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VOL. Mil. NO. 167.
INDIANAPOMS, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 16, 1903 TWELVE PAGES.
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STRUCK BY A WALL OF WATER
WOODMEN TAKE THE CITY
GREAT HOSTS OF WOODMEN.
Residence Portion of Heppner, Ore., Destroyed and
and Possibly Five Hundred Lives Lost
Red, White and Green, the Colors that Represent the
Order, to Be Seen All Over Indianapolis.
CLOUDBURST IN VALLEY
FIRST SESSION TO-DAY
HELD BY CORONER S JURY.
WILLOW CREEK SUDDENLY TURNED
INTO A GIGANTIC TORRENT,
Which Was Twenty Feet High and
Rushed on the Town, Carrying
Everything Before It
HOUSES WERE WRECKED
AND THEIR OCCUPANTS EITHER
KILLED OR DROWNED.
Storm Was Raging and Roar of
the Torrent Could Not Be Heard
300 Coffins Wanted.
PORTLAND, Ore., June 15. Following a
cloudburst, a wall of water twenty feet
high rushed down the gulch of Willow
creek at dusk yesterday and drowned
nearly half of the 1,200 inhabitants of
Heppner, Ore. The furious water carried
the residence part of Heppner away. So
great was the force of the water that
bowlders weighing a ton were rolled along
the gulch, crushing everything in their
path. Wires, bridges and railroads were
swept sway snd complete reports have
not been received. The most reliable re
ports to-night say that the loss of life at
Heppner will be at least 500, though the
number of dead probably Is larger.
A report from lone, seventeen miles from
Heppner, says that 300 bodies have been
recovered. The flood came with such sud
denness that the inhabitants were unable
to seek place of safety and were carried
down to death by the awful rush of water.
Pari of the business portion of Heppner,
which is on high ground, escaped.
IDENTIFIED BODIES.
Following is a list of the identified bodies:
KRUO AND FAMILY.
THOMAS HOWARD AND FAMILY.
JAMES JONES AND FAMILY.
DR. M SWARDS.
FAMILY OF C. A. RHEA.
MRS. CARR'S FAMILY.
MRS. CHARLES ANDREWS AND
CHILDREN.
MRS. ROBERT BAIRD AND CHIL
DREN. WELLS. Sr.. AND FAMILY.
JAMES MATLOCK.
THOMAS MATLOCK'S FAMILY.
DR. HIGGS'S CHILDREN.
MISS ELLIOTT.
MISS ELDER.
WILLIAM COHEN AND FAMILY.
MF GEIGER.
W. M. WALTON AND FAMILY.
HERBERT BARTHOLOMEWS FAM
ILY. JOHN MEYERS
OEOROE NOBLE AND FAMILY.
ROBERT HINDS AND FAMILY.
MR AND MRS DAWSON.
OCCUPANTS of Heppner Hotel.
SEVERAL CHINESE.
MR8. CHARLES CURTIS.
GEORGE TIN8LEY, wife and child.
H. A. BOYD'S family.
WRS. W. H. BERG.
CHRIS M. ASHBAL'GH.
CARL JONES and family.
GI OrcGE 8 WARDER.
JOHN M. KERNAN and wife.
AGENT of the O.. R. A N.
C. E. MAITFIELD and family.
BERT CABOT8 and family.
BEN PATTERSON and family.
H. C. GERZER and family.
HAVOC OF THE TORRENT.
Early In the afternoon a thunderstorm
occurred, covering a wide region of coun
try, and later a heavy rainstorm set In,
many of the small streams overflowing their
banks In a short time. Bridges were swept
away like straws, and the darkness of the
night soon made the situation more appall
ing. The roar of the storm deafened the
roar of the water, and the people had no
warning of the oncoming flood. Suddenly it
rushed through the town, sweeping houses
from their foundations and drowning the
people in the wrecks of their own homes,
the dead bodies and wreckage being borne
down the valley. The people were caught in
their houses, with no chance to escape.
Many persons were killed outright. Others
were drowned after heroic efforts to save
themselves.
As soon as possible after thr flood sub
sided the work of relief was begun by the
surviving residents. Doxens of bodies were
found lodged along the bends of the stream,
and In several places they were piled two
or three deep. T'p to 2 o'clock this after
noon two hundred bodies had been recov
ered within the town. Many of the build
ings which were not carried away were
moved from their foundations or toppled
over.
