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....,.' ..." iMaf DAILY EVENING EDITION WEATHER FORECAST. Tonight and Saturday showers and thunderstorms, cooler. The electric current that propels the wheels of commerce Is adver tising. T VOL. 18. PEN DLETOX, OKECiOX, FUIDAY, JULY 21, lft'rjjff NO. 5-114 - i. . .. - .T - i - "l-rt H Mail Him j W MjlHlitWIiMtiUh'-fKMiliH HlMWHi . r , , , rm"iUil f. m . , t QAIIY EVENING EDITION WILLIS THIS MORNING Made No Confession and Went to the Gallows With Stoical Indifference. WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT END OF 15 MINUTES. WUllam Wan Convicted on Circum stantial Evidence, of tlie Murder of Two Women In Wasco County To One of Tltese Women lie Had Been Married, Altliough He Had a Liv ing Wife In Iowa William Had a CIeckered ami More or Less Crim inal Career in the East, and Is Sup posed to Have Done Double Murder in low a. The Dalles, Ore., July 21. Daniel Norman Williams, the alleged multi murderer, whose crimes extend from Iowa to Oregon, and who for so many years escaped the penalty of his acts, was hanged In the county Jail here today. WMUams went to the gallows promptly at :08 o'clock this morn ing, without a tremor or faltering in the least, and met the end with the same sulkey, impassive stolidity that has characterized his conduct and speech for months past. He refused to the end to talk. He wus pronounc ed dead 15 minutes after the trap sprung. Williams was hanged for one of the most atrocious crimes In the history of Oregon, the cold-blooded and bru tal murder of Miss Alma Nesbitl on the night of March 8, 1900, on his homestead ranch about 20 miles from Hood River. At the same time he killed her mother, Mrs. Louise Jane N'esbltt, for the purpose of securing possession of a homestead claim taken up by Miss Nesbitt adjoining his, and to cover up other crimes which he Is alleged to have committed against Miss Nesbitt. Back of this Is a series of crimes In Iowa with which he was connected. Williams knew the N'esbltts In Ne braska and Induced them to come west. He then persuaded Alma to take up a homestead, which she did In 1899. A short time after this he 1 ...!.... J 1. 1 1 a , ,-. Mo-n' him (1 1 1 h n 1 1I' Vl he had a wife living at that time In Iowa and was the father of several children, who are now of an adult age. Hut a short time after this mar riage, which was a secret one, per formed at Vancouver. Wash., In July. 1899. Williams is supposed to have learned that his wife could not hold her homestead, which is believed to have been the object of the marriage. On March 8. 1900. Williams. Alma Nesbitt and her mother left Portlnnd for Hood Hlver. They arrived there late in the evening and started to drive to the claim of Williams, a dis tance of 20 miles, although the night was dork and stormy. That was the last seen of the two women In life. Williams returned, to Hood River the following morning without lhPm I The evidence, which was olrrurn-' stantlal, showed that Williams tpoW the tw? Women out In ft buggy and murdered both with an ax. horribly mutilating them. The crime was committed only after a bitter strug gle In which the women evidently resisted to their utmost their grue some fate. He then burled tbelr bodies In A huge brush pile and burned therrt. Williams built his plans careful ly and even went so far as to con-, struct a henhouse over the graVM of the unfortunate women. He endeav ored to Account for their absence by declnrlng that they had gone to Wash ington, and asserted that Alma had entered on a fast life. He wrote such a story of her to her sister, who Is a resident of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and to other friends of the murder ed woman In the cost. Sometime after Oeorge Nesbitt, of Iowa, endeavored to trace the where abouts of his mother and sister and became convinced that Williams had murdered them. The graves where the victims had first been placed was opened. The murderer had failed to remove all traces of his crime. A portion of Mrs. Nesbltt's scalp, with long gray tresses attached thereto, and some bloodstained gunnysacks were found. The bodies of the two women have never been found. Expert testimony showed that a portion of the hair and scalp had been torn from the head of Mrs. Wil neat Sloide. Chicago, July 21. Anna Tel ler, aged 30, committed suicide at noon, In the Illinois Trust Savings bank, after having with drawn her savings. The shot created graet panic among the patrons of the bank. The cause in unknown, further than that she hid shown signs of demen tia from the excessive heat AT liams while she wus yet alive and the gruesome relics were shown In court, where