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THE 3IOIINIXG OREG OXI AN, MONDAY, JULY -' 26, 1920 TIL TAYLOR IS SLAIN AS SIX BREAK JAIL SHERIFF OF UMATILLA COUNTY WHO WAS SHOT AND FATALLY WOUNDED WHEN PRISONERS BROKE FROM COUNTY. JAIL AT PENDLETON. HARD ARRESTS MADE and dependent upon his skill in pen manship for a living. t "Where I made my great mistake was that I did not patent the process and copyright the name," Edmiston said as he studied the attractive ex teriors of many board - walk shops dealing exclusively in salt-water taffy. "It was popular frotn the out set because people knew that It was pure and good to eat. . Sugar, butter and cream of tartar with a touch of salt water was all that we used In it when I first put it on sale 36 years ago. My stand was near South Caro lina avenue, adjoining the old "Vic toria skating rink, which stood on the outside of the board walk in those days. It made me a fortune but I lost practically every dollar of it in a single speculation in Chicago. If I had taken out a copyright In the good old days I would not be going BY SHERIFF TAYLOR Guns and Ammunition Seized by Fugitives. Are vildoers in Pendleton Dis trict Kept in Terror. POSSES START . PURSUIT OFFICE HELD 18 YEARS i tTmatilla Sheriff Dies of Wounds In Attack Made as Dinner j; Is Being Served. (Continued From First Page.) The outlaws were reported to have scattered. Lindgren was reported by a small boy to have been seen run ning up Wade hill, southwest of Pendleton, alone. The other five men were still thought to be in the woods near Mission. Taylor, althougn mortally wounded, talked freely to relatives and friends during the first hour after 'he was shot. He said: "Well, this is a corker. I could have shot the dirty cur (mean ing Owens), but he got me all right." Morphine was given Taylor, but he never rallied enough to have a chance. The bullet cut the jufrular vein and arteries leading to his neck. His wife and only son were at the bedside when he died. The bullet which killed Taylor was found just ready to emerge from the ekin on the right side, midway be tween the hip and shoulder. An in quest will be held tomorrow and the funeral probably will be Tuesday. , The entire population of Pendleton was aroused to intense excitement when word of the shooting of Sheriff Taylor and the break spread, and talk of lynching the men if captured alive- was frejuentry heard. Parties of business and professional men, labor ers and cowboys from the surround ing country, who had heard of the break, armed themselves with rifles, shotguns and revolvers and joined in the pursuit. Prisoner Relates Jail Break. Jeffries,' a young man from Jack sonville, Fla., who had been in 2eil for the last ten days for carry ing a concealed weapon and who had no part in the jail break, told the following story of the Jail break: "It all happened when Deputy Sher iff Marin came into the corridor to feed us. First he let the two trusties cut to build the fire and go after the food. Then he locked us all in the cell where we eat and when the food basket arrived he unlocked the cell door to give us the food. "Just then the trusties who had. gone to light the fire came up and started to talk to Marin. While he was thus engaged, with his back to the rest of us. the big Indian, Owens, who was arrested by Sheriff Taylor last week after a running fight in the hills southeast of Keith, jumped onto Marin's back and bore him to the floor. Hart, the other Indian and Owens' partner, closed in and hit Marin with the jail keyring, knock ins him out. Deputy Bound and Gagged. "They bound and gagged him and threw him Into the cell where I was and locked it. One of the trusties locked himself in with us. I started to help Marin, but a man covered me and shouted: 'Stay right where you are. Don't move.' "Marin worked himself loose, how ever, and a fisht started between the trusty and the deputy.' In the mean time we heard two shcts ring out and Marin groaned: 'My God! Some body's killed.' The men had gone out into the sheriff's . office and had ob tained Winchesters and heavy ammu nition. Aft?r the shots the last I heard of them was retreating foot steps. Owens had returned and let the trusty out of the cell where we were, saying to me: 'You keep your head out of this.' Then they ran out. "After about 10 minutes somebody canto in and unlocked the cell and Marin went out. I thought they had been acting strangely but never took me into their confidence and I didn't want anything to do with them any way. They are a tough lot. Owens and Hart, the two Indians, kept say lng: 'Well, they got us now, but will they hold us?' " Prisoners Gather In Cell. Jeffries declared that Immediately preceding the jail break the men gathered In one cell