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FOUGHT DUEL- - TO THE DEATH Ycun? Plan Refusal to Sub mit to Bein? Arrested IT PRECIPITATED A FIGHT y -- -: . k Result; One Killed ancrjhree Fatally Iniured Dead ly Encounter - FARMER'S BOM OFFENDED THE DAUGHTER OF ANOTHER FAR MER WHO FILfJD COMPLAINT AGAINST HIM SON OF SENA TOR CLARK IS UNDER ARREST. - STEELVIL.LE, Mo., July - 4. One dead and three perhaps fatally Injur ed 1 the result of a duel with revol ver which took placer hece this after noon between Sheriff Taff, of Craw ford county, .Ills deputy, - Perry Ives, Deputy' Marshal JTeh't Woods and Robert Stark, a farmer, and his son, Hirsrbel. The dead: Rohertf, Stark. Fatally Injured: Sheriff Taff," Hlrschel gtark and Perry Ives; the deputy sheriff. The' trouble originated -in tb refusal of - young Stark to submit to arrest. He was charged with having offended the . daughter of Benjamin Ogles, a wealthy farmer, who filed , jC complaint against him. When Sheriff Taff attempted to take him into cus tody the shooting resulted. Ran Into Pedestrian. Denver, Colo., July 4. W. A. Clark, Jr., son of ' Seharor W A. Clark, of Montana, and K. E. Paradise, mana ger of the Colorado Automobile Coir, pany.i were arrested here today ror violating the automobile ordinance. They 'ran Into a pedestrian when turn ing the street corner. Friends imme diately secured their release on bonds. NEGRO USED A RAZOR ' CITIZENS ARE NOW HUNTING HIM WITH THREATS OF LYNCHING. Nf.W YORK. July 4. Armed cltl ssenr and joHcemen began a -search early today for an unidentified negro who. after cutting a" conductor and guard on a Brooklyn elevated train. Jumped from a rapidly moving train at Twenty-fifth avenue. Bath Beach, and -disappeared In the Meadows. The negro in boarding the train of fer the conductor a drink of whisky. Later he refused to pay his fare and 'abused the conductor roundly. When the latter railed. thEKird to' his aid the negro drew a big razor and at- tacked both -men.' lie slashed them furiously. Neither was fatally hurt. : however. Threatening with the rasor the passengers who attempted to ' Iti : teffetf, the negro ran toward the door of trai car and 'Jumped to the ground. policemen of the Bath Beach station were rummoned to aW in the hunt for the 'negro and they were Joined by four residents of Bath B"aclLand pas sengers on the train, who uttered threats of lynching as the begah the search. TRACY DAY IN SEATTLE OUTLAW ENTERED CITY AND KILLED THREE MEN ONE 'J " YEAR AGO. SKA TT I.E. Wash., July 4. It whs Jut one year ago yesterday since Har ry Tracy, the desperate Oregon out lay'. maie his entrance Into Seattle and King conuty. Before midnight of the memorable July 3, 1902. the arch criminal had shot and killed three men and badly wounded another. The first battle with the ovtlaw occurred at Bothell, northeast of this' city, where Thacy shot and killed Instantly Dep uty Sheriff Raymond, of Everett, and badly wounded Deputy Sheriff Jack William, of Seattle. He then es caped and forced a rancher to drive him into Seattle, where, at the corner! lr'T1,and Pfrk th.ret-tMr,er"fl,,ve" ot t fishermen yesterday by . VJ nan Breece and Game Warden Row ly. both of whom he shot .and killed in their tracks. Tracy's subsequent' escape, his daring holdups-of ranchers throughout King county, and his final end at his own hand in Eastern Wash ington, are well remembered. WARNER STAYED AWAY VMPIRB IN TACOMA FRISCO GAME CAME NEAR BEING ' MOBBED. , f TACOMA. Waslu, Jujy 4. In this morning-, came a cora decision TfTy empire Warner aroused the Ire of ths crowd. When the game was "over ""y surrounded and pressed him against the fence, shoving down's, seo iion of it. The ponce escorted him n. l?wn- A crowd of several hun red. throwing sticks and stones, fol lowed the party to the Donnelly Hotel, pursuing the unfortunate umpire to the elevator. The crowd informed the officers of the dub and Warner that toere would be worse things doing if He came to the' park In the afternoon. aPresult he stayecTaway. vf;, - PRESIDENT CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY OF FOUNDING OF HUNTINGTON OBSERVED ; OTHER CELEBRATIONS.. . OrSTER BAY. July 4. President linosevelt Participated today In the celebration of the 250th anniversary of toe rounding of Huntington, seven tniles fn,m Oyster Bay. The town wag i attJr residences and Z',T,.b,,ndm elaborately decorated with Hag, and bunting. -In Waahington, D. C. f -Trhlnrton, July 4-The Fourth of July celebration today was official m character and was participated In by the representatives -of the district and National Government and by M. Jus senand, the French