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iaumjnai:'e3iu iiiiikwiiiwiHimTtlTIHHMl1ir'lili""' 11 it .f EVENING EDITION EVENING EDITION WEATHER REPORT. Fnlr tonight and Wed nesday. Modern printing of all kinds promptly done at the East Orogonlan office. - ? a r VOL. PENDLETON, OltEGON, TUESDAY, MAKCJI !, 1909. NO. G323 - . , . , NEW SI fii Papers to Be Boycotted as a Retaliatory Measure to Aid Schools. I'OKTUXD OREGOXIAX AXD TELEGRAM OX BLACK LIST The Movement Regan at Ashland and Will Be Extends! to Weston and Oilier Xornial Town Defeat of Urn Xornial Appropriation Hag nwn Charged to Portland Papers and Systematic Mann for Uio B conldcratlon of the Xormal Appro prlutlons Will Do Iald During tlic Short Time Before Special Session That the friends of the norma! schools throughout the different sec tions of the state are not going to calmly Bubm!t to th- action of the legislature in leaving the schools with out any support Is evidenced by the reports bcfrig sent out from the dif ferent sections. Aside from the ef forts that are to be made to have something done In their behalf at the special session, radical and far-reaching retliatory measures are to be in voked. Senator C. J. Smith received a communication from Senator Mulllt of Ashland, this morning, In which he said that a strict boycott had been declared on the Portland Oregonlan and Telegram In his part of the state and that the boycott would be extend ed until It covered the three counties of Douglas, Jackson and Josephine. The defeat of the normal schools is largely attributed to the fight made upon them by those two papers. Ite also stated that the merchants of the southern Oregon towns had ngrecd to purchase their supplies. In future, entirely from San Francisco unlets Portland withdraws Its opposi tion to the normals. This kind of a boycott Is expected to be even more effective than the one on the papers, and as the southern Oregon cities arel not such a great distance from San I Francisco they c'hii easily carry their thrent into execution without work'ng very much of a hardship upon them selves or their patrons. Weston Will Fight. Now that the special session of tho legislature has been called the peo ple of Weston arn also preparing to again present their claims before tho legislature. They are In hopes of securing maintenance until June If they can do no better. To this end the Westonlans have collected in a comprehensive form the arguments I favor of suslnlnlng the normals. These will he published in the Knst Oregonlan tomorrow nml copies of the paper will be sent to nil members of the legislature and to Influential men throughout the state. In connection with the work that Ik now underway O. W. I'roebstel and (Mark Wood of Weston were hero this forenoon Mr. Proebstel came down for the purpose of enlisting tho aid of some local people in the work that will be done when the legislature con venes In special session. STAXDARD OIL LIKELY TO ESCAPE LARGE FIXE Chicago, March 9. When the op pos'ng attorneys In the trial of the Standard Oil company for alleged ac ceptance of rebates from the Chicago & Alton railroad ended their laborers of the first week tonight the consen sus of legal opinion was that the gov ernment has slight prospect of se curing a conviction. The. view of uninterested lawyers is that the decision of tho circuit court of appeals so fed the hands of the prosecution that It has an almost hopeless task ahead of it. Theory of Case Changed. Not only has the record-breaking fine of $20,240,000 which was Impos ed by Judge Landls been remitted, but the entire theory of tho case has been so changed that leading attor neys believe the present Indictment I Portland, Ore., March 9. Hill rep resentatives are at San Francisco ar ranging for a lino of steel steam schooners to ply between Portland and the bay city in conjunction with the North Bank road. This Information was given out here on good outhorlty and it was also stated that Hill rep resentatives have been making pre llmlnary arrangements here. The steamboat line will be oper ated entirely independent of Hill own ership, but under such traffic arrane ments as to make It practically the same combination as that now exist ing between the Harrlman , rati and II STEAK ctstom officers after Japanese h.MK;(,M:i;s Honolulu, March 6. An in creasing amount of smuggling of the Japanese fishing fleet In and about Hawaiian Islands led today to a decision on tho part of the local custom offi cers to appeal to Washington for a rigid Investigation. The treasury department will be asked to dispatch a fleet of revenue cutters to the Islands and to remain stationed here until the smuggling traffic is entirely broken. The Islands have a large number