EVHIIH6 EDITIOU , , : . . .jfF y . . EVEIIiflC EDITIOII
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER. ' rjV CITY OFFICIAL PAPER.
VOL. 24
PENDLETON, OREGON, .MONDAY, AL'OUST 21,-1911.
NO. 7296
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DESPONDENT MINISTER SE1S
BILLET INTO BRAIN AND DIES
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REV. REEVES FOUND
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Pastorate' Becomes Extinct, and
Church, Untrained in Other Fields. Finds Struggle
Too Great.
Supposed to have been despondont
over the difficulties of providing for
himself and family, Rev. John
Reeves, well known South Methodist
minister of this city, this morning
about 5:30 placed a revolver to his
head and sent a bullet crashing into
his brain, death resulting Instantan
eously. He was found half an hour
later by his wife In the woodshed
where he fell, and .neighbors were
summoned at once. The tragedy oc
curred at his home, 801 West Webb
street.
Rev. Reeves had risen early this
morning with the Intuition of taking
the 7 o'clock train to Weston, his old
home, for the purposo of soliciting
life insurance. He built a fire but
left the room when his wife com
menced preparations for breakfast.
When she summoned him to his meal
he did not respond anl a search re
vealed his dead body in the wood
shed, with a Jagged bullet hole back
of the right ear. She had heard a
muffled report but thought it was a
shot fired by neighbors.
Olon Cannon, druggist at Koep
pens, who lives nearby, also heard the
shot but did not surmise that a tra
gedy had been enacted. He respond
ed at once to Mrs. Reeves' summons
and hastily called Coroner Folsom,
who took charge of the body.
Inqiirst Is Held.
An Inquest was held but the jury
did not attempt to fix the responsibil
ity of death. The verdict, signed by
Rev. N. Evans, li. S. Waffle, Henry
Luatz, Jack Webster and John F.
Hill, simply stales that they had "ex
amined the body and the circumstan
ces of his demise and find that he
came to his death by a gunshot from
an Ivor Johnson 38 calibre revolver."
No one saw him die and his body was
not discovered until haif an hour af
trr death, and, while the Jurors were
morally certain that he died by h,s
own hand, they did not wish to go
on record t that effect.
l.ert Seven Children.
Rev. Reeves left a wife and three
children in this city. .The latter, two
sons and a daughter, were aged 11
8 and 6 years. Uesides he. leaves
four grown sons by a former marri
uge, Austin Reeves of Winchester,
Kentucky, Todd and Walker Reeves
of Seattle, and Do Gurris Reeves,
principal of the high school at Van
couver, Wash. He also leaves a sis
ter in Seattle and "tie in Wyoming,
Ohio. IK. carried Insurance on his
life.
1.1 ft? Is ii Romance.
Tho recent life of the deceased man
reads like a romance, ending in a
Tragedy and with the Inst chapters
filled with pathos. He had been a
minister for the past thirty years and
not long since was a man of, consid
erable prominence. In his home state,
Kentucky, having been at ono timft
presiding elder of the Kentucky con
ference. He married his present wife, a
graduate of Wellcsly college and a
duulihter if a very wealthy family of
the Rluegrass state, contrary to the
wishes of her parents. Soon after
they left for the west and five years
ago, Rev. Reeves wiu made pastor of
SIX UMATILLA COUNTY
Among the bevy of candidates for
tho office of representative from the
new Oregon congressional district arc
six well known Umatilla county poli
ticians, according to a story In the
Sunday Journal. These, six, four ot
whom are residents of Pendleton, are
from both parties, two being Demo
crats and four Republicans and all
have been more or less identified with
the recent political history of the
county.
The Republicans credited with the
congressional aspirations are State
Senators J. X. Burgess and C. A. Bar
rett, ejt-Congressman W. R. Ellis and
Attorney S. Fred Wilson, -who was de
feated at the primaries last year by
C. A, Bnrrett for -the nomination for
Joint senator from Uumattlla and
Union counties. The democrats men
tioned oh entries In the race are former
State Senator C. J. Smith and Will
M. Peterson, chairman of the county
democratic central committee. The
latter Is the only one of tho six who
has publicly avowed his intentions al
though It has been pretty generally
known for some time that Judge El
NAMED AS CONGRESSIONAL POSSIBILITIES
DEAD IN SHED BY WIFE
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Former Leader in Methodist
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the South Methodlrt church at. We I
ton, which position he held for two ;
years. Three years ago he moved In-
to the parsonage in this city but the
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branch of his church here had be-
wing cAuiai aim ia iitiu iiu . pu.aii.i- j
rate. From time to time he filled the
pulpit of the Methodist and Presby
terian churches when the regular pas
tors were absent and he has been
selling life Insurance and making: col- j
lections in order to eke out an exist- !
ence for himself and family. j
For pie past three years, according
nvln'nn.l I. 1. .. .1 - .......
