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DAILY EVENING EDITION DAILY EVENING EDITION TO ADVERTISERS. Forecast for Eastern Oregon, by the United State Weather Obw't ti at Portia. - Rain or snow tonight and Tuesday. Brisk, to high southwest wind. The Rant Oregoulan haa the largest paid circulation t.t any paper in Oregon, eaat of I'ortlaod and over twice the circulation In Pendleton of an other newspaper. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. VOL 25. PENDLETON, OREGON, IMOXDAV, JANUARY 26, U14. NO. 8008 4 FOUND MORE VICTIMS LIKELY TO DIE Coroner Orders an Investigation of Head-on Collision on Michigan Central Railway. DOZEN PASSEKSERS INJURED rayweniirr Train and a Freight Collide Near Jackson, Midi. Many Taken to Hospitals Are In Critical 4t'oii dition and May ot Survive Cant Smashed to Kindling. , JACKSON, Mich . Jan. 26. Bodies ' of four persons were removed early today froh the wreck of a Michigan Central passenger train which met head-on a north-bound extra freight a few miles north of Jackson laxt night. Rescue workers continued a search of the debris for more bodies as several are missing;. A dozen ur ' sengers were serious! injured and sev eral in local hospitals are believed to be dying. Coroner Marks ordered an inquest to determine responsibility for the wreck. The train was made up of four roaches and a baggage care. Of the three foremost cars nothing: remained hut splintered wood. Two of the rear cars were thrown from the track and overturned in a ditch, but remained . intact. The passengers in them re ceived only cuts and bruises. , 0. P. RAILROAD OFFICIALS PAY VISIT TO PENDLETON Headed by J. O. Wood worth, second .vice, president of the road, a purty of visiting X. P. officluU has been in Pendleton today. They arrived this forenoon and their special car was taken out by the afternoon train at .1:60. Those In the party were J. O. Wood worth, seond vice president; II. K. Still, general western freight agent. Tacoma; A. Flnllng, assistant general freight agent, Tacoma; C. E. Arney, western Immigration and industrial agent, Spokane, and T. F. Coyle, new superintendent of the Pasco division. According to Mr. Woodworth the visit here was for purposes of inspec tion. Mr. Woodworth was with the O. R. ft N. Co. many years ago when that railroad was under the guidance of President McNeill. At that time he was assistant to the president MeAdoo In Icnver. DENVER. Jan. 26. Representa tives of national banks in ail parts of Colorado were present here today when Secretary of the Treasury Mc Adoo and Secretary of Agriculture began hearings on a proposal to es tablish one of the regional banks un der the new currency law. Hearing will continue tomorrow and WeJnes day. OF LAW AS CHIEF Former Pendleton Man is Now Avowed Candidate for Governor and Will Seek the Democratic Nomination in May He Makes Complete Statement Showing His Attitude on Various Questions. - Dr. ( J. Smith Is now an avowed candidate for governor of Oregon and will seek the democratic nomination nt the primary election to be held In Mnyt He will make the race on a platform in which law enforcement will be the chief plank. As announced Saturday, Dr. Smith entered the race for governor after having received a letter from Gover nor West stating that he, West, will not be a candidate and commending Dr. Smith's support of law enforce ment. Prior to hearing from v the governor, Dr. 8mlth had written the following letter: - . - Dr. Smith' lxt.. "Portland, Jan. 22. Governor Os wald West, Salem My Dear Gover nor: 1 have considered entering the democratic primaries for governor, but I will not do so if you expect or desire to be a candidate to succeed yourself. Is It proper; for me to nsk If you . are fully' determined on that point? . . (Continued on page three.) SMiTH CONGRESSMAN JOHNSON AND WASHINGTON LAWYER FIGHT WASHINGTON. Jan. 26 "Get me my pistol; let me kill him!" cried Representative Ren Johnson of Ken tucky, when he and John H. Shields, a Washington lawyer, clashed In the District of Columbia committee room In Washington the other day. Mr.-Shields was hustled out of the committee room by scared members and clerks and the door between the two offices was slammed shut, barr ing in Johnsonfor perhaps a moment Johnson soon flung the inner door open, however, and sought to follow Shields clown the corridor. He wan restrained by Congressmen Reed, Gor man, and others. . v ' Johnson MpbrufdVd his clerk, Fred Allen for holding him when he sought to go after u pistol. "That's all right. Pen, he's gone now," said Congressman Reed. So angry was Johnson that it re quired committee members several minutes to dissuade him from an at tempt to follow Shields, who van ished soon after upon his ejection from the committee room. STEAMSHIP IS ASHORE BUT PASSEN6ERS ARE REMOVED SEATTLE. Jan 26. A message re ceived at noon said the Canadian Pa cific steamship