itbst ; section Eiairr pages. SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY MO RNTNO, MAY' 10,; 1904. fifty fourth year no. 3. ? C At the Old White Corner - MEXICAN HATS We have hundreds of thc-nu fl;t one jiow. Yoq cnn turn them Into a down different shapes aud not hurt them a Lit. HEW BELTS 23c will bay the kind you 50c for In some store. f pay Special Sale of LADIES' SUITS The most stylish suits in the city. Popular because full of value, individ uality and service. The Prices are Lower J ' . . i because we can afford to sell cheaper than extravagant stores, '" The most accommodating and ex perienced salespeople to serve you and a sale is never complete until you are satisfied. , A GOOP SAFE FOR SALE - CHEAP HEADQUARTERS FOR CLOTHING AND SHOES RUSSIAN WAR COMMISSION HOLDS LATE NIGHT SESSION BUT WILi NOT MAKE PUBLIC , ANY DISPATCHES FROM THE PAR EAST. ! SUSSIAN FLEET DODGING JAPS Heavy Losses Reported in Munitions I of -War As Result of Battie At Yalu. Russians Retiring From Niu Chwang CUinese Bandits Destroying Railroad and Russians Building New One Japanese io Cut Off Port Arthur's Electric Supply. Russian Retreat Ordered. ST. FETEISSBURG, May 10. (3:43 a.m.) The War Commws'ion adjourned ;it a late hour this morning, but did not make pulilic any dispatches from the far East. This is accepted as an indication that no fresh collisions have occurred. - The Cossacks in touch with the Japanese are simply small detach ments, observing the movement of the enemy in order to keep General Kuro patkih informed. Strict censorship presented the St. Petersburg newspa jers from receiving the dispatches to day v Playing Hide and Seek. London, May 9. The Daily Tele graph's Seoul correspondent says: "It is believed a portion of the Russian Vkdivostoek fleet has been successful ly shut out and is now in the Sea of Japan trying" to evade the Japanese." blocking of Port Arthur. It is believ ed several of tbem were captured.; "It is reiterated that the Japanese have occupied -Dalny. "I learn from a trustworthy source that the Russians in the battle of Yalu river lest 40 guns, enormous quantities of war material, horses, carts, arauni tion and equipment." ' Menaced All Around. London, May 9. The Tokio corres pondent of the Daily Chronicle says 15,000 'Russians are retiring from Niu Chwang to Liao Yang. The correspon dent says the Chinese bandits have de stroyed the road to Taski Chia and to Hat Cheng. The Russians are making a new road. The correspondent adds that the bandits have attacked and cut other parts of the railroad and points out that the capture of Dalny will en able the Japanese to cut on Tort Ar thur's electrical supply. Russia. Lost Heavily. London, May 9.-The Daily Tele graph's Tokio correspondent says 'Tbe Japanese have requested the United States government "to inquire into the fate of forty men missing after the To Keep the Peace. Washington, May 9. In view of the possibility of rioting and looting at New Chwang during the period Relap sing between the evacuation by the Russians and its occupation by the Japanese, the Navy Department has cabled Admiral Cooper to send a cruis er and gunboat to Chef oo. This is the nearest neutral port to Port Arthur. It is believed an intimation was conveyed from Great Britain to this government that the dispatch of a United States ship to Niu Chwang might prevent the appearance of undue activity on the part of a single power. Fatal Train Accident, i London, May 10. A dispatch to the Sews Agency from Liao Yang, dated May j 10, says: An accident to the train' from Port Arthur td Harbin oc curred i May j 8, near Tieliug. 