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Newspaper Page TextTHE . OREGON ' DAILY ' JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL. 14. 1SC3. ID. DRAIN - BAFFLING PUZZLE- PICTURES sunnr skies over mm italy QLODGETFS ATTORNEY PLEADS THAT DRINK WAS CAUSE OF SLAYING Tells Jurors Client . Was Crazed : Killed Alice Gordon. THIRTY GLASSES OF GIN : AND BLACKBERRY BRANDY Deputy District. Attorney Moser Aa serts That Prisoner Told Friends of ' '; Intention to Kill Companion it She Refused to Drink With Hirn.. " ' -" Twelve men. who are to pase upon the rase of -George Blodgett, charred with . the murder or Alice Mlntborn. known aa . Alice Gordon, on March 23, will beaaked ta find tne prisoner not guilty on the ground that ha waa erased with drink at , The time the .crime waa committed, tbarlea F. Lord, the prleoner'S attorney thia morning recited in a manner moat dramatic the atory of the death of the woman and pictured the condition of the mart who killed her; . "There la aomethlng about a . man'a Infatuation for a woman that ia stronger than the good, ties that bind him to a borne." declared Mr. Ixrd while out ' lining hie defenae to the Jury. "For 13 years thia - prlaoner'. lived with lite ' family at Kallspell. Montana: ' ha waa prosperous In bualnesa Then cama the woman who la now dead, and ha became Infatuated with her. - He followed her to Bpokane and then to Portland. Then . for weeka he was disappointed In her , '-this wntniii who had robbed him and v : broken up hie home. - -. - - ' v - . Waa Drlaxiag nteavlly. ' 1 will ehow you how he lived for two or three -weeka before the killing. All 'this time he was drinking heavily,--at the aame time burning- with Jealousy. ' un the morning- of the day the woman . waa killed Mr. Blodgett drank between 14 and 30 glaseea of ln and blackberry , , -brandy, a. mixture that would craae any . .. human being, it can te anown ov many wltneaeea that thia man did not know whet m waa doing when he entered the -woman a room, for he waa Inaana from ; - drink. - - -V - - . " "Whi the officers entered the room after tho fcrlng r 'the fatal shots they aaw Blodgett sitting on the edge of the bed, all unmindful of the blood ooilng ' from the body of. the woman he had loved, unmindful of the fact that the bedclothlng was on fire, simply sitting : there pouring some '-bear into a glass ' from bottle. He waa elowly mutter Ins to hlmaelf aa he poured: .-Qood-bye, I am eorry, but I had .to. I am "" aorry. ----- - "" " rV ' -' ; "TIM .officers took the bottle and giaea from him. He aaked them If ha could - get A drink of water, walked to where . a bouquet of flowera he had Bent her waa Btandtng. picked up a carnation and laid It gently on the breaat of the dead woman: ha then stooped over and ktaeed the cold Hps, aald "Good-bye, Alice," and walked awey. -... .-. ,..',.... ''j Blodf-ett Xvs4 Jsss. , "While It la a aad thing to talk about here In the preaenca of hla ' wife, atlU thia man loved that woman who la. now dead. And. X can prove that for daya after hla arreat ha was a total wrack. AN WHOSO LDi AT ; LOSS LOSES Judge Fraier Refuses to Leave 7 4 Incidental Expenses In Complaint. v v HURRIED BACK TO OHIO v . f ,TOf RAISE SOME MONEY Hastened in Selling, Yoder Claims, to ? ' Get the Money and Then Found f - Timber Land Not Represented, - So That He Was Double Loser. . Tha fact that a man went back to . Ohio and aold soma property at S loss ' in order to make a payment on timber - lands located in the northwest la no rea . .. son 'why' he should be sent back the ' amount of money ha aaya that he lost - by having- made the sale, even If the timber waa not aa he had expected it to be. . - This waa the decision of Presiding Judge- Arthur- Ijt Frasef thia morning , In regard to the defendants' motion to atrlke out the parte of the complaint wherein tha plaintiff la the - case of ..Amos E. Toder against X K. Belknap and H t .Chaffee aaka for damages. Yoder is aulng for the return of 33.009 and for 31.lt for dam'agea aa money he lost In making his payment for timber land in Cowllts county, Washington. He declares that tho land Is no good. He states that he aold Ohio property at - a loea of 3960 In order to make a pay ment on' the timber land, that be apent ' 310 In going back to Ohio to aell hla property there, and that hs paid out ' 350 for having the title to tha Washlng-f-ton land examined and 3S0 to have It ' surveyed. ' , Judge Fraser allowed only tha laat named 3100 to atand In the complaint. . , , Judge Praaer found for tha defendant on the motion for a rehearing In the ,- case of Henry M. Wagner aaalnat 8. U Ooldemlth et al. Tne plaintiff la aulng for 3100 alleged to be due him aa aJ . commission for selling real estate. A former ault was also decided by Judge Fraser in favor of tbe defendant Mra. Katherlna Martzloff was allowed 3100 damages from John W. Sweeney, . .whom she sued for 310.000. Sweeney operated a rock quarry near the Marts- . loff home west of the city for several years, and it waa declared by the plain tiff that the shocks from the blasting - had made her 111. Judge Clelaod held that the blasting waa not tba Cause of .her lllnee s. :-. - j ' j The case of Vlnaeno "path against 'the Hurst Automatic Bwltoh A Signal -company waa decided by Judge Cleland In favor of tha defendant. Spath had formerly worked for the company under . a contract - that be waa to receive aa pay ana half hla salary in cash and the . remainder In stork of the company. He received his wagea according to con tract, but sued to have the company pay him cah tar the etook. Judge Cleland decided tha caae of tha Portland iron Worka against O. W. Wlllett In favor of the defendant Wll lett worked lor tbs company and whUe The state cannot prove that ha planned to kill the woman. ' No one knows all that occurred Jn tba room after ha en tered, for he waa in auch a etate of mind that ha cannot tell, and the other one who waa -present ta sleeping tne laat aleeo." - . .- Blodgett watched bla attorney close ly until Mr. Lord told of the orricere entering the room of the dead woman. Then he cried aoftly. .-, The courtroom waa crowded all morning, and while Mr. Lord waa -telling of the acenee in the death chamber, not a Bound waa heard save the low voice of the apeaker. Before Mr. Lord ' made bla . opening Statement to the Jury, Deputy District Attorney Qua C. Moaer outlined the state's ease. Mf. Moaer declared that It would be ahown that ithe prlaoner left hla home with the woman ha had alaln about a year and a half ago, that be fore thia he had conducted a dance hail In Kallspell. that the woman now dead had been landlady of the hall and that bla relationa with her had bean Intl mate. i , - ' ',.. followed Sec to Jrortlaad. "That woman came to thia city five or ala .weeka before . her .death." aald Mr. Moaer, Tiqd, aome time alter. Blodgett v followed ' hor. ' At first, ah refused to aee him, but later they half way made up. Then he went to The Pallea for a day, returned and alio again ref uaed . to .see. .him. - The , state . will prove that on the afternoon ' that " tha woman waa killed, Blodgett ' told friend that he waa going up to see her, and that if aha -ref uaed- to take a drink with him. he would kill her. We will Slao show that after his arreat ha told people that -he' was in -his right mind when ha killed . the woman." - : " Coroner J." P. 'Flnley waa tha flret witness called.',-He told of aeelng tha woman. dead-on the bed of her room. and of taking her, body to hla office, lie alao described the wound a that had cauaed tha death... .Blodgett had been taken., to the police station before Mr, Knlev arrived. - - Mrs, N.