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THE STAYTON MAIL C. O. AUX AND tR. Publisher W O R K O F BOYS. Youthful Robbers Confess to Holding Up Great Northern. Great Fills, Mont., June 2. The hold-up of the northbound Great Northern train at the stockyards, about a mile and n half from this vity, was the work of three hoys who now occupy cells in the city jail. A fourth youth, who admits having as sisted in planning the hold up, but who took no active part, is also a prisoner. The <|uarct have made a complete confession to the police. The names o f the four boys are: Albert Hatch, aged 18 ; W illiam Randall, A Resume o f the Less Importent but aged 17; Harry Rheams, aged 15, and George Cresswell, aged Id. Not Less Interesting Events According to the story told by Ran o f the Pest Week. dall. Rheams and Cresswell, the hold up was planned and carried out under the generalship o f Hatch, the young Representative Huff, of Pennsyl est of the four, who is said to have turned the switch, ordered the en g i vania, is seriously ill. neer to back up ami to have gone Rockefeller has given another $500,- through the passenger coaches with 000 to the Rockefeller institute. the conductor, forcing the latter at Chinese o f San Francisco are or the point o f a gun to collect from the ganizing a boycott against the Jap passengers. According to the other boys it was also Hatch who shot anese. William Dem psey and narrowly Trustees o f Stanford university have ! missed shooting Conductor Jack set aside $500,000 for the purchase of ■ Hayes. books. Rheams stated that Hatch, after The employment of union men as 'they hail left the scene of the hold- inspectors makes railroad managers [ u;>, proposed that they cross Sun river to the Montana Central line and indignant. hold up passenger train No. 2 ’« from An earthquake lasting 20 seconds Butte, which was due in two or three was felt at Marysville, Cal. N o dam hours. Because he demurred. Rheams age was done. states. Hatch drew his revolver and A runaway Brooklyn boy has just threatened to kill him. He was dissuaded from the second returned home after 20 years’ absence. attempt at train robbery by the two H e is a millionaire. youths who were with him Ice in Bering Straits has broken up The stories told by the boys, with and steamer traffic to the north will the exception of Hatch, agreed in the be more regular now. main details. Th ey state that the The largest balloon ever constructed hold-up was planned two nights be has just been finished at Danville, 111. fore. it being decided to rob the train the first dark night. W hen inflated it is 150 feet high. S T A Y T O N ..................... O R E G O N NEWS OF THE WEEK la a Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. A German has just been arrested who, it is believed, was attempting to reach the kaiser to assassinate him. Samuel Gompers, president o f the American Federation of Labor, bitter ly denounces congress for not passing the bills demanded by the laboring men. A false alarm of a dynamite plot caused a panic in one of Chicago’s schools. Arizona democrats have indorsed Bryan and approved Foraker's stand on statehood. F E A R S FO R SHIP. Steamer Vaderland Is Reported Sunk With All On Board. OPEN DOOR A FARCE Japan Prepares to Hohl Manchu- ria by Fortifying Herseif. BUILDS IMPREGNABLE FORTRESS Port Arthur is Being Strengthened Into Second Gibraltar--Foreign Merchants Excluded. Seattle. Wash., May 30. According to a special to the Times from Van couver, B. Japan has completely re versed the “ open door’ ’ policy in Man churia. With the urrivul of the Aineri can battleship fleet in the Pacific and the possibility of troublo with the Putted States later on, Japanese states men are preparing for any emergency. Port Arthur, tho former Russian stronghold, is being made virtually im pregnable, while the fortifications at Daiuy, a seaport and railway terminus n the maiuliiiid, occupied by the Jap anese, are I cing rushed to completion with feverish haste. A clash with the powers over a con tiuuancc of the discriminatory policy n w being carried out in favor of tho mikado’s subjects is inevitable, i f Japan is coiu|>cllcd to back down, her surrender will bring its advantages. The Japanese are more curiously amused than alarmed over the proposed visit of the American fleet to tho Orient. These are the