Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 4, 1902, Page 1

W [ —— ———————— ESTABLISHED JUNI ' THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. SHERIFF IS SLAIN| we Kill Hoad of Party Reeking Their Oapture. W, C. RICKER OF CASPER THE VICTIM Eseaped Prisoners Fixe Upen Him Others from Ambus'. VIGILANCE COMMITTEE SWIFT ON TRAIL Wyeming More Than » Hundred Determined Mon Obase the Fagitives PROSPECT OF A SPEEDY LYNCHING Community Was Been the Prey of Thieves and Vows to Clean Out the Band Ret Whole CASPE gram.)- escaped trom jull, Wyo., Jan. 3.—~(Speclal ow Year's evening four prison They were Charles and | Clarence Woodward, David Foote and C. B. Fraoklin, Sherift W. C. Ricker followe and overtook them at Garfield Peak, sev- enty-five miles west of Casper. The Wool- wards, from a concealed position, fired on | the sheriff and shot him from righ to left | through the breast. At this\gime it s impossible to say bow serious he I wounded, but doctors think seriously. A posse was etarted out al ouce for the| scone of the shooting. Sheriff Ricker has & wife and four children. CASPER, Wyo., Jan. 3.—(Speclal Tele- gram.)—One hundred and fitteen men left here for the place where Sheriff Ricker was shot. This posse went out on horse- back, but the swiftest may not get there until after midnight tonight. Serious thoughts are mow belng given the posse, as some have gone poorly clothed and little or no food. A grub wagon has just started to relleve them. The snow out there Is over a foot deep, and some of the posse are apt to freeze. There Is no doubt Ricker is dead. A vigllance committee has been organized hore and the men will probably be hung. The whole community s in on the committee, and everything is ready for summary justice. Excitement is at white heat. The community has been the prey of thieves and a general cleaning up will now be made. Governor Richards Notiffed. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 3.—(Speclal Tel- egram.)—Governor Richards has been ad- vised that Sheriff Ricker of Casper, Wyo., was shot during a battle with outlaws in the mountains near Garfleld peak, seventy- five miles west of Casper. The telegram did not say whether the wounds recelved by the officer were fatal or not. Sherift Ricker was In charge of a posse sent out last Tues. day to capture the Woodward brothers and two others, who escaped from the Natrona county jail. Monday night. The outlaws are said to Nive been mounted and well armed, friends having alded them after they left the jail. It is also reported that the out- Jaws fortified themselves in a ravine and ‘when the posse appeared opened fire. Rein- forcements have been sent out from Casper. The outlaws are headed for the “Hole in the Wall” country, & notorious hiding place for bandits. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 3.—(Speclal Tel- egram.)—A posse of mounted and well armed men left Casper at noon today to capture or kill the four outlaws that mur- dered Sheriff Willlam Ricker of Natrona county at Garfleld park last night. The re- mains of the dead officer are being taken to his home at Casper. He was past mid- dle age and one of the old-timers, as well @as one of the best known citizens in cen- tral Wyoming. ‘The names of the outlaws are: Clarence ‘Woodward, aged 22; Charles Woodward, aged 30; F. 8. Foote, aged 24; Jeff Fra Mn, aged 4. Deta f the Shooting. They were confined In the county jall awalting trial for cattle stealing. Last Monday night, alded by triends on the out- side, the four men sawed thelr way out of jall. Once on the ‘outside, they were given horses and made thelr escape to the ranch of the Woodward Bros., at Ga fleld park, sixty-five miles west of Casper, and not far from the notorious Hole-ln-the- ‘Wall country. Sheriff Ricker and two deputies took up the trail Tuesday and reached the Wood- ward place last night. The outlaws were Jocated in the barn, and Sherifl Ricker advanced and ordered them to surrender they opened fire. The officer fell mor- tally wounded, and for twenty minutes the battle waged fiercely, the two deputies tal ing refuge behind some rocks, At the end of this time Sheriff Ricker called out that he was dying and asked to be moved from the range of the fiying bullets. The outlaws refused to grant a truce and continued firing every time a deputy showed his head. As the horses of the officers had been stampeded at the first fire, one deputy was compelled to walk back to a ranch and secure a horse, upon which he ‘went to Casper and organized another poss The whole country is aroused and the | capture or death of the outlaws 1 certain. The outlaws have horses and plenty of food and ammunition, and with a good | start the chase will be a long one before they are overtaken. FEW RAILROAD FAILURES Only ' Four Minor Lines Become In- solvent During the Past Year, CHICAGO, Jan, 3.