Harvey P. Ebinger, about 38, member here for the past two years of the Western Thrift drug store staff, shot and almost instantly killed himself at 1 o'clock this afternoon. He had been working in the company's [127] East Sixth Street store--during the noon hour--and went out shortly before 1 o'clock, returning shortly afterward.
    Two clerks in the store, Ralph Green and Gerald Fisher, said they noticed that when Ebinger returned to the store he acted peculiarly, and commented upon the fact between themselves. Ebinger walked rapidly through the store past the swinging door in the rear, and made his way into the lavatory in the back.
    There he presumably shot himself through the right temple with a 32.20-caliber revolver, the high-power bullet passing through the skull and lodging over the left eye. He died almost immediately, and the physician who was summoned pronounced him dead. No motive for the deed has been established.
    The coroner was summoned and the body was removed to the county morgue. A note was found on the body, but the contents were not revealed by the authorities.
    Ebinger is married, and the note was addressed to his wife. They came here about two years ago from Tillamook, where he had been for about 11 years. Upon his arrival here he was employed by the Gardner drug store.
    For several months he had been stationed at the company's store at the corner of Main and Central streets. His thatch of prematurely white hair was familiar to many shoppers in the valley.
    The gun with which he shot himself was a short-barreled model kept at the Main Street store for burglar protection. There were no customers in the store when the shot was fired. Members of the store staff closed the establishment for the day.
    The coroner announced that there would be no inquest, but an autopsy will be performed tomorrow.
    Ebinger's father died about three weeks ago. It is believed he has a brother living in Portland.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 28, 1936, page 1


    MEDFORD, Ore., May 11 (U.P.)--Wild West days are being relived here. An outlaw band of 100 wild horses has been ordered rounded up by the Jackson County court on the complaint of 19 stockmen, acting under a state law that has not been invoked for years.
    The horses, which have the freedom of the range near the Oregon-California state line, are "abandoned, starving and neglected, constituting a range nuisance," according to the court. The band has trampled grazing land, raided alfalfa fields, broken down fences and kicked young livestock to death with their flashing hoofs, stock ranchers say.
Calexico Chronicle, Calexico, California, May 11, 1936, page 4