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EVENING EDITIOf tVEHIND EDIHOfi Calling cards, wad, ding stationery. vm merclal stationery .mtI Job printing to rlmr at the East Org-t. tu. WEATHER REPORT Fair tonight and Tues day. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER VOL. 23. PENDLETON. OREGON, MONIMY. SEPTEMBER 19. 1910. roio I 0. R. & II. DOES COSTLY WORK Road Building Between. This City and Yoakum Making Fine Progress. IMPROVEMENT WILL COST OVER MILLION DOLLARS Twoliy Brother Have 500 Men Em ployed on Construction Work Bridges Will Re Ruilt, Curves Ellin liuited Biul Grades Reduced Chan nel or River Will He Changed Right of Way Cost Exceptionally Large Sunn, One of the most expensive bits of road building the O. R. & N. com pany has ever undertaken Is now in progress between this city and Yoa kum and will be. completed within the next two or three months. The work only covers 12 1-2 miles of construc tion but will cost approximately $1, 800,000. The Improvements in progress In volve a complete change of the main line of the O. R. & N. company be tween Toakum and Pendleton, none of -the old line will be used. While the work only covers 12 1-2 miles It shortens the present line one and sev en tenths miles; eliminates 1361 de frees of curvature; reduces the maxi mum degree of curves from 10 to four degrees and reduces the grade from eight per cent, uncompensated, to six per cent, compensated. ' On the new line there will be one SOO-foot tunnel, cutting out the Horseshoe bend; a high fill and a steel bridge of two 150-foot spans with con crete piers and abutments, through the reservoir of the Furnlsh-Coe Irri gation company. About four miles east of Toakum the line win cross the river twice and cut through a big ridge that makes another horseshoe of the present line.' This will require two more bridges similar to the one described above. There will be two small changes In the channel of the Umatilla river near Yoakum and another about 1300 feet long one mile west of Barnhart, while about a mile each way from Pilot Rock Junction, there will be two channel changes about one-half mile In length. On the present line the longest stretch of straight track is but 2900 feet long, while on the new line there are two tangents of two miles each and one of one mile long. ' Costa Rig Sam. The 12 1-2 miles of new construc tion will cost approximately $1,200, 000, though It Is quite probable that the ultimate cost will be even greater than the railroad people have estimat ed. The changes In the channel of the Umatilla river will very materially sslst the run-off of that stream dur ing floods and thereby will prevent considerable overflow during the flood seasons. The work Is being pushed along quite rapidly and should be completed about the first of the year. The well known construction firm of Twohy Brothers has the contract and they have something like 600 men employed at the present time. More would be put to work If they could be secured and with the close of the harvest season at hand it Is possible that another 100 or two will be avail able. A double shift Is being used on the steam shovels, electric light plants having been established so that they can be operated by night as well as by day. There are six of these great machines at work on the Job and thousands of cubic feet of dirt and rock are being moved dally. While tho steam shovels are being used extensively In the excavations to secure materials for the many long fills, tt Is In changing the channels of the river that they come Into their greatest use. In one place the new channel runs straight down through the heavily timbered river bottom for half a mile while In others it haa been necessary to cut channels through almost solid rock. Expensive Right of Way. One of the contributing factors to the great expense attached to the work la the fact that several of the prosperous farms along the Umatilla river bottom have been literally cut to pieces, necessitating the payment of large sums of money for right of way, since much of the land was worth from 100 to $500 per acre. The J. E. Smith company received $25,000 for the right of way across that ranch which extends up and down the river for a distance of four miles. This aeems like an enormous sum to pay for a right of way across one farm, hut the damago to the beautiful ranch with Its alfalfa fields and or chards Is almost Incalculable. One field Is cut In two by the new channel for the river while two or three others are similarly divided by the railroad and Its fills. Barely missing the res idence, the new line cuts through the valuable orchard, making necessary a removal of the dwelling and a com XWiltO RUKGLAH KILIjK WEALTHY R,ILROAD MAN Chicago, Sept. 19. Clarence HllliT. chief clerk of the Chica go, Rock Inland and Pacific railroad, was shot to death to day by a negro burglar at his home in fashionable Shore dis trict. This