i.o.. L. .V.A'.U .i - i V.!' ..li , EVENING EDITION lr- ';',;aS ii I' mi i . . fVFHINfi FniTinn 151 "- ooumrorncua papkb. j - ; ' cm official paves. VOr 21 I PEXDLETQN, QltEGOX, MONDAY, MAY 1, 1011, ' XO. 7201 BANGOR MAINE SUFFERS GREAT i;:ilWE IRE ;3lf!E DESTROYS DAMAGE NEAR 16,000,000 Three Are Dead. Fifty Are Injured and One-Thousand Are Home'ess. ENTIRE BUSINESS SECTION IS DESTROYED BY FLAMES Much of the Residence Section lit Al ho III Ruins Only the Use of Dy namite and tlie Assistance of Neigh boring Towns Saved the City from Being Wiped Out. Bangor, May 1. With throe known read, fifty Injured and thousands IiomcleH the city under martial law. and tlio soldiers guarding the lank vault against the looters, Bangor to day hcoh the last flickers of a fire which cost Iut between five and six million dollar. A Miction of the city a quarter of a mile wide and two miles long was destroyed. Only the use of dynamite and the aid from neighbor Ing clticN Maved live city. The fire started ye Unlay afternoon and fan ned by a strong brecxe It swept north. ward devastating the entire btiNlneM m-cOon and a large, port of the rest dence wrtlon also. The conflsgra Uon waa chcked at Hcvcn this morn. lug, although a large number of the lumber yards on the river front are still burning. Mayor CuIIom today In- Kurd an appeal for aid for the dewll lute. Tents are being erectl and pro. vision being made to feed homeless, Vnder Martial Iaw. Soon after darkness the city light. Ing plant was crippled and the firemen fought by the larld glare of the burn ing buildings. Fire continued gain lng till midnight when a light rain be gan falling. There is no estimate yet as to the number who lost their homes. The state militia is on the scene taking everv possible precau tlon. They have been ordered to shoot if necessary to prevent robbery. XEW TARIFF SCHEDULE HECOMES EFFECTIVE Panama, May 1. Panama's new tariff schedules became effective to day, the date Vet by the national as sembly of the republic. They Include a measure Increasing duties on im ports, with the exception of flour, corn rice and lard. The duties on articles of luxury are raised five per cent, and on all other Imports except the sta ples mentioned, two and one-half per cent. English Scullers Meet. London, May 1. Ernest Barry, the present title holder and William Al bany ofNlnpton, will row on the Thames today for the sculling cham pionship of Great Britain. The course is from Putney to Mortlake. The win ner will receive $1000 in cash and the Sportsman challenge cup. Al bany has the advantage In weight, tipping the scales t 184 pounds, while the champion . weighs 163 pounds. This is the first sculling champion ship race between Britishers since 1 887, when George Perkns was de feau-d by W. Q. East, the contest tak. Ing pae on the Tyne. The Thames has not been the scene of such a race since 1878, whfl W( E!,lott won from R, W, Royd, on A JMU, i, ' I, ATTORNEYS DEFER , REPORT TO ASS'R It now seems probable that there will be no report made to the local bar association by the executive com mittee which hns Just completed an Investigation of tho charges against Attorneys Perry, Bailey and Watts until after somo disposition has been mnde of tho St. Dennis vs. Watts case, tho procedure In which led to tho Investigation, tho nttltudo of tho majority of tho attorneys being that they should take no action that would affect the merits of cither sldo. Although tho committee was In structed to ninke a report to the as sociation not later than today, it is Impossible for tho committee to do so as tho testimony in the investiga tion is not more than half prepared by W. C. E. l'niitt, who acted as ste nographer and for the further reason that "several of the committeemen have not yet heard all of the testi mony. n m 1 n I I a M aw, m I Snrrnmcntn Mnu i rlci A I. MISS H NHOfl s.:i: AMP NOC OAKLAND SUFFERS $100,000 FIRE TODAY Oakland, Calif., May 1. A half block of the down town section was burned this morning. The loss is $100,000. The Dletz opera house and polytechnic business college are among the lost. Five narrowly es caped deuth. RAINFALL TO DATE BELOW THE NORMAL TOTAL SINCE SEITEMBEH AMOUNTS TO 9.01 INCHES Heavy Ruins During November Keep Precipitation up to Standard Spring Months Have Been Dry. Although the rainfall at this place during the past four months has been considerably below the normal the to. tal precipitation for the rainy season, beginning September 1 and ending May 1, Is but slightly less than the normal. According to the figures of E. F. Averlll, local weather observor, the total precipitation since Septem ber 1 has been 9.94 Inches, while the normal precipitation would be 10.79 inches. 