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VOL. XLV.-'0. 13,908. PORTLAND; OREGON, THURSDAY, JTHLT 6, 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS. REVOLT DECLARED if REBEL SHIP Potemkin Opens War on Czar's Rule. PROCLAIMS ITS PURPOSE Crimean Town Forced to Sup - ply Provisions. WOW HEADED FOR BATOUM Threat or Bombardment Makes The odosia Comply With Demands. Flames of Revolt Will Burst Out In Caucasus.- ST. PETERSBURG, July 6. (Special.) Official secrecy was forgotten for the mo ment yesterday when consternation seized the Imperial government on receipt of direct dispatches from Theodesla, Cri mea, Announcing the arrival there of the battleship Kniaz Potemkin with a de mand for coal, provisions, medicine and a surgeon, on pain of bombardment. This consternation became terror this morn ing, when it became known that the mutineers had obtained a large part of their requirements and were heading for Batoum, in the Caucasus, to take on coal and recruits from the revolutionists there. Further dismny was caused this morn ing by confirmation of a report wired yesterday that the mutineers had Issued to the powers a proclamation declaring war on the Romanoff dynasty and prom ising to respect the rights of neutral na tions. Only a feeble attempt to suppress the text of the official proclamation was made, and that was abandoned when the Emperor's advisers learned positively that the message already had been re-, celved by the governments of the sev eral other countries. Proplamation of Rebels. "The crew of the Potemkin," e'A Ihe j proclamation, repeated from the Crimea, "notify the foreign powers that the de cisive struggle has begun against the Russian government. "We consider it to be our duty to declare that we guaran tee the complete inviolability of foreign ships navigating the Black Sea, as well as the inviolability of foreign ports." It was not until after 1 o'clock this morning that the Czar's advisers appar ently realized the revolt of the Potem kin's crew had swelled beyond the boundaries of mutiny and threatened to become a dominant factor in the general revolutionary movement. Sturdily as of ficials of the Navy Department had de fended Kruger's course In retiring be fore the defiant Potemkin and in per mitting the then equally mutinous crew of the Georgi Pobledonostseff to go over to the rebels, they were much more vig orous this morning in condemning his action, and referred openly to his retreat not only as "withdrawal," but as flight. Lay Blame on Kruger. That sudden shift of departmental opin ion was due to realization of the predica ment in which Admiral Kruger had placed primarily the Admiralty and, in a still more dangerous sense, the Impe rial government, by leaving the two pow erful fighting machines at large to rav age and to stir up rebellion along the whole Russian coast of the Black Sea. Although the repentance of the Georgl's mutineers and their surrender to the ' port admiral of Odessa still was credited in official circles, the fact that the more determined crew of the Potemkin was as free as it had been since the massacre of its officers and the hoisting of the red flag of revolution on June 2S out weighed the solace to be derived from the capitulation of the second company of naval insurgents. Will Inflame Caucasian Rebels. Admiralty officers admitted this morn ing that the rebel commundcr of the Potemkin. by lifting the mutiny above the level of insubordination, had struck a severer blow at Emperor Nicholas and the whole Imperial government than could have been achieved by. the shelling of half the cities in Kherson and the Crimea. Destruction of half of Odessa and the wiping out of Akcrman and Se vastopol, it was remarked, would not have held so much of peril as the mu tineers' move toward the Caucasus, where revolution already is seething and where the appearance of the Potemkin in the hands of .a rebellious crew must have the effect of encouraging the revolu tionists to the last degree. Again and again. In formal and infor mal conferences, Rear-Admiral Kruger was blamed for his supine compliance un der the guas of the mutineers, and many officers did not hesitate to use the word "coward" In speaking of his conduct. They said he should have sunk the Po temkin and the Georgi Pobledonostseff, if to do so meant the loss of his entire squadron, to say nothing of his own death. FORCED .TO