Sophia, southbound from Skagway to Vancouver, was ashore in Alert Bay, Vancouver Is land. The steamer Alkl of Seattle la reported taking off the' passengers. The number aboard 'is not known. Absent-minded persons are contin ually leaving their packages and um brellas In the street cars, but the limit was reached the other day when the car from Warren, Me., Into Thomnston was found to contain a baby which haj been left behind In the rush. PIAIIK III PLATFORM - WILL RON FOR 60VERN0R Dr. C. J. Smith, who has formally announced candidacy to succeed Gov ernor West with latter friendship and support. Dr. Smith now stands an excellent chance for nomination and election. i h WAN OFSTORM THAT Wind Reaches High Velocity and Dam age is Reported From Several Cities in Oregon. WIRE SERVICE IS CRIPPLED Barometer Reaches Lowest Point in l Your All Western Half of the United State Held in Grip Wind IIIouk 36 Miles an Hour at Port land, Mowing Out Plate Glass. Weather Conditions in the Pa ri fie Northwest. Astoria Heavy gule outside, wind increasing. t Aberdeen Heavy rain, with southwest gale. Seattle Gale at Cape Flattery 60 miles an hour; storm pre- dieted for entire .North Coast. Walla Snow disappears with Chinook, but mercury drops at night. Salem Crest of flood believed to have passed; river at 16.3. Albany River rising slowly and lacks three feet of flooJ stage. , Roseburg High wind accom panies heaviest rain of winter. PORTLAND. Ore., Jan. 26 The "Big Wind" which chased shipping to cover and created havoc with tele graph and telephone wires and signs in cities all over the Pacific north' west a week ago, played a rousing re turn engagement last night when it "came back" high 1n velocity and ac companied by a fall In the barometer to a lower point than ever before In the past 34. years. The scope of the storm was ex ceedlnglv great, forming central at Straits of of Juan de Fuca and eov ering all of the western half of the United States. Storm Warnings Ordered. Storm warnings were orJered out for the southwest at 6:15 Saturday night and changed to southeast at 11 o'clock yesterday morning for the mouth of the Columbia and the West ern Washington stations. Last night at ? o'clock, while the storm signals were being ordered shifted southwest for Astoria, North Head and Aberdeen, the force of the wind began fully to become apparent In Portland. Sixty miles an hour was the veloc Ity reported at Tatoosh Island and 71 miles at North Head. At Tatoosh Is land a thunder storm was recorded Reports from all parts of the coast indicated a rapidly falling barometer, beginning yesterday morning. The low register for Portland was in Jan uary, 1880, when it reached 28.66. In the storm a week ngo it reached aa low as 20.66 and last night It was at 28.88 and reported still falling. PORTLAND, Ore.. Jan. 26. A gale which reached a velocity of a minia ture hurricane at 1 a. m. held Port land and most of western Oregon In its clutches for IS hours. .At seven the worst of the storm had passed to the northward. All shipping was warned to remain In port. In Port land a 32 mile wind blew out several plate glass windows. Telegraph and telephone service along the coast has l een crippled. One of the hardest wind storms Pendleton has experienced for some time blew during the early hours of this morning, dying down just before daybreak. No great amount of dam age was done although some of the light and telephone wires went down. The wind attained the velocity of a gale and startled many residents from peaceful slumber. Reports from over the county are to the effect that the wind storm was general and struck many communi ties with even greater severity than Pendleton. - The local telephone office reports all of Its leads to Spokane down and all wires to Portland and over the mountains total failure Near Arlington five poles were pros trated. following trie snow or Saturday, a; Chinook blew during the evening J hours and by yesterday morning near ly every vestige of snow In the city had disappeared. Nearly all day yes terday the wind -prevailed. Ex-Senator Young Improve. . DES MOINES. Ia.. Jan. 26. The conditions of former United States Senator Lafoyette Toung, who la seri ously ill with pneumonia was slightly better. His temneratuce ft lower and he Is resting well. It will be a week before the senator's disease reaches the crisis. SWEEPS COAST MS USE OF FLOODS IN SEVERALTOWNS California Villages Along Santa Clara and Sacramento are Reported to be UnderWater. FEARS FOR SAFETY HELD Telegraphic- Communication With Santa Barbara is Cut Off Many of Inhabitants are Marooned Heavy ICalnti on Heels of Severe Storm Re. hpon.sible for Conditions. SAN . FRANCISCO. Jan. 26 Alarm for tlie safety of tltoiutands of tour- irtft at Santa Barbara, Paso RoMes and other winter resort in California wa felt vvlion 21 Iwur of effort to communicate with the flooded district proved unavailing. The flood waters are sweeplnar the Sierras to ue sea board and are steadily Increasing In volume. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 261 Heavy rains throughout the state, coming on the heels of one of the worst storms of the season, put the coast line of the Southern Pacific railroad almost out of business, and causing floods to in vade a number of small towns along the Santa Clara and the Sacramento Earbara J rivers, and ahut off Santa from telegraphic communication.' Relatives of persons marooned at Santa Barbara express fear of their safety. . t When k- telegraphic communication was interrupted last night the water stood four feet deep at the railroad's station and was still rising. Vessels that put Into tlvV.v. reported a se vere hurricane had caused - minor mishaps to several small craft. BOSTON. Jan. 26 Reports indi cate that the storm sweeping north along the New England coast cost four lives and separated more than a score of men from their ships. The results will be a heavy money loss. The schooner Pontias and Joseph . Mul len lost a man each while the schoon er Alice cannot account for two of her crew. The fishing schooner Zelma is reported a total wreck off Meagh ering Beach, Halifax. The crew was saved by the government steamer Lady Laurier. 15 Injured -at Wedding'. AURORA. 111.. Jan. 26. A wedding celebration In Little Hungary was suddenly transformed into a tragedy when a porch collapsed beneath the weight of 15 dancers and they fell 20 feet to the ground. Mrs. Florence Blsh, the bride of an hour, was perhaps fatally Injured, her husband Joseph Blsh, suffered a broken arm and internal injuries. Four others were seriously hurt and the remaining guests were scratched or bruised. . IJquor Men to Fight Speakeasies. SCRANTON. Pa., Jan. 26. Saloon keepers and wholesale and retail 11 o.uor dealers are going to make Scran ton absolutely dry on Sundays. The liquor dealers and saloonkeepers not here today in conference with May or Edmund B. Jermyn to plan a cam paign to abolish the speakeasy, to regulate the sale of bottled beer, and to put out of business the "clubs" which heretofore have held open house with beer "drawn from the wood" on Sundays. NEWS SUMMARY General. Monopolies are only things aimed at In adinlnlHtration's anti-trunt bill, de dares WINon. . - - Ships are warned to star in port as storm rages along the Ptociftc coast. Four victim of head-on collision on Michigan Central near Jackson are recovered. More likely to die. Rivers In California rising rapidly and fear Is entertained for residents of Santa IVirbara. Steamship reported ashore off Van couver island. Passengers are being taken off. ' Secretary I no of the Interior de partment declares radium lands should be withdrawn by the govern ment. local. second semester or school opens with SO per cent Increase at high acttooL Dr. Km tlh makes law enforcement big plank In bis gubernatorial plat form. Bruce Smith arrested In San Fran- Cisco, - tire alarm system now ready for use. City of Athena defendant today In $6000 damage suit. Mrs. I. II. Patton panses awmv, Prominent IT. P. Officials visit hero. MONOPOLIES ARE ALL THAT ARE AIMED AT IN BILLS WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. Tlie ad ministration's anti-trust policy is di rected only at huch business meth ods as are directly in the nature of a monopoly. President Wilson made this plain to callers today. None ol the trust bills, the president explain ed, contains anything which will bar from their business anything not of itsself monopolistic. So far as the interstate trade com mission is cencerned, the presiJent indicated that body will be a "dra gon" as certain business Interests fear, if it undertakes investigations at the direction of the department of justice and reports to the attorney general who acts aa he sees fit. The president made it plain that at no time has anyone other than Goe thals, been considered for governor of the canal zone under the adminis tration. Goethals already baa been assured of this fact by the secretary of war, although the president himself can not do so until he actually issues an order creating a civil government. This order is nearly ready for the ex ecutive signature and contains the name of Goethals as governor with full power to select his own assistants up to the number of '2500 to start op eration on the big waterway. FORMER LOCAL MAN UNDER ARREST IN SAN FRANCISCO News was received this morning by the local PIlc tnat Bruce B. Smith, former well known young man of this city, is under arrest in San Francisco on a charge of misdemeanor embex xlement. He is being held by the adult probation office and it was an official of that department that the announcement was received. No particulars of the alleged misdemean or were contained In the letter. . A photo enclosure left no doubt of his identity. ' . Smith lived for several years In Pendleton, having been