—The Rallway Age to- morrow will say: In no year since the courts began to assume control of railroads for the benefit of creditors were the num- ber of receiverships 50 few as During the entire twelve months only four unimportant lines, with a total mileage of | but seventy-three miles, became insolvent. During the same period new equipment ordercd and received represented an ex- penditure of $200,000,000. SNOW IN WESTERN KANSAS ™ o Not s ik t. However, to Relleve Continuned Suffering from Drought. Kan., Jan. 3.—Some snow ftell Kansas today. In Sallne county TOPEKA in woste the fal) light, not belug sufcient to he of much henefit to the wheat. In Florence over eight inches of snow foll and the tem- perature A 4 156 degrees. In many 1owns the scarcity of water is daily becom- | bund.” In 1901, | OMAHA, SATURDAY M ORNING, JANUARY 4, 191 ~TWELVE PAGES. INGLE URGES A GERMAN ALLIANCE nelish Organ Nemards Such Union Advisable nn Check 1o Amerls can Advance, LONDON, Jan. 3.—The Saturday Review will print a remarkably free-spoken edi torial tomorrow, in which {t strongly ad- vises Great Britaln to form a working alli- ance with Germany, “in order to check the continued and, apparently inevitable ad- vance of the United States into South America. According to the Review, “it Is the wisest policy for this country to encourage the ad- vance of Germany in the new world as most useful counterpoise to the overwheim- Ing predominance of the United States, which is the only other possible outcome of the existing political conditions.” The Review disclaims all hostility to the United States and says: ‘“The solid In terests of our own people, which is the basls on which the United States always works, {8 the only sure ground en which to Continuing, the Review says: “If we would only remember that the Americans | are 1o be belleved when they declared them- selves actuated by purely business congid- erations, we would eave ourselves from a large number of gratuitous humiliations and unprofitable speculations in stocks hav- ing no real market value, viz.: the pre- sumed gratitude of political and commercial rivals, With a strong European power es- tablisted In the south and a great world | power in the north, the too exuberant aspi- rations of Pan-Americanism would be | checked, saviug our empire from a’ grave mena % In conclusion the Review points out t the United States will inevitably gobble up tho weak turbulent states southward, when it is certaln to formulate a Pan-American tarifl union agaiust the remainder of the world, and then controlling Cuba, Porto Rico and the Isthmian canal, convert the Curibbean into an American lake. DECRIES “WHITE SLAVE TRADE” French Organ Repeats Complaing Made Agninst Alleged Crimping at Portiand. NANTES, France, Jan. 3.—Le Petit Phare publishes a leading article today entitled “The White Slave Trade,” in which Ihl‘l paper follows up the charges of crimpiog methods employed in Portland, Ore., con- | tained in a letter signed by eight French captains, dated Portland, November 22, and published by this paper December in which the writers asked the French consul general at San Francisco to intervene and| demand a government inquiry into the sub- | Ject, Today's article contains extracts from letters of captains showing that eighty- seven French sailors were beaten aud de- serted their ships at Portland during the month of November. Le Petlt Phare urges that French diplo- matie action be taken in this matter and | sayi This scandal must cease. It extends even to San Francisco. It is not worth the trouble for the French parliament to vote premiums to our merchant marine simply to fatten these pirates. and permit them to sell French sallors like cattle at a fatr.” BARON TAKES HIS OWN LIFE father Served at Washington Under Appointment of Em- peror Napoleon | company s then to be formed and operated LONDON, Jan. 8.—A verdict of suicide @a goroner's jury this morning in the case of Baron Charles Cauldreboilleau, who was found shot in a railroad carriage at Lough- borough Junction Sunday. Horne Payne, & French baron and the son of a former French consul general In Canada. The dead man's father married a daughter of “'Senator Benton of the United States.” The business matters. He lived in Ircland, where he bad a large estate. Baron Bollleau's father was formerly first secretary of the French legation at Wash- ington. He was appointed by Emperor Na- poleon III and held the additional office of Capadlan consul general. While in Washington he married Senator Thomas H. Benton's daughter, thus becoming brother- in-law of General Fremont. The elder Boil- married again. Pisa. PRESENT GERMAN CLAIMS Kaluer's Agent, It s Said, Hands List of Demands to President Castro, His widow 1s now living at BERLIN, Jan. 8.—It has been unofficlally announced here that the German charge d'affaires at Caracas, Herr von Pilgrim- Baltazzi, has handed President Castro a note iA which the German claims against Venezuela are clearly defined and In which | a limit of time is set for President Castro's | answer thereto. | At the same time this unofcial announce- ment carefully points out that the handing of the note in question to the Venezuelan president cannot be considered an ulti- matum from Germany, since the note does | not contain any reference to Germany's fu- ture action with regard to Venezuela. [CREWS OF WAR GIGS RACE Chicago Men Defeat Nashville Edifeation of Whole Amer- 1 n Colony. by Press Publishing Co.) NICE, Jan, 3.