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PXGE EIGIIT MEDFORD MAIL- TRIBUTE, MEDFORD, OREfiOX. MONDAY. MAROn 10. 1924 IS JUST IN Til I.OUISVIIXE. Ky.. March 10. Police had foeforo them today the confession of William Gut oh, 31, a Kalcainan, who Hht and killed his erstwhile friend and former employer, Richard Heaton. 33, a broker, after Henton had kept him a prisoner for two days in a room while he prepared to perform an operation. ! Frank Cordell, a private detective of Indianapolis, was under arrest there charged with kidnaping (Jutes. He is to be returned here whence he fled Thursday night after having aided Heaton, police say, in seizing (intes and removing him to a house, which apparently was rented by Henton with the view of mutilating (lutes. Gates told the police that he was seized Thursday night in Ilea ton's of fice and taken to the house. IUh cap tors took one pistol from him but overlooked another ho had in a vest pocket.' He too, had forgotten it in hc excitement but that night when Heaton was preparing to operate upon him, he discovered It. Saturday night, as Heaton was about to hand cuff him to a bed, he shot Heaton to death.,' Mrs. Henton was on the first floor Whn the shooting occurred. . Insane jealousy over his wife was the reason attributed by the police for the kidnaping. Oregon News in Brief SALEM, Oro., Mur. 10. Abe I3va.ni, who wai convicted of tho murder of Jamei Doran In Wnflco county mnro than two years hko and whoBO execu tion was stayed by an appeal to the supreme court, wiis taken from tho Halo penltontlary back to The Dnllen last nlKht where he will bo re sentenced to hang, this bolnir neces sary slnee the supremo court upheld the death sentence of tho lower courts sneriu unrisman nnu two aeputioH came , for Evans by automobile and Intended to remain here until this morning, A teleitram camo Inst night Informing them of tho break from tho county Jail at Tho Dalles and they hastened back by a nlsht trip. ' SALEM, Ore., Mar. 10. Oovernor Pierce was yesterday discharged from the Salem hospital where ho under went a surgical operation two weeks ago lost Haturday for relief from gall stonos. The governorVcondition has yvuii wiiiamuiui y u piiyHiciitim nincu the operation but ns a matter of pre- caution he was not allowed to hasten j his departure from the hospital. The governor Is at his homo and expects 1 to be at his office in the state huuso during the forenoon. SALEM,' Oro., Mar. 10. Attorney General Van Winkle said last night that Judge John 11. Ktevcnson of Portland wll probably be delegated .by him to conduct the. prosecution of Walter L, Toote, Jr., and J. W. Tern plln at Dallas where tho two men are accused of having participated In a "party" In a hotel room at which two minor- girls wero present. District . Attorney- Helgerson of Polk county ' requested that he be relieved from the case because of a friendship with Tuose of many years standing. VENDLETON, Ore., March 10. Hay growers In the Monrdman region today appealed to tho Pendleton com mercial association, asking aid In se curing ships to carry bay to Hoston and New York. Tho Co-opcrutlvo Hay association has an order for 600 tons to bo delivered on tho east coast in April. Manager Jewett reports that ho cannot get ships from Port land and asks aid in securing ship ment through Astoria or Keattle. Owing 1 to the mild winter much tiay'ls on hand in the interior, but the demand Is brisk on the enst coast. Growers say unless shipping facilities are .provided, they will be seriously Injured, Ono previous shipment to Hoston brought Jli per ton, f. o. b., llcrmlston. Fert lltcr Ionn Ilcntrn. I ' WASHINGTON, March 10. Tho senate refused toduy by a vote of 34 to 28 to approve an appropriation of !&, 000. 000 to bo loaned to farmers to finance purchases of fertilizers. It was the first record vote of, tho ses sion upon a farm relief measure. If this Signature MUTILATOR KILLED BY MAN is NOT on the Box, it is NOT BROMO QUININE "There is no other BROMO QUININE" i f ; Proven Safe for more than a Quarter of a Century aa a quick and effective remedy for Colds, Grip and Influenza, and ai a Preventive. The First and Original PREST CAMPBELL U. OF 0. ADDRESSES Tho Klwaii;s c;ub at Its meeting to day decided to take up the under privileged child work in this commu nity as its principal object for 1924. and President Jcmmon appointed a committee to take charge of tho tamo. President K. L. Campbell of tho University of Oregon complimented tho local club on its decision to help tho under-privileged child, which is a wonderful work. He said the underlying principal of human motive is essentially social and Inclined to good works and while Indi viduals have accomplished and are doing wonderful work, actions of groups are much more effective and accomplish greater things. Mr. Campbell called attention to tho choattc conditions prevailing in other countries and said there is a great work to be done among the young people in this country to pro mote greater industry, good will and intelligence and said the key to solve tho world's problem Is education in connection with tho church. R. K. Kuykendall, an nttorney of Portland, president of the U. of O. alumni association, stated they ore here to meet the local committee In the Interest of raising a million dollars among the U. of O. olumni to build a world war memorial court at tho university, erect a library and