Vol. XXXVII
No. 36
ROSEBURG, DOUGLAS COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1905-
WOODBURN BANK HELD UP
THURSTON SAYS
AND ROBBED WEDNESDAY M,TCELW,LL W,N
Two Masked Men Accomplished the Work
in Broad Daylight Posse in Pursuit
One Deputy Shot
Salem, Or., May 3. A Journal special says that the
Woodburn Bank was held up and successfully robbed of
$3000 by two masked men about 2 o'clock this afternoon.
It is reported that many shots were fired, but without in
jury. The men made good their escape, but a posse is in
pursuit. It is thought to be impossible for the robbers to
escape for any length of time as telephone wires have been
used in all directions, besides the posse in pursuit.
Differs from the Prosecution In
that He Will Not Conduct
a Newspaper Trial
the
There m no one in the bank but the 1 robbery waa carefully planned and bold
caahier, who is a eon of J. M. Poorraan, y executed.
the banker, a litUe boy. and the "tenon- j " Chiei o( Poiice Cornelius, at Salem
rapher, Miss fcildv, at trie time me nana
- -. . , . I and the officer north and south on
was roooeu. ine rouoere were iwu nuuri
men in overalls. They had no coats on, I railroad were immediately notified by
and handkerchief over their faces, and j wire, and the rural telephones were
one wore goggles, and young Poorman i brought into requisition all over the
thought at first that some of hia friends : country, and it is believed tliat the men
were playing a practical joke on him.
But when one covered him with a gun,
and the other swept all the cash in the Bible. The robbers are evidently mak
money trays into a sack, he awoke to ing for the Pudding River bottom,
the fact that it meant business. They j where there is a thick growth of under
threatened to kill if anyone made an brush, about two miles from Woodburn
outcry, and had the money and were ! The surrounding country is thickly pop-
gone before anyone could see what was
going on in the bank. The whole town
was speedilv alarmed, and gave chase,
but the men were out of sight. The
safari,
"Red" Williams, a member of the
citizens' posse, waa shot in the
one of the robbers.
I
Portland, May 2. Hon. John M.
Thurston, ex-l'nited States Senator
from Nebraska, who has come to defend
his old friend, Senator Mitchell, is posi
tive that his client is innocent of all
charges preferred against him by the
late Federal Grand Jury. He is equally
confident that there will be no delay in
the trials if the Senator can help it.
"I do not wish to try our case in the
newspapers," he stated this morning,
"but if Senator Mitchell has been guilty
of any wrongdoing or if anything devel
ops during the progress of his trial that
in any manner connects him with these
land (ramie, then I shall be very much
surprised, and all his colleagues will
(eel the same wav. because they have
implicit faith in his innocence. 1 have
known him intimately for the past 2f
years, and hold the deepest respect for
him, both as a friend and a statesman.
and I can say it with every degree of
certaintv that no member of the upper
branch of Cougr ss is held in higher re
gard than Senator Mitchell.
I'ntil I have had a chance to canvas
ho
is mv associate in the case. I am in no
position to express any opinion relative
to technical law points that mav be
raised hereafter or discus the merit of
the case in any way : but you can put it
just a strong as you like that if there is
anv delav in the land fraud trials it will
not be on account of Senator Mitchell,
who is most anxious to proceed. I tlm.k
everything will lie cleared up so that we
leg by can go to trial in June, and at all events
the fault will not be the Senator's if we
do not."
STRIKE GROWS SERIOUS
TROOPS CALLED OUT
Rioting, Violence and Bloodshed Colored Strike
Breakers Refuse to Fight
White Men.
DETAILED ACCOUNT
OF MILLER'S PLEA
Admits His Guilt and Story Is Re
lated of His Transactions In
volving Others
PATTERSON JURThUNG
STANDS NINE TO THREE
In Favor of Acquittal Instructions Were Favor
able to Miss Patterson Case Is At
tracting Much Attention.
bad
Henry W. Miller, indicted January 31
by the late Federal drand Jury, in con-j
junction with his partner, Frank E.
