VOL. XLVI NO. 14,477.
PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1907.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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LETTERS MAY BE
WORK OF DEFENSE
Scheme to Save Necks
of the Baxters.
MYSTERY IN MURDER CASE
Damaging Evidence Against
; Men Now on Trial.
GANG HAD OTHER MEMBERS
Father and Son Identified by Man
and Woman Who Saw Them.
Bending Over Hying Man.
Sheriff Has New Theory.
BY WILL, G. MAC RAE.
KALAMA. Wash.. May 1. (Special.)
Did the Baxters, father and son, now
on trial here for tile murder of James
Connors, the tramp who was shot at
Woodland on March 3d, have a hand
mi the murder of the unidentified man
whose body was found yesterday two
und a hulf miles north of here, as
monymous letters to the officials of
"owlits County said it would be? Or
Jld the grans of yegg men with whom
the Baxters traveled, kill this man and
nave a hand in the crime for which
father and son are being tried?
This is the mystery that Judge W.
1V. McCredle and the county officials
are trying to olve. If the Baxters
nd their pals did commit both crimes,
they have worked up a most elaborate
. scheme to savo the Baxters from the
hangman's noose. The story of the
murder of Connors at Woodland is old,
but the finding of the body of a young
man with two bullet holes in his head,
a supposed companion of the gang
that had been drinking and quarreling
thnt March Saturday afternoon and
evening- at Woodland Is new. and it is
by the LH4llflf.tOi Jbody that tha
pain of the Baxters huve hopes of se
curing their freedom.
Whether they escape rests with the
Jury that Is trying the case, but unless
the testimony that will be offered by
the defense tomorrow is stronger than
District Attorney B. L. Hubbell has
any information of, there is every rea
son to believe that the well laid plans
of (he gang that was in Woodland will
fail.
Saw Baxter Beside Bead Man.
At the trial today two eye witnesses, L.
V. Flanders and his wife, both testified
to having seen the two Baxters bending
over Connors as he was dying. The Flan
ders were in the cars occupied by the men
who were building bridges, and when they
heard the shots both rushed to the car
door and on the witness stand swore they
saw the Baxters in the act of kneeling
beside the dying man.
Other witnesses testified to having seen
the Baxters and the four other members
of the gang drinking and quarreling dur
ing the afternoon. They identified Tom
Baxter, the son, as one of the men quar
reling with a man that answered the de
scription of Connors. This is as far as
the prosecution can go, and District At
torney Hubbell rested his case late this
afternoon.
Tomorrow the defense will have Its in
ning. George Baxter, the father, will
testify in his own behalf. J. A. Carter
and his son will also be placed upon the
stand by Attorneys Imus and Stone, who
are defending the Baxters. By the testi
mony of Carter the defense hopes to
throw some light upon the murder of the
man found yesterday.
Heard Two Shots Fired.
Carter and his son are supposed to have
seen three men on the Kalama bridge
going north a short distance from where
the body was found, and a little later
heard two shots. Considerable import
ance is placed upon the hearing of two
shots because the dead man had two
bullet holes in his head.
It was through three anonymous letters
that the discovery of the second murder
was brought to light. One of the letters
was written to Sheriff, A. F. Kirby, one
to District Attorney Hubbell and the
third to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
The letters to the District Attorney and"
to Sheriff Kirby were written by the same
man, but the letter to Sheriff Kirby was
written by a woman, or by someone who
made a wretched attempt to disguise the
writing. Two of the letters were mailed
at Spokane. The one to the Sheriff was
mailed at Pasco. Wash.
. If the letters are a plot to help free
the Baxters of the killing of Connors it
has been well attempted but bulgingly
done. In the letter to Sheriff Kirby the
writer says that he met a man, who,
while drunk, confessed to the killing of
both Connors and the- man found yester
day. It also says, that the man who
made the confession was killed a few
days later In a wreck at Kennewick in
which five tramps were killed, and that
he had gone to Kennewick and identified
the murderer.
Letters Have Things Mixed.
