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Show FEAR MM KM ORCHARD FROM DEATH LEADER SAVED ON OF DETROIT TIGERS If GALLOWS REVOLUTIONISTS Troops Being Rushed to Torreon, Mexico, to Protect City from Misguided Mexicans. American Residents Preparing te Send Their Famillea to the United States. Since Situation Haa Assumed Serious Aspect. Bl Paso, Tex. Fifteen hundred troops havo arrived In Torreon to protect that city from the expected and the attack by revolutionists, Americans are preparing to send their families to the slates for safety, according to reports brought here by jiasscngers on tbe Mexican Central It la reported that the revolution' lata have attacked the village of Ma tamoraa, Coahulla, about fifteen iiiib-- i from Torreon, and have occupied that town. Official advices relative tq mending troops to Torreon say thaf Hxrith the forces atationef already there the town ia Impregnable. In Chihuahua there ia considerable alarm among the citizenry, and guards numbering from twenty tc soldiers In a single pal ml are continually passing through the erects. A great many extra polii-have been aworn In to do guard duty, ltoth Jails of Chlhusbua are protected by reinforced guards, and troops are stationed on the roofs of public buildings. The officers In command of the troops st Chihuahua have, by special orders, been quartered with their men In readiness to respond to an emergency call. twenty-fiv- e UNCLE SAMUEL, SPENDTHRIFT. States Spends $60,000,000 United Mors Then Comes Into Treasury. The forthcoming Washington. si a lenient of the treasury rerelpty and expenditurci for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908, will show a marked falling off In the receipts nit compared with the year 1907, and a large Increase In the expenditures. The excess of expenditures over receipts for year will approximate $G0,. 000.000, which has been exceeded only twice since the civil war. In 1894 there was a deficit and in 1899 there. was another of a llttlq over J89.OU0,-000and In each of the fnur intervenfell considering years the receipts Again ably below the disbursements. la 1904 and 1905 there were shortages or ft, 177.000 ami $23,000,000, re- THROUGH Idaho Board of Pardons Commute Daath Sentence of Self Confessed Murderer to Life Imprioonmont PLUNGES BURNING BHiDGE Fire Started by Passing Freight Train Causes Grim Tragedy on Santa Fa in Arizona. Cashier of Jordan State Bank Accused of the Theft of $106,250 From Salt Lake Bank. Boise, Ida. Acting on the recommendation made by Judge Fremont Wood at the time sentence waa the Idahu state board of pardons' on Wednesday commuted the sentence of Harry Orchard to imprisonment for life. Orchard was sentenced to le executed on July 3. Orchard was arrested two days after the asHSHsliiaitou of ex Governor Sleunenberg st Caldwell December 30, IMS. and a few weeks later, while confined In the Idaho penitentiary, confessed his guilt to Jamea McFarland of tbe IMnkertou detective agency, at the same time charging that he was employed to commit the crime by officer of the Western Federation of Miners. As a result of his coiifcaslun, Charles II. Moyer, president of the federation: Willlum D. , secretary-treasurerand lay wish), II. George Ioitlbone, all of Denver, were arrested In that city and brought to Idaho to nnswer to the charge of Indict nienta were returned murder. against them and John Simpkins, a member of the executive board of the federation. Simpkins escaped and Is still a fugitive; Haywood and Pettl-bon- e were acquitted after memorable trials in which Orchard told a aiory of wholesale assassination which shocked the world. Following the trials of the case Haywood and Iettibone against Moyer waa dismissed. Orchard, who waa Indicted sepai alely, when arraigned after his confession, stood mute, and the court directed that a plea of not guilty be entered. His case was continued from term to term until April 10 of thla year, when hi case waa called at Caldwell and he asked permission to change hla plea. The court granted the request and Orchard pleaded guilty to murder In the first degree. In pronouncing the sentence of death a week later. Judge Wood recommended that the board of pardons ronunute the sentence. In making thla recommendation Judge Wood stated that be waa firmly coqvlnoed that Orchard had told the whole and exact truth at the trials of Haywood