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? ' - t " F wfittittitiT 13311 flltifrftttttttit ,r& VOL. XLL NO. 12,767. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1901. PICE FIVE CENTS. ANX SIZE ALL STYLES RUBBER GOODS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. GOODVBKH RUBBER CGKPKNY R. H. PEASE, Presldeitt. F. M. SHEPARD, JR., Secretary. J. A. SHEPARD, Treasurer. When You Want to A good cigar, TRY A BEAU BRUMMELL, which smokers admit is the best nickel cigar on the market today. Try them you will smoke no other. DISTRIBUTERS i Blumauer Wholesale i Shaw's Pure Malt America's ORIGINAL Malt WHISKY Without a Rival Today BllimaUer & HOCtl, 10S and HO Fourth Street Sole Distributors for Oregon D A "HOT-AIR" TESTIMONIAL PORTLAND LUMBERING & MANUFACTURING CO. PORTLAND, Or., Nov. 6, 1901. W. G. McPherson, City. Dear Sir: We here with onolose you check for the furnace. Wc have cad no cold weather yet to try the heating capacity, "but we are satisfied from the looks of the furnace and the substantial -work you have done In evey respect, that everything is all right 1 Kill further say you have put on all the work and material you agreed to, and a good deal more. We are very much pleaased with the furnace. Yours truly, O. A. RITAN. HOTEL PERKINS Hfth and Washington Streets .... PORTLAND, OREGON EUROPEAN PLAN . . . . .. .. Rooms Single 76e to fl.50 per dny First-Glass Check Beitauront Rcoms Double $1.00 to $2.00 per day Connected "With Hotel. Rooms Family $1.50 to $3.00 per day J. F. DAVIES. Pre. St. Charles CO, (INCORPORATED, -FRONT-Alip IWORRISOTrSTREEty- " '"lv? " rPORTLAlNDT' ORfiQON V -- ' '. American and European Plan. PRAEL, HEQELE & CO., Inc; IMPORTERS AND DEALERS Crockery, Glassware and Lamps CUTLERY AND PLATEDWARE RICH CUT-GLASS AND FINE CHINA 100-106 FIFTH STREET, cor. stark, PORTLAND, OREGON esto4teeieiiteae(tso9to FALL and BUILT ESPECIALLY FOR STORWY WEATHER. J STATION WAGONS ROCKAWAYS BROUGHAMS LANDAUS I A PULL LINE OF DOCTORS BUGGIES. - CARRIAGES WAGONSrHARNESS ROBES, W1JIP3 320 e w ece9ciaioi90e(6iititaaicoite9t BIGGEST AND BEST IK THE WEST. The FARNSWORIH-HERALD TAILORING CO. " MERCHKNT THILGRS " Kctf Falling: Building, 24S Washington street, near Third, Portland, Or. 0 ERGO KTS 350 Unclaimed tailor-made Over- coats, the Fall and Winter accu mulation of the famous Royal Tailors, bought by us at 20 cents on the dollar. On sale Monday as follows: ALL 525.00 OVERCOATS, $9.95. ALL $35. 00, $15.95. ALL $40.00 ONES, $19.95 STOP PRACTICING LONG ENOUGH TO THINK OF THIS The Pianola Is an aid In playing the piano. Even Paderewski, Rosenthal, Sa'uer and Josef Hoffman use its assistance for those selections outside of their rep ertory. Call any time at our store and investigate this wonderful instrument. By the wa- we give free recitals every Wednesday evening and every Saturday after noon. Come. You are welcome. THE AEOLIAN COMPANY M. D. WELLS. Sole Northwest Agent, Aeolian Hall, 353-355 Washington St. D. fc R. G. Trains on Time. DENVER, Nov. 1L There have been no new developments of importance today in the strike of members of the Switch men's Union of North America on the Denver & Rio Grande. The company is operating with full crews of yardmen at practically all points on the system and trains are running on time. Every pas senger train into Denver this forenoon came in on time. . Advices from the division superintend ents are to the effect that no further dif ficulty is anticipated as a Tesult of the strike. ANY QUANTITY Hob. 73 and 75 First Street, PORTLAND, OREGON. Smoke - Frank Drug Co. end fmporllna Chemists. C T. BELCHER, Sec. and Treas. American Plan European Plan 41.25. $1.M. tl.n 60s. 75c $1.00 STUDEBAKER, : o - 338 EAST MORRISON ST. ... ...w...vw. w.. 0 No Girls in Dlnlng-Cars. DENVER, Nov. 11. Major S. K. Hooper today officially denied the report which has gained currency throughout the coun try that the Denver & Rio Grande Com pany, of which he is general passenger agent, intends to employ girls as waiters on its dining-cars. Denies a Hallway Rumor. - CHICAGO, Nov. 11. President Hughltt, of the Chicago & Northwestern, today denied that the Northwestern had ppr chased or intended to purchase the Chi cago, Peoria & St. Louis road. Hotel DEATH OF A. N. KING The Well -Known Portland Pioneer Passes Away. CAME TO -OREGON IN 1845-46 Located in This City in 1840, and