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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-07
DETAILS OF THE FIGHT.
How the Outlaw Was Discovered,
wounded and Killed Himself.

SPOKANE. Wash, Aug 6.-Harry
Tracys wonderful flight of nearly 400 miles
across Oregon and Washington after
bahiing the officers of both States since
June 9. when he and David Merrill escaped
from prison at Salem, will long live
IN criminal annals. The posse that
will share the reward for his
capture dead or alive was made
up follows: c. a. Straub, deputy sheriff,
Dr. c. z. Lanter. Maurice Smith, attorney.
J. ]. Morrison. railway section foreman, and
Frank Ldllengen. These men, armed to the
teeth. set out from Creston yesterday after
noon about o'clock. They were working
on the information OF the Goldfnch youth
who had been forcibly made the companion
OF the Oregon convict for over twenty-four
hours at the ranch of L. 3. Eddy. on Lake
creek. about three miles south from Eel
loves. The party made all possible haste
IN getting TO the ranch. When within a
few hundred yards of the farm they en-
countered Farmer Eddy moving in one of
his fields. While engaging him in con-
versation they saw a man issuing from the
barn door.
us that Tracy?" asked one of the party.
'It surely is replied Eddy.
THE CHASE BEGUN.
Inc party separated Lanter and Smith
accompanying Eddy in the direction of the
barn. while the other two men swung
around 10 the other side. Two Of the man
hunters stepped behind the barn on a
slight eminence. from which they could
watch everything that went on and Eddy
continued on 10 the door. Tracy came from
the barn again and began helping his host
unhitch the horses. He carried no rife al
though he had his revolvers in place. The
fugitive finally saw the men carrying rifles
and. turning sharply to Eddy, said:
who are those men?"
II do not see any men," said Eddv
Tracy pointed out the two men on the
hill. Eddy Informed his COMPANION who
the men were and the outlaw made a lean
for the barn door. The pursuers stenniny
closer. commanded Hold up your hands >
The outlaw jumped behind Eddy and
placed first the farmer AM then his horse
between himself and the pursuers He
commanded the farmer 10 lead lis horse
10 the barn and. remaining under. cover
moved toward shelter. When near the
stable he broke ard dashed inside He
quickly reappeared. rifle in hand and start
ed on dead run. Turning on the two men
nearest him the desperate fired two shots
but without his usual luck. neither bullet
taking effect. Without waiting for further
fighting. Tracy made a dash down the val
ley leading south from the barn and headed
for the brush, In an instant the man
hunters were of in pursuit. Coming 10 a
rock. Tracy lodged behind il and resting
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Citizens of Creston Find Him in a
Farmhouse and a Running Fight
Soon Follows.
DISPUTE OVER THE REWARD
STORY OF TRACY's AND MERRILL's
ESCAPE FROM PENITENTIARY.
Fate of the Latter and Wanderings of
the Former, Who Is Alleged to
Have Killed Nine Men.

SPOKANE, Wash, Aug 6-Harry Tracy.
attracted the whole country's attention for
the past sixty days. lies dead in davenport,
a bullet from his own revolver in his brain.
Cornered. wounded and desperate. Tracy
took his own life Sheriffs' posses and
others are now disputing the possession Of
the body. Sheriff Cudihee. of Seattle. who
came across the State to take up the long
and bafiing chase. positively identified the
outlaw at the inquest to-day.
Tracy's death was intensely tragic. For
two days he had terrorized the occupants
of the Eddy ranch out in the Lake creek
country three miles from the little siding
of Fellowes, on the Central Washington
Railroad. Then five determined citizens OF
Creston. hearing of his presence there. took
their rifles and revolvers and went after
him. They knew their man and acted ac-
cordingly. When Tracy ran they plunged
boldly after him. Sighting the men ano
securing his rifle. Tracy sought cover be-
hind a haystack, escaping several rifle bull
lets. The posse then found cover behind
large rock and for a while 1t looked like
siege. Then Tracy broke for a large
bowlder la ving on the edge of small wheat
field, and this dash was his undoing, for
Just as he came to the rock he fell forward,
a rife bullet having broken one leg. He
plunged into the wheat. leaving bloody
trail.
After receiving the wound Tracy crawled
seventy-five yards on his hands and knees
IN order to reach spot that would COM
mand the posse and enable him to fire upon
them. But once only was he able to fire
from his vantage point Then weakened
by loss of blood he tried to staunch his
wound failed and with his revolver sent q
bullet through his brain. BY this time dusk
had fallen and the posse, unaware OF the
seriousness OF his wound and fearing that
his silence was intended to lure them into
deadly ambush. posted themselves to
prevent his escape and patiently waited
for the dawn. During the night others
came on the scene and joined in the Gordon
At daylight they found the outlaws dead
body. None of the posse was wounded
though all OF them had narrow escapes
When they were firing from the cover Of
their rock they had to lift their heads
above the cover. and every time this was
done Tracy's rifle rang out and a bullet
Clipped the rock
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Col. McCaskey Says Army Post
Would Be Worth Millions to the
City of Indianapolis.
SITES BEING INVESTIGATED
ONE MAN, 1T Is SAID, ASKS $3.50 AN
ACRE FOR LAND.
An Open Session Will BE Held at the
Denfson Tonight to Consider
Value of Arsenal Property.

