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160 OF TITANIC'S DISTRICTS "WET" TRANSPORT SAILS BIG VAUDEVILLE SCARE BRIDE AWAY BY WOMEN'S VOTES V S.EX PLAYS PROMINENT P.KT IX SACRAMENTO rOLL. MEN IN COMBINE FAULTY, SAYS TAFT FATHER OP ROOSEVELT, TAFT KEITH AXD MKYERFELI) " BECK SWING- DEAL. AXD AXD CORTELYOC SUES. TRIPLETS AND SIX COLONEL'S HEMORY BAITS DEFY NG CREW. REACH HOI WITH BALE BLOWING ALL PARIS, KILLED Police and Soldiers Use Dynamite. TWO DETECTIVES WOUNDED Siege of Garage Most Sensa tional France Has Known. HUNDREDS OF SHOTS FIRED t.reat Crowd. Chanted to Howling lolv C lamor for Death of One Who SorrlTrn Ksploeinn. Anarchist Plot A Idcsprcad. PARIS. April Bonnot. th leader f an eri1wd (tnit of automobile band! who hare been terrorising Paris and th surrounding district for month, and Dubois, a notorious anarchist, war hot to death lodir In the mom thrill- Ins; encounter In the annals of French crime; A Karat at Choly-le-Rol. six miles south of Paris. In which the bandits had taken refoae. was blown up by riynamite. after these two sflen hsd kept at bar for hours a large part of the police force of Paris, a contingent f.f srendarmt. two companies of repub lican suarda and a company of an' rlneers. Ten thouand spectators viewed the battle. Battle Paralleled la I. on. Today's ensaaremcnt equalled In dra mati" i ireumstances the encounter !n .'anuary. described as "the bat tie of London." when desperadoes ac ruwl of being the murderera of police In HOunrladltcli were trapped In a house In the Whltecliapel district and went to heir dath battling aa-alnst hundreds of Lo.nlon police and soldiers. Bon not and Dubois, after wounding two policemen, took refuge today In the aaraao. They were trapped In the :ull.lina. which at once was surrounded. Reinforcements were dispatched to aid the police. A battery of artillery was on the way from Versailles when small detachment of aoldlers succeeded In plvlng dynamite against the struc ture id blowing out the front walls. Lonnot was captured alive. He' waa riddle with bullets and died on the ay a hospital. (n4 la lafniiatrd. The rreat crowd, with cries of "Death to Bonnot." almost tore the bandit Trom the soldiers, several of whom were Irjured. ra.-lalans, particularly autoinoblllsts. hare been In a state of terror because af the feckless Crimea of the automobile bandits, which reached a climax In the murde. of Assistant Superintendent Jouin of the detertlve department and the wounding of Chief Inspector Cole mar by Bonnot on the morning of April H. Tbe government then ordered all :he available police to hunt the as asln day and night. At T o'clock. this morning. Gulchard. superintendent of detectives, tracked t:onnot to the Isolated garage atCholsy-le-Rol. As Gulchard and hia men ap I roached bandit, who proved to be Dubois, was preparing to mount a motorcycle. He anawered the summons to surrender by opening fire, while he retreated to the garage. Two Defectives Fall. At tie same moment there was a hail of bu'.Iets from a window, and two de tectives fell, one with two bullets In his abdomen. It waa Bonnot shooting from the firat floor. The detectives retired and a general alarm was sent out. Police, gendarmes and alt classes of people came Immedi ately. They were armed with muskets and revolvers and directed hundreds of ballets at the garage, from which came, a steady rain of lead. M. Leplne. pre fect of Paris, telephoned Instructions to the police to do nothing until he ar rived. "We will blow them up with dyna mite." he said. Meanwhile the Republican Guards and engineer corps arrived. The crowd became so numerous that the aoldlers were forced to drive It back, as It waa Interfering with th- siege. Geaisnset srms4 Bsilldlaga. M. Leplne. M. Gulchard and tha com mandar of the Republican Guards held . a council of war and decided to use dynamite. Hundreds of gendarmes, armed with carbines, then began to encircle the building to prevent the escape of the bandits. A cart waa' rigged up with thick mattresses and barricaded, and the at tacking party advanced slowly toward the garage. Prior to this excitement