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YEVENINBEDmi npetltor advertises Sele which you yourself WEATHER FORECA8T. Tonight nml Sunday fair. PENDLETON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OliEGON, MONDAY, MAY 30, 1004. NO. 60GI. DAILY EVENING ED"fjOH I CAVALRY CflTTERED the Defeat the Jap- ise Invested Another In ior Town. bo BOATS LIE IN WAIT FOR BALTIC FLEET. !Jn Rear Admiral Has Been jt Port Arthur for Treason m Will Try to Entrap the lac Army In the Rear of Port Lby crushing It Between iFrom Port Arthur and From fcltkin'l Armies in rnonnern i Slay 30. General Kurokl re- ttst tie Japanese routed 2,000 caialrr near Yang Chang, 20 Lrtiwest of Kuantlen. The afterward occupied Al Yang ! Tien Is about 60 miles north- Tag Huang Cheng. WALL COLLAPSED. Several Persons Severely Injured by a New York Disaster. New York, May 30. By the col lapse of the wall of a four-story building, on Eighth street this morn ing, Paulina Virginia had an ear torn out, Samuel Malstern both legs broken, Jacob Cohen's body was lac orated and Max Levine had both legs broken. AH weto employes of a cap factory. The collapse was caused by cellar diggers removing too much earth next to the foundations. MONEY CR DEATH. Be The Moroccan Bandits Will Not Defeated In Their Purpose. Tangiers, May 30. The American cruiser Brooklyn has arrived here. Threaten Death to Prisoners. Washington, May 30. The bandits who kidnapped Perrlcardis and Var ley in Morocco, have sent formal no tice to the authorities that the cap tives will be killed unless the de mands made by the bandits are Im mediately complied with, according to a cablegram this morning from Con sul Gummero at l'angiers. Iipt In the Red Sea. fetersburg. May 30. Kuropat- a Japanese force march- , Kwadlangsang toward Sal- : Eastern Manchuria. fotoe Vremya prints a report I Said that a flotilla of Japan- i boats has arrived in the iKaiser to Kuropatkln. , May 30. The Tageblatt re st a German military attache ; uupatcied to the Russian t headquarters with a lone i letter from the kaiser to The kaiser has ordered flopmeat reports sent to him i tours. It to Entrap the Japanese. May 30. Reuter's Nlu wrespondent says the 1 tare planned to trau the ! bot marching on Port Ar- will await the Janan- t trader Port Arthur's walln ttpatkra Attacks from the Vi a Rear Admiral. May 30.-K!e!n's Journal to- M iaai Kear Admiral Ponse fJ laa been hanged at Port reason. Norman Williams Guilty. The Dalles, May 30. The jury found Norman Williams guilty of murder in the first degree, Saturday night, after being out four hours. The jury stood nine for first and three for second degree on the first ballot. Al though the bodies of the two Nesbltt women have not been found, the jury finds the circumstantial evidence strong enough to warrant conviction, SOLDIER DEAD LIVE III HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE Pendleton Does Honor to the Living and Dead of Three Wars, Irrespective of the Side They Championed. Eloquent and Appropriate Addresses Memorial Sunday and Decoration Day, Listened to by Large Assemblages Roll of Dead and Living Survivors of the Civil War, Both Confederate and Federal, and Roll of Members of the Grand Army Post of This City Beautiful Weath er and All Other Conditions Pleasrnt. Today Is the time when the old war ' the relatives and by veterans have the freedom of the city 'ut remaining. tho comrades and yesterday and today not only ' they, but the city as a whole, joined in the observances of Memorial Sun day and Decoration Day. Yesterday morning, at the Presby terian church, the members of Kit Carson Post of the G. A. R., together with a large throng of citizens, gath ered to hear Dr. W. S. Holt, of Port- Will Renounce Claims. Rome, May 30. It Is reported that the pope is preparing an encyclical asserting he Is prepared to renounce claims to all temporal sovereignty except in Rome. Grand Duke Is Dead. Berlin, May 30. Grand Duke Fred erick Wllhelm of Mecklenburg Stre Htz, is dead. AUDIENCE'S FAVORITE. "tanfield Aeaultted Hr..lf With Great Credit Wl contest held at La evening last wu3 Muaatlc and entertaining 1 fl as bv the :.,!. fcoreiw 1 nant"ed and tel? fKr J compo, am sne won the i . , v,ttce, ana 0 lot win th. nor r ueuvery, tho ithe.t.; Posing HDA araa ,. rwss .n ssi ihe Ktte dferi.u urons Deen iwiSE"? been ren. '"few.; ;r'o,e lola U4,,"," "m"e.ni one. , ----wis or the hleh Nbr riof the lady. loa. vuu, ana of the tu. --v rem tn ft4 i (mm 7 , u orao K?