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Newspaper Page TextTil- DAILY jOUnilAL 13 r::o celts n copy Sunday Jrurr-.l 5 cen?s; cr 15 cents a week, for Dally and Sunday Jour nal. by carrier, delivered - Tti e weather Fair tonight and. Tuesday. - ' lOUHilU CDCULAnu, ''"" l'ESTLlUUY v.3 - VOL. IX. NO. 103. PORTLAND, OREGON1, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 4, 1910. j EIGHTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS, f'rivf cSl n .1 yum l Crowd Howls Its Approval as Giants Hammer Each . Other in Ringed Arena at Reno (Special Dlipttcb te The JoonmU ...'. Reno, July 4. Johnson wins In , fifteenth round ; 'knock out. ; Reno, July 4. Jeff, entered the Ting at 2:33 o'clock. Johnson led him At 2:30 o'clock. Both were cheered. Reno; July 4. At 1:15 the band left the ring to give the moving pic ture men an opportunity fo, photo graph the crowd. . ' - At 1:25 Manager Tom Flanagan and Billy Delaney entered the -ring. The crowd began to , show signs of impatience over the dilatory tactfcs of the moving picture men.; ;; Reno,' July 4 . The gong sounded ai2;46V4 o'clock. - ' Round I They advanced cautiously. Jeff feinte with left,. Johnson grinned. k Jeff again i f elnta with Jef t Johnson lands left to "the ; eye. t Jeff clinches. Johnson appeared stronger in tha clinch. They exchange lefts to .the, Head.. vJeff butts under another, left and clinches, pounding short rlbs i On the break Jeff JiookB left to head,' then cleverly ducks Jack's r;Straight'lWt'i;lncli4'V;Jeffries la smiling and Jack looks worried. Jeff Kipped In & straight left, but was tapped rtn the cheek a, second later. .Clinch to the bell, ;? Anybody's .round. Johnson is rbldlng slightly1 at the mouth and Jeff's right eye Is slightly marked, Round "J Jefr assumes crouch and mlses left to head. Jack sends light left to Chin. Clinch.! Jack sends light -upper cut, to chin. ' Jim sends left to ' .: Clinch. Jeff "prods - short lbs -with right : Jeff misses. upper.ctit , on breakii AnothersUnch. Jack falls with right njSpercut. ' Breaking, Jack - dahs in with left swing, which Jeff stops .with shoulder. ' Jack 'misses right up percut and Jeff kids him. I"lddllng at the bell. Slight shade for Jeff, v ; . ; Round J--Uoth up smiling. Johnson rails into' short left to- stomachy Clinch, Break.: Jack dashes left to nose.' .Clinch. Jacltmlsses with left and right upper cuts. Jim duck under vicious right to head and they clinch. Jack very t cau tious lb breakaways. Johnson ,, sends two light rights to head" Clinch." John son misses with right uppercut and Jim sends light left to short ribs. V Just be for bell Jeff sent light left to bead. Anybody's round. '. ' 1 Round 4 -Jack blocks Jim's left for head and Jim blocks Jack's right for same. Clinch. ; Johnson gets left light .to head. Jim prods stomach. Clinch. 'Johnson bleeding badly at mouth ,but continues to kid. Both miss lefti'to head. Clinch. - Johnson sends light left i9 cr and pounds kidneys, getting only smile from .Jeff... Break -and clinch. Jack sends light left to head and clinches. Jeff prods stomach with three lefts. Crowd howls. Break. ' Johnson sends long right to ear;' no damage. At bell Jeff a; shade. . ' Round 6 Johnson talks to '- Jeffries. Jim rushes in with light left to short . ribs. , Clinch. '- Jack sends long left tn Jeff's stomach L no harm. Clinch. Jack uppercuts face with left Jim's .lip out' Jim sends two lefts to ear. Johnson : continues to grin. , Jack again ''upperi cuts face' with left Jim forcing Jack about ring. ; Clinch. - Jeff lands hard left to Johnson's mouth, increasing flow of blood . Clinched at the bell. Round Is even. Hound -They fiddle, Johnson sends three rapid lefts to head- Clinch. One of Jack's punches opens cut to Jim's left cheek bone. . Jack swings left ' around Jeffs head. Clinch. : Johnson swings heavy 'left, to chest: Jeff grins. Clinch, . Jim sends short right and left - b"" I ffr , frvj J"hn"n replied' by fcambie.rtng ; Jeff face. ;CMnehr On - the break Jack sends terrific left; to Jeffs right eye, almost completely clos "ing.it. , Jim bleeding f com nose. Clinched st the belt ; Johnson's-round Round -7 Jack missed two lefts for the head. Clinch.