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'fit. F 47 U Vol. XIX.-NO. 3 CORVALLIS, OREGON. TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 17. 1906. B.F. IBTm Mitt and froprletof KJ6& II I. 7 11 I . - T .t. . Offerings Great reductions made in all our departments on price of svery. article. Big stock from which to make your selections. A Lot of childrens shoes sizes j - 11-2 to 21-2 at 50c. j A big lot of boys clothing, age 4 to 10 years at spec ially low price. All Summer dress goods goes our offerings and Corvallis, i B8 No Prizes go with our - - v j Cbase & Sanborn Higb Grade COFFEE In fact nothing goes with our coffee but cream, sugar and SATISFACTION P. M. ZIEROLF. bole agent for Cbase & Sanborn Higb Grade COFFEE New Sporting Goods Store. A new and complete line consisting of Bicycles, Guns, Ammunition. Fishing Tackle, Base Ball Supplies, Knives, Razors, Hammocks. Bicycle Saundries In f set anything the sportsman need can be found at my store. ' Bicycles and Guns for rerit. General Repair Shop. All Work Guaranteed. M. M Ind. Phone 126. HOME-SEEKERS If you are looking for some real, good bargains in Stock, Grain, Fruit and Poultry Ranches, write for our special list, or come and see us. We take pleasure in giving you all the reliable information you wish, also showing you over the country. . - AMBLER 6c WAITERS Real Estate, Loan and Insurance Gorvallis and Philomath, Oregon. I for July! the at a big discount, get prices. See s I Oregon ! LONG'S . Corvallis, Oregon. DISMISSES" COUNSEL HARRY THAW REFUSES PLEA OP INSANITY AS DE FENSE. Stormy Interview With Olcott Brings Crisis Says He Is Boss His Mother In New York Other Ne we. . ' ' " New York, July 14. Harry Thaw has dismissed the law firm gf of Black, Olcott, Gruber & Bo- InyDge,' In a fit of anger, and the firm, of which ex-Governor Frank S. Black is the bead, will not de fend the young Pittsburger in his trial for the killing of White. The dismissal was the culmination of a number of arguments Thaw has had wiih various members of the law firm over the question of a de fense. Judge Olcott, who has been the active member cf the firm in connection with the case, all along insisted that insanity be made the Icheitpoint in the defense, while Thaw insisted, with equal it not greater emphasis, that he would not stand for the insanity plea. - While there have been numerous arguments between Thaw and Jndge Olcott on this question, there was no open break until Friday after noon, when Thaw, during a verbal combat with Judge Olcott in the Tombs, became enraged and wound ud a tirade .: by telling bis lawyer flatly the firm of Black, 01 cott, Gruber & Boriygne no longer was his counsel. 'I am the boss," Thaw is declar ed to have said, , after Judge Olcott had given it as an ultimutum that Thaw should place himself abso lutely in tbe hands of his counsel as a pa tier, t in the hands of his phy sician, and submit entirely to the judgment of the law firm as to the best manner i i conducting the de fense. "And I will not stand for the - insanity plea," the prisoner added. Jndge Olcott then left the prison it is said, and today received a let ter, according to the story, from Thaw, in which the young man put in writing bis dismissel of the firm. A member of Judge Olcott's firm when questioned about the matter tonight, said: "Our firm wes not engaged by Harry Thaw, but by the law firm of Dele fi Id & Longfellow, who are counsel for Harry Thaw's mother and we fa counsel for Thaw's father during the elder Thaw's life time, They retained us to take charge of the criminal end of the case. We have been obliged, in making our plans for the defense of young Thaw, to go alone lines in defiance of his wishes Further than that do not ca'e to talk just now." ' It is said another cause for the dis agreement between Thaw and his course arose out of the payment of certain bills Inaw contracted in thd Tombs afur his arrival there as a prisoner. A. noticable disa greement b.'twetn Thaw and Ol cott's firm came one day last week when Thaw issued a statement to tt e newspapers with Judge Olcott's consent, denying that i.e was in fBna and 'declaring that that would not be the defense when his cess came to trial. Judge Olcott, in speaking of this statement, said: "Yes, I permitted Harry to make the statement; he pestered me to much I had to." Thaw was very angry when he heard, .this, and the next day he called in the ieporters and made a verbal and still stronger statement along the same lines without Judge Olcott's consent or even knowledge. It was Judge Olcott's tarn to get angry when he saw this second statement in the newspapers, and it is said he laid down the law to Thaw Friday afternoon and, ac cording to the story, received his dismissal as Thaw's legal represen tative in connection with the mur der trial.. District Attorney Jerome, accom panied by two of his assistants, Messrs Garvan and Notter, left for the South tonight to be gone three daye. It is reported today that the district attorney wanted to inter view Joseph Leiter, of Chicago, as to some details of a dinner party at which Thaw was present, but this was later denied by Mr. Garvan. Thaw . wrote a letter today to Messrs. Black, Bruber & Bonynge, formerly dismissing as counsel and directing that all papers in the case be turned over to Clifford Hart ridge. Mr. Hartridee has heretofore acted as personal counsel to young New York, July 14 Mrs. Wil- iam Thaw, mother of Harry Thaw, who is a prisoner in the