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PORTLAND. 'OREGON,' SUNDAY MORNING, ; JUNE 20, 1909.
VOL. VI.- NO. 12.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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d WiTSi
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ELSIE SIGEL SLAIN
BY JEALOUS CHINESE
Life Evidently Blameless and Devoted
Ling Had Presumption to Essay Role
of Suitor Murdered Her When White
Suitor Appeared.
ElAfM awes UW ..
New York, June 19. That 20
year-old Elsie Sigel, granddaughter
of General Franz Sigel, the dead civ
il war veteran, was slain by an In
furiated Chinaman, madly jealous
because the young mission worker
was engaged to a white man, is the
conclusion prompted by the state
ment of Miss Mabel Sigel, cousin of
the murdered girl, tonight, that El
sie was engaged to a young man with
whom she had been acquainted for
years.
Mabel Sigel said this man was now
In Wyoming- and that, he has been noti
fied of bis fiancees tragic end. She
would not divulge his name, but from
other sources it was learned that
young man named Henry Osborne had
been very attentive to Elsie and that
v. idft fnr th wMt noma time ago.
That the girl ww killed because, of
her engagement to a wiuio
borne out by a statement of Mfs. Flor
ence M. Todd. In. charge, .of . the Mts.
sion House with which Klsie Bigel was
connected, that a short time ago Elsie
had come to her and weeplngly told
her that Leon Ling had asked her .u
marry him and had warned her not to
refuse him. The .. girl was terribly
frightened. Mrs. Todd said, and asked
the older woman's advice, saying she
was afraid to give him a definite an-
"wer. Isoa Threatened Hss .Ufa
Shortly afterward. Mrs. Todd sail
the girl related to her that Leon hud
threatened her with death through tell
ing her of a vision, he had seen.
"'He tild the girl." said Mrs. Tod I.
"that he had dreamed he saw a man
holding her down on a bed with his
hands around her throat.'
Five weeks later the strr W4k
strangled to death.
It is surmised by those arput tha
mission In Chinatown that the girl
plucked up the courage to tell I.eon
that she was already engaged to a
white man and the murder followed.
The brutal murder of the girl has
spread consternation among the hun
dreds of settlement workers in New
York and Brooklyn, who are mostly
young women. Out of the crime of
this Chinese Don Juan, whose room
was decorated with hundreds of let
ters from white mission workers, there
mav arise a mass of scandal wr Ion will
spread to other homej and ther cities.
Her Duty to Save Bonis.
The death of Elsie Sigel has revealed
Just how close the white women work
ers and the Chinese are brought togeth
er in the missions. The police have
learned that Elsie Sigel. since she was
a child, was brought into contact with
Chinese through her mother's mission
activities. She grew up in the mission
work, and gradually me to regard it
as her duty to save the souls of the
Chinese. .,,. .
In the course of her work she met
Leon, who, according to letters found
in his room, is shown to have made a
practice of making love to his various
teachers. He fell in love with her, the
police say, and the murder was the in
evitable result. That the girl had ever
TUG GOES DM
HUH Jll.LHfflS
Grayling Sails From British
Columbia and No Word
Since Heard From Her.
(Hunt News by longest teased Wire.)
San Francisco, June 19. The British
tug Grayling, which sailed from British
Columbia for SatrFrimclseo on the way
to Ancon, Is given up as lost. She sailed
on May 21 and should hays reached port
in three days. She had only eight ton
of coal on board, which in ordinary
weather would last four days'. The last
see.n of her was when passing Cape
Flattery, on the sound, when she passed
out two miles ahead of the steamer
President.
Captain Cousins of the President saw
the danger the little vessel was in arid
fearing she was not aware of an ap
proaching storm, steered to the Grayling
and hailed her. Coustns considered her
situation so serious that he went out of
his wav a mile to warn her. - When
alongside the Grayling Cousins told the
skipper that the weather bureau pre
dicted a violent storm.
The warning was not acted upon, and
as nothing has been heard from the
Grayling since it Is believed she foun
dered with all on board.
WESTERN OREGON
TEACHERS MEET
(Bpeclal DUpetch to Tb Journal.!
