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DAILY EVENINGEDITION j- J rd WEATHER FORECAST. Ltcan be fllM by a I .. j .Huertlsement Tonight ntut Thursday, hursdny, fair. Lst Oregon"11, PENDLETON, TTMATILLA COUNTY, OBEGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1G, 1904. NO. 4997. OCEAN CARRYING ti r,r) RnllnrR lve inou&aii" Lying Mail One Year hiti. ANTI-NEGRO SPEECH BY MR. SPIQHT. I n Yards of Dirt Yet to Be led From the Panama Canal the Unhealthfulness of the L nlmate Has Been Greatly t -erated Appropriation for Building at Los Angeles ana lawalian Defense. Iington, March 1C The' con .1 rYminiitlon of tho post- lepartment estimates will, It Is li lead to a muio m.-uiii""fa , than the bill has cxpericnc- I.m cosolnnR. Ono Item al- attacked privately, Is tho ap- Itlon o J15.0UU as auumouui Winn in the Oceaulc Htcam- Inmnsnv nf San Francisco, lor fetation o mans to nmu, Labia on Negro Question. tatinn. March 1C Dobato on fctofta appropriation bill was 4 In tte house last nigni. , Den.) m Mississippi, made ationil tiwcll on tho neRro laTiitrisfDr lvnchlni? and even It at, tie stako for brutal, hid- attacks on women. Negroes Ily Hi to wait on table, not to IH, white people, as equals, as form desires. "Wo somotlme Itrors. hnt nnlv fnr hideous lm against lynch law under wnaiuons. lanima Canal Conditions. Mngton, March 16. Dofora vat committee on Interstate , Professor Burr continued Itenents about tho Panama ca laation. He said where men Ireless'lu their habits the mor- lis high; but ho novcr heard I MO men lost their lives for mile of work thus far done. I jXMeyard with 8,000 graves reru- ' French comiianleR nxnnvntpil P'O yards, leaving 1,000,000,000 uu excavated. lew Republican Committee. pnrasion. March in a f of remib Irana of n, i. I"1? l"' tor Monday ovo po choose tlm ,,,omv,. ., i,,,,,,. - i me .vhuuui.hi congressional com F senate passed tho bin nnnro r a public mmZrZ For Hawaiian, n.f.-.. B wklcll3Ca I mi ,v .T '""l"u ui IUO do V LV '"nds,waS ' session hrtS..1" p i-uho was rrovldln - I j ronmcation. I11?" Ml and tho "L r """lons appropriations fEREROS BARBARITIES. 1 0' the Natiu. a,-, -- '"enn Hevo t In ,.. ! -"nans. I itr.. "r'"UB "y mo re- Of Rlm.. t by ?, k, ,nnd tom Pr- .l-l6c.d their aconv. llW,r"r.?Cl1 T. yes poked fenove 1 !" nnd vltaI rws head rte" wore haeod death ea Ld.Qw.nwd and beat- In. " moos 'n Vienna. laofrcl1 l5.--Tho n.. Several WeiSt co"tlnues to- i ;0" atoned t , ' 02?, NEW HIGH SCHOOL FOR WEISER Trustees .Accept Plans ot Boise Arcnl- tect for Handsome Building. "Wolscr. Idaho, March 16. At a racetlnK on Friday last of tho board of school trustees It was decided to call an election for the purpose ot submitting to the people n bond lssuo of $30,000, for tho erection of a new high school building. C. F. Hummell of J. E. Tourtol- lotce & Co., tho BoIbo architects. met with the trustoes and submitted nlans which met with approval and were accepted. The plans call for a handsome building, containing eight yooms in addition to a principal's room and an assembly hall on the third floor. The building will be con structed ot brick with cut stone trimmings. e 6,11 Denied Griffith AS Ah..,. I1, Z Tan Mflrch lc ti mn.." "a anneal. ISo Z16" Colonel ltw year, ?V shtonced P rav fKAai San Quontin Telephone Franchise Pays. Uakcr City, March lfi. The Pacific States Telephone Company4 has just paid the city treasurer the sum or $378 as B por cent of the net receipts of tho office In thfs city for the past six months. Under tho provisions of tho franchise tho company pays the city perpetually 5 por cent of Its In come from tho local office. For Illegal Voting. Iji rSrnmln. Marrh 1C. T. S. Till- son, formerly a brakeman on tho O. It. & N., Is under bonds at this place fnr lllnnal votlnc. attemntcd at the city election on Monday. Chicago Wheat. Chicago, March 1C. May wheat opened 97, closod flC; old July opened 03, closed U24; now July opened 02, colsod 90. July corn opened 52,- closod 50. HE- WTNESS DESCRIBES THE BUTTLE DF CHEMULPO Bishop Moore Was Present, on Board a Russian Liner nonading That Shook the Earth and Sea. -Can- He Describes it as an Unequal Contest Graphic Description of the De struction of the Variag and the Korietz Hundreds Were Killed and Hundreds More Were Wounded St. Petersburg Writer Makes Out the Military and Naval Superiority of Rustta and Her Ultimate