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VOL. 22.
PENDLETON, OKE(iON, MONDAY, DECE'MKETl 20, 1909.
NO.' 0776
ml
FRAUD QUEEN . ;
HERE AGAIN :
Mrs. Myrtle Johnson, Alias!,
, n n aij
MaUd baney, UCCUpieS Uldl.
'
quarters in Jan.
i
WAS ACQUITTED OP
CHARGE IS SEATTLE
Deputy Sheriff Joo Blakcley Arrived
With Shrewd Swindling Female
Yesterday Wun Paroled Hero Five
Years Ago and May Have to Serve
old Sentence in IV-rdtentlary Law
yers Doubt Legality of Her Detention.
For the second time In the history ' declared today If Welsh wants to
of her career of crime and fraud, I tlKht It must be for 45 rounds or to
. u ft finish. If Welsh refuses to ac-
Mary Myrtle Johnson or Mrs. Maud cpt tneM condltlon8 the Dane says
Baney, Is again behind the bars of he wlll Ktve Ad Wolgast a fight,
the Umatilla county Jail. Acquitted rackey McFarland is out entirely so
by a Seattle Jury, after a deliberation ' far concerned. Several
days ago John Robinson, Nelsons
of six hours, of the charge of defraud- mfnager announccd he had ac.
Ing the Seattle General Electric Co. CPptej terms for a 20 round fight be
of $800 by means of a fake dam- tween the Battler and Welsh to take
age suit. Mrs. Johnson waa Immedl- P'"- In London next February.
ately turned over to Deputy Sheriff
Joe Blakeley of this city. Her at
torneys at first declared they would
resist her extradition but later chang
ed their minds and In company with
the Pendleton officer she arrived In
this city yesterday noon on the North- '
em Pacific train. .
Under the name of Maud Baney
she appeared in Pendleton five years '
ngo in company with a man sup
posed to be her husband and another
man by the name of Hlekcnschmldt.
She proceeded to pass forged checks
on Lee Tcutsch, Joe Tallnian and R.
Alexander but before she could make '.
her get-a-wuy was nprohended' and
arrested. While In Jail she feigned an
attack of tuberculosis, hail "hemnr
hages.'' dislocated bones and various
othes alleged afflictions until she ap-
peared to be about to "pass In her George l'cchlcr. the 13-year-uld
cheeks." She was finully permitted son of Mr. nn 1 Mrs. David Pcebbr
t.i plead guilty to a charge nf uttering u,,, ,.,!,,. on tht. corner of Marki-t
a forged evidence of debt and was , ,, , . , .
h . . ' ' street and Perkins Avenue, is the vlc
paroled dining good behavior and on
condition that she did not leave the endlclon's first i casting uc-
slate. It was for violations of both rldent of the season. As the result
the conditions of this parole that she l)f ,uml,i0 taken by him yesterday ; ,m,j ,,;lt many details were lost when
was returned to this city for resent- morning be Is now lying at the bos-!,, WUJ, enlarged for use as a picture
enclng to the penitentiary. pit.il with his leg broken Just above ! slide, speaking of the Brooklyn ex
As a great amount of time has el- ,)10 k,,r,. j t,IrJrt r:isher said: 'When Cook
opsed since she was paroled there Is In company with several other boys i i, , tmvd n this city he was asked
doubt in the minds of many lawyer u. Injured lad was coasting on Oai - j x )1;lt .sextant he had used in making
as to whether or not she can be Jailed ri l.l street yesterday morning. It 's , n s observations and replied: 'I can
under the old sentence. She Is being rather a dangerous place to coast foi I n,n reniemlier.' Tlrs was a peculiar
represented here by Judge James A. , the reason that the walk is narrow I form of forgetfulness."
Fee and he will maKo an eirori in
show that the local court has no Juris
diction over her at this time.
There Is another warrant of arrest
out for the woman and If she Is
turned loose here she will 'mmcdlntely
be taken In custody an, 1 taken to Van-j
eouver, Washington, where she will
be tried on the charge 01 omaining
I12r.n fraudulently from the North
ern Pacific company by reason of an
alleged accident which nceured at
Yaeolt, last spring.