$lc ticket. Httr.!'uruton. who V1 Wace p Kcra at the hM..Zrewater and K, , furrow. ., ii '!eHartma-nr": H.Z",JE.Che. rff Uhd i ,candldates fota iia 'fading the NOT ENOUGH STUDY FARMING STATE GRANGE CRITICISES OREGON FARM BOYS, Says the Excellent Equipment t the Agricultural College should Induce More of Them to Study Practical Farming Work of the College is Well Done and More Farmers Should Be Turned Out. wi ln8 Match. n To thous. tie 'f'Pated to- 'Pari,!' piking BtriJ?. t. Cloud ;ot ;ce Were M! died. U, Ultry 11 J Corvallls, May 30. The Oregon State Grange closed Its session Satur day night, after a most successful meeting. One of the last things done by the session was the adoption of a report from the committee on agricultural schools, which is as follows: "We, your committee on Agricul tural college, find that 630 students have been enrolled during the current year, with an average dally attend ance during the month of 400. Among the seven courses of instruction pre sented by the college we And the stu dents distributed as follows: "Agriculture. C9: household scl- ence. CO: engineering. 100: raining engineering, 24; pharmacy, 47; liter ary commerce. Cu "Of theso students, about 110 como from Corvallls. Alpha Hall shelters about 25 girls, and an average of 80, ooya nave Doarueu during xne year at Cautborne Hall. "There are 83 instructors In the in stHution. Of these 13 have in charge tho work of the experiment station, besides somo class room study. More Farmers Needed. "When we consider the excellent equipment and management of the Oregon Agricultural college, and note the small number of our active far mers who have taken the agricultural course, or even its very helpful far mers' short course, we must report the progress of tho. Agricultural col lege still exceedingly slow. "So far as we can judge, tho work In the various departments Is very well done. We find nothing to criti cise in the quality of the work, nor in the manner of doing it. "Your committee considers tho sys tem of farmers' Institutes as of tho utmost importance to the agricultural interests of tho state, and wo should like to see the work enlarged by in creasing funds." The Macedonian's Last Resort. The Macedonian insurgent soldier is equipped very much aa are other soldiers, with ono oxception. uno distinction lies in his knapsack, a can vas bag slung over hla shoulder, in tho bottom of this 18 a pocKei. Comrade Shaw's Address. Comrade J. P. Shaw, of tho Lincoln and Garfield Post of Portland, made the address of the day at tho ceme tery. He said in part: "Comrades of the Grand Army, wo men of the Relief Corps and friends. I greet you upon this, tho annual fes Mval of our dead, In a spirit of lov and fraternity. land, deliver the memorial sermon. 1 Forty years ago wo blvouaced on The sneaker took for his text the the same campground and fought i first half of the 12th verse from the 1 the same battles. Wo did not need 89th Psalmt "The north ami tho anyone to introduce us then, and w smith. Thou linst rroatPit thnm." i do not now. On the 30th day of May His talk- was. in nart. of an historic the surviving members of the Grand nature. He treated of the spirit of Army assemble in the silent cities of the two people, of their past, and the the dead throughout tho country, to natures which dominated the two sec- strew flowers on tho graves of our ilnn nf thp rnnntrv. fin the nnp 1 comrades who have passed to tho haml was ths hot hlooil and Imneri- great beyond. We care not what hi nns tpmnermpnt nf thp South, bred rank was while In tho service of hi and fostered bv the old-world ances- country, neither do we seek to know try and the conditions prevailing , what Btation he filled in civil mere, in ine xsonn was me set ana life Whether he occupied high planes of honor, or trod the paths of lowliness but because ho was a comrade w keep green a soldier's grave and lion or his memory. "It Is upon occasions like, theso tho hi determined ideas of the descendants of the Puritans, the sturdy independ ence and love of liberty created by the hardships of the fathers, ho that when tho two peoples met In anger It was terrible In Its deadly purposojthat the past achievements of and intensity. i old soldier aro again fresh In From the conditions then the ! memory. We cannot forget tho mil speaker turned to the Bplrit of today, lion lives that were freely given. Rut and spoke of the harmony that now to my mind theso annual gatherings exists, and of the breach that Is i around the graves