MEDFORD MAIL TRTBTXE. MEDFORD, OREGON1. SUNDAY. MARCH 10, 1935.
E BLAST
OUT LIFE
FIREBUG BLAMED
I but ' oa tha other band 26 to 80 !
born Saturday morning at the Com
munity hospital, by oeasarlan opera
tion. Inn 1 pounda, 8 ounces. Friday night
at the Community hospital.
"Factory atyle" workmanship In
Oregon Flood Control
WASHINGTON, March . (AP)
Meaaupree authorizing army englneera
to make preliminary studies of rlvera
In Oregon with a view to flood con
trol were aDDroved todav bv the hmix
Pendleton Chilly
PENDLETON, Ore., March . (
The temperature dropped to 93
greea here last sight, 11 degrees
der Thursdays minimum. There
no new anow In Pendleton but
mountain areaa 'were covered.
i families have been directly aupported
BIRTHS
by the mining operation and taxes
I paid approximate 100 times those
I which would have been returned
j through classification of the area as
' grazing or farming land.
Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Anderaon ox
Shasta Ctty. Cal., are the parents of
a baby girl weighing 7 '4 pounds.
UQ.
waa
the
watch and Jewelry repairing at the
lowest DOSStble Drteea. Johnson th
Born to Mr.
Coon of Trail.
and Mrs. Clarence
baby boy weigh-1 jeweler.
I flood control cmmlttee.
OF
. BirasS horn tfte FaetoffY?
Suicide Hint Seen In Tragedy
Officials Believe Victim
Joe Louis, Transient
Sets Off Explosive Cache
Second Incendiary Try In
Week Succeeds Orchard
Material and Autos De-j
stroyed In Friday Blaze
PAGE TWELVE
(lathering dynamite cape and plac
ing them with a 400-pound cache
of dynamite, a man tentatively
Identified as Joe Louis, transient,
yesterday at 1 o'clock la believed to
have commlttrd aulclde by touching
off the charge, and blowing himself
to bite, along with 800 worth of
construction toola and surrounding
trees. An Inquest will be held the
last of the week.
The explosion occurred Friday
afternoon about a o'clock, on we
new McAlliater Springs road from
Lake Creek to Dead Indian, about
a mile and a half from the old ln
take for the Medford water supply
at Plh lake, abandoned several ycara
ago. The dynamite waa cached mere
by the construction crew of Ed
Weber when driven out by anow
earlter In the aeason. Another cache
of looo pounds, only eight yards
from the smaller one, did not ei-
Dlode.
A man giving the name of Joe
Louie was arrested on a charge of
vagrancy and held overnight In the
city Jail here March 4. From descrip
tions given of the man killed In the
blast, by Wllllsm Chapman, It la be
lieved he waa the same person.
A email bit of acalp with short
black hair clinging to It, plecea of
torn clothing, and the aole of one
shoe waa all that waa found, scat'
tered over a radlua of a thousand
feet. A hole 15 feet In diameter and
10 feet deep waa torn In the solid
rock, and trees over a foot In dlame.
ter In a radlua of 80 feet were either
knocked flat or torn out by the
roots. Tiny bits of clothing, con
structlon tools and boards were
found a quarter of a mile away on
the foot deep blanket of anow. Cattle
a half mile away were knocked off
their feet, and a door Jnmb waa
knocked completely off a house a
quarter of a mile from the acene.
The man stopped at the home of
William Chapman In that neighbor
hood Thursday night, and asked for
food.' Chapman fed the man, wnere
tipon he fell asleep In a chair. Chap
man put him to bed, and the next
day attempted to question him. All
that he could learn was that the
man was on his way to Klamath
Falls, and that he had been In Jail
In Medford, and waa afraid to return
to this city. Questions aa to hla
name and place of residence were
unanewered. The possibility that the
jnan may have been John Laverdln,
missing Cordova, Ala&ka, fisherman,
whose knapaack waa found yesterday
near the Myrtle Creek highway
bridge, waa being Investigated today
by the euthorltlea.
BEEKEEPERS WILL
A meeting of beekeepers of the
county will be held Tuesday after
noon. March 13, at 1:30, In the
fynirthouM auditorium. Medford. Tills
meeting has been called by County
Agent Fowler for the purpose of dts
misalng problems common to bee
mn and It Is hoped a large group
will be prewnt.
Prof. H. A. Scullen snd A. S. Bur
rier of Oregon Btat college will be
In attendance and will lead dis
cussions nn various phases of bee
keeping. 4
Obituary
William Schmidt
William Schmidt, a resident of
Medford for the past 2l years, pushed
ivway at 8:15 Saturday morning at
hla home. M0 South Fir street, after
an Illness of two weeks, lie was born
noar Waverly. Ohio, April 13, IRSfl,
snd was married to Cynthia roster.
March 27, 1882, at Wyandotte, Ksn
s&a. Besides his widow he leaves t wo
sons, James W., of Oklahoma City,
and Wolter C. of Medrord; two !
tern, Mrs, Kdlnger of Chlllcothe, Ohio,
and Mrs. Sophia Rhrllch of Missouri
If la sIao survived by three grand
children, besides many nlecea and
nephews.
Funeral services will be held at the
Perl funersl home on Sunday, at 1
o'clock. Rev. D. D. Dode of Grants
Pisa oftU'lKtlrKg. Interment will take
place In Siskiyou memorl.il park.