had been at fever heat. Officers galloped back and forth, giving orders to restrain the crowds, which were, now surging In the streets, but as the cart approached the building a great stillness fell. It was o qult that one could hear the click ef the cinematograph machines which took pictures of the drama. Deaelai la Dead Within. When the cart reached the wall. Lieutenant Forteau emerged and cooly placed two huge sticks of dynamite against the building and Ignited the fuse. Tha horse galloped out of range and the spectators waited, but no ex (CoDciudcd ea Face 3. Picture Hal Snffcr Because Men Do Xot Know How to Build Election Booths to Fit. SACRAMENTO. Cal.. April J (Spe cial.) Lsin their first opportunity to express their opinion on a public iasu by ballot, the women of thla city yes terday turned out In great numbers. In some precincts outnumbering the men. to vote ! the ordlnsnce by which sa loons wre restored to the recently an nexed district. In most of the precincts of the bust' nesa d:strlet the women's vote was light, but the residence district made up for the shortaxe. An estimate made from representative districts shows that nearly one-half of the vote came from the women. That women were Intensely Interest ed In the result was shown In several Instances by little groups outside the polls after cloelng time waiting for the results. Tlcture hats and regula tion election booths do not go together. Many women tnrned out to vote In their hWgest picture creations. The booths ere In the way. At nearly every precinct In the city the picture hat played the heavy role In tragedy. Some were crushed and warped and twisted and Jammed, and had the brims turned up on the wrong aide. At one polling place three women stood by and let the parade pasa until they be came acquainted with the proceedings. They saw one picture hat come to grief and then another and when they final ly fell In line they removed their hats and gave them to the precinct election officers to hold until they had exer cised their rlghta to 'vote. The dls trlrts heretofore "dry" were msde "wet." SWEDISH PLAY AMUSING "The Pllkvlft Girls" Well Attended at Ilclllx Theater. Swedish residents of Portland met last night at the Helllg Theater to welcome their countrymen, the Swedish Players. In their musical comedy. "The Pllkvlst Girls." The story of the play Is that of a man with a family of rather lively girls and a boy. I-ove affairs of the girls, observed by the watchful Darent from behind a door and plsno. furnish considerable fun of the broad sort. Tne rumor caugui the Swedish audience. The concert, which comprised tha second half of the entertainment, was thoroughly enjoyable, as the members of the company all have pleasing voices. Their selections were songs and cno ruses from operas by Offenbach. Donnt xettl and others. The members of the company are: Anna Pfell, Anna Eur Strom. Carl Pfell. Helen T'nge. Anni Peterson. Marie Tapper. Ellen Ilell- strom. Beda Kllng. Eric Branatrom Ca-I Thorslund. Alex Engstrom. Karl E. Tunberg. Gurlie Brattstrom, Carl Kung. Carl Inge. FLOOD FUNDS ASSURED Congress to Appropriate $1,500,000 to Rebuild Levees. WASHINGTON". April J. An im mediate appropriation of 11.500.000 for the rebuilding and repairing of levees on the Mississippi and Its tributaries waa made certain late today when the House passed the Senate's Joint resolu tion authorising the expenditure. Con gress previously had authorised tha use of 100.000 for emergency work to stop the ravages of the flood. The situation In the Mississippi al ley south of Memphis remaina aerloua so far aa the transportation of tha malls is concerned. Reports to Postmaster-General Hitchcock from various representatives of the railway mall service indicate thaf in many cases it will not be possible to re-establish reg ular mail service within days at least. WOMEN DELEGATES NAMED Vancouver Elects Two to Republican County Convention. VANCOUVER. Wash.. April 21. (Special.) In tha Republican primaries In this city, held yesterday, two women. Mrs. William S. PuBols and Mrs. Mil ton H. Evans, were elected delegates to the county