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Newspaper Page Text,.W1 e 9 0 Medford Mail Tribune The WeaUW Prediction Cloudy tonight .ModoraUljr warm Maximum yeslenluy .'......18 Minimum today lit Weather Year Ago Matlimilll 01 .Mill'lllUHi 53 Oilly Tftitlth Tr. FOURTEEN PAGES TODAY M KPFOIID, OREfiOX, FRIDAY,, AUOUKT 14, 1 fll'.") NO. 121 CONVICTS CAPTURE (DIFFER REWARD FOB t PIERCE JO INVESTIGATE PEN BREAK Governor Offers Reward and -Starte Probe of Tragedy at 1 "Salem Bloodhounds Fail to . Uet Scent Farm House Is Robbed Near Salem Tour ists in Danger Being Shot. WITH STAT 13 PGdHIS, IN WALDO HILL8, Ore., Aug. 14. (A. P.) Sev eral traces of the fugitive convicts. Murray, Kelly und Willos, were found1 by. various posses lost night and early today. Ah a result It 1h dangerous fur any one tu move about in this district. Officers have warned tourists es pecially to keep out of tho district bounded by Sublimity, tihuw und Wll lard church. There have been several narrow es cape's from shooting. : Indications are that tho three slay ers separated at least for a part of lut night. One man ontored tho homo of By ron MeUlhuncy 3 miles from Willurd, another, suspect was seen bypossemen to jump a gate at 8 o'clock this morn ing at the John HnrnlJ place, which lies' along a draw leading direct to the place whoro "the fugitives aban doned tho Salem taxi. The timall place is about one mile north of the McKl hancy place, , c ' , - - The fellow dlvcI fiito. tho brush,ful- lowed by ft volley of shots. "L ' ' ; .. : A- bloodhound from. Portland was lakon lo the .McKLhanoy. home, but was unable to pick up tho scent after so many persons hud t rum pled about the place. ; .-' Deputy Ward on Llllle wont to the prison and obtained a pair of sox worn by Murray, In the hope of aid ing tho bloodhounds the next time a trail Is found.' . .. . ' A pusso of 28 men this morning closed In on Union Hill school house after an all night watch, following a report that a man had been seen" to enter the pluco. No truce was found. Capt. Ilcndiick, of the Salem C!uurds,-with 10 men, yesterday swept both ways a three-milo area neur Wil lurd church, but fulled to pick up the the trail. . Two boys hunting near Sluytou late yesterday barely escaped being rid dled with bullets when they run as a posse approached. . When one of the luds flnully came out Into tho open six rifles were being trained up on him und his compuiUun. ; From four, to six men lust night wore stationed in ovcry country store In the mun hunt district. In the hope thul the convicts would walk into the trap. '. it All merchants have been warned to hide all their stocks of guns und am munition until tho hion uro captured. SALUM, Aug. 14. Whlto efforts In tho man hunt for Tom Murray, Kiln worth Kelly und James Willos, es caped desperadoes faom tho state pen itentiary, was centering along Drift Creek, fur cast of Salem tuduyj In terest in the city was centering on tho coroner's Inquest,, to- bo called some time today, and. on developments to wards an official Investigation of tho prison delivery that Will be ordered by Governor Plerco. . The man-hunters have Inccntlvo to day to redouble their efforts, fur Yes terday Governor Pierce posted a re ward of f 3,000, or 11,000 a head, to bo uald tho person or porsons Instru mental in tho return of tho fugitives dead or alive. It will bo necessary to ask tho next legislature to appro priate the money. Tho hunt Is expected . to 'acnter along Drift Creek largely as a result of advice brought tu Salem from tho ' hunt urea by Portland pollce officials. It was their judgment that the con victs, ir they know anything about tho woods, will proceed eastward Into the rOnnttnuiM! on Pm Kurhn BRIDE ANO GROOM STARVE IN NEW YORK CITY, TAXI DRIVERS GIVE AID f NEW YORIf, Aug. 14. Starving In the midst of plenty and while others feasted in tho guy night clubs nearby. 