East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, May 13, 1908, EVENING EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text,. i. . . I. . . .tt !.. ,-'..,. ...... ., -.-,.,-;..T..rr?fr.v.- ...,r':.: -,...!;;-"- r .... . .mti-. '' I ... EYENINGEDITIOK EVENING EDITIQH sin WEATHER REPORT. Fair and warmer to night with probably light front. Thursday fair and warmer. Take your store new to the people and the people will bring their patronage to your store. VOL. 21. PENDLETON, OltEGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13. 1908. t 1 PIPE F EUD IS Man Who Assaulted Two Pawnbrokers and Chinese Tailor Placed in Irons. DECLARES HIS NAME IS "JACK THE SPLITTER." Id Cornered Hi Saloon After Heating Chink Into Insensibility Had Lewi IMpe tXMicmlcd in Puter ami Struck Without Word of Warning Eliher IiiNine or Feigning Insanity I'olloe Do Not Connect Him With Wolff Murder, But Believe HI in Guilty of Recent Crime Identity Unknown Portland, May 13. The gas pipe fiend, whom the police believe to be the same man who struck down with In the last 36 hours Pawnbrokers Max Hermann and 'H. Newman, wns captured at 11:30 this morning after a desperate struggle In the rear of the Erlckson beer saloon a few minutes after he had beaten John Chong, a Chinese tailor, into Insensibility. The prisoner does not give a name beyond declaring that It Is "Jack the Splitter." and the police believe that he Is either Insane or feigning mental disease. This morning at 11:16 he walked In. to the tailor shop of the Chow Wah company at 249 Ankeny street, and without a word of warning struck Chong over the head with a length of gns pipe which he had concealed In a newspaper. Thert uttering a yell he Jumped out Into the street and ran around a corner. He was seen by a number of persons who started In pursuit. The fleeing man dodged Into the saloon and was cornered there and after a desperate struggle put In Irons. At the station he muttered and mumbled while being examined, chuckling "I make them yell. When they see the pipe they yell." The prisoner Is about 22 years of age and weighs 225 pounds. He Is thought to be a sailor. He Is not connected with the Wolff murder by the police but Is thought to be the man who struck down Her mann and Newman. Port In ml. May IS. Tlie prisoner's name H Jack larcm of Home, Ga. He says lie rttnick Cliong because lie lurtcw Chinamen, hut dcnlon the as sault on the pawnbroker. He de clares lie ns a member of the crew of tlic gunboat Housntonic until re cently. HNliop Hero Tonight. Bishop II, L. Paddock will conduct services at the Church of the Redeem er tonight and will also confirm a large class of new, members. BANKER CLOTHE!) IN P1USON GAHB. Sun FnmclNco, Calif., May 13. Under guard of two deputy sheriffs, J. Dalzell Brown, con fessed accomplice to ' wrecking the California safe deposit and trust company, was taken to Pan Quentln today "to serve his term of 18 months for embez- r.llng $5,00 worth of bonds of the Sacramento Gas & Electric company, deposited with the trust company. As he left the county Jail he seemed resigned to his fate. He had plead with the authorities to allow him to servo his prison sentence In the county jail, but this had been Refused him. He will now have to undergo the or deal of being measured, shaved and clothed In convicts' garb. OREGON REPUBLICANS INDORSE TIFT Portland. May 13. Taft will be en dorsed anil Oregon's delegation to the national republican convention at Chlcngo will bo Instructed fur the secretary of war, If the plans of the Fulton-Taft organization prevail at tomorrow's state convention, which will bo held here. Apparently the Fulton-Taft men control the convention by about 200 votes. Out of the 239 delegates Ful ton expects to control all but about 45. ' ' Bourne may be left off the delega tion entirely If the present plans pre-, vail. If he Is sent, declare the Fulton men, ho will be limited by Instruc tions for Taft. The convention will be called to ordor by State Chairman REPUBLICAN WAH. Faction In California to Fight It Out Tomorrow'. Sacramento, Cal., May 13. With the Lincoln-Roosevelt league claiming a ."comfortable working majority," and the Herrln organization asserting that It will dominate the convention, there is every prospect of as merry a melee as hag ever been pulled off by a republican state convention when the factions meet here tomorrow. Governor Gillette announced today that he was not a candidate for dele gate at large to the national conven tion. The test of strength will eome at the start over the selection of a tem porary chairman. The organization will put up George A. Knight and will attempt to appoint him through the central committee. The league will protest and appeal to