miifcinrniTlMI ' r rairaii i 111 1 iim QAIIY EVENING EDITION Eastern Oregon Weather Tonight nml Saturday, fair. ellTetP.1 t ! resMence ol buMii by "trier J5c A WEEK. iMjsmummamummmi: ummmsmatt St PENDLETON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OKEUON, FHLDAY, SEPTEMJiEH 18, 1903. NO. 48'IS. SO IS CHOSEN US THE 1904 MEETING PEACE A. Clark of Montana is Elected President of the Irrigation CongressPortland to Have the Convention in 1905. through Ogdcn canyon Is the most perfect artificial road In the West. The delegates also Inspected the State Blind school and farm en route. The procession returned to the city at G p. m. Agriculture at St, Louis. The congress convened for a night session at 8 o'clock. There was an nson, of Colorado, second address by Hon. F. W. Taylor, chief t. rlfiniltv nf fho rilvlcfnn f an,-tii,1t,iTA of Texas, third vice- at the St. Louis World's Fair, on the . subject of agriculture at the fair. nnt 1R. El Paso was A. Clarke, of Montana, t Tttnli ftlnnnrAel. ruin, ui ui.au. nv-nvor fontanel, faonator Kelley gave lils services to the state In tho war against tho Yakima Indians In the fall of 1855, having a commission as a lieutenant-colonel. He removed to Washington. Senator Kelley left a wife, a son and a daughter. senator Kelley was a native of Pennsylvania and came to the coast In 1849, going first to California in the gold rush. His family In Penn sylvania has achieved fame as con tributors to the common weal In civic life and military exploits. They were represented in the Revolution' ary war with numerous officers who won distinction. Senator Kelley was a Princeton man of the class of 1839. MIS5ISSIPP A RAG NG TO N T engineers at the morn' the special order on the the next meeting place pn inr rHniiinu.if!H inr St. Louis and Idaho Texas named El Paso. on the subject of the votes were distributed as nun vi. inwn Miim. Oregon, 20; Washing- Kiiiin 111 nnn vv wm inrr received ur votes nnri of Idaho, and seconded the election of El Paso g that the 1905 congress roruaod. 11 da fin .n.,.l J ivwu.iiiiwiir uiauc debates on the adontlon occupy the afternoon Citizens to Help. "vi 111 UU were assured by the "-v niuniiuil Ut" search of information operation or the clt 8e the Sights. 18. Perhaps never "'story of Utah did Procession of cnthusl- - iuo Bctmc Deau- Opien canvon In "8 carrlaces. vninn. Aliens of Oeiw 01 TUok. . . .. v- luivuga " aam of tho Or- na nrODOsed ""nolr at the hud The county road on the general subject of Irrigation In the West. It was the most strik ing address of the congress. He re ferred to tho rapidly diminishing public domain. The speech was In terspersed with deafening cheers. First Vice-President Prince presid ed at the evening session. The other speakers of the evening session were William Smith, of San Diego, Cal., nn "Ideals of Irrigation"; Congressman F. B. Brooks, of Colo rado, on "Locan Conditions and the National Irrigation I-aw." j How the Cup Went. j In the competition for the silver cup for tne fruit and hop exhibit, Idaho won the cup for fruit and Washington for hops. Washington had the only hop exhibit. Tho cup was awarded Idaho fruits on the ground of more general variety than tho other states. Tho Washington delegation form ally entered Spokane as the candi date for the meeting place of the next congress. A resolution was offered by Sam White, of Oregon, favoring a more rigid administration of tho land laws to prevent frauds. The Oregon delegation also pre sented a resolution thanking tho cit izens of Ogdcn for hospitality shown In arranging tho excursion through Ogden canyon. The city of Logan extended an in vitation to the congress to visit that city and the state Institutions loca ed there on Saturday, the 19th. Tho Invltatoln was accepted amid