-, They ;flddle : around ring, Jim's bad eyo giving him much hother.; Johnson misses' hard left swing, .,X'4lBi3h n4 Jim sendr light left 19 short ,.tln.'.; Jack pushes;, Jint Sends another jrrt to ribs. Clinch, and Jack uppercuts -f ice with left and uppercuts to- chin with right. ; CUnch.-r', Jeff rlos' . left to ciln Clinch, - Johnpon's left to law: also- left to Jeff's bum optic 'ust before pm.' jonnson s round. Round 8They spar, then' go' Into , cunen, v Jack- hooking ear With left, Johnson mlsac-s hard right to head, then lands to head. Johnson boxing beauti fully! send three lefts to head but in half ' clinch Jfiflries pounds stomach C'lnch. Jeff ducks Into long left and clinches. Jeff sticks two lefts Into ntnmach. In clinch Johnson -hammers kidneys with Tight and left and prods ,had with left " Jeff tries terrific left hook to jaw-but misses. Clinch. Jeff jabs r right and left but Jack blocks . neatly. ; Clinched at bell. Light shade ,on round for -Johnson. iwv'--"'v-r-,- Round .They fiddle around ring a while, then, clinch. In this Jeff forces negro around. - Jack misgea with left up per cut on. break. Jack rushes Into hard right to stomachy Jeff repeats trick moment' later. Jeffries hooks" light left to head.; Negro grins almost continu ously. Clinch. - Both cool and -fighting cautiously. Jack barely grazes Jeff with two lefts -but gets hard" smash to' ribs . that makes him grunt Jack sends light left to mouth. Fiddling at bell. Jeffs roand.- - -V'-"",':'..-: -y-r "'-.-.:.' R6und 19. They spar and Jack lands JUcWLJeftt-Joaii4-twts--twM?: J Im sends left to short ' ribs." Clinch. Or. the break Jim ducks under vicious right cross. Clinch. Both with lefts; clinch s ,-ai, ; ;, .. ,fM ' uppercut and stops light ' left with stomacn. Jeff sends heavy left ror stomach, and the negro blocks and up percuts with right in following clinch. Jim lands left to left eye. and winks at crowdy Jeff pounds Johnson in stom acn at Deu. - slight snaae ror; jonnson. Round 11 Thev come uo slowly. Johnson lands hard right to ear and Jeff grins. ; Jeff forces matters; they ex change lefts, Jim getting worst of It. They engage In rally. Johnson sends Jim's head -back' and Jeff lands on Jack's midriff,. Clinch. " Johnson upper- cuts with fierce -right and prods nose with left twice in succession. Johnson lands another upper cut , Jeff bleeding badly; Jack hooka head with left,' and left to chin. They swap rights and lefts without' damage. ..Jeff sends hard, left smash to Jaw. - Fierce rally at .. bell, Jeffs face covered with blood. Johnson shade better. . , . ' Round 12 Johnson misses hard left hook., Jeff duoka cleverly- They-' spar. Jack joshes Jeff. Jeff, ducks left and falls to land left to face. Jack hooks to ear three times with right. Jotinson uppercuts with tight to -mouth and hocks eye"wlth left Clinch, : Johnson hooks Jeff s -damaged phis. Johnson cleverly ; blocks ' left-, for stomach' and uppercuts mouth with left. - Jack hooks left. eye with right ,. Fiddling at gong. Johnson's round. , i Round Mr-Jack lands - left ' hook . to ear ' Johnson sends nasty, left hook to Jeff s bad mouth but misses with right uppercut. Jack hooks left to ear and upnercuts to chin In following clinch. Jack sends two-nasty lefts to .'Jeffs bleeding, mouth and Jeff spits lot of blood. Jeff sends three light lefts to stomacb: and Johnson lands three very hard wallops to face; . Clinch- Jack eehds right' uppercut, to chin end left to stomach. He hookser ,'wlth right, "jTiff .'Wobbllhir, and facie covered with blood can scarcely" see. Jack sends lrt to rlghteye. jCJlncli,;. Jack lands hard rlgrht cross to head. , Fiddling at bell, Johnson's roun4 by. wide margin. Jeff , appears dejected as he taltes seat,' and shakes head solemnly. , Y Round 14 Jeff, comes up rather weak and receives light left, to,; face.,, Jack prods nose . With left and blood again Comes. Clinch, They break and fiddle. Johnson lands nice right to head. Jeff sends hard left to Johnson's mouth and Johnson ; grins i at cheering of crowd. Johnson then sends couple of hooka to Jeff a ear, jabs face with two lefts and lands 'light uppercut In half clinch Jim jabs, stomaoh. Johnson sends two lefts to nose and Jeff laughs. They go Into clinch. Jeff rushes and lands lignt right to stomach Johnson yells to Cor bett, "I thought Jeffries was clever like you." Round In. Johnson's favor.. - Round 15 They rushed Into a clinch. They operated 'Wltnout damage. John.' son Jabbed nose,.4 Jeff now against the ropes.. Jeff got .up in ring.', Johnson wins. '. Knockout - - SCENES AND SOUNDS ; ' AS CROWD GATHERED - - IN BIG ARENAAT RENO (By. the Intxrnstiontl News Swylce.) , Ringside, Reno, July k-T-The. crowd Was held out or the arena until 11:46 a. m. and at . that hour had -formed a dense mass about all the gates. ' When, the gates were opened for general ad mission, the first ticket holder to enter was T. C. Murphy, a hotel keeper of New' York. ' . By 13 o'clock the special boi.es u and screened off for the Indies con tained 25 handsomely gowned and hat ted, ladles. At 11:58 John ;'I Sullivan 'came waddling down the aisle from the direction' of the ladies' boxes and found his seat on ; the- east side of ' they ring. Closely following the ex-champlon was fWUllain - 2Iuldoon, the famous condition er of men, wearing his charatfterlsthi wide brimmed rough straw hat. The crowds were pouring ln in droves and the ISO, $10 and $20 seats were rapidly filling. ' , Bat Masterson was an early ringside a'rrivai - .- . . ,. i-l..Hot Baa Bn Oool Breeie. The Vltagra'ph company of America had ' erected a large", stand . midway of the ring and had ten -cameras focused on the ring. '.;',?' ." ' ' - The day was Ideal," not a cloud being visible. The sun beat 'hotly ' any the pine board seats and the heat rose in waves from the padded floor of the arena, but only a few miles away could be seen the snow-capped, peaks of the 'Sierras and. off them came a cooling breeze constantly. ' " .. y; ' y f At 13:10, . 4m.. fully 3000 had entered the arena, wiilj the stream not dimin ishing. Hundreds of automobiles came Into P.eno this morning and .Sunday from Denver, Los Angles .and San Francisco. Sacramento's automobile supply was exhausted early yesterday morning and they had to order ma chines . from. San Francisco, as all the trains were filled to thai guards. y. . .- Governor Dlckenon In the Arena, -At 12:20 p. m, Governor Dickerson en tered the arena.- , Nat Goodwlrt; the actor, was a near-ring spectator and Was supremely happy after his cross ocean and cross continent Journey for the big event- At 12:20 fully 4500 per sons were in the arena with constant streams, coming in fromall gateways. The more expensive seats, such ss the $50 and down, were then Well filled. Laaies were freely sprinkled through out the crowd, occupying seats all over h'.""rp3.,a!L wf!L?JtUUniJJie,Jbjiee especially built for them-. An admirer of Jeffries arrived ln Reno st 11:S0 this morning, having driven hi v.iU'o hora-t; llu miles In "U'' ;Tjor.r-y - v: ... , ;-.y- '.- : i'1. 1 . . , . . . 1 ",.-.', . " . ..' '.' '. : . .... - r : 1 : i 1 ..... " r- ;--"V"-y '.;s:;'-- nim&tom.-,-.m- .v-, y su-y;-. ;s--'V y ? ' ': "' r - ;- - v;y- ' . . - ' 1 . ' IffllllP II. fC . ;,X'-i .'-'.;-: ';::?:. ly .' . : BETS SI 0.000 GT4 :- .'. . JEFF-ODDS 10 TO 6 '':k:: " xl':rr: Frazee, -Theatrical Man Ex- .'.-,11 H . . vS -I H4''l'a.lv viuaiiujj I ' I R- - I '. , It II' i . f - i v ' - 4 :;m .. f 2v : "j ..Vv . , ' , ' . J John Arthnr Johnson the champion.- ,' .' , . . , . , 1 1 mm. mm . mmu mm mmam : WATCHES JOOfflJAL THREETEMESASHE; . SUGHIlY HURT t mniTTmnriAnn omnn nu nmrrT vrr - - .''