The Stayton mail., March 13, 1908, Image 2

THE STAYTON MAIL
E. D. ALEXANDO. Pi
B L O O D Y F IG H T A T P E N .
T h re e M o n tan a L ife rs M a k e
Dash fo r L ib erty
a M ad
SLAIN BY HUNDREDS
R E V IS IO N A S S U R E D .
Extra
to Bs Called to G o
O var Ta riff.
Session
RUEFACCUSESHENLY
Washington, March 9.— Plana for Hie
I>eer Lodge. Mont., March 1 0 — W ar­
revision of tbe tariff have lieen agreed
den Frank Conley, of the Montana
upon by the Republican leaders, In­
state penitentiary, was tearfully wound­
cluding Rixieevelt, Spcakei Cannon,
ed Sunday morning and his first assist­
Sens tor Beveridge and Representatives
ant warden, John Robinson, was k ill­
Payne, Dalzell and Sherman, tbe three
ed, when three life convicts, George
latter being n suiters of the house ways
Rock, W. H. Hayes and another whose
and means e mimlltee, wtio w ill frame
name is not given out, made a dash for
the new law.
liberty in the penitentiary office at 8
d
An extra session of congreta w ill lie
o'clock. It Is thought the warden w ill
called immediately after the expiration
live.
Robinson's throat was cut from ear D is a s te r at Subut b o f C leveland D es­ of the present congiese next spring and D e c la re s H is T estim o n y W as O b tain ed
A Return« o f the Leas Important but to ear and the jugular vein whs severed.
a bill w ill lie drafted reducing »o n e of
o íales M any H o m u — T e a c h e rs
T h ro u g h M is re p re s e n ta tio n —
the high schedules <n steel and iion
Conley’s thioat was gashed and lie was
Not Less Interesting Events
and equalizing others.
It the Demo-
W an ts to C h a n g e P lea.
stabbed several times in the shoulder
D ie W ith I h e i r F le e » « .
o f the Past Week.
irats are successful In tbe national dec
and groin before he was able to draw
turn next fall, President Roosevelt w ill
bis revolver and shoot two of the
call
congress ¡minedlately after the re­
assailants
down.
Convicts
Hayes
and
K in « Alfonso w ill visit Barcelona in
Cleveland, O., March 5.— Penned in
San Francisco, March 7.— This morn­
sult la known, ao that the tariff can be ing at 10 o ’clock Abraham Ruef w ill,
Roek were both shot down by Conley
defiance of bomb throwers.
narrow hallways, jammed up ugainst revised by the Republicans.
after the latter had been wounded.
through bla attorneys, Henry Acb,
Mayor Busse, of Chicago, has taken
Senator Beveridge, who presented a
The attack on the prison authorities doors that opened only inward, 170
step« to keep all anarchists out c f the and a subsequent effoit to escape has, children in the suburb of North Col- measure providing for a tariff commis­ Frank J. Murphy and M. C. i hapman,
pre-cut to Judge Dunne a motion to al­
city.
according to the prison authorities lingwood yesterday were killed by the, sion, had a cun fetence with Hie presi­ low him to withdraw his plea of guilty
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District Attorney Jerome, of New this afternoon, been long planned by by smoke and beneath the grinding dent today, l-att-r he conferred with entered on May 15, and substitute a
Speaker Cannon and Repr. im itative
York, says the charges against him are Hock and Hayes, who were cellmates.
plea of not guilty in the case brought
Both were armed with penknives, the heels of their panic stricken playmates Payne, Dulse)I and Sherman. It devel­ on Indictment No. 305, one of the
false.
The awful tragedy occuried yester­ oped that the commission plan la not
blades of which were sharpened like
Flench restaurant extortion caeca. To
In the New York to Paris automobile razors. The three convicts were brought
day morning in the public school of acceptable, and it was agreed that a support bit motion Kuel w ill tile affi­
race the American car is far ahead of to the office of the penitentiary Sunday
North Coll logwood, ten miles east of resolution shall tie adopted by the pres­ davits ot a sensational nature, the sub­
the others.
morning by Deputy Warden Robinson,
ent congress directing tbe »«-cretarira of stance of which wan given out tonight.
this city.
