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TTs&rwwmRB&sFK: i ?. VTMtc-N - . smi&t , .& . lapiio&H. ,v urVfV . . , r O . - 'ij' "TOP . fj ! i"X Villi SALEM. OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOIiEK 10, 1008. NO. 15 1. ORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN IS BURNING laurnai ASKELL SUES HEARST : FOR $600,000 DAMAGES iHERIn OUTWITS JDIT0R HRSTS IN DOOR TO STATEROOM fruited I'rcM Leased Wire.) lOoibs, Neb,, Oct, 10. Wllllnm (tars' was served witii pnpors in wit fa- $600,000 damngoa brought Coremor Charles N, Haakoll of ihom. a lio wna passing Irosfh 'his city early todny. (A deputy sheriff with tho pnpoiF. (cirJcl the train, but found tho Ixr to Hearst's Btatoroom .locked. It mocked on tho door any -Mrj. tCcntlnuod on pago ofgrh.) TAFT NOT URGED BY ROOSEVELT LEnERS PUBLISHED BY M46AZ1NE (United l'rci Leased Wire.) New York, Oct.. 10. Tho an nouncement wn8 mado today by "Hnmpton's Drottdwny Magazine" that it will publish In tho Novombar number a lcttor from Roosovolt to Tnft and another from Taft to Roosevelt, relntlvo to tho presiden tial nomination In wh'ch -tho prosl dont docllned to ndvlso Taft ns to what conrso ho should take, (Continued on pago 4.) KING PETER HAS GIVEN UP THRONE a REPORTED LEAVING A Powerful Inducement 9 Is the Quick Selling of merchandise IS LOW PRICES. If you want tie Best Bargain In Salem In Ladies' COATS, SUITS, DRESS GOODS, SILKS, MILLINERY, HOSIERY, UNDERWEAR and All Kinds of Till Wearing Apparel, como to. tho CHICAGO STORE. Tho store with tt up-to-date goods nt tho lowest price j. I GRAND SHOWING! 0' the la'est 1) 05s Goods. Pine B--MI an! Walst'ng Silks the a. ftwent la g fat. Choosing will W ejr for von and tho price, -'i the lowo t quoted by any Tnl U.V. a.ir. .in. c. .wi .... . .. .., .vi U MJ. Tionunds of Yards of Outing nneli at Sriroiai Prices. r"d 't, 8c, (P,c, H 1.3c mid tin. V" oa Blanket and Comfort? 8ay down. Pair 30c, lOr, Wc nnd in.. -' R CHICAGO STORE for Honest Goali at Ij, n.. -" tllVU, XKW ARlavALS IN Suits and Coats ATttma.IVPnrni?a ltroth&. - IIIsa " 3P for SPt Cash. ,,l SlITH .. ,. HMO SI-ITS .. , "M-BriTi : ur--"- wArsf0r..,o.eo itb. """ ' ' - 1 H mm V TV I Mil I if TV 'IRvv 1 a hi i yj& Awi ', ' '" ILt !" '.ibH? MM;: '1 ill! t (United Vrttt I,nt(J Wire.) London. Oct. 10. Klne Potor of Sorvln has secretly abdicated hi throno aud is lonvlng Sorvln, nqedrd ing to' a report rocolvod hero today. EffortB to verify tho roport lmvo so far proved futilo. Tho members of tho national. ns sombly nnd of tho King'B cnbin'ct profe-o ignornnco of King Peter's whorenbouts. It 1 known that Poter hns Ijoon unpopular with his peoplo for sev eral yonrs and when ho refused, to declare war on Austria-Hungary recently on tho annexation of Bosnia nnd HPrzogovlna, tho populace wns enraged. COfiTMlJIA TO TKACir AERIATi NAVIGATION (I'nttri) li w I .rawed Wlre.i New York, Oct. 10. It' wns an nounced today that tho University of Columbia hni addod n cours in aoronnutlrs, tho first of Its kind to bo given In nnv American university, to Its curriculum, Only ono student is enrolled In tho now couro at proont, but it is boliovod that othors will avail thomsolves of tho opportunity to study tho fascinating seionco of navigating tho air. Dr. Charles C. Trowbridge of tho physics department, who has spont many yean Investigating tho fl'ght of birds, lias charge or tho new branch. Grovor Clovolnnd Loonlng, an A. I). 