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i! . - r 1 . . " - " - - - - - - . ' . --. - " " 62d YEAR No. 25. Ki- '. .'. - , ' T : : : ; " " " ' ' - - ' 1 - : ' ;-'- .. - ': SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 2. 1902. FIRST SECTION EIGHT PAGES. J. TRAIN ROBBED IN TENNESSEE - " : : ' ' ' Two J Men Loot an fcxpress ! Car at Nashville I THE LOSS IS VERY LIGHT Highwaymen Boarded the Car and Compelled the,, ; , Messenger - TO OPEN THE OUTSIDE THE I TH HOUGH SAFES SAFE- WERE NOT J MOLESTED A WFljL'fDlSED OF A MAN IN UTAH A COLORA ro DUEL. ' NASHVILLE, Tenn.,19ept. L As the northward bound passenger train on the Louisville & Nashville r road was leaving: Franklin, Tenn., the express car was boarded by two masked men, With a revolver at his bead, Messenger Battle Mas forced to open the outside safe, which the robbers rifled. Keeping ' the messenger covered with the runs, the men ; rode wrth - him into South Nashville, where the train slowed down and they disappeared. It is not known how much booty was secured. . ' i The express .officials . estimato Jhe loss at! about $500. , Two through safes were not molested. " x A H uman Fiend. Park ; City, Utah, Sept. 1. This morn ing William Trottman, after, trying to beat the brains out of his" wife and two children with ' a monkey 'Wrench, shot himself through. the heart.' .vThe' -wife iay recover, but the daughters will probably die. Trottman has been in the Insane Asylum, but was released. ! Murdered Convict. . Salt i Lake City, Utah, Sept. 1. Michael McCormlck, a convict, died to night from wounds received at tht hands of John Gray, in the Peniten tiary yesterday. The men - quarreled and ' Gray stabbed McCormlck five times, j . , !' A Fatal .Duel. y-yv Wihrtetd, Colo., Sept. 1. A revolver Just Received The Largest Shipment of Shoes ever Received la SMiem 139 Cases of Then Were Just 2899 Pairs ' And we hare more coming, ; f ... 7 . . . -i . ThovTo all from the Brown Shoe Co. and bear the fam- --mm mm atm 1 OUS fc) L Al h bl Alt trauo nmrK. ;vru jruu guj; w pair of them ? Your neighbors know what they arc, because they have worn "them I It'sf time you were trying a pair if you're interested in reducing your, shoo bills. . j Our Shoe Business Is . - Growing THERE'S A REASON FOR IT soil thetn at!tho closest j 'JUT SllOUa JJI V . aawivMw. . c w posaiuie niargtn ui iiuuw . i -- -- - - ; "rtcular stores" because we do a strictly spot cash business. The same business methods that hav mado our shoo department a success are applied to every department in the, store. . j r ! j Clothing, j Hats. Shirts, i Hosiery, 'Underwear j AND ALL KINDS OF . 'r LADIES' arjn MftfS fURfJISHIHOS tiE MEW VdRK-. RACK S-5 cp 0 Price c Si.". E; T. BABNES, Propriotor : i and rifle duel was fought on the main street last night, 'and aa a. result Ous SJostrcn. a Swede miner, was Instant ly killed; Sim Amsdon was mortally wounded, and Chauncey Bennell, a bartender, was perhaps fatally wound ed. I The shooting was the result of the Jealously of Amsdon over Amy Butts, a 15-year-old girl. DON'T WANT HIM TO LEAVE ; -ii 11 -1 . DR. JDARRIN'S patrons induce J . HIM TO REMAIN IN SALEM UNTIL NOV; 1st. Dri Darrin, ther eminent physician, who has been In Salem the past few months, has consented to remain until November 1st, owing to the urgent re quest of patients 1 who have delayed calling upon him, and who will need treatment for some time yet. The doctor has been very successful In the treatment of all his cases, and has been kept; constantly busy, but states that November 1st he will positively leave Salem, and closehls efficea in that city, so that it behooves all who are ailing to call on him at an early date. In order to get the foil benefit of his skill before be leaves. , This pressure on the part-of patients to .have him remain, contrary K his plans, is an evidence that; his akill ? Is 'exceptional, and ap preciated by s the people. Hundreds of people have taken advantage of his visit to the Capital City to benefit by bis treatment, and hundreds have- at tested to his. wonderful skill over their own -: signature in thla paper. He ts conscientious in his dealings with his patrons, publishes- no testimonials without the patient's consent, and gen erous with the poor. -Stay ton Mall. ' There are all kinds of fakes these days, but-there is no fake about Dr. Darrln.' the eminent physician, at Ho tel Willamette, Salem, until November 1st. Testimonials of . almost miracu lous cures bear the signatures of our friends and neighbors, of whose verac ity no suspicion can be entertained. If In 15 health our people will make a great mistake If j they ' do not avail themselves of Dr. Darrin's services." Jgfferson Review, L. Chegaray and H. Li. Martlneau, who have been looking up the fruit sit uation here m the ; interest of their firms in France, departed on the over land last night for points in Southern Oregon. -; H,- K. Lpunsbury, traveling freight and passenger agent of the Southern Pacific Company, was In Salem on bus iness yesterday. . " 1 Miss Gertrude J O'Brien returned to her home In Albany last evening after a -visit o the Misses Coshow, In this city. D Shoes 139 1 - MA.! M M 4 St W A A 1 nfCnrA tr sell cheatKjr than AN EXCURSION INAWREGK The Engine and Four Crowdea Cars Tnrown Off Track THIRTY PERSONS KILLED And That Many More Fatally injured In Al abama ' . WITH THE EXCEPTION OP" THE TRAIN CREW ALL THE KILLED AND MAIMED "WERE NEGROES SIX COACHES REMAINED ON THE TRACK. BIRMINGHAM, Ala.. Sept. .1. Near Berry, Ala, this morning an engine and four cars of an excursion train on the Southern Railway leaped from the track and rolled over and over, smash ing; the coaches and causing instant death to thirty persons, and injury o eighty others. The physicians say that twenty-nine of the injured cannot live. With the exception of H. M. Durley, the trainmaster of the Southern Rail way, Roscoe Shelby, of Columbus, Mint and H, W. Crook, engineer, all of the dead and Injured ar negroes. There were ien cars in the train.: but the fourth broke loose from the fifth and with the heavy engine plunged down the steep Incline. The; cars urn crushed like an egg shell. The dead bodies were scattered in every direc tion and the moans and appeals ? for help from the wounded were !ri,n. ing. The wrecklne trains, rorrirlns physicians,- were hurried to the scene and- evervthln twvhihia i- t,.u. done to alleviate the sufferings of the Mount Pelee Is Active. Castries, Island of St. Lucia. IJ. W. I.. Sept. 1. The British steamer Korona arrived here yesterday evening- from ron ae ranee, island of Martiniaue. She reports that a terrible eruption of mount Pelee occurred at 9 o'clock Sat urday and people who arrived at Fort de France from the northern part -fof tne isiana reported that, the village f Morne Rouge, near the district pre viously; devastated, has 'been entirely destroyed, and that LeCarbet. a- village on the coast which was destroyed at the time of the great eruption, had been swept by a tidal wave. About 200 persons.' lost their lives. A slooo from the Island of St. Vin cent, which reached, here this morning, reports that Mount Pelee's crater is now quiet, but the detonations. Satur day night were' the loudest heard up to that time, and the Inhabitants were terribly alarmed. Mount Pelee has been in constant eruption since; August 15th. The night of the 30th there were three separate eruptions. The people of the village of LeCarbet are fleeing to the interior. Hot water Is pouring down on Larratne and Basse Point, villages north of thi crater. The Governor of Marttritjti has ordered every available boat t remove the people from the' coast vil lages to Fort de France. A tilal wave rushed upon , Fcrt de France and the inhabitants fled in large numbers to the interior. The wave did ut slight damage. '. --: v. . In addition to the" 200 persona report ed to have lost their lives at LeCarbet and Moufae Rouge, many other persons are said to have been killed all over the northern district of the Island.; '' ". t , 1 1 ' . Grand Stand Fell. . Denver. Colo, Sept. 1 The fourth annual meeting of the Denver Horse Show Association opened today. So great was the crush that the temporary, stands gave way In two places. There were no fatalities, but the following were seriously hurt: O. E. Whlttaker, leg broken; Mrs. H. C. Woodward, badly bruised. Two hundred Denver society people were In the boxes wbtch went down, and mcny1 were slightly hurt. L : Baltoei Was Wreked. Denver. Colo, Sept. 1. After a lapse of twenty-four hours, during which no word was received from the three tro" nauts who lert Denver yesterday to try for a transcontinental balloon voyage, a telegram came tonight announcing that the alrshJp has been wrecked In a storm twenty-seven miles north of Florence, Colo. J The men were ' not seriously hurt. The experience of the aeronauts (was terrible. Three tiroes the balloon was .carried over Pike's Peak. At daylight a, landing was made and tonight the men reached Florence, METEOROLOGICAL PORTLAND, Or., Eept..l. Following is the weather forecast for the 24 hours ending midnight. Tuesday. September 2d: For Oregon. . 'Washington and Idaho, lair. RACING AT HARTFORD, HARTFORD. Con Sept. L The $10,000 Futurity was the feature of the Charter Oak Grand Circuit meet today. Th field of eight starters was reduced . tw in the final heat Gail Hamil ton won the first, fourth And sixth heats, and the race, lime, z.i, 2:1S!