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t' V" " EVENING EDITION EVENING EDITIC:) --, ji I ,,, , . &&Mrj-.&z& WEATHER REPORT Fair tonight and Saturday. Catling cards, wed dlng stationery, com mercial stationery and Job printing to order t the East Oregon'.a.i. ' COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. VOL. 23. PENDLETON, ()JE(JOX, FlilDAY, MAKCII 11. 110. NO 6847 CAR HUM'S STOCK DECLINES Stockholders in Philadelphia Traction Company Growing Alarmed. UIG MASS MEETING TODAY TO URGE CONCESSIONS Company's Securities Depreciating' 25,000 Shares Dumped on Market Yesterday Strikers Attempt to Make Demonstration 'Police Use Club to Ilrcak It Up "March on CUty Hall" la Slogan Business Men ! Want Peace. Philadelphia, March 11. Stock holders in the Philadelphia Street Car company are alarmed today by the depreciation In value of the company's securities. It has declined several points since the strike began. Over twenty-five thousand shares were dumped on the market yesterday. Commercial Interests today contin ued their efforts to find a way to set tle the strike. The meeting is sched uled this afternoon to discuss the sit uation, which Is growing worse daily. The sixth day of the general strike witnessed an attempt to make the cen ter of the city the scene of a big dem onstration. The police blocked the move by ex ercise of "high handed methods" and "brutal, unwarranted force," the strike leaders claim In statements Issued last night. The action of the police was In prosecution of lawful, justifable means and with no more force than was necessary to check In Its lnclp lency what might have been a serious disturbance of the peace, the authori ties assert. , "March on the city hall," Is a slo gan that has been heard before in disturbances here. Suspecting that the crowd of 10,000 or more who had been prevented from holding an open air meeting In the national league park would take up the indicated line of march the authorities took measures to prevent the Invasion of the city's central districts by what It was feared might prove a turbulent mob. Police Check Marchers. Linos of police with active clubs partially checked the marchers on their way down Broad street more than two miles from the objective point. A mllo farther down they broke up the parade altogether. Half a dozen persons were Injured In the onslaught and succession of arrests were made. Crowds of unwonted pro portions thronged the spaces about the city hall until nightfall, but there was no organized demonstration. Last night at meetings of working men In various parts of the city and In statements by the strike leaders Incidents of the meetings were used as arguments to convince men who ar still sticking to their jobs that the time has come for all worklngmen to stand together. There were a few scattered points where disturbances of minor charac ter broke out today. Flying stones broke windows In a number of cars. More ears were oper ated than on any other day since the strike began 1.1(0 the company re ported, or 36 In excess of Wednesdays high record. STRIKE IS IMMINENT. Firemen on Railroads in West, North, west and Southwest of Clilengo. , Chicago, March 11. The 25,000 or more firemen on the 190,000 miles of railroads, west, northwest and south west of Chicago, who, by their vote, authorized their national officials to call a strike If the railroads refuse to grant wage concessions, will receive their answer from the railroads to day. At that time the general managers of the railroads will formally notify W. S. Carter of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Englnemen of their position In regard to the de mands. It may be several days be fore the union officials and the rall- MAT A 1 Judging by the records In the of fice of County Assessor Strain, the forest service and Plnchotlsm are not serving to prevent the public domain In Umatilla county from passing Into i the hands of actual settlers. Acc.ord lng to these records the aforesaid do main Is rapidly disappearing and Is being added to the taxable property of the state and county. During the year a total of 231 fi nal proofs were made, the 131 claims being represented thereby Including CROWD HOOTS PATTEN FROM COTTON EXCHANGE Manchester, Eng., March 11. t James A. Patton, the Chicago grain speculator, was hooted from the cotton exchange here this afternoon. After he left the exchange a crowd followed him along the street. He was finally forced to take refuge In an offlco of the building. The crowd was angered by the belief that Patten is here to repeat his alleged market "rigging." Patten went to his hotel after the police had dispersed the mob. road managers again meet to deter mine what shall