I 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.