac
tion has been somewhnf delayed. The
supreme court in its decision, dnted
April 23, 1917, fully uphbMsthc' con
stitutionality of that act. ,
These, laiuls arc. not, jet open lor
entry and settlement and will not be
open unyl theytafve been fully rc-
tored in tliemnnner directed by said
ct under such rules and regulations
as may be itflontedto govern such
restoration, in the moantime it is
tterly useless for persons to at
tempt to acquire any preference light
uiHin any of these lands. There is
no method or manner by which any
.filing tan be made that would give
any preference right for the purchase
or acquirement of any of these lands,
or of any right whatever which can
respected by this department.
When the lands have been classified
public notice will bo given from lime
to time fixing and defining the terms
upon which the1 lands are to be dis
posed of and the time of their dispo
sition, a
Locators at Work.
The attention of the department
has been called to the fact that ihere
are already at work in the field
locntors who are claiming that
thru their services preference right
can be secured bv the payment of a
small fee. The department desires
at this time to again warn the -public
that no such preference rights can
be oblained at this time and that any
money paid to such locators will un
doubtedly be money thrown away.
It is the policy of the department
that when the lands nre ready to be
thrown open for settlement and tntry
the public is to he notified thorco
so that everyone will have an oquu
opportunity and nn equal chance.
This policy will be strictly adhered
A Medford girl who signs heisclf
as Millie McC and who is probably
the sweothonrt of some stalwart mem
ber of the Seventh company or 1 com
pany, propounded tho following query
to tho editress of the social troubles
and society department of a Portland
newspaper:
Medford, Ore., June 17. Dear
Marian Miller: I am 18 and just thru
high school. I am going to work on
July 1 in an office, but my sweet
heart, who is going to war, wants me
to marry him secretly first. My
mother doesn't like him. What i-hull
FIRE ENDANGERS
GIANT REDWOODS
SAN' JOSE, Calif., June 21. For-
e-t fires revived during the night by
hiuh winds arc again npproachine
centuries old redwoods in the Califor
nia Redwood park, commonly known
as the Kig Dnsin, in the Santa mnun
tains, according to report received
here early today from Stale Fire War
den II. S. Pool.
Already more thnn 10,000 acres of
timber of small commercial value have
been swept over, he said.
Hundreds of mill men and ranchers
nre backfiring and cutting new trail
in the effort to check the fire.
ST. PAUL, June 21. An unpnral
lclcd crop condition in the northwest
at this seasn of the year now exists,
according to W. P. Kemedy, vice
president of the Great Northern rni
way, who returned today troa two
weeks' trip thru Montana, North Da
kota and Minesota.
"It is a long way to a crop ye
but things have never been so prom
ising in the northwest as at present,
said Mr. Kennedy. "The northwest
this year seems certain to be .i big
factor in feeding the world and in
helping to bring victory to the United
-tites in the war."
SEEKS ADVICE ON
I di.f Please advise mc. MILLIE
.llVC."
Marian, who is pndulily some crus
ty old maid ami it regular kill joy,
came right back in yesterday's paper
with the following answer:
"Don't marry secretly. Kiss him
goodbye and don't promise anything.
You may change your mind a dozen
times before the war is over and su
may he. Hasn't your mother been a
pretty good friend to you tor IS
years t stay by her until you I now
your own mind. The fact that yon
ask me shows that you know a mar
riage would be silly now. MAMAS
MILLER."
FLOUR REDUCED IN PRICE
NOW SELLS FOR $12
ClllCAOO, June 21 Flour sold to
day at $2.40 less per barrel than a
week ago, standard spring patents
bringing $14 and bakers' hraudi
$12.10. Nearly 50 cents of the de
eline was registered yesterday.
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king and queen, while the bishop of
Ijinilon, assisted by tho bishop of
Stepney, conducted tne services In the
church, which was a bower of floweri,
sent by children from all parts ot the
country.
Most of the floral offerings con
tained perfunctory words of sympa
thy, but others did not mince matters.-
These nearly all bore the inscription:
"To Our Children Murdered by Ger
man Aircraft."
LONDON', June 21. Sixteen chil
dren, only two of whom wero over
five years of age, the victims of tho
last Herman air raid on London, were
given a public funeral yesterday and
their bodies laid In a common grave
in an Kast End cemetery over which
a monument will be placed. Seldom,
If ever. In the history of the country,
havo children been accorded such a
funeral The Marquis of t'rewo at
tended In behalf ot the government.
whllo Major-deneral Sir Francis
Llovd, general officer commanding
London district, represented tho ar
mv. There were messages from the
BASKET LUNCH FOLLOWS
EAGLE POINT PREACHING
At EaglePoint on Sunday next,
Juno 21th, at 10:30 o'clock in the
morning, Hev, F. W. Carstens of Med
ford, with Rev. V. E. Smith will have
a service at the Baptist church, Rev.
Carstens officiating.
After the service a basket lunch
will be served in some shady glen.
All the peoplo of Eagle Point and vi
cinity, nre invited and are expected
to attend the service, and to bring
their lunch baskets with them.
to.
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TRUCKS
Run Specials to Ashland Roundup.
The Rogue River Round-Up offic
ials of Ashland have received definite
word that the chamber of commerce
and the Merchants association of
Portland tave decided to run a spec
ial train of about fourteen coaches
from Portland to the celebration at
Ashland, leaving Portland on the
night of July 2 and arriving at Ash
land the morning of the 3rd. About
200 people are fxpected to be on this
train.
The Coob Day peoplo will also have
a special train to Ashland during the
celebration and It will also accommo
date the public from Eugene to Ash
Und.
The Round-l'p management are a
live bunch and the celebration will be
the blKKest event ever staged In
southern Oregon.
WASHINGTON. June 21. The war
denurtnient's requests for bids for
35,000 army motor trucks brought re
sponscs from 87 concerns turnout tne
countrv and when the offers were
opened today it was found that the
total number for wlilijh, bidders are
ready to contract is many times the
government's requirements. How
many will be ordered has not been
determined.
Virtually all the big motor caT
companies and many of the smaller
concerns submitted bids. Many types
and sizes were offered, the prices
"ntnne-.from $1,031 for one-ton
t-neVs to $4,600 for five-ton vehicles,
The concerns the Pierce-Arrow
Motor Car company, the Ilurlhut Mo
tor Truck company, and the Nash Mo-
'nv companv each ottered to hulk
'he whole 35.000. There was one of
fer of 10.000 and several of 5.000,
Three companies offered to build
at cost plus ten per cent profit.
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tiiepSccoasX ' :JM0 X
AMERICAN CHICLE COMPANY j' J$ .'.
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SPOKANE, June 21. Award of
a contract for the construction of an
armv cantonment at Itattle Creek
Mich, to Porter llrothers contract
ors of this city, was announced here
todav upon receipt of information
from Washington. The contract in
eludes the entire construction am
equipment of the cantonment, and will
approximate $3,000,000. About 20,
000.000 feet of lumber will be rc
quired, it is expected. "
JOHN CORT, one of America's fore
most theatrical managers, says: "Adams
Pepsin Chewing Gum impresses
me as being an effective nerve
steadier and brain quieter. I
chew it regularly and derive
real benefit from it.
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