conclusions reached by G. C. Druce during a recent extensive tour through China, Japan and Corea. Mr. Druce is ex Mayor o f Oxford, Kng land, and secretary of the Botanical So eiety of Great Britain. He is also cura tor of the herbarium of the University of Oxford. “ While the official classes are re served, the Japanese people nre not the least perturbed over the dispatch of the American battleships to the Ori ent,” Mr. Druce continued. “ Of course, everybody in the East, except the diplomats, associates the demon st rat inn of American naval power with the Manchurian trade question. The famous open door policy advocated by all the white races is in reality a nullity. “ Paris. June 2.— A special dispatch to the Petit Journal from Brussels says that it is rumored the Red Star steamer Vaderland has been wrecked in the North sea in a dense fog. There are 1600 passengers aboard. L lo y d ’s does not confirm this news, which, however, comes from what is usually considered a most reliable source. There were three collisions West Virginia’s democratic dele in the North sea today, and passen gates at-large have been instructed to gers on the Dover-Ostend mail packet vote for Bryan. FINE A N D IM P R I S O N M E N T . declare that they saw a vessel cast The Arkansas river is over it banks away on the Goodwin sands. at several places in Arkansas and flood Five Years in Penitentiary and Pay N e w York, June 2.— N o official con ing bottom lands. S5 76.00 0, Ross’ Sentence. firmation could be obtained tonight in A severe wind storm has swept over Salem. Or., May 30— J. Tborbnrn this city o f the report of the wrecking Clay county, Kansas, but very little o f the steamer Vaderland in the North iioss, president of the defunct Title damage was done. sea. Th e offices o f the International Guarantee & Twist Company, has been Tornadoes that swept Oklahoma Mercantile Marine, which controls the sentenced to serve five years in the northwest of Guthrie brought great Red Star I.ine, and the offices o f the «•ate penitentiary nnJ to pny a fine of damage to crops and farm property. Red Star Line company were closed $.76,853, and to serve one day in the The Red Star steamer Vaderland Multnomah eounty ja.l for each $2 of A gale of wind at Chicago preceded was due to «ail from Antwerp for the fine not paid. an electrical storm which did consid Sentence was imposed by i ’ ircuit N ew Y o i k May 3ft. According to erable damage in all parts of the city. Judge George IT. Burnett, after the ino schedule she would have reached D o Dallas, Tex., is without lights or ver on Sunday, from which port she tion of Rons for arrest of judgment drinkable water. Residences in the de wou’ d be reported on her arrival. Up and for new trial had been overruled. vastated district have been robbed by to a late hour Sunday night she hail Appeal has been taken to tho supreme court, anil Rn«*t has been admitted to looters. not been reported. bail in the suin o f $6000. Butte members of the G. A. R. have This is the penalty Ross must pay for been aroused because one of the BIG RAIL C O N T R A C T . the conversion o f $388,376 of "state churches has been tendered to Emma school funds deposited by State Treas Goldman for her lectures. Illinois Central to Spend $1,450,000 urer Steel in the Title Guarantee & Trust Company Bank ami paid out of Dynamiters wrecked the big pipe for N ew Steel. the lank ^y its officers prior to the line" that conveys water from Bonita Birmingham, Ala., June 2.— Tan- time the bank closed last fall. Ross Mountains. New Mexico, to Carri/ozo, N. M. Repairs are being made. This g'ble evidence o f generous propor was manager of the bank, and ns such tions that prosperity is returning is aided Steel in securing legislation pipe line cost $1,000,000. given in the fact that the Illinois Ccn wnieh would enable the bank tc get Rear-Admiral Crowninshield, retired, tral Railroad company, in connection possession of the state school funds is dead. with the opening yesterday o f its new without paying interest thereon. France and Germany have agreed on line between Chicago. Birmingham F L O O D W A S H E S O U T DAM. a plan for the pacification o f Morocco. and Atlanta, has placed a contract for 52.000 tons o f steel rails, to cost Hearst is gaining in the recount of $1,450 000. New York mayoralty ballots o f the The contract goes to