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PENDLETON. OKEfJON. FIJI DAY, DECEMI5ER 2, 191 0.
NO 7074
TIFT REVISES
HIS MESSAGE
After Delivering Document to
Press Associations Recalls
Same tor Alterations.
MUCH SPECULATION'
OVEK TARIFF ATTITUDE
Having Mulshed Annual Message
President Will Now Name Supreme
Judge and Meet Putlent Cullers
Judge Pollock of Kansas May bo to
Supremo Bench.
Washington, Dec. 2. Taft has re
called bin message, having decided to
rewrite a dozen pages and to make
certain pages more forceful, today.
Washington, Dec. 2. The presi
dent's message is completed and is be
ing distributed by press associations
today. There is much speculation
among politicians as to what the
lengthy document contains. The only
authentic information given out con
cerning the message is that it has
been approved by the cabinet The
president will now give up the rest of
his time between now and the opening
of congress to callers who have been
besieging his office for weens ana in
meeting retiring officials.
There is much speculation as to
what the message contains, especially
regarding the tariff. Nothing can be
learned as those who have perused
the document are sworn to secrecy.
Next to the measures which he re
commended comes the appointments
he will make, particularly to the su
preme bench, it Is probable Hughes
will be appointed chief Justice. This
matter Is a question that is agitating
the minds of congressmen. There
are many rumors of prospective ap
pointments but most of them are un
officially denied.
May Appoint Pollock.
Washington. Dec. 2. It Is reported
here todny that President Taft con
templates appointing Judge John Pol
loc of Kansas to the supreme court
Of the United States. Roosevelt ap
pointed Pollock to the federal bench
In 1903.
COUNT BEAUFORT SAYS HE
WAS "SMASHED IN FACE"
rtiimun tw. 2. Count de Beau
fort, whose troubles with his mllllon-
im fniher-ln-lnw. Michael Kllgallen,
have been filling papers for the
month, today swore out a warrant
airninnt Kllirallcn. He charges Kll
gallen envelgled him Into his office
-,. 4th and "smnshed his face- De
cause he refused to leave his sick
wife. Oosslp has It that the wire is
alck because the count threw rier
down stairs.
JACK JOHNSON SURPRISES
SPORTS BY REALTY DEAL
Chlcnsro. Dec. 2. Jack Johnson
blnssomd out as a real capitalist to
dav when he secured an option on
property valued at $60,000 at State
and Thirty-first streets., It was ex
pected the deal would be complete!
thl afternoon. The property con
sists of an auditorium, two dance ha"s
and apvernl lodging halls. Johnson
urprlsed the sports by showing he has
$165,000 In the bank.
STEAMER KAN AGROUND
AN SAN JUAN ISLAND
Victoria, B. C., Dec. 2. The steam
er Northwestern went aground at San
Juan Island early today. The passcu
gers and mall were transferred to
the stenmer Tees, which is due to
reach this city this afternoon. A
heavy gale has been blowing the last
two days. Tho vessel Is owned by the
Alaska Steamship company. She left
Seattle yesterday bound for Valdez
with 26 passengers and a crew of 70
PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED
BUT NO ONE KILLED
La Mont, Mo., Dec. 2. Passenger
train number four was wrecked two
miles east of Knobnoster, Missouri,
early today. Fifteen were Injured,
some critically, but no one was killed.
Two Pullmans and a chair car were
ditched and rolled over an eight foot
embankment. ThoBo seriously Injur
ed were taken to Missouri, Kansas, and
to Scdalla. A broken rail caused the
wreck.
IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS
SHOW THE MARBLE HEART
New York, Dec. 2. Ignoring
the plea she would be killed if
deported the Immigration of
ficials today decided to deport
Marie Sethella, who escaped
from a harem at Damascus and
fled to America.
HE
TO
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(Special Correspondence.)
Hermlston, Ore, Dec. 2. This eve
ning the people of Hermlston will
dedicate their beautiful and substan
tial new school house with a prograM
to be held In the new building It
will be a literary and social program
and It Is anticipated tnat 500 je)ple
will be In attendance. Frank K.
Welles, county school superintendent,
will bo tho principal speaker of the
evening.
LYMAN GAGE TELLS OF
RELATIONS WITH SIRS. TING LEY
Denver, Dec. 2. Denying the re
port that he had broken with Mrs.
