THE 3IORMXG OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 191S.
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MAN 70, KILLS WIFE;
CUTS OWN THROA
Crime Committed in Heat
Passion on Ranch Near
Los Angeles.
SLAYER LEAVES FORTUNE
Jean Ixjgier, Worth $150,000, After
Quarrelling With His Spouse
Several Days, Hacks Body
With Butcher Knife.
LOS ANGELES. July 22- After slay
Ins his aged wife by nearly hack
Ingr the head from her shoulders
with a butcher knlte and leaving her
blood-drenched body to be found by
his children in the vineyard. Jean
- Lacier, 70 years old and the richest
man in the vicinity of Gardena. barrl
caded himself in his house yesterday
and. before helD could arrive, had made
way with himself by severing the
jugular vein with a pocketknlfe.
The double crime was committed on
the ranch where the Lagiers have re
sided for over 30 years and where they
have together accumulated a fortune
estimated at (150.000.
Crime Xot Witnessed.
No one witnessed It, and Lagier's son
and daughter did not even see his own
death, aa he had gone to the barn un
der the pretense that he intended tak
ing a nap. this before the dead body of
his wife was found in the vineyard.
Lagier's twenty-two-year-old son
and' his eighteen-year-old daughter,
Marie, were away from home at the
time of the killing, which is believed
to have occurred at about 2 o'clock this
afternoon. Her body was found at
considerable distance from the ranch
house, half hidden among the grape
vines among which she had evidently
run in an effort to escape from her
husband. A thorough search of the
premises by the Sheriff's Deputy has
so far failed to locate the knife with
which the murder was committed.
I.SKlrr and Wife Quarrel.
Lagier is believed to have killed his
wife in a fit of passion, as it is known
that they had been quarreling for sev
eral days and Lagier is said to have
been drinking heavily during that time.
It seems evident that he bad made up
his mind to kill his wife early in the
day, as he see.'ned anxious for his ton
and daughter to leave the ranch for
day's outing as early as possible.
Evidently they returned before he had
completed his plans.
Arriving at the ranch-house shortly
before 3 o'clock from the beach, the
children found the place tightly locked
up. They called, but their father put
them off with evasive answers until
it became evident to him that suspic
ion would soon be aroused.' He then
lipped out to the barn and cut his
throat. The boy and girl are pros
trated with grief.
HELLO FLIRTS GET SHOCK
Spokane Line Mashers Hear Stern
. Voice of Phono Supervisors.
SPOKANE. Wash., July 22. (Spe
cial.) The damper has been placed on
telephone flirtations In Spokane by the
officials of the Pacific Telephone &
Telegraph Company, at least so far as
the operators themselves are concerned.
This is in accordance with a similar
rule in effect in other cities.
According to an official of the com
pany today should some gay member
of the masculine sex decide to try to
press his attentions on any of the op
erators, the girls are instructed to
switch the call to the supervisor's of
fice, where an official voire Is expect
ed to dampen the enthusiasm of the
would-be fllrter.
The company claims that in tMs
manner much time is saved and the ef
ficiency of the service is greatly in
creased.
The aim of the rule is to put to rout
all fllrters and this Is one of the prin
ciples outlined to the beginners In the
operating school of instruction.
HAY IS FORMALLY IN RACE
Washington Governor Files Declara
tion of Candidacy.
OLVMPIA, Wash, July 22. (Special.)
Governor Hay. has filed his declara
tion of candidacy for the Republican
nomination for Governor with Secre
tary of State Howell. Although two
democrats have filed their names Gov
ernor Hay has the distinction of be
ing the first Republican candidate to
fiie a declaration.
W. V. Tanner, the present Attorney
CSeneral. and John F. Dore. of Seat
tle, have both filed their declarations
for the Republican nomination to the
office of Attorney-General. Attorney
General Tanner gave his residence as
Seattle. He was a candidate for the
office in 190S, but was defeated by W.
F. Bell. Upon the appointment of the
latter to the Superior Bench of Sno
homish County, Tanner, who had been
named as an Assistant Attorney-General,
succeeded Bell to the office.
Jai .es M. Gephart, of Seattle, has
filed his declaration of candidacy for
the Democratic nomination for Con
gress from the First District
AUTOISTS IN NOVEL COURT
Justice Sits Under Kedwood Tree
and Fines Motorists by Squads.