1 It was the heavy rains last Novem ber that saved the day for Umatilla county. During that month over four Inches of rain fell and the precipita tion broke all previous records. Since the first of January we have had but 2.36 inches of rain and the normal precipitation for the first four months would be 5:69 Inches. During the first four months of 1910 we had 5 53 inches of rainfall. On May 1. 1910 there has been a total of 10.63 Inches of rain, slightly 1m than an bich more than has fall en this rainy season. The rainfall last rainy season was the greatest in three years as this county had gone through two years of partial drouth, there being but a trifle over eight In ches of rain one year and nine Inches the next. During the year 190S onlv 8.07 Inches of rain fell in Pendleton. The rainfall during the month of April, Just closed, amounted to .18 Inch while the normal rainfall for April is 1.01 inches. During the month of April there were 21 clear days, ac cording to the record; two cloudy days and seven days that were partly cloudy. The night of April 14 was the coldest night ever experienced here In April. The thermometer went down tc 19 degrees above lero. Hurke-Smith Rattle. New York, May 1. Sailor Burke and Jim Smith, the Westchester fight er, will go on in the principal event of the Alympie Athletic club's pro gram this evening. Hurke recently knocked out Montana Dick Sullivan In the ninth round of a battle in this city and is a favorite over Smith in tonight's fistic session. FORMER LOCAL MAN TRIES TO KILL WIFE A well known former resident of Pendleton Is in serious trouble at Klmberly, Idaho, where he has been living since leaving this city, he Is charged with assault with Intent to kill, It being alleged that he fired sev. eral times at his wife and another wo. man and leveled his gun at his child. Furdy was employed "while here at Uitr "jlcox Implement house and his present p-ife was formerly the wife of John Hfchufdsmi. in" following in hm account of the near tragedy ns It appeared 1 the Twin Falls News last week: XUomas Furdy ot KlmberJy was ar rested on Saturday last on a warrant sworn out by hla wife, charging him with assault with Intent to commit murder. Furdy, who Is said to have been un der the Influence of liquor nt the time of the shooting, opened fire on his wife and n Mrs, Severance, but the bullets went wide of the mark. He also level his gun at his child and also fit a man employed upon the ranch, but evidently changed his mlrd and did not pull the trigger. Purdy was arrnnged before Judge Smith In Justice court nt 2 o'clock p. m. on Saturday last, but through his attorneys, William H. Hornlbrook nnd John E. Williams, waived his prelimi nary examination, and was bound over to the district court In the sum of $2000. The case will be heard at tho next term of court. PORTLAND ITALIAN LABORERS (JO ON STRIKE Portland. May 1. Their wage cu' I'lom $2 to $1.75 ier day. 300 Italian laborers employed by linker & Sc:ir pelll struck today. Sacramento, May 1. Cris Evans, at one time a famous California train robber and ban dit was released on parole from the Folsom prison today after confinement of 17 years. Ev ans will soon leave with his wife and daughter for Portland, Ore gon Where he will reside. This was part of his parole order. GRANITE CITY HAS SOCIALIST MAYOR Oranite City. III., May 1. This city oi la, 000 inhabitants Is now. next to Milwaukee, the largest municipality In the country to have a Socialist chief executive. Marshall E. Kirk - Patrick ,who was elected on the So cialist ticket, today assumed the of fice of mayor. in taking up the reins of office, Klrkpatrick declared that he will stick strictly to the water wagon dur Ing the two years of his term and that he Intends to discharge the entire po lice force and appoint new men. He also advocates public ownership of gas and electric lighting and power plants and the establishment of a mu nicipal coal and ice concern, which will supply those commodities to con sumers at exact cost. CHICAGO ELECTION COST MERRIAM $162,480 Chicago, May 1. It cost Prof. Charles E. Merriam of the University of Chicago the sum of $162,480.23 to be defeated for the mayoralty of Chi cago by Carter H. Harrison. This stupendous sum, said to have been the largest ever publicly admitted by a mayoralty candidate in the United States, is said nor to contain a list of the expenses of the Merriam cam paign uring the last week of the pri maries, and a total of $230,000 is fix ed upon as the actual sum spent. The report of