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V'-V '. I t eV r J. t ,'" 4 The C5rcu!-'Ji if e Canary J .-J I V I . The To' vt 1 Two- ay, rain,' pe- ' -.4 4tMut U gouthw' 1 - In- V 1 " - i - ' ' -' - t V0t.IV NO. 18. V , vwu Aivvi vu i utwu aiv wvv UU1J ...Fr JT7 r- -.- -' m- ',.Vv I Comes: 'Crashing; Ddwhii 6 the r ?K.-' : Panicind i v Glover Shoe JtoU troydhin7-fore . Brockton. Man-Mnrcb lAFrom ( : to 10 ltraa war lost and mora than 100 paraona Injurad u rasul of bouar axploaion In tba .Olorar Shoa eompajir'a factory bar thla marc Inc. . Tba bnfldlnr waa antlrely demollahad - and flamea add ad to tha borrora of tba How many war eaucht In tha wrack aa, pinned down by tha falling- tlmbara 'and eonauniad by tha " flamas ; la not known. , At 4:t o'clock ( bodlea bad baan ra- , eovarad. and It la thought tha death Hat WW exceed 100. Thoae Idantlfted afa DAVID ROCKWKLIo analnear. 1 JOHN SMITH. . - v t- k V . ALBERT -PALBORDt '-. Iflta- ELUAH H KEU,T. SAMURL PIUCT. , HARRT BARTnETT. , ' OEORQB. SMITH. V y jp (9 vuwt . iwiea ou oaen ro Mvared. all burned beyond recognition aioapt f It. . It la believed that tha death ; list wllLnow exceed 71. .The aearch Dj bain rapidly proaacnted. Mora than 40 . war injured, many of them rtoualy. Tha explosion ocenrred at T:(0 o'clock this mornlna. Tb entire wast half of , tha. butldlnc was rased to. tha around. Tb three floors collapsed and tha fourth floor ruled with airla fell to tha around. but most of tha clrls escaped by, the l H nrfna ' Vtea TaUowd flnnaaaa. . ' --i Pour' hundred employes were In the zaeiory a uia uma or ma explosion Part of the boiler wrecked a house In the rkstntty of the factory. . Fire broke at Immediately and la a few minutes tha ruins war mass of flames. The; , front of the factory, which was left , standing, caacbt fire, driving" out the ' -rescuers, snd an hour later tha whole factory was a mass of ruins. - r ' The lira spread f rom , tha doomed structure to tha Dehlbora; block and to - several residences, seven of which were destroyed.-' The- Churchill- ad Aldan shoe factories, on. tha opposite of. Main street, were badly damaged by the lire, and tha praka Uvern was also burned. Brery Ztoctos la JTowk Called. , : ; All tha phyal'clans of tha xlty ware ' hastily -sailed to the scan and to the! hospitals, and ambulances and all avail able carriages are busy removing tn Injured. Hospitals are Ailed and many private houses have been thrown open for tha benefit of tb sufferers.' -- About 400 employes were in the fao - tory at the time of tha explosion. Prom ' too to 100 of thee were caught In the . wreck. Many of them war pinned ' down by the falling timbers and tha rescuers were obliged to leave them to 'their fate on -account of the fierceness ' of the flames. Those who war em ployed on the lower floors suffered most Comparatively few of tha girls ; working on tha top floor of , the f cur atory structure-being hurt In spite of their fall, , - ' ' : ;.; . ! BzploalMi raeaplarnsd. - . . . The causa of the , explosion , Is not known. Tha boiler had been lying Idle all winter and th fireman who atarted th fir said that tha boilers seemed In perfect condition and no cans for th explosion seemed to exist. - Tb report mad by th explosion was heard throughout th city, and tha crash 'of tha falling walla Instantly brought a large Crowd around tha doomed struo ' ture. Above all sounded th shrieks of tb terrified workers In their calls for HOME SEEKERS FILL . NORTHWEST TRAINS . , .'(J. I Speetsl Chicago, March to. Pacific coast homeseekers ar Uxtng all of tb west rq railroads to th utrnost and every train of all linos dut of Chicago going sett la crowded to th fullest capacity. . 'Several roads ar sending out specials. and th Indications ar that all records ;'f ' western movement will be broken, , JTof tb first two weeks- after March 1, ' when th bomessekers rates were put Ints effect, th travel was light Dur ing, th last week, however, th tide has tintied snd the rush has set In In earn est; -On 6f. th' feature of the move-J ment Is .that th eastern farmers are 'taking their families West New Tork, 'Pennsylvania and Oh I are contributing many practical farmers, who seem sup plied jsrUfc sufflcisnl joocey, to a nab la -1 I at Which; Is, M witefwi aaalstanoa. v Rescuers at one began work and many war pulled out of th debri crushed and bruised. Almost Immediately the building burst