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I'EXDL ETON, OLiKHON. WEDNESDAY. MAY if. .1910.
NO 6908
EARTH WILL MAKE OflSH THROUGH
TAIL OF HEAVENLY HOBO THIS EVENING
THROUGH GASEOUS APPENDAGE
WILL REQUIRE PERiOD OF SEVEN HOURS
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RIG 1'KiIIT MAY UK
KTAGKD IN FRISCO
Eventful Passage Will Begin at 5 o'Clock and Continue Until,
Midnight.
Ball on "Wlileh We Dwell Will Pans Through Million Miles of Tail Doubt
ful If "Passage Will Bo Marked by Any Unusual Phenomena Halley's
Comet Not Now Visible In Morning Because of Sun's Brightness Will
Appear Next Friday Evenlng-MJest Yiew to Bo Obtained Monday i
Night During Eclipse of Moon Astronomers Will Try to Collect Dust ,
of Tall . - i
San FranclHco, May 18. Fight
Promoter Jack Gleason admit-,
ted today that maybe the .Jef-
fries-Johnson fight would not
be held at Emeryville owing to
the feeling of residents of Ala-
meda county against the bout.
He said they had not decided
where the mill wiH be staged,
but probably In San Francisco,
us most of the city officials are
willing to grant the permission.
Other California cities have
made offers of sites. "It Is
certain they will fight,' con-
eluded Gleason.
J. P. E
MAY TAKE STAND
From 6 o'clock this afternoon until
midnight Pendleton people will be
living In the tall of Halley's comet,
8uch Is the latest calculations made
by scientists. The same scientists
announce, "however, that It will prob
ably be Impossible to tell when the
earth enters the tall or when It leaves
It by an unusual phenomena, such aa
falling stars or the appearance of
poisonous gases, for the reason that
none of these will be present.
The comet is not now visible in the
morning sky and for that reason those
local residents who stayed up all night
or who arose extra early this morn
ing and yesterday morning were doom
ed to disappointment. The heavenly
wanderer is now making Its journey
cross the sky while the sun Is shin
ing and for that reason Its brightness
is overshadowed and Is Invisible. . It
is expected that the next sight ob
tained of the mysterious space anni
hllator will be on the evening of Frl-
GEOHGE PERKINS IMPLICATED
IX BALLINGER DEALINGS
enter the comet's tall about 4 o'clock
In the afternoon and emerge about
midnight.
"But In my opinion," he' said, "the
passage of the earth through the tail '
is not likely to be signalized by any Secretary Ainointed Man to Accom
(.unoijauyua yiitsnumenun. ,
"Spectroscopic observations show
that the tall consists of gasses far too
tenuous to affect appreciably the
themical composition of the earth's
atmosphere. Associated with these, ;
close to the head of the comet, are
Solid flnrl linilM rtnrtlnloa nri Maflui,
a perceptible amount of sunlight. In ' ",c me camnger
the part of the tail through which the a8e lo, 1he Prediction that
earth will pass, these are not likelv orge Perkins of the J. Pierpont
to be present In sufficient number or Morgan company will be called to the
size to produce meteors. The Ilium!- ? f."d ! f lt- In recorded
nation of the tall might perhaps be """'J I"arKea
Hiny Perkins to Alaska to Invest!
gate With View to Railroad Ex
ploitation Lawler on Stand Calls
Rranricis a Liar.
i
Washington, May. 18. The feature
sufficient to cause a slight Increase
In the brightness of the night sky soon
after the transit were jt not for the
moon, which probably will prevent
any such effect from being seen.
"It is possible that the electrle po-
day. May 20, soon after dusk, though
the best view will not be obtained un- i tential of the earth's atmosphere may t' ., t,i
til the night of May 23 when there be slightly .affected by electrically , , ,,,
will be an eclipse of the moon.
Comet Crosse Rnn.
The comet will cross the sun, three
degrees of ajc above the sun's cen
ter from west to east this evening. The
Instant of geocentric conjunction Is
May 18, 16 hours, 7 minutes, 3 sec
onds Greenwich mean time. The
phenomena will not be observable In
any part of the United States. The
comet will not be nearest the earth
at the time of transit but closest ap
proach will occur a day or two later.
