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PENDLETON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OttEGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1903.
NO. 4831.
VOL. 16.
FLOOD
SINGE APRIL
Kaw River Again Flood-
ling East-Central Kansas and
Doing Great Damage.
HPORARY bridges
ARE AGAIN WASHED OUT.
on New Bridges Again De-
Uytd and Hundreds of Farmii for
tt inira i imc wnw.i
Lorth Topeka Is an Island River
Ll Rising Rapidly.
twsas City. Aug. 28. The Kaw
lupldly rising ami rose three feet
I slgbt, wnne me raie is now iwu
per hour. Tiio temporary
are again endangered, and
irk of replacing those swept
i hrlre this summer has been
Affairs at Topeka.
a. Aug. 28. The Kaw rose
Ikies last night and today stands
(Inches above the eight-foot rise
bed early In August, which Is
jhest since the big flood from
noky Hill, Blue and Vermillion
reached here In May. The
bank Is full and a great Here
of farming land 1b submerged
third time this year.
I the temporary bridges have
cut In the last few hours, and
been stopped on the new
sent bridges. Only the Melan
at this place Is unshaken.
Illse work for the new street
Iridgo washed out at daylight
horning. Tho street car com-
I Us already, since the May
Uirown 3,000 Into the hole on
Bit of the succession of sudden
IntoUy unexpected rushes of
r they could hardly pro-
ajunsL The company an
fces that nothing further will be
until winter sets In.
Topeka Is again an Island,
creek having flooded tho
edges of the city, and the
roure of egress Is the Melan
into the southern city. Shun
i creeK, east and southeast of
17 on the south side. Is analn
i us Danks, and It 1b estimated
least 15.000 worth of lumber
Ht mat waB on tin. ernund
Is building operation!. Much
iwm do lost, as Die current Is
p seiung towud iIm' live:.
OLLISION IN ITALY.
With Soldiers, Many of
Whom Were Killed.
Aug. 28. A train lllleu wan
; to the maneuvers at
ay. collided with h freight
Blrteen were killed and f.O
The king rushed tn tho
Mediately and personally di
pt care of the wounded.
Twenty Killed.
. Aug. 28. A Central Nnwn
Batch says tho casualltles
' "cck are worse than at
fted. Twenty were k..ieii
hired.
RETARDS ALASKA.
the
Senator Nelson Would Break
Transportation Monopoly.
Seattle, Aug. 28. Senator Knute
Nelson, a member of the Alaska In
vestigation committee Bays: "The de
devclopmcnts of Alaska's resources
is lamentably retarded by the trans
portation monopoly, which keeps
freight rates at a prohibitive figure.
Thnt monopoly should bo broken at
once, and then Alaska will grow be
yond the wildest dreams of today."
AFFAIRS STILL CRUISERS ON
Assessment Doubled,
Oregon City, Aug. 28. The valua
tion of Southern Pacific property In
Clackamas county Is placed at $000,
000 this year, double tho amount of
last year's assessment. The company
owns 130,000 acres of land and 30
miles of roadbed In the county and
Its attorneys will seek to have the as
sessment lowered, when the board
of equalization moots Monday.
More Settled Weather.
Omaha, Aug. 28. More settled
weather prevails In Nebraskn today.
The floods are subsiding. Tho corn
crop Is not generally harmed.
Jumped Into the Lake.
Cleveland, Aug. 2S. Mrs. Alexan
der Wlnton, wife of tho celebrated
automobile manufacturer, suicided
this morning by leaping from tuo
0
0
TURKEY
Six Thousand Armed Insur
gents One Hundred Miles
From Constantinople.'
ACTIVE WAR EXISTS IN
THAT NEIGHBORHOOD.
All the Bulgarian Employes on the
Adrianople Railway Have Been
Dismissed Prince Ferdinand
Urges the Independence of Mace
donia to the Czar and Emperor
Joseph.
Constantinople, Auk. 28. Tho im
perial troops sent from Adrianoplo
to Kirk, In tho Kllesso district, havo
top of a 75-foot cliff Into Lake Erie, j been defeated by tho Insurgents, who
imiw iiiiiuui'r u.uimi in mat iiisinci.
Yachts Lying Idle. I
Highlands, Aug. 28. There Is no.l
Burning Guard Houses.
Vtoniin A..o- OO 4 .1 1 n .... t l. ...
uuvt- uy-m u. uiuu i..u yucnis luuiiy. ..,,,. .,.. . ......,,.. ,.,,,
A driving rain is falling Upton is , a ' y 'SKoVMel.
, J?JaL ' llollnncc's );ot,.lnovo , t0 vaI1()yet of A(lrIan.
