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WEEKLY edition WEEKLY EDITION. 104 $1.50 Copies of the SEMI WEEKLY EAST Cannot be better spent than by sub OREGONIAN will be sent you in one year for only >2.00 the news of the interest you. world scribing for the WEEKLY It prints and OREGONIAN will for a EASf year. Jua< think, >1.50 glees you all the news Try It. HOLMAN SCHUMAN IS SHOT OOWN IN COLO BLOOD IN SEATILE While He is Arresting one Bandit the Pal Places a Revolver to the Officer’s Temple and Blows Out His Brains. Murderer Will Be Lynched if Caught. COTTON TO ATTEMPT ........ _ THE DARDANELLES more votes throughout the than any other party. Wilshire, an American, greetings from the socialists He says America is ripe for a revo lution. His remarks were vociferous ly cheered. TELLER TAKES HIS LIFE. I Known Banker Commits Sui cide This Morning. St. Louis. Sept. 14.—Joseph Schil ling. the teller of the Lafayette Bank, owner of several saloons and a member of one of the best known German families of this city, suicid Macedon an Committee Threatens That if Turkey Does Not Stop Its On Seattle. Sept. 14.—It now develops a time The pal came up and held ed this morning. The cause is un that Patrolman Schaneman. who was the gun to Schaueman's head and known. slaughts it Will Take Vengeance and Hold Powers Responsible— brutally murdered at midnight last fired the fatal shot. Better Order *t Beirut by Reorganization of the Police Force. night, was not shot by William Shaneman's murderer will be COVERED WITH FLOWERS. Thomas, the bandit, who was sup lynched if caught, as the officer was posed had fired upon him from ab- the most popular member of the po No Public Observance of McKinley's bush. but the murder was committed lice force. Vienna Sept 12— The Vulkablatt governorship at Beirut Death Is Held at Canton. The offic by Latters. a pal now at liberty. He Only Outclassed by Tracy. Canton. O.. Sept. 14— No public today states that it Is reported in ial Gazette prints a notice that . as:m is vigorously being hunted by the po in Constantinople, Pasha of Damascus, has taken The coldblooded murder has caus observance was held here today. uftlitary circles lice and every detective in the < ity. ed an intense sensation here, only Flags are at half-mast on all public that It Is feared Admiral Cotton may charge of the Beirut administration Deed Was Coldblooded. overshadowed by the murder of Chief buildings The tomb is covered with attempt to force a passage through He reports that the situation is Officer Schaneman caught up v ith Meredith two years ago. and the flowers sent from various parts of the the Straits of Dardanelles as the re generally improving at Beirut owing Mrs McKinley visited the suit of the trade which has been Is to a complete reorganization of the Thomas and engaged in a scuffle with crimes of the outlaw Tracy, who held states. sued, ordering the fortification of the police force by Naslm Pasha him Thomas got the worst of it for forth last summer tomb this morning poets along the strait«, and have them Put to Death by Sword. put in a state of defense and have Ran Into Landslide. mines laid Loudon. Sept. 12.—A Salonka cor WOMEN AND GIRLS HELD EASTERN CAPITALISTS TRY La Crosse, Wis., Sept 14 The respondent of the Time*, after visit IN HORRIBLE CAPTIVITY. To Make Powers Responsible. ING TO GET 6.000 ACRES. special train carrying James J Hill. ing Monastlr. sends a detailed his Cologne. Sept 12.—A Sofia dispat« h President Harris of the Burlii gton He says Turkish Troops Raid the Bulgarian Fields Lie in the Northern Part of and -a-»eial other prominent railroad to Kollshe Zeitung says the Mace tory of the suppression that all reliable reports show that Frontier With Damaging Result«— the Wallowa County and the Southern officials, ran into a landslide near don Ian committee has handed the country has been absolutely de Nolle were seri repr«?sentatlves of the powe.s a me »astated and that Christians, both The Turkish Troops Meet the In Part of Asotin—They Are Held at Altnia last night mortal thr«ratening if Turked don surgents in Three Fights and sexes and uf all ages who tailed to >300.000. Being on the Basis of >50 ously injured. not discontinue its extermination of find refuge in the wood* were put Heavy Losses Are Reported on Per Acre—Has a 28-Foot Seam. Bulgarian insurgents the latter will Nude Body Found. to death by the sword Both Sides. take vengeance ou the Mohamma Wheeling. Sept. 14.—The body of Will Go if Needed Spokane. Sept 14.