THE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAN, SATTJKDAY, DECE3IBEK 25. 1909.
ZELAYA IH FLIGHT
FROM HIS CAPITAL
Trusted Bodyguard With Max
im Gun Accompanies Ex
Ruler to Corinto.
START IS MADE AT 3 A. M.
. American Partner in Gold Mines
Accompanies Him in Retreat.
Gunboat Princeton Goes to
Gnlf of Fonseca.
CORINTO. Nicaragua. Dec. 24. Jose
Santos Zelaya, who three days ago re
linquished the presidency of Nicaragua
to Dr. Jose Madriz the same day his
army met defeat by the revolution
ists at Kama has fled the capital and
tonight is in Corinto, surrounded by
his bodyguard and a few faithful
friends.
Zelaya left Managua under cover of
darkness, escorted by 50 of his guard
of honor and a squad of artillerymen
with a Maxim gun. At 3. o'clock this
morning the party quietly went from
the .ex-President's home and half an
hour later boarded a small steamer
which sailed Immediately for Momo
tombo, .on Lake Managua.
Press Representative Along
Siroultaneously with the departure-
of the boat, a special train with a small
number of friends and a press repre
sentative aboard, drew out of Managua,
also bound for Momotombo.
At 5 o'clock this morning the
teamer met the train at Momotombo,
and Zelaya, with his guard and their
Maxim gun, promptly boarded a special
car attached to the train at Managua.
Train departed Immediately for Ze
laya's plantation at Diamante, where
the party took breakfast. The entire
party comprised 100 of Zelaya's most
intimate friends, among them Joaquin
Pasos. Louis Coasin, his two sons;
Horatio and Alfonso, his private secre
tary and James Hall, American part
ner of Zelaya in Nicaraguan gold mines.
Identity Not Known.
After breakfasting, Zelaya and his
party again boarded the train and went
to Corinto, where they arrived this
afternoon.
The trip was made without special
incident. There were no demonstra
tions along the line, the population
generally being unaware of the iden
tity of the passengers on the special
train. All the members of the party;
Including Zelaya, was heavily armed.
Zelaya appeared calm and cheerful.
At Chinandega, news was brought to
Zelaya that the United States gunboat
Princeton had left Corinto to take up
her position in the Gulf of Fonseca.
IIOTH SIDES FIGHT BRAVELY
Two nays' Battle Marked by Iesper-
ate Courage Women in Trenches.
BLUEFTELD8. Nicaragua. Dec. 24. No
longer can the soldiers of Nicaragua,
either of the revolutionary or the govern
ment party, justly be called "comic
opera" fighters. Details of the battle of
Kama, now known here, are filled with
stories of the bravery of both sides. The
government troops, entrenched behind
earthworks. strenthened by repeated
lines of barbed wire, such as were used
by the Spaniards before Santiago, were
well fortified, but they did not spend all
their time in defense of their positions.
They made repeated sallies, fighting with
Xrensled vigor against equally frenzied
opponents, and etirlng at length upon
their redoubts. There they were pur
sued by the revolutionists, who hacked
the wire with their machetes and died In
heaps under withering fire. Men some
times wavered, but it was because of
physical exhaustion and not lack of
bravery.
Fighting continued two days, and ended
when the government army virtually was
wiped out. Zelaya's forces began with
300U men. Barely 500 escaped. Latest
reports confirm the early estimates of
the killed and wounded as 600. and 1900
of the government troops surrendered
when they had been forced into a cul de
sac and it was apparent that a contin
uance of even their desperate resistance
would bo useless. .
The Zelava trenches were shelled first
and then taken by assault. In the
trenches were found several women,
who had preferred the dangers of fight
ing to starvation at home. Thev were
courageous in action, fighting side by
sldo with the men and using their rifles
with spirit. One was wounded and
brought to the hospital here. Many of tha
oldlers were boys under 16 years old.
These acquitted themselves with credit.
From the beginning it was a valorous
and a desperate encounter.
THREE HOLD UP TEAMSTER
Pockets Rifled and $3 Cash Taken
Xcar Springfield.
SP.RINGF1BLD. Or.. Dec. 24. (Special.)
William Oott. a resident of this city,
who is? employed as a teamster by tlie
'Booth-Ketly Lumber Company here, was
held-up by three masked men who, point
ing a gun at him. rifled his pockets while
he was on hln way home from Eugene,
Just outsld-a the city limits, shortly before
6 o'clock last evening. He only had J3
with him which they took.
The men stepped out from the road
Hide, one holiiing the horses while the
others' pointed a gun and ordered him to
throw up his hands. They worked quickly
and disappeared in the brush.