SCHOONER SUIilK
SEVERAL LIVES AND A
VALUABLE CARGO
ple. They havo burned every guard
I houso Irani Urumkjvd to tho coast,
I killing or scnttterlng tho occupants.
! The Albanians havo mtirdccj e num
. ber of Christians at Ipek. The Orient
j railway has dismissed all Its Bui
j garlan employes under suspicion of
, being In league with the Insurgents.
LOST, j prince Ferdinand Takes a Hand.
Bariulnglioin, Aug. 28. Tho Post
states that an official telegram from
WAY TO BEIRUT
Murder of Magelssen Due to
His Thoroughness in Look
ing After His Duties.
TURKISH OFFICIALDOM
it,
SAID TOBE GRATIFIED.
Lelshman Cables From Constantino'
pie That Macedonian Trouble is
Extending Every. Day He is Mak
Ing Demands on Turkish Oovern
ment European ' Squadron Is Un
der Hurry-Up Orders.
ITUDENT TRAMP.
Prob.
of Undercurrent
Going It Afoot.
O.. Aue 28 nil
''New York n a.l,,iit
Ui't from San Francisco
lots, studvlnir fllO
lot tie socialist mnvmnnnt
fe list night.
Wreck In T.y..
A.Texas Aug. 28.-Tho
tky, 1 Nufthern express
ai. ala"" '"is morn.
IZfn Keatler kiii.,i
i v".
MURDERED.
"""an at Simmons
ck by Train.
Who WAR fnnn.l AA
jj. track at SlmmonB,
Ik,'' n,snt. was not
'"KOOJB cuotlnn ....... .
Grand Nephew of Senator Hawley
lie wwillblUfi OW rUSC'M. Ulnt,c H,ot I,..,., T?r.rAA
In a Dense Mist That Was Soon has sent an autograph letter to the
Dissipated. i czar and Emperor Joseph urging the
I separation of Macedonia from Tur-
Stonington, Conn., Aug. 2S. Tho key,
steamer Maine came in tins morning j
with one or tho crow of the three- G. A. R. TRAIN WRECKED
masted schooner Booth, which was 1
in a collision last nlglit with tho Principal Damage Was to
n, ..n av. .... ?1 I. .. .... tf....... 1.... '
DICU11IU1 .Vllllll, MtJUlJU 11(1111
ton to New York. The schooner was
sunk and flvn of tho crew anil one ' Ogden,
passenger were drowned.
Consign
ment of Silks.
Utah. Aug. 28. The sec-
I ond section of tho returning G. A. R.
tain of tho schooner was rescued by . lra'n tm San Francisco, was wreck-1
the Whitney eii last "'slit by a defective switch.
The Booth was laden with a heavy 0110 pashenger, M. Blackman, of.
cargo of manufactured leather goods Minneapolis, was Injured. Two ex
and hardware novelties. The for-1 l)re8s ''als la,u'11 with silks, were ai
mer will be a total loss, no matter most totally destroyed. The money !
how quickly the cargo may be i l(,Hs Is Immense. I
brought to the surface. The hard-1 i
ware goods will not bo Injured by Fishing Season Closed.
Immersion. Tho leather goods nro The Dalles, Aug. 28. Fishing on
valued at upwards of $00,000. Among t,u Columbia has ceased for the
the crew which were drowned was a , nresent. tho season hnvlnir elosml.
grand nephew of Senator Hawley, of Tho catch at Seurerfs cannery was
Connecticut. . only Conn cqsoh I'm- tllH Hnnunn'R run
The collision took place In a dense whP i, Mhoul.l havi. lwnn 0.000. Tim
mist wntcn liau collected arter mo r r Knlmon was vi-rv llchl.
IWU VL'bSUIH 11UU KllilUU UUUIl UlllUI,
and which had been dissipated by
the sun and wind before the schoon
er sank, and within 20 minutes fol
lowing the collision. .
Trolley Car Collision.
Kansas City, Aug. 28. A trolley
car at full speed, collided with a
hook and ladder truck going to a lire
this morning, seriously Injuring F.
O'Klolly, Ben Fitzgerald and John
Redmond.
Chicago Wheat.
Chicago. Aug. 28. Wheat
81-, closing 81.
opened
RIGBY FARM IS SOLD.
POLICE 'COURT.
Two Cases of Drunk and Disorderly
One Fined, the Other Jailed.
