18 ANKOUS TO BE EXECUTED Orchard Cheerfuly Awaits Death Sentence. PARDON WouLD BE RESISTED. Selfconfessed Murderer of Many Men and Chief Witness Against Haywood and Pettibone Says He Is Ready to Take His Punishment— Declares He Told Only the Truth. Boise, Idaho (Special).-——On the morning of his forty-second birthday, next Wednesday, in the District Court of Canyon County, Harry Orchard, confessed murderer of form- er Gov. Frank Steunenberg, who was killed by the explosion of a bomb at the gate of his residence, in Caldwell, on the evening of December 30, 1905, will face Judge Fremont Wood pre pated to hear the death sentence meted out to him. Harry Orchard, of his own volition and against the urgent pleadings of his attorney and others, refused, when arraigned on March 10, to let his previous plea of “not gullty” stand. He also refused to plead to a lesser degree of murder than first degree. He sald: “I am guilty and am ready to take my punishment. I have told the truth. I understand fully what must be the consequences. Some expressions are heard that Orchard has been guargnteed im- munity of some sort. This is denied by those in authority and by Orchard. Those who have been in close com- munication with Orchard—prison of- flcers and spiritual advisers—all ex- ress the opinion that should an ef- for be made to commute his sen- nee or pardon him, Orchard will re- fuse to accept the lenity. It is the general belief that Or- chard expects to die, and that he wishes to suffer the extremle penalty for his crimes. Orchard refuses to make any statement for publication. He spends much time with books, es- pecially the Bible and religious works. Orchard was the chief witness against Haywood and Pettibone, who were prosecuted in connection with outrages attributed to the Western Federation of Miners. SHOT FROM AMBU SH. Assassins Severely Wound The Wrong Men. Dixon, Ky. (Special). —-Fatal wounding of Deputy Marshal Smith Childers by Jacob McDowell, a negro, at Providence, Ky., was the indirect cause of the shooting of two travel- fng men. P. B. Carter, gf Chattanoo- ga, and J. B. Barry, commercial trav- elers, were shot and severely wound- ed from ambush by negroes while driving between Dixon and Provi- dence with two other drummers. Tne negroes who did the shooting evi- dently thought that the salesmen were pursuing McDowell. Deputy Marshal Childers was shot while attempting to arrest McDowell. The negro was taken to Dixon by an- White men immediate- ly gathered to lynch McDowell Negroes of Providence, hearing this, armed themselves and lay in| walt by the road over which the mob | was expected to pass. The traveling | men soon came along, and the am- bushed negroes fired on them and escaped. McDowell was hurried from | Dixon to Henderson. The mob, arriving at the Dixon jail at 2 o'clock A. M., and finding Mec- Dowell gone, set out with blood- hounds to find the negroes who had fired on the traveling men. Will Me- Dowell, a cousin of the prisoner; Tom Fuqua, Tom Miller and another negro were arrested charged with shooting the traveling men. The mob has not found the four negroes, and probably will not go to! Henderson after McDowell. FR ATERNITIES ABOL ISHED. Muskegon Boatd of Education Says They Are Snobbish. Muskegon, Mich. (Special).—The Board of Education voted that all high school fraternities and sororie- ties must be abolished from the pub- lie schools of Muskegon before March 20. The three fraternities and two sor- orities in the schools have a mem- bership of about 200. Opposition to the societies on the ground that they breed snobbishness and lawlessness and lower the standard of scholar- ship was brought to a climax by the action of one fraternity in harboring a skeleton end bell stolen from the schools. MU RDERER GIVES Ww ARNING. Before langing “He Tells Men To Shun Bad Women And Drink. Pittsburg, Pa. (Special). —Morris B. Holmes, 23 years old, was hanged in the Allegheny County jallyard. He stabbed Nancy Miller, his sweet- heart, to death with a butcher knife March 27, 1907, at Bast Pittsburg. He had been drinking heavily, an said he never remembered having committed the crime. Just before going to the gallows Holmes sald to his former pastor, Rev. Charles Miller, of the Home wood Methodist Episcopal Church: “Please, for me, sound a warning to all young men to shun, as though hell, bad women and whisky.” Government Paper Burned, Carlisle, Pa: (8peclal).