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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-12-20
first LEGISLATION
is FOR EDUCATION
PHILIPPINE ASSEMBLY APPRo.
PRIATED 100000.

Manila, Dec. 19.-The first bill
passed the Philippine assembly today.
1t appropriates s1,0O0,00O for the CON
struction OF schools throughout the
provinces. The bill passed unani-
mously.
The assembly has, without a dis
senting speech or vote, instructed
the delegates who are about to pro-
ceed to Washington, on Ave princi-
pal heads. The instructions are all
directed against the tariff laws and
the coastwise shipping laws. They
ask for the repeal Of the shipping
laws on the ground that they destroy
the chances for increased Transports
tion, even IL tariff reform is adopted.
It is also asked that there be given
free entry to the states of 100000 tons
OF sugar, 100000 pounds Of tobacco
and 100000 pounds of filters Of tobac-
co. IN return for this privilege the
Philippines will admit free Of duty
agricultural machinery and maintain
other tariffs of the existing laws.
The power to conclude commercial
treaties is dependent on the repeal
of the shipping law.
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REFUSE TO SPEAK EVEN WHEN
QUESTIONED BY JUDGE.
COULD NOT BE FORCED
Attorneys for Caleb Powers Hoped to
Have Them Declare That Youtzey
Haid Said in Prison That Powers
and Howard Were Innocent.

Georgetown, Dec. 19.-The Powers
trial took a decidedly sensational
turn today, when the defense, in al
effort to break down the direct testi.
mony Of Henry Youtzey, an accom-
plice in the Goebel murder, who was
brought from the state penitentiary
today to testify, introduced two feL
low convicts from the state prison
named William Mullins and Floyd Hell
ton, to contradict Youtzey and show
that he had said to them in prison
that Powers was as innocent as an
unborn babe and that he himself
fired the shot that killed Goebel; that
Powers and Howard had nothing to
do with 1t and that he was forced to
testify against them to save his own
life.
When put on the stand both Null
Inns and Helton declined to answer
questions asked them, and the judge
was powerless to compel them. Hell
ton refused to open his lips, even
when the judge interrogated him.
Eli Collins, the recently released
convict, took the stand and declared
that Youtzey had asserted the inno-
cence Of Powers and Howard.
Grant L. Roberts, former postmas-
ter at Frankfort, who, at the time Of
the tragedy was clerk in the state
auditors Office, testified today that q
rife mysteriously disappeared from a
vault where he had placed it before
the shooting. Witness saw Youtzey
with the weapon is minutes after the
shooting, when the rifle was returned
to the vault
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BURGLAR ATTEMPTS TO BREAK
INTO BULLION CAR.
in CROWDED STATION
He Is Discovered BY the Merest
chance-ls Chased Through the
Streets and Captured Bullion Was
Valued at $4,000.

Philadelphia, Dec. 19.--Charged with
making a daring attempt to rob a
car on the Buffalo Express containing
gold bullion, while the train was stand
ing in the Reading terminal last night,
William A. Hewitt, who gives his ad-
dress as New York, was today held in
heavy bail for further hearing.
The train had been made up and
was scheduled to leave at $40 p. m.
via the Reading railroad and the Le-
high valley. One of the express cars
contained 100000 in gold bullion,
which was being shipped by the gov
ernment to Buffalo.
The alleged robbery was discovered
quite by accident. A yardman, while
at work on a track adjoining the one
on which the express stood, heard a
peculiar grating noise, and on investi-
eating discovered Hewitt under the
bullion car at work with a saw on a
gas pipe The yardman gave the
alarm and Hewitt was pursued
through the station. He was caught
before he could escape in the crowd
of Christmas shoppers which thronged
the street at that time.
Clever Work.
About the same time Hewitt was
discovered the lights in the car went
out and an examination Of the gas
pipe showed that it had been pune
tured. At the hearing today the police
exhibited the saw left behind by
Hewitt in his flight, and section Of
the gas pipe. The police say they are
working on the theory that Hewitt
propably expected to enter the car
after the lights had been extinguished
and loot it unobserved.
He is believed to have been assist
ed, and the police are looking for
two other men. Hewitt's bail was fixed
at $4,000. He Is said to have been en-
p1oyed at the station inspecting ex-
press cars, and was familiar with the
practice Of the United States Express
company in shipping bullion.
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MORRISON PARDON
is MADE CERTAIN
CASE WAS LONG FOUGHT AND
SENATORIAL in EXTREME.
Especial TO The Gazette.)

