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f EVENING EDITION EVENING EDITIOII WEATHER REPORT. Fair tonight and Fri day. TO ADVERTISERS ' Tbe East Orxonlan lias the largest paid circulation of any pap' in Oregtm eaat of Portland and nearly twice the circulation in Pendleton of any other newspaper. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. 1-1 '-.. ' y '''''' " VOL. 25. HUERTA'S ATTITUDE CHANGE ON WILSON'S latest Cable Advice From Lind Indicates There is Strong Probability of Mexico Accepting President's Suggestion-Washington is Encouraged Over the Develop ments in Situation. NEGOTIATIONS MAY BE RENEWED WITH U. S. WASHINGTON. Aug. 28. Llnd telegraphing from Vera Cruz advised the administration that he will reach Mexico City tomorrow. It Is believed he la returning in response to Huerta'a request for a renewal of negotiations. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 28. A special train carrying 173 recruits from the Jefferson and Columbia barracks, left today for Texas City. WASHINGTON. Aug.' 28 The lat est cable advices from Jinn Llnd Indi cate there is still a strong probabil ity that Huerta will accept President Wilson's peace suggestion. The note from Lind, however, did not confirm the reports that Huerta has accepted the peace plan In full .but the fact that Llnd will continue his stay in Mexico indefinitely Is en couraging to Washington officials. The state department issued a state ment giving the gist of the latest cable from Lind, as follows: "The request for an exchange of ambassadors Is withdrawn, but Huer ta hopes the present ambassadorial personnel will continue until after the election. It is reported that Huerta argue that the request from Wilson that he (Huerta) withdraw himself as a can didate for president In October Is virtually a recognition of Huerta'a provisional government. The admin istration, however, repudiates such an interpretation of the president's at titude. Huerta, in his latest note to Llnd, practically reopens negotiations on Huerta'a counter proposal. The pres ident is not building false hopes on this latest turn in Mexican affairs but he 13 anxiously awaiting the fuller de tails from Llnd. Huerta's note inti mates that Wilson evidently is una ware that the Mexican constitution prohibits ft president succeeding him self, or otherwise Wilson would not have asked that Huerta pledge him self to withdraw as a possible candi date for reelection. President Wilson Insists that he Is perfectly familiar with the Mexican constitution and also with the fact that It Is customary for Mexican pres idents to resign ahead of election day if they have any intention of runnlg for reelection. The president, how ever, thinks that Huerta Is seeking a roundabout way to give his pledge not to run again and to be able to do this without losing his prestige. Llnd Engages pussaRe. VERA CRUZ, Aug. 28. John Llnd, envoy to Mexico from President Wil son, has engaged passage on the lln er Morro Castle which sails tonight. Ho notified the purser, however, that he might cancel his reservation. Mr. Llnd walked the streets here today unattended, and no one attempted to molest him. Bryan N Hopeful. WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. Cable ad vices from John Llnd today declare hat Huerta has made many conces sions in a new note, virtually asking that the United States ici mauci. island as they ar until after the pres idential election in Mexico, which will be held in October. Commenting on the dispatch and on the latest editions of the New York Herald In which it was said that Huer ta was prepared to accept the Ameri can mediation plan. Secretary of State Bryan said: "The best that can be said Is that the prospect Is encourag ing." It was stated in official quarters that Huerta's latest message, now In process of translation, is perhaps more favorable than Bryan is willing to ad mit. ,,, Officers said today that one soldier fnP everv mile of tho Mexican border win ho sent to Texas. One soldier per mile is needed, it was said, to sue sfiillv prevent filibustering. The troops comprising the garrisons nrntt-navllle. Ft. Jefferson, n, Leavenworth. Ft. Crookwell, Ft. Rush thn in the itreat lakes uivision are. expected to start for the border lrst- . , . The president, it was said, does not Intend to issue a neutrality proclama- inn n will merely refuse future re- nuests of the two Mexican factions for permission to transmit arms across the border. It is believed probable that trans ports will be sent to Vera Cru to Wring Americans home. About 8000, i i. nM. nre still left In Mexico. Many of these expect to risk the danger of