the dele gates. The result will settle the ques tion of control. WARRANT FOR TREADWELL. San Francisco, May 12. A warant of arrent for Jamea "Treadwell, Uie former Alaskan mine owner, against whom an Indictment charging perjury In connection with tlx; embezzlement of the Colton securities from the Cali fornia Safe Deposit and Trust com. Nny, waft Issued today and put In the ImiMls of the sheriff. No Politics for Bob. Chicago, May IS. Admiral Evans left for the east at 3:15 this afternoon. In an Interview be said: "The re tirement from the navy la the "biggest blow I ever experienced. I hate to leave the old gang.' When asked whether he would ever think of going Into politics the admir al Intimated that he would not. EXPELLED STUDENT BRINGS SUIT AGAINST COMMITTEE, Denver Boy Will Comiel Faculty Ac cuser to IVove Charge Made Again Him Ilk Kxpnlslon 'Secret Alleged He Wrote Profane let ter to lroftiori-i-nils He Stren tioiixly IHnics Graduate Without Diploma. Stanford University. Cal., May 13. Stung to the quick by his secret ex pulsion from college by the students affairs committee, Claude H. Ray mond of Denver, one of the best known students In the university, an nounced today thut he had been ex pelled and that he had secured at torneys to force the students affairs committee to make good their charges against him. Up to the present time the committee has refused to do so upon Raymond's request. Among the charges Is that Ray mond 'wrote a profane letter to the committee taking them to task for their expulsion of 40 students last March. Raymond denies he ever wrote the letters and will bring the matter Into court. Reymond Is a Denver boy who is noted as one of the successful college financiers. He paid all his expenses through the university, lived In the best style, and was a prominent fra ternity man, on the profits of nn ad vertising bureau he managed. He was also n leader In musical circles. Many Stanford seniors who gradu ate this week are refusing to have their ' degrees given them personally by Dr. Jordan and the faculty but are leaving tlx' campus and having the degrees mailed to them. Bishop Paddock's Reception. A reception will be tendered the Rt, Rev, Bishop R. L. Paddock at the home of Mrs. W. P. Matlock under the auspices of the Parish Aid tomorrpw evening at 8:30. An Interesting musi cal program will be rendered and a few brief speeches will be given by Judge S. A. Lowell, Bishop Paddock hand others. A cordial Invitation Is ex tended to all. V. M. Cake at 10 o'clock. Judge G. II. Williams may be se lected to act as chairman. Tonight tlio Fulton-Taft men will hold an Informal conference. It U understood their ' ticket for the na tional convention delegation Includes Fulton, Judge George H. Williams, M. A. Moody of The Dalles. A. N. Gilbert, Snlem. Campaign Closing Up. Portland. May 13. The senatorial campaign Is closing up. Both candi dates are coming In towards the me tropolis. Cake speaks at Harrlsburg this morning, Shedd this afternoon and Brownvllle this evening. Cham berlain Is at Hood River and The Dalles today. 5TINF0BD CASE MED 1 COUOT PUBLICITY BALL IS ROLLING Oil Bureau Established and More Than $2,000 Subscribed, Campaign Start!, NEXTIATIOXS ENTERED INTO WITH HARRIMAN SYSTEM. EntliusUiHilc Meeting at ContiiMTclal A.HHOcuitiim iMut Evening Fifteen Mew Connlo the Bureau Twelve from Commercial club ami Three Ioiii County Real Estate Meifs I.jckuc Coiiuiiltlcc Will Meet Tills Evening Plan lo HaHe $()()() or 110,000 Being; Worked Out. At last the publicity ball Is rollln and nothing can now stop the onward progress of the movement to start an advertising campaign for Pendleton and Umatilla county, Already over 12000 has been pledg ed for a publicity fund and a strong committee of 15 Is In charge of the work of further raising money and of expending the same. Negotiations are now on between the committee and William Bittle Wells, representa tive of the Sunset magazine, the Har rimnn publication, and It has been practically agreed to adopt the rail road company's advertising plan at cost to the city of $2240. President R. Alexander presided at the meeting held In the Commercial association rooms last night and 40 or 60 members were present. Also several were there from outside the city. At the opening of tho meeting H. Gwlnn submitted a written report In behalf of the realty dealers' com mlttee and It outlined a plan of action After being rend the communication was referred to the publicity bureau committee. I-argc Committee Named. The selection of a committee to have charge of the fund was first taken up and M. R. Gwlnn moved that the holleltlng commltte for the fund headed by R. H. Wilcox, be made the standing committee. The motion was carried. But