At 10 o ’clock last night 165
state, treasury, agriculture, commerce
The janitor of the Collinwood school to be tried for some trivial infraction
In filing the motion Ruef .Oaten that
declares he fastened the doors open at of the prison rules, and Conley was corpses were in the morgue at Colling- and labor and d iie ter of the census to the plea of guilty wan impro|>etly am)
waiting to sit in judgment.
wood, aix children were still unaccount­ gather aucb data as w ill lie useful to Inadvisedly tendered and that the de­
the first alarm of ire.
The moment the men entered the ed for, and all the hospitals and houaen congiese in revising the tariff.
fendant ia not guilty of the offense
The incident of the seizure of the
R*-piesentative Sherman, w ith the
office door Rock turned sw iftly upon
charged, snd that he wan induced to
h r two miles around contained numbers
Japanese steamer Tatsu Maru by China
Robinson, who was closing the door be­
approval of S|>eaker Cannon, ia circu­
enter the plea of guilty by virtue of an
has not yet been settled.
hind the men, and quickly drawing a of children, some fatally and many leee lating a petition among members of the
agreement and understanding with the
Two teachers also house which request** Hie ways anti
John F. Stevens, ex-engineer of the knife, be began slashing at the deputy eeriously injured.
district attorney, W illis*.! 11. Lsngiloii,
Panama canal, says the big canal w ill warden’ s throat. Robinson waa unable loet their lives in an effort to save their means committee to sit during the sum­
the asnintant dlntrlct attorney. Franoin
be of little value after it is finished.
to retreat or move before his throat was charges.
mer recess for the purpose of gathering
J lleney, the special agent of the d a-
A ll of the victims were between the data to aid the members in framing a
Adm iral Goodrich says American cut wide open and he sank to the floor
trirt attorney, W illia m J. Bums, and
ages o f 6 and 15 years.
The school new ta iiff law.
dying
Many signatures have
battleships are equal to those of any
the financial backer of the district at­
contained between 300 and 325 pupils, already been procured and ttie commit­
At
the
same
moment
that
Rock
at­
other country but could be made much
torney in this prosecution, Rudolph
tacked Robinson, Hayes also palled out i and of this entire number only »lo u t tee w ill sit.
Sprockets, end because of the agree­
better.
80
are
known
to
have
left
the
building
a knife similar to that of Rock snd
ment an<i understanding of the judge
China is about to spend f60,000,000 started for Conley. Tbe latter retreat­ unhurt. It w ill he several days before
D E M A N D 8 ARE M A D E .
presiding in this depaitment of Hie Su­
in naval construction.
The govern­ ed to the rear of the office before the the exact number of killed is known,
perior court, Judge Frank II. Dunne,
m en t w ill also borrow large sums to be oncoming desperado.
Before Conley as the rains may (t i ll contain other J a p a n ’s M in is te r P resen ts U ltim a tu m
that the plea of guilty »h>uld subse­
used in railroad construction.
could draw his revolver,
however, bodies and the list of fatalities may be
quently lie withdrawn and the pUa of
to C hina
An alarm of fire at Leee Summit, Hayes had slashed his throat, cutting increased by a number of deaths among
Pekin, March 9.— Japan’s ultimatum not guilty substituted, xniMhe cau-e
Mo., caused the 400 school children to him from the left ear to a point under tbe children who are now lying in the in tbe case of the Japanese steamship dismissed against the defendant.
rash oat of the building in a panic. No the chin. The convict, seeing his in hospitals hovering between life and Tatsu Maru was presented to the head
the motion alao w ill »tele that the
tended victim getting away, grappled death.
attention was paid to the fire d rill.
district attorney has heretofore consent­
The school house was of brick, two of the Chines«* F< reign board today, and
with him and stabbed him several
ed to the withdrawal of the plea o f
Hearu papers are accused of inciting times in the shonlder and groin.
stories and an attic in height.
The tbe board has tbe matter under consul-
guilty end that thia plea was obtained
elation.
anarchy.
number
of
pupils
was
more
than
norm­
Although bleeding terribly, Conley
The
Tatsu
Maru
whs seized off Macao from th • defendant by fraud, coercion,
Portugal seems to be drifting toward managed to draw his gun from his ally large and the smaller children had on February 7 by Chinese custom's dtiresa and fala«* pretense«. Tbe mo­
pocket and fired fonr times with the been placed in an attic of the building.
a republic.
ernisera on the charge that her cargo of tion w ill be presented to the court on
weapon pressed against Hayes’ abdo­ There was but one fire escape and that
March 12.