Tlngley, preceptress of the Point Lo
ma, Calif., theosophlcal colony, Ly-
man T. Gage, former secretary of
treasury and multl-mllllonaire, caus
ed a surprise here today by the state
ment he never had been a supporter
of Mrs. Tlngley In any way. He said
the report he had broken with Mrs.
Tlnfji-y was therefore unfounded. He
said he never had been a member of
the universal brotherhood. He owns
a home near the Tlngley place and
common report said he was a member
if the cult.
L
E WHEAT SALE
EAT
WOODWARD BROTHERS SELL
12,000 BUSHELS AT 73 CENTS
Balfour Gutlirlo Company Makes
Purclianos Through Walla Walla
Agncy Growers Own Private
Warehouse.
Twelve thousand bushels of wheat
changed hands at Adams recently, ac
cording to reports received from there
today. This Is one of the largest sin
gle transactions reported In the coun
ty for some time. The price Is said
to have been 73 cents f. o. b.- cars
Adams.
The sale was made by Woodward
Brothers and the Balfour-Guthrie
company Is the purchaser.
Wheat Is being quoted today In
the local markets at 70 cents, but
Woodward Brothers own their own
warehouse and were therefore In a po
sition to get more than the ruling
market rrlce. They were paid the
full market price and the warehouse
and handling charges In addition.
The sale was made through the
Walia Walla agency of the Balfour
company.
MEXICAN REVOLUTIONISTS
MAY ATTACK AMERICANS
El Paso, Dec. 2. A report that Mex
ican revolutionists have been ordered
to attack Madero, an American col
ony, is causing unasiness here. Reb
els drilling In the vicinity of Madero
have promised not to molest Ameri
cans, but refugees arriving here say
Americans fear a secret attack Is be
ing plnnned. It Is feared that the
city of Chihuahua Is to be attacked.
Merchants and bankers there have
shipped large amounts of coin to this
city.
MANY SLANDER SUITS
DURING ENGLISH ELECTION
London, Dec. 2. Scores of suits for
slander are expected as an aftermath
of tho present political campaign
which Is the bitterest In English mod
ern history. Charges of treason,
theft and lying have been handled
freely. Members of parliament In
seventy constituencies are to be elect
ed In England.
Ciilltcrson for a Lender.
Washington. There Is talk among
democrats of re-electing Senator Cul
berson of Texas as leader of the sen
ate minority, a position he held for
several years, and until his health
failed. Senator Money of Mississippi
Is now minority leader, but he leaves
the senate on March 4 and a new
leader will be chosen when the slxty
econd congress organizes.
As Senator Culberson has fully re
gained his health, he Is a logical can
didate for leadership, and perhaps Is
better equipped than any other dem
ocrat In the senate. Then, too. It
must be recalled that Senator Culber
son has several times been mention
ed as democratic nominee for presi
dent. Texas democrats have a feel
ing that the south should be recog
nized on a national ticket
Carelessness In Mailing.
London. One of the most notice
able features In the annual report of
the postmaster generat is the careless
ness of correspondents, probably due
to twentieth century hustling. The
number of undelivered packets of all
kinds, Including packets entirely un
addressed and articles found loose In
postofflce boxes are estimated to have
reached a total of 21.241,000, an ap
preciable Increase on the previous
year.
BIG STRIKE IS
T
0. R. & N. Engineers Vote to
Go Out Unless Increase of
Wages is Granted.
SOUTHERN PA CI IIC LINE
WILL ALSO HE TIED UP
Pendleton May lie Cut Off from Di
rect Communication Willi Portland
Engineers on All Western Roads
Demand Increase of 15 Per Cent.
Portland, Ore., Dec. 2. Meml. t
of the brotherhood of locomotive en
gineers living in and running into
Portland on the O. R. & N. and
Southern Pacific have voted to strike
unless the demands of the enc'r.eorr
on all western railroads for a fifteen
per cent Increase are granted. Bal
loting was done secretly during the
last three weeks here and throughout
the west. The ballots were sent to
the Chicago headquarters of the or
ganization to be opened December
10. Shortly afterwards there will ba
a conference with the managers of
the railroad lines It Is generally be
lieved a compromise may be reached
without a strike. The Northern Pa
cific and Great Northern member of
the organization live nt Tacoma,
mostly. Very ltttl could be learned
ns to how the vote went
Eastern Engineers Considering ,
Cleveland. Dec. 2. Warren Stone,
president of the brotherhood of rail'
road engineers, would not talk con
cernlng whether there would ba a
strlks of locomotive engineers '.t the
western raildoads would not grant
demands for an increase of wages to
day.
