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. ' """54 M fll t t tl EVENING EDITION EVENING EDITIOII WEATHER REPORT. Pair and cooler tonight with heavy front; Friday fair and warmer. 'i TO AUY tKllor.nt The Et uregonian dm tbe largest paid circulation of any paper In Oregon, of Portland and nearly twice the circulation In I'endletnn of any otbar newspaper. -i COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. .VOL. 24. PENDLETON, OREGON, THURSDAY, JIAY 2, 1912. NO. 7410 . . DEATH CALLS H. DAVENPORT World Famous Cartoonist, Native of Oregon, Succumbs in New York City Early Today.1 SHORT ILLNESS FATAL Interesting Career, aft Jockey, Clown, Flrcnmn and Traveler Ends as Ze nith Is Readied Anionic Nation's Most X"lod Carientnre Creators. New York, May 2. Homer Daven pTnt, the world famous cartoonist, died In his apartments here today fol lowing a brief illness. f Homer Calvin Davenport was born at Sllverton, Ore., March 8, 1867 and was reared on a farm tnere. He had only a common school education and never attended an art nchojl. He won his way to the front rank of the na tion's cartoonists, despite this. He was on the staff of the San Francis co Examiner in 1892. Tmuonnnrt hi1 hpen a Jockey, a clown in a circus, and a railroad fire man. lie was me uriKumiui idea of Mark Hanna's "Dollar Mark" suit of clothes and also the giant fig ure of the Trusts in 1899. Davenport was the author of "Da venport's Cartoons." "The Hell of Sil verton" and other short stories of Oregon and also of "The Dollar or the Man." A notablo feature of Davenport's life was his visit to Arabia where he was granted permission by the sultan to export to this country twenty-seven Arabian horses, said to be the on.y genuine specimens in America. While crossing the desert, Daven port drew the only picture ever made of the sultan. He was made "desert brother" of Akmul Haffez, the noted Iledouln. W. H. BABB, PIONEER DIES IN CANADA Coming as a great shock to his host of friends In this county la me an nouncement today that W. H. Babb one of the pioneer stockmen of this county and for many years a resident of Pendleton, had suddenly died o heart failure at his home In Medicine Tint Alberta, this morning. The sad news was contained In a telegram re ceived this morning by Mayor W. F Matlock, a life-long friend of the de ceased. The message was short, say inir that Mr. Babb had expired while at the steering wheel of his auto and thnt the machine had run for a dls tanco of fifty yards after his death without an accident. What makes the shock all the greater Is the fact that It has only been a few weeks since tho deceased and his wife visited at their old homo here and spent several days in Pendleton and Echo, nt which latter place they still own the old Babb farm Mr. Babb was probably known to every person in the county up un til tho time he left here eight or nine years ago and was widely know n as a horseman throughout tho state. In recent years he had been the proprie tor of a fine hotel at Medicine Hat. WTIIHACITK MINERS AM) OPERATORS CONFERRING New York, May 2. Consideration of tho rqport of the sub-committee, on the proposed compromise to settle the difficulties of the miners and opera tors of tho anthracite coal fields, will occupy the attention of the Joint wage scalo committee of operators and minora here this afternoon. Tho mi ners met today and It Is reported that ,m Innlst on greater concessions than those Included in the terms of tho present compromise. Tnft Attend Butt Services. Augusta, Ga., May 2 President Taft arrived. here today to attend, the ...rv-IrM for Major Archibald Butt, the president's late aide who died on the Titnnle. President Taft was chief -nonkor nt the services. Th buildings were draped with crepe and flags were at half mast Business was entirely suspended hotween 10 and 2 o'clock. The opera house where the obsequies were held .... packed. President Taft paid an eloquent tribute to his late aide. 4 1SMAY ANI TITANIC OFFICERS SUP AWAY New York. May 2. Although J. Bruce Ismay managing di rector of the White Star line, declared only one hour before his departure that he would not go to England today, he was a passenger on the liner Adriatic when that vessel sailed this af ternoon. Titanic Officers Lowe, Llghtoller, Boxhall and Pitman also sailed on the Adriatic. HONOR CONVICTS FLEE Removal of Nevada prison Warden Makes Inmates HeMless, Reno, Nev., May 2 Mounted and heavily armed, Frank Webb and James. D. Lisle, escaped convicts from the prison farm of the state peniten tiary, are In flight some where In this vicinity today. Webb and Lisle were stationed at the farm, about a mile from the pen itentiary. They took two horses and rode awy in the night. Webb has a shotgun and Lisle a rifle. Both