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EVENING EDITION EVENING EDITION WEATHER REPORT. Fair tonight and Saturday. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER. VOL. 24. E p Forces McNamara Defense to Exercise Four Peremp tory Challenges. EIGHTPERMANENTJURORS District Attorney Fredericks Thor oughly Enjoys Discomfiture of Op IKiiioihh, Caused hy Announcement That Ho Would "Stand Pat." Hall of Records, Los Angeles, Cal , Nov. 24. The tense Mtuatlon reached a climax In the McNamara trial to day when the s'.ate passed all the men in the box and the defense was com pelled to peremptorily challenge four, reducing their peremptorlcs to seven. The state still has five challenges. The men eliminated were: F. Mc Burney, a builder; A. D. Stevens, a re tired cattleman, and S. P. Elcott, a rancher, all of whom believed McNa mara is guilty, and J. 11. Harshall, aj friend of District Attorney Freder-1 Icks. ' The cxerc'sing of percmptorles was delayed twenty minutes until the ar rival of the prosecutor and nearly everyone was nervous. Darrow, with his hands In his pockets paced the floor, whllo his associates whispered nervously. District Attorney Fredericks In an nounc'ng that the state "stood pat," moiled Inscrutlbly and rcemingly en- Joyed the effect It had on the de fense. When the four filed out, F. A. nrodo, his face white. Jumped to his feet and told Judge Bordwell he had an absolute reason why he couldn't sorve. Judge Bordwell took fifteen m'nuts for reecess, and prlately talked with Brode. Brode was In tears when hef J. 8. Coke and K. S. Illsbee wore sworn, making eight per manent Jurors. Of fifty men drawn In the tenth venire, seventeen wore qualified, EYE WITNESS NAMES LA GRANDE SLAYER La Grande, Nov. 24. At the In- j quest held over the remains of a( tramp who was brutally murdered i here, Adolph Moll, an eighteen year old boy who claims to have witnessed ' the killing, named John Sables, a lav borer, as the murderer and stated that he crushed the murdered man's head with an axe following a quarrel over fifty cents, Involved In a poker gume, which took place In a vacant house, where the party had repaired to partake of a hastily prepared meal. The tnnn accused of the murder and two other suspect, including the Informer, nnd a man called Palmer, are being held by the police. i BETRAYED BY GIRL, MURDERER CONFESSES San Franc'sco, Cal , Nov. 24. Be trayed by Hazel Smith, his mistress, on whom the police found one of tho diamonds stolen from Benjamin Goodman, after he was murdered, John Rogers, who was arrested yes terday, today hysterically made a partial confession of tho crime. Tho woman lei tho police to a strong box In a Kearney street sa loon, where nbmit half the stolen gems were found. Rogers nt first deored the Jewels had been given him b Manuel Frut te'nl, who Is also employed where Ropers worked. Fruttlcnl, confronting Rogers, told him ho lied, nnd Rogers broke down completely. I The police-are concentrating their efforts In J-enrch'ng for a tall blonde, man, who was seen with Rogers ! shortly before ti e r-iurder. It Is be- ', lleved ho was or.-rncd In tho ac tual murder. East to West Via Oinnl. Providence, R I., Nov. 24. Bear ing the greetings of the Mayor of this city to the executive of San Francisco, Captain Harry Richie of New York Is today sailing southward In the 22-foot power dory George Washington, bound from th's port for the Golden Gate, via the Pnnama canal. He ex pects to complete the voyage on Washington's birthday, February 22. No Agreement Yet. Lincoln Center, Nov. 24. The Chnmberlnln tnr Jury Is still out. The Judge said he would probably keep thorn together until tomorrow. T PROS 0 . , - y - FOREIGN TROOPS TO GUARD RAILROAD. Shanghai, Nov. 24. Follow ing the appearance of antl-for-elgn placards In many plac.es In Peking, all the foreign diplo mats are planning for the Im portation of larger forces of troops to guard the Pekln Tlen Tain railroad. A general outbreak Is feared. It Is over this road that the foreigners may have to flee If attacked. Mutterlngs against foreign residents are heard In many quarters and the situation Is critical. MRS. PATTERSON WAS ST. LOUIS COURTESAN Denver Murderess of Hus band Has a Police Record Tells on Witness .Stand of . Llasoiis Willi Chicago i'lothler and Claims Self Defense. St. Louis. Nov. 24. Declaring that Mrs. Patterson, on trial at Denver for the murder of her husband, and a woman who formerly ran a resort