East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, November 16, 1906, DAILY EVENING EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTl ftv . I DAIIY EVENING EDITION OAILYEVENIHGEDITIQN l WEATHER FORECAST. Every day Is a good day (or East Oregonlan advertisers. Crisp, new, clean and attractive ads every day. Don't (ail to read them. Tonight and Saturday light rain or unow; colder. VOL. 19. V TON, OREGOX, Fill DAY, NOVEMBER H, 190G. ii ii FIERCE STORM IS SUBSIDING Left a Wrack of Destruction Over Large Portions of Ore gon and Washington. WIRE C'OUM V.N ICATIOXS XEAKLY ALL LACKING YKT. The Caicuile DMrlols nml Beyond Suffered tlm Most Portland Nearly Cut (Iff, mid the ITontl litis 'u-l Groat Suflerhig Anion): tile Rcnl- wmih I the l.tm liuitls of the Wll limit-tie unit CtinllU KsHfiiilly Itrlek Iliisltictfsj lluiiMO 111 Wulla Wnllu Collapses, lulu lilt! Mill Creek I 'Intnl. I'ortlaiid, Nov. l'l. Nenrly nil the towns ulong the Cnwilt-. nml Lewis divers me still under wnler. The In habitants me camped In the hills, suf fering from exposure. The morning revealed a sad scene of devastation. Reports (nun North Yakima con firm the statement the Naches river has ( hanged Its course and lull fami lies are washed nut, and thousands df ai res of orchards are submerged. Reports Indicate the Northern Pacific It no badly washed out It will he months before it can operate. It ne cessitates practically reconstruction of the line from the summit of the Cas cades to Tdcoma. Trulfle over the O. It. & N. was re sumed this morning. Influence of (he Storm Ix-ally. Although the fierce storm which has been sweeping the North Pacific coast the past two days, has subsided to a great extent, the wonihur condi tions are sill unsettled, and more rain and wind arc predicted by the Port land weather bureau. As a result of yesterday's unusual storm, tolcgiirph wires arc down In many places ancl communication witli outside points is still unconnected and unsatisfactory. Press dispatches, i , t a 1 1 . -log owned by Mrs. Thos. Qulnii therefore, are again lacking today, nd ,irrtipied by the John Smith Inl and the hast oregonlan Is somewhat ,,,.ir,.t company, at Main street hendi. -lipped In supplying its readers I bridge, was sinking on the west side, with foreign news happenings thlsjnnd about 7 o'clock, with a crash aft. -in. .on. I Y it-graphic service between Pendle. ton and the east is still cut off entire ly. Iteports this afternoon received triini l.-i Grande state that the storm hi the Craml Kondc valley was the worst In years. The partly built roundhouse ut La Grande was razed. to the ground, plate glass windows weie shattered, and fences blown de w n. Telegraph poles In the coun-i try wire broken down and wires put! out of commission. Kleitrie light) wires In La Grande were also twisted and broken, and the city was in a p.-n tl.-'l darkness lust night. Wctern Oregon ami Washington. Western Oregon mid Wii-hliiiMnu. Portland. Nov. 16. - Marooned on an Island at the confluence of the row 'it and Columbia rivers, with the watets rapidly rising around them threatening to submerge their place of refuge and drown all of them, 40 men, women and children stand, not knowing whether they will be rescued or swallowed up In the engulfing waters of the swollen livers. A tele phoned appeal for aid has been re ceived in Portland, and the steamer Burton is now on her way to the island. Whether she will arrive in t'mo to take the refugees off the island before It becomes completely covered with water, Is a question. Portland Is situated today almost the same ns In the pioneer period. Communication cannot be had by rail telegraph or telephone with points east or north, while to the south the rail and wire lines arc being kept open with difficulty. An Immense landslide on the O. It. & N. nt llodson this morning has paralyzed traffic on the Harrlman system, and the destruction of a Castle Rock bridge of the Northern Pacific shuts out the Sound cities and other points on the Hill system. Damage amounting to nhout $2. 