1 Joseph Martin fend his pretty 23-year- 'old wifo, Ethel, of Philadelphia. ,ap- f. pealed to police oarly today alter j thoy had been without food for near- 1 ly three days. W Mrs. Martin collapsed on the steps fcjnf the Hippodrome In the "Roaring ' Kortlca." Both were drenched by I rain and said they had slept In parks Montana Farmer Is v Buncoed in lowa; Buys Ye City Hall ' SIOUX CITY. Iowa, AllK. 14. (A. P.) A flyer In high fi- nance proved disastrous for Abo Kenius, 32. a farmer living near Bulie. Mont., who ran into the police station without cout and hut Thursday night and do- nianded tho apprehension of a "friend" from whom ho do- dared that he had purchased tho city hall for 15.000, pay- ing $100 down anil Binning a contract for tho. batanco. S.P. Boy Drives Automobile in Front of Eugene Local Near Harrisburg Injured Girl Is Carried On Cow Catcher Boy Driver Not Killed. EUGENE, Ore, Aug. 14. Four people are dead and two are painfully Injurod ag a result of an accident near Harrisburg at 8:30 o clock lust night, when a lG-yearbld boy, at the wheel ' of a light automobile, turned his. car across th q Southern Pacific, line and Eugene" local No. 311. southbound. struck tlio machine squarely In the center. Tho dead are: S. W. Castle. 02. of Rapid City. S. D. Mrs. S. W. Castle, 47, his wifo. Bertha Castle, 18, a daughter. . Sylvia Castle, 15, a daughter. " The Injured: , ' , Evolyn Castle, 9, another daughter, who sustained a broken arm, broken leg and bad cuts and bruises. Morwyn Castle, 1C, of Portland, nephew of S. W. Castle, who has a bad cut over one eye, scalp and face ' "wounds, an Injured shoulder and other hurts. Merwyn Castlo was driving the car. The party was bound for Harrisburg hop yards to help in the harvost, and was traveling along the highway I parallel to the railroad tracks. A do- . tour, occasioned by new pavement, lay ahead, and tho hoy without looking for a train, turned his car up the short ' grade to cross the tracks. One of the girls in the machine saw the train land screamed, but it was too late. I- The .train hit the car squarely, hurl ing It Into the air. Those who were killed were badly mutilated. Evelyn, the Injured girl, was found on the pilot of tho locomotive when the train was brought to a stop. The Injured were placed aboard tho train and rushed to a lucal hospital. The dead wore taken to a Harrisburg morcue. Merwyn Castle Is Hie son of J. Em-1 mett Castle of 385 East Davis street, Portland. Harvey Carpenter, engineer of the train, said that he saw the Ill-fated automobile but a scant moment bofore the crash. The train was running at Its usual speed, he said, and tho warn ing whistle wag given at the crossing. Wire Report on the Pear Market CHICAGO, Aug. 14. Pears Arrived 17 cars from California, 25 cars on track. Including broken: 21 sold. California Bartlctts, 2354 boxes, (1.90 to 12.86. NEW YORK, Aug. 11. Alabama 3fi. New York 10 by boat Some arrived In mixed cars: market weaker. ' California Dartletts, 23 cars. 2.G0 to $3.05; few 70 to $3.25; ordinary $2 55; poor $1.15. at night after vainly seeking' work during the day. Mrs. Martin was seised by violent cramps Induced by starvation ufter officer had fed her a small quantity of milk. Hhe was taken to a hospi tal. Mr. Martin, ftfter being given stimulants, devoured ham and eggs, his first meal In a week. Cab drivers took up a collection for tb.e couple. Martin uld he recently lost a Job a i mechanic. TRAIN H IS MOTORCAR FOUR 2 INJURED RARE ILLNESS IS FATAL 10 Wife of J. P. Morgan Dies As Result of Sleeping Sickness After Two Months' Illness Recovery Had Been Re ported, But Heart Became