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VOLUME LVI. ASTORIA, OREGON, FMDAyI FEBRUARY 13, 1003. mmnrn
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HOLDUP MEN
ROB EXPRESS
Burlington Passenger Train Looted
by Masked Men Six Miles
East of Butte.
AMOUNT TAKEN NOT KNOWN
HherlflTniiit Vnne Hot on Trail ol
Rubber mmI It Ih Thought
Tlint They Will Moon
Capture Them.
Chas. Larson
W.kh BlKk
652 Commercial Street.
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V. H. COFFEY
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wpuiuuviii jwie, vomer twna ana iweiun. a
Butte, Feb. 12. The Burlington ex
press No. 6, enstbnund, wa held up a
little pant midnight on the Northern
Pacific track, eight milw east of thli
city, near HometHk, by two mouted
men. They covered the sides of the
train wlili their guns, uncoupled the
engine, mall and expie cam, and ran
them ahead of the train about two
miles. The operator at High View
say that he heard two exploions and
It I believed the bsndlw attempted
to blow the safe to pieces.
The trainmen of the passenger truln,
aftr the rubbers" had left with the en
gine and corn, hastened back toward
Itutte and met an oncoming freight
train, the engine of which una un
coupled nnd hurried on to Butte and
the nlnrm riven. .A sheriff and posse
and n police tone have left for the
scene on a specuil train. The rnllway
officials have asked of the penitentiary
officials at Deer Lodge for their bluod
hound. .
Sheriff Quln and officer MiGarvle
with a posse when about a mile and a
half out of the city were met by Divl.
lon Superintendent Doyle who nn a
passenger on the train held .up. Sup
erlntendeiit Koyle snld he ruahed to
the front of the truln when It wan
Hopped, but refrained from shooting
terauiw of fear of hitting trainmen
Superintendent Hoyle says he saw the
holdup return after they left the en
Sine, with the ear and remount their
home. They proceeded in the ellree
Hon of liutte. He could nee them up
to within two mile of Hutte. He open
ed fire with a Snvage rllle. but the
range wa too great and the ahota
proved Ineffective.
Kvery officer In the city hna been
called to South Butte and all approach
es to the city are carefully guilrded,
Hhrlff Quin and Officer Mcflarvle tire
cutting ncroaa the country and a tight
I believed to tie Imminent. Word haH
Juitt been brought In that the two rob
bera are near the race track, Just be
low the city.
The rnbbern fired two thnrge of dy
namite, blowing the aitfo to pieces und
wrecking the express car. The safe,
according to tlu railway officials,
contained nothing. The holdup la evi
dently the work of novices. Word hns
been received at the depot that a spe
cial train has left Peer Lodge with
the penitentiary bloodhounds. The ottlc
ers fear thnt the men may run Into the
mountains, which are but n ihort dis
tance from the race track.
The train was a double-header nnd
the engines and the mail and express
cars were run ahout 600 feet ahead of
the rest of the train.
In a few moments after the train
was stopped there were two explos
ions of dynamite which wrecked the
express car. The roof wits Mown off,
but no one was Injured.
t.ater reports as to the amount of
booty secured vary. The express mes
senger reruses to give out anything
definite, other than thnt the robbers
secured a sum In the neighborhood of
500. From other sources comes the
-yun inai me plunder will amount
to several thousand dollars at least.
It Is also snld that several of the mull
pouches were rifled.
lug papers and that within 35 minute,
the mbbur hod finished thejr work and
were on their way to Buti. Ha wa
forced to uncouple the engine, mall and
express car from the remainder of the
iriln and carry the dynamite for the
rotbera, while on of .the bandits fired
a bullet between ills legs td hurry him
up. ";
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SUSPECT ARRESTED
Uuttc, Keb. 12. Detective Murphy
arrested William McCullough on sus
picion of being one of the Northern
Pacific tnln robbers, this afternoon.
