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Show SERIALS PRDSECUflON IS ON TIE DEFENSE FOR LOVE By PBASC1S 1 Expect to Impeach the Evidence Murderer Orchard by a Score of Witnesses. The States Mam Testimony Already Before the Jury. C A FOOT Haywood's Lawyers Assume the Aggressive in Legal Battle at o se. LYNDE (CopyriKtu. lMj, by J P. LISftaeaM Da you appose the Rajah dii uietj any such Lucretia Borgia thing a -- that"' "I did think s; at first, but I rums it was only the misguided zeal of some Of course, word hus understrapper, lgone out all along (he C A; : K line that we are to be delayed by every possible expedient." now Adams had uiso taken time to think, and he shooK his head. "For common humanity's sake I wish I could agne with you. Jack. But I can't. Mr. Darrah dictated that move in his own proper person." "How do you know that?" Adams' answer took the form of a leading question. "You had a message from me this afternoon?" "I did." "What fliJ you think of it?" "I thought you might have left out tjjP fjrsl )art 0f it; also that you might have made the latter half a good bit more explicit if you had put your mind to it." A slow smile spread itself over the technologian's impassive face, and he lighted another cigarette. "Every man has ais limitations," he could under said. "I did the best the existing circumstances. But you will understand: the Rajah knew very well what he was about otherwise there would have been no telegram." Winton sent the Chinaman out for another cup of tea before he said: "Did Miss Carteret come here alone?" "Oh, no; Calvert came with her." "What brought them here?" Adams spread his hands. "What makes any woman do precisely the most unexpected thing? You'll have to go back of me say to Confucius or beyond to find that out." Winton was silent for a moment, balancing his spoon on the tip or his finger. Finally he said: "I hope you did what you could to make it pleasant for her not that there was much to be don in such a chaos as a construction camp." "I did. And I didn't hear her complain of the chaos. She seemed as interested as a school gin particularly in your sketches." Winton flushed under the bronze. i "! if cataclysms in the lobby of the Buckingham. "Urn. he said, and his heart grtw warm within him "It'll just about as expeiied; Morty didn't have any thing whatever :o do with it except lo sign and send It as she commanded him to." vnd the penciled sheet was folded carefully and filed in permanence ii the inner breast nket of his brown duck ohootlng coat. The moon was rising behind the eastern mountain when he extinguished the candle and went out. lay the chaotic construction camp buried in silence and in darkness save for the ligh'ed windows of the dinkey. He wa; not q.tite ready to go back to Adams, and after making a round of the tamp and bidding the engine watchman keep a sharp lookout against a possible night surprise, he set out to walk over the newly laid track of the day. r Another had elapsed, and a waning moon was clearing ths topmost crags of Pacific Peak when he came out on the high embankment opposite i he Rosemary. The station with its two one-ca- r trains, and the shacks of the llttld mining camp beyond, lay shimmering ghost-lik- e n in the light of the moon. The engine of the sheriff's car was humming softly with a note like the distant swarming of bees, and from the dance hall in Argentine the snort of trombone and the tinkling clang of a cracked piano floated out upon the frosty night air. Winton turned to go back. The windows of the Rosemary were all dark, and there was nothing to stay for. So he thought, at all events; but it he had not been musing abstractedly upon things widely separated from his present surroundings, he might have remarked two tiny stars of lantern light high on the placer ground above the embankment; or. failing the sight, he might have heard the dull, measured slumph of a churn-dri- ll burrowing deep in the frozen earth of the slope. As it was, a. pair of brown eyes blinded him, and the tones of a voire sweeter than the songs of Oberon's sea maid filled his ears. Whereiore ,,e-lo- CHAPTER VI. Continued. "Not sueh a bad day, considering the newness of us and the bridge at tne neau oi the guun, he sail, hair to himself. And then more pointedly to the foreman: "Bridgebuilders to of the the front at the first crack of dawn, Boise, Idaho. The do-in- ? sase of the state leaves the great bat- Mike. Why wasn't this break filled tle against and for the life of Wi- in the grading?" "Sure, sorr, 'tis a dhrain it is," said lton D. Haywood in the midfield, and from now forward the Miles change the Irishman; "from the placer up beyant," he added, pointing to a the defenders assume the aggreswashed-ou- t excoriation on the steep sive, the prosecutors are on the deupper slope of the mountain. 