The trial of Mrs. Johnson which
ended Faturday In Seattle, attracted
much attention throughout the coun
try on account of the evidence intro
duced bv the state to show Hint the
woman bad defrauded several railroad
companies In the states of the middle
west by means of fake damage suits.
When the verdict of acquittal was
read.Mis. Johnson wept.
EB
Captain C. W. Dulton, national or
gnn'xer for th" Order of Good Tem
plars, who has been in tho city for
nearly a week, declared to a represen
tative of the East ' Oregon an this
morning that he Is going forth
throughout the northwest and pub
licly refute the base slanders which
bavo been circulated concerning Pen
dleton. He -said that all through
Washington the basest kind of lies
have been circulated concerning th s
city by Hie saloon people in nn ef
fort to keep their owl. communities
wet and that ho came to Pendleton
fully expecting to find plenty of va
cant store rooms, in one of which he
expected to open up headquarters to
carry on his work for the order
which hu represents.
Ho declared this morning that in
all his travels he had never been in
a town where there wer better hotel
accommodations, where the hotels
were better patronized or where such
excellent living was to bo obtained
at such reasonable prices ns were to
lie obtained In the restaurants of this
WILL DENOUNCE PENDLETON S
FA TAL HACK WAR
IX liOCJSIAXA.
Grand Cane, La., Dun. 20.
Three men are dead "and six
seriously wounded as the result
of a desperate battle between
parties of white men- and ne
groes near this city early today.
Troops have been sum
moned to guard aga'nst another
outbreak of the trouble which
started when John Allen, a
white farmer, accused Belle
Bower, a negro, of stealing his
hogs. Bower and, his brother-in-law
resented the accusation
In-law resented tne accusation
ad opened fire on the white
man. Bower and hiB kinsman
were Instantly killed when Al
ien and ft. party of friends re
turned the fire. Allen was f a-'
tally Injured and died an hour
I . v .-u
i later. Otner negroes una
j who were drawn Into the fight
continued the battle for an hour.
The six wounded were negrum.
RATTLING NELSON GIVES
HIS ULTIMATUM TO WELSH
Chicago. Dec. 20 Kvlrtently real
izing that to engage In a twenty round
fight with Freddie Welsh, the British
lightweight champion w6uld place
his title In Jeopardy, Battling Nelson
BOY BREAKS LEG
1 '
GEORGE PEEHLER'S SLED
CRASHES INTO THEF-
' I
First Accident of Col.i SoiiKon Boys Pittsburg, Dec. 20. That Dr. Fred
Were Sliding on Garfield Street ; erlek Cook; the Brooklyn explorer.
Sled Hew Track uml Roy Was "faK,;,,1" ?M th "S
I he claimed he planted at the north
Hurled Against Tree Now In Hos- j ,,hargPd t0(lav by Dr. John
pital. a. Prashcr. astronomer of the Uni-
; vcrsity of Pittsburg. Hud the flag
nnd Is lined with trees and with stakes
which have been set for the grading !
of the street. j
Several boys were coasting down ,
the hill, one behind the other, when I
the cap from the boy in front of j
p, ebbr flew off and landed on the
i walk so that when the hitter's sled
' runner struck It. the sled swerved to
one side, struck one of the grade j
stakes
and hurled tne uoy against i
a tree.
Dr. C. J. Smith happened to be
standing near when the accident or
cr.red. He quickly picked the In
jured boy up and took him home
and then discovering the serious na
ture of the fracture, had him remov
or ine rrnciure, una mm remov- ,
to the hospital where the Injury
; ed
could be better attended to. The
I doctor says It wlll require care to
! prevent a stiffening of the knee point
las' a result of the injury.
elty. ' . '
Ho visited the schools of the ciiy
and pronounced them the equal of
any to be found in any other city or
town in either Washington or Ore
gon, while he insisted that the busi
ness houses would compare wlih those
of any city In the northwest.
lie says that instead of beinj ready
for the sexton, rfh.tt Pen diet n has
every appearance of being a progres
sive, up to date hustling e.iy with
prosperity in. evident e evcrywiu iv
He said that though he had been
in the city since last Tuesday that he
had only sotn one tnloxlcaN-1 man
on the street in lliat,t me. That nun
was seen yesterday.