cheers. An excursion train will carry the delegates there Saturday. Reclamation Department. Ogden, Sept. 18. Tho congress convened at 9 a. ra. today. F, P. Newell, bead of the reclamation bureau of the department, Govern raent Engineer Hoss, Forestry Expert Plncheon, and Irrigation Engineer El wood Mead addressed tho congress on the progress of work In the arid states. They outlined the intentions of the reclamation and forestry do- Water Has Risen Nearly One Foot Above Danger Line, Flooding Everything. FARMERS WITH FAMILIES FLEE TO SAFETY. ... sonsjwlilch aro not disclosed by tho union. It Is said, however, that this feclldg was due to tho fact that tho builders hnd whnt thnv comparatively Inadequate! representa tion On the trades council when ques nun uuecung ineir union was brought before it. COR BIN He Will Inspe ON WAY WEST. spect All the Army Posts of the Northwest. s Moines, Sept. 18. Adjutant General Corbln, who Inspected the forChero today continued west, where ho Intends to visit nil army terminating his trip at Seat VINCENT UP FOR MAYOR Petition is Heavily Sinned This Morning by Many Business Men. Muddy Water May Go Two Feet Higher Before Floods Abate En tire Police Force Is Notifying Peo ple to Escape for Their Lives Communication' Are Cut " Off Rairn"""'''aon at , -Did. Before. Run roads Are Tied Up. I-a Crosse, Wis., Sept. 18. Tho Mississippi was seven Inches above the danger line at noon today and is rising an Inch an hour. Tho railways are submerged. The wholesale houses on the river front are being inundated. All the available men are moving the contents to places of safety. A greater portion of the city streets are flooded. The farming country for mile around Is under water. Communication to tho north and west Is cut off. Will Go Two Feet Higher. Tho river will go possibly two feet higher. Tho damago will bo enor mous. Hundreds of families of tho district are fleeing with what valuables they can carry. On advices from tho water bureau the entire police force Is detailed to notify the peoplo of the surrounding country of tho floods. As yet no loss of life has been reported. BACKERS SAY HE MADE GOOD OFFICIAL LAST TIME. KING PETER OF 5ERVIA IS ASSASSINATED Dispatch From Paris Claims on Good Authority That He is Murdered---He Has Been on the Throne for Only Three Months. New York, Sept. 18. Tho stock ticker senns out tho following: London, Sept. 18. A dispatch re port from Paris claimed to bo on good authority saps that King Peter of Sorvln has been asassluatcd. Ho hns been upon the throne for only j minister of foreign affairs tells me writer's dispatch now at lUilgrnde. snyB ho has found overwhelming vl denro convincingly proving that the Turkish atrocities aro greatly underestimated. The writer says: 'The Servian The Doctor Says: "I Would Not Run On a Political Platform, But Might Accept a Nomination On Citizens' Ticket I Would Run the Admlnls it Right." ""-'IICIAN8. Tcueraay cplraev. mnhs that th. . 0 the fete,-, . . teu f the ireaay inrtl. Uc Prominent In the first ch.. "fraud th th --- oy a partments. .Tho work in both branches is to bo vigorously prose cuted. Extreme caution is necessary to lnsuro success of the government project. New Yorker is ono whose name was mentioned in a recent investigation. rinv . ine EX-SENATOR KELLEY DEAD. Famous Pioneer and Politician Passes Over. Portland, Sept. 18. Advices were received yesterday from Washing ton, D. C, of the death of James Kerr Kelley, who was United States senator from Oregon, being elected In I860. Senator ICelloy was 84 years old. Ho was appointed to tho su premo bench of Oregon upon com pletion of his term as senator, hold ing that position until 1882, after which he resumed law practice in ROPED TO SADDLES. Mexican Troops Tracked a Big Band of