the Merriam cam paign committee was made public Saturday night. JuliU3 Uosenwald was the largest personal contributor, having given $37,100 while the Mc Cormmick family gave $26,000, and Charles U. Crane, appointed minister to Ch.na. by Taft and then recalled, donated 118.000 to Merriam, his kins man. James A. Patten, the wheat king, gave $10,000, while Victor F. Lawson g.;e $10,000. Of the enormous sum raised, the expenditures in round figures were as follows: Stat.onery und printing, $20,000; advertising. $31,000; music, $SOOO; hall rents, $13,500; salaries and head quarters expenses, $27,50; postage, $2750; lithographs and posting, $5, 000; ward headquarters and expenses manning poles, $20,000. BOSTON SOCIALISTS OBSERVE MAY DA V Huston, May l'. May Day was cele biated on a great scale In Boston to day by the socialists and labor un ions. Among the speakers on the piogram of the big muss meeting in Tremont Temple are Victor U Berger, of Milwaukee, the first socialist ever elected to congress, and Robert Hun ter, the wealthy author and sociologi cal student who was the socialist can didate for governor of Connecticut last November. Socialist locals throughout New England have sent representatives to the Boston meet ing. ROBERT TODD LINCOLN RETIRES FROM BIMM :ss Chicago, May 1. Robert Todd Lin coln, son of President Lincoln, today retired from the presidency of the Pullman company, and was succeeded by John S. Runnels, who was vice president. Ill health and a desire to be freed from business cares are giv en as the reasons for Mr. Lincoln's res'gnation. Robert Todd Lincoln was the first born son of Abraham Lincoln and is now nearing his sixty-eighth year. He served during the war as a captalu on the staff of General Grant. In JS67 he was admitted to the Illinois bar and practiced in Chicago. He, served as secretary of war In ,a cabinets of Presidents Gart a"nj Arthur, and wa V.'nllCi spates, rninis. ter t vreat npltain from 1889 to $08. After the death of George M. Pullman he became president of the Pullman company, for which he had previously acted as attorney. LOSS (Special Correspondence.) Ilermlston, Ore., May 1. By a fire which broke out about 1 o'clock this afternoon the warehouse of tho ller nilston mercantile company and the residence of Janus Means were de stroyed. The loss will lie about JtUMlo an I tin- creat. r part of this will be covered by Insurance. Tho fire originated in the Means l"i sideiicc wliii li was no; occupied a- EI AT H UO 1 LnUUII LLnULIIu t Burns Has Information That Will Lead to Examination of San Francisco Men. ATTORNEY FREDERICKS GETS THREATEN I N LETTER 1 GoiniM'rs Confers With Labor lend ers Relative to Defense of (lie McNamiirus' Will Simply See That Defendants Get n Fair Trial I Not Putting I nlons to Test. Los Angeles, Cal., May 1. Infor mation in Hums' possession which he will lay before the grand Jury aft er ills arrival here Wednesday in connection with the trial of the Mc Namaras' is reported today will re sult in an examination and possible indictment of two San Francisco la bor leaders. The alleged informa tion is that Chaplain and Schmidt, who are wanted for complicity In the dynamitng, told two men of their intentions of blowing up the Times and afterward sought shelter with these ,men. The defense Is now preparing for arraignment. Several attorneys have arrived. The district attorney today admitted that it is possible he Employ SK-ci Irosecutor. A report that a special prosecutor may be employe brings the name of Ear! Rogers, former attorney for the Merchants' Manufacturers' association and one of he defenders In San Francisco to'the front. If he is cho sen it would place Burns and Rogers, once bitterest opponents in San Francisco, side by side in the case. Andrew Gallagher, of San Francisco, n member of the labor council, arriv ed yesterday and is conferring today uith local labor leaders. It is under stood that the defense will ask for the- appointment of Elisor to care for the prisoners, as they fear Burns' detei tives may be appointed deputy sheriffs and they also want Elisor to hold the jury list so no one can as eerta n flie names of the prospective Jurors. Fredericks N Threatened. District Attorney Fredericks today receive a threatening letter from M. J. Schmidt, dated New York, and is almost a duplicate of the one writ ten Burns. Fredericks said the pros ecution feared nothing. Schmidt Is one of the dynamiters wanted. Iahor I.eadcr Confer. Indianajolis, May 1. Gompers is here today confering with the labor leaders, relative to the defense of the Mc.N'amaras and looking up their rec ords. Gompers