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VOL. XIX.
SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1000.
No. 187.
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MUSIC AND
LIFE END
TOGETHER
Bow Dropped From Nerveless
Fingers and His Soul Took
Flight With Dying
Strains.
ALL MOVED TO TEARS
LAUGHTER AND XOISH CHASED
WITH FIRST NOTES AND SI
LENCE WAS INTENSE AS DYING
MUSICIAN PLAYED, AND AMID
THUNDERS OF APPLAUSE DIED.
United Trew Lead Wire.
Sim rnncIsco, Aug. 21. whilo u
crowd of fnsmonnbly attired aftor
thoator dlnors at Tqhau Tnvom up-
plqjidod Paul Schml'tz, first violinist
with Gypsy Rlgo, last night for his
brilliant ronditlon of n wild Hungar
ian molody ho had Just finished plny-
Ing, tho how dropped from tho musi
cian's fingers una ho crumblod to
tho floor doad. A suddon attack of
heart falluro 'onded his llfo.
Wnon tho man stopped forward at
midnight to piny n waltz ho was scon
to sway slightly.
Tho first notes camo slowly, then
tho man, nlrendy stricken, howed his
hond, took a firmer grip on his In
strument and tho violin poured forth
harmony which caused IiIb auditors
to conso tholr laughter nud turn, to
listen to tho oxqulslto strains.
I)y tho tlmo tho solcctton hardly
had boon started, not n sound In the
big dining hall could bo hoard other
thnn tho throbbing notes of tho vio
linist's death song. Ho played ob ho
had never played beforo In Tchau
Tavern; his oyos half closed, tho man
throw his passing soul into his music.
When tho last woird chords came
Blghlng from tho Instrument, tears of
emotion could bo soon in women's
oyes, and tho mon sat silent
With tho conclusion of tho solo,
thoro wob a momentary pauso, tho
wholo houBo rovorboratlng with ap
preciative applause.
Schmidt with forcod smllo, bowed
a Blight acknowledgement of tho man-
licsinuons. iiica no bhikbuiuu, uuu
tho bow dropped to tho floor followed
by tho crash of tho violin. He
clutched at his breast and then slid
qulotly to tho floor by tho sldo of his
brokon Instrument. Boforo n phyBl
clnn could reach his sldo Schmidt was
dead. Ho was 34 years old and n
nntlvo of Hungary.
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Mystery Surround Dentil of Speer.
Buffnlo, N Y., Aug. 21. An In
vestigation, to nscortaln how Victor
Spcer, formerly a promlnont club
man and socrotary to Mayor Adams,
camo to his death, was begun horo
today. An autopsy probably will bo
porformed. Thoro aro a numbor of
stories, all of which aro difforont,
!) which tho man's death Is being
ozplalnod.
Ono rumor is that ho was killed
In a fight with a Jealous husband;
another Is that, ho committed sui
cide, whilo a third explains that his
death was from accidental poisoning.
A rumor which Is credited by many
Is to tho offect that Spoor simply
died from natural combos.
TERRIFIC
FIRE RAGES
UNCHECKED
KIDNAPED
FIVE YEAR
OLD BIRL
Great Clouds of Smoke Hang
Like a Pall Over Burning
Forests of Coeur
d'Alene.
THE HEAT INTENSE
(SREAT PIECES OF HURXIXO
WOOD CAHIUED FOIt MILES BV
WIND, STARTING MOKE FIRES.
' MORE THAN 10(H) MEN FIGHT
IT IN VAIN 91,000,000 LOSS.
Trouble Over the Baby Began
at Its Birth- Mother and
Adopted Mother Fight
Over It.
WAS STOLEN TWICE
aif ii80ifiiBiififiiimfiiie
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I WE ARE SALEM AGENTS
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(for the following celebrated merchandise)
Nemo Corsets, Warner's Rust Proof Corsets, Standard
Patterns, American Lalies' Tailoring Company Francis
Simmons Kid Gloves, and Sun Burst Silks Advanced
Style in early Fall Goods now on Exhibition; Special
Prices Now to Introduce the Goods.
Ladies' Early Fall Suits f
WONDERFUL BARGAINS IN
Just received from our buyer
In New York it grand nssort
entm of early Full Suit that ho
purchased nt about Sixty cents
on tho dollar from u liard-up
manufacturer.. They lire all
handsomely tailored garment;
long coats and .plaited skirt
beautifully trl mined ami lined
with heavy satin.. All the new
shade to select from.. Wo will
leave the decision to.yourself ni
to the values.. They are trade
uinuerH for the Chicago Store,
$5!0.00 Suits, now only 911.00
$23.00 Suits now only $151.80
927.no Suits, now only 91 LOO
August Cleanup Sale
Still Continued
Calicoes, Lawns und Dimities,
now going for tt'&c, -le and Be
yd.