Other Trainmen Involved.
Sacramento, Calif., Dec. 2. Discus,
sing the poll of brotherhood locomo
tive engineers on the question of a
general strike on railroads of the west
to enforce a wage increase which
would Involve forty thousand men.
. X. Wallon, chief engineer of Sac
ramento division, today said that the
organizations of brakemen, firemen
and conducctors are also voting se
cretly on the matter of going on strike
for an Increase.
"FATHER OF TRUSTS" IS
DEAD AT NEW JERSEY HOME
Orange, N. J., Dec. 2. Judge' Jas.
C Dill, called the father of trusts,
died here today. He helped Incor
porate some of the biggest trusts In
this country and derived an Income
of $300,000 yearly on this account. He
received a fee of a million dollars for
organizing the United Steel trust. The
capital of corporations he personally
organ'zed total $703 000.000. He was
formerly a newspaper reporter.
TURKISH TROOPS KILL
700 NEAR DAMASCUS
Constantinople, Dec. 2. Seven
hundred Druses are reported slain in
a battle with Turkish troops nt Hou
ran and Syria near Damascus today.
The main body of Druses estimated
at 10.000, Is said to be holding out
while the-Turks are reconnoitering.
Another battle Is expected soon. The
outbreak occurred over religous d 1
ferences. Smarting under opire
sons, the peasants have been arming
for weeks.
This forenoon Messrs. Cochran and
McCnrty, representing the stat-3 board,
visited the Cheney-Clopton place at
the mouth of McKay creek to Inves
tigate the desirability of that place
for a location for the eastern Oregon
branch asylum. This afternoon they
have been viewing the Byers property,
above the city and. also the Rugg
ranch.
It Is understood that the men wl'l
complete their local Investigations to
morrow. After they have Inspected all
the sites they will then meet with the
committee that has been gathering da
ta showing the advantages of Pendle
ton as a location for the branch asy
lum. Three general committees have
been at work gathering data and tho
chairmen have been Leon Cohen,
PENDLETON MAKES STRONG
SH01I FOR BRANCH ASYLUM
1
S
T
Says Last Year's Fight Re
garding Naming of Com
miltees t Be Revived,
WOULD SHEAR SPEAKER
OF POWER TO NAME
Move Was Started Last Year for
Committee on Committees But
Dropped to Prevent Prolongation of
Session Norris Says Country Be
hind Insurgency.
Washington, Dec. 2. That the
fight started at the last session of
congress over the method of appoint
ing committees in the house will be
one of the battles In the coming ses- j
sion, is the belief of Congressman
Norris, Nebraskan insurgent leader,
who arrived today. Norris said: "This
session will be for Insurgency. The
country is behind us." He said the
session will be one of the most im
portant In the history of the Insur
gency movement and that upon the
victories gained will depend largely
the future of the progressives.
Norris, continuing, said: "The fight
which is expected to open the Insur
gent campaign is over the appoint
ment of the committees of the house."
Just before the close of the last ses
sion Norris introduced a resolution for
the appointment of a committee on
committees. This comlttee was to be
divided according to geographical di
visions, made up of twenty members.
It would give twelve divisions for the
majority and eight for the minority
party. The committee would have
power to appoint all other commit
tees Including that on rules This
caused a sensation last year but was
not pushed because it was believed
then it would mean a fight on Can
non and would result in a prolonga
tion of the session then about to ad
journ. The new idea will probably be
revived.
WENDLING DENIES MURDER
OF ALMA KELLNER
Louisville, Ky., Dec. 2. John
Wendling on trial for the murder of
Alma Kellner, whose body was found
here several months aeo in a church
basement, today denied on the stand
having nrurdered the child. Wendling
is unable to account for bloodstains
on his bicycle after he fled or those
on his trunk.
ELEVEN UNIONISTS CHOSEN
TO ENGLISH PARLIAMENT
London, Dec. 2. Eleven unionists
and four radicals were re-elected
members of parliament today. Among
them were Joseph Chamberlain and
Arthur Balfour.
EIGHT WITH POSSE
Garden City, Iowa, Dec. 2. Yegg
men under the fire of a posse of cit
izens for dynamiting the safe of the
Farmers' Saving bank here today.