- l. Biocum, proprietor 01 tne Van Noy hotel. . where the murder oc curred, testified that Alice Gordon waa continually quarreling with Blodgett Tha wltneaa aald that the prlaoner waa not of a quarreleome nature while ha roomed at the Van Noy, but pe related ia trying to talk to Alice Gordon. . Oas Wttaesa tow ' Defenae." '" ' ' Dwlng to the fact that he wlehed to leave the city, Dr. W. T. WUllamaon, a wltneaa for the defenae. waa allowed to take the stand this morning. He I declared that If Blodgett acted aa ha w Ma, aald to have, hla actions were thoaa of a man who waa not In. a. normal mental condition. The wltneaa alao aald that one who had been on auch. a- de bauch as the prlaoner was aald to have been on before the murder would not be nomal mentally. . I'pon croaa-examlnatlon by District Attorney John Manning. Dr. WUllamaon said that a man would be unstrung right after having killed a defenseless woman even If ha had not been drinking berore the deed waa committed. : The wltneaa also declared that a man who had been drinking more or less the greater part of hla Ufa would not necessarily be un balanced by dtinkrng to whiskeys within 24 hours before committing a murder. -Mra. Blodgett occupied a rear aeat In the courtroom- all morning... Tha prla oner eeemed much more nervous than he did yesterday, apendlng more of hla time scribbling and drawing picturea. Ha often stopped these operations to wipe, the tears from his eyes. ' in Its employ made several Improve ments In sawmill machinery. Tbe com pany sued him to make him turn over the patent rights. . ' The caaa of T. J." Armstrong against Msrk Bchussel for 330 waa decided by Judge Cleland in favor of Mr. Arm strong. Judge Sears thia morning awarded W. H. O'Neill a Judgement for 323 agalnat Kdson, Keith t Co., a Chicago wholesale millinery house. O'Neill aued for 3033, which he alleged was due htm ss salary, he having formerly been trav eling salesman . In . the employ of the company, - . ' .r""-' WHITE WOMEN AS GUILTY ' AS CHINESE MEN - - Chief of Police Sniffs at White - Slave Stories and Misplaced t Sympathy. ir. " Sentence waa to nave been passed thia morning on Tee Chow, a Chinese, and Clara Brown -of Stewart station, . convicted- yesterday in the police court, of. Immoral conduct, but on request of cer tain officials It waa postponed until Monday. Mrs. ola J, Baldwin, super intendent of the Travelers'- Aid society. and Mra B. H. Trumbvll, probation offi cer of the, juvenile court, affirm their Intention of having the girl prosecuted before the Juvenile tribunal on a charge of contributory negligence In tha caaa of a minor. , "The Interest taken by theae women la praiseworthy said Chief Of Police Orltsmacher. "All girls who associate with Chinese should be punished ss se verely or mora so than their yellow oon sorts. Miss Brown Is 33 years old, and Bought the Chinaman yoluntarlly. being acquainted with him by her 14-year-old brother. The boy knew of their rela tions and connived at hla slaters shams. He should be placed In same Institu tion. , "Martha Smith, or Mattla Piatt, who IS still In custody, but has not been sentenced, also sought W. 8. Jower. a Chinese, In his room st the Kingston house. Hhe has been proved -an- in corrigible thief and committed Immoral acta before aha associated with tho Chi nese. Tha Chlneae should be well pun ished, but so should tha women." , TWENTY YEARS SAVINGS GOES IIP IN SMOKE Several Hundred Dollars in Cold Melted In Fire at Spunell J. - lJiJ. Residence. - irr- Vancouver. Wash., April 14. W. H. Spunell, whose home near ' Etna, thia county, waa destroyed by fir a few days ago. Is In this city, Mr. Spunell states that In addition to losing all of hla household ef facta, . a considerable aura In gold coin was alao lost Tha exact amount of money melted Mr. Ppunelt does 'not know, although there waa several hundred dollars. It waa all he had except 33 In change, which he happened to have In hla trousers pocket Tha