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: Shoot Officer; In Temple and
'Another; in Hand ' in Fight
i f Near Highbridge, Fremont
County, This Morning.::
: HAD PREVIOUSLY SHOT
" FARMER; MAKE ESCAPE
Reinforced Posse : Uses two
' Hours But Expects, to Catch
M
. Idaho FaJU. Idaho, Juno 19. A poaio
member . waa fatally wound! and an.
othor waa shot through th hand In a
batUO this morning with the fugitives
who Saturday killed Conductor Kldd
and fatally' woundod Deputy Sharif f
Jonas on an Oregon Short Una train.
Tho fight occurred near Highbrldge,
" Idaho, at IS o'clock thla morning. The
doaporadoes escaped.
Tho poeae got on the trail after tbe
deeffaradoes this morning held up
farm houao near Highbrldge, ahot the
owner, aerloualy wounding htm, and ea
caped with a horse. The new was
ruahed to Highbrldge and aent on to
tho poaao, which waa already In the
field.
Tracking the men from the farm
houao, the poaao overtook , them a few
miles further on. The officers were met
with ahota. One member of posse, whoao
name has not yet teen learned hero,
was ahot through the temple. It la re-
1 ported ha cannot live. Another re
ceived a wound in tho hand.
Relnforcementa ' were at once ruahed
and tho poaaa aet out again. The rob
bers went In the direction of Rlgby and
tho officer, two houra behind.' aro fol
Iowiag them. It Is believed the pur
suers will overtake them before night
, and another battle la expected.
Edward MoOlU waa tbe farmer shot.
Thla affray happened yesterday after
noon at McOill's home near , Hamer,
where one of the puraued men was talc-;
!ng dinner. 'Tho fight began when Mo-
Oil! realised a who his guest waa and
when tho .latter daahed for one of the
farmer-a Wee, jr McOIll was ."hut
through ono- lung. He waa taken to
Idaho Falls. Hie father was present
during the shooting but waa uninjured.
Ono thousand dollars reward has been
offered by tho Oregon Short -Line.
BEARS ON GALLOP
IN1CHICAG0F1T
Hot Weather Reports Stir
'Change to Semi-Panic That
Boosts Up Price Above
Saturday's Close. .
HenwoooV Principal in ;Brown V.; "
' Palace Hotel (Denyerj Bar r ; jyy
"a Woman, Before Court! v : ' jj " v . .. U
. ftMetU IMuwtrb T Jflaroetl " ' '. : l -
' Denver,. June II The oaae of Prank t 11 " ,
H. Heawood, who on May 14 ahot' dawn '' l
three man In tbe barroom of the Browd ' .X ' . 1 '
Palace. hotel, was called for trial today. ' tj . : ' ' ' '
Henwood's victima were ; Sylvester ' 1 ,'; .' 1 .
("Tony) von Pual, who had a national .' I 1
reputation as an aeronaut; O. X. Cope- I I
land, a mining man of Viator. Col, and I I
J. W. Atkinson, a wealthy contractor of ; I - I .
Colorado Springe. Von Puhl and Cope- I ' TT I
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(Special Diipatdi ta Th Joarnnl.)
Chicago, June It. Llachsteln, the
wheat kingv had all' the beara running
today, and from each he exacted a pen
alty of about t cents a bushel. The
close of the market -waa 1 to IVi
menta higher than on Saturday.
There was Intense excitement in the
wheat pit this morning when the. weath
er bulletin was received. Hot weather
In South Dakota is said to have ruined
a large part of the' crop, and no relief
la' in aight. ,.
Thla caused a aemi-panlc among sell
ers, and, led by Lanyon, the St Louis
short, there waa a quick movement to
cover. ' Armour Is reported to have been
among those that saw the handwriting
on the wall, and, while his lossea are
said to be much less than the St, Louis
man, they axe probably heavy.
There were rains In central Missouri
and in Illinois and Manitoba, but the
trade had Its eyes glued upon the situa
tion in South Dakota, , ,s '
Identity, of .Murderer., of
' Family May Be ! Found
Elimination Process Close
Search to. Be Continued.
With the failure of the Draper blood
hounds to point out the .hiding, place Of
the murderer 'of the Hills.' his discovery
la. gradually . resolving ' itself -into. a
process of elimination, whereby every
one who could posethly have any knowl
edge of the crime will be examined once
more ' and 'tie required to make careful
explanation" of his whereabouts the
night the four were killed in thefr little
cabin near Ardenwald.
