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EVENING EDITION EVENING EDITION WEATHER REPORT. Fulr tonight and Fri day. Modern printing of all kinds promptly done at the East Oregonlan office. li jj i I 'SV VOL oo PENDLETON, O KEG ON, TIIUIiSDAY, MAHC1I 11, 1909. mi" i mill Mini HiiniMLiiii-ii.,. ,i..n,.i.l..i...-JT TVfL wnrfiv 1 rTv V mmmmmi- I; i HOUSE T-3 TO SIP 111 Insurance Scandals at Olympia Will Not Down Even on the Last Day. avild scKXK ix house AVIIKX MATTER MENTIONED 1Ioiis Adjourns and Will Meet Later jack johnson makes officii to jefferies Vancouver, I?. C, March 11. Jack Johnson, the colored heavy weight champion leaves this afternoon for Chicago and then goes to Galveston, Texas, to visit his parents. Johnson shows no effects from the fast six round bout with A'letor Mac- Laglen, the Tacoma heavy weight last night. Johnson al most ended the fight in the first round by slashing his opponent a solar plexus. He eays he will fight Jeffcries at sixty per cent to the winner, and forty per cent to the ldser. Johnson appears to be anxi ous for a fight with Jefferies. He said: "I fought Jefferies' , ti,,. r i. Tnro.ner.niB own flesh and .... bIood. why W not J(lfferit.s and Oilier Important Mutters fight me, he Is no better than Clock Ordered Covered Insurance! I." Johnson declares he Is wlll- Invesllgalioii Said to Have Been'. Infr to "Ke to any conditions io get a tight. NORMAL SCHOOLS 0 E SESSO Ordered by Governor Several Ini- 4. Hrtaii( Labor Hills Passed One Referring; to Tide Lunds. SECOND AXM'AI, HORSE SHOW AT SALEM IX Al'ltll Salem,- Ore., March 11. The sec ond annual horse show will be held here on April 5. Plans are develop ing rapidly. The board of trade last I niirlit v.itn.i tr.nn . .1, .--..-i, l"I Lllf! U.O Ol UK' show committee. poooieiii mx GOMES BACK Olympia, March 11. The Insur ance Investigation fight was trans ferred from the senate to the house on this the f'nal day of the legisla ture. A wild scene followed the ar rival of the resolution at noon. The sergeant nt arms commanded the covering of the face of the clock, then compelled it to be uncovered, owing to the tumult. Quiet reigned' when Scott presented the resolution appointing Senators Puulhamus. Booth and Representatives McMas tcrs, Hubbell and Buchanan, to in vestigate the insurance department. Wild scenes followed, with Jackson In the chair rapping for order. Scott said the resolution was drawn under the order of the governor. Speaker Meigh then resumed the chair, and asked the excited members to allow the clock to be stopped for the con sideration of Hn Imoprtant bill com ing from the senate. This done, the house adjourned tintil 2 o'clock. The house passed two Important . labor bills. Introduced by the senate by Koncnspupt of Spokane, permitting parents and dependent brothers or sisters to sue for damages when the'r provider was killed. The house pass. .',." Z:,', " , ,P1",lg V' Another chapter was written this iM.emm.s to pay ior mornlng in the controversy over the n..,.-.,,R,. m,, -.., ano omer municipal payment of the bill Jill f I IP I'llKTTI IS. Speaker Says Normal Ques tion Will at Least Come Before Caucus. SEATTLE IB mm GOVERNOR OPPOSED to i jeconsi deration Strong Lohbien Will He Sent by Ash laud People to Poll lam I and Salem to Put TlU'ir Side of the Normal Ouestion IScforc the Igjslutn'K Speaker SnjH Question Will Be Tbrenlicd Out in Caucus Before the Special KesIoii Begins Subscrip tions to Regents Arc Slow. Three Men Dead in the City From Inhalation of Illumi nating Gas, TWO FOUND IX HOTEL onk ix dwelling Woman Places Coin in a Quartet .Meter in Hulli Room or Hotel and Two Men in the Hotel Arc Suffo cated Discovered This Morning by Hell Hoy When Tlioy Failed to Awake Caused l(y ft Gas Stove Third .Alan Found In His Koom In Private Residence. INJURED MAN AT SEA TREATED HV AYIRELESS! Eureka, Cal., March 10. The oil steamer Asuncion, en route from San Francisco to Port land, hove to 100 miles north of here this afternoon and notified the Fort Humboldt wireless sta tion that a sailor had fallen from the rigging to the deck. The message stated that his In juries had resulted in severe hemorrhages and medical advice was asked for. Fort Humboldt communicated with Marine Doctor Charles Falk by wireless, who prescrib ed treatment to be given the injured mariner. The steamer remained hove to until late to night, when it proceeded up the coast. riosT im IHSTHICT ATTORNEY PHELPS FH.F.S ANSWF.K TO INJUNCTION Mutter Helming to the Payment or Detective for S-clal Scnhvs IN-ii-dered In the Com lit Ion of Iiocal Option Offenders Comes Up Again District