of our deml aro but healed. His sermon was short and i wasted efforts unless we learn some yet powerful and pleasing. nobler lesson than to destroy. Men The exercises were made more im- write or war as u me oniy tning 10 presslve and Interesting Tiy the spec-, bo Impressed upon the growing youth lal music provided by tho church, I wore tho virtue of physical courage The exercises of the day were under i and contempt of death. It seems to the direction of Rev. G. W. Rlgby, , that this Is the last thing that wo commander of the post. This morning the G. A. R. ami tho ladles of the W. R. C. met at Hen dricks' hall and went to the cemetery where the memorial services wen held under the auspices of the vet erans. The graves 01 inose wnu nan departed were strewn with flowers by need to teach, for since tho days of John Smith of Virginia, the men of the Mayflower, no generation of men has shown a lack of It. "Tho great war between tho slates nus been fought and a reunited coun (Continued on page 10,) PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT (IT GETTYSBURG Gettysburg. May 30. arrived at 8:30 after a rhr. nresldent out the length and breadth of tho i land. . . Moreover, this was ono of thoso from Washington. He occupied Uio j raro ennm n which it was to the private car Courier with .Mrs. itooae-; immeasurable, interest or. me van velt Miss Ethel, Miss Caro, Secretary . qulshed that they should lose, while . . ' f.,.w. tint.. Ihn vlntnrd ftpnlllred Loeb and Dr. Rlxey Breakfast was , pVi,, ofmlUlng served at Penmar. where most of tho , t() t,J()B() whf) vamo afu,r U)en,t aB night was spent. j heritage of honor forever, not only tv. n ntiio .miv.i that uathered Just tho memory of their own valiant before leaving the president spoko , deeds, but the memory of the deeds m . 1 ..lnir..m ..vnrPHHlrilf ' . . ' irom uie irai jm. ". " with eoual sincerity or purposo, the pleasure of tho jnoetlng. mo fouht aKanst tho stars In their train stopped at Reynolds avenue, courses. where the party entered carriages TJl0 war ,eft , us a8 fe1(iw and was drlvon over the uamenei i. countrymen, as brothers, the right to luncheon was served ai " rejoice that tho Union ban been re- Luncheon was served at tho i.agie Btomi n indestructible shape in a hotel. country whero blavory no longer mocks the boaBt of freedom, and also The President's Address. tho right to rojolco with exultant npMvsiiiirir. May. 30. In the pres- prldo In tho courage, tho self-sacrlllco enrm nf inn.nriO oeonlo assembled to and tho devotion, alike of tho men honor the noble dead of tho united who wore tho bluo and men who woro country. President Roosevelt deliver-, tho gray. ed tho followine memorial address on t He Is but a poor American who, the battlefield of Gettysburg. .looking as this field, does not feel Tho president said In part: . wimin nimseir a aeeper roveremo Thp nlaco where wo now aro has for the natlon'B past and a higher won a double distinction, jjeru fought ono of the great battles of all llmo nml hprp was snoken OnO Of tllO few speeches which shall last through the ages, As long as this republic en dures or Its history is known, so long shall tbo memory of tho Battle of Gettysburg likewise enduro and bo known; and as long as tho English innmio f understood, so long Shall Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg speech thrill the heartB of mankind purposo to make tbo nation's future iJso level o her past. Hero fought the chosen sons of tho North and tho South, tho Kast and tbo West. Tho armies which on this Meld contended for tho mastery were veteran armies, hardened by long campaigning and desperate fighting Into such fimtni ments of war as no other nation then possessed. Tho soverlty of tho fighting is at tested by the proportionate loss a Tho civil war waa a great war for , loss unrivaled In any battle of similar righteousness a War Waged JOr lUO 1 ltv mutu iuo tiune ui uiu inuiJuieumi; noblest ideals, but waged also in struggles; a jobs wiucn in coriam res .,nm,.h,.nw iirflptical fashion, it ! Iments wag from three-fourths to .... .r ?, ,v,o fpr wnr which mean. I four-flftbs of the men engaged. Every In their successful outcome, a lift to- spot on this field has its own assocla ward better things for the nations of , tlons of soldierly duty nobly done, of mankind. Somo wars have meant the supremo self-sacrlflclng freely ren nrchv and 1 dered. UIUIUJJU u ,7"7 I.',... Tho nmpa nf Ihn hlnfo wlm apruo.t T.1 lV " ' iicentiouBness masquerading as