St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 6, 1904

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EBs bss have been faithful to the machine, to Ss wis. 34 a 3 pe eee bes. * ee ye 4 aa . thon with Beg payment of $800 to a state iz Somanteon 2% why not for the office of sec- Cook Not Far _ bly carry several wards, ,has shown great strength in St. Joseph. - Manager, Speke out against Cook, and that that is ee Post- fe wets ei Want Columns for busi- hell alk dai Bt. Louis than there Diepatenes art tout 2 PAGES. THE ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING NEWSPAPER WITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. ~ VOL. 56, NO. 290. ST. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 6, 1904. PRICE! in St. Louls One Cent. Outside St. Loule Two Cente) eo, z ALLIANCE WITH. MACHINE INDICATE Returns Showing More Codnties for | Cook and Allen Cause Surprise f Among Those Who Expected Them & to Be Headed Off. - A ' , (00K’S STRENGTH ALARMS {| ‘REFORM CAMPAIGN BACKERS I Podd’s Anticipated Success in St. Jo- _ geph Is Imperiled by Dominance of | Judge Woodson, Machine Candi- date for Supreme Bench. It is daily becoming more apparent that fome sort of an alliance, either tacit or ex- plicit, has’ been made between the sup- ters of Circuit Attorney Joseph W. lk and the Democratic state machine, . @s indicated by, the returns from Various unties which are pledging thein delega- ns for Folk, Cook and Alien. Saturday's results furnish striking sup- port of this belief. | In Barton, Texas, Wright and Cedar bounties Secretary of State Cook and (Abditor Albert O. Allen, candidate for re- fromination, made a clean sweep, while amg carried Scotland County, which Cook st by a few votes. If the Folk managers are opposed to k it would be naturally supposed they would make a fight against them, but in hone of the counties mentioned was a word pf protest heard against the man who is a confessed participant in a boodle deal, ©r against Auditor Allén, who receives fiis official orders from his predecessor, —ixcise Commissioner Sé@ibert. In conse- quence Cook now has 4a total of 210 in- ptructed delegates, while =: padi strength is equal. R. W. Mitchell of Nevada and J. D. Todd pf Maryville, Cook's leading opponents, are gonsidered strong in their communities and both are looked upon ‘capable men. The machine is doing now what it threatened months ago to do, namely, to _ hinder Mr. Folk by placing on the ticket With him men of odious official records, * € Influences back of the machine, and who, if elected, would be able to ob- any reform movement which. the _ Bovernor might wish to carry out, ' Mr: Cook is now within 146 votes of the .giaapber required to insure his nomination. From Victory. - It is easy to see'how he can get 146 Wf Mr. Folk does not declare himeelf. The St. Louis delegation, 121 strong. as at present constituted, is for Cook, as it is also for Allen. In Jackson County the friends of Mayor Reed intend to support Cook to a man. ‘This means that the secretary will proba- one-third if not one-half of the Jackson County delegation. There is no certainty that J. D. Todd of Maryville will win in Bunchanan County. ‘Present conditions seem to justify the conclusion that Cook is stronger in Buch- anan than Todd, as Judge Woodson, ma- chine candidate for the Supreme bench, Tt i# urged that Mr. Folk’s campaign Congressman W. D. Vandiver, fii But Mr. Vandiver put his opposition to 4 on the ground inat Mr. mitchell hada n eaaiy to Folk, while Cook, or his ds, had oppozed him. He-*dig'not say the Folk organization would not toi- fore Ci it Att = , daie ox d reu oper, OlK exposed the Speed-Lyons-Cook b ry deal, the secre- aor of state 8 ne pA pen for gover- Instantly his boom collapsed. tary’s Office Important. Now, his opponents ask, if Cook's connec- suppress an anti-salary-grab- io him ineligible for the ry of state? ® banking and bus'ness interests of ouri are eieaee in a material degree we state secre bank es under his supervis- has not failed: to make the is privilege: His bank exam- t ms of ~ A, pt: aeye been le-s oe. dorperations demand at, of the "AU: service to them on the state ration. i tech has shown how the of . through the work ayy are compelled to pay _the taxes that great cor- na which enjoy rich granis e, pay. stances were cited. The greai eget gd than auy ind in America, jess than per cent of its ears ele the Terminal ea assessed at the nesiaaate Of Cock cna assessment was reduced io Sethe “Cook and Alien. should thus dis- oriminate against the and in favor f the corporations is manifest from the etary's own statements, given under hin. the famous Cardwell case. m * poate that the public-service a pomecratis the m ot