&. RETURN TO WORK. -rwtAtTA. Nebu Sept. I. Two - hun dred striking car men in the Union Pa cific shops have decided to return to work at a scale onereu oy w turn pany. . crV" ' . . I ....... . . - - . - LABOR AND ITS POSITION Address by Hon. Frank Davey at Yesterday's Festivities . THE RISE OF THE UNIONS Duty M the Government to Protect All Ele ments . " RELATIONSHIP OF THE THREE GREAT , HUMAN ELEMENTS COMBINES - OF CAPITAL, THE EMPLOYEES AND THE CONSUM ERS OF THE PRODUCTS. . Hon. Frank Davey, one of the speakers'at the Marion Square Labor Day meeting, yesterday afternoon de livered the following address on "Labor and Labor Unions:" , I wish to congratulate you, as repre sentatives or organized labor, upon this magnificent demonstration celebrating Labor Day for the first time In Oregon under legal proclamation. : j I have had no time to formulate an address handling the varichis Questions in which yotl are. particularly interest ed in a manner commensurate with their importance and with the magni tude and Intelligence of this audience, so I shall onlv attempt to skim along the surface of the whole subject, avoid ing local application and considering matters only In a- general way. The chief object of economic and fiscal legislation in the United Slates has been to build up a great and prosperous commercial system, competing with the entire- world in producing all articles of consumption and selling them at a profit, while at the same time maintain ing the laborer and mechanic in a much better-paid condition than any other country of the world. To ,this end, we have enacted protective " tariff laws, which have acted on the one hand as a license er penalty to be paid by all foreign manufacturers selling . their wares in this country in competition with our own, and on the other hand have given to the home manufacturer the amount of that tariff as a margin to divide with his workmen. The un fair division of that margin l what has given: rise to labor unions and ' has generated difficulties between the em ployer "and. the employed. The accumu lation of that margin in the coffers of the' manufacturing magnates and' the desire to make that accumulation more certain and perpetual has aroused the thought of concentration and centrali sation, the result being the organising of the - immense commercial bodies known as trusts, under which the orig inal object of our economic legislation has been distorted and Its practical workings prostituted to base and self ish uses. ;; '. As a-life-long advocate of protective tariff I have gloried in -the advantages which it gave to the American work IngmAn In the way of better wages,' THE NEW THE OLD THE ONLY WHITE CORNER :T!!E STORE TII4T UNDERSELLS OTHERS Alt THE TIME IN f Ulf IUMENT Of of the Big StonMnot to carry over any sttmmer ipoods) we again put tl vir in nnr stock of Shirt Waist. Wash KklrU, and ietUcoaU ; al our entire stock of wash goods. ! v SHIRT WAISTS " '" " WASH SKIRTS B V r&'tl r TH WAStT PETTICOATS PRICE CHILDREN'S DRESSES t WASH GOODS ' r FALL BUSINESS IS OPENING UP WITH A RUSH AT HEADQUARTERS Every train bringti in something neW nd we are loosing ho time In put ting the goods on sale. ; , COME AND SEE US ; LADIES' JACKETS I A very large shipment re ceived and .ready for your in spection. i: , .i ":, - ; Mcei Banae freai $4a f te 1354)0 SUk, Velvet ssd Cerssrry Jackets Ik Tie Psmous... Prlrstfy Drew CocSs, CIssUssiand SUrtI:;s' are in. Call and see them. better living and better surroundings and opportunities for himself and hU family. I nave pointed out the possi bilities of achievement by. the Individ ual mechanic or merchant or manufac turer who is fnural and industrious, and have claimed that no other system ever devised was so conducive 'to gen eral prosperity and happiness .and. to an equal distribution of Industrial re wards; but the force of my moralising baa been weakened by the tide of pass ing events.'' . There has been a., revolution la busi ness affairs during the past ten years which has crippled our most cogent reasonings of the past. v We have labored to discourage' all argument for. government ownership of public utilities because we saw therein the decay of individual effort and in dividual responsibility the wiping out of incentive to individual excellence and achievement; but while we have been discouraging the theory, the very thing we decried1 has been brought about in Its worst form by 'the practical work ings of avaricious capital. Individual effort has been made powerless. The shoemaker, the wagon maker, the cooper, the wheelwright, the weaver, tho watchmaker, etc., etc., has been driven from the field of individual effort and Is known no more. I remember how funny it seemed to me as a. little fellow - many years ago to read , that It took ten men to make a pin, and the short account of each man's part In shaping It out was Interesting, It was particu larly so because at that time I could see before