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VOL. 22.
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TELL STORY
Railway Conductor Murdered
After Desperate Battle With
His Assailant. .
POLICE A HE MYSTIFIED
BY BLOODY TRAGEDY
..Man and Woman In Whoso nouse
M ardor Was Committed Hold to
Original Story Kitchen Resembles
Slaughter House Man Jumped
Through Window to Eucape Assall
' ant Trail of Blood Leads to Find
ing of Ills Body.
bos Angeles, Jan. a. Although 24
hours have elapsed since Morgan
Rhivelv. the Pacific Electric railway
conductor was attacked and fatally
wounded In the home of O. A. Stone
at San Oabrlel, where he waa: room
ing, authorities are more baffled than
when the case was first Investigated.
Btone and his wife, who were arrest
ed by Sheriff Hammel after the nak
ed body of the murdered man was
found In a ditch a quarter of a mile
from the house, still stick by the
story each told when taken Into cus
tody. Sheriff Hammel said that
Stone probably would tell more of
the events of Saturday night some
time this afternoon as the man Is on
the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Shlvely was stepping Into the kitch
en when he was assaulted. When the
officers arrived the room looked like
a slaughter house. The floor and
walla were smeared with blood, the
furniture overturned, crockery broken
and everything indicated that the con
ductor fought desperately for his life
before he hurled himself through the
kitchen window to escape hia mur
derous assailant. From the window
his trail was marked by blood. On
nearly every telegraph pole leading
from the house to the ditch where his
body later was found were marks
showing how he had clung to the
poles for support. It was definitely
decided today he had died from a
slash which had severed the artery
In his left arm.
THHEE ARRESTED FOR
BRUTAL MURDER OP GIRL
Cincinnati, Ohio. Jan. 3. Two
white men and a negro are under ar
rest today, suspected of being impll
cated In the murder of Miss Anna
I,lovd. secretary of the Wlborg-Han
na Lumber company, who waa found
slain New Year's day. near the office
where she had worked for sixteen
years.
The suspecta are Henry Cook, aged
34. a butcher; George Leads, aged 31.
and James Fields (colored), also aged
31.
A white handkerchief and a blue
bandana found near the scene of the
crime will be Important evidence In
running down the murderers..
Mrs. Emma Lloyd, the girl's aged
mother. Is believed to be dying of
grief.
Edward Tague. the glrl'e fiance. Is
personally directing the Investigation
of the crime and assisting the au
thorities In establishing the Identity
of the murderers.
Miss Lloyd's skull w'aa crushed and
her throat cut. That a criminal as
sault wna responsible for the crime
is evident as her valuables were not
touched.
ANOTHER LARGE CREAMERY WILL
BE ADDED 10 LOCAL INDUSTRIES
Pendleton Is to have a second
creamery. All arrangements for Its
establishment have been made and
the plant will be In operation within
a month.
This was the announcement made
this morning by J. Jensen who will
be In chnrgo of the new establishment
and who will be the local representa
tive of one of the largest butter
manufacturing companies In the west.
Thc local plant Is to occupy the quar
ters recently vacated In the Pendle
ton Ice & Cold Storago plant build
ing by the Pendleton Creamery com
pany when the latter moved up town.
It Is to be established by tho Jensen
creamery company of Salt Lake and
which Is headed by W. F. Jensen, a
creamery man of very many years ex
perience. The company maintains Its head
quarters In Salt Lake city where is
located , Its largest manufacturing
plant. Others are located at Poca
ttllo, Idnho, and Reno, Nevada. The
Pendleton plant will be the fourth
t be -maintained by the same company.
O COOK IS DESERTED
EVEN BY HIS WIFE
New York, Jan. 3. That
Mrs. Fred Cook Is disgusted
with her husband's action and
Is determined to secure the re
s' turn of some of the money she
is said to have advanced him at
the outset of the recent arctic
trip, was stated today by Mrs.
R. C. Stebblns, the friend of
Mrs. Cook' to a member of the
Arctic club of this city. Mrs.
Stebbins declared that so far as ,
she knew, Cook had given his
wlfo no part of the' money he
realized from his lecture tour.
She also hinted that Mrs. Cook
may be withholding certain val-
uable records of the question-
able arctic trip until she is rc-
Imbursed.
Diaz Calls on Zelajra.
Mexico City. Jan. 2. President Di
az tonight called on Jose Santos Ze
laya at the Palace hotel, where the
former president of Nicaragua has
been staying since his arrival. The
Visit lasted nearly an hour.
