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EVENING EDITION DMiy EVEHINB EIHTIH Eastern Oregon Weather 5" -,5c A WEEK. Tonight, prohnbly light show ors, cooler; Thursday partly cloudy. PEXDLETOX, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 102. NO. 4428 ESrCK AND HEAD on mo ieen wiiiieii'ini" to Recovery, Passed Crisis of Her III the Having ness. CRT THAT SHE HAD SUF- tflllD ANOTHER RELAPSE i This Morning States She a Quiet Night and Awoke l From Fever. Mav 7. Another hopeful Ln was issued from Het Loo tee this morning, in it no men Pi. nf thp renorted turn for worse In the queen's condition at llht The bulletin reaaB: ...i. fh nueen's temperature . .n.Mir vesterday evening, she L.j nniot tileht and awoke whol- Cr. from fever this morning. Her Idition Is satisfactory. This Afternoon Bulletin. nntfcor pncouracinK bulletin was Li this afternoon. The exclte- tt incident to the queen's recent kpses now over. INORSTO THE ARCHBISHOP IE REMAINS OF THE PRE LATE LIE IN STATE, borted to Cathedral by Special suard Body Clad in Full Vest- nts. Kew York, May 7. The remains of late Archbishop Corrigar. were len from the arch-episcopal resi- tee this morning to St. Patrick's hedral, where the body will lie in tte today and tomorrow. The ser and procession attending the boval of the remains were most bressive and solemn. They were prted to the cathedral by a special I of priests. The body was clad Iftill vestments and placed on the ualqtie, where it was viewed by bg line of mourners. FUNERAL OF SAMPSON E REMAINS WILL BE IN TERRED AT ARLINGTON. 8ampson Utterly Prostrated by lit Death, But Physicians Hope to ivive Her. fuhington, May 7. Arangements iuurai 01 Admiral Sampson yet completed, but the in lent Wll nrnlitiM,- l, , J i llanOn. All hnnnn .. of the American navy will -MAuueu me dead officer. Mrs. BPSOn U llttorlv i J 1... It.. PCk. ThA nhvallo .,xt. i"Muouo ore uuw Willi M hope to revive her sufficlent o Permit her tr hi?01168- Friday next wl" Prob- tites y I to I -v-wiicrs oi urawing. weapons, Minn.. May 7.-The h? !eacher8' association be ift ,annual meeting In toee !n its history. Teachers hPHnUrch thls mming when s risitno l-a"eu to oraer. Z T w.ere geted by Dr. bools mllJoraan' superintendent of !dent 5Tal address of the ellor of ple.llvered by MrB- Jean ton lcag0- The members o?w. toan Interesting ad :Cl8Slahy Modeling In the pub- M the iiny, Mls? hm S. Cush 01 tfaeJJnlverslty of Chicago. film Mn PrJ"CC88 of Wale OofMaLrte Prce and Wales 8 have eone to . A.hrtB"o" 06 V guests V Frlflar ih . a at vaenol H a. 5--the. Pnce will be In- W.ir,e lor. oi the Unlversl- W by inf. lT. occasion will at th. ' "ignness la to W-toTnlDB 01 tne elec t rv to the summit . it.. CKlr AnEeles-com- Wv Uwi ta,te' and Partlcu. fcbSen lark centennl. BSbeen advertised as they FJSm Aelorlous oppor- REPUBLICANS OF ILLINOIS MEET IN STATE CONVENTION WITH 1500 DELEGATES The Only Contest In the Convention Will be Over the Nomination for State Treasurer, There 'Being Three Candidates. Springfield, 111., May 7. The repub lican state convention, which con venes at noon tomorrow, will bo one of the largest state conventions ever held In Illinois. There are to be 1500 delegates. The convention will be held in the exposition building at the state fair grounds. Besides the delegates provision has been made for seating over 5000 visitors. Today finds all the hotels crowded with delegates. For an off-year conven tion much Interest is displayed, which fact is owing In a great meas ure to the spirited struggle for the United States senatorship. Tne convention will nominate a candidate for clerk of the supreme court, state treasurer, superintend ent oi public instruction and three trustees of the state university. The nomination for clerk of the supreme court Is virtually settled. Chris Ma ner of Chicago will be the nominee The contest of the convention will be over the nomination for state treasurer. The three leaders in the race are: Floyd K. WTiittemore of Springfield; Senator, Len Small of Kankakee and Henry C. Begole of Belleville. Other candidates are lurk ing in the brush, chief among whom is Homer F. Aspinwall of Freeport. All indications point to the renomi nation of Alfred Bayliss for Superin tendent of Public Instruction. Among the delegates and other politicians