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TUEDFOKP MATT; THTBTTNK MEDFOTtP, OTiK(bN''''SATORTav;'"' 'OCTOBER ' 2ft 1922
MURDER ' TRIAL
IS STARTED Bf
T DEFENDAN
T
regular service for morning worship at
11 o'clock at which there will be obser
vance of the Lord s supper and recep
tion to new members with a brief
uiessnKo by the pastor. At (:1j there
will be an "equo" meeting of the dis
trict Christian ' Kndeavor convention
last Saturday and Sunday at Ashland
by Phoenix delegates. The delegation
of Phoenix was the largest at the
convention and they expect a good
meetlns from the reports. At 7:30 the
pastor w ill speak especially to young I
people on "Miracles Connected With
the Hirth of Jesus." This is the first
of a serioB of evening sernjons on "The
Ileal Christ".
upon an inquest and Mrs. Chrlstler
was called upon the Btand to tell the
story herself.
Tin; funeral of (he dead minister
will be held this afternoon at 5:30 in
St. Mark's church, which he built.
The body will be shipped to Auburn,
X. Y., for burial, accompanied by
-lrs. Chrlstler. llinhop Faber of the
Episcopal church In Montana will of
ficiate at the services and business
houses will be closed for an hour.
LOS ANGELLS, Oct. 27. Clara
PhllPps electrified the court room in j
which she is being tried for murder i
today when she interrupted testi
mony of Pecev Caf fee. her chorus
Klrl chum, by stiffening in her chair ! received in football resulted in
and saying:
"Peggy, now tell the truth! You
bought that hammer."
Peggy turned from the jury and
facing Clara shot back:
"Clara Phillips, you bought that
yourself! "
, The testimony concerned purchase
of a hammer with which the slate
. contends Mrs. Alberta Meadows was
slain on July 12 on a hillside drive
Mrs. Meadows Willi 'Clara I'hlllln.?
rnrt Peggy Caffoo, wont to an auto
mobile park near the bank that af
tornton and left In Mrs. Meadows'
automobile, according to the testi
mony of O. A. Cleveland and O. C.
tlickok, employes of the station.
' After purchase of the hammer,
Peggy testified, -Clara said:
,'. "Lot's go to 's room
and got a little drink."
. She said she and Mrs. Phillips
went to a room, found a girl there
but no liquor and left. They went
to Peggy' apartment and Calar told
tier that alio heard from neighbors
that lior husband, Armour Phillips,
was "going with another girl." Bho
testified that Clara said that at times
he treated her coldly and refused to
talk with her.
Anotluv l ootbjill Fatality.
WASHINGTON', Oct. 28. Injuries
the
death here yesterday of Wayne How
ard, 1G years old, ward of the- Na
tional Training School for Boys here.
The youth was carried from the field
after making a diving tackle in scrim
mage between two of the school
teams a week ago. Ho was said to
have ruptured an intestinal blood vessel.
i. Phoenix Church Program
Following Hlblo school there will be
TONIGHT
last time In which to seo
tills exceptional screen melo
drama HUMAN
HEARTS
with House Tutors and Ktllth
Hnllor '
RIALTO
TOMORROW
HOOT GIBSON
in "Step On It"
Hoot opens the action
(hrottlo wMo in his latest
Wtvitcin, Riving you plenty
of (run play, dashing hoino
monHlilp, so mo minppy
humor and a dash of love
Interest.
Stanford Leads O. A. C.
COIIVALLI8, Ore., Oct. 28. End
first period: Stanford C; O. A. C. 0.
TIOER8 ARE DEFEATED
(Continued from page one)
At (Jenevn, X. Y., final: Hobart 54;
City College of New York 0.
At Uoston, filial: IjiKayctte 12;
Huston college 0,
At Ann Arbor, final: Michigan 24;
Illinois 0.
At Ames, Iowa: AnicH, 13; Wash
ington 0.
WIFE TELL8 OWN STORY
(Continued from Page One)
Hill county. Coroner Holland de
clared that the facts of the case so
plainly lndicatod murder by Mrs.
Carloton and her suicide as to need
no Inquest.