Hundreds of horses, cattle, sheep snd
hogs that had gone into the creek bottoms
for water perished.
As soon as possible news was sent by
courier to the near-by towns, asking relief
for the stricken people. The Oregon Rail
way dk Navigation Company started a train
with doctors and supplies from The Dalles
sHortly after noon, with a party of one
hundred, including three doctors, four
nurses snd supplies of all kinds. At 1:30
this afternoon a relief train, with doctors
and supplies, started for the scene from
Portland. The dtisens of Portland starte 1
g, relief fund as soon as the news of the
disaster spread over the city, and within a
few hours 15.000 was raised.
Supplies will be rushed to Heppner as
goon as they can be collected.
Flftsn buildings In Lexington, nine miles
CONTINUED ON PAGE COL. 2.)
Bratton and His Men to Answer for
Killing- Clifford Hnmbly.
ST. LOUIS, June 15. The coroner's Jury
that has been investigating: the death of
Clifford Hambly. member of the 8t. Louis
Reserves, who was killed in a levee riot
at East St. Louis Saturday evening, to-day
rendered a verdict holding John 8. Brat
ton, W. A. Brown. S. J. Allen. E. Colliver
snd Frank Hale responsible. Bratton is a
noted horseman and the others named are
employes.
UNIONIST HEAVILY FINED.
Factory Foreman Charged with Ex
torting; Money and Mulcted S99fr.&9.
NEW YORK. June 15. Accused of at
tempting to extort money from employes in
a Newark (N. J.) hat factory, David Rich
man has been fined $999.99 by the Hat
makers' Union. About eight months ago
similar charges were made against Rich
man, and he was fined $99.99. He was then
foreman in a department in the factory.
Although he declared at that time that the
charges were trumped up, it is said he has
since been paying the fine in weekly Install
ments out of wages. He declares that the
new charges are trumped up, and that he
will not pay the second fine. Why the union
made the fine 1 cent less, instead of an even
$1,000, none in the case will explain. The
complainants asserted before the union that
Rlchman had asked them to pay him $2 a
week out of their wages. They also de
clared that they know he was receiving
money from other men in the .hop. Rich
man, they said, told them that the money
was to go to the firm.
MURDER IN COURTROOM
AVTI-POLICY SOCIETY SIPERIXTEX
Di: I SHOT DOWN.
Killed by a Negro, Who Barely Es
caped Lynching; Sensational
Tragedy at New York.
NEW YORK, June 15. Charles F. Mac
Farlane, of the Anti-policy Society, was
shot and killed to-day on the general ses
sions floor of the Criminal Courts building
by William Spencer, a negro, who was to
have been placed on trial to-day on the
charge of violating the anti-policy law. A
detective who witnessed the shooting
knocked the revolver from Spencer's hand
and placed him under arrest.
Four shots were fired by Spencer, throe
of which took effect in McFarlane s body,
and the fourth hit Philip E. Bray, also a
member of the Antl-pollcy Society, in the
arm, inflicting a slight wound. McFarlane
was superintendent of the Anti-policy Soci
ety. The negro told the police that McFar
lane had been following him and telling lies
about him. The case was almost immedi
ately taken before the grand Jury, and less
than two hours after the death of McFar
lane Spencer had been Indicted for murder
in the first degree.
After the shooting crowds in the court
rooms flocked into the corridors, and the
greatest excitement prevailed. A crowd of
men, uttering cries of "Lynch him!' and
"Throw him over the balcony!" attempted
to take the prisoner from the detective. It
required a strong force of police to save
the negro from the fury of the men and dis
perse the crowd.
TRIED TO FIRE THE CITY
INSANE MAN AT FORT WAYNE SET
SEVEN FIRES IN AN HOUR.
Placed In Jail After an Exciting; Chase
Says He Set the Transfer Barns
Aflre on Friday Night.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
FORT WAYNE, Ind.. June 15. The police
and sheriff's force were given a desperate
chase to-night in locating and arresting a
firebug, who. before he was lodged in Jail,
set tiie to six barns and one grocery store.
