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' EVENIN6EDITI0N DAILY EVENING EDlTICdl THE DAILY Eastern Oregon Weather will be delivered at your residence QJ piW v - 5cA WEEK. Fair tonight and Wednesday; warmer tonight. roii. is. PENDIiETQy, U3IATHiIiA COUNTY, OKEGO, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1JJ02. NO. 4515 DISASTROUS FIRE ornipg Blaze at New York Resulted In Loss of Life land Property. IE DESTROYS A BIG TENEMENT HOUSE. er Blaze Was Subdued, the Fire- en Searched the Ruins and Dls- overed Six Bodies of the Fire Fiend's Victims, Kew York, Aug. 19. Six lives were in a fire which burned a ram ie tenement at 36 Essex street morning. iter the fire was subdued, the fire- searched the building from eel o roof, finding six bodies. ie dead are Mrs. Annie Botochin. unidentified woman, Sallie Lieb- i, Louis Liebwltz, Jules Liebwitz, Morris XiiODwitz. PROVED INNOCENT. Hn&A Convicted of Grand Larceny at Nome Was Not Guilty. ttle, Aug. 19. Helen Wagner, died early in July in this city an appeal la her c&Se was pend- the united States court of ap at San Francisco, has been I Innocent of grand larceny. jury at Nome four days after her indicted her prosecutor, Ed Manthell, fo? perjury. They ; the petition for her pardon, on its way to President Roose- The evidence, according to e papers, shows that two Nome biers, Charles Evans and Kid nnell, planned revenge on a wo- named Annie, whom they failed ob. They hired Mantheil to rail her by perjury to prison. ,He k Helen Yragner for her. and trial and conviction were the re- BOERS ARE IN HOLLAND SOUTH AFRICAN GENERALS ON RELIEF MISSION Botha, Dewet and Delarey Arrive In Rotterdam and Visit ex-President of Boer Republic To Visit Hoi land's Queen. Rotterdam. Aug. 19. The Boer Generals Botha. Dewet and Delarey arrived here this morning. During the day they will visit ex-President Steyn, of the Orange Free State, af ter which they will go to see ex-Pres-l ident Kruger. Queen Wllhelmlna extended a most cordial invitation to the generals to visit her. BIG TENNIS TOURNAMENT. Championship Games Are Now Being Played at Newport. Newport, R, I., Aug. 19. The 22d annual tournament of the United States National Tennis Association, was opened today by a match in the championship doubles between R. and H. I. Doherty, winners of the Eastern, and Collins and Wadner. winners of the western doubles. Lawyer Suicides. Salt Lake, Aug. 19. Calvin B. Pot ter, an attorney of this city and at one time prminent in Michigan state politics, committed suicide early yes terday by taking enough morphine to kill a dozen men. POSSE CAPTURED THE T ET ROBBERS And by So Doing Learned That They Had Been Chasing the Wrong Men, as They Were Hunting for the Freewater Hold-ups. Infantry Drowned. Vienna, Aug. 19. A pontoon con veying a detachment of infantry across Amur, near Pashkova, today sank and five officers, 30 men and 70 Chinese camp followers were drowned. WILL RESUME WORK DUCHESS IS VISITING. suelo Vanderbilt in New York for First Time In Seven Years. Yew York, Aug. 19. The Duchess Maryborough (Consuelo Vander- arrived from England todav. lis is her first visit since her mar- ige seven years ago. She is accom nled by her mother and Mr. and b. W. K. Vanderbilt. Jr. th latter aimer or the late Charles Fair. b of the death of the latter .and o t-auuea intense sorrow amoncr party. RELATIONS STRAINED. urksh Porte and American Legation Are at Outs. London. AUfr. 19. A "!miRtnnMnn. diapatrh says that official rela- "8 between tho norte and Mm aerican legation are strained be- tho former has failed to fulfill certain undertaking relatlvn to aerican claims. Further delay may 10 EerlOUS action hv Mia TTintnrt TOY LAUNCH. wo Persons Cross Atlantic In It In 37 Davfc .Mmouth, Eng., Aug. 19. Captain '"man and his 16-year-old son Ed arrlVfifl hum attar- a QUar'a P from New York in the 38-foot uSene iBlinnl. Al,l1 Al.l,nt T rm Faich left Sandy Hook in July. Blacksmiths 8trlk. 2,.w,York. A& 19- A strike was yesterday by the Internatlon- . 