EVENING EDITION EVENING EDITION WEATHER REPORT ' Fair tonight and Sat urday. Calling cards, wed ding tatlonery, com mercial stationery and Job printing to order at the East Oregonlaa. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAVER CITY OFFICIAL FA PER. VOL. 23. t'ENDLETON. OKE(iON, FKIDAY. MAItCII 23- 1910. NO 6859 FIIIIS WRITTEN TO ANNUAL CONVENTION OF TEACHERS Inland Empire Teachers' As sociation Adjourns After Three Days' Meeting. BuslnoKfl Session This Afternoon Last Chapter In Big Gathering Spo kane Gels Next Convention Lew taton Man Elected President of As sociationTwo Addresses This ' Mornlng-Many Delegates Go Out ' to Umatilla, Agency Leave Home Tonight. 10 , dered a triple vocal number and then Shortly before 2:30 this afternoon responded to an encore. Prof. Odes the twelfth annual convention of the "a M Sterling of the piano department Inland Empire Teachers' association , of tnft Whitman conservatory, ren was adjourned and the largest edu- dered a solo and responded to a dou catlonal gathering ever held in the ble encore. The two musical num Inland Empire was brought to a sue- bers this morning were piano and vo cessful close. At the present time cal solos by Miss Neva Green and bout 500 of the visiting teachers are the guests of the Pendleton Commer cial association on an excursion to the agency of the Umatilla Indian reserva tion and within a few hours the great er part of the throng which has been In the city during the past three days will be on their way to their various homes In every part of the Inland Em- plre. : Spokane has been chosen as the next place of meeting of the association and Superintendent A. N. Wright of the Lewlston, Idaho, city schools has been named as the president of the as sociation. Bruce M. Watson superin tendent of the Spokane schools has been named as chairman of the exe cutive commutes. The place of meeting and the elec tion of officers occured this afternoon t the brief session of the association preceding adjournment. The follow ing Is the complete list of the new officers: President, A. N. Wright, superin tendent of schools in Lewlston, Idnho. First vice-president, J. A. Church ill, superintendent of schools. Baker City. Second vlce-prosllent. W. E. Har mon, superintendent of public Instruc tion In Montana. Third vice-president. Margaret Craig, Cheney Ni.rmal, Cheney, Wn. Secretary, Henry M. Hart, Princi pal of the North Side High school, Spokane, Wn. Treasurer, George Craig, Superin tendent of Lincoln county schools, Davenport, Wn. Executive committee Bruce M. Watson, superintendent of schools, Spokane, Wn.; Frank K. Welles, sup erintendent of Umatilla county, Pen dleton. Ore.; A. A. Cleveland, head of the department of education In the Washington stnte college at Pullman. A Greni Success'. From every standpoint the conven- ; yersatlon was conducted in English, tlon Just closed has been pronounced j ln the mpnn,1I10 tno khedlvnh re the most successful since the forma- , cevei Mrs RooBCVplt nnd MBS Ethel tlon of the organization twelve years wtn m mnrk of dstInetlon. Cof. go. The attendance lins been me largest, the list of speakers the strongest nnd the Besslons of the dif ferent sections, the most Interesting of any convention ever held by the association. Even the soelnl features were not overlooked. Hundreds en Joyed the opening reception given by the Tendleton teachers the local wo- man's clubs and the Commercial as- ocianon iucs.u.y rv.-.n.iB, v,,,.c u. dance Inst evening following tho pro- gram at the church was greatly en Joyed bv many of those who were at the reception as well as by 200 or J00 who arrived too late for the first reception. Not the lenst of the social features was the excursion to the In dian agency this afternoon under the auspices of the Commercial associ ation. Morning Session. The principal address of the morn ing session was that by Prof. Edward o'slsson of the University of Wash- j Ington on "Abraham Lincoln and Am. erlcan Education." Tho speaker de i..A.i tVtnf T.tnnnln urns the "first A m erlcnn citizen" given him precedence , over "the Father of His Country" and declared that the life and character of Abraham Lincoln was the great asset American educntlon has today. DYNAMITERS BLOW UP PATROL WAGON Philadelphia, Penn., Mar. 25. The police are seeking for the perpetrators of another dyna mite outrage which last night Injured six policemen who were riding In a patrol wagon. The wagon was moving along the street car tracks when the evploslon threw it to one side and the policemen were hurl ed to the pavement. It is be lieved the dynamite was intend ed for the street car. He declared that Lincoln was the one man whone life could be held up as a model for the youth of nil landH and of all ages. The address l.