His name Is Clem Bott, aged twenty-five,
and he is connected with a respectable fam
ily. He was adjudged insane some months
ago, after an operation following a con
cussion of the brain, due to falling on the
Ice. Obtaining his freedom later, he began
to steal, and nine charges were pending
against him when he was arrested again.
His mental condition saved him from a
prison sentence, and he was sent to the
poor farm last week. He was there only
twenty minutes when he ran away, and the
next morning (last Saturday), as he admit
ted to-night, he set fire to the transfer
barn, which entailed a loss of $7,000. He
said to-night he had not seen a fire for a
long time. and. "as he was the fire chief."
he would fire the barns and then notify the
owner.
While Mr. Leikauf. a grocer, was running
to his barn to save his horses Bott fired the
grocery store.
The barns burned were those of J. C. Pe
ters and Ralph McGee. and those attached
to Seiertag's bakery. Ankenbrook's grocery
and Dr. Sites's office and Fulton's livery
stable. He was removed to jail.
During the Ankenbrook fire excitement
Bott stole back of the counter at Gross's
drug store and robbed the safe of $8. The
first Are began at 6:30. and the department
was kept on the run for about an hour,
going from one fire to another.
Bott says he went to Evansville on Sat
urday after firing the transfer larn and
stole a watch, which he pawned at Hunt
ington to-day for $4.50. He reached Fort
Wayne at 5 o'clock. His destructive mania
has cost about $12.000. due to the hospital at
Richmond being overcrowded and unable to
receive him. He says he meant to burn the
city.
INDIANA COAL FIELDS.
Inspector Epperson Says the Miners
Were Never More Prosperous.
James Epperson, state mine inspector, is
in from tfce coal fields of southern Indiana.
He says the outlook is for a large increase
in the output this year. Between thirty and
forty new mines have been opened, chiefly
in Sullivan and Greene counties. In opinion
of the mine inspector the Indiana miners
were never as prosperous as they have
SOBS for the last few months. While there
is not at this time a great deal of work
being done in the mines the prospects are
good for busier times and when the miners
work they can earn more than they have
I earned before 't like work.
Even the
WANT A NEW BUILDING
BOARD OF TRADE GOVERNORS AGAIN
DISCISS THE MATTER.
Chief Topic of Conversation at a Din
ner at Colombia Club Given by
President Perry.
NEW OFFICERS INSTALLED.
C. C. PERRY MBaTCaVf PRESIDES
OVER BOARD'S DELIBERATIONS.
Three Places Filled on the Board of
Governors New Standing? Com
mittees Announced.
It is probable that within the next year
work will be commenced on a new Board
of Trade building. The building movement
has taken a fresh start and it looks now
as if something substantial would be the re
sult. At a dinner given last night at the
Columbia Club by C. C. Perry, the new
president of the board, the question of a
new building was the chief topic of discus
sion. Mr. Perry entertained the governors
of the board in honor of his election to the
presidency.
Nearly every governor present made a
speech and the most of the speeches were
enthusiastically in favor of a new building
a seven or eight-story structure that will
cost from $100.000 to $150,000. The sentiment
regarding a location for a building has
changed in the last few months. Some
time ago when the question of selling the
present site at Maryland street and Capi
tol avenue was discussed, there was a good
deal of talk about putting up a new build
ing near the business section of the city.
The prevailing sentiment among the gov
ernors last night favored a building on the
present site. It Is the feeling that the city
is "moving that way." President Perry,
in a short speech, declared in favor of a
building on the present site and incidental
ly alluded to a new building enterprise In
which he is Interested, but which has not
progressed far enough to allow of the pub
lication details. Mr. Perry owns a strip
of real estate on Kentucky avenue, about
half way between Washington and Mary
land streets. He declared that if a certain
deal goes through, a building to cost In the
neighborhood of $150.000 will be erected on
this site. This is within a short distance of
the Board of Trade building. It was the
understanding last night that a committee
will be appointed, probably at the next
meeting of the board, to consider the
building question. Some of the governors
favor the appointment of a committee as
soon as it can be done. The board of
Trade Is known as one of the particularly
well-to-do organizations of the city. Its
finances are in a flourishing condition, its
financial standing is the best and it was
predicted last night that the board will be
able to borrow as much money as Is head
ed to complete the new building at 4 or 5
per cent.
MEETING OF GOVERNORS.
etv Officers Installed and Standing
Committees Announced.