Williams sat unmoved. The murderer had been ' arrested mean while in Washington and the strong est evidence of a circumstantial na ture was built up against him. The trial, which took place In April, 1901, was nn Intensely dramatic one and resulted In the conviction of the pris oner. Attempts to appeal the case prov ed futile and In sullen silence Wil liams went to the gibbet carrying with him the complete story of the way In which he had murdered, In the darkness of the stormy March night, two women who hud trusted him to the full extent of human con fidence. Williams is also accused of a dou ble murder committed at Muscatine. Iowa, August 18, 1902, when an aged couple, Mr. and Mrs. Tumans. were killed In a lonely hut In the Sherefy woods, near Ihe town. Williams was known in Iowa as Daniel Williams and was working as a farm hand for the Tumans. He disappeared after the murder und all trace was lost of him by Iowa authorities until his arrest for the Nesbitt muider when his pho tograph was Identified and the con nection made complete. Williams was a heavy-set. stolid looking man, weighing about 190 pounds, dark sandy complexion, light mustache, bald on the top of his head. He was about 50 years of age. HAVIRD WILL FIGHT. Dolse Sheriff Will Not Resign or Make Admissions. Boise, July 21. Sheriff Havird has refused to resign, announcing that he will fight the case. He had been given until 2 o'clock this afternoon to file his resignation and pay over the shortage, the alternative being proceedings to oust him from office and prosecute him under the criminal law. At 2 o'clock he asked for two hours more. After further consultation with his attorneys he appeared at 4 o'clock and announced he would decline to resign, stating that the charges were too vague. County Attorney Koelsch says pro ceedings for the ouster of the sheriff will be Inaugurated In a few days. BOYCOTT EFFECTIVE. Prohibition Will Extend to American Books in Colleges. Shanghai. July 21. The boycott of American goods Is now effective, al though all running contracts will be allowed. All schools and colleges In this section will discard American books. PIERCE COUNTY STOPS GAMBLING IX TACOMA DRIVEN TO THE SECOND STORIES. The Sheriff States That Slot Ma chines, nnd All Gnnics at All Points Outside of Tacoma In Pierce Count)' Have Been Stopiied, and the Wash ington State Imv Will Be Enforced Among tlie Prohibited Towns Is Wllkeson, the Worst Gambling Point in the Count)-The Closing Down Is a Great Surprise. Tacoma, Wash., July 21. All gam bling In this county, outside of the city limits, is a thing of the past. Pierce county Is i.UScu tight. For the last few days Sheriff Denholm and his deputies have been kept busy notify ing all saloonkeepers in whose places of business money paying Blot ma chines were being operated and gam bling tables conducted, that things have gone too far and all kinds of gambling had to stop. The last of the places in the county where games of chance were in full swing, were visit ed by officers yesterday and today. The sheriff says that all gambling has been stopped. Towns of the county which have been placed under the ban are Fuy- allup, Sumner, Ortlng, Buckley, Wll keson, Fairfax, South Prairie, Stella coom, all points on the Tacoma & Eastern and others. Every Day Like Sunday. Reports received from Wllkeson since the places there were notified to discontinue gambling are that the orders of the sheriff are being strict ly obeyed. Wllkeson Is a mining town and has a worse reputation for gam bling than any other place In the county. The miners have been in the habit of gambling away their wages at faro banks aa fast as they earned them. The reformation that has struck the town makes every day like Sunday to some. The closing up of all gambling came as a great sur prise. Gambling has never been stopped In Tacoma, but all games have been re moved to second story locations. G BEIIITON IS DISTRESSING DISASTER TO THE AMERICAN IVY Every Man but One on the Warship Was Killed or Injured and the Vessel Is a Blackened bloody Crater Dozens of Dead and Hurt Being Brought Asliore Between Forty and Flftj Were Killed, and the Ship is a Total Wreck and Will Go to tlie Bottom The Accident Is One of the Worst "Gratuitous" and Useless Horrors In tlie History of the American Navy Tlie Cause of the Explosion Will Probably Never Be Known, the Engineers Being Killed Vessel Was About to Ijeave the Harbor. San Diego, July 21. Boilers on the gunboat Bennington, now lying in the harbor, exploded at 10:30. The entire ship was blown up, so that she is seen ' to be listed heavily. J First reports are that 60 men arcj killed and over 100 Injured. Dozens