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PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NO:E3IBER 13, 1907.
PRICE FIVE vjENTS.
ff STORY
READ TO JURY
Confession Is Admitted
as Evidence.
SLEW TYLER IN COLD BLOOD
Man on Trial Said; He Was
Promised $300 for Job.
SIMPKINS MEMBER OF GANG
Tale of Crime Secured by PInkerton
Detective Made Public Over Ob
jection of Attorney Darrow.
Graphic Scene Depicted.
SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 12. A special
to the Spokesman-Review, from Rath
drum, Idaho, says:
In the gathering gloom of the last hour
of court here today, the confession of
Steve Adams, a member of the Western
Federation ' of Miners, on trial for his
life for the alleged murder of Fred Tyler,
In the Marble Creek district of Shoshone
County, Idaho, In August, 1904, was read
to the Jury. It was the confession made ;
to James McParland, a PInkerton de
tective, soon after Adams was arrested
In February, 1906, and put in the Boise
Penitentiary. In the trail of blood
delineated In the confession of the de
fendant In the present action, he weaves
an almost romantic tale. It required a
little short of an hour In the reading. It
was admitted by Judge Wood during Mo
Parland'a direct examination. Darrow
objected on the ground that It had not
been made voluntarily1 and that induce
ments and promises of lenlencer had
prompted it.
Tyler's Mother Answers Darrow.
Mr. Darrow recalled Mrs. 3. R.
Thomas, Fred Tyler's mother, at the
opening of the morning session, to In
quire how long she had. worn mourning,
nd why. She said she had assumed the
garb when, after the preliminary hearing
In September, 1906, she came to the con
clusion that the body that had been
found in the MarWe Creek district was
that of her son.
The attorney asked her If she had been
Instructed by attorneys for the state to
assume mourning, but she Indignantly
denied It.
Bulkley Wells, former Adjutant-General
of the State Militia of Colorado,
occupied the witness-stand this forenoon.
He testified to first having seen Adams on
May 27, 1906, at Orchard, Idaho, upon the
Oregon Short Line, about 30 miles from
Boise. He went there to meet him to go
to Colorado with him. Adams was with
two men, George Johansen and S. C.
Thlele.
Leads Wells to the Body.
"City Marshal W. W. Runnels, of Tel
luride, Colo., accompanied me on that
trip." said Wells. "Adams had stated he
could locate at Tellurlde the remains of
a man named Barney, who had been
killed in the labor troubl there. Deputy
Warden Mills, of the Idaho State Peni
tentiary, went with us on the trip."
Adams told the witness of a number of
crimes in which he had participated.
They had some conversation at that time
in reference to crimes in the St. Joe
country, in Northern Idaho, the killing
of a man named Tyler and a man named
Boule. No one but Adams and witness
was present during this conversation.
Witness positively stated that at that
time or prior to that time he had offered
no Immunity or reward to Adams to
make the statement to him, nor did he
make any threats to Adams. "I knew of
some crimes that had been committed In
the St. Joe country," said the witness,
"and the conversation was In the course
of a general talk. Adams spoke of It
himself In connection with another mat
ter. Adams told me that after the In
dependence explosion he had gone to
Northern Idaho, to the St. Joe district,
to help Simpkins to 'bump off' two men
who had been giving him trouble over
his timber claim. That Is all that was
said at that time. It probably came up
again during the week I was with Adams
on the trip to Tellurlde and back to
Boise."
On redirect examination witness said he
found the body of Barney at Tellurlde,
Just where Adams had mapped it out for
him.
Adams Feared Bodily Harm.
On cross-examination, Welle said he
was In charge of the speclRl train that
took Moyer, Haywood and Pettlbone to
Boise from Denver. He said, as a mem
ber of the Mineowners' Association, be
ing manager of a mine in Tellurtde, he
had an interest in the prosecution of
these men, as he believed from what
had been said by Adams and Orchard,
that they were guilty of instigating the
murder of Steunenberg.
