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CITY OFFICIA L PAPER.
VOL. 23.
PENDLETON, OH EG ON, WEDNESDAY, APKIL 27. 1910.
NO 6887
COUNTY NOW
OUT OrOEBT
Semi-Annual Statement of
County Clerk Shows Sma
Balance on Hand.
SO.MK WARRANTS A HE OCT
BUT CAX ALL BE PAID
Umatilla County Now on CohIi Basis
Treasurer Issues Call for Every
Itoad Warrant Outstandings $50,
000 With Which to Fay These War.
rants -Balance on Hand Has Been
Segregated Into Different Funds.
Umatilla county U out Jt debt and
Is on a cash basis. A call has been
Issued by the treasurer for every road
warrant outstanding, all warrants Is
sued up until January 1st of this year
from tho general fund have been call
ed and there Is money enough In the
general fund to pay every warrant up
until the present time and leave a
mall balance on hand.
Tho semi-annual financial state
ment of Umatilla county for the term
ending April first, which was given
out this morning by Deputy Clerk
Robert Brown, shows the amount of
cash In the treasury at that time to
be $263,4 33.27. Since the report was
prepared a call has been Issued for
general mad fund wnrrants, $64,000
has been pnld out of the school funds,
and several thousand dollars have
been paid out of the city and other
funclx, leaving a little more than
$143,000 on hand. Less than $50,000
of this belongs In the general am1
road funds and Is therefore subject
to be drawn upon for payment of the
claims against the county. The bal
ance hns been segregated Into the dif
ferent funds to which they belong and
cannot be used by the county.
The $50,000 In the general and road
funds, however, is sufficient to pay
claims against the county and leave
a few thousand dollars In the treas
ury. The following is the financial state
ment prepared by the deputy clerk:
Semi-Annual Financial Statement.
Resources.
Tal red sales $ 2,974.67
Real estate 25.000.00
Cash In treas 263,433.27
T. D. Taylor, tax acct .... 151,471.2
Total $442,879.22
" Liabilities.
State tax $ 74,723.62
Tax red surplus .
State school fund
Institute fund . .
176.15
18.00
364.38
County school fund 65,906.30
School districts 71.368.96
Cities 32.377.48
FiBh and game fund
Little Walla Walla Irrlga-
tlon union
25.00
181.16
Road and highway 43.034.25
Library fund
Indigent soldiers
State road and bridge
Warrants outstanding
Forest reserve
861.44
105.00
1,268.73
81.814.12
863.65
24.00
Indemnity fund
Indebtedness 69,717.19
Total $442,879.23
Expenses for six months ending
April 1st, 1910, are as follows:
General Fund.
County clerk and com'rs..$
Circuit court . .
Justice court
Sheriff s office
Clerk's office
Recorder's office
Treasurer's office .......
' Coroner's office
School supt. office
Assessor's office.
Assessment and col. of tax
es (extending tax roll
and collection of tnxes)
Current expense (station
ery, printing, supplies,
etc.)
Court house (water, lights,
janitor salary, repairs,
etc.) . . .
Jail (repairs, board of
prisoners, medicine, etc)
County hospital (expense
of hospital and Indigent
poor) '
Insane (exam, of Insane)
987.60
7,774.45
602.60
3,686.13
2,019.96
1,650.00
600.00
164.85
1,296.53
1,662.60
761.20
2.834.45
94.16
677.87
S. 486. 35
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MARBLE BUFFALO FOR
GRAVE OF BUFFALO BILL
Chicago. III., April
27.
When "Buffalo Bill" Cody dies
his body will be burled on the
summit of Cedar mountain. In
the Big Horn country,, Wyoming,
and over it will stand a marble
buffalo, forty feet high, with
electric lights In the eyesockets
so brilliant that they can be
seen for miles. At least that is
what Cody himself plans. These
plans were revealed by Charles
Heath in a lecture to a geo-
graphical society In Chicago.
He says Cody confided the plan
to him a year ago.
Election 9.00
Tux rebate 20.33
Miscellaneous (salary
heulth officer, fruit In
spector, truant officer,
Indigent soldiers, dele
gates to school boaru
convention and other
Items not above men
tioned) . . 954.07
Scalp bounty -. 418.00
Total $ 30,515.39
Warrants drawn on rona
fund (for the period
above mentioned ) 19, 2.13. 45
Total $ 49.748.84
Miscellaneous receipts for the six
months ending April 1st, 1910, are as
follows:
From Sec. of State ( '
of scalp bounty $
From Sec. of State (state
road and bridge fund).