Colorado has had 29 homicides al­ men.
was in the rear of the building. There arms ami ammunition was Intended for
Chinese
revolutionists,
although
con­
ready in 1998.
As Hayes sank to the floor. Rock were two stairways, one leading to a
signed to a n ercliarit of that pi ice. The
L E A V E S C H O O L W IT H O U T P A N IC
Black Hand leaders are meeting their rushed at Conley, who emptied the two door in front and the other to a door in
steamer ia now being held at W ham ­
the
rear.
Both
of
these
doors
opened
remaining
cartridges
in
his
gun
into
match in New York.
Rock and
he latter also went down. inward, and it is said that the rear door poa. on the Cajiton river.
The death list in the Collinwood dis­
The irreducible minimum of the S inging ''A m e ric a " 2 , 0 0 0 N ew Y o rk
The third convict who had been called was locked as w ell.
C h ild re n Reach S a fe ly .
aster has reached 174.
Japanese
claims is the restoration of
W hen the flames were discivered the
to the “ carpet," took to his heels at
New York, March 7.— A special call
Japan says she w ill nse force with the first of the battle, but was quickly teachers throughout seem to have acted the steamer, wa well as of her cargo,
and t. e payment of a full indemnity. wa* sent into fire headquarters from
China only as a last resort.
captured and plated iD his cell. Tbe with tourage and sell possession and to
have struggled heroically for the rsfety Action is demanded within a “ reasona­ tbe public arhool on One Hundred and
The Knickerbocker Trust company, authorities refused to give out his name
ble tim e ." In case of default or post­ Ninth street, between Amsterdam ave­
antil they had investigated whetiier he of their pupils and marshaled the little
of New York, is to reopen.
ponement,
Japan, according to tbe nue and Broadway.
was concerned in the plot or whether ones into columns for the “ fire d r ill,"
The children were inarched from the
Nine Chinese have been sentenced to he had merely been called to the office which they often practiced. Unfortun­ terms of her ultimatum, w ill "ta k e
school without penic or disorder. They
death in Boston for murder.
ately the line of march iD thia exercise immediate a ction ."
at the same time ss the other two.
Japan expects a reply by tomorrow. were assembled in the yard and aent
had always led to the front door, and
The Interstate Commerce commission
She
w ill not tolerate China’s offer to home.
Parent« who rushed to the
the children had not been trained to
A R E F IR E T R A P S .
'w ill enforce the 9-hour law or a ll ra il­
investigate the case. She insists upon building were p*e/ented by tbe police
seek
any
other
exit.
The
fire
came
roads.
from a furnace situated directly under an apoli gy for the hauling down of the from closing in the exits and.ent a wav.
Japanese flag on the Tatsu Mara anti The fire was on the top floor of the
Franklin’ s bouse in Paris has been T o o M an y Flim sy Buildings A re C o n ­ this part of the bnilding.
structed in A m e ric a
dtnnlished to make way for a more
When the children reached the foot she w ill not accept mediation, affirm­ building, which ia five stories high.
modern building.
The 2,000 pupils in the building were
Washington, March 10.— In a state­ of the stairs they found the flames ing that China ia In error and that the
facte are incontrovertible.
engaged
in their morning singing exer­
close
rpon
them
and
so
swift
a
rush
ment
made
public
last
night,
Richard
Profeesor Quackenbos, ex-profes?or cf
Baron Hayashi, tbe Japanese m inis­
Columbia university, announces that L. Humphrey, engineer in charge of the was made for the d or that in an in­ ter to China, in delivering the ultima­ cise when the fire gong rang ai d they
he had a medicine that w ill make bad structural material laboratories of the stant a tightly packed mass of children tum, made reference to Japan’ s a> m- continued to sing "A m e r ic a " aa they
marched out of the building.
There
government, discusses recent tire hor­ was piled against it.
men good.
rors and asserts that fire traps as bad
After the fire had practically burned pathy for China in the matter of con- v at no sign of penic at any time.