'Major fensive. The state will carry its case Kvarts did be tellin' us we'd have the an through an aggressive lawyers afther us hot-fu- t again if we and then present testi- didn't be lavin' ut open tbe full width." mony in rebuttal, but its main "Mmph,'' said Adams, looking the and showing are already beground over with a critical eye. "n s fore the jury. a bad bit. It wouldn't take mu::h to The course of the counsel for the bring that whole slide down on us if Sefense during parit wasn't frozen solid. Who owns the ticularly when they laid the founda placer?" tion for their impeachment "Two fellies over in Carbonate. The of Orchard, and tue personality of many 01 company did be thryin' to buy the the witnesses they have summoned claim, but the sharps wouldn't sell tere, make their general course quite bein' put up to hold ut by thim C. & clear. It is manifest that they will G. R. divils. It's more throuble we'll to show endeavor that Orchard be havln' here, I'm thinking." killed Steunenberg to be revenged While they lingered a shrill whistle for the loss of the Hercules mine and echoing among the cliffs of the uppr several witnesses will swear that they gorge like an eldritch announced heard Orchard tell the Hercules tale the coming of a train laugh from the direcvow Steunenwould kill he and that tion of Carbonate. Adams looked at berg. They will probably show also hit watch. that Jack Simpkius was a prisoner in "I'd like to know what that is," he the "bullpen" where a negro thrust a bayonet into his chest, circum- mused. "It's two hours too soon for stances that gave the two common the accommodation. By Jove!" causes against Steunenberg. The exclamation directed itaelf at a There will likely be a showing that pne-ca- r train which came thundering all of the financial relations of down the canyon to pull in on the ' and Simpkins came in the nat- siding beyond the Rosemary. The car ural and regular course of conduct was a passenger coach, well lighted, ing the business affairs of the fed and from his post on the embankment eration. In this connection as well Adams could see armed men filling the as to the grants of money hnd fooc windows. Michael saw Branagan to Orchard and his wife and Steve them, too, and the fighting Celt in Adams, the books and records of th federation will probably be pro him rose to the occasion. " Tis duced. Donnybrook Fair we've coie Orchard's story about the letters to this time, Misther Adams. Shall I connected with the alleged plan to de call up the lys win their guns?" ceive his wife will in all probabilitv "Not yet. Let's wait and see what fcie directly controverted and gener happens." ally discredited. What happened was a p- eful It is expected that Haywood wiH Two men, each with a kit of sortie. on stand and there that the yrii go also be a strong showing as to his some kind borne in a sack, dropped character. The defense has upwarc from the car, crossed the creek and of 1511 witnesses and it is estimated struggled up the hill through the that it will take from three weeks tc gap. Adams waited until they a month to present all of its testl were fairly 01. the right of way, then he called down to them. niony"Halt, there: you two. This is corITALIAN RUNS AMUCK. poration property." "Not much it ain't! retorted one of Drunken Passenger Kills Man ana the trespassers, "It's the gruffly. Wounds Two Women on Train. drain-wa- y from our placer up yonder." Denver. In a shooting affray on s "What are you going to do up there Burlington train near Sheldon, Kan at this time of night?" "None o' your blame business!" was sas, T. B. Topp, a tailor of St.. Paul Iinn.. was killed and Mrs. Morris 01 the explosive counter-sho- t. "Perhaps it isn't," said Adams, mildsen of Marshall, Minn., and her sis "Just the same, I'm thirsting to ly. wert Mrs. Blackerly, ter, Harry The