FURNISH FOOD Potemkin Brings TJheodosia Council to Knees by Threats. THEODOSIA, Crimea, July 5. Sum moned by the Kniaz Potemkin, repre sentatives of the Town Council went on board the battleship and were received in the Admiral's cabin by the commission commanding her. The commission "de manded the deliver- of 500 tons of coal and provisions of various kinds within 21 hours, and threatened that, in the event of noncompliance, after warning to the inhabitants, the town would be bom barded. The commission also proposed that tho 'Mayor should transmit to the population a proclamation demanding the termina tion of the war, a convocation of Zemst vos, etc Learning of these demands, many in habitants fled the town. The workmen insisted that the demands be granted. A special meeting of the Municipal Council was called, and the Council con sented to deliver the provisions, but re fused to comply with the demand for coal, for the reason that the town had none. . HEADS FOR CAUCASIAN PORT Potemkin May Start General Upris ing in South. ST. PETERSBURG, July .(2:10 A. M.) While no official confirmation is obtainable, the Associated Press has been Informed by an authority usually reliable that the Admiralty has re ceived news that the Kniaz Potemkin. after shipping coal, provisions and medicines, is again at large in the Black Sea, and that her destination is unknown. Whether the report of the sailing of the battleship is true or not, the crew took a remarkable step yester day, when, with all the solemnity of a provisional government, it lesued a manifesto addressed to the powers, an nouncing that Civil War had been begun against the existing regime in Russia, and pledging the inviolability of foreign shipping and foreign ports. This action doubtless was taken to quiet the apprehensions of foreign powers and to leave no excuse for the sending of warships through the Dar danelles to effect the capture of tho battleship, which un'll now Russia's Black Sea fleet has not dared to at tempt. It is considered a shrewd move on the part of the mutineers, and stamps the commander of the crew as a leader far above the class of the or dinary sailor and strengthens the opin ion that he is not a member of the orig inal crew, but one of the revolution aries who went on board at Odessa. The issuance of the manifesto lends a certain dignity to the mutiny and proves that the crew and their com mander have no desiro that the world should believe them to be mere outlaws, but thatthey should be looked upon as men seriously raising the standard of revolution. Nothing has been received to con firm the supposition that the request for a doctor at Theodosia indicated a struggle for supremacy on the way from Kustcnji. According to a rumor printed in an afternoon paper, tho ship's strong box contained 1375,000 and the mutineers woulV therefore be well supplied with Sioney. In circles closely in touch with the revolutionists it is regarded as a fore gone conclusion that the commander of the Potemkin. knowing the situation in the Caucasus, will head for Poti or Batoum, where the revolutionists are exceedingly strong, in the hope of producing a general rising. With the authorities in the Causasus almost powerless to prevent it, such a contin gency is by no means impossible. Dispatches from Tifiis received last night say that the reports of the riot ing at Odessa and the action of the Kniaz Potemkin have aroused the most intense interest and the wildest joy among the revolutionists. The receipt of the report was followed immediately by a complete strike, evon the lamp lighters quitting work. The city is in darkness and the inhabitants general ly are fleeing to the northward. The Emperor Nicholas II, the crew of which is reported to have mutlned at Constantinople, is a Russian mer chantman. Considerable anxiety is felt because the cruiser Chernomorotz, which was due at Sebastopol today, has not yet arrived. Order has not been restored at Bielo-stok- A censored telegram received last night reported that shooting had been heard, that crowds are fleeing and that groat excitement pre-ails, but no details arc given. POWERS MAY PURSUE REBEL Black Sen Fleet Again Goes in Search of Potemkin. LONDON. July 6. It Is understood that the movements of the Kniaz Potemkin arc engaging the serious attention of the powers, who ore exchanging views on the possible necessity of taking joint meas