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wif-"""i EVENING EDITION EVENING EDITION WEATHER REPORT Fhlr tonight ami Tues day cooler. Calling cardt, ne: ding stationery, c.j.. merclal atatlonery u: i Job printing to c. i at the Eaat Or- toi. a : r ifcnZZ? cH-'iK yv-? I COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. VOL. 23. PENDLETON, OREGON,! MONDAY, APRIL 25. 1910. NO 3a FAD N W William Gorden of Ellensburg . Sacrifices Life to Save Pas sengers on His Train. STICKS TO HIS POST WHEN HIS ENGINE JUMPS RAILS Northern Pacific Passenger Train In Wreck Near Yukiina Engineer Ap plies Drake When Engine Jumps Over Einlmnkment Fireman Is Also Killed With Exception of Mall Car All of Conches Remain on Ralls. North Yakima, Wash., April 25. To save the lives or passengers en trusted to his care, Engineer- William Gordon of Ellensburg, yesterday gave np tilg own life when he stuck to his post and applied the airbrakes as the engine Jumped the track near Sclah station. The locomotive toppled over the embankment and Gorden and Fireman Meyers of Pasro, were crush ed to death, but none of the coaches except the mall car left the rails. Two Sj eat tie mall clerks were slightly hurt. Conductor G. P. Churchill who was taking' tickets In the day coach, says, when the engine left the track the train was going at a normal speed of about' 20 miles an hour. Suddenly the airbrakes were set, the engine whistle gave the abort distress blast nnd a sec ond later there Was a crash. Engine No!" 280, pulling the train had left the main line, gone Into the witch just east of Sclah, jumped the track and been dumped over an em bankment about five feet In height. Forced by the momentus of the heavy train, the mall car had been swept by the overturned engine and been turned about a quarter over and the baggage car had followed. Appar ently after 'giving the warning signal Engineer Gordon had attempted to get from the cab, for his body was found between the boiler head and the tender. The body of Meyers was found pinned nnder the tender, his arms outstretched. BALLOONS WRECKED. (li England and Germany Suffer In jur)' o Ttlg Dlrgiblee. Berlin, April 26. Zeppelin III, the gigantic dirglhle balloon, whs found wrecked today near Wellberg, where It crashed to earth half an hour after being torn from Its moorings In a gale. One soldier was carried up In the runaway balloon, fell to the ground from n great height and waa fatally Injured. Repairs to the ship will cost over a hundred thousand dol lars. Count Zeppelin had extended an Invitation to Col. Roosevelt to accom pany him In n flight. Farmsborough, Eng., April 25. England's newest army dlrgible bal loon was wrecked here today while preparations were being made for Its Initial flight. A slight wind over turned the craft splitting all of the gas bags and smashing the frame work. IIEKM1STON WON FROM UMATILLA 7 TO 0 (Special Correspondence.) Hermlston, Ore., April 25. In the ball game at Umatilla yesterday, the Hermlston team again took the Uma tlllas Into camp, the score this time being seven to zero In favor of Her mlston. For Hermlston Phelpa and Wilson constituted the battery while the battery for Umatilla waa compos ed of Bush and Connell. The strike outs were as forlows: Hermlston 9; Umatilla 12. Rig Rattle In Bulgaria. ..Sofia, Bulgaria, April 25. Reports from the province of Albania today Mate that thirty thousand revolting Albanians arc righting against forty regiments of Turkish troop In a nar row defile. In Chemolleva mountains. The outcome of the battle la uncer tain. More troops are 1 icing hurried to the nld of the government. Mr. and Mra. R C. Hager returned today to their home near Gibbon after having visited with relatives in the city. PAULIIAN'WILL TRY FOR PRIZE FLIGHT Ixuidon, Eng., April 25. M. Paulhan, the French aviator, will try for the Lord Northcliffo prise of fifty thousand dollar for a flight between Manchester nnd London. He arrived last evening and today Is husily en gaged In preparing his bl-plane for the voyage. White, the British aviator who nearly com pleted the trip Saturday, will try again next week. It la rumor ed he and Paulhan will race to Manchester. WOULD INDUCE HOMESEEKEHS TO LOCATE IN NORTHWEST Denver, Colo., April 25. The Pa cific northwest Is to be the scene of the greatest activity in the campaign Inaugurated by Secretary Wilson, through the forest service, to Induce American homescekers to take up homesteads within the national forests Instead of emigrating to Canada. Th'.s was the opinion expressed today by Paul Redlngton, assistant district for eter and with the Idea or promoting settlement. Chief Forester Graves has started on a trip throughout the west. Efforts will be centered on western Montana. Oregon, Washing ton, Idaho and California, as Ideal locations for working out the home stead plan. llurned