of Japa nese and Chinese residents and because of their natural clan Ishness and the broken line of the islands of the group, smug gling Is hard to prevent and de tect. can not be sustained by the only evi dence the government can procure. It la too late to get new evidence and In the op'nlon of the legal experts the whole case as It now stands woul fall. HUH THEFTS TO BE PROBED KAILIIOAD ATTORNEY AXI IETKCTIVE .WE COMING Confession Said to Habe Been Made By Sonic of the Itallroad Employes and Prominent People Implicated -District Attorney Pliclps Thinks Matter Overstated. Additional Interest la the hearing of Charles Ely and William Edwards, two of the men who are charged with stealing articles from the O. R. & N. freight depot Is leant from the an. nouncement from Portland that both O. H. & N. Attorfley Spencer and O. It. it's. Detective Wood leave there today for this city. Both men are credited with saying that several ar rests have been or are to be made In connection with the thefts. The hearing is set for tomorrow morning at 10 o clock before Justice of the Peace Pnrkes. The Intiultlon from Portlund that somewhat of a sensation Is to be sprug tomorrow comes as a sur prise to District Attorney Phelps who had been lead to believe that the rail road officials cared more to ascertain the facts in tho case than to Institute a wholesale list of prosecutions with doubtful outcome. The Intimation from Portland, was to the effect that city officials and prominent business men, as well as railroad employes, are to be haled into court and charged with crime. District Attorney Phelps stated to day. that there was absolutely no evi dence, sufficient to warrant an arrest or prosecution, against any city offi cial or prominent business man and that while it Is possible that the ar rival of the O. R. & N. attorney and detective tomorrow morning may he followed by additional arrests, they will probably be conf'ned to employes i.f the railroad company. H seems that In his lengthy written confession, Dickens has 'detailed his stealings completely and told how and where each of the stolen articles was dis posed of. If the railroad men have changed their minds and are now de termined upon making a clean sweep, the entire confession will probably be read and those who have been so un fortunate as to have come into pos session of stolen property, will be called upon to prove that at the time they made the purchases they had no reason to suspect that the goods J were stolen. NORTH YAKIMA MAX VICTIM OF CELLULOID CUV North Yakim, Wash., March 9. The deadly celluloid cuff claimed an other victim In S. J. Lowe, a wealthy farmer, who was severely burned about the hand, and arm, when the cuff exploded while he was starting the fire of tho kitchen stove yester day. water lines, although Harrlman owns the vessels plying In the coastwise trade in conjunction with his trans continental lines. There are several exceptionally suitable steel steam schooners of large capacity to he had at San Frnnclsco and with three or four of them regu larly in service they will give tho North Bank rond a great deal of tonnage both ways. In view of the fact that these pre liminary arrangements are now under way, It Is believed quite possible that the new steamboat line In direct com petition with the Harrlman Interests, will be started within a fey weeks. 0 AID NORTH BANK ROAD SPANISH WAR 1 II BE REVIVED Bold Measures Necessary to Meet the Hundred Million Treasury Deficit. PRESIDENT AXD HIS CHIEFS IX DAILY COXFEHEXCE Likely That the Lumber Duty Will be Cut In Two Hides May Be Placed on Free List A Stamp Tax on Tel egrams, Checks and Ijcgal Doniu tncnts Similar to That In Force for Five Years During and Following the Spanish-American War May Be ItclniHscd As a Hold Step to In crease Existing Revenue. Washington, March 9. A stamp tax on telegrams, checks and similar ar ticles, a four cent per pound duty on coffee, and an Inheritance tax, are among the propositions that may be decided upon at the coming session of congress In consideration of the tar iff necessary to meet the hundred mil lion deficit in the national treasury, which the Taft administration faces. Dally conferences are being held be tween Taft. Secretary of the Treas ury MacVeagh, Speaker Cannon, Sen ator Aldrlch and others. President Taft realizes that the tariff revision must be accomplished soon to settle disturbed business conditions through out the country. Taft real'zes that the "insurgents" congress will fight for delay from the very opening to the closing of the special session of congress, and Is laying lines accordingly. The new tariff bill, which Is now In the hands of the printer, Includes a great part of the stamp tax law that