Outlaws. Magdalena, Mexico, Sept. 18. A troop of Mexican ruralos command cd by Colonel Kosterlltzky has Just concluded a record-breaking round-up of border renegades. Tho troop rode into Magdalena, Sonora, on Sunday, with 21 of the toughest of Sonora's outlaws, the result of a throe-weeks' chase, covering all of Northern So nora. The prisoners wero tied In tho saddles and brought In heavily guarded. An attempt to escaje would have been the utmost folly, as the rurales were prepared to take no chances of an outbreak among such a set or rumans. WILL NOT WITHDRAW. Builders' Union Will Stay In Trades Council, Walla Walla, Sept. 18. Local Union No. 12H, United Brotherhood of Carponters and Joiners of Ameri ca, decided last night to take no ac tion with referenco to the possible withdrawal of this union from the Walla Walla Trades Council, a step which was agitated by several mem bers of the building trades for rea- The political mt has begun to boll anil this morning It boiled over, leav ing when it had settled, a petition of most of tho business men of tho city and a large number of residents of tho place asking Dr. F. W. Vincent to place his namo before the peoplo as a candidate for tho position of mayor of Pendleton. Tho men who fathered tho petition point to tho past record- of Dr. Vincent as tho rea son why ho should bo given the hon or. It Is claimed by his supporters that he gavo tho city tho best ad ministration that It has ever had They say he gavo more tlmo to the city business than any man that has over held the chair, and personally saw that tho business of the city was carried on In n business-llko way, Dr. Vincent was asked whether or not ho would accept the nomination, and stated that ho had not had tlmo to consider tho matter. Ho had not thought It over. Ho had understood that some petition was in circulation but had not seen it. "I will not run on any political platform," said the prospective can aidate, "hut I might run on a citizens movement." He Would Run it Right "What would your policy bo in run nlng tho city; would you run It open or chut?" was asked I have not accepted any nomlna. tlon yet, and have nothing- to say as to bow I would run It. When I ac ccpt the nomination I will tell you my policy, v I would run It as I did before. I would run it right.' Following are tho names on tho petition; H. F. Johnson, Frank Frazler, Stephen A. Lowell, Leon Cohen, Wil liam Sblvcrlck, Charles It, Dutton, U O. Frazler, Wiley Frazler, C. A. F.p plngcr, II. Aloxander, James Craw. ford, Charles Hamilton, C. C. IJerke- loy, N. Berkeley, S. II. Thompson, J. W. Maloney, F. O. Schmeer, T. J. Morris, Thomas Fltss Oorald, J. R. Means, Jr., J, T. Drown, C. F, Coles worthy, D. Vinson, Miles Kemlcr, J. E. Dean, Chris lie n ley, John Selbert, G. Schulz, W. Miller, Ralph Frazler, Martin, Charles E. Dond, J, W, time months, having been placed there after the bnitnl murder of Alexander 10,000 Are Murdered. Sofia, Sept. 18. Kastorln, whero 10,000 are reported to be massacred, Is burning. Today's reports show that the slaughter by tho Turks was terrible. Men, women and children wero ruthlessly put to death In mnny cases. Tho fiendish torturo to which women and girls wero subjected waB of Hucli treatment that tho details are unprintable. Worse Than Have Been Told. London, Sept, 18. A prominent ho knows cnscB of starving of the Maredonlnns, who nre wandering la tho forests and who turn- had to kill two of tholr children to preserve the lire of tho third." II'i added thnt (hey will nil perish within two months utili'sm nld reaches them, Want War Immediately. Sofln, Sept, 18. The reeling here today Is moro pronounced for war. Tho population, It In reported, hat been massacred at Kanturln. If this proves true, the government will 1)0 