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PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 1907.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
SENATE APPROVES
IE DEAL
ImmigrationBill Passes
After Storm.
TILLMAN FIRES PARTING SHOT
Accuses Roosevelt of Dicker
ing With Unions.
SAYS SOUTH IS SACRIFICED
Simmons Breaks Away From Party
and Supports Bill Schmitz Prom
ises to Tell Agreement Which
Was Made With Roosevelt.
SCHMITZ HINTS AT BIG THINGS.
SAN FRANCISCO, Fob. lft. (Spe
cial.) The Exclusion L-af?ue tonight
received thf following tele-gram from
Mayor Schmitz: .
"Amendment to immigration bill
only forerunner of -what is to follow.
Can not make public full details until
later. Have not relinquished any of
our rlffhtit. Agitation at this time may
complicate satisfactory settlement."
J
WASHINGTON. Feb. 16. The Admin
istration plan to Bottle the California
Japanese situation was approved in the
Senate today b' the adoption of the Sen
ate committee report on the Immigration
bill. This report continues a provision
which authorizes the President to ex
clude Japanese laborers from the I'nited
States at his discretion. The report will
now go to the House for its approval,
which is assured.
The entire day was devoted to debate
on the report. The opposition presented
as an alternative plan a resolution in
structing the conferees to bring in a pro
vision positively prohibiting the entrance
of Japanese laborers. It was declared
not in order, and on motion of Lodge an
appeal from this ruling was defeated, 45
to 24, being practically a party vote. The
conference report was then adopted with
out a rollcall.
Xo Injury to South.
The discussion was opened by Simmons
of North Carolina, who said:
"I shall vote for the report, because I
believe the South will not suffer under
its provisions."
Simmons placed a higher importance
upon the maintaining of amity and good
feeling, wnicli, he said, had always ex
isted between the South and the Pacific
Coast on labor and other questions, than
on any disadvantage to his own section
, which might result from the changes in
the immigration laws. Nevertheless, he
regarded the change in the contract la
bor provisions as not properly in the re
port, and expressed the opinion that the
conferees exceeded their authority.
Dubois Opposes New Provision.
Dubois opposed the passport provision
In the bill. "I do not think." he said,
"that the President of the United States
ought to be allowed to legislate directly,
as he has done In the case of this pro
vision." If the clause meant the expulsion of
Japanese laborers, he said, It would not
be satisfactory to Japan. If It did not
mean this. It would not be satisfactory
to the Pacific Coast. He favored the
resolution offered by Culberson yesterday
instructing the conferees to bring in a
measure specifically 'excluding Japanese
laborers. The provision In the bill was a
makeshift and he predicted that within a
week after its adoption the people of the
Pacific Coast would be clamoring for Jap
anese exclusion. Dubois said he had no
prejudice against the Japanese.
Bacon Scents Sectional Jealousy.
A denial was made by Bacon of re
ports that the opposition of himself and
Tillman to the conference report had
been withdrawn under pressure from Al
drlcti to save or secure appropriations In
tho river and harbor bill. Referring to
mm
What If The All Became
the labor situation In the South, Bacon
said:
"The fact cannot be concealed that there
is a serious and growing Jealousy on the
part of the manufacturing Industries In
Massachusetts against the Increasing
manufacturing Interests "of the 8outh.
There is a disposition to Interfere with
the further development of those indus
tries of the South, and no more sure
method could be adopted than that pro
posed in this bill."
Tillman Talks of Threats.
Tillman interrupted Bacon to "get some
light." "I see in the morning papers,"
he began, "reference to the big stick
making threats of an extra session unless
this report is adopted, and the big stick
In New York (Aldrich) telephoning to
Senator Crane orders about the river and
harbor bill to leave out the South Caro
lina and Georgia items. Well, South Caro
lina has not much in that bill. Geor
gia may have a whole half of the beef.
I notice also that the Cabinet met some
time yesterday and that it reached the
conclusion that the changes made in the
Immigration law did not affect the de
cision of Secretary Straus upon the South
Carolina case."
1IAYK CONCEDED NO RIGHTS
Schmitz Speaks for Callfornlans.
