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t$rrfrr' (EttOB Elmm Baily Edition USE TIMES WANT ADS Member of Associated Press. VOL. I MARSHFIKLD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNK 7, 1007. No. 287 $& V p- EIGHTEEN 0 Witness Runs the Crime f-an 1 1 l.j the Unfolding ef His Crimson Tale MURDERS, CHARD'STOTAL HAYWOOD DOOMED 1-iJINT IDE 8! SGHMIZ SIDE EATS OUT OF HIS HAND NOW! Recites Methodically Stories of Homb Mnkin, Minders, Social Crimes, and Man Hunts. ORCHARD'S CONFESSION. Restaurant Keeper Testifies That No Attempts of Extortion Were Ever Made On Him TESTIMONY CONFLICTS Former Governor Frank Steu- nenberg, murdered by infernal machine in which Haywood, Mover and Pettibone wero im plicated. Total number of murdered victims, eighteen. Attempted to murder, Gover nor Peabody, Judge Goddard, Judge Gabbert, Sherman Dell, Dave Moffatt and Frank Hearne. Deserted wife and young child, to flee to Canada with a woman, Hattle Simpson, then committed bigamy by marrying a third. Boise, June G. Harry Orchard crowned his admissions of grave crimes today when continuing his testimony against Haywood he made an explicitly detailed confession of the murder of Frank Steunenberg by an infernal machine that directly opens the way for his own convic tion and execution for mortal of fence. He swore the assassination of Steunenberg was first suggested by William D. Haywood and was jointly plotted by Haywood, Moyer, Pettibone and himself; was financed by Haywood, and was executed by himself after tho failure of the at tempt in which Simpklns had partlci-' pated. Orchard lifted the total of his own murdered victims to IS. Ho detailed tho circumstances under . which ho tried to murder Governor Proprietors of French Cafe Raised $10,000 For Ruef to "Take Care" of Friends. San Francisco, June G. A few minutes before adjournment of court this afternoon the defense in the Schmitz case scored what they con sideied a signal point during the cross-examination of one of the prosecution's chief witnesses, An tonio B. Blanco. Until the great fire, Blanco was proprietor of the Del monicos, one of the five French res taurants from whose owners Mayor Schmitz and Ruef are accused of hav ing extorted thousands of dollars under the threat "Implied if not ex pressed" to prevent the re-issuance of their liquor licenses. Blanco de clared that Ruef, trie Mayor or any one else ever told him that if he did not pay this money he would not get his license renewed. Four wit nesses were on the stand today. Offi cer Charles F. Scully, secretary of the board of police commissioners; Former Police Commissioners Rea gan, Dr. Poheini and Antonio Blanco. The first witness tomorrow will be Joseph Mulfanti, proprietor of Del monico's restaurant.. Ho acted as agent for the other French restau rants and handled Ruef money, which the prosecution claims was extorted, and which the defense maintained was paid purely as a retainer and in pursuance of a legal contract by which Ruef was to act as attorney for the Frenchmen in tho matter of se- I nnsmrtrRi Aim ! I r ! uncbun bltfLD bUULU bbANUAL yMsriM a j IN WASHINGTON IS PROMISED fmmmmr-tg&ztmmgaBF Mmrmsi V. . . vuiVt. J- -Aithujw JJF jovvta. . S aJ Steele in Denver Post. Excitememt of Several Different Varieties Created by Phil Bates Contingent of Peaches VETERAN GUARD FAINTS Ono Miss Compares View From Wash ington Monument to Scene From Home Apple Tree. Phil Bates and his party of Oregon SHIPPERS BIT Uf Since Regulation Has Gone Into Effect Freight Charges Have Advanced 6 Per Cent CONGRESS MAY ACT May Frame Law Providing' Property Valuation as tho Basis For Rate Making. Peabody, Judge Goddard, Judge Gab- curing the renewal of their -licenses bert, General Sherman Bell, Dave which had been held up by Police commissioner ueagan on a charge or immorality. Pierre Priest, who con- RIVER BOAT BURNED AT WATER'S EDGE Portland, June G. The river tiw boat Vulcan was burned at ths water's edge tonight in a spectacu lar fire which illuminated the water front in both sides of the river and I attracted enormous crowds, cause of the fire is unknown, but is surmised to be Ignition from oil in her fuel tanks. The loss Is ?30,000, Insurance $G,000. The boat belonged yoing ladles are now 'uklng In tho M'bts ot Washington, nnd are meet ing with many courtesies at the hands of the people there. The Washington Herald printed the fol- j lowing breezy account of one day's happenings: In Oregon, where trees grow a mile high; where they raise pumpkins and then cut out tho pulp and live in them; where men play billiards with green peas and wheat stalks, and where every one is afraid to die lest the happy hunting grounds should prove a very inferior sort of a place indeed, 15 happy homes are sighing for the return of 15 dancing-eyed damsels who waved farewell to Washington from the deck of the