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V OF BEATEN IN FIGHT RebelCreeksFlee.Leav ing Dead and Captives. HOSTILES SCATTER IN HILLS Militia, Cowboys and Deputies in Hot Pursuit. CRAZY SNAKE IS HIDING Bloodhounds on Trail and Capture Sure Ona Killed, Eight Prison ers, as Result or Battle. Resistance Is Ended. OKLAHOMA CITV, March 2. Chlt- tl Harjo (Crmy Snake). u nrranad ! at midnight in the North Canadian Bottoms, near Pierce. Three hundred militiamen, cowboys and deputy aher IITa were closing- In upon him and his capture at daybreak was expected. OKLAHOMA CITT, March -9. A de tachment of Crazy Snake's band of bel ligerent Indians was surrounded by deputy sheriffs this afternoon, near Crazy Snake's home, and a battle en sued. One Indian was killed, eight were captured and the rest fled with the deputies in pursuit. There were about 15 Indians in the band, which had' taken refuge in a house. Deputies had tracked them for nome distance and were informed by a farmer of their location. Advancing; from four sides, the posse flied at the house. The Indians rushed out. scattered amongr the trees and made a valiant defense. The posse all the while advanced and soon routed the band. None of those captured is seriously wounded, but it is known that a number of Indians were hit by the posse's bullets. Crazy Snake's Band Broken Up. Crazy Snake's band apparently has broken up Into numerous small groups it seemed ta nightfall that each Red skin was trying to accomplish his own escape, without regard for thd grand dreams of the chieftain, to realize which they were called together by the smoke of signal fires. All effort at or ganized resistance seemed to have been dropp with the sinking of the sun. The militiamen scattered in bands and Invaded the hilly and wooded districts of the Creek nation and by 7 o'clock to right they had captured eight of Crazy Snake's braves, including I,ittle Tiger, a sub-chlcf. The Indian killed by the posse was the only fatality of the day reported to Colonel Hoffman. Rumors f Many Fights. There are numerous rumors of engage ments here and there. It Is reported that a posse of farmers near Checotah fought a large band pt negro renegades and killed 20. This, with similar reports, can not be confirmed. Scores of cowboye and frontiersmen, all expert gun-fighters. Joined the militia men in the chase during the day and evening. They know the rugged country as well as do the Creeks. These men declared that, if Crazy Snake was any where in the district, he would be run down before morning. Sure of Catching Snake. The militia officers have yet to find anybody who has seen Crazy Snake .since Saturday morning. Their only real knowl edge that he is commanding the Indians personally is the information choked out of hi son by the deputies when they hanged him, by the neck until he ex pressed an anxiety to talk. The young man may have been misleading the depu ties at that. The militiamen insist, how ever, that they have the best of reasons for believing that they are near to cap turing Crazy Snake. A detachment or deputies today cap tured Sandy Tabler. a half-breed, who has been one of Crazy Snake's aides. Sheriff Odom believes he was one of those in the Snake's house during Thurs day evening's fight. Deputy Flynn took Tabler to the Okmulgee Jail after passing part of the day with the militia. He said bloodhounds had been placed on the Snakes trail and the chances were favorable for his capture within 3t hours. Many Lives Endangered. "Those negroes and Indians are not afraid of bluecoats," said Flynn. "They know no fear as long as they stand their ground, and it was wise generalship in scattering them. I regret to say that the situation is more critical than It appears on the surface. Though the trouble has consisted principally of skirmishes, the lives of many persons are continually endangered." Several families have deserted their homes In the vicinity of Pierce. 1-Var Xew Attack. Kearlng that the skirmish near Hick ory Ground nnd the burning of Harjo's home may cause the Indians to leave their hiding places on the North Cana dian River tonight end set fire to other houses. 