Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1903)
"M"IWIM""mm',1w.iwsms iNGEDITION if.Y Fi.t tour resMcncs (5c A wncjcv' j Ja Eastern OwnWcIttTI i -----"-- - - PEXPLETOX, UMATILLA COUNTY, OTiEGOX, MON DA V, AV(UST IT, lDOfl. I SPORT WATER e tove one oil house ad win china, ell l safest, ist w ise Out itreet llncrcasing Inter- Yacht Races and leuvers, llOSEVELT Leboth SERIES. r places From Which Performances nations Necessary to Ifety of Spectators lurope Will Be Spec- Rag, li- mis IB u r toe president ru- i of tuo war ma At sunrise tlio lith launches, excur- f sailing craft, to ay They ranged background against the maneuvering I party hoarded tlio lia on the Grin last loard his yacht. Ho kit this mornlnK. Itred a inesident's Irrived and depart- tiers and the yacht le attention of all i tbe eastern coast r necks, and scores hports have crosB- klmess the maneu- pint fur viewing s been fllcd upon. ttt have all been rentals, and the nous has been rre of space tolled lb; the owners and uslnable kind of ! nnneuveru arc ie a? much as ' possible olument has hecn remov- popular interest extent which rely a nuisance ; begin. The most l will bo adopted Icontlguous to the II pleasure craft. begin August 20, Kd on every altor- Iserles is ended. fS ARRIVES. h't for Murder of Mo Begin. I Aug. 17. Robert le star witness in lb Powers in MOO, ready to tesil- with. After the I Us fo. locatluir lr returning home. fr 01 tun inouii. N Frankfort at bel was assas- HIGH PRICED WHEAT. NO. 48UI. c Mf- VISl vrlt r part of point! SMASHED. Krai Injured in cy. I" A Hartford ( a trolley car MOSSltlc tlllB liotorman. Kolix Fed Fifiderlcl; Injured John occunnnt k. Tho car was The Hairman lth failure ti. RES. 1 Running Out too. iIo'et flm l &ho City. ecto?. nc GOV- r Moruu IL." 'U8 Lyon, I, la succos- Blue stem Reaches 72 Cents and Yet Farmers Won't Sell. Walla AVniu a.. day. Seventy-two cents was the I , , ium even nlclior prices woro quoted, but relative to tSrs wl" t K'vo out tho leal? information. They say they were paying ,0 cents for club and If that ILi'iV"80' tllu 1,rlcp of "I stem cents V t0 1,0 hlgllCr than 72 Even at these high prices many of tlio fanners still refuse to sell The advance has, however, loosened up the market and wheat has started to move. S rW S CITY IS IS Russia Said to Have a Second Consul at Monastir Assassi nated Lately. NEW JERSEY LABORERS. State Federation Meets Today to Dis cuss Current TodIcs. Brldgeton, N. J., Aug. 17. The New i Jersey btate Federation of Labor is i holding its twenty-fifth or silver Jubi lee convention here with a record ! breaking attendance. The gathering wns formally called to order at 10 ' o'clock this morning in the court' house, I In his annual address President Cornelius Wood reviewed the work of 1 the last year and congratulated tho members upon tho fact that the or ganization had progressed steadily, many wage advances had been ob tained, hours reduced, recognition se cured and other benefits obtained. Tho convention will remain In session ' through tomorrow. Proposed state ' legislation affecting the Interests of tho working people is the chief subject to be considered. Ill D AUGER Interior Rains Have Sent the Kaw River on Another Rampage. 1 RAILROAD WRECK. ! Mistake in Orders Costs Several Lives and Lesser Injuries. i Chicago. Aug 17. Two paseuigci' ! i trains on tho Milwaukee & St. Pv.l I collided near l.ongwnke. Wis., this 1 ' morning at full speed. W. Norton, a mall clerk, was killed, Kxpross Mes- senger Rlctman, Engineer Case and i-;iigineor Twlsliel were rutttlly limt, Sam Kvans, of Chicago, and David Metkn, of Ko Lake, were seriously hurt, and a number of others were slightly Injured. The cause of the wreck wns a mistake in ird-'is. KAISER BORROWS TROW WILL FORTIFY AGAINST THE GERMAN SOCIALISTS. Proposed That a Lake Island Near Berlin Be Converted Into a Fortress and Made the Emperor's Summer Home. Berlin, Aug. 17. The Verwaerts today states that tho reactionary ad visers of the Kaiser lecommonded him to purchase the Island of Pichel Bwordor, In a lake a few miles west of Berlin, us tbe site for a new Impe rial residence. The palace, accord ing to the plans, will be strongly for tified and special roads be made from the military barracks to the shores of the lake, so It will be possible to concentrate lor the protection of the kaiser In an emergency. The Verwaerts says the scheme Is the outgrowth of the recent demon stration of the Increasing strength of hte socialists. While every socialist leader has und does protest against j violent revolutionary measures, and repudiates all hints toward violence, the kaiser Is known to bo under a , violent tension of feelings, which some attribute to excitement on ac- count of tho success of the socialists, j as he is extremely hitter toward' them. . . , i ' Others declare that the kulser is Buffering from development of the mental mulndy h0 many of his faml- ly havo been afflicted with. Still .i i... tiint tin. excitement coupled with his tendency ton aid opllopsy. Is undermining the kaisers mind. MEMORIAL SERVICES. Cardinal Ricardi Conducts Them Over Tunnel Victims. Paris Aug. 17 An Immense crowd. Including all the diplomatic corps and a number of senators and deputies, at tended the memorial serv ce of the victims of last week's turn el disaster at Notre Dame this mor uing. Car nnl Rlcknrdl pronomice.dabsolullon. GRAIN MARKETS. Quotations Furnlshedby Coe Commls eion Company-B. E. Kennedy, Lo cal Manager. Chicago, Aug. 17.