-—~The large stockhouse of the Mount Holly Pa- per Company's plant, at Mount Holly Springs, this county, which has for many years produced federal and state bond paper, was burned to the ground, It was fired by sparks from a passing locomotive, Several car- loads of fine government paper in the stockhouse were to have sent to Washington tomorrow. The loss! is estimated at $20,000, SOME 0DD STORIES AS TOLD BY WIRE Otter, Geese, And Carp At One Haul. New York (Special). Wesley Ja- cobus, a farmer, living on Hook Mountain, near Towaco, N. J., shot, into a flock of wild geese, which rose from a marshy inlet of the Passaic River and brought down two. He was surprised a moment later to see another goose rise into the air, thirty feet, again and again, only to fall to the ground, Upon investigation he discovered that the goose was caught on a set line nearly five hundred feet long, with fifty hooks set at intervals. A section of the line was on the land, and the goose had swallowed one of the baits of this section. Following up the line, Jacobus found it drawn down Into a hole under a stump. Pulling the line, he dragged out of the hole a snap- ing, snarling otter, which in some way had been caught by one of its feet on a hook. But this was not all, for on that part of the line still in the water upon the last hook, Jacobus found an eighteen pound German carp. Fisherman Hooks A Willing Trout, Millville, N. J. (S8Special).— Miss Belinda Blinks, considered one of the most adept makers of trout filles in the local fishing tackle factory, sent out with a packet of her work a pleasent little note, which read: “If the sportsman who reads this wants a wife and will throw a hook to this town he wiil find a little trout waiting to jump at the bait.” The message fell into the hands of August Bass, of Detroit, who at once made the longest cast on record, and after a short time landed Miss Belinda. She did not put up much of a fight, and came in so easily that no landing net was required. The wedding will take place next month, BABY TOSSE D DOW N SAFELY. Thrown From Burning Third Story Of A Tenement, Summit, N. J. (Special).—John MacNabb's tenement, on the third of a brick building on Summit Avenue, was burned out. MacNabb and his wife got out all right, but a fireman found in ‘bed in a room where walle were on fire something which he hastily wrapped all the bed- clothes about and tossed out of the window. floor THE GRAFTERS ARE FOUND GUITLY Jury at Harrisburg Convicts Everyone On Trial, VERDICT IS HEARD IN SILENCE. Verdict Against All Defendants in the Pennsylvania State Capitol Frauds Case Brought in After Nearly Nine Hours’ Deliberation—Only Two Bal- lots Were Taken. ————— PENNSYLVANIA'S SCANDAL. Those Convicted, JOHN H. | contractor, capitol. WILLIAM P. SNYDER, former auditor general, who approved the contractor's warrants. WILLIAM L. MATHUES, for- mer state treasurer, who paid the contractor's bills. J. H. SHUMAKER, former su- perintendent of public grounds and buildings, who receipted for the furnishings. SANDERSON, who furnished chief the The Charge, Conspiracy to defraud the of $19,000 in a bill of for tables, chairs, sofas clothes trees, state $50,000 and The Plunder, Graft to of of the amazing sum $5,000,000 out of a total $6,000,000 of the state's money used to furnish the new $5,000, 000 state capitol at Harrisburg. Harrisburg, Pa. (Special).—Con- tractor John H. Sanderson, ex-Audi- tor General Willlam P. Snyder, ex- State Treasurer William L. Mathues and ex-Superintendent Shumaker of public grounds and buildings, were found guilty of conspiracy to cheat and defraud the commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the furnishing of the new state capitol, ~The jury returned its verdict at 8.50 o'clock P. M., having been out The greater part of the time was devoted to going over the indictment and the judge's charge. Only two ballots were required to Policeman Smith, on the sidewalk, gaw the bundle coming his way and | caught it. The bundle began to howl | and Smith, peeling the blankets | away, found that inside was a baby. it was the youngest MacNabb, 14] months old He wasn't harmed. | MR. € ORTELYOU WINS. | Court Sustains His Right To Reject | Bids For Canal Bonds. | Washingten, D. C. (8pecial).