convention to be held Sat urday. May 4. at 10 o'clock. In the county courthouse. Forty-six men were also elected del egates. The complexion of the 48 dele gates la said to be 2S progressives. In favor of Roosevelt La. Follette and others, and 11 for Taft and others. PEARY SHIPMATE DROWNS Two Mndents Lose Lives When Power Canoe Is Overturned. CRESCENT BEACH. Conn.. April 21. George Borup. of New Tork, who was with Peary In hla successful dash for the North Pole, and Samuel Wlnshlp Case, of Norwich, Conn., both graduate students at Tale, were drowned In Long Island Sound thla afternoon when their power canoe was overturned by a heavy sea. ! CHURCH DEFEATS PEARE I.a Grande Man Union County Cen tral Committee Chairman. LA GRANDE. Or.. April 2S. (Spe cial.) W. J. Church. Mayor of U Grande and State Representative, de feated J. II. Peare for re-election to the office of County Chairman of the Re publican Central Committee Saturday afternoon. Church won by two votes. Seventeen of the 21 preclncta were represented. J. D. Casey, of Hllgard. waa chosen state delegate by four votes over C. E. Cochran. L. H. Russell is secretary. to GUARD OF 4D MEN CARRIED Marines Not Taken, Lest Pur pose Be Misconstrued. INTERVENTION IS AVOIDED Convoy Expected, but Official Do Xot Conrirm Keport Surgeon and Full Hospital Equip ment Are Carried. SAN FRANCISCO, April IS. The transport Buford. bound for the west roast of Mexico, cleared at :40 o'clock tonight In the teeth of a heavy south west Mow. She carries 40 enlisted men as a guard, and goes as a relief ship for Americans In distress. She was to have sailed tomorrow but received special ' orders to put out at once. It is understood that the Buford will put In at San Diego for a convoy. Al though no official confirmation of this Informal assurance could be had it Is supported by a dispatch from San Diego raying that two of the torpedoboat de stioyers In port there would sail un der sealed orders within 21 hours. Hospital Equipment Carried. Robert T. Bain will be navigating officer of the Buford, under command of Quartermaster-Captain Frank D. Ely. Captain Herbert J. Brees, of the First Cavalry, commands the guard of 40 enlisted men. The ship carries a surgeon and a complete hospital equipment. WASHINGTON, April 28. (Special.) The State Department today, after long deliberation, finally decided not to man with marines the Buford. which la scheduled to iu.ll from San Franclaco tomorrow for polnta on the west coast of Mexico to pick up Ameri can refugees. 9amp4rJoa te Be Avoided. The decision not to put marines aboard was prompted by fear of State Department officials that If marines were carried the transport mission would be considered as a sort of armed Intervention. Some Army and Navy of ficials urged a strong force oi marines, which would insure the rescue of Americans at points where bandlta or revolutionists are In control and where it might be necessary to land an armed force. Destroyers Tut to Sea. SAN DIEGO. Cal.. Aprlf 28. The tor pedo boat destroyers Preble and Perry, Orders Received Hasten Going. I RECKON I'LL HAVE TO GO OVER AND SWITCH OUT Orphcuni Circuit Owners and Rival Organizations Buy Into Each Others Properties. NEW TORK. April 28. (Special.) B. F. Keith has purchsscd the Percy G. Williams circuit of vaudeville the aters in New York and by consumma tion of a deal with Meyerfeld and Beck of the Omheum circuit. Mrs. C. E. Kohl, of Chicago, and Max Anderson, of New York, has brought about an amalgamation of Interests Involving millions of dollars and by the purchase AOX8I AJoaqn o Jo a houses East and West practically makes a gigantic combination of all the high-class vaudeville houses In America. In -bringing this about. Keith with hi. associates. E. F. Albee. A. Paul Keith and John J. Murdock, come Into complete control of the vaudeville sit uation from Chicago east. In Chicago It w 11 be under the di rection of Mrs. C. E. Kohl, Max Ander son and the Monroe Amusement Com- nanv. who were associated with iveun in the original purchase of the Percy O. Williams circuit. West of Chicago, the Orpheum cir cuit under the