Weekly Missoulian from Missoula, Montana • 9

WEEKLY MISSOULIAN Pages 9 to 12 A PAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF WESTERN MONTANA VOL. XIII. MISSOULA, MONTANA, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1904. No. 59 BLOOD FLOWS COLORADO AS RESULT OF EXPLOSION OF INFERNAL MACHINE OREGON IS SAFELY UP A ROBBER GETS $400 AND ESCAPES THIRTEEN Ifl-UfJIOf MEN KUROPftTKIfl TAKES NEW POSITION BLOWN TO PIECES Moves Further Southward, Foreshadowing Severe Fighting in North of Peninsula.

Firing Is Heard at Port Arthur. Three Hundred Pounds ed Under Depot By REIGN OF TERROR IN CRIPPLE CREEK Militia Fired Upon by Strikers from Victor Miners' Union Hall Fire Returned and a Number are Shot -Su preme Court Denies Moyer Writ. REPUBLICAN ELECTS TWO REPUBLICAN CON GRESSMEN AND GIVES 20,000 MAJORITY FOR JUDGE. Portland, June At 9 o'clock tonight it is conceded that the republl cans have elected their national can didates by heavy majorities. Congress' man Dinger Hermann of Itoseburg, the republican candidate, has probably carried the district over It.

M. Veatch, democrat, of Eugene, by from 5,000 to 7,000. John H. Williamson, of Prine ville, of the Second district, will carry the district by probably 10,000 over J. E.

Simmons of Portland, the democratic candidate. At 10 o'clock tonight Frank C. Bat er, chairman of the state republicon committee, said: "I predict that Hermann's majority will be 7,500 and Williamson's 10.000 Judge Frank A. Moore, the republican candidate for state supreme judge will. 1 think, receive a majority of 20.000 I he campaign has been sternly fought, especially in the congressional fight between Hermann and Veatch, and I believe that the attacks made on Her mann by certain newspapers have really had the effect of enhancing his majority.

Chairman Alex Sweet of the demo- cratic state central committee, could not be seen tonight, but at democratic headquarters it was stated that while republican estimates are in excess of the actual figures, there is no doubt that both republican candidates for congress have been elected. At a late hour it is evident that the state has gone republican today by a majority estimated at more than 000. That it was a decisive victory for the republican party in this state and an implied endorsement of the nation al administration is conceded by the democrats themselves. The counting of the ballots is proceeding slowly, owing to the length of the ticket and to the unusual amount of scratching which was done on the county and legislative tickets, COLORADO OEMS MEET TODAY USUAL FIGHT BETWEEN TWO EX-TREMES OF PARTY EXPECTED TO CROP OUT. Pueblo, June 6.

Nearly all delegates to the state democratic convention to be held here tomorrow reached the city tonight and caucuses were held at the hotels ami clubs. According to the forecast as outlined by the leaders, Mayor R. W. Speer of Denver, heading the delegation from that city, will be chairman of the convention. There appears to be but little doubt that a fight will be made by the Hearst followers for an instructed delegation and claims are made by the Hearst leaders that they will win.

Other party leaders express equal confidence that an uninstructed delegation will be sent to the national convention from Colorado. It is thought the action of the supreme court today in sustaining Governor Peabody in the Moyer case will have some effect on the resolutions that will be adopted. GRAVELLE FACES A NEW CHARGE PLACED ON TRIAL FOR BURGLAR' IZING HOLTER COMPANY'S POWDER WAREHOUSE. Helena, June 6. -Isaac Gravelle, who was convicted some months ago of dynamiting the Northern Pacific tracks and was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary, was today placed on trial in the district court on the charge of burglary, it being alleged that he broke into and robbed the A.

M. Holter Hardware company's powder house for the purpose of securing powder with which to. do the dynamiting. The day was spent in securing a Jury to try the case, the box being filled Just prior to adjournment. Santos Dumont Sails Saturday.

Paris, June 6. Santos Dumont, who will sail for New York Saturday, says that he will make his ascent at St. Louis before the end of June. COMPELS CALIFORNIA RAILWAY CASHIER TO OPEN VAULT. OVERLOOKS BIG SUM.

Long June 6. Shortly before daylight this morning a daring robbery was committed here, the sate in the Pacific Electric railway ticket office having been rifled of $400 by a masked man. The desperado compelled Night Clerk Hugh Davis, at the point of a revolver, to open the vault. The thief was in such a hurry that the inner safe containing $t00 was not touched. The robber in making his escape from the office attracted the attention of John McMillan, night watchman, and Smith, the pier watchman.

