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VOL. 21.
PENDLETON, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 25. 1908.
NO. 6290
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M'COURT AFTER
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Demand Made That 9280
Acres of Linn County Land
' Be Restored.
TIMBER LAND IX QIES-
TION WOltTH $1,000,000.
Principal Defendant It Charles A.
SiniUi of Miiincnioli.4 United
Stale District Attorney Plans Vig
orous InvcMtlgHilon of Alleged Land
Fraud of Umatilla Count) Jury
Culled This Afternoon lu Portland.
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Portland, May 25. District Attor
ney McCourt filed three suits today
to recover 9280 acres of Linn county
land. Charles A. Smith of Minneapo
lis, la the principal defendant. The
land Is valued at $1,000,000. The
statute of limitations prevents crimi
nal proceedings.
McCourt 1m Heady.
United States Attorney McCourt Is
making all necessary preliminary ar
rangements for expediting the work
of the federal grand Jury, which was
called this afternoon. .
An Investigation of the alleged
Umatilla land frauds was the specific
purpose for which the Jury was re
quested, and the district attorney will
lose no time In submitting to the Jury
such evidence as he has on the sub
Ject.
Mr. McCourt said that the Umatilla
land matter would be taken up with
the Jury as soon as It had been select
ed. All other criminal cases will await
the completion of the land Investiga
tion.
Edward W. Dixon and J. II. Alexan
der, special agents of the Interior de
partment, are In the city and will as
sist Mr. McCourt in compiling the
evidence that will be presented to the
grand jury.
Dixon and Alexander are two of the
special agents who made an Investi
gation of the alleged fraudulent land
transactions extended from early In
1906 to May, 1907, and It is on that
report the pending grand Jury invest!
gatlon has been authorized by the at
torney general.
Washington, May 25. Bourne
has worn out his welcome at
the White House. Taft regards
him with the bitterest hatred.
.The senate calls him a Joke. He
will have a hard time the bal-
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NORTHERN TEXAS
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Trinity River Overflows and Supreme Judge Declares He
Many People Are. Drowned is Insane and Not Fit to Be
at Ft. Worth.
at Large.
GOVEUXOB PECK .TELLS
OF IAHISIANA
Lluuor Dealers Aiding In Movement
to Clean Out Ixv lterta
Louisiana Is In the first stages of
the prohibition craze, Just getting a
little "nutty" around the edges, but
has not yet arrived at the stage of
the disease when they "see things"
and run amuck with the prohibition
torch aflame with Incendiary benzine.
Some parishes. In the far lnteror,
have gone diy like a farrow cow and
bellow around like a maverick that
has been eating loco weed. (A par
ish In Louisiana Is tho same as our
counties In the north.) But the level
headed citizens are out with the lariat
ropes of good common sense, to rope '
and , tie the wild-eyed prohibition
steer and by next year It Is believed
the stampeding herd will be rounded
up and bunched, and turneI loose to
grass. There will bo some parishes,
where there are no large cities, and
where negroes are plenty and not
very reliable, and where the white
people can have aJl the liquor they
want In their nomas,, where prohibi
tion will be a good thing, but there
never will be state-wide prohibition
In the state, because every white cit
izen of the state Is proud of Old New
Orleans, and they will never vote to
Injure Its business or the happiness
of Its people. Why, there Is not a
parish In the state but Is largely pop
ulated by the descendants of the old
French and Creole families, who have
drunk their wine since they were chil
dren, and when that, state becomes
so dry that one of the old families can
not sip Its claret that has been In the
cellar since Louisiana belonged to
Spain or France, there will be-a rev.
olutlon that will make the prohibi
tion voters alt up and take notice.
Cleaning Out Dives.
There are many things connected
with liquor Interests of New Orleans
mat can be criticised, and no one
criticized them more than do the
brewing Interests, and they are try
ing as hard as good men can to bring
aDout a change. Too many bad men
have been engaged In the sale of beer
but the brewing Industry, both local
and those conducted by brewers all
over the country,, who have agencies
In New Orleans, are combining and
cutting off from receiving supplies
men who conduct places that do not
stand the test of honesty and de
cency, and every day some dealer Is
ioia tnai ne is not a desirable cus
tomer and the brewers are asham
ed to see their names In front of such
places, and such men simply go out
of business, for all respectable brew
ers stand together, and they simply
will not stand for It. That Is what
ought to have been done long ago, but
It Is not too late to brighten up the
saloon business In New Orleans so no
respectable brewer need be ashamed
to see his name on a saloon. Within
a year there wilt not be a saloon In
this town which a respectable citizen
will shun If he wants a drink. Cen
tral Committee.
