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THE MOlWnCG OREGOXIAy. FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1910. SCEra OF SILETZ INDIAN TRAGEDY, FATHEB OF ONE VICTIM AND "WIFE OF ANOTHER. YOUNG MEN'S COLLEGE SUITS FIRE1IEB CAUSES INDIAN TRAGEDY At Government Agents Say Whis ky Sold to Redmen Led to Siletz Murders. HALF PR WHITE MEN IMPLICATED - Jlf i " v-- '.3 V aavaasKiwif..- ' i " i't . VNes .5 ,eV-,- - ICE I . lv t i i' k rtl -7?T I . aJ r Startling Evidence la Gathered of Thriving- Traffic With Reserva tion Indiana Grand Jury Is to Hear Testimony. NEW PORT. Or, 4. (Spteial -Btartllns; evidence, of lllea-al sale of bad whisky to Indiana around Newport or white men who for many month! are aald to have been eondoetlns; a thriving trafflo almost without attempt at concealment, baa been brought to l'.fht through the In vfstlsatloo by Government agenta of the triple treaedy on the SUets Reservation a week a-o. when Bob FUx ahot and Wiled John Spencer and Martha Metcalf In a drunken brawU and then turned hla weapon against himself. Or 10 J. Frachtenber. etymologist for the Smithsonian Institution, who la making the Investigation for the " ment. from eworn ataiementa of many Indian, baa traced re.ponalt.mty for the shooting to the door of bootleggers who .are liquor to the Indians. In direct violation of the United Stale, statute A particularly strong caae haa b-en made out against Gua Olson, of Toledo, who. according to the testimony of many Indian, on the reservstloo. ha. sold them whisky whenever they wanted It and could pay him the price. Indian Bays Whisky In Barn. Accord in to testimony gathered by Dr. rrachtenberc. Olson aold three bottles of whisky to John Spencer the nlsht before he waa killed by Felix. Between the time when be la aliened to have bought the whisky and the murder. Spencer aifd hla wife were drunk and quarrelsome, and It la now the theory of the United State, asent that Felix wa. attacked br the oth-re while eober. and had to .hoot in self-defense. Olaon haa been In trouble several tlmea for selling liquor Illegally. Fully a doaen Indiana hare testified acatnet Olaon In the hearing at the 61 let A-ncy In the lest tao day r"1 other white men are Implicated by the evidence. More than one saloonmaa In Newport la also Involved. While the salowimm were car-ful never to sell liquor openly to the Indiana. It la aald nine of them hare been habitually sellr In. It through "irobetweena" ' AJ the evidence gathered by Dr. Frachtenber.. with the assistance, of Ipdlan Agent Knott O. Erbert. at Slleta. if il be turned over to the Prose--utlng At torney with Instructions to place It be fer a grand Jury. The charges are so aertoue that it la expected an effort will be made by the accuacd men to have a hearing b-fore a Justice of the Peace. In which caae they could escape with a fine if found guilty. Any such move will be opposed by the Government agents. . Sellers to Be Proaecatcd- TV. .re ttrd of the Intoxication amnn. the Indian, on the reservation and will aee that the men sgainat whom we hare the evidence of selling liquor to them are brought up before the Circuit Court at Ite next term." aald Indian Arnt Egbert. "Dr. Frachtenberg haa been very successful in obtaining sub stantlal evidence. By punlahing the present offend era we hope to make ex ample, that others will not care to Imi tate." "Bob Felix was sober when he ahot John Spencer and Martha Metcalf In the preaenee of Mrs. Spencer last Sat urday." aald Dr. Frachtenberg. "John Spencer and his wife were drunk and Martha Metcalf probably had had aome liquor. Felix and Martha Metcalf went to Spencer's to get aome furniture and a drunken row took place. I believe the trouble was cauaed by the P pence ra offering whisky to Martha. I think the evidence I have collected will ahow that the three fought Felix, who was forced In self-defenaa to shoot. Toledo Man Is Accused. "The bottle of whisky which cauaed the Spencer trouble waa sold to Bpen ccr by Gua Olaon In hie barn at To ledo the night before the triple tragedr. Mrs. Spencer haa furnished the facta and her atatement la aub stsntlated by the evidence of others." Mrs. Spencer's sworn statement to the Government officers Is In part aa follows: . -Friday night. July :. my husband. John Spencer, and Joseph Gay came to the house. It wss late at night. John had three bottles of whisky. I ssked him where he got them, and he said. -Mamma. I got them from Gus Olson. In Toledo. Or." When he went to Toledo he took with him Sit. He brought back only $4. . One of the three bottles wa drank out In the house, ffi took another bottle to Tipton's bouse and drank It there. The last bottle we drank Sat urday morning. I know that theae bottlea came from Gus Olson because we lived In Toledo quite a while and because I know the brand of whisky Gus Olson Is selling. The bottle which 1 am showing you and which I myself narked' with two pencil croaaea my liuaband bought from Gus Olson In To ledo In my presence Friday two J go. My husband paid Sl.St fir It. Oua Olaon sold him this bottle right In his bam and I waa there and aaw the whole transaction. Claybourne Arden. another Indian, awears he has at different tlmea bought - bottles of whisky from Olson. The liquor waa of such vile make that even the Indian could not stand It and ceased buying;, "ha says. WESTERN MAN IS FAVORED iCoothiaed from rirst P) & ece f ..