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. . ' WEBKLT 1T1D SEMI-WEE Vol. XlX.-No. 3 CORVAL.LIS, OREGON. FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 30. 1900. B.V. IKTimi Editor and Proprietor HI- s I X, m I 5 i i I s I an- I DOES IT PAY TO INVESTIGATE? 73JUIUJUlUiUIUUIlUIUfUJllR fWhen you want any tiling' in the line of Clothing, come and see our line, get prices. TVe balance " our quality, and prices defy competition. . ,Our clpthing sales has made bfg strides in the past few years and, this has justified a big increase iD our buying. JNever bet ore has our s tOreKriceived such aT big ship ment as this spring we have clothing Nob by ..clothing for' 6ale. ' Investigate. s '5 , - Gorvallis, Oregon Great Line Mens Fine Shoes. Chase & No Prizes go with our Saiiborn High Grade In fact nothins goes with rmr coffee but cream, sup ar and SATISFACTION p. M. zieroLf. feole agent for - , v'4 PUTER FLEES EV.ELS GUN AT W. J. BURNS AND RUNS DOWN STREET AND ESCAPES Ioeide History of Pater Fraud- He Dupsd His Confederate The Reason Why Puter Ib Eager to Escape. Oth er News. Boston, Mas?., March 2t. Ste phen A; D. Ptt'ter, 'wanted by the United mates department ot justice for complicity in ' the Oregon " land frauds,-was 'arrestedlast' night by Secrel' Sefvi,ceTAgent w J. Borne, who had followed- him frohiJ Port land To San -Francisco" 'and'jfrom there to - ostonV' "Scarcely ' had Burns made: the' Arrest whea'PaWr, periling' VftriMU1,' leltf f t.Btf ecet service5 mair'off and. ba'ckiBg ?.way thrbogli the cr'owdV'madebis eecaps. -"Barns hd!-lbeen iti this? !flit a week or more, but it was Tnfdv' until three days ago that he learned than Puter was-stopping -to tsaoBav, under the name John H, Brownell. Stationing' himself near the postpf- fice, ijurns watched, tor three days, and last night -Puter appealed there. The secret service agent held hirtt in conversation ' for " half an hour and thought that the station superintendent had gone for the po lice. After waiting some time he placed Puter under arrest, searched him for weapons and then led his captive' ouYsldeV'' expecting to! find tbe"pallce iif waiting. -1 :'' " ' There was no officers ip sight, and Puter, taking advantage of 'Burns obvious discomfiture, whipped out a revolver and under its cover ee caped. Quite a crowd had gathered, making it all the easier for the phs oner to get away. story that tbe, government got aline on Puter. It was a strenuous chase. which for the moment seems to have failed. Puter, so it is said. has declared that he would kill himself before going to jail. It Is now known that Puter is wanted here on an indictment found last year. -It is brcause he knows that he faces a serious charge here in Oregon as welj as elsewhere that he Is making such a desperate effort to escape. Boston, Maes., March 27. No trace haB been found by ; the' police of Stephen A. D. Puter, who held up secret Service Agent Burns last night0 "and escaped. r ' A general I LX - Mil bnai. iofindTrtr tAWhs a; and closa f watch "' ff? H 7. 0 ' m8JE! "MX. Tenth t enue, South, early today, t The bod lea were found this morning, mqtiV Chase Sc Sanborn Hig a Graae H E OLDS The Best on Earth, M. M. LONG'S FIGHT WITH KNIVES BODIES OF VICTIMS DISCOV ERED BY POLICEMAN IN A HOUSE AT MINNE-APOUS. Six Dead and Fight Lasts Only Few Minutes Murderers Bleed Victims to Death Clews f ' ' Are Found. Minneapolis, March 23. Six ! taliarr cr Qreek laborers were slash- placed upon all, lines of travel' but of .the'eity;- Mr. Burns was at the Federal building today consulting Marshal Datlinff and United State?' District Attorney uarland. ae ai.- so communicated with Chief Wu kie of "the s stcriit service, 'ahd'is awaUinfl: "Instrrictions Wore ''thaW- ing hii next indve to! Ibcafe'Putei;: ' HOME-SEEKERS i - - 1 . : -j - -. . .. . jC- i-l '. " ' .. - , If you are looking for some real good bargains" in Stock, Grain, Fruit and Poultry Ranches, write for our special list, or come arid -.see us, . We take -pleasure . in giving you all ther reliable information you ; wish also showing you over; the country. ' 1 AMBLER S WATTERS Real Estate, Loan and Insurance, dqryallis and P,lmomatiiJ dregbri. ' Telegram's Salem Bureau, March 2?. The story of the arrest and eS cape of S. A. D. Puter ii Boston brines to the surface' a story of tbe inside history of. the gigantic land fiaud swindle. ' The whole tcheme was originated and elaborated by Puter mainly for the purpose of providing himself with ready money. : It will be; re membered that late last fall, Puter and McKiDley disappeared , and both the government and btate officials lost all track of them. S ate Land