Tombs, charged with the killing of Stan ford White, arrived this afternoon from England. She was met at quarantine by friends, and from them she learned the particulars of the tragedy. Tears filled her eyes, and she evidently had difficulty in keeping from breaking down when sbe was questioned by a reporter who met her. 5 With the return of Mrs. Thaw the lawyers w bo will look after Thaw's interests in the coning le gal battle are preparing for a con ference, at which the young prison oner's mother will be preeent. It is understood Mrs. Thaw is in favor of setting up a defense of insanity. If such is the case, she will be in accord with the lawyers. On the other hand, if Mrs Thaw should list en to the pleadings of her son, who does not like the insanity : defense, there will be a difficulty to over come. - Seattle, Wash., July I3. Fully cognizant of the punishment the law demands for the crime of mur der in the fir6t degree. Esther Mitchell declares she had rather be banged than obtain her liberty, or even'mmunity fiom the law, on the ground of insanity. 1 am not insane, she insisted this morning," and before shooting my brother I gave all the possible results the fullest consideration. I knew that I would be arrest ed, and that the excuse I had for doing whtt I did would not be con sideredby the court." lo a question as to whether or hot she thought more of the dead Holy .Roller, Creffield, than she did ot the members of her own fam ily, the girl re pi red that Creffield was a holy man, and that her broth er George "was defiled. " ohe- admitted that sbe bad, as was stattd bv Mrs. Maud Creffield, volunteered to kill her brother, knowing that Mrs Creffield would not be able i s do it. The girl during the conversation. evinced no emotion, and stated that ehe was willing to plead guilty to the crime of murder in the first de gree and take her punishment. She said sbe had no money and knew no one who would lerd her any fi nancial assistance if she wanted any, which she says sue does not Mrs. Creffield is also willing to submit to whatever punishment may be in store for her. She, too, declares that 6be is perfectly eane, and the only excuse she offers for her share in the killing is that she was as justified in bringing about the death of George Mitchell as be was in killing her husband. "I would have killed bim my self if it had been possible," she said, but I knew it was not, and after we had talked about it Esther Mitchell volunteered to do it for me. After some hesitation I let her do it. I expected to be pun ished at the lime, and expect to now. I have no money, and wil not admit that I am crazy, for J am not. I am just as happy here as I have been at any time since my husband was killed, and Idoa't care what comes now." ' lbe women are kept separated in the jail, Esther Mitchell being confined by hers if in a email cell just rff th9 jail office, while Mrs Oi.ni Id ia in the woman's ward Tney have seen none of their friends Mrs. Creffield, while in Seattle, had three revolvers in her posses sion at different times. After the killing of "Joshua," she took a re volver from her room. This sbe turned over to the police matron af ter her arrett aa a witness. While in the cqstody of the poliee matron and under the closest surveillance, she succeeded in obtaining another weapon. This "she gave to the ma tron Monday night when she was released. Wednesday morning sbe purchased at Spangenberg's cutlery store the gun with which Esther Mitchell killed her brother. She bought the revolver Wednesday morning at 7:30 o'clock, a few min utes after the store opened. She told the clerk she wanted the weap on to keep around the house. Tuesday night, when Mrs Cref field returned to the police matron's house to get some clothes she Lhad left there, she asked for the return of her two revolvers. The police matron refused to give them to her. She then eaid: . "Why, you might as well give . Continued on page 4. A RUNAWAY TRAIN ENGINEER AND BRAKEMAN KILLED AND CREW STICK TO POSTS IN WILD RIDE. Fireman Badly Injured Cars Are Piled Up in a Heap Engine Loses Control of 17 Fi eight Cars on a Heavy Grade Other ews. Ashland, Or., July I4 A freight train on the Southern Pacific, con sisting of 17 cars, drawn by one big locomotive, got from under control c6mingdown the Siskiyous soon after noon today, at tunnel Hp. 16, and made a wild run down . the mountain, piling up iu a heap at Clawson yards. Engineer Bob Steiger and Fire man Galbraith were terribly injur ed. Engineer S eiger and his tire- man were scalded and mashed un der the engine as it tumbled over, C. D. Lockerman, brakeman, was so badly crushed that he died this afternoon.. Passenger train south bound, No. 15, had a narrow es cape irom colliding with the run away. The injured were brought to Ashland. One brakeman was under the re mains of four cars, where they were all compressed into the space of one but piled 20 feet high. (quickly as possible the injured men were removed from the wreck age and brought to Ashland, Con ductor Hilty, of the runaway train coming down the track ahead of them in order to flag and stop the south bound passenger train, which be nut about two miles from Ash land. Brakeman CVD. Lockerman died here this afternoon1 as a "result of bis injuries receive! in the wreck. Engineer Robert Steiger was fear fully scalded and crushed under his engine. Brakeman Sim Wylie was badly bruised, but hi? injuries are not fatal. Two hobos riding on a tank car of oil behind the locomotive