be done. This arrangement followed a con ference yesterday of Mr. Carter and the Bremen's delegation and the rail road managers' committee, of which W. S. Nixon, general manager of the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad, is chairman. Managers of nine other western roads were present. The firemen pre sented their vote showing that 86 per cent of their membership were against accepting an agreement for improved working conditions without an in creas In wages. The railroads were told that the vote authorized a strike should the union officials decide it. It was then stated that the railroads would make their reply In writing to day. Confidence was expressed on both sides that a strike would be averted. A prominent railroad official said to night it was unlikely that the rail roads would grant the wage demands. SEVERE EARTHQUAKE FELT IN CALIFORNIA SEVERAL CITIES SHAKEN BY HEAVY THEM LOUS San Francisco, Stockton, San Jose and Other Cities Feel Earth Shako People Are lightened anil Rush Into Streets. San Francisco, March 11. A sharp earthquke, In some parts of the state the severest shock since the big earthquake In some parts of the state throughout the central part of Cali fornia last night about 10:Tit o'clock. The vibrations were long and undu latory but slow and the duration up to midnight. The shake was felt as far south as San Luis Obispo, but did not extend far north of San Francisco. Two pronounced heavy movements with a slight Interval of undulations between, were felt, but no damage has been reported. In San Francisco the people were, generally aroused and In the Western Union office virtually every operator left his key and got to his feet, which caused a report to Come from Port land that some of the San Francisco wires had been Interrupted. In two of the local theaters where the last act was just about closing, scores of people Jumped to their feet and in one of them there was a decided movement' from the galleries toward the exits which was promptly "stop ped by a policeman. In an Oakland theater there also were a number of timid persons who started for the doors, but cries of "sit down," promptly stopped them. People Run Into Street. At Modesto and Watsonville people ran Into the streets and at the latter place some crockery Is reported to have been broken. The shock was particularly severe on a line running north from Monterey throurh Wat sonville. Santa Cruz and Ran Jose and it aso was felt in Santa Rosa. In San Francisco Immediately fol lowing the shake, the small and badly frightened force of operators In the telephone centrals and long distance were fairly overwhelmed with the calls that came in from every direction. The huge bonrd suddenly became fairly nllve with the little iights calling for central. . According to the seismograph rec ord at Chabot Observatory, the shock was only one and a half seconds In duration In Ooklnnd. IS FAST PASSIN6 AWAY both timber claims and homesteads. A total of 46,000 acres or exactly two townships ore Included In these claims, thus Indicating the rapidity with which the government land is passing into the hands of individuals. Another significant feature of the records In this connection Is the show ing that a total of 2040 acres of al lotted Indian lands have come into the possession of white farmers. This land is of the average value of $40 per acre and Is also to be added to the taxable property of tho county. era cur MEN INDICTED Officers of Lumber and Rail way Companies Held tor Violating Land Laws. WILL RE RELEASED ON BONDS OF $5000 EACH Grant Gcddcs, Joseph Harton and James R. Sniurthwelglit, Officers of Oregon Lumber Company and Sumpter Valley Railroad, Indicted for Illegal Acquisition of Valuable Timlior Lands Other Defendants Named Rut Names Are Kept Secret. Portland. March 11. Grant Oed des, Joseph Barton and James R. Smurthwelght, all of Baker City, offi cers (if the Oregon Lumber company and Sumpter Valley railroad, who were arrested on an Indictment re turned yesterday by the federal grand Jury for alleged violation of the land laws, are expected to deposit bonds of $.ri000 each today. Other defendants were named In the indictment, but acting under Instructions from Judge Hean. the court officials refused to di;utgo their names until the war rants were served. The same Instruc tions applied to the character of the charge contained in the Indictment. The defendants arrested are associat ed with David Eccles, the Salt Lake millionaire, In the lumber business In eastern Oregon and the indictments resulting from an Inquiry by govern ment officials into the manlier of ac quisition of hundreds of acres of valu able timber lands by the lumber and railway companies