' The man who is supposed to have
attacked Qua' Obrlst last week-end wio
was- seen by several people sKuucing
about the housea ,of the neighborhood
after dark has failed to put In an ap
pearance alnce his attack on the dairy
man.
Will Keep (watch.
Deputy sheriffs and police have
watched every night for eome sign of
him, but whether he has left the neigh
borhood or was scared off by the pres
ence of the officers is unknown.
Watch' will be maintained about the
houses in the neighborhood until some
development either shows the man haa
left the district : or that : he was not
connected with the killing of jth Hills.
Meanwhile tho sheriffs men are look
ing for the- stranger who told them Sat
urdav afternoon he had Been this prow-
Above, Mrs. John W.' Springer, the beautiful society leader over whom
the fatal row started; at the left her husband, president of the Coo-
' tinental Trust Company of Denver and one of the most prominent
men In the Rocky Mountain city;' on the right, Frank Harold Hen
wood, who will stand trial within, a week for the double shooting of
Vofi Phul and George E. Copeland, who was hit by one of Hen-
' ' wood's stray bullets during his quarrel wltli Von. Phnl In the Brown
Palace Hotel; below, Sylvester Louis Von Phul, St, Louis minion
aire sportoman and aeronaut, who had words with Hen wood about
Mrs. Springer just before Henwood fired the shot that caused his
-- death. ' The photograph 'of' Henwood Is the 'one that Von Phul tore
to bits-during the quarrel. It waa pieced together.
(Continued on Pe;e Eleven.)
ORDINANCE CALLING
FOR SPECIAL
ELECTION TO BE VETOED: DEF
CM
Mayor, Simon will veto the ordinance
passed at the last meeting of thp city
council for the purpose of Calling a spe-
Ua cial election January , to give voters
an opportunity to cast ineir nauoia ror
or against an amendment providing for
,a commission plan of government. The
ifveto will be submitted on the advice
of City Attorney Grant. , who Saya the
ordinance -.calling ; the election was not
properly drawn, '.t' ,. ' ."v 1
The city "attorney has drafted a'.-re-pealing
ordinance, and another ordi
nance rectifying the legal phraseology
'In the former jneasure.1 These will be
presented to the city council next week,
' and will. In all probability,! be passed
unanimously, so that there will be no
delay on account of. -the mistake. v I
Sefects SeeB. -;.';v r:;.
' ""The o'rdlnanco passed last? week."
said City Attorney: Grant, "called for
an election at which a charter provid
ing for a commission form of govern-
' menf w to . have been placed -on the
' ballot ; The legal phraseology was not
sufficient to cover the caae. We already
' have a charter provided by legislative
act, and wo cannot get rid of It except
by amending ! - , ,
"The new ordinance, which I have
prepared, . calls for a special election
January J. at which - "general amend
ment to the present charter . niay be
submitted." This -cures tne oerectym
the former V ordinance and will per
mit of the present charter being com
pletely revlaed into a : commission plan.
I- believe it will be advisable -for Mayor
Simon to vetortha old ordinance. The
council can then pass a new one provid
ing for the same thing."; s f-f '"
'AA:Ai rears.' Orltiotsa. 'ft
-I dislike' to Veto the ordinance." said
Mayor Simon, today, Tor the reason
that . my action, may be misinterpreted.
However If the city attorney advises
me to do so, I will. The ordinance ball
ing for' the special election was Intro
duced . so suddenly : that . I had no op
portunity of giving It careful consider
ation. but although . I feared , that . It
might not hav been drawn properly. 1
did- not : make, any strenuous - objection,
knowing that any defects I might dis
cover could bo corrected by veto, if nec
essary. I am, as I have repeatedly
said before, heartily In favor of the
adoption of the commission plan at the
earliest possible date and I want the
public to know that I have not changed
my mind In the least en -that subject."
"LIFE'S REVEALER"
FLAYSACCUSED
Evelyn Arthur See, Founder of
"Junior Commonwealth," in
Court; Girl Priestess Stands
By staunchly. i .
THIN AIR NETTED
SUGAR KING SUM
0F10 MILLIONS
' Chicaao. Juna 19. When , the trial of
Evelrn Arthur See. ' founder , of . the
"Junior common wealth." charged ; with
eentrlbuting to tho delinquency of .Mil
dred Bridaea 17. opened today, the
court room was crowded with girls and
women. It waa reported that most or
them were lormer toyowera oi reo.
Mildred Bridges, one of ' the high
prleetesses of Bees absoluu Ufa cult.
sat in -court, reruaing to aeaeri bee,
She refused even, to glance toward her
father, Stephen Bridges, who waa ready
to appear as first witness ror tne rotate.
