East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, May 24, 1906, DAILY EVENING EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextS . . CMIY EVENING EDITION 7 tr wxvxm. you In every advertisement In the . I 1 VVV I ff 'Ta- A , East Oregonlan. Don't fail to I aJ mmHf J4 g" ""J,' read every line. I -- i i r I M " ,mmmam ..m -- mm WEATHER FORECAST. Shower this afternoon and to- ' night, warmer tonight; ".Friday showers. VOL 19 PENDLETON, VN, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1906. NO. 567ft . l 1 1 ' i i RAILROAD III TO PILOT ROCK Warriman People File Articles of Incorporation of Umatilla Central Railroad. J. P.'O'HIUEN, WILLIAM CKOOKS HAD J. G. WILSON NAMED. Capitol Stock of New Company to ilOC.oOO anil Uio Object aa Stated . Are to Uiilld a Line of Road From pmillrtnii to Pilot Rock and Two Branch Lines From IMlot Rock Into the Rich Timber and Range DixtrktM Having Harrlman Sap port, New Road Seems Assured. , Articles of Incorporation of the 'Umatilla Central Railroad company were filed In the Multnomah county clerk's office today, with J. P. O'Brien, general manager of the O. R. Jb K.; William Crooks, formerly attached to the passenger department of the O. R. & N., and James O. Wilson, an O. R. A N. attorney, welt known in this city, aa incorporators, the capital stock to be $100,OM. The objects of the new company as stated In the articles of Incorporation will be to build a branch Ime of rail road from Pendleton to Pilot Rock, a distance of IB miles, wlfh two Branch lines extending from Pilot "Rock: the first to the north fork of trie Jiflin Day river. Into the Tine timber belt and the other from Pilot Rock to the junction of Camas and Hldaway creeks. In the eoufh part of 'this county. This Is the oemmiinmaUon of -(Han which have been under way Tor a numberNt months and It hi believed that work on the line Trom this City to Pilot Rock will "be started soon. Preliminary surveys have been made over a portion at the route by several parties, whose identity has been close ly guarded, but who are now thought to have been employed by this new company. Both branch 'tines frem Pilot Rock. will tap an Immensely rich timber belt and rnnge district and will paw along close to the cortl fields In the southern portion of thai county. The Jotm Day bran!h will strike thai stream r.earthe Junction of Snake creek and the Camas branch will strike Camas creik at the Junction of Hldaway creek. Wit the Harrtman officials back of the project It is certain that it will be completed In trme, as the general policy of the Harfiman system is to extend Its branch lines Into new ter ritory as In the case of the Condon branch, the Tllgln rxtenslen and the new road to lie built across Oregon as announced In a Portland dispatch to day. WILli REIUCE THE A1WOUNT. Incrcurilng the "Flat" In Philippine Currency. Washington, May 2. Lodge noti fied the senate he would call up oti Friday, Ms measure aiuthorlang the Philippine commission to lower the amount of silver In Philippine coins to prevent their exportation at bullion value. nrmnF.r of woo. Pag of Jewelry 'aa Taken rVom Merchant on Hie Open Street. New Hiiven, May 24. Barnard Stelnfleld, of New Tork, was robbed of a bag containing Jewelry valued at J (000 In the street here today. The robber escaped. Stelnfleld la a dia mond merchant, WEIGHT MAY 71 H INCREASED. !Rocoiiimemlcd That More May He Sent "for the Money." Rome, Mny 24. The International Postal congress approved the propo rtion raising the weight of letters to ono ounce. Madrid gets the next con gress, i 3. G. Woodworth, traffic manager of the Northern Pacific, has replied to a telegram sent him by Jobbers and manufacturers of Seattle, declining to withdraw the 7V4 per cent local rate recently allowed to Portland mer chants on shipments to Seattlo des tined for Alaska trade. Brutal to Ills ClUldren. Oshkosh, Wis., May 24. Aug ust Dundle, a farmer, has been arrested by the humane society charged with habitually har nessing his six motherless chil dren, all in or below their teens, to a plow, and driving them, black and blue, about the field. He was discovered In this by an automobile party passing the place. The neighbors threaten violence. Very Profitable ami lliterewtlng Session at TlMimpHon Street Church. What Is declared to have been one of the best district conferences held in The Dalles district for several years, will be brought to a close here this evening. Since Tuesday evening the conference has been In session, and all of the meetings have, been well attended. In return, thosn who came were rewarded by hearing some able addresses. In most Instance the program has been followed aa an nounced. This afternoon the pro gram was followed In detail, but this evening the principal sermon, an evangelistic service, will be preached by Rev. Tmtle. Several of (he visiting ministers left this morning for Walla Walla to at tend a conference which Is to be opened there this evening. Following the close of the district conference here tonight soma will leave on the westbound night train, while the re mainder will go tomorrow morning. The Tollowlng Is a list of the min isters m attendance at the confer ence-; Rev. 