Acted l.lko Mnnuic
Coroner Holland in answer to In
aulrles us to how Mrs. Carloton act-
c2 when she went Into tho Chrlstler
, home at 1 o'clock In the morning,
'stated that she acted like a munlnc.
Mrs. Chrlstler had -told him whuf
i happened in tho home after the wo
' man came in and preceding the shoot
! lug, the coroner said, but ho did not
I think It concerned the public and that
ho would not give It out unless the
mother of tho dead woman insisted
"Itishon Of Ail Outdoors"
nUTTE,' Mont., Oct. 28.-r-While
the Kev. Mr. Clfflstler was best known
In northern' Montana, his activities
had taken him to other parts of the
state. He was a familiar figure at
Helena, where, he served In 1909 as
a member of the house from Cho
teau county.- , .
. When 'Mr. Chrlstler came to Mon
tana the saloon was an established
Institution. and gambling was not un
common. .The. rector seemed to ac
copt these things as part of the west;
Indeed, be often was found In bar
rooms with frlonds at all times of
the night, and while be did not drink,
he seemed to have patience with those
who did.
As a missionary, the Rov. Mr.
Chrlstler took a pride In his work.
Hts territory embraced a vast area
from Glacier park on tho west to the
North Dakota lino on tho east and
from the Canadian lino on the north
to the Missouri river on the south.
Roughly speaking, it covered a ter
ritory of GOO miles long and 300
miles wide. In it were the Little
Rockies, the Hear Paw mountains
and other regions notorious for the
desperadoes they-had produced. Ho
knew the remote camps well and
visited them as often as his duties
would permit
Tho country appealed to him and
ho loved the title "Illshop of all out
doors," given him by Stewart Ed
ward White In a novel which featur
ed him.
KING SIDES WITH ANTI-REDS
(Continued from Page One)
lo maintain order In the fnco of in
surrectionary attempts.
Reports recolved by the cabinet
council from a number of points in
central Italy show that the fascisti
are extending their movement with a
view to exerting pressure for the
formation of a fnsclstl cabinet.
The Facta ministry, despite its res
ignation, Is acting with energy to re
establish order.
THE NIGGER IN THE WOODPILE.
While no one questions the personal honesty of Mr. Lindas, it
is nevertheless quite evident that he has allowed himself to be
come the dupe and tool of men who nru attempting to servo their
own personal selfish interests at tho expense of the city. Every
one Jtnows that Mr. Lindas' principal supporters have been cn
Rntfed for several years past in attempting to destroy the city's
assessment liens and to escape payment of the amounts due the
city on account of city assessments. , To this end they conceived
the notorious Medynski plan and have fought through the courts
every effort of the city to collect its assessments,, Lindas having
been their attorney in u largo part of this litigation. ..
And' now they are particularly anxious to gain control of the
city in order that they may sell to tho city for a large amount an
alleged water right of Uig Uutto waters. Investigation has con
vinced the mayor and city council that this water right is abso
lutely worthless, is wholly illegal ant valueless. ' This is the opin
ion of every attorney who has investigated tho matter, and those
who arc attempting to foist it on the city know they can never
hope to get any of tho city's money for it from Mr. Caddis or
tho business men who aro candidates with him for tho city coun
cil. Therefore, they aro attempting to defeat Mr. Caddis and
elect Mr. Lindas.
PUBLICITY COMMITTEE, BUSINESS MEN'S TICKET.
(Pnhl Adv.)
C. M. THOMAS AND THE KU KLUX KLAN
C. M. Thomas, alleged iT.r.lai " republican candidate for circuit judge,
imposed himself on the purtv ticket in the May primario3 very largely
through a policy of "mum as an oyster" on a question then and now the
leading political issue before the voters of Jackson and Josephine counties
and the state of Oregon.
In his principal primary campaign statement he proclaimed himself, i
in unciuous pnrases. to oe open-minued and and of opinion absolutely
unformed on the bed-sheet and pillow-case brigade then, as now, the out
standing issue between the contending candidates for any office within the
gift of the electorate to whom Mt. Thomas' pronouncement was addressed.