The exact instant now is under com
putation. In a statement given out
last night Director Leuscher of the
astronomical department of the Uni
versity of California, said:
"According to photographs taken
here May 11 the tail of the comet was
two million miles in diameter at the
distance from the nucleus at which
the earth will cross it, but according
to information received from Lick ob
servatory the tall is diminishing rap
Idly in absolute width and length, as
Is always the case after a comet has
passed Its perihelion. Thus, photo
graphs taken at Lick yesterday give
the estimate that the width of the
tall through which the earth will pass
will have shrunk to 1,000,000 miles.
On the basis of the latter figures, it
will take the earth about six hours to
pass through the tall, the relative ve
locity of the particles of the tall and
the earth being approximately 60 1
miles a second. We may expect to en- '
ter the tall at about 6 o'clock In the
afternoon and to come out of It at
about 11 o'clock In the evening, Pa
cific standard tlme
"The earth will riot pass exactly
through the center of the tail, but the
deviation Is so slight that it will not
affect materially the duration of tran
sit through the tall. Theoretically the
tall will stretch over 180 degrees of
the sky, from horizon to horizon, just
before and after transit is seen from
the earth. It probably would be faint
ly discernablo in the southwest sky if
the. moon were out of the way. The
phenomena therefore will paaa un
tlrely unnoticed by the people on the
American continent and it is doubt
ful whether the observers In the orient
for whom the transit theoretically Is
vlflble, will observe It."
To Catch Dust
Pasadena, Cal., May 18. The char
acter of the solids and fine dust
which Halley's comet is supposed to
be carrying with it In Its sweep
through space Is interesting members
of the United States geological sur
vey, who will have a representative
at the Carnegie observatory on Mount
Wilson today to trap some of the par
ticles, as the earth passes through the
. comet's tall.
A high tower has been erected at
the observatory, with a plate coated
with glycerine surmounting it, to catch
any dust that the comet's tall may
eon tain. Mr. Dr. George Bale, direc
tor of the observatory, has little hope
of the success of the scheme.
Dr. Hale Issued a statement today
In which he said that the earth would
charged particles In the comet, or by
a reduction In the number of electrons
received from the sun caused by the
screening effect of the tall. Although
it Is very doubtful whether any such
effect can be detected, observations
with an electrometer will be contin
ued for some time after the earth
emerges from the tail. As such elec
tric phenomena might cause slight
personal and confidential to Ballin
ger. It Is shown that Balllnger soon
after he became secretary, recom
mended City Engineer Thompson of
Seattle, to nccompany Perkins on an
Alaskaff trip for the' purpose of In
vestigating the country with a view
ion. Ballinger
nication with
Perkins and said In a letter to
Thompson he had recommended him
when Perkins insisted on him sug
gesting a man.
Thompson replied saying he would
accept, but later wrote Ballinger say
ing he would supply another man for
Perkins upon Bellinger's request. On
July 4. 1909. Ballinger wrote Perk-
HUDSON" COUNTY ruri EAST END PEOPLE "
: FREE1TER NAMED AS COUNTY SEAT
WKAHY TROOPS HOLD
STRIKERS I.N CHECK.
llaso. Mo., May 18. Weary
from a 24 hour vigil, two com-
panics of Missouri state militia.
are trying to hold In check 2100
strikers of the Atlas Portland
Cement company. They must be
reinforced today or further
trouble will result. Since their
arrival yesterday, the guards-
men have been unable to sleep.
One company was fired on by
men hidden in the hrush hut
MOVEMENT STARTED TO CREATE COUNTY
LEAVING ATHENA AND WESTON III UMATILLA
none were injured. Many threats
are being made against the sol-
dlers. The commanding officers
have telegraphed for troops.
111., thnnlrlnir him ff Inirltlm, t,ia ar-,
v..,..,. ... ie uueuauy OI me eartn s, Edward to take the Alaska trip but
magnetism, a sensitive recording vari- declining
ometer will be used in an attempt to A dav filIed wlth JnteregtIng ep,
register any such changes. 80des reache.l nn exoitinT rllm.. In
ai tne request or a memoer oi tne the Uallinger-Pinchot investigation
un.iea oimes geological survey, piates iate yesterday when Assistant Attor
coated wun glycerine win oe exposed Py General Oscar Lawler, author of
at the summit of a high tower to col- . tne now famous Lawler memorandum
n"y "muic traces r meteoric rose wrathfully from the witness
matter tnat may come Into our at- stand and nccused Attorney Brandets
inospncre rrom tne comet, it is proD- 0f uttering a deliberate untruth.