was In force during the war with Spain. In addition to this the bill provides for a 50 per cent cut on lumber, and hides are placed on the free list. Steel Halls to He Reduced. While no figures were obtainable regarding the steel schedule, it was I said, on the same authority, that a susbtantial reduction In the duty on steel rails, tools and similar products; is provided for. A duty of four cents on coffee Is levied, by way of compromise with the Porto Ricans, who demanded a tax of six cents a pound. Whisky and beer will remain as tiiey are at present, If the subcomin't tce recommendations are enacted In to law. It was felt that whisky was already carrying all the tax It could d eds ore injured and many dying; stand, while In the case of beer the j thousands of dollars worth of prop prohlbltlon movement throughout the city are damaged as result of the tor- country, it was explained, had cut down the consumption of beer and it was felt tiuit it would be a hardship to impose any further tax. It hav'.ng become man'fest to the committee that the customs duties under the new bill would not produe" the revenue expected, it turned to the expedient of reviving the war revenue act of 1 s : s . which placed a tax on telegrams, bank checks, playing cards and all stocks bought or sold. !!IG WHEAT CROP LIKELY FOR CROOK COl'NTY rrinevllle, (Ire., March 9. With the present harvesting of almost 2,000,- 00.0 bushels of grain annually, tht. farmers of Crook county do not seem to fear over production, regardless of our lack of transportation facilities, and are preparing to harvest the greatest crop In the autumn of th. present year that the county has ye seen. Although the output last fall was smaller than that of the previous one, there was almost 1,000,000 bushels of wheat alone harvested here, which added to the holdover of two thirds as much, held the market at a low figure for a t'me, but at present the local market stands at 80 cents and may go considerably higher before another crop Is harvested. I These combined conditions should make the wheat crop alone almost 1.500.000 bushels In the county and two-thirds us much of other kinds of grain. Weather conditions are ideal, the heavy snowfall left the ground In capital condition for farming, and tho fall gra'ns were protected from the extreme cold by the blanket of snow Considerable spring grain Is being sown now and the farmers are all jubilant. riHGlITlTL EXPLOSION AT STANDARD OIL STILL Richmond. Calif., March 9. With a roar to be heard a half a mile the great refining still of the Standard oil company near this city exploded this morning wrecking the engine room, seriously Injuring two men. The cause Is unknown. N, B. Tiller and George Shaw were burned, the only two men near the plant. They were so frightfully 'burned as to be unable to make a statement. 1M B! Ill ARKANSAS SlflBM .Eighteen Perish at Brinkley Million Dollars in and a Property Damage, HOI SI . S DESTROYED AXD SPECIAL TRAIN'S TO RELIEI Entire Town Is Mown Down, Fol lowed by Fire In the Wreckages Telephone and Telegraph Wire are Down and Communications Dif ficult Tornado Made a . Clean Path Sixty Yards Wide and Was Followed by Hall and Kain Whole Families Hurled in Debris and Car Windows Shattered. Helena, Ark., March 9. The first news has been received from T. X Kinnel, the operator of the Hock Is land road, who, with Lineman Rich ards, were In the depot when a terrific storm broke. The station was blown to pieces over their heads. Af ter the gale had passed the men scrambled from their biding places walked to Wheatley, where they man aged to find a wire working and Kin- nell began sending mesages appealing for help. A relief train was hastily organized, food and surgical and medical supplies, doctors, and nurses was sent from Brinkley. Great dam age is reported In the vicinity of Guer- uay; buildings have been unroofed at Fourche dam, where the storm crossed tho Arkansas river and turn ed 'nto a turnado. The water of the river was lifted in a waterspout two hundred feet high, and the storm swept to Kerr through Bauchum, ploVlng a path 60 feet wide, leveling buildings, uprooting trees. Relief Hastened to Sufferers. Little Rock, March 9. Flames have spread with such rapidity that train men fear that many are under the ruins Incinerated. Rel'ef has been rushed from Memphis. Helena, Jones- born, and this city. The storm had a general northeasterly direction, sweeping the state east of this city and culminating at Bauchum, with Brinkley in the path of the tornado. The communication with the stricken territory is difficult and reports are coming slowly. Twenty Probably Dead at Brinkley. Helena, Ark., March 9. From ten to twenty have been killed and hun- nadu