The Board of Trade governors met last
night and the new president. C. C. Perry,
succceeded John J. Appel in the chair. Sam
uel B. Sweet, the newly-elected vice pres
ident, and the treasurer. E. E. Perry, also
took office. The board unanimously re
elected Jacob W. Smith to the office of sec
retary for next year. Mr. Smith is now
serving his fourteenth year as secretary of
the board. Three governors were also
elected last night. By Mr. Sweet taking
the office of vice president a vacancy was
left on the board, and at the election a few
days ago two places were not filled on ac
count of a tie. The board last night elect
ed Frank M. Murphy. Frank W. Morrison
and Albert E. Metiger to fill the vacancies.
These men were all candidates at the elec
tion. Morrison and Metzger were involved
in a tie vote. Mr. Perry, the new president.
assumed the duties of office In his usual
affable and smiling way and later in the
evening he entertained the governors at the
Columbia Club.
The grain committee made a report an
nouncing the resignation of John Heiner,
t hief grain inspector, and recommended the
appointment of William Greiner to be chief
Seal of the State has a woodman in it.
Inspector and Chris Wlshmire assistant.
The board concurred in the report.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
The following standing committees were
announced for the year:
Finance Committee Frank D. Stalnaker,
chairman; Harvey Mulllns, William Scott,
Bam B. Sweet, John J. Appel.
Arrangements John S. Lazarus, chair
man; Benjamin B. Minor, Irving S. Gor
don, John E. McGettigan. William H. Coop
er, Hugh J. McGowan, James L Disseite,
John C. Baird, Adolf Schleicher.
Membership Archibald A. Young, chair
man; William H. Cooper. Albert Sahm, An
son J. Gardner, Sidney M. Dyer, Louis J.
Blaker, William F. Piel, Frank W. Morri
son, Benjamin B. Minor. John E. McGetti
gan. Robert F. Scott, Milton A. Woollen,
Henry T. Hearsey, Albert E. Metzger, Ed
gar H. Evans.
Law Albert Baker, chairman; E. B. Mar
tindale, Roscoe O. Hawkins.
Communications Louis J. Blazer, chair
man; Frank W. Morrison, Edward Haw
kins, Irving S. Gordon, Elmer E. Perry.
Promotion of Manufactures Justus C.
Adams, chairman; David M. Parry, James
I. Dissette, Irving S. Gordon, Ford Woods.
By-laws Roscoe O. Hawkins, chairman;
John M. Shaw. John F. Wallick. Albert
Baker, James R. Ryan.
Printing Andrew Hägen, chairman; Ed
ward W. Bassett, John M. Shaw.
Arbitration Smiley N. Chambers, chair
man; Valentine Bachman, William Schro
lucke, Thomas L. Sullivan, John B. Cock
rum, John Petrin, Frank E. Janes, James
W. Lilly. Tom Oddy.
Grain William H. Cooper, chairman;
Benjamin B. Minor, Robert F. Scott, Arthur
Glllett, Charles A. Shotwell, George S. War
ren, Edward W. Bassett, William J. Riley,
James R. Ryan.
Flour Inspection George T. Evans, chair
man; L. H. Blanton, Charles Ferger, Har
vey Mullins, Valentine Bachman.
Local Mercantile Interests Franklin Von
negut, chairman; George A. Gay, Paul H.
Krauss, Edward K. Chapman, Gustav A.
Recker, Hiram P. Wasson, Albert Gall.
Provisions John Moore, chairman; Gus
tav A. Schnull, James Cunning, Burton E.
Parrott, Frank Van Camp.
Produce James L. Keach, chairman;
George R Popp, George W. Stout, Charles
W. Sutton, Charles Syerup.
Lumber Chapln C. Foster, chairman;
Guy Edw. Hawkins, Edward H. Eldridge,
Henry Cobum, S. D. Fräser.
Coal Augustus B. Meyer, chairman;
Frank M. Fauvre. William G. Wasson, L.
L. Fellows, Samuel D. Pray.
Railroad and Transportation Martin W.
Mansfield, chairman; William T. Cannon,
J. Byron DM. Samuel F. Gray, Ernest M.
Elliott, Harry Weill, James V. Stanbery.
