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t-jxet kHJ5: J- ;c!.3jiK ?, SKSKOMJIWIuMMII S FIRST EDITION 3 P. M. SECOND EDITION P. M. ouranl '1 , ' VOL. XIX. DAILY CAPITAL JolUNU.. SAL1.M, OREGON, MOM) Y, MARCH US, 1000. NO. 02. z i ziFS 4 4 i me . PAYNE TARIFF BILL IS UP FOR DISCUSSION THE KIDNAPING OF WHITLA BOY STIRS WHOLE UWTED STATES KIDNAPING CASE AROUSES THE ENTIRE GOUNTRY ASHTABULA POLIGE BY BUNGLING PRE VENT DELIVERY OF BOY-HOPES ENTER TAINED OF HIS SPEEDY DELIVERY United Press Leaned Wire. Sharon, Pa., March 22. Though It is not admitted by tno detectives or by tho father of Wllllo Whltla, tho kidnaped boy, It la practically cer tain that a third lottor has boon ro cclved today from the abductors, bcnrlng n postmark showing that It was mailed at a point near Sharon. Mombors of tho stuto constabulary, dressed In plain clothes, galloped ncross tho lino Into Ohio today and made a house-to-house search for tho New Spring Styles Now Shown in All Departments New Dress Goods, New Silks, New Suits, New Jackets, New Millinery, New Wash Goods, New Dress Trimmings, New Laces, New Embroideries, and hundreds of other rTSft ir$Ffr - S u t:st t sit "-- xifcw jT kidnapers In the vicinity of Wurron, Nllos nnd Olrnrd. Pontine, III., Mnrch 22. Pat Crowe, famous reformed kidnaper, loft hero today for Cleveland to as sist in tho search for Wllllo Whltla. son of Attornoy James P. Whltla of Sharon, Pa. Crowo Ib omployod by tho Scrlpps McRao newspapers to help in tho hunt for tho kidnaped child, Crowo today Bald ho bollovod that Wllllo New Spring Suits, Jackets and Shirt-Waist If you want values that appeal to closo buyers of stylish garments, co mo to tho Chicago Storo; wo arc hero with tho newest nnd latest, and at prices that will please everybody. LARIKS' .VKWKST SUITS. Now selling for $0.50, $12.50, $11.30 and up. Spring Jackets, ga-io, $i.no, 91.0.1 and up. Spring Shirt Waists. 'Mc, 10c, 75c, I) He and up. New Spring flats The latest creations now on sale. If you want oxtra good values for your money, como to tho Chicago Storo. Dress Hats 91.96. $2.60. 13.50 and up Silks and Dress Goods Don't bo paying too much for your Dress Goods and Silks be fore you buy. Como to our storo and see what wo ean do for you. Silks at any price you wish; Dress Goods at any price you wish. i i whs safe nnd that the kidnapers will fluu thf chase so hot that they will have to release him. "1 think something must hnvo gone wrong with tho plans of tho kldnapors," said Crowo. "A kidnap ing to be successful must bo planned to tho minutest detail. The easy tlmo for them to get the ransom is passed. If kidnapers get a ransom they must get It quickly and the whole thing must be done swiftly. "I do not believe tho boy Is 111 any longor, and I am sure that tho kidnapers aro professionals of tho shrewdest kind. It is shown that they are not novlcos by tho faat that they ordered the father to advertise In scvornl dlfforent pnpors of differ ent cities that he was willing to pay tho money. v "That they are professionals Is al so soon In the fact that they allowed tho buggy to be found at Warren, O., which is only 1 I miles away from Sharon, but it was not found until 12 hours after tho abduction. "I bellevo tho men aro hiding In Mahoning valley, nnd If they aro not, they are In some subuib of Clove land. Whorovor thoy aro thoy aro' going through a terrlblo strain and I believe they will bo lynched If caught. "I hnto to think of tho pangs of conscience I suffered during tho Cudnhy kidnaping, nnd I wouldn't. hnvo hurt that boy for all tho world. "My advlco to these kidnapers Is to return tho boy at once, becauso ovon If thoy got tho money it will bo n curse to thorn." Clovelnnd, March 22. Uoforo his doparturo for Sharon today, Dotoctlvo Ward of Philadelphia gavo out tho following open letter to tho kldnap ors of Wllllo Whltla: "Tho only unfortunnto mistake In AERONAUTS GO UP CAUGHT IN STORM FORGET TO GOME DOWN r United l'reti l.essed Wire. Los Angoles, Cal., March 22. Lofct In a blinding snowstorm, which lias bcon 'raging In tho Slorra Madre mountains, and over tho Mojavo dol or t for 30 hours, Captain A, E. Muel ler, tho famous aoronaut, and flvo companions, who nsconded In tho balloon "Amorlonn " at Pasadeua Saturday, are In great danger of death today. No word as to tho missing aeron auts ha been recolvod today, and tho storm Is raging with unabated fury, nnd the gravest fear that they will dlo from exposure or starvation Is expressed. Rescue partlos aro being organized, and will soour the moun tains and deiert in tbe hope of finding tho lost party. Captain M-'iolIor Is accompanied by Lane C. Gilliam, a promlnont young mining man, formerly of Walla