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AqJ OAILYEVENINGEDITION J ,ltv Is not too I, one a classmen . M solve U for you. PENDLETON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OTJEGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1904. NO. 0O15. 1 tiMQQVCti i WEATHER FORECAST. -nsiisssfc Tonight ami Thursday fair. " BBBBBi'r heavy frost tonight, -r Thursday. . 0D I NT AT to 2 FAILS PROVE ALIBI iitminou3 and Devious S6Lc nf the Trial of Prr!o a Bo kin. ARGUMENTS BEGUN FOR DEFENSE. L onct Tried to Enlist as for the Philippine Service ticni Taken to Aspersions Un. Botkln's Character Lid Claims the State Has Lrevtn a Single Definite Nor Identified Her. fl.m f!al.. Anrll C. The lii the Botkln trial placed It witnesses on tho stand The state opened this I wfth evidence in rebuttal. WHn was first called to tho admitted she wrote a Governor Budd asking to tin the Philippines as a be stain exnects to nrovo lirltlng of the letter Is tho Lliat on the candy box. trie Smith, cook at tho B hotel, where the prisoner I the statement mado by 3 on the stand that he vis- Rillilii Sunday. Jnlv 31. fhj the candy was bought. 1 Dr Terrlll visited Mrs. a i week day. She gave T evidence In sunnort of Bent, practically destroying Uin's hone of bulldine an I tilt direction. i the State '"Fell Down." mclsco, April 6. Tho clos- nent for the defense In the lease began this morning. pey McGowen opened and i all the morn ne and a nor ths afternoon. Knight, ns counsel for the defense, will lis argument tomorrow morn- tct Attorney Boylngton will ivi-, anu me case will juij iQmorrow ailernoon. utnouncea tne prosocti- v"s aspersions on Mrs. I CQararter u a l. In the Indictment .nu I even a gooj motive not be pwn. He lata It that no evidence had been i that Mm Hau. 7 fto Iih v jT C4U1ao anu ox-XL?f."nnlng rn u ... lual tnero was Identification of tho prls- S1X MONTHS AND $2,500. One of Kansas,' Sllver.Tongued "Re deemers" Gets a Sentence. St. Louis, April 6. Senator Bur ton was this morning sentenced to bIx monthB In tho Iron county, Mis souri Jail and to pay a fine of $2,500. Mr. Burton was In court with his attorneys, very nervous. His hands and limbs shook visibly. Judge Adnms said: "Tho sentence I impose is light compared with tho crime you committed, but because this sontenco will prevent you from over holding public office again, I believe you will And the penalty se vere." Burton declined to make any statement, either to tho court or newspaper men. IN SUPREME COURT. Case of John Turner, English Anar chist, Being Heard. Washington, April 6. The su premo court today listened to argu ments in two Important cases. United States vs. John Turner, tho Englishman ordered to be deported by Secretary Cortelyou under the anti-anarchist section of the Immi gration law, and the United States vb. Thomas Walsh, or James Ltnch ohaun, whose extradition is sought by tho British government for an al leged murder In Ireland. PRESIDENT SMITH WILL TALK. Will Address Mormon Conference on Certain Issues. Salt Lake, April C. It is under stood ncro that President Smith, of tho Mormon church, will this after noon make a statement to tho as sembled Mormons in conference rel ntlvo to tho attitude of tho church regarding politics, polygamy and othor matters brought out in tho Smoot Investigation. HEARSTS 1R ON COIL TRUST THE SUPREME COURT ADMITS TESTIMONY. California Editor Wins a Contention Denied by the Entire Republican Party and the Manipulators of the Coal Trust, Who Must Now Pro .duce Their Records. KANSAS FOR HEARST. A" Docratlc Primaries l n mat sute. Biinls. uji Is held . . , uounly cn- Imaloua th0 tatc. I that wr . aro among to 'rooted for k of de fDs.tructee. Almost fatlD n state convention In M .. reaQy accounted f leaden,0 countia to hear -Zt? erst Is laCn(Aedrl6;rA rcsoll'tion LW .i,. 