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MtlyUla WM aur. roundefl on MUtoo betwwn Vallftjo n Benlot. At clock 160 hoU bad bn flrwl. . t . .. ' ' Th fltht bran at t'o'cloclt. Tbo Mr la sa!4 ta, haV threa platola and 110 round of ammunition. For thraa houra ba atood off tha poaaa and at fcl0f ralnfarcamcnta wara aakad from Vallejo, Banlola and Ltnoa. Tbay baaUly.gatb rad and wara mahad to tba acana of tha fif ht. . .-: . " '--i ,-; Takaa tnd to TUeai. Malvllla took hla aUnd In a- thicket at tha top of tha bill. On aai aides or bin tba open hlllalda ava blra a ood tha movementa of the potee. Althoua-h they were ooncea-led In buahee at tha foot of tha bill they had no .s... . a ' rush tha younr bandit a Stronghold. ' . Melville waa neneyea to om wiw. provlaiono or water ana e ties believe; ha .must soon aurrender. They kept up ' their flra and Melrllla it Toiler for volley. . The sheriffs believed that Melville's ammuni tion would soon D exnauaiwa lie could be captured by night. " , ; ', Aoonsad of Bobberies. ' "Melville escaped two weeks ago from tha PreetoB reform school and since k k. rnuntly "been seen-in the ieihborhood-n-4 allege. A'oh1 of saloon, robberies . In tha neignDor- loMl Oll ilt,t tlT 0curird nf ' I asserted by the authorities that Mel vQla has been tha person who held them up. An attempt to arreat him was made but the authorities say ba fled heavily armed and threatened to ,,;--' ' Shortly after ? o'clock Melville at tempted to leave his stronghold at the top of tha hill. Sheriff Arthur Veale of Contra Cost county who was In a motor boat off Olencoe. saw him. Ho fired II "hots at the lad. Melville ran back towards the top of tho hill and disappeared among the buehea and rocks. . - xad U nrroundad. Tha posse ceased firing after this encounter and the lad was left aur rounded. The posse under Sheriff Veale, Chief of Police Sanford of Vallejo, and Sheriff Fraxler of Solona county, com foKy Sf InSator at GUILD'S LAKE IN SPITE OF PROTEST? Crematory Has Fallen Far Short of Requirements, It Is De clared by -Superintendent Napier Several Fires Said to Have Been Started From Sparks From Plant Smoke Menace Also Complained of by Many. , What will Mayor Simon's health board do with the new refuse Incinerator at Guild's Lake? ' . '.'V ''. Will the board accept thfe plant built by the Public Works Engln!nAS piny, in the face of repeated adveree reports by City Crematory Superinten dent Harry N. Napier? :; s These are pertinent queatlons that are obtruding themselves on taxpayers who have already been called upon to foot bills to the amount of $80.000, v theee having been P'btt,,rtSL5? tho authorisation ;of, 'the, -health board. Rumor says that at least two members Of the board are Inclined toward accept- Wbat may have been' in Intimation of the lntenUon of the present admin istration was the request of MayorSl mon to the waya and means committee . .v. Mtuncll last Monday. - Re- CASTRO ALARM SENT ' OUT; SLEUT ' " Clted f rM Lmm4 i 1 r..v--nn. f JunOI.DUO tO the preaenco of former President Castro of Venesuela i In , Haytlen waters lnthe command pf Consul" Qrpstucfc a vessel i fully armed ; the aUte department haa 'advised all power of his whereabouts. -Cablegrams were sent 'today, toOuanr tanamo. and to vessels on special serv ;lc asklnf them to watch out for him. KKewSnsv June It.'-Secret .serv. ' Ice offldala are preparing lo watch iuan ' J. Estrada; " fottper ' president of ricaragua, when- he t arrives n!" n,.atmalai is believed that he 1U plaanln new revolutio a Jfcar-Ji . jjfua-4 '-t,'H-:y v;, i- - -v 7" v 1, ; linnnorifn Thiiiitinn ll . v ... . . . , .V lIUII 1 0y WmiDhCDCP C BRUSH pletely encircled tha base of the hill. They are about a mile from the apot where tha boy bandit 4s bidden. Melville has had nothing to eat the officers say. since I o'clock last night, and hie desperat attempt to flee and break through the lines la believed to Indicate tha fact that ha is In desperate atralta. . Hunger, tho offloera believe, would soon win the battla for them. Tha officers got track of Melville laat night when Sheriff Fraaier met him near the Threo Mile House. The two fought a pistol duet Five or l hots were fired. Melville dropped. Sheriff Frasler says, and crawled off Into the buehea.. A.aearch laat night failed to reveal any trace of his where abouts.' i' -Tracked to K11L Frasler laat night set out after Mel villa after ba bad been aeon, in Vallejo. where ha got his supper. After losing track of ' him following tha fight near tho Three Mile House, a posse wasor genlsed and set out on Melville's trial. Ho was tracked to the hill, where he was surrounded at daylight and the fight began. Instructions were Bent out today to ranchers and vlllagera In tho neighbor hood warnlnt the people not to feed anyone asking for food. Tho warning waa taaued to prevent Melville from get ting anything -to eat ahould he by any chance make hla way inrougn. w una t)i. Miua aurronndlnr him.