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EVENING ED1TI0!) EVENING EDITIOH TO ADVEKTISEItS. "Die F-ast Orpgnnlnn hf. the largest paid circulation of any pnprr Id trpon, ant of Portland and nearly twice the rlrcnlatlMi In Pendleton of ttf tthet newipaper. WEATHER REPORT. Snow flurries today; Sunday fair. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. PENDLETON", OREGON, SATURDAY, lARCII 2, 1912. NO. 73G2 VOL. 24. . jgzz- v .vxa m m y , . 110 SS TOLD CONDITIONS: OFFERS REJECTED FAMILIES EAT ONLY BREAD AND WATER Textile Workers' Wages Were Not Sufficient to Live On Washington. D. C., Mar. 2. Ex tremely poorly clad and their pitiful condition made more pathetic by their attitude of wonder at their sur roundings, the delegation of children of the textile mill strikers of Law rence, Mass., and about a dozen men and women strikers today testified before the house committee on rules, regarding the conditions that led to the strike. Two hundred persons were present when the children began telling of the conditions surrounding their home life and caused by the small wages that are paid by the mill ope rators Among them were President Samuel Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, President (fold ing of the Textile Mill VorKrs' union and several public officials of Law rence. The first witness was Samuel Lip son, a striker. Ho said that he per sonally went on strike because he could not make a living for his fam ily with the wages paid him. This man graphically told how he and his family at times were reduced to bread and water as their only food. Knenkinir of the strike generally. he said thnt ono of the main causes of the walkout was the fact that the ope- r.itnra nftrr tho law fixlnz tha week work at fifty-four hours, speeded the machinery of the mills up and reduc ed the wages to conform with the hours, thus getting the same amount of work out of the men and women for less money than they had pre viously paid. PETERSON HAS PRAISE FORGREATCOMMONER Enthused over the prospect for democratic success In the national el ection this fall and admiring W. J. Bryan as never before Will M. Peter son, democratic chairman for Uma tilla county Is back from Portland where he attended the Bryan meeting night before last and also attended the various, functions given in his honor. According to Peterson the Bryan moeting in the Gipsy Smith auditor ium Thursday night was a monster affair and the Great Commoner won vociferous applause from republicans as well as democrats. There were 10,000 people In the audience and at Itast that number was turned away (because of lack of room. The reac tlonary republicans cheered when Bryan grilled Roosevelt and the pro gressives loudly applauded when he criticised President Taft. As to the situation regarding the democratic nomination for president, Peterson snys the sentiment In this state Is plainly favorable to Woodrow Wilson. However there Is consider able Clark sentiment and there are Harmon boosters. Peterson himself in now a Bryan man and predicts that If the democratic convention is well divided among ,the candidates - now mentioned the gathering may stam pede to the Nebraskan. The Umatilla county chairman was a member of the reception committee that met Bryan at .the Union depot to escort him to the Multnomah ho tel. He was also with the auto party that escorted the distinguished visi tor about the city and to Portland heights during the afternoon of that day. Accordingly ho was In position to observe the democratic leader at close range. k Mrs. William Bowman returned on the N. P. this' morning from Sand point, Idaho, where she has been vis iting her daughter. IT. S. OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZES REVOLT. Washington, Mar. 2. The first formal recognition by the United States came today. when Presldont Taft proclaimed the neutrality of the United States In the Mexican situation, The proclamation Is Intended as a 4 warning to Americans that war exists and that they who re- main there do so at their own peril. ' OF LAWRENCE FIGURES JUGGLED IN SO-CALLED INCREASE Mill Owners . Ignore Law in Fixing Hours of Working Week Lawrence, Mass., Mar. 2. After analyzing the offer of the textile mill owners to settle the strike on a basis of a so-called five per cent increase in wages, leaders of the striking workers today announced that the offer would be rejected, asserting that the advance Is. in reality, less than two per cent, as the mill owners figures are based on a fifty-six hour week instead of a fifty-four hour week, as "was obtained by a law uhleh recently became effective and which caused the owners to try to decrease -wages. They declare that they will stick out for their original demand of a fifteen per cent Increase. The committee declared that the wage Increase offer made by the owners la an "Insult to intelligence," and that they will this afternoon for mally repudiate the offer of settle ment and that the war for a living wage will be renewed. FORMER VANSYCLE MAN BADLY HURT Erskine La Hue, the eighteen year old son .of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. La Hue who recently quit farming In the Van syele -section and moved to Clyde, Washington, was the victim of an al most fatal accident, tdurlng the fore part of the week 'but now has a chance of recovery, according to his uncle, It. O. Earnhart who returned this morning from the bedside of the Injured boy. Young La Hue was attempting to start a gasoline