-AU ho import ant stocks closed strong todM I ports say Amsterdam e0 gained full control of tho CWtato Great Western and w I I Jter maintain an Independent ia blHoo Bullish messages oa from Dupago county I Hlwrfa. ' regard to the wheat crop. An uupi cedonted ciop Is l101'.11 f,loso Moot- Open'1 8C' :::::::::::: bST fc 52 Minneapolis, Aug. 17.- Scp;,,cat" ... tf M Dec n si"- MISSING AFTER LEAVING USKUB FOR THE INTERIOR. Fifty-Two Battalions of Turkish Troops Have Been Ordered Out- Roumanian Government Shows! Signs of Participating In the Bal kan Troubles General Unrest In Eastern Europe. Belgrade. Aug. 17. A message from Uskub renorts that the nnsslnn vlro. consul, Jlandelstram has been shot near .Monastir. This report the offic ials are trying to confirm. Report Is Confirmed. Belgrade, Aug. 17. The recently appointed Russian consul at Monas tir, to succeed the one that was as sassinated a few weeks ago, started across country for llonastir from Uskub a week ago, and was unheard oi uutil the report reached here to-1 day that he had been assassinated. It j was regarded as extremely risky for him to undertake the Journey when I he did, without a military escort of ' considerable proportions, whereas he 1 had none at all. ' Strong Russian Squadron. London, Aug. 17.' A St. Petersburg correspondent of the Central News ' Bureau, wires that the Russian squadron ordered Into Turkish waters last week consists of four warships, five toredo destroyers and six tor pedo boats, constituting a formidable flotilla. Turkish Troops Ordered Out. Constantinople, Aug. 17. Fifty-two additional battalions of troops have been called out In consequence of the spread of the Macedonian Insurrec tion. They are reserves of tho first and second class. The British ambassador has offic ially called the attention of the porte to the seriousness uf the situation in Macedonia. Roumania Is Preparing. Bucharest. Aug. 17. The war ofli ces has ordered the Immediate manu facture of large quantities of ammu nition. The order Is significant, as It indicates Roumania is planning to participate in the Balkan troubles. Dynamite a Train. Constantinople, Aug. 17. A dis patch from Uskub today reports that tbe insurgents Saturday night dyna mited a bridge between Kuprlli and Seellnco. as a Turkish mimary train was passing. Ouo was killed and 1 injuied. River Red With Blood. Berlin, Aug. 17. A dispatch to the Frankfurter Zeitung today upoits a horrible massacro near Manistlr, Al bania. Tho river Drln, near Monas tir nccordliirf to the dispatch, is red with blood nid i.early choked with the mutilated xMe of women and children who have been murdered by the Babhlbazouks. FAMOUS DRUM CORPS ARRIVES. Colorado Delegation Brings the Men Who Elected San Francisco Last Year. Sail Francisco, Aug. 17.-The Cook 540UBW drum corps, 270 strong, arriv d with the Colorado and Wyoming delegation this morning. 'I hey ha ye attended 14 encampments and last veur at Washington, walked o er to the California delegation, helping to secure the encampment for San ' o'n 'Saurday the veterans will go w San Jose on a special train. Favors General Miles, San Francisco, Aug. 17.-K is esti mated that 20,000 veterans are here and probably as many more guests. All arriving trains are Jammed, rhe weather is perfect. Governor Bu ke- has stated that ho favors Miles for the new commander. r.....r Crnm the SorlntlS. Dr Gene Vaughn has roturnod from j ' ' t 1. n n Imon wftfl I the springs, wnero n w. his family for the past two weeks en Voting on outing and a change from thf . ..nflnenient of tile office. OF SEVEN BRIDGES ONLY ONE IS LEFT STANDING. Tnousands Again Driven From Their Homes in the Bottoms Epidemics Have Made Their Appearance and the Danger from That Source Is Greater Than In June. Kansas City, Aug. 17. Tho James street wagon and car bridge went out this morning, making three that have been swept away by tho present flood. Tim new gas mains and tele phone cables went with tlio structure, All tho other bridges aro greatly en dangered, and the only means of communication between the two cities Is by