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I DAILYEVENINGEDITIOH Eastern Oregon Weather i Tonight cloudy; Tuesday cloudy J with occasional tnln. I. PENDLETON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OHEGON, MONDAY, NOVEMJJE1? 30, 1903. NO. Of n t'l Confession wnicn itli I L Believe. pui ...UN EVRHT L,CL.-' Hit r-1 I ... ii, Prison- !e Released by Out. ..... h. r.ltv Jail ..... 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"Mti mine calculated Mm R TTmnllll. ... . ifj "u coumy I aim uifl oik, 7.covcred about .! land the men , i (auiiiis, lit ing a great num. f - -yuiu Kivt' 24. I ln fugh number f the count In. rtublts. ,0U1 In tlio bm.l. 111 n - -,u io inn Hnl. According to these m y sh.ould 1)0 benefit to the iBpteaso fast ' U they would "Oughts 0f ,h0 Days, . -"Wll llllR In ;Wo,.i. .. . fM . .-'Ull (U 10 fllQ ,.tl.. Oil. h. - ujy. , set nro. lawful tlnVu bailie, J. W. VIRTUE DEAtX Prominent Mining Man of Baker City Is No More. Portland, Nov. 30. J. Y. Virtue, the pioneer mining man of Eastern Oregon, died at his home In Portland Saturday at 4:20 p. m. He had bent sick for several months, hut the news of his death came as a shock to his many friends In this soction of the Btate. Ot the time of his death he was C8 years of ago. His wife and two children survive him, The chil dren are Robert Virtue and .Mrs. Ulan Hardy. Mr. Virtue wns born ;ln Canada. He came to Oregon In 1802 from Council Bluffs, Iowa, where ha had liooti en gaged as a banker's clerk. He locat ed at Auburn, then went to linker City and engaged In mining there and on Clark's creek. Some years Inter he became the owner of the rich Virtue mine, which was named after him, and which he later sold to G. W. Grayson of San .Francisco. Mr. Virtue was actively engaged In politics and In 1BBB was elected sher iff of Baker county, which office he tilled (luring two terms. Afterwards ho engaged In the bank ing am? brokerago business mid be came prominent as a capitalist all over tho state. Of lato years be has been engaged in mining In tho Miu'h em part of the state and hnH made his homo In Portland. PIONEER DEAD. Well Known Citizen of Walla Walla i Passes Away. I Walla Walla. Nov. 30. Itev. A. W.I Sweeney, one 'of tho best known pio neers of the Walla Walla valley, died Sunday morning at 4 o'clock, at the residence of his son, Samuel 11. Sweeney. For some time the deceased had been afflicted with consumption, which was tho ultimate cause of bis death. MIRACULOUSLY NARROW ESCAPE UNDERGROUND TRAINS LOADED WITH WORKMEN. Excitement and Terror in Paris Over Repeated Disasters on Her Street Railway System Demands for Elec tric Motor Threats Are Made. Paris, Nov. 30. Fire this morning ni.eiinw.i n Mm Mntini,,iiltnii iTiwiw. ground, causing' great excitement. It was ut first reported tho casualties equaled last summer's disaster, but none wero Injured, however. At noon a second accident almost Identical with tho first, oceuned. A car In which were 200 passengers, got ablaze. All sprang to the tracks and rushed for un open point. None were Injured, as all escaped througn uu opening, ihe first train had 1,000 workmen aboard, who owe their escape to the fact that ihe cars wero just beneath un opening. The conditions were sojiearly iden tical with those which In July last resulted In the loss of !1 lives, that the whole city Is up In arms over the negligent management of the compa ny, and tho streets are ablaze with open threats of violence to the rnll road olllclals. The liiuuels of the underground aro so poorly ventilated that they are desperately liable at oil times to the combustion of gases and bit drll'O Qliiwtn.. .... lntnMnl.1 Jl....t ,. ,.