Albany, Or.. June 19. The ninth an
nual convention of the Oregon State
Teachers' association (western division),
will meet 1ft Albany June 29. 10 and
July 1 and 2. The commercial club
is working In conjunction with the io
cal committee of the Teachers' associa
tion to make the big event a success
Over- 800 teachers are expected during
the convention and the city has be-n
ranvassed for the rooming accommoda
tions necessary.- ' -
The general sessions of the conven
tion will be held in the tabernacle, used
during the "past month for. the John
son revivals. While -several buildings
near by have been necured for the dif
ferent departments of InitruUlon and'
clasrea, - .-. .'...'
welcomed the attentions or Leon was
denied by her cousin, Mabel Sigel, to
night. She thought It was her duty to save
the souls of the Chinese," said Mabel,
"hut she never was intimate with them."
Girl Was lutl to Her Death.
"Elsie was lured to her death," she
added, tearfully. "She left horns on
Wednesday morning, June 9, to go to
her grandmother's. She did not run
away. She had .no trouble with her pa
rents or anyone else. Her mother gave
her some orders to leave at the mar
ket that morning and she attended to
them.
"I think this Chinese lay in wait for
her, and either by force or by sjime
scheme Induced her to go to the house
where she was killed. Elsie was a quiet
home girl and was very seldom out of
the house in the evenings. She confided
to me in everything, but she never men
tioned thiB man Leon,"
Mrs. Paul 'Sigel, mother of the girl,
when shown the locket found on the
body in the trunk, shrieked:
"My Grfd. Elsie!"
She then collapsed. This afternoon,
after, hours of hysterical convulsions,
during which physicians tried In vain to
calm her. Mrs. Sigel was taken to a
sanitarium in Connecticut by her hus
band. Her condition Is a matter of se
rious concern.
Death by Strangulation.
Three Chinese, On Wtng, Yee Kim and
a waiter in the restaurant on the ground
floor of the house where .the body was
found, said they were in the house when
the bodv was discovered but knew noth
ing of Leon Ling or Elsie Sigel.
The autopsy held on the body of the
girl this afternoon by Coroner's Physic
clan O'Hahlon showed traces of poison
in the stomach and intestines .'of the
girl. Whether poison was administered
and was one of the causes of death. Dr.
O'Hanlon would not say, as he con
tended the traces of poison may have
been the result of decomposition. Death
he "ascribed to asphyxia by strangula
tion. . The oVgans showing poison traces,
however. ' were sealed up and sent to
Professor Ferguson of Columbia college,
who will make a chemical analysis.
Xdng's Photograph Collection.
Captain Carey of the homicide bureau
has several men detailed tonight going
over the mass, of letters found in Leon
Ling's room. 'In addition to the hun
dreds of letters there are 20 or 30 pho
tographs, many of them of exceedingly
beautiful women. One of these photo
graphs shows a Chinese and a middle
aged woman, white, in a flowered arbor.
The Chinese sits In a chair and the
woman has one arm about his neck,
while the other hand clasps one of his.
Captain Carey refused to make pub
lie the contents or purport of any of
the letters found in the room, saying
that such action would hinder the police
in tjieir investigation. He said, how
ever, that he was convinced the girl was
murdered on June 9, the day she left
her home, and that Leon left New York
on the same dav. His theory In the mir.
suit of Leon is that the letter sent the
Sigel family on that day from Wash
ington was sent by Leon.
The belief that Leon Is In the south
was strengthened todav by the discovery
that he and Chung Sin, the Chinese who
roomed with him and fled, with him,
conducted a chain of chop suey restau
rants In New York, Coney Island and at
Norfolk, Va.
DRAIN-COOS LINE
SUPPLIES llfEO
Espee Transfers 21,000 Bar
rels from Oregon to Oak
land, Cal.
(Special nuoatfh to The Journal.
Marshfleld, Or., June 19. The cement
which has been stored for the Southern
Pacific's Draln-Coos Bay extension at
Gardnler and Scottsburg is being shipped
from Coos Bay by the steamer Plant to
Oakland. Cal. Agent H. W. Skinner of
the Wilhtlmina has the contract for
bringing the 21.000 barrels over th
Umpqua river. One thousand went out
on the Plant iast Tuesday and ship
ments will continue until the entire
number are sent.
Cement deteriorates after a time and
as far as can be learned this action on
the part of the Harriman Interests Is
simply to take the cement to a place
where it can be Immediately used. The
other supplies are still In storage along
the proposed route.
Indications are that no' immediate
work will be done toward building the
railroad at the coast end at present.
Dr. McCormack, president of the
Marshfleld chamber of commerce, says
that the matter has never been taken up
or discussed at any of the meetings, it
being understood the moving of the
cement" has simply been a matter of
saving It from total loss.
