Vol . XlX.-No. 3
CORVALLIS, OREGON. FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 11. 1900.
B. F. IRVTITM Editor
and Proprietor
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High Grade
IS NOT DEAD
SO SAYS MRS. CREFFIELD,
AND HER HUSBAND" WILL
ARISE FROM THE
GRAVE IN FOUR
DAYS.
No Tears at Burying Widow shows
No Emotion Very Few Pree- .
ent at Funeral Mitchell
Talks Freely and is
Not Afraid of Re
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Seattle, Wash., May 9 Without
prayers er hymns, without flowers
or mourners, and without .services
always accorded to the civilized
dead, the body of Franz Edmund
Creffield. leader of the Holy Roll
ers, was laid to rest in a grave in
Lake View cemetery this morning.
Mrs. Creffield, the widow, requested
that there be co minister and do
prayers. .
"My husband, though dead in
body now, will arise again as Christ
did," pleaded the misguided wo
man. "In four days "Joshua" will
again be in our midst,: and Satan
will again be rebuked. My hus
band cannot be killed. He is not
dead now. He is only sleeping.
Next Sunday be will arise and be
come the reincarnation of "Elijah
the Restorer."
,. The people at the morgue did not
argue with Mrs. Creffield. .They
allowed her to have her way. At
10 o'clock this morning, Mrs. Cref
field leaning on the arm of Mrs
Kelley, pol.ica matron, in whoee
charge the woman is held awaiting
the trial of George Mitchell, the
slayer, arrived at the Bonney Wat
son mcrgue. She was not dressed
in mourning. Her clothes were
neat but not gne. . They had been
brought to her by her father, who
arrived from Corvallis veeterdav
- Mrs. Creffield showed no emotion;
She walked into the morgue room
and for two minutes gszsd stead
fastly on tbe body of her husband
as it lay dretsed only io a white
nightrobs, in a cheap coffin, upon
which were the words, " At Rest."
Tb widow of the. man who has
broken many heart?, and who was
accutei of some of the worst crimes
ever committed in the name of re
ligion, said nothing as she looked
upon the inanimate form. She
turned away in a moment and was
led to a carriage. She climbed in
with the assistance of Mrs. Kelly
and followed tbe hearse containing
the body of Creffield to Lake View
cemetery, where it was quickly laid
away under the ground.
Other tban Mrs. Kelly and Mrs.
Creffield and the undertakers, no
one W8S at the cemetery. A wood
en tablet was placed at the bead of
the grave. ibis inscription was
painted in black upon a white back
ground. FRANZ E. CREFFIELD.
Died May 7, 1906, Aged
35 Years.
Mrs. Creffield declines to be seen
by newspaper men. She is in a
highly nervous condition and, both
at her own request, and that of the
prosecuting attorney, ail interview
ers are denied.
George Mitchell, the 'Portland
man who killed Creffield, has re
tained W. H. Morris to defend him
and his attorney ha3 not only per
mitted Mitchell to continue his s o
ry, but today aided in ..procuring a
new interview. This might easily
be regarded as a decision that pub
lic sentiment should be worked up
in Mitchell's behalf. Today Mitch
ell tcok up his story again, begin
ning with Creffield's discharge from
tbe penitentiary. He said:
They let this man Greffield cut
of the penitentiary. He wrote let
ters to my sisters. He eoon influ
enced. Esther to go to his camp at
Waldport, and about two weeks ago
my - brother-in-law,. Burt Starr,
awakened and found my other sis
ter had gone. There was a note
she had left. She said good-bye
and that she was going to leave
him forever. She Baid she couldn't
go in the day time because thechil
dren would cry and want to go with
her, and that she couldn't staud
that. She said she bad taken $3.50
with her, but she thought she had
been worth that much to him., She
said bhe wasn't taking even enough
to pay her railroad fare to the place
she was going, and that she would
have to walk. :
"We found out the truth a few
days later, although we had guess
ed it from the first, because this
man Creffield taught them that it
was holy to break up families and
desert husbands end children. We
found nut that she had walked the
90 miles to Wald port and was again
with this man Creffield.
"As soon aB I found out that be
was in Seattle I came here. I guees
you know what happened. Every
thing else that I had tried wouldn't
do any ood. I won't say anything
more about that part of it. I am
sorry l had to till a man, but I'm
not afraid.