of dead and wounded are now being, I brought ashore. Captain Lucian Young reports at 11 s that every man on deck was Injured j by, the explosion, and between 40 and! 60 were killed. I The ship rapidly settled ofter the explosion and Is now being towed from the understream to a wharf by tugs. Every available wagon on the water j front was called upon to bring th? dead und wounded to the morgue and hospitals. There are 28 at one hos- pltal, and seven dead at the city morgue. Story of the Accident. Captain Luclen Young and Com mander Verne were on shore at the time of the accident. Lieutenant Commnader John Calvin Leonard was the executive officer. Lieutenant Commander Victor Blue of South Car olina, is said to have been in the hos pital at Mnre Island, undergoing an operation. The ensigns were Charles T. Wade, Newman K. Perry. Jr.. Midshipman Leo Sahn and Mldshipninn Lindsay H. Lacy: Paymaser Charles Morris, Jr. . The Bennlngotn was a gunboat of the third class, a sister ship to the Yorktown; of 1110 tons burden, twin screws, six guns In the main battery, and carried 176. This Is one of the most frightful disasters In the history of the Ameri can navy, almost rivaling the blowing up of the battleship Maine In Havana harbor, and the horror at Samoa, It occurred at 10:30 o'clock this morn ing, when one of the boilers on the gunboat, which had Just arrived to tow the crippled Wyoming back to the Mare Island navy yard, blew up. blot ting out between 40 nnd 50 of Uncle Snm's Rnllors nnd Initlrlnp All thn Other men on the vessel at the time,' The oniy man to escape so far As, known, was Commander Captain I.u-j Men Young. Practically the entire inner portion i of the little fighting craft was blown out. Immediately after the shock and explosion the Bennington listed' badly and began to settle, Tugs hur-J tied to her assistance, nnd she was towed from the understream to the wharf. Explosion Heard nt Snn Diego. The explosion was plainly henrd nnd felt throughout the citv. nnd alone the water front the buildings shook violently. A great column of water was hurled Into the nlr. nnd the fact that a terrlhle accident had occurred was quickly realised. Immediately every available craft In the harbor, mnde for the cripple ship and. pick-j Ing up the dead and dying from tlM wreckage was begun. All around lnyj mangled corpses and moaning sailors, : some Injured beyond hope of recovery, their legs nnd arms shattered nnd chests nnd faces scalded. Some. , maddened by pain, sought to hurl themselves Into the water, but were restrained. Others begged their res- CHICAGO TEAMSTERS' STRIKE IS ENDED Chicago, July 21. Six hundred lumber drivers of this city hnvo voted to declare the strike off and return to their former positions, regardless of tho action of other striking unions. Department store drivers began vot ing today on the question of declaring the strike off and the railway express drivers and truck teamsters will vote tomorrow night. ThlB action Is being taken without the sanction of the strike leaders, the teamsters' Joint council having adopted a motion ad vlsng the strikers in the local unions that the time has come to vote the strike oft. Following the calling As speedily as possible the dead and cuers to kill them, so Intense their suffering. injured were transferred to waiting boats and hurried to shore, where those who were killed by the awful blast were removed to the morgue and the Injured were taken to various hospitals, word having been previous ly sent to the latter Institutions to prepare for the reception of the many wounded. The water front Is lined with wag ons and vehicles of all sorts, having been pressed Into service. Frightful Scenes Aboard. A hurried call was sent throughout the city for physicians and nurses. and practically every physician and professional nurse, and scores of vol unteer nurses responded. The scene on board the Bennington when It reached the wharf was fright ful. Deck timbers, heavy steel and Iron beams, imokestacks, gun car rlages. scraps of engines and boilers were heaped In one Indiscriminate mass. Two of the guns were gone, and the mngazlne. which let go al most simultaneously with the boiler, left nothing more than a great gaping hole. Ship Is Sinking. The ship is leaking very rapidly and It Is feared will soon sink. The cause of the explosion Is not definitely ascertained. Engineer Nel son was personally making an Inspec tion of the boilers preliminary to leav ing port. He had found everything all right and was about to give orders to put on steam, when the explosion occurred. Nelson was blown back Into the store room and Injured, but not fatally. The captain and a few