to assist with needed athletic Improve ments. He said It only means J26-J per capita for tho 38,000 alumni mem bers and that they would get It. Carl Ilowman. superintendent of tho Ijikevlew schools. Is hero on tho sama mission and made a short talk. IS. F. Carlton, of the department of education of V. of O., is In the city visiting schools and also mado a few remarks. The date for the-charlty ball was set for April 2lsl and Chairman C. M. Kldd announced tho committees for the same. Death Toll of the Automobile PORTLAND. Ore., March 10. One woman dlod from injurloB received In Hn automobile nccldent nnd another hanged herself hero yesterday. Mrs. Edward A. Dnmrord died at a hospital Into yesterday from Internal Injuries sustained when her husband's car skidded from the pavement and turned over on tho Canyon road near hero. ' I With a cord from a bathrobe Mrs. Augusta Hartlg,. "0, hanged herself ill her homo hnro. She had fastened the cord to tho top of a door. Hor body was found by her daughter Mrs. Gust Schneider. Illness was thought to have beon tho cause. TO CIIKCK OFF FOIll) (Continued From Page One) and at the same tlmo. If properly con structed, 'will produco power enough to sell at low costs to the cities and com munities adjoining to pny back every cent tho government Invests In not more than thirty years Similarly, the sale of power from tho other groat projects, whether for Irrigation, nav igation or flood control may he made to pay back tho entire cost of the de velopment." Declaring (hat only tho government "can cut tho cost of production to the bone," the statement gives as reasons. "Tho government can borrow the cap Hal from four to flvo per cent whllo tho private companies pay six to eight. That alone of $500,000,000 means a saving of $10,000,000 a year to cut the cost of current. "Tho government amortlies the capital account so that In 25 or 30 years It Is all paid off. That means ultimately this systom on the basis of $."i00,oon.ooo nt flvo por cent would savo $25,000,000 and the cost of elec tric servlco could thus be cut accord ingly." Tho Norrls Keller bill Is declared to bo "tho outgrowth of the work of tho public ownership league of America, 111 co-operation with Senator Norrls, Dill, Fraser. Hall, lFolletto and others In the somite and Congressmen Keller, Swing, Wefald, Kvqle, LaGuardia, Sin clalr and others In the house " Cold and Grip Tablet QUARREL ENDS IN DEATH OF I-OS ANGELES, March 10, A lov-era- quarrel, ending In murder and . suicide, was tho explanation police to ! day offered for the deaths here late i last night of Detective F. L. Pratt, 45 jof the Los Angeles police force, and j Mrs. Mildred Pearl Lloyd, divorced . wife of I.. P. Schultz. I Pratt's body with two bullet wounds In tho head and one through the heart, i was round in his automobile In a busy I street In the northwest section of the city. Three blocks away In the home of her husband, police found Mrs. Lloyd dead of poisoning and on her i person a note which, they said, ex- plained that "Daddy and I bare decid . cd to end It all." Though the note Indicated a suicide ' pact police pointed out, tho wounds In Pratt's head and heart indicated murder, while the finding of a pistol with three empty cartridges some dis ance away from the body made any other explanation but murder and sui cide liniwssible, according to investi gators. Witnesses saw Mrs. Lloyd run from the scene of the shooting, police said. FLORIDA WINS PRIZE INDIANAPOLIS, March 10. Flor ida led all states in tho renewal of the American Legion memberships for 192-1 and as a result a trophy given by Past Notional Commander Henry D. Lindsley has been awarded to that state, It was announced at national headquarters of the legion. Hecond place was won by legionnaires of Mexico, which is given the same status as a state; Wisconsin was third and Washington fourth. PORTLAND. Ore., March 10. The Chicago Civic Orand Opera company, including 272 signers nnd musicians, arrived. here today from San Frun cisco In' a special train In two sections tor an engagement of four pcrtorm- hnces. Mary Garden is to appear to night In "Cleopatie." Members of the company have accepted an Invitation for a ride over the Columbia river highway Tuesday afternoon as guests of the Portland Chamber of Com merce. EAGLE POINT EAGLETS Br A. a Howloct Among the business callers here Monday wero Ed Diltton, T. E. Nich ols, one of our retired merchants. Mr. Nichols is ono of the pioneer res- idents of Jackson county, as he came here with bis parents In the early fifties and lived with them until his father's death, when he took charge of the business of the farm and stock continuing to live on the farm for a number of years when he turned the farming business over to his son-in-law, Henj. llrophy, now deceased, and decided to move to Eagle Point and Invest a part of his money In a bank building nnd later In a store build ing to be occupied by Mr. Heath, now a druggist of Medford, and later Mr. , Heath wild out his stock of goods to a Jew firm of Portland, who decided to take what goods they could dispose of here, back to Portland, thus leav ing the store building vacant on his hands so be finally decided to buy out the Jew firm and go into the mer cantile business himself In his old age, an entirely new business, but he found that he knew more about the cattle, huy and farming business than he did the mercantile