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SENATOR KNOX AS HEAD O F P R E S I D E N T T A F T 'S C A B IN ET . C O N T U S IO N AT M i l IS CA l'S ED BV PIQUE— TWO O F GANG NOW IN J A IL . Philadelphia, Dec. 21.— Indica tions point to a scramble among R e publicans to succeed United States Senator Philander C. Knox, who has accepted the offer of President-elect T aft to become Secretary of State. Following a custom in Pennsylvania which gives both east and west rep- T h e H o u se T h a t is S a tis fie d O n ly W h e n Y o u A r e Portland Youth Confesses to Crime and Implicates ex-Convict » M. PETERSON & of Folsom. Portland, Or., Dec. 2 2 — In the presence of the sheriff, deputies, rep- I resentatives of the O. R. & N. Com pany and newspaper men last night, , W'i'Uam Burke, a young man of this city and 21 years old confessed that he had taken part in the holdup of the Portland-Chlcago special No. 1, of the O. R. N., eight miles east of Portland last week. His confession Implicates J a c k Hayes, alias J a c k W alton , alias “ Slim.” an ex-convict from Folsom prison, who was a r rested Sunday, and another local youth, who has not as yet been ap prehended. The young man made the confes sion, he said, because he was sorry for the part he had taken, and also because he had been given only $1.25 as his portion of the booty secured by the robbers. Hayes, the leader, according to the confession, took possession of all the valuables se cured, telling the others he had found nothing in the express safe. The robbers' entrance to express car was obtained by nitro-glycerln, and the express messenger, O. H. Huff, was compelled to open the way safe, which was looted. T h e passen gers were not molested and the deg- peradoes made good their escape a f ter uncoupling the engine and forc ing the engineer to carry them down the track a mile or more. T hat the robbers got but little for their trou ble was due to the quick action of Messenger Huff. Warned by shots and the uncoupling of the two ex press cars, mail c ar and engine from the rest of the train. Huff quickly unlocked the safe and taking out packages containing from $ 2 0 0 0 to $4 000 threw them into an obscure corner. These he replaced with packages that had lltle value It was these packages the robbers got a fte r blowing the car open with dy namite. DISHONEST EMPLOYES Our Friends and Patrons: J^ JA Y this be the Happiest Christmas you have ever experienced, and May the com y/ S EN A T O R KNOX. resentation in the Senate, Mr. Knox's successor will come from the west ern part of the state. Mr. Knox was appointed Senator in 1904 by Governor Pennvpacker to fill the unexpired term of Senator Quay. Mr. Knox was then Attorney- General of the United States. He was elected for the full term of six years in 1905. CUR NATIONAL CAPITAL Interesting Events o f the W eek in Washington, l>. C. Washington, D. C.— During the examination of Southern lumber manufacturers before the ways and means committee, Chairman Payne made It very apparent that he is strongly In favor of admitting for eign lumber to American markets free of duty. Mr. Payne has given Intimations to this effect heretofore, but never so pointedly as Saturday, when he undertook to lecture a Southern lumberman for asking for protection on his product, when his state persist In voting the Demo cratic ticket. ing year hold for you all an Abundance of Prosperity. As For Us W e appreciate very much the business you have given us the past year. Our business is growing; our stock is growing; and the com ing year we are going to have anything you can ask for in the HARDW ARE, IMPLE MENT AND BUILDING MATERIAL LINE. Yours very truly, Western Union Telegraph Company The testimony of E. D. Metcalf, of Robbed by Telegraphers. Auburn, N. Y., representing the In Portland, Or., Dec. 21.?