(Continued on page eight.)
LA FOLLETTE TAKES
UP OREGON PLAN .IN
U. S. SENATE TODAY
Urges Government Production
and Sale of Coa!. From
Alaskan Mines
Washington, Aug. 21. Immediate
development of the m.neral resources
of Alaska through government owner
ship i.f railroads, ships and public
utilities, wharves and docks and '
through tho aetuul mining of Alaskan 1
coal by the government, all to be ad- '
ministered for the benef.t of the peo- '
Pie at largo through a board of con-!
trol, was the plan outlined by Senator
La Follette of Wisconsin, today in a
speech in the senate. . 1
Declaring that every day makes''
more evident the fact that the Ameri
can people are waging a losing fight
in Alaska, La Follette asserted it was
time for th.e government to take an
aUive hand. j
lie said: "The first step should be ;
the creation of adequate transporta-',
turn facilities. Tho government should,
own and build these and the wharves
dicks and railroad terminals already
eonsiiueieu snyUld be ucqu red by tho
government immediately. The gov-
ernnient should own and operate at
least uiie great coal mine, with which
to supply naval and military needs, !
selling the surplus product at a rea
sonable profit as a check against ex
tortion by private corporations, de
veiop'ng other mines.
thing
ilie sensible and practical
to do is to create a board of public
works for Alaska similar to" the Is,h
mian canal commission.
Oregon Man Approve.
i-oriiumi, ore. Aug. 21.-
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HOI) Ul-:l .if 1,'H'l,... tl
- mi- "vei iMjieill
,livi.,. .ii.,,! , .
lliv ..i,,.,i,,,, euui iieuis anil at
me vuuie l ine iii'oaK tne Hold of mo- vwiuney, it snort discourse on
nopul'cii on Alaska, as outlined by "I'matilla's Opportunity," by J. E.
Senator jjU Follette in the senate to- Kcofe, secretary of the local Corn
day, meets with my heartiest approv- merelal club, a talk on county roads
(Continued on page eight.)
POLITICIANS ARE
lis will try to return to the lower leg
islative houso at Washington. '
The following Is the Journal story:
i'uiuier congressman w. It. Ellis of recitations, monologue and solo. A
rendleton, who has been in Portland dance for nil will bo given both ofter
the last week, is coy when his future noon and evening,
aspirations are mentioned. He says,
ne is not a candidate now, and it Is
too early for him to talk of being one
for he does not know how the situ
ation will be by the time the April
primaries roll around.
This Is his reply to all Inquiries :
to his possible candidacy for United
States senator or, for congressman i
from tho new eastern Oregon district.!
But among the friends of the former'
congressman is a well defined report '
that ho will be a candidate for con-1
gressmnn when the time comes,
If this be true, he may have two
rivals in his own county, possibly
three. The most likely is S. Fred
Wilson of Athena, others mention be
lng State Senators J. N. Burgess and I
C. A. Rarrett. j
La Oranri hn thr nnll,l '
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(Contlnued on page five.)
L
WEEPS IN COURT
i..
New York, Aug. 21. On the verge
of a nervous collapse, which has been
brought on by fear of being sent to
the electric chair, Paul Geldle. the
eighteen year old bell boy who mur
' dered millionaire William Jackson In
a room at the Iroquois hotel a few
weeks ago, was today placed on trial.
His attorneys offered to enter a plea
but the district attorney refused to
agree to this,
j It is understood that bitter fight is
to be made in thA defense of the boy
jand that a 'defense fund of $50,000
I has been donated by a wealthy manu-
facturer of Hartford, Conn., who was
Inspired to see that the boy was ably
dfendedt tnrouBh 8ympatny foP th
heartbroken mother of the vouthful
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i'iuiu'.i i l lie T 1 1 1 LUllUIIUnilJ
while the proceedings were under
'
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About The Thorn Hollow Springs
how true are the chaigts of wastefulness which are being made
against the members of the city water commission. Four thousand
dollars were expended for the land on which the springs are located
after a Jury in th'e trial of the condemnation suit had fixvd the valu
ation. By an agreement with Attorney John McCourt, counsel for the
Indian owners of the land, and Agent E. L Swartzlander, this four
thousand dollars is to be refunded to the city and tile land returned
to the Indians in case a development of the springs proved them un
satisfactory for the needs of the city. This money is now being held
by Major Swartzlander pending the development being made.
