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THE EUGENE DAILY GUARD . KWiKXK, AHKGOX, MONDAY KVKKIXU, MAItCII ai, 1WIH XO. 7 GILLETTE DIES BRAVELY IN ELECTRIC CHAIR AFTER ADMITTING HIS GUILT; PATHETIC TALE OF YOUNG GIRL'S RUIN Auburn, March 30. Chester E, ciHte today paid the full penalty tor the brutal murder of Grace Brown wd went to death In the electric ciair without any sign of weakness. HeWPeared f:illy reconeijed to hid ite.and in a statement made by his tpiri'tual ad'isers immediately atier the execution 't was indicateu that le hid made confession of guilt. Restatement is signed by Rev. Hen ry jlcllravy and Rev. Cordello Her rlck, and is as follows: , "Because our relationship with Chester Gilete was privileged e do got deem it wise to make a detailed jotement, and simply wish .. say that no legal mistako was made in lis execution." Gillette, so far as the public was concerned, never admitted the crime. In a carefully prepared statement made public after his death, hi Im plored young men to lead Christian' Uvea. The electrocution was one cf the most successful that ever took place in tlie local prison, but one contact being necessary to produce death. Preliminary tests of the machinery having been made, Gillette's cell dour was opened and the prisoner walked firmly Into the death chamber. On either side of the doomed man was a minister of the gospel. It was 6:12: 25 when the little party entered the chamber, and at 6:14:03 the current was turned on, being switched off at 6:15:06. Doctors made an examination at once, and at 6: IS Warden Btnhain announced that the man was dead. PATHKTIC STORY OV YOlXti UlllL'S Hl'IX Auburn, X. Y., March 30. The crime tor which Chester K. Gillette was sentenced to forfeit his life in the electric chair at Auburn prison today was the niurdrr of his sweet heart, Grace Brown, near Rig Mouse, In the Adiroudacks, on Puly U, 190G. Gillette was convicted on circumstan tial evidence after a sensutionai trial in which the pathetic love letters of "Billy" Brown, as the girl was fa miliarly known among her associates, to Gillette, played an important part. The girl who perished in the waters of Big Moose lake had trusted Gil- lette to make amends for the wrong ho had done her by making her his wife, and her letters, found In the young man's room arter nls ar rest at Eagle Bay, havp been consid ered by many as classic In their sim plicity and their tender pleading for the right that was her due. Her last letter to her lover, written a few days before her fatul trip to Big Moose, was particularly pathetic. '1 have been bidding good bye to some places today," she wrote. "There are so nlany nooks, dear, and all of them so dear to me. 1 have lived here nearly all my life. "First I said good bye to the soring house with its great masses of green moss: then to the apple t-e'es whene we had our nlavhouse; then the beehive,' a cute little house In the orchard; and of course nil the neighbors that have, mended my dresses from n little t"t tin to save me the thrashings I really deserved." Gillette ha l Ivon mor or less of n rover up to the time h heram- for", man in his un-le's shirt nmnuf-o-i ry In CortlHnd. N. Y. He had lei i somewhat gay life but was give-i to understand upon his arrival In Cort land that, hi must comlu-t hlm-clf so that his wealthy relative mi-jlit lit least recognize him. He soon became Interested 'n church work and "nrte many friends nd anoarently conduct ed himself with propriety. Grace Brown . was n farmer' (Continued on Pace 'tve.i White Linen tailored waists have arrived Easter Suits The essential part of a woman's wardrobe is her suit; by it her taste is unconsciously displayed. ,Then It behooves the fashionable woman to select a suit which i absolutely correct in color and style. Any store can show you suits but this store can show more style and better quality than any other. When we show you that famous make, "The Wocltex." or that ever popular "La Vogue" suit, we show you the limit of suit style and goodness, and will be a credit to any woman who wears them.