Jesso Cooper was lined $(! this
morning In the city court for being
drunk and disorderly. Cooikt Is ono
of tho men who havo been working
on tho sewer, and yesterdny he bo
cuiiui drunken, und when the ofllcer
attempted to arrest him resisted. He
paid his fine this morning and was
allowed to go,
Harry McDonald, ono of the char-
ncters of the city, was up before tho
recoiders court this morning with
tho usual charge of drunkenness
booked against lilm. He was fined
$5, but as lio did not havo the monoy
went to tho city jail for the term of
three days.
Three Quarter .Sections of Valuable
Wheat Land Changes Hands To-1
day,
O. W. Rlgby, through the agency of
Wado & Bryson, today sold tho Rlg
by "home placo," consisting of 480 ; Little Child Said to Be Afflicted With
acres of tho finest wheat land In tho Scarlet Fever.
eouiuy, in .ii, j, Kiguy, lor iu.ixm,
Tho farm Is situated five miles
WILL INVESTIGATE.
"Paneso SPCtlon men
Md Mr Tyson was
fr f white men In
,e was struck by a
MiCT ""e m the
attached to
northeast of the city, on tho rldgo
between the Umatilla river and Wild
Horso creek, und 320 acres of It was
purchased by G. W. Rlgby, at tho
first reservation sale, In 1891, nnd
has been owned and farmed by the
Rlgby family slnco that time, Tho
other quarter section was purchased
by Mr, Rlgby from Charles Brown,
shortly after the reservation sale.
Tho purchaser, M. A. Rlgby, Is a
son of G. W. Rlgby, and bus resided
upon tho farm for the past two
years, having como there from Ame
lia. Tho laud is all first-class wheat
land and ono-hnlf of H Is being sum
mer fallowed this year. It is ono
of the most prominent furms In Uma
tilla county, and Is In tho famous
wheat belt of the Inland Empire. Tho
price averages over $12 per aero.
Tho llttlo child of William C.
Hetts is sick ut the family msldeuco
on Cosby street, and It Is thought
that tho child Is attucked with scar
let fever. In the absence of Dr. Cole,
the city health ofllcer, Dr. C. J. Smith
will make an Investigation this after
noon and determine tho nature of. tho
disease.
Washington, Aug. 28. Minister
I.clshmnu cables from Constantino
ple that ho has repeated his repre
sentations to tho Turkish foreign of
fice relative to the assassination of
.Magelssen, and has boon assured the
case will receive Immediate atten
tion.
I.eishiiKin's dispatch.' which con
tains several hundred words, says
the troubles In Macedonia are be
coming more serious and extensive
every day.
Cruisers at Once to Beirut,
Washington. Aug. 28. Orders havo
been sent the gunboat Machlas. now
at Genoa, to proceed Immediately to
Port Said nnd coal and awnlt orders.
The cruisers Brooklyn and San Fran-
elsco will proceed nt once to Beirut
without waiting for thu slower Ma
chlas, nnd should arrive at Beirut
Thursday.
Political Assassination.
Berlin, Aug. 28. Authentic Inform
al Ion received here says Magelsson's
assassination was a political crime
. welcomed by Turkish officialdom be-
cause tho vice consul had excited mo
I hatred of tho Turks by his energetic
protection of Americans In Armenia.
I residing In tho district or his con
1 striate.
He also unearthed a number of
Turkish outrages and hunted down
I tho culprits nnd became a perfect
I morn in tho side of tho authorities
as ho never brooked delay in look-
I mg nrter American Interests.
Ho was an enthusiastic golfer and
locking players, often played alono
in mo synan desert, and was return.
i Ing from a solitaire game when way-
lain.
Seml-olllclnl circles hero bellevto
tho event Is liable to drag America
into the tar enstorn turmoil, with
chance of collision between the now
ers. The result of the crUIs Is cans
nitf considerable anxiety.
Cotton Ready to Sail.
Genoa, Aug. 28. Admiral Cotton's
squadron Is preparing to sail lor
llelrnt.
Deed of a Fanatic.
wusningion. auk. as. Tho eener-
ally accepted theory hero is thnt Mn-
gelssen wns slain by a religious fa
nnuc or criminal.
Turkey Pleads Ignorance.
Washington, Aug. 28. The asser
tion that tho Turkish officials have
no know led go of tho assassination of
GiiKelBsen Is discredited hero, tho
slnlo department paying no atten
Hon to It, I.clshmnu has been In
structed to con 1 1 inio to demand tho
punishment (lf the offenders,
Roosevelt and Hay Conferring.
