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1 ', A VOL. XII. SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1911. NO. 2. Mill TV OF. LONDON 1U1U ill ! -, SEVEfJ AfJARGIllST DEFY TftOOPS ' D PERISH IN DUG ; SIX ARB FyFALLY-INJURED A SCORE OF OTHERS WOUNDED ' TROOPS USE MACHINE BUNS Most Spectacular Fight in London Since Crusader Days Thousands Gather Regardless of Danger to (Watch the Pitched Battle Home Secretary Winston Churchill Takes" Charge and Orders Out the Machine Guns---House Is Fired, and General Conflagration Threatened Anarchists Fight to the Last. v ,: ' OHIT1D PUSS LEASED WIRI. London, Jan. 3. Barricaded In their lair in the very heart of Lon don's slums, sevcin anarchists defied the police, the lire department and three companies of Scotts guards to day, all beaded by Home Secretary Churchill, until the house was set on fire by the shots of machine guns, ' Bnd the defenders were burned to death. The tight began when the po HiVi, seeking two members of the no torious "Houndsditch" anarchist's gang, discovered two of them in the house. These men began the battle by firing down on. the unarmed offi cers. Other police were called and TO FURNISH LAWMAKERS WITH DATA BOARD MEETS FOR THE PURPOSE OF 1X136 THE AMOUNT OF MONET STATE INSTITUTIONS WELL REQUIRE FOR NEXT TWO TEARS. The board provided for by a con current resolution of the last legisla ture and the duties of which, are to visit and inspect the various public institutions and ascertain the amount of appropriations needed by them, for the next two years, and submit Its findings to the coming . legislature when it convenes this month entered upon its duties yesterday, ; - The resolution provided that the board should consist ' of three-holdover senators to be named by the governor, and three representatives to be in turn named" bthese senators. It further provldea-ithat . thai -board should meet at "Salem at aatenot later" than December ' 20, 1910, and take up its labors,. Had it met at that time It wqld Jjave .had ?.mpl time in which ttf Vlitjhe (JngUtons, investigate theV,surrounding condi tions, ascertain the needed Improve ments, an prepare an. jestljjiate- of the needed Appropriations, .t): tfaftet however, to comply "with 'this provi sion of the resolution and it will have now less than 20 days In which to make the investigations as the reso lution provides that Its report must be submitted to the legislature by January 20. Prior to the creation of the board, the duties with which It is vested fell upon the shoulders of the secretary of state and' the pur pose of the resolution was to relieve that official of those duties. and at the same time provide a way whereby the legislature could be furnished with more data than the secretary of state was in a position to secure. ' . The members entering into the composition of the board are: Sena tors Nottingham, of Multnomah; Wood, of Washington, and Merryman, of Lake; and Representatives Abbott, of Multnomah; Reynolds,' of Marlon and Mahoney, of Umatilla. The board visited the state peniten tiary yesterday and from now on t will, pay visits to the other, institu tions as rapidly as it la possible. the Scots guards were brought In. The defenders 'still resisted. Others, evidently belonging to "the gr.ts, and living in the house, Joined in the bat tle. The attacking party at last faced seven desperate men, heavily armed, and firing with reckless abandon into the tanks of the attackers, and :the crowd of spectators gathered fly the fight and sounds of battle In the streets. After the fire the anarchists re treated to the roof, whltTe they con tinued to pour shot from rifles and revolvers into the police until the flames ate away the supporting walls, arid the roof, on which they stood, fell with a crash. Alt' 'ftheT men are be lieved;, to have bten thrown into the Ore and incinerated. Battle Raged Five Horn's. For five hours the battle raged. Half a dozen persons Were fatally wounded, and a score' of others re ceived lesser InJurDos. Police Ser geants LeesorJ Cheesman and Cluck, Policeman Dyer, John Gidman, a spec tator, and an unidentified man, were shot, and are now dying from their wounds. Many of the injured were spectators of the battle, who,, defying the police, forced their way through the lints into the rifle range of the defenders. Machine Guns Used. It was not until machine guns, brought up by the Scots guards, were used that the defenders were -driven from 'thelr position. ' The first shots sent crashing through the building were answered, by the burglars Soon the machine guns set fire