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THE MORMXG OREGOXIAy. TTIURSDAY, DECE3IBER 14. 1911. RRIGAT10N WORK FULLY INDORSED Pendleton Commercial Asso ciation Approves Extension of Umatilla Project. COE TO TRANSFER RIGHTS il 'H II m, Portland Physician Offer to Giro, rr or Charts. Water Right Fil ing Made) by Dr. A. C. Smith. Resolution Sent to Capital. TEXni-ETON. Or.. Ic It 'Spa elal. Unqualified Indoripment of the proposed extenlon of the Umatilla project la contained In the resolutions adopted tonlKht hy the Trndleton Com. nircUt Association, after a full and free i 1 jcukhIoo and with only on dls sentlre; vol. In lltion to Indorsing tt.e proposed extension, the resolution demand for Orrjron a full and equitable hare of the funds and ask that the right of the settler alone the Upper Umatilla P.lvrr and tta tributaries be fu!'y protected. The member of the local organlxa tinn were of one accord from the start relative to the Indorsement of the plan, the cn!y question dlscused being an ammlmrnt which demanded the suits Instituted by t;ie government to ad-J-i.llcate the water rlrhts alonir the J'm:i:: Klver and tributary stream be dismissed. This was lost by a rote ef two to one. , Water Held laaaActeat. The advocate of the amendment held that the two and one-half acre-feet set up a a standard In the pleadings of the tjovernment were not sufficient. The opponents held that the Pendleton Commercial Association bad no, author Itr to sit as a critic and pronounce Judgment In this matter. The Issue in met fairly and squarely, there be ing no attempt to sidestep or dodge the question. The meeting was the most Important ever held by the club. Refore the reso. 1-itioni were put to a vote a communi cation from It. II. V.'. Coe was read. In which ho declared that he would transfer, freo of charge,, to the Com mercial Association, to be held In trust for the users of water from the I'riia tll'a River, the water-right filing which was made by Ir. Andrew C. Smith, cov ering exactly the same territory In cluded In the proposed extension, and which will be In full force if the Gor err.ment abandons the plan. Aelloa Takes. At. last nlzht's meeting this secondary fllinir was hM up as the real cause o? the opposition to the proposed ex tension. It whs declared at that time the qurntlon resolved Itself Into the atternatlve as to whether the people tvniwl the reclamation by the Got err.nient or by private speculative capital. Tlwutfh ni action was taken on the foe ltrr by the association. At torney II. It. Johnson declared the for frlfire of the tiling to the Commercial A ori jtlnn would constitute an aban donment which In event of the rejec tion if the project by the Govern ment would leave It open for seizure hv o'.hr private Interests.. Thl he tii.cl.ired. would Immtaiiately ensue, as the prospects of the proposed exten sion w-ere too bright to be allowed to j;o unnoticed. . lie pit ailed for Government as against private reclamation. lie declared the principal reason Oregon bad not re ceived her share of tne reclamation funds In the past was because of lack r( unity on the part of the people In the vicinity of the proposed extension. Other Males Play IMaewrA. Ite declared the strong Congressional rt presentations from the other Western states setxt-d upon this discord to ask large appropriations for their own state at the expense of Oregon. He therefore urged co-operation on the part of all the people of Umatilla County as well ar the state at large. The speaker also contended that with the construction of the west extension to the Umatilla project the way would be opened for the building of the larger John Iay project. He held thl to be true by reason of the fact that the west extension la Just aa much a unit of the John Pay project as It la the extension of the Umatilla. With this as a basis, he Insisted the completion of the entire John Pav project could be Justly urged though the expenditure of fund had been limited in future, as at present, to the completion of project already undec.way. The following resolutions were adopted and were telegraphed tonight to President Taft and Secretary of the Interior Kishrr: Jala Otaer Orsaalsatlewa. "We unq'iallnedly and unreservedly go on record In Joining with the 10 other commercial organisation of this state, member of the Oregon Develop ment League. In the appeal made to the United states Gov-rnment for Jus tice, to Oregon In the allotment of reclamation funds to the end that something like a fair proportion of the fees collected from this state be ex pended within It border for Irriga tion and development on any of the numerous feasible and meritorious project available In Oregon. "The west extension of the Umatilla Irrigation project has been approved by tl-SatUnlted States Reclamation Service a feasible and one of the most at tractive, desirable and beneficent of all the existing projecta of the Govern ment. We are Informed there are and will be funds which may