VOL. LH-yO. 15.993. ' POUTLAyP. OREGTlY, FEBRUAM 27, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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TAR'S MANAGER IS
CERTAIN HE'LL Will
T.R.Won't Get Nomina
tion, Says McKinley.
FORGAN HOLDS SAME VIEW
President's Friends Are Not
Alarmed by Outlook.
CHICAGO HAS "W. H. T. DAY'
Anio-unceroent of Rooaevelt'a Candi
dacy Will 3 lake No Difference in
Chief xerntlTe' Campaign
for Re nomination.
ATTTT DCLU 19 COITDET.
Mti-i.FnT. e.. r.K ra. p-
raL Mlaa Delia C Torrey.
my. aant of t
r'.r kaowa aa J
president Tart, familiar!
, -Ami Iw'la.. la aat pleased at tba
announcement of s. President Rooew-
vert that ba wttl accept tha Repwb-
leas nomination If It la effered him. J
! Tmm. wbo la iT years aid. and a
a who rriurntd Saturday from a rial I a
lo tlia Wblta Howa. aald today:
"1 am very sorry Colonel Rmm-
r:t liu decided It b, candidate
fr.r the rrMklncT. I M sore ba
will ba defeated! and that my nephew.
President Tan. will ba reaoratBated f
and r-aleete for a second term. I
think the President haa done nothing
ix cauee tba people to go bark an 4
Mm. and while I am a woman and e
l ao low wiurh about politics. I
think public eeattinent ta with Preal-
t dent Taft and will carry bins throngs ,
all right."
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rillCAOO. . Feb. It. (Special)
That President Taft will ba renomi
nate by the Republicans at tba Na
tional convention In Jane, In splta of
the open candidacy of Theodore Roosa
relt for a third term, waa the emphatlo
prediction made today or Representa
tlTe William B. McKinley, of Illinois,
ho la directing tha President's cam
pal cn.
This forecast wss Indorsed alaa by
I'aTld B. Forgan, president of the Taft
Club of Illinois, who baa Just returend
from Washington, where ba was In
touch with tha National work which
.a being dona In tha President's In.
tereat. and where be bad a rood op
portunity to learn the sentiment of
the people of the country.
Taft Day la Chicago.
In fart. It was distinctly Taft day
at Hotel La Fall, where Republican
leaders from all parts of tha atata
cat he red for one purpoM and another,
and that. too. notwithstanding the
Inns expected announcement by Mr.
Roosevelt that ba will accept tha nom
ination for a third term If It is ten
dered to me."
"The announcement of tha candi
dacy of ex-Pnaldent Rooaevelt will
make not the slightest difference In
the world In the campaign that la be
ins; carried on for the renomlnatlon
and re-election of President Taft."
said Representative McKinley. "Mr.
Taft will bo renominated at tha Chi
cago convention. Of this there Is to
my mind not tha slightest shadow of a
rtoubt.
MrKlaley Alaraaed.
"We hare no quarrel with Mr. Roose
velt. It la bis privilege to become a
candidate for tha Republican nomina
tion for the Presidency If ha ao de
al re a. and I was not aurprlsed at hie
announcement. But wa believe that
Mr. Taft la entitled to renomlnatlon
and we. who are In a position to know,
believe that ho will set that renoml
natlon. "I am In touch with tha situation. I
know what has been dons and what
la being dona. There la no doubt about
Mr. Taft's nomination. "
T. U. JIGGLED. SAYS EDITORIAL
.sun FrancLtco Republican Taper As
sails Colonel's Methods.
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. t. (Special.)
The Chronicle (Republican) aays:
"There was no equivocation whatever
In the pledge which Colonel Rooaevelt
leave at tha time of his re-election that
under no circumstances would he be a
candidate for a third term.
"For bis supporters now to claim
tiiat he only meant that ha would not
be a candidate at the election of 1S0S.
la for bis supporters to claim that
Colonel Rooaevelt JUKKled.
"Whatever hie meanlnc. he should
he rla-ldly held to his pledge as Intended
to be undemtooB at that time, nor Is
there any doubt that he will be ao
hel.l by the people.
Tlie reason why he should b held
1.1 fiat pledge la obvious. To confess
1'iat la thla whole Nation there Is but
i.ne man fit to be President Is to lay
tne ax at the root of popular govern
ment. If that ba true, tha alternative
Is s dynsaty."
Mutiny on Vermont Penled.
