Vol. XIX.-No. 3
CORVALLIS, OREGON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 4.1900.
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BANDIT SMITH SHOT
OUTLAW TRACED TO HIDING
PLACE BY BL00DHOUND3
IN THICKET NEAR
NEW ERA.
Ballet Sent Into His Temple by
Hariy Graber, Owner of Blood
, hounds, as Smith Levels
His Gun Dynamite
Is Used to Force
Him Out
I ; Oregon City, Or.,' .May 1. Des
perado Frank Smith, murderer of
three officers of the law.: was killed
this forenoon io the woods eonth of
New Era, Clackamas county, by a
ballet in his head from the revolv
er of Harry" Graber,1 of Spokane
- lbe outlaw was trapped at o
clock this morning,' and ' at 11:10
he was writhing in the underbrush,
wounded unto death.
Prior to his destruction Smith had
made a sensational escape into the
timber and i had been surrounded
and penned in by at least 200 offi
cere and volunteers. Dynamite had
been used to dislodge him. and the
woods had been fusilladed with bui
lt te, all of which he escaped uo
harmed. ' :'
: Smith was tracked lo his lair
through the sagacious intelligence
of Graber s bloodhounds, which did
the best work that bloodhounds have
ever accomplished in this state. In
the chase for Smith, the finish could
not have been more spectacular nor
more dramatic and filled with start
ling sidelights had the entire affair
been planned and executed by the
brain of a master stage director.
It was exactly 11:10 when a lead
en miSMle . lrom limber s weapon
ended the career of the outlaw. It
was lees than two hours after the
first information had been received
by Sheriff Culver that a suspect
had been seen near Canby. The
trail which bad been cold and dor
mant for ihe past four days, devel
oped with remarkable rapidity, and
the more the officers investigated
tbe hotter it grew until the gieat
climax was reached and bathed in
blood.
Coocf&led behind a fillan log,
less than 25 fett io a straight Hue
from the railroad track, Smith was
brought to bay and there crouched,
until the pureuers came upon him.
ibe nusnmg or bmith was unex
pected, although tbe men were cer
tain he was in the timber. The of
ficers stumbled upon him and were
standing within three feet of him
when he was espied.
Tbe dogs, which bad been follow
ing the bot scent and uttering loud
criee, stopped at the log and sniffed
the air, holding their heads aloft
Graber had tbe beasts in leash, and
was nrglog them on. Directly
across the log and at the feet of
Graber lay the desperado. To the
right of Graber was detective
Vaughn, of Portland, and Sheriff
Culver.
To Graber 's left crept Deputy
Sheriff Morden, of Portland. These
men were slowly advancing through
the brush when the dogs paused
and tbe rifles of the men were held
in readiness. Suddenly Graber
glanced down, and their, concealed
partly by tbe log, was the murderer
and fugitive. Smith saw he was
cornered and made no outcry. H
was industriously pulling the razor.-,
watches and jewelry from his coat
pocket and hiding them under the
log when Graber saw him.
."Are you Smith?" demanded
Graber.
. 'Yee," wes the brief answer.
As Smith made this reply he
pulled his revolver from the inside
of his coat and started to level it
at Graber.
"Plug hi ml" exclaimed the detec
tive and sheriff's office men, and in
the twinkling of an eye Graber had
whipped out his own revolver from
his holster and sent a bullet crash
ing through Smith's temple.
Smith did not die instantly, but
lay groaning in a terible manner,
while the crowd of armed men,
which had guarded the railroad
track, came vaulting over the wire
fence which enclosed the track of
brush between the roadbed and the
river.'
For a few minutes there was a
feeling of anxiety on the . part' of
Graber and tbe others immediately
connected with the shooting, for de
spite the telltale blue cap which the
dying man wore and his general
description, there was a possibility
that a terrible mistake bad been
madp. These fears were quickly
allayed by Datective Snow, who ar
riv d in a few minutes, and posi
tively identified the woundei eni
expiring man as Frank Smith, tbe
criminal and Snow and Detective
Rseing bad arrested Monday week
fcr the robbery of the Troutdale
postoffice, and the man who had
daringly escaped hand over band
on a thin electric light wire from
tbe Portland city j ail.
