Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 10, 1906, Page 4

FAILS TO GET AWAY DARING BANDIT MAKES DESPER ATE ATTEMPT TO HOLD UP KANSAS BANK. CASHIER LEADS POSSE IN PURSUN CITIZEN SHOT AND KILLED BY BULLET INTENDED FOR THE HIGHWAYMAN. Great Bend, Kan., Dea.-10.—After @ daring attempt to rob the J. V. Brink- man company bank single handed a man who save his name as George A. Lewis of City was surrounded and surrendered. Bud Westfall. a driver for the Wells-Fargo Express company, was killed by a shot fired by one of the pursuers. Lewis walked into the bank a few minutes after it opened and. pointing & revolver at A. E. Taylor, the cashier, latter to throw up his hands. In &n instant a clerk dodged into the vault and set off the burglar ularm. Lewis fled immediately and darted up an alley. A crowd of men and boys were soon close behind him inpursuit-and, seeing himself being hemned In, -the robber darted up the stairs in the Wells-Fargo building, two bloeks from the bank. On the sccond floor he locked himself in a room and.for an hour defied arrest. Several shots were fired into the room in an attempt to dislodge the robber. One bullet struck and in stantly killed Driver ‘Westfall, whc was in the express office. Finally, after parleying an hom with his pursuers, Lewis surrendered and was taken to the county jail. Ofi- cers believe that the name of Lewie is fictitious. He sald he came here from Chicago to do the job. . Stolen Money Recovered. ‘The transaction in the bank con snmed but a few minutes’ time. Cash fer Taylor handed over $350 in biils to the robber. The money was recov- ered when Lewis was taken to jail. Cashier Taylor, revolver in hand, led the chase after the robber. The room in which the robber barricaded him self was occupied by Mrs. Anza Tyler as a millinery store. Lewis told Mrs Tyler that he had robbed a bank, that a crowd was after him and bsgged her to hide him. Instead she fled in terror and the man locked and barred the door. After he had surrendered he was followed to the jail by an excited crowd. Cries of “lynch him” were frequently heard and B. W. Taylor, father of the bank cashler, attempted to reach the man and attack him. It was with difficulty that the robber was landed in jail. There he first sald his name was George A. Lewis of Kansas City and then that it was George A. ‘West and that he had come here from Chicago Thursday last. The robber is twenty years old, weighs 160 pounds and Is six feet tall. He has light halr and blue eyes and is well dressed. He admitted that he had not given his correct name. He sald he had made contributions to Eastern magazines and papers, but his matter had been rejected and he had become despond- ent. He cried as he told his story. WRIT OF ERROR DENIED. Federal Supreme Court Will Not Hear Case of Mrs. Myers. ‘Washington, Dec. 10.—The supreme court of the United States, through Justice Brewer, has denied the appli- cation of Mrs. Aggle Myers of Kansas City, Mo., for a writ of error, which, it it had been allowed, would have had the effect of bringing her case to that court. Mrs. Myers is under sen- tence of death in Missouri on the charge of murdering her husband in Kansas City a year or more ago. The effect of the decision will be to leave the matter in the hands of the state authorities. Kansas City, Dec. 10.—The fact that her last hope in the courts was gone was conveyed to Mrs. Myers in her cell in the county j}ail at Liberty, near Kansas City. She expressed no alarm over the news and said she had faith that Governor Folk would not permit her to be hanged. ACCEPTS ROCKEF:LLER MONEY. President of Lawrence University Can See No Taint. Appleton, Wis,, Dec. 10.—President OPERA HOUSE TWO NIGHTS ONLY MOND’'Y-TUESD’Y DECEMBER 10 @ 11 ! Samuel Plaatz of Lawrence university | Beverldge Dill, In substance, as a na- ordered thef: has made a statement in which he corrects statements recently appear- ing in public print with reference to the gitt of $50,000 to Lawrence uni- versity from the general education board fund, founded by John D. Rocke- feller. President Plantz in his state- ment states that Mr. Rockefeller has now no connection whatever with the general education board. “He does not attend its meetings, he does not counsel with it and has nothing whatever to say about the distribution of its funds,” he says. “That accepting a contribution from the general