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T - - -. - . j-rfha V'ai:!'.-,,:!!.' ! EVENING EDITIO'1 EVENING EDITION WEATHER REPORT. TO ADVEKTISERS. Tbe Rant Orpgonlao bit the largest paid ctrcnlatlo of any paper In Oregon, east of 1'ortlaud and nearly twice tbe circulation In Pendleton of any other newspaper. Fair tonight and Sat urday; heavy frost tonight COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. VOL. 24. PENDLETOInt, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 2G, 1912. NO. 7105 i ..' te ,-, - - 1 1 ,L1'"''3Z - r c a I AS STRAUSS F 'Coffin Ship" Announces that Sea Gives Up Bodies of Millionaire Titanic Victims. STEAMER REFUSED AID Doiikcyninn on Steumer California JMxrluiiit That Vessel Wus Only Ton .Mill's Away When Distressed Ship Called for Help. New York, April 20. The bodies of Joint Jacob AUr ami Isailor Strauss, New York Millionaires, who perished in the Titanic disaster, have been re covered and embalmed, according to u -irelesD message received today from tlie "coffin ship," Muckay-Hcnuctt. Califomlan Re-fuses Aid. tVashlngton, April 26. Ernest Gill, a donkeyman aboard the steamer Californlan, testified before the com mittee conducting the senate investi gation today that the Californlan ig nored the distress signal sent up with rockets from the sinking Titanic. "I was on deck Sunday night," said rilll. "I saw lights on a big vessel going at full speed about 10 miles away. The officer could not have hoped seeing it." Gill said the whole crew discussed the action of the captain in not going to the rescue and he said he expected to lose his Job as a result of testify ing. A message to Senator Smith said that Captain Lord and Wireless Operator-Smith of the liner California, were being held In Boston, having been served with subpoenaes. Vice President Franklin of the White Star line, denied that he objected to these men testifying, saying the company only wanted their depositions taken In Boston so the men could sail this afternoon. Senator Smith Insisted that they come here from Boston. Chairman Smith stated that a doz en members of the Titanic crew had been examined individually last night. Senator Smith privately examined F. O. Evans, a member of the Titan ic crew. He testified that life boat 16 swung three feet from the deck before the women passengers were told to got In. Many jumped over the space. One woman Jumped and her shoe caught In a rowlock. She hung head downward until she was pulled Into the boat. PILOT ROCK MAN MYSTERIOUSLY LOST Docs anyone know the whereabouts of Adolph Kruger of Pilot Hock? If so they can dispel the uneasiness which Is seizing upon his friends who have not hoard from him for a month and who are at a loss to account for his strange absence and silence. Kruger, who hns been making his homo with Joseph Baylor at Pilot Hock for some time past, left home on March 13 for Pendleton, having received a letter from Germany stating that a wealthy uncle had died and left him a sum of money which was being sent to him and which was due to ar rive about March 23. It la known that he arrived here and drank more or lees heavTy but the last trace that has been found of him Is from a man who declares he saw him walking on the railroad track towards the asy lum four weeks ago today. Kruger started for Germany a year ago, It will bo remembered, but only got as far as Salt Lake City when he was made the victim of a confidence man and relieved of his entire purse lie returned to Pilot Hock then. His trtends now fear that he received his monev expected from the old coun try and has again become the victim of persons who care more for gold than for the methods of getting u The only other theory entertained as tenable Is that he did not receive the ...nn na px nee tod and. In a fit of despondency, committed suicide, In asmuch as, when under the influence of liquor, ho was heard to threaten to take his own life if he failed to get tho money. HE IS THE NERVIEST TRAMP. . Wlillo Family Is Absent He Take Possession and Lives in Stylo. Leavenworth, Kan. When care takers for the house on Miami street formerly occupied by Colonel and Mrs. Benjamin H. Cheever, and now owned by Mrs. Cheever, entered they found that a tramp had taken pos session. The house Is richly furnish ed and with the absence of the owner has been without a tenant except the tramp, He had slept on the spotless linen In the massive brass beds, washed his hands In marble basins, waltzed with his brogans on the oriental rugs, eat en from silver plate and drunk from cutglass goblets. Cans of Imported dainties were rob bed of their contents and cob-webbed bottles wore taken from their rnusty hiding places In the cellar bins. REMAINS D PHEACIIER-Ml'RRERER DODGING DEATH CHAIR Uoston, April 26. Attorneys for Hev. C. V. T. Hlchardson the Baptist