—(New York World Cable- gram--Special Telegram.)—The entire American colony was present today on the | arrival of the American fleet at Ville- | tranche to witness a match between the giks of the war vessels Chicago and Nash- ville, There were no prizes, but the men put up over 00. The Chicago glg won by a minute over a course of three miles. { The time of the race was within twenty- elght minutes. followed. UNSTEADY COPPER ~ MARKET Disorder Due to Fears of € Cut in Prices by Am amated, (Copyright, 1902, inued LONDON, Jan, 2.-=The copper market wi and fears that the Amalgamated company contemplates a further cutting of prices. Representatives of the Amalga mated company have applied to the metal exchange for authority to add three new ing more notleeable. Farmers in some in- stances are reduced to great extremities 10 got water for thelr stock, those which may agalnst contracts, already be tendered during temporary Insanity was returned by | a lawyer, testified that the dead man was | baron had been depressed on account of | leau later was French minister to Peru and | Dances on board the ships unsettled today, on the commencement of shipmeuts of metal from the United States Copper brands of American copper to the list of OMAHA HEIR OF F. B, PEAVEY A B Jaquith Moentiened in the Will for Ten Theusand Dollars. N. PETERSEN OF LYONS GETS $2,000 Wright of Sloux City Is Another Legatee~Bequest to One “Who Was Kind to Me as & Boy."” MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 3.—The will of Frank H. Peavey, the well known Minneapolis grain man, who died in Chicago Monday morning, was filed today in this city and is one of the most remarkable wills ever flled bere. It places the value of the estate at §2,300,000 personal property and $50,000 real estate, but the total will probably be in_excess of this. The will Is chiefly notable for the man- ner in which it shows Mr. Peavey's charac- ter. The vust estate is divided into hun- dreds of bhiquests. First of all the busiuess is provided for, $1,000,000 of the life insur- ance being turned into it, and the son and the two sons-in-law, who have been asso- clated (n it, are named as executors. They are George W. Peavey, Frank T. Heffel- fluger and Fred B. Wells. They are to man- age the business for five years and a stock under the name of F. H, Peavey Foremost among the stands out the following “To John 1. Brewer of Chicago, for being kind to me when a boy, $1,000." Every employe of the firm who has been in the service for three years Is given one month's salary, and the executors are in- structed to retain the old employes and to care for them after they are too old to work. The widow, Mary Dibble Peavey, is given $200,000 cash, $400,000 in trust and $300,000 Ife insurance, also the country home, High Croft, and $10,000 annually for its maln- tenance. The three children, Mrs. F. L. Heffelfinger, Mrs. Fred B. Wells and George W. Peavey, are given $200,000 apiece In trust. Mary D. Peavey of Sioux City, the mother, s given 633 shares of bank stock and $400 2 month for life. Other bequests are Louise D. Clelland, Chicago, a sister, $15, 000 cash and $60,000 {n trust; James F. Pea- vey, Chicago, $100,000 worth of notes can- celled, $10,000 in cash and $50,000 in elevator stock; C. L. Wright, Sloux City, $20,000; J. J. P. Odell, Chicago, $25,000; A. B. Jaquith, Omaha, $10,000; N. Petersen, Lyons, Neb., $2,000, and L. T. Powers, Grangeville, La., $1,000 for his son. The grandson, Frank P. Heftelfinger, given $25,000 in cash or stocks. Rev. Marlon D. Shutter of the Church of the Redeemer, and & warm friend of Mr. Peavey, Is given $5,000. FOUR ROBBERS ARE CAUGHT Men Are Surrounded in Box Car, Bound and Taken fo Town. & Co. personal bequests LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Jan, 2.—The four Cambden Point bank robbers were captured at Pleasant RIdge, ten miles west of here, this evening. Three members of the Leav- enworth police force, a farm hand and a telegraph operator comprized the party which captured the outlaws. The robbers were in a box ear. Two of them went to a grocery store a mile from thelr hiding place and bought some crack- ers and cheese. The storekeeper had been notified by the police that the robbers were headed in his direction and he suspected who the two strangers were. The store- keeper telephoned to police headquarters here and three officers were sent to the scene. The box car was surrounded and the robbers ordered to lay down their guns and come out one at a time. They obeyed after some hesitation and were bound se- curely, loaded Into a spring wagon and brought to Leavenvorth. They gave thelr names as C. F. Ellls, James McDonald, James Thornton and Harry Edmonds. GO TO CONSULT SUPERIORS Frelght Agents Will Get Their Bear- ings Before Facing Commerce Commission, KANSAS CITY, Jan. 3.