'W. J. Baldwin, Arlington; Rev. J. W. Mayea, Blckleton; Rev. WTTIIam Deweese. Echo; Rev. W. W. Carr, 'Ellensburg; Rev. R. C. March, Fossil: Rev. B. F. Brown, Gilmer; Rev. Henry Brown, D. D., Goldendale; Rev. Terry Chandler, Heppner; Rev. W. C. 'Evans. Hood River; Rev. C. M. Carson, Lone Rock; Rev. C. T. Cook, Moro; Rev. Robert Warner, Pendle ton-; Rev. W. C. Jlnnelt, Prlnevtlle; Rev. W. C. Smith, Prosser; Rev. A. -Monroe. Wasco: Rev. 8. E. Hornh- brook: Rev. A. A. Luce, The Danes; Rev. Walter Sklpworth, The Dalles. The following local preachers are present: Rev. D. 8. R. Walker, An Mope; Rev. W. l Dilllnger, Re. J. K. Craig, Madras. JOSEPH MIRE Wmi W. A C. R. RY. TO FOR PAST laGrTT YEMtS. .Nothing Yet Known ava to Who ?He SocresHor Will He, he Rerflgna 'Non Was Not Knewn to tlie North ern Pacific orUrlnffl T'nrf Tuesday LaM Mr. MeCnbe WIH Ifewote Html If to Railroad Contracting, Fh-Ht Going to Casmectrciit. Jofpeh McCabe, vloe president and general manager of tie W. & C. 11. for the past eight years, nan TestdeU rills petition. The above announcement was made last evening after the departure of President Elliott's special train Trom the eMy. It created seme -surprise and much regret among the friends ot Mr. McCabe, who has been -popular in Pendleton during his reign as chief of the "Pemileton-Paseo road. i According to Mr. McCabe he has been contemplating resigning for some time, but did not notify Presi dent Elliott until Tuesday. While here the president made no slaXemerrt re garding the probable successor of Mr. McCabe, and it Is not known upon whom tha lionor will falU After his successor has assumed the management of the W. A C. R., Mr. McCabe will devote his time to rail road contracting work In which he will be associated with C. S. Bethler, of TBjoma. Recently the two men were awarded a contract In Connec ticut! and Mr. McCabe will leave for that state In June. However, he will not remain in the east permanently, ns his firm will do considerable work In the west also. Mr. McCnbe was born December 25, 1RBT., nt Cld Springs, Wis. He enter ed tlie railway service In 1870. From 1870 to 1879 he was telegraph oper ator nnd agent for the Chicago, Mil waukee & St. Paul. From 187S to 1882 he was train dispatcher for the St. Panl, Minneapolis & Manitoba rail way at St. Paul and Fergus Falls, Minn. From January to November, 18RB, he was train dispatcher for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis Omaha at St. Paul. From November, 188S to 1888, he was train dispatcher for the North ern Pacific at St. Paul. From 1888 to September 1S90 he was division su perlntendcnt at St, Paul for the same road. From 1890 to 1897 he was di vision superintendent for the Northern Pnclflc at Tacoma, and from 1897 until the present time, vice president and general manager of the W, & C. R. Sanitarium Conference. Washington, May 24. A confer ence over the sanitation of stockyards and packing houses was held at t.. White House today by the president Attorney Skinner for the packers. Skinner referred to the labor com missioner, whose report Is expected soon. A gang of Italian railroad laborers waa paid off at Albany on May 21. They received $3600 and of that amount they sent by postal money or der $1400 to Italy Immediately. The amount wai represented by S3 sepa rata orders. rs KW IlTEHJJ-r HIS San Francisco, May 24. S. A. D. Puter, arrested at Alameda last Sunday on a charge of defrauding the government of lands In Ore gon, was arraigned before United States commissioner Hitchcock this morning and waived examination. His ball was fixed at (10,000. An officer will leave for Oregon with Puter late today. Asked In regard to the story to the effect that Secret Service Agent Burns had succeeded In securing a large sum of money from him In Boston, Puter absolutely denied he had surrendered a cent to Burns or to anybody else. Puter Is now prisoner In a cell in the federal building, and re fused to talk beyond making the denial