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By Arthur Perry
A Journalist was loose upstate laat
week. It was reported. They know he
waa a Journalist because he said so,
and tried to borrow money from fel
low Journalist.
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Atty. Wm. McAllister has a new girl
at his house, necessitating longer and
louder talks to Jury.
Woodpiles are being robbed, the
police hear. The culprit do not care
whether the wood is split or not. as
their wives will do it. This Is re
garded as a aure sign of a long hard
winter.
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Big Jim Parley, the pm. general,
and guiding light of the Administra
tion, arrived in Frisco Wed. and so
excited the local Democracy they re
spectfully cnlled him Largo James
Parley.
A crescent edition of the moon was
shining bravely and brightly back of
J'vllle Frl. evng., and has recovered
from Its recent eclipse.
Pin-hrnd rot has showed up again
but not in the pears.
Duck hunters were disgusted Thurs.
to Irarn that the gov't this fall won't
let them lie In a Klamath county
puddle with a shotgun and kill more
than ten (10) ducks In nine (9)
hours of any day.
V. Pluto Colvlg of Hollywood visited
folks here Inst week. He Is the honest
bark of the hound in the Walt Disney
pictures.
The Lions urged people to save
toys for Christmas, the 1st of the wk..
snd seem in a slight rush.
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Auto dealers report they have sold
more new cars this summer than In
the last two years and It looks like It.
The Ethiopians have the moral and
poetical backing of Del Oetchell the
bimker In their embrogllo with Mus
solini, e
Your corr. was promised the first
venison steak of the season Tues. by
a mighty hunter who never kills a
doer.
BUI Allen has returned from a so
journ In British Columbia and now
wants tea at 4 p. m.
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The tomatoes are coming along fine,
due to plenty of water and sunshine,
and a good word spoken In their be
half by Peoria BUI Oates.
Another corner ha succumbed to
the oil octopus.
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Jackson County, supervisor of
many hysterical foundation shak
ings, had Its rafters slightly trembled
the end of the week.
Leon Hasklns has a boy learning to
be a pllllst. by sweeping off the side
walk, and the lad Is still weak around
a fire hydrant.
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Several citizens are planning new
Igloos.
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The weekly Inhumanity waa held at
the Armory Thurs night, without a
side rumpus. A victorious gladiator
kicked around considerable, while a
phonograph played, from causes un
determined. e e e
Dsnlel and Dubb Watson, both
consummated birthdays last week.
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There has been no rain for nine
weeks, and no agriculturist seems to
care.
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The watermelons will soon be ready
for somebody to get shot for one.
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Ben Harder explained the 1935
blinking law Tuesday, at a luncheon,
and spoke courteously of same. It has
long been regarded by the layman, as
flabbergHstlng and befuddling, etc..
etc.
Picking, packing, and peddling of
pears Impends.
Nil gamy 4 barged
KINGMAN, AruV, Aug. 3 (API
County Attorney Elmo Bollinger said
today he has filed criminal charge
against eight residents of the Short
Creek community In the northern
Ariwina strip, immediately south ot
the Utah line, for living In a state
of polygamy.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3. (AP)
Eufrne Dietrich,, business sgent ot
tli Longshore men's Union here, told
police he believed he rmd wounded
on of six men he said attempted
to force their way into hi home
early today.
Lynch Law It's Cause
1UDGE LYNCH is getting pretty close to home!
Down at Snn Jose a few years ago. Now, he has moved
north to Vreka just across the Oregon line. Clyde Johnson who,
police declare, confessed to the murder of Police Chief Daw of
Dunsmuir, was taken for a ride early yesterday morning by an
armed mob, and hung from a tree until he was dead.
So there is another knot in the hemp for old Judge Lynch,
and throughout this fair land, the time-honored debate regard
ing lynch law will again be carried on.
THIS debate will have one curious feature. As far as opinions
for PT'RTjTnATIOM are concerned, thev will be overwhelm
ingly against such lawlessness, lynch law will be universally
and scathingly condemned.