board of education would compromise freedom of speech in an institution of learning is gratuitous affirmation. Mr. Rockefeller has given Yale and Harvard $1,000,000 each; but whose professors have spoken more Ireely on economic ques- tions? President Hadley of Yale be- fore Mr. Rockefeller's gift and since has been one c¥ the most outspoken of our economists on railroad rebates. Professors in Chicago university have been enjoying freedom in speaking on economic questions and on monopolies. Certainly to accept a gift from a board of education which- Mr. Rockefeller has endowed in no way coinpromises any institution of learning.” " : Touching upon the;subject of “‘taint: ed mouey” President{-@l’gm: gatd- it was not at all ‘clear,to him’ that ‘Mr:; Rockefeller's money deserves, any.such Characterization. “It<1s the motive which taints money," 'sald Mr:- Plantz. ENGINEERS WANT__ MO| ‘Mgt of Northwestern' Roads Involved s in Demands. St. Paul, Dec: 10.—Locomotive engi-| neers from all parts of the Northwest, members of a general grievance com- mittee of the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Engineers, are gathered atgzthe Hotel Foley, where they are holding regular meetings to formulate a sched- ule of wages which will be presented to the various railroad companies of the Northwest. “This schedule,” said an engineer, “will probably be presented to the various companies on Dec. 15. It will involve increases in pay on nearly all the lines. Engineers of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific will probably be the only ones who will not ask for higher pay, their wages being already as high as what the proposed schedule will ask. Even on these lines, however, a raise will be asked for the switch engineers. I think the railroads and the brother- hood will come to an understanding without difficulty and that there will be no disturbance in the handling of the traffic.” GROVER CLEVELAND ILL. Ex-President Suffering From Acute Indigestion. New York, Dec. 10.—Grover Cleve- land is {1l at his home in Princeton of acute indigestion. He has been sick a week and still remains unimproved. His physician, Dr. J. M. Carnochan, said that Mr. Cleveland was not in a very serious condition, but was in pain. Asked if Mr. Cleveland was suffering from nothing except indi- gestion he replied: “I have no knowledge of anything else.” He also said Mr. Cleveland had been 111 for some time and only by the most extraordinary effort had he seen Mr. Carnegie, who called Wednesday. “We expect Mr. Cleveland out in a few days,” continued Dr. Carnochan, “but I can’t tell exactly when.” CITY UNDER STRONG GUARD. Several Mexicans Shot for Plllaging at Clifton, Arlz. Solomonville, Ariz., Dec. 10.—Reports from the flood-stricken city of Clifton indicate that while the water has subsided- the town Is paralyzed by de- posits of mud ‘and smelter Sediments. It is still impossible~to reach many sections and mno definite list of the dead can be obtained. It is now known. that” tRé! alamity was prin- cipally caused.by the breaking of a reservoir up Chase’ creek. ) The city is under strong guard to prevent vandalism. Much suffering among the poorer class is becoming manifest, business is at a standstill and one telephone wire Is the sole connection with the outside world. No bodies have been . recovered and the complete death list may never be'as- certained. An estimate places the damage at $200,000. A great deal ot pillage is now going on and several Mexicans have been shot. -The town of Metcalf, north of Clifton, was also damaged but no lives were lost. Child Labor Bill Endorsed. * New York, Dec. 10.—At a meeting of the board of trustees of the national child labor committee, held here, reso- lutious_ were_adopted _endorsing the Diaries W can be had here. NOW have in stock a large assort- ment of 1907 diaries. suitable for business and professional men. Prices compare favorably with eastern houses and the cheap as well as the very best book STATIONERY DEPARTMENT OF Bemidji Pioneer. The line is _tional child labor law and eulogizing the late Samuel Spencer, president of the Southern Rallway, who was one of the trustees of the committee. Indictments Held Defective. Cedar Rapids, Ia, Dec. 10.