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THE SUNDAY- OREGONIAN, ' OfOKTIAND, .TUNE 7,. . 1903., 3 HANGED AND BURNED Negro School Teacher Is the Victim of a Mob. SHOGTING OF OFFICIALAVENGED "Willie Colored Han la la the Throes of Death From Strangulation, a Fierce Fire Is Bnilt Under BEL.EVIL.L,E, 111., June 6. W. T. Wyatt, a negro school teacher, was lynched here tonight for shooting and mortally wounding County Superintendent Charlee Herttl. of St Clair County. Her tel had refused to renew the -teaching cer tificate of "Wyatt, and the negro came Into his office and attacked him. Wyatt was Immediately arrested and taken to Jail. Two hours later a mob stormed the Jail, secured the negro, and despite the appeals of the Mayor and other officials, he was banged. Superintendent Hertel was removed to the hospital, where the physician probed for the bullet, but he stated there is no chance for his recovery. A young man named Fielder was in the office when the shooting occurred. He grappled with "Wyatt, but the negro beat him oft with the butt of his revolver. Inflicting a severe scalp wound. Before he was hanged, "Wyatt asserted the shoot ing was the result of a political grudge. The mob hanged Wyatt to a telephone pole in the public square. Even while his body was Jerking in the throes of death from strangulation, members of the mob began building a fire at the foot of the pole. The Uames flared up and licked at the feet of the victim, but this did not satisfy the mob, and another and larger Arc was started. When it had been burning briskly the negro, still half alive, was cut down and after being cov ered with coal oil, he was thniBt into the fire. Moans of pain were heard from the half-dead victim of the mob, and these served to further infuriate his torturers. They fell upon him with clubs and knives and cut and beat the being almost to pieces, and not until every sign of life had departed did they desist and permit the flames to devour the body. As the fire lighted up the scene the members of the mob stood around the fire hurling more fagots of wood Into the flames and de nouncing the negro for the shooting. MOB IA"V IS FEARED. Sheriff Asks for Milltln to Guard Cattlemen Charged With Murder. TOPEKA, Kan.. June 6. Governor Bai ley today received a telegram from the Sheriff of Cheyenne County, Kan., that he could not protect the Dewey ranch men under arrest there for the alleged murder of the occupants of the Berry ranch three days ago. Acting on this in formation. Governor Bailey tonight or dered the militia at Osborne to hold them selves In readiness to go to St. Francis tonight at a moment's notice. The Deweys are now under arrest at their ranch. The Sheriff says he can pro tect them there well enough, but that when he attempts to move the men to the Cheyenne County Jail a mob will surely kill them. The settlers are much angered at the Deweys, and the lives of tvrer are in great a anger. The Deweys are charged with killing E. M. Berry and his two sons during a quarrel regarding the possession of some land. This is only one chapter of the ever present fight between the settlers and the cattlemen. Both sides are exerting every energy to get full possession of the West ern county, and fights are of almost dally occurrence. MOB IS HELD AT BAY. ' Wisconsin Officer Prevent Lynching of a Wife-Murderer. SPARTA. Wis.. June 6. At 2 o'clock this morning a mob surrounded the jail here, determined to lynch Samuel Mont gomery, who murdered his wife in War ren. At 1:30 o'clock 100 or more men made a dash toward the rear of the Jail, but a volley over their heads by the guards checked them. Sheriff Cassells. with his small force of Deputies, fearing inability to cope with the mob, appealed to Governor La Follette, who ordered Company K and the Sparta Company to proceed to the Jail at once. The Sheriff is determined to protect his prisoner, and an attack on the jail will meet with death and bloodshed. Governnlent Orders Investigation. WASHINGTON, June 6. The Commis sioner of the General Land Office has ordered an inspector to make a rigid in vestigation of the reported killing of a family of homesteaders by cowboys In Northern Kansas, because of the cutting of the wire fences of the Dewey Cattle Company by the homesteaders. The fact that the cattle company's ranges were on public lands renders the Inquiry pertinent, but the facts as to the killing which may be ascertained, will be reported to the District Attorney. Incidentally, the in spector will investigate the Dewey Com pany's fences, and it appears probable that the tragedy will serve to strengthen the