-- The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia has dismissed the ceedings fostituted some months ago | by George W. Austin, of New York, | to compel Secretary Cortelyon to Is- sue to him $3,000,000 worth of Pan- | ama Canal bonds. The court held | that the Secretary had the right to} reject any or all bids or to consider | the financial conditions of the coun- | try, and that, {f the courts were to | enjoin such proceedings, a syndicate | might get control of an entire bond | issue and cause financial ruin. Aus- | tin appealed. i nro- THE COL 1 INWOOD HORROR. i Coroner Burke : Declares The Loss Of Life Absolutely Inexcusable. Cleveland (Special).—"The lots of | the lives of the little children in th ly inexcusable,” Coroner Burke de-| “The little children poor were and crushed until burned to death,” he said. placed. I must take full time to consider. The children should have escaped, | and would have done 86 had it not | been for the partition built in hall at the {oot of the stairway is what cause their death. a" — He 1d In Paris As Sharks. Paris (By Cable).—The Paris police have arrested three Americans De Montgomerie, Howard, of Colorado, aud described | themselves as “guide interproters.’ The men are charged with obtaining ; large sums of money from American | visitors under false pretenges. The prisoners declare the charges base- less, | WASHINGTON | Senators Bacon and Tillman, dur- ing addresses in the Senate, intimat- ed that President Roosevelt was dic- tating what laws Congress shall pass, President on the floor of the House a “despot.” The Navy Department sent a cor gratulatory telegram to Ad:niral Evans on the termination o. the cruise in exaet accordance wi i the itinerary. Dr. Hugh Dickey, who has been in charge of the trachoma hospital at Halifax, N. 8., has resigned by re- quest coincident with an Investiza- tion of charges of conspiracy to de frand immigrants from England. The secretary of Speaker Cannon states that John Sharp Williams ls responsible for placing Richard P. Hobson on the Naval Committee, Majerity and minority reports on the Brownsville affair were submitted the 3enate and a letter from the resident permitting the re-enlist nent =f the discharged soldiers, reach an agreement. The first bal- {lot is reported to have been 8 to 3 { for conviction. Immediately after the announce- of the verdict motions were made for new trials for all four de- fendants. The court will allow 30 days for the preparation of the pa- {pers on these motions {the defendants will remain bail. The case, out involving tables, chairs, on which fraud of $186. trial seven weeks, hav- Ten under indict- {has been on { ing been started January 27. other defendants are The Penalty. Only Sanderson and Snyder were | in court when the verdict was given {and neither would talk. None of i the counsel for the deefndants would anything about the case. The state's attorneys when questioned i sald that they were pleased at the | regult of the hard work. The maximum penalty for each! imprisonment and $1,000 fine. The verdict was received in silence, and when announced Judge Kunkle | thanked the jury for its patience and When the jury retired all other March next until the figure were continued 23, the day upon which trial will begin. It was announced that the next be tried was one involving alleged fraud of $17.7588.90 In metallic furniture. action, which is a charge of con- gpiracy, Congressman H. Burd Cas- sel, Architect J. M. Huston and Sny- an ed as defendants, with Frank Irvine, a traveling auditor, who made measurements of the metal casing. The trial will be followed by a false pretense case involving Charles Wetter, the partner of George F. the builder of the capitol, sometime in April, according to pres. ent plans JAPAN AN OU R FRIEND. Declaration of Ambassador Taka- hira Is Cheered. i New York (8pecial) ations .:at there are now between the U ited States and Japan no ques- | tions of any magnitude likely to re- main