pastor who killed his sweetheart, Avis Llnnell, by poisoning her, today made an appeal to Governor Foss for clemency, saying the pastor murderer was insane when he committed the crime. He Is under sentence to pay the death penalty May 19, U. S. SENDS SHIP TO RESCUE YANKEES Orders for National Guard to Get Ready for Service Starts Intervention Talk Washington. April 26. The United States army transport Uuford was or dered today to leave San Francisco Sunday for the west coast of Mexico to take aboard a number of Ameri cans who are reported to be cut off from communication with the outside world and said to be at tho mercy of Mexican reoeis. Expect Intervention. San Diego, April 26. It is believed here that American intervention In Mexico will come soon. Orders have been issued by Adjutant General Forbes of tbe National Guard of California that the fifth and eighth companies of coast artillery be re cruited to full strength or seventy men each. Orders have also been is sued for all officers and men to be prepared for service. Major Fay, commanding the San Diego companies, .said there is no doubt that the United States is se riously considering intervention In Mexico. Warshls Move. San Pedro, Calif., April 26. The cruiser Maryland and torpedo boat de stroyer Whipple cleared San Pedro shortly before noon today and headed south, pesumably for San Diego. The Maryland Is known to be heav ily provisioned and coaled. It Is ru mored here that the officers expected orders to proceed to the west Mexi can coast. GENERAL GRANT IN LAST RESTING PLACE New York, X. Y., April 26. To the firing of a solemn salute, escorted by troops of veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic, the body of General Frederick Dent Grant, late command er of the eastern division of the Unit ed States army and son of the late President U. S. Grant, was buried to day in the cemetery at West Point military reservation. Services were held In the chapel oi St. Cornelius. Centurion, Gover nor's Island, with Chaplain Edmund Smith in charge, assisted by Bishop Fallows. President Taft, Vice-president Sherman and high officers of the army attended the services. 17 DOGS FIGHT POLICEMEN. Two Officers Have -Rattle of Their Lives In Cellar Full of Canines. St. Louis, Mo. Their uniforms woro almost torn from Patrolmen M. J. Comer and Patrick Dolan when they battled with seventeen dogs in the cellar beneath the home of Mrs George Thompson at 5006 Columbia avenuo. Two of tho dogs were killed by blows from baseball bats which the patrolmen used to protect themselves with. Later It was found three additional dogs had been Injured so severely that they had to be shot. Mrs. Thompson telephoned the po lice that all the dogs In the neighbor hood had Invaded her cellar. Comer and Dolan reported to the mounted district police Btation that they had engaged in one of the worst fights In their, careers. DIVORCE AND LICENSE TO TO) ON SAME DAY Reno. A few hours after the de cree divorcing her from Thomas B. Mumford, golf player and club man of Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York, was signed, Mrs. Eliza beth Blssel Mumford was married here to Frank I. Towle, wealthy San Francisco business man. The wedding occurred In Mrs. Mum ford's apartments. Only a few fellow members of the divorce colony attend ed. Justice of the Peace Lee Davis read the service. A wedding super followed and the couple left on the night train for San Francisco. The groom's present were all diamonds, valued at several thousand dollars. Towle, who Is president of the Towle Maple Products Company of San Francisco, secured the license shortly after tho decree of his future wife had been signed. Towle gave his age as 35 and the bride's as "over 21." NEW SENSATION IS PREDICTED Arrival of Mabel Warner's Father is to be Followed by Startling Charges in Will Fight. IDENTITY UNQUESTIONED After Twenty-five Years Brother of Man Whose Property Causes War, Returns and Denies signing Paper Offered as Evidence. All doubt of the truth of the an nouncement recently made by Mrs Mabel Young Warner that her fath er, supposedly dead for more than a quarter of a century, is still alive. vanished yesterday with his arrival from his farm at Cadott. Wisconsin, and now the people who for eight years have been growing accustomed to startling developments in the fa mous fight over the estate of J. W. ioung are preparing themselves for more sensations. If Mrs. Warner makes good her promises, they will not have long to wait. Michael R Young, older bv 25 years than when he left Pendleton, but still active despite his 68 years of age, arrived here at 10:30 yester day morning and the recognition be tween him and his daughter was mu tual, though he did not at first know his son, Fred Young. He has come with the announced Intention of taking up