Furthermore, had this provision not been made, the city would
not lope the JlPflO for several private parties have already expressed
a willingness to pay that price to the commission for the land at
any time.
If the springs do prove to b' all that the engineer's report claims
for them, the commission will at once attempt to sell the $200,000
bonds and commence construction work at once so that the city may
have a rure nnd abundant supply of mountain water by next summer.
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PEACH W
n O i n 'i
PfOntCterS SeCUTe LOW Rail-
road Fare for
Festival
Free water
"Come to Freewater" is the invita
tion brought to Pendleton this morn
ing by .Secretary James I'. Xciil ol
tho reach Day celebration of the
east end town. Thursday is the d;U' !
of the annual festival of peaches, and, j
i" order that Pendleton 'people may I
be induced to attend the celebration
numbers, a fare of one and a
third baa been secured from tills city.
(ireat preparations are bein made
by the management for a day of
pleasure mid profit and Secretary
Xeal assures all who contemplate at
tending lh:'.t. despite the reports of
;l peach crop failure in tho ea.-t end,
mere win He plenty ot the lscious
fruit for everyone.
, morning, aiiernoon una evening i
program has been prepared for the '
em ei uuuMiein. iiu' mornimr tiro-
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i.iiii ineiuite mi uuiiros in i ieime
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' .eiu, . response oy t;. u.
oy Judge j. . ilaloney and a num
ber of musical selections interspereed.
In the afternoon. Attorney Hill M.
Peterson, representing C,ov. Oswald
West, will deliver an address and will
be followed by Hon. George T. Coch-I
rane, water commissioner for eastern
Oregon. At 3 o'clock there will be
a baseball game between the Milton
Freewater jind Walla Walla teams
and a number of other sporting events.
At 7:30 an ffpon nir concert by the
local Hound-Up Cowboy band will be
given between the numbers of which
will be sandwiched highland dances.
ir
limn wiuo Mur
WITH FAS! TRAIN
Los Angeles, Aug. 21 . Frighten
ing the passengers on the Long Reach
flier, by sweeping down to within 20
feet of the speeding cars while he
was flying at a speed of 45 miles an
hour, L. E. Holt, an aviator of the
I Aeronautical Society of California,
Tn 7 h , .2 traln!-
rattvs today, winn.g the contest
:v l" c"r was quail
fling for an
aeroplane pilot's II-
cense.
IS V! IS'ff HEDi
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WILL COME TO FAIR
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Thai? he will be present at the an
nual. Morrow-Umatilla county fair,
was.. the message sent to Secretary
Fitz Gerald this morning in a letter
from Governor Oswald West. The,
chief executive of the state declares
he is heartily In favor of the hold
ing of fairs and he believes they
Khould be encouraged. While here he
will deliver a short address in the
lair pavilion.
He has not yet decided on Just what
day he will be here but it is though
that he will time his visit so that hu
can attend both the fair and the
Round-Up as he has been invited by
the frontier association to be pres
ent at the wild west show also.
. Iope Suffers Relapse.
, Rome, Aug. 21. Pope Plus suffer
ed a slight relapse today, due to over
exertion yesterday and the excessive
heat.
Wealthy Socialist Aiding Mc
Namara Broshers, Myster
lousiy Disappears.
Ls A'lgeh'S, Calif., Aug. 21.
exander Irlvine', a wealth v socialist' of
New York citv, who is enroute to this
city from San Antonio, Texas, to in -
vestigate the disappearance of his son
Slvuif Irivine, who has beVn missing
tor a ueel.
today wired the Los
geles police m spare no expense in
trying to locate his son.
