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VOL. 21.
PENDLETON, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 14. 19(6.
NO. 6256
UMATILLA
RANCH
ON THE MARKET
Rich Body of Irrigated Land
at Foster to be Sold in Small
Tracts.
JAMES JOHNS WILL
BE PENDLETON AGENT
Twenty-Five Hundred Acres of In-
tensely Rich and Productive Land
N Placed on the Market at Once
Adapted o Fruit, Berries and
Gardenings-All Under Fence
Cullvalon Three Offices to
Maintained.
Be
mu. it .in- fArm.rlv ,h-
O. W. Hunt ranch, near Foster, is to
h nlaced UDOn the market and It's,'"-' ""
, i.nH mm n, l
small tracts. It will mean another ! celve graded amount the sixth be
colonisation project for the west end,"1 a"otted ,80Q'
of the county and since the land isi
already under cultivation it will un
doubtedly prove a popular one.
The announcement that the Uma
tilla ranch is to be colonized was
made this morning by James Johns,
of the Hartman Abstract company,
who will bo the Pendleton sales agent
for the company. Another office will
be maintained at Echo by Louis
Scholl, jr., while W. H. Daughtrey
will have the Portland end of the
business,
The Umatilla ranch has 2600 acres
of first class fruit and alfalfa land,
all fenced and under cultivation. The
land Is well watered from a private
ditch from the Umatilla river. Part
of the land is already set out In
fruit trees, but the bulk of the ranch
has been used for raising alfalfa.
It has been used as a stock feeding
ranch by the Portland stockyards
company. Last year 2000 tons of al
falfa were raised upon the ranch. The
ranch lies about a mile from Foster
station, six miles from Hertniston and
la four miles from Echo.
According to the present owners of
the big ranch they have found It Is
impracticable for them to properly
farm such a vast acreage of irrigated
land and as a result have decided up -
on the colonisation scheme. The ;
land will be offered In tracts of five
acres up and at prices ranging from
$100 to $150 per acre. As an In
vestment they claim their proposition
cannot be beaten, for they say that
the land cannot help doubling In val
ue. Is Historic Ranch
The Umatilla, or Hunt, ranch was
secured by O W. Hunt in early days.
In the early sixties Mr. Hunt freight
ed between Umatilla and Boise and
his attention was attracted to the
rich land now under the ranch
through the fact that the
Indians ,
used the place as a winter camping
ground, because of the mild climate
and the rich pasturage.
In later years after Mr. Hunt had
led a busy life as a railroad builder
he purchased the ranch and held It
until about two years ago, at which
time it was sold to the present own
ers for a price said to have been $76
000. There are now 114 voting precincts
In Multnomah county and the county
court Is considering the matter of add
ing a large number to accommodate
voters of the county. Fifty-seven of
the 114 precincts have more than 33S
voters each.
Voting Places Named.
-
This morning the deputy
sheriffs commenced upon the
work of destrlbutlng the ballot
boxes, ballots and other equip-
ment for the primary election to
be held Saturday The follow-
Ing are to be the voting places
for Pendleton: East Pendle-
ton, at the residence of D. Tur-.
rter, East Court street; Pendle
ion, at the city recorder's office;
Couth Pendleton, at Mrs Blsh-
op's house on West Webb;
North Pendleton, at the Hotel a
Pendleton sample room, corner
of Main and Water streets.
TEN READ TEAM HORSES MAT SE STOEEN
Storle, Rltner & Strand, reserva
tion ranchers, are now mourning the
loss of 10 head of work horses and
are fearful that the animals have
been stolen.
Saturday evening the work horses
were turned loose to graze in a pas
ture on the firm's reservation land
and they have not been seen since.
When they were not to be found
Monday morning It was believed that
FORTUNES IN OHIO STAKE.
Driving Club Offers Stakes Amount
ing to $100,000.
Columbus, O., April 14. Entries
close today for seven stake events,
worth $4 0,600, that will be features
of the $100,000 program that the Co
lumbus Driving Park company has
decided to offer for its next grand
circuit meeting which begins Septem
ber 21, and laBts two weeks
The Hostcr-Columbus Btake for
2:16 trotters is worth $10,000 and
will be raced the first week with the
Hotel Hartman $5000 event for 2:14
pacers as a companion. In each event
every heat will be a race and four
horses, instead of three, will share In
the money division.
.1.