True, his statement In qustlonsdld not name tho Ku'Klux Klan'; but bo
other public or private offenders against the Institutions of orderly govern
ment then, or since, stood within the obviouB meaning and intent of bis
announcement proven beyond controversy by. their flocking in to his
support. With six of their ringleaders since Indicted by name for grave"
crimes, and sixteen more (making in their John Doe shoes, Candidate
Thomas has publicly advertised precisely the kind of an "open mind" on
the subject of their activities which they yearn, with a great longing, to
have elevated to the bench. Witness the recent strenuous effortsof thefr
counsel to havo their trials put over to the next February term Jot court! , f,
Tho favored candidate went on record over his own signature in a fuli-;
page advertisement of his position in the Mail-Tribune, flanked and fol
lowed by some ninety others, unreservedly endorsing their champion's
open-minucn siana in a symposium or signatures gathered In from the
highways and byways and meeting-halls of Jackson and Josephine counties,
no less than fifty of whom were members of or known sympathizers with
tho Ku Klux Klan and as for the remainder of the list, it does not con
tain tho name of any man or woman publicly distinguished, then or since.
for condemnation of that band of midnight marauders. One of the first-;
mentioned group of .Mr. Thomas' supporters on that noted occasion was so
eagerly interested in the alleged beauties of the Ku Klux Klan ritual and
that oath of allegiance to tho "Invisible Empire" about which Candidate
Thomas is so eminently "open-minded," that he wasn't satisfied with one
dose of it, but, following his first secret initiation in the regular course of
business, he went back two months afterward and had another one, person-
uny uuveiiisuu unu puunciy prociaimeu, so there could be no mistake
about it, or any more concealment than there is about the public support
of Mr. Thomas' candidacy by this conspicuous and widely-advertised member
of the Ku Klux Klan.
A tittle later, when the Ku Klux' Klan shocked our community hv an'
audacious assault upon the dignity and security of the very position to .
which Candidate Thomas aspires, by concocting and sending a threatening i
lotter concerning his Judicial dutiea to Judge F, M. Calkins, the members '
of the bar of Jackson county voiced the righteous indignation felt by every
decent citizen in a resolution condemning the outrage. This resolution ap
peared in the press, followed by the signature of every member of the bar
association then In the county, excepting only two, who refused their Blgnu-1
tures and one of the luwyers who so refused to Join in this public protest '
ugainst the Ku Klux Klan was Candidate C..M. Thomas. . j
Later on, the candidate Tot judicial honors had another opportunity I
to demonstrate tho quality of Ills "open.mlnd" toward the Ku Klux Klan, j
when he actively supported the Klan candidate in the recall election engi
neered by the "invisible" institution agaiimt Sheriff Terrlll, in an attempt to J
foist one of Candidate Thomas' clients into an office everywhere coveted, tor ;
obvious reasons, by the Ku Klux Klan. lie went so far in his desire to put
Sheriff Terrlll out and his Klan candidate in, that he even tried to get the
wife of one of Tcrrlll's deputies to vote for the recall ticket!
Upon another recent occasion, Candidate Thomas again promulgated
from on high his declaration of "opcn-mindednesB" toward the Ku Klux '
Klan and all of Its works (for what other Issue, what other organization, we '
ask again, calls for such a statement?) only this time he saw fit not to !
reproduce the numerous endorsements of his candiducy by Klan members
and sympathizers and others which decorated his primary campaign publi
cation. Upon yot another occasion, the cloak of "Invisibility" slipped off from
Candidate Thomas' ample Bhoulders that never wore a uniform), when, in
a public address before the Grand Army gathering at Rogue River he came
out boldly in support of the Ku Klux Klan's pet piece of legislation; the so
called "Compulsory School 'Bill," which no other professional man In Jack
son or Josephine counties, not a member of or engaged in defending the
indicted members of the Ku Klux Klan, has supported or defended, either
publicly or privately. " . . ,;
Hut over and above all else,- as evidence in support of the indictment
which his own acts publicly draw against the truth of Candidate Thomas'
published professions of neutrality toward the Ku Klux Klan, is the fact oi
his frequent unconcealed association with known members and sympathizers
of this Infamous organization; the fact that he mrmbers among his sup
porters in this campaign, as in the primary campaign, precisely those per
sons who are so known, to their everlasting discredit; (he fact that ho does
not number In his list of hackers a single man or woman who has ever been
distinguished by, aw , public net or statement that would identify such a
one with the .opponents of this Insidious movement; the fact that every
man and woman in (Jio two counties known to be actively and determinedly
against the Ku Klux Klan Is to be found in the ranks of those Who aro
contesting tho elevation to the judicial seat of this Pecksnit'flan ally of or
ganized riot and disorder C. M. Thomas. ''.,'
Mr. Thomas has tieeii active aB an attorney all of the time iu advising some
of the members of the Klan, who were and are his clients, and who have
been charged with taking part in the Klan outrages, upon the conduct of
their defense, and he is thereby ulready disqualified from presiding over
the trial o fthese cases. This is the secret spring of his desire to pre
side at their trials and of their desire to have him in the Judgment seat.
