life a if mum fames Btrry 4 Vol. XX-No.2 CORVALLIS, OREGON. FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 5. 1907." By B. F. Irvine . 35T3D SBlI-'7 I We Are; Now " 1 Diwiarfid to Outfit Thft I Man and The Boy Oui reciept of clothing this spring are nobby. Big assortment. Prices That Defy Competition! Shoes P. B. Kerths" are up to date in style and the best wearers Our Lnejof MediunrPriced Shoes Are from the bsst factories in the country and all are guaranteed shoes. Oar line of hats embrace all the new styles. Oar prices are right and we ask an inspection of the above lines. SHOT DEAD BY LOVER THEN SHOOTS HIMSELF AND DIES WITH BULLET IN BRAIN. Rival Witnesses Crime Unknown ; Man Deserts Girl and Bans When Murderer Draws His Gun. Portland, April 1. Portland Oregonian: Goaded to desperation by her ficklenees, Roscoe H. James, teon of C. E. James, superintendent of the Oreeon state penitentiary, last night shot and instantly killed Grace N. Disney, bis sweetheart, on West Park stree, then placed the revolver at his head and fired a bullet through his own brain. He cannot live more than a few houre. Young James was a student at the Portland academy, where he has been taken a business course. James' successful rival, a young man whose name the police have learned is Hal Reed, was an eye witness of the tragedy, as was also Henry E Hiatt, a friend who was with Jam's when he spied the girl and her other lover on tneir way home from a stroll a few minutes after 11 o'clock. Miss Disney's es cort showed the white feather and Call and See m 1 Oorvallis, !.'.'HARRIS." ' ' Oregon companion, James . Foster, . in the Northern Pacific railroad yards in this city at an. early hour this morning. 'The murderers were immediately surrounded by a posse of citizens, beaded by Town Marshal Stratton, in an empty box car, where they had taken refuge. In making a desperate attempt to escepe, the younger Baxter was shot through the body and is in a critical condi tion. The father receiving a slight flesh wound in the left leg, returned to the boxcar, where hi was held a prisoner until the arrival of Sheriff Kirby and a posse of citizens from Kalama, a few hours later. He then surrendered without further resistance After an inquest the Baxters were charged with fir6t de gree murder. ' . The Baxters were taken tonight to Kalama and lodg ed in the county jail. . Foster was murdered shortly af ter midn'ght. While returning home, L. W. Flanders, section fore man of the Northern Pacific Rail road company heard ' the shooting and witnessed the tragedy at a dis tance of only a few steps. ' ' " Sheriff Kirby and a posse : of elx men soon arrived, making the trip of nine milea from Kalama on a handcar. With the reinforcements then on the ground, Marshal Strat ton approached the car and, open ing the door, commanded the elder Baxter to surrender. LimDing to the door, the father beg rot to be shot and was hurried away to the THE : COMMISSION FIND HARRY K. THAW BOTH INSANE AND 8ANE. Direct Confliot of Opinion as to His Present Mental Dondition Re port to Court After Final Examination . "Today , " Other News. New York,. April 2. It was an nounced today after a session whioh lasted from 10.30 o'clock this morn ing until 6:30 P. M., that the lunacy commission inquiring into the pre? ent mental state of Harry K. Thaw will conclude its labor tomorrow and report its conclusions to Justice Fitzgerald before the hour set for the Thaw jury to report in court on Thursday morning. Ther.e will be a brief session tomorrow to hear the testimony of an ailanist offered by District Attorney Jerome and then will . follow a private mental and physical examination of thi defend ant. Only the members of the com mission and the official stenogra pher will be present at Thaw's or deal, attorneys for the defense and the district attorney being barred. The' annourc ment that the com mittee desired to reuew its private examination of Thaw came at the that be intended to incorporate) Bomeofthem in his summing up address.. The aileuiets.for, the de fense in testifying declared ' they had the ad van tege of constant per--W sonal examination of the defendant, while the prosecution' witnesses had not. The Tombs physicians, two chaplains of the city prison, several guards and a probation of ficer took the stand and testified that Thaw in prison had acted and spoken like a rational man; -: v The commission today decided ta admit the testimony of Dr. Allen MoLane Hamilton, who said he made four examinations" of Harry Thaw, the laet in July, 1906. ; Ho concluded then that saw was suffer ing from chronic delusional insani ! ty or paranoia and still held that belief. On cross-examination Dr. Hamilton admitted hi had not ex amined the defendant recently. The defendant's counsel fought against Dr. Hamilton's testimony to the very lest. Failing in the plea of professional privilege as a bar, they argued that his examinations of the defendant were too remote to be of any value at this time. The commission decided to allow the testimony. 1 Members cf the commission crosB- examined several cf the district at torney's alienists at length, inquir ing as to the consistency of their testimony that Thaw is now insane and has been so for several years Ias against their testimony at the trial, when in answer to a hypo- We Solicit Comparison. Just received a full linef Spring and Summer Novelties. The Famous Packard Shoe, Sold by A. K. RUSS Dealer in men's Furnishings. Wouldn't . Change Thrones with a King. Fisherman's luck means a wonderful catch once in a blue moon. 