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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11
ONE MAN DIED TRYING TO SAVE
THE OTHER.
RAILROAD CAR SHOPS BURN
Blaze Starts In Basement and Spreads
QuickIy-Lumber Yard
Still Burning.

Horton, Kansas, Feb. Fire in
the big car works of the Rock Island
railroad this afternoon caused the
Ge.ath of two persons and destruction
Of a quarter of a million dollars worth
of property.
The dead are P. H. McKeown, pres
ident of the board. of education, and
w. H. Davis, the. oldest employee Of
the car works.
The fire broke out at 4 o'clock, in
the hair sorting room of the cabinet
department and spread SO rapidly that
the employees on the second floor and
in Superintendent Studer's Office bare
ly escaped with their lives, many of
the employees being slightly injured.
The walls of the car shops fell 20
minutes after the fire was discovered.
Loss on the building is $4,000; ma
chinery, $4,000, miscellaneous $780,
600. The engine house was destroyed
but a new SIS, 900 boiler plant was saw
ed. v, y,
Fire is still raging in the lumber
yard, which contains 100000 feet Of
lumber. p
The buildings, machinery and ma
terial that escaped are valued at ST.
100000. The company will rebuild
the car shops at once.
McKeOWn lost his life in irving to
save Davis.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11

that his presence would be a comfort
to Mrs. Roosevelt and that as the
critical period covers the next three
days he should be near his son. It is
also stated that the trip to Massa-
chusetts is taken on the presidents
own initiative and is not due to any
alarming news which has reached him
concerning his sons condition.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11
BLACK MURDER TRIAL.
Prot. Traphagen Found Poison In His
Examination.

Lucy Black, charged with the muir
der of her husband, developed a SEN
sational phase today. Expert evidence
indicated that, John H. Black died OF
arsenic or morphine poisoning but
state has not yet fixed the crime. The
testimony of Dr.. Traphagen, chemist
at the agricultural college, was the
feature of today's session. Dr.. Trap
hagen said he found minute quanti-
ties of morphine and arsenic. He
also found that the liver had been af-
fected by poison.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11
Object to Eriars,

Manila, Feb. 7.-Insular presidents
will present a petition to Monsignor
Sbarreti, apostolic delegate in the
Philippines. on his arrival here from
Rome praying for the expulsion of
the friars and friar bishops, in the
interest of the church, as the Filipinos
consider them unfit to serve in the
house of God. A majority of the pres
idents have already signed the petit
ton.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11
CALLED ON THE KING.
Mr.. schwab Introduced to Edward WI.
BY Sir Thomas Upton.

AE
London, Feb. 7.-Mr.. Schwab had a
half hours audience with King Ed
ward at Marlborough house this af-
ternoon. Mr.. Schwab was accompan-
led by Sir Thomas Upton, who in
troduced him to, his majesty. The
king greeted his American visitor in
the most cordial manner, and chatted
freely with him, mainly on the friend
ship between the United tsates and
Great Britain, his majesty. especially
referred to close connection between
the industries of the two. countries
and the friedship existing between
the working men on both sides of the
Atlantic.
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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11
Hold Company Responsible.

Albany, N. Y, Feb. 1.-THE state
railroad commission in a report hand
ed down today regarding the recent
disaster in the Park avenue tunnel,
New York City, censures the New
York Central Railroad company, de-
claring it grossly negligent in placing
an engineer in charge of a train who
had not had experience in handling
trains during a rush.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11
OFF FOR MASSACHUSETTS
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT STARTS
FOR SONS BEDSIDE.
No Bad News Received-Move Made
Because President Considered His
Presence Advisable.

Washington, Feb. S.-President
Roosevelt, accompanied by Secretary
Cortelyou, will leave here tonight at
1910 for Groton, Mass, in a special
car attached to the regular train over
the Pennsylvania railroad. Late this
afternoon the president determined to
disregard the request of his sons ply
stefan and to e. to his boys bedside.
1t was stated that the president felt
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11
Cosariff is Bound over.