mentioned. E IS That Branch of the Presbyte rian Church No Longer Has Official Existence. i ACTUAL CKWKOLIDATION TAXES PLACE NEXT YEA. Steps STakon Toward I'nlon of .All EvaagolletU Denominations, Esnept ing alie Unitarians, Who Are :stlll Cataloged an Among the CaK-on-vesaed Tlio General Amesshtr To daf vGMcbratcd tlie Two Uandrcdth AniWenairy of tlie First ftroiby UKtan Assembly In the New AVorld. Ites.Moines, May 24. land branch of the The Cumber Presbyterian church passed out of hlrtwy today when Moderator Corbett o&talally es tahliahed the union of UV Cumber liana with the Presbyterian church. Both church boarda will adt together Until next year, when the actual con solidation occurs. I'altariuns Not of the lEIeet. ane assembly also toauy adopted .plans for the union of all denomina tions of evangelical churches along Special temperance lines. The Uni tarian church was excluded by the In sertion of the word "drrtne." .Two Hundredth A sail if i miry. The assembly also today celebraten thettwo hundredth anniversary of;the first, assembly In America. Messages from all parts of the world were resB. 'CONDEMNED TO "HANG. -Miam-mii Woman Appnfla to Other Women of the State. Liberty, Mo., May 24. Mrs. Agie "Meyers, condemned to die on the gal lows for the first time Since killing her husband two years trgo, asks for sympathy. She has signed an appeal to the women of the state sayhig If she were on the gallows today she would say her paramoui"8 story -was untrue. KILLED HIS WIFE. Lm Anart'lcs Man Then Attempted to Kill Himself. Los Angeles, May 24. Jealous of his wife, who sued for a divorce. Michael Cserepes. a Hungarian flower seller, shot his wife fatally this morn ing and then attempted suicide, Cserepes' house resembles a sham bles. 1 ABSORBED LOW, RATES FOR QEVELOPWIENT LEAGUE Agent E. C. mlth, of the O. R. it N this morning received announce ments of a spednl rate of one and a third f.ire for return trip tickets from Baker City, Irrlgon, Walla Walla and Intervening points to the Milton meet ing of the Umatilla County Develop ment league on May 29. This rate le open to all without cer tificate or guaranteed number of dele gates and the limits are extended to Irrlgon on the west. Walla Walla on the north and Raker City on the east to give people from adjoining coun ties an opportunity to visit Milton in the height of the strawberry season. The people of Milton will furnish a strawberry festival for the meeting of the league on May 29, and a large attendance of people from a distance as well as local people Is expected. Committees are now arranging the Portland, Ore., May 24. Harrlman has given orders by wire to Portland and San Francisco officials of the system to Immediately construct a road (0 miles In length from Drain, on the Mount Shasta route In Oregon, southwesterly to Marshfleld. This road will form the northern portion of the new coast line between Ban Francisco and Portland. The RAILROAD FROM DRA N TO IUIARSHFIELD WAY TO OREGON. FIRE INSURANCE RATES DOUBLED Flat Rate Made for All Classes of Property in 'Frisco by Board of Underwriters. MORE DEPOSITS THAN WITIIIR.WALS AT BANKS Banks Opened for Transaction of All BnslnrsH, TVIilch Glvea Building Op eratkma a Great Impetus, EMpecially Oatdde "the "Fire Limits" Heaviest limn Wan on the United Savings, Btrt All jK-powltors Were Paid Frffl Protest Against Cancellation erf 'Clty'a Antl-FIre Bond Inie. San Francisco, May 24. At a aecret meeting of the board of fire under ;VrMer8 he,d at Oakland, definite ac Hon was taken In the matter of fixing Insurance rate for San Francisco. It was decided to double all rates. Some members favored fixing differ ent rates for the burned and unburn ed sections, but a flat rate for the entire city was finally decided uoon and all special rates abrogated. The lines of depositors around the savings banks are materially smaller today, and more deposits were mad than withdrawals, As a result of the opening of banks for unrestricted business building op. eratlons are given a great Impetus. The construction of scores of new frame buildings begun this morning. Banks All on Solid Gronnd. At the Market Street bank the line at the paying teller's window was smaller than at the receiving teller's. The same was true at the Western National bank and National Bank of the Pacific Deposits at the Mutual Savings bank were comparatively small, and judging from the line at the paying teller's window, the heavi est run of any of the downtown banks was made there. All demands, how ever, were paid In full. At the Crock er Woolworth bank over $50,000 In