—New Yori. cap a young womau. nude, was found in dens and make the powers respunsi Berlin. Sept. 14.— A Sofia dispatch italists are negotiating 'or tbe pur Paris. Sept 12 The foreign <>ffi«r ble the river this morning She wore no this morning announced that th» says Turkish troops have raid»-1 the chase of a tract of about 6.000 acres marks of violence. It had been in To Support Greece. of coal lands situated in t ic northern squadron which was yesterday order Bulgarian frontier near Tekeniescb. portion of Wallowa cniv. Oieqon the water but a short time. It is be Athens Sept 12 The i>aper» to ed to hold itself in readiness to pro French Consulate. Kirkkilisse was , and the southern part of Asotin coun lieved to be that of Mrs Moore who day state that Roumanla has agr«-ed ceed to Iterant, is to be dispatched quarreled with her husband and who diplomatically to support Greece in fired on oy the Turkish troops with ty. this state, in the vicinity of Han only if developments in the Orient its efforts to suppress the Macedon The consideration is disappeared Sunday u<-»es»>tate Its presence It will then no serious damage The Turkish de sen's ferry. ian insurrection. In diplomatic cir approximately >300.000 for holdings go merely as a preventative measure tachment encamped near Giohtepe Goes to Portland. cles this is disbelieved being on a basis nf $50 per arm. so as to be on the ground to quell has with it 20 Bulgarian women and Robert L. Beard and Charles Mc Deadwood S D Sept. 14 -The Change Is Made. disorders if heeded girls, who are held in a terrible state Guire. members of the firm of J. B. American Mining Congress held its Washington. Sept 12.—Irishman Admiral Treville. who is in «barge last day's sessions in the hall of Moseley A Co., t mler dealers. own «rabies the stale department under of the navy division. sail«*d with his of captivity. Deadwood Saturday afternoon. Port and hold under option 6.000 acres yesterday's date that the sultan has vessels to Ciolades Island in the Three Engagements. land. Or., was selected as the next issued a proclamation changing me Aegean Sea. this afternoon which is practically all patent'd. Constantinople. Sept. 14.—The Charles McGuire said: "Mr Beard meeting place of the Amer'.tan Min ing Congress. News today says there were three se and myself own the land and are WRECK A MYSTERY. CONSPIRACY CHARGE willing to sell it on a basis of >50 vere engagements between Turkisn Noted Photographer Dead. per acre. As the tract approximates Tugboat Heath Sinks Without a Mo ■•avers 1« Again Before Courts on troops and the insurgents in the 6,000 acres, in round figures, -ve v ill New York. Sept. 14.—Otto Sarony. ment's Warning. Serious Indictment. mountains near Pirin. There were get »00.000 for our holdings. for 3o years a photographer of inter heavy losses on both sides. "The coal is lignite and semi-bitu national reputation, is dead New York. Sept 12.—The tugboat New York. Sept 11—Beavers for- minous It outcrops along the banks Heath, without a moments warning as«r poo toffice official, who was in- The Governor Visits Cotton. went to the bottom at the pier of the dieted at Brooklyn In July on the Washington. Sept. 14.—Admiral of the Grand Ronde river and where Savannah Steamship Company, at « «barge of bribery in connection with Cotton cables from Beirut under Sat we have opened it with pits and tun o'clock this morning It is believed yen having postoffice supplies, this urday’s date: "Have exchanged very nels the seam shows a width of 28 that all on board were drowneo The ■vornlrg appeared before Commi«- satisfactory visits with the new gov feet with partings of clay, lae coal boat was pulling at the line in the tioner Hitchcock to answer to a new ernor-general. He has taken person runs about 65 per cent carbon. 3 to 6 tide There was no signs of life ■dirtmeat, charging him w th con al charge of the Magelssen case. The per cent ash and 30 per cent vclatile matter. Altogether we have spent aboar«i. the crew supposed to be spiracy which was handed down by chief of police has been deposed. $5.ooo in preliminary prospecting SALEM PAPER ADVISES asleep. She sank so suddenly that to» federal grand jury at Washing- Twenty-eight persons, including the work. I can not give you any fur FARMERS TO HOLD WHEAT. men standing on the pier did not no | ton Tuesday. He was admitted to principals in disturbances of a week tice any trouble. It is supposed she bail in the amount of »00/»•>. to «¡> ago, have been arrested. Beirut is ther information except to say that sprung a leak in the night. pear before