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CHANGE IN BOISE CASE The Defense Assumes the Aggressive. .J - : f , JURY HAS MAIN FACTS State's Case It Practically All Before the Jury But Little Remains. "SIMPKINS WAS IN BULLPEN" Tht Defen Will Attempt TftShow That Orchard and Slmpklns Wt Actuated By Personal Motives In Killing SUuatabtrg. BOISE, June 22.-Tht cloning Of th case) by dim state leawea tht great Utile against and for tlte Ufa of Hay wood in mldueld and from now for ward tin change tht defender aume the aggressive, and tha prose cutor ara on the defensive. Tha state cutora ara on tit lie defensive, Tha ttt will tarry IU aaaa on through an tggrvlv rroa examina tion and then present mora testimony in ralutttal, but ita main proposition and allowing ara already Mora tha Jury. At to tha Kteunenberg crime, which tha one specifically charged against Hay wood, tha atata haa made tha following allowing! Jack Slmpklns, a member of tha exeeutlvt board of tha Western Federation of Miners, went to Caldwell three month before tHeunenberg wa murdered. Ha traveled under the aumed name of "Simmon and lived with On-hard. Ua left Caldwell at tha end of a three weeka' atay and lata returned fur a brief vlait of tea than a day. Ilia presence and movement art ahown by Independent witnee and tht registers of tha hotela where ha atopped, Haywood aent to Slmpklns on Decem ber 21, 1005, nine day before the mur der of Bteunenbcrg, an unregistered let ter, he alo aent from Denver, Decern- A 1 . . .in Inn, - . , . I -... , 1 . II.. x wr ivuu, una snowing mc nuun-ss jT)q "Thoma Hogan" that the writer knew tht allaa of Orchard and contain ed a statement that, "That" had been sent to "Jack" ou Dei-ember 21, 1905. Oroliard teitifled that Pettibone, one of : Haywood' co-defendant, wrote tha let ter. Without making any requent, legal aid waa extended to Orchard within two day after hie a treat, through At torney Fred Miller, of Spokane. Four letters were ent to Mr. Or oliard, the second,' at Cripple Creek, three were written by On-hard and one by Haywood. At various time In 11)05 nd It I claimed that they not only show the evidence of a plan to con ceal Orchard's whereabout, from hi wife but were a part of a plan to make an allhl for him. Orchard swore that Haywood waa a party to the plan. The article from the Miner' Magazine and some testimony a to the Cocur d'Alcne atrlke ln; 1800' show animus toward Slcunenberg, on the part of Haywood and other leader of the Federation. Orchard ha been traced minutely, through the San Francisco episode, the attempt to murder Fred Bradley, that he received money, there, from Petti bone by letter and telegraph. . i Orchard 1m been traced, minutely, through the San FranclHoo episode, the attempt to murder Fred Bradley, that he received money, there, from Petti bone by letter and telegraph. , The caning of the so-oallfd Peabbdy bomb was produced and ita history largely proved by outside witnesses present at the time It waa made In Denver and dug out of the ice on the Cocur d'Alcne river. Tht discovery of the Goddard bomb was established but the earlier history of the bomb and the plot centering about It, rest on the testimony fit Orchard. The reason for me animus against Judge Gnbbcrt and (loddard, was ihown to exist from de clslnna, adverse to Moyer and the labor interests in Colorado. Orchard's etory of the Drat descent Into the Vindicator mine wa corroborated and hi state ment a to the Independence citation outrage and tht murder of Detective Gregory stand practically alone. The rtory of the Vindicator outrage was In part supported by outside testimony. The chief corroboration of Orchard' testimony ha been a to the thing he did and the time and manner of their doing and It I contended by the defense, that aide from hi testimony, there I not (Ingle piece of Inependent tvt dence, against Haywood or any In fact, that independently eonnect Haywood with the crime charged or any other crime. The counsel for Haywood will not outline their refense until on Mon day morning but their count during tht cro-examinatlon to make It more apparently manifest, they will endeavor to