Into flames, starting from th wrecked boiler-room, that rapidly spread through, out the structure, oansuming that part ox rae Duuoosg not axieeted py tb ax- piosion. Tht soane was horrifying In tb ex treme. & In plain sight of large erowde man and woman pinned beneath th rafters and beams shrieked for help as th flamea consumed them. - -Th. first body recovered . wag that of a girl charred almost beyond recogni tion. "Two . other . badly . burned bodies war taken out before th flamas drove .vvwiv w. vi to i marirj all of tha black and charred corpses. now in the morgue probably will, never b identified. there remains .little to show that they were 'ever human brings beyond th baked' and burst flesh and "... 1 ' i . ' ' 4 l :- A strong iflnd .tanned' the flames, which spread with Incredible' wiTtneaa. and scarce fy' five mlaatas elapsed from the explosion until - the- main structure was on firs, Snd within an hour th bit nv story building was in ruins. Drake, tavern and tb Dahlberg block,' adjoining structures, war soon In flames and burned to the ground. - Tba firemen seemed powerless to chock the spread -of tha devastating element and seven real den cas war wiped out before the flamas were under control. JTwo other shoe fac tories, tha Churchill and tb AJden, war partially ruined by nra. Tba collapse - of tha ' fourth floor filled with girls eat the heads of ihose employes working on th other floors precipitated a scan of Indescribable confusion. Few of tba girls ware in jured in comparison with those employed on lower floora. a . , GAS OF OLD BONES ' HALF SUFFOCATES CREW n. 1 t ; . (Joareal Special Sorrlea.) ' '' " " Philadelphia. March 10. With her crew half suffocated .by gases generated from a cargo of, bones and swarming with tropical Insects which at up tb ship's passengers and a photograph of th second mate's llano, th Italian bark Prescti ro re arrived here yesterday from i Buenos Ayr. -' Satoll ths second mats, who claims to be an Italian count,' la on his way horn to-claim hia bride. He was dismayed when ' he examined hi trunk : today to And her photograph In shreds.. ' ..' . ..; Believing it to be an ill omen Out something had befallen bis sweetheart, Satoll left th vessel andr Intmediately iwira passag to maples. t Oases . from th ' cargo of hones al most asphyxiated the entire clew, ' On midnight of February. 17 th men on watch noticed that the odor muni. ally i heavy. They felt themselves be coming dlxsy and realised their denser. Staggering down Into the forecastle thoy tried, to arouse th sleeping crew, but were unsuccessful. i i men, one by one, they threw th sleepers , over their shoulders and car ried them on deck. Her tb fresh air revivea mem. v , , : i , .. On th following day Captain Scblafa ima-oraareo. tne batches battened down, A hoi was bored over the held and a funnel erected to carry off the fumes. This afforded a partial relief but a con stant stats of seral-stupefaction fnn. r 7- .j thm to develop new farms. .Western trunk lines hava for several years been disseminating Information- concerning tha lands in ths- west, and from th character of ths . numerous .Inquiries they ar now receiving from farmers. It Is evident they a re rasping the bene fit of thalr campaign. ... As a further Inducement to - oettlera tha western trunk ' lines mads a special freight rat on settlers' effects. Until Msy IS west-bound carload rates of agricultural Implements, farm machin ery, seed grain. Uvea tor It and other property for settlers' actual as, and not for Bale, will b half those which prevail usually. Thla concession Is having an Important effect on the movement re sulting in ths shipment of large quan tities of equipment with which to begin sgrionslnrai pr41ona, . i PORTLAND." OrjIGON, MONDAY EVENING. MARCH The AT; HOSPITAL FROM WOUNDS ;';'.!''"; ths lAw. ' . . : . . 4 ."Wher a person lawfully at 4 tempts to arrest Another-for -the 4 7 commission of a felony, and th parson whose arrest is attempted seeks safety by flight It is law ful for the person - making tba arrest to kill the fleeing felon. 