Congratulations immediately fol
lowed, and there was a gigantic
cheer from the throats of the army
of manhunters. Meanwhile, Smith,
with a jagged hole in his temple,
was breathing heavily.
Put another bullet into him and
put him out of his misery," said a
posseman. v..
No," cried another., "He had
no mercy on others, eo let him suf
fer."-' v ' " '
Tbe outlaw was dragged from the
brush to the railroad track and laid
on a handcar. A dozen men push
ed the car the quarter mile to New
u;ra. smnn groanea me enure dis
tance, and had not died when the
posse began wiring lor vausporta
tion home. '
When a search was made of Smith
his revolver was found plugged with
cotton. The weapon was clean, and
in one pocket the desperado had 16
cartridges for his AU-caliber revolv
er, wun wnicn ne sounea out me
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life1 of Patrolman Hanlop, " of Ore
gon City; Sheriff Shaver, of Clack
areas county, add Captain Hender
son, of Woodburn. There are some
who contend that Smith's plugged
gun indicated that he was willing
to surrender, and that he hoped to
be taken alive and was trying to
hand his weapon to Graber when
the latter shot him. Against this
is the argument that the men who
lined the track and covered every
outlet of escape had repeatedly call
ed Smith to cone out and they
would give him a chance.
A better place to trap the outlaw
could not have been designed. A
short quarter-mile south of' the lit
tle bamlet of New Era there is
thicket of willows, cotton-wood and
a few fir tree5, between the railroad
aod tbe Willamette River. This
enclosure extends for about half
mile, and is about 900 feel broad at
its widest part. Owing to its posi
tion, a get-awav was impossible.
The railroad track was guarded on
the east, New Era was on tbe north,
the river was on the west and to the
south were guards. .'
.With the death of Desperado
Prank Smith, quietness again reignB
in the Willamette Valley. The tar
Doers who have tramped weary
miles, with Bhotguns in their hands,
and c yes strained looking for tbe
outlaw, have returned to the plow.
Tbe chase is ended. There is noth
ing left to do but bury tbe crlmina
who died with his toots on and di
vide the $100 reward among the
officers.
As yet it is not known hov the
price placed on Smith's head will
be apportioned. Harry Graber, th
humane officer of Spokane, who
owned the bloodhounds, and the
man who killed the outlaw, will re
ceive the lion's share. The remain
der it is presumed, will go to the
three officers who were with him at
the log where Smith was shot.
few men nave fjaa less svmpa
thy extended them in their dying
hour than that accorded the despe
rado. Smith lay bathed in his life's
blood breathing bis last, and utter-i-r
groans of raiD, as he lay there
uuuutcioue. ti'S plight and sutler
icg evoked less compassion than
would a dog. It was as though
Smith was a wild pnimal who need
ed extermination.
Unlike Tracy Smith did not try
to seek notoriety and newspaper
publicity, otherwise he would not
have hesitated to boldly holdup
farm houseB and obtain the food he
required and fresh clothing.
After the work accomplished by
the bloodhounds imported from Spo
kane, another example is presented
to prove that the state penitentiary at
Salem should be equipped with
dogs. If there had been well-trained
bounds at Salem, the dogs could
have picked np Smith's scent after
the killing of officer Hanlon, at Or
egon City, and this would have
eaved the lives of Sheriff Culver
and Captain Henderson.
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NANCIAL- KINGS.
Garfield "Has the Goods" Great
est of Conspiracies Investiga
tion Shows Handfu lof
Men Controls Commerce
and Railroads High
Officials Guilty.
Washington, May 2. Standard
Oil is about! to go against something
stronger than the state, of Missouri..
The United States government has
got around to the point at last
where it-has a case against the par
ent of all trusts, and, less all the
advance reports are greatly exag
gerated, magnates who heretofore
have defied tbe authorities and tbe
people will soon be in the hardest
corner that ever has fallen to their
lot.
Congress and the country . will
know all about it when Com mis
sioner of Corporations Garfield's
much-heralded report on his inves
tigation 01 tne oil combination is
sent to tne senate ana bouse on
Friday. It will be submitted by
tbe president, who has received it
from the Commissioner, and it will
be accompanied by an executive
message. , !