LOS GATOS, CaL, July 22. Holding
court "under a. giant redwood tree be
side a. roadway in the Santa .Cruz
Mountains, Justice of the Peace Pearce.
of this township, had before him 'Dday
11 men arrested for exceeding the au
tomobile speed limit The majority of
the defendants were prominent busi
ness men of San Francisco and all
either were fined or released on the
deposit of $-5 ball.
Many violations of the speed laws
prompted the course of the Justice,
who, however, made public warning
that he would take extraordinary ef
forts to bring violators to justice. - The
arrests were made by a Constable and
by a deputy on a motorcycle. 'The
measured road system was c ed in de
termining speed.
WOMEN AND ATHLETICS
Some Day Shipload of Girls Will Try
Olympic Games.
Boston Herald.
Th?r may be a set of Olympic eams
some day to which this country will
aend a. shipload of women athletes.. The
thin? is not unlikely in view of the
progress which women are making- in
branches of strenuous athletic endeavor
where for centuries man has been un
challenged.
A woman recently finished a 1070
mile walk from- New York to Chicago
several days ahead of scheduled time,
and when some of the windy City po
lice gallantly tried to pace her on the
home stretch she left them far behind.
panting and perspiring. Mrs. Herber,
Wadsworth, the woman who once beat
Roosevelt on a long distance ride when
he wv President beat the unbeatable
T. R., mind you has just completed
ride of several thousand miles which
kept her in the saddle ror 40 consecu
tive days.
Our schoolgirl swimmers here ii
Boston have won so many races and
beaten so many men that nobody can
keep track of them. In golf, tennis
and archery the women champions are
more than a match for most men who
engage in those sports. In their field
days the college girls are making rec
ords that are not at all to be despised
by the average young man in college.
Only the other day a team of women
polo players defeated a team of men.
At every shore' and mountain resort
for the next three months the athletic
girl will be much in evidence sun
burned, lithe, erect, deep-chested, clear
eyed. self-reliant. tireless driving
mere man to madder and madder de
grees of madness.
The athletic woman has come, ine
only question is how far she will go.
She has so completely smashed the
old-time traditions and prejudices that
almost anything may be expected of
her except a champion ball team. A
female marathon race from South
Framingham to Kxeter street Is not
at all impossible in the next decade.
CHURCH FITTINGS RICH
CARDINAL FARLEY PRESIDES
AT CONSECRATION".
ZAPATISTA ATTACK
INTENSELY SAVAGE
Victims of Butchery on Mex
ico-Cuernavaca Train
Now Number 84.
PARRES GARRISON ROUTED
Women of Camp Subjected to Bar
barons Treatment Rebels Are
Boys Xot Out of Teens,
Snrv'vor Declares.
House of "Worship in New York Re
ceives Handsome Gifts From
Persons of Great Wealth.
NEW YORK, July 22. Cardinal Far
ley presided yesterday at the consecra-
tion of the Church ot Our Lady or nope,
which was built for the use of Spanish-
speaking Catholics of this city.
The list of benefactors of the new
church includes many well-known per
sons. Archer M. Huntington, a son of
the late Collis P. Huntington, gave the
grounds for the edifice and also con
tributed a large sum toward building
the church.
Among the donors of interior fur
nishings is King Alfonso of Spain, who
sent a massive silver gilt lamp bearing
the royal Spanish coat of arms and also
a painting by Joaquin Sod oil a Bastida
of St. Joseph and the Holy Child. The
main altar and the communion rail
were gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic C.
Penfield. Mrs. Frederick W. Vander
bilt contributed the organ and set of
ecclesiastical candlesticks. Thomas
Fortune Ryan donated the stations of
the cross, and J. Pierpont Morgan an
Amos F. En os gave the church one o
the side altars.
The pastor of the new church, which
the only purely Spanish church in
the city, is Father Busson.
Cardinal Farley in his address laid
special stress upon the fact that a large
amount of the expense of the building
and its furnishings had been met by
non-Catholics.
RECLUSE BECOMES CRAZED
Ralph Milner IeveIops Religious
Mania and Is Arrested.