and Pettlbone and that he waa therefore, for the service he had rendered the state, entitled to clemency. Orchard, to the last, waa opposed to having the sentence of court Interfered with. Only the day before the board of pardons took up his rase he expressed to his attorney the hope that efforts to save him from the gallows would fall. After a Seaaion Covering Thirty-eig- ht Days and Examining 125 Witnesses at a Coat of $1,000, Grand Jury Makes Report in Celebrated Caaa. Id-tl- Manager Hugh Jennings of tha Detroit American League teem player and knows every angle of tho national game. D0VEY HAS SCHEME TO ABOLISH FARMING EYIL Star Chicago Pitcher Favore Plan President of Boston National League to Figurea Deaignate Profeeelonala. "It will not be long, probably next year, when all ball players will wear numbers Juat like athletes in a track meet or Jockeys on a racetrack, said Mordecal Iirown, looked upon aa the worlds greatest pitcher. one was asked The what he thought of such a scheme and aid he had always encouraged it and would like to see a rule passed by tbe national commisaion making It compulsory for every player to wear his number on hla back, so that every man and woman In the grandstand could readily Identify the player at bat or In the field or wherever he might be. "1 know It must be troublesome for the people In the grand stand to follow the players, especially visiting teams continued Hrown. "It would be ao easy for a player to have hla number made right In bis suit and the program would carry the key. For Instance, the program could print tbe list of players on the team. Deal Ing with Chance, No. 1; Kling, No. 2; Overall, No. 3, and so on down the Hat of names until every players bad been numbered. When he came to bat hie number on hie back would furnish the key to the identification. "What a swell nilx-uthere would be at a track meet If the competitors were not numbered. How many pep sons In s grand atand would know the winner of a horse race If they were not guided by numbers? Then why should It not be Just as Important for baseball players to be Identified? An umpire gets up before a large crowd and says: . Ladies and gentlemen, the y are Hurapty batteries for Doodlehump and Bow wow man for Boston and Hnnity Doodlehump and Bing How many persona In for Chicago. the grand stand are able to catch the name? They tell me '8IIk' Just spits out the name of the visiting battery without giving the crowd any warning and not one In a thousand catchea the names. By the time he announces the battery for the home team the crowd is quiet and there la n chance to catch the names, but most of the people know the home players, but cannot find out who the visiting battery la. "We players on the bench are continually answering calls from the grand stand by some of our friends as to who Is pitching and who is playing renter and such like, when. If the players carried their numbers everybody would know the men In uniforms. and besides the club would sell more programs. If one club ever starts the Idea all other tennis folthree-fingere- d p to-da- of Exciting Scenes. Grand Junction Colo. O. N. Hilton, leading counsel for 8teve Adams, on trial here on the charge of murdering Arthur Collins, appeared before Justice of the Peace Sweeney Wednesday afternoon and filed a charge against Crown Prince Missd Up in Conapir Sheriff C. A. Fitzpatrick of Tellurlde. acy Against Montenegro. alleging that. Fitzpatrick had threatThe Cettlnje. The trial of thirty-siened him with a revolver. prisoners charged with revolutionary occurred, according to Hilton, rctlvlty In connection with the dls vhcu the two men met at the on their way to the court room. covcry of a score of bombs here Iasi year, and during which sensatlona' Sheriff Fitzpatrick was brought before testimony was adduced Involvlni the iet,ce. disarmed and placed under Crown Frtncn George of Sorvia, In t bon it a of ftono pending further hearconspiracy against Montenegro. ro ing of the charge against him. suited in six of the accused be: in CLARK HEADS DELEGATION. condemned to death, three to life Ini Indud uriaonment. and twenty-seven- . From Montana and Aaao tng five former cabinet ministers, tc terms of Imprisonment ranging from elates Will 8upport Bryan. six to twenty years. Dutte. The Montana state Demo rrntlc convention at Itozcnian on Sheriff Shot