Lived Here Ever Since Promi nently Identified With His tory ox Portland. After three days' illness, Amos Nahum King, 79 years old, one of the best-known of Portland's pioneers, died at 9 o'clock last night at the family homestead, 634 Washington street. Last Friday he was taken with a chill, which developed Into bronchial pneumonia. Dr. A. E. Rockey was called, and everything that medical science could suggest was done to relieve the venerable patient,. and at first hopes were entertained for Mr. King's recovery, but a change came for the worst Sunday night, and it became apparent that he probably could not recover. Early last evening it was seen that Mr. King did not have long to live, and urgent messages were sent to the various mem bers of his immediate family, who mourn fully gathered around his bedside. He was able to recognize them and bid them good-bye. He did not appear to suffer much. Then ho passed into unconscious ness, and In a short time to death. (Mr. King was on the streets last Friday and he gave a hearty greeting to the old friends he met for the last time. Latterly he led an active outdoor life, and was a frequent visitor at the Portland Carnival. When he became sick It was with diffi culty that his family could get him recon ciled to remain in his home. The latter is a familiar landmark in Portland, lo cated to the westward of the Exposition building. The house was built in 1855, and the first roof erected still braves the storms of Winter. It was Mr. King's boast that he had lived ,m no other house in Portland since the erection of his home, and he recalled with pride when he at tended the athletic events of the Mult nomah Club that his tannery once stood where the grandstand of the Multnomah Club is located. In the old house E. A. King was born, also two of his children. It Is about 10 years since the deceased retired from active business, and he re signed himself to the enjoyment of a well earned rest. THE LIFE OF AMOS N. KING. A Pioneer of 1645, With a Long: Ca reer of Usefulness. XmosNarTnmKlng" was "born near Co lumbus.O,, April 29; 1822 In 1840 he re moved to Missouri, where he operated a ferry-boat across the Missouri River for several years. A great flood destroyed his property, and In 1845, in company with his father, mother, five sisters and three, brothers, he was on the plains, bound foi Oregon. A hundred wagons composed tile Immigration, whose passing was made memorable by a desperate trip through Meek's cut-oft, from Snake River to The Dalles. On reaching the latter place the party constructed a number of pine log rafts, on which they descended the Co lumbia, making the portage at the cas cades, after which they came to Linnton .in small boats, the passage being a thrill ing one, and full of hair-breadth escapes. The King family spent the Winter of 1845-46 near Forest Grove. Early in the following Summer the elder King and one of his sons went to the beautiful valley In Benton County which now bears the family name. There they took up dona tion land claims. A. N. King, however, selected his claim on the Willamette River, a few miles below the present site of Corvallis. Foreseeing the commercial greatness of Portland, he came hither In 1849, and bought a squatter's right to the magnificent hillside claim west of the city, known now as King's Addition. Eb son (or Aperson) and Balance were the men from whom he made the purchase. They had obtained it from D. H. Lowns dale, who had erected a tannery there. Tnls business Mr. King continued for 12 years, In the meantime clearing oft the timber and laying out King's Addition to Portland. An act indicating his public spirit was his sale of the 40 acres for the Ctiy Park at JSOO per acre, which was only a fraction of the actual value of the property. In 1846 Mr. King was married to Miss Matilda Fuller, of Tualatin Plains. Mrs. King died on January 20, 18S7. The fruits of this long and happy union were six children, four of whom are still living. They are: Edward A. King, and N. A. King, of this city; Mrs, Jeffery and Mrs. Lucy A. Lumsden, of Sauvle's Island. Mr. King's first wife died in 1887, and in 1892 he married Mrs. Fanny G. Roberts, who survives him. Mr. King was held as one of Portland's most substantial citizens, and was re garded as a good man in every sense of the word. He was a progressive citizen In the