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PENDLETON, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1908.
NO. 6342
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POKER CUIUS
ANOTHEH VICTIM
Arthur Van Winkle Forges
Checks to Get Money to
Stay in Clandestine Game.
rilOT ROCK BUSINESS
MEN AHE LOSERS.
Name of II. II. McReynolds la Forged
and Merchants Cash Worthless Pa
per to Value of $05 Youiig nuui
Skips Country ami Was Iat Been
Near Uklali Secured tiie Money
Friday, But Matter Was Not Re
ported to Acting District Attorney
Ferguson Until Last Evening.
Although poker playing and gambl
ing of all kinds la strictly prohibited
In Pilot Rock, and In all of Oregon,
for that matter, another young man
has gons wrong as a result, It Is said,
of a clandestine poker game at Pilot
Rock last Friday night.
Arthur Van Winkle, who has been
employed by H. H. McReynolds, the
Pilot Rock butcher, for the past three
months, has Just issued four checks
aggregating $95, on the Bank of Pilot
Rock and has fled the country, going
south toward Uklah, where he was
last seen.
It is said that Van Winkle secured
money on the checks with which to
take part in a poker game and those
who held checks, feeling that he
would have money In the bank to re
deem them, delayed reporting the
matter until last evening, when it was
reported to Acting District Attorney
Charles J. Ferguson.
Four checks were cashed for Van
Winkle Friday night, by the follow
ing PUoLjcc:Tir.: men: Carnes
BrothersVlSO; H. O. Casteel, $20;
Walter Smith, $20, and Sim Jlnklns,
125,
, When the checks, were offered l
' th Saturday, It was found that
Van Winkle had no funds there, but
that he had an account at the bank
some time before. Thinking that he
would rot urn to make the checks
good, the matter was not given out
However, after waiting until Mon
day afternoon for Van Winkle to re
turn, the holders of the checks noti
fied the acting district attorney and
a search for the young man is now
being made. He was last seen In the
vicinity of Uklah, Sunday. He came
to Pilot Rock from The Dalles, but
had formerly lived at Uklah.
Van Winkle was about 22 years of
age and had borne a good reputa
tion at Pilot Rock, where he had been
employed In the butcher business con
ducted by Mr. McReynolds, for the
past three months. His action Is a
surprise to all who knew him and it
Is not believed that he would have
committed the crime had he not been
Inveigled Into the poker game, as la
asserted by all who are famlUar with
the circumstances. -
Tried to Exterminate His Own
. Family.
Rockvllle, Conn., Aug. 4. Charged
with beating out his wife's brains
witli a sledge ltammer and cutting his
daughter's tlroat, Jolin Zctt, a Hun
garian farmer,. Is being brought here.
He was captured after being knocked
unconscious by his son, whom ho also
attempted to kill. Ho sought the
live of his family for fancied wrongs.
PLENTY HELP THIS YEAR,
Farmers Blessed With Good Weather
and Sufficient Farm Help.
The second week of actual harvest
Iti the Grand Ronde valley opened
tls morning, says the La Grande Ob
server. Reports contlnuo to come In
Of average crops and aided by favor
able climatic conditions, and plenty
of help, the farmers are raking In
the golden sheckles. Help has been
less hard to procure this year than
any time In years past. Scarcely a
farmer but what has all the help he
needs, but Is pnylng good wages,
nevertheless.
Between 80 and 40 carpenters and
brick masons are now employed In
this city on the various buildings un
der construction. The largest force
of brlckmasons and carpenters Is em
ployed on the city hall, which is rap
Idly nearlng completion.
The new concrete block garage be
ing erected on Johnson street by the
Pendleton Auto company, is now be
Ing pushed along rapidly and a con
siderable force Is employed there by
Boothby ft Hale, the contractors.
Work on the new Episcopal rector
on Johnson street, Is also progressing
CHEAT BUILDING Mill IN PENDLETON
HEAT KILLS RABIES
BY TIIE SCORE.
Chicago, Aug. 4. Seventy
six prostrations were reported
today and the city Is In the'
throes of another terrific heat
wave. It was 90 degrees at
noon.
Eighty babies died from the
heat yesterday and many more
deaths are inevitable If the heat
continues.
Three deaths were added to
day to the long list, making a
total of eight adults dead In the
lust 24 hours.
HAVE BHVAN'S PICTURE
ON THEIR HOSIERY.
Lincoln, Neb., Girls nave a New Fad
In Embroidery.