to Death. Ponca, Neb., April 24. Mrs Jerry Miner and five children were burned to death this morning when their cot tage, three miles north of here, caught fire. Mr. Miner saved his two .year oid haby by throwing It out in the yard. The father made a desperate effort to rescue the other members of the family. He was terribly burn ed and Is not expected to live. FOUND BEAD IN BED PATHETIC END TO A LONELY EXISTENCE John Eddy, Living For Many Years In Heart of Forest, Pusses Away When Found Had Been Dead About Month Had Cut Himself Off From all Human Companionship. As a pathetic ending toa pathetic fife, the remains of John Eddy, an aged Meacham woodchopper were found in his bed in a lonely log cabin near that town last evening. In this cabin, located In the depth of the forest and Isolated from all other hu man habitations the man had spent the last 16 or 20 years of his life. From the condition in which the body was found It Is evident that he 'had died about a month ago. Coroner Folsom went to the scene this morning and after nn Investigation decided that death was due to natural causes. The remains were Interred near the cabin In which he had lived. It Eddy was ever married or had any living relatives, he never com municated the fact to any one in the section of the country where he lived, lie lived entirely to himself, merely cutting enough wood for W. B. Ross to eke out a miserable existence. He never received any letters from any one and never subscribed for any pa pers or magazines. He had never confided in anyone to the extent of telling his age but it Is believed that he was about 70. It Is a peculiar coincidence that William Boyd, the aged bachelor re cluse and woodchopper who commit ted suicide near Meacham a few weeks ago was also an employe of W. B. Ross. IARVARD PROFESSOR WORKS AS LABORER Cambridge, Mass. Hugh W. Ran som, professor of mathematics and civil engineering at the Harvard sum mer school and an assistant Instruc tor of mathematics at the university, has gone to work as a laborer at $1.60 ft day for the construction company that Is building the Cambridge sub way. Trofessor Ransom, attired In a Jumper, soft hat and with an old pipe In his mouth, his clothes covered with clay, looks very much like his fel low laborers. "How do you like the Job?" he was asked. "Immense," he replied. "A fellow may think that what he learns In col lege In the scientific line may be all he needs in a mechanical life, but this Is a mistake. Book learning am ounts to nothing compared with prac tical experience. ' "I Intend to promote a contracting company and want an Insight Into the work. So I applied for a Job here digging ditches. I am not afraid of dirt or soiling my handa or college standing." Among the college students employ ed ns laborers In the ditch are John Lyons nnd George Homer, of Har vard; H. W. Routenberg, of Yale; D. R. Bates of Worcester Polytechnic In stitute, and Jack McKnlght of Holy Cross. FARMER PUNISHED FOR THROWING AWAY MONEY Geneva. A dispute arose between a well-to-do farmer of Fubourg and his wife over a trivial matter and the hus. hand, losing his temper, threw a roll of 21 banknotes, of the value of $420 Into the fire. Soon after the farmer received a no tice to appear before a court by which he was found guilty of "prodi gality," and sentenced to the depriva tion of his civic rights. The farmer, In defense, stated that he had earned the money, and claim ed the right to dispose of It as ho pleased. Our acts make or mar us we are the children of our pwn deeds. Via tor Hugo. 1 ill FLY FOR TEDDY Aviators Plan Spec'al Meet in Honor of the Distinguished American. COLONEL DOES NOT VISIT IfH.I.S DURING ELECTIONS Roosevelt Family Spends Quiet Sun day n Gay Pareer All Go to Cluircli nnd Lunch With Ambassador Jus Hcraml Teddy Does Not Mix in Elections Aeronauts Elect Him Honorary Vice Ireideni of Organ l.ailon. Paris. April 25. A special avia tion meet in honor of Colonel Roose velt has been arranged for today and will be held at Ify Les Moulineaux, a short distance from Paris. The Academic J3es Sports, which made Roosevelt honorary .vice president, is holding the meet. Tonight Roosevelt will dine with General Berger. Later he will attend the opera. The bill waa to have been "Salome," wag was changed at Roosevelt-a request. Teddy Goes to Church. Mr. . Roosevelt passed a compara tively quiet Sunday In Paris. Accom panied by Ambassador Bacon he. at tended the morning service In the American church in the Uue de Berri and- listened to the sermon of the Rev.' hauncey W. Goodrich. Mrs. Roosevelt, accompanied by Kermlt and Miis Ethel, attended the American church in avenue De I'Aliiia. Colonel and Mrs. Roosevelt lunched with Ambassador and Mme Jusser and, and other guests Including Pre mier Briand, minister of justice: Con sul General Mason. A. Leroy Breau