community, a kind and generous neighbor and a trusted friend. His do mestic relations were most happy, and he left not only grandchildren, but great grandchildren, to mourn his loss. Of hue years Mr. King had devoted much of his time to lo6king after his property interests, which were very ex tensive. He was often seen by the resi dents of King's Addition, now one of the most beautiful residence districts of Port land, spade In hand, correcting faults In a street Improvement left by careless city workmen, or, in time of heavy "Winter downpours, taking good care that choked sewers did not cause damage by overflow of water. He was always in favor of improving property wherever possible, and had not the plan been blocked by a minority of the property-owners along the way, he would before this have secured the laying of a fine asphalt or vitrified brick pave ment on Washington street, from Six teenth to the City Park. Mr. King was a man whose judgment on matters of property values was sel dom In error, and whose counsel was eagerly sought by his friends and associ ates. Benton Killln, a lifetime friend, once said of him: "When Amos King gives hi3 advice about anything, you can be mighty sure that it is the advice to be followed. I know of no man In Portland who has sounder or clearer Judgment." At the time of the publication of the semi-centennial number of The Oregonlan, December 4. 1900, Mr. King was the only person then living in Portland whose name had been mentioned In the flrsi number of this paper. He contributed a column of interesting reminiscences to the semi-centennial number. Describing his settlement at Portland, he said: "We didn't stop at Portland when, we first came to Oregon. Up in King's Val ley, where we lived, I early began to hear stories about the profits and danger of boating in the Tfvers from Oregon City to yancouver. Every once in a while some body was drowned In Clackamas Rapids, or a boat was capsized and her cargo lost, or a mishap of some kind occurred. I had had some experience in that sort of work on the Missouri River, and I concluded I would try it. So I came down the river, got a boat and set out to have a look at Clackamas Rapids. I was two or three miles below Oregon City, and I met a boat with a man In It. " 'Say,' said I, 'how far is It to Clack amas Rapids? " 'Why, you've passed 'em,' said he. "So I had, and I didn't know it I con cluded to go Into the transportation busi ness. There were three boats then plying from Vancouver to Oregon City. Not steamboats, mind. The first trip I made nothing. The second trip I made $2. Then, one boat drew off, and then another, until I had the business pretty much to myself. Tou see, I never tipped a boat over, or wet anybody's goods. Then I got another boat above the falls, and so I had through service from Vancouver to Yamhill. This was before the days of the Oregon City locks, and we had to pack goods around the falls on our backs. It took about two weeks to make the through trip: though. if everything went well, we made it quick er. I was so prosperous that I had a crew of two on my bateau. When we reached the rapids wc" poled and pulled. In "making the whole trip, sometimes, wo rowed, other times took a line, went ashore and pulled; then again it was pos sible to row on one side and pole on tho other. Usually we didn't stop long at Portland. There wasn't much to Portland In those days. "Well, I stuck to that business for two years, and hard work It was, too. Then I came to Portland. I wanted to buy some blankets at Crosby's store, at Washing ton and First streets, and I had to hang around three days for a chance to get waited on. How Is that for a rush of business?, D. H. Lownsdale and Colonel King were about the only men living on the original Portland townslte those days I bought out the tannery from the two partners, who wanted to go to California. Ttiat was in 1849, and the gold excitement was at its height. I bought the whole outfit just as It stood hides, leather In hand, tools, everything. Off went Ebson and Balance. In a year or two Balance came back broke, and went to work for me until he got enough money to go to Jacksonville to work In the mines. "I had the only tannery In the North west and I prospered. I had lots of trou ble keeping men at work, though. I paid as high as $10 per day, and Still they wouldn't