FATHER LQSES "RACE
; AGAINST DEATH
Spokane, Wash., June 19. J. N. Be
dout, the wealthy Pittsburger, collapsed
here today because he had. lost out in
the race, across the continent against
death and atrlved at St. Luke's hospi
tal a few hours after the death of his
favorite son, Dewltt 1 , '
The boy was brought here suffering
from an abscess on the groin. In com
pany with his mother and sister he was
spending his vacation at .his brother's
ranch at Cofvllle. Dewltt was the eld
est child and the favorite and his hope
less condition was kent from his father
1n the hope that, he might arrive before
ma aeauu. - '. i- . ,
IE TAX
H ASSAIL
TAFT PLAN
Point Out Myriad Methods of
Evasion and Assert It Is
Futile Roosevelt Looms
as Independent Candidate
in 1912.
By John E. Lathrop.
Washington, D. C, Juno 19. That the
president's proposal to tax net incomes
of corporations will permit the transfer
of such tax to consumers; that bond
holders with swoHen fortunes would
escaps entirely; that small incorporated
companies would be hit hard by It, and
that such a tax would be discrimina
tory, as, for instance, the private owner
of an office, building on one corner
would escape while' the corporation own
ing the office building on the opposite
corner would be taxed, are the main ob
jections urged by its opponents.
That the olan to submit the personal
Income tax amendment to the states
would give It into the power of 12 states
to defeat it, or just more than one
fourth of all the statesi that It Is al
most certain such effort would drag
along many years before enough states
rat u lea it to put u into lore; ma
meanwhile swollen fortunes would con
tinue to pile up to inconceivable mag
nitude, their owners escaping a. Just
share of governmental maintenance, are
points ofrered against it,
That the adoption of the proposed
plan would be to deliver the personal
rncome tax intoeh-MhandSfof - Its ene
mies, rather than to leave it to be urged
affirmatively by Its real friends; that
the plain is In reality merely a subter
fuge to defeat the personal Income tax
by the supporters of high protection
who fear Its adoption Would remove the
best excuse they have for high customs
duties r the contention of the opponents
of the Taft-Aldrich contingent.
Gould Juggle Incomes.
This Is the substance of the platform
on which all original income taxers Willi
make their fight for the Bailey-Cummins
amendment In answer to the rea
sons stated by President Taft in his
special message. Borah and Cummins
also contend that corporations will de
vise methods to Juggle incomes so as
to defeat the collection of the tax.
But the most Important phase of this
controversy is the assertion that cer
tain progressive Rep.Uhl!oan senators
called on the president only a short
time ago and laid down their' program
to urge tho Income tax amendment now
without waiting for a constitutional
amendment. , They asked the president
if he still adhered to the view often ex
pressed previously that a bill could be
drawn which would inaugurate the In
come tax and pass tne supreme court,
and the president answered that hl.
opinion heretofore given was unalter
able, that they were at liberty to go
ahead and he would, back them.
They allege, too. that after tbe pro
gressive, senators referred tn hurt traind
rthe president's nssent. Bourne. whtl.
playing golf with President Taft at
Chevy Chase, broached tht new plan,
finally inducing the president to accept
it, thus reversing his position taken in
the campaign and after his inaugura
tion. t
Bonnie Close to President.
I have gone carefully Into the whole
matter and find that Bourne really was
the man who induced the president to
change his vlewr, although later others
conferred with President Taft and per-
ofTnf'y'irfha. u "maKr 'vftai '
sTntotoryShysVtl
: . v ' " wim.B. mmrne nonestlv h-
i,ui i.iusinous onier executives ever
lnTtnheenmWhite House'
. Income taxers assert that thev had
FrSMiM
cnmZJrnenZe of the,r Balley:
c J- BJ"naiors win combat it
on the ground that corporations doing
no interstate business would be as
sessed and therefore contrary to the
rights guaranteed to the state, by the
constitution; that an army of govern!
merit inquisitors would pry into the se
crets of every corporation, even candy
store companies, thereby creating in
tolerable conditions. "
But In the cloak room and lobby de
bates, quite as Important as open floor
statements opponents of the president's
plan wl allea-e hltteri. th.i t.ki. ,
all stands the towering figure of Id-
..iii h me uonvnating- mind In all this
business; that Taft la honestly desir
ing improvement and has been betrayed
Into pursuing the course destructive of
real progress. Unnn thl .iw.i
fm.?..ti,e eruclal test of the Taft admin-
laiiaiiuii, , -
Taft Policy In Balance.