pump at his home near Clyde when a can , of distillate took fire from the torch with which he was warming the engine. Grab bing the can he attempted to take It out doors, but it exploded In his arms, throwing the burning oil over him. Before the flames had been extinguished he had' been frightfully burned. He was hurried to a Walla Walla hospital where hln life was at first despaired of but thanks to a strong and vigorous 'constitution, he rallied and now has a fighting chance for life. STATE MAY PROBE . WARNER WILL CASE The following story appeared In the Evening Telegram of yesterday under a Pendleton date line but was not, however, written by the local correspondent of that paper. It Is self explanatory: "After bobbing up two or three times in the circuit court In Eastern Oregon and having once been before the supreme court, It begins to ap pear as if the famous Mabel Warner will forgery case will assume the proportions of a state investigation, as It became known today that a pe tition containing about BO names has been forwarded to Attorney General Crawford, asking him to make the Investigation. The petitioners assert lr. Is stated, thatthe criminal proceed ings brought against Mabel Warner have for their basis spite 'work, she having already been trlod three times on the alleged charge of forging wills conveying to her valuable prop erty In Eastern Oregon. The petition ers allege that P. D.' Watts la the In stigator of the criminal proceedings, It is stated, and that the present Dist rict Attorney and his predecessor, who Is Circuit Judge Phelps, have shown -unusual activity In the prose cution of the cases against the wo man." , Murderer Convicted. Seattle, Wash., Mar. 2. It took a jury only one hour today to return a verdict of first degree murder against "Charles Hufferd, a liquor salesman. He shot Irene Tesche on New Years eve on Pike street. He hardly knew the girl. He pleaded in sanity. Hurricane Devastates Azores. Lisbon, Mar. 2. Wrecking fishing vessels, devastating plantations and causing heavy loss of life, a hurricane today Bwept the Azores. The property damage is enormous. SALEM DIVORCEE MURDERS HER CHILDREN AND SUICIDES WHEN UNABLE TO PROVIDE living for her four children, two boys and two girls, Mrs. J. F. Jelli son, age 40 years, of this city last night .murdered all four of the children and then committed suicide at her home. The bodies of the five persons, were found this morning when an Investigation was made by the authorities. The woman, who was divorced from her husband some time ago, had administered cyanide of potassium to her children and swallowed a quantity , herself. The ages of the four children range from nine years to fifteen years. When discovered this morning, their' bodies had been arranged side by side, as though they were sleeping, the mother evidently hav ing lain them in this manner before she took the deadly poison herself. In her note she stated that she was sorry to cause the authorities so much trouble, but that there was no other way out of her troubles. She left twenty-one dollars, to go toward defraying the expenses of the funeral of her murdered family. GENERAL SYMPATHETIC TO PARALYZE E Railroad Employees Refuse to Hordes of Poor Beg London, Eng., Mar. 2. A new dan ger a strike of all railroad employes in England as a direct result of the coal miners' strike developed today making the situation in Industrial cir cles of the United Kingdom, more acute. It was learned this afternoon that the executive committee of the Amal gamated Society of Railway Servants Is considering demands from railroad employes for permission to refuse to handle trains that the government may attempt to use to send troops to war on the coal strikers, should dis turbances occur. A general sympa thetic strike is also being considered. Government officials announce that they will probably go over the rail roads If any attempt is made to pre vent the transportation of troops. Suffering Already Prevails. London, Eng., Mar. 2. All coast wise traffic Is practically completely paralyzed today as a result of the strike of more than one million coal miners and food prices have been sent soaring, causing the situation to take on immediate serious proportions throughout the country. SUFFRAGETTES SMASH WINDOWS; ARE JAILED London, Eng., Mar. 2. Mrs. Pank htirst, the noted suffragette leader of London, was today sentenced to a jail term of two months for her part in a general window breaking crusade of one hundred and fifty women who are fighting for equal suffrage, yes terday, in which scores of costly windows of the world's most famous shops, government offices, clubs and other buildings, were shashed. The other women, who were arrested, were given shorter jail sentences, ranging from one week to one month. When arraigned in court today, Mrs. Pankhurst admitted the smash ing of windows and told the court that the suffragettes would continue this sort of work until they had won their fight for the right of franchise. While the arraignment was in pro gress, thousands of other suffragettes jammed the streets about the court and cheered for the arrested women. LOCAL PROPERTY OWNERS WANT PORTLAND PRICES ON FUTURE PAVING CONTRACTS Local property owners are now af ter lower prices on the future paving work to be done In Pendleton and the fact that Portland is now getting paving work done at $1.45 per yard. It is asserted by the local property owners that the paving company should-operate here as