Ladles' Fust Illuck Hose ,pr. lOe
Ladles' Standard Apron Glng-
hams yurd 3c
Rest 7i Outing Flar-uel,
yurd .i .4c
00c Sheet for the double-
beds, now UDc
Double RlnnketH, ,
puir -15c, 75c Otic and up
Men's 45c Summer Underwear,
now 23c
Hop Gloves, pr. Be, OUc, H 1.3c
Ladles' 8.V Lace Dutch
Collars, now 15c
Early Fall Dress Goods and Silks
Now on Sale. Wonderful Bargains.
CHICAGO STORE
SALEM, OREGON.
The Store That Saves You Money.
Coour d'Alono, Ida., Aug. 31.
With moro thnn 1000 lumbormon
nnd farmora fighting tho flaraos, tho
forost flro which hna rogod for noar-
ly 48 hours in tho Oouor d'Alono In
dian roBorvatlon Is boyond contro'
this aftornoon and tho loss In timber
alono will exceed $4,000,000.
A roport was current during tho
morning that Avorill Hnrrlman, son
of tho railroad magnate, has boon In
jured, hut this was later donted, al
though nothing doflnlto was loarnod
ns to tho whereabouts of tho youth,
nnd tho rmrvoylng party with which
ho was working.
Roforo a rnglng wind that contln
ucdhlgh nil night tho flro llckod up
much Valunblo timber and the area
of blackened and blnzonod forest has
boon groatly enlarged today.
A second flro In tho Mica Day dis
trict on Lake Coour d'Alono which
has been raging tor two days Is re
ported controlled nftor a timber and
crop loss of $50,000. Tho flro at
Mica Day covered a stretch of coun
try three miles wldo and flvo mllus
long, comprising mostly "slashing"
and "cut-ovor" lnnd.
Although tho Coour d'Aleno blazo
Is reported to havo started In a
grading camp on a branch of the
Oregon Railroad & Navigation com
pany, an investigation will bo made
by tho government forcos.
Heat from tho blazing forcos Is
intenso and Is causing much suffer
ing throughout tho lako country. A
hugo cloud of smoko overhangs tha
torrltory in tho vicinity of the flro.
Tho terrific heat of tho conflagration
Is wafting groat blazing pieces of
troea through tlio air for moro than
a mllo and gangs of mon aro kopt
busy quenching Inclplont fires.
No deaths or Injuries had been re
ported up to 1 o'clock this after
noon, although rumors of fatnlitioi
have boon current throughout tho
danger Bono.
J. PIERP MORGAN
BOUGHT RAILROAD
'United I'rtu I-mmiI Wire.
St. Paul, Minn., Aug 21. Repre
senting J. Plorpont Morgan. Fred H.
Oardnor and Oeorgo W. Stevens to
day at a foreclosure sale purchased
tho Chicago-Great Western railroad
for 112.000.000.
Morgan jesterdny paid to tho sec
rotary of state at Springfield, 111., his
personal check for 196,047 for arti
cles of incorporation for tho rail
road. Tho company will be reorganized
wlfh a capital stock of 196,000.000.
ARE L00KINGF0R A
PINCH OF RADIUM
I United Ir'k Uul Wtr-J
Paris. Aug. 21. One sixtieth of a
jrain of radium Is threatening tho
-hes of people in Paris today and a
icorpse of detectives are attempting
to trace down the powerful speck,
which was lost by a physician lit an
omnibus. The radium Is valued at
'.000.
The company employes, police and
others have been ordered out to find
the small vial containing the radium,
as it Is feared that It will be picked
up by some person who will prob
ably be Injured for life by the radio
active rays.
MAN THIS MOUSING SHOOTS AT
HOY WHO WAS TAKING OAIIK
OF GIRL AND RUNS AWAY
WITH HKIt THOUGHT SHU
WILL UK HELD FOIl HANSOM.
Topoka. Kan.. AUg. 21. Shooting
t n hoy who guarded tho uhlld, after
which he knocked him" down, u man
rushed Into tho house of Mrs. Char
lotte Meekly and hldnnpcd her
daughter. Minion, aged flvo years,
today.
With tho tiny girl struggling In his
nils tho niMii then dashed out of th
yard and Jumped Into n buggy In
which u wo urn n was seated. Tho cou
ple Immodlatoly diovo uway.
Tho police were notified untL,nra
soourlng tho vicinity In search (7f tho
kldnnpcts.
