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EVENING EIHilN EVENING EDITIOii c weatmeh re 5. Calling cards, wed ding stationery, eom merclal stationery and Job printing to order at the East Oreronlan. Fair and warms' night; Saturda; COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER.- VOL. 24 PEXDLETOX, OREGON, FRIDAY, .ICLV i's, l-.ill. XO. 7278 C 4i W - T D Fleet Coaled'and Supplied With Provisions. and Awaiting Or der to Take to Ssa, EEEL1NG IX GERMANY IS NOT SO INTENSE Kaiser's Subjects and the ITesx arc ' Not Twisting the I. Ion's Tuil so 1 Enthusiastically uh Was Cants IVw j Pays Ago Situation Still Serious. 1 London, July 28. Following a night of incessant activity, the First division of the home fleet of battle ships of Great Britain, Including sev eral Dreadnaughts, is today reported to be fully coaled and equipped with sufficient provisions for a long Jour ney. The fleet can take to the sea on a moments notice, and In case the seri ously expected war with Germany should come, it is asserted that the English navy will be found ready for any emergency. Germans More IoM-ful. Berlin, July 28. Presumably awaiting a cue from the government, the press generally speaking, Is today practically silent on the statement made in Parliament of Great Britain my Premier Asquith on the Moroc can situation. While there are still to be heard many expressions of fear of war, among jfflclals, the tense feeling of the past several days, has somewhat subsided here ns a result of a more hopeful aspect of the negotiations be tween France and Germany over the Moroccan matter. While the feeling Is notlcably grow ing, that wnr may be averted, no one, who Is In a posltlorto know the true state of affairs, will concede that the situation is not still serious, and may take on more serious proportions within a very short space of time and at any time. franco Is Preimrlnfr. Paris, July 28. Despite the state ments emanating from the foreign of fice, that the Franco-German diffi culty over Morocco will be amicably adjusted, the war office is today very active. Military preparations are proceeding speedily which Indicates that whatever the diplomatic out come the country won't be caught napping. Provisions and ammuni tion have been rushed to the fortifi cations along the German frontier and troops me in mnrching order. Germany Divides Tonight. Berlin. July 28. Whether Ger many will fight or back down, prob ably will be decided at the Swlne munde tonight when Kaiser Wilhelm confers with Chancellor Von Beth-mann-Hollwcg and the foreign sec retary. ' Pretender Is linya!. 1am Angeles, July 28 John De Gculph, pretender to the British throne, today extended invitations to all British and colonial army officers, on the retired list, and other British subjects in the United States and Cariuda to send In their names for en rollment in organizing here nn impe rial army corps for contingent ser vice In the event of war between Eng land and Germany. Geulph declares the corps will he placed at the dis posal of the British war office. Me asserts that he is the first son of the late King Edward. Miss l,o'ttn Fleek, librarian of the Pendleto.i public library, will leave tomorrow evening upon a months' vacation which she w'ill spend at her home at Llbby, Montana. READY W r.rOONALD ACKNOWLEDGES TAKING SEELYE AUTO Acknowledging that he took the Seelye automobile from the Pendleton Auto Co. gnrago without permission In order to give a party of friends a Joy ride, Harry "Curly'' McDonald Is In the county Jail today and will be given a preliminary hearing probably this afternoon. Ho was brought In last evening from Vancouver by Deputy Sheriff Blakeley. Pie docs not attempt to deny his culpability, but declares he only took the machine with the intention of re turning it in a few hours. When asked why he had left town so sud denly, he answered frankly that he was scared and wanted to get to Ca nada. He says he left Pendleton on the early morning train Sunday and got off at Umatilla where ho caught a freight to The Dalles. After staying all night at The Dalles he caught an other freight Into Portland from v.'here ho made his way over to Van couver. ' Arrested on Suspicion. It wns In that town that he wns picked up, the officers noticing him In the railroad yards as he was nhout to board n freight for Canada. When they approached him, he attempted I' it ' !: INSURGENT KEPIULICANS TO All) DKMOCKATS Washington, July 28. The Progressive Republicans in the senate, today pledged them- Belvt's to stand by the demo- erats in whatever compromise the conferes on the wool bill may reach. The adoption of the conference report is also assured in the house. I RECALL SEATTLE MAYOR l AiM KK to reform jwr. CONDITION'S STARTS EIGHT Present Sheriff ami Cimdldiito for Governor Is Vriml fur Place Hut Docs Not Waist It. Seattle, Wash., July 28. "Itecall the 'Recall' Mayor, George Pilling, find elect Robert Hodge, the present sheriff, in his stead." is the slogan of the Recall association which has for the past month been working for the recall of Dilllng. They give as their reasons- for the fight on Dilling, that he has utterly failed to institute the much needed Jail reforms Woman Ieads Eight. Mrs. Catherine Stirtan. is the mov ing spirit of the association. In the fight on the mayor, and she made a statement to the effect that within ten d.