Oyster Bay. Auk. 28. i'Iio nresl
dent and Secretary Hay are confer
ring today on tho Turkish situation
Turks Old Not Llko Magelssen.
wasninsion, Aug. 28. Tho stato
department Is still noncommittal
about Turkish affairs. Thoy recall
as uu illustration of the reeling nt
Beirut lust Fourth or July, when
Magelssen observed tho day at his
residence by employing a Turkish
Hand to play "America." "Tho Star
Spangled Banner" nnd other patriot
ic ulrs that tho Turkish governor ro
porlod thnt It had been Insulted by
this, but neither tho Turkish foreign
office nor the American embassy
paid any nttention, Since then tho
Turkish officials havo shown a veiled
dislike for the vice-consul.
President Acted Hastily.
Washington. Aug. 28. There la
much comment over the unusual ac
tion of the president, who. Instead of
first consulting tho state department.
Issued orders direct to tho navy. It
Is tho usual course to apply to tho
stato department, which appeals to
tho navy, requesting protection.
Roosevelt brushed aside all tho red
tape precedent. Tho state depart
ment Is developing somo conserva
tism and expresses regret that the
president acted boforo all dlplomncy
had failed.
May Shell Beirut.
Oyster Bay, Aug. 28. President
Roosovelt Is terribly In earnest. Ho
says Turkey must make amends nnd
If tho porto Is nt nil ugly, probably
Admiral Cotton will drop a shell
among tho Beirut mosques."
Marines to Protect Americans.
The conference between Cowles,
bend of tho bureau of navigation.
Lieutenant Wlnslow and Assistant
Secretnry of the Navy Darling, is
making slow progress. L!onsul-Gen-eral
I.olshmnn this afternoon cables
thnt tho Turkish government still
deprecates the seriousness of tho uf
fair, and claims to doubt tho triiiu
of tho reportdo murder.
Admiral Cotton hus been Instruct
ed to Investigate tho attempt to fire
tho Euphrates Mission College, at
Harput, 200 miles inland. It Is pos
sible, should tho disturbances con
tinue, a force of marines may bo sent
to tho scene.
RE
CLAMATION
NSEGTORS
Eminent Government Officials
and Experts Have Arrived
in the County.
PLEASANT GENTLEMEN,
BUT NONCOMMITTAL.
They Are Highly Pleased With tho
Country, But Have Not the Least
Idea What the Outcome Will Be
They Are Now Investigating tho
Echo Country,
SAWMILL ILL BE BUILT HEBE
MANY OF THE DETAILS
HAVE BEEN ARRANGED
G. W. Allen Is Now Preparing to Cut
Logs to Be Shipped to This City
for J. D. Casey.
SEATTLE TEAMSTERS HAVE GONE OUT
Seattle, Aug. 28.- Flvo hundred ' Thero nro 1,200 teamsters In tho
ISHiTn ",Xffid whom are union. ,. urge
scale of wages. Business Is badly ,,ul,1,c '"U'rovoments will bo stopped,
paralyzed. Non-union men took out Tho men aro now paid $10 and $G0
somo teams, but moat of tho drivers por month, but no extra for overtime,
were pulled off their wagons by They want a 10-hour day and nvor
strikers. i ag0 wages of $2.60 por day,
G. W. Allen, of Kamela. Is In tho
city today, receiving eight team
horses which he recontly purchased
from W. F. Watcrbury. of LonK
creek. Mr. Allen Is fitting up n log
glng outfit, for the nurnoso of haul
ing logs lor J. D. Casey, at Meacham.
Part of theso logs will be sawed in
a small mill to bo built on a tributary
of tho Meacham creek, two miles
west of Meacham station on thu O
R. & N., and tho remainder will be
loaded on cars at a spur near that
nun, and shipped to this cltv.
It Is understood that Mr. Casey has
secureu a very reasonable rate on
logs from tho spur to Pendleton, and
will unload them on tho land leased
from W. F. Matlock, near the Alta
street baseball grounds, preparatory
to building a mill hero In tho near
future
No definite arrangements havo
been made hero yet, about tho con
struction of the mill, but the logs
will bo stored here until it Is ready
for operation.
ESCAPE OF A TRUSTY.
Joseph Graff Flees With Only Forty
More Days to Serve.
josopn urnir, ono of the trusty
L-uiivicis oi mo wana walla penlten
uury, icii ino tnstltut on nsL W. i
uoBimy, nun ino omccrs aro now
looking for him and want him pretty
bad. Graff was In tho nrlBon for tho
enmo or rorgery, and had served all
but 10 days of a flvo year sentence
wnen ne mailo his escape.