shots, were fired by know, (.'all it vulgar curiosity if you wounded. John Bells, an Italian barber, en route like." "All right, you can know, and be trom Boston to San Francisco, whc had boarded the train at Chicago cussed to you. We're goin' to work Before the shooting began most ol our claim. Got anything to say the passengers were dozing in theit against it?" chairs and no warning of. their dan "Oh, no," rejoined Adams; and when They were ger was given them. "IT S JUST ABOUT AS I EXPECTED." from their slumber by the twain had disappeared in the upawakened 'I suppose I don't need to ask which he neither saw nor heard and frantic yells and pistol shots. Five per darkness he went down the grade taking the short cut across the mouth of the shots were fired in rapid succession with Branagan and took his place on one. Adams' grin was a measure of his lateral gulch back to camp, he boarded flats for the run to by Bells as he walked through the the aisle from the front to the rear of the construction camp, thinking more complacence. He was coming off the dinkey and went to bed without the car, taking accurate aim at one of the lately arrived car with its com- easier than he had anticipated. disturbing Adams. passenger after another. Bells had plement of armed men than of the The morning of the day to come "Well, hardly." become suddenly insane from drtnk, two miners who had broke clear and still, with the stars announced "She took calmly it with her?" away and imagined some one was trying tu their intention of working a placer "Took it, or tore It up, I forget paling one by one at the pointing finkill him. He is in jail. claim on a high mountain, ger of the dawn, and the frost-rim- e without which. ' water, and iu the dead of winter! By TELLS TERRIBLE TALE. Winton's look was that of a man lying thick and white like a snowfall which it will be seen that Mr. Morton of erect and glittering needles on Iron distressed. and steel and wood. Human Lives Sacrificed Upon Altar ol P. Adams, C. E. Inst. Tech. Boston, an-"Tell me, Morty, was she very ; had something yet to learn in the Obedient to orders, the bridge buildin District. Pittsburg industry gry?" ers were getting out their hand car Butter of practical field work. sacrificed lives The tei hnologian took the last hint at the Pittsburg. "Human By the time Ah Foo had served him construction camp, the wheels upon the altar of industry" might well his solitary supper In the dinkey he of laughter out of his eyes before he shrilling merrily on the frosted rails, said "You'll never know solemnly: and the men stamping and swinging he the title of the blotter in the officf. had quite torgotten the incident of the how thankful I was that you were heir arms to start the sluggish of the coroner of Allegheny county mysterious placer miners. Worse 20 miles away." than it had never to that, occurred that Suddenly, like the opening gun a volume mutely proclaim upot L Winton's cup was full, and he turned its pages what it costs besides money him to connect their movements with the talk abruptly to the industrial do- of a battle, the dull rumble of a the of campaign. On the mighty explosion trembled upon ths for Pittsburg and its district oi otherRajah's plan ings and accomplishments of the day. - ID air, followed Instantly by a sound hand, he was thinking altogethto and Adams made a verbal report which led "f a passing avalanche. gridiron territory, smoky mills er of the carload i men, and maintain its prestige in the milling trying to devise some armed hira by successive steps up to the Winton was out and running up the means of finding mining and mercantile marts of the out how tuey were to be hour when he had stood with rack before the camp was fairly employed in twilight, on the brink of the country and retain its title of "work furthering the Branagan placer aroused. What he saw when he Rajah's designs. world." of the shop 'ined the hither side of the lateral The means suggested themselves drain, but, strangely enough, there was This volume, one of the records deno stirring of memory to recall the inilch was a commonof to make a strong after the laws the supper, and he went alone over manded by cident of the upward climbing miners. man weep. Asight landslide, starting wealth, shows that almost 50 per cent to Argentine to spend a half-hou- r