after the action had been taken D. B. Costuma arose and suggested that the committee should be still further strengthened and pro posed that the following men be added to the list: T. C. Taylor, M. B, Gwlnn, (1. M. Rice, W. L. Thompson W. J. Furnish, Ijron Cohen and R. Alexander. His motion was likewise carried, and as a result the general committee Is now composed of 1 men from the association and the three men from the realty association Subscription Is Growing. The list of subscriptions up to that time was read by Secretary Marsh and It was found that about 32000 has already been pledged. The largest new contribution made last night was $75 per month from the liquor dealers of the city. Immediately after the adjournment of the association meeting last night the publicity committee met and or ga nixed by electing T. C. Taylor chair man and J. H. Gwlnn secretary. The Railroad's Offer. After some Informal discussion of the subject at baud W. B. Wells was called upon and explained in detail the proposition offered by the rail- road people. By the terms of the of fer the company agrees to publish anil mail out 20.000 copies of a beau tiful 6S-pnge booklet devoted entirely to this county. In addition several lesser booklets, folders, etc., will be furnished, a page advertisement run in the Sunset mag azine for one year and a half page advertisement In the Sunday Oregon Ian. The expense of gathering data, pictures, etc., for the publications. Is to be borne entirely by the company and the entire thing Is to be furnished for the price of 32240. Considering the extent and nature of tho work to be done by the rail road people the offer Is a very liberal one. and after listening to the plan In detail It was voted to accept the prop osition. However, no final contract v..s signed last night as the committee wished to wait until further funds can be raised. This forenoon an Informal meeting of the committee was held and It was decided to hold another session this evening. It Is the Intention of the committee to work out a schedule of contributions, and when the work of soliciting Is started It will be taken up systematically and each man asked to subscribe the amount that Is con sidered due from him. It Is tho hope of the committee ot raise $8000 or $10,000 so as to pro vide a substantial fund for maintain ing a publicity bureau for at least one year. When the money Is pledged a man will bp chosen to serve as direc tor of the bureau and he will conduct (Continued on page 7.) HERS' TRI TOURING COUNTY Large Crowds Listen to the Lectures at Hermiston,Echo and Pilot Rock, MANY PENDLETON PEOPLE GREET THE DEMONSTRATORS. Train Will Remain Over Night in Pendleton and Will Cover the Walla Walla, BruiMli Tonus Tomorrow Lecturers Well Received in Slierman and Gilliam Counties I'louccr Train in Better Farming Movement for Eastern Oregon Dr. James Wltliycomhc Heads List of Siieakers. Echo, (noon.) Fully 250 peo- pie greeted the farmers' dem- onstratlon train at this point, and 16 were oat at Hermiston. The weather is fine and the lectures are being delivered In the open air. The speeches are not sterotype, but are good, practical talks and the farmers seem greatly Interested, many questions being asked and an- ewered. At Hermiston and Echo ex- celletit Information was given on the subject of Irrigation and fruit raising. The train stays here for lunch and then goes to Pilot Rock. The schedule Is being followed closely. At the Rock the lec- tures wll be on diversified 'farming and apple culture. , ( This afternoon at 4 o'clock the farmers' demonstration train which Is being ruij by the freight department of the O. R. & N. company, arrived from Pilot Rock and at time of going lo press the excellent lectures on Im proved farming methods are being given by the experts from Oregon Agricultural college from the demon stration car in the O. R. & N. yards In this city. Large crowds attended the lectures at Hermiston, Echo and Pilot Rock today and great Interest has been manifested In the train and In the subjects of the lecturers. An excel lent attendance greeted the lecturers here this evening. The train will remain over night here and will go tomorrow morning to Milton for a lecture at 8:30 and will turn westward on the Walla Walla branch, making stops at Weston, Athena and Adams on the return, trip to this city. Ijcrtnrcs Well Received. That the lectures have been well received at every place visited by the train Is shown by the following ac count of Its itinerary by E. W. Wright, staff correspondent for the Portland Oregonlnn, who accompanies the train for his paper. Mr. Wright says, writ ing from Condon: That the Oregon farmers are as much Interested In the gospel of good farming as their