4 , if it b apparent that th arrest 4 cannot OTHERWISE! be- aooom- 4 pushed." American and English 4 Encyclopedia of Law. 4 "If, after notice of Intention to 4 arrest th defendant- h either 4 flee or forcibly resist th of f losr 4 ' may us sll nscesssry and proper 4 anesns to affect the arrest 4 "Firing a gun upon a person In 4 . order to secure his arrest is Jus 4 tlaflsWe ONLY where It Is neces sary; it is not jusuriabla wner 4 the arrest can b secured , by 4 LESS dsngerous - means' See 4 1 tlon l.0, Bellinger Cottoa ' Compilation. COLUMDIA STUCK e-r i, Manager Ballard Regretfully An nounces That This Is Its 'Last Week Here, i C A This Is th last week of the Columbia theatre stock company. - .- - i- It hss been a financial fatlur from tha start and tha present management has .exhausted the funds n't its disposal The compsny Is to close next Saturday night at tba conclusion of th last per formance or "Theima." - . ,. When th members of the company had assembled as usual this morning for rehearsal of next week's bill which was to he "Parsifal" Manager A, H. Ballard appeared before them unexpectedly, and set forth the regretuble fscts la a manv speecn. v . . . I am not going to nest arbusd th bushdrladl and gentlemen." said hs. In affect "but we are up against It' I hava made a fight here against every lmaglnabls condition, hoping - against hope that business Would pick up-ss time went on. When I -discovered that they did not want th average stork production, as ; you all know, we went In for great big produottons -costly and complete presenting enm of tt moot ness has not 'justified li. We are at AOooUnaad p AILS .'."Vt' t t Beef ,,Trust .VVHI - Get Hie AIL Right. Coroner's. Inquest -Will Determine Detective s -Resp(Hisibilit:: ATEADQUARTERS HE IS 1 GENERALLY CONDEMNED Officer's Record Since He Has Been -on the Force Show ",That He Was a Handy ; ,; Man With Revolver. , At th morgue awaiting th result of an Inquest to be held at 7:10 o'clock this evening j. la f the body of Louis Schumer, t year of age, who was shot and killed by Joe Day. a city detective. because he attempted to go to his home before accompanying tb . .officer . to headquarters. ..... ',. Schumer was wounded by th detect ive Friday night and died at 7:10 o'clock last night He expired suddenly and somewhat unexpectedly, though it wgs known that, his 'condition was critical. and that be had grown rapidly worse, at pood Samaritan hospital, where he was taken Immediately after th shooting. It bsa not been fully determined whether death was dus to- a blood clot being carried through a blood veasel to the' heart or to acute septicemia or infection, following th Injury to th leg. - . ".. Physicians assert that death resulted directly from th wound that was In flicted by the detective. . Schumer was wanted for having ob tained 111. 10 on a worth lees check passed on W. H. Leymsn, of the Pacific hotel, who lodged a complaint with the police Thursday night A warrant Was not issued, but Detectives, Dsy snd Welner were detailed on the case. They accompanied Lehman t Nineteenth and Barter streets, wber they encountered Schumer,'. . - Submit to irmi ' He was told that he was under arrest snd readily submitted. He requested, however, thai he be permitted to go to hi home before accompanying' the offi cers' t ths station. Day denied the re quest ' Schumer lived a block and a half from ths place and declared that . Con tinned, jesv Pag Xw 0, . 1C3 FOURTEEN PACES. 44444444 THE EVIDENCE. " -. - . e 4 . Detect hre Welner "I was try- 4 4 . ing to get around in front of hlra e 4 and could have stopped him In 4 4 , that way, when Day fired. I 4 , took one ahot at the ground my- self with the idea of frightening 4 1 him and causing him to stop run ning. Neither of us foresaw that a simple wound In th lag would result In his death.' It- must be : remembered that tht man was aeoused of a felony, and that , th law authorises th killing of a man accused of a felony when -be is fleeing from officers .and it Is apparent that b cannot b 4 captured otherwise.1 : Schumer, In his ante-mortem statement "I was not trying to , 4 4 escape. I told them that I .weuld e 4 . aubmlt to arrest but wanted to ' a go boms first ; Qgflr swor and 4 4 - said I couldn't I started to go 4 snd. hs hit ma with his revolver." 4 ROBBED OF $10,069 BY MASKED MEN Standard Oil Bank Messengers Left Bound While Plunderers : Drive Away In Their Buggy.- Uesraal Speelat Ben-fa.) - -Oakland. CaL March. 