Attorney ;ives Ncasons Why Hill Can !,. legally P..ld. Salem, March 11. Apparently a great effort will be made to urge the pecical session of the legislature to idopt some measure for the uld of the normal schools. Ashland people will senit a lug lobby to Portland and Salem. The governor still stands In the way of any normal school lcgisla tion for he assured members that the special session would consider no new business. According to Speaker McArthur. the normal school matter is expected to come up, but It will be threshe.i out In the caucus preceding the spe cial session and if it leaches the floor of either the senate or the house it will be In such a shape as to receive Immediate nttent'on. If. action is not ngr ed upon in the caucus nothing "ill be done for the normal schools Tomorrow is the last day upon which the normal schools may remit their subscriptions to the board of regents for conducting the normal schools to the end of the year. No money has been received, nsidn from ti.iii.., f-., either Weston or Ashland, but a " Seattle, March 11. Three mer are dead in this city today as the re suit of Inhaling illuminating gas, ap pareiitly through an accident. E. F Hicks, W. W. .larrett, saiors fron me cruiser Milwaukee, were found dead in a room of the New England hotel this morning and Charles W. Humphrey, employed in an automo bile garage, was found dying in his room on Ninth avenue. Hicks and Jarrett attended the theater last night and returned to the hotel afterwards. When the bell boy entered the rooms to awaken them he found both men dead. Humphny fell asleep while a small ouarters in a slot gas heater was burning n the room. The gas sup ply soon burned out, but later when a woman entered the bathroom she dropped a co'n Into the meter, start ing the flow of gas in Humnhrev's stove. LIKELY NO CHANGE MADE IN AVOOL DUTIES Washington, March 11. It Is cur-, rently reported that the ways and means committee has decided to make no change In the present duty on wool though a mater'al reduction will be made In the duty on woolen manu factures. It is also reported that the present duty on shingles, 30 cents per thou sand, will stand unchanged. SALE OF WOOL 150,000 Pounds Reported Sold by Umatilla Sheepmen to Oregon Buyers. PKICES FORTY PER CENT BETTER THAN LAST YEAR The Largest Sale of the Season Be tween the Cascade and Blue Moon tains Prices Much Above Those of Last Year Seventeen and a Half to Eighteen Cents Is the Price Reported And the AAool Sold Is Only of Second Grade Purchase Made by Charles Green and Dalles Scouring Mills. NEW WASHINGTON TRACTION LINE DAYTON AND AVALLA AA'ALLA TO BE CONNECTED SOON JKI'I TRIES CONSIDERS JOHNSONS CHALLENGE thousand dollars was receded from Monmouth, it is likely that trie t:me for remitting of these subscriptions will be extended by the regents. ERRORS BEING SIFTED TO AID SPECIAL SESSION Salem, Ore., March 11. Speaker C. N. McArthur. Walter C. Winslow and others at Salem are working Indus triously to seek out all errors and de fects In the laws passed by the late legislature, and will have ready an abstract of what the session will be caned upon to do. This !s to expedite the work. The water code may have to be re ciaeted in order to make Its appli cation Immcd.ate. The defects in the game laws will probably necessitate a total reenactment of that measure, aside from the passage of the general betterment appropriation bill, which Is also being redrafted by the speak er There are a number of m'nor defects In various laws that are being taken up, and will be ready to Rub- mit to the special session In their amended and corrected form next Monday. STILL MOKE TltOUBLE FOR DOAYIE'S 7.ION C1TY Chicago, March 10. ZUm City and the Christian Ontholle Apostolic chdrch, of which Wilbur Glenn Vollvn Is general overseer, have been thrown into a turmoil over the expulsion of John Taylor, one of the presiding elders, who Is accused of circulating literature hostile to the Vollvn regime For a long time the 30 different fac tions Into which Zion City's popula tion has been split, had lived In com. parntlve peace, each following its own' lators- for the services of the detective who secured the evi dence In the cases against the liquor men last fall for violations of the prohibition law. It was the filing of th answer of District Attorney Phelps to the Injunction suit brought recently by Charles Cunningham and A. F. Michael. It will be remembered that Horace Walker as county commissioner, re fused to sign the order for payment and that the bill was ordered paid over the signature of County Judge Gilliland and Commissioner