THE MORNING ASTORIAN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1904.
PAGE SEVEN.
MURDERER IS
SURROUNDED
Man Guilty of Four Crimes Is In
Net Formed by Armed
Militiamen.
MURDERED WIFE AND CHILD
1 Killed Them llecaus He Feared
Tbey would Ten or other
Crimes Which Ue Uad
Committed.
Piioaga, June SLA dispatch to the
Tribune from Winona, Minn., says:
John Smith, supposed to ba guilty
x et four murders, the latest of which
wu tha shooting of Sheriff Uarrtaoo
oC Eaa Claire, WU., a few' days aca on
M Omaha paesenger train near that
city whlla tha aharlff waa attempting
to arrest blm on tha charge of robbing
a atora at Rosemond, Wis., has baan
sled In tha bottoma acroaa tha Hvtf
rrom tnia city, Tires hundred w a
conaln militiamen form a net, through
whUh tha desperado can hardly eacapa
allvs.
At Oatesvllle ha entered a farm
houae and demand aomatblnr to eat
When tha food waa placed on the table
ba placed bla revolvers In front of him
and allowed no one to leave the room.
la addition to the murder of Sheriff
Harris, Smith la wanted for killing the
chief of police of Havre, Mont After
killing the Montana officer he grew
fearful that hla wife or child might
give the crime away, ao It la alleged.
ha ahot them both and fled to Wlacon
sin. Ha la 24 yeara of age.
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Bad for Strikes.
The precipitate ending of the atrlke
of the employee of the atate railroad!
In Hungary la Instructive. It waa ef
fected by the simple and perfectly na
tural expedient of the government In
ordering all the employee of the roads
who are members of tha reserves or
liable to military duty to Join their
respective regiments. Tha command
to the atrlkera to don their uniforms,
(all In line, and become available for
duty In auppreeslng themselves was
probably unexpected, but It did not ad
rnlt of tha kind of discussion which In
this country follows the call of the
states upon trades union militiamen
to assist in preserving the peace and
protecting life and property.
Just thla must happen here, how
ever, If the railroad system of the
United States passes from private to
public control under any plan of social
Istlc reorganization, says the New York
Times. In that event, In a atrlke of
those employed we should .witness
something akin to a conflict of the peo
I pie with themselves. The authority of
I the state In the control and operation
I of ita own property and in the service
i of Its own people must remain supreme,
To question and oppose it would be
;. anarchy: effectively to resist It would
Abe revolution.
, lt will gradually dawn upon those
, Identified with the labor agitation that
tradea unionism and aoclallam are
I movements tending In diametrically op-
shrewd enough to see this already, but
It will probably be a long time before
they succeed In making it clear to their
following. When they do, it Is not Im
possible that we shall find the social
lets hiving by themselves and wholly
lout of sympathy with the plan and
purpose of organised labor to prevent
any extension of the scheme of govern
fment ownership and operation of pub
; lie utilities. New York Commercial
RUSSELL SAGE'S ARGUMENT
AGAINST TAKING VACATIONS
i ! San Francisco Bulletin.
Russell Sage hardly makes out his
rase when he says: "Is it not absurd
to suppose that a man who can work
It and a half months cannot as well
work the whole year? Is it not equally
absurd to suppose that a man can In
two weeks recuperate from the wear
tnd tear of a year's work, if there be
such wear and tear? On the contrary,
I have too often observed that men
will, while, on their vacations, make
inroads upon their vitality and purses
that cannot be repaired in the follow
ing 11 months and two weeks."
I The conclusion to which Mr, Sage's
Argument leads is not that men da not
need vacations, but that they need
more than a fortnight's vacation in the
year.
I Americans, aa a rule, work too
'irenuously and do not take sufficient
recreation. And the people who take
the longest and most frequent vaca
tions are those who least need a rest
the idle rich are continually Hitting
bout the world, , resting from the
fatigues of a life of ease, but the men
that work and worry the hardest are
loath to leave their dally labor. Of
course there Is much that Is ridiculous
In our ways of taking vacations. But
on the whole, a holiday In the country,
in an environment different from that
to which a man Is accustomed, re
freshes his mind and body, enlarges
his view and pulls him, for the time,
out of the rut
Americana are as strenuous In tak
Ing their vacations aa they are In per
forming their dally toll The average
American rushes In the city 80 weeks,
then rushes to the country, where he
rushes through his holiday and rushes
home again. In the old countries they
have learned now to be leisurely,
London merchant arrives at bis office
at U o'clock and quits at I or 4. Ha
gives bis week ends to golf or soma
other form of healthful recreation. He
does not aee In work the very aim and
object of lift, tut takes hla pleasures
aa he stoea along. When he baa
amassed a aufflclent fortune be retires
from bualneaa and spends the re
mainder of hla days In dignified ease,
pursuing sans pleasures and: making
tha most of bla time.