The Columbus $3,000 for 2:09 trot-
ters and the board of trade $3000 for
2:07 pacers, will be raced the first
week under the old novelty plan.
For the second week the board of
trade and . bankers' stake of $10,000,
will uc uit- ncilfJH 'MM I mil' win
also be the King for the 2:07 pacers
and the Merchants for 2:19 trotters.
Each Is worth $5000
All three of these stakes will be de
cided on tho three In five plan that
provides for a race to end with the
fifth heat. The money will be split
ueiween me ursi six norses instead oi
i ,he "J lou,r a cu.stmry'
wl s-et M000. Others will re-
SCHOOL CONTROVERSY
REACHES SUPERINTENDENT
Recital of An Old Difficulty in Mil
ton School District Is Glj in Af
fidavits Which Have Reached the
Office of County Superintendent
Frank K. Welles Matter Promisee
to Be Interesting if the Facta Can
Be Substantiated.
The school controversy that has
been on at Milton for some weeks
past has now reached the office of
the county superintendent Teeter
day a copy of affidavits from differ
ent teachers were forwarded to Mr.
Welles, occompanled by a petition
signed by 15 or 20 residents of M1I-
ton.
in me petition Mr. Welles was
asked to read the affidavits and to
"act accordingly." The affidavits
are by Miss Verna Vannaader. Mrs.
K B. Peck and Miss Jessie A. Wil
son, respectively. All three ladles
have been teaching in the Milton
schools, but this spring Mrs. Peck
and Miss Vannaader raited of re
election. The three affidavits are very simi
lar and they recite that about a year
ago. A. E. Troyer of the school board.
asked each teacher to subscribe to
109 wortn ot rtK:k 10
iag proposea ror Milton. They de
Iclare that he insisted that teachers
should show Interest in local im
provements and say they received the
impression that unless they sub
scribed for stock In the hotel they
could not be reelected, though they
sajr that Mr. Troyer made no such a
threat.
Aoooraing to the petitioners they
wuj forward a fourth affidavit short
ly.
What to do with the proposition
that has been passed up to him Mr
Welles has not yet determined
"ownrr or nqi ne nas any power.
should ho chose to act, he has not yet
ascertained.
Fulton Saw Grand Ronde.
"freeing Beautiful Grand Ronde
valley in an auto" wasa reality yeater
day, says the La Grande Observer.
Six autos left La Grande in the morn
ing with United States Senator Chas.
W. Fulton as the guest of honor. In
the our the cities of Cove and Union
were visited and later in the after
noon the party was banqueted at Hot
Lake. It was a delightful day for a
ride and old Grande Ronde always
presents a panorama atthis season of
the year with her miles and mljes of
green waving grain and well kept or
chards surrounded by chains of
mountains whose towering peaks are
white with snow.
Portland Is preparing to lay over 20
miles of water mains costing about
$220,000, this spring.
they had gotten out of the pasture
and strayed away. However, four
men have been searching steadily for
the horses since that time and no
trace has been found.
It is now feared that the horses
have been stolen and driven or ship
ped out of the country. The 10
horses were valued at about $1600
and their loss comes especially se-
Vtfa tllfff at ihia Hmi, mlitU nMt- '
- - ovinia
work is on. I
MILTON DISTRICT
AIRS ITS TROUBLES
H'S WELCOME
IB THE
City and Bay Are a Blaze of
the Warships.
Three Days of Celebration at San Diego Before tlie Fleet Iieaves for San
Francisco Thousands of Visitors Throng the Shores and Hundreds
of Small Craft Swarm the Bay Big Fleet Is Sighted Early In tlie Fore
noon and Arrived Hours Ahead of the Schedule.
Fleet Is Sighted.
San Diego, April 14. The At
lantic fleet was sighted at 11
o'clock about 30 miles distant
It will arrive about 1 o'clock.
San Dlcgo, April 14. Hours before
the time set for the arrival of the
fleet hundreds of people are cluster
ed out at Point Loma and Point of
Rocks to secure the best spots to view
the coming of the fleet.
Soon after dawn many were on the
way with binoculars and lunch bas
kets prepared for a wait. The city
never looked so beautiful. The fin
ishing touches were put on this morn
ing and the city Is a mass of bunting
and streamers of gold.
Although the fleet was not expected
to arrive before 1 o'clock, hundreds
of craft were out on the bay by 8
o'clock. A score of sea-going vessels
took on loads of passengers and went
down the coast to meet the fleet.