unsettled much longer, and that | any questions arising in the future {will be brought to satisfactory con- | lexisting between the two countries, Baron Kogoro Takahira, Japanese ambassador, called forth prolonged cheers at the banquet at the Hotel | Astor tenderéd in his honor by the iJapan Society of New York. The Japanese Ambassador was speaking of the recent agitation re- garding the Japanese immigration question, and his words, spoken be- fore the society, formed to promote {friendly relations between the two {countries, were taken as a prophecy of continued peace in the Pacific, —————— a 5 LB SORIA ib Last Of Dreyfus Case, Paris (By Cable) ~The last act of justice in the famous Dreyfus case was performed when the Chamber of Deputies passed a bill restoring Joseph Reinach, the historian of the case, to his rank in the territorial army. The bill was passed, however, only after the Government had been defeated. Reinach’'s name was sup pressed from the 8 Mutuhute, which was made to cover all officers DOUBLE TRAGEDY IN GIRLS" SCHOOL Kills Her Chum Herself, Boston (Special) - _Suffe ring from melancholia, due to overwork, Miss Sarah Chamberlin Weed, of Phila- delphia, shot and killed Miss Eliza- beth Balley Hardee, of Savannah, Ga.,, and then committed suicide at the Laurens School, a fashionable boarding school for girls. The Lau- rens School was established last fall by Miss Hardee and Miss Weed. Both were graduates of Wellesley College, and Intimate friends. On October 1, the day the school open- ed, Miss Weed broke down as a result of overwork, and was com- mitted to a sanitarium in Newton, te. be treated for nervous prostra- tion. For a Principal and while Miss Weed was con- Norton’s sanitarium at Norwood, but she escaped from there, and was transferred to Dr Dutton’s home for convalescents at West Newton. From there she es- caped and came directly to Boston, {presenting herself at the school jbullding at 107 Audubon road be- itween 8 and 10 o'clock P. M. Miss Hardee greeted hér, {ing it impossible to return her part- ner to the sanitarium at so late of the night, made i ments to keep her at the building. Accordingly, the koe put Miss Weed to bed iroom on the fourth floor. { The sick woman slept 13 A. M., when she about in her room ‘who occupied a tof the third floor. Miss Weed and to the third-floor er in itil about by F000 The brought on the her There until! 6.15 o'clock A. the housekeeper called at room, awakened Miss Hardee Miss Weed, were to have an early that Miss Weed might Newton institution on the 7.35 Then the housekeeper started down stairs and she had not reached the street floor before she heard the two fatal shots. She rushed back to the room, but both women were lying practically lifeless {iss Hardee was barely breathing with a bullet wound at the base of the brain, and Miss Weed was already dead from a well- directed shot at the right temple, The housekeeper hastened to sum Josiyn, r last when he arrived breakfast so breathed thel CARRIERS WIN AT LAST. Salaries Raised To $1,200, Despite Committee Opposition. D. C. (Special) .~—De- termined and persistent assaults on the Postoffice Appropriation Bill in the House of Representatives result- ed in the modification of that ure in many despite the protest of Chairman Over- street and his committee, The letter carriers finally won their long fight for $1,200 salaries when an amend- ment by Mr. Goebel, of Ohio, grant- ing the same was adopted. The House also allowed an additional $25,000 for clerks in third-class of- fices where the salaries of the post $1,000 to $1,200, for contract Washington, and $15,000 additional stations. The prohibitionis! 