morning he heard his daughter screaming In her bed room. He rushed m and saw a negro with his face half cov ered with a handkerchief. The negro fired three times, while the men were clinched and then Hlller slipped to the floor. The family was aroused and the po lice summond. William Jones, colored, wag arrested after a desperate fight hear the scene. Killer was wealthy. plete rearrangement of the farm. This is the largest farm affected In this way but there are a number of smaller ones similarly treated. When the present line changes are completed the main line of the O. R. & X, from Its eastern to Its western extension will be in a condition to compare favorably with the other western roads of more recent con struction. Numerous changes and Im provements have been under way along the road for many years, but this the worst stretch on the line has been put off until nearly the last. It hag been declared u tie the crook edest piece of road between Portland and Chicago. Fast time, even with light trains, has been Impossible tn the past and that more serious wrecks have not occurred has neen due more to good luck than any other cause. The new line will t)e a veritable speedway with a practically straight road with slight grade from one end to the other. GIRL CONFESSES TO AWFUL CRIME SUPPOSED VICTIM OP ASSAULT ADMITS KILLING RELATIVES Says Father Beat Her and She Killed lUm With Axe, and Afterward Slew Her Brother to Prevent HI in From Tolling Fabricated Story of Assault. Newkirk. Okla., Sept. 1. The posses seeking the supposed man who attacked Alice Shepherd, aged IS and beat her father and brother to death were recalled today when the little girl hysterically confessed she killed both. According to her story her father beat her severely Saturday and that she fabricated the story of the assault In order to cover her own terrible deed. The child said that after the beating, she struck him from behind with an axe and then killed him. , Fearing her brother might tell she sought him out and killed him also. The screams of the child im mediately afterward brought neigh bors to the house where the dead men were found and the child nearby unconscious. When she revived she said she had been attacked and posses were started out. WRIGHT RROTH ER8 WILL FLY DAILY Dayton, O., Sept. 19. Dally flights by the Wright brothers, whose aero plane factory and testing grounds are located here, will he a feature of the Industrial and agricultural exposition and fall festival opened today. The governors of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois will be here on governors' day, and the mayors of two score cities will he guests of honor on mu nicipal day. Carpenters In Session. Des Moines, la., Sept. 19. One of the largest conventions ever held In the Iowa capital was opened today by the International Association of Carpenters and Joiners. The blen nlal session has attracted delegates from every state of the Union and the provinces of Canada. The Coliseum li the meeting place of the conclave and dally business sessions will be held until Oct. 9. Matters of moment to the trade will be considered in all their bearings. The principal enter tainment feature will be a great ban quet ten days from today, at which there will be nearly 15,000 guests. L. O. Bennett, of the manual training department of the Des Moines schools is In chnrge of the local arrangements of the ' tonventlon. To Hear Glasgow Choir. Montreal, Sept. 19. At Quebec to night tho Glasgow Select Choir, the most famous musical organization of Scotland, will give the first concert of its American tour. The choir will sing here on Wednesday night, after ward singing In nearly all or the principal cities of North America. Big Show In Seattle. 8eattle, Wash., Sept. 19. The Western Wnshlngton Fair opened Its gates to the public today and attrac ted much Interest. The exhibits of live stock and Industrial and agrlcul tural products are among the best ever shown In the Paclfio Northwest. M 1 FLIGHT Two Aviators Attempt Must Hazardous At Journey in History. GALE SCORES OTHER COMPETITORS OUT Cliavex and Wajmann. Undeterred by Storm and Pleas of Friends, Begin Attempt to Fly Over Alps Descent in First 27 Miles Means Instant Deatli Hamlets and Towns Eager ly Awaiting Passing of Air Sailors. Brieg, Switzerland, Sept. 19. De spite a gale and against the pleas of their friends, Aviator George Chavez and N. Waymann started today on their daredevil attempt to cross the Alps from Brieg to Milan, the most hazardous flight ever undertaken by bird men. Simplon pass at an attitude of 6700 feet lies directly In their course. The first twenty-seven miles consists of yawning canyons and cliffs which makes a descenUean Instant death. Chavez drove his little monoplane, the same machine In which he recently soared to a height of 8791 feet. Eight aviators had planned to compete for the prize but the gale scared them out. When the