The Coronado hotel is packed to
the roof. Every room and every cot
In both hotel and the tent city Is taken
and hundreds f people are there who
have gone over for the day only.
At 5 o'clock this morning the ships
were 70 miles south of her, going at
eight knots in order not to arrive
ahead of time. They may slow down
to seven before the morning is over.
The Fleet's Arrival.
San Diego. April 14. Amid the
crash of saluting guns at Fort Rose-
erans, the shrieking of steamer and
factory whistles and the enthusiastic
cheers of a multitude of people who
crowded tho scores of craft of all de
scription in the harbor and other
countless thousands that lined the
beaches, the great Atlantic fleet, flow-
er of the American navy, arrived off
Sari Diego this afternoon.
The 16 great fighters that had
made the long Journey of nearly 14,
908 mllps from Hampton Ror.ds und?r
command or Rear Admiral Evano.
i.resented a wonderful and Inspiring
nbsence or "Fighting Bob" r.'-ans.
Meanwhile scores of other craft,
loaded to The guards with dghtseers
pnd relatives and friend if the men
TO
FOREST AID
Washnigton, D. C, April 14. Ques
tions relating to the proposed prohi
bition of grazing on streams supplying
water fsr irrigation have occupied the
attention of the department of agri
culture and the Interior for some
weeks and a co-operative investigation
has been agreed upon with the hope
that the problem may be settled to the
satisfaction of all interests concerned.
Secretary Wilson said:
A recent addition to the southern
division of the Tonto national forest In
Arizona made at the request of the
United States reclamation service to
protect the watersheds of the Verde
and Salt rivers and a subsequent order
to close the area to sheep and goat
grazing after April 1, 109, have
brought up questions which have a
most important bearing on two great
industries of the west, stockraising
and farming on irrigated lands.
Requests from irrigators and offi
cials of the reclamation service that
efforts be made to restrict grazing by
sheep on watersheds of streams used
for irrigation, on one hand, and pro
tests to the forest service by the stock
men, on the other, have given rise to
a situation which can only be settled
by a very careful Investigation, whlci
has been agreed upon by the secretary
of the interior and myself. The Inves
tigations will be made with the one
end In view, that the use of every re
source must be for the greatest good
to the greatest number.
The investigation of the land to
consider whether it Is necessary to
restrict the grazing of sheep and
goats on the watersheds will be made
by the officers of the reclamation
..... .
service ana me rorest service In co-
operation, who will meet the stock
m
ATLANTIC FLEET
Color in Honor of the Coming of
on board 'he battleships, hovered
around the big fighters.
Little In the way of reception was
possible this afternoon, owing to the
lateness of the hour and the fact that
the officer and men of the fleet were
busily engaged In making everything
ship shape for the reception of the
many visitors who will throng the
dorks In the next three days.
This evening at 8 o'clock an Infor
mal dinner will be given at the Hotel
del Coronado to Admiral Thomas and
other officers of the fleet. This func
tion will be a brilliant one.
Magnificent Spectacle.
While the banquet is taking place
the Coronado shore will present a
striking picture. Great baskets of
red fire will line the shore at short
intervals for a mile, The warships
also will be Illuminated, but the great
feature will be the lighting of, the city.
A quarter of a million Incandescent
lights will outline the principal build
ings of the city and ropes of llgnts
will twinkle from the great light
masts which rise above the dwellings
In the high residence districts. In ad
dition to these there will be 260,000
Japanese lanterns, which will be em-
tiied principally on the launches,
ships and other craft in the harbor.
It will be practically one blaze of
lights from the ships off shore to the
highest elevation of the city. The
most striking piece in the scheme of
Illumination will be an electric flag
flung between the wo wings of the
magnificent Grant hotel building and
of such ingenious construction that
It will seem to be constantly waving.
Five Thousand m Line.
Tomorrow will be the great public
day. Five thousand sailors and twice
a many citizens, school children and
others will march through the princi
pal streets, accompanied by 18 bands
sight as they steamed into the first
American por: rrnce the menonbl
cruise began in December Iasr. Ea;h
vessel was In dazzling white and from
every mast there fluttered Innumera
ble penants.
Unbounded Enthusiasm.
