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LICE CAPTURE
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NO. isi
GAS
PIPE FIEND
N THOUSAND CHINESE ARE DROWNED BY A BIG TIDAL WAVE
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PRISON
18 MONTHS
ZEEb DHOWN ARISTO-
I, 'FIMSCO HANK WRECK-
i) "PUACHKR" HEG1NS
KXCK.
lied Presi Leased Wire.)
franclco, Mny 13. Under
HOcputy sheriffs, J. Dol-
rn, confessed accomplice in
fcklog of tho California Sato
: Trust company, wns token
E'Quentln today to servo his
of IS monthB for ombozzllng
worth of bond!) of tho Sac
batlhued on pngo flvo.)
TORNADO
STRIKES
NEBRASKA
TWELVE ARE KILLED
OMAHA, LITCHFIELD, SPRING
FIELD AND LOUISVILLE SWEPT
PUHLICHUILDINGS DAMAGED
MANY STUDENTS HURT.
(United Press Lcanpd Wlro.)
Omnhn, Neb., May 13, As tho re
sult of a tornado which swept over
Sarpy county Into TuesJny at least
12 persons arc dead today and the
damage dono to property Is bo groat
i hat an nccurato ostlmato cannot be
mndo at prcaont.
Tho tornado Btartcd In Omnha Into
(Continued on page ton.)
nirALYiTnDFl
m -m m m fj .w iir iwh
PEOPLES
m
BARGAIN HOUSE
!g Do the Business
II , i , , !
it Is the Reason We Can Afford to
Our Goods at Such Small Prices
I wlume of bnslncss and little profits Is what counts In our Jays.
fcH stacks of ocods, turn them out uickthat Is what makes
the Chicago Store Grow. SEE OUR PRICES:
i
ss floods
00 jardj of this season's
Wee: F jtli'n now on salo.
f " v ,t' -ia high as 75
' n Vn ""C -.
Jj .llflf M.f.., .,.,
ird !Oo jjml.
:ss Silks
bOOO j-,,1 r,t ji.U fiivitnn'u
Ft lN . a nmv fin snln.
If . ' n to 85o a yard
-f, !J5 , tjr juul -Wo a yard.
iiery
0 Pa i n. w on gals In all
ra"l q litits. Ladles' 20c
', n V ubl thread Blaok
a I inc.
!' ' tit Tan Stocking
r 33r ft , 5t0CkiuKS.'"
l'r,
"M8 1"; rjouble-tbrnl
Fe nm-
.........,,,, . uu
LOGO
yards Protfv Vnnnv
?n. fast co'ors, yard 5c
b5
Merry Widow" hnrf
aW 15c
Deep Cut On Prices
$15.00 I.ndiej Stilts, now. .$l).30lj
$19.50 Nuwt Suits, now? 12.50 r
'
$25.00 Swell Suits, now. .Slil.OO
527 and $30 Suits now, . .810.50 '
Ladle' $1.00 Shirt walts
now
lOe
Indies' 10.00 Silk Pott!- i
ooata, now $5.00
Ladles' $1.(15 D'aok Petti
coat3, now OHc
Ladfes 3.00 Trammed
.si.
Ladles' J7.00 lVimnioI
. Huts
,$:l.50
?3.00 China Silk WaUts.
now
.15
11.25 Lons Qlovos.'uow ooo
Bcflt Standard Calico, yard,.5e
Bet.t Apron Glnghnms, yard , .5c
45c Conet Cover Embroidery
yard .-:e
Ladles' ?2.50 Dress Shoes,
pair UO
5o Table Damask, yard . . .20c
Towo's, 5.c 0, 1-lC, 8 l-3c and 10c
The Store Tliat Saves You Money
10,000 cashier
CHINESE I SHORT A
drowned; big sum
ASSAULTS
CHINESE
MERCHANT
BV BIG TIDAL-WAVE $1,250,000 IS GONE IN GROWOED SHOP
CHEAT WAVE SWEEPS 1UVEH
110ATS SUNK, HOUSES WASHED
AWAY DEAD STHEWN ALONG
HANK.
(United Press Leaned Wlro.)