Soldier. Helena. Mont. ltolia Duncan, dep Wednesday instructed the delegation at of six to the national convention itty sheriff, shot sml probably fatally Denver to vote for William J. Bryan wounded Thomas Sahey. a member ol as presidential nomination the Sixth Infantry stationed nt Fort for the Sunday long as the name of the Nebraskan Is William Henry Harrison. convention. night. The shooting happened Just before the United States Senator W. Former ns the last people were gotng hnme from the Ragles plenle, which wn A. Clark heads the national delegafield at Central park. A number ol tion. the others of which are T. J. the soldiers and citizens got Into a Walsh of lewis and Clark county, f ght and the deputy sheriff tried to Walter S. llartinnn of Gallatin. W. D toparate them, with the result that George of Yellowstone, former GovFahey waa allot. Four other soldiers ernor U. IL Smith of Flnthcad. and were taken to the county Jail. It. S. Ford of Cascade. Trial of Steve Adams Productive post-offic- low. Minors Plan Invasion. that the American association magnates am at present pep feeling plans for the Invasion of Chicago. 8l. lauds. Pittsburg and Cincinnati The plan most favored, It gald, Is to put the St. Patti franchise In Chicago. that of Minneapolis In Pittsburg, and Kansas City at Cincinnati. It Is probable that Milwaukee win be placed In 8t. Louts. Tho proitositlon soms to be up to three eastern magnates of the A. A, although the threat bus been made that If they wee fit to balk on the Invasion the others will go it abmo. The invasion Into Chicago Is practically assured, a Hanover of Milwaukee has that matter In hand and Is In Ihe Windy City onee or twice a week working out the details, it (, stood that If the blow whould udep come thera would be no tampering of play-er- a nor any attempt to meet the majors on an equal footing. It Negro Who Stole Mail Pouch at Kansas City Gets Caught. F. EL McL chief Washington. insHctor of the postoffice department, has been notified of the capture ana arrest at Monroe, Mich., of Charles Stevens, alias Charles Savage, a ne-ro- , In connection with the recent robtiery at Kansas City, Mo., of a $30.-k)through registered pouch of mall 'rom Los Angeles to New York City. The negro was Identified by a photo--rapand officials of the postoffice de part men t assume that he Is the man wanted for the alleged robbery. h le an M0RDECAI BROWN WANTS BALL PLAYERS NUMBERED Have Wave-Wees-s- Hava Hard Luck With Wiretesa. Misfortune has at Washington. tended the effort of the government tc complete the chain of army wireless telegram atationa In Alaska which It was hoped would he in operation by next fall. The rummr trial vessel car rylng the wireless equipment for the station at Nome recently ran into an Iceberg, the hold was flooded, aud the electrical equipment damaged. With' nut the Nome station working, the chain of wireless stations bus s break which rnnnnt be spanned by the stations ou either side. Till BANK MYSTERY spectively. The total receipts this year will lie I KATA FIB WITH HIS KNIVC. thfiwa to M0, or 961,000.000 less than for the Customs receipts Jacob F, Jacobson Nominated fiscal year 1907. by will he shown to have fallen off about Minnesota Republicans for Governor. $64,000,000 from those of 1907, while the receipts from Internal revenue can8L Paul. The Minnesota Republiconvention on Wednesday nomisources will he short nearly $W.OOO, nated Jacob K. Jacobson of Madison 00. for governor, adopted a platform inTORNADO KILLS SEVEN. dorsing the work of the Chicago convention and pledging the party In MiniDsadly. Twiatsr Strikes Minnesota nesota to continue the work of railTown, Unaccompanied by Rain. way regulation. Mr. Jacobson's name Clinton. Minn. A tornado struck was presented to the convention by thla town at S:35 oclock Saturday artr former Congressman who Eddy, emoon, killed seven people and In- aroused laughter when he said: "The some seriously. only reflection anyone has been able jured twenty-five- , Twenty houses, a printing office and to cant upon our candidate la that he two churches were blows down. eats pie with a knife. lie Is a rough, The tornado, which was unaccom- rugged, natural man. We could not have him any different If we would, panied by rain, started three miles north of town, destroyed two farm aud we would not If we could. houses that were In Its path and swept over Clinton, which has about SHERIFF THREATENED LAWYER. 