-rys, the required 15,000 names will have been secured to the recall petition which has been in circula tion for the past few weeks. Sheriff Hodges, some time ago made the. announcement that he was a candidate for governor of the state, and he has come out with a statement to the effect that he will not he a candidate for mayor, despite the pe titions of his friends. ProMVutc Detectives. Washington, July 28. Organized labor proposes to prosecute the Burns detective agency for 'its part in ar resting 'the men charged with destroy ing with dynamite the newspaper plant of the Eos Angeles Times. In an appeal for funds with which to defend the alleged dynamiters, is: sued today by the American Federa tion of I.nbor, it Is declared that every man connected with the kidnapping of the MeXamnras will he prosecuted to the limit of the pv and that pun ishment will be meted out to "the detective agencies that assume to be superior to the law." DETECTIVE DENIES STEALING EVIDENCE Xew York. July 28. Intimations by Gilbert Terklns. head of the Perkins detective agency, that the agents of WMIinm Ttiii-na Ka.l .inn.l of evidence tending to prove the tn-j nocence of John McNamara. w ho is I accused of the Times dynamiting and other outrages, were branded false today by Burnes. "It is a libelous fabrication. The tory is false and a deliberate' at tempt to get public circulation of a Me to create sentiment favoring Mc Namara," said, Burns. Evidence CorrolH'rcitcd. Washington, July 28. Evidence lending to confirm the reports that I Edward Mines, the Chicago million-! aire lumberman who is accused of having corruptly caused the election I "i .-M-imior i.ormur, boasted or his activities, was given today before the Investigating committee by Albert McCordlc, a lawyer. He said Hlnes made the boasts to a Duiuth lumber man, who Is a client of his. to elude them which act aroused their suspicions. They caught and searched him and. finding a clipping telling of 'the. almost fatal Joy ride in this county, his Identity was easily surmised and he was held. Back Whcvl Punctured. When asked regarding the cause of the accident, ho said one of the back tires blew out, caused the wheel to skid at a time when the machine was rounding a curve. The result was the turning over of the car. Iirt-eny of (iiisoline. According to Deputy District At torney W. C. E. Pruitt. McDonald will not be charged with larceny of the car but larceny of the gasoline and oil. A law was enacted at the last session .if the legislature making it a criminal offense to take n vehicle without the consent of the owner which law was framed to apply to Just such cases" as this hut, fortu nately for McDonald, it does not be come effective until August 1. There fore, fearing that he would escape by a plea of no criminal Intent In case he wns charged with theft of the auto, Deputy Pruitt has decided to (Continued on pace eight ) YOUNG GIRL HELD CAPTIVE l!i CABIN BY WHILE SLAVER Rescued by Authorities and esale Arrests are Ex pected to Follow. fan Francisco, July 2S. One of the most flagrant cases of abduction, hi connection with the white slave truffle, has Just come to light here, in the. rescue by the police authori ties of seventeeii-yoar-olj Melona Whitson, who has for the past twelve days, according to the authorities, been Indd prisoner in a lonely cabin in the Santa Cruz mountains, by white slaers. -Safe at Home. The gir! was today returned to her home, and while she is safe, her ap pearance testifies to the fact that she has been subjected to an exciting ex perience f.nd much suffering. The authorities have announced tnnt they have clews which they be lieve will lead to the arrest and con viction of a Kane. Which thev naserf is responsible for the girl's abduction It is believed that many such cases nave oecured recent v. anrl wholesale arrests will In all probability follow. UP TO LAWYERS That the members of the school board are still In hopes the high hool bond Issue will "be accepted by the buyers is the declaration of J. T. Brown, chairman of the board Discussing the matter this after noon. Mr. Brown said that technical objections