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,VOL. 21.
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Suddenly Seized With Fatal
March Steadily Grew
Physicians Realized Ills Case Was
NATION'S FOREMOST PMBTE
CHEN SUCCUMBS 10 DISEASE
Peacefully nt Home in Princeton With Wife at Ills Bedside Hnd Iost
1.10 Pounds In two Months Onl y Man to Receive Popular Vote mid
Yet 1)0 Defeated for President, Only President Married In White House
mid Futlier of Only President's Child horn In White House Stalling
From IiOtvly Beginning He IMscs Rapidly by1 Own Efforts to Highest
Position in Gift cr the American People Son of Presbyterian Minis
tT Sunlvcd by Wife nnd Four Children,' Two Sons and Two Duugh-trrs.
PKESIDEXT ISSUES
PROCLAMATION.
Oyster Hay, June 24. Roose
velt abandoned the trip to New
London to witness the boat
races when notified of Cleve
land's drnth, and nt onee Issued
the follovlng proclamation to
the nutlon:
To the People of the t'nlted
States:
Orover Cleveland, president of
the United States from 1SS5 to
1883, and sprain from 1893 to
1897, died this morning. In his
death the nation Is deprived of
one of the greatest citizens. By
profession a lawyer, Cleveland's
chief services to the country
were rendered during a long,
varied and honorable career In
public life. As mayor of his
city, governor of his state, and
twice president, he showed sig
nal powers as nn administrator,
coupled with entire devotion to
his country good.
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Princeton, X. J., June 21. Grover
Cleveland, ex-presldent of the United
States, died nt (lie family Ikmim? In thin
city, nt H:40 this morning
Princeton, June 24. Cleveland suc
cumbed to the llmess from which he
has been suffering all winter. He re
cently returned from Lakewood
where he was confined for a long time
in a hotel. It was said when he re
turned home that ho hnd regained his
health.
His wife was at the bedside when
death came.
He suffered a relapse yesterday,
but rallied last night.
Physicians who repeatedly denied
that the case was serious to-day ad
mitted his condition was hopeless a
month ago. The patient lost a hun
dred and fifty pounds In two months.
The announcement of the death
was made by Dr. Joseph Bryant by
telephono to New York. An official
statement, signed by Doctors Bryant,
George B. Lockwood and J., D. Cnrno
chnn, says the direct cause of death
was heart failure, brought on by pul
monary thrombossls and oedema.
Princeton, June 24. The technical
terms used In the statement issued
by the physicians menn that dropsy
of the lungs was caused by a blood
clot forming.
The Cleveland children are at the
family home at Tamworth, New
Hampshire, where they are cared for
by their maternal grandmother.
His Illness.
Lakewood, N. J., June 24. News
Two tons of government documents
and reports consigned to the library
of the University of Idaho at Mos
cow was a unique feature of the
United States mall transferred from
the main line to the Spokane branch
of the O. R. & N. at this place to-day.
Twenty monstrous sacks weighing
200 pounds each filled to the bursting
point with Juicy government reports
and occupying a large part of the
west bound mall car attracted much
attention at the O. R. & N. platform
and caused the mall clerks much extra
labor to-day.
1 T IS 0 BOOKS FOR UN VERS1TV
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Illness While at Lakewood in
Worse Until the End.
Hopeless Month Ago End Conies
of the death of Cleveland caused a
great shock here.
He came here In March and lived
at the Lakewood hotel. A tremen
dous sensation was caused when Na
than Strauss, of New York, a close
friend of the ex-president and owner
of the hotel, gave arbitrary orders
that the hotel would be closed at
once. All the guests left except the
Cleveland .who were occupying npart
ments on the second floor. The hotel
management denied that the season
was cut short In nder that Cleveland
would not be disturbed, but the evi
dence pointed to that conclusion.
It was given out that Mr. Cleveland
wa3 slightly Indisposed and suffering
from stomach trouble. This was not
generhlly believed. Mrs Cleveland
continually gave out statements say
ing her hushand was Improving.
Guards were kept about the hotel
and no one was admitted. Mr. Cleve
land was as much Isolated as If on a
ship. Two physicians came from New
York, each spending twenty hours
with the patient.