-ixt evening by Dr. San ford Hell, editor of the Rocky Mountain Educator, was listened to with much Interest. His quotations from the world's masterpieces were appropriate and excellently Interpre ted.' The editor Is not without humor and though the hour was lnte and his hearers tired, he succeeded In holding his audience to the last. I Another interesting address last I evening was that delivered by Presi dent E. A. Bryan of the State College at Pullman, Washington. His sub I Ject was "The Modern Tendency To j ward Education .In Agriculture," and i vii3 handled In a masterly manner. I The music feature of the sessions last night and this morning were of f classical order and especially pleas- ion 10 Biuuemg ui music, mr. ,iins Blum of the faculty of the Whitman College Conservatory of Music, ren- Miss Floren.ce Bohannon, both stu dents of the Whitman conservatory of music, EnMern Oregon Axsoeiatlon Election. jesterday afternoon a business ses- slon of the Eastern division of the state teachers' association was held and officers chosen for the coming year. County Supt. E. E. Rragg of Union county, was chosen president, and Principal Mansnger of La Grande, as secretary. The next meeting of the eastern , division is to be held In La ; Hinde. The date of the gathering (Continued on Pn Kleht. I ROOSEVELT TRAVELS BY DESERT SHIPS :X-PRESIIENT JOURNEYS IJY CAM Eli TO SEE TEMPLES Colonel Much Interested in Pictures of AniinalH on Walls Khedive and Wife Show Party Much Honor, Cairo, March 25. Former Presi dent Roosevelt Journeyed by enmels and sand cars to Memphis today to visit the tombs of sukkarra and the Temple of Bulls. The colonel Is greatly interested in the animal pic tures on the walls of the temples. Hulf an hour was spent yesterday afternoon in conversation with the khedlve, who showed the keenest In terest In Colonel Roosevelt's hunting tour. Politics were not discussed, but there was an exchange of views on irrigation anrt ncririiltiire. The pnn. fee was served in gold cups encrusted with diamonds. The khedlvah begun tile conversation in French and It was carried on In that language.- She was particularly Interested In the po sition of women ln America, Tho kbnrilvn rnllirnn.l thA AT.nrnaL dcnt.s vgt a th(j Amprlcnn BKency whpre h(j remanea Bome tlme Tne cxcllnnge of vIsltg hns B,vpn the great. (,s, pi,.nsure to both. In the evening the Roosevelt party went by automobile to the Mena, which is close to the pyramids, to see th' sphinx by moonlight. 2000 ARE HOMELESS. Inhabitants of Village of Mt. Hope In Dire Straits, Charleston, W. Va., March 24. With almost every house In the pros perous mountain village of Mount P. royed bv fire today a, leas. 2000 homeless persons are tonight : sleeping on the commons. ' Conditions which followed the con- f'ngration are much worse than early reports Indicated. ) Upon the arrival at Mount Hope to . night of the special train bearing tho ' National Guard, tents were distribut ed and an effort Is being made to house as many as possible. Many of tne families lost all their household renacrea oy me troops, tne situation l.s frnught with grent suffering. Grain and Produce ln New Tork. New Tork, March 24 Flour steady with a quiet Jobbing demand. Re ceipts 21,625; shipments 428 barrels. Wheat Spot steady. Option market was firmer on the continued dry weather In the north west, further unfavorable crop news and covering by shorts for over the holiday. At the close values were un changed to l-2c net advance. May closed ll.JS 1-4; July, tl 17 1-J; Sep. tember, $1.14 3-8. Receipts 8,400 bushels. DIE IN FLAMES Fire in Chicago Fun i 'ure Store Claims Twelve Vic-' tims. CHEAT ( ItOWl) SEES HELPLESS GIRLS PERISH Another Terrible Catastroplie Added to Chicago's Record When llsh & Co.'s Store Catches Fire-Atitoinnt-le Fire Poors lrevent Esoae of Girls Eight of l-Hlier and Four Mm Meet Dentil One Girl Killed lly Jumping Firemen Helpless. Chicago, March 2'.. Twelve per sons, eight girls and four men, were killed today in a fire that destroyed the building of Fish & Co., furniture dealers, and the list may reach up to fifteen. Eleven were burned to death and one girl was killed when she Jumped from the sixth story. The women were on the sixth floor and their escape was cut off by au tomatic .fire doors which closed when tho fire broke out. The flames bar red the way to the stairways and the women were forced to the windows. The girls clustered on the narrow ledges and watched the firemen en deavoring to reach them with scal ing ladders. The fire approached gradually nearer and it became a race between the firemen and the flames. A great crowd watched the attempts of tho girls to client death by running i the windows farthest