iSRCGta1 ~ lUG GGAVAsVsy
Helena, Dec. 19.-The state board Of
pardons today approved the action Of
Governor Toole in granting a pardon
to Elizabeth Morrison, a Butte woman,
who, upon conviction on a man
slaughter charge for the killing Of
Richard Finnegan, had been sentenced
to the penitentiary for three years.
Mrs. Morrison's trial was q some
what noted affair and was bitterly
contested. She was charged with the
murder OF Richard Finnegan, who
was shot on the night of June %, 1904,
on the flats below Butte. He ran
half naked to nearby saloon, dying
soon afterWard Mrs Morrison, who
had been known to ne visitor to the
cabin, was at once suspected, and
Finnegan declared that it was she who
did the shooting.
For several days thereafter Mrs.
Morrison stayed with friends, but
finally gave herself up to the authori-
ties and showed evidences Of having
BEEN injured, as she asserted, by Fin
negan, At the first trial the jury
disagreed, and on the second convict
ed her of manslaughter and sentenced
her to the penitentiary for three
years. With good behavior her sem
tence would have expired November
z, 1908.
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POWDER MAGAZINE I'M PALERMO,
SICILY, ExPLopEs.
HUNDRED ARE INJURED
Entire Town is shaken--WiId Rumors
Circulated Placing Dead At 1000
and Troops Are Ordered Out 10 Aid
in the Rescue Work.

Palermo, Dec. ia terrific explo-
sion occurred this evening in the mill
tary powder magazine Of a large guam
tity of dynamite which was stored
there, and was followed by number
Of lesser explosions, the whole town
being badly shaken and the people
thrown into panic.
Almost Immediately flames shot
high into the air and great terror
reigned in the neighburhood of the
district. 1t is estimated that about 25
persons were killed and over a hun
dred others injured.
Wild rumors followed fast on the
explosion placing the number of killed
and wounded into the thousands, and
troops were ordered out to aid the fire
men in clearing away the Wreckage
and succoring the wounded.
Several houses that stood above the
magazine partially collapsed and their
destruction was completed by fire.
One Of these was an emigrants' lodg-
ing house, and a number of emigrants
were killed.
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SUCH is THE CONDITION in PER
slA AT PRESENT.
SHOTS IN THE SQUARE
Random Firing Reassembles Both
Sides After Agreement to Disperse
Had Been Made-English Bankers
Assured That Everything is Quiet.

Teheran, Dec. 19.-The armed fac.
tions which have occupied the streets
Of the Persian capital since Sunday
began to disperse at about 10 a. m. to.
day. But suddenly few random shots
We're fired in the public square, and
this caused a speedy reassem bling OF
the opposing forces.
AS a result of the conference last
night between the shah and the parlia-
mentary party it was agreed that the
negotiations could continue with a
chance Of success only if both sides
dispersed.
Accordingly, the reactionaries, who
were bivouacked in artillery square,
and the constitutionalists who sur
rounded the assembly building, started
to withdraw their positions. Some
shops had reopened and the members
Of the assembly were celebrating the
best solution of the crisis when sud
denly the firing in the square was
heard.
Each faction thought it had been
deceived and the followers of each
seized their guns. This afternoon large
and fully armed forces representing
each side reoccupied their former po-
sitions. The attitude of each faction
is largely defensive
Bankers Reassured.
London, Dec. 19--Presiding today
at the annual meeting of the Imperial
Bank Of Persia, Sir Henry Griffin read
a cablegram dated today from the
manager Of the bank at 1'eheran:
The message said:
'.Since last Sunday there have been
numerous armed partisans around the
assembly building and a large display
of troops in artillery square, but it is
evident that neither party is anxious
to fight.
.There were large crowds on the
streets, but with the exception Of one
or two cases of violence there has
been absolutely no disorder, This
morning the situation is very much
quieter as a result of the negotiations
for a reconciliation carried on last
night. The exile of the late premier
and tha two nrinnac hac nhan nan-
celled. The crowds have been dis
persed and today more shops are open.
The situation appears to be one Of
pacific conflict"
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FREEDOM FOR MEN
BEFORE CHRISTMAS
RUSHING WORK. TO RESCUE EN-
ToMBED MINERS.