This letter falls flat, for the two
other letters, supposed to have been
written by the murderer himself, bear
the date of April 27, while the Pasco
letter was mailed April 25. The Ken
newick wreck took place April 21,
so it is ex'ident that the man who is
supposed to have made the confession
was not killed. It shows that the plot
ters got their dates mixed.
Tha theory of tho officials here ia
that some member of the gang got a
woman to write the Pasco letter and
then tried to back it up by sending
two others from Spokane. The fact
remains that whoever wrote the let
ters knew of the second murder, for
the body was found in the spot .de
scribed In all three letters. The let
ter from Pasco follows:
His Conscience Had Hart Him.
Pauco. Wash., April 25, 190T. Sir: A few
days ago I met a young- man w!ch was un
der the lnnucing of liker and he told me of
a crime he committed In Woodland some
time In March where he shot a man four or
five times and It was bothering him to
know that It was other men arrested for It.
He farther told me he was going to writ
a letter to tho county attorney and also to
some leading paper in Seattle to show that
them men you got are entirely innocent
of the crime. He farther stated that he
killed another man a brother of tha dead
Baron Kiirokt. of Japan, Who Land
ed at Victoria Yesterday.
man you found down the track coming
north. It might be a few miles of where
he killed the first one he said he shot him
twice with the same gun and dragged hU
body about a hundred yards from the track
and burled him under a pile of brush and
that he Is not found yet but stated to me
wrather to see this man eacrlftst that he
would make a full confession but the al
mighty God fieen difference for he met a
horrible death a few days after. I have
taking trouble to go there and identify the
deal body that made that horrible confes
sion as one of the men killed In the Ken
newlck wreck last Sunday morning that he
called himself Slim and some other name.
I have forgoten now, dear sir, be so kind
to get serch body and hunt the woods along
the road for I am sure he was telling the
truth and oblige. I am a hard working
man myself and dont wish anything to do In
the matter. He further - stated he was a
lone when he killed both men.
A macklnaw coat was also found near
the 1xdy. The elder Baxter was asked
to give the names of his companions, but
lit could not. He said, however,
one of them wore a macklnaw coat and
described the one that was found.
Members of Gang Still at Large.
The officials so far have been unable
to determine which of the men was killed
first. They are not of theopinion that
the dead men were brothers. From In
vestigations so far. It would seem, owing
to the fact that there were six in the
gang at Woodland, that three of the gang
fled after the killing of Connors, and if
the shots that Carter heard on the Sun
day following were the one that killed
the second man, he was killed because
he knew of the murder of Connors. This
would leave two of the gang still at
large, and it is they who wrote the
anonymous letters.
The other two letters were written by a
man of some education, the spelling and
(Concluded on Page 5.)
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, OS
degrees; minimum, 43.
TODAY'S Fair; northerly wlnd3.
Jorelgn.
Rioting and many arrests - at I'aris May
day demonstrations. Page J.
Douma's attack on courts-martial causes
Cabinet to protest. Page 8.
National.
Ballinger dismisses clerks who sold infor
mation to land thieves. Page 2.
Particulars of attack on sailors at Santiago.
Page S.
Politics,
Democrats will make vigorous campaign In
Oklahoma. Page 4.
lometIc.
Maskln tells how whisky Is made. Page 4.
Mabelle Gilman arrives to marry Corey.
Page 2. -Mrs.
Yerkes-Mlzner applies for divorce.
Page 3.
John 1l Sullivan discusses love and mar
riage. Page 1.
More exposes of graft In Pennsylvania cap
ital. Page 4.
Arthur McEwen, famous newspaper man,
dead. Page 4
Miners brought out of Fouatwell mine will
all live. Page 2.
Pacific Coaet.
Darrow replies to Roosevelt on behalf of
Mover, Haywood and Pettlbone. Page 1.
Great atrlke of iron trades in San Fran
cisco. Page 4.
Heitlg raising money in Los Angeles to
build theater in Portland. Page 1.
Anonymous letter received by officials at
Kalama probably scheme to save necks
of Baxter and son, now on trial for
murder. Page 1.