000,000 has been done by floods throughout Washington, particularly In the western portion. The Cowlitz river, which began to rise rnpldly yesterday as a result of the incessant rains and melting snows from the foothills, Jumped to 20 feet above low water mark this morning and the big 800-foot drawbridge that spans the stream between Kelso and Woodland Washed Away. Portland, Nov. 16, 8:30 p. m. The town of Woodland, Wn.j was submerged this afternoon by Lewis river. All wires and buildings are reported swept awny. No details have yet reached hero. Catlln, unuble to withstand the terri fic strain, shortly after 8 o'clock broke from Its fastenings with a crash that was heard (or blocks and Joined the huge mass of debr) In Its hurried race down the swollen river. About 10 o'clock the Immense boom of the MetcaK Shingle company broke and 2,000, 000 feet of logs and 1!U0 cords o( shingle holts were swept away. Strenuous efforts on the part of employes saved about 4000 cords of shingle bolts. At the mouth of the Cowlitz a large portion of the boom! located there has been swept away. Logging camps and mills through out the entire district huve suffered heavily, logs and other property being swept away or damaged to a big ex tent. The total damage as estimat ed by those conversant with the situ ation Is placed at $i!ti0,000 in this vi cinity. Wort' has reached here that the Oleqnuh bridge has been washed uway. hut the1 report did not state whether It was the railroad or wagon bridge, and as all wires are down north of here it Is Impossible to get reliable confirmation. At Castle Hock part of the town Is under water, ami residents of the flooded district are moving to upper floors. The newspaper plant ha moved upstairs. About 100 passen gers are blockaded there. O. It. Al X. Troubles. The Ci. It. & N. has experienced Its share of difficulty caused by washouts on the western end of Its lire. t" to IblH morning only slight damage was done and the two regular passen ger trains and two Northern Pacific trains eastbound came through last ulvht, though somewhat delayed. Chief Dispatcher Gleason was kept up all night last night and the force at the office are extremely busy to day. Last night their wires were down at Sandy river, and they are also having trouble at that point to day. Tnu-sday a washout occurred at the old-time scene of difficulties known as Sliding mountain, just be low Hnnnevllle. A slide '.'00 feet long and three or four feet wide put a stop to all traffic. Westbound pas seoger trains Nos. 3 and 5, and a Northern Pacific train which passed li re ut HUH tills morning went as fur as Honnevllle. where the passen gers were transferred by boat. No. - and the custhotind local were an nulled tlilt morning. Wlilln Walla Uriel. Collapses. Wall i W alla. Nov. Ifi Early last evening It was found that the brick will, h could be heard for several blocks, a section of tlie wall Jack knifed Mid disappeared with a loud splash 1-eioatli llie muddy waters of Mill creek, which had undermined llo- foundation and caused the dam age. The le-eak hi tin- foundation wall o -i-u.:,-, nt a point win re the h-; avy ii Kiitlmicd on ,nage S.: do nFdeloe relief stolen CHICAGO 111 REAP OF CHARITIES EXPLAINS. Confusion Reigned and Kyutem Was ImiMWdble, Itut Theft Wiim Xnt Likely OflleiiilM of I he Retl Cross, HentliliiarltTs at Washington, .lsn Refuse to droit Stoiii-M of Theft. Chicago, Nov. 1. Ernest Rlcknell, superintendent of the Chicago bureau of charities, says; ' "I do not believe there has heen any criminal diversion of the San Fran cisco relict fund. When the dlsnstcr occurred Schmitz. rose to the occasion and showed there Is greatness In him. I do not think nny money that passed through the hands of the committee of no, or through the hands of the mayor were misappropriated. "I think tho emergency bureau or ganized by the victims of the disaster hazarded risks for receiving funds and recording them. Think of the Immense number of contributions and the paralysis of tho agencies of trans mission! No doubt many remittances were wrongly entered and all trace of them