"You were not after Steve Adams
to hang him for the Tyler murder; you
were after bigger gane?" inquired Dar
row of the witness.
"I was," replied Wells.
Wells said that he and the guards
were armed, as ha said Adams had ex
pressed fear lest he met some member
of the Western Federation of Miners.
"Why 7" he was asked.
"Because Adams said that if any
member of that organization recognized
him he would ba violently dealt with
ADAM
for the statements that he had made in
exposing his officers.
Warden Whitney on the Stand.
E. Ij. Whitney, Warden of the State
Penitentiary at Boise, was called when
Mr. Wells had finished, and he retold
the story of Adams as to the killing of
Boule and Tyler. About the only new
features he added was that when Newt
Glover, Alva Mason, and Adams led
Tyler out to die the morning following
the night they had kept him prisoner,
while trying to ascertain who had sent
him Into the country and who were his
relatives, they had a rope around his
neck. Whitney said;
"He told me that when the man lead
ing Tyler had reached a certain spot he
stopped and said: 'This la good enough
for him," and shot him. He said they
cached his body there and went away
and left It.
Passage at Arms With Darrow.
Whitney said that afterward Adams
retold him the story and said that he
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believed the shooting . of Boule and
Tyler was Justifiable, as they had been
sent Into the country by soma one to
Jump claims and had met a just fate.
Mr. Darrow questioned Mr. Whitney
about what prompted his interest in the
Adams case, and If he had been in the
vicinity of Rathdrum trying to Influ
ence sentiment against the defendant.
He received negative answers. Mr.
Whitney's habit of eaylng, "I do not
think so," when he believes not, caused
Mr. Darrow to ask him each question
twice and finally he asked:
"You say you do not think so, do you
know you did not?"
"I do not," replied Whitney.'
"That is what I was trying to get at,"
resumed Darrow. "Why do you say, 'I
don't think so' when you mean 'I mean I
know I do not.' "
"I do not think that makes any differ
ence to you," replied Whitney, and Dar
row said he guessed it did not.
Mr. Whitney was on the stand until i
o'clock, undergoing a rigid cross-examination.
Confession Read Before Jury.
When the defense had finished with
him, James McParland was called and it
was then that the confession was Intro
duced. As It relates to the Tyler case,
it follows:
The confession of Etevto Adams was
made in the office of the Warden of the
Idaho State Penitentiary, February 27,
19C6. in the presence of James McParland,
a PInkerton detective of Mollle McGuire
fame, and W. B. Hopkins. The defense
claims that Adams was Induced to- sign
the document under threats. '
Adams had first Joined the Western
Federation of Miners at Altman, about
18P9. It was while in Colorado that
Adams first met - Moyer, Hay wood and
Fettibone, and the particular time, as
stated in the confession, was "the Sum
mer following Arthur Collins' assassina
tion at Tellurlde."
Adams was intimately acquainted with
them (Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone)
right along up to the time he left Colo
rado. Federation Sent Him to Idaho.
"They told me to go to Idaho and see
Jack Simpkins," Adams Is quoted In hla
confession as saying, "that he wanted to
see, me on some business in regard to ex
Governor Steunenberg, and that I would
meet him near Wallace, Idaho, at Ward
ner. I believe."
Then the confession deals with prelim
inary talk about the proposed assassina
tion of Governor Steunenberg. This talk
had occurred shortly after the dynamit
ing of the depot at Independence In 1904.
It was about a month after that Adams
started for Idaho.
The talk had taken place In Pettlborye's
back room, and besides Adams there had
been present Haywood and Pettlbone.
Quoting from the confession:
"They Just . told me to go up and see
Simpkins, as he wanted to see me, and
he would probably tell me about the
Steunenberg matter, as they wanted to
get Steunenberg."
"Did you get any money?"
"They gave me $200 to go up there on."
"Who gave you the mone.y?"
"George Pettibone."