150 men heavily armed, planned to leave Checotah at 11 o'clock tonight for Pierce. The posse was organized by Deputy Sheriff William Clark. Relating his experiences in the flht Deputy Clark said: "Our posse overtook a partv of In dians near Pierce at 8:S0 o-c"lock this V-'oncluded on rata 3.x BAND INDIANS DYNAMITER SENDS CHECK FOR DAMAGE NEVADA MIXER SORRY FOR HIS CRIME. After 2 0 Years Solves Mystery by Forwarding Money and Con fession to Banker. SACRAMENTO, Cal., March 29. (Spe cial.) George W. Peltier, vice-president of the California National Bank, of this city, has received a long Utter and a check for J250 from George W. Smith, of Reno, Nev., who confesses the crime of dynamiting Peltier's house at Tuscarora. Nev.. in 1899, to wreak vengeance for fancied wrongs. Peltier barely escaped with his life, a heavy mattress between him and the explo sion being his salvation. Smith, Peltier and W. C. Price owned claims at Tuscarora. Smith thought Peltier and Price were encroaching on his claim and decided to dynamite their homes. His brother, performed the act at Price's house, while George J. Smith blew up Peltier's. Neither victim was badly injured. Smith says religion brought remorse and caused his con fession. Ths check sent is to pay for the damage done to Peltier's house. The explosion remained a mystery until Smith's letter explained it. JURY DEBATES HIS FATE Cradlebaugh Murder Case Given to 12 Men at Denver. . i DENVER, March 29.-After a day spent in listening to the instructions of the court and to the fervid pleas of the at torneys for the state ana for ttie defense, the Jury in the case of John H. Cradle baugh, charged with the murder of Fred erick W. Walton, of Wallace, Idaho, re tired to prepare their verdict shortly before 6 o'clock this evening. At 10 o'clock tonight It had been un able to reach a verdict, and Judge Snat tuck left the courthouse, announcing that he would not receive a verdict be fore tomorrow morning. Only three witnesses were called during the day. They introduced testimony to show that Walton was unarmed at the time of the shooting. JAP BANK CLOSES DOORS Experts Try to Vntangle Books ol Bay City Institution. SAN FRANCISCO. March 29. The Kimon Klnko, or Golden Gat.e Bank, a local Japanese financial institution, failed to open Its doors tods v. and a large number of depositors Boui, con gregated before the building, y. Mawa, manager of the bank, says that the bank remained closed, as a run was feared, reports having been circulated that it was not sound and that its president, H. Shihaka, had taken most of the funds to Japan.- Manager Mawa admits that the bank Is not prosperous, but declares that It is safe. The banR examiners have placed an expert at work on the books of the institution. WIRELESS PICKS "UP JAPS Mikado's Refloated Cruisers Near Honolulu on Voyage Here. HONOLULU, March 29. The local wire, less station announced today that it had established communication with the Jap anese cruisers Aso and Soyo, of the train ing squadron dispatched by the Japanese on a practice cruise to the Pacific Coast. The squadron is due to arrive here Thurs day morning. The Aso was formerly the Russian ar mored cruiser Bayan. sunk by the Jap anese during the recent war, and the Soyo the Russian protected cruiser Va riag, which suffered a similar fate. The ships were refloated by the Jap anese, and, after being overhauled, were added to the Japanese navy. MANY WEDDINGS INVALID All Ceremonies In Church, for SO Years Illegal. . LONDON, March 29. The County of Buckingham has been thrown into a fever at the discovery, which was an nounced officially today, that all mar riages celebrated at the parish church of St. James during the last 50 years are illegal. It appears that the church never was licensed to celebrate mar riages. Steps will be taken to legalize the ceremonies performed. FARMER LASSOES DEER Captures Animal He Meets In Road as He Rides Along. EUGENE. Or.. March 29. (Special.) Burdette Hadley. of Crow, Or., yesterday lassoed a two-year-old deer along the roadside near Crow. Young Hadley was riding on his horse with a lasso rope at his saddle. Suddenly he came upon the deer, which stood stalk still in the road. He threw his rope, which settled over the animal's horns, when it started to run but too late to make Its escape. BANKER DIES OF SMALLPOX Succumbs to Dread