t 1 ttw till ai raj tvi tan ! OAliy EVENING EDITION T TZT I DA11Y EVENING EDITION people of Pendleton Is advertising j j " V. ' A fc , , Rain. Warmer tonight. Thurs- in the E. O. 11 V" itf"' "1 V - gCi. I day rain. I VOL. 18. PENDLETON, OKECJON, WEDNESDAY, SEIH 'EMKErJ? 905. NO. 547 1 , "7 1" . I l. . . . . ... (hvTHAcr mirr pi i.i'. . n T N u N FAK u PA UN r tmm mi H m 1H COLONIES Colon, the Canal Gulf Port, Swept by a Fire Which Did Great Damage. XVSIXESH INTERESTS SUFFER VEHY HEAVILY. Government Iamon Postofflce and Ac. ministration llulldlng, nixl Uie Rail road ami Canal lmo Much Property Tlie Shipping Iv,aiOH American IVMt at Mululil, niiliincH, De frcycil liy Typhoon, Which AImi Destroyed Four To In the Inter , lor A Xumlicr of Drills Are He IKtrtecl, and Many Ilavo lleen In jured Extensive Daningo to Ship. Jilng. Panama, Sept. 27. A greut fire Is raging at Colon. Aid is asked of this city, and a sixiclal train with firemen and policemen was dispatched. ' Kirn Is Extinguished. Colon, Sept. 27. The fire has been extinguished, but after great damage was done. The Isthmian postofflce. two iicwb- i paper offices, the government house, police headquarters, office of the West India Cable company. Armour's es tablishment, the principal Chinese shops, and 64 houses in Hollvar street were destroyed. A great amount of international reg istered mall and parcels was burned In the postofflce, and much railroad and canal property wan burned, but the shipping escaped. Governor Magcinn has hurried to the scene. Malahi Post IKxtroyrfl. Washington, Sept. 27. Corbrn ca bles from Manila the atorm totally destroyed the post at Malahi. Wires I are down and tne fun extern, -or tne damage Is unknown. Admiral Relter cables the gunboat Lelte Is Inst. None J were aboard. The craft wa enptur-1 ed from Spain and is practically j worthless. Iur Town In Itiilnx. Manila. Sept. 27". Reports of the result of the storm are slowly coming in. Pour towns In Marequlna -valley are reported In ruins. There have been a number of deaths and hund reds Injured. It Is certain many vessels suffered and several are believed lost. .Sev eral lighters and n government launch were lost In Manila harbor. A schoon er broke from her moorings and threatened to ram the interned .'Rus sian cruisers, but sank near Bow Oleg. . A .lP TKACIIKS AMKUICAXS. ItcxuN Kxtrcinely Valuable Paper mi War SiirRvry. Iietrolt. Sept. 27. Surgeon General Suzuki, of Ihe Japanese navy, read a 10, 000-word paper at the convention of military surgeons of the United States. The members say It Is the most valuable document of the kind In modem times. He told how they treated the wounded In the battles between Ja pan and Russia. They ordered sall 'ors to ilnn clean clothing Immediate ly before battle, to prevent the Infec tion of wounds, and made each wear disinfected cotton In the ears to pro tect the drums from concussion. Wounds were treated during an en gagement if possible. The percentage of deaths hy wounds was very smalt. Most fatalities were from drowning and mine explosions. The convention gave n vote of thanks to StiKiikl. Jacob Mlt Dead. Tonkers. N. Y., Sept. 27. Jacob Utt. manager of many theatrical houses, died at a sanitarium in this city today. Five- lliirned l Dentil. Fort Hodge, Iowa, Sept. 27. Five children sleeping in the home of Ed ward Adamson at 8 this morning were cremated. A gasoline explosion caused the fire. Koinura Starts for Home. New York, Sept. 27. Komura left at 9:30 this morning for Montreal, thence to Vancouver to take a ship to Japan, A crowd cheered him as he left. . Will Sell $285,000 nniuK Judge Stewart has reset the hear ing on the petition for confirmation of the bond Issue, for the Nampa Merldlan Irrigation district, for Octo ber 27. The board of directors has ordered the sale of $285,000 of the bonds, and has set November 1 as the time for bids tn be opened. The pro ceeds of the sale will go for He pay ment of the Rldenhaugh caWl. It Is not the Intention of the board to sell additional bonds until It Is determin ed what enlargementa will be neces sary . BoUe Capital Newa. Approximate Loss SSOO.OOO by Hip konu Fire. Spokane. Kept. 27. The "waviest losers hy yesterday's fire are ihe Hoolhe-McCllntock company, whole sale grocers, the Cudahy Packing company, stock, 140,000; C. H. Week, three-Ktory building occjuplc.i hy Pa cific Transfer company, $25."'il; It. C. P. ThomaH, owner Cudahy bullJ Ihg. 1 10,000; Rnbblns. Pratt llob blnn, furniture, $6000. The cauHi of the fire In unknown. Il broke out In the Cudahy building, which whk filled with soap and lani, and spread with (treat rapidity t" the Weeks building on the east side. Ijitcr the Hoolhe-McCllntock building on the west corner of the block caught fire. The four-story brick building on the cast cornen occupied by the- Spo kane Drug company, was saved hy a firewall. EXGIN EER PARALYZED. Was- Strivkcn 111 Ills Cab, Rctueen Stnrbuck and Kxikanc. Spokane. Kept. 27. SI. P. Wall. gincer on an (). H. & N. pa anger train running from Spokane to i'tnr buck, though paralyzed In the engine cab, finished the run, Suturilu". Fol lowing his terrible experience tnal da, be lies at his home. Kl Mission avenue, partially paralyzed an abl. to speak only a few words. Knglneer Wall is 4 4 years of age. He has been running an engine for ?0 years, and for the last lf years has been running a passenger train engine out of this city on the O. I.. & X. i Few railroad men are bettor known than he. For a time he had a passen ger run between The Dalles ami Port I land. WAS TIE RESPONSIRLE? t lalm it... xi,, ,, Horn With I n hiiliuiiiil Mind. Wellsvlllc, Mo.. Sept. 27. Richard Mnvghs. formerly of this city, under sentence of death at Merced. Cnl.. or the murder of his employer, a ranch man, may escape the gallows. Friends and relatives In this county have ralc. 12500 to send a representative to Call fornla with the facts that Ma'jvhs mother was Insane a short time befor her son was born. Maughs divorced wife and children live here. Cml Man Murdered. Albuquerque, N. M., Sept. 27. An drew Casna. a well known coal oper- jor living near Gallup, was murde ed last night by unknown parties Ills wife was shot and may also die It Is known Casna always kept con siderable money about the house. Several men, one a relative. Is sus pected. T BEEN EXTENDED kx position wim, xrr bk CIOSKn TIM. OCTOllKK ! Kxtraordimtry Attendance; ol Pa Two Weeks and Ijiggarcl Rainy Season Hc'NMinslhli for Tills Action Timr 1st KiihIi Will Continue l ull IHiiiug Novi'iiiImy ami It Is l!olH-vrl I Fair Attendance" Will Justify Kn'piiig Oprn Two Wcvks linger Tlian ITtm PrnlHfeicd. Hecause of the excellent attendance now enjoyed by the Lewis and Clark fair, the management has practically decided to extend the limit of the fall to October 31, Instead of October 15. as originally Intended. While' the rainy season Is due In Portland, yet the weather has been pleasant and the attendance at the fair has been extraordinary durlng the past two weeks. This has Induced the management to risk open gates until the last of Oelolr. The tourist rush to the coast will continue until some time In November and It Is thought that the fair attend ance will keep up for at least two or three weeks after October IS. no mat ter what 'the weather rondltlon, as the strangers will be In Portland anyway, and most of them will he glad to at tend the exposition. The exposition management Is now seriously consid ering the matter nf announcing the extension of the limit and it may be expected at liny time. SELLING TEXAS LAND. Six Million Acres Fnder Is-aso Now 0'n for Settlement. About (,000,000 acres of state lands, situated In various parts of Texas, and heretofore mostly under lease for cat tle grazing purposes, have been placed on the mnrket for actual settlers un der a late law passed by the legisla ture. The cattlemen have been strongly opposed to the sale of these lands, and predict that the withdrawal of them from pasture purposes will work great Injury to the cattle Indus try nf that state. The lands are to be sold to actual settlers In tracts of from one to eight sections. The price Is $1 on