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ml 11 li II II II 18 1:111? I'J n mil "- T ' , T ' VOL XXII. IIOffilflEH TO PIT It BOTH ASSAULTED THE WOMAN : CHARLES HELD HER WHILE GEORGE CHQiD HER TO DEATH After Each Had Accomplished His Vile Purpose They Delib erately Strangled the Woman to Death They Ransacked the House, Getting $35, Then Carried the Body to Mill Pond, Where It Was Afterwards Found George Also Says His Brother Had Confessed to Him That He George W. Selby, Near Dallas, in 1908. t'NITKD MESS LEASED WIHB.l Hlllslioro, Ore., March 20. Charles T Humphreys, youngest brother of George M. Humphreys, at 10 o'clock Monday night signed a graphic and complete confession, branding him self hb a companion of his brother In the murder of Mrs. Ella Griffith, aged 64, at Philomath, Benton county, on the night of June 1, and he is now lodged In the county jail of Wash ington county, awaiting the formal charge of murder In the first degree. The prisoner was brought to Hllls lioro Tuesday by Sheriff Hancock and taken before Deputy District Attorney Tongue. In the presence of Mr. Tongue, Sheriff Hancock and two or three witnesses, Humphreys detailed step by step, one of the most atro cious murders ever committed in the state, ' -' Hroilters TH'-Wflnmn. rv The prisoner at first denied any knowledge of the crime, but weak ened when pressed by the officials and finally' told the details of the tragedy, He testified that he and his brother went to the Griffith ranch late nt night, and, before entering the house, George procured a rope from the barn. They entered the door without giving any alarm. Charles grasped Mrs. Griffith from behind, while George ran In front of her and tied her hands to her body. The younger brother then held the victim while Charles, the elder, attacked her. SHOOTS TWO AMD THEN I UNITED IMIKHS I.r.AHKI) WIIIK.1 Si-attle, March 20. Entering the office of Dr. V. T. Akey and Dr. Samuel FiiHklinb at First and Cherry streets lata this morning, A. A. An derson, a man about 40 years old, opened lire on the physicians, fatally oundlng both. Anderson daubed downstairs, ran aong the Btreet fur two or three Mocks nnd then stopping, he sent a hllet Into his own body. The two doctors and the would-be "mnlerer were rushed to the city '10liltal, where they are all reported ,0 be in a dying condition. The man was a patient of the doc tors. Akey and Fuskimb died at the ' 'tnerpency hospital. f Anderson, who was a patient of the ""n he killed, died at noon. "UIIVWY HAD TO ' PAY FOK THE TEETH w York, March 20. Axel Home tead, nged 2r years, Is minus eight "e'h today, but he Is "in" exactly 12.nr,o. Homestead lost his eight incisors vhen a Brooklyn rapid transit guard, llnrntly for no reason, walked dp " A1 and swatted them out of their ""Hillary grips. Homestead sued 'unpany and a Jury ordered the B- ,l- T. to pay him $l,r,00 for each wth. A Shirtless City. I'nited nimn i.eahep wikk. n. Bernardino, Cal., March 20. 1Sl8 city ljj shirtless because a soak J vat la a laundry buret, and or shirts escaped Into a sewer. ,er It clogged and the health "'horlte threaten action. HIMSELF BROTHER COM IIILLI1 BUS . GRIFFITH Then Charles held the woman while the younger brother committed a like offense. . When released Mrs. Griffith strug gled to her feet, and Charles grasped her and held her while George stran gled her to death- with his hands. They then left the lifeless body In the room and went upstairs and ran sacked the bureau, finding $35 In Mrs. Griffith's purse, hidden beneath some of her clothing In the bottom drawer. They returned to the lower floor, and, after another search of the house, the, two carried her to the mill pond, Charles holding the feet and George the arms. Robbery Not Prime Motive. In making the trip' from the house to the water they rested but once. Humphreys was questioned closely as to motlvB, and. whtl ha said that they knew the woman might have some money In the house, the thought of robbery did not occur to them until after Mrs. Griffith was dead. This tallies with the confession of his brothej, George, now awaiting trial at Corvallls, with the exception that George's confession entirely Bhlelds Charles. . The prisoner drew a rough sketch of the Griffith house and traced their movements In ihe building, step