8 also had their innings when, through an amendment iby Mr. Houston (Tenn.), there was incorporated in the bill a provision prohibiting the transmission through the malls of intoxicating liquors cocaine and its derivatives. {gether the appropriations carried by the bill were decreased to the extent of $1,225,000 An amendment by Mr. Kustermann {Wis.) prohibiting the use in post offices of any cancelling machines ex- cept those acquired by purchase aroused a lively debate as to the There was a was ject. The amendment finally changed existing law ly appropriated for tsuch machines, which express the rental FINANCIAL | R. H. Thomas has been somiuated’ for president and ¥F. W. Gilley for change. William 1. Shaffer was appointed special counsel for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company yesterday in the State of Pennsylvania. Mill owners of Fall River, Mass. , have decided that they cannot sign the agreement of other cotton manu- | facturers calling for a curtailment i for three months. Out of a total of 87.500 freight cars on the Baltimore & Ohio sys- tem, 19.200 are idle, the largest num- {ber out of service at one time in the history of the company. The recommendation of the Presi- dent to investigate the speculative buying and selling in the stock ex- changes throughout the country was not considered a market factor in any way. Canadian textile companies report an even larger amount of business than at the same period last year. The increase at what is considered a dull time of the year was unex- pected. United States Steel seems to be in demand as the result of the fav. orable reports from the steel trade. The stockholders’ committee of the Pennsylvania Raijilroad Com meets on Monday to nominate directors, It is ps Th that on present incumbents will be named. There has been a steady resumpe- tion of the mills of the United St States Steel the NY aa at the Bharon sume, and the start DAYS AHEAD OF TIME Successful Cruise of 13,000 Mies Is Completed. IN BETTER SHAPE THAN AT START. Navy Department Officials Highly Gratified Over Latest Achievement of the American Navy A Remark- able Sailing Record for a Fleet of Battleships. BEATS THE WORLD, The cruise Battle Fleet” Roads to Magdalena greatest salling record any navy. The fleet left Hampton Roads December 16, arrived at Trinidad December 24, at Rio Janeiro Jan uary 12, passed into the Magellan January 21, at Valpar aiso February 14, Callao Feb: ary 20, The total miles was galling since Roads. The cf the from "American Hampton ay is mad: the by sSirait of cruise of covered in days, it being B87 day: the fleet eft Hamp! abou un fron rdalena Ba hon ifs 3,200-mile lao, Peru, to Mag 11 days and ahead of the that point Admiral battleships than when lef Roads and ady for a at one day's notice The target practice lena ‘Bay will take un month. The fleet will Coronado Beach and other on the California Coast, ents the Golden Gate «0 scheduls Evans rey in bette they jef L8H] 3 gn 1'¢ iy about May a—— Washington, D. C. (Special Navy Department received a ms from Rear Admiral ing the batt! rived 14 Rip off Magdale Evans states the lao was made in hours, two days ahes ule The Evans na the Admiral ig in better condition left Hampton Roads ready for any service notice, Admiral Ev: that target pr will b BOON As ranges can be news of the arrival uch good condition was received with tion at the department The run from Callao the longest of the legs, 3,000 miles The depart announced the itinerar) Ar a Magdalena Bay, for it was intended that the fieet should remain there until the target practice had finished A few days ago, the itinerary the trip from Magdalena Bay to San Francisco was announced it con- templated five stops—the first at San Diego {Coronado Beach), Santa Bar- bara, San Pedro, Santa Cruz and San Francisco. It is expected that at Magdalen: in target practice month, and that ships three weeks lor the coast of California stops named, and it that they will reach before the first week Secretary Meteal?f, San Francisco to welcome the will leave Washington about and reach the Coast a few before the fleet arrives at the Golden Gate The department is satisfied with the cruise and Seciares uise it has ron pnd has affo drills, evolutions repor in actice ilie in Bay great as the Bay ai fleet will engaged least take the i go ug make the Ol ex ted San Francisco in May who is going lo fleet, April - up to expectations rded opporiunities for and other naval tactics, and for care- ful and exacting scamanship wa- ters of which many American naval men are comparatively ucw, The trip has been made accident to any of the vessels naval officials declare that thei cause for congratul over the manner in which the iia without The ia ations lect PRIEST'S SL AYE R TO