E OF BATILE
SHIFTED III SflLIM
GOVERNOR WILL DECIDE MRS.
JOHNSON'S IMMEDIATE FATE
Benson Will Hear Judge Fee's Argu
ments Against Granting of Requi
sition Papers Sheriff Sappington
Icaves for Salem.
The scene of the legal buttle for
the freedom or Imprisonment of Mrs.
Maud Baney or Johnson has been
shifted from . Pendleton to Salem,
where It will be definitely settled one
way or the other tomorrow. In the
mean time the woman la 'being held
In the local county Jail. '
The cause of the shifting of the
battle ground was the granting by
Governor Benson of Judge Fee's re
quest to be heard In the matter be
fore the requisition from the state of
Washington was honored by the Ore
gon governor. Accordingly a hearing
of the case was set for tomorrow In
Salem. After listening to the argu
ments. Governor Benson will either
honor or refuse to honor the papers
from the governor of Washington.
Sheriff Sapplngton left Saturday
night for home, after spending three
days in this city. He will be present
at the hearing In Salem and if the
outcome of the case Is favorable to
the Washington authorities he will
return to this city to escort tho wo
man to Vancouver. If the hearing
terminates adversely to the Washing
ton authorities the woman will prob
ably be Immediately rearrested on tel
egraphic Information which has been
received from Santa Cruz, California,
where she 1b wanted to face a similar
charge.
In that event she will probably re
sist extradition to that state and the
legal struggle which has been In pro
gress for several days will then be
repeated.
Wreckers Behind Plot.
Bcllefontalne, Ohio, Jan. 2. That
the wreck of Big Four passenger train
No. 18, the Knickerbocker special, at
Dawn station, Ohio, near Ansinta, last
night, waa the work of train wreck
ers, is thn opinion of railroad officials
today. Tho lock on the open switch
which had been removed, was found
today In a cornfield some distance
away.
The quarters In the Ice & Cold Stor
age building have been given a thor
ough overhauling and arc now In
readiness to receive the machinery.
The entire main floor hns been filled
in and cemented.
More than $5,000 worth of machin
ery has already been purchased. One
carload of this is here and a second
enr load Is expected In a 'few days.
All the machinery will be new and of
the latest pnterns.
Mr. J. Jenson who Is now here nid'
will remain as the manager of this
j plant, says the company Is preparing
to handle cream from all points with
in, a radius of 200 miles of this city.
The Pendleton establishment will
therefore be made a central churn-
! lug point.
He says the plant will he In oper
ation within n month. He expects
two other men to arrive from Salt
Lake In a few days. One of these will
work the field while the other will bo
employed In the office. This force of
men will bo In addition to the regular
force necessary to operate the ma
ehlnrry.
CONGRESS HAS
MUCH TO I
Legislators at Capital Will
Settle Down to Earnest
Work This Week.
BOTH HOUSES WILL
II ECON V EXE TOMORROW
Holidays are Over unil Much Work
is MapM'tl Out For ('oiitaihi'H
Out of lU-NHt for I,ate Senator Me.
Laurln of Mtaslwlppi, Recent Will
be Immediately Dcclurod Much
Appropriation Legislation Ahead.
Washington. Jan. 3. Congress will
begin business n earnest this week.
With the Christmas holidays behind
them and with the preliminary ante
holiday plans completed both houses
will start in with the intention of
keeping their hands to the plow.
The senate is not so forward with
Its work as the house and the former
body may experience difficulty In find
ing something to do In the first few
days of its sitting. But the house
calendar is well filled. Both houses
will reconvene on Tuesday, but both
will adjourn for the day out of re
spect for the memory of the late Sen
ator McLaurin of Mississippi. Wed
nesday will be culendar day in the
house and that body will again take
up the Mann bill for the reorganiza
tion of the Panama canal zone. It la
believed this measure will be disposed
of In one day, and, with It out of the
way the house will attack the appro
priation bills. .
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panted will come - the fortifications
measure, the urgent deficiency,... the
arglcultural and the navy bills. Even
the sundry civil and the legislative
bills are well blocked out In commit
tee. Appropriation Ix-gislatioii Ahead.
Indeed, appropriation legislation Is
further ndvanced in the house than
ordinarily at this season, and it is the
opinion of experts that supply bills
will be turned out by the committee
so rapidly that the house can give
them almost continuous attention in
the next two months.
The senate committee on appropri
ations soon will begin the District of
Columbia appropriation bill. Senate
committees have not been as busy as
house committees and the senate cal
endar is barren. '
For the present adjournment of the
senate every week from Thursday un
til Monday may be expected.
