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.0 C-7f? An i v ? j : ll M-iilllTH !- . .'jj": iii-l!iis i iril lis J fill 5 S I i i VOL- XI liA GRAJN i)K I J.N U)js (JO U NT UUEULLN. THURSDAY,' AUGUST 11, 1910. NUMBER 2i2. SIL01CE IL ! THVSICIAKS WILL NOT ADMIT HE IS RECOVERING FROM WOUNDS KOURlSHMEfiT AFROBLEn Fhslclans Holding Hlra to Small Diet and His Usual Habits Have Beea to Eat Hearty Meals GajBorVOpio. Job Ignored 1b the Matter Few Bui. latins Issued Today Gallagher Ex-plilas-hls Motive Ib the Crime. Hoboken, Aup. H.-Reticence On the part of the physicians regarding the condition of Mayor Gay nor, Is leading Tils friends to fear they are withhold ing the truth about his chances of re covery. Surgeons will not say Gaynor Is oat of danger, and will not predict ultimate recovery. , , Nourishment a Problem. The question of nourishment is wor rying the physicians. The doctors op pose solids, although Gaynor insists lie is accustomed to eat heartily, and If the present diet continues he will he weakened.- Dr. Stewart at ' nine o'clock said: o'.-... "Gaynor'a wound was Uressed re cently. It looked clean, normal, and: , , there Is no Indication of Infection. His condition is encouraging.". Shows no Cariosity. Kirs. Gaynor visited her husband this morning. Secretary Adamson aald afterwards: "Since brought to the hospital the Mayor shows no curiosity regarding the identity of his assailant.- When he asked who shot him, no one new at the time, and plnce then heJ. Tiasn't Inquired." When Gaynor's daughter arrived at Hoboken this afternoon she was not allowed to see her father. This has given rise to the rumors that the May or's condition is not as favorable as physicians report. Physicians are undecided as to the operation. A consultation will be held tonight. ( Gallagher Reads Shakespeare. Jersey City, Aug. 11. Gallagher made the following statement to news papermen today: 'if Intended to kill Gaynor and that's all there was to It. I hope now he recovers. My favorite author wa8i Shakespeare. I read Dickens and Henry George'B 'Progress and Pover- Miller testified he thought the gov ty.' That's the only modern book "I ernment should takes surplus" coal read ' constantly. Neither Henry j landg and pay rjhoctawB what they George nor Shakespeare inspired me j are worth. He said the . Indians will to shoot Gaynor. I simply felt I had probably take twenty-five million for no other way of remedying 'the wrong tetr coai iand8. He' said he believes I had to do something. If I was . attorneys working on the contingent wrong. I am here to take the punish-j feet, get better results thanones on ment. I don't think I am wrong. ! R8aiary. . - "I am a follower of Hearst. When . , , ' he was a tandidate for Mayor I voted Aldrlch Ready to Answer for him. I tried to get my friends to j Boston. Aug. 11. Senator ; Aldrlch vote the same. I believe In him and niann(nK i0 ren-ly . to the accusa- ln what he says. Recently I tos & democrat and stuck to Tammany Hall until I found I wasn't getting Jus-j be made ln a -peech delivered before tlce. Then I turned to Hearst I told tJ)e November elections. Where It will my friends to read Hearst's writings i be made unannounced. The address and . that his teachings were right. J Jt Jg understood, Is considered one of Nothing Is too good for a man like(the most Important delivered in. the Hearst. He tells the truth and should i corang campaign. . . ,: . ' . , get any reward the people can give j him.' PAINTING THE DEPOT. Familiar Color of Depot Bnilding Be ing Changed to More Gandy One. 1 . A new coat of paint Is being put on tne depot that will Improve us gener- Depot Btreet eating house, al appearance. The color used Is one ' . which has come to be standard with ; Church Centenary, various railroad companies, and the Melbourne, Aug. It. Congiegatlon brown barn-like appearance of the al (.nrci,eB throughout the county are structure will disappear. Tho Interior todav f.eiebrating the centenary of the has been painted white and the ex- foundng 0f the first church of that terior is rapidly being mproved. . denomination in Australia. MELISH HEADS KNIGHTS. Three leading Offlelals . Cbosea tej Templars Id Chicago Contention Chicago, Aug. llWllliam, B. Mel ish of Cincinnati was today, elected Right Eminent Grand Master of Knights Templar in convention here. Arthur McArthur, Troy N. Y., is dep uty grand master, and W. Frank Pierce of San Francisco, Is Grand Generallssime. Gang Funeral Sunday. Baltimore, Aug. 11. The funeral of Joseph Gans will be held Sunday. It will be one of the most impressive a colored man has received in 'Balti