loas sustained by. Mr. Spunell waa the accumulation of SO years' bard work In this county, ,n -( - x PirZXLS PICTURE HO. I Find an inpspendsnt un""60 statis sinatoh mtmia&aowr PUXX U E . PCTURI FIND A RESI&NATIOt4 mrrlE. CLUB -COMMITTEE STUDIES FRATS Report That They Excite. Envy Jealousy and . Toadyism i 7 Among Non-Members. ; EXPENSE FEATURE NOT - POPULAR WITH PARENTS Thirty-Eight Pupils Approve, Thirty' Two Disapprove, Thirty-Five See No Harm in Societies, . Twenty .. Seven Art Not Interested. ' Tha question of tha harm or benefit attaching Itself to high school frateml- tlea and sororities is. agitating Portland mothers.'. Dr. Stephen B. Wise addressed the Woman's club on the question a few weeks sgo at - which tlms he took a strong stand agalnat the organisation The Woman's club referred 'the. prob lems to the educational, department for Investigation. Tha department referred It to a committee of three and Ita re port- was given- ar the meet in g of, the club yesterday. The committee gave aa unblaaed report, made up of tha state ments of people on both sides and la anxious that the report bo taken' as statistical and not at all aa a favorable or unfavorabls decision of the members. Following la tha report In full: -. -' Interviewed Teachers. . . ,. "On Thursday, March 20, at t a. m.. and again on Monday, April 3, at 3:30 p. m., the committee from the educational department of the Portland Woman'a club visited the high school,, inter viewed in all It of Ita 80 teachers and each of the four fraternities In - the school. - -. r . -'The other 11 teachers It did not see, owing- ts the fact that 4he city superin tendent, whose daughter Is a member of a aororlty, objected to Ita visits during School bours. Professor. Davla cour teoualy extended to the teachera an In. vltation to remain and aee ua on Mon day after school. "We aaw each In turn, without the othera being 'preeent, which necessi tated waiting and loss of time on the part' of those who wars not being in terviewed we were courteously re ceived by 'all. Professor Davis did what ha could to assist us, stylograph- Ing and circulating tbe Hat Of queatlona we had prepared so that teachera would know what we wlahed to aak and be prepared to give briefly auch informa tion aa they dealred. '"These questions were answered with out hesitation excepting In one Instance, where the membera of a teacher's family are membera of tha fraternities. In ths case of teachera who have recently) coma Into the achool. 'or who have charge of olaaerooraa only, and, one inatance, where a teacher aald ha did not know anything about what went on among hla puplla. - - "Answer No. 1 A aharter la always necessary in forming a new fraternity or aororlty, and Is obtained by making application to the national organisation. If there la no objection to tha applica tion the neareat - local organisation is designated to visit tha new organisation and confer Ita initiatory degrees. , - - Over WKaoat enalsstoa. "Both sororities snd one fraternity ssked permission of Professor Dawla, and one fraternity waa organised and In full running order without his knowl edge. "The sorofltiea and fraternities could not be organised outside tha achool. "Teachera do not know who.are.4nam bers. the Hat published laat February In tha high achool Cardinal being the first time tha names have been made public. i -,i The , names - ef officers ' and tbs yjii ''.'fi SamwV - r -r -1 - i .1 l a. ris. ra a - . v NO. 3 IN THIS GROUP PUXZLS PICTURE NX S. ND A LIVW& - . .... '1 .1 1 ... . , amount of the' Initiation fees, dues and assessments are secret. . - "About 1,200 pupils are attending the high school. Thirty-nine of these, be long to ths fraternities and sre divided aa follows: Gamma Eta Kappa, frater nity No. T: Delta-lota Chi organised 1894, aororlty No. 11; PI Delta Kappa, fraternity No. 3; Omega Nu, organised 1307, aororlty No. 13. - ' - "Past graduates and honorary mem bera a well these numbers to many times tha number at present In the school. One sorority alone numbers upwarda of 30 membera. "No applications are received. Per sons who have been 'selected' for mem bership must ba Invited. How are they selected? 