30 John Daley, a nutasenger.of the Standard Oil com:-' pany at Point Richmond, was held up at 11 o clock this morning by two masked men ss h waa rettrmrrig from the Cen tral Bank of Oakland, and robbed Of $10,000 In gold. Daley-was driving with P. K. Roche In a buggy along lonely road that runs a short dlatanc from ths railroad. When near tha railroad crossing, two maxkoil men inmnojf nut of the hrtiah and leveled revolvers at the oocupaau of ths vehicle end ordered them out As soon, as they alighted Daley and Roche were bound, gagged and thrown face downward on the ground. Ths robbers .then entered th buggy snd drov .away with the treasure. i About half an hour later workmen passing to lunch found Daley and Rocha In the rood and released them, taking them to a - Point Richmond car. The polio In ell nearby towne have been notified and a number of posses .are soonrlng Contra Costa county Ths money stolen was to hav beert used to pay off the employe of t: gaflsswy r AL 1 UK i mm mm Csef Trcst IcQr!ry at v Ct!cO Will CcIa i ::v::;vlcn:crrowr';: RAILWAY STOCKHOLDERS ARE NOT ACCEPTED Fifteen Selected to Sit on Grand v : , Jury et Chicago to lnve ";?V?tgat the Packere ' A i - . Combination. - . ; ' '.' (Joaraal teeud service.) Chicago, March 20. The federal grand Jury, summoned last month, mat today to begin the Saoat exhaustive inquiry ever, started under tb Sherman anti trust act - Mors than 100 witnesses are on hand In response to summons and If District Attorney Bethea and his as-1 ststant fall, to draw forth complete evidence regarding the operations of th beef trust it will not be bees use of Jack of effort on the part oflhos intrusted with the Inquiry. The witnesses have been summoned not only from tb Chi cago packing 'houses and offices, but from -many other points throughout th country. Including Port Worth, Omaha, Kansas City, St Louis. Buffalo, Mil waukee, St Paul, Cincinnati, 81oiuc City and Pittsburg. Fifteen Grand Juror were accepted today. Of tha ft men summoned tJ oader iat of. March 1: Th corn were excused because ther ownsd stork I mander of th second army corn re In railroads, and flv for other reason. Th questions asked of the veniremen war searching and indicated a -disposition on the part of the government to carefully avoid any possible error. The other veniremen will be sum monad this afternoon, and th Da net probably be completed tomorrow,- when the hearing of evidence will begin. Assistant Attorney-Goneral Pa gin de clared the investigation will be most frigid. He believes sufficient evidence la already in possession of the federal authorities to Indict th principal mem- oers or me alleged trust The prosecu tion will be mads under the Sherman anti-trust law and the maximum penalty for a violation Is $6,000 fine. . - i n purpose or tn govsrnment is to prove. If possible, that the packers sup posed to constitute . th so-called beef trust have been guilty of contempt of court in violating the federal Injunction secured against them a year ago, re straining them from operating by com mon agreement in regard ' to price, in buying and in other waya to control the market to th Injury of th general pub lic, th stock-rauters and tb dealer not in th combine. (The men restrained by Judg Orosscup's decision Yn the beef cas were Ogden Armour, Edward Morris, Ira Morris. Arthur Meeker, Charles P. Langdon. Edward A. Cudahy, louis jr. swift D. Edwin Hartwell. frank K. Voxel, William Russell. Ed ward C Swift. W. H. Noyes. Nelson Mor ris, Patrick A. Valentine, Calvin M. Fa vortte, Thomaa J. Connors, Michael Cud' shy, Albert FY Bochert Lawrence A. Car ter, Jess H. Lyman, Louis Pfaelser, Albert H. Vedder and Ferdinand Suls-i Derger. Non oft' th heads of the packing companies will be called before the grand .Jury. Their heads of departments and other chief employes, however, hav been subpoenaed and are expected to corroborate in their testimony evidence secured by government secret agents. . PORTION OF BAST1LE DUG UP-IN SUBWAY .; '' 7, , ;' ,' - t' (Joarml Rperlat Service.) Paris. March 10. Excavations In the Place ds la BastU for ths extension of the Metropolitan and aubwsy hav led to the discovery of the main postern of the drawbridge of the historic prison fortress. Hswn stone and rusted iron cannon balls were also unearthed and taken to ths Musee Carnival. Th gat. Itself will be carefully excavated. All th - stone - wIlL . be. numbered . and the postern reconstructed' on ths -avenue Henri IV, where part of on of th towers of tb Baatlle is already set up. TO REVOLUTIONIZE SALOON BUSINESS (Joaraal Special Servlee.1 - f ' I OS Angeles, March 10. In good faith. and meaning what they