THOUSANDS OF LIVE
STOCK HAVE PERISHED
JEROME AND EVELYN
ARE BOTH SATISFIED.
Nine Known to Be Dead ami Property Hearted That Slayer off Stanford
Lom at Ft. Forth I flOO.OOO
Water I Higher limn In Flood of
1889 Seven Thousand People Are
Driven From Their Homes In III.
er Bottom .ll of Northern Tex
as la Deluged by ltaln.
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White Had Threatened Lire of Ihc
lronccutlng Attorney Evelyn
Feared Violence at tho Hands of
Her HumIniiuI Divorce IYoceedings
Will Not Bo Droped Motlier Vis
its Son Bordering on Physical Col
lapKe Harry Says He Expected It
and Blames "Hot Air" of Jerome.
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Dallas, Texas, May 25.
Caught on a railroad bridge
swept awuy by the Trinity river,
14 persons, were washed Into
the stream and eight are believ
ed to be drowned.
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HOME WAS SET OX IT HE.
Fort Worth, Tex., May 25. A vio
lent storm swept northern Texas last
night. Nine persons known to be
drowned and there are many others.
The damage here Is $100. .Andrew
Welch and an unknown boy were
drowned north of Fort Worth. Four
unidentified men were drowned In
Maple creek here. Wade Owens and
Ernest Stattier were drowned at
Mineral springs and an unknown
man 'at Denton.
Keven thousand people were driv
en from their homes by the rise of
Trinity river, two thousand being
lorced this morning to follow the five
thousand refugees of lust night Thou
sands of livestock have perished.
AeciLHer Suys Fellow Is Apiwrently lu.
nam- Damage Will Amount to $200
ami Loss of Building Was Narrow
ly Averted Flames Start While
Family Is At Church Suspicious
ClreuniMtnnees lu Connection.
About noon yesterday the dwelling
of C. E. Gibson, 1812 Railroad street,
was set afire and this morning Mr.
Gibson swore to a complaint charg
ing Charley, an employe, with the
crime. According to Gibson, the man
is apparently Insane and he ' that
there Is undisputed proof that he set
fire to the house.
Itrver Higher Than in 1889.
Ft. Worth, May 25. Seven people
are known to be dead, five thousand
are homeless, a dozen or more are re
ported to have been killed In Fort
Worth and North Fort Worth as a
result of the greatest rise in the his
tory of the Trinity river, which be
ginning at 7:30 Saturday evening,
reached a climax at 5 o'clock 'Sunday
afternoon. Five of the deaths occur
red today and two last night.
Following the torrential rains of
Saturday and today a volume of sev
en Inches, the river went three Inches
higher than the record breaking flood
of 1889.
Poughkeepsle, N. Y., May 25.
"Harry Thaw is insane and is not a
fit person to be at large," declared
.Supreme Justice Morschauser this
morning.
The court upholds Downlng's order
of commitment to Matteawan and says
Thaw must remain In the asylum un
til cured beyond danger of a relapse.
Jerome Is highly pleased with the
decision. It was reported that Thaw
has threatened the prosecutor's life.
It Is also reported that Evelyn Is
satisfied. It Is well known that she
feared, harm In the event her hus
band was released.
maw said ne expected this out-
tome of the case and blames Jerome's
"Hot air and spectacular work."
He says the defense witnesses were
not sensational enougk to attract at
tention, but does not blame the re
porters.
TUf .raid he did not believe Evelyn
would Jiop (he suit.
His mother visited the prisoner
this morning. She Is on the verge of
collapse.
A hearing to determine the place
wnere Thaw will be confined will
probably be held next week.
KILLS WOMAN
AXD HIMSELF.
Portland, Ore., May 25. Be
cause Mrs. Daisy Hlckey, a grass
widow, refused to elope, after
the court refused him a divorce,
J. Edward Blum, a teamster,
killed the woman and himself
with a gun yesterday In the La
Port lodging house. Blum had
a wife and two children In Ba
ker City.
FATHER KILLS SOX.