Tacoma Street Railway Company voluntar
ily raises wages of employes. Page 6.
Portland and Vicinity.
All records show prosperity of Portland,
Page 11.
Gas Company flies report with City Au
ditor. Page 12.
Council revokes Fourth-street franchise.
Page 10.
Speed limit on Willamette River raised by
Council. Page 10.
Political candidates address South Portland
' Republican Club. Page It).
Ernest Lane, pink domino burglar, pleads
guilty and gets 13 years. Page 11.
Commercial and Marine.
Hop crop prospects am good- Page 17.
Wheat advances 2 cents at Chicago. Page
n.
Selling pressure in Union Pacific stock.
Page 17.
French bark Michelet finishes and opens
May shipments. Page 10.
Pacific Coattt.
Gigantic land frauds unearthed in State of
Washington; Heney expected to handle
cases. Page 6.
Jiaxon Kjiraki land X VicfouHa, Pam i.-
L
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He Lands at Victoria
Wearing Khaki.
BIG GANNON BOOM . SALUTE
Speaks to Little Children Gath
ered to Greet Him.
TO REACH SEATTLE TODAY
Distinguished Spldlcr Is Met by Lien.
tenant-Governor Dunsmulr and
' Band Plays Japanese National
Anthem as the Party Lands.
VICTORIA, B. C, May- 1. General
Baron Kuroki. wearing a khaki uniform
and the star of the Order of Fawlonia,
accompanied by a representative of the
party of Japanese military men, arrived
here at 5 P. M. on board the steamer
Aki Man on hia way to the Jamestown
exhibition. The party will leave for Seat
tle in the morning:, arriving at 2 P. M. to
morrow. The party includes General Myoshi,
commanding the fifth (Hiroshima) di
vision. Major General Umezawa of the
Imperial Guards, Colonel M. Ohta, of
artillery. Major Yoshida, Captain Mar
quis T. Salgo, Captain S. Tanaka. Pay
master . Kobayashi, Lieutenant Colonel
Nagayama, Surgeon Tamara and some
petty officers without decoration other
than the minute shoulder straps and
stars. Several wore their decorations.
A salute of 17 gun's was fired from
Work Point fortifications as the steamer
neared the dock where a guard of honor
presented arms. Lieutenant-Governor
Dunsmuir and members of the local gov
ernment and delegations of visiting Jap
anese from Seattle and other outlying
places were on the wharf.
When the steamer- 'docked the General
And "party were formally welcomed, ad
dresses presented, and the bond of the
Fifth Regiment played the Japanese na
tional anthem as the General and staff
landed.
The Japanese colony assemled en masse
and a number of Japanese children with
flowers attracted the General, who spoke
to the little ones and then moved to the
carriage of the Lieutenant-Governor, in
which he was driven to the government
buildings where "he was officially wel
comed. Consul Hisamidzu of Seattle, who met
IT WAS
GENERA
KUR0K1
GOMES
the Gerenal here, had invitations from
nearly every city through which the
General and party will pass en route.
FORTS STRONGEST IN" WORLD
MacArthur Kays - Those on Pacific
Coast Surpass Any lu the' World.
SEATTLE, Wash.. May 1. Lieutenant-General
Arthur MacArthur -made
his last official visit today, when he
Inspected Fort Lawton. A salute of
15 guns marked his arrival at the fort,
where General- MacArthur - and - wife.
Colonel Winn and Major Hart were re
ceived by Colonel T. Cj Woodbury and
staff. '.
Forts Worden and Flagler were in
spected yesterday, a lack of time pre
cluding a visit to Fort Casey.
"The United States has the strongest
coast defenses of any country," Genr
eral MacArthur said on his return
from his Inspection. ""On the Pacific
they are not adequately manned, but
they are well located, and the equip
ment Is of the best and kept in good
condition."
- General MacArthur is quoted as say
ing that in his opinion universal peace
Is still far distant. He discussed
the recent peace conferences more as
a subject for curiosity than practical
movements.
Cousin of the Mikado Corning.