of Ill-fame und x the name of Gertrude Knight, are the same, Chief of Police Young forwarded Hatements to Den ver todiy that may place big odds against the woman's chances of ac quittal. Young says she was here In 1904. Claims Self Defense. Denver, Nov. 24. Before a court room crowded with women, Mrs. Patter-on took the stand and said she shot her husband after he had struck her repeatedly and called her vile names. She said he wanted her to deed her house to him, which she refused to do. Previously, she said, Fhe had been to Europe with Emll Strouse. a weal thy Chicago clothier, to whom she asserted Patterson had leased her for $1,100. ' "I killed hin. In self defense," she said. SCHOOL KIDDIES TO HAVE VACATION When the schools of tho city dis miss this afternoon, tho several hun dred scholars will begin the enjoy ment of a nine-day vacation, the reg- , ular Thanksgiving holiday. Tho oceus on for tho holiday is tho annual Institute of the Eastern Ore- gon State Teachers' association and of the counties of Umatilla, . Union, Wallowa,- Baker and Malheur which will bo held at Baker the first three! days of next week. Every teacher In the five counties is expected to be pre en I nnd to spend a certain num- j ber of hours nt the meeting unless s'ekness or some other valid reason excuses them. , With but few exceptions, the Pen- ; dleton Instruction corps will leave In a: body for Baker Sunday morning and , will return Wednesday evening. Sev eral of the teachers whose homes are in Oregon City and Portland will at tend the Multnomah county Institute nnd thus be able to spend part of their vacation with relatives. MILLIONAIRE. MOORE BREAKS DOWN ON WITNESS STAND Redwood City, Calif., Nov. 24 Sob Mng llko a broken hearted child. Mil lionaire Moore punctuated the story of his matrimonial experienco with a dramatic Interruption today when he practically collapsed on .the witness stand. Ho was assisted from the court room. Ho said thnt his wife had come to him on her bended knees nnd begged him to divorce her and that she was h victim of tho drink hublt. Before his collapse he said he had or.ee flrdored Frederick Fenwlck, a millionaire lumberman from his office one morning following a scene in Moore's San Mates home, during which Mrs. Mooro confessed thnt Fen wlck hnd been fumtliar with her on ar. auto ride. PREACHER DECLINES $12,000 PASTORATE Baltimore, Nov. 24. Rev. Dr. Har ris E. Kirk, pastor of tho Franklin Street Presbyterian church, announc ed that he has declined a cnll to Cav alry church, Philadelphia, beenuse he believed his services were needed here more. For several weeks Dr. Kirk has given con ideratlon to the call and mnny members of the church had thought ho would accept it. The sal ary Is believed to b tlj.noo PENDLETON, OREGON- EASTERN ORE. R. R. ASSURED Line Through Center of State, To Be Commenced Dur ing Next Month. SURVEYORS ENDING WORK I i Many Camp Constructed Along Route and Originally .Surveyed Line Will I'rucl It-ally !kj Followed Under Jurisdiction of O.-W. 11. & N. Vale, Or., Nov. 24. Construction on the Oregon Eastern railway, the trans Oregon line of the Harriman system, from Vale, will be begun before the f'rst of the year, according to R'ght-of-way Agent Harris of the Oregon Short Line, while speaking before a mas meeting of 200 business men and ranchers in this city. Three parties of surveyors are now located In Malheur canyon. The first camp Is under Engineer Rupple, and Is camping 8 miles south of the city near the mouth of the gorge. Engi neer Cramer has enmped 8 miles above the Harper ranch at the 40 mile post and Engineu Grimes and his crew are located at t.ie 100 mile post and are camped on the Circle Bar ranch. The surveyors are all working on J ine unal survey and mod'fylng loca tion lines. On the whole the old sur vey lines will be followed. v Fnrrell Talks. Portland. Ore.. Nov. 24. President J. D. Farrell of the O.-W. R. & N. company, said this afternoon he un derstood the proposed trans-Oregon extension from Vale will be a part of the O -W. R. & N. when completed, and thus be placed under the Juris diction of the O.