East Oregonian : E.O., March 30, 1908, EVENING EDITION, Image 1

EVWEDITION
EVENING EDITION
After you have read
the ads., you are ready
to go shopping. Pen
dleton's bt'M- bargain
giving stores are rep
resented In this paper.
WEATHER ItKPORT.
Showers tonight or
Tuesday; poHHlbly
light frost tonight.
Sunrise, 5:45; suiibot,
6:24.
VOL. 21.
PENDLETON. OltEUON, MONDAY. MAKCII 8l
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Too Early, Says Buyer, to
Tell What Average Will Be
Paid for Wool.
GROWE1LS IN OTHER STATES
SELL ON CONSIGNMENT.
Charles Green I -i Arrival Among
Uki I'utcIwscts Says Much Wool
In Arizona, California, Nevada and
Idaho Has Been Sold on Consign
ment Basis Docs Not Think Ore
gon Growers Will Dispose of lip In
nils Manner Schedule Of Sales
Days.
Charles H. Green, dean of the
woolbuyers and representative of
Koahland Bros., has arrived in the
city and will remain In this section
during the coming wool season. His
arrival marks the opening of the sea
son and within a short time other
buyers, now In the southwest, will
reach this place.
Regarding the status of the wool
market this season Mr. Green declare
that It is yet too early to foretell
what prices will be paid. At this time
he says that the situation has not
shaped Itself sufficiently for the
buying houses to know where they are
at and until It does the market will
not be opened. However, he predicts
that lower prices will prevail.
"In the southwest much of the wool
has been sold on consignment," said
he this morning. "In Arizona 2,500,
000 pounds was consigned and from 10
to 13 cents per pound was advanced
upon it. In California 2.000,000
pounds has been consigned with from
6 to 8 cents per pound being advanc
ed. About a million pounds has been
consigned out of Nevada and the same
amount from Idaho. In Nevada 10
cents per pound was advanced."
According to Mr. Green he will be
ready to take wool on consignment
here, but he does not apprehend that
eastern Oregon buyers will take kindly
to the Idea because of a sad experi
ence they had when they consigned
their wool about 15 years ago.
"I do not believe there will fee much
contracting this year and It is probable
that the prices will not be established
until the first sales day Is held," he
says. "By that time the houses will
know where they are going to dispose
Of their wool and they will bid ac
cordingly. However. It Is certain that
the wool will be bought and thus,'
having good clips will get good
prices.
The following Is a schedule of the.
sales days as arranged for the com
ing season in eastern Oregon:
Arlington, May 23 approximate
offerings 700,000 pounds.
I'endleton, May 25 and June 8.
Pilot Rock, May It and June 9.
Approximate offerings for both places
2.500.000 pounds.
Heppner, May 29 and June 11;
2.500,000 pounds.
Vale, June 5 and 23; 2,000.000
pounds.
Baker City, June 22 and July IV.
2,000.000 pounds.
Elgin, June 25 and July 9; 2,000.000
pounds.
Condon, June 19; 760,000 pounds.
Shaniko, June 2 and 16, and July
6; 3,400,000 pounds.
He-open Big Western Bank.
Kansas City, Mo., Mar. 30. With
W. B. Rldgcly, comptroller of the
currency, as Its new president, the
National Bank of Commerce, which
closed last fall, was re-opened for
business today. The Institution has
$6,600,000 cash in Its vaults and Is
now thought to be In a sound condi
tion. The bank was one of the larg
est west of the Mississippi and Its
rehabilitation will likely have a fa
vorable effect on financial conditions
throughout the southwest.
President Roosevelt has sent a
wreath from the White House con
nerval ory to the funeral of the late
D. W. Stevens, who was murdered by
Koreans at Ban Francisco recently.
PENNSYLVANIA LETS
O OCT ALL FOREIGNERS.
O Pittsburg, Mar. 10. An or-
der Issued by the Pennsylvania
railroad today to discharge all
foreigners and employ only Am
mcrlcan laborers has caused a
stir.
The order affects laboreVs
only as the office and mechan
ical departments have been fill
ed with only English speaking
people.
When operating, full capacity
the Pennsylvania employs 180,
000 men.
BRING 0000
HAYWOOD CRITICISES.
Also Say Wyoming Mine Disaster Is
Minder by Mine Owners.
Chicago, Mar. 30. W. D. Haywood
took occasion to criticise Roosevelt,
Governor Gooding and other public
offlclnls In a speech delivered here
last night.
Incidentally Haywood launched his
boom for the candidacy for president
of the United States on the socialist
ic ticket. Resolutions were Intro
duced and passed calling for the
withdrawal of troops at the Tread
well mines.