lieu, Albert de I'outerin, Count de Lasuyre and Count de Portales. In the afternoon there was an automo bile trip to St. German where Colonel Roosevelt visited the chauteuu of Henry IV. Returning, the Roosevelts dined privately with Ambassador and Mrs. Bacon at the American embassy. Although the general elections were held here yestrday In France, Colonel Roosevelt did not visit the voting booths, saying he ban not time to in vestigate matters that did not con cern him directly. Resides, he sup posed the election machinery in France was neither , better nor worse than in the United States. GWG OF OREGON CROOKS CAPTURED IN SPOKANE Portland, Ore.. April 24. The sher ff's office of Portland Is satisfied that in the arrest of a gang of alleg ed crooks at Spokane, Friday, headed by Eddie Johnson, that a gang which operated In this city and the northern part of Washington has been appre hended. The sheriff is convinced that a number of bold highway robberies and other crimes committed here were the work of the Johnson gang. Al though thV men have traveled far and used various aliases, he is so certain that his Identification Is correct that ho has asked the Spokane authorities to hold the gang If they are not prose cuted in the city. Only in the sacredness of inward si lence does the soul truly meet the secret, hiding God. The strength of resolve, which afterwards shapes life and mixes itself with action, is the fruit of those sacred solitary mo ments when we meet God alone. Christian Life. That the life of a census enumera tor Is not an easy one when It is his lot to enumerate the Indians of the Umatilla reservation, has been dis covered by George Strand, who has tho particular Job of counting and quizzing the Indians of this vicinity "Gee, but it is a hard one," declares Strand. "I and my Interpreter work about 14 hours a day and we can only count about one Indian an hour. I have never been up against anything like this before. The main reason for the trouble , that the enumerator is having comes i ....... mm ,,, uiuiuii miKun- derstands the object of tho census They are afraid of the thing and al most invariably want a few days time In'which to think the matter ovea be fore giving any data regarding them selves. Many Indians say they want to talk the matter over with Major Swartalander before committing GEORGE STRAND SAYS LOCAL INDIANS ARE HARD TO COUNT STORM DOES foot nimiirr mil hi iiuiuiuni WIIUII I UIIIIIIIUU Btl77arrl Still RaD-inr Thrniicrr. - Ollt thp Fa t All Prone,'"0"' nea''e'' nv William M. Masi, jr., UUl lilt? td.l All OrOpS ,,f Spokane, which was organize! for Suffer. TOTAL DAMAGE WILL REACH FIFTY- MILLION Fruit Crop Is Much Hurt In Kansas, Missouri, and Kentucky, Fall of Snow May Protect Fruits and Les sen Loss of Apples Wisconsin and Michigan Will Have Rut Half a Crop. Chicago, ill., April 25. The cold nhlc'i came with Saturday's mid- spring bllzzar'd continues today. Dis- ' patches from many sections of the : middle west indicate that damage to ' crops of all descriptions will reach a total of fifty million dollars. Damage in the fruit belt is parti'cu- larly severe. The weather bureau predicts the cold will continue another da' , , j cuii v tt Ess ui- Lot: i illation snows greatest damage has resulted In Iowa, Illinois, . Indiana and Ohio. 'Greatly reduced fruit crops and loss of early corn are certain. Reports from the northwest indloate barley, oats, rye and corn were badly damaged by cold. The soil however, Is still in fine Hn- , . A . , . . , i - l fe v. o mm iiiciinicui service OI d.tlnn for plowing and it Is not too the Pacific teIepnone company Is on late f,,r reseedlng. Iln earnest. The fire of indignation In Kansas. Missouri and Kentucky ; whlcn had been 8moulderlng fr 8ev. snow is expected to protect small fruit , eral days was fHnned ,atQ a"f,ame 6l and lessen loss on apples. i the counc meetl Wednesday even- M.ss.ss ippi, Tennessee and Arkansas ; ing anJ now burn wUh c0nsider. reports show considerable damage !(lble fury Th(J ,ategt m(Jve has been done by the coldest late April ; culatlon ot petitions which are to be weather on record in those states In- nregented t0 tne and formation from Wisconsin and Michl- , which caU upo that bod tQ offer gan Indicate the fruit crop will not , inducements to some other company be much more than one-half usual to ener je fleld. slze- In these petitions the telephone j company is referred to as a "Vam- Dumago From Frost. pjre." Columbus, Ohio, April 25. Heavy ! Seven of them are being; circulated frost damage resulted In Central Ohio and one has already been filed with Saturday night. The minimum tem- j the city recorder. It contains the perature was 30, and as the latter part names of 16S telephone subscribers, of the night was clear and still, thej That the company regards the alt blight was not severe on small