by step. While going over details of the crime he did not falter and was moved but little. When the stenographic notes were read to hlin he signed them without reluctance and three witness es affixed their signatures to the in strument. Humphreys Is '32 years of nge nnd was born In Colorado. The two broth ers have always been poverty-stricken and the only windfall they have ex perienced whs when an uncle In New Zealand left them $'.00 each a few years ago. With this money they bought a small place nenr Dallas, af terward selling and going to Yoncalla finally drifting to Philomath. The confession recites that they sold out the Philomath ranch at a loss of $400, in order to get away from the scene of their crime. Arrest Follows Inlenlow. The arrest of Charles followed ns a result of the conversation with a re porter of the Oregonlnn last Friday, when, in response to the Information tt George had confessed to murder, Charles, Instead of expressing sur prise, said: "Where did he leave the horse?" referring to the animal George had taken to FoteBt Grove the day he was arrested. District Attor ney Tongue and his deputy conferred for a short time., nnd then Instructed the officers to bring the younger brother before them. Chas. Humphrey's confession bears out the theory expressed when George 'confessed that he was shielding the younger brother. Lee, another broth er, Is now at his home In Moscow, Idaho. In appearance the murderer Is more preposesslng than hla elder brother. He is about five feet, ten, and Is of sallow complexion. He talked with Iobs hesitancy (ban his brother. He will be held here until the officials from Benton county arrive to take blm to Corvallls. (Iconic Murdered Selby. lllllslioro, Ore., March 19. Charles K. Humphrey, who ' yesterday con fessed to having .participated with his brother. George, In the murder of Mrs. Klla Griffith,, near Philomath, last June, today added to his Jnle of hor ror when he told the officers that his brother, George, had' murdered George W. Selby, at Selby's ranch, near Dal las. In the fall of 100S. (Continued on FsM I.) 1 ' ...... Vy, SALEM, OKEGOX, WEDNESDAY; MARCH 30, UU : 7 ' Jfo "Texas Tommy." : Bremerton, Wash., March 20. Bremerton, the navy yard town on Puget 3ound, has raised )U official foot at the mention of the ;;Texas Tommy" and will kick It high and out, says Mayor Paul Venner. The Loyal Order of Moose, who ad- vertlsed the dance as a feature of a ball to be given Friday night, have replied that the wig- gly affair would be danced any- how. And now there's some ex- cltement due. EAST SIDE SOCIETY IS SHAKEN ONITBD PRESS LHASED WIKR. New York, March 20. Social skir mishes and clashes are raging today In the upper East Side as a result of' David Kldansky breaking his engage ment with Sadie Fishel. Kldansky wanted his presents back, but Sadie's father said: "No," and the former has token the case into the court. Each faction has a large foil owl rig. and the East Side ts an .uproar. . Exhibit A was a letter from Kld ansky to Fishel. It read: "Sir: "'understan' your daughter Sadie and me have broken It our en gagement. I want the presents what I give Sadie back." Fishel replied: "Sir : "In reply to your request for them presents back what you give Sadie, I write: The dinners I have give you on lots of times amounts to more than the value of your presents. Sadie can keep them." legIrokeii by falling scaffold TIiIr morning about 10 o'clock a scaffold collapsed at the garage of li. E. Edwards, at State and Nineteenth Btreets, and E. L. Hrlggs nnd J. O. C. Wlmer were thrown to the cement sidewalk, Mr. Hrlggs' left leg being broken at the ankle. Mr. Hrlggs was removed to his home at No. HS4 South Nineteenth street. Dr U.obertBon was called and made an examination of the fracture, finding that It was , a very bad break. The Injured man was taken to the Willamette sanatorium. The bone was broken In such a wny as to protrude through the flesh, and as Mr. Hrlggs is f! years old, and on account of his Injury being so close to his foot he Is likely to be perma nently crippled as a result of the ac cident. Mr. Wlmer was not Injured beyond a good shaking up. as he was able to be around within an hour after he fell. o A Newn-lloiir ' Slunt. IrsintD rncm leased wmr. Tulare, Cal., March 17. -Ilecause Tulare has no jail. Officer Wheeler compelled a wobbly citizen to walk his beat with him seven hours. W. C. was In a sober and penitent mood nt the end of the Marathon. John Clot Warm. Portland, Ore., March 20. John Sjnbbs. Slightly elevated, felt cold. So he built a fire in bis bed. When rescued he was thoroughly warmed. . Weather Forecat. Haletn nnd Vicinity Fair to- 4 night, with heavy froft. Thurv day fair. Northeasterly winds. t . 