lost, but I do not doubt but that every cent contributed reached Its proper destination nnd was honest ly distributed." MISAPPROPRIATION DOIHTF.D. Retl Crot Officials Knmv of Xfo De ficit Anywhere. Washington, Nov. 16. Officials of the Red Cross here are Ignorant of any misappropriation of funds nt San Francisco, If nny really exists, which they doubt. Miss Tlonrdinnn, the sec retary, says about $8,000,000 was col lected hy tho society for the relief of Han Francisco sufferers, $400,000 of which wns sent to San Francisco for distribution. Every dollar Is account ed (or, she says. LEGISLATURE MUST AUTHORIZE PENDLETON CHARTER GRAEES Saloon Licenses After June 1 Next Will Cost $900 Per An num Two Licenses Revoked. -lllinec of ll5:in.!tS Worth of Street Improvement Ponds Authorized; Tliey Will Hear I'er Cent Interest Proposed That the City Ituihl a IE iulnrt-cil Concrete Bridge on Main Street, lo "l.lnc" With the Street IntreiiM! In License Slay Add U10..VMI Yearly to the Clt's Revenue Opinion of City Attorney Hclalln to ( barter Changes line-' Not Tally With Attorney General Crawford's. Some city history was made at the council meeting Inst night, the ses sion being an adjourned one from the night previous. It was decided the charter cannot be changed until the legislature meefs. the saloon licenses were raised to J 900 per year; an ex ample was made of two disorderly saloons, and other Important propo sitions considered. Charier Change .Must Wait. The subject of changing the city charter had been left with City At torney John MoCourt for Investiga tion, and he reported last night. Ac cording to the same the city has no power to order a charter election until the legislature passes a law putting the recent amendment Into execution. Although the attorney general had ruled otherwise It wns declared by Mr. Mcl'ourt that the weight of authori ties was that the amendment adopted Is not self-executing. Consequently he recommended that no charter change be attempted until the legis lature has met and passed a bill mak ing tile amendment effective. Saloons Pay SIMM Hereafter. An ordinance raising the saloon li censes of the city from $550 to $000 per annum was introduced msi nigni mt- rasi siue ui me ai upproacn and passed by a unanimous vote. It i to the Main street bridge. Mr. Liver Is to go Into effect June 1, inn", and more claims title to land adjoining In the meantime all renewals of 11 ; the same and desired to have the city censes will become due on June 1 and - survey Its tract so that he could then December 1. and w hen a license is establish his claim to the remainder, secured between those dales the ap- j It was proposed during the meeting pllcant will pay pro rata to one of that the city construct a re-enforced the dates. concrete bridge making It run across The object of the Increased license, the liver on a straight line with Main Is to raise more revenue for the city, street on this side. However, no ac aiiil with the :!il saloons now In exist- Hon regarding the same was taken ence here it means an Increase of $10,- except to Instruct the city attorney to 5ln per annum from that source. have the street surveyed in accord- Two 1.1.1-iiM ltevokeil. Immediately after the license ordi nance had been passed Mayor Fes called the council's attention to law violations on the part of two saloon men D. ii. Smith, of the saloon In the Matlm k-lli ow nfield building, and P.oy Stewart of tile Italnler lieer 11:1.1. At the direction of the mayor. Record er Fit 7. Herald produced the docket' of the police court and read entries i therefrom, due of yesterday's date I showed Stewart to have pleaded:.. . ,,, . . , in 1,11 i,i i., . , cederatlon of Labor today. Gompers hi I while smith and his bartender w ere I shown to have been guilty of selling liquor to Indians last week. nthci- misdemeanors were also charged against the two saloons, and the mayor recommended that the li censes for the places be revoked as an example. After a little further dis cussion, during which Councilman Murphy stated that the men had been warned