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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, MARCH 1, 190S. viously were not needed at the present time. George R. Peck, general counsel of the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company. urged an extension of the law so far as his company was concerned, because the expenditure of J300.000 a year, in his opinion would be an economic waste of money. E. W. McKenna. second vice-president of the Chicago. Milwaukee & SL PauL also asked for an extension. H. B. Perham, president of the Or-er of Railway Telegraphers, said .that he considered 11 hours, which the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul operators were re quired to work, too long for that sort of service. It Is expected that the Commission will render a decision not later than Tuesday-next- CARRY FIGHT TO WEED CREDIT MA SHOT BY RANCHER Tl E Don't let the matter of money stand between you and a well-furnished home. The POWERS CREDIT SYSTEM is at your service a brcJad, liberal, dignified credit that adapts itself to your income and circumstances. An ac count at Powers' is a great convenience, and we would be glad to have you avail yourself of it. Pat Garrett, Known for Bloody Fights With Outlaws, Killed in Quarrel. Pardee and Gillett Transfer California Political Strug gle to Washington. Ply EWMTEHOUS IRON BED SPECIALS $16 full size Iron Bed 1 1-16-inch continuous post, brass spindle head and foot C 1 " Cfl cream, enamel and gold, special. P A.OV $4.oO Iron Bed in white or green enamel, angle irou head and foot; spe- flJO Qfl cial ipti.W $15.00 Iron Bed in cream and gold or Vernis Martin; continuous post, extra heavy chills; special $3.50 Single Iron Bed in white en amel, special $13.50 Iron Bed in Yernis Martin or cream enamel; special $14.00 Iron Bed in cream and green enamel; special $15.50 Iron Bed in Veruis Martin or cream and gold; special .$8.75 $1.75 $7.65 $8.65 $9.50 LIBRARY AND DEN HEATER This Heater is made of polished sheet iron with cast top and front, sheet lined, tQ Cft 9 Terms, $1.00 down, $1.00 week. price . 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Pat Garr.U. known thr continnt ovfr m thi'' man w..o klllfd "Billy. Th- Kill." the not.d outlaw, and oni' or tlw lust of th most prominent gunmen of frontier tiny?, was shot and killed l J. Wayne biazi!. a youthful ranrhron. n":ir l.as o-iu-t-s, N. M., in a dispute ov?r a ranrh least-. Garrett had tH'en on a visit to one of his rnn.-h.-s near the New Mexico town and in a buekbnard. with a friend, was returning to I. as Cruees, when tlu-y were overtaken by BrazM. A quarrel en sued and tiarirtt Ik sul.l to '.tave reached tor H gun. Brnzel tired twice, both ."hot!, taking- fffeet and Garrett fell dead. Brazel Surrenders- Himself. Braxel then rode Ave m!l"s to Ias Cruces, and surrendered to Sheriff L.ucero. lie was locked in the county jail after maklnK a statement to the ottlcer that he had shot In self-defens?. and that he had not drawn a six-shooter until after Garrett had reached for a shotgun in the bottom of the buckboard. The quarrel between Garrett and Bra zel was over a ranch that had ben leased by Brasel. and on which he had pastured a- herd of goats. Garrett remon strated with his lessee and declared that the goat pasturing was In violation of the contract between them. He threatened to resort to the courts to prevent what be thought a breach of contract and the men quarreled. Since then . both men went armed, according to reports, and it was common talk In the ' territory that they were looking for each other. Wild Career as Sheriff. Pat Garrett was a Sheriff In Lincoln County, N. M., in the early 80's and his campaign against cattle rustlers was re plete with dashing arrests, pitched bat tles and bloody encounters with the cat tle thieves. The best-known of his experiences was when, as an officer of the law, he killed Billy. The Kid," who, after killing, ac cording to some reports, twj score of men was lodged In the territorial penitentiary, only to escape. Garrett took up the hunt anew as soon as he learned of the escape, and located the outlaw at Maxwell's ranch. Garrett was in the room where "The Kid" was to come to a rendesvous, and the outlaw stepped Into the place, with his