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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-04-20
ROBBED EXPRESS
COMFY OF $4,000

st. Paul, April IA bandit held
up the Northern Pacific Express COM
pany s union d pot office Tuesday night
and compelled the clerk to open the
safe and give him q package contain
ing $50, 900. He escaped.
AT 1920 at night an accomplish of
the robber called at the office and in
duecd one of the clerks to step out side.
Fred Zimmerman, the other clerk,
soon afterward found himself confront
ed by msaked robber who pointed
pistol at his head.
Zimmerman obeyed a command to
hold up his hands. The robber then re
moved a revolver FROM one of thinner
mar's pockets ard command him to
open the safe. The clerk obeyed and
shanded out the Package of currency
which was to go to Duluth on the mid
night train. After receiving the bulky
envelope the robber backed out of the
office, first commanding Zimmerman
to turn his face to the wall and to re-
main in that position for 10 minutes
under pain Of death. Both bandits
have escaped.
The police have arrested John Gun
derson on the charge of having held up
Fred zimmerman. The police say
Gunderson has not confessed. They
would not say whether the money had
been found, but declared they were
sure they had the right man.
When Gunderson was taken to the
police station he appeared to be under
the influence of liquor and said he
knew nothing aobut the ROBBERY. Up
on the police suggestion that they
would let him go if he would tell
where he had hidden the money, Gun
derson said he could not remember
what he had done with it. He claim
ed he had been drinking and did not
know what had happened during the
night. Gunderson had been employed
by the Northern Pacific Express COM
pany and was recently discharged.
zimmerman, the clerk in charge of
the office, says Gunderson came to the
office about O'Clock and as he had
ben employed there he thought nothing
OF his hanging around. Gunderson re-
NAMED there until everyone but Zim-
norman and porter had left and then
Gunderson gave the porter some money
and told him to get bottleot whisky.
AS soon as the porter disappeared Gun
derson covered Zimmerman with a
revolver and called on him to open the
safe and hand ont the package. Zim-
norman saw that Gunderson was in
earnest and complied. Gunderson then
backed out of the office.
zimmerman says thta he notified the
police as soon as he was sure Gunder-
son had departed.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-04-20
THAW JURY DISAGREE.
Could Not Possibly Agree After AZ
Hours Deliberation.

HOpelessly divided-seven for a
verdict of guilty of murder in the first
degree and five for acquittal on the
grounds of insanity-the jury which
since January % has been trying
Harry X. Thaw reported, after At
hours and minutes of deliberation,
that it could not possibly agree on a
verdict. The II men were promptly
discharged by Justice Fitzgerald, who
declared that he too believed their
task was hopeless. Thaw was re
manded to the Tombs without bail to
await a second trial on the charge CT
having murdered Stanford White.
When this new trial would take
place no one connected with the case
could express an opinion. District At
torney Jerome declared there were
many other persons accused of homi-
eide awaiting trial, and Thaw would
have to take his turn with the rest.
AS to a possible change Of venue,
both the district attorney and counsel
for Thaw declared they would make
no such move.
Setting at rest all rumors as to their
present intentions, ]. Russell Peabody,
associated with Dolphin NJ. Delmas.
chief counsel for Harry X. Thaw, said
recently, after a conference with the
prisoner, that an application for
Thaw's release on bail would be made.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-04-20
SPOKANE RATE
CASE HEARING

The hearing by the interstate COM
merce commission at Portland is await
ed with keen interest. 1t is realized
that this is the first fundamental issue
raised by the new rate law, going to
the real question as TO rates rather than
as to discrimination. 1t is claimed that
decision favorable to Spokane would
compel radical alteration of the sys-
tenn of jobbing and haulage from Chi
cago westward. The decision in the
Denver case that railroads can not le-
gally charge an Improbable rate for
transcontinental freight, is taken as
promising a concession to Spokane, or
at least that the roads must give her
the same rates as charged through to
the coast ports.
Spokane and her jobbing territory
are paying annually to the transconti-
mental railroads serving them over $2,-
900, 900 more than the same servic @
would cost if these goods were deliver
ed at Portland or Puget Sound points.
This startling evidence is compiled
from the testimony of the railroads fl
ed with the interstate commerce COM
mission at the hearing of the Spokane
rate case before Commissioner C. A.
Prouty, at Portland, Ore.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-04-20
ARBOR DAY ADDRESS.
PRESIDENT SENDS GREETING
TO The CHILDREN.
Appeal to the Youth of the Nation
Save the Trees-"Celebrate Your Ar
Dor Day ThoughtfulIy," Says the
Chief Executive-Help to Preserve
Forests or Plant New Ones.