repeatedly, it was moved that the two licenses be revoked. The mo tion was carried with but one dissent- T, RO SIEIR A SWEDE CHARGED WITH LARCENY For the parts they played In a gam-: l.llng game with CI. W. Piggers, at the Hauler lieer hall, Roy Stewart, Sam Knillcoit and a Swede whose name Is unknown, are now dicing a trial for larceny. In the justice court this morning District Attorney Phelps tiled Infi rniations charging all three men with the larceny of $1000. War rants for their arrest were then Issued by Justice Joe Parkes. Itlggers' JilOlKI Certificate Wns Cashed Srme of the facts regarding the rambling operations of the three men wore published last evening. At that lime It was stated Riggers had stopped Payment of the $1000 certificate of deposit which lfe had parted with in addition to $100 In cash. Rut later In the day yesterdny It became known that the certificate had been paid In itio bank before Riggers' note reached the l a Grande Institution. The certi ficate was taken to the First National Itank of this city by Roy Stewart Wednesday afternoon. It had been properly Indorsed, and the local bank then wrote the La Ornnde bank to ascertain If It were good. The reply was favorable ,and the certificate whs accepted by the First Nutloyal, cash b'dng given for It. Evidently Stewart and Endlcott afterwards became afruld the paper would not be accepted, for yesterday lug vote. That one was cast by J. T, Hlnkle. The license held by Smith had been granted but a few weeks ago. while Stewart's was Just expiring. An ap plication for renewal of the latter was upon the table and it was denied by the council. Cpon the request of the parties con cerned the saloon license now held by T. I. Crowner was transferred tr E. L. Matlock & Co.. who have pur chased the Shamrock saloon from the former. Street Hontls Voted. An ordinance providing for the is suance of street improvement bonds was nisi, passed. It is for the purpose of taking advantage of the Bancroft bonding law and allowing property owners to pay their street paving as sessments in 10 annual Installments, The toial of the bond issue will be JBD30.33. and they will bear 6 per cent Interest. Most of the oonds will hi- for J 5 0 each, ami they will fur nish an opportunity for investment to small savers. At the Instance of Lot Llvermore. Councilman r.enn brought up the sub ject of the city's right to the land on ""' Mr- i-ivermores request. It was 10 o'clock when the council adjourned. GOMPKRS WINNING OCT. I'm- Participatloii In Politics, ami Op- ,ins,-d Inilni'-illg Koosoxcll. Minneapolis. Nov. IS. Gompors' position for participation In politics Is gaining strength. If.tosevelt 1 tlio V,or...-A ,v. posed to nny notion by Mitchell leading to the Federation favoring tho president. Compels Is angry because Root was sent to attack Hearst. The Federation adjourned this morning until Saturday. The committee will consider 150 resolutions. Earthquake In New Mexico. Tueumcnry, N. M Nov. 16. An earthquake at 5 this morning awoke the people and shook articles from shelves. morning they both appeared at the hank and again Inquired regarding it. George Hartmnn, Jr., assistant cash ier of the First National, then 'phoned to the La Grande bank to again ask rewinding the certificate. Again their reply was that the certificate was good nr.d would be accepted by them. Riggers Is the Sole Loser. About n half hour later in the day the L:i Grande bank called the bank here to Inform It that Diggers had nsKod payment stopped upon the cer tificate. However, the First National had already cashed the paper upon nuHmrlty from the Ln Grande bank i t'.d being an Innocent purchaser the Li Grande bank was required to pay the certificate. Accordingly Plggers is tile sole loser by the deal. Stewart Arrested : Others Gone. This afternoon Stewart was placed tinder arrest by Deputy Sheriff Joe 'llakcley nnd taken before Justice Parkes. Time for a preliminary hear ing was then set for next Tuesday at 10 o'clock. To Insure his appearance at that time Judge Parkes placed Stewart's ball at $300. A cash