.- r m aa m mm mm vv i - m ; iiai .m si ssr mm mm m i " i UULLLllliUUttllUI OIUUU Ull 0IKLLI Fifteen thousand upturned faees. all gleaming with Interest, were focused on the fight bulletins as they were caught from -the -"wires--and. pur on canvas In front of The Journal office this after noon. .- Packed in solid masses the crowd covered every . square foot of space across Fifth street and back over the postoff ice grounds to the walls of the postoff Ice.- As ' far up ; andK down Fifth i street as the .bulletins could be read and west on YamhWl street the geat crowd of , humanity extendefL ,As the hour for the men to- enter the, ring at Reno, approached , thepeopls packed .closer and ,. closer., Streetcars moved Inch by Inch through the human lane, ' the space ": they : occupied h being filled again ihe moment they moved on. The crowd the night of the presidential election -was eclipsed by tlie wormous oiftgoriiliiK t-tlioga , who: came to learn the news of Jeff, and Jack, from The Journal wire' service. .-A'.y :, y't'V r'rv? 7 In this vast throng were many wo men, apparently- enjoying the sensation of- first news- from the ringside as much as tBe.men,-and just s determlneif to hold the Vantage points they had gained by coming early. But scan T the .crowd as closely , as one could, there was not visible one member of Jack Johnson's race. The negroes of " Portland chose their rendesvous apart from Ihe whites. Good humor, punctuated with many gibes and sarcasm St the expense of one fighter or the .other, 'marked , the con duct of the crowd. . Jeffries wos plainly the favorite, as would be expected, . but there were many in the throng who had placed money -on .the' black champion and wanted (to see blm win.-; As the bul letins came telling of the first rounds the crowd Sizzled, With" excitement and strained with. eagerness to" catch every word. ' It was a great crowd. None greater has been seen on the streets of Portland except during carnival tlrries. 1 . SALEM BOY MAY LOSE EYE; CELEBRATING 4TH '" Salem.1 July 4;-Mere Jones, 1 'year old som of Thomas Jones, nurseryman, probably lost an eye as the result of the explosion of a giant rirrritkr this morning;-;' Ytmng Jonte thought the fuae had gone out' and picked up the fire cracker, which' Immediately exploded In his hand and filled his left eye full of powder-Physicians believe he will lose hla sight . .- Travel. From the New York Sun. "i "little Fish -What are your summer plans? ' . .; .- ' big Fish I snail gci away 'as ususrt. Peter Pokrajak was seriously and it may be fatally stabbed at 2 o'clock this afternoon as he stood at the corner of Second and Couch streets. Three blows were inflicted, the knife '. wielder ap proaching from behind In company with another man. ' He struck his victim rapidly In succession with a four Inch bladeand both men ran away. - . ''-is Mike Ranovlch andMlke Dellch, em ployes of, the. St.- Johns Jjumber com pany, were arrested as uspects by Pa trolman Heppner. They -deny any knowledge of. the crime, but are said to answer the description of the assail ants. -' - ' . iV Th.e wounded man was taken to Bt. Vincent's hospital.' He Is about S 5 years of age. - , - ' , ., . . ,, .... ratOLAND ENJOYS: flSflEHOE JULY CELEBRATION lhls is -the- Fourth.; of July, -yy .t It has been a sane fourth' jn point "if noise. The old men., the women and the little girls packed their lunch bas kets " early In the- morning ; and .. betook themselves to'fh'e shady J woods -and along the limpid waters for a day of rest and quiet recreation. j !' ' - The young men and the : tjoys-Hind the top and bottom age limits- are mat ters of speculatloh-r-atayed late In bed and uttered ', malediction at the; Inter-, mlttanf'cannon crackers that disturbed (Continued on Fags Nine.) POLICEMEN DO NOT. . - -y, -LIKE THEIR NEW CAPS The new .police c,aps were received by the members of the force today and will be donned for' the