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MICHIGAN AND WISCONSIN
MARTIN JURY STILL OUT UNABLE TO REACH AGREEMENT
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SALEM
AROUSED
9
FULL WIDE
BRIDGE
Sotith Salem citizens turned out
lis the number of about 40 last night
hi the Geo. P. Mason box factory
I ud eipretscd themselves strongly
Bis opposed to voting for any bridge
bonds unless a full-width bridge
vii erected. Tho commlttoo that re
ported the resolutions was J. L.
Cimraln!, J. A, Carson and Martin
VImco. They wor unnnlmouBly
lioptcd, Tho resolutions also on-
djr.ed the fight of the "two aldor-
oen from that ward for a full-width
b-Uge Councllinon Elliott and
Kidcllff both spoko and wore re-
(Continued on Pngo 7.)
WAR IN THE
BALKANS
IMMINENT
BECAUSE Of LITTLE
POWERS
(United Prrsi J-enncd Wire,)
London, Oct. 17. War In tho
Dalkahs is imminent todny accord
ing to statomonts niado In diplo
matic circles hero,
It is folt that tho inck of restraint
among tho populaco of tho smaller
Balkan states, will load to serious
trouble.
Tho bir powers aro willing tto
nwalt tho action of a conforonco but
nulgarla, Sorvla and Montenegro, it
is feared, will commit somo ever:
act that will start hostilities.
Thoro seems littlo possibility, un-
'Cnnttnuod on unee savon).
CITIES IN
EIRE BELT
MENACED
FLAMES CONTINUE
UNCHECKED
A Powerful Inducement
la the Quick Selling of merclmni'lso IS LOW PRICES. If you wont
the Best Darsulns In Salem in Ladles' COATS, SUITS, DRESS GOODS, I
SILKS, MILLINERY, HOSIERY, UNDERWEAR and All Kinds or
Fall Wearing Apparol, como to tho CHICAGO STORE. Tho store with
the up-to-dato goods at tho lowest prlcos.
A GRAND SHOWING
01 the la'est Dross Goods. Flno
Dresj an I Walstlng Silks tho na-
wrtment Is great. Choosing will
e easy for you and the price
r the lowo t qupted by anj
boute
Vard 2.V, aso, 40c, 5c and up.
Thousands of Yards of Outing
Flannels at Special Prlcos,
YI Ic, 3C, OHC, 8 1.8c MHd Hp.
Prices on niankets and Comforts
t away down. Palp 30c, 40r
8c and up.
Th CHICAGO STORE for Honut
Goxl at Low Prices.
XKW ARRIVALS IN
Hies' Suits and Coats
" 1UKGAIX PRICES
650tthe cheap for Spot Cash.
IIS 00 SllT8' D0W for""9-00
lit oo ITS' Pw for ?,3
ii6ftT s" now r...9ia.oo
LONG COATS for... .On
OKG COATS for... MaM
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(United Press Lenied Wire.)
Dotrolt, Mich., Oct. 17. Forest
fires today aro sweeping uncon
trolled through tho northoastorn
countlo3 of Choybogan, Presquo IjIo
and Alpena In tho Lqwer Peninsula.
According to advices from tho fire
zono. Great areas of forest aro be
ing annihilated hourly by tho flames
fanned by n steady southwest wind
Alpena city on Thunder Day, tho
shipping point for largo outputs of
grain from tho northern "paR of tho"
stnto, Is again thrcri toned with de
struction. Already the residents
havo been fighting tho flamoi for
two days and a night.
Cheboygan, on tho couth uhaunel
of (ho Mackinac stnilt, i mon'Rce-I
fr&m tho threo land sldos by tho fire.
The Intense hont Is drlvlng'tho worn
on nnd children to tho protection of
vessels In tho stream
Relief trains that loft Cheboygan
AERONAUTS
PROBABLY
DROWNED
BALLOON IS FOUND
ON OCEAN '
(United Prci Leaned Wire. I
Yarmouth, England, Oct. 17.
Tho deaths of Lieutenant Foortach
and Aeronaut Hummel, of tho miss
ing Gorman balloon Hergozoll nro
practically assurod by tho , Arrival
today of tho Norwegian steamship
Nadded, bringing In tho donated bal
loon. The Horgezoll was found flonttng,
half submerged, a hundred ml'ea
northwest of Heligoland.
Thoro was no "trace of tho aero
nauts nnd thoro is but tho baron
pplbfllty that somoboat.hns picked
thorn up. ,
Tho lnnt honrtd from tho bnlloon
Ists was a note which read:
. "librzogoll,'0' n. m. Holghth
2, lOmBters;' -direction, ajidplnco
uncertaln: probably jioa?'thocon8t.
