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SLAYS TWO,
M. J. Dafty, Ketired Capital
ist of Los Angeles, Be
heads Son and Daughter
With Ax: Attempts Life
of His Wife.
Mrs. Dafty Gibbering Ma
niac Dafty, an Epileptic
Attempts Suicide .and
Almost Kills Officer
Mav Recover.
He
Los Angeles. Aug 13. Chopping off
tlie hetds; of his sen Fred and hU
daughter Mrs. A,dt La comb, cutting his
wife's arm with the same ax with which
the murders vtere committed and drlv
Ing her into probably hopeless lnsanlty
Hashing his own throat, with a huge
cleaver and fighting; a hand-to-hend bat
tle with Pollce-ian Coe, who attempted
C evreat him, M. ' ji Eafty, a retired
capitalist, 66 years old, ran amuck her
early today during a sudden attack of
pHpllc lnsaii'(r"-rrmtfr ' Coe "was
rescued bv Detective Jones and Boyd,
who reached Dafty'a residence and ar
retted the insane wan Just a" he was
about to njunge knife Into the heart
of the policuman with whom ha was
trugailng on the floor.
Dafty. who" lived with .his son. mur
dered the young man while he lay in
bed- aaleen this morning. Seising; an
ax he aevered the youth's head from his
body and leaving the'oorpse lying lh a
pool of blood dashed a block down the
street to the residence of his daughter,
with whom his wife. Who had been sep
arated from htm for some time, made
her home. '
Read Off With On Blow.
Entering the Lacomb blouse quietly,
OHIO'S SENATORIAL FIGHT
INVOLVES MANY BIG MEN
HIED TO
CONFERENCE
Important Meeting to Be
Held at Pelican Bay
General Manager O'Brien
Will Join Party, Which
.Leaves Friday.
Senator Dirk of Ohio, in the upper left; Senator Foraker of Ohio in the
npper right. In the bottom row, reading front: lfftj to right, are
Congressman Theodore K. Burton of Cleveland, former National
Committeeman Myronf; T. Herrick and "Brother" Charles P. Taft.
he approached stealthily his unsuspect
machine. Ruining the ax he chopped
Ing daughter, who waa seated at a sew
Ing m
"ff her head with one powerful blow.
Then. In fiendish rage, he slashed and
out at the prostrate form of his victim.
Mra. Mary Dafty. wife of the maniac,
heard her daughter's body fall from the
chair and rushed Into the room. Mad
dened by his lust for blood. Dafty turned
on the "helpless woman and struck her
upon the arm with the keen blade of
his terrible weapon. He was not suc
cessful, however, In Inflicting; a mortal
wound and his wife, screaming with
terror, ran out cf the house, and sought
protection with a neighbor.
After hacking his daughter's body In
a score of places, the maniac coolly
sauntered out of her house and made
iis way db?k iq m own residence, ne
morse, apparently awakened by the sight
of his son's mutilated body, overtook the
aged man upon his return home and ly
ing down upon the bed In a pool of
his own child's blood he tried' to com
mit suicide by hacking his throat with
a huge cleaver.
Before Dafty could cut himself fatal
ly Officer Coe arrived and upon being
refused admittance, knocked down the
front door. Seising a sharp knife, Daf
ty attacked the policeman. Thev clinched
and fell to the floor. With the myster
ious strength of a maniac, Dafty was
rapidly overpowering the officer and had
raised his hand to plunge the knife Into
ms victim s neart wnen the detectives
appeared
Remarkable cunning marked the man's
wild orgy. After he had slain his son.
he carefully wiped the blood from his
hands and the ax before leaving the
house. At the Lacomb home he passed
silently by the cot upon which his I-
year-old granddaughter waa sleeping,
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
Cleveland, Ohio, Aug.; 13. Ever since
Foraker and Taft battled for the Ohio
presidential vote In the Republican na
tional" convention ,t he ,Ohly senatorial
situation has been highly complex. Dur
ing the early days of the Taft canvasri
one of his greatest stumbling blocks
was the notorious division of his own
partv In hla own state, caused by Sena
tor Foraker and Senator Dick and other
friends. The division was due primar
ily to long continued hostility between
Foraker and the Roosevelt policy, which
naturally resulted in hostility between
Foraker and the Taft policies. Wth
Taft. the undisputed victor In every
skirmish. It ha been universally stated
that Foraker would be forced to retlro
from the senatorial state.