4M people. A Chicago. Milwaukee ft St. Paul mixed train was Just pulling Into the station as the storm struck that town fifteen freight cars were blown off the tiark, as was also a passenger coach All containing seventeen people. were Injnred. among them Father Kea wey of (Yacevllle, Minn. PASSENGER SOLVING Is rumored riratcB uci noma, Roy Thomas, the fust outfleMer years with the Quakers, ha bt ilgned by IMttsburg. It ( Jiat Manager Murray and Thomas I a serious falling out urer Thornaa ing work outside of baseball. Club Would Maks Clearing House of National Commisaion. President George B. Dovey of the Boston National League club haa a plan to abolish the socslled farming evil and to lessen the labors of the national commission In ascertaining the status of ball players with reference to ownership. He would have the national commission act as a clearing house for the major league cluba and have all playera bought and sold by that body for the varloua owners. He nays he haa already auggeated tha plan to President Herrmann of the commission and believes that it would be s boon to club owners and players alike and would also relieve the supreme court of many of the annoying details with which it Is struggling dally. As an illustration of the working of hla Ides, Dovey would notify the commission that he wanted to look up a certain player who had been recommended to him. Then It would be the duty of the commission to assign some man, a scout In whom the club owners would have confidence, to obtain the information desired about the player. The scout would see the player at work and report to the commission, which would then make known to Dovey the result of their Investigations. Should Dovey desire to purchase the player on the strength of the commission's findings he would deal directly with that body In obtaining the player. He would be willing to pay a liberal commission. With other club owners doing this same thing the national commisaion would have enough and to spare to pay the salaries of as many scouts as would be needed. The Boston magnate says that he for one would be willing to permit the clubs finishing at the bottom of the two leagues to take first pick of the available material for the following season. He says this would tend to equalize the strength of the clubs, which would make the pennant race closer and always more Interesting. President Dovey Is not one who Is dissatisfied with existing conditions, but he Is progressive, and believes that any atep to minimize tbe possibility of squabbling over playera should be adopted. He thlnka his scheme would work out satisfactorily, and Is eager to see It tried out. GOSSIP OF THE DIAMOND President Ebbetts of the Brooklyn team haa offered Bill Murray of the Phillies $12,000 for Outfielder Magee. And Murray said: Tut. tut. Ganzel certainly has that Cincinnati bunch going at a lively clip, and If the same pace la continued the Reds are going to be in at the finish. Morgan Murphy, the once famous major league catcher. Is now In the real estate business In East Providence, and Is said to be well fixed. Detroit Is well equipped with outfielders. Few teams have a quartette aa formidable as McIntyre, Crawford. Cobb and Jones. Since Charley Dooln affects a Ty Cobb batting average, the auburn-tippecatcher has become an extra attraction card on the National league circuit. Cleveland has a new catcher In Thomas Doran, who was with the Rochester club of the Eastern league last year. He will get a chance when Clarke and Bemis want a rest. Cravath, who might have decorated the Boston bench all season but for the Injury to Thoney, has been repaying Jim McGuire's faith, by hitting a .300 clip since he became a regular. "The knuckle ball will ultimately replace the spit ball, and he even more effective than that famous twist, which has made some pitchers the terror of the batsmen. It will do more to destroy big batting averages than anything else." Such la the statement d made by Manager Clarke. Salt Lake City. A. W. Nelson, cashier of the Jordan State bank, waa on Tuesday Indicted by the United States grurd Jury, charged In six counts with having abstracted money from the reserve cheat of the Utah National bank on or about January 9. Nelaon ia the cashier of the Jordan State bunk, at Bingham Junction, an Institution