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' it . """ v-". 1 Prevented by the Betrayal cf the Plotters F 0 lUIER BAKKEU ST. JOIIH ArJ a Couple cf Desperadoes - Ilad Neat Plan . TO LK AVE THEIR IKVOLtTNTARY QtfARTKRS IN THE WHATCOM JAIL EVEN IF UURDEH WAS f.'ECESSARY TO THEIR LIBERTY. GIVE . THEM WHATCOM, .wash., July 15. Thrcjugrh the iueellns; of one of the plotter; the sheriff has Just been en abledr to prevent a ". desperate jail break, which was to be roade. br H. 8t, John,. former f resident of the Scan danavlan Rank of this city, and now awaiting sentence for wrecking It, and Hud Cox, a noted desperado' and ex. convict , ' '', :i - '' The story was told to the sheriff by Cha. West. The fourth man was to be John Harrington, who was convict ed of assisting Cox in the Fair Haven hoM-up. - . -. fw.- . '.j u According; to the story told by West twelve saws- were smuggled Into the jail by friends of St. John- i He also stated the plan included the grabbing;, by Cox. of Sheriff Brlabln,-and his murder I it case he rr fused to ppen the Jail doors. H - : 1 " Shot in Quarrel. ..-. , Salt Lake City. Utah, July 15. Dan iel 'Allen: this afternoon shot t an in stantly killed R II. Browm i The men who were strangers In the city quar t(H in the office of an employment bureau. The men are said! to nave come here from Indiana. : , UMATILLA'S WHEAT i , - - ' ! ' RANCHERS WILL BEDISAPPOlNT c EO IK THE CROP FALLS BE- LOW LAST. YEAR. ADAMS, Or., July 1. Harvest may be failed really on In Umatilla county, as binders and headers are at work all ovr the wheat belt, although opera tions have not ladvneaed very far yet. ThrcKhlng Is the finat test of ylejd. and as no threshinff has been done it cannot be accurately said howC wheat will finally show, 1ut ranchers' wilt be gre-atly disappointed if the t average falls much below last season's crop. At present outfits may be seen working In the west end, --me east enoanq soma of Pendleton, while the -Appearance, of wheat from a distance all ovet- makes it look as If futtlng were neessary at once. UmatllliiK'ounty's harvest Is die earliest in th Inland Empire, j i: As predicted the , whf-at tribuUry . to Adams. Weston jand Athena is likely to nako the best showing. Thes fields took the lead Ijri the winter, w;hen oth er dlstrlets , w-re being resown, and have never lost It.. Consequently the reports of 40-bushel wheat will be most ly from this section. - ; 7 - s , - Three thousand acres is an estimate of the wheat destroyed by the rains of the Fourth 8 July around Weston. Alhena and ACams, for It Is evident with a, number of warm.- sunny, days trone that tots of it, will riot rise again. Fanners rare cutting . actively Y with mowers, and baling for hay. f Heads were heavy, and this fail wheat straw almost concealed the ground, renderlns stalks utterly nitnt to- Wpe witn the lilting showers of early July. -Many a, fine hill piece was destroyeI , f rom ftnee to fence, except for feed. The rain n... A klui.ln.lll .llucrlll.t hnft'AVPf Oil account of the general benefit done. . - HurveHters are still plenty, though the supply ; roay "run Jout when the heavy call comes for them In a week or ten da Vs. . j TOE KING IS AFLOAT WAS - PLACED : ON THE TACUT YESTERDAY . WENT TO SEA. ROYAL AND ij LONDON. IPuly IS. King Edward hft Victoria tatlon-at 11:35 :o'clock thia morning for Po'rtmouth. where he Itfiarded the. royal' yacht Victoria and Albert. '- The King was conveyed from ltucklngham Palawe o the railway sta tlon In an ambulance drawn by tWo hot-ses. The onlyother " occupant Aof the ambulance was Queen Alexandra. The. vehicle was .drawn at a walking pace. Although there was a small crowd at the station there was no dem onstration In compliance lth the ex prossed wish of the King. -Y- Y The doctors and nurses awaited the arrival of the ambulance and a party .of. blu Jackets removed His Majesty from the vehicle to a royal saloon car fortnerly used by the. late Queen Vle-tot-la. Absolute" privacy was secured by. a lofty screen of red jlushY which surrounded the platform. : t On the Royal Yacht. I'ortsmouth. July . 