Much interest is manifested in both
houses in the two announcements
that the president's message on the
Sherman anti-trust law and the reso
lutions of Senator Jones and Repre
sentative Humphrey providing for an
investigation of the interior depart
ment and the forest service will be
presented on Wednesday.
There Is a division of opinion as to
whether anything will be accomplish
ed In the way of modifying the Sher
man law this season but everybody
Is concerned over the terms of the
president's treatment of the subject,
and his message will be read with un
usual Interest.
On the other hand It Is generally
understood that the Jones and Hum
phrey resolutions will be adopted and
the investigation will be entered on
In short order.
PROBING FRAUD.
tlilef Clerks of Great Northern Must
Account to Their Road.
Minneapolis, Jan. S. The chief
clerks of several divisions of the
Great Northern railway are on the
carpet here today In the Investiga
tion of the recently discovered frauds
by means of which the railroad Is
said to have been defrauded out of
JJftfl.OOO annually for several years.
Clerks from Great Falls and Havre,
Mont., Everett, Seattle and Spokane,
hnvo been culled to go over the rec
ords of their offices with their su
periors . Speaking of the officials who
are being Investigated, President J.
J. Hill said: "Tho Investigation does
not mean thai U officials called to
Minneapolis are implicated or even
suspected. They may not bo to blame
fr these things or even , concerned
in them In anyway. They have been
called here to go over the details of
their offices with us."
The trip pass frauds are said to
have been made possible through- the
connivance of railroad officials with
employment apents who have trans
ported large numbers of laborers.
Snow Melts Very Fast.
Pittsburg. Jan. 2. Within 24 hours,
ten inches of snow In the Allegheny
and Ohio valleys have melted and
flowed Into the Ohio river. However,
there Is slight chance of a flood caus
ing damage at this point.
It la believed the present week will
see a resumption of navigation be
tween here and Cincinnati.
FLOODS WASTE
I
LOS ANGELES
Soulhern California Metropo
lis Inundated by Five Inches
of Rain. .
TRACKS WASHED OCT
AXD TRAIN'S HELD UP
Lontf Stretches of Trackage Walied
Out and More Weakened by Heavy
"Downpour Costly Bridges Waslied
out and HancheM Are I'nder Lakes
Many Live Imperilled by Floods
Impomlblc io Estimate Damage.
Los Angeles, Jan.' 3. It is Impos
sible to learn the full extent of the
damage done in southern California
by the rainstorm which ended early
yesterday, after precipitating five
Inches of water during a period of 20
hours, an almost unprecedented rec
ord for southern California.
The railroads have been the heav
iest losers, long stretches of road bed
and numerous bridges having been
washed away or so badly weakened
that trains cannot pass over them un
til repairs are made. Over but one
of the several routes by which this
city is reached, are trains running on
anything like scheduled time last
night and some trains from the eari
that were due to arrive in this city
on Friday last are still stalled in
mountain passes or on the desert, and
will not reach here until Tuesday or
Wednesday
The county of Los Angeles ha lost
two costly bridges, both of which
spanned the San Gabriel river, and
many miles of highway have been
.badly damaged by the floods.
Ranchers Suffer Lms
Ranchers along the course of t'ne
Santa Ana and San Gabriel r'.vers
have suffered great damage from the
floods, both In Los Angeles and In
Riverside and Orang.j counties.
No lives have been lost as far as re
ported as a result of the stj.-m. bur
there have been several narrow es
capes and some thrilling rescues fn!
partially submerged farm house.'.
Several cloudbursts in the Sierras
above Jasadena and town in the San
Cabrlel valley added great volumes of
vater to the streams whic.i flow from
thr. canyons, alreadv swollnii, unt'l
their banks were overflow ne an J to
night the two rivers are pouring into
l!;e sea a greater volume of wi'or th,n
has been seen n thvn for 2 years.
Wrecking Engines Out.
All of Saturday and yesterday
wrecking engines and gangs of men
have been out In the storm attempt
ing to -make temporary repairs so that
belated trains may reach the city and
last night there was still much con
cern felt by the officials of all three
of the transcontinental roads reach
ing this city. The long stretches of
roadbed are washed away between
Los Angeles and San Bernardino on
the route used Jointly by the salt Lake
and Santa Fe. Salt Lake westbound
trains ate now being held at Vlctor
ville, Barstow and Otis, and it is hop
ed to bring them here on Wednesday.