cheaply as in Portland. It is set forth that the paving company already has its plant here, will have Its crew of workmen assembled, will bo able to get crushed rock by means of a short haul and will have the advantage of more fa vorable spring weather than Is to bed had in Portland. The following story relating to paving prices in Portland is from, the Evening Telegram of yesterday: Reduction In the price of street paving from $1.76 to $1.45 during the last year disclosed in the bids for large paving projects received Tues day by the council is, an eye-opener to property owners. V During the Lane regime prices for hard surface " improvements ranged fom $3 to $2.30 a square yard. Dur ing the Simon administration they were lowered to $1.85 and recently under the Ellis amendment which permits of competition between the various classes of pavemont, the prices tumbled until now a first class improvement can be obtained for $1.45 per square yard. This reduction is due to a paving war among the contractors. The Or STRIKE THREATENS 1 Transport Troop Trains- Government For Food. The poor people are already feel ing the pinch of hunger and the gov ernment is beseiged by vast hordes of people facing starvation, who are piteously begging for food. The railroads with their coal sup plies running short, ire commanding coal shipments and the officials admit that unless the strike is speed ily settled that the railroads will all have to suspend operations, which will complete the paralysis of busi ness. Reports received' here today from Lancashire state that both union and non-union men are out. It Is also now reported that workers in other Industries are considering a sympa thetic strike and the government is making strenuous efforts to effect some compromise. Little hope Is en tertained, however, as neither the strikers or the mine operators will yeld a single point. The home office is greatly alarmed over the situation and has officially expressed the fear that one half of all the industries in the United King dog may be forced ,to suspend opera tions unless the trouble is immediate ly settled. BANDITS BLOWUP BANK AS POLICEMEN SHOOT Montreal, Mar. 2. Defying the po lice, who surprised them while try ing to rob the Royal Bank of AVest Montreal today, five bandits wrecked the bank with dynamite and fought the police. Ono bandit was killed and two finally captured on the city out skirts. Tlie others are closely pur sued. No loot was secured. The attempted robbery was most daring. A railroad watchman saw the men loitering around a train and then gave the alarm when he saw them crawl into the bank window. Surrounded by the police, the ban dits blew up the structure, only to be cornered later in a shack. The chief of police and his son entered the shack and fought a duel with them and .they again got away, but finally two were captured. Abe Molstrom is In from his ranch today. egon Independent Paving company, which entered the local field two years ago, started the reduction and is keeping it up at a lively rate. On three large contracts for the paving of the Westmoreland district yester day this company bid $1.40 a square yard for standard asphalt pavement. For paving Milwaukie street past Westmoreland $1.75 is being charged. Thero is consternation among the other paving men, as they do not know how long the war is to continue. The reduction of 30 per cent in the pri- cej they have been receiving has cut a large slice from their profits. While many are saying that the Oregon In dependent Paving company cannot make any profit by laying a standard asphalt pavement for $145 a square yard, everybody knows that a paving concern Is not going to take contracts for laying pavements amounting to more than $100,000 If there Is not some profit In the work. While the paving contractors are warring, the property owners who have not aleady been stung are Jub ilant. They see an opportunity for a reasonable price and no doubt the lqwerlng of prices will greatly atlnv ulate public Improvements in this city. There are many large paving projects before the council at the present time and it is predicted that the prices quoted in the bids yester day will prevail for some time to MUTINEERS DESTROYING PEKING SLAUGHTER F Blood and Smoking Ruins Mark Path of, Frenzied Troops As Revolt Spreads. U.S. TROOPS RUSHED TO President Yuan Openly Charged With Starting Trouble to Make Excuse For Him to Assume More 'Power Wholesale Executions Carried On. Peking, China, Mar. 2 Fires were started 1n several sections of the city tonight and are rapidly spreading. The entire city Is now threatened with destruction by the flames. Concentrating their strength on Har Ting Fu, the mutinous Chinese sol diers today murdered a large num ber of French priests. The rioters then returned to Peking, broke Into and robbed the palace of the father of the dowager empress. It Is now feared that President Yuan will collapse and although he shows great courage and Insists that he has the situation under cdntrol. little has been done effectively to re store order. He practically admitted that he Is unable to preserve order tonight when he ordered out the re publican toops from Nanking. The president Is taking every pre caution to prevent the rioters from entering the foreign section of the city, fearing the injury to foreigners would bring about foreign interven tlon. Open charges are being made that President Yuan caused the disturb ances to be started to give him an ex