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TO ADVERTISERS.
Don't lit down In the
meadow and watt for
the cow to back VP
and be milked fO af
ter the cow.
WEATHER REPORT.
Shower and thunder
storms t onlght or
Wednesday; cooler.
PENDLETON, OCEGON, TUESDAY, JULY 21. 1908.
NO. 633
VOL. 21.
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SYSTEM COMING
Members of Commission Are
Anxious to Get Preliminary
Work Started.
CMAmMAJJ BROWN
WOULD HIRE ENGINEER.
Sevcrul Months Will Do Required and
Drou-n Save No Time Should Be
Wasted in Delay Aci of Congress
' Necessary to 6ecure Right of Way
Across Reservation Election
Could Not Bo Had for a Year-
Movement la Popular and Few
Woukl Vote Again K.
Prospects for a gravity water sys
tern are growing brighter day by day
and It Is now very .probable that
soma actual steps looking toward the
Installation of such a system will be
started soon.
As already known a majority of. If
not all the water commission, are fa
vorable to a gravity system and
some of them are anxious to get The
preliminary work started as quickly
as possible. Up to this time the
board, as now constituted with Judge
Fee as a member in place of W. J.
Furnish has not met but a meeting
will be held the first of August. At
that time there may be something
doing that will mean much for the
future of Pendleton.
Brown Wants Action.
"For my part." said J. T. Brown,
chairman of the board today, "I
would like to see the commission em
ploy an engineer to commence Inves
tigations soon. We will first have to
find out how far up the river we must
go to secure water, how we can get
It and how we can bring It down. I
am in favor of having a thorough
survey made so that we will know ex
actly what can be done.
Then when we have found where
we want our pipe line to run we ean
ask for a right of way across the
reservation. To get that will take
an act of congress and we should be
nrenared so that Congressman Ellis
can take the matter up this coming
winter. If we could get the neces
sary right of way we could then haw
all preliminary work done In time so
that the people could vote upon the
subject at the next general election a
year from the coming November."
Movement Is Popular.
To say that the water board is
endorsed In Its desire for a gravlflr
system is expressing It mildly, From
appearances there has never been a'
more popular move than that for a
new water system and If present sen
timent continues there will be ut
few votes against the Improvement
when It comes to a vote.
NO DANGER OF FLURRY.
Financier Says Country Will Not Be
Affected by Either Taft or Bryan.
Hot Springs, Va., July 21. M. E.
Ingalls, chairman of the board of di
rectors of the Big Four road, and one
of the shrewdeBt financiers in the
country, put a quietus on some of the
stories of danger of panic following
the presidential election.
"If Bryan is elected," he said .to
day, "there will be an off time in
Wall street for about a month, after
that it will quiet down and the result
will be unimportant. Taft's election
would probably not cause a flurry. In
either event the result will be about
the same after the election Is over."
Ship Out of Quarantine.
Navy Yard, Puget Sound, July 21.
The dlphthcrln quarantine was rais
ed on the cruiser Washington this
morning after which the ship was
brought Into the strenm and moored
along side the pier. Workmen will
begin Installing the fire control sys
tem Immediately.
SUED FDR
Falrvlew, Lincoln, Neb., July 21.-1-Influeqtlal
eastern democrats today
notified Mr. Bryan that in their opin
ion the antl-lnjunctlon plank adopted
at Denver was hardly worth the pa
per It was written on, the reason al
leged by them being that the David
B. Hill bill, passed by the senate,
which Is specifically endorsed by the
democrats, simply carried out the
common law provision, granting a
Jury trial In contempt cases, "In the
Jurisdiction of the presiding Judge.",
The plank was drafted on the as
sumption that the Hill bill was passed
only after It was amended by Senator
Allen of Nebraska, to make the trial
by Jury mandatory, at the demand of
the defendant.
While Mr. Bryan Is reasonably sure
of his ground the. allegation that he
FATAL STREET CAR
COLLISION IV ILLINOIS,
Aurora, 111., July 21. More
than 30 persons were Injured,
several fatally, when two trolley
cars running swiftly crashed
together today in a terrific
head-on collision four miles
north of here. There were 150.
person on the cars, whleh were
owned by the Aurora, Elgin &
Chicago Electric . line. The
heavy construction of the cars 4
saved many from being -killed.
Nearby hospitals are " crowded
on account of their being small.
PARDON FOR, BUWALDA.
Sentenced to Tlireo Years for Shaking
nands With Emma Goldman.
San Francisco, July 21. Private
William Buwalda, of company A of
the first battalion of engineers, serv
ing three years penal servitude in the
military prison on Alcatraz Island for
shaking hands with Emma Goldman,
the anarchist, at a meeting two
months ago, in Portland is soon to
be free.