had every stitch of clothing stripped from them but were otherwise un injured. The fireman who bad rushed on t)p of the train to set the hand brakes, and Conductor Hilty and Brakeman Morris, who were on the rear part oi the train, workicg at the brakes, also escaped .without injury. Tbe wreck ia the wirst that ever happened on the Siskiyou moun tain's. Fourteen of the 17 cars were badly demolished and a num ber of them emsshed into kindling. The engine, one of tbe largest of tbe mountain climbers used by the Southern Pacific, was badly demol ished. Tbe injured men, Steiger and Wylie, after receiving medical attention here, were hurried to the railroad hospital st Portland cn a special train. : Trainmen think it possible other tramps may still be under the pile of wrec kage. , Engineer Steiger died on the spe cial tiaia at 8 o'clock, on tbe way to Poriland. Tbe Southern Pacific has always been very fortunate in its experi ence in moving trains on the eteep grades of the Siskiyou mountains, and in spite of the difficulties in tha way, have had very few accidents Not a little of the credit for this is due to the cool beadedness and brave ry of the men who manage their freight acd passenger trains with hundreds of lives daily. Today's occurrecce was no excep tion to the role, and Engineer Bob Steiger and Fireman Galbraith faced death in a wild ride on a runaway freight train down the north side cf the mountain today. With Con ductor Hilty and Brakeman C. D. Wiley, they endeavored, until the train no longer held the rails, to stop its tremendous and furious rush towards Ashland, and all went down in the wreck. Speculation is wide as to what would have happened if, instead of being ditched at Clawson, the run away tr in had continued on and smashed into the two sections of the southbound train No. 15. which was jus starting from here, loaded with passengers. Section Foreman Williamson was eating dinner with his gang at Steinman station, half way down the Siskiyous, and 10 miles from Ashland, at 1 2:20 P. M. today, when he beard the wild" whistling of a freight train whose engineer was calling for brakes. : Not . know ing there was some car running away he called hiB men together and they came close to the track. In a moment they were horrified to see a complete freight train en gine, 17 cars and a caboose, com ing like a whirlwind. Scarcely had they glanced at it, however, before it had disappeared from their sight around the curve, and then tbe gang' got out their hand car ' and started down tbe rails after the train, an Foreman Wiil amson saye, "just to see where she will pile up." The crew pumped "five miles to Clawson switch and fcund the wreck 14 ' car ground up, track and rails torn and twisted 400 feet, tender stripped and flung against the fence, and the engine itself dis mantled and lying on its side, with the engineer crushed in the cab, scalded y almost to death and hi clothes on fire. Chicago, July I4. A. Gourdain, who was released from the Cook county jail yesterday on bonds of $10,000, presented a short time la ter the unique spectacla of a man trying to break into the penitentia ry. Just after he was given his lib erty the former banker hurried on an ele:tric oar to Joliet and de manded of the chief deputy that he be incarcerated. The deputy denied tbe Btrange tequest and Gourdain started back to Chicago with -the avowed intention ot instituting mandamus proceedings to compel the authorities to put bim in prison at once, that he might begin with out delay serving tbe 4 1-2 years' sentence for operating a lottery. Gourlain later explained ' bis aversion to the Cook county jail. I propose to serve my sentence eve ry day of it," said he, "but I will not do it in the county jail. . My objection is the noise and the close proximity of tbe street. At Jolitt it is quiet and my rest is never dis turbed with ribald EOngs and clang ing bells. If I cannot serve m sentence any other way I shall build a penitentiary somewhere on the side of a hill. and live in a cell for 4 1-2 years."-, " . At King's Valley. Hay harvest is under full head way aod the crop is the largest for several yeara. Grain is looking well but some fear is expressed of damage by the extreme heat, but so far there is no apparent injury. Curtis Miller is getting along much belter with his logging since be got married. J. P. Logan is building a new dam at tbe grist mill. Bud Price is now the U. S. mail carrier from Wren. Ernest Eddy was at home for the Fourth. Edna Oren has returned home after staying with her parents until they were through with the measles. John Price has sold his farm to Link Allen and intends to make his borne this winter with his fath er's family. Some of tbe Valluy people went to Newpoit on tbe excursiou ou the 8tb. M. L. Frantz is felling out his etcck of merchandise at cost. C. A. Rice always raitea good crops. Tbif year he has a crop of Vetch hay and it is so heavy that he cannot cut i. Ha would let it ripen and tramp it out on the ground but be don't know what to do with the straw. Italian peddlers have been rather common in the Valley latelv. UNO. For Rent. A nice house with 7 rooms, bath room all up to date, located well ; Robinson & Stevenson, agents. tf. The Farmers. Rates offered by us are $1.00 per year where the farmer uses his own telephone. Farmers not owning telephones can purchase from as at $8.50 each, or $5.00 per year Where we furnish the telephone. 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