- We are showing Kaster Suits from $20 to $45 and an early selection will be to your ad vantage. If you don't want to buy, don't; come to look. SUJTS FROM $12.50 to $45.00 mm. Blavk SilK Waists When it cornea to showing values we are anxious for you to see our new black taffeta tail ored waist. It has the "Icok" of a hand-made waist from your own dressmaker. Strap trimmed, fine tucks in back; a .waist .to please the most exacting. Knell $(.50 ti nd $7.00 1 Thirty-six inch taffeta just arrived: colors brown, navy, Copenhagen, garnet and gray; others get $1.75; our price, the yard 11. oil Gloves . , , The new Kas:er Suit "i!ls for new gloves. We are ready wish kid. silk and fabric; two clasp to 16 button leiig'h.-i, $1.5 to $:i.7r,; silk 16 button, black or white, $ I . r, o to :!.". Royal Worcester Corsets There Is in r, v:tlu" !:t a Hoal Worcester " r--t any cor. ei mad-. Short hip, long hip, .-ho!, medium and long waist; in fact we cm fit any form. Try one $ 1 .on to J'l.'oi. What Arc You Going to do for Easter Clothes ? Here's a dean-cut, dignified Spring Suit style that we are showing to men who like distinction in elothes with simplicity. It comes in a variety of choice fabrics, and we guarantee a correct fit and the best tailoring you can find.- All-wool fabrics and right style. Hfirt Schaffner & Marx made clothes; our store is full of these goods. You ought to see them. Suits or Overcoats from $18.C0to $30.00. . This Store is the home of HART SCHAFFNER & MARX Clothes. 1 Jxn - if c - -' i.r .4- - i ii :a - ;y 5..'.; Copyright 1908 by Hrt SihHn & Man HATS Will vnn . I, i. talk? The next time you an' a hat get a Mallory Crav- '""Ue Hat; t will ,iay j.0; r-arh Hampton Bros. Where Cash Beats Credit 0 BOYS' CLOTHIS Kfery n'fire will we'l you boV rloihlhtf. hat if yon ill b$ the nxt puit here, we'll h!mw y u we ie the l't khd for the ni':nev TV ulf. f..Vl In t M ANARCHISTIC "PHILOSOPHY" IN A NUTSHELL ' Y J j Ax ChicaQO Inlftr Qni."- STRIKE SPREADING TO ALL LINES OF GOULD SYSTEM IIAXtiK IV riti:in:it's ixmiti) C toinhm, Muivh 30. Sir Cnmpn-'H HiiniuM'innn's condition shows' no inarlU'tl rhatint:. Donvor, March HO. l'n Uh It 1h offifially an nonnt't'd today thai union la bor will ho reroKiiizi ii in tlu shops of the iHnvtT Hio llrande railway, tlu strike of nwtrhlnists, hoUfrmakfrs and hlai-ksmiths which has ln-cn in tovce shire March H will sprraii to all other vhops on Iho lines of tlu llould s-ystom west of tlu Mlasouri. accord Ins to a statcnu'iu of Second Vice President Mocklt r of the International llroihrrhcod of Blacksmiths. KiiKineors, trainmen on Hio (irando iim'st ion of flromcn and the licnvor & also have the sympathetic siriku under consideration. SCHOONER SINKS FIVE BODIES ARE IN PUGETSCUND i RECOVERED FROM AND TWO LOST .HANNA MINE Seattle, March 30. The steam schooner Lydla was iut in two by the steamship Chippewa, of the ruget Sound Navigation Company, early this morning and Wilson Spinning, of Ilallard, und Thomas Hicks, of Se- Foulard Silks New arrivals of Foulard Silks: the kind with quality back of the name. We have tie new spring slndes: green, brown, tan, navv anJ Copenhagen. "I he yard . -- -. $.ou Taffeta Silk f srnys JA I lliitinii, March 30 The hurt les of only five of llii! 6S in I ii its Hint initio nrriiliilH killed In the lll-faleil mine No. 1 of the Union Pacific I'oal Coin piuiy hy two explosions Sat urday have heen recovered. Oilier hodies will prnliably not he reached for several days. Denver, March 20. A Hoptihlirun special from 1 lanna. W'yo., says that a curefnlly prepared list of the nilss Iiik as a result of the two explosions ; yesterday in mine No. 1 of the I'nlon Pacific Coal Company contains 511 names, and of tjtlls. ivnmher f,lve dead hmllea have' ITePTt-Tecnvered. Hefore 1 lurther attempts at i-csrulnK Ills dead i men can lie made Hie fire lif the tenth level, which was the direct cause of the two explosions, must he extin guished. it was while Superintendent lliinns and 17- companions were fiKhtlnR the fire at. the tenth level yesterday thai , Iho first explosion of Kits occurred. A. I. VORYS. The mail who Is iiisiuiulntf S'rretnrv Tuffs cainiKiimi ftir Hie prcslilculial nomination. all I", drnwned. Klishi men. liii-lud-HK the captain of the l,vl;a. wit, rescued by Hie l.ydla's llf -lin'li. The accident, occnrr .il oi f I'u ill N Point, and the l.ydla n:i ri'luniiili! from Iho haliliiil. ki-oiiiiiIh nfier a lw-. weeks fishiiiK. The rhippewn' lookout Halms (hat no lights were I displayed on the Lydiit. hut this Is denltd. The l.ydia was struck ainid I ships, troins ulinosl Imineillati'ly to j the hottom, carrying SplnniiiK and I Hicks down in their berths. DRUNKEN MOTERMAN SHOT AND KILLED i ; lit CIFRIANO CASTRO. Pr-fKhh'iil nf VnifXiiclii, who refuse! to urbltrnle Amorli an claims. KfHttI",vMarih 30. 