bond was given, Cp to this hour neither Endlcott nor the alleged Swede have been found. They are believed to have left the city, in which ease some time may he necessary for their capture. SI ENOIGOTI AND CHESTER THOMPSON S TRIAL. Slnyei of Judge Emory at Seattle, Wll He Tried In Tiiconin. Seattle, Nov. 10. The trial of Ches ter Thomrson, which was taken to Pierce county under a change of venue, will probably occur on Decem ber 10, as the calendar of the Pierce county courts is full up to that date, prosecuting Attorney Mlcklntosh will pr to Tucoma on Thursday to have the date set. The prisoner, who is accused of killing Judge G. Mead Emory, will be removed to the Pierce county Jail during his trial. Judge Snell, who handles the criminal business of Pierce conty, wll probably preside at the trial. The case was set for trial In this county November 15, the de lay being necessary under the change of venue. BOISE ITEL FAMINE. One Company is Itehlntl 110 Cars on Its Orders. Boise, Nov. 16. An evidence of the seriousness of the fuel situation In Rolse Is tho fact that one of the coal firms, the Boise Commission company Is 110 cars behind on orders. Fur thermore, the orders for this coal were mostly placed during the first and the middle of the summer. The company went to the expense of erecting bins to store 3000 tons and secured teams and wagons to deliver the coal and all are useless. The company as a result of the re duction of freight rates on wood from Council, endeavored to contract for 3001 cords but was unable to secure nny at all. I ITCI.ITHIC AT ROISE. Active Operations Are I'niler Way, of Paving Street. Boise, Nov. 16. The first shipment of 12S barrels of bitumen for the War ren Construction company, for use in paving has arrived after a long de lay en route. Two more cars of 143 and 14S barrels are now on the way to Boise. It Is expected that active operations In paving will be started be(ore the end of next week. On account of some of them being broken en route the work of assembling the machinery for the plant has been delayed. The first layer of crushed stone, the coarse stone. Is being placed on Jeffersnn ami Seventh streets, to be spread later. NEGRO KILLED SEVEN. Wn Overtaken hi the Woods anil Shot lo Deaili. Ashevlllo. N. C Nov. 16. After shooting two of a posse In the woods near Fletcher, two miles from this city at noon. Will Harris, a negro, who killed two policemen and three negroes Tuesday, was killed today. He fought desperately and his body was riddled with bullets. RI'EF AND SCHMITZ FACE SERIOI'S RISCI.OSVRES. Honey ami Lnugdoii Deolnrc They Have liieniilied Evidence That Will Send Ruet and Schmitz to the Peni tentiary for Twenly-ITve Year, and More Evidence Coming. San Francisco, Nov. 16. Despite the fact that Indictments on which Schmitz nnd P.uef could be sent to the penitentiary for n term of 25 years, l.ave been returned, Langdon and Honey this morning took up the task of socking more Indictments in the alleged graft cases, with relentless energy. With the French restaurants cases out of the way they took up the Relvldere Music hall cases, sift ing all the evidence and placing It in shape for presentation to the grand jury when that Inquisitorial body re convenes this afternoon. The Relvldere case Involves the manner In which Rucf Is alleged to have secured 25 per cent of the com pany's stock. The Belvidere was a tenderloin resort operated under the nnmer. of Jim Coffroth and Eddy Gra ney, prize fight promoters, and Is said to have been given special privileges In the matter of conducting "reception rooms" where actresses met men and drank with them. The manner In which Schmlts will be served with the notice of Indictments against him was not decided upon this morning. Italian Was Killed. Ogden, Nov. 16. An unknown Ital ian was killed and six Injured In a wreck on the Southern Pacific at Montenello last night. The air refus ed to work on the engine of a freight, which rushed down grade and lilt an engine In process o( repairs. Explosion Kills) Many. Douglas, Arls., Nov. 16. It Is re