Both officers started in pursuit of the robber. The latter quickened his pace and when a shot was fired over his head he turned and exchanged shots with the officers, but the thief made good his escape In the darkness. RADICALS WIN OUT IN IDAHO THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION ADOPTS ANTI-MORMON RESOLUTION BY DUBOIS. Weiser, Idaho, June 6. The Idaho democratic convention adjourned tonight after incorporating the so-called anti-Mormon resolutions in their platform, instructing the delegates to vote for W.

R. Hearst for the presidential nomination and endorsing Senator Fred Dubois for his work for the state. The delegates to the national conven tion are: Senator Fred Dubois, Senator Henry Heitfeld, Frank W. Hunt, W. W.

Woods, Timothy Reagan and J. W. Ballentine. The alternates are Ramsey Walker, W. R.

Kinchoff, John Nugent, Frank Norris. Si Donnelly, chairman of the state committee, was elected national committeeman. The anti-Mormon resolutions read as follows: "We also instruct our delegation to the national convention to use every honorable means to have said convention place a plank in the democratic national platform advocating such amendment to the constitution of the United States as will authorize congress to pass such national legislation as may be necessary to suppress polygamy or unlawful cohabitation within the United States or any territory subject to its constitution and for the punishment thereof." SOCIALISTS MEET IN HELENA SPEND FIRST DAY IN DISCUSSION OF MINOR POINTS AND ORGANIZING. Special to The Missoulian. Helena, June 6.

The state socialist convention met here this afternoon at 1:30 for the purpose of nominating a full state ticket. Thirty-six delegates, representing fifteen socialist locals, were accorded seats in the convention, N. B. Levengood of Anaconda was chosen temporary chairman, with W. A.

Doyle of Great Falls as secretary and C. M. Parr of Butte assistant secretary. The report of the committee on temporary organization and order of business made this organization permanent, with the proviso that a new chairman be elected each day. The only business transacted during the afternoon, which was made inter esting by a number of stormy discussions on minor points, was the election by the convention of committees of Beven on platform and resolutions, three an auditing the accounts of the state secretary and state treasurer and nine on amendments to the con-stitttutlon.

The convention will probably be in session at least three days. Missoula is represented at the conven. tion by T. D. Caulfleld, Motion for New Botkin Trial.

San Francisco, June 3. Superior Judge Cook today continued the hearing of a motion for a new trial in the case of Mrs. Cor-lella Botkin until August 8. of Dynamite Exploct Unknown Parties. requisitioned from Trinidad, Palmer.

Lake and Canon City. The wire is being carefully guarded and no one is being permitted to walk along the spur of track along which it runs. It would seem like a futile attempt to apprehend the assassins who pulled the string. The trail would be lost after the end of the spur is reached. It is so near the town of IndeDendenca at persons have trav- pH iha tUn iwuHu ill 111 at VIIJIIIIL, would seem that the only hope is for the arrest of every suspicious person in the district and a forcing of such persons to prove alabis.

The crime is such a terrible one that all the authorities are at sea to account for the identity of the murderer or Excitement prevails to such an extent that the most conservative citizens would not interfere if they felt sure the right persons would be apprehended. Many citizens express the opinion that burning should be the punishment meted out to the criminals if caught. "The county will be at no expense for a hanging this time," said a prominent citizen. Groups of determined men carrying clubs are to be seen in all portions of Independence. The usual rowdy element is not in evidence.

Several desneratp nhnra. ters who arrived in town lately hav been disappearing for the past two days. Miners have noticed for the past three months a suspicious gang which loitered around the Hull City placer, as though having designs on the manager. Watchmen were Immediately placed on the cribbing. District Had Settled Down.

Although the strike of union miners In the Cripple Creek district, which began August 10, 1903, and which led to the declaration of martial law in. Teller county by Governor Peabody, is stili in effect, good order lias been maintained for the past six months and the military rule has been suspended and all troops withdrawn. The mine owners, with the exception of the Portland company, claim to have as many men at work as they need and they require all miners to renounce allegiance to the Western Federation of Miners before giving them employment. A committee appointed by the convention of the Western Federation, now in session in Denver to-investigate the situation in this district, visited the camp last week Charles H. Moyer, president of the federation, is in jail at Telluride, which is under martial law, being held as a military prisoner by Governor Peabody, who charges him with Inciting insurrection and rebellion.