- . - A suit case was found at the McOlll hotel which tho officers are holding In h hita that it blonr to Melville. Letters' Were found which tha police aay will prove valuable evidence. - v mobs MCartUos Saloon. , Tha last aaloon held up by Melvtlle was at Martlnes. where he entered the barroom and forced the bartenoer ana the porter to submission and secured fl tA rnm tha raah register. ' positive Identification haa been made of the oult case found at tne mouiu hM.t aa tmm balonsinr to Melville. Ba- mm tha evidence which tha police an thorltiea believe will lead ta Melville's conviction, when . captured, two Smith A wesson revolvers ware found in it. ur flcera at the Preston school state this afternoon that-Melville never waa an inmate of the Institution, while the Vallejo police reiterate that he escaped from Preston two weeks ago. It la pos sible that Melville la passing under an assumed name. spo'nsive to this request the committee recommended that $E5,000 worth of nramatorv bonds bo SOld SO that the money may bo available in case the health board, at its last meeting during the Simon regime, decides to accept the refuse burner. i'-V: $40,000 ta Tnpaid. The bonds can not be aold before next month, but once the plant haa been accepted tho city would have to pay for It, or be compelled to pay Interest on the amount due the oompany, from the date of tho aeeptance of the plant until the final payment should be made. There still remains something like 140,000 of tha original contract price of S9M0J, to be paid on the plant. If U is accepted. The burner will be up for .acceptance or rejection June 37, that date marking the end of an official test of six months provided for under the cntract with the Publio .Works company. s , Durlng- the "past six months Crema tory Superintendent Napier has sub mitted to the health board, dally reports Of his observations on the working of the- new plant - and the majority of these reports iiave been extremely Un favorable. . Added to other defects that have been reported, has been mentioned in the re port this month a rauity smokssiaca Sparks escaping from the top of the staek are believed. ' to ' nava nwn me nauaa of half a dose f Ires in the vlcln Ity of the plant . These fires have for tunately done little damage, so. vigilant has - been the wateb on tno piani oy fiunerlntendent Naoter.. . ,: n ' " One of the fires referred to consumed A garbage wagon that had been stand ing near-tha crematory barn.- Another burned down a email wooden houso near the -erematory; enclosure. On at leaet Ant occasion marks from -the stack have threatened to consume the oarn. Surxrlntendent Naoler lsf Obliged --" to iContlnued a Page. IbUaea.4 Tells of Steel Trust KUUOtVtLI OHHlbO umciais or sugar i rust unaer inmuSdu. mLLu Jumtm ' Gayler, ex-vic-prldent of the L'nJted . 8Uta Steel corpora tion, who la girtn teatlmony be fore the Stanley committee of the house investigating the alleged steel trust in Washington. Ohio Member,; Urging Criminal - Prosecutions; Says Oil King Has Ruined Many by Un lawful Methods. t (Pnltes Pre teawd W1re. -Washington. June H. Speaking to bia resoluUon dlrecUng the department of Justice to brine; criminal prosecutions against the personal defendants in the Standard Oil and Tobacco Trust cases, Senator Atleo Pomerene '(Democrat, Ohio) In the-senate today, flayed John D. Rockefeller, and his methods and took a slap at the attorney general for failure to bring such prosecutions on his own initiative. . "Rockefeller's pathway," he.saia. "is marked by more victims whose busi ness careers have been ruined by un lawful methods than that of any man in tho Industrial history of America, yet he is unwhlpped of Justice. I think It Is high time that tho people under stand whether the stars and etrlpea la to be the emblems of power and au thority or the emblema of the oil barrel and tobacco tag. The law la no respecter - or persons, and tho government ought not to be. The poor and lowly are not above tne