had been raised to the bond issue and that the bonds have heen submitted to a legal law firm in Xew lork. Thus far no opinion has been received from them. However, the points of objection are such that the board feels they will not be serious. The subject was discussed at a meet ing of the board held last evening. Because of the difficulty in connec tion with the disposal of the bonds the building of the new high school is being delayed. The bond Issue was sold to the First National bank of this city, but the sale was conditioned on the bonds being found good from a legal standpoint. PORTLAND INSURANCE COMPANY IS BANKRUPT Portland, July 28. The Phoenix -Mutual Fire Insurance company went into voluntary bankruptcy today to prevent the authorities from taking court action against it. The liabili ties are about a quarter of a million dollars and the cash on haid is $2.7.. The company had been warned pre viously u-i to the conduct of its busi ness. ApiM'al to Consul. El Paso, Tex.. July 2S. The -Mexi-an consul in this city has been ap pealed to by Senor Martinez of Pe cos. Tex., to see that his son. Leon Martinez, 1 years of age. and con fessed murderer of Miss Kmmo Brown, in Reeves county, is protected from a threatened mob and given a fair trial. Both father and son are citizens of Durango, Mex. Martinez' trial begins today and he is being guarded by a company or Texas rangers sent to Pecos by order of the governor of Texas. Child Drowns. ' Olympia, July 2S. In an attempt to reach the position on a boom stick held by her little eight year old un cle, Edna Mizner. one of the twin daughters of L. C Miuzer, a well-to-do baker and veterinary surgeon of this city slipped into . the bay from the rowboat in which she had been sitting, and was drowned. Mrs. J, F. Cline dived in after the little girl, but being unable to swim, would have drowned had it not been for her 13-year-old daughter Oladys. who threw out a plank which her mother grasp ed. l'llgrimaue to I'atlieilaiid. Xew York, July 28. Several hun dred Welshmen from all parts of the United States and Canada assembled in New York today and will sail to morrow morning on the Carona .( ir u six weeks' pilgrimage to WAlts. Many of those who are going back to the land of their birth have not been in Wales for thirty or forty years. To Unite Colonics.' Paris, July 28. The French gov ernment has decided to unite the col onies of Guadeloupe and Martinique with one betid, and hos created a gov ernor generalship of the Antilles to which office Pascale Ceclldl. the rad ical socialist representative, will be appointej temporarily. HIGH SCHOOL BONDS BELL HBP KILLS illLLIUI NEW- YORK HOTEL Enters Guests Room to Rob and is Resisted and Almost Captured. Xew Y-.ik, July 2s. Following up on the discovery ,jf tne jead body of Hilar., J. Jackson, the aged million aire who was found beaten to death n his room at the Iriquois hotel yes terday th." detectives placed under arrest. Paul Geidel. a seventeen-year-old hell boy. employed at the hotel, and who is being held to answer for the ciime. Slayer Weeps. Today in his cell In the city jail, tno youth is cowering and weeping. He makes no denial of murdering Jackson and says that robbery was the sole mo-ive and that he had no in tention of killing bi8 victim. He claims that he only secured tS 75 in cash and a gold watch which he pawned for $18. It is declared that the bell boy en tered the room to rob it and was at tacked by the aged millionaire, who PUt up such a strenuous fight that the youthful robber barely escaped with his life. Young Geidel was indicted for the .murder this afternoon. ROSS NEWPORT IS ONE HARD EIGHTER Boss Xewport, mayor of Hermiston and the son of Col. H. G. Xewport, was the victor in -uiiu en counter in Hermiston vstowin,. mu . v v. naj , lilC other participant was a workingman nose name is unknown to the storv of eve n'iin, , .i uria.r, the vanquished was the aggres sor in me UK it am ua v,os. abuse and blnsuhcinv nru.n u of the -Newport family in general when uie oung man's re finnllv .a,Q aroused. He stnicU tho f.,n.. biow and it wns lrnv.bn..i t. I . Jll I lie knocked his adversary down New port grabbed him hv the was pulled off with rliffl dispute between the two men was over wages and the rent of a house belong-j ing to the New-ports. COVERN'OR WEST WILL j "O ON HI NT AICIST 18 Salem Or. August 18 has been set as the dale for the governor and his party to start on their hunt into Cur ry county. A. G. Maab. breeder of Airedale dogs, will join in the hunt Superintendent of Tublic Instruction Alderman. H. H. Holmes and Walter Hembree of McMinnville will complete the party. Miss Ilg's I tody Found. San Francisco. July 28. The bodv of Miss May llg. who disappeared fr..n. 1..... ..... . I 