ame, nowever, that even If such min- ! Then after he had been rebuked by
ute particles should enter the upper '. several members of the committee,
Htmospnere, mey woum not seme to ; air. Lawler withdrew his remark and
tne eartn wltnin a sufficiently snort i apologized to the committee.
time and in sufficient numbers to be : Mr. Lawler was called to the stand
detected In this way." j.by the "defense," to explain the cir-
cumstances under which he had prc-
No Danger. Says Pickering. , pared for the president a memoran
Cambrldge, Mass, May 18. If ! dum containing his opinion on the
Prof. Pickering of Harvard knows charges filed by Special Agent Glavis
what he Is talking about, no one need j against Secretary Balllnger.
be afraid. to go to bed and sleep sound- :
ly tonight, lest the tail of Halley's 1 nnnr Arm,
comet should swipe them while they
slumber. Prof. Pickering says that '
we should expect to be struck by the ,
core of a visible comet once in about
40,000,000 years, and by some por- ;
I Seattle, May 17. "Darbey" Thiel-
man, a bartender, was arrested by a
deputy United States marshal here
today on an Indictment returned by a
firm of th hellH nnn In 1 Mil IIM ,"',,n' J1" "l '".
years. Since comets' orbits are more ,1 f v .V"
thickly distributed near the ecliptic 1 not ? priz? fint' Thielman
than In other regions of the sphere. ' h "dniniaver,bee" fmember ?
the collisions would occur rather mo.;e ?J f ,nke PrIze fiht fn "rest
frequently than this, but hardly as : ""f.fJTtn"; T' ,f Jh,T
often as once In 2,000.000 years; and , e Cenn!'y trtlcd Council Bluffs,
since It has been estimated that an.- 1 J? mpon.me"t
mai life has existed upon the earth " 'u '
for about 100,000,000 years, a con
siderable number of collisions,
worth, Kas.
i
T
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per
haps as many as fifty, must have ta- ' 1 1
ken place during that Interval. In I
Professor Pickering's opinion, evi
dently without producing any very '
serious results. J
At all events, it may be safely held I
that today none of us will be aware 1
of the fuet that we are literally
breathing the tall of Halley's comet.
From this It may be Inferred that the !
wild tales of the possible effects of '
poisonous gases are utterly without' '
foundation. It Is true that the comet's ' At the Commercial club managers'
tall Is composed of poisonous and as- ' luncheon today the matter of attend
phyxiating hydrocarbon vapors and ,n6 tno Caledonian picnic at Athena
cyanogen; but It Is also true that the Friday was one of the principal top
actual amount of toxic vapor Is so 1cs ot discussion. Upon the recom
small that when the earth is brushed ' mendation of the committee It was
by the tall of Halley's comet the com- ' decided to use the regular train
position of. the atmosphere will not 1 service to and from Athena since a
bo so affected that a chemist could de- 1 1 o-cent round trip fare has been
OE BOILER
DOES AWFUL CARNAGE
ESTIMATED 30 KILLED
AND 50 INJURED
Battery of Seven Boilers Blows Up
With Terrible Consequences Bod
ies of Men Are Blown to Atoms
Injured Aid in Rescue.
Canton, Ohio, May 18. With a
roar heard three miles away, a bat
tery of seven boilers at the plant of
the American Sheet and Tin Plate
company exploded yesterday, killing
from 20 to 30 men and Injuring 50.
Among those injured are a half dozen
who probably will die.
The force of the explosion was ter
rific, fny big plant is practically a
totai -. mere shell of the build
ing is left.
Identification of the men was diffi
cult. Heads, arms and legs were
blown from bodies and fragments of
the bodies were blown blocks from
the scene. Bits of human flesh have
been picked up on porches and roofs
of houses and in trees.
One hundred men were at work in
the plant at the time of the accident.
But a dozen or so escaped some In
Jury, and these worked heroically to
rescue their fellow workmen from the
burning ruins.
The body of one man was blown
through a house, 700 feet from the
plant. The body entered the hnii
from the east side and continued In a
straight line through a bedroom and
out the west side. The torso of an
other man was found in a garden 600
feet away.
"For God's sake hit me on the head
and kill me," cried one Workman to
a man who found him. The injured
man had an arm torn off and a great
hole in his side.
The plant had five mills. All the
employes working at mills one, two,
three and four were either killed or i
mjurea, while the men on mill num
ber five, farthest from the boilers, es
caped serious injury.