iegislative. tavors were Rie. o> ~ the ors, eae oc t mere oe in Mo lose her from East St. Louis Divines Make a Unani- urday were delivered by ministers in nearly jevery pulpit of Hast St. Louls Sunday. In many Of the Catholic churches the speak- thgt persons who intended vis- iting the Fair eee postpone their visits until = Demande rags ers declared | SHE ELOPED AND GUEST DID, TOO _ 31153 ONA WILSON ¢ — ve CABANNE GIRL AND HA GUEST ELOPE Miss Rauth, Accompanied Miss Wil- son, Her Hostess, Wedding Gen. Funsten’s Nephew. The elops ment of two St. Louis couples to Edwardsvilie, Ill., Sunday at midn.ghi was due to the fact that a second admirer of one of the wrides was in the city, and the fortunate man became fearful lest his choice should escape him. The parties to the double wedding were Miss Ona Wilson of 5142 Cabanne avenue and Leonard G. Kalloch of Boston, Mass., and Miss Irene Rauth of Chicago and Fitz Hugh Lee Funstam, a nephew ot Gen. Fred Funsten. Mr. F ee reside ‘'S at 830 Ciem- ens avenue, All are gver uge except Miss Rauth, who is 17. ere was no reason why they should have eioped to Hdwards- ville except to add a further touch of ro- mance. Miss Rauth has been the guest of Miss Wilson, and met Mr. Funsten at her friend's house only a few months ago. Miss Wilson had a number of ardent ad- mirers and two happened to reach the city at the same time, Mr. Kalloch and another W hen the situation became xn@wreto Mr: Kalloch several days ago, with true Yankee Sagacity, he decided to Png all in his power to have the wedding ceremony. performed immediatety, not that he was noi sure of his ground at the present time. but not knowing what the future might bring forth. a. eg, his desire to Miss Wilson Sat- urdayv ut she did not give him yes no for an answer. ass Sunday morning, however. she told her father that she was married to Mr. Kal- loch, later saying she was just joking. Plans Were Laid Sunday. Sunday afternoon. ple met at the the four young peo- home of Miss Wilson. They Secretly talked over a wedding in some nearby toWn, and Miss Rauth and Mr. Funsten agreed to accompany them. Miss Wilson chose Edwardsville and ingly, the party of four left Sunday even- ing for the [}limois town. Reaching it, they found all dark, but finally they came to the Lean te r expl: the» dteation "te ths ane mo howard Chapman, w who gallantly offered his ser- vices. He sent for County Clerk Wil- Ham Dareh and C Hillskotter ounty Judge John EB. Winile the license wes Miss Wilson and Mr. stcn remarked, “Y¢ } make one out for oj rt 1s Enel As Miss Hauth did ‘not Say no, the secdtnd ere ene Seer vee and the two couples » r e) «o£ ante aoe. at the same time by the Neither of the prised when being issued for Kalioch, Mr. Fun- families wa greatly sur- received t wneud of the weddings. They bad been 2, one it, S95 not quite so soon. Vilson ather of Miss Ona W il- the Post-Dispatch that he eg wae engaged to a e h , they were to ‘be married youerdae: ite aan not think it Strange when they had not + galt at a late hour Sunday, as they ~ ye wank to the theater and did -not ane ome until nearly midnight. Miss 1a was hjs only daughter. an he hated the family «circle would not be so hard parents of Miss Rauth, as she was child and only 17 years o!d, while were other children in the ‘Wilson to his said it for the an only ere family Funsten Was Visiting, Too Mrs. R. FE. Funsten, mother of one of the young men, said she was not greatly surprised, as she had known her son was Keeping company with Miss Rauth. She was certain, however, ‘that he had no intention of being married Sunday at the time he left home in the afternoon. She said he had been residing in Chicago uni{] the past few months, and was me city now only during the Fair. ” _ Les young people are weil known in Cabanne soc iety and all are members of ooh ane families. Mr. Funsten attended school in St. Louis sQveral years ago and was very Gite oy a athletics, es- ry in footbal © young people had not returned home chonenn morning, one es b A enon said he wy WoUu obably - cago befire ‘returning to St. — Haas bye uls. I case is there > 4 soa any doubt of parental fer- MINISTERS URGE ATTENDING FAIR mous Appeal From Pulpits for Big Attendance, Admonitions to attend the Fair- Sat- The children of the Hast >Port uccord- ft RUSSIANS. HEAR OUR JAP SHIPS HAVE BEEN SUNK! Port Arthur Squadron, According ts Torpedo Boats, and Caught Togo’s . Fleet Off Guard. BESIEGING FORCE NOW IN FIVE MILES OF THE ENEMY Lines Are Stretched Completely Across the Peninsula and All Are Moving Simultaneously to the Re- duction of the City. LIAO YANG, June 6.