stay. I scjld hides and leather to everybody. An inch strip off a cow's hide, good for a bridle-rein, sold for a dol lar. I had great difficulty getting skins. Cattle were scarce, and usually too valua ble to kill. I tanned twice as many deer skins as any other. But people had to cctne to me, or go barefooted, or wear moccasins, which in the Winter time was about the same thing. "Conditions of life- were pretty hard then. 1 remember the first pair of shoes' I ever haa, after we got here. My father made them, and he tanned the hides by hand. I had gone barefooted from March till December of that year. Everybody then In 1846 wore buckskin buckskin coat, buckskin jacket, and buckskin breeches, all home-made. And a home made straw hat, too. I had just one hat that wasn't straw before '52. Down on the Columbia River, during a blow one day, my hat went off Into the river. The boys laughed at me so much that I told them I would get a hat that would fill them with envy. I did. I went to the Hudson's Bay store at Vancquver, and bought a high silk hat the only one I could get An'd I wore that hat on the river for some time. "We ran our tannery by horse-power and used home-made tools. The first real curry knife I had I paid $15 for. It was worth $2 50 In the states'. I cut out the tan vats myself with a? broadax. We had no sawmill nearer than Oregon City. Peo ple came from all over the territory to buy leather, riding horseback from as far as Jacksonville. They had to have shoes If they had nothing else." In politics Mr. King was a Democrat for a great many years, but on the ad vent of Bryanl3m and the silver agitation, he twice voted for the late President Mc Kinley. Thq arrangements for the funeral hava not yet been made. AMOS NAHU3I KING. GOMPERS PROTEST Labor Representative Sent to Porto Rico Arrested. CASE LAID BEFORE ROOSEVELT Object of Visit Was to Organ la e the Worlcingmen Believed President Will Recommend Re-Enactment of Chinese Exclusion Act. WASHINGTON, Nov. 1L Samuel Gom. pers, president of the American Federa tion of Labor, today saw the President to protest against the arrest of Santiago Igleslas, who was sent to Porto Rico by the Federation to organize the working men of the Island. Before Mr. Igleslas left tho United States Mr. Gompers ex plained to the President the purpose of his visit, and asked that Governor Hunt be notified that Us mission was not to stir up strife, but simply to organize labor along legitimate lines. At that time he told the President that Mr. Igleslas, dur ing the Spanish ascendancy, had opposed the Spanish regime, and had been Impris oned, having been liberated when the American troops reached San Juan. By the Presldent'3 direction Secretary Cor telyou wrote to Governor Hunt concern ing Mr. Igleslas' mission. That letter was dated October 19. Last Saturday Mr. Gompers was surprised to receive the fol lowing cablegram from Mr. Igleslas: "Am arrested when stepped ashore. No warrant shown. Ignorant charges. Re main Jail." This message Mr. Gompers 6howed to the President, and the President Immedi ately sent an Inquiry to Governor Hunt as to the cause of his arrest. During Mr. Gompers' Interview today he spoke to the President about labor agi tation, the extension of the eight-lvour law, the alien contract labor law and the convict labor law. Mr. Gompers was es pecially anxious that the President should recommend the re-enactment of the Chi nese exclusion act, and ho came away Impressed with the belief that the Presi dent would do so. CASE AGAINST IGLESIAS. Public Prosecutor Contends He Is a Dangerous Labor Agitator. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Nov. 11. San tiago Igleslas was arrested here last Thursday on landing from the Red D. Line steamer Philadelphia from New Tork. His detention was due to his non appearance after being thrice summoned by the local courts to appear In a case against him and seven others, brought In July of last year, when the currency was changed. At that time he persuaded the local Federation of Labor to order all labor organizations to go on strike unless they were paid in gold at the same rate as silver master workmen, $3, journeymen $2, and ordinary laborers, $1 50. These rates were not accepted by the employers, and a general strike, which was accom panied by some violence, followed. Igleslas, with other members of the