Lincoln, Neb. Aug. 4. A windstorm
which tore things up around Fair-
view has served to disclose a new fad
which Lincoln's young women have
taken up. The wind showed they are
embroidering on their hosiery por
traits of great men, past and present.
One girl whose skirts were caught by
the wind had pictures of Washington,
Bryan and Taft worked on her stock
ings, and blushlngly admitted that
"all the girls are taking up the idea.'
FLEET MAKES RECORD.
Traveling Great Distance on Small
Coal Allowance,
(Wldelessto Suva, Flpi Island:
Aboard the Georgia, Aug. 4.) The
fleet passed the Friendly Islands this
afternoon. The ships are making a
remarkable record for coal endur
ance. Experts on the vessels say the
distance traversed per ton is a reve
lation to the entire world.
The ships spent yesterday morning
In evolutions. At a signal from the
Connecticut the vessels swung around
from single column, In which they
had been traveling two days, Into
battle line.
They will arrive at Aukland Aug
ust .
SAO SUICIDE OF
DESCRIBES ON PAPER
AWFUL PAIN SUFFERED.
Grief Over Loss of Two Children and
Homesickness for Mother In Spo.
kano Leads Los Angeles Woman to
Take Carbolic Add Regrets Rash
Act When Too Late.
Los Angeles. Aug. 4. Mrs. Cora
Cummlngs is in a hospital after drink
ing carbolic acid and describing on
paper the awful pain she suffered be
fore she lost consciousness.
flrlpf over the death of her two ba
bies and homesickness for her mother
who lives In Spokane, caused the wo
man to seek death.
After drinking the acid she wrote:
"Guy, my dear, I feel no pain, only
a bod stomach ache; oh, do tryt may
be I hope not. When you come I'll
be dead. Just think, dead, won't it be
funny. Pains are so bad, don't you
ever do as I did. It is awful. Don't
ever do as I done. I can't stand It.
Oh, Guy, Its worse and worse, It Is
killing me, I wish"
At this point the pencil dropped
and she fell groaning to the floor.
Her husband, who was near the
house, heard her cries, rushed in and
took his wife to the hospital.
Religions War Threatened.
Lisbon, Portugal, Aug. 4. A relig
ious war Is Imminent In Portugal. -A
bill Introduced by Alfonso Kosta, lead
er of the republicans In the chamber
of deputies, the most bitter enemy of
the government, providing for the ex
pulsion of all religious orders from
Portugal, Is the storm center. The
bill Is thought to be a veiled attack
on the throne, which favors Catholi
cism. Montana forest fires have been
placed under control after ' doing
more than $16,000 worth of ramage.
rapidly, the stone foundation and
basement being about complete. G.
I. La Dow Is the contractor and will
employ a considerable force of men
on the building.
Contractor Diinlap is finishing an
elegant cottage for C. S. Terpenlng
on Tustln stret and plans are now
under way for the McNabb cottage
on East Court street. Numerous re
pairs and additions have been made
to dwelling houses during the sum.
mer and taken all through, It has
been one of the best summer seasons
experienced In the building line for
several years.
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CUTTLE RUSTLES
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George Moore Dead and Two
Companions Wounded Near
Lewiston.
GUN FIGHT ' FOLLOWS
SENSATIONAL JAIL BREAK
Two Men Make Wild Dash for Free
dom After Being Arraigned" on
Charge of Stealing Cattle Joined
by Two Companions on Outskirts
of Town and Flight Is On Meet
ing Enemies on Road, They Open
Fire Dan Oarr Docs Deadly Work
with Winchester.
Lewiston, Aug. 4. A thrilling re
minder of frontier days In the Inland
Empire is contained In the range
tragedy which was enacted near here
last evening.
As a result of the tragedy George
Moore, cattle rustler, is dead; A. J.
Sloan and W. P. Reed, companions,
are wounded, while Dan Carr, the
complaining witness, received five
wounds late this afternoon In a gua
fight at the Carr homestead seven
miles from Oroflno, on the Pierce
City road.
The shooting affray Is the result of
a break for liberty made by Reed and
Rice, who were arraigned In Oroflno
Monday morning on a charge of cat
tle stealing. The men started at
breakneck speed out of town and
were Joined In the suburbs by George
Moore and A. J. Sloan, for whom of
ficers had been seeking several days
on cattle stealing charges.
Meet in Road,
The outlaws followed the Pierce
City road and when within one-fourth
mile of the Carr homestead met Al
bert Carr and Sam Craig In th road.
The ' desperadoes opened fire and
drove young Carr and Craig to cov
er. Shots were heard by Dan Carr,
father of Albert, and he, with a Win
chester rifle and three cartridges,
started for the scene of the trouble.