Commissioner Hitchcock quiet. The new administration in the prospects of the deal being con The divers this afternoon say no September 25. Says Price Is Kept Down by the spires confidence. The former gov summated are splendid.” one was drowned. The absence of The indictment charges that Beav ernor has gone to Constantinople." Portland Warehousemen — Farm the crew is unexplained er« purchased supplies without ad LAND OFFICE RECEIPTS. er« Should Hold and Combine to vertising for proposals, and at higher THOUSANDS OF SHEEP AND Keep Up Prices. ■notations than the market price« Over 32.000 Located Durinq the WANTS 5350 000 CATTLE ARE FREEZING. Beavers, accompanied by counsel, Month of August. The Salem Journal has taken a Lowe Hat Company Starts Tremen •arre-ndered himself to the United La Grande. Sept 14.—Following stand against the Portland Railroad« Are Blocked and Tele ware States marshal and was immediately dous Suit Against Damages. are the receipts of the U. S. land house trust, which virtually controls ■ taken before Hitchcock, where he graph Wires Are Down — Ten office at La Grande for the month of the wheat market of Oregon. Bridgeport. Conn . Sept. 12.—In the gave bail without delay. Brown, of Inches of Snow Has Fallen in the August: It advises the farmers to combine United States court today, the Lowe Andubon Park, who went bail on Dakotas. Wyoming and Montana— Acres Receipts and hold their wheat for h'gher company, bat makers, instituted suits tlto Brooklyn Indictment. Is again go- 15 commute home- Exact Damage Unknown. prices. It takes the ground that the against the officers of the American Ing on his bonds. stead proofs ... $ 2.900.00 wheat sold early by farmers is used Federation of Labor to recover ,.ou,- 9.08 as a club to keep prices down. It 000 damages, caused by strikes. It 7.25 Chicago. Sept. 14.—This morning 5 excess receipts.. OLD DEFENDERS DAY. sales isolated reports were received of a storm 2 has the following to say upon the names Gompers. Mitchell and all 270 tracts .................... 120 other prominent leaders sweeping eastward and they say subject: Will Cetobrato Anniversary of th« thousands of cattle and she-j ar- 31 T & S proofs to "The Salem Journal has asked all Battle of North Point 53.002.14 record.................. 21,200.82 freezing on the plains to the north the grain farmers who are It« read WRECK BY WASHOUT. Baltimore. Md. Sept 12—Today 52.50 ers to consider the situation as to the west. Railways are blocked. Ten 10 final Hd proofs 1.400.00 4 inches of snow has fallen in the Da 1 final tbr culture 160 market prices for grain. Two Are Killed and Several Are In is known here as Old Defenders' Day i It being the anniversary of the bat 841.04 kotas. Wyoming and Montana. The 55 Hd entries .... 8.268 02 “Many have already l>egun to haul jured. tle of North Point in def»*nse of Bal 1.370 entire British Northwest is in the 137 timber app fees to the warehouses and take wnatever Kempton. Wis.. Sept 12.—An ex 20 2 mining app.......... grip of the frigid wave. is offered, when they should unite cursion train from Chicago to St. timore against the British in 1814 By proclamation of the governor and 30 10 coal D S............ and hold their grain. Goes Down to 26 Degrees. Paul and Minneapolis ran into ■ the mayor, is is a legal holiday In 122.70 Testimony fees .... "Grain, cotton manufactured goods Cheyenne. Wyo., Sept. 14.—Reports 4 orig desert ent.. 1.006 94 251.74 and other staples are all going up. washout near here this morning. ' the state and city, all the banks, ex- show the lowest temperature to be 1 final desert proof Patrick Conway of Reedsburg, and ! changes and other public institutions 40 and it is a notorious fact that Oregon 26 degrees in Colorado. Nebraska and 5 mineral entries. Commercial business 1 227.50 farmers get less for their wheat and Wendell Brown, of Cazenovia, were being closed 284.70 Upper Montana points reports are 2 sales Indian land 12<i Several were injured, but waa partially suspended and various 116.67 other grain than in any Western killed from 28 to 32 degrees. It is still 53 sd payments In- patriotic celebrations took place in none fatally. state. snowing in Wyoming and Colorado. the public parks. 