Ely, New, Dec. 1e.-The three min
ers entombed in the Alpha mine will,
unless further trouble is experienced,
probably be released by Christmas
day, according to Foreman Gallagher,
in charge Of the rescue work. The
5eO-foot level was reached last night
by the rescue party at work on the
cave-in, and now that danger of a
further cave-in has been averted, work
is being pushed with all possible
speed. The men have been impris-
oned since December 4:
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PRESIDENT Hooked
BANKS SECURITIES
PECULIAR CONDITION IN SEARCH.
LIGHT BANK.

searchlight, New, Dec. 19.-At a
meeting Of the depositors Of the
Searchlight Bank & Trust company,
held last night, a committee reported
that securities owned by the bank
have been hypothecated to McCor-
mick & Co. of Salt Lake for the sum
Of $4,000, and it is alleged the money
was used by President Tabor.
It is also asserted that the institu-
tion has been Quilted of all it's negoti-
able notes and securities, the same
having been hypothecated and the
funds used in the private services Of
Tabor.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-12-20
SWITCHMAN KILLED
Falls Under Freight and Has Both
Legs Cut Of BY Waeels-Leaves
Wife and Three Children.
Especial to The Gazette.l

Great Falls, Dec. 1s.-Edward r.
Murphy, employed as a switch fore
man in the yards Of the Montana Cen
tral at this place, died at o'clock
last evening from injuries received
two hours earlier.
Murphy was riding one of a string
of "bad order" cars, and the engineer,
taking up the slack" Murphy was
precipitated to the ground between
the cars. Both legs were severed
above the knees. He is survived by a
wife and three small children He
had been in the employ Of the Mon
tana Central for eight years.
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ESCAPED MEXICAN TELLS A
GRuEsoME STORY.
WANDERED IN DESERT
Prisoners Were Stripped and Stood
Before Rifles, But Four Escaped
and Wandered Naked Through Des-
ert and Finally Reached Safety.

Nogales, Ariz., Dec. 19.-Leonel
Carrillo, member Of prominent Mex
lean family Of Tucson, who was one
Of the party of 1S ambushed by va
quis ON the Dolores river last week
when IL of the number were killed,
has arrived here.
Carrillo was stood up naked with
the others by the Yaquis, but when
the fatal volley was fired, he was
only wounded and succeeded in es~
Gaping. Carrillo and five others fed,
without clothing, across the desert to
a neighboring ranch. They reached
there covered with blood and ak
hausted from their terrible exper-
rience.
Carrillo was driving with Jose Fer
Randez, a wealthy ranch owner, and
four other Mexicans from the town OF
Imuris, on the Sonlora railroad, to
Fernandez ranch. AS they reached
the Dolores river they were suddenly
confronted by a band of 20 armed
Yaqui Indians dressed as Mexican sol
diers.
Fourteen Killed.
The Indians had with them 12 Mex
lean prisoners. At the command Of
the Yaqui chief, Carrillo and his five
companions were surrounded and at
the point of rifles compelled to dis
mount from their wagon and line sup.
They were then dragged alongside
the - other Mexican prisoners. After
all had been compelled to. undress
the entire 18 were stood in line in
front of. the level1ed rifles of the IN
dians.
The chief then slowly counted UP to
the number "16," when the Indians
fired a volley and all but six Of the
party dropped dead. Carrillo was
wounded, but not seriously. With
five others he fed.
The Indian uprising in the Magda-
lena district is the worst, in five
years and is causing the greatest I'M
easiness among mining men, who
fear q wholesale massacre. Many
American mining men are making ar
rangements to leave the country.
Two Yaqui Indians arrested by
Sheriff Saxon were armed with rifles
and carbines and have been identi-
fed by Mexican who escaped the
massacre. The Mexican officers also
have a dozen Yaquis suspects in GUS
tody on the other side Of the line
: +
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FEDERATION OFFICIAL QUITS.
secretary-Treasurer Resigns on Ac-
count of Health.