After meeting Simpkins, Adams lin
gered but a short time in Wardner, but
left soon for Simpkins' claim, about 14
miles above the head of navigation on the
St. Joe.
Offered $300 forthe Job.
"There were some Jumpers in there,"
Adams is quoted In his confession as say
ing. "Simpkins said that If I helped him
to get rid of these fellows he would give
me $300. Two of these men were killed."
"Who assisted in the killing of these
men?"
Newt Glover, Jack Simpkins and my
self." -
"How did you carsy out the murder of
Tyler?"
"We went In one night Newt -Glover,
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KAISER FEASTED
BY KING E
Splendid Banquet
Windsor Castle.
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DRAW FRIENDSHIP CLOSER
Two Monarchs Desire to
Tighten the Bonds.
GALAXY OF GREAT MEN
Dignitaries of Two Empires Feast
Off Gold Plate In Hall Hoary
With Memories of Or
der of Garter.
WINDSOR, Eng., Nov.. 12. In the
historic hall of St. George at Windsor
Castle, King Edward and Queen Alex
andra gave a state banquet this even
ing in honor of their German visitors.
The hall, which for centuries has been
associated with the Order of the Gar
ter, wa decorated with the banners of
principal knights of the order, while
the tables were adorned with the fa
mous golden plate, one of the great
heirlooms of the sovereigns of Eng
land. ,
Departing from custom, King Ed
ward and Emperor "William sat side by
side, with the Queen on the right and
the Empress on the left. Around the
tables, which were set for 130 guests,
there was gathered a most brilliant
company. Including many members of
the British royal house, the suites of
the visiting sovereigns, cabinet min
isters and former cabinet ministers and
ambassadors and other diplomatic rep
rescntatves. Among the ambassadors
was Whltelaw Reld. ' . .
King Edward proposed the health of
Emperor William, who made acknowl
edgment In a short speech, closing
with a toast to the English. King.
The speeches made by King Edward and
Emperor William were formal in tone.
They consisted in reciprocal expressions
of the pleasure the visit afforded and of
a mutual desire for the maintenance of
peace and friendship between the two
countries.
Emperor William alluded gracefully to
his happy childhood under the roof and
within the walls of grand old Windsor
Castle, and he expressed the earnest wish
that the close friendship existing between
the two royal families should be re
flected In the relations of the two coun
tries and thus confirm the peace of the
world, which, he said, was the constant
endeavor of King Edward and himself.
Renew Friendly Relations.
WINDSOR, Eng., Nov. 12. "There Is
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Gold Engagements by t'nitpd states.
Previously reported I55.2SO.000
November 12 2.7OO.0O0
Total 57,980.O0O
Gold Imports on- Way to Portland.
For First National Bank.. 750.000
For Balfour-Guthrie & Co.. 51X1.000
For Kerr. Glfford & Co SOO.OOO.
For other banks 500.000
Total $2,050,000'
An encouraging feature of the local'
situation was . the resumption of
wheat purchases In the' interior yes
terday by the Portland Flouring
'Mills and other large exporters.
T
no Intention of discussing, at. Windsor
any concrete political questions," said
Herr von Schoen, secretary of the Ger
man Foreign Office, who Is accompany
ing Emperor William on the latter's
visit to England, "Germany and Eng
land being in the happy position of
having no actual - political . questions
outstanding, but we hope and believe
that the Emperor's visit . -will bring
about a renewal of the old-time affec
tionate relations between the two coun
tries. Their relations always have
been correct, but this is not enough;
there Is an increasing desire that they
become something more."
KAISER'S THROAT DISEASED
Call of Royal Physician at Windsor
Causes Alarm.
LONDON, Nov. 12. Sir Felix Semon,
physician to King Edward VII, a noted
throat specialist, was a visitor at Wind
sor Castle this morning. Those In the
entourage 'of Emperor William say he
called solely to see an old friend, the
Emperor's physician, with whom, after
a brief stay at the castle, he went out
to inspect the King's sanitarium at Frog
more. It Is regarded as hardly conceiv
able, however, that a specialist like Dr.
