Daily capital journal., June 12, 1911, Image 1

From Now On
VOL. XXX
. ' S.VEM, OREGON, MOXDAV, JUXE 13, 1011. '
BILL B
YRD SPOKANE
SLAYER OF
WENT FOR BREAKFAST AND
LEFT HIS BUM III BOSHES
CAUGHT WITHOUT A FIGHT
He Loved G. H. Whipple's Wife, So Killed Whipple, and He
Had a Grudge Against John Manski, So Killed Him His
Third Victim Was Justice of the Peace C. W. Meisner,
Who Was in the Posse Pursuing Him Soon After the Kill
ing of the Others It Looks as Though He Wanted to Be
Captured. '
fUNITED PRESS LEASED WIHE.1
Spokane, Wash., June 12. "Bill'
Byrd, desperado, and slayer of three
men, who was trailed by three posses
through the Saltese district, 20 miles
from Spokane, since Friday, was
captured without a fight by deputy
sheriffs today near Mica Peak.
Byrd had no gun", having con
cealed It in some bushes when he
started for a farm house to get break
fast.
Heavily manacled and under guard
of 35 men of the sheriff's posse,
which surrQiinded him last night, the
outlaw was bundled Into an automo
bile and started for Spokane.
Byrd'a boldness in making himself
known, and his utter disregard for
his own safety is looked upon as re
sponsible for his capture.
Byrd's victims were G. H. Whip
ple, 28; John Manski, 32, ami Justice
of the Peace C. W. Meaner, who died
Saturday night from a bullet wound
In the lung, sustained when he, as a
member of the posse, gave chase to
Byrd a few minutes after Byrd had
shot and killed Whipple and Manski
in a building at Dishman, a suburb
of Spokane Thursday. Whipple was
employed on the building and Man
ski was a contractor. Byrd Is a car
penter. Jealousy of Whipple's wife, whom
he loved, and a grudge against Man
JUMPED OYERTIOATtl)
WITH THE W0ME
r UNITED PKESS MtASBP WIBB.
Corona, N. Y June 12. Four wo
men who were passengers on a gaso
line launch that caught fire in Flush
ing bay early today, are in a hospi
tal suffering from severe burns and
it is almost certain that they would
have perished had it not been for the
prompt and heroic action of their
four male companions.
The boat caught fire shortly after
midnight when a mile off shore. In
an instant the clothing of the women
was blazing. Without a moment hes
itation, each man seized the woman
nearest him and jumped into the
water. The men succeeded In keep
ing the women afloat until rescued.
FEDERATION OF LABOR
DISCUSSES JPNAMARA
Washington, June 12. The execu
tive council of the American Feder
ation of labor met today for the
quarterly conference. At the con
ference, which was behind closed
doors, Clarence Darrow of Chicago,
was present and it is reported that
important steps in regard to the de
fense of the McNamara brothers,
held In Los Angeles for alleged
complicity in dynamiting outrages,
were decided upon.
UNCLE JOE
EXPRESSES
AN OPINION
, Washington, June 12.-Uncle Joe
Cannon will not enter vaudeville.
Asked today regarding a rumor tnat
he would open a ten-weeks' engage
ment In November at $3000 a week,
the proceeds to go to found a model
farm near Danville Illinois, the for
mer speaker sharply tilted his-cigar
toward the ceiling and said:
"Will you print exactly what i
."Well, here it is: Thats i one of
the cutest, most harmless little damn
lies that I have heard of In a long
time. Tell the great, Iniquitous press
for me that It won't do any harm it
they confine themselves to Just such
harmless little things."
' KAMtnana
DESPERADO
THREE MEN
ski is said to have been the cause of
Byrd's running amuck.
After shooting Meisner, Byrd
eluded the posse and took to the hills
armed with a Winchester and carry
ing a large supply of ammunition.
A posse of mo-e than 100 men
under Sheriff Stone started out Fri
day morming, and trailed him into
the Saltese district.
Until yesterday his real where
abouts were not known for a cer
tainty. Then Byrd came down from
Mica Peak and got breakfast at the
home of J. Mackay, a farmer, who
lives a mile from the) home of J. W.