4 275 64 dian lands ......... "In Kansas and other states the Telegraph wires are down throughout Net increase in amt AT BAKER CITY. farmers are uniting to get a dollar the snow belt. The exact extent of KENTUCKY COLONEL SHOT. on deposit with a bushel for their wheat, and they the damage done will not be known suspended entries 4.524.87 can get that In Oregon if they stand Convention of Eastern Division ef for several days. State Teachers' Association to Be Burglar Fatally Wounds Williams firm, or if even half of them stand Total....................32.567 73 »9,057 88 firm, and refuse to deliver grain and Then Escapes. Held There in November. DAMAGE GREAT. “The wheat that goes into the ware Ashland. Ky . Sept 12.—Colon«-! Salem. Or.. Sept 12.—(Special to. Two Are Killed. house for market and speculative East Oregonian» — Superintendent Mordecai Williams found a burglar Fierce Hurricane Lays Death in Its Terre Haute. Ind.. Sept. 14—The purposes has passed out of the farm Ackerman today announced that the ransacking his house, near here and Path. New York & St Louis limited, run ers’ control, and is used as a club to Eastern Division of the State Teach fought him with a sabre, when the Jacksonville, Sept. 14.—The pas ning a mile a minute, struck a wagon beat down the prices Mrs. ers' Association will be held at Raker burglar shot him and escaped aengers who are arriving here today at Grand Crossing, five miles east of “If farmers will begin this year to City from November 23 to 25 Williams ami their little grand-daugh from Tampa, report -e damage here, this morning, killing both occu holding the whiprow of the ware ter were the only occupants of the caused by the hurricane will amount pants and horses. The dead: Miss house trust, they can break the blight homestead, between Ashland and TO MANILA. to >1,000,000. Kate Dilby and Frank Miller, both of monopoly that has crushed the Catlettsburg, and they called the No wires are working south this of Terre Haute. grain growers for these many years. Government Will Run Torpedo Boats neighbors, who summoned physic morning. The details of the hurri “The Journal is just one small pa ians. Colonel Williams has regain There in October. cane which passed over the southern per, but it ca nsee this wrong so ed consciousness and is resting well portion of the state, Saturday, are in Washington. Sept. 12.—Prepara today. The feeling in the community clearly and can see what is going on complete. So far as known seven in other states, that It volunteers to tions are now being made for a trip against the burglar is Intense A were killed, the bodies being washed make this fight for fair play for the of torpedo destroyers from Norfolk laig.- posse is seeking him up near Miami on the east coast, and to Manila about the middle of Octo grain farmer. two near Boynton on the west. Many “By mere spreading of the facta ber. The squadron will consist of HAVE AWFUL FALL. vessels were wrecked. that are being gathered, the grain the Decatur. Bainbridge. Barry. Chan farmers can form an organization and cey and Date to be commanded by Ten Men Are Precipitated to Concrete HEAD-END COLLISION. can all be put in touch with each IJeutenant Chanler, accompanied by Floor. other, and with the situation. Will the cruiser Baltimore Chicago. Sept 12.—The platform Two Men Are Killed and Two Are you do it and help’ break the curse of the Nelson-Morris packing |lant. GETS AMERICAN MONEY. of the Portland elevator and ware Missing. EASTERN OREGON TAKES gave way this afternoon, precipitat house trust, whose leaden hand is Houston, Texas, Sept. 14—Two ing 10 men to the concrete floor a FINE FRUIT EXHIBIT. crushing agriculture and robbing It Spain Has to Mortgage Its Quicksil story below. freight trains on the Houston Texas All sustained broken of millions?" ver Mmes. Central railway, met in a head-end limbs or Internal Injuries, but none collision here this morning. Head Display Is One of the Best That Has Madrid. Sept. 12.—The financial arc believed to be fatally Injured. Brakeman Manning and one other PA8S IT UP. newspapers today assert that Spain Been Taken From This Part of the unidentified were killed, and two has arranged to borrow $20.000,000 DRY TOWN. State in Years—Is Collected From Buffalo Does Not Observe the Anni from New York banks, giving as a others are missing. Both trains were Echo and Milton—Those Who Go loaded with kindling wood. The guarantee a mortgage on the Alame South Boise Trustees Will Pass a versary of McKinley's Death. cause is unexplained. From Pendleton and Other Places Prohibition Law. Buffalo, Sept. 14.—No official ob da quicksilver mines. Boise. Sept. 12.—At a meeting —Strong Representatives. servance of McKinley's death, which STRIKE POSTPONED. HOFFMAN CAPTURED. which has just been held by the trus occurred here two year« ago today, Ogden. Utah, Sept. 14.