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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.