Full Agreement Kept Secret.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. "The California-committee
which came here to
confer with the President on the Jap
anese question has not conceded any of
its rights. State sovereignty was ab
solutely insisted upon," declared May
or Schmitz, of San Francisco, today.
Yet he said a complete agreement had
been reached on all points of differ
ence, the only thing remaining to be
done being the incorporation by Con
gress of the exclusion amendment in
the immigration bill. As matters now
stand, all parties will be satisfied.
Mr. Schmitz said, however, that there
were some features of the case which
had not been touched upon by the
President, but these could not be dis
closed until it was an established fact
that the exclusion amendment had
passed. He declared that the discus
sion with the President took the form
of an endeavor to arrive at a middle
ground, and this" had been done.
"State rights were strongly adhered
to," he said. In this connection he
reiterated his declaration made yester
day that there never had been con
sidered any proposition looking to the
establishment of separate Japanese
schools. There was no Intention, he
said, to abolish the Oriental school,
which Asiatics and Mongolians had
been In the habit of attending for the,
past 20 years. He nald that the con
ferences of the school board nnd b'm
sclf with the President and Secretary
Root had no relation whatever to any
thing this Government might do In
the way of negotiating a treaty with
Japan. The present treaty would not
expire for five years, but nevertheless
he and the Board of Education had
come here In a friendly spirit in the
expectation of adjusting matters sat
isfactorily to all concerned and yet
without surrendering any of Califor
nia's rights, and this, he declared, had
been accomplished. The agreement be
tween the California committee and the
President had been drawn up for sig
nature. The Mayor, tonight announced that
he would make no statement about
the agreement until the House had
passed on the exclusion amendment to
the immigration bill. This probably
will occur Monday. The Mayor and the
San Francisco Board of Education ex
pressed satisfaction that the Senate
adopted the amendment. While admit
ting that the Oriental school will not
be abolished and that there will be no
separate school, the Mayor would only
say: "The whole question has been
amicably adjusted."
Late this afternoon the entire Cal
ifornia delegation In Congress, with
the exception of Representative Mc
Lachlln, who is absent from the city
on account of 'his wife's death, con
ferred with Mr. Schmitz and the board.
They were made acquainted with the
result of the conferences with the Pres
ident and Mr. Root, and Mr. Schmitz
announced that the delegation unani
mously indorsed the action of the San
Francisco committee.
AGREEMENT WITH JAPAN NEXT
Follow Passage of Immigration Bill.
California's Case Weak.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. The State De
partment Is awaiting the disposition by
Congress of the pending immigration bill
before proceeding further with the consid
eration of the Japanese exclusion ques
tion. If the bill Is enacted, an imme-
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DEATH VICTOR IN
THRILLING RAGE
Mother and Child Are
Fatally Burned.
FATHER IMPRESSES AUTO GAR
Speeds to Hospital Carrying
Victims of Lamp Explosion.
DAUGHTER EXPIRES ON WAY
Frank Machette Makes Wild Ride to
His Home, Fourteen Miles From
City, and Then Back With
Suffering Loved Ones.
CHILD DEAD, MOTHER DYING.
Little 2-year-old Catherine Ma
chette, daughter of Frank Machette,
manager of the Investors' Broker
age Company, of Portland, was fa
tally burned by the overturning of
an oil lamp at the Machette home,
14 miles from Portland, on the Esta
cada carline. yesterday morning, and
died while being taken to the hos
pital. The mother, Mrs. Josie Machette,
was also fatally burned trying to
tear the blazing garments from her
child's body, and is believed to be
dying.
The father was In his office In
Portland at the time of the acci
dent. Impressing a 60-horsepower
automobile into service, picking up a
physician. Dr. C. S. Seamann, on the
way, he ran the wildest race to his
home and back again to St. Vin
cent's Hospital ever run in this part
of the country. In spite of this, the
child died on the way and the
motKT may not live through the
niEiic. though she
frightful Journey.
survived
the
A frenzied father, bent on saving the
lives of his wife and child, ran a wild
and thrilling but sadly futile race with
Death yesterday. The man was Frank
Machette, who has an office in Portland,
but lives 14 miles east of the city on the
Kslacada carline. The course of the
unequal race was from his office In town
to his home in the country and back again
to St. Vincent's Hospital, a distance of
28 miles. It was run in one of the swift
est and most powerful motor cars in
Portland, which shot like a bullet from
town to Machette's home to fetch a doc
tor to the bedside of his, frightfully
burned wife and child, victims of the acci
dental overturning of a kerosene lamp.