On the Santa Fe conditions are par
ticularly bad on both main lines.
Near Anaheln, on the San Diego route
two bridges are out and all traffic is
stopped for several days. On the
main line between this city and San
Bernardino, new tracks will have to
be laid for a considerable distance be
fore trains can be moved. The large
cement bridge at Olive station has
settled, and is declared unsafe.
THIRTY ARRESTED FOR
JACKSON'S ASSASSINATION
Bombay. Jan. 3. Thirty persons
were arrested here today accused of
complicity In the assassination of Ar
thur M. Jackson, chief magistrate of
Kaskl, on December 2.
Charged With Embezzlement.
Seattle. Jan. 2. Fred O. Vogel
sang who came to Seattle from Pitts
burg. Pa., several weeks ago and op
ened a tailor shop. Is under "arrest
here on n charge of embezzlement
placed by the Pennsylvania authori
ties. Vogelsang, who was a sales
man for a packing company In Pitts
burg is accused of euibczzling several
hundred dollars from his employers.
He left Pittsburg In company with
Miss Molly Syres, whom he has since
marred. He is being held pending
the arrival of a Pennsylvania offi
cer with extradition papers.
Youth Wrtx'kcd Tralu.
T'nion City, ' Ind., Jan. 2. Vernon
Plesslnger. IS years old. of Anderson,
Ind., was arrested tonight charged
with having opened ft switch and
wrecked the Knickerbocker train on
the 'tig Four railroad at Dawn. Ohio,
last night. Plessingeon confessed, the
police My. and gave as his motive that
he wished to rob the passengers and
go to some seaboard town where he
Tixild join thu navy.
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4 RAILHAOD PRESIDENTS 4
4 CHANGE TAFT'S MIND 4
Washington, Jan. 3. As a re- 4
suit of a conference today be- -4
4 tween President Taft and the
heads of some of the greatest
4 railroads In the United States
4 the president's message on the 4
proposed amendments to the in- 4
terstate commerce act will not
go to congress Wednesday as 4
planned. The reason for the 4
postponement Is not given out, 4
and questioning of the railroad 4
magnates failed to elicit any in-
4 formation. President Lovett, of 4
the Harrlman systems. President
Baer, of the Philadelphia & 4
Reading, President Finley of the 4
4 Southern, President Brown of 4
4 the New York Central, President 4
4 Mellen of the New Haven & 4
4 Hartford and President McRea 4
4 of the Pennsylvania railroad, at- 4
4 tended the White House con- 4
4 ference. 4
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111 SPEND BIG SUM
O. R. & N. PLANS TO
STRAIGHTEN TRACK
Officials Confirm Reports of Exten
sive Improvement Work Over
Million, Dollars Will Bo Expended
on Road Between Here and Yoa
kum. .
Official confirmation of the re
ports published in this paper several
weeks ago of the improvements to be
made in the line of the O. R. & N.
between this city and Toakum. Is
contained In an announcement from
Portland. According to this an
nouncement, which is made by J. P.
O'Brien, general manager of the road
the expenditure of $1,020,000 has
been authorized for this work.
The purpose of the expenditure of
this vast sum of money on this short
piece of track is to straighten the
rood, eliminate curves, reduce grades
and altogether make It possible for
trains to run at a greater rate of
speed. The running time of passen
ger trains between Portland will thus
be shortened by a few minutes, but
several minutes will be cut off .the
running time of the freight trains, es
pecially those eastbound. .
According to General Manager
O'Brien, the construction -work will
begin as soon as practical and the
trains will be running over the new
route within one year.
The distance between the two
points by rail is now 12 1-2 miles. On
leaving Toakum the track winds
around high bluffs, and in one place
makes a horseshoe curve about one
and one-quarter miles in length. The
route is at present snakelike and the
maximum grade is 1.3 per cent.
The new line will eliminate In all
1361 degrees of curvature and 48 feet
of adverse grades. The maximum
grade on the new route will be eight
tenths of 1 per cent and the line will
be shortened 1.7 miles.
The horseshoe curve will be elim
inated by the construction of a tun
nel through the tongue of the horse
shoe. This tunnel will be through
solid rock and 1100 feet long. The
new construction also calls for two
crossings of the Umatilla river, which
will be spanned by permanent steel
structures, each having two spans 150
feet long. Ninety-pound steel will
replace the 75-pound steel work In
use.
The work is In line with recent
heavy expenditures on the O. R. &
N. in doing away with heavy grades
and sharp curvatures.