committee, was charged with conspiracy and the' cases were set down for trial September 11, 1900. When the date was reached Igleslas, who was at large on bis own recognizance, did not appear on the adjourned day, further adjournment was taken until May 2, 1901, when an or der for his arrest was Issued, he then being in New York City. He Is now in jail awaiting trial, iri default of $2000 bail. Today ho sent a petition to Governor Hunt asking to be released on his own recognizance, explaining that he made a similar application when he was first summoned, but that the case was post poned, and that no notice of the hear ing ph May 2 waa ever served him. The public prosecutor asks that he be sentenced to a term of Imprisonment on the ground that he is a dangerous labor agitator, and is continuously causing unrest For Chinese Exclusion Act. HAZLETON, Pa., Nov. 11. Thomas Duffy, president of the United Mine Workers In this district, today notified all the local unions under his supervision of the wish of National President Mitchell that a resolution be adopted favoring re enactment of the Chinese exclusion law which will expire next May. These reso lutions will be forwarded to Congressmen representing the people of the anthracite coal fields. DELAY IN NEGOTIATION. Danish West Indies Treaty May Not Come Before Next Congress. WASHINGTON, Nov. 11. It is doubtrul whether the protected treaty of cession of the Danish West Indies to the United States will be completed In time to submit to Congress when It reassembles next month. The delay appears to have arisen through the last change In the Ministry at Copenhagen, with the State Depart ment, practically having reached an agree ment with the Danish Government on the treaty when the entry Into power of a new Ministry not well disposed toward the treaty made It necessary to begin the work all over again. The issues do not touch the price to be paid so much as the conditions as to the future of the citizen ship of the Danish West Indies, sought to be Imposed by Denmark. The United States desires a simple treaty and one that will leave it at perfect liberty to deal with the Islands without any restrictions. Reports of Sale Incorrect. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 11. The Premier, Dr. Deuntzer, in an Interview today, on the subject of the negotiations for the sale of the Danish West Indies, la quoted as saying that the Washington and Lon don dispatches declaring that the Islands have been sold to the United States for $4,000,000, with the understanding that the inhabitants are to beg ranted citizenship and free trade, are incorrect. The nego tiations are progressing, but the result cannot be definitely predicted. BLOW TO DEVERY. Court Holds That Jerome Can Try Charges of Neglect of Duty. NEW YORK, NovTll. The application of Deputy Police Commissioner William S. Devery to make absolute a temporary writ of prohibition, restraining Justice Jerome from trying churges of neglect of duty preferred against him, was today denied by Justice O'Gorman in the Su preme Court, the Justice holding that the magistrate had jurisdiction to enter tain the complaint The charges against Devery were made by Patrolman O'Neill, who alleges that Devery had treated him with oppression In fining him 30 days' pay for offenses against the rules of the police depart ment It was alleged In support of the application for the writ that Devery's acts'were performed while he was acting In a? 'Judicial capacity, and that he was, therefore, exempt from personal liability. It waH also asserted that Justice Jerome was biased and prejudiced and inspired by partisan motives. ENGLAND DOES NOT OBJECT London Paper Sees Nothing in Canal Situation to Make Trouble. LONDON, Nov. llThe Pall Mall Ga zette this morning, referring to the speech made by Senator Lodge at Boston on Sat urday last, says: "If, as believed, Mr. Lodge's speech re veals thq mind of President Roosevelt, this country will have nothing to complain of. The Isthmian business will be set tled next year In a manner honorable and satisfactory to both countries, which means, we presume, that America will get her own way in the matter. The Mon roe Doctrine Is to be sternly upheld by a great navy, If need be. This is In the interests of peace. As the Monroe Doc trine does not affect that part of the American Continent which