Big Timber, Feb. THE hearing of
Harry Cosgriff,& charged with assault
in the first degree, Washed at the res,
idence of his uncle, John Blake, where
he is confined to his bed by his injur-
les. Cosgriff waved examination and
was bound over to the district court,
which will in March. Bail
was fixed at 81, 900.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11
GREAT FALLS

Annie johnson Killed BY Frank Fen
nell Who Afterwards Suicides.
a hostler in the employ of DR.. F. J.
Adams, shot and instantly killed An
ME Johnson, a domestic in the same
his own brain from the effects of
which he died a short time after.
Fennell and the are said to
affair last night.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11
LONG Haired Strikers.

Chicago, Feb. S.-The striking ma
chinists of the Allis-Chalmers CON-
pany have decided not to shave or cut
their hair till they win the protracte.l
fight. However, the resolution is not
adopted by all of the 5000 strikers.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11
Preacher Rode With Scabs.

Brazil, Ind, Feb. because a re-
vilalist at Cloverland, west of here,
rode on the street cars which are the
object of a strike, attendance at the
revival meetings so dropped off that
the meeting had to be closed. The
congregation was mostly laborers in
with the street car strikers.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11
Elsa ~StkIlonery.

The Gazette Is preparcr TO iii on
short notice any roe Tor engraved
or embossed stationery. For all
kinds of fine printing this Office as.
sures it's patrons tne best workman
ship and a superior grede OF stock II
everv instance. cl5 tt
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12

struction at the time of the explosion, 1 can
not say. I only know that never saw him
again alive or dead.
Below was added a line by the editor:
This is an offhand relation OF the cata-
strophe In which Mrs. Leighton Gillespie lost
her life. She will be remembered by New
York aristocracy as the brilliant, II eccentric,
daughter-in-law of Archibald Gillespie, the
multi millionaire. ,L
;. I returned the slip to DR.. Bennett. The
excitement of that wild ride was upon me.
catastrophe it was intended to avert. ~
Mountain Springs Is In the west,
Judge. How came the Gillespies there,
and why was she the sole sufferer? Was
he not on the train with herr"
THAT is one Of the peculiar features of
the affair. He was not on the train, but
he turned up at the wreck. Those who
saw him there say that he worked like q.
giant, nay, like Titan, amongst those
CHASTITY ruins. FINALLY he found her.
She was quite dead. After that he worked
no more. 1t is a story Of unmitigated
horror, and the agonies OF that awful fnd-
ing might we'll leave an indelible impres-
sion on his brain. A2&
II am glad you recognize this posi-
| bility. The effect OF such a scene, even
| where no personal interests are involved,
OlLSu ASdPCS a. uldn uSlV0S III d 6AdhoA
condition for years. Besides-forgive me
| If press my theory beyond all reason
| another possibility has been suggested
to me by this engineers tale. I will not
breach it just yet, but inquire first how
Leighton Gillespie was able to reach the
scene Of the wreck so quickly. Did he
hasten down from the Springs, which.
seem to have been some miles away, or
was he in the vicinity Of the accident
| when IT 0ccurrad9n Il 5s 32zt.A5
THAT is a question have never heard
| answered. But long ago concluded that
he was not far from the place where tho
collision occurred, for he was seen there
as soon as the smoke lifted. Why, what
now? You seem moved-exoited.i HaA
any new idea been suggested to your"
| exerted myeslf to speak calmly, but
did not succeed.
eyes, cried. "a strange, thrilling
idea. What If the man who shared this
engineers awful ride was Leighton Gil
lespie. and what il he knew through all
that headlong rush, that the wife he 80
much loved was in the train he was risk
ing his life to save from destruotion7'' ~
! (To be continued). z.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12

