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3 MNBEDITION DA1LYEVEWINBED1T10N WEATHER FORECAST. Tonlslit nml Tuesday fnlr. cooler, tonight. I ..... If von want business, r 1S anxious to print the . are the news. .17. PENDLETON", UMATILLA COUNTY, OH EG ON", MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1004. NO. 51 20. RE ADY IRRIGATION Have Co-operated to a Waterusers' Asso- in ai vaiB. jVERNMENT AID FOR PATENTED LAND. the Htock will havo been subscribed by tomorrow, August, 9, at which time Mr. Newell and Mr. Whistler will attond a mass meeting at Vale for the purposo of accepting the prop osition to build a government reser voir, to reclaim this entire tract of deded land, If sufficient stock Is subscribed. Features of the Plan. The features and requirements of the association are as follows, In brief, as disclosed by the by-laws of the association; Within the boundaries described by tho association, It is empowered to acquire, furnish provide for and dis tribute to the land of the sharehold ers or this association, an adequate supply of water for Irrigation thereot; to divert, store. Impound, develop, pump, carry, deliver and distribute for irrigation and all other beneficial uses, deriving the same from nil available sources of supply; also, to construct, purchas.e, condemn or ac quire in any manner whatsoever, and to own. use, soli, transfer, convey, control, maintain and operate any Ir rigation works, structures, telephone systems, electric or other power plants, and transmission lines neces sary for the purpose of this associa tion. Object Is Settlement. Hriefly speaking, the association Is Incorporated With $2,- Its Buy and Acquire .All jvVater Rights, to Divide Up i I to Small Tracts and Give trnment Full Sway Tract Acres Now Practically , Will Be Reclaimed by tnt Aid ACiuai ousi ui . n r tJ tH Tah ti nr.mil.. ,,1'r.... Hmln. -.1 . 1 ...1.1.1.. ftiOn 10 DC nufJcuu ill i n w ..v.i...u witi ' iiaiui I.fSI-l Wlllllll ! Its boundaries nml turn It mm m IllitallmentS. ,i. C0vcniment. sn tlln rnvprnmimt right will be-the only water right in . tho district, and that Is to be made ONE HUMORED KILLED IN WRECK OF WORLD'S El FLYER A RICH FIND. i was mane, ami during xno u Pride of the Rio Grande System Plunged Into a Washout or mo acres of bnseian.i iw J ored, which Is available for While Going Sixty Miles an Hour. Cloudburst Seven Miles From Pueblo Washed Out a Bridge and Water and Debris Was Running 25 Feet Deep- First Chair car, Containing 100 People, Who Were Dashed Into the Seething Flood Engineer Went Down With His Engine Presence of Mind of a Negro Porter Who Pulled the Air Cord and Saved the T.hree Rear Cars Ghouls Rob the Dead. Pueblo, Col., Aug. 8. The "World's Fair Flyer," the pride of the Rio Grande system,, ran into a washout at Dry Creek, seven miles west of here last night, while going at a speed of 60 miles an hour, and fully 100 people were instantly killed or were drowned in the torrent. A cloudburst had occurred on the mountains and washed out the bridge over a dry gulch, the train dashing into 25 feet of water and debris. ' State Land Agent Discovers Unused : Base Land Worth $9400. Salom, Aug. 8. Some time ago State Land Agent Oswald West bo I gnn to straighten out the records In i his office ami to open tip tho books on a new plan. 1 A forc.o has been nt work for the I pnst two weeks, copying tho records, innd yesterday tho first conrpnrlson was made, and during tho day a total as dlscov lieu laud selections. This hind Is located In tho Klanmui i Indian reservation, tho, .s'nrm Spring , reservation and tho Cascade forest re serve. In the utter lack of order I which bus heretofore provallod In tho , records of tho office, this base hns i been ontlrely overlooked, nnd Is now j nvnllnblo. , As base Is now worth to the stnto 1 $5 per ncto. this discovery means u ! saving, or n gain to tho Btuto of $9,- 400. nnd it represents tho first day's i comparison mom. Thoro Is on fllo I with the hoard, applications for 3500 I ncres of base for lieu land selection, : and .Mr. West .expects to discover j enough unused base to fill 'till these applications. JOINTS 10 ED SMOKERS F IN ED City Marshal Carney Swoops Down on tho Alta Street Opium Dens. OWNER AND THREE WHITE BOYS ARRESTED. ot Incoriioration of tho i Watcruaers Association I been filed with tho Becrc- The capital stock or btlon Is fixed at 12,700,000, Ko 90,000 Hhuros of the io each, fcrporators