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EVENING EDITION WEATHER REPORT Fair tonight and Sat unlay. Calling cards, wed ng stationery, cem creial stationery and ,ub printing to order Rt the East Oregonlan- COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER e CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. VOL. 22. PENDLETON, OKECJON, FIM DAY, FKHH UAH V 4, 1910. NO 6817 N E Secretary of Interior Secures Another Postponement ef Investigation. WANTS MOHK TIME ' , TO SECURE ATTORNEYS GnitgrraHloiMl Committee Reopens In vestigation Only to Adjonrn Anoth er Week at Ilallinger'a Request Wants Time- to Select Counsel to Astdst In Cross Examination da vis' Attorney Takes Hot Shot at At torney. Hnllinger's Counsel Selected. Washington, Feb. 4. It was announced nt the White IIouso today that Secretary Ballinger will be represented at the con- gresslonnl investigation Into his department by Attorney John Vertreen, a prominent democrat- Ic lawyer of Tennessee, and At- ' torncy Carl Rasch, formerly district attorney In Montana. Vertreen arrived today and was taken to the White House to see the president, by Secretary of War Dickenson, who Is his personal friend. Secretary Pal- linger was then summoned, and the entire situation reviewed by the president. Washington. Feb. 4. Adjournment until one week from today was taken nt the request of Secretary Ballinger when the congressional investigat'on into his department was resumed this morn'n;: after poslponi merit from '.aft Monday The secretary said that In view of the. f act that the committee had roiucMed him to employ counsel to erohs-cxamlne the witnesses, to re lieve the committee of this labor, he would ask for a week's time in which to employ h s attorneys. In a state ment to the United Press, Ballinger said lie had already eh-. sen his coun sel but was not ready to reveal their identity. , lirandels Scores Ballinger. The brief opening of the committee today was nia-kod by bitter remarks by Attorne y I'rande s. who represents Glayls, and who unsparringly criti cized the delay of the Interior de partment in producing letters and documents, which he asked for a wei'k ago. Tlie secretary of the com mittee read two letters. one from Chairman Nelson suggesting that Bal ling! r secure counsel, and the other from Itallinger stating that ho desir ed the committee not to be hampered and that it was because. a full Inves tigation was not being secured that ho determined to have counsel pres ent. Itallinger In a letter requested that the hearing b postponed in or der that he could make complete ar rangements. s TniRCI.ENT SEINE STILL ON ITS RECEDINC. COURSE Paris, Feb. 4. The Seine continues its steady recession today, and it was predicted by the fluvial department that It would reach Its normal level in a week. The conditions through- That William ltoyd, the Moacham woodchopper went to his death by the sulcldo route and not by freezing, was the discovery made yesterday by Cor oner Folsom. This officer returned last evening on a freight train from the scene of the tragedy after having satisfied himself that the man met death at his own hands. When first discovered It was thought that the unfortunate man had lost hjs bearings In a snowstorm and had frozen to death. When the coroner arrived he found that the man's throat was cut from ear to ar. A bloody razor and butcher knife, tho latter of great dimensions, lying by his side, told the simple story. Tho ., maize of tracks which first indicated that the man was lost. Is now belcycd to have been made on purpose.. by him In order to throw anyone, off. his track who might try to I find him.,,. , , There is about five feet of snow on top of, the mountain at this time and the body of the suicide was ly ing on the crust of 'the first 'snow, which was about four feet deep. More T wo n i is MANAGUA IN TERROR AT ESTRADA'S APPROACH Washington, Feb. 4. Mana gua Is In a state bordering on panic today as the result of the approach of General Estrada's revolutionary forces upon the city. ' News of the insurgent commander's advance was re ceived at the state department today in an official communlca day according to DeOIivares' re S. consul at the Nicaragua? capital. The rebels won a de cisive victory at Boaca yester day according to DeOlIvare's re port. After two hours of fight ing the government forces of president Madrlz were routed with heavy losses. out the district stricken by t'he floodB are generally Improved today and the work of ministering to the homeless and hungry Is greatly facilitated. The July column of the bastlle was closed to the public this afternoon, as many