WOMAN HAS HOOKWORM
Strange Case Is Diagnosed at Cali
fornia Hospital.
OAKLAND. Cal., Dec 24 Dr. 'Well
man, professor of surgery of the Col
lege of Physician? and Surgeons in
Oakland, confirmed a diagnosis of.
hookworm In tha case of Mrs. Marie
Franceaca at the Alameda County In
firmary today.
Mrs. Fran'cesca is a native of the
Asores.
ONE HAPPY WEEK IS ALL
Canllnud From First Panel
name of "Bunnie" Walls, whose rres
ence In a house party at Great Neck
L. I., precipitated the final estrange
ment. He oxriy knew that f man had
alept In his private room what man
he could not find out,
"I wu deeply grieved," testified Bro-
kaw, "to learn that a man occupied
my room when there were bachelor
quarters upstairs. Nobody except my
self had ever slept In my bed before.
I had given orders that nobody should
sleep in my private room, and Mrs.
Brokaw knew of it."
Why Brokaw Broke Down Door.
Brokaw described how close his room
was to his wife's, and how he demand
ed the name of the man who occu
pied it.
Brokaw then explained why twice he
broke down the door of his wife's pri
vate room. Every time he tried to talk
confidentially with her, he said, either
he found the door locked or there was
a maid in "the room. Once, he admit
ted, these tactics drove him to exas
peration, and the other time he feared
his wife had attempted suicide.
He denied that he ever spent $30,000
in one year on his wife. A better esti
mate, he said, would be 98000. During
their separation he directed his lawyers
to pay her $150 a week.
Wife Called Jewels Paste.
He denied that he ever spent $5,000
on jewels for her.
"The most I ever paid," he testified,
"was $1000 for her engagement ring."
"Did you ever buy her any other jew
elry?" "Yes, a necklace of pearls and emer
alds to replace one of my mother's that
she had been wearing. When I gave
it to her, she said it was paste, and
threw it in my face."
As proof that Mrs. Brokaw was mis
taken about the gems being paste, her
husband said, Mrs. "Jimmy" Martin aft
erwards offered to buy the necklace?
AGREEMENT HALTS
BY JUST ONE HITCH
Striking Switchmen Want to
Return to Work With
No Delay.
AWAIT TURNS, SAY ROADS
Governor Eberhart Trying to Get
Concession on This Point Chi
cago Board's Decision Will
Bind All Strikers.
ST. PAUL, Dec. 24. Only one obstacle
remains in the way of a settlement of
the switchmen's strike in the Northwest
as the result of the conference between
COURT SKETCH OF MILLIONAIRE'S WIFE WHO IS SUING
FOR DIVORCE.
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MRS. W. GOULD BROKAW.
"Mrs. Martin," he commented, with
an air of finality, "does not wear paste."
Both Send for liawyers.
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muoiici LuuL uiiio near i: u iiuiiiai- ,
I .11 i . . I
ii uKwito luvjircuiiiKa was ue
scrlbed by the witness. It occurred
when he returned from an automobil
ing trip. Mrs. Brokaw, he said, ac
cused him of having been in another
woman's company, and when he de
nied it she called him a liar. The up
shot of the matter was that they both
telephoned for their lawyers.
Brokaw acknowledged he had In
structed his chauffeur not to take Mrs.
Brokaw to the home of a certain wom
an he did not like. He denied he tried
to have servants spy upon his wife.
"LITTLE TIM" IS MOURNED
East Side Uncovers as Politician's
Funeral Passes By.
NEW YORK, Dec. 24. The funeral
of "Little Tim" Sullivan attracted a
large crowd to the vicinity of his home.
The Bowery and the Bust Side were
particularly affected by the death of
"Little Tim." Of his followers, he had
more than 1000 men on the city pay
rolls, and he and his cousin, "Big Tim"
Sullivan, were known as the most lib
eral dispensers of charity to the poor
of the Bowery district.
A feature of the funeral was the stop
made by the cortege, after leaving the
house and the church, at the clubrooms
of the T. D. Sullivan Association on
the Bowery, which was "Little Tim's"
present headquarters, and where many
thousands In the street uncovered their
hends while the band played a dirge.
"Little Tim" Is said to have left a
fortune of about $1,000,000 In his own
name, besides $500,000 which he had
previously divided between his wife
and sister.
ALFONSO WORRIES COURT
Serious Affection of Ear Necessitates
Operation on KJng.
PARIS. Dec. 24. Gil Bias today prints
a private communication from Madrid,
stating that the condition of King Al
fonso has created the gravest anxiety in
court circles. Another operation is Im
perative. Under the guise of his departure on
a hunting trip in Andalusia, the King
will go to the palace of the Countess of
Paris, at San Lucar, where the opera
tion will be performed.