Affected Sketch of Life. NEW YOltK. AUg. 14. (A. P.) Mrs. John Pierpont Morgan died at noon today at her home ' at Glen Cove, L. I. Death was the result of a "cardiac collapse," the physicians said, which came after two months Illness from sleeping sickness. The following statement was la sued from tho offices of Morgan and company: "Mrs. Morgan, who for tho past two months bad suffered from lethurgic enecthulitis und had slowly improved until a fev duyrf ago, died ut noon as suit of- a sudden cardiac col- lapse." Mrs. Morgan was stricken June 14 while attending church. Hhe wus removed to tho Morgan cottage at Morgan. Matlnecuck1 Point, on East Island, Isolated from -the mainland of liong Island. Notified whllo on. his yacht In tho sound.- Mr. Morgan hastened to hor bedside and - remained there 12 days, when tho doctors announced the' K1GN In V x Mr' .1. V. ......L'. ......K'at tho police station here, which Is .v ..a, ..vi, "-".. after the attack known . that the putlent hud re gained only partial coiihcIouhiichs und her lmiirovcmpnt- rnfprred tn in the doctor's statement, was very slow. I Mrs. Morgan was Miss Jano Nor ton Grew of Boston beforo she mar-, i loci Mr. Morgan In that city In 1890. The Morgans had four chlldron, Junius Hpcnccr, Jane Norton, Fran ces Tracy und Henry Kturgls. Tho daughters ure - now Mrs. Paul G. Ponnoyer and Mrs. George Nichols, Although it would huvo been cusy, for Mrs. Morgun to take lending pari in M.w York society, sno nau ulwuys given most of her time to tho domestic duties of her home nnd to tho careful, rearing of hor children. Sho was a great lover of flowers antl gave much time to their cultivation at Glen Cove. fO REPLACE II. P. TRAINS VAU,A WALLA. Wash.. Aug. 14. Two of the four trafna now opetatlnK hnlwoen Walla Wnlla and Poncllcton on the Union Pacific railway will, on AiiKUst 20, replaced by a largo automobile bus, according to announce ment made here today by W. J. Leon ard. district freight and passenger agent. This Will lift ihH flrat tlrtiA that rallftad will have entered Into direct cxiietltion with the motor busses on the highway! of tills district. Pretty j: -1 - - , Jkii -B. , . &i!3 I" " I u "( i . I1. . , -liTffiTfflT A Newark, N. J. beauty, Marguerite Nungossor, dauplitcr of a wealthy hardware man, was chosen for the part of Princess Flora in the annual baby parade at Ashbury Park, N. J. . SWEETHEART OF SALEM, Aug. 14. Bomnwlioro out In the wilderness around tho Willard school, where posses are searching for tho convicts who escaped from the state penitentiary Wednesday evening, a lone woman is making a still hunt for tho fugitives, claiming that if slio can find them she can bring them out alive and without uny shots being fired. She Is a Miss llnicc, who appeared at the prison this .morning and ad vised Warden Dalrymplo Uml Hhe bad been sent hero by Chief of l'ollcu Jonkins. 'She told the- warden that she wanted to go out and join the search and informed him that If sho could find them she could bring them all out safely and without bloodshed if Dalrymple would promise them Im munity. ' "Jf thoy are captured thoy . will hang," the warden told hor, adding that only the governor had the author ity to grant Immunity. , Ho refused to allow her to join the posses, and she replied that sho would go anyway. The wardon also refused to hold for Mnfn.xntiliiir a Inure diamond rftm tho woman wore. ' . ' ' .Warden Dalrymple denies a' report 'circulated earlier in the day that Miss Hruce had told him sho would Induce the fugitives to surrender by prayer. 