ures to protect neutral commerce in the Black Sea. According to the Associated Press dispatch from Vienna, however, nothing will be done, even in the shape of joint representations to the' Russian gov ernment, except In the last extremity. It being desired to avoid wounding Russia's susceptibilities. Speciai dispatches from Constantinople give an unconfirmed report that the Po temkin cngasod two British officers at Kustcnji. The Odessa correspondent of the Stand ard assorts that the Black Sea squadron, including the Georgi Pobledonostseff, has now been sent in search of the Potemkin. MUTINOUS SAILORS ARE SHOT They Prefer Death to Oath of Al legiance to Czar. ODESSA. July 6. (Special.)-Forty-five sailors, who wore recently relieved from duty with the Russian Black Sea fleet, have been courtmartialed and shot be cause they declined to take the oath of allegiance to the Czar. It is understood that all dissatisfied sailors will be gien their choice of swear ing loyalty or being shot Pursuer Obtains Supplies. SOFIA. Bulgaria. July 5. The Russian torpedoboat-destroyer Stremltelvy an chored off Varna, opposite Prince Fer dinand's palace, yesterday evening. The commander requested supplies, which were Immediately granted, and the de stroy c'r sailed. TEXAS IT TORN BY TORNADO It Zigzags Across the Country, Smashing Everything in Its Path. DEAD MAY NUMBER SIXTY Towns, Farms and Stock Ranches Laid Lou- or Swept Away by Re sistless Power of Wind in Montague County. FORT WORTH, Texas. J,uly 5. A tor nado whlc. struck Texas in the upper edge of liontague County, coming from the northeast and swinging far to the southeast, this afternoon caused the loss, it is believed, of 40 lives, injured a large number of people, and did untold damage to growing crops and cattle. Fortunately, the tornado missed the small towns In the section through which, It swept, but it zigzagged in such a way as to take in the homes of many farmers and stock rangers In the section. At Jacksjoro the force of the wind was terrific. The Baptist church and 30 other buildings were blown off their found ations, and a number of buildings totally destroyed. Mrs. Travis Calhoun was seri ously Injured. Travis Calhoun, Mrs. Hor ton and Henry Wesser and family were also Injured. At Montague no lives were lost in the town, but in the country great loss of life Is reported. The wires are down in all directions, and It is difficult to get par ticulars. Ten persons ore known to bo dead In the neighborhood of Montague. Most of those killed lived on Salt Creek, along which tho tornado swept with spe cial force. At Nacona the tornado passed a few miles to the south, and later lists give the dead at It and the injured at 41. A reliable man at Nacona. who has been over the zone, says that reports wore being received of the dead when he left there, and he places tho los of life at GO. Owing to the widely separated homes and the fact that In many instances whole families were wiped out, details and names are hard to igct. XACONA SUFFERS SEVERELY Fourteen Known Dead, Many In jured and Houses Wrecked. DALLAS, Tex,, July 5. A special to the News from Nacona, Tex., says: A tornado and thunder storm passed a few miles west and south of here this afternoon, killing 14 persons and injuring many others and destroying a number of houses. The latest reports from the stormswept dstrlct give the following casualties: Dead. MRS. C. C. SHACKLEFORD. MINNIE SHACKL.EFORD. daughter of R. G. Sfcackleford. MRS. S. L. TCML.ENSON AND THREE CHILDREN. MRS. MART LESTER AND FOUR CHIL DREN. CALEB WHITE. MRS. IRA V.'ILLIAMS. FRANK, son of Samuel E. Aiken, killed by lightning. Injured. Injured: James Simpson, Miss Alice Simpson. Moore, arm broken; Hobbs. fatally: C R. Christian and family; J. M. Steward, and family; C. H. Williams, leg broken; Miss Nannie Austin, seriously; W. J. Woodson. Frank Wood son, seriously: Mrs. Jesse. R. G. Shackle ford and wife: four of C. S. Shackleford's children, serious Injuries; C. S. Shackle ford, Injured about head: a child of Mrs. Mary Lester, believed to be fatally in jured. Houses and Churches Wrecked. Many farmhouses wer swept entirely away. Baptist and Methodist churches at Belcher were much damaged. The Metho dist Church at Montague Is reported wracked and the Courthouse damaged, also other churches there. The Dixie schoolhouse, six miles south of here, was entirely blown away. Reports of the work of the tornado arc still coming In. I The numbor of killed and Injured probably will reach GO. TEN ARE DEAD AT MONTAGUE One Whole Family Killed by Devas tating Storm. MONTAGUE. Tex.. July 5. Ten people are dead as a result of a tornado that passed over Montague this afternoon. They are: A. H. EARL. MISS SADIE EARL, daughter of A. P. Earl. BURKE EARL, his in. BABY OF 1JVWREXCB PILLOW. TOMLINSON FAMILY, cowlstlnc ef hus band, wife and four children. Fatally injured: " 1 Claiborne White. 