Lee though the latter refused to sign It., at first. It will also be remembered that the injunction suit was brought on the ground that the hiring of the detec tive was the Incurring of voluntary Indebtedness and that the county had exceeded its limit of voluntary In debtedness. District Attorney rhelps, in his an swer, denies that this was a volun tary Indebtedness. He declares that the services of the detective were fur nished In the instance of the county ana that they were necessary and unavoidable, being required bv the county in the enforcement of the po lice laws. The district attorney then goes on to state that following the adoption of the local option law In the coun ty, there were frenquent and persist ent violations of that law, In the en tire county and practically within the city of Pendleton. Also that persons who had hitherto been In the saloon business, as well as other persons, openly and defiantly proclaimed the Inability of the officers to enforce the law or to prosecute or convict the vlo- WATER CODE NOT DEFECTIVE New York, .March 1 1. Jeffcries came nearer making a direct state ment of his. intention to fight John son today than ever before. There no further doubt that he Is trying Attorney General Issues Formal Opinion Reversing Rexirts. Salem, March 11. In tl critter opinion submitted to the governor and the state engineer last even.ng, Attorney General Crawford holds that the emergency clause in the irriga tion civle Is .sufficient, thereby re versing un opinion made offhand the day before, to the effect that the clause was Insufficient and flint th.i-,-. lure the act would not go Into effect ior !n.l days. It will hence not be necossarv to re- enact the code, as was thought vester- day. since it is in full force and ef-icct. Further supreme court dee'sions were looked up by the attorney gen eral yesterday which caused liim to change his opinion. It was first thought by Mr. Crawford that an emergency must specifically have been declared to exist in order to make the clause effective, out further in vestigation showed him that If one'al days ago. is pis Oest to get into condition. The question of success in this direction barrier In the way of a "If ever I fight I Old Companies Have Been Reorgan Ized nnd It Is Rumored That AA'ork . AA'ill Begin nt Once Construction Pushed from Both Ends AValla AValla and AValluia to Be Connect ed First Rights of AVay Practical ly Secured. Walla Walla, March 11. Announce- By the sale of 150.000 pounds of wool, a bunch of woolgrowers at Ar lington have opened up the season for this section of Oregon. While it has not been possible to learn the exact price paid it is believed to be from 1",4 to 18 cents. This is an advance of at least five cents per pound over last season. The wool is said to consist fcf the coarse part of the clips of the men selling, and the same wool last year sold at from 10 to 12M cents. From, this it will be seen that the sheep men of Oregon are to fare better at the hands of the buyers than they did last season. Those who sold a portion of their 1909 clipsare Smythe & Smythe. Horst & Wheelhouse, E. J. Clough. and William Smith. It 's understood that a portion of the ISO. 000 pounds was purchased by Charles Green, the wen-known local wool buyer, while the balance of it was taken by The Dalles scouring- mill company. Though sales have been reported previously this season In Baker and Wallowa counties, this is the first sale so far reported between the Cascade and Blue mountains. It !s certain that if any others have been made the only ! challenge. He said: again it will be a negro, then only to win nack the championship to the white race. I do not care what of fer Is made. It will not tempt me to re-enter the ring for any other pur pose. I will not fight Kaufman or any other white man, and never would think of fighting again if Burns had whipped Johnson, whose victory inspired me to see if I could get into condition again." im iii. n.is muue mis morning oy tnose mey nave not been so large. It Is closely associated with the promoters possible, however, that, now that the of te Columbia-Walla Walla traction' buyers have shown a willingness line from Dayton to AValhila that the to offer prices that suit the erower engineer who is to have charge of ac-, that the movement will be general tual construction work will arrive in' though the larger part of the Uma the city tonight or tomorrow morn-jtilla growers will no doubt hold their Ing, and that men and teams are to clips for the annual sales dates, they be put in the field to grade the right having found by past