Speaking of the bomb throwing In
New York, Haywood said: "When
some poor deluded mortal Is trying to
take by force what by justice belongs
to him, we call It an outrage. But
out in Wyoming 70 men were killed
In a mine explosion. That was mur
der by the mine owners."
ANNA SI RE TO TIE CP.
Will Wed Prince De Sagau Regardless
Of Brother or Public's Attitude.
New York, Mar. 30. Anna Gould
will positively, It is stated, marry
Prince I)e Kagan within a month, de
fying her brother George, who ad
vised against such a step.
It is said that she will give George
three days to sanction the marriage
and If he then refuses the ceremony
will be performed abroad.
Last night De Sagnn and Mme.
Gould dined ut the Gotham Hotel.
The prince appeared wholly unaffect
ed by the dispatches that the Mar
quis Custellane, father of Count Bonl.
had slated that D Pagan was already
In debt and that no honest ddor of
Europe was open to welcome him.
II Mi DISASTER
WILD EXCITEMENT STILL
PREVAILS AT II ANN
Hr,. still Raging In ill -Fated Union
Pacific Coal Mine and Rescue Will
Be Impossible for Several nays
Bodies of Many Victims May Have
Bern Incinerated Two Bodies
Fright hilly Mutilated Are Recover
ed. Hanna, Wyo., March 30. Hope has
been abandoned of saving any of the
remaining 71 miners entombed In the
Union Pacific coal mine here, who
may be alive In the burning mine.
Flames render it Impossible to enter
the workings. Help Is coming from
other towns.
Agonized relatives cluster about
the shaft hoping that something could
be.done. but are doomed to disappoint,
ment
Salt Lake. March 30. A special to
the Herald from Hanna, Wyo,, says:
Seventy-one men are known to have
lost their lives In mine number one of
the Union Pacific Coal company al
though only 54 names are obtainable.
Seventy-one coffins have been rushed
to Hanna. ' The bodies of Alexander
Teiinant and Matt Huhtala of the res
cuing party were found at daylight
100 feet from the east slope, having
been blown from the mine by the
second explosion which snuffed out
the lives of more than 50 men. Ten
nant's head could not be found and
one arm was some distance from the
body.
Huhtala's body was horribly man
gled, Warburton, Hunson and Perry
were taken out aA night. All were
badly turned and all those still In the
mine have been given up for dead.
The rescuing party Is working hero
ically but the bodies will possibly not
be recovered for several days as It will
be necessary to close the west slope
and smother the fires below the 10th
level and then draw off the large
quantities of gas before entering the
colliery.
Of the dead fully 80 per cent were
married and practically all have chil
dren. The wildest excitement prevailed to
day In Hanna and at the mine, where
hundreds are congregated, including
widows, children and other relatives
of the victims. Many women are run
ning about wringing their hands and
crying, while many little children, sep
arated from their mothers In the semi
panlc that prevails, are sobbing and
trembling in fear.
After the second explosion addition
al appeals were telegraphed to all sur
rounding towns for assistance. One
train Is being rushed west from Oma
ha,. carrying officials of the Union Pa
cific railroad and the Union Pacific
Coal company.
ifl Halts Ronnie Work.
The regular force of men employed
at mines number two and three was
pressed Into rescue work, which In ex
tremely difficult and hazardous. The
bodies of four of the 18 men who lost
their lives In the first explosion were
located Inst night, but owing to the
ever-Increasing volume of gas which
threatened to explode at any moment,
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SETEITT
ONE
ROBBERS KILL H-
MESSENGER
Officers Think Urg ateful
Friend Slew Santa Fe Em-
ploye With Hatchet,
HEAD CRUSHED AND VAL
UABLES GONE FROM CAR. '
Investigation Being Made by Officers
With Hope for Fastening Crime
for Dastardly Crime Think Mur
derer Was Experienced Railroad
Man, Familiar With Workings of
Fx press Cor Reward Offered for
lYrpetrator of Murder Head
Crushed by Blow From Blunt ln
strument. Kansas City, March 30. Officers
today visited the home of O. A. Bal
ley, the Wells-Fargo messenger, who
was murdered In his car on a Santa
Fe train yesterday between Newton
and Florence, Kan.
They sought a list of the murder
ed man's acquaintances in order to
find trace of any person out of em
ployment, who might have entered the
car under the guise of a friend and
then did the fatal work.
The officers are convinced that the
messenger was killed by a blow from
a hatchet and believe that the robbery
of the express safe was the work of
an old railroad man who was familiar
with the workings and markings on
the packages. Nothing was disturbed
but money and Jewelry packages.