VICTORIA, B. C, May 1. Prince
Fishimt, a distinguished Japanese
statesman and soldier, a cousin of the
Mikado, who is now on a special mis
sion to London, will pass through
Canada in the early part of June. The
prince will arrive in Quebec on June
6, and sails from Vancouver for the
Orient on June 10.
MEET FATE IN COAL MINE
Three Men Dead and Four Among
the Missing.
CHARLESTON, W. Va, May 1. Three
men were killed, tour severely burned
and four others entombed and are
probably dead as a result of a mine
disaster at the Whipple mines, in the
Leah Creek district this afternoon. The
dead men. whose bodies have been re
covered are:
Hudson Bergess, motorman; Erastus
Wiley, a sprinkler; Ira Kelley, a driver.
The men missing and supposed to be
dead are:
Robert Armstrong, Raleigh Tucker,
Charles Bergess and William Wilton,
a negro.
The mine- where the explosion oc
curred is a shaft 450 feet dap, belong
ing, to. the Dlxson Interests, who also
owned the Stuart mine, where an ex
plosion occurred last January that
killed 86 men.
'
REDUCES NATIONAL GUARD
California Militiamen Not I p to the
Proper Standard.
SACRAMENTO, Cal., May. 1. Sweep
ing orders were issued by Adjutant
General Lauck today whereby ten com
panies of the California National Guard
are mustered out of the service for
"having fallen bRlow. the standard of
efficiency" and the number of regi
ments is reduced from five to three,
each of 12 companies.
GREAT TILL THE BOTTOM DROPPED OUT
DARROW REPLIES
FOR RIS CLIENTS
Says Roosevelt Poisons
Public Mind.
AGAINST FEDERATION CHIEFS
Asks That Passions Be Cooled
Pending Trial.
PRISONERS WELL TREATED
Pettibone. Comedian or Trio, Keeps
Up Spirits They Boast of Amer
ican "fjirth Gooding Denies
That Martial Law Is Needed.
BOISE, Idaho, May 1. Clarence Dar
row, of counsel for Haywood, Moyer
and Pettibone, of the Western Federa
tion of Miners, charged with complic
ity in the murder of ex-Governor
Steunenberg, tonight issued a formal
statement in behalf of the prisoners.
It was anticipated that the statement
would be a direct reply to President
Roosevelt's "undesirable citizens" let
ter, but the statement is in reality a
general one and the references to the
President go to the former letters of
the Executive. The statement follows:
We have been charged with killing ex
Governor Steunenberg with a dynamite bomb.
Our trial is to begin on the 9th of this month.
The (f.etalla of the assassination have been pub
lished broadcast throughout the civilized world
for more than a year. During all this time
the press of the courrtry, and especially of that
section of Idu.no where we will be placed on
triai, has bitterly denounced us and the West
ern Federation of Miners, to which we belong.
The most powerful interest of the country are
seeking to take our lives.
Kidnapped on Perjured Evidence.
We were not in Idaho for years before the
crime was committed. Under the law we
could not bfe extradited from Colorado. But, In
spite of this, we were arrested on a perjured
affidavit charging that we were In Idalio at
the time of the commission of the crime and
that we immediately fled from the state, and
on this perjured affidavit, known to be false,
the Governors of the States of Idaho and Tnlo
rado kidnaped uft'tn the night time, refusing
us an interview with family, frlendw or coun
sel or a chance of appeal to the courts, and
brought us on a special train a thousand miles
from home and Into a state and community
systematically poisoned against us by news
papers and officials.
We have been confined In jail for 14 month
against our protest and denied ball, while con
stantly demanding a trial. Every effort has
been made to teach the farmers, business men
and worklngjnen of the community that we
are assassins and outlaws.
"Venom of President."-'
After all this time our case is about to be
reached, and the President of the United
States, In no way interested officially .or other
wise, sends two letters broadcast over the
country charging us with guilt and crime.
These are republished n every paper in the
land and especially In every paper of Idaho.