But expressions of opinion NOT for publication will be of a
very different tenor.
Let anyone canvas opinion today in Dunsmuir, or Yreka, or
the small hamlets and ranch homes between, and what will
one findl Here will be the popular, word of mouth, sub-rosa
verdict :
"It served the blanket? blank o and so right. If we had a few
more of ihe.e lynchlngs there would be fewer murders and kidnap
pings and such like crimes. That bird got Just what was coming to
him."
Shocking t
Granted.
But we might as well face the facts. That IS the honest
opinion of the man in the street, when an atrocious crime is
committed, and there is no doubt at least in the public mind
of the guilt of the victim. It is rough justice, but the rank and
file justify it, because they are convinced it IS justice. And
that's what they want JUSTICE.
WHAT does that meant Docs it mean that. this section of
California is less civilized than other sections, that they
have as a people advanced a very short distance from barbarism ;
that psychologically speaking they are still in the frontier stage?
We think not.
That part of the country compares favorably with any other
part of the country, in education, enlightenment and respect for
law and order. Northern California is sparsely settled, and
Dunsmuir is not exactly a Y. JI. C. A. town, but how about San
Jose, California, where a few years ago two kidnaping murder
ers were lynched, and not only was this mob action endorsed by
the rank and file of that prosperous metropolis, including its
chamber of commerce, but the then governor of the great state
of California publicly and officially UPHELD itl
What is behind this sort of
As we sec it the answer isn't hard to find.
LAWLESS METHODS OF SECURING JUSTICE ARE
BEING UPHELD BY PUBLIC OPINION, BECAUSE LAWFUL
METHODS HAVE BROKEN DOWN! .
If legal justice were quick and sure in this country as
(uick and sure for example as in England, there would be no
revival of lynch law at least not north of the Mason and Dixon
line. It wouldn't be heard of, because in tho minds ot the rank
and file, it wouldn't bo needed.
BUT with crimes of violence on all sides, with the war of
organized crime against a peaceful and law-abiding society
gaining day by day on all fronts; with arrest of the guilty par
ties, leading to conviction only about three out of ten times; with
conviction leading to prompt and proper punishment, not one
time in twenty; with parolo boards letting out confirmed crimi
nals to resume their careers of violence and crime on one hand ;
and soft hearted or venal governors, pardoning killers to kill
again, on the other, what are a long suffering and an outraged
people to do about it but as a last resort when some particu
larly heinous crime breaks down normal restraints, take the
law into their own hands.
NOT that we would condone lynch law. Nor sympathize with
it, no matter WHAT tho provocation. It can't be condoned
by any self respecting newspaper, nor by any right thinking
citizen. It is MORALLY AND LEGALLY WRONG, and once
officially sanctioned, would lead to far more deplorable condi
tions, than the conditions which have produced it.
But we arc trying to understand it.
And We believe the time has come for the people of the coun
try as a whole to try to understand it, .
The plain truth is lynch law is coming back, because tho
conditions which first invoked it on the early frontier arc
threatening to come back.
The early pioneers were not inherently lawless, in fact quite
the reverse.
It was because they cared so MUCH for law and order, the
security of life and property, that when the constituted
authorities failed to do the job for them, they formed their
vigilante committees to do it for themselves. And it worked.
And the people of this country are going back to vigilante
methods, more and more, UNLESS some way is found, whereby
this country can again be made reasonably SAFE, for honest,
peace-loving and law-abiding citizens.
EVERY parole board that releases a convicted crook, every
governor who commutes the sentence or condones a guilty
criminal; every shyster lawyer that resorts to this subterfuge
and that, this delay and some other, with solely one end in view,
to obstruct justice and get money for himself these are the
agencies in this country equally if not MORE responsible for
the revival of Judge Lynch, than the various and sundry citi
zens, who under the excitement of the moment and yielding to
aggressive and misguided leadership, try to correct one crime,
by committing another.