Semon, knowing the circumstances would
give rise to remarks, would have ven
tured to the castle unless for the pur
pose of ' " consultation . . regaruing the
Kaiser's throat trouble.
In any event His Majesty's convalesence
appears to be uninterrupted. This morn
ing he was astir early and declared his
condition was much better. After break
fast the Emperor accompanied King Ed
ward on a shooting expedition In Wind
sor forest.
BATTLE WITH UTE INDIANS
REPORTED TROOPS KILL SIX
IN ENGAGEMENT.
Rumors That Fight Occurs in Mc
Elmo Canon and None of the
: Soldiers Is killed.
DURANGO, Colo., Nov. II. A report
reached here tonight that a battle oc
curred at McElmo Canon between TJte
Indians and United States troops, In
which six Indians were killed. No sol
diers were killed or wounded.
McElmo Canon Is In Montezuma Coun
ty and close to the Navajo reservation.
The Utes have been resisting the attempts
of the soldiers to compel them to return
to their reservation. The report of the
battle cannot be verified at this time, but
is believed here.
POWER OF COURTS
OVER RAILROADS
Vital Questions Up in
Harriman Case.
r,UST HARRIMAN MAKE REPLY?
Government and Defense Each
State Case.
IS UNION PACIFIC A BANK?
Inquiries About Stock Deals Held
Essential to Rate Inquiry Har
' riman Says Questions Violate
His Constitutional Rights.
NEW YORK, Nov. 12. Arguments will
be heard tomorrow on the petition of the
Interstate Commerce Commission for an
order requiring Edward H. Harriman to
answer certain questions propounded by
the Commission in Its Investigation of the
Union Pacific Railroad and its allied lines
the early part of this year.
The arguments will be made by distin
guished counsel before Judge Hough in
the United States Circuit Court. The
Government will be represented by Henry
I Stimson, United States District Attor
ney; Frank B. Kellogg of St. Paul, and C.
A. Severance, while ex-Senator John C.
Spooner of Wisconsin, ex-Judge R. S.
Lovett, of tire Union Pacific, and John G.
Milburn of' this city, will appear for Mr.
Harriman.
It was learned tonight that in the brief
which will be filed by Federal counsel In
court tomorrow it w.111 be alleged that the
Interstate Commerce Commission in mak
ing this Investigation was virtually a con
gressional committee of inquiry and was
exercising the inquisitorial powers of Con
gress. Authority of Commission.
It Is declared in the Federal brief that
under Section 12 of the Interstate Com
merce Act the Commission, has authority
to Inquire Into the management of the
business of all common carriers doing an
Interstate business and under Section 21
It is required, on or before December 1 Of
each year, to make and transmit to Con
gress its report, the report to contain such
information, and data collected by the
Commission as may be considered of
value In the determination of questions
connected with regulation of commerce,
together with such recommendations as
to National legislation relating thereto as
the Commission may deem necessary.
It Is further alleged that It has been
held by the Supreme Court of the
United States that full Information
necessary as a basis of Intelligent legis
lation by Congress from time to time
on the subject of Interstate Commerce,
cannot be obtained, nor can the rules
established for the regulation of such
commerce be efficiently enforced, other
wise than through the instrumentality
of an administrative body representing
the whole country, always watchful of
the general interests and charged with
the duty, not only of obtaining the re
quired information, but of compelling
by all lawful methods obedience to
such acts.
Harrinian's Investment Concern.
It appears In this case, the brief says,
that the Union Pacific Railroad has be
come a great investment concern; that
it has obligations outstanding to the ex
tent of $182.000.X.c, which have been used
for the purchase of stocks; that it is
the duty of the Commission to Inquire
Into this state of affairs and its effects
on interstate commerce, so that it may
be Informed and recommend to Congress
whether the acquisition of stocks by rail
road companies in other companies, or
by their officers, shall be prohibited.