The sum of UsS.'JO was found In Mc
Culiough's belt.
IlEWAftD FOn KOnjBERB.
Helena, Feb, 12. The Northern Pa
flic Railway company has offered a re
ward of $5000 for the arrest and con
viction of the five men who are said
to have held up the Burlington express
just east of Itutte this morning. The
comiany will pay the $5000,, reward for
the entire gang, or $1000 for each mem
ber convicted.
BLOCKADE WILL BE RAISED
PftOTOOOUJ FOR THE RESCMP
TION OF TftADE W1T1I VEN
EZUELA WILL JIE
SIGNED.
Waahlngton, Feb. 12. The probabll
tty Is that the protocols for the raising
of the blockade which has been main
tained by England, Germany and Italy
against Venezuela for more than i
month, will be signed by Minister Bow.
en and representatives of the allied
governments here tomorrow. Every
indication point to that end tonight
The protocols will provide for the rais
ing of the blockade nt once for a cash
payment nt 5000 pounds to each of the
three itlied governments and for the
payment to Germany of $31.000 in live
installments, less the 5500 jiounds paid
In caih. The first Installment of
1310,000 is to lie paid on the 15th of
March. The protocols also will pro
vide for a reference of the question of
preferential treatment to The Hague
For the payment of the claims of the
allies, Mr. Itoweu has arranged to be
gin Immediately setting aside the 30
percent of the receipts of the ports of
Puerto Cabello and La Gwtyra.
FULTONITES
STAND PAT
Opposition Is Beginning to Weaken
in Belief That Leader Will
Suffer Loss.
FULTON IS GOING TO WIN OUT
Strength of Afrtorla Candidate Is
Openly Recognized by Tlione
Who Would He Pleaxed
at Ills Defeat.
AGITATING RACE PROBLEM
Masa Meeting Planned Throughout the
Country to Stir lp Fubllc
Sentiment
New York. Feb. 12. James Hays of
Richmond. Vn., who Is testing In the
courts the dlsenfranehisement of the
negroes of his state. Bishop Derrick of
Flushing, L. I., Dr. T. B. Walker, H.
M. Brooks and T. W. Henderson of this
city, and the Itev. I. W. L. Rountree
of Trenton, I he leader of the colored
voters of New Jersey, have held "a
conference in this city to consider the
race problems that have been agitated
recently. ,
To stir up public sentiment favorable
to the negroes unci their higher men
tal development ss well as the dlsen
f ranch Isement of the negro, which their
leaders clal mis goln on in the south,
a series of mass meetings extending
all over the country have been plan
nl. The first metlng will be held In
Faneull hall, Boston, tonight, and
meeting will be held in this city at
Coojier Union next Thursday.
HOTEL PORTLAND
The Finest Hotel In the Northwest
PORTLAND, - - ORE00N
R0BBEHS ARE IN BUTTE
cinenn yum convinced He Hns the
Miscreants Located and Will
Speedily Arrest Them. "
uue, Mont., Feb. 12,-Shcrlff Ouln
to firmly ?onvlneed tonight thnt the
noiaup or the Burlington flyer No. 6,
which was robbed six miles out of the
city limits thla morning, reached Butte
na are now hiding- in the city. From
evidence Quln saya he haa, he declnres
he will land the robbers before several
aays nave oaswd.
While Sheriff Quln would not tell na
to the evidence In Us hands, it la he.
lleved he relies on finding a ruhhee f tr.
ed carriage used by the holdups in their
escape. Tracks of the vehlole could
be easily followed this morning until
the well travelled highways of the city
were reached. A mask nnd empty
cartridge shells dropped by the robbers
are In the hands of the police. The
blood-hounds brought from the penl
tentlary proved a failure.
Fireman Jondrow tonight said that
the train was stopped by blu pf burn-
0PERAT0R BLAMED
MAN WHO CAt'SED THE WRECK
ON S. P. MYSTERIOUSLY
DISAPPEARED.