If iiK'urf Martin I. H.. 'in- urirj I'i.nr c
Chicago. May 3. ecretary Job Ot the Chicago E.U1-1 NickeJI, for conspiracy under section
ployers' Association, announced this afternoon that a reP" 'J'';;1; : night at the Tombs, and this morning showed the effects
resentative of the association was on the way to bpnng- KUllly to offen8e in tbe UniteJ of the terrible strain. She is still firm in the belief that
field to ask Governor Diuecn to order out state tioops at s'atea District Court Monday, l j she will be acquitted- "Tonicrht" ht "Thnn. tn K.
senteoce was suspended by Judge Bel-1 - ' 0 g .
linger, bail being reduced in tbe meant; treei arjd on my way to my mother in Washington."
New York, May 3 Nan Patterson spent
Chicago.
will be located and captured. Tbe escape the situation with Judge Bennett,
of the thieves seems practically impos-
Enlaiged proportions were given probably lose an eye as the result of
the Teamsters' strike today from ' 0 encounter with a big union team
both sides of the huge struggle, ster yesterday. He also has a severe
Contrary to expectation, the employ-1 cut on the head. All the express
ers were the first to take aggressive companies have put out wagons this
action. , morning, un ier strong police guard.
It is generally admitted that the Twelve large down-town office build-1 the
troops will settle the issues. Five hun- j ings are deprived of cod by the
dred additional policemen were sent strike of the drivers of the Crerar
out this morning to protect the Clinch this morning,
wagons of the Employed and pre- Deputy 1'nited States Marshal
serve order. Owing to the inability Tierce this morning arrested Michael
of the police department to furnish Hogan, a union teamster, on the
adequate protection, the employers charge of violating the federal in
decided to send out onlv 0 1 1 wagons junction. It is the first arrest under
tune from f 40UO to tLlMX). which wa
furnished Tuefday and defei.d n
released from ensto-ty. B M. Anmu,
of Myrtle Creek, Douglas county, and
Miss Ida Powell, local schoolteacher,
are hia Hiretiee.
Miller has had a hard tim of it
from the time he became mixed up in
and frauds, having l.e-n in jail
When court opened this morning de
fendant waa dressed in deep Mack and
:00k t.er seat beside her counsel. The
I recorder began bia charge to the jury.
He said the jury should not consider
' the past life of the defendant, that she
I waa intitled to every responsible doubt
and presumption of innocence lie taid I
the main question was whether defen-
o'clock.
The jury went to lunch at 2:08 p m.
Tbe jarv left the restaurant in the
Park Row Building at 3:30. A big
crowd followed them to the criminal
court building.
At 4 30 the jnry is still oat. A rumor
has it that tbe jury stands 8 to 4 in
at I'ortland and an rrancisco ever
u r . .. ., nrriMir last v.ar for a nimilar
, (Tease committed at Redding, C.I.. i "nl K"lt'1 1 OUD or not' Th W j "VOr 01 """
fur which Bore.,, one of his associates, I "0t 10 tC'U e D wbether YjUn WL" Flynn, of the Tombs,
was lateiv convicted by a jury in the , hot hln,Bel1 or not- bot to det rmin e ' Miss Patterson's cell to tell her
Federal Curt at S,n 'Fiauoisco. He i " helher lDe 'Pendant "Hed him. The . that the jury had gone to loucboo, I e
was brought b k here for arraignment 1 lnstI Ut,lone were very ',r told l.er that the first ballot taken by
and trial about three w. eks ago, and ' tne defendant. them had been nine to three in her
two.days prior to District Attorney j The Jar-V P"P' oot at 1 favor.
ord to the ; .
lleuey's departure s.-nt
ll gan obstructed Utter that he wished to plead gui.ty.
tndkv. instead of 1mm as ulanned. the injunction
The police report this morning that the street in front of a United States Owin to the to of Judge Bellinger s
v r j illness, coupled with the amount of
many negro striKe-hreatcers reiuse to axproai wagon, hiijuij a uimmi
go to work today, or leave the barns dollars from the railroad station to
where they are housed. The negroes the sub-treasury,
sav they were not brought here to I Riots attending the progress of a
PORTLAND EXPOSITION NOTES
work on Heney'e hands. Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Bank; was delegated to
ao ept the plea.