Indianapolis must not lose its chance to
get the army post, as its location near this
city would mean millions of dollars to In
dianapolis but l do not believe the gov
ernment will pay exorbitant prices for a
Site" said Colonel McCaskey, president of
the army board now in the city inspecting
sites for the proposed army post, while
conversing with a Journal reporter last
evening regarding a rumor that certain
men who desire to sell land to the govern
ment for the post site asking exceed
ingly high prices for their land.
II cannot tell you the prices that have
been set on the land offered to us, as we
have decided to treat the matter conf
dentially and send the prices with our re-
port to the secretary of the War Depart
ment." continued Colonel McCaskey.
But there is report from pretty good
authority that the prices that have been
placed on the land offered you have been
rather high and that one man even placed
a price of $3.50 an acre on his land" re-
marked the reporter.
Colonel McCaskey remained reticent, and
would give no direct information as to the
prices that have been asked by prospective
sellers. He remarked that the government
would meet the people half way, but he
did not believe that the War Department
would be willing to pay exorbitant prices
no matter how desirable the land might
be for an army post.
PROHIBITIVE PRICES
A man, who had good information on the
prices that have been asked. remarked yes
terday that men who own land that might
be suitable for the army post have placed
almost prohibitive prices on their ground.
believing that they will be able to reap a
big harvest from the government
The army board yesterday inspected the
site offered by Mr. Waddel near Valley
Mills, ard in the afternoon drove to the
site west of Riverside Park with s NJ
G. Rassman. This morning the board will
accompany A. NJ. Bullard to tract of land
five miles west of the city, and in the after
noon will inspect the tract offered bv
Wright & Rocker near Castleton Gen.
3. A. Richardson has offered two sites To
the board and these will be inspected to-
morrow. One is west of the city near the
the city. DR.. Light has offered a tract of
over 1000 acres north of Broad Ripple and
this will be visited Saturday. The A Metz
ger Agency has notified the board that IL
will submit a proposition for a site near
the city either to-day or Tomorrow Col
onel McCaskey said last evening that so
many offers are now being received that he
complete its work here and report to the
War Department.
The board will hold an open session az
the Denison Hotel this evening TO receive
informal ton from citizens regarding the
value of the arsenal property.
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CLEVELAND, O., Aug 6-Grand Chief
p. NJ Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Lo-
comotive Engineers. said to-day concerning
the threatened strike of the engineers
the Manhattan Elevated Railway in New
York: 'I have just returned to-day from
Canada and am not fully advised in re-
gard to the situation. However, Assistant
Chief Youngston left for New York this
afternoon and will be there tomorrow
adjusting the grievances Of our men on the
Manhattan. We have contract, made
with that company in 1885, L presume new
conditions have arisen as result Of the
company adopting electricity as a motive
power. There will be no strike if il can
possibly be averted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-07
MARION wIFE's STATEMENT.
Miss Bressler Talks of Her Marriage
with Brandon-The Latter Found

