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i . .-.... a; At i. a.. A A ? MM.. i i .v.vr 7v' - volume vm. ,.' LA. 43RANDE, UNION COUNTX, OltEGOJt, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1908. NUMBER 18. CLEW AS MURDERER'S IDENTITY K CHIOS HERS PATROL BEACH IN SEARCH OF EX-SOLOM TAFT TO INVADE HOPELESS STATI OF S. P. STOC ft 7 I ' C. N fr- ? V I A V VVvA) -;mv: BRUTAL AIDER i DOHE AT SALEM EI ! WIFE SLAUGHTERED WITH RAZOR IN DRUNKEN HANDS. l . . ' Revelation Blade This Morning in Sa il lent Rooming House Drunken Hus I band Murders Wife and Then At tempts Suicide Will Live Was Frequently Drunk and Quarrelsome Wife Said Yesterday Husband At tempted to Stab Her Recently. Salem. Ore., Oct. 21. In a drunken frenzy Silas TImmons, a pasterer, aged J7, killed his wife, aged 19, with a ra zor last night, in a rooming house in "f this city, and then cut his own throat. TImmons will live. . The couple came to ' Salem, from Portland about five "-.eeks ago. The body of the girl was found at 7:30 this 'morning In the room with the mur derer, who was unconscious. ' TImmons was frequently drunk. The girl told the landlady yesterday that her husband held a knife ovet her Tuesday night ' GRVIN ELEVATORS BURN. . Fire In Denver Iiast Night Causes Ijoss of a Half Million. Denver, Oct 21. The grain eleva tor of the Hungarian flour mills was destroyed by an Incendiary fire to day at a loss of a half million dollars. The police are looking for three men who are . suspected. They were seen around the engine room a few minutes before the fire was discovered. Four hundred thousands bushels of wheat were destroyed. .. j. i. .... j. .... $2.50 Odds And Ends isdssc Bofs Shoes SHOE SALE Children Shoes $1.89 A general cleaning out of all odds and ends Q9C of shoes consisting of Ladies, Men's and . aPa,'f Children's at a saving from 25 to 50 per cent a paff $1.60 and $1.76 little ' . $3.60 and $4.00 men's $3.50 to $4.50 ladles' $2.25 to $25.0 misses' folks Shoes, odds and Dress Shoes, odds and 8hoeSi odds an4 enu8; ends, ends '. , Sale Price Sn!o Price Sale Price Sale Price . $1A9 a pr $2.93 apr '$2.95 a pr. $1.69 a pair $125 and II as bovs' 2.50 to $2.75 ladies' " $4.00 to $3.00 men's 1-60 and $175 ,a" 89c a pr $1.95 a pr $3.45 a pr $1.29 a pr Do not miss these shoe bargains Also odds , and ends From alt other depart ments ' ALWA YS SOMETHING HEW AT THE FAIR STORE DASTARDLY CRIME DONE IN PORTLAND LAST NIGHT. Police Thus Far Unable to Lay Hands on Perpetrator of Fiendish Crime Victim Dies on Doorstep. Portland, Oct. 21. The police are without any clew as to the Identity of the assassin of Harry Butterworth, a prominent Jeweler of St. John, a sub urb of Portland, who waa shot and In stantly killed at his front door, on his way home last night He left the shop at o'clock A few minutes later his family heard some onefall on the front porch. They looked out and discovered the wounded man, shot through the. breast He died without uttering a word. His clothes were covered with powder, marks, showing the murderer was standing close. DIED IN A DESERT. Note Book Containing Last Entries Found on Dead Body. Los Angeles, Oct 21. Thirty miles from human habitation, B. T. Pratt, a miner, aged 60, starved to death in the Inyo county desert according to a report by O. W. Lewis and H. E. Shankland, who returned from a pros pecting tour In the Argus mountains. The note book was scribbled full of the terrible account of his dying agonies. It bore Pratt's name and contained the following entry, among o'ihers: "I left GtapevinJh Inyo county, Cal ifornia, July 28. Thomas S. Pratt told me I. would perlshT , I though I coujd make It but I got lost. So I guess I will have to give In. I have no water, nothing to eat, and cannot walk." AlilAXiiAAA4.J..,;.iA.?,i4.4.4.4.J.4.W.444'H Satisfaction or your money back MILLIONS OF RAILROAD -PREFERRED "STOCK RETIRED. Company Undecided as to How it Will Be Done Will Mean Large Saving One Batch Issued During Hard Times Convertible Into Common Stock at Par The Earnings Will Be Over a Million Yearly Shows Fi nancial Status. . New York, Oct 211 An official an nouncement was mads today that the Southern Pactflc will soon retire pre- ferm4 atnir SSS The management figures $1,800,000 a year will be saved by retiring it. They are undecided as to the best method of doing It The preferred stock was Issued in 1904 when the company was paying dividends. Another Issue was made last year when money was tight. The stock Is 7 per cent cumulative, subject to call at 115 until July, 1910, and convertible Into common stock at par at holders' option. Photograph Records of Abstracts. Walla Walla, Oct 20. A rectograph Is being put in