All prescriptions were taken to New
York to be filled so local druggists
would not know what was In them,
Frequent reports that he was dying
were circulated.
When It was announced that he
was well enough to return home, John
Hays Hammond appeared at the
Lakewood hotel with a big touring
car and took Cleveland across the
country to a station. Here the train
for Princeton was met.
Roosevelt Abandon Trip.
Oyster Bay. June 24. Roosevelt re
plied to the message sent by Mrs.
Cleveland announcing the death of
her husband:
"Your telegram shocked me great
ly. Mrs. Roosevelt Joins me In deep
and sincere sympathy. Have aban
doned our Intention of starting for
New London for boat races. Will see
If the funeral will be held Thursday
or Friday, when I can attend. Can
also attend Sunday. If held Saturday
there nro a number of men coming
from various parts of the country on
business engagements, which, 1 cannot,
well break."
Mrs. Cleveland In Worn.
Princeton, Juno 24. rale nnd worn
by her long vigil. Mrs. Cleveland Is
hearing up bravely.
The funeral arrangements have not
been made but it Is probable the serv
ices will be held at Princeton.
Cleveland was conscious up to 10
minutes before death. The etui was
peaceful.
Sketch of Ills Life.
Grover Cleveland, twenty-second
president of the United States and the
only Democratic occupant of the
White House since the Civil War, was
born In Caldwell, Essex county, New
Jersey, March 18, 1837. On the pa
There were approximately 3600 vol
umes in the 20 sacks and the supply
Included every volume of reports Is
sued by the government within th
past year. A special department of
tho university library has been set
aside for the government reports and
that institution now has one of the
finest and most complete collections
of government documents in the
northwest.
Among the 3500 volumes in this
morning's mall were several souvenir
and memorial reports of high valus
and finished in the lastest styles In
the printing art.
PENDLETON, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24. 1908.
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ternal side he was of English origin
Moses Cleveland emigrated from Ips
wich, county of Suffolk, England, In
1635, and settled at Woburn, Mass.,
where he died In 1701. His grand
son was Aaron, whose son, Aaron,
wag great-great-grandfather of Gro
ver. Grover Cleveland's father was
a Presbyterian clergyman, who, In
1829, married Anne Neal, daughter
of a Baltimore merchant of Irish
birth.
When Grover was four years old
his father accepted a call to Fayette
ville, near Syracuse, N. Y., where the
son had an academy schooling, and
afterward was a clerk In a country
store. The removal of the family to
Clinton, Oneida county, gave Grover
additional educational advantages in
the academy there. In his seven
teenth year he became a clerk and
assistant teacher in the New York in
stitution for the blind in New York
! city, In which his elder brother, Wll-
I Ham, was then a teacher.
j In 1855 Grover left New York to
' go to the west in search of employ
ment. On his-way he stopped at
! Black Rock, now a part of Buffalo,
land called on his uncle, Lewis F. Al-
leu, who Induced him to remain and
aid him In the compilation of a vol
ume of the "American Hrd-Book."
He afterward assisted in the prepara
tion of several other volumes of this
work. In August, 1S55, he secured a
place as clerk and copyist for the law
firm of Rogers, Bowen and Rogers,
In Buffalo, began to read Blackstone,
and in the autumn of that year was
tecelvlng four dollars a week for his
work. He was admitted to the bar In
1859, but for three years longer he
remained with the firm that first em
ployed him, acting as managing clerk
at a salary of $1,000, a part of which
widowed mother, who died In 1882.
Enter Politics.
He was appointed assistant district
attorney of Erie county In 1863, and
held the office for three years. At
this time strenuous efforts were be
ing made to bring the Civil War to a
close. Two of Cleveland's brothers
were in the army, and his mother and
sister were dependent largely upon
him for support. Unable to enlist, he
borrowed money to end a substitute,
and It was not until long after the
war that he was able to repay tht
loan. In 1865, at the age of twenty-
eight, he was the Democratic candl
date for district attorney, but was de
feated by the Republican candidate,
his intimate frend, Lyman K. Bass.