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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12

aster. The only hope, however, was in catch
ing the runaway cars, as there was no tele-
graph office at Campton and No. II had left
Mountain Springs and was booming towards
us as fast as three big engines could send
her. and without q stop ahead s's
We crossed the half-mile OF side tracks
at Buckley so fast that there was an un-
broken rattle of clanking rails, and swung
around the point of the mountain ana down
the winding track, towards Campton. Over
swaying bridges, through cuts. old los jolted
US along at the rate Of seventy or eighty miles
an hour In two minutes after crossing the
yards at Buckley we we're within sight Of
Campton, nesting below us In the valley.
The man on the footboard had been silent
seemingly for hours, and whether he was still
at his post or had fallen ON the rails and
been ground to pieces, did not know. real
lied now that there was no longer a pos
sibility Of stopping the cars by coupling to
them, and what my hope was, II had any
| at ALL do not know; there was only mad
determination to follow those runaway cars
to the end and die with the rest
AS the roofs Of Campton came into view
the whistle began to sound again. Three
miles below lay the haIf-deserted mining
| camp; now could see the rough board sta
| ton, the red and white switch targets, and
the dark spots on the mountain side that
marked Tue aDdQQOn9Q test S1alLS. linen l
distinguished form the station plat
form, slender form in dark calico and
wearing a sunbonnet. The woman's back
| was towards me, but knew her to be Nett1e
Bascom, the daughter of the one-legged flag
| man., It was ten seconds, perhaps, before the
girl heard the whistle; then she turned slow
ly, looking an instant towards us, and, with
a quick spring, was at switch stand and
had thrown the lever, and the white OF the
target turned to red and we were safe. But
not so the passenger train. The cars had
! passed over the switch before it could be
| turned, and In another moment the sound OF
| its bounding wheels, our own cries, and all
the other noises Of the dreadful moment. were
| drowned by an explosion that fitted old los
off the rails and laid every one within sight
| insensible. Those cars which we had chased
unavailingly for thirty miles or more were
laden with dynamite, and when they crashed
| into that train
| Do you ask about the man who shared my
peril and all to SO little purposes? can tell
! you nothing about him. Whether my former
conclusion was correct and he had beer
| shaken from his narrow hold into some DITCH
or gully, or whether he was hurled to de-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12

words, a victim of double consciousness"
Hope does? What does she know
about the nice distinctions governing this
peculiar condition? She must have
brought all her imagination to bear on
the subject to find such an excuse for
his contradictory actions. This argues
great Partially for him on her part. She
must be in love with Leighton"
I was silent.
The doctors amazement was very gem
uine.
"Well, never suspected her of any
such preference. have had an idea at
times that she favored Alfred rather than
caught by Leighton's melancholy coun
tenance and eccentric ways. Well!
women are an incomprehensible lot! The
only wldower amongst the three! The
only one not likely to be affected by her
partially. But that's neither here nor
there. It's her theory we are interested
in A strange onel A very strange oneH
Suddenly he grew thoughtful "But
not an impossible one," was his final
comment. 'The shock he sustained might
account for almost anything. Such re-
strained natures have great depths and
are subject to great reactions! / must
study the case; can give no offhand
opinion upon It, The contradictions OBJ
servable in his conduct are not normal
the question you asked me q, he sudden
| 1y inquired. Whether he showed his
present peculiarities prior to the death
| Of his wife? I don't think he did; really
I don't think he did. He was reserved In
his ways, unhappy, out OF tune with his
father because that father failed to APP
preciate the daughter-in-law he had
foisted upon him. but he showed these
feelings naturally and not at All as he
y bowed them later: Have you heard the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12