—Secret ternational Harvester Company, said service men in the employ of the his company is so well entrenched In Western Union Telegraph Company the agricultural implement business have unearthed an alleged conspir that it does not need the tariff, and acy among operators of railroad of that It Is immaterial to it how the fices In the Northwest and Cali tariff is changed. He did not deny fornia, whereby they declare steal that the International Harvester ings have been made within the past Company manufactures over 50 per 18 months amounting to many thou cent of the agricultural machinery in sands of dollars. the United Slates. Regular Western Union operators are not involved In the conspiracy. The President returned to the sen The stealing is charged by the de ate without his signature the resolu tectives entirely against operators in tion fixing the boundary line between Isolated railroad offices where there Colorado and New Mexico with a was no check upon their work. message giving as his reason a re T h e mode of operation of the a l port of (he Attorney-General to the leged conspirators was simple. An effect thu' tlie bill made material operator at a small s'a tlo n where changes in the line, shifting five t h e re was no chocking system would posto.dces from one Jurisdiction to receiv e a message for another simi another. lar point, take payment for the com pany, transmit the message and Representative Mondell, of Wyom pocket the money, which was sub sequently divided with the operator ing, speaking In the Interest of the • Interesting Items Gathered • a t the receiving point. Some time coal mining interests of Wyoming, • F r o m All Parts of the S tate. Ï asked that the duty on cost be kept b efo re the development of the tele where it Is, saying that the Rocky graphers' s trik e a year ago last sum m er a sim ilar graft wax unearthed Mountain miners could not compete Base Derision on T a f t 's Views. by the company, but with Its discov with lie Canadian ccal prod'.: rs Salem — Citing one of Judge W. H. ery and the summary discharge of without reducing wages if the tariff T a f t ’s labor decisions as authority, th e operators Involved It came to an Is reduced. the supreme court held that if the end. owner of dangerous machinery neg Shortly after the holidays the Sen lects to cover it he cannot escape re ate probably will decide where It sponsibility to an Injured employe on C A S T R O 'S D IC T A TO R SH IP |\ V E N E Z U E L A AT AN END will place marble busts of two of the ground that the employe as umed Its vice pre- ¡dents, Roosevelt and the risk. So far as Oregon is con Fairbanks. Mr. Roosevelt’s career cerned this is the establishment of a Caracas, Dec. 23.— T h e end of tlie in the Senate was extremely brief, new rule of employer's liability, ru le In Venesuel of Clpriano Castro and although it ended about seven though It Is no more t h i n a Judl lai has come. T h e dictator who has gov years ago, up to this time no bust recognition of the factory in sp 'c .io n erned the Republic with a rod of Iron of him has been made. art of 19u7. T his decision will un ever sin ce he took forc ible posses doubtedly cause proprlet irs of fac sion of tbo Yellow House in Caracas Senators l.odge, Knox and Bacon tories to protect their machinery in In 1899 Is now openly charg ed with have been named by the senate to every possible way, for the supreme conspltacy to encompass the assassi retire out that body on the Joint con- court declares this to be their duty, nation of the man who he left at the gr* * onal Committee on the Inaugur whether ordered to do so by the bead of the Republic when he sailed al ceremonies. Labor Commissioner or not. sw ay on November 23 from l a Uuyra nomin ally to secure skilled medical PORT!.AND M A RK ET S. t\ S. Machinery Loaned to Lane. s ld in Berlin for a malady of long Eugene— I. B. Cushman, of Acme, Wh at Track prices: Club, 90c; standing, and is today discredited. The B an k of Venexuela has cabled red Russian, 88c; biucstem, 9 6 c ; has received a letter from Congress man W. C. Hawley, in forming him its corresp ondents s t Berlin and Valley. 