other offi cers had not yet Joined the ship, and thus escaped. Ensign Perry, officer of the day, was on th. forward deck directly nbove the hollers, and was perhaps fatally injured. Other officers were Injured, but none. It is thought, fa tally. The members of the engine crew were nil at their places when the explosion occurred. The explo sion was followed by an outpouring of a sheet Of flame, scalding water nnd smoke. This CflUght every man In the boiler and engine rooms, and blew up the decks, and threw dozens of the terrified men Into the air and bay. In the panic others Jumped Into Ihe bny and were picked, up by boat" which were soon on the scene. To stop upon the gang plank and aboard the ship It was necessary to step over the bodies of three dead boys. Those sailor who remained In a condition to walk about behnved In a heroic man ner nnd did not stop until every bad ly Injured man had been sent nshore on lnunches. 107 Men on Board. When the explosion occurred the crew of the Bennington numbered 197 officers and men. Among the sailors was a colored man named Crupln, who was in the Maine explosion. Vic tor Blue went to the hospital Wednes day for an operation for appendicitis. Ensign perry was seriously scalded and had a font crushed, and may die. The only other officer Injured was Ensign C. T. Wade, who was scalded, hut will recover. off C the teamsters ' strike by the joint council the strikers brok ranks today in order to secure work. Tn most eases the conditions Imposed by employers was hiding union but tons. Of five thousand men who quit, probnbly not more than 1500 will be taken buck within the next few days. The employers held a meeting today and adopted rules to govern the con duct of employes, which will be one of tho conditions on which the strik ers are taken back. The strike has cost 21 lives. 115, 000.000 tn money, nnd 5n Injured In rioting. WILL SUPPORT SCHMITZ. Labor Organizations Will Fight All Other Elements. San Francisco, July 21. A stormy meeting of the United Labor league was held last night for the purpose of deciding upon a course to be pursued In the fast ' approaching municipal campaign. The meeting had been called by one wing of the league whose purpose it was to pass a reso lution that no office holders should be sent to the nominating convention. The other wing, the Schmltz faction, filled the rear end of the hall, hooted and yelled, and finally succeeded In deposing the original chairman and electing another. Mayor Schmltz was present and made a speech. The fol lowing resolution was adopted: "Resolved, That this association of union men, regardless of former polit ical affiliations, does hereby pledge It self to foster, aid and support the county committee of the Union Labor party, and unhesitatingly urge the nomination and re-election of labor's Irreproachable champion, Eugene E. Schmltz." The election is likely to develop Into a strictly class contest, union labor against the other elements of the r Ity'i population. WANDERED TO DEATH. Little Child Dies by Fatigue and Ex posure. Frihraln Wash.. JulV 1. The 4- year-old son of Herman Gross, a far mer living six miles norm or nere. wandered from home yesterday morn ing while his parents were in town, having left the child In the care of his sister, 12 years of age. The child's absence was not noted until 11 o'clock, when the little girl began a search for him. Upon the re turn of the parents an hour later a general, search was Instituted through this sparsely settled district, continu ing throughout the night. At 6 o'clock this morning a party .of 50 from the village here took up the starch, finding the lifeless body of the child at o'clock this evening about two miles from his home, The Utile fellow had succumbed to fatigue and exposure. Will Arrive Saturday. New Port, R. I., July 21. The gov ernment torpedo station here has re ceived a wireless message from the squadron of warships conveying the remains of Paul Jones from France. The message states the squadron will arrive at Chespeake Capes Saturday. No incident on the passage. STRY NOT APT TO RESIGN IRISH COMMISSION APPROPRIATION WAS CUT. Issue Will Go to Another Vote Soon, When It Is Believed tlie Ministry Will Be Sustained by a Normal Ma jority Great and Radical Differ ence Among the Newspapers as to Balfour's Proper Course Commons Adjourns for Developments. . , t "- London, July 21. After a half hour's session this morning the house of commons adjourned until today to await the government's decision re garding its future course In view of the defeat of the ministry last night In the bill to reduce the appropriations for the Irish land commission. It Is believed