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' PAGE SIX. DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, ' OREGON, koNDAY, MARCH 31, 1913. II Aliens, Father and Son, Electrocuted Brlef Story of the Crime for Which They Died. Richmond, Va., March 31. Over whelmed nt Inst after a contury of mountain feudal tyranny, tho power of tho Allen gnng was forever put to nn end Friday, when Floyd and Claude Allen, father and son, died in tho elec tric chair for tho quintnplo murder in tho Hillvillo court houso, March 14, 1912. Just a year ond a fortnight after their despcrato effort to avengo tho conviction of a kinsman by a mere court, they entered tho death chamber, after all avenues of possiblo ropriovo had been barred against thorn. When a jury foreman tremblingly an nounced a vordict of guilty ngaiust Victor Allen on a chargo of perjury in a moonshiiiing ease, tho rago of tho pa triarch of the dan vented Itself in a pistol volley, in which othor members of the family joined. Judgo Thomas L. Mnssio, Commonwealth Attorney Thornton L. FoBtnr and Sheriff Lew Webb wero carried from tho court room dead or dying. Juror Fowlor and Miss Elizabeth Ayrcs, stenographor, died Inter from wounds. When tho great needlo had swung slowly backward for tho last timo to day, and tho current was shut off after dealing doath to tho "pariareh of the Allen elan" and his son, Justico had l triumphed after a century of rule by a family whose powor dated buck for generations and which took unto Itself the dominion over life and death. Time and again thn Aliens have defied the law and ns their power grew they bo came nioro insolent. It was their boast that none of their breed should know any Inw, save God's and their own. So when a jury found Victor Allen guilty, tho clnn made good its boast. Thorn was a flash of stool, a volley and when tho shrieking spectators who had fled cringed back again they found Judgo Massio dying, Sheriff Webb dead and Prosecuting attorney Foster mortally wounded. Victor Allen a few months before bad been a government witness in a moon shining rnso, Ho was sullen and the testimony he gave wns decidely In fn ' vor of the defendant. A few weeks af terward Allen wns arrested fur perjury. Floyd Allen assaulted tho officers when they seized his son but they managed to talio tho young man, mad with rago, to jail. On March I t, after a trial of two days on the perjury charge, Judgo Mns sio Instructed tho jury. Tho littlo court room was packed, and as Prosecuting Attorney Thornton L. Foster dared to oxeorinto not only tho defendant, but his father, tho crowd gasped in sur prise. When the jury returned there was a quick movement toward tho judgo 's bench and when the foreman of tho jury announced n erdict of guilty, with a (creaming oath Floyd Allen whipped his hand to his pocket. Tho other Aliens crowded closer and crouch ed low with spurting weapons. Sheriff Lew Webb, who had drawn when Floyd Allen made his deadly move, dropped nt tho first volley. Then enmo pandemo nium. Screams, tho rush If terrorized men, women mid children and tho crack of pistols, mingled with the oaths of the Aliens, as they scattered, leaving tho little room empty have for its dead. Floyd Allen was shot through the foot; Clerk of Court Dexter Good, who shot him, received a bullet through thn jaw, nnd his coat nearly burned off by the near fire; jurors and spectators who had stampeded for the door, received slight wounds. Hut the Aliens, save Floyd, escaped unscathed. flood staggered after the Aliens and they turned nnd fired on him from the READ READ INVESTIGATE Some good buys and exchanges, takes ideal lic.ne, 'M acres. 150 acres in 1'e.lk enmity, cheap. "SO acres, well improved, -'.".000. SEVERAL OOOD BUYS IN TRUNE RANCHES, HOP RANCHES AND BERRY TRACTS. .'I lots, li room cotlnge, $1(10(1, minp. fl nnd 10 aero tracts, close In. IOOxI.jO, fi room house, if'J.'iOO. CITY LOTS ALL PARTS OF SALEM 6 lots, 0 room house, bam, chicken yard, fruit ami berries, $1(100. Several business chances, restaurant, rooming house, grocery store, black smith, pool hall, cigar sliiud. SEVERAL, STOCK RANCHES, CHEAP. 4 ' j acres, 2 houses, nn car line, fine garden tract, $11000. Four room furnished house, good lot, lfl:.l). 10 acres bearing Itulinn prunes, 4LT0I0, WHAT HAVE YOU TO TRADE? LIST YOUR BARGAINS WITH US. WE SELL FIRE, LIFE, ACUOIDENT INSURANCE, 4, ft, 0 ROOM HOUSES, INSTALL MENTS. Acme Investment Co. COOS WHITNEY, MANAGERS. Phone Main 477. 