Tho child was horn in n hospital in
,St. Louis during tho St. LouIm oxpo-
sltluu u ml slio was phiuod 1n ono of
ilu )Hhy Incubators then on exhibi
tion. Mrs. bleakly later signed a lolonso
nnd tho child was adopted by Mrs.
Jnmtw Q. riHrchiy or Mollno, 111. Fol
lowing, t.jo ndoptlon of tho child Mrs.
Bleakly started court proceedings to
tegsln possession of Marlon nnd sho
succeoded nftor much litigation.
This Is tho second time tho girl
has boon kidnaped, tho first tlmo
having boon shortly after tho
mother hnd moved from St. Louis to
Kansas.
Tho fight for tho possession of the
child has boon carrlod to tho fedoral
courts by Mrs. Barclay and la eeh
caso sho has boon dofoatcd. Mr.
Ilarclay Is a stonogrnphor.
Another child wob born In a St
Louis hospital and oxhlblted at tho
same tlmo little Marlon Bleakloy
was on display. Ono of the children
died and the attendants told Mrs.
Bloakley that It wbb her child that
succumbed. This was tho beginning
of tho contoet for tho girl. !(. Is
was spont at Charleston, S. O , nnd
In Now York City.
When tho rush to tho California
gold fields began ho Joined tho Ar
gonauts and coming by way of the
Horn reached Oregon lu I860.
Ho mndo his homo In Portland,
then n moro village and nftor
ward moved to Marlon county, talc-
ng up a donation claim, which Is
now tho property bolonglng to the
Waters Brothers' Investment com
pany, boyond tho City View corao
tory. Mr. Clarke was the first per
son t.) rnlRO a crop of prunes in Ore
gon. Ho spent thousands of dollars
improving and developing his fruit
farm and today It Is rocognlzod ns
bo'ng ono of tho best In tho state
For tho past 10 yoars ho has beon
making his homo in this city and
occupying his tlmo with books. Mr.
Clnrko wn n great scholar and
render, he being nble to speak Qroek,
Spanish and French fluontly. Ills
sunxesporinn Knowicdgo wns won
derful nnd up to tho last hours of
his waning llfo ho devoted much of
Ii'h tlmo ti rondlng his fnvorlte.
Shakespeare. Hlo daughter, Mr.
Snrah Dyer of this city, has n collec
tion of hor fnthor's poems whloh nn
preset ved In n neatly bound hook
nnd valued vory highly.
Mr. Clnrko was married to Mliw T.
Buckingham In Portland on tho 23d
day -f Kohrunry, 1852, and In .Tnn-
vrv, 1800. Mrs. Clnrko dlod In this
city. Thoro are threo children sur
viving, nnmely: Mrs. N. II Loohoy
of this city, Wllllnm J. Clnrko of
nervals and Mrs. Snrah Dyor. also of
Salem. Tho oldest daujehtor. Mni-
lon, died In 1881.
When tho county of Baker was
organlzod In tho yoar 1862, Mr.
Clnrko hecamo Its first county clork,
by uppolntmont of Qovornor Glbbs.
which position ho hold for two
yonrs. aftor which ho romoved bnck
to lils old homo In Salem. At vari
ous poriods of his llfo ho wns oditor
of sovoral papors In Oregon, among
thorn tho Orogonlnn, tho Rocord nnd
tho Statesman. Ho b oca me the
ownor of tho last-namod papor In
1809, nnd continued tho publication
jf the samo for threo yonrs or moro,
with iiplondld success Ho then dln
posod of tho establishment nnd en
tered Into partnership with D. W.
Craig In tho publication of tho Wll
Inmetto Furmor, In J872. In 1880
he purchaed his partnor'H Interest,
nnd romovod tho pnpor to Portland,
but returned with It to Salem throe
years later, whoro he continued the
P'lhllcntlon of tho samo until 188V.
whoii tho papor was morgod In tho
Pacific Ilurnl Spirit, of Portland.
He v.iiH twice elected clork of tlm
ho'uo In the legislature nnd wes ouo
oi tho Incorporators of the Oregon
Ceutril rallr-m-1 b d Its i-crotury un
til Ben Hollndny took ovor tho road.
Ills wns a versatile mind, his writ-
ALL THE BIG
FLYERS ARE
ASSEMBLED
First Great World's Contest of
Flying Machines of all
Kinds Begins Tomorrow.
EIGHT BIG EVENTS
KOim THOUSAND DOLLARS IX
IMUHS TO UK AWAltRKD 1HO
picr.H ok $:io,ooo ooi:s to man
KLYLNO OHKA'IKST DISTAXCH
WITHOUT IlMXIJWIXa KUI3L.
(Continued on Page 10.)
ONE
MORE
PIONEER
IS GONE
Samuel A. Clarke Ends His
Labors and Like a Tired
Child at Night Falls
Asleep.