in the field there is more talk in regard to the United States senatorship than the actual work be fore the convention. The lieutenants of Senator Mason, Charles G. Dawes and Congressman Hopkins are pur suing a lively button-hole campaign and the convention is likely to have a decisive result in fight for the toga whether or not an actual indorsement is made. The platform will deal almost en tirely with state affairs, letting na tional issues alone beyond a general Indorsement of the Roosevelt admin istration. When it comes to state is sues, however, there is likely to be a hot fight on the resolutions. Speaker Sherman will probably be on the committee on resolutions. He will support the "round robin" planks re lative to assessment of state em ployes and factional use of the party organizations. Especially will he champion a plank declaring for civil service in state charitable Institu tions. This will be a direct slap at the Yates administration. Successful Meeting of Dentists. Hutchinson, Kas. , May 7. The most successtul as well as the lar gest meeting in the thirty year's his tory of the Kansas State Dental As sociation is that which began its ses sions in Hutchinson today. "When the gathering was formally opened this morning, members of the asso ciation and other visitors were pres ent from all parts of the state. The morning was given over to the work of organization and other routine business. This afternoon the asso ciation listened to the annual address of the president and the reports of other officers of the association. Ad dresses in memory of the deceased members occupy this evening and tomorrow will be taken up with clin ics and papers of general interest to those engaged in the profession. COLD STORAGE AT MILTON. Colonel Judson Made a Promise Which Has Not Been Kept. Milton fruit growers are In need of a cold storage plant to preserve and keep fresh their fruits from the time of picking until loaded on the ear for shipment. This has been a crying need for several years, and its need opens an opportunity for capital that is sure to get returns of a sub stantial nature on the investment. Milton fruit growers have been able to secure refrigerator cases this year in which to pack their fruit, but this does not fill the bill. It 1b a storage plant that Is wanted. About a year ago, Industrial Agent Colonel Judson, of the O. It. & N., gave a promise that if a local union was effected ajnong the fruit growers of this sec tion that he would see that a cold storage plant would be erected at the station here. The union was organ ized and at the present time is in a flourishing condition, there being in the neighborhood of 75 of the most prominent fruit raisers in the imme diate vicinity of Milton enrolled as members of the organization. There is a splendid chance for parties with means to establish such an institu tion here, and Milton citizens stand ready to lend assistance to any one interested in such a scheme. BEEF TRUST Sensational Testimony Given Given in the Inquiry Against the Combine. HOW INDEPENDENT PACKERS WERE RUN OUT OF BUSINESS. Government Attorneys In Chicago Will Pray for Confiscation by the Government of All the Goods Ship ped In Violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. Jefferson City, Mo., May 7. More sensational testimony was adduced at today's session of the beef inquiry. Witnesses told of methods employed by the alleged members of the beef trust which run the independent packers out of the business. The principal means employed was the boycotting of cattle raisers who sold to the independents and selling meat at ruinously low prices. One wit ness testified that the packers ship ped "concession" or over ripe beef into St. Louis which was sold to the restaurants and hotels at low prices. This meat was chemically treated to give it a good appearance and to prevent immediate decomposition. Beef Inquiry in Chicago. Chicago, May 7. The present pro gram of the government attorneys in the proceeding against the alleged beef trust contemplates the filing of the bill for the injunction Friday, was learned this morning. It may contain a prayer for the confiscation by the government of all the goods shipped in violation of the anti-trust law. If the prayer is granted it would be a severe blow to the pack