fruits, uation as somewhat serious and real early vegetables and even the hardier . izes that the people are in earnest is leaves of many trees. Grapes suffered , evident by the fact that District heavily and there were considerable Superintendent Van Houtte of the mortality among young poultry. -company has notified City Attorney ; Raley that he will be here tomorrow Heavy mioiv worm. St. Louis. April 25. Heavy snow , storms and high winds with a temper- ature several degrees below freezing were reported throughout Missouri and Southern Illinois last night. A! The wording of the petitions which report from Lebanon. Mo., in the heart are being circulated and which are of the apple district states that farm-, being signed apparently as rapldly-as ers have given up the crop and ceas- presented Is as follows: ed smudging. j "We. tne undersigned citizens and The peach and berry crop, accord- . taxpayers of Pendleton, Oregon, on ing to the St. Louis weather officials, .account of the recent bad treatment probably are also destroyed although of their patrons and the public by the there is hope a rising temperature ; Pacific Telephone & Telegraph com- will save a portion of both. Pany. and Us present as wcli as past A severe storm Is raging near Cairo , inefficient service. hereby petition Illinois. . :" honorable body to extend a gen- The minimum temperature In St. ! eral invitation to other telephone Louis today was 25 degrees and siml- . ar registrations are reported through out a radius of 150 miles. Flies 110 Miles. Paris, April 24. A dispatch from Dijons says Baron de Caters, the avi ator, in a Farman biplane, today beat all cross country records, flying with a passenger from Mourmelon to near- ly ten miles beyond Dijons, a total of nearly uu mues. No confirmation has been received from any source and relatives are inclined to doubt the truth of the report. themselves. Some of the "old time" Indians are particularly hostile toward the enu merator. Amos Pond, chief of tho Walla Wallas, is one of this number. Amos is possessed of the idea that the census means no good for his peo ple. So ho has been following Strand about the reservation and telling the Indians not' to answer the quizzer's oiicstion. He tells them that If they do they will have to pay taxes on their land and also that roads are liable to be opened across the reservation. Manv of the edrnt.i -n rh.;.i.n i-, d Indians have this same theory or tne matter. So It Is "like pulling teeth ' to enumerate the reservation According to George Strand he likes the 16 per day ho gets for being a census enumerator. But he Is having a "workout1 'such as he never had be fore, even when he played football and helped "rough house" the Baker city high school team. I WILL ASSIST SETTLERS ' TO GET SQUARE DEAL Spokane, Wash., April 25. Fifteen hundred prospective settlers, repre serftlng 25 states and four privlnces In Canada, will assemble at Coeur d'- Aiene, laano, 34 mites east of here. ; the first week In May, when the In- dlan reservation lands will be opene 1 , to filing. Judge J. W. Wltten of the ! department of the interior, who con- i ducted the government drawings last I August, will have charge. The C.ur 'd'Alene Reservation Settlers' associa- tne purpose of obtaining a square deal for Intending homesteaders, has had cruisers In the field foi several weeks and 1 In possession of all the data regarding locations and values. Mr. Mas says It s likely the association will.be made a permanent Institution to assist the settlers In the develop ment of the reservation. Three htvi drd residents of Spokane are members of the association. It Is announcio that every ticket-holder will file or land In the reserve and take homestead at once. up illS COMPANY AS VAMPIRE j j 1 l'nzF-;S CIRCULATING j PETITION AS PROTEST I 'Want City Council to Offer Induce. I inents to Another Company High Indignation Rife Over Recent In crease In Rates. against what th hoflB to meet witn tne ooara or managers j of the Commercial association and ; the members of the city council to talk over the proposition. The Petitions. companies to come to renaieion ana look over the Held with a view or some of -them starting Into business and that by way of Inducement and j encouragement, let It be known that , the city of Pendleton offers a free franchise for a number of years; and, thereafter, if no company can 'be in duced to come here, offer encourage ment to our own citizens that some of them mav organfze a telephone com- pany and launch a home enterprise. "The Pacific Telephone & Tele-: 'graph company is becoming too much ' of a vampire to receive the further ' consideration of the people of Pen- dleton and It is higfFtlme some other telephone company do business at this place and receive the united support of our citiiens." WALLA WALLA BOY LOSES LI FE IN WATER Walla