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uup rniTinU 1 i OAILYEVENINGEDITION P5 I ff AC SWVA'V,WV'VVVVWVVwN'VV Eastern Oregon Weather Tonight nnd Saturday cloudy, with rain or snow tonight PENDLETON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OKEGOX, FIJI DAY, DECEM HElt 5, 1002. NO. .1007 I Hsnsylvania. n J All Himr if naming " New York jjSELS WRECKED Lo TWELVE MEN LOST. 6lt Fsiiswed by Driving ht BMW"-" I rai" nu.nuwir it foot i ,m f Penmylvanla Five Inches In Florida. loft, Dec 6 A terrific storm ling the Atlantic coast, wo i wntiirinE OuZ. ganger bib- Eout at all marine offices of land. A blizzard Is raging s ii and Sleet at Boston. , Mass., Dec, 5. A very high I a driving snow is reported New England. Three inches lea here, alternated hail and Berits Close in Shamokln. Skin, Pa., Dec 5. On account feiceptlonally heavy blizzard Baft all collieries were closed morning. A foot of Bnow All trains are many hours the snow storm continues is will bo abandoned for fear tin the mountain passes, tow at McKeesport tsport, Pa., Dec. 5. Eight In- I sunn hne fnllrm tioro nnrY n In Southern States. v va r lYinrvinnn. and Virginia coasts are Hatteras aro all down. All to get information from ov mura an nuur. wrecK- at Gloucester. ck an infnmn Piori nrnou-run. i hp fin vi n tr oiotinti riannon Reaches to Florida. i. section of the coast 60 or WlnD. FivftinohAfl of IlllPn in the wtat OA V.mw. v.iu jmoi w liviua. EX-SPEAKER REED BETTER. Doctors Announce That All the Bad Symptoms Are Abating. Washington. Dec. 5. Ex-Speaker Thomas B .Reed's physicians this morning announced that the patient shows constant improvement. The tomperature, pulse and respiration are normal, uremic symptoms arc abating, and his mind is clear and fits stomach retains nourishment. Brights Disease. His condition Is still regarded as very serious and It Is admitted that hlB ailment is Brights disease. Ap pendicitis Is only a small factor in the illness. STATE EXPEN8E8 CLIMBING. Additional Physician Needed at In sane Asylum Now 1200 Patients to Attend. Salem, Dec. E. The board of trus tees of the Oregon insane asylum has added one physician to the medical staff of the assylum. Dr. A. E. Taml esie, of this city, was olected to. fill the position.' The board states that an additional physician has been needed for three years or more, but It has not been considered best to increase the staff until now. Hereto fore there have been three physicians to attend 1200 patients, or more, which is an average of 400 patients to each physician. The medical staff has not been increased since the number of patients was 800. PQSTMASTEfl-GENERA REPORTS ON PAYNE FREE DELIVEflY Rural System is No Longer in Experimental Stage and Will Continue to Increase in Favor. o. EVERY ROUTE ESTABLISHED HAS SHOWN A MARKED INCREASE IN THE P08TAL RECIPT8. FIRE IN CLEVELAND. Wall Fell Killing One Fireman and Injuring Five Others. Cleveland, Dec. 5. Fire last night destroyed a five-story factory building occupied by the Likly & Rockett Trunk Company, and the Borden & Oliver Machine Company. At 3 this morning the wall fell, killing one fire' man and injuring five others. PREVENT DETAILS OF SUICIDE BILL INTRODUCED IN CON GRESS FOR THAT PURPOSE, "'y Oler Goes Ashore 0eracoke, N. C. - uici, va route irom UttlYnrt tl I' . ..' - -H wis morning. Tne men ara hnllei-nri to towned. The vessel is a IN RUnl a -UUI.ANU MEAT, rr.,,on Felt Because It Sitn Barred FM ftft T-. - -.7 ."v" 0. In the, Bhlnnlnf la tL rwb apprehension .1 tte results of the order nf VuZ 01 anIma,s rom ft?'!f the other l?aay- fears are ex- - uiunriR frnn, . In. h uatu luricH rR ""atB ior dead meat. RRIE NATION 0.M?n:9 ,n TP. Kan., "a It Pn i .... u. Kan.. n t . !..' .... ame a- PewlTB ... mptM t0 eck Ui "" was eject- distnrwc She Persistently Patrol wagon to tho jail. Specifies That Only the Bare Facts Can Be Published House Favors Bill Granting Officials Right to Ac cept Foreign Decorations. "Washington, Dec. 5. The house committee on internal revenue today Is considering a bill to create a de partment of commerce. Representative Jenkins, of Wiscon sin, today introduced a bill which if it becomes a law will prevent the publication by newspapers of the de tails of suicides. The bill denies the use of the malls to all publications containing such reports and specifies that the bare facts of suicide, time and place of death only can be pub lished. The maximum fine Is J2E fnd im prisonment for 90 days for offending publishers. The omnibus bill was favorably act ed upon by the committee In charge, granting the various government of ficials the right to accept the decora tions of foreign govieniuent: The house today In a committee of the whole, began the consideration of bills on the private calendar. The sub-committee on trusts today reported to the full judiciary com mittee. LlttloQeld's anti-trust bill has