After leading a lonely bachelor life
on the hills near the deserted "Castle"
at the head of Seventh street for two
onths, Ralph A- Milner, son of the
former politician, John T. Miller, Sun
day night became violently insane. He
was taken by Police Captain Riley to
the County Jail, where he was locked
a padded celL
Ralph Milner, 32 3 ears old, was man
ager of the Milner Building at Morrl
son and Park streets, and is well
known in Portland. Two months ago
he went to live in a small bungalow
h up on the South hill, seeing few
persons and living the life of a hermit.
His only occupation was reading the
Bible, and he developed a religious
mania.
Last night he went to the Milner
building, where his mother, Mrs. Alice
K. Milner, lives, and created a commo
tion which brought a crowd of'500 per
sons into the streets. With the help
of S. A. D. Puter, Captain Riley suc
ceeded in inducing him to go to JaiL
FEDERATION SPLIT . LOOMS
Industrial Workers Likely to Leave
if Jloyer Is Cphcld.
CRIPPLE CREEK. Colo.. July 22.
That if Thomas Campbell, of Butte,
Moat., la expelled from the Western
Federation of Miners he will take with
him all the members or the industrial
Workers of the W orld faction is the
generally expressed belief of delegates
to the 20th. annual convention or ine
federation. Today at Victor the
convention will continue its executive
hearing of the fight between Camp
bell and President Moyer.
While members refuse to commit
themselves, the sentiment seems to be
in favor of Mover. The split in the
federation may have momentous i
suits. If the Industrial Workers of
the World members withdraw it is
thoucht thev will seek to form a rival
organization to the federation.
Campbell chArges that Moyer and
other officers of the federation are not
working in the Interests of the organ
ization. Counter charges of a similar
nature are made by Moyer.
RACE FOR LEPER CLOSED
Long Chase, Covering Several States,
Ends In Russian's Capture.
BUFFALO. K. T.. July 22. After a
chase that covered several states and
lasted several weeks, Sam Isen, a Rus
sian immigrant suffering from what is
declared to be a pronounced attack of
leprosy, was located here last nlgrht.
He has been Isolated.
Isen was under observation In isew
York when he disappeared. He was
traced to Cleveland, thence to Bay City.
Mich., and Ann Arbor, and finally to
Buffalo. Isen has a wife and three
children In Bay City. He is said to
have come to this country from Rus
sia three years ago as a stowaway.
SULTAN REGRETS PROVISO
Tewfik Paslia Xot to Be Grand
Vizier on His Own Terms. .
CONSTANTINOPLE, July ' M. Tew
flk Pasha, Turkish Ambassador at
London, who was appointed grand
vizier, made the stipulation of his ac
ceptance that the chambers be dis
solved. The Sultan said that he was not
willing to consent to such a condition
and has appointed Ghazi Moukhtar
Pasha grand vizier. Tewfik Pasha will
be retained as British Ambassador.
MEXICO CITT. July 22. The dead
as a result of Saturday s attaca Dy
Zapatistas on the Mexico-Cuernavaca
train near Barres, on the edge or tne
Federal district, today number 84
Three of the wounded died Sunday
nierht in the railway hospital.
A second relief tram which early
today reached Mexico City brought 23
passengers who had escaped tne butcn.
ery and made their way into Tres
Marias, a few miles away. Eleven
were accounted for Sunday night. It is
estimated the train carried appro
imately 75 passengers in addition
to the B0 soldiers of the escort. For
ty-three soldiers were killed. Nine
bodies of passengers were found near
the wreck. Of the remaining 32 a ma
jority are believed to have been killed
or wounded and consumed in the burn
ing cars, which were fired with oil
taken from the tank of the locomo
tive.
Women Treated Barbarously.
Before the attack on the train be
came known Sunday the Zapata horde
had routed a small garrison of Fed
erals at Parres. Many women of the
camp fell Into their hands and were
subjected to indescribable barbarities.
The wife of the chief of the detach
ment was found disemboweled and
otherwise mutilated.
Captain Rosendounez, in charge of
the escort on the ill-fated train, is
said to have fought heroically. After
he had received three wounds he con
tinued firing until a fourth bullet
pierced. his heart.
The Zapatistas robbed the dead and
living and looted the express car.
Lieutenant Has 18 Wound.