Disease After but Five Days' Illness. LOS ANGELES, March 29. William I Palmantler. president of the Central Bank of Oakland, and one of the fore most financiers In California, died to day in the pest house in this city, of smallpox. He was taken from the Al exandria Hotel last Thursday, suffering with the disease. REDUCE TARIFF ON FOOD FOR PEOPLE Taft Condemns High Tax on Necessaries. AGAINST NEW DUTY ON TEA Would Substitute Excise Tax on Dividends. SPEAKS OUT TO LEADERS Irritated by Charge That Payne Bill Burdens Poor and Favors Rich. Committee Slay Drop Duty on Coffee. WASHINGTON, March 29. President Taft talked tariff today with Senator Hale, Representative Dalzell, of Pennsyl vania, and Representative Hinshaw, of Nebraska, and John Barrett, director of the Bureau of American Republics. It Is said that the President is letting it be understood that he strongly favors re duction of the tariff on all of the neces saries of life. The Payne bill repeatedly has been at tacked in the House debate as Imposing too heavy a burden upon the poor and as favoring the richer classes. The im pression created by such talk has not been gratifying to the Administration. The President has no information in sup port of such a charge. The President is known to be strong ly opposed to the proposed tax on tea. It is stated that this tax would yield abaut $8,000,000 annually. The President believes the amqunt coild be made up by an excise tax on the dividends of cor porations or by some method of stamp taxation. .He does not believe the bur den of raising this additional $8,000,000 should be placed upon the rank and file of the consumers. The President is said also to v,.li that the ways and means committee of l ouse win not tjslst upon the coun tervailing duty proposed on coffee. More Revision Downward. Mr. Taft, it is said, intends to leave all legislative matters to Congress and does not intend to dictate to the body what it shall do. At the same time he takes advantage of the calls by Sena tors and Representatives to state, in re sponse to their requests for suggestions, his own position. Mr. Taft, it is said, believes the system of taxation to be adopted to meet the growing deficiency in the Treasury should be calculated to cause the least friction. It is for this reason that ho strongly favors the inheritance tax. Mr. Taft has let it be known that he approves the Payne bill in principle and that he believes more schedules in the Dingley tariff should be revised down ward than upward, if any should go for ward at all. Blow at South America. John Barrett presented to the President (Concluded on Page 4.) STYLE OF HOTEL ASTOR PLAXS BURGLAR CAREFUL NOT TO WAKE BABE EVEX PUTS DOG IX CLOSET WHILE HE WORKS. Midnight Visitor Prowls About Cra dle, but Does Not Disturb Sleeping Infant. SEATTLE. Wash., March 29. (Special.) Baby Beatrice Peeples. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Peeples, of 948 Harvard avenue North, was visited by a burglar last night. She was asleep. In the room was her foxterrier dog, Terry. The burglar, in order- not to disturb her slum bers and incidentally his work, took .the dog to an attic closet and locked him in. Then the burglar worked in and out, around and about Beatrice's room, and when Beatrice's parents returned, several hours later, they learned about it.' Mr. Peeples is manager of the Crane Com pany here. Throughout the visit of the burglar Baby Beatrice slept,, while Terry barked his disapproval of things, but the walls of the closet were thick and his bark of protest could not be heard. MILWAUKEE LINES LINKED Golden Spike Driven Xear Missoula on New Transcontinental Road. MISSOULA, Mont., March 29. Marking the completion of two lines of steel con necting Chicago and Seattle, the last spike in the new transcontinental rail road, the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound, was driven at 6 o'clock this even ing, one and three-quarters miles east of Missoula. There was no golden spike ceremony. Besides the crew of the track-laying out fit, there were present at the conclusion of the work only Chief Engineer Dauchy and special officers of the Toad from the Missoula offices. The few bridges on the line remaining unfinished will be finished soon and the