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ntfl.'-i.'.a4.:4. ft mtm i r-1 k i 3 r t . W ASA' 5 i'HS riAn wi-A EVENING EDITION EVENING EDITION WSfSftl Calling card, wad ding stationery, com mercial stationery and Job printing to order at the East Oregenlan. WEATHER REPORT. Fair tonight and Fri day. s it COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. VOL. 23. PENDLETON, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEJ1UUARY 2,'i, 1911. NO. 7144 II .V i mi ' LL I A VVX MA "X Ik VI r)L j li IT HATCHET Beheads Sixfeen Game Bills on Anniversary of Wash ington's dirth. FORTY-FOl'R MEASURES SIGNED ARE LAWS All Fish and Game Bills Killed Work of Revising Oodo Will Bo Left to Nowly Created Commission Went Signs U. of O. and O. A. C. Appropriation Dills, Salem, Ore., Feb. 23. Governor West yesterday afternoon filed his ve toes on 15 bills, passed at the recent session of the legislature. The bills all relate to fisheries and game and the governor gives as the reason for his action the fact that the creation of the state game and fish commission does away with the necessity of the action as contemplated In the bills vetoed, and there Is no necessity of burdening the session laws with these measures. The bills thus disposed of are: S. B. 296, McColloch Protecting ducks In eastern Oregon. S. B .8, Merryman Protecting wild geese. S. B. 300, Chase Protecting gmo fowl." I S. B. 253. Merryman Protecting salmon In Klamath river. S. B. 77, Chase Protecting wild ducks. S. B. 261, Merryman Authorizing game warden to kill protected ani mals. II. B. 208, Thompson Protecting sale of fish caught In Rogue river. II. B. 217, Chattcn Regulating fishing on the Willamette. II. B. 217, Beals Permitting ftsn Ing In Tillamook county, II. B. 27, Chambers Permitting the shooting of ducks from skiffs. II. B. 68, Fouts Relating to duck shooting. II. B. 196, Thompson Regulating trout fishing. II. B. 315. Church Regulating game laws In Union and Wallowa counties. II. B. 260, Mahoncy Relating to the sale of game. II. Jt. 260, Mahoncy Relating to the sale of game. II. B. 354, Douglas county delega tion Relating to fishing In the Ump qua. These 4 1 Are Now Laws. Governor West this morning filed, with his signature, the following 41 hills. In the office of the secretary of state: Senate Bills. No. 31, Carson Appropriating funds for Oregon agricultural college and investigation of horticultural problems. No. 62, Burgess To establish farm libraries. No. H3, Oliver Pertaining to depo sition of witnesses In the state. No. 163, Barrett, Washington Allowing municipal corporations to condemn property water rights. No. 173, Nottingham Regulating lime-sulphur spraying solutions. No. 185, Locke To regulate em ployment of child labor. No. 196, Carson Repealing sec tions 6393 to 6425, Lord's Codes. N. 225, Burgess Regulntlng transportation of livestock. No. 228, Norton Relating to prior ity of mortgages. No. 262, Hawley Repealing sec tion 6146, Lord's Codes. No. 266, Malarkey Relating to support of Indigent orphans. No. 170, Committee on commerce and navigation Prohibiting nuso of liquor on trains. No. 286, McColloch Providing lim it of day's work for railroad employ es. No. 291, committee on Judiciary Relutlng to appeals on judiciary No. 304, Kellahor To settle dis putes between railroads. House Bills. No. 19, Clemens Relating to fire Insurance, No. 24, Clemens Establishing In surance department. No. 29, McKlnncy Authorising bridge across Bnake river. No. 104. Cole Providing aid for Oregon Humane society. No. 111. Brooke Provide for Inter state' bridge at Nyssa, Or. (Continued on page firs.) t a. lAimmAN SCHOONER CAUGHT POACHING T a Von rn over. B. C. Feb. 23. Tho Canadian crulsor Rainbow arrived here toaay witn ner nrsi capture, the American fishing a, .hnnnnr Edrlo of the Kloneck fishing company of Seattle. She caught tne anegea poacner w A within the three mile limit off Trlnmrln Island. CANADA DECLARES LOYALTY TO Ottawa, Canada, Feb. 23. The Canadian parliament has formally de. clared Its loyalty for Great Britain by passing a resolution In the house to the'.effect that all reports that the reciprocity with the United States was but a step toward annexation was false. It passed unanimously. Accuses United States. Winnipeg, Canada, Feb. 23. Mani toba house unanimously voted against the reciprocity agreement after It listened to an impassioned speech by Premier Roblin In which he declared that the United