Torakcr Position.
When 'Forn'ke.r waV procuring .his
Presidential votes he ,had no stronger
teker than his Ohio colleague In the
Ohio house of -congress, Senator Dick.
Foraker and Dick have always been in
perfect harmony and unity of action.
Asa result the. FOraknr-, blight -becomes
also a Dick blight, and the senatorial
situation in the Buckeye state Is ac
cordingly further Involved.
Senator Foraker's term expires March
3. 109, .when he will hare served 12
years In the upper house. Senator
Dick's term expires March 3, 1911. when
he will have served seven years In the
upper house. The contest Is now on for
both of their places.'.
Letters have been . received In Cleve
land Indicating that Republican leaders
In southern Ohio will demand that the
senatorshlp, to he vacated by Foraker
next vear, be given to that section of
the state Foraker himself Is from Cin
cinnati and southern Ohio. Dick Is from
Okron and northern Ohio. If Foraker
retires and a northern Ohio candidate
la elected to succeed him. the northern
part of the state will have two senators
Edward H. Harriman, railroad mag
nate, wants to talk about the long de
layed extension of his system Into and
through central Oregon. Therefore he
has Invited Governor George K. Cham
berlain. F. S. Stanley, head man of the
Deschutes Irrigation & Power company
and promoter of an Independent road
Into the Central Oregon country, and
James p. O'Brien, general manager of
the Harriman lines, to make a trip to
Pelican hav to talk the matter over.
The three men will leave Friday, will
go to Shanlko by train and from there
to Pelican bay on Klamath lake by au
tomobile. The trip there and tack, it
is expected, will tke about seven. days.
ueneral Mtmager u fcfrien receiver ;i
teleeram vesterdav from Mr. Harriman
asking that invitations be extended to
Governor Chamberlain and Mr. Stanley
to accompany him on the visit to Pell
can Bay. In accordance with thla It is
now planned to start on Friday ' .'
Mr. o Brien claims mat tnere la notn-
Ing of particular Interest attaching to
in rnp. Crfrn -hoi-KimvAse: w:
what Is golna- to be talked about when
the party reaches: the- summer home of
Mr, Harriman out In the electric-lighted
wilder or Klamath county.
Governor Doubtful.
Governor Chamberlain says that while
at any time he would be most pleasad
to accept en Invitation to visit Mr. Har
riman at his camp on Pelican Bay, yet
h
has been generally con- and return "
Burton
Although none of the parties to the
(Continued on Page Three.)
until the term of Senator Dick expires arrangements
in 1911.. while southern Ohio will have
'.t l"c '" just at this time the business of
It, has been generally expected that office would prevent hla acceptance un-
the ieadlng candidate for succession to le,BAt were that he considered his trip
the Foraker toga would be either Myron would give him an opportunity to at-
T. Herrick or Theddore E. Burton .of tmpt to secure good results for the
this cttv people of the state, particularly of
Others in Favor. those transportatlonlesa residents of the
' , , , ... . , central portion or the state.
, '""V,.":V "i. . "I expect to discuss the construction
member of the lower house of congress "f ,,he J'n.tral "re?" r??A 5,nd , ,h
of long record, and many honors. Both cJ"a,er I'ak "ad .w.lth Mr. Harriman.
have been Taft boomers, and both are "" "L. i " , m"rn,n: l,'"""
accordingly In favor with the Taft man- than that, I do not know what will bo
agement in Ohio. Merrick was one of the subject of conversation. and of
the Taft field managers In the Chicago course I do not know what will be the
convention and Burton was the sponsor result of the trip. I expect that it will
chosen to present Taft's name at the taRe me about seven days to go there
convention. It
ceded tnat either Merrick or
would be selected to succeed Foraker.
But the letters received from Republican
leaders in southern Ohio raise this new
question as to whether Cleveland and
Akron, both In northern Ohio, should
have the two Ohio senators,h1ps.
These same letters suggest that For
aker of Cincinnati and southern Ohio
should be succeeded by another party
from Cincinnati and southern Ohio, and
bring forth the name of Charles. P. Taft
for the place. This 1r none other than
the famous "Brother Charles." who has
furnished the financial sinews of war
for William IfT Taft's campaign. Ac
cording to present Indications he Is not
at all unlikely to receive a well-rounded
senatorial boom In the verv near future.
and should such an event occur there
would be little question of the probabil
ity of Its success.
