VOL. XL VI.-NO. 14,478. PORTLAND, OREGON, jtRIDAY, MAY 3, 1907. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BAXTERS ARE SET FREE BY THE JURY Unknown Letter Writ er Is to Be Thanked. VERDICT IS QUICKLY GIVEN Fact Men Were Shot in Back Also Has Its Weight. DRAMATIC SCENE ENACTED Father, Filled With Emotion, Ex tends Hand to Members of the . Jury Son Too IVeak to Real ize Significance of Events. BT WILi. Ck MAC KAE. KALAMA. Wash.. May X (Special.) Unless the mysterious letter-writer who knows all about the murder of Jimmy Connors and the unidentified man who was. found near here Tuesday should de liver himself to the officers of ' the' law; the killing of Connors and the unidentified man will remain a Cowliti County mys tery, for the Jury that heard the evidence against the Baxters, father and son, late this afternoon returned a verdict of not truilty. The Baxters were charged with the murder of Connors, who was shot to death at Woodland, March 30, but the Jury. In spite of the strong case of cir cumstantial ei'ldence which the prosecu tion wove around them, after deliberating for less than half an hour, pronounced them not guilty, and they were dis charged. It Is evident that the 12 men who heard the evidence against the Baxters were largely Influenced by the finding of the dead man, and the fact that the attorneys for the defense brought out during the morning session of the trial that the members of the posse that shot and cap tured the Baxters at Woodland, shortly after the killing of Connors, were under the Influence of liquor. Men JXeia Shot From Hear. 'Attorneys Imus and Btone, in order to prove that both father and son were shot from the rear, placed both of the de fendants on the stand. George Baxter, the father, was shot in the leg and Thomas Baxter was shot through the right lung, the ball passing through the liver and lodging against a' rib', making 4t necessary . to operate upon him before the bullet was removed. Two physicians who had performed the operation on the father and son testified, and so did both defendants, that the wounds were re ceived from the rear.- This 'flatly contra dicted the testimony of 1. W. Flanders and J. M. Forbes, two of the posse who were alleged to have done the shooting at the Baxters on the night of their cap ture. The testimony of Flanders- against- the Baxters was most damaging, for he told the Jury that he had seen the Baxters standing over Connors as he lay between the tracks, a few seconds after the shots were fired, and that after seemingly being assured that their victim could not es cape, went a short distance away and sat down, evidently waiting for him to die. When it came to the part that he played In the capture of the supposed murderers. Flanders swore that no shots were fired at the Baxters until they be gan walking towards them. Forbes, the Woodland saloonkeeper, also testified that they were trying to escape when fired upon. Both of the Baxters swore that they were too drunk to make any attempt at escape and that they were flred upon without warning. Knew Nothing Until Shot. George Baxter, In a voice so weak that the jury could scarcely hear him, testi fied that he had drank himself Into a state of unconsciousness during the after noon. He could not tell how he reached the car In which he was found by the posse. He said that he could not remem ber anything from early in the afternoon until Just a few minutes before he was shot. He swore that he must have waked up and got out of the car and Just as he struck the ground he was shot, for the pains caused by the shock of the bullet ploughing through his body was the first thing that he had remembered since early in the afternoon. Tom Baxter's recital, broken in health as he Is, and looking like a man about to die at .any moment, had a tremendous effect upon the minds of the Jurors. His story, coupled with that of his old father, who told of how beastly drunk his son had gotten that afternoon by drinking straight alcohol, whisky and beer, got the sympathy of the 12 men. and It ob tained for them their" freedom. Discredit Flanders' Story. Their attorneys also helped them In the arguments, when they argued that Flan ders, to shield himself from being arrest ed and tried for shooting the Baxters, had manufactured the story of seeing the Baxters bending over the body of Connors and of having seen them walk away and sit down. They also argued that Forbes, who had a hand In the shooting, swore that the Baxters were trying to get away, so as to shield himself. District Attorney B. I Hubbell, during his arguments, dwelt at length upon the strong testimony which had been given by Flanders, and