Captain Dutton leaves tomorrow for
North Yakima and he will then con
tinue his tour of the northwest. He
was loud in his praise of the treat
ment he hud, been accorded in this
city as well as the conditions pre
vailing here and he declared, that he
would publicly denounce from every
public platform on which he speaks,
tho lies which have been and are be
ing circulated concerning thTs'city.
H T
s
Committee Investigating' Dr.
Cock's Data Would With
draw Graceluliy.
REPORT MAY HE XEITUEK
FAVORABLE XOR ADVERSE
Member of Faculty of University of
Copenhagen Believes Such Course
Will Be Adopted Professors Eni
barraMiod Because of Former
Championship of Explore Data
Is Very Incomplete Brooklyn
Doctor's Presence Will Xot He
Required.
Copenhagen, Dec. 20. That the
committee Investigating the polar
data of Dr. Frederick A. Cook will
return a report neither favoring nor
averse to the claims of the explorer,
was the prediction today by a mem
ber of the faculty of the University of
Copenhagen who is cognizant of the
deliberations of the committee. The
savants of the Danish university who
are serving on the committee are said
to be deeply embarrassed by their
former -championship of Dr. Cook
coupled with their inability to find
anything approaching acceptable
proof of his reDorts. and are casting
about for a way to retire gracefully
' from the controversy. , Rumors
I tiov.. lonlrer from thp committee
room that the d:-a submitted by the
Brooklyn explorer is so incomplete
that Cook's presence before the com
mittee would not aid its work, and
he will not he asked to appear.
Says CK)k"s Picture Iss Faked
been planted at the pole. Brasher de
clared, it would have cast a long shad
ow, as the sun at that t me was at an
. i.'Vjjtb n of eight degrees Cook's
picture, he charged, showed no shall
ow. i iie explorer explained this by stat
ing that the picture was taken small
Dr l.ira.shcr does not believe that
,.jt h,-r Cook or Peary will be able to
,,r,,ve Mey reached the pole.
i nKUWS PEPPER IN WOMAN'S
-:viis AND SNATCHES PI RSE
.
svattle Deo. 20. Mrs. Daniel Fuhr-
w f of a well known tailor of
(his (,(y wns seVf.rciy and perhaps
seriously injured today by a man wno
gave his name as R. D. Hardy, who
after throwing pepper Into her eyes,
snatched the w oman's .handbag w hich
contained J50T and fled. Hardy ran
Into I.. B. Keane, a .mail carrier.
Winn the latter tried to stop him he
(lVc two shois at the postman irom
r,.Volver. Neither shot took ef
fect. Keane grappled with the rob
ber and hell l, m until a man in the
vicinity rushed up and overpowered
him. Hardy was takeiT to the city
Jail.
Rl.l'l 111. If ANS WILL
IGNORE HlTCllCOCli
Washington. Dee.
here today flat the"
i rngre"-.- .. iii t'-
crel.-.ry l:clliiifi r by
Uilehi oe of Nebraska
it is believed
republicans :n
at:a k against
Ki'MCsrinative
late last week
II (lie ;1,mu ol' the nouse.
The
publicans
d' lno, i a i
i faeliol;
l.olt of 11
I'. VltON!
declare his speech is merely
r- rampan;n material, and
not. gic Wcroocrals the sat
; oni;t t . siona i invesii;;a
; ' , i 1,'s ,m usa tion.
S V WGMAX WILL
Nor
I I I Ni Ilv)-.L FI NER 1.
ltrus-el
Vauglvm
I . .'...',11
i'.iri, r
c-Mos thai
P riel io
in ral of
vie. to v!,.
, Dee. 20.- Baroness
b 't- livu'-se's tills afternoon
court. Fien h chateau, near
'hi- m e apparently indi-
. In. Iti ! 'i h-i ti , 1 , til ,1.1 hei-
n ntion of attending the fu-I
tile l.ue King Leopold to' (
vv.is uiaiiie l n Italy. !