Wal la, Wash.; Itlohard Halstead, promt rtent soolety man of Pasadena; Syd ney Cray, pigeon fanoler of Pasa dena; Harold Parker, a photographer of Los Angeles, and F. G. Dodschutz, a chauffeur, acting as assistant pilot on the balloon. Members of the party are llglul clad, and when they started carried but one smill hamper of food, barely enough for one meal for the alx men. Reports wero received here early this morning that the balloon had been s'ghted at Lancaster, a station on tbe desert. Later advices showed this report to be unfounded. Doth Palmdale and Lancaster roport that a heavy snowstorm, almost a bliz zard, ha been raging there for 36 hours, and that no balloon could postlbly hare been sighted, unless It our nff.itr with Attorn Whltla was that It was not closed Saturday night to the satisfaction of both parties concerned. "I give you tny word that this Is true. Attorney Whltla deposited tho money In good faith just as dlrectod. Ho waltod flvo hours, whllo tho money lay there on tho cannon. He had done nothing to endanger you. It was only through an unfortunate blunder that tho Ashtabula police tried to effect your capture. "Tho letter you sent to tho hotel was opened at tho desk by persons without authority to do so. Mr. Whltla did his best. Ho noted hon estly nnd will do so again. Try him. (Signed) "O. S. WARD." The kldnnpei-B had Instructed Mr. Whltla to leave tho monoy In Flat Iron park In Ashtabula Saturday night and thoy agreed to deliver tho boy to him In the Smith hotel at 3 o'clock tho next morning. Tho Ash tabula pollco heard of the plans and wont to tho park, and their presence, no doubt, frightened tho kidnapers. Chicago, March 22. John II. Drake, tho reformer and president of a surgical Instrument manufacturing concern, today offorod to become n hostage for Wllllo Whltla, tho lad kidnaped from Sharon, Pa. Ho announced that ho would bo como tho prisoner of the kidnaper upon condition that tho boy be ro turned safely and unharmed to his parents. Ho proposed to takn $10, 000 In gold and go uunrmod to any spot thnt might bo designated by tho kldnnpors. Tho proposition Is bused on tho condition that tho boy's rolntlvos do posited In some bank $10,000 to bo paid to Drako when the boy is re turned snfoly. landod In tho towns. Ovor sovon Inchos of snow had fallen on tho dot- ort early today, and tho Btorm showed no signs of abating. Advices received from different stations In tho mountains state that nothing has Leon soon of tho balloon since it crossod Mount Lowo Saturday evening. A A flerco btorm has boon raging ov or since, nnd moro than four foot of snow has fallen on Mount Wilson up to nn early hour this morning. That tho balloon has already mndo a landing Is praotlcally certain. Car rying six iiorsons through tbe cold air of tho storm-bound mountains, there t no chance that It eould be afloat. Whether tho aoronauto hive landod In tho mountain crags or dropped on the smooth surface of the desert, their plight is equally serious Unless fortune favorod thorn and brought thorn safely to earth nettr some habitation, tho chances are against their finding their way out of their predicament without encoun tering danger from starvation ad exposure. The mountains aro wild, and tho desert trackloss In the host of weather; in a blizzard condition aro terrible. Ill-fortune pursued the balloon from the start. Six passengers In tha car precluded tho possibility of car rying sudden t ballait to guarantee an easy landing. Dut 20 sacks of sand were carried, and six of these were sacrificed before the huge bal loon cleared the city limits. Seven more bags were lost wbei the balloon dropped rapidly from tbe 1000-foot altitude, after It bad en countered a current of cold air abort 1 p 1 JS W w S S HOT AIR TANKS ALL LOADED IN WASHINGTON DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS ARE ON THE FIRING LINE AND READY TO FIGHT ON THE PAYNE TARIFF BILL l United Press I.eaied Wire. Washington, Mnrch 22. Tho gal lories of tho houso wore crowded to day with persons attracted by tho nn nouncomont that tho opening of goa oral diNato on the tariff bill would tnko place this nftornoon. It In expected that a uotablo ora to leal contest will mark tho dobato on the various phases of the volum inous tariff measure. Tlioro aro Democrats who bavo boon waiting sovoral years for tho opportunity that Is now prosentcd to thorn, nnd thoro aro many Republi cans who aro oqually aa anxious (a discuss tho moasHre. Tho motion by Representative Payno, of Now York, Introducer of tho bill, providing that tho houso moot dally at 11 o'clock until other wise ordorod, was adopted. Iliforo tho Hussion today Champ Clark, tho minority loader, nunouncad