said his efforts were simply to see that the McNamaras get a fair trial and that he does not look upon the trial as putting the la bor unions to test at all. I'llWli GOTCH MAY MEET HACKENSCHMIDT Chicago. May l. Frank Gotch, championship heavyweight wrestler of the world, comes to Chicago today to complete arrangements for a match with George Hackenschmidt. the "Russian lion." It is probable that the two men will meet in this city on labor day at the Amer.can League baseball park. The champion will get $20,000 for his share, regardless of the result, while "Hack" has con sented to a percentage arrangement. Hackenschmidt is now at his home in Cracow, Russia, but will return to America this summer fo prepare for his battle with Gotch. The Empire Athletic club Is In charge of the nego tiations between the wrestlers. Gotch recently declared that the talk of his retitenient is all "bosh" and that he is now ready to push the match to a finish. Another "Carnegie, tloy" Quits. New York, May 1. William B Dickson, first vice president of the United States Steel corporation, retir ed from that position today. Dick son rose to greatness in the steel trust through the friendship and In fluence of Andrew Carnegie, and Is about the last of "Carnegie's boys" re tained under the Morgan-Gary regime. THIS AFTERNOON the time and the cause of the blaze uia not yet been discovered The flames quickly spread to the ware house which adjoined the house and p. big conflagration was underway al most before the people of the town naliy.ed tlio fact. The warehouse of the Hermistor. mercantile company was filled with w.mons. The loss to the company i e.-tiinutcd nt $501)0 while til,. 1 'S tile Mean's house Is phi -cd ,. !. Hong Kong, May 1. Dispatch es from Canton today say the situation is getting worse. There are thirty thousand soldiers within Us confines and it is fear ed many of them will Join the revolt at the first rebel success. Assassinations and executions are reported regularly. Two British gunboats have arrived and the American gunboat Wil mington Is at Shlamen enroute to Canton to protect the for eigners who have not already fled. STATE SUPREME COURT CONVENES TODAY ENTIRE MEMBERSHIP IS IN ATTENDANCE Many Out of Town Attorneys Are in the City Alxitit Twenty Cases Will Be Heard Swion Will Last Sev eral Days. With the entire membership of the state supreme court consisting of Chief Justice Robert Eakin and Asso ciate Justices Thomas A. McBride. Frank A. Moore, Henry J. Bean and George H. Burnett, present, the reg ular semi-annual Pendleton session of the supreme court was convened at 9 o'clock this morning in the circuit court room. Deputy Clerk Lee Moor- house Is acting as clerk and D. B. Waffle as bailiff. The first case to be argued and submitted was from Gilliam county. C. F. Armstrong vs. A. S. Hollen with Jay Bowerman appearing as attorney for the respondent and T. A. Weinke for the appellant. The only other rare to come up this morning was that of James M. W!''.s vs. George Palmer Lumber company from Union county, T. H. Crawford representing the respondent and T. S. Ivanhoe the appellant. The first case to be argued th s af ternoon was also from Union county, Frank K. Brown, administrator, vs. Franklin Truax, Cochran & Cochran appearing for the respondent ' and Turner Oliver for the appellant. The Morrow county case of State of Ore gon vs. E. C. Maddock was the next case on the docket and will probably be reached this afternoon. To Examine Applicants. A committee of attorneys consisting of Judge Stephen a Lowell of Pen dleton. C. E. Cochran of La Grande and Sam Van Vactor of Heppner. was nppointed to examine applicants for admission to the bar. There will be about s x embryo attorneys in the class. Among the out of town attorneys in the city to attend the session are F. S. Ivanhoe, George T. Cochran, C. E. Cochran. T. H. Crawford and Tur ner Oliver of La Grande; Jay Bow erman and T. A. Weinke of Condon; J N. Hart and M. D. Cylfford of Ba ker and Sam E. Vanvactor of Hepp ner. Attorney General A. M. Craw ford is also in attendance. The session will continue for sev eral days, there being about twenty cases to be heard. ECHO SALOON HAS SHALL FIRE SUNDAY (Special Correspondence.) Echo. Ore., May 1. A small blaze occurred here yesterday morning at 1:30 o'clock. The rear end of the Louvre saloon building on the corner of Main and Dupont streets and used as a restaurant, was completely de stroyed by fire. Only by the very prompt action of the Echo fire de partment were the I. O. O. F. hall, the, Louyre saloon, the building con taining Gilbert's barber shop and Bln ney's