Agent West, while traveling 'on a Southern Pacific train, accidentally engaged in con versation with two travelers, who, inthe 'course of the talk, discovered who he was,- aDd they ' volunteered tao lnforttation that there was man in' Sn' Francisco "who could reveal all the inside hi-tory cf the fraud:' ' ' "J " f Through this information West placed himself" in - communication with this confederate, who came to Salem and told West the whole Bto In order to serve the ends of jus tice tbe name of this man is with held tor tne present, out ne was born and 'raised 'near LaCrosse Wis. He had known McKinley from boyhood. Puter met him and told him what he proposed to do. It was agreed that in the swindle to be worked none of the confeder ate's friends in LaCrosse was to be defrauded. Puter prepared all the fraudulent certificates. Theblai lis were printed in Chicago and at va rious other eastern cities, only a portion of them being printed in the same omce, to prevent as much as1 possible arousing suspicion of fraud; ' ' This Wisconsin man was prom ised targe sums of money, but Pu ter was eo penurious that he did did nottHvide fairly. Finally this confederate became troublesome, and 'od the promise of ' a lucrative position m San - Francisco he was induced to go West.1 Alter he: left Chicago' Puter . opened Tip on the LaCrosse people; among the victims being Henry Salzer, who was not to have been a victim. On their way west Puter and McKinley first learned that their scheme bad been exposed.. ; They disappeared,; and the 1 confederate,' not eettine his share, "peached"; and ; gave the whole scheme away. .. - About this time Government Ss cret Agent Burns came r west, and took charge of the matter. He fol lowed up some of the tips given out by this confederate, and every one led1 to facts, which.proved : that the story was true. It -was : from I this New Vprk,, March 27 The first definite move' in the ipng , ei;pectd prpBectftiph ol, h'fji lneurapce orSclals' wit making pampaign 'cbntttbutibtas from the funds of; the 'insurance companies' was 'taken' today; when Magistrate Moss bt the police court, aft.Hr it conference with District At torney Jerome', issued a warrant for Ljeorge w, rersins. turuici viuo- preeideht' of tBel New York Life'Xn suranoe company and partner of J. , " Recently when before Judge ,0' Sullivan, the district attorney said that he might ask Warrants for the arrest of Cornelius Bliss, chairman of the national republican central committee; George B. Cortelyou, postmaster-general and chairman of the national republican commit tee and George W. Perkins, ' former vice-President of' the :New York Life Insurance company, who were responsible for the payment of poll' cy-holders s rands. - - --..v Jerome went direct from tne po lice court to his private office, where he communicated by tele phone with Perkins. As a result Perkins i3 expected to appear before tbe magistrate promptly to surrender himself by bondsmen. , This is apparently Jerome's ans wer to Judge O'Sullivan, who urged that the grand jury should: bring indictments after a thorough inves tigation of all the evidence a nd that it should not permit the district at torney to take the insurance caees away from it. , "The warrant was eworn to by Vice-President i D. P. Kingsley of the New York Lifa Insurance' com pany;;'" - ' "" It is Jerome's plan to test the law, and if the prosecution of Per kins is successful , other prosecutions will follow. Perkins will' apply for a writ of - habeas corpus. Jerome will submit the facts and ask for a speedy decision. ated, with a systematic thorough nesst whieh together with the. .fact that there was ? np,, robbery, points to revenge as tl)e mot,iye ; of tje crime. The tragedy occurred in a , .H Magnussen, a vegetable ped dler, rented the' shack to nine Ital ians, or OreekV; recehVy-' Tlie he w j lenanxB were apsent, aayume, put were together e, very e vening. " 'J ' . .-lit is beiieyeq the nine mep. con stituted a Mafja of'iack Hand dr- sanizatloh aucL were' searching 'the citv for a mfah' markedV'.f'dr death. thp gan' Veyidentjy I fpupd tbt l? man last night, for there were three new faces among them when they returned., from yesterday 's search, The evening was' spent quietly. At midnight, however, a fight start- ea eviaentiy lasiiDg .put a lew imp utes. Soon after ward six men were seen to leave, r ' , . '. .' This morning, when! the police changed beats, the new officer heard that six . men were seen running from the building. He broke in the door and there discovered ' that wholesale murder had been' done. ; In the center of the dark and dingy room lay, side by side',' four