WASH1N' ON. Feb. !. The recent
report that soma of the enlisted men
aboard the battleship Vermont had mu
tinied against Inoculation with typhoid
prophylactic was denied today by tba
Naty Icpartment.
TAFT MAY ORDER
ROOSEVELT TO WAR
COLONEL'S LKI-la.lt OP YEAR
AGO COMES TO LIGHT.
Meaaaare) lo President. Addressed
Dear Will." Ask Right to I-esd
Regiment Into Mexico.
WASHINGTON. Feb. It. The an
nouncement of Colonel Roosevelt's
willingness to accept the Presidential
nomination and bis consequent open
break with President Taft was said
here tonight to have developed a pic
turesque possibility In connection with
threatened trouble In Mexico.
Senators who assert knowledge of tha
facts aald that about a year ago, when
the Madero revolution waa at Ita height
In Mexico and tha possibility of Ameri
can Intervention waa being dlacussed,
Colonel Rooaevelt wrote to President
Taft. volunteering to bead a regiment
of cavalry which waa to be in the fore
front of tha Invading force.
Colonel Roosevelt. It Is said, stipu
lated that his subordinate officers were
to ba of his own choosing, and went
so far aa to name some of the men ha
would select. These Included Colonel
Cecil A. Lyon. Republican National
committeeman of Texas; Jack Aber-
nathy. tha wolf -strangling ex-Marahal
of Oklahoma; Sloan tilinpson. of Texaa.
a Rough Rider; James Sloan. Jr- secret
service agent, now with President Tart,
and aeveral members of the old "Rough
Rider" regiment of Cuban war fame.
Colonel Roosevelt at that time. It la
reported, said It was his highest ambl.
tlon again to be In the saddle In time
of war.
The Colonel's letter to President Taft
asking to be placed In command of a
regiment In the event of trouble In
Mexico was addressed "Dear Will." ac
cording to tboee who aay they saw tha
document.
President's Taft'a reply waa ad
dressed "Dear Theodore." It ssld. ac
cording to reports, that the Colonel's
proposition waa very "Interesting. In
deed." but that the possibility of
American Intervention waa too remote
a contingency to be considered at the
time In any way.
PILLOW ROUTS BURGLAR
Woman AtUu-lis Thief Whom Men
Are Afraid to Molest.
LOS ANQ ELES."caL. Feb. !. (Spe
cial.) A brave woman had more terror
for a burglar early thla morning than
did men. but tha burglar was not cap
tured. Mrs. W. IL MacLaren. of Vancouver.
R. C. who Is staying at tha Hotel Bal
boa. 1127 West Seventh street, proved
her mettle by boldly entering her room
when, she saw a burglar at work and
chasing him away with a sofa pillow.
She lost several plecea of Jewelry, the
to' -I valuation of which was a trifle
more than 1100. Several men had
passed the partly opened door of her
room, but tha burglar continued to
work until Mrs. MacLaren appeared.
Ebe told the police that ahe saw him
at work carefully selecting rings and
stickpins from her Jewel box. and aha
became frantic. Bhe ran In and, aelx
Ing a pillow, attacked him. Tha bur
glar's nerve deserted him and be
Jumped out of tha window and fell to
the ground, about 15 feet below.
POLL AGAINST COLONEL
a - "
House Press Gallery Predicts Itoose
velt Will Be Defeated.
WASHINGTON. Feb. I. Special.)
la the press gallery of tha Houee today
a poll waa taken on Theodora Rooee
velt's chances of nomination and his
chances of election If nominated. Hera
ara tha queatlona and results:
-Do you think that Mr. Rooaevelt
can capture tha nomination?"
Answering "yes," 11: answerln "no,
la.
-If Mr. Roosevelt la nominated, do
you think ha will be elected?"
Answering "yea." ; answering "no,"
ST.
Tha poll waa conducted by a repre
sentative of a Washington newspaper.
KTery newspaperman who entered tha
ajajlery was questioned and no one re
fused to reply. They represented
-stand-pat.'' Insurgent. Democratic and
Independent newspapers.
MEN REACH MT. M'KINLEY
Fairbanks Party Arrive at Rase f
Teak and May Defeat Rivals.
FAIRBANKS. Alaska. Feb. :. (Spe
cial.) Tha Fairbanks Times party of
Mount McKinley climbers that left here
February S has reached the base of tha
peak, according to Jack Phillips, ona
of the party who returned here Sunday.