Walla, April 25 Falling In to the water when the steep bank gave way under him John Schiffner, Jr., j the 12-year-old soVi of Mr. and Mrs. 1 John Schiffner, was drowned near his home at Touchet yesterday afternoon. I The body never came to the surface, I and althoush his companion, George uradweu. gave the alarm at once, search failed to bring the lad's re mains to view. It Is feared he was down the swift current of the stream as the bank was dug out before dark last night. McCuttJieon Returns. Honolulu. April 24. John T. Mi'-' Cutcheon, the Chicago cartoonist and writer who was for some time with Theodore Roosevelt in Africa, is re turning on the steamer Asia which arrived here today. MeCutcheon pre dicts that Colonel Roosevelt will again become president. He stated when ever the matter was mentioned In the hunting camps, the colonel avoided all participation In the discussion of politics but on one or two occasions remarked that he had other work out lined which would occupy him for many years to come IMAfJ TIES : HER OWN LIFE Mrs. James Haz'eton or Mrs, F. H, Griffin Suicides by Drinking Laudanum. NO REASON FOR DEED HAS BEEN ASSIGNED Woman Drinks Poison la Local Lodg ing House Leaves Note for Olfh eers Wants Mother " and Man Wlioso Name She Bore Notified, Man Had Keen in Room With Her Shortly liefore She Took Fatal Stei Woman a Resident Here for Four Years. Mrs. James Hazleton. or Mra. F. H. Griffin, aged 28 years, committed suicide, in a room at the Empire lodging house last evening by drink ing laudanum. The ratal potion waa taken about 10 o'clock last evening and physicians Vorked over her un til about 3 o'clock this morning when the Itst spark of lire left the body." No reason was assigned for the deed in the brief note she left and the of ficers have been unable to fix upon a theory. The woman has been a resident of Pendleton more or less continuously for the past four years. It is believ ed that she was married to Jamea Hazleton who was employed by Dan May, the cement contractor. In thla city about two years ago. Nearly ex actly a year ago they. went to south--ern Idaho. Later she came to La Grande, where she lived with F. H. Griffin as his wife and when she re turned to Pendleton about a month ago it was as Mrs. F. H or Frankle Griffin. The only word she left was "Kindly notify F. H. Griffin, Vancouver. B. C.t .145 Hastings street W. and Mrs. John Dougall, Nampa, Maho." It waa learned this afternoon that Mrs. Dou gall is the mother or the unfortunate woman. She had purchased a two-ounce bottle of laudanum at the Koeppen Bros, drug store and there was less than a half ounce left in the bottle. It is presumed that she drank the rest at one time. She was discovered a very few minutes after she had taken the poison, but was unconscious whea the physicians arrived and all efforta to revive her failed. s0 far as tne officers have been able to ascertain the woman was alone int the time she drank the poison but ' a very short time before. Joe Sweeny, an employe of the city brewery waa with. her. A number of empty whisky flasks were found in the room. The WOman had always supported herself, whether living with her hus- band James Hazleton or living alone, bv taklne ln washing and doing other work For the past severa! dav3 she has been empioyed at the -cy G; Love bparding h0UPe at -,6 Johnson 8treet JACK JOHNSON WIIJj GO IN FOR HIGH ART New York. Listen closely! Jack Johnson has gone in ror art. Not the noble and manly art of self defense but regular art. Yes. the fistic cham pion Is now fully launched ln a war of litigation over a new piano and he s.iys he will spend a goodly portion f hs earnings after July 4, next in painting;. Before Jack started west he held a sort of last conference with his ChU cago attorneys, telling them that he Was determined to contest bitterly the ' suit of a musical firm which placed a 1200 piano in his residence. John son has had especially constructed for his use a piano costing $2500 and he was peeved Indeed to think that another firm should want him to f'Jt a $200 Instrument upon him. Speaking of literature. Mister John son says that his favorite characters are Napoleon and Hamlet. "I alius liked them Danes ever since I seen Battling Nelson at work." exclaimed the champion. "And then I like fighters, too. and Napoleon waa a sure enough scrapper. But I don't read them novel books at all. I I ks history and mathematics." MARK TWAIN SLEEPING If." LAST RESTING PLACE Elmlra. N. Y., April 25. To day Mark Twain lies sleeping In a grave In Woodlawn cemetery piled high with flowers, the trib ute 'of his friends. The Inter ment tonk rlai'e yesterday under a tent with rain beating against the canvas covering. Rev. Sam uel Eastman, paftor of Park church, conducted the brief and simple services. Only members of the family and newspaper men were present.