He then became a law partner or
Isaac V. Vanderpool, and in 1869 be
came a member of the firm of Lan
nlng, Cleveland and Folsom. He con
tinued a successful practice until
1870, when he was elected sheriff of
Krle county. At the expiration of
his three years' term he formed a
law partnership with his personal
friend and political antagonist, Ly
man K. Bass, the firm being Bass,
Cleveland and Blssell, and, after the
forced retirement from failing health
of Mr. Bass, the firm name was.
changed to Cleveland and Blssell.
The firm was prosperous, and Cleve
land attained high rank as a lawyer.
noted fr the simplicity and direct
ness of his logic and expression and
thorough mastery of his cases.
As Mayor of Buffalo.
In the autumn of 1881 he was nom
inated Democratic candidate for
mayor of Buffalo, and was elected by
a majority of 3,630, the largest ever
given to a candidate in that city., In
the same election a Republican state
ticket was carried In Buffalo by an
average majority of over 1,600; but
Cleveland had a partial Republican.
(Continued on Page 8.)
i REPORT
COMES III LATE
I.. SPAXTOX LOSES MONEY
AND WATCH AT UMATILLA.
O. R. & X. Engineer Is "Touched'' In
Rnllrnnd Town But Fulls) to lleixnt
Fact Unt.ll Week Later sheriff at
Tekoa Is First One .Notified, Who In
Turn Inllsts Sen-lees of Sheriff Tay
lor. While nt Umatilla recently L. Span
ton, nn O. R. & N. engineer, was rob
bed of $165 and a gold watch. Full
particulars of the case are lacking but
It is understood that Spanton was
"touched" while asleep in his room In
the little railroad town.
Following the robbery no report
whatever was made to the sheriff's of
fiee . But a few days later the victim
was at Tekoa, .Wash., and while there
notified the officers of his loss. Though
considerable lime had elapsed, the
Tekoa sheriff took up the case and
wrote Sheriff Taylor a personal letter,
asking him to asslet in locating the
watch If possible.
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CITT OF DEATH
Conditions Worse Than Yes
terdayPillaging, Fighting
and Looting Continue,
STREETS COMPLETELY
BLOCKED WITH DEAD.
Women and Children Dragged From
Beds In Early Morning by. Drunken
Soldiers Who Tortured Them for
Amusement Until Victims Begged
for Death Houses Dynamited
When 0(viiMiut Refused to Come
Out and He Shot Down More Than
'llioiisand Men, Women nnd Cliild
ren Have Been Killed by Cossacks.
London. June 24. Advices from
Teheran today state the conditions in
the Persian capital are worse than
they were yesterday. Pillaging, fight
ing and looting by the shah's troops
continue.
Some of the streets are completely
blocked with dead, houses wrecked
and a large portion of the city is in
ruins. Drunk with the deeds of yes
terday, the sultan's troops are In com
plete control. ' J
Over a thousand men, women and
chil.J-eu were killed by the soldiers.
Houri-e-are surrounded by Cossacks
who dynamited the houses when the
occupants refuse to come out and be
shot down.
Women and children were dragged
from their beds early this morning by
drunken soldiers, who tortured them
for amusement until they begged to
be killed. No one is on the streets
today but Cossacks.
So far the subjects of foreign na
tlons have not been threatened. It
Is understood the shah has given
i-trict orders that no foreigner be kill
ed.
Dispatches from the frontier say the
czar is mobilizing his troops to be In
readiness to move on Persia at any
moment.
The British and Russian consuls
have demanded that the shah release
nil political prisoners and restore or
der as soon as possible.
ROBBER. USED BADLY.
Intended Victim Takes Hat, Gun and
Piece of Finger.
Spokane, Wn., June 24. "Stick 'em
up and be quick about it!"
Leo Schwab has ideas of his own
about a hold-up. When a lone high
wayman stopped him early this morn
Ing on the Washington street bridge
the thug ran across a surprise he will
never forget.
Not only did Schwab take away the
holdup's revolver and his hat but In
the melee he bit off about a half Inch
of the highwayman's finger which he
saved as a token of the encounter.