Tha men ara ahead of the Parker
Brown party and their trip has been
successful aa far as they have gone.
The mountain top was visible and
the weather pleasant The altitude at
the head of McKinley River, where tha
party la camped at present, la 5500 feet.
They expect to make tha top within a
month and beat tha other party in tha
race.
SECRET VOYAGE IS ENDED
BijC Cruiser Weht Virginia Rack at
Honolulu. Probably From Palmyra.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 2c. After a ten
days' absence, tha big armored cruiser
West Virginia turned op In Honolulu
harbor today as mysteriously as she
disappeared.
The Navy Department declined to
make any atatcment as to ber cruise,
but it is understood that she was aent
to look Into conditions on Palmyra
Island, about the title to which there
la said to be some doubt.
(TEXAS MILnUMEH
FIRED ON AT NIGHT
Attackers at El Paso
Said to Be Mexicans.
AMERICANS ARE THREATENED
Mexicans Say They Will Unite
if Border Is Crossed.
FLYING BULLETS FEARED
I'nited Mate Troops In Keadlness at
Strategic Points bat I-ck Au
thority, as Y'et, to Io More
Than Protest at Position.
KL PA SO, Tex. Feb. bbbbII e
tarhaarat af Caaapaay K, Texaa State
Mllttla, eagaged la sntardleg the Kl
! electric llgkt Blast, were fired
, tealaht br sari Ire raaeealed be-
blad baxrara aad aald to ba Mexleaaa.
Snia illeaMia went aaed oa the gwaia
aad more lass S ahata were fired,
ballet aaaalBg thraagh tha hat of aae
f the awardsaaea.
K.I. FARO, Tea- Feb. IS. At litis
e'eleck tealsht the rebel fareea of
liaii arrived aa tba river bask
aaMUe aid Fart Bllaa aad ebo.t on
mA . half hIIm aarlkweit af Jaarea.
They are aappaaed to be exteadlag a
wise aroaad tba weat aide af 1st city.
EL PASO. Feb. SS. El Paso speedily
took on a martial appearance tonight
upon announcement that a telephone
conference between F. C Llorente.
Mexican Consul, and Emllio Campa,
commanding tha Vasqulsta army at
Bauche, commanding tha gate of
J u area, had terminated unsatisfactorily.
Aascrlcaaa Flee Over Border.
United Ststes troops of tha Fourth
Cavalry and the 18th Infantry together
with machine guns were stationed at
strateglo points, although Colonel E. Z.
Bteever said he had no Instructions to
do other than protest ahould Mexican
bullets be fired Into American ter
ritory.
Americans In Juares responded
promptly to the warning Issued by
United States Consul Edwards. . and
crossed the Rio Grande to El Paso, to
gether with hundreds of Mexicsn non-
combatants.
These preparations were hastened by
the report that Campa's troops bad al
ready begun their advance from Bau
che. but at o'clock no Information
was obtained as to their distance from
Juares or tha probable time of their
arrival.
The defense of Juares consists of
sbout 100 police reinforced by 400 vol
unteers, who declare they will not sur
render without a fight. Two machine
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1 BUT, THE RACE IS NOT ALWAYS TO THE SWIFT. J
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather. f
TESTRRDAT'S Maximum temperature. 48
desreea; minimum. 40 decTeea.
TODArS Fair; westerly wlnda.
Foreign.
Texas Militiamen fired on at El Pane by
band believed to be Mexlrana. I'ac 1
Nat tonal. v
Secretary Meyer makea atrons plea for more
battleships.' race 2.
I'olitlre.
Roonevelt rosy be aent to war in Mexico.
Page 1.
Rooaevelt defends his limited recall of Ju
diciary Idea In Boston, pass 2.
Representative McKinley aays advent of
Roosevelt will not affect Taft. Pace 1.
Kithty-Bix candidates file with Secretary of
Mate at Salem. Page 6.
Senator Lodse declines to aupport Rooae
velt'a candidacy. Fun 2.
TomesUc
Jury obtained In Moors murder case at Red
wood City. Pace 3.
Echlff makes public letters In Brandt case.
Pae .
Telephone f-'ti appeara la Croker-Breen di
vorce trial. Pace S.
Sport.
Sportsmen ask that herda of elk be kept
In Wyoming. Pass 7.
Bob Brown ausxesta that Northwestern
League buy or charter steamship. Pass 7.