belongs to the British Empire, the announcement will cause no friction." Worlc Train "Wrecked. TEXARKANA, Ark., Nov., 11. Train men arriving here tonight on the iron Mountain say a work train was wrecked at Prescott, near Texarkana, killing six negroes and Injuring 15 others. The names of the dead men are not obtainable. SUMMARY OF THE DAY'S NEWS. Philippines. Filipinos attempted to repeat the Samar tac tics, but were completely routed by tho Americans. Pago 2. Hoot approves Taft's suggestions for regula tion of Chinese immigration. Pago 2. Foreign. The Hague Council of Administration will meet November 27 to consider Boers' appeal. General. Leader of convicts who escaped from Kansas penitentiary captured. Page 1. Gompers protests to President against arrest of labor representative sent to Porto Rico. Page 1. Board of visitors to Naval observa'tory reports in favor of civic control. Page 2. General Urlbe-TJrlbe tell3 what he and his fol lowers are battling for. Page 5. i " Sport. University of Oregon will play football today with "Whitman College, at Walla Walla. Page 3. Ruhlln is growing in favor In the coming heavy-weight championship fight. Page 3. Pacific Coast. Defense begins testimony in Consldlne trial at Seattle. Page 4. Strike of Ironworkers at San Francisco is near an end. Pago 4. Oregon Supreme Court gives verdict in four cases. Page 5. Salt-water baths at Long Beach destroyed by fire. Page 4. Commercial and Marine. Continued activity in New York stock mar ket. Page 11. Steady wheat market at homo and abroad. Page 11. Eleven French vessels In Portland harbor for wheat. Page 5. Barnllan completes another grain cargo. Page 5. Steamship City of Topeka strikes an Iceberg In Alaska. Page 5. Overdue ship Boanoke spoken early In Septem ber. Page 5. Portland and Vicinity. Death of Amos N. King, a prominent Oregon pioneer of 1845. Page 1. East Side canneries put up 100,000 cases of fruit and vegetables In, 1901. Page 10. Two battalions, Twenty-Eighth Regiment. TJ. S. A., start for Philippines tonight. Page 8. Park Commissioners decide not to lease Haw- ,thorne Park. Page 12. Rev. Mr. Hoyt discusses his application to the Ministerial Association. Page 7. Oregon Fish and Game Association will try to stop Indian slaughter of 6eer. Page 8. Polico capture two hold-up artists. Page 12. Runaway street-car makes a flying Journey without a motorman. Page 12. LEADER RUN DOWN Negro Who Headed Mutiny at Prison Captured. A MOST EXCITING DAY'S SEARCH Another Convict Was Also Captured, Reducing the Number at Large to Twelve Fleeing Men Are Becoming Bolder. TOPEKA. Kan., Nov. 11. With the cap ture of Frank Thompson, the negro leader of the Federal Penitentiary mutiny, last Thursday, 14 of the convicts have been retaken. Thompson was captured near Council Grove tonight by Deputy United States Marshal Prescott and a posse of farmers. He showed fight, but was brought down by a load of buckshot. Thompson is not dangerously wounded, and will be returned to the penitentiary tomorrow. The Federal prison authorities were more anxious to get Thompson than any of the other men, and his capture came as the climax of a most Interesting and exciting day's search. Another of the fleeing convicts was laid low this morning near Quenmo, 40 miles southwest from the penitentiary. Law rence Lewis, white, aged 20, was fatally wounded, receiving a bullet In an attempt to escape from the City Marshal of that place. To date three of the mutinous con victs have been killed, and five, Including the two who yesterday made a captive of Sherff Cook, of Topeka, and then escaped, have been wounded. Lewis' death will make the fourth fatality. A horde of armed men are today search ing for the captors of Cook, and it seems impossible that they can get away. Re inforced by the weapons taken from tho Wooster House and from the officers, they are well prepared, however, to make a. fierce fight. They are desperate men, and unless 'the wounds received yesterday prove serious, it Is believed they will not be taken alive. Lawrence Lewis, the con let shot today, was received at the penitentiary in Octo ber, 10CO, under a five-year sentence for larceny. From the descriptions received, Warden McClaughry believes that the two captors of Sheriff Cook were Arthur Hewitt, white, and Lon Sutherland, a part Indian. Hewitt and Frank Thompson were ring leaders In