45 years old. Houses totally demolished: J. F. Clark's drugstore. D. Y. Lunn's grocery store, old bank building, occupied by G. L. Alcorn, real estate agent: store of Rowe Hard ware Company: 15 dwellings. The tornado lasted perhaps 30 minutes. Hundreds of head of stock in this vicinity were killed outright by the wind. The number of Injured is unknown. STILL STAND BY STRIKE Chicago Teamsters Refuse to Admit Battle Is Lost. CHICAGO. July 5. The Joint council of the Teamster's Union tonight refused to take action locking toward calling off the strike, and appointed a committee to pro cure funds to support the striking team sters in their struggle. The committee ap pointed Is to bp known as the "flying; squadron," and it will call on every union teamster In the cltv to donate a stipulat ed amount each week toward the support of the strikers. Change Industrial Constitution. CHICAGO. July 5. The Congress of the Industrial Workers of the World spent the whole of today's session discussing an amendment to the proposed constitution. The amendment, which was offered by David C. Coates. of Idaho, provides that the Industrial Workers organization shall be composed of national and international unions, comprising all the workers of any Industry. The convention adjourned with the question still under discussion. GREETED BY PRESIDENT Epworth League Thousands Gather ing at Denver. DENVER. July 5. President Roosevelt today telegraphed greetings to the mem bers" of the Epworth League who are as sembling In this city for their seventh an nual International convention. The Pres ident's telegram, which will be read at the opening session tomorrow, is as follows: Pray express to th International Epworth League Convention my heartiest greeting. I wUh ihem Godspeed in working for the prac tical application of their rootto, "Look tip. lift up." About 10,000 delegates have already ar rived, and thousands more are reported still to be on tho way. The convention will be remarkable for the number of mission nnd institution church workers in attendance. S. H. Hadley, of the famous Jerry McCauley's Water-Street Mission. New York, arrived with the New YorJc-1 delegation. Many nations are represent ed, but Mrs. Mary Harrington will prob ably be the sole representative of South America. She la an enthusiastic Epworth League worker in Chile, and that there is a league in that country Is due mainly to hr efforts. Governors Frank Hanley. of Indiana, and W. Hoch. of Kansas, have promised to deliver addresses next Sunday on "Christian Character In Public Life." In honor of tho visiting delegates the oratorio "Elijah" was sung tonight in one of the largest city churches by a chorus of ZZO) voices. led by Professor Wllberforce J. Whlteman. 3IIncrs Killed by Explosion. BLUEFIELD. W. Va.. July 5. By an explosion In the Tidewater coal mine, at Vivian. DO miles west of this city, today, nine Italian miners were injured and two of them died later in the hospital, while three more are in a precarious- condition, with slight chances of recovery. AH of the men were burned, badly. The Tide water mine Is about two miles from Viv ian, W. Va., and employes 200 men. Zcmstvo Congress Forbidden. MOSCOW. July 5. The government has forbidden the holding of the big Con gress of Zcmtvolsts and other representa tives of small parts of Russia called for July 13. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. TODAY'S Fair. Weaterlr wind. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 78 d?s.r"mU:!mum, s. Precipitation, none. ' Ktirsla. Battleship Potemkin forces town to furnUh supplies and declares war on- government. Page 1. Potemkin starts for Batoum to start revolt in Caucasus. Page 1. Declaration of war causes panic at 8L. Petersburg. Page 1. Sailors shot for refusing to take oath of allegiance. Page 1. Officials flee to England and court favor of rebel leaders. Page 3. Tho War In the Far Eut. Russia asks Roosevelt to arrange armistice. Page 3. Savage attack on Secretary Hay by Russian paper. Page 3. National. Preildent and Cabinet at funeral of Secre tary Hay. Page 4. Roosevelt confers with Root on becoming Secretary of State. Tags 3. Beef packers decide to fight charges on their merits. Page 1. roUtirs. Mayor Dunne's new plan of public owner ship. Page 4. Domestic. Tornado kills r0 people in Texas. Page 1. Education convention hears some novel theories. Page 4. Endeavor convention opens at Baltimore. Page 2. Flood suddenly Alls Baltimore streets. Tage 1. West-bound passenger train on Great North ern goes in ditch in North Dakota; cars destroyed by Are. Page J. Sport. Pacific Coast League scores Portland 11, Seattle 1. Page 12. Americans defeated at Henley regatta. Page 12. Astoria hose team cuts down the Pacific Coast record. Page 12. Thery. the Frenchman, wins automobile race. Page 12. American tennis players beaten in Engtand. Page 12. Pacific Coast. Fred Koss dies at Aberdeen. Wash., of in juries received In prizefight. Page ."!. Oregon Legislative candidates forced to pledge themselves to vote for people's choice for Senator. Page S. Homing pigeon reaches Oakland. Cal., from Oregon City in 11 days. Page 5. Lauth Is to be hanged August 13 at Salem penitentiary. Page 3. Commercial and Marine. Difference of opinion as to course of Fall wheat, market. Page 13. Strong local demand for fruit. Page 13. Speculation over In wool. Page 13. New high record for cotton. Page 13. Weather reports cause fluctuations In Chi cago wheat. Page 13. Gold engagement leads to break In stock price. Page 13. California grain crops damaged by heat. Page 13. Itallas cruiser leaves here Saturday. Page 12. Nine steam coasters In port. Page 12. Two German barks wrecked In South Seas. Page 12. World's Fair. Testerday's attendance. 14.27H. Page 8. American Boy day is fittingly observed. Page S. Preparations for unveiling Sacajawea statue today. Page S. Union and Wallowa. Counties at the Fair. Page S. Portland and Vicinity. Portland's Chief of Police given power by charter to close Mllwaukle clubhouse. Page 7. Dr. Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress speaks at sesiion of librarians conven tion. Page 9. Railroads experienced heavy traffic during month of June. Page 9. Attempt of Council to elect president re sults in deadlock. Page 8. Democrats uneasy during Governor's ab sence from state Pago 14. Judge De Haven sets dates for land-fraud trials. Page S. Officer Scal!n says Chief Hunt released bunco man. Page 7. Suffrage convention - comes to an end. Pace 9. TIN DITCH FIRE BURNS K Wreck on Great Northern Pas senger No. 3, Westbound, in North Dakota. RUNNING AT HIGH SPEED Passengers Swarm Through Broken Windows Many Are Injured, but Xo Fatalities Have Yet Been Reported. GREAT FALLS, Mont.. July 5. A spe ci&Uto the Tribune from Willlson. N. D., says No. 3 westbound passenger train on the Great Northern was wrecked at 3pring Brook, about 12 miles west of there. A car in the middle of the train Jumped tho track Just before reaching a switch. At the switch this car went on the side track and a complete wreck fol lowed. All the train left the track except the engine. Explosions followed Immediately and set the wreckage on fire. Seven cars were completely destroyed by the fire, but the passengers all escaped through the windows and only a few were seriously injured, nlthouzh a largo number were slightly hurt. The Injured were all brought to Wllllston and It is not believed any are fatally hurt. The train was running at a high rate of speed, but no more than the regular run calls for. Where the car first left the track there is absolutely nothing wrong with the track and no one can account for the accident. All of the other cars passed over the place and had it not been for the switch no serious results would have followed. All the mill was saved. Rio Grande Train Wrecked. PARK CITY, Utah. July 5. A Rio Grande passenger train was wrecked soon after leavlnc th station hr this n f to?