Ambassador, who Mas the specially invited guest. To ulsht there was a display of fireworks. Observed in London. - . ) . London, July The American Soci ety celebrated Independence Day as usual tonight by a. dinner, at which about 600 persona were present. Among the guests were Ambassador Choate, Senator Chancey M. Depew and the Duke of New Castle. The President was taken by the re ception committee to a. stand , erected In the center of the town. From here he delivered an address. In which he urged the Americans of this day to exert themselves to something bettter. It Is not enough that our fathers were d'stlngulshed in the time of war and peace that we should rest with mere ly the boashing of It, . He urged that a virtue that -hldd Itself in cloisters counts nothing. ; The virtue , that counts Is f the virtue that Is-, able to hold Its own In the hurly-burly of life. After eulogizing the soldiers of our wars h closed advocating a small army, but advised the building o fa. navy adequate' to the position we hold ssj necessary to the building up of the Nation. '.. : '.- -:. -:,!-., - THE iPOPE MAY NOT RECOVER Took Severe CoM JVhile Driy ... ing in His Gardens SETTLED ON HIS LUNGS Physician Has Been With Him ? Constantly Since, Fear-- ling the Worst DB. LAPPONI JjESIitEDj-TO CALL COUNSEL OF BEST PHYSICIANS IN ROME, BUT THE PONTIFF .WOULD NOT ALLOW IT CONDI TION SERIOUS. ROME,' July 4. It appears that the condition of the Pope became suddenly worse after yesterday's drive in - the Vatican gardens, when, notwithstand ing the fact that the temperature was 96 degrees, her caught a cold which set tled in his chest and head, producing shortly afterward, diffuse bronchial ca tarrh. ; Up. to the present, no fever has developed, not even an increased heat, and there has been no accelera tion of the pulse, which Is rather weak. ' Feeling his responsibility. Dr. Lap ponl would have liked to have had a consultation with the best physicians In Rome, but the Pope absolutely re fused to agree to this. The only oth er person he would allow to be called was Dr. Mazzonl, who operated on the Pontiff in 1899. ' The condition of the Pope showed some improvement during the day, but became worse this evening, making it necesary! for Dr. Lapponl to remain at the Vatican throughout the night, who. according to the latest diagno sis seems to have an affection of the right lung. Berlin,' July 4.--A Rome dispatch to the Lokal Anzeiger received at 2 o'clock this morning says that Dr. Mazzoni visited the Pope's sick chamber and later announced the condition of his holiness was still uSnchanged. Knows Nothing of It. London, July 4. The officials of the United States , Embassy here know nothing of the ultimatum, which, ac cording to advices from Jajltn to the Svet. of St. Petersburg, was presented recently ' by the British and ! Japanese Ministers at Pekin to the Chinese gov ernment on the subject of Manchuria. LIFESAVERS' HEROIC FEAT - I -v. ; - -I.:-- POINT ADAMS CREW RESCUES TWO FISHERMEN, FROM CAP SIZED BOAT. t ASTORIA, Or., July 4. The .Point Adams life saving crew saved the , nrnost heroic work. , As Andrew Laro and his boat puller, Daniel Tangor, who fish for the Packers' Association, were drifting near the mouth of" the river, their boat was caught in the breakers and capsized. The men clung to the bottom of the boat, which was carried outside and off the weath er beach, where it was seen by the lookout' of the Point Adams crew, who gave the alarm. Captain j Wlcklund and his crew loaded their, life boat in a wagon and hauled it overland to the ocean beach, where, after considerable hard work, it was launched through the breakers, and the men rescued and their boat saved. Both were com pletely exhausted, and unable to walk when brought ashore, but they were taken to the life saving station and revived, MOB TAKES A TOWN ; j ;. .: . -. WOUNDED SHERIFF I IN THE FACE AND BOMBARDED THE .!. . JUDGE'S HOUSE, MIDDLES BO RO, Mass., July 4. A mob of young men, angered" by the ar rest of one of their number during the night, wounded a . deputy sheriff by shooting him in the face with a blank cartridge, assaulted a policeman, bom barded the house of a police court judge with stones, and stormed the town house in an attempt to release the prisoner. They previously bad set several fires, and when Judge Nathan Wasburn, whose house was stoned, found that the local authorities wer helpless to control the riotous crowd, he telephoned to near-by places for help." : ; ' -- ."Y- . ' Aid arrived at 7 o'clock and placed in charge of the town for the time be ing, and a call was Issued Tor the selectmen to meet for action' in the