In this event Burton and Herrlck
would obviously be a simple matter for
the Burton-Herrick forces In northern
Ohio to. combine with the Charles Taft
forces In southern Ohio and deliver the
Foraker seat to Taft the present year
and the-Dick seat to one of the Cleve
land gentlemen two vear a hence.
So far as known Dick and Foraker
have not been consulted as to these
. I THAT MPTT Hf TQ DI?Dl7l?r,rrr V C A PC "1
JSii: fete
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HOUSE DIVIDED
Oil SON-M
Popper Favors Dr. Fitzger
ald's Suit. Though Mom
mer Kidnaped Girl.
HOMESTEADER KILLED
BY BARTENDER AFTER
CHALLENGE TO DUEL
(Continued on Page Three.)
TAFT TOO ilCII
FOR HIS STEED
Poor Beast Goes Down Un
der His Bigness Luckily
Xobody Hurt.
FEDERAL JOBS FOR DISHONOR
Scheme of Fulton Adherents Involves Practical Sale of
Statement No. 1 Votes in Lieu of Federal Pat
ronage Debauch Legislature, If Can.
( Catted FTen Lmm4 Wire.)
Hot Spring. Va.. Aug. !. It became
known here today that Judge W. H.
Taft, Republican candidate for the prea
Idency, narrowly 'escaped serious lo-
iory Tuday afternoon, when the horse
e waa riding on a mountain road gave
way beneath his welaht and Taft waa
thrown vieadlong to the ground.
The horse knees collapsed and the
animal went down all in a heap. Judge
Taft fell on his hands and knees in
front of the horse with great force, hut
sustained no Injuries other than a few
bmleea.
General Clarence Edwards was with
Tart when the accident happened. The
feoree bad been brought here from Ken
t"ky by General Edwards particularly
for Taft s use and it waa purchased -Ur
a roaraate that It would carry Jt
r-namds-witk . Edwards l In Wa4t
lagtoa tnmr pdeevorlnc to g another
' h-vree whir will meet the reqalrements
of the candidate.
Taft's - remarkable agilltv prevent e
Me being serkoualr hart. ' H was nm him
ft a moment after the Vcldeat ana
petr te hnree up. j
HrrTitU'v Henhura if Jwa ar-i
tlved today, ts consult ths eanlda.
A big price in federal patronage Is
to be paid for debauching Oregon's next
legislature in the effort to overturn the
people's will and defeat Governor
Chamberlain for the senatorshlp. The
candidate who weathers the Joint caucus
now being arranged by Senator Fulton,
If It la possible to frame up such a
caucus. Is to pay the price in patron
age, whether that man be Senator Ful
ton or some one else.
Thla price, part payment for the be
smirched honor of sevea Statement Na.
1 raembera of the legislature, has been
decided upon In a conference ef leaders
of the Fulton faction, so It Is said, and
Is this: The )os Of postmsste of Port
land, new held bv John Mlnto; the job
of collector of customs for the Port of
Portland, now held bv P. S. Malcolm:
the Job of eolleotor ef Internal revenue,
now held bv David M. Iune; the job
of Cnlted States Ma rah el. now held br
Charles 1. Reed. Theae jobs, tt Is esti
mated, should be goo for at laat four
defections from the Statement Tto, 1
ranks, and poeelblv re. svrdlng te
the power and earnest ne ef theee whs
a re hungry for, the postuowa.
ralssa lariat; mis rto.
gVnetor Ful tnii Is bew4rnf all -of hla
etwgiee and shaping all of bis efforts
towards ths defeat a Oorwaat Chasa
herjat fer satw before the aevt -ialatvr.
Jn the furtherance t hie an.
erJ plan, m It la iiri"l ent hj the
prophets. It la ascessary that he lead
the Taft campaign In Oregon and bs
sble to go back to Washington with the
story that the four electoral votes of
the state were due In large part to his
efforts and generalship. Such a condi
tion would put him in the way of mak
ing good his promises of federal pat
ronage, should he be able to overturn
the popular will at the next legislature
and return to Washington as United
States senator.