QUI! AUGUST 20
BILLS
WASHINGTON. Au. 3 vP- A re
publican lender who know congress
looked over the 17 mjor bills await
ing final action today and predl;ed
at least seven would be scrapped lo
thing how can it be explained"
permit an adjustment In two weeks
or August 20 at the latent.
Hers are the bills Senator McNary
placed in the "scrap of doubtful"
column:
Utility holding company abolition;
ship subsidy; Guf fey -Snyder coal reg
ulation; bus and truck regulation:
food, drugs, and comae tics control:
NRA wane, hour and ohlld labor re
quirement for government contract
ors and tiie limitation on war prof
Its. Democratic leaders would not agree
In advance which bill would be per
mitted to go by the boards until next
session they still felt there wm a
c ha nee for w or k 1 n out a com p ro -miae
on the utility measure and pos
sibly ship subsidy.
Personal Health Service
By William Brady, M.D.
signed letter, pertaining to personal health and bygtene not to disease
diagnosis or treatment will be answered bj Dr. Ursdj II a stamped self-addressed
envelope Is enclosed Letters should be brief and written In ink
Uwlng to the large number of letters received only a rew can he answered
No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Or
William Brady, 265 El Camlno. Beverly Hills. Cal.
WHEN OLD
Right after I had finished a series
of article telling all and maybe more
than 1 had a right to tell about keep
' Ing young or
postponing senil
ity, darned if a
letter didn't ar
rive from a Kan
sas farmer who
said he had been
giving a good deal
of time lately to
thinking, while
they were digging
out his farm, on
the subject of
growing old. He
observed that at
60 or so there Is
generally some evidence of falling
sight, falling memory, stiffening
Joints, sluggish digestion, and worst
of all, the much dreaded prostatic
enlargement which makes miserable
the existence of so many elderly men.
And so he thought a few articles in
this column on the care of the hu
man body at this time In life should
be Interesting and instructive.
Any day now I expect to get a let
ter from some one asking why I don't
write something on how to keep well.
Frankly, I've been turning that very
Idea over in my mind for 20 years
or more, and some day I'll da It
When you least expect it.
The Kansas philosopher whose farm
Is burled In dust does not believe
the partly worn out human machine
can be rejuvenated to any great ex
tent, but he cherishes a fond fancy
that the bearings can be oiled up.
the battery recharged, and the old
fellow kept on his feet and out of
the soldiers' home for a few more
years.
In reply to the dry farmer's re
quest, beg to state that I have noth
ing new to add to what I said In the
series of articles which he probably
dismissed as trivia or tripe. What
little additional wisdom I was able
to collect I Included in the booklet
"Building Vitality." which Is now
available at ten cents a copy If you
write for it and inclose a stamped
envelope bearing your address.
It would be trite to say, and oo I
did not say that proper treatment
or prevention of senility begins be
fore you are born. Bnt the condi
tion of one's teeth has a good deal
to do with . and certainly we know
that the diet of the mother before
the child Is born largely determines
the condition of the child's teeth.
So If any of you younger readers
contemplate having a baby, you had
better file your order now and as
eta'
fl isYMlhSa VlVn.l
Valley Pioneer Remembers
Yreka Lynching of 1895
Royal E. Brown, pioneer merchant,
of Eagle Point, recalled today, that
"in the fall of 1806," four prisoners in
the county Jail at Yreka, Calif., were
taken by a night mob, from their
cells and hanged in the courthouse
yard.
Singularly. Brown recalls, that one
ot the 1808 victims of mob vengeance,
waa also named Johnson. Brown re
members that one was named "Null",
one was a Mexican, and does not
recollect the other.
Brown was a spectator of the
(Continued from Page One)
Is Chairman Dough ton of the power
ful wavs and means committee. The
triumvirate decided recently to teach
Mr. Doughton a lesson.