show that Oroliard killed Steunenberg in order to be revenged for the toss of tha Hercules Mine and several wit new will awear that they beard Or chard vow that he would kill Bteuoen berg. The defense will probably uhow that Jack Slmpklns waa a prisoner in tht "bullpen" where a negro thrust a bayonet Into bit cheat, these being the elroumataiuW that gave Orchard and Slmpklns a common cause against Sttunenberg. The book and record of tht Federation will probably bt produc ed to thow that the financial relation between Haywood and Slmpkim cam in tht natural and regular course of business and that Orchard's testimony a to his relations with the Federation leader will probably bt uaed to directly controvert much of his other testimony and there may be an effort to thow that he did go to Aika, . FRENCH RIOTS SERIOUS. PARIS, June 22. Mall advance from Lisbon thow that tht conflicts between tht police and the people on June 10 end 20 were much mote arious thsn the censored dUpstchrs from the Portugea capital Indicated. The troop were railed to dperse the mob which wet the charge, with revolver shot. The rioters raided the cafe, arm I themselves with iron bars from the, tattle and bottles, attacked the troop and the police, who killed six and wounded over a hundred. The dictatorship of the Premier of France is the cause of tht trouble. LOI! FARES COMING Two-Cent Rates in Effect July First INCLUDES ALL BIG ROADS Railroad Officials Meet In Chicago and Agree To Drop Three-Cent a Mile Fare and Adopt tht Two-Cent Rata on CHICAGO, June 22. The Inter-Ocean today sayst , Passenger rates on all railroads of the United States will be reduced to two cent smile. The lowering of the price and complete abolition of the old 3cctn rate will begin on Julyl. This waa the decision reached In Chicago yester day after long and heated diaoueion of tht kading railroad , presidents of all the western and transoontinentiul routes, It was not a formal agreement mil is equally, binding for two large roads doing a transcontinental business are said to have served an ultimatum to others that they Would put tlte rate Into effect Immediately; ; . . : Following the meeting of the offlclale of the roads several admitted that they had been forced to bow to public opin ion and anti-railroad legislation. How said that no further fight would be made on the two-cent lawa already passed and that the roads would accept. the in evltable. .Among those who are aaid to have attended the secret meeting were Pre- ident B. L. Wmchell of the Chicago Rock Island 4 Pacific and president A. J. Earllng of the Chicago Milwaukee & st. Paul. Neither would dicuss the report last night. . YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL SCORES. Coast League. "XT T..J... A il"' - "!( anu Francisco 5 (10 Inning.) j ( j At rortmnu-irortland 1, Oakland 0. Northwest League. """" At Taeonm Taeouis 5, Vancouver 14, EFFEC1 U ALLY ' TIED UP Operators Claim Compan ies Cannot Move. -! DIVISION. CHIEFS OUT Companies Assert That the Situ ation Has Improved-Business Being Handled. REFESET0 DEAL WITH UNION Offidalt Say They Will Treat 'With Ken As Individuals But Will Not Recognise the Union Strikebreaker Art On tht Way. SAX FRAXCSCO, June 22.-There 1 no change in the telegraphers' strike tonight. The Western Union and PoaUl companies have about the same number working a last night and are accepting business tuhject to delay. They expect to increase their , force within a fw days. The operator claim that it will be impossible to secure oper ators enough to hsmlle the business and that the companies are effectually tied up. They claim that four Western Union division chiefs, deserted the company today. There haa been some discuaaion amongst the business men over atep to bring about a settlement through arbitration, but nothing definite wa agreed upon. The press wires are be ing operated without trouble, (Superintendent A. II. May, of the Western Union Company, aaid this morning thst the situation had improv ed (omewhat and In fact was better than had been anticipated. Between 60 and IW operators were at work nearly one-third of the usual force end con