KING WINTER GREETS NEW
Will
All cold records for this season
were smashed last night whenthe
mercury registered nine below zero
in this city. Some private thermome
ters resistered still lower but this is
the official observation.
Last night's unusual cold was the
climax of the storm which started
Saturday morning with the cold north
wind. The wind stopped blowing
some time during the night and 4 1-2
Inches of snow fell before morning.
The fall of snow was welcomed by
the farmers for it removed what fear
might have been entertained of dam
age to growing wheat by frost. Ac
cording to the growers and buyers no
ilaniaKe whatever has been received
and none cun with the present pro
tecting blanket of snow.
10 Below at Helix.
In u phone mesjyiKo to the East Or.
egoniun today J. S. Norville of Helix,
stated that the temperature at Helix
SEARCH FOR
BLOODY GOLD'
Money Wh'ch Was Motive for
Many Murders is
Hunted by Officers.
Beir-g
MNE Hl'MAN LIVES
PAY FOR GOLD LUST
Man Who Murdered Whole Family Is
. Supposed to Have Buried $60,000
Sentenced to Death He Will Not .
Reveal Secret Little. Murdered
Wliole Family to Obtain Gold .
Friend Lynched for Another Mur
der. Blueflelds, W. Va., Jan. 3. Buried
money amounting to more than 1 60,-
uuu wnicn nas aireaay oeen tne cause
of seven murders, and a lynching. Is
being sought by authorities today. The
money Is supposed to have been bur
led near here by Howard B. Little,
the murderer of George Meadows, his
wife and four children. The crime
are said to have been committed that.
Little might get the treasure. IJttle
has been sentenced to death" for the
wholesale murder of the Meadows
family.
His life is the ninth human life giv- -en
as a sacrifice to the gold lust.
Harry Pennington, Little's friend,
who was lynched recently near Hur- .
ley, Va., killed a married man' named
Sam Baker and the authorities some
way connect his crime with the
slaughter of the Meadows. Following
the Meadows murder, Little is thought
to have buried the money some- .
where, near Eluefields. Authorities
are making every effort to find It be
fore Little expiates his atrocious
crimes In the electric chair.
LARGE TOURING CAR RUNS -
OVER TWO PORTLAND LADS
Portland, Ore., Jan. 2, Two lads
were run over by a large touring car
driven by H. M. Pabst. superintend
ent of the- Portland Gas company In
this city late today. One of the boys
Brian Douglass, is seriously and per
haps fatally injured, .the other, Al
fred Smith, suffered a broken arm.
According to Pabst. he with Ion Lew
is and Scott Brooke, two prominent
business men. were going at a fair
rate of speed when the two boys
darted across the street from behind
a building, their course ' carrying
them directly in front of the ap
proaching car. Pabst put on the em
ergency brake and reversed his ma
chine but though the troad on the
rear wheel was worn off, the car did
not come to a stop until It had gone
nearly 25 feet after striking the
boys. Pabst lifted -the Douglass boy
Into his car and hurried him to a
hospital. There the lad was found to
be in a serious If not critical conditi
on. The Smith boy. who at first did
not appear very much hurt, was after
ward taken to the hospital for treat
ment. Detectives sent to the place of
the accident to investigate the casu--alties
reported that the accident was
apparently unavoidable.
RECEIVES FATAL BURNS
BECAUSE OF COLD-
San Francisco, June 3. Unable to
sleep because of the intense cold that
prevailed in San Francisco last night
Mrs. Anna Brook, age 80, wrapped
herself In a blanket and seated her
self in front of the open grate. Fly
ing sparks Ignited the banklet and
the aged woman received burns from
which she cannot recover.
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went down to 10 degrees below zero
I Inst night. There was a snowfall of
j five inches Saturday night and this
! serves as a blanket to protect the
j wheat. Although the snow has drift
, ed to some extent, Mr. Norville says
: little fear Is entertained for the safety
! of the wheat. There Is more fear of
' a freshet In the event of a sudden
! thaw as there Is a sheet of Ice under
, neath tho snow. Tho weather at He
; llx today has been fair but cold,
i ' Milder at Weston,
j At Weston the temperature last
night was but two below zero, accord
ing to Clark Wood, editor of the
I Weston Lender. There Is now seven
j inches of snow upon the ground and
j wheat farmers are Jubilant over the
i situation. However, the potato rala
' ers of Weston mountain fear that the
I potatoes that have not been dug are
lost. It Is the belief that the "spuds"
were frozen before the recent snow
came.
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