—Several freight representatives of Kansas City rallroads have left the city because of the Investiga- tion of rates on grain and graln products to be made by the Interstate Commerce They did not flee to escape subpoenas, but to consult with their general officers in Chi- cago, St. Louls and other citles regarding the line of testimony they shall give before the commission. A United States marshall and his deputy went to St. Joseph, Mo., and | Atehison, Kan., to serve subpoenas on rail- road oficlals and grain dealers in those cities and It is stated that about fifty wit- nesses have been summoned. The Board of Trade issued a circular to members of the board requesting them to appear before the commission prepared to submit full testimony showing the effect of arbitray rates agalnst Kansas City. It ls expected that all the members of the Inter- state commission will be here and that they will continue in session’for several days. POSTOFFICE CASES IN COURT Firat of the Cuba Embes is Set tor Hearing Today, ng Trinls HAVANA, Jan. 3.—The trials of the cases growlug out of the postofice embezzlements in Cuba are scheduled to begin here tomor- row. Senors Lanuza and Desvernine, attor- neys for B. G. Rathbone, will apply for a suspension of the trial of their client on the ground that the Interrogatories admit- ted by the court as ordered, forwarded by it from the United States and other places, have not yet arrived here, and that the tes- timony already received has not yet been translated nish, as has been done with the other documents in the case It the court does not grant an adjourn- ment of the trial of Rathbone until such time as the evidence shall be fully pre- pared, Senors Lanuza and Desvernine will withdraw from thelr positions as counsel for Rathbone on the plea that under such conditions thelr client should not be tried. vans Keeps Ho aces. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8.—Dudley Evans, who has just been elected acting president of Wells, Fargo & Co., will retain his present gosition of second vice president, at least until the next annual meeting of the directors, when he may be made permanent president of the corporation. Kilis One of Own Race, SAVANNAH, Ga, Jan. 3—Ernest Out- land was hanged here today for the murder of Tom Mitchel one year ago. Both were nogroca commission in this city on next Thursday. | SHAW TALKS WITH PRESIDENT Successor to Gage is Ready t Any Time to Assame Of« fice, WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-~Governor Leslle M. Shaw of lowa, who i to succeed Hon. Lyman J. Gage as secretary of the treas- ury, arrived in Washington tontght, He is staying at the Arfington hotel and had been there but a short time when, In respouse to @ message from the White House, he walked across Lafayette place o the pres- ident’s home and remained with him until after § o'clock. Later the governor called on Speaker Henderson. He will have a more extended conference with the presi- dent tomorrow. Governor Shaw, accorded a hearty greet- Ing to the group of newspaper men who were awaiting him in the hotel lobby after his return from the White House. He wi noncommunicative, however, when aske! leading questions about matters of financial policy, Tomorrow Governor Shaw will con- fer with Secretary Gage as to the latter's wishes in surrendering the secretaryship of the treasury. The governor said he would be ready to assume the by the 22d or the 23d of January, but would suit the wishes in the date largely to Mr. Ga matter. “My experience has been that when a man has decided to quit an offic sald th. governor philosophically, “he is jealous of the hours he has to stay. I can come any time, but will leave the change of the date | to the present secretary. President Rooee volt hae left the arrangements for the change practically to Mr, Gage.” The governor will remain here for sev- eral days before returning to lowa. CABINET ON DEPORTATION Session Partly Devoted to Discussion of Hardships of Immigrn- tion Law: WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.~The first cabinet | meeting of the new vear was devoted to| the discussion of minor matters relative | to the various departments, among them the overcrowded condition of some of the buildings. War department is especlally evident, and | there was a discussion of the absolute ne- cessity for a new bullding. It was sug- gested that If the Department of Justice and the State department coiild be accommo- dated in a single bullding, thus leaving the present state, war and navy bullding for the use of the latter departments, the sit- uation would be greatly relfeved. clusion, however, was reached. Lack of space in the Navy and | No con- | EFFORT FOR NEW (ONTRACT Eleotrio Light Oompany Fails to Get Oouncilmanio Aoti NO QUORUM KNOCKS SPECIAL MEETING Only Four Members of City Council Respond to Sudden Call for Ace a quarter after 9 Hoye announced that he would not wait any longer, and then Karr, Hascall and Mount abandoned the meeting ¥ of the Call, The meeting was called for the speclal purpose of taking action on a proposition that had been received during the day from the New Omaha Thomson-Houston Electric Light company. The company proposed to reduce the price of street arc lights from | $114.50 per vear to $34.50 per year, per |lamp, the reduction to take effect fmme- dlately, provided the city would end the present contract for street lighting, which expires December 31 of this year, for a period of three years. It was also pro- posed that the council should pass’ the ordinance requiring the electric light 'v-m-‘ pany to place all of Its wires within the dlstrict bounded by Eighth, Bighteenth | and Howard streots and Capitol avenue, un- | derground. 