—Judge Church, at Anamosa, has quashed in- dictments against F. E. Snyder, the Olin banker charged with fraudulent banking. The indictments proved de fective. Snyder was tried a year agc and was found guilty. He was fined only $100 and depositors in his bank secured a reindictment of him. Anarchists Attack Mail Train. Odessa, Dec. 10.—A band of an archists made a daring attempt to at tack a mail train between Odessa and Vosnessensk, but were driven off by a military patrol. The troops cap tured fourteen' of thé anarchists, al. of whom carried bombs and revolvers The prisoners will be tried by a drum head courtmartial. After a Long Search. Dayton, O., Dec. 10.—A dispatch t¢ the Daily News from Port Arthur Ont., says the body of Mayor Charles .A. Snyder, who was drowned while hunting at. Whitefish lake on Oct. 24 .-has been’ recovered. The search ha¢ ceontinued without iInterruption since the drowning. i BOYCOTT CASE DECIDED. fictory for ‘Hatters' Unlon in Federal o “Gircuit Court. S A ‘Hartford, Conn., Dec. 10.—The long pending Danbury hoycott case, involv- ing: allegations of conspiracy, brought by Dietrich E. Loewe and Martin Fuchs against Martin Lawlor - and others, -has been settled, Judge Platt of the United States circuit court dis- missing the complaint. . The decision is on a demurrer of the defendants. The plaintiffs alleged that a combina- tion had been formed to limit the plaintiff’s trade. It was also alleged that the defendants endeavored to un- fonize the plaintiff’'s factory and fail- ing to do so declared a boycott upon hats made by the plaintiff which were found in the hands of plaintiff’s customers in other states than Connec- ticut, notably California and Virginia. Judge Platt’s opinion declares that while it is obvious that the defend- ants sought to curtail and if possible destroy the plaintiff’s production of hats and its distribution of the product there is no allegation suggesting. that the means of transporting the product or the product itself while in trans- portation was “touc™ed. lirndled, ob- structed or in any m ctually in- hat “ terfered with” an? +e is mo allegation that the dcl:n<:ats are in any way engaged in inwc: iate com- merce.” “The real question is,” says the opinfon, “whether a combination which undertakes to interfere simul- taneously with both actions is one which directly affects the transporta- tion of the hats from the place of manufacture to the place of sale.” The judge does not find that the supreme court has as yet so broad- ened the interpretation of the Sher- man act as to fit such order of facts as the complaint presents. What the court may do, if the matter comes before it, is very uncertain, in the judgment of Judge Platt. TROLLEY CAR TOPPLES OVER. One Man Killed and Every One on Board Injured. East Liverpool, 0., Dec. 10.—A trac- tion car of the East Liverpool Traction and Light company was derailed at the approach to the Jethro trestle in the west end of the town and plunged over a twenty-fivefoot embankment, completely wrecking the car. One man was instantly killed and all of the passengers were injured. Several, it is thought, will die. The car. was bound from Wellsville to East Liver- pool and was carrying a full passenger list. The rvaotorman, Samuel Kerr, re- maine? at his post and none of the passengers had auny chance to leap from the car to save themselves. The car stood on its end when it struck the bottom of the embankment and then toppled on its side. * The passengers of the car were thrown to one end, James Vale, an englueer, having his skull crushed and dying instantly. STRIKE OF YARDMEN FEARED. Pittsburg Roads and Employes Unable to Agree. Pittsburg, Dec. 10.—The dispute he- tween the local officials of the rail- roads centering in Pittsburg and-their employes over the scale for yardmen has arrived at the critical stage and unless a settlement is reached within a day or so fears are entertained of a general strike in the district, Negotiations with the Baltimore and Ohlo are already off and much de- pends upon meetings to be held with G. L. Peck, general manager of the Pennsylvania lines, and B. A. Worth- ington, vice president and general manager of the Wabash lines east of Toledo. If these two companies take a stand similar to that of the Balti- more and Ohio all yardmen in the Pittsburg district will likely be called out on strike in accordance with the result of the vote on this question by the trainmen. Teachers WIll Go Abroad. ‘New York, Dec. 10.