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Newspaper Page TextI lawmal VOL. XIX. DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1000. NO. 180. (ri)ivDailri pHa TO MURDER AND BIGAMIST JOHNSON CONFESSES Can't Remember the Names of Half of the Women He Duped Nor all Those He Married. BIRDIE DUPED HIM VI VK HUNDRED WOMEN AX SWERER IMS ADVERTISEMENT IX PORTLAND PAPERS FOUND PLEASURE IX DUPING WOMEN WHO MARRIED HIM. (United Press lotted Wlre.1 snn Joo. Cal.. July 13. Doomod to dlo In a prison coll, Christian C. Johncon, vntoncod to seven years at wont to San Dlogo, whoro I mot a stntomont, mndo public, recounting the history of IiIb crlmos. For years ho has ro.imod throughout tho United Stntos duplnB tham. Ho has robhod them of small sums, and, In somo In stances marrying thorn. In somo in stances tho curiosity of tho woman was responsible. Two of his dupos ho Is sorry for, Miss Kailo Ilcon, of Los AiiroIos, and Mrs. Sylvia do Bonnctt, of San Francisco. Ho married both of them. "I havo but a short tlmo to live," snld Johnson, "for tho doctors have told mo that my honrt Is weak. I will dlo boforo I got out of San Quontln. If I thought 1 could Hvo I woulJnl toll this story. "I vas born In Flonsburg, Schlos-wlg-Holstoln. March 12, 1845. My father was a horso dealer, and that wai my business for years after I enmo to tho United States In 1871. "Four years ago my health failed, my hoart was broken by tho death of my sweetheart In Gormony, and I took to making n living by diuplng women. I can't romombor tho naraea of half thp womon I duped, nor of all tho womon I married. Tho monoy I got from thorn was spont on oth ers, and I did not profit by It par ticularly. "Tho first woman I married was Miss Mary Drown, at Springfield, Mass. In November, 1905, Sho gavo mo $500 on the day of our marrlago, and I doeortcd hor In Now York two days later. I simply didn't liko hor. "My second marrlago was to Mrs. Sylvia Pollard do Bonnet, at San Ra fael. In December, 1906. I loft her nftor two weeks and wont to Port land, Oregon, whore, under the namo of John Madson, I courted ten wo mon at tho samo tlmo. I met them by advertising in two dally papers. I think I cH $500 ,n answers to those advortIsemont8, "I remained in Portland two months, but only married one woman. Her namo was Ellxa Brown, If I re member correctly. Sho had been di vorced from her husband, and ownod a third Interest in the largest coal yard in South Portland. I got $1800 from hor, but feel sure tha.t sho would havo given mo $50,000 If I had asked for It. I lived with her two weeks, "At the sain- time I was courting nine others. Ono of these was tho rich wife of a sea captain who ran a steamer between Seattle and Nome. Sho wanted to leave her husband and many me. I took Mrs. Jones to Oakland, and loft her there. Then I went to Les Angeles and on to Mem phis, Tenn., whero I married Mrs. Bertha King. I left her In Louisville, Ky.. In May., 1907. "This vas the end of my matri monial adventures until I went to St. Louis lost year and Inserted an ad la a nowsDaner. There I met Miss Minnie Allen from whom I got $200, Mrs. Catalina Baughman, who gave me $150, and Mrs. Alice Richardson, who lost $400 and a diamond ring through her acquaintance with me, a head nurse at one of the hospitals, in St. Louis gave me $200 Her first name waB Catherine, but I can't re member tho rest of it. I did not marry any of these women, although I was engaged to all of them, and several oth-rs, whose names I can not remember.. "Then In St. Louis I met Miss ND $60,000 ON LOOT, TORCH AND TORTURE HOLD HIGH CARNIVAL Mary Frlck, but sho was too smart tor mo, nnd I did not get a cent from ; mcr. "All this tlmo I waft living under tho namo of Madson, nnd tho police of Portland