Vie tory Estimate of Japanese War Expenses felnce Commencement of the War Russian Spies in Berlin. Wilhelm to Gibraltar. Vigo, March 16. Kings Wilhelm and Alfonso lunched at noon togeth er, after which the emperor sailed for Gibraltar on tho Koenlg Albert. DEATH PENULT! FOLSOM ESCAPE WAS FOUND GUILTY. OF KILLING MILITIAMENr Helped In the Fight With Posse and Militia at Victory Mine Last July Six of the Escapes Are Still Unac counted for. Only Surmises Exist istlng as to Their Whcreaboutc Possibility of Death or Escape. Placovllle, Col., March 16. A vor diet of murder In tho first degree was rendered In tho Wood case this morning. t Wnml' 1r nnn of tho convict urlm nsrnnrul frnm Flllsom last July and who engaged In a battle with tho Bherlff's posse anu militia ai uruuu Victory mine, in this county In .ilch Iwn rnnn ninm lmrs of the militia. were killed. Wood was tried for the murder of ono of theso men, festus Ituthorford. Tho extreme penalty was Imposed and ho will bo hung, Six of the 14 mon who escaped are still at large. It Is belleveu tnui two aro secreted In San Francisco, fimt rtna ,itni nf nvtinKiirn and starv ation in the mountains (admittedly unprovon.) and that tho whereabouts of tho romalnilor aro noi even am mlsed, though thoro is a strong proh ability that thoy reached Mexico. FOR SUNDAY CLOSING. Walla Walla Citizens Petition the Cltv Council for Observance of the Law, Walla Walla, March 10, A pot!' tlon signed by ovor 200 citizens ask' Ing for Sunday closing, was present od to tho city council last night. Tho petitioners clto tho Increase of Sabbath desecration and ask tho council to act immediately In tno matter of closing the saloons all day on Sunday. The petition was refer red to the police committee of the council, which will investigate tho domand for Sunday closing, beforo making tho order. NEW WHEAT CENTER. San Francisco to Be a Rival of the Chicago Pit. Walla Walla, March 16. Indica tions In wheat centers now point to a radical change In tho baso of oper ations and It Is llkoly that tho crop produced this year will bo the first to bo handled largely from coast markots Independent of the great in fluonco Chicago has exorclsod for ages past. Trading by Northwest wheat mon may bo transferred, as a rosult of tho rocont San Francisco exchange rul ings from Chicago to tho Bay City. Tho San Francisco markot will hereafter recognize Walla Walla and bluo stom whont for dollovorlos on contract, something which hos boon Prohibited in tho past and which has provontod Northwest speculators from participating In tho California markot. A mmintnln n nliim .AAA fnnt 1, 1 I'll -' .. .. vv.1,1 ti I.IIIIM IUU, ( and ton mllna In nlpAiimfnrAiipn hns boon discovorod In China. Cincinnati, O., March 10. Bishop More, Methodist, witnessed the na val battle between Russians and Japanese at Chemulpo, and vividly describes the clash In a letter to tho Post.' The bishop left Shanghai February G, In a Russian liner, which anchor ed tho morning of the 8th off Che mulpo, near tho Russian cruisers Variag, and Korletz. Not a Japanese ship was In sight then. At 4 o'clock the next day, Japanese warships, 12 In number, steamed in and anchored. Threo thousand troops wero landed and six cruisers anu torpedo boats withdrew eight miles and formed a lino across the channel. On the ninth the Japanese consul notified tho Russians to leave the har bor, and the ships were stripped for action. At noon they sailed out, and shortly the roar began. An Unequal Combat. Fifteen minutes wo thought would suffice to end the unequal combat, and earth and sea shook under the awful guns. Thirty minutes, 40, 50, two hours, and unable to break tho cordon. Though scorning to surren dor, the Russians swung around and steamed back to their anchorage with flags flying. ."SjUre of their prey, tho Japanese resumed their station In the road stead blocking the only channel. The four-funneled Variag, evidently bad' ly wounded listed to port. The Ko rletz wa3 apparently uninjured. We hastened to row out of Sampan. We saw no scars on the the Korletz, al thought the sailors wore putting paint on the hull aB If to conceal rents. Wo asked an officer with a bandaged head how they fared. He replied that he had no chance. The Variag was evidently sinking. Tho mortally wounded were crowded amidships. A huge rent was in tho upper works. two funnels