Breathless and covered with dust
Schwab ran to the police station Im
mediately after the battle. That he
had been in a fight was evidenced
from his appearance. In a few words
he told of his experience and the of'
fleers were hurried out to look for the
holdup who is minus a portion of
one of his fingers.
Schwab was shown the photographs
in the rogue's gallery nnd after look
ing them over picked out the photo
graph of Kid Webber as resembling
the man who held him up. An offi
cer was sent to Webber's home but
the man was found to have all of his
fingers and gave a clear record of his
actions for the night.
The man who wouldn't be held up Is
a laborer and lives at tho Big Island
lodging house. When the robber stop
ped him he capitulated for the time
until he saw an opening. Then he
grabbed the revolver in the thug's
hand.
A rough and tumble fight followed,
the robber struggling with might
and main to free himself. Schwab
kept hold of his man and hoped to
hold him until assistance arrived but
the man finally freed himself and
broke Into a run.
At some time In the fight the hold
up got one of his fingers in Schwab's
mouth and had It bitten off. Schwab
stated to the police that he did not
know this until after the robber had
broken away and he started to give
chase. He then found the piece of
finger In his mouth.
For some reason, probably due to
the excitement, Schwab did not fire on
the fleeing robber, although he had
the revolver used by the man. This
pistol and the hat of the robber are
now at the police station.
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SHOOTING AT iuCHLAXD.
Jim Elliot Wounded by If. E. Willlums
in Quarrel.
Baker City, Ore., June 24. Word
comes from Richland of a shooting In
which J. E. Williams shot and seri
ously Injured Jim Elliot, both resi
dents of that place. It scCms that the
men had been drinking quite freely
and started out with rifles to go hunt
ing. When a short way from town
they began shooting at a mark to
sec which was the best marksman.
Williams shot at a post and bantered
Elliot to shoot, which the latter refus
ed to do. Argument Immediately be
gan and Williams told Elliot If he did
not shoot he would shoot his best eye
out. Elliot laughed and swore at him
answering that he wasn't the man to
do it, or something to that effect. This
enraged Williams and drawing his gun
he shot Elliot. Williams was arrested
and has his preliminary hearing to
night at Richland before Justice Jas.
Clarke. Elliot has a wife and one
child which are very respectable peo
ple. Williams Is well known in Rich
land. SECOND IUHXES TRIAL.
Walla Walla, June 24. A retrial of
Rud Barnes, accused of murdering
Mis. Anna Aldrlch with a plckhandle
began today. The defense attorneys
pleaded for an acquittal of their
client on the ground that the Jury
which fallili to agree on a verdict at
the first trial was discharged while
asking for Instructions. The motion
was overruled. The trial is proceed
ing. The jury Is being selected.
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JACK O'XF.IL PROMISES
SPECIAL TRAIN FOR FOURTH.
Round Trip Rate of 73 Cents Made
mwl All Arrangements Complete
Will Leave Pendleton at 8:45, Re
turning in the Evening Elaborate
Program Arranged Helix Will Al
so Celebrate.
Pendleton people will have ample
opportunity to go to Pilot Rock for
the Fourth 6f July celebration, as
arrangements were made last evening
by the committee in charge, Douglas
Belts and George Mansfield, to run an
excursion over the O. R. & N. from
this city on that occasion.
Traveling Passenger Agent J. H.
O'Nell Is In the city today perfecting
arrangements to lin a four-car train
from this city at 8:45 on the morning
of the Fourth, and returning leave
Pilot Rock about 10 p. m.
A round trip rate of 75 cents has
been made and details of the excur
slon are now complete. The regular
Spokane train will be run from this
city at 8:15, on the regular schedule
of the Pilot Rock train and will carry
nil who desire to go from this clty
and vicinity. The same train will
then be run out to Pilot Rock In the
evening, to bring back the crowds and
in this way ample accommodations
for all who desire to go will be pro
vided.
The people of Pilot Rock have pre
pared an elaborate program and In
vite Pendleton people and people
from all parts of the county to cele
brate with them. Plenty of shade will
be provided, a good program has been
arranged and a first class, old-fash
ioned Fourth of July celebration Is
promised.
Helix to Celebrate.
The little town of Helix will also
celebrate and cordially invites its
friends In Pendleton and elsewhere In
the county to join with it In making
the event a success.