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MARION, Ind, Aug. 6.-Miss BressI>r.
otherwise Mrs. John Brandon. wife No 8 of
John Brandon. the alleged bigamist, made
statement to-day corroborative of the es-
sential points printed in the Journals story
this morning The dates of the marriages. as
stated therein. she says. are incorrect. She
says Miss Spangler and Brandon were mar
ried Dec. 20, 1900. and that she and Brandon
were married on Jan. I. 1901. She and her
mother. she says. are the only persons in
Marion who know where they were mar
ried. and this she refuses TO state for the
present.
He did go to Lima" she said las he told
the Indianapolis people he intended To do
and there he met me. We were married
and left at once for San Francisco We
ware gone about three weeks and then re-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-07
TROLLEY LINES TIED UP.
strike of 400 Motormen and Conduc-
tors nj New Haven.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. Aug. 6.-The Fair
haven & Westville Railroad Company op-
Grating and controlling all trolley traffic.
local and suburban, within a radius of ten
miles of this city. found its entire system
practically tied up this morning as a re-
suit of a strike Of its 400 conductors and
motormen. The action of the strikers is
mainly due to the refusal Of the companys
officials to reinstate twenty-seven dis
charged employees, whose dismissal, the
men say, was solely because or their
Identification with the work of organiza-
ton. Coupled with ;nis demand for rein
statement of discharged help is another de-
mand which insists upon less arbitrary
treatment and reforms of abuses which are
claimed 10 be intolerable.
The company this forenoon started out
six cars Two policemen were carried on
each car The strikers themselves are or
derly but the crowds, which had gathered
in considerable numbers. hooted and jeered
at the conductors, motormen and policemen
aboard the cars.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-07
SOLD FOR THIRTY CENTS.
Wife of an Elkhart LabOrer Disposed
of to Admirer.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ELKHART. Ind, Aug. 6.-Harvey Taller
day, of this city, begins to think that his
wife and Morgan Gordon were in earnest
when they called his bluff" five weeks
ago. He went home Unexpectedly and
found Mrs. Tallerday entertaining Gordon
but he didn't grow hysterical and, after a
few fippant remarks, declared he would
sell the woman for thirty cents Cor
don asked the woman If she were willing
to be sold. and when she gave an affirma-
tive reply he handed over to the spouse
the sum of thirty cents. Gordon and Mrs
Tallerday then departed, and Tallerday
hasn't heard from them since
Tallerday is a laborer. and is about fortv-
five years of age. though hard work makes
him appear older. He says his wife is a
little younger than himself, thirty-eight
They have three children as the result of
their twenty-five years of married life the
eldest being about twenty-one years old and
the youngest in her teens. Gordon is like
himself a laborer and about the same age.
1t is supposed the couple went to Michigan.
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SHE WAS A POPULAR BOY"
Arrest of n Woman Who Masqueraded
''Jimmie" McDouSaU

ROCHESTER,, n. Y, Aug 6-Much ex-
element has been caused in the town of
Chilli over the discovery that a supposed
boy who, for the past nine weeks. has been
one OF the most popular urchins in the
town, and familiarly known as Jimmie"
McDougan. is Mrs. Theresa De Hart of
Cleveland. O. Accused OF nasoueradinS-
and locked up as a vagrant Jimmie" mar
ried Max" De Hart in Cleveland. but after
suffering much abuse escaped during q
night in May last. dressed in her husha nd,s
clothes. fell in with one Smith Ar Ashfa-
bula and came East and secured position
as a farm hand al Chill.
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SHOT BY A POSSE.
Young Farmer Killed After He Had
Wounded Two of His Pursuers

OSHKOSH. Wis. Aug 6-samuel Bur-
rows. aged twenty-five. a young farmer
residing in the town of Kekemi. who Tues
day afternoon made murderous assault
upon two young men who had stopped in
front of his farm intending to get drink
of water. was surrounded to-day by Sheriff
Potter and his posse and in the conflict
Burrows was shot and died soon after
wards. r. Abrams and A Montag members
of the sheriff's possee, were slightly
wounded BY Burrows, who was in the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-07
Dress Rehearsal of the Ceremony.

LONDON, Aug. 6.-The first complete
dress rehearsal Of the coronation ceremony
was held in Westminster Abbey to-day. The
participants included all the chief actors
in the ceremony save their Majesties. The
Kings company OF the Grenadier Guards
peers and peeresses and the royal pages
all assumed their robes in the dressing
room in the annex. The gorgeous corona
ton carpet and tapestries were uncovered.
and the procession and the entire cere-
mOny except the Amounting, were gone
through with. The proceeding lasted an
hour and q half
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-07

LONDON. Aug. 6-During the discussion
OF the appropriation bill in the House OF
Commons to-day the government was Sc
verely criticised by various members re-
garding its policy in Europe and in China.
1t was alleged that Lord Salisbury had
quarreled with France and Spain. had
alienated Turkey. had driven Italy into the
arms OF France and had failed 10 resist
Russia. while persistently courtng Ger
many with obsequious complances and one
sided secret treaties
In the course OF general reply. NiscOunt
CranbOrne. under-secretary OF the Foreign
Office, made an tlluminatiVe reference TO
the treaty with Germany by saying that III
a secret treaty existed it was secret there
fore IL followed necessarily that the gov
ernment could not publish the terms there
Of He denied the allased ouarres WITT
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-07
BURNED IN THEIR HOME.
Leo Wilder, Wife and Three Children
Charred to Crfsp

STOCKTON. Cal, Aug. 6-Leo Wilder.
wife and three children were burned to
death at their country home near the vii
iage of Elliott, this county. last night The
fire caught presumably from a defective
hue. No one went TO the scene which was
a mile from town. until to-day, when the
remains of the entire family burned m a
crisp were found.
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Aged Preacher Killed.