HANG. Evidence To Connot Alia With The Anarchists, Denver, Col. (Special). —Giusepn: Alia, who shot and killed Father Leo i Heinrichs in 8t. Elizabeth's Church Febroary 23, was jury, In the argument just before the jury took the case Mr Widdicombe gaid that the only possible tion of the murder is that the man jg an anarchist or is insane. There was absolutely no evidence that the man is an anarchist, and the fact that he practically wae in a starving con- dition would indicate that he was not a member of any gocicty. Other wise, he would have had encugh to cat at least. District Atiorney OC. his closing argument asked: “When everything in the life of the prisoner shows that this man is sane, 1s an Amorican jury to find him insane?” alienist had testified to the prison- er's sanity the jury conld find no evi- dence of insanity in Alia, unless it adopted the theory of Dr. Tosti, that every murderer is Insane, HA 0 AS EA 0 S00 00 Prisoners Mutiny. Pontiac, 111. (Special) —A despor- ate rush of 700 mutinous convicts Tithem and liberty, occured at the State Reformatory. The guards put up a stubborn fight and the ringlead- ers, all Chicago criminals, were herd. ed into tho top gallery. There, on a DArrow | MOTHERS ARE THE BEST CITIZENS Roosevelt Puts Trem Above Civil War Veterans. Tne the interna~ D.C. IB the the Washingtion, pecial). Whit orn seene of iret Welfare of r held under 1! Mothers’ House was wal opening of tional Congress the Child, which is b the auspices of the N Congress The 200 dele on Ll gates, representing all the states and territories and a dozen or more of the leading countries of world, were received at the House at 2.30 o'clock P, M., when President Boosevelt delivered an to them, in whi he declar- that he placed Eg ahead the Civil War vet beca eald, in the final VEis mother onl who is : the soldier who fis iC h ciety ine, hette § this for Lis country. The President said, in part: ‘1 receive y yeieties here in White House, many orga ations of good men and striving to do all that in them lies eilnr- ment of our social and civic condi- tion, but there is i wlety i I am quits Biv wollen, for the veo The ‘Nothing Mother's in this 111 e suppres mother is the on 4 ” £m al ir national life Was hison Fight. Kan tS™peCia In Famous Fred gun Ala Foster, machinist and » Confederat mn during ¥ 40 men YERBC] Was cruiser Ke ar ter kept his coni bama’'s career a secret BED cruiser War, and on¢ ped when that United Siates the Civil CBCAa here Fos w ith the Ala Jess thar reciion until JT woevelt May \ ist England ndon (By Cable} that osident Rooseye It wil is current It is in \ persistent Mrs next and England in American circles zaid that he win stay sb 1 » 3 1 2 ¥ san 13 zanization rumor visit year here, months and will the navy dock and the mas varde, Clark Dead. (Special) Ju Federal Judge Knoxville, Tenn, C.D Clark, who federal bench by land in 1595 as judge and Middle districts of Tenn: dead at Chattanooga, aged 61 had been in Asheville, N. C,, fo for his health, and onl was removed to Chatta He was native of Tennes dee appointed tc President Cie was ihe vio of the Easter: . It He s8ee Saturday nooga See, a British Death Duties f.ondon (By Cable}. The tice of the British death dutic illustrated Canon Barker r é £155,000 on the death of a sister who came into possession Oi ti. money as legatee of her husband who died four days before rhe did The government, therefore, takes 2 double duty of £27,700, or 14 pm cont. of the estate Years, The direc 100 Per Cont, In 12 New York (Special). jeal Company declared tho regular guarterly dividend of Per cent. payable April 15 to stockholders of record on March 31 This is the fiftieth consecutive quarterly dividend the company has declared, which means that in the last 12% yeare the company has paid 100 per cent. © - ER Millionaire Dies In Hospital. Los Angeles, Cal. (Special). Ed- ward 1. Day, millionaire head of a breakfast food manufacturing coms pany at Cleveland, O., died at the Gocd Samaritan Hospital of uraemic poisoning. Mr. Day, with his wife, had been for sometime a guest at a hotel. Japan Is Greatly Pleased, Tokio (By Cable).—The final re ly from Washington re the
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