Jamestown steamer last evening, Tho j genuine national capital. " With equal certainty, it may be piesumed that the hearts of many of Washington's most sophisticated public building guardians, guides, policemen and other brass-buttoned Allegations of Wife For Separation Show Husband Guilty of Improper Relations PLAIN WORDS PASSED In Answer to Husband's Attorney 1'Iaintiir Says Details Will Bo of Serious Nature. to the Columbia, Willimette and Co- gentry' are yearning for Philip S. lumbia River Towing Co COLUMBIA RISING Moffatt and Frank Hearne Deserts Wife. Incidentally ho confessed to the plan to kidnap a child of one of his former associates, then under cross examination by tho defense Orchard confessed tothe guilt of sordid social crimes and of deserting his wife and young child In Ontario and of fleeing to British Columbia with Hattie Simpson, wife of another man, and committing bigamy by marrying a third woman at Cripple Creek. Minder of Steunenberg. Through the shocking details of tho murder plots, stories of secret bomb making and tales of man hunts with sawed off guns and infernal ma chines as weapons, tho witness went on in tho same quiet off-hand manner that marked his demeanor yester day. His voice dropped to a lower key as the pitiful story of the long man hunt for Steunenberg narrowed j -down to the last day, and he told of I tho race from hotel to homo to beat'i his victim with a death trap and of I meeting Steunenberg in the evening j gloom as ho walked unconsciously to his doom. Through it all he winced only once, and that when tho defense made him name his six sis ters and ono brother and give their residences In Ontario and New York State. Peabody Homb. The defense fought the story with a multiplicity of objections, and suc ceeded in heading off an attempt to tell the story of the murder of Arthur Collins at Tellurlde, and temporarily shutting out the contents of a tele gram received and a telegram sent by Orchard after his arrest; but for tho rest, the State managed to get in its story intact. The State today be gan its corroboration of Orchard's crimson tale by producing a lead cast ing of the Peabody bomb. Orchard Identified it, and sworo that he brought it from Canyon City to Den ver, and then to Wallace, where he gave it to a man named Cunningham. It was then thrown in the river, and the State promises later to show its recovery. Haywood nnd his kinfollc ducted the negotiations with Ruef on . behalf of the other restaurant keep- ers and himself, and whoso name appears as tho signature to tho con tract alleged, Is dead. jj I Reagan testified minutely to the I suddenness- and determined change of the Mayor's attorney on the French license U'ules, from advising their refusal to demanding they be grant ed. Simultaneously with the appear ance of Ruef as the attorney tor the restaurants and the testimony of the implicated waiters of tho union in tho plot to expose the immorality of these places as a result of union difficulties with their proprietors, Po heini told of the compiling by Ruef of a set of bogus regulations for tho government of restaurants, and how eh and the boss laughed over these, and how after they had been sub mitted by Ruef to tho police board the held licenses were granted. Glanco testified that he and the pro prietors of Pup, Delmonlco's, Merch and's and Tortonl's had raised a fund of $10,000 to be paid to Ruef, "as tho lawyer and political boss" for "taking care" of their licenses. After the adjlurnment, Heney was asked when Ruef would bo called to the stand, th - t i "i llher Has Reached n Singe of n Trifle 0cr Nineteen Feet Record Work. listened quietly to the long recital, and about their first show of feeling was one of amusement when Attor ney Richardson began his onslaught and brought out Orchard's domestic crimes. Protect Orchard. There were the same precautions and the same armed guards today to protect Orchard and the same court room scenes, except that among the spectators the women to men were as two to ono. There was another rush for admittance, and the doors of the court room had to be closed at both sessions. Orchard finished his direct testimony at 2:35 and the cross-ex amination had only reached the Washington, Jure G. An average increase ot G per cent has been ac complished by the Central Freight Asslclation by revision of their classi fication Increasing carrying charges on 2.9GG articles and decreasing them on 200. The elevation was done by withdrawing the commodity rates. It is cited here by -Transportation authorities that ever since the rate regulation bill was adopted in June, 190G, rates have climbed steadily, and the lailroads of the nation have succeeded in providing for immense increase in their revenues in this manner. It Is also cited that these increases in rates have followed a. season of absolutely unprecedented