gun drawn, and covered Garrett, the officer killed him.. Dies With His Boots On. Garrett has filled his own prophecy that he would die with his boots on. At the Inquest held this afternoon the Coroner's jury at Lais Cruces returned a verdict that Garrett had come to his death as the result of wounds Inflicted by Jt-'revolver in the hands of Brazel. The sole eye witness to the killing, Carl Adamson. told the story of the shooting. In which Brazel threatened Garrett. ira zel declared the shooting; was in self defence, but made no further statement. Friends of Pat Garrett in las Cruces declare that his death Is the result of a conspiracy. They assert that he was shot first in the back of the head and then in the breast after he fell. KKCOKU AS FIGHTTNU SHERIFF Garrett, However, Was Known as a Peaceful Man. ALBUQUERQUE. X. M.. Feb. 29. Pat Garrett, the notorious guntighter, who was shot and killed today near Las Cruces, first appeared in New Mexico about 1878 and went to Lincoln, where he quietly engaged in ranching and cattle-raising. He soon gained a reputation as a cowboy and in 1SS0 he was elected Sheriff of Lin coln County. One year later, having been the prin cipal in a dozen exciting rights and ad ventures, he shot and killed ' the famous boy outlaw. "Billy the Kid." Later Garrett moved to Dona Ana County, where he served two terms as Sheriff. He was later a Captain of Rangers in Texas and did much to help make the reputation for fearlessness which the Texas Hangers then had. Garrett was a personal friend of Pres ident Roosevelt and Governor Curry, of NfW Mexico. President Roosevelt ap pointed him Collector of Customs at Kl Paso. which position he held a couple of years. He tired of the monotony of the lli and went back to ranching and min irg in Pona Ana tunty. Pat Garrett was known to nearly every one in New Mexico. Though a successful hunter of criminals and outlaws and a dead shot with either ptstol or rifle, he was ordinarily one of the most quiet and gmaceful citizens. K0LD UP INSURANCE LAW Companies Operating: in Miurl Given Time to Act. KANSAS CITY. Feb. 9. Judse Plover tn the Clrcutt i'ourt here today issued a temporary injunction restrain ing? tho Missouri state officiate from "oupting from the state tho Prudential I.lfe Insurance Company of New Jersey, the Metropolitan Iife Insurance l'om pany of New Tork and the KquitaWe Ilfe Assurance Society of New York for violating the law passed by the last legrlslature prohibiting: any company that pays its official it a salary of $Sft, 000 or over from doina: business in the state. The law goes into effect tomor row morning. The Insiiraneo companies aro given till March IS to take th case to the Missouri Supreme t'ourt for decision. SAME STORY OF POVERTY liallroad-. Continue Pica Arainst Nine Hours for Operators. WASHINGTON. 1-Vb. 29. The nine hour law hearing was resumed today by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Joljn I Lavis, superintendent of tele graphers of the Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad, argued that it was Impossible for his line to secure competent and ri. endable operators to man the stations, lie explained that during the last four months there, had been such a slump in the business of the road that some of the offices which had been established pre MIXERS TO 'MEET . MARCH 12 Mitchell Calls Convention to Con sider Wage Scale. INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 29. President John Mitchell, of the United Mineworkers of America, today sent out the official call for a convention of the miners to meet here March 1- to consider the situa tion left by the default of the operators and miners of the central competitive Held to reach an agreement on the propo sition to call a joint convention to re establish the interstate wage agreement and adopt a scale of wages. The National Miners' Convention will adopt a policy to be pursued after March 31. when the pres ent w-age scale expires, and probably will decide upon its wage demands for the next two years. BRIDE GIVES I D SHOCK ASKS HIM TO WRITE MESSAGE TO COOK. Gushingly Explains Tliat Her Ser vant Is -a Chinese, While Society Matrons Are Astonished. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 29. (Spe cial.) Society is giggling over an inci dent that occurred yesterday at the Fair mont Hotel at the reception to -xinister Wu Ting Fang. A number of society matrons were buzzing about the Minis ter and exchanging pleasantries with him, when a young bride of gushing va riety made her way into the center of the group. "Oh, Mr. Wu," she twittered, as she "of fered hira a golden filagreed pencil, "won't you write a nice little message on this card for my cook?" The Minister gasped, swallowed and gasped, but the little lady continued to look at him expectantly, the pencil still extended. "Why, madame," he began, as nearly flustered as a diplomat can get, "I write a message to your cook, your cook! Madame!" "Yes, indeed; I think it would be lovely." She helped him along. "He's a China man, you know, and" But at this point the other ladies, terri fied and aghast, broke into the conversa tion and managed to soothe Mr. Wu with tactful balm as Mrs. "Fluffy Ruf fles" was led wonderingly away. BUTTE MINES TO RESUME Great Smelters of Montana Also to Fire Vp. BUTTE, Mont., Feb. 29. John D. Ryan, managing director for the Amal gamated Copper Company, who re turned home at noon from the East today, announced that the mines ot the company will resume Monday, when fires will be lit in the great Washoe smelters at Anaconda. One minute after the announcement was made the mine whistles on Ana conda Hill began to blow, which was the first announcement the city had of the decision to resume. The order means the employment of a full force in the various mines and at the smelter. Roughly speaking, about 12.000 hands are affected. When going full blast, the Amalgamated payroll runs from $1,000,000 to $1,600,000 monthly. The Great Falls smelters have been going full time, but the Anaconda smelters have been closed entirely, while in Butte, of all the Amalgmated properties only the Boston & Montana mines have been operated. The shutdown has never been com plete and was gradual, beginning last October. Married men were provided for. but in all only about 40 per cent of the normal force could be employed. The Amalgamated is reported to em ploy about 20,000 people in Montana, in mines, smelters, mills, coal mines, log ging camps, etc. XEV YORK BAXK GOES I'X'DER Mechanics & Traders Has Debts of $10,000,000. NEW YORK, Feb. 29. J. Henry Hag gerty and Joseph B. Ford were appointed receivers ot tho Mechanics & Traders Bank today by Justice Ptatzek in the Supreme Court on application made by Attorney-General Jackson. The Mechanics & Traders suspended on January 29. The Attorney-Oeneral's application for re ceivers was made on the ground that the bank is insolvent and unable to pay its depositors in full. On information and belief, the Attorney General states that the defendant bank has money on deposit and is indebted to Its depositors and other creditors to the amount of $10,000,000 belonging to a large number of depositors. He asks that the creditors be restrained rom pressing their claims, asserting that a multiplicity of actions would militate against the proper handling of the assets. Coal Company Not In-volied. CHICAGO. Feb. 29. Through a misun derstanding and a confusion of names, it was reported yesterday that August Ijenke and O. a Richardson, partners in the Richardson Coal Company, had filed petitions in bankruptcy. !nke and Rich ardson were partners In the firm of O. S. Richardson & Co.. which has been out of business for nearly three years. The O. S. Richardson Coal Company is entirely a different corporation, and is not directly or indirectly affected by any proceedings against either Inke, Richardson or the old partnership of the firm of O. S. Rich ardson & Co. WIRES ARE KEPT BUZZING League Warns Roosevelt and Taft That Governor in. Reality Rep resents Harriman and the Railroad Ring. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 29. (Spe cial.') Governor James N. Gillett and ex-Governor George C. Pardee have locked horns in a dual to political death. The scene of the combat has been transferred from California to Washington. Pardee has just returned and Gillett has Just reached the Na tional Capital Pardee had a confidential talk with President Roosevelt and Sec retary Taft. Gillett has called upon Taft and dined with the President. It is the climax in a big battle that has been growing daily in intensity. The struggle represents the clash be tween the old-line Republican organi zation and the newly formed Republi can Lincoln-Roosevelt Jeague. Gillett Follows Pardee Pardee went to Washington as the league representative and endeavored to set Taft a"d the President, right on the California situation. The league is an organization committed In its charter against the Southern Pacific and for the fulfillment of the Roosevelt policies. Pardee gave the President a straght talk, telling him that the old line organization, under a pretense of supporting the chief executive, was in reality taking orders from Herrin and Wall street. Hardly had Pardee returned home before Governor Gillett was sent off to Washington post haste.. Ostensibly Gillett went to plead for a $400,000 appropriation to improve the rivers of California. He spent one day before the rivers and harbors committee and the rest of the time he has devoted to machine politics. Warns Taft of League. Dispatches received today state that Gillett told Taft to beware of the Lincoln-Roosevelt League. He said that Pardee had political ambitions, that he wanted to be Senator or Vice-President, or Secretary of the Interior. Gillett then went to Roosevelt, and ac cording to the dispatches, told him the same tale. Gillett has undertaken to destroy Pardee and to discredit the Lincoln-Roosevelt League. It is understood here that Giltett went to Washington as the representa tive of the machine. In sending Gillett to Washington the machine made a schrewd move, for Gillett is persona grata at the White House. He is a good lawyer and as a member of the Judiciary committee of the last Con gress was often consulted by the President. Since the purpose ot Gillett's visit has become apparent, the wires havt been buzzing with messages from the reform forces, warning the President and Taft against the soft voice of the machine. t In California . the Lincoln Roosevelt ' League has made great progress during the past week. The leaders declare that the league will capture the next Legislature and will give to the state for the first time in a quarter of a century a body free from the dictation of the Southern Pacific. IS FAITHFUL TO EVELYN HARRY THAW NOT SEEKING MVORCE, SHE SAYS. She Denies Demanding $1,000,000 and Says All Yellow Stories About Her Are False. NEW YORK, Feb. 29. Mrs. Evelyn Thaw denied today that she had de manded 11,000,000, or had received any offer of money to induce her to con sent to an annulment of her marriage to Harry K. Thaw. Mrs. Thaw added: '"There has been no conference of lawyers and there will not be any. I have never been approached by any lawyers on the subject of divorce or separation, and you can say positively that there is not an atom of truth in any of the rumors. I have received no offer of money to consent to anything- and have made no demand for money. 'Yer. it is true that I have not been to Matteawan to see Harry in three weeks. That is because I have been ill with the grip. I have not been out of the house except to take a drive." "Is it true that detectives are fol lowing: your she was asked. "It is not true. Mr. Dougherty wrote to me assuring me that he had no de tectives engaged in following me and that the story was untrue." THAW WILL SIGX NO CHECKS Confinement in Madhouse Excuse for Standing Off Creditors. NEW YORK, Feb. 29. (Special. A man who had been doing considerable work for Harry K. Thaw, while the latter was confined, in the Tombs, went to eee Thaw, in Matteawan. to collect his bill for $25 for services rendered." T am sorry, my man." replied Thaw, "but you know I have been declared in sane. That forbids my making out checks. I have reached the conclusion that as long as thy landed me in the madhouse I won't sign any checks for any one." Treaty Signed With Switzerland. NEW GRAFT SENSATION j HESTET AVI Mi EXPOSE RCEl' BY AFFIDAVITS. Prosecution Will Tell Monday AVhy Partial Immunity Contract Was Withdrawn. and Langdon will be submitted to the court. These affidavits will contain some sensational revolutions. They will show, for example, that Hcney has stead fastly refused to have anything to do with Ruef. Heney has characterized Huef from the first as a liar. The affidavits