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EVENING EDITION EVENING EDITIOI) Calling card, wed ding stationery, com mercial stationery and Job printing to order at the East Oregenian. WEATHER REPORT. Fair tonight and prob ably Thursday. I'OUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. VOL. 23. PENDLETON. OBEGQN, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 15, 1911. NO. 7137 -v V RECIPROCITY PASSES HOUSE United Democracy Wins Vic tory for President Taft's Treaty. (INSURGENT REPUBLICANS ALSO SUPPORT EXECUTIVE Meemiro Carries By Big Majority Af ter Long and Bitter Debate Ma jority of RepubtUfins Vote No Democrats Welcome Taft and In surgent Into Fold of Domocracy. Washington, Ffeb. 16. President Taft's reciprocity agreement, with Canada was referred la the house of representatives lust night, through the support of an almost solid democrat ic vote. The McCall bill carrying the agreement Into effect was passed, 221 to 92. The majority of the republicans present voted against the measure the dlviRlon being 78 nays and 78 noes. The democratic vote was 143 ayes and only five noes. A majority ot- the republican In surgent presto t voted for the bill. The McCall bill now goes to the enate. That 1U fate will be In that body Is problematical. President Taft believes if a filibuster can be .voided and a vote taken, the bill will pass. Ho Is insistent that the senate hall act one way or the other and has Indicated that he would call an extra session of congress if It does not do so. The passage of the bill in the house came at the end of a long debate that at times was as bitter as has been heard on the floor of that cham ber in years. The fight was confined almost wholly to the republican side. Democratic members joined In from time to time, and taunted the major ity members for their lack of unity. The democratic leaders also put in the claim that the reciprocity agree ment was good democratic doctrine and doclared they were glad to wel come President Taft and many of the house republicans into the democratic fold. Change Is Denied. Ottawa, Canada, Feb. 16. The government today refused the request to make a change n the reciprocity agreement, from the book and writ ing scrap makers who assert that tne admission of paper Into Canada up to four cents a pound value wili put them out of business. To Allay Farmers' Fears. Chicago, Feb. 15. To bolster up Taft's reciprocity policy, Secretary Knox and James J. Hill, will address the Chicago chamber of commerce to night. Both speeches are designed to remove the apprehensions of the mid dle west farmers that they will suf fer through the operation of the Agreement. - Trouble Looms In Senate. Washington, D. C, Feb. 13. The reciprocity agreement with Canada which passed the house last night will likely meet with trouble in the senate as many democrats and pro gressives are opposed. Filibustering la feared. Taft today is trying to smooth the way for his pet measure partly by argument and partly by threats of an extra session. Victoria Is Displeased. Victoria, D. C, Feb. 16. Champ Clark's speech In the house was re ceived with bad grace In British Co lumbia and both friends and oppo nents of reciprocity say the ultimate effect will be prejudlcal to a ratifica tion of reciprocity by Canada. Treaty In Senate. Washington, Feb. 16. The senate TCMhred the reciprocity measure to day and Immediately referred It to the committee on finance. CANNON' DECLARES HE IS AGAINST RECIPROCITY Washington, D. C, Feb. 16. For the purpose of declaring himself standpatter, Cannon took the floor today and announced that he la gainst reciprocity and always will be. He said he would oppose all such steps. NO BOXING MATCHES ALLOWED IN SEATTLE Seattle, Wash., Feb. 16. Chief of Police Bannlck today flat-footed pro hibited the boxing exhibition under the auspice of clubs. This Is the first step In the clean-up of Seattle. STANDARD OIL DECLARES QUARTERLY DIVIDEND New York, Feb. 16. The directors of Standard OH today declared a quar terly dividend of 16, the same as last year or five dollars more than In 1909. FAIR M TO SAN FRANCISCO Washington, Feb. 15. Taft today signed the resolution awarding the Panama-Pacific exposition to San Francisco. In the presence of the California campaigners, members of congress and others, he signed with a pen made of California gold and then a photograph of him signing with the group was taken. Taft signed two copies. One goes to the state department archives and the other will be taken to San Fran cisco by R. B. Hale and Garvin Mc Nab, leader of the exposition fight ers. SMALL HOPE OF EVER CAPTURING JEWEL THIEF Portland, Ore., Feb. 15. With only a poor description of the jewels and the robber of the Diamond Palace Jewelry store, the police today admit ted there l small chance of catching the man. The police of the Pacific coast cities have been notified as it is believed be has left town. The Pinkertons started to work on the case today. ASSAILANT OF RAILROAD DETECTIVE NABS MURDEROUS THIEF Joe Pluver Makes Arrest and Secures ConfCHRlon Prisoner Now In Jail Victim in Precarious Condition. Walla Walla, Wash.,February 16. As a result of quick work on the part of Detective Joe Pluver of the O.