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DAILY EVENINGEDITION DAILY EVENING EDITION WEATHER FORECAST. Riln and warmer tonight; Sunday rnln, fresh southerly breeze. If you wish to know how to buy what to huy, when to buy and where to ouy holiday goods, read the East Oregonian advancements. VOL. 19. PENDLETON, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1906. NO. 5850 PEOPLE INT NO E Proposed Law Will Be Too Costly For the Good it Will Accomplish. STATE EXAMINER OF AC COUNTS 18 NEEDED. Proposed Law Creates the Office of State Bank Examiner at 12100 For Tear Commlmion Composed of Governor, Treasure and Secretary of State Will Appoint the Commis sioner No Dummy Directors Will Be Allowed as Each Must Own $500 Worth of Stock. The proposed state banking law which will be presented to the next session of the legislature contains a number of features which are not seemingly necessary, even If the law should be passed. A majority of the taxpayers are opposed to this law en Urely and much prefer a law creating state examiner of accounts, which office could also Include that of state bank examiner. The provisions of the banking law, which has been circulated through the -state quite extensively within the past week, are as follows: Bank examiner, $2400 a year and traveling expenses; appointed by the bank commission governor, secre tary of state and state treasurer; four yearn' term; at least three years' ex perience In banking; must give $50,- 000 bond. Each bank director must own at least $500 par value stock of bank. Of stock subscribed, 50 per cent must be paid In before the bank opens and 50 per cent within six months thereafter. One-tenth of profits must go to sur plus. I Bank ownership of real estate llm Ited. Capital stock not less than $10,000 and population of city determines the capital required. Total liability of one Individual to bank not to exceed 25 per cent of capital, surplus and undivided profits. Fraud, when knowledge of Insolv ency, to be a felony, to be punished by fine of not more than $1000 or Im prisonment not more than two years, or both. No Dummy Directors'. No officer or employe of bank may borrow money from bank without ap proval of majority of directors, exec utlve committee of discounting com mlttee; dishonesty to make ench ap proving director personally liable. Cash reserve to be 15 per cent of deposit, and one-half of the 15 per cent can be balances due from solv ent banks. Examiner must examine every bank at least onre a year and when he shall deem necessnry. When capital Is Impaired the exam iner shall require the bank to make good the deficiency. When bank becomes Insolvent or capital Is Impaired, or It falls to com ply with the law, examiner shall re port facts to bank commissioners, who shall report them to the attorney general, with directions to proceed to stop the bank's business. In case of bankruptcy, depositors shall have prior Hen. Certificate from the examiner that the provisions of the law have been compiled with, necessary before open ing a bank. Every bank executive, agent, man ager or director shall take an oath to observe the law. Minors may do business with a bank same as adults. Banks shall publish reports In local papers within 30 days after they are called for by the examiner. A report of the bank commissioners shall be made annually by the exam Inor showing the banking condition of the state. Every bank shall report to the ex aminer within six months after the passage of the act, and shall do so an nually therenfter. The law shall apply to all banks other than national. G .ME DISAPPEARING, i Sportsmen and Wardens Worried In California. Sacramento, Col., Dec. 15. There was nn Important convention of sportsmen anil persons interested in the protection of game In this state hero today for the purpose of secur ing vnlfd and Intelligent action re garding legislation to be asked tor during the coming session of the leg islature: A number of fish and game com missioners were In attendance and from .remarks made by Alden Ander son, lieutenant governor, it appears that owing to the extremely lax en forcement of the fish and game laws there Is a very serious diminution In the quantities of both fish and game. Resolutions were passed calling for the absolute enforcement of the ex- RANK HEti istlng laws, and pointing out how they could be so amended as to make them more stringent. M. C. R. R. WILL BURN OIL. Initial TcsU Iluve I'rovcn a Complete SuccesH. Tamplco, Mexico, Dec. 15. The oll burulng englnos quite recently intro duced on the Mexican Central be tween Rio and from Cardenos to here have proven to be an unqualified suc cess and it Is Intended to repluce all the coal locomotives with them. It Is confidently predicted