1 i { Mr. Nash Explains F. A. Nash, president of the electric light company, after the failure of the | meeting last night, said: “It is due to the public for desiring quick action on the part the council should be given out. A r resentative of our company Is now in New | York for the purpose of floating n issue | of bonds to raise money, with which we | propose to pay off our indebtedness and make improvements. This morning he that our reason | of Secretary Gage talked for some time about the hardships {mposed upon foreign- ers deported under the {mmigration laws. He {nstancod the case ¢f a mother and child now being held in New York because of being afficted with a ¢ mtaglous disease | of the eyes. The husbar( fs now in this country. The case has ex fted sympathy In New York, but under th: |law the mother must be deported. TO ATTEND THE CORONATION fon of Navy an Ardy Repre- sentatives is Causing -Much Speculation. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—It Is understood naval officers of high rank will take part in the coronation ceremonies at London. The question of selecting officers for this the president or the secretary of the navy, | but the prospect that such selections win'! be made has caused much speculation in naval circles. Tho present indications are that the pres- {1dent will select a civillan representative for the coronation and also one officer of the army and one officer of the navy to ac- company this civillan, Quite apart from this, the navy will be represented by a squadron in English waters, with a' rear admiral in com The effect of this arrangement place two naval officers of higl. tion with the co: GENERAL W. H. SEAMANS DEAD res at National s Lon, ometal B tal After Prolonged Iine WASHINGTON, Jan, 2.—General W. H. Seamans, adjutant general ot Californla, dled at Arlington Post this morning of in- flammatory rheumatism and pneumonia. He | was in Washington with the purpose of settling some accounts betwoen his state and the government when stricken. General Seamans was 60 years old, a vet- eran of the civil war, a member of the Loyal Leglon, the Army and N and the Grand Army of the Republic. Among those present at the bedside when death came was Mr. Emery W. Johnson of Salem, Mass., a lifelong friend of the gen- eral. General Seamans’' body will leave here tomorrow night for San Francisco. MAINE NEARS COMPLETION Be Finished by Fifth ¥y of Former Ship's Destructio: Californ; © WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—The new battle- ship Maine is 78 per cent completed, ac- cording to a report received today at the Navy department. This is such a rapid ad- vancement in the work of the ship that naval officials are satisfied it can be placed in commission by February 15, 1903, which will be the fifth anniversary of the sinking of the former battleship Maine in Havana harbor. TO CHRISTEN KAISER'S YACHT President's Eldest Daughter Accepts WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-~Mlss Alice Roose- velt, the eldest daughter of President Roose- velt, yacht, York. White House toda: to Miss Roosevelt was extended through Dr. von Holleben, the United States SAMPSON'S HEALTH IMPROVES Short Walk and Gives Evi- dence of Enjoying the Exercise, now building at Staten island, New Takes WABHINGTON, Jan. improvement. «ave evidence of enjoying the exercise. tamily desires to add nothing to that al- that & way may be found by which two service has not yet been considered by | n service In connec- | y league | will christen the German kalser's new | This anpouncement was made at the The kalser's invitation the German ambassador to ~The condition of Rear Admiral Sampson today shows soms | He took a short walk and His wired me that he could float the bonds at a | satistactory figure, provided I could get ! matters at this end of the line straightened out. This is the time of the year, you know, when eastern capital is being placed for Investment, but it s not going into | companies which cannot make a favorable showing. Part of the money we are trying to raise Is to go for the conduit system, but we do not want to borrow it unless the underground ordinance Is passed. Further- more, in order to carry out our plans for a’ bond issue, and get a proper price for the | bonds, It is necessary for us to show up | with something better than a contract with the city whieh has only one year yet to run. Reason for Proposition. “In view of these clrcumstances, I made the proposition to the councilmen