more. He will be. Interred In the Sharp street cemetery. More Crlppea Mysteries. London, Aug. 11. Experts . who ex amlned the body found In the base ment of Crlppen's home, today assert ed It was that of a woman who had undergone an operation before death, This corroborates the rumor cabled by Quebec that Crlppen Intimated to Canadian officials that his wife died from the effects of aa operaton per formed by him Further than this the experts found nothing establishing an Identity. ' CALLED OFF MEN DISAGREE OYER POSTPONE. ME NT DUE TO RAIN Still Raining In Philadelphia aad the Fight is Now Off. Philadelphia. Aug. 11. The Lang ford-Kaufman heavyweight matcft is called off. The fighters disagree over the postponement necessary on ac count of ralri. The fight was to have been held last night but the rain Interferred. . Langford asked. for. a week's post donement and Kaufman refused. The argument resulted in Harry Edwards' calling the match, off. Geo.A. Perry of Marcus, Wn., who has hotel Interests In Joseph, return-1 ed today from the lake town on his, way home. , Contracts Costly. McCalester, Aug. 11. That the Mc Murray contracts are the most liberal ever offered to Indians conducting sale on their lands, was the testimony J. B. Miller of Anflers, a man who married Into the Indian nation. Miller told the committee the Indians had once contracted to pay 50 per cent, as a fee for sale of their lands, and that once they had agreed to pay 40 per cent tions of Brlstow of Kansas, regarding the common schedules. His reply will TAKES OYER RESTAURANT. AIIcb TV ebb. lias Purchased Spokane Cafe and is now Managing IL Allen Webb has sold hU lunch coun ter on Jefferson and Is now proprle- ! tor and manager of the Spokane Cafe. ne hag aiready taken charge of the j FLOODIIERSIO JHI CREATE DAIAGES SITUATION APPALING IX MANY PLACES WHERE FLOODS . ARE HIGHEST. TEMPLES FILL Trains Carrying Many Hundred Pas sengers Stalled la Out of the Way ' Places and People are Unprotected and Starving Impossible to Reach jtae Sufferers Crops are Ruined Large Areas are Seas of Mad. Toklo, Aug. 11. Increasing fatal!- ties and disaster are the results from floods, at Hondo today. -Rundrads of persons and prefecture! in Shlmada, Shtdzuok and Tokio, are facing star vation.' Thousands of homes are ruin ed, rjid land slides are occurring. The region between Tokohoma and foklo, U a sea of mud.. . v Two Traias Stalled. ' Communication Is paralysed and the crops are ruined. Two trains of 800 passengers are reported stalled at Herlnouchl, with no shelter except the half-roofed cars. The trains cannot be reached. , ; ' ; Six hundred Inhabitants of the rlce fields at Shlmada, have taken refuge In -the Buddhist temple at Hoshinkl. and are reported to be starving. Thir teen engineers are entombed near Karutwazal and the embankment Is washed away. ' ' -: ' ; Engineers were hastening to relieve .beleaguered companies on the stalled trains when . their accident occurred. They were burled by sliding earth. At Shldzuska a thousand houses are eith er submerged or; washed away by the floods that are growing greater with torrential rains. The city of Kekurskl la practically a lake, and . the Inhabi-, tants are racing with the'.floods. The lower districts of Tokloare underwa ter and deyasted. ; Toklo Is isolated by rail and telegraph. Rains'contituie, al though they are somewhat lighter than yesterday. ' ' v ; . .There is no prospect for a break in the clouds soon. V . Frisco .Next Meeting Place. Minneapolis,, Aug. 11. San Francis co was named today as the next meet ing place of the typographical union. . Soldiers to Flirht Flames. . .Washington; Aug. ll-General Wood Chief of Staff, this afternoon ordered n hatalllan of thn 14th Infant rv tn proceed rem American Uke to C.oeur D'Alene to light forest fires, some of which are entirely beyond control. SO SAYS GRAND JURY IN AN IN v ; ; , DICTMENT TODAY. Chicago Meat Packer Accused of Per Jury by Inquisitor. , Chicago, Aug. IL Thomas G. Lee, of the Armour Company, was today In dicted' for perjury by. the federal grand Jury, which has been Investiga ting the alleged packing trust. It Is reported a! number of other indict ments will follow. Lee told the jury, according to In "ict ne:its,' that Thomas II. Piatt, of Armour's, didn't attend a dally meet ing with the other packers, at which it is alleged, the day's prices of pack ing products were fixed. The Jurj had other evidence, it Is alleged.. PACKER LIED Tfl TAFT'S GUARD IS GRAPJURY IHEREASED mi . sins fJI! Tl'O CUTS FENCE BULLET ' STRUCK . MAX IN HEAD AND KILLED HIM ON THE spot D III ARREST Troable Over Wire