that the In stallation of the oll-burnlng engines will make It possible to greatly Im prove the financial status of the com pany next year. From the exhaustive experiments conducted by experts employed by the company It was shown that by the use of oil a saving over coal of 30 to 40 per cent can be made. This sav ing will materially reduce the cost of operation as coal In Mexico Is expen sive and the Central has been com pelled for years past, on account of the short supply of the native product to Import a large portion of Its fuel from the United States bringing It as far as from the Pennsylvania fields. CHINESE WIIX OPEN BANKS. Reform Movement Announced Com plete Success. New Tork, Dec. 15. Great activity prevails at the headquarters of the Chinese reform association In Mott steret, during the past few weeks. At a largely attended meeting of Chi nese In the association rooms tonight Ten Luen announced that the associ ation organ, the Chinese Reform News, was a great success and It was decided to extend Its operations and produce editions of It In all the prin cipal cities in the states. It was also announced that the con struction of the Chinese bank In Mex ico was being rapidly proceeded with and that steps were being taken to open branches In all parts of the United States and Canada. The capl tal stock is $1,600,000. but over half of it has already been subscribed by Chinese merchants. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION SESSIONS. Will Hold First Meeting at Minneap olis Ieccmbcr 17 and Subsequent SesKlons In Other Cities and May Come to Uie Pacific Xorthwcsfr Members of Commission Claim Hint Relief Must Come From Con gvess Direct. Washington, Dec. 15. December 17 the Interstate commerce commis sion will open an Investigation of the car shortage problems at Minneapolis, the healings to lie continued in sit tings by the board at Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago, with possibly one esslon in the Pclfic northwest. For some time the commission has had agents gathering information and In addition numerous letters have been received from persons who have suffered. It Is sold by the commission that final relief for the situation must como from congress, which has noi given the commission authority over t!ie movement of trains nor the fur nlsh'ng of equipment. . The complaint of shortage, it Is said, Is not necessarily based on dis crimination by the railroads, although this may be the case in some Instan ces, but on delays In moving trains and on the part of shippers In handl ing freight. Commissioner Lane left today for Minneapolis. Commissioner Trouty will conduct the hearing at St. Louis December 18 and at Kansas City, December 20. CALIFORNIA NEEDS LABOR. Fruitgrowers' Asnclntlon Invites All Nationalities. From the tenor of the following resolution Just passed by the Califor nia Fruitgrowers' association, it would be Inferred that the outcry from that stato concerning President Roosevelt's stand on the Japanese question, comes from a few agitators who do not have the true interest of the state at htart. The resolution passed by the asso ciation Is as follows: Whereas, farm labor Is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain and In California especially the great fruit and vine Industries are threatened with diruster unless some remedy be found to get more labor; therefore, be It, Resolved, that the fruitgrowers of California in convention assembled, favor such amendment of the Chinese exclusion law as will permit the en actment of laws making possible re stricted Immigration of laborers Ir respective of nationality. The largest and best equipped vet erinary college in the world Is to be established as an annex of the Uni versity of Illinois. SHORTAGE INVESTIGATION 3 'S Mother of Actress, Maud Adams, Engaged to Mrs. Bradley's Victim. BROWN HAD CAST OFF MRS. BRADLEY. Ilia Marriage to Mrs. Adama Was to Have Been Solemnized on New Year's Day After All His Disgust ing Conduct With Mrs. Bradley He Spurned Her and Became Engaged to the Adams Woman. Now York. Dec 15. Before leaving for Washington, Mrs. Annio Adams, mother of Maud Adams, the actress, made a written statement In which she said that she, Mrs. Adams, was to have been married on New Year's day to former Senator Brown, of Utah, who was shot last Saturday in Washington by Mrs. Annie Bradley, of Salt Lake City and died at mid night yesterday. Part of the state ment is as follows: "Before leaving for Washington I wish to make a statement which now seems necessary. Senator Brown and I were to have been married. When the news of the tragedy came I was expecting him to loin me, in New York. We had planned to go to Bos ton to see my daughter, Maud Adams, to acquaint