A part of the battleship fleet is sched­ or worse titan that which cost the lives itself out the work of rescuing the bod­ tratmnd traffic in arms and explained
uled to return by way of the Suez «anal of so many school children at Collin­ ies wss begun by firemen and railroad that China could not ex pec t media li in
SECRETS OF TORPEDOES.
and w ill also visit a number of Euro­ wood, O., exist in nearly every village employee from the Lake Shore shops. so long as she did not admit the parti­
pean countries.
and town and in many c f the large The railroad company turned over one cipation of the Portuguese.
Blisa C om pan y Says
E m ploye H a s
of its buildings near by to be used as a
Illin ois Central directors are work­ cities.
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He urges the passage of laws to pro­ temporary morgue, and thither the
ing on a plan to raise $30,000,000.
hibit the occupation of anything except charred and broken little bodies were
New York, March 7.— The E. W .
K in g Edward is on a visit to France a structure of the highest fire tet-isting removed as fast as they could be dug C itiz e n *' C o m m u te A u th o rizes A dd i­
Bli»a company, manufacturer« of pro­
and called on the French president.
tion al E xp in d -fu re t.
W ith in five 1 ours
type, especially when it is need as a from the ruins.
jectiles, secured the arrest laid night o f
Two women have been arrested at school, theater cr other structure in practically all had been removed. They
San Francisco, March 9 . — The bac­ W illia m Ksaer, a mechanic, of Bn ok-
Napa, Cal., f« r passing counterfeit which people assemble in large num­ were placed in rows in the Lake Shore teriological
reports of tbe Federal lyn, who, it la charged, has stolen the
shops.
bers.
money.
health officers state that infected rata brass models of ti e principal parts of
“ It is a matter of record,” he said,
Identifications were made only by were found in nearly every district of torpedoes now in process of ferret man­
The Interstate Commerce commission
"borne out by statistics, that this coun­ means of clothing and trinkets. Tbe the city last week, only the Sunset and ufacture for the government.
says it is not opposed to the Fulton bill
try spends enotmous sums of money in fire had swept away nearly all resem­ Richmond districts being immune. The
Detectives engaged on the cnae assert
as has been stated.
providing equipments in fighting fires, blance to human features in tbe ma­ greatest percentage of infection ia re­ that other arrests w ill b*r trade of m m
Chargee have been filed against Chan­ while foreign countries spend their jority of instances. Distracted parents ported from the North Be.ich district who w ill I e charged with offering for
cellor Day, of Syracuse univereitv, for money in bnilding structures which soon began to gather and the work of and in the Western addition. In all sale to other governments eicrets o f
speaking ill of President Roosevelt.
offer the greatest resistance to fire. The identification of the blackened and buildings where infected rats were projectile manufacture.
The F'ederal
found, walls and floors were opened, authorities would be interested n the
Suite'for the illegal catting of timber per capita loss in this country yearly mangled corf see began.
The grewsrme task of taking out the and the places thoroughly fum gited. prosecution, it wan said, though just
have been filed in the United States exceeds $5, against an annual loss in 21
of the principal cities of Europe of 33 blackened torsoes and bits of human T h ecitiren a ’ health committee has au­ how was not made clear.
court at Helena against several firms.
cents per capita. Estimating the pop­ remains was od « o f horror. A line of thorized the Federal health officers to
W illia m Knaer waa 1 eM in »1,000
Governor Johnson w ill dedicate the ulation of the country at 80,000,000 rescuers was formed, hacked by half a employ additional men, no lim it belr g bail when arriigned In court to lay.
monument erected by the state of Min­ the loss from fires here is $740,000,000. dozen ambulances. As the bodies were placed on the number. New gangs w ill No representative of the goiernm ent
nesota on Shiloh battlefield on A p ril 10. I f we had the same conditions that pre­ antangled from the debris they were be organizeil and an effort made to ex­ appeared againgst Ksaer.
A monmnent and statne of Shake- vail in European rities our loss would passe*! along to the stretchers, thence terminate all the rats in the city within
be but $26,400 non «
”
conveyed to the ambulances, where the next 30 days.
speare w ill be ready for the 300th an-
Petition C z a r fo r M e rc y
they weie m ercifully
covered with
nirereay of his death and w ill be erect­
Ht. Petersburg, March 7.— M. Tachai-
blankets and then taken to tbe impro­
J a p a n ’s N aval S tr e r g th .