On Appeals James T. Layman, chairman;
Frank W. Morrison. Charles S. Lewis, Wil
liam E. Kurtz. Charles A. Bookwalter, Mer
rill Moores, Joseph A. Kebler. Smiley N.
Chambers. Joseph Hass, Charles R. Myers,
Hervey Bates, jr., Henry L. Beveridge,
Henry T. Conde, Thomas A. Wynne, James
E. Pierce.
Fire Insurance Fred A. Gregory, chair
man; George H. Rehm, John Wocher.
Frank W. Lewis, Adolph J. Mayer.
Real Estate Charles E. Coffin, chairman;
Newton Todd. Benjamin A. Richardson,
Albert E. Metzger. William E. Stevenson,
James S. Cruse, William A. Rhodes.
Live Stock Samuel E. Rauh, chairman;
T. Smith Graves, R. R. Shiel, Chauncey H.
Clark, David Wallace.
Shipping Harry C. Atkins, chairman;
Henry C. Adams, John W. Jones, John H.
O'Boyle, John R. Gray, William A. Mooney,
Robert Kipp, Louis G. Deschler. William
J. Griffin. A. A. Barnes, A. J. O'Reilly, Al
bert G. Snider, George R. Sullivan, Henry
Rauh. Charles Mayer.
Relief Volney T. Malott, chairman; John
J. Appel. John S. Lazarus. John H. Hoiti
day. Frank M. Murphy, William P. Kappes.
Hugh H. Hanna, Harry S. New, Medford
B. Wilson, Irving S Gordon. John F. Wal
lick. E. B. Martind!-. William Scott, Har
ry B. Smith. Thomas C. Day.
Meteorology John B. Conner, chairman;
Edward Reeves. Gideon B. Thompson.
Natural Gas John P. Frenzel, chairman;
E. B. Martindale. William B. English. John
R. Pearson. Bement Lyman.
CROOKS ARE ATTRACTED
GRAFTERS Hl RRYING TO CITY TO
FLICK THE I" SOPHISTICATED.
Police Receive Orders to "Run In" All
Suspicious-Looking Characters
This Week.
Superintendent Taffe, of the police depart
ment, has given orders to the city police
men to place under arrest all suspicious
looking people seen on the streets during
the coming week. Word has been received
here from other cities that there will be a
regular hegira of crooks to in lianapolLs
for the next week or so, as the result of
the Woodmen's convention.
Last night patrolmen and detectives were
placed at the I'nion Station and at all
points where the crowds are gathered in
great numbers, and the diligence of the of
fk srs of the law will be unrelaxed from
now on. Superintendent Taffe last night
said there was no doubt that the city s
being tilled with crooks, who are attracted
by the reports of large crowds here at the
present time, but the police and detective
departments will give the public every pos
sible protection, if each patrolman has to
work eighteen hours a day to do iL
J V ON DLR WHIR
SM ICQMF IN I
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BAILEY'S AIM PERFECT
HAND THAT POINTED A REVOLVER
SHATTERED BY HIS BILLET.
Philip Boeglin. a Saloon Keeper Inder
Surveillance, Pulled Revolver on
Patrolman Bailey.
INSTRUCTED TO VISIT SALOON
OFFICERS OF THE LAW WENT
THERE IN LINE OF DUTY.
It Was Either Shoot or Be Shot and
Bailey Pulled the Trigger First
Boeglin In Hospital.
Philip Boeglin, a saloon keeper who has
been in considerable trouble lately, at
tempted to kill Patrolman Bailey late last
night, and as a result lies at the City Hos
pital with every bone in his left wrist shat
tered from a bullet from the nervy police
man's revolver.
For years Boeglin has defied the police,
and has, In spite of being arrested and
convicted many times, continued to con
duct his saloon at Virginia avenue and
Bradshaw street in open violation of the
law. Only last week he was arraigned in
the Police Court before Judge Whallon
and fined, but the sentence was suspended
on promise of good behavior.
A fight was reported in his establishment
last Saturday night and the patrolmen were
instructed to investigate the matter and if
possible to learn the names of the partici
pants and place them under arrest. It was
said that shots were fired, but all the loaf
ers around the Boeglin saloon were tongue
tied and the police found it impossible to
learn any of the details of the fracas from
them. The patrolmen running on the dis
trict embracing Boeglin's saloon were given
instructions by their captains to make a
thorough investigation of the reported
fight, and in the line of this duty Patrol
men Bailey and Hiilman visited the place
at about 11 o'clock last night to get the
details of the Saturday night brawl, if pos
sible, from the proprietor in person.