-W. R. & N company, John Burns, alias G rover Hill, Is now in the hanas of the law and has made a written confession of the shooting of Con ductor D. J. Reader in the Pullman car at Lewlston Junction yesterday morning about 1:30 o'clock. Detec tive Pluver happened to be in the immedlato vicinity of the shooting and was quickly on the scene. Ob taining what knowledge he could of the affair he went to work and last evening succeeded In obtaining the written confession. Hill Is now In Jail at Colfax, where he will be tried on a charge which depends upon the result of Conductor Reader's fight for life In the hospital. In his confession Hill says that he arrived at Texas City early this morn ing in a box car and was almost starved. Noticing a Pullman diner on the track, he thought he would try to obtain something to eat and accordingly climbed onto the car. He struck the glass door with the butt of his pistol to gain admittance, but the first blow did not break the glass and realizing that he might have awakened someone he sneaked onto tho ground again and listened. Con ductor Reader was awakened by the noise and walked to the rear of the car, when Hill again climbed onto the platform. Seeing the lntrduer. Con ductor Reader shouted to him: "What are you doing here? Get out of here," and Btarted towards the diW. Hill covered him with his re volver and Reader kept advancing until he reached tho door and stop ped. Hill says that he was then about to retreat, when Conductor Reader shoved the door open with his foot and It struck him on the fore head and on tho body, tho Jar and shock contracting his muscles In such a way that the leveled revolver dis charged itself into the breast of Reader. He then fled feeling horri fied at what he had done, explaining that he had no Intention of shooting the conductor, but merely was going to run a bluff to satisfy his hunger Wound Is Serious. With the ugly bullet wound In his left breast, Reader Is now lying at St Mary's hospital fighting a grim battle of life and death. At a rate hour last night he was reported rest ing easily, although it is said by those who are familiar with such cas es that a bullet wound In a vital part of the body doe not begin to react until considerable time after Its occur rence. JEWS WOULD ABROGATE ' TREATY WITH RUSSIA Washington, Feb. 15. Representa tive of B'Nal Rits, an American union of American Hebrew congre gations and the American Jewish committee today asked the president to abrogate the commercial treaty with Russia because It doesn't rec ognize Jewish-American citizen. Un der the Russian law citizenship does not change Jewish racial standing. POPE CONFINED TO BED BY ILLNESS Rome. Italy. Feb. 16. Alarm was caused here today by the announce ment tnat the pope I confined to his bed with Influenza. Pope Plus' temperature has reached 106, considered dangerous by his phy sicians, who are alarmed. JUAREZ IS NOW SAFE Navarro Arrives With Large Reinforcements While Reb els Sleep. IS NOT FORCED TO FIRE SINGLE SHOT Rescuer Hailed un Hero, Banqueted and Feted Only, Revolutionists Sxii Were Scattering Picket Forced to Heair Twenty-live Bridges Cause Delay in Arrival. AMERICAN MURDERED BY MEXICAN SOLDIERS Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 15. The federal government has been asked today to investigate the murder of Ralph Reynolds of Cleveland, and the imprison ment of Howard Rhodes of Kansas City and Hugh Ford of Independence, Kansas, by Mexi cans. They were prospecting In the Sierra Madere mountains when attacked. Two escaped to Imperial, Calif., after several days imprisonment. ! ' ' El Paso, Tex., Feb. 15. The cam paigning of Mexican insurgents around Juarez Is believed to have ended, fol lowing the arrival of General Navar ro with a thousand Infantry and 500 cavalry. Navarro was hailed as a hero, banqueted and feted. He declared he saw no revolution ists save scattering pickets. The fact that he had to repair 25 bridges be fore his train could arrive delayed ' him. It is expected he will sally forth ' and chase the disheartened