remaining until peace is restorea. MEXICO CITY, Aug. 28. The lat est note which Foreign Minister Gam boa sent to John Llnd has been pub PEACE PROPOSA L lished here. Its most Important point is that Huerta is still constitutional president and that he is thus excluded from being a candidate for reelec tion in October. This statement, it Is believed, will pave the way for further negotiations. The note, however, does not say that American mediation will bo unqualifiedly accepted. ARRANGEMENTSMADE FOR A TENTED CITY Dean Tatom, chairman of accom modations, has completed arrange ments for the establishment of a tent city by tho Oregon National guard in Pendleton for the Round-up which will be patrolled by the national guard. In addition to this there will be a carload of tents which will be let out to residents who deBlre to put them up in their yards and provide sleeping accommodations. These tents will be here within a short time and the tent city will soon be under way With this augmentation of the regular accommodations which are being ar ranged for the management expects to be able to take care of everyone who comes to the Round-up and will provide sleeping quarters for all. DKMEI) PF'.RMISSIOX TO SELL STOCK IX STATE SALEM. Aug. 28. The Oregon Telephone Herald and the Oregon Enunclator company, both Portland concerns, were refused permission to sell stock In the state by Corporation Commissioner Watson on the grounds that neither has wires or means of securing the service promised. The object of the company is to furnish news and amusement features by tele phone into business houses and homes. IVw-e Pnlaee Dedicated. THE HAGUE, Aug. 28. Quern Wilhelmlna dedicated thj Palace of Peace In the presence of 2000 offi cials and delegates of the peace con ference. PLACE YOUR ORDERS FOR EAST0REG0NIAN ROUND-UP EDITIONS It Is the policy of Pendleton to make the Round-up a better show each year and to keep it always the greatest exhibition out of doors In the world. In this same spirit the East Ore-' gonlan strives to cover the Round-up for the public. This year the East Oregonian Is going to handle the great Round-up story on a more elaborate scale than ever before. Each evening edition this year will be several times the usual size of the paper with seven columns to the page, and will be devoted chiefly to tho Round- up. Each Issue will contain full news descriptions of that day's Round-up events, together with Innumerable features pertain- lng to the Round-up, to Pendle- ton and eastern Oregon. Each Issue will bi absolutely new. Nothing will be used twice. We will not merely publish one "souvenir" edition to be hawked all during the Round-up. Each Issue will be a big new souvenir edition and real one. Writers, artists and engravers are now busy with preliminaries for the East Oregonian Round- up issues and neither work nor expense will be spared. Tho enlarged evening edition will appear for four consecutive days, Wednesday, Thursday, Frl- day and Saturday. During those days Pendleton will have a newsr paper such as has never been published continuously In this city heretofore and such as Is seldom seen In a town the size of Pendleton. THE FOUR EVENING IS- SUES, ADDRESSED AND MAILED, POSTAGE PAID BT THE PAPER. WILL BE SOLD FOR 25 CENTS FOR THE SE- RIE3. If you have friends to whom you want the Round-up series sent send 25 rents and the ad- dress to the East Oregonian or call In person at the office. DO IT NOW. PEXDLETOX. OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1913. FIRE RAGES FOR HOURS BED! DECK OF LINER! Imperator is Damaged to Extent of About $159,000 Blaze Discover ed Early This Morning. OFFICER IS SUFFOCATED Steerage PawigTa in a Panic Hut Are Finally' Quieted When It Is S-en They Are In Xo Danger Rig Ktfuin.shlp Makes Wharf and Land Everybody Safely. HOBOKEN, N. J.. Aug. 28. One officer was suffocated early this. morning when fire broke out in the provision room of the Atlantic liner Imperator. News of the disaster spread rapidly among the steerage passengers and a panic started. Or der was restored with difficulty and the 1100 persons In the steerage were landed, without injury. The fire was discovered at 4 o'clock this morning and had gained consid erable headway. It Is estimated that the damage will reach $150,000. Director Meyer of the Hamburg American line, said the damage will soon be repaired. The Imperator sails on Saturday according to sched ule . The liner was docked yesterday with 3100 passengers aboard, of whom the first and second cabin had disem barked before the fire. The steerage passengers were still aboard awaiting the customs examination. Many