1 11-1 noun- m .an t rancisco July 11. vas lounu floating in the ocean one and one half miles north of Bo linas. about m mii.. ,,....,1, o Francisco, late yesterday. The body j was positively identified as that of' Miss llg by William UR. the young ! woman's brother, who was summoned i from his home at 14 Hartford street,! San Francisco. j MrCraw Susiiendcd. i Cincinnati, July 2S. Manager John McOraw of the Xew York Nationals, ! received notice fro President Lynch , that he had been suspended for three j days becaus of his verbal attack on I I'mpire Johnstone during the game here Tuesday. M,C,raw was 011 the field during the game when he rc reived the telegram notifying him of his suspension. Killed by Live wire. Everett. Wash, July 28. Oaron Eaton was so badly burned that he died and James o'Xeili and Jackson Ryan were dangerously injured yes- icruay when they came in contact j with a high power wire while string- i ing a signal wire through the Cascade , tunnel on the Ureat Xorlhern rail-i way. Land Withdrawn. ' Washington. July 2S. Approxi mately 14.720 acres of land near Koslyn, Wash , have been withdrawn from entry by the secretary of the in terior. The lands are near the Yaki ma irrigation project, and are reserv ed pending an examination as to the practicability of building a reservoir on them in connection with the pro ject. Osteopaths Treat TulM-roiilosis. Chicago, July 28. That pulmo nary tuberculosis can be treated more successfully by Osteopaths than by lepresentatives of other schools of medicine was the statement made by Dr. V. B. Mencham of Asheville, X. C. in an address delivered before the American Osteopathic association. CONDITION- OF POPi; CAl'.SES ALARM Rome, July 29. Pope Pius is todiy a very ill man and his physicians admit as much, at the Vatican. As the result of Laryngitis, his breathing Ls ex tremely diffl ult and has aggra vated his heart trouble. Ht? is also suffering from chronic gout. OFFIKKWOIM t BEl'I.AII IIIM ORE SI I5.IECTEI) . to Tin; -TiiinD decree- Judge CH-s to Prisoner's Resctio and Soundly Deiioiities-s Alleged Uru tullty of Authorities. Richmond, Va., July 28. Having been advised that the police authorii es of this place have resorted to "Third Degree" methods in order to force Beulah Binfor.i t,, i,.- - J aumn- onai information, in the killing f Mrs. Henry Beattie. .Tr fnr ,.v,t..u the dead woman's husband is bein held here,' Judge Carter Scott today visited the citv l.iii nni aftc i ly upbraiding the officers, he advised inem that he would remove th . . ess n?heTP mm?thnrr their, reaCh un- less ineir methods wpia mmi,nn,.i..! discontinued. Puhl.e Ln? V"ffna"t- 1 ubllc sentiment has heen 9,1. in h.1,.1. -v. j ..vt,,.,, ivuiu uc so peuy ana con- rennr, J n?"" 'voman' b thejtemptible an asinine, as to make suck report of gruelling examinations to remarks, as have been reported" vh ch she has been subjected, by thej The words of Governor West that police, and it is declared that i i,m.v, ,-.,. . esl " , v nri on:? ihl T ten! the woman " - "'-"feu on Drutanty. uonnson did not want to honor the ' " j requisition. It might be a good scheme Canadian Parliament Adjourns I to allow California to keep Wilde aa Ottawa, July 28. Following an' all j the Oregon exhibit at the Panama night session It is believed that par- i Pacific exposition, liament will be dissolved either todav Wilde Has Xo Fear, or tomorrow- a n .,,..i . . ! nn r. . ... ut ine 00-1 '-'s'. uiij.., juiy za. de struction tactics of the conservatives, j claiing that he has no objection to They are blocking the reciprocity bill 1 returning to Salem, Oregon, where and the government has about d'ecid-i h" is charged with embezzlement of ed to call an election on the matter 0,0i)0. in connection with the j wrecking of the Oregon Trust com. Blows Out Brains , pany of Portland, by W. Cooper Mor- Oakland. Hi and despondent be- ' rii' and aIso bating that he has no cause he feared he would not be able 1 te.nr of the "ut"on'' of his trial, Loula to support his wife and children, ! WiItl( ls t"day preparing to leave for Charles Rnninn n ''San Francisco to meet tv.a day blew out his brains in the South- em Pacific depot at First Bn,i way. He left a note to his wife telling of his deed and asking forgiveness. LA FOLLETTE'S PAPER FLAYS RECIPROCITY 1 end Another forest fire has bees ' raging in Bonner county, Idaho, near Madison, Wis., July 28. Under the Sand Point, and a tract of several caption cf "Whose victor?" Senator acres has been burned over. How LaFollette's magazine today bitterly ever this fire is reported to be un denounces reciprocity. "A piece of der control. Another forest fire ie private legislation, enacted in supine aging in the Kaniks forest reserve nea obedience to the