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About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1903)
ii 1 W ! mmm. .1 1 : DAILY EVENINGEDITION Eastern Oregon Weather i5c A WCEJv Tonight nnil tonight. Tonight nnil Friday fair, rxilor PENDLETON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OIUSGON, TlUHiSDAY, OCTOHKlt 25), 1003. NO. 48813. nniH in . imiinii of United States ada to Join in One Hon. . . mil' ACC loyers Associations Are at a Large Meeting jlon at Chicago Editor Los Angeles Tlmps, an Address. al employers' nssocla morning to cxtond tho natlonnl association and emnlnvnra into one aro coming from Can similar movement is nr associations tinvo ruuca, oiuvti miiiiiiiui;' Of)MH I'lHimuivmiutg, . 11 1 -. 1 t elation. National Pub- lectrlcal Contractors. is Herrlman Gray ne Atirrnlnc Tlmpw wTIi n .nilrlrnRR. Thrnn rhr. held dally until Friday Kates Ult3 lllCbtlllL UI1U arriving. Temporary m ipvn nr Mr .mite henrera that cxpres- snoma De guarueu iy Rrrptlnn no thn nvm. public Is necessary In st iniiiipnppa i n rvm trn- verR- inrnrpRrR A mn. give oiu mrormatlon. oauimt-rH. nr ftinntHnn. employers solely. Wll oi La Porte, Ind, an- (1 RPVprni nihnro uinnlrl as till minimum inn wiih Tlin chair nromlsed io me uav Hxes the rates on steel rails both oast mid west bound and the object or tno present meeting Is nn adjust ment of Inequalities that have be como lrl;somo under tho establish niont in Buffalo of industries en gaged In the production of rails. For instance tho rate from John stown, Pa., where the Pennsylvania railroad is tho principal owner of tho Cambria Steel Company's plant, to New York is 26 cents lower than fioni Boffalo. Pittsburg and Buffalo have the same basis. Tho Ponnslyvanla, it is expected, win maite a strong light for Its own Interests, as against Buffalo, and this will have a tendency to aggravate tho Trunk lines as well us those from Pittsburg, BOATS FOR SNAKE RIVER. iiu ncrmrnc- wnc or tne Directors, g Four hnlil flinh nn. today and voted to u-iVii . tno next three years was elected general I. I'tinln.inll TMU,1 - (- "III po- To Ply Between Glenn's Ferry and Bruneau. , BoIbc City, Oct. 29. E. W. John son and J. E., Lane will leave this morning for Portland where they will look Into tho matter of getting a boat to ply on the Snako river between Glenn's Ferry and Bruneau. Tho bont project is connected with the irrigation cnterpriso they have in hand for tho Bruneau section. U Is planned to carry all freight for that section down tho river, Tho landing will be at tho present crossing for tho Bruneau country, nnd only a fow miles irom the lands which It is prodosed to reclaim. It is anticipated that tiro boat will find enough business to keep it busy from tho start, as the freight in and out of that section Is already heavy. The distance from Glenn's Ferry to the landing will bo same 23 miles. MRS . MM T MEETS HORRIBLE DEATH Head of the Salvation Army in America Mangled in Santa Fe Wreck While on the Way'to Meet Her Husband. Her Tourist Coach It Thrown Violently Against Steel Water Tank She Dies In Great Agony Shortly After Taken From Debris Colonel Hoi land Also Dying Husband Is P rostrated at Chicago. Under Bonds to Keep Peace. La Grande, Oct. 29. Fred Clark was placed under $200 bonds yester day evening, for threatening to kill D. B. Armstrong. Both men are har bors nnd tho trouble grew out of a difficulty In the East. STRIKERS CAUSE REIGN OF TERROR ALL BUSINESS JS NOW -SUSPENDED. People Are Fleeing .From City Priests iFoar Assassination Dy namite Is Used Government Fears Outrages Tnat Will Cause Heavy Loss of Life. Bllboa, Spain, Oct 29. Rioting in tho streets by strikers continues . to day with veritable reign of terror. All railways aro suspended. Tho city wns dark last night, oloctric light wires being cut. Seven thousand citizens have fled from tho city. Priests are prisoners in tholr homes and thoy do not uare emerge for fear of assassination by tho strikers. They aro using dyna mite. Tho government fears out rages, entailing heavy loss of lives. STRIKH AT STOCK YARDS. ARF Lflt I en collide and Cause a "ie wreck. Oct. 29. FrnlclilR nf Wo collided east of U'flB nH .... l . twiu up aim mop. day. Engineer Frank vruooiu wuru tuoiuuuL wnH STEAMER BURNS. 