Dough ton had, promised the repub
licans eight hours of debate on his
tax bill without consulting the tri
umvirate. Byrns. O'Connor and Bo-
land that that was too much time
and decided to show Mr. Doughton
who waa leader. When Doughton tried
to arrange for eight hours, the tri
umvirate had Boland object, some
thing unheard of. in the end they
had to agree to six hours, but Dough
ton now knows whom to consult
when he wants to arrange debating
time.
One-third of the members of con
gress have sent their families home
or to resorts. That may delay ad
journment. When Secretary Morgenthau left
the senate finance committee witness
chair, he leaned over to Treasury -
Critlc Harry Ryrd and said: "We two
apple growers should not be so far
apart."
Congressman Wilcox of riortda Is
offering $1000 to anyone who will tell
htm how a democrat can get a Job
with this administration. At least he
nude the offer in replying to a
constituent who asked blm the ques
tion.
ffl GOING
Iff ZENITH Y
III There's A Reason III
AGE SETS IN
sure the baby a ripe old age.
There Is not a word in the book
let about prostatic hypertrophy. I
don't know a thing about the causes
of that. Recently some doctor an
nounced that a hormone called In
hlbin seemed to be the much de
sired prophylactic against .prostatic
enlargement, but I fear the discov
ery was heralded prematurely, for
an impressive silence has followed the
newspaper blurb. However, prostatic
obstruction no longer appals the old
man. It Is now amenable to trans
urethral rescentlon, which is much
leas formidable than the per lineal or
suprapubllc operation was.
Old age responds well to treat
ment if taken In time. ,
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Is the Family Defective?
Toung man I contemplate marry
ing has one brother and one sister
who I am told are "queer." His
mother, and another brother and sis
ter I know are normal. An uncle
and a cousin of his were Insane.
Please give me your opinion. (M. P.
H.)
Answer Insufficient data. Consult
the family physician, who knows bet
ter than anyone else whether there
is any heritable taint or defect. For
hi own Interest as well a yours
the young man should help you to
get this essentlsl information.
Excretion.
Smallpox is simply an effort of the
body to throw out poisonous waste
matter nature's house-cleaning A
Freak Healer.)
Customer had gathering in ear, and
had a profuse sweat every night until
the pain ceased. The sweat was foul
It was nature's way of robbing the
body of poisons. (Druggist).
Ans. Absurd. The skin Is not an
excretory organ In health or in dis
ease. Expectant Mother
I am expecting a baby In October.
Whenever I get hungry I fnint. Would
it make me too fat to take bread and
butter r cracker and milk mtd-after-noon?
(Mrs. R. J.)
Ans. No. Send stamped envelope
bearing your address for monograph
"The Prospective Mother.' Inclose 10
cents coin If you want a copy of the
Brady Baby Book. Be sure you get
your vitamins.
(Copyright. 1035, John F. Dille Co.)
Ed Note: Persons wishing to
communicate with Dr. Brady
should tend letter direct to Dr.
William Mrarty. M. D. 265 El
Camlno, Keverly Mills. Cut If
quadruple lynching, from the fringe
of the crowd, around the Yreka coxirt
house.
"The boys put a railroad rail be
tween two locust trees, and hanged
the four of them", Brown said today.
The lynching forty years ago.
Brown states was the climax of a
series of murders and crimes in Sis
kiyou county that aroused public
opinion.
A photograph of the lynching Is
among the historic pictures in the
pioneer museum at Jacksonville.
AREA FIRE SWEPT
WASCO. Ore.. Aug. 3. (AP
Flanys raged through a business
block here today, sweeping the en
tire srea with the exception of a
brick building in which telephone
operators remained on duty despite
the intense heat.
Two houses and several shops
were razed.
Fire department from Moro ana
The Dalles aided in quelling the
blaze. Origin of the fire had not
been determined tonight.
No estimate of loss was obtain
able. Pharmacists Meet
PORTLAND. Ore., Aug. 3. (AP)
The first session of the American
Pharmaceutical association conven
tion Is scheduled to begin st 8:OU
p. m. tomorrow. Druggists from
throughout the United States are
expected to attend. Meetings are to
continue all next week.