The message in all probability
will have for its object the clinch
ing of the effective railroad-i ate rejr
ulation which the administration is
determined to secure, as the . report
ltBelf will Bhow how favoritism in
rates aiad rebates has built up the
most stupendous politico-financial
industrial institution in the world
a power that not only controls
the outpot and the price of the
commodity that gives its name, but
which, through a handful of men,
dominates practically everv branch
of trade and commerce in the coun
try and holds the transportation
systems themselves within its grasp.
Official of tbe Standard Oil Com
pany, moreover, have someth'iDg
more in store to worry about than
an exposure of the rebates on which
their corporation has fattened at tbe
expense of the vast multitude of
shippers who have had to piy tbe
freight on which tbe railroads in
turn pay dividend?. Criminal pros
ecution for conspiracy under the
provisions of tbe Sherman anti
trust law stares them in the face.
Rebating, when tha offenders are
caught at it aod brought to justice,
means fines. Oonspiracy, when
apprehended, means imprisonment
for somebody, if duty is performed
fully. It is assorted on the best of
authority that Mr. Garfield, in the
language that is beet understood,
"bas tbe goods," on the Standard
Oil Company, the same as he had
them on tbe beef trust, with the ee
seutial diffrrence that immunity
baths oave not been admin:s.ered
in the present instance.
It is admitted in inner admin
istration circles tonight that the
things unearthed by the investiga
tion of the Standard Oil Company
at the bards of ids department of
Comnnrce and labor are sensation
al in the extreme. D-tails are
guarded to a great extei.t and most
of the speculation that has been in
dulged in coccerniDg ihe report bas
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been based malaly on general knowl
edge of practices which the Rocke
feller combine bas indulged in for
years, aod which it was taken f;ir
granted would now come out with
corroborative evidence. The inves
tigation bas cjvered a period of a
year or more and has embraced the
work of agents of the department
of commerce and labor in everv
section of the country.
Information comes to The Orego-
nian correspondent that in the oil
investigation, moreover, the inquis
itors have a much freer hand than .
they had in the beef inquiry, espe
cially as to the matter of delving in
to the subject of rates.
The department of lostice bag
been iu close touch with the depart
ment ot justice - and labor during
the later month?, or at least weeks,
preceeding the submission of Mr.
Garfields report to the president,
and it is pretty well understood' in
Washington today thet the attorney
general already is prepared to make
his first move against Standard Oil
officials and officials high in the
railroad world for violation of the
Elkins antl rebate law' and of the
Sherman law- prohibiting combines
and conspiracies in restraint of
trade.
In getting evidence regarding re
bates, it has been necessary in ma
ny instances to examine the books
of railroad companies and to obtain
information from railroad officials.
It is known that In certain instan
ces railroad men have given direct
evidence of rebates paid to the
Standard Oil Company, and een-sa-tioas
are likely to pile one on t jp
of the other as the details of tbe re
port are unfolded.
Direct connection has been estab
lished betne n the Standard Oil
Company and companies operating
under other names, stood as inde
pendent corporations. Somethings
the state of Missouri had such, a
hard time in trying to find out in
recent proceedings are said to have
been developed and added to large
ly by the wider scope of the Feder
al investigation.
If the advance stories prove to be
correct, the combine of corporatio ns
under the parent company and tbe
existence of "dummy companies'
will show a great conspitacy in r--etiaint
of trade fcuffieient to sei d
some big men of tbe financial world
to tha penitentiary.
There is a strong belief that tie
governor nt is anxious to make an
example of the millionaire offenders
against tke statu'es, who, along
with offenders at the other end of
the industrial structure, have bean
pillorried repeatedly by President
Roosevelt in public speeches as en
emies of the republic.
What is to be John D. Rockefel
ler's portion in any case brought
against Standard Oil? That is
another particular question exciting
lively interest. It is regarded as
possible that the rtal head of tua
great trust may be reached person
ally in some form cf prosecution, .
and it is pointed out that, in his
case, it action be taken against him,
an immunity piea will - have io
slandicg, as Mr. Rockefeller ha
no been a?ked to give any inform
ation that might incriminate him
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