ported 20 were killed by an explosion at a stone qparry nine miles east of this city, INDICTMENTS IN FINISH GWINN CHOSEN BANK PRES DENT Succeeds W. J. Furnish as Active Head of the Pendle ton Savings Bank. MR. ITUXISII RETAINS HIS LARGE INTERESTS. T here Will lie Xo Deviation From tho General Polio) of the Bank in tho Past It CuiTles; $1,51)0,000 Resour cesThe Xew President Is a Prom inent Figure In Northwestern Finan cial Circle Xo Other Clinngcs In Personnel of Rank's Management Contemplated. Montio B. Gwhin is now the presi dent of ths Pendleton Savings bank, having been elected to that position at a regular monthly meeting of the directors held yesterday afternoon. He takes the place of W. J. Furnish, who resigned. But according to the an nouncement of Mr. Furnish himself, he still has a large financial Interest In the bank, being one of the heaviest stockholders and will continue to be a director In the Institution. He gave up the active management o( the bank In hopes of benefiting his health, which has been more or less broken for several years. That the same general policy which has governed the bank In the past will be continued is declared by the new president, who states that noth ing which the bank can properly do to foster all legitimate enterprises, will be left undone. Under the management ot W. J. Furnish the Savings bank has been made into one of tho strongest finan cial Institutions in the northwest, and it now has total resources of over $1,500,000. Montie I.. Gwhin. the new head of the big Institution, Is now well known 'o the people of L'matilla county through his previous connection with the hank, nnd through his record as a business man of Idaho and Oregon. He Is now the treasurer of the Idaho State Bankers' association, vice presl dont of the Caldwell Bank & Trust company, and treasurer of the Idaho grand lodge of Odd Fellows, which position he has held (or 15 years. In fraternal circles he has also been proi-lnent In the Knights of Pythias, beliiu- past grand chancellor of Idaho and past supreme representative from that -date. He has been heavily In terested In the livestock business In the past and is now president of the Malheur Livestock & Land company. That no other changes In the work ing force cf the bank are contemplat ed was stated this morning by Mr. Gwinn. As vice president Mr. Morris wl'l continue In the work he has done In tho past, while J. W. Maloney will continue as cashier. The following is a list of the stock holders cf the bank : W. J. Furnish. .7. N. Teal. Al Page, of Wardner. Idaho. R. Alexander. R. T. Cox. Joseph Basler. Charles H. C.T-ter, E. W. McComas. P.. X. Stan field. A. J. Devlin, of Wardner. Idaho. E. L. Smith, L. D'isenbery, E. Boetch or. Frank S. Curl, Marion Jack. W. F. Matlock. E. P. Marshall. J. H. Raley. Herbert Boylen. F. Wr. Vincent. A. C. Koeppen, C. E. Roosevelt, estate of D. P. Thompson, estate of C. H. Lewis, of Portland. Monte B. Gwinn and T J. Morris. Plans for the remodeling of the bank building are now being drawn. E. B. MacXaughtnn, of the architectu ral firm cf MacVaughton, Raymond & Lnwrence. was here vesterday In con nection with the same. The general features of the changes to be made wore outlined In this paper some time ago. According to Mr. Gwinn the im provements will he made as speedily ns '.he work can be done. Mountain Gem Repaired. Rlpnrla. Wash.. Nov. 16 The steamer Mountain Gem Is now on the ways at Rlparla. having arrived there Saturday. The hull of the boat Is undergoing some repairs ond she will be placed in commission and turned over to the O. R. & N, on Saturday. Sunday the boat will start for Lewis ton and will thereafter be engaged In service on the upper section of the river. Alexander Huogenlng, a pioneer res Ident of The Dulles. Is dead. He re sided hi The Dalles since 1S60 was a native of Switzerland. He L. S. Cook Removed. Portland. Nov. 16. L. S. Cook, superintendent of the State Portage road at Celllo Fulls, was removed this morn- Ing. He Is charged with grafting by forging the names on vouch- ers and padding payrolls.