rebels soon. They are near Zaragosa today. ' Troops on Border Duty. ! Huachuca, Arizona, Feb. 15. Parts of two troops of 12th cavalry from the Presidio at San Francisco, arrived here today for border duty. Aincrlmii Smelling Plant Raided. Washington, D. C, Feb. 15. Raid- j Ing the American smelting plant at' Vallardenn, Mexican revolutionists ' tcday secured $700 in cash, many' rifles and saddles, according to word received by the state department. I Orozeo May Bo Fired. El Paso, Tex., Feb. 15. droczo's force tonight retired to Casa Grandes, j it is asserted and Is marching to at tack Navarro's guard at Apumada. ft Is probable that Orozeo will be de-! posed. There Is too much delay in his makeup. : Fall of Cities Predicted. El Paso, Tex., Feb. 15. Notwith standing the elation of the Diaz ad herents the insurgent Junta here de- dares thnt Chihuahua and Juarez will be captured by the revolutionists within a month. COURT Ri:SENTS SLURS OF LEGISLATORS Sacramento, Calif., Feb. 15. As a result of the veiled attack on the Ju diciary In the legislature the state supreme court today addressed an open letter to the senate and assembly asking the legislature to fully investi gate its procedure, particularly with reference to Its decision granting a rehearing of the case of Reuf, the grafter whose appeal for a rehearing of his case on technicalities was re cently granted by the court. DOROTHY ARNOLD IS NOT IN HOSPITAL New York. Feb. 15. Denial is mnde today by officials that Dorothy Arnold, the heiress was at the Flow er hospital, a patient. Is reported by a rumor which arose over the fact that Dr. Hughes, the superintendent, is a relative. IORD AND LADY DECIES ARE BACK FTIOM ISLE Brunswick, Ga,, Feb. 15. Lord and Lady Decles, who was Vivien Gould, after spending a week on Jekyll is land, are today en route to New York. Friday they will sail for Egypt where they will remain until about time or the coronation of King George. VICTORIA WIIJj SEND AID TO FAMINE VICTIMS Victoria, B. C. Feb. 15. Chinese here are preparing to collect funds for the famine sufferer In Anhui. It It believed the fund will be large, as several millionaire Chinese will of fer large sums. It makes a man feel like a sucker to see the kiss he has coaxed for wasted upon a little black and white pup. LIS E University of Oregon Medical Department May Be Com pelled to Close, RECONSIDERATION OF BILL ONLY HOPE FOR SCHOOL IIouno Vote Against Measure Pro viding: Maintenance Fund for Two Years Oregon City Cad Extend Limits and Take in Valuable Power PlunU Increase Revenues. Salem. Ore.. Feb. 15. Unless the bill Is reconsidered the medical jr7 partment of the University of Oregon will suspend next year for larlr of ! funds. This afternoon the house vot ed against the bill providing for its maintenance for the next two years. In its original form $60,000 was asked for a new building. The com mittee on ways and means cut out the amount asked. for a building and allowed only $20,000 for salaries and $10,000 for new equipment. It was learned todav that DimlfU's bill allowing municipalities to extend their limit was aimed directly at the Portland Light & Power Co., which has a $3,000,000 p'ant at Oregon City which would bring $24,000 additional In taxation to the town if the limits are extended. The bill was passed a week ago and the real significance was kept se cret until today when it was too late to reconsider. Oregon City wants to include also the paper mills in the town so as to reduce taxation further. HOUSE KILLS PROPOSED .VET WEIGHT MEASURE Salem, Ore., Feb. 15. The proposed net weight law. to which Portland wholesalers objected, was killed in the house yesterday afternoon. Am brose of Multnomah, led the fight with the declaration that if the legis lature acted, instead of leaving this matter to congress, which is now con sidering the Mann bill. It would re sult in driving jobbing trade from Portland into Seattle, where the wholesalers would not be hampered by such a law. The bill provided that the net weight must be marked on each food package. FRAUDULENT HOSPITALS BROUGHT UNDER CONTROL Salem, Ore., Feb. 15. Fraudulent hospital assocatlons, concerning which there has been much complaint in Portland, in recent years, would be handicapped under the provisions of house bill No. 303, presented by Hollis of Washington and passed by the house yesterday afternoon. There was some opposition to it and Hollis and Fouts both defended it on the grounds that It prevented the "wild cat" associations from doing business. All but legitimate hospitals and be nevolent associations are brousrht un der the control of the insurance