New Division Plan is Counter to'Milton Movement to Form
"Orchard" County. '
Representatives of Pendleton and Atlieiia start Xew Move and Westoaj
People Will Summit it Caused by Widespread Dissatisfaction Over
lion i id a i-)' Lines of Proposed "Orchard" County "Hudson" County
Would Lie North of Dry Creek a nd Would Include Sufficient Acreager
Initiative Petition 1 Prepared and Will Be Circulated Immediately
I . '
If the people of Oregon are to be
called upon to vote upon dividing
Umatilla county next fall then they
will be able to take their choice be
tween "Hudson" county and "Orch
ard" county. .
As a result of the widespread dis
satisfaction over the "Orchard" coun
ty scheme a move is now underway for
the creation of "Hudson" county. That
county will have the town of Free
water for the county seat and it will
include within its boundaries the Mii-ton-Freewater
.country and the Hud
son Bay country, but will leave the
section south of Dry creek In Umatilla
county. It is the belief of the men
behind the proposed county of "Hud
son" that If the two county division
bills are passed upon by the voters
next fall the "Hudson" county bill will
carry. This because under the bill
Just drafted the east end proper will
be allowed to secede from Umatilla
son" county bill will be that it will
provide for lower salaries for county
officials than is proposed under the)
"Orchard" county measure. The "Or
chard" county bill provides a salary
payroll of J 8 100 per annum. The)
"Hudson" county bill will call for a
material saving to taxpayers along
this line.
WETS WLX OUT LN
ELECTION AT DENVER
Denver, May 18. The anti-saloon
element were beaten in the election
yesterday by a majority of from
000 to 10,000. The extension of the
franchise of the Denver Union Water
company, and which was to run for
20 years, was decisively beaten. It la
claimed by the chairman of the citi
zens' party which placed a ticket in
the field against republicans and dem
ocrats- that thev havA eWtad at 1eaa-
county but the Weston and Athena olle of their candidates for .j,,
regions wUl still be left In Umatilla ( tion commission; three of the four su-
county
Work is Underway.
Ever since the "Orchard" county
pervisors and nine of the 15 alder
men. Mayor Speer admits that the
citizens poll is surprising but count
r" " upon the returns from the 30,000 or
u ...11 111 ...j 1 1 1 . 1 VI, to UllJ O-lftU VI Alll ,
na and Weston have considered the
proposition of drafting a counter 'bill
providing for a county north of Dry
ADMIRAL ROGERS RESIGNS
CONSTERNATION PREVAILS
Washington. May 18. The wsiir-
iiatlon of Kear Admiral Rogers drop
ped like bomb Into the ranks of
staff officers who are opposed to the
.Meyers reorganization plans and It la
rxHX'ieu tt will Have Its aftermath In
nnigroKs. It Is probable the house
committee will want to know the real
i-enson for Roger's resignation. Mey-
ere insists ins resignation was be
rai:se of his methods of .keepinar ac
counts. However, there la oeiioral In.
clinatton to tlio belief that his oppo
sition to Meyers was the real reason.
A writer says man is happiest when
working. A cloud of witnesses could
hekobtained to dispute title.
GET READY FOR
ATHENA'S CALEDONIAN PICNIC
tect It.
Takes Photos of Comet.
Honolulu. Hawaii, May 18. When
Halley's comet completes Its 8,100.-000,000-mlle-trlp
around the sun to
day, the celestial visitor will be pho
tographed by the big astronomical
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granted by the O. R'. & N. company.
The morning train leaves Pendleton
at 7:30 and returning arrives here at
6 o'clock, consequently those going to
Athena .for the purpose will have
practically an entire day for the cele
bration. At this time many local business
men and ladles are planning to make
the trip to Athena, Some will go by
train, while many others will go la
autos. Those who go by train will be
provided at the depot with souvenir
Pendleton tags. Those going by
auto, nre requested to secure such tags
from Charles Bond, chairman of the
committee on the excursion. The tags
may be had at Bond Bros, store.
The new bill for the creation of
"Hudson" county was also discussed
at the luncheon. All members of the
bonrd are. to meet with the confer
ence committee upon that subject at
the Commercial club rooms at 7
o'clock this evening.
By resolution the city council was
thanked for having entered upon the
work of improving the streets leading
into and out of the city.
creek. However no definite steps
towards this end were taken until a
few days ago.
Last evening a conference was held
at the Commercial club rooms between
representative business men of this
city and representatives from Athena.