-W. R. & N. with headquarters In Portland. The con struction work is be'ng done by the Oregon Short Line because of con venience, the headquarters of that line being at Salt Lr.''e City, Utah. "I am not prepared to give any de tails concerning the Oregon Eastern," said President Ferrell, "because I have not had time to look into the matter yet, but I understand the line Is being built further to develop that great area of land referred to as cen tral Oregon. I don't know nt what point connection will be made with tho Deschutes river l'ne, but know that there is a large area of land awaiting development that can only follow the building of a railroad. The bu'ldlng of this line Is not so much to give us a shorter line I don't know that It would shorten our trans continental line but to develop cen tral Oregon" ANOTHER EFFORT MADE FOR A MORSE PARDON Washington. Nov. 24. Another at tempt to secure the release of Charles Morse, the banker Imprison in the federal prison at Atlanta, was made today when n new appeal for pardon was presented to Prcs'dent Taft by Morse's attorney, but was turned down. Immediate pardon was asked on the grounds that Morse' I near death. He was sent to Atlanta for fifteen yenrs in 1910 for misappro- prlatin of funds of New York banks. he controlled Attorney General . Wirkerehnm said President Taft might make a statement later. PENDLETON FANS OF GRIDIRON TO SEE STELLARSCCKTEST HERE THANKSGIVING Pendleton football fans will rejoice nt the news that the high school is determined to secure a big game here on Thanksgiving Day and that it is certain that the team which defeated Baker so decisively a week ago will I'no up again-t a stellar aggregation from Portland. Walla Walla or Hepp ner on that day. The boys havo a preference for a game with the champions of the Port land Interscholastlc league and are using the long distance, telephone this afternoon In an effort to secure such a game. The Portland championship was decided yesterday in the Washington-Jefferson game, but Informa tion as to which was the winner had not arrived In Pendleton at noon. If a game is arranged between a Pendleton and a Portlnnd team, sev eral business men who are entuh s'nstlc fans and have confidence In the local team, have slgnlfU 1 their In tention of c'rculatlng a paper among the fans for subscriptions to protect j 'ho h'gh school management In cace. the gate receipts are not sufficient toj rover expenses. Should the Tortlanfi champions FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1911. NORTHWEST WINS RATE REDUCTION. Washington, Nov. 24. Port land Seattle and Tacoma won the'r f'ght for chaper freight rates into Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana today when the interstate commerce com mission ordered a twenty per cent reduction in rates by the Northern Pacific, Oregon Washington Railroad and Nav igation company and their con nections. This la known as the back haul case, filed In 1909 by the coRst cities who alleged rates were unduly high. PENDLETON NEEDS CITY ELECTRIC PLANT Frisco Public Utilities Expert Makes Statement Declares Plant Would Prove Very Valuable Asset and Paying Resource of City In Near Future. That it would pay the city of Pen dleton and pay It well to e-tablish a municipal electric plant and even to use electricity from the same in the operation of plectric lines Into the city from tributary territory is the dec laration of E. P. E. Troy of San Francisco, who was here yesterday. Mr. Troy Is known upon the coast as an expert on the subject of public utilities. He has been at Oregon C'ty In the service of VV. S. U'Ren who is drafting a plan to submit the proposition of single tax to the vot ers of Clackamas county. Mr. Troy was called in to arrange the plan for the assessment of the public service corporations such as the b'g power company using the falls at Oregon City, and he has Just concluded the work. He is now making a brief tour of the northwest before returning to San Francisco. As a result of his experience In California,. Mr. Troy has become an earnest advocate of municipal own ership of such enterprises as power plant''. He says that the future will show the power resources of the west to be of immense value and that cities Requiring and holding powersltes will be fortunate. Accord'ng to Mr. Troy, his Investi gation of the situation at Oregon City reveals that the power company con trolling the falls Is making fabulous profits and Is not properly assessed by the present ftate tax board. EMBEZZLER IS GIVEN STIFF PRISON SENTENCE New York, Nov. 24. Sentenced to not more than eight years and eight months or less than four years and eight months was imposed on W. J. Cummins, former trustee of the Car negie Trust company, who was con victed of embezzling J140.000 of the institutions