from the fire. Finally It was seen the girls were doomed, for the firemen reached the fourth floor but could not go higher. The fire started on the fifth floor by a buy falling on a c!gar lighter. The room was soon afire and the boy fled. The elevator shaft was closed to prevent the escape of the flames and the occupants were forced to use fire escapes. The loss Is a hundred am! fifty thousand dollars. The dead are: Ethel Finkiestein, Veronica McGrath, Mrs. Hanna Bur den, ttvso Rruch. Gertrude Quinn. Lillian Sullivan. Minor Rei;, Herbert M. Mitchell, Rert Sinclair. William Green Ethel Anderson and Mary Wargn CLOTHES BASKET SAVES I.IKE. Girl nills live Stories Into Basket Pull of Clothes Is Unhurt. New York, March 24. Mary Davis. a 19-year-old school girl is ;n good health and cheerful spirits today de spite the fact that she fell back wards from a fire escape five stories up in Harlem last night and landed in a basketful of wet clothes In the back yard below. She was scarcely scratched. As she struck the basket with a damp thud, Mary narrowly missed Mrs. Peter Little, a Janitress, who was taking clothes from the basket' and hanging them on a line. Mrs. Little fainted and so did Mary, who was found unconscious but unhurt ln the basket. Sealing Steamer Ashore. St. Johns, N. F.. Mar. 25. The sealing stenmer Viking Is ashore to day orf the Fcnch Island of St. Pierre. The vessel carries a crew of 5S, nnd nil are reported safe. It la feared the ship will be a total loss. Efforts are being made to salvage her cargo of twenty four thousand seal skins. NEW RULES Washington, Mar. 25. The' new rules committee of the house over which the recent sensational fight was waged, wus formulated today. The committee is made up as follows: Republicans Dajzell, Pennsylva nia; smith, Iowa; Fossett. New Tork; Boutell, Illinois; Smith, California; Lawrence, Massachusetts. Democrats Clark, Missouri; Under wood, Alabama; Fltz Gerald, New York; Dixon, Indiana. With scarcely the semblance of a struggle, the democratic members of the , house last night nominated the four minority members of the com mittee: Champ Clark, of Missouri, re ceived 125 votes; Oscar Underwood of Alabama, in2; Lincoln Dixon of Indi ana, !lfl; John J. FltzGernld of New York US. A long list of candidate received scattering votes. Representative Slnyden of Texas re ceived 63, the highest number given to an unsuccessful aspirant The total vote of the caucus was 140 and N LI W COMPLETELY FORMULATED T FORTH DEATH Terrible Eruption of Volcano Pours Streams of Lava Over i Many Towns. (EIGHTEEN CRATERS SEND j FORTH FIERY DESTRUCTION Six New Craters of Famous Volcano I 0Hii Today People of Mountain j Town Fleeing by Thousands Lava Stones and Allies Threaten Death i Strcuiu Is Fifty Feet Deep and j Half Mile Wide Many Thrilling Rescues. i I ' i Catanlo, Mar. 25. The eruption of Mount Aetna Is growing In intensity every hour. Six new craters opened today and shot forth streams of lava, which have joined the boiling torrent that is despoiling city, town and farms. The towns of Borello, Belpasso, San Leo. Donazzi. Copello, Albanello and Nicolosi have been wholly or parti ally destroyed. Thousands are flee-' itig from their mountain towns. It Is feared the disaster may prove one of the most destructive of modern times. There' are now eighteen active cra ters pouring forth sulphurous vapors, stones and ashes.- while each Is an overflowing well of molten lava. The clouds of smoke which are pouring from the craters obscure the sun and increase the superstitious fears of the peasants. The scenes following the destruction of the mountain towns, resemble those following the Messina earthquake. Whole villages are on the move and streams of refugees, composed of terror stric'flp'n men, women and chil dren are coming into Catania. Al ready the authorities are facing a seri ous problem in caring for the home less. , The government engineers are vain ly endeavoring to avert the destruc tion of towns in the path of the lava torrent by hastily erecting dykes and digging trenches to divert the streams but the irresistible flood of hot mud and boiling lava has swept away all obstructions. The lava is traveling at the rate of thirteen hundred feet an hour. The main streams are fifty foe i deep, and half a mile wide. I Word has been received here that scores of refugees have been cut off by diverging lava streams and volun teers have left for the scene. Many thrilling rescues have been made. In addition to the lava, the inhabitants of the mountain towns are threatened with death by the out pouring of rocks and a shower of hot ashes from tho main crater. The extent of the disaster measured by property loss Is ' enormous. ULTIMATUM TO STANFORD. Student