of which Eccles is president. MIXERS CARRY OX WINTER SI.MCING: CLEAR I P FORTIIXE Seattle, Mar. 11. For the first time ii; the history of placer mining in Al aska, winter sluicing has been success fully carried on in the Tanana dis trict, word to this effect having been brought to Settle by Knute Larson an, Albert Halfinner. two miners who came down on the steamer Vic toria and deposited $175,000 In gold In a local bank yesterday. The gold brought down by the miners repre sents their winter's cleanup, and came from a claim on the tributary of Es tey creek in the Fairbanks district, where Larson and Halfinner sluiced throughout the winter without inter ruption. Larson anil Halfinner commenced sluicing in October and worked con tinually day and night shifts. MI1S. CEDAHY 11 AS OFFERS. Would Go On Stnc But Children Are in the Way, She Says. Kansas c.ty. March 10. Mrs. Jack Cudahy, whose husband attacked Banker Lillls Sunday morning, said today she had received a score of of fers to go on the stage but had de clined them all. "Really, though." she added, "if it were net for my children, I would go on the stage. The stage always has appealed to me. Not the glamor of the footlights or the plaudi.ts of the people, but the life and the people. It Is the goodfellowship you find among the members of the profession that appeals to me." Mr. Lillis today was quoted as say ing Mrs. Cudahy had been unjustly accused of misconduct. He Is said to' be improving rapidly. DEGENERATE FATHER TRIES TO SELL HIS DAUGHTER Stockton. Cal.. March 10. The ar rest of James Davis, a resident of French Camp, on a charge of contrib uting to the alleged delinquency of his daughter, has brought to light an attempt said to have been made by Davis several months ago to sell the girl to a sheepherder for $3. The matter was brought to the attention of Superior Judge Frank H. Smith, who ordered the child brought to this city and placed In an orphanage. Da vis, It appears, disregarded the courts order and his arrest has resulted. FRIENDS AND FOES OP APPLE BOX BILL MEET COMMITTEE Washington. March 11. Commis sion merchants favoring Lafean ap ple box bill appeared yesterday be fore the house committee on agri culture and later in the afternoon the opponents of the measure came be fore the committee and declared it to be unconstitutional. The hearings will not be finished for several weeks. Jockey Fined 9100, ' Oakland, Cal., March 10 Jockey Taplin was fined $100 for rough rid ing at Emeryville today. Finding himself In close quarters near the finish, Taplin struck Jockey Glass on Waner with his whip. Taplin landed Biased a winner by a narrow margin. T H. M. Byllesby and Company of Chicago Buy Big Light and Gas Company. HAS POWER PLANTS IN MANY CITIES IXCHDIXG PENDLETON KcMrt That Are Corroborated Say That Northwestern Corporation Has Sold Out Entire Holding to Chicago Capital Properties Involved Are AH Over Northwest Officials Re fuse to Confirm Statements Local Office Knows Nothing. Portland, Mar. ll.--Corrobo- ration was obtained here today of the reported sale by the Northwestern corporation of its numerous gas, water and elec- trie light, power plants in Ore- gon and Washington to H. M. Byllesby and company -of Chi- cago. It Is understood the new owners will add to their hold- ings in the northwest by pur- chase and by the extensions of the railway systems acquired. The price paid is not announced. Among the properties Involv- ed are the electric light systems at Pendleton. Corvallls. Dallas and Monmouth. Oregon, the gas plants at North Yakima, Lewis- ton and F.ugene. the street rail- way system at Walla Walla and valuable water power sites along the Kenzie river and in I'ma- tilla county. In addition Byllesby & Co. are said to have obtained a sixty day option on the North Coast railroad, paying a hundred thousand dollars for It. The first reports of the sale of the Northwestern corporation holdings came from Walla Walla yesterday af ternoon, the first intimation that the deal had gone through having come from Colonel F. J. Parker, formerly of Walla Walla, but now of Portland. The Chicago capitalists who are said to be behind Byllesby & Company are not known. Walla Walla officials refuse to con firm the statements made by Parker but they admit that Chicago capital is soon to enter the northwest field. The Pendleton office, of which Dr. F. W. Vincent is the manager has re ceived no official notice of the sale. Colonel Parker stated yesterday that Manager A. L. Welch, of the North western Corporation told him the en tire holdings of the company had been sold and that the same capitalists held a 60 day option on the proper ties of the North Coast railroad, for which they paid $100,000. Welch