The crime of which Miller stands self-
GLENDALE MURDER A MYSTERY
BESTOWS KISSES
ON HIS SOLDIERS
aKht while nnul rill not do il for cara.an of mgm tnr,.acli the tenter rau'.w. ,""
. . , Ait 'il- WO person; in N.iutbem Oregon to com-
V-' ' J't I till . I VI kltv WtjTJ il x . J 1 -v n tviiuiMii aas
A gang of negro strike-breakers, serious injury' to three men. Waiter
who arrived from the south at ti a. Schultz was badly beaten by two col
m., encountered a very angry crowd ored guards at Franklin and Harrison
The coroner's jury is still investigat
ing the Glendale tragedy in which a
charred body was found under a burn
ing pile of ties after a foal murder had
been committed along tbe railroad track
near that place last Sunday night
Sheriff 9. T. McClailen returned from
have s me knowledge of the crime.
Later DcvcUbiscbh.
The charred skull discloses a dent
which looks as if it were made t.v some
blunt instrument, presumably a rock
A hat waa found near the scne in the
stump of an old tree, nd in the band of
tbe scene ot the muraer ana attempted 1 this hat were two parlor matches, and
cremation Wednesday, and stated that in the crown a cot or tear which fits
the coroner's jury had not yet tiled its j over tbe dent in the skull. Burned aho.
rejjn. a. auisn (riuuu ui uusci , soies, wiui new noonans, were found
leg which was not burned is about the the fire
only clew to the identity of tbe victim
and there is likewise no clew whatsoever
to his asaailanta, while the motive for
the heinous crime remains a mystery.
In fact, the whole affair seems one of
the deepest, darkest mysteries in Dong
las county's criminal history. The
theories so far advanced point to hia be
ing either a young man supposed to be
a machinist who was in tilendale San
day, or a young miner from Klamath
The hat with the matches in the band.
and the hobnails in the shoe soles, lead
many to believe that the unfortunate
man is an old miner living some miles
from Glendale, who is in tbe habit of
carrying matches in his hatband, and
who recently had his shoes newly hob
nailed. It baa not been learned yet,
however, that the old man is missing
Numerous blood stains on the railroad
track show traces of a straggle. After
Gunsha Pass, May 2. A touching in
cident occurred during the Laster cele
bration here. After the morning ser
vices all the troops in the region around
the headquarters were drawn up in line
before General l.inievitch's tent and the
Commander-in Chief tame out, greeted
the troops and passed down the line, sa
luting each and everv soldier with a
kiss. All the men wtre much moved
and 111 11. y of them wept. I':.- incident 1
served to increase their boundless wor
ship of the old leader.
General I jamas itch continues the re
organization of the vanoua departments
of the armies.
Staff Captain Shuber ky, who has le
arned here after making a reconnais
sauce on the Mongolian frontier, report.
tlial thousands of Chinese Laudits, un
der JapaLese leaders, are beyond tl.e
border.
county wno was said to be enroute to j the murder tbe remaiua were carried
feeatlle. in either case a motive tor the : doan a ateeo embankment from the
crime is still lacking. A tramp arrested
near Roeeburg Tuesday is still held in
the county jail on suspicion that he may
I
track, thrown over a fence and laiJ be
tween two logs, the body covered with
bark and wood and burned to a cinder.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S
BIG IMPROVEMENT
MARSTERS' DRUG GO.