my eyes one man making' an ent're wagdtt, another building a house, including doors and windows, another a pair of shoes or boots, and so on. hence the employment of ten men on a pin Was ridiculous. Rut nowadays the experience of a pin Is that of evrrr other article ot . manufacture; evcry j mrenaniG aim wuii nn v - tlcular piece of work to do in its mak ing and finishing, and no one individual pretends to learn the full construction of an article under modern methods. It is almost Impossible in these days for an individual "or even a company with small capital to exist In the manufac turing lines In competition with the large concerns which are the result of capitalistic combinations. Individual. Incentive has departed. Competition In manufacturing and general production: has been entirely destroyed. -This being so, about all there Is left! for us to consider now is the relation ship of the three great human. elements which are Interested, to-wlt : The ca p- Itailstic ComDines owning, cunirviiiii .... .. . t v nd operating the factories, the mines Jlw f viUrtioti: th anil , other sources of production; the persons hired by these combines as necessary agencies In that production, and the consumers of the products. t I believe it is the duty of Government to protect equitably all three of these elements. Capital and; its property must be held sacred and secure -from destruction or disturbance in. Its rights and privileges," and from every form of spoliation without due process and at fair remuneration. The laboring masses must also be held secure and sacred In . their property, which Is their skiii. j brawn and Industry, and must be safe guarded against oppression. Injustice and unfair and inadequate remunera tion. The consumer, also, who IsTiuite largely outside of the other two ele ments and virtually Interested, must be protected, that he may not be unjustly and painfully, burdened through, ttw want of Jiarmony between tnose otner two.- v . i " ' - -'. '.. . . '('Continued on1 third pa- m&u THE f IXED POLICY ie also 71 y-iWYh . Omt ctotMoi department will t utrAoeer sd grrmtrnt lor ii valors -tht jmr tlMn vrr beiore. tTl- to uils sod enaU tkst appeal to ( most stilish dmer are now io i eo sale. Mtirs Tor cons, mixs snis, Mtiirj PAMS s ' - all new, just fall K I i Is A swell new line of fLANmWAJSinGS Justlleccived PRESIDENT v ROOSEVELT Asata Discusses the the Hen roe Doctrine in Vermont HE HADE MANY SPEECHES" During His Last Day in That State Great Enthu- ; siasm ' CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS AHi: GATHERING FOR THEIR STATU CONVENTIONSEVERAL CANDI DATES FOR -GOVERNOR A RE I N THE RACE, v . ' EAST NORTHFIELD, Mass.. Pcj t. 1. I President Roosevelt today concluded hls .tour through Vermdnt -at Iirattio boro, and Is spending the night here. i The reception accorded him .at Brattle boro was amongrtbe mosfenthuslsstlo he has received In New England. ' The President .began the day's Jour ney at Burlingtofi. ' After a drive about the 'city? the Presidential train started ..v:;:i;vc.rd. stops being made at Vr- '.gennes, MlddlebJry, Brandon, Proctor, Jutland; LudloW.Rellows Falls, Ches ter and Brat tleboro. V . The President spoke "at 'every stop today, but roost l of , tho addresses were brief. That of :the greatest Imrtaice was the one delivered at rrortor, wherein, he defined his Idea of the Mon roe Doctrine.; j'. California Dsmecrats. Sacramento, Cal., Sept. 1. The Dem ocratic State Convention will meet to morrow to nominate a stats ttc kvt. For Governor there are three promi nent candldate-Pranklln D. Lnpe of Pan Francisco; Former. ConRressnum Tlumias AT Oeal-y. ot f Sonoma, and vnnrnnaB t t t ninnii. ui v t'liiui an, , "' J " . lf. name oi lormer "V r , . t r, Budd Is mentioned by his friends. In, ex-Oovernor has as yet expressed n wllHnrSL?ss to enter the content. It Is rcnarallv ronretterl that Lane has th(! ,tut atrsnirih at nresont. ' He is - - ... regarded as the candidate of those In control of the party organisation. Them are two. candidates for chatrmtn-tclm Coonan. of Eureka, and aeorg H. Patton, i.of Los Angeles county. Conan has the backing of the machine. E. . irmworth. of Tulare, is the only i08 ndldate for Chief Justice." The New Rsilrosd. EUGENE. Or Kept. L I. Lyman Moody and C. K. Cook, locating engin eers of the Salt Lake & Coos Bsy Rail roadj were In Eugene (today. They have .been over the McKensle ! through the Cascade MountAlns. un l are now -examining the Middle Fork Iass.. The engineers are sbv observ ing business conditions and th rob. able tribulary traffic upon., which the mud Tnay-dtenl for revenue. CORNER OF COURT AND LIBERTY streets; SALEM, OR. - WE NEVER DISAPPOINT: MEN'S . CLOTHING reoeited - " Styles inSI.oss Jjst Hcccivcd Tfcs f.::y:r$' u tzl yes t::w thy trelti;-t::t J K