President Roosevelt has addressed
ITO the School Children of the United
States" a message on the subject OF
Arbor day. He advises that they OBJ
serve the day thoughtfully. The mes
sage says
"Arbor day is now observed in every
state in our union, mainly in the
schools. At various times you give a
day or part of day to special exer-
cises or to actual tree planting.
ut is well that you should celebrate
your Arbor day thoughtfully, for with
in your lifetime the nations need of
trees will become serious. We of the
older generation can get along with
what we have, though with growing
hardship, but in your full manhood and
womanhood you will want what nature
once SO bountifully supplied and man
so thoughtlessly destroyed; and be-
cause of that you will reprOach us for
what we have wasted.
For the nation. as for the man or
woman and the boy or girl, the road to
success is the right use of what we
have and the improvement of present
opportunity. If you neglect to prepare
yourselves now for the duties and re-
sponsibilities that will fall on you
later; if you do not learn the things
which you will need to know when
your school days are over, you will
suffer the consequences. So any ma.
ton which in its youth lives only for
the day, reaps without sowing and
consumes without outstanding, must
expect the penalty of the prodigal
whose labor could with difficulty find
him the bare means of life.
"A people without children would
face a hopeless future; a country with
out trees is almost as hopeless. A
true forest is not merely a storehouse
full of wood, but, as it were, factory
of wood and at the same time a reser
vOir of water. When you help to pre-
| serve our forests or to plant new
! ones you are acting the part of good
| citizens. The value of forestry de
| serves therefore to be taught in the
| schools. If your Arbor day exercises
| help you to realize what benefits each
one of you receive from the forests
and how by your assistance these bene
fits may continue, they will serve {
good end.
| THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-04-20
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

William Ellis Corey, president of the
United States Steel corporation, and
Mabelle Gilman will be married in
New York May z, if their present
plans are not changed.
Governor Butchel of Colorado has
addressed communication to the gov
ernors of all the states containing pub
lie lands, asking them to join him in
calling a convention to meet in Denver
ON June II, lS, 10 and 0,of this year,
to discuss the whole question of public
land laws. The letter suggests that a
general policy should be agreed upon to
be advocated at Washington.
A court martial at Dresden has sent
enced former Colonel Baron Won Dem
Busche-Ippenburg and Lieutenant Pech
we'll each to three months confinement
in fortress for having fought duel.
The countess de Jotemps committed
suicide last Tuesday with a revolver in
Paris. She was Russian, 81 years of
age, and a woman Of beauty and was
married against the wishes of her par
ents to the Count de Jotemps. The
couple were continually in financial
straits.
Ralph Pattison, a clerk in the Taco
ma postoffice, was caught rifling the
mails recently. Postmaster Votaw and
inspectors from concealed spot
watched his operations. He broke
down and showed where he had hidden
other money. He was released on
$500 bail.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-04-20
news OF THE WORLD.
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

At Dubuque, Iowa, fifteen hundred
woodworkers are on strike. They ash
for a nine hour day and increase il
wages.
At Louisville fire has destroyed the
piano and music store of Smith &
Dixon company. Loss 100000.
The cash in the national treasury
amounts to: Available cash balances
1851 ,023,1S5; gold coin and bullion
$110, 1928; gold certificates, $405
810,070.
Eleven Japanese at the detention
station at Port Townsend will be sent
back to their own country. The jar
anese are accused of being contract
laborers for Montana.
Commander Peary states that he
will sail from New York about July
on another attempt to reach The
North pole.
Within 60 days the laying of tie
rails for the new Hill line down tie
north bank of the Columbia river from
Pasco to Vancouver will be resumed.
The Metropolitan Grand Opera con-
pany closed a weeks engagement At
Chicago Saturday. Two matinees ard
six night performances were give1.
The receipts amounted to $50 900.
The Wenatchee Fruit Growers assO-
citation has formed a new contract
which embOdies that all fruit shall be
inspected by the association before
shipment and that the fruit shall be
marketed in three classes-early, in
termediate and late crop. The fruit
Is to be packed for shipment by the
official packers Of the association at 5,
c and Z cents a crate.
A Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo, re-
port says that the opposition to the
American treaty has been strengthen
ed by the letter OF Senator Hepburn
of Idaho, in which he said he favored
such a convention with Santo Domingo
because it meant one step toward ah-
neXation. The news of the letter, the
dispatch says, has caused much agita-
ton, but it is believed that the treaty
will pass, though in modified form.
Park City, Utah-TwO hundred and
fifty men at the Daly-West mine re
fused to go to work Saturday and it
is said the men at the Silver King will
follow suit this week. The men quit
following a dispute involving Is min
utes starting and quitting tim6~ The
company wanted the men to be at Their
places of work underground exactly at
the start of the eight hour working
day. This would compel the men to
report for duty at the mouth of the
shaft at sos every morning and stay
until 1925 p. m. The men wanted to
enter and leave the shaft on the com
pany's time. Ninety men at the On
tario mine walked out for the same
reason a few days ago.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-04-20
&. N. WRECK
IN NORTH DAKOI|