Thla la part f the plan. Besides that
It becomes necessary to secure a joint
c-aucua or mnmncrs or the legislature,
all pledged te abide bv the majority
vote of that raorae la settling ths elec
tion of s I'ntted States senator. It Is
estimated that a majority ef the anti
Statement No. 1 members of the legie-
latsre are friendly to Fulton and win
stand for hla game. All that be has to
do. therefore. Is to bring la seven State
ment No. 1 men to make the 44 votes
nocsary to electtoej and the thing Is
done.
wt favors,
Every cITort la being put forth te c
eocnpltsh this plan, ffupport of the Ful
ton fartintt for president of the senate
and speaker ef ths house wta t aaade
contingent aposj acceptance f the
scheme end' agreement of the candidate
roe presknt or speaker to work for Its
succooa. Fallnn a cendtdatee for rew
dewt of tJm sonars and speaker of the
house, therefore, are etrcted- te bnrg
at least two Statement ISo. 1 votes Into
ths Jtint eaama I
(I'ntted Preai Leaaed Wlm.)
Palo Alto. Cal.. Aug. 13 Dr. Fred F.
Fltxgersld. the young Ran Francisco
rtysldan who journeyed to Morris, 111..
for the purpose of marrying Miss Kthel
Ludwlg. only to have his intended bride
spirited away by her mother. Is today
under the consoling wing of the young
woman's father, Otto Ludwig, at the
latter s home In this city. It is salJ
that through the father a reconciliation
may be effected. According to the besi
Information. Miss Ludwlg is even now
on her way to Palo Alto for that pur
pose, hsving defied the maternal au
thority that had kept hef hidden away
from her lover for almost a week.
If Mrs. Ludwlg follows her daughter
to California and again attempta to out
wit Cupid, it la declared there will be a
clash of family authority that may be
more sensational than any of the events
thus far la the strange romance.
(Special Df'patch to The Journal.)
Stevenson, Wash., Aug. 13. Skamania
county's mountainous timbered district
Is today being scoured by Sheriff James
Haffey and deputies In their hunt for
Antonio Plcclano. an Italian bartender
in W. K. Kllsworth's saloon. Crook's
Landing, who last night Instantly killed
Ben Stahl. a homesteader near Crook's,
In front of Ellsworth's saloon with a
38-callber revolver.
Stahl. according to the evidence ad
duced at the coroner's Jury this morn
ing, came Into Crook's yesterday after
noon and spent the day and a part of
the night at Ellsworth's saloon. He
was drinking heavily. About 11 o'clock
he became engaged In an altercation
with Plcclano. claiming the latter had
robbed him of a purse containing 310.
The argument became heated and Stahl
Is alleged to have leveled his Marlln
rifle at the bartender, calling him
names and daring him outside.
Plcclano accepted the dare and the
murder resulted, the bartender empty
ing three bullets Into Stahl's body be
fore the latter had a chance to fire.
Plcclano fled Immediately after the
shooting, and no trace of him has been
found.. There was but one witness to
the shooting. W. H. Ellsworth
The authorities at Stevenson were no
tified this morning about 7 o clock.
Picciano could either have taken a skiff
or buried himself In the vastness of
the Cascade mountaina' timber. Ths
Portland and Astoria authorities have
been notified.
Stahl is believed to have had relations
in Portland. He settled on his home
stoad about a year ago. He was single
and had home a good reputation
Plcclano came here about a year ago
as foreman ror a firm or hpokane rail
road contractors on the north bank
road. He soon resigned to take the po
sition as bartender in Ellsworth's sa
loon, where he has since been. He is
believed to be unmarried. He waa of a
rather surly disposition.
Plcclano Is about 80 years old. five
.feet four Inches In height. 140 pounds
weight, black short hair and mustache.
At the time of his escape he worea
black sort hat and a dark mixed
StljK)
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tCleed on rage Tr.ree )
Order in
Advance
Snnlxjr morning Journal next
Sunday; in line with all that i
worth reading about. That Sunday
magazine it replete with Monet
for all classes. The coming muc
will contain many new" feature.
among which will be a number of
new (porting page specialties.
TWO LEASED WIRES.
UKEQUALED COMIC PAGES.
WOMEN' S PAGES.
CHILD1EKS PAGES.
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Order the Sunday
Homing Journal
TO SERVE SCENCE
WOMAN WLLS BODY
TO MEDIO AL COLLEGE
mm FREED
TO FIND BOY
t
Lad Missing for Two Years
May Be Keturned to
His Parents.
rn1ta Prtas I-eaaed Wlre.1
Belllngham. Wash.. Aug. 13. After
expressing a wish that her body be
given to a medical college at Portland.