great stones of the wall sealing the tombs under the monument were j found to have been loosened by the j action of the water and the authori ties ordered the public be parred until they can be Trplaced. Coroner's Jury Says Murder. Astoria, Ore., Feb. 4. That Swan Pearson a farmer, living at Knappa was murdered Tuesday near th'tt place then robbed and bis gody placed on the track In front of a freight train by which it was ground to pieces was established today st the coroner's inquest. So far there is no clue to the murderer, but it is known that he took from the body about Jjn and some private papers. L ACCUSED OF. ABERDEEN MAN ALLE(.EI) TO BE MONSTER OF CRIME Body of Man Found in (iray's Har bor Weighted Don ii Willi Anchor Police Try to Connect Cold Spirit Him Away, Fearing lynch ing Bee Irlsoncr Accused or 40 .Murders. Aberdeen, Wash., Feb. 4. Stoutly protesting his innocence of the whole sale murder which local police arc trying to connect him with. William C " '. "ont of the sailors union here today Is under a special guard In the Jail at Moiitosano. The spirting away of the prisoner from Aberdeen was prompted by threat" of vloh nee on the part of angry sailors, who con rested the streets last night and dis cussed the murder charge against lohl. The authorities feared that longshoremen and sailors would storm the Jail and lost no time In removing their prisoner to a' place of safety. flohl, who came here several years ago from San Francisco, Is directly charged with the murder of Charles Ilattenlxrg, a sailor, formerly In the employ of the accused njan, whose body was found in the waters of tlrays Harbor weighted down with n fifty pound anchor with ,o Jagged hides through the bend. In addition to the murder of Hattonbcrg, the po lice arc trying to connect Gobi with the death of forty persons whose bod ies have been found in the harbor here dining the past five years. Gohl maintains he Is Innocent of any wrong doings. than a foot has fallen since the sui cide. The body was entirely covered hut the outline of his form was plain ly visible, as were his tracks. He was lying on his face and as his head was not uncovered by the first discov erers of the tragedy, tho blood was not seen until tho coroner arrived yesterday to take charge of the re mains. Boyd was about 65 years of age ana unmarried. He had spent the greater part of his life In the Grand Ronde valley and a brother arrived In Meacham last evening from Union to take tho remains back to that place for burial. He had been living In a lonely hut on the mountain top while cutting wood for W. B. Ross, the well-known Meacham rancher, and It Is supposed that his lonely life Is re sponsible for the mental derange ment which resulted In his ending his own life. Friends had noticed, sev eral days before, that he was acting queerly,' but no one paid any particu lar attention to him. The tragedy is believed to have been enacted about ten days or two weeks ago. CLOSE ESCAPE Famous Aviator Hits Fence While Rising and Machine is Mass of Wreckage. NERVY L11TLE FRENCHMAN ESCAPES WITHOUT IN.H'RY Daring Skyman Makes Exhibition Flight at Denver which Nearly Re suits Disastrously Craniied by Lack or S)ace in Which t Rise Acroplane Cra.shcH Into Fence and Falls a tt'tw'k Paulhan Quickly Extricates Himself. Denver, Feb. 4. Louis Paulhan, the French aviator, had a narrow es cape from death yesterday afternoon when his biplane hit the fence guard ing the race track at Overiand park and came down in a heap of wreck age. Paulhan was thrown headlong, but beyond a severe shaking up, es caped unharmed. Previous to the accident. Paulhan had successfully guided his machine up into the rare mounta'n air and had circb-d the overland race track a doyen time or more. He then came to the ground ami-it was an nounced that the French aviator would attempt t fly over the business i istri. i of Denver, thro,, or four miles away and return. Put the van-way for his machine, not over no yards in length, and cramped by the race track fence and an Irrigation i;,h running diagonal ly across the grounds. proved tog .Hort for Paulhan on his second at tempt. Tlie machine left the v round but too cl'.