GIRLS FOUND DRUGGED; LYNCHING AVERTED Six Mere Children Discovered Lying on Floor, Assault At „ tempted on Two. DRINKS FORCED BY MEN Chic Mob Surrounds the Marietta Jail Where Advertising Sketch Ar tist and Pal Are Confined. Marietta, O., March 6.—Six gills ranging in age from 12 to 16 years, ly ing on the floor unconscious from ■drugs, upon at least two of whom at tempts at criminal assault had been made, caused the arrest here of Walter W. Savage, an advertising sketch ar tist, and his pal, Andy Coruthers, who were nearly lynched before being locked In jail. A crowd surrounded the jail, but was thwarted. Savage, has been here a week occupy ing a window in the Dime Saving so ciety building. He has made a spe , cialty of getting young girls to allow * him to make their pictures. He had six young girls between the ages of 12 and 14 In his room, and It Is alleged gave them whisky, wine and beer and administered some kind of drug. The police upon investigation found ail six of the girls unconscious and ly ing on the floor. The girls and the two men, Coruthers having been found in his room, were taken to the city jail. Physicians were summoned and made an examination of the girls, adminis tered emetics which caused them to vomit, and later they partly regained consciousness. The girls claim the men forced them to drink. The physicians are convinced that two of the girls are the victims of an attempted assault, and at this time art? tn doubt as to the others. Under the protection of the entire po lice force the two men were taken to Jail. The sheriff and his deputies, as sisted by the police force, are guarding the prisoners. UNWRITTEN LAW GETS A BLACK EYE IN WASHINGTON "No Such Thing” Declares the Judge, and Jury Forthwith Finds Man Gu ilty. Spokane, Wash., March 6—Judge Wil liam A. Huenke, in superior court, has ruled that the "unwritten law” cannot receive consideration by the juries. ■'There- is no 'unwritten law' in Wash ington.” he said in his instructions to the twelve Jurors hearing the case of the state against A. J. Hosticka, charged with a statutory crime, adding, "you ere to be guided solely by the laws made by the legislature of this state.” This declaration of the futility of the "unwritten law" as a subterfuge for lawyers was called forth by the plea of Attorney Lossy, representing Hos ticka, that there is a course of life reg ulated by the law higher than that pre scribed by legislatures. The Jury, he said, should consider these higher statutes in passing opinion upon the merits of the case. After deliberating for less than an hour the jury brought in a verdict of pudty. The punishment for the crime, optional with the judge, varies from one year to a lifetime. RAILROADS WERE ONLY BLUFFING, SAYS COURT Lincoln, Neb., March 6.—Attorney General Thompson received a copy this morning of the decree of the federal supreme court in the railroad tax cases. It is even more sweeping than before given. The railroads lose on every point and there are halfi a dozen plain intima tions given by Justice Holmes, who wrote the decision, that the railroad attorneys began the suits as bluffs and when pinned down to the real issues before the court made a sorry showing. The court declares that the attorneys had no more right to drag members of the state board of equalization into court to quiz them how they ar rived at their valuations of the prop erty of roads, than to haul a Judge from the bench to ask him why he rendered a decision. It says in effect that while the railroads had a long list of grievances in their petitions when they came to put their case to the supreme court they abandoned most of them and upon the remainder failed to bring evidence to support their contents. , ROOSEVELT GIVES $100 FOR RUSSIAN RELIEF Washington, D, C., March 6.—Declar ing that Russia had been a friend to America In the past, President Roose velt in a letter to the Russian famine relief committee, of New York, made 1 oday a public appeal for contributions in behalf of the famine sufferers in that country. With the letter he sent his check for J100. He hopes the people of this country out of their abundance will give generously. The letter is in reply to one received from the committee calling his attention to the urgent need of assistance. Contributions addressed to the sec retary of the committee, Samuel G. Barrows, 135 East Fifteenth street, New York, will be properly acknowl edged and deposited with the Morton Trust company. MAY YET KILL OFF THE SUNDAY THEATER Des Moines, la., March 6—It was sup posed here that the Sunday theater bill was dead because of an adverse com mittee report. It was declared by Rev, Mr. Nye, member of the ministerial committee, this morning that a minor ity report will be presented favoring the bill, which is stringent, and it la believed the bill will then pass. Back ets ot the bill will lobby like mad thl» week. FRISCANS, THOUSANDS STRONG, CLEAN CITY ■ San Francisco. Cal., March 6.