15-King Edward arrived here from London before 1 p. in. The removal of His Majesty from the tr.ln to the royal yacht waa safely ttrcompiished by blue jackets and the King's ouch was placed In a reception ifxm which had been specially con t:rurt?d on the upper deck., . (-The warshii s in the .harlwr Ore a wyal ? ilute as the King embarked and ail tt.e vessels drensMsd ship and manned ariis or decks. The royal 'yar-ht steamed off after the firing was coin j I .-ted. ' , - ; 1-1 -- ' ' V ; " : YAR III THE FAR EAST VILL FOLLOW. RUSSIA'S REFUSAL TO EVACUATE THE PROVINCE . OF MANCHURIA. Vl'TOntAR C, July 13.Major--nral rorwar3, who was In coraiasnH tl the allkd troopaatTien T&in, arriv- ed-by'the steamer Lmpiess of It. I. a. t dajr. In an laterlvew he tali ti.at un ites Russia withdrew from Manchuria, according to tlie terra of Uie agree mtnt with China, tlire would be war In the Far East, m Japan was prepared to fight to get Riwia at of that terri tory. Although Russia had not yet made any move toward evacuation, be bad no -doubt she Would do so when she found that Japan was in earnest. Victoria, B. C July 1 3w Details are given in .the; Chinese papers," received today, of the blowing up of. the Chinese cruiser Kakhl - which ',. was lying at HSlakuan and was used as a training ship. The first report placed the loss of life at 253, but more reliable papers say it will not exceed 140. The general be lief is that a. light was carried Into the magazine when men went to set shells to lire a salute. - Y " UNION PACIFIC STRIKE. ' OMAHA. Neb.. July 13. The striking shopmen of the Union Pacific Railroad Company claim further .victories A number of desertions from the ranks of the local force of Imported men have occurred, and ' the strike leaders jsay that all the helpers, numbering 59 men. have quit at North Platte. s S- H. Grace who Is directing the strike from this point.today denied the assertion of rail way officials that all their shops are running with -; per cent more of their force of men. ; Y--;.,:--:;-'. 'J Y. HE HAS RESIGNED. Y BERKELEY. CaL. July 15. Prof e- sor Arthur. Lachman. head of the De partment of Chemistry, at the Univer sity of Oregon, has resigned, his posi tion to accept a place as Government Investigator of the natural jrwducts of the. Philippine Island. ... . , .- , - . .-. NEBRASKA REPUBLICANS I GOVERNOR LA FOLLETTE'S FOR CES ? ARE IN. CONTROL AND , . DICTATE TO SPOONEU. MADISOK.' Wis. July 15 The- - Re publican State .Convention will -meet to. morrow T,he followers of Governor La FolletteJ who are in control, are de termined that the only ' condition on which United States "Senator Spooner shall be enddrsed for re-election, is for him t, recall his letter ot witnarawai from belnir a candidate for re-election. ami Ktnnrt noon the Drlnclnles to be ad opted by the committee on resolutions. and support, the candidates to be nom inated by the convention. WORST STORM IN HISTORY Eastern.Washlnfton and Ore gon Suffer Great Damage FROM MONDAY'S HIGH WIND 3 : '. Orchards; a rid Grain Fields Suffered Very Heavy Losses CAMPERS ON TIIE SHOliES OF MOUNTAIN' LAKES, WEIiE IN 'GREAT DANGER FROM FALLING TREES ANDY HIGff WATIt-itl V ERS 1 KANSAS RECEDE. , : SPOKANE,'wasft..JuIy 15. Dispatch es fl-om all sections of Eastern Wash ington and Northern Idaho show that last night's windstorm was the Worst In the history of this section. A num ber of buildings were blown down, roofs lifted, and trees uprooted and twisted fit, .-Much damage was" wrought in the orchards and grain-fields. In the tim bered regions the roads are blocked by fallen trees. Campers on the shores of mountain lakes passed a ojght of ter tor. The waves ran so high that they dared not seek refuge on the water from the falling- trees around the camps. -: ; Grain Destroyed. : ' Walla Walla. Wash.,' July lS.