Victoria, H. C.yMny 13. News of
ono of the greatest disasters thnt
China has evir known, a sudden tidal
boro In tho Ynngso Klnng, .which In
volved tho loss of nearly 10,000 llvos
at Unukow, was brought by tin
steamer Titan which arrived Tuesday
night. A boro 2G foot ' In height
Hoodcvl without warning down tho
river, overwhelming thousand! of
Junks, snmpnns nnd small boats, and
wrecking soma largo river steamers.
Somo 3000 'Chinese sleeping In sam
pans' and Mnall craft and mntshcdH
nnd huts by tho river eldo nt Han
kow' wore oniolopcd by tho great
waVo with nwept broken JunkR,
splintered sampans nnd n mass of
debris with swarms of drowned Chl
noio mixed with tho wreckage. Tho
scones for many days after tho dis
aster woro horrlblo with tho river
Bldo strewn with dead and "debris of
wrecked craft for ninny mlloH.
WM. MOXTGOMnilV, DEFAULTEH
IN ALLEGHENY NATIONAL
HANK WEEPS AND EXONEIt
ATES J'OLITICIANS.
i
United Presi Leased Wlro.)
Pittsburg, Pn., May 13. It has
been horned thnt tho defalcation of
Wl'llam, Montgomery, d.fnnHIn
en hlcr Q" the Allegheny Nntlonal
bnnk, is $1,250,000 Instead of $400,
000rajorlglnally announced nnd hl
ball hj been Incrcnscd from $50,000
to $10000.
Whoa this discovery was mado
Montgomery wns re-arrested at tho
request of George E. Tenor, his
bondman, and later, released again
undor $J 00,0 00 bonds signed by
Toner-nd rtlchaxdjijl.- Quay, bou of
tho Into United StntCB Senator M. S.
Quay. Montgomery has exonerated
nil tho politicians whoso names havo
been linked with tho cashier In tho
amboKzloment enso. Ho wept IJko a
child whllo telling tho story, ' Ills
friends fear ha will commit suicide,
bo thoy have hired guards to watch
him day and night.
LUNATIC CALLS HIMSELF 'MACK
THE SPLITTEK" GIANT SAIL
OH "HIT 'EM TO MAKE 'EM
YELL."
CHIEF TO
INSPECT
SALOONS
MUST OBEY LAWS
GIUSON AND COMMITTEE TO
MAKE INVESTIGATION HOXEM
IN DISPUTE ONE SALOON
DILATOHY.
H1I 1 1 I I 1 1 111 II 1 1 I H H
T
CHANCE
TO SEE
FLEETS ..
Portland, Or., May 13. Tho '.
A'.luutlc lleet will manouver off
tlie mouth of tiio coiumtiia
rlvor on May 20. Admiral I !
f Thomas has wlrod ho Astoria ;;
T . . J 4 t.
cnamuer or connuerco o inai
fl'oct. Excursion boats will
take t voral thousand Port
land pooplo to tho river's
mouth on that dato to soo the
big flghtcro.
L
H-HA t H" WKHWH -H
GltHAT WALKER
WANTS WALEEHS
(United Prois Laatd Wire.)
Chlongo. May 13. MdwarU Py
sou Votoii, tliM ngad ptnlostralu who
walked from Portland, Maine to Chi
cago last yoar, Is on his way to Sd
FraueiMo to start a walkors' oluo
similar to the one ho organized In
Chicago. He boarded a train Tuoir
day night.
Western hat awakenori groat Inter
est In 'his Chicago club. He glvM
walks evory day whon ho Is here, tho
one Tuoaday being for womon. Ho
Is always followed by crowds of chil
dren through the parks, whore he
has become n familiar figure. Wos
ton eald before leaving that if he
finds tho rnin? enthusiasm in (ho
west that exists In Chicago ho will
io satisfied.
JOHNSON'S DAUGHTER
SEEKS REPARATION
Cleveland, O., May 13. Bessie
Johnson-Marlanl, daughtor of Mayor
Tom Johnson, of Celovland, has de
tldod to ask tho cc&irts for a legal
leparatlon from her Italian spouse,
SIgnor Marian!,- whom sho recently
married.