which was corroborated by his wife, who had also testified to having seen the two Baxters bending over Connors, and of having watched them while her husband went in search of the posse. He also laid considerable stress upon the evidence of Dr. Bell, the Coroner, who had attended the wounded men. Dr. R. B. Darnell had testified that both the Baxters were very drunk, but Dr. Bell, in rebuttal, had testified that when he started to examine Tom Baxter's wound and had asked Tom who had shot Con nors, he replied, "1 know, but I'm not going to give It away." Before Tom could say anything more, the father rushed out of a cell and said. "Tom, Tom, I wish it was me they had shot." This. District Attorney Hubbell argued, was positive proof of the guilt of the pair. Dramatic Scene in Courtroom. It was 6:15 o'clock when the Jury an nounced that they had reached a verdict, and those who were in the dingy old courtroom will perhaps never forget the scene between the Jurors and George Baxter and his son. When the Jury filed . Into . their . seats, . father . and son were seated across the room facing the Jury box. As soon as A. R. Gray, who had been chosen foreman, handed the verdict to Judge W. W. McCredle, and It to1. WfpMA."1 - r , n 8 Mabelle Oilman, Future Wife of W. K. Corey. had been read by the clerk of the court, George Baxter rushed to the side of his attorneys and ' grasped them by the hands. Then he had his lawyers request of the court that he personally thank the Jury. With the permission granted, Bax ter rushed over to the place in front of the Jurors and raising a long bony finger aloft, he said: "You are Just and honorable gentlemen. As God is above me, we have told the truth." My son and me never killed Jimmy Connors. We told the truth. If we knew who did it. we would have told It long ago." Then Baxter shook each juror by the hand, and once he got them around him he began to tell of the injustice done him and his son by the District Attorney and the other officials. Tom Baxter, hollow-eyed and staring "with terror and pain. ' did not' seem to realize that he had been acquitted. Likjs a man ina trance he watched what his father was doing without comprehension. For a second he seemed about to col lapse, but Instead he leaned over to me and asked In a dull whisper, "What was the verdict?" I told him that he had been acquitted, and be sank back into the arm rocking chair In which he had sat during the two days ot the trial and closed -his eyes for a second. ' ' '. Then he- slowly -roseA to his 7 feet ' and tottered over to where the Jurors were about his father and tried to thank and shake hands with them. He was too weak and had to be assisted to a chair. A number of the jurors walked over and grasped him by the hand. They seemed to be proud of what they had done. , Letters Set the Men Free. The acquittal of the Baxters will un doubtedly be the end of the double mur der mystery. Whoever wrote those letters to the county officials, has positive knowl edge of both crimes, if he did not aqtually have a hand in the commission of both brutal murders. The county officials are without a clew leading to -the -Identity of the man who wrote the letters. Who ever he Is, he Is a master destroyer of human life, and at the same time he has proven himself an angel of freedom to the Baxters. He timed his letter writing to a nicety, and If It was a plot to obtain the freedom of the two men who were accused of having killed Connors, It was well and cunningly done. The letter to Sheriff Kirby, telling of the confession, was a clever fake, for from this letter it would have been impossible to have lo cated the body of the second victim. It was through the letter to District Attorney Hubbell that the body was found without much hunting. Nothing is plainer than the fact that the man who wrote this letter had a hand in the mur der of the last victim found. That he had a hand In dragging the body down the roadbed, across the brushes and of having helped lift it over the wire fence and placing It where It waa found. Is also evident. The murderous letter-writer also knew there had been nothing left on the murdered man that would lead to his identification. The only thing he over looked was two silver dollars that were found in each stocking of the dead man, and a bit of paper on which was written, "E. J. Gallant, Wichita, Kan., P. O. Box ." The officials do not believe that this is the dead man's name, but they have written to the Kansas address. ' That the murdered man was one of the party of six men that had taken part In the drunken orgy at Woodland there is little doubt, for In nis pocket was found the saloon card