her with our engagement We were then to have Journeyed to his son and daughter and tell them. We had hoped to have a union of the two families at the celebration of the ceremony on New Year's day. "I was Mrs. Bradley's best friend, Mrs, Adams continued. "When the senator first proposed marriage to me I plainly told him it was his duty to marry Mrs. Biadlcy. But he gave me every assurance that a marriage alii arice with Mrs. Bradley was Impos sible. He refused positively to marry her and told me that if he could not marry me he would not marry any one. "Under these circumstances I con sented to be his wife If he would ar range matters satisfactorily to Mrs. Bradley. He told me that he would do this and I knew that he had com municated with her and asked her how much money she would need." . Mrs. Adams' name was connected with the tragedy through letters found In Senator Brown's desk, compelling her to make public explanation. HERMAN THE FAVORITE. Odd With Hint for tlic Fight at Ton opah In Two Weeks. Tonopah, New. Dec. 15. With the Gnns-Horman fight but little over two weeks distant the Interest In creases. Guns money Is scarcer. The last bet was 10 to 7. Herman money Is more plentiful. Both men are working hard. Gans will make weight. The referee question Is not decided, but It will be Jeffries In all probabili ty. LAST DAY OF BICYCLE RACE. All Reliind Record Tunc and Will Fbilsh for Honors. New York, Dec. 15. The six-day riders have started upon their last day. Many were given strychnine and wine today. The race will end nt 10 tonight. At 10 all except the leaders will be ordered off, and those will race for honors. Some quit this morning. Vnnderstuyft's Injuries may put him out. Walthour said he would quit If they would not coll him a "quitter." Montana Launched Today. Norfolk, Va., Dec. 15. The armed cruiser Montana, sister of the Wash ington and Tennesse, was lnunched to day, christened by Mica Minnie Con rad, of Great Falls, Mont. The gover nor was not present. FUEL FAMINE GRIPS With farmers suffering from the intense cold In Minnesota and Dakota, with Seattle schools and business In stitutions on the point of closing for lack of fuel, with coal mines rushed to the limit and the demand not half supplied, and with railroads unable to deliver coal where It Is needed, the fuel condition throughout the coun try Is more serious this month than ever before In the history of the northwest. Actual suffering Is recorded in Min nesota, where no kind of fuel is ob tainable. The prairies of the Dakotas are also on the verge of a fuel famine, even with lignite mines plentiful in parts of the two states. 1 IS 001 FIANCE JOINT BUILDING ATJ Jefferson Myers Recommends That Northwest States Unite. "OLD OREGON" TERRITORY SHOULD BE AS ONE. Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Mon tana Will lie Asked to Appropriate Jointly for a Magnificent Building at Jamestown Exposition The East Expects Something Extraordi nary From the Northwest and Should Not Be Disappointed. That Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana should Join In the con struction of a beautiful joint state building at the Jamestown exposi tion, is the candid opinion of Com missioner Jefferson Myers, of the Jamestown exposition commission of Oregon, who has just returned from the east. Mr. Myers selected a delightful site for an Oregon or northwest build lng at the Jamestown exposition grounds and an active campaign will now be begun to interest otber north' west states included In the old Ore gon territory to join with Oregon in a magnificent joint building. It will be Impossible for the northwest states to make an adequate Individual exhibit and if the four states will join, Mr. Myers says that a building can be built and an exhibit assembled from the northwest which will capture the east. With a small appropriation from each state and a thorough co-operation In gathering exhibits and making a display of the resources of the northwest, this sec tlon of the union can present such a showing at the exposition as will flood this part of the country with home- seekers and Investors within a year or two after the cIobo of the exposition. Oregon will be asked to appropri ate a sum for the Btate building, the amount to depend altogether upon the co-operation of the other north weft states. The people of the east are anxious to see what Oregon will present at the Jamestown exposition. Many of them visited the Lewis and Clark fair nnd saw the wonderful resources of the west and are now anticipating a splendid display at Jamestown. BUSINESS MEN DISPUTE HILL. Claim Great Northern Refuses to Move Fuel and Grain. Washington, Dec. 15. The presi dent today discussed the shortage of cars in the northwest