sure Of the brake, saw the cars glide away
from u.s. He had uissed the coupling. Again
engine and cars came together and again ap-
piled the air, with the same result.
We were running now at IA speed Of sixty
or seventy miles an hour, and when you con-
slider that the track on the hill is the crooked
est ever surveyed by an engineer, cut up By
deep raYines and canyons and leading along
high precipices, you can appreciate the dan
fger Of the rum Down the hill we thundered,
swinging through deep cuts and around sharp
curves, the engine swaying and swinging on
her springs las il struggling dn a effort to
dash herself in to one of the gorges lining the
track. The engine was surrounded by rolling
clouds of dust, through which at times
caught glimpses of the cars pitching and toss
ing like some dismantled vessel in a storm
at sea. knew the cars might jump the track
at any moment and ditch the locomotive,
sending the fireman and myself to quick
| death; but we must take the chances so long
as there was a possibility of stopping the run
Always.
| Again and again we tried to make the coup
ling but tailed each time. I did not know,
until all was over, the difficulties which the
stranger was experiencing. The drawhead
| In the car was the old-fashioned single-link
| bumper man-killer we call it now-and was
SO loos In its socket that it had to be raised
| six or eight inches and held in position while
1
quired two hands, and as he could not main
tain his position on the swaying footboard
without using one hand to cling to the hand.
! rail, he could not get the link In place and
dron the pin through It,
| BY this time we were within three miles o.
Buckley. AS the locomotive and feeting cars
I dashed across trestle 100 feet high. I caught
1 q glimpse of the little telegraph shanty dowI
! in the valley, surrounded with network o
L no yUh "a
shrieking until we were within 200 yards O.
Buckley, but no one appeared on the station
i platform; and az we flashed past the tele
grfaph Office the white face of the operator
This eyes wide open with alarm and horror
appeared vat the window for the fraction q
| an instant.
AS we dashed past the telegraph Office thu
long arm of the signal board pointed down
and T. thanked God that the mex
i block was still open, and that we had an.
/ other chance for life. We had eight miles
4 81 clear track nd nigAt vet prevent a dts.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1902-03-13
WITH A MIGHTY LEAH HE CLEARED THE FENCE.

o man to be worth $4,000. 900 and
another to have TO work for 81 a day
Al men should be equal. All property
should be divided up. There should be
no rich and no poor l tell you there
are truth and Justice aud reason in ev-
cry line OF this book. and I'm glad ! got
hold Of It."
"Ars you going to change your
partyr"
II an. and I o II right here
and now. Yes. sir. I'm a Divisionist.
and II they want any speeches from
me during the campaign | am at their
service"
II should think your adventures with
5 politics LAST fall would have been
enough to cure any further longing"
she replied. WITH \ sigh.
"what's thatf What do you mean by
thstr' be demanded as he rose up
didn't yonr party throw you down
after you had spent about $40 for
bserY'
~Eever-uever 10 this world. Afterl
had got the ball rolling ! retired to
make room for younger men. The idea
Of my party throwing I'M down"
swell. perhaps II didn't but you got
robbed and battered In a saloon and
some men had to bring you home. II
were you
stop right there. woman" shouted
Mr.. Bowser as be brought his fist down
% the stand between them. Il never
Ao< h~<Sn~u.l n rohhad and I rvoo ooyar
brought home drunk. simply par
ticipated IN the opening of the cam
paign. and you know it as well as !
do
~Oh. that was TT"
s2tsI that was It Jus. as am going
ut this evening TO participate In what
uaay - called the opening Of the cam.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1902-03-13
QUITE SATISFACTORY.

A Pleasant Social Episode In the
History of "a Arisona ewn
"Sir," began the Arizona terror as ne
brought his broncho to a halt In front
of the shanty occupied by Deadwood
Dick--sir, I am In search OF a gentle
man."
"Whats his manner" languidly asked
d. d.
.Deadwood Dick, I believe. Ever
heard of him?"
"A few times"
.And is he a gentleman or notT'
HE are. and I'll bet on It."
"will he fight like a gentlemanT
HE will"
"And will you tell him for me tina
another gentleman wants to see him
out yere with q gun in his handsr
"Sartin, and here goes"
And after the row was over n the
victims buried the city marshal paused
with his glass at his lips to say to the
men ranged along the bar:
awaal, boys. I've expected this for a
week or more. This Is no town for a
gentleman so burned stuck up that he
wants to put on q clean shirt to be shot
In" NJ. QUAD.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1902-03-13
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