'ui xjiuuhbuiiuib auu Pers in all shops where an ad- 01 vi per cent In wages Ib not "led. Tho RtrlTrn off,. t, ol,ln . w v...vv wucvw lug DUIJI' I0s prlnclnallv. ami innn mar, am. ft - - WW A-WWW Fterday J"'UD iult " Another U4J1... W?)rt,.R- h Au& 19- Mary Mc- . ST "T" or Captain B. H. Mc th. , ine nayy' and Lieutenant till MacArthur, a son of General . ' .a-rthur. aro to be married Thursday. Gasolln ct-i wSiii"'"! Au& 19--Four persons Alia1- mrt h an explosjon of P1t .7 u- 2. B a Pyotechnlcal dls I tho Old Salem Chautauqua. . COLLERIES AT DURYEA WILL START WEDNESDAY, Preparations Now All Made and Of ficlals Are Ready for Almost Any Kind of Trouble. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Aug. 19. Every preparation for resumption of work at Warnek washery, at Duryea,-to morrow is being made. Forty men ar rived this morning and steam was gotten up. That there is trouble fear ed Is shown by the active Bteps that are being made to meet any move on the part of strikers calculated to pre vent the starting of the works. Addl tlonal arms have been procured and the force of coal and iron police in. creased. WAITSBURG NOTES. Child Swallows Poison and Carpen ters Find Burglar Tools. Waitsburg, Aug. 19. Little Vivian Bartges, the young daughter of Mr, and Mrs. W. E. Bartges, managed to get hold of some poison last Saturday evening and before her mother dls covered what she had hold of, swal lowed a liberal dose. The little girl was very sick for a time but a strong emetic soon relieved her and she is now over the ill effects. While Carpenters Cox and Caplln ger were repairing the Coppei bridge in the south part of the city Tuesday to rob. They hired Manthe. to rail burglar tools. The tools were lying on a cross piece under the south ap proach to the bridge and In tearing away lumber they were KnocKea down. The tools were very rusty and looked as though they had been there some time. CIRCU8 CAR DERAILED. Wild Animals and Men All Piled Up In a Heap. Tacoma, Aug. 19. Two elephant cars and one cage of an animal car belonging to section three of the Ringling Bros.' circus, en route to Portland, were ditched this afternoon near the freight depot In this city, Ten men, 12 elephants and several caged lions and tlgerB were In the mlxup. No fatalities occurred, but all of tho men were bruised and three were sent to the hospital here ror treatment WRIT OF ERROR. Allowed In Case of SenUnced Bank Wrecker. Detroit. Aug. 19, The supreme court this morning issued a writ of error In the case of Frank Andrews, the bank wrecker, sentenced to 15 years at hard labor Monday. Upon hearing the court caused the order of supersedeas to be Issued. The chase after the Freewater rob bers, in which the posses of two coun ties have been engaged now turns out to have been a "wild goose" affair, at least so far as tho capture of the men who robbed Keyes saloon is concerned. Ever since the fight In which Deputy Ritchie was wounded the posses have been after the wrong men, and this morning tho error was discovered by one of the men after whom the officers have been trailing being run to earth near Athena. The man, whose name Is given as George McDonald, was caught with the threshing outfit of John King, a farmer about five miles from Athena, McDonald having gone to work.there and having apparently forgotten all about the posse which, was flocking across the country after him. He is a common specimen of the genus hobo and does not in the least resem hi i the desperate criminal after whom the officers believed they were chas-! lng. McDonald Confessed a Crime. I McDonald, however, upon being ar rested, confessed that he was one of the men who committed the robbery at Touchet and had the running fight with Sherl ffTill Taylor, of this city, and Deputy O'Rourke. It was estab lished, however, to the chagrin of the officials, that he was in no way con nected with the Freewater robbery A simple coincidence was responsible for he and his pal being mistaken for Coffer and his companion, and the chase across the country which ended with McDonald's capture at Athena, McDonald's Story. According to McDonald's story, he and a man whose