-,.. to the f' nee. along which were clustered lors. I'e sc littered many esciping -truck tin- t'riu and ricocheted ditch. l'-e;ikimr hundreds of specta- ,1 the people like chaff, injury by falling, and then rebounded on the bank of the "e "f the sta.'ting wheels. Paulhan shut off his motor and brought tlie much lie to a stand still at (he far end of the course. The machine was trundled back, repaired and again Paulhan attempted a flight, tliis time with d'sastrouu re sults. Crashes Into IVncc. ( The biplane was not three feet from i tlie ground win n the i ml of the run-j way was reached and although the j game little Frenchman tried despcrat- i ely to swerve his machine, he was j unable to do so, and it crashed into the fence, through it into the ditch. ! hounded and came down in a mass el tingled wreckage in the middle of the race track. Paulhan was fairly catapulted from his seat, hut be lit In the : oft snow and slush and es caped injury. lie scrambled to his feet in an ill start, made n dive for his engine, which was still "whirring madly and shut it off. Then mounting the bank of the diich. he waved his hand in the direction of the big tent, where l i'. frantic wife was standing, looked disgustedly at his wrecked machine for a moment, then trudged across the field, leaving the week to his as sistants and the police. An ambulance and two nurs were there almost as soon ns Pallidum had scramble 1 to his feet, but he did not need them. A do n or more persons were, knocked down by Die machine when Ir tore through the fence, but no one was seriously injured. wol;ast and xei.son come NEAR CLASHING IN PRIVATE San Francisco. Feb. 4. With tears streaming dowu, his cheeks. Ad Wol gast tore off his coat last night Inthe office of Sid Hester, the fight pro moter, where an effort was being made to settle terms of the Wolgn.st N'clson fight and offered to fight Bat tling Nelson then and there before the little crowd of newspaper men, fight promoters, managers and local sports. He stood In front of Nelson, hurl ing his defiance, but Nelson never rose from his chair. When Wolgast had finished his tirade, Nelson offered to wager J5000 against $2500 of Wol gasfs money, he and Wolgast to lock themselves In any room in the build ing with tho agreement that the one who unlocked the door first should collect the bet. Those present Inter fered and the two fighters were kept apart. Wolgast's Ire had been aroused by taunting remarks made by Nelson. The articles of agreement for the Washington's birthday match were not signed last night because Nelson and Tom Jones. Wolgast's manager, could not agree on the matter of a side bet. Nelson said that ' It should be $5000 at even money, while Jones would listen to nothing else but put ting himself on tho short end of a $6000 to $3600. The fighters and their managers will meet with Hester next Monday night when the side bet proposition will be settled and n ref eree selected. 1 Liner Kentucky on Maiden Trip Springs Leak Off Cape Henlopen. WIRELESS ABOARD SENDS NEWS OF PREDICAMENT Steamer Bound for Pacific Coast He Itorted Sinking With Many Passen gers Abound U. S. Battleship Or dered to Assistance ship Valued at 2i)ti.MH) and Is Fully Insured Doomed Vessel Mas No Cargo Aboard. San Francisco, Feb. 4 Between 35 and 40 men are aboard the steam ship Kentucky which Is reported slnk ;f Beaufort. X. C. in the Atlan t ocean, according to officials of tin- Alaska Pacific Steamship com pany of this city. The company, whih recently bought the vessel esti mates her value at about $200,000, : ii 1 !,,. is fnily insure,!. On her trip r i -in New Vork. the Kentucky car :'.! n i ear?'. Ii- r only burden being coal. It was expected that she would m, V. 'h" voyag,. from New York to .- in Fraiu i-eo In about ,'.S days. She v hp r.:;: y.,ed with a wireless and In iliis v, y t'.v news of her condition was s' nt nut. Charleston, S. (. Feb. 4. The new i in r Kentucky is reported by wire less '.o sinking today north of Ba hama is. amis. The liner Alamo was despatched to the founderng vessel. The K i titcky belongs to the Alaska Pacific lies and was making her maiden voyage lit tween New York .lid Pacific coast ports, ft is known hcr- that many persons were aboard bound for California, Oregon and Vr"!'j"!i'!i. The mt.iriv wireless rts y the Kentucky sprank a a v thou;:'i no ffreiioiice was made to t:i,. ecu,, of the accident. The ..--,1 -.v.'s in longtinrde 76:43, lattl tude .12: IS 'north, whin reported in distress. Battlc-liip to Aid. Washington. Feb 4. The navy de-i-aii'iieiit this afternoon ordered the battleship Louisiana to proceed with all possible speed to the aid of the loi'T Kentucky, which is reported to sidiiag off Cape Henlopen. Crew of an Men. V, w Y..rk Feb. 4. The Kentucky, which is ri ported sinking off Cape Henlopen. carries thirty men. She is a p.iddleivheel steamboat, formerly in thi- serviie of the Joy Fine, plying bet", eeu rrovidenee and Boston. The vessel Is rated nt 450 tons. : OREGON MAN PAYS FI NERAL I EXPENSES AND KILLS SELF S.ni Jose. Cal.. Feb. 4. After leav ing enough money with a local under-t-.king