huge in When Winton rose he said somefrom the frozen placer ground high of the deaths are violent and are the the bar of the dance hall listening to a about unmounting night guard 'H on the western promontory, had result directly or indirectly of the the gossip of tile place. When he had thing ceasing rush and grind of the indus- learned what he wanted to know, he on the engine, which was kept under vept every vestige of track and cm- tries In the Pittsburg district, that are forthfared to meet Winton at the In- steam at all hours; and shortly after'n&uient Into the deep bed of the wards he left the dinkey ostensibly continually driven, night and da v. to coming train. reek at a point pre, laely opposite Mr. world's of the to do It, declining Adams' offer of supply the demands tnervllle Darrah's private car. "We are In for It now," he said, markets. Le company. . But once when had crossed the creek to climbed they Deaths from natural causes, con to the operator's tent CHAI'TI'It VII. murder! the dinkey and the Chinar.:an was on the straight tagious diseases, Buicldes, An early riser by choice, and made Carter slope. In Winton's the r met belated bringing ordinary accidents and rapp had turned In, but he sat in his an earlier this morning by a vague walks of life, are not considered In "The Rajah has Imported a carload bunk at the noise of the up itixlety which had tu ned the : Ight Intrusion, Cf armed mercenaries, and he Is going this percentage. into a WinHare vied for her, Virat the of blinking sleepily to clean us all out arrest ton's match. was up and dressed when the ginia TO PREVENT EMIGRATION. from the everybody gang foreman up." dlen shock of the explosion set th "That you, Mr. Winton? Want to Winton's eyebrows lifted. "So? that ndows jarring in the Rosemary. at Is a pretty large contract Has he send something?" he asked. Spain Seeks to Keep Her People Wondering what dreadful thing had men enough to do It?" "No; go to sleep. Ml write a wire Home. .ppened. she hurried out upon the "Not. so many men. But they are and leave It for you to sond In the Madrid Larierra, mlnlstei c worn observation platform and so came to in deputies with the sheriff of morning." Df the Interior, on Saturday read the look upon the ruin wrought by the Ute county In command a posse, In He sat aown at the packing-casInsmoke ol Immigration bill in the cortes. Thl fact. So he has the law on his side." strument table and wrote out a brief landslide, while the dust-liklha dynamite still bung In the air. bill provides a system nf inspection "Which is niore than he had when report of the day's progress In track Rather unlucky for our friends the nd gives the government power tea he set a hug on me this afternoon at laying for the general manager's rec- porarlly to forbid emigration. It also Carbonate," said Wluton, sourly; and ord. But when Carter's regular breath- enemy," said a colorless voire behind by forbids recruiting of emigrants her; and she had en tincomfortabU he told Adams about the misundering told him he was alone he pushed f. eling that Jastrow had been agencies. The government will neg' lying In In tike the of the pad aside, took down tie sending wait Buckingstanding lobby Mate the treaties with neighborly for seconded her. by th Instantly ham. book and searched until he had found sowers to prevent lande-vlnernlgra "invlctlon that he in done the saint Tbe whistled under the his 0O technologlan of the message original lion. breath "Uy love! that's pretty rough which had rea Ud him at thc.moment thing the previous morning. half-hou- 1 prop-ssitio- n new-bor- Hay-woo- - - man-loade- d night-Mood- - rs snow-covere- d half-wakin- g Se-io- r e e . NORTHWEST ENTIRE FAMILY NOTES President Roosevelt has signed the commissions of John S. Clapp of Ba-fin, Mont , and Harvey A. Bucher of i Lander. Wyo., to be postmasters. out of Gold-fielTelegraph facilities are badly crippled by the telegraphers' strike and it is possible Wealthy Farmer. His Wife and .hat all communication may be cut off. Conductor Harrison and Brakeman Two Daughters. Victims Durfree, both residents of Livingston, of Frightful Tragedy at Mont., were killed in a collision were Both bodies Yergen, Mont. norribly mangled. Were Returning Home From Picnic The question whether the forestry When Their Buggy is Struck by officials have a