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Show ROBBER OR DETECTIVE? Indications That Victim of Railroad Accident Was Either One or tho Other lew Odds Which. Oaklind, Cal Nov. 22 As the result ot being struck by n local train while walking along tho Oakland Mole last night, Valileinar Vogt, about 35 sears old, who may be the robber who held up the Northern Pacific passenger tinln nt Dear Mouth, Mont , on October 24th, lies dead at the morgue, nnd his companion, com-panion, Eirl bmlth. claiming lo hall from Portland, Or , Is ut the receiving -".Iiltal suffering from u broken leg and other Injuries The men hnd beaten beat-en their way from the north and were run down while walking along the road The thing which connects Vogt In some way with the robbery Is that In his own handwriting In n notebook Is a copy of the reward offered by the Northern Pacific He ulw hnd two Northern Tactile money ordei lecelpls He had sent JC'i on Oc'ober 12th to his sister He formerly resided nt 22 Hanson street, New York Ho was at llutte Mont , seventy miles from the scene of the lobbery thiee days after the holdup hold-up Ills companion nt the hospital infuses in-fuses lo talk The man who was run over by tho local train last night nnd who Is now In the h J Hal, this afternoon staled that his father Is I" W. Smith of Horn Brook, Wash RUSSIANS GROWING WISE. Feasants Have Begun to Bead tho Newspapers, Correspondence of the Asuoclitcd Press J M Petersburg, Nov. 0 An odd Instance In-stance of new Ideas ainonr the peasants Is reported from the Government of Tiiurlda Two villages went to law over n question of boundaries Tho defeated village, Chernigov ka, In the district of litrlnnsk, after having vainly appealed to tho Senate, petitioned the Czai per-sonnlb per-sonnlb The petition was denied Shortly nfteivvanl a Governmental officer offi-cer found the village In unusual turmoil tur-moil He uslied what wus the matter "We have met to take steps to appeal fmm the Czir," tho Milage ciders rc- "Ilow can 1011 appeal against the Cvnt t ' the astonished officer asked "There Is nothing higher than the Czar """"is, 'there Is " they eagerly answered an-swered 'There Is n new court which the Czar himself set up" In pioof of their assertion they produced pro-duced an old well thumbed copy of tho Uoerse Oazelle containing nn nicount ofhe Hague arbitration tribunal |