Attorney CantwelL representing see.
opened for tho defense. Hia statement
waa confined to an attacV o Mildred's
father.
(Continued on Pag Two.)
OWNERS GIVE IN AS
IS
SHIPPING
PARALYZED
v. - (IhHtfd' Prtee LMiiwd Wtra.1 ' ' '
London. June 19. That tho .striking
seamen will win, their, demand for In
creased wages Is the .general belief here
today. - Several i owners - have - yielded.
The strtge la becoming better organised
and ehipping la practically at a standstill.
Offlors .of -the .Seamen'a union assert
that the steamers Megantle, Celtlo and
Dominion will be tied up until their
crews are given an increase of 1 Schil
lings - monthly. The original .demand
wae for St shillinga -- i
Shipping -on the Clyde Is . paralysed.
Allied unions are threatening te strike
Havemeyer Manufactured a
Fortune Out of Nothing, Ac
cording to His Agent, Who
Testifies.
(Unite pieea Laued W1r-
- Washington, 3 Juhe : 19. James H.
Post at one time an agent for Henry
O. Havemeyer, told the Hardwick sugar
Investigating committee today how $10,
000,000 had,: been . manufactured from
thin air for Havemeyer and dividends
of 12,500,000 draWrt from' the manufac
tured capital. Referring to the 'organ!
sation of tha National Sugar Refining
company of New Jersey, he said:
V"J had secured, as Heyemeyera agent,
options for the purchase of three con
corns that went into the National the
National of New York, the Mollenhauer
plant a,nd the Now York Sugar Refining
company, ina ixaiionai or jnow jbt
(Continued on Page Two.)
- (SreeUl IMnpiteh e Tlie XoeraaL)
Hlllaboro, Or- June 19 A warrant
has been. Issued for the arrest of James
H. , Wilson on a charge of . assault on
his bride of a month. - In reality,, how
ever, tne onarge la Kidnaping, on May
he married 17 year , old Vlda Lewis
but the girl t waa taken from him by
her parents, v The earn day she " at
tended a - local ; theatre,'- and It 1 Is
charged that on - leaving tha building
she was selxed by Wilson and despite
l . a , mrmm KtaAtl-wl.lntA ft Vlitfn,
automobile and taken to Portland. Thla
la Saturday night. The aherlff . la
' bunting for thero todajN -. - .:,( 1 1 ? h
Hounds Now Have Good Scent
From Discarded Mail Sacks
and Are Pushing on Very
Swiftly.
TWO OF DRAIN GANG ARE
CAUGHT; EHNERT BOYS
Clothing. Knives and Razors
From W. W. Kent's Store
With Them.
(Special PUpetrh to The J oar mat.)
Roseburg, Or June It. Bloodhounds
and posse are fallowing what le be
lieved to be -the hot trail of the Shasta
Limited robbers, about eight miles west
of Yoncalla, today. The posse started
at t o'olock this morning. It searched
all day yesterday, finding two stolen
registered mall pouches on the trail
followed. Only part of the mall had
been rifled.
I
Drain, Or., June It. The sheriff's
poaao In pursuit of the men who robbed
the mall car of the Shasta Limited near
here Friday night yesterday, which
found four rifled mall sacks a abort
distance weat of Yoncalla, found also
$20 overlooked by the holdupa. Taking
scent from tha sacks, the bloodhounds
were making good progress on the trail
at last reports and Sheriff Qulne thinks
the chances are good fdr capture be
fore night.
1 Two of the three men who robbed the
hardware atore of W. W. Kent last
Friday night were caught at Albany
laat night as they were trying to board a
train. The capture waa made by deputy
sheriffs of Linn county, assisted by a
deputy sheriff of Lane, who happened to
be on the train and recognised the burg
lars aa recent occupants of the Lane
county Jail whose description tallied
with that sent out from here of the
men seen here the day of the burglary.
With Stage Being Set, Frowsy
Old City Puts on Finishing
Touches of Gay Garment for
Crowning Event.
TOWN NOW TOPSYTURVY;
UNSIGHTLY STANDS RISE
Enormous Crowds Throng Line
-Coronation Pageant Is to
Take on Thursday...
(Continued on Page Two.)
U'altea Free Lhm- "Vire.
London, Juno It. All London Is now
In curl papers, awaiting the gorgeous
spectacles of the coronation. The pres
ent aspect of the town Is rather fopsy
turvy, but a day or two more of work
on the deooratlona la expected to trans
form everything.