0.' tho university, has bo gun work as the first student for hl mnMtor's degrco. Vi first year is to bo spent In studying everything thnt has been wrltton on tho subject nnd ho will then turn to orlglnn' rosonrch In tho laboratory, using models. o GIHL SUBDUES MASHER WITH UPPE ROUTS (ItnUffl I'M Leuieil Wire I Portland, Or., Oct. 10. Miss Lfonn Davis, pretty, small and plucky, li a herolno todny in tho eyes of her roinds bocnuBo h naod hor tiny AbU quite freely last night In subduing a young masher and turning him over to a police man, Tho prisoner gnvo tho nnmo of Eugene .Wllflon nnd snld ho was the representative of a theatrical show. Mifs Dnv's said she was passing along Park stroot when tho young man stoppod from n , doorway and seized her arm. "I toro away from him," sho ox n'alned today, "nnd etruok him on the chin. 1 guess It wan one of those upper cut things. Then, I gave my right hand n ret nnd polted him with mv left. I was still hitting him awful hard when n policeman hap pened alpng." Wilson secured ball nnd was re leased, but will bo given a hearing in court. COUNTY ROAD BUILDING MUST BE REVOLUTIONIZED METHODS MUST BE IMPROVED VERDICT OF JUDGE BUSIIEY Thoro is going to bo n revolution in road building In this county or tho county trensury and tho taxpay ers will go Into bankruptcy, Is tho vordlct of County Judge Hushoy. Ho Is not sntlsftcd that tho present sys tom of holplng locnlllloj out of tho genornl fund will work out In tha long run. Judgo Buqhoy says tho way 'tis dono thoro Is no tolling what It will cost in apy given unilertnklng to build n i-ond, and tho county court has no ba Is for levying- a county tn. Ho says ho Is compiling tho figure for tho fixed charges of county gov ernment, nnd then proposes that the cxpondlturoa for road purposes bo brqught in some wny homo to tho .ppoplo thomsolves. He cays ho doon not see how tho presont Bystom can 00 continued wmiout nroniang up tho county and running it Into dobt and ho docs not want to bo a party to any ruch proceedings. This wll! ho a shock, to somo of tho good road enthusiasts, but n dash of tho cold wator of fiold truth Is soniotimo3bot tor than tho unMmltcd oxpnnslon 0' political hot air that is founded upon thoorios. An Unjust System. Judgo Duihey says tho presont ystem Is unjust to n largo portion of tho country bocnuso tho distribution of tho funds Is Inequitnblo and causos dissatisfaction. Tho present county court hni tried for tho past fow months to carry out, tho contract which tho county had already ontorod Into, nnd hni boon nbleto help a lit tle hero nnd thoro whero thoro Boom ed to bo nn nbsoluto necessity. Hut ho present county court will nol undrtnko. to do any mora on these lines until tho matter has been thor oughly investigated and seo whore tho troublo lies. County fjudgc ninhoy exprofised hlmRAlf to a Copl tal Journal roportor that ho thought it was wrong to spond such lnrge sums holplng Just ono. neighborhood. It was not "yJtJPgjllJS (Continued on nago seven). -o-- GETS SEVEN YEARS FOR FELONY NUMBER OF DEAD . UNKNOWN HUNDREDS HEMMED IN BY FIRES (United Trew Leaied Wire.) Alponn, Mich., Oct. 10. Tho wholo of northwestoru Michigan Is burning. Tho flames already havo swept four counties nnd tho Iobb of llfo is heavy. It Ib boliovod that If roportB could bo obtained tho results of tho fires would bo tho most ap palling In tho history of this pnrt of tho country. Fourteen women and children nro known to Iipvo been burned to donth nt Metz. Thoro it practically no hopo for tho two hundred refugqes who loft tho city on tho rollot train that wns wrecked In tho burning forott, ' Ono refugoo Who nrrlvod from Motz todny Bays thut very fow es caped and that ho bollovna practical ly tho wholo population of tho town. numbering moio than two. huudrod, wns lost. Tho total nunuior of dead, howovor, enn only ho estimated by tho