The
father believes that his
son
haa been murdered, and friemi, r
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the 1. runes point the tmger of sus-
pK'Ion at the enemies of the McXa-
,.,., i.,,.h.,ri.. . ,. , , ,
maia nrothers, vuio are imiirisoned
titina: trial on charges of!
estroyed the Times building.
e.':' Irivine states that his ;
informed him that he had 1
The e
on had
i.athiTcd ev io Mi 'e
i lusiveh- i lea" th.
voiea uouio eon-
McXaninra broth-
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..-..iin.l i I
The ;
i voiiihi'v li-ietn
I."M i iimn
had been
.re for scv;
investigat- 1
ral weeks. I
!
ping the ease h
lie of Wounds.
" iiene i rier. a
I . on. I. oi i,r o 1 n .i .. i
rreneii av ator, and his pup:l M. Hal
not. died of pistol shot wounds sus-j
tainod'yesterday at the Hendon aero-I
drome. Ilanot, who is believed to
have been rendered suddenly insane
hv the hem fiv.iil ii f M r-li.,......
I
nianairer for M nwiof w i,.,..;
. ---r, . .... .... vll till" PU Rl
wont wide and struck Prior. Reallz-
ing what he had done, Hanot turned
the revolver on himself and fired
twice and after tried to cut Irs throat
with a razor.
I'lu-tory Drslroyod.
Frankfort, tVrmany, Aug. 21. The
Opel sewing machine and bicycle fac
tory at Russelhelm was destroyed by
fire last night.
T
TOWNS; KILLS MANY
Fargo, X. D., Aug. 21. While only
four bodies have been recovered, it Is
believed that more than a score of
persons yesterday lost their lives in o
cyclone which swept Antlers, destroy
ing the town, and Westhope, where
150 persons were injured. Several
other towns southwest of this place
were badly damaged and the known
injured will number two hundred.
The property damage will reach $1,-000,000.
rOBD SIGNS STATEHOOD
BILL MINUS RECALL CLAUSE
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TWO NEW STATES TMADMITTEO IN 90 DAYS
Owen Would Know Som "hing ot 1907 Financial Panic
Co'ton fill S'jre of Passage Despite Second Attempt
to Sidetrack
Washington, D. S , Aug. 21. Presl-
dent Taft this afternoon signed the
Joint statehood bill admitting Arizona
and New Mexico as the forty-seve-nth
and forty-eighth states of the United
States of America. The bill was sign -
ed by Vice President Sherman, In',
the senate, and Speaker Champ Clark
in the house of representatives, this
morning, after which it was sent to
tne white house.
.Only the refusal of the two terri
tories, themselves, to comply with the
conditions imposed by the bill, can
now prevent them from becoming
states within three months.
BEATTIE, SLAYER
OF WIFE, SUES
AS TRIAL BEGINS
Motion to Quash Indictment,
Overruled "Other Woman
Goes on Stage
Chesterfield Court House, Va., Aug.
21. With the court room crowded to
its utmost capacity, the trial of Hen
ry Clay Beattie, Jr., son of a wealthy
Manchester banker, accused of mur
dering his young wife, in order that
he' might resume his illicit relations
with seventeen year old Beulah Bin
ford began today and promises to be
the most sensational trial in the his
tory of the stale.
Attorneys for Beattie filed a motion
to have the trial stayed and the in
dictment quashed. This was over
ruled by Judge Watson and Beattie
then plead "not guilty." The exami-
I nation of venirmen for the jury was
I Immediately begun. The decision of
th0 toun nun w,t" tne approval of
' th0 l,t'"tat',r- who plainly showed
I tl,oil "'faction.
went to tne court house
from the jail in an automobile and
An-rl'l,lu" """1S lo attention he
j nln'act0"- A he made his way to the
prisoner's' dock, he wore a broad
Mime ami ianea to recognize manv
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"A " " u""'uuu- lVL"as " " "mptea
ovine 4iiun atlun ui rt'LUl:
; ,i;tin ,,.om M h
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rhe oefense will attack the state
.
ment of I a ill l;
p"ts.i!ier. clieL-ing that ho did not tell
the truth in stating that he had pur
chased for Henry Beattie, the shot
gun, which afterward proved to he
the weapon with which Mrs. P.catio
was killed while ridinir with her
band in an auto on the lonelv MM-
lothian pike.
'-Other Woman" fines on Staii
Richmond. Va.. Auir. 21. I'eulah
il'inf rd, the
"other woman" nceert-
. .
en ny m, police a
tho motive for the
.
(Continued on page eight.)