Two days' re In has played havoc
with -the' decorations displayed for the
coronation week. ; Bunting' and flags
today are flapping dismally from the
biMldings, ' the colors run together, the
pennants faded and forlorn looking.
Savoys Arrive Today.
Thirty-nine envoys arrived today. In
cluding Z0 princes and prlncessea with
their retinuea
Pickpockets and crooks are busy. Tbe
police are watching only those who are
suspected of deelgna on royalty and the
others aro left pretty ' much to them
aelves. .
The visiting crowds are Spending very
little money, and the merchants are
complaining bitterly. - They have failed
completely to reap the commercial har
vest they expected. Thle Is due chiefly
to the enormous prices charged by the
merchants, who are boosting prloee un
reasonably. Unless .there is a radical
cut In prices many merchants will go
bankrupt.
At present the aight and smell of
many miles of new timber flung against
European Circuit Contest Al
ready Fatal to Trio of Bird
men French Officer Is
Cremated In Midair.
MILLION SPECTATORS r
SEE TWO PLANISTS DIE
Accidents Came Almost With
Starting Gun, Being As-; .
cribed to Nervousness. :
(Continued on Page Two.)
LI
LOYD LIGHT
S CAREER ENDS
DIES
F
ROM TAKING
POISON
BELIEVED
Man Who Posed as Writer of Stories in Saturday Evening
,Post Thought to Have Had Long Criminal Record He
Passed Many Bad Checks, Alleged Claimed to Have
Had Wealthy Relatives in the East.
Llovd Llaht aged 31 years, who posed
as the author of the famous -Blue En
velope" series, recently published in the
fiaturdav Even In Post, and a scion of
alleged wealthy families In New-York
and Florida, who recently gained con
siderable notoriety In Portland through
his arrest at the Oregon hotel on a
charge of defrauding an Innkeeper, died
thla morning on tho way from the city
Jail to St Vlncenfa hospital, from what
is believed to nave oeen a aoso or
strychnine.
On the police docket this morning
waa the name of Lloyd Light, charged
with "after houra." In order to noia
him for investigation of a charge or.
nasal n a n worthless check on John An
derson a waiter at the Oaks restaurant
This case has been dismissed.
Tho death of Light la sensational, in
that it Is believed that the man has a
long criminal record, and that hla arrest
last night was the climax of a aeries
of criminal operations from which he
realised he could not escape punish
ment When Captain of Detectives Moore en
tered the prison cells this morning to
summon those arrested the past 24
hours for the usual morning line-up,
he called Lights name and Light start
cd towards the door. Walking through
the corridor, it la believed ho swal
lowed poison which he had smuggled In,
for he fell on tho floor and lapsed into
unconsciousness, from which he went
into convulsions. Dr. Zlegler ordered
him removed to St. Vincent's hospital.
He died on tbe way.
Light waa brought to police headquar
ters at 12:80 thia morning by-ohn An
deraon, who accused him of giving him- a
check on a local bank for $5.80 in which
he had no funds. Sergeant Joe Keler,
who waa In charge of the station, re
fused to book Light on the charges made
by Anderson and told Light to leave the
station.
Patrolman Epps was instructaa w
, i - t f t
-1 "A ' y
Lloyd Light, who claimed to be mag
azine writer.
e Deaths of Alrxeea. .
e Aviation In heavier than air . e
e machines has claimed a total of
e ft deathe. ' .
e Twenty-six have been killed "
e during the )at year. ' i
e
(Dalted Frraa Leeetd Wire.)
Paris, June 19, Three deatha and the
Injuring of five aviators already mark
tha Paria-Belglum-Holland-London aero
plane race, which started from the
Aviator field at Vlncennes yesterday
afternoon. - j '.,'..
Orematad la aCldalr. ;
Accidents came almost with the start
ing gun. In tbe eight of the million
people assembled- at the aviation park
at Vlncennes, Prlncetau, who had been
gaaetted captain only few houra be
fore the start for hie- notable aervloes
in aviation, was - cremated In midair .
whert the engine of hla monoplane ex
ploded. '
A few mlnutea later M. Le Martin's
Bleriot became: unmanageable and fell
aa he was over a forest a quarter of m
mile from the start ':: Hia head - was
crushed against a tree trunk and he
died within a few minutes after ha was
ploked up. . '
. Sashed to Carta.
M.' Lend ron was the third victim.