demand for haulage of goods, during which the roads have been unable to care for the business because the equipment of the country could not handle it. It is apparent that the sum total of benefit flowing from tho new rate bill is the stoppage of discriminations by the roads in favor of the larger manufacturing corporations. That these benefits are considerable Is at tested by recent revelations of the upbuilding of iriimenso trusts which counted the discriminatory tariffs as their chief asset. So that it is not to belittle the new rate law to assert that it can only prevent discriminations. It has been alleged, with good show of reason, by Senator La Fol lette and other experts, that tho rail roads of the nation now are charging the people approximately $500,000, 000 more annually for freight haul age than they would wero they to be compelled to do tho business for merely a nominal interest return on actual investment, ft is also alleged that the railroads could be permitted to charge annual interest on much more thnn nntunl Invnstmont. nllnw. hie llberallv for mnrn PnnltnllrnHr.n T0,d June ? Tho IlOClli, Which than value of physical properties, and I '" PPorting Count Okuma in his po- yet lower ireignts in tho aggregate After leaching a stage of 19.7 feet ' at Portland Thursday, the Columbia river will come to a stand, which will I probably mean tho highest mark at- I talned by tho annual rise this year. I While he does not care to make tho plain statement to tiiut effect with out qualification, District Forecaster Beals said: "It looks as If the annual rise of tho Columbia is practically over, but at this juncture I am not In a posi tion to say definitely." The Snake began to fal this morn ing, which caused Mr. Beals to revise his estlmato made yesterday that the Willamette would reach a stage of 20 feet tho latter part of this week. Bates' all-star aggregation to play a return engagement. Hardy A'ariety of Peaches. Never has a more enthusiastic and withal, merrier cluster of fair tour ists had a quick-lunch view of the library, given the President the sign manuel of the glad hand, or taken a squealing chance on the Washing ton monument elevator than thl3 same crate of Oregon peaches brought hither by the energetic pro prietor and publisher of tho Pacific northwest. Tho consignment was originally la belled "fresh from the farm, handle with care," but any of tho public men in blue and brass who stacked up against this combination will tes tify that the peaches were of tho hardy variety and didn't need taking care of. With that breezlness of manner always associated with tho west, Mr. Bates' sturdy young charges, headed by their equally young chaperon, Mrs. C. B. Redfiold, of Morrow county, Oregon, hit all tho high places, threw a giggle at everything that could tnnan n lnlln-li nnf rt n lvaforfn n- The Upper Columbia is still rising, j tienti c d a bunch of 1)rass but. but not sufficiently to make any great I tons for souvenIl.s, 1)roko ott llunkB of the capltol, library, and monu- ua,-...A.. i- ii. i ' ul"c' u uib swiga wnicn win uo reached at Portland. Temperatures are high in the mountain districts, but it is now believed that nearly all the snow has been melted, or tho up per tributaries would show greater rises. Rains are badly needed. Thero lTus been no good downpour for three weeks and the ground is badly parched throughout tho Valley. "JAP" PAPER AGITATING MEASURES several hundred millions of dollars annually. In the offices of tho interstate com merce commission tho belief is enter tained that the picsent increase in rates referred to will operate to tho detriment of tho roads, by causing a protest which will find voice next winter in the Congress, when un doubtedly the rate bill will come up again for amendment and the addi tion of provisions rather radical in character. jr would not be surprising :c well- informed men coj i rted wlthUj g " eminent If theso increases wee ti rose. Cross-examination will bo con tlnued tomorrow morning, a: basis for rate-making; 11 houg! it is acknowledged here that not ill the members of the Interstate com merce commission are disposed to re gard physical valuation as essential 1 Lyrical valuation oi the propartivs to a solution of the rate problem. sitlon on the American question, says this morning that tho San Francisco outrages are worse than the murder of tho missionary in China which resulted in the occupation of, Klake Howe. "Who would blame an ap peal to last measures if tho lmpo tency to protect tho treaty rights is proved. We hope, however, that Ambassador OkJ will bo firm enough to make the Washington government quickly take measures to mete out Justice to tho Japanese." Coeur d'Alene of 1899, when court actua,,y '"Pel Congress the tack on , n-.-.nmi-.