are tho leading 1 Malheur county, nnu in- following, many of whom oown In Umatilla county: fh, W G. Thompson, D. A. W. Mallet, M. G. Hope, G. ling, J. K. IUackaby, F. M. IV, Jletcalf, E. F. I'rutt, G. Bon. 0. V Blanton, N. G ft', Halllday, Fred Geller Colo. iciatlon Is vitally Interest' ktllla county, Inasmuch as : attempt of the citizens secure government aid ; patented land and It is i condition of development ligation of about 90,000 1 land In Malheur conn i of which is now prac ss, Is assured. hlewlng the special feat 1 association, it is necos kscrlbe the conditions In district In Malheur couii' fare led up to tho forma' organization. I It Now Worthless. filheur river botwe.en Oil' II lie, lies a large tract of Itomprlslng nbout 90,000 ' every acre of which Is Th.ero aro sevoral prl (companies operating In . on a small scale, their PS estimated to supply i io 30,000 acres of land lr of this tract belnu en j : iw use, and thero being ir ot further private irrl- re or the enormity of to be Incurred In bring- Irfrom tho upper river. a Deroro the owners of 1 has been to reclaim It support homes, but the I'er sumily has been nro- 'HI reclaim hut a small land, and as tho na- ton act prohibits the Fm interferlnc with nri- l.er tho conditions ex- the completion of tho re was no possibility f ?iu on this tract, al l an excellent reservoir water that can he FWion purposes on this lPenditure of nbout $2,- 'ter Salt River Plan. wt this magnificent Urlcultlirnl nnrl frnll I He Idle, the citizens of r applied to tho gov- r tan, uy which national IJMured, and tho recla- rent cheerfully re Amending this water- to be patterned f U now in nilnnoaafnt Inseparable from the land, After all water rights have boon acquired and I evory claim to water surrendered, then the government will undertake to lrrgate the land, furnishing suffic ient water to reclaim the entire tract, Each acre of land Is to represent a shar.e In the association, nnd no one man Is allowed to hold more than 1C0 shares, settlement nnd not specula tion, being the object of the plan, the actual cost of the water is to be paid back to Uie government, by each Individual subscriber, in 10 annual Installments. When a majority of the shares are subscribed, the government will be gin operations, hoping to see the .en tire amount of shares subscribed In good tim.e. Any one having land In excess of 100 acres is required to sell It, and If ho Is unable to so sell at the end of two years, tho association be comes trustee to sell It for him. Government Must Be Supreme. In brief, the people of the district promise and bind themselves to ac quire every water right now existing, divide the land Into small tracts not to exceed 160 acres each, glv.e the government n clear title and' full sweep to all tho available water needed and then tho government loans the settlers the price of the reservoir, guarantees th.em a perpetual water supply, and attaches a water right Inseparably to the land, the actual cost to ho repaid In 10 Installments. After the completion of the project, the water right always attaches to the land, no transfer to be made not In cluding a perpetual water right. Tho reservoir site In contempla- Details of the Horror. 'by tho cloudburst and may never be Pnnliln Col.. Allir S Tim nrplilnnt I'eCOVOr.Od, (Continued on page 8.) Is the worst In the history of tho Rio Grande rnllway. Dry creek, where This makes it Impossible to give tho accurate number of dead, but tho number ranges from 75 to 125. Throo the train went through the bridge, is ; bodies recovered thiB morning wore not far from Butte, where washouts J taken from tho river in this city, occurred two years ago. crippling the j sevc m08 UG)0W tne sceno r t,ie I wrecK. llne' i Tho two identified bodies are those Two trains had preceded the of Frank H. Whitman and Alexnnder "World's Fair Flyer" and had passed j S. Maxwell, Among tho missing and over the bridge safely This train bolieved dead aro:. Mrs. John S. Oil was proceeding at a high rate of vcr, of Pueblo, and two children; speed nnd dashed right Into th.e dls- Mrs. Janies Smith, wife of the conduc aster. . . I tor of the Ill-fated train; Ida Leonard, The water In the creek was 25 feet 1 of I'ucblo; Mrs. Mary Wnlsh, of Chi deep and running like a mill race. Icago; Miss Mury Hlco, of Lasolle, When th.e baggage, smoker and chair 'HI.; Robert Lytle, cashier of the First car left the track and plunged Into the ' National Dank of Pueblo; Miss Wily stream, they were swept down four J Wood, of Pueblo; Dr. W. H. Moch unci miles before they ran ashore. i Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Lamson, of Pueb In the first coach passengers were lo; Miss Zennle Zelby, of Pueblo, and standing up In the aisle for lack of 1 Lavall Dunham, of Pueblo, seats. i It Is estimated there w.ere 100 In this ear alone, mostly from Denver and Colorado Springs tor Pueblo. Two Pullmans and the diner, on the Revised List of Missing. Pueblo, Aug. 8. Following Is a re vised list of the Identified and known dead: A. E. Hoes, Pueblo; Mra. rear, remained on the track through Stevens, Northampton, Mass.;' Major' the quick action f Colored Porter Krank . whitman; Henry Plngman, ' B u '" , engineer, Denver; Miss Soward, Miss the engine stril the chasm, reached ; Ircno Wrght, Pueblo; JameB H. up and pulled the emergency cord. Tho car wheels locked and broke the coupler connecting the chair car and forward sleeper, which stopped with the trucks In tho air suspended above the roaring waters. Scores of people were thus saved. Smith, conductor, Denver: Miss Mln tile Davis, Pueuio; Miss Elsie Holand, Lindsburg. Kan.; MS8 Hadonburg, Sallna, Kan.; Dr. W. F. Munn, Pueb lo; MrB. John Mollver, Pueblo; Oeno viovo Mollver and aged 4 years; Mary mom vcr, aged 2 years; Miss Ida Ieoii' IRRIGATORS MEET pireman Mayficld jumped In time to , ard Pueblo. Mr8. slary Wal(iIl chca. save his life, but Engineer Hinman g0. m1bs Mnry Prlc( Lasal'le went .down with the engine Twenty-four others known to have ueii mo news leucneu I'lieoio a i, n,,. -i - ,ii I ON THE MINTO TRAIL. Marion County Takes Steps to Open Up New Road to Eastern Oregon. Salem, Aug. 8. The county court yesterdny considered tho proposition of building the proposed rond from the Hrcltcnbush over the mountains on the Mlnto trnlt to tho headwaters of the Des Chutes river In Unstern Oregon. Tho petition presented by John Mln to and numerously signed, was con sidered, and tho members of tho court nro heartily In favor of building the rond if this Is possinlo. They decided to Investigate further, and will next week scud n representative over tho route, In company with .Mr. Mlnto nnd ii member of tho I. Inn county court, to view tlie trail nnd estlmnte the cost, Hal Lee Dispenser of the Drug, Fined $20 and the Three Boys Serving Five Days Each In Jail Other Joints Raided Where Hot Pipes Were Found, But the Devotees Had Fled Owner of the Joint Claimed That He Was Forced by the White Men to Give Them Opium Qratr Says He la Not Guilty. KENDRICK 18 DESTROYED. Over 60 Buildings Burn, the Lost Amounting to Half a Million, l.uwlston, Aug, 8. Tho town of Kcndrlck, 20 miles from this city, was almost entirely wiped out hy fire Sat urday. Over no buildings burned, tho loss aggregating nbout ? 180,000. Model Road at Walla Walla. Walla Walla, Aug. 8. Tho county commissioners will plucu th.u scheme of building a sample stretch of road before tho council nnd tho Walla Walla Commercial Clnu. Tho experi ment will bo quite oxpenslv.o and they wish to get the opinion of the taxpay ers before they take any dflulto action. Printers' Union Convention. St. Louis, Aug. 8.--TI10 Internation al Typographical Union convention met this morning at the fair grounds with probably th.e largest nttundnnco In Its history. Tho entire week will he taken up with the business of tho convention. 1 A raid of Alta stret China houses last night hy Chief of Pollro M. J. I Carney, resulted In the nrrest of Hoi . I Leo, keeper of an opium Joint, and 1 three white smokers, Charles Wut ; son, Mike (irntz, Jr., and Joe Fnrns- worth, and the capture of two "hop" pipes and a quantity of opium. In police court this morning tho Chlnnmau was fined $20 and tho three smokora went to Jull for flvo days In default of payment of 11 line of $10 cuch, Watson nnd Fnrnswoith both show- I ed the evidences of hop smoking wueu urougiii into court ami nuitnor hesitated in pleading guilty. Grutz declared that lie was not smoking nnd had gone to tho Joint to look lor u friend. Ilnl Ij'o protested his Innocence In nil the pigeon English nt his com mand. "Mo been America for 10 years," ho declared, "I no brenkoe law nnd give white noy hop. Ho como to my place. I Dl yoar old. Mo no cun fight. Ho chokoo 1110 nnd say lie klllee mo If I not let him smoke." Hut Hal Lee's words w.ere In vain and the court ImiHmcd n fine of $20. The raid Inst