After he had made0 mllea of the first
eg oi me journey mo gasoline una t
his machine exploded and Jie crashed to
earth, was struck by a part of hla en
gine and , killed.-. He was severely
"burned by the flaming gasollna v..'
.. M. Gaubert ' who entered under the
(Continued on Page Five.)
MEAT PACKERS
MU
TOE
TRIED
Judge Carpenter, Denies Re
hearing of Arguments in
Demurrer at Chicago.
(Uaited Prew Leeesd Wire.,
Chlcaxo. June 19. United States
Judge Carpenter today denied the mo
tlon of tho packers for a rehearing of
argtments in demurrer, based on a re"
cent decision by the supreme court in
the Standard Oil and tobacco trust
oases, which It Is alleged materially af
fected the packers' ease,
The decision today was a diow to me
packers as there ia no appeal from ,
Judge Carpenter's ruling and the trial.
must proceed. The court gave no reason
for the decision, merely announcing that
the motjon waa overruled. ,
WEDDING GUEST HITS
Fi
OUR
IrtLLETS
6an Francisco, June 19. Early today
at the new, California hotel, where the
wedding of Joseph Ghorocol waa pro
ceeding, one of the guests fired a pis-;
tol into the crowd and four persona were
injured. Two of them -are probably fa
tally wounded. In the panic that fol
lowed the culprit escaped.
-. , , ,; ii iv ' gaff
(Continued - on Page Two.)
MORRIS UPHOLDS
WHITE SLAVE ACT
Utah Judge Says Government
Has Every Right to End
Traffic In Women.
(IMtea rmas 1
Salt - Lake City. V
Wirft.1
tah. June 19. UD-
f holding the federal -white slave" laws
aa constitutional ana asserung inai ine
government had -aa mncn ngnt to ena
the trafflo as It had to interfere with
lotteries. United States Judge Morns
today aentenced a number of convicted
white alavere. ;.'".f4. ; . -
William Slegel waa seniencea to rour
years In the. penitentiary for placing a
Swedish Immigrant in a reeort Eugene
Hughes waa given a alx months' sen
tence and Herbert Gould, convicted, waa
ordered la court tomorrow for sentenea
LONDON'S PRICES FOR BIGGEST SHOW :
CDIPUTCM AUI A V P.DCAT P A DIMQ UflDfir
I lllulllLlinilni uiiLni uni uiu iiuivul
By Charles P. Stewart, London Oor-
reepondent of the United Freaa.
London, June It. England is today
on the eve of the most spectacular
event in her history, the crowning on
Thursday of King George V and Queen
Mary. Not that the crowning of this
royal pair la of any greater Importance
than similar events In the past, but that
the king and queen, both with a love
for ceremonials, and England and the
world at large apparently clamorous for
such a pageant, have combined to make
the function the most umpraous or
kind. - :' - . ; - ,.-.v:::- -. : ;. - v-
Arrangeraenta are ' today completed.
After months of planning and execu
tion, those in charge of the affair, real
lie, although with ueyvous apprehen
sion, that- all has been done that can
be done. So much ado. has been made
over the coronation that It la only nat
ural that tha expectancy of the people
should not beunmlxed with misgivings.
:; .-? i;t Xmpreesloa Xts Ohjeot. ,;
Primarily the coronation day pageant
ia Intended to Impress the king's sub
jects with the greatness of the institu
tion of royalty and to create - that en
thusiasm for It which. In aptte of all the
royaliata' efforta la ee Inevitably dying
v ' -, - . ; ' , -1.:'".: -r.-'" :
out With the-decline, however, of tie
political influence,, it. Is, car Jain that
never In the history of such displays
haa any been turned so effectively te
commercial account a a the present one
From all over the world tourtsta and
money have heen pouring-Into England,
For weeks to oome the tourists will re
main, and the aum Which London mer -'chants
and, landlords will -gather -to ;
from them la incalculable. . , - , ,
la their greed, the traders have. In
fact, to some extent, overreached them ;
selvea '' .. '" ' . ' ' -
The throng of visitors In tha elty la,
to be sure, enormous, but there is little
doubt that It would have been far great-,
er had not so many people bcn fright
ened Into remaining away by advance
news of the remoraelessnesa with which
they would be bled if they came. ,
: ' Vlonaoa Xa Wdeoua. . '
The commercialism of the eoroneMoa
ceremony has had still another effect.
Never a beautiful eity, though a plctur.
esQue'city,; London' has Wn '-rendered
positively hldeoue by the enormous rw
board grandstanda which fill l afreet
and public places,, and hide l' fm.'H
buildings, -The whole front 'of Wxi.
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