Fence Near Wca. atchee Leads to Fatal Shooting Maa Tolj to Desist from Cutting Wire Fence but Refuses to Heed the Warning Marderer is Forty-Five - Years of Age. ; Wenatchee, Wn Aug. 11. James Sutton, aged 24, was shot and killed yesterday by Mrs. Delia Totten, aged Al, who Is arrested charged with the killing. ' Sutton was cutting the wires on the fence of the Totten place, when the woman Is alleged to have ordered him to' desist. . He refused. According to Sutton's sister, who was along, Tot ten fired, one shot striking the man in the side of the head, killing him In stantly. ' " The Totten ranch was below Sut ton's In a canyon. It Is necessary for the Suttons'to cross her farm to' reach the city. . , -: ";, : . Yesterday Sutton and his sister left for town.' WheaLthe y reached Totten's he cut one of the wires of the fence. Mrs. Totten appeared armed with a shotgun and ordered Sutton , not to molest, tba, ?ence.- HV paid no atten tion, and she fired. v ' ' . i The sister ran to her home and notl- I fled her parents, who telephoned to the sheriff. He went to the scene In an automobile, and arrested the wom an, who had made no attempt to es cape. ,. . ' ' : : !...- IDAHO FIRES CONTINUE Thirty Fires, Some Beyond Raging ob Clearwater Reserve. Lewiston. Aug. 11. Thirty fires, some beyond control, .are raging In different parts of the Clearwater, for est reserve, according to Superintend ent Fenn. The fires are scattered and cover an area of 120 miles. Three hundred men are fighting the flames and two troops of cavalry are on the way. Officials are hoping for rain. Superintendent Feen estimates that 40,000 acres are destroyed. A hund red pack animals are employed In car rying provisions and supplies to the fire zone. , ; It Is though that all the fires, ex- I ceptlng one, were started by govern ment surveyors. One of the men smoked cigarettes and threw lighted matches In the underbrush. SECRET SERVICE MEN FEAR FOB HIS LIFE f ; Yigllance Surrounding Fmldent lias Been Doubled Lately. Beverly, Aug. 11. Since the attack on Mayor Gaynor of New York, secret service men are surrounding President Taft. .The vigilance Is doubled over what it formerly was. i Precautions are -taken on the theory that the attack on Gaynor may arouse slumbering Insanity In a crank of some Bort, and make an attempt to duplicate the outrage committed on tlip executive of New York. ' When the president motors, one guard stands on tho steps of the car and another follows In another auto- mobile. They .have ' orders to lioot first and question later. One operative accompanies the President to the golf links. . Ta Tu, Rah Rah llagt! New York, Aug. 11. Loud and lurid glad rags, of the variety affected by college boys and backwoods sports. are no longer to be heard In the land. Fashion -has put a taboo on the big noises of the clothing and gents' fur nishing shops, and hereafter maBcu line wearing apparel will be quiet and subdued. This dictum went forth to-, day from the exhibitors at the nation al clothes show In Madison Square Garden. AH of the suits, overcoats, and other toggery worn by the beau ties who serve as models conform to this idea that gentlemen's clothing should be seen and not heard. All of the frills and furbelows and pleats and fancy buttons and other Af rican Biivage gew-gaws which have been attached to the "nobby" man's suit the last year or two are now un der the ban. The new models for 1911 are safe and sane and of conservative cut and material. ' Plain blues, browns and grays are provided for men who So not care for a steady mn or conven- j tton Mack. Stripes, plaid, and checks, except of the most modest and unobtrusive patterns are not to be worn by the man who attempts to fol low fashion, - DIRIGIBLES TO ID SIGilflLS ARMY MAKES' EFFORT TO GET THEM ADDED TO SERVICE Dirigible Alrcrafts Have Been .Pcr , fected, Say Army Officers. ' Washington, D. C, Aug. H. Mili tary experts of the War Department have uhdercon8lderfttlon a plan to add the dirigible balloon or alrBhip to tflie equipment of the signal corps. ' A strong plea will be made- to congress tliu-lng the coming session for an ap--.. --t to enable the department to purcha8e one or, two afrshiyi i-f tlic ZtiQdlz.Vjji 'atd to , , ' 1 vJ'd a plant necessary for the maln (ontrol. 