Telluride is in southwestern Colorado and is about 400 miles from Cripple Creek The strikes in the metaliferous mines in Colorado were introduced by the-executive board of the Western Federation, for the purpose of cutting off the ore supply of mills and smelters at which an eight-hour day was refused by the employers. The Flndley mine is coltrolled by E. Carlton, president of the First National bank, a man prominent in me councils of the Cripple Creek Mine Owners' association. Sickening Scenes. When news of the explosion reached Mayor Franklin he ordered out the national guard.

The scenes at the depot are sickening. Portions of human bodies are scattered over the right of way of the railway and in the twenty-foot hole made by the explosion are-several skulls, arms, legs and hands. Every object within a radius of fifty feet from the hole is bespattered with blood. The murderers evidently did not wish to kill or Injure any of the crew In charge of the train which the ill-fated miners intended to take for their homes in Victor and Cripple Creek. When within seventy-five feet of the depot at the engine whistle sounded as a signal for the men at the depot to get ready to board and to warn any laggards to make haste if they wished to catch.

(Continued on Page Twelve.) St. Petersburg, June 6. The correspondent of a first class paper telegraphs here that General Kuropatkln's headquarters staff has moved forty miles south of Liaoyang to a point between Dassitszaio and Fengwang-cheng. Kuropatkln's move is considered to possibly foreshadow severe fighting in the northern part of the Liaotung peninsula, but it is a mistake to as. sume that his action involves a change in the position of the Russian main army, which, according to the best In- formation remains at Liaoyang.

SEVERAL HOURS OF FIRING HEARD AT PORT ARTHUR Chefoo, June a. m. The correspondent of the Associated Press at Tengchow cables that there was firing at Port Arthur last night, beginning at 11:30 o'clock and continued for several hours. A junk arriving during the night from Dalny reports that there was a heavy firing all day yesterday in the vicinity of Port Arthur. When the junk left Dalny Monday morning all was quiet there.

The arrivals on the junk deny the story of the sinking of the Japanese ship off Talienwan. BONDS FOR LIBRARY commissioners to issue $30,000 of university bonds, for the purpose of building a library and museum. The legislature of 1901 authorized the issuance of $70,000 of university bonds, $40,000 of these during that year, and the remainder not earlier than 1904. President Craig's recommendation that he be authorized to establish a cadet corps at the university was adopted as was his report on the election of the faculty for the ensuing year. The board also accepted the resignation of Miss Louise Hatheway, who occupied a chair of literature at the university.

Seventy life and state diplomas were granted to teachers who had complied with the required conditions. Upon the recommendation of President Craig, the state university was authorized to confer the degree of doctor of laws upon Judge Hiram Knowles of that city, who recently retired from the federal bench. desire for a port on the west coast of Morocco and the rumors at the Span-with Great Britain and the United States, and no apprehension is expressed in Spanish official circles that the United States has any designs except to assure the safety of Mr. Perdi-carts and American citizens. The dispatch of the Spanish battleship Pelayo and other Spanish vessels to Tangier, it is pointed out at the Spanish embassy, was rendered essential by the large number of Spanish subjects resident in both Morocco and Spanish territory on the west coast of Africa.

Some fears are expressed that a general rising in Morocco might ensue in the event of a hasty act by an outside power, but it is believed that if France is not hampered she will be able to secure the release of the captives. Uncertain About Spanish Ships. Paris, June 6. Referring to the dis patch from Malaga saying that the Spanish battleships Pelayo and Nu-mancia and the armored cruiser Car-denal Cisneros has sailed for Tangier, the foreign office here says it received a denial of a similar report previously published, but is not aware whether the warships have gone to Morocco. The rumors current in Madrid that the European powers have exchanged notes relative to restricting American operations in Morocco are discredited by the foreign office.

British Battleship Sails. Gibraltar, June 6. The British battleship Prince of Wales sails for Tangier tomorrow. The other ships of the British Mediterranean squadron which were to have sailed for Italy today have been ordered to remain here. It is reported that the French Med iterranean squadron is on its way to Tangier.

I Tien Tsin, June 6. Heavy firing was heard at Newchwang this morning coming from the direction ef Liaoyang. Tien Tsin, June 6. A telegram this morning from Yinkow announces that Etzel, of the London Telegraph, was hot dead at Tienchwangtai last night by imperial troops. London, June 7.

A dispatch to the Daily Telegraph dated Shengtaitse, June 6, says that heavy artillery firing was heard that morning in the direction of Tahwan, east of Liaoyang. Llaoyang, June 6. It Is persistently reported here that the Port Arthur squadron made a sortie shortly before dawn Saturday with the torpedo boat destroyers leading, and found the Japanese fleet quite unsuspecting the presence of hostile warships, with the result that four of the Japanese ships were sunk during the attack. WILL ISSUE 'VARSITY Special to The Missoulian. Helena, June 6.