Vernon Spring training bexlns. Pace 7.
Northwest imerrolleclata baaketball not yet
decided. Pace 7.
Berg throws "unknown" and retains bla title
aa champion, pace 7.
Pacific. Northweot.
Chief of Police at Grants Paaa deposed, fol
low In c raid. Pace 6.
Slaver of two at Taeoma arrested and con
feaaaa eight hours after crime. Pace 1.
District Attorney Tongue sooraa Sheriff Maaa
and lietectlve Levlngs in connection with
Hill murder case. Page B.
Pacific Stats Rank of Seaside files articles
of Incorporation. Pace a.
Contest for Marlon County officea already
la keen. Pace 6.
Five Raker students beat hlch school pro
fessor accused of paylnc undue attention
to girl pupils. Pace S.
Commercial aad Marine, a '
Hay market weakened by selling pressure
from country. Pace 17.
Weakness In Wall street atocka ss result
of Roosevelt's letter. Pace 17.
Marine Interests sdvlsed thst suit to delay
Harrlman brldse work cannot be broucbt.
Pace 1.
Full prices paid for livestock. Page
Portland aad Vicinity.
W. R. Ayer elected chairman of Portland
Taft committee to succeed Ben Selling.
Page 12.
Handsome woman arrested ss robber of
neighbor's home; pawnbroker identifies
her photograph. Page 1.
Two lives lost over destruction of Gllmaa
House by fire. Pace 11.
Special good roads committee makes prog
ress In agreeing on legislation pro
gramme. Pace IO.
Police warn Chinese to end tone war or
severe penaltlea will follow. Pace 10.
J. Thorburn Roaa. Frank B. Holbrook and
Jobn B. Altchlaon released by court from
charge alleging land fraud. Pace 10.
Mayor's office like matrimonial bureau after
request of Ohio widow for Western hua
. band. Pace 1.
Cities throughout Oregon support excursion
to select first site at Panama-Pacific
Exposition. Pace 11. .
Detectives capture alleged Seattle slayer'
after chase throuch crowd and after fir
ing 20 shots at fugitive. Pace 4.
Republican state central committee to test
delecata law enacted by people. Pace 4.
RUEF REFUSES TO TESTIFY
Convicted Political Ross Will "ot
Tarn on Schmitz.
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 16. Abraham
Ruef, convicted political boss, serving
a term of 14 years In San Qaentln for
bribery, will not testify In the case of
ex-Msyor Schmitz, now on trial on tha
charge of having bribed ex-Supervisor
Wilson.
This fact was disclosed today In a
statement In Judge I-awIor's court by
District Attorney Fickert, who said he
wss ready to submit the case without
further evidence to the Jury.
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PHOTO OF GOMEL!
WOMAN JAILS HER
Pawnbroker Says She
Sold Loot to Him.
ROBBERY OF HOUSE CHARGED
Police Borrow Picture From
Resident Who Lost $500.
HANDWRITING TRACED, TOO
Mrs. Myrtle Enes Is Arrested a.
Ransacker of Kast Side Home.
Cuilt Is Denied and Alibi
Is Claimed.
Toung. pretty and demure, Mrs.
Myrtle Enes, wife of the station agent
at Perrydale, Or., on the Yamhill
division of the Southern Pacific.
was arrested yesterday, after Cap
tain Baty and his force of de
tectives had wrestled for two days
with what they term the knottiest
problem In their experience. Charged
with stealing $500 worth of silver and
clothing from a woman friend, and
identified by two pawnbrokers, Mrs.
Enes maintains a steadfast denial, and
brings two witnesses to establish an
alibi for her. When a handwriting; ex
pert was called and identified the pawn
ticket signature as her writing, the
scalebeam tipped against her, and she
went to Jail, o be released In a short
time under $1000 ball. Mr. and Mrs.
Enes have lived at Perrydale several
months.
Photo Canara Arrest.
A week ago Mrs. M. A. McDonald, of
710 East Madison street, returned home
to find her house stripped of valuables,
including her furs and clothing. She
notified the police and Detectives Mallet
and Moloney found that the house must
have been entered by a key which hung
In a secret place, and that the entry
was effected by someone who knew the
place.
When her friend Mrs. Enes waa sug
g. ted. she was positive that there was
nothing In the suspicion, but allowed
the detectives to take a picture of the
woman, which, when exhibited to the
pawnbroker In whose Bhop part of the
goods was found, was positively iden
tified as that of the person who brought
them in.