Pi-.iiDK'l F.! THAT WALLA
WALLA GOES WET AGAIN
Walla Waiia, Dee. 20. Early pre
dictions this noon based on the heavy
niorn'n;; vote indicates the town will
remain wet by about S00. Both sides
are claiming victory, but it Is believed
that the wets have won. There is In
tense excitement on the streets and
three hours after the polls opened at
! o'clock half of the 4 2:1 reclstercd
voles were east.
T
IN MEETS
I OPPOSITION
Senate Confirms Appointment
of Tennessee Judge taFeck
ham's Place.
SEVERAL NOMINATION'S
FOR AMBASSADORS FILED
Bacon for France Ktrens for Austria
Hungary,. Wilson for Mexico Oth
er Nominations Made John C.
A.rdrcy of Portland Nominated for
ttecelver of Public Moneys Con
gress Will Xot Settle Down Until
.jftcr Holidays.
Washington, Dec. 20. The senate
today confirmed the appointment of
Hoi-ace S. Lurton of Tennessee as as
sociate Justice of the United States
supreme court. Lurton was recom
mended by President Taft to succeed
the late Justice Peckham.
The nominations of Robert Bacon
of New York as ambassador to
France, Richard Kerens of Missouri,
ambassador to Austria-Hungary,
Hungary, Henry Lane Wilson of
Washington as ambassador to Mex
ico were sent to the senate for con
firmation today.
Other nominations sent to the sen
ate today , were as follows: Receiver
of bubl e moneys. Oliver R. Wrobin
sonf of Los Angeles, and John C. Ar
drey of Portland, Oregon. Registrar
of land office, Frank Burns of Los
Angeles. The appointment of the
following postmasters was recom
mended. At Arlington, Ore., Arthur
Wheelhouse; at Sumpter, Ore., Harvey
S Ruck.
With probably less than a quorum
ofeither house in th city, all legis
latffn In congress In the next two days
will be by common consent. - The
house will undertake nothing more
th:'n the. passage of some m'nor bills
:nd the completion of Its work -on the
district of Columbia appropriation
bill, which already has been under
consideration for two or three days.
It has been hoped that the army
supply bill might be taken up and dis
posed' of before the adjournment but
t!;;t program has ben abandoned in
the face of the departure of so many
numbers.
: FIVE PERISH IN RIG
' LONDON STORE FIRE
London. Dec. 20. Five persons are
dead, and 50 in the hospitals suffer
ing from injuries and many are missing-
a the result of a fire that de
stroyed the great Arding-Hobbs store
in Chnuman suburbs at noon today.
Three hundred persons were "n the
store wlnn the fire started. A
scone of confusion bordering upon-a
panic ensued when fcores of shoppers
and clerks rushed for the lift and
stairs. Several clerks and patrons
leaped from the third and fourth
story windows to the pavement. Oth
ers jumped from the interior balcony
to the main floor, which was already
1'urn'ng fiercely. Within an hour af
ter the fire was discovered, the great
dome collapsed, covering adjoining
stores with a mass of burning debris.
TWENTY-SEVEN PERISH
WHEN BRIDGE COLLAPSES
ft". Petersburg, Dec. 20. Twenty
seven persons were drowned by the
cidiupo of a wooden br'dn across
the l'rp'.t river at the village of
Mosyr in Minsk prov'nee. according
to today's reports. A crowd of
v.-orkingmen and women were cross
ing the bridge en route to beg'n a
.'ay's toil when the structure went to
pieces. The victims fell into the river
which was f lle.l w"lb great blocks of
'. inak ng n-sctie impossible.
I v. EALTRY
LADIES ASSUME
CONTROL OF STRIKE
New York, Dee. 20. Mrs. Oliver it.
1. Belmont and Mw Anna Morgan,
daughter of J. P'.crpont Morgan, to
day assumed active control of the
slr ke of shin waist makers, and it
is announced that they are preparing
: li re lawyers t defend any strikers
v, ho n ay be arrested, an.l make a
test case upon tho first opportunity.