been amended since last session of congress, requiring the reports to be made to the inter-state commerce commission by all corporations. The committee on naval affairs to day Introduced tho sub-committees bill on organization, rank and pay and will formulate a provision for an increase in the number of lino offic ers and midshipmen In the marine corps, according to the recommenda tions of the secretary of the navy to meet existing emergency. HOLD CONVENTION. Official Reports Indicate That In Communities Served by Rural Free Dellv ery, Isolated Farms Have Been Enhanced In Value Because of That Service, at an Average Rate of at Least 5 Per Cent in the Older Set tled States In Remote States and Territories, Where Postal Facili ties Were Few and Far Between, Increase Has Been Much Greater. GRAIN MARKET. Quotations Furnished by the Coe Commission House I. C. Majors, Local Manager. Chicago, Dec. 5. r Wheat Opened. Closed. December 7372'i -72?iOV4 May 76 76 Corn December 55 C4$i May 43tt 43Vifr- Oats December .. 30 30-74 May 32 M 32 H Minneapolis, Doc. 5. Wheat Opened. Closed. December 72 tj 72 U May 74 b 73 74 New York, Dec. 5. Wheat Opened. Closed. December 79 79V4 May 79 79 (? SAILORS LEFT Ml PACIFIC LOOK TO CANADA. Oregon and Idaho Young Men Unite in Association Work. Newburg. Ore.. Dec. E. The Ore gon-Idaho convention of the Young Men's Christian Association opened here today with a good attendance of delegates from the chief cities of the two states. A three days' pro (tram will be carried out and a spe cial effort made to infuse new vigor and life Into the association move ment In the Pacific Northwest. Prom inent among the participants are B. T, Colton ,of Chicago, the interna tional secretary of the college depart ment: W. B. Peck, state secretary of Minnesota; President Wallace Lee, of Albany College, and A. S. Allen, tne general secretary of the Seattle branch of the organization. Washington, Dec. 5. The report of Postmaster-General Henry C. Payne is made public today, and the por tion of It most Interesting to the West Id the progress of rural free delivery. On this Important subject tho report says: Rural Free Delivery. Rural free delivery service has be come an established fact. It Is no longer in the experimental stage and undoubtedly congress will continue to increase the appropriation for this service until all tho people of the country are reached, where it is thickly enough settled to warrant It. The estimates of the department are to tho effect that tho available terri tory for this sen-Ice embraces about 1,000,000 square miles, or one-third of the country's, area exclusive of Alaska. The 11,650 routes now in op eration cover about one-third of the available territory. From this it will be seen that it will require 27,000 employes additional to those now in the service to cover thiB territory. If congress shall make the necessary appropriations, it is believed that within the next three years the ex tension of the service will have been completed. With the carrier's salary fixed at $600 per annum, the annual gross cost of the completed rural free delivery service will approximate $24,000,000. After the service has been complet ed this increase ought not to exceed annually 8 to 10 per cent, or In about the same proportion as obtains In other branches of the service. The people are demanding the service with Impatient earnestness, and this demand is being vigorously support ed by their representatives in con gress. The rapid extension of the service will, of course, increase tho deficits during the next three years. After it is completed the revenues will quickly feel the effect of Its es tablishment, and whatever deficit may bo occasioned will gradually dis appear. The experience of the de partment in counties where the serv ice has been fully established for a period of two years justifies the belief that the revenues in the rural dis tricts will increase fivefold over what they have under the conditions here tofore prevailing. Appropriation Insufficient. The department is unable, oven with the liberal appropriation made by the congress, to meet the pressing and justifiable demands for the service. In fact, the appropriation for the year ending June 30, 1903, will be so far used by January 1 next that no new routes can be established after that date, unless an additional appro priation is made by the congress that will he Immediately available. Progress of Rural Free Delivery. Five years of experiment in this service, added to several months' ex perience under permanent organiza tion controlled by the civil service regulations governing other branches of tho postal service, have demon strated that all the claims heretofore advanced In advocacy of the exten sion of rural free delivery and IU adopted as a permanent feature of postal administration have been sus tained. Postal Receipts Increased, It