Washington neigh burs wns unmistakably apparent In the enthusiastic manner in which they greeted the O. R. & N. farming dem onstration train on the Columbia Southern today. The efforts of General Freight i Agent Miller, of the O. R. & N. com pany, to Improve agricultural condi tions In his territory met with such pronounced encouragement when he sent the first demonstration train over the company's lines In Washing ton that there was a clamorous de mand for a second train In Washing ton and also for a similar train on the Oregon lines of the company. The second Washington train, which last week ran through the wheat belt In our neighboring state, mot with an ovation wherever It stopped, and If today's reception of the pioneer Ore gon demonstration train Is a criterion last week's success will be duplicat ed.. The pioneer train in the better farming movement in eastern Oregon, Is in charge of R. B. Miller, general freight agent; M. J. Buckley, general superintendent; D. W. Campbell, su perintendent of Oregon lines; Dr. A. J. MacKenzIo, chief surgeon of the O. R. & N. company; Robert Burns, general gent, Walla Walla; Jack O'Neill. traveling passenger agent, and A. A. Morse and C. F. Vandewater. freight gents; Guy Anderson and Charles Lord, stenographers, F. H. Kelser, photographer. The .list of speakers Is headed by Dr. James Withycombe, director of the experiment station at the Oregon Agricultural college. With him are C. L. Lewis, horticulturist; C. E. Bradley, chemist, and H. D. Scudder, gronomlst. Byron Hunter, assistant agriculturalist of the United States department of agriculture, Is with the train as representative of Secretary Wilson. Farmers Rally on the Scene, The train left Portland Sunday eve ning and reached Kent about 6 o'clock this morning, It consists of two pri vate cars, In which the meetings were held. Although more than 100 people found room in the lecture car at both Moro and Grass Valley, it was neces sary to use the sleeper, both cars be ing filled and many farmers standing outside to hear what they could through the open windows. The attendance at Kent was an agreeable surprise, and showed quite fffectlvely the deep Interest that Is being taken In the matter. The sched ule called for the opening of the lec tures at 8:30 and the departure of the train at 9:30. Despite the early hour, there was an attendance of 118, some of the farmers having driven 10 miles to reach Kent in time for the lectures, and a number of them leaving urgent farm work In order to attend. Cold Wind Become a Gale. The weather was chilly, with a strong wind blowing when Grass Val ley was reached at 10 o'clock, and the Intended open-air meeting was aban doned and the crowd packed' Into the two cars, the lecturers alternating be tween them. At Moro, the third stop on the route, school was dismissed and while the experts were talking to an audience of 175 farmers Mr. Miller entertained the youngsters. The wind, which began easy at Kent, was blow ing a gale when Wasco was reached at 2:30, and the attendance was smaller than It would have been un der more favorable conditions. There were 125 farmers at the Moro lec tures, no women or children being present. i MEMORIAL Ml j INJNDLETON I URGED TILVT PEOPLE TAKE TIME FOR OBSERVANCE Kit Carson Post Making Plans, Bud . ncss Men Are Interested and Militia Boys Willing to. Help in the Good Work Public Fund May Be Raised to Purchase Flowers for Graves o( Departed Soldiers. That Pendleton should take time this year to observe Memorial Day in the spirit which the occasion deserves la strongly urged by local people. Al ready the members of Kit Carson Post G. A. R. and of company L have planned to observe the day and busi ness men are also faking an Interest In the matter. It has been suggested by Leon Co hen that a public fund be raised for the purpose of buying flowers with which to decorate the graves of the soldier dead and this Idea may be car ried out. In the past the recoratlng has been left entirely to the handful of veterans that now survive In Pen dleton and there Is a feeling that the old soldlrs should be given more as sistance than in the past few years. . Guardsmen Will Help. The following official circular has Just been Issued by Adjutant General Finzer and contains Insturctlons that will be obeyed by company L. "Headquarters Oregon National Guard, Adjutant-General's office, Portland, Oregon, May 9. Circular No. 1. The near approach of Memo rial day with Its sacred memories re minds us that amid theturmoil of life land rapid progress of events that we halt for a space and pay our tribute of love and duty to the fallen corn- fades and garland their graves with sweet flowers as a token of their un selfish patriotism, heroic