the Tennessee Port Arthur, Ont., Loses Three Lives 1905 election. and $ 500,0005Cama; e. Iron & Coal company, and is the larg A typhoon at Hankow, China, cost est order since the financial depres Toronto. Ont., M.av 30. -A special more than 1,000 lives and wrecked 500 sion set in. Only one contract, that from Port Arthur today says the civic o f the Pennsylvania, takes rank with power dam on Current river hurst v « junks. it. terday, causing a disastrous flood. The A Columbus, Ohio, boy invented a The official announcement that the machine with which he has made sev Illinois Central has decided to ignore loss of three lives ami a money loss es filiiated at $500.000 is reported. A eral successful flights. what remains of the financial depres Canadian Pacific freight train pulling San Francisco supervisors are check sion is likely to set the pace for other into Port Arthur ran on the submerged ing up the city treasurer's accounts. He large systems which have been with »racks and the engine was overturned. is alleged to be short $37,500. holding similar orders until conditions Engineer Ravage, Fireman McBride and Brakeman Fninann, who were on the en Johnson’s managers predict his nom are fully normal. This contract will enable the steel gine, were pinned under the-wreckage ination for democratic presidential can mills here to open additional plants and drowned. The Canadian Pacific didate on the second or third ballot. and give immediate work to more A tornado which swept Alfalfa coun than two thousand skilled men who Railway Company will be tho heaviest ty. Okla., killed 14 people and injured have been idle for some time. In ail loser, several miles o f its tracks having many others, besides doing much dam indirect way it will start the wave of b.,en washed away. The freshet was due to heavy rains. age to property. prosperity over the entire South, put The power house, the Canadian Pacific The Belgian consular agent at Rabat, ting a large amount of money into railway bridge and the pavilion at the Morocco, has been maltreated by na immediate circulation and stimulating park were swept away. A number of tives and his home government is likely all sorts o f business. families living near the dam are miss to take energetic action. ing. Cleveland Goes Home. J. C. Stubbs says our Oriental trade Tornado in Kansas. is threatened if the ruling o f the inter Lakewood, N. J., June 2.— Ex-Presi state commerce commission regarding dent Grover Cleveland, who has been Topeka, Kan., May 30.— A terrific freight rates on western roads holds. confined to the Lakewood Hotel for wind storm of almost the proportion* Mrs. Carrie Nation has been arrested two months with an attack o f rheu of a tornado, which pnssed over the at Pittsburg. matic gout and acute indigestion, has southern part o f Lowell County Thiirs Chester, Pa., is having trouble with sufficiently recovered from his illness day night, killed one man and injured street car men. to leave here today for his home in 22 persons, seven o f them probably fa T w o cruisers and five torpedo boats Princeton. Th e trap was made in tally. The storm traveled from the have left San Francisco for Portland. John Hays Hammond’s large touring southwest and was 15ft yards wide. If A company o f militia is to be organ car. Mr. Cleveland was accompanied took everything in the path and scat tered a number o f houses, barns snd ized at Honolulu, the first for the isl by Mrs. Cleveland and Dr. G. Rowe Rockwood, who has been alternating small buildings over the prairie. The ands. with Dr Joseph T. Bryant, the family property damage will amount to thou Senator Bailey, o f Texas, will go to physician, in caring for the patient. sands of dollars, and the damage to the the democratic national convention as growing crop is large. a delegate. Foot o f Snow in Nevada. Epidemic o f Suicide in Russia. T w o Utah mining companies are Ely, Nev., June 2.