name he refused to divulge, held up a Swede near Touchet last Sunday evening, took what money he had, beating him over the head with a revolver-in order to make him produce, and then fled Taylor and O'Rourke took the trail and soon came up with them. Tho thieves ran and the deputies opened fire following the fleeing men for about a quarter of a mile when Mc Donald and his partner took to the bniBh along the Walla Walla river and escaped from the officers. Then they proceeded to the enlghborhood of Athena where McDonald went to work with a threshing crew and his partner went on, no clew to his whereabouts being now obtainable by the officers. - An Easy Arrest There was no trouble when McDon ald was arested and he ottered no re slstance, the officers merely going Into- the field where he was at work and taking charge of him. Ho was turned over to Sheriff Kees, of Walla Walla and taken to that city this morning, where he will stand trial on the Touchet robbery charge to which he has already pleaded guilty. Officials Are at Sea. This capture of McDonald places the officials all at sea with regard to Coffer and the other man who held up the Freewater saloon, and there Ib absolutely no clew to. the present whereabouts of tho men. In the ex citement of the chase after McDonald and his pal no effort was made to look for other traces of Coffer and his accomplice and all trace of their movements after leaving the scene of the fight with Ritchie, tho two riding astride the wounded officers horBe, has been lost. and the posses will now nave to taite up tne cnase ou a uimu trail. Search for Right Trail. Nothing daunted, however, the offi cials are now working In tho vicini ty of the cabin where the fight oc curred and hope to secure some clew to the direction taken by the robbers after fleeing from the scene of battle. Fears of Escape. The principal fear of the officers now is that tho men will succeed in reaching the mountains between Wal la Walla valley and the Wallowa country, where they would be practi cally safe as Coffer was raised from boyhood on a farm on Walla Walla river and knows the country to the south of tho river llko a book. Ho has also mado innumerable trlDs all through the Basket mountain coun try, the heavy mountains from which the Umatilla and Walla Walla rivers spring to life, and clear into the Sal mon River country, where It would be almost an Impossibility to trace a man. Should the fleeing desperadoes reach these It would bo another Ruck er Rogers affair. The mountains In tho Salmon River country aro tho niggedest in the Northwest, not ex cepting the famous Bitter Root Moun tains. Hero a man could live almost a lifetime without meeting a human being if ho so wished. Tho country abounds In game, of all kinds and the streams are full of fish. Need Not Keep to Mountains. Tho two men, If they .escape tho posse need not linger In the wilds of these mountains, however. They could take an old trail leading across the mountains that Is known only to a few old woodsmen and make It into Southern Idaho, and from there Into Wyoming or any other state of the Union they wished. Prospectors are constantly traveling In Idaho at nres ent bound for Thunder Mountain or other mining centers, and tho fugi tlves could easily take tho role of prospectors with little chance of de tection. Coffer a "Bad Man." Al Coffer, tho "short man" of the Freewater robbery, Is a leader in crime and Is a general tough charac ter. Ho haB served terms In tho pen ltentlary for various offenses and would, if cornered, make a desperato ngnt. The desperado Is well known In this section of tho country, where he lived a number of years, and it Is commonly believed that he was mix ed up with some gangs of cattle and horse stealers that operated In thlB vicinity a few years since. A sheepherder who was In the city today from the Butter Creek country, declares almost positively that Coffer was connected with a gang of stock rustlers" which had a resort In that section a few years ago. This gang was broken up by tho authorities and Coffer led a moro lawful life