From Sec. of State (sup
port of non-res. poor) .
From Sec. of State (For
rest reserve fund)
Fines (to gen. fund)
From Frank Haling, elk's
fees '.
From F. W. Hendley,
recorder's fees . .
From J. B. McDill, sale of
hay from poor farm. . .
From Morrow county,
(cost of Earhart case,
being a criminal action
brought from Morrow
county for trial)
From sheriff, costs of
delinquent certificates) .
From clerk (forfeiture of
bail of R. H. Jones and
Sam Sharp
.215.75
1,268.73
955.95
863.55
1,422.20
1,634.60
3,094.10
907.97
927.98
67.65
200.00
Total $ 13,358.48
IntereM Paid in 11 Years.
The following interesting 'state
ment prepared by Deputy Clerk
Brown shows the amount of Interest
Umatilla county has paid during each
of the past 1 1 years and also the am-
(Contlnued in Pope Right.
llilCT INCITERS OF
HINDU RACE RIOTS
MULTNOMAH (Ol'XTY
GRAND JURY
IS BUSY
St. Johns' Officials and Residents '"
dltlrd for Neglect of Duty and for
Conducting Riot Hindus Were
Driven from Town.
Portland, re., April 27. The coun
ty grand Jury handed down Indict
ments late yesterday against nine men
among whom are the mayor and Jus
tice of the peace of St. Johns and two
policemen of that town, as the result
of an Investigation into the Hindu
race riots which occurred in St. Johns
on March 21, Inst. The mayor and
Justice are charged with neglect of
U " w',; ,u .
P1"' pol cemen both y, l ne-
gleet of duty and participation In the
rioting.
The following is a list of those in
dicted: J. F. -Hendricks, mayor of St. Johns,
O. R. Downs, Justice of the peace; D
W. Kithrldge, policeman; G. W. Dun
bar, policeman; Gordon Dickey, Ray
Cnnde Bogard, John N. Grove Mil
ton Unger and Dajiiel Herrold. resi
dents of St. Johns!
Hendricks. Downs. Elthridge and
Dunbnr are accused In one Indictment
of "neglect of duty to quell a riot
against the peace and good order of
the town and state."
A second Indictment charges Eith
rldge and Dunbar and the others,
with having assembled In a riotous
meeting, the object of which was to
drive 16 Hindu laborers named In the
Indictment out of St. Johns; also with
having committed burglary, and as
sault and battery; and robbery on the
Hindus from whom the indictment al
leges they stole $186 and finally that
they paraded about the streets armed
with clubs, guns and pistols.
Dickey's bonds were fixed at 13,
000; Vande Regard's at $1000 and the
others at $500 each. All tho defend
ants had furnished bonds In the re
quired amounts when they were bound
over to appear before the grand Jury
and these bonds were allowed to
stand.
The riots which caused tho Investi
gation occurred in St. John, a suburb
of this city, March 21 last and were
tho result of 111 feeling engendered by
the employing of about 300 Hindu
laborers In a large lumber mill there
in place of white mill hands.
JEFFRIES RESUMES HIS
STRENUOUS TRAINING
Rowardennan, April 27. Cool
weather today enabled Jeffries again
to' take up his somewhat strenuous
program of training. Ho hiked over
mountain roads for ten miles and this
afternoon planned to box Berger
Armstrong and Tapke.
PROMINENT WASHINGTON
POLITICIAN IS DEAD
Seattle, April 27. John Y. Terry,
the democratic national committee
man and one of the best known men
In political life of the state, is dead
at hla home here of rheumatism of
the heart. His death was sudden and
unexpected.
RIVALS W LL ill
SOON CLASH
Democratic Convention in In
diana Will Be Scene of Hot
Contest.
TAGGART WILL FIGHT LAMB
AND GOVERNOR MARSHALL
Preliminary SkirniMi Before 0M-niiig
of Fight Groan In teres! in;; Tag
Can and Lamb Both Covet Toga
and Marshall Endorses
Latter Wants Convention to ('hoot?
Candidate But TuggHi't Opitows
ProMmltioiu
Indianapolis, April 27. With most
of the delegates on the ground today
the skirmish before the state demo
cratic convention, which opens to
night, is becoming bitter. That the
convention will develop into a test
of strength between Thomas Taggart
and Governor Marshall, backed by
John E. Lamb, vice chairman of the
national committee, seems certain.