Foortsch."
This was picked up In Hnnovor
provinco near Ostor Wann.
MURDERER
IS CAUGHT
BYjOLICE
AFTER A RUNNING
TIGHT
(United PreM Unird Wire.)
Sun Francisco, Oct. 17. Grated
by tho fancied thought that Mrs.
Augusta Towlo, proprietor of the
Drown Pnlncu hotel In tho contor of
tho business soctiou of tho city, had
cruused his wife to loavo him,
Mlchnol Dorsos, n nlghtwa-tdiman,
shot tho woman to death today In
her apnrtmontsnt thu liotol and then
turned tho rovdlvor on himself. Al
though ho fired oovcral shots Into
his body, none of tho wounds will
prove fatal. (
Doros had threatened . Mrs,
Towlo Bovoral times bufore 0,1,. ac
cording to Ills own confession to tho
pollco today, l9 sought hor with do
llbcrato Intontlou of killing hor. He
PRISONER
IS STILL
HOPEFUL
LAWYERS EXPECT
DISAGREEMENT-
(United 1'reM Leed Wlr.)
Portland, Of,' Oct. 17. Tho fat
of Edward II. Martin, West Point
graduate and former nontenant In
tho United States Army, whose trial
for tho murdor of Nathan Wolff In
tho lnttbr'B pawnshop laBt Bummer
cloBOd yostorday, is still undoclded
an tho Jury had not rocolvod a ver
dict up to 2 o'clock this nftornoon.
Although Martin Is hopoful that
tho verdict, when it Is reached, wlil
frco him, his friends and lawyers do
noT tnko such n cheerful view of tha
Bltuntlon. Thoy ngreo with the ma
jority tlmL tho .dollbornttons of tha
Jurors will Toault In a dUngreoment
Ono of tho rumors bolng whlHpered
about tho court building Is that some
otorel tho hotol with a rovolver In pf tho Jurors aro holding out e.
onch hand and Mrs. Towlo, who was Icnuso"" thoy "cannot ronscio
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Hi:SIDENTE OF OIL ROHERTSOX, ONE OF 6ALE.M' MANY
NEW RESIDENCIES. PHOTO IJY LOEWENIJERG.
FINE
late last night for tho fire be
sieged dl trlcts of the interior havo
beon compelled to return being un
ablo to penetrate the fiery walls of
(lamoft. Railroad communication bo
tween the coast towns and tha In
terior has been cut off and In many
places telegraph poles havo tjrned,
crippling tho sorvlco.
Many small towns of tho Interior
deprived of communication, havo be
lieved to have been destroyed. Ji
is feared that tho list of dead will
be greatly Increased when those
towns are heard from.
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Alpena, Mich., Oct. J 7. It Is es
timated this afternoon that over
300 persons have Leon Injured In
tho forest Mres that have been
sweeping the northen pa t of Mich
igan for the past three lays
The number of known dead to
date is 41.
At least 2000 fam'lled havo bceo
rendered homeless.
It was 'earned today that In addi
tion to the towns reported destroyol
yesterday, Dolton, South Rogers,
Posena and several small villages
have been burned.
EVANS TAKES A
FLING AT L0EB
Milwaukee, WJmOcL7jR
"CwitSMFroia Page I.)
New York, Oct. 17 "Mr. Loob l
undoubtedly ono of tho best men
who even served as secretary to a
president' writes Roar-Admlrnl
Robley D. Evans, U. 8. N., retired, In
tho November nnmber of Hampton's
nroadway Magazine on sale hero to
day, "but I am sure I could keep
him busy for a long time denying
things If I published everything the
president has said to mo "
"Fighting Dob's" gontlo dig at
Secretary Loeb la occasioned by
Loeb'a denial atthe time, tho battlo
shlp fleet sailed from Hampton
Roads, that it would stay but a few
months on tho Pacific coast and thon
return to tho Atlantic seaboard. The
assertion wai mado by a New Yorl'
paper that attributed Its Information
to an authoritative source,
standing behind tho desk talking to; convict
a customor, ran scroamtag to hor
room.
Dorsos followed hor Into hor
nparlmonts nnd closed tho door be
hind him. Tho women In tho hotel
ofllcq ran screnmlng Into tho Btreot,
ns tho roport of the murderous re
volver rang out and ono of tho room
ers at tho hotel notified tho pollco
by telophono,
The murderer Btnrtcd up thu
stairs of, tho hotel with tho evident
Intention of making his cscnpa and
thon shootln ghlmself twlco he
throw his revolvers away and ran
down again.