The officers believe that Bailey ad
mitted a friend into the car and that
the latter struck him In the head with
a hatchet when his back was turned,
effected the robbery and left the train
at Newton.
A reward of $1000 has been offered
for his capture.
Bailey was killed by an unknown
person on Santa Fe train No. 115 be
tween Florence and Newton early
yesterday morning. The murderer
was very brutal, with robbery as the
object. Bath sfes, the local and
the through safes, were ransacked
and at least $1000 in money and same
Jewelry taken. The amount the rob
bers secured Is not known.
The dead body of Messenger Bailey
was found at 4 o'clock when the train
reached Newton. It was stretched on
the floor of the car, the head beaten
to a pulp and lying In a pool of blood.
The back of the skull was crushed
and the end of the car where it wis
lying was spattered with blood. The
blood splatters reached to the celling.
There was no evidence of any strug
gle, the Indications pointing to the
commission of the murder while the
messenger was asleep before he could
offer resistance. Bailey was seen
alive at Strong City. At Peabody
someone opened the car door Just far
enough to throw out a package of
waybills and then closed It quickly.
FORTUNE FOR FI.ORETTA.
Pol let- Search for .Terr Knode Cooke
and Wife Th Estate May be Set
tled. San Francisco, Mar. SO. The po
lice nave been asked to find Rev.
Jere Knode Cooke and Floretta
Whnley so that the latter can come
buck to the home at Long Island to
appear in court and settle up an es
tate belonging to her. The estate Is
worth about $25,000.
No More Pearl Buttons
New York, March 30. As a result of
the failure in the supply of fresh wa
ter mussels, the "pearl" button fac
tories of New York are finding it dif
ficult to supply the demand and
many of the plants may be forced to
close down.
This morning Circuit Judge Bean
and several local members of the bar
left for Milton, where a .session of
court will be hold to hear testimony
In the case of the Little Walla Walla
Irrigation union versus the Finis Ir
rigation union and several hundred
other defendants. Among those who
went to the north end with the court
were Judge James A. Fee, Roy Ra
ley, G. W. Phelps and J. S. Beckwith,
court stenographer.
The hearing at Milton this afternoon
marks the opening of the famous
"Second" Irrigation suit. The first
suit was brought by the Peacock
milling company against a host of
water users on the Walla Walla river.
In the suit now on the Little Walla
Walln irrigation union, which hat.
lands below Freewater and Milton,
seeks to check settlers above them
RRIGATIQN SUIT BEING TIB IT Ml
CONFESSION MO
DEATH III CHi
Chester Gillette's Last Words
Confirm His Guilt of Grace
Brown's Murder.
PAYS PENALTY' FOR IDS
( RIME THIS MORNING
Youthful Sluyor of Sweetheart Whom
He Betrayed and Killed Goes to
His Doom In Electric Chair In New
York Penitentiary Tells Minister
unil Prison Cliapluln That Ho Was
Guilty of Atrocious Crime and Says
Heart Is Torn With Anguish fot
Sorrow He Has Cuused.
Auburn, N. Y., Mar. 30. Chester
Gillette, the young slayer of Grace
Brown, one time a sweetheart of
Gillette, and whom he betrayed, de
serted and finally killed, paid the
penalty this morning In the electric
chair.
Governor Hughes heard the last
appeal for a review and commuta
tion of the sentence Saturday when
he listened to the evidence of addi
tional witnesses whom the attorney.,
from Gillette said threw a new light
on the case.
All day Sunday the governor stud
ied the matter over and announced
Sunday night that he would do noth
ing to stop the execution.
Gillette Confesses to Crime.
At almost a last breath the boy
confessed to his spiritual adviser
Rev. Mclllravey and Prison Chaplain
Herric that he was guilty of the
crime. Mclllravey refused to give
the details of the confession, which
was oral, but said It bore out the
charges of the prosecution. As the
lt was strapped to the chair he
called Mclllravey to the chair.
"Tell mother that I am prepared
to meet my God" he said in a calm
voice. "Tell her I have no hard feel
ings against anyone and am only fill
ed with sorrow for the anguish I have
caused her and others. Good bye.
Gillette entered the death house at
b:rj a. m.. nis face asned but was
not nervous and walked to the chair
unassisted and settled in a comfort
able position with a sigh of relief.
Chaplain Herric recited the 23rd
psalm. Gillette sat quietly with
bowed head until the conclusion when
he made the statement to Mclllravey
The cap was adjusted and the
switch turned on. A current of 1800
volts was applied for 30 seconds.