determination of the Interior Depart ment to force the pulling down of range fences. Famous Poolroom Is Raided. NEW YORK, June 6. Two hundred white men and 150 negroes were arrested In a raid on Allen's famous place in Sixth avenue. Entrance was forced Ihrough the front and rear doors by de tectives with axes. The police used their revolvers in effecting the arrests. They appropriated a large number of slips and racing sheets, as well as a lot of racing paraphernalia. No Further Danger From Mob. LA CROSSE, Wis.. June 6. Telephone reports received from Sparta this morn ing stated that danger of Montgomery being lynched has passed for the time being. During the night the mob thinned out and Anally disappeared, ilontgom ery Is well guarded, and Sheriff Cassells Bald this morning that he did not antici pate any further trouble. No- New Trial for Jessie Morrison. TOPEKA. Kan., June 6. The Kansas Supreme Court today refused to grant a new trial in the case of Jessie Morrison, sentenced to the penitentiary for the murder of Clara W. Castle three years ago. A dispatch from Eldorado tonight said that Miss Morrison would be taken Into custody at once and returned to the penitentiary. Extra Guard Over Assassins. JACKSON, Ky.. June 6. The Jail con taining the men charged with the assas sination of J. B. Macrum was guarded with extra care last night, but no dem onstration of any kind was made. Elisor Jones Is still at Sayersville hunting Jur ors. The Actress' Hard Lot. New York Evening World. That very charming and popular actress, Annie Russell, confides to a reporter that "the average girl, who works in a shop has a much better time of it all the year round" than does the actress. For the stage favorite, says Miss Russell, -"there Is no recreation, only a routine of sleep and acting; at the season's end you feel its stale as old bread." The actress can't go to parties or dln- ners, the opera is denied her, holidays are the bugbears of her lot. It is very sad. and Miss Russell really "envies" the saleswoman. Of course, the two months" vacation the actress takes In the Maine woods is some thing. It must be something also-to have a crowded house applauding you, recalling you, cheering you as you come before j the curtain. It must be rather nice to j have all the good clothes you want tol wear, and flowers and press notices and J carriages and social attention and celeb- i rlty. . Or if you happen to have reached an . exalted place in comic opera or vaudeville, I are there no eomoensatorv Joys in dla- I monds, automobiles, Wall street tips, mil- j llonalre husbands, time-limit matrimony? ! J ress, undoubtedly overworked and sub- . Jected to a severe physical and mental strain by the exacting duties of her pro fession, let us save a tear or two ror otner deserving objects of commiseration. DRAINING NIAGARA. Chlcago Drainage Canal la Lessening In Volume of Water. Boston Transcript. From time to time publu: attention has been called to the danger of the destruc tion of Niagara Falls by the Industrial development which diverts the water to run turbines. Persons unfamiliar with the facts have not known whether these warnings were the, hysteric cries of alarmists, or whether "a dry Niagara" is really a thing to be seriously appre hended by the present generation. The excited nature of the following state- ment of Mr. Russell Sturgis at the recent ! dinner of the Architectural League in New York would suggest the former: "What do we artists care about Anglo j Saxon rule? We would have been ten ! thousand times better off if French civll j'izatlon had become ascendant here. We got one thing and lost another. We got i trial by Jury and lost all sense of art j and literature. If the French had been l here they'd have taken care of Niagara Falls." On the other hand, that the danger is real and imminent Is clearly proved by the following statement from Mr. Arthur Hastings, manager of the Cliff Paper Company, of Niagara Falls, who is frank ly Interested In turning the scenic won der to commercial use, and openly op posed to any sentimental movement to stop the work now going on: "The prospective development on the Canadian side cannot help but have an injurious effect If it were possible to transmit Niagara power to New York City economically, then the falls as a scenic display would have to give up. The- ' commercial spirit and necessity would not warrant holding the show any longer. The ! question In my mind is whether the march of progress can be stopped by sentiment." Another evidence that the danger is not imaginary is the passage in Congress of a Joint resolution for an international commission to investigate the subject. Realizing the conflict of opinion, the New York Tribune has gone to the pains of collecting the evidence on the subject. Declining to advocate either the com mercial or the sentimental side. It has merely sought the opinions of those who are familiar with the conditions.