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LYEVENINBED1II0N J i inn nfford to do A ra.pf.r of people imZ not read newspapers If lao lo n r:lmnnm of those (, seek8 me i- to do. PEXDLETON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY ii, 104. roi- l7. NT(). 6037. 1 Ttt Jhs . DAILYEVENINGED1TI0N Xg llfc I jml&tiHH0HWA jjjte. Tonight fair light 1 ' " ; ------ - HIESE WIN A DECISIVE FIGHT Ipture Antung, at Mouth of folu, by Land and water ssault. IsSlANS BURN THE TOWN AND THEN .FLEE. ... I &.J U.j -i O r rv tllp. lops were ssiicu UJ rent From Gunboats and Armed Lrtant Captures of Munitions of Var Russian Battleship Aground It St Petersburg Plans of Rus ian Mobilization Sold by a Treach rous Official at Warsaw. ondon, May 2. The Central News joul correspondent wires that tho ranese victory on the Yalu Sunday i most complete, the Russian lines Bng thrown Into confusion and Hr retreat disorderly. SUMPTER EXTENSION. Narrow Gauge Road Will Be Built Toward Burns This Season. Baker City, May 2. There are some activity In railroad circles with the opening of spring and just as soon as the snow Is sufficiently off the ground and the roads In some kind of shape operations will begin by the Sumpter Valley Railroad company for the extension of Its lino from Whitney west and south to wards Burns, tho objective point in Eastern Oregon. The Sumpter Valley is now in op eration and has been for a number of years between Baker City and Sumpter, 32 miles, and for two years past, tho extension from Sumpter to Whitney, 14 miles, has been in opera tion and last summer the further ex tension from Whitney to Tipton, eight miles, the top of the divide go ing down into the John Day valley, was partially finished before snow came. The work will now proceed on through Tipton, Austin and towards Pralrio City, Canyon City nnd Burns. Just how far the line will be built this year President Eccles Is yet tin Lf ENTERTAINS IT IF May Day is Appropriately Celebrated by the People of the Hospitable Cannery Town. 0. R. & N. 'Company Furnishes Able Speakers School Children Take Part In the Excellent' Program One Thousand People Enjoy the Best Picnic Dinner Ever Served In the County School Teachers and Housewives of Echo Deserve Especial Credit for the High Success of the Entertainment Addresses by Prominent Educators. Two months ago tho citizens of tables were, filled twice and some of Echo, 'at tho solicitation of Col. R. them three times in accommodating C. .Tudson, Industrial agent of tho -the crowd. Free leu cream nnd lent- able to state. The steel Is on hand0. R. & X, organized a Farmers' onnde were served nnd not n rent of for tho Tlnton extension and the' Club, for the mirnosM or hnlrtln? min. 1 mrmnv u-nn t-ikmi for nnvthlni- mi tt,, marKet is easy ior immediate iienv- cntlonal meetings, discussing practl- picnic grounds. Details of the Battle. Hmdon, May 2. The Japanese bnlster. Hayashl, this afternoon ls- ied a later report by General Kuo- Iklr, regarding the Yalu fight and Ited Klulcng Cheng, Manchuria, trthcast of Antung. It reads: S"We advanced May 1 along three lads, driving the enemy before ua. brine the afternoon we carried the pe from Antung Sien to LIusheuko. "The Imperial Guards surrounded le enemy on thre sides. After se- fcre fighting we captured their guns, ksides horses and carriages. The leneral reserve corps is advancing long the I.laoyang road, the enemy feeing toward Feng Huang Cheng. I "The booty captured includes a rge quantity of arms and ammuni- ot and an officer" cry. cal farm questions, and ndding to Passenger and freight cars and lo-;the happy surroundings of farm life comotlves were purchased last year ! in every possible way. in sufficient numbers to operate the This club has held regular meet entire lino besides this the com-ings an(1 ha8 l)een addressed by pany Is building new refrigerator j 8orao of lhe most proranent agrlcul cars and cabooses