Dlvorco papers have been fl'ed
bero by her attorneys, but they con
tain llttlo a to tho details of her
complaint. Sho simply alleges cruel-j
ty and abandonment.
STUDENT
WILL SUE .
FACULTY
Sun Francisco, May 13, Follow
ing tlio iinnounoemant Hint ho was
the fitudtiH who was oxpollod from
Stanford finlvorslty iatt week for
writing nbKreno intturv, ClnudluH II.
Hnymond deolarod today thnt ho will
tight the action of the studnntH' af
fa'is pnmmlttMi and will xtio Hiq fuo
ult for heavy damageH au )o as
U i-dVft, bin liiiioneiire
lUyainud, buu Iiomc ! in Deu--rind
who ir)itied from Los An
Bu. wee onu of the be( known fra
ternity in:i on the campus. He Is
so angry owr lus nxiiuUlou that he
line eagag:d lamjrara tb compol Prof.
A. n. Clark, caalrmuu or tho stu
dents' affair i committee, to produee
tho 1 "era, which, It Is olnlmod, ho
wiM not. If he aueoeods In getting
them Raymond Intends to employ
handwriting expert to show that the
writing Is not his.
At the time the oommlttoe oxpollod
tho student without announcing his
Identity tho members declared thoy
felt certain they were not making
any mletako,
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Bad Mum Dead,
(Uulttd I'm Uat Wire.)
Vew York. May 13 Death ha
olaiinetl "Tho" Allm, one of Now
York olly'a most famous character
and known at'oiio time as tho wick
ed it man In Now York. He died at
his homo in Woit Eiguth street at
tho ago of 77 years. Twenty years
ago he kept a danco hull in Bleeckor
street and later ho was proprietor of
sevtial saloons. Lately, "Tho" had
kept a pool room on lower Sixth ave
nue. v ... ... . .
If th,Wie- FerK .v
The Salem Military band will glv3
ct concert la Wlllson avenue tonight.
(United Presi Leased Wire.)
Portland, Or., Mny 13. Tho gns
ptpe (lend, who, It U believed, has
within tho Inst 30 hours struck down
two pawnbrokTs, H, Nowman and
Max Hermann, wns captured th!
morning after n deBpernto fight In
Erlcksbn's beer hall at Second, and
Burnsldo, n fow minutes nftor ho had
Btruck down John Chong, a China
man, In tho Chinese tailor shop of
Chow Wnh & Company, 240 Ankony
stroot.
The prisoner rofi803 o glvo his
name, Tho police holievp that ho la
n pallor from a British ship now in2
port. -
I With a length of Kas-nlno conceal
(.. . . : .
va in a newspaper in- mu ennu, nv
jwnlkcd into a group of Chlnnraon In
tho tailor Hliop.fit 11:15 this morning
nnd without a word struck down
Chong Thbn uttering n yoll ho turn
ed nnd fled down tho ntront. Ho nttll
clung to tho gm plpo nnd hnd It In
IiJh possession when rornurcd In tho
ErlckfHin saloon, Into which ho dash
ed, whoro ho was ovorpoworod by lili
pursuers nflnr a doeporuto e'rugglo.
At the station the prisoner did not
tnll; intnlllgoutly. Ho hald hln nnnio
was Jack.
"I'll mnko 'em yoll," ho Jtept ex
claiming whllo tho pollco wero
fiearchlnt: him. "They yoll whon I
show 'em tho pipe."
Tim pollco dcolaro tlu man Io de
mented. Ha tj a hugo fo'low, weigh
ing 225 pounds nnd over six feet in
height. Ho wni roughly droasod and
bM nothing on his p -ron bnt would
'tnd to his Identification.
Chlpf of Detootlvea IJnty dcejnro'i
tho ninn nnnwors the description of
the mun icon leaving Pawnbroker
Max Hermann's plne n few mlnutra
before Hermann was found iincon
sflous' and terribly beaten Monday
ovnilng.
Tho pnl'et do not connect tbM lun
atic with iha Wolff murder but ho
Hove ho concHrod the idea of running
amuck among tho North End pawn
bro''Qrs nnd merahnnUi from rending
tho accounts of. tho Wolff murder.