BOEGLIN'S PROUD BOAST.
Boeglin, puffed up by the fact that he had
been arrested many times but always re
leased without serving time, had been mak
ing open threats about what he would do
to the next policeman who attempted to
place him under arrest. He even went so
tar as to proudly boast that he had a "re
volver waiting for Patrolman Bailey when
ever he came into his place." Having heard
of Boeglin's resolutions, and keeping them
well in mind. Bailey placed his revolver up
his coat sleeve and. in company with his
partner. Hiilman, boldly entered the sa
loon. He had no sooner entered the door
than Boeglin. uttering a number of vile
curses, seized his revolver, which he had
placed within easy reaching distance, and
aimed it at the policeman's heart. Bailey,
with all the calmness of a well-trained sol
dier, dollberatt ly shot the pisrol out of the
desperate man's hand before he knew what
had taken place. The bullet from the re
volver in the hands of the officer of the law
struck the left arm of the would-be assassin
and tmbeded itself in his wrist. On seeing
the blood Boeglin gave up the fight and,
rolling on the floor, begged for mercy. He
was taken to the City Dispensary in the
ambulance, in charge of Drs. Cunningham
and Seatton, and the bullet was probed for
and located, but it was deemed advisable to
take the man to the hospital, where he
could receive the proper attention. Scream
ing and yelling at the top of his voice, he
was t-iken in the ambulance to the City
Hospital, where the bullet was removed and
the arm dressed by Dr. Tewfllnger.
TWO ARRESTS MADE.
Patrolman Bailey had no more than fired
the shot that disarmed the would-be mur
derer when Patrolmen Kerns and Bixler
entered the saloon bent on the same in
vestigation. Two men who claimed to be
Boeglin's friends interfered and were placed
under arrest and slated at the police station
under the names of Samuel Page, 833 Brad
shaw street, and Andy Wintzler, 1042 Hos
brook wtn St
As soon as Boeglin's condition will permit
he will be pla e i .in trial for assault and
battery with intent to kill.
The shooting affray is regretted at the
police station, but no blame can possibly
be attached to Patrolman Bailey. He was
acting in self -defense and his act is con
sidered Justifiable by those familiar with
the mau he had to deal with.
WELCOME, WOODMEN!
Welcome. Woodmen; welcome home!
Our city is proud and glad and gay
To welcome you in her festal array,
A wreath of stars in her floating hair.
Banners and streamers everywhere
Our homes are open, our hands are out.
The air is a-shake with the eager shout.
"Welcome, Woodmen; welcome home!'"
Welcome. Woodmen; welcome home!
For where should the home of a woodman be
But in the land of the beautiful tree?
Come from the wide and treeless plains
Where the sun in shadeless splendor reigns,
Come, in your army's mighty march.
From the northern home of the oak and larch.
Come from the prairie' t scattered groves
To the land the ancient forest loves.
Where elm and sycamore, tulip and beech,
Splendid and stately, with gracious curves.
Up in the blue air reach and reach
Till the little frolic cloudlet swerves
Lest it should brush their Anger-tips;
The wine of the sun is at their lips
The gracious, beautiful, wonderful trees.
And the song they sing in the swaying breeze,
Is "Welcome, Woodmen; welcoms home!"
Welcome, Woodmen; welcome home!
Well we know for what ye stand
The brotherly heart and the helping hand.
The cordial word and the faithful deed.
And the eye alert for a brother's need.
Well we know that the axe ye bear
Is only to cut down sorrow and care.
The sick man's trouble, the orphan's wrong.
So come, with your fifty thousand strong!
We Join in the forest's welcoming song.
"Welcome, Woodmen; welcome home!"
DEPUTIES BAG THE GAME
BOYD, RANKIN AM) MARTIN BRING
IN FEDERAL PRISONERS.
Henry La Rne Impersonated Revenue
Officer Old Soldier barged with
Violating; Postal Laws.
United States deputy marshals from
Marshal Petit's office made a good haul
yesterday. Deputies Boyd, Martin and
Bankin were sent out in the State after
offenders against federal laws and returned
with their men.