direction of Morris Mey erfield and Martin Beck will have con trol. WAPPENSTEIN STILL FREE Sheriff Allows former Seaitlc Chief Sunday Xijrht at Home. SEATTLE. April 28. Ex-Chief of Police Charles Wappensteln, under sen tence of from three to ten years in the state penitentiary for accepting a bribe from keepers of disorderly houses, was permitted to spend another night with his family. When Wappenstein surrendered yes terday, releasing his bond of $80,000, the Sheriff announced that he would not take Wappenstein to Jail until to day, but thla afternoon he decided to permit the ex-Chief of Police to spend Sunday night with his wife, who is 111, and placed a deputy In the Wappen stein home as a guard. Wappenstein will make an effort tomorrow to ob tain executive clemency, but It Is un derstood that Governor M. E. Hay will decline to Interfere and the prisoner probably will go to the penitentiary when the traveling guard arrives from Walla Walla Thursday. DEATH LIST MAY BE 60 Number of Those Injured by Tor nado Will Reach Hundreds. OKLAHOMA C1TT. April 2S. The ; death list of the tornado that swept a part of Oklahoma and Texas eaiur day afternoon is expected to reach 60. Fifty-four deaths have been reported. The Injured list will run into the hun dreds. Wire facilities are demoralized and it Is Impossible to communicate with several stricken towns. PINE BLUFF. Ark- April 28. Tele graphic and telephonic wires are down tonight between here and Little Rock, Altheimer, Show, Tucker and England. A tornado Is reported at Keo. Course Not Approved in Council. PRESIDENT NOT IN COUNTR Harvester Question Not Dis cussed in Presence. DATES PROVED BY RECORD Trip. West, to Canada and Philip pines, Precluded Possibility or Presence at Cabinet Meet ings at Time. WASHINGTON. April 28. President Taft, before leaving today for his re turn to Massachusetts, Issued a per sonal statement denying Colonel Roosevelt's allegation that Mr. Taft, while Secretary of War, at a Cablne meeting, had approved Mr. Roosevelt's decision not to prosecute immediately the International Harvester Company. President Tatt's statement says he never had heard the International Har vester Company discussed at any Cabl net meeting, and that the records of the War Department will show that he was out of the country when the Incident referred to by the Colonel oc curred. President Taffs statement follows: "Mr. Roosevelt In his speech at Wor cester, as reported by the public press, referring to the Harvester trust said " 'As a matter of fact Mr. Taft was a member of my Cabinet, and he cor dially approved the action taken and Indeed, as a matter of fact, my memory is that he himself made the motion that there should be no prosecution of the Harvester trust pending the in vestlgatlon into the trust by the Bu reau of Corporations.' Coloael's Memory at Fault. Mr. Roosevelt's memory is very much at fault. I am authorized to say by Secretary Root and Secretary Wil son, both oi wnom were roemDers oi the Cabinet at that time, that they have no recollection whatever of hear ing the prosecution of the Harvester matter discussed in the Cabinet and Mr. Root is very certain that he never saw or heard of Mr. Herbert Knox Smith's letter to Mr. Roosevelt under date of September 21, 1907, on the subject. "I am able to say the same thing. So far as my recollection goes, I never heard the Harvester trust matter dis cussed in any Cabinet meeting that I attended and I cannot be mistaken in the statement that I never saw or knew of Mr. Herbert Knox Smith's (Concluded on Page 2.) THAT SMUDGE. Deserted Husband Would Divorce Woman He Chose as Step mother for Cabinet. TRENTON, J. J., April 28. (Special.) Israel Satin, who gained notoriety some time a so by naming triplet sons for Roosevelt, Taft and Cortelyou, has instituted divorce proceedings against his wife. Shortly after the birth of the triplets the mother died, and friends of Sahn induced him to seek another wife in or der that the children might have mother. Sahn became acquainted with a young Austrian woman named Tetta Melter and recently married her. Returning from her