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With tbe laconic remark, "So here you are," be pulled his pi-tol from his pocket and fired two thots into tbe gul s back as she turned, then put anoth er into his owned head back of tbe right ear. The girl, with ons scream of fright and agony, sank to the pavement and died. Tbe corpse of Miss Disney lay acrost the sidewalk, while that of her Blayer wa9 stretohed out on the graes1 beside her. Finding that James, who: was groaning in agony was alive, the police placed him in a wagon and took him '. tp: St; Vin cent's hospital, where ' it was an nounced that the wound ' would un doubtedly proVe fatal. ' : H5 ? ' '-An examination of Hies Disney s bodymade at the morgue, showed that the' fatal "bullet ' entered- her backi 'ftiiW Inches' b&Iow the 6honl der blades, fractured the' spinal col umn! piercea' the;1leaH;jftnd made its Si exiV throu gh the . left' breas t', passing entirely tbroogb' the body. Death waB instantaneous. ' ..1 Woudiarid," Wash.'1, "March 3I, As a result of a quarrel over the proceeds of tbe sale of some cheap jewelry, tos trampe, Tom Baxter and George Baxter, father and son, deliberately murdered their hobo town jail. v . On reaching the place Coroner Bell took charge of Foster's body. An examination dclojed that Foster had bem shot four times with a 32 caliber revolver. Two bullet had lodged in hh breast within a radius of two inches, anoth: er had passed ' through ' his head, while tbe fourth was found in his leg. All except the one in his leg had made wounds that were fatal. The deliberate and cold-blooded character of the crime is apparent from this disclosure, since the mur dered man must have been shot three times after falling to the groupd following tbe first shot. "I left Forbes' saloon about 12 o'clock midnight," said Andrews, the eye witness s of the tragedy. "When I reached the depot I eaw three men coming down the track. I continued f! my way. ome and ' went to bed. "Afterward," Bays Foreman An drews, "I got up and going outside the car in which I Bleep, I eaw the same men sneaking along some freight cars a few yards distant: When they approached - to : within 3O yards of me one of them eaid: -,. yoa wui never do that again.' ' "And then the firing -: began." . I think five shots were fired. I jumped back into the sactioh car and peeped through the door. After the ehooting'ceased I saw to men move away a few tteps and fit down on some ties. 'Presently ,lhey re continued on page 4 end of a day of many witness' sand it was in the nature of a surprise. The decision was . probably due to the conflicting character of the tes timony heard today. It was anoth er battle of a:l-risit8. " Those en gaged by the district attorney de clared Thaw absolutely incapable of understandirg bis condition, of realizing the nature ot the charge charge against, him, or of rationally conferring with counsel, while thoee engaged by the detecee d-clarei Thaw throughout the tiial bad act ed in a rational manner: and ra tionally advised his counsel in their1 hearing, and iully 'unoeretooa aca : appreciated ev ry thing Onnected with the trial. ! 1 j - The experts for' the prosecution admitted that they had reached their conclusions as to thaw's pres ent state of mental unsoundness from distant observations of him in the courtroom ' and from writings alleged to have eminated from bim during the trial. Among the latter were ?4 pages ' of newspaper clip pings and memoranda written by Thaw as suggestions to his chief attorney, Delpbin M. Delmas,' for his summing up address to tbe jury. Mr: Jerome's experts declared these writings were those of an insane man. The experts for the defense declared there was absolutely noth ing in the writings upon which to predicate an opinion. Mr. Del mas himeelt took tbe stand and declared many of Thaw's Buggestioas were most -valuable end thetlcal question they declared that Thaw kiiew the nature and quality of his act when he shot and killed Sianfoid White aud knew the act was wrong. Dr. Austin Flint de claied that Triaw was insane from tbe rlieoiei'a point . of view when the homicide occurred, but was Sot insane in tbe lacguasje of the law. Mr. Jerome's experts one after another agreed that Thaw is a par anoiac and that his case is incura ble. Dr. Flint gave a new touch to the form cf insanity from which it is alleeed Thaw is suffering by de claring that former paranoiacal de lusions of persecution rapidly change into delusions of grandeur. New York, April 2. Commander Robert E. Peary has now the $200, 000 necessary for his coming expe dition to the Far . North, and ex pects to set sail about the last of June, The Roosevelt, his ship, is receiving necessary repairs. Bridal Veil, Or., April 2. West bound Freight train No. 55 was wrecked at 6 o'clock ' this evening at Oneonta five miles east of here, because of a broken wheel on one of the cars. Seven care were ditched. No ope wes injured. The wrecking train from Albina arrived at 10 o' clock and it is expected the track will be cleared by daylight. A epe cial train carrjiog empty coaches from Portland transferrad tbe pas sergers from No. 1; wtstbound.