for a time, but his criminal inclination was too much for him and he could not leave a career of crime. Tho den or "hold-up" of tho the Butter Creek rustlers was not dls covered until about a year ago. when mere was round, in tho heart of tho Butter Creek hills a large corral where the thieves used to run their stolen stock, and also evldonco of hu man beings having mado their habl tatlon there. This Wbb in one of tho wildest parts of the country and had escaped the vigilance of sheep and cattle men who had boon looking for this thloes' resort for several sea sons before It was finally located, Since tho breaking up of tho gang with which Coffer waB connected, tho corral has been used but seldom, aud then by stealers of small bunches of cattle, reports of whoso depredations wore published In tho East Orogonlan a few weoks ago, at which thno the cattlemen of that section banded to gether and offered a reward of $B00 ror tho arrest and conviction of any one caught stealing stock on the But ter Creek ranges. This reward has apparently had- the desired effect, as no complaints of stealing havo como In since its publication. His Career of Crime. In addition to a term in tho Oregon penitentiary Coffer has done stunts In varlouB other Institutions, Ho was an audacious criminal and never seemed to hesitate at anything In bis career to date. Arriving at Walla Walla short of cash one day he de cided to turn a "trick" that was not too risky, so ho kept his eyes open for something "soft." Walking up Main street he saw a neat cart in front of a livery stable, and no one being in sight, he made a horse out being in sight he took tho cart to a second-hand store and disposed of it, CANADA AFTER SETTLERS LIBERAL OFFER OF THAT GOVERNMENT TO 8TRIKERS, Homesteadlng Agent Will Offer Free Lands and Work to 30,000 Striking Anthracite Miners. lolodo, Aug. 19. VTho Canadian government has Instructed Its homo Bteading agent horo to proceed to tho anthracite coal reclon and offer in ducements to 80,000 or. moro ot tho strikers and tholr fnmllles to form a colony and settle In Canada on land to bo donated by tho government Work Is to ho provided for tho mon until they havo prcpnrcd their laud for crops. NEW YORK MARKET. (Concluded on page 6.) Reported by I. U Ray A. Co., Pendle ton, Chicago Board of Trad and New York Stock Exchange Brokers. Now York, Aug. 19. moro was a better touo to tho grain markets to day, influenced largely by tho nttltudo or Bomo of tho largest tradors, who bellovo thnt tho market should Ira- provo nftor a break of nearly 10 cents. Liverpool closed G 10. Now York closed hlghor, 72. Closed yesterday, 12. Opened today, 72. Range tolay, 724a72. St. Paul, 185. Union Pacific, 109. L. & N., 157. Stool, 40. Wheat In Chicago. Chicago, Aug. 19. Wheat C5 70. Wheat In 8an Francisco. San Francisco, Aug. 19. Wheat $1.12lfr3 pgr cental. POWER IS PINCHED NO MORE TROUBLE No Moro Disturbances in Coal Region Since the Shooting of Patrick Sharp. STRIKERS. ARE RE8TLE88, HOWEVER SITUATION GRAVE Civil Authorities and Cooler Head Among the Minora Aro Working for Peace, But Serious Trouble la Lla bio to Occur at Any Time, Mahoncy City, Pa.. Aug. 19. After tho shooting of Pntrlck Shnrn. tha strlko loador, no further disturbance occurred nt Nosquohonlng. In tha Panthor Crook valley. During tha night hundreds of strikers wnlkod tha stroota nil night howovor. and th situation at sovoral tlmoa grow graven Tho civil authorities, with tho coot or-hoadod minors, succeeded In pad lying tho mon. At daybreak a battal ion of .Uio Twolfth regiment arrived on tho scono. Fivo deputies aro now confined In tho Chunk Jail, charged with bolng Implicated In tho killing of Sharp. Tho situation at Shonandoah con tinues qulot STILL A MYSTERY. COMPLAINANT IN CELEBRAT- ED TRU8T CA8E ARRE8TED. Returned From Canada, Where He Fled to Evade Contempt Sentence, and Is Now In Jail. New York, Aug. 19. Peter Powor. tho complainant In tho caBo against tne Northern Pacific, and who fled to Canada to ovado a 30-day sontonco ror contompt of court, returned to Now York thlB morning, accompanied