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Show EADED FOR II ALASKAN TOWN BANDIT WILL TOUR WORLD. SWEPT Trror Bl A DESTBUCTIVE fIBE AST FAC of Hungarian Featantry la Former Times to Go on Exhibition. who Josi Cavanyer, John McPherson was burned to was the terror and ago years prlda death in a fire whieh destroyed a bunk-hous- e of Hungary, has arranged to tour the at tlt Clipper shingle mill at. world under the management of a Doming, Wash. showman. Ills deeds were celebrated In song : Samuel Asher, a business man of and a whole romantic folklore was Lheyenne, became violently insane afbuilt up around this wild son of the ter witnessing t !u iveent fire In mountains, who never hurt a woman Ashers health bad failed from or a poor man, but boldly attacked work and be was in an extremely ovei the castles of the rich and spent his nervous commion. booty In relief of distress. conHe was finally caught and Mrs. Josephine Baruth of Medical demned to imprisonment for life. 'Lake, Wash., was sentenced to ten Once in prison he behaved with exyears in the penitentiary, and a fine of emplary correctness, and during the $l,o00. for the murder of her husband, 22 years he was in confinement earned whom she a shot during family quarthe good will and even affection of all rel. Her plea was selfdefense. with whom he was brought In contact. Companies I and M of the Eleventh It was at the request of a bishop arrived in Cheyenne from at last that the emperor gave him a cavalry Fort MacKenzIe, fioo miles distant, free pardon and remitted the rest of Tim He after a march lasting a month. his sentence on February 21. men wen his the dress convicts for nearly exhausted, having changed same robber costume he put off so encountered much bad weather. long ago and entered once again Into Former State Auditor Thomas the life of the world. But he found Poindexter of Dillon died in Butte lait he could not live on his fame without showing himself and decided on week. His death followed an opeiw. tion for ulcer of the stomach. He waa a showman's tour. 42 years old and was born at Canyon LAND FOR THE UNEMPLOYED City, Or., and went to Dillon, Mont., In 1SS0, where, with his father, the late State Aid Plan for Groups of Men to T. W. Poindexter, he entered the merBuda-Pesth- . 25 Several Business Blocks Destroyed. Entailing a Loss of a Million Dol-laOne Woman Burned to Death. rs Moffat Road Secures Terminal Facilities in San FranCISCO Suburb Denver, Colo. Working through W. J. Morgan, D. H. Moffat has Just se-- 1 cured from the Alameda board of trustees a right of way and extensive terminal facilities at Bay Farm island, a suburb of San Francisco. This confirms the many predictions that the Denver, Northwestern & Pacific, known locally as the Moffat road, is to be built straight through to the Pacific coast as rapidly as men and money can do it. The concessions obtained at San Francisco include the right to build a pier 4,000 feet long from Bay Farm Island into San Francisco bay, and dredge out a channel 1,300 feet wide, where the largest ocean steamers can unload. Ships for freight barges are to be built at the foot of Second street. In securing the franchise, Mr. Moffats to have promised representatives in in two order everything working years. HOPE FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS Amnesty Will Be Proclaimed by Czar on May 27. St. Petersburg. ()g-,de- I Al:u;Hla, Cal. A special dispatch received here states that a big; fire at Fairbanks. Alaska, threatened with destruction the entire city for a time. The Northern Commercial company, the largest of the mercantile concerns interested in Alaska, received the following from its agents at that The entire town from Tur point: I ner to Lacey street and back to Third, except the Fairbanks Itanking companys building and warehouse, has been destroyed by fire. One woman, Lott a Talbot, was burned to death. No damage was done to our plant except to the electric light mains. The fire has been extinguished. Fairbanks is situated on the Chena river, a tributary of the Tanana, and, although hut three years old, is nowf the largest and most important city on the Pacific coast north of Vancouver. B. C., having a population of about 7,000. The gold output in 1903 was $7,000,000 and during the present year it will reach from $12,000,000 to $15,000,000. The burned district covers three and a half square blocks. The First National bank, the Washington Banking company and tho court house, located in the burned district, were destroyed, as were many of the retail stores and saloons and possibly one or two hotels. Tho most important of the financial institutions In the city, the Fairbanks Banking company, is fortunately intact. An unofficial estimate places the loss at about $1,000,000. The DOUBLE MURDER AND LYNCHING will be amnesty proclaimed political May 27, the anniversary of the coro- Mountain Wilds of Indian Territory Scene of Tragedy. nation of Emperor Nicholas II. The Oklahoma City, Okla. It is learned exact scope of the measure has not as yet been determined. It will be limit- here that a double murder to cover a ed, but the constitutional democratic robbery, followed by a lynching, has party is prepared, though grudgingly, occurred in the wilds of the moun to accept the act of grace from which tains in the Chickasaw nation. The the terrorists are excluded, recogniz- - f affair occurred two weeks ago. The ing, though not publicly, that the gov-- participants in the tragedy were ernment is not altogether unjustified agreed among In refusing to set at large men who mountaineers who will be as ready as they have been in themselves to keep the affair secret. Two weeks ago an unknown man the past to shoot down or to blow to went to the home of R. T. Tutt, who pieces hated representatives of lived near the base of the mountains, and demanded food. He was refused BRYAN FOR PRESIDENT. by Mrs. Tutt, who found it necessary to enforce her refusal