law. "No statute was ever more plainly written than the Sherman law, nor more easily understood by those wanting to understand It Any $100 country lawyer oan tell what tho law means. It takes a ioo,ovo lawyer to point oui wy i evade its provisions. Vast corporations and their learned counsel attempt to I (Continued on Page Thirteen.) Wife, Suing for : Separation, Cannot Be Prosecuted for ' Robbery. x Jt7Dlt4 Ptm Laaatd Wife. Chicago, June IS. Although the wife of Evelyn 'Arthur See, revealer of the "absolute life" cult cannot under tho law testify against him. attorneys for the state who are prosecuting him for alleged mistreatment of girls, admit today that It Is through Mrs. See that the most startling evidence .was secured i Mrs. Bee bss been separated from her husband, and Is suing for separate maintenance. No decree has been grant ed, however, and she la still hia wife. Therefore aha could not legally be guilty of robbing him. t.i Taking advantage of this fact, Mrs. See went to the so called Junior commonwealth eatabllahed by her husband, and accompanied by a pro fessional safeblower, r secured by the police, cracked tho safe found there and seised the papers and lettera it con tained. Many :cf ;tho papere wara; in See's handwriting.' -- :-"'V'; :: One of tha papers ' found waa tha so caiiad "Book of Truth," much of which is unprintable. , In thia book See re f ara to the "spirit ' of absolute Ufa." Tho four women most directly Interested In the case are referred to as the per sonification of that life. The women war known under the following name ; Mildred Bridges,, wifehood";- .Mona Reee, "purity"; - Mrs. Felicia Reea. tar mnther. neeknesa." and Mrs. Luollla Rridces. ' as "motherhood.'' Bee himself waa known as "wisdom. ' Amon tho papers were many aentl mental lattem written to See by various women. k -- - ' . At ,tho trial before Judge Honora to day examination of . prospective Jurors waa continued. S4nt jurorg nay seen aauctaCL a w-... y-:-- SENATOR ATTACKS ROCKEFELLER; HOT ABOVE LAW. SAYS RIFLED SEE'S SAFE TO GET EVIDENCE Outlook Editorial by Former President Sizzles In Denun ciation of Press of Stamp of Los Angeles Times. "MR.FACING-BOTH.WAYS" MAKES STINGING REPLY Says Labor's Enemy Respon sible for More Brutal Ut terances Than Unions. (United preai Luw Wlra.t New Jork. June II "Certain capital ist newepapera of a atamp -of that owned by General Harrison Grsy Otis have beea responsible for rnor brutal utterances than those attributable to any recognised labor leader," says The odore Rooeevelt, In the leading editorial in the current number of tho Outlook. The editorial Is headed "Mr. Oompers, General Otis .and the Dynamite Chargea." Ia the article Roosevelt directly an swers , editorial of General Otla In the Loa Angelea Times and President Sam uel Oompers of the American Federa tion of Labor In the American Federa Uonlst Roosevelt refers to his original editorial on the McNamara arrests, printed in the Outlook, which, he says, was only a personal plea for a fair, Impartial trial He then quotea the following as Otis' reply to him: Quotes Times Editorial. "If the Times building waa dynamited, says Mr. Faclng-Both-Ways. then those who did the work should bo punished. The Times feels that the if Is uphold lnr the cause of disorder and is a dis tinct aid to the villain who incited and nrocured the murder of - So Innocent men - ana tne, etrueuon jo owv, worth; of property." i Roosevelt continues; " "General Otis.. In . this article, haa taken the very position against which all good cltlxens should protest, when taken br labor men. 'hat le, the purpose of my article was to protest against assuming before the trial what it was hoped to prove or disprove at the trial; and, in this way. Otis Is guilty of conduct which could not be too severely condemned If the offender were a labor leader, and which. therefore, oannot be too severely de nounced when the offender Is a violent opponent to organised labor, a consist ent enemy of every movement for social (Continued on Page Thirteen.) VICTIM OF ATTACK BY STARVING RAT . , . r-.,,j gbV DaUflnter Of J. A. trWin, . . . ,. Asleep in Her uoi, nas raue and Hands Torn by Teeth of Vicious Rodent. Attacked by a-Urge rat which stole upon her crib, biting her tongue, face and hands, the baby daughter of J. A. Srwln, 310 Monroe street, waa" covered with blood when reacued by her father last Tuesday night ... Mr. BJrwln put the baby to bed in a room upstairs and returned downstairs. He