line turned over to the operating department and through train service established. The total length of the new road is 2436 miles. SWIFT'S HEIR IS INSANE Herbert I. Swift Threatened to Kill Seir and Family. CHICAGO. March 29. Herbert L. Swift, 33 years old, son of the late Gus tavus Swift, founder of the packing firm of Swift &. Co., has been adjudged in sane by a committee of physicians. He has been an inmate of the Kenllworth Sanitarium since March 8. by order of the County Court. This became public here today. Louis F. Swift, a, brother, testified hat Mr. Swift had thmatened to kill -himself and members of the family. Excessive use of alcohol was given as the cause. Mr. Swift 'has an annuity of $8000 from his father's estate. At the end of 11 years he will receive $1,000,000. SUFFRAGETTES TO INDORSE Spokane Women Take Hand in May i oralty Contest. SPOKANE, Wash.. March 29. (Special.) Members of the Spokane Suffragist So ciety will meet tomorrow night, when they will indorse a candidate for the Mayoralty nomination. it Is probable that they will Indorse a Republican as well as a Democrat. All of the candidates have been In vited, to appear before the meeting and deliver addresses. Mrs. May Arkwrlght Hutton, one of the leaders in the local society who was one of the suffragist lobby at Olympla last Winter, is work ing hard for the success of Senator R. A. Hutchinson, who is a candidate for the Republican nomination. AIRSHIP DEPOT IN PRESENT ORDINARY USE 20,000 AIRSHIP DEPOT ON ROOFYESTERDAY' SERVIAN MONARCH ES TO FLY King Peter Scapegoat of His People. . . . WILL SOON ABDICATE THRONE Parliament Seeks British Prince for King. PETER HAS OTHER PLANS Suggests Montenegrin Prince as Suc cessor, but King Victor Proposes Son Alexander His People- Are Humiliated. BELGRADE, March 29. Deserted by Russia and confronted with the demand of all the powers that she assent to the annexation Dy Austria of Bosnia and Herzegovina without any concessions to herself. Servia has swallowed the bitter dose and now turns on King Peter and his dynasty as the scapegoats. A strong party in Parliament is agitat ing for the deposition of King Peter and the election of a new King, not associated with either the Karageorgevich or the Obrenovlch dynasty. This party is dis cussing the selection of either the Duke of Teck or Prince Arthur of Connaught from the British royal family, hoping thereby to end the old factional feud growing out of the rivalry of the native dynasties and to win the friendship of Great Britain. King Peter, on the other hand, while proposing to renounce the claims not only of himself, but his sons George and Alex ander, desires to leave the kingdom in the hands of his ally and relative. Prince Nicholas of Montenegro, by securing the election of the latter's youngest son as King. He and his whole family are pre paring to return to Switzerland, whence he was summoned to take the crown after the assassination of King Alexander nA.;u.e'' Rraa in 1903. He has been advised by the King of Italy, however, to hand over the crown to his second son. Prince Alexander, who has been proclaimed Crown Prince, since his emer brother George renounced his claim to the succession. The hostility to King Peter and his family was brought- to a head, both by the humiliating submission to the dic tates of the powers and by the bad odor in which Prince George's escapades have brought the royal family. The enemies of his dynasty have used all these cir cumstances with great skill to inflame public opinion against him. D. M. Davidson, Inventor. ADA, O., March 29 Doble M. David son, inventor of the traction engine, was killed here Sunday by being struck by the engine of a Pennsylvania passenger train. Davidson Invented the traction engine in 1877. and during that year the first engine was put on the market. Re cently, after a diligent search. Davidson found his original engine, purchased it, and shipped it back to his home. AY'S OHKGO.MA.V. PREPAR ! BUCKET SHOP WAR STARTED IN EAST CHICAGOAX OPENS CAMPAIGN OF REFORM. Plan to Put "Over 10 00 Bucket shops Out of Business Takes Definite Form of Attack. CHICAGO. March 29. (Special.) Frederick L. Mandel. a member of the firm of Mandel Brothers, owners or a big department store, today