GUTHRIE, o. T. Aug 6-The Rev. John
w Boyle. eighty years of ase, was killed
to-day in a runaway accident He was a
native OF Nobleston; Pa, a practfeing law
He was appointed receiver of the land office
at Vermillion, Dakota in 1864 by President
Lincoln and member OF the Supreme
Bench of Dakota by President johnson. He
had also been very prominent as a LAWYER
and preacher in Iowa, Oklahoma and
Texas.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-07
Has Nothing to Saw.

Secretary Wilson had nothing to saw
about the decision of Judge Goff that
Judge Jackson had Jurisdiction in the
cases of the mine workers sentenced to
prison for contempt of court. He said an
appeal will likely now be made to Presi-
dent Roosevelt for pardon for the prison
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-07
Women Caught on n TrestIe.

HoPKINsvILLE. KY. Aug. s-An ex-
cursion train on the Illinois Central caught
five young women on a high trestle at
Dawson Springs this afternoon. Two were
crushed 10 death and the Others iumping
were probably fatally injured. The dead
are Miss Johnny Smith. paducah Ky and
Lucy Stevenson, Hickory Grove, Ky The
Injured are the Misses Lena Flint Pa
ducah, KY, Edith Stevenson. Hickory
Grove. Ky, and Annie Nichols Hawes
Ky. All were young women who were So
iourning at the springs.
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RETURN OF THE KING FROM COwEs
To BUCKINGHAM PALACE,
where He VIII Remain Until He GOes
TO westmfnstcr Abbey Satur-
day 20 BE Crowned.
HIS MAJESTY IN GOOD HEALTH
THINNER THAN BEFORE ILLNESS,
But APPARENTLY STRONG AGAIN.

stood Up I'm His Carriage and Ac-
knowIedged the PIaudits of the
Crowd with Smiles and Bows
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house and who commenced firing on the
posse as soon as they appeared. 1t Is
thought Burrows was insane.
New-York tribune., 1902-10-12
AT THE FDGEWOOD I'M.

Greenwich-on-the-S Sound. Conn. oct. n (SpecaD
The Edgewood Inn is entertaining pleasant COM
pany Of guests for the fall season. and the fine
weather OF the week has given added number
70 the list. With clear skies driving has again come
20 the front among the diversions, and the orders
have pressed the stables to the limit OF capacity
both forenoon and afternoon.
one OF the most elaborate dinner parties of the
season was given on Sunday evening by Mr. and
Mrs. j. Wilson Wenman. in honor OF their guests
MI and Mrs. Jonas B. Kissam. OF New-York Table
ana sideboard were Handsomely decorated with
american Beauty roses, and a special menu was
served 20 a party or ten. follows Mr.. and Mrs
nissan, Mr.. and Mrs A. A. COwes Mr.. and Mrs
Russell Cowles. Mrs. s. j. Byrd. Byrd W Wen
man ana Ar. and Mrs. Wenman
Mr. and Mrs. j. r.. Curtis also entertained large
The improvements OF the large acreage about the
nm EdSewood Park are still IN progress. and VII
be cohunusd anol her summer. The proposes lensth-
tilhS or the got course and the building OF q ca
sino, where the clubrOoms. bowling aeys, etc can
next June
Among the arrivals are M and Mrs s 3 Nc
Slure, Robert Mcclure Miss Mcclure, Miss Eliza
Deth Mcclure. Miss NJ. c. Sean Mrs Jeremiah
SLACK Mr.. and Mrs. Robert c. Black. Mrs Witner-
pee MI and Mrs NJ. ~. Burch Mr. and MIS-
strong y Howard Armstrong. William c Arm,
strong Mr.. and Mrs. Banyer ClarksOn. MI; anr
MIS- r r. Carrie. Miss Evelyn Harrington. "; =
IthSue. II. Howard Tingue, Henry DALEY. MI
T. l. Maxwell Miss Maxwell. Mrs Alfred Hahe
ana the Rev. Warren c. Hubbard
New-York tribune., 1902-10-12