were riddled, the bridge was a mass of twisted Iron. A lieutenant on that bridge was toru to pieces, his right arm was found holding tho signal flags. Removing the Wounded. Bouts of the other warships In the harbor began to remove tho wound ed. A hundred word more dead than alive. It was pathetic, tho tender ness and veneration with which the men hauled down the czar's portrait. The United States ship Vlcksburg's lifeboat helped to remove the men. We sailed with the first officer of the steamer Sungarl, on which wo came. Ho Indicated that all was lost. Shortly we saw men on tho Korletz hurrying bolow as If to scuttle nor. Now the men are hastening to leave Korletz. We are within a few yards of her last two boats as they put off. It is 20 minutes of 4, and we recall the captain's words to hasten to our rowers. There Is land surmounted by a rovolving light, bIx hundred yards away. Wo laud, climb Its sum mit. Tho hands of our watches do noto four, Korletz ,Blew Up. Instantly a terrific explosion was soon on the Korletz, almost simulta neously aitfitber followed. Two malig nant columns ot smoke and debris leaned writhing and twisting upward as though thoy were two monsters In mortal combat. As their black bodies pull apart for a moment, the sinking sun, tearful with films of haze, shone through and listen through the blackness comes the rain of falling fragments from their ruined ship. Now coiin.3, stately and grand from the French shin which has been mado an sHylum for her crews, the malestlc cVint of tho Russian na tlonal hymnat once their new oath of allegian.tj to the czar and a requi' cm for thejr lost ship. Now fleri'ii fires race In the bunk era of the Variag. She has outlived the sun. but at 0 o'clock, with a great shudder, tb'L' huge levlathlan urns on lie. f'iuo find uler. Onlv the Sugarl remains and sho, too, sinks Jowly, a burning, roaring furnace. to have been caught with Incrimlnat ing documents on his person reveal ing him to bo a spy, Captain lvkov was court-martialed on tho spot. Tho official announcement Is, "Kx eluded from tho service" Riots at Buda Pett. Buda Pest. March 16. During the celebration of tho Hungarian revolu tion of 1848 Tuesday, a crowd of students and workingmon smashed tho windows of tho palaces of tho king and Archduchess Clothllde bo cause they were not decorated, Tho police charged the mob, Injuring several. Will Canvass Miners' Votes. Indianapolis, March 10. Tho feel ing at miners' headquarters this morning Is that a striko has been averted. It is estimated it will take two days to count the vote. Tho canvass will begin tomorrow. SCHIJDL BOARD MEETS TONIGHT Expects to Take Action Upon the Suggestions Made by tho Mass Mooting. Propatria la Safe. Halifax, March 10. A St. Plerro Mlquelon dispatch ennouncps the safo arrival this morning ot tno steamer Propatria, mony days over duo with 60 passengers and crow. Duke of Cambridge Very III. London, March 16. Tho Duko of Cambridge, Queen Victoria's aged cousin, was seized with hemorrhages from tho stomach this morning, nnd It is feared the end lo near. John Flood Dead. Now York, March 16. John Flood, tho pugilist, who onco fought Sulli van and lost In tho eighth round, dropped dead this morning. French War Preparations. Vienna, March 16. Tho French government has ordered 150 torpe does from tho Whitehead works at Flumo. MORMONS WILL Campcrlsons Favor Russia. St. Peteisburg, March 16. The Journal todhy prints a comparison of the opiKislng forces of Russia and Japan in the? war in the East, saying that RusBlailias superiority In land , . . 1 . T C n t. . f in l.ii, la f'.l. Is compensated in artillery at. Rus sian coast forts, vaior or hushiuu BailorB and tho necessity for me jap nnnct, fn en n tin tt it Tinmher of war shlpB as transport escorts to guard communications, There is no. doubt as to the issue of a naval war being the destruction of the -Japanese Heel, it is oniy question of time when the Baltl eminiirnn innt; or Its atiuearance I Eastern waters under tho most brll llant of Russian admirals. Tho article was apparently writ ten free from bias by public opinion Japanese War Expenditures. London, March 16. Reuters' Tokio correspondent states that tho Japan eso war oxpendituru slnco December Is estimated at $208,000,000. NVADE CANADA Hard Marching In Manchuria. Port Arthur, March 10. Advices aro that everything is