by the display Democrats of an Ohio District De- of a gun. A few days later a near-bfarm which was occupied by two clare for Nebraskan. maiden women was visited and the Lima, O. William J. Bryan wras sisters were shot and robbed of $700 indorsed for president here by the in cash. Neighbors discovered the Democratic judicial convention of the deed and a posse was organized. The Sixth district of northwestern Ohio. murderer was trailedwasto the inwoods, shot cola and The resolutions, which were adopted blood.upon discovery of return the the boys with cheering, declare that Bryan from theUpon woods the only remark in would have been nominated and electresponse to inquiries were, Well, we ed in 1904 had the trusts not stolen guess he will not rob nor murder anythe nomination from him, and that else. the national Democracy will nominate body him in 1908 by acclamation. to be and long-awaite- d 1 y Moyer Haywood Boise. Charles Harvison of Silver Time for Action Has Arrived. who is delegate from Silver City Washington. The senate on Tues- City, union to the convention of the Westday devoted the greater part of the session to consideration of the immi- ern Federation of Miners at Denver, is in this city. It develops that he gration bill, but before it was taken came here to see Moyer and Haywood up Senator McCumber made a perfor sonal statement contradicting an about their candidacy article printed in the New York Trib- to the offices they now hold in the fedune that the railroad rate bill had eration. He saw them at the county Wednesday afternoon, and was been so amended at his instance as to jail for an hour or closeted to more. Inwith them Previous render it ineffective. to questions, he adthat time also the senate adopted a mitted theyreply were for re-candidates resolution directing the committee on I1 election, privileges and elections to consider the course to be pursued in the case of Senator Burton. Re-electe- d. Be Tried in cantile business. There is a prospect that Nevada will Consul Coding, of see one of tho most interesting railWashington. Newcastle, reports an Australian plan road wars before the dose of tho presto provide for the unemployed. It ent summer. Bitter competition unrelates to Queensland province, and doubtedly will follow the completion the scheme is thus summarized: of the several roads now being built, Suitable farming land is provided by the government for groups of men the building of which has aroused na and their families that will ultimately small amount of rivalry even between form village settlements; but they are the construction crews. not to be cooperative, each settler will George L. Blodgett, once a resident stand or fall on his own merits. Government overseers will guide and in- of Missoula, Mont., has been sentenced struct the, settlers for two years, and to be hanged at the penitentiary at the house erected for their use can Salem, Ore., on June 29, for the murbe used as a public hall or school. der on March 23 of a variety actress Plain rations, implements, a small named Alice Minthorn. Blodgett stock of cows, poultry, etc., roofing abandoned his to follow tho family material, water tanks, etc., will bo he woman, cast him oft who, asserted, supplied for the first year. This will all be charged as a loan and must be after his money had been squandered. eventually refunded to the state. The James ONeil was instantly killed men will first be taken on six months and Eugene Gilfillan painfully injured probation and may cultivate what a premature otast in the Norcrosa crops they choose, and every encour- by agement will be given to enable tho mine at Goldfield, Nevada. They had thrifty man to become the owner of put in a round of shots and had started his land. to ascend the ladder. Gilfillan was halt way up, ONeil was but a few feet up WALKING BREAKS ANKLES. on. the ladder when a shot exploded, followed by a perfect fusillade. Womans First Step in Twenty-Seve- n Charles Lewis, who was a slave beYears Results in Painful fore the Civil War, but who afterward Injury. amassed a considerable fortune as a Seaford, Cal. Believing that she contractor at Omaha, is dead at Laracould walk out into the back yard, 200 acres of Mrs. Ann Milligan, an invalid for 27 mie, Wyo. He owned near land Lincoln, Neb., at one time, years, during which time she has never been able to sit up and take a but wasted it in drinking. Lewis was a member of the local lodge of colored step, attempted to get up and walk. She hobbled a few yards and fell. Knights of Pythias. Her daughter-in-law- , hearing her An underground Chinese colony, cries, hastened to the room to find to once which similar that existed in her mother lying helpless on the floor. She got her back in the bed San Francisco, has been discovered in and it was found that both of her Seattle by city officials. Seattle Oriankles were broken. This was the entals, by burrowing under buildings, first time that the woman had been sidewalks and alleys, have succeeded out of bed since 1879. in excavating heretofore unsuspected When asked why she attempted to walk she exclaimed that for the first passageways leading to rooms in which time in' 27 years she felt as though gambling and opium smoking is carshe could walk out and enjoy the ried on. beautiful sunshine. Mrs. Nellie Davis has been arrested at Portland on a charge of larceny Around the Earth. The time required for a Journey from a dwelling. The woman is alround the earth by a man walking leged to be a diamond thief, ani when day and night, without resting, would apprehended had about $1,000 worth be 428 days; an express train, 40 of diamonds and other jewelry ornadays; sound, at medium temperature, ments concealed about her clothes. 32 hours; light, a little over one. Search of her apartments by the potenth of a second, and electricity, passing through a copper wire, a lit- lice disclosed another $1,000 worth of tle under of a second jewelry. one-tent- h |