is now In Chicago winding up the deal. When shown the story yesterday Manager George O'Connor of Walla Walla, said. "I know nothing of it whatever! It Is all news to me." When asked If Mr. Welch was In Chi cago Mr. O'Connor said he thought the manager was In Portland, the cen tral office. He admitted however that for some time back efforts had been made to purchase the corpor ation. lut he said he knew of no such deal having been consummated. Possibly Just Pendleton and Wnlla Wnlla. An entirely different light was thrown on the matter yesterday af ternoon when one of those who Is intimate with the workings of the company gave out a few facts. These are that H. M. Byllesby & Co., the Chicago capitalists do not Intend to purchase the entire holdings of the Northwest corporation, but merely the holdings of the company In this city and Pendleton. They also wish to purchase and have mnde frequent proposals to Robert Strahorn, owner of the North Yakima electric com pany to purchase his holdings In North Yakima. It may be possible that these facts have either been mis understood by Welch or Parker, and that but the two deals are pending. Strahorn has frequently denjfd his holdings In North Yakima are In any way connected with the North Coast, saying that the electric plant is en tirely separate. It is the Intention of the Chicago men to complete the feed lines from North Yakima to Pasco and furnish the necessary power for several largo irrigation projects now under way In that part of the Walla Walla valley. The right of way for these lines has already been secured by Strahorn, who Is now so much engrossed In the North Coast he has let the Pasco pro ject go by default. It Is not known what the intentions of Byllesby & Co. are as to the Walla Walla-Pendleton plants, but it Is surmised that the In tention Is to have Walla Walla. North Yakima and Pendleton, Included In one gigantic electric system. The holdings of the corporation in Walla Walla and Pendleton are esti mated worth more than a million dol lars while the Strahorn plant Is prob- IMS 1 SEATTLE-TACOMA CAR COLLIDES WITH FREIGHT Seattle, March 11. In a dense fog at midnight the Seattle Tacoma limited on the Interur ban railway, crashed into a freight train two miles south of Kent, injuring three of the 30 passengers and one of the train men. Mrs. W. J. Gross of Ta coma. was cut about the head and face and an unknown man was severely Injured internally. Both trains wt Tneomn-hound and -the passenger ran Into the rear of the freight. : ' l ' ably valued at about one-fuurth that sum. The Byllesby Co. has recent ly purchased the electric systems in Olympia. Vancouver, Wash., and also owns a plant In Seattle. In speaking of his knowledge of the transaction. Colonel Parker said: "Last Wednesday I called on Mr. Welch and asked if the corporation had been sold. He denied all knowl edge of any such deal, and said that he did not think it was so. He offer ed, however, to give me $40 a share for all the stock that I held. I refus ed. On Friday he called me again, and offered me $4 7.50 for my stock. He then told me that the deal had gone through, and that there were but two blocks of stock, my own and that of E. R. Allen of Walla Walla, that the corporation could not get in. He said I. W. Anderson had tele graphed to get hold of all the stock and that the deal had been successful ly made. I again refused to sell. "Later I was told on what I know to be reliable authority, that the same Chicago interests that bought the corporation, had taken a three days' option on the Strahorn holdings for $10,000, extending It to 60 days for $100,000. Operations that have tended to show that another deal on in Pasco was made when certain con cessions were made to me for a right of way through my land there. This is also still pending. "But you can quote me as saying that the deal for the sale of the Northwestern corporation has been consummated, and that according to Manager A. 'Welch, a Chicago firm took the entire holdings in the north west." NEGRO'S WIFE SAYS PEARY IS IRATE MATT HENSOX'S WIFE DEXOVXCES POLE FINDER Says the Conimrnder Has Done Noth ing to Reward Her Husband for His 23 Years of Service and Sacri fice Forgets Obligations In Lust for Money. New York, N. Y., Mar. 11. Com mander Peary Is accused of ingrati tude today by Mrs. Matt Henson, wife of the negro who accompanied Peary or his dash to the north pole. "Since returning from the pole, Peary has dropped my husband entirely," she said. "He hasn't done a thing in re cognition of his 23 years of service, to say nothing of having saved Peary's life on more than one occasion. As far as Peary knows or cares, Matt might be starving to death. Prob ably Peary, who is getting all the money, hasn't -time to think of the man who helped make him famous." Increase Oats Stock. New York. Mar. 11. At a special meeting of the stockholders of the Quaker Oots company today the com mon stock was Increased by $1,000, 000. from $4,500,000 to $5. 