Boyd captured Henry La Kue at Ander
son. La Bue is wanted for impersonating
a revenue officer and playing a slick game
on storekeepers and cigar dealers. It is
charged that La Rue went to places where
cigars were sold and nosed around until
he found cigar boxes on which the dealers
had neglected to cancel the revenue stamps.
Pointing out to the scared dealers the
enormity of the offense, he would talk the
inciter over until the dealers were willing
to give up a few dollars to keep the mat
ter from coming to the attention of the
authorities. La Rue says his home is in
New Orleans and that he has been in the
employ of a St. Louis revenue officer named
Henry Marshall. He served Marshall In
the capacity of a private detective, he told
Deputy Boyd, but as he could furnish no
credentials, his story did not "go" with
the deputy. He Is held for the grand Jury
in the sum of $1.000.
Deputy Rankin brought in Charles
Stewart, of Attica, who is wanted for
"boot-legging." It is alleged that he
violated the revenue laws in selling beer
without a license. He had been arrested
previously and released on promise to pay
a fine of $49 and costs. He failed to pay the
fine and is now held to the grand jury in
default of $600.
Deputy Martin returned from Muncie
with William Whittaker. an old soldier and
a colored man. Whittaker Is charged with
violating the postal laws. It Is said he
secured letters belonging to another man
of the same name and recently got hold
of a registered letter containing $20. He
forged the other Whlttaker's name to the
receipt. W'hittaker is held in default of
$500 bail for the action of the grand jury.
MONEY FROM A TOY BANK
EARL O. DIVELBLISS TOOK SAVINGS
OF TWELVE-YEAR-OLD BOY.
He Also Robbed His Father-in-Law,
Who Was Supporting Him Ar
rested by Detectives.
For stealing money from his father-in-law,
who has been his main support and
for the theft of $7 from his twelve-year-old
brother-in-law, who had saved his pen
nies intending to buy a new suit of clothes.
Earl O. Dlvelbllss was locked behind the
bars at the police station iast night by
Detectives Asch and Manning on a charge
of petit larceny.
Divelbliss, with his wife and child, have
been making their home with Mr. Miller,
father of Mrs. Divelbliss. who lives at 811
Daly street, and having been out of work
for some time has depended entirely on Mr.
Miller, for support.
Several days ago. while the members of
the family were away from the residence,
$17 belonging to Mr. Miller was taken from
its hiding place in the house while the toy
bank of twelve-year-old Robbie Miller was
emptied of its contents, which amounted to
$7. Divelbliss on being told of the missing
money attempted to throw the blame on a
neighbor woman who occasionally came to
the Miller residence and assisted with the
washing. The loss was reported to t!:.
detective department and as a result Div
elbliss was located in a near-by saln. ac
cused of the theft, confessed while Ad
ding "crocodile tears" and fifteen minutes
later was under arrest at the police sta
tion. He says that he lost the money gam
bling in a crap game in one of the back
rooms of a saloon. Divelbliss is twenty
two years old and has a pretty little wife
who Is almost distracted over her hus
band's wrong-doing.
CHILD DIES FROM BUENS.
Mother's Condition Serious as the Re
sult of the Shook.
The two-year-old son of Jesse Day, who
was burned in a gasoline stove explosion
yesterday morning at the home of the
parents In Broad Bipple, died from the
effects of its injuries at 2 o'clock yester
day afternoon, and the mother's condition
is said to be serious as the result of the
shock.
The bodv was placed in the hands of
Frank A. Blanchard for burial and the
funeral will be held at 1 o'clock this after
noon at Union Chapel. The house In which
Mr. Day and his family live was damaged
by fire to the extent of about S2nn and only
the prompt action of the tire department
saved the entire building from ruin.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS THE MOST
IMPORTANT MATTER.
Administration Forces Will fight a
Battle Royal with the Men
from Kansas.
READJUSTMENT RATES
THIS IS ANOTHER MATTER ADMIN
ISTRATION SEEKS TO DO.
Internal Workings of the Great Order
States Have Exhibits Con
vention Plans.
Programme for Day and Eresing.
10 a. m. Opening of Head Camp
Woodmen of America at Tomlinson
Hall.
2 p. m. Afternoon session of Head
Camp.