4 ! . . ....... . . . . , , ! . . ........... Here Is Easy Money. Seattle, March 20.Mrs. Mary E. Cannon will get $100,000 If she remains single for the next 10 years. This was the provl- slon made In the will of vJohn Cannon, who-died on March 14. Cannon was proprietor of the Grand Union hotel .here and owned other valuable pronerty. The widow, a daughter and a brother are each given $10,000 Immediately. Other small be- quests to relatives are made, and the remainder Is left for th wl- dow. The deceased also left In- t structlons to have his body re- moved to Ireland.'' COMQI First Report Says Mine Was Wrecked By Explosion of Gas, and That Eighty-Five Miners Were Entombed. ALL BELIEVED TO BE DEAD LatiT Iteports Fix Number lit 1(0 ltescuers Trying (o Enter the Mine Were Driven Hack by the Flumes 8 That There IsPiWlc-lly No Hope of Any of (he Miners Ilelng Found Alive One Body Was He. covered. ONITID MESS LEASED Will i Fort Smith, Ark., March 20. A tel ephone report received here says the San Hols Coal comitiny's mine at McCurtaln, Okla., was blown ' up by gas today, and Is now on fire. Accord lug to the report, 85 men are entombed and are believed to have lost their lives. Further details are as yet un obtainable. Oklahoma City, Okla., March 20. Fifty men In mine No. 2 of the Saif Bols Coal company's mine, at McCur- I tain, Okla., were entombed today as the result of a gas explosion. It lit believed ail are dead. Only one body was recovered. Rescuers, trying to enter the mine, were driven back by the flames. Gov ernment mine experts are rushing to the scene. Fort Smith, Ark., March 20. Nine ty miners, according to later reports, were entombed today In the No. 2 mines of the Ban Hols ('oat company at McCurtaln, Okla., as the result of a gas explosion. One miner was res cued ullve and one body found. FIKFIU'tiH ARE HI'SY I ItHlllSII (OM'.MIIIV UNITED rHV.au I.KASKI) WI1IE.1 Nelson, II. ('., March ?0 Follow ing a series of Incendiary (Ires In the last few,nionths which have com pletely baffled the police, the arson hug got busy again last nlglit and as a result the l.lg Yale Columbia saw mill Is a mass of smouldering ruins with a loss of $75,01)0. The fire was discovered early this morning after it bad gained considerable headway and but for the lucky fact that the wind was blowing off shore, part of the town would surely have been Wiped out. About 100.000 feet of lumber were destroyed. SlItlkK (JIIOWS WWII ( at cmv's II A II 110 It llo(ulatu, Wash., March 20. Vio lence today was narrowly averted In the Grays Harbor I. timber atrlke. JesBH lewls kept ,100 strikers off the properly of the Coal Hlilngln mill at the point of a rllle. The clash occurred when the strik ers attempted to persuade non-union employes at the mill to quit work. Opens Show WUU Prayer. Colfax. Wash., March 20 City conn ell ordained that moving picture shows shall he dark on Sunday nights Alton Tredick, who runs one, says no, and will evade the dictum by op ening the show with prayer. MM 1 LAMLETTE TAFT GETS : - To Cremate ,000 Bodies. ' ' fU.-.-' Seattle. March 20 In nrrinr to make room for factory sdtes. the county commissioners here have decided to build a crema- tory and ' Incinerate the bodies now Interred In the ootters field near the county hospital. There are approximately s.ooo bodies there. The commission- ers have platted 50 acrea to be leased for Industrial sites. Pau- pers who come under county Jurisdiction will hereafter be cremated unless objected to by relatives. BANDITS KILLED DY WATCHMAN UNITED rMESS LBABED WIIIE. San Bernardino, Cal.. March 20. News of a desperate revolver battle in which two bandits who attempted to loot the Central Lode mining comt pany's office at Owl Springs of bul lion valued at $20,000, were fatally wounded and Watchman Henry Preston was shot through (he shoulder,- was brought here