8ILVERTON. Ore.. Aug. 14. (A. P.) -A mysterious woman today appeared ,Drf.,r ,.tiviiinu , headquarters for posse uctlvltlea. and begged to be allowed to accompany possemon to the lair of the fugitives. Her request was refused. She then laft. saying she would walk to tho scene of the man hunt. ' She rofused tn give her name but said she was from Seaside. It was presumed by snmo possomen that the womun was the samn who appeased at tho office of the warden at Saldni and said she was Miss Bruce, sweetheart of Tom Murray, louder of the bandits. At' Salom tho woman was reported f hnvn nffnrn.l tn an Into tlln frtrrmt HtronK10(1 ,,r t,e outlaw ami Indum Murra, l0 surrender ir promised Ini- munlty ,rmn tnn ,ioulh penalty and ltmt tnB warden anil governor's ofrice rofMseU t(, cntortaln hor offor. Daily Report on the Crime Wave N 12 Wilt; KOH, N. Y.. Aug. 14. (A P.) .lunsen (,'. Wells, 48, a nlght watchman and deputy aherlff. underj arrest here for killing his wife, la alleged to have confessed to theporj lice Ihat he beat and kicked her to death In their homo In Pino street while five children, boarding wltn tho couple stood about crying. ' The quarrel started after he and hlnwlfG drunk whiskey. ' i Whpn hA fired a shot to frighten her mhi taunted him wfh being a damned poor shot," and then ho nll.nimn Htrlklnir her. Accord in If tO the police, he kno-ked her down at least lx times. He ta Charged with manslaughter. MURRArSiOlNS j HAVE ESCAPED" IN BANDIT HUNT BY CI EVER RUSE Baby! MURRAY MAY 8ALKM, Aug, U.---Tom- Murray wounded leader and sulfl to be the most dangerous of the three eunvlots who escaped from the 'stulu prison Wednosilay evening, 'may have es cuped through tho lilies of tho posse men surrounding the district in which the men were lust seen. , Authorities tiro investigating u port turned In by I wo -; men in tho service sliiltnti h-rcSthut an aulomo bile occupied by two women . tlrnssei In khaki and u Hick or wutindcd mun lying under u blanket In the loitncuu slopped at the stntlon for gasoline at 10:05 o'clock this morning. M. V. Sawyer, in charge of tho station at the time, said tho car Hupmobile turning car nf 1021 )22 model, drove Into tho station from the north. The 'woman driving the machine ordered gas and got out. While the lank was being ffllud she walked nervously hack and forth be side the machine. After she had glanced at the giisnllno gauge sho lie cldrd that she needed 10 gallons lite stead of 5. As the station operator walked alungsfdo the cur and glanced toward It, the woman, who appeared consid erably agitated, hastened to tell him that she had a man sick from what sho thought to he ptomaine poisoning in the back of the car and sho was taking him to his mother. The oporft tor gin need into the tonueau and suw tho man lying beneath a blanket, with only his eyes and a part of his face' showing from buneath a cup. "The man's eyes were sort of roll ing as though he were In agony." wild Huwyer. The . woniiin gnl Into the cur at oucc and drove mpldly away, appar ently going south. Sawyer Immudiatn ly notified the police and soven min utes later Traffic- Of fleer' Hickman started out in pursuit. He followed the 1'aciric Highway as far south as Jefferson, but got no trace of the machine, ... Traffic and police oTflcors in all directions were notified to be on the lookout for the cur. but up Mi I o'clock this afternoon no trace of It had been reported. . ' . H. Hulrymple, son of WiirOcn Hai ry mpl of the penitent lu ry, who Is Kawyer's assistant at the service sta tion at Ktate and foliage streets, al most In the heart of (lie business dis trict, confirmed all the detulls of ttie happening as related by Hawyer. Neither whs able to get the license number of the machine. MOW VOHK, Aug 14. Mvk prices gave another Impressive demonstra Hon of strength todny with Amcricnn Can, Mack.TruckH, Oeneral Hleetrle, International Telephone, Norfolk ahd Western and about a' score others mounting to