General Funston, commanding the
general department of California
stated to the United Press today that
he had written to the war depart
ment at Washington recommending
that the sentence be remitted, and
that he had received an unofficial
answer stating the clemency would be
shown within a few weeks.
Buwalda served 15 years In the
army, and Is regarded as a good sold
ier. His sentence after a court mar
tial for shaking hands with Emma
created a sensation.
"I wrote to Washington nearly two
weeks ago," said Funston today, "rec
commendlng the" men's release. I
received the official answer from
Judge Advocate Davis,, in Washing
ton, stating the letter 'has reached
the department and that the prisoner
would undoubtedly be shown leniency
In time.
"I made the request simply because
the object of Buwalda's punishment
has been achieved. Buwalda Is too
fine a soldier to spend three years In
prison. I vwanted to establish the
principle that the oath of allegiance
taken by a soldier makes It Impossi
ble for him to become an anarchist
while wearing the United States uni
form This has been done.
tiff LUMBER
MOST COMPLETE WORLD
nAS EVER KNOWN.
Capitalization Will Be $300,000,000
ami World's Output of Yellow Pine
Lumber Will Re Controlled Abso
lutely Wcfycrhauser, Lumber King,
Is Moving Spirit of Enterprixe.
Chicago, July 21. Preliminary to
the convention of the Northwest Lum
bermen's association beginning today,
a secret meeting was held last night
by 25 men who control the yellow
pine lumber market of the world, at
which was discussed the greatest
lumber merger ever planned. A cap
italisation of $300,000,000 was sug
gested. Frederick E. Wcyerhauser, the lum
ber king, said to be the world's rich
est man, was the principal factor at
the meeting of the committee of 25
appointed two weeks ago at a gen
eral meeting of the yellow pine man
ufacturers in St. Louis.
It is thought the details of the
combine will be perfected today. It
Is claimed competition Is ruining
prices and profits In the soft lumber
business and that some action Is lm
peratlve,
W. A. Hicks of Pendleton and Miss
Maude M. Miller of Baker City were
married in Baker yesterday.
A SHOUT TIME
and the majority of the resolutions
committee had been "tricked" caused
him worry, and he admitted that he
was to have an Inquiry set on foot.
A press correspondent this after
noon relieved his suspense by explain
ing to him that advices from Wash
ington showed that the Hill bill, as
finally adopted by the United States
senate In 1894, provided for the sum
mary punishment by the court In di
rect contempt cases, but making It
mandatory for the court to grant a
trial by Jury In all cases where such
contempt was committed outside of
the Jurisdiction of the court and
where such Jury trial was demanded
by the accused. This was the Allen
amendment as Bryan remembered It,
and It cleared up what threatened to
become an awkward situation for the
democratic candidate.
MERGER H
is on 1,'iraiz
Populace Begging Russian
Consul to Protect Women
and Children,
SH Airs TROOPS RECAPTURE
CITY FROM WHICH DRIVEN.
Rachiii Kalin Receives. Reinforce
ments and Attacks City at Night
Revolutionise Taken by Surprise
and Muny Are Killed Without Any
Chance for Defense Sluughter
Was Terrible Ilolli Armies Had
Mobilized for Control of Northern
Persia Conditions Horrible.
St. Petersburg, July 21. M. Pohlt-
oneff, Russian consul at Tabriz, today
wired the foreign office that the pop
ulace at Tabriz is begging him to pro
tect the women and children from the
outrages of the Shah's troopa. '
While, details of the recapture of
the Persian city by Kahn is lacking,
the messages indicate that the car
nage Is frightful.
Pohitonoff sought refuge in the
villa of the consulate a few miles out
side of the city last night when the
troops began the bombardment The
slaughter was terrible.
Report Is Official.
St. Petersburg. July 21. Official
communications received here today
state that sharp fighting is on in
Tabriz.
Rachln Kahn, leader of the shah's
troops, driven from the city, returned
during the night with heavy rein
forcements and charged the town.
The revolutionists were taken by
surprise and many were killed before
they had time to resist
Both armies had mobilised at Tab
rls for a fight for control of northern
Persia.
Poker Cause of Downfall
Seattle, July 21. Fondness for
poker is responsible for the downfall
of William C. Bruin, bookkeeper for
the Dexter Horton bank, who was
arrested on the charge of taking 12
500 of the bank's funds. Pruln is a
Cornell srraduate. and came to Se
attle from Qlenns Falls, N. T.. two
years ago. He was at once employed
In the bank. He was 28 years old.
and his father, F. F. Pruln, Is cash
ier Of the "Merchant's bank at Glenn
Falls.