Best, from whom the desperado had
commandered supplies the day be
fore. While eating breakfast Byrd boast
ed of his prowess with a rifle, ex
pressed regret because he shot
Miesner, and said Manski and Whip
ple "deserved what they got," and
stated that he could have killed four
deputies Saturday.
"I watched the posse all day from
the top of a hill," said Byrd, "but
I did not want to hurt anv more, be
cause I had already got the men I
wanted. Thats enough isn't It?'
After he departed the posse was
notified and the hill surrounded.
Preparations for a battle this morn
ing were made, but none was neces-
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HAS
ADVENTURE
WITH LIONS
UNITED PBESS LEASED WIHB.
San Bernardino, Cal., June 12.
Mrs. Katherine Harvey today lies at
her home here in a state of nervous
collapse, following an encounter in
Cajon Pass with two mountain lions.
Mrs. Harvey was walking down
the canyon, accompanied by her little
daughter and a nurse, when she saw
the lions. She commanded the nurse
to continue down the canyon with
the child, while she stood still. When
the nurse and child had reached a
point of safety Mrs. Harvey trudged
two miles in an opp(lte direction to
make sure that no harm would be
fall her daughter, the lions follow-
nnf mn,-o tlrnn 25 feet behind.
George Taylor, who had been sent to
the rescue: shot the largest nou. iu
other fled.
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DESTITUTE MEXICANS
GIVEX EMPLOYMENT
UNITED FKESS LEASED WIRI.l
Fresno, Cal., June 12.-Two hun
dred Mexican laborers, whose fam -lies
have been in a destitute condi
i er- anmo time, were given
1011 neie iui . -
work today by the Santa Fe railroad
company, througn me euuna m
or Chester H. Rowell and other city
officials. The authorities we
aroused to action Dy tne ciemauua u.
- T.mhlnft De Kelogie, mission
worker, In behalf of the destitute la
borers.- Mrs. De n-eiugie
marched at the head of a parade of
the unemployed to me cuy ,.,
where she demanded help from the
city government.
First Aeroplane Damage Suit
rim flsgrn 83H-' aaxinn
Pan France, June 12. In case of
a rear end aeroplane collision the
blrdman Inflicting the damage is not
financially liable. A decision in the
first case of the kind Is on record
here today. M. McArdle sued Avia
tor Toursaint for $4000 damages for
running Into his machine, which was
stationary on the aerodrome. The
court non-suited McArdle.
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3TTT --- so. fan
IS CAPTURED
May Knight Him.
.
Paris, Juno 12. In recognl-
tion of his . courtesy to the
French government for his gift
to the Louvre meuseum of the
famous painting, "Chief De St
Martin," which was stolen from
a church In Southern France,
it Is reported today, J. Pierpont
Morgan may be made a knight
of the Legion of Honor. Wheth-
er he will accept the decoration
is not known. After the theft
of the picture and Its purchase
by the American, Money king,
considerable agitation arose
over Its being allowed to leave
the country.
MAY CAUSE
WHOLE TN1NG
TO BE DROPPED
Should the property owners aban
don the Improvement of East State
street, the state will abandon its
plans to put In a cement crossing at
I Twenty-fourth, the laying of a boule
, vard connecting the state penitentiary
I and the asylum, and also the park
i lng and beautifying of these state
grounds, was the decision reached by
the state board In considering the
subject today.
Plans and specifications for the
pavement of East State street with
bitulithic were adonXd some time
ago by the council. A sufficient re
monstrance was filed against it, and,
although enough signers withdrew
from the remonstrance, and the Im
provement was ordered at the last
meeting of the council, City Attorney
Corby holds that if a bitulithic pave
ment is desired that a new petition: is
necessary,
He hold that, under the
law, a signer uu it itriiiuua-ram;c
cannot withdraw after the time for
remonstrating is past, and hence the
meed of a new petition.
The street committee gave the
property owners an audience last
week on the subject, and was hopeful
that the improvement would go for
ward. The property owners are
"milling,'' however, and it begins to
look as though enough signers will
not be secured, and that means not
only the abandonment of this Im
provement, but thei state's as well, as
without the pavement of East State
street the state's improvemen would
be useless.