quiet, l rom Fen Hun Yeng reports are inut uus slan soldiers aro showing admlrabh fortitude In tho difficult march over trozen tracts in Iiast Manchuria. Ruined and Suicided. Berlin, March 16. Hyneslk Hong first secretary of the Korean lega tion, Huiclded today. Financial ruin as a result of tho war was tho cause. Expelling Students. TWIIii. Mnrrli 1(1. Thirty ltliHsiun students. Including women, were ex pelled for participating lu a meeting protesting against the government iiermlttlni: Russian police agents to operato in licrlin. Captain lvkov a Spy. St, Petersburg, March 16, Alleged PENDLETON IS AN EDUCATIONAL CENTER Rev. W. S. Holt of Portland, a member of tho board of trustees of Pendleton Academy, Is In the city to day, In tho Interest of tho academy, and In speaking of that Institution to tho East Oregonlan, said: "Tho academy Is mooting with hearty support from the people of Pendleton, nnd we hopo to Interest all sections of Eastorn Oregon and Washington In the work of thlB Insti tution. "Aside from tho Mothodlst college at Milton, tho Pendleton academy Is tho only Protestant school in oiincr Eastorn Oregon or tho Eastern por tion of Wnshlncton. aud Pendleton being located in tho hoart of tho rich Inland Empire, should attract a largo attondanco from all portions of this great territory. "Wo expect to bogin a campaign this year, for oxtondod pntronago, not from Umatilla county alone, but from ovory section of country tribu tary to this school. ' "Tho work Is thorough, tho corps of teachers tho post to bo had, and wo fool that tho people of tho adja cent country will approciato tho facil ities we offer for an academic educa tion right hero In their midst. "Tho academy does not come In conflict with tho public school. It furnishes an education not to bo ob talnud In the public schools, and it will make Pendleton in future, as it has In tho past, tho into educational center of tho Inland Empire. "It will bring to this city a largo number ot active, energetic, moral young men and women, who help ev ery community, nnd Pendleton can well afford to second the efforts ot tho management lu sustaining tho standard, uiu influence und scopo of this institution. "It adds a wealth to tho eity that would not como otherwise. It at tracts outside money und population horc, and in Its wider field, which wo hopo to fully cover in tho future. In Eastern Oregon nnd Eastern Wash ington, this Institution will make Pen dleton a place particularly Bought af ter by a largo clasa of peoplo lu this great eniplro, in securing for their children, tho best religious, educa tional and moral training to lio had in the state," ADVANCE GUARD NOW SEEK i ING TO LOCATE A COLONY, Utah Settling Up so Rapidly That Openings Must Be Found for Sur plus Population Mormon Adapts Himself to Conditions of His New Home Canada Will Receive Large Settlement of Latter Day Saints, Immediately. (5. E. Kklttnd and 1J. C. Manderson of Halt Lake, were in tho city this morning between trains, en routo to CjiuuIii. where they go to prospect for a Mormon colony In Alborta. Utah Is seining up so rapidly that the Mormons aro searching tho West diligently lor ovcry possible chance for a colony. Theso men aro tho advance guard of an Immigration into Canada, which will begin oh soon as thoy report to Utah. Thny spunk in tho highest terms of Eastern Oregon anil havo many Irlfiids In (Irand Rondo valley, who havo louinl good homes and aro mak ing a comfortable living In that val ley. They say tho Mormon adapts him self Id the country In which ho lo eaten. His ability Is nut confined to one linn of Industry. In Utnh lie is the variegated farmer. In Idaho ho is tliu stockman and minor. In OrO' mm he Is tho sugar beet raiser am: fruit grower, and In Canada ho will b- tho wheat king or iho Nortliwest Thoy expect to lead a largo sot tlemeut to tho Alberta country, per haps not In tlmo for this season's crop, but In ample tlmo lo bogln next year. SERIOUS SITUATION. Record Breaklnn Disastrous Strikes Predicted for New York. Now York, March 10.