575,000. . . n niuainor mi 110 finest nnd Mississippi, burned to .t , "'"""iiBa una "7 iau a narrow es s Is unknown. It be- "wmonii Jo line. It nfto ENnpi-l ol0PPed by Monev t. . - from New ork. .. inure ir ttrtr '""nunc, n Is nn. -- oiu s.uuo.ooo en --r nuii sionnnnnn j,,; m ,er ,,a"Ks of has has not only ended caused many to all i WUUCIS tin iV. "le Central ... int. ... i One Thousand Canners Walk Out on Demand for Higher Waget. Chicago, Oct. 20. A thousand can nors, at tho Union Stock Yards, struck today on nccount of the refu sal of a 1C per cent Increase In their wages. No Water at Kansas City. Kansas City, Oct. 29. For tho third time within five months, tho city is without water. Tho big mains burst. Kansas City, Oct. 2H. Dlspatfhes this morning confirm the death of Mrs. Emma nooth Tucker, second daughter of General Booth, who Is nt tho head of the Salvation Army, caused hy a wreck on tho main lino of tho Santa Fe near Denn Lake, last night. The body was terribly crushed and she dk'd within an hour after being taken from the debris. Fourteen other passengers woro Injured and threo probably fatally. Airs. Tuckers body was shipped to Chicago where her husband awaits the arrival or the remains. Tho" wreck was caused by a loose chain on a tourist car catching a switch, breaking ..e latter. Two tourist sleepers, one Pullman nnd ono dining car were derailed and hurled against a stool wnter tank, .which stood at the Bide of the track. Had '.Visited :the Farm. Mrs. Tucker was en route from a visit to the army farm colony, ht Amity, Col., to Chicago, whero sho expected to meet her husband, Much difficulty was experienced In sending tho dead nnd Injured to Mar collnc, tho nearest town of any size. Dean uiko being a small. Isolated place. The relief train broko down and did not reach Mnrcelino until flvo hours after the .-wreck. The injured list In cludes W. M. Murray, of San Fran cisco. Colonol Holland, of tho Salvation Army, Is reported to bo dying. Thirty-five wero hurt In tho wreck with the exception of tho Salvation ists, who wero In the Pullman, but none snriously. Colonel Holland Will Die. Colonel Holland was Internally in jured and is not expected to recovdr. Mrs. Tucker's body Is In charge of her secietary, Mary Dammos, who escaped without a scratch. Husband Is Prostrated. Chicago, Oct. 2!i. Frederick Booth Tucker, who shared with his wife equal authority In tho command of tho Salvation Army or America, ar rived lion' irom Now York to nioet her nt 7:3u this morning. The news of his wife's death, when broken to him at unity headquarters, complete ly prostrated him. Tho flags of uli tho barracks of the city are nt half mast. Mrs. Tucker's body will arrive hero tonight and will He in state at tho Princess nlnk until tomorrow night, when memorial services will be held. The body will bo snipped to New York, where another memorial ser vice will lie neld. The present plans lire to Inter tho remains beside her mother in London. Her Life. Mrs, Kmma .Moss Hooth Tucker was born In England In I860. Sho Is tho second daughter of tho fa mous general, she married Tucker In 18SS. She had chargo of the in ternational training homes in Ixm don for eight years, with her hus band. She had charge of tho army 111 India. Sho came to New York, whero sho maintained a homo, In 189fi. She was a' sister of Halllngton Booth, who formerly commanded tho army In America, now commander of the volunteers In America. Sho was well educated and has been classed as ono of the six greatest orators in America. Brother Prostrated. Pittsburg, Oct. 29. Colonel Bui Ungton Booth is hero In attendance at the annual Held conference of tho Volunteers of America. Ho was al most prostrated when told by a re porter or his sister's death. The general council of volunteers offered condolence and also sent a telegram of sympathy to Booth Tucker, at Chicago. Balllngton Booth and who go to Chicago tonight. General Is Dazed. London, Oct. 29. Tho news or .Mrs. Booth Tucker's death was broken to tho aged general today