Only one contact was made and at
6:30 he was pronounced dead.
imiay an ornciai statement was
given out by Rev. Mclllravey and
Chaplain Herrlck which was as fol
lows:
Because of our privileged rela
tions with Chester Gillette we deem
it unwise to make any detailed state-,
rttent of what We learned from our
talks with him, but we simply wish
to say that no legal mistake was
made In carrying out the ends of
Justice."
Story of he Murder.
So ends the pitiful tragedy of a pal
lid, cowering boy and a simple coun
try girl who loved unwisely, per
haps, but with pathetic constancy.
The boy faced by a situation that
he could not master, killed to avoid
disgrace, the daughter of a poor but
refines family living on a farm,
Qraca Brown, who went to work In a
shift factory at Courtland, N. Y.
There she met Gillette, a nephew
of the owner and an employe In the
office of the factory. His attentions
made her envied of all the girls In
the factory.
One day she left for home, taking
with her an awful secret. In the
L
from using water which they claim
should go to themselves, the plain
tiffs in the big suit.
Though the first and second suits
are entirely separate actions, yet
much of the testimony Is identical
and in the present case much of the
testimony taken In the first trial will
be used again.
The court Is holding the session at
Milton for the convenience of the de
fendants as there are about 360 In
the second suit. For the most part
the testimony of each defendant will
he brief and by holding the session
there they will be saved the Incon
venience of coming to Pendleton to
testimony.
Prior to his death the late Judge
T. O, Halley was chief counsel for
the plaintiffs In the Irrigation suit
and Attorney C. M. Rader of Walla
Walla now appears for them.
TON
murder trial which followed her let
; ters to Gillette were published and
portrayed In slmnlo language the
story of a bro
hearted girl who
tice to her unborn
asked him to do
child.
Finally he car.
o her on a pre-
text that they wel
be married and
took her to a
hd S on Moo
iv i went
oose Lake.
On the third day
canoeing
on the lake. Whc
? l a lonely spot
i,
struck her over f. ? head with a
(tennis racquet and
hed the body
Into the water, upsi he canoe and
asserted It was an accident that caus
ed Grace to drown. He was arrested
a few days later asri put up a stub
born fight for almost two years.
Mother Faints hen News Comes.
During the execution the father,
mother, two sisters and a brother of
Gillette waited near the prison In the
Salvation Army headquarters. When
told it was all over Mrs. Gillette
fainted.
ILLICIT LOVE AND DEATH.
Cleveland Music' Teaclier and His
Pupil Found With Bullets Through
Hearts.
Cleveland, Mar. 30. Lying side by
side on the roadside with bullets
through their hearts, the bodies of
Carl Bernthaler, a music teacher, and
Lena Ziechman, his pupil were
found
The position of the bodies Indicates
that Bernthaler shot the girl and
then killed himself. It was discover
ed after that Bernthaler had been
married and was secretly meeting the
girl for the past six months .
When Mrs. Bernthaler was asked to
look at the remains of her husband
she collapsed.
CANDIDATES FOB
HILL-TOWER CONTROVERSY
A BADLY MUDDLED MESS
Kaiser WUhehn or Ambassador Tow
er or Both May Be Eligible to
Roosevelt's Order or the "la Bad"
Organization Hill a Victim of a
Very Bad Job of Diplomatic Knif
ing If Rumors and Reports An
True Situation Very Conflicting.
Washington, March 30. The Hill-
Tower Incident has now reached the
point where it looks as If it is almost
certain that the doors leading to the
reception room of President Roose
velt's Ananias club, or the "In Bad"
organization would soon fly open to
welcome either Kaiser Wilhelm or
Ambassador Tower, or both.
From a confused, muddled condi
tlon of affairs at Berlin, contradlc
tory statements and a lack of deli
nlte information It looks as If cer
tain that Hill was a victim of a bad
Job of diplomatic knifing.
BATTLESHIP GUN BLOWS UP.
First Accident on Long Journey of
Fleet Occurs Today Gun Crew
Uninjured.
Washington, Mar. 30. The first
accident of a serious nature that has
befell Evans' fleet since It left Hamp
ton Roads, occurred today when the
muzzle of a broadside gun on the Mis
souri blew out, tearing away one-half
of the gun. The gun crew was unin
jured. The cause of the accident Is not
given In the dispatch. The board of
Inquiry has been ordered to Investi
gate.
THAW TO REMAIN IN ASYLUM.
Alienists Advise That No Steps Be
Taken to Secure Immediate Re
lease. New York, Mar. 30. On the advice
of the alienists who recently examin
ed Harry Thaw at Matteawan, the
Thaw family have decided not to
move for an Immediate release. The
alienists advise detention for an In
definite period.