St. Helens, Ore., May 25. George
Barger, In attempting to shoot a crane,
accidentally put a rifle bullet through
his 13-year-old son's brain yesterday,
killing him Instantly.
Portland Auto Accident.
Portland, Ore., May 25. Dr. George
E. Watts, Gus Ludwig, and an un
known man and woman were injured
ast night In an automobile accident
Watts' machine ran Into a buggy con
talnlng the unknowns, near the
Twelve Mile House. Ludwig In an
other, auto, crashed Into the wreck
atts is at the hospital. Ludwig is
bruised. The other couple were pick
ed up by an auto and disappeared.
FOB HI
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First Sales Are Great Disap!
pointment to the Umatilla
County Growers.
PRICES FAR BELOW
THOSE OF LAST YEAR
Sunday's Games.
Oakland. 4; Portland, 0.
Los Angeles, 6-1; San Francisco.
1-0.
MANY SEEK WORK.
Em-
Costuma Would Conduct Free
plovmcnt Bureau.
"Many men have come to my of
fice seeking employment during the
past few weeks and If farmers and
others wishing to secure men will
Propect Nearly Complete,
The Umatilla project is nearlng leave me their names I will send them
Through hard work' on the part of completion. By the middle of June help, said D. B. Costuma this morn-
neighbors the place was saved, though
glbson claims he suffered a loss of
about $200.
Immediately after the fire Charley
claimed that the Incubator had ex
ploded, thus causing the blaze to
start. However, all Indications, ac
cording to the story of Gthson, show
that the fire was started maliciously
by someone, and In the mind of Gib
son the man waa Charley. A quanti
ty of wood had been taken from the
wood shed and piled against the
house by the man. Furthermore,
Gibson claims that the present state
of tho Incubator shows plainly that it
did not explode and he claims that
the fire was started in the wood shed,
The accused man Is about 35 years
of age and has been here for about
two months, according to Gibson. His
real name is not known and this
mnrnlnir a John Doe warrant was
sworn out against him by District At
torney Phelps. He formerly worked
for George Roork.
the work at tho big dam will be prac- 'ng.
tieally complete. The water Is now According to Mr. Costuma many of
running through ditches In the Her- those who are seeking work are good
mlston unit In the most satisfactory men who have come from the eastern
way and all things are progressing as or middle states and desire to locate
well as could be expected, say. the here if they can find anything to do.
engineers. A force of men are now They are not of the ordinary Idle
employed putting in a few miles of clacs and he holds that they should be
additional concrete line along the held In this section If possible,
main ditch, where seepage Is causing According to Mr. Costuma, the pro
damage to the O. R. & N. tracks near posed publicity bureau could do
Anna and De Sagoo.
Paris, May, 25. Anna Gould will
marry De Sagan June 14, according
to the announcement of her solicitor,
who Is preparing the wedding con
tract. A civil ceremony and a protes,
tant church ceremony will be per
formed.
Teddy In Person.
unicago, May 25. Hughes and
Fairbanks managers announced today
that Roosevelt will attend the conven
tion to assist Taft The allies declare1
the secretary is scared and the presi
dent's personal efforts are the only
hope of a nomination.
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WHEELS TO TURN
"WILL START OPERATIONS
ABOUT JUNE 1, SAYS JUDD.
Large Quantity of Wool Now on nand
and More Arriving Daily Peculiar
Market Situation Responsible for
Late Opening Running Season Will
Be Long Owners Hope to Start
Woolen Mill Also.
Echo.
Cortelyou for Vice.
Washington, May 25. Cortelyou's
boom for vice president has been re
vived with renewed vigor. His friends
argue It will help the ticket In New
York state.
The Congressional Ministers' asso
ciation of Minneapolis asked of the
local central labor body the privilege
of paying dues the same as other af
filiated organizations. The offer waa
declined.
FIRST OF ERilTINE EXERCISES REED
Three Are Drowned.
Spokane, May 25. Kootenai river
has claimed three more victims. John
Sharpless, a veteran of the Boer war.
much good by simply finding locations
for tourist workingmen who seem to
be deserving.
I)ninro'h at Walla Walla,
ArranKements have been romnloto
John Miles, a pioneer of Richmond, by the Walla Walla SvniDhonv rhih
and a young Englishman were swept to bring Walter Damrosch and his
over the falls near Nelson, is. L wniie coneoYt company of 60 people to that
lowing yesterday.