ers of the combination, if such an one exists, practically nullifying any agreements that may have been made. BRITISH EMPIR More Potent and Powerful Than Before the Boer War, Says Salisbury. "WE HAVE SUFt-fcRED, BUT WE HAVE WON." MUNICIPAL LEAGUE MEETS. Municipal Reform Is Taking Place In Many Cities in United States. Boston, May 7. The eighth annu al meeting of the National Municipal League and the tenth national con ference for good city government, was begun here this afternoon. Sec retary Clinton Woodruff made a long address, reviewing the municipal re forms during the past year. "Con stitutional conventions and charter revision committees," said he, "are coming along with remarkable fre quency. Indeed, there Is general un rest with the present municipal con ditions and existing forms of government." The Claims of England, Made at Beginning of War, Was as Import ant as Ever and From Them the Country Could Not Recede One Particle. London,. May 7. Premier Salis bury, in speaking of the South Afri can war at the meeting of tho Prim rose League today, said: "Doop as our sacrifices have boon during tho war, our great empire Is now more potent and powerful than when tho war began. We have suffered, but we have won." Salisbury said that the claims made by the government at tho be ginning of the war, it was Intended, should be carried out. Tho country could not afford, after such sacrifices of treasure and men, to allow things to slide back into the position where it would be in the power of tho ene my when the opportunity suited to again renew tho issue, for which they had fought for the past three years. Successful Drive of Boers. An official dispatch to tho war of fice today reports a successful drive of Boers in the Orange river colony yesterday, by tho British under. Col onels Eliot and Barker. Ten Boers were killed and 208 captured. The British casualties were none, so far as known. ENTERTAINING DELEGATES. The Club Women Are Having a Great Time in California. Los Angeles, May 7. This morn ing four train loads of delegates to the biennial, visited Long Beach, where carriages and tallyhos were in waiting to drive them through tho city. This afternoon launches con veyed the party on the ocean trip to Catallna channel, whore a barbecue x;as held on the beach. The dole gates were guests of tho California Club during the day. NEW YORK MARKET. Reported by I. L. Ray & Co., Pendle. ton, Chicago Board of Trade and New York Stock Exchange Brokers. Now York. Mav 7. JTli it ernln markets wero all lower on tho bettor wcatlier conditions during tho past two days In Kansas nnd tho South west. Liverpool unchanged. Now York opened 814 nnd closed 70, tho high nnd low points Tor tho day. Chicago closed U8Vi. Stocks lower. Closed yesterday, 81. Opened today, 81V4. Range today, 71"&g8iy4. Closed today, 79?d. Sugar, 128. Steel. 41. St. Paul, 170. Union Pacific, 103. Wheat In San Francisco. Snn Francisco, May 7. Wheat $1.11. REVOLT OF PEASANTS. They Rebel Against Czar of Russia's Government and Fight Troops. Vienna, May 7. Advices from St. Petersburg report a peasant revolt in the district of Knostantino. The rebels destroyed hundreds of govern ment arms and threw a million pounds of sugar into the DIeper. The troops engaged the insurgents and 76 were killed and 200 wounded. Subsequently the leaders of the reb els were arrested and given 300 strokes of knout. Thirty-six of those flogged died. Potter Palmer Laid to Rest nhirairo. May 7. Tho remains of Pntfpr Palmer were laid to rest in Graceland cemetery today. Tho ser vices at the Palmer mansion in this city and at the grave were brief and simple. Mayor Harrison and other prominent citizens acted as pallbearers. Chaffee Confers With Moros. Manila. May 7. General Chaffee sailed for Mandanao today to consult with the Moro chiefs gathered there. He thinks that by a personal confer ence with the Moros that rurtner trouble there can be avoided. Miners Get Concession. New York. May 7. It is rumored in Wall street today that the anthra cite operators have agreed to make concessions from 5 to 7 per cent increase in wages and that this wjll be acceptable to the men, thereby averting the strike of 160,000 miners. China's. Empress Crazy. Vienna, May 7. iA Pekin cable gram say's that the dowager empress of China has gone