first time by the of ficers on night duty. The new head gear resembles .hat of the Russian sol dterr1'herwtyo)mrltrnffraTt061t' very kindly, many of 'them, saying that It will be of little or no protection to the head In meeting blows from possible lifKMllants and thxt-It will soon become snaked during rains. - ,-. . -; r. (Soedal Dlnwitch to The Jnnreal.Y i ' Reno, Nev.; July '4,-r-The biggest sin gie oei maae on me great iignt or xnia afternoon : and perhaps the highest amount ever wagered in one chunk by one man was registered last night' by Harry H. Fraiee, the Chicago, theatrical man who bet $f0.000 against' $6000 In Corbett'S room, taking the Jeff rlos'T end of it ' t ' - Frszee has been with, Jeffries all through , his training siege- and handled his reoent tour for him. He has watched the stunts from the beginning and la so firmly convinced that the white man will win, that he1 decided to go the Umlt Frasse expects to take Jeffflea en "a tour of the world Immediately af terhe collects this bet. - , . George Consldlne, of New. York, placed $5000 and" got an average price of IS ,to 0. ,, The Jatter part pf ' it was put on'av v -o,. ine, Desc price men or- It was not statet.but It is generally Belleved.y-that'xthe $5000 was h pool formed by Nat Goodwin, the actor; "Smiley" Corbet- and Tom " Hanton of Chicago, Fhll Hynee of Australia and Sandy Clemonts Of Jersey City. ,.- . . , Quinaby Man: Steps Off Car, Rolls Under It, Then Out " Again; Loses Suspenders. , . . (Sslem Brn of The Jonrnslt . Salem, Or,. July 4.-Falling under the wheels of a rapidly moving Oregon Elec tric car, having a piece torn out of his coa and his suspenders " entirely torn away from.his trousers by the wheels . of the car, and losing only a little skin from his hip, y was the narrow escape rrom death experienced by Floyd Barnes of Qulnaba yesterday. -Barney attempt ed to board the car for home yesterday afternoon after the car had started, but the vestibule was closed. He stepped off the car step backwards after It had pro ceeded about three .lengths and fell di rectly under the car, but succeeded ln rolling out far enough' so that the rear wheels clipped off a portion of his coat and pulled off his suspenders. Those wjio saw. the accident thought Barnes bW been ground Aft pieces. v j JOHNSON COIN IS . : SCARCE; BETTORS "A i ;ARE PIKERS NOW i't y:y;yl . . V f Dy W. W. NauKhton. - ;Reijo, Nev , July 4. They call it ths greatest assemblage of sporting notables ever drawn together to' witness a cham pion ring event,-but to the uninitiated It simply looks like a rabble. For the time being comfortable f locomotion through the streets 6f Rend ,!s impossU, ble. The thoroughfares are packed from silt to T11.; The throng swlges and sways and any one caught ln the mael strom of humanity Is simply carried off his feet. , . . , VThe -popular eagerness to catch ' a glimpse of every new arrival ln the shape of a fighting man is ah ever pres ent threat that if you don't look ut you will be thrown down" and trampled JWervy -.-- yv- -' ' - The odds last night had settled at 10 t 6T;Wlth Jeffries on the lorrg end. 'ihe?e' was a scarcity of Johnson money, and it is believed that the price against the negro will be 2. to 1,'aud may be 10 to 4 when the big arena out on the (Continued on Pan Twelve.) '' Amateur Writers Hold Meeting. -PHvelm;M?fo Women y who write ; for love and not for- lucrs ' gathered here today from - many points t for the annual convention of the National Amateur I'reps as hoc) at! on. The meeting wUl continue Jiv sension until Thursday. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER OF U. S. FAILURE AT ' Par Harbor, Maine, July ; i.r Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller of thejiu- preme court Of the United States,, died here today of heart failure. , Justice Fuller was bom In Augusta, Maine, r February i ll, 1833, - and bad served as chief justice since October 8, 18S8. lie took the oath of Office on October 8: of: the' same year. -Judge1 Fuller's father was Frederick' A, Fuller, and there Is a ' coincidence In thefact that his father was the son of a daughter of Chief Justice Nathan Weston; Young Fuller attended .school at Augusta, and was 'graduated from Bowdpln college in the class Of 186$. ' , - 1 , 4 After Mr- Fuller's admission to the bar - In 185$, he remained Un Augusta only two or three years. In that time he was a member of ..the city council and at" one. time city attorney. Then ne went - to Chicago. , He was elected to the state constitutional convention ln l8l and in the following- year to the state legislature as a Democrat from a strongly Republican district He was chosen a delegate to the Demo cratic national convention of 18S4, 1872, 1876 and 1880. ' He was an intimate friend of Stephen A. Douglas and' was the chief speaker, at the . meeting tif welcome extended Douglas by Chicago In 18o. 1 , , "WTien Mr. Fuller was appointed 'to the highest judicial position In the na tion the subject of his partisanship came up. A Democratic president Cleveland) was in office and he was expected to appoint-a Democrat. Pres ident .Cleveland closely studied Fuller's .poll'.leal career and announced that Fujier was "not too. partJaanlL-and. ttrereuiremrabpolnteTTiIm One of the remarkable things about unier juotice Fuller was the wide ex tent 6f his general knowledge. ;' It, has RE '(Kpeeltl plipitett-te. The JodtdoLI : ' Ringside, Reno, Nev.,: July 4jThere was no statement of the financial con ditions of the fight this rooming but it was bellevedby shrewd observers that the promoters were lucky" to ,"Qutt just a little loser.",,-.' .vy - -''" s- Despite; th fact-thai at M ' o'clock this morning the demand for; seats 'was heavy, especially for the cheaper paste boards, men who have been accustomed to handling large crowds predict that the gate receipts would not, run much higher than (125,000, which would make the 1 promoters . losers to the tune of something ike 135,000 on the . fight Itself. - . " .'," ' Of course, when It Is considered that Tex Rickard gets 133.S33 for his share of the? picture -money and -"that Jack Gleason his partner, stands to- win many times in excess of that sum off his part of the huge combination that has been formed to exploit the films, there Will be no losers at ally But the fight itself, at this hour, does not look as If It would pay "for Itself. , 1 The expense of handling It, accord ingly' to the purse of $101,000 will ag gregate at least $160,000 it Is certain. -J , Iljr Frederick Bechdolt. 1 Reno, ' Nev., .July 4.---The world 's pouring Into Reno the multitudes from the farthest shores of this, country and from countries beyond the seas. Today America will pause m ihe celebration of hr anniversary tn ttdlntm frnm th Wena,' where these thouiaands will si- Two men are fighting, and these two are the best tff their kind. There lies the reason for all this Interest, fpr this tenseness isTthe air., - The people. of to day know that these six. footers repre sent the best of fiat fighters. And of the two, the breathless thousands want to know which Is superior. ; ; . ., . It is nothing to bshameJ of, this Interest; ; It 1 as-'old' as the old race of man. , It antedates our finer things, as It antedates our evasions and sub tleties. It goes baokJo -the daya when man born of woman wore- no clothes. And from those dayslt has come down, retaining its strengtn until this fourth day uf July, 1910. s It Is a brutal thing, and, Inasmuch as we are strong wo are .brutal, too, BrutRl in tbe wordJpiter SfiJJSBiJwtu. taT "enouKti to go to wor and revere our war's heroes; brutal enough to fight fair and to glory In It, and bmte.1 enough to 'brave hardships and endure huge things. We are fighters and e are proud of It. And, being' .fighters, we turn our backs on business1 and art SAVE FIGHT PROM ; i LARGE LOSS ON STORY OF CRQVD AT RENO IS TOLD