thnt ho had boon willing to forego tho general dobato on tho tariff, but tho Republicans had Insisted upon ft porlnd of gonornl dobato. In his addrottB Pnyno declared that n gront majority of tho pooplo favor Altedon. Moro sand was lost whtm the party crossed Mount Lowo, With but tlttlo ballast loft tho danger of a landing, either In tho mountains or after n long drop to the desert on tho other sido was gront'y enlinnced. Wire communication on tho dcaert Is uncertain today on account of the torm, and this condition has added greatly to tho dlfllcultlos that con front tho rosouo parties, little hope Is oxprossod thnt tho aoronauts caa bo found, or offeotlvo soarch mado for them until thp blizzard abates, -o- MRS. FARMER WILL BE ELECTROCUTED lUultefl I'reM Ussed Wire. J Albany, N. V.. March Si. -Governor Hughes today declined to exer else oxeoutlvo elwmuney on behalf of Mrs. Mary Farmer, sentenced to death for the murder of Sarah Droit iimi, and nothing now stands In the way of her electrocution at Auburn, on Match 10. DettU the awful crime whloh who committed, there are many who be lieve that tho woman is Insane, und who have worked, albeit In vain, to secure a commutation of bur son- tenet aiI the woman die. I cannot li. terfero for more sentimental rousonu, ' doclarod Theodore Roosovult, when aa governor of New York, ho was asked to save Martha Place, tho mur deress, from the death chair. Sho was executed at Sing Sing, tho first and only woman electrocuted In the state. In effect Governor Hughes has followed tho example of his pre decessor. The persons seeking at least an In yqstlgatlon Into tho sanity of the murderess wro led by the Rev. Father HIckcy of Watertown, N. Y., wh osums up his fight for her life n the followlug werds: "Her offense was terrible. To ad mit that only strengthens my 'plea. tho protection of American Induotrlod Ho natd thnt whon tho MTcKlnloy bill passed thero wan too much rovonuo; thnt tho Wilson bill wan llko a kalold oncovo, giving protection In spot nnd froo trndo In apota, with no well balanced schodulo nnd doclarod that tho Dlngloy bill was tho "primal causo of tho wonderful growth of th Industries of tho United States," Ho doclarod thnt tho tlmo la ripe und thnt tho country nooda n protct tlvo measure and a rovonruo-producflr Ho produced figures showing tint, under tho Dlngloy bill, tho entire rv omto from July 1, 1007, to March 18, IDOD.'Wns $0,GG8,220,204; that tho expenditures woro $0,483,604,868, not Including tho receipts or oxpenli turoB of tho postoftlco department. Ho said If tho postal rccolpts wor eliminated thoro would bo shown m surplus df $74,555,408, bosldos the $50,000,000,00 spont on tho Panama CABAl. Pnyno doclarod thnt tho postal de ficit Is tho result of Incroasod rural service, and ho doclarod that modern conditions demand a maximum o.ii minimum tariff, To oxeouto this woman for a deod whleh was made possible only beuauso of. an affected mind, Is n terrlblo thing. "It Is n duty 1 owo to God, to my statu nnd to motherhood, to Bavo this woiiiiiu'h life, and I shall coutlnuu to do all lit my power to prove that this woman ought to bo saved from tho chair." In the hamlet of nrowiuivllle, near Watertown, James D. Fanner and hla wife Mary lived In a cottage next to tho homo of Henry lirouunu und his wife Bnrah. Tho families wero friendly and they went to tho samo church. Thu women often exchanged wills. Tho lirennans owned their own home; the Farmers wore rent ers. April 23, 1008. the neighbors saw Mrs. IlrHiiunu outer the homo of the Farmers. It whs near midday. Mrs. llreiiuaii sal down to chut. Mrs. Farmer, pretending to be about her housework, win up behind her guout und struck her with an axe. Then Mrs. Farmer confowte. she cut up the body and put the pIkmmm In a trunk. Within mi hour James Farmer and his wife wore moving their effects Into the Ilrennau home. They told the neighbors thnt Mrs. Ilrenunu had deeded the plaoe to them. When IlroHtian aamo homo from work In Uo paper mills that night, ho round himself homeless. Thu Fanners told him his wife had deodod tho property Jo them, and hud run awuy with tho monoy thoy had paid her. Dronnuu, thunderstruck, kept silent for some time. Then ho wont to look at tho deed. Apparently It was properly re corded. Hut he discovered that It was a forgery, and (hut the veiled woman who had called on it notary to sign tho deed was not his wife. This veiled woman later proved to bo Mrs. jame Fanner, who confessed to tho'iuurdcr- Her husbuud Jamoa, yj a, arrested with her., but. ho claims he did not know of tbe killing. How ever, he. tooi Is at Auburn a,wa(ijj( tile dealh penalty. 4 JijJgjjaj iWrtmiitf SSI SHiliiflTIBO 1 WMtm