de partment by the bill. OREGON TAKES STEPS FOR 1913 FAIR EXHIBIT Snlem, Or., Feb. 15. The first step toward providing for an exposition in San Francisco was taken by the sen ate yesterday morning in the adop tion of a resolution by Joseph au thorizing the governor to name three commissioners to select a site at the exposition grounds and make pre liminary arrangements. The commis sion is to serve without pay and no appropriation is contemplated until the next session of the legislature. Joseph said he believed three good men could be found to perform the service set forth without compensa tion. The resolution carried with one dissenting vote, vast by Dlmlck of Clackamas, ATTEMPTED MURDERER CAPTURED AT COLFAX Colfax, Wash., Feb. 15. Elmer SparkB who shod Fred Day at Hay station yesterday, was captured by a posse at his father's ranch last night. Deputy Sheriff Cole had no trouble persuading young Sparks to surren der and almost immediately started for Colfax via Lacrosse with Ms prisoner. They will arrive here to day. Day was shot twice and Is In a se rious conditlon The cause of the shooting has not been ascertained. TIMBER KING WEYERHAUSER NOT ILL AT PASADENA Pasadena, Calif., Feb. 16. It Is de nied today that Frederick Weyer hauser the timber king is seriously 111 from a stroke of paralysis at his win ter home In Pasadena. You never realize how many men there are out of work until you start to do some outdoor Job that Is a tit tle difficult of performance. NDAHEERED L0 FROM OLD COUNTRY Halifax, Nova Scotia, Feb. l8. The' steamer Royal Edward arrived today but there is no trace of Ethel Leneve, who was reported to be aboard. She Is reported to have boarded the vessel at Bristol, Eng. One hundred prospective brides from England, Scotland and Ireland came on the steamer, in charge of a matron who will accompany them to Toronto, where they will be distrib uted throughout northwest Canada. BABE BORN ON CAR 23 ON 13TH OF MONTH Baker, Ore., Feb. 15. Mrs. R. Klrkland of Austin, gave birth to a baby girl Monday evening on the Sumpter Valley train while three miles south of this city. The mother and babe are doing nicely. Passengers on the train vacated the car and the new arrival was brought into the world without much trouble. She will probably bear a charmed life, as she was born on car No. 23 on the 13th of the month. CHAMP CLARK IS CAUSE OF FURORE PROPOSES ANNEXATION OF CANADA IN HOUSE SPEECH Statements May Seriously Jeopardize Approval of Reciprocity Treaty England and Canada Displeased. London, Feb. 15. Champ Clark's "annexation speech," in the house yes terday has aroused England to the fear of ultimately losing Canada if Taft's reciprocity agreement is rati fied. Practically all the papers unit ed in censuring Clark and declaring that this country aims to annex Can ada. The Morning Post appeals to Eng lishmen to save the emport, declares America can no longer conceal her aim to annex Canada. The Westminster Gazette, a pro reciprocity organ, says: "Clark must be singularly ignorant if he desires this consummation and he imagines it would be promoted by such a frank avowal now. The Times doubts if Americans will take the speech se riously. Taft Angry at Clark. Washington, D. C Feb. 15. Thor oughly angered over Champ Clark's talk of annexation in the house yes terday. Taft today instructed Secre tary Knox to voice a sham rebuke to the democratic leader in his speech tonight in Chicago. Taft apparently believes Clark's talk is a serious menace to his reelnrocitv Diana, and to callers this afternoon intimated he had instructed Knox to deny forcibly that the administration contemplates the annexation of Canada. Taft Writes Letter. Washington, D. C, Feb. 15. In a letter to Congressman McCall today, President Taft writes: "Canada is and will remain a political unit. The agreement has no political signifi cance. There is no thought of future political union in the minds of nego tiators on either side." The letter is designed as an offset to Clark's speech. CHIEF JUSTICE GETS INCREASE IN SALARY Washington. D. C. Feb. 15. On motion of Representative Mann of Illinois, the house today increased the salaries of the" chief Justice of the su preme court to $15,000, and the as sociate Justice to $14,500. STUDENTS EXPLODE "BOMB" IN MOVING PICTURE SHOW Berkeley. Calif.. Feb. 15. Tt la ho. lieved that high school vouths wprA the ones who exploded a small "bomb" in a varsitv movino- nintum show, creating a panic, but causing no damage. BATTLESHIP MAINE BLOWN UP THIRTEEN YEARS AGO Washington. D. C. Feb. IB. The battleship Maine was blown up In Ha vana harbor thirteen years ao to day. Exercises