and whispered earnestly together for a moment, one of them now and then guffawing loudly to allay suspicion. Jeffries said he tried to listen but when he approached they kept still or scat tered. Some of the posses were called off about 3:45 P. M., when a rumor was started that the jail breakers had held up a train going east, cut the engi neer's throat, cut off the engine and manned it, heading east. Agent O'Brien arranged, for a spe cial train to carry posses only to learn that the freight had gone through C Ibson with a full crew. The chase then was resumed in the mountainous suction near Mission. Bloodhounds Put On Trail. Officials from the Washington state renitentiary at Walla Walla with two bloodhounds arrived here by automo bile at 9:30 tonight. The dogs took scent of the outlaws from the blank ets In the cells. A few minutes later they picked up the scent in front of the county courthouse, where the men had been seen to cross the street. The hounds started towards the rail road. The dogs then were taKen In auto mobiles to Mission, where the five men were seen to jump off an east bound freight train this afternoon. A large posse was encamped tonight at Mission, and telephone service had been established with the sheriffs office here. All Indications are that at least five of the men had started east. The sixth, Llndgren, is thought to have headed due south. Deputy Sheriff Marin left for Relth, three miles west of Pendleton, im mediately after the shooting. It was thought that Owens and Hart had more than 12000 cached near Relth, which the sheriffs were unable to lo cate when they captured the two men in the running fight July 14. No Trace of Men Found. - Marin found no trace of the men and returned to Pendleton to take charge of the situation. He began organizing the posses. very pos sible avenue of escape was being watched for many miles in every direction from Pendleton. If the men-are not caught tonight, it is planned to use airplanes in the search tomorrow. The woods In the vicinity of Mis sion have been scoured but no trace of the fugitives hag been found. The posses, were still out tonight, but -- ..ar 1 t grwyim .Mjiimiiamgi, ijhiihh.hi iiiiuummu nmn ""J'"-iTL -1 - - fey - : ".'. a h " i - ";,V.i " ' . ' .. , " . -v v : - , f - , t -f - i - " u. & ' i ' , , PS" . m ;' .- - j s mm K '' , :&M , ' Jv if v m A '"" . vr-" i j - " . m',1'"'" , 1 " ',.''','", T , :,',''" . vgg-v. 1 " -: 1,1 r::::.:::.. :,, ' SHERIKP T. I. (TIL) TAYLOR. LOWER PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS OFFICER GARBED AS COWBOV DURING PENDLETON ROb'NDCP, several returned to Pendleton for food the party of men who broke Jail in ana turther instructions. ; Pendleton and killed Sheriff Taylor. Auto Fonnd b-r Puu. I Taylor was well known here and One of the fugitives was known to was very popular, of Chase Garfield, He was a cousin off the main hiehwav to I.ar.randel ntw.-paper man, now ai wasnington, and near Deadman's hill. A posse ' u- "' as Pvate secretary to Kepre has discovered an automobile which "ldu" "ummers. has been hidden there for a week. ' ; Guards were stationed at once to watch the machine. I About 300 irate persons crowded I around the county courthouse, wait-: ing for news from the posses. On July 13, after an all. day chase and a pistol battle. Sheriff Taylor andi Deputy Sheriff Marin of Umatilla county captured Cwens, alleged "bad man" of Billings, Mont., and Hart, who hails from Idaho Owens was wounded in the fighting. " The arrests came after a series of daring robberies in the Pendleton dis trict, culminating In the hold-up of Eugene Lyman, a concession operator at the annual Cxy use Indian celebra tion, when Lyman while driving from Cayuse to Pendleton was stopped by a fusillade of shots. Auto Is Piled With Luot. Owens and Hart, piled Lyman's car high with loot stolen from the Indians at Cayuse, which they had cached nearby, and drove to Jfendleton. Ly man worked with the ropes that bound him for half an hour and final ly borrowed a car and drove to Pen dleton, where he notified Sheriff Taylor. Sheriff Taylor waited until morn ing and struck out for the scene of the holdup. Returning to Pendleton, Sheriff Taylor learned that Lyman's car had been found at Relth. three miles west of Pendleton. Together with Lyman and Glen Bushee, he struck out for Reith. The party made a hurried search of the town but failed to locate any suspicious char acters until they got down to the rail road tracks. Two men approached. one wearing a rea snirt and one a bright colored one, which Lyman recognized as belonging to Cayuse Indians. 