-Reports from the surrounding country say that big - windstorm of yesterday - has de stroyed from -25 to 60 per cent of the growing-grain i in the northern . and western part or U ma una. counir, ure-n-n .Momy uarohmiKp wr blown down in the Eureka Flat country . Water Damage. . Topeka. Kan., July IS. The high water In I the Kansas and Blue rivers haa mibHrded. The damaee done to the crops by the flood will reach thousands ot dollars. r OIL AT HARRISBURG AN' EXPERT FROM , PENNSYL VANIA FOUND EVIDENCES , OF OIL IN THE HILLS. IIARRISBURG. July 15. Much ln leresrt has been created In this city over the. prospect of the discovery of letro!eum on "the ranch of Mrs. E. E. Warner, about eleven miles east of here. ...In the foothill of the Cascade ltange. The person making the dis covery Is Thomas Wilkinson, who ar rived here recently from Bradford, Pa. Mr. Wilklnsln U. an expert oil pef sloa. having- been engaged in that bus iness for years n the oil fields ' of Pennsylvania. He came to Oregon with liis family with the Intention of locating a horn, and fcr the past week has been the guest of J. E. Warner In' his travels over the extensive stock ranch of the Warners. Mr. Wilkinson discovtred what he believes to le un failing evidences of the existence of oil in the earth.: sa certain Is he.of the fact that he came to this city Imme diately after hia discovery, which wai made Saturday, and left post haste for PortInd,wher his family lx. and will return here with them Wednesday. On Ms return he will organize a company and begin operations. - liefore leaving for Portland ! Mr. Wllk-lnson obtained an option in sev era! acres of land from Mrs. Warner. He stated 'that be would send to Brad ford I for ... all necessary supplies for drilling. Y. -:..' --r.. ' ' ' ASSASSmATED Tracy's Late Ccnipanicn and ; Victim JFcund Dead m VOODS NEAR CIIEHALIS Varden Janes; Cannot Ideriti- fy the Remains Posi tively TRACY BELIEVED TO BE .NEAR : ENUMCXAW, WHERE HE AS SEEN ON SUNDAY HE SECUR ED BERVJCES OF A RURAL BAR ."' BER TO SHAVE HIM. : CHEHALIS, July 15-JJr. Mary Wagoner and her 12-year-old son have found the dead body of David Merrill, who, with H&rry Tracy, escaped Ist month from the Oregon Penltentiairy. behind a log on an unfrequented road four miles southeast ,of this place. The ghastly discovery was made shortly before dark last evening, while Mrs Wagoner and her son- were searchiing for i ! blackberries. The body was slightly decomposed, but eisiiy recog-. sizable as that of MerrllL There was a bullet hole In the back and another. In the left, wrist. The - body was dressed In dark blue trousers; a. dark eoat, a black' hat, and heavy shoes. It had been dumped over the Jog - head first, and lay with the face concealed. Mrs. Wagoner's son- came here this morning and notified the coroner of the gnd and the body is now being brought fn. A settler named Verda. who lives a few hundred yards -south of the place where the body wos found, has idenMr fled It as thait of one of two men who went past his place at 5:30 a. m. June 28th, the day Tracy said he killed Mer rill. Both men, Berba says, were heavijly armed, and he thought at that time that they were Tracy and Merrill f Another Account.' ! Tacoma, Jluy 15. A Chehalia .spe cial to ' the Evening News says: Su perintendf nt Westendcrf, of the" Stale Reform School, and Dan W. itush have reaurncd . here, and confirm the stot-y of the; finding -..of tiie body of the es caped convict, Dave Merrill, who ws Hilled by his pal. Harry Tracy; The body is undoubtedly that of Merrlip, and he was killed at S o'clock Saturr day morning, June 2Sth. The body was found by Mrs. Mary Wagoner and her 12-year-olJ -son, o? Napavine, yesj. terday afternoon, vhowlll claim h; reward of J2750. While "picking bert ries, th-y discovered the corpse throwijj over a Jog and Jammed between two tree stinnps.' a few feet off of the mai toad. ; A bullet hole Is plainly seen In the back, Yand also one In the wrist J Another Is believed to be In the jieckj Threj,39-30 Winchester ; shells wenj found, one. behind a cedar . tree .at vthe roadside, arid"two about 10 feet front the corpse. , The Indications are thai Tfiwy flrcd the first shot from behind the trte," ai:d thei comiIeted the asj saSKtiiidiun . of , his; dying pal