acre, payable In 40 annual Installments, with 3 per cent Interest. Each pur chaser must live upon the land for three years to acquire title, After the snle of these lands the state will own about 12,000,000 acres, which are un der lease tn cattlemen. I 1 PISTOL DUEL IN w-wm . . . t- ... . r. i t .Hunt z-uiccil. i AN EXPRESS CAR Two Desperate Men Keep Up a Fusilade From Behind Barricades of Packages. POTII WKItK WOI NDKD AM) MAY NOT ItrX'OY :it. Rattle I let un hi Reiiieul anil l'.ndccl at Decului'. Twenly Miles Away An cx-.McH-ciiger Willi an t'likmmii firlcvaniv Filtered Ihe far and ' Started a Quarrel With the Mchscil-j Iter Itolli S-ni-eil Pistols and the Row Was Oir Triiiniitcn roiinil the ConilialantH Vengeful mill Alert Walchlne lo icl the Drop on I'jii'h Oilier No Chanci' for Kither lo lle eover. Decatur. III.. Sept. 27. J. 12. Ryan. an express messenger and a man numeil tlreene, a former messenger. fought a revolver duel In a closed ex press car of Ihe fast train. 20 miles from Renienl, 111., to this city this moifdng. Oivene entered the cur at Rement with a grievance, cause unknown, anil Ix'gan quarreling. Ryan. In dr-fense. seized a pistol when Green shot. The men barricad ed behind packages and continued fir ing at each other. Trainmen opened the car at this city and found the combatants warily eyeing each other. Roth are badly wounded In many places and exhaust ed from bleeding. They were taken to hospitals. It Is said there is ne chance for cither lo recover. CHINA ItFGISTF.ItS A PROTKST. Asking for What She Did Not Tlnvr Courage to Fight for. Washington, Sept. 2 7. The Post this morning says; Tiie Chinese government a week or more ago. made a formal protest to the Russian and Japanese govern ments concerning two of the conditions set forth in the treaty of peace signed at Portsmouth. China objects to two things: First, the length of lime allowed for the evacuation of Manchuria, and''"- wl" the "ecldentally turned second, the provisions made for an ' "" He came from his home at San armed guard for the railroad lines : Diego. Mexico, to place his two sons owned by Russia and Japan In Man-! In school. churla. China believes that nine months Is entirely sufficient time within which Japan shall evacuate Manchuria In stead of 12 months, as provided for In the peace treaty. The provisions made for guarding the railroad, the Chinese contend, contemputc an arm ed force of prohablv IS.ooo men In ' . . menace and It docs not propose 10 agree to such a plan. IDAHO LAND SW.1.S WTTLL. State DHsishig of Bonn Acres Aver, age Sale Price S29.IS. Holse, Sept. 27. The state of Idaho is today over $130,000 richer than it was yesterday morning. The auction sale nf 6000 acres of land in Canyon county, owned by the slate, lying un der the Holse-Payetlc ditch, was held yesterday In the hall of representa tives at the state capltol. The sale called out many speculat ors, but the majority were bona fide farmers In search of good land for homes. The firsl day of the sale resulted In disposing of 4 4SO acres of land hi the most desirable locations on the tract. The average appraisement by the state board of this land was $16.20 per acre. At the sale It brought an average of $29.43 3-4 per acre. Petition for Injunction. Columbus, !.. Sept. 27. John S. Jones today filed a petition for an In junction restraining Oould, Ramsey and Ouy from transferring Ihe Little Kaneknw railway. Henry's Final Argument. Portland. Kept. 27. Heney Is mak ing the final argument for the prose cution In the Williamson trial. The case will go lo the Jury at 3 o'clock. The entire milling plant of the Kent company, at Rarneston, Wash., was destroyed by fire. Loss. $20,000. FIVE INDICTMENTS Five separate Indictments were filed In the circuit court this after noon by District Attorney G. W. Phelps against John Schmidt. One of the Indictments charges him with keeping his saloon open last Sunday, while the other four charge him with selling liquor to various parties on that clay. . With the filing of the Indictments today seven distinct charges are now fill imTini Ft