aviators made their first start the wind forced them to alight. They waited a short time and succeeded In getting under way. Ela borate preparations have been made for the event and every hamlet along the route is waiting for the passing of the airmen. A huge captive balloon at Milan marks the end of the course which is about 55 miles in a bee line. The route follows the old road built by Napoleon in 1800. SEVEN OF NINE BALLOONS ARE STILL IN Tire RACE Indianapolis, Sept. 19. Seven of the nine balloons which started in the national champsnship race which started Saturday are still in the race today. The University City landed late yesterday at McKeesport, Pa., and the Indiana II landed yesterday a Willock. Pa. No trace of the oth er contestants since last night when they passed over Wheeling, W. Va. The balloon Drifter was today award ed the prize for winning the free-for-all In which four contested. The Drifter landed at Union Town, Pa. SUGAR FRAUDER IS SENTENCED AND FINED New York, Sept. 19. Charles Heike, former secretary-treasurer of the "sugar trust" was toaay sentenced to eight months' Imprisonment and fined five thousand dollars by Judge Martin of the federal court. The Im prisonment wlil be at Blackwell's Is land. A stay of sentence pending an appeal was granted and Helke'8 bond reduced to $16,000. GOVERNOR OF IOWA ON TRIAL FOR CRIMINAL LIBEL Deg Moines, Sept. 19. To stand trial on a charge of criminal libel brought by John Cownle, formerly a member of the state hoard of control, Governor Beryl Carrol of Iowa .ap peared In court today. Following the trouble In the conduction of the girls' reformatory, Carroll censured Cownle publicly and the libel charge is the outgrowth. The morning session was spent in preliminary proceedings. 45 Don Moleskins at Yale. Lakevllle. Conn., Sept. 19. Wits a Lokevlllle, Conn., Sept. 19. With a football training started. ELIGIBILITY While Sheriff T. D. Taylor is dllll- gently scouring the country for more outlaw horses for the Round-up, he has one undersized pony already on hand that will be able to make some body known that he has been in a bronco busting contest. The name of this deceiving looking creature Is "Llghtfoot" of "Satan." Either name would be appropriate, judging by the performance which the little horse gave at his first rehearsal at the ball park Saturday afternoon. It seems that earlier in the day. Chief of Police Gurdane and Sheriff Taylor had bought the horse on the recommendation of a friend who said he "sure was a goer." To make sure that they had not purchased a gold brick the two officers led the dainty looking pony to the ball park and a bronco buster was placed on his hack. The horse was down when the DEMONSTRATES T. R, Al TUFT CONFER AGAIN President and Ex-President Mwt at New Haven in Consultation. TO DISCUSS POLITICAL SITUATION IN NEW YORK Tho Big Republican Chiefs Hold Con ference at Roosevelt's Request T. R. Steals Away Quietly and At tempts Secrecy But is Found Out Believe Strenuous One Will Explain Ills Exact Position to Taft. Newhaven, Conn., Sept. 19. Presi dent Taft is here attending a meet ing of the Yale corporation and will hold a consultation this afternoon with Colonel Roosevelt, who left Oyster Bay for the pu.-pjse. It is ( uuuermuua .New iurK puuuis win ue the subject and it is also believed they will come to a clear understand ing about Roosevelt's intended atti tude during the coming campaign. Roosevelt requested the interview with Taft. He slipped out of Oyster Bay by motor boat, and was driven to New Haven in Secretary Xorton'j ear. The utmost secrecy was at tempted but it failed. Taft and Koosevelt lunched together at noon. Tuft to Fortify Canal. Beverly, Sept. 19. President Taft will In the coming short session of congress urge an appropriation for the fortification of the Panama ca nal. While no official announcement has been made, if is .intimated that the president desires to hurry the plans fearing the democrats may con trol the next congress and oppose the fortification idea. He will ask the appropriation of two million dollars for a starter and twenty million eventually will be expended on the work. r .. . . Teddy Prepares Speech. Oyster Bay, Sept. 19. Confident that he will have an opportunity to deliver It either from the platform as temporary chairman of the New York convention or from the floor as a delegate, Theodore Roosevelt has been working on a speech for deliv ery at Saratoga. The address, ac cording to those close to the Colonel, will not contain any further endorse ment of the Taft administration than that already made public. If Roose velt secures control of the convention there will not be any blanket en dorsement of the administration In the resolutions. The Colonel takes the stand that Taft has two years more of service, so It Is too early for a broad eulogy. v ANOTHER COAST STEAMER STRIKES ON A REEF Bellingham. Sept. 19. Lost in a heavy fog this