business, altho he had an experienced wiles woman to assist In the management. Mrs. R. A. Weldman. but he finally, sold out the goods and rented the building to another line of his sons-in-law, F. J. MrPhcrson and retired from busi ness, and since the death of his wife last fall, has gone to live on tho farm again with his daughter, Mrs. Anna Hrophy. but the time I met him he was here stopping a few days with his daughter. Mrs. McPherson. He has a number of very warm friends here who havo known him for many years. , Ed Churchman and Kay Warner of Trail were also here on buMnefa the same day, and Mr. E. D. S, hrader of Herhy and John M inter of Reese Creek and Mrs. Sam Coy and two children of Climax and her brother- in-law. Kay Hnrnlsh. were doing busi ness the name day. Tuesday morning I met Mrs. James Culbertson of l,ake creek and her daughter. Mrs. ItenJ. Klngery of Wel len. R. A. Petty, who is living on the old Sam Potter place and has been ex perimenting in the turkey business, to a certain extent, tells me that he has sold out his turkeys and quit the busi ness, as they were troublesome to his neighbors, and there was too much brush to handle them to advantage. R. E. Slxemore of Fork, called Monday to visit our daughter, Mrs. K. C. Hovt of Fort Klamath, who is here undergoing treatment for her throat and nose by Dr. J. J. Kmmons of Medford. W. H. Vrandall. one of our promi nent and prosperous farmers and or chardists, also a prominent candidate tor the nomination for the office of county clerk end Ralph Cowgill, a candidate for re-electton to the legis lature, met at Chlldreth s blacksmith jokes, trying to make a good impres sion on their listeners and seemed to1 do so. but tho trouble seemed to be that the most of them seemed to te democrats. When Mr. C'owgill got ready to leave, he Invited me to rldo with him up to where he was putting in a syphono to carry the water from the Eagle Polnt-Butte Falls canal across Hutto Creek. The syphon is to, be 1UC8 feet in length and where it crosses the Kagle point-IU'OWnsboro road, will bo 15 feet above it and every joist is set op a solid concrete founda tion and all of the bed pieces for the pipe Is of solid concrete. It will be a remarkable structure. Thomas Riley, one of our Eagle Point raised boys, is tho chief mechanic on the Job, and whllo talking with Fred Pettygrew. the president of the. company on the subject, he remarked that the sy phone on theinain-canal on Kock Hill was so'much suierior to that ono as one can think. W. E. Hammcl. one of our promi nent orchardists, and William Perry, our popular road supervisor, were were for dinner Tuesday, they being two of the directors of the Eagle Polnt-Ilutte Falls canal company and Fred Pettygrew, tho president of -the company and Ralph Cowgill, the chief engineer, all look dinner at the Sun nysldo hotel Tuesday together that day being the time for holding their regular monthly meeting to transact tho business for tho company. Luke Ryan, one of our noted capi talists, and a large land owner, was here tor-dinner and so was D. K. Pat rick and after dinner tho two took a ride together out on the Crater Lake highway to look at some of the Ryan land with tho result that Mr. Patrick bought forty acres right on the high way and Charles Pettygrew bought a twenty-six acre tract and Elmer Rob inson another tract of forty acres, all three tracts at ten dollars an acre, and it Is all considered good farming land. During the life of Pat Ryan, when land could be bought of tho govern ment at one and a quarter an acre, with greenbacks, when they were worth only forty cents, Mr. Ryan. Luke's father, bought up a large quantity of land, wherever ho could find a spring and a lottle good lund ho would buy it and by that means he accumulated . a quantity of land, including n quantity of fine timber, and kept It as long as he lived, and now his son is selling it off. at ton to fifteen dollars an acre. Charley Cingcade was among our business callers. He had left his har ness with our shoe' cobbler to have him repair them nnd oil them up,' CAMBERS PARTICULARLY FITTED FOR SHERIFF Will ENFORCE LAW - J. J. Cambers, a- native of the stato of Ohio, and a resident of the city of Ashland for the past 20 years, announces his candidacy for Sheriff on the Republican -ticket, subject to the wishes of the Republican voters at the coming primury election. Mr. Cambers - Is1) peculiarly fitted for this Important office, he having served as Auditor, f and Recorder of Churchill county,-vlNevada, for four years, and also served as sheriff of said county for four additional years, filling both offices- efficiently and to the satisfaction of his constituency. After leaving Nevada Mr. Cambers locuted at Butte City, Montana, a city of some 60.000 population, where he was largely Interested in the mining Industry and where ho served for four years on the city council. Mr. Cambers strongly Indorses the stnto dry law and will use every ef fort to strictly enforce the same, as well as all other laws. His slogan Is "Iaw Enforcement, Economy and Ef ficient Service." Adv.- KELLOGG'S Ladies' and Children's Haircutting Parlors Phone 594 for Appointment Shape retaining hand tailored clothes will bring to you that satis fied feeling of being well dressed, such as no other clothes can pro duce. Have me take your measure for that Spring Suit now. 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