of Forbes. Strength Is given this belief by George Baxter, who, without knowing anything about the finding of the body. In describing his companions of that day, gave a splendid description of the dead man. He also described the Mackinaw coat that was found near the body. The Jury that heard the case follows: A. R. Gray, of Kelso; Henry Dlener, of Little: John Foulke, Kelso; Frank Hammel. J. Newton, of Castle Rock: Sara (Concluded en Page 8.) y STAGE E Uncle'sBitterComment on Steel Magnate. SAD DAY FOR COREY FAMILY Shock Great as That Caused by His Divorce. ALL ESTRANGED FROM HIM Vncle Will Preach on Marriage and Divorce Day Before Wedding. Father Said He Should Go to the Penitentiary. PITTSBURG, Pa., May 2. (Special.) The formal announcement by Miss Ma belle Gllman in New York that she would marry President W. Ellis Corey, of the United States Steel Corporation, In New York, May 13, caused great grief In the breast of J. B. Corey, the aged and wealthy uncle of the bridegroom. He will go into a local pulpit the day before his nephew is married, where It Is expected he will speak 'of divorces and marriages. "So Ellis- is going to marry that paint ed creature of the stage? Well, this is a sad day for the name of Corey," said the old coal king today, as tears coursed down his cheeks. "Mark you, this marriage will be re gretted In time." continued Mr. Corey. "It Is neither human nor decent that a man should divorce the wife of his youth, the mother of his children, in order that he might marry another woman and one of the stage at ' that." Resents Uncle's Advice. "Ellis and I have not been friends," continued the failing old man. "I tried to keep him in the right path when he be gan to get famous, but he resented it. I tried to tell him not to run steel mills on Sunday and offered him other advice, which he sneered a.t.' ',, . The marriage of Mr. Corey to the petite Mabelle. whom he first met in her bath ing suit at Pittsburg, is looked upon as a shocking performance by the. staid rela tives of the head of the United States Steel Corporation and they have not yet got over the shock of the divorce in which Mr. Corey and his wife figured a short, time ago, and in spite of the state ment from Miss Gllman that both her family and 'that of Mr. Corey would at tend the wedding, it is thought ths Pitts burg relatives will have nothing to do with the affair. Estranged From Father. A. A. Corey, father of the steel king, could not be found today, having left word that he had gone out of town. There has been a great coldness between father and son ever since the father announced that, if Ellis was allowing his wife to 1 A PAINTED GREATUR l .... . ................. . . .. . .. . . . i get a divorce in order to marry the more shapely actress, he would favor sending the younger man to the penitentiary. . Former Wire Is Silent, Mrs. Laura A. Cook Corey, the wife who got a ' divorce in order that Mr. Corey might be free to marry the actress, is in the vicinity of Pittsburg, but her friends, say she rwill have nothlrig Jo ay on the matter. She has been spending the most of her time with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Frank Campbell, of Swissvale. However, she has visited frequently at the home of Alfred "A. Corey, father ot the steel man. in Braddock. . Mrs. A. Corey, the mother of the groom-to-be, is spending this Spring upon a big farm at the foot of th Allegheny Moun tains, which a ' Buta to have been pur chased for t.r recently- by her son. There was . a . rather heated . interview between mother and son regarding . the actress, which was finally ended by a farm pur chase, since which sin has had nothing to say. . Canada Faces Fuel Famine. WINNIPEG, Man., May 2. The fuel famine Is assuming serious proportions. Hardly a town in Western Canada hav ing enough to last a week. The coal shortage is creating much apprehension. At Calgary many people are down to their last pound of coal and many industries have closed. Some 7000 cars. are. tied, up upon .the Great Northern between Winnipeg and Fort Frances, the company being unable to bring them In, owing to a shortage of engines. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Wather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 72 degrees; minimum, 41, TODAY'S Probably fair; westerly winds. Foreign. Premier Botha blocks scheme for British tariff union with colonies. Page 6. Titled Anglo-Indian arrested for bank wrecking. Page 8. Rossi, famous tenor, cuts out tongue and attempts suicide. Page 4. National. Government ready to make tariff agreement with France. Page 8. Judge Beatty talks about Borah Indictment. Page 4. Politics Roosevelt says third term talk Is nonsense. Page 4. Morton says Roosevelt would decline If nominated. Page 4. New York Senate defeats Hughes on re moval of Kelsey. Page 4- Presldent Roosevelt speaks on peace policy. Page 1. Domestic. How whisky is made abroad. Page 6. Episcopal clergyman elopes with girl and Is dismissed from ministry. Page 6. Corey's relations disgusted at coming mar riage. Page 1. Hold-up In business center of Salt Lake. Page. a. , s - Ex-Secretary Fatrchlld to answer charge of insurance frauds Monday. Page 7. Extent of steal on Pennsylvania capital. Page ' . tfiifl Pacific Cornet. Boise oppressed with fear of violence grow ing out of federatlontsts trial. Page I. Grafting 'by San Francisco Board of Works discovered by grand Jury. Page 5. San Francisco carmen will vote on strike Saturday. Page 5 Kalama Jury clears George and Tom Baxter of the charge of murder. Page 1. Two children suffocated by Are In Chehalls; third rescued with difficulty. Page 18 Dr. W. J. Kerr, of Utah, is elected president of, Oregon Agricultural College. Page 14. State Commission demands that officers of Portland Railway Company exhibit books for examination. Page 18. San Francisco telephone girls vote to strike. Page 5. Portland and Vicinity. Candidates will close city campaign today; primary election tomorrow. Page 12. New town of Lamont to be division point on North Bank road. Page 11. Ironmoldecs eager -for - a strike. Page IP. FEAH-QF VIOLENCE . IN 1 DF BOISE Outward Calm Pre cedes Haywood Trial. VIOLENT RADICALS MAY ACT Governor Gooding Is Deluged With Written Threats. ORCHARD IS MARKED MAN Informer's Death by Hand of Aveng er Predicted Citizen Will Also Run Risk by Serving as , Jurors In the Trial. BOISE, Ida., May 2. Counsel for prose cution and defense In the Steunenberg murder ease have settled down to their final preparatory work, and there is every reason for believing that the trial of William Haywood,- first of the accused men. will be commenced on Thursday next. Various reports ils to moves tend ing to further delay the trial are in circu lation, but the attitude of both sides In dicates that they are ready for trial. The only preliminary proceeding pend ing is a. motion, by the defense for a bill of particulars of the evidence by which the state hopes to show that Haywood conspired fo the murder of Governor Steunenberg. This motion, which" is de signed to secure a disclosure of the hand of the state, will be argued before Judge Wood on Monday Hext: This is not re garded as likely to delay the trial. The Idaho code and practice, modelled close ly upon those of California, make no pro vision for bills of particulars In criminal cases, and in the only precedent recorded in the Idaho reports the court denied the application, holding that the power ' to require the furnishing of bills of par ticulars In general was discretionary with the court. It is asserted that no right of appeal goes v(-lth such a motion, and neither side seems to regard the"mafter seriously. Avoid Discussing Case. This oasis of the American desert to which the leaders of the Western Fed eration of Miners have been brought to answer to the capital charge that they campassed the murder of a former Gov ernor In revenge for his activity in sup pressing disorder in the days of violence In the Couer d'Alenes seems to grow- in exterior placidity as the date of the open ing of the first trial closely approaches. The officials of the state, county and city, counsel chosen to present the case of the state, and men who lead in the life and work of the community have reached a point where they decline to publicly discuss the case or the men at the bar. The streets, stores, and hotels present no scenes foreign to the routine of the day's work. It would seem that a majority of the community had as sumed a Judicial attitude toward the cele brated case and had disciplined Itself In the face of It The occasional man, free from alignment or partisanship, who will discuss the case openly, generally tells you that Boise knows neither labor unionist nor mine-owner, knows only that a cruel murder, one of a long series of shocking crimes, has been done, that the state's business is calmly and fairly to try the men who are accused, to free them If they are innocent, to hang them If they are proven guilty; and to do this fearlessly. Suppressed Fear of Violence. But -under the surface of oalra there is a strong undercurrent of apprehension and nervousness, tragic In many of Its aspects. Violence is the ever present fear.. The position of the prisoners and their activity through' years of bitter la bor -warfare, the dissension over their arrest In Colorado