-w,tl . fc "'"HUH UU 'MJIUUIIUUUIU UUfil, J JUUIUl'llL D lit-fc,(- gence resulting in a delay of but a few moments Increases tins liability to a probability. out lor tho mere coincidence ot the rain this morn.ng stopping beneath ;m opening rigged for exit, nothing could havo prevented a holocaust and wholesale asphyxiation a horror that must havo exceeded sovoral told that of last summer, Tho second train was abandoned by its crow as well as passengers and until the engine fires burn themselves out and tho light nalural draft clears the tunnel of smoke and gns, no one will outer it. Tho clnmor for electric motor on the underground lines has gTown into voluminous threats If It is not sub stituted for coal and steain. GRAIN MARKETS, Quotations Furnished by Coe Commis sion Company B. E. Kennedy, Lo cal Manager, Pendleton. Nov. 30. The wheat market nt Chicago and Minneapolis opened strong this morning, despite the indlffQrence or the Liverpool mar liet. Elevator people are beginning lo realize that they must bring their prices up to a parity with other prices If they would fill up their warehouses. Stocks have been feverish, panicky and Irregular, Chicago-, Nov. 30, Wheat Opentnc. Doc. ' 80 May so4l Minneapolis, Nov. 30. Wheat Opening. Dec 7!H May 80i Close. 81 Close. So SITs American exports to China In 1880 were $1,101,000: In 1U05 thoy amount THE ECHO MBIT CANNERY. IS The Frisking Pest of the Umatilla County Alfalfa Fields Jumps From the Sagebrush Into a Tin Can After One Year of Patient Labor, the Idea of H. C. Willis Is Put Into Ex ecution Cannery Starts Out With 5,000 Pounds of Dressed Meat Worth 30 Cents a Pound on Board the Cars Pay Roll of $30 Per Day Ca pacity '1,800 Pounds of Canned Meat a Day. This morning a whistle at Echo, loam being allowed to escape through Umatilla county, Oregon, blew over j a vent hole in the cover of the can, one of the most unique Industries in I when It is then hermetically scaled the world, and so far as known, thai and placed on the market, cnl one or lis kind In the world. Underoo Three Inspections. , J ,"ZJT1 , HCnr, !,H"a!ll;,,lt PCr!'io ! Tho rabbits that come into the can tent labor on the part ot the people . ,.,. .,,. , , i , of Echo, backed by the confidence if I ho surrounding country, the rabbit cannery, built and owned by tho American Hnre Packing & Cold Stor- rr . ....1 4UI.. . can the flesh of the American hare, as the Pmatllla county rabbit is cnllsJ Origin of the Idea. The story of the orlg.n and founda tion of this industry is not long and Is worth repeating at this time. H. O. Willis, night operator of the O. It. & N. at Echo, with few trains lo interrupt his quiet, or disturb his thoughts, last December began to study a method of ridding that portion -of the country of the rabbit pest which played such havoc with young and growing crops, nnd which so far hud been successful in eluding the destructive genius of man. They woro.known to be eatable, and their llesb when prepared In pioper manner equalled Hint of many game animals, sought atter tar mid wide. So be conceived the plan of canning their tlesh for market, and to make h'ih plan reaslble, killed and canned a few dozen, with the assistance and direction of Mrs. Willis, over the cook stove. The result was entirely sntlslaclory, and from that day to tills Willis has been talking, writing and thinking rabbit, night and day. He organized the company, raised I'uniu, built n building 20x80. equipped It with an eight horse-power boiler and ! engine, vats, cooking apparatus, store i rooms, cold slomgc, and all the llOl'd- I ''' paraphernalia of a cannery and to day started the wheels tnrriln From Sage Brush to Tin Can. To follow the live rabbit from the sage brush lo tho tin can Is not a long route, but it is one fraught with the most scrupulous cure and cleanliness, scientific.- tientment and studious taste. Tin- rabbits nro driven into a pe.i. caught with as little excitement as possible, and beheaded. The maimed and bioken-legged ones are thrown away at the pen. The beheaded rab bits are hauled to the cannery, diawn, but not skinned at first, and hung in told storage.. Hy hanging them up lor n lew hours with the skin op the natural color of the meat Is preserved and the nntuinl taste or the animal re tained. Are Carefully Prepared. Then the rabbit Is skinned, wash ed In hot water, containing a solution wiik'h Is one of the secruts of the tradr, and put in pickle for 12 hours before going Into the cooking vat. The carcasses an- cut in liuives, me lore- quarters being cut off and pickled nnd cooked separate trom (lie ninu quar I ters. After they have been In pickle for the required length ot" time, thoy are nut in the cooking vat, which holds 100 rabbits at a cooking. Here the flesh Is cooked and seasoned un der the.dlruct suKti vIsIon of Mrs. Wil lis, who