In the back-stretch the huge automobile,
hastily converted Into an Improvised am
bulance bearing the precious human bur
den to a place where the battle for life
could be more skillfully waged, hurled
Itself through the air like a bolt from a
catapult, but it was a losing game which
this desperate man was playing, for be
fore the flight to town had been little
more than half completed, his little
daughter, Catherine, only two years of
age, his only child, lay cold In death in
the swaying tonneau of the car. The
mother survived the bitter Journey, but
she lies hovering on the brink of the
grave at St. Vincent's Hospital, her life
utterly despaired of.
Father Almost Overcome.
The story .of the grim tragedy and the
terrible race reads like a page from
crassest fiction, but every word of it la
the truth, how bitterly true only the be
reft father Is able to realize, and he only
vaguely, for, strong man that he is, the
shock has well-nigh overcome him.
It was about 10 o'clock yesterday morn
ing when little Catherine toddled Into the
bedroom and tried to reach a lighted
lamp which stood on the bureau. Her
little arms were scarcely long enough.
and fumbling to secure a firmer grip, she
toppled the lamp over; the oil gushed
forth, igniting as it did so, saturated the
child, who was In a moment enveloped
in hungry tongues of the flaming fluid.
Screaming with agony, tearing frantic
HARRY MURPHY REVIEWS SOME
He Wasn't Handed a Lemon; Only a Brick.
ally at her blazing clothes, she staggered
to the door where her mother met her.
With bare hands the frenzied mother
lay hold of the burning garments of the
little one and tried to rip them from the
baby's body, but in so doing her own
clothing caught fire.
Neighbors Arrive Too Late.
Both mother and child, maddened with
the pain, sought to free themselves from
the deadly clutch of the flames, but their
garments were literally burned from their
bodies, and when the neighbors arrived,
attracted by the agonizing screams for
help, they found the victims writhing' on
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CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 47
degrees; minimum, 35.
TODAY'S Cloudy and threatening with
possibly showers; southerly winds.
Foreign.
French Cabinet crisis on church question.
Pnge 3.
Gossip of European capitals. Page 38.
National.
President will have charges against Judge
Ailshle Investigated. page 2.
Senate passes immigration bill and Schmltx
says settlement of Japanese question will
satisfy California. Page 1.
Overs treet defies railroads on mail subsidy.
Page 3.
Politics.
Proof that Bailey was paid fees by Waters
Pierce Company. Page 2.
Chicago grand jury may indict Mayor Dunne
and Chief Collins for not enforcing law.
Page 13.
Women suffragists enlist f pretty girl stu
dents. Page 1.
v Domestic
Has kin on TTncle Sam, the greatest fisher
man. Page 30.
Twenty persons killed in wreck of electric
train In New York. Page 1.
Thaw trial to be resumed Monday. Page 13.
Chicago fraternity men to be expelled from
university for holding drunken orgies.
Page 3.
Pacific Coast.
Saloons at Tacoma and Seattle will be
closed tight today. Page 5.
Portland man injured in wreck near Helena.
Page 2.
Because Judge McCredie has time for base
ball. Legislature will not lighten his
duties as Superior Judge. Page 5.
Steve Adams laughs before jury that is to
try him for murder. Paga 5.
Oregon legislature.
Payroll for .lower house prepared and ap
proved. Page 5-
Compulsory reserve fund bill for life in
surance companies passed by house.' Page
5. :-
Brix bill dealing with logging streams has
hard sledding. Page 4.
Representative Freeman explains his land
bill amendment. Page 4.
Sport.
Manager McCredie has likely list of players
from which to choose 10f7 team. Pge
Portland Rowing Club to rect home.
Page 30.
San Francisco ball park may not he com
pleted by opening of season. Page 36.
Expert says it costs less to keep an auto
than a horse and buggy. Page 37.
Commercial and Marine.
Oniongrowers association satisfied with out
look. Page 39.
Sharp break in wheat prices at Chicago.
Page 38.