The semi-annual session of the state board of education -was held today, a night session being held at the Helena hotel this evening. The meeting was attended by Governor Toole, Attorney General Donovan, State Superintendent Welch, N. W. McConnell and N. B.

Holter of Helena; G. T. Paul of Dillon; John M. Evans of Missoula, S. D.

Largent of 3reat Falls and W. M. Johnson of Billings. Reports were submitted by President James Reid, of the State Agricultural college; O. J.

Craig of the Uni-rersity of Montana; H. H. Swain, of the state normal, and N. R. Leonard of the state school of Mines.

The reports were all approved. Upon the recommendation of President Craig, of the University of Montana, the board adopted a resolution requesting the state board of land STUDENTS SHOULD DROP SOCIETY THIS STAND IS TAKEN BY PRESI DENT REID OF THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Special to The Missoulian. Helena, June 6. In the annual report of President James Reid, of the state agricultural college, presented to the state board of education today, the president of the Bozeman Institution takes vigorous stand against dancing and other amusements which cause etudents to keep late hours.

He says that as a general rule the students at the institution are doing good work, but that the demands of society are too heavy for some and dec ares that a student wno a not rte-V fl 11 Claims wuitu ovv-w makes upon his time. SPAIN OPPOSED TO OUR ACTION London, June 6. The fears expressed at Madrid that the action of the United States in sending a fleet to Tangier was due to the American Cripple Creek, June 6. One of the most diabolical deeds in the black record of crime which forms part ot the mining history of this state, was committed when, by means of an in-fernal machine, thirteen were killed outright and nine others terribly injured, some of them fatally, at Inde pendence early today. All those killed unioTminers union miners, and injured were non employed on the night-shift of the Finley mine.

The men had quit work and were waiting for the suburban train on the Florence Cripple Creek railroad to take them to their homes in Cripple Creek and Victor. When the locomotive was within 100 feet of the depot a charge of dynamite, esti-mater at 300 pounds, was set off underneath the platform on which the men were standing by pulling a wire at the Delmonico mine, four hundred feet away. The result was terrible. Heads, hands, legs, arms and the trunks of the bodies of the men were scattered all around. Blood covered everything.

The depot platform was splintered and the front end of the depot demolished. The following is a list of the dead now identified: ALEX. McLEAN. WILLIAM SHANKLIN. J.

P. HARTSOCK. GUS AUGUSTINE. ARTHUR MICHAELSEN. WILLIAM DELANO.

E. J. JOHNSON. HENRY J. HAAG.

HERBERT McCOY. CHARLES E. BARBER. ROBERT LINCOLN. The injured John H.

St. Clair, Philip Chandler, J. A. Becker. John Polliee, Clarence Allen, John Garvey, Edward Holland, both legs amputated; Dan Gainey, right leg amputated; A.

H. Allen, both legs amputated. The injured were taken to the Victor hospitals and the mangled bodies of the dead, patched together as well as possible, were removed to the cor oner's office at Victor. Rewards Will Be Offered. A meeting of the Mine Owners' association has been called.

Rewards aggregating many thousands of dollars will be offered for the apprehension of the criminals and Governor Peabody will be petitioned to send troops to the district. Of the miners murdered several are from this city, while some reside in Victor. Most of them have families and the crime Is enhanced for that reason into the most stupendous disaster in the history of the district, not even excepting that of the Independence mine last January, whereby fifteen men lost their lives. That the diabolical crime was carefully hatched and deliberately perpetrated, there is now not the shadow of a doubt. Two or three hundred pounds of powder was exploded, probably by a revolver attached to the wire which still remains leading out from the scene of the disaster.

There is seven ty-five yards of wire which was used to pull the trigger of ie the revolver which fired the immediate charge of powder. The rear end of the wire was uncovered at 11 o'clock this morning by a construction gang of the Florence Cripple Creek railroad, which was sent to the scene of the wrecked depot of the Southwestern A large quantity of unrecognizable remains of human beings was also uncovered at the same time. Sheriff Burton, Wilson and Underwood stood guard over the pile of debris from early morning, in the hope that, upon the arrival of the railroad wreckers, some definite clue to the nature of the machine might be discovered. Wire Tells the Story. Nothing was found, however, except the rear end of the wire which was used to explode the gun.

The wire was discovered at daylight running out alongside the switch which goes to the Delmonico mine. Attached to the end of the wire, as a handle, was a chair leg. This was used to pull the fatal trigger seventy-five yards away. Bloodhounds have been.