-I t. ... ! 1 I I ...1 L -, vrr-m, y.fVT, - J--r-v - . -0:." r ' Sf,T?--te,, Jutr M . . , .V'str-i" -nm,: Lv t support a West Side csndldste. Peter ITid. of Pierce, another csndldste for re-election to the House, saye he has shout msde up hla mind to do the same thing. Potndexter supporters assert that most of the candidates for the Legislature have already a!cTed the statutory pledge, but ngnre. are not gtven. Apparently, however, there Is no obstacle to auch candidates withdrawing the pledge before the primaries If they fit and aome may do so. So far aa the nomination of the Ave Justlcra of the Supreme Court waa con cerned, there waa but a alight tincture of .nator'.al polltlca suggested. Burka adherents claim galna from Wlleon In the ffeuthveat as the result of the failure to nominate Mason Irwin, of Chehalis County. In the convtntlon a msjorlty of the delegate seemed to be Wilson supporters and while the sentiment throucbout the itata u undoubtedly I - - --f . , . ,,1 i - 3 ; MY 'fit-' t : ! I ' ; -. i II r y r i ' w --,Vf .- , v. : ,- Wjv. . .., ., w--juat IJ.M iH"aP: ' f asasameggaBBBmBSBsamsSBBBBBaxaamiaa M -, - - TT - - .. r xvx? z. tv favorable to the re-election of the five Justices now on the bench, sn attempt was made by Burke supporters to blsme Wilson for the defeat of the southwest candidates. Irwin and A. Ew Bice. In the only contra over Judiciary aomlnatlona. Skagit County, the delegation of which was said to be controlled by Burke, voted solidly for Irwin. Delegations in Compact. This waa partly accomplished, how ever, by an agreement that the Bice and Irwin delegationa would rote for George A. Joiner, of Skagit County, if hla name .hmiM be presented to the convention aa a candidate for Supreme Judge. The names of Judge . Rice or judge joiner were not presented. Bepresentatlve Polnderter la. expected to Issue a ststement shortly concerning the work of the state convention. It Is believed that he will assert that the con vention waa packed1' by the regulars, basing the atatement on the fact that some of the delegationa were named by the County Central Committees that It waa called simply to nominate Supreme Justices and could not authoritatively ex press the views of the party on the Na tional Issues or on the records of the members of the Washington delegation in Cton great! POOR AIM COSTS DEARLY I.IECTEXAXT COrRTMARTIAIiED AT VANCOUVER BARRACKS. Neglect to Give Correct Angle In Target Practice Damages Steam er, and Endangers Lives. VANCOUVER BARRACKS, Wash.. Aug. (Special.) For neglect to give the angle to the battery commander before a U-lnch mortar waa fired, resulting in the i 1 1 1. v fli. T n 1 T tu SlitH Jprojecmv .. . ... steamer Major Evan Thomaa Injuring it - . ..t.t and endanserln. the lives of all on board. First Lieutenant Rollo F. Anderson waa court-martialed and ordered confined to the post for two months snd fined SlOu, Lieutenant Anderson, of the Coaat Artillery Corps, had charge of Battery Alexander Schenck, 13-tnch mortars, at Fort Oyey. Wash.. May 10. He failed to tell the battery commander the angle at which the mortar waa laid before the llr shot wss fired at a floating target, which waa being towed by the steamer Evan Thomaa. In consequence of this, the first shot wsa fired with an error of one degree, and the second one at an error of ten degrees, resulting In striking the steamer, damaging It and Imperiling the Uvea of the men and officer, on board. He also cauaed a second shot to be fired before he received a report of the first prelimi nary hot. and did not glve sny order sewlgnlng a target before beginning his practice. . ... Ths court-martial found Anderson guilty of all of the specifications, although be pleaded not guilty. He wa. ordered con fined to the Umlta of the post where his company may be serving, for two months, and fined Sit. ' In passing on the sentence. General Marlon P. Mm us, commander of the De partment of the Columbia, saM: "The neglect of this officer to carry out the necessary precautions for safety In the conduct of target practice is inex cusable. Such an accident aa occurred would have been Impossible hsd due Judg ment snd ordinary aupervlsion been ex ercised. Misdirection of thi. kind