and rebuilding lo-l.ural oxnerts in tho Xnrthwnst. it comotives. The distance from Tipton has aroused an interest in farm and to Austin is seven miles and from j dairying Industries, and has set tho Austin to Prairie City 17 miles. The,ue0i)le of Echo to thlnkinc on these subjects. The meetings of the club culmin ated In the farmers' picnic held at Leezer's grove near Echo, on Sat urday, which was the moRt success I ul country picnic ever held in Una- ia county. entire distance from Baker City by the proposed route to Burns is about 160 miles. Entire Band of Sheep Killed. Lakeview, May 2. Word has reached this city of the destruction of an entire band of sheep consisting The brief Bpeclal report contained or 2.300 head, belonging to Grube and the East Oregonlan on Saturday Parker, living north of Sliver Lake, evening was but the barest outllno. The sheep were being driven Into and did not do the picnic justice. Nevada to the summer range, when , but was used as a telephone news re they were met by a band of masked ,ort for the day. men, who tied the herders to a tree por three weeks the citizens of nnd Bhot every sheep in the herd to . Echo nave been preparing for this death. This makes 4.000 sheep" that ! e,ent. Committees of citizens have have been killed in that district this , uecn diligently working, women have spring. The cattlemen are determln-1 b(,en planning and cooking, the ed that Oregon sheep shall not cross the line Into their summer ranges. Russians Burn Antung. I London, May 2. The Japanese binister today Issued the report of pe cantata of the cimboat Mnva. hlch acted in conjunction with the' nd forces of the Japanese in Sunr lay's attack on the Russian line on he law, it confirms In a degree the eport that the Russians burned An- Bng. I A naval detachment, comprising pe Maya, Ujl and some torpedo boats iscenaed the Yalu and bombarded pe enemy, stlencinir tho enemy's nr. liUerr fire alter 30 minutes severe lodgement All then returned to Fongampho, with no casualties. -Japanese armed launches reached M"0Hg the same mornlntr nnrt rru inhed the enemy's Infantry and ar Perr After 30 minutes' sharp Pwtiog fire was seen rlsinc from the I0- Natives said the mutnv ftort spw setting the place afire. Battleship Aground. St Petnrwhiin. tuv o Tiw. ....... "n. ... .u wv UUeshln Orel Is iiirronnd m n Bn,l. Nt in the Neva, and it Is feared It De nifflcult to refloat her. Treacherous Russian Official. St Pclpr-buri; Mm- t (o ,,, 'he HiiHHinn nioKu r... .,,,.1.111 Rl'tnt. V ...in iui UIUUIU' r-i-u nave neon unlil tir,,,.h ,h. a Warsaw offlelnl. Now 'u nave a'-'-ordlnirlv l.oon ini.i MODE EVIDENCE IT E DID SMITH OFFICIATE teachers of the public schools have been drilling the school children for their important part in the program, and tho entire energy of the bustling community has been busy with the details of the picnic. The day was Ideal and thp grove selected for the picnic was In the zenith of its springtime glory, and everything worked together for the success of Echo, and her enterpris ing citizens. The Parade, The parade which formed on Main (.tern, in rtnnt u'lia Inrl yv thfft AT PLURAL 'MARRIAGE? !njargha of (he Jay and 1Q aldeg dec. orated in white sashes; the Queen ., .. ... of May. on a gorgeous throne, sur- Angus cannon oeneves , nat. nc uiu - . ,,. vf.rhead wi.h I Is Satisfied in His Own Mind," But Did Not See the Ceremony Per. formed Mr. Cannon Swears That He Once Told a Lie In Relation to the Plural Marriage Now In Controversy. PORTLAND MAN SUICIDES. Nt a Fortnn. . .. mi udmunng ana no "pe of Retrieving Hay 2 -H. W. Gowell. 'ortland Rice n .t. ' - NPecla 1.7." ' ' .eM ,D auvertialng Ifor Tea .h" .. cmc LoaBt- and lane vVl "u,cr,B'g iau in various folded 7m n dt'l,artment stores, sui- the 2, t0 recover' and bellev funeral Eatnb,crs 8lould pay for his Mni W."