—Delegates will be held. Last year there was an tees of South Boise, it was decided to Laundry Workers Give More Time to After Hot Chase by Posse Murderer make an effort to prevent the sale to the National Irrigation Congress immense mass meeting. Employers. of Intoxicating liquors witnin the la Taken. began to arrive in large numbers to Chicago. Sept. 14.—The second Sir Thomas Better. corporate limits of the village. With 8t. Louis. Sept. 12. — Hoffman, the strike of the laundry workers, set for day, and at noon the registration Utica. N. Y.. Sept. 14.—Sir Thomas murderer of his fatherdn-law, for that end in view an ordinance pro today, was postponed until next week books in the office of Secretary Max- Lipton proceeded toward Chicago whom constant pursuit has been hibiting the traffle was Introduced. to give the employers time to consid son contained the names of several this morning, much better. made, and for whom the state offers It will come up for consideration at er the demand for an increase in sal hundred. Interest In the proceed a reward of >200, was arrested today the next meeting. ary. at Belleville, 1)1. WHO 18 IT? ings of the congress was given im WANT MORE MONEY. petus by the arrival of former Gov Dies From Injuries. Body of Man Supposed to Be Peter Captured Counterfeiters. Decatur, 8ept. 14—Oliver Conn., ernor Prince, of New Mexico and Pullman Porters Say They Cannot West'« Son, Found in River at Cleveland. Sept. 12.—A counter who was Injured Sunday while at other men of prominence who are Live on the Tips They Get. feiting den. in the heart of the city, Portland. tempting to board a street car, died Portland. Sept. 12.—Pullman por leaders in the movement to reclaim this morning. He Is widely known I It is reported from Portland mat was raided this morning. George I the arid lands. The congress will be the son of Peter West, the lawyer of Bennett was captured, but his ac ters here, representing the porters in baseball circles. opened tomorrow and the proceed this city, has been found In the river complices escaped. There was a all over the United States, have plac ings will continue until the end of fine plant for making sliver coins of ed in the hands of their attorney a Falling Roof Kills Two. at Portland. Nothing of the details th« week. all denominations Some spurious petition for an increase of wage* all have been received except that the Brazil, Ind., Sept. 14.—The slate over the country man had been identified at the coin was found. roof oì T. Collins' coal mine, fell It sets forth that they cannot live SOCIALISTS MEET. morgue as being Peter West’s «on. thia afternoon, killing John Thomp on the tips. Whether or not the report is true son and John Meyers. «1« That All?" Itc Memberchip 1« Rapidly Increas can not at this time be determined. Seattle. Sept. 12.—Van Horst, who Hurricane Coming ing—Leads Other Parties. Executed for Murder. robbed and beat T. S. Lippy, the Washington, Sept. 12.—The weath Dresden, Sept. 14.—The annual i G. W. Moody, of Phoenix, Or., was Klondike millionaire, in his home a er bureau today issued a hurricane Auburn. Sept. 14.—Clarence Bngor, of Buffalo, was electrocuted this oongress of the German Social Demo- shot and killed accidentally by his , month ago, was sentenced to 20 years warning to the coast of Florida. All He swore an oath at vessel* In the Gulf porta are warn morning. He murdered the keeper of crattc party opened here this morn- i best friend, while out hunting Rap this morning ing. Reports were submitted show-. tember 12. | Judge Bell and said, "Is that all?” ed not to venture out. the prison. Well FIGHTING ft TRUST TALKS ON WATER OPEN TOMORROW for a year PENDLETON, UMATILLA CO.. OREGON. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 18. 1903. VOL. XXVI I. All Post3 Have Been Fortified by Orders of the Sultan, and Mines Are Laid. WILL HAVE TO GIVE UP OVER >2,000. N. P. EXCURSION TRAIN WRECKED BY CARELESSNESS Suit Resulted in the Deetruction ef Company Sent Out an Engine in Bad Wheat Stored In the Barnhart Order in Charge of a Raw Craw- Warehouse. Which Was Set on Fire Elks Committee Makes Exhaustive by Spark From Locomotive. Report to Portland Lodge. In the case of the Firemen'« Fund Portland. Sept 11—The commit lnsursn«-»« Company and the North western Warehouse Company against •ee appointed by the Elks to lnve«- ■ the ORAN company, a judgment tlgate the cause of tbe wreck of the was rendered in the circuit court Northern Pacific excursion train on August 22, ha* made its report. »-e yesterday against the defendant The case Is for the recovery of committee holds tbe Northern Paci >1.892 86. alleged to have been the fic responsible for the wreck, in value of wheat stored In the build sending out an unfit engine in charge ing of the warehouse company at of a new crew. The finding of the committee is a* Barnhart, which building wa* de stroyed with its contents, by a fire follows: "We find that the engine pulling caused by s spark from the engines of the railroad company There is the excursion train August 22. 