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MEÏÏTODmOITAfô DJTO only a foretaste cf ether humiliations IL LIN O IS FAVOR S R O O S E V E L T . which she must expect. A keeper now took charge of her Primary Vote Also Qoe* for Champ and led her to a room where she was Clark, Democrat. searched by a matron for concealed Chicago— Winners in the Illinois weapons, a humiliating ordeal, to which even the richest and most In preferential, advisory and direct pri fluential visitors must submit with as mary elections, as indicated by suffi good grace as possible. The matron cient returns to warrant a prediction, wag a hard looking woman of about are as follows: For president—Theodore Roosevelt, 50 years, In whom every spark of hu man pity and sympathy had been Republican; Champ Clark, Democrat. For Upi ted States senator— L. Y. killed during her many years of con stant association with criminals. The Sherman, Republican; James Hamil word “ prison” had lost Its meaning to ton Lewis, Democrat (uncontested.) For governor—Charles S. Deneen, her. She saw nothing undesirable In Jail life, but looked upon tbe Tombs Republican; Edward F. Dunne, Demo rather as a kind of boarding house In crat. Colonel Roosevelt’s state managers which people made short or long so journs, according to their luck. She claimed his majority over President treated Annie unceremoniously, yet Taft as from 100,000 to 150,000. Re turns indicate his vote was nearly five not unkindly. "So you’re the wife of Jeffries, to two for Taft. Returns received late at night from whom they've got for murder, eh?” she said, as she rapidly ran her hands down-state precincts indicate that President Taft had carried several through the visitor's clothing. “ Yes,” faltered Annie, “ but It's all counties there by small majorities. Presidential delegates were not a mistake, 1 assure you. My husband's perfectly innocent. He wouldn't hurt named on the ballots, and will be elected by congressional districts and a fly.” at large, the effect o f the first vote The woman grinned. "They all say that, m'm.” Lugubri being only to serve as a guide to party ously she added: “ I hope you'll bs officials as indicating party feeling. more lucky than some others were." Annie felt herself grow cold. Was this a sinister prophecy? She shud XI dered and, hastily taking a dollar from her purse, slipped It Into the matron's Seattle—For the first time in two hand. years, the price of wheat in Seattle "May I go now?” she said. reached the dollar mark Tuesday. Se “ Yes, my dear; I guess you’ve got attle millers were paying $L a bushel nothing dangerous on you. We have for No 1. bluestem, and as high as 97 to be very careful. I remember once cents was asked for No. 1 club wheat. when we had that Hoboken murderer Only three times in the last eight here. He’s the feller that cut his years has wheat passed the dollar wife’s head off and stuffed the body mark in the Seattle market. The In a barrel. Ills mother came here to other times were in 1909, when wheat see him one day and what did I find brought $1.18, and in 1910, when it Inside her stocking but an Innocent sold for 93 cents to $1. looking little round pill, and It you The high price of wheat in the Pa please, It was nothing less than prus cific Northwest is said to be the result sic acid. He would have swallowed it o f the record-breaking demand for and the electric chair would have flour in the Orient. Although a crop been cheated. So you see how careful estimated at 65,000,000 bushels was we has to be.” harvested in the Northwest last year, Annie could not listen to any more. it ¡8 said that less than 10,000,000 Tho horror of having Howard classed bushels remain. with fiends of that description sickened Barley and oats are also soaring. her. To the keeper she said quickly: Barley was quoted at $34.50 a ton, the "Please take mo to my husband." highest it has ever been in the local Taking another dollar from her market, and oats sold for $36.50, the purse, she slipped the bill into the highest since 1909, when the price man's hand, feeling that, here as was $39 to $39.60. everywhere else, one must pay for privileges and courtesies. Her guide K IL L 600 M EXIC AN R EBELS. led tho way and ushered her Into an elevator, which, at a signal, started Fqderals Retake City of Jojutla With slowly upwards. Small Loss. The cells in the Tombs are arranged Mexico City — Rebel forces were in rows in the form of an ellipse In the center of each of the six floors. routed from the city o f Jojutla, More There is room to accommodate 900 los, an important commercial center, prisoners of both sexes. The men are and 500 o f their number were killed confined In the new prison; the wom in the battle, according to dispatches en, fewer in number, In what remains of made public at the department of the the old building. Only the centerofeach interior. Jojutla fell into the hands of a Zap floor being taken up with the rows The fed of narrow