siderable business waa being handled. Applications for employment were com ing in and a speedy increase In the number of men at work was expected. All former employes requesting rein statement will be dealt with as Indi viduals, the company absolutely refus ing to recognise the union In any man ner. Referring to statements mule yes terday by President Small of the Tele graphers' Union, Mr, May saldi ''The assertion that wo have refused to trest with our own employes i ab solutely untrue. We always have and alwnya will give their claims full con sideration, Neither has the company repeatedly refused the request for in creased wages, as Sft Small states. Xo request for an increase has reached me. I may add that in many cases we have raised salaries, In some instances above the rate demanded by the union." General Superintendent L. W. Stor ror, of the Postal Telegraph Company, said: i "We are tiding over the trouble very well, considering the circumstance. Nearly one-third of our former office force is on duty and business is being handled, of course, subject to delay. Al yet few applications for positions have reached me, but these may be expected by Monday. The outlook is encourag ing.9 It is expected that both companies will be running fairly well In another week, when outside operators will be expected to arrive to fill the places of tho strikers. It waa learned last night that IS operator for the Western Union were on thcin way from the fcttt and had passed through Rawlins, Wyo. It is believed the company has had these men in reserve in anticipa tion of the strike, and that It has ar ranged for others to follow them. Su perintendent Jaynes has refused to li,..lA on.. (tuflnL I. ..I.-.,! L It J un, ,jr Minnie Bullllo-luiia H'UOllfc me strikebreaking operators the company intends to import. A to whether the strike shall be or dered to extend to other cities remains to be determined. The Postal and West ern Union officers Insist that they will hold no conferences with the officials of tlie union. If they remain obdurate the telegraphers in other cities mav be called out, thus tying up all the com-J mercial telegraph business of tht west All the prlvats wires to broker' of fice are out of commission and the wire to tht Merchants' Kxchange, the Mining Exchange and the 8n Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange art not working Tht strike had no effect upon prlcea on any of the exchange, how ever, . . OODKX, Utah. June 22. Two ear load of telegraph operators from Bal timore and Philadelphia, in charge of live PlnkerUm " detectives, paased through Ogden this morning on their way to San Francisco, They art to take the places of the striking operators in San Francisco. Members of the party said the strike in San Francisco had been anticipated, AMERICAN DREADNOUGHTS. Bids For Hugt Fighting Machine To Bt Opened. WASHINGTON, June 22.-U is ex pected thst some time the coming bid for the Delaware and Utah, tha two 20,000-lon battleships, which wens au authorised by the last session of Con grvs, will be opened at the Navy De partment. Both vessel when completed will exceed the English battleship Dreadnought In power and strength. It is expected thst at least five con tractors will put in bids for tht con struction of these two vessels. They art the Fore River Shipbuilding Company, the Newport Newt Shipbuilding Com pany, Cramps, of Philadelphia) the Bath., M.( Iron Works and tU New Tork Shipbuilding Company, of Cam. den N. J. It not expected that the government will construct either; of the vessel. , . , INSOMJfLA CURE FATAL NEW YORK, June 22.