"From the time the train stopped
until after the attack ended," said
one of the soldiers, "there was
a rain of bullets. At least 600 rifles
were in the first volley arid the car in
which we were traveling was the tar
get. Most of the oullets came through
the roof. The second lieutenant had
IS bullets through his body. The first
lieutenant was wounded almost at the
first shot.
"The captain was traveling In the
first-class coach, two cars back, and
his child was lying dead before himC
By the time he could get through the
two cars crowded, with screaming wo
men and children, 30 of the men were
down. When he arrived we were fir
ing from the car windows. . The only
targets we had were straw hats on the
embankments, which we found out aft
erwards were left there by the enemy
as decoys. When we went outside we
were overwhelmed and unable to use
our guns in the hand-to-hand fight.1
Prleat Stops Bloody Work.
A Spaniard who was on the train,
a landowner of Morelos, known to the
rebels, had a narrow escape. A priest
Interceded for him and his life
spared. Witnesses say the priest
walked into the thick of the fray and
sought out DeLao, the leader, and said
to him:"
"Genevlvo. what are you doing?
Would you have the blood of Innocent
people on your soul?"
The execution then was stopped. The
Spaniard said most of the rebels were
boys scarcely out of their teens. The
rebels, he said, had well filled cart
ridge belts.
away from his fastenings. He pro
cured an enormous anchor chain, which
he wound about his waist and fastened
to a lamp post at Eleventh street and
Broadway. A companion locked the
chain with a padlock, and Wilcox be
gan his harangue. Patrolman O'Nell
heard Wilcox speaking but did not
note the anchor.
"Have you a permit to speak on the
streets?" O'Nell queried.
"I have not," returned Wilcox.
"Then you'll have to move on," re
turned the officer.
-"I can't, I'm chained to this post,"
Wilcox announced.
O'Nell then discovered the heavy
chain, scratched his head, looked
through his book of rules, but could
find no Item dealing with the subject
at band. He shoved his wav through
the fast growing crowd of laughing
auditors, and telephoned the Central
Police Station. Sergeant James Wal
ters and a posse of five men rushed to
the scene, armed with cold chisels and
hammers. Wilcox' friends had un
bound him in the meantime, however,
and the I. W. W. made his escape.
WORKS PASSES UP TAFT
Senator Will Not Follow Roosevelt
Into New Party.
WASHINGTON, July 22. The contro
versy between Senator Works ana
Drogresslve leaders of California ad
vanced another state yesterday when
Works was called upon by telegrapn
by Lieutenant-Governor Wallace to In
form the progressive voters whether
he Intended to vote for Roosevelt,
Taft or Wilson.
'Will not vote for Taft." Senator
Works telegraphed back. ''Would have
voted for and aided In election of
Roosevelt if he had stood on his Just
rights to the nomination at Chicago
and run as a Republican. Will not fol
low him into a new party. Believe a
new party abandons the ground that
would make his claim invuineraDie."
Senator Works added that whether
he would now vote for Roosevelt "de
pends on how he is nominated and
whether he runs as a Republican." He
further said that he felt he could, as
progressive Republican, vote for
Wilson consistently, if no Republican
other than Taft were nominated.
REACHER WANTS ATHEIST
Methodist Pastor Says People Need
Another Ingersoll to Stir Them.
CHICAGO. July 22. "Oh, God, send us
another Bob Ingersoll to arouse the
people," was the plea made by Rev.
Charles B. Mitchell, pastor of St. James'
Methodist Episcopal Church, at the Des
Planes camD meeting yesterday. "They
sit In the pews with dull, dead Indif
ference that breaks our hearts.
"It would be better If they threw
bricks at us, as they did at Wesley,
but they don't even talk back. This
is an age of doubt. We ministers need
more than Apostolic succession in this
scoffing, indifferent and Godless age.
The pendulum, I believe, will soon be-
in to swing back again.
THREE DROWN
TORREXTIATi RAIX SWEEPS
WESTERN' PENNSYLVANIA.
Industrial Plants and Homes Dam
aged Boy or 17 and Two Chil
dren Swept Away by Waters.
PITTSBURG, July 22. A heavy
steady rainfall caused much damage
yesterday throughout the country
districts 01 AVestern Pennsylvania, Al
though no damage Tesulted in this
city, adjoining boroughs suffered.