employed in one of the local stores as a shoe sales- man. Later he secured employment at the eastern Oregon state hospital but left about a yoar ago for Port land. After his departure, his wife instituted suit for divorce on the ground of cruel and Inhuman treat ment and a decree was given her. Misdemeanor embezzlement is - not defined in the Oregon criminal stat utes, but, according to local attor neys, it is equivalent or nearly so Irj California to simple larceny in this state. In 1912 there were 1344 murders in the 30 leading cities of the United States. - NEW HUE ALARM If you hear the big bell in the city hall tower clang this afternoon and then clang again until some 400 licks have been struck by the clapper, think r.ot that there Is a general conflag ration in the city. Far be it from such. It will simply be the city fire officials testing out the new electric fire alarm system which will be ready for use as soon as every con nection is found to be all right. E. C. Day. representative of the Gamewell companv. Is here today putting the finishing touches to the system and announced that he would try out the boxes this afternoon. . The boxes are all in place and their location has been approved. The following are the locations by rota tion: Box 12, Main and Water street. Box 13, E. Court and Johnson. Box 14, E. Alta and Thompson. P. H. S. SHOWS 20 This morning marked the opening of the second semester of the Pen dleton school term and It saw almost a 20 per cent increase in the attend ance at the high school. At noon more than forty new students had enrolled there, and, before the week in out, it is estimated that the in crease will amount to fifty. The enrollment at the school has now passed the 260 mark, according to Principal A. C. Hampton, while last year the total enrollment for the year was but 228. The year before it was under the 200 mark. On account of the crowded condi tion or the eighth grade rooms of the other schools, an eighth grade class Is being conducted In the high school so that there are now more than 300 students going the hill each year This almost taxes the capacity of the new building and, yet there was crit icism by some at the time the build ing was constructed that it was be ing built larger than necessary for tfe needs of the city. NE OfiSfOF COMMITTER REPORTS OX CHAMBERLAIN'S BILL . WASHINGTON. Jan. 26. . Senator Chamberlain's joint res- olution to have the war depart- ment assign two engineers to cooperate in an investigation of The Dalles power project; was favorably reported in the senate by the committee today. TIMELY CAPTURE PREVENTS ' , A COSTLY PRISON BREAK SACRAMENTO, Cat..' Jan. 26. The capture of Zollle Clements, triple mur derer and Jamea Case, life prisoner, known as the most desperate in Fol- som prison, by Guard J. P. Carlin, as they were about to overcome him and sejxe his shotgun, frustrated what might have been the most , costly prison break in the history of the penitentiary. ' - . The men had escaped from their cells, gained the roof of the cell house and were crawling towards the guard when discovered. r... ,w a,A , L tobacco can, Case, who has been kept In a barred cell since last August for observation as to his sanity, reach ed through the bars and unlocked his cell door at about three o'clock Sat urday morning. Owing to the heavy storm, a belt had broken at the pow er house and the lights were out all through the prison, thus giving the men the opportunity they had await ed. Case stole down the corridor and unlocked the door of the cell In which Zollle Clements, a triple murderer. who nearly gained his liberty through a ruse a year ago. The two men climbed to the top of the cell house on a water pipe. Clements began to crawl toward the guard, who was at the far end of the roof. Case still lay at the topof the pipe. Guard Carlin's suspicions were ar oused when he found Clements con cealed behind a large pipe. Case then surrendered. " . Experts have estimated that If the forests of the world were scientif ical - ly operated they would yield the equivalent of from 30 to 120 times the present consumption of wood an nually. Sin IS TESTED Box 15, W. Alta and Aura. Box 16. West Alta and Main. Box 21. W. Alta and Garden. Box 23. Main and Webb. Box 24. Aura and W. Bluff. Pox 25. Main and High. Box 31. E. Webb and College, nox 32 E. Aura and Vincent. Box 34, Ann and W. Railroad. Box 35. W. Webb and Pine. Box 36, Tustln and Thompson. Box 41. E. Court and E. Alta. Box 42. E. Court and E. Webb. Box 43. E. Court and Hope. Pkx 45 E. Railroad and Post. Jefferson and Washington Box 51 Box 52. Perkins and Jackson. Box 53, Raley and Matlock. Citizens should make it a point to locate these boxes, especially the one nearest to their residence. Instruc tlons for turning in an alarm will be given out later. FED CEIII II1CREASE Many new pupils were enrolled at the grade schools today also, but no definite