to reduce the price of street lights from $114.50 to $94.50, provided they would extend derground ordinance. The acceptance of | this proposition would have saved the city just $6,600 on street lighting for this year that the reduced We | alone, and we proposed | prica should take effect immediately. could well afford to make this concession | because we could make up the | to the city, loss to us and the gain to the city on the increased price we could get for our bonds. In this connection it is interesting to note that the meeting was called In a hurried manner, without public notice, at a time when advantage might be taken of the absence of Mayor Moores from the he having left for Chicago in the afternoon with Fire Chief Salter to look | Irlty. | after the purchase of supplies for the fire department, WIFE AND PRISONER WEEP Pathetic Sceme in Court When Man in Convicted of Murder. | OXFORD, Mises Jan. 3.—Will Mathal charged with murdering two deputy United States marshals named Montgomery, was | tound gullty this afternoon. Mathals had maintained a bold and de- | fant air during the trial, but when the lawyers began seemed to fall him and when the verdict was brought In he broke down completely. His wife was deeply affected and both wept bitterly. The case agalnst Whit Owens, charged with complicity in the murders, will be called tomorrow. Intense excitement prevalls over the facts brought out In the trial and the authorities | tear that the prisoners will be lynched. Every mas who entered the courtroom to- day was searched for arms. Weapons were taken from several. CAR WRECKED BY DANIMITE Occupled by Sattiey Employes, Win Escape Without Serious Injury. SPRINGFIELD, 1Il, Jan. 3.—A street car which was conveying thirty-five employes | of the Sattley Manufacturing company from the plow works this evening was wrecked by dynamite at Ninth street and South Grand avenue, near the plow works, Thongh the passengers were thrown into a panie, no one was serlously injured. The police officers who were guarding the car and who had just escorted the nonunion men from the plow wotks made a vigorous but unsuccessful search for the perpetra- tors of the outrage The Sattley company has offered a reward of $5,000 for the arrest of the dynamiters, MAINTAINS HIS INNOCENCE Man Hanged for Killing Uncle Dies with Dental on His Lips. SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 3.—Willlam A Seaton was hanged at 8 o'clock this morn- ing for the murder of his uncle, Daniel Richards, December 6, 1900. He died as- serting that he was not responsible for the crime. Seaton, armed with an axe, was sald to have brained his sleeping uncle Dantel Richards, severely wounded Myrtle Hapgood, aged 7, and Hazel Hupgood, aged |5, and seriously cut his sister, Mrs. Roy Clarke, aged 22, He slightly wounded a neighbor, John Kennedy, and received i ready published concerning the symptoms | pistol wound in the neck while resisting of bis malady. arres | Pittsburg to New York, | for United States senator to succeed Sen- ator Sewell, had a long conference today with Governor Vorhees. Mr. Baird denied | the contract for three years and pass the un~! | | their arguments his nerve | CONDITION OF THE WEATHER cast for turday; Sur &t Portion; bragka—Falr, Warmer, y, Fair and ‘Warmer in y Winds, Temperntur Yesterdny: Hour, 1 Dew. 5 oam . e 18 6 onow e N 7 oaom Lo Soaw oo 28 oo 98 Tl 1 o a8 tlon on Street Light- 17 Y FREIGHT CARS FDRM DEBRIS Three Traine Are Wrecked, Killlng A special meeting of the city councll, Sertously Injuring which was called yesterday afternoon to Members of Crew. convene last night for the purpose of ex- tending the electric lighting contract an‘ JOHNSTOWN, Pa. Jan. 3.—Three trains three years and passing the “""“""‘:““ | were plled up in a wreck just west of “8Q" wire ordinance, failed to materialize h “‘,(u\ur on the Pennsylvania railroad about more than four members of the counc n‘.]n | sevan siies: weat of Shis: oty AoREHY .u;n!-@ .u“n..vy.-u‘\ thlfl! »vulzil!-::::"‘l“m‘h:"“’:w According to th '8t reports obtalnable e ot men Knrr. Hascall, Mount | O1¢ man was killed and four badly injured, o Whitehorn came o the city hall a |f€veial others sustaining slight. Injurice o R L e . | The killed ind injured wero rallroaders. little atter 8 o'clock, and Councilman Hoye | 0 EC B0 e A The first was walked In a few minutes before 0. et Py | caused by an castbound mal and express| train that carries through passengers from running into a side- | track on which was standing an .«ummmw freight traln. The wreckage was piled up high over the tracks and before fagmen ould be sent out one of the fastest west- | tound freights on the Pittsburg division | ran into the wreckage and, according to| reports recelved here late tonight, much | of the debris was tumbled down into the | Concmaugh river. Strenuous efforts were made (o learn (he names of the killed and wounded, but with it avall, 1t was at first arranged to bring the injured to the Cambria hospital in this | city, but later word was sent (hat they had | been taken to a Plttsburg institution | CONTEST FOR SEWELL'S PLACE Interest 1 for Unite New Jerse TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 3.