morning, the steam ship City of Pueblo of the Pacific Coast Steamship company struck a rock off the shore south of Deadman's point near this city and Is slowly sinking despite the work of the pumps. The average depth Is 15 feet. Attempts will be made this afternoon to pull the vessel off the reef and If she Is not bhdly damaged the cargo will be Jesslsoned. The Pueblo plies between Puget Sound points and San Francisco and was returning from Vancouver. POOR HEALTH MAY KEEP SENATOR LODGE SILENT Boston. Sept. 19. Fear Is express ed today that Senator Lodge will not be able to keep his speaking engage mnts during the remainder of the campaign, owing to poor health. FOR HOUND-UP saddle was put on or otherwise the rider might not have had the pleasure of getting Into the saddle at all. As it was he kept his seat only by the hardest kind of leather pulling. The two officers were delighted with their purchase and think that he may de velop into a rival of the famous "Steamboat" or "Teddy Roosevelt." In the saddling process the horse developed a fondness for the chief of police and undertook to climb onto another horse with him. He also undertook to brush his hat off but seemed content with a part of one pocket and a coat sleeve. Sheriff Taylor also received word from Athena this morning that anoth. er outlaw has been found In that sec tion but he still needs about 15 more and he is very anxious that all those who have promised to bring horses will make good. DIVA WILL STAND ON HER RIGHTS Paris. Sept. 19. Mme. Cava- lierj will not accept the offer of the Chanler family to cancel her pre-nuptial agreement with her husband. "They need not submit any proposition to give me annuity of $5,000 and a lump sum of $10,000 for I Intend to stand on my rights if I have any and want nothing If I have no rights," said the diva today. "They offer me money as though I were an adventuress and like- wise accuse me of being tnerte- nary. Their reported offr shows who Is mercenary." BLUE AND GRAY MEET AT GRAND ARMY REUNION Atlantic City, X. J., Sept. 19. With a secret session of the executive com mittee of the national council of ad ministration, held at the national headquarters on Young's Ocean Pier, the forty-fourth annual encampment of the Grand Army of th Republic was opened today. Reception of the veterans and company and regimen tal reunion occupied the day. Na tional headquarters of the Woman's Relief Corps and other organizations atiiliated with the Grand Army were also established today. In honor of the visitors, the city has been decorated on a magnificent scale and tonight thousands of electrically operated flags and insignia will blaze out a welcome. Five miles of electric flags line the board wa.lk, and the esplanade will be brilliantly lighted with the national colors. Not a few confederate veterans are here to meet their old foes, and they were given a rousing reception where, ever they went. "HI, there, Johnny Reb!" a multitude of quavering voices would cry out whenever a gray unl form came In sight, and the veteran of the lost cause would find himself overwhelmed with attentions. The Injunction to "Love your enemies" is being worked overtime and the boys in gray who are not here are missing the time of their HveB. The "dam Yanks" are determined to let by gones be bygones, and if any visiting "reb" is "on the wagon," he Is about due to fall. GAYNOR MAY ENTER GUBERNATORIAL RACE PREDICTED MAYOR OF NEW YORK TO HEAD TICKET Belief Based on Letters of Gay nor to Politicians Mayor Refuses to Talk Contest Would Be One of Hardest Fought in Years. New York, Sept. 19. Politicians generally believe that Mayor Gaynor will accept the democratic guberna torial nomination if It Is presented to him at the coming state convention. The belief is based on letters that Gaynor has written to politicians. To day Gaynor told the United Press he would rather not discuss the matter now With the probability of Gaynor heading the democratic ticket it Is predicted one of the hardest fought elections of years will take place. It Is conceded Gaynor Is very strong and popular sympathy Is with him, due to his enforced absence from pub jc life following the shooting. 1S.00O WELCH MINERS WALK OlT ON STRIKE Cardiff, Wales, Sept. 19. Twelve thousand miners from the Cambrian colliery struck today. The strike tem porarily closes all mines supplying coal for the British navy and the strikers In walking out violated the arders of union officials. The Feder ation of Mine Owners Is considering; locking out 200,000 men as a result. If this action is taken, one of the most serious labor disturbances In England may begin. TAWXEY'S FATE WILL BE DECIDED TOMORROW St. Paul, Sept. 19. Interest In to morrow's congressional prrmarles In Minnesota Is centered In the first dis trict where Congressman Tawney Is fighting for renomlnatlon with Sydney Anderson, an insurgent opposing him. Pinchot Is among the notables be