will contain a' full state ment of all the dealings of the prosecu tion with RucjT, and will show how. from the moment the contract was signed, Ruef attempted to double-cross the District At torney's office. The affidavits will leave Ruef without a leg to stand on. Court prosecutor who died recently in California. The committee is made up of Judge M. C. George, C. II. Carey. John F. Igan, Roger B. Sinnott and Edwin Mays. Bank Officials Lose Demurrer. SAN FRANCISCO. Fob. V. Judge Dunne this morning overruled the demur rers to the indictments charging JameA Treadwell. Walter Bartnett and J. Daliell Brown with having embezzled the funds of the California Safe Deposit A Trust' Company. He then fixed Monday as the1 day for the accused men to plead. Kighty miles an hour is the speed of a", hurriratif movmnt. Schwab Talks ol Panic. NBW TORK, Feb. 29. Charles M. Schwab, who returned from Europe yes terday, after an absence of 20 days, said: "There is a feeling of apprehension in Knglam) as to what the future may bring forth. This I am Inclined to believe is simply a reflex of conditions in the Unit ed States. As far as this country Is con cerned, it is my opinion that no men or combination of men could possibly keep America iu a state of financial depres sion." x tvtlHam Newberry, of Qincy. Mich., fr. but he has n.ver used read or work wlto. t, to I WASHINGTON. Feb. 29. An arbitra tion treaty between the United States and Switzerland was signed today by Secretary Root and Minister lesvogel. Tt is -understood that the treaty follows the lines of treaties negotiated recently between the American Government and several of the European countries. Tim Kxlended to Irrigators. WASHINGTON'. Feb. 29. The House today passed a bill extending until May la next the time in which homestead en tryhien may establish their residence upon certain land within the Huntley 'Ir rigation project, Yellowstone County, Montana. SAN FRA NCI SCO, Feb. 29. (Spe cial. A sensation in the Io-al graft cases is promised Monday. On that date members of the prosecution will file thir affidavits explaining why the partial immunity contract was with drawn from Abe Ruef. This will cJear the .decks and the trial of Ruef will then begin. For the past two weeks Ruef and his associates have been heaping calumny upon the prosecution. Hearst's Exam iner has devoted several columns every day to articles designed to discredit Francis J. Heney. Special Agent Burns and District Attorney Langdon. The latest article printed yesterday and today In the Examiner charged that Burns had endeavored to substitute an unsigned copy of the partial immunity contract for the original copy In the safe deposit box; that Burns had attempted to force Ruef to sign a false affidavit charging that William Tevis entered into a deal with the Schmit administration to sell his water plant to the city for $10,500,000. when it was in realtiy worth only Voder the fire of these articles, the prosecutoin has maintained, absolute File nee will be broken on Monday, when the affidavits of Burns ,Hency JAPANESE FLEET, MAYBE Cnjtnown Warships Are ' Reported Sighted Off Hawaiian Islands. HONOLCLV. Feb. 29. Some unknown warships were reported seen on the horizon off the north endi of Oahu just before sundown today. Mutual to Accept Payments. NEW YORK. Feb. 29. In a notice issued tonight to holders of assessment policies, the receivers of the Mutual Reserve L.ife Insurance Company state that they have concluded to accept pay ment of premiums now matured or hereafter maturing, hold the same in a special deposit, and under the order of the court, return the same to the policyholders in the event that the com pany does not resume business. Memorial to Robert Galloway. Presiding Judge Cleland, of the State Circuit Court, announced a com mittee yesterday to prepare a memorial of the late Robert Galloway, Juvenile AN ABSOLUTE CURE Y? Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Lumbago r VJXV' Kidney Trouble and La Grippe IS FOUND IN THERMAL ELECTRICITY It is a quick relief for eolcLs, poor circulation, in somnia and nervous debilitv. Its POSITIVE CURATIVE POWER demonstrated free of charge at your home, or 64 Sixth street, between Jine and Oak. 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