new-highs for the year. Kasy money rates, reports of expand ing trade and fuvonible dividend news also encouruged buyers. Totul sales were' 1,960,000 shares. Wall Street Report Seattle Shaken By Severe Earthquake; But No Damage Done SKATTl.K. Aug. I I. Seattle was shaken by an earthuualie Into yesterday. A aeismoraph at the riiiversity of Washington recorded tho Hhock at 4: OS o'clock, lasting for more than u 4 mltiuto, with a maximum tnten S slty of Ito seconds. No damage 4 was reported, Professor. Sheldon 0 rover of 4 tho university said: "Tho center 4 was less than L'OO miles from' h Scuttlo. It was of a far greater fr intensity than a number of 4 tremors which havo caused 'much 4 oxcitoment in Seattle.' " 4,4 4 RAINY IMP 10 FI PRESIDENT HAS MS HONE , ,. a I Mrs. Campbell was nearly prostrat- and MrS. LOOlingC MOXOljrd with grief. For many months she Mr. in Mud to Vermont Greet - Cnn at PitiVnn'o Tmininfl bon at uitizcn s i raining tm:il SSl- HJInl nn Camp Will Meet Mellon ' and Senator SmOOV HLYMOllTH, Vt Aug. 11. (A. I1.) I'rosldenl Coolldge uirlvod hero late totluy- for-nii' .-overSundity vlalt with Ills futlior. KN. IlOtH'IO TO 1'bYMOI'TII, Vt., with President Coolldge, Kltehburg, Maatis., Aug. H. (A. 1'.) Travel- lug part 'of llio way by u blinding rain utorm, P Mrs. Cuolldgo on their motor thru eHldcnt and Swampscolt to Plymouth, VI., stop ped at Ayer today to exchungo greet Inus with their son. Corporal John Coolldge, who Is In the clllr.cn'8 military training camp near there. Two hours driving brouglit tho president und Mrs. Coolldgo from While Court to the edge ot Ayer, whoio they, found their son In uni form uwaltliig them. Until loft their limousine, kissed the lad and tulked with him aeviral minutes before' pro - ceedlng on their way. . Shortly after leaving Ayer tho presidential uutomolille caravan run Into a downpour which niallo travel on Ihu congesied Mohawk trail ox- trcmely hazardous. Undaunted by the 'atorm, llio president conllnuod on his way ut u 30 mllo an hour clip, passing' through hero shortly beforo noun. As tho. storm broke It became ho dark that houdlights wore necessary. A numhnr ot cars following tho presi dent nnd currying newspapor mon were forced out of Mne'by the down pour and frequently trucks swerved around corners toward tho presiden tial procession over the slippery road way ut a rate which might have brought on n mishap. It wns President Coolldgo's Inten tion, to reach Plymouth before dark and on leaving Kltehburg ho faced the prospect of moro pleasant truvollng us the sun wns shining. SWAMPSCOTT. Aug. 14. (A. P.) Despite an overcast sky, Presi dent Coolhlge concluded today It would not ruin und started by motor for hla futher's homo ut Plymouth, Vt. ' Charlotte Zlobor, of Korost ClroVe. M'nlcrs of tho party wero re- llok pllue ln Huptombor, 1887.; Tho stliited tu llio president nnd Mrs. daughter of this marriage, Mrs. l,ue.lK CoullilKe.Co lonel Sachney, while iionderuon, Is a resident of Haxier house Inllllury aide, and Major .lames MiuingH, Kansas. Mrs. Uugonlu -'uni.-F. Coupul. tho presldeiu's ihyslclnn, ,ucd four years after her mar- Hoorotary Saunders anad tho cxecu- rlage. On August 2u. Hfhg, President tlve force bringing up the rear. He- Campbell was married to Susan A. foro returning hero early next week Church, of Sail Francisco.. .. '.,. the president tplans to confer ut Ply- ; ' - . i' V- mmilh with Secretary Mellon und1 When people start sneezing their Senator Rinont of Utah on tho Del- disoases urn spread like good Jersey; glan debt situation. I butter on hot ginger bread. '-1-'' D. TRUCK DRIVERS FIVE NEW DIMES rt'MPTfiN 1 N K MH. N. .1.. Aug. II. --(A. P.) John, ). Itoi kefeller yes lerdsy rewarded two oil truck drlvor, with hrlKht new dimes for