'a the senate this K. 7? ZUtb nf a n . "7 rE8TE0 ON 8USP.r-.nM h- sue'the betted ia,t XJ. 6--Krank wopiicity "ft on suaplo-toW-op. vv tho, 0reKn ox- lid, lpri," '"Da III. a r,p,e' now 8coh., 1 the ti 8 ramlng, 5bone wW6 06 and cuttt tt8 'ea(llne north . Washington, April C. Thr sujireme court rendered a decision in favor of "William Randolph Hearst ln his suit against the coal trust. Tho court has decided that Mr. Hearst, as a citizen, has tho right to do what all or the republican of ficials at Washington said was out of question; namely, prosecute and expose the trust, President User and his partners ln tho fuel monopoly, must now pro-1 duco tho records and give testimony , Unions and Company Both Prepar FACTS ABOUT THE PAPER TRUST Brought Out by Investigations Into the Increasing Price of the Product, METROPOLITAN PAPERS ARE MAKING BIG SQUEAL, Business Managers of New York World and Times Testify, Saying That Some of the Great Papers Are Threatened With Bankruptcy Because of the Trust White Pi per Has Advanced Thirty-three Per Cent In the Past Two Years. Washington, April 0. The house committee on judiciary today had hearings on tho Lilley resolutSons to request the secretary of commerce to Investigate the causes of the present high prlce& of white papar used In printing newspapers, the great scarcity of tho Kump, and whether said conditions are a result of a conspiracy hi restrarnt of trade. Don Zetz, business manager of the New York World, John Norris of the New York Times, representing the American Publishers' Associa tlon, gave testimony suowlng the In ternational Paper Company dictates the price, which has gone up 33 per cent in two years, and stated that six New York papers will face a de ficit within the next few years on account of high prices. The company not only dictates prices, hut prescribes the width of rolls. Paper in Now York sold at $2.50 per hundred, is sold in Eng land for $2.08 by tho same company. COAL AND COKE DEAL. Prelude to Building a $30,000,000 Plant at San Diego. San Diego, April C Subject to ap- provll of title by attorneys, the Pa cific Steel Company today closed ne- gotlatlons for the purchase of 4,000 acres of coal laud, together with the railway and coko cooking plant owned by the Tacoma Coal & Coke Company, located 42 miles from Ta coma. Purchase price, 05,01)0. The plan Is lo ship coko by steamer from Tacoma to bo used by a S30, 000,000 Pacific steel plant to be es tnbllshed here. SANTA FE AFFAIRS. which they refused to give at the hearing. The decision of the supreme court means that Mr. Hearst has kept his promise to "Smash the coal trust." NORTHERN SECURITIES AGAIN. Hearing on a Restraining Order to Prevent Reducing Stock. Jersey City, April C Counsel representing the Contiuentnl Secur ities Company today secured from Vlco Chancellor Borgon an ordor re quiring the Northern Securities to show cause why it should not bo re strained from voting to rwluco its stork at tho .annual meeting, April 2S. Ing for a Struggle, Washington, April C The execu tive board of tho International Asso ciation of Machinists is In session hero considering tho Santa Fe dis pute. Pending roturns on a refer endum vote, the ooard Is endeavor ing tp obtain an amicable settlement. Scraper, Chicago Grain. Chicago, April C. May wheat opened 9394, closed 94; old July opened 87, closed 88; new July opened 85, closed SC. July corn opened 52", closed 52. Telegraphers Strike. Toronto, April C Xho telegraph operators of tho Great Northwestern Telegraph Company, struck today, pending tho reinstatement of ftvo men discharged because they -aro members of tho union. Pennsylvania Republicans. Harrlsburg, Pa., April C John H. Elklns was nominated by the re publicans for supremo court Judge hy acclamation. The platform In structs for Roosevolt. New Extradition Treaty. Washington, April C. Secretary Hay and Minister Quesada this morning t.lgned a treaty for the ex tradition of criminals between Cuba and iho United States. Morgan and Daughter Sail. Now York, April C. J. Plerpont Morgan anil ilnnchlnt- an Moil nn tllO Oceanic today, donylng their Inten tion to permanently locale abroad Pending Arbitration. Now York. Anrii r. qi virion thous and bricklayers and laborers ro siimod worl; this morning, ponding arbitration, They tmvo been idlo "too months. J Strike 'Not Imminent, Los Angeles, April 6. Officials of tho Santa Fe deny a strike is imini nent, but preparations for defense In