insane. Ohio Veterans Parade. Lancaster, O., May J. This was the big day of tho state G. A. R. en campment. For several hours this afternoon the hundreds of veterans marched in procession amid tho cheers of crowds that lined Main, Columbus, Broad and other streets comprising the route. In view of the ago and infirmities of many of tho veterans the line of march was made to exceed scarcely a mllo, but oven this proved too long for some of tho marchers and they dropped out bo fore tho end was reached. Besides the . veterans tho procession included several companies of state militia, Sons of VetoranB' and 800 lads from the Boy's Industrial School. Medical Men In Session. Lawrence, Kas May 7. Prominent physicians and surgeons from all parts of tho state are hero for tho 3Cth annual meeting of tho Kansas Medical society which is to bo in session here during tho next two days. An interesting programme of papers and discussions has been pre pared Fir at Prairie City. Baker City, May 7. A telephone message from Prairlo City says firo broke out in tho principal hotel yes tnrrinv nnnn. nnd burned an entire block before tho flames could bo got under control. Tne nuunings uurnou were a hotel, livery .stable, the gen eral merchandise storo of Big Durk heimer, two saloons, a blacksmith shop and sevoral other buildings. McKlniey Memorial. Washington, May 7. The corner stone of tho Ohio McKlniey Memor ial College, a department of tho University, will be laid May 24 by President Roosevelt. Ad dresses will bo mado by Sonators Dolliver, of Iowa, ana iianna, oi Ohio. Turkey Ready for War. rnnflfnnflnonln. Mav 7. The Turk ish government, apprehensive of Italy's intentions toward Tripoli, has decided to send 100,000 Mauser rifles and to organize a strong army hero. ASSOCIATION OF POLICE CHIEFS Ninth Annual Convention of the Thief Catchers at Louisville. Louisville, Ky., Mny 7. Tho ninth annual convention of tho Na tional Association of Pollen filiffifs of tho United States nnd Canndn was cnlled to order today by Major Itlch ard Sylvester of Washlncton. nroHl- dent of tho association. Prominent among those In attendance wore l-rnnic O'Neill or Chicago, C. W. Soost. of Mobile. J. .1. AtkliiH nf Knoxvillo, R. R. Hnkor of Providence, William Price of Vlcksliurg, John Hayes of Kansas City, Colonel Philip Deltsch of Cincinnati. Oooriro K. Corner of Cleveland and William A. PInkorton of Chlcngo. Mayor Charles F. Grnlnuor of Louisville de livered n happy nddress of wolcomo, to which President Sylvester re sponded. Those formalities con cluded tho convention then begnn business. The sessions are expected to continue through tho week. An interesting feature of tho nres ent convention lies In tho fnct thnt Mic nnnual meeting of ho National JJurcau of Identification, nn orcan zation that hns mndo itself of vital Importnnco to tho pollco departments throilKhout tho country. In bnlnr lmlil In conjunction with thn crnthnrlnc nf pollco chiefs. Roports show that there are at present forty-six cities enrolled on tho membership list of tlio National Bureau of Idontiflcn tion. AWFUL SNOW SLIDE Started at Top of Gold Hill, in the Blue River Mining Dis trict, in the Cascades. CocRED TREASURE MINE WITH 60 FEET DEBRIS. Forty Men nt Work In Mine Were at Lunch or They Would Have Been Caught and Burled in the Tunnel Blacksmith Shop and Ma chinery Swept Away. Eugono. May 7. Tho nows has renched hero of a tremendous snow, slide In tho Hluo river mining dis trict. A hugo mass of snow and do bns started at tho top of Gold Hill, carrying everything boforo It. Tho tunnel to tho Treasure mlno, In which tho big strike was mndo re cently, lay Iu Its path. Tho mouth of tho tunnel Is covered with 60 feet of debris. The nvnlaneho dostroyod tho blacksmith shop and carried tho euglno nnd other mnchlncry Into tho canyon. Forty men of tho mlno wero nt lunch or they would nil hnvo boon killed or smothered In tho tunnel. Thickly Populated District Four miles north of Froowntor on the Wnlla Walla river oxlHts what Is probably tho smallest rural school district In Washington, tho entire area comprising only 810 ncrcB. Tho formation of this district has just been allowed by tho Btato superin tendent. Small as tho district Is, it contains 01 children of school ago. This remarkablo showing Is possible because