ivralioiT IES OF HIT" BAR HARBOR, IRE been said that no case ever was-pre sented to mm or which ho did not have knowledge of some Important phase, ac quired previously . Chief Justice Fuller scent much of his time at -Washington at study and work, yet he found-time for social en. Joyment. At hla sumnier home at Bar Harbor he devoted much of his time to study. p , He was married twice. His first wife was Calista E. Reynolds. .In 18S6 be married the daughter of The. late William E. Coolbaugh; a Chicago bank er. He had eight daughters, all of whom are married. The death of Chief Justice Fuller eo curred at o'clock this morning, but the ; fact did not. become known until nearly four hours afterward. ... ' The chief justice passed away In the arms of his daughter, Mrs. Nathaniel Francis of Washington," at the cottage he !. has been occupying at Sorrento, where he has been for. the past three weeks..- At his bedsiarewef' his grand daughter, Miss Aubrey Francis,-and the attending physician. Dr. Phelps, of Sul livan's Harbor, r There will be simple services at-the little chaapel in Sorrento on Wednesday, after which the bodyt will be taken to Chicago. - TAFT PAYS TRIBUTE J 1 'TO JUSTICE FULLER -.-yy:f "- '-'Jl ' ' ' '." 'y:-ty:.'; (ttaltrd ttft Lhiw Wlr.t - Boston, July 4. President Taft, when told of the death of Chief Jitslcs Fuller, ... said: ' ' ' - " ' Th death of Chief JiiwIIpb TTnllnr comes to, nie as a. great shock. He was a good frlend.-e.nd a great Judge., i have; known fhlm since' 1890,. when, ! was so-' -'(Continued on-page Two..) RIGHTS OTERS ;;Ha BIG CONTEST r. There was considerable..- commotion last night when It was ehbwn by the teverlshnesa Of the promoters and etakeholder Tint Sullivan of New York, that something was wrong. The bpl ance of the purse money was"; due and not forthcoming. But the. matter- was patched np amicably and the last hitch to the big contest probably removed. . ; There has een little change in the betting ln. tAa'last'Sf hours. The biggest .bet registered was that offered and accepted by Tom Corbett In the latters own betting pavilion. ;. All of the camp followers and hench men .backed! up the big fellow . in what he said., Manager Berger. who was re lieved of all work in the corner so that he could attend strictly to the business end of the Jeffries part, of It, said the t he firmly believed that Jeffries would win. Choynskl and Corbett were equal ly confident " , , ; , . ,; Over. In Johnson's quarters there was also a feeling of confidence evei more sharply defined than in' the other. The big black was serious enough but" verv once In a while he had a cheerful word for somebody and the - ''Golden tJmile" , broke out In the old style. ;,: . . Mil-squa-ah, Daughter of TJo table Indian Chief, Honored ; by Indiana Pelptc; - Huntington, Ind July,, 4,-vTheve were" great doings at Roanoke, a neat little village, about' seven miles from hero, today, and large crowds ..from.- neighboring-districts were gathered tlur " attend the special celebration of two historical '. events, the-, ainnl'.'mary of the Declaration '.of'-lndependence' an '.I tho 100th birthday' of Mll-stiua-ah (Hi ingf Sun), a, princess of the royal bloo l of the Mlamla, one of the most powerful Indian tribes which once -roamed through the middle west, The actual ceuteiui.ry of the Mlamt princess was on May 23, but It was decided to postpone the ci tration of the day until the. glorlou Fourth. t ?,! i.- ',,- 'v '-'.' r ; Thq enttrff .popuiatmn"ori.siVik;Vttul tho surrounding country turned' out t? take, part iti the celebration and f ! honor to the.l princess' who Jives tt, forty-acre; farm on thi outNkiij; 1 f Tioanoke. The program of tha x.-rH-. 1 ((,'ontlnmt nn T'r N1n ) and Indjmlry, on bonk and nfftocs c.l laboratories and collre, ond rrr - our. necks to ' wntcri '.! p.! 14 each other. '.- They ran f.!'. n iin: ter ami with m..r. jf-.t (-., . IH PRESS 1 00 YEARS OF AG E (Coniinued on 1'j