Chong, although -badly wounded,
Is expected to live.
"My name Is Jack tho Spllttor,"
howled tho man to Chief of Pollco
Grjtzmnoher at noon today. This
wn tho only Information tho pollgo
could extraot from th prisoner.
Oflleors from tho British bark Al
byuo fulled to identify the supposed
al'or.
fiiMiatlo's Work.
Portlanfl, Or., Jfuy 13. Is there a
lunatic at Inrga In Portland with a
craze for killing pawnbrokers?
Two pawnbrokers havo been
Jstruck dqwn and terribly .benton
within tho Inst 30 hours. Another
was k'llod 10 ilaya ago. In tho lait
two ensffl robbery was not tho mo
tive. Tho pollro boMovc It was ro
vonge the frenzied rovsngo of a
poverty crazed crenturo who has suf
fered at tho hands of tho collateral
bankers aad wbsse only, thought Is
to satisfy his anger upon them.
(Continued on page four.)
Chief of Pollco Gibson, together
with the llbonso committee of .(ho city
council, will mnko a tour of Inspec
tion through tho saloon district to-
morrow, nnd will cxamlno every bs
loon In tho city to find, out whether
they nro complying wlth'tho now ordi
nance. Chief Gibson vIMted tho sn'loona
last evening, but the result was only
partially satisfactory. Ono saloon
wns fouiUl whoro voryflttroTittempt
lind been mtido to comply with the
ordinance, and afor the others, tho
chlof.ia In donibt us ,tojwhother tht t
a'torntlons mndb by tho Saloon men
havo boon Hufflrdontly radical. To
sntU'y liltnsMf on thin p5li GUmort
hn'"dotoriulped that tho copncllmen
shall oxnmlno the placrs In (iicstloii
for thomsolvos. Ho wni to have.
mad the trip today, but so far lio
has not boon nblcto got together all t
tlio irtorcborH of the license commit
toe. Gibson stated thnt ho had heart
that somo of tho cn'oonu owners did
not eoiifilder It uoco'fary under th
now ordlnnnco to rnmovn tho bnclc
rooms niil boxei from tholr p'neca so
long as they kopt thorn locked or
used them for somo otnor purpoB-t
than to norvn Ibpior In. Olp'on win
not certain vhethcr this would com
ply with the ordinance or not.
Section 7 of tho ordlnanco hnyi
thnt no drlnka of uny kind shall be
pcrved in nny room or box othor than
tho main bur room, nnd Bcctlon 8
ntatH Hint no bar room Bholl bo
nialulalncxl having in eonncct!o
with It nny box or room covering mh
npneo t'hnn 10 by 10 f't; nnd that
whon Hiieh largo rooms are maintain
od they shall lmvu uo doorj, but tht
ono fide, which shall face tho majn
f-'r -v,u tQ entirely opn,'nnd flhnlt
bo obsourud by no curtulms or othor
hangings, It Is obvlomly tho Inten
tion of the ordinance to make tho
Interior of the culuon, and a'l that
tnkon p'ace In P, plulnly vMb'e from
tho street.
Mayor Rwlgrm la of the opinion
that all boxes nnd rooms ehould bo
dono away with, but doe not know
whether It will bi necessary to do
mollsh those or not. Ho stated that
if they wero converted Into wtoro
rooms and uaed oxekislvoly for that
purposo that tharo would probably
be no objection to leaving them In
tho saloons. What tho license eom-
Itiiittee will do about the bnxea whoz
doom are simply locked while tho
present ordlnuuee Is in effect will bo
determined afor thii oominDteo
makea tho rounds with tho Chlof of
Pollco.
Doubt i itltQ expressed If snloon
meu are complying, with ordlnanco in
so fur as It requires a glass front 10
feet wldo.
Tho roarf with tho dollar and th-
man with 4ho million aro alike in ori
-eapoct. Thoy are uqunlly InipotoKt
until partM with tholr inonoy. Tb
maaRiunt bo rarted from blentollsr
beforo the dollar is of any value to
tho world,