Samuel A. Clarke, ploneor, poet,
historian nnd Journalist, died at the
Sa'ym hospital Friday, August 20,
1909, at the ripe age of 82 yearn
The end came peacefully and appar
ently painlessly, and the good old
man closed his eyes as does a tired
child when darkness falls, and went
to the long and dreamless sleep. H
retained his faculties to th Urt,
recogn'zlng his son, W. J. Clarka.
who was' at his bedside, but a few
minutes before ho passed away.
His life was a busy one, and var
ied, but whatever his hand found
to do ho did with all his might,
earnestly and consclent'ously. He
was born in the Island of Cuba,
March 7. 1827. but his father dying
his mother returned to the Un'ted
itote . and young Samuel's boyhood
(Contlnuod on page
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5.)
CANNON
MAYBE
FIRED
Insurgents Pose as Martyrs
and Arouse Strong Senti
ment Against His
Iron Rule.
Washington, Aug. 21. That
Spfakcr Joseph Cannon has shied n
boom' rang nt his onomles which will
r.-turn to him with redoubled force
next election day, Is the opinion
here tiday of a few loft-over politi
cian who failed to Join the exodus
when the special tariff session of
congrejs ended recently.
Already the men he placed on un
Ir.r ortant committees or Ignored en
Uraly aro posing as martyrs of 'his
"Iron rulo" In their home districts
e I oxprct to reap votes by "Uncle
Joo's" action.
Cannon this morning Is expected
to become a live 'ssue In their dis
tricts and the Insurgents havo not
been slow t jump at the advantage
given them by the speaker's antag
onlsm.
(United l'rew Leased Wlr.l
Itheluis. Aug. 31. "Tho grand avi
ation weok." ono of tho most Im
portant meets so fnr In tho history of
nerlnl navigation, begins hero tomor
row with nerlnl craft representing
Amerlen. Huglaud, Austria, Italy nnd
Vnince- lu competition for tio nrlzes.
which nggregule $40,000.
ISvery kind of machine with which
man enn fly will tnko part aero
planes, dirigibles, hot air nud spheri
cal balloons being lu tho majority.
As the rules of tho meet allow on
rliiH to be mndo as lato ns tonight
It Is not possible to glvu tlio names
of the competitors, hut it Is practi
cally assured that Louis Blorlot, who
wns the rim man Hi iy tlu) Kngllsh
channel; Itugcrt'linthnm, tho unlucky
monoplnnlBt who Hindu tho first at
tempt to cross to Calais: Puul TIs
sundor, ono of Wright brothers' pu
pils; Iloger Smith, who broke tho
French tlmo rococd In July: Glenn
II. Curtlss, tho American ring de
fender, not to mention Maurice Ouf
fuy, Paul Breguut. Delngrango nud
others who will bo among those who
compute.
Thsie will be eight distinct ovents
of Importance, the chief ono being tho
$20,000 grand prlx do la Champagne
to go to tho aviator who makes tho
greatest dletanco without renewing
his fuel or coming to earth. This
contest will bo spread over threo days
nnd will bo flown on August 22. 25
nnd 27.
Other prlzos will bo awarded to
thoso who roach tho highest altitude
and travel tho fastest,
Thoro Is ono $2000 prize for dirig
ible balloons which will be awarded
to tho airship making tho fastost
tlmo around the course for flvo laps,
each lap measuring 10 kilometers
It Is expected that the present rec
ords for sustained flight nnd speed
will be broken during the week
Tho city of Ilnslms hus mndo prep
urallous for the moot. Around tho
course laid out on the Uthai Plain
grundstands have beon erected build
Inns constructed nnd garugi- ru
pable of housing 2000 automobiles
built. An elnbornte system of t,-l.-phoning
has boon Installed and res
tiinrants nnd buffets elaborately flt-
.. nro an the grounds. A speiful
hall hits been built to receive the
president.
CHICAGO STILL
FEARS A STRIKE
M'niteU t'rM'lS.d 'vii
Chicago. Aug7 21. Within the
next week It wII bo definitely
known whether thoro is to be u
strike of tho motormen and conduc
tors of the Chicago Railway com
pany. The employes aro demanding an
Increase In wages and have been
threatening to strike, for a month,
because the osmpany offlc'als refuso
to accede to their demands.
International President Mabon of
the Carmen's Union arrived here to
day from Detroit, to take perJbnnt
charge or tho situation and Imm
Uately went Into conference with
tho officials of the local union. Fol
lowing this conference. Mabon wl'.l
put the demands of the mon up to
the railway officials, and unless a
settlement or a compromise Is
brought about, the employe will
walk )ut within the next week
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