are desperate characters. They were at the prison farm under the honor system. More trouble Is feared as the convicts are incensed because Warden Baker who institut ed the honor system, has been remov ed. NORTH YAKIMA WILL PLAY 2 GAMES HEftE Garrett's Buckarooes to Meet Fast Independent Team Last of This Week With the crack North Yakima base ball team as their opponents, Garrett's Buckarooes of the Trl-state League, will next Saturday and Sunday be call ed upon to show their class in what may safely be termed one of the hot test contested diamond battles of this season at Round-Up park. While the Yakima aggregation Is not a league team, it Is made up of players who are known for fast travel ing and Walla Walla has already tasted the bitterness of defeat at the hands of the maulers from the Wash ington apple-growing district. The Yakima team had arranged to again play in Walla Walla on those dates but having scored a victory over the Trl-state club of the latter city and knowing the importance of having the scalps of other league teams dangling from their belts, the management con sented to pass up the Walla Walla en gagement for the) Pendleton games, when the officers of tho local organ ization met the terms demanded, which called for a princely sum. The contest is really the inaugura tion of the baseball season in this city as the rivalry between the independ ent team anil the league clubs is a? bitter as will later be manifest' be tween tho various teams of the new league. This afternoon the locals are engag ed In combat with Whitman college at Hound-Up park and tomorrow the Buckarooes will go to Pilot Rock to meet the team of that place. SCHOOL CORNERSTONE TO BE LAID MAY 10 Tho laying of the cornerstone of the new high school has been set for Fri day afternoon, May 10, and the school board and the Commercial club com mittee is now making arrangements for the occasion. Louis R. Alderman, state superintendent of public Instruc tion, has been Invited to be present to lay the cornerstone and make an address. No reply has yet been re ceived from him but it is believed that ho will arrange to come If ho pos sibly can do so. While the program of the after noon has not yet been definitely made the committee is pllanning to have a school parade headed by tho local band and will try to make the cere monies in keeping with the signifi cance of the occasion. The work on tho building since tho completion of tho excavation is progressing rapidly and it Is expected that the contractors will easily finish the building before the opening of school next fall. ACCUSER MURDERER IX COURT OX A COT Stockton, Calif, May 2. William A, Dorr, the Stockton motor cycle dealer charged with the murder pf George E. Marsh a millionaire manuractuer of Lynn, Mass, has. been taken to a hosnltal pending his extadition. He was so weak ho had to be can led in to tho court room today for the hab ens-corpus proceedings. , KNOX WILL IIF.AR OF GR1EVAXCKS AGAINST MKXICC Los Angeles, May 2. A message today from Secretary of State Knox indicates that when he arrives here Saturday he will hear" complaints of C. A, Heberleln and other Americans who assert they have grievances against the Mexican government. Soys Americans Aro Safe. - San Diego, Calif.. May 2. W. E. Waugh, trainmaster of the Tehaun tehec and National railroad arrived here from Mexico today on the freight er, Arizona. He declared that Amer icans in southern Mexico are In no danger so long as the United States keeps its hands off the Mexican situ ation. It's difficult for a man to practice economy and be popular at the same time. STRIKE STOPS CHICAGO P S Eight Hundred Union Pressmen Walk Out of Newspaper Hants When Wage Adjustment is Refused. PRINTERS MAY FOLLOW Charges Made Thut Publishers' As sociation Inaugurated Lockout When Hearst Men Quit Police Guard Non-Union Men. Chicago, May 2. Union newspaper pressmen 9truck here today because of the failure, of the publishers to sign up a wage agreement. The, morning papers were issued today as usual but the early editions of the afternoon papers are not out yet. . Members uf the publishers' associa tion said that the first editions were delayed. The papers will probably is sue only a few pages. They are em ploying non-union pressmen. About eight hundred pressmen are out The strikers say the publishers association locked them out because seventy pressmen of the Hearst news paper, struck this morning. Union printers held a conference to decide whether to continue work if the newspapers employed non-union pressmen. The Chicago American was the only paper to publish this afternoon. Po lice are guarding the press rooms to protect non-union men if they are at tacked. Learning the other evening papers were unable to publish, the