—It is persistently reported here that the Port Arthur squadron made a sortie shortly before dawn Saturday, with the torpedo beat destroyers leading, and found the Jap- anese fleet quite unsuspecting the pres- ence of hostile warships, with the result that- four of the Japanese ships were sunk during the fight. Special Cable to the New York World and Post-Disvatch. j 1404, by Press Publishing Co.) June 6.—The Cheefoo corre- spondent of the Daily Express telegraphs: “The lines of the Japanese army investing Arthur now extend completely®across and are from fortress (Copyright, LUN DON, the peninsula ciatant from the ‘The lines are being in fact, the Japanese outposts are four miles of the land defenses.”’ KUROPATKIN’S ENEMIES PLAN TO PUT CZAR AGAINST HIM. Special Cable to the New York \.orld and the Post-Dispatch. 1904, by the Press Publishing Co.) June €.—The St. Petersburg ef the Daily Neays tele- within (Copyright, LONDON, correspondent graphs: “The report that a_ special coufkcil of war was convened by the czar has been con firmed. czar has decided ta order patkin to send 45,000 troops to Arthur's relief. This decision against. the advice of a majority council and on representations b Mip- ister of War Sakharoff and Grand Duke Viadimir. “The order has not yet been sent and many officials in high. positions are doing their best to persuade the czar to change his mind, The councillors, on whose ad- vice the momentous decision is based, are known to be unfriendly to Kuropatkin.” RUSSIA FEARS WE WILL GIVE PHILIPPINES TO JAPAN ST. PETERSBURG. June 6.—The Novoe Vremya today discusses quite seriously the report that the United States intends to cede the Philippines to Japan, and argues that the far-seeiiig Yankee. anticipating the inevitable future conflict with Japan prefers to se]] the islands instead of de- fending them, having thereby learned Rus- sia's lesson of the present war, namely, the difficulty of holding territory so far from the base. The paper adds: “Europe certainiy was not pleased with the exchange of Spanish ‘for American domination in the Philippines, vut the lat- ter is a thousand times more aereeaple than to see Japan installed there, where she would be a constant menace to Eu- rope’s Asiatic interests. Enzlaod will have to look well to her position in Ina, France, Indo-China, and «ven Holland te Java. The only consolation ts thar the cession may keep Japan wuiet for a num- ber of years.”’ The military attache of a first- class pow- er has telegraphed here that Gen. Kuro- patkin’s headquarters staff has moved 40 miles south of Liao-Yang to a point be- tween Hai-Cheng and Dashitszaio. HERE IS REAL FAIR WEATHER Mild Temperature and Light Breezes Are Scheduled for the Next 24 Hours. The sun shines once again, and the weather man assures a long showered pub- lic that a measure of relief may be ex- pected for at least a day or two. Such weather as the gods themselves might wish is now prom- Gen. Port was taken of the Rumors, Made a Sortie, Headed by. endl ——- AVE 12 to 14 miles. j advanced gradually; ' ST, LOUIS. BOAT. “JOSIE,” BURNS rardeau and -Ploats Behind Is!land—Is Total Loss. Speeial to the Post-Dispatch. CAIRO, Ul, June 6.—The officers of the ALL THAT REMAINS O:' THE Cuts Loose From Barges at Cape. Gi-| steamer Exporter which arrived here this morning from St. Louis, report that the steamer Josie of St. Louis, the property of Capt. J. F. Leibke, caught fire at Cape Girardeau about 2 o'clock this morning. She cut loose from her three barges and ran adrift floating behind an island oppo- site Commerce, Mo., ten miles‘ below Cape Girardeau where she burned to the water's edge. No lives were lost\. The boat is a total loss. POCKET PICKED IN POSTOFFICE Joplin Physician Had a $300 Dia- mond Ring in His Pocket, Which Thief Missed. While Dr. R. C. Still of Joplin was standing at the writing desk in the post- office lobby Monday morning, writing to his wfe to tell her had just pur- chased her a $300 diamond ring, his pock et was picked. No, he didnt lose the ring. But he did lose his bank book number of valuable papers. Dr. Still was expecting his wife to join him in St. Lout in a few days two visit the Fair. He lost a 1000-mile mileage beok, but as the thief ot neither his mioney nor the diamond he will get home, HUNG HIMSELF. TO POST Henry Lawrence Makes Rope of Sheets and Is Found Dead by Daughter. Henry -Lawrence, aged 73 years, com- mitted suicide Monday morning by hang- ing himself with a rope made from a sheet in the attic at the home of his daughter, Mrs. William 8B. Janis, 4146 Wyoming avenue. When his son-in-law, Mr. Janis, went to call him, at U o'clock this morning, he ne and a ised St. Louis. Fair skies, temperature light breezes predicted. A circus owner or & promoter of a bull fight or a Sun- day schoo! picnic could not wish for better conditions. Out at the Fair the