—State Assessor David Baird of Camden, who is a candidate | he was a candidate in the interests of any one else, and Insists that he has a ma- jority of the votes from South Jersey. The | interest in the contest has not changed within the past few days and it is now | believed that all the candidates will stay | in the fleld, at least until the republican joint caucus is held, which will probably not be until after the opening of the legis- lature on January 14. The candidates are mer Attorney General Griggs, John F. Dryden of Essex, Barker Gummere of Mer- cer, Senator Stokes of Cumberland an Congressman Gardner of Atlantic. The candidacy of Mr. Griggs has grown con- siderably the last few days, because of the belief that he is favored by the national administration. The situation, as it now presents itself, seems to indlcate that the chances ‘avor either Mr. Griggs, Mr. Dryden or Senator Stokes. M’COOK PASTOR IS PROMOTED n W. Hickey Leaves n for East- Rev. Father Ja Nebraska M ern ¥ FOXBORO, Mass., Jan. 3.—(Special Tele- cory 1 big hole was made in FIVE CE LIVES LOST AT SEA Forty Persens Are Dead or Mining in Wreek of Walla Walla STEAMER COLLIDES IN FOG ON PACIFIC Over One Nandred en Beard, Fassengers, - Officers and Crew, MANY ARE RESCUED BY LIFE-SAVING TUGS Fated ®hip is Btraek by Usidentifie Railing Veas g THIRTY-FIVE MINUTES SINKS WITHIN aCtwo 1 1 SAN FRAN Eureka at midnight s wisslng in the founderi Walla Walla bas reached these elght are known A list of of forty-one died the Ve remaining thirty-three are probably adei on the ocean in two liteb 1on u raf Of the 142 passcngers and crew on Wall | Walla 109 are accounted for as Now Eighty-four surviy Bureka Big Lagoon, near ven we drowned before reachis nd one un known woman died from the shock and posure after reaching This leave thirty-three unaccounte It is thougn [ that nearly all ure in bouts at en, but it possible some were drowned when th steamer went down SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3, A collision ut sea carly Thursday morning between th steamship Walla Walla and an unidentificd salling vessel resulted In (he sinking of the steamship and probable loss of at least | twenty lives Walla Walla, owned by the Pacific Const Steamship compauy, clsco Janua safled from San 1 for Puget Sound points ran It carried sixty-five first-class pagsengers, twenty-eight second-class and a crew of eighteen men. When off the coast of Cape Mendocine on the California const at 4:10 a. m. Thursday an iron bark, believed to be French, loomed up in the haze and crashed |into Walla Walla's bow. Then the sail ing vessel slid off into the was seen no more. All the passengers and crew of Walla Walla except the few on watch were asleep, but were aroused by the crash. The steer- age quarters were In the bow and it Is be- ileved that some of the steerage passen- gers and crew were crushed to death. A the steamer's bow and it sank In thirty-five minutes. The officers and crew maintained strict discipline and boats and lfe rafts were lowered. All who were not killed In the collision got off ex- cept Captain Hall, who went down with his ship. He was picked up later by one of the boats uninjured, with the exception of a few brulses. Fight with Turbulent Sea. There was a choppy sea running and the small boats could not make a landing on the shore. They drifted about all day and finally sixty-five people were picked up by darkness and gram.)—Rev. Pather James W. Cook, Neb., has just been appointed pastor of St. Mary's Roman Catholic church here as successor to Rev. Father Thomas Norrls and has begun his labors. Rev. Father Hickey was born in Lowell | of a prominent family, (from Holy Cross college, Worcester, and St. Joseph's seminary, Troy. He was or- duined in Decomber, 1893, and was first placed as assistant to Rev. Father Michael O'Brien at $t. Patrick's church, Lowell. Later he was transferred as assistant in St, Vincent's church, South Boston. He went west in 1890 for his health and set- tled as pastor of the McCook mission, where he brought about many church improve- ments in his eleven years' pastorate. He returned to Lowell last August. COURT ENJOINS STRIKERS Decides that Peaceful Methods Are Lawful, However, if Prop- erly Exercised. CHICAGO, Jan. 8.—Judge Chetlain, in the circult court of Cook county, today granted the Robert Tarrant company a temporary injunction against striking machinists, but in doing so delivered an opinion, sald to be the direct antithesis of a recent ruling in the federal court. Judge Chetlain saild strikers had the right to use peaceful methods in thair fights and declared that “a patrol or picket may not necessarily imply force of a threat of bodily harm." In granting the injunction the court ex: plained it was not because the place was picketed, but because there was evidence that the pickets had used violence. The court declared that persons charged with violating an Injunction should mot be Jjudged by a magistrate on a charge of con- tempt of court, but should be given a jury trial, CRUSADE AGAINST THUGS Citizens Hold Mnss Meeting to De- on Systematie Action, DENVER, Jan. 3.