Senator Shively, who will he per
manent chairman of the convention
is here, trying to bring about a com
promise, but it is not believed his ef
forts will result In a settlement, and
the question of endorsing a candidate
for the senate will doubtless be
fought out on the floor of the con
vention. Lornb and Taggart are both
candidates for senator. Lamb is
backing Marshall's proposition that
the convention choose a candidate
and Taggart is fighting it. but has
announced he will go before the con
vention for endorsement if the plan
is adopted.
Friends of Marshall today reluct
antly admitted the probability that
Taggart and his delegates would car
ry their point in convention and that
the party will not endorse a candidate
for the scnatorshlp. The Marshall
men will not quit fighting, however,
and the whole matter will be thresh
ed out on the convention floor.
GRAFT IN CHICAGO
Chicago, III.. April 27. The com
mission investigating the charges of
giaft In municipal affairs today Is
preparing to prosecute. Further evi
dence has already been uncovered In
dicating the city has lost more than
fifty five thousand dollars within
twenty months through crooked tran
sactions in coal contracts. Forgeries
of contracts, mutilation of coal rec
ords, payments for thousands of tons
of coal never delivered are some of
the counts listed by the commission.
Nell Gow Wltm Race.
Xew market. Eng., April 27. Lord
Roeberry's Neil Gow, favorite In the
Derby, won by a scant head today in
the two thousand guinea stake race.
The winner was ridden by Danny Ma
iler, the American Jockey.
That the local 'phone service will
be improved was declnred by Dist
rict Manager Van Houtte of the Pa
cific Telephone & Telegraph company
at the conference held In the Commer
cial association rooms yesterday be
tween representatives of the 'phone
company and the Joint committee from
the city council and Commercial as
sociation. Thus far the district man
ager has refused to restore the old
rate on four party 'phones. He be
lieves he can secure figures showing
that the rate is Justified.
For over two hours yesterday the
subject of the 'phone service and
'phone charges were discussed by
members of the Joint committee and
Messrs Van Houtte and Moore, dist
rict manager and local manager res
pectively of the company. At the out
set of the session the general purpose
of the conference and the substance of
the local complaint was set forth by
City Attorney J. R. Raley. The
charges were to the effect that poor
service is being rendered In this city
and that the advance In the rate on
four party 'phones was not justified
In view of tho statement made by the
company for assessment purposes.
In answering the complaints made
District Manager Van Houtte held that
the statement made by. the assessor
contained errors, the valuation being
placed too low. He also made a de
DISTRICT MANAGER PROMISES
TO IMPROVE PHONE SERVICE
SEES A
SHI BATTLE
French Government Provides
Brilliant Charge of Cuiras
siers for T. R,
COLONEL ALSO WITNESSES
FIRST AEROPLANE FLIGHT
French Officials Spare No Efforts to
Entertain Distinguished American
Statesman Roosevelt Cheers As
Squadron Captures Batter)' Avia
tor Narrowly Mscaiics Death In
During Iliglit Before Colonel Ex
Prcsident Presented With Gold
Medal.
Paris. April 27. As a prelude to
the war game which Colonel Roose
velt exports to view at Berlin the
French government today provided a
sham battle for the edification of the
American visitor. The battle ended
when a flying squadron of cuirassiers
charged a battery. Roosevelt Jump
ed to his feet and cheered enthusi
astically. This afternoon he went to
Versailles.
For the first time in his life, the
ex-president yesterday saw an aero
plane flight. It was a very short one,
and the aeronaut, Emile Dubonnet,
had a narrow escape from Injury.
Colonel Roosevelt Journeyed to Issy-les-Moullneaux.
as the guest of the
academy of sports. There a large
crowd gathered, including cabinet
ministers and noted aviators. Unfor
tunately, a strong wind was blowing
and It seemed as though the promised
flight would have to be abandoned.
Not wishing to disappoint Colonel
Roosevelt. Dubonnet volunteered to
go up In the face of the gale He had
recently made a sensational .lihi
over the city of Paris, and it was
thought if anyone could give a good
account of himself that man was Du
bonnet. The ex-president was deeply Inter
ested in every detail of the start, and
he pressed forward as the machine
left the ground. It was evident, how
ever, this was no day for flying, and
the aeroplane hardly had gone 150
yards when it came down with a
swoop, almost capsizing as it struck
the ground. One of the wings was
broken, but Dubonnet was not hurt.
Colonel Roosevelt rushed forward and
offered congratulations.