"I won't be afraid whatever they
do to me. , I realize that it is a se
rious matter .without Mr. MorriB
telling, me that it is. But I know
what was going . on down, their in
Oregon and I get some satisfaction
out of knowing that it can't go on
any longer." , '
Deputy Gounty Attorney John
F. Miller, who will prosecute Miller
ie inclined to be somewhat indignant
'.-."There are two sides . to this 0ase,''
he said today. .'.'In my mind it is
the worst murder that has been
committed since I have been in 5e
attle, and it seems strange, if pub
lic opinion In Oregon is in the mood
it is represented . to be, that, these
people could not have done their"
killing down their, without picking
ope ot toe most prominent corners
in Seattle as the washline of their
dirty linen." .
A number of Albany men say
they would gladly contribute to
ward a fund to defend Mitchell, the
young avenger, if help is needed,
for the work of destruction accom
plished by Creffield is well known
in Albany.
Much regret is expressed that the
lad did not find his quarry when
he was following Mrs. Creffield in
Albany a wet k ago. At that time
there were several outraged Corval
118 men in Albany, keepingin touch
with the deluded wife of the Holy
Roller chief, in the hope that she
would join her husbaud here. The
passenger train in Albany was thor
oughly searched that evening, the
lad WD0 did the final, act
in Cref-.
field's career passing through the
coaches and looking carefully at
every passenger.
Seattle, Wash., May 8. In a sen
sational article tonight the Times
justifies the tlaying of Creffield.
Tbe police have shown by their
treatment of Mitchell that the peace
officers approve the deed, but news
paper comment has been withheld
until tonight. The Times says:
''If this man, who was instantly
killed on one of the most prominent
street corners of the city, was the
debased brute, clothed in a cloak of
religion, he is said to be, George
Mitchell deserves immediate free
dom, that he may display the gold
medal his old neighbors in Oregon
wish him to wear. If the state
ments made by this young man and
others in any way approach the
truth, he has gone merely straight
at a task for which his duty to his
family and to the community made
him the proper instrument.
"In accomplishing it he seems to
have shown straightforwardness of
purpose and a high disregard for
selfish fears about the consequences.
Hie work was to take a life for the
removal of which the law did not
provide the means. It was not
lynch law. That is usurpation of
the functions of the courts.
"In such cases as this the courts
are powerless. The old primitive
animal law holds, and this waB its
m niwfnt. 11 is, aangerous per
haps, to say that every man whose
woman folk are injured in such a
manner should take the life of the
man responsible, yet it is a law
which has held good and true in
the main all through the ages since
the doctrine of 'free love,' which
this man is declared to have taught,
was confined to tbe minds of hypo
critical libertines, who still use it
for their ewn purp3es in the guise
of religious or sociological teach
ings." English Shire Stallion.
Imported English Shire stallion
7972 Southill Ranger 18366 will
mate the season of 1906 as follows:
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thurs
days at Abbott barn Corvallis, an
days i.nd Saturdays at Monroe Frd
Muudas at . Watkin's place 12,
miles south of Corvallis. .
Southill Ranger is a beautiful
dark dapple bay, 17 1-4 hands high
and weighs 2150 pounds.
Terms: $20 to insure with foal or
$25 to insure a living colt.
W..C. Belknap,
Manager.
FATAL WRECK
IS CAUSED BY A CALIFORNIA
EARTHQUAKE AT
EDENVALE.
Track on Main Land Sinks and
Southern Pacific Coast Limited
Is Derailed Fireman and
Three . Chinese Are
Killed Other
: News.
San Francisco, May 9. TAn earth
quake Bbock which occurred last
evening is resrponsible for a fatal
wreck of the first section of the
North Coast limited No.. 9 at Eden
vale, two miles south of San Jose,
early this morning. The shock
earned the track, which is on made
land, to shrink.; and the first train
passing the spot met disaster.
.The engine and first three cars
were overturned. ' The sleeper and
mail coaches were not damaged.
The first two cars, containing Chi
namen en route to San Francisco to
be deported, were completely de
molished. Three of ths Chinese
passengers were killed aud many
were injured. Many occupants of
the third, car, a tourist, were injur
ed by flying glass and badly shaken
up by the car being thrown over on
its side.
The fireman of the train was
killed and the engineer Blightly in
jured, miraculously escaping. A
brakeman wa9 also among the in
jured. A wrecking crew was sent from
San Jose and more than a score of
Chinese who were seriously injured
brought to tbe hospital at San Jot e.
They were recently smuggled across
the Mexican border and were book
ed to sail on the fiiet steamer from
San Francisco for their nati ve land.
Death came in sleep to the Chi
nese whowere killed. They were
jammed in the wreckage. Nearly
every Mongolis n in the three coaches
was injured to a greater or less ex
tent. Nearly all were unfamiliar
with the English language and this
made rescue work dithcuit, since
the wounded men were unable to
tell the extent of their injuries.
White passer grs in the eleepers
and tourist cars wtre rudely awak
ened anl thrown from their berths.