his daughter's fight and, Inasmuch as his name ap pears to a number of documents in the records without authority from him, so he claims, his appearance may alter the present status of the long battle. ISeiorted Dend. Michael H. Young was believed to have died at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland of typhoid fever some twenty-five years ago and n newspaper clipping, chronicling hie demise, was sent to his daughter, who was at the time attending the Cath olic school in this city. Until two months ago, his children were un aware that the report was erroneous and were surprised almost to unbe lief when they received a letter from him. Upon his arival here he declared he had never been to Portland in his life and Is at a loss to account for the (Continued on Page 5) FALL ON NAIL KILLS BOY. Busty Puncture of His Hip Finally Develops Lockjaw. South Bethlehem, Pa. Suffering terribly, little 11-year-old Robert E. llerg has died at his parents' home here of lockjaw. Several days ngo the lad, while playing nt the South Bethlehem Brewery, fell and landed or his side on a rusty nail. Tho nail penetrated the hip a considerable dis tance, but the wound was healing nicely, and all danger was thought to have passed, when suddenly tetanus developed. CHISELS A POWDER. KEG. Workman. Opening It. Causes Explo sion Fatal to Him. Pen Argyl, Pa.Whlle trying to pry open a keg of powder wiin a cnu-ei In the quarry of the Albion Slate com pany today, John Marando accident ally set off the explosive and was ter ribly maimed. His left leg was blown off and his body badly mutilated. He was taken to the Easton hospital in a dying condition. Steamer Sunk. Seattle, Wash., April 26. United States marine inspectors Whitney and Turner will make an immediate in vestigation of the ramming of Col- man dock last night and sinking the steamer Telegraph bv tho steamer Alameda, with a view of fixing the re sponslbllity. COMMERCIAL CLUB TO TAKE HAND IN ENDING OPPOSITION TO STREET PAVING . Efforts are to be made by the Pen dleton Commercial club towards get ting the Byers company and other re monstrators on East Court street to withdraw from opposition to the ma cadamizing of the street from the mill race to the east edge of the city where the road connects with the county highway which la to be macadamized. At a meeting of the board of man agers at luncheon today the subject of East Court street betterments was up and after the topic had been dis cussed the president named W. L. Thompson, Dr. F. W. Vincent and Clarence Bishop to treat with the re monstrators In an effort to get thorn to forego their opposition. It was set forth that since the county is lmprov Ing the roadway beyond the city lim its It is squarely up to the city to im prove that part of tho street leading In S.S. .DELEGATES' BUSY 2ND DAY Late Arrivals Bring Number of At- tendants to Total of About Three Hundred. FUNDS GIVEN FOR WORK Nearly Twelve Hundred Dollars is i Subscribed to Further Campaign in i Slate With Local People Giving Liberally. With the number of attending del egates greatly augmented by late ar rivals from many counties, the second day of the eastern. Oregon convention of the state Sunday school association is even more successful than the first and every session is increasing the enthusiasm of members In their work. Indicative of zeal being inspired by the speakers is the fact that at the morning meeting when pledges were asked for the carrying on of the state work during the coming year, the re sponse was so generous that $1186, more than twice the amount sub scribed last year, was contributed. . I-ast year Umatilla county headed the list in the amount of the contrl bulion and this year raised her do nation ii:, making it $200. Union county delegates, not to be outdone promptly pledged $210 while the other counties without exception In treased their previous contributions. $216 was pledged by individuals and this amount Is In excess of the per sonal donations at the McMinnvllle convention just closed, a fact which greatly elates the local workers. Ivan B. Rhodes, secretary of the state Y. M. C. A. conducted a devo tional hour this morning and set a verv high note for the session. Fred LE. Kelley, Miss HaTiet Moorehouse, A. A. Morse and General secretary C. A. Phlpps spoke on "Indications That Indicate," while E. C. Knapp al so made a short address. One of the irterestlng features of the meeting was a graded lesson parliament con ducted by Mrs. Clara G. Esson and .iiich was contributed to by Dr. J. D. . . . . . i II 1T. sprsngston. Mrs. t, n. j-iiuwen, .ii. Mary . Foster Bryner, Howard X. Smith and Mrs. J. W. Wilkins. At the end of the discussion, the con census of opinion was that an up-to-date Sunday school will use only the graded lesson. The Umatilla county officers met at a noon