'Just the girls we like.' "Just tha boys who will fraternise with us.' "T?annot say how excluded. ; - '-"No . Hebrews - ars. members - of - any sorority or fraternity In Portland. . "The atandlng of members averages with that . of non-members. Some of 'the beat In school, some of tha worst (not wholly class atandlng). Out of T graduates of one sorority 11 have been first honor pupila. What It Coats. ', "From parental sources it is learned that one aororlty charges 3.7.30 Initia tion fee, 33 for the aororlty and 11.60 for the pin.. Tha feea of one sorority are 26 cents per month. Initiation fees and duea of othera not known. AH of which muat come from parenta' pockets and Is a eVrlous objection urged by soma of tha parenta. ' . - -''Sororities meet afternoons In homes of parents. Fraternltiea meet evenlnga usually, in downtown . offices, some times in homes of parenta. No super vision. Thia refers to Tegular business meetings. - Special -occasions require renting- of halla. ' ' - "These- high - achool fraternltiea - and aororltlea have no membera in grammar schools except aa teachera "The local organisation 4s subservient to the -national. "The membership of sororltlea and fraternities have no. good Influence on non-members, .but on the contrary- ex cite among other puplla envy, jealousy and toadyism. However tine of char acter a boy or girl may be and calcu lated by nature to the uplifting of aur roundlng comrades, the sphere for each ta limited to tha little elrele-ef -which he or aha la a member.- "On tha electlona of ths achool tha Influence of fraternltiea has been harmful In tha past and might become ao again. , At present it ia held in check and the number of membera la amalLl Fraternltiea vota as a unit. One Inter Viewed said. There la no possible way of dealing with a society even though It electa to fill every office In the achool.' "Tha objects of fraternities are prin cipally aoclaL There la also an effort to keep graduates In touch with each other after achool. But aa only a small number ia Invited, thia does not apply beyond tha little circle of one'a frlenda. "Three, teachers one ' lady - and two gentlemen are honorary membera Both sororities and fraternltiea take an oath, ths nature of which la not to be divulged. , "At our suggestion. Professor Davis Invited ths oldest two classes in ths high school .to glvs an unsigned opinion In regard to fraternltiea In tha achool. There were 127 responses. These were folded and placed in a aealed envelope and brought to ua Ws found 13 ap provals, S3 disapprovals, 16 who aaw no harm in them, 21 who were not In terested In the subject and one blank. "Tha reasons - for disapproval were clear and concise. The following la one response: 'I object to having aecret so- cletlea In ths publlo schools. It ia all right In private achool a or colleges; but In the publlo schools, wnere Hen and poor alike aMend, It la not right.' .. . . 'M ART ALICE OODEN, "MRS, WARREN 8. WHITE, "MRS. J. C.- JONES, ' ' "Committee," NEW RUSSIAN LOAN, SUCCESSFULLY FLOATED Parla. April 14. Negotiations for the new Russian loan have been concluded and It will ba Issued at 88, with I per cent Interest. The amount la f0,000.- ooo,. 