struck the first blow In the war against Chicago's bucket shops by ordering one of their operators to move out of the Windsor Clifton Hotel. Together with this in formation came new revelations of the magnitude of the illegitimate bucket shop business in this country. Two St. Louis concerns, who with Sid McHie, are said to form America's tri umvirate In the bucket shop world, in formed a representative of the Chicago Board of Trade that they paid J450.000 a year In wire rent to the Western Union Telegraph Company. There are 1000 bucket shops in this country which derive a total of 15 -000.000 from the public. In Illinois the operation of a bucket shop Is a misdemeanor, but in other states the legislators have' thrown a safeguard' around the uninitiated by placing the punishment in the category of felonies. MORMONS BETTER TALKERS Defeat Oregon University In Second Annual Debate at Salt Lake City. SALT LAKE CITT, March 29. The second annual debate between teams from the University of Utah and the University of Oregon was won by the former here tonight. The question was: "Resolved. That Municipal Govern ment by Commission Is Preferable to the Prevailing Form of American City Government." i Three judges, ex-Governor Wells, Su perintendent D. H. Chrlstensen of the city schools, and George P. Holman, decided the contest by a vote of two to one. The Oregon debaters were Earl Kllpatrlck and Thomas Town send. Their delivery was a feature or the contest. Richard W. Toung. Jr., and B. H. Burgess, or Utah, were on the negative side or the question. Oregon won from Utah two years ago. FIVE SHOT UT RACE WAR Hungarians Fire on American Min ers In Indiana. . TERRS HAUTE, Ind.. March 29.-Flve American miners are known to have been wounded, one of them perhaps fatally, in a race riot tonight at the Bogle mines, north of Jasonville. The battle started when Hungarian miners fired upon Amer ican miners who went to warn the for eigners to leave. The Hungarians are barricaded In a house and are surrounded by several hundred armed Americans. The house has been riddled with bullets, and it Is believed many or the foreigners wer wounded. SEAMAN SAVES MAN'S LIFE Felix C, A. Jennings to Be Awarded Iiife-Savlng Medal. WASHINGTON, March 29,-For the second time this year the name of Felix C. A. Jennings, a seaman attached to the U. S. S. Arethusa, has been brought to the attention of the Navy Department for herolo action. Jennings jumped overboard and rescued a coalpasser who had fallen from the tug Dart. Secretary Meyer will recom mend to the Treasury Department that Jennings be awarded a live-saving medal. BOOTH FAILURE SETTLED Xew $7,000,000 Company Will Take Over Concern. CHICAGO, March 29.-After two days of arguments and in the face of a new grand jury inquiry started during the day, P. A. Valentine and his interests, and the banker creditors of' A. Booth & Co., came to an agreement here tonight under which a new J7,000,000 company will be built upon the ruins or the failed fish combine. W. Vernon Booth, president of the old concern, win have no hand in the new company. CLOSE CALL FORSALOONS "Dry" Election Declared Invalid on Day Before Closing Time. ROANOKE. Vs., March 29. Judge Walter P. staples, in the Corporation Court of Roanoke today, set aside the local-option election held here on De cember 3 last, in which the saloon was voted out by a majority or 86 votes. The saloons would have closed tomor row had the election been declared valid. The election Is declared null and void on the ground that the tax list as furnished by City Treasurer Davis was illegal. JEWS VICTIMS OF RIOTING Mohammedans Sack Jewish Quarter of Kermanshah. TEHERAN, March 29. The anti-Jewish riot has occurred at Kermanshah, In the province of ArcHlan. The Jewish quarter has been sacked, one of the residents killed, and manv iniurort Th j started, over the killing of a Moham i me dan. CRAZED PASSENGER AFTER ROOSEVELT Italian Makes Attempt to Kill Ex-President. SAILORS FOIL WILD ATTACK Steerage, Traveler Rushes for Upper Deck in Frenzy. MAN IS PLACED IN IRONS Declares African Hunter Took Away His Child and Promises to Get Revense Later Fears Poisoning. LONDON. March 29 (Special.) An at tempt to assassinate Theodore Roose velt was made on the