640 Btate St. Opposite Court House. hotol square where their horsos w.ero tied. Floyd Allen, with a bullet-riddled foot, disdained escape. Ho went calmly into tho hotel and went to bed. Victor soon joined him, Kxtra deputies wero hastily sworn in and Floyd nnd Victor Allen were arrested. Floyd Allen, wild with chagrin at being locked up, at tempted suicide by cutting his throat hut inflicted only a slight wound. But the Aliens for onco had gono too far. Virginia massed her forces and decreed that the man hunt should begin. Then began a siege in tho Blue Ridge mountains that has never been equalled in tho wildest fiction. After a week of man hunting and trailing Kidna Ed wards was captured at night in a moun tain pass. Half starved, ho offered no resistance. Then in succession came tho enpturo of Fiiel Allen and Claudo Allen, llolh gave up without moro fighting cowed at last. Sidna Allen and Wesley Kdwards, whom tho hunt ers wanted most of all as wieldors of tho fatal guns, wero captured six mouths later in l)es Moines, Iowa, by a clue which Edwards sweetheart unwit tingly furnished. THE ROUND-UP The organization of tho Montavilla Savings Bank was completed Thursday, and it will bo open for business April 15. Tho anniinl high jinks of tho Hose burg commercial club was pulled off last Friday night, and a hot time was tho result. Four chinook snlmon confiscated by tho fish warden, wero sold at auction in Portland Friday, bringing 25 cents a pound, or $25.58 for tho four. Woodburn will send a carload of onions and three or four carloads of potatoes to flood sufferers. Friday $200 was raised in a fow minutes $100 sent to Ohio and $75 to Indiana. Eugcno wired $500 to flood victims Friday and that much more Saturday night. Two box cars londed with flour, dried fruit and clothing wero sent to flood victims Saturday night from Al bany, Medford, it is claimed, will remove Its city nttomoy at tho noxt meeting of tho city council. Briggs, who is city attorney, has been requested to resign, but rel'ifses, nud will niako a test case of, tho question. Baker Y. M C. A. dedicated its $10, 000 building Friday night, Arthur McPherson, a wealthy ranch er, living near Malheur, wns bitten on tho baud a short time ago by a calf ho wns feeding, and a fow days lator died in tho hospital at Baker from blood poisoning following tho bite, Monmouth is to havo electric lights furnished by tho Oregon Light & Pow er Company. Vuion is considering tho municipal ownership of a water plant ,a company offering to put in tho plant for $72,000. W. A. Tiffany, aged 71, and an old soldier, died at Oregon City Thursday morning. Mrs. F.lizn Mason died Friday at the homo of her son in law, W, J. Cuddy, In Washington county. She was 81 years old. Astoria is to have a new steamer to run between that point and Gray's riv er. A contract has been let for its Imililing and it is to be completed by August 1. SALEM BOY GOES TO ASIATIC SQUADRON At his own request. Quartermaster First Class Virgil F Wright, who for several months has conducted a navy recruiting station in the federal build ing here, bus been transferred to the Asiatic station of the 1'nited States navy, (Jnartermnster Wright left Sa lem this morning fur San Francisco, lie will leave the Hay City the last of this week for his new location, Mr. Wright has a good record in the navy, and came to Salem at his own request so that he might be at home with his mother while still serving I'nrlo Sam. lie was born in this city, and spent his bnylmoil here, lie lias been In the navy 11 years, lie has vis ited all parts of the world except the Orient since enlisting in the navy, nnd ho has Hiked to he transferred to the I'.nst so that he may form nn acquaint ance with that part of the world, Quartermaster Wright says that Sa lem has not been n heavy contributor to the ranks of the navy since the re cruiting station was opened here. The station was somewhat handicapped in locntion, nnd, by the rules of the navy, department officers in charge of 'sta tions are not allowed to advertise nor to solicit recruits. Applications for en listment were few. A Cure For Krrema Eeionta In any form, whether ajute or chronic, It easily and rapidly over come by the use of Morltol Eczema remedy. Give positive rollot when all othor fall, and wo heartily rec eomrriend It to any sufferer. Capital Drug Btore, exclusive igoaU. Miidaino (fuavlllii will lie glad to answer any questions' pertaining to womanly beauty. Personal replies will he glvrii If a stamped ifnd self-udilressed envelope Is enclosed. Beauty's path through lifo is a sort of roso-bordered ono a royal progress, for to beauty the world, big nnd littlo, pays homage. Just as the individual woman has tho ability to please and to ' win favor does sho como to realize that ' tho first and most potout influence is! physical beauty. If thoro is a woman who does not care to look well who does not care to win affection and love sho is an ab normal creaturo, and with her we have nothing to do. It is simply human na ture, a desire implanted in every nor mal hoart to wish for admiration and love. Assuming that it is not only the nat ural desire of woman, but also hor duty, to please, in order to succeed, she must train herself to that ond. First of all let mo impress it upon you that end is not obtained by carelessness and neglect. Tho Mohammedans say: "To Eve God gavo two-thirds of all beau ty." Dr