New York stocks show gains at the close.
Page 39.
Surplus of New York banks further In
creased. Page 39.
Shortage of sailors may delay sailing of
vessels, raue to.
Portland and Vicinity.
Father in wild automobile ride foiled in at
tempt to save his child's life. Page 1.
Job printers will strike next Wednesday un
. less demand for increase of wages is
granted. Page 8.
Willis Van Horn denies that "he eloped with
Edward Philpotts' wife. Page 10.
Bird lovers oppose amendment of existing
law for protection of songbirds. Page 11
President of strikers and nonunion carman
in fist fight. Page 24.
Real Estate and Building.
Sale of J. E. Haseltlne building closes busy
week In inside realty. Page 14.
Block bounded by Front. First, Pine and
Ash streets may be improved. Page 14-
Activity In business property on the East
Side. Page 14.
Prospectus issued for East Side theater.
Page 14.
Unusually heavy movement in farm lands
near Portland. Page 14.
Features and Deoaxt men te .
Classified advertisements. Pages 15 to 23.
Editorial. Page 6.
Church announcements. Page 40.
The making of a successful wife. Page 51.
Book reviews. Page 51.
Social. Pages 26. 27, 20.
Dramatic. Page 34, 35.
Musical. Page 28.
Household and fashions. Page 47.
George Ade's revised story. Page 45.
The truth about the Congo. Page 50.
Current topics. Page 49.
Roosevelt bears. Page 56.
Comic section. Pages 53 to 56.
Fairbanks, the man from Indiana- Page 42.
Frank G. Carpenter's letter. Page 43. " '
The strange case of George Edaljl. Page 44.
Little stories of happy life. Page 48.
How mediums manufacture ghosts. Page 46.
Vast fortunes which have disappeared. Page
52.
SALIENT LEGISLATIVE HAPPENINGS OF
Just tn Time to Say Goodbye.
ELECTRIC TRAIN
DASHED TO PIECES
Twenty Persons Killed
in New York City.
CROWDED CARS JUMP TRAGK
Densely Peopled Suburb Re
sounds With Shrieks.
THREE SCORE ARE INJURED
Sew York Central Suburban Train
at Terriric Speed Leaves Ralls
and Strews Mangled Pas
sengers on Way.
NEW YORK, Feb. 16. Sixteen pas
sengers were killed outright, four
others had died of their Injuries up to
midnight, and at least 50 more were
more or less seriously injured In the
wreck of the White Plains and
Brewster Express on the Harlem divi
sion of the New York Central & Hud
son River Railroad, near Woodlawn
road in the Bronx Borough of Greater
New York today.
The train left 'the Grand Central sta
tion at 6:13 o'clock, drawn by two
heavy electric motors and loaded with
a matinee crowd and commuters on
their way home from business In the
city. It consisted of a combination
baggage and smoking car and five
coaches. After stopping at One Hun
dred and Twenty-fifth street, the train
was scheduled to run express to
White Plains. At Woodlawn road the
four tracks pass through a rough,
rocky cut and take a sharp curve.
When the train reached the curve it
was running at a speed estimated at
60 miles an hour. Both motors and the
smoking car swung safely around the
curve, but the other cars left the rails
and plunged over the sides with a ter
rific crash, tearing up the tracks for
a hundred yards before they col
lapsed. Mostly Women Are Killed.
Of those Instantly killed, by far the
greater number were women. Many
were mangled beyond recognition.
Those most seriously Injured were hur
ried to hospitals, while coroners took
charge of the dead as fast as bodies
were recovered. Fire started In the
overturned cars, but the flames were
quickly extinguished and firemen lent
their aid to the Injured. Special trains
carried many of the injured to White
Plains and Mount Vernon, while others
were brought to hospitals in this city.
The rear car, containing more women
than the others, suffered greatest, as it
overturned and, breaking off the coup
ling, was released from the cars ahead,
and It was literally torn to pieces and
scattered for a hundred feet across
Woodlawn avenue. Many passengers,
practically uninjured, tumbled from the
cars and hurried to telephones, sum
moning aid.
The Identified Dead.
The dead:
MYRON E. EVANS. White Plains, civil
engineer.
ROBERT J. ROSBOROUGH, White
Plains, employe.