la far reaching. In future, similar cereleaeneas will not be so leniently dealt with." H0MEBURNS;1 DEAD Country Place Destroyed Near. Dayton, Wash. MRS. ANNA CAHILL VICTIM Portland Women Unable to Aid Hos tess, Wlio is Made Living Torch When Lamp Is Overturned. Forests Are Burning. DA.YTOX, Wash.. Aug. . (Special.) Mrs. Anns Gahlll, wife of W. R, Gahlll. a prominent realty and Insurance broker, waa burned to death last night when fire destroyed the Gahlll country home. As a result of the blase volunteeers are fighting forest fires in the neighborhood. Mrs. Gahlll waa sewing and knocked a lamp from the machine. When she attempted to throw the lamp out of doors, her clothing caught fire and she ran from the house a living torch. Mis. Marie Aarnea and Mrs. Parry, of Portland, who were with her. could do nothing. A hired man drove to the Stern place, ten miles, and telephoned for Mr. Gahlll. In an automobile, driven by Stanley Sayres, the burned woman was brought to Dayton, ten miles, where she died. Mrs. Gahlll waa 43 yeara old and had been prominent socially here for years. She leaves a mother, Mrs. Sharon, at Marlon. Idaho, a sister. Mrs. C. Hailey, at St. Maries, and a brother. Earl Sharon, Spokane. OLD COUPLE BADLY BURNED Residence at South Bend Suddenly Destroyed by Flames. SOUTH BEND. Wash.. Aug. 4. (Spe cial.) The residence of John McDon nell was discovered by a neighbor to be on fire at 7 o'clock this morning, and Mr. McDonnell and his wife and son barely escaped with their lives. Mrs. McDonnell rushed out through the flames in her night clothes snd was dangeroualy burned. Mr. McDonnell and his son Jumped from the second story windows. The young man eacaped unhurt, but his father was terribly burned and one rib was torn from the vertebra when he struck .'the ground. Both Mr. McDonnell and hla wife are In a precarious condition. The McDonnell residence wss valued at $3500. and had Just been refurnished throughout at a cost of $1500. Nothing whatever wss saved. The house was Insured for $1600, and the furniture for $500. Only a short time before the fire was discovered Mrs. McDonnell had lighted the fire In the kitchen range, and had returned to bed, and it is thought that the fire originated from the range. The newly-completed $10,000 home of George Cartier, Mayor of this city, stood 75 feet from the McDonnell resi dence, and wss saved only by heroic efforts. The damage to It waa about $2500. fully covered by Insurance. Had the Cartier residence burned, three other fine residences would Inevitably have been destroyed. Port Moody Oil KcHncry Burns. VANCOUVER. B. C. Aug. 4.-Flre to dsy destroyed the British Columbia oil refinery at Port Moody, IS miles from Vancouver, causing Iom of $100,000. Ed ward Congers, the night engineer, sur fnred a fracture of the skull, and It is fearsd that he will die. PASCO SUFFERS GREAT BLAZE Flames Devour Livery Barn, Ma sous and Eagles' Halls. PASCO. Wash., Aug. 4. (Special.) Fire waa discovered at 1 o'clock today In the livery barn of the Washington Transfer & Storage Company, and had gained such headway that It was Impossible for the fire department to get close enough to fight It. The flames soon spread to the old schoolhouse. which had Just been pur chased hy the Masons and moved to the new location. In 80 minutes the two buildings were totally destroyed. The blaze soon communicated Itself to the other hall, two blocka away, but the building was saved. The records of the city, which had quar ters in the schoolhouse, were completely destroyed. The loss to the Washington Transfer & Storage Company Is estimated at $5000, with only $1500 Insurance. The Masons sustain a loss of $6000. with $3500 Insur ance, and the loss on the Eagles' Hall is $500, fully covered by Insurance. MYRTLE CREEK HAS BIG FIRE Two Houses and Church Burned. Tree Stays Flames. MYRTLE CREEK, Or., Aug. 4. (Spe cial.) A disastrous fire occurred in this citv shortlv afternoon today from a de fective flue In the F. C. Buell residence and burned to the ground tne aoove named residence, the N. G. Buell resi dence and the Presbyterian Church. There being no fire protection, a bucket brigade was formed. A very stiff breeze waa blowing and. 'had It not been for a large tree that stood directly in the path of the flames, the whole east end of town would have been destroyed. The loss Is estimated at nearly $5000, with about $1209 Insurance. Astoria Suffers $2500 Blaze. ASTORIA, Or.. Aug. 4. (Special.) A fire that occurred today from spontaneous combustion In the Allen Wallpaper & Paint Company's workshop, caused a losw to the' stock and building amounting to about $2500. BIDS FOR HIGHWAY SOUGHT Arch Cape Creek Road Planned to South Line of Clatsop County. ASTORIA. Or, Aug. 4. (Special.) 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