and! brother-in-law. Tracy first 4old the fc lory that he had killed Merrill the day he role In a captured launch lo Seattle, July 2d. ! An Inquest Held. Chehalia, Wash, July 15. Deputy Coroner H. L.Mead Impanelled rf Jury a't noon, and went, to the scerje'of the Merrill tragedy, a mile south" of Che halls. I After viewing the. surroundings the body was brought to. Chehalia. where It rests In an , undertaking es tablishment. ' The jury examined the body and ad journed until tomorroy ' The face was unrecognizable and the body is in a bad state, but a comparison of descrip tion of the scars on Merrill's bands, foo.t and knee, and the color of the hair checked wfth those on the body. War den Janes, of the. Salem Penitentiary, would not swear that . the bods? was that of Merrill, but expressed the opin ion that H was. ' ' (Superintendent J. D. Lee said yes terday that on Monday evening he re ceived a telegram from Sheriff .Edward Deggefer, of Lewis county. Wash. ask ing if the revrard offered" for Merrill could be paid for the finding of the body Mr. Lee answered that the bills sent out spoke for themselves. 'Later he re ceived a telephone message from the sheriff, asking the same question, and Mr. Lee said that, while the state, was willing to pay for; the -return of the body, the reward was not offered for the finding of a dead body, but for the capture, dead or alive, of the escaped prisoners. Later Mr. Lee was told of the finding of Merrill's body. He at once telegraphed Warden J. T., Janes, who was at Seattle, to go to Chehalls and Identify the body. This Mr. Janes did, and be last night telegraphed Mr. Lee, that an Inquest was being held and that he had examined the body, but Vrhilr he believed It was that of Merrill, be could not positively swear to It, the re mains being badly decomposed. Further news is expected from there this morn ing.) . ' Tracy's Last Shave. - Seattle Wesh.. Julyli.- A special to the Post-Intelligencer, from Enum claw. Waslw saysi - : .' " Word reached here this evening tha Tracy had dinner on. Sunday afternoon with Morris Gamer, three and a half miles southeast of . Enumclaw. 'Gar ner's story has, ap to the present been kept quiet by him through fear of the outlaw, who, he said, threatened him. Garner says on Sunday afternoon, a mo n entered his house without knock ing, and announced himself as Tracy, saying: -Uj -' - - I: , "Gentlemen. 1 am Traicy, and I want something to eat aulclc" , - Garner's father and three sons bad Just finished dinner, so they told him to sit' up and help himself, which he proceeded io do .first ordering the two rtdest sons to a corner pf the room. In front of him, where he could keep them covered with his rifle. r At the time 'of his entrance the youngest hoy was shaving. After eating , his dinner, Tracy said: ; Y. Y "Young mane come, here and shave me ; : Upon , the young man demurring. Tracy said: '-:.,' "That's -all right. 1 am not particu lar, and if 1 don't kick, you "nee J ra.t," whereupon young Canitr lathered his face and proceeded to m remove his brarL After biinz Shaved he h Ip ed himself to a pair f-trousers hang ing on the wall and went out This evening smoke wjis seen as cending from a small gully In the foot hills Jjst east of here, and It Is be lie vet 1 l-y many citizens that the crim inal is still lurking In this vicinity, i '. Y " - i - '!- Y An Expensive Hunt. . " " Seattle. Wah., July 15. Already the newspaiers of the city have assailed the iherifTs olHce for the delay In eap turalRK Tracy. Another point of attack directed at the sberiCTs office Is the matter of expense that Is. being incur red in the long-chase after the murderer convict. The newspapers evidently think they must Vrotect the Interests or the taxpayers of King county, even If the chase after Tracy, has to be aban doned altogether. j i However, It appears that there Is no cause for worriment along the lines stated.. Under Sheriff William Corcor an says that the chase will never be abondoned as long as Tracy lives and is at large, neither will the county com missioners but off the sheriff In the matter of expense. 