boat. The Kaw lt(cr is still rising nt the, rate of an inch and a half per hour. All the flats and the west bot toms are under water, and nt least 4,000 people have been driven out of the homes which they havo only re cently been able to make habitable, following the Hood of last May. Incipient typhoid has made Its ap pearance, and medical authorities aro agreed that the Imminence of various epidemics resulting from Hood pollu tion is much greater than at any time during June and July. The uld that was subscribed during and following the May ,llood is practically exhaust ed, and the fleeing people from tho low grounds are already a great bur den upon the hospitable denizens of the higher grounds. Tho utter de struction of so many cottage and cabin homes during May resulted in thousands of the poorer jieople being quartered in barns, stables, attics and snare rooms ever since, and those who are being driven from their homes now ate added to what was ulieady a congested condition of all habitable structures. Rains in the Interior or Kansas continue without cessation almost. The greatest danger now confronting the district is tho Inevitable rise re sulting from the excessive rains along the upper Blue and Republican rivers in Southern Nebraska Saturduy and yesterday. This Hood water cannot leach here before Weduesdny, and the Kaw mouth Is lis only exit. Situation at Topeka. Topeka, Kan.. Aug. 17. The Kaw river rose six Inches last night and the danger of a break through the old chaunel into North Topokn Is In creasing hourly. MURDER AND SUICIDE. Salt Lake Walter Cuts the Throat of His Divorced Wife. Salt Lake, Aug. 17. Andy Adams, a waiter, this morning cut the throat of Mrs, Gerrald, his divorced wife. He is a Butte, Mont., restaurant man. He was chased Into the house by by standers, slashed his own throat and threw himself out of a second-story window. Both will die. Wants Moral Support. Birmingham. Aug. 17. Tho Post savs King Peter of Servla, has ap pealed to America and Great Britain to sent ministers to Belgrade, where neither country has been represent ed slnte tho assusslnallon of Alexan der. Lord Salisbury Worse. London, Aug. 17. Ixml Salisbury experienced a bad night. NEW HOSPITAL. Will Be Readv for Occupancy About the First of October, The new hospital Is fast Hearing completion and will be ready for pa tients about the first of October. When it Is done and furnished it w. . have room for 50 patients, and will bo ono of the best equipped places In the state. , , The temporary hospital Is now overcrowded, there not being enough room lo conveniently handle the cases that are coming In for treat ment all of tho time. There are gov ern! serious cases at tho hospital at the present time, but they aro an do lug well, and the condition of the In stitution' In general Is good. EVANS' BODY FOUND. Sad Fate of Young Man Who Would Have Inherited Estate Today, Gloversvllle, N Y., Aug. I. The body of George Uvans. who was drowned In Canada Lake, a week ngo was recovered today This would have been h!s 21m birthday, on which ho would have Inherited $100,000 In cash left by his father. GREST GDLLEGE 0FJRURIU1 BUYING BLOODED STOCK. Dave Ingram Is Preparing to Have a Splendid Drove of Hogs. Dave Ingram has bought tho blood ed Poland China sow "Athena," from Walter Adams, who Is selling his herd of fine swine. Intending to go out of tho hog business. This sow is one of the finest In the state, nnd Is from somu of the Swnggart stock. Altogether. Mr. Ingram now has IS bend of pedigreed stock on Ills farm near the city, nnd Is continually add ing new blood to It, until In a short timo ho expects to have one of the best herds in the state RUSSIAN TRANS-PACIFIC LINE DIRECT STEAMSHIP LINE PORT ARTHUR TO AMERICA. Great Extension Russian Merchant Marine Vessels of Volunteer Squadron Bound for Far East Or dered to Proceed to America. St. Petersburg, Aug. 17. Russia Is about to Inaugurate a trans-Paclllc passenger service to American ports. Tile Asiatic terminals will be the ports on the Coreun Gulf, now con irolled by Russia, and from VIuiIIbvo stock during tho mid-summer season. It Is not understood that this un dertaking Is a government enterprise further than that It has tho govern ment's sanction, and will do much of the government's transport business, what little may bo required. The primary purpose of the llnu will bo to give control of tho enor mous transportation business from the United States to Siberia and Man churia, and to support with adequate shipping facilities all tendencies of Siberian and Manchuriun products to seek a trans-l'uclllc market. The minister of mailue bus Issued un order that hereafter all ships of the Russian volunteer squadroi which sail from Russia to the far Kast prolong their voyages lo Amer ican Pacific