be allotted by the Government for the construction of aid west extension in the Immediate future, and this is the enly reclamation work for which fund can be allotted to Oregon. Peadletoa Prime Mever. "The Pendleton Commercial Associa tion several years ago became the prime mover In a state-wide campaign project. Including the west extension, and continuously since ha been the champion of this great cause. -At a hearing before thl association yesterday. December II. at which large and substantial delegations were pres ent, representing Pilot Hock. McKay and Birch Creeks, the Umatilla Indian Reservation, tcho, Stanfleld, llermla ton. Umatilla. Irrlgon. Heppner, Bla lock. Arlington. Portland and other towns, districts and Interest directly and indirectly Interested In thl project, the entire subject was again consid ered, ao aa to pass upon new phase of this question recently placed before the association. ' After careful consideration the Pen dleton Commercial Association reaf firms Its faith In the west extension of the Umatilla project and recommend and urge Its early approval by the President and the Secretary of the Interior, to the end that actual con struction be initiated In the Immediate future and be rapidly carried forward to completion. 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"At the hearlnr befora the Pendle ton Commercial Association relative to the Indorsement of the west extension of the Umatilla project there was ex pressed a fear of damajre and posnlble ruin of reputable pioneer residents of Umatilla County possessing vested rights In waters of the Umatilla Klver and Its tributaries above the site of the proposed reservoir for the west ex tension; many of these settlers appre hended that they were to be deprived of their rights and fruits of their la bors during long years of struggle In making homes In this region. . '"We feel that such opposition as de veloped to the west extension Is tbe re sult of these fears: we urge that the Government take such action as will re- .nr. th. Keitter In the oreaervatlon of their water rights. We believe the Interests of the umautia irrigation project and the west extension thereof would best be served If the settlers and laad-ownera on the Upper Umatilla River and Its tributaries, especially Mc Kay and Birch Creeks, should be pro tected by the Government In allowing tuera to irrigate their lands. It is a well-known fact that Irrigation on landa tributary to the upper waters of a stream provides mora water for use by the users en the lower part of the stream during the extremely dry parts of the Summer and in a manner acts aa a secondary reservoir to hold back tbe flood watera for uae when most needed; "We urge and recommend that the vested rlghta and welfare of Uie pio neer acttlers and land-owners on lands above the Government projects tribu tary to said Umatilla Klver be pro tected and subeerved by Government in the reclamation work." ELEPPXEIt INDORSES PROJECT Morrow County Booster Club Sees Ulterior Motives la StanHeld. HEPPNER. Or- Dec. 1. (Special.) At a special and largely attended meet ing of the Morrow County Booster Club, held at Heppner December 11. the fol lowing resolutions were unanimously adopted: "Whereas. The Elate of Oregon has contributed to the National reclamation fund of the United States about 9.00 000, but has profited less than has any other slate: and whereas, after many years of effort on the part of our patri otic citizens and much labor on the part of our Reclamation Service, a portion of this great reclamation fund la about to ba expended upon the West Umatilla project, which embraces some (0.000 acres of Morrow County Irrigable land, and wbereaa Just at the time when the frulta of all these years of labor ara .haul to be gathered and the President of the United States and the Secretary of the Interior are favorably Impressed with this project, a few misguided and selfish persons, representing a private Irrigation scheme at Stanfleld. have In stituted a vicious opposition to the West Umatilla project, because It would open up a great body of fine land, which would be sold for about $75 per acre, as against $300 per acre in the Stanfleld private project, and whereas the Stanfleld people claim that the building of the West Umatilla project reaervolr would ruin land on which la run some 4000 bead of cattle and 10.000 head of aheep. we claim that after the completion of thla project enough al falfa could be raised to feed 20 times this number of stock and enough land could be reclaimed to support from 1000 to 1S50 families and would add millions of dollars In taxable property to Mor row and Umatilla counties as against the ruination of a few farms on the reservoir site; s "Therefore, be It resolved that we. the Morrow County Booster Club, voic ing the sentiments of all Morrow Coun ty citizens, hereby deplore end de nounce the selfish and misguided and unpatriotic attitude of the said oppo sition toward this reclamation work, and resolved that we urge the Presi dent of the United Statea and the Sec retary of the Interior to approve at once the same West Umatilla project, and resolved that a copy of these reso lutions be spread upon the records of the club, that copies be forwarded to tne President of the United States, to each of our Senattirs and Representa tives In Congress, and to the press of the atate." 