DRUGS
PATENT
MEDICINES
PERFUMES
SOAPS
TOILET
ARTICLES
RUBBER COODS
STATIONARY
SCHOOL
SUPPLIES
WINDOW CLASS
LIME
AND CEMENT
ALL KINDS OF
SPRAYS
The new improvement plans are said
to provide for the ei(enditure of $3S,000
at Roseburg where new roundhouses
cold storage facilities, new yard tracks.
new girder cinder pits, new water col
umn, new sandiiouse and new siock-
yards will be built. 9
Fifteen miles of track between Riddle
and Merlin, in Southern Oregon, will lie
balasted, as will 32 miles from Rosebarg
toGlenbrook. All of tbe old track be
tween Ashland and Divide will le taken
up and the light rails replaced with 80-
poond steel, giving a total of 200 miles
out ot 341 between Portland and Ash
land which will be renewed with moderi
steel this year, while it is tbe announced
intention of the management to con
tinoe the work until the entire distance
is in strictly first-class shape aud reach
for the heavier and more mod-arn trains
that will then be placed on the Portland
San Francisco overland service.
Other items which are enumerated in
the announcement includes many new
bridges of steel, it being the policy of
the company to replace all of the old
wooden structures through the mount
ains with tbe most modern .ructures.
The work embraces one through pin-
truss bridge on stone piers across Cos
Creek in Southern Douglas, twothrougl
steel spans over the South Santiam riv
er on the Woodburn-Springfield brsnch ;
two 200-foot through-pin, and one 150
foot through-riveted spans, and one 150
foot through-truss span on six cylinder
piers across the Willamette River near
Harnsburg; one through-rivited trus-
across the V est Fork of Cow Creek
crossing; two deck-plate steel girders
across f.vans ureea crossing; one
through riveted truss on concrete pieri-
across Rogue river and the filling of
about a dozen wooden trestles.
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FIELD HAB8HAL OYAMA, JAPAN'S MILITARY UK BO.
Wi ll the pteaiMo .irfption af Admiral Toe", thesa it ni man who i a m r popaliw
iaVJ in Ja;a tumo Field Marali.d Ofasaa, ib hata uf I jasfSBV, Mukdrn aud Ti.hag lie
u sksSI ( a'ature and rac-wdiug.y gHjd uatuntd.
The firm ol Miller A Sincart was ac- branches of schools work will be feature
1 ute.l by the Government of accepting the Sound City's educational display at
fees of from 25 to f 100 from each the Lewis and Clark Exposition,
locator. Charles Sickell, one of those , Governor John C. Cutler, of Cuh,
indicted with Miller, is a well known has issued proclamation strongly urg
uewspaper publisher of Medford and iog the people of his state to support the
Thoasands of roses are now in bloom well pleased with the Fair. He said
on the grounds of the Lewis and Clark that the Exposition is well-known in
Fxpoeition. Europe and that in London, sports are
Fifteen thousand people visited the gambling on the probable attendance.
mil perjury in the location of timber grounds of the Lewi, and Clark Expoei- B.biB, to h,re d own
lands in behalf of some mythical New ; t.on on last Sunday. j ,t tQe CUrk
Zealand lumber company. Two hundred and fifty photographs of Alien, the "father of the Exposition'
Str f Btal -Seattle public schools and various ; who suggested tbe fair nine Tears aco.
will hsve charge of arrangements for
tbe baby show, and the babies are as
sured of a g'.jd time if Dan has any
thing to say about it. There will be
prizes for the prettiest baby, the health,
iest baby, the thinnest baby, and err err
Jacksonville, and held the office of ' Lewis and Clark. Utah will have a ' other breed of baby. Mr. McAllen is
! sited -late Commissioner at the time handsome building and manr exhibits. : basy arranging a program lor the day.
the alleyed fraudulent operations were Rev. Noweil Dwight Hillia, D. D., The California building, one of the
carried on, nearly all the affadaTits be-; p,tor ( tne Plymouth Congregational handsomest structures at the Lewis and
ing taken before him.