today. The bandits are H. Langley, known as "Slim", and Bert Ine, desert teamesters. .Each man Is reported to have been shot twice through the chest Owl Springs Is an Isolated camp In the RandBburg mining district Offi cers of the company, Including Pres ident James R. Buckley and treasur er Charles Phillips, had Just arrived at Owl Springs to superintend the shipment of bullion to Randsburg. Preston surprised the men work ing over the safe where the treasure was stored, and opened (Ire. He will recover. You Can of finding here clothes you will possess, and at you U be glad to pay. QUALITY Our name on every one garments is a "guarantee W WW - - back up all we claim for I op's Readv Tailored Cloth Assortments are the very newest qualities the best, prices to suit all. HOF 0 nUt I rv. 1 Salem Woolen Mills Store ' Pressing and Cleaning, Telephone 166 tlJSeUT IBMIBTll BOW 3,000 00T OF 05,000 ROOSEVELT A G000 SEGOOD ELECTION IS A Lai III PROGRESSIVES DELIOIITEO Senator La Follette Comments on the Election---Says the ' "Real Progressives" Will Have the Balance of Power, and'.; Neither Taft Nor Teddy Can Win Unless the Followers of ' One Go to the Other, and Th is Is Not Probable-'-Scnator : Will Visit Nebraska, and Wi II Then Make a Short Cam- . paign Here in Oregon, Then California. UNITED FREES LEASED WIRE. Fargo, N. D March 20. Heturnsn from llfi'f of the 1800 precincts in the state show that Senator La Fol lotte's plurality for the Republican nomination In yesterday's presidential primary election will be at least 15, 000. These precincts give La Follette 34.159 agaliiBt 22,877 for Roosevelt. The vote for President Taft Is esti mated at 3000. La Follete Talks. Chicago, March 20. "I believe the renl progressives will hold the bal ance of power In tho Chicago conven tion against both President Taft and Roosevelt That Is what we are going to fight for the balance of power, dictating the really progressive pint form, and put really progressive can didates upon It..", v ......i ' This declaration was made by Sena tor Robert M. La Follette here today before he boarded his train at 10:30 o'clock, bound for' Washington. He was accompanied by Mrs, La Follette and Miss Nellie Dunn, his private sec retary. 'The returns from North Dakota confirm my Impressions,'' continued the senator, "I nover saw people more aroused. Those North Dakotans understand the Issue; sentiment does not enter Into the result. ' The people of North Dakota could not ha Influ enced by any politicians. Elections In many parts of the country leads me to believe that the progressive prin ciples will be upheld without compro- the kind of be proud to prices that laree. xtvlpa Be of our "mmmi mf ash. mmmmm . onoes "Th e that you will enjoy Ji i e wearing because "Sl they fit. They are yr in ht 0,'' ar,d they values we can comprehend at the prices. Tans and blacks, button and lace ' $4 to $6 " "i i k v. vi t : a ft i .1 J. 1 j mlse. President Taft says that he fa- ' I vors progressive primaries when they ' can be legally had and safeguarded -j by legislative enactments. I think that the North Dakota primaries ! meaauro up to' that test. " ' "I need not say that I am for pres- - Identlal primaries. I will Join Issues In theBe primaries, not by any blan ket challenge, but by going Into those states where primaries are legally pro vlded and safeguarded, and fight the thing out then and there. i "I Bhall go to Nebraska first, thenn Oregon, then California. I will return, to South Dakota, Maine and Massa chusetts will also be visited. ' "The -wonderful contrast We have seen between the steadfastness ot the North Dakotans and the stampeding ' of professional standpatters gives as surance of the victory of real progres sive policies. . , ,.: . . Fargo, N. D., March 20. Practi cally complete returns from 32 coun ties late this afternoon have' given La Follette a plurality of 8,146 over Roosevelt for the Republican presi dential nomination. Roosevelt car ried 13 counties. He ran' ' much stronger In the cow counties than the rest of the state. o Everybody Totes a (Inn. Conlralla, Wash., March 20. 'Every body totes a gun In Virginia, and I caliit quit the hublt," pleaded lllnlne Presnall. The Judge fined him $25. Cert am IS- GiS $12.00 to $30.00 is what we charge for clothes that fit. 'i