and removal to Idaho, the rallying of thousands . of working men to . their support, and the radical propaganda undertaken in their behalf, together with the intense feeling against the 'Mine-Owners 'Association, and other Incidents have served, rightly - or wrongly, to make the case in the minds 1 'fQHIlK W. E. Corey, President of United States Steel Corporation, Who Will Marry Mabelle Oilman, After Hav ing Divorced Wife of His Youth. and attitudes of thousands a contest be tween the classes rather than a trial on a charge of murder. In few minda is there belief that Hay 'wood. Mover and Pettlbone, their friends or the men affiliated with them in labor union circles would approve, much less encourage, any act of violence at this time, because such act, it is believed, would be a fatal error. But there is a general fear that from the ranks of the violent radicals there may come a man or men desperate- enough to- attempt .assas-. sination, or that the agitation may give sinister suggestion and inspiration to some crank or irresponsible. Threats Pour In on Gooding. Letters that threaten ' every form of violence are. pouring Into Boise from all over the country by the hundreds, arid most of them are directed to Governor Frank R. Gooding, who is made largely to bear-the brunt of all that this celebrated case invites. Detectives,- -police and friends of the Governor generally are con stantly on the alert to block the blow, and at the Insistence of family 'and frieftds he has finally and under protest arranged the routine and movements of hlslife and work to a point offering the least expos ure compatible with the performance of his duty. Mr. Gooding may be in no dan ger from any source, but he and his friends live every hour in the chill at mosphere of danger and to them the trag edy is ever real. Orchard's Doom Predicted. Another man similarly marked in the belief of many men is Harry Orchard, al leged to be the assassin hired by the three prisoners, whbse alleged confession is the basla of the state's case. Perfectly reason able men here look at the high witness chair In the . County Courthouse, shake their heads seriously and tell you that Harry Orchard will die in it. They tell you, too, that if he were turned out of prison tomorrow his body would be found within a week. Harry Orchard may live to die on the gallows for his confessed part in the murder of Steunenberg, but such is not the belief of all the men In this community. This same apprehension offers a diffi culty that stands In the way of the prose cution In securing a Jury. Moreover, this has been a man-kiiltng country, and, un der the shadow of a strong suspicion that there may be avenging murders by cranks or others, it may prove difficult to secure 12 men willing to run the suspected risk, even in this country of courageous and self-reliant men, of finding a . verdict of guilty, assuming, of course, that the' state establishes its case. OPPOSED TO DARROW8 MOVE Pettlbone Objected to Publication and Moyer Was Reluctant. BOISK, Idaho, May 2. (Special.) It transpires that the statement issued by C. 8. Darrow, chief counsel for the men accused of the murder of Frank Steunen berg, was written by him, and then sub mitted to them. There seems to have been a good deal of consultation about It One was with his associate counsel. These seem to have assented to it, but it was some time before the prisoners all agreed to have It go forth. . The story goes that Pettlbone stoutly Insisted that it should not be issued, holding that It would prejudice them in the public mind, but he appears to have yielded the point. Moyer also was some what reluctant to . have the statement Issued, but all were won over and publi cation followed. Preparations for the trial are about completed. Arrangements have been made In the courtroom for a great num- (Conduded. on Page ' PEACE GAINED BY JUST Kind of Peace Roose velt Would Seek. CONDEMNS SLOTHFUL NATION Judge Fortune by How Earned and How Spent. WHAT MAKES NATION GREAT Struggle-for High - Ideals, . Not Ma tcrial Success Only President's Oration at Unveiling of the . Statue of McCIellan. WASHINGTON. May 2. President Roosevelt, In an address at the unveiling of the statue to General George B. McCIellan today, characterized as weak ness the desire for peace unless it could be obtained on the right terms. He would have none of the so-called peace, if It were merely "another name for self indulgence, for sloth, for timidity, for the avoidance of duty." The man who would do the best for the country in peace, the President declared, is the man who in need wil k- well in-war. He continued: Seek the peace that comes to