As the fighting ships steamed hw
ly Into the hay and made for their
anchorage, the enthusiasm of the Im
mense concourse of spectators gave
vent to continuous cheer and thous
ands of flags were wave L It was a
welcome ni must nave gladi?ned the
RANGE PROBLEMS
men on the ground during the com
ing summer and thrash out the whole
problem. If it is found that a limited
number of sheep and goats can be al
lowed to graze on any of the ranges
on the watersheds of the streams in
question, the order prohibiting grazing
will be modified so as to protect the
interest.-' of the sheepmen and at the
same time check any tendency there
may be to over-graze the forests or
damage the water supply used for ir
rigation.
Because of the important bearing
of the problem on grazing matters In
the west. I deem it wise to make the
correspondence public at this time in
order that there will be no chance of
misunderstanding on the part of any
interest.
ine protection of the watersheds
and streams supplying irrigation res
ervoirs depends primarily upon tho
possibility of giving full protection to
al areas where grazing is allowed.
The fewer forest officers there are
to attend to "the grazing business on
the national forests the more land
will have to be closed to grazing.
It must be remembered, therefor,
that any reduction in the force of
the forest service would necessarily
be an attack on the entire grazing In
dustry of the west.
Past experience has proven that
stock can be allowed to graze, under
proper regulation, on areas from
which it would be necessary to ex
clude It if the range could not be
properly patroled. The same situa
tion is true regarding the permanent
Improvements. The more water that
Is developed, the more division fences
that are constructed, the more roads,
trails and bridges that are built, ,the
more permanent the range will be and
the more stock it will carry.
t agate
heart of c-'ry offl.-r and man In the
fleet.
The ships hardly had cim-j to ai
ehor -iher. a comnltt;-.- In-ded by
Director General Clayton, MttOf For
ward and other prominent citizens of
San Diego on board a launch steamed
swiftly out to the flagship to pav
their respects to Rear Admiral Thom
as, In command during the temporary
of music, and the procession will end
at City Park, where the formal exer
cises will be held. Dlreror General
Clayton will extend Sao' Diego's wel
come to the officers and men of the
fleet.
In the afternoon there will be a big
wild west show and the sailors will
be admitted free of charge.
In the evening the illumination of
the city and the fleet will be repeat
ed and a grand ball held at Hotel del
Coronado.
Thursday will be given over princi
pally to a regatta, in which crews of
the fleet will participate, and to field
sports.
At 8 o'clock In the evening anelab
orate pisplay of fireworks will take
place from a barge anchored In San
Diego bay, the city will again be a
blaze of lights and the fleet will be
Illuminated from 8 to 10 p. m.
On Friday, the last day of the fleet's
visit, the sailors will amuse them
selves by engaging In baseball matches
and attending the theaters, where all
men In the uniform will be admitted
free.
As a finale to the entertainment a
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OPENED TODAY
INITIAL GAMES OF TWO
LEAGUES AT CHICAGO.
Detroit Tigers Meet Chicago White
Box on Home Grounds All the Big
Tvanw Are Playing This Af ornoon
and Interest in Baseball Is Intense
Chief Game of the Day Is the Coo-
test Between the Tigers and White
Sox.
Chicago, April 14. The opening
games in both the National and Am
erican leagues are scheduled to be
played here this afternoon.
The National league, Chicago team
wtll open at Cincinnati; Pittsburg at
St. Louis; Nsw York at Phlladelhla
and Boston at Brooklyn.
Detroit starts trouble in the Ameri
can league at Chicago; St. Louis at
.Cleveland; Philadelphia at New York
and Washington at Boston.
Ovle Overall will pitch for Chicago
against the beds.
Interest in the American league
centers in the game between the" De
troit Tigers and the Chicago White
Sox.
FORAKER SAYS INSULT.
Negroes Must Not Be Subjeced to
Coercion.
Washington, April 14. Senator
Foraker of Ohio today bitterly op
posed the so-called administration
measure introduced by Warren of
Missouri permltlng any discharged
negro soldier to relnllst, providing
that they "Proved to the satisfaction
of the president that they were Inno
cent of any complicity In the shooting
up of the Texas town."
The senator declared that the pas
sage of this bill, if It passes, would
compel all , negroes to appear before
a Judge who had already prejudiced
their eases. "To pass the bill," he
said, "would be adding Insult to in
Jury."
Rev. Robert Warner to Baltimore
The Rev. Robert Warner, pastor of
th Wilbur Methodist church, and D,
H. Cox, left last night for Baltimore,
where they will represent the Colum
bia River conference of the Methodist
church In the general conference of
that denomination, which convenes In
Baltimore May 6. says the Walla
Walla Union. Several stops will be
made while en route, and visits paid
to relatives and friends. The return
trip will be made over the Canadian
Pacific railway via Niagara.