F. JOHNSTON. ROSBOROUGH, White
Plains, employe.
E. F. JOHNSTON. Briar Cliff. N. Y.
C. N. PAGE, Williamsburg. N. Y.
MRS. MARY KINCH, Chappaqua, N. Y.
MISS OR MRS. E. P. WARREN.
S. . SLOAN E.
J. SLOANE.
ANNIE MOREHEAD, aged 17
JESS1E A. JABIN.
The cause of the wreck was not offi
cially determined tonight. At Grand
Central station there was Inclination to
blame the accident to spreading rails, but
later it was said that It was believed that
the axle of the first passenger coach
broke.
Going at Terrific Speed.
Leonard B. Greene, of White Plains,
who occupied a seat In the smoker di
rectly behind the second motor, told the
story of the train's approach to the
Elective Railroad Commission
Woodlawn Road curve. It was traveling
at a terrific speed, according to Mr.
Greene, though railroad men estimated
by the distance the overturned cars were
carried that the train was making be
tween 40 and 45 miles an hour.
"I remarked on the epeed," said Mr.
Greene, "when we hit the curve, and we
instinctively stopped playing cards and
looked back. Suddenly the car lurched
to one side. In a moment we broke
loose from the rest of the train, and we
could see the rear cars turning over."
Stories by other survivors were simi
lar. Dismembered bodies were strung along
for a distance of 100 yards. One woman
was Impaled on huge splinters from a
railroad tie. Although the scene of the
wreck was in the heart of a thickly
populated section, It was some time be
fore residents reached the scene. For
a time only one physician could be se
cured. Later aid came without stint.
Many (iround to Pieces.
A sheet of electric flame that originated
from the disaster enveloped the rear car
and for a moment threatened to roast the
victims pinioned in the debris. The flames
did not, however, spread and the horror
of a holocaust was averted. As the cars
fell, they smashed the third rail, and
caused much danger.
In the crash, however, there was death
for many, while practically every one in
the four coaches received Injuries of some
sort. Many were ground to pieces and
for hours identification was almost hope
less. As the cars went over, many of
the passengers were thrown Into or
through the windows and cut and maimed.
Myron E. Evans, one of the killed, was
president of the Cape Breton Railway,
Ltd., and one of the best-known con
sulting engineers in the country. He was
considered the greatest expert upon
Canadian railway property In the country.
Broken Hail tlie Cause.
Shortly after midnight Coroner Schwan
necker made a statement in which he
said :
'I have taken possession of one of the
rails and shall hold it for a technical
examination. In my preliminary investi
gation I found a defect in this rail which
indicated, in my opinion, the place where
a big wheel, probably one of the drive
wheels of the electric engine, hit the rail
at a point almost directly under the
Woodlawn bridge. This rail has a clearly
defined indentation which shows where
some heavy object dropped on it. The
theory Is that the dropping of this heavy
object on the rail caused it to spread.
One witness said that, while passing at
a point almost under the bridge, he felt
the train rise up off the tracks and it
seemed to fly through the air."
The Coroner ordered the arrest of
Engineer Williams and his assistant.
Stansficld. The engineer was held
without ball and his assistant was pa
roled. Speculation as to tho speed of the
train when it struck the curve was gen
eral among survivors of the wreck to
night, but there waa little on which to
base their estimate. According to rail
road men who have watched the train
pass this point, the express .usually
reaches the curve ten minutes after draw
ing out of the station at One Hundred and
Twenty-tlfth street. The distance between
the two points is about six miles.
LIVE IN FEAR OF CANNIBALS
Missionaries on Solomon Islands In
Dread of Savages.
VICTORIA. B. a, Feb. 16. The steamer
Miowera, which arrived here yester
day from Australia, brought news
that constant troubles were occurring in
the Solomon Islands as a result of the
repatriation of Kanakas, expelled from
Queensland following the enactment of
"White Australia" laws. H. M. S. Pro
metheus, a British warship, placed in the
vicinity of the group to protect the re
turning blacks, shelled the village of
Suiwa on Malaita. which so badly fright
ened the natives that- they took to the
brush and have not returned. The mis
sionaries fear a massacre by the villagers.
who resent the return of the blacks.