wildest conjecture Among thoso known to lmvo loit tholr Hvo3 on tho roliof train .wore John Klnvcln, onglnorr; Arthur Loo, flromnn nnd William Lee. brakpman. TJicbo thrco mon stnyod by tho train and tried to got It back on tho tracks, whllo tho pashongors flod bo foro tjio ronrlng firos. How mnny of ilibso peoplo, who, frightened out of tholr wits, stnrtod wildly through tho burning woods, could havo osrapod death, It Is linrd to understand, Eight Flroi Till IMiniM'nl. Thii city caught flro from tho sparks carried horo by tho winds nnd ror a timn u socmen mm u was do 1. Sevrra' buildings woro de stroyed. .Men fought to fire nil night nnd when tho mnrnlmr enmo and tho wind shlftod. nny of thorn col lapsed whom they stood. Ab soon ns It was believed tho city was afo, tho citizens nat .down to rest nnd many nro' s'eoplng about the streets today In tho spots whore thoy stoppod work. DEADLY RIOTS IN JJ8B0N TWENTY-THREE ARE KILLED IJJiUJyt nUf MVts you MMY 08E60N 1JOY DROPS GUN AND IS KILLED (United Pie Iniwl Wire. I 1 Sookane. Oct. lCOJirton War ner, 17 years old, Is tho latet vit tlLi of a hunting trin. Acornnanled. by eomnanlonv thf voung r-n '"is run""' in 'ne vicin- Por criminally assaulting little 12-yenr-old Loulso Zollinger, Britten Bennett will servo seven years In the penitentiary according o sentence parsed upon him by Judgo Burnett this morning. J. O. Walker was sorttonoed to two yearn for, burglary nnd Ed Sweeny got 30 days for petit larcony. . n EASTERN EOOTllALL SEASON ON IN EARNEST (United l'r I.ar(J Wire.) Now Haven",. Conn., Oct. 10. The Yale eleven "will meet tholr first real antagonist of the football sonion to- itv f rnu-iiio hi iinma. vMterdav 1 husky gridiron material of tho and wap standing on a log looking United States Military Academy at wopc I'oiiu. iiiinoreui 01 uuuururB 'or game when tils rifle sBpnod. An Instant lator a cartridge In his gun was exnloded and young Warner fell forward, exclaiming: "Boys. I'm shot." Theso were tho ast word 1 he spoke. A bullet had pierced hJ heart, killing him instantly. Tho match to have taken place yesterday between the freshmen of the University of Oregon and the O. A C. was called off .by the latter, becap-e the men could not be spared. of Old Ell wll' go to West Point to witness the contest. Tommorrow will aho 8o a foot ball struggle between the un'verslty of Pennsylvania and Brown, which is a. game next In importance to tho Yale-West Point match. S. A. D. Puter has returned fom Washington and propose to aid tho government in recovering ftreperty that has been unlawfuly takes from it. Puter ought to kiww, . , Dotrolt, Mich., Oct. 10. Lato this afternoon tho towns roportod de stroyed by tho groat forost flros nrl Metz, 200 Inhabitants. MillerHhurg, tho largost town In Prnsquo Islo county, GOO Inhabit ants, PoBonn, 200 porBOtu. Pulaski, n hamlet. A Mlllersburg dlsontch snvs that whon tho Motz rofugoo train wns ditched through the burning of n rulvfrr, 17 persons woro hurnod to donth. A woman end tlrco children nro among the dead. Two bodies have been recovered. Tho 200 per sons of Motz bonrdod the tra'n to e enpe to Cheboygan, the northern terminus o.f tho road. After tho train bocamo derailed, 1 ne lire, wnifjj wa3 sweeping through tho trees, parallel to tho track attacked the, wreckod cars. Groping blindly 'through tho shovr r of spakti and the denso .smoke the mon and women bocamo sepa rated and dashed In ull directions socking a place at which to break through the ring or flames. Detroit. Mloh., Qec. 10. It Is rQ ported lion tht a tra'n bearing 200 rofugge from Mozt has been hammed In by forest flros and that all aro probably