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James W. HIsslns, Democratic Governor-Elect
of Rhode Island.
Furthermore, under section 20 of the in
terstate commerce law It is the duty of
the Commission to require reports of
railways showing all the details of their
capital stock, the amount paid therefor,
the dividends paid, the funded and float
ing debts, njie cost and value of the car
riers' property, franchises and equip
ment, and a complete exhibit of the
financial operations of such carrier each
year.
Right to Inquire Into Deals.
Counsel in the brief declares that the
Commission therefore has a right ,to In
quire not only Into the cost and value of
the railways, but of all securities and
other property purchased, from whom
purchased, whether purchased in good
faith or "whether the Union Pacific Rail
road has been used as a speculative bank
ing house for its officials."
It Is also alleged in the brief that Con
gress has power to Inquire into the invest
ment enterprises and financial operations
of a carrier engaged in Interstate com
merce. Under this clause of the Consti
tution Congress may create Interstate cor
porations, regulate their capital, rates of
transportation, the duties of their offi
cers, the relation of their line to the lines
of other railways, provide for rates of
dividends and dealings between officials
and the company. It has. In fact, full
power over all the Instrumentalities of
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CONTENTS .TODAY'S PAPER
Hie Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum. OS degrees
minimum, 86.
TODAY'S Fair, easterly wlnda.
Foreign.
King Edward gives grand banquet to Kaiser
William. Page 1.
National.
General Mackenzie recommends large appro
b prlations for Columbia and Willamette
" Rivera. Page 8.
Politics.
Southern Democrats In convention demand
Southern candidato. Page 3.
jDomestlo.
Mining Congress proposes law against
swindling .mining engineers. Page 2.
Trial of Walsh, the banker, begins. Page 2.
Harahan renews fight for Illinois Central
proxies. Page 4.
Government and Harriman each give rea
son on whether Harriman should answer
disputed questions. Page 1.
Horace McKlnley arrested In China, but es
capes. Page 3.
Harriman gets control of Georgia Central
Railroad. Page 4.
Great rush of Investors to bur stocks and
bankers to buy- gold. Page 5.
Reported battle between troops and Utes,
Page 1.
Pacific Coast.
Adams confession read to Jury at Rath
drum. Page 1.
Oregon woolif rowers In session at The
Dalles. Page 6.
Inhuman fiend's awful crime on little child
at Vancouver. B. C.
Mrs. Todd wrings story of murder from her
lover. Page 1.
Commercial and Marine.
Butter market reflects financial conditions.
Page 15.
Gains not held In Eastern wheat markets.
Page 15.
Speculative operations In stocks not ap
proved of. Page 15.
Captain Stimson, of the Towboat Wauna,
says that the bell on the dredge Port
land was rung at three-minute Intervals
on the morning of the collision. Page 14.
Portland and Vicinity.
Merchants National Bank, though perfectly
solvent. Is forced to susnend business
temporarily; malicious rumors started
run lasting for weeks and threatened gold
reserve. Page 10. t
State takes steps to recover on Treasurer
Steel's surety bond. Pace 10.
Theodore B. Wilcox declares financial trou
bles are over. Page 7.
Portland wheat buyers resume purchases of
grain in inland Empire. Page 7.
Taxpayers League working to keep tax levy
down to 13 mills. Page 11.
Coroner's Jury fails to fix blame for shoot
ing of A Glass. Page 11.
Treasurer werleln declares city funds in
Merchants National Bank are fully pro
tected: Page 10.
Frank P. T-ockwood, charged with embea
zllng S4800 from Charles Scrtbners Sons.
Page 16.
Secret service detectives arrest two counter
feiters. Page 16.
Old veteran badly used by local employment
agency. Page 14.
WOMAN -LEADS
TO CONFESS
Mrs. Todd Gets Admis
sion From Steele.
TELLS HER HE SLEW HUSBAND
Receives His Protestations of
Love Until He Is Enmeshed.