— The heaviest fighting over a silver mine said to be snow storm since last winter was ex- Rt. Petersburg, Mav 30__ There ha« worth $1,450,000. nerienced here last night. Fully a teen an epidemic of suicides in Rt Senator Foraker is favoring Roose foot of snow fell. Th e storm was gen t’ptersbnrp that has lasted for three velt for another term, as he dislikes eral between Ely and Cobre. N o dam months. The average number of death* age was reported. | ias been 85 a month. him less than Taft. FLIES W IT H O W N W IN G S. Frenchman Beats All Records With Aeroplane in Italy. Rome. June l. Leo ilr la Grange, the French arroplinist, made a new experiment with bis aeroplane hrre this morning, which was so successful that it filled the spectators witli ad miration H r surpassed his own rec ord by flying for 15 minutes and 30 seconds, only (hen coming down lie- cause he received a signal to do so, and also because the motor of his ma chine cannot hold sufficient gasoline to operate it much longer than that. During that space of time M. dr la Grange made nine and three fourths rounds of an establish :d course in the military tirld, namely r.ix kilometers, a little over nine and nine-tenths of a mile, at a velocity o f 60 kilometers, or 37.2 miles an hour. 'I‘ he aeroplane was first pushed fo r ward hy M. de la Grange's associates, and as «non as the motor was put into action tlie machine rose without dif ficulty, keeping from seven to ten feet above the ground. It moved smooth ly and turned easily, the rounds of the course fo llowing each other with out interruption, and not once did the aeroplane touch the ground. It was a marvelops exhibition, which would have won De l.a Grange a prize of $5000 had it occurred in France. It at least confirms Ins possession of the Archdeacon cup. GANG USE DYNAMITE Ruci’s Confederates Wreck Dak land Houses of Gallaylier. Ex-President o f Board o f Supervisors Had Just Closed a $ 2 6 ,0 0 0 Deal Second Outrage. Oakland, C a l, May 28 .— Three large dwelling houses, built hy James L. Gal lagher, ex president o f the board of supervisors and the prosecution's star witness in the bribery graft cases, at Perkins and Belmont streets, tins city, were wrecked by dynamite tonight shortly before midnight. The houses were not yet occupied. A heavy charge o f dynamite, placed in the kitchen of the largest of the three lions 1 , threw the building off the foundations and almost completely wrecked it. The houses were shat tered, while many windows in tlie urigldtorhuod were broken by the shock. John Rollins, a watchman employed by the contractor building the houses for Gallagher, was sitting in a small shack near the houses at the tunc, and was thrown to the ground. He said to Captain of Detectives Peterson that he was through the three buddings RO B B ER S G E T C A S H . shortly before the explosion occurred. It is said Hut Gallagher was negotiat Great Northern Passenger Train Held ing a deal to d a y for tin- s.ilc o f the houses for $25,000. Several weeks ago Up at Great Falls. Gallagher's home hi Oakland was blown Butte, Mont , June 1 — A Miner spe- up ami badly wrecked at night while he cial'from Great Falls, Mont., says: and his wife and several friends were The north bound Great Northern in the house and narrowly csca|>rd se passenger train was held up this even rious injury, ing about one mile and a half from F O R T W O R T H FE A R S W O R S T . this city hy seven masked men at 12:30 o'clock, the train being run onto a sid ing ijy the robbers, who tired a fusil Trinity River Rises Again and Condi tions Are Serious. lade of shopts up and down the train Fort Worth, Tex., May 28— With the Win. Dempsey, an Augusta rancher, waters of the Trinity river still near was shot through the leg in attempt the summit o f the hanks air ther great ing to escape from the train after it volume of water brg.in pouring from had stopped, and Conductor Hayes the wrst fork of that stream toward Early today was compelled by the robbers to pre this city late last night. the river is rising at a rate of six inches cede them in passing through the cars, an hour, and with such conditions as he carrying a hut in which the passen already prevail, the outcome when the gers were invited to dump what cash crest o f this second rush of waters they had about them. Most o f them reaches this city cannot lie f »retold. I liât considerable additional pro|»erty deposited from $1 to > 10 , and the loss and suffering will result is consid booty of the desperadoes is not be ered certain. A serious situation has developed lieved to be greater than several him here in regard to the city water supply. dred dollars. The mains arc filled with black, muddy While the passengers were being water, unfit for drinking even after robbed, several of the highwaymen being