were looking for me un der thnt namo for deserting the uones woman. I didn't appear on the streets much in tho daytime, and easily eluded tho detectives. "After leaving St Louis I mot Mrs. Elhnbo'u Jackson, of Iola,, Kansas, nnwj&i$1400 from her. I then sklppvo-oiit to Hot Springs, whore I met Mrs. Blrdlo King, but, instead of getting money from her, sho got monoy from me. "Leaving Hot Springs, I returned to San Francisco, whoro an ad for a wife brought me 200 answers'. I mar ried Mrs. Leopold and got $520 from mcr. Afterwards I went to Stock ton nnd married Mrs. Trothowny, who finally had mo sont to prison. At tho samo tlmo I was corresponding with Ida Mitchell nt Ingleslde, and It was n letter I wrote to her that disclosed my duplicity to Mrs. Trethowny "Mrs Josophlno Hounlngor, of Onklnml, answered my San Francisco ad, and I got $200 from her. "After my marriage at Stockton I San Quontln for bigamy, gave out a German splnstor named Katy Hoone. I Wo went to Los Angolos and were .married. I got tho llccnso In tho nnmo of II, C. Anderson." I left her nt 229 Pacific nvcnuo, Long Beach, on tho 0 tli of tho present month. I told hor I was going to Germany. "I went to San Francisco on July 8th to meet Mlnnlo Cnthor, with whom I had boon corresponding. It was sho who put tho detccJ'voa onto mo, nnd had Mrs. Trctheway pros ecute mo. "I want to say that I married all these women Just to havo a good tlmo The doctors told mo I didn't hnve long to Hvo, and I found pleas uro In duping womon, who woro will ing to mnrry mo for monoy I didn't havo. I am only sorry about tho Heonn clrl nml Mrs. do Ttnnnnttr. It t 1 llvo long enough I nm going to glvo Uontlnuod on Page 5.) o INSURANCE CASE IS AT ISSUE Legislature Answer Files Four-Page to Schively's Complaint Exposing Its Fallacy. Olympla, Wash., July 13. To tho G0-pngo answer of State Insuranco lommkislonor ochlvoly to tho Im peachment charges ngalust him, tho legislative board of managers today mndo a reply covorlng loss than four pages, but putting at issue the entire proceedings. Tho reply was pre pared by Reprosontatlve Edge of Spo kane Attorney Goneral Bell and As sistant Attornoy General Lee and will bo served on Scnlvely's attorney to day. To Schlvoley's demand that 16 sen ators be debarred from hearing tho charges bocause of alleged bias and prejudice, the reply says It should be overruled because tho constitution requires the whole body to try im peachments; that there Is no provi sion for excusing any senator and that tho objections do not state facts sufficient to disqualify any senator. To the motion to strike out the forgery matter because It Is pending la the Spokane superior court the reply cites the section of tho consti tution that sets out lmpoachment is no bar to criminal prosecution for of fenses. To Schively's attempt to throw all responsibility upon Sam if. Nichols, head of tho department, the reply doiiles ho was simply an employe and asserts he was duly actlug and ap pointed doputy Insurance commis sioner. Replying to Schively's afflrmativo defense further, particularly to tho assertion In his answer that ho is responsible for the Improved Insur anco laws, that undor his adminis tration as an eleoted officer, the department has been conducted prop erly and that the department he now a high reputation, the board of managers say theso are no defenso to the Impeachment and are designed to cloud the truo issues. . TO HAVE TWO BIB BATTLES Los Angeles Has Contest To night Between Battling Nelson and Ad Wolgast. PAPKE AND FLYNN WILL MEET TOMORROW XK1HT XKLSOX IS FAVORITE IX THE BETTING 10 TO (I WOLGAST IX KINK FORM AXI) RATTLING RATTLE I.OOKKD FOR. I United I'wu I.ed Wlre.1 Los Annoles. Cnl.. July 13. Tho oyes of tho pugilistic world will bo