Funeral Suspend BusPness.
Reno, Nev., May 26. Business was
suspended during Governor Sharp's
funeral today under the Elks aus
pices. The body was taken to his
former home In Texas.
Qtiayle Is Bishop.
Baltimore, Md., May 25. The
deadlock In the Methodist Bishop's
conference was broken by the-election
of William Quayle of Chicago on the
tenth ballot this morning. Five more
bishops will be selected speedily.
Even Too Much for Ida.
Chicago, May 26. Ida Deerge, a
chorua girl with the Webers company,
was discharged for refusing to wear
the dlrectolre skirt. The girl appears
In tights nightly, but says the new
dress Is one too much for her.
The first of the week's graduating
exercises waa held Sunday afternoon
at the M. E. church when Rev. D. H.
Kroeze, of Whltworth college, Taco
ma, delivered the baccalaureate ser
mon to the graduating classes of Pen
dleton high school and Pendleton
academy, jointly,
A large attendance greeted the ex
ercises and a most excellent sermon
was given for the 20 graduates of the
two Institutions.
Tomorrow night the graduating ex
ercises of Pendleton academy will
take place at the Presbyterian church
academy course. Those who will
graduate are Alpha Black, Maud Bent
ley, Verva Roberts, Agnes Young,
Russell Blankenshlp and Edmund
Milne.
Judge S. A. Lowell, who has been
in southern and western Oregon for
the past two weeks, will deliver the
graduating address and a delightful
musical - program will be rendered.
All are cordially invited to attend the
exercises which will begin at I
o'clock.
Following the exercise! at the
church the annual banquet will be
when six young people will finish the given by the alumni of the academy.
Hermann's Trial in August.
Washington, May 25. It la report
ed here today on good authority that
Blnger Hermann's land fraud trial In
Portland will begin in August.
Tennesse which makes It unlawful to
allow any female child under 16 years
of age to work In any manufacturing
establishment more than 62 hours In
any one week in 1908, or more than
61 hours In 1909, and after January
1, 1910, more than 60 hours,
Boston waiters and other unions
are making an effort to have the li
cense commissioners make a rule that
women cannot be employed to serve
liquor in any licensed place In that
city on June 8 for an entetralnment
of exceptional merit. Damrosch is
known the world over as the great
est of concert leaders and has a com
pany of accomplished musicians. Pen-
dlein people who love classlfal music
and who appreciate the wonderful
work which Damrosch is doing In the
musical world, have an excellent op
portunity to hear this excellent com
puny. The company will appear at the
Keylor Grand theater on June 8, for
one night only,
That the scouring mill will start
operations about June 1, was announc
ed this morning by F. E. Judd, who
says that a quantity of wool has al
ready been secured and more is con
stantly arriving. Owing to the pecul
iar situation In the wool market the
mill has been late In opening this year
but Mr. Judd predicts that the season
will be a long one, the mill being kept
golnc until the first of the year..
Thus far nothing has been done to
wards reopening the Iwoolen mill
though it Is hoped by the owners to
secure a lessee before long.
Though Bids Are Low, They Are
Nearly Twice as High As Those Of
fered at Arlington Last Saturday
Superiority of Umatilla County
Fleeces Is Demonstrated Many
Clips Are Ofrred But Few Are
Sold Cunningham Sheep & Land
Company Refuse to Sell at Rate
Named In Betst Bid Only Four
Clips Changed Hands During Fore
noon Majority of Output Will Be
Held.
-Mark Twain Nearly Rich.
Tipton, Nev., May 25. Mark Twain
has narrowly missed being a million
aire. -A big gold discovery has been
made near the humorist's old cabin
in Unlonvllle, Nevada..
National Meeting for Portland.
Oklahoma City, May 25. The
Northern baptists voted to hold the
national session In the White Temple,
Portland, Oregon, next year.
With the prices far lower than those
paid for the same clips last year, yet
nearly double those offered at Arling
ton Saturday, the first wool sales day
for Pendleton has been on today.
During the forenoon bids were re
ceived on many clips, but In only four
cases were the offers accepted by the
hheepmen. The prices paid ranged
rrom iz cents to 12 1-8. in tne
remainder of cases the growers eith
er rejected the offers at the time or
took them under advisement.