experience that of way, which has been rractically, this was the most satisfactory way. secured for the entire line. Grade' , stakes have been set on a portion of PORTLAND HAS A MARATHON NEW MEXICO BLIZZARD COSTS SEVERAL LIVES Albequerque, New Mexico, March 11- One American and five Mexi cans are dead and reports of other fatalities are expected as a result of a storm that is sweeping the south west today. An unidentified Ameri can was found frozen to death near Islet, while five Mexican sheep herders were lost on the Mesa sever- the line, and with the chief engineer on the ground personally superintend ing the work, the preliminary work on OX ROLLER SKATES raci u recited to show why there 's aji emergency it is sufficient. H. F. Holgate of Bonanza and F. M. Saxton of Baker City, who were ap Jointcd commissioners under the act by Governor Chamberlain, arrived in NUcm yesterday, and the water board is holding Its first regular meeting toaay. it will be the purpose of the commission to lay out a plan of pro cedure, which will be slow work, and little can be done until such a plan is put under way. State Engineer Lewis is chairman of the commission. plans and purposes, but these anony mous dodgers have opened R new ave nue for trouble. An effort is being made to bring about peace. NO MORE FEATHERS FOR HATS, SAYS LEGISLATURE Sacramento, March 11. If Collier's bill Is pnssed by the senate and sign ed by the governor, woman's suffer ago In California will be given a de cided Impetus. The bill prohibits the wearing of plumage and the skins or body of any bird net a game bird or a hawk. j It is declared further that In order to evade the provisions of the statute every known subterfuge was resort ed to rind that such defiant violation of the law resulted in much public disorder, becoming s0 persistent and unusual that the functions of govern ment and the well fare of society, based upon law was becoming serious ly Impaired and to such an extent that there was created in Umatilla county, especially by a certain class, Including the plnlntirfs, a disrespect for organ'zed society and a disregard for the laws of the state of Oregon. BALLIXGCIt TO (JIVE DESCHUTES ROAD PROMPT ATTENTION The storm is general throughout this territory. Reports tell of heavy property loss. A report from Ros well says the new armory building was blown down by the blizzard and several other buildings were wrecked. Portland, March 11. Startine- to. the Columbia Walla Walla lines have night at te corner of Third and Mor- been made possible. i rison streets. IS roller skaters strive The farmers' line and the old Co-'to wln tne Prize i" the first roller lumbia-Walla Walla lines have been Mai'a'non ever pulled off in the north merged into one, under the manage- west- Tn skaters will be in running ment of Mr. L. G. Matthias, who came suits and are expected to make an here last week to see what could be lntel-esting spectacle flying through done toward completing the. line. I tne stree's on skates to Washington street, thence to the expos'tion rink, , on Nineteenth street, where thev ARGUING MOTION FOR i change skates and cover 23 miles on NFAV PARR-GASTON TRIAL track In rink. FLOOD OF TRANSFERS MAKES RECORDER AVORK (Continued on Page Five.) AGO TO GE WOO CEITEH OF WORLD Chicago, March 11. The election of officers of the warehouse and stor age company and tho lnylng of the cornerstano of an Immense warehouse which when completed will accom modate 25,000,000 pounds of wool, were two steps taken today In a movement to make this city the wool center of the world. J. E. Cosgrlff, of Rawlins, Wyo., wag chosen president; A. G. Leonard, Chicago, vice president; R. 11, Thomp. son, Chicago, secretary and treasur er. The building will occupy nearly two acres of ground. It likely will be ready for occupancy May 15, In nmplo time to take care of this year's clip of wool. It Is proposed to store at least 25,000,000 pounds of wool each seaon and arrangements are under way to Increase the amount to 50,000,000 the second year. Washington, March 11. Secretary Ilnllingcr said today there would bo no undue delay in passing upon the application of tho Harrlman railroad for a right of way through the Des chutes Canyon. He has called upon the land office and reclamation ser vice to prepare for him a full report of all facts and when the statements are ready he will give them thorough ami prompt consideration and act as lie believes the facts Justify. Engineer Schlock, who is now at Deschutes making an Investigation, will be expected to report at the earli est practicable moment. So heavy has been the flood of in struments that have been filed with the county recorder that for the past two nights Recorder Hcndley has been compelled to work until midnight in order to catch up with his work. Itealtv transfers .