1 t'-nce of these aer!:J wonsters. ' This means that Uic r:rty is nrt ret (' readv to adoDt the ar "" " "rt of the military equlphient Cur natlcual defense. The experts are of the opin ion that the dirigible has been per fected, while the aeroplane Is still In the experimental stage. Recent ac cidents to aeroplane operators have accentuated this point of view. The dirigible, they say, la' making trips with a high degree or certainty, and has demonstrated Ks usefulness as a war machine, not only for scouting purposes, but for carrying materials and men and weaponB. which could be used to great advantage. . , Merits of Dirigible. This pronouncement of the merits of the dirigible by. the officers of the gen eral staff Is the present' decision on the controversy which has bee,n main tained by the partisans of the two types since Jhe aeroplane came Into the aeronautic field. The army has faith In 'the dlrigibje, despite the ac cidents to the Zeppelin ships, and has no faith In the aeroplane whatever hope there is of Its. further develop ment." .......... -k'r.T;', It Is the ultimate purpose of the sig nal corps, according to the general plan which has been adopted, to estab lish the aerial corps aa subsidiary to the coast artillery ic'orps. . Stations will be established for the big airships at forts along the coast.. - Town's , Anniversary. " Philadelphia, Au'g.'.ll. Business Is suspended today in Kensington while the 'entire population Jolfjis in a cele bration of the ninetieth anniversary of the founding of the town. , Ri'itd Anirnst Sunset. Read "The Philippines as T Saw Them," by General James F. Smith, ex-governor of the Philippines, and "California's TJlnck Gold, the Romance of the Oil Wells," by Welter V. Woe hike, iu Sunset for August; now on sale at all news stands. Fifteen cents. CLUB MCI1S I oismiGT py r ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING HELD LAST NIGHT TO LISTEN TO PLANS OF CLUB. IIDICmiBTO FEOFLE Position (rf Commercial CI oh Aanoaa -tti Follow lay Irrigation Meetlaj Clab to Back the Proposition Yfii All Pos!L!o Assistance Aiopt Pel Icy of Educating Every Farmer Is Exact Legal Siatas of Project. At the meeting of the Commercial ' club last evening in the office of Mc- Kennon; Phy L Roberts, that organl- zatlon officially went on record as fav oring the proposed , Irrigation district and offered the water board any as sistance it could give, waiter M. Pierce, .one of tho large land owners In the proposed district, was present and explained thoroughly the Idea be ing advanced to obtain water for the Grande Ronde valley.' So plain did he make the matter that every man pres ent left the .b"."'lr. feeling iaore than ever before, ' 7 . e is at hand for this v , ; ., water in an equltablr '.' .' " . The -; ; .'' ' '. eports In clr cula ; : ; i undertaking wlU: i ; ' n ana we peo ple wllr , , ' ypped with daU and facts concegj the entlro pro JectK' Although the commercial club is wieresiea io Hao- extent-;! -seel?' , laud values advance,aodf'a' great. a.r,: put unaer intensive rarming, it is not-, the Intention of that organization to ' do anything but suggest what seems to be the beet course for the land own-' ers to pursue. Full and complete ex, planations will be continued until th? crhnnl phflilron rf thin anil inf tho val. ley thoroughly understand the process ! by which Irrigation may be obtained, ', and the probable cost of the same. ' ; Birthday of Pinchot. 8Im8bury, Conn., AUgl 11. Old Urn-;, that this village had the honor of be- ' ers of Slmsbury are proudly recalling ' lng the birthplace of Glfford Pinchot, the auspicious arrival of the deposed forester took place forty-five . years ago today. . . ; After hln ffi-aduatlon from Yale. pinchot weut abroad, studying fores--try in France and Switzerland. Re-: turning to this country he did his first systematic work in his chosen, profession at Blltmore, N. C. Sini3 bury had seen little of the man who' defied Balliuger but the citizens are. firm iu" their allegiance to. him and, cofifldently expect that he will some day be president of the United States, : with full power to carry out his con-; servatlon plans to the fullest 'extent.1 Typhoid in Yalley. Claude Childers, who resides in thty valley. Is ye'Dy 111 of typhoid fever, pr. Richardson, who is in attendance says' there are several cases In the valley at the present time. Vermont Letter Carriers. ; St. Johnsbury, Vt, Aug. 11. As many letter carriers of Vermont cities and towns as could procure "subs", gathered today to hold their . annuar convention and talk hop. A two-day program has been arranged. ; $ Bouila Arrested. Guatamela City, Aug. It. While Uill. . A nil- .l .1.1. lUOUIIlg lU HJHOHllg DtilUUIIv I q Willi munitions for the gulf Amatlque, Ex President Bonilla. of Honduras, and his American artillery chief Le Christman, were arrested and brought here. It was believed he was planning to strengthen the army ir an advanca on Puerto Cortez. f ,