—Fully 2,000 citizens ot Denver held a mass meeting In Lincoln park tonight for the purpose of effecting an organization to aid in ridding this city of the thugs that have for the last two years maintained a reign of terror by rob- beries, murders and assaults committed in all parts of the city. The immedlate cause of the meeting was the murder of Harold Fridborn and the outraging of his 18-year- 0l sister on the night of December 81, Dr. Stephen Grant, a well known physi- clan, presided at the meeting and several addresses were made, after which the meet- ing adjourned to Sunday afternoon at Coli- seum hall, the largest auditorium in the city, when It is expected the permanent or- ganization will be effected. Moven » of Ocean Vessels Jan. 3. At Cherbourg—Arrived: Vaderland, from New York, for Antwerp At Hamburg—Arrived: Pretorla, from New York. At Queenstown—Arrived: Campania, from New York, for Live Vi\unl AU Genoa—Arrived: Karamanta, from New York At Ldverpocl—Arrived: Rhynland, from Philadelphia; Germanle, from New York At London—8alled Manitou, for New York. At Moville—8ailed: Pretorian, from Glas- gow, for Halifax. At Halifax—Arrived: Tonfan, from Liver- pool, for Bt. Johns, N, B, Hickey, | eleven years pastor of the mission of Mc-! He was graduated | the steamer Dispatch, which took them to Eureka. Another boat under command of Engineer Brown and containing thirteen persons attempted to land at Trinidad and | was swamped. John Wilkinson, quarter- | master; Willlam Martel, fireman; L. D. | Rube, passenger, and three unidentifiecd men were drowned. Those in the boat who were saved were Engincer Brown, Fireman John McClellan, Coal Passer William Shinn, | Satior O'Leary, Chiof Cook Marshall and | Passengers Willlam B. Smith and Willlam | Moorehouse. When Dispatch reached Eureka this | morning tugs were immediately sent out for missing boats. The tug Ranger picked up one containing eleven passengers and three of the crew. Walla Walla was valued at about $250,000. It was formerly used as a colller and about ten years ago was converted Into a pyssen- ger vessel at a cost of $175,000. The tessel was insured for about $200,000. Shipman Gives Story. George Relse of San Francisco, a member of the crew, gave this account: It was 4:10 a. m, when the French vessel hit. Walla Walla' in the bow. All were asleep, the weather was clear and the sea wan folling high. The pustengers’were bfounded and rushed out of their state hms and the deck crowded. Captain Hall went down into the steerage and feund @ family of seven fast n r A4 OF 12 ana 14 years wo n timbers. The girls were the family assisted out of their b Everybody prepared to leave the vessel when the captain said it would sink. Life boats und rafts were lowered, life preservers were put on and th sengers were lowered to the vessel did not sink until 4: the crew and passeng leave the steamer. were lowered, the being fille among the remaining passengers; wom screamed and men and boys hurriedly jumped off the steamer. Several did not jeave until it started to sink. The officers were cool and collected, dolig ‘everything posibles to save the passengers. No one nows the causo of the collision but the second officer and he was missing as soon as the French vessel penetrated the steam- er's bow. It was but a short time until it withdrew, leaving the passengers at the mercy of the high sea and lending no as- slstance whatever. We were drifting here and there, sixty- and hs ample time o Blxty-three persons life-saving boats then The excitement grew intense three in the lifeboats and rafts, for oyer five hours. The boat I was In had twelve survivors, including two women. A woman gave me & red shirt to signal the steamer Dispatch, We were recognized and soun rescu The ofcers, learning of the wreck, cearched for others. It had aboard sixty- throe passengers. Dispateh was bound from San Francisco to Seattle, but pulled into this port to land the rescued passengers. Captain Hall, with the first mate, wus saved, the remaining officers being lost. Walla Walla was partly submerged, both bollers exploding and sending pleces of the yessel in overy direction. The tughoat Bauhner arrived here at 10 a. m. with fourteen other passengers picked up along the coast. Among those saved were slXx women. A southwestern wind had drifted them fifty miles up the coast from where the wreck occurred. The sea becoming rough, It was dangerous for them to land, compelling them to remain at sea Captaln Hall is at the Hotel Eureka se- verely injured. Two life-saving boats and one raft are get unaccounted for, Lint of Survivors, The list of survivors at Eurecka fincludes the following passengers: First Cabio—A B, McClellan, San Fran- cisco; Mre. €. Hustings, Victorla; Mrs, R F. Edgar, San Jose, Cal.; Mr, and Mrs, Jo cob Miller, Scattle; Joseph Roberts, San Francisco; Miss Gertrude A, Cadlen, San Francisco; Mrs, J. L. Timmons, Dawson;