liber- Tho names or tho chlers who eorved and in this .Pocket Is a dynamite icent k U)(J tm arm)c8 fornJ a ,ong nonor bomb. This Is the Macedonian's "last resort." If ho is surrounded by Turks, he Ignites the fuse to bis bomb and blowaup, with as many of his ene mies as he can, for no Macedonian ever wants to he taken prisoner. He must choose between death and tor ture, and he always takes death. IV: some wars uavu uitawv ... . .. ... . umnh of liberty over tyranny masque-. roll, and tho enlisted men were wor dlng ai orderrbut this victorious I thy, and even more than worthy, of war of ours meant the triumph of both those who ltd them. Every aero of wur vi uwio .., ,m irmiinrl linn itn nwn imnnrlnHnnH. lihertv. tho bestowal of civil rights upon the freed slaves, and at the samo time the stern insistence on the su premacy of the national low through- this ground has its own associations Wo Bee whero tho flght thundered through and around the village of Gettysburg; whero the artillery form' od on the ridges; whero tho cavalry fought; whero tho hills wero attacked and defended; nml where, Anally, tho great charge surged up tho slope only to break on tho summit In the bloody sprny of gallant failure. But the soldiers who won nt Gettys burg, the soldiers who fought to a finish tho civil war ami thereby mndo their countrymen forever their debt ors, have left us far more oven than the memories of the war Itself. They fought for four years In order that on this continent thoso who enmu after them, their children nml their children's children, might enjoy n lasting peace. They took nrms not to destroy, but to save liberty; not to overthrow, but to establish tho su premacy of the law. Abovo nil wo moot hero to pay hom age to tho officers nnd enlisted men who served and fought nnd died, with out having, ns their chiefs had, tho chnnco to write their names on tho tablets of fnmo; to tho mon who marched nnd fought In tho ranks, who wero burled In long tranches on tho field of battle, who died In cots mark ed only by numbers In tho hospitals; who, If they lived, when tho war was over, went back each to his tusk on the farm or In tho town, to do his duty In pence as ho hnd done It In war; to tnko up the threads of his working life whero ho had dropped them when tho trumpets of tho nation pealed to arms. Today, nil over this land our people meet to pny rovorent homage to tho dead who died thnt tho nation might live; and wo pay horn ago also to their comrades who nro sjlll with us. All arc at one now, tho sons of those who woro tho bluo nnd tho sons of thoso who woro tho gray, nnd all can unite In paying respect to tho memory of thoso who fell, each of them giving his life for his duty ns he saw it; and all should be as ono In learning from tho deaths of thoso men how to llvo usefully whllo tho times call for the performance of tho countless necessnry duties of every day life, nnd how to hold ourselves ready to dlo nobly should tho nation over again demand of her sons tho ultimate proof of loyalty. s AG 1 GIT! E LOODED The James Street Bridgt Across tho Kaw Estuary is, Again Torn Out, FLOOD CAUSED BY RAINS IN INTERIOR OF KANSAS. Topeka Is Isolated From the Earf. Owing to Wholesale Washouts, an! the Hart Street Railroad Bridga. Has Been Carried Away At Otta wa the Water Is Higher Now Thaw It Has Ever Been In the History the Town and the Santa Fe an Missouri Pacific Are Stalled. BENCH F.F MAKES REPLY IS AN ENTHUSIASTIC BE LIEVER IN LABOR'8 DIGNITY. French Organized the First Manual Training Course In Public 8chools Made Special Preparation for Manual Training at Weston Earn, ed the Money Which Paid for His Own Education on the Farm and In a Factory. The East Oregonlan Is in recolpt of the following communication from President R. C. French, of tho Wes ton Normal school, li which ho clear ly and frankly doflncB his position on the subject of tho dignity ot Inbor, which was tho text for an editorial In this paper last Friday, and which took Issue with the reported Bland of Prof, trench on tho subject. Tim East Oregonlan cheerfully pub- IIhIich tho communication In order to make clear tho sentiment of Prof, French. Ills letter is as follows: Weston, May 28. (To tho Editor.) -No mm more heartily endorses tho sentiments expressed by tho editor of the East Oregonlaln In his editorial of May 27, "Is I.abor Degrudliig?" than I do, Ho fur from considering manual la bor degrading I have always been Its champion, and was tho first to Intro duce a