establishment to defray the ex I penscs of his funeral a man supposed to lie c ,T. Hall of Cottage Grove, jiircgon, purchased a revolver yester Iday afternoon and committed suicide jnear Oak Hill cemetery. In his hand I v i s found a paper napkin on which I was written his name, with instruc 'tions that the undertaker with whom j he had made arrangements yiimilil be I not f ie.l. Woman IvilN lcrclf. S' attic. Feb. 4. Although Mrs. Frances Soininsky. tlie wife of a mine foreman and the mother of six chil dren, died from taking carbolic acid Tin sday night, the coroner did not learn of the woman's death until he saw the death certificate late yester day. He immediately started an In vestigation and found that the wo man had taken the poison In a fit of Insanity. No action will be taken age Inst the attending physician for failing to report the suicide to the coroner.. Heuitt Won't Talk. Cincinnati, Feb. 4. P. A. Hewitt, whom Charles L. Warrlner today tes tified was auditor of the Big Four niilroad during the latter's defalca tions, declined to discuss Wurriner's statement thnt the shortage might easily have been discovered. It was learned last night that Mr. Hewitt's connection with the railway ended on February 1. It s said that he Is to become auditor of the New Vork Central clearing house at Buf falo. RUSSIAN CIGARETTES GROW IN UNITED STATES Washington. American smokers of Russian cigars and cigarettes will be Interested In the report of Consul Gen eral Snodgrass of Moscow to this gov ernment. He says: "The tobacco used In the manufac ture of cigars In Russia Is partly grown In the country from American seeds, but the best cigars and the wrappers of Inferior grades are made from tobacco Imported mainly from the United States and Cuba " PARIS WILL PREPARE FOR FUTURE FliOODS -r Paris. Feb. 4. A bill to. pro- vide for the appropriation of 118,000,000 for the construe- tlon of a canal south of the Paris fortifications to carry off future overflows of the Seine was introduced today in the chamber of deputies. The or- Iglnal plan proposed by the en- $ glneers was for the construction of a large canal to encircle fr Paris, and Its environs in order to guard against future Inunda- Hons. It is believed now, how- ever, that a canal to the south of the city will be sufficient to protect from future floods. TRAPPED IN AN ATTIC CHILDREN ARE BURNED Wilmington. Del.. Feb 4. Trapped in the attic of their home between Camden and Wyoming, the four grandchildren of Ezekiel Hackett, a farmer, were burned to death short ly after midnight. The youngest vic tim was three and the oldest fifteen MEN. IMWJS AND SHEEP I I,IE FROZEN TO DEATH ! Reno. Fed. 1. On Hie. desert near i Donnelly mountain, two men, five i (loirs and :im) shecji lie frown to ; death in the snow uccordinr to a fitory 1 told here today by H French sliecp j rerdcr who jusl arrived from thai ; section. FOR PACIFIC COAST j HAYS AND HUMPHREYS ' EXPLAIN SITUATION HERE Hepixscntinr Western Delegation. Address House Committee on Naval J Affairs Want Snlimarliin nft to ; Protect Harbors. Wa-hingtoo. Feb. 4 Congressmen Hayes of California and Humphreys of Y.'ash'ngton. testified before the house committe on naval 'affairs to day that the Pacific coast is practi cally without protection in the event of war. They urged the construction of ten submarines to be authorized for the Pacific coat this year. The two congressmen appeared as a special committe., representing the whole Pa cific coast membership. Almost i very portion of the western coast of the United States, they declare, will be practically at the'mercy of a hostile force. The current in the Golden (late cut ranee at San Francisco har bor, they explained, was so strong as to make it almost impossible to un derlay the gate with mines. They suggested, in view of this fact, that the only way the harbor might be as sured protection would be by the constant presence in its waters of submarine craft. Adequate protec tion for Puget sound was aiso de manded. Uecause of the dense fog often prevailing there, Humphreys de clared foreign warships might slip through the entrance to the sound unseen. I Columbia George Is Home. j After having spent the last nine years in county, state and federal I prisons, Columbia George, the Indian , who was pardoned recently by Pres ident Talt from McNeill's island, is again in Pendleton. He returned yes terday from the sound and is look looking on his old-time Indian friends on the reservatim IK ESTATE 15 INTACT FOB When the late T. J. Kirk, farmer and legislator, made his late will and testament, a few years before his death, he arranged to tie