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AFTER WINNING vfCTORY IN STRIKE
ENGLISH RAILROADERS MAY AGAIN WALKOUT
London. Aug 21. Following what
was bt'lleved to be a settlement of the
railway strike in England, through
the efforts of a commission named by
the government and which drafted
agreements that were accepted by
the management of the roads and the
strike leaders, now comes a threat to
renew the strike.
The threat was made this morning
by Secretary Thomas, of the Railway
Employees' association, who charges
that the railroads have already bro
ken faith by discriminating against
some of the strikers. Thomas de
clares that the men will again be
called out unless the railroads im
mediately promise ' impartial rein
statement of all strikers, as was a
part of the agreement. It is not gen
erally believed that the roads will al
low this feature to again start the
trouble which has caused more suf
fering than has been experienced in
England for scores of years.
Thousands of railroad workers re
turned to work yesterday and as many
more today and it Is believed that nil
will be it work within the next few
-V.J"
The bill proves that Xew Mexlc
must vote on the proposal of makln
its constitution more susceptible to
amendment and that Arizona moat
! eliminate the clause, which provided
! for " the recall of th i,miio.
Punic Investigation
.Washington, D. C, Aug. 21. Sen,
tor Owen of Oklahoma, today intro
duced a resolution in the senate pro
viding for an invest'.gation into the
cause of the financial panic of 1907.
to ascertain if any persons or cor
porations benefited by It.
Cotton Bill Assured.
Washington, Aug. 21. The cottoa
bill will probably be passed by th
house this afternoon and President
Taft is expected to approve the meas
ure as soon as it. reaches him. Th
democrats forced' a yote on the bill,
to take place at 6 o'clock tonight.
Another Attempt to Sidetrack.
Washington, D. C, Aug. 21. Fol
lowing a conference this afternoon.
Speaker Clark and Democratic Lead
er Underwood announced that they
had refused to assent to a move to
adjourn Congress tonight. A majority
oi both sides of the house got to
gether ar.d tried to force it.
Wilt 15e Made Public.
Washington, Aug. 21. Secretary
MacVcagh'a attitude toward the Na
tional City banks relations with th
National C ty company will be made
known this week. Attorney General
Wickersham's telegram to the secre
tary advising that the relationship of
the two concerns is in contravention
of the national bank act, will be mad .
public at the same time.
Dynamite Store UuilUing.
Wallace, Idaho, Aug. 21. The store
building cf George Van Curen, at
Cataldo, a small town in this county,
was blown up by dynamite during
Saturday night. Van Curen was
asleep in the building but escaped se
rious injury. Van Curen is said to
have incurred ill will in some quar
ters, but whether this was responsible
for the outrage' is not known, as the
perpetrators escaped.
Spirits l'risoiior Away.
San Bernafdino, Cal ; Aug. 21.
refusing to divulge the place of saf
ety to which he sent Dentist JIcDa
vit, when he learned a mob had
planned to take him from the jail last
night, Sheriff Ralph announced today
that Mcliavit would not be returned
here until his preliminary hearing
August 31. A large crowd was col
lected by typewritten notes which
rend: "Meet me r.t the jail tonight,"
land the sheri.f spirited his prisoner
I awav.
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! Shut by Ihisliand.
Ei M 'sa. Colo.. Aug. U 1 Mrs. Ca-
miilo Herrera was shot ."lid instantly
kil'ed here last night by her husband,
! who then committed su'eiJe with the
: same gun. The double tr.lsedy oc
j nirred on the outskirts ..f the city,
j where Mrs, Herrera was waikingwith
I Feiix 11 'meo, a man whom she had
j met the n ght before at a dance. Ro
j meo fled.
days.
The strike has ended in a complete
victory for the railroad workers, and
they are celebrating in many parts of
the country. The general wage now
i? 22 shillings per week about $5.5
for eight hour days.
Other unions, which have not hereto-fore
been effected by t'.te strike,
are now seriously considerlt-fr calling
a walkout, having been encouraged
(Continued on page five.)
Wilt Irop Employe.
San Francisco, Aug. 21. A consid
erable number of the employes of the
Southern Pacific railroad company
will he dropped temporarily from the
company's payrolls before Septem
ber 1. This statement was mad
here by a high official ot the com
pany. The cut, he said, would ex-,
tend to all departments, but he re
fused to say how many men would b
affected. The increase in operating
expenses with a less than proportion
ate increase in Income, was given as
the cause.