148,000,000 of which is allotted ts JTranoe. - - . I ' Ptl'Z.'Z.LB. PldTURI NO.2 I FWD-A GEMUIfNt XMOCRAT IM THIS OROUP. fJCTwRE Hot-, fMDA FRIEND FOR THE OtMTLtMEN UNDER 7WC BARREL." , 0 . - - - SI 60,000 DEAL IS -CALLED OFF E, E. Lytle, Who Held Option . for Union Stockyards Com pany, Lets It Lapse. OTHER PEOPLE HAVE EYE ON PROPERTY Reported Thatthe. PropectivePur- chasers Are Railroad interests No Reason Assigned by Lytle for Giv ing Up Chance to Close DeaL- A deal by E. IS. Lytle, for the Union Stockyards company's property In North Portland at approximately 3100,000, has fallen . through, and the money plaoed for an option waa forfeited. Nea-otla- tiona are under way by tha cbmnany' to sell-tha property to other-people. Tha identity of tne new prospective pur- cnaaers ia not given out. They are pre sumed to oa rnortnern raclflo people. - 'The property-ls-notyet-aold..For aome reason we do not know what Mr. Lytle did not close the deal." aald O. M. Plummer, secretary and treasurer of the stockyards company. "We are now dealing with other parties.-! can nor say who- they are." . It la aald tha atockyarda situation at Maegly junction, while somewhat changed In the last few daya Is Im proving. There la a well-founded re port that the Swift company baa of fered to make tbe Union Stockyards people a gift of 40 acres of ground ad vantageously located if they will eetab- i:an tneir stockyards plant on ths prop erty. Ths rumor Is strengthened by ths fact mat tno atockyarda company'a agent naa otrered for aale tha tract compris ing 200 acrea recently purchased by mem from ir. Maegly, at the Junction. Survey a are being made to aacertaln the advantages of the proffered ground, and It ia acid an Ideal atockyarda alta will be found on the Swift property, bo lo cated that It will have the beat switch ing facilities and connectlona with all rallroada croaslng tha peninsula. .. WORK OF EVANGELICAL CONFERENCE FOR TODAY Thia morning's session of the Ore gon Evangelical conference, being held at the St, Johna church, waa chiefly de voted to tne interests .or Dallas col lege, ths state denominational school. Reports from President Poling' and ths trustees - showed Increased attendance and financial support during . tha year now closing, and atepa were taken by tha conference to lncreaaa further the attendance by field work, and to enlarge ths scope of. the school by securing an Increased endowment1 . O. O. Arnold and 3. N. Kelts were ad mitted to tha conference as- probation ministers, and Rev. B. B. Hughea of Canton, Ohio, were received ' into tha Oregon conference.' Delegates to the general conference; tf tha church, that meeta at Cedar Raplda, Iowa, next Oc tober, were chosen aa follows: - Rev. H. L. Pratt and Rev. A. A. Winter of Port land.. Mr. Bartruff of Salem and D. M. Knight of St Johna. Dr. B. M., Metzger will preach thia evening. , ii -j . Malay Frank Bay Froperty. A place of property 100 by 150 feat, on, tha southeast comer of Second snd Columbia . streets, waa . sold today to Meier Frank . by Wflllam Reldt The pries "paid for thr property" by the pur chasers was . $23,000. . It Is considered a particularly good piers of ground and It ts understood, that ths new owners trill Improve It st onca, ; -. FOiiCt H0LPCR W Bvl GROUP, TROUBLE IN UMATILLA IS BEING INVESTIGATED Army Captain Arrives on Scene Major Edwards Threatens Big Damage Suits. . .. ("pedal Dispatch te The Joaraa.) 3 Pendleton. Or., April 14. Captain Oray of Fort Walla Walla arrived bers today to make an Investigation of ths affaire on the Umatilla reservation, Ths Investigation la now In progress. Major O. C Edwards, Indian agent. Is. I endeavoring to sua the Pendleton Trib une for damages for publishing slan deroua reports from tho agency. Hs alleges that .tba publication of the peti tion of tha Indiana in the Tribune greatly damaged bla character. Tba Tribune also sent- the same reports to outside papers, thus making ths damage to Edwards mors widespread. Tbs stats of affairs is the same as It baa been all week. Ths -Indiana refuae to permit atock to cross the reservation and maintain that the government will support their opposition. Stockmen are atill persistent in their appeal to ths government for" permission to cross. r