States for thirty-five years has been trying to cripple Can ada commercially. WILL SELL MKS. GOULD'S BAGGAGE FOR DEBT New York, Feb. 23. To recover a $3000 account against Mrs. Howard Gould the management of the St. Regis hotel today announced It would sell 43 pieces of Mrs. Gould's bag cage, Including 22 trunks at public ruction March 8. The hotel says she owes for four months rent and n blj testaurant bill. She Is now at her winter home at Linchburg, Va. WEST TO PROTECT PEOPLE'S RIGHTS BILLS WITH EMERGENCY CLAUSES TO BE VETOED Governor Deelures KP-'ht of Refer endum Must Not Be Abridged Un less Actual Emergency Exists. Salem, Ore, Feb. 22. Unless there Is some semblance of an actunl emer gency ho bill that has passed both houses of the late legislature or any future legislature with an emergency clause stands much chance of pass ing tho approval of Governor Os wald West. Tho governor believes the people's veto should not be Infringed upon by the legislature and will en deavor while ho Is in tho office, to see that referendum power reserved by the people 1b not taken from them by the busy legislators. New Judgeship Must Wait. Because the bill . allowing Multno mah county an additional circuit Judge carried an emergency clause Governor West, though favoring the additional Judgeship, will veto tne bill for tho reason, he says, that opin ion is much divided among the peo ple of Multnomnh county as well as among the judges on the bench in Multnomah county and the poopr" should be given the privilege of re ferring the matter. The governor, before the session closed signified that he would approve a bill giving Multnomah county one additional Judge, but he sees no emergency of such Import but that Multnomah county could exist three months be fore such a Judge should take office and can further see no reason for an emergency except to deprive the peo ple from referring U under the refer endum amendment. Big List in Iover House. A great number of bills of all sorts with emergency clauses were Intro duced, especially In the lower house. Because of the stand of a number of committeemen and such as President Ben Selling of the senate, who would vote for no measure with an emer gency clause, these objectionable ap pendages were lopped off In most cases before they reached the gover nor. PERSECUTION EOR London, Feb. 23. Dispatches from Fuontes D'Sncro, Spain, state that the Portuguese provisional govern ment Is conducting a campaign for the purpose of oppressing the royal ists of northern Portugal. The Cabo narte, a society composed principally of free masons, Is reported to be en gineering the campaign in order to make tho royalists show discredit ably in the coming elections which will decide among other things whether the Portuguese government shall be recognized by the United States. H is reported that the car bonarte are destroying royalists newspapers and clubs and sacking the churches. A number of riots have eccurred and leading royalists are fleeing as the police are acting un der orders they refuse to protect them. WILL TAKE SUPPLIES TO FAMINE SUFFERERS San Francisco, Cal., Feb.' 23. The transport Buffalo leaves San Fran cisco this afternoon for Seattle to load supplies for the famine suffer ers in China. FREIGHT KATES ORDERED HERl'CED ON EVERY VARIETY OF MERCHANDISE IIY, INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION Washington, 1). C, Feb. 23. Tho Interstate commerce commission this afternoon ordered reductions in freight rates on practically every known variety of merchandise transported by the railroads. The order marks the end of the great rate casca and affects every railroad in the country. It is a complete victory for shippers in their fight for lower rates. The decision was delayed eight hours In order to prevent its publi cation before the close of the stock market. The decision was unanimous. It states vigorously that there is no reason why the railroads should increase their rates over the present traffic. The railroads claimed that approximately 18 per cent increase in the East, 16 in the West was necessary. CALIFORNIA IS ALARMED Feeling is Growing That State Duplicated Action of Esau of Old. GOVERNOR JOHNSON IS TRYING TO KEEP PLEDGE Legislature May luss Anti-Asiatic Laws Despite Governor Senator Chamberlain of Oregon Apiiealed to For Assistance to Prevent Ratifi cation of Obnoxious Trent)'. Sacramento, Calif., Feb. 23. It Is cpenly admitted that the feeling Is growing that California sold her "birth right for a mess of pottage" by accepting Taft's support for the fulr In exchange for a pledge that no anti-Asiatic agitation would gain of ficial sanction. Governor Johnson is sitting on the lid as he promised the president but there is noticeably un rest among legislators and the people who resent the new treaty with Ja pan, which eliminates the immigra tion clause. There may possibly be some action despite the governor. Seek Aid of Chamberlain. Sacramento, Calif., Feb. 23. Ur ging action against the ratification of tho American-Japanese treaty. State Senator Sanford today telegraphed Senator Chamberlain of Oregon to use liis influence with his democratic col leagues at Washington to vote against ratification. Sanford also announced his inten tion of introducing a resolution de manding that the senate federal re lations committee report out his bill to prevent alien ownership of land in California, which Is aimed at the Japanese. Johnson Has Job on Hand. Sacramento, Calif, Feb. 23. John son said he would send a special mes sage to the legislature explaining his attitude of the administration to ward the Jap treaty. The senate federal relations committee reported favorably on Senator Finn's bill em powering a municipality to segregate intQ districts 'any class of Asiatics. This means that Johnson will have a hard time holding down the lid. Tnft Is Worried. Washington, D. C, Feb. 23. A hur ried conference today with Lodge and other leaders in the senate Indicated that Taft is alarmed over the pros pect of the failure of his new Jap anese treaty ns a result of a flood of telegraphic protests from the Pa cific coast. Taft sent a telegram iu Governor Johnson this afternoon ask ing Johnson to tell tho legislature that there is no danger of Japanese Immigration under the treaty. Con gressman Hayes read a resolution In the house adopted by the California senate urging the California congres sional representatives to oppose the ratification of the treaty with Ja pan. Senators Allay Fears. grams from Senators Flint and Per kins of California, were read In the (Continued on page eight.) PENDLETON MILL SHIPS 40010 SACKS OF FLOUR TO ORIENT Some people do not realize the Im portance and magnitude of one of Pendleton's oldest and foremost In dustries because of the fact that It Is an old one, but It is doubtful if there are any flouring mills in the state outside of Portland that carries on such an extensive trade as the Byers mills of this city. Not only do they supply many thousands of barels to help meet the domestic demand, but annually ship great quantities of this T BILL IS III Sundry Civil Measure Carry ing $1 40,540,000 Reported by Committee. INCREASE OF S2.-..000.000 OVER LAST YEAR'S BILL Canal Calls For Largest Single Sum Though IMiblle Buildings Demand an Increase of More Than Sixteen Million Rill will probably Pass House Under Suspension of Rules. Washington, D. C, Feb. 23. Tho sundry civil appropriations bill, car- rying $140,540,000 was reported in the house today. This is $25,431,000 over last year's bill and $14,486,000 under the estimates. The largest single item is the canal appropriation of $45,500,000 which is an increase of $7,500,000 over tho estimate. The public buildings ap propriation of $21,311,243 Is an In crease of sixteen millions. The measue will probably be passed by the house under suspension of the rules. Despairing of forcing the senate to pass his tariff commission bill, Taft Is centering his efforts to secure an appropriation of $400,000 to continue the present board. If passed the next house will have no opportunity to In terfere with the board's existence. VOTE IN LORIMER CASE IS DELAYED Washington, Feb. 23. When the consideration of the Lorimer case was resumed In the senate today parlia mentarians could not predict when the matter would come to a vote. It Is understood that Beverldge, Pnynter, Bailey and others will ask the Illinois senator questions and speak against him. Beverldge took the floor this af ternoon and began speaking In sup port of a resolution to oust Lorimer. Previous to the debate Burrows, chairman of the Lorimer Investiga tion committee attempted to secure unanimous consent for a vote today, tomorrow or Saturday but was unsuc cessful. Lodge ohjeete 1 today and Stone opposed setting any particular day. LEE O'NEILL WOULD GAG THE XESPAPERS Springfield, 111., Feb. 23. Stung by the newspaper notoriety he re ceived since beginning the Lorimer case, representative Le O'Neill Brown today took a step at his newspaper enemies by Introducing a libel bill along the lines of the English law. It provides that no matter whether an article be true or untrue if It In jures anyone the editors are liable to a fine of $2000 and imprisonment for a year. K. of IVs Will Celebrate. The local lodge of the Knights of Pythias will hold n big celebration Monday night, the occasion being the 4Sth anniversary of the founding of their order. A number of addresses will bo made by good speakers after which a social session and smoker will be held. The affair will conclude with a big clambake. food product to the orient. The last cars of a shipment of 16, 000 sacks which Is billed for points in both China and Japan were sent out thi morning and last week a shipment of 35,000 sacks was made to China. According to the estimate of Mrs. B. W. McComas, manager of the mills. In the neighborhood of 100,000 barrels or 400,000 sacks of flour are sent out from the Byers mills annual ly destined for oriental consumption. GRAND JURY BRINGS IN H HE BILLS Six indictments were returned by the grand jury at 2:30 this afternoon after an investigation lasting since Monday morning. John Nitson, the Umatilla Greek implicated in the re cent boxcar robbery at that place, drew two Indictments both on the charge of receiving stolen goods, while Daniel Ragan and William Brown, the two men arrested at Pasco and implicated in the same crime, were Jointly indicted on a charge of burg lary not in a dwelling. Jack Moulder, the Stanfield nemo, was indicted for assault with a dangerous weapon. Ernest Todhunter, Harry and Rodney Dupuis were Jointly Indicted on a charge of receiving stolen goods and Charles Bowers, the young man con victed of burglary at the last session of court and paroled on good behavior was indicted again on the same charge. Todhunter, the two Dupuis and Bowers are all Involved In the same crime, the robbery of the Koch second hand store. All of the In dicted men are in jail and were ar raigned this afternoon, Attorney Will M. Peterson appir.rir. f ,r Nits in, Todhunter, Harry and Rodney Du puis. They will probably enter pleas in the morning. INSURRECTOS PLAN DOUBLE ATTACK JUAREZ AND CHIHUAHUA MAY FALL AT SAME TIME Madero is Personally Directing Cam aign for Revolutionists ami is Di viding His Forces. El Paso, Tex., Feb. 23. Rebels are planning to make simultaneous at tacks on Juarez and Chihuahua soon under Madero, according to todays reports. It is said Madero has 2000 men and some artillery massed at Ahumada. He plans to march with 1000 men to Chihuahua and there to join four thousand other revolution ists enroute to Chihuahua and attack the city, leaving the other 1000 to block Navarro's advance from Juarez and then if Chihuahua falls, to at tack Juarez. Dell Secretly Released. San Diego, Calif.. Feb. 23. It is reported that Dell, the American, has been secretly released by the Mexican federalists. Ensennda nt Mercy of Rebels.' Calexlco, Calif., Feb. 23. Ensenada capital of northern Lower California, is at the mercy of insurgents and can be taken at any time, according to insurgent leaders here today. They state the town is surrounded and that the Mexican troops at Mexican can't reach them in time. CALIFORNIA SUPRESCE COURT IS DEFENDED San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 23. The action of the supreme court in grant ing a rehearing to Ruef, the grafter, was upheld today by Attorney C. W. Cross, who answered the contentions of Attorney General Webb that the order should be revoked. Cross con tended that several present supreme justices helped frame the constitu tional amtndment of 1904 under which the rehearing was granted and is therefore In abetter position than others to judge whether they trans gressed the rules of the amendment. JAPAN HAVING LT Tokio, Feb. 23. The impeachment of the Katsura ministry in the lower Uouse of the national diet was pre vented today by a narrow margin when the Katsura cabinet saved It self from censure by combining with the Seiyukal party, thus securing a bare majority. The Katsure coterie is charged with contributing greatly to the growth of socialism and an archy in Japan by undue severity. There had been a demand made pre viously for Impeachment. WAY IS OPEN FOR TARIFF REVISION Washlngton, D. C, Feb. 23. The way was opened for a schedule by schedule revision of the tariff today when the resolution introduced by Senntor Cummlngs today asking the president for all the Information tho tariff board had collected on the ar ticles and commodities named In the Canadian reciprocity agreement was adopted. The fact that Hale sup ported Cummins Is believed to indi cate that there Is organized opposition to the adoption of reciprocity this session. TIMELY ADVICE Agronomist Talks fo Farmers' Union Men and Interests Them in Closer Farming. FIELD PEA SUBSTITUTE FOR SUMMER FALLOWING Failures With Corn and Peas Due to Improper Varieties or Wrong Meth ods, Says Sioaker Peag May tt T'sed Every Other Year With Wheat With Profitable Results. Upon the timely subject of "Sub stitutes for Summer Fallow," Prot H. D. Scudder, agronomist fit the Oregon Agricultural College, spoke before the members of the county as sociation of the Farmers' Education al and Cooperative Union today and to many business men who were pres ent for the occasion, Prof. Scudder had been Invited to speak at the meeting held here yes terday, but owing to a misunderstand ing he did not arrive until evening. However, the meeting at Secret So ciety hall today was well attended by representative farmers from all sec tions of the county and the session therefore afforded a imely opportu nity for the lecture. Prof. Scudaer spoke from 11 o'clock until 12 and at the conclusion of his talk he was asked many Questions by various far mers present. The questions indicat ed a keen Interest In the subject and a desire on the part of many to try some of the suggestions made. Many farmers asked for the addresses of concerns from which they may secure fiold pea, corn and alfalfa seed. Some men presented the objection that tney hi d tried Deld peas and had failed to procure proper results. In reply Prof. ScudJtr showed that in each instance failure was due either to improper selection of seed or to er rors in farming. Most men have fail ed in raising field peas through the fact that they have seeded the peas too late in the spring. Success with field peas absolutely requires that they be gotten into the ground eariy. The question of the normal annual railfali for Pendleton also came up for discussion and a prominent far mer, Henry Rosenberg. held that the normal annual rainfall at this point Is 12 inches. However, the rec ords of the local U. S. weather ob server, show that the average annu r.l precipitation for the past 22 years has been 14.03 inches at this place. At Weston it is 24.72: at Umatilla, 8.53. at Pilot Rock, 12.23: at Ker mnston, 6.78; at Echo, 7.83, and at Blue Mountain, 38.09. Upon motion of W. W. Harrah, the farmers union cast a vote of thanks to Prof. Scudder for his address i.nd thanks were also extended to the Commercial association for lnvltmg him to the city. Address In Brief. The following is Prof. Scudder's address in part: A discussion of field pea, alfalfa and corn growing on the wheat lands of this region strlges me as being timely for several reasons. For suc cessful production these crops, espe cially field peas, depend upon early preparation and seeding. On the other hand, the agriculture of the Eastern Oregon wheat belt has come to a point where its successful contin uance depends on the introduction of such crops as will restore fertility and at the same time permit higher pro duction per acre than Is obtained un der the present single cropping sys tem. Soil Shows Losses. Notwithstanding the great richness of the soils of this region, the first signs of the tremendous strain it has been under. In' giving great wheat crops year after year, is beginning to show. The enormous drafts on the soil plant foods made by wheat, with no return of manures of any kind. Is at last beginning to show. The Increas ing foulness of the lands with weeos, the running together and crusting of the soil over winter, the Increasing danger from soil blowing, the extra labor required to get the seed bed. Into condition after each additional wheat crop all these are symptoms of the destructive effect of single cropping. High yields have been maintained only through the use o better seed and better tillage methoas but now that the soil Is falling oth- (Continued on page eight) KING OF MONTENEGRO CRITICALLY ILL Vlnenna. Austria. Feb. 23. Private messages from Cettlnje today said that King N'lcholas of Montenegro Is in a critical con dition. He is suffering from an attack of appoplexy. -