luncheon to lay . out plans for the year's work and S. G. Rogers of Milton was chosen to lead the ef forts. Tonight Ivan B. Rhodes will ad diess the convention on "Boys' and Girls' Work." and, as this promises, to be one of the most helpful talks of the sessions, everyone in Fendle ton is invited out to hear him. Oilier Business Yesterday. Yesterday afternoon's session went according to program with the excep tion that E. C. Knapp was substitut ed for B. F. Kemler for an address on "How to Build up a School," Mr. Kemler not having arrived until to day. One of the most interesting as well as unique features of the whole convention was the talk made before (Continued on Page 2 ) Would Extradite Ranker. Chicago, Ills, April 26. Extradi tion proceedings "in the case of Dr. William Beatie Nesbit, former presi dent of the defunct Farmers Bank of Toronto, accused of making a false statement concerning the financial condition of the bank, were started here today. Two Cross Channel. Dover. Eng., April 26. Aviator Hammel, with Miss Davis as a pas senger, ascended from Hardelot, France today, crossing the English channel and continuing toward Lon don. from the Wild Horse road. A Walla Walla delegation consist ing of Jake Kauffman, Secretary Brown of the Commercial club, Ben Hill and J. T. Crawford, met with the board oday to lay the Wal la Walla Fourth of July plans before the association. A monster two days' celebration Is to be held in Walla Wal la and Pendleton Is invited to partici pate in the event no celebration Is held here. An invitation was received by the board to attend the big celebration and dance to be held at Stanfield May 2. Efforts will be made to charter a special train to make the trip to Stan- field and return the same evening of the affair. The managers also dis cussed the plans for the accommoda tion of the Odd Fellows grand lodge vhich is to be her May 21. ori.n-hk son -i -la w SLAYS PORTLAND WOMAN' Portland, Ore., April 26. Mrs. Marguerite Bellaire. pro proprietor of a dyeing-cleaning establishmena here, was shot and killed in her shop by Lou Whitloek. The shooting follow ed a quarrel, resuiling from Mrs. Bellaire's refusal to allow Whitloek to marry her 15-year-old daughter. OLYMPIC GIVES UP ATTEMPT TO SAIL Striking Stokers Arrested and Ar raigned on Charges of Mu tiny at Sea Portsmouth, Eng., April 26. Two days of trouble, following the de mands of three hundred stokers of the iiner Olympic fur more life boat pro tection, resulted today in the aban donment of the liner's voyage to Xew York after fifty deck hands Joined the walkout, refusing to work with non-union stokers. The Olympic, with her hold filled with non-union stokers, finally start ed today, but the deck hands struck, boarded a tug and left the ship. The Portsmouth police arrested the strikers on a charge of mutiny. The Olympic was then ordered back to South Hampton, abandoning the trip. The passengers were transferr ed to other vessels. ' Later it was announced that the Olympic would be held here indefi nitely till a proper crew Is obtained. The strikers were arrested and ar raigned in police court, charged with unlawful disobedience. The striking deck hands were re manded to jail to await procedure on a mutiny charge. BALL SCHEDULE MAY BE CHANGED, JULY Walla Walla wants to change the schedule of the Trl-state league so ns to have games in Walla W'alla be tween Pendleton and the Garden City team during the week of July 4 and four officers of the newly formed league leave for Boise tonight to at tend a meeting of the league offici als. Those going are J. T. Crawford Walla Walla, director, Secretary Brown of the Walla Walla Commer cial club, L. G. Frazier, local director and Jack Keefe. secretary of the league. At the meeting to be held in Boise the Walla Walla delegation will also ask for a 25 cent admission for games to be played in their town. The rule as adopted calls for a 50 cent admis sion everywhere with no extra charg es for grandstand seats. CAST-OFF STOCKING A BANK. Hug Cutter in Mill Finds Sot) In Silk Hosiery. Plttsfield, Mass. Mrs. Mary Mur phy, a rag cutter in the Rising paper mill, at . Mousatonic, was cutting up old hosiery for paper stock when, in a silk stocking, she felt a small roll, which proved to be $50 in $10 bills. Some wearer of the silk hose had made the stocking a purse and forgot all about the money when the hose was discarded. Mrs. Murphy is a widow and tho find is to her a ttig blessing. "MOONSI1IN1 STARTS I1HK Bottle in Saloon Window Acts as Lens to Sun's Rays. Vancouver, Wash. Sun shining through a round bottle containing "moonshine" whisky started a fire In a liquor store window. The rays were concentrated by the lens-like liquor contained on crepe tissue paper with which the window was adorned and a merry blaze was under way when discovered