oy niB counsol. They Immediately ropalrod to tho Unltod States Marshal's ofilco, whoro they wore taken Into custody and were later confined In tho Ludlow street Jail. Powor'H counsol attompted to pro- vent tho commitment of IiIh cllont by producing an order from tho reforeo In tho Northern Pacific caso to uttond a hearing today, but tho marshal ro fused to disobey Judgo Lacombo's or der to conflno Powor for contompt 6CHWAB'8 8UCCE880R. la 8econd Vice-President Galley Slated to Succeed the Financier. Pittsburg, Aug. 19, Schwab's prl vnte car left for Lorotta this morning to take hi mto Now York. It Is undorstood ho will sail for Uuropo to morrow, HIb representatives Bay tho trip Is only his usual summer vaca tlon. James Gayloy, second vlco-presl dent of tho stool corporation, Js now slated for president of tho concern If Schwab retires. Qayloy has boon bc! entitle metallurgist and Is a thorough ly efficient manager. Ho Ib only 45 years of ago. THE REMINGTON SUICIDE, Body of the Wayward Man Left Alone and Uncared For. Nowport, Aug. 19. Tho body of R. R. Remington still lies alone in tho undertaker's shop, Tho only mark that ho had friends hero Is a llttlo bunch of carnations sent by a lady who lived at tho boarding houso where ho stopped. Tho suddonness with which ho waB dropped by lis society friends. arter having been tho recipient of In vltatlons to all tho principal social functions Ib causing much comment. Remmlngton'u brother wired again today that ho wolud he hero this afternoon. Scientific Writer Dead. Chesiro, Mass., Aug, 19. George M. Hopkins, CO years old. of New York City Is dead horo from uraemia poi soning, Mr. Hopkins was a member of tho staff of tho Scientific Ameri can and a well known writer on scleu- c subjects, Money Taken From Adama Expreea Company Cannot Be Found. Owonsboro, Ky. Aug. 19. Several ofllclalB of tho Adams Exprosa Com pany from St Louis have gono to Fordsvillo to Investigate the robber reported from thoro. Nothing haa de veloped to indlcato tho whoroaboutl of tho $28,000 which Mr. Boatnor as sorts ho shipped from Deanvllle, and which It la alleged was takon from him at Fordsvillo aftor Its arrival thoro. A lineman wns sont out tm locate an Interruption on their circuit reports that ho found tho wires cat under tho tablo of tho ofilco at Deaa-villo. DIE8 OF STARVATION. But Was Worth $10,000 or More In Cash. Salt Lako. Aug. 19. Tho body of Poter Andorson, known bb tho hermit nrosnector of Park City, baa bee found In his lonoly cabin noar the An chor mill In tho Park City mining dis trict Andorson had evidently bee dead for weeks. It is believed that ho dlod of starvation, notwIthBtad lng tho fact that $1700 In cash wil found secreted In tho cabin, It 1 fully believed that $10,000 moro lie to his credit In various banks. EXTRA SESSION TALK. Rumored That tho President Will Re vive Fight for Cuba. Washington. Aug. 19. Extra ses sion gossip has again boon revived, hut Information Is guardodly dissem inate... Tho prosldont's southwestern trip will probably bo ahandonod. Tho gonoral Impression nmong thoso let Into tho socrot Ib that the nrnldont IntomlB to remain horo ana renew tho fight for Cuban reciprocity. Aro BOISE GAMBLERS. Violating the Fined $100 for Law. TtniRo Tdaho. Aug. 19. Four ar rests woro made last night for viola tion of tho antl-gamliling law. in ai,r., Inntnnrn Mill imrtlCB pieaaev guilty and woro flnod $100 aploco and tho amount paid. An officer stated tho mon woro found playing pokor. Won (n the 17th Round. Salt Lako. Aug. 19. Qeorgo Gard ner, of Lowell, Mass., last night de- fnn,1 .Tnrlf Root. Of ChlCSgO, bT knocking him out In tho 17th round of fight romarkaltio ror speoa ana gameness under mo pumuimiotn, shown by both men. Tho betting na- fore the men entorcd tno ring was i to 7 on Root, Destructive Forest Flree. Ymlr. B. C. Aug, 19. Ono of the most disastrous fires which havo over occured In West Kootenay is raging n limit Ym 1p. Manv sauaro raiios ot green timber havo boon reduced to whilst many buildings con nected with tlio more developed mine havo been wiped out,