5 Thirty ALL U -LIE The ad vantage of the buying power of cash when you spend it at a credit store. That's why cash buyers trade at They find they get about 25 per; cent, better value for their money than at stores doing a credit business. .; We have had a phenomenal increase in sales fcince adding DRY GOODS 'It's .lno to our cash plan which enables os Mo rombl lmsiaess at one-half the margin of profit asked by regular stores Shoes, Clothtns, Hats, Shirts Everything for the whole family, j Salem's cheapest one price cash store. passenges were killed and fifty injured and the railway was much damaged. : Second Vessel Injured. St. Petersburg May 9. A letter writen by the Associated Pj-ess corres pondent at Port Arthur on the morning the Perovpaylovsk went down says the battleship Pobieda suffered a slight in jury from the explosion of a Japanese mine beneath her hull, i Conditions at New Chwang. Chefoo, May 10. Passengers' arriv ing today from New Chwang say the Russian force probably evacuated that place during last night. Many had al ready departed yesterday" and those re maining made no secret of the inten tion to leave. There was no activity whatever at the forts, where there are still guns in position. Three thousand bandits are camped outside the -walls of New Chwang ready to begin looting at the moment the last of the Russians leave the city. There are many foreign camp followers with the bandits, who are giving the Russians much trouble along the railway between , New Chwang and Mukden. Last week they destroyed a culvert and, delayed traffic four days. The Japanese fleet was in force off Port Arthur; on Monday, but did not make any hostile demonstration Waiting for Reinforcements. ' Paris, May 10. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Echo De Paris says: General Kuropatkin has ordered a general retreat and no doubt intends to avoid battle until - he has sufficient forces. lie actually has at his disposal not more than 150,000, not exclusive of the garrison at Port Arthur, which consists of 20,000 and the garrison at New Chwang, 15,000. The general, who knows the secrets of mobilization, tells the last 1000 men making the required 500,000 men will leave Kasan July 21. MET HIS DEATH BUT WHETHER BT MURDER OR SUICIDE IS YET TO BE DETERMINED. The Son of Millionaire Wentz, of Philadelphia, Is Found Dead in he Mountains -of Virginia, With Several Ballet Holes in His Clothes The Body Guarded, Awaiting Arrival of Relatives. BRISTOL, Va., May 9. The body of E. L. Wentz was discovered in the mountains near tKelly View, Wise county, Virginia, Sunday afternoon by a miner employed at Blackwood Va. It lies tonight exactly as first seen and around it stands a guard of twenty-five men under command of the superinten dent of the Osaka plant of the Virginia Iron and Coal Company. The body has not been disturbed in any way and will not 1e until tomorrow, when D. B. Wentz and J. L. Wentz, brothers of the dead man will arrive on the scene. As no examination of the body has been made, little so far has been learned as to the cause of death. All seem to agree that he was shot, but whether it is suieide or murder is the question. Two front teeth are gone, presumably shot out and holes thought to be bullet holes are found through the coat and vest just below the ribs on the left side. COMING MEETINGS. Republican Candidates to Address Two Special Meetings During the Week. The chairman of the Republican eounty central committee, Capt. Chas. A.. Murphy, Hon. J. O. Graham and Hon. ' II. II. Turner drove out to Lib erty yesterday ; afternoon to complete arrangements for a meeting at Liberty school house which will take place next Saturday night, Mr., Bruce t Cunning ham, the committeeman for that dis trict reported prospects good for a fine Catherine. Several, it not all, or the eounty candidates will go prepared to make brief speeches. There will also be a meeting tomor row (Wednesday) - night at Riverside school house on Snyder Bottom, ea rur al free delivery route No. 3, and a good attendance lis ' promised there. v It is not known just who will be the speak ers but there will be plenty of them, as everv Republican candidate can inter est his hearers. . ; V - THE BRITISH IN THIBET. LONDON, May 9. The Daily; Mail this morning says it understands that the British advance on L'Hassa is now inevitable . and preparations to thai end ar progressing. j Legal blaaks at Statesman Job OCce TRAIN-MAN IS KILLED AND FIVE PASSENGERS INJURED ON NEW YORK. -ELEVATED RAILROAD IN COIXIS-IONS. TWO -TRAINS . COME