dead bodies. .. Blood lav , in thick pools aljabbutthe room. The officer lit erally waded -through it to reacn the bodies. He found three long, black-handled knives beside the bod lee. The murderers had evidett'y let the injured bleed to death, for the wounds were not deep,' but, rather, ip long, systematic ela.i-h-s, which run lengthwise along the bodies. The faces were mutilated. None of the wounds were deep enough to be fatal, but the loss of blood, muet have been lrightful': When the search was concluded on tbe ground floor, Officer Peter son went into the cellar.' Here two more bodies, cut and slashed in a similar .mariner: 'were found- lying iri pools of blood. ' ; In a tin box oh the first story of the room was found a check for $373.60, made out to Nicolo Denutri, evidently a' priest -in the Greek Catholic church. The box also con tained $500 id Italian gold and $400 in American currency. The room contained several eatch- ele. One was marked Nicolo Dem tri, and contained the complete vestments of a Greek Catholic priest even to. the coBtly mitre . and robes. In this grip were found passports in Turkish, Greek and French Ad dresses to Ddmtrl were also found follows: '"Lincoln, IlJ., bjx 345," "Chicago. III., 315 Austin avenue," and "New Salem, N.. D.'.' An address of "Kerstem Rouvko, New Salem, N. D." was also found. Another grip with similar vest ments and garments was found la beled VCar.Bco jDsmtri." Other grips were marked Dakon Capoui and Saini Yeeymi." " ' 1 he police believe tbe victims were fured to the spot and then told that thev must die.' A-'Heht was started, during which not . only the three Victims, but, three of the' r s isnilants' were killed.-. Robbery, was not. tbe motive, fpr the. money, was left,' nntoticlied. and: tbevictjija. all bad. small eums;on thjsijr : per.spnjt : 1 The nine men.LWhp.; rented.' the pUce we:e naystefcious: i,q ; all;- Ujeir movements during the two months cf .reaidience ih Miane.apolisM Y.Tbey stayecluf) all night Monday, ..but Tuesday, sight there, were. no. lights Irl the places -despite. :tbf(' fact" oithe presence of .the three extra: men.. pipes ; Boeton, Mass., March 2. Se cret Sejryke Agent Burns says that the. more he . thinks th,e mattr oyer, the.mpret Bqrprisedhe is th,at Ste phen. &,. D, Puter ; did not., put' a bullet, in. him before he took his sensatipnal departure Monday night He Bays that Puter is a bad man and desperate enough to kill. if ne cessary, to escape. "I assume, all. responsibility, for Puter'a escape,'' saidi; Burns. "In some of tbe stories published, it is made to appear that I blame Super intendent Swift, for not getting po lice assistance. I. did, not,, intend any such impression. Mr. Swift gave me. s 11 the assistance I asked, and Puter a escape is in no way due to him. "PutT is a dangerous man, a bad rran. I am informed tbatr be hs been living with a woman since he has been in Boston, and I am co -fident thai we shall locate bim again before long, tboaah I believe that n- has left the citv. ''In the fight we had over his gna he broke away so that I managed to get my own weapon. Just as I whs about to shoot a woman came out of a restaurant and passed between us. Had I shot I might have killtd ber. "' "I have nothing to say against the Boston police. As soon as I reported the matter they lost, no time in getting after Puter, but I dou't think we'll find him soon.". Boise, Idaho, March J. 28. Aft6r hiving given up the search for the five bottl s of ."ceil fireM at j Poca tllo, Steve Adams and the officers have b en rewarded, by the reepv- continued on page 4 Chicaao, March '27. While one Chicago minister is establishing bil liard rooms and dance halls to keep young members fiom straying, another announces a matrimonial jarlor. Rev. John S. Thompson, iu announcing the plan at a social gathering, said: "This will be an excellent chance for young men to find suitable wivs and youog women to ' eelect rui.-bandp, handsome and devoted'. What better piece could be found to ccoose a life partner than in the ehadow of the church? I believe in marriag9 and the church should af ford opportunities for yonng people to become acquainted. If the churches do not, the saloons and dance halls will." ReV. R. A. White, in defense of his billiard room and " dance hall, said: ' "If the church frowns on these amusemements, we must not be surprised to see the young people go elsewhere "for - them.1; Every church in Chicago should have bil liard rooms and dance halls. I al so favor municipally conducted dance halls,' which' could be con nfected with public schools1. 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