No one ouestions the hnt..i n .v.-
President and some of his close advise
ut anyone away from Washington will
be able to realize only In part that the
ucniiirau in in income tax fight
have brought Rfluarely up the continued
hold of Taft on his party and his coun
llT 1 c"nnderce- Were I permitted to
print the statements as to intentions
made to me in confidence and reveal
what really lies beneath the surface, yet
plainly seen by all Informed men, here,
then it would be universally 'accepted
that Mr Taft will not be able to sur
vive politically' if it be that popular
thought runs along that line 'indicated
by the opponents of his proposal.
Booatrslt on Independent Ticket.
Strangely into this situation one
hears Injected significant references to
Roosevelt, and it has become a daily
pastime to draw pictures of the Rough
Rider landing on the PaciTlo coast, re
turning from Africa, marching across
the continent to the accompaniment of
the h u Ha a of the people, then from Oys
ter Bay giving out one hint that hi
successor hasn't realised expectations
and then -
I have seen a politician of national
renown figuring what states Roosevelt
could carry If nominated on an inde
pendent ticket. He gave a liberal slice
oi'the Pacific, coet, many southern and
IIICO
(Continued on Page Four.)
THE COUNTESS
Thf Countess' of Aberdeen who
ternational Conference of Women's
OREGON STILL
Railroad . Developments of
'Past Week Show Ray of
it j. tt t-v j l
Hope to Be Dimmed by
-
Harriman Fencing Com-
petition From State.
Oregon's chief ray of hope In the
railway developments of the past week
was found In th'e news from Washing
ton that Secretary of the Interior Bal
ltnger had approved the maps of the
Leschates river and the government
land bordering it, followed by the state
ment of General Manager J. P. O'Brien,
yesterday, that he hoped to be able to
ask for bids for the construction of at
least a part of the road within the next
30 flays.
Mr. O'Brien and W. W. Cotton arrived
in Portland from New Tork yesterday
morning, and brought the first definite
Information concerning not only the
Deschutes line but the Union Pacific
Northern Pacific agreement as to the
operation of the Portland-Tacoma line
and the Clearwater line owned jointly
by Hill and Harriman.
The worst feature of the week was
the announcement by General Freight
Agent R. B. Miller of the O. R. & N.
that Harriman had fixed up a deal with
the Milwaukee whereby the Chicago,
Milwaukee & Puget Sound will not
build a line Into Portland. By follow
ing the usual Harriman tactics of
agreeing tor stay out of a possible com
petitor' territory providing that com
petitor will stay out of his, Harriman
has arranged to .have the Milwaukee
turn over 1H, Portland-bound business
to the O. R. A N. at Plummer, Idaho,
thus succeeding in keeping Oregon to
himself against every possible . compet
itor. ' ; WUt Is Xarrtman's CHunef
Whether the wily wizard of Wall
treet la not secretly securing a strong
hold in the very territory that he pre
tends to be keeping away from Is a
possibly that is steadily growing Into
a probability.' As the North Coast road
proceeds .the character of the work takes
on more and more Of the' Harriman fea
tures. The construction is exactlv In
accord With ' that of the best work be
ftig dene by the Union ' Pacific lineal
The very secrecy with which the' road
II POCKET
OF WIZARD
(Continued on Pag Four.).
OF ABERDEEN
visited Montreal .to attend the In
Council on Tuberculosis.
SEijATE
Finance Committee After
Three Hour Night Session
Decides Only Big and
Powerful Institutions
Sliould Be Assessed.
What CongTese Sid Today. A
In the senate The senate de- 4
ferred consideration of the In- 4
come tax measure until the 4
schedules are disposed of. 4
Senator Aldrlch promised an 4
4 early report on the corporation 4
4 tax from the finance committee. 4
4 Senator Beverldge attacked the 4
4. National Cash Register company 4
4 as a monopoly and predicted that 4
4 the government would prosecute 4
it. 4
4 Hides question was reached to- 4
4 day in the senate and evoked 4
4 much discussion. 4
t 4444 444 44444444!
(fltant New by longest Leased Wire.)