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WHKAT TAKKES A RIG
TOIBLK IX CHICAGO
Chicago, June 12. The wheat
market was extremely lively today.
The July option continued its down
ward plunge, dropping from 89c to
86 Vic Saturday July broke from
92c to 88V6c The bull clique, head
ed by Leichestern, made Its last stand
this morning, boosting the price dur
ing the first hour, but the market
crumpled sharply when the bulls at
tempted to close out their holdings
at 89c.
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COMPANY WANTS RIGHT
TO BUILD RAILROAD
For the purpose of Including in Its
articles of Incorporation the right to
lease, and operate railroad lines the
Jackson County Light & Power com
pany, of Ashland, today filed supple
mentary articles of Incorporation
with the secretary of state.
The company says in its supple
mentary articles that It desires to
build an electric line from Ashland
to Grants Pass. Work Is to begin on
the road in the near future.
WHITE IS
RECOGNIZED
AS THE CHIEF
San Francisco. June 12. D. A.
White Is the police chief of San
Francisco today in the eyes of the
district captains. Chief Seymour sit
ting in his office Issued orders which
the captains Ignored. The daily re
ports were made to Chief White and
Chief Seymour suddenly found him
self without a force. Both chiefs
are grimly holdng on.
The decision of the captains was
based on a section of the charter
which says that the police force shall
consider the police commission Its
noiirce of authority. The commis
sion holds that White is chief.
Union Labor Won.
St. Louis, Mo., June 12. The
suit brought by C. W. Post
against the American Federa-
tlon of Labor and the Bucks
Stove Range company, seeking
to prevent a closed shop agree-
ment, and asking damages for
$750,000, was dismissed today
by United States District Judge
day.
!
HUNDREDS
SEARCHING
FOR POWER
Prominent Californian Missing
Since Saturday and Entire
Town of Auburn Is Out
Searching for Him.
HE IS UNDOUBTEDLY DEAD
Was Last Seen by a Couple of Chi.
nanien Who Worked for Him
His Failure to Attend Graduation
Exercises of His Daughter Caused
the First Alarm Power Was
Prominent and Very Popular.
Auburn, Cal., June 12. Summoned
by the fire bell at dawn a searching
party that for two days has been
scouring the hills and the shore of
the north fork of the American river
for trace of Harold T. Power, 55,
former assembly man, member of the
conservation board of control, today
resumed their quest. Two hundred
men and boys set out for the search.
Not a square yard of copntry in the
vicinity where Power was last seen
will be overlooked.
One-half of the party started up
the north fork of the American river.
The other half will follow down the
river for miles. Surrounding hills
also were thoroughly searched.
Friends and Intimates of the man
who mysteriously disappeared Friday
night, scout the theory that he com
mitted suicide because -of financial
embarrassment. It Is generally be
lieved that while on his way home he
was attacked by a nasal hemorrhage,
to which he was subject, and died In
some lonely spot.
Powers was last seen at 6 o'clock
Friday evening when two Chinamen,
for many years in his employ, talked
with him for a few minutes near 'fie
South Yuba ditch. The Chinamen
say that his actions were perfectly
normal. The Yuba ditch has been
drained.
The first cause of alarm on the
part of his family came when Pow
ers failed to attend the gradiuyilon
exercises In which one of his child
ren took part.
ATTEMPT TO MURDER
THE CHARGE MADE
San Francisco, June 12. Adole
Verge, who shot C. Frederick Kolil,
millionaire, Thursday, was arraigned
before Police Judge Shortall today on
a charge of assault to commit mur
der. The case was continued, no
date being set for preliminary hear
ing. o
Prize for Aeroplane.
Paris, June 12. ;A prize of
$50,000 for an aeroplane cap-
able of carrying, In addition to
Its own equipment, 2000
pounds of war munitions for
300 miles without stopping, has
beem offered by financial agents
of France In the French colony
of Algeria. The prize. It is said
today, Is offend In memory of
Maurice Borteaux, war minister
of France, who was killed r
cently at Issy in an aeroplane
accident.