Teddy Will Not Mix in.
LaCrosse. Wis.. July . 21. Roose
velt will not participate actively In
the coming campaign, according to
a definite statement made for him
by Loeb In a letter received here to
day. The letter was a declination of
an Invitation to make an address at
the fair here In September, stating
Roosevelt la not making engagements
for speeches during the period pre
ceding election.
Bryan Makes No Promises.
Falrvlew, Neb., July 21. Bryan to
day declared he had made no prom
ises of any kind regarding appoint
ments in the event of his election.
The statement was called forth by the
report from Washington stating that
Senator Pettlgrew of South Dakota,
was slated for the treasury under
Bryan.
Several guests were received at
Falrvlew today.
Holioes Kidnap Boy.
Tacoma, Wash., July 21. Theodore
Snyder, son of James Snyder, of Dixie
a small town between Walla Walla
and Daytoq, was. kidnapped ten days
ago from his home by hoboes. .He
was brought to Tacoma where he was
abandoned. He walked Into the po
lice station today where, he told his
story. His father was notified.
Washington "U" to Piny Japs.
Toklo, July S, Via San Francisco,
July 20. A series of international
baseball between Weseda university
and the Washington university of Se
attle, is expected to take place In
September next. It is probable that
the visiting team will arrange other
matches.
Confessed an Old Murder,
At MIssoulanMont., Saturday, James
Hayes confessed to the Immigration
officer that In 1900 he killed a com
rade of the Boer war In the British
army. The facts nave neen reported
to the British war department and
Hayes will be held until word Is re
ceived from there.
Fire at North Bend.
Fire earTy Sunday morning at
North Bend, Ore. did damage amount
ing to nearly $130,000. The losses in
cluded the Coos Bay woolen mills,
Bevler engine works, Simpson Lumber
Co's plant, North Bend Lumber Co
North Bend Shingle Co. and the city
wharf. The property was partially
msurtd.
WINNING Dm
. FOR AMERICANS
Proctor Sets New Mark in
Running High Jump, Leap
ing Six Feet Three Inches.
MELVIX SHEPPARD
, WINS ANOTHER MEDAL.
Athletes From United States In Their
Element When Real Track and
F'leld Events Are Reached Many
From This Country Qualify for Fin
als in Sprints Shcppard Breaks'
World's Record In 800 Meter Run
Formerly Held by an American.
Olympic Records Equaled.
London, July 21. Interest in the
Olympic games today centers in the
209-meter dash In which five Ameri
cans, three Englishmen, one Canadi
an, one Frenchman, one Hungarian
ana one Norwegian are entered.
fKerr of Canada made the best
showing in the preliminary heat to
day, his time being 22 1-5 seconds.
Hamilton, American, was next best,
being" one-fifth of a second slower
than Kerr.
In the Graeco-Roman heavyweight
wrestling matches today Petroff of
Russia, defeated Humphreys, of Eng
land, and Jensen of Denmark, was
thrown by Welsse of Hungary.
In the preliminary heats of the 200
meter dash, Huff, Cartmell, Cloughen,
Hamilton and Sherman, all Ameri
cans, were among those qualifying.
In the mlddlweight wrestling
match Beck, of England, defeat
ed Nargaanes of America, and
Anderson of Sweden, defeated
Craig of America, In the sec
ond preliminary match of the
middleweight wrestling contest The
full time of the Craig-Anderson bout
was 15 minutes.
froctor, or America, set a new
Olympic record In. the running high
Jump today when he established a
mark of six feet three inches In win
ning section five of the preliminaries.
Three Englishmen, one American
and one Frenchman qualified for the
final heat In the 400-meter run in the
first six heats of the preliminaries.
In heat seven of the 400-meter run
Robinson of America, won In 60
minutes 2-5 seconds. The eight heat
was taken by Prult of America,
50 2-5.
Melvjn W. Sheppjird. of New York,
won the final heat In the gofl-meter
foot ree, covering the distance In 1
minute 54 45 seconds, beating the
time of Hllgrin of the American
team at Athens in 1906, by 6 2-5 sec
onds. Rector and Cartmell, Americans,
qualified for the finals in the hundred
meter dash in the semi-finals. Rec
tor made the distance in 10 4-5 sec
onds, Cartmell in 11 1-5. both tlelng
Olympic records.
In the semi-finals of the 400 meter
hurdles Hlllman of America, won In
56 2-5 seconds, beating the Olympic
record.
For Governor's Mansion.