Chicago American withdrew its edition and the Chicago Daily Socialist, is the only paper issued In Chicago this af ternoon. Cincinnati Banker Arrested. Cincinnati, May 2. E. I. Galbralth, former president of the Second Na tional bank of Cincinnati, was arrest ed here todav on a charge of appro priating $33,000 of the bank's funds. Puss Leaps Thirty Feet It' &' Captures Victim and Lands in Street 'Arunnin' Pussy was hungry and she went out upon a still hunt for prey. No mice or little chickens' being available, she decided to take a trip up into the air after a sparrow and thereby hangs a tale. Pussy got her meal alright but she also got an experience which will cause her to hesitate before un dertaking a similar venture without the aid of an aeroplane or a para chute at least. ' She scaled the walls of the two story brick In which the nrking men's Clothing company and the Pen dleton Business College Is located yes terday afternoon for site knew that the little feathered denizens of the air were wont to rest their wings by perching up there and gazing down upon the traffic below. .Sure enough upon reaching tho top, she espied a sparrow sitting serenly upon the outer edge of the building, and Tussy immediately hesan to stalk her prey. With her eyes fixed intently upon her victim, she crept softly, oh so softly toward the charmed birdlet. Slowly the space between the two narrowed: !he little sparrow frozen by the hyp MAJOR LEE M00RH0USE NEW SECRETARY OF FAIR BOARD-PLANS FOR ENTERTAINMENT Major Lee Moorhouso of this city, Is the new secretary of the ' Thiri . t.i.i... i society, his name having been present ed and accepted at a meeting of the board of directors yesterday after noon. He was immediately notified of his selection, the books were turned over to him by Harry E. Bickers, w ho had resigned from the office, and he Is now actively engaged in the prep arations for the annual Umatilla-Morrow county fair. At the meeting yesterday, the board members discussed among themselves measures for the betterment of the fair and all agreed that this year adequate provision must be made for the entertainment of the visitors which throng the pavilion each night. The unanimous sentiment favored the se curing of some good vaudeville troupe to put on a number of different sketches and acts each night and the secretary was Instructed to get In touch with someone who could fur nish the desired talent. Vice President Frank Frazler was appointed to take charge of the al lotment of exhibition space In the pa vilion. One application has alreadj been made for space and it is antlol- TROUBLE WITH IM RENEWED Two Organizers in Gray Harbor Dis- trict Charge They Were Kidnapped and Bsaten. VIGILANTES OT ORGANIZE Mayor of Hoquiam, Sympathizing With Strikers, Sturts Investigation Into New Outbreak and Criminal Warrants Are Issued. 1 . Hoquiam, Wash., May 2 Trouble in th? mllmen's strike brokij out again last night with the kidnapping of Organizers Thorn and Biscay, of the Industrial Workers of the World. The men have been located at Mont esano. Their clothing was torn and they bear marks of having been se verely beaten. Hoquiam citizens and police are planning a vigilance committee In case the I. W. W. men attempt to re turn. In the meantime Mayor Ferguson, who sympathizes with the strikers, is Vursuing a rigid investigation. Two warrants have been issued in connection with the kidnapping. Thorn and Biscay were taken from he-ri rooms at the Queens hotel by four men and rushed off into an auto. Biscay was struck over the head with a gun butt. SAY T. R. IS MAKING A HOPELESS FIGHT Washington, D. C, May 2 That Colonel Roosevelt's fight for the re publican presidential nomination is Utterly hopeless, is the gist of a state ment made today by the Taft bureau. The statement says Roosevelt needs 313 more delegates to control the na tional convention while only 314 del egates remain to be elected, about whose position, as between the two candidates the people have not spoken. Through Space for. Bird i'i &' iS ss JS notic gaze of the feline and the latter crawling silently nearer and nearer. Finally the stealthy movement stop ped for an instant and the figure of the tigcrlike beast crouched lower for the deadly spring, her eyes never swerving from the fluttering mite of feathers. The leap was like lightning and true as nn arrow but, unfortu nately Pussy had been so absorbed In catching the bird that her sense of caution had been 'temporarily put to sleep. She had forgotten that she was on the brink of a precipice until too late. As she seized her victim In her teeth, the force of her spring sent her hurtling through the air to the pavement below. Being a cat, of course she lighted on her feet but the fall staggered her. She