comiHilled to linmedinti'ly de clare war. ENTIRE CREW GONE. Red Dragon Is Washed Ashore With Bottom Up. " "Atlantic- City, Sept. 18. Thn w-ibt fears regarding tho fate of the fish ing smack, Hcd Dragon, and crew, wero realized this morning when re ports from Harvey Cedars' life '-.v-lng station wero rccolvcd saying that tho vessel with bottom up, was washed ashore. Two of tho crow wero found in tho water. All tho others aro missing. Mrs. John Swan- son and grand-daughter, who wt-re on the vessel for a pleasure trip wero also drowned. n. Sullivan, Joe Dasler, A. D. Nash, Fred W. Iampkln, R. T. Wade, H. J. Still- FAMOUS EX-CONVICT. Thomas, of Seattle, Had Just Escap ed From Penitentiary, Seattle, Sept. 18. W. 8. Thomas, the Patrolman Schanaen murder sus pect, Is positively Identified as "Kid" Smith, Just out of Deer Lodge peni tentiary, whero ho served nlno years of a IB-year term for robbery. SNYDER PLEADS NOT GUILTY. It Is Alleged He Got $15,000 by High way Robbery, Kansas City, 8opt. 18. Coscy I. Snyder, the millionaire's non, plead not guilty today to four charges of highway robbery, n which h got 115,000. 125 TO WATERY GRAVE. Damage cf Tuesday's Storm la En or. mous. Norfolk. 8opt, IS. Further re Jorts of damage done by tho Mora wero brought In today by steamers. Captain Ilussolls, of th Atlantic Fishing Company, who brought In a, steamer today, says then- can tie no doubt of the loss of the Ashing h tenn er lleatrlco, with CO aboard. All are belloved to have perished. Tho marine men cutlmati- thnt 121 llvos Tcro lost at sea by Tuesday's storm, which was umiuestlonably the worst of tho Atlantic const ROBBER8 SHOOT OPERATOR. Posse Drives Them Off Before They Get Pay-day Money, Wabash, Ind., Sept. 18, Barly thU morning robbers shot tb night oner ator of tho Krlit road at iJikotOB. Herbert AugcnlK)ugh, while he w In tho office, Inflicting possibly fatal wounds. Ho managed to fhcapt- to a nearby houso and formed a posse, which l( pursuing the men who lied without getting a considerable sum of money which was In a safe for pay-day. TO KILL KING OF SPAIN. It Was Planned to Attack Him While on a Trip. Madrid, Sept. 18. A warning sent to Alfonso of a probable attack on him if ho visited Barcelona, Is the cause of him abandoning bis trip. More Resignations Expected. London, Sept, 18, Tho Dlrmlng ham correspondent of tho Exchange Telegraph Company, claims It has the highest authority that tho reelgna Hons of other members of the cabl net will bo handed In shortly. Lon don Is surprised by the resignations, which Is tho chief topic of tho morn- ng and this afternoon papers, Box-Makers Strike. San Francisco, Sept, 18. The box- makers and sawyers struck today. Tbreo hundred and sixty are out, Tho demand of 20 per cent incroaso n wages is refused by all the big factories. $2.25. Tho dally wages aro now RE8UME ARGUMENTS. Alaska Boundary Commission Is on Its Fifth Sitting. Ixmdon, Sept, 18. Tho llfth sit ting of tho Alaskan Ikiundary com mission today finally resumed the arguments and continued tho exami nation of tho maps or the Portland canal. It la contended that no mx marking the boundary lino, accord ing to American assertions, has over boon accepted by Oreat Britain. THE CHARGE GOE8. Attempt U Made to Hold Beavers at Brooklyn. New York, Sept. 18. Commlsslo. cr Hitchcock today decided tho hv llctment tiled against Heavers. charging him with accepting u cheek from Drandt-Pont Autoroutle CbUr Company was valid, A ruling wi mado In tho fight for Ikutvcrs pre venting him from removing froer Brooklyn. Balfour May Resign, Ixuidoo, Sept, 18. Thoro nro waay rumors regarding tho cabinet rfH one being that. Balfour will bu unable to And men -to fill the vacancy anil will bo obliged to hand tho king bit (Concluded on pago 8.) resignation,