They fought off their pursuers and
escaped with eight hundred dollars.
Citizens were awakened by shots of
the night watchman and joined In the
attack The robbers returned the
fire and continued working on the
vault. Tluy broke it in and with the
loot escaped in a buggy. Posses are
pursuing them.
transportation, T. C. Taylor, water,
and C E. Roosevelt, weather. The
data gathered by these committees
has been placed In writing and copies
of the reports will bo turned over to
the state board through Messrs. Coch
ran and McCarthy.
So favorable Is the showing made
by Pendleton through this data that
members of the local committee are
confident they have the Inside track
for the location.
Another feature that may have a
strong bearing In locating the asylum
Is the fact that with some of the lo
cal sites offered go water power
rights. In view of the fact that the
branch asylum will necessarily need
much electricity for lighting and f r
power purposes It Is possible this fea
ture may have much weight.
iHELIX WILL HOLD
ELECTION TUESDAY
(Special Correspondence.)
Helix. Dec. 2. Next Tuesday, De
cember 6, the people of Helix will
elect a new set of town officials. A
mayor, three councllmen, a treasurer
and a marshal are to be elected. The
following is the ticket now In the
field:
For mayor, two years J. S. Nor
vill. For councllmen, two years M. L.
Morrison, Charles Stanton, L. L.
Hutchinson, Charles Behrens and S.
E. Starr. Only three are to be elected.
For treasurer, two years Carl
Engdahl.
For marshal, two yars C. A. Lo
gan, R. C. Dunnington, Julius Nelson.
At the election the people will also
vote upon the adoption or rejection of
a five-mill municipal tax levy.
MEXICANS WOULD TAKE
LOWER CALIFORNU
San Diego, Dec. 2. Andrew Tirade
an armed Mexican arrested here to
day, confessed there is a Mexican
revolutionary organization being per
fected in this city for the purpose of
capturing lower California. Tia Ju
ana was the first town marked for
attack. It is just across the line.
DIG CHURCHMEN
ET
CONFERENCE TO BE
FOLLOWED BY SUPPER
Rev. W. S. nolt, Rev. E, F. Hall, Dr.
Milllgan and Rev. J. F. Vernon
Will Constitute Ontslde Delegation
In West End Towns Today.
A series of conferences is now In
progress in the different Presbyterian
l. 1 1 11 I t 11' .- Ill Ulb (11 V L J v
ton. They are conducted by promi
nent men of the church. Including Dr.
W. S. Holt of Portland, Rev. Ernest F.
Hall of San Francisco. Dr. Milllgan
of Portland and Rev. J. F. Vernon,
Prescott. These leaders will be In
Pendleton on the motor .Saturday
morning, coming from Echo and
Stanfield. They will conduct a simi
lar conference in the Pendleton Pres
byterian church. There will be a sup
per for the members of the church.
Following the supper speeches will be
made by the leaders of particular In
terest to the men of the church. This
is a "get acquainted" supper. It Is
hoped that all who are interested
will be present. One of the visiting
clergymen will address the congrega
tion on Sunday morning at the usual
hour and In the evening there will be
a popular meeting In the Interest of
home and foreign missions and the
youth of the church", one leader will
accompany Rev. J. M. Cornelison to
the Indian government school to ad
dress the children In the morning
and from there to Tutuilla to addresi
the congregation In the afternoon.
LABOR PARTY IS ACTIVE.
Much Legislation Has Been Put On
Books by English Parliament
London. The Labor party made its
first appearance In Parliament in
1906, with 30 members. Since then,
nearly every piece of labor legislation
that the administration has placed up
on the statute books has been placed
upon them simply because the small
but unanimous Labor pnrty insisted
on it and threatened to raise "Ned"
with the administration unless it
yielded.
The very first thing that the La
borites did was to force the passage
of a bill compelling local authorities
to feed necessitous school children.
Upon the same party's demand, the
administration Introduced a measure
to safeguard labor unions from the
encroachments of employers. The
bill laid before the Commons was
so unsatisfactory to the Laborltes,
however, that the ministry was com
pelled to withdraw It and a new one
was offered by the Labor members
themselves. The administration was
afraid to oppose It, It passed accord
ingly and now It Is law.