1.. Arnold, ft motnrtnan off duly and drfnkiiiK. white quarrellnK with Condiictnr Kock on a South Park car. watt shot and killed early today hy ('. K. f'iiH:i-: man, a pasm !ikt. Arnol t Htriick tin cntifilc((ir. who Is a n I'ld -rly nin. and (Nishrnan lntcrr'rcd. 'n jhin in, win Is w;if hnian In the I'lit-d S';itfi ,-ISSil V Ol f !C', j:h v hi If HC If I III (1 I in hfirid- 'if tin- piiliii" and Hiil'irs H'-;f- i ilff.-iirtf! cf Jiisttricalloti for rhn kill ing. ; KANSAS CITY BANK OPENS FOR BUSINESS KanRftK City, Mo., March 30. The I reorganized National Hank of Com mcrce, with William II. HldK'dy, for j mer cjntrollr of the currency, an presld'-nt, reopened today under the ' rnoHl favorable aiiMplceii. TKV Tlini Htl ' l-ult lVXAMITI IRS THIurldH. March 30.-- H wardt itKKrcKailnx in iIioum and dolarn have ti'-pn offered ffir (h cnptorM of tlie dyna niltern who wrecked (Jeneral WelN h'inpp. Itnl one man in known to hav e -trailed death who wbh with thla jmrty. Thin wan Charley Marrln, cnrred. Af tr KfihiK to hia homo to notify hlH family of hlw eHcape, HarrU return ed to the mine wl!h the r scnlnu par t y organized hy State M lite I iihp'c tor KllaH to re-nver the (iodic of the unforliiriate in-ii whe m t death from t lit- fit si ex i.i.-inn, Hii rriV nniix app"!it'H (.a the Mr of iiiiswin re-oili-l:u; from the H.-fimd explosion. LEADING EDUCATOR DIES oF APOPLEXY North Yakima, March 30 Robert Itriire Hiynn. stale superlnlendent of public Instruction, died today of ap oplexy, from which disease he had been unconscious Klnce Friday. The deceased was n veteran of the civil war, having served with the Third Iowa. Mr. Ilryan was the firm su perintendent of public Instruction In WaxhliiKton. MELLEN SLATED FOR SUCCESSOR OF HARRIMAN Chlcntto. March 2S. The Chicago KvenliiK Post last nlcht In a finan cial article predicts lliirrlman's suc cessor as follows: "A furl her development Is expected In, that MoiKiin will have a Inriter CHAHI.ES s. mf.llkx. part In flnancinn Ihi- I'nlon Pacttlc and us u conKciiuenc" C. h-. T'eiiln, of Iho New York, New ll;i-t-n & Mart ford, will succet d K. II. llan'iiiian a-i l-i -Hi , 1 1 1 1 or the road, while the latter will be head of the evi-ciilive com mittee. Such plan now la. k confir mation, bill It does not M-m uiit-'-as-;nable and wnuld strcncitien the posi tion of Iho I'nlon Pacific. " New York, .March The report that. llaiTlman sent In his re-ilmiatlnn as president of the Pnlon Pacific rall ryad last Ocioher has created much speculation here. The fact that sonie thliiK had happened In IV affnlis of the Pnlon Pacific of much Import had been common knowledge here for sev eral weks. The'llarrlinan people are keeping closely to themselves, mid are endeavoring to avoid Haying any thing on the subject. That llarrlmnn has sent In his resignation is known, but JiiKt what disposition was made of II Is speculation. Itallroad men say (hat they feel certain that llarrlman has left the I'nlon Pacific, and that extensive plans for re-oignnl.lng are being made, but that the company's offi cials have guarded their secrcu care fully, as their plans have not fully matured. It Is generally concid"d that a steii flil'-h as has b- on reported will have iti In- taken to safe g'lnrd the Inier i est fjf t 'le corporation. MURDERED MAN WALLS roLUPHL'li. hii.i.ivt; fUl) H(IS (. 4'rovlnceiown, Mum., Ma-'h no. The standing ruins of the Centenary Itapllst church, w'orh burned two weeks ngn, collai'seil this afternoon, killing two hoys and Injuring severul persons. V GETS JAP HONOR Toklo, March 30. The . in- peror has bestowed upon the n late Durham While Stevens, aaslnatcd In San Francisco hy a Korean, the decoration of the Oram! Itlslng Sun, the highest order In Jaian. The Japanese government will s also give tVrt.OOO to the fam- lly of the murdered diplomat, s and the Korean government will give about Kfi.OOU. Chicago VYhftit Market. , It.. ,.., 'Ill M .. 111 I . .,mi, ii ". .tin ( i'.i I- 2; Septemher, Sli 1-s. Chicago July, ha I It Is more dangerous to save than to wprnd, declares an Kaslern profes sor, who wants a reputation. . r :