by B. H. Wolfe The paper was burning nicely when snuffed out gy the proprietor. The fact that the liquor was pure white permitted the passing of the sun's raps and the generation of the heat. SHOWS NERVE TRF.N FAINTS. Neighbors Revive Woman Who Foiled Thief In Her Home. Camden, N. J. At the point of a revolver Mrs. Mary Borlch of Master street and Ferry avenue compelled a thief to drop some jewelry he had stolen after h -'d engaged board at the house and then hustled him Into the street. Hardly had the thief dis appeared before the woman fainted, but soon was revived by neighbors. Early In the day a well dressed youth who gave the name of Stanislaus So bliski, was directed to a room up stairs. Mrs. Borlch later became sus picious and caught him In the act of taking Jewelry from her room. A sympathetic man usually sympa thizes with himself more than with others. TEDDY BEATS TAFT, MISSOURI Supporters of Colonel vention and Win 14 gates-Ends in Row. Control Con of -26 Dele- STANDPATS TO CONTEST With Four Delegates Instructed for Tlieir Man, Supporters of President Will Carry Fight Into the National Convention. St. Louis, April 26 Beaten at every turn by Roosevelt men in the Missouri republican convention which adjourned early today, Taft men de clared they would hold a convention later In the day and send a contest ing delegation to the Chicago con vention. When the convention adjourned the lineup stood: Instructed for Roose velt. 14; for Taft, 8; contested, 10; un chosen, 4. Roosevelt supporters had complete control of the convention. Peremp tory instructions were fssued, order ing the delegates at large to use every honorable means to advance Colonel Roosevelt's candidacy. Eight dele gates at large, each with half a vote. were selected. Taft adherents charge Roosevelt men with bad faith, saying Governor Harley, the state Roosevelt leader. agreed before the convention opened that delegates would not be Instruct ed. Governor Hadley denies this. After the close, Roosevelt men con trolled the convention and Taft men held a rump convention and elected contesting delegates at large. They also adopted resolutions con demning Governor Hadley whom they charge with bad faith In promising before the convention that no dele gates would be instructed and prais ing the Taft administration. COUNTY TRACK MEET ATHENA TOMORROW Confident of duplicating their rec ord of the past two years, Pendleton high school's track athletes will leave in the morning for Athena, where they will participate in the annual county meet. Many of the other stu dents as well as faculty members and townspeople will also go up for the occasion for this will we the principal athletic meet of its kind in Umatilla county this year. Pendleton will be represented by a strong aggregation. Gordon and Houser will essap to capture points In the 50, 100 and 200 yard dashes, while Houser will also compete in the broad jump. Fee and Hampton are the star men in the Jumps and hurdles, while Fee, HInderman and Jordan will par ticipate in the weight events. Mc Donald and Haw are the local en tries in the quarter mile while the former with Flnnell and Oscar Fergu son will be the contestants In the half mile. Williamson and the Ferguson brothers are listed to try for places In the mile. Clark Dunlap will appear in the low hurdles with Fee. The re lay team will be composed of Gordon, McDonald, Haw, Houser and Dunlap. The graded schools will also have their best athletes entered In the sec ond and third class events, and, alto gether, the afternoon promises to be filled to tho limit. In the evening the annual rhetorical will be held and Pendleton will also have a full quota entered there. Paul Flnnell has been selected to represent the high school in the oratorical con test. TAFT LEAVES MASSACHUSETTS BIT WILL RETURN MONDAY Xew York, April 26. President Taft arrived here today for a brief respite fom his political campaign ing in Massachusetts. He attended the funeral of General Frederick D. Grant and delivered the principal eul ogy. Tonight he will address a rally at Newark. X. J., where he will probably attack Colonel Roosevelt again. He will speak at Philadelphia Saturday evening. At Brockton Monday. Brockton, Mass., April 26. Chair man Keith of the city republican committee, announced this afternoon that he hns arranged for President Taft to return here Monday night for a final speech In his Massachusetts campaign. JOHNSON ON LA FOLLETTE'S TRAIL THROUH CALIFORNIA Los Angeles, April 26. Senator La Follette commenting on Governor Johnson's following him through southern California on a speaking tour in behalf of Roosevelt, said: "ln legal procedure it Is preferable to speak last In debate. It also gives a person a chance to distort argu ments and pass over cold facts. John son's trip causes me no worry."