left a bottle of milk for tho baby to drink. About 10 minutes later he heard screams from his eldest little girl, 1 years of age. and on rushing up stairs, the little girl pointed to the k.w. room, cryins: "Rati Rat!" A he entered the room a larre rat erom the baby's cot Blood . atreamlnx from the babya face. The rat had bitten the baby's tongue, gums, cheese and thumb, aa well aa bitting the nipple from the bottle of milk and drinking what remained of the Soeagor was the rat In Its bloody work that the little girt was unable to drive it away when she waa attracted to the room by hearing the baby fight ing the rat Dr. Holcomb waa called to drees the wounds Inflicted by the rodent and the child was reported today jtoy be in no danger. The baby Is 1 year old. ' AMERICA HAS NO DISTINCTIVE MUSIC Walter J. Damrosch - Tells Edward Marshall That Music, Truly .American, Is Still in .the Making" ReadTMs Striking; Interview- in THE SUNDAY U JOURNAL ; " : HEIRESS CHILD IS U- ,S-"-' I if53 ST 11 rr' I' , , ,, - f . r. . f .. y :-;S va'' K t tit Above is Washington D. Thomas; left, and Charles R. Heike, of the IS CALLED DESPITE Hardwick Sugar Investigating Committee Orders President John Smith to Appear and Give Testimony. (Hatted Praia Leaved Wire.) Washington, June 18. In spite., of protests of Senator Reed Smoot the Hardwick sugar investigating commit tee today ordered President John Smith of the Mormon church to appear and testify. ' : When the committee reconvened this morning Chairman Hardwick read a Jet ter from Reed Smoot asking that Smith be excused because Thomas" R. Cutler of Salt Lake City could give all the testimony that Smith could give. Insists on Smith. - Hardwick Insisted that Bmlth be asked to testify, saying that he waa the big factor In the organisation of the Utah Oregon 8ugar company. Con gressman Baker. (Democrat Callfdrnia) moved that Smith be ordered to appear, and the motion carried. Charles R. Hetke. former secretary of the American Sugar.Reflnlng company, resumed the stand His memory was (Continued on Page Thirteen.) (United Press leased Wtr. Denver,; Colo, Juno 18. Granville James. a Denver barber, la on his way to attend the coronation of King George as the klngr neet, Teara ago, When King George, then duke of Cornwall, apent several months In Bermuda, James performed soma aiTght'aervtce for tba duke;.t'-i,:A,-;y''' .V; 'When I am . 'king, J will remember you." remarked Cornwall. a After a long search the king'e attorney located James In a local barber iAop and money suf ficient to pay all expenses Incidental to thttlp.WM nV.to him HEAD OF MORMONS SMOOTS PROTESTS i - BARBER 10 SERVED , KING GETS INVITATION L- , i - - ' tv. .. '. below are Lowell W. Palmer, on the American Sugar Refining company. Leaders in Seamen'sr Union Admit That General Out : look Is Not Bright; Many Ports Are-Affected. (United Pnaa Leaeed Wire.), London June 18. Leaders of . the striking seamen admitted today that the general strike outlook . was s lees satisfactory than! yesterday when the walkout was ordered. ' . " ! ' Ben .Tlllett, In . charge of. the union headquarters, said the desire , of the union to keep within tho law caused Its officers to Order all members to complete their contracts before leav ing their vessels.. As a result of this, ho said, few ships In port ; were af fected He asserted that as soon as other liners arrive their crews would quit work. Officials of the shipping federation, aeterlse the strike movement as a which represents lS.OJJ.OOO tons,- char flsslo. They say few men walked out and that , these are now ready to re turn to -work. . Secretary Boett declared that, the shipping federation will fill the strikers' pieces and blacklist tha seamen who deserted their ships. ' 1 Reports received today show that the strike la progressing In London, Glas gow. Shields, .Middlesborough, Belfast. Bristol. Cardiff. Swansea. , Manchester, Newcastle. Liverpool, Amsterdam, Rot terdam and Antwerp. . v Strikebreakers are being recruited to man. the White Star liner Teutonic and Canadian Pacific steamer Empress, of Ireland, scheduled to sail Saturday and It la probable that these vessels will depart on time. - It . has not yet bean determined whether the crews of Eng lish, channel Vessels ahau go o? strike. JOHN HAYS HAMMOND ILL: "MAY MISS CORONATION rinlted Fmt Laaa4 , W1re.l'.'