Bonus fo r Fach Child
ed in London.
kovsky, who ia awaiting trial for revo­
Tokio, March 10.— Borne reliable fig­ vised morgues.
Sydney, N. 8. W ., March 9.— The lutionary utterances, was visited today
A petition signed by 40,000 persons ures are now to hand showing the pres­
increase of population in the common­ by physician«, who are to determine
asking pardon for Captain Van Schaick, ent strength of the Japanese navy com­
S hips Leave M ag d alen a Bay
wealth Is notoriously slow, and the the state of hie health
Mme. Tschal-
under 10 years’ sentence for criminal pared with its strength when the war
San Diego Cal.. March 5.— Wireless legislators of Western Australia, where kovsky w ill present to Premier htoly-
negligence in canning the wreck of tbe broke out. Details are appended, but messages from Magdalena bay today
the inhabitants number only two to tbe
steamer Gen. Slocum, whereby over the totals may be briefly stated, viz : state that tbe gunboat Yorktown left square ruile, have determined to take a pin an English petition in favor of her
1 000 lives were lost, w ill be presented On* hundred and fifty seven vessels of there this morning for San Francisco leaf out of tbe book of the French. husband, signed by 300 leadit g clergy­
men and members of the nobility. This
to President Roosevelt.
all descriptions, representing a tonnage direct. The remainder of the second W ith a view to encouraging bigger fam­ la the petition that Connt Benkendorff,
The first consignment of Easter bon­ of 283,242 tons, before the war, and squadron, which means all the vessels ilies, an amendment has tieen inserted Russian ambassador in London, de­
nets from Paris has arrived at New 204 vesse s and 515,082 tons at the now at Magdalena except the Califor­ in the income tax bill by ths state leg­ cline*! to forward to Ht. Petersburg. I t
present day. Further scrutiny of the nia, w ill sail on Sunday for San Fran­ islative assembly giving an exemption w ill be followed hy a general Engliah
York.
figures shows that Japan today possess­ cisco. The California w ill remain at of $50 for every child up to the number petition.
A fire in the snbnrbe of Tokio burned es more than twice the number of bat­
the bay for several days thereafter snd of five in the family of a taxpayer.
400 houses and caused a loss of $2,- tleships she had before the war.
the operator at the wirele«a station ex­ Five children la evidently the lim it.
Illa g a l Fencers Fined.
600,000.
pects to hear from the battleship fleet
Helena, Mont., March 7.— United
The bouse committee on expositions
P o rtu g a l N o t Involved.
through the big cruiser about March 10
F u rn ace G o t O v e rh e a te d '
State Judge Hunt today imposed rather
favors appropriating $500,000 for the
Lisbon, March 10.— Investigation in­ or 11 if she remains there.
Columbus, O., March 9. — That the severe penalties on fonr well known
Japanese fair.
stituted by the Portuguese government
fire in the Collinwood achoolhonse Northern Montana stockmen amt ranch­
N ew Y o rk S p a re s Rod
which coat the lives of more than 170 ers who pleaded guilty to illegal fenc­
Japan threatens to nse force unless regarding the Tatsu Maru incident,
New York, March 5.— By a vote of children was dne to an over heated fur­ ing. The fines and imprisonment fol­
China surrenders absolutely in the mat­ have elicited from the Pekin govern­
ment the emphatic assertion that the 21 to 17 the board of education defeat­ nace ia the snbstance of a partial report low: Joseph and Frank Laird, ten
ter of the seized steamer.
seizure occurred on the high seas, and ed the proposal to reintroduce corporal made to State Fire Marshal Creamer days and $250 each; Nelson Bingham,
Nine anarchist leaders have been that, therefore, there waa no violation punishment in the public schools of tonight by the three deputies who have
48 hour« and $200; James, Bingham,
arrested in Chicago.
of the law governing Portugal waters. ths eity.
been investigating the cauaeeof the fire. 48 hours and $100.
S T A Y T O N ..................... OREGON
NEWS OF THE WEEK
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a Condensed Form lor Our
Busy Readers.
Nearly 200 Children Roasted In
School House Fire.
Makes Serions Charge o( Subor­
nation ot Perjury.
FLAMES CUT OFF ALL RETREAT
ALLEGES UNDUE INFLUENCE USED
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