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VOL. 23.
lENDLETON, OREGON, MONDAY. FEJUiUAItY 20, 1911.
NO. 714113
GOVERNOR
WIELDS AX
Deficiency Sill Vetoed by Ex
ecutive, Who Tells Why.
WOULD HAVE PUT STATE
IN THE PACPER CLAS
Fawuigo of Measure Would Leave
Board Helpless In Cases of Emer
gency Present Board Proposes to
Live Within Appropriations Other
Measures Vetoed.
Salem, Ore., Feb. 20. The fear that
th atnto mlirht become a pauoer dur
ing times of emergency prompted
Governor West to veto the aenciency
bill, according to the statement In
hla formnl expression of disapproval.
Issued for the benefit of the members
of the house before that body ad
tourned
"Deficiencies are bad and business
demands that thev be not allowed
but there Is not demand for such
radiral legislation as Is offered by
this bill," he says. "Should it become
a law and the legislature at any time
Intentionally, or through . oversigni,
fall to provide funds sufficient for
the maintenance of the several insti
tutions, or should a fire destroy any
of the buildings and necessitate re
pairs or re-constructlon of said build
ings, the board would bo helpless.
Likened to PaiiHT.
"The state In such case, would be
placed in the position of a pauper
debtor, who, pressed for the necessi
ties of life, was compelled to pledge
his word alone fr supplies to meet
his needs, and pay such prices ns
would be handed t' him. This would
not he erm.i hut bad hur'ness. and
. It s'.nmps the measure as a vicious
' one.
"The demand for the tun grows out
of the i :i. t practice of old boards al
lowing large def.ri"nees to accumu
late nt tlii? nil of each biennial pe
riod. This the present board propos
es to avoid nnd In behalf of those
boards I promise you the affairs of
the Flat.' will he so conducted during
the next biennial period as to give
you no cause to wish the enactment
of this measure." '
In his veto message to the seni.te
on a similar bill the governor says:
Xo .More Deficiencies.
"Inasmuch as there are going to
be no deficiencies during this admin
istration, unless they be caused y
acts of i'.od, or the public enemy, the
passage of such a bill Is unnecessary
and would only encumber our statute
books with useless laws and further
complicate our already complicated
system of government. I pledge you
that the affairs of this stuto will bo
so conducted during this administra
tion that they will stand as a justi
fication for this veto."
Chase's Bill Vetoed.
In his veto on Chase's bill No. 1,
the governor says It opens the way
for the acquisition of several ports
without cost to them of any and nil
tide lands now owned by the state,
giving the ports the power to lease
them for any unlimited period. This
power, he declnres, could be easily
abused. He points out that the school
children of Harney and Lake counties
now derive equal benefits with those
Of Cons and Clatsop from the prices
at which the lands have been sold by
the state land board, and that If the
ports desire them It is no more than
right that they should pay for them
at their market value."
Ho further points out that he
question Is now being thrashed out
In the courts as to whether the state
can sell those lands or must hold
them in trust for the people, and says
that, In the meantime, the present law
and the board's policy will go far to
withhold such lands from sale.
Xo Salary Increase.
Disapproving Thompson's house
bill, raising the salary of the Judge
of the Klamath, Lake county, dis
trict, the governor, declares that the
peoplo of these counties at the last
general election decided overwhelm
ingly against the Increase and tl.e
people of the state by a vote of 71,
603 to 13,161 decided against Identi
cally the same proposition as apply
ing to the third Judicial district.
HEAVY EARTHQUAKE IS
REPORTED IN TURKEY
Constantinople, Turkey, Feb. 20.
Vaguo reports have reached here to
day of a heavy earthquake In Vilayet
of Monastery. No details have been
received.
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JAPAN RENOUNCES
CANADIAN TREATY
London, Fob. 20. Tho anglo-
Japanese convention- of 1906
regulating commercial relations
between Canada and Japan
which expires In July has been
renounced by Japan.
HOUSE ADOPTS GAG
RULE IN EMERGENCY
Washington, D. C, Feb. 20. Under
the compromise plan finally adopted
It Is possible by a two thirds vote to
suspend the rules at any ime and
with only forty minutes debate to
pass a bill. By this means today the
house adopted a gag rule to end fili
bustering, which has tied ifp business
since Friday and providing for the
expediting of business.
When the house met this morning,
technically It was still Friday, owing
to Mann's filibustering on the "om
nibus claims bill."
By a two thlrdB vote the house re
considered the war claims bills and
passed it. The District of Columbia
bill then went back for a conference.