—One thousand American teachers will go'abroad next year to study school systems of Eu- rope, according to an announcement by Dr. Willlam H. Maxwell, city su- perintendent of schools. The Amer- ican teachers’ trip will be practically & return of the visit which the Eng- lsh teachers in the Mosely party are now enjoylng in'the United States. FET LT IN DEFENSE OF WIFE FORMER AMBASSADOR ' STORER SENDS EXTRAORDINARY LET- TER TO THE PRESIDENT. DENIES ALL ROOSEVELT'S CHARGES ! ASSERTS EXECUTIVE REQUESTED THEIR INFLUENCE TO GET RED HAT FOR IRELAND. Chicago, Dec. 10.—The - Chicago Tribune in its Washington dispatches says that an extraordinary letter has been addressed by Bellamy Storer to | President Roosevelt and the members. of his cabinet in regard to his dismis- sal from the post of ambassador of the United States to Austria-Hungary. Mr. Storer was dismissed because of his wife's supposed interference in affairs of the Roman Catholic church and her alleged misuse of letters from the president. It was also charged that Mrs. Storer had meddled with French politics by taking part in an anti{-Republican intrigue to promote the marriage of Victor Bonaparte with a member of the Orleanist family. Both of these charges Mr. Storer de: nies and on the other hand declares that the president’s interest in the selection of Archbishop Ireland as a cardinal was not due to Storer or lo| { Sterer’'s wife, but to the president alone. Mr. Storer says that his removal in so summary a manner suddenly dis- missed him from an office which he had been glven reason to believe he had filled to the satisfaction both of his own government and of that to which he was accredited and, being accompanied by no public explanation, exposed him to suspiclons and injuri- ous conjectures such as must naturally arise when' a man in public office is abruptly dismissed by his government with what is obviously intended to be discredit. Mr. Storer asserts that Roosevelt himself, while governor of New York, urged the Storers to use their influ- ence with the Vatican for Ireland’s promotion, believing the prelate’s well known patriotism would aid in solving | the problems connected with the Cath- olic churchin the Philippines. President Criticises Mrs. Storer. One letter of the president to Mrs. Storer, dated Dec. 11, 1905, after the efforts of the Storers in behalf of Arch- bishop Ireland began to attract atten- tlon, contains the following passages: “Your direct or implied complaint of and reflections upon my own per- sonal conduct give me no concern, but I am very gravely concerned at the mischicvous effect your letters must have in misrepresenting the position of the United States government and by the farreaching governuie:(al scan- dal your indiscretion may at any time cause. “The letter of Cardinal Merry del Val to you of Nov, 23 is a rebuke to you, expressing plainly his belief that you have been unwarrantably officious in matters with which you have prop- erly no concern. It should of itself be enough to show you how exceedingly unwise and improper .your action in| writing to him was.” After referring to the report that Mrs. Storer was known in Europe as the American ambassadress to Rome Mr. Roosevelt closes thus: “I must ask you to give me this!| positive promise In writing if Bellamy | is to continue in the service and if | you even unintentionally violate it'I| shall have to ask for Bellamy’s resig- | natlon, for I can no longer afford to. have the chance of scandal being brought on the entire American diplo- matic service and on the government itself by such indiscreet and ill ad- vised action as yours has been.” Mr. Storer Very Indignant. “l cannot trust myself to express fully the feeling of indignation with which I read the letter to Mrs. Storer,” says Mr. Storer. “Though I was in the public service ' I felt, and still feel, that I had lost none of the rights which a man has, to judge of the propriety of letters addressed to his wife and to resent an ; improper communication. “l did not then know what I have: since learned, that the-letter was not | even written for my wife’s eyes or| mine alone, but had been shown to, others before it was sent and thus| used to make a case against a lady, a | trusting friend, who could not bei heard in her own defense. | “The president’s tone of long suffer- | ing and outraged patience, the careful | omission of all mention of anythingl i that the writer had himself done and authorized