night Is tho second 0110 nindu this year. Murshnl Carney hail a number of special policemen with him and hail the suspected places well surrounded, but It Is thought a number of smokers es caped. "In Home of the plncon wo enter ed," ho said, "the rooms were flllod with tho odor of hop uiid tho plpoa lying on the benches were warm. Hut there wasn't 11 soul about." PENDLETON special was made up and returned and parties began searching for bodies, which as fast as recovered, were boxed and taken to Pueblo. Ho llef trains were also started from Denv.or. STATE COMMISSION TO CONFER WITH ENGINEERS. Oregon State Irrigation Commission Expected to Be Here Wednesday for the Purpose or Meeting F. H. Newell and Maurice Blen No Pub lic Meeting to Be Held, But General Work of the Commission Will Be Discussed, Recovering the Bodies. Pueblo, Col., Aug. 8. Only 11 bodies have been rocovered and taken to the various undertaking establish ments In this cLy up to 9 o'clock this morning, and of tnose only two are . covered at noon. Ghouls Rob the Dead. Pueblo, Aug. 8. To ndd to tho hor ror ol the situation, ghouls robbed tho bodies of tho recovered dead. The Wells-Fargo safe was found in tho wreckage, empty nnd open. Twolvo bodies wore taken from tho Arkansas river at noon, nine miles below P11-1 oblo, Mrs. George West, wife of the 1 former mayor of Pueblo, bolng among them. About 40 bodies had been re- For 20 miles along MORE RICH LAND FOR SETTLERS1? identified. Fountain creek and tho Arkansas Many bodies It Is now known have . river thousands of people are lined been swept down the Arkansas river along tho rivers searching for bodies. ?,.hls 'eal adviser, ;lted Malheur coun Tf nd havo shown wslsting the peoplo "WCat nn l I I . rcc'almlng this I11!' Sat SfaMnrv teen formed, and It u a majority of . . - a N(,w Opened. II s The ?hi. Detus today . " SllTtliWn !. tVUllliI.il HIV em; coun- "'toan House. F. H. Newell, chief engiueer of tho reclamation service, accompanied by a number of his assistants and Maur ico Blon, legal adviser, will b,o in Pen dleton Wednesday for the purpose ot conferring with tho members of tho stnto irrigation commission. The meeting will bo held to discuss laws necessary for the best Interests of the reclamation of Oregon arid lands. Tho meeting win not be public, and just where It will be hold has not been decided upon. Mr. Newell and party will be In Walla Walla Thurs day for the purpose of holding a meeting similar to tho one that Is to toko plac,o in Pendleton. Hon. Henry E. AtiKeny of Eugene. a momber of tho state commission, arrived In Pondleton this morning. C. W. Mallet, president of the com mission Is .expected from Ontario this evening. Attorney Zora Snow of Portland, ono of the legal advisors of the board, win also arrlvo this evening. Thomas G. Hnlley at this city, Is secretary of tho commission. H. V. Gat.es ot Hills boro, tho engineer of the board, Is absent in California and will not bo present at tho conference, "Thero nro a number of things of a general nature rolatlvo to tho arid land laws of tho atato, said Mr, Hal ley this morning, "that aro to bo dls cussocl. Mr. Newoll will not mak,o any address of a public nature, for what tho govornmont Intends doing tins been gono ovor ofton of late." A L OPEN PO T ARTHUR Rome, Aug. 8. A Tien Tsln dis patch says the Japanese, after a pro longed cannonade, havo commenced with their naval batteries at Port Ar thur and tho speedy fall of the fort Is Inevitable. No Japanese Losses. St. Petersburg, Aug. 8. General Saknlmroff reports that up to noon Sunday thero was no chango in the positions of the Mnncuurlan armies. Tho report Is slgnlfcant, as it acts as a denial of vague reports current for several days of heavy engage ments about Liao Yang and Hal Cheng in which the Japaneso were ro- ported to hav.o been defeated with hoavy losses, Russians Suffer Heavy Loss. Berlin, Aug. 8. Tho Tageblatt has received a dispatch from Lla Yong, dated th.e 7th, which states that a heavy attack was made on tho west ern wing of tho Russian forces norui of Hal Cheng. Many of the Russians wounded wore brought thoro. Aloxieff nnd ku- ropatkin were In Mao Yang on Sun day. .It Is rumored that Mukden is now threatened by the Japanese. Russia Called Down Hard, Washington, Aug. 8. In forceful, but diplomatic language the United Statos government has declared to the world that It cannot assent to tho general proposition made by Russia that