(Continued from Page "ne.)
Ity, but no compassion was to be seen
on any face.
Knots of excited men were on every
street corner throughout the day.
some arguing as to whether death
came by strangulation or by a broken
neck. No one seemed to know. One
doctor said he saw no signs of a 1
break another that the neck had I
most certainly been broken. !
View Lynching Tree
Hundreds of cars, each loaded with
curious, passengers, drove out on the
Fort Jones road to view the tree
where the man had been hanged. A
perfectly common looking pine tree,
the crowds nevertheless continued to
stare at It all day, and many mothers
pointed out to the children where the
body had swung. "Dutch" Martin,
brother of Fleming Martin, and the
man who first found the body swing
ing from the tree, was busy showing
people Just where the body hung, the
exact limb from which it hung,
where the rope was tied, and every
ounce of Information that he knew.
All listened Intently, and all were
grim-faced about It and certainly
all felt that "they can't kill our po
lice officers and get away with it."
Said "Dutch" Martin: "My brother
came In and woke me up about 2
o'clock. He was so excited I didn't
know what he was talking about for
ten minutes! Then, as soon as I could
tell, we Jumped in my car and started
out to look for the lynchers. A serv
ice station man told us he had seen
some cars on the Fort Jones road, so
we went out that way. When I saw
the body swinging there I told my
brother, "There's Johnson now." but
all I could see was his white shirt.
That was about 20 minutes after
he'd been hung."
Asked if he would have cut the
body down had he seen any signs of
life, he refused to comment. "You
know how YOU would feel under
those circumstances." he said. He
volunteered to escort a party, of
which the reporter was one, through
the ii.orgue. But the coroner was
working on the body, and no one
was being admitted, although crowds
were standing on the sidewalk out
side talking about the affair.
Men, women and children were
milling about the doorway, and many
were holding their faces close to the
glass of the back windows trying to
see in. Some were back for their sec
ond look. Said one: "I saw him twice
when he was alive. I might as well
see him twice now that he's dead."
Photographer Popular
One of the most popular men in
Yreka yesterday was "Snap" Good
rich, the photographer, who had
rushed to the scene as soon as the
report had come in that Johnson had
been lynched. He got four good
"poses" of the corpse, one from each
angle, by use of a flashlight bulb, It
being dark.
Asked if ho were Interested in sell
ing the photographs, he stated that
tho Oakland Tribune had sent an
airplane for them, and that copies
would be in Saturday's paper in Oak
land. But hundreds were trooping
into his place to look at them first
hand. The pictures showed that the
body swung from a small limb only
a few Inches through, and that the
toes cleared a barbed wire fence by
only a few Inches. Goodrich pointed
out that the man, barefooted, could
not possibly have knocked bark off
the pine tree, as was first reported.
The bark, he said, had been carrted
away by souvenir hunters.
Socks as Souvenirs
Another man, who refused to de
vutge his name, was proudly exhibit
ing the dead man's socks, taken from
his empty cell at the Jail.
Martin Lange, the Jailer, who was
spirited away by the throng, and
forced to walk home the 10 miles
from Grenada, was willing to exhibit
the rope burns on his wrists, his lac
erated feet from the crushed rock
along the road, and the piece of rope
with which his wrists had been
bound. He said he Intends to keep
the rope as a mom en to. He was shot
at by Hall, the man now awaiting
execution for the Qulgley-Kent mur
ders at Yreka. He told his story to
the by-standers while leaning his
tender foot on the shattered door
through which the raiders had gained
entrance. Written large upon the
Jailer's door was a placard: "Visiting
Hours 2 to 4 on Wednesday. Friday
and Sunday, ONLY." Lange ruefully
admitted that It was too dark for his
visitors to read this Friday night.