the Just man armed, who will dare to defend his rights. If the need so arise. Seek the peace grunted to him who will wrong no man and will not submit to wrong in return. Seek the pence that cornea to us as tlie peace of rl gh teousnes'i, the peace of J ust Ice. A sk peace by your deeds, as your powers warrant you in asking it, and do not put yourself In the position to crave It as something to be granted or withheld at the whim of an other. Place Spiritual Life First. If there is another thing which we should wish as a Nation to avoid. It is the teaching of those who would reinforce the lower prompting of our hearts and so teach us tn uooW .irlv a lift, ,f . rffnrtlMu amt nf mere material comfort. The material de velopment of this country, of which we have a right to be proud, provided we keep our pride rational and within measure, brings with It certain great dangers, and one ot those dangers is the confounding of means and ends. Material development means nothing to a Nation as an end In itself. If America Is to stand simply for the accu mulation of what tells for comfort and luxury,- -then H- will- stand for little. Indeed, when looked at through the vistas of the ages. America will stand for -much, provided only that It treats material comfort, ma terial luxury and the means for acqulrint? such as the foundation on which to build the real life, the life of spiritual and moral effort and achievement. -True Test of Kicli Men. The rich man who has done nothing but accumulate riches is entitled to but the scantiest consideration; to the men of real power of discernment he Is an object rather of contempt than of envy. The test of a fortune should be two-fold how It waa earned and how it Is spent. It Is with the Nation as it is wtth the Individual. Looking back through history, the Nation that we respect Is Invariably the Nation that strug gled, the Nation that strove toward a high ideal, the Nation that recognised in an ob stacle something to be overcome and not something to be shirked. The Nation Is but the aggregate of the individuals and what Is true of National life is and must be true of each of us In Individual life. The man renders but a poor service to Nation or to Individual who preaches rest, ease and absence of endeavor, as what that Natlun or that Individual should strive after. Proud or Years of Striving. Both you men who fought In blue and you others who fought In gray, as you look back in your lives, through the years that have passed, what Is it in those years that you must glory in? The times of ease, the times of fatness, the times when everything went smoothly with you? Of course not; be cause you are men, because you are moved by the spirit of men. What you glory In, what you hope to hand down as undying memories to your children, are the things that were done in the days that brought lit tle pleasure with them save the grim con sciousness of having done each man his duty as his duty needed- t be done. Because in those years you had it In you dauntlessly to do your share In the work allotted to you, your children and your children's children rise up to call you blessed. Who among you now would barter the memories of the black years from '61 to 65 for any gift that could be given,? " Not a man among you. You have won the right to feel a pride that none of your countrymen can feel and you won the right because you sought not the path of ease, but the path of rough, disagreeable, irksome and dangerous duty. . .Good. )Vomaii Ahead of Soldier. The President said that we are yet a good many thousand years short of the millennium and our business Is to do our own duty and teach our children to do their duty In a rough work-a-day world, "and," he said, "we can not do that duy by fine phrases." There was one person in this country, he declared, he put ahead of the soldier "the really good woman, the good wife and mother, who has done her full duty." He said of her: She often has a pretty hard time, yet the woman who thus, with labor and , anxiety brings up her children is . blessed among women, blessed among men. I do not pity her in the least. I respect and admire he and hold her worthy of admiration and honor. The selfish creature, man or wom an, who reaches old age, having achieved ease by shirking duty, is to be heartily de spised and not envied. Our admiration lr reserved for him or for her who has dene the real work which makes the next gen eration able in its turn to do Its work ia the country. Need of Righteous Wrath. Mr. Roosevelt criticised a "weak good nature, incapable of righteous wrath," saying it was almost as unfortunate an f Concluded on Page 6.) IN ARMED iim 105.6h