commemorating the event was held by patriotic military and religious organizations. EARTHQUAKES FELT IN SALT LAKE TODAY Salt Lake, Utah, Feb. .15. Three sharp earthquakes were felt here to day. There was no damage. SNOWSTORM SWEEPS NEW YORK ONE DEAD New York, Feb. 15. One Is dead and 15 Injured In today's snowstorm which i sweeping this city. It always seems cold when a man's pocketbook gets down to 0. E EXTRA SESSION Magazine Publishers STand Friends Protest Against Postal Increase.IiS k& WOIXD PUT PUBLICATIONS OUT OF BUSINESS Meaxure May Be Talked to Death by Progressive Republicans and Dem ocrats Publishers Laugh at Gov ernment's Order to Investigate and Prosecute Them As Trust. Washington, D. C, Feb. 15. Threats of forcing an extra session of congress if the administration adhers to its plan of Increasing second class postal rates were made freely here today by friends of those magazines affected and which, Jt Is said, would put those magazines out of business. The magazine officials say they have received promises enough of pro gressive republicans and democratic senators to Insure a successful fili bustering against the increase. The -plan is to talk the bill to death. There is great bitterness and ' the -publishers laugh at the administra tion's order to United States District Attorney Wise of New York to inves tigate with a view to prosecution of the magazines as a trust. They say there is none. Reply to Hitchcock. Washington, Feb. 15. The reply of the Periodical Publishers' association to the statement of Postmaster Gen eral Hitchcock yesterday In support of his proposal to Increase the post age on the advertising portions of trie large magazines was made last night in the form of a statement ' by the postal committee of the association. "Mr. Hitchcock entirely ignores," the committee says, "the fact that second class mail is the chief proooc er of the first class postage that fi nally saves the face of postoffice Bal ance sheets." The publishers show advertisements on which the postoffice department had made 114 per cent profit from carrying magazine advertisements. "Mr. Hitchcock instances one mag azine, and perhaps the most profit able periodical in the country, to show that this periodical's recent in crease in advertising rates resulted in a profit of $917,108 or enough to pay its postage bill. The' absurdity of this sort of long distance accounting is obvious when it is explained that the American magazine costs to edit, manufacture, deliver and administer, nearly twice as much as the publish ers net from subscriptions. "The dfference made up from ad vertising is given to the subscriber In his opportunity to purchase a much better article than his subscription price will produce. Blj-tlie Charges Politics. Washington, Feb. 15. That not economic, but political considerations, Is the underlying cause for the Taft administration's determination to in crease second class postage, is the statement of Samuel G. Blythe, a well known Washington correspond ent. Blythe maintains the whole movement is destined to wipe out cer tain of those popular magazines wheh have dared to criticize the acts of the Taft administration. He says: (Copyright 1911 by the United Press, by Samuel G. Blythe.) Politics, and not the postal deficit, is the underlying motive for the ad ministration' attack on the maga zines and the periodical press through Increase of second class postage. Postmaster General Hitchcock's ex cuse for the move is the alleged pos tal deficit; President Taft's excuse is that he Is supporting his cabinet min ister who is trying to put the de partment on a self-sustaining basis; the administration senators who tacked the amendment on the post office bill have the excuse that the president demands the Increase. They are making these excuses, too, now that they are discovering how thoroughly the peoplo are arous ed on this matter of using the tax ing power of the government to con fiscate. That's what It amounts to for the free press that dared to criti cize and condemn certain acts both of the administration and of the ad ministration's supporters in congress. The question is bigger than one of money, either in the government's purse or out of the purses of the pub lishers. It is bigger han even the Interest of even the thousands of men who wlll be thrown out of employment If the publishing business Is curtailed as it will be if the proposed Increase of second class postage becomes law. It is a blow at that liberty guar anteed by the constitution of the United States and Is subservltlve of every American Idea of Justice, of fair play and of decent politics. MAY