In well informed cir cles the Balfour ministry Is not likely to resign, and that the government will he sustained by a normal majority nn the vote Monday. Conservative papers today urge the premier to hold on to office nt any cost, whllo the liberal papers are shrieking at him to get out. Tt is reported In lobby circles about the house of commons that a meet ing of the cabinet held this afternoon Bnlfour had decided to resign, but there Is no confirmation. Saloons Must Close. Y.nnnrt Or. .Tlllv 21. PrOSCCUt in A.nnv Tlrntvn'H Announcement '"IS .iii"i j - - that Newport will be closed from next Sunday Is causing consternation at that summer resort, as everything there for years has been run wide open seven days a week. Last Sun day, for the first time In the history of Toledo, Sunday booze was tabooed and the saloons were tlgntiy cioseo an day. Tlie Lincoln county grand Jury, which has Just completed Its labors. M.nnir n spnsntion bv bringing tn a true bill against the saloon keepers of Toledo for keeping open on Sunday. Each was fined $25 and costs, and was d violation of the law would result In the forfeiture of his license. A new bridge 275 feet long, will be built across the Touchet at Shaw's crossing. Walla Walla county. MN Last Vestige of Russien Oppo sition on Saghalien Island Now Abandoned. JAPANESE ARE ADVANCING KAPIDLY ON VLADIVOSTOK. Tlie Inhabitants of That Place and Nearby Russian Towns Are Flee ing St. Petersburg Is Taking Alarm at tlie Terms Which it Feared Toglo Will Demand In Relation to tlie Trans-Siberian Railroad De tails From Toklo of a Recent Vic tor)' Over tlie Husnians Partial Reorganization of the Japanese A mi y. Tokio, July 21. It is officially an nounced that 461 Russian soldiers on the Liland of Saghalien, together wltb 15 officers, have surrendered to the Japanese. Fleeing From tlie Japs. Copenhagen, July 21. A dispatch from St- Petersburg states that ad vices from Manchuria say Japanese warships are sighted near Nikolac vsks, at the mouth of the Amur river. Many Inhabitants of Nikolacvsks and Vladivostok have fled to Khabaro vsk. Getting Scared Early. St. Petersburg, July 21. The Novoe Vrelnyea today asserts It Is alleged that the Japanese peace conditions forbidding the double tracking of the Siberian railroad are utterly unac ceptable, being equivalent to the economic suicide of Russia. . Details of victory. ', Tokio. July 21. An imperial ordi nance' wag Issued this morning auth orizing the appointment of non-commissioned officers from the reserve conscripts and also converting those of sundry source rank Into private of fighting rank. A dispatch from Otaru says the Russians defeated at Dallne were 500 strong with six field and three ma chine guns. The offered desperate re sistance. The cannonade began at the morning of July 7. The second line of Russian defense was not taken until the following morning, when the Russian guns were captured.' Arrived at Paris. Paris, July 21. M. Witte, the Rus sian peace envoy, arrived this after noon en route to the United States. TRANSFER JURISDICTION. Canal May Be Dug by the State De partment. Oyster Bay, July 21. President Roosevelt Is In conference this morn ing with Secretary of State Root, who was accompanied from New York by Dr. Lyman Abbott, who will remain until after luncheon. Root will re main over night. Among the questions discussed wae the proposed transfer of the Panama canal from the war to the state de partment, and the details of the peace conference. Drake Shouts' Assistant. New York, July 21. E. A. Drake, secretary-treasurer of the Panama Railroad company, has been appoint ed assistant to President Shonts. Drake will exercise all the functions of president of the railroad during Shont's absence. FRENCH IS SUSPICIOUS. Says Railways Are Behind Ills Pres ent Trouble. Cleveland, July 21. After his re lease from jail at Akron. Charles W. French, tho railroad promoter accus ed of securing money by false pre tenses, came to this city. French In timates he suspects a large railroad corporation Is behind his arrest. He expects to return to tho Pacific coast, where he Is projecting a mammoth steel plant at San Diego and a railroad from that city to Chicago by way of Denver. Second Trial Begun. Portlund, July 21. The second trial of Congressman Williamson etal for land fraud conspiracy, began today. Lloyd Will Not Accept. Cleveland, O., July 21. Rev. Frederick Lloyd has recalled his, acceptance of election as Epis copal bishop coadjutor of the diocese of Oregon on the ground of continued opposition from four leading clergymen, who ob jected to him as a "high churchman." Dr. Lloyd Is now at home at Washington. Pa. M - s . r j