- m h. a-vj.cments which would cauyt the mont, flipped a smile at remonstrat ing guards, and then set sail for Jamestown. If Jamestown hasn't been settled since 1G07 they will settle it. irftiq Yesterday was their star day. In the morning they poked around tho I Centor Mnrket stalls trying to find something that looked as if it had grown or been fed in Oregon. Noth ing looked like home. "Oh, look at the cute little straw berries," exclaimed one of tho fair farmeresses, pointing to an assort ment of the largest and best that poor benighted effeto easterners hnvci to put up with in their shortcake. "What foolish looking asparagus," Enid another. "Why, you would lime to eat several stalks at one ni"iil." Tho market man said nothing but "The butter's spread too thick " When tho creaking elevator brought the Oregonlnns to tho top of the monument and they scattered to the eight windows to gaze upon tho mighty panorama below, it seemed that at last thoy had met with .some thing to tame their girlish exuber ance. They gazed long and ear nestly at tho vast spread of land scape below them. "Fine view," said the guard en couragingly. "Yes, ve-y prettyi," replied the accosted ono, "But you ought to see tho view from the top of our ap ple tree." They carried the guard into the little office and tenderly brought him back to conjrloueneu. New York, June G. The case of Mrs. Howard Gould, who instituted suit for separation from her husband, was given its first airing in court today. The occasion was the hear ing or argument of a motion of Gould to strike out certain allegations in Airs. Gould's complaint, .arguments of considerable lenght wero made, and at the conclusion, attorneys were given until Monday to file briefs.' The grounds on whlcii Mrs. Gould is suing her husband, as shown by parta of tho complaint, as read by the counsel for Mrs. Gould are: First, abandonment of Mrs. Gould by her husband; second, that the habits and conduct of Gould aro such that it was improper for his wife to live with, him; third, that since September last he has neglected his wife and refused to provide for her except that he paid for her support at the hotel since that time, and fourth, that Gould ticated. hia wife with extreme cruelty, em ployed spies to harass her, caused her mall bag to bo tampered with, maintained illicit relations with women of bad character and em ployed an ex-convict and soveral New York detectives to procure improper evidence against her. Dolancey Nlcoll said every allega tion against Uuulu will ue denied when tne answer to tho suit is filed, ho maintained ehurges to wnicn ho objected as scandalous and Irrele vant and did not tend to support tho allegations of cruelty, lie especially objected to the charge that for three. I years Gould had uiunuamea luidi. I relations with women of bad char acter and conducted himseu in una lespect in an open and notorious manner. Ho declared tho charges wero made lor tho purpose of putting tho defendant in an embarrassing po sition, and that in oiner casej wnero such allegations had been introduced tiio court nus suioKtu tuoiu out "Tlie allegations aro decidedly sweeping," bald he. '"lho plaintiff does not make any specifications nor mention any specific charges, or oven toll exactly what conduct tho de fendant is charged with. There is absolutely no reason for such charges in a complaint for separation on tho ground of cruelty." In replying to Nlcoll's argument, Clarence Shearn, counsel for Mrs. Gould, snld if tho defense will ask for a bill of particulars, specific charges will bo mado of so serious a character that ho would not presume to mention them in court in tho couise of his argument. He said that Mrs. Gould had tried to make, the caso as littlo scandalous as pos sible, and he did not want to make tho complaint any more specific in open court. But if tho allegation that tho defendant for tlireo years maintained illicit ana Immoral rela tions with women of bad character and conducted himself notoriously and openly in this respect is too gen oral, ho bald tho plaintiff would make it more specific. "It is true," Shearn continued, "wo do not say whether tho defendant's action wore adulterous or worse, but wo will bo glad to submit n full bill of particulars if it is asked for. Shearn argued if the court struck out theso allegations It would do tho plaintiff irreperablo injury by not allowing her to prove thom when tho time comes. Visits City. J. S. ilohror, of Co quille, is in Marshfleld ou a short business trip. Repair Sewer. Front street was torn up yesterday for the purpose of. putting in a manholo for the sower in front of the Marsden Billiard Par lors. The sewer has been clogged up for some time. FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE for homo in Marshfleld, 80-acre farm In New York State. Inquire of tfOhn Leake, Marshfleld. I itWiTi t&MBur & iZL. - .A;i:svi tifK'Yt . I. . . JliTXfK i' nr. ini mi Tit