TOGETHER Cars Tottering ' On Edge of Elevated Structure and Hanging Out ; ; Over the Side. -,K Fire Adds to the panic and Makes a Scene .of Terror Force of Collision Was Terrific The Arrest of Conduc tors and Motorntan Has Been ; Ordered. V NEW YORK!, May 9. A rear-end collision between two trains on the Third Avenue 'Elevated road between 56th and 57th, this afternoon killed Motorman Cornell, of the rear train, and seriously injured five passengers. The firemen took the injured down on ladders. The trains were on the south bound track. The first ear of the rear train smashed Its way . three-quarters length through the rear car of the sec ond train and exposed wires set fire to the wreckage. The fire added to the panic. With such force did the rear train ram the one 'in front that the cars were lifted from the tracks and then settled down with a crash. Tot tering on the edge of the elevated structure, the two cars hung out over the side at an angle of about 45 de grees, but; the coupling held and they were soon; propped np by the firemen. So great was the feree of the collision that the cars could not be drawn apart and it was necessary to drop them in pieces. The arrest of the conductors of both trains and the motorman of the first train was. ordered. IN WRONG PLAGE DR. STRONG SHOULD COME TO SALEM WHEN, HE FEELS MEAN. He Chased a Street Car Conductor W: a Kevolver and' Caused, tne - passen gers to: Leave in Fright, and Paid Two Hundred Dollars for His Fan. Dr. Thomas E. Strong, the dentist, paid $200 in gold into the city treasury this noon for bis escapad of a week ago Sunday night, when he chased a conductor on a McAllister street ear with a revolver and caused aU the pas sengers to leave in fright. - Mrs. Strong was convicted by Police Judge Mogan of disturbing the peace in that she called tue arresting officers names, according to their testimony. Miss Annie Boline, who was with the Strongs and attempted to act aspeaee maker, was permitted to go free and the charge of disturbing the peace was dismissed. Dr. Strong was fined $50 on a charge of disturbing the peace ftnd 150 for exhibiting a deadly weapon. , Attorney Archie Campbell made a plea for leniency, saying that all three defendants had been kept in jail for some time on the night of their arrest; that Strong hf d been under a physi cian's care for a year and was unable to work for six months' of that time, consequently being in straightened financial circumstances. "A, small fine would be sufficient but for the drawing of that pistol," Judge Mogan replied. "It caused people to leave the car for sefety's ) sake. I think that was a terrible occurrence. Bat for his family I would send him to jail. It was. a most aggravated offense. Dr. Strong was intoxicated, ugly and vicious. I have no sympathy with any body who inconveniences people in the theaters, street ear or public streets with acts of rowdyism. I will give him scant eonrtesy and tittle mercy, wheth er the guilty man is a professional man or laborer. Dr. 8trong persisted in having trou ble. Conductor Brady was very inof fensive. Dr. Strong struck him when he waa not looking. The conductor is av small man and when he struek him, na ture's weapon was not enough for Dr. 8trohg, and he drew a revolver. He even says be would have shot and pos sibly killed some passengers if the con ductor had, followed him." San Fran cisco Balletia, April 25. 5; - (This Dr. Strong is the same" man who eame to Salem and kicked np a dis turbance about the stallion "Diablo..' lie was accused here of taking the lock off the stable, door, and acknowledged it. Hereafter when h gets mean Dr. Strong should come t Salem where stieh little eseapades are not noticed.) THE GREAT EXPLORER DYING. Sir Henry M. Stanley Has Been Semi conscious Since Sunday, and Is Not Expected to Recover. JXNDON,May 9.