cuse to assume again the dictatorship of the new republic. It is claimed that he planned a mild uprising and that it got beyond his control. City Terror Stricken. Peking, China, Mar. 2. Confront ed on all sides by hordes of frenzied mutinous soldiers, who throughout the day continued their work of loot ing and slaughter of defenseless na tives, Peking tonight with about one-sixth of its total area devastated by fire is literally shaking with terror and the end is not yet in sight. Doubting the ability of President Yuan to gain control of the situation foreigners are massed in the legation and preparing to defend themselves as best they may in case the muti neers make an attack on the foreign quarter. With the view of putting an end to the outbreak, government officials todav instituted wholesale executions NOTED LECTURER TO TALK OF PICTURES The city hall convention room was well filled last evening by people who turned out to hear the lecture on "Beautiful Sunny Italy" by Dr. Pres ton W. Search and none went away disappointed. Tonight Dr. Search will lecture at the same place on the subject of "The Greatest Pictures of the World." Dr. Search is a lecturer of much interest. Stalwart in size and schol arly looking, he is a striking figure upon the platform and he has trav eled so extensively as to give him thorough command of his subject. In his lecture on Italy last evening the traveler-lecturer took his audi ence to the various places of Interest along the sunny Mediterranean. With the use of stereopticon pictures he showed the life in Naples and other cities, both among the rich and poor, and also the life and scenes upon the adjoining islands.. He dwelt much upon the hitsorieal features connected with the scenes and perhaps the most interesting part of his lecture was that devote'd to Mt Vesuvius and the wonderful restored city of Pompeii. Dr. Search's lecture on art is of wonderful interest and he will give the same tonight by request of many who heard him when he was In Pen dleton some years ago and lectured under the auspices of the Inland Em pire Teachers' association. WALLA WALLA MAY GET NORTHWEST FRANCHISE Tacoma. Mar. 2. Walla Walla may get Tacoma's Northwest Baseball franchise, unless the business men of Tacoma raise between two and three thousand dollars within the next few days. President Hoehermol announc ed today that lie will otherwise be compelled to reopen negotiations with Walla Walla. It is understood that Walla Walla will pay a $5000 bonus for the franchise. R PRESTS AID FOREIGN LEGATIONS of mutineers who had been captured, but this only seemed to cause the general dissatisfaction to increase and the situation is hourly growing more serious. A conservative estimate of the loss of property during the past three days by fire is now placed at more than twenty-five million dollars. Tonight the mutineers forcibly seized several freight cars which they piled high with loot and left the city with the plunder. American Troopg for Peking. Tien Tsin, China, March 2. For the purpose of protecting foreign lives and property from threatened atacks of the mutineers, a detach ment of United States troops was to day ordered to proceed to Peking." This action was demed necessary be cause apparently President Yuan is unable to cope with the situation without assistance. LOCAL SUPPORTERS OFT. R., TAFT BUSY Both Roosevelt and Taft support--ers in Pendleton ae manifesting a eiwi ucai ui aunvtiy iu creating sen timent for their candidate for the. re publican nomination for president and both have begun upon a campaign to further the cause of their favorite in Umatilla county. Recently, the Roosevelt Republican club was or ganized and this afternoon the Taft Central Committee is meeting in the Commercial association rooms and will probably organize a Taft club along the lines adopted by their ri vals. A meeting of the Roosevelt club was called for last evening but at the laft minute was postponed on account of the Preston W. Search lecture. However, some of the committeemen met and compared notes. Already more than 150 members have been secured in mis city ana ine commit teemen report many more waiting to be enlisted. This morning the Roosevelt nomi nating petitions were placed in cir culation by J. B. Mumford and is be ing liberally signed. The Taft peti tion has been out for more than a week and has also received many signatures.. PARSONAGES ARE NOT EXEMPT FROM TAXES Attention is called by Assessor C. P. Strain to the fact that under the present rulings no church property is exempt from taxation save the ac tual churches qnd the ground upon which they rest. Parsonages and all other property owned by churches must be assessed and taxed. By action of the state tax commis sion the rule that in the past has ap plied to fraternal orders Is applied to all religious organizations. Lodges are exempt for their halls or actual property used during the meetings. But any other property owned must he taxed. If church people in paying taxes this year find their taxes larger than in the past the new ruling will ac count for the same, says the assessor. inDROPLAXE MAKES RESCIK AT SEA San Diego. March 2. Plung- ing from a height of 100 feet, Lieut. Herbster, U. S. A. and Waldo Watterman, of San Dl- ego, struck In the bay today when their hydroplane fell and spilled them into the bay. They managed to climb back In the machine and were rescued by Aviator Atwater, who came to their aid In another hydro- plane. , come. ' 1