1903. also an a«ldttional sum of >735 56. was not a first-class engine The engineer and fireman into held as the value of wheat stored by Sam Davis, which valuation had been whose charge the engine was given, wefe both extra men. turned over to the plaintiffs "Neither said engineer nor said . The demurrer of the defendants to the plaintiffs' complaint was overrul fireman had ever before been upon ed by the «-ourt and the defendants or run the engine that day given into refused to plead further. Judgment their charge We find that tbe cause of the ac was taken this afternoon by the plaintiffs The case will be. in all cident was low water in the boiler; probability appealed to the supreme that the injectors were not working court on the groun«! of tbe techni perfectly, and that the water did not calities expressed in the demurrer. cover the cro»n sheet, which broke down, Ballers» a McCourt are tbe attorneys and exploded and dropped blowing out the grate bars, ash pan. for tbe plaintiffs etc, which obstructed the track and threw the train off HANDSOME BLONDE SAYS Condemns Delay of Wounded. HE STOLE HER WATCH "We find that the officials in Former Congressman is Arrested in charge of the Northern Fac.fic rail Presence of His Wife—Guarded by road, the day of the disaster, were either unwilling unable or incompe Officers. He D>gs Up Jewelry From tent to render the prompt service Pile of Sand—Says He Got it by which the nature of tbe occurrence at Napavine required and the detention Mistake. of the car containing the wounded Kansas City Sept 12- Former and suffering at Kalama was inex- Congressman Hubbard of Versailles « usable, and we condemn tbe action Mo. is held on the compla n: of of the official in charge of the *ta Nora Aker.- a bitelsome blonde, »th tion and telegraph at Napa'ine as a whom Hubbard passed part of tbe monumental instance of indifferent night She claimed he robbed her of officialism. her watch. The officers placed him I) SOUS COHEN R. E MOODY under arrest near tbe station depot, where his wife was awaiting Hub FRANK C. BAKER HARRY F M’KAY bard took the detective an.l complain ant along the Southern Pacific rail R W. HOYT JOHN DRISCOLL way tra< k a short distance and dug up the watch from a pile of sand CARL H JACKSON ALEX SWEEK. He claimed it slipped into his W J RILEY” pocket in a manner unknown He said he tried to find the woman but In closing the report, the commit could not. so he buried it. Mrs. Hu> tee pay« a high tribute to A. D bard secured ber husband's release Charlton, passenger agent of the by appealing to personal friends Northern Pacific, who is also a mem bere ber of tbe Portland lodge of Elks. DESPE4ADOES BLOW UF BANK AND GET »00 FACTORY WILL OPEN E«gM Heavily Armed Pickets Threat en the Lines of the Citizen« Who R ush to Streets at the Sound of LA GRANDE SUGAR MILLS Explosion« TO BEGIN SEPTEMBER 21. Sioux Falls Sept 12—Tbe Min n«-hahs County Bank, at Valley Springs 13 m.les east of here, was Output T his Year wilt Reach 5.000.- held up In a Jesse James style this 000 of Sugar—Beet Crop Light. But morning by a band of desperadoes of Good Quality—Per Cent of Sugar The citizens were aroused by a se Very High—Yield Will Probably Be ries of explosions, said to I* nine tn 15 Tons Per Aera. number When they hastened to the streets La Grande. Sept. 11.—Tbe sugar to ascertain the cause they found the town picketed with eight heaviiy- factory will start for the season's run armed men »ho threatened death to on September 21. A preliminary run 1« now being at< who did not return to the houses The thieve« looted the outer vault, made, to convert the left-over syrup securing >800 but failed to open the from last year into sugar, and to get inner vault. They seized a bandcar the machinery in readiness for the and escaped Tbe officers are pursu regular run. There is enough of this syrup on band to make 50.000 pounds ing of brown sugar. This syrup is the residue, left over from the refining SHOCK KILLED HER. process of last year, and U a part of Mrs Jane S. Boycsen Cannot Stand the