THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 27, 1903.
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HARGIS CASE MUST
HAVE NEW TRIAL
position to General Castro foreshadowed
a new and blighter era for Venezuela.
General Rolando, the central figure
of the day. was smiling and calm and
full of confidence in the promises of
Acting President Gomez. He declared
no harm would come to himself or his
' lieutenants or he would not be taking
with him practically all the leaders of
! the Insurrection against Castro, which
I has been in secret preparation for many
months in this rity and which was on
I the point of being launched when the
1 revolution of a wet-k ago swept Castro
out of power.
GOMEZ IS FILLING JAILS
Xe- President of Venezuela After
Castro's Friends.
NEW YORK, Dec. 26. A special cable
OTflDV flC UADPIC PADCrrn ' dispatch to the Tribune from Port of
OlUnl UT tlttnUlO ItHnCLn Spain, Trinidad, says that passengers ar-
I riing there from ports in Venezuela re
port that Acting President liom. i nas
tak-n drastic steps to suppress friends
and supporters of Castro. In ord r to
check any possible rebellion on behalf of
the overthrown executive. Gomi z. tlso dis
patch says, is having every prominent
sympathizer with Castro placed under ar-
Jury Unable to Agree in Big
Kentucky Feud Case of
Patricide.
3Iuruored Man Was Feudal Baron
and Kulcd U'lth Iron Hand, Put
tins to '.Jeath Those Who
OpiHCd His Will.
IKVIXE. Ky.. Dec. 26. The jury in
the cast: of Beach Harris, charged with
the murder of his father. Judge James
J. Harris, reported its inability to
agrve this atternoon and was dis
charged. The jury stood nine for ac
quittal and three for conviction.
Peach liargis had been on a debauch
a few days before the time of the
iriuni.-r of Judge Hargls and he had
finally been brousht back to Jackson.
For some days the neighbors declared
that .lud,?e Hargij had been dragging
the boy to the streets of the wild
little mountain town.
H a.-h entered his father's store and.
aft-r a few words with the judge,
grappled with him. They fell to the
floor Beach on top. and with the
Judge's own pirtol the boy fired sever
al shots into the body of the prostrate
man.
Mother Blames Father.
The defendant's mother testified that
the jud-re had early taught the boy
bud habits, and when Beach was a
child had given him whisky and
buckled a gun on his hip. Beach, or
Beaucnamp. his rightful name, is 23
years old and has always been what,
in thu Kentucky mountains, is termed
"feverish."
Judge Hargls was admittedly a
baron in Breathitt County, and even in
the Tenth Congressional district. His
ministers occupied all the county of
fices, he was himself Democratic com
mitteeman and was chairman of the
district conventions. Men rose up to
question his rule and to make personal
attacks on him. and thes men sud
denly were done away with.
Many Lived in Fear.
1 he J'arrums, the head of which
family walked the streets of Jackson
for months with a baby in his arms to
avert his final assassination; the
Cockrills and others disputed the
scepter of the feudal king, and paid the
penalty with their lives. This sum
mary and violent rule bred the school
of murderers and bad men who gave
to their county the world-known title
of "Bloody Breathitt."
One of them. Curt Jett. called by
bis picturesquely - speaking neighbors
the "wild dog of Breathitt." Is serving
a life sentence: some are dead and
others have fled the state or are living
quietly since the death of their chief
tain. Hargis had vast mineral interests in
tlii? section, on which he lived, though
the ostensible producer of his wealth
was a dry goods and general store at
.Jackson, in which the killing occurred.
A we k before his death Judge
HargM ourchascd a $1000 casket in
Lojlsville.
PLAN FINE BALL GROUNDS
Cliicugo to Have One of Best Grand
stands in Country.
CHICAGO. Dec. 26. The formal
transfer of the National League Base
ball Park from John K. Walsh and A.
G. Spa'dinx to Charles W. Murphy, as
president of the club, took place today.
The amount paid was not made public,
ut it is stated that the cost of th
grounds and improvements which are
to be made within the next three years
will aggregate J600.000. Mr. Murphy
said today that he is arranging confer
ences with architects skilled in grand
stand construction.
"I have determined on only two gen
eral piopositions as to the stands," said
Mr. Murphy. "They will have no col
umns or supports to obstruct the view
and will be capable of seating from
50,000 to 60,000 persons."