OLD BAPTIST SLIDE T DOWN AND ... : - (Special Ma pa tea te Tbe Journal.) Oregon City, April 14. The historic old Baptist alida baa been -torn down, removed and burned, by ths street de partment by order of ths city council, as tha old alida and walk was rotten, decayed and of no further use. . Thia runway waa. constructed by tha members of ths First Baptist church of this city about Ik yeara ago, and was used in going to and from their fhurcb. "... It saved Quits a roundabout way In going ' to ths lower - snd of town. In thoss days, but since - ths Singer Hill roadway has been Improved snd a sufficient walk has been laid, it waa decided by ths city authorities that thia alida would be of no mors uss, ss tha people desiring to enter the northerly part of town could do ao by using tha Singer Hill way. - - THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR MADE IN OREGON PARADE At a meeting of tha Joint committees of ths Mads In Oregon exposition laat evening in ths chamber of commerce. 31.000 waa appropriated toward carry ing out plana for a parade, to Include floata ' with axhlblta of Oregon-made gooda, and other epectacular features. Ths parade will ba on Msy If, ths first day of the' expoattlon week. ' ' y Tha button committee reported ths purchase of 10,000 buttons, which are being distributed. r Ths design has a whits beaver on s blue field and ths words "Made In Oregon." Tha electrlo algn committee reported that arrange ments have been made for many large signs to be erected at various prominent places - down - town, advertising ths week's festlvltlea Nearly every mer chant In the city has tendered ths uss Of window space . - . , - rt oattls em Wromg Zalaaa. Vancouver, .Waah., April 14.- Aa a re sult of a misunderstanding between Henry Carneth of Carneth Brothers, butchera, of La Camaa, and tha captain of tha ateamer Joseph Kellogg, ths for mer are put to no end of trouble Sev eral daya ago Karneth Brothera bought 10 head of cattle at Deer Island, Oregon, and ahlpped them to Blurock'a landing, about atx mllea below this city. The cattle cama down yeaterday, but through aome mlataka they . were put off on Shaw's Island, where they ars now roam ing over 1,000 acrea of land, while Henry Carneth and Rufus. Blair sre trying te latob them agstn. - , - , . slil as mu " DaIi Sta&aTa.s D JasVa i I a aw a. ITsAI tj HOI UOt- - rObUI I VaV Their Homes to Aid In.Work f ;f Clearing Up. ' r PEOPLE DUG UP UNHURT . AFTER FIVE DAYS', BURIAL ' V i ...... t '- ' Took r Refuge In Cave Volcanic Ash1 Contains Iron Which Is Beneficial to Hsajth Eruption a Thing of the . rfIt . ..... ... ... ... .. . ie!m.l-i ! ..'.-' ;. "-!-'.-. . ' : , '..',-, i ') ' .,'. (Jouraal Special Bervfce.r : '' , .yiii.,v-iH navpwsncv of tha auu has filled the people with new hope and many refugees are return-, Ing to their former homes to take part in ' tna work of clearing : ths country. -Ths sunlight baa bad one bad effect, that of quickening , decomposition of . ths bodlea of ths victims whose Inter ment ts being rkshed, ..: - iv BUB ii I. Resourers are pushing the work with vigor, v . : '. At Ottajano today two families ws.i dug up who had been burled . under heaps of,' ashes .for ,. five 4ays. They'' were found to have Buffered but little. The bad taken refuge In a cava and ware well supplied with food and wlna . Thieves continue active and many ar rests are being made.. Many s'orles of depredations of houses and tha desecra tion of ths dead are- reported and tha -prisons are filled with those caught in sun vi luuuiiillUi r. ;,.. Professor Ulana, of. the; Naples uni versity . states that tba volcanic dust which has covered the entire country In tbs vicinity of the volcano contains Iron sand and will really havs a bene ficial -effect on- ths - people. - - Director ..Ill W ...... . 