giving him road directions when his chauffeur tost his way on the Itlvcrdnle-lttoom-Ingdale road, while returning from n visit to Mr. llockefeller's nleeo. Mrs. Marccllus Hurtley Hodge, ut Madison X. J. Harold Itlley of Ulnomingdale and Charles Htout ot fJurfield, both drlv ers of oil trucks, had stoped betwenn calls on the ruad fur a chut when the PRESIDENT OREGON U" PASSES ON P. L. Campbell, Head of State University for 23 Years, Succumbs to Long Illness in Eugene DeaUv Results From Illness Contracted Two Years Ago. KUtlKNK,' Ore., Aug. 14. Prfnco l.uclttn Campbell, for 'i'A years presl- Ident of the University of Oregon, died at his home on the campus this morn ing ut 9:45 o'clock. The president had been failing slowly for the past week, following u rally in which he had so Improved us to be able to ride about the city in the university Invalid car. has kept to a faith that her husband .wid recover. I Dr. Campbell's illness started In the winter at I!C!3, as a case of lntertinal fhi Tw0 yJll.H llKO , In.eil,deilt arose mini niH sick neii io mmiua inu Ktu,lont bo,iy ot th0 uivei.ily during- la student union drlvo and following this some later serious complications set in, and he railed steadily. ' - Funeral urrangoments have ' hot been mude. rrcsldent Campbell Is survlvod by his widow. Mrs. Huaiin Campbell;' a rinughter Mrs. huola Henderson, Bax-- ler SpilnBs. .Kan; two brothers. . Dr.' Albert Campbell, a physician, ' und" Alexander Franklin Campbell, a law yer, both of I Angeles: a halt brother, Duvld Cumpbcll, Portlnnd: a half sister, Miss Dorothy Campbell, Monmouth: two atopsnns, Cuwphell Church. Eugene, and Walter Church. Sun I'YunclHco; a stepdaughter. Mrs. way """ijHdward A. Hassan, Berkeley, Calif.: a niece, .fane Campbell, und a number 'of grunddaughtcra und grandsons, t ' The story of tho life of Dr. Princo L. Cumphell Is almost a history of higher education In .Oregon for the : jVaat 3! years, l-lo waa president ot tho Htato Normal School at Monmouth from 1X00 to tho IhstllittUm from which ho took his dogroo beforo entering llurvurd, und for tho piist ,n , , nHH hoon tho (,,llcf oxocu (vo uf (ho iTtil vci'Hl t y of Oregon. '.' . president Campbell came of a long 1 line of leuchers und ministers. Ho was ,,,. llt No,vmuli,et, Mo.. -Oclnhor , nel; lltc son of tho Rev. Thomas f..,.u,, un Campbell und Jnpo Kllsu i:n,pbell. Ills puronts took him to Montana when ho waa four years o'ld lim n ln0 rn.1 1 of 1S89 ho camb tu Oregon, his futlior -having accepted ln0 .CHidoiicy of Christian College. Monmouth, Inter tho State Normal School. The son of un 'Oregon pioneer, . President ' Campboll's life spanned jtwo epochs. Ho grow to manhood when tno siato was evolving irom pio-. noer conditions Into a modern fund progressive commonwealth, und'-1 ho contributed over a long period to thu development of education which par alleled tho phciiumenul advuiice In other lines. In point uf years contln- . uous service, ho was among the soniur college presidents of this country. l''or one year prior to his final year, at Harvard lie was a reporter on the Kansas city Star, und upon his grad uation from llurvurd ho returned to Monmouth us a member of tho facul ty. ' Ills marriage to Miss Eugenia , J. ziober. daughter of A. Zieber and Mrs i if -.(, Itockefellor llmoustne drew up and Itockefnller anked the direction. When he found that they reeoanlx- Ud him Mr. Uockefeller ' descended from the car and chatted with them for several minutes. An a parting gift, he gave Itlley thrno dimes, mm for each member of It Hoy's family. Htout, a newly wed, got two oHmos. Four year old Hlley. Jr., tonight anltl hn wan robm tn snend his dluio I In the morning for tollypops- His par onts said thoy would keep their culm as momentus. j