92c. ■larley Feed, $ 2 6 .5 0 ; rolled, that the Chief of Engineers of the P aris cancellin g the unlimited letter 2 9 United States army has secured from o f credit given to Senor Castro when $2S Oats— No. 1 white, $ 3 1 ; gray, the Secretary of W a r the loan of the b e left Venexuela for E u ro p e and no government machinery now a t the one in Caracas believes he will ever $30. Hay Timothy, Willamette Valley, mouth of the Coquille river for the dare return to the capital. T h e Cas tro cabin et has been forced to resign fancy, $ 1 5 ; do. ordinary. $ 12; E ast building of a Jetty at the mouth of and a new and progressive ministry ern Oregon, mixed, $16; do. fancy, the Siuslaw river, In Lane county. .H a ifa , $ 1 J ; clover. $12. Efforts are now being made to se . h a s been appointed by G om el, the $17 1 er Ex ra, 3 6 i . i 37 c ; fancy, cure an appropriation from congress Acting President. « c ; choice. 3i)c; store, 18c. to equal the sum which is expected T h e attem pt to assassinate Gomel 3° I g; E xtra, 40 5i 43c. to be raised by the bonding act. The and several of the ministers was de Hop* 19 s . choice, 6@, 7 4 c : county will probably be bonded for cided upon Friday night, December medium, 4 0 5c; $ 2 0 0 ,0 0 0 If a Sill looking to that end 18. Seno r G om el heard of the plot prime, S ' o a ' j c ; Is put through the next state legisla • ml took the personal stand that 1 9 0 7 . 2 (i 4c. a'ley. llflllH c ; lb.; ture. nipped it In the bud. E: rn r g>n. S o 16c, as to xhrir'-age. Hope to Overthrow Prohibition. W ars hip Maim- Sails fo r South. Mohair— Choice, 19 0 19c. La Grande— Prohibit!, n In Union Norfolk. Va., Dec. I I . — A special county is in dire danger. When the from F o r tr e ss Monroe. Va., says: order first became effective It was at S E A T T L E M ARKETS. The United S tates battleship tacked by a local brewer. J . Roesch. W V'St Rlnestem . $1.01. Maine, flagship of the third squad who asked for an injunction on the O s t » t ■ 34. ron of the new Atlantic fleet, sailed ground that Sheriff Chll srs had not I 7 *1. today under sealed ord ers for the r '. ashlngtnn timo properly posted ;he notices of elec south. S he is presumably bound for tion. The circuit court denied the thy. *1 6 p« r .o n ; Puget Bound hay, Yeneauela. request for Injunction. $ 1 0 . 1 I t per ton; wheat hay. $ 1 ] The arm ored cruiser oNrth Caro T h e case rested there, but since per ton; alfalfa. $9 5 0 0 10 per ton. lina sails today for Charleston Bay. the supreme court has rendered Its B u tte r — Washington crenmery, T h e cruiser Montana la expected to sweeping decision in the Grant coun 1 7 c per Ih: ranch. 31c per ib r»<l Wednesday to Join the North , ty c u e , which, is similar in Almost E u * — Selected local, 43 0 43c. Carolina. M. Peterson & Son DOINGS IN OREGON INorth Main every respect to this one, Roesch gave notice of appeal to the supreme court. When the decision Is forth coming It is believed t h a t the local option law will be Invalidated, as the Union county instance is regarded to faulty posting of notices is similar to that in Grant county. Street osts of this city wilT ask the repeal by the legislature this winter of the law requiring foreign Insurance com panies to deposit $ 5 0 ,0 0 0 in bonds with the secretary of state before being permitted to do business in this state. Another bill will be pre sented creatin g the office of State Insurance Commissioner and propos ing a strict regulation of the life, fire and accident insurance business of the state. • Identity of Body Questioned. Oregon City One of the most sen sational affidavits has Just been pre sented bv F r a n k Hesse, an attorney of Portland, in which cha-ges are Boys Shoot Each Other. made that bring Into question the R o s e b n r g —T hre e boys with air- Identity of the man whose body was found at Springbrook schoolhouse, guns amused themselves Sunday by near Oswego, on September 13, last. shooting at each other. Each scored Hesse has a client, B ern h ard t Haist a hit. Two of the boys have holes by name, who avers that the dead in their legs where bullets passed man was his brother, but thus far through and the third has a hole in has brought forward to evidence to his back where a bullet entered, but prove this supposition. has not yet been found. All will In less than a week arter the un recover. known man was burled, Mrs Effle Roberts Not to Resign. B. Robinson, of Firland Station, Multnomah county, appeared and de L a Grande— A. A. Roberts, re manded that the rem ains be ex reiver of the local land office, whose humed. T his was done and she de nccounts are in a muddled condi clared