Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-04-25


gang went 10 Cripple Creek to buy
dynamite for the purpose. Van Dine
learned when large sum OF money
was to be carried, and on that night
Roeski tagged the train between JEFF
ferson and Des PLANES. The engi-
neer did not stop. but slowed up. As
the locomotive passed Roesld fred a
shot, the bullet wounding the fireman
in the thigh, When the train was
brought to stop 1t had passed the
| point where the dynamite had been
concealed and the robbers hurried
away. Soon after this the police be.
came hct on the trail of the young
bandits. In an attempted capture De
tective Quinn was shot and killed by
Marx. The desperadoes then fled the
city and few days later were brought
to bay in dugout Just across the In
dana state line. A desperate encount-
er followed in which the youths were
slightly wounded and two of the pur-
suing posse killed Their trial. con
viction and execution has set new
record for speed in the Cook county
| courts. The total cost OF the trial is
| estimated at 100000, the most ex.
pensive. with the exception of the
Luetgert trial. ever held in Chicago.
DENVER. April 22.-Secretary Hay
| wood of the Western Federation of
Miners is still In jail here. but will be
| taken to Telluride soon Chief of Po-
lice Armstrong has turned over the
| warrant left by Sheriff Rutan to War.
den Hudson OF the county jail and as
| soon as Justice OF the Peace Hynes
has disposed of yesterdays breech OF
the peace case, the warrant will be
served.
Chas. Meyer, with Gen. Bell and
Capt. Wells left Pueblo this morning
for Telluride. and Will probably remain
| there until April 20, when Justice
Campbell viii join Steele and GaDbert
and the hearing OF the original ap.
plioation for habeas corpus viii take
place
In the dispatches from Denver the
| first tf the week Attorney General
Miller and Mr.. Waldron of Pueblo
were represented ae having advised
| the governor not TO produce Meyer be-
| fore the supreme court. This was not
The case as exactly the reverse was
true, Mr.. Miller having advised and
| urged the governor to honor the writ
of habeas corpus. Mr.. Miller is an
| xious TO have jhls matter disposed of
and the Jurisdiction Of the governor
settled in such matters or course
| the contention of MIR. Miller as well
| as the governor iB that the chief ex-
| ecuiive officer Of the state is supreme
when Il comes to upholding the mill.
tary in times or insurrection. But us
long as there Is doubt on the subject
and the other side are fighting Mr.
Miller says the proper thing is for
the supreme court to settle 1t.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. April 22.
Frank Rose. who murdered his wife
last Christmas day. was legally shot
| in the penitentiary yard tnis morning
Mt 10 O'Clock Rose was strapped In
he same chair in which Peter Morten-
"a was killed some months ago. Four
prison guards were concealed behind
1 heavy curtain who fired the shots,
deatn being instantaneous, the four
bulle's oil reaching the heart
Roses crime was a most atrocious
| one. resulting In the death of his two
ear-old son from starvation and ex-
.osure. lie claimed his wife was un-
true to him and shot her on Christmas
day while she was lying In bed He
sat near her and talked with her until
| she died of the wound, leaving his boy
in bed with his dead mother soaked
| in her blood Rose says he returned
Iour times in the next two days to
feed the child, climbing through a win.
dow and over the dead body of his
wife IN order TO get Into the house.
| Then he went to police headquarters.
gave himself up and confessed TO the
crime. To the last he claimed he was
uhdhed In his action.
ST. PETERSBURG. April 2l.-As
a result of the expression by Admiral
5kryloff, the new naval commander in
the far East, 1t has been definitely de-
clded to send the Russian Baltic fleet
TO the scene of hostilities. In an in.
terview Skrydlofr is reported as say
ing that he Intends to combine all the
Russian fleets and clear the Pacific
and the Yellow sea OF japanese yes
sells.
ST. PETERSBURG. April 22.-The
full report from Viceroy Alexieff on
the loss or the Petropaylovsk and the
destroyer Bestrachn gives additional
details OF the fight.
The officers of the Bestrachni mis-
took the japanese destroyer for Rus
sian ship and the latter promptly en-
gagged her The Russian cruiser Di
ana hastened to the rescue OF the Bes
trachni, but too late. The Diana say
ed iive men and was then attacked by
several Japanese cruisers. Admiral
Makaroff on board the Petropavlovsk
then started to the rescue OF the Di
ana On tho way to the rescue an ex
plosion occurred on the starboard side
OF the Petropavlovsk and then sec
ond explosion occurred under the
bridge. A column OF smoke arose
masts. tunnels. bridges and turrets
few into the air. the ship keeled ant
sank In flames. Alexieff says sever
officers and 73 seamen were saved.