Johnson, who wrote the Eng lish dictionary, said: "Nature has given womun so much power that tho law cannot afford to give her any nioro. " From tho beginning of history tho two forces most potent in moving tho world havo been beauty and gold, and when tho two powers woro pitched one against the other it was beauty that lost. There aro two sorts of beauty, one THE OPEN FORUM f The Capitol Journal Invites pub lic discussion In this department Let both sides of all matters be fully brought out It is not the purpose of this newspaper to do the thinking for Its readers, A Distinction No Difference. Editor Capital Journal: Whut's the difference in Omaha bo tweeu robbing the dead and tho land lords raising tho rent on the living? If tlvre is any difference it is markedly in favor of the ghoul who plunders the dead. Here we are, all over tho United States, rnising thousands of dollars for tho poor unfortunates, whilo tho land lords get ready to plunder our beno ficiaries. And still we encoiinted for ficiaries. And still wo encumber for pably needed at homo. Some day we hope that tho ghouls who are preying upon tho survivors of that awful catas trophe may come to see their baseness and cry out when. too Into that tho "an gels and ministers of graco defend us! " SHOCKED. Commends The Journal. Editor Capital Journal: Tho writer lias been watching the courso of Tho Journal sinco it changed hands nnd would like to give expross'on to n word of encouragement. Prior to the new management Tho Journal was the first (and only) papor to give its readers the metropolitan colored sup plement. Tho first cut of tho benutiful Masonic Temple and tho railroad bridge over tho Willamette appeared in Tho Journal. During the Elks' carnival in Portland, The Journal appeared in the lodge colors. Now, ns a render of local papers, I had an idea that tho enterprise dis played by your paper was certainly worthy of appreciation on tho part of the public, anil I inn told by one of your carriers that tho public heartily re sponds in extended circulation. Since the new mauageineut the colored supple ment still conies and ,on Easter The .louriinl was laid at my door in as beau til ul a cover as I have ever seen on any newspaper. Your pictures of the bridge celebration only add more to your repu tation for being alive. We of Salem have never been accustomed to getting "pictures" of anything. Wo do appre ciate these evidences of newspaper en terprise on your part. Not alone do you forge ahead with these costly details along lines of pub lic interest, l,ut the policy of the paper is meeting with public approval. We, the taxpayers, are pleased to see that there is one paper in Salem ready to nsk us first what we want. As a rule everything Is arranged for us and we do the voting. The attitude of TI.e Journal on the water question is exactly right. The remarks of Mr. Panics were certainly well taken. If, 1 may say it, whoever named Mr. Parties as one of the water committee with the expectation of muz zling The Journal, Is evidently doomed to disappointment, ns Mr. Panics pro poses to leave the nritter to the public. I like the open handed manner in which Mr. Haines and The Journal deal with the water problem. Your criticism of the morning paper is well founded, That newspaper has been biased on this subject. At the Inst vote on the water purchase, the morning paper nctnally refused to print certain copy submitted In fear of its having adverse weight with tho voters. At this time, the paper has not print ed a single letter from the people ad verse to tho purchase. Only favorable matotr gcU into its columns. After the front page plain English , which appeared in your paper of March 27, I working for tho destruction of good, leaving a path liko tho trail of a ser pent, tho other uplifting nnd working for the highost, noblest purpose. The first sort of beauty is only a desiro to plcaso and gratify the senses for a moment, only to plunge into the depths of dospair that follow: Mcro physical beauty, without high moral worth, is but a fleeting shadow whose history is writ in blood and tragedy. It is ilko tho ripples of a placid surface of water when a pebblo is tossed into it. But when beauty of porson is united to beauty of character it is of high mor al worth, which the intelloet stamps upon tho face and shows its dignity and purity in every movement. It is this combination of physical and mental beauty that makes womankind a glory in history. Beauty reaches its perfection in the huamn form and its utmost exaltation in woman. The thing which charms most is and must forever remain inde finable for it is something which ap peals to tho imagination and which an alysis can nevor grasp, It is this that makes the offect of the doll liko beauty fade as tho sea foam. Hero .is a definition of beauty I found in a dictionary: "Thoso quali ties which aro most pleasing to tho eye, together with grace nnd charm, a beau tiful