stood dazed and helpless for a moment, the bird quivering in her mouth, and then, recovering from the shock, she dashed away to enjoy the feast that had all but resulted disas terously' for her. The truth of this story is vouched for by a number of men who stood in front of the Hotel St. George and watched the cautpre and tho fall. pated that there will be a great de- ninnj for room this year. , Several bills were allowed and it was decided to advertise for bids for i permanent concessions within the pavilion and on the streets. May Have Game Exhibit. Through the activity of C. K. Cran ston, secretary of the state fish and game commission, an Interesting ex hibit of a miniature fish hatchery and of wild game birds may be Installed In the pavilion this year. Secretary Cranston has already secured the co operation of State Game Warden Fin ley and Master Fish Warden Clanton in this move and has written to Su perintendent Gene Simpson of the stute game farm at Corvallis to learn what birds would be available for such an exhibit. Because of the fact that the Round Up will draw thousands of visitors to Pendleton during fair week. Secretary Cranston feels that the fish and game authorities cannot overlook the opportunity to advertise their meth ods of game preservation and propa gation. If the fair board gives him any encouragement, he declares he Is certain that an exhibit that wli; prove as interesting as any In the pa vilion will be installed. CASH FOR WATERWAYS Oregon Benefit Attached by Senate to Il'mse Appropriation. Washington, Hay 2 Eight million dollar. for waterway Improvements, which will benefit many Pacific coast points were added today by the senate committee to the appropria tion bill carrying $524,000,000, as passed by the house. The increases include: Columbia, between Celilo Falls and Dalles Rap irs, 1200,000; Columbia, above Celilo Falls, $20,000; Oregon slough, Colum bia, $50,000; lower Willamette, $25, 000, and Nehulem harbor, Oregon, $1,500,000. ENGLAND ANGRY AT J. BRYCE AND TAFT Recall of Ambassador Threatened as Result of Reciprocity Agitation London, May 2. The recall of James Bryce, British ambassador to the Unlted.,itates, who sailed yester day from San Francisco for Australia, Is threatened today, according to re ports, as .a result of the publication of the letters written by President Taft to Theodore Roosevelt, In which Taft said that under the proposed reciprocity agreement with Canada the United States would get much the better of It. It is rumored on the streets that Ambasador Bryce has been recalled but no verification is possible. President Taft's letter, as published in the United States, will soon be brought up in the house of commons and it is expected that some action concerning Bryce's recall will be taken. The conservatives plan to inquire whv Ambassador Bryce failed to re port on President Taft's views. The evening papers say President Taft's advocacy of the treaty when he knew tue United States would get the bet ter of the bargain, was an unfriendly act. CONN ECTIOT DELEGATES INSTRUCTED FOR BALDWIN Eridgeport, Conn., May 2. The democratic state convention here to day instructed its four delegates at large and ten district delegates for Governor Baldwin for president. Clark men urged that Clark be named as second choice but the convention re fused. FRISCO GRAFT INDICTMENTS WILL STAND AS RETURNED San Francisco, Cal., May 2. Fol lowing a lengthy argument before the state appellate court, the motion for immediate issuance of a writ of man date, compelling Superior Judge Dunne to dismiss the 80 indictments in connection with the San Francisco graft case, was denied. Conscience Gets $20 Rack. Peabody, Kan. J. Berns, a cattle man, has received a conscience letter containing a $20 bill. The letter was postmarked Noblesville. Ind., and was addressed to Berns at Hanover. Kan., where he was in business twenty year ago. The letter read: "Just borried this oncet when you wa'nt.lookin.' Feel better now." Berns thinks the sender took the money from his store in Hanover. GIRL PUGILISTS BATTLE IN RING; ONE KNOCKED OUT Seven Bruising Rounds Fought Before Champion is Laid Low Willi l'llercut. Saginaw, Mich. In a private gym nasium fitted up in one of the mos.t prominent residences in Flint, with only one woman and a man as referee present. Myrtle Havers. 