- It asks: "Is It better that we should have the grandest spectacle which nature affords anywhere on this planet, or that we should have the splendid Industrial de velopment which will follow the utiliza tion for commercial purposes of the great est water power on the planet?" Of those who desire preventive action, is Walter Logan, president of the Archi tectural League, who says: "I think we are going to lgse Niagara Falls. Before I die I think I shall walk across the falls"; and M. H. Zahner. a photographer who has been in a position to make close otA servatlon of the falls for 20 years, and who says: "Yes, I think there have been changes in the falls. Last year the water was high, and we didn't notice the loss of water from the falls, but take a year when the water is low, and then water used for power purposes will be missed from the falls." Some who admit that a serious diminu tion in the volume of water has taken place ascribe It to a different cause the Chicago draining canal, which affords an outlet for the Great Lakes Into the- Mis sissippi. The hotel keepers at Niagara Falls, who were appealed to, were frank ly disinterested. To them a business man who comes in connection with the factor ies Is as profitable a guest as a honey moon couple come sightseeing. As to the One of the wrecked buildings. (From a photosraph taken la the Jewish quarter after the attack by Russlass.) amount of water already diverted from above the falls, the facts are these: On the American side. 113,000 horsepower is now in use. and franchises ihave been granted to divert 105,000 more. On the Canadian side about 1W.O00 has been taken, and 300.000 horsepower more is be ing planned for. An army of 213.000 mounted cavalrymen maneuvering in Ni agara Falls Park would be a wonderful sight to see. The activity of exactly that number of horses is now going on unseen in deep hidden wheelplts; and it is not to be expected that such a spectacle as this has been robbed from the falls with out changing their aspect. What all agree on Is that a means of conveying electric power cheaply to New York, as It is now conducted to Buffalo, would create a commercial necessity which would drain the falls dry at once. But scientists agree alsjo that such an in vention is a long distance In the future. Too Fast for Hi in. Denver Republican. President Roosevelt Is athletic and a 1 good sprinter, but even he can't get away J from the ambitious colleges with degrees to spare. Canada's population east of Lake Superior Is 4.O00.0O0. and west of it 1.OOO.O0O. The United States Steel Corporation has tin. fulfilled orisra for 5,410,719 tons of stceU AND -A & NAVY-YARD OUTSTRIPPED PRIVATE CONCERN PROVES IT CAJi BDILD WARSHIPS FASTER. Experiment at 'etv Yorlc Proves Government May Suffer by Strikes as Well as Other Employers. OREGONLVN NEWS BUREAU, Wash lngton. June 6. Up to the present time the Newport News Shipbuilding Company has shown itself more than able to cope with the Government in the construction of warships, and if the showing continue to the end. Congress will be forced to con clude that, so far as time is concerned, at least, tho Government can best have FIRST AUTHENTIC PICTURES OF THE JEWISH MASSACRES AT KISHINEF CORNER OF V.'R'ARD IN THE FEMALE HOSPITAL THE DAY AFTER THE MR. HANNA, OF OHIO, DID DANCE. Its Navy built by private shipyards, rather than In Government navy-yards. Under the terms of the naval appropria tion bill of a year ago, the Government navy-yard at New York was authorized to construct the battleship Connecticut, and a contract was awarded to the New port News Company to build a sister ship, the Louisiana. The navy-yard and shipbuilding firm commenced operations at the same time, the purpose being to determine whether the Government can get better results by building its own ships or by having them built under con tract. The New York navy-yard has been handicapped, it is true, by labor troubles, but aside from this the Newport News Company has taken and maintained the i lead to such an extent as to call forth ! general comment. It is true this com- pany is undoubtedly making unusual j progress on the Connecticut, knowing It j Is In competition with the Government. but the experiment has also demonstrated i that Government navy-yards are as likely to suffer from strikes and