For some time disturbing rumors re
garding the health of the King of Spain
have been circulated, but the exact na
ture of his ailment has been concealed
from tlie public. It Is tinderstood. how
ever, that the Inner ear is affected.
Twice recently King Alfonso is said
to have been operated upon for the re
moval of a growth in the nose.
OIL LAMP FATAL TO NINE
Explosion in Boarding-Konse Causes
Death of Whole Family.
HILLSVILLE. Pa., Dec. 24. In a fire
here early today, caused by the explo
sion of an oil lamp in a boarding
house, nine persons were burned to
death.
The victims, all foreigners, were a
man, his wife, five children and two
boarders.
Cruiser to Make Fast Voyage.
VALLEGO. Cal.. Dec. 24. The cruiser
New Orleans, under command of Com
mander Rodger Welles, is expected to
sail for San. Diego early in January for
the purpose of testing her before her
voyage to the Orient to Join the Asiatic
BQuadron of the Pacifio fleet.
railroad officials and representatives of
the Railway Council of the American
Federation of Labor in Governor Eiber
hart's office. Qoth sides are agreed on
all questions except the time when all
striking switchmen shall be taken back
to work.
The railroads offered to" take back as
many of the strikers immediately as they
have places for and then re-employ the
others as soon as places" are made va
cant. It was suggested that it may take
30 days before all of the men could be
put back to work, but President Hawley,
of the Switchmen's Union, said he would
agree to nothing short of simultaneous
re-employment of all the men.
Governor Eberhart is trying to ob
tain a concession from the railroads on
this point and he announced this evening
that the officials have already taken
steps to reach some agreement.
Today the striking switchmen agreed
to submit the controversy to arbitration
and abide by the decision of the board
now being organized in Chicago to settle
the dispute between the Chicago lines
and their switchmen. The concessions
demanded by the Twin City and Chicago
switchmen are Identical. The rate of
pay pending the outcome of the Chicago
proceedings will be that in effect No
vember 1. If the Chicago conference re
sults In an increase in wages, the lines
here will put it into effect.
THAW NEPHEW IS DEAD
Young Scotchman of Family Sought
Health in Canada.
NELSON, B. C, Dec. 24. John Thaw
Kirkland, of Glasgow, fourth son of
the late John Kirkland, Chief Justice of
Scotland, died at Revelstoke Wednes
day night, aged 24 years. The body is
being shipped from Revelstoke to New
York, to the care of his aunt, Mrs.
Thaw, mother of Marry Thaw, now in
Matteawan.
The news, telegraphed to Nelson, caused
postponement of the wedding of young
Kirkland's sister. Miss Nellie Kirkland,
of Calgary, and Dr. William Leslie Mar
tin, of Revelstoke.
John Thaw Kirkland left Scotland
November 11 to travel for his health,
being accompanied by his grandmother.
Lady Todd Osbourn, of Newton
Mearns, Scotland, and was on his way
back from the coast, when he suddenly
succumbed to heart failure.
PINCH0T MEN PULL BACK
Efrort on Foot lo Sidetrack Proposed
Ballinger Investigation.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash,
ington. Dec. 24. Several Senators wji'b
are strong partisans 'of Pinchotare
quietly exerting what Influence Tttey can
to Induce Republican leaders of the
Senate to sidetrack Senator Jones' resolu
tion proposing an investigation of , the
Forest Service and the Interior Depart
ment. The Forest Service does not court the
investigation at this time and has lost
all interest in the probe of the Interior
Department, since it has been determined
to investigate their own bureau as well.
Inasmuch as the President and Cabinet
and many influential Senators believe
that an investigation ls the only thing
that will put an end to this controversy,
there Is no chance that Pinchofs friends
will be successful.
his two helpers, Eugene Barrett and J
Gordon Schaffer, and Thomas W'illiams.
one of the assistant managers of the
mine.
Pierce, it was said today, ventured into
Mine A of the Chicago & Carterville
Coal Company, without a guide, with
unprotected lamps and against the or
ders of the mine managers and the ad
vice of the miners. It is thought that ht
reached the gaseous entry and was wait
ing for a "straw boss" to come and pilot
him out when the gas ignited.
Schaffer was a stranger to the mine
officials. He had been taken into the
mine by Pierce as an emergency helper
and his identity was not known until his
body was recovered.
Pierce had charge of SO mines in the
Herrin district. He was making a sur
vey of an abandoned section, where there
had been a "squeeze," to determine the
feasibility of re-timbering.
SIX BODIES RECOVERED
Manager, Acting Against Advice,
Caused Fatal Explosion.