Prior to his return to Paris, m! de
Villeneuve. president of the academv
of sports, presented to Colonel Roose
velt as honorary president, the acad
emy's gold medal. "
HUGHES APPOINTMENT MAKES
TEDDY POLITICAL DICTAOR
Washington, April 27. That the ap
pointment of Gov. Hughes to the su
preme bench leaves Roosevelt the po
litical dictator of New York, is the
belief of politicians here. Whether
Uie president considered the political
significance of the appointment or
not, politicians say the move conuldn't
have been belter planned to make
Roosevelt the head and front of the
Xew York republican organization.
He is declared to be the only man who
can dominate politics in Xew York
tailed statement purporting to justify
the change In rates, but did not under
take to give an exact statement as to
the valuation of the company's local
plant and the net nrofits.
Ised to secure Information along that
line and to meet the committee at a
Inter date for the purpose- of going
over the data. He volunteered how
ever to see that the local service is
Improved and expressed surprise at
the complaints of poor service.
The statement was also made by
Mr. Van Houtte that the company
Is now considering the expenditure of
$20,000 In Improvements In this city.
The estimates call for the erection of
many new poles, the placing of some
wires underground and for other bet
ferments. However these Improve
ments have not yet been authorized
by headquarters. Mr. Van Houtte al
so declared that 40 per cent of the
company's gross local receipts are
pnld to employes In this city. He de
clined yesterday to give particular In
formation as to the pay roll but prom
ised to furnish such Information at a
later meeting.
It Is the Intention to have another
meeting between Mr. Van Houtte and
the Joint committee as soon as the dis
trict manager secures the Information
he has asked for In reference to the
valuation and business of the local
plant,
now that Hughes is to have no active
part in the campaign.
COMET IS VISIISLT FOR
ALMOST AX HOUR
Zurich, April 26. The observatory
here officially reports that Halley's
comet was visible to the naked eye for
55 minutes before dawn today. Its
position was due east Just above the
horizon There was no trace however
of the tail even with the telescope.
Cambridge, 'Mass.. April 26. Al
though the end of the tail of Halley's
comet may brush the earth about the
18th or 20th. of May. Professor O. C.
Weneil of the Harvard observatory,
said today that he did not look for
any interference with electric wire or
wireless communication. All govern
ment stations have been asked to look
for disturbances about that time, but
Professor Wendell regards this pre
caution as unnecessary. .
PREDICTS PANAMA CANAL
WILL BE OPENED IN 1911
Washington, D. C, April 27. The
Panama canal will be opened in 1914,
according tp the highest official au
thority here today. The same au
thority however, refused to change
the official announcement that the
canal will be opened In 1915, because
of the possibility of unforseen delay
causing a postponement.
PITPSBURG GRAFTERS WILL
GET RESPITE FOR PRESENT
Pittsburg, April 27. Judge Frazer
today created a sensation by announc
ing there will be no more graft trials
for the present. The entire panel of
petit Jurors drawn for the trials was
dismissed by the court with the ex
ception of those drawn to serve In
the pending trial of ex-Councilman
Coffey.
JONKET TRIP SET
FOR NEXT WEDNESDAY
COMMITTEE BUSY
' ARRANGING SCHEDULE
Auto Trip to Be Mode Tomorrow for
Purjose of Working Out Program
for Day Will Be "Get Acquainted"
Exiteditlon.
One week from today, Wednesday.
May 4, the long planned trip of local
businessmen to Adams, Athena. Wes
ton, Milton. Freewater and Walla
Walla will be made. Arrangements
to this effect have Just been made by
a committee composed of Charles
Bond, Clarence' Bishop and Ben Hill,
representing the managers of the
Commercial association.
Tomorrow morning the three mem
bers of the committee will leave by
auto for the towns that are to be vis
ited upon the trip. They will visit
each place for the purpose of arrang
ing for the stops In the various towns
and to decide fupon the exact sched
ule for the trip. The train Is to leave
here in the morning and returning will
leave Walla Walla sometime during
the evening, though the hours have
not yet been set
The excursion will be made under
the auspices of the Commercial asso
ciation and It Is the desire to have a
large and representative party aboard
for the trip, it will be a general
"get acquainted" trip and it is the
Intention of the arrangements com
mittee to so arrange the trip that It
will be pleasant and profitable not
only for those who make the trip but
also for the people in the various
towns to be visited.
prosecution has its task
outlined in hein7.e trial
New Tork. April 27. "Neither the
Standard Oil company nor Charles B
Morse is connected with this prose
cution," declared United States Dis
trict Attorney Wise today. In open
ing the prosecution of F, Augustus
Helnze, charged with the over certifi
cation of checks while president of
the Mercantile National bank.