-Sir Henry M. Stanley, the, 'African explorer, is re ported to be dying of pneumonia. - At midnight" tonight it is reported that though his death is not anticipated immediate! v, there is little chance for his recovery. lie has been semi-con-scions since Sunday. Latere He Is Dead. London, May fO. Sir Henry M. Stanley, the? African explorer, is dead. ! RUSSTA WON'T BE THERE. ST. PETERSBURG, May 9. The statement that Russia is preparing to make an elaborate exhibition at St. Louis is incorrect, here will be no of ficial participation by Russia, but there will be a Russian art section and some private exhibits.- -j rl m .,; A SLIGHT STORM ATTITUDE OF CATHOLIC CHURCH FURNISHES BONE OF CON-" TENTION. Bitter Resolutions Introduced in Meth odist General Conference at Los An geles But; the Cooler Sentiment Pre dominated and the Resolutions Were Referred to a Committee. LOS ANGELES, May 9. The atti tude of the Catholic church toward the public school system furnished the sub ject of a sensational debate in the Methodist conference today. While there was! a strong disposition on the part of certain delegates to have the conference adopt resolutions com mitting it to extreme utterances, there was an overwhelming sentiment against any such action and the entire matter was finally disposed of by referring it to a committee, from which it is un likely ever; to be reported. Several other resolutions bearing up on the subjects of divorce, termination of the membership of neglectful mem bes, Sunday cloning of Lewis and Clark exposition, the endowment of th Amer ican University St Washington, chang- in the wording' of various paragraphs in the disclipine and other matters of importance"' were submitted and debat ed by the ;several committees. MARRIED. A WOMAN AT DUNSMUIR ACCUSED AS ACCOMPLICE State Senator McGinn's forceful elo quence will be heard reverlwprating through Jhe, legislative halls of Ore gon's capitol that is to say, not in. the gathericg of the sobihs that is. expected to take place in January of the coming year. Multnomah's doughty , Senator has taken the step which -so seldom suggests itself to the politician with serious results he has lesigned, " the document conveying that decision hav ing reached the bands of Governor Chamberlain yesterday. , .Senator McGinn says the reasons im pelling him to this step are purely per sonal, emanating from the demands of his bnsioess, and he makes the decision now so that the place can W filled at the June election, f The: news caused a ripple if excitement and , speculation around the State House and among politicians who beard of it. "What does it meant" ''What's the matter with Henry f" were heard on all sides, but no satisfactory answer was forth coming and the curious ones' must re main, content with their own con jectures. i Some facts have been known to ob serving friends of : Senator McGinn for a long time. One is that his political and legislative enthusiasm' showed de cided abatement during the. last ses sion. He didn't seem happy among his associates from the metropolis. Thing weren't moving the way he was accus tomed to see them go and at to time was there any evidence of his wonted fire and virility. Since the close of last session he "hasn't ; smiled approvingly upon the manipulation of the machin ery of Multnomah county; there! are bands at the crank which -he does not look upon with confidence, but he has found no means to break loose heir hold, so it is highly probable "that he has derided to pull in his jkditical Sails entirely until the winds blow f rom , a more favorable direction and that he will steer his bark into the placid waters of the business sea, where his law practice is fast '.increasing, and where his forensic eloquence and abil ity will bring him more substantial re turns. --'' IN Tin: ROBBERY OF TTIE OKEi GON EXPRESS AT COPLEY. SHE MAKES A FULL CONFESSION Leaves. No Doubt of the Guilt of the . dates Brothers and Arnett, Who Were Hjr- Boarders. The Dectivss Had Complete Knowledge of the Matter Through Intercepted Letters Gates in Officers Hands Several Times, But Managed to Get Away. V... I ' YESTERDAY'S BALL SCORES. National League, PATTY-SHERWOOD At the home of the bride's parents in Jefferson, Or egon, Sunday, May 8, 1904. at 12 nu, Miss IyH R- Sherwood to Mr. Reuben - Patty, Rev. Jameson, officiating. . . Both