right to keep a man's Fast Train, the Occupants of slock off the reserve is to be carried the Vehicle Being Hurled to e circuit court of appeals by Montana stockmen. Against the Front of the Loco i otive. C. H. Reynolds, proprietor of a bath house in Portland, shot and fatally wounded George Hurlbut, a muSalt Lake City. I'tah- - Scolleld Ker- sician, whom he found walking with shaw, a wealthy farmer living near Mrs. Reynolds in the park. Layton, his wife and two daughters, Goldfleld is impatiently awaiting Rhoda and Anna Kershaw, were In- latest developments at the Denver stantly killed by a fast train on the convention, which may effect a diOregon Short Line at Layton at 7:30 vorce of the miners from the Induso'clock Tuesday evening. trial Workers of the World. The party was driving across the As a result of the Investigation track just as the train swept around into the available funds for street imthe curve. Before they had time to provement, it has developed that get off the tain bore down upon them. Guldfield's revenue from gambliuj The engineer endeavored to stop the houses runs to $0,u00 per month. train immediately before the accident J. W. Montgomery , a switchman, occurred, but was unable to do so. fell under an engine at Montello, The station at Layton is so situated Nevada, both his hands being cut ofl as to hide from view any train ap- at the wrist and both legs below the proaching from the north. For that rea- knees. It Is believed he will recover son the Kershaw family had practical' George MeClure, manager of ths ly no warning of the peril that was Three Deuces dance hall In Ely, upon them. They were riding in a had a pistol duei the othei single-seatevehicle, the children bea all with five in and morning robber, in the laps of their parents, the ing shots were fired, but no one was elder girl driving the horse. robber escaped. The occupants of the buggy saw the approaching train as the horse A man named Stringer was hit by stepped upon the track. Rhoda, 15 a rock which he was engaged in blastyears of age, attempt to back the horse from the tracks, but the animal ing for the railroad company, near became frightened and plunged for- Caliente, and his skull Nevada, ward. death resulting as he was becrushed, As it did so the engine struck the ing conveyed to the hospital. buggy with a terrible impact. The The bodies of George Corack and of the vehicle were hurled occupants against the front of the locomotive Francisco Triondo, two of the three above the pilot. The force of the nfen who were drowned in Bois6 shock was so great that the bodies of all the four were crushed and river June 4, while attempting to save a fellow .ogger who had fallen into mangled. The speed of the train was so great the water, have been recovered. that, although the engineer closed the Death Valley Scotty whirled Into throttle and set the emergency, brakes, Goldfleld by auto on the 23rd, locked with every wheel sliding, it went half a mile before it was brought to a around a bit and whirled away again, stop. The four bodies were re- taking with him two big autos ami moved from above the pilot, whero announcing that he will return shortthey were wedged beneath the front ly with a heavy consignment of highend of the boiler. grade ore. Mr. and Mrs. Kershaw had been at The boiler of a locomotive ex the Old Folks' picnic at and were returning thence at the time of ploded near Florence, Colo., killing tne accment. notn ot them had beetfw Engineer Thomas H. Wing, Fireman members ot the entertainment com- W. L. O'Brien and Brakeman C. B. mittee which planned the picnic for the old people of Salt Lake and Davis Gooch, all of Pueblo. The train was counties. They left the picnic grounds wrecked and the track torn up foi on the 6.40 o'clock train. They were several hundred feet. met at Layton by the two girls, who The Spokane international rajlroad had driven from the farm, three miles suffered the first serious wreck in its distant. history last week, when a freight train jumped the track near Green TROUBLE )N MANCHURIA. Acres, severely injuring eight men, all Timber Dispute Between Japs and employees of the road. One of them Chinks May Lead to Serious Brakeman Waters, is so badly inTrouble. jured that small hopes are held out for his recovery. Mukden. Without waiting for an Annie the