funds today. Needle In Foot Twenty Yenrs. Warrensburg. Mo., Nov. 24 An operation removed a portion of a needle a quarter of an inch long from the foot milliner. of Miss Mattle Johnson, a The needle has been In her foot for twenty years. Miss John- ston suffered no inconvenience from the needle until two weeks ngo. when it commenced to cause her pain. refuso to come into eastern Oregon, Walla Walla will be given the date should the high school boys of that c'ty desire to pit their strength aralnst tho local pigskin chasers again. In nn early season contest betweenthe two teams, the Garden City gladiators soueeze.l out a victory In the last few minutes of play by a fluke touchdown, but nobody in Pendleton admits the possibility of a repetition of such a v'ctory Heppner high school Is clamoring for a g.'dlron engagement with the Pendl tor team. Since the Baker game the local boys h-we laid claim to the championship of eastern Ore gon anr In a le' ;er received this morning by Super'ntendent Landers, he manager of tho Morrow county team, strenuously challenges the right of Pendleton to set up such a claim when h's own warriors have not been, defeated. Pendleton and Heppner have not clashed on the sawdust are na for mnny years nnd a battle be tween teams from the two el'les would have the qualities of novelty and uncerta'nty. and such a contest may bo arranged. I WALKS COOLY TO DEATH i CHAIR WITH SAINTLY AIR Believes Almighty is Awaiting His Arrival Above With Welcoming Arms Outstretched Complains That Many Details of Coldblooded Crime Were Not Correctly Published in Newspapers Enters Un known on an Empty Stomach Beulah Slept Well. Richmond, Va., Nov. 21. Shortly after Henry Clay Bcattle was shocked to death in tho state electric chair this morning, for the munler of Ills young wife, Rev. Fix, the murderer's spiritual adviser, announced Uiat BeatUe had confessed, to lilm, in a written statement, which follows: "I. Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., desirous of standing right before God and man, do on this twenty-fourth day of November, 1911, confess my guilt, of the crime, charged against mo. "Much has been published, concernhig: the detail of the crime, which Is, not true, but the awful fact, without the lull-rowing circumstances, remains. "For tills action, I aiii truly sorry. "I believe that I am at peace with God and that I am soon to pass Into his presence. "Tills statement is made and signed by HENRY CLAY BEATTIE, JR." 44 Summary of Case. July 18. 1911 Mrs. Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., murdered. July 21, 1911 Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., arrested. August 21, 1911 Trial begun at Chesterfield court house. September 8, 1911 Verdict of guilty, Beatfle sentenced to death. November 24, 1911 Death sentence executed and confes sion announced. Dies in Three Minutes. Richmond, Va., Nov. 24. Henry Clay Bqrtttie this morning died in the electric chair at the prison here a confessed wife murderer. He was pronounced dead at 7:23 o'clock. The execution required three minutes, from the time the electric current was turned on. Only a shadow of his former self, the slayer approached the electric chair with an unfaltering step and calmly paid the penalty for his cruel murder of h's young wife in order thnt he might be rd of her, as an ob stacle to his relations with seventeen-year-old Beulah Binford, and a num ber of other women of questionable character. The execution chamber was In to tal darkness when Beattie, escorted by guards and his spiritual advisers crossed the threshold, when -an at tendant snapped a switch which l'ghted two small 'ncandescent globes above the death chair, which caused the oak seat of death to come out In starting!)- bold relief neainst the darkness of the rest of the room. Without any display of foar, Beat tie looked cur'oudy nt the chair, shook hands with the two m'n'sters. turned with an air of unconcern to the chair nr.d sat down In it to allow the attendants tf adjust tho black rap about his head, after which he was strapped in the chair and the cur rent turned on Outside te prison walls a morbid crowd of hundreds of persons had had gathered and awaited through a downpour of rain, for news from the death chamber. Finally the warden of the prison appeared before the crowd and an nounced: "It Is all .vcr ind w.