which had close business relations with the Utah National. Aa the agent of the Jordan bank and also of the Utah National he had access to the latter at all times, being in possession of the keys to the outer door and being familiar with the combiner tions of the vaults wherein were tha cheats containing the money Btole. On certain days in the month Nelson transferred large sunn of money from the Utah National to the Bingham Junction bank to be used in the transaction of the general banking business of the two concerns. According to the Jury's findings. Nelson also transferred large sums of money which were not Intended to be used In the conduct of the general banking business of the two concerns, but by Nelson himself. One of these sums was for $106,250, another $50,000 and still another Winslow, Aria.' Two trainmen and n passenger were killed, a score of persons were more or less severely Injured and n portion of the Callforn'a Limited, the Santa Fe'a fast overland train, was derailed and wrecked Monday night when the train, while running fifty miles an hour, struck a wide gap In the track, caused by the burning of a bridge near Hardy, twelve mllea east of here. Fireman Thornaa and Engineer Cur-rl- n are believed to have made the discovery that the bridge waa burned n moment before the engine reached the gap. A blast of the whistle startled the passengers an instant before tbe engine, mail car, diner and a combination car were precipitated Into a dry arroyo six feet below the level of the road bed. The Pullman cars did not leave the track. The bridge, which waa sixty feet long, Is believed to have caught fire from the spark of a passing freight engine. ALLEGED MIRACLE IN FRANCE. Hailstones Said to Have Borne Image of Virgin on Surface. Remlremont, France. A diocesan commission has been conducting an Investigation at Remlremont of an alleged miracle, and, having heard 107 witnesses, It affirmed the reality of the supernatural event During a In the month of May bait atones were picked up, It Is alleged, bearing Images of the virgin on their surface. Contact with the earth had split them In half and on the smooth Inner surfaces were the miraculous $5,000. pictures. Tbe grand jury has labored thirty-eigh- t Local Catholics consider this phedays on the bank robbery case. nomenon a divine act and a rebuke During that time more than 125 witnesses have been examined. The cost to the municipal council in vetoing a to the government will exceed $1,000. proposed procession in honor of. the Should Nelson lie convicted on each virgin. The secretary of the Academy of the counts and receive the maxi- of Sciences attributes the phenomemum sentence, he would be Imprisoned or vaporo-graphl- c non to photo-flgura- l for sixty years. Impressions of certain medals struck Nelson himself says that It is all a in honor of the virgin. mistake, and that his indictment la an outrage. He protesta his Innocence of FIGHT FOR PROHIBITION. participation In the theft, but declares that he has been made the scapegoat Effort to be Made to Havo Prohibition for others. Plank in Democratic Platform. On January 5 It was discovered that the combination lock on the reserve Denver. The fight over the anti-- ' chest In the Utah National bank was Injunction plank In tbe Democ ratio not working properly. The chest was platform Is not the only struggle In forced open by experts on January 14, which the committee on resolutions and It was announced that the re- and possibly the convention Itself may serve chest had been looted, the bank official! placing the loss at $43,000. be involved. It developed on Monday that the proLater it was announced that the sum taken waa $106,250, but that the dif- hibition question Is to be brought to ference between this sum and $43,000 the front, and a desperate effort will had been made up by some of the be made to have a plank declaring In chief stockholders. A number of tbe Its favor placed in the platform. employes of the bank have been unThe Prohibitionists will be headed der suspicion, but the detectives emJamea Weaver of Iowa, who deby ployed had failed to make out a case manded of the recent Democratic conone. The b against any grand Jury gan Its Investigation on April 22. took vention in that state that It declare la 1G a recess from May to June 16, and favor of prohibition. brought In the indictment against