place In the county auditor's office by the Dean-McLean Abstract company. The rectdgraph will Dhotosrraph the county record? which will be used In the abstracts. It Is believed that this will save much work In the matter of copying tb- rec ords and will be - more rapid. The outfit . cost several hundred dollars. The photograph of the page will be larce enough so that the words on It can be read distinctly. N it M you want Shoes take ad vantage of this Sak and buy HOW BRYAN ATTACKS VANDER- . BILT ROAD MANAGERS. Speech Sold to Have Been Made Last Night by Three Principal Officials, Threatening Reduction In Wages if Bryan is Elected This Subject for Bluer Attack by Bryan Today Thinks the Acta Should Be Punished Hurries On. i.-:----. ,Mt Vernon, O., Oct. jtl.-r-Declarlng officials of the Vanderbllt railroad! are attempting to coerce and intlml- republican ticket, Bryan made a bit ter attack upon the general manager, Van Winkle, Vice-President Schaff, and Assistant Superintendent Ingalls, In a speech here today. He created a big sensation. The attack was the re sult of speeches by the three offllcals to employees In Bellfontaine, O., last night Bryan said their statement of democratic victory meant a cut in wages Is "coercion and a crime against the franchise that ought not to be allowed to go unpunished." Bryan said: "Confronted with the wrath of , the people whose earnings they have taken for their own, ' the predatory corporations threaten a panlo If the people elect me. Taft was In the president's cabinet when the panic last year started, and If he and the strenuous president could not pre vent a panic, how little hance there Is for Taf t alone, I am fighting to restore business competition, and . not to destroy business." :' Bryan called attention to the fact that Ingalls is a son-in-law of Charles Taft. Bryan will go to New York after giving one day, instead of the rest of the week, to West Virginia. He will not visit Mrayland and New Jersey, He declares Ohio is wort for the dem ocrats. Mr. Bryan will make 16 speeches In Ohio today. Beaten by Robbers. San Francisco, Oct. 21. Left un conscious on a sand lot .over nlghl with his head and face beaten almost to a pulp, and his throat cut, Freder ick Kauffman, an employee of the Oakland Gas company, today has lit tie chance to survive. The robbers attacked htm In the dark. Presbyterians Leave Home, Belllngham, Oct ' 21. Because thej could not life a debt of $675 and pay the salary of the pastor, the Presby terlans ofthe little town of Nooksack have forsaken the church, becoming Methodists, who bought the Prcsby terian property. A C NEW YORK FIRE CAUSES MANY TO JUMP FOR THEIR LIVES ivew jtorK, uct Zl. Tnree were burned to death In a big tenement fire In Month this morning. Several tenants were Injured by Jumping. Win- dows became clogged In the wild pan ic. " Three bodies were found after the fire was put out Incendiarism Is bus pected. " ' iwosi ox ne tenant were UHictp, The flames, starting In the rear of the building, shot up an air shaft and soon enveloped the building. Many frenxied women and children flocked to the fir eacapea and were saved by firemen aa they were fcUout to meet certain death by Jumping. Three reels of nlctures and twit n CREATES T DEFECTIVE WlPUiS PRE- - . VENT ADDITIONAL FACTS, Wealthy Canner of Marsh field ami Two Companions Thought to Be Lost PartloH Search Beach. MarshfleM, Ore., Oct. 21. Search ing parties are patrolling the' Curry oounty beach for a trace of R. D. Hume, a wealthy. , canneryman and former menj.ber of the legislature, and two companions, who were on two gasoline schooners which were wreck ed on Gold beach during Monday's storm, .'Brief telephone messages last night told of the. wreck. The wires were In trouble before the remainder the fats of the three men unknown here. ,,,, ' . Labor Federation. . Denver, Col., Oct. tl. One of the most Important conventions of the year will be held In Denver, beginning November 9, when the American Fed eration of Labor will hold its annual session. . The session will doubtless be of the greatest Interest, since it will follow the national election, and the result of the Gompers declaration in favor of Bryan will be apparent, The coming election Is looked upon as a crucial test, of ' the political influence of organized labor. If the reaults of the federation's venture Into politics should not be satisfactory to the rank and file of the members, an Attempt may be made at the convention next month to return to the old policy of abstinence from participation In po litical '. activltjfi: i 'T)i, oeiaUct dele gates will probably make an attempt to ouBt President Samuel Gompers from the position