cells, there remains a broad ata band several days ago. corridor, running all the way round erals surrounded the town and stormed Artil and flanked on the right by high walls the little place from ail sides. with small barred windows. An ob lery was used with deadly effect. The server from the street glancing up at federal loss is placed at three officers the windows might conclude that they and 40 men killed and wounded. Alfonso Barerra Zambrano, nephew were those of the cells In which pris oners were confined. As a matter of of the President, who was in command fact, the cells have no windows, only a of a corps of ruraleB, is among the grating which looks directly out into dead. Early reports that Emilio Zap ata was in personal command of the the circular corridor. At the fourth floor the elevator rebels are denied. stopped and the heavy iron door Jiminez,' Mexico— Developments of swung back. the past few days have resulted in a ‘‘This way," said the keeper, step situation almost identical with that ping out and quickly walking along existing just prior to the battle which the corridor. "He's in cell No. 456." ended in federal defeat near Corrai- A lump rose in Annie’s throat. The itos 17 days ago. The federais under place was well ventilated, yet she the immediate command o f General thought she would faint from a cho Tellez are at Conejos, 46 miles south king feeling of restraint. All along o f Escalon, where the vanguard of the tho corridor to the left were Iron rebel army is situated. The rebel doors painted yellow. In the upper commanding officers are Generals part of the door were half a dozen Campos, Argumedo and Murillo. broad slits through which ono could see what was going on inside. Excursionists Die in Nile, “ Those are the cells,” volunteered Cairo, Egypf — Many passengers her guide. were drowned by the sinking of a Nile Anuie shuddered as, mentally, she excursion steamboat after a collision pictured Howard locked up in such a with another steamboat near the great dreadful place. She peered through dam on the river, about 15 milesTo one of the slits and saw a narrow cell the northwest of Cairo, and a few about ten feet long by six wide. The miles from Kalyub. only furnishings were a folding cot The bodies of 15 victims of the col with blanket, a wash bowl and lava lision have been recovered. The tory. Each cell had its occupant, men steamboat had 300 passengers on and youths of all ages. Some were board, who had taken advantage of reading, some playing cards. Some the Easter holiday to make a trip to were lying asleep on their cots, per the river dam. On the return journey haps dreaming of home, but most of j up stream, and not far from the dam, them leaning dejectedly against the the excursion boat collided with an iron bars wondering when they would other steamboat and sank almost im regain their liberty. mediately. Dim R □ G ■ t y CHARLES KLEIN A N D ARTHUR HORNBLOW ^ V ILLUSTRATIONS BY RAY WALTERS COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY G.W OILLlNChAM COMBAN/ poor da-da In such an ugly place. To think that after all these years she was again to go through a similar ex perience. 8YN O P8I8. H o w a rd J e ffrie », b a n k e r’ s son, under Ihe ev il Influence o f R ob ert U n d erw ood , fellow -stu d en t a t Y a le, leads a life o f d is sip ation , m arries th e d a u g h ter o f a g a m bler w h o died In p rison, and Is d isow n e d by his fa th er. H e is ou t o f w ork and in d esp erate straits. U n d erw ood , w h o ha d on ce been e n g a g e d to H o w a r d ’ s s te p m oth er, A licia , is a p p a ren tly in p r o s p e r ous circu m sta n ce s . T a k in g a d v a n ta g e o f his In tim a cy w ith A licia , he b e co m e s a sort o f socia l h ig h w a y m a n . D is co v e r in g his tru e ch a r a c te r , A lic ia den ies him the house. H e sends h er a n ote th rea ten in g ■ulclde. Art d e a le r s fPr w h om he a cted as com m ission er, d em an d an a cco u n tin g . He ca n n ot m ak e good - H ow a rd ca lls at his a p a rtm en ts In an In toxica ted c o n d i tion to req u est rtfMoan o f $2,000 to en a b le him to ta k e up a business p rop osition . U n d erw ood tells him he Is In d e b t up to his eyes. H o w a r d drinks h im self Into a m au dlin con d ition , and goes to sleep on a divan. A ca lle r is a n n ou n ced and u n d e r w ood d ra w s a s cre e n aroun d the d ru n k en ■leeper. A lic ia enters. She d em an d s a p rom ise from U n d erw ood th a t be w ill not tak e his life. H e refu ses unless sh e w ill ren ew her p a tron a g e. T his she refu ses, and tak es h er lea ve. U n d erw ood kills h im self. T he rep ort o f the p istol a w a kens H ow a rd . H e finds U n d erw ood dead. R ea liz in g his p red ica m en t he a ttem p ts to flee and is m et by U n d erw ood ’ s valet. H o w a rd Is turned o v e r to the police. Capt. C lin ton , n otoriou s fo r his brutal trea tm en t o f p rison ers, puts H ow a rd th