gold coin was paid In todoy before 11 o'clock, while the withdrawals were very small. At the Union Trust company the deposits exceeded the withdrawals tenfold. Protest Cancelling Bonds. The lobby committee on special ses sion of the legislature today decided against the proposition for the legis lature to extinguish $177,000,000 worth of unsold Snn Francisco bonds. As surances are received from financiers thnt the present outstanding bonds are saleable, and the money Is needed Im- program and the large tent used by the Adventlsts will be rented for the meeting. Seats will be arranged to accommodate several hundred people and the festival will be one of the most enjoyable features of the event. ltnti for Field Meet Hero. The O. R. & N. has also granted a return trip rate of one and a third fare for high school field meet to be held In this city on May 30. This rate Is on the certificate plan, 50 tickets to be guaranteed and the certificates to be signed by L. O. Frazler, secre tary of the Merchants' association of this city. This rote also applies to Baker City, Walla Walla and Intervening points and a large delegation of high school athletes is expected from the different points. Harrlman Interests and president Foster of the California Northwestern have In the latter road the southern end of the proposed new line. These same Interests are preparing to extend the California Northwestern from Wllllts to Eureka, while between Eureka and Marshfleld Harrlman has had surveyors looking over the ground for several months past mediately for buildings, sewers, repair ing streets, etc.' The Merchants' Exchange resumed business this morning in the rotunda of the damn r' bu""ng. There was large cro , " ""Ts, and consid erable bualneoa . fVcransacted. HEAD WAS KNOCKED OFF. Burlington Engineer Victim of Pe- cullar Accident. Burlington, Iowa, May 24. J. D. Johnson, a veteran enginer of the Burlington road, stuck his head out of the cab window, and a pasHlng switch engine knocked it off. FIRE IN TWO MINES. Two Hundred Miners Had Narrow Escape In Colorado. Trinidad. May 24. Fire is still burning fiercely In Starkville and En gleville mines, where 200 miners were rescued Wednesday by the prompt work of the bosses. MINES DID NOT OPEN. Coal Operators Could Not Get Enough Non-Union Help. Dillonvale, O.. May 24. No coal mines were opened here today with non-union men, as planned by the United States Coal company, es not enough men were secured. THREE CONVICTS WERE SHOT. Attemoted to Escape From North Carolina Convict Camp. Raleigh, N. C, May 24. Three con victs, Including MacMilllan, the fa mous western "society convict, were shot to death today while attempting to escape from a convict camp. Four others got away. T INCINERATED MAN WAS JOHN HUSSAR, AGED 27. MewaKe Rcretved by Sheriff Taylor From tlie Dead Man's Wife at Na porvilie, Illinois Private Wilson, Who la SttU Detained Here, Has , Uorogulzod a Likeness of Hussar as Tliat of the Man Who Boarded His Car at Green River. It is now known for a certainty that John Hussar was the man who was burned in the freight car at Foster, and within a day or two the widow of the deceased will be here from Na perville, III., to claim the body. The following message has been received at the sheriff's office: Naperville, 111., May 22, "Sheriff Umatilla County, "Pendleton, Oregon. "Hold remains of John Hussar un til my arrival. Am leaving here to day. MRS. JOHN HUSSAR." AJso, a letter has been received by Sheriff Taylor from the chief of po lice at Portland. Inclosed with the same was one from Mrs. Hussar, who had written the Portland authorities to see If they could not locate her husband. According to the letter he hod left Naperville for Portland, and should have reached there long ago. The wife had become alarmed through the fact that her husband had not called for her letters at the Port land postofficc. Wllsoi) Identified Picture. Inclosed ill the letter was a stamp picture of Hussar. This was shown to Private William Wilson this morning, and he at once said It was the pic ture of the man who rode ,in his car and was burned. Hussar was 27 years of age and was a man of medium build. He was a member of the order of Eagles and was a former soldier. In the picture he Is shown with an "8," the badge of the Eighth army corps, In the lapel of his coat. Body Buried at Echo. As Mrs. Hussar stated she would leave Naperville yesterday, it Is pre sumed she will arrive In Pendleton within a day or two. However, the body of her husband was buried at Echo, Immediately after the coroner's inquest, and it is well for her that such was done. Nothing but the charred trunk remained after the fire, and It was wholly unrecognizable. CHICAGO WHEAT MARKET. Quotations From tlie Greatest Wheat Center in die World. Chicago, May 24. Wheat closed to day at 86, corn at 48 and oats at S3 3-4. Dr. Watson Dlscliargod. Portland, May 24. Dr. F. Watson, who was the head of. the Washington school for defective youth, at Van couver, Wash., for mora than 18 years and Is well known In Portland, has been appointed to take charge of a similar Institution In Idaho that will begin Its work In September. Alfred F. Sears, jr., presiding elder of the circuit court at Portland, pos itively refuses to sentence any man to the whipping post for wife beating. Instead, he Imposes as heavy a fine as the circumstances will admit. IDENTIFICATION BEYOND DUB DISCRIIUI NAT Nb RAILROAD RATES Independent Oil Producers Testify They Could Not Get Rates Awarded Standard. EX-ATTORNEY' GENERAL AND JUDGE TESTIFIES. Will Inquire Into the Causes Leading to Dismissal of Cases Against the Standard Oil One Oil Producer Spent $700,000 Fighting for a Right of Way Denied His Company by tbo Railroad Through Standard Oil In fluence PennaylTairla Received Bribe Money From Coal Operators. Cleveland, May 24. The Standard ' OH railroad attorneys were present when the interstate commerce com mission opened Its hearing under the Tillman-Gilles congressional resolu tion. F. B. Westgate, of Titusville. Pa., Independent oil man, testified that his applications for pro-rates on oil from Titusville to Vermont, were re fused. The roads pro rated west only,. he had been told. Also that through rates were given on alt freight but oil to Si. Louis. . Emery, an oil producer and re finer at Bradford, Pa., testified to selling lubricating oil to European railroads. He had sold to American roads before the roads made a con tract with the Standard subsidiary company, the Galena OH company, r Interference by Standard. "i Emery related details of building a pipe line to the coast. The Standard interfered through the railroads re fusing to allow Emery to cross their rights of way. After years of fight ing and the expenditure of $700,000, he secured a pipe line. John M. Sheets, ex-attorney gener al of Ohio, and at least one of the Ohio supreme court Judges on ths bench when the suits against the Stan dard and subsidiary companies were dismissed in the first fight against the trust, has been subpoenaed before the commission. Sheets will be question ed regarding the circumstances lead ing him to move for a dismissal of the case. Another former judge will be questioned along similar lines. Bribe Money From Coal Operators. : Philadelphia, May 24. Fred Vroo man, assistant trainmaster on the Pennsylvania road, was the first wit ness today before the Interstate com merce commission. He had the dis' tribution of cars and had received' money many times from coal opera tors, he testified. PIGEONS STOP THE CLOCK. Three Birds on Minute Hand Delay Court House Timepiece. For an hour this morning the big clock in the sourt house tower was stopped and for some time the source of the trouble was a mystery. At last Janitor Warren discovered three pig eons perchedupon the minute hand of the dial on the north side. Their weight upon the hand was sufficient to stop the movement of the entire clock and Mr. Warren was forced to ascend the tower and shoo the pig eons away before the clock could re sume operations. Before the recent changes -were made In the court house many pig eons roosted In the "chicken coops" which adorned three corners of the roof. Since they hovo been removed the birds have been without a home and in their desperation have evi dently resorted to the hands of the clock for a perching place. HORSE WAS KILLED. Result of a Serious Runaway by James Nelson's Team. James Nelson, democratic candi date for county commissioner, was unfortunate enough to have a run away while driving to Adams last night to attend the political meeting at that place. The team he was driv ing become frightened as they were passing the Stony Point and became unmanageable. While on their mad course the team ran off a bridge and one of tho horses was killed. "Everybody by tho Ears." St. Petersburg, May 24. Members of the douma are re ceiving threatening letters from peasants and Jews who are dis satisfied. The government Is encouraging opposition to the douma, and socialistic meetings will be allowed to denounce the douma. The Official Messenger continues to print telegrams to the czar praying him to save Russia and disperse the douma.