say. a syndicate of capitalists haa made a proposition to the city attorney and board or police commissioners which, if adopted, would revolutionise the saloon business. The plan Is to Amerlcanls th Oothenberg plan and apply It here, assuring ths city ampl return financially and being cer tain they themselves would mak an enormous profit . They propose to hav the present 100 itcenee revoked snd Instead to or TS llcenees Issued to the company. They would pUre th saloons In charge of enrfpetent persona, under such retuls- ts. a da not tow r t la a. 1- PRICE ' FIVE CENTS. ' " ' '. .:t " ' ' ' i " ''"'' 'J ; ' ' J:ntse Teke Town 20 E::!cs North of Tie Ling After a BctttsI VATICAN SEEKING TO . ' BRING PEACE IN EAST Czar It I Suffering' From - Reli gious Mania,' Spending Hours J : Every Day Praying for t Victory for His Soldiers. St Petersburg. March I0.--Bullet1n.y Reports thus far received Indicate that 100,000 were killed am wounded or taken prisoners in th battle of Mukden, Sight field guns war captured. (Joaraal London, March . It' Baron Hsyasht again made public th following duv. pstch from Tokio today t .;-'.' '"Our detachment at 4 o'clock on th morning of March 10 occupied Kayuan, " to miles north of Tie Ling. Th nsmy afterwards attempted to make a counter attack, but' war' repulsed. - Tb enemy burned bridge on th main- toad south f Kayuan. and also destroyed a- pare of th railway bridge. A number of Rtnsrlsa' ejuna were found buried near Mukden.- j -, Ltnanrltdh, report, to St. Petersburg, ports ingi n nasi naa no runner xigni ing,. . Ther ar , no reports . from th first or third. army. I hav inspected troops which hav arrived from Russia and find them In excellent spirits and good healthy" . . 'i ; But little new Is coming from "th front the Japanese purposely conceal ing th movements and plan' of thalr force by a rigid censorship, and th Russians having but limited communi cation with th seat of war. . Th remnants of th Russian army ar still hotly pursued by th Japanese) and fighting their way north. - Th ex pected turning movement of th Japaa ea may materialise today. Should ithfa occur the Russlsn forces will undoubt edly be cut in two and rear divisions an nihilated by th. combined pressure front rear, sides and front i General Linevltch's situation la still ' very critical and his whol army may yet be cut off from Harbin,- The Japanese - embassy-. state that. Oyama ' has succeeded in carrying all the points he, haa decided is neeeasagy. and that withlp a, week at th utmost news of a momentous character, will be) reported from the. front ' . ' Tlve "Aeaaaaa Big"- ' - Tha Paris ' Petit Journal prints a St Petersburg dispatch that state that 5.- 000 Russians died at Harbin last week as th result of wounds or disease re ceived In battle. Condition there ar horrible'la the extreme. It J estimated that the sick Russians at Harbin number 70.000.' .. v.... . . The Berlin newspaper Die Walt say that th csar Is suffering from a relig ious mania. : He spends two hours every day praying In ths palaoe cbapell H also telegraphed Father John of Kron- I stadt recently to compos special pray ers ror the Russian victory. Like wis for th repression of ths revolutionary movement and sent a similar telegram to tb archbishop of Moscow. -r Ha wear ' a crucifix on his breast continuously a a protection against assassination. ' '"'' Pop Per Peace. ' ".'".. ' The Liverpool Post state that It haa ' learned on good authority 'from a promi nent member or. th. Vatican that th pope Is seeking to Influence European diplomacy in. favor of mediation In th far. east Ha haa communicated directly ' with certain rulers. Including th kaiser and Klng Edward, and haa also sent a -friendly letter to th dignitaries of th Oreek church expressing , ths bop thst peace will be declared. r . s, - Th Birmingham Poat says that It la Informed by high diplomatists that tw (Continued on Pag Two.) ' Treating would be eonelJpred a m!" meanor. Coffee and- soft drinks wn I b served a well ss Intoxicants, se a forfeit paid for every drink sot t r Intoxicated person. Irtnk' r would b mad attractive s . uniform, . - But for the fc thnt the t ri le seriously backed by a f" . -e of weeitth, it would be t i t i r but the proponents e' t ths city IUO.0W a y ,' sivs prlvllere.'snd t i immnt on puhllo I: Th syndicate v 1 r offer, snd It refn preeent stre' -nvt a vote lo I' i .J. s' : i