-In an effort to cure insomnia, Daniel Oilmartin, twenty yvars old, who lived in a rear room at 20, East Fortyseventh street, Manhat tan, laid his head on the window sill lust night at 11 o'clock. This morning bis landlady opened tht door to awaken him, but the only thing In his room waa his clothes. She looked into the yard and aaw him lying on the (tones. The man was dead. IDENTITY FIXED Herberts Right Name Is Herbert Hibbons. BODY CLAIMED BY WIFE Portland Tragedy Unfold A Evidence la Gathered Dead Man's Wife Hat Mrs. Reynolds Ejected From Morgue- Reynold Arraigned Tuesday, PORTLAND, June 22,-Mrs. Flora Uibbina, wife of Professor George Her bert Hibbms, killed Thursday afternoon by Charles H. Reynolds, swooned at the unexpected sight of Mrs. Reynolds em bracing the body of the slain man, in Coroner Finley's funeral, parlors last night. As Mrs. Ilibbins revived she de manded the removal from the parlors of the woman who confessed yesterday that her intimacy with Hibbins was the cause of his tragic ending. Mrs. Rey nolds wa then forced from the building by Coroner Finley. District ' Attorney Manning this morning charged Reynolds with mur der in the first degree by slaying the musivinn deliberately, and after preme ditation. Reynolds, who is in the coun ty jail, received the news of the charge calm,!, .but stated he expected to be accused of a lesser crime. He will be arraigned Tuesday. Tht audden visit to Portland last uight of Mrs. Dora Hibbins, a musician of Seattle, and the removal of the body of the man known as Herbert to Walla Walla, throws a new light on the tragedy. Mrs, Dora Ilibbins claims to be the widow of the slain musician. She stated his name waa not Hoi-bert, but George Herbert Hibbons. The giv en name was adopted a a stage pseudonym. She called at the office of Coroner Finley last night and after pay ing the funeral expenses, took the body of, her husband to Walla Walla, where interment will be made from the home of his sister. Mrs. Hibbins remained here but two hours. She established her identity as the wife of the musician by the testi mony of Portland friends who accom panied her to the morgue. MURDER IN CHAIR CI Crazed Italian Used Revol ver on Train EFFECTS OF VERMOUTH Thought He Was Being Robbed and Started Shooting at Passengers. KILLED MAN AS HE SLEPT Italian Barber Crated By Vermouth Kills Kan and Wounds Two Women On Rock Island Train Near Selden, " Kansas. ; . - v DfclVER, June 22.-Craied by the effects of vermouth, Juan Bells, an Italian barber, shot and killed C V. Topp, a tailor, going from St Paul to San Francisco, as he slept, and wounded Mrs. Morris Olson and Mrs. Harry Blakealvy, slters, traveling from Mar shall, Minn,, to Colorado, on the west bound Chicago, Rock Island It Pacific near Selden, Kansas, last night. ' Bells waa overpowered after a desperate struggle by , a passenger and a negro porter who bound him and turned him and his companion ' Patay " Longobardi over to the police at Goodland. ; Before the shooting began, most of the passengers "were dozing in their chairs, and no warning of their danger waa given them. They were awakened from tlasip slumber by ' frantic, yella and pistol shots. Five shots were fired in rapid succession' . .. . ..... ..... walked through the isle from the front to the rear of the car, taking accurate aim at one passenger after another. The first shot stmck Mrs. Olsen on the left side of her face, the bullet pass ing through the jaws and coming out on the left side. Mrs. Olsen's sister, sitting opposite her, was hit in the right shout der with the second bullet Their wounds are not fatal After being shot both "women rushed to the smoking car shead, and a majority of the male pas sengeijs followed as quickly as pos sible, tumbling over one another in their haste to escape. Bells' third bullet passed through Topp's heart. He waa found dead later in his seat. His facial expression was calm, and from his position it seemed that he wast sleeping when shot. By this time no other men remained in the car except Charles A. Gilliat, of Denver, an employe of the Griffin Wheel Company, and D. B. Slawson, of Pueblo, Colo. Gilliat closed in on Bells and wrenched his revolver from his hands, but not be fore two more' shots had been fired, nei ther "of which hit anybody. Before being overpowered, Bells drew a razor, and with this he fought des perately. A negro porter from the tourist car, armed with , a billy, finally succeeded in knocking the rator out of the Italian's hand and Bella was then seised and bound by Gilliat, Slawson, the porter and others. The train crew stayed out of bhear while the dis turbance was in, progress. - At Goodlands, Kan., Bells and a trav