MAN BREAKS NECK
ON EVE OF WEDDING
Cleveland. Divorced a few days
r.go and on the eve of his second mar
riage, Andrew Wylnnd. 22 years old.
fell down the steps at the home of his
fiance, Miss Ida Farrence, and broke
his neck.
Wyland was to have been married
and called on his fiance to discuss the
final wedding arrangements. In leav.
Ing her he mounted a flight of steps
leading from the basement, stumbled
at the head of them and fell head
long to the girl's feet. Laughing at
what she thought was a slight mis
hap she went to his assistance and
found him dead.
The man who said he could see
through Taft evidently didn't expect
his hearers to take him literally.
Centralis Chronicle.
MEN
KEPT NO BOOKS
Committee Attorney Despairs
of Proving Charges Made
Against New York Sports
TREASURER ADMITS
$300,000 WAS RAISED
Lack of Positive Evidence Will Prob
ably Precent Conviction of Men
Charged With Having Bribed New
Y'ork Legislators to Oppose Hughe
Measures.
New York, Dec. 2. That the legis
lative investigation committee will be
unable to trace the vast sum of money
which the allied race interests are
said to have spent for "legal service
in an attempt to prevent the passages
of anti-betting laws in New York, 1
the belief of Bruce Linn, attorney for
the committee. The treasurer of the -Metropolitan
association, a bookmak- .
ers organization, James Evans, testi
fied he kept no books showing how
and where the money went He es
timates that $300,000 were raised to -
defeat the race track laws.
T. B. WILCOX REELECTED
HEAD DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE,
Salem, Ore., Dec. 2. With the re
election of Theodore B. Wilcox and C. ..
C. Chapman of Portland as president
and secretary, respectively, the great
est congress of the Oregon Develop-
ment league closed its three days' ses
sion at Sajem yesterday afternoon and
will hold 'its next conference at As--toria
some time next summer at
date to be fixed by the executive
board of the league, but which, no
doubt, will correspond with the date
for the holding of the commemorative
centennial at the sea coast town. .
As rirst vice president the league
chose J. S. Van Winkle of Albany; as
second vice president, G. Wlngate of
Astoria; as third vice president, W.
M. Colvig of Medford as fourth vice
president, William Hanley of Burns;
and as fifth vice president, J. H. Ra
ley of Pendleton. The league has no
organization except on r-aper, there
being no provision xiade for regular
meetings or election of officers except
as custom has provided. The Ore
gon Development league Is merely a.
very loose confederation of booster
clubs and commercial organizations of;
Oregon.
Before adjourning the congress
adopted a number of resolutions. .
though it was the endeavor of the of
ficials throughout the session not to
allow any resolutions except of mere
ly a perfunctory order to be Intro
duced as the leaders in the movement
have attempted to keep the league ont
of any movement that savored of pol
itics. Secretary Chapman even de--precated
the introduction of a good',
roads resolution.
Addresses were also delivered at the
closing session by Leon Chapman of -Portland;
President P. L. Campbell
of the University of Oregon; Charles
H. Carey of the legal department of
the Northern Pacific railroad and G .
L. Dick, managr of the Salem Frult
L. Dick, manager of the Salem Fruit
poses of the fruit union, the value
they were to fruit growers and the
assistance to business men that deal:
with them. He advocated giving fruit
Inspectors more power and if possible
to have them directly responsible to
a state department rather than to the.
county.
SHELTON WOMEN MAY BE
THE FIRST TO USE FRANCHISE".
Shelton, Wash., Dec. 2 The wo
men of Shelton may be the first wo
men n Washington to vote, following
the adoption of the equal suffrage
law at the last state election. They
asked for a ruling concerning the time
they can vote and City Attorney F!sk
rules the law is now operative, so they
would ballot at the city election Tues
day. ORANGEMEN WOULD FIGHT
IF HOME RULE WINS
Belfast, Ireland, Dec. 2. Orange
men of Ulster this afternoon predict
ed thnt bloodshed would follow the
granting of home rule to Ireland.
Prominent Orangement publicly Invit
ed tenders for the Immediate delivery
of arms and ammunition.
CALIFORNIA WILL GET
FOUR NEW CONGRESSMEN
Washington. Dec. 12. The
population of California Is' 2,-
S77.649. nn Increase of 892.-
4 96. This means four new
congressmen. The state of VI r-
ginla has 2,0(1.612. an Increase
of 11.2 per cent. Virginia gets
one additional congressman.