by his son, Drnmwcll. He acts dazed. He said: "The loss approaches a magnitude of disaster to the army. It is an ir retrievable blow to the American forces. Tho news comes to us with staggering force, but wo bow to tho Inscrutable will of God." Orders have boon issued to hold memorial nervices throughout tho world. The death may result In changu of the command of tho Anirr lean branch. Honor Dead In Pendleton. .Memorial services In honor of Mrs Booth Tucker will bo held in tho Jo cnl barracks of this city, but th dute of the services has not been do. tci'iiilnod. REPORT WAS FALSE. No Attempt Was Made to Atsassl nate President Dlase. Washington, Oct. 29. General Pow ell Clayton, ambassador to Mexico, Informs tho stato department that tho report sent out by the press ns socintlon that an attempt was made yoMcrduy to assasslnato President Diaso was entirely without founda tlon. SUPPLY BOAT WRECKED. Crew Escapes on Midway Island Iroquois Sent to Relief, Washington. Oct. 29. Tho navy de partment Is Informed that tho mer chant vessel carrying supplies for tho cable staff of tho Pacific Cable Company, has boon wrecked. Tho survivors wero cast away on Mid way Island. The Iroquois has been ordered to Its relief from Honolulu. FOR SPOKANE NEWSPAPERS. Strike Agalpst the Spokesman-Review Has Been Settled, Spokane, Oct. 29. Indianapolis ad vices aro that tho stnte International Typographical Union arbitration board has fixed a scale for prlntors at Jl.fift for day work and $S for night. Tho scale Is signed for threo (nrs. This Is tho end of tho strlko made on tho Spokcsmnn-Hovlow ANOTHER LAND VICTIM. Elma Watson Is Indicted at Portland in Ware Case, Washington, Oct. 29. Secrotary Hitchcock today received a telegram from Portland, Or., that Elma Wat son had been Indicted In connection with tho Ware case; Guy Hoff, on tho charge of forgery In tho now caso of Norman Williams. Hltchmok said this is hut tho beginning. FRAZIER WANTS BETTER SHEEP HE HAS BIG RANCH ON SNAKE RIVER. EDITOR IN A FIGHT. Serious Accident to Child. Kumola, Oct. 29. (Special to tho East Orogonlan.) The 4-year-old daughtor of Emmot McCoy was prob ably fatally injured here yesterday evening by being struck in the face with an axo. She walked up behind her father, who was chopping wood, .without nnv warning of hor presence, and received an ugly gash In tho temnle. Sho was taken on a spec ial engine to La Grande. James Means Takes Exceptions to Editorials in Morning Paper. An altercation between E, P. Dodd, editor of he Tribune, and Jnmes Means, the street commissioner, took plnco on tho street this afternoon. Tho trouble arose out of some cdl torlal criticism which Mr. Dodd has seen fit to pass upon tho street com missioner recently. The dltllculty was taken Into tho police court and will bo beard ill 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. FIERCE RIOT AT PARIS. kill the police. The mounted police charged tho mob, slushing light and left. Tho mob lought back, hurling sticks and stoiu'r.. Thlity-clght police and CO rioters woro wounded. Sixty wore arrested this afternoon, making 110 during tin; day. BURNED AT MID-SEA. GRAIN MARKETS. Juotatlons Furnished by Coe Commis sion Company B. E. Kennedy, Lo cal Manager, Pendleton. Oct. 29. Liverpool wheat cables opened Vi higher. Our market opened nbout tho same as yesterday's close, but tho siignuj Increasing receipts In the Northwest nnd the continued flno weather start ed tho crowd to soiling wheat, result ing in a small decrease on opening prices. Thoro wns good buying or May by Gilford and Armour at the decline, steadying tho market from which it recovered most of Its early Iohh. Later, on ronorts trom jnovi York, continued bids for wheat was n half cent higher. Chicago, Oct. 29. Wheat Opening. Dec 8 May 79 Minneapolis, Oct. i'J. Wheat Opening. Doc 80 May 78fc- Chlcago Wheat. Chicago. Oct. 29. Wheat Twenty Persons Perish Miserably in tile Flames, Berlin, Oct. 29. Tho Tageblutt re pot tB that tho Gorman steamship, August, with a cargo of naptUa, was destroyed by lire In tho mid-Atlantic todny. Twenty persons perished mis- ..rol.lt. In 1... ..j !I..U Ol-ltf anH I .f """. jYiuumca r-uiiuc qiaoh rt'u" . - - to Break Mob. I Park Theater Proarem. Paris, Oct. 29. A bocoud and morei An entire change of program at tho serious riot 'occurred here this after- Paik theater tonight. Prizes will bo noon. The crowds, which dispersed given away on Saturday nigh t as this morning again niel and tried lo I usual BRUTES SHOT DOWN BY WOMAN VICTIM Basalt Col., Oct. 29. Mrs John , attempted to uhhiuiU ber last night. Shephord, tho handsome young wife John Chacon, one of tho men, will , , ..I,, i i . J die. His son, Antono, was shot of a Colorado Midland englnoor, In J UirougIl th8 ',. Ajl h'aVe bt.fin nr. n desporato strugglo shot down two . r,,Bt0,. Thoy may bo lynched, as ox- Of four Mexican sheep herders who cltement Is running high. MAYOR HAILEY RAIDS THE TENDERLOIN Close. sou 79 Close. opened Last, nluht .Mayor Hnllcy made an other unofllcial visit, this tlmo down the west side of Cottonwood stieot, and this afternoon eight of tho wo men of tho row appeared In police court and paid a flue or $5 each for sitting In tho open doors of their houses and talking to pnsserBby. Tho police will hereafter Bee thut the doors of all of tho houses aro kept closed and tho women are liept out of sight of tho street. Thoro Is u city ordinance prohibit ing women from coming out to tho sldotfulk or in any manner becoming an unnoyance to people paf.sing. Gradually the Inmutt-s of tW Rfs o' t made a practlso of sitting in their doors and oven of coming oiiisldo of tho luclosiire, to the sldonil'c end making themselves general') obnox ious to the public. Mayor Halloy Is determined to w that the laws are enforced and -vtl i see that the annoyance occasioned by these practices is stopped, He Owns Over 5,000 Head of Ram bouilette Sheep and Is Purchasing 50 Head of Blooded Bucks From Charles Cunningham Will fllake Specialty of Fine Stock, Frank Frastler, of this city, has re turned from n threo weeks' trip to his ranch on tho Snake river, soum of Huntington, which Ij in company witii William Slusher, Ib stocking wltli sheep. The firm now hns over 15,000 head of Rumhoullotto sheep on their ranch and Mr. Frazler has been thero look ing ofter tho business or the firm. While absent ho nsslsted in building a much house on tno islmo and in getting things In running order. Ho has recently hoilgnt Co head ot blooded bucks of Charles Cunning hnm, of this cay. which he Will run with his Hocks on the ranch. Tho tlnn will make a specialty of fine stock and will go Into tho business extensively In that part of the country. SMALLER SHEEP HERDS Day of the Big Flocks Has Gone by and Breeds Must Be Bettered. IMPOSSIBLE TO GET SUFFICIENT RANGE. Influx of Immigration Into State It Affecting the Pasture Fields and Country It Rapidly Being Settled Water Extremely Scarce Through out the Country Streams Lower Than for Years. Forty.Four In Watery Grave, Yokahama, Oct. 29. The steamer Tokla Maru, sunk in a collision with a steamer In progress off Hakodat, Japan, this afternoon, in a dense fog. Forty-four were drowned. MILL MAY NOT BE BUILT. Nothing Doing on the Sawmill Prop osition In This City. It is currently reported that the sawmill proposition being consider ed by J. I). Casey, of Illlgard, for Pendleton, has fallen throiiEli Nothing Is yet being done at Meacli am, to Indicate that any logs will he bankPd out this fall, and theio Is no work or indication of preparation In nils city, mat would lead to the ho ller that tho mill will bo Unlit Thero aro two companies after tho timber land involved, tho Grande Hondo Lumber Company, of Perry, and J. I). Casey, of Illlgard, and It Is thought this may bo responsible for tno delay. Mr. Casey owns about 29 nuartor sections on liio west slope of tho Hluo mountains, near Mcacham, nnd this supplv of timber would be suf ficient to last for several years, as the saw timber hus not been culled off. G. W. Allen, of Kiimela. who rig ged up a logging outfit for tho pur pose of hauling logs for the Casey mill, hit s not yet begun operations, and the mutter seems to be at a standstill, Refused to be Interviewed. Miss Mario Ware, who- stands in dicted for forgery In 20 land