La Grande, Sept. 2i. Grundy & B NU AULlU Financial Manager of Equita ble Tells Who Shared in Responsibility, KKN'ATOIt li:PIAV. IIYDK AND ALSO AI.K.AMKlt. Senators l)( m- and Drydcn anil Other (iicat Financial Macnales Will He Called l the Stand Today District Attorney at Chicago Fights the Pleas In Abatement Filed hy tlie Packers, and Accuses Tlicni of Descending to the Icvcl of Common Criminals In Their Anxiety to Fscae the Ien iiIIIcm of the l.nw Present Contest in Court W ill Ijist Several Days. New York. Sept. 27. Henry Rogers Wlnthrop, financial mnnager of the F.qultHbk told of syndicate operations before the Insurance Investigating commltlee this morning. ,,.., .,,, ,u..-., .. ,,,.. t.,.... personally of Dcpew, Hyde and A lex- amler in the management of the socie ty's finances. It Is understood that Senarom Dcpew and Dryden and Jacob H. Schlff will be railed to the stand tocH-y. Fighting Picas In Abatement. Chicago. Sept. 27. District Artor hey Morrison appeared In the federal court and asked that the pleas in abatement of the packers be dis-. missed. He declared they are solely for the purpose of delaying the trials of the ocrused. the defendants thereby resorting to the ordinary methods em ployed by common criminals. He ad dressed the court four hours. The ar-gumcmir-nre expected to last several days. tS W AS TFHNF.I) ON. And This Mexican In Chicago Was No Heuti. Kltlier. Chicago. Sept. 27. Tranqullams Paraba. Identified by the Mexican consul as one of the wealthiest plant ers of Mexico, was found partially as phvxlated In a hotel here this mnrn- Who Hoy the Fh-chug? Oraugevllle. Idaho. Sept. 27. C. A. Sears, a 17-year-old boy, held here on a chnrge of being Implicated In a robbery which occurred a f )r U!(iece(, of the more serious offense of causing the $12"i.0fl0 fire In the business portion IseveValnilncToffenses. Sears had beenj ' .......o.i nt nf inun hv the nolice. and ......-.. - - - .- - revenge Is suggested as a motive for the alleged arson. He claims to come from San Francisco, and that his pa rents are dead. Court of Apiieals In Session. San Francisco. Sept. 27. The cir cuit court of appeals of the ninth dis trict will hold Its initial meeting in the new federal building next Monday. The court Is composed of William R. Gilbert. Portland, presiding; Judge E. M. Ross, of Los Angeles, district: W. W. Morrow, of San Francisco; Thos. Porter Hawley, of Nevada. It Is ex pected several Important decisions af fecting the district will he handed down In the near future. Xew CoacHies Tlirough IJerc. The first coaches of the Salt Lake, San Pedro and Los Angeles railway to come to the northwest, passed through here last night on No. 5, and today there were two coaches be longing to the same road on No. 1, tlie westbound morning train. The coaches are large and well equipped and carry about 70 pessengers. Violated Sunday Law. The police arrested the proprietor of the Old Hickory saloon on Main street Sumluv morning at 1 o'clock, for remaining open on Sunday. . Five men who were playing cards at the time were taken to the police station and their names and places of resi dence noted, after which they were re leased to appear as witnesses. The police hnve announced they will rigid ly enforce the Sunday closing law. Holse Statesman. AGIST SCHMIDT standing against John Schmidt, ho having been arraigned upon two last week. At the time of his arraign ment he secured until Friday of this week In which to plead, and conse quently bis case will come up In court there. In view of the size of the fines Im posed by Judge Ellis upon the other s-loonmcn, It Is probable that Schmidt will have to pay $150 In all for his seven charges. La (irande, Sept. 27. CJraudy & Russell have contracted for all this season's beet pulp und now have? a number of teams hauling straw and hay to the stockyards at the sugar factory, where they expect to feerl so I head of cattle and 3000 head of sheep. They may feed more as It cannot he ascertained how many thousand tons of pulp there will be until the close of the factory run and as this wavim