rou gh th e third degree, and finally gets an a lleg ed co n fe ss io n from the h arassed m an. A nnie, H o w a r d 's w ife, declares her b e lie f In her h u sb a n d ’ s in n ocen ce, and ■ays she w ill c le a r him. She ca lls on J effries, Sr. H e refu ses to help unless she w ill con sen t to a divorce. T o sav e H o w a rd she con sen ts, hut w hen she finds that the eld er J effries does not Intend to sta n d b y his son, e x c e p t fin a n cia lly , she • corn s his help. She had nerved herself for the or deal. Anxious as she was to see How ard and learn from his lips all that had happened, she feared that she would never be able to see him behind the bars without breaking down. Yet she must be strong so she could work to set him free. So much had hap pened in the last two days. It seemed a month since the police had sent for her at midnight to hurry down to the Astruria, yet It was only two days ago. The morning following her try ing Interview with Capt. Clinton in the dead man's apartment she had tried to see Howard, but without suc cess. The police held him a close prisoner, pretending that he might make an attempt upon his life. There was nothing for her to do hut wait. Intuitively she realized the neces sity ol Immediately securing the Ber ing crowd. There were fruit peddlers, sweat shop workers, sporty looking men, negroes and flashy looking wo men. All seemed callous and Indif ferent, as If quite at home amid the sinister surroundings of a prison. One or two others appeared to belong to a more respectable class, their sober manner and careworn faceB reflecting silently the humiliation and shame they felt at. their kinsman's disgrace. The small barred windows did not permit of much ventilation and, as the day was warm, the odor was sick ening. Annie looked around fearfully nnd humbly took her place at the end of the long line which slowly worked its way to the narrow Inner grating, where credentials were closely scruti nized. The horror of the place seized upon her. She wondered who all these poor people were and what the pris oners whom they came to see had done to offend the majesty of the law. The prison was tilled with policemen and keepers and running In and out with messages and packages were a C H A P T E R X III. In the very heart of Manhattan, right In the center of the city’s most con gested district, an imposing edifice of gray stone, medieval in its style of architecture, towered high above all the surrounding dingy offices and Bqualld tenement». Its massive con struction, steep walls, pointed turrets, raised parapets and long, narrow, sllt- liko windows, heavily barred, gnve It the aspect of a feudal fortress Incon gruously set down plumb In tho midst of twontleth century New York. The dull roar of Broadway hummed a couple of blocks away; In tho distance loomed the lofty, graceful spans of Brooklyn bridge. Jammed with Its op posing streams of busy Interurhnn traffic. The adjacent streets were filled with the din of hurrying crowds, the rattle of vehicles, the cries of ven dors, the clang of street cars, the ugh! ugh! of speeding automobiles. Tbe ac tive, pulsntlng life of the metropolis surged like a rising flood about the tall gray walls, yet there was no re sponse within. Grim, silent, sinister, the city prison, populnrly known ns "the Tombs,” seemed to havo nothing In common with the dnlly activities of the big town in which, notwithstand ing, it unhappily played an Important part. The present prison Is n vnstly dif ferent place to the old Jail from which It got Its meluncholy cognomen, To-day there Is not the slightest Justi fication for the lugubrious epithet ap plied to tt, but in the old days, when man's Inhumanity to nmn was less a form of speech than a cold, merciless fact, the "Tombs” described an Intol erable and disgraceful condition fairly accurately. Formerly tho cells In which tho unfortunate prisoners were confined while awaiting trial were sit uated deep under ground nnd had nei ther light nor ventilation. A man might be guiltless of tho ofTcnse with which he was charged, yet while awaiting an opportunity to prove his Innocence he was condemned to spend days, sometimes months, in wlint was little better than a grave. Literally, he was burled alive. A party of for eigners visiting the prison one day were startled at seeing human beings confined In such holes. "They look like tombs!” cried some one. New York was amused at the singularly appropriate appellative and it has stuck to the prison ever since. But times change and Institutions with them. As man becomes more civilized he treats the lawbreaker with more humnnity. Probably soci ety will always need Its prisoners, hut as we become more enlightened we insist on treating our criminals more from the physiological and psy chological standpoints than In the cruel, brutal, barbarous manner of tile dark ages. In other words the sociol ogist Insists that the lawbreaker has greater need of the physician