BIG REWARD POSTED.
Ten Thousand Dollar for Arrest
Conviction of Bulkier Wells Dyna
miters. Denver, Mar. 30. A reward Of
$10,000 has been posted for the cap
ture and conviction of the man or
men who attempted to dynamite
Bulkley Wells, at Tellurlde, Saturday
morning.
HOW CARS STAND.
American in the Lead, Italian Second,
French Third, In New Y'ork to
Paris Race.
Ely. Nev., Mar. SO. Half of the
population turned out to give Dedlon
the French entry in the New York
to Paris an enthusiastic sendoff.
Dedlon is at present third. The Ital
ian car, Zust, the second, the last to
report, left Ooldfleld Saturday night.
The American car, the first Is on the
sea en route to Valdex.
I
TRY TO FIX BLAME
mm
HORROR
New York Police Believe SiU
verstein Received Inspira
tion From Noted Leader.
ALEXANDER lilt KM AN
PLACED UNDER ARREST.
Man Who Served 15 Years to Penn
sylvania Prison and Is Common Law
Husband of Emma Goldman, May
Know Something of Plot Police
Are Denounced by Socialist and
Anarchists for Attempting to Applv
St. Petersburg Methods to New
York's Unemployed.
New York, March 30. Following
the arrest of Alexander Berkman, th
New York police hope to fasten the
responsibility for Saturday's bomb
outrag. on the New York anarchists.
Berkman has served 15 years In the
Pennsylvania prison for an attempt ta
assassinate Henry C. Frick and later
gained notoriety as a common law
husband of Emma Goldman. He Is
now editing an anarchistic paper In
New York.
Berkman will be taken before 811
versteln, and an attempt will be mad
to see if the latter can identify Berk
man by the sound of his voice
Sllverstein, who death was report
ed Saturday, is totally blind, minus
one arm and foot and his body is
perforated with wounds. The doctors
say he cannot live. A card on ths
bomb thrower's person bore Berk
man's name and the police theory U
that the youth received his Inspiration
from the anarchist leader.
Today the anarchists and socialists
are clamoring for Commissioner
Bingham's resignation. They Insist
that Saturday's trouble was the result
of the police attempting to apply St
Petersburg methods to New York's
unemployed.
Many speakers denounced the at
tempt of Bingham to solve the ques
tion In this manner.
BANKER DIES SUDDENLY.
Joseph Cannon May Have Taken
MorplUne at San Francisco Hotel.
San Francisco, Mar. 30. Whether
the death of Joseph Cannon, cashier
of the Northwestern National Bank of
Philadelphia, was the result of mor
phine or other unnatural causes Is
a problem the coroner and deputies
are trying to solve today.
Cannon died yesterday at the Ste
wart hotel. He arrived in the morn
ing and was found In a dying condi
tion late in the afternoon.
A doctor was called but the mai
died In about an hour. The physician
reported that he believed death was
due to morphine poisoning. A chest
of the drug was found In the room.
Cannon came to California a month
ago. first staying In Los Angeles. An
autopsy will show the real cause of
death.
TAYLOR TOOK CHECK ARTIST.
Frank Burns of Lostine. Once Well-to-do,
Arrested on Bad Charge
Frank Burns, of Lostlne. Wallowa
county, was arrested here yesterday
by Sheriff T. D. Taylor upon instruc
tions from Sheriff Childers of La
Grande and this afternoon 'he latter
officer came over to secure his man.
Burns Is charged with hiving pass
ed a 1100 check In La Grnde when
he had no funds In the Mnk upon
which he checked. He Is of a good
family in Wallowa county -nd Is said
to have been well situivi at one
time. He was taken from a v.-estbound
train yesterday by Sheriff Taylor.
Sheriff Taylor went to HeUx this
afternoon for the purpo if getting
a man now under arre
passing bad checks in thi
'here for
Itv.
John Hastings, a Horn.' lead steel
worker, was hit by a fas: Pennsyl
vania train at Plttsbure Saturday.
hurled 40 feet over a one -.'try build
ing and was uninjured b- the acci
dent. He walked to his- ' -me after
being examined by a phy' Ian, who
found no broken bones.
JUDGE WTLFEY WANTS
HEARING ON CHARGES.
Washington, Mar. 30 Should
the house judiciary committee
adopt the report of th sub
committee on the invet'cs'ion
of Judge Wllfey of tho "nlted
States court at Shanchnl Ina.
it Is said. Judge Wllfey wflt de
mand an Impeachment f-'al on
his own account In order ti etear
him of the charges made
against him.