-- noon, by running Into an open switch.' Tne engine and baggage car were over turned. George Edgar, the fireman, was killed, and Boywatcr. the engineer, suf fered a broken leg. 8everal members of the Logan baseball team, who were riding in the baggage car, sustained painful, but not serious. Injuries. DUNNE'S OWNERSHIP PLAN PROPOSES CORPORATION" SHALL OWX CAR LIXES. Stock to Be Sold to People and De posited With Trust Company, Secure From Control. CHICAGO. July 5. Mayor Edward F. Dunne told the City Council tonight his plans for municipal ownership of trac tion properties. It was not municipal ownership absolutely, but, as the Mayor explained, the nearest thing possible un der existing conditions, and he asked the Aldermen to consider It carefully. Abso lute municipal ownership and operation, the Mayor said, he does not consider practical Just now. Tho plan which the Mayor offered pro vides for tho incorporation of a company, managed by five men who command the confidence of the people of Chicago. To this company Is to be granted a 20-year franchise, covering the streets In which rights of the old companies already havo expired or soon will expire. It is to bo stocked to the amount necessary to estab lish a street-car system in these strets. roughly estimated at 310 miles. No bonds are to be sold. The stock Is to be deposited with a trust company, which the Ave directors are to select, so as to prevent a purchase of It and consequent control by outside interests. The stock Is to be sold at pop ular subscription. At any tlmo the city may elect, it can take over the property on an appraised -valuation. PULLED DOWN BY DEVLIN Two Small Banks in Illinois Close Through RIs Failure. WASHINGTON. July 5. The Controller of the Currency has appointed National Bank Examiner J. D. Cook receiver of the Spring Valley National Bank, of Spring Valley. 111., upon advice received from Cook that the bank had closed. The Controller has also appointed Na tional Bank Examiner J. MacShoIt re ceiver of the First National Bank of Toluca, I1L. upon advice from the vice president of the bank that It would not open for business this morning and a re quest to have an examiner take charge. The suspension of these two banks is due to the failure of C. J. Devlin, who was president of both of them. The capital of tho Spring Valley Na tional Bank is JjO.OCO and of the First National of Toluca J10O.OX). SAY DEVLIN IS BANKRUPT. Creditors File Petition Which Kills Transfers to Bank. TOPEKA, Kan.. July 5. Affairs In the failure of the First National Bank as sumed a different phase today when Kan sas City creditors petitioned the United States District Court to declare Charles J. Devlin a bankrupt. The petition was made returnable on July 20. and Its effect is to prevent any further attachments of Devlin property, and to set aside trans fers of real estate valued at HOO.OOO to the failed bank. Today's action thus re duces the bank's assets, at least tem porarily, to Just that extent. The action does not affect the life Insurance, which is In Mrs. Devlin's name, and which she insists be left among the assets of the bank. Mr. Devlin's business associates declare that ha is far from a bankrupt and still insist that the bank will be enabled to pay dollar for dollar. Receiver Bradley, who began delving into the books of the bank today, an nounced that it wolild be ten days before he could make a statement of its condi tion. He announced that it was doubtful if the state, which had I300.CC0 In the bank, would be considered a preferred creditor. Governor Hoch, late tonight, announced that the Executive Council would tomorrow consider the action of State Treasurer Kelley In placing so much of the state's money In one bank. There was no show of a run today on' any of the other banks, all fears appar ently having been allayed. It Is esti mated today that $346.C0O had been with drawn on Monday by frightened deposi tors from the Central National, the Bank of Tqpeka, the State Savings and the Merchants National Banks. Of this amount. 90 per cent was In checks of less than $100. and was distributed among 1S0O depositors. Receiver Bradley says there Is some doubt as to the legitimacy of the action of the officers of the bank in making special deposits- of all money paid in Friday and Saturday and not turning it in with the regular accounts. This action was taken in order to save tho depositors and at the same time not create alarm b'y refusing to receive deposits. The law makes It a criminal act for officers of a bank to receive deposits when they have reason to sus pect that the bank Is unsafe. On Fri day and Saturday all deposits received were laid aside, to be returned to the depositors untouched if the bank should fail. "This matter has been submitted to the department In Washington," Mr. Bradley said tonight. 