than hw has of tbe jailer. To-day the city prison Is n tomb In name only. It Is admirably con structed, commodious, well ventilated The cells are large and well lighted, with comfortable cots and all the modern sanitary arrangements. There are roomy corridors for dally exercise and luxurious shower hatha enn be ob tained free for the asking. There are chHpels for the religiously Inclined and a library for the studious. The food Is wholesome and well prepared In a large, scrupulously clean kitchen situated on the top floor. Carping critics have, indued, declared the Tombs to be too luxurious, declaring that habitual criminals enjoy a stay at the prison and actually commit crime ao that they may enjoy some of Its hotel-Uke comforts. It was with a sinking heart aud a dull, gnawing sense of apprehension that Annie descended from a south bound Madison avenue car In Center street and approached the small por tal under the forbidding gray walls She hud visited a prison once before, when her father died. She remem bered the depreeelng ride In the train to Sing Slug, the formidable steel ■lours and ponderous holts, the narrow cells, each with lie Involuntary occu pant tn degrading atrlpei and closely cropped hair, and the uniformed guards armed with rides. She remem bered how her mother wept and how ■he bad woodeewd why they kept her “80 You’re the Wife of Jeffries, Whom Th ey’ve Got for Murder, E h ?” WHEAT HITS DOLLAR MARK SEATTLE vices of an able lawyer, There was number of mon In neat linen suits. no doubt of Howard’s innocence, hut She asked a woman who they were. she recalled with a shiver that even "Them's trusties — prisoners that innocent persons havo suffered capi has special privileges in return for tal punishment because they wero un- work they does about the prison.” nhle to establish their Innocence, so Tho credentials were passed upon overwhelming wero tho appearances against them. He must have the best slowly nnd Annie, being the twentieth lawyer to be had, regardless of ex in line, found it a tedious wait. In pense. Only one name occurred to front of her was a bestial looking ne her, the name of a man of Interna gro. behind her a woman whose cheap tional reputation, the mero mention Jewelry, rouged face nnd extravagant of whose name In n courtroom filled dress proclaimed her profession to be the hearts of tho innocent with hope the most ancient In the world. But and the guilty with dread. That man at last the gate was reached. As the was Judge Brewster. She hurried doorkeeper examined her ticket he downtown to his office nnd wnited an looked up at her with curiosity. A hour before he could see her. Tli^n murderer is rnro enough even in tho he told her, politely hut coldly, that Tombs, to excite Interest, and as she ho must decline to take her caso. He passed on the attendants whispered knew well who Bhe was and he eyed among themselves. She knew they her with some curiosity, hut his man wero talking about her, but she ner wns frigid nnd discouraging. steeled herself not to care. It was (TO BE CONTINUED.) There were plenty of lawyers In New Rebel Defeats Reported. York, he said. She must go else New York — A telegram received where. Politely ho bowed her out. here from J. Sanchez Azeona, private Half of u precious day wns already lost. Judge Brewster refused the secretary to President Madero, of ease. To whom could she turn now? Mexico, by Captain S. G. Hopkins, an In despair, almost desperate, she agent and personal friend o f the Mex drove uptown to Riverside drive nnd ican president, reads: “ Situation is forced nn entrance into the Jeffries rapidly growing better. General Hu home. Here, again, she wan met with erta has gone north with large column a rebuff. Still not dlscourngod, she to give battle to the rebels. In More Plant Breaking Up an Island. returned to Judge Brewster’s office. BUNYIP MERELY LARGE SEAL los there remain only small bodies of Strength Is not a thing usually con bandits. Puebla has been pacified. He wuh out and she snt there an hour walling to see him. Night enmo nnd Scientist Sheds Light on Mysterious nected with maidenhair fern, yet If Perez Castro is captured. Forces of Its roots have not sufficient room they Orozco lacking in ammunition and are he did not return. Almost prostrated Anim al That Terrified Aus break the pot In which the plant with nervous exhaustion, she returned tralian Aborigines. trying to keep what they have.” grows. Blades of grass will force to their deserted little flat in llnrlem. the curbstones between which they Early settlers In Australia learned Land-Hungry Line Camps, It wns going to be a hard tight, she spring up out of their place, and In a saw that. But she would keep right from the blacks the legend of the single night a crop of small mush Winnipeg. Manitoba—Fifty-one men on. no matter nt what cost. Howard “bunyip,” a fearsome creature sup rooms have lifted a large stone. In and women are in line before the Leth could not he