was said that its development would Increase postal receipts. Every route established, with one or two exceptions (and these have been re cently ordered discontinued), has shown a marked and continuous In crease of mall matter delivered and collected, attributable solely to the facilities afforded. In this connection it will also bo interesting to note that rural free de livery carriers received applications during the past year for 625.94C money orders. Value of Farm Lands Enhanced. It was claimed that rural delivery would Increase the value of farm lands. Official reports indicate that in communities served by rural free delivery, isolated farms have been enhanced in value because of that ser vice at an average rate of at least E per cent in the older settled states, and In the more remote states and territories, where postal facilities have heretofore been few and far be tween, the Increase of value has been much greater. Farmers Brought Into Touch With the Markets. It was asserted that to bring the farmers into close touch with tho markets would enable them to obtain better prices for their products. Spe cific instances have been brought to the attention of the department where the prompt delivery of livestock quo tations, indicating a temporary glut In the market, to farmers Intending to ship to tho stock yards, by enabl ing them to hold back their ship ments till the markets resumed their normal conditions, has saved to Indi vidual cattle raisers more than- the total cost of one year's rural delivery over tho routes on which they lived. On the other hand, In many instances, information of an advance in prices of particular farm products has reach ed the grower, by means of rural free delivery, in time to enable him to make a much more profitable bargain with his commission merchant than he could otherwise have done. Social and Educational Benefits Con ferred. Lastly, tho claim was made that all these material advantages would be equaled If not surpassed by the social and educational benefits con ferred In relieving the monotony of rural life, by bringing city and coun try Into close connection, and giving the farmer an opportunity of keeping abreast with tho rest of tho world, through tho dally receipt of his news papers and correspondents, aB had hitherto been enjoyed exclusively by the city man. How thoroughly these features of the service have justified the claims made in their behalf Is known to all who are familiar with the operation of the rural free deliv ery system. General Effects on the Revenues. In respect to tho net cot of tho service, which it was at one time thought would bo greater than the postal revenues could bear, the facts are that while tho appropriations for Its development have increased from $40,000 in 1897 to $50,000 in 1898, $160,000 in 1899, $460,000 In 1900, $1,760,000 in 1901 and $3,993,740 In 1902, the annual exceas of expendi tures over revenue In the postofflce department for these respective years as elsewhere shown, has been prac tically In Inverse ratio to the expen diture for rural free delivery. The effect of the extension of the service Is twofold. First, it causes Increase In the pos tal receipts of the offices from which It starts. Secondly, It is responsible in part, at least, for -the increaso In the re ceipts of city free delivery offices, with which it Is brought into close communication. Texas Cattlemen Will Ship Their Herds North for Range. Winnipeg, Man.. Dec. B. Texas cat tlemen arc seeking to secure largo areas of grazing lands In Western Ca nada for tho purpose of shipping thither and feeding big herds of cat tle from present overcrowded Texas ranges. A representative of largo cnttlo In terests In tho Southwest, who has lately been looking over the field In Western Canada, says that Texas this year has been shipping thinner beef to Kansas City and Chicago than over before. Tho rango area has become so circumscribed by settlement that stock soon must move or get out of 1 business. A group of some of tho I largest stockmen In Texas propose to obtain large areas of grazing lands .In British Columbia and to ship their herds north by rail. Thoy will find It necessnry to Invest large amounts In the building of shedB, which they aro willing to do if they can buy ranges or lease them for long terms I of years, CAUSE OF ENGINEERS' STRIKE QUESTION PRECIPITATED BY STRIKE COMMISSION Judge Gray Said the Men Would Have Remained at Work Had They Been Granted Their Request by the Operators. Scranton, Pa., Dec. 6. There was a lengthy argument at tho anthracite commission this morning over tho continuance of tho testimony of en glncer Jlanvlck, in nnswer to tho question whether every strlkor was supposed to get his former placo back, regardless of tho promises made to non-unionists by tho opera tors. Commissioner Clark disposed of the question by saying that the