emergency. ,. : . - DEATH CAUSED BY OLD GLORY It Blew Aeainst a Live Wire Breaking It Down CHARGED POOL OF WATER And Four Persons and Horse Were Killed Out right BROKEN WIRE . CARRIED 2000 VOLTS OF ELECTRICITY SIX-' , TEEN DEATHS t IN PITTSBUHO FROM - DIFFERENT Y CAUSES MANY OTHER FATAUTHSS. PITTSBURG, Pa, July 4. During the progress of a terrific rain storm to day, four persons were killed In an ac cident of the most unusual character. A large flag became soaked with rain and the high wind blew it against an electric light wires, carrying 2000 volts. The wire snapped under tre pressure, falling into 'the street, one end lodging in a pool of water and charging it A man walked into the pool and was shocked to death. ; i A surrey full of people drove into the pool, killing the horses and three of the occupants. ; ; Killed by Trolley Wire. , : Pittsburg, Pa July 4 During a heavy rain storm this afternoon light ning struck a trolley wire and It fell Into wagon containing ten persons, killing three men and a woman. , A String of Fatalities. " Pittsburg, Pa, July 4. -Up to mid night sixteen bodies had been taken to the morgue , the largest number of any Fourth of July since the morgue has been established. Three were killed in a trolley accident, four ele trocuted. three victims of the heat, two run down by cars and four lost their lives through reworks. May Destroy Town. Columbia, S. C July 4. Owing . to the threats made by negroes at Nor way, S. C, to revenge the lynching of Charles Evans, the State militia has been ordered to Norway. It is re ported large forces of negroes have surrounded the town of two hundred inhabitants and are threatening to de stroy the place, which is helpless. ' A Disastrous Fire. Wheatland. CaL. July 4. Fanney by a strong wind, flames swept through a section of this city and a portion of the residence district today, -destroying property valued at $200,000. -Nine Prostrations. Washington. July 4. There were nine prostrations from heat today, five being soldiers who participated in the parade. A thunder storm this after noon brought cooler weather. X Drowned in the Sacramento. ' Sacramento, CaI!July 4. Three per sons were drowned In the river near this city this evening. They were Lulu J. Howard. Hattie West and John Ix Kerr. The row boat in which they were riding struck ; some piles and the occupants were thrown into the water. Buffalo, N. YM July 4 Two trolley cars filled with passengers collided near Olcott today. I Two passengers are dead and four others probably fa tally Injured, t ! i ; ' BODY OF ROUSE FOUND CORPSE OF MAN KILLED SNOWSLIDE LAST; CHRIST MAS RECOVERED. IN VANCOUVER, B. C, July 4. From December to July the body of Miner Rouse lay under the snow on the mountain near Nelson, where is situat ed the Molly Gibson mine. The deep snow preserved the remains until a day or two ago, when it molted and the flies got to the body. Then Cap tain T. R. Trethway and Bruch White who went out from Nelson to see the mine and also to try to find the body of Rouse and the remains of Mur phy; who were killed In the snowslide last Christmas, came , across all that was left of the unfortunate miner. In the snowslide there were half a dozen fatalities, but four bodies were recov ered at the time. I - Now; another has been given sepulcher and the moun tain has to give up another. It was only a day or two ago that Mrs. Rouse wrote from Boston to Inquire If any trace of the body, of her husband had been found. The Miners' Union at Nelson sent a deputation up the moun tain to bring down the remains, if at all possible, and ship them East to the American home. iThe snow Is still six feet deep at the mine. The body of Rouse was found about half a mile away from ; the site of the bunkhouse. the building which was swept away by the slide. m world of"sport BOSTON ATHLETE ; WINS ALL ROUND ATHLETIC WORLD'S -CHAMPIONSHIP. NEW YORK, July 4.In the Ame teur Athletic Union all-round champi on contests of the United States at Celtic Park, Long Island City, today EHery H. Clark, of the Boston Ama teur Association won the title with a total of C318 po'.nts; Adam B. unn. of the Central Y. M. C A, of Buffalo, champion of the last two years, sec ond. 6808 1-4 points; F. W. C. Foster, of Harvard, third. S348 1-2. While practicing for the - championship Gunn's foot had been spiked, and under the circumstances his performance was considered wonderful. - f Butte. Mont, July? 4.