watches each cooking with the utmost care to see that the flesh Is cooked to the proper stage, and sea. soiled exactly to taste. Ready for the Cans. The coolier Is a largo it, zinc lined and air HgbL which will bear a pres sure or 00 pounds, permeated with perforated pipes from the boiler, and the cooking Is done by steam. The vat Is locked up air tight, and all the flavor of the animal is cooked Into the flesh, and uiter cooking two hours the carcasses aie then placed in largo zinc vnts and set on tables whero wo men pick (he flesh from tho bones, cut It Into the deBlred fineness, place It In the cans and It Is partially seal ed at first. The cans pass down a long table where several people are at work, ami when sufficiently .cooled and sealed up aro placed In the store room, where each can must reraalu for 20 days us the final test. At the end of 20 days each can Is examined and boiled again, all the air and SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING. Will Be Held Tomorrow Afternoon Will Audit Bills. When Mayor T. G. Halley left the city this morning he loft a message to ihe effect that tho city council lo called at 3 o'clock tomorrow after noon. This Is the meeting at which the hills for the past month are aud NOW IN OPERATION ' at the pen, whero they are killed. I There all the maimed ones nro thrown i away. The skinners again inspect - '"' every one and all showing any signs few h , arfl cagt nnil ., wllHn fhn ' ..., and again, when the dressed meat comes out of the pickle, ready for the cooker, it is finally Inspected by Mrs. Willis, who selects everything that goes Into the cooking vat. Capacity 1,800 Pounds a Day. The cannery started this morning with 5,000 pounds of dressed meat ready for the cooker. Each rabbit produces two and a half pounds of meat, which Is sold at 30 cents a pound, not, on board tho cars at Echo, and there are orders ahead for sam ples that will keep the cannery busy for months to come. Fifteen people are employed and the pay roll amounts to $30 per day. The two drives of Thanksgiving day and yesterday produced about !!,000 bare, which will be all the cahnery can use. for the present, as the capac ity Is altmt 1,800 pounds of canned meal, per day. When moie rabbits am needed the stockholders order a drive and furnish enough for another run, German Expert In Charge. Theodore Scbaffenberg, a cannery expert of Portland, who also Is con nected with tho commissary depart ment of the German government and German stamship lines, as purchasing agent, takes charge of tho cannery. while Mrs. Willis will be the ofllcial cook and attend to the details of the seasoning. H. C. Willis Is general manager and attends to the business. Rabbit Skin Caps. The skins are sold at two cents each to the Hatters Supply and Furn ishing Company, of Philadelphia, and tho fore feet are also sold to'the same company at one cent each. Tho skins will be used in making caps, muffs nnd hats, while the feet will bo con verted Into novelty goods. Later the bones and waste will be converted Into chicken fooJ and there will bo absolutely no waste in dispos ing of the hare. Four Varieties of Hare. At present four varieties of the haro will bo prepared, namely, tho family style, deviled hare, hare loaf and "chile con came," or a red pepper grade of hare. The company has now on hand -1,000 one pound cans, 1,000 two pound cans and 4,000 half pound rnns. The storai'e fncllltfes nf Itift , company will occommoduto U.000 car- cashes at a tlm". Itesldes canning hare, the company has also canned an Immense amount of beef, and now has on hand some thing like 400 cans of beef. Yesterday's Drive, The drive of yesterday was not n large one, the company not wishing to get more meat on hand at once than It could handle conveniently. About 125 people attended it and COO raljljlts were killed. A party consisting of Major Moor- house, official photographer, A. M. Snyder, of the Spokesman-Review, Fred Lockley, It, A, Watson and Ilert Huffman, of tbo East Oregonian, went down from Pendleton to attend the drive. Tho cannery company prepar ed an elaborate dinner for tho party, at the Arlington hotel, atter tbo drive was over, and the afternoon was spent in inspecting the plant. Echo Is thriving and