Tucson, Arls., Feb. 12. The Rlche
Jury, known as the "chump" coroner's
Jury today placed responsibility for the
Esmond wreck between the passenger
trains on the Southern Pacific January
28 on Operator Clough.
It condemns the Southern Pacific for
falling to place guards around the
wreck to prevent wholesale pilfering of
articles from the bodies and wreckage.
The Jury says It would have been pos
sible to Identify more bodies had It not
been for the looting of the wreck by
souvenir fiends.
The crews of both trains are exoner
at ted from all blame.
dough's whereaouts are still a mys
tery.
BLIZZARD IS RAGING
STOCKMEN IN WYOMING ARE BE
COMING ALARMED AT THE
FEARFUL STORM.
Cheyenne, Feb. 12. The storm that
has been raging for several days has
assumed the, proportions of a bllssard
throughout southern and western Wy
oming and stockmen who are ranging
herds and flocks In the regions where
there Is little or no feed are now great
ly alarmed.
In the western portions of the state
snow has fallen to a great depth.
Salem, Feb. 12. It looked yesterday
more strongly than It hadjhe day be
fore as If the senatorial contest would
be prolonged to the last day of the ses
sion. Today It looks that way more
strongly than yesterday, and few are to
be found who expect an election or even
any Important changes sooner t'uan the
last day.
If the leglxlature shall take the "sual
over-Saturday adjournment this week
there will be five more Joint ballots be
fore the final day of the session. On
the final day there may be one ballot
or there may be a score, or as many
more as the Joint ansembly may eee fit
to take and can find time to take be
tween noon and midnight. And If an
election cannot be accomplished then
the Joint utwmbly may adjourn until
the next day and go at It again. In
fact, the legislature may contiue to
hold daily sessions and daily joint bal
lots as long as It should choose, but the
members would receive no compensa'
tlon for their services after the regular
day set for adjournment. It is within
the rantre of probability that in case
of failure to elect on Friday a session
might be held on the Saturday follow
ing the regular day of adjournment.
but prolongation of the contest beyond
then in only barely possible.
The surprise of the present week has
been the holding together In solid-
fronted phalanx af the Fulton people.
It was all along contended, by the op
position force that unless Fulton
could make gains this week he must
expect to lose some votes, and this
view seemed so logical that It was par
ticipated In by most people. Irrespective
of their sympathies. Rut Fulton has
made no gains and neither has he suf
fered losses. Since Fulton has demon
strated that in declaring he could and
would hold his people together he knew
whereof he spoke, some of his oppon
ents are Inclined to take rather more
seriously than before that other claim
voiced so frequently by Fulton since
the legislative session began, "I am go-
lnar to win out."
Fulton now has 35 votes, counting
his own. Representatives Hume and
Jones, of Lincoln, are the only members
outside of the Multnomah delegation
who have not cost In the fortunes with
some leading candidate. If Fulton
should gain both of these he would
have 37, or seven fewer than the nun
ber neces?ary to elect. In the ordl
nary course of balloting from day to
day It would seem most Improbable
that he coull get others. But on the
final day, when the hands of the clock
crawl around toward midnight, any
sort of development would not be sur
prising.
Binger Hermann has not yet arrived
at Salem, and It is understood he will
not come until next week. No open
lobbying In his behalf is being done,
and It looks as though he may not be
preparing to get Into the game at all
But If he does there may be some good
opportunities next week, especially
along toward the end thereof.
Following is the vote cast today:
Fulton 34
Geer 15
Wood ...15
George ,...13
Scattering t
Absent 7
v Senator Tierce's bill to appropriate
$20,000 for experimental feeding purpose
and for the conducting and develop
ment of the agricultural experiments of
the eastern Oregon agricultural station
at Union, made a special order of busi
ness for this morning, was favorably
reported upon by the committee of the
whole and was passed after some dls
cushion.
o'clock In the afternoon. On my recent
visit to Franr e t metjhe physician and
I know that thus far he has only said
that when he examined the bodies he
found evidence of cerebral Injuries. As
to the time he has said nothing."