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Snow in Illinois.
Mooiiiingl;n, HI., .June 12.
T"o watlM'r limn had III little
jokii twlny. AiiMH'Ting laH
week's frantic demand for n-
lief from the KlzzliiiK weather,
he pushed Hie cold weather lev-
er ny down and sprinkled a
little nnow over the state. A
a Id drizzling rain with Know
flurrlc was on the progam to-.
day. Heat and cold reeordn for
June were broken in the same
week.
SUGAR TRUST UNLOADED ITS STORK
AT PRICES mUCII ABOVE ITS VALUE
No Petty Larcenlst.
Cincinnati. O.. .Tuna 19! a
trial of Edgar S. Cooke, of Chi-
t cago, one ot tne principals of
the Ble Four rnllrnnil tfill X
000 embezzlement scandal, be-
r gan nere today. Cooke, who is
charged with having embezzled
S20.000 formerlv wna eMef x
clerk for Charles' L. Wariiner,
local treasurer of the Big Four.
Warriner. who Is sprvimr o oiv. j.
year penitentiary sentence for
t eiiiuezzioineut, claimed tnat
Cooke, with Mrs. Jeanette StJ .7-
nrf-FYirrl hn,l l.lnnli J!ln,l him J.
for all lot the money which he
was cnargea with having embez-
zled from the railroad.
FIFTY-FOUR
BANKS TO GET
STATE FUNDS
Besides reappointing all of the 45
banking Institutions which were
state depositories under the old ad
ministration, State Treasurer Kay
has designated nine additional banks,
as depositories for state funds, mak
ing in all 54.
The list contains six banks from
the city of Portland and two from
Salem. The remainder of the de
positories are scattered throughout
the state, In such a manner that
banking Institutions in every county
of the state will have the use of state
money.
May Raise Interest Hate.
The law provides that on the first
day of July the state treasurer shall
fix the Interest rate which money de
posited in thee institutions shall
draw. The fixing of the rate Is made
optional with the state treasurer,
and he stated today that ho was con
sidering the advisability of raising It
from two per cent to two and one
half per cent. It is the plan of the
treasury department to make the in
terest drawn from these funds pay
the expenses of the office, and It was
able to make a rate of two per cent
do so the hlRt term, because the
money on deposit with the Title
Ouarantee & Trust Company, of
Portland, was drawing four per rent,
and, according to the estimates of the
treasurer, a ra'se to two and oiie
half per cent will be necessary.
Deposits Will lie Light.
The appropriations made by the
last legislature were higher than
usual, and most of them will eat
their way into the funds on hand the
first venr. In view of this condition
of affairs there will bo but little state
funds to be denoslled w'th the banks
declared as depositories until next
year.
WOODMKV IIOXOH
MEMORIAL DAY
Yesterday was Memorial day with
the Woodmen of tlx World, and they
celebrated the occasion by going to
tho cemetery and scattering flowers
over the, departed of tho order, and
the holding of appropriate excrctaes.
Tho cemetery visited was tho City
View. The order proceeded to It In
a body, and, besides holding the rit
ualistic services over 'the dead, an
address was delivered by Hon. P. H.
U'Arey.
JOHNSON
MAKES HIT
frxiTED 1'iu.nn lcahkd wine. J
London, Juno 12. Jack John
son, dusky heavyweight champion,
had the first triumph of tho corona
tion. Enormous crowds greeted the
negro at I'addli.Kton matlon. Jack,
his usual swagger, which had been
tern pin ai II. vanu. ilehed by semicK
ness, restored after the few 'n.im
since his hindlng, greeted thu crowd
with his cuMonmry f,ood nature.
"1 Intend to see (Jeorgo try ou his
new hai." the negro told the Lou Inn
( i.ncsi'f.nilcnts, as he walked toward
a br,' ai to walt'ntf for him. Thou
v.nU ot rersons vere lined up to
watch him pass, as his car sped from
Paddlngton station to Alexandra
Mansion, where he had engaged
quarters. They cheered vociferously.
mum
HAS 19,000 STOCK HOLDERS
AND THESE MOSTLY WOMEN
MAKES HALF OF OUR SUGAR
Atkin's Testimony Is Somewh at Shaky-He Claims the
Trust Made Only 42 Per Cent of the Sugar Consumed in
the United States But Owned the Greater Part of All the
Plants Admitted That the -Stock Was Sold, Most of It, to
Women And the Majority Is Owned by Small Stockhold
ers, 19,000 in Number.