auother aliened conspira"
known attorney 01 aieioru. aou mt I uited Mates, has wired his acceptance mission. The building is in the shape
theory of the Government is that he waa 0f the invitation extended him by the of a i reek cross, each wing of which is a
usee! as a sort of a tool on account of bis Le,,,, n(j Clark Kxposniin suthoritirs replica of an old Spanish mission, the
.i-a. ii.iiue:ice. to preach in tbe Auditorium at Uie Fair, (our whnh are reproduced being El
K.neart and Hogue have entered pleas. His date is August 27. Carmel, Doloree, San Louis Rey and
otnol gu ltv to the indictment, while The Lewis and Clark Exposition had Santa Barbara. Aside from its historic
Nickel! has tiled a plea in abatement as n. ,tr U.t .wk in inUrest. the buidins will Drove oopuiar
Count Michael Michaelovich BarzimofT. this summer on account of the wealth of
a Russian noble who will represent interesting exhibits from Um uo.den
Caucasia at the Fair. The Count was state on display there.
, j pwsior 01 me nviDuuui vuogregauooai Handsomest structures at toe Lewis and
Martin J Hogue , chUrch of Brooklyn, and one of the best Clark Exposition, was completed last
pira'or. is a well- known preachers and lecturers in the week, and accepted by tbe state com-
well as a demurrer.
The following witnesses appeared
hilars the grand jury against the
juartet : SolCMWM A. 1-aodeS. S. T.
Kichardson, Henry C. Buck man, C. C
Kasdale. E. W. Canler andClurles
N.ckeil :u his own behalf.
Wanted. Address of Wm Edes
WHAT FARMERS SAY
ABOUT THE CROPS
Information as to the add of Wil
liam Edes. or heirs, if he is dead.
fine. Farm For Sate.
The weather d iring tbe we. k was too
cool for rapid growth, and crops on the
whole did not advance so rapi ily as
during the preceeding week. There
re several sharp frosts, the most
damaging of which occurred Monday
I ode Scott, a Colored strike-; niorning. at ahach time te ider vege-
varieties of Iruit were
517 acres; farm situated 10 miles from
Roeebura. Go-xi dwelling house, 2
He barns and plenty of oot building: all
....... . . . fenced. 110 acre, rich river bottom
served in the 1st Oregon Infantry in toe Un , timber uj pasture.
Civil War. Small recoverv can proba- 20 acres in alfalfa, W acres in wheat.
., . ' c ... ! Price reasonable. Call on or address
bly be made. Address Harvey palding g - ( ABtTDts
A Sons, Washington, D. C. jl I ml Roseburg, Ore.
of sympathizers. In the clash which streets
followed 12 were very severely in-, breaker from Rt Lonjs, was shot in tables and some
iurel. Edward Boswell. colored, a the arm at Malison and franklin J-"-
student at the College of Physicians streets. Walter Martin, a bystander
and Surgeons
strike-breaker
was mistaken for a was shot in the leg while tne caravan j;,,,. -m prressing nicely Fall and
at 2th street and was passing the Montgomery-Ward spring grain continue in excellent con-
Plowing and seeding are now practi- j
callv completel, and work on summer.
Stewart avenue, and so badly beaten building. Several arrests were made,
that he may die. Four men were arrested for the riot
Strike-Braaker Frank Curry, the at Washington and Wabash street,
man with the "iron nerve," has following an attack on the wagons of
been knocked out. He did not appear the I "aniels Coal Companv. and two
as the leader of the non-union forces men were injured. Several shots
this morning. It is reported he will 1 were tired.
PAINTS, OIL, VARNISH
DEFAULTER EDWARD SMITH
CAPTURED WITH PARMOUR
St. Louis, May" Edward Smith, j bonds in Wall street,
the defaulting tax collector of San The woman was 1 eld pending de
Francisco, is held here awaiting the ! velopments. She is a semi blonde,
arrival of the officers. He makes no land rather good looking.