2:30 p. m. Parade drill by Pontiac,
111., camp. Woodmen Foresters, at
Camp Reece, East Washington
street.
3:45 p. m Baseball at Washington
Park. Indianapolis vs. Minneapolis.
Evening Vaudeville and boxing
match at Empire Theater.
Evening Eugene Cowles at Fair
Bank.
Four hundred and sixty-nine delegates of
the Modern Woodmen of America, repre
senting a membership of more than sevea
hundred thousand, will begin this morning
the thirteenth biennial convention of the
Head Camp in Tomlinson Hall.
This convention will be one of the most
important gatherings of the Head Camp
during the past ten years, if not equal in
importance to sny convention the order has
ever held.
The settlement of the rate adjustment
question will be the biggest event of the
convention outside the election of officers,
which is always of more general personal
interest than any other thing on the pro
gramme. Utrusual interest attaches to the thirteenth
biennial convention because the Woodmen
are divided into two factions the admin
istration faction, which has a plan on foot
to increase the insurance rate, and which
is thought to be the mott influential, and
the Johnson faction, which is lined up
against the administration faction in the
election, and is opposing the administration
plan of readjusting rates.
The first event of particular interest out
side the routine business will be the contest
between the two sets of delegates from
Kansas. Each delegation claims the right
to seats on the floor of the convention, and
neither has been issued credentials by Head
Clerk Hawes. Representatives of both del
egations were before the credentials com
mittee yesterday afternoon and last night
presenting their claims to seats. It has not
been announced what will be the outcome
of the hearing. But whatever the creden
tials committee does it is expected thst the
delegates who are not seated will take their
case to the convention for final settlement.
The "election continued yesterday to be the
absorbing topic of interest, and last dIg
all the state delegations held caucuses.
Jointly or separately. Just whst decision,
as a whole, the delegations reached as to
what candidates they will stand for has
not been given out, but it is thought Mr.
Talbot, of Nebraska, who is the adminis
tration candidate for head consul, and Mr.
Bort, of Wisconsin, who is the administr a
tion candidate for head banker, still lead
the flght.
The order of business for the opening s-
slon of the convention includes the open i '.13
address of Head Clerk Hawes, the reports
of the head officials, and the appointment
of standing committees. It could not be
told last night whether the convention
would get to the election to-day or noL
CROWDS OF WOODMEN
In point of attendance it is certain thst
Indianapolis never entertained a larger
convention than that of the Woodmen. All
the hotels are full to overflowing with the
delegates and the visiting Woodmen and
every place one goes down town there csn
be seen crowds of the men wearing the
red, white and green, the Woodmen colors.
It may be that the floods In Kansas and
Missouri, two States In which the ord i
has very large memberships, will tend
"incwhat to lessen the attendance, but it
now seems certain that before the end of
the week there will b fully f Wood
men In Indianapolis.
All day yesterday Woodmen kept pouring
Into the I'nion Station in parties of twen
ty, fifty and 100 and In special trains. The
Woodmen have come t.. ink i in
of the city this week and Indianapolis might
as well throw up Its hands and consent.
When the convention Is called to order
every one of the 469 delegates will be in
his seat Thin statement was given out
from the official headquarters of the con
. ntion at the Hotel Clay pool late last
niKht.
That E R. Talbot, of Nebraska, the ad
ministration candidate, will be elected by a
large majority, and that A. N. Bor I. of
Betott Wis., who is the administration
faction's candidate for the office of head
banker, the other most important position
in the Head Camp, outside the head clerk
ship, to which Major Hawes will be elected
without opposition, now seems almost au
assured fact.
NEBRASKA JI B1I.ANT.
The Nebraska delegation was so certain
of victory last night that when it returned
to the lobby of the Hotel Claypool. after
being in caucus with other Western States,
it gave a pre-election celebration. Several
States which were not In line with the ad
ministration candidates or had not offi
cially announced the fact fell into line
last night and announced their Intention of
standing solidly for Talbot and Bort.
George M Snyder, of Noblesvi: ! . Ind.
quietly passed the word sround last night
at the Hotel Claypool that he will with
draw from the race for the head banker
ship, in favor of Mr. Bort. This leaves the
field practically clear for Bort, it is said.
"Mr. Snyder reslises thst there Is na
chance of defeating Mr B t i fit year.
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