to:.be done in the matters complained of, the quotation from the letters -written at the time of my errand to the pope, without any of the facts and circumstances related above which would give these letters their true chaiacter or show that they were an angry complaint because what he had directed to be done had become known—these things, with the abusive personal characterization of my wife and ‘the assumed indignation with what had been, in fact, permitted and encouraged where not expressly direct- ed, seemed to me to put the letter out: side the limit of anything justifiable even in a stranger. What a sense of outraged friendship it aroused In us can perhaps be understocd by any one who has read even the small part of the private correspondence glven above.” GILLETTE WIRES DENIAL, Informs His Mother He Has Made No | Confession. Herkimer, N. Y., Dec. 10.—Chester E: Gillette, ‘convicted of the murder ot Grace Brown, was amazed by the re- ceipt of a telegram from his mother telling him to repent before God. His mother, who had previously expressed confidence in his innocence, said in; explaining her message that she had received word that he had confessed.] Gillette immediately wired ~his mother this reply: E “l have made no confession. ‘1 ex- pect a new trial. 1 am innocent. Be- lieve oo reports you read in the news- papers about me.” EIGHTY-SEVEN ARRESTS MADE.| Russian Troaps Break Up Revolution- ary Organization. Warsaw, Dec. 10 —A military raid { on the Bakoft tron works st Czensto- chowa Tesnulted in breaking up an ex- tensive revolutionary organization. Eighty-seven members of the band; were arrested, including fifteen terror | ists suspected of participation in re- cent murders and robberies. A large quantity of arms and ammunition, several printing presses and many revolutionary proclamations were cap- tured. President Refuses Pardon. Washington, Dec. 10.— President | Roosevelt has refused to commute the sentence of Professor C. W. Malchow of Hamline, Minn.,, who is serving a cne-year term in the Stillwater peni- tentiary on a charge of having sent ob- jectionakle matter through the United States mails. This is merely a reitera- tion of the stand the president has heretofore taken in the case. Paris, Dec. 10.—The Croix, a Clerical | organ, announces that the pope has definitely Interdicted any steps being | taken by Catholies for the purpose of | holding church services under the pub- | lic worship law of 1881, -under which the government proposes that serv- | ices be held after Dec. 11. ELMR WALT GREAT SUCCESS FUNTST SWEDE STORY WRITTEN RS WITHIN FIVE YEARS CALIFORNIA EXPECTS AND PRE- DICTS WAR WITH THE JA‘P- ANESE EMPIRE. FRESENT CRISIS ONLY BRIDGZD OVER ORIENTALS FLUSHED WITH ViC- TORY WILL MAKE FUR- THER DEMANDS. San Francisco, Dec. 10.—California regerds the Jupanese imbrogiio as practically :ettled and while believing the present i3 has been bridged over expects and predicts war between the United States and Japan within five years. That the federal government, by ! dodging the issve and placing the re- sponsibility for the alleged insult to Japan on California, has prevented immediate war is the firm conviction of politicians and officeholders in and around San Francisco, but that war with Japan will eventuate is declared on every side. In the University of California cne of the leading profes- sors in an open lecture predicted war. Great fear is expressed here that regardless of the hasty movement to decide the case in the courts the Japanese, fluished with what they con- sider a victory over the United States, will make further demands and insist that the federal congress force Cali- fornia to reccgnize the Japanese right to enter the schools. On this ques- tion California stands firm. Throwing aside all pretense of not being preju- diced against the Japanese Califor- nians declare that never again will the Japanese be admitted to the schools on an equality, especially adult Japanese. Furthermore, they declare that if congress attempts to force action before the United States supreme court has passed on the state rights question there will be trouble and that if the mikado’s government attempts reprisals war will result. You can’t feel blue if you walk with your head up. This mode of car- rlage impresses the world that you are on good terms with yourself. 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