left alone to perish with posed to dwell In the swamps and to deed, plants have been known to bridge, Alberta, land office, where terrify beholders from time to time. out u hand to save him. Judge Brew they will camp until the homesteads break the hardest rocks. ster must come to his rescue. He Many appearances of this mysterious are thrown open May 1. The first in The lslanu of Aldabra, to tho north could not refuse. She would return animal have been reported, but In no line is Carl Jones, o f Philadelphia, Pa. west of Madagascar, Is becoming ngnln to his offieo this afternoon aud ease wns the evidence satisfactory or smaller and smaller through the ac The campers have to withstand rain stt there nil day long. If necessary, conclusive. The latest story of the tion of the mangroves that grow along and snowstorms and one of the three "bunyip” cornea from the Black j until he promised to take tho case. the foot of the cliffs They eat their women campers has a baby in her swamp near Stnwell, 70 miles from I He alone could save him. She would way Into the rock In all directions, arms. “ Just let us get Jim Hill to go to the lawyer and beg him on her Melbourne. The director of the Mel 1 and Into tbe gaps thus formed the build a railway through the country knees If necessary, but tirst she must bourne xoo went up nnd succeeded in | wave* force their way. In time they wa are after,” said one o f the men see Howard aud hid him take courage. viewing the animal through a power- j will probably reduce tho Island to in line, “ and we will be millionaires A low doorway from Center street ful field glass. He pronounced It to ■ pieces. some day.” gave access to the gray fortress. At be an unusually large seal. The zi*> authorities have offered a reward of the heavy steel gate stood a portly O .-W . R. & N. Must Pay Fine. Fable of the Mice. policeman armed with a big key. Each $50 for Us capture. Olympia. Wash —Holding that the The Town Mouse and the Country time before letting people In or out Mouse engaged In a friendly rivalry O.-W. R. & N. has forfeited its right Hypnotism and W ill Power. he Inserted this key In n ponderous People used to think that persons to see which could best entertain tbs to appeal from the commission's rul lock. The gate would not open mere who could be hypnotized were defi other. ing. the Supreme court affirmed the ly by turning the handle. This was cient in will power, that It was some The Town Mouse led off. Hs Intro Whitman County Superior court and to prevent the escape of prisoners, j thing of a stigma on their mental duced the Country Mouse to a great the railroad company must pay the who might possibly succeed In reach equipment Tho experts know better many people of the right sort, who $1,000 penalty imposed for failure to ing so far as the door, but conld not I now. A writer tn the Woman's Home graciously lapped up all the cham comply with the order of the public opeu the steel gate without the big | Companion goes so far as to say that pagne he cared to buy—In short, ex service commission requiring it to key. When once any one entered the | th-> more will power a person has the hausted the resources of urban hos erect a station at Hay, Whitman prison he wns not permitted to go out j more readily be can be hypnotised. pitality. county. The station was built four again except on a signal from a I Dr. Volstn. a French alienist found "Pretty good!" the Country Mouse months after the time specified. keeper. that he could not hypnotlxe more than j admitted. “ But say. you corns out to Joa Cannon la Ranomiratrd. When Annie entered she found the | ten per cent, of the Inmates of the i my place tn your car and run as fast I’m Justice of the Danville. III. — Scattering returns reception room n ih il with visitors, rsylum with which he was connected as you like. from the Eighteenth congressional dis men and women of all ages and na- I Whereas an English experimenter Peace." Thereupon the Town Mouse had to j trict indicate ex-Speaker Cannon prob ttonalities, who. like herself, had come j named Vincent hypnotized with ease to see tome relative or friend In j 96 per cent of a large group of uni acknowledge that the rustic life held j ably is renominated two to one over his nearest opponent the greater possibilities.—Puck. trouble. It was a motley and luterest- j versity men. DR. H. L. DUMBLE PHYSICIAN and C ar lto n SURGEON l . P epper LAWYER HOOD RIVER : OREGON 305i East Second St., Will practice in Mosier and Long Distance Phone. Main 2201 May be reached l»y Ion# dis The Dalles - - Oregon. tance phone. Home phone 61. E. C. BROCK --------- - 4«» ■ -------- BOYCE CAFE HOOD RIVER, C ivil E n g i n e e r OREGON The place to get a good, square, clean meal. Mosier people especially in vited to call when in Hood River. General Surveying, Plat ting and Drafting Mosier - - Oregon A. M. BOYCE, A ll B u s in e s s entrusted to Proprietor. 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