a man puts his foot In It when he attempts to stand on his dignity. ORDINANCE REGULATING STREET TRAFFIC ADOPTED BY COUNCIL WITH FEW CHANGES Speed Turning Corners Is Set at 10 Miles an Hour Instead of Eight Copies of New Law Will Be Printed and Sent to All Automobile Owners In the County. With but one or two changes, the ordinance regulating the traffic on Pendleton streets as introduced a week ago was passed by the city council last evening and Is now a law. The provisions are the same as published In the East Oregonian of last Thursday save that the speed In turnin corners was made ten mill's an hour Instead of eight. Five hun dred copies of the ordinance will be printed and mailed by the recorder to the automobile owners of the coun ty so that they will not be able to plead Ignorance of the law. When the ordinance committee re ported the ordinance back and rec ommended that it he passed, Mayor atlock and Councilman Ell voiced an objection to the speed limit con tained in it, both contending for twelve miles on the straightaway and eight miles on the corner. Other members of the council defended the fifteen mile an hour limit, declaring that a car Is under perfect control at that speed. All of the members, however, agreed that In allowing auto drivers to make that speed on the streets, they must also prosecute all violators and secure a strict enforce ment. Several other clauses of the ordi nance met with objection but upon the announcement of the city attor ELOPING GIRLS GET OFFERS OF MARRIAGE SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 28. With the exception of Peter J. Tehaney, secretary of the state board of con trol, under whom Camlnettl for a time was employed at Sacramento, the wit nesses were the same as those who laid the foundation for the prosecu tion in the Dlggs case. All efforts of the government to reveal Camlnettl'a domestic affairs through Tehaney were frustrated. F. A. Lindner, clerk at a Riverside hotel, testified to his adventures. Marsha Warrington and Lolu Norrls are flooded with proffers of marriage from all over the country. Old men, romantic youths, farmer boys and ur bane men are offering their heart and hand. WISHFS GOVERNORS TO MEET IN FRISCO IN 1915 COLORADO SPRINGS. Aug. 28. Lieutenant Governor Wallace of Cali fornia, invited the governors' con ference to meet In San Francisco In 1915. He also asked the governor to boost the exposition by encouraging their states to erect buildings. Striking Miners Return. SEATTLE. Aug 28. The 750 union conlminers who struck last month at Black Diamond because a member of the pit committee had been discharged arter he had engaged In a fight with a foreman went back to work. BUILDING FALLS BURYING SCOP BENEATH 'Fifty Employes and Several Custom ers Were in Dry-goods Store When Walls Collapse- MANY BELIEVED KILLED Hre I)fXirt!iM4!t and Score of Citi zens are Searching for Ilodieri, and to Iteseue Those Pinned Under De bris Projrty Ix Will le More Than $50,000. PETERBORO, Ont., Canada, Aug. 28 Five are known to have been kiled and eight others have been se riously Injured In the collapse of the Turnbull dry goods store. It Is fear ed there are more dead and Injured In tho ruins. About 70 clerks and customers were In the building when the walls toppled down. PETEREORO, Ont., Canada., Aug. 28. The Turnbull dry goods store collapsed here today and it is feared that many have been killed. The fire department and scores of citizens are searching the ruins. The property loss will exceed $50,000. The erection of a new building ad joining Is believed to have been the cauxe of weakening the walls of the dry goods store. Fifty people, mostly clerks, were In side the building when the walla tumbled in and It is believed that most of them have perished. Only a few customers were In the store at the time, and they likewise are buried be neath the ruins. ney that they were clauses of the state law, the ordinance passed as read without a dissenting voice. IVtltion Denied. The petition of Mrs. Jessie Vert and other residents of College street ask ing that the rock crusher and saw mill of the Oregon Lumber Yard be declared a nuisance was denied, the committee reporting the petitioners should seek remedy by applying to the court for an injunction. The city attorney concurred with the com mittee, stating that, should the city declare the machinery a nuisance, the act might plunge it Into a litigation, the outcome of which would be very doubtful. The Drinking Fountains. Chairman Cole of the street com mittee, reported that the ladies of the civic club hope to have the public drinking fountains Installed before the