INDEPENDENT AMERICAN VOTERS LEAULE.
(Paid Adv.)
Since tho above was prepared for publication. Candidate Thomas, by
his own public exhibition, has swept away every vestige of pretense that he
is not intimately associated with the Ku Klux Klan, by attending ono of his
opponent's meetings, nt Talent, uninvited and accompanied by a bodyguard
composed of men hbtoriously affiliated with tho Klan, who, acting in con
cert, and with the smirking approval in front of and facing the audience,
with one or two of his Klan jackals beside him, publicly and repeatedly In
sulted an old and respected citizen of Jackson county, Hon. Wm. M. Colvig.
And when Mr. Thomas, at his own request, was accorded the courtesy of
addressing his opponent's meeting, a courtesy which he flagrantly abused,
he missed the most conspicuous opportunity that life will ever present to
his experience to piny the, to him, unaccustomed part of a gentleman, when
ho failed to publicly apologize to the people of Talent for the misconduct
of his hoodlum escort. He dared not do it for they were his crowd, his Ku
Klux Klun adherents and supporters; and nobody knows better the claims
which that association and that support rivet upon him than doeB C. M.
Thomas, tho Ku Klux Klan choice for circuit judge.
Ho solzed upon that occasion, however, to address an audience gathered
together by his opponent's committee's advertising, in a hall which that
committeo had rented for the occasion; with the declaration that he refused
to sign the bar association's protests against tho Insult to Judge Calkins be
cause he did not want to have any act, opinion or relation of hts to dis
qualify him, If elected Judge, from sitting aB the trial judge at the trials
of the indicted members of the Ku Klux Klan and the actual fact is that
HALLOWE'EN
BOXING CARD
GOLD HILL PAVILION
, .TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31st
8:30 P. M.
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Carlson vs. Mokie
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Joe Joe
Blackburn vs. Walters
6 Rounds 145 Lb?. Ringside
KID KENNEDY vs. ROY BR YCLEY
4 Rounds
SONNY AUSTIN vs. BATTLING DAVIS '
4 Rounds - - -
Ringside, $2.00; Reserve $1.50; Balcony $1.50; General Admis
sion $1.00 ; Children 50c.
Tickets at Brown & Brown, Medford, Ross & Ross, Central
Point, Bowers' Drug Store, Gold Hill and Irwin Cigar Store,
Ashland.
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TIME TABLE EFFECTIVE SEPT. 25
MEDFORD-ROSEBURG STAGE
1 " ' DAILY EXCEIT SUNDAY - ' '
Lv. Medford 2:00 p. m. , . ..
Lv. Roseburg 1:00 p: m. ' . "
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MEDFORD-GRANTS PASS STAGE
DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY -I.v.
Medford 10:00 a. m., 2:00 p. m., 5:00 n. m.
Lv. GrantB Pbbs 7:30 a. m., 1:00 p. m., 5:00 p. m.'
SUNDAY ONLY
Lv. Medford 10:00 a. m., 4:80 p. m. ; "'
Lv. GrantB Pass 10:00 a. m., 4:30 p. m.
We connect with stages for Portland, MarshXIeld and Crescent
City.
INTERURBAN AUTOCAR CO.
Phone 809 '
M
eetio
at
Ashland
and
Jac
ksoeville
Saturday Evening, October 28
At which time the political issues of the present campaign and the
qualifications of the candidates will be discussed
Hon. A. E. Reames Col
W. M. Colvig and Col. E. E. Kelly and Porter J. Nef f
will speak'at wiH at
-Ashland--In the Armory Jacksonville
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