commis sion was perfectly aware that in somo cases tho men had not been given their old places back and that thoro was no necessity to tako up such ev idence. Marwlck's ovldence therefore was confined to tho laborous work of the engineers' craft. Engineers Had a Cause, Marwlck developed no facta but finally precipitated tho question as to tho cause of the engineers', firemen and pumpmen striking. The operators' counsel said that granting an eight-hour day would not have kept the men at work as it was simply a movement of tho miners to compol union recognition, President John Mitchell Interposed and said that granting an eight-hour day would havn kept tho engineers, firemen and pumpmen at work. Judge Gray said that tho commis sion hold that this class struck for a purpose and had it been granted they would have remained nt work, thus completely disposing of the charge that the men went out malic iously and let the mines fill with water hoping thereby to ruin the property and force a settlement. Rev, Moore, for 20 years a Metho dist minister In the coal fields, was the next witness , Ho testified that 10,000 visits to miners' homes con vinced him that their wages wore Inadequate. He averaged tho wages of miners and found that they made $487 year ly. He bad seen children In the break ers so small they could hardly carry dinner pails. In character, the peo plo were excellent, pealeful and sober. Three American Seamen tho Second Officer of British Ship. SEIZE A LIFE RAFT AND DESERT THE SHIP. Called the Captain Up and Attempted to Kill Him The Men Were Ship ped at 8an Francisco One Was From Portland and Another Was From Pocatello. Quoenstown, Doc. 6. Tho British ship Leicester Cnstlo arrived from San Francisco today and reports that her American sailors mutinied Octo bor 23, fatally shot tho second officer and thrlco wounded the captain. Thoy tnon seized the ilfo rafts nnd left the ship In tho mid-Pacific. Captain Poattlo sayB ho was going to sleep on tho night or the mutiny, when Uarnoat Soars, an ablo seaman, callod to him nnd said n man had brokon his leg. Tho captain wont Into the cnbln. When ho entered, W. A. Hobbs. an other seaman, Bllpped up to him and saia: "Now then, enptain," at tho samn tlmo firing a rovolvor, hitting tho captain above the heart. Pont ile clinched with tho man and wns again wounded In tho arm, nnd bat tered over tho head with a club, Tho second mato attempted to as sist him and wns shot through tho heart by Hobbs. Help then arrlvod, and Hobbs ran out of the cabin, shooting as ho ran. Tho captain sustained five revolver wounds and other Injuries. Tho first mato then took charge and called tho men aft, dotermnlcd to se en ro tho mutineers. Tho men re mained nft until when they discover ed the life raft floating past, carrying Hobbs, Earnest Sears nnd James Turner. All throo of tho mutlrioors shipped from San Francisco. Soars' homo Ih Pocatollo, Idaho, Turnor Is from Portland, Or. Three of tho mutineers wore W. A. Hobbs, ICrnost Sears and Albert Tur nor, all of 8nn Francisco. Captain Peattlo says ho looked tho next day for tho raft, but could not find it. YOUNG MAN FOUND DEAD. It is Thought He Was Struck by Limb of Falling Tree. Marshficlil, Ore., Dec, E,--I)row Doyle, a young man 20 yeurs of ago. was found dead last evening near his house on Bear creek. Ho left his house at nn early hour to chop somo b.-ush on a claim ho was taking up near by, and when lie did not return for dinner his father became alarmed nnd Instituted a search, finding his lifeless body near where ho had been at work. Tho back of his head was bruised, and It is supposed thnt he was struck by a limb of n falling tree, ACCE880RY TO MURDER. Proprietor and Clerk of Lincoln Ho- tel Were Negligent. Chicago, Dec. E, Proprietor Smith and tho night clerk of tho Lincoln ho tel, whew 14 Uvea were lost by fire yestorday, wore arraigned this morn ing and charged with accessory to murder before the fact. Their rases were continued until December IB. Fatal Bnow Slide. Baker City, Or., Dec. 6.- -Meagre reports have just reached this city of an Immense snow slide at Cornu copia last night. No details aro ob tainable, save that two miners wore killed and an Immense amount of damago done. High School Journal, The first number of tho high school journal will probably bo Issued noxt week. The copy has been turned In and extensive advertising contracts have been closed, which places the publication on a good financial basis to begin with. CRACKBH CROCK PACTS The value of the Cormwny'u orrnt- Ing on the mother lole Ih am follows, baeedoti thf same caplUl m Hoiith Pole Columbia $1 per share E. and , OOo per uhare North Pole $5 per share Golconda started at lOo now sell lng at 50o and worth more South Pole is starting at 15c The tlmu to buy Is on the fire totftei Intf of stock and profit by all ailvatiees, Oahagan at Hartman' aMntct offloe.