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WEATHER REPORT.
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mercial stationery and
job printing to order
at the East Oregonian.
Fair tonight with light
frost; Friday fair.
COUNTY OFFICIAL PArER
CITY OFFICIAL PAPER.
VOL. 21.
PENDLETON, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1911.
NO. 7229
PLA II TO
GALL STRIKE
General Manager Kruttschnitt
Again Refuses to Recognize
Federation,
WALKOUT MAY BE
. ORDERED DURIXG DAY
Strlko Order to Rc Made General
,Over Kntiro llnrriman System of
lturlroud Mnes M. K. & T, Men
Have I-"ld Down Tools.
Chicago, 111., Sept. 28. That the
Harriman system oi railroad lines
has done all thnt It will attempt to
do to avert the threatened strike of
the members of the Federation of
.shopmen is Indicated by a mcssag
which has been received at the head
quarters of the federation In this city.
The message was sent by Julius
Kruttschnitt, vice president and gen
eral manager of the Harr.man sys
tem and in it the official virtually
declined to discuss the recognition of
the. employes ns a federation.
Presidents of tho International
unions Involved in the Impending
trouble, held a hurrd conference to
day, on receiving, the message, with
the view of deciding on some plan
for calling a general strike on the
Harriman system.
President Kline of the Blacksmiths'
union, stated this morning thnt a de
cls.on to call the strike might be
reached today.
In General Manatrcr Krut'schnltt's
message, the ultimatum, fixing tho
noon hour as the time the employes
would give, the company to grant an
audie nce, was not referred to.
M. K. & T. .Men Out.
President Kline phoied to James
O'Connell, president of the machln-ii-ts
union, lo the effect that the shop
men on the Missouri. Kansas & Texas
railroad, affiliated with the Systems
of Federation, have struck In sym
pathy with the carmen ut Denlson,
San Antonio. Texas, and Sedalia, Mis
souri and Parsons, Kansas. Kline
said the crisis had arrived and they
might as well fight now as any time.
V. P. Welcomes Strike.
New York, Sept. 28. That the
Union Paeif.c has decided to defy the
System of Federation and welcome a
sirike, if forced to it. Is the Interpre
tation put upon its reply, telegraphed
at noon today to the federation offi
cials, conferring at Chicago. The
company wired, if tho men did not
like the treatment Already accorded
them, the. company did not see what
else coild be done to persuade, them
to remain In service.
Ready at T.os Angclci.
Los Angelo. Cnlif., Sept. 2S. The
shopmen In the employe of the South
ern Pacific Railroad company at this
place are ready to walk out on a
strike the moment it Is definitely as
certaned that the railroad officials
will ?:. t accede to tho domands of
tho federation, say offic als of the va
rious unions today.
Strike Inevitable.
Denver, Col i., Sept. 28. A high
union official of Chloago, who is here
today stated that a strike of the fed
eration of shopmen on western rail
roads Is Inevitable.
N. M. REPUBLICANS
II) Nil BURSUM
Lns Vegas. N. M., Sept. 28. H. O.
Pursum, chairman of the republican
territorial central committee, will In
all probability be nominated as the
republican candidate for governor of
the new state, by the convention to
day. Former Governors Bradford and
George Curry are candidates for con
i gresslonal nominations only, and each
Is practically assured of receiving1 a
nomination. -
Great Interest centers In the fight
for the senatorial toga. The four
leaders In this race are Governor Mill9
Wllllnm Andrews, A. B. Fall and
Thomas Catron.
Miss Kruttschnitt to Wed.
Chicago, Sept. 28. Miss Rebecca
Kruttschnitt, daughter of Julius
Kruttschnitt, vice president and ac
tive manager of the Harriman roads,
and her mother are In Chicago on
their way to New Orleans, where the
daughter Is to be married to Henry
Clifford Woodhouse, an Englishman.
Tho wedding Is to be a quiet one and
will take place at the home of the
bride's aunt, Mrs. Joseph P. Blair.
Tho honeymoon will be spent In the
orient and after March the young
people expect to be at home In Ore
gon. Mr. Woodhouse has money but
no t'tlo of nobility.
BURNS FAMILY TO
DEATH; STARTED
EIRE WITH OIL
Three Others Badly Injured
and Home is Totally
Destroyed
Mitchell, 111., Sept. 2S. Coal oil
used to start a fire, with which to
cook the family morning. meal. Is re
sponsible for the death of five mem
bers of the family of Virgil Nander
er, of this city, the setlous Injury by
burning of two other members and
himself, and the total destruction or;
ills home.
The dead arc:
Mrs. Vanderer, and our children
Gertrude, ago 15 years; Bessie, age
13 years; Karl, age s years and VVande
age 4 years.
The father had arisen and Ntarted
the fire, while the other members of
the family slept.
He placed fuel in the stove and
poured kerosene over it from a can.
Hot coals, supposed to have smoul
dered i ll ', ijciltcd the oil, caus