LAKESIIOHK BOILERMAKERS
GO OUT ON STRIKE
Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 20. A strike
of 900 Lakeshore boilermakerswas
ordered today. It Is asserted that
the company is endeavoring to Install
the piece work system In its shops at
Colllnwood, Ohio. The order applies
to all bollershops on the road. A
sympathetic strike of other machin
ists is expected.
Eighty quit work at Colllnwood
and 820 at other points.
Vice president Vey of the Interna
tional council of boiler makers al
liged that piece work violates the
agreement signed in December and re
duces the wages thirty per cent.
MURRAY WILL BE
MAJOR GENERAL
Washington, Feb. 20. President
Taft today nominated Brigadier Gen
eral Murray chief of coast artillery to
the major guneralship.
A
L
SECURE MICH DOODLE
AND BOX CAR LOOTERS
1 iiri'iiuin of Greek Coal finite Gang
Acts us "Fence" for Gung of far
Rohlters ul I'niatillu.
Laden down with boodle to the val
ue of approximately $000 and having
In custody John Nitson, a Greek in
whose possession the boodle was
found, Sheriff T. D. Tuylor and De
tective E. B. Wood of the Oregon
Washington company arrived yester
day afternoon from Umatilla where
the arrest was made. Nitson is charg
ed with being a "fence" which In
criminal terminology is the name ap
plied to a man who receives stolen
goods. He was employed by the rail
road company at Umatilla -ns foreman
of the coal chute gang and in his
cache was found most of the shoes
clothing and other articles stolen
from a boxcar Wednesday evening,
an account of which wus contained in
a dispatch from the railroad town last
week. As ho admits receiving the
goods after night and paying a price
for them totally Incommensurate with
their aluo, the officers believe they
have a good case against him.
Two men, charged with commit
ting the robbery and Identified by
Xltson as the men who sold the goods
to him, were captured by Wallula of
ficers in that town Saturday on de
scriptions furnished them by Sheriff
Taylor and Detective Wood, and they
wero brought over that night and
lodged in the county jail to await the
action of the grand Jury now in ses
sion. They gave tho names of Regan
and Brown.
Tho stolen goods, consisting of sev
eral boxes of shoes, and other articles
of clothing and a large pile of mis
cellaneous shoes, Is now In the sher
iffs office nnd will be used as evidence
against tho men.
The arrest of these three men
makes six now lodged In the county
Jail for Implication In boxcar rob
beries, and the quickness with which
they were run to earth Is a. strong
testimonial for the efficiency of both
Sheriff Taylor and Detective Wood.
RANKERS AND MERCHANTS
OPPOSING RECIPROCITY
Toronto, Can., Feb. 20. Protest
ing against the ratification of the re
ciprocity agreement with tho United
States nineteen leading bankers and
merchants of this city, former sup
porters of Premier Laurler are op
posing the administration. Today they
Issued a statement declaring that re
ciprocity would check the trade rela
tions between Canada nnd England.
ROBERT CIIANLER AND
WIFE SETTLE DIFFICULTIES
New York, Feb. 20. Friends of
Robert Chanter today claim he has
settled all domestic difficulties with
the prima donna and all court pro
ceedings will be dropped. It Is said
she, relinquishes her mnrrlngo con
tract for a small sum.
Give some people n bit of an ap
ple and there'll be no core.
HUSSIA TO
ATTACK CIA
Reply to Near Ultimatum is
Not Satisfactory Prepares
tor War.
CHINA ACCUSES RUSSIA
OF VIOLATING TREATY
Czar Orders Concentration of Troops
on Mongolia Frontier District n
Turkestan Will Be Seized at Once
Russia Drives Chinks from Sev
eral Cities.
St. Petersburg, Russia, Feb. 20.
Dissatisfaction with China's reply to
Russia's near ultimatum which was
received here today Is reported to
have been followed by orders for the
concentration of troops on the Chlnei-e
frontier with the object of at once
seizing the Kuldja district in Chinese
Turkestan.
In her reply China agrees to the es
tabllshment of Russian consulates at
all points mentioned by Russia, save
Chengsuashua, but Insists that the
article of the treaty which removes
the free trade provision when the
trade warrants the establishment of a
consulate be adherred to. China con
tends she had not broken the treaty
and accuses Russia of having done
so.
Summing up. China contends that
the treaty of 1881 has been violated
bv Russia and cites as an Illustration
of a number of cities from which the
Chinese were expelled on the east
side of the Amur river an, also men
tions the failure of Russia to indenv
nify China for property destroyed
during the Russia -Japanese -war.