tho tract Is devoted lnrgoly to fruit raising and farms aro small Tho 810 acres was taken from tho Yellow Hawk and Valley Chapel school districts, farmers complain Ing they had to sond tholr children too far to reacli tho other schools Tho petition was hoard boforo Coun ty Superintendent Myers of Walla Walla county somo tlmo ago and ro ferred to Olympla. Two Cent Fee for 'Phones. How would you like to hnvo a tel. cphono put in 1 1 1 r Louse and piy & cents every tlmo you uso It? Thu company would Install tho 'phone, pay tho oxponseB of maintenance and novor sond a man around on tho first of tho month with a blue paper dun. When you took down tho re ceiver, "central" would ask you to drop two coppers Into the slot and untlf' you had dropped them you would be denied tho uso of tho lino, A patent device, llko a cash, roglstor, would automatically tell tho number of coppers in tho 'phono till and it could not bo robbed. Thoro Is a prop osltion on foot to install that kind of a lino and systom In tho city of Walla Walla as well as In cthor sec tions of the Northwest. Wife Has Good Cau Oregon City, May 7. It In court hero that wohn F. deserted hiB family ho took clothing, $1700 from his law, $00 worth of Jowolry of his wife's mouoy. Mrs. Is now suing for dlvorco. se. dovolopod Schneider his wife's $100 Schneider Boys Robbed Postoffice. Portland, Mny 7. Doputy United Stntes Marshal Proobstcl arrested Chnrles nnd John Kotzmnn for rob bing tho postoffice at Orlont. Tho boys aro In tholr toons. They broke open tho till In tho nbBonco of tho postmnstcr. Thoy havo plondod guilty. A Pioneer Dies. D, Donnlson, a ploncor of this city, died this morning nftor nn oporatlon. Ho wns employed on tho brick work dono on the state house at Salom. Two Persons Have Leprosy. County authorities horo hnvo or dered tho return of Eliza nnd Jacob Hedmaker to Peall, Wash. Thoy canio horo laBt night Buffering from leprosy, so deciar tho physicians. Street Railway Favors Union. At tho stato federation of labor In bobbIou In this city, this morning, tho nuuiagorB of tho Portland & Oro gou Electric Railway announced they would now allow their omployoa to orgunlzo a union. Horotoforo they wore against tho union of tholr em ployes. Tho federation adoptod res olutions supporting tho striking saw mill and planing mill employes. COLONEL BUTCHER'S POINTS. Ine Story of the President's Mother. When Martha 'Bulloch, tho fair daughter of a wealthy Georgia plan tor, married Thoodoro Itoosovelt half a contury ago she llttlo dreamed that her namo would bo handed down as tho mother of a president. Tho pret ty romanco of her meeting with tho Now York man, their courtship and marriago, and tho long honoymoon Journoy in a stage coach, forms a new nnd interesting chapter in con nection with tho lifo of tho present Theodoro Itoosovelt. In tho June numbor of tho Ladles' Homo Journal this romanco and many unknown facts concerning the president's mother aro told by a cousin of Mar tha Bulloch. In His Speech at The Dalles H Tells What He Favors. On Monday nk'ht W. F. Butchor, II, !.( tnr pmiirroHH from tho HOC- luiiuiu.'ii' ""r- ond district on the democratic ticket, mado somo strong pointB, placing hlniBolf on record aB follows: Opposition to leasing tho publio lands. . . ilnvnlnnmont Of the mining resources In overy mannor possible. Favors development or me aria land regions. Argues that If Orogon souds a domocratlo congressman to Washing ton, tho Kast will horeafter pay mora attontlon (o this stato than thoy will If It remains in ho column of sure states, with nothing for them to gain In granting demands to bo made by people hero. . Foremost, howovor, ho presented tho Improvement of tho Columbia river as a loading thomo, and on that is calculated to unite all peo ulo. That ho rogards aa tho para mount Issue. fJolonol Butcher leu ai noon iuw day for Antolopo. How About Meat Eaters7 Thn Mnninna Cattle and Horse Growers' Association at its annual mooting in Montroso, Col., adopted rnnniuttnnn iindiirlnc that tho alleg ed combination of packers to control prices of boot nas neon wormuu iu tho interest of stock growers and that present prices of moat are only sufficient to glvo tho growers a fair profit, and appealing to press and public to ceaso aggresaivo action to break up tho alleged combination,