dead. Metz has beon ontroly destroyed. Htnwuhtl In Burning porot. After the flames had surrounded Motz attempts io snve tho buildings of the plac uppmod futll. The 'nhnhltants gathered at tho rail rond station and boarded a train for Mlllersburg, 20 miles away. Word from Mlllersburg says that tho train was dltcho dthree mlhs fron Motz In the heart of the burn ing, foreit. Searching parties Hqntj out rrpm Minersourg were lorcen 10 retreat before th tome. -ftttpaUbw frp JJemjAYtpr malted lTew LeMd Win.) LlBbon, Portugal, Oct. 16. Twenty-three mon woro killed or mortally wounded nnd 40 wore ftorlously In jured In a gront riot At Azambtijn boiwoon tho Monarchists nnd Repub licans nt tho municipal clofctlon prl ninrlos todny. Tho Ropubllcann outnumbered tht) Monarchists nnd woro tho aggres sors IP tho fight. After n struggle In tho streots, tho Monarchists were put to flight nnd -took rofugo In u chprchi barricading the doors and windows. Tho Republican thou obtained honvy poHtB nnd timbers, with which llioy mndo Imttorlng rnnis, With ilieso, thoy battored down tho doorn nnd with stones thoy bMkc all the w.lndown thnt woro ox))osod, Whon tho, doors wore brokon (torym, the mob runhoij, Into tha churgh uud at tomptcd to ' tiuuMucro tho Mpuarch tits. A bloody lmttlo was fought undor tho roof of tho sanctuary, In which knives nnd guns woro used with deadly effect.. Tho Monarchists, havi ing no moans of retreat, fought doe poratoly until tho urrlvnl of tha troops. Tho Boldlora arrested a number of tho lenders and finally roscorod oritur. Tho town li undor martial law as tho authorities fear further troublo 1 - . .' i-nni ivn B"i't from Mlllersburg toll ing of tho disaster to tho Motz ror ugeoB, tho flro iitlvniiee'd upon "Mil lorsburg nnd destroyed that town al so. Two roliof trains which loft Al ponn for tho scono woro forced to roturn, nn It was 'impossible to mnkd any progress In tho faco of tho tor rifle fires. Tho fires aro spreading rapidly ac cording to dispatches received hero onntlnunlly. It Is bcliovrd a num ber of small towns havo boon wiped out. . Shoboygnti, Mich., kOct. tCTho flros which swept this part of tho stato Inst night havo destroyed tho towns of Metz nnd Bolton. Tho Iqbi of llfo Is wild to havo been heavy but reports nro meagro an all wires nro down and communication Is cut off; A. train from Mota was burnod in tho forest. It carried 200 peoplo out of tho doomed town nnd It la fonred nioit of them havo boon smothered to death or burned In tho blazing foroBte. Tho proporty losa will amount Into millions. Calumet, Mich., Oct. 10. Brush flros are raging ovor tho untro cop per country of tiortliorn Michigan on the Koweonaw ponlimilo. Severn) small towns are threatened with de struction ami tho people in the woods nro battling with tho ilamod Tho tin tiro timber country tract hotweon Calumot njid Lnko Super'or U burning. Tho flro li rnglng near Keweenaw nnd therj is rmnll Ijopo of nvlug tho little clearings In tho WOOdB. Npwb broght hero wiy that sevorul fttmlllos nro entirely surrounded by tho ftamoti, nnd havo porlshod. Tho, situation Is dojporate. Sanlt St. Murle, Mlcdi.. Oct. 10. The forot. ffres forced thilr wny id to this city early todny In spite of tho do'iiernte work of to citizens who battled ill "tseljt to koop theia cutsldo the olty lltultt-. A squad of dyuamPerd preparotl to blow up tho warehouse of tho 800 Hardware company to prorent the flam OS from spreading through the olty. The tructuro was savor, however, by mon who forced back tho fire at the peril of their lives, Tho smoke Is so heavy ovr St, Mario rlvor that alt navlMtK koa (CVSUllKM m MBtt) -'VfM,fr &"& itiA.j A -