regular output of the factory, and varies with different years, accord Bemg Suspected of Robbery. ing to the amount of sugar made Chi« ago. Sept IL—Mrs Jane The beet crop, while very Pght in Slewart Boycsen. the Chicago woman places this year, is over, average in recently wrongly accused of stealing quality, and many of the fields will goods from ■ merchant in North average over 15 tons of beets per ▼arollna Is dying as a result of the* acre, but the valley will probably av nervous shock. She bad been suf- erage 15 tons. ■«ring for four years from tuberculo The tonnage of beets now in sight sis I as I January she went to Ashe- will reach 15.000 tons, which should vflle to seek relief. Last week she yield between four and five million was staying in White Springs when pounds of refined sugar. a robbery occurred. Through a m:s- The factory will employ about 125 mderatandlng suspicion fell on her men and boys, and the field belonging and her apartments were searched. to the factory people will employ as This experience aggravated her dls- many as 450 people. during the beet eiwu- to such an extent she is dying. harvest period. Al! this labor will be local, white labor as far as it is pos sible to secure it. The supply of Will Return to Work. St. Joseph Mo.. Sept 12—A thous white labor is usually scarce, and to and striking employes of the Nelson- provide for any emergency, the com Morris Packing Company will return pany has contracted for loO Japanese to work Monday through an agree laborers, in case the supply of white ment between packers an deni piove« labor should prove inadequate. The factory will run night and day and the daily capacity is from 350 to 400 tons of beets per day. and it will be crowded to the limit tn order to grind up all the crop before the fall rains begin. I asi year considerable of the late crop was left out on ac count of the rains. The first plowing for the purpose of gathering the crop will be done on the 19th. as the haulers will neces sarily have to start a couple of days before the factory is ready for the HE HAS RAPIDLY new crop. GAINED NOTORIETY. MEXICO PRODUCES OIL. Try It PISTIL FIMO IS UNCOVEREO Six of Former Officials Are Indicted by the Federal Grand Jury. ARE ACCUSED OF CON- SPIRACY AND BRIBERY. Th«y Ara Charged With Sett, ng Aside 1.000 Shares of Stock to For. ward th« Interests of the Company —Beavers la Under 550C.000 Ba L Wa»hi0gton Sept 11 —Tbe urn«-» •f the persons indicted Tuesday by grand jury were given out this sne:txx>n by District Attorney Beach. Q«e «as against Beavers Marten as-1 James W Erwin for conspiracy s« fraud Two indictments were brought against Isaac McGiehan Geo B-iotington of New York, and Ma sk*:. on a conspiracy to commit bri bery Two indictments were against Rvgrne Shobie and Macl.en for con- •9 -a» y and defraud and coaepttar-jr '• «-mrnit Also Indictment «er* brought against Marnen for ar- ««torir.» bribe« The indictment aga-nst Machen ■eaters and Erwia alleges tn sub man« e that the Postal Device Im «■OTem-nt Company of San Franc»t- eo formerly the Mantogue indicator sad Letter Box Company, by resolu tion set aside 1,096 share« of stock to forward the interests of the com pany Danie. Richardson, accompanied by ■twin came to Washington. Erwin stss then postoffice inspector and tbe •ampaay »as composed entirely of *• ports' employes of the far W»s« IN CELEBRATED LYNCHE- HAUN EXTRADITION CASE. He Cannot Be Taken to New York to Be Tried—An Endeavor will Be Made to Send Him Back to Ireland to Complete Term in Prison. Ind anapolw. Sept. 11—Federal Judge Baker this forenoon handed down a decision in the cel»; rated l.ynchehaun extradition «rase« boid- ing that be cannot be taken to Ne» York to be tried. The deciiioa 1« a great victory for tbe Irish b- nevo- !«»nt orders over all of tne United Stales. He will tow be taken before the commissioner of this city upon whove decision depends whether he wil! be taker, back to Ireland to com plete the sentence in prison. Lynehehaun. who was <~onvicted in Ireland on the charge of criminal as sault. seven years ago. escaped from prison a year ago and came to Indi anapolis. where he was joined by hi» family. He succeeded in convincing prom inent American Irishmen that bo wa* innocent. A large sum of money for his defense was donated by some of tbe Irish societies in America State Diplomas Granted. Salem. Sept II.