of executive head of the federation. ' Centennial of Manon. Cincinnati, O., Oct. 21. Cincinnati Is thronged today with Masons from all over the state, hero to participate In the centennial celebration of the Ohio Grand Lodge. It was just 100 years ago that Masonry was launched In the Buckeye state, and th anniver sary will be fittingly observed during the next three days. A parade with 10,000 Masons In line, with bands and flags In confusion, Is one of the feat ures of the program. There aro 75,000 Masons ln the state and a large portion of them are already here, or will come later. Elaborate exercises and ad dresses by distinguished Masons will be held In Music hall. InKfwct MlMHissippl. .St. Louis, Oct.'-21. An Inspection trip from St Louis to New Orleans was commenced today by the Mississippi River commission. The government steamer Mississippi Is being used by the commissioners. Public hearings regarding river Improvements will be held at various places along the way, FOUR Bl'UXED TO DEATH. Fire Breaks Out ia Ship Vtiderolns Repairs In Yard. Newburg, N. T., Oct. 21. Four me n were burned to death today In a fire destroying the steamer New York, wh'ch was undergoing repairs In the nhlpya.-ds. Flftty persons were aboard and the four dead were trapped be low the decks. It Is supposed nn ex plosion waa the cause of the fire. The wooden boat burned rapidly. GRUESOME EXPLOSION. Explosion In Culebra Cut ffcuttura the Bodies) of VUt Men. , Ts'ew OrUana, Oct 2!.--Mva men were blown to atoms in an explosion of a hidden charge of dynamite which was hit by a steam shovel 1' Culebra cut, according to a cable dispatch from Colon, Panama, today. The bodies of tho victims were scattered for a half mile. ' ' ' 1 The best movlngs pictures that can NEITHEU PARTY CAN CLAIM THE .STATE POSITIVELY. Taft Will Enter Indiana Tomorrow Both Pftrtlca Bidding Strongly for tike Labor Element, , But Many of That, Class Will Go for Debs Land , elides Predicted, Bui Dopestcrs AW Unable to Even Predict What the Doubtful State Will Do. " mmmmmm Indianapolis, Ind., Oct tl When William Howard Taft begins his three day stumping tour of Indiana tomor- most important speaking crusades of his campaign. Packed up by Sena tor Beverldge and Vice-President Fair banks, the republican presidential can- ' dldate Will make a last aupreme effort to turn In his favor the balance of public opinion that now swings vari ably from one side to the other, now apparently favoring the republicans, and again presaging a democratic vic tory. The brecse of Mr. Taft's oratory may swing the balance In his favor, and he and his political advisers will spend a busy three days In attempting to achieve that result Beyond alt doubt, Indiana. Is the fnost hopeless state In the Union for the political dopes'ters. The most astute politicians of both parties are "up in tfVe air" as to what November 3 may bring in the way of Hoosler votes. The more optimistic ones of both parties are talking; slandslldc and wlldy-lni oW f Vjijorltlos - fojt either Bryan pr Taft, The conserva tive only shakos his head. If he be a democrat, he Is certain that Bryan will get ludlana's electoral vote. If a republican, he Is equally sure of Taft's victory. Asked for facts and figures to substantiate the faith that Is in him, andhe answers only in vaguely prescient monosyllables. s Many Indiana republicans still have sore spots left from the turn-dowa thoy received at the Chicago conven tion. They are inclined to hold Taft responsible. During the next three dnya Mr. Taft will endeavor to dis abuse the minds, of the disgruntled ones and prove to the satisfaction' of the Independent Voters that he is a good fellow, and that the Interests of the country, and especially Indiana, will be safe In his hands. If he suc ceeds, the posHlblllty of defeat may be turned Into victory. ., There Is further ground than that already Indicated for maintaining this proposition. A vety considerable pro porion of the labM" vote which Is f x pected this year to be lust to the re publicans will not go to the democrats. (Continued on page 8.) Ill OKIACOSTLY FARMERS CLIMB TflEES'TO ES CAPE DROWNING Rf FLOOD :; Shawnee, Ok la., Oct 21. At least 100 persons are thought to have been killed by a cloudburst and flood west of her last night, according to report received today. Details are menger, as alt telegraph and telephone wires are down. , The crest of the flood oc curred this liioruiiiff- iiuuuiuua of farmers fled to tree tops to save tl clr Uvea. Bridges over the entire coun try about here -were destroyed. . It la Impossible to communicate with th flooded district ' CLOUDBURST The best movlngs pictures that co u oc:utr.i-t--m tue