harness shrop saved, as they are all wooden buildings and situated closely together. The contents of the restaurant which belonged to Harry Coyn and Ed Stover and value'd at $300 were complete loss. No Insur ance. The damage to the building which belongs to C. R. Lisle was es timated at $400 with Insurance. While the Echo firemen seem to be falling down a little on baseball they are second to none in fighting fire. J. O. Thomas was transacting busi ness in Pendleton today. Frank Cunha visited friends in Pendleton today. Samuel Sweeney of Walla Walla, h a business visitor here. A large number of baseball fans from here went up to Pendleton yes terday to attend the game and return , home on the motor Inst night. t'has. Ha: tlioloinew w as a passen ger to Pendleton on the motor this morning. No Betting in Florida. Ja.-ksoYvill". l"la May 1. Tin loath knell of rasing in Florida was sound, d today w hen the anti-betting law enacted by the legislature became effective. WESTON HOTEL Other Buildings are Eadly Damaged in Fierce Con flagraMon SEVERAL HOTEL GUESTS ARE SERIOUSLY' INJURED Man Falls From Second Story ot Hotel and Receives Broken Hip Boy Seriously Injured by Broken Glass Fire Starts at Early Hour Sunday Morning. (Special Correspondence. Weston, May 1. Fire which start ed in some unknown manner in tha Hotel Royal about 2 o'clock Sunday morning, completely destroyed that structure and five other small ad Joining buildings before the flame were gotten under control. The fire department and many citizens re sponded to the alarm, but although they used their best efforts to confine the fire to the hotel it soon spread to the several frame buildings ad Joining, Guests Seriously Injured, While no fatalities are recorded aa a result of the fire, many of the guests at the hotel were seriously Injured by jumping from the second storv of the hotel. Boy Is Injured. A son of Mr. Klein tried to make his escape from the second story of the burning building By tying sheeta together and would have alighted safely on the ground but one of the sheets groke and let him fall. Hit face and hands were badly burned and he was seriously injured in the side by coming In contact with some broken window glass. He was taken Sunday morning to Walla Walla for treatment. Hip Broken by Fall. Eph Williams jumped from the second story and sustained a broken hip. His head was also badly bruis ed by the fall. His condition is con sidered serious and he was taken to Pendleton where he will receive med ical aid. Domestic Animals Suffer. A favorite dog owned by Master Teddy Klein Is a victim of the fire and a white cat belonging to NorDean & Duncan was badly scorched by the names, it was found alive after the fire but its white coat had been turn ed to one of black. Ball Team Works. The fire raged about two hours be fore it was brought under control and the members of the baseball team worked until they were almost pros trated to subdue the conflagration. They endeavored to have Walla Wal la cancel the game for Sunday on account of this fact, but this the Wal la Walla team refused to do. Other Buildings Damaged. Besides the hotel, a small building owned by Willie Jamieson, located on the Young property was destroy ed. The Brant building in which was located the barber shop, was com pletely destroyed with the entire con tents. The corner building In which waa located the NorDean & Duncan "near I beer" Joint, was badly damaged. The I latter building, together with the ho I tel. was partially covered with in surance. The heat from the fire was so in tense that the Jarman department store and other buildings suffered from broken windows and glass doors. The Grant restaurant was slightly damaged, and the proprietor has moved into the Marshal house, where he will continue the business. The lodge hall which is above the bank, was badly damaged by the flames and it was only through the heroic efforts of Ira Kept that the building was saved. OHIO LEGISLATURE Columbus, May 1. Through the arrest here of E. H. Harrison. A. O. Bailey and D. Ferry by three of Burns detectives, the Ohio legislature today faces a grand Jury investiga tion for the alleged boodling during the present session. Under the sup position that detectives were lobby ists they were taken into custody, ac cused of attempting to tribe Dr. George Nye, representative. They immediati ly amioiin, e,l tri, y have c.i- oence ..i corruption against at IHt 2' members of tip. legislature w ould b- pres. nted le r t n, jury tomorrow. 1 N'. . ; t '; 1. s w re arr 'ii'.n.'d an 1 r.-V.is, ,i j'!U0 bonds. which grand they under -Ut a t.:i-cii: