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EVENING EDITION EVENING EDITION Calling cards, wed ding stationery, om mercial stationery n J-ib printing t-J ordr at the East Oregonlan. . ...uomu mmzP -f WEATHER REI'ORT. Fair tonight and tomorrow. . V AF5 t COUNTY OFFICIA L PAPER CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. PENDLETON, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1011. NO. 7270 NOL. 24. E. OF TUTS Bill Nebraska Solon Supports Re ciprocity Because "Boss" Hines Opposes it. WOOL REVISION' BILL INTRODUCED IN SENATE Democrat I"ut Conipletcnicnt of Ses sion Up to Republicans and Offer to Muet Them Hulf-Way In Clcar lug up Congressional Slate. Washington, July 19. Senator Blown of Nebraska, today urged the passago of the Canadian reciprocity bill. He said that one reason he favored the bill, was because Edward Hines, the Chicago lumberman, who Is involved in the Lorlmer election scandal, opposed It. "When I find that this man Hines," said Brown, "who for years has been the head of the lumber lobby and lumber combine, and who elected his own senator and is now leading a per sonal assault on President Taft, and opposing this bill, I begin to think that there is something in the meas ure which ought to command the respect and support of every honest " man." Wool Revision It I'p. Washington, July 19. The admin istration wool revision bill was intro duced in the senate today. It provides for lower rates than those existing, but not ns high as the Underwood or LaFolletto bills. It Is not believed the measure cun puss during this ses sion. House Progrtttii Mapped. Washington, July 19 Leaders of the house today mapped out a pro gram for the remainder of the sp'eclal session of congress. It Includes no plans for a hurried adjournment. One Democratic leader said: "If the Re publicans evince a desire to meet us half way we will stay and finish the Job. If the- senate is disposed to kill off our bills and the president Is disposed to veto those passed, then there is no use wasting further time." Would Punish TriiNt Officials. Washington, July 19. Facilitation of punishment of officials of corpor ations, which have been convicted of breaking the law, is the design of an amendment to the Sherman anti-trust law, introduced In the house today by Representative Small of North Caro lina. The amendment makes con viction of corporations, presumptive i vldenre of the eontaolllng officials' guilt and imprisonment i the man datory punishment. STOKES' ASSAILANTS ENTER. PLEAS OF NOT GUILTY New York, July 19. Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad, the girls accused of attempting to murder Millionaire E. B. Stokes, pleaded not guilty today before Judge Crain. Their counsel was granted ten days In which to withdraw the pleas and sub stitute whatever motions he may wish. Tho $10,000 bail was contin ued. U. S, Loses Reef Trade. Chicago, July 19. South America has wrested the fresh beef trade of the world from the Unlted'States, ac cording to J. pgden Armour, the Chicago packer, who has Just return ed from Europe. 'NEW FEDERAL JUDGE OF TAKE LEAVE OF SON r .e -; i v:. . mmm New York, July 19. An affecting scene will probably bo witnessed in the Hudson county, N. J., Jail tomor row when Judge Paul Charlton of Washington; who was recently ap pointed federal Judge of the depart ment of Porto Rico, calls to bid fare well to his son, Porter Charlton, the self-confessed slayer of his wife. Judge Charlton expects to sail later In the week for his new post in the West Indies. Mary Scott CaBtlo Charlton, a wo man of variegated career and much older than her boy husband, was found dead at Lake Como, Italy, where the Ill-assorted pair had gone on their honeymoon, on Juno-9, 1910. Tho body of the woman had been placed In trunk nnd east into the lake. Soon afterward Porter Charlton landed from a liner at Hoboken. He was apprehended, and wrote a con fession In which he admitted that he had klllel his wife. - Since then a maze of legal technl calltles have prevented the return to Italy of young Charlton, In which country alone he can be punished for his crime. Should extradition be fin ally granted, Charleton's punishment PAS CUBA THREATENED WITH REVOLUTION New York, July 19. A revo lution In Cuba Is likely any day, according to General Culscppo Garibaldi, who, at a dinner ht-re in his honor by Italian residents told the guests he had been in vited to go . to Cuba and take the leadership in an insurrec tion. Government oppression, of working people, ia assigned by Garibaldi as the cause for a probable outbreak. inn A UT1IORITI ES RELIEVE SITUATION IN HAND PusNeilglTS Who 'Will lUHt'll New York from Italy Tomorrow Will !'" Deta.nctl Tn Days and K-pi Un tie Observation. New York. July 19. Following a series of conferences here today be tween United States and city health officials, a concerted pian of actioQ hua been agreed upon, by which It is hoped to effectually bar cholera from the congested east side. Two Italian liners which are due here tomorrow, will be detained and the pnengers held in detention ten days i or observation. No r.tfwr cases have been discovered at Swinburn Island. Health officer Duty today Issued a statement saying that conditions were generally satis factory and no further spread Is fear ed by the authorities. MOTHER-IN-LAW MAY VISIT ONLY 101DAYS Now York, July 19 Ten days is the limit for visiting mothers-in-law, according to Magistrate McGuire, who was called upon to decide a case in which the mother-in-law was charged with having disturbed the domestic peace of a happy family. "Mothers-in-law are constitutionally bossy," Judge McGuire ruled, "and ten days Is long enough for her to hold possession in her daughter or son's home." Convict Capture Comrade. Reno, Nev., July 19. When Jim Antone, embezzler, escaped from the road gang of convicts near Carson with A. Wilson, serving 20 years for murder, A. B. Nelson serving eight years for horse stealing, and James Lyle, serving ten years tor man slaughter, headed a posse and captur ed him In the mountains. Antone, when captured was roundly abused by murderers, horse thieves and burg lars for breaking his word of honor given to Warden liaker not to escape. The convlctB swore a month ago thai they would capture the next man who escaped, fearing thofr librtics might be eurtallod. CELLULOID COLLAR KILLS. Ja Tilted Man's Head Suffieletilly to Choke Him. North Adams, Mass. Associate Medical -Examiner Holmes said the death of Robert Erler was due to his high cellulloid collar. The man had been drinking and foil nsleop, his head dropping forward. Several per sons in the saloon saw him, but be Hoved Erler was sleeping off the ef fects of liquor at the Mine lie was slowly choking. . PORTO RICO WILL WHO IS A MURDERER will be severe, since the Italian laws provide that murderers shall spenl the first year of their life Imprison ment in solitary confinement. The Charlton extradition proceed ing are now before the United States Supreme Court, but a decision Is .not expected for some months. Judge Paul Charlton, father of the prisoner, until his appointment as a judge in Porto ltleo wns chief of the bureau of insular affairs. While Judge Charlton has been fighting to save his son, Copt. Henry Harrison Scott, ' of the United States army, brother of tho murdered wo man, has Just as determinedly sought to bring about Charlton's extradition. Stern and implacable, the army offi cer Is bent on revenge upon the slayer of his sister, and has left no legal (lone unturned to accomplish that end. In tho meantime. Porter Charlton is a "trusty" In the Hudson county Jail, and the toss of a gang of "trusties" who keep the prison In order. The young man has not suffered from confinement, but has grown plump and stout, and his physical and men tal condition both, show considerable Improvement. SUNNYSIDE TRAGEDY WIDOW or VICTIM REQUESTS INQUEST In Olvlng Testimony Woman Express es Opinion That Husband Did Not Deliberately Plunsc to Ills Death No Eye Witnesses. Coroner Ralph Folsom returned last evening from Milton, where he had been called by the violent death of Fred Greisler, a .Sunnyside rancher. By request of the widow an inquest was held but the jury failed to fix the responsibility of death beyond de claring tiiat it was caused by a full in to n well at his fruit ranch two miles from Milton Whether it van the result of an accident or of suicidal in tent, the jury would not presume It say, inasmuch as no one witnessed the fatal fall. In her story to the coroner's Jury, the widow declared that when her husband arose from bed at midnight and brandished a hatchet over his head, she did not believe he had any Intensions of doing her violence, but rather, Intended to end his own life. She said she succeeded in tak'ng the weapon from him, Whereupon he walked towards the pumping houso In which there was a cot. She follow ed a little later, she said, to see if he had gone to bed. but finding the bed empty could only infer that he had fallen down the we!'. Summoning assistance, the well was dragged and her fears were confirm ed when the dead body with the neck broken, was recovered. She Is not fully convinced that her husband jumped down the well, for she thinks that In the dark he may- have stumbled over a pipe near the trap door which precipitated him In to the opening. If It was suicide, the only motive she can scribe. Is de spondency, due to HI health. HEAD OK SUGAR TRUST TESTIFIES BEFORE COMMITEE New York, July 19. Resuming his testimony before the Hardwick com mittee of the house, which is probing the sugar trust. President Thomas to day denied that the American Sugar Refining company is a monopoly and declared its policy had always been "live and let live." Thomas denied the intimation that a fair physical valuation of the trust's property would exceed $40,000,000, although it is paying dividends on $90,000,000. PROPOSES PLAN FOR SERIES OF CONCERTS Appearing before the Round-Up cowboy band last night, A. J. McAl lister, chairman of a committee ap pointed from the Commercial associa tion made a proposition, the purpose of which is to secure for Pendleton weekly band concerts until after the Round-Up and this proposition Is now- being considered by members of the band. Mr. McAllister stated that his committee would undertake the task of raising the money necessary to se cure a director to take the organlza lion In charge pcrmumvitly. The Round-Up band is practicing faithfully twice a week in prepara tion for its engagement at the wild west show this fall and has just re ceived Its first order of new music for that occasion. Many of the new pieces were written especially for this band and are characteristic of the oc casion on which they will first bo heard, line is entitled the "Let 'er Buck March," and another "The Rroncho Buster-' and the boys declare they are calculated to stir the cow boys to record breaking achievements RYAN DISCLAIM KNOWLEDGE OF "IMI K TO DICK" LETTER New York, July 19. Denying that he ever wrote, or even heard of the famed "Dick to Dick" letter, Richard S Ryan, claimant to lands nt Con troller Ray, Alaska, started for Wash ington today, to testify before the committee which is investigating Al askan matters. Ryan denied that he represented the Guggenheim syndi cate und declares that he never used the name of Charles H. Taft in writ ing to former Secretary of the In terior Ballingcr. BLACK CHAMP PU(5 FORSAKES NATIVE COUNTRY New York, July 19. "Would I fight for America? No," said Jack Johnson, heavyweight champion pug ilist, today. "I would never shoul der a gun for the United States but I would fight for England and be glad to do it," continued the negro. New York fight critics ore today roasting the negro for the above statement to the London Times. Johnson will have to explain when he returns to this country. Joe Hanscom was In from his ranch today. MRS. PAfilGAL NOT GUILTY OF CONTEMPT JUllGE BOKDWELL DISMISSES CASE Defendant Not Present, Owing to III-j.i-ss, anil Iler Attorneys are Silent Iiiriug proceedings Division a DiMtnt'l Victory for Defense. Los Angeles, Call., July 19. Judge Waiter .'"Jordwell dismissed the con tempt proceedings against Mrs. Ortie K. .Mc.Munigal yesterday afternoon, and the defense at the same time made public a certified copy of the evidence riven by her husband, the alluged confessed plotter, to the grand jury on May 4. The woman was summoned for hav ir.g refused to testify -before the In quisitors against t:ie McNamara brothers and the contempt proceed ings were dismissed without a word being up ken by the attorneys for the defense. Mrs McManigal, however, was not in court, having been stricken ill while attending the proceedings yesterday. Judge Kordwell ruled that the affi davit of the prosecution combatting Mrs. McManigal's asserted right, as the wife of an accused man, not to testify, was Jnsuffiaient, and the de fense hailed the decision as a signal victory. Clarence Darrow and his associate attorneys declared that the ruling es tablished a precedent which would guard all of the defense witnesses for the MoXamaras from the danger of , iieiiig summoned before the grand jury prior to the trial on Oct. 11. The ju lge held that the indictments already filed against John J. McNa- 1 mara, the accused labor leader, and his brother, James, were sufficient to hold them for trial, and that there fore there was no necessity for forc ing Mr-. McManigal to ansu'or.the questions propounded to her in the grand jury room. W. Joseph Ford, assistant district attorney, entered a protest to' the rul ing of, the court, and announced that the 'prosecution would appeal, or at least file a new affidavit, charging Mrs. McManigal with contempt. Break Ground for KMsition. Pan Diego, July 19. Ground will be broken for the San Diego exposi tion this afternoon when John Bar rett, the special envoy of President Taft. turns the first spadeful of earth In City park. The ceremonies will be preceded by a big military, naval and civic parade. MURDERER OF 55 FACES TRIAL TODAY Moxeow, Russia, July 19. Fifty five murders js the ghastly record at tributed to Peter Boldin. who was placed on trial today to answer for one of his many bloody crime. While he admits slaying only fifty-five, the police believe that he has not kept an accurate record of his murderous ac tivities, and that many other myste rious and unexplained crimes may be charged against him, bringing the to tal to almost a hundred. lioldin is a peasant farmer and is believed to have slayed his victims for sheer love of killing. Indeed, he ex plains that he threw fc small child into a well "just to see if it would sink " Most of his victims were peasants, but the crime for which he stands accused is the murder of a colonel of the gendarmerie and his wife. He was arrested on mipc1oii, identified by servants who had witnessed the deed, and later made a full confes sion. It is likely that lie will be convicted and sentenced to death, al though alienists say he Is not a ma nia. MEXICO MUST PREVENT LOSSES TO AMERICANS Washington, July 19. United States Ambassador Wilson to Mexico, was today instructed by the state de partment to complain to the Mexican government of the depredations by Mexican liberals In Lower California. American ranches are being raided and the owners have made an appeal to the government for protection. LIST OF PEEIIS-TO-BE IS COMPLETELY .MADE UP London. July 19. It was learned today thi4 the list of new peers whose creation is intended to force the Asquith government's veto bill through the house of lords, has been completed. Three hundred barons-to-be are on the list and the way in to-be each will vote is said to have been fully ascertained by the govern ment. 2-CFNT FARE LAW IS NOT CONSTITUTIONAL Springfield, Ills.. July 19. Master In Chancery' Allen today submitted to the United States district court a re port declaring the Illinois state 2-cent rai;road fare law unconstitutional. GRAFTING OFFICIAL GETS LONG SENTENCE Seattle, Wash., July 19. Charles W. Wappenstein, form er chief of police of this city, who was convicted of accepting a thousand dollar bribe from Gideon Tupper and Clarence Gerald, in payment for protec tion for houses of ill-fame, was sentenced by Judge Ronald to day to not less than three nor more than tn years at hard labor in the peaitentiary. KNEW NOT OF AFFRONT SPAIN HAS NO KNOWLEDGE OF FRENCHMAN'S AHIJF.ST S A(I!mv liOiitlon, While France Is Silent But Is Exptvtea to Demand Full Explanation and Aiokigry for MoiToocuii Affair. London, July 19. Official an nouncement was made by the foreign office today of advices received from the Spanish government that France has ben Informed that Spain is en tirely Ignorant of the reported arrest by Spanish troops of M. Boissant, French consul at Alcazar, Morrocco. No information has been received from Paris as .to how the French au thorities have received Spain's dis claimer. . it Is not believed, however, that France will" be satisfied with any thing short of a -full explanation and an apology. KING OF P9TLATCH MET BY AEROPLANE Seattle, July 19. This is the big day of the Golden Potlatch carnival, here, and the downtown streets are crowded. King Edgar D'Ore, carni val king, is due to arrive in the har bor aboard his treasure ship this af ternoon. The royal vessel will be es corted by six torpedo boat destroy ers. An extraordinary feature of the welcome to the king will be delivery of a formal welcome by Aviator Eu gene Ely, who will fly out to the ship in a Curtiss hydroplane. MOTHER SEES CHILD BURN. Father Plunges Into Blazing Building and Saves Two. Santa Barbara. Before the eyes of her mother, Scholartlc Shoemaker, aged three, was burned to a crisp in j a fire that destroyed one of the build ings of the Bradbury school at Mon-' tecsito. William Shoemaker, the fath-: er waded through fire and smoke to rescue his wife and another child, but was unable to reach the little one. j The building was valued at $4000. i SPECIAL ENVOY TO j "fiifriv ATrnv in.Ti-ivt; 1 '- '-. jia.Ai. New York, July 19. Praising Brit ish hospitality, John Hays Hammond, special American ambassador to the coronation of King George, returned here today on the Olympic. The en voy said that everywhere in England the utmost friendship foivAmerlca is expressed. Hookworm Attacks Southerners. Hattiesburg, Miss., July 19. More than fourteen thousand cases of hookworm have been treated, in the last -four weeks, in Lamar county. Miss., alone, according to Dr. Whit field, assistant director of public health. Whole families arc afflicted. FARING ONLY QUARTER SECTION HENRY MERMAN LEAVES ESTATE OF 31,234 That a man may become wealthy merely by the close farming of a small acreage In the wheat belt of Umatilla county Is fully proven by the case of the late Henry Timmer man, the inventory of whose estate was filed yesterday. Under the Inventory as filed, the estate is valued at $31,234.17. Of this amount the sum of $10 500 is in vested in a quarter section of land and the remainder is out in notes and other securities. Now here is the moral to the story. Every cent of the money represented by the Timmerman estate was made off a single quarter section of land. When Henry Timmerman came to Umatilla county from Holstein. Ger many, in 1SS7, he purchased 160 acres of land near Helix and there settled down to reside. During the years that followed and during which time neighbors were be coming land hungry and were buying out neighbor after neighbor, the old gentleman stood pat upon his quarter section. He raised some wheat every year upon the place and he raised vegetables for his family's use, and had eggs and butter to sell in Pen VOIING SUSPECTS AT Refuse to Consider Murde r of Rancher Seriously and J Officers. oke ENJOY MATCHING WITS WITH PKOSECUTIOjr Voi.iij.e-t Boy Speaks of PrpecUv Life Iiyr;soii.nt- lls something' Not to l e Greatly Breaded Other On:y Ai.'init Searching Bead Bod. Grand Junction, Colo., July 19. Refusing to take a serious view of their arrests, on direct charge. of hav ing deliberately murdert d Clarke A. Wolfskin, the wealthy Clifton rancher whose remains were fo;.;id in a river, the four young boys and girls wh are being held by the authorities laugh and joke about their predica ment and seem to enjoy their novel experience hilgely. The youngsters refuse to seriously answer questions that am nn f them by the prosecuting attorney or ana meet each attempt t unravel the mystery, with light retort-!, which they evidently intend to convey the idea that they'are equally matched with the authorities in ' contest of wits. Lee Baker, the fifteen year old boy who is one of the quartette of youth ful suspects, when asked today if he realized what would b ehis fate if be did not tell the truth and aid the of ficers, replied nonchalantly: "I don't care what they do with me Th.ey can't any more than send me to th penitentiary for life, anyway." The other three childish prisoner, Gladys Thompson, Lillian Osborn and Virgil Watson, each refuse te tell what they know about the death of the ranchman, other than to de clare that they did nothing worse than search through his pockets for money, when they discovered the corp? of Wolfskin In the water whea they started to go in swimming. Wolfskill was a bachelor and ha taken a prominent part in all mat ters, social and otherwise, in the neighborhood where he lived and his death, together with the alleged re lations with the two young girls, haa causod much surprise here and at Clifton. DODGES POSSE; SEES WIFE. Murderer Breaks Jail and Pays Hl Spouse Midnight Visit in Auto. Vniontown, Pa. 13. Frank Smith, who escaped from the Fayette coun ty jail on July 3d, where he was heli for injulry into his sanity because he shot and killed his father an4 and brother in law, paid a midnight visit to his wife, who lives near here while the sheriff and seven deputies were hot on his trail. The sheriff arrived at 2 a. m. but Smith had been gone fifteen minutes, according to his wife. He came and fled in an automobile. Mrs. Smith related the visit to the sheriff and said her husband wa armed with two automatic revolvers, and declared he would not be takea alive. Welsh Strikers Roit. Cardiff, Wales, July 19. Many per sons were injured today in fighting between striking dock laborers and the police and soldiers. The troop dispersed the mobs this afternoon. dleton. He was atypical dry land small farmer. According to friends and relative! of the deceased, he always preferred to do most of his own work. Rarely did lie have 'any hired men upon hi place save during the threshing sea son. The family lived frugally and spent little money fool shly. Yet none of them ever were in want. There are men who say that small farming will not pay in Umatilla county and that a man would starve, to death upon a quarter section in the wheat bolt. How- about this mai who made a living for himself and family for :M years and dying leavef an estate of $31,000? I lectures For PnSeelr. Grants Pass, Ore., July 19. Is view- of recent discoveries of rich gold and copper ledges In this county Professor Parks, of the Oregon Afrl cultural t'ollotse, announced in an ad dress before the Mining Congress here today that the state school would conduct a series of lectures this winter for the benefit of prospectors.