- Joe Cans re tained his hold upon the colored light weight championship of the world here this afternoon by defeating Buddy King, of Denver, in five rounds. King was never in it from the first-round. Use Trib for Tobacco habit. E'ER BUYERS j Groceries Hardware Ghraniteware Tinware The season is open for Binding Twine. We quote the following prices .. . Standard 12 l-2c, Diamond Manila 131-2c, Clover Leaf 141-2c Bmemher we are the only people selling dry goods and gent's finish ing goods on State street Speer Bros. Farmers' Store State St. WORLD HAS BEEN GIRDLED Last Links of Pacific Cable v Are Welded Together ACCOMPLISHED SATURDAY And Message J Encircled Globe In Nine and a Half Minutes the FIRST MESSAGE WAS SENT BY PRESIDENT ROOSEyEL-T TO . GOVERNOR TAFT. OF MANILA . GREATEST TELEGRAPHIC RN TERPRISE EVER UNDERTAKEN, NEW YORK, July 4. The Pacific cable was successfully completed at 19:50 o'clock toniabi. Eastern time, by the welding together of the Eastern and Western links at Honolulu on board the cable ship AngUa, thus com pleting an entire line of telegraph from San Francisco, to the Philippine Islands, a distance of over 8.000 miles, and bringing to conclusion the greatest andmost difficult of sub-marine cable enterprises undertaken in the history of ocean telegraphy. : A message from President Roosevelt to President Mackay, of the Commer cial Pacific Cable Company, was sent over the new cable around the world in., twelve minutes and Mackay" b reply was sent around the world in nine and a half minutes. The first message sent over the new cable was one from President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay to Governor Taft at Manila. ' -Following Governor Taft's reply was the message from President Roosevelt to Clarence H. Mackay. president of the cable - company. Mackays : mes sage wis followed ' by a number of congratulatory " messages v from'" th Governors of states and other public officials to Governdr Taft. The tlms for sending the globe encircling mes sage had been set for noon, but ths weather conditions at Honolulu were unpropitious and was postponed. IS VERITABLE GHOST SHAMROCK III WILL ' GIVE THE COLUMBIA A HARD RACE FOR THE CUP. NEW YORK, July-- The Shamrock III today proved herself a veritable ghost ' in light winds by defeating Shamrock I more than thirty-one min utes in an eleven-mile beat to ths windward. ' ' It was drifting match, averaging not better ; than three or four miles an hour. ,If Shamrock I, as reported, is ten minutes faster than ever before, on a thirty-mile course, today's performance of the new coup chalenger was a little short of mar velous. The Shamrock III won by thirty-one minutes and ten seconds. Time, 4:11:00. f ; ' . s. SUES FOR A EORTUNE .... -T-v-'-- v--' EDNA WALLACE HOPPER. AN ACTRESS. '' DEMANDS HER IN 1IERITANCE. VICTORIA. BY O. July 4. Proceedings-were commenced today by; Edna Wallace Hopper, an actress, against James Dunsmuir, ex-PremUr of Brit ish Columbia, the case involving a for tune of 13.000,000. The action seeks to set aside the will of het late Alexander Dunsmuir, the brother of James Duns muir, and the . step-father . to. Edna Wallace Hopper, which disinherited J Miss Hopper's mother in favor of James Dunsmuir.'- ' . WHITNEY ACQUQITTED. BAKER CITY, Ore,- July. 4vThe jury in the case of the Stale of Ore gon vs. CH. Whitney. ex-deputy sher iff of this ;ounty. who was charged with embesaing 810.0O0,-came in with a verdict of acquittal this morning, of ter being out eighteen hours. - EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER FIRST. WASHINGTON. 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' '..JY: . ..Y ' -Hie Jones Chain Drive Mowers are the quietest run ning. . . j : '.y" "' ' :, . : : We can show more good points on the Piano Mowers than any other machines and when it comes to the geared machine the Vertical High Lift is what you want. )ur lines of Buggies, Wagons and Carriages, manu factured by John Deere PJow Co., are high class goods. We also have Machine Oil. Axle Grease and a fuli line of Hardware antl Tools. Call and See Us I 1 SALEM, - 1 -' - . - -. - . . - - - - - Midsummer iMe&mtict Sale Dry Goods an Bij? reductions on all trimmed and un trimmed hats Quite a few daiuty bonnets which will be sold at about half price. --' Infant's head-gear at reduced prices. We have a large and select stock of ar tificial flowers, hackles, chiffon and other trimmings which will be sold at greatly re duced j prices. jGrreenbaum's Dry G-oods Store 3od Commercial St, Salem, Oregon. no formal order has been issued, Jt has been decided that the new currency law for the j Philippines shall go into effect September t, - EACH CENT COUNTS A VOTE. ' PRODUCE Hats Caps Dry Goods Furnishing Goods FERGUS OIlEGOl Use Trib for'liquor habit. Sects -limioitas H2 ATirm fcE : - "- -- '. - ? - - ------ '- .. i 1