Round-up and he asked for sug gestions as to where the fountains should be located. Aside from ex pressing the opinion that one should be placed In front of the city hall, the council left the matter to the com mittee. Upon the recommendation of the fire committee, the council granted the application of Roger Averill for (Continued on Page 8.) LAF0LLETTE HOTLY ATTACKS GALLINGER WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. In a ver bnl tilt marked by bitterness on both sides, Senator La Folletto predicted the retirement of Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire, the republican leader and others of. "his type'' bo cause of their alleged failure to adjust themselves to changing Industrial conditions. The colloquy follow ed Senator La Follette's declaration that republican senators who were voting against a heavier income tax on big incomes Included many who had al ways opposed the establishment of any Income tax." He was commenting upon the defeat of the Brlstow am end met, proposing a tax running up to 10 per cent on Incomes of $100, 000; and against which 13 republi cans and the solid democratic side had voted. Boat 1'ihtcts, Tlion Right Self. KEOKUK. Iowa, Aug. 28. Hydro Bullet upset while rounding a buoy I In the Mississippi River Power Boat association's regatta on Lake Cooper spilled out the pilot, Earl H. Deaken of Lauderdale Lakes, Wis., then right ed itself and continued its course with Ralph Smith, the engineer, at the wheel. Smith had clung to the boat when It upset. Deaken narrowly es- enped drowning Oregon Kid. owned by S. T. Black of Portland, Oregon, won the 20 mile heat in 20:50 2-5. Mm WMM iSKHi Iw n i " i PENDLETON FACE WATER FAMINE? OFFICIAL ADJOURNER ADJUNCT TO COUNCIL The Pendleton city council, like congress and all big legis latlve bodies, has Its official ad- Journer. Bob Klrkpatrlck Is recognized as the member who shall put the motion which ends the weekly session and, when he Is present, no other member ever attempts to exercise that privilege. Not by any appoint- ment by the mayor nor election by his colleagues has he been vested with that function but only through long habit. 1 When Kirkpatrick first was appointed to fill a vacant seat in the altermanic chamber, the council was wont to hold long discussions and debates after the business had been dispatched and, in spite of the yawns of the city attorney, the bored expres slon on the face of the recorder and the Impatient shifting of chairs by newspapermen, would continue the session until ten o'clock or after. "Kirk" Is right on the job when business is be- lng transacted but. through his occupation as a farmer, has grown accustomed to retiring early. Therefore, after he had been a member long enough to learn that those late parleyings could just as well be held in committee meetings- or on the street corners, he began to take advantage of little lulls to slip In a motion of adjournment. He found that his colleague on the right, Joe Ell, was always ready with a second and was further encouraged by the fact that his motion always went through. Therefore, when the hands on the dial begin to creep around toward 9 o'clock, he eommenc- es to watch for his opportunity and never overlooks one. But woe unto the session which he does not attend. It Is doomed to be a long one. When harvest first commenced and Council- 4 man Kirkpatrick was prevented 4 from being present, one of the sessions threatened to continue all night because the official adjourner was absent No one had the temerity to make . the motion until after a period of strained quietness, the city atto'r- ney suggested that the marshal be Instructed to send for Kirk-' Patrick. Last evening, the farmer-al- derman w-as also absent and. so when there was nothing more to do or say. Councilman Swear- lngen kindly announced, "I make Klrkpatrick's motion" and the meeting adjourned. FEDERAL GUNBOAT DESTROYED BY BOMB LOS ANGELES, Aug. 28. Joquiam Buche Alcade, who claims he accom panied DIdler Masson on separate flights over Guaymas harbor, was ar rested as he stepped from a train by Special Agent Bowen of the depart ment of Justice. Bowen refused to explain. Alcalde declared Masson's bomb throwing flights were success ful and that they destroyed the fed eral gunboat Guaymas. 