honeymoon to the New Brunswick home of her hus band, the bride was confronted with the triplets and six other children by her predecessor, and fled in terror. Mrs. Sahn has not lived with her husband since, hence the divorce proceedings. COUNTY TO PAY FOR ROAD Assistant Attorney-General Advises Lincoln County Commissioners. OLYMPIA, Wash., April 28. (Spe cial.) In an opinion rendered today to the Prosecuting Attorney of Lincoln County, Assistant Attorney-General Lyle holds that the money necessary to acquire a right of way for a county road suitable for improvement under the state highway act, should be de rived from the county general road and bridge fund. In a former opinion to the highway department it was held that engineer ing, advertising and incidental ex penses should come from that fund. In the present case It is only desired to make a change of grade to make possible- the building of the state high way, so the expense is held to be in cidental. The opinion holds that it Is practi cally optional with the County Com missioners whether they desire to pay for the bridges and culverts out of the general road and bridge fund or out of the county s share or the state hlghwajj fund, and that In cases where th? bridges and culverts are a necessary part of the improvement they may be included in the main contract executed pursuant to the state highway law, hut that if it la deemed inadvisable by the Commissioners to use the county's share of the state highway fund, the work can be done by Independent con tract and the cost deducted from the general road and bridge fund. STEAMER HARVARD AFIRE Vessel Has Xarrow Escape When Blaze Starts In Galley. LOS ANGELES, April 28. The steam er Harvard, of the Pacific Navigation Company, had a narrow escape from destruction by fire late today while lying at East San Pedro. There were no passengers aboard and no one was Injured. The total damage was ap proximately $3000. The fire started in the galley from a defective oil pipe and it required an hour's work by the fire tug Warrior to extinguish the blaze. The entire gal ley and six staterooms on the main deck were destroyed. The Harvard will not resume its schedule for a week and probably will be sent to San Francisco for repairs. FUGITIVE IS CAUGHT Man Who Deserted Wife at Hood River, Alleged Forger. HOOD RIVER, Or., April 28. (Spe cial.) C. H. Allen, whose girl wife at tempted to commit suicide here Wed nesday by taking chloroform, was ap prehended at Arlington and brought to his city yesterday by Robert T. Lewis, City Marshal. - Allen is 54 years old. After forging check. It Is alleged, on an Upper Val ley rancher, he left town. Despondent over her husband's desertion, Mrs. Allen rled. to end her life. She is now re covering at the hospital. Allen, who is confined in the city prison, refuses to talk. He arrived ere several months ago and has been soliciting insurance. CONVICT RESUMES STRIPES Twenty-Five-Tear "Honor Man" Keeps Promise to Governor. PHOENIX. Aril., April 28. Eugenia Mata, one of Governor Hunt's "honor convicts," walked into the Arizona Penitentiary at Florence this morning and donned prison garb after having been on a month's leave of absence to visit his aged parents at Alneeda, N. M. Mata, who is 32 years old, is serving a 25-year sentence for murder com mitted when he was 19 years old. He was placed on his honor by the Gover nor to make the trip home and return to the' prison unescorted. BEVERIDGE JAKES STUMP Indianan to Speak for Roosevelt In California Campaign. . SAN FRANCISCO, April 28. Albert J. Beverldge, ex-United States Senator from Indiana, will arrive liere next Friday to take the stump for, Theodore Roosevelt. The news waa received here today in a telegram from John W. Stetson, State Senator from Alameda, who has been active in aupport of Colo nel Roosevelt. Beverldge will leave Indianapolis Tuesday and expects to remain here through the campaign. - His itinerary has not been fixed, but he is expected to travel widely. Union Blocks Board of Trade Inquiry. MEN DETAINED, BUT FREED British Seaport Greets Sur vivors With Cheers. 