Ho was workine as ono of tho mir.
doners around tho prison yard and
suaueniy disappeared. He was triiek,
on north for a time, and then Iris
tracks turned In the direction of tho
Pendleton country, and ho was again
followed for somo illstanco south of
wana walla, and tho trnll was lust
All of tho trains havo boon watched
and ho Is known to bo In tho country
ueiweeii wuua walla and Pendleton,
uiiurus i-.iinauKs ami .ailiiL- of in,,
pcniienuary aro In tho city, and will
remain hero for a couple or days
watching for their man to muko his
uppenranco nero, as ho Is expected
IO lie IOIIOW1I11! tit) nunillln Itmu
circus. Tho man Is SG voarn nlil r
feet 10 Inches In height, anil Is Ilgnr
In comploxloii. A rowurd of $75 hns
oeen oirereci ror his capture.
MISS WALKER HAS RESIGNED.
Will Visit In the Valley and Return
Before 8choo Opens,
Miss Flora Walker leaves in thu
morning for Portland, where sho will
bo tho guest or her ulster, Mra. R F.
Henley, for a couplo of weeks. Alias
Walker has resigned her position In
tho Owl Tea Store und on hor return
o huh city will enter upon her duties
as ono or tho Instructors In tho Pen
dleton Academy. Hor placo In the
store will bo filled by Miss Burton,
of this city.
F. 11. Newell, chief hyitrographor
of tho reclamation bureau of tho In
terior department, accompanied lv
H. Jf. Savage and J. B. Mpucncott.
of California, Jf. A. .Moody, of this
state, and ,1. T. Whistler, who has
charge or the reclamation Investiga
tions In this part of tho country,
passed through tho city this ntter
I'oon on their way to Echo, nnd vi
cinity, wheio they will look over the
ground preparatory , to making n re
port to tho government on the iiilvis
ajriilty of Irrigation In this' sect'lbriT
Jlr, I.lpponcott stopped oft in 'this
city, and will leave this ovenlng for
Washington, whero ho will meet an
other of the government party, nnd
continue the- work In thnt part of the
semi-arid region of tho Inland Em
pire. Tho party has been In Southern
Idaho and Eastern Oregon, south of
hero, whero thoy have made a study
of tho conditions prevailing, havo
measured tho water Mipply, and
taken In nil of the details ot the
country In order to ho ublo to re
port on the advisability of govern
ment help In this part of tho coun
try. .Mr. Newell, in spcakliiK of tho pro
gress of tho work said: "It Is a stu
pendous task to Investigate the con
ditions of so largo a stretch of coun
try, and oven when It Is done, I
would not be ablo to tell you what
tho result of our labor would bo. I
can tell ns much about the subject
ns the Judge can toll or tho action of
tho jury when the case is put Into Its
hands. 1 will prepare tho report and
submit It to the department, and
thoy will do with It as they boh fit.
But what that action will bo 1 have
no Idea."
"Jlr. Nowell, what do you think ot
the subject? How does tho country
look to you?" was usked.
Tho gentleman looked tin at tho
hills for u minute and then Into tho
eyes of tho questioner. "Oh. uio
country looks good," ho said, "but 1
don't know what the report will bo.
ineru is boiiio of t that Jlr. Whistler
Is in fuvor of working up, but I do
noi Know what tho outcome of the
matter will be. It Is such a big
task." And the gentleman trom tho
capltul or tho nation sighed in a
weary manner, "it 8 worse than a
caso at law, und a bis ono ut that.
There Is so much data to look up,
ami mi many 1 1 1 1 lo iletuils that re
mand your attention that It Ix-comes
a stupendous task. But hen; is the
train, nnd, I am sorry, but 1 will
have to get on or got left, r wlBh
that I could tell you how the matter
will como out. for I know that the
question Is one of vital Interest to
this part or the state; hut I know
not as much about It us the Judge
who delivers the. charge to the Jury.
But this Is a good country, nnd looks
good In muny wuys,"
And tho man who Iiiih tho future of
tho Irrigation of this part of the
stale In the hollow of his bund climb
ed onto the tralu as It pulled out
and lort tho question us it was In the
beginning unsettled and uuknuwn,
Program Is Interesting.
Tho professional nroirrnni !
Shields' Park this week Ih uooil In
uvery partlculur. Bartelmes, Slinuis.
btauley ami Scanlon and tho limn.
sous nro ull urllsts In tholr lines and
mo cnuogoil Dill attracted a lariro
ciowd last night. Tho hamls,.,,,,.
prizes will bo given ItWuV toinnrrnur
night. They ore now on exhibition
In Itnder'u window.
Ready for tho Match.
Lewis and Person, who will com.
peto for honors In a first-class wrmM.
ing mutch nt Frazor's tonight, aro
ready for the struciilo. Both men
nro In excellent condition und the
match promises to be an Interesting
oxhlbltlon of Btropgth and mall,