While no arrangements have yet
been made with the Northern Pacific
for an excursion train, yet Helix Is
preparing a good program nnd expects
a large crowd from this city and sur
rounding country.
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Played. Won. Lost.
P.C.
.789
.474
.421
.316
La Grande . . 19 15 4
Pendleton ,.19 9 10
Walla Walla 19 8 11
Raker City. . 19
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Unless present plans are changed
the Pendleton ball team wll return
to this city tonight or tomorrow so
as to commence the first of a series
with Walla Walla tomorrow after
noon. The two teams will play a
series of four games here and Tatom
will then take hfs team to Walla
Walla for a return series. The Fourth
people will bring their
patronage to your store.
NO 6316
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Am 0 d Complaint Served
on District Attorney and
Will be Piled this Afternoon,
ASK TILVT SHERIFF
BE RESTRAINED,
Permanent Injunction Preventing Of
ficers From Enforcing ProhiblUaa
Law is Requested Allegations aa
Same as those Made in Temporaarj
Injunction Suit Fliclps Will Uaam
Answer Ready To-morrow Deimar
rer Prepared But Probably Vfl
Not Ik? Entered Will Try Case OsSI
On Its Merits at Once.
At last the amended complaint te
the Nolte case has been prepared asti
a copy of the same was served upa
District Attorney Phelps this merg
ing. The complaint differs from tt
original In that It asks that the court
issue an order restraining the sheriff
from enforcing the provisions or !
prohibition law when the same got
Into effect July 1.
With the exception of this one fix
ture the amended complaint is t
same as the first on riled. The alle
gations of error on the part of tie
county court, sheriff and clerk a
the same as in the first case.
District Attorney Phelps is now en
gaged upon an answer to the otm
complaint and says he will be reaJfr
to file the same to-morrow after
which the case will then be at isroe
According to Mr. Phelps he' wiB
answer the complaint upon Its merrta,
denying all of the allegations mate
by the saloonmen. In addition fc
will also have a demurrer prepart
should he desire to use the sarafc
However he says that he prefers t
see the case go to trial at once upo
the merits of the case so it is pos
sible he may not file a demurrer
the complaint. Should he file a de
murrer and the court sustain tk
same the case would then be throw
out of court at once. However the
saloonmen could again bring the sub
ject up in a different manner. B4
if the case is tried out upon Its mertta
now the proposition will be definite!
settled, at least as far as the c!rc
court is concerned.
HOTTEST DAY OF YEAR.
Mercury Registers 102 Under Ana-
Ings on Main Street.
With the thermometer on the eait
side of Main street registering 102 at
2 o'clock this afternoon, Pendleton to
having the hottest day It has experi
enced this season. At noon toi2
the thermometer under the awnlrs
on the east side of Main had risen to
the 100 mark and they continued thr
climb during the early afternoon.
It Is now freely predicted that th
present hot spell will bring on - a
other shower and that the wheatmea
will have the benefit of another raJ
between now and the first of tfcr
month.
MORROCXO STIRRED
WITH CIVIL STRIPS
Tangier, June 21. Sultan Abda
Azlz'9 troops are to-day approaching
Fez for a battle with the forces of it,
pretender Miilal Hafid, widen expect
ed to settle the right to the throne at'
Morrooen. Hafld has an army of
two nty thousand trained soldier of tJb
desert and has been so hold as to d-
elare he Intends to capture his Snltso
shlp by force and put the present ot
runnnt to death. A battle Is cpecil
to occur before the day Is over.
Maurice Fitzmaurloe who was h'rt
recently, Is to start a paper at Potce
roy, Wash.
T
of July game will be played In Walls
Walla.
The La Grande team Is here thit .
afternoon en route home from Walls
Walla. They arrived on the 10:31
train from Walla Walla this forenoon
and will leave on train No. 2.
Pendleton still maintains second
place In the standing of the team
comprising the league, notwithstand
ing the fact that her representative
met defeat in Baker City yesterday
by a score of 5 to 0, while Wall
Walla took La Grande into camp br
a score of 6 to 4.
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! SlM FIGHT
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