Woman Denies Guilt.
Then Mrs. Enes waa caught in
Dallas and was brought back, passing
all day Sunday In the conference room
at detective headquarters. Captain Baty
not desiring to consign her to Jail. Her
sister and brother-in-law asserted that
she was with them 'at the time of the
robbery, while two men from the pawn-
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OREGON WIDOW OUT
TO BEAT OHIO ONE
WOMAX ASKS MAYOR KOR AD
DRESS OF LAVE MAX.
Kushlight's Office Recomiug Malri
. monlal Bureau 3ue to One Re
quest for " Western Mate.
The receipt by Mayor Rushlight of a
letter from a well-to-do Cincinnati
widow recently asking that the Mayor
obtain a real Western husband for her
has transformed the Mayor's office Into
a veritable matrimonial bureau. The
letter of the widow was published in
part In The Oregonian, and as a conse
quence many letters have been re
ceived by the Mayor from aspirants for
the widow's hand. The latest commu
nication Is from a merchant of Boring,
Clackamas County. He says he Is the
owner of a good business and of 20
acres of land, is 26 years of age end
good-looking and wants a wife.
Another wooer writes from Acme,
Lane County, and still another from a
remote part of Yamhill County. An
advertisement In The Oregonian re
cently setting forth that a Lane County
man Is desirous of winning the Eastern
widow has aroused competition for her.
A good-looking widow of 30 Summers
appeared In the Mayor's office yester
day in quest of a husband, and asked
for the name and address of the Lane
County man, that she might correspond
with him.
"The best thing for you to do is to
send him your picture," said Secretary
McCord to the widow who wants to get
ahead of the Cincinnati widow. She
replied that she would do no such
thing, saying that If the Lane man
wanted to win her he must come to
see her. She took his address, and will
write him her name and description.
If all is satisfactory she may use her
leap year prerogative.
REPUBLIC GAINS IN FAVOR
First Step Toward Recognition of
Chinese Rule Is Taken.
WASHINGTON, Feb! 28. The United
States took one of the first Bteps today
toward the recognition of the new
Chinese republic.
Representative Sulzer of New York,
chairman of the House committee on
foreign affairs, after a conference with
President Taft and State Department
officials, introduced a resolution be
lieved to be the forerunner of formal
recognition by this country.
It expressed the "confident hope that
In the adoption and maintenance of a
republican form of government the
rights, liberties and happiness of the
Chinese people will be secured."
Mr. Sulzer insisted that the resolu
tion was in diplomatic form and in no
way contravened the status quo in the
Orient or lnterefered with the proctocol
existing between the allied powers.
SHIP TOSSED BY STORM
Lumber Carrier Blown Around Cape
Flattery; Peril Great.
LOS ANGELES. Cal., Feb. 26. (Spe
cial.) Captain Neilsen, of the schooner
Alpena, which arrived here today from
Puget Sound ports with a cargo of
poles and lumber, says after getting as
south as Grays Harbor he was
blown back beyond Cape Flattery and
narrowly escaped going ashore on Van
couver Island.
He had reached the vicinity of San
Miguel Island Friday and encountered
the recent storm and was compelled to
remain hove to for 24 hours with all
salles reefed, and even then the Jib top
sail was carried away.
BLIZZARD MOVES ON EAST
Middle West's Big Storm Sweeps
Toward Atlantic States.
CHICAGO. Feb. 26. The storm which
brought a heavy snow to the middle
lake region and rain and thunder on
lino south of the Ohio River tonight
is moving rapidly eastward.
Snow Is falling from the Lake Erie
region on the north to Kentucky and
below the snow belt there Is rain.
Forecasters here say the storm will
continue its eastaward course, reach
ing New York City some time tomor
row.
Through the Central West snow has
ceased falling. A gradual rise In tem
perature Is predicted.
ARMY OFFICER IN PRISON
Ex-First Iiieutenant Orchard Begins
Serving Two-Year Term.
LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Feb. 26.
Samuel C. Orchard, formerly First
Lieutenant Third Infantry, U. S. A., to
day began a sentence of two years at
tho Federal penitentiary. He is the
only military officer now under arrest
in the prison.
Orchard was convicted of embezzle
ment by a court-martial at Fort Lis
cum, Alaska. Tho embezzlement was
committed while he was road commis
sioner in Alaska, with headquarters at
Valdez.