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Governor of Iowa when Cum
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native of Ohio of Dutch-Irish
descent. He began life keeping
a general merchandise store,
and afterward became inter
ested In farming and banking.
He became Governor November
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rest. The jails are thus being filled to
overflowing with political prisoners.
The leading followers of Castro, It Is
said, will be deported as further precau
tion against a revolutionary outbreak. It
Is believed here that the energetic meas
ures of the Gomez government will pre
vent any possibility of an uprising. All
of the soldiers In hte Venezuelan army
who sympathize with Castro have been
discharged and the ranks filled with sup
porters of Gomez.
JEW MAN SLAYS GIRL
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY SHOCKS
MASSACHUSETTS TOWN'.
BLOODY ROW IN CHURCH
Colored Baptists Celebrate Christ
mas With Fracas.
GALLIPOLIS. O., Dec. 26. A bloody
battle took place in the Baptist Church
at Bigwell at a Christmas entertain
ment last night, causing a panic
Many men, women and children Jumped
from the windows and narrowly es
caped serious injury. The trouble was
started by Harrison Pounds, colored,
of Vinton, by pulling a pistol and
shooting Alfred Mi-Daniel, of Xelson
ville, O., three times.
McDanieL stabbed Pounds several
times with a knife, and both men are
in a dangerous condition.
NOT ONE RESISTS GOMEZ
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lie and the Island of Curacoa. A Dutch
steamer left here this morning for
Maracaibo for a cargo of wood, which,
following the announcement of the
Venezuelan government that It . would
n longer enforce the trans-shipment
decree, will be brought to Curacoa and
transferred to another vessel. Fur
thermore, the steamers of the Royal
Dutch Mail Line will begin to call
again at Venezuelan ports.
EXILES SAIL FOR VENEZUELA
Kolaudo and Followers Start to Aid
Gomez Government.
NEW VOKK, Dec 26. Cheers and
Venezuelan . Hags speeded the steamer
Maratiibo when she swung out from
her pier today bearing General Nicholas
l:o!ando. General Kamon Ayala, General
Felix Ainpard and other exiles of the
Castro regime on their way back to
Venezuela at the special invitation of
the new head of the republic, Juna
Vincente Gomez, to assist in the new
order of things following the overthrow
of Castro.
Both the men and women of New
York's Venezuelan colony, with a con
siderable sprinkling of Spanish-American
residents of this city and vicinity,
were at the pier to bid the distin
guished txiles farewell. The greatest
enthusiasm prevailed, all believing the
incident of the return to their native
country of these. leaders of the old op-
Ilis Snit Rejected, Police Sergeant's
Son Hills Young Woman and
Surrenders.
SOMERVILLE. Mass.. Dec. 26. (Spe
cial.) Maud Hartley, daughter of Mrs.
R. Agnes Hartley, a physician of West
Somerville, was shot and almost in
stantly killed on Highland avenue to
day as she was about to board an elec
tric car for Boston, and her rejected
suitor, James M. Harmon, son of Police
Sergeant James Harmon, after running
away, gave himself up at the police
station in Medford. where he was
locked up on a charge of murder. It is
said that Harmon was Jealous of the
young woman. Miss Hartley was 19
years old and Harmon is the same age.
After he had shot the girl Harmon
picked her up in his arms and carried
her into a store at the corner. He laid
his burden down, saying "I have fin
ished her," and before the gathering
crowd realized what was going on the
young man had rushed out of the door
and was in flight toward Medford.
Miss Hartley was active in church af
fairs. Harmon had been paying atten
tion to her for about two years.
At every turn reached by the police
in their investigation to discover tiie
motive for the crime more mystery sur
rounds the tragedy. The one person
who possibly could clear up the prob
lem, the one person who could tell of
the reason that the beautiful girl was
wantonly slain, is in his cell at East
Cambridge, constantly protesting: "I
remember nothing; I remember noth
ing." Acute insanity was the theory of Dr.
Hartley when she assigned a reason
for the killing of her daughter. "I
cannot state too positively," she said,
"the feeling of deep sympathy I have
for poor Jimmy. If Bow street had not
been so far away this morning I should
have gone to the police station and told
him that I had nothing but a mother's
feeling of sympathy and pity for him.
The poor boy could not have been in
his right mind. I know him well and
know that he could not have harmed a
hair of anybody's head if he had been
right.