1-oix dexter says thfj statiimf:xt's not true WASHINGTON. Aug. 28. Speaking on a question of personal privilege, Senator Poindexter of AVashington de clared that a Seattle newspaper had (Minimally libelled hlni by printing charges that he had obtained govern ment posts for 11 of his relatives. The senator admitted getting a place for j his brother In the senate folding room but declared he had had no connec tion with securing positions for the others named SEATTLE. Wash.. Aug. 28 The speech at Washington of Poindexter was directed against the Post Intel ligencer of this city which printed the statement that Poindexter had placed 11 relatives In government positions. THAW GUARDED FROM KIDNAPING ATTEMPT SHERBROOKE, Aug. 28. The at torneys for Harry Thaw are guarding him closely, fearing that an attempt will be made to kldnay him and turn him over to the New York authori ties. Jerome left for Quebec today to confer with Provincial Premier Gouln and to tell him that yesterday's pro ceedings in the Thaw caso were farcical. XO. 79GG Byers Milling Company is Alleged to Be In Fair Way to Get Whole Sup ply By Building Dam. COMMISSIONERS UNEASY omimiiy Seek to Divert all the Flow Into the Intake of the Millrace The Intake for the City Supply is Uelow ThU and Already Water la Growing Scarce. Is Pendleton to face a water fam ine because the Byers Milling Co. wants all of the water in the Umatilla river? Such a situation is threatened If the milling company continues with the building of a concrete dam above jthe present intake for the city supply and the water commissioners are be ginning to feel uneasy. For some time past the milling com pany has had a force of men at work building a concrete wall upon the bedrock of the river In order to di vert all of the flow Into the Intake of the millrace. The intake for the city supply is below this point and al ready the engineer at the pumping station is having difficulty In getting enough water. Should the wall be continued until it becomes a dam should the water fall still lower or should there be no fall rains the commission believes It will be squarely up against a propo sition of fighting for enough water to supply the needs of the city. SEX QUESTIONS ARE URGED TO BE TAUGHT BUFFALO, N. T.t Aug. 28. Scien tists and educators of world wide fame at the fourth international con gress of school hygiene. In special ses sion agreed with practical unanimity that the time had come when the at titude of the world's educational in stitutions toward's sex hygiene should be revolutionized. Public opinion, they maintained al read has reached the point where this revolution is demanded. Dr. Charles E. Eliot, president of the congress. Rev. Richard J. Tierney, S. J., of Woodstock college, Maryland and oth er prominent delegates discussed the subject. "A remarkable change in public opinion has taken place In regard to sex, hygiene," Dr. Eliot said, using the term In Its broadest sense. ' "The most Important question is: what force can now be put in play against the formidable evils which gravely threaten the very life of the race? No one force or agency can be completely relied upon.'1 This attack, he said, must be made against the three principal causes of the present evil conditions: First, lust In men. Second com plete lack of moral principle In cer tain classes of women, and third, de pravity of those who make a com merce of these two. Commercialized vice should be at tacked in all its forms by all the pow ers of the law. The ancient policies of toleration and licensed segregation and regulation must be uprooted. Seg regation has no where been success ful. The law against undesirable mar riages needs to be revised. BUr Prune Crop indicated. ONTARIO Ore.. Aug. 23.-r-Work of picking and packing the prune crop in the large orchards In this vicinity is in full sway. A bumper harvest is promised. Some growers are holding their prunes for better prices but most of them have contracted their entire crop at "0 cents per box. GAYNOR WILL RUN AS AN INDEPENDENT NEW YORK, AUG 2S. A muddled political situation, which the city al ready faced, was further complicat ed by the authorized declaration of Mayor Gaynor at his Long Island farm that he would run for re-election on an Independent ticket. New York thus finds itself with three dem ocrats as candidates for mayor. Tam many hall hist week designated Ed ward E. McCall, chairman of the public service commission after re fusing Mr. Gaynor a renominatlon. while the fuslonlsts selected John Purroy Mitchell, collector of the port. Interest centered on the question of who Mayor Gaynor's advisers will choose as his running mates. Should they, as many appear to expect, ask two of Mr. Mltchel's fusion colleagues William A. Prcndergast (progres sive) for city controller and George McAneny for president of the board of aldermen to allow their names to b placed on the Gaynor ticket. It Is said to be certain that the fusion leaders will demand that two decline to accept.