that the body was that of her tion, stoutly denies he has resigned. father, F. A. Williamson, from Tex He is, however, out of office on a arkana, Texas, who was visiting her. two-weeks’ furlough on account of Illness. Business Men to Act With IVIcgntion Pendleton— A legislative com mit tee of 15 members from the county has been appointed by the Commer cial Association to work in harmony with the Umatilla county delegation Albany College closed Friday In an effort to secure from the legis evening lor the Christmas vacation lature measures which are particu and will resum e work Ja n u a r y 4. larly desired. Chief among these Miss E m m a Goldman, high priest are the experiment farm for the ess of anarchism, lectured in P ort Umatilla project, an Increased ap land Sunday and Monday. propriation for the Weston Normal, Spark s from an O. R. & N. engine a branch asylum and an amendment Monday night set fire to a freight to the good roads law. house at Corbett, resultin g in $3000 damages. Daley Will Re Executed -tilunary 2 0 . The Astoria board of school di P ortland— Harry Daley, convicted rectors have closed the schools un of the murder of Harry Kenny, was til J an u ary 4. This action was taken Tuesday sentenced to be hanged on on account of a few new cases of Friday. Ja n u a ry 29, at the S tate scarlet fever. Penitentiary at Salem. The crime of All the Roseburg soft-drink estab which Daley was convicted was the lishments were raided Saturday murder of Harry Kenny, a saloon night by the sheriff and his deputies keeper, November 16. The trouble in a seerch for evld-'nc of any vi arose over Kenny's refusal to rA- latlon of the local option law No cmploy Daley as bartender or to ad arrests have yet been made. vance a certain sum of money which Alexander Dalrymple, convicted of Daley claimed was due him. manslaughter a t the November term o f court, and whose case was ap Want Insurance l a w Repealed. pealed. has been liberated from the P o rtlan d — Leading business Inter- county Jail at The Dalles, await.ng OREGON BRIEFLETS ths action.)! Uig supreme court. Five years In the penitentiary and a fine of $100 was the sentence im posed on Dr. G. B. Whitney, of For est Grove, who was convicted of manslaughter for causing the death of his fiancee, Mabel Wirt». T h e body on an unknown man was found hanging in an abandoned hop- house near Aurora Monday. Appar ently the man com mitted suicide last August. T he re was nothing by which he could be identified. A verdict of murder in the first degree was rendered by the Jury in the case of H arry Daley charged with the murd er H. Kenny, a Port land saloonkeeper. This is the first verdict of murder in the first degree In Multnomah county for several years. Joseph Loretx, a Lane county farm er, com m itted suiaide some time between T hursday and Saturday, by «hooting him self In the head. Lor- etz was the man who tried to hang himself near Ju n c t i o n City recently and was cut down by the gang oi telephone lin em en who saw tne man in time to save him from strangling to death. Representative Hawley has secured the passage thro u gh the House of a bill paying to the heirs of Thomas (5. Miller, of B ig gs, Or., not to ex ceed $ 5 0 0 on a cco un t of the destruc tion of a fe rry b o at which Miller was operating ac ro ss the Columbia river near the m ou th of the Deschutes. T h e boat was destroyed in the Ban nock Indian war. Officers have yet secured no cle* to the identity of the men who burg- larixed the s to r e of J . G. Berry. ** Peoria, last week. It Is now believed that three men were In the Job. Mr. Berry has figured that his loss reach over $ 1 0 0 0 . The robbers se cured almofct $ 3 0 0 in coin and merchandise) taken Is valued at mors than $ 7 5 0 . jM A young man named Nelson Mrs. Zeiglter are under arrest * Goble In con nectio n with the mures« of R o b e rt Livingstone, the sect» foreman, tw o weeks ago Mrs. ler is s h o o t 60 years old and V 1»” is 18. TJ$« finding of a bloody In Nelson's room, together with - eral a r t i c l e s supposed to belong Liv ingstone. Including a pipe. *• llshes thje evidence upon which . a ccu satio n is baaed. 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