20 WOMEN AMONG NUMBER Blocking of Plan to Send Arrivals Directly to Homes Causes Anger. ; Talcs of Death and &uf- , fering Are Retold. PLYMOUTH, April 28. One hundred and sixty survivors of the crew of the Titanic disembarked from the Lapland here this morning. Crowds witnessed the landing of the small contingent that remained of the crew which had manned the great White Star steamer. Relatives greeted many of the sea men, while others were there to in quire regarding those who were lost. The plan of the Board of Trade of ficials to detain the crew in barracks until the statement of all could be formally taken was frustrated by the action of President Lewis and other of ficials of the British Seafarers' Union, the same organization which coun selled the strike of the Olympic's crew. They advised the seamen that the Board of Trade had no power to confine them and that they should not submit to such treatment, and, after a few hours' detention, the men received the liberty of the port. Tliree Tenders Meet I.lner. When the Lapland anchored three big tenders were waiting, two of which took off the passengers and malls. The third carried several representa tives of the Board of Trade, six solici tors for the transcription of the state ments of the survivors, White Star of ficials, including the managing director, Harold Sanderson, and Director E. B. Grenfell, head of Morgan, Grenfell & Co., and the port officers. This tender had been chartered by the Board of Trade for the reception of the Titan Jo's crew. Twenty stewardesses were among the survivors. The tender maneuvered about the harbor some time before starting for the dock. The men were informed that their statements would be taken and they would be set free. Union Gains Its Point. Among the small boats following was one with the representatives of the Seafarers' Union aboard. President Lewis and Secretary Cannon led the seamen and shouted them not to make any statements until the officers were' taken aboard as parties to the pro ceedings. The sailors followed this advice and, after much parleying, the Board of Trade officials, finding that it was impossible to proceed with ihs work, invited the union officials aboard. When the survivors finally clam bered up the wharf at noon loud cheers greeted them. They made straight for the windows of the waiting-room overlooking the street, searching for friends and relatives. One stoker de scried his brother, to whom Ije shouted: "Tom's gone. At the last minute he refused to go overboard." Mourners Gather at Doek. Many persons wearing mourning anxiously sought details of the last hours of relatives who went down with the ship. The rules forbidding reporters on the deck were strictly enforced. The seamen had counted on going directly to their homes in Southampton and were angered at the delay and their -semi-imprisonment. The chief solicitor for the Board of Trade, Mr. Wolverton, explained that he was acting strictly within the law In detaining the men until their depo sitions were taken. The Board of Trade assumed full responsibility for this ac tion, saying everyone would be set at liberty as soon as he made a statement, whether he was wanted at tha ii.uiry or not. It was added that all would be required to report to the receiver of wrecks. Tales of Suffering; Told. The first squad was released and newspapermen obtained many inter esting stories of personal experiences similar to those told in the United States, tales of suffering on rafts, death from exposure and freezing. All first believed the, Titanic could not sink and made light of the collision. Cap tain Smith's last words were: "Every man for himself." Eighty-five seamen and firemen ; started for Southampton in a special train at 6 o'clock tonight. The rest of the survivors, comprising stewards, stewardesses and cooks, will leave tomorrow- noon. By that time the Board of Trade will have the statements of all. BODIES SCATTERED BY STORM Minia Continues Mackay-Bennett's Work, With Small Success. NEW YORK, April 28. The steamer Minla, which has taken the place of the steamer Mackay-Bennett In the search (Concluded on Paga 3.)- 9