coal Is contraband of war. This announcement Is made In a circular note from Secretary Hay to American ambassadors In Europe, duted June 10th, hut made public this morning. Hill's International code Is quoted to show that during the West African conference In 1881 Hussia took occa sion to dissent vigorously from tho attempt to Include coal among tho ar ticles named us contraband of war. Hoy further soys that It is under stood It Is Ilussla'8 Intention to do dure cotton contraband. Such a pol icy, ho asserts, would Imply that overy artlclo of human use might bo declared contraband, simply that It might ultimately become useful to bel ligerents, for military purposes." TURKEY IS ALARMED. She Inquires as to the Gathering of the American 8quadron at 8myrna. Washington, Aug. 8. Cheklb Hay, I Turkish minister, called at the state ' ilopurtinon! this morning to Inqtiiro whether thu published suitcmout that tlie European squadron of tho Unltod States unvy had been ordcroil to Smyrna as 11 menace to Turkey, were orroct. Ho was Informed that tho visit of ; tho Ainorlcnn shops to Turkish , A1.. wuters wan In iiccordnnce with u pro- REGISTRATION FOR CLAIMS arranged schedule and should not ho BEGIN8 TODAY. ''otiHldereil us a mennco to thu Otto man govornmont. 1 In addition, howovor, ho woh told. that tho United Suites would Insist strunuouBly upon her rights, and up on compliance with her request with reference to the trading claims and proper protection to Amoilcnu inter ests. It Is understood that no further Instructions will bo sunt lo Minister Lolschmnii until after the arrival of the squadron ut .Smyrna. Tract of 88,000 Acres of Indian Lands to Be Disposed of 8lx Thousand Acres Reserved for 01 Indians Sully's Reserve of 960 Acres Is to Be Reclaimed as a Government Park. Gunboat to 8an Domingo. Washington, Aug. 8 On account of Germany Loses to United States. Washington Am? K "-,..,.,. i. nrnvnlann. .l...l , ll , . ... . .' UD ...w i""'wv-u ui uiiu-iuiuieu lacuna uruiijiuu 10 ueconu place In boor pro' in am uommgo, ana ttio consequent ductlon the United Statos having cap- paid danger to Amorlcan Interests In that lured thn lemiin f"nty',a u,n,ted Statos eunboat haa , tu statistics published today by tho I A mistake may bo a inlsfortuno uopariraont or commerce 1 but It were cruel to call it a crime. Grand Forks, N. D., Aug. 8. Reg istration for claims on th.o Devils Iako Indian reservation began today, and as a result this vicinity is wit nessing a laud rush similar to that which recently took place on tho opening of tho Hosebuil reservation. The registration will continue until August 24. Tho drawing to dotormlno In whut order claimants may fllo on the res ervation lands, which will bo conduct ed by the commissioner of tho gener al land offlco, will begin at Devils Luke on Soptcmber C. The reservation thrown open em braces 88,000 ucres. The tract In cludes the old Fort Trotten military rusei-vuiiun as wen as tlie lands oc cupied by tho Sisseton, Wuhp.eton and Cut Heud bands of tho Sioux In dians, Tho entire strip Js thrown open to sottlemout to CI Indians, and Sully's Hill, embracing 900 acres, which is resorv.ed by tho government lor a public park, Tho land Is more expensive than the Rosebud lands, tho government requiring that f 4.50 per aero he' jiald by homesteaders who aro fortunato enough to draw a quarter. Of this , sum $1,50 per acre must be paid when 1 the person makes his entry and 50 ' cents 11 year per acre thereafter until BATTLE WITH THIEVES, Sheriff's Posse Met a Gang of Bad Men Near Waterman. The Dalles, 'Aug. 8. A sheriff's posso from Fossil, met a gang of horse thlevos nonr Waterman, Wheel er county, Saturday evening, and In the right which ensued Deputy Sher iff Hugh Shields was shot In the mouth nnd seriously woundod, nnd ono of the bandits received u bullet In his stomach, hut nmilu his escape on Shields' horse, A r,oward of $400 Is offered by Was ai and Wheelor counties for the cap ture of thu thieves, who havo hoen harassing thosa counties nil summer. bo,on ordered there from San Juan, The Bomb-Strewn Path, Son Sebastian, Aug, 8. Tho journey of King Alfonso, to open an oxhlbltlon at Vlttorla has been delayed owing to the discovery of three dynamite cartridges In tho royal train, Sluco tho assassination of Von Plohvo a closer watch has been Instituted around all tho Euro poan monarchs, and the bombs Intended for Alfonso were dis covered almost by chance. '''if'!