Smith said he spent the money en
tertaining friends. "I was too good
a fellow, but 1 never neglected my
denial of the shortage, which he says
will not exceed $rfi,000, and declares
no other person was involved, lllanch
Smith, the woman who was arrested wife." He was not told his wife was
with him, broke down this morning I seriously ill. He said he never took
and admitted her relations with I anv monev from people who could
THE TELEGRAM'S
DELAYED TELEGRAM
Read the Plaindealer for all the News
Cbampoeg, Oro May 2, 1843, (Delayed
in transmission). One of the most ex
citing political campaigns ever held in
the Northwest waa held hero today. The
Question involved waa whether Oregon
should be British or American territory.
Early in the morning the entire voting
population, numbering 102, assembled
at the polls and listened to the spellbin
ders Jo Meek, the campaign manager
for Uncle Sam, insisted on watching the
count, und his side won by two votes.
Tins is the nrst time on record that an
election was held in Oregon where there
were no repeaters.
Smith. "I have known Smith four
years." she stated. "I-ast Septemb r
he began paying me attention and
gave me an average of $200 a month.
Four weeks before he left San Fran
cisco I went to Hot Springs with a
woman friend. I knew he was mar
ried, and he told me he was short,
that he had lost money in stocks and
not stand the loss, being principally
from large corporations. One was a
check f. r nearly $40,000 from tbe
Southern Pacific. For weeks befon
the exposure came he suffered tor
ments and c u'd not eat r sice .
He steadfastly deni id that he knew
Eeona Unmks or met her at the
Jefferson Hotel on Tuesday.
dition. Wheat, oats, rye and barley are
g'o ing satisfactorily, and iii some sec
tions os western Oregon rye and barley
are leginning to head. Hops have
reached the tops ol the wires in some
tavnred localities, but in many yards I
the crop is coming up unevenly, nee
cenritnting the "cutting back" of the;
vines.
Corn and pitato planting continues ;
Siine Mm is up aud the stand is re- j
girted as very g-nnl. Early potatoes j
were -luiie badly frosted during thei
week, lb tops in many localities being
frozen to the ground. Gardens have j
mad slow growth owing to the lack of i
un-diine. Meadows and pastures re in
nne coiniition an.l stoclt looks wen
Lambing is about over. Sheep and goat
-hearing continues, wiih a clip general
Iv above average All tree fruit, ex
cept lute apvles, more or less injured by
host, bat reports as to the extent con-
inue very conflicting. Peaches, prunes
and cheeries, however, have snrtereu
most. But-h fruit aud s'.rawlerries
promise geod yields.
FIRST STRAWBERRIES
OF THE SEASON
A PREHISTORIC "WHAT IS IT?" FROM CAMAS.
Just now a well preserved skull of a ( mutant horns are in evidence and the
nruhistorir anim il of thu trout, sheen or bruin envitv is verv larire. 1 he skull is
elk fa.mil v is attracting much attention more than an inch
in the Plaindealer office show window.
The skull waa discovered by A. E
Crouch and John Lehnherr, timber
cruisers, partially buried on the summit
of the Coast Kange Mountains in this
county, about 12 miles south of Camas
Valley. The stubs of two strong per-
in thickne-s
iiart of which is oetriried. The
jaws and general formation of thecrani
urn is strong and massive for an animal
of the size indicated by this skull and
up to this time no one has been able to
classify the ancient skeleton and its
identity is yet to be established.
The first Oregon strawberries on the
Portland market this year reached th s
city April 24. This shipment consist! d
ol two 21 pound crates, grown by J A.
Willis of Myrtle Creek. Mr. L S. Coon
,,f Dillard, who is usually the first man
to get Oregon strawberries on the
market, was only one day behind Mr.
Willis, aud his first shipmeut this sea
son arrived April 25.
Last year the first Oregon berries on
the Portland market reached the city on
May 14 ; in 15W2, on May 13, and in 1901.
on May 7. If we are not mistaken thOM
years mentioned were all from Mr.
Coon Rural Nortnweet.
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