will exceed Any former season"s run. firandy & Russell are preparing Ic :' I all cif the product. As usual the bed j growers will be permitted to purchase! such amounts as they may require. but this as compared with the total output is of little Importance. how'er the farmers are beginning to use wore and more each year. Pulp has proved to be one of the best cheap foods ob tainable. The feeding of so much stock ever, year means a large market for all hay and straw In the vicinity of the far. tory and glveB employment to quite a number of people to take care of the stock while In the process of fatten ing. .TOFTS" AUK UFX OFT. Walla Walla Police Run 2S Thugs Out of the Fair Grounds unci Away From the City. Walla Walla. Sept. 27. (Special. I The police force and assisted by dep uty sheriff yesterday afternoon run 2'. conspicuous "touts out or the rair ! grounds and ordered them to leave the 1 city. They had become so thick In crowd8 at the races that petty ' ro" . ,,' crimes were becoming numerous. If the "touts" hang around the city Oiey will be arrested for vagrancy and ordered out of tow n or put on the rock pile. CHICAGO WHEAT MARKET. Quotations From tlie Greatest Wheat 1 Market in tne i inicci ncaies. Chicago, Sept. 27. Wheat closed at 85 1-4; corn at 57 7-K, and oats at 27 3-4. Wheat Droel One Cent. Wheat took a drop of one cent In the local market today, thus bringing the prlce hack to 60 cents once more. I mu rver- Bn,i that under their oia During the day the market has been j aKr(.ement with the Fulled States gov very quiet, as almost no selling was ernm(.nli each alternate section, not done, few of the growers being in ' otherwise disposed of for 40 miles on town. " . J er side of the new line, must be Korea Wus Sighted. San Francisco. Sept. 27. The Korea I with the Taft party aboard, was sight- ed 20 miles nut at S.iO this morning. T RLE ON LAND ! I)KC,SIOv KF CHFD S I ISION Ur.ACIIKI) AS TO HUSERVATION LAND. A W,ft- ! Heing Construe, Ivclv With Her Husband, she Will Not lie Allowed to Enter I .and at EIJTII GANNO tlie Same Time That Her Husband immense tract of arid and semi-arid is an Kiiti-yiiiuii on Other I .and hand which would support people Other Cases Similar Exist, and Other enough to comprise an entire county. Suits Are Pn.hahlcs-Snccessful f'"r " 'YUS rim Plaintiff Has lreferciuv Right. j , OI-sr, MEETING TONIGHT. Roth man and wife cannot file upon lund such as was included In the res ervation sale of 1902. according to a decision that has Just been received from the commissioner of the general land office. The decision was given In the case of Ren S. Rurrouglis vs. Rose Carroll, who purchased ISO acres at the time of the last sale of reservation land, while her husband. William Carroll, likewise did the same In another quar ter section. The contest was brought on the grounds that both man and wife could not file on claims, and this contention has been upheld hy the commissioner of the land office. Fn der the conditions of the sale those filing on the land are required to make their residence thereon for a certain period of time. Consequently. It was held that since a wife's home is constructively with her husband, she could not hold a claim while at the same time her husband was the entry man on another. The contest being decided In favor of Ihe plaintiff, the latter will have a preference right In filing on the con tested claim, and will presumably do so. The above decision sets at rest a matter that has been more or less In doubt ever since the recent sale nf res ervation land. There are several other cases aside from the Carrolls' In which both husband and wife have filed on claims, and It Is presumed that other contests will now be brought. In the above case the firm of Car ter. Raley & Haley appeared for Mrs. Carroll, while Winter ft Collier repre sented the contestant. Morrow Horses to Indiana. John Madden, of Lone Rock, ship ped a carload of horses to Indiana last Monday. They are a very good all round lot of horses and Ml. Mad den expects to receive fair prices In the east. Heppner