W. L. Thompson, president of the
Commercial club presided. Weston
people had also been Invltea to attend
the gathering but were unable to get
down for the conference last evening.
However, they have agreed to co-operate
In the move and the proposed
boundaries of "Hudson" county are
being submitted to the Westonians to
day.
The Boundaries.
Under the boundaries proposed for
"Hudson" county the northwest cor
ner of the county will be identical
with that of "Orchard" county. It
will be at the division line between
townships 32 and 33. Prom that
point the line proceeds along the
ridge on the east side of Vansycle
canyon to a point opposite Vansycle
station: thence east to the township
line between 33 and 34: thence in a
southeasterly direction to the town
ship line between 34 and 35; thence
to the northwest corner of township
4 north of range 35: thence east to
the center of the channet of Dry
creek; thence southeast following the
center of the channel ot Dry creek
to a point between sections IS ,and
14 In township 4 north oi range 36;
thence south to the northeast corner
of section 14 township 3 north of
range 36: thence east to the north
east corner of section 16 township 3
north of range 37; thence south to
the center of the channel of the
north fork of the Umatilla river;
thence east following the center of the
channel of that stream to the Union
county line.
This county will have slightly more
than 400 square miles of area which
areas Is required by law and It would
also have more than the necessary
population of 1200 people.
Fund Is Assured.
At the conference last night as
surances were had from local men of
Influence and also from the Athena
representatives that ample money for
waging a campaign In behalf of
"Hudson" county will be available.
Athena and Weston men are ready
to contribute to the fund and will do
so, though the bulk of the money will
be raised In Pendleton.
As the Initiative petition asking for
a vote upon the bill must be filed by
July 1 active steps are now being
taken towards circulating the pe-j
titton asking for the vote.
At 7 o'clock this evening another
meeting is to be held at the Com
mercial club rooms and further steps
taken towards promoting the cam
paign. Permanent working commit
tees will be named this evening to
have charge of the campaign.
Lower Salaries.
One of the features of the "Hud-
more scratched ballots to carry th
democrats to victory. It is estimated
that 68,000 of 76,000 registered elec
tors voted.
FEDERATED CLUBS ,
HOLD AX ELECTION"
Cincinnati. May 18. A contest de-
veloped in the election of the board'
of directors of the General Feder
ation of Women's clubs here yester-
day. The count probably will not be
completed until some time tomorrow. .
The executive officers had no oppo
sition and the following were chosen
to serve during the coming two
years:
President, Mrs. Phillip X. Moore 1
1 vice president, Mrs. Josiah Evana
Cowles, California; second vice pres
ident, Mrs. Mary Bell King, Sherman,
111.; recording secretary, Mrs. Henry
W. Dawson, New Jersey; correspond
ing secretary, Mrs. Frank N. Shiek,
Wyoming; treasurer, Mrs. John
Threadgill, Oklahoma; editor, Mrs. L..
L. Blankenburg, Pennsylvania.
DENVER ELECTION RESULTS -
IX VICTORY FOR REFORM
Denver, Colo., May 18. A sweep
ing victory for the reformers headed
by Judge Lindsey, author of the
"Beast and the Jungle," an expose
of the alleged rotten conditions In Col
orado politics, was indicated today by:
the returns "from yesterday's munici
pal election The republican organ
ization was routed and the democrats
won.
Their victory is characterired as a
vote of confidence for Lindsey who
wonted with the reformers. The town
went wet also by 15.000 majority.
Odd Fellows at Eugene,
Eugene, Ore., May IS Eight hun
dred delegates are attending the ses
sion of the grand lodge of Odd Fel
lows which started today. Over
thousand Odd Fellows and Rebekahe
are crowding the city. This afternoon
a huge parade was held down the
streets in which 2000 were In line. The
Rebekahs elect their grand lodge of
ficers this afternoon and the Odd Fel
lows tomorrow.
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Roosevelts Visit Royalty.
London, May IS. For the second
time Colonel Roosevelt today called
upon King George and Mrs. Roose
velt was presented to the king. The
Roosevelts later called upon King
Frederick of Denmark at Bucking
ham Palace. During the day a num
ber of persons visited Dorchester
house to see the colonel.
Woodmen at Raker.
Baker City, Ore., May 18. One
hundred delegates are attending the
convention of the fifth district of the
Woodmen of the World which opened
today. The meetings are being held in
the Elka hall. A banquet and
speeches compose the program for tonight.