Denver, Dec 19.James R.. Kirwan,
who had been acting secretary treas
urer of the Western Federation of
Miners, rendered his resignation to-
day to take effect at once, and Ernest
Mills, a member of the executive
board from British Columbia, as
sumed the duties of that office. MIR.
Kirwan retires on account of III
health.
Acting President G. e. Mahoney
leaves Denver for Goldheld tonight, to
personally look into the troubles
there.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-12-20
WOULD SMOKEyOUT
HIS INVALID WIFE:
THOMAS M'cANN SET FIRE TO
HOUSE TO MAKE HER LEAVE.

Bridgeport, Conn, Dec. 19.-Thom-
as McCann yesterday deliberately set
fire to the house in which his wife
lay bedridden. Their daughter
rushed through the smoke and fame
and carried her mother to safety.
Both women were slightly burned
and nearly suffocated They will re-
cover. Mccain later gave himself up
to the police, saying that the house
was his and he had right to burn it
If he wanted to. His family refused
to leave the house, he said, and he
was trying to smoke them out.
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RUSSIAN OFFICIAL DEAD.

st. Petersburg. Dec. 19.-M. Filos-
sofoff, minister of commerce and ex-
comptroller, died suddenly at the
Marie theater during gala perform
ance tonight. hTe cause Of death
was given as apoplexy. For long
time past the minister had been suf-
fering from anginapectoris.
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ILLINOIS CENTRAL.
MEETING ADJOURNED
WILL BE HELD SOME TIME NEXT
FEBRUARY, SAYS COURT.

Chicago, Dec. 1e.--Judge BAH today
adjourned the annual meeting OF the
Illinois Central Railroad company to
some day in February next, the day
to be determined later by the attor-
neys representing Mr.. Hartman and
Mr.. Fish.
Counsel for Mr.. Fish asked that
the court take supervision over pos
sible transfers of stock by the Union
Pacific and the Railroad Securities
company before the meeting is held.
An extended argument followed this
suggestion.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-12-20
CAPTAIN HERRsHoFF INJURED.

Newport, R. l., Dec. 19.-Captaif
John B. Herrshoff, the blind boat de-
signer, was painfully injured by fall
ing down hatchway on the ferry
boat Wave, during her trip yesterday
The Wave was built for the govern.
ment for use at the Torpedo station
here.
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CLOSED BANK REoPENs.

Glendale, Ore, Dec. 19-The Glen
dale State bank, which closed this
week, will reopen tomorrow for busf-
ness. The bank was closed not be-
cause OF run, but to give time to
obtain sufficient supply Of specie.
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COKE CAMP SHUT DOWN.
Especial TO The Gazette.)

Especial to The Gazette.)
Bozeman, Dec. 19.-storrs was shut
down today and $50 men thrown out
of employment. storrs is a coal min
ing camp where the Washoe Copper
company has coking plant, about Is
miles east Of Bozeman. The suspen-
sion of work at the Anaconda smelters
is given as the reason.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-12-20
WEALTHY cHIcAGoAN DEAD.

Chicago, Dec. 1e.--Henry Dibble, a
wealthy business man of this city and
a brother-in-1aw of the late Marshall
Field. died today. i
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-12-20
ceipt of the news of the accident the
officers hurried to the mine and are
leading and directing the rescue
work.