Industrial plants were flooded while
many homes located along creeks
were surrounded by water. In the
country sections livestock was
drowned and props ruined. At Can'
nonsburg. Pa.. Hester Young, seventeen
years old, was drowned in sight of
many persons who were watching the
swollen stream.
In all parts of Allegheny County.
street car service was crippled for the
day, while a number of branch rail
road lines were put out of commis
sion. A score of small foot bridges
were swept away.
Late last night two additional deaths
were reported. Louis Forsythe, aged
seven, was crowned near Greensburg,
Pa., and Lando le Tolo, aged ten. was
swept away while watching the raging
waters at Connellsville, Pa.
SUSPECT ARRIVES IN CITY
Man Alleged to Have Impersonated
Officer Caught in Spokane.
Frank T; Bishop, alias Fred Black,
who is wanted in Portland on the
charge of impersonating an officer of
the United States Secret faervice, in the
Treasury Department, was brought
Sunday night from Spokane, Wash.,
and locked up in the County Jail. He
was captured at Spokane by Deputy
United States Marshal Short.
According to the warrant on which
he was arrested. Bishop is said to have
pretended to be a Secret Service man,
and in that guise defrauded persons.
The alleged crime is said to have been
committed between June 13 and June
1.
CHAINS BALK THE POLICE
. VT. W. Street Orator Anchors Self
to Lamp Post and Talks Ahead.
OAKLAND, Cal. July 22. (Special.)
Determined that he would air his
views on the streets whether the po
lice were agreeable or not, John Wil
cox, a representative of the Industrial
Workers of the World, last night
dopted the unique. method of chaining
himself to a lamp post, after which he
defied the police to remove him until
he had his say.
Wilcox took no chances of being torn
MEXICANS FLEE FOR LIVES
Earthquakes Continue and Inhab
itants Leave on Every Train.
GUADALAJARA, Mexico, July 22.
Earthquakes continue here at Inter
vals, making any attempt to repair
damaged buildings impossible.
The inhabitants are leaving on every
train.
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ATLANTIC. CITY IS STRUCK
Sixty-Mile Wind Does Considerable
Damage to Resort. .
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ATLANTIC CITY. N. J., July 22.
Wind which attained a velocity of 60
miles an hour did considerable damage
to this resort tonipht. Scores of per
sons were injured by flying debris, but
no serious accidents were reported.
Those Strange Sounds.
Judge.
"What's this rumpus about?"
"Oh, it Is caused by the strange bed
fellows that politics makes trying to
steal all the coverlids from each other,
and the skeletons in the closets ham
mering to get out to take part in tne
campaign."
Greater Glories Yet.
4 New Orleans Cor.
Sir William Crookes, of London, Eng
land, 80 years of age, hopes that a law
will not be passed limiting him to
eight hours work a day. Sir William
is the discoverer of the metal tnanum.
the radiometer and other numerous
scientific inventions.' He believes that
a great deal of his success In science
due to having lived so long and that
every ten years has given some addi
tion to his knowledge. As far back as
1892 he was foretelling wireless tele
graphy, and even at that day he talked
learnedly of overcoming difficulties
with regard to want of secrecy. This
noted scholar believes that in some
part of the human brain may lurk an
organ capable of transmitting and re
ceiving other electrical raya of wave
lengths hitherto undetected by mecnan
ical means and that they may be in
strumental in transmitting thought
from one brain to another. Sir Will
iam also believes that if it is possible
to get nitrates from the atmosphere
we can go on increasing the fertility
of the land to almost any . extent.
Strange things have come to pass in
the past; no one knows what the fu
ture has in store.
Social Tilings to Do.
Washington (D. C.) Herald.
Seat coupons for a box are given to
the usher at the door. He precedes the
women of the party to the box, 'the
gentlemen following.
Wrapsare removed by all members
of a party in the small ante-room of a
Dox at the theater. The women enter
the box first, selecting the front seats.
Every bridesmaid, if her home is in
the city, should call on the mother of
the bride a week or 10 days after her
daughter's marriage and call, too, upon
the bride as soon as she is settled in
her husband's home.
A man who leaves his seat more
than once during a performance should
not return to it again. Deserting a lady
he has asked to accompany him to the
theater or dragging himself across the
gowns and feet of ladles In the same
row, only to return when the curtain
rises on the next act, la conduct un
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