the outbreak, and the Warden today Increased the reward for their cap ture. Hewitt and Sutherland were both serving fl ;r years for larceny. The 12 convicts yet at large are inspiring much fear pmong the inhabitants of the country districts. Tonight, officers are at work in a dozen different counties, and as some report they have groups of conviit3 rounded up, more captures will be made before morning. From Council Grove, where Thompson was captured tonight, six convicts have started to Cottonwood Falls, and are freely holding up and rob bing people and plundering farms a!! along. Many have had encounters with the men, and people along the route are afraid to venture out of their houses to night. In Lyon County, citizens and offi cers alike are -armed, and are patrolling the approaches to the towns, as the con victs will probably pass that way. Three supposed convicts were seen boarding a freight train In Ottawa to night, and they are expected to drop ofT near Emporia, where there is some heavy timber suitable for hiding. Near Osage City, Deputy Warden Lemon, with 14 offi cers. Is closely in touch with three con victs, whom he expects to capture before morning. The Sheriff at Oswego is in pursuit of-a convict who held ud som men there today. The Sheriff at Alma reports that he has two supposed convicts surrounded. The convicts are seemingly becoming bolder, and are invading towns. In tho Union Pacific yards at Wamego tonight, two of the runaways held up a man and compelled him, at the point of a revolver, to give them $92. They then boarded a. freight train, and went West without any attempt being made to capture them. Nothing like the present condition of affairs has been experienced by Kansas since the border ruffian times. A special from Alma, Kan., says: The three convicts who stole the wag on from Farmer Martin at Rock Creek, and later stole two horses near Wamego, met some young men near McFarland. Sunday afternoon, and in an exchange of shots killed a horse ridden by one of tho men named Graves. The convicts escaped, and were next seen at Alma at 8:30. Sun day night, when the three rode down tho main street of the town, and headed south. They were mounted on two horbes, one horse carrying two of the convicts. They were regarded with suspicion, but no one tried to stop them. At the farm of Charles Schwanke, four miles south of Alma, they stole more horses, and went on toward the South. It is supposed that this gang of convict is the same that was headed off by the posse which went to Manhattan last Friday. The gang returned eastward for the purpose of crossing the river at tho Rossvllle bridge. It is supposed, that they are now headed for the Indian Territory. Captain Jackson, of the Federal Prison at Leavenworth, with six of the Federal prison guards, left Topeka at 10:55 this morning on the Santa Fe, to go to Osnga City to get ahead of these three convicts, two whites and one black. A posse In charge of a Deputy Sheriff of Wabaunza County also left Alma this morning, and are In pursuit of them. Warden McClaughry announced his in tention several days ago of having all tho fugitives Indicted for conspiracy. Tho sentence of the ringleader, Thompson, will undoubtedly be hanging, while the others will have their terms lengthened. FELL TO HIS DEATH. Richard Mnyo-Smltb h Professor at Columbia University. NEW YORK, Nov. 11. Richard Mayo Smith, a profossor of political economy at Columbia University, was instantly killed tonight by falling from a window of his study on the fourth floor of his residence on West Seventy-seventh street to the stone flagging In the rear. So far as the police have Investigated the case, they conclude' that the fall was accidental. Professor Maya-Smith had been 111 for a few months, but not alarm ingly so. He was 47 years old, and had been a professor of political economy at Columbia since 18b3. He had written much on economic subjects, and was the author of several books. Passenger Agents Meet. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. 11. Two special trains bearing the delegates to the twenty-ninth annual convention of the American Traveling Passenger Agents' Association arrived at Los Ange les this evening. The visitors spent the day at San Bernardino, Redlands and Riverside. The convention will meet at 10 o'clock tomorrow in annual cession. fisTl tnoo