Frizell, announcement of the policy of the new Manchurian administration, Ja- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Friz-zellof the Woodbury ranch, south pan, on the ground of defense of her of Colorado Springs, met a sudden tearty rights, has begun a program and death as the result of frightful acdirected toward apparently forcing tion by China. It is reported that the being bitten by a rattlesnake. The Peking government already has been rangs of the reptile pierced an artery asked to reopen negotiations toward in the calf of the leg and death re reaching an agreement in the timber suited in a short time. dispute. All Manchurian industries on fourteen inches of snow fell in the Yalu river are in a state of susButte Sunday, but by nightfall the pense on this account. General military head of the timber bu- streets were a mass of slush. The of all government rain guage showed a net reau, is levying on timber. Three thousand rafts are tied precipitation of one and up for the trading season, and 6,000 Inches. Extensive damage was done rafts are Involved. Owing to the fact to the trees at Columbia Gardens, the that 10,000 unoccupied lumbermen are wet. and clinging snow breaking now in Ant utig disorder is feared. many large and small branches. A verdict . MIX-UPof justifiable homicide CENTRAL AMERICAN was returned by the coroner's jury Cruiser Milwaukee is Sent to Protect which held an Inquest over the body American Interests. of W. H, Garrlty, a Butte miner, whc of was shot and killed by his wife. Gar-rltWashington. The possibility serious trouble In Central was chasing his wife and baby America growing out ot the disturbed eondi- - with a razor when killed. tlons existing there Incidental to the John Montgomery's road house, in alleged ambition of President Zel&ya the vicinity of Agate, Ore., has been of Nicaragua to form a union of Central America. l states, has caused the blown tu fragments with dynamite of the outrage ar to dispatch the fine The authors administration new cruiser Milwaukee to that localto be thought persons who werj ity. Orders for her to proceed forthfor making a disturbance it ejected with from Mare Island navy yard, Cali- the place a few days ago. fornia, wept forward from the navy a mass At meeting of citizens ol The vessel is depart men) Tuesday. In command of Commander Charles Rhyollte, Nevada, twenty-fivpioneer A. Gove and will go to La Union, San were appointed to oust lot jumpers Salvador. The collier Saturn also has been di- The government is making a survey rected to proceed lo l.a Union and and will take charge of all property from this vessel the Milwaukee and it Is claimed, but will give those in ac the gunboat Yorktown, which is now inal possession first choice. at Acajutla, will coal. The stay of the In the fact that the competition fot Milwaukee In Central American waiis becoming mora in a their patronage ters is problematical and will measure depend upon the conditions active the merchants of Goldfleld see that develop In that section of the that the day of lower prices is not world. S.ie goes ostensibly "for the far distant. It Is predicted that Gold- interests," protection of American field will the benefit of this comreap which are threatened because of the petition within the next thirty days. situation as It now exi ts, Five people, two sisters, a brotiier, PSYCHOLOGIST TO SEE ORCHARD mother and aunt, perished at Mono-ban- , Wash , in the waters of Lake Yale Professor In Boise for Purpose of Sammatiilsh. Antone Myers was iu Murderer. Studying swimming, got beyond his depth, and Boise, Idaho. Dr. Hugo Minister-berg- , his two sisters, mother and an aunt professor of psychology at Yale, drowned In an attempt to rescue him. Is hers to make a study of characters Joseph Butkovicb, an employee at In the IlHywood case, especially Orchthe Washoe smelter, at Auacouda, ard. He was in court on Tne-daand Mont., fell into a copper furnace filled took copious notes while Orchard was with boiling water, sustaining Injur on the stand and gave the closest atles wblc.i will prove fatal. Butkovicb. It Is understood he was engaged In repairing the roof of tention to him will have an opportunity to see and the furnace, when he tell lata 'h ".Ik with the self conf. murderer. teething cauldron. I Ne-vad- d hit-Th- ie , Ko-Jlm- one-fourt- one-quart- y |