The Governor of Colorado a day or two later
add his words of spite to the venom of the
President and says that we are not only
guilty of the crime charged, but of many
others, too.
White the President of the United States
and the Governor of Colorado are sending out
their statement to compass our death, the
Judge of this county has brought a citizen
before him for contempt on the charge that
he tried to influence the mind of a prospective
juror by saying that "the state administration
was trying to railroad us." On the appear
ance of this man 1n court the Judge promptly
told the state's attorney that he should have
this obscure farmer indicated for felony be
cause he tried to Influence the mind of a
prospective Juror. The President knows how
much greater weight wrll he given to his
I ' (, v ' ' J N Zi I
i Mrs. Yerkes-Mizner, Who Hues for
f Divorce From Wilson Mizner.
words tban those of an obscure private clti
sen. If we are about to be tried in court, every
law-abiding citizen, however great or humble,
should do anything In his power to cool the
passions of men. rather than add fuel to the
flames. If we are to be thrown to the mob.
the officers should at least open our pruon
doors and give us some chance to defend our
selves. Prisoners a Merry Trio.
Barring: the pallor inseparable from
confinement, Haywood, Moyer and Pet
tlbone show no mark of the long: con
finement, nor apparent trepidation at
the dose approach of the trial, so high
In consequence to them. They laughed
at the story told by one of the'r coun
sel when they received a correspond
ent of the Associated Press this after
noon, and the laughter went on until
a discussion of the battle of capital
and labor save gravity to the general
conversation.
Pettlbone, whom they used to call
"Happy Hooligan" down In Denver,
is the fun-maker of the trio. He was
marked with native wit, and a droll,
quaint manner of expressing himself,
and, even when today he made sport
of his own condition, it was impossible
to refrain from laughing with him.
Pettibone has taken up pyrography
since his incarceration, and after the
Introductions today he showed several
samples of his handicraft. He has
gone to the comic supplements foi-
many of his models, and with rare
fidelity has reproduced "Happy Hooli
gan," "Maud" and the goat.
"Mr. Darrow tells me these will be
worth lots more after I'm hung," ha
said, "but I'm not saving any of them
To the query: "How have you been
treated?" the three answered: "All
right." "We have absolutely no com
plaint," said Haywood.
"No men were ever treated better
under like circumstances," said Moyer.
"The Sheriff and his men have all
been very fine with us. We have ab
solutely no complaint."
At this point Mrs. Haywood was
wheeled into the yard in an invalid's
chair. She has long been an invalid
and has not walked for years. Her
youngest daughter, a bright child of
10 years, accompanied her.
Federation Born in Cell.
"This cell of ours is really the home
of the Western Federation of Miners,"
said Pettibone a little later, "for it
was in here back in 1892, after the
trouble up in the Cour d'Alenes, that
the federation was first proposed and
discussed. Tou will remember that
they arrested a lot of our men In 1S92
and held up until the Supreme Court
decided, in 1893, that we were illegal
ly In custody. While we lay In here
in this cell we planned the federation.
This is indeed a historic place for the
old federation."
"You who have not been in the
Coeur d'Alenes and underground there
know nothing of the frightful a-ndi-tions
that prevailed," went on Petti
bone. "We were wretchedly housed
and miserably fed. A company store
supplied things at outrageous prices,
a company doctor was supposed to look
after us, and we were puid in scrip,
If there was ever anything coming to
us when the company got through.
I've seen a company surgeon refuse to
go 'to the home of a dying miner. Now
what are men to do? Is there any
thing too mean to do to men who grind
down their laborers under such circum
stances?" "Down in Colorado," said Moyer, "it
was the company store for everything,
an enforced assessment for a company
doctor in whose choice we had . no
voice: and pay in scrip."
Xot Foreign-Born Agitators.
Pettibone produced a copy of his
reply to a letter from a San Francisco
woman which discussed , the question
of the extent to which the foreign ele
ment in labor had created dissension.
In which he said:
"As to this question. I'd like to say
that I am a descendant of John Petti-
Concluded on Page 2.)
PRIZE-RING SAGE
FULL OF
Sullivan's Views on
Love and Marriage.