woman" Yours for charming wo manhood. MADAME QTJAVILLA. expected to see you riddled and re duced to ashes by that fiery paper. Put, examination of its editorial columns tho following day showed an 11-lino ct inment stntiug that "the matter was to bo finally submitted to the peoplo befuro the purchase." Tho subject was not worth attention. "Tho Decline of the Tailcoat," and "riant Food in Ani mal Food," wero of more consequence to the voters. Even the fight being wnged by The Journal on the raise in tho salary of the city attorney, a mutter which affects every voter in the city, has not been ob served by the morning paper. If these matters are not to bo, fairly handled by a newspaper, in the name of common sense what are the functions of a news paper.' A paper gets its bread and but ter from the people, not from firo en gine companies, water concerns and city attorneys. To whom is first obligation due? There is one thing sure, and that is, if wo didn't have Tho Journal, wo would soon have another newspaper in the city. Keep up your fight for what ever yon think is right. You took tho initiative and got an opinion from the attorney-general on the salary question. You may yet have to secure an ordi nance and present it to tho council re ducing that salary and placing the stenographer oil the payroll, So long ns you are acting fair and right, you need not fear you will bo charged with .persecuting anybody. If you accom- tiliwll Ibiu riwulf vmi nr irninn nft.i 'you can rest assured that hereafter tho Journal 'will be respected." In theso controversies there is greater satisfac tion in being "right than president." The public soon tires of long drawn out wrangles, so strike whilo the iron is hot. Tho "enemy" is saying nothing, only waiting for the matter to die a natural death. You have accomplished a great deal so far in finding out that the wholo af fair is one of error on tho part of tho council. Xow that the city attorney has learned that the council didn't intend that he should have that raise and that they misunderstood the matter, ho will, doubtlessly, vnluntitrily rise to the em ergency and reduce his salary to its ori ginal ngree.l amount. The city attor ney also knows the council acknowl edges its error, hence his duty is plain TAXPAYER. AN OLD MAN WHO IS FAMOUS AS A VIOLIN MAKER In the "Interesting People" depart ment of the April American Magizine appears an account of (leorge W. Fisk, of Greely, Colorado, a violin maker, who has been called "the American Strndivnriiis. " Many innster miisicinns have pronounced him the greatest vio lin maker in the world. He combs the world for the rare bits of wood which are necessary for the perfect violin, and yet ho finishes less than eight instru ments a yenr. Following is an extract: "Every day he works in his little shop, which has served his purpose for thirty-six years. 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"Mr. Fisk has mado as high as eight violins in one year, but docs not usually turn out so many; for ho takes great care in tho manufacture of each ono of them, graduating them with wonderful precision whero tho variation of a ono thousandth of an inch might mean tho utter unhnlnnce of tone, aud might Irendor tho work of foregone weeks tin- MODERN DICTIONARY Doctor Stone's Corn Remedy Knocks Corns aud Bunions higher hthan "Oilroy's kito." Price 25c DR. STONE'S Boroto Compound and Plas ter will take tho kinks out of your lamo back. Price 50c DR. STONE'S Itch Ointment will euro you of that itch which you caught from that follow. Price $1. DR. STONE'S Poison Oak Komcdy will cure your Poison Oak, which you got. last Sunday. Price 25s and 50c. DR. STONE'S Cough'Romcdy will clear your pipes of phlegm and cure your cough. Price 25c and 50c. DR. STONE'S Tootchnche Drops will stop the toothache in ono minute by the watch. Price 25e, DR. STONE'S DRUG STORE Salem, Oregon. Free delivory to any part of the city. fruitful by -ringing about ruination of tho instrument. Ho has no trouble in disposing of his violins, having but two or throe on hand nt this time. At one time in recent years ho was nearly two years ..chind his orders, and exper ienced great difficulty in catching up. A connoisseur of violin wood, ho has pieces of material ol rare quality tuck ed away hero and there on rafters and in crevices of his littlo shop. Ho has picked them up in various places, dis cerning with a keen, prncticcd eye, material that is well adapted to tho making of high grade violins. Some of these pieces havo been seasoned for manv years." Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORI A After the first week' distribu tion last month of this MOD ERN Book by a leading; Indian oplis paper this is what Indi an's leading educators said of it: FRED H, CRONNlNafift, Principal Bluff ton High School "A valuable book for the student as well as any cue who may want a Dictionary. 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