the event of disorder arc going for ward. A large number of deputies and sneclal nol cemen have been sworn In to help. JAPANESE BURN A RUSSIAN TOWN Almost Constant Skirmishing Along the Lower Yalu, in the Vicinity of Wiju. DRASTIC MEASURES ADOPTED IN SIBERIA. All Public Meetings Prohibited, and the Government Will Try to Pre vent Combinations to Keep Up Price of Necessities Russians Are Dally Expecting an Attack on Nlu Chwang Japan Has a World Wide Dream of Commercial Empire. CHIEF OF POLICE FIRED. Result of Exposures Made by the Los Angeles Record, Los Angeles, Cal., April 6. Tho resignation of Chief .of Police Chns. Elton was accepted by the police board this morning. Kx-SherllT W. A. Hnmmel "was appointed to suc ceed Elton. This is the result of a long fight mndo by tho Los Angeles Record, which openly accused Elton of pro tecting Crlts' gambling resorts. Tho fight was n bitter one, Elton at ono time arresting a number of Record employes at a card party. The police reported that sleuths are shadowing a number of the Record staff. PABVD WITH GOLD. St. Petersburg, April C Official reports from General Kuropatkin brings news of another skirmish be tween Japanese and Russians near Wiju, Kuropatkin says the Japan ese had five officers killed nnd the Russians several wounded, but none killed. The Japanese have devastat ed Yong Ampo. General Kuropatkin states that news of a fight comes from General Kashtaliuski, stationed near Turen chen Island, off Matturza, not far from Wiju. The Russians were ag gressors, volunteers making an at tack. Yong Ampo, destroyed by the Jap anese, was a Russian settlement iu Nortnwestern Korea. Tho Japanese put tho place to the torch. Sensational Gold Finds In a Califor nia Village. Stockton, Cal., April C .loo King, a mining mnn ' here from Calaveras county, today reportB a wonderful strike of rich grnvel in thu very center of the town of Mokolummi Hill last Sunday. Dirt that pays from $3 to $17 to tho pan has been found In large quantities. King says oyer $00,000 worth of gravel Is already uncovered. Tho residents are wild with excitement nnd aro dig ging in their dooryards. TRAFFIC STOPPED. Serious Condition of Affairs on the Isthmus. Washington, April fi. Tho stnto department Is Informed Mint traffic across tho Isthmus of Pnnnma has been stopped because of tho labor strike. Orders were Bent to tho United Stntes naval commnnder in Isthmian waters to take such meas ures as may be necessary to protect Americnn prlvnto property. Proclamation in Siberia. St. Petersburg, April C. A proc lamation has been Issued In Siberia prohibiting holding public meetings, carrying arms, purchase of ammuni tion, or taking any action tending to raise the prices of provisions. Japan Has Great Dreams. San Francisco, April C. Harold Bolce, correspondent of the Book lovers' Magazine, was a passenger on the liner Korea today. Ho has been in Japan studying tho country from a commercial standpoint and has como over hero to observe tho effect of tho war on tho trade of Japan with this country. Speaking about conditions In tho Far East, ho said: "Japan expects to emerge from this war as the greatest power on the globe. If tho manufacturers of America do not wako up the Japanese will soon be superior in all the markets. They plan to make Japan the patron of civilization, and an educator and leader in tho world. A federation of Asiatic races is her dream. Tlere is little sign of war going on In Japan. REPUBLICANS FIX UP SLATE ARRANGE PROGRAM FOR NATIONAL CONVENTION Delegates From All Over the Repub lie Expected to Meet for the Pur. pose of Ratifying the Wishes of the White House Cabal It Says Who Shall and Shall. Not Be. Laying for Russian Gunboat. Other passengers on the Korea report that a Japanese cruiBor was outsido Woo Sung, waiting for tho Russian gunboat Mandjur to come out. There is little war excitement In any ports. CRISIS AT HAND. Unions Refuse lo Break In Outsiders Who Are Rooters. San Francisco, April 6. A crisis in the local street car situation is at baud, today being tho time limit set by the unions for breaking in im ported men, who, it is charged, are being