systematic course of Instruc tion In manual training Into tbo pub lic schools or tho state, through tho work which for a number of years I supervised In tho Hlulo Normal school at Monmouth, It was In this course organized by mo, that tho teacher of Sloyd In tho city of Pendleton received tho propa ration for the work which ho has done In tho schools of your city. On assuming tho duties connected with my present position, ono of tho first things for which I provided was the Introduction of Industrial work which f consider an essential part of every well-arranged educational sys tem. Hhould tho editor of tho East Ore gonlan do us tho honor to visit mi ho would nnd students of tho Normal sahoo) and pupils of tho Training school at work with hammer, piano, chisel and taw, producing articles of utility and beauty In wood which any arnenter could commend, under Uio ablo Instruction or a man who is nim seir a carpenter by trade as well as a college graduate. It has a ways been a matter or pordonoblo prldo with myself that tho monov with which I secured my edu cation I earned on a farm and In a factory in Massachusetts, I am very glad to have this opportunity of as suring tho public that no student will ever leavo tho Stato Normal school at Weston without being fully couvincoa of our belief In the dignity of honest labor, Tho statements which suggosted tbo editorial havo already been auth oritatively denied by tho local press. iiespectruiiy, nOUEUT O. KIIENCII, Kaunas City, May 30. On account of tbo heavy rains which hnvo swol len tho Kaw river, tho James stm bridge, connecting tho two ICusax Cities, went out again today, Topeka is Isolated from tho KasC owing to washouts. Tho llnrt stivut railroad brldgu at that city has bet carried nway and nil railroads or blocked north of Topokn. Flood at Ottawa, Kan. Ottawa, Kan., Mny 30, Tho blxbr est Hood In Its history Inundated this city today, Tho electric, gas tat water plants nru under water an peuplu uro being rescued In hosrt: Two hundred nnd fifty houses ax submerged and two persona mlialne- Thu Hnntii Fu and Missouri l'iciflc trains are blocked by washouts. PIONEERS' REUNION. County Pioneers' Association Wilt Meet Three Days at Weston Thia Week. Thu annual reunion of the Umifil lu County Pioneers' Association wi bo held at Wostou this week, an Thursduy, Friday and Saturday. An olaboratu program will be in derod und a general reunion good tlmo Is In store. Plonoors fraw nil parts of tho county will bo I -tendance at tho suasions, and uianjr campers will go to Weston to rcm during tho entire mooting. Everyliody Is Invited to attenJ ar. Weston baH a reputation for UostsS tullty that Insures a ploumint ttac Saturday will bo political day, which all tho candidates for oflfan nro expected to bo on hand for . tn& handshaking before election. LA GRANDE'S VICTORY. Made Twenty Runs to PendlelorfV Five Yesterday. Tho Wonders aro wondering ItuK what kind of uu avalancho lilt tatsn at La (Irando ycHtorduy whon tfcr started In to do up tho La Grwtdr baseball boys, Tho score Is a good ono (for 1 (Imndo.) When tho eight Innings a tho gnmo woro over, La Grande Ja 20 runs to Its credit whllo Pondteto enmo homo with but l.vo wains t belt. Tho trouble was In tho weabseu, of King's arm, which gave out In l&o fifth Inning, retiring hlui from !-box. OUTPUT OF PETROLEUM. United States Now Leads the WotUa! In Production of Oil, . Geological surveys statistics plit. tho world's production of putruleaa In 1902 at 18S.1C1.08U barrels. Of tftia. tho United Htatos and Russia pro duced 91.14 per cant. For years txa sin led In point of production, but t Increase of 19,377,722 barrels In tk production of tbo Unltod Htatos ta 1902 and u decrease amounting la f. 028,515 burrels In tho production H Russia caused tho two countries change placos, and put thu Unit States ut thu houd of thu list. More thun doublo tho quantity off tho higher grades of refined producer Is obtalnod from tho average trwSu petroleum produced In thu Unkratf States that Is obtained from Itutitesi oil, Tho United States prodaensi nearly 2.0 barrels of ru'lnod prodnrtt in 1902 for oyory barrel produced nfl tho rest of tho world, Do good; holn (Idiots ; speak a ktatk! word; bo ciicorrui; sniuo; uoni ry; go to church. Swiss Cloudburst, Gonovo, May 30, A water spout struck Lesvourlns, In Uio mountains, this mornloar and did 2,000,000 fraca dan ngo. A hugo wall of water rushod dawn the moiin(aI sldo, tearing houses from to foundations and destroying crops,