1 ruined observatory, believes that tha ' eruption has ended and every outward Indication confirms this belief. A denss mass of smoks has poured out from the crater,, but this Is tho only sign of seism lo activity. X unjuUQUi uit I mum uiairic i,vvr ahovelers are buey clearing away the . . . t i a m i i a m a debris, while as many more are- em ployed in Naples Bhovellng ths ashas oft Mfi . !! ' thnmiivhfiMfl -1 - 1 1 m m ' nflFFAT HNJin 111 HF RIIIIT III W I I S BW SfSi HWIkl THROUGH TO THE Denver,. Northwestern & Pacific Will Not Stop at Salt Lake, v but Extend West. (Journal Special Service.) Denver. April 14. That tha 'Moffat road, the Denver, Northwestern 4V Pa- .1. I l , n KllM I. I. MKAW- atlon, will not atop at Salt Lake, but will be extended from there to tho Pa clflc coast, was the aworn atatament of Chief ' Engineer Sumner made - on - the witness stand In th dlatrlrt court hare In a ault over the condemnation of lands needed by the new road for terminal fa cilities In Denver. During hla teatlmony Chief Engineer Sumner aald: . - :------ The road will not atop in coioraoo. but will bo built through to tha Paolfla. One thou-sand men are . now at work pushing tha building on to Salt Lake, and contracts covering ths entire dls- tanoe to that city have been let." Sumner stands closer to -reiaen Mnffat than does an other officer - of the company, and hla atatement may be regarded aa absolute fact It la known that ample financial backing has been offered for tha extension. - ' MITCHELL ARRAIGNED V ON MURDER CHARGE (gpsdal THapatch te The Jonraal.) - Lewlston, Ida.. April 1. -t- Prsnk Mitchell,' arrested under the name of Jack Mathews In Eugene. Oregon, re cently, was .. arraigned In the Justice court yeaterday charged with the mur-der-of Antolne Broncheau.. The data for hla preliminary hearing la aet for next' Tuesday. . Relatives of Broncheau Iden tified .Mitchell as the murderer. Bron cheau waa killed during tha progress of a dance at his borne near Culdesae In January, 10S. Mitchell's horns is In Portland, where he haa a wife. He pleaded not guilty to ths charge, Lincoln assassinated f0rty-0ne years ago (Joeraal Special Semes.) ' Waahlngton. D. C, April 14. It will be 4i yeara tonight that Abraham . Lin coln, prealdent of tha United 8tatee, waa shot and fatally wounded by .John Wilkes Booth, while -witnessing a per- . formance of "Our American Cousin" In Ford's theatre in thia city. ' Strange to aay, no exercises ars held anywhere, so far as known, ,to msrk ths memorable oay. ' Oas wall" Sbarea the ttlerjr. Richard Caswell, trained of ths Port land Rowing club,, whose rescue of his drowning son waa told In yesterday's Journal, said today: "I would like to add te the printed story ths fact that two men, J. O. Humphrey and P. H. Mo Carthy, came to my assistance at tha laat moment, and helped ua out of tho water. Had It - not - been for their aid both of us might have drowned." , ' , Asaes Wants) ITew Trial. : (Joeraal Special Bervtee.) Fresno, Cai.. April 14. Ex-Treasurer Ames of Madera county, convicted of nmbesslement of publlo . funds, moved for a new trial today ' and ths motion was taken under advisement. Xavtte IClnlsterlal Balaaratse. , . . (Joeraal Special lUrrlre.) . ' Fresno, Cal April 14. The Feder ated Tradea of Fresno haa passed m novel resolution. Inviting the Ministerial, ' union to aeat delegates In ths labor' body. - XSUiTa If TOtrn. Disease and Sickness Bring Old Age, - Herblne, taken every morning be fore breakfaaC will keep you In robust health, fit you to ward oft disease, it cures constipation, biliousness, dyspep sia, fever ar:n, liver and - kidney com plalnta It purifies tha blood and clears the complexion.' , Mra D. W. Smith. Whitney, Texas, writes, April 3, 1002: "I have used Herpuie and find It tha best medicine for constipation and liver troubles. j doea all you claim for it. I can highly -recommend It." Price. lOo, Bold ba Woedard, Park 0a . COAjT