cases. r.lld of other crookedness In the ron. house's have grown more bold, d-1 duct of tne United Slates land com splto' the ordinance and latelj r u-c nilssiouer's office, at Kugcno, has sue c.essfully evaded or turned down approached her. Not one word has she over vouch sated to the press, during all her trouble, Chnrles Cunningham Is In tho midst of his Bhcep cnmpulKn for this Beaton. Tho breeding time Is now hero nnd already thus far Mr. Cun ningham hns sold uver 2,000 head of his thoroughhrud buckB to the grow ers of tho country, 1,100 of which hftvo gone to Umatilla county sheep men. The sales hnvo extended from hero to Montana and tho season la not as )ct moro than begun. Mr. Cunning ham has altogether over .1,500 head of Hniuboullotto bucks which ho has on the market. Tho sheepmen of the country uro having n hnrd tlmo to got water for their Hocks. Water Is scarcoer al this tlmo than It has over heon and tho wells and streams are lower. What Is tho matter Is not known, but It Is laid to the fact tluft it has been so long slnco there wuh any rain In any quantity, Tho pasture on tho other hand Is good, but hndly In need of roln to mnka It last. As tno ground Is be coming dryer tho growth Is checked and unless thoro Is n good rain In a short tlmo tho Bhcep will got nhoad of tho pasture. But while the pas tu id Is good It Is not enough for the number of shoop In tho county. Tho county Is overstocked nnd tho men will have to feed earlier than I hey usually do, owing to tho (net that the range area Is too small for the unrulier of Hneop, Ono of the things thut the shoei incii of tho county should learn, and that at his earliest opportunity, In that the days of the big Mocks uro past and tho sheeprnlser of the fg turo will have to raise his standard uml cut the numbers of his holdings. Thero Is not roam In tho county for tho shcop thut aro now in It uml certainly tho conditions will not al low of tho vnBt Increase bound to como In thu natural course of breed, log, So thu only prnrtlcnl remedy thut will work (o tho benefit or tho raisers Is that they keep I ho best grade ol sheep on tho market iul run just whut they can take good euro of on their rniiycs. Tho Influx i'f Iminlgiation Into this part of tho stato, though It ho small, will so cut up the range that the summering uf largo bauds will bo out of the question anil the name condition will apply to the winter range. But fow men In tho country can afford to hold many thoiiHunilR ot ncres changing tho grndus as fust us they can got rid of the old range slock that bus overrun I hi- country In tho past. Each progressive man Is putting now blood Into his Hocks and in it short time Umatilla county will not only bo ono of tho great sliocp cen ters of tho Northwest, but It will be thu )iomo of tun thoroughbred, thu stock thut Is In demand. TO WINTER QUARTERS. Joe Connely Moves His Sheep From the Mountains. Joo Connely, the shocpmnti, Is mak ing pioparutions to move all of his sheep from tho summer tango to the winter range In tho Cold Springs country. A hand of nuout CO breed ing ewes was driven through tho city yosterday, bound from the moun tains to tho ranch. .Mr. Connely will follow thorn to see l.iut everything Is iu shapo fur the winlor pasturage and feeding. He nus decided to tnko an alarm clock with nun so Ihut the mountain air will have no power to keou him In bed longer than tne usual eight hours. ELKS' BALL TONIGHT, Everything Is In Readlneso for a Sue. cesaful Event, All preparations for tho Ellis' hall, to bo given this evening, aro now made and the affair promises to ho ono of the most brilliant social' events of tho season. The commit tees in charge have spared neither pains nor money In making the dec- every newspaper reporter who liasJrationa and conveniences tho best Work has begun on tho ship canal that . will connect Jake Michigan with the Calumet river, In Indiana. that could bo secured, Tho music will be of tho best, tho floor is iu perfect shape and tho refreshment committee has been doing diligent work In Its lino. Tho salo of tickets is largo and tho attendance will ho good, "4 --v vuilliniVIOQI at 80i; closed 80.