entire official staff. from Dave Fran- cis down to the most humble clerk in the | department of admissions, is enveloped in | a broed halo of smiles. The official forecast: “Fair tonight and Tuesday; mild temperature; light variabie winds.,”’ That St. Louls escaped the downpour Sunday may be marveled at, for the pre- diction promised rain here and rain fell all around 8t. Louis, in the Gulf states, In the Ohio, upper Mississippi valley and lake region. RIVER RISING AT RAPID. RATE), Thirty-Foot Next Th and are Commission. In the % hours ending at 6 o'clock Mon- mild r ward Will Be SEes the |. ers, found his room deserted, and soon after- discovered that the door to the attic was barred from the tInside. The door wag broken doWn and the body was found hanging there to a rafter. Mr. Lawrence's wife left him some time ago and is living now at 3933 Kennérly avenue. He has been in ill health and de- spondent the last three weeks and fre- quently threatened to put an. end to his we He has been living with his son- in-law and daughter since the separation from his wife. He retired Sunday evening at 6°30 o’clock and was not seen again till the suicide was discovered to-day. TWO JUDGES FOR SUMMER. Foster and Ryan Will Preside Over Vacation Session. At a meeting in general session of the judges of the rer anglONe of St. Louis, Oo Robert. M. Foster a Neill Ryan were appointed to sit dtrin the term. Heretofore it has been the\custom to appoint but one judge during the heated season, but the pressure of court work occasioned by increased litigation .made the selection of two judges _negessary. BOAT CAPTAINS GIVE BOND. Four Are Held as Result of Post-Dis- patch’s Gambling Expose. The four indicted, steamboat captains, enarged by the djury with permit- ting gambling on faae excur steam- «tf. ‘summer eet of which | Richard Norris, SPANISH BULL FIGHT AMPHITHEATER tl i i all ? ore — Going to See Spanish Matadors and Picadors in Sanguin- ary Sport of Ring, and Getting Neither Show Nor Re- turh of Money, Spectators Show Toreadors How to “Fight"’ Bulls, Which Prove Tame as Sheep. od “his ‘Retailea story at Se eeheenel remarkable happenings at the ho opening of the Spunish bull fights, which were to have continued here all summer, is by a Post-Dispatch writer whe was there through the awiftiy-following incidents, and who witnessed the whole serics of ull fight put on by the mob after the pince had been deserted by the Spanish bull fighters and the management. It is the trué story of an eye-witness, who was there from the time the performance began until the amphitheater was burned. BY CLARK M’ADAMS. The bullfight in St. Louis is dead. Long rest the bullfight. It went down and out Sunday after- noon in a remarkable series of dramatic and laughable happenings that have not oeen equaled in some respects since one- nalf of Rome howled for glee while the other half burned. Eight thousand persons paid $1 each to see the bullfight in a brand new big amphi- theater upon the hill between the Stadium and the Epworth Hotel. The authorities stopped ‘the fight even before it began, and | the management refused to return the en- ‘(rance money. This was at ten minutes before 5 o'clock. Twenty minutes later the crowd, now a mob, began wrecking the amusement company's office, and _ there was a riot in which windows we smashed, in which pistols flashed, and out came many a bleeding and brok- en head. Thirty minutes later the mob had re- turned to the big amphitheater, had brought in the bulls, taken possession of the bull- fighting paraphernalia of the Spanish ma- tadors, and was giving a bullfight of its own, with three bulls in the ring, a dozen American bullfighters bedgering them with canes, while the mob, delirious with joy. howled like the bander-log and pelted the pestered bulls with chairs, bottled soda wat ter, Oranges and bananas. An hour and 10 minutes after the re- fusal to refund the money, the mob freed the seven bulls and the eight horses of the picadors, sent them scurrying across fields out ofgharm’s way, and deliberately fired the big amphitheatre, compelling the bulifighters, who were eating dinner in rooms under the grandstand, to flee for their lives, giving the World's Fair special fire department the first severe fright it has had, and burning to a black round scar on the ground one of the biggest amphitheater around St. Louis. Crowd Frees Arrested Men. As a result of this remarkable debacle, the Norris Amusement Co., headed by is out $12,000, the differ- ence between the cost of the amphitheater and the gate receipts; the prospect for the summer of bullfighting they purposed hav- ing at St. Louls is ominous indeed, and the bullfighters who came here from Spain on a five-months’ contract are in much eneasiness concerning their jobs. Dozens of men and boys were arrested during this two hours or rioting and burn- ing out at the bullfighting arena, but the rioters arrested were so hotly defended by their fellows that only two boys a.d eet show what it was to be like; that the company has sunk $60,000 in the venture and will rebuild the amphitheater, being in too deep to back out; that the county court of St. Louis County had licensed an exhibition of the sort that did not violate the law. and that the humane societies are responsible for the spectacular coup de grace given the bullfight by the people, 1 Day of Days for Bullfight. | 80 fair as those over the big bullighting arena yesterday noon. It was a day of days for bullfighting. How the gold and gilt of he miutador’s braided waistcoat would dazzle the Americano in that brilliant light. How the iljong Spanish streamers would crack and float at the top of the arena in that splendid breeze. How the red serapes giow, and how the bright Toledo blades of the gallant bullfighters would flash in the sun. Caramba, but this thing was turning out lovely. The show was ready. theater was built, with cinders, behind, The big amphi- the ring was made firm the bulls were in the! pens the horses of the picadors fed in red serapes and thrusting them with small jtheir stalls, and the imported bulifighters eméked and chatted in their awaiting the word to come epredd their brilliant plumage. quarters, forth and show came over the Pike. Indians, cow- boys and Cossacks rode and marched in a long and colorful procession und massed on the west side of the bull-fighting arena. A few minutes later the vanguard of the crowd came. The bull-fighting arena was not easily found, for it was out in the fields a quarter of a mile southwest of the Epworth Hotel. But the management had posted men with megaphones along the street car lines, and these had pointed the way to the fight. was haif full Everybody was paying $1. It was rather more than they had expected to pay-—but bull fights are rare in St. Louis. Crowd Is On the Qui Vive. At 2:45 o'clock there were some 8000 In the amphitheater. filled. The major portion of the a was there to see the bullfight A small happen when the authorities had said there would not be-a bullfight and the manage- mente had insisted there would. I was one of this number of those whe were | The skies over sunny Spal? were ne'er f At 1:45 o'clock the Cummins Wild West The arena seated some 12,00. By 2:15 it i part of it was there to see what would / 12 KILLED BY DYNAMITE ~ IN COLORADO'S LABOR W: ISAPPOINTED CROWD G BULL FIGHT OF ITSOWN AND BURNED THE AMPHITHEATER Railway inital at dence Blown Up’) Me Any Warning While Union Miners Are ¥ for an Incoming 1 INFERNAL MACE Th iE THAT DID ITE Troops Are Sent to § Anticipation of and the Whole Creek District Is : moil, _—--. -— CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo, _ explosion at the the Florence & C in the Cripple Oteek killed 12 men and inji The explosion wus by dynamite which had been. the center of the platform and’ bar set off by the incoming train, The oftic.ais of the company aud detectives are now working on the a The Victor militia, viet Gn has been ordered out ana ry pected. Detectives found the — which s off the dynamite consists of a revolver amd - 306 “fect ateel wire. The revolyr ws placed the platform, close to the other end of the wire was chair leg which was used as a from the curbing of a neighboring erty. nett pee The whole dis is in ‘ The miners | all employed on the Findlay Bi had just, come off s waiting to take the train and it | that the alleged plot was catch these men. A special train unloaded, the of the killed at the depot in Victor. wagons and railroad truck were quired to trans them to the The identified dead are: ALEX M’LAIN, shift boss, — J. HARTSOCK. M. SHANCLAIN, JOSEPH. SINCLATR. GUS AUGUSTINE, 33. ARTHUR MUHLESON, 35. HENRY J. HAG. ELECK N, saift boss. CHARLES* E. BARBER. HERBERT M’OCOY, L. 8. SHINKLIN, eager. HARTZELL. —— BERKELEY. It is belived the dynamite doveneera. of the labor t or kept the state in a turmoil for a year. Witness Tells How Explosion Occurred. The train had not arrived at the dependence depo was short Gang of Sete wh when the oecupre . About 46 purtlod, Findlay ‘and Lost t Dr “i ere a t ed ction. body, cut in two, ‘ou the scene of ar xpla Shek tees. | Pera... un anes : pee RS ales > \ fe ees We ae to eee ee at ad ty = © “ae ee Ai on = ie > + 3 ® > (pir og a aad t biews into reached the with their ‘inner’ ner buck “The train moderate rate and torm be to move « pointe. B. ... tn As m3 Poa ee mo shina eee tor Into Splinters. “A few moments later the and It was now quite nicely | Six