steamship Ham burg, according to dispatches received here today from Horta, Island or Fayal. Azores. The assassin's attempt was rrustrated, the dispatches add, and the man was placed in irons. Only Mr. Roosevelt and a few of his fellow-passengers knew of this furious prisoner's existence. As the steamker was losing sight of land Giuseppe Tosti. a steerage pas senger, broke from his companions and started for the upper deck, where Mr. Roosevelt, was standing with his son Kermtt. "He has let them take away my child," shouted Tosti, in English. "Now he shall pay for it." Sailors seized Tosti, quickly mastered him, carried him below and by the captain's orders put him in irons. For four days' the prisoner refused to eat, constantly crying: "Roosevelt is trjng to poison me." Then the ship's doctor had to taste all food offered to Tosti before he would eat it. At Mr. Roosevelt's request the steam ship Hamburg's course was changed to the Azores. She skirted Fayal Island all morning and anchored off Horta, capital of Fayal, on the southeast coast. Mr. Roosevelt is like a boy out of school. He is enjoying the voyage hugely, and were he not so anxious to get to Africa he would seem to wish the sea journey to last forever. He has dropped cares of state; his whole heart, all his expectations end hopes, are in the African hunting grounds. He tells pas sengers he has no fear for his health while after big game. TO SEE EARTHQUAKE RU1XS Will Slop at Messina En Route to African Hunting. ROME. March 29. The German East (Concluded on Page t.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS Tha Weather. TESTERTIAT'8 Maximum tern, erature, 64.1 degrees; minimum, 43. ft degrees. TODAY'S Showers; southwesterly winds. Foreign. British House of Commons debates vote to censure government naval policy. Page 3. Servia submits to powers, and King Peter prepares to abdicate. Page 1. Italian attempts assassination of Roose velt on board, steamer. Page 1. National. Utah Fuel Company makes complete sur render to Government. Page 2. Taft opposes high, duties on necessaries of life. Page 1. Elklns joins Democrats In opposing Xew England domination on tariff. Page 4. Moon attacks Clark's leadership of Demo crats. Page 4. Cushman and Hamer take leading part In House tariff debate. Page 4. Domestic. Mrs. Farmer electrocuted after confession and exoneration of husband. Page 3. Fa.ther-ln-law of ex-Governor McDonald of Colorado shoots relative and commits suicide. Page 3. Harrlman passes through Salt Lake, scout Ing idea of retirement. Page 2. Boyle paralyzed with fear on reaching Sharon. Page 3. Calhoun cases occupy three courts In San Francisco. Page 3. Chicago merchant starts war on bucket shops. Page 1. Dynamiter, stricken with remorse, after 20 years makes amends. Page 1. Creek Indians, beaten in fight, scatter in hills, with whites in pursuit. Page 1. Lady Frances Broome removed as executrix of estate because of eccentricities. Page 4. Admiral Converse dead. Page 4. Sports. Entries nearly all received for big indoor athletic meet Saturday night. Page 7. Fans hope for Portland victory in first game of season today. Page 7. Pacific Northwest. Governor Hay and staff will meet Cosgrove funeral party in Portland today. Pago t. Hay takes oath as Governor of Washing ton; seat still contested. Page 0. Convict Branton. caught trying to escape at Salem, kills himself; three others in plot to escape. Page tt. George Mc Author, accused of murder at Goble. arrested at Dunsmulr and brought back. Page tt. Commercial and. Marine. Oregon mohair will be manufactured at home. Page 17. Wheat prices gain cent at Chicago. Page 17. Advancing prices bring outside demand for stocks. Page 17. Marked Increase In coastwise business; eight steamers due today. Page 16. Portland svnd Vicinity. Meter system proving very expensive to city water department. Page lh. State brings suit to quiet title to shallow lakes near Swift Packing Plant. Page IS. Real estate men to aid In securing S 100 000 publicity fund. Page 12. Harrlman officials say line to Puget Sound will not be given up. Page Iti. Von Nelda, apron manipulator, released on paying $500 fine. Page 10. Park and other boards recommend purchase of Mount Tabor property for loOo.OOO. Page 1$. - 4