3 IN PEKINCABINET QUIT Resignation of Ministers Accepted and Successors Xamed. PEKIN, July 23. (By the Asso ciated Press.) President Tsu Shin Chang has accepted the resignation of Tseng lu-Chun. minister of com munications, LI Shih-Haoi, minister of finance, and Chu-Shen, minister of justice. Tien Wen-Lieh. minister of the in terior, has been named acting minis ter of communications and the other resigning cabinet members will be succeeded by- the vice-ministers. All who resigned belong to the Anfu fac tion. Traffic with Tien-Tsin is still re stricted to military trains. CREDIT STRAIN FORECAST Failure to Liquidate Grain Loans Last Year Blamed. CHICAGO. July 25. Failure liquidate grain loans incurred moving last year's crops, a situation largely due to the car shortage, will strain the country s credit facilitie sun rurtner when the movement o the 1920 crop begins, the seventh fed eral reserve bank announced -in it July report. The banks will be called on to fl nance two crops at one time, it pointed outand at the same timn th huge amounts of capital furnished by ine ijnitea btates grain corporatlo last year have been withdrawn. Owens Makes Escape. uwens aucKea under a ireight c..r. Taylor fired but missed and Owens was off for the mountains. Sheriff Taylor left Hart in the custody of young man and together with Lyman and Bushee started for Owens. Hart drsw a concealed weapon and covered his captor shortly after the chase for Owens started. Hart got away. Deputy Marin arrived from Pendleton shortly afterward and started for Hart. He overtook the fugitive about a mile from Reith. Meanwhile Sheriff Taylor obtained a horse and rode into the mountains after Owens. After a hot four-hour chase, Sher iff Taylor caught sight of Owens and could have shot him down but waited to take him alive. Owens fought hard, however, and made an attempt to get away. Sher iff Taylor fired and wounded Owens in the thumb. UMATILLA ' ROADS GUARDED Every Available Officer In Walla Walla County Answers Call. v AULA WALLA, Wash., July 23. Every available officer In Walla Walla county and many civilians to night began guarding the roads lead ing from Umatilla county to intercept J. M. ZI0N IS NOMINATED farmer-Labor Gubernatorial Can didate Named in Indiana. 1IV DIA.NA.POLIS. Ind.. Julv 95 .T M. Zion was nominated for Governor oy tne farmer-labor party here today uver r runcn j. union or Indianapolis, air. union was named for Unit States senator. Mr. ion is a farmer. A full stat ticKet was named. Cyclist Hurt in Collision. Kenneth Brown, 826 Powell Valley ruau. was injured last mgnt In a co usion Detween his bicycle and automoDiie driven by Frank Schaf fer, 837 Greenwood avenue, at Eas Thirty-second street and Powell Val ley roaa. ie was taken to his horn is injuries were not serious. atlve of Marion County Well Known for Daring Captures of Outlaws in Duels around writing cards now for a liv ing." Edmiston was amazed to find ple bian salt-water taffy selling in huge quantities at 50 cents a pound. As an example of a fearless sheriff. Til Taylor nad no peer !ri the entire west. He had been king of the round- p since its inception and a real ter. ror to evil doers for many years In the Pendleton district. Ka had been n office as sheriff for 18 years con tinuously and, in spite of the fact that he was a democrat, his re-elec- ion was considered a certainty at the close of each term. Taylor was a native Oregonlan Mid was born in Marion county in 1870. Reared on the farm, he became a master horseman as a young man nd had extensive stock- interests at the time of his death. Many of the real high lights in the criminal history of Oregon were sup plied through the episode in which Taylor had taken a leading part. It ad never b3en his policy to delegate uthority or shift responsibility, and i the pursuit of every "bad man" in hat part of the state he had been the leader. Episodes Are Cited. A few of the many episodes of this kind in which Taylor was identl- ied may be cited as an illustration of his daring characteristics: In 1914, following the holdup of the Union Pacific train by three men be tween Kamela and Meecham, Tayloi and Special Agent E. B. Wood of the railroad company took the trail aftei the outlaws and with bloodhounds tracked them for four days, finally rounding them up near La Grande and effecting their arrest after a fierce battle. Again In 1917 Sheriff Taylor took chase after a pair of safeblowers who had robbed the Hermiston post office. He caught up with the men at the entrance of Ferry canyon near Wallula. He succeeded In trapping one of the men under the railroad bridge there and effected his capture after a revolver duel. The other man escaped but was later apprehended by Taylor after he had disposed of his first prisoner. Of more recent date was the cap ture of the Claremont tavern mur derers In which' Til Taylor took a leading part last November. As