boiled. The city authorities de stood guard at the doors o f the cars clare it may be a week before they can to prevent the passengers from lcav restore the normal water supply. Mean while. those who can afford it are buy ing. ing water fr in private artesian wells, The robbers finally jumped of! the and those who cannot are drinking the coaches and disappeared in the dark water that comes out of the mains. Thirteen men, women and children ness. Rain is failing heavily, and the were caught in the overflow in the Den night is so dark that no trace o f the ton river. Their condition became *0 robbers could be found, although precarious that they were forced to posses were in pursuit within 20 min hold the children upon their shoulders to keep them from drowning They utes after the outlaws had left the stood in water almost up to their necks train. for ten hours until rescued. G O V E R N M E N T fM A Y SUE. Great N O R T H C A R O L I N A DRY. Area in Montana is Stripped Bare o f Timber. Prohibition Sweeps State From End to End at Elections. Butte, Mont., June 1 - A federal sur vey corps is engaged in running sur vey lines in the mountains near Phil- ipsburg, Mont., to determine the amount o f cord wood cut for the mines of Granite county, and the location of the ground from which the timber was taken. This wood was cut, it is claimed, from land belonging to the government, and it is intimated that suits may he begun to recover for •bout 700,000 cords o f wood cut, ap proximating in value about $1.000,000. The bulk o f this wood was cut about 10 or 12 year« ago, during the boom days o f silver, and was used at the Raleigh, N. C . May 28.— North Car olina was carried for state wide prohi bition Tuesday by a majority estimated at 40.000 to 42,000 on reports received up to midnight. The prohibition ticket carried 78 out o f the 98 counties hy overwhelming ma jorities The prohibition ticket has car ried 20 counties hy majorities approxi mating 5,600. T his calculation is partly based upon estimates and the prohibi tion leaders say that it is possible fo r the prohibition majority to reach 50,000. I lie election passed off very quietly, no disturbances o f any importance being rcoorted. The total vote cast in the state was about 175.000. Every large town in the state except Wilmington and Durham went prohi bition. Under the regulations o f the prohibi tion hill submitted to the people there will be no manufacture nr sale o f intox icating liquors in the state after Janu ary, 1909. __________________ Bimetallic and Granite Mountain mines, owned hy Charles D. McClure and hi« associates, of St. Louis, to gether with a few Montanans. The area of timber land stripped clean is 10 miles wide and 12 long. Refugees Swept Away. Still Vigorous at 128. Oklahoma City, Okla , May 28— A St. Petersburg, June»l.— A veteran pecial from Collier, Okla.. near the soldier, with the record of so years’ Texas line, says that 14 persons who military servire, and whose age is de dared to be 128, has been visiting St had taken refuge on an island formed Petersburg from the T v e r district. between the new and old channels of This wonderful old man, Michael Bud Red river, were drowned late today, nikov, traveled to the capital to draw when the flood waters covered the place a prize of $2500 in the lottery, and the czar had him at Czarskoe Selo as a where they had taken refuge. Although feature o f the festivities for the Swe weighted down with a train of ballast, dish royal wedding. !• ie “ Katy” railroad bridge went out at Budnikov, whose breast is adorned 9 o’clock last night. The river is over with many medals for bravery ami dis three miles wide and is cutting a new tinguished service, joined the Russia* hannel around the town. army in 1797. Cholera Is Spreading. Manila, June 1.— The cholera at Dagupan. 120 miles from Manila, is worse. Twenty-nine deaths are today reported, due to eating infected food.«. The people are loath to clean up their surroundings, despite strenuous efforts on the par' of the bureau o f health. More Plague Appears. Will mstad. Curacao, May 28— The report that the Port o f La Guayra would lie reopened in the immediate fu f f * *' considered here to lie prema- tc e, as it is unofficially stated that an- cifter case of_ bubonic plague has oc curred there since the issuance o f Pres sent Castro’s decree.