UNIT1D PBBSS MUSI"!
Washington, June 12. That the
American Sugar refining company
(the sugar trust) is in the hands of
19,000 stockholders, more than half
of them women, and the vast major
ity small holders, was the statement
today of Acting President Edward
Atkin s, who appeared before the
congressional committee investigat
ing the sugar industry. Most of
these stockholders, Atkins said, had
paid more fpr their holdings than
they were worth.
Atkins entered the directorate of
the company January 1, 1910. He
said that he was surprised when he
found that the control of the com
pany had passed to small stockhold
ers. Until he became a director, he
said, he did not know that thtB was
a fact.' Asked why so many people
had Invested In an industry about
which they knew nothing, he said:
"I Buppose It la because of the nat
ural desire of all persons to put
money Into a proposition of which
they know nothing. People of the
temperate zone are prone to Invest in
a proposition involving operations In
tho torrid zone."
The small stockholders bought su
gar at $1.30 Atkins testified, and the
stock Is now quoted at 120. Con
gressman Madison (Republican,
Kan.) by a series of questons.
brought, out the fact that during the
last two years the company had reg
ularly paid dividends and simultane
ously paid $5,000,000 In penalties to
tho government, at the same time
taking less than $2,000,000 from the
surplus. Atkins filed a statement de
claring that the present management
was not responsible for litigation
that originated prior to 190S.
He declared that In the year end
ing January 1, last his company
manufactured 42 per cent of the to
tal American Sugar consumption and
that the beet sugar manufacturers
turned out 14 per cent.
Wanted tlio Money.
Wasihngton June 12. That the or
iginal Havemeyer combination in the
sugar business was Intended to elim
inate competition, obtain the highest
possible prices and reduce the cost of
production was the admission made
today before the house committee In
vestigating the sugar trust by Ed
ward Atkins, acting president of the
American Sugar llullnng company.
The admissions were made when
Chairman Hardwlik asked regarding
Complete confidence comes to the
man who wears
Bishop's Ready
Tailored Clothes
Confidence when he buys for
every suit is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction.
Prices $10 to $35
Salem Woolen Mill Store
$3.00 a Year
the organization of the combination
made under a trust agreement nam
ing speciflo trustees to hold the stock
of various concerns and formed la
1887.
The "trust" was formed by H. O.
Havemeyer. Atkins testified that 13
refineries entered the combination
and pooled their stock in the hands
of a board of trustees and that trust
certificates were issued in their
stead. He said that his company,
the Bay State Refinery, of Boston,
was capitalized at $500,000 and re
ceived $900,000 In trust certificates.
These were held, he said, until the
reorganization of the sugar truBt in
1891. He said the original combina
tion was the result of destructiva
competition, over production and ex
cessive cost of production.
Previous to the trust agreement,
he testified, competition had been
free, but burdensome, and that the
combination was Intended to reduce
the cost and to partially eliminate
this competition. Eighteen ot the 23
refineries then In operation In the
country entered the combination, ha
said. He refused to admit that these
refineries controlled 90 per cent of
the sugar Industry, but said that only
two of the six companies remaining
outside were impoitant.
ONTARIO HAS
A HANGING "CASE"
ON ITS HANDS
Sault Ste Marie, Ont., June 12.
The case of Mrs. Angelina Neapoli
tana, under sentence of death for
killing her husband, will not be con
sidered by an extraordinary session
of the Ontario parliament. A. C.
Boyle, member of parliament, who
had Interested himself In the wo
man's case, when he learned that she
was about to become a mother, today
received a letter from Minister of
Justice Aylesworth, saying that It
was Impossible to have the lawmak
ers convened. Boyce had written
asking for clemency for tho women.
Aylesworth's reply also said that the
governor-general would not consider
the cause so far In advance of the
execution.
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