'The expense to King county for the Tracy man-hunt to date does not total 1500." said Corcoran, "and there is call whatever for this hue and cry mat Is being' raised. This Tracy proposition Is being conducted along the lines utmost economy, and" I tell you that this office will not let up. until Tracy has been placed either behind prlsou bars, or lies dead in the morgue." , ' . "It Is not a question of expense with us, anyway; we will spend $20,000 if necessary to catch Tracy. Jfow, suppos ing that much Is xpended, and we get Tracy ?. J Is not the mohey s spent to mighty good purpose? - Must we et Tracy go simply . because It cost money to-get plm? I say no, and you can state for this office 'that we will never quit as ong as Tracy is t large. There is a warrant In that desk; (pointing to the desk in the sheriff's office) charging Tracy th murder in the first degrse-" and . he must be caught, , : j i ; Under Sheriff Corcoran stated in 'the course of the interview that the expense of the chase. In his opinion, should be defrayed by Oregon, as the state of br egon Is primarily. to blame lor- the es cape of the murderer, Tracy. "In my opinion," said he, "the Oregon officials will ask to defray the entire expense. and perhaps If they will, we will send the bills, there anyway." ... j . , AGREEMENT IS REACHED Striklns: Freight Handlers "and Railroad Managers ' TO END THE DIFFICULTIES That Have Paralyzed the Business of Chi- cago TltB MI5N ARE EXPECTED TO GO TO .WORK ; TlIIS MORNING, THOUGH SOME QP-TUK MORE RADICAL STRIKERS MAY HOLD ; QUT. ' .-' -1 -V " ' ' : CHICAGO. July 15. Wllh agree ments reaped between the four rail roads and their, employes, the great strike of the freight 'handlers and teamsters, that has paralyzed the In dustries of Chicago for a week.- is ap parently broken. Y The majority' of the strikers are expected to return to work tomorrow. Some of the more radical unionists may' refuse to accept . the terms accepted Toy the representatives committees, but apparently tbejr will be able to wield little influence with the majority of the strikers. A mass meeting of the freight - handlers has been called for tomorrow, and upon the action taken at this meeting will de jpend the attitude of the striking team sters. - . ; - w ,- : .:..--! CRUSHED BY SAWL0GS ' A YOUNO MAN NEAR MONITOR DIED FROM INJURIES RE- . , CEIVED. ' WOODBURN, : July 13. Wllliatn Johnson, aged 21 Years, died last Sat urday morning at his home near Moni tor from the effects of Injuries received In an accident Thursday evening. ; He was unloading logs from a wagon at a sawmill th3 other side of Monitor, and was caught between two logs. He was ailone ; at the time. When found his head was between two logs, squeezed; Into a three Inch space, the rest of the; body being above the logs. Had it notj oeeft uiiiv io khvii,'' vbihc ivuriuniJ his head wouid haeMkeen pnished tj at pulp. Dr- Carrtcjo was 'summoned J but could do nothing to save th life of the -young . manj whose . skull: was fractured at the base. Johnsorrhad re cently arrived from California where he had been attending college. The funeral was held Sunday, interment be ing at Millef cemetery. . BOERS ARB FREE. . , ;s NEW YORK. July 15. Among the passengers who arrived by the steamer Pretoria from Bermuda were 10S Boers prisoners from Bermuda. The Boers were clad. In the same suits they wore In South Africa. Twenty-one of them had been officers.-. Among the most prominent of the officers were General J. IB. Wertells. Peter Steyn, a brother Of j President .teyn: J. Devtllers. late Atlorney-Generai of the Free State. and Joubert Reitx. a -son of the Free Ftate Secretary- None of the . oflWrs would talk about the way they had been treated by the British In Bermu da. mnmhm Legal Blanks, Statesman Job Of!lce. l zz. : I 1. - - . - for I nfa nts Tho'Itintl You Have ..Vlvraya Bought; lias loTnd tho slsrna . uro or Cluis- II. Fletcher, and luw hcen made under hU r personal supcrrision for -over 30 years. 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