the young jeop!e are well and I ravoraoiy jtnown in mis niy. im bride has spent most of her life in Sa lem, and , is one of the most popular young society ladies in the city, and the groom holds a responsible position, as head baker at the asylum. The happy couple went to Albany Sunday evening, and yesterday went to Newport where they will spend a week enjoying their honeymoon, aid listen ing to what the wild waves say, after which they will return to Salem and take up their residence on High street. The wedding ceremony was perform ed in the presence of the family rela tives and-a few intimate friends from Salem and Jefferson, and was a very pleaesant I affair. The pretty home ia Jefferson Jwas tastefully decorated in roses and -dogwood. Miss Lillian Sher wood acted the part of bridesmaid, and Frank Bdehringer of Salem, acted as best man j Both the bride and brides maid were beautifully attired, I the bride wearing a' dress of white cling ing material, displaying the graeefal contour of her ' figure. Following the ceremony; sumptuous wedding break fast was served to the merry party, and those who were so fortunate as to be present were not the only ones to partake of the good things. Mr. Patty is one of the most popular young men at the asylum and in his new happiness he did not forget his many friends who, When they entered the dining room at the asylum Sunday evening found the remembrance in the from of delicious ice ereanl and cake in unlimited quan- ST. LOUIS, May 0. New York, 5; St. Lou is, 1 . Cincinnati, Mny 9. Brooklyn, 2; Cincinnati, 3. Boston, May 0. Chicago, 6; Bos ton, 0. Pittsburg, . May 9.- Philadelphia, 2; Pittsburg, 3. DUNSMIUR, Cab, May 9. Mrs. Thomas Whiteman, proprietress of the Riverside lodging hoe here, wife of Thomas Whiteman, a railroad painter at this place, a man of good standing and member of many fraternities, was arrested today' by Constable L. II. Brown an. t turned over to tho chief special agent . of the ' Southern Pacifie railroad, C. C. Crowley, on a charge of complicity it the Copley train robbery and the murder of Messenger O'Niell. It is. claimed that the evijenco against Mrs. Whiteman is positive and conclu sive. Detect iv Crowley and his assis tants took Mrs. Whiteman to Redding tonight. - ;' ; ; ' :; ', ' :'; .' f Redding, CaL, May : 9. Mrs. Thomas Whiteman of Dunsmiur, maJ a state ment to District Attorney Dozier ia Redding tolay regarding the connea tions of Gates brothers with the hold up of the Oregon Express at Copley. Mrs. Whiteman 's 'story is that Gates brothers, going under the name of Bruce Van Drake and Ed. Lee, lodged at her house at Dunsrniur.scveral weeks preceding tho crime;; that they Went south on the very train that was held up when the stop Was made at Copley; that they returned on, Saturday- suc ceeding the hold-up; that they left the following Monday and that she has since received letters from Geo. Gates, in which lie confessed tho crime. The letters were turned over to th authorities- Al Ithe letters were from George Uates. The last lette was dropped by him in. Portland, April 28, but was datr ed May 1, and in it Gates claimed to be in San Francisco intending to sail the next day for Australia. The officers established t lift .bandit's identity, through a laundry mark. The mark was on a piece of handkerchief found in Nigger Hill cabin near Keswick, and torn from a handkerchief that formed (Continued on page C.) '' CBottes of Hwiyr titles. RETIRED FROM THE SENATE. Senator Henry XL McGinn, of Multno mah County, Files His Reslgna- i tion Wh the "Governor. 5 'No more the harp of Tara wakes,; The only throb she gives , Is when some heart .indignant breaks To show that still she lives." No-more the stentorian tones of fill Our handsome Spring and Summer Suits are decidedly well made and you can call tuem "Clothes of Quality." ON UP TO I Cldthes that are reliable in make and splendid in. quality. Guit Gaoco and G That . are .- exceptionally good values. Traveling Bags, $1.50 to $5.00. Suit Cases, .all leather, $4.50 to $12.50. 5 GROSS MEXICAN HATS 25c each t.