East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, June 13, 1906, DAILY EVENING EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextDAILY EVENINGEDITIOH There la something In store for you In every advertisement In the East Oregoninn. Don't (all to read every line. WKATIIEIl FORECAST. :. Fair tonight and Thursday. VOL. 19. I t vjLETON, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1900. NO. 5693 DAILY EVENING EDITION j j 'i tQ) CHILDREN'S HOI F Offices of Oregon and Idaho Children's Home Society at 308 Bush Street. MISS ISADORE E. 8. DOWDEN IS NOW IN CHARGE. Joint Organisation for Oregon and Idaho Now Reins; Completed Exec utive and Ixx-ol Committees Will Be Chosen In This City to Assist In Work of Finding Home for Homo lew Chlldron Object of the Soci ety Is to Seek Out Homeless child ren nnd Provide Good Homes in lie electable Families. 1 .j.,,, , 1 Pendleton ha bit kelected as headquarters for the Oregon and Idaho Children's Home society, a be nevolent society which will be at tached to the National Children's Home society of Chicago. , Offices have been fitted up at SOS Bush street, on the north side of the river nd Miss Isadora E. 8. Dowden. national organiser and for eight yearn state juperlntendent of the state of Montana, Is In charge. A joint state organization for Ore gon and Idaho Is now In process of formation and local and executive committees will be chosen from among the citizens of Pendleton tu have control of the funds and to as sist Miss Dowden In carrying on the work of placing homeless children In good homes. Objects of Society. The objects of the society J are to seek out orphan, hnlf orphan,' home less and deserted children and to place them In respectable homes wh.re they will be reared properly, educated and rescued from their un fortunate condition. The resources of the roclety consist In voluntary contribution, from lodges, churches, Individuals, socle ties and benevolent organizations, and In membership fees, which form a large part of the Income of the soci ety. It Is estimated th'-t one life mem bership of $100 Is sufficient to save one orphan, and working on this ba sis this society has done wonderful work In a large number of states. The annual membership fee Is fixed at $5 a patron membership at 125, a bene factor membership at $60 and life membership at $100. All funds de rived from any source are to be turn ed over to the executive committee, which. In conjunction with Miss Dow den, will expend the funds in relief work. Pendleton will be headquarters for both Idnho and Oregon and local or district committees will be appointed In each locality where the society works, thus giving a local character to all work done. The local commit tee In each town, city or school dis trict will have charge of each child placed, and In case mistakes are made In selecting hotnes, or In cnae that children or families are dissatisfied, the matter may bo Immediately ad Justed by the local committee. It Is on? of the most Important forms of benevolent work now being carried on In any part of the coun try. Thousands of homeless children are annually placed In good homes, and thus the society Is simply an agent between the child needing a home and the homes that desire children. Owing to the excellent railroad and mall facilities of Pendleton, the af fairs of Bath Idaho and Oregon will be administered from this city. Miss Dowden has been engaged in this work for the past 18 years and Is highly equipped for It. She has placed hundreds of children In happy homes and her Influence for good has been felt In at least six of the great t Mes of the Union. In 1888 she began work In Iowa, which was the first state to form a state society. From there she was sent by the national association to Missouri, from there to Arkansas, then to Texas, and then to Montana, where she organized the state In 1896, and held the position of state superin tendent for eight years, resigning to engage In private relief work In Spo kane. She has letters from Governor Toole, of Montana, state and county officials, clergymen, lawyers, business men and private citizens and comes highly recommended. The attention of the churches, lodges, benevolent societies and the people In general, of Pendleton, Is called to the work being sarted In this city by Miss Dowden. Tht co-operation of all Is Invited In order that Pendleton may become the permanent headquarters for this great work of relief which has become such a rec ognized charitable force In the United States. I Coeur d'Alene has Just sold to the Idaho state land board 314,000 school bonds at 414 per cent Interest. OR PENDLETON MARCTM WAS