A government school teacher, O. L.
Grimes, and superintendent of a gov
ernment fish hatchery, C. P. Henkel,
both of the Aleutian islands, Alaska,
are under arrest for assaulting girl
students of he Alaskan school over
which Grimes presides at Afognak
Island.
EEIGUE SEASON
SEBIES OF BALL DAMES WITH
Final arrangements for a series of
ball games with La Grande have been
perfected between Manager Lorlmer
of the Pendleton team, and tho La
Grande management. On Saturday
and Sunday next, La Grande will play
here and return games will be given
La Grande on 'he following Wednes
day and Thursday.
Jack O'Brien, famous as the advo
EIR:JG FIEMOS
BURNED
(USE)
Daniel Ross and Manuel Oli
ver Are Under Arrest as
Suspects.
FOUR FIRES STARTED
SIMULTANEOUSLY
Mayor Beck Is Certain That the Ter
rible Fire Was of Incendiary Ortgta
and Them Is Strong Proof
the Suspects Hundreds of
lies Were Separated During tho
Fire and Police Are Holding Scons
of Lost Children.
Boston, April 14. Two alleged Bra
bugs, Daniel Ross and Manuel Oliver,
have been arrested by the Chelsea pa
lice and are accused of having a
hand in causing the Chelsea fire
which resuled In four deaths, a prop
erty loss of $10,000,000 and of physi
cal misery and mental anguish that
cannot be estimated In any standard
of figures or expression.
The evidence that the fire was)
caused by incendiaries is steadily
growing more and more positive and
direct. Mayor Beck is certain that
firebugs caused the tremendous blase.
He Instituted the investigation that
led up to the arrest of Ross and Oli
ver. Oliver is charged with setting Urn
to a tenement house while the Oaa
was raging and Ross is accused wlffe
setting fire to a heap of newspapers
near a lumber pile about the time
the fire started Ross lost a home la
the blaze.
Mayor Beck asserts that four fires
broke out simultaneously in Chelsea
on Sunday.
Many Children Lost.
Boston, April 14. One of the most
serious problems that faced tho au
thor i ties at Chelsea following Sum
day's conflagration, is the work of re
uniting members of hundreds of fam
illes that became separated during the
fire. Boston Chelsea police are cast
ing for hundreds of children of
ages. The majority of them are un
der 10 years of age and many are sa
small they cannot walk.
JOHNSON FOUND NO MONEY,
Facing Arrest for Keeping Lost Cats
Tom Johnson Explains.
That he did not find any $1120 la
burled treasure is now claimed by
Tom Johnson and he says that the
story of his finding the Jacob's gold
was a "fake" originated by hie em
ployer, Hastings.
Yesterday afternoon Johnson aad
Hastings were called before District
Attorney Phelps to whom complaint
had been made concerning Johnson.
In the course of the examination,
Hastings said he had "sprung" the
story of the burled money as a Joke
on Johnson. He said tho money
Johnson had been spending was boom
he had saved from wages and that ha
had been leaving the cash with Mra
Hastings for safe keeping.
A similar story of the affair waa
told by Johnson, who admitted that
he. too, had told while partly intoxi
cated, that he had found $1120, bat
Insisted that the story was a fraud.
Thus far there has been nothing tm
fasten any crime upon Johnson, oth
er than that furnlsed by the rumar
which Hastings and himself started.
Unless further developments shouMi
change matters It is Improbable that
any criminal action will be takea
against him.
BIG STRIKE COMING.
Operators All Over the Country Aw
Favorable.
New York. April 14 Tho senti
ment among the telegraph operators
all over the country Is favorable to
another big strike unless the wages
raised to the scale paid batons
the last strike, has spread to such turn
extent that state officers of the New
lork local say men will walk out en
June 1.
New York operators held a secret
meeting recently and Indorsed the ac
tion of the Chicago local calling far
siriKe on the western Union.
cate of the four-town league whir
was not formed, Is managing the La
Grande team and is said to have aa
entirely professional nine. Conse
quently a hlghgrade of baseball Is ex
pected from them for the opening
game of the season here.
A week from next Sunday Pendle
ton will go to Walla Walla for the
opening game with the Garden City
players.
El GRANDE
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