? aml dl8ea8o e Ger- aoers ami v por cont oi tholr " the ranv. T 7r Kval 01 ltie rno" "Wo6 aH ,"rl"e th0 war wltb the ls n W lBi H 18 ""wed the var a good start. Washington, May 2. Angus Can non, Jr., son of a former apostle of the Mormon church, deposed from the house because of his refusal to reject the political domination of the church, was examined before the sen ate committee on elections 'this morn ing, in the continuation of tho Sraoot case. He was called for tho purposo of re futing the testimony of President Smith that the latter bad no knowl edge of ever having performed tho marriage ceremony of Abraham Can non and Lillian Hamlin on a boat chartered at Los Angeles. The witness was always on friend ly terms with Abraham and loaned him his buggy to take Lillian riding. He did not see the marriage, but admitted having told several persons ho had. He was "satisDort in ins own mind that Smiui performed tho cer emonv and that, from what his sis ter said, she was Abraham's second wife. Lillian llvos at Salt Lake and has a child named Marra, and she is recognized as one of Abraham's wid ows." It develons that tho witness was closeted with Suioot this morning. Tv"r In the Tolls. TlTu 2-Ja""s Place i"arrl80n Bartt the n ,rlal t0(,av era ii i ih? , "8,mater gen n1 Bsrmi dPartment. other T hU olerk 01 fgarv . llar80s 18 that "'! ,8a,ri Tyner fr ""era in ... :', ann Errtf I,' a"a ca08 In this an arcomnllco Northern Idaho Flourishing. Alexander McPherson, stato horti cultural inspector, has returned .from Northern Idaho, where he appointed three deputy inspectors in Kootenai and Latah counties. The prospects for a magnificent yield of all kinds of fruits, said Mr. McPherson. wore never so bright. Not less than 250,000 fruit trees have boen sot out in tho northern section of tho stato this year. The weather has boen very favorable and the treos aro In full bloom. During his visit Mr. McPherson, who Is also dairy and pure food in spector, examined quite a number of dairies, including one at Wallace, which Is the largest iu the sttao. Thero are 200 cows In this dairy. llolso Statesman. If a man really loves a woman she doesn't have to conceal hor ago. flowers, followed; two decorated cars, bearing 100 school children, came next, after which came tho mayor and city council, speakers of the day and citizens in carriages, making a procession of carriages and horeebackmen over half a mllo in length. Everything at the grove was in snirinc. for Just such a picnic. Tho great cottonwoods wcro at their full leaf, and furnished ample shade; seats had been arranged and over 500 feet of tables on which the splen did dinner was to be served, were ar ranged. One feature of the dinner arrange ment, worthy of especial mention, was that the ' seats wore furnlBhed, plates, knives, forks and spoons were used instead of having the old- fashioned lunch, at which everybody stood up and ate with their fingers. The entire female population or Echo was deslgnateu as omciai waitresses to attend the wants of tho nlftilckers. and the service was so perfect and the general spirit of the day so hospitable and sociable, that it was an event never to be forgot ten. A largo crowd of Pendleton peo ple went down on No. 1, arriving at Echo at 11 o'clock, and was mot at tho depot by citizens or Kcno, witn carriages and conveyed to tho grove. McMlnn's band of this city, was engaged for the day and ndded to tho splco and variety of tho gen eral program. The meeting was presided over by Mayor h. A. Esteb. and after an in vocation by Rev. W. P. JInnett of Echo, a musical nnd literary pro. irram was rendered, which was well evidonco of care fill preparation on tho part of Miss rtotnaHnn Moorhouso and Miss Fran- colia Duncan, teachers of the Echo nubile schools, who ban cnargo oi this part of tho program. Picnic Dinner Unsurpassed. Following tho literary program, dinner was sorvod, and such a pic nic dinner. It l f to say. was never before served in this county. TIir variety of