Luke Lange stated that It was
common knowledge In Yreka that
Johnson would have been lynched
several days ago. had the authorities
not maintained that he would be In
strumental in the capture of Miller,
(his partner In the slaying of Daw),
who is still at large.
Elevator to the
Clouds
Our grandfather hitched
hi n.ignn to a star" little
dreaming that men would
one day soar above the
clouds In winged plane
Today more speed and
greater effort must be ex
pended to reach our higher
goals; mlntls mu-t be keen,
nerves sound and bodies
healthy. Your phjslclan,
with his powerful safe
guards aeolmt rtleae. can
Site uiu a perfect take-off
toward hlrlter aspiration!
A prescript lonM Ellis
Rs Carefully at
Heath Drug Store
Medford Building
Phone 8S4
NEW YORK
DAY BY DAY
By O. O. Mclntyre
NEW YORK, Aug. 3. To sit top
gallant and sway with the elephan
tine lumberings of a Fifth avenue
bus, watching
the staccato of
life on the side
walk and street
below, Is about
as much fun as
the metropolis of
fers. Every block
a microcosm as
shifting as the
kaleidoscope.
Across from my
perch this sun
down waa a grace
f u 1 smokerette
lost in the style
sweeps in the pages ot Harper's Ba
zaar. In front a harried Casper
Milquetoast with an umbrella and a
dent in his derby. And across the
aisle a brlpkln with a neverworn pair
of gloves in his breast pocket.
Remindful of Bill Nye's simile: "His
gloves stuck upon out of the pocket
of his coat like the fingers of a
drowning man calling for four more
beers." We halted a moment In front
of a feminine type restaurant with
window tables and there came this
reflection:
I never saw a skinny girl eating
one of those gooey double luxuro
chocolates. And I never saw a fat
woman who wasn't. A lurch and an
elderly gentleman drops his glasses.
They were run over, the glass pow
dered fine enough to put into an
enemy's oatmeal.
Too. a girl silhouetted at Hick's
fountain, churning her drink with a
spoon and swinging the glass In cir
cles to get the last mixed drop. Dart
ing thought: Soda jerkers have stud
led 50 years and the Confectioner's
Journal has given recipes of millions
of drinks with palate pleasing names,
but no one has beaten the good old
chocolate Ice cream soda at Rumple
mayer's for 22 years.
A sheen of Bowery brass in the
avenue's pomp. A flight-up "Dress
Suit for Hire" parlor. A statistician
should strike the average of dress
suits men wear at class reunions and
the vintage of Irvin Cobb's. The one
with frog buttons! Menjou and Jack
Whiting gum up full evening attire
for most of us. Maybe, to. it's the
end of the Dress Suit Era. Slacks for
a slack period!
A Claire Luce type swings daintily
out of Dunhlll's with one of those
Bedllngtons on a leash. The dog that
looks and acts like a shy lamb. That
such a noble animal as the dog should
be subjected to changing styles!
Where Is the Spitz. Pug. Newfound
land and the Canlche? They vanish
like the buffalo and Indian. I hear
there's not a French poodle In all
Paris. Not even In the Pare Mon
ceau. A half dozen women smoking In a
single block. Not one self-conscious.
I remember my father returning from
New ork to tell the old Nestors on
his hotel verandah of Roslna Vokes
smaklng a cigar, lighting the wrong
end so the wrapper unfolded. It was
supposed to be the funniest thing on
the stage. Rosina Vokes was a cult.
Like Cornell, B. Lillle and Tallulah.
One must be In advance of 50 to
remember. Beatrice Herford once open
ed a Rosina Vokes theater. There
were Rosina Vokes cigars, hats. etc.
The five-and-ten building that cov
ers the Wendell acreage Is undergo
ing the finishing touches. More than
London Tower, the venerable mansion
was cloaked In gloom. There was a
knothole In the high spiked fence
where the pedestrian could see the
asthmatic dog Toby in Its several mil
lion dollar playground. Shutters
flapped In the wind, dim lights flick
ered mysteriously at windows and
now and then late at night a shawled
Wendell sister would peep furtively
out the door and scurry to drop a
letter In the corner box. A sephul-
chral haunt made for mystery mak
ers. Poe would have loved It.