ELECTION INQUIRY ASKED
Resolution in Senate Proposes In
vestigation of Pnpont Case.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. S&nator
Reed, of Missouri, introduced in the
Senate today a resolution directing an
Investigation Into the election of Sen
ator Dupont, of Delaware.
far
; SLAYER
JAILED, CONFESSES
Taeoma Crime Fixed
Within 8 Hours.
SENTENCE SET FOR FRIDAY
Criminal's Little Sons Help
Detectives in Work.
WIFE AND 'ESCORT SLAIN
Jealous Husband, Who Does Murder
in Darkness, Eager to Begin
Prison Sentence Club Used
to Deal Death Blows.
TACOMA. Feb. 26. (Special.) Eight
hours after the discovery of the bodies
of Mrs. Willis Brown, aged 23. and
John Alden, also known as Jack Wil
son, aged 38, on a county highway
near East Larchmont. and 14 hours af
ter they had been killed by blows on
the head from a club, Willis "Brown,
aged 54, the dead woman's husband,
pleaded guilty in the Superior Court to
murder in the second degree.
As there were no witnesses to the
crime, the Pierce County Prosecuting
Attorney's office consented to this pro
cedure, after a charge of murder in
the first degree had been drawn up
against Brown.
Sentence to Be Given Today.
Judge Chapman will pass sentence
tomorrow and Brown probably will be
on his way to 'the -State Penitentiary
tomorrow night, within 48 hours after
the double murder.
Mrs. Brown and Alden wre to
gether at the theater in Tacifma last
night. They were seen to leave a late
suburban car and start up a path to
ward the Brown home. A colored woman
heard several screams.
At 6:30 o'clock this morning a lather,
on his way to do some work on tha
Brown house, discovered the bodies in
the road.
At noon officers took Brown into
custody and statements by his two
boys, aged 7 and 9 years, that he and
his wife had engaged in a bitter quar
rel oven Alden yesterday afternoon
and that he had been absent twice in
the night, led to vigorous questioning.
Fleeing Spouse Struck Down.
At 2:85 o'clock this afternoon Brown
said he waited In the dark with a piece
of scantling and struck Alden down,
and when his wife fled, screaming, pur
sued her and killed her with a blow
on the head.
"For God's sake, man, put a rope
around my neck and do it now," sobbed
Brown, after he had pleaded guilty.
"Hang me now br put me in the elec
tric chair and do it quick. I'm sick
and tired of it all. When I wake up
I want to find everything ended."
Following his confession, arraign
ment and plea of guilty. Just 14 hours
after the double murder. Brown nearly
collapsed. He said in his confession
that he had known for the past year
of the intimacy existing between his
wife. Josephine, and Wilson, and had
remonstrated with both, only to be told
by his wife it was none of his business,
that she would do as she pleased and
t,hat if Brown did not allow Wilson to
come and lfve at the house, she would
leave It.
Men Have Fight.
Brown said he and his wife had
many quarrels over the younger man's
attentions, but that she would go down
town with Wilson twice a week, com
ing home on the last car. Brown said
that about a month ago, while Wilson
was at the house, he and Wilson al
most came to blows over Wilson's re
lations with Mrs. Brown. Sunday,
Brown said, the woman and Wilson
went down town in the morning.
Knowing that probably they would re
turn on the last car. Brown said he
obtained a piece of 2x4 board about
three feet long, and waited for them.
Wilson and the woman were on the
last car, as Brown expected, and
walked up the road arm In arm.
Brown said he came up quietly be
hind them and struck Wilson over the
head with the club, killing him in
stantly. Mrs. Brown screamed several
times and Brown said he dealt her,a
blow with the club, killing her also
instantly. Leaving the bodies in the
road. Brown said he went home.
Mrs. Brown was divorced from a man
named Jackson before her marriage to
Brown and came to Larchmont two
years ago from Houston, Ind.
EIGHT-HOUR DAY FAVORED
House Goes on Record in Limiting
Labor at Arsenals.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. The' House
went on record today favoring the
adoption of tho eight-hour work day'
on all Government works when a pro
vision for such a limitation of hours
of labor was placed on the appropria
tion for the manufacture of armament
in the Army fortifications bill for the
coming year.
Representative Ranch, of Indiana,
proposed the amendment, which was
adopted after a lively debate in which
labor union members of the House at
tacked Representative Tribbla, of
Georgia, who opposed It-
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