LIGHT AND SHADOW
IN THE POLICB COURT
San Franc tco Bulletin. '
"I waa standing on the aldewalk one
night" said Officer John Laws, when
asked for a reminiscence, "and pre
ently aaw a man coming down the
atrlct with two other men a abort dist
ance behind. The latter seemed to be
following the pedestrian, and I ahrank
back Into a doorway to aee If they
meant mischief.
"Suddenly the two men overtook the
unconscious victim, and aa they passed
one reached over and hit him a crack
on the back of the bead and
droDoed to tho aldewalk aensetesa
The robbers immediately pounced upon
him and Belied hla watch and 15-eIl
the money he had upon blm. Just at
thla moment I arrived and aelxed them
both.
"They were too much for me, how
ever, and I found I couldn't hold them
both. One broke loose and started
swiftly down the street At this
Juncture a saloonkeeper came run
nlng across. I turned over my prison
er to blm an started away after the
other.
"It waa a long, exciting chase. He
ducked through dark alleys and down
side streets, but I managed to keep
him In sight
"At last he made a spurt for the
Palace hotel hoping, I suppose, to
throw me off by dodging through the
building and out at some obscure ent-
ranee. Hut, be got tangled up In the
doorway, and before he could get
atraJshtened out I had him by the
neck.
"1 hustled him back to the scene of
the hold-up and found he saloonkeeper
atlll plucklly staying with hla charge-
though there waa a terrific atruggle
going on. We soon had them quieted,
however, and the n we took them away
to the halt
"Thla was the cleanest case of rob'
bery I ever had. One got a life sent
ence and the other 20 yean."
Put Pooket In 8toekIng.
Are hosiery pockets for women to
supplant the dainty purse or reticule T
Hosiers who have made a long study
of woman's needs for pockets have
Intoduced under the guise of St Louts
fair souvenirs a big variety of women's
stockings with pockets knitted near the
top.
As a rule the pockets are done in
bright colored silk, the designs being
the stars and stripes, crossed flags or
St Louis fair Inscriptions on pink or
red silk. The pockets are three and
three-quarter Inches broad and are
made ostensibly for the safeguarding
of railroad tickets.
Hosiers gravely announce that the
new creations are the forerunners of a
modified pocket stocking, which will be
fastened or buttoned, and Is destined to
contain the money or trinkets which a
lady carries about with her.
These manufacturers, who are ac
customed to study the needs of women
In wearing apparel, even prophesy that
skirts will be made eventually with
apertures so aa to render the pocket
easy of access, .
The importers admit that neither
they nor anybody else can venture to
say how capricious woman will regard
them. She may prefer the discomforts
of searching through a muff for car
fare, or continue to worry about the
contents of a chain purse on shopping
expeditions. New York Herald.
BEST 1S-CENT MEAL.
You ean alwaya find tha best 15-eent
meal In the olty at the Rising 8un
restaurant, No. 612 Commerolal street
FLOOD GUESS
INACCURATE
Forecaster Beales to Discontinue
Yearly Estimates as to the
Rise of Oregon Rivers.
TOO UNCERTAIN BUSINESS
Effort to Predict Extent of
Spring: Floods Rendered Dlffl
Cult bjr Conditions Not to
Be Controlled.
For several years past a feature of
the weather bureau reports for Oregon
has been an estimate of the probable
rise of the Columbia and Willamette
rlvera. published about April 1 of each
the Portland forecast official, It Is
doubtful whether these estimates will
ba continued after thla year.
The height of the annual riae de
pends primarily upon the rapidity with
which tha snow melts In the moun
tains, and this In turn Is governed
by the warmth of the weather, Vnder,
normal conditions if spring tempera
ture the weather bureau has only to
ascertain the amount of snow that
haa fallen In the mountains to estl-
probable extent of the spring flood
In the rivers. With a given depth of
snow In the mountains there must
be a certain rise In the rivers, pro
vided the anow melts at a normal
rate. But If the temperature In April
and May ahowa any considerable de
parture from the normal, or if there
should be alterations of beat and cold
so that the thawing of the snow Is
Interupted, the calculations of the
weather bureau will be upset, and Its
estimates of the rise of the rivers will
be falsefled. These estimates have
been published about April 1, while
the height of he spring rise la usually
reached In the latter part of of May or
in June.
1 have come to the conclusion that
It la of little use to try to predict the
extent of the spring floods,", said Mr.