A lady splraled up to our conning
tower at the public library. She
opened a book I've wanted to read-
Lowell's Blgelow Papers. This was a
George Ade sum-up of things in the
generation before Ade. The most in
teresting of all biographies should be
one that Ade turns out. The only
real modern of his generation.
WHEN
When the garage door drags
And the pergola tags,
And the back steps are aflop;
The down spout leaks
And the floors all creak
And the sweet peas need a prop;
When a little paper and paint
Would make a room look new,
And you wonder how in the world
You can stt it all attended to;
JUST PHONE US
BIG PINES
PHONE
t nntirMi a chambermaid with
whit- an mri aoron peeking down
from a hotel window near Madison
Square. Tired, faded, gray. It s a joo
many ladles or oiner aays see, a
wav to hide. People only glance at a
chambermaid.
Oddly the old Flatron, skyscraper,
Is better tenanted than a half score
modern and higher spires. Frank
Munsey's offices were there with the
throne. Herbert Corey's. Jimmy Alli
son's. The avenue tapers from 23d
to the arch Into a soft mellow glow,
a benlson that slows pedestrians into
a saunter. One thinks of Mark Twain,
O. Henry and many more whose gifts
make life more endurable.
(Copyright. 1935. McNaught
Syndicate)
Flight 'o Time
(Medford and Jackson County
History from the files ot the
Mall Tribune af 141 and Hi Year
Ago).
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
August 4, 1925
(It was Tuesday)
Traffic officers arrested autolsta for
auto law violations.
Two small forest fires rage in Cra.
ter Lake and Prospect districts.
Seven cars of pears shipped from
this city so far this season.
B. H. Conkle Is named principal of
Medford high school.
13.902 visitors to Crater Lake so far
this season.
City council nearly completes prep
araatlon of a new city ordinance coll
ing for a bond election for a new
water system.
TWENTY YEARS AC.O TODAY
August 4, 1913
(It was Wednesday)
Warsaw falls to German Invaders,
as Russian arms under Grand Duke
Nicholas retreat. Riga's fall matter
of days.
The police Issued warnings Wed
nesday to three or four farmers who
Insist on stopping their teams where
ever they please on business streets
without regard to the traffic ordi
nances. Wednesday afternoon a
farmer stopped his team on a street
crossing necessitating pedestrians go
ing around while he argued with a
friend anent irrigation. It Is also
reported that farmers using the Pa
cific highway have their "dander"
up and are slow about giving autolsts
the right of way. driving so that it
is necessary for the machine to slow
up or take to the ditch.
The deer season opens August IS,
and A number of local hunters have
already gone to the hills to prepare
camps. ,
New prices on Ford cars show re
ductions on all models.
IS SELF SLAYER
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 3.(AP)
John Pershing Heiner. a cousin of
General John J. Pershing, hanged
himself today In a closet In his mid
city apartment.
An opened letter from his wife,
urging him to bear up under his
poverty, was found on the floor un
der his door. It had been delivered
a few hours after he took his life.
Heiner was a native of Butler. Pa.,
and was formerly a well-to-do In
vestment broker. A note from his
landlady requesting last week's rent,
which was past due. Indicated he was
penniless. No money was found In his
apartment.
Mrs. Gladys Heiner. his wife. Is In
Los Angeles with their son. John R.
Heiner. who was taken there because
of falling health.
Heiner. a World war veteran, was
the son of Harry P. and Mary Persh
ing Heiner. He graduated from the
University of Pittsburgh In 1915.
KEYS and expert lock repairing.
Medford Cyclery. 23 N- Fir. Ph 261.
LBR. CO.
ONE
KIN OF PERSHING,
POVERTY NAGGED,