Washington, June . 19. The sen
ate finance committee, before it ad
journed at 9 o'clock tonight, after a
session lasting three hours, agreed
that should the Aldrlch substitute
fixing an income tax on corporations
suceed in passing, only big and pow
erful Institutions should be assessed.
Small concerns having a net income
of 5000 or less were to be Immune.
Nor should moneys or net revenue
intended for, payment on the inter
est of bonds be amenable to the law.
In other words. Senator Aldrlch pro
poses that only the, rich and prosperous
institutions jShalt come within the pur-
WILL
AGREE 0
TAX
Continued on Page Four.)
CREW SAVED
BY SHIP'S
Unknown Steamer Goes to
Bottom and Crew Believed
to Have Been Lost. Col
lision Occurs Off the Brit
ish Isles.
(United Pff-aa Leaatd Wlre.i
London, June 19. The British cruiser
Sappho has been sunk as the result of
a collision with an unknown steamer
near Dover.
London, June 1!). The leyort of the col
lision of the British cruiser Sappho was
unofficially confirmed by dispatches ar
riving here earlier this morning. The
collision occurred in a dense fog oft'
Dungeness, in the Straits of Jover.
The Sappho was severely damaged and
Immediately after thu collision began
to fill. Seeing that she Wits sinking tlie
crew took to the boats, some landing at
Dungeness. Owing to the dense fog
hours must elapse before it is possible
to check th,e muster roll and ascertain
whether or'Tiot there were any casual
ties. '
The Sappho's ordinary complement
consisted of 243 officers and men.
The fate of the ship which collided
with the Sappho is unknown and her
Identity has not been established. Llf?
boats are searching the neighborhood
for any survivors of the collision.
Absolutely no trace of the vessel
that collided with the Happho had been
discovered and boats sailing Into Dover
and Dungeness believe she has gone
down. Admiralty tugs are going out
to assist the searchers.
The sle of the immense war fleet
which has ten maneuvering through the
channel for the week leads Admiralty
offlceri to fear that the Sappho may
have collided with another warship.
When Admiral -Kvans' fleet was at
Punta Arenas In the Strait of Magel
lan on its cruise around the world, the
Sappho was also there. Her officers
hobnobbed with the American officers
and gave a dinner on board the Sappho
to Admiral Thomas and other officers
of the American fleet. In turn, they
were entertained on the Connecticut. Ad
miral Evans' flagship, and British and
American officers attended the numer
ous balls and banquets In Punta Are
nas together.
HE WHS MOBBED
Latest Episode in Church
Conflict That Has
Raged for Years.
(United Pre Leaaed Wire.
Tlncoln. Neb.. June 19. Bishop Bon-
acum, who was reported to have been
driven from Ulysses by a mob angerea
at his attempt to oust Father Murphy
from his church, denies that any in
dignities were offered him. He asserts
that he left peaceably and only when
his business there was completed. He
explains his Jaunt along the Burllngtoa
railroad to Garrison by stating that ho
tel accommodations were so poor at
Ul vases that ho and his companions
preferred to walk rather than return
In the carriage in which they departed.
While at Ulysses the bishop and his
two companions held a meeting at which
a resolution was passed directing the
bishop to secure a writ of Injunction re
straining Murphy from further using
the - church. The injunction will be
asked for Monday.
It is the latest step In a fight cov
ering several years, in which Bishop
Bonacuui has attempted to oust Murphy
from the church and the uso of its
property and in which Murphy has held
on through both civil and ecclesiastical
courts.
When the bishop and his companions
had proceeded from the town about
three miles thev were overtaken by a
company In an automobile who demanded
that the driver bring back his fares
to Ulysses. The driver acceded, but'
Bishop Bonaoum got out of the car
riage and he and his companions plod
ded on at midnight to Harrison, where
they slept.
ASTORIA CAM
Differences with, Company
Adjusted "When Cons and
- Motormen Quit.
(Special Dlsoatcb to Tbe Journal.)
Astoria, June Is. Conductors and mo
tormen on the Astoria Electric street
railway struck this afternoon, but the
differences with the company were set
tled af ler a few hour and the men went
back u work. There waa no material
Interference with traffic.
Inuring certain houra of the day, when
the truffle is lightest. It haa been the
custom of the company to place each
car In charge of a motornian alone,
while passengers dropped their nickels
in a slot receptacle.
The motormen complained that the
company wished them to carry a regt.
ter and ring up each fare, thus making
them responsible tor the money taken
1n. Both motormen and conductors
Joined in voicing a decided objection.