with a number of congressmen and expressed the hope the situation could be relieved. Townsend says: "The difficulty Is to place the blame where it belongs. Hill says there are plenty of cors. Reputable business men say the country Is suffering for the necessities of life and that the Great Northern refuses to move fuel nnd grain." The house pnssed the urgent defi ciency bill carrying over $500,000. $250,000 of It for the enforcement of the pure food law. A resolution was introduced In the house authorizing trie president to suppress the killing of nursing moth ers of fur seals on the high sens. WILL NOT SEND TROOPS. No .Hiiro Tactics In Dealing With the Japanese. Washington, Dec. 15. The war de partment denies emphatically there Is any truth In the story printed from San Francisco the government will send two regiments to the Hawaiian Islands to thwart the Japanese- King Oscar Improving. Stockholm, Dec. 15. This morn ing's bulletin says King Oscar Is bet ter. THE NORTHWEST The hardest winter weather Is yet to come and It promises to be serious In every part of the country before the winter Is half over. Washington Is unable to secure coal from British Columbia mines close at hand, and the Northern Paclflo is forbidden by the state law of Washington to sell coal because It also owns and operates rail roads and cannot deal In commercial coal business. The State university of Washing ton at Seattle actually closed Its doors last night because of a lack of fuel to supply its furnaces. Other Institutions In Seattle and adjacent towns are on the point of closing and the famine threatens to paralyse business In many 1E5T01 parts of the northwest. DAM TREATY RATIFIED. Insure Completion of the Elephant Butte Project. El Paso, Texas, Dec. 15. The Mex ican government has ratified the trea ty with the government of the United States referring to the great Elephant butte irrigation dam at Engle, 60 miles above El Paso. This action brings to an amicable settlement a bone of contention be tween the two republics and litigation that has been pending for 10 years and settles the claim for $20,000,000 which the Mexican government filed for damages on account of deprivation of water rights In the upper Rio Grande river. Thus is removed the last obstacle In the way of the com pletion of the great dam by the United States. PERMIT FOR PUBLIC WORSHIP. French Cabinet Sliows Signs of Be coming Lenient. ' Paris, Dec. 15. The cabinet today prepared a bill with six articles, pro vldlng for the enforcement of the law of associations without depriving the Catholics of means to continue pub lic worship. The Eclair today says official denial is made that Cardinal Richard held a consultation with prelates and authorized laymen to apply for permits to hold religious services. Council of ministers has decided that clergymen who do not conform to the laws will be deprived of their annuities and their property will re vert to the state. Otto Young's Will Filed. Chicago, Dec. 15. Otto Young's will, filed today, leaves $480,000 to charity and the balance, estimated at $20,000,000, Is placed In trust for the benefit of the widow and children and grandchildren. The trust extends over a period of 60 years. Admiral Doubasoff Injured. Moscow, Dec. 15. Two men threw a bomb at Admiral Doubasoff, gov ernor general, while riding In a car' rlage. He was slightly Injured. Two arrests were made. AT M'XAUGHT, OLDAKER AND RICE ARE INCORPORATORS. The Hermiston Bank & Trust Compa ny Begins Business With a Capital of 825,000 leading Spirit Will Be J. F. McNaught, Manager of the Maxwell Land & Irrigation Compa nyWill Be Ready for Business In a Short Time. The Hermiston Bank &. Trust com pany is the name of another banking institution that has been organized for the thriving town In the west end of the county. Articles of incorpora tion have been filed ylth the county clerk. The capital stock Is stated to be $25,000, divided Into 250 shares. The l.icDrporators are J. F. McNaught, S. R. Oldaker and Gonzalez M. Rice. It is understood that the last named Incorporator Is but a nominal mem- bet of the corporation, the leading spirit being J. F. McNaught. manager of the Maxwell Land & Irrigation ompany. The new company Is to commence business at once and apparently there is a race on between it and the recently organized First Bank of Her mtifjon as to which shall enter the field first. BRANDON AT WALLA WALLA. O. R. & X. Improvements Are Now In Progress at the Garden City. The Walla Walla Statesman says of the O. R. & N. Improvements which are now In progress at that place. In charge of Engineer Brandon of this city, who has charge of the construc tion of the Pilot Rock branch of the O. R. & N.: H. A. Brandon, of the engineering