Telephone messages from Oroflno
had warned the elder Carr of the es
cape of the cattle thieves, and when
the shooting commenced he knew his
son and companion had encountered
the outlaws.
When Dan Carr met the men a fus
illade of shots greeted the rancher,
but Carr killed Moore at the first
shot, wounded Rice with a bullet
through the neck and sent a ball
through the right arm of Reed. Carr
himself received two scalp wounds,
a bullet through the left leg, one
through the right thigh and one
through the body. The wounds are
not very serious.
The shooting was reported to the
sheriffs office and under the direc
tion of Sheriff Harry Lydon posses
were organized at Pierce City,
Welppe and Oroflno and started In
pursuit. Latest reports state that the
men have ben driven to cover on a
ridge between Oroflno and Ford's
Creek, and .It Is expected that their
capture will be effected tomorrow.
STRIKE WILL TIE
I P CANADIAN PACIFIC.
. ..Vancouver, B. C, Aug. 4. Canadi
an Pacific mechanics at Winnipeg,
struck at noon today. Tho whole
system from Vancouver to Montreal
will 1k tied up, as the conductors and
engineers have promised supixwt. Ten
thousand mm are involved.
CAREFULLY PLANNED.
Wlnnlcg, Aug. 4. J. H. McVety,
representing tlio machinists' union,
officially announced today that tho
machinists of the entire C. P. rail
way would quit at 10 tomorrow morn
ing, Indicating n general strike has
been carefully planned for that time.
Road Officials Won't Talk.
Winnipeg, ug. 4. The road offic
ials decline to discuss the strike.
The road will be. tied up from Hal
ifax to Vancouver during tho heavy
grain shipping season unless an agree
ment Is reached speedily.
The breach Is wide, the strike com
ing after three months of attempts at
arbitration. The men have declined
to accept the decision of the arbitra
tion boadr.
Fire Boat Sunk.
Chicago, Aug. 4. The fire boat Il
linois was sunk and three men prob
ably fatally hurt by the collapse of
the wall of the big elevator in yes
terday's million and a half fire. The
firemen were on the boat playing
streams on the smouldering ruins
today when the wall collapsed. They
swam to escape.
To ran Taft's Speeches.
Hot Springs, Va., Aug. 4. Taft Is
practicing his voice preparatory to
delivering several speeches Into a
phonograph for reproduction whese
the people, will not be able to hear
the campaign addresses.
HETIC IS
tRE ins
Horrors of Terrible Holocaust
in Fernie District Are Being
Hourly Revealed,
BODIES OF UNKNOWN
AWAIT IDENTIFICATION.
People Driven to Great Extremes to
Escape Heat Bodies of Entire
Family Found in Well Sought
Shelter nnd Were Suffocated Son
and Family Forced to Flee, Leav
ing Invalid Mother to Bo Devoured
By names Four Drunks Perish in
Hotel.
Fernie, B. C, Aug. 4. Smoke and
embers are still flying over the site
of the .destroyed town, making it ex
tremely dlsagreable for the homeless.
There Is little danger of further de
struction, however, unless another
gale arises.
The bodies of the victims have been
placed In the basement of the office
of the Crows Nest Pass Coal Co,,
one of the two business buildings left
standing, where the unknown will
await identification.
The body of Robbert Kern has been
found.
One of the tragic fatalities was the
extremes to which people were driven
to escape the heat The bodtea of a
family of four were found In a well,
a miner, tils wife and two children,
where they sought refuge.
The fire had burned to the water's
edge, and the miner was badly burn
ed. The wife and children were suf
focated to death. Only a little water
was left In tfce well, which was curb
ed with wood. After climbing Into
it the miner and family were evident
ly unable to get vut.
YV?5 io Desert Mother.
Even more pathetic was the awful
manner in which Mrs. Addle Turner,
an aged Invalid, living with her son
In a Fernie annex, met her death.
When he realized his house was go
ing, Turner prepared his wife and
children for flight. The aged woman
couldn't walk. She pleaded with Tur
ner and hi? family to save their own
lives and leave her there.
When the house caught fire Turner
wrapped his mother In a wet blan
ket, laid her on the ground, then
seized his wife and children and fled.
Nothing but the blackened bones of
the old woman were found.
Lives Lost In Hotel.
It Is believed that several lives were
lost in the Waldorf hotel. The last
persons leaving after It was aflame,
say four drunken men were left on
the floor.