U this is done it wl'.l be tho f rst in
stance on record that the fight of
the police to arrest strike pickets has
been tested.
i ! Nt t ! !.'!: K '!; E SAYS
BUDGET WILL BE PASSED
London, Dee. 20. Chancellor David
Lloyd t;eof:e. ruthor of the British
budget today gave out the following
1'liristmas message to" the I'nlted
States. "The budget is gaining in
popularity at an 01101-111011 rate. The
outlook for victory in January's elec
tions s -more sanguine daily an!
there is no possibility of the budget
being defeated.
Purns Is to have a Masonic temple
and a big new store building.
THREE LITTLE TOTS
DIE IN FLAMES
Chicago, Dec. 20. Mary,
aged 6, Charles aged 4. Jand
James aged 2, children of John
Paromia, were burned to death
at trjeir home early today while
the little girl was attempting to
get breakfast for her parents.
Paromia and his wife arose
early this morning and went to
a shed in the rear of the home
to butcher a cow, and fifteen
minutes later the woman saw
smoke pouring from the kitch
en, and rushed to the house.
Stretched lifeless on the floor,
their little bod'es seared, and
shriveled lay the two younger
children. Mary lay at their side.
As the mother entered the room
she raised herself and gasped:
"I was getting breakfast for
you, mama." In a few minutes
she was dead.
SAYS STATX GAVE
LEOPOLD ROYAL WELCOME
North Attleboro, Mass., Dec. 20.
"Who In Hell is Leopold," was the
title of a sermon delivered by Rev.
Hazen Conklin of the First Univer
salis! church of this city that is caus
ing an unusual commotion today.
From the pulpit Dr. Conklin pictured
the late king as a worthy being for
"satan's successor In the Infernal re
gions." He said: "Personally I doubt
the existence of a hell but granting
one exists Leopold must have receiv
ed a royal welcome. While on earth
he out sataned Satan. For his rec
ord even Satan must feel the deepest
' .
envy.
NARROWLY ESCAPE
CLAWS OF COUGAR
HORSE'S SPEED SAVES
COLD SPRINGS RESIDENT
Huge Cat Sprang at Man While Rid
ing Along Horse Sustained Severe
Scratches First Time Cougar Has
Rcii Seen There.
August Zeuske, the well-known re
tired 'farmer who returned this morn
ng from a visit to the Cold Springs
section of the county, is authority for
the statement that a cougar attacked
a man near Cold Springs Saturday
evening and that the man escaped
only by the speed of his horse. He
gives the name of the near victim as
Walter Mosler and says that he was
a very badly frightened man. even
after he had left the cougar far In
the rear and had arrived safely at the
settlement..
The man si said to have escaped
unlnqjurcd, but the horse is suffer
ing fiom several" bad scratches wh'ch
he received when the big cat made a
leap at his rider.
As Is well known, this section of
the county is several miles from the
mountains or any timber with the ex
ception of an occasional dwarfed
Jun per. The settlers are therefore
at a loss to account for his presence.
Wild cats have been seen frequently
about the bluffs in that vicinity, but
this is tho first time a cougar's pres
ence has even been reported. It is
believed that the exceptionally cold
winter and heavy snow- has driven the
animal down from the mountains.
j Harold Warner arrived from Eu
i gene where he is in attendance at the
j university of Oregon. He w ill spend
.Christinas with his parents. Mr. and
Mrs. T. C. Warner.
iLLEGED DAD " CHECK ARTISTS -
iDBnr onrn m e p tv
i ilLllLliULU i III1J UN I
Two men and a woman were rtr
nsted In Pendleton Saturday after
noon by Deputy Slier ft" Pert Wilson
en advice of Sheriff Levi Chrism. in of
The Dalles. They narrowly escaped
spending a night in the Cniatil'a
county Jail by the mother of tlv wo
rn in. who 1 ves ill Jcscph coming t
the resell., and puiting up through
the bank in that city, th,,- $200 ne
c ssary t insure the appear nice of
the tr'.o 11 the 1 ourt at The Dalles.
Ti.os arrested were J. F. Lee, Ag
ues i.est',. i.e.- and N. E. Crowe. Th.
first named are man and wife, hav
ing been married .11 Joseph but a few
weeks ago. Crowe is associated with
Lee In soiic'ting insurance.