NelPLACED SPIKES ON TRACK. son on June 30. Nelson, upon being arrested, filed a bond of $10,000 for his appearance be- Train Wreckers Cause One Death and fore the federal court on November 1. the Injury of Twenty. Pa. One man was killed Hazleton, Evidence of Prosperity. and twenty passengers were Injured Dubuque, Iowa. Following on the at Lofty; on the mountains, twelve heels of the announcement s few days miles from here, early Saturday, by ago of the Illinois Central railroad the of a Pennsylvania paswrecking men on the various divithat 8,000 which is believed to senger train, sions would be put back to work, 400 have been derailed by deliberately of the Milwaukee road, par- the employes the tracks. The tracks spiking ticularly men laid off In the shops, where the accident occurred extend were on Tuesday put back to work. along the side of the mountain. When They return to the shops on a ten-hothe cars left the tracks they toppled schedule and six days a week. These over on the mountain side of the changes are looked upon here aa a Had they fallen on the oproadway. real evidence of the return of proswould have gone down a posite they mean the that perity. They crop outlook over the country, despite the steep embankment of more than fifty feet storm areas. Is first class. . Masked Men Kidnap California Gir for Ransom. Fresno. Cal. Constable Arnold of Coalings on Tuesday notified Sheriff Chittenden that Monday night two masked men burned the barn or Adolph Domenglne, a wealthy rancher, near that town, and when the family rushed out of the house after the alarm had lieen given they kidnaped his daughter. 18 years old, declaring that they Intended to hold her for a ransom of 15.000. The two bandits were later captured In the hills and Miss Domenglne restored to her parents. Mexico's Internal Troubles. City of Mexico. The internal troubles in Mexico which developed soma days ago along the northern border of the republic have developed serious features. The storm center is around the city of Torreon and In the country between that place and Jarral, where bandits are operating in conjunction with the insurrectionists. Government troops are rushing to the scene. Already 1,500 federal soldiers havo reached Torreon to reinforce the garrison there, and 200 more have reached Juarez. Gray Can Have Second Place. Denver. Although candidates for the nomination for vice president on the Democratic ticket are numerous and despite the fact that their number Is likely to bo largely Increased before a choice Is actually made, it Is the general opinion among such leaders of the party as are now here that If George Gray of Delaware will declare his willingness to accept the second place on the ticket he can have It. Joslah Marvel of Wilmington. Del., the manager of the Gray presidential boom, will not, however, give hla con- Walker Will Be Brought Back. New Britain, Conn. Word received here from the state department at Washington by Treasurer E. N. Stanley of the Savings bank of New Britain, states that the supreme court of Mexico has decided against the appeal of William F. Walker, the absconding treasurer of the bank, who has been fighting extradition. The court orders that Walker be turned over to the United States authorities. It is expected that Walker will be in custody of United States authorities within five days. sent. Building Collapsed. men were killed and three were seriously Injured Tuesday afternoon In the collapse of a brick Minneapolis.-T- wo livery stable at Forty-sevent- h street South, which was being torn down. C. W. Hardy, 22 South Eighth street; George Johnson, Wilmsr, Minn. Of the Injured, Joel Benson, whose skall was fractured, may die. Seven others were slightly hurt When the accident occurred fourteen men were working on the building. The front part of tho roof caved in, hurling Hardy and Jutat-soto the pavement. n May be Chosen to Decide to Thaw's Sanity. White Plains, N. Y. Harry K. Thaw's chances for a jury trial as to his sanity appear to be very bright. At the conclusion of argument before Justice Mills Monday afternoon the Justice said: "I believe It should be only a matter of time when thla man ought to have a Jury trial. I am not prepared to say whether it should be now or later." The Judge then ordered that Thaw should be detained in the Poughkeepsie Jail and adjourned the cue to July 13. Jury ' |