latter service an address viii be made by the
rector. Vespers will be held st $50 ?. m.
Dr. Swentzel will deliver congratulatory address
Sunday morning. In the evening a sermon will
be preached by the Rev. DT. George r. Van De
Water Of Manhattan. a former pastor
The society which afterward became ~. Luke 5
was organized IN ls35 under the auspices of Holy
Trinity A stone building put up on the same
block which holds the present church. The Rev
D Y. n. Johnson the hrst rector. The Rev.
Thomas ". Colt and r. c Shlmeau were after
ward identiaed with the work Financial trouble
the church property sold. In the latter part
OF that year. hove ever. -. Luke's Society was Or
ganzed and continued the work. IL incor-
porafed and recognized a short time afterward by
the diocesan authorities.
The hrst rector Of the new society was the Rev
Or. Jacob Diler. whose reCtOrate extended over
a period of more than forty years lie sue
by the Rev. Dr. D A Bradley.
On Advent Sunday. December 800. the church
building burned 20 the ground IL was re-
built almost Immediately. and short time after
the completion of the new building Dr. swentzeI
became rector OF the church. coming from 81
Lnkes Church. IA scranton. Penn
During the ten years % DR. sWentzsIs pastorate
Gently compiled statistics of work done by the rec
tor n that time: Baptisms. 81. confrmatlons fs:
marriages, z; contributions for parish purposes
eossS -; for parochlal missions and charltable
MOtk ss5ooe IL; for the Improvement % the pa
.s1cneal buildings, Ss ~ n. Tor payment of debts
sooIss ~ Tor diocesan work .s3f -. for work
oqlsaos the diocese. slS,f7s s.. total fzsO Bss TO-
,hS sNshtzei - writing an extended history OF
month. ." "''N'
New-York tribune., 1902-10-12
SAD DEATR OF MAJOR BoNEsTEgL

SoRNER BRooKLYN MAN WAS RETURNING FROM
MANILA TO SERVE WITH HIS OLD REGIMENT
News OF tbs death OF Major Charles n. Bones,asl
ar the sd United States Infantry on a transnor,
on its way home from Manila has been received =,
Brooklyn from San Francisco. The major was a
ron of n r. Bonesteel. OF No so Carlton-ave
Brooklyn. and was born IN that borough
Major Ebstein, deputy commissioner OF police. an
old comrade of Major Bonesteel who served Win
him IN the Cuban campaign. said yesterday thar a
hraver offscer OF the army never walked Major
Ebstein SAID II seemed particularly unfortunate
that he had died when he was on his way home -
serve again with the 2Sd Regiment which is now
stationed at Plattsburg. and where Major pone-
steel made his home Tor years when he was in the
United States.
Major Eonesteel was born IN Bridgeport Con,
sn ls5l. He grandson ~ Ni-tCIa.,
Bonesteel who on account OF religious persee,,tiSa
at Palenfine-on- -the-Rhne, came with q marty -
Huguenots 20 this country IN l7l2. ana settleS IN
Dutchcss County, Nicholas BoneSteel "a -.
a member Of the 9Th Albany County Regulars. ne
son Jacob officer IN the War al 1SIs7 80
his great grandson. Major Bonestee was snri,,S
a lieutenant IN the regular army az West Poirt A.,
New-York tribune., 1902-10-12
MAY SHOOT AT HUMAN TARGET.
\ TEST OF NEW BULLET PROOF CLOTH TO
RE MADE THIS WEEK.

The spectacle OF priest standing up 10 be shot
az BY revolver champion may be presented TO
the public on Tuesday afternoon at 3:O o'clock at
No 55 Fulton-st.. Brooklyn. The priest is the
Rev. Caslmir Zeglen. pastor OF ST. Stan!slaus's
Polish Catholic Church. Chicago. and the cham
pion Is Dr. Ashley A. weboer Father Zeglen has
recently invented what he declares Is buet proof
cloth which he thinks will tend 10 diminish
greatly the mortality in His agent has posted
q forfeit OF So. which Or. Weber will take II
with revovers ranging from % TO a. calibre. at nf
teen feet, he pierce Father Zeglens so-called
bullet proof waistcoat
Father Zeglen has promised 10 run the risk OF
being q target n he is able 10 be in Brooklyn on
Tuesday. Otherwise. dummy Will be used, whlch
would seem. Oh the whole 10 be safer.
Father Zeglen has been experimenting on bullet
proof shield for "A number OF years-tu fact, since
the death, by shooting of Mayor Carter Harrison,
a personal friend-and he believes that he has nit
upon the idea In peculiarly woven fabric OF pure
silk one-quarter Of inch thick Recent tests
nave made the priest confident that his longed for
life saving. bullet defying waistcoast Is at last a