500,000. Only half of this increased amount will be disposed of this year. It will be disposed of at par to the holders of common stock. Last year the company opened a mill in Hamburg, nnd a new mill is soon to be erected. To Charter Rockefeller Foundation. Washington. D. C. March 11. A favorable report on the bill to au thorize the chartering of the Rocke feller foundation was decided upon today by the senate committee of the District of Columbia. Charles Estes. one of the gamblers t who was caught in the raid made by j the police on room 9 in the Taylor & ' Brownfield building several days ago, 1 spent a few hours in the city Jail this I morning. Later his brother came to I his rescue and paid the $25 fine which had been assessed against him. Estes failed to appear In police court Monday when the cases were brought up against tho other players. Since that time he Is said by the po lice to have been in hiding. Chief of Police Ourdane ha been on the look ANOTHER GAMBLEn MONEY T. I PUMPS INTERVIEWERS Newspaper Men Who Seek to Make Roosevelt Talk Ha''e Tables Turned. TEDDY WON'T TALK ABOUT POLITICS IV AMERICA Swarm of Press Representatives Be seige ex-President When he Qulta Steamer Refuses to Discuss Pub" lie Issues Shoots Many Question at His Interviewers He and Kermtt In Perfcrt Health But Others Suf fer. (By Staff Correspondent U. P.) Renk. Soudan, March 11. Colonel Roosevelt has absolutely nothing t say regarding American politics. All efforts to induce him to discuss mat ters now before the public failed to day. Looking bronzed and healthy he arrived on the steamer Dal today and was immediately besieged by a group of newspaper correspondents. He greeted them with characteristic enthusiasm, all being his personal friends. But it was Roosevelt who did the questioning and newspapermen who unburdened themselves of comments. The coinnel proved a greedy listener. He and Kermit appeared in perfect health, but Cunningham, Loring, Hel ler and Mearns showed the effects of their recent escape from fevers. Roosevelt plans to spend eight days on the trip from Khartoum to Cairo. He will sail for Naples April 1 and from Naples a number of sightseeing trips, will be made and then the par ty will Journey to Rome, Vienna and Budapest. He expects to arrive in Paris April April 23 and then-will go to Berlin and London. Nothing to Say. "I have nothing to say and will hars nothing to say on American or for eign politics," declared the colonel. Then turning to the United Press cor respondent, he said. "I want to ask you to state once more, through your association, that I will grant no In terviews and make no statements of any kind on American or world pol itics. The public can accept as false as soon as it appears, anything pur porting to be an interview with m relative to such subjects." , REPRESENTATIVE WHO WAS OPPONENT OF T. R. DIES Washfhgton, March 11. Represen ! tative James Perkins of New York, ! died early today after a long illness. During the closing days of the six j tieth congress, Perkins was leader of the opponents of Roosevelt's secret 1 sen-Ice recommendations. Teddy and Wife Meet Monday. Kartoum, March 11. Roosevelt will arrive here Monday, three days ahead of his schedule. Mrs. Roose velt will arrive only a few hours ahead of her husband. JACK JOHNSON READY FOR ROUGH TRAINING Chicago, 111., March 11. Jack John son, looking capable of doing rough training, is making preparations to day to assemble his corps of trainers preparatory to leaving for the coast. He will probably occupy quarters on Ocean Beach at San Francisco. He desired to cut short his preliminary training here and to hasten to Cali fornia in order to become acclimated. Johnson weighs 225 pounds. IXJl'RF.D YICTTM S OP AVALANCHE TO SEATTLE Spokane, Mar. 11. Eighteen Injur ed victims of the Wellington wreck arrived In this city today. The train was transferred to the Northern Pa cific and the injured were taken to Seattle. L IN POLICE COURT out, however, and as soon as Estes ap peared on the street this morning he was taken Into custody. On being ar raigned before Police Judge Fits Gerald he entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to pay a fine of $25 or serve twelve days in jail, ne said he did not have the $25 and so was lock ed tip. A few hours later his broth er came to the rescue with the neces sary $25. This makes a total of $175 turned into the city treasury as a result of the raid.