eling companion, Patsy Loganbradi, also an Italian,, were removed from the train and locked in jail. Bells was accom panied by his wife and four children, and Loganbradi by his wife and five children. , The women and their children con tinued their journey to San Francisco. Mrs. Loganbradi said the two men had been drinking all day yesterday. About 8 o'clock they fell asleep. At 10:30, Mrs. Loganbradi said, Bells awoke and began to protest wildly that some one was trying Jo rob him. Then he rushed up the aisle and began shooting. The body of Topp 'was left at Good land and two women were taken to a hospital there. Mrs. Olsen is a young bride. Her husband was not on the train, having gone ahead to Ariba, Colo. tr Morning Astorian, 60 cent per month, delivered by carrier. ' RUSSIAN WAR ECHO. Insuranet Company Compelled to Pay On Flour Captured By Russians. SAN FRANCISCO, Just 22,-The St. Paul Wirt and Marint Insurance Com pany) will have to pay 17,203, insurance) to Balfour, Guthrie k Co, if a veridct rendered by a jury In the United State Circuit Court yesterday holds good. Of this amount 14,100 waa for Insuranet on 160 sacks of flour and the balance waa for interest. The flour in question left Portland for Kobe, Japan, early In Jan uary, 1904, being part of the cargo of the hip Arabia. -;;;-' t, On July 18, the Arabia, in company with several other 'boat, was eaptured off the Japanese Coast by a fleet of Rus sian war vessel and the flour was con Aerated. On the following dayi Balfour Guthrie took out the insurance on the flour-. ' : The St. "Paul refuses to pay on tht ground that Balfour Guthrie V Co., knew at the time of the taking of tht insurance that the Arabia had been cap tured. . WOMEN TELEGRAPHERS. DEFIANT. CHICAGO, June 22 Women operator aro proving the chief agitators among the Western Union and Postal tele graphers, who are members of the Chicago Commercial Telegraphers Union. They are much more anxious to strike than are the men, and today issued a formal notice to the two companies that if the officials expect them to Ukt position at smaller salaries than the men tbey will be bedlj fooled. ( :,..) '' ': . . - AUTOMOBILE DESTROYED. ' "J.'T i -b r'-',-) BOSTON, June 22Sfor than 80 automobiles, worth on the average of $3000 each, were destroyed today in A fire which consumed the Back Bay garage. The fire waa started by a man who stepped on a match. The flaae ignited some gasolene. . ' PITTSBURG WRECK. PITTSBURG, June 22. One man kill ed and ten passengers were injured when the New Haven train was badly wrecked in the yards of the Pittobunr & Lake Erie Railroad in this city. 0LYF.1PIC CLUB QQH Four Man Team Takes Cham pionship Meet COAST RECORDS BROKEN The Olympic Club of San Francisco Se cured Seven Firsts and a Split Second Scoring a Total of 36 1-3 Points Port land in Third Place. SEATTLE, June 22. With a team of but four men the Olympic Club of San Francisco won today's championship meet. The Californians took seven firsts and in addition second place in the high jump was eplit between the Olympic Club, .Seattle and Spokane. Multnomah, of Portland, finished in third place, Dan Kelly, its crack sprinter, being unable to compete owing to sprains. A number of coast records were broken including the half mile by Glarner, of the Olmpic Club, established new P. N. A. record 2:02 2-5. Welsh, of Spokane, set a new mark for the mile run time, 4.40 4-5. Club totals in points: Olympic Club of San Francisco, 36 13 j Seattle Athletic Club, 32 1-3; Multnomah Amateur Ath letic Club, 25 1-31 Vancouver, B. C, Y. M. a A., 12; New York Athletic Club, 3; Irish-American Association, San Francisco, 1 point. TIMBER FRAUD INDICTMENTS. Colorado Special Grand Jury Indicta 70 Prominent Men. DENER, June 22. As result of the work of the special grand jury, which closed its sessions today, about 70 In dictments, against men prominent In Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada and Eastern States including Missouri, Wisconsin, were returned, principally for the coal and timber land frauds. Judge Lewis retuses to give out any names of the in dicted men until the arrests have been made.