dainty and dellrato dlshoe and the abundanro of tho sup ply was in keeping with tho spirit of Krbo. In prfoarlng this happy rul ml' atlon of her educational cam paign among the farmers fcr 1.000 people were served and then fu'l baskets of provisions of all kinds wcro carried home. The Afternoon Program. After dinner, the program was re sumed and one of the most beautiful events of the day was the vocal solo by Mrs. Echo Miller, after whom, ns a baby, the town of Echo was named. Mrs. Miller was cheered heartily, nnd responded to an encore. The first speaker of tho afternoon was Professor C. L. Smith, editor of the Inland Fnrmcr of Spokane, nnd an experienced institute lecturer. He spoke on the general subject of home life, and esp'eclally on tho prospects before tho district sur rounding Echo, and said in part: "It was a pleasing revelation to mo this morning to drive over your beautiful valley, here, and survey tho possibility thnt lies before you. I am sure that very few people In this community understnnd just what this wonderful country means. Very few of us believe the actual facts about our home country until some strang er investigates and introduces us to our own. Wo are prone to forget, to overlook, to disregard and under value our surroundings, until wo seo a thrilling comparison made by some observer from tho outside. Admires the Thinker. "1 am an admirer of the man who looks Into facts. I admire the man who studies, who investigates, who observes. The specialist who studies and tho expert who experiments aro the frontiersmen of all sciences and Industries. Until these living and progressive spirits touch facts into being, with their unanswerable logic of experience, tho beauty of mnny a science lies dormant. "In farming, the rule holds good as In other sciences. Until you com pare results, and study to apply the laws of nature and adapt them to man's uses, tho best In nature lies Idle and dormant. "This morning In your beautiful Uutter Creek valloy, near Echo, I saw 100 homes In a district that must In time support 400 or more, just such happy, prosperous homes. Tho ad vantages here aro untold. Tho possi bilities are almost beyond belief. Tho rich soil and tho warm climate sup plemented with an abundnnce of liv ing water, make this the most Ideal homo district In tho West. Tho pro ductiveness of this land Is not to be measured by years nor crops nor tons If you conservo its forces by diversi fying your crops, and making It strong by growing variegated pro ducts. Must Cultivate Taste, "One thing that must precede tho best agricultural ago in tho West Is hotter tasto in keeping your homes. Your country Is advertised to the world by its appearance. Strangers read your sign on tho faeo of your farm. They read your standard by tho appearance of your barns, fences houses and roads. Your country ad mils of he highest excellence. You must make Its appearance to be In keeping with Its natural worth. "Drains need cultivation, Just as soil needs It. It Is Impossible to make the best out of your land by chance methods. You must study to bring out tho highest possible yield by brain cultivation. Wheat Kills the Soil. "I know entire counties In WIbcoii sin that were practically ruined by wheat raising. The soli was ex haunted and the country was roced lng Instead of advancing. At last providence favored tho country by sending n post of chinch bugs to eat up the wheat crop and drive tho farm ers to dairying and diversified farpi ing in order U live. Thoy began to prosper as soon as I hoy began to raise something besides wheat. They kopt tho richiHWH on their land by feeding dairy cows nnd fattening hogs. They saw Incomes swell as they multiplied tho products on tho farms, until those very counting oncu Impoverished by wheal raising, are now' tho best in the stato, the farms are the most productive and tho farmers' hank accounts tho InrgoBt. Farm Isolation I