Body Must Accede to Four Year Ruling Requirement. San Francisco, March 24. Unless the student body of Stanford Univer sity In a meeting to be held tomor row agrees to accept the ultimatum of the University of California with reference to the extending of the elig ibility rule to a period five years af ter marticulation. the athletic rela-'' tions between the two educational in- i stitutions will cease. This was the decision reached tonight at the Joint ' meeting of the executive committees ' of the colleges held in the rooms of the University of California club. ' When the Stanford men were asked ! whether they had decided to accept j California's proposition they answered ! that they had come uninstructed. '. the number necessary to elect was 71. The expected fight on Representa tive FitzGerald for his attitude on the rules question at the beginning of the present congress, when he with 23 other democrats, left the leadership of Champ Clark and voted with the re publicans, materialized ariy In the meeting, but failed of any definite re sult. Representative Sims of Tennessee, headed the faction opposed to the selection of FitzGerald and Introduc ed a resolution to Instruct democrat ic members to support a resolution to provide for tho election by the house of a committee to select all of the standing committees. The power of selection Is now vested ln the speak er. The maximum strength shown by the followers of Sims was 89, which they polled against a motion to ad journ. The Sims resolution did not come to a vote as a motion to adjourn was carried before he could get It up for consideration. COMMITTEE IS ! 0. R. ft N. DEMONSTRATION TRAIN HERE THIS EVENING Immediately it was suggested by Ber keley men that the matter be submit ted to the entire Stanford student body and this found favor with both sides. RATS PREVENT CO-EDS ' WEARING MORTARBOARDS Seattle, Wash., March 25. There will be no mortarboard caps and col legiate eowna for eradnntlnir rn.crla at the University of Washington, this' year. If there is any attempt to en force this time honored custom, war, far worse than the hatpin rebellion in Chicago, will ensue. "It is the way the hair is being worn that makes the difference." said a senior todav. '"In the first place there is not a spot on the head where the things will fit. They have been tried with hatpins and with ribbons tied under the chin, but the effect was startling. The cause of the difficulty is rats." NEW CHAIRMAN REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE IX WASHINGTON Seattle. Wash., March 25 James D. Hoge, the Seattle banker, today ac cepted the position as chairman of the republican state central commit tee, following the resignation of Ellis Debruler. The state committee will be called together in Seattle .April 27. when arrangements for calling the state convention to nominate can didates for the supreme Judges will be made. GEORGE GOULD'S DAUGHTER PLANS BRILLIANT NUPTIALS New York, N. Y., Mar. 25. Cards are out today announcing the date of the wedding of Miss Marjorie Gwynne Gould to Anthony Joseph Drexel, April 15. The nuptials are planned to be the most brilliant of the New York season. A reception will follow at the home of the' bride's parents, Mr.'and Mrs. George Gould. L CONTEST IS REOPENED EFFORT MADE TO OUST MRS. WARNER FROM YOUNG FARM Legislation Which Has Been Smould ering for Few Months May Burn With Renewed Vigor Mabel in Possession of Valuable Real Estate. The long legal struggle for the pos session of the J. W. Young will estate has been re-opened by the filing of an injunction suit against Mabel Warner. For more than a year Mrs. Warner has been ln possession of the Young farm, valued at 15,000 and located in the northern part of the county. So far she has resisted all the efforts of the other heirs to the estate to oust her from the farm and the injunction suit yesterday was brought as a final act. The tempor ary injunction has been granted, the papers served and now it remains to be seen whether or not the order of the court will be heeded. It is barely possivle Mrs. Warner win have an opportunity of spe.iding a few hours in jail. Those who have watched the battle the fair contest ant has been putting up for what she terms her rights, would not be sur prised to see her decide to remain on the farm despite the injunction and the only thing that could result would be her arrest on a charge of contempt of court. The Warner-Young will contest which has been in the courts contin uously for more than four years has been dorminant for several months but now that it has broken out anew it Is possible that It will continue with renewed interest. In the complaint to the injunction suit Mrs. Warner Is charged with hav ing