hind Anderson, who is conceded to have an even chance with Tawnev. Resume Rate Hearing. Chicago, Sept. 19. After a recess of sixteen days, the inter-state com merce Inquiry Into the proposed In crease in freight rates was resumed today. The delay has been utilized by both railroad men and shippers to strengthen their case in every way possible. Hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake, and the case thus assumes an Importance greater than any Investigation heretofore undertaken by the commission. More Cholera Cases. Rome, Sept. 10. Advices from Naples say there are more than 150 cholera cases in the hospitals. The : death rate is eighty per cent. MEN UNEASY AGAIN Sitting of Grand Jury and Presence of Chemist Mske Them Anxious. TESTS OF FAMOUS BEVERAGE WERE HADE I'rof. John Fulton, Chemist at O. A, C. in City and is Making Teste at Near Beer Results Not Made Pub. lio Old Grand Jury In Final Rev IMrt Advocates Building of Good Roads New Jury Drawn. Local proprietors of drink empori ums are once more on the anxious seat. The cause of their uneasiness is the) pArsence in the city of a grand Jary, a chemist and some citizens who ar desirous of seeing the local option law enforced. The grand jury is the) new one which was drawn this morn ing, while the chemist la Prof. John Fulton of the Oregon agricultural cob lege, being the same man who made some tests of the so-called near beer a few months ago which resulted In the arrest Of some of the local deal ers on charges of violating the local option law. In addition to the expert chmis Jerry Stone of Athena, has been be fore the grand Jury today. It is there fore generally believed that he had something to do with procuring the) samples of "near beer" which are being tested by the chemist. Prof- Fulton arrived Saturday evening and has been busy since his arrival. The result of his findings have not been made public. As some of the local near beer stand proprietors have already been found guilty on one or two different counts, a conviction at this time would mean a term in Jail. The members of the new grand jury are C. K. Kenison, Alex Hudson, William Hale (secretary), Pearl Bow man, Joe Cuhna, F. M. Evans (fore man) and Levi Eldridge. Before being discharged Saturday afternoon, the old grand jury made its final report. The principal recom mendation in this was that the county adopt the system of contract work for road building. Each of the five men who were to have been sentenced this moraine were given further respite by reason that petitions for parole were mad in each instance. They were Clar ence Ogilvy, Paul Jones, Leslie But ler, William Evans and Thomas BaJ com. The 'following U the final roport of the grand jury: Report of Grand Jury. In the County Court of the State of Oregon for Umatilla county. To the Honorable Judge of the .above entitled court: We, your grand Jury beg leave to submit the following report: We have been in session two days the first sitting, one day the second and three days the tbSrd. We h&v returned a large number of true bill and some not true bills. We hare carefully considered all matter brought before us and acted upon the same as we thought best and to the best interest of the community and according to law. We have visited the various office of the county and the county Jail and find them to be in first class con dition. We visited the poor farm and find the same satisfactory and man aged in first class condition. We believe the question of good roads la of the utmost importance to the people of Umatilla county, and we have given considerable attention to the best plan for improvement. e believe that the present sys- tern of building bridges by contract Inaugurated by the county court is to be commended, and we think that It would be well to extend such system to the building of county roads and where the work to be done is of suf ficient magnitude, to procure bids for the work. We believe that the experiment al ong this line should be made and at least a few miles of road built by contract each year and that if the plan after trial, proves a success that it be adopted as the permanent policy of the county. We think the county road master could better superin tend the contract work than to try and look after the several local crews hired by the day. and that eventually the county would becom possessed of good, permanent road and the cost of construction and ex pense of maintenance would be less. We wish to thank the District At torney and the various court offi cials for their assistance given us, and now having concluded our work we respectfully submit this report and ask to be discharged. Experts to Discuss Food Topics. St. Louis. Sept. 19. Government experts will lecture on die and culi nary topics, and on economical mar keting and scientific selection of food as a remedy for the high cost of liv ing, during the Pure Food Show opened today In the Coliseum.