brought here for tho purpose of taking old men's places. The unions sav if the men are or dered to break in tho outsiders they will refuse, nnd if discharged for ro- fusal It will bo impossible to prevent a strike. "STRIKE IS HELL." Bishop Spauldlng Is Getting Excited Over Labor Problems. Washington. April 6. Bishop Spauldlng, a member of tho late an thraclte strike commission, was bo fore tho bouse committee on labor today in support of tho I'oss bin to create a national arbitration tribu nal. Ho said Sherman's "war is holl," could well be brougnt up xo dato to read, "Strilco is hell." Three Were Asphyxiated. Piilinilnlnliln. Anril C Edward Hammond, Jacob Hammond and Os car Sorverson woro iouim uouu bed this inorning, nsphyxlated with Illuminating gas. Earthquake In Servla. Belgrade, April C. A sovoro enrth quako shock was folt throughout Servla last evening, doing great dam age at VrunJa. Russians Fight Brigands. Mukden, April C Tho Russians today routed a band of Chanchuses, south of tho railway, Tho brigands lost 10 killed and 20 wounded, and mo KUBSiuiis turee wounded. Relations Improving. Niu Chwang, April C General Kouropatkln arrived today and re viewed 4,000 troops composed of horse artillery, several field batter ies, four regiments of Siberian rifles, Cossacks and regular cavalry. General Kondratovltcb. command- ing at Nlu Chwang, says ho is pre pared lor tne Japs, whom ho ox poctod Tuesday, but failed to mater ialize. The relations of Russian authori ties with tho foreign residents Is Ira proving. Washington, April (!. Former Sec retary Root bus been practically de termlned upon for tho post of tem porary chairman of tho republican national convention. Senator Plntt, of Now York, had a ronferenco with the president this morning, during which the imilter was taken up, and after 1m left the president's nffico ho said ho thought Root would ho the mnn. Piatt, as well as Depow, who was nt tho Whito House with tho latter, did not take much stock In the sug gestion that General Horuco Porter should be groomed by tho republi can machine for the governorship of New York. DEMOCRATS MASS MEETING Large Turnout of Representa tive Members of the Party in Pendleton, DELEGATES NOMINATED FOR ALL THE PRECINCTS. They Were Chosen by Ward Caucuses organized From the Main Body Widest Latitude Possible Given the Individual Voters, Extras Be ing Put Upon All But One Ward Ticket, To Insure Greater Freedom of Choice. Personnel of Tickets. PERSECUTING THE JEWS. Mocking Cruelties Perpetrated Upon Them in Bulgaria. Berlin, April C Additional private auvices irotn impaianka, Bulgaria, state there wero anti-Semitic riots Tuesday., ino mous mulcted Injuries on their victims resembling those upon unnst. Ttioy gashed tho sides of tho JewB, drove nails in their hands nnd placed crowns of thorns upon their hoads. Tho authorities took onergctlo measures to crush the outbreak. The Bulgarian eovornment sup pressed tho news, trying to provont antagonizing tuo international Jew- Ish financiers handling Bulgarian loans. Gunboat Arrived. Washington, April C Tho United States gunobat Helena, stationed at Yinkow, Manchuria, all winter, arj rived at Shanghai this morning. GOUTHERN PACI. IC ELECTION. Entire New Board of Directors Elect ed at Annual Meeting. UjuIsvIIIp, Ky., April (!. Tho an nuul Southern Pacific election wiih hold today at Buachmont. Tho fol lowing directors wero elected: W. I). Cornish, George J. Gould, E. H. Harrlnian, Edwin Hnwloy, II. K. Huntington, James Hyde, O. II. Kahn, I). O. Mills, W. H. Pierce, J. H. ScliIfT, J. H. Peyor, J. Htlllrnan. C. H. Tweed, Maxwell Evarts, A- K. Vandcnvcnton. These will meet next week In Now York to elect officers. Only five at tended the meeting, representing inu,uw,vw niui'B uy proxy. TURKI8H INVASION IMMINENT and Relations Between Bulgaria Turkey Are Strained. Sofia, April C The Bulgarian ministry has decided to further re inforce tho guards on tho frontier, behoving u Turkish Invasion Imral nent. Diplomatic relations between Tur key and Bulgaria aro liable to ho broken today If tho Turko-Bulgarlan agreoment Is not signed. Kaiser and President. Berlin, April