SENATE TIMES TO GET
VETOES INTO CHAMBERS
Salem. Or.. Feb. 20. The senate
Saturday niitht pr posed , B, t into
'ts Ik. inliers the vetoes announced by
Governor West that afternoon, a res
olution to this effect being Introduced
by Abraham. Sinnott opposed the
proposal on the grounds that the of
ficial hour of adjournment was long
parsed and that the governor's vetoes
ha.l not taken effect until after that
time.
He declared that he had fought
the governor during the campangn
and in the senate, but that he did not
propose to take any part in the action
proposed by Abraham. A committee,
composed of Senators Chase and W.
A. Harrett was finally named to get
the vetoes but reported later that
they had not been filed In the office
of the secretary of state, the only
source from which the legislature
could legally obtain them.
SENATE KILLS AMME'S
LIABILITY MEASURE
Salem. Or., Feb. 20. Representa
tive Ammo'n bill fixing the liability
of telegraph and telephone compan
ies for delayed and incorrect mes
sages which had a tumultuous course
through the house, was killed Satur
day night, being indefinitely post
poned. Another bill receiving the
same treatment was the high school
bill especially advocated by Speaker
Rusk and carried in the house by his
ihfluence. Rival speakers represent
ing the opposing Ideas of "high school
questions in Wallowa county were
heard on the floor and although the
bill was amended to apply to Wallowa
county only, t was emphatically voted
down.
Dashing wildly down the western
slope of the Blue mountains with the
hand of an unconscious engineer on
(he throttle, an extra westbound
freight had a narrow escape from de
struction on the night of February S,
according to railroad men who have
been trying to adhere to the com
pany's rule to keep such things from
tho public.
The accident, which is one of tho
most remarkable In the history of
railroading, occurred near Conway
station about 10:30 o'clock at night
while the truin In charge of Conduc
tor B. E. 'Hancock and Engineer J.
A. Anderson of La Grande was speed
ing along under the rocky bluffs
which border Meacham creek.
Though the exact cause of the iw ir
disaster is not known It Is supposed
that, as not unfrequently happens,
the rumble of the train loosened a
shower of rocks on the hillside and
one of these flying missies striking a
projecting ledge) was shot into the
cab, striking Engineer Anderson on
ENGINEER UNCONSCIDUS, THAIN
RUSHES WILDLY DOWN VUI
I N
HELP REBELS
With Machine Guns and Riffes
They Rout the Forces of
Navarro,
FEDERALISTS WALK INTO
TRAP SET FOR THEM
Me.xicun Troops Ilex? In Disorder
Men rrom Tills Side of Line Also
Assist Insurgents In Lower Cali
fornia War Correspondent Threat
ened With Arrest.
El Paso, Tex.. Feb. 20. Using
machine guns and rifles at a distance
of 100 yards, a party of Americans and
insurrectos are reported here today
as having badly beaten the force of
Navarro's troops near Stlgnacle.
The couriers who arrived here say
the federalists walked Into an am
buscade and fled In disorder. Navar
ro's headquarters at Juarez declare
that only a few shots were exchang
ed, but It is generally bleleved that
the official explanation Is inspired by
hope not knowledge.
Ready for Attack.
Calexlco, Mex., Feb. 20. Gather
ing his supplies anil arranging more
fully to equip several recruits who
slipped over the line. General Bert
hold, second In command of the reb
els In Southern California, is prepar
ed today to march on Ensendana.
John Kenneth Turner, author of
"Barbarous Mexico." who is here in
I the capacity of a war correspondent,
I was threatened with arrest as an In-
surrectn today by United States au
tarkies. Whilj admitting his' sym
pathies wi re the rebels, Turner
said he was neutral.
DELINQUENT TAX LISTS
.MIST 15 E PUHLISIIED
Sail in, Oie., Feb. 20. Delinquent,
tax lists will have to be published In
the newspapers untb r the Represen
It :Vs bill, passed by the senate
Saturday ni.iht. Tho, price of publi
cation has been fixed at 5 cents per
line.
Important change is made in pros
i v. i .,- -rney districts, and salaries
by passage of Representative Miller's
bill. Each county is made a separate
district, except Union and Wallowa,
which remain in a joint district. The
bill passed by vote of 19 to S.
I N D I'ST l'.A LI STS STILL
GOING SOUTHWARD
Montague, Cal., Feb. 20. Only
half of the original 200 industrial
workers who left Portland for Fresno
t i fight the "free speech" ordinance
are here today. The rest are aboard
freights southu urd bound. The In
dustralists pitched camp here today.