e
work.
Roof Caves.
About 1000 feet from the mouth Of
the mine heavy fall of roof was en-
countered by the rescuers. It Is be-
lieved that most Of the men will be
found nearly d mile and half beyond
this point.
A considerable number OF the min
ers were Americans; some Of the Of
ficers estimating tonight probably
more than half Of the victims, as the
majority Of the foreigners did not
work today.
The Darr mine is located on the
west side of the Youghiogheny river
in Westmoreland county, along the
line of the Pittsburg & Lake Erie
railroad, four miles southeast Of
Pittsburg and 18 miles northwest OF
Connellsville.
The Darr mine is one Of the larg-
est of the Pittsburg Coal company.
There is much drunkenness here
tonight, some of the men who got a
good start on account of the holiday
continuing their carousal after the
explosion, in celebration Of their es-
cape.
A new air shaft for the mine is be-
ing constructed, work having been
started several months ago. Had this
been completed, it is said, the loss of
life today would have been much less
serious.
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CONTINUED on Eighth Pagel
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help snake those logs together for burning, and
the and the girls came also to assist the
women of that particular frontier household to
prepare the dinner and the supper for the workers
in the clearing 1t would be impossible to find work
calling for greater physical effort and endurance
than that at log rolling; and yet it was the work
that done that neighborly plan of helping
your fellow man without money and without price,
and doing it too in the spirit of fun with much
ollity as was ever seen at German picnic. There
was danger too in it but cared for
the dangers. They We'd with each other in their
effort to do the most work in the day, and accom-
pish the most difficult feats in dragging big logs
and rolling them into great piles for firing And
when it finished the night compelled sus-
pension of effort those men and women, boys and
girls, who had combined their efforts to help
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Good By to Civilization

7 DID not know what my mother meant
when on leaving North Carolina she cried
out Good by civilization! | learned to
appreciate that good by to old friends, old home,
and the ties that bind settled state of
society, when in later years | went out into the
world and became acquainted with the older civil
ization of the East and South. 1t was departure
for the wilderness, willingly entered upon for con-
sciences sake as the Quakers and Puritans had
left Europe; but also causing a heartache even
to a brave woman when she left home and kindred
behind to begin life in the great unknown.
Il also learned to appreciate the dependence of
the pioneers upon each other when that little band
made its way slowly across the mountains and de-
pended upon the few settlers for fire, holding in
serve as of their greatest treasures, small tin
box filled with matches to be used when they could
not borrow Goals to light the camp fires at night.
That small box of sulphur matches cost my aunt
twenty-five cents; but it cost the same sum for
postage on letter in those days. And matches
and postage have kept pretty near even as sort
of barometer of progress in civilization in this
country; for you can mail letter, or buy a
box of matches, for two cents.
MY parents were both Quakers, had been reared
in a Quaker settlement in North Carolina, where
their forebears had found asylum from persecu-
ton in England and New England; for they repre-
sented the two branches of that emigration which
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fife on the Wabash sixty years ago was not
L 4 just what it is now, and yet it had in it the
same American quality of freedom and self
reliance for the youth that has always made life
in this country different from that in the old world,
said Speaker Joseph G. Cannon, in reminiscent
mood.
The Wabash was then the frontier There were
settlements beyond, Illinois was a State then, and
Iowa and Missouri, and people were trying
to penetrate the Rocky Mountains in their endeavor
to reach the gold fields of California. But the
Wabash country still pioneer in its develop
ment for we had railroads to connect with
the East, and the and women there had to
cut and grub their farms of the primeval forest
and live practically within their own resources. 1t
peopled by those who had crossed the Ohio River
to escape from bondage; and the development of
that border land slower than in the country
to the north. The tide of immigration from New
England New York and Ohio passed to the north
and went into Illinois, Iowa Michigan, and Wiscon-
sin, through the great lakes, over the better
known and better made roads through Northern
Indiana leaving the southern part of the State prac
tically isolated from that travel, and in fact, mid
die ground between free labor and slavery
when my father went to the Wabash
from North Carolina in 1870, he took his III
faraily in a prairie schooner, and we were IF
all summer making the journey up through C. =
Virginia. across Kentucky, and into Southern t51
Indiana.
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settlements in Indiana, and one of these in Parke
County, down on the Wabash There my father set
tied among old friends, but in a frontier country,
and there he chopped and grubbed his little farm
The Quakers in that settlement being opposed to
slavery refused to that kind of labor and men and
and children united their labors to make
homes The other settlers in that part of Indiana
were too poor to slaves, if they had desired
They were known poor whites, who had crossed
the Ohio River from Kentucky to find better
opportunity for themselves and their children and
suffer the degradation of being classed little
better than slaves because they worked in the fields