to the house. ' Gasping for air, this defenders were seen at the windows for brief Intervals, but thy still kept up their fire. , At . last the shots came only from the upper? windows, and then the barking of their arms from ' the roof, "and the slight rifts ot ftre:. in the" smoke showed theunen had .taken a last stand above the raging furnace that had been their, refuge; . ;. ; ! The anarchist-burglart "Were recag nied"fls , "Peter, tfceulr": and ','Frttz," membeifbA Hound stitch gang, who are believed to be plotting to kllVGeorge, and who, it laJ .Believed,, muraerep ,m wv, iiicujcir two weeks' 'ago when Jf.amm. taeys were digging underneath the vaults of. a, HountlBtitch Jewelry store. were discovered. - .i t f Entire; London Police Force Out A posse of policemen, conducting a house to house search of a block in the Blums for the two criminals came upon them in a house inSydney street Without ' warning ?the men fired from the attic, driving the po liceman; who were unarmed, -into the street. Evfa then the' firing was kept up until the police ran out olge. The Scow, puards were called out, section at a time, and; finally prac tically theentire London police force was at the M-ene. Rifle halls sent through the windows and Walls of the bouse, from which the men kept fir ing, had no effct. Attempts to smoke them oat likewise failed, and firemen were summoned to pour streams of water through the broken windows. ' The outlaws seemed possessed of an inexhaustublc supply of ammuni tion. It Is estimated that 1000 shots were f.red by them alone,' while prob ably 100 times that many were fired (Continued oa page five.) UILDI11G Found tlie Gooda On HinV r ' Taepma, Wash., Jan. 3. The police are today lnvestigrjting the record of a man giving his name as R. Madrigal, of San Francisco, who was shot and slightly wounded last night by J. G. Gray, who saw Madrigal leaving the house of his daugh- ter-Mrs. Walter Anning, of 640 North Anderson street, with sev- err.l articles of value In his pos ' sreslon. After shooting the man; Gray telephoned to the po t lice station, and the patrol ' wagon was dispatched to the soene. When searched a large num- ber of articles recently missed from varlous'Tacoma homes were found. ILLINOIS CAPITAL TO HATE A COMMISSION GOVERNMENT UNITED FRE8S IJDASEB WIRE. Springfield, 111., Jan. 3. Springfield is to be ruled under the commission form of government. The commis sion idea was adopted yesterday and the city officials are today arranging for a special election to name the commissioners. REFUSE TO PROSECUTE THE WOMAN MRS. VICTORIA HEROLD, OF '"TA COMA, WHO SHOT HARRY WLL LIAMS, WHO WAS TRTING TO KIDNAP HER BABY,' IS SET FREE. ; "TvifiTab visas icamo WIM.J Tacoma, Wash., Jan. 3. Mrs. Vic toria C Herold is enjoying her liber ty at her home today. She is hell blameless for having shot Harry D. Williams: Saturday,- when Williams is alleged to have attempts to kid nap her baby girl. Francis Horace Creely Herold, the divorced husband, is still In the cit Jail, and' will be prosecuted for' conspiracy in the at tempt to kidnap"the child. .'Jamas WGlenghan. and Sydney; .V. - Mark, whom Herold Is alleged to haVe hired fc hMp in the wik, probably will not bV. prosecuted, Imx will he held' as vUnesses again;. Herold. : Williams, 'who' was shot In the'iTdlHclby Mrs1, fcerold, when' he 'dtfempted to take the woman's child from hp'by rorce, Ir&' a mdrV condition, and toOi&it was renarted that "peritonitis tea feared,- " '"" " " j.-Mrs. HerolTm ""release late last tilght came s a surprise to hjar. tit t'ftFranfces, tin; ''causV'of 'all the trouble,; was "-b'eitg" tucked into, bet, when Deputyr Prosecutor Burmeig ter called at the city jail and gave Mrs. Herold the Joyful news that was free to return to her home: A TWO HUNDRED MILLION JOB OP HAIR CUTTING . tCHITMD FUSE LSASU Will. .'.'Shanghai, Jan. 3. One hundred and fifty "leading Chinese of Shang hai, including Wu Ting Fang, former minister to the United States, will sever connections with their queues January 15, in accordance with the edict of the Peking senate. Wu put the finishing touches on the wavering spirits of his fellow citizens when he caJled a meeting at his house and pointed out to them the advantages of going about with closely cropped heads- After an enthusiastic speech, Wu produced a set of solution? nanVng January IS as 'shaving day," and all present signed It, Cold Wave Hangs On. ' I Omaha, Neb., Jan. 3. The cold wave continued unabated, today throughout thte 'West,' without indication of. 3i modera- ' tion. Blinding sleet felt through- out' the