Destroyed, I am glBd t hut the former (sola tlon of farm Hf' has been destroyed I am glad that the home of the farm er is tulw supplied with nil tho lux uries nnd conveniences of tho ngo and thnt the city is gradually looking toward tho plensnnter home in tho country for Its best recreation nnd best enjoyment. "You must cut up your large hold ings. One man ennnot do Justice to even 40 ncrcs of this rich Echo land, while many of them are holding mid half way cultivating 400 ncres. Ono man cannot cultivate and care for tho Immense crops of diversified pro ducts thnt can bo grown from 40 ncres of this wnrm, rich, sandy land, nnd mnny of you urn spreading your selves over 200 and 400 acres. In tho hopeless endenvor to produce big crops. There is room for 400 homes within ii radius of 10 miles of this city, Instead of the 100 homes now found here. Imitating the Patriarchs. "Mnny Western fnrmors fnrm Just as Abraham, Isnoc nnd Jacob farmed. There tins been no progress excopt in tho manufacture of Implements In 5,000 years. When tho natural grass of tho country Is exhausted, these migratory farmers pull up and leave for nuother virgin field, instead of planting grass to supply tho deflc elncy. they leave the country n waste and go where nature has prepared another feast for them. "You must help nature. You must add n little sense and hrnln work to the processes of natural growth. Nat ural resources in nny rich country will gradunlly decline, If brains nre not mingled with cultivation to per petuate the forces of nature. "Ono of the beat examples of mi progressive citizenship I remember, was exhibited In the stato newspa pers of Minnesota, when the fnrmors organized a stato dairymen's associ ation. Tho papers said It wns non sense to dairy In Minnesota, and sneeiingly remarked that tho state dairy association mot In Rochester this year, but would meet In tho In sane asylum next. Todny, Minnesota is the lending dnlry stato In the Northwest. And to make n good dnlry country, you miiBt rnlso some thing besides alfalfa. Alfalfa alono Is poison to a cow. It makes no but ter fat, It diminishes tho strength of the milk, nnd Is dangerous feed. If fed alone. Mixed with other feed, It Is one of tho best fornge crops grown. "The land that will grow such al falfa as you produco here will grow anything In abundnnce. This coun try should 'produce 10 crops of diff erent varieties where It now produces (Continued on pngo G.) CRAIG TttOM MET INSTANT DEATH ECHO BOY ACCIDENTALLY SHOT BY COMPANION. GENERAL STRIKE OF MACHINISTS Santa Fo Railway Confronted With tho Greatest Striko in Its History, SIX THOUSAND MEN DIRECTLY 'AFFECTED. Believed That Nine Thousand Men In Other Departments of Santa Fe's Service Will Go Out From Sympa thyEight Hundred Locked out at Topcka Officials of the Compa ny Declare They Will Fight tho Unions to a Finish Strikes In Chicago and New York. Washington, May 1!. A goncrnl striko of iiiiicIiIuIhIh on the Santa I'o system hns boon ordered by Prosl. dent O'Conuull, of the International Machinists' Association, taking of feet at It, Western time, this morn ing. It will nIToct (i,000 momhers di rectly, and mny result In bringing out the bollermnkers, blacksmiths iti. coreworkers In sympathy. Will Affect 15,000 Men, Washington, Mny 2. Forecasting the probable extent of tho striko, O'Connel says 15,000 men will bo af fected. All nllled metal workors aro oxpectcd to quit work. Thero Is no prospect of tho transiMtrtiitlon depart ment being crippled nt prosent. Third Vice-President Kendrlck hns oxprcHscd a determination to fight tho striko to n finish. Lockout at Topeka. Topekn. Kan., May 2. Eight hund red employes of t lit) Santa Fo shops here were locked out this morning when they roportcd for work. A high fence encloses the plant. The mou were taken by surprise. "A Long, Bitter Fight." Chlcngo, May 2. Vlco-Presldonf Wilson, of the Machinists' Union hdro, says "A