bravery and devotion to their country's cause. It is benefitting that we should observe May 30 and help strew the graves of tho departed heroes with flowers and show to the living that the brave deeds of those who fought In the Indian wars, civil war and Spanish-American war must not be forgotten. "It is desired that the day be fit tingly observed by the members of the Oregon national guard. Where It Is not practical for military companies to participate in the ceremonies of the day It Is requested that officers and men shall take part as Individuals. "By order of the commander-In-chler. "W. E. FINZER. "Adjutant-General." FORMER PENDLETON N. M. Forkins, formerly of this city but of late years a resident of Boise, I died at his home In that city last night. Word of his death was receiv ed here today by Mrs. Llna Stuigis, with whom Mrs. Perkins had been visiting when called home by her hus band's Illness. The immediate cause o.' his death was heart failure. The deceased was widely known among many of this city and deep re gret Is expressed over the news of his S NO. 6281 fill it" LL1UEF0RMEQ Four-Town Baseball Associa tion a Reality at Last Sea son Opens May 21. PENDLETON MAN IS CHOSEN PRESIDENT Four Games a Week for Tbre Months Guaranteed Each Town f Have Games Every Other Week Pendleton Opens at Walla Walla and La Grande at Baker City Gar den City Players Come Here Next A National League Organization of Class D Local Fans Are JubilaoC Last night the long-planned four town baseball league was formed at. a meeting in this city and henceforth all the games by the Pendleton, Wal la Walla, La Grande and Baker City teams will be under protection of the national league. At meeting last night Walla Wal- -la was represented by William Rog ers; La Grande by William Splllman, . who attended in behalf of Dr. Lincoln; Baker City by C. A. Hosier, and Pen dleton by E. K. Lorlmer, manager of ' the team. Under the terms of the agreement entered into last night the four town enter a league class D to play for m season of three months. A forfeit of $150 Is put up by each team to en sure compliance with the regulations -of the league and the salary limit for each team is placed at $750 per month. At the meeting last night . the delegates chose W. L. Thompson of this city to be president of the -league, it being conceded that the presidency of the association should go to this city. At this time the full schedule of, games has not been worked out, but the season will be opened by La .Grande playing at Baker City and Pendleton at Walla Walla. Since the league was formed much satisfaction has been expressed by ballplayers and others interested in the game. It is understood that most' of the present players will be retained: by Manager Lorlmer and that the amount paid In salaries will be but lit- -tie greater than at present. The season is for three months or longer, each team having posted a for feit to play out the schedule for that length of time. Pciidlotoniiins In Cyclone Path. C. B. Adams and Mr. and Mrs.' Bert Huffman of this city, formerly lived ' at Woodward, 6klahoma, the town which was visited by a cyclone this ; week. The Taylor Green estate, seven i miles south of Woodward, was In the -dlrect path of the cyclone and S. P. . Green, a son of Taylor Green, and a brother of Mrs. Bert Huffman,- lives at Richmond, a small place visited ' by the twister. Several people were -killed at Arnett, Mutual, Vicl un i Gage, places well known to the Pen dleton people mentioned. Wells Returned o Portland. William Bittle W'ells, northwest manager of Sunset Magazine who closed the advertising contract with Pendleton Commercial association and the Umatilla County Real Estate Men's association last evening, return ed to his home In Portland today. DR. SMITH AND FAMILY ARE HOME. Dr. C. J. Smith and family ar rived Home on the Northern Pacific train today after having been absent from the city upon a European trip that occupied many months. The Smith party left here early last fall and while away visited in nearly all the coun tries of Europe, northern Afri ca and in the Holy Land. They returned to the United States some weeks ago and have been visiting at the doctor's old home In Ohio and at other points in the middle states. MAN DIES AT BOISE death. He was a bandsman and n the leader of the Pendleton band dur ing the time he lived here. He wns also in the cigar business Cir a time ' and for two years was in charge of Un Bingham Springs resort. In Boise Mr. Perkins wax a partner In the laundry business with J. I'. Robinson, now proprietor of the Do mestic laundry here, and he was also prominent In band circles in th I l.i?i. capitol. He was the leader of a b.iri l In Boise for a period of I J yws.