upon tho Augoi city for mo noxt a hours. Tonight Ad. Wolgast, tho foathorwolr.ht boxor. of Milwaukee will try to wrest tho llghtwolght champlonBhlp from Untiling Nelson In a scheduled tonround tight at tho Naud Junction puvlltun. For risking his tltlo Nelson will draw down a check for $5000, whllo Wolgast's sharo will bo $1500. Jim Flynn and Billy Papko moot tomorrow night. Tho Nelson-Wolgast battlo will bo for tho lightweight championship of tho world, provided thoro is a knockout. If tho ton rounds nro finished, no mattor If it does go against Nelson, tho tltlo will hardly bo Involved, as a popular doclsion, the only kind allowed undor tho law hero. Is not rocognlzod as binding, Wolgast's only chanco to pose as tho victor ovor Nelson Is to knock him out, something that tho greatest fighters of his class have novor been ublo to accomplish. Trained to tho mlnuto, brown as a South Sea Islander and In porfect health, Wolgast Is In ahnpo to put up tho battu or uis lite. With his tremendous hitting pow ers and cleverness, tho Mllwaukoo lad figures ho can atop Nelson. Ho 1b about tno only one that thinks this, howover. Nelson is in good shapo, and not at all worried as to tho out come Rotting Is now at odd of 10 to e. with Nelson tho favorite. There is considorablo wagorlng that Wolgast will stay tho limit, and a few of tho habitual short-end followers aro nib bling on Wolgast. No matter what tho outcomo, tho mns nro anticipating a slashing mill from tho tlmo the boys enter tho ring until thoy leave It or ono la carted out on the shoulders of his seconds. Charley Eyton will be third man In tho ring jo watch out for fouls, and generally supervise tho actions of tho men. Both flghtors claim that thoro will bo no backing up, and that ono will drop before the tenth round. cusfir FUNERAL HELD TIM Fifteen Thousand Roses Bank the Casket --Masonic Rties Observed at the Grave. United I'reea Leased Wlre.1 Tacoma. July 13. After lyjng 111 state from 10 o'clock to 1:30 In the armory here today, the body of Con gressman Francis W. Cushman was buried with honors at Tacoma cem etery. The armory was beautifully decorated, over 15,000 roses alono (Continued on page 5.) WILLAMETTE STREETS STREWN WITH DEAD Rebels. Capture Teheran and Hold Carnival of Murder. Houses Are Pillaged and Burned. DECLARE HOLY WAR DOWNFALL OK TIIK SHAH CEH-TAIX-.FOREIGXERS TAKK REF UGE IX LEGATIONS RUT ARE IN GRAVE DANGER CITV IS BEING WRECKER. United Vrrn f.eaed Wlre.1 Tohornn. Persia. July 13. Strow- lug tho HtreetB of Teheran with dead nnd wouudod men, tho PorsLan robols todnv ontored tho city and. storming barrlcndo after barricado, mndo their way toward tho palaco of tho shah Tho loyal cossacks woro powerless to cneck tho advance of tho ovor wholmlug force of robots and Into tnduv li aniioared certain that the unhappy monarch would fall Into tho hniuis or his onomicH. For tho first tlmo In history u holy war was declared today agnlust tho members of tho Moslem faith when tho priests of tho snored collogo of MtiJthldH isHiiod a proclamation in citing the robols to attack tho palaco MuIlaliB of tho collogo woro sont to tho Peru an front or from Nojof, Tur key, to proclaim tho war and tho robols woro prompt to respond. Fired with fnnntlcnl fury thoy ad vanced upon tho city and soon tho strcots woro running wiiu uioou. Looting homes nnd burning shops, tho robols tnronton to wrock tno city. Forolgn residents rotreatcd from their homos In tho outskirts or tno city nnd havo taken rofugo In tho loga Rons about tho palace. Fears for tho safety of even tho legations Is ontortnlnod. Tho mullahs of tho sucrod colleges evaded tho difficulty of preccdont with regards to the declaration o( war against membors of tho moslom faith In a vory clever manner. Thoy