Or. Mrs. L. C Chamberlain, who haa
ben III with tuberculosis for the last
six Weeks, Is dead. Weeks before her
death Mrs. dhamberlsln realised that
she was soon 'to die and. believed that
her remains mleht be of benefit to the
scientific world
About a year ago she surprised her
friend." and relatives by being married
to L. C. Chamberlain. Little Is known
of Chamberlain. A separation followed
after a month of wedded life. 8lnce
that time the husband has not been
found A aiater sent a message to the
medical college at Portland to see If
the body was wanted there, carrying
out the wish of the dying woman.
AMERICAN ATHLETES
ARRIVE AT NEW YORK;
CARPENTER'S VIEWS
(Special Dlapatch to The Journal.)
Walla Walla, Wash.. Aug. 11. 3aJm .
Ing he knew the whereabouts of Cecil
Brlttan, the little son of R. L- Brlttan.
who disappeared from Toll Gate twa
years ago, James Breen. a convict haar a
Just been granted a conditional pardon ,
by Governor Mead, that ha may locate
the boy. He saya he has found hlaa In
a mountain camp above Lewlston.
The Brittan lad was lost in the moun
tains 25 miles from her two years
ago July 16. The child la now seven
years old. At the time or Ms disap
pearance a search was mads by sOw men.
but the boy was never located. - The
father has answered claims of finding
him all over the country, ths latest
being at Spokane thla spring.
hen a boy at Spokane waa nuea-
tloned he said, he knew of the Brlttan
hoy disappearing and told of : Jack
Breen. About the same time Breen wi.
arrested in Spokane for overdrawing
his bank account. He waa convicted
and sentenced to five yeara In the pen-.
ltentlary. He then said no Knew where
the boy was and would get him, if al-
nwel. He was granted a conditional
pardnn and went to work.
Last woeK. witn tne tatner ana motn
r cf the bov. he went to Lewlston. but
when he came back from the mountains
he hal no boy. but excuses, saying his
horse was shot under him.
Brlttan and Breen came back ta thla
city and will make another trial. Breen
says he saw the lad last week and
talked to him. The boy Is In god
health and satisfied, says Breen. Th
atorv was received eegerly by th
father, who has aever doubted but that
the son was kidnaped, and not lost to .
die. .
rnSwd Press Uoard Wire.)
New fork. Aug. 13. Th American
athletea arrived this morning from Eu
rope. When J. C Carpenter landed at
the pier .lie gave out the following
statement:
-I have no recollection of having
gqueesed HalswelL ths English runner,
whom I am accused of pocketing As
a matter of fact the race was declared
mid before I finished- I ana tired of all
thla talk a boot British antipathy against
AraeeVea athletes. Personally I found
some mf the British athletes good fel
lows and gfwt athlete, bat 1 admit I
feel keenly the Injustice of being dis
qualified by alleged unfair tactile. 1
be, leva. If I had rvot been disqualified,
I would bar waa the: raee wbaa It was
rern."
W. p. V'-T.e'ir fell, eeretary ef the
American Clyrcf.c recfptoo committee.
today received tho following letter from
President Jtooeevelt:
"I have been very, glad to have been
named aa honorary president of the
American Olympic reception com mK tec.
hut it will be Impossible for mo to go
to New Tork rlt to attend lh recep
tion. If the member raa come out to
Oyeter Bay I shall he sincerely glad
to see them hero st my house and greet
them In person. ln-erl v vours
"THEOPORB ROOSEVELT."
It is" considered probable that the
teem will ecceen the invitation an)
make the trip to Oyster Bay lust after
the big reception whicA wlil be held ber
August 1,
i Trv-ary. Ptate-srernt,
ITslHst Ftias ImI WV )
Washington. Ae 13 TMtr'i tre
try ataie-rect '- j.
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FIREMEII KILLED:
EIIGIIIEFJPYOIE
Construction Trains on 3Iil
i waukee in Washington
: in Collision.
(Tatted lYees teased tlrt l
Heattl. Aug J3. W. A Ciehee. a
f. reman, was killed. a4 w Ui iaeS O I -r-.
engineer, and WHl'.ana snn4r. bi--saan,
were seriously lar4 la a r
11kn of te cooarw-t ie trt'ra e t
Olrag'V aiife st !-
f my at i' - , te -
ef Marie Va-ley. at " r - ' '-
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