night and at daybreak ( the thermometer reeltered 14 degrees below zero. Much suf- ferlng was reported From all parts, and unless there la a change soon, it is prirflcted that several deaths will result. COLD WAVE ICJITSBRI Much Suffering Caused in the Cities 16 Below in Iowa and 8 Below in llinois Re- ' lief Is Promised. ! CATTLE DIE BY THOUSANDS Mercury Drops SO Degrees in 24 Hours In Texas -Hugo Snow Drifts In Nebraska Block All IUilroad Traffic, and Wires Are Down Gen ; rally Throughout the , Middle AVest Storm Reaches New Eng. land Tonight. cnitsd raeas LisisD wire. Chicago, Jan. 3. Although slowly rising temperature is promised for the central . and middle Westerri states today, the cold wave that came with Sunday night's blizzard, still holds sway. Hundreds of persons are suffering in the larger cities and throughout the great stock raising regions, thousands of cattle - and sheep have perished. In Iowa the temperature today is 16 below zero In Illinois It hovers around five to eight below. Through out Texas where the mercury dropped BO degrees, in 24 hours, thousands of head of cattle have been killed. The storm is still traveling east ward. Tonight, according to the wea- ( Continued on page five-) ' . A Few, Words With Mayor ' . Lachmund. ., . .. t , ' '' '' ; The people have, madia:) you mayor1 of Salem tm your record of fighting grafts. In the formation .loiV.your ! committees thei. people .expect you to protect them in this re- spect. The ' political machine,!, seeks. to pay Its-debts over your hjad'i at the expense ot the taxpayer. ; Inferior material entering in- .to public contracts are unloaded on cities the size of tJalem. . ' In the construction nl streets and sewers; the peopU . expect a square deal for all. i Handing out five-dollar a day Jobs to inspectors of public work who do not inspect, Is one game. - The people will back Mayor Lachmund in giving this city a new deal and a dead deal all around If thkiy cannot get these things a commission government will be installed, and do-away with present system. The people will back you in your efforts to give them an honest and solvent administra tion. There is no margin for polit ical favors in municipal govern- ment in so small a city. Here's a Happy New Tear to you and your administration, so long as you do right. HAS EAST iTIIIlEE BAtJDITS HOLD IIP HILL PORTER IID BEAT Original Can-ier Responsible. ' ; jWashington, Jan. 3J In a sweeping decision today the su preme court . of the United States upheld the Carmack amendment to the interstate commission law, requiring In terstate carriers to issue through bills of lading when shipments are sent over two or more lints; and making the Initial carrier responsible for damages to the shipment, no. matter on what line it may occur. The decision declared that the amendment, which was bitterly ' fought by the railroads, was constitution al. ., HOXSEY FUNERAL WILL TAKE TLACE TODAY ' united fbess uubbd win. Pasadena, C.'ifl., Jan. 3.- Last rites for Archibald Hoxsey, the dead avia tor, wer escheduled to be held at 2:30 this afternoon from a local undertak ing establishment. The funeral ser vices, it was expected, will be attend ed by all the airmen who took part in the Dominiguez meet, the commit tee in charge and officials of the Aero Club of California. BRINGS UP A iQUESTIOfl CITY OF WOODBURN BRINGS SUIT OF VIOLATED AGREEMENT. KEEPER'S BOND ON GROUND TO RELOVER $1000 ON SALOON Declaring that Gilbert Alpin, a sa loon keeper of Wpodburn, has violat ed the conditions of his bond, given by the United States Fidelity . & Guar antee Company, the city of Wood burn commenced an nation In the cir cuit court yesterday afternoon to re cover damages to the amount of the bondllOOO,. , Considerable, interest Is evidenced in relation to the case .by lawyers, because it Is the first of its kind ever filed in this Judicial district, and, as far as can be learned, in any Judi cial district.. in the- state.,, It Is al leged, in the complain); that Alpin made application, for a saloon license In January!, ' 1910, and that he was granted a, license uppa.he presents. ti.on ..of a. bond by the company for $1000, the conditions, of which were mat ne would conduct a saloon In compliance with the laws of the state. Jt is alleged that he violated these conditions by, selling intoxicat ing JlquoDs to Kenpeth Sylvester and Lester Kendall, both, under the age of 21 years, and also in selling liquor to B. A. Austin, whom, It Is alleged, Is in. the habit of becoming Intoxicat ed. , (. . COUNT.V. CLERK'S OFFICE " HHQWS 1 NCREASI Ntf IlEC El ITS During the past year there was in the month of December an increase of $204.10 over the sn,me month in 1909 in the fees of the county clerk the fees for the year 1909 being for the month of December $473.59 and for the past month $677. 