simply prefaced tho proclamation of war with another proclamation ox communlcntlng the shnh and his fol lowors. Tho downfall of tho shah Is ox- pected and It is known that ho foars that his rolgn Is at an ond. Ho hns already made preparations to tako rofugo In tho Russian logatlon. If ho doos floo from the nalaco to the logatlon ho may be safo, although thoro Is somo doubt of It. Wiion tho robots entered tho city from the north nnd wost tho small force of Persian cossacks remaining loyul was sont out to repulse them. Bnrrlcades were hastily thrown across the streets loading to tho pal aco In tho hope that through their (Continued on pago 5.) o COMPANY SECURES THE TITLE Remodel the Willamette", Making One of the Finest Hotels in the State of Oregon. The Capital Investment Co., of this city, today secured tho deeds and abstract and paid tho price for the old Willamette property. Tho money banded over was $37,500, and tho present lessee, who has a leasehold until March 1 1910, has been of fered a pretty good price to surrend er the property, lu order that the old structuro may bo converted into a modern hostolry. Tho corporation thnt gets posses sion of tho nbovo tltlo Is composed of tho following stockholders nnd of ef ficers: Stousloff Bros,, Fred StousloR, proaldont. T, B, Kay, vlco-prosldont. Jainon Linn, Cntlln & Linn, treas urer, James A. Wilson, socrotary. Other stockhelders: O. L. Mc Nary, Ray Farmer, J. W. Thompson, Jos. Buiumgnrtnor. Tho company has decided to re modol tho building, and put In a llrBt-class, modorn hotol isorvlco, at nn oxponso of about $00,000. Tho reconstruction of tho building will bo onttroly now, oxcopt tho walls and foundations. Tho furnishings will cost about $25,000, and thoro will bo nothing throughout that is not ab solutely now nnd up-to-dnto, and will ptaco this city In tho first rank of Had do corut hotol cltlos. Managor Fish, of tho Wlllnmotte, Is at Los Angolos, and It Is not known what he will do with tho offer of tho syndicate to rollovo him of uis lonxc. If ho accoptB rebuilding will bogln at onco. SAVED THE BABY BUT IS BADLY BURNED Alnmoda, Cal., July 111. Attor rosi oulng a sleeping babe from a horrible death In a burning house. Fireman Raymond Code today Ih suffering from InJurlos ho received when ho returned to help his comrade fight the spreading of tho flumes. Codo rushed into tho smnko filled building and carried tho two-year-old daugnter of V. Cuvas to safety. A klttou that lay bcsldo tho baby In tho crib already was dead from the effects of the heavy smoko when tho fireman reached tho child. Code thou arcoiupanlod his companions on tho roof for 16 minutes fought tho flames. Their position becoming dangerous the men descended only to find Codo missing. Ho was found where he had fallen on tho roof mi cniiHclous from Injuries ho sustained. THJfsTATE EXHIBIT IS COMING Great $1GO,t)00 Display at A. Y. P. Will Be Brought to This City to Remain Permanently. United I're. Letied Wire. Seattlo, Wash., July 13. Prac tically tho entire exhibit of tho stato of Oregon at tho Alaska-Yukon-Pa- clflo OXtlOSltlon. with whnln nnrHnn of tho Interior ilocorntlnna of Mm building, will bo romovod to Salem, uruguii, ana mnuo a permanent part of tho Oregon stato fair, according to nlnnn that worn dlniiinn,1 lw th Orogon state commissioners during the visit of Governor Bonson to tho exposition. Governor Bonson went homo today, and will probably sug gest to the next Oregon loglslaturo tho Idea of taking tho Seattlo display to Salem. Tho cost has boon figured at about $10,000, and for this oxponso two-thlrds of tho $100,000 display of tho Oregon building could bo pre served. Tho elaborate decorations and panorama workod In Oregon (frainB. thn hnndiUinin wnnd nntinllni