FOUND GUILTY, Jury Rays He Embezzled Miners' Union Fund. Baker City, July 13. Shortly before midnight the Jury In the case of T. J. Marcum, former treasurer of the Bourne Miners' union, charged with the embezzlement of about $600, brought In a verdict of guilty, with a recommendation for the mercy of the court. The Jury stood six to six for some hours when, if Is said, one of the jurors remembered a prior conviction of the defendant a number of years ago, and thlr so Influenced the tales men that they became a unit. This is the first conviction secured by Dis trict Attorney Lomax In a large cal endar of criminal cases. EDITORS AT INDIANAPOLIS. All Favor Tariff Revision, Bnt Do Not Agree on President. Indianapolis, June IS. A poll of the National Editorial association shows that the republicans present favor Roosevelt, and the democrats Bryan for president In 1908. All want tariff revision. The association was addressed by Avery Moore, of the Welser, Idaho, World, on the "Virtue of Tolerance." - Reftlsed to Meddle. Moore declared the press of the country are doing alt Injustice to Ida ho, and wanted the association to pass a voto of confidence In the state's in tention to do Justice to Moyer and his associates. The association refused to take any action uptfn this proposition. MANAGER RECK ARRESTED. Held Responsible for Attack on Non Union Sailors. Portland, June 13. Business Mana ger Beck, of the Sailors' union, was nrrested for the midnight attack on the non-union crew of the John Paul sen. Three of the crew were wound ed by the gang who attacked the ves sel. JANE STANFORD IN TOW. Made Signals of fMstrecs Off Astoria This Morning. Astoria, June 13. The Jane 8tan fodr, due from Ouaymas, Mexico, for lumber, thought to have been disman tled In the recent storm, but not de serted, Is In distress off this port. The Wallula has the ship In tow and will reuch Astoria this evening. TO EXIST NEGROES COMPELLED TO WORK BY GUARDS. Mls'-ntrl Planters Under Arrest, While United Stntcs Marsluil Arc Looking for Others Tliougtit to Re Implicat ed In Nullification of the Thirteenth Amendment 20(10-Acre Plantation SaM to Be Worked by Slave. St. Louis, June 13. Under Instruc tions from the government, United States Marshal Morrey and deputies armed with rifles, this morning at Slkeston, Scott county, Missouri, ar rested Charles M. and W. B. Smith, brothers, and Charles M. Smith, Jr., charged with forcing negroes to work their 2000-acre plantation under arm ed guards, without pay. Two other member? of the firm are being sought. The marshals also expect to arrest the corps of Smith guards. Slkeston Is about 30 miles south westward from Cairo, HI., in the midst of a corn and livestock producing dis trict. DEFENSE THEORY DEVEI,OPKD. Claim Cyanide, Not Morphine Caused Death of McVlcar. Stockton, June 13. That the theory of the defense In the Ledoux murder trial Is that of fatal poison, hydro cytanlde ncld, was made evident this morning during the cross-examination of R. J. Rogers, a San Francisco chemist, who made a chemical analy sis of the organs of McVlcar. Rogers testified he found a large quantity of morphine In the organs, and demonstrated by chemical tests before the Jury that the substance claimed to be morphine was that drug. He admitted under cross-examination that the results of cyanide and morphine poisoning are much the same, that each produced asphyxia tion. CURTIS JETT CONFESSES. Kentucky Feudist Undertakes to Ex culpate Senator Hargls. Cynthlana, Ky., June IS. A confes sion by Curtis Jett, sentenced for life for the murder of James B. Marcum and to death for the murder of James Cockrlll, of Breathitt county, Is made public Weird and uncanny plotting of feudists Is disclosed. He declares Senator Hargls Is Innocent and points out Judge . Hargls and Ed Callahan as chief conspirators In the murders. DUAS SLAVE 111 AT Baltimore Experiences One of the Worst Water Front Con flagrations in Many Years. TWO SAILORS BURNED ON THE STEAMER ESSEX. One Steamer and Contents Cost 12. 