ST. Paul, April is. - Running at a
speed of 40 miles an hour on straigh
track, the Great Northern westbouni
Oriental Limited, which left here fa
Pacific coast points Sunday morning
was derailed at 1:15 O'Clock Monds
morning at Bartlett, N. d. Five per-
sons were killed and score or NOR
injured, some of them seriously. Alta
tie wreck the gas tank exploded and
the train took fire, seven passengz
coaches being destroyed, the sleepg
and observation car escaping thI
flames.
There is some evidence that the rails
had been tempered with Officials 8
the road say that the rack in the VIGIL
ity had been in apparently nrst.uist
condition and they were unable to ae|
count for the wreck on any othgI
theory than that it was the deliberatI
attempt of miscreants to wreck thIl
train.
1t is the worst wreck that ever Ocl
CURED in North Dakota. The car
comprising the train were destroyed
with two exceptions. All the cars LETT
the track. Many thrilling escapes al
reported and numerous acts of heroisn
are told by survivors. The engine lie
across the line dividing Nelson any
Ramsey counties. The mail car passei
the engine and burned in Ramsey cOull
ty. Mail Clerk Jones of Grand FofkiI
was killed, but his body was taxed
from the car by Mail Clerk Fodnes
who himself was badly burned abOd
the head. The cars went over
foot embankment. The explosion WI
herad distance of four miles.
The uninj ured worked heroically
rescue the imprisoned and it is thougS
all but three were removed.
Those killed were in the front part
the smoker, which was telescoped D
to express car in front of it.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-04-20
ELEVEN BURNED TO pEAru
Canadian Pacific PASSENGER r,
Wrecked Near chapleau, NJ"
Ontario

What is stated to be the mo-.
astrous wreck in the history Of m
Canadian Pacific railway occurrod :
No. l express, westbound passeuuu'
train, at a point about 20 miles sro.
Chapleau, Ont, recently. While ~,
ming at high rate of speed the trsis
struck a broken rail, with the rs.n' .
that the engine and all the coaches I",
the track and were hurled into ~
ditch. '"e
A tourist car filled with Immigrant.
from the steamer Kensington Mo"
nearest to the engine, and took ssa
from the impact with the overtrrn.s
firebox. Eight adults and three u,,,.
children were caught under the dehri.
OF this coach and burned to c;ndero
Identification of these unfortunato,
is quite impossible, as their bodios
were entirely incinerated. Eighties
other passengers are said to have hoo1
severely injured. Such is the accom-.
in the first wire received, Int n !.
now expected that the death LIST win
be appalling.
Connection is said to have haoD
made with the wires along the tracE
and auxiliary and breakdown train,
tele2raphed for from the two nearec,
points from which relief could como
namely Schrieber, 251 miles to tha
west, and to North Bay, 270 miles fl
the east of the scene. Owing to tho
distance from effective aid there was
no means of dealing with the OUTBREAK
Of fire among the wreckage. or Of al.
fording the injured the assistance that
might have been given in the saving
of several lives. The passengers werp
in their berths on the sleeper when the
derailment took place.
The Canadian Pacific railway runs
| through no more desolate or sparsey
inhabited regain than that around
| Chapleau.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-04-20
Who Should Pay?