department of the O. R. & N. nt Pen dleton, Is In the city making arrange ments for the filling of the ground surrounding the new depot now under construction. Mr. Brandon states that he has secured n steam shovel for the work and ns soon as a suitable place from which to secure the material Is found the 'work will be started. It will require 10,000 cubic yards of dirt to moke the fill from Alder to Rose streets, and tho ground will be filled during the winter so that by spring it will have settled. The grounds are to be finished In good shape with a gradual slope to the streets. Later on the grounds will be planted to trees. Five hun dred feet of concrete walks 30 feet wide will be constructed to connect the handsome structure with the ad joining walks. The construction work on tho depot Is being rushed with all possible haste and the brick work will be completed within 10 day . If the weather Is favorable the ornamental work will be commenced as soon as the brick ANOTHER 1 HERM 5T0N work la completed. Oil 001 Steamship Company Closes Contract for 20,000,000 Barrels In Ten Years, 2,000,0(10 BARRELS PER YEAR DELIVERED. Crude Petroleum Which Will Be Re fined in Japan An Enormnns Pro- . portion Will Be Used as Steamship Fuel, the Remainder, and By-Pro. ducts to Be Put Upon the Oriental Mnrl.ets All W1U Be Pnt On Ship board at San Lni Bay, End of the Pipe Line. San Francisco, Dec. 15. Trade re lations with Japan will certainly be advanced, while social relations ought not to suffer, by purchase for Japan ese consumption of 20,000,000 bar rels of California crude petroleum. How much of on emollient such an enormous quantity of the oleaginous mineral may prove to be, politically and socially speaking, remains to be seen. i 4 General Manager Shlrashl, of the Toyo Klsen Kaisha Steamship compa ny, and representatives of the Cali fornia Petroleum refllnerles, have pot their signatures to a contract by which the petroleum company under takes to deliver to the steamship com pany 20,000.000 barrels of liquid fuel ove ra period of 10 years. The contract calls for crude oil to be delivered at the rate of 2,000,00 barrels a year. The high tariff on refined oil In Japan makes its ship ment from here prohibitive. The oil will be refined in Japan, where a large plant Is to be erected for the purpose of handling the California petroleum. While a large part of the shipments will be used as fuel on the Toyo Klseo Kaisha steamers, quanti ties will he refined and placed on the market in the Orient. Shipments will be made fioln Ollport, on San Luis bay, where a pipe-line reaches the tidewater, and where a large wharf is being constructed. DEMURRERS FTLFD. Dilatory Tactics In Progress of San Francisco Cases. San Francisco, Dec. 15. Demurrers were filed today in the case of Super visor Nicholas, Indicted for acceptnlg a brlho per Duffy. The demurrers are based on the ground the indict ments are not technically correct The hearing Is set for Thursday. Chicago Wheat Market. Chicago, Dec. 15. Wheat, opened 7414, closed same; corn opened 41, closed same; oats opened 34, closed same. German Elections January 25. Berlin, Dec. 15. It Is offlclallv an nounced today the elections will hs January 25. Three Vessels Safe. Duluth, Dec. 15. Reports show the steamers Manlstlque and Ireland and the tug Crosby, supposed to be lost, are safe. Arkansas Bank Robbed. Fayettevllle, Ark., De. 15. Rob bers at Lincoln, Ark., this morning es caped with $1800. The safe and building were wrecked. TIIF SIN RIVER PROJECT. Government Appropriates $.".00,000 for Montana. According to the According to the Illustrated Northwest, great rejoicing Is reported in the Sun valley, Mon tana, over the fact that the secretary of the Interior has apportioned the sum of $500,000 for beginning a great Irrigation work in that section. For the past two years the engineers of the reclamation service have been making surveys and completing plans for one of the largest of, the national projects In the west. The preliminary investigations of the Sun river project indicate that ?65,0O acres are rclalmablo in this valley at a cost of about $30 per acre, or a total expenditure of nearly $8,000,000. A large percentage of this area is public domain, and Its reclamation will result In a very great increase In the population of the state. The Irrigation area Is a broad prai rie extending from the Teton river oa the north to the Sun river on the south, a distance of 50 miles, and from the Rocky mountains on the west to the Missouri river on the east, a distance of 70 miles. This land, although rich In the ele ments of fertility, without water Is only fit for grazing, but when Irri gated Its productiveness can not be surpassed anywhere In the United States.