According to a message from The
Dalles, the trio are charged w th ob
ta'n'ng money under false pretends
Lee was arrested at Shaniko Thursday
at the instance of the sheriff of Cn on
county for the same offense. He wis
accompanied to The Dalles by the
woman and a man professing to be N.
E. Crowe, of Portland, general agent
for O-egen of the Continental Life In
LE TRAIN
T CANYON
Thirty Eight 0. R & N. Cars
Crash Down Mountain S'dfi
to Destruction.
SPECTACULAR. WRECK
OCCURS NEAR MEACHAM
Engine Left Train at Kamela to
Take on Coal When Train Got
Underway and Dashed Down Steep
Grade at Maddening Spcl Thirty
Eight Cars Piled op In lis vine
No One Killed as Far a Ascer
tained. An entire O. R. & X. freight train
is piled In a canyon four miles this
side of Meacham as the result of one
of the most spectacular and peculiar
wrecks in the history of the O. R. A
X. railroad. Without an engine the
train of 3$ heavily loaded cars left
the Kamela station on the very sumit
of the Blue mountains and started on
a wild dash down the mountain while
the engine was taking on coal at the
bunkers. The telegraph wires are -all
down and the few details of the
extraordinary disaster has been ob
tained by telephone.
As near as can be ascertained how
ever there was no one on the train
; and no one was killed or injured.
! though the ?irst report which reach-
ed this city was to the effect that
' there were forty Greeks on the train
and that all were killed. It is now
i believed that this report was false.
The train which' was .wrecked was
an extra westbound freight It
pulled into Kamela about 10 o'clock
and the engine was Immediately cut
off and run back to one side to the
I hunkers to take on coal. Hardly had
the work of loading the coal com-
menced before the train started off
dow n the mountain. The grade at that
point and all the way in this direc
tion is steep so that the further the
train went the faster It ran until the
runaway cars had attained a speed
, which was greater than that of the
fastest express train. They passed
through Kamela with a rumble and
roar which was heard for miles and
which struck terror to the 'hearts of
all who heard it.
The engineless runaway train man
aged to keep the rails alright until
the first of the sharp curves this side
of Meacham was reached when th
head car is said to have Jumped the
track and started off down the moun
tain side, followed by the other 37. All
are now piled in- hopeless confusion
j while the tracks are torn up and
wires are down.
Working trains are being hurried
from The Dalles and from the east
end of the line but it will probably be
several hours before the debris is
cleared away. All of last night's
i trains w ith the exception of No. 9
and all of today's trains are the oth-
1 er side of the wreck and will not
; reach this city for many hours.
KILLS HIMSELF FROM
BlTTEll DISAPPOINTMENT
Taeoma. Dec. 20. Because he
found himself financially unable to
purchase a wedding present for hrs
daughter, who was married a week
ngo. is the reason assigned today by
friends for the suicide of E. A. Ol
son, a former Taooma tailor, who
hung himself at Eatonville.
surance company.
After making good an alleged
worthless check, Lee was released
from custody by consent of the t'n'on
county officials.
Before leaving Shaniko Deputy
Sheriff Howell ndorsed a cheek sign
ed by Lee. drawn en a Joseph, (ire.,
bank for $:0. The officer says ho was
indued to Indorse tho ch.-.-k by Crowe
who he says, is a brother lodge mem
ber. A short time before word was
received trm Joseph that 1 '.;-.. check
was worthless Lee and his conr;.iui"i-,s
eiftded the ofl'ie. im and left the city,
but Were soon appr. hen led An al
leged worthless chock for $j0. sign
ed by the woman, is in the piises'.n
of Sheriff Chrhman.
The impress on seems to prevail ,n
The Dalles th it botb the woman and
Crowe r.ro Innocent of any wrong .
do'ng but the hand of susp'cion is be
g'nning to p.-lnt strongly toward Lee
The couple wer? hold at the court
house Saturday evening unit ' o'clock
before arrangements were finally
made by telephone whereby the trio
Were given their temporal y Htierty.