prosperous. New buildings are being erected, larger stocks of goods are being dan dled, a first-class hotel and a news paper aie late additions to tho Indus tries, and more substantial Improve ments are promised In. the near fu ture. The officers of the cannery company aro W, H, Boyd, president; K. Hipper, vice-president, and H. O. Willis, sec retary and general manager. ited and allowed, and the business of the city straightened out for the month to come. Outside" of tho rou tine It Is not thought that there Is much of Importance to need the at tention of the city fathers. Itev Dr, W C, Roberts, president of the Presbyterian University at Dan ville, Ky., Is dead. ONE SENATOR SHORT. District Decides Not to Elect a Suc cessor to Williamson at Present. Prtnevlllo, Nov, 30. The senatorial dlsttirt comprising Crook, Grant, Klamath nnd Lake counties TuTs de cided not to elect n successor to State Senator Williamson for the special session. Absence ot a senator from that dis trict will not, however, Interfere with the business of the legislature. Some person or other from the district tuny claim a seat In the senate, but that body, being the solo judge of the qual ifications of Its members, will decide the claim. WAULA WALLA WHEAT. Bluestem Eased Off After Standing Up to 70"!. Walla Walla, Nov. 30. So far as could be ascertained, about 12,000 or 15,000 bushels of wheat eliangri1. hands Saturday. niucstem start.-'! up In tho morning nt "0 to To',, deal oiV open quof.tlons. but later on eased off half a cent. Some bluestem wns bought at '.i'A but the quality was probably below grade. TRIAL OF MRS. M'KNIGHT. Michigan Woman Accused of Poison ing Her Husband. ' Cadillac, Mich.. Nov. 30. The Wex ford county circuit court wns throng ed today when tho ense ot Mrs. Me Knight the Kalkaska woman charged with poisoning her husband and chil dren, wns called for trial. An extra panel of talesmen was on hand and tho work of selecting a Jury was com menced. The trial promises to bo one of the most sensational that ever been held In Michigan, IlilH COUNTERFEITING PENDLETON GOODS INFERIOR BLANKETS ARE CREDITED TO OUR MILLS. Complaint Filed With Manager Ferg. uson From North Carolina Goods Were Sold by a Baltimore Firm and Not Made Here. Several days ago Chillies l-'eigu son, of the Woolen Mills, iccclvcd a letter from M. L, Johns, of Uiureu burg, N. C stilting that lie had bought some blankets from the Pen dletou mills nnd that the) were nut what was claimed for them, and db not cue satisfaction to the I rail and asking for some H'dress. Mr Ferguson could not find whole tin mills hnd sold any goods to the gen tlctnmi. but wrote to him saying that the mill stood behind their goods, am If the caul nMached to the goods wns returned that the loss would be made good. Vesterilay he red'lved a b-C-r with the card enclosed, On the and war, printed a large ram's head mid uu derm-nth weiu the words, "Pendleton Wool Dlankets." The card was of tbo same hl.e ns the regular label of the Pendleton mill, but did not have tin copyrighted I rid Inn head at the top. The blankets sold wuie bought of n Ilultlmoro wholesale house, and It Is tho Intention of t lie management of the local mill to ferret the matter mil and put a slop to the thievery SURVEY COMPLETED. Feasible Route for the C. R, C, O. R. R. Now Located. Condon, Nov. 30. Tbo surveyors of tho Columbia River & Centiul Ore gon Hallroad company completed their preliminary survey to Condon Saturday. Mr. Ilolllnger, the engl ncer In charge of the work, staled thai they had secured u good grade all of the way. ' A number of suits have been filed condemning right-of-way between this place and Arlington and It is under stood that the company will start pro ceedings at once against all the right- of-way required, this being the quick est way, they believe, of securing It. Tho Eastern Oregon Hallroad com pany has also filed a number of suits of the same character. MABEL M'KINLEY ILL. Her Vaudeville Company Disbands in Kentucky, Owensboro, Ky., Nov. 30. .Mabel McKlnley, niece of the lulu president, Is M) dangerously ill nat tho vaude ville company of which sho Is the head, has disbanded and left for New York. Ex-Surveyor Arrested. Canyon City, Nov. 30.; Ex-County Surveyor White has been placed un der arrest on Information brought by F. C. Sels, charging him with larceny by bailee. The difficulty Is said to have arisen over the ownership of some surveying Instruments, The populace of Cartegena, Colom bia, Is riotous. A mob stormed the hotel where tho American consul re sides, but did not find htm. The po lice reserves were ordered out and restored order. TEST NIOwY THE WOOD CASE Gen, Wood Had Prior Knowl edge of Magazine Article Attacking His Superior. REBUTTAL FILED AGAINST CHARGES MADE BY BRISTOW. Defense Makes Admissions, But Qual ifies Them Other Defendants Go Before the United States Circuit Court at Baltimore With Demurrers Aro Charged With Defrauding Witnesses, Including Postmaster. General, Washington, Nov 30. - Italhbonu, before the committee on military af fairs Ibis morning, urged die recall ot General Ullss. Horatio Rubens, who was counsel for the Cuban junta during Uu- revo lution, testified he coiild not accept Wood's word on anything even under oath. He went Into details, showing Wood did know of tho contents of the magazine article prepared by Huncle before it's puhllciilliin. uud 'nindo comments on It afterward. General Drooks Is on the stand this afternoon. Attack Bristow's Report, Cincinnati, Nov, 30.--Vyborg, of the Ault & Wndborg Printing Ink manu facturing firm, this morning declares Ilrlstow's repoil Is entiniy unjust to Heath. He says llenth ami Uuiln should havo left the position lor the selection m liiks Also says the statement made In llrlstow'B report that Heath bought stamps tor cancelling to the amount of $14,000 in one year Is not true, as tlie greatest amount ever sold In one year amounted to $10,000. He admits tho price paid lo bo sev eral cents higher per cur li stamp than that paid heretofore, but says that tbey could not bo gotten for less; mid hIso claims thu inks, while the gov ernment paid an Incrensed price for them, mo absolutely liidclihM. which In Itself saves tue government thrum nmls of dollars each year by effect ively pievcntlng the louse of stumps. Motion to Dismiss Appeal. Washington, Nov 30. In I be su premo court today A P llmwn, In be half of the Northern Securities, sub mitted a motion to dismiss the appeal of the slate of MuiiiohiiIii In the case against thu merger on thf ground that tbo appeal, If rnadu at all. should havo been made in tho United States cir cuit court of appeals, mid not lo thu supremo court. Fight Over Demurrer. llHltlmore, Nov. 30.- -Attorney Bry an In an argument for tho demurrer in tho postolllce cases, started before the circuit couft IIiIh morning, nindo a statement charging the government with holding up llrislow's iport until this morning for disci editable pur poses, Influencing the public ugalrist the defendants. The cusch opened mi- those of limit delivery clerks McGn-gor mid Upton, charged with conspiracy with Onus, Smith to defraud till witnesses, Includ ing Payne. For the first llmo llonii parte appeared personally as a spec ial prosecutor. DE8PAIN PROPERTY SOLD, Business Block May Be Built at Cor ner of Thompson and Court. George Porringer Iiuk practically ur- i aimed to buy tho IX-spaln property at the soulhweBt corner of Court und riiomiiKon streets, negotiations Hav ing been almost consummated. It U not known what uso Mr. Periinger will put the properly lo, lint It Is ru mured thai ho will hiilld u business block there as soon ns bo can uiukx urraiigernoiils for tin- icmovui ui un icsldcucc now standing on tho ground, and for tho plans for the now build ing. A Pioneer Reader. wiilliim Fltz Humid, who has read the Wi-oklv East Oregonian for Iho past 24 years, without missing u num ber, was In the city from his home on he Umatilla river, a few miles neiow endleton. Saturday. Mr. Kit Gerald still biiH In his nosslsKlon (ivory one of the receipts which lm has received from tho East Oregonian during xue past quarter of a century, und expects to add several more lo the collection. Murder by Wholetale, Chicago, Nov, 30. Chief O'Neill lah nxclvtd a copy of a routea blon made by Chllds Krur.er, un der sentence of deaf) at Gi 'ens burg, Pa., which admits of IS murders. Including two poHceniou u Chicago, whose deaths hey Jong been mysteries. Kniger will hang ln December, . ed to $18,(103,000,