followed by fire sweeping sev eial towns in the vicinity of Brink ley, near here late yesterday as shown by latest reports. Brinkley. with five thousand inhabitants, was completely destroyed by the fire, which .started during the gale and was fanned by a high wind. Telegraph and tele phone systems are prostrated. Many are pinioned under heavy beams with fire sweeping toward them. Therf is a long fearful delay in send ing messages for help. Later News From Brinkley. St. Louis, March 9. J. A. Stoker, resident of Brinkley, received a prl vate message today saying that elgh- ! teen persons are killed in that town hy the tornado. Spvll Train Out From Brinkley. Little Rock, Ark.. March 9. A train loaded with Injured from Brink, ley arrived here today. Train men say that Brinkley caught fire In a down places and that the streets are filled with debris. Million Dollar Dnmnge. Helena, March 9. Tho latest re ports from the tornado show eighteen whites and twenty negroes killed, and fi rty seriously injured. Three thous and are homeless in the wake of death and destruction. Six residences alone escaped destruction In Brink Icy. Loss conservatively estimated at a million dollars. NEWS FROM CAPITAL CITY. i Insurance Commissioner Appointed Present t Becomes Secretary to Bourne. Salem, March 9. Insurance com missioner Kozer announced the ap pointment of J. M. Throne, Roscburg, an experienced banker as chief clerk of the Insurance department. A. W. Trescott, the Salem corres pondent of the Portland Oregonian, has accepted the appointment as pri vate secretary to Senator Bourne to succeed John C. Toung. He leaves for Washington March 15. Articles of Incorporation were filed today for the South Oregon Mines company with n capital stock of a quarter of a million. The princlpa office of the company will be at Ap plegate, Ore. I Ex-Senator G. W. Troebstel came don n from Weston this forenoon. MAN Y CARS FOR PORTLAND ACTO SHOW. ! Portland, March 9. Port- ', land took rank with all the big ' cities of the east last night In . the eye of the automobile world at least, when Its first i annual automobile show opened I at the Armory at 7:30 o'clock. ej Over 100 cars of the leading American makes will be shown at the Armory during the com- i !ng week, and it Is only the lack of room that kept the number of exhibited cars down to that figure. There are as many mod- els at the show as were exhib- ited at the famous New York and Chicago shows. II. A. CODY KILLED BY JACK NYE AT SPRIXG MOUNTAIN Boise, March 9. The news of the killing of H. A. Cody by Jack Nye, his life long friend, at Spring Moun tain, Idaho, was received here today. The men occupied the same cabin, and It is believed quarreled. It Is re ported that Cody assaulted Nye with a knife and the result was the kill ing of Cody. DUEL TO DEATH BODIES OF TWO MEN FOUND AT COLUMBIA SLOUGH A Rifle and An Ax Near, Point to a Probable Fight to Death Between Jolin Dale and Oscar niett at the Smith Ranch on the Columbia Slough. News of a double tragedy, either a duel to death between two men or probably a double murder, was tele phoned to the Portland police this afternoon from Columbia slough, says a special dispatch from the Portland Daily Journal, the message announc ing that the corpse of John Dale, watchman at the Plttock & Leadbet ter ranch, and that of a laborer known in the neighborhood only as Oscar Hiett, had been found in the brush on the Smith ranch. Between them was an ax and a rifle. Coroner Norden, accompanied by several officers, has gone to the scene of the tragedy to make an in vestigation. The bod'es were discovered by Mrs. Hiett while she was searching for her husband, who had left his home to pack his belongings at the Smith place on Columbia slough. According to Mrs. Hiett her husband and Dale left her home yesterday together, Dale having called for Hiett. This morn ing when the two had not returned Mrs. Hiett started out to hunt for them, accompanied by her brother. They were rowed across the slough by C. V. Bergen, in charge of the Smith place, and Bergen had Just left them to row back when the woman's cries called h:m to the bank. Mrs. Hiett said there weer two bodies near an old cabin on the bank of the slough. Bergen hurried back and went with Mrs. iiiett and the boy to the spot where the men lay with the gun and ax between them. Mrs. Hiett identi fied one of the men as her husband Bergen did not allow Mrs. Hiett to touch either body, however, and after assuring himself that both were dead he took Mrs Hiett and the boy back to the'r home and notified the coro ner and sheriff. BLACK CHAMPION ARRIVES IX AMERICA TO VISIT Victoria. March 9. Johnson, thi heavyweight champion of the world NEAR PORTLAND arrived today on the