From Papua news was brought of
punitive expedition following a raid by
cannibals on a Cape Cupola village, two
children being killed and eaten at a can
nibal feast.
Shortly before the Miowera left Bris
bane advices were receleved that a hurri
cane had completely wiped out Cooktown,
in North Australia. No lives were lost.
The monetary loss will amount to $2,000,
000.
IMutte River Blocks Five Roads.
OMAHA, Neb.. Feb. 16. Five trans
continental railroads through Nebraska
are today using the line of the Burling
ton Railroad to the West, due to the
flood conditions of the Platte River.
The Union Pacific la tied up for 200
miles west of Omaha and the Missouri
Pacific, Rock Island, Northwestern,
Union Pacific and Burlington are using
the Burlington tracks between Omaha
and Lincoln. No freight trains are
moving.
Princess Clementine, of Saxe-Coburg
VIENNA, Feb. 16. The Princess Clem
entine, of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, mother of
Prince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, died this
morning.
THE WEEK
BUI Panned.
Jravmlle Court Bill
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it If-
PRETTY GIRLS FOR
EQUAL SUFFRAGE
Leaders of Movement
Gain Recruits.
CHICAGO STUDENTS ORGANIZE
Campus Beauties Remove Re
proach of Opposition.
ARE READIEST TO JOIN
Anna Shnw's Suggestion Taken U
With Kntliuslasm at University
and Beauty Will Seek to
Conquer Bullot.
CHICAGO. Feb. 16. (Special.) A.
campaign to get pretty women, es
pecially the prettiest of the feminine
students at colleges and universities,
Into the societies that are working for
woman suffrage was started today at
the University of Chicago. If the plan
succeeds, the traditional taunt hurled
at suffragists that no pretty woman
favors the movement will be refuted
for all timei and the propaganda doubt
less will go forward triumphantly
toward the goal of victory.
It was a speech by Miss Anna How
ard Shaw, president of the National
American Woman Suffrage convention,
which hus been In session in this city
since Thursday, that roused the eo-eds
and the "egs" to Inaugurate the move
ment for the enlistment of "pretty
student suffragists."
Nucleus Is Organized.
In anticipation of the visit of Miss
Shaw and her co-workers, several of
tlie women students formed tho nucleus
of a branch of the National Associa
tion at the univeralty some weeks ago.
More than a score of students joined
this body, but it was noticed that
those termed pretty were the quickest
to Join.
Under Miss Edith Rieder, president
of the University Suffrage Club; Miss
Elizabeth Ware, vice-president; Miss
Eleanor Graves, treasurer, and Miss
Frances Dean, librarian, the organiz
ing work was "vigorously pushed, with
the result that practically all the
"campus beauties" have applied for
membership, and were prominent in
the audience that greeted Miss Shaw,
and applauded her speech In Mandel
Hall.
Pretty Students Have Joined.
"It must not be understood that the
girls who are not ao pretty will be
barred," said Miss Elizabeth J. Hauser,
a member of National Treasurer Har
riet Upton's executive staff, "but it is
unquestionable that during the organ
ization work all tho pretty students,
and there are hundreds of them, have
either joined the suffrage club already
or signified their Intention of joining.
The old reproach or argument, or
whatever it may be called, that the
pretty women and girls do not wish
for conqtiests of the ballot and are
perfectly satisfied with the conquests
that their beauty brings them Is re-,
futed by the university girls."
Pays Dearly for Maiming Kleist.
NEW YORK. Feb. 16. One of the
largest settlements ever made by a
railroad company in a suit for personal
injury was closed yesterday when the
action of Edwanl Kleist, of New Ro
chelle, for IL'00,000 damages against
the New York Central Railroad Com
pany was settled for $50,000. Mr. Kleist
was riding in a New Haven car when
a Harlem train crashed Into It. Mr.
Kleist suffered a broken hip, became
paralyzed and lost the power of
speech.
Reward for Walker, Bankwrecker.
NEW YORK. Feb. 16. A reward of
J'jOoo for the capture alive of William F.
Walker, the missing bank treasurer of
New Britain, was announced today. The
reward was made $1000 if Walker should
be dead when found.
PaMr Orpr GtTfufa Vet ta y
Oat of BO Votes.