tactful policy on the part of tho company would have averted a strike. Now It will ho a long nnd hitter light." He bullovos the affiliated iinlono will take a hand. Three Strikes In Chicago. Chicago, May 2. Tho May Day strikes hero aro comparatively unim portant, consisting of 1,700 picture frame workers, 1,000 hoot and shoo workers and 500 InikerH. Party of Rabbits- Carrying Children Out Hunting Mllo Craig Who Wns 5,000 Out In New York. Now York, May 2. With tho ox (option of a striko of 5,000 wagon a Gun, Discharged It in and carriage makers, thu May Day Taking It From His Shoulders, the, labor situation of (lothnm Is ono of Bullet Striking His Friend in the j t'"8 year. Temple, Killing Him Instantly A Qu,et (n New Ennand, Funeral This Afternoon. ' Iloston, May 2.No serious labor ! disturbances In New England. Not Echo. May 2. Craig Thorn, a 12 year-old boy, was Instantly Killed near here Sunday afternoon by Iho ni'cldeuful discharge of a rllle, car ried by .Mllo (irnvcH. another boy. with whom he was hunting. The bullet entered the boy's head just in from of and above tho ear and piixM'd nut at tho back of tin head, death being The boys spent Saturday night at the home of Robert Tlioin. father of the dead boy, and went out with a rllle to hum rabbits uiid view lhe farm of the TIkuiih. The party of boys was made up of tho Thorn hoy the elder liiavex hoy ami Mix two little brothers. At first sight of a rabbit , Mllo (iiavoM. who was currying Iho gun, took It hurriedly from hln shoulder, nnd In doing ho, illHehurged It, the hall striking his companion, who was walking beside him. Peter Hhorhhtu, n neighbor, came by and found tho boys crying over the body of young Thorn, and linino dlnlely carried the boy to his home, a short distance away. , Craig Thorn wns tho ehli'Ht son of Ruber' Thorn, the well known farm er, living iiiiar kciio, ihiii .mho Droves Is the oldoMt son of K I). (JrttvoH. (). It. & N. agent al I his place. The in new I was Until at tlie M It church at 2 o'clock this ufteriioon. by Rev. W. P. Jliipell, mid luler- UM-llI .look place III Odd i-ollow cemetery hero. The accident Is peculiarly anil. because of Iho fact thai the TIioiik and Onives were old neighbors and friends In lowo, and had just renew- i'l tiieir ncniiii iilnnco and the clillil- ten were euJoyiiiu one of Ihslr first I visits after the arrival of the (Iruves family nt ISchri. o The Oruvos chlliiren went to .ho Thorn home after the Mav Dav h - . - . . . I nlc on Knitmiuy to npemi min nny on visit for many years, has tho labor sltua- I tlon been ho peaceful. MRS. VAN ORBDALL'S ADDRE88, Grand Guardian In California 8peaks to Joint Meeting of Woodcraft Clr cles. Tho Ban Francisco Call of a recent date contains an excellent address Instantaneous, delivered by Mrs. C. C. Van OrsdnH, beroro the Joint meeting of tho Alu ineda county circles of Woodcruft, ut Oakland. Cal., a few ilays ago. The mooting was ono of tho larg est ever held by tho Wonion of Wood craft In Oakland, and Mrs. Van Ors ilayy vus the principal spun lair, tho subject of her remarks being a re view of tho order slnco Its foundation. Editor Sentenced for Rape. Will In Wnlhi, Mny 2 Saturday night F. W. I). Mays, the voturun ed itor and preacher of Pomuroy, begun a thnio-yeur sontenco In tho state prison on n charge of criminally as sault Ing Ponrley May Pursuit, n young girl aged 15. Mays plouded guilty to tho charge In tho superior court at Pomeroy Thursday and Judge O. I''. Miller, sentenced him to serve three years In lhe penitentiary Texas Hailstorm, Kort Worth. Texas, May 2. The worst hailstorm In years swept thfi and adjoining coun ties last evening, Crops nnd fruit are rulnod. Ilalla of lco live inehoB In illanioter crush ed through tho rQula of Iiouhos mid traoa woro unrqptc-d. No llvun urn reported lost. Much sloplt wan killed. Torrouta of rain foil utter tho hull, scouring tho hillside lloldu to the Hub-soil