Robert Lane, a young miner, who
had only been married a few weeks,
was found dead In West Fernie.
Fire Extlngulslied.
Winnipeg. Aug. 4. A Cranbroot
dispatch says the fire In the Crow's
Nest district Is extinguished and or
der has been restored. Hundreds are
missing, but the Indications are that
not so many are dead as was at first
reported.
FIVE YEARS OF PIUS X.
Anniversary of Pojie's Reign Celebrat
4 cd Throughout Italy.
Rome, Aug. 4. There Is universal
rejoicing at the special celebration
which marks tho completion of the
fifth year of the reign of Pope Pius
X, today through Italy. With great
pomp the occasion was dedicated In
the Vatican. The" pope is receiving
the college of cardinals In a body,
and granting audience to a large as
semblage of prominent churchmen
from all parts of the' world.
Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore, was
one of the principal visitors. Greet
ings were extended by all military and
lay officials of Rome and several col
lege prelates. As those dignitaries
passed in review before the pope the
great audience In the chamber of the
Vatican presented a brilliant scene.
SENATOR ALLISON DIES.
Dubuque, Iowa, Aug. 4. United
States Senator Allison of Iowa, died of
heart disease at 2 this afternoon.
A CURIOUS THEFT.
Thief Steals Excess Check Calling for
Bxly of Dead Man.
Dispatches from Nampa state that
a thief who passed - through there
Saturday morning stole a poeketbook
containing an excess baggage check
calling for the body of a dead man
that was being shipped to Nampa.
The check was being carried by the
brother of the dead man, and while
he was asleep on the train the pocket
book was stolen. Baker City Her
ald. If you would not be known to do a
thing, never do It. Kmerson.
AIRSHIP FLIES AS
GRACEFULLY AS A BIRD.
Berlin, Aug. 4. Count Zeppe-
lln in a monster dirglble bal-
loon, was sighted over Strauss-
burg today, five hours after he
left Lake Constance In an at-
tempt to remain In the air 24
hours. The ship made a perfect
ascent, sweeping gracefully into
the air, under perfect control.
The test of flying 24 hours was
made under the requirements of
the government, which may buy
the balloon. He says he will
start on a time endurance trip
as soon as he completes the
present voyage.
BUUCTED GIRL
RETURNS UNINJURED.
Publicity of Case Probably All That
Saved Veronica Cassidy From Hor
rible Fate.
Chicago, Aug. 4. Veronica Cassi
dy, the 12-year-old girl whose mys
terious adbuctlon last Thursday
caused unusual police activity In this
city, returned to her home Saturday
night from Cincinnati, whither she
had been taken by her alleged ab
ductor, F. J. Blair. She told her pa
rents that Blair had placed her aboard
a train Immediately after leading her
away From home and that they had
been In a rooming house In the Ohio
city until this morning, when the man
gave her a ticket to Chicago and told
her to go home.
The unexpected return of the child
turned a house of mourning into a
place of Joy.- Her mother and sister,
sleepless since Thursday when they
discovered that Blair had given a
fictitious address in taking Veronica
from her home to be a companion of
his wife, became prostrated today.
Mrs. Catherine Cassidy, the mother,
became hysterical late today and only
the sudden appearance of the missing
gicl saved her from serious Illness,
according to the physicians. Anna
May Cassidy, Veronica, sister, had
spent all of last night with relatives
trying to locate the younger girl.
OREGON BETS
FOOEST F
RUM OF $32,S1S AS
SHARE OF INCOME.
Government Apportions the Proceeds
of the Forest Reserves Amounting
to $447,0S.7 Montana Leads All
States with the Sum of $75,807.41
Idaho Is Second with $Sn307.84
Announcement has Just been made
of the amounts which each state con
taining national forests will receive
under the new law giving 25 per cent
of the gross receipts from forests to
these states. The total amount to go
to the states from the receipts of the
fiscal year which ended June SO Is
$447,06179.
The amounts to go to each state
or territory are: Alaska, $2,684.78;
Arizona, $42,610.44; Arkansas,
$313.68; California, 62.437.78; Colo
rado, $50,955.67; Idaho, $56,307.84;
Kansas, $643.65; Montana, $75.
S07.41; Nebraska $2,349.77; Nevada,
$4,577.95; New Mexico, $25,464.12;
Oklahoma, $564,48; Oregon, $32.
313.52; South Dakota, $8,456.60;
Utah, $32,151. 02 (Including Uinta In
dian refund of $5,348.07); Washing
ton, $18,032.79. and Wyoming, $41,
402.38. The law requires that this money
be expended upon public roads and
schools by the counties which contain
national forest land. In this way the
counties are compensated for the re
duction of taxable area brought about
by the existence of the forests.