steamer Makura.has (t been occasioned bv some of the and w:ll proceed to Chicago and. colossal real estate transfers recent t hence to Texas to visit his parents. y consumated, but it is the natural He Is suffering from the "big head," consequence following the raise In according to his late manager. Sam the price of wheat and is also due in Fitzpatrick. He says he will not some measure to the inrush of home fight Sam Langford. nor does he th!nk seekers who are beginnlg to pour In Jeffries will r-enter the ring. I to this section of the country. LEIGH From local appearances the fight for and against the appointment of Charles W. Fulton, to the federal Judgeship, about to be created in Or egon, is now on in earnest. Petitions for Fulton's endorsement are being circulated today by J. F. Robinson and E. W. McComes and from the fact that they are allowing no grass to grow under their feet, Is Is believ ed that the Pendleton friends of the erstwhile senator are somewhat an xious as to the outcome. It seems that with the announce ment that Fulton was slated for the Job, both President Taft and the Or egon delegation to congress, were flooded with protests from every sec : EXCIK LAST AT Still No Investigation of State Officials Though the Matter is Not Dead. ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION RESOLUTION TO BE CALLED Paul Hamus StlU leads the Members Who are Trying to Force the In vestigation and it is Declared that the Governor Will Call a Special Session to Investigate the Insur ance Commissioners Office if the Present Session Does not Act Sanatorium Bill With $45,000 is Defeated in the House. Olympla, March 9. A promise.! fight over the resolution to Investi gate" the state officers failed to ma terialize In the senate here this morn Irg. The date was advanced until tomorrow when Senator Paulhamus will renew charges against secretary of state Nichols and insurance com missioner Schively. Booth today In troduced a resolution providing for Investigation of Insurance depart ments alone. The chair ruled that the resolution was out of order, and upheld it by a vote of 27 to IS. The senate then passed the house bill com pelllng the insurance commissioner to turn over all money collected fcr the examination of the Insurance companies to the state treasurer. Dr. Ghents tuberculosis sanitarium bill carrying appropriation of forty five thousand dollars, was defeated In the house. Senator Potts' bill permit ting liquor to be sold in hotels In Sundays, also reconsidered, was passed. Special Session Rumored. Olympla, March 9. Paul Hamus tomorrow will call up his original In vestigation resolution and the gover ncr Is likely to send a special message to the senate asking it to investigate the insurance commissioners office. If the senate refuses, as seems to be its present intentions, the governor will call a special session immediately on adjournment of the present one, and force the legislature to make t'ae Investigation. The house reconsid ered yesterdays vote w-hereby the bill providing that the Judges of the su perior courts year gowns while in ptrlor courts wear gowns while In law. EXCITING TIMES BEFORF. SACRAMENTO COMMITTEE Sacramento, March 9. "I want to say to you, Ackerman, that I am neither a knave nor a fool. I believe however, that Within thirty days I can prove by the records of the office of the surveyor general that you are both," declared Attorney General Webb last night, shaking his fist in the face of John D. Ackerman at the lassembly committee meeting of the House, on public lands and forestry. Ackerman is the lieutenant of F. A. Hyde, the convicted land grabber who is opposing Thompson's anti land bill. The defense of the bill by Webb resulted in the measure being favorably reported by the committee. WALLA WALLA CLAIMS A REAL LAND BOOM Unequalled in history of this country is the big land boom going on in this valley and land previously selling for small sums has been placed within the last few days up Into the hundreds, says the Walla Walla Un ion Statesman. This boom is not the result of a sudden violent frenzv nor F tion of the state. Baker county and Portland are said to have been par ticularly active in voicing their dis ai proval of Fulton's select io... With the arrival of those protests In Washington, Fulton's Oregon friends were immediately notified to get busy and come to the rescue without delay.' This they ha've done and the list of petitioners from Umatilla county will be quite strong a.' his friends here are numerous. The announcement from Judge Lowell that he would accept the position, if It should be tendered him. has also stirred up that part of the republi can party which has opposed the Judge heretofore. A DM D T HS