Owing to a controversy between the
Canadian and United States govern
ments as to which shall pay for mail
originating in the United States and
passing over the Washington e Great
Northern railroad destined for post
offices in the United States, the towns
of Oroville, Night Hawk. LOOMS, Con-
conully, Nelson and Chesaw, Wash,
receive no mail from Spokane by rail
Instead the mail is thrown off at Re
public, Wash, where 1t is taken to
these towns by stage, requiring three
days to reach it's destination, while by
rail 1t would arrive in from IL to II
hours.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-04-20
President Names Holidays

President Roosevelt has promulsas
an order giving Saturday half honus,
during July, August and SepleYSs
to all mechanics, laborers and ~
employees at the manufacturing d
supply arsenals and depots under
war department and in the on.e
the division and department ~
quarters of the army and in 'H' N
cheering department at large
order provides that on Saturo@@
the months named four hours . y,
sive of time for luncheon, shah
stitute a days work.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-04-20
Trouble Reported,

Reports have been circulated that
not the best feeling exists between
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Root on account of the alleged de
cadence of the secretary's influence
with the administration. 1t has been
believed in responsible quarters that
Mr.. Root is not heartily with Mr..
Roosevelt on many phases of the pres
ent political and economic contest
which is transpiring within the repub-
lican party and in general throughout
the country on large public questions.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-04-20
CELEBRATES CENTURY OF LII
Only Real Daughter of the ReVoIu'ls
Is Honored.

New York-Mrs. Rheua Miller, U
only real daughter of the reyoluuo
was 100 years old Saturday and v
made a day of celebration of it al u
home in Mount Vernon. Mrs. MILE
father, Colonel Seth Webb, was
lieutenant in the coast guard dufp
the revolution.
Mrs. Miller played the double ~
Of hostess and guest of honor Y
from various parts of the state Ca7
her children, grandchildren, gssi
grandchildren to do her honor. \
was not too feeble to receive I
hundreds of callers who passed
and out during the day.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-04-20

Chilpancingo, Mex, April 16.-This
city has been completely destroyed by
an earthquake. The killed number il
and the badly injured 81. The great
est panic prevails and people are flee.
ing to the open country. The earth
seemed to rock at half hour intervals
and many minor shocks are completing
the work of destruction begun by the
first quake.
Word has reached here that the town
OF Chilapa, az kilometers to the north
eastward, has also been DESTROYED. No
details have been received as to the
number of the dead and injured.
The population of Chilpancingo is
TAOS and until the panic into which
the citizens have been thrown abates.
1t will be impossible to state the mum.
Der of casualties.
The population of Chilapa is Is 900.
No word has been received from Tixtla
and it is feared it also has been des-
troyed. According TO the movements of
the earthquake, Tixtla would be in its
direct line.
AOAh ldio messages II appears that
the entire south half of the republic in.
GLIDING the lower country and the me-
saba belt felt the shock.
The National Bank of Mexico has re
ceived a telegram stating that 500
lives were lost at the destruction of
Chilapa and Chilpancingo. In govern.
ment circles the report Is not credited.
1t is admitted that both cities were
leVeied to the ground, but it is not
thought that the death list will even
approximate 500, ewing to the fact
mat the houses are built of stone in or.
der to resist earthquake shocks.
The federal authorities have been an.
pealed to by the governors of the dis.
ricts OF Barvos and Chilapa for tents
as the inhabitants are now living in
the open.
The governor of Guerrero has dis.
patched military engineers and troons
TO the stricken district.
Both cities are so isolated that II Is
impossible to obtain accurate and rand
intelligence of the disaster.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-04-20
Professor Quarles Is Dead,

Lexington, Va, April 16.-James
Addison Quarles, D. D., LII D., Cor
the last 81 years professor of moral
Philosophy at Washington and Lee
university, died here today, aged 20
years.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-04-20
Shorter Hours fer Operators.

Jefferson City, Mo.-Governor Folk
has signed the bill passed by the re-
cent session of the legislature prohibit
ing railway telegraph operators hand
ling train orders from working more
than eight hours In one day. At day
stations where but one operator is EN-.
ployed he may work II hours.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-04-20
Will Lead Theosophists,

Kansas City-An official announce
ment was received in this city by a
member of the local branch of the
society, of the nomination of Mrs. An
president of the Philosophical society,
to succeed the late Colonel Henry
Steele Olcott, the president-founder of
the order.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-04-20
Russian Prisoners Mutineed.

Riga, Russia-During a mutiny in
the prison Saturday, 80 inmates over
came the wardens of the establish
ment. Troops were summoned and
killed seven mutineers and wounded
II. Nine soldiers were wounded.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-04-20
Fire Destroys Kansas Block.

Topeka, Kan. April 1e.-The Rip
pey building, one of the largest and
most important structures at Baker
university, Baldwin, Kan, was destroy.
ed by fire. The loss estimated at 500
! 600. Insurance $4,000.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-04-20
SPOkANE
Spokane Wholesale Produce Prices.