ST. LOUIS. Dec. 24. Messages from
Herrin, III., tell of the recovery early to
day of the bodies of the six men whose
open lamps caused a gas explosion in &
colliery last night, eight deaths resulting.
The bodiea are those of W. T. Pierce,
BISHOP, LOST, NOW IS SAFE
Church of England Prelate Suffers
In Canadian Wilds. -
DAWSON. Y. T.. Dec. 24. Bishop I. O.
Stringer, of the Church of England Yukon
diocese, for whose safety fears were felt
a short time ago, arrived here yesterday
after suffering many hardships, 47 days
from Fort MacPherson, at the mouth of
the Mackenzie River, bringing the first
advices since Summer from that region.
Tha bishop and Missionary Charles F.
Johnson started from Fort MacPherson
September 1, hoping to cross to, the head
of the Porcupine River in time to reach
the Yukon River last Fall with a canoe.
The head of Bell River, emptying into
Porcupine River, was partly frozen, so
they had to walk back to Fort MacPher
son. For 25 days they mushed in the
blinding foga of Arctic storms,' with little
food. Each man lost SO pounds in weight.
STEEL PLANTS TO EXTEND
Expenditure of $100,000,000 on
Lake Michigan Plant Planned.
CHICAGO, Dec. 24. About $100,000,
000 is to be spent hy the United States
Steel Corporation and its subsidiary
companies in improvements to the steel
making territory from South Chicago
to Gary, Ind.
B. J. Buffington, president of the Illi
nois Steel Company, confirmed the
rumors. The extensions mean the em
ployment of 5000 additional men.
The Illinois Steel Company is to erect
eight new blast furnaces at South Chi
cago, and the Iroquois Steel Company
has planned at least one new blast furnace.
TEN MURDERS, ONE ARREST
James Donnelly, Halfbreed, Charged
AVith Two Killings.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 24. The Federal
grand jury today brought in an indict
ment against James Donnelly, a half-
breed Indian of Hoopa "Valley reserva
tion, charging him with the murder of
oscar jnapman, the reservation store
keeper, December IS. 1908.
This is. the second murder indictment
against Donnelly, for he pleaded not
guilty several days ago to the charge
of murdering "Chickasaw" Harkanep,
another Indian, six years ago.
Ten murders have occurred in the dis
trict where Chapman was killed and Don
nelly is the fjrst man to be arrested for
any of them. '
TAFT AIDS "WHITE SLAVER"
Executive Cuts Year From Sentence
of Convicted New Yorker.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. President Taft
commuted the sentence today of a New
York "white-slaver" by cutting off one
year from a three-year sentence.
The case was that of Auguste Rous
sett, a Frenchman convicted in New York
of "Importing women for the purpose of
prostitution and of harboring an alien
woman for immoral purposes."
The law making the harboring of an
alien woman for immoral purposes a
crime has since been declared unconstitutional.
PH0SA M'ALLISTER DEAD
Leading Woman for Edwin Booth,
Well Known in Portland.
LOS ANGELES, Cal , Dec. 24. Mrs.
Harry Duffield, known on the stage for
many years as Phosa McAllister, is dead
at her home in Glendaie. P or several
seasons she was Edwin Booth's leading
woman and played with him in New York
and on the road. Mrs. Duffield was born
58 years ago at Stoneham, Maine.
Stockmen Must Haze Fences.
FORT BIDWELL, Cal., Dec. 24. The
Government has issued demands on
many large landholders of this section
to tear down fences they had built
around large tracts of Government land,
thereby holding the land against settle
ment. Many thousands of acres have
been held in this manner, depriving
small stockmen, sheepmen and home
steaders of their rights. Some are tear
ing down the fences, while others will
fight the demand. ,
Taft Pie Sent tJnder Guard.
NEWARK. N. J., Dec 24. A 92
pound mince pie, a creation of the Pie
Bakers Association of this city, is today
on its way to Washington, where the
bakers hope It will decorate the Christ
mas table of President Taft. The pie
makers are determined that no such fate
shall befall their production on this oc
casion as the case of their Thanksgiving
pie, which mysteriously disappeared be
fore reaching the White House. They
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have sent with It a trusted " messenger,
who will watch over the iron-bound oak
case until it is handed to the chef at the
White House.
ing had disappeared. The
looking for her last night.
police were
Mrs. Austin
was down town shopping when the theft
occurred.
New Maid and Jewels Disappear.
CHICAGO, Dec. 24. Diamonds valued
at almost $4000, some in settings and
more of them unset, were stolen yester
day 'from a jewel casket in a dresser
drawer In Mrs. William Austin's bedroom
at her home. A maid who went to work
in the Austin home only yesterday morn-
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