A compromise waa effected and the
nntnrmjwi will rtna. lin nn rat Th.
BOATS
BISHOP
QTDIlfT A IM
0 IH L HI1U 1 11
men say they wott tbeir point.- i
JURY LOCKED
DP FOR THE
NIGHT
At Midnight Verdict Is Not
Forthcoming and Talis
men Are Given Eest of 12
Hours Sanderson Testi
mony Reviewed.
(Cnltfd I'resa Leaaed Wire.)
San Francisco, June 19. At mid
night the jury in the Calhoun case
had not returned a verdict and were
locked up until noon Sunday.
San Francisco, June 19. Froro
the time Prosecutor Heney began to
sum tip for the people this morn
ing to the closing scenes in court
tonight, the interest taken in the
trial remained unbroken. Heney was
expected to make a whirlwind fin
ish that would display all his tal
ent for impassioned invective, but
be contented himself with closing
in such a placid maner that persons
who had heard him before a Jurjr
for the first time were taken by
surprise. y
As a matter of fact, however, Heney
adheredto a, characteristic rule in doing
this. His closing at tha trials of Louts
Glass, Kugene Schmlta and, Abe Ruef
was done in' the same' easy tones and,
brought him verdicts from the juries in
all three cases. Heney devoted little of
his close to personalities, having ap
parently flung as many hand-grenades '
of censure at the defendant at he cared
to and acting as if he wished to employ
the final moment of his five month of
battling in court by laying further facts
to undermine the positions behind which
Calhoun and his attorneys were en
trenched. ;
Judge Lawlor began reading his in
struction to the Jury immediately after
recess, the men in the box giving him
an attention thflt lnHfi.at. .Unl
cance they attached to his charge.
Jury Instructed at Zrenrth. '
Patrick Calhoun's oounsel had pro
vided Judge Lawlor . with a voluminous
array of Instructions' to the jury on rea
sonable doubt, the testimony of wit
nesses under tmmnnltv anA 1 .. .
involved In the matter at the bar. Judge
Lawlor read the great part of the in
structions submitted by the defense and
even the most exacting partisans of
Calhoun admitted that the charge to the
Jury was extremely fair.
What Calhoun thought he kept to him
self, but his counsel had no suggestions
to make to the court when Judge Lawlor
finished his Instructions and proceeded
to discharge Michael Murphy, the thir
teenth Juror, who had been sworn as an
alternate to serve in the event that one
of the other Jurors became unable to
take part in the deliberations. -.
Murphy, who is an insurance solicitor,'
left the courtroom with the admonition
of the court not to discuss the case In
any manner until tha jury had been dis
charged. Tory Betlres at Soon.
Bailiffs to guard the jury were sworn
In Immediately afterward, and the Jury
retired to begin their deliberations a"
few minutes before it o'clock. - At 4
o'clock the Jury sent for Judge lawlor
and announced that thev wished to have
the testimony of Attorney W. W. San
derson reread to them. The jurors were
taln In a bus to the St Francis hotel
this evening, returning to the court at S
o'clock. Police swarmed around the
turors as the bailiffs were seeing them
into the bus. and the crowd around Car'
penters' hall, where the court holds Its
sessions, was kept on the opposite side
of the street. r
MID KILLS SELF
Pouble Tragedy Results
From Matrimonial Trou
bles of Farmer.
(Special Dltpatrb to Tha Journal.) ' '
Spokane. Wash., June 19. After mu
dertng the wife whom he mot three
years ago through a matrimonial bu
reau and who' was suing him for dl-'
vorce, Fhllllp Clemens, living nea
Deary, Idaho, cut her throat, and slvjt
the top of his head off today when an
armed possa waa about to enter thu
house to iirreat rim. Mrs. Clemens wa
in a wagon with four men coming tip
the road to the house to get her be
longings when Clemens leveled hi flfl
from a window andshnt her dead !
vards away. The men fled and organ In. t
a posse. Clemens ran into the houwii
.ind barricaded the windows and doors,
declaring no one but the sheriff wuM
take him. The posse began breaking
doors and heard a shot. Th-v fun
Clemers writhing In tleath on the flcr
MINER FALLS 1400
FEET TO HIS DEATH
rtfaaiaa A Ths JH Pit It I
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ng oil th upper d-fk, on t th !
of A bnUdlnjr 40 tt below mni In f.'
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wuh John 8lon.