coast points, The first vessel to sail under the new ordeiH will be the Smolensk NEW SIDEWALKING. Some Just Completed, While More Wilt Be, On Webb Stret, The O. R. & N. has hiul u forro of men nt work on tbe sidewalk In front of their property on Main street for the last two or three dnys and this morning they finished the Job, and ifow u person is able to go to the show without danger of falling either through tho walk or over the edge, for a railing has been put on tno In side, thus protecting tbe passengers from falling Into the low place ulong which the walk extends. Street Commissioner .Means lins n force of men at work on tho south side of Webb street, on tho walk lo be constructed there, and I he work will be pushed us fast as possible. 8UIT FOR DAMAGES, Action Grows Out of Cayuse Fire of Last March. Through hla attorneys. Ilalley & Ixiwell, 1-ouls Anderson has filed suit against the O. R. & N. company for $1,773.22 dumuges alleged In have been caused by fire set by the com pany. The complaint alleges that the plaintiff was ou Maich 80 tbe owner of 2.861 bushels of wheat worth 82 Mi cents a bushel, and he also hud 203 bushels of fanned wheat wolth 05 cents a bushel, all stored In a ware house at Cayuse BUtlon. Owing to the carelessness and negligence of (he d.'fewUnw the wai house was ol on fire and the plaintiff lost all of his property He inoroium uk sum named above, together with the costs anil disbursements of the action. Pulitzer Gives Two Million Dollars to Found Ono at Columbia University. AN ADVISORY BOARD HAS BEEN APPOINTED. The Great Journalist Issues an Ad dress Setting Forth the Practical and Pressing Need of Such an In stitution His Bequest Provides Richly for Buildings and Income. New York. Aug. 17.- Joseph Pullt Itzer has provided the sum of $2,000.. 001) to establish n school of Journal ism nt Colombia I'nUerslty, this city. A new building will he erected on Morulugsldc Heights at a cost of $500,000 for the school, which will hold toward the university a relation similar to that of the other profession u) schools, the law school, the school of medicine and the school of mines, and like them, will lie national In scope. Seven members of an ndvlsory hoard have already been named, and, with others to be selected, will bo nominated by the trustees of Colum bia University at their meeting In Oc tober. They are Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia Unl- orally, exolllclo; Whltelnw Held, John Hay, secretary of state; St. Clair McKelway. Amliow 1), Wmlo. Victor F. I.awson, of Chicago; CIiiih. II. Taylor, of Boston, Chas, W. Hllot, president of Harvard University. COLOMDIA IS OBDURATE, Minister at Bogota Cables Canal Tre.it Wa tieatcn, Washington. Aug. 17. Information reaches tlr) stato departnu i.i by ca blegram from Minister llenupre that tho Colombian senate rejected the Panama canal treaty August 12. Treaty Wat Defeated. Washington, Aug. 17. Henor Her ran, Colombian charge d'affnlrK re ceived u telegram announcing that Hie Panama canal treaty had been re jected, thus fully confirming tho statu department's advices. JEWS BURY RELICS. Sad Memorial of the Desecrated Tern pie of Thora. Berlin. Aug. 17. A Tngobhilt Ht. Petersburg dlHpulch today says the sacred Jowlhb idles of tho Templo of Thora, which was desecrated dm lug the Klsblnef riot, weie burled in the Jewish cemetery at Klsblnef. Tho occasion was one of gieot idlglous ceiemouy, 20,000 Jews singing mourn ful chants as the procession follow, ed the rdlcs. The I lies were per foniicd under a largo police protec tion. Langtey Will Try Again. Wldewutir, Va., Aug. 17. A scien tific meinb. i of the Uiuluy iiiishlp expedition, returned today from Washington. Ilverythlng l In readi ness foi launi blng anot...i model of an alisblp at the Hist fnwiniblo weather WOOLGROWERS' MEETING. Annual Convention of State Aocla tlon to Be Held In Baker City Next Month. J II Gwlnn, secretary of the Htnto Woiilgiower' Aswiulnllon, In now working on the program for tho coin. Ing stale convention to h" held In linker City, on September 14-15. He expects to sneiiie seme gpakm of ability und pructleul oKperluncn, aside from having a sluing local rep roseiitullon from tho different organ izotlons In Hamern Oregon. Many Important and vital subj.ui. will come heroin tho convention, and U is tho desire of thcwoolrowers tomttko the coming meeting ' " "h" "l"8; memorable In the lilntoo or the or gunlzatlon. , There are eight woolgt ewers organ isations I" Oregon, und the delegates lire apportioned on the basis or one to each 110,000 head of sheep owned by the membership or the local rheio ... . imii alu'i'i) lii the ter- rTwry leprese'nted by the olah; orgun lasalloiis, the total nmnbor of d gales entllleil io , "" lt5V-,L.i, .-3.,' -3S- -hi .IM'. .!..' A . AT