In addition to the bank charges,
the prosecution must prove the ex
istence of a pool to manipulate the
price of copper stocks and prove that
Helnze was n member of the pool,
according to the ruling of Judge
Hough today.
TO NORTH POLE.
Anniiulseli Will Drift in Ice for Sev
eral Years.
San Francisco, April 27. Captain
Roald Amundsen Is planning a seven
year expedition Into the Arctic, dur
ing which he will try to reach the
north role, nccordlng to letters re.
celved here. Amundsen says he In
tends to Bail from San Francisco early
next year In the "Fram" and Is plan
ning to allow the vessel to freeze In
to the ice and -drift for seven years.
He believes the currents will carry
him near the pole and that finally the
sturdy craft will be released from the
Icebergs on the eastern coast of
Greenland.
Julian Hawthorne and Elbert Hub
bard have become advertisement writ
ers, but have not thereby given up fle-
i.on entirety.
REEKS
L
Sensational Developments Fol
low Resignation of Register
of Land Board.
CHARGES "IIIGIIEK I PS"
ARE REAL OFFENDERS
Charges and Counter Charges Are
Hurled by Officials Church Aska
Governor to Hold Up Resignation
While He Confronts His Accusers
Importnnt Affidavits Are Missing
Former Ijind Selector Makes Sen
sational Charges.
Boise, April 27. Charges and coun--ter
charges are passing between mem
bers of the state land board and oth
er state officials as a result of the
disclosures following the resignation
of M. I. Church, register of the state
land board Church is now en rout
to Boise from Coeur d'Alene, where
he has been since his resignation wa
tendered and declared he proposes
to show he Is being made the scape
goat while "higher ups" are the real
guitly ones. He has asked the gOT
ernor to hold up his resignation.
Warm times axe expected when
Church arrives to confront his accus
ers. The discovery was made today that
affidavits of appraisement of the
lands purchased by the Payett
Lumber company from the state are
missing from the files. Norman
Belcher, former state land selector,
charges he was Instructed by Attor
ney General McDougall, in the pres
ence of Secretary of State Lansdon.
both members of the land board, to
appraise nine thousand acres of the
land desired by the Payette company
at $10 per acre and he old so with
out seeing the land. Both McDougall
and Lansdon deny this statement. As
sistant Attorney General Peterson ad
mitted today he was financially in
terested -in the Medbury Carey act
project and had made filings on a
thousand feet of water In Elmere
county.
PAULHAN AND WHITE
RACE FOR BIG PRIZE
London, April 27. Louis Paul nan
started from Hempstead this after
noon for Manchester in an effort to
win the fifty thousand dollar prize
offered by the London Mail. Paul
han Is sailing In a Farman biplane.
Claude White, an Englishman, will
sail later In the day, his start being;
interrupted by high winds. An hour
after the start. Paulhan passed
Bletchley. 49 miles from the starting
point, flying at a great attitude.
White rose at half past six and
started In pursuit of Paulhan and the
greatest aerial race in history is on.
While he passed Wolverton 53 mile
out, at seven he was going at a
terrific speed. Paulhan descended
117 miles from London, breaking the
world's record in a. continuous cross
country flight.
STEEL
DIRECTORS
DECLARE DIVIDENDS
New York, April 28 At the meet
ing of the United States Steel Corpor
ation today the directors declared a
regular quarterly dividend of 1 1-4
per cent on the common shares, there
by Increasing the rate from 4 to 5 per
cent annually.
In a statement to the directors
Chairman Gary announced that an
additional disbursement hereafter
made on the common stock will take
the form of "extra dividends."
Earnings for the quarter ending
March 31 yast amounted to 37,1.
876. with net returns of J31.60S.194. .
These figures are likely to cause some
disappointment, as conservative fore
casters had fixed gross returns at not
less than 139 000.000.
INITIATION RUINS GIRL'S
STOMACH AND NERVES.
Bridgeport, Conn, April 27.
While Miss Ethel Clark Is crit
ically ill at Brattleboro, the city
board of education is today In
vestigating the h!gh school so
ciety Initiation which is alleged
.
to be responsible for her condl
tlon The girl was blindfolded
and fed maccaroni and oysters
and believed they were angle-
worms and pollywoggs. Soon
afterward she suffered a ner-
vous collapse and the doctors
say it will be three years before
her stomach and nerves will re-
turn to their normal condition.
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