—At the sound of a bugle 20,000 with picks, ishovels and brooms and 3,^00 teams •began to clean up the dirt and debris fin the streets. The entire city was covered, but jspecial attention was given to the 'burned district. When night fell great improvement in the appearance :of the burned district was noticed, an imany tons of dirt had been removed. It was the result of volunteer labor and men of all profession and oc. u .'pations, participated. The women oi tne city aided by providing the me? jwith food at designated quarters. WHITE HOUsFrOOM UNDER QUARANTINE Washington, D. C„ March 6.—Presi dent Roosevelt’s young son, Archie has diphtheria, but it is said that he is not seriously ill. The patient has been isolated In the southeast room ol the White House and a strict quaran tine is being maintained. FOUR IOWAnToN THE WRECKED DAKOTA SAFE Des Moines. la., March *5.—Fred Cloud, consul to China, and wife, and Dr. Nelle Noble and A. E. Noble, all of Des Moines, were on the steamer Da kota wrecked in Japanese waters. All are safe. CUTS BAG WITH $5,000 FROM LADY’S WRIST AND ESCAPES British Artist’s Wife Robbed While Visiting New York Cathedral. New York, March 6.—When visiting St. Patrick's cathedral, Mrs. Herbert Allom, of London, wife of the promi nent artist and decorator, was robbed of a gold wrist bag containing about $5,000 in jewelry and cash. So clever was the thief that Mrs. Allom was in clined to believe that she had lost the article until it was shown that the chains which had held the bag had been cut by pliers. WIFE, BEATEN, ORDERED BY COURT TO WHIP MATE Kansas City Husband Whining, Pleads for Mercy and Wo man Grants It. Kansas City, Mo., March 6.—"Get a whip. Let this woman whip the man who beat her. That is the only way to make these brutes who beat their wives feel what they have done.” Judge Kyle made this order In police court after Mrs. Elmer Ogle had told a story of brutal abuse on the part of her husband. Lieutenant Snow, the court bailiff, secured a whip and handed it to the woman. Spectators in the court room straightened up, eager to see a man given a good thrashing. The order of the judge was without precedent in lo cal courts, and the audience crowded about to see the woman pay her hus band in the same kind of treatment she had received. "Don't whip me,” whined Ogle. “I’ll promise to do better in the future. I love you better than any person in the world. Don’t whip me, please.” The woman took the whip and raised her arm, but her face twitched with pain. ”1 can't do it,” she cried. “My arms are so sore from the beating he gave me that I can’t do it just yet. They're covered with black and blue marks and so sore I can hardly raise my hand. Send him to ihe workhouse, judge.” Ogle was fined $100, which meant nine months on the rock pile. He was taken to the workhouse. SPANISH QUEEN WILL HAVE TWINS, IS THE REPORT Vexed Legal and Political Question Would Then Be Raised as to Succession. Madrid, March 6.—Court circles are agitated by reports tnai the indica tions are the queen probably will have twins. Should this happen it would raise an interesting legal, medical and political question, besides being unique in royal history. This would be especially true in case the twins be girls and the only children of the kin". Such troubles as those of Carllst times are hardly likely, but disputes would be almost certain, because, not withstanding Spanish law declares that the first born twin is the older, and, therefore, has the right to succession, an old Spanish order reversed this and modern medical opinion supports the older law, declaring that the older child in case of twins is the last one to be born. SPANISH ANARCHISTS DENIED RIGHT OF JURY Madrid, March 6.—The government has taken an Important step in connec tion with the trials of persons charged with the commission or complicity in bomb outrages and other similar crimes of an anarchistic nature. As the juries are nearly always In fluenced by fear of the accused and so acquit them, the government has is sued a decree ordaining that in the provinces of Gerona and Barcelona •such cases shall no longer he tried by ,a jury, but by a bench of three magis I itrates. SENATE KILLED THE SHIP SUBSIDY BILL Closing Hours of the Fifty Ninth Congress Were Very Tame. Washington, D.