Before this year the states have re
ceived 10 per cent of the gross re
ceipts, but congress voted last win
ter to Increase the amount to 25 per
cent.
Eighty men have been released
from the Washington state peniten
tiary as the result of the action taken
by the state board of control a week
ago.
BIG INCREASE III POSTOFFICE BUSINESS
Despite the dry season, alleged
crop shortage and prohibition, the
July business for Pendleton postof
flce Is $247.69 ahead of the business
transacted by the office during the
month of July, 1907.
The report of the Pendleton office
for the past month has Just been pre
pared by Assistant Postmaster Harry
B. Reese, and shows the total Income
from all sources to be $1(23.76, of
which sum $1562.65 was the proceeds
of stamp sales. The expenses for the
month amounted to $980.35, leaving a
GIG RESERVOm
IS
Scene of Recent Great Activity
Now Deserted Save for a
Solitary Walchman.
PRACTICALLY ALL OF
MACHINERY SHIPPED AWAY
Big Lake Will Be Allowed to Drain
After Close of Present Irrigation
Scnxon Will Be Filled to Full Ca
padty Tliis Winter Work of Ce
menting Main Feed Canal Progress),
ing Rapidly About 1000 Acres in
Reservoir Now Covered With Water
Being Put on Raw Land.
Where two months ago 200 men
and 100 teams were tolling on the
dam of the Umatilla Irrigation reser
voir, there Is now one lone watchman
keeping vigil over the piles of ma
chinery, empty houses, headgate, tow
er and dam.
Practically all of the government
machinery excepting the locomotives
has been shipped away, the horses
have been sold, the reservoir Is now
in the hands of the Waterusers' asso
ciation and the work Is completed.
The railroad track has not yet been
torn up, but It Is expected that this
will be done soon. The locomotives
will also be sent out soon to other
projects and within a few weeks there
will be nothing but the grim and for
saken shanties to mark the spot where
great activity has been seen for two
years past.
WBI Drain Reservoir.
The officials In charge will drain
the reservoir after the present Irrigat
ing season Is over in order to allow
the bottom to settle and to do away
with small seepages which .are no
in evidence. . It Is estimated that it
will require a month to drain the
great space now filled -with water, but
that It will be a great benefit to the
reservoir to drain It before it is allow
ed to fill during the winter with the
flood water, is the opinion of those
in charge.
The water now in the reservoir,
about 1000 acres in extent, will be al
lowed to cover the raw lands, thus
giving the entire project a good soak
ing. With the beginning of high wa
ter during the fall, the reservoir will
be opened again, the canal near Echo
have been cemented and all will be In
readiness for the filling of the reser
voir to Its capacity, about 17,000,000,-
000 gallons.
Work on the cement lining for the
canal near Echo, Is now progressing
satisfactorily and will have been com
pleted by September 1. This will be
the very last task of the ditch and
dam builders of the Umatilla project.
and after that Is completed the entire
project will be turned over to the
people who own the land under It
Many Applications for Position.
That Pendleton Is an attractive
place for teachers, as well as home
seekers. Is shown by the large num
ber of applications received by Prin
cipal Bleakney of Pendleton acad
emy for the position of teacher of
domestic science. About half a dos
en applications have been received
from Tennessee, Georgia, Michigan
and other . eastern and southern
states. A teacher has not yet been
selected for the place.
Cut Throat With Scissors.
Belllngham. Wash., Aug. 4. The)
fact has Just become known that
Mrs. Williams, wife of Sheriff An
drew Williams of Whatcom county,
attempted suicide Sunday by cutting
her throat and wrists with scissors.
It Is supposed she was despondent
over the recent death of her daugh
ter. She will recover.
Fire in Chehalls County.
Hoqulam, Wash.," Aug. 4. One of
the worst forest fires in the history
of Chehalls county Is threatening the
entire logging districts In this vlcln
Jty, and Is raging twelve miles north
of this city. It Is reported that the
loss Is now a quarter of a million.
balance for the government of
$643.41.
During the month of July, 1907,
the total income of the office was
$1376.17. against $1623.76 this year,
showing a healthy Increase in spite
of the fact that many things have
combined to reduce the business.
With the return of Pendleton peo
ple from the coast and the Increas
ed population of the city for school
purposes next fall, it Is expected that
Pendleton office will close the bannei
year in Its history on. December 31,
1908.
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