"What he did he did when an attack
of acute insanity came over him. It is
a well-known fact that persons who
slay while insane never turn on their
enemies or upon those whom they
fancy may have done them wrong, but
they maim or kill their dearest friends.
"Jimmy turned on Maud, the girl
with whom he associated as a pal, a
comrade; a girl with whom -he had
gone to school. They were both good
pals, good comrades, and spent many
evenings in each other's company here
in my home. I feel so sorry for his
mother. I have not the slightest ill
feeling for him, as I know he must be
deranged. He spent Wednesday even
ing at my house, and with Maud had a
Jolly time.
"You know his home is just back of
mine, and often he ran in for a visit.
It was so convenient. He was only one
of three or four boys who often visited
us. He never had any quarrel with
Maud In all his life. He was always
laughing and Joking with her. His
father did not want him to come to my
house, and asked me to discourage him.
I declined to do so. and I think now
the boy worried because of his father's
attitude."
Arrested for Entering Country.
NEW TORK. Dec. 26. Five Chinese ac
cused of violating the Chinese exclusion
act in slipping over the Mexican bound
ary into Texas and afterward eluding of
ficers at Chicago, were held today for
further examination by United States
Commissioner Rowe. The Chinese were
arrested in Jersey City as theyx were leaving-
a train.
FULTON WORRIES
RAILROAD TOOLS
Members of Senate Interstate
Committee Dodge Vote on
Rate Bill.
MUST SHOW HOW STAND
Oregon Senator Gives Xervons Rail
road Senators Certain Time to
Act Will Force Senate to
Take Bill From Them.
OREGONIAX NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, Dec. 26. It became known today
' that members of the Senate committee on
t interstats commerce, before whom Sena-
, tor Fulton'r rate bill is pending, are very
J nervous about the threat of the Ore
gon Senator to compel them to take
action.
Several members have been frank
enough to say they do not want to vote
on this bill one way or the other. They
are obligated to the railroads and there
fore do not want to favor a bill which
Is opposed by the transportation coiri-par.is-s.
Yet. in view of the present state
of public sentiment, they are not anxious
to vote acalnst a bill that Is generally
demanded bv the public.
Mr. Fulton says he will give the com
mittee until Wednesday, January 6, to
bring in a report of some sort on his bill,
and. If a report is not made by that time,
he will call up his resolution discharg
ing the committee from further con
sideration of the bill and will force the
Senate to vote. He will not drop his
bill merely because it embarrasses cer
tain Senators who are afraid to vote
either for their convictions or according
to their "instructions." He is going to
get some definite and final action this
session i
CUBA'S FREEDOM IS NEAR
Plans for Final Evacuation of
Island Are Completed.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26. Plans for the
evacuation of Cuba, the ending of the
Provisional Government, and other de
tails coincident with President Gomez'
inauguration, on January 28, arrange
ments for which were agreed upon three
weeks ago at a conference between Pres
ident Roosevelt. Secretary Wright and
Governor Magoon and made public at the
time, were officially set forth In a cable
gram received at the War Department
from Governor Magoon.
The plans were today formally ap
proved by General Clarence R. Edwards,
of he Bureau of Insular Affairs. The
only new feature in the arrangements
was disclosed when the War department
cabled Governor Magoon authority to
call the new Cuban Congress for organi
zation at any time prior to January 28.
It is Etatod that the Congress probably
will be assembled soon after New Year's
day. The congress, after receiving the
electoral college, the credentials of Sen
ators and Representatives, clearing up
contests and other details of organiza
tion, proviaed for in the Cuban constitu
tion, will take a recess until January 28.
CHANGES FINGER TO NOSE
Surgical Operation to Beautify Jer
seyntan's Countenance.
PATERSON. X. J., Dec. 26. If a surgi
cal operation performed In this city
proves successful. Cornelius Snyder of 132
Goffle road. Hawthorne Borough, will be
going around before long with one of his
fingers sewed to the place where his nose
used to be.
Snyder suffered from cancer for several
years, and about a year ago the greater
part of his nose was amputated in order
to remove the malignant growth. There
have been no symptoms of a recurrence
of the disease.
When Mr. Snyder was Informed by phy
sicians that it was possible to replace the
lose nose with a finger he decided to
have the operation performed, and it took
place last week at the general hospital,
being performed by Dr. John C. McCoy.