WOES OF NIISMATEQ COUPLES
Life With Them a Constant
Scrap, London Rules.
LOVE MEANS SACRIFICE
But Kx-t'lianiploii's Motto Is "Marry
and Have Lots of Children."
Feels lce Sympathy for
Mrs. Evelyn Thaw,
NEW YORK. May 1. (Special.) "No.'
said John U Sullivan, decidedly, "I'm not
sore on marriage. It's a good thing if
you take it the right way. But I'm not
going to get married again just now. And
no widows for mine."
"The champion of champions" paused a
moment, furrowed his grizzled brow and
then added, ambiguously:
'Money ain't everything. It can't buy
everything. It can't buy brains; now,
can it?"
Thus spoke the former champion today
in his dressing-room at the theater, when
asked about the report that he was en
gaged to marry a widow, who had prom
ised to give him her hand if he abstained
from drink for two years.
Mlsmated Coo pies and Divorce.
"The trouble with marriage Is this:
Lots of people get married that ain't
mated: then, of course. It's a scrap for
life, London rules, no rounds without a
knockout, and light to a finish if It takes
all your life.
"Divorce makes it a limited go, with
the judge for a referee, I don't know that
that's any better. I never got a divorce
while my parents were alive, because
they were Catholics and did not believe in
it. I'm a Catholic myslf. I don't know
that that's any better."
"What Is your idea of love?" he was
asked.
"Iove," said John L.. solemnly, "means
sacrifice. That's what it means. If a
man loves a woman, he's willing to die
for her. Lots of people talk about love
that don't know what it Is."
Never Knocked Out by Cupid.
"And have you ever loved that way?"
"No," disclaimed the big man, prompt
ly. "I've never been In love. I've liked
several women pretty well, but I've never
felt what I call love for any one but my
mother and sister. My time may coma
yet. That little fellow the poetry fellows
call Cupid has knocked out better men
than I am and he's only a bantam-weight
at that. If a man is getting H5 to J18 a
week and has J1000 laid by, he should
marry before he's 25. Marry and have)
lots of children; though, of course, that's
with the Lord. Some women have three,
some have none. My sister has eight
living," he added, proudly.
After this indorsement of Mr. Roose
velt's dictum, John- L. took up the sub
ject of woman suffrage, on -which, It ap
pears, he has most decided views.
Hot About Woman Suffrage.
"This rot about woman suffrage has ru
ined lots of marriages," he declared.
L"Ifs all buncombe, and It's spoiled the
happiness of many young girls. I m not
opposed to women's clubs," concluded the
champion, as though realizing that he had
struck the advancement of women too
hard a blow. "But a woman shouldn't
neglect her home for her clubs, and I be
lieve In women working for a living If
they want to work, even after they are
married, provided they want to and have
no children. t
"Women don't want to see too' much of
the world, though," he cautioned.
"There's too much that's bad going on in
It. Look at that Thaw trial. Things like
that are going on all the time in a big
town. I tell you. I feel sorry for that
little woman. She ' didn't get a fair
chance." JOhn L. had grown very solemn
again.
"Virtue is everything to a woman," he
said. "The moment she loses It, It's to
the tall timber for her."
NEW THEATER IN PORTLAND
CALV1X HF.IL1G SEKKIXG CAP
ITAL IX SOUTH.
Los Angeles Syndicate Heady to BacK
Enterprise and Manager Says
Playhouse Is Assured.
LOS ANGELES, May 1. (Special.)
Calvin Helllg, president of the North
western Theatrical Association with head
quarters in Portland, is In Los Angeles
for the purpose of interesting a number
of capitalists In the erection of a mag
nificent new theater in Portland.
Another purpose of his visit was to look
over the ground with a view to possibly
establishing a house of his own here.
He said tonight that In the matter of the
proposed Portland theater he has suc
ceeded beyond his greatest expectations
and that the new playhouse is practically
assured. He would not say who are to
back the venture, but it is known that a
syndicate here ht offered him Btrong
financial backing,
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