INDIANS AT WHITE HOUSE
CHIEFS GORGEOUS IN BLANKETS
ARE INTRODUCED TO THE
PRESIDENT.
Washington, Feb. 12 A delegation of
distinguished Imilan chiefs, headed by
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces and in
cluding Chiefs Ahlokat, Peyo'ptalykt
and Andrew Whitman of Colviiie res
ervatbn in Washington; Jessie Kirk of
Oregon, and Andrew John, Seneca of
New York, called upon the president
today.
The Indla.is, robed in gorgeous blan
kets, were Introduced to the president
by General Leonard Wood and Colonel
H. L. Scott, both of whom campaign
ed galnst Chief Joseph In the west.
The president gave his callers a cor
dial reception and delighted them im
mensely by Inviting them to attend the
army and navy reception at the White
House tonight as his guests.
The Indians are In Washington look
ing after certain legislation pending
before congress In which they are Interested.
COURTROOM
WAS JAMAED
President Baei Appears Before the
Commission With a Carefully
Prepared Speech.
HAD WARNED MR. MITCHELL
FIFTY WOMEN IN JAIL
Railroad Company Has Them Commit
ted for Stealing Coal From Cars.
Jfew York, Feb. 12. Fifty women
have been committed to Jail In Patr
son. N. J., charged by the Delaware,
Lackawanna A Western railroad with
stealing coal from cars on the sidings
at that place. Five tons of coal were
stclr-n by the women, who carried the
coal away In bags' on their heads.
Seven small boys have been arraign
ed In the children's court on complaint
of one of the yardmasters of the New
York Central railroad, who asserts that
the prisoners, with companions num
bering about 5, have, in the last month,
stolen 150 tons of coal from the yards
of the company. The boys, the eldest
of whom is not 13 years of age, con
fessed, but they were discharged with
a warning, the yardmaster refusing to
make formal charges against them. I
Operators Must Not lie Dictated
to an to. Their Employes '
Unions Itesnonftible for
Famine in Coal.
Philadelphia, Feb. 12. With the ex
f OI;t inn ft tiAMn 1" nt T . .
president of the Reading company, mak
ing the closing argument against the
demand of the miners, the largest
crowd that has yet Jammed Into the
United States circuit court room wast
present when the coal strike commis
sion resumed its sessions today. Man
prominent men and women were in the
throng. As President Baer rose a
hush fell over the assembles, which
lasted as Ions as he wa nn hia tevl tr
Baer is considered a good speaker, but ;
he preferred to read his carefully pre- ,
pared argument. - Here and there he '
would lay down his manuscript and
raise his voice to a high pitch when he
wished to emphasize a strong point.
President Baer said In part:
"In the development of the natural
resources of the earth It Is necessary
for men to combine both their capital
and their energy. Railroads, steam
ship lines, great steel plants and work
shops of every kind can only be creat
ed by a combination of capital. We are
apt to overlook the part these business
corporations play in the distribution of
wealth.
"Many good men have found fault
with us for not making an agreement
with the United Mineworkers of Am
erica. You will recall that the demand
made upon us was for a uniform wage
field. " AIKof the oneratora were a1cp1
to meet ih convention with a view to
adopting a uniform scale. The con-
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C. H. COOPER
SATEMENT WAS FALSE,
Doctor Perrlquet Never Said the Fairs
Died Simultaneously.
New York, Feb. 12. One of the coun
sets conducting the suit fov Mrs. Han
nah Nelson, mother of Mrs. Charles
Fair, recently killed in an automobile
accident In France, to set aside the set
tlement of the estate, has declared that
a statement purporting to come from
Doctor Perrl(uet, a French physician
is false, the lawyer said:
"Doctor Perriquet has not signed
any certificate stating that Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Fair died each at about 2
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