Few were injured seriously. The
uninjured weie quick to leave the
cars and go in aid of tte imprisoned
Chinese. Tbe full moon gave light
to the work of the r ecue. Tbe
station at Edenvale was used a9 a
hospital.
Two light earthquake shocks were
felt at 11.15 o'clock last nignt. No
damage is done and no alarm is felt.
Livermore reports that the shock
there was quite severe.
Oregon City, Or., May 9. A de
cision has been arrived at as to tbe
division of the $1,500 reward offered
for the capture of Outlaw Frank
Smith, who made a sensational es
cape from the Portland jail and
who before his cipture Ices than
two weeks later had murdered three
men in Clackamas and Marion
counties before he was surrounded
in a strip of woods near New Era
and shot by Harry Draper
who came from Spokane with his
bloodhounds to aid in renning the
bandit down.
At a meeting of the county courts
of Marion and Clackamas counties,
a committfe-of the Oregon City
council and Shfriff W. J. Culver,
of Marion county, held in the coun
ty courtroom in Oregon City this
morning an agreement was reached
as to the disposition of the reward
offered. As agreed upon the terms
oi the division are as tallow; :
First One-half or $750, to be
awarded to Harry Draper; who shot
Smith.
Second Fifty dollars each to
George Morden, Andrew Vaughn
and Sheriff W. J. Culver, the three
officers who accompanied Draper
into the brush where the outlaw
was concealed.
Third The balance of $(500 to
be divided equally among the bal
ance of the posse, which is 3O in
number.
Oakland, May 8. Willie Kohler
a newsboy, 15 years old, has search
ed patiently for two weeks for news
of his parents, whom he log t on the
day bf the earthquake disaster at
J 528 California street, San Francis
co. Willie during his epare mo
ments, has eearched about the
streets of San Francisco, walked
through all the relief . camps add
questioned every passerby for
whereabouts of his parents. He
saw them last on the fatal morning
when their ho ace was shaken into
ruins and the occupants all fled in
fear.
. For two weeks no one was able to
give the faithful little chap any
news of the father and mother for
whom he sought. Wherever he
eearched the only reply to questions
was a shake of the head, sometimes
a .kind word and occasionally a
small coin. "' " ;'
Yesterday Willie in his daily
tramp through the streets of 8a a
Francisco met a guard of. one of the
San Francisco, companies. The
guard had known Willie's parents
and from him the boy heard that
both' his parents were killed on the
second day of the fire by a blast of
dynamite. The remains of the el
der Kohlers lie in some unmarked
grave in one of the squares of the
city. ..' "
"It ain't no use to cry now," said
Willie, stoically. "I got to rustle
for a living for sister and myself."
His sister is lo years of age. , , .
Washington, May 5. The San
Francisco disaster is likely to pre
cipitate a tariff discussion in con
gress in the near future. Various
bills have been introduced to place
structural steel and other building
material intended for the re-building
of the stricken city on the' free
list.
Two such measures have bjtn
presented by republicans Mr.
Madden, of Chicago,.arid Mr. Know
land of California, and one by Rep
resentative Gaines, democrat, of
Tennessee. The. ways and means
committee met today, -but did cot
consider these measures.
Many republicans and eome of
them members of the California
delegation .re placing devotion to
the doctrine of protection above
their desire to see the devastated
city rise from its ruins through the
aid of building, material admitted
duty free.
It is understood that both the
California eenators are opposed to
taking any action toward removing
any duties in favor of San FrancW
co. On the other hand, some of
the members of, tbe house delega
tion would be in favor of the Know
land bill, which is understood to
have tbe endorsement of the admin
istration, removing the duty upoa
building- material intended for osa
in tbe stricken cities of the coaei.
It is understood that the United
States Steel Corporation is now
from eight to ten months and a
year behind its orders, and that if
such is the case the rebuilding of
San Francisco is likely to be delay
ed unless there is much Steele im
ported from abroad.
The presence trutt price averages
$38 a ton. The free structural Bteel
of Europe would m an steel at $28
a ton, for with the protection re
moved tbe trust, to save its face,
will have to lower its pricejoelow
that at which tbe importer can sell.
Representative Needham, of Cl
ifornia, has been side-tracked with
a command to lock into the matter
and ascertain if "real aid" will b
given California by the removal of
the duty. It is admitted that he at
least will Jearn tnat tee trust has
the supply on hand "all sold;" that
the American product will cot meet
the demand, and that the imparta
tion of free structural steel will
mean a eaving of a fortune to the
builders of San Francisco.
While he is arriving at an official
knowledge of tbe' e thing", the re
publican leaders will put through
a resolution pUcing all supplies,
that is, food and clothing, on the
free list.
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