'The officers there will have to decide whether or not the officers of the bank had the right to do as they did and whether or not this action releases them from re sponsibility for taking the deposits." There Is little mora talk of the First National Bank opening again for busi ness. The opinion of busine.ss men is that tho bank will be able to pay near ly, if not quite. 100 cents on the dol lar, but that there is little possibility of its belns able to resume business. TOPEKA. Kan.. July 5. Just what amounts the Devlin estate owes to the two Illinois banks that have been closed Is not known, but It Is stated that they became Involved in loaning money to build the Toluca, Marquette &. Northern Railroad, a small coal-carrying road which Mr. Devlin was constructing to mining property of that state. Negotia tions are already in progress. It is said, to sell this railroad property, which Is considered a valuable asset. Meeting or Creditors Called. KANSAS CITY. Mo.. July 5. Late to day the creditors committee of the C. J. Devlin estate drafted an address, which was Immediately forwarded to all credi tors of tha Devlin properties, asking that they meet at Kansas City on July 31 to consider the situation, and urging that In the meantime no legal action be taken. STRUCK DEAD BY THE SUN Two Venetian Gondoliers Collapse . With American Women on Boat. VENICE. July 6. (Special.) Three American women, whose names are not yet obtainable, hired a gondola late yes terday afternoon for a trip to the village of Forcello. Before they had gone far one of the gondoliers collapsed from sun stroke. The women went to his assist ance, only to be overcome by the extreme heat. ' - The second gondolier tried to steer his craft to the bank, at the same time cry ing for help. His cries were unheard, and he also collapsed. Tho gondola drifted down stream to Forcello, whero it was towed ashore. Both of the gondoliers were dead, and the women were removed to the parish house In a serious conditton. CALVIN MAKES FAST TIME More Than 31ile a Minute to Reach Sick Daughter. . SALT LAKE CITY. July 5. General Manager E. E. Calvin, of the Southern Pacific, arrived at 10:30 this morning in a special train which broke all records of the Southern Pacific for speed. The run from Ogden to Salt Lake, 37 miles, over the Oregon Short Line tracks, was made in 35 minutes. The entire run from Sparks, New, to Ogden, was made In very fast time, a speed, of 91 miles an hour being attained at times. Mr. Calvin came to the bedside of his daughter, who has been operated on for appendicitis, but Is now recovering nicely. RESCUERS, NOT LYNCHERS Xcw Light Thrown on Jailbreak at Russellvlllc. RUSSELLVILLE. Ky.. July 5. Tho crowd which overpowered the Jailor last night and which was thought to be u mob Intent upon hanging the four men under trial here for criminally assaulting- Mary Gladden. Is now gen erally believed to have been a rescue party made up of friends of the pris oner. Jim Lyon, who was carried out of Jail, was found today hiding In tho res idence portion of the city. CONVICT STRIKE QUELLED Drastic Measures Bring Salt Lake Prisoners to Senses. SALT "LAKE CITY, July 5. Twenty convicts at the State Penitentiary here struck today, refusing to work until Im provement was made In the food and other accommodations. After the strikers had been placed In solitary confinement and handcuffed to the celling for several hours, the strike lost its popularity. Will Collect Data on Canal. NEW YORK. July 5. Two Panama Canal Commissioners, Peter G. Haines nnd Colonel M. B. Harrod, sailed for Pan ama today on the Seguranca, to collect data concerning the surveys of the canal route and to prepare plans of this route for use by the advisory board of Engi neers, which will meet In Washington September L Warrant Out for Missing Broker. CHICAGO. July 5. The brokerage firm of Fraser & Co. here suspended business today. The whereabouts of S. L. Fraser. the active member of the firm, la unknown. Thomas Medlll, an asscclatc, has secured a warrant for Fraser's arrest, charging embezzlement. BARONS OF BEEF ILL FACE MUSIC They Scorn Subterfuges and Are Ready for Trial of -Case on Its Merits. REJECT LAWYER'S ADVICE Will Not Seek Technical Exoneration Lest Stigma Attach to Them. They Say Charges in Indict ment Are