Notwithstanding, local, 50 cwt;
California SO cwt; cranberries So Dbl;
potatoes, $1.25 cwt; turnips, 81. so cwt;
onions, 50 cwt; carrots, 75@$1 cwt;
horseradish, 10012hc ID; celery, S5c
Q$1 doz.; dollhouse lettuce, Csc; ruta-
begas, $1.50 cwt; parsnips, $1.25@1. so
cwt; tomatoes, $3.50 crate; grape
fruit, 81; rhubarb, 8@10c lb.
Apples-Cooking, $10125 box; Ar,
kansas Blacks, $1.75@2.75 box; Black
Twigs, $202.25 box; Sptzenburgs,
S2.25@2.50 box; Yellow Newtowns,
$225@2.5O box.
Nuts-English walnuts, 17@17hc
Id; almonds, 22c Id; pecans, Csc ID;
| chestnuts, zoe Id; black walnuts, zoe
lb hickory nuts, 12bc; soft shell
hickory nuts, 15c lb.
Oranges-$3.2563.50 box; lemons,
fancy, SIS case; dried figs, SO09Oc 10
ID box; figs in bulk, &c lb; black figs,
10 Id package, soc; Fard dates, 9@1Oc
Id; golden dates, 809c ID; bananas,
S2.75@3.25 bunch; raisins, fancy, 120
13c; raisins, bulk, 10c lb currants,
121ac ID.
Butter and Eggs-Local eggs, case,
ST. best creamery butter, CSC fb; Co
lumbia creamery butter. CSC lb; cheese
twins, 18c lb; Wisconsin loaf Swiss,
CSC ID; limburger bricks, tic lb;
cream brick, zoe lb; Wisconsin twins.
TIC lb; Tillamook, 1910 lb.
Honey-In comb, $3.50; strained
honey, 91ac lb.
Sugar-$5.55 per 100 lbs; beet, $685.
Coffee--Comnon package goods
$17.40 per 100 pounds.
Seed-Alfalfa, SIG cwt; red clover,
1880; Kentucky bluegrass, $16.5O@
Is cwt; timothy, $5.5O@6 cwt; white
clover, $16,5O@1S cwt
Prices Paid to Producers.
Live Stock-Steers, $4@4.25 cwt;
cows, $2.50@3 cwt; sheep, $4,000
cwt; hogs, $75O@S cwt; mutton. &c
Id; veal, 4@6c lb; veal, fancy small
No. l, 7@Sc lb; fancy large, 5@6c
lb; pork, $1,000 lb.
Poultry and Eggs-Live hens, 13c ID;
live spring chickens, 15016c lb; live
ROSTERS, 10c ID; dressed hens, 15c;
ducks, live, lac lb; dressed, 18c lb;
turkeys, live, 18c; dressed, zoe lb.
fresh ranch eggs, S5.5006 case.
Hides-Green, SC ID; satted, 1c high.
er; dry hides, 17Q18c; calfskins,
green, loo lb; kip, SC lb; sheepskins,
50c@$1.25.
Creamery products, f. o. b. Spokane
First grade creamery butter fat,
361Ac.
Feed-Timothy hay, s2O@21 ton;
alfalfa hay, SIC ton; whole barley.
95c@$1.05 cwt; wheat, 95c0$1 cwt.
Vegetables-Applies, 75c@$1 box;
potatoes, Soc cwt; beets, S5c cwt; par.
, ships, S5c cwt; carrots, 400 SOC cwt;
turnips, S5Q9Oc cwt; rutabagas, $50
90c cwt; onions, 81 cwt.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-04-20
Baltimore to Plant Mine.

The bureau of navigation , ~
cided to convert the cruiser baia II,
one of Dewey's feet at the pa B !
Manila bay, into a mine plantin'
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-04-20
ApopIexy Fatal to James W''p

Horneyy, N. Y.-James M. w.
Hornell, for the last % years sup os,i
treasurer of the Catholic MutuSi u
fit association, died Saturday u
plexy.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-04-20

What healthy world this would be
II the young doctors really knew as
much as they think they do.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-04-20

The chief difference between the
itch for office and the seven year
itch is that the latter can be cured.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-04-20

Inc man who is doing his whole
ou'Y mas Very little time for grumblinp
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-04-20

Inc wife who really loves her bus.
eaha VIII always laugh at his Jokes