000.000 and Anotlier Half Unloaded, Cot 1300,000 Both Were Mor ctuintmen and Loaded With Goods Long Line of Scons and Barges Ignite and Nothing Could Be Done to Save Them, and Help to Make the Aggregate Loss of 13,000,000. Baltimore. June 13. The Savannah, a steamship at the wharf of the Mer chants' Miners' Transportation com pany, was totally destroyed by flr this morning. Loss. $2,000,000. The steamer Essex, half unloaded, and lying at the wharf, Ignited, was towed Into the stream and burned to the water. Edward Atkins and John Costello, members of her crew, were burned to death. The Essex was worth $300,000 and was well stocked. Eight scows and barges at the wharves were destroyed. The aggregate of all the losses will reach about 13,000,000, besides dam age to the extent of many thousands of dollars being sustained by the wharves. . HIRED TO DO MURDER. Confession to Attempt to Do Double Mnrdcr In Utah. . Ogden, June 13. Edward Sorenson, an emplaye on a farm at Wlllard ,con- feRde he tried to kill Daniel Wood land r.nd wife early Tuesday morning. He Implicates the son, Henry Wood land, and says the latter paid him to kilt his father and stepmother In or der to get possession of their farm. The father Is a paralytic. Both people were In bed when Sor ensen pushed the gun through the window and fired. He mistook the woman's arm over her head for her head nnd blew It entirely off. The son denies the charge, but the sheriff says he has proof to corroborate the confession. CHARGED WITH MURDER. Accused of Beating Her Girl Servant ' ' to Death. i Sioux Falls. S. D., June 13. The preliminary hearing of Mrs. Moses Knufmnnn, wife of the millionaire brewer, charged with beating to death Agnes Polrels, a servant. Is In pro gress today. Physicians testified they found the body covered with cuts and bruises. DOWIE ON THE STAND. Disgusted to Awake and Find lflnwelf Yet Alive. Chicago, June 13. Dowle resumed the stand at the federal court today and told of the rise of Zlon church, his aspirations and discouragements, and said that last fall after his par alytic stroke, he thought he had found relief In death, and was disgusted to awake and find himself alive. Goltlenle Held for Trial. Brockton, Mass., June 13. Potter C. Ooldenle, aged 62, accused of as saulting to kill James A. Logan, at Pasadena, Cal., May 18, was held without bond today. The case was continued to await advices from the sheriff of Los Angeles county. Four Workmen Killed. Roanoke, Va., June IS. Four work men were killed and seven Injured by an explosion of dynamite on the tidewater railroad today. Chicago Wheat Market, Chicago, June 13. Wheat closed to day at 83, corn at 52 5-8 and oats at 38 6-8. A Joseph Grable, of Montreal, Canada, who Is completing a Journey of about 50,000 miles In a tour of the world, Is In the city today the guest of George Darveau, of Hotel St. George. Mr. Grable left Montreal 10 months ago for Paris, going from thero through France, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Holland and Germany by auto mobile. From Venice he sailed to Turkey, thence through the Suez canal and Red sea to India, Borneo, Ceylon, China, Japan and on to San Fran- O STEAMERS BURN WHARF FINISHING Cisco. pleasantly surprised by his arrival He stopped everywhere long enough i here. He Is accompanied by his secre to learn something of the natives and . tary, Miss Mary Perreau and her the country and Is delighted with his TIS T Meat Inspection Bill Does Not Yet Make Provision for Paying Necessary Fees. CANNED GOODS NEED NOT BEAR DATE OF CANNING. Rule Bill Conference Committee Is in Session Today American Consul at Cannnca Exonerated by Report About to Be Made Chairman of ' Senate Canal Committee Vigorously Upholds the Claims of a High Lcvtl Canal 'Frisco's Claims Will Be Presented, Washington, June 13. The house committee on agriculture recessed this afternoon, having agreed upon a meat Inspection bill In all essentials except as to who shall pay the cost of in spection. The bill as accepted pro vides that the labels on canned goods shall not bear the date. Defends High Level Canal. Washington, June 13. Senator Mil lard, chairman of the canal committee spoke today favoring a lock canal at the 85-foot level. He said the cost will be less by over $150,000,000 than a sea-level ditch, and require much lean time. The San Francisco delegation seek ing financial aid, will be given a hear ing tomorrow by the house commit' tee on appropriations. Con-ad Exonerated. Bisbce, Ariz., June 13. Vice Con tul Brlckwood, of Nogales, returned this morning from Cananea. He was sent there to investigate the ac tions of Consul Galbralth In the recent Insur rection. The report to Washington will Indorse Galbralth. Filibuster Unloaded. Washington, June 13. It Is learn ed the steamer Empire, believed to be loaded for Son Francisco with sup plies for filibustering In Guatemala, has returned to Corinpo. The Amer ican warship sent to prevent her land ing men and supplies found her empty and ehorthanded, having apparently outwitted Uncle Sam. Rate Bill Conference In Session. Washington, June 13. The house sent the rate bill back to conference last night. Hepburn, Sherman, of New Tork. and Richardson, of Alabama, are the house conferees. The confer ence committee Is In session