J. J. Hun Kute
Jonathan 8. Huitfiite passed away
at his home In Talent Friday, at the
ie of 71, after a long Illness. Bom
In Arkansas In 1863, Mr. Huntiat
came to Orfyon In 1013. He la aur
Tlved by his widow. Berths Huimftie.
and by one son. V. M. HunRHte.
Funernl services will be held from
the Stocks funersl parlor In Ashland,
at 10 o'clock Monday morn 1 tut. Inter
ment Is to be In the Mountain View
cemetery In Ashland.
Fire, believed to have been of In
cendiary origin, at 8 o'clock Frldsy
niht completely destroyed the large
barn and pump house of the WUi
Hansen orchard Just north of the
Bear Creek orchards on the Pacific
highway. Orchard equipment, Includ
ing picking ladders, boxes, smudge
pot and tools were a complete loss,
as were two trucks and two passenger
cara parked in the barn. Two tractors
were aaved. The loss waa estimated
at 10,000. portly covered by Insur
ance, by Hansen.
An abortive attempt to set fire to
the barn last week failed, according
to state police, when an unidenti
fied lncendlarlst built a fire under
the hood of one of the trucks, after
disabling cars parked on both aides,
to prevent removal. The fire was
built on the opposite side of the
motor from the carburetor, so the
fire gained no headway, authorities
state.
The Friday fire started about 8:00
o'clock, and employes at the orchard,
running to the scene,' could smell
gasoline fumes. It is believed that
the gasoline was sprayed onto hay
stored In the barn, and then touched
off. .
The fire gained rapid headway, and
soon spread to the pump house. A
gnrage In close proximity to that
building was aaved, after only slightly
cnarring one end.
A large crowd of people, attracted
to the scene by brllllnnt reflection
of the flames on the night sky.
gathered to watch the fire, which
destroyed the barn In less than two
hours, although It waa still amoul-
dprlng In ruins Saturday morning.
OLDTIMEMBERS
FIRE DEPARTMENT
WILL. EAT TURKEY
Plana are rapidly nearlng comple
tion for the big hot-turkoy banquet
to be given at 0:30 Mor.day evening
at the fire hall In honor of Medfoid'a
old time fire laddies. There will also
be a luncheon Monday noon.
Eugene Antann. chief of the old
force, will be present. E O. BUzham
la In charge of the dinner, and H T.
Haswell has been appointed fta sec
retary, with the responsibility of not.
lfylng the firemen.
Those to whom letters hare been
aent are: Harry Ling, assistant chief.
from Yreka; Harry Young. Dorrls,
Calif.; Jack Dent, Roseburg: Ernest
unwey, Jacksonville; B. w. Clresory,
Eureka, Calif,; Claude Metz, Bend;
A. 0. Nicholson, etookton, Califor
nia; Alex Wright, Blythe, Calif.; Vic
tor Danlelson, Washington; A, A.
Flynn. ealem, and B. T. Van Carr.
Those from this city are; Eugene
Amann, chief, D. T. Lawton, J. H.
Butler, H. N. Butler, Win. Bates.
Jsntes Bates, C. A. Hamlin, J. J. O-
senlirucge, Horace Roberta, Chas
Itoberts, Qeorgo Eads, Everett Esds,
Chas. Boasom, P. E. Redden, T. K
Elynn, H. T. Haswoll. O P. Llnrtley,
H. Ij. Wilson, W J. Predvnburg, aiid
Herman Krcdenburg.
TAX GOLD DREDGE
T
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Effect of moving the big gold
dredge from Foot Creek. In Jnckson
county to a site In Jiwphine county
this summer will not bo felt In thin
county's tux receipts for nearly two
years, according to D. II. Ferry, vice
president and manager of the Rocue
tttver Gold Co , owners, The entire
assessment fur IMS nnd 1030 will be
paid, he said.
Mr. snd Mrs. Ferry will continue
to occupy their heiutlful home on
the Foots creek road.
No land of particular value for
agricultural pui po.ses has been lost
through the seven years' operation
of the dredge, it was pointed out.
Ore an d Bullion
Purchased
l lwii! hr Sun ri Cthlmta
TCILDBURCi BROS.
KMM TINti & Rl FINING CO.
CfeMt74iM.ik.St.,Sn I:ranric.
PI mm: South Fm l'ijn.-rro
Muliy Oldham.
John Edward Oldham. Infant aon
of Rufus Oldham of B38 West 2nd
street, pussrd away at a local hos
pital at 1 p.m. Frltlny.
The funeral was hrlit Saturday
afternoon with Interment at the
I. O. O. F. cemetery. Rev. W. R.
Bslrd of fir laird with Perls Funeral
home In charge.
Vnllfe
Be sure to attend the Bankrum
fcale at tlardncr Drug Store Mondavi
and Tuesday . . Last bly dnys . . All
fme powder, cn-miis, lotir" and lip
'Irks up to 1.00 value goth at 11
fwovs. o una reus 91 911101 barulua.
The
Bankrupt Sale
of
Gardner Drugs
Ik nil mrr, excepting the u1r Mnndu)
11 nil 1 iied;iy i( the o.ItU ami end.
I. vcri thing vIII go nt iir prtre.
.Ill lace FuHder, Cmnn Hour, and
Up Ptl(k, mine up to ,10.1, rr llr
p.iper, taliie up to J I. on, for JV
per tar lei, nlue up to ?l on, fr .ve
l.aoter lite One-ldtll prhe
W'r ff nn nit T'.iltMit .Medicine.
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