-i -L' : " London, Juno le. John , Hays Ham mond, special American ambassador' to the coronation, may not attena tne xes tivltlea. as. his physician has. ordered him to take a, few .'days Test la an ef fort . to forestall a threatened nervous prostration., J'.., , . j, SHIPPERS ASSERT STRIKERS UNEASY Police Believe Highwayman Who Attempted to' Rob Gus ;. Obrist, Milkman, Early To- day, Is Human Fiend. U 1 VICTIM, HIT IN HEAD,' , ROUTS HIS ASSAILANT A: Posses Scour Thick' Woods, In Determined Effort to Cap- , ture' Supposed Slayer.' ,7: . 7.'? H v Startling evidence that th man who . murdered the four member of William - Hlll'a family last week Is stll) In tha Immediate neighborhood of Ardmwald, where last week's murders took place., came early today when Gus -Xtbrtst a dairyman, waa attacked ' by a man be-. Moved to bo the murderer. ' ' , Z Obrlat works foe A. J. Dysle. a young dairyman, recently married, wno nas lived In Ardenwald for the past month. For threa weeka, lata at night and ear-, ly In the morning, Dysle and Obrist have seen a rough looking man hang ing about the barns and the house, who would dlssppear into the woods across the road when he saw that he was ob served. -" ". ' ' . : ' V . uaploioa Aroused. . , ; Dysle thought. the man might be one. or the many tramp that . Infest the neighborhood. , owing , to the proximity of the . Southern . Pacific 1 tracks. - which t run near the houe'e, until he saw the (" man after the Hill murders. Then be, notified the police an sheriffs office and took care not to . leave bis; young wife alone In the house, t-. - At t o'clock thla morning, Obrist had finished milking the cowa in the barn.,, behind the Dysle houoe, and waa walking., down the lane that runs from, the barn., to tha house when the same man whom , he has -seen a number. of time. before,, ran up behind; him. and truck him In th back-of-th neck. a ,tm aam tlm, bringing, bla knee up as . to sins Obrist .in th back Obrist is a young Swiss f who has . been in this country hut a. ahort while. He la aturdliy built and managing to shake off hla aasall-, ant ran for .-th4ieu,?:-rTT'.'.T-T3r " ,--itakas Mia Zaapa. , - . . The' man who had attacked him ran : on down the lane. Jumped the fence Into th road and crossed th road, Into the thicket of woods that lies between th road and th Johnaon Creek bottoms. - f It is the belief tof tho who nav hn workln on the Hill cas for tho past six days that th man who mur dered the hiub ana tne man wno na hn nrowiinr about the Dysle home and other farms within a short distance of - (Continued on Page Six.) HER SIDE; SAYS HE Admits Spells of Good Treat ment by Love, However. Especially When Physician Told Him Nature of Illness; (Special DUoatoj to A. jonruLV , Baker, Or., June 15. Looking, pale and worn out Mrs. Mar jorle Burnea Lov took the witness stand today to defend herself from th charges brought against her by her husband,, Sidney C Love, in his action for "divorce. Bh waa under direct examination all th forenoon , by-, her attorney. Benjamin , Tuska, and answered question readily, at most times, faltering ; occasionally when her, home . life -waB brought up. Once she was visibly affected when the event Just prior to the birth of her baby were discussed., , -j. ' 1 She wor a heavy yell, as sh has all, through the hearing, v ' . She recited at length the details of her acquaintance with Lov. "During . his courtship," she said, ."he was af f ec- tionate, and my marriage with him was , on of pure love.: H told me always during those days that we wer to llv in New Tork, a h would' not car to Jtv m Chicago at alt 5 ' r t y ; J , Kom Drunk, V gly, tullen. Th beginning of my Illness was on i night when h came . horn to dinner very much Intoxicated. I had never but once, before aen him. ao much under th Influenc of Hauor. His condition was uch that be, swayed and -if had , never seen that before. All through dinner .that night be wa ugly and eul lento mo, and while I waa. to 111. I' went to the theatre with bim. Some , friends wer with u and aaw how I , felt- ao would not accompany us. Wa -returned horn la the motor and wha w arrived h did not help me out, but left roe to' alight as best r could. He then ordered the chauffeur to drive him to a club, and : left me standing alone on the otreet.at midnight" " "The next day the doctor, told him What wa th nature ofmy. lllntiw be waa greatly pleased. ; He a me v and was very kind to me lndd." - She the told how they had m Newport, and while ehe lay ill in I be bad the houa full of gue(a (Continued on l ace t.- MRS; LOVE RELATES DRANK. NO (II 'I i mm