The third finger of Snyder's left hand
was used.
It Is expected that within three weeks
the flesh of the finger and the nose will
have united. The finger will then be am
putated at the middle Joint, and when
tho wounds are healed Mr. Snyder will
have as good as a new nose.
BAY STATE ADDS TAXES
Over $30,000,000 of Property In
. eluded in Rolls for First Time.
BOSTON. Dec. 26. Nearly thirty mil
lions of personal property which here
tofore has escaped taxation has been,
it is believed, added to the valuation
by a recent law and the efforts of the
local assessors.
Returns from 210 out of 354 cities
and towns have been received, showing
an increase of J26.4S5.336 over last
year. Several cities, including Boston,
are yet to be heard from.
DALZELL IS FOR OLIVER
Withdraws From Senatorial Fight
for Knox's Seat.
PITTSBURG, Dec. 26. Congressman
Dalzell, who last, week at Washington
announced his candidacy for election by
the next Pennsylvania Legislature to suc
ceed Senator Knox when the latter re
signs to enter the Taft Cabinet, today
withdrew and tendered his support to
George T. Oliver, a newspaper publisher
of Pittsburg.
Miss Cahall Will Name Craft.
WILMINGTON, Del., Dec. 26. Gover
nor Lea today selected Miss Anna S.
Cahall, of Bridgevllle, to christen the
battleship Delaware, which will be
launched about February 6 at Newport
News, Va. Miss Cahall is a daughter
of Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence M. Cahall, of
Bridgevllle, and niece of Governor
elect Simeon S. Pennewlll and of Judge
James Pennewill of this state.
Robber to Be Brought West.
HELENA. Mont., Dec 26. Deputy
United States Marshal Merrlfleld left
tonight for Moorhead. Minn., to bring
here for trial Gorge Frankhauser, the
alleged Great Northern tralnrobber, re
cently arrested in that city.
Judge Hunt today Issued a special
bench warant for Frankhauser.
WE HAVE S
DAYS to GET
of $125,000 WOR
TAILORED SU
IXTY
RID
ITS
This is the most remarkable sale of tailor-made
clothing ever known in the City of Portland. Every
suit made exactly to your measure. We must not
have a dollar's worth of material on hand in 60 days.
You never heard tell of the values we are offering.
Cost, pattern, style, design, weight or texture will
have nothing to do with the matter. Prices will be
made on everything we have in stock, with just one
idea in mind to get rid of the goods in 60 days. Such
prices as- we are making on the best tailor-made suits,
overcoats and dress suits will cause you to marvel.
AS EVIDENCE OF THE CARE
LESSNESS WITH WHICH WE
HAVE MARRED PRICES, WIT
NESS THE FOLLOWING:
$SO TO $60
SUITS AND COATS
$40 SUITS
S2S
;2S TO
SUITS AND COATS
IIJLlflIiIlliLM
A limited number of the best suits we
have in stock will be sold at these
prices. Nothing better in Portland;
nothing better in the land.
Suits that you have been accustomed to
pay dearly for. Business suits, black
suits and suits that it is a shame to sell
for less than $40.
This line of tailor-made Suits and Overcoats
has never been sold as low as $20.00, not
even by us. Take your pick, as long as
they last. Nothing better for the money.
At the regular prices, these suits and
overcoats are worth more than we have
asked for them. To sell them for $15
is a tremendous sacrifice.
Made of unfinished worsted, plain
or birdseye weave; silk-lined, with
corded silk facing. Made in the
best possible manner.
ONLY $30
to $40 EACH
AS LOW AS
EACH
As
Low as
For
Only
The patterns in each of these classes are limited. To
secure something exceptionally good, guaranteed dur
able and excellently well made, it behooves you to call
early and choose the one you want.
We have an abundance of material on hand, and will
be glad to sell any of it by the yard to anybody wish
ing it tailors, women or department stores at
prices that are actually lower than New York whole-
THIS SALE BEGINS TOMORROW MORNING
sale prices; We must be rid of the whole stock,
$125,000 in value, within 60 days. This advertise
ment tells the whole story; it means exactly what it
says. Columbia "Woolen Mills has never clone any
thing half way. You can bank on these values.
COLUMBIA WOOLEN MILLS COMPANY
GRANT PHEGLEY, Manager
Seventh and Stark Streets
J. HAM LEWIS OFF AGI
ATTORXEV GOING TO ORIEXT
PERHAPS FOR GOVERNMENT.