At this place, and at Pilot Rock,
where a sale will be held tomorrow,
nearly 2,000,000 pounds of wool is
for sale and It represents the clip of
Umatilla county. How much will be
disposed of cannot yet be told, but
there Is every indication that much
wool will be held unless higher prices
are offered at subsequent sales. This
morning expressions of disappoint
ment were freely made by the grow
ers and more than one man expressed
his determination to hold. Another
sale will be held here June 8.
The fact that 12 and 13 cents has
been paid for the local wool when
the buyers offerel but from six to
eight cents for the Gilliam county '
wool Saturday Is a high tribute to the
quality of the Umatilla fleeces.
The following are today's sales in
detail:
The clip of John Wynn, sold to
Brlgham for 12 3-4 cents.
The clip of Pedro Bros., sold to
Brlgham for 12 3-4 cents.
The clip of Andrew Rust, sold to
Livingstone for 13 1-8 cents.
The clip of William Ely, sold to
Greene for 12 1-4 cents.
During the forenoon the clips of
the Cunning sheep and land company
nd of K. G. Warner were placed on
sale but neither was sold at that time,
offers being taken under advisement.
For the Cunningham clip 12 1-8 was
offered while 12 1-2 cents was offered
for the Warner clip.
Alaska Politics.
Washington, May 25. There is war
on between Delegate Thomas Cale and
Governor Hoggatt of Alaska. Cale
announcing his candidacy for re-election,
declares he will show that Hog
gatt is the tool of the Guggenheim?.
He says W. T. Carson, the regular
republican nominee, Is a tool of Hog-gatt.
FINAL EXAMINATION.
Prominent Inventor Here.
Victor E. Campbell, inventor of
Campbell's Automatic Safety Gas
burner and president of the company
Is here today from Potrland the guest
of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Terpenlng. Mr.
Campbell has worked for 11 yearo
perfecting th'r safety appliance for
gns burners and has at last succeeded
in placing on the market a complete
and simple device which makes 'gas
burning safe. The company now has
orders ahead for over a million burn
ers and Is erecting a factory in Port
land to manufacture them in large
quantities,
Dr. Garfield Has New Launch.
Dr. H. A. Garfield of this city, has
just purchased a fine gasoline launch
for use on the Columbia river near
Umatilla and has been engaged in
getting it in runlng order during the
past week. The lauch Is 18 feet long,
six horse power and la a fine speci
men of craft and Dr. Garfield is look
ing forward to many pleasure trips
and fishing excursions on the Colum
bia during the coming summer. He
will use It entirely for pleasure and
will go down often to enjoy It.
Congress to Adjourn,
Washington, D. C, May 25. The
final adjournment of congress la ex
pected Thursday.
Killed by Lightning.
St. Louis, Mo. Lightning killed
Joseph Howard while playing golf
yesterday.
Mark Jardlne, former president of
the United Brotherhood of Leather
Workers on Horse Goods, and now
mayor of the city of Rockford, Illi
nois, has attracted much favorable
attention of late by his activity in fer
reting out dishonest aldermen and
bringing them to public view.
Tests Will Soon Be Over ami School
Rooms Vacated.
In the local public schools the final
examinations are now being brought
to a close and within another day or
two the school rooms will be vacated
for the summer.
At the high school the last of the
examinations are being held today
and tomorrow the teachers will be en
gaged In preparing their reports. On
Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock the
students will report at the high school
for the purpose of receiving their re
ports Wednesday evening the class day
program will be held and on Thursday
evening the regular commencement
exercises.
In pome of the grades the work
will all be completed today, though
the teachers will be on duty until
Wednesday.
MAIL CLERKS ON WALLA ILIA BRING
The Importance of Pendleton as
mall distributing point has again been
recognised by the United States gov
ernment In the placing of two mall
clerks on the Pendleton-Walla Walla
passenger trains, Nos. 45 and 46.
Heretofore the local postofflce has
simply sent out the mall sacks to
the different postoffices along the
route, but hereafter the clerks on
the mall car will have charge of the
mall distribution, registered mall will
be carried on the train and direct '
connections with Nos. 3 and 4, the '
Spokane trains, will be made, thus
giving this city quicker service south.
and north.
Garry King leaves this city this:
evening In charge of the mall on the
Walla Walla train for the first tlmo.
I and hereafter will be regularly as
signed to tnat service. This Insures
better mail service between this city
and Walla Walla and is a matter of
much Importance to this city and
county,
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