up his ex tensive estate and keep It Intact for 20 years after his death. This fact became known when the will was ad mitted to probate this morning and the terms of the document became public. According to the terms of the will, the estate may remain Intact for even a longer period than 20 years for the tester specified that If at the expira tion of that time his widow was still alive and unmarried that It should be kept together until her death. While the exact value of the es tate Is not known, it will amount to between $175,000 and $200,000. . By the terms of the will the widow Is to receive $700 annually so long as she remnlnR his widow and Is to have the home place In the town of Ath ena, with all that goes with It so long as she lives. At her death this prop erty Is to revert to the estate but If at any time the house should be de stroyed by fire it Is to be rebuilt for LIVED LIFE Testimony in Hermann Trial Shows Pleasures of Defen dant in Bygone Days. RECEIVES PRESENT OF FRUITS FROM FOREffTER Jury in Conspiracy Cu.e Regaled With Stories of nermann's Life Aa a Commissioner Ileney Sapplie Important Link Tiirongh Tbla j Menus Shows Ringer Took Trip in Special Car to Inspect Oil Fields ui California. Portland, Feb. 4. Luscious or anges, Juicy grapes and trips in spe cial cars whetted the appetites and imaginations of the Jury listening in the trial of the Binger Hermann Blue Mountain conspiracy c;ue today. Rut th- grap.s and oranges have long si nee been eaten, and the car long sin"e ridden In by Hermann. Only letters and testimony, mostly dry and iiiiintcn sting, told of th .- pleasures of other days. The letters were written to P.. F. Allen, forest superintendent in California in 19 42, thanking him for presents of choice fruit sent to the commissioner in Washington. They put in another link in the con tention f Prosecutor Francis J He ncy that Hermann knew Allen well, and iiiusL have had his attention spe cially interested when the Holsinger report on the Hyde-Bcnscn frauds, ehnrg'iiu" Aiien with having been bribed, came before him. The car trip ram? in to assist in the refreshment of Hermann's niem ei legarding a trip he made to Fres no to inspect oil fields there, upon which occasion he sat in h's special car and was taken to the fields. This eei,Tcc -Vf's rlaa coiTyni) tfl ohOW that Hermann 'raid particular atten tion to the charges mad. in th Hol singer report. CI.AI IlE W. ARNOLD PLAY'S OLD G ME OF 'POSStuM Feigning uneonseiousnessj Claude V. Arnold, the convicted murderer of Alfred R bial was found lying on the flocr of the corridor in the county jail. Wednesday evening by Sher'ff Taylor. An examination quickly con vinced the officers that there was nothing wromr with the man, but to make sure a physician was called. Af ter an exam'nation he pronounced it a clear case of playing sick. To make his play good. Arnold re mained in his cot up till noon yester day, but s lice that time he has appar ently been In as good physical condi tion as ever. Today he has been talking with his brother and other friends who have called to see him. His attorneys have decided not to " appeal hs case to the supreme court and Sheriff Taylor and Peputy Sheriff Pert Wilson will leave tonight for Sa lem t,, deliver the murderer to the warden of the pen'tent'ary where he is to si end the remainder of his days. Weather Moderating Slowly. Slowly but surely the weather In modi rating and the snow is disappear ing, much to the delight of everyone. Tuesday night the mercury registered at zero, Wednesday night It was one above and last night it was nine above. From present appearances it will not go below ten or twelve to night. T8 REMAIN TWENTY YEARS her out nf tltc fund of the estate and if illness or anything similar should cause her expenses to be more than $700 per year, the difference Is to be made up by the executor from th funds of the estate. . Thomas Edward Erhart is to re ceive $500 when he becomes 21 years of age and Thomas Jefferson Kirk is to receive $1,000 when he become of age. After five years, each of the fol lowing named heirs are to receive $1,000 annually: Alice Ackles, Annie McCannon, Alma KoonU, Nina and Jeanet(e Jack, daughters of Mrs. K.tU Jack, who was a daughter of the de ceased. It is specified that the $8,000 In surance which he carried Is to be di vided equally among his heirs as soon as collected but that the remainder of his estate is to be kept together and under the control of his executors for 20 years, at the expiration of which time it Is to be divided equally among his children or their heirs. Edward Koonts and Marlon Jack are named as executors. i