Rather Coy In Admitting That Ho
Is Special Envoy, Especially
After Denial.
CHICAGO, Dec. 26. The Inter-Ocean
today in a new article says:
Colonel James Hamilton Lewis, well
known attorney, who left Chicago for
New Orleans two weeks ago, and who
is now in San Francisco, will go to
Japan and China on a secret mission
for the State Department, it Is said, be
fore returning to this city. The nature
of Colonel Lewis' mission is not known
even to his private secretary, according
to a statement made by the latter, but
it is known he is carrying letters from
President Roosevelt and the Secretary
of State.
TALKS VAGCELY OF 3IISSIOX
But It Is Believed to Concern Rela
tions With Orient.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 26. Colonel
James Hamilton Lewis, of Chicago, was
seen at his apartments today by a rep
resentative of the Associated Press and
asked regarding the report that he Is
on his way to Japan and China on a se
cret mission for the Government. While
refusing to discuss the matter in detail
and admit that he was delegated on
important work in the Orient, Colonel
Lewis said he would probably sail for
Japan, China and the Philippines in a
few days, provided he was able to make
a satisfactory arrangement of some per
sonal matters.
"I may say," said Colonel Lewis, "that
I am not engaged on a mission that is
at this time of any immediate import
ance to the public It is true that I
have some letters from Secretary Root
and some others given me by direction
of the President, but they are not of
general interest."
Colonel Lewis declined to say to
whom his letters were addressed or
anything regarding their import.
It is believed, however, that matters
of very laige importance having to deal
with the relations between this country
and Japan and China have perhaps been
entrusted to Colonel Lewis. The mat
ter had nothing to do with the immigra
tion question of the Orient.
XOT ACTING FOR GOVERNMENT
State Department Only Gives Lewis
Letters to Consuls.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26. In reference
to a report from Chicago that Colonel
James Hamilton Lewis, who is now in
! San Francisco, will go to Japan and
China on a secret mission for the Gov
ernment, the authoritative statement
was made at the State Department that
James Hamilton Lewis is not going to
the Far East on any mission for the
Government. Such letters as he may
have from the officials are those of a
nature commending him to the good
offices of the diplomatic and consular
representatives abroad, and perhaps to
foreign officials.
eign commerce committees. He was
born in New Orleans in 1S53. and re
ceived his early education in the public
schools there. In 171 he graduated from
St. Vincent's College. Cape Glradeau,
AIo. He was elected to the state Senate
in 1S79 and re-elected in 1S84 and 1S92.
He was president pro tern of that body
in 1884 and 1886. In 1S88 he ran for Mayor
or New Orleans, butWas defeated.
SHIP IS WRECKED IN GALE
William Larmar Goes to Pieces, but
Crew Is Saved.
NORFOLK, Va., Dec. 26. Meager ad
vices of the wrecking of the schooner
William Larmar and the rescue of the
nine men composiig her crew by the
Austrian steamship Columbia, have
reached here by wireless from the Dia
mond Shoals lightship. The Larmar
was wrecked 20 miles east of Curri
tuck, N. C.
The schooner is reported to be still
afloat and a menace to navigation. It
is presumed that the ill-fated vessel
came to grief during the severe north
east gale last week. The three-masted
schooner Zacchus Sherman, wrecked by
the Tecent storm nnd abandoned by the
crew, was towed Into Hampton Roads
late last night by a wrecking steamer.
Naval Men Beat Princeton.
ANNAPOLIS. Md.. Dec. 26. The M1.1.
shipmen today defeated the Princeton
basketball team 29 to 28. The winners
snatched victory from their opponents
In the last few minutes of piny.
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Congressman Davey'Expires.
NEW ORLEANS. Dec. 26.Congress
man Robert C. Davey, of Louisiana, died
here today, after an illness of several j
months. Mr. Davey was a conspicuous
member of the committee on interstate
and foreign commerce. He was born
In New Orleans In 1F53 and was first
elected to the 53d Congress as a Dem
ocrat. Death was due to complication
of diseases.
Congressman Davey was a member of
the House committee on expenditures in
the Department of Agriculture and was
also a member of the interstate and for-
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after by millions of little soldiers
In your blood those corpuscles
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Hood's Sarsaparilla will keep you
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