They are peaceful and pay for all
they get.
City's Terms Declined.
Fresno, Cal., Feb. 20. Eighty in
dustralists who were jailed here to
day declined the city's proposition to
release them provided they would
abide by the ordinance restricting
street speaking and go to the court
house square. They want to speak
anywhere they choose. They say they
will serve their sentences and con
tinue the fight.
There are as many husbands mis
understood as there are wives unap
preciated. the back of the head, rendering him
unconscious. This Is the theory ad
vanced by the railroad men and a
rock found on the floor of the cab
lends strength to the theory.
Just how long the engineer was un
conscious will never be known, ns his
memory g not clear in regard to tho
happening. As soon as he was struck
the hand which grasped the air
brake lever relaxed its hold and the
heavy train Immediately began gath
ering momentum which sent it down
the perilous mountain curves at a
tremendous rate of speed.
The fireman on his side of the cab
knew nothing of tho accident until,
noticing that they were flying around
curves nt a rate of speed which
threatened to land them in the ditch,
made an Investigation and discover
ed the form of the engineer crumpled
up on the seat with Irs powerless
hand still grasping the throttle.
The train was stopped and Conduc
tor II. E. Hancock Installed as engi
ne r He brought the train on Into
rpndleton.
WAR WITH JAPAN
AGAIN PREDICTED
Washington. Feb. 20. War with
Japan within the next, ten months
was predicted In the house today by
Representative Hobson, during ' a
sneeeh favorinir a definite construc
tive police of defense. He said Japan
is now financially preparing tor war
and this country will be compelled
to make an exhaustive struggle unless
she Is prepared also.
EASTERN OREGON IS
ONE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
Salem, Or.. Feb. 20. Multnomah
county In one district, all the rest of
western Oregon in another and all the
coun'les of eastern Oregon in anoth
er it; the arrangement of congression
al districts made by Representative
Mahoney's bill, passed oy me senate
Saturday afternoon.
The bill was so satisfactory that no
votes were cast against It. The sen
ate passed an Identical bill, prepared
by Senator Oliver, some time ago.
Meantime -the house over the protest
of Speaker Rusk, passed the Ma
honey bill. It was reported the speak
er preferred to seek congressional
honers In the present second district
which runs from Wallowa to the sea
and leave one congressman to be
elected at large in 1912.
Eastern Oregon generally favored
the creation of a new district bv it
self and Multnorpah members also
wanted reapportionment to insure
that county a congressman. The
Multnomah county district will be
known as the third, the eastern Ore
gon as second and the western dis
trict, exclusive of Multnomah, as the
first.
HALF MILLION FOR
LARGE M SET APART
FOR PENDLETON INSTITUTION
Legislature Appropriate 83:51.000 in
Addition to SK!5.000 voted nt Elec
tion by the People.
Will Approve Bill.
.
In a 'phone interview with
the East Oregonian this after-
noon Ralph Watson, private
secretary, stated in behalf of
Governor West, that the chief
executive will approve of the.
appropriation of $331,000 for
Eastern Oregon branch asylum.
At this time the bill has not
been signed but there is no
doubt as to the governor's atti-
tude. Governor West also stat-
ed, through his secretary, that
the state board will get busy
nt once on work looking to
building the branch asylum. A
representative of the board will
arrive in Pendleton within a
few days.
With passage by the senate Satur
day afternoon of an appropriation
bill carrying $331,000 for the branch
insane hospital at Pendleton there is
now uvailable the sum of $496,000 to
carry on the work of establishing that
institution. Of this, $165,000 is left
from the appropriation as made by
the people at the last general elec
tion. Expenditures at the new asylum are
outlined ns follows:
Main asylum building $300,000
Heating plant and equipment 60,000
Automatic sprinkling system 25,000
Laundry building, for 1000 pati
ents 15,000
Improvement of grounds .... 10,000
Outbuildings and barns 5,000
Drainage and sewers 15,000
Water system and pipelines.. 15.000
Stock and farm equipment. . 8,000
Developing of water power and
electric light system 23,000
New land and maintenance 21,000
Total cost $496. OOn
WOU! D BRING HAWAII
AND AMERICA CLOSER
Honolulu. Hawaii. Feb. 20. With a
view to bringing the cities of the Pn
eifie coast and Hawaii closer togeth
er commercially and socially, the
Pan-radfic. travel congress opened
here today under the auspices of the
Hawaii promoters committee. Over
two hundred delegates representing
the principal coast cities are present.