today. Shaw Makes a Denial. Chicago. June 13. Secretary Shaw Is here, en route to Davenport, la., to becln a speaking tour of Iowa. He denies he canceled his engagement at Syracuse University because President Day attacked the president. SUES FOR DIVORCE. Wife of Steel Magnate Alleges Hn band Deserted Her. Reno, Nev., June 13. Mrs. W. E. Corey, wife of the steel magnate, to day filed a complaint for divorce, al leging her husband deserted her May 14, 1905, and has since refused to live with her. She does not ask alimony but wants the custody of their minor child. Mny Settle Out of Court. , Paris, June 13. The friends of the Castellenes here believe that the countess and Bonl will probably settle their differences out of court. The hitch In the proceedings now Is over the guardianship of the children, and alimony. Haakon and Maud Travel. Christiana, June 13. King Haakon and Queen Maud today began a seven days' Journey to the coronation at Trondhjem. En route they will stop at towns, mingle with the people and attend their festivities. experiences. He says that a traveler can go around the world and speak the English Innguage In every stop ping place. No other language is ab solutely necessary, although a knowl edge of French or Spanish Is helpful many times. Mr. Grable Is proprietor of Le Grand Cafe, In Montreal, and two years ago met Mr. Darveau in that city and told him of his projected trip and promised that he would stop In Pendleton on his i way. This morning Mr. Darveau was mother, Mrs. Saline Perreau. MUM COMPLETE MILE JOURNEY IDAHO'S BIG TIMBER SALE. State Will Offer 100,000,000 Feet at Auction. Boise. June 13. At a meeting of the state land board today a date was set for one of the biggest timber sales ever held In the state of timber scat tered over 8500 acres of state land In Kootenai county. The timber Is of a miscellaneous character, white pine, fir. tamarack, etc., and it has been carefully estimated at 100,000,000 feet. The upset price has been approxi mately figured at $14 5,000. The sole will be held at Rathdrum July 20, and It Is reported that every Indication points to lively bidding. BRYAN AT ST. PETERSBURG. Will Study Russian Conditions and Visit the Douma. St. Petersburg, June 13. William J. Bryan arrived today. He says he expects to study the Russian situation and hopes to find people of all sorts of opinions. He said he could not discus the political situation, having been gone too long. He will visit the douma tomorrow. MINNESOTA REPUBLICANS. Favor a State Inspection of Packing Houses. I Duluth, Minn., June '13. The re publican state convention today nom inated A. L. Cole for governor and favors a meat Inspection bill which provides a maximum fine. of 10,000 and imprisonment for three years for the bribery of Inspectors. RUSSIA HONORS A WOMAN. Countess Appointed Head of Public Lands Department. Des Moines, June 13. Countess Klelnwsky, graduate of Ames Agricul tural college and a member of the Russian nobility, will assume charge of the agronomy department of the Russian government. FROZEN MEAT CAUSES ILLNESS. Argentina Product Consumed In Hull, England. London. June 13. It Is announced there are 35 cases of sickness and six deaths In the suburbs of Hull aa a re sult of eating frozen meat from Ar gentina. EXPECT FRESH SEATTLE'S PROSPECT DEPENDS ON BOND ISSUE. Scheme DeMnds Upon Whether or Not King County Will Vote a $300. 000 Bond Issue Money Would Be Used to Dig a Ship Canal From the Sound to I-ake Wa.slilngton Prom ise of a Gigantic Steel Puuit. Seattle, June 13. J. A. Moore an nounced this morning that he and his associates will build a $1,000,000 steel plant on Lake .Washington and will complete the canal between the sound and Lake Washington, through Lake Union, In two years. The county will hold a special elec tion to Issue $500,000 bonds to guar antee the canal Investment. Moore will maintain the canal for three years after completion, then turn It over to the government. The canal will be two miles long and give Seattle a fresh water harbor of 100 square miles area, with one lock. A recent act of congress removed all legal harriers to the undertaking by granting right of way and all other essential concessions to Moore for a term of years sufficient to accomplish the undertaking. STABBED BY MEXICANS. Jealousy Supposed to Have Figured In tlie Episode. Los Angeles, June 13. Howard W. Throckmorton, secretary of George C. Boldt, Jr., son of the owner of the Waldorf-Astoria, New York, while go ing to the Santa Fe station -shortly Before midnight, was attacked by two Mexicans and stabbed In the left side. They endeavored to "rob him. He pulled a revolver and shot, but they fled unwounded. Throckmorton's wound was dressed and he w,ent to San Diego at midnight. Boldt married a beautiful Spanish girl at Tla Juan a few days ago and It Is supposed the Mexicans wanted letters that Throckmorton carried for Boldt. WOMAN SHOT IN BACK. nusbnnd Claims She Was Shot by Un known Parties. Son Jose, June 13. Mrs. 8. San Felipe was shot In the back with a shotgun at 10 last night at her home in Lincoln avenue. Salvador San Felipe, her husband, olaliris on as sassin tired from in front of the house. The sheriff found a shotxun. loaded with shells. In possession of ITER HARBOR the husband. No arrests as yet. COUNTY WILL USE s s Bags for 1906 Wheat Crop Will Cost Umatilla County Over $200,000. PRICE IS NOW 10 CENTS AND STILL ADVANCING. Increasing Expenses of Farming Oaasc- Farmers to Wonder Raw Material Used In Manufacture of Sacks Is as Plentlfnl as In Former Years Highn Prices Thought to Be Due to Oona blnaflon Advance in Price of Socks) Will Cost Umatilla $80,000 More Than Last Year. Umatilla county alone will use over 2,000.000 grain sacks this year, which at the present price of 10 cents each) means an expenditure of over $200.- 000 for sacks. Other eastern Oregon counties will use at least 2,000,000 more, making: a total of over 4,000,000 for this part of Oregon. At an average of 1 cent each this means an expenditure over $400,000 or nearly half a million dollars, for sacks, to say nothing of the other expenses of harvesting. Farmers who are Interested tin forming an Inland empire grab--growers' association In this efty, will' Investigate the situation In the sack" manufacturing industry with a view to relieving this heavy expense which Is Imposed upon the farming commu nities. Most of the sacks used in this por tion of the country are made In Cal cutta, India, where the seaweed usdl in manufacture of burlap is produc ed In enormous quantities. The.Phlllpplnee are very heavy pro ducers of this same article and For, mosa and Japan also yield large-, quantities of it. The production- at" the various kinds of sea weed used fn . the manufacture of burlap and bind- lng twine has been especially stlmulat--. ed in the Philippines since the Amer-, lean occupation of the islands, and It. is not believed by farmers that ther scarcity of the raw material has caus- ed such an advance In the price. sacks. Sacks have heretofore ranged fromf" to 7 cents each, and this Jump to 10 and 10 H cents each In one season Is alarming. This increased expendi ture of about $80,000 In Umatilla county alone for this year's sacks has caused farmers to wonder If there Isl really a scarcity of sacks or star manufacturing material, or if It Is the combination of the manufacture which has caused the advance In price. The price of wheat Is not advanp lng. and this extraordinary expense of" sacks, the constantly Increasing price of labor and other Increasing expen ses of farming bring the profits downr to a minimum and unless something Is done to relieve the situation; th farmers feel tha the wheatgrowlhs Industry will soon become over-burd. ened with expenses. All these matters will be discussed at the farmers' meeting called for Saturday afternoon, June 16, In this city. GENERAL STRIKE IS ORDERED. Seaboard From Seattle to San Pedro Is Concerned. San Francisco, June 13. Acting hr sympathy with the Sailors' union, the Marine Cooks' and Stewards' ascocl atlon has declared a general strike at all ports from San Pedro to Seattle, on all such boats as have In the past refused to concede the union wage des man ds. Conditions are practically unchang ed along the water front. This morn ing the steam schooner owners met In an attempt to adjust matters, but their efforts came to naught. With a crew of Mexicans the Pacific Coast company's steamer Curacao, will make an attempt late this afternoon to get. to sea with passengers and freight for Ensenada. She will be the first of the eompany"s boats to depart since; the opening of hostilities. Seattle Crews Called Out. Seattle, June IS. The entire crews of the Pacific Coast steamers Umatil la and City of Topeka, were called off this morning by Secretary Gill, of the sailors, under Instructions from head quarters at San Francisco. No orders) as yet to call off men from Steamers operated by other companies from this port. NOT AS BAD AS REPORTED. No Loss of Life by Hurricane In Northern Montana. Butte, June IS. The northern Mon tana storm was not aa serious as first reported. There was no loss of Ufa and no cyclone, merely a wind storm.. The property loss will not exceed $60. 000. The railroads are not seriously inconvenienced, trains being only two hours tats.