and othor decorative features of tho iptorlor of tho Oregon building will bo moved Intact, It tho plan Is carried- out. It Is bollovcd that at the close or the exposition tho Orogon building will bo presented to the Stato Uni versity. CONBOY'S EXAMINATION PUT OFF TWO WEEKS (United I'reaa Letted Wlre.1 San Francisco, July 13. Prelim inary hearing of Pollco Captain Michael Conboy, charged with as sault to murder Bernard Lagan, was sot today for two weeks from this date The examination was set for today, but Lagan's injuries prevent ed him from appearing in court, and it was postponed two weeks. HOTEL IN TEHERAN RELATES THE SUTTON TRAGEDY Cal Doyen Tells the Story as the Officers Present at Death Told It to Him. CLEARLY A SUICIDE DEATH FOLLOWED QUARREL IX WHICH RLOWS WERE EX CHANGED SU'lTOX THIXIilNG HE HAD KILLED LIEUT. HOEL luCIt, TURNER PISTOL OX SELF United I'rrai Leaiod Wlre.1 Anunpolla, Md., July 13. Dlocum ing tho recent order from Washing ton, ordering a reopening of tho caso of Lieutenant Jnmon N. Sutton, nt tho united States marine corps, wuo died from a pistol ballot, after a uuarrol with his brothor ofllcors two years ngo, Colonol Charlos O. Doyon, commaudnnt of tho barracks uoro, recounted tho circumstances as ho recalled thorn. Doyon was ono of tho first superi or olltcors of tho barracks to reach Sutton's sldo. Ho said that tho shooting followed a quarrol, and that othor olllcors, who woro with Sutton, explained tho clrcumstancos to him as follews: "As Lloutonnnt Oslorman turned away, Lloutonnnt Sutton struck him on tho sldo of his head with his flat. "As a. blow had now passed, Llou tonnnt Uttloy, who had stopped thorn boforo, said thoy must fight. Ltou tounnts Osterman nnd Button strip ped to thoir shlrtBleovos, and, after a few blows, Lloutonnnt Sutton was knocked down. Ho lay still, rofualng to got up. "The others stnreod nwny, when Sutton Jumpod up and mado an at tack on Lieutenant Adams, Adams knocked htm down Lloutonant But ton, infuriated, again got up, with rS'ugli JatiBuago and rushod to his tout, i l"1 W!'i "MbdtbTory Ouo dr you boforo Midnight,' ho said. Moartwhlle Lloutonnnt Hoolkor who had come In boforo. and whoso tont adjoined Sutton's, heard a disturbance In the latter's tont, and came to tho en trance to Invoatlgato. Thon, according to tho offlcora story, Sutton rushed out of tits tent with a rovolvor tn each hand. Roelker followed him. Sutton mot Adams on tho road with several othora. nnd fired. "Ouo of tho shots struck Llouton. nut Koolkor, who dropped to tho ground." continued tho ofilcor, "Llou lonani Adams thoroupon rushod to ward Sutton, who was still firing. Lleutonunt Adams grappled with Lloutonnnt Sutton, nnd threw him. "Almost nt tho same tlmo, somo ono said; 'My God. ho's killed Rootkor.' Thereupon Lloutonant Sutton pulled his right baud from un dor his body, and fired a shot which ontored his head about on a lino with tho eye and about an Inch and a half from tho ear. The bullet passed downward and camo out stlghtly be low tho loft ear, through tho nock "Tho ofllcor of tho day, Willing, who was standing In front of Llou tonant Sutton, and about throe feet from him, reached ovor and took the rovolver from Lieutenant Sutton's hand. "Lieutenant Rootkor was picked up unconscious nnd assisted to the barracks. This Is tho substance of what Lloutonant Utloy told mo, and what I have learned from other sources." YOUNG ROTHSCHILD KILLS HIMSELF London, July 13. Advlco today from Vienna say that Baron Oscar Rothschild, aged 21 years, tho young est child of Albort Rothschild, com mitted suicide there last night. A lovo affair U jpipposod to havo caused the youth to ond his life. Young Rothschild had Just re turned from the United States, whoro he made an oxtondod tour.