—The state boaru of education, in session y»*-sterday afternoon, granted state certificates and diplomas to the following appli cants J. H Orcutt, of Drain, state diploma, upon Iowa papers; Grace A. Gilliam. Pilot Rock, diploma, gradu ation from Portland University. Katharine Patterson. Eugene, diplo ma. graduation from State University at Eugene. Elizabeth Gill, of Quim by. la., certificate upon Iowa papers, and Belle B Joseph, of Portland, di ploma. upon graduation from toe Drain Normal. CHLOROFORMED ENTIRE FAMILY Burglar« Use Hbrnble Method to Get Cattle Money. Wabash. Ind.. Sept. 11.—Burglars last night chloroformed the entire family of Chris Harnish, a larmer. They »«-cured a considerable sum of money, just realized from the sale of cattle As a result of chloroforming. Ix>l<>. a young girl, is in a critical condition. All are more or less ill. Oregon Tax Law Invalid. Portland. Sept. 11.—Special to East Oregonian.)—A great blunder has been discovered tn the state tax law which changed the time for the levy from January to September. The legislature failed to provide for the levy of the taxes assessed in 1903. Governor Chamberlain will proba bly t»e obliged to call a special s<*s sion of the legislature, as without an immediate act of the legislature, there can be no collection of the Goes state, county, city or town or the school district taxes for this year. He First Attempts to Elope With a Government of That Country Professor's Wife at Cornell Uni Into a New Industry. versity—Shortly After He Is Mar City of Mexico, Sept. 11.—The Mex ried His Wife Attempts Suicide by ican government has gone into the oil producing business in connection the Morphine Route. with the operation of the National It is devel Chicago. Sept. 12.—Edwin Mooers, Tehauntepec Railroad a wealthy young Californian, has oping a new oil field on the isthmus been released from jail after throe of Tehauntepec. Two goo«! produc months' custody under suit for di ing wells have been bored, and tbe vorce and alimony brought by his locomotives on the National Tehaun- wife, who was formerly Miss Dorothy tepee road are using that product for Bowman, daughter of a I-os Angeles fuel. Other wells are to be bored, divine. Moores’ release was effect and the production entered into on ed by J. C. Robinson, who came here a large scale. fyom Los Angeles and deposited >10.- 000 with a trust company as a guar FIVE MEN KILLED. antee that any claims won by his wife would be paid. Elevator Scaffold Falls Sixty F««t Moores was arrested when he and Causes Awful Death. started to sail for Europe on June 17. Duluth, Sept. 11.—Five men were Moores first gained notoriety when a student at Cornell, when it was kill«*d this morning by the collapse found that he was starting from New of a scaffold at the Peavy elevator York with a college professor's wife. concret»« bin The fall was 60 feet. The dead are H Benson. William He was expelled and the professor Watson. Helmer Anderson, of Du- obtained a divorce. He married Miss Bowman in hith; Andrew Anderson, of Minneap March. 1900. The honeymoon in San olis. Oscar Ericksen, of Ashland. Francisco had hardly begun when he Society Wedding at Bar Harbor. brought a young woman Into his wife's apartments The bride was Bar Harbor. Me., Sept. 12—A soci aald to have attempted to use a knife ety wedding of note here today was and was later dragge«!, senseless from that of Miss Evelyn Scott of New morphine, from a bath tub. York, daughter of Eilward Padelford Moores ts known over the entire Scott, and grandaughter o( the isle Pacific Coast, where his extrava Edward 8. Gurnee, to Clarence C. gance has attracted much attention. Chapman, of Chicago. Coal Strike Grewing. Fort Worth. Sept. 11.—The coal miners' strike at Strawn is increas ing Fifteen hundred are now out. The governor has ordered the Texas rangers on the scene to preserve or der. Calls for Bank Reports. Washington. Sept. 11.—The comp troller of currency this morning is sued a call for the reports on the conditions of the banks at the close of Wednesday’s .business. Female Textile Worker«. Since 1870 there has been an in crease of 156 per cent tn the number of women workers in Massachusetts. Employed tn various trades in 1890 w««re 329.033 females over 10 years of age A report of the Massachusetts bureau of statistics of labor tells all about these women, and gives other information regarding tbe early *p- l>earance of women in manufacturing employments. As early as 1831 some 10.678 out of the 13.343 ptrsous in the cotton mills of the state belonged to the gentler sex. Mrs. Cornelia Purse, suffering from dementia, stole away from her daugh ter's residence, Thursday at Sea', le. and drowned herself iu the bay.