'LIFE-TERMERS' TO WED COCRTyill IS CONDUCTED BY PRISON "UNDERGROUND." Both Sentenced - for 3Inrder Liong Ago and Bolb Are Retarded by Guard as "Cranks." SAN FRANCISCO, Deo. 13. (Spe cial.) The two Inmates of San Quentln State Penitentiary who have known the Inside of that institution's walls longer than any one else a man and a woman are to be paroled at the aame time next Saturday. Both are under sentence of life Imprisonment for murder. Their acquaintance with each, otlwer Is alight, the prison rules that segregate the women not per mitting of any intimacy. Nevertheless, each has heard of the other by the mysterious "underground" of tlhe penal Institution and It la ex pected that following their release next Saturday they will ba married. The woman Is Mary Von. who has been in the penitentiary aince October 18, HIT, when she waa received from Los Angeles, where she had murdered her husband on discovering that he had another legal wife. She Is known to the guards as a "crank." The man is Charles H. Thome, a second-termer, who has been under sentence of life Imprisonment for . murder In Nevada County. He was received at San Quen tln March IS, 1(13. Thome, like the woman. Is known as a "crank." EMPLlfJAIL More Arrests Expected in Fort Riley Explosion Case. SOLDIER ADMITS CRIMES Spirit of Revenge Declared to Hare Prompted Preacher, Who Was Court - Martlalcd, to Work Havoc at JUIitary Post. JUNCTION CITY". Kan., Dee. 13. Army officers at Fort Riley declared tonight that the Federal authorities had under observation several persona Implicated In the fecent dynamite ex plosions at Fort Riley, and that addi tional arresta might be expected at any moment It was declared that the per sons under surveillance were prominent and their arrest would cause a sensa tion. The Investigation has been going on for some time, but it was not until to day, when Rev. C. M. Brewer, former Army chaplain at Fort Riley, but now pastor of a church at Olustee. Ok la., and Mrs. Anna Jordan, of Kansas City, had been arrested by Federal authori ties, that Ell D. Hyde, commandant at Fort Kiley, gave out the confession of Private Michael Quirk. Pastor Accused by Soldier. In this confession Quirk declared he performed the werk of dynamiting at the Instigation of Rev. Mr. Brewer, who sought revenge because he bad been court-martialed and discharged from the Army tor conduct unbecoming an officer. ' Quirk, in his confession, said he blew up the bridge across the Kaw River, June 4; blew up the cavalary stable. June 0. when 27 cavalry horses were killedor burned, to death, and also blew up the water main which aupplles the Army post with water. Brewer was chaplain of the Sixth Field Artillery, atatloned at Fort Riley, until he was dismissed from the Army on June 21, after conviction by court martial of charges of having been in toxicated at an enlisted men's dance at the fort, and with behaving in an un gentlemanly manner In the presence of enlisted men and their wives on March II. Brewer is a native of Alabama. He Is $4 years old. tie became chaplain In tbe United Statea Army In 1907. He mA ham MVaral rhf IHr.n Mrs. Jordan, implicated by Quirk, Is the wife of a convict in the military prison at Fort Leavenworth. i'i i m rr-mm tail mfintha a cm CI II ff " " - . tu for aiding her husband to escape from the guardhouse where he was confined on a charge of stealing. He was recap tured and eent to the Federal peniten tiary. Mrs. Jordan waa released from that charge. PASTOR ARRESTED AT HOME Officers Find Man Implicated n Fort Explosion In Oklahoma. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Deo. 13. Rev. Charles Brewer, charged with im plication in a series of recent dyna mite explosions at Fort Riley, was ar- reated at his home in Olustee, late today. Okla., MRS. TAFT LISTS WOMEN World Leaders Include Two Queena and) Suffrage Promoter. WASHINGTON, Dec 13. In the opin ion of Mrs. William Howard Taft, the President's wife, the list of the greatest women the world has produced should read as follows: Queen Victoria. Rosa Bonheur, Joan of Arc. Maria Mitchell, Cecils Chamln ade, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Frances Wlllard, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florence Nightingale, Susan B. Anthony, George Eliot. Mme. Curie. Elizabeth Harriet Browning, Lucretia Mott, Margaret Fuller. Queen Eliza beth, Queen Louise of Prussia, Dr. Eliot Shows Gain. COLOMBIA. Ceylon, Dec. 13. Good progress Is reported today by the physicians In charge of the case of Dr. Charles W. 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