Times. There are 8.840.7S9 negroes in the United Stales, but only 2."77 of Afri can birth. I! GET GRANT N. P May Claim Each Alter nate Section for 40 Miles on Either Side of New Line. ORK.INAL LAM) tiltANT PKOM- 1SKK MAY HOLD iOOI)L Said on C.ckhI Authority Thai the Agreement With the Fulled States (iocernmeiit by Which the Northern Pacific Was Donated Kvery Alter nate Section for 10 Miles on Both Sides Will He llindlng III Case of tlie North Rank Road Such a Dona tion Now Would Give the Coniny Half the Vac-ant l-ancl ill All tlie Columbia Hlver CouiilieH in Oregon and Washington. Will the Northern Pacific railway demand the fulfilment of the original land grant promises of the United States in the construction of the North Bank road? The promise of the government to the Northern Pacific when it began building westward that the govern ment would give It, absolutely free of charge, every alternate section of hind for 40 miles on either side of the read. This Is why this company owns an empire in the northwest today. This Is why settlers are forbidden to locate upon alternate sections in western Cmatllla county, and this is why hun dreds of thousands of acres of rich timber lands In northern Idaho are held away from settlement today. It Is said on good authority that the company can claim a fulfilment of the land grant promises In the construe- ton of this new line down the Colum- given to the Northern Pacific when- I ever it begins tn build a mad down the Columbia. A glance at the map, will show at once the magnitude of this promised donulion, should the old agreement be binding. Following as It does the northern boundary 'of Oregon Into Portland, the 40-inile limit of the North Hank road would reach to the center of the nriD tier of Oregon counties, und wnula withdraw from the people fully one half of the vacant land now left in those counties. The evil effects of such a laud grant would be blighting on the state, as it would at once reduce the vacant area in the northern portion of the Colum bia river counties by one-half. This reduction or the public domain would take place in the very districts in which the promise nf Irrigation and future Increase In values Is most cer tain and would at once place In the nossesslon of the Northern Pacific an May Act Vpoii Resolution to Macacl uinize Alta Street. Tonight the regular meeting of the city council will be held, the first one In several weeks. As Mayor Matlock has not yet returned, the council will probably have to meet without him. However, every member of the coun cil Is now In town. Probubly the most Important mat- t tcr to come berorc me mceiiog mn that of macadamizing Alta street. The resolution calling for this was pre pared today by City Attorney Carter and will be read at the session this evening. After Its adoption 10 clays' notice must be given the property owners before the work can be com menced. After mi Early Decision. The refusal of Shoshone county t respond to the appeal of Governor Gooding and reconsider its action la the matter of the l0"i state tax levy, has destroyed the last hope of t state administration that this matter would be settled without recourse t the courts. As announced in a spec ial dispatch to the Statesman yester day. Shoshone, after accepting the ad vice cf the governor and calling a special meeting of the board of coun ty commissioners to reconsider the matter, decided that It were better that the cuse be taken to the supreme court for adjudication at as early a moment as possible. The case can In no way Involve the legality of the action of the state board of eququlization, because that, body simply followed the acts of the legislature, and if error has been made In the various levies, the legislature and not the board Is responsible. It is apparently the wish and hope of all parties concerned that the mat ter be adjudicated as soon as possible, to the end that money for the admin istration of state be forthcoming from the various counties before It becomes necessary to close any of the Insti tutions conducted by il. Holse Statesman.