Captain Duko nnd a policeman,
wh r-nd atrworod tho hurry call 'In
an nutomobllo followed tho fuggltlvo
and captured him by firing a shot
over' his head. -fc
Dorsos was taken back to the
wono of his crlmo, and mndo n com
plete confaiBlon,
"I killed tho woman bocnuso sho
ndvlsed my wife to lonvo me," ho
said. "I am glad that I did It and
I am only sorry thnt I did not flnlalt
mysolf nt tho samo time."
Later, when tho surgconB nt tho
Emorgonpy hospital told him that
the wounds ho had Inflicted on him
self would not prove fntnl, ho re
fused to mnko a statement.
A Konrch of the man's room after
tho shooting rovenle-' tho following
note, evidently wrltton teday:
"Dear Mamma It Is eRher you
or Hiiloldo nnd murder for mo.
"(Signed) MICHAEL"
Tho nolo was addressed to Mrs.
Augusta Dorsos, general dollvory,
Los Angeles. t
Dorses' wlfo was formerly ' em
ployed by tho dead woman when 1I10
owned tho hotel Decker Mrs
Towle sold Tho Denckor somo tlmo
agrt.
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ntloiMly
on circumstantial ovldenco.
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DUKE D'ABRUZZI
HAS DISAPPEARED
MOR8E HAD 'MERE ROY
HICJN 9100,00 CHECK A
Now York, Oct. 17. Adolph
Undo, Tormor nsslstnnt cashier tfc
tho National Ilnnk of North Am&rl
ca told tho dotnlls of "high flnanco"
today In tho trial of Oharlos W.
Mon-o and Alfred H. Curtis on, the
chnrgo of violating tho National'
banking laws, 4
Ho told of tho "dummy transao
tlonB" In which Leslie- W. Whiting,
a, 10-yoar-old boy, algnod notoB,
Home for sums ns great as 100
0(i0. Rado told of having handled
tho notes and tho' prosecution
showed by his tontjmony tlmt the
funds usually worQ crodltod lb Lho
account of Charles Wv Morse. Wjilt
Ing's notes wore usually secured by
Ice stock, Morso being at that tlmo
tho bead of tho Ico trust.
In general substantiate tho testi
mony of tho Whiting boy, who said
ho signed tho notes bftrmuso Hlo em
ployers, n brnkornge f'rm, had. told
him to slg thorn;,
.o
OROSSEI) PLAINS TO '
ORECION IN IHflO
Sheridan, Or., Oct. 10. Mnrgaret
Drown Smith, who died at tho honni
of her sister, M,. Pnniuol Duel, in
tills city, October 12, was born In
Sangamon county, Illinois, March 5,
18-10 Sho crossed the plains to Ore
gon In 1850, npd was married to
Archibald McMookln. July 30, 186U
Horhusband dio'd In 1885, and slid
was married to I, L. Smith at Salem,
January 20, 189G.
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FLEET ARRIVES AT
YOKOHAMA TOMORROW
Toklo, Ovt, 1,7. A wlrolea mes
sage received today from Admiral
8pcrryr commander of tha Atlantic
fleet of American battleships, says
that tho ships wllj arrlyo off Yoko
haina Sunday morning, Ho ex
plains that tho delay was causod by
BtormB onrcute off tho .north coast
of Luzon.
Congressman W. R, Ellis Is speak
ing at Coos Day In the Interest of
the Republicas cand'W.
W. N. GatM ! tttr. hmm-hIss to
tlwnd ftUy in FrUl,
I
Rome, Oct. 17 After purchasing
ffjO. 000 worth of Jewels from a
Turin firm and presenting each of
ficer of his ship, tho Reglna Elena,
with a pair of gold sleevo links,'
Duke d'Abruzzl has disappeared. AL
though absolutely nothing can be
learned of the duke's whereabouts,
It Is whUiMrftt that he will toon turn
r 'Pfz'4'r '
MAKE ATTACK ON
PRIMARY LAW
Dismnrck, S, D.. Oct. if. A fault
was filed today In the tato supremo
court to test tho validity of tho pro
vlsloni of tho primary law applying
to tbo election of Un'ted States sou
ftors. Tho action; of cltlieM who
filed the cffiplnt- is eawwwl by thfl
refusal ef gator Haborfh anl
Cojiel Llttl to wlWraw froat h
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