Exaggerated. CHICAGO, July 5. (Special.) Rather than take advantage of the magical in fluence of shrewd, attorneys and seek to evade the clutches of the law through technical loopholes that might be opened for them, the Indicted packers have de cided to let their case go to trial strictly on Its merits. This Information is expected to open, wide the eyes of those whose prejudice has led them to believe that the packers would follow In the footsteps of certain other corporations whose "soulless" de sire has been to escape criminal convic tion by retaining counsel with acute knowledge of the elasticity of the law. Despite the suggestion of the best-advised attorneys that the easiest way out of their dilemma Is to quash the indict ments or otherwise seek technical es cape, Louis Swift. J. Ogden Armour and Nelson Morris announced with decided emphasis that they put themselves in the place of the individual who is ac cused on ex parte testimony before a grand Jury. Thus individuality crept be yond the limits of corporations. These men feel that. Inasmuch as they are permanently engaged in business, any technical exoneration they might secure would still leave the stigma of a guilty practice upon their heads. John S. Miller, counsel for the accused packers, it is said, will Introduce argu ments In behalf of his clients that wlfl go a long way toward convincing even a petit Jury in the United States Court that the charges mentioned in the indict ments are grossly exaggerated. The pack ers, however, are said to base their hope of complete exoneration on the intelli gent Interpretation of the higher courts. Indicted Packers Give Ball. CHICAGO. July 5. Bonds were fur nished today by three of the packing companies and 13 of the individual pack ers indicted by the Federal grand jury last Friday. Four of the indicted are still absent from Chicago. GUT OFF By SUDDEN FLOOD PEDESTRIANS HAVE TO WADE BALTIMORE STREETS. Cloudburst Sends Torrents Through City to Meet High Tide in tho Harbor. . .jjj BALTIMORE. July 5. An immense amount of damage was done in Balti more City and County tonight by heavy rains, culminating in a cloudburst In tha vicinity of Tlmonum, a small station on the Northern Central Railroad, about ten miles from Baltimore. Bridges, houses and barns have been washed away, livestock has been drowned, rail road tracks have been destroyed and tele graph and telephone lines have been broken. So far as can be learned to night, there has been no loss of human life. The Immense volume of water rushing from the county down the fall3 was met by unusually high water in the harbor, caused by continued southeast winds, and this hastened the flooding of tha streets. So rapidly did the water rise In Harri son street that mothers bearing children on their backs were compelled to wade In water up to their shoulders. A young woman, attempting to get to her home in the eastern section of the city, was swept into the harbor, but was rescued by the police. A car on the Gay-street line was over whelmed by the flood on Gay street, near Harrison, and the passengers were rescued by a police patrol wagon with considerable difficulty. When at Its high est the water extended nearly as far west as Calvert street at Pleasant, and to within half a block of the City Hall on Holllday street, on which that build ing rronts. In the (basement or the building. In which the offices of the Associated Press and tho Western Union Telegraph Company are located, the water was two feet deep, and the de livery department of the Western Union was compelled to move. Mayor Tlmanus came, from his home to the City Hall and at once set going arrangements for caring for sufferers from the flood. At 3 o'clock this (Thursday) morning the waters are receding slowly, and there Is little likelihood of further damage be ing done. Estimates of what has already . been done would be the merest guess work. VISIT GRAND ARMY POSTS Commnnder-In-Chlef Blackmar Com ing to Portland Soon. BOSTON. Mass.. July 5. (Special.) General Wllmon W. Blackmar. Commander-in-Chief of the G. A. R., starts Thursday for his second tour of G. A. R. campfires and departments, taking in this time Wyoming and Idaho, and going thence to Portland. Or., .where -he will be tendered a reception by the department and speak at a camptire. He will also visit Tacoma. Seattle and Sitka. Alaska, returning July 31 from Vancouver.