labor agita- j tlons as are the shipyards of private cor I porations. One of the great complaints made, against some of the shipyards that have'had Government contracts has been i that they were hampered by labor I troubles, whereas the Government was not so affected. The experiment at New York proves the fallacy of that assump tion. None Needed at That Hour. New York Times. ', Opie Read and Colonel Will Vlsscher, who gives a strong local color to one part in the former's play, "The Star bucks," were going along Broadway one night some hours after the show, when Vlsscher noticed a sign in a shoe store window which read: "Open all night." "How's that for business?" he inquired. "What use has a man for shoes at 3 o'clock In the morning? By cracky, when I get home at that hour I take my shoes off and hang them over my arm." OUTBREAK. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. LOOKS BAD FOR COtE His Chances Poor for Land ing Spokane Registership. A COMPROMISE IS PROBABLE Luddcn Will Probably Succeed. Him self, and -Shaw Secure Postofice at Vancouver Knowles Almost Sure of La Grande Berth. OREGONTAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, June 6. Before he leaves for Oyster Bay. it is expected that President Roosevelt will make a large number of appointments, among them the register ship of the Land Offices at La. Grande, Or., and Spokane. Wash. There is every indication that John W. Knowles. recom mended for the Oregon office by both Sen ators and Representative Williamson, will be appointed to succeed 13. W. Bartlett. The charges which were lodged against Knowles, it Is understood, have been satisfactorily explained away, and the department is anxious of infusing new blood Into the registership at La Grande. There is no doubt over the appointment at Spokane, for both Secretary Hitchcock and Commissioner Richards have ad vised against the appointment of Hal J. Cole, recommended by the two Washing ton Senators and Representative Jones. They favor the retention of William H. Ludden. who is backed by Cushman. Cole has never been able satisfactorily to ex plain the circumstances surrounding the money transaction which took place when he temporarily misused funds forwarded through him to an Indian under his charge, when he was Indian Agent at Colville. If Cole is appointed, it will be against the judgment of the department authorities. But the fact that both Sen ators are strongly urging his appoint ment is a consideration not to be lightly overlooked. It Is impossible to predict what action will be taken in this case. There will be another clash which will demonstrate the relative strength of Cushman on the one hand against Fos ter, Ankeny and Jones on the other, when the President appoints a Postmaster at Vancouver. The appointment properly comes within the district in which the delegation, by mutual agreement, allowed Cushman to name all Postmasters. How ever, with heavy odds against him, in cluding the two Senators, he Is likely to be Ignored. Cushman has all along urged the appointment of Dan Crowley, while C. G. Shaw is the choice of the Senators and Jones. It is possible the President may compromise the Washington appoint ments, so as to pacify both factions. This he can consistently do by retaining Lud den at Spokane, on account of his record, and appointing Shaw at Vancouver, be cause it is the wish of the two Senators, and Senatorial influence Is not to be lightly disregarded when both agree. BREMERTON CAN CHEER UP. Bradford Is Coming West to See What It Will Do. OREGONTAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, June 6. Rear-Admiral Bradford, who has started to Inspect the naval sta tions on the Pacific Coast, goes West principally to take a hand in straighten ing out matters at Bremerton.' From the first. Admiral Bradford has been one of the best friends the Fuget Sound yard has had in Washington. He believes that there Is a possibility of making it event ually the best yard in the country, and he hopes by the time he reaches Bre merton to be able to report an improve ment In the surroundings of the yard. In that event, he will recommend the re newal of work on the old basis. Admiral Bradford also Intends to ascer tain what further appropriations are needed for enlarging the shops of the equipment bureau, over which he has direct supervision. Deserter Is Restored to Dnty. OREGONTAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash- Mnrdered Jevra in hospital. (From a photograph taken the day after the massacre.) lngton, June 6. Private Elgle Burrows, Company M. 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