conspired to defraud the remaind er of the heirs out of the estate of the late J. W. Young and to have forged the three mysterious wills which ap peared under such mysterious cir cumstances and all purporting to leave to (his woman the bulk of the estate. FIVE FORMER PITTSBURG COUNCILMEN INDICTED Pittsburg. Mar. 25. Five former members of the common council were Indicted today by the grand Jury on the charge of receiving a hundred and five thousand dollars from local bunks for votes for naming the banks as municipal depositories. The men Indicted are William Brand. Charles Stewart. John Klein, Jos. Wasson and Hugh Ferguson. The grand jury this afternoon re turned 31 Indictments against the present and former members of the common council and reported that evidence -warranted the Indictment of 25 other former councllmen, but no irdlctments for the twenty-five were returned because of voluntary confessions. I WILL ARRIVE T 4:30 Train Operated by 0. R. k N. and 0. A C tor Benefit of Farmers. Arrived In City from Wallowa County This Morning and Is Touring East End of County Is Late on Account or Bad Tracks Several of Men Ac companying Train Left Here and Forced to Take Special Every thing of Interest to Ranchers Aboard. The largest and best equipped farm ing and demonstration train ever seen In the west, if not in the entire country, will arrive in Pendleton at 4:30 thiB evening and will spend the night here. Lectures will be deliv ered by the experts in charge and a demonstration given- from 4:30 until 5:30 or longer. It is expected that business and professional men as well as farmers will be present at the O. It. & N. depot this evening when the train arrives. The train arrived in Pendleton this morning from Wallowa county and this forenoon Is making a tour of the principal towns in-the east end of the county. The train win spend the night here and tomorrow it will make Pilot Rock and the towns in the west end. Two whole days will be spent in Umatilla county, the greatest length of time spent in any one coun ty during the whole trip of ten days. The train consists of seven exhibit cars, a sleeping car and the private car of Superintendent Bollons, which is being used as a business car for the accommodation of the railroad officials, the farming experts from the Oregojr Agricultural college and the newspapermen. Several Are Left Here. The train had been delayed in Wal lowa county on account of the poor condition of the roadbed and the lack "f sufficient motive power and for that reason those on the train were ravenously hungry when this city was reached at 8:45. Most of them made a run for the restaurants and when the train pulled out for Milton, Prof. H. D. Scudder of O. A. C; D O. j Lively of the Union Stock Yards in Portland; Fred D Pasley of the Portland Journal; P. G. Calvert of the Portland Oregonian, Phillip Bates of the Northwest Farm & Field, and S. W. Robinson, assistant general freight igent of the O. R & N., were still eating. There was some tall rustling around when it was discovered that they had been left and a special train was made up to overhaul the demon stration train. Everything of Interest Exhibited. The exhibits carried on the train Include livestock, poultry, dairy ma chinery, grains, grasses, seeds, fruit trees and agricultural, horticultural machinery and implements, and near ly everything of interest to farmers of all kinds and classes. The plan of the train is as follows: One stock car for livestock exhibit, one f'.atcar for farm machinery and livestock space exhibit, one flatcar for poultry yard exhibit, one gaggage car for poultry supplies and demon strations, one baggage car for horti culture, one baggagi car for agron omy, one baggage car for dairying machinery and supplies, one Pullman sleeper, one business car. The experts from the Oregon Agr. cultural college and experiment sta tion who are with the train are. Dr J. W. Wlthycombe. director of the Oregon experiment station; H. D. Scudder, agronomist; F. L. Kent, dairy husbandman; James Dryden, I poultry husbandman; H Umberger, superintendent of the Moro experi ment station: A. L. Applewhite, fore man of the college farm at Corvallls; E. H. Spellman, assistant horticul turist Eastern Oregon experiment station. Union, and A G. Lunn, R. W. Roes and R. J. Dryden, assistant (Continued on page .) NEW SERUM CURES SPINAL MENINGITIS New York, Mar. 25. Physi cians throughout this city are discussing the possibilities to day of the serum discovered by Dr. Simon Flexner, which he contends hns reduced the mor tuary percent attending spinal meningitis to a minimum. The doctor claims the serum has cured 107 cases out of 123. The usual mortality from the dis ease Is from seventy to eighty per cent. r r