Olympia, Wash., July 21. Engin
eer Harrlgan of Tacoma, has been
commissioned by Russel & Babcock
of Tacoma, architects "of the gover
nor's mansion, to supervise the con
struction work on the building. They
have promised that everything will be
ready for the laying of the corner
stone Saturday, August 1.
Dies of Broken Heart.
SI. Petersburg, July 21. Dispatch
es from Badnauhelm, Germany, say
Admiral RoJestvensky, who pleaded
guilty to the surrender of the Rus
sian fleet in the sea battle ,to Japan,
has died of a broken heart as the re
sult of sorrow and disgrace. The cir
cumstances of his death have touched
the hearts of the Russian people.
Leave for American Lake.
San Francisco, July 21. Lieuten
ant Paul Beck left today together
with half of company B. hospital
corps, of the army general hospital,
for the maneuvers at American Lake,
Washington.
STEAMER' WRECKED ON
CALIFORNL1 COAST.
Santa Barbara, Cal.. July
21. The German steamer Anu-
bias, of the Cosmos line, bound
from San Francisco to Maxat-
lan, Mexico, and London, is on
a reef between Santa Rosa and
San Miguel Island in the Santa
Barbara channel, where she
struck early Monday. She will
be a total loss. All the passen-
gers and crew were saved. The
news of the disaster was
brouarht to Point Connection bv
the officers who rowed 60 miles.
ARE HUGHES AXD
TAFT AT LOGERHEADS.
New York's Governor Has Not Been
Represented at Peace Conferences).
Washington, July 21. Why has
Governor Charles Evans Hughes, the
New Tork executive, been unrepre
sented In the harmony conferences
between Judge Taft and the late la
mented "allies," at Hot Springs?
That's what politicians of the first
magnitude are asking in Washington
today. Is the governor grouchy over
something, or don't the Taftltes want
him to play in their back yard?
The smoke of battle had hardly
cleared away before Speaker Cannon
was puffing his cigar under Judge
Taft's vine and fig tree and express
ing his humble desire to serve Buck
eye Bill in whatsoever capacity he
might will. Senator Beverldge, Sen
ator Hemenway and Representative
Watson' blocked the door in their
eagerness to get Into Judge Taft's
room first to tell him how loyal the
Fairbanks men would be to the Ohio
nominee. Being the loudest talker,
Senator Beverldge got Judge Taft's
ear first.
Representative Burke of Pennsyl
vania, hot-footed In across country.
from Senator Knox's country home to
tell the new big chief how much the
senator loved his conqueror. He had
hardly gotten to Hot Springs before
Representative Cooper of Wisconsin,
came to pledge the vote of the La
Follette crowd of reformers. Even
Senator Dick of Ohio, strutted around
as the representative of Senator For
aker to display within the sight of
Judge Taft a beautiful white flag.
But where was he who bore the
insignia of Governor Hughes? Not in
Hot Springs. And Judge Taft has
seen no one of that stripe since he
was nominated. The politicians are
wondering If he wants to.
ALL RECORDS ARE
SHATTERED BY ATHLETES.
Martin Delivers Mayor McCldlan's
Greetings to Mayor Busse, Twelve
.
Hours Ahead of Time Record-
Breaking Runs Made In Race From
New York to Chicago.
. , .
Chicago, July 21. John Martin.
aged 18. dashed up La Salle street in
a splendid finish sprint between lines
of cheering spectators and delivered
GREAT RELAY
HUGE ENDED
the silyer tube containing a message sen(, more for their w00l 4han
bt greeetlrig from Mayor McClellan of Oregon men However, they received
New Tork. to Mayor Busse of Chlca- julIy flve cent9 per pound more and
go, who was waiting for It on the city apparently the difference represents
hall steps, this morning. I tne amount the Oregon men were en
This ended the great relay race by title(1 t0 Dut di not get Had Ulnar
Y. M. C. A. athletes from New York tllla county growers been paid prices
to Chicago, 11 hours and 50 minutes ; ln proportion to those given In Mon
ahead of time, shattering all records. tana tney would have received ap-
Martin is a member of the Oak proximately 130,000 or $40,00$ mors
Park T. M. C. A. and holds a record foP thelP w00l than they did
of 52 and a fraction of a second for
the quarter mile.
Two thousand runners participated
ln the race, stationed at relay points
varying from a mile to a mile and a
half. The Chicago athletes took up
the race at South Bend, Ind.
The Man Who Pays His Way
In every newspaper we pick up we
are sure to find a gush about the man
behind the gun; the man behind the
buazsaw and the man behind the
rents; the man behind the plowshare
and the man behind the fence; the
man behind the whistle and the man
behlnd the cars; the man behind the
the kodak and the man behind the
bars; the man behind his whiskers
the man behind his fists, and every-
thing behind has entered on the list.