presidential man- Priest Lake. Idaho. In Lincoln coun date" is the magazine's eharacteri-! ty, near Davenport. Wash., a large zation of the bill and it asserts that amount of timber has been destroy- me measure is worse than the "out rages of the Payne-Aldrich law." The article continues: "Its passage is a victory for the railroads, which may gain an increased traffic as Can adian wheat flows t.i our mills and agricultural implements, motor ,.'hn """"'-. :o imin lUir "t-en.. sneeis ot canvas shaped to mills to the farms . and Canadian resemble aeroplanes and dirigible bal homes. Millers are given free access loons will be suspended from batter to Canadian tields, and banded a club ics of powerful box kites and will with which to heat down prices, which serve as targets for the r'fes of the the American farmer receives for marines and the small brech boat grain, it is victory for the big in- guns, s,, far ;hc ordnance bureau dustrial and transportation interests, has not succeeded in producing a -Mr. Ultimate Consumer; the victory big gun that mav be afelv elevated to 1.; not yours' sh,,ot lhl- sy. TWO WHEAT FIELDS DAMAGED BY FIRE TODAY The largest grain fire if the year '" '"is county this morning burned a large part of an ISO acre field be longing to Pete Tachella at Saxe sta tion, four miles northeast of this city. It was started by a .spark from the engine of the Pendleton-Pasco local shortly before 10 o'clock and owing to a slight breeze and the intense dry ness of the'grain, gained rapid head way. The combined harvester was in the field at work at the time and it was with difficulty that it and the thirty horses pulling it were saved from the flames. The horses balked when th.v saw the fire and the entire crew wit's forced to use clubs to get them to move the big machine from the dan ger zone. Despite the fact that the crews on several nearby farms joined in fight ing the flames, they were not con trolled until noon when over half of the field had been destroyed. Con siderable of the grain that had al ready been sacked burned also the fire spreading through the stubble where the sacks had been dumped from the combine. The grain wns insured, so that part of the loss will be covered. Charles Rhinehart, well known res bull, JOHNSON ANSWERS 1ST Intimates Oregon Chief Exe'cuJ tive is Long Eared Relative of the Burro. THEN SIGN'S PAPER TO EXTRADITE LOUS WILD AIIegc, KmlM zIcr Has no Objection to Returning: to Portland to Face Accusers and Is ffAlo Not Worrle as to the Result. .San Francisco, Calif., July 28. Having announced he was .prepared to sign :he paper which will author ize the extradition from California to Oregon of Louis Wilde, who la wanted to answer to charges of em bezzlement at Portland, Governor Johnson, with a display of genuine pleasure, replied for the first time t the castigation administered at Ions range several days ago, by Governor vtest or Oregon, when Governo I .Tnhnu hun.r. . , ..rumLcu in Honoring: uof ernor Wests requisition for the aile -.7 r 1 ..1 . " Governor .Tc . . ... hflr31-v believe that the governor of ! ,.i., . i'jilu me ioregoing answers. were to the effect that if Govern i flclals tomorrow and return to Port- I lant' ' '" them Eircs in Tdiibo j Spokane. July 28. A serious forest ; fire is reported to nave been burn I ing for 4S hours near Xelson, In northern Idaho, defvine the effnr. of a crew of 34 men to subdue it. It was reported to the forestrv office at Wallace, Tuesday, and men were at once sent out to fight it. Two lumber camps are said to be threat. eu oy lire and 01) men are now bat tling with the flames. To Shoot Aeroplanes. Washington. July 28. Unique tar get practice will be provided for the battleships of the Atlantic fleet next ervation farmer, was also a loser by fire .this morning when his haystack blazed up. presumably being started by the ignition of a match in the pockets of one of the farm hands wha were sleeping in the stack. The hay. two sets of harness and a saddle were destroyed and the flames spread to within ten feet of the field of Bruno Weber but fortunately was stopped at that point. No New Cases. Xew York. July 28. The encour agement felt over the negativedevel opments in the cholera situation was strengthened by the arrival yesterday afternoon of an Italian st.-ainer, Ve rona, win, the declaration of tts cap lain that all on board are well. The vessel came from Genoa and Xaples wit!, seventy-five cabin and " o - steerace passengers. ""uperficial 1 xamination developed nothing to contradict the captain' statement, but the steum.-r will b held for observation. Crew and Cargo Saved iiger. crew, mai.s and careo of th k ed steamer Empress of china, were brought to Yokohama todav by the Japanese cruisers Aso and Soya