-s very much the same as othe; executions." A squad of policemen then appear ed and forced the crowd to disperse. Neither Henry Clay Beattie, Sr., f-ither of the murderer, or any of the relatives were near the penitentiary during the morning, so far as coHld be ascetainod. Douglas Beattie, brother of the ev eouted slayer, claimed the body to day nnd tomorrow it will be buried by the s'de. of the wife whom he so cruelly slew, provided the plans of the family are carried out. Despite the fact that he retired last night with the full knowledge that he would barely have time to realize another day had dawned before his death. Beattie slept soundly through out the night and had to bo aroused this morning by the guards when It come time to prepare for the execu tion. Accord'ng to the usual custom, Beattie was electrocuted without breakfast. It is now considered probable thnt the funeral will be held tonight, to avoid the assured crowd of curious people who are expected to flock to the last ceremonies tomorrow. Rev. Fix today denied an alleged interview of tho senior Beattie, In which he was reported to have stated: Calling cards, wed ding stationery, " com mercial stationery and Job printing to order at the East Oregonlan. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. NO. 7278 "Guilty or innocent, I am proud of my son." In a second statement issued by Rev. Fix he stated that Beattie de sired to thank his friends for their kind letters and also the public "for any sympathy it felt toward him." Beattie admitted the murder was premeditated to the ministers. He said he wanted his wife out of the way. because he wanted to live with "a woman," probably Beulah Bin ford, whom he did not intend to marry. He confessed h was glad his wife was dead as he t'..ought he was free. He arranged, in advance, to tell the highwayman story but lacked cun ning and was not a good actor. History of the Ca.se. On a dark night last July Henry Clay Beattie returned from a Joyrlde , on mo lonely Midlothian Turnpike j with the blood-stained body of his wife held close to his side in his au- to. But an hour before the couple I had left the home of the girl's uncle, , Thomas Owen. There the body of ( the body woman was taken, and there i Beattie told a story of a bearded , highwayman, who held up his ma I chine in the road, after the auto had j nearly run him down. Beattie said that when he started his auto to run away from the bearded stranger, who was armed with a shotgun, the man fired at the machine, killing Mrs Beattie. While the family of the dead girl mourned her death at home. Beattie, with police officials and private de tectives scoured the neighborhood for traces of the bearded highwayman. The blood soaked auto in which he had carried his wife's body waj press ed into service nnd Beattie imself ran the grue.-ome vehicle up and down the Midlothian Turnpike through the night. Just as dawn broke on July 19, Luther L. Sherer, Chesepeake and Ohio Railroad detective, brought into the case by the girl's family reached the scene of the crime with a brace of bloodhounds. Then the first sus picion of Beattie himself took root. The bloodhounds circled wide ahout the place through woods and fields, but baying loudly they invariably re turned to the spot, where Beattie de clared his auto stood when his wife was shot. A short time later a ne gro "mammy" found a single-barreled shotgun, Identired by Beattie as the gun with which his wife was kill ed, nt a railroad crofsina: about half wjy between the scene of the crime and the Owen home. Beattie in his stories of the killing of his wife told widely differing tales. He was particularly contradictory in his description of the man whom he accused of the shooting Tor three days detectives worked with all their ; energy without definite result, but I gathering a mass of circumstances thnt seemed to point to Bentt e. The history of the young son of the weal thy merchant, as a Lothario of South Richmond, and his relations with the . beautiful seventeen year old Beulah Binford, were discovered. The de tectives unearthed the story of Henry Clay Beattie Trout, the child born to Beulah Binford and Henry Clay j Beattie in 1909. Meanwh'lo the body of the murder- I ed girl-wife was burled from ' tho , church where a short year before she had been married to Henry Clay , Beattie. j On the Friday following, Coroner I Loving began tho inquest Into the death of Mrs. Beattie. On tho stand. Bcattle, under Instructions from hw lawyer, Harry M. Smith Jr.. decl'ned I (Continued on page ten.)