Beals. "We fell down badly this year,
In our March report we predicted that
with normal temperatures in April and
May, the flood crest at Portland would
be 28 feet The maximum high water
mark reached waa 20.8 feet But our
estimate waa made, of course, upon
the assumption that the spring weather
would be normal and In this we were
disappointed. After the snows began
to melt the river rose to a height of
20.8 feet then became stationary there,
owing to a sudden cold spell In the
mountaalns which kept the river at
that level for about three weeks. The
result was that the snow melted away
very gradually. A larger volume of
snow haa gone out thla year than us
ual, but It melted In such a way as
to give less flood. Last year, with
less anow In the mountains, the flood
crest at Portland was 24 feet or more
than three feet higher than this year.
"The unusually warm weather in
April of this year started the snow
down and the rivers began to rise.
Then came the change to colder
weather and the rise was suddenly
checked. We could not foresee such a
departure from the usual weather, and
so our predictions proved to be mis
taken.
"There Is another factor which we
have to consider In making these esti
mates. The Snake and the upper Co
lumbia both rise in the spring for the
same cause the melting of the moun
tain snows and If the flood crests on
both reach the junction of the rivers
simultaneously, It means much higher
water on the lower Columbia than
otherwise. Ordinarily the Snake river
crest passes the crest before the crest
on the upper Columbia comes down,
for the reason that the drainage area
of the Snake Is farther to the south
and so more subject to warm weather.
But when high water Is reached sim
ultaneously on both rivers, then we get
our highest water on the lower river.
"I have about concluded that here
after I will make no more predictions
as to the height the river will reach,
but will content myself with giving
the publlo the information we gather
as to the amount of snow In the moun
tains. People can then do their own
guessing for themselves."
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Isn't it reas
onable to sup
pone that when
the Biiters has
eured tboo
sands of cases
X of "week atom-,--
ach" in lbs past
mam win care
you too? It la
worth trying
anyhow.
Indlgentlos,
' Constipation.
FoorAppstJte,
Dyspepsia,
FlatuSencyP ;
ted Bilious-
BOSS,
This passion for self-sacrifice is the
keynote of the Russian character and
la cultivated in the army by every pos
sible means. The recruit la Invariably
told the story of that heroic company
of Infantrymen in the Lomakln expedi
tion Into Turkestan, who at a critical
moment, threw themselves Into a deep
ditch In order that the guns, which
wars sorely needed at the front, might
be galloped over their bodies. It la
doubtful whether this could have hap
pened in any army but the Russian.
If there Is one thing in which the
Russian army excela It la marching.
Lord Roberta' famous march to Can-
dahw bai been equaled over and oyer
again by the ctar's troops in their Cert
tral Asian ecampalgns. When General
Kuropatkin marched a force of Turke
stan troops to Join Skobeleft In the at
tack on Geok Tepe, be and bis men
were swallowed up In an unknown,
trackless desert for 28 days, yet they
covered over 40 miles a day and
marched In at the end of the time In
perfect military order without a single
man sick or fallen out It was a won
derful feat but It waa not regarded In
Russian military circles as being any
thing extraordinary.
A former captain of the Russian
army told me of a friend of his who
lived for years In a amall town and
was then ordered away to St Peters
burg. In less than six months be re
celved a command to return and
promptly blew out hla brains.
"Nobody waa surprised," said my
friend. "We all know what life in such
places is like. A man can be happy In
Siberia on a lonely outpost where be
haa no companions of hla own rank
within 100 miles, but there Is no happl
nesa possible in a small Russian garri
son town for a man of average Intelll
gence." The World's Work.
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The Astoria National Bank
AST01IA, OREGON.
DIRECTORS
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AUG. 8CHEHNECKNAD, L.MANSUB.
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First Nttfonal Bank. Portland, Oregon.
Continental National Bank. Chicago.
Bank of Mew York, N. B. A., New York
Crocker- Noolworth Kat. Bank. 8. T.
First National Basic of Astcrla
ESTABLISHED 1886
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Russian Bravery.
Here is a story of Russian bravery.
There is a monument in Turkestan to
several Russian soldiers captured by
the Turcomans In 1879. They were
artillerymen, and their guns were cap-
tured with them, so the Turcomans
naturally ordered them, on penalty of
death, to serve those guns against
their own comrades. Every man re
fused, choosing- death by horrible tor
ture and dying without a murmur.
The only direct route to the St
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via the O. R. ft N. and Union Pacific.
The folowlng ratea apply from As
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To St Louis and return 1(7.50
To Chicago and return 72.50
To Chicago, returning from St
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Returning via California, $13.50 ad
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For further particulars, call on or
address O. W. ROBERTS.
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