soon as he had learned that J. N. Burgess and George E. Perringer, prominent eastern Oregon wheal growers, had been murdered in the roadhouse. Sheriff Taylor hurried down from Pendleton and worked day and night with local police in running down he murderers. It was Sheriff Taylor who led the way through the front door of the Murphey home In the Peninsula dis trict and with Police Inspecto Phillips "covered" .the three tavern robbers before they had an oppor tunity to use their guns. Around police headquarters -yesterday It was said that much of the credit for cap turing the Claremont tavern murder ers rested with the Pendleton sheriff. Sheriff Taylor was known by prac tically every policeman, sheriff. deputy sheriff and peace officer in the state of Oregon. Many police Inspectors In the Portland department yesterday expressed the desire that they might hurry to Pendleton and join the posses searching for the six men who escaped from Jail. Tayior was a familiar figure in Portland, where he frequently participated in parades with delegations from Pendleton. The last time was during the Shrine convention when he rode at the head of the Pendleton section. Several years ago, when Miss Saling of Pendleton was queen of the Rose Festival, Mr. Taylor was king. BOOTLEG WHISKY DROPS Liquor Declines in Price ATter Con gress Adjourns. WASHINGTON. Evidence of the tumbling of the high cost of living is furnished with the announcement that government officials have detected a drop In the price of good bootleg whisky all over the country. Sir.ce congress adjourned the price has dropped here from $16 and $18 to $12 a quart. Prices have fallen in Florida as a result of the exodus of visitors during the summer. Down ward slides are reported In New York and Pennsylvania, while the bottom is said to have dropped out of the mar-, ket in some sections of the country. The large number of forged permits brought to the attention of the prohi bition officials recently is said to ex plain the break in the liquor market. This year treasury department offi cials are studying the permit system of the (law with a view to making illegal withdrawals of liquor more diflicult. AUTOS TIP IN COLLISION ind Machines Carrying Women Children Overturned. Two automobiles were turned on their sides and were wrecked early this morning in a collision near the interstate bridge. In one of the ma chines were Hanita Mayer of Port land. Frank Manning of Battleground, Wash., and three other women and two other men. The second car was driven by E. L. Mevel, 1247 Cleveland avenue. His car carried three women and a small girl. Mr. Mevel said the other machine hit him broadside. BAKERS WARN OF FAMINE Convention of Bread Manufacturers Told to Forget Prices. ALLEXTOWN, Pa. This country Is facing a food shortage the like of which has never been known, was the warning sounded by Horace W. Crlder of Homestead, president of the State Bakers' asosclatlon, at the annual convention here. "Abandonment of farm life has left more than 24,000 habitable farm houses In New Tork state vacant," he said, "while people, without homes, are camping out in tents In the overcrowded cities." Mr. Crlder declared that fertile fields are going to weed for want of help and flour will be still higher, sugar will be scarce and the natural sequel. higher cost of living, will follow. Other contributing causes will be de creased acreage and the late spring, he said. Standard weight bread is the only equitable basis on which bakers can meet each other In competition, said Mr. Crlder, in touching upon the evils of the trade. "Give us quality and the price will be secondary. The trouble with the baker is that he has gone clean .'daffy' on price and has lost sight of quality, which Is the real cause of all this unrest and uneasi ness. GUAYAQUIL HAS TEMBLOR Many Buildings Are Damaged by Severe Earth Shocks. GUAYAQUIL. Ecuador, -July 23.. Many buildings were damaged- in a severe earthquake here this after noon. Two shocks were felt. No casualties were reported. Japanese Cotton Dealer Fails. TOKIO, July 4. (Delayed). Ka Kinuma onoien, a leading dealer in cotton yarn and cloth, has suspended business attribu'ng as the cause the slump in the cotton market and fail ure of clients to settle their obliga tlons. ! Striking Mexicans to Return. MEXICO CITY, Mex.. July 24. Strikers throughout Mexico to the number of 74,800 will resume work Monday as a result of Provisional President de la Huerta's assurance that he will Intervene personally in their behalf. "We Will Co-operate With Your Attorney In drauing up a will, an attorney's services are indiS' pensable and uc advise our customers to consult their lawyers on this important matter. 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