80, The fees for the same month In 1909 were $362.70, making an increase in the past month of $314.90. Many Liceiutes Hold.. During the past year there were sold by the clerk 49D9 game licenses, of which amount 2797 were hunters' licenses and 2162 anglers' licensee. During. the year there were sold in game licenses 3246 and of which 1886 were hunters' licenses and 1360 rng 'ers' -llceaiie. KNOTTY THEY GET AWAY V7ltll $500 SEVERAL POSSES If1 PURSUIT AND CAPTURE SEEMS CERTAIN One Robber Stood Guard at Door While the Other Two Went .... Through the Car Three Passengers Who Refused to Come Through Were Beaten Until Unconscious, and They May Be Fatally Injured Bandits Meet and Rob Two Girls Just After Leaving the Cleaned-up Train. UMITIU FKES3 UUS1D WIHI. Ogden, Utah, Jan, 3. Two men al leged by the sheriff to be members of the bandit gang that held up the overland limited train at Reese, were arrested at Five Points this after noon. The suspects answer closely the description furnished by the train crew, the officers say. The nieh were trying to get out of Five Points when the sheriff's deputies arrested thein. . . " ' ' Ogden, Utah; Jan. 8 Following a clearly marked trail along the shores of Great Salt Lake, heading north ward from the track of the Southern Pacific railway, Sheriff 'Wilson and a picked posse today arfl closing in .on the 'three bandits who held up the westbouad overland limited at Reese and robbed the passengers of $2500. Word is expected here momentari ly that the sheriff has overtaken the bandits. A battle Is expected. The robbers were heavily armed and very daring. The sheriff has taken with him men who can "shoot straight," and it Is intimated that "no chances would be taken" when the outlaws were overtaken; The sheriff lost little time In get ting away when news of the robbery was wived to him shortly after mid night. Gathering as many details of the hoid-up as he could, and waiting only for the fullest possible descrip tion of the robbers, who were, seen by almost every Pullman passenger on the train, he picked his men, and arranged for relays of horses, so that he could have fresh mounts started in pursuit.- 1 Just, before th shtclft left news I was received of the encounter qf the uiguwauieil . Willi lue IWO O&Ugn- ters Of jamos Wayment, on the old north road, along which,, they, fled af ter the robbery.. . , . This confirmed the sheriff's belief that the men would make a dash for the hiUs, following theroad at, tto; o,,tPfc, . for ... nni. m. .w. Ing only'to hide their trail after aif, '' ' H l ... ' o) -Ml ; f-t.'. .i :. ailored I 20 te 0 per cent Discount on all An opportunity that will bring straight to our stqre.' , (This does not mean Just the broken lines, but , ail of Brown and Gray Worsted and Cheviot styles. i Regular Prices r .' I Sale Price $5.00 to $28 1 .'...:';-'Mill Store -Mt4MMMMMMMMMMttMMMMMMMMMMM S.P. TflU PASSHIGER! tpr they left the road for the brokea country which skirts it. . Other posses took up the trail of the' robbers ' after 1 Sheriff Wilson started from Ogden. Two posses or ganized in Ogden followed the sher iff and are. scattered through the country which he is searching. .A possee organized In Salt Lake City left there headed northward, fearing that the open trail ' of the bandita might be a blind and that they had doubled back, . crossed the-, railroad . tracks and were making their way south. v i ' Two other posses organized In the t Continued on Page 4.) BANQUET IS GIVEN TO EMPLOYES 8TEUSL0FF RROTUERS AND. THEIR II EMPLOYES GET TO GETIIER AT HOTEL MA RIO X,, FOR A HOLIDAY REUNIOS. , . One of the most pleasant social events of the holiday season; was the ' banquet given by the Steusloft Bros., P. W. and W. H. to their employees Sunday evening at the Hotel Marlon. There' were 16 surrounding the big banquet table, and as every, one of them was a big strong,' "virile man, ' who gets up early, wofks hard and Is much out-of-doors, it is perhaps) useless to say that the hotel manage ment never had a higher comp41meu$ paid its menu and chef than "the 'kt. V. ..r.'l 1 .1 1 1 . I . ... , . ' '-" 18U,nK aDP? at. required tto special as- , wtment of sauces to add .-.to th (Conumued on Paie t.Y Vjf 'h MM ., . ' ..vlfcl. i ,.v-i-- A A A k TUT" '.( ea S' ,K Cldthes Winter Clothing. many Suit and Overcoat buyers ; -ti our aew 4- $10.00 to $35. ,1 '