19 years old, of Flint, knocked out Mabel Williams aged 22. of Grand Rapids. in the seventh round of a scheduled ten round fight and won the girl's cham pionship of Michigan. The two fought with eight-ounce gloves and under straight uQeensbeny rules and Miss Williams, who has been known as the champion woman boxer in Michigan for several years, was knocked into dreamland with a stiff uppercut after she had severely punished Miss Hav ers in the early part of the seventh. Dr. Wiley Saved 90 Cents. Washington. Dr. Harvey W. Wi ley told the hoiMe committee on Inter state commerce some of his views about living and housekeeping. Advocating a bill to require the net weight of food packages to be stamp ed upon them, he declared that all food should be bought by weight or measure and not simply by package. Dr. Wiley said a grocer recently tried to sell him a ham which he said weighed a certain amount. "I asked him If he had weighed It and he said It was weighed when It came in last November," said Dr. Wi ley "I made him weigh it ngaln and it had lost three pounds. That seved me 90 cents." PAVING PL Remonstrances Against Every Piece of Work Contemplated Are Filed With City Council... ' MAY END IMPROVEMENT One Petition, However, Urges Carry ing Out of Original Plan Regarding Court Street Want Rids for Sweep ing. Last night was remonstrance night with the city council. Five new re monstrances against the proposed improvement of streets were present ed and four of the ones which had previously been filed were accepted as a bar to further proceedings. With the new filings last night, the im provement of every block of street under contemplation by the city council has been protested and the Indications are strong that the great budget of work planned by the Com mercial Club and the council will die aborning. The new remonstrances presented last night were against the proposed paving of Raley street from Perkins Avenue to Arc, College street between Alta - and Court, Johnson street be tween Court and Water, Main street from the north end of the bridge to Jaekson street and Webb street be tween Main and Garden streets. All were liberally signed and were turn ed over to the street committee to undergo an examination. They will probably be reported back to the council next week. The street committee last night re ported that they had examined the remonstrances against the Improve ment of Water street, Perkins Ave nue and Vincent street and had found that the first contained signatures representing 57 per cent, the second over SO per cent and the third prac tically 100 per cent of the total pro perty effected. A recommendation, was, therefore made that the remon strances be accepted and proceedings on these streets stopped which recom mendation the council adopted unani mously. Jackson street Held Up. Regarding the Jackson street re monstrance, the committee reported 67 per cent of the property affected t ) be represented on it but no recom mendation was submitted. Then fol lowed a discussion as to whether the wording of the remonstrance made it also a petition for macadam improve ment, the drafters having Included a clause declaring the signers in favor of the macadamizing of the street. However, City Attorney Carter de clared a number of the signers had notified him that they had no inten tion of petitioning for macadam and wished their names removed if their signatures could be construed as an endorsement of such form of im provement. Upon the expression of an opinion by the city attorney, Chairman Brock, presiding in the ab sence of Mayor Matlock, declared he would recognize the signed paper as a remonstrance but not as a petition. Upon motion then it was accepted and the proceedings on the street thus stopped. It Is thought, however, that residents of the street will short ly circulate another petition for im provement with some less expensive pavement than bitulithic. As an offset to the discouragement rf a series of remonstrances, a pe tition was presented last night signed by a large number of property owners on west Court street asking that that bilnvay be improved between Main and Ash with Dolary pavement. City Attorney Carter raised the question as to whether or not the city can ad vertise for improvements with the specific kind of pavement under the recent Judge Bean decision. He will make an investigation and report at the next meeting. The matter of sweeping and sprink ling the paved district also came up last evening. Following a discussion as to whether or not the newly paved streets should be swept daily or semi weekly, a motion was made to adver tise for bids for the dally sweeping of all of the paved streets and carried without a dissenting voice. PEOPLE WILL NOW PAY OIL TRUST PROSECUTION COST New York. May 2. The Standard Oil company advanced all grades of refined petroleum 30 points, making refined oil in cases 10.50 cents per. standard white In barrels, 8 60 cents, and In bulk 5 cents. BOY SUH IDES RATHER THAN ATTEND SCHOOL Vancouver. B. C., May 2. Rather than go to school Er nest Clark, age 14, shot him self with a shot gun today. He died Just at the hour that school opened, at nine o'clock. N OPPOSED