Rowernian Offers Thnnks.
S.ile n. Or., Feb. CO. The gracious
thing was done by Jay Bowerman to
night in the closing hours of the leg
islature by offering the usual reso
lution of thanks to President Ben
Selling. The resolution praised Sell
ing f r his dicnif'ed and impartial
rulings. Selling made a brief speech
in response, saying that he believed
this was dono in view of honest dif
ferences of opinion.
LEGISLATURE
IS
Governor West Wins Great
Victory in Closing Hours.
SECURES BENEFICIAL
LEGISLATION FOR STATE
Printer Placed on Flat Salary and
Conservation Commission Saved
Important Good Roads Measures
Also Reconsidered and Past Senate
Saves Bailey.
Salem, Ore., Feb. 20. The closing
day of the session of the legislature
was marked by the complete route of
the Bowerman forces in the house.
The defeat of the bill inspired by
Bowerman and presented by Norton,
abolishing the conservation commis
sion; passage of the flat salary bill
when the house responded to the
message from the governor and the
passage of the administration assist
ant secretary of state bill, these were
some of the things which found the
Bowerman house forces attacking a
wall which was absolutely impene
trable. Good Roads Victorious.
Good roads legislation also won &
complete victory In the legislature
Saturday night, when the senate pass
ed the highway commission and state
aids bills in quick succession. The
bills are in the form passed by the
house, being practically the original
highway commission bill as prepared
by Judge Webster, and $320,000 for
state aid.
It was after 11 o'clock when the
j bills passed the senate. Little time
j was consumed in debate. The high
way commission bill had been laid
pr'-'ic r.-.rller In the day to wait for
j the state aid bill, and not until late
j was it available. The highway com
j mission bill received 21 yeas to 6
noes and the state aid bill 21 votes
j'.vith T in tho negative,
i Earlii r in the day the senate pass
ed the Gill bill to authorize the bond
I ing of counties for road building,
j Bean, Dimiek, Hawley, Hoskins, Les
i ter and Miller voting no. Bean, Dim
I ick. McColloch and Miller voted
j against the highway commission and
state aid bills.
Four of Five Road Rills Pass.
The house passed the Carson coun
ty and city prisoner bill earlier In the
day, making four out of five of the
good roads association bills which will
go to the governor. The only measure
lost Is the convict labor bill, and this
would have been of little immediate
utility, as most of the penitentiary
convicts will be kept at work under
contract of Loewenberg & Going for
several years to come. '
Friends of good roads are Jubtlant
over the victory, which comes as the
end of a hard and what seemed at
times a hopeless fight.
Bailey Stays In Office.
Yielding to sympathy, pleas and the
influence of deft politics played by
the Bowerman crowd, the senate re
fused to put State Dairy and Food
Commissioner Bailey out of office.
By a vote of 13 ayes and 16 nays
the senate rendered an inconclusive
verdict against the removal bill, leav
ing Bailey still saddled on the state
and two reports declaring him Incom
petent lying on the desk.
Tax Measure Killed.
Salem, Ore., Feb. 20. Representa
tivo Reals' two tax measures, pro
posing increased rates on gifts, inheri
tances and legacies, were defeated In
the senate Saturday afternoon. Nor
ton expressed the opinion that nil tax
measures should be passed up to the
special committee of the leislature on
taxation, which will submit such am
endments to the people as it may
deem wise.
EASTERN OREGON WINS
PLACE ON COMMISSION
Salem, Ore., Feb. 20. Eastern Ore
gon won her ficht for representation
on the state railroad commission Pat
unlay night after a fight In the sen
ate led by Bowerman and Sinnott. The
bill as passed amends the railroad
commission law to require one mem
ber from east of the Cascades, brg'n
ning with the next election. This will
snueeze either T. K Cnmph"!!. or
Clyde B. Atchison off the commission
next year, as their terms expire at
that time and both live west of the
mountains.
Second Choice Bill Passes.
Salem, Or. Feb. 20. At. 12:45
Sunday morning. Senator Abraham
moved reconsideration of 'he Rusk
second eho'ee bill and nf'e'r "mature
ilMIberat'on" he favored the bill. Mil
ler ?;'i'l;i' against !t and It.iwerm.in
for it.
Bean said be believed there Is a
Joker in the bill and Abraham re
turned o the defense
The bill passed on reconsideration
by 19 to 16. Abraham .Merryman and
Wood changed from no to aye. and
Hawley nbsi nt on the first vote, vot
ed for it.
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