-n-n K-.t.,.T corded very freely, most of the instrn-l mcnts being either from the east end' of the county or from the west end. Some very lengthy instruments have recently been sent in from tho Her-mlston-Echo country. Arguments for a new trial In the CLARENCE BISHOP NOT case of Parr and Gaston, accused of IV ppvnrrmv robbery, are being heard by Judge ul't'lu Bean this afternoon. Both men were clarence M. Bishop, brother of Roy - - l- rsisnop, ana wnose presence here is torneys immediately filed a motion necessary before the site for the for a new trial and the attorneys are, woolen mills can be selected did noi ar5Tll'nf? on this motion. arrive in Pendleton this morning, re- " ports to the contrary notwithstanding. Former Mayor John Boyd Thacher He is busily engaged In perfecting the of Albany, X. A"., who died last week, plans for the plant and according to was an escort to Lincoln In that city his brother may not arrive in Pendle when he was on his way to be inaugu- ton for two or three days. He may ratC(' arrive tomorrow morning, however. CALIFORNIA PRELATE DON'T AVANT JAPANESE SON-IN-LAW DEBS RAPS NEAV CABINET OFFICERS Girord, Kas., March llr Eugene Debs, the prcsident'nt candidate of the socialist parly, declared today: "The new administration Is composed ex clusively of wealth and representa tives of wealth. As most of the cab inet members arc lawyers, and sev eral openly trust lawyers, they can be depended upon to serve their class of clients." Frank Greer came down from Wes ton this forenoon, to pay his taxes. fan Francisco, March 11. Although Miss Helen Emery's mother admits the reported announcement of ivrie Emery's engagement to Gingurj Ooki, the son of a late Japanese gen erai, it is rumored here todav that the announcement was made over the protest of the girl's father, Archdea con Emery. It is reported that the prelate will withdraw from his home at Corte Madera owing to family dif ferences over the niattter. I n 1 Rim rniifinnn nnnTrnT munnnmr lli m hik) rnuitai iNNUWt HARRLMAN GIVES COOS BAY LITTLE HOPES OF RAILROAD Marshfield, Or.. March 11. E. II . Harrlman in a telegram to the Marsh field Chamber of Commerce, says that he will not build the Drain-Coos Bay line unless the people here guarantee 4 per cent on the cost of construction and the operating expenses of the line, n is regarded as practically a refusal to build. That they can show bills and re ceipts for shoes, clothing and other things which they purchased during the time they are charged with having stolen everything in that line that they needed, are the statements made by Charles Ely, transcontinental freight inspector, and William Ed wards, former truckman In the O. It & N. freight warehouse. On the wit ness stand yesterday Charles Dickens declared that neither of the men could show where they had ever bought a pair of shoes since the two men had been working in the ware house. Both men today declare they can show bills at Bond Brothers where they purchased their shoes and that they can show where Ely purchased shoes there regularly during the time he has been In the city. Edwards says ho bought his coal from Ben Rur roughs despite the fact that D'ckens tried to force stolen coal upon him. He also maintains that he can show receipts from the Walter's mill for purchases of wheat for chicken feed which he is accused by Dickens of having stolen. ' Edwards stoutly proclaims his in nocence of any wrong doing whatev er, and maintains that he never op ened a box in the warehouse or feright car in his life" and that he never stole a thing from the railroad company or from any of the shippers. He de clares the toy express wagona wer thrust upon him by Dickens and against his protests. It Is said by both Ely and Edward and other railroad men who are fa miliar with the case, that Dickens is tell:ng fabrications and is trying to implicate everyone he can In" an ef fort to save himself as much a-- pos sible. Local Agent Schuyler was placed on the stand yesterday afternoon to co roborate the statements of Dickens In so far as to show that the things which he said had been stolen had really been m'ssed from shipments, but as he did not have the original records It became necessary for thu court to adjourn the hearing until to morrow morning. A member of tho firm of Dunn Pros, of Condon, will then be here, n part of the shoo stol en being alleged to have been a con signment to him.