But they have skipped another fellow
of whom nothing has been said the
fellow who is even or a little way a
head; who pays for what he gets and
whose bills are always signed he's
a darn sight more Important than the
man who Is behind. All we editors
and merchants and the whole com
mercial clan are Indebted for exist
ence to this honest fellow-man. He
keeps us all ln business and his town
is never dead, and so we take our
hats off to the man who is
ahead. Exchange.
H. Komura, a Japanese labor con
tractor of Seattle, is ln the city to
day looking over the prospect of hir
ing out 100 or more Japanese labor
ers for harvest hands In this county.
Mr. Komura says that In a number
of places in the northwest where
white labor is scarce and unsatisfact
ory that Japanese are being used In
the harvest fields very successfully.
They soon learn to manipulate the
farming machinery and handle teams
and as they work steadily and do not
make trouble by 'Jumping the Job"
unexpectedly, they are Ideal harvest
hands.
TO HIDE OUT JWESE WEST HANDS
L
Sheepmen of Eastern Oregon
Should Have Received Two
or Three Cents More,
LOSS TO UMATILLA COUNTY
AMOUNTS TO $40,000.
Reports of Recent Sales in Montana
Shows That Local' Growers Were
Not Given All Their Clips Were
Worth Difference in Freight Rata
and Shrinkage Dock Not Account
for Difference of Five Cents in
Prices Paid Opening of Season
RcApoiiHlble in Large Degree.
That the eastern Oregon sheepmen
sold their wool too cheap this year
and by doing so lost at least two or
three cents per pound on their clips
Is shown by recent developments tn
the market.
j At a sale held at Billings, Mont,
a lew uuys agvi puces mugou iiuui
16 1-2 to 18 6-8 cents per pound.
The clip of Lafeldt & Stoltenberg,
amounting to 110,000 pounds, sold
for 18 5-8 cents Another large clip,
that of'S. M. Parkham, aggregating
180,000 pounds sold for 17 6-8 while
that of A. M. Woolfork, 88,001
pounds went for 16 1-2.
For the remainder of the Billings
wool similar prices were paid' and
thus It will be seen that the Montana
men were given In the neighborhood
of five cents per pounds more than
were the Oregon men.
Oregon Men "Soaked."
If the reports from Montana are
true, and they appear to be authentic,
the Umatilla county growers and
their fellow sheep raisers of east era
Oregon did not get what was coming
to them for their wool.
There are two things that tend to
make Montana wools higher than
Oregon wools. The difference in
! freight rates Is computed at one cent
while the Montana shrinkage is seven
J per cent ,e8s than that or Oregon.
' According to the statistics of the Na-
tlonal Woolen Manufacturing associa-
jtion the shrinkage in Montana wool
i was 63 per cent for 1907 while the
nn , .hranV 70 nfl.
, Conslderlng tne 8nrnkage ratio to
be tne Mme tns Montana men
RhnnM nrnnf.r,v haw Wn . . ,
j mny bate nau,
The fact that eastern Oregon wools
opened the market this spring large
ly accounts for the low price received
and some men who are informed de
clare that local wool growers make a
; mistake when they allow the market
to be opened here This year the
buyers came into the field with a de-
termination to bear the market, as
was but natural under the conditions,
In opening the season they quite na-
turally wished to set a low pace and
tne Oregon wools, being the first of-
fered. were made to suffer,
At least this is the theory now aa-
vanced and in view of the news from
Montana there is much foundation
for Whether or not the sheepmen
"M see the point sufficiently to 4e-
fer their sales next year until the
market has already been "opened"
remains to be seen. ,
Will Leave for 'Frisco.
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Camp, who luive
been the guests of their daughter,
Mrs. O. E. Harper and family, for
the past six months, will leave for
San Francisco tomorrow morning, ex
pecting to locate near there perma
nently. Mr. Camp has been interest
ed In Pendleton creamery but sold
his Interest to Richard Mayberry and
will locate In the Golden state.
If it is possible to do so Mr. Ko
mura will engage with farmers ts
furnish them full crews for harvest,
guaranteeing that the crews stay un
til harvest is over. He says the Jap
anese laborers can be secured at from
$1.75 to $2.00 per day and that they
will do as much as an ordinary white
man In hot weather.
The Japanese have been successful
ly Introduced into the beet district's
of the west and In many places are
used exclusively ln the sugar beet
fields and he sees no reason why this
labor should not be used extensively
in the wheat belt
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