figures were obtainable. The following are the new students registered at the high school thla morning, most of them being eighth grade graduates at the mid-year ex aminations: Meryl Agee, Gustav Ixrenien. Walt er Schneider. Helen Candish. Mar garet Snow, Andrew Harvey, Samuel Oliver, Merton Moore. Mllford Wafle. Olney Sallng, Zella Follett. Wlnnlfred Graham.4 Lucy Ruggles. Fleeta Hall, Glen Vaught, Delone .Waters, Davie Oliver. Delia Ferguson. Ruth Ed wards, Neva Edwards, Jennie Mur phy, Hazel Matlock. Geraldlne From. Elmer Duncan.. Anita Cult, Thelma Thompson. Alta Mentzer. Murre) Hunter, Edna McReynolds. Esther Wisdom. Margaret Beere. Helen Liv engood, Harry Monterastelli. Veroa Anibal, Blanche Fortler. Joe Mark haus. Glen Gibson. Earl Friedly, Wes ley Evans, Harry Hays, Alfred West gate, Hugh Bowman. ADVOCATES Ml DEPflSTS Comes Out Flatly for Withdrawal of Remaining Ore Lands so as to Prevent Monopoly. SHOULD HELP POOR MAN Radium Should be Made Available to AH Persons Suffering From CM cer Lands Containing Valuable Ore) ' S bo old be Saved From Exploits to by Private Capital. WASHINGTON. Jan. 26 Two hun dred thousand victims of the "red plague" have found an ardent cham pion in Secretary of the Interior Lane. He came out flatly before the housa mines committee today for the with drawal of all remaining radium ore lands, declaring that the fight for segregation is "so strongly tinged with human interest" that it is really "a battle for our mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers, to protect them against the ravages of cancer." ' Lane backed his declaration with a statement that radium ought not to be merely a "millionaire's remedy," but within the reach of the poor man." Furthermore, he announced, his pol icy contemplates as a "public duty" the big fight to prevent radium mon- I opolixation. inere can be no question but that It Is our duty to secure aa much possible of the curative agent." said Lane. "Because we know it is a cure for superficial cancer. I was alarmed in my investigation when I discovered that 75 per cent of radium la made in this country, and we have now only two grams here. I found too we are sending this radium across the water and forced to buy it back. The sec ond danger was that there is to be a monopoly of lands and radium. Jt seems to me it U manifestly my duty to inaugurate a movement to prevent this. This resolution only means the withdrawal from exploitation by pri vate interests so these lands might not be held out against the Interests of the people." MORGAN ART TREASURE TO GO OX EXHIRITIOX NEW YORK. Jan. 24. The collec tions of art treasures bequeathed to J. P. Morgan by his father, J. Pier pont Morgan, are not to be sold, Mor- Ban said, contradicting a report that Lhe intended t dispose of a large part of the collections. While It Is said that Morgan is willing to part with some duplicates and odds and ends and the banker said there might be "some things" he would eventually dispose of he did not intimate what these might be. and "nothing is to be done now," he declared. He was seeking advice as to the placing of the various collections, he said. The senior Morgan expressed the desire in his will that his 'son make his col lections permanently available for the instruction and pleasure of the peo ple. The Morgan treasures, valued at 360.000.000. are now housed In the Metropolitan Museum of Art and are to be placed on public exhibition probably within a month. "60 TO CHURCH" SUNOAY WILL BE OBSERVED HERE A "go to church Sunday" observ ance haa been named by the protect ant ministers of this city and the date set for next Sunday, February 1. This plan Is a carrying out of the move ment launched In Chicago som weeks ago. the idea being to have at least one Sunday In the year an oc casion when everybody will visit hi respective church and It Is the hopn that in time the movement will be come a national event and as well recognized as Christmas. It will t essentially a church holiday when per sons of all nationalities and rr as well as those who have no epteiul church affiliation, will be expecte.i to take part in the church observances The question was discussed at a meeting this morning of the local ministerial association, and from the pulpits of the Presbyterian. Baptist. Methodist and Christian churches yes terday the respective pastors referred to it and urged that their congrega tions spread the news so that aa many as possible will be aware of the ef forts being made to get large attend ances on that day. The businessmen . will be askeJ by the ministers to ar range it so that any of their employee who may have work to do Sunday will be enabled to attend services. The movement is not limited lo in protestant churches but people of all other denominations have been akd to join In the endeavor to have a "go to church" day apart from the regular I duties that fall upon the Sabbath.