OTHERS OVERHEAR STORY
Clever Detective Work of Marshal
McKenney- Believed to Have
Solved Mystery of an Atro
cious Murder in Hoqulam.
HOQUIAM, Wash., Nov.. 12. (Spe
cial.) Herbert Norman, alias Ralph W.
Steele, alleged murderer of Frank Todd,
lies In the Hoqulam City Jail awaiting:
his preliminary hearing. Steele's ar
rest was caused by the-clever work of
Marshal McKenney, assisted by the
murdered man's widow, Ethel Todd. It
was her cleverness In leading the vil
lain to believe she loved him that
brought forth the confession from his
lips, and after she learned this she
shrunk with terror from Steele when
she would meet him from fcme to time,
while playing the part of detective un
der McKenney"a instructions.
Her work was most effective, and all
the while she was meeting Steele in
dark shadows, the gossips about the
city were defaming her.
Story of the Crime.
Frank Todd was murdered in his own
woodshed on the night of August 31,
1907. by omo one acquainted with
Todd's habits and the surrounding
property. Todd had .come home from
camp, being ill, and had spent two days
at home. Saturday night he went
down town with his wife and together
they returned about 8:30. Mrs. Todd
put the children to bed and retired.
Todd was sitting by the table reading
and this was the last she saw or knew
of him until waking In the morning
she went in search of her husband,
whom she had missed, nd found hla
lifeless body lying in a pool of his own
blood.
An alarm was given and thousands ol
curious people surrounded the prop
erty all day awalMng to get a chanc
to, see the body which lay as It wa
found until the arrival of Coroner Gl
rard. During the day Steele was on
of the crowd which hung around tha
home and he seemed very anxious to
see tho body. It was from the first
moment that the crime was reported
that suspicion rested on Steele and th
following story was the cause of It:
Suspicion Fastens on Steele.
Steele worked at Lytle's spruce cam
about three miles from this city up th
East Hoqulam River, where he was em
ployed to run the pump which furnished
water to the camp and donkeys. On
evening Steele left camp and in the morn
ing it was learned that he had not
steamed up his pump. It was thought
he had quit his job and left for town.
About 12 miles further up the river, wa
situated the camp " in which Todd wai
foreman, and the morning he disappeared
Steele came Into Todd's camp about day
break. His clothes were torn to tatteri
and he had been scratched by brush until
he presented a sorry sight. When ques
tioned by the loggers how he came thera
Steele swore he walked in his sleep. II
had been rumored prior to this that Todd
had driven Steel from his home with a
gun, and It was the opinion that Steels
made this trip to Todd's camp that nighl
to kill him, as the trip -was made In the
darkness, through 12 miles of ibrush,
through sloughs and over failed trees,
without even a cattle trail to travel on.
Confesses to the Widow.
The day of the funeral. Steele attended
the services and went to the front and
viewed the remains of the victim, without
the quiver of a lip. He never betrayed
himself by an action all the time he was
being shadowed by the detectives and it
was not until the police officials publicly
exonerated him through the press that
he began to grow careless. This was
done to throw him off his guard and it
worked well. Mrs. Todd began her work
under the Instructions of McKenney.
Steele madly loved Mrs. Tood, and she
was finally convinced that Steele was the
man who murdered her husband. It was
his Infatuation for her that allowed him
self to betray his crime and give to the
world his confession.
As soon as exonerated. Steele began to
grow careless. He sent for Mrs. Todd,
who was posted by the officials, to meet
him. Signals were arranged and clandes
tine meetings were hld. but always with
in earshot of Marshal McKenney. Mrs.
Todd finally got the confidence of Steele
and he confessed the story of his crime
to her with flowing tears, all the while
telling her- of his strong love.
Attempt Made to Kill Marshal.
It was with utmost hatred she heard
the confession from hla lips, and then
she resolved to do everything In her
power to send this demon to the gal
lows. She played on his affections and
finally brought him to do her bidding.
For two months she played the part,
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