C Tho Magdo-Burg Ish Zeituug reports that tho era peror will visit President Louhot be fore ho returns. It is alleged tho Prince of Monaco has been asked to Invito tho inonarchs to his homo, simultaneously. Tho report hears tho mark of authenticity, Gold to Europe. Now York. April C Ono million eight hundred and twonty-nvo dol lars In gold was engaged for ship ment to Europe today. James McCarthy took a lighted candle and wont hunting for tho spot ln tho pipes from which gas was leaking In a Phoonix, Ariz., saloon, Ho found it, but his friends hod dif ficulty ln gottlug enough of him to- gother to hold a funeral over, Tho democratic mass meeting at tho court house which was culled for Inst oveutug wns attended by over a hundred represontntlveB of tho party who hnd gathered to holp make preparations for tho primaries ln Pendleton. Colonel Rnley, In the nhsonco of thu chairman of tho rentrnl commit tee, called thu meeting to ordor nnd stated Its object to be tho selection of u number of nominees who should liu put before tho prlmnrles on Thursday us lKisslhlo delegates to tho county convention. It was do elded by tho meutlng that tho rest dents of thu 'different precincts di vide into groups for tho nomination of precinct tickets. Each precinct then caucused and went to work on their representa tion, nnd ln a short time cumu In with their reports, which wero pro Hontcd to tho meeting as a whole, nnd sanctioned, In all of tho pro clnctB with tho exception of South Pcudlotou, more nominees wore named than delegates required, In order that thu voters at tho prlmnr les could havo some choice. Tho democratic leaders did not think that It would ho conduclvo to harmony and satisfaction in the party that they put out an Iron-bound slate, which tho voter must put In the box or leave alone. Thu nctlon of tho meeting was therefore madu an open as possible, so that there could be 110 (llHBUtlHlUCtloil. Tho democrats aro after the coun ty offices anil will light hard lo got them, nnd hy conducting tho prlmnr les nnd convention In a straight and open manner they hope to win to them ii number of those who are dlsHiitlBfloil with Urn conduct of things on tho other side. Personnel of Ticket. Thu tickets as mndo up Inst nlgnl for each precinct, wuro an follows: South Pendleton- Fred Marsh, W. R. Wyrlck, Bon K. Davis, Claude Penlund. Hoy Conklln. Henry Lntz. Eil linker, Charles HKKiirth, U. W. Garrett, J. F. Ross. August Stangler, Ed Coffiimn, I. N. U'lcliorsluiiii ; com- t inltteemiin, Claude l'c Miami. East Pendleton (17 men to bo elected.) Jess Allownu, Curl Cooley, Kobiirt Endlcotl. Lee Hakcr, O. Tur ner, Lee Brown, John Baker, Arthur Lnliig, George O'Dnnlcl, J. J. Htlll man, Frank McImIohIi, M. A, Under, V. II. Hale, William Hilton, M. L. Fix, J. 1! Rnley. A. C. Hulay, H. K. Cool;. Mike KciuIiik: 'oinm!ttemiin. H. J. StlllliKin. Pendleton -(13 to lie ulsctod.) Tom Mllarkey, Jr., Chariot Hhoolioy, George Ernst, J. it. .Moan, Jr., CIiiih. Leiler, Wllllitm linker, Frank (Iron llch, Otis Jones, Joo Hlnklo, S. H. Darnoll, WJnflelil Perry, Leo Teulscu, Charles Estes. committeeman, Tom .Mllarkey. Jr. North Pendleton (18 to be elect ed.) Cecil H. Wnde, A. Zniisko. U. J. Murphy, Paul Hommemgnrn, Fred Lantz, Miles Kemler, Frod Taylor, Charles Miirsh. W. W. Nyu, W. C. Mlnnls, John Garrett, J. T Bowers, W. H. McCormmnch, Ernest Temple, Winn Stewart, Leo Hold, Robert Yates, Eugeno lliilso, A. J. Black, J. 13. Boain, W. D. Hunsford, T. G. Halley, (). C. llurkuloy, O. J. Smith, William Humphrey. W. B. Atchinson, Will Moore, Goorgo A. Ferguson; committeeman, J- W. Mu loney. , Afii.r urovldlnu for Iho election supplies and printing tho tickets, the meeting adjourned. Five Were Killed. Mount Vernon, N- Y., April C, FIvo porsons lost their lives and another wss fatally burned ln a fire which de stroyed Columbia Hall, a' three-story frame, early this morning. Threo wero serlouti ly Injured. Tho dead aro: Na than Frye, a shoo dealer, his threo children and Bosslo Doerlng, a maid. Of 74 in mates, CO wobo ut least slight ly burned. Twenty minutes nftor the flro was discovered tho building collapsed. m