--Tho local laobr situation Is assuming a serious phase. Twenty thousand men aro idle and tho number may bo increaS' ed dally. Ten thousand iituograpn era aro likely to bo locked out bO' fore nightfall. The open-shop policy and arbitration agreements aro tho principal causes of dissension. It is predicted ttio disastrous bidko of last summer will bo completely overshadowed by tho forthcoming struggle, which is expected to culmi nate In a lifo aud death fight between employers aud employes. TO ASK FOR 62,000 IS DEEMED INADVISABLE. Added to the Other Fiscal Burdens of the Dlttrlct, Especially the Unusu ally Heavy State Tax, the Limit of the Law Would Impose Too Great a Burden Expense of Buying a Site Is Expected to Be Formidable Complex Issue Is Preiented. LOCKOUT IN SACRAMENTO. Citizens' Alliance Organized to Aid Employers. Sacramento. March 16. All tho omnloyea of tho Building TradcB Council aro out oxcopt tho carpon tors, electrical workers aud mill hands. Tho union men say it is a lockout which the omployorB dony. A Citizens' Alllanco was formed last night to take a hand In beholf of tho employers, Was Operated On. Portland. March 10. Edward Uoyco, of Butte, ox-prosldent of tho Wostorn Federation ot Minors, un derwent an operation for appondlci tis lu a local hospital today. Tho school hoard will hold a meet ing this evening at which plans will bo discussed for tho government ot tho hoard in Issuing a cull for tho proposed bond election, The Limit Is Impracticable. Tho board does not think it wlso to call for such a largo Issttu as was advised by tho muss meeting. Such a sum would bo oxccssivo at tins tlmo, taking nil things into consider ation, and It would only result In tho,,. defeat or tho proposition. Tho district's share of tho coun ty debt, ot th city debt, and of tho unusuatly heavy state tax, Is too great to usk for moro than 1b abso lutely needed, and tho board will not think of such a proposition at this timo. Thoy realize tho generous In tonttons of thoso who advised tho larger call, nnd of those who ngreud to do ail in their power to bring tho election to a successful termination, but they think Hint It would bo ask ing too much of tho peoplo to expect thorn at lhlf tlmo to vote tho limit ot the. dUitrlct'H legal Indebtedness for schoolibouds, JnuiJlirV- 'OuMi.'Wlli.bo askpij for,, has nut aM yet bee" 'iteelded,' imt"te Is tho. opinion of tlto board that. tho original reqttoHt. for $30,000 would bo all that they should expect of tho peoplo now, und In all probability this amount will bo called for. Don't Pay Too Much for Site. Tho plan for u central building of 16 rooms would be a good ono, but for ond thing, and thut Is that u coif tral situ would eat up a $00,000 bond lssuo and leave nothing for tho erec tion of the buildings. Ho, unless some property not known to tho board at tho present tlmo could bo found at a greatly reduced figure, tho plan for tho big building Is but a dream, ami Impracticable. Tho best wuy out of tho woods, In tho opinion of houio of tho board and many of tho citizens, would bo to build an eight-room building at some point lu Eust Pondlotoii, mid to oroct a four-room house on tho north sldo of Iho river. This would glvo all tho room necessary for a long tlmo, ami would miiko tho bundling of tho pu pils of tho school easy for tho teach ers, und convenient for thu pupils, All theso things will bo gone over at tho meeting tonight, and somo plan formulutud winch will bo sub mitted to tho peoplo at tho election soon to bo called. BOTH 8IDE8 CONFIDENT. Fraudulent Voting Charged in Port land Primaries, Portland. March 10, (Special fo tho East Oregonlan.) Senator Simon at 2:30 o'clock issued a statement lu which ho says: "I urn Buro thut wo havo won." Judgo Coroy sold, "Of courso, I expocl u Mitchell victory," Simon has madu unexpected gains on tho East Sldo, which was rccle oncd to bo strongly for Mitchell, but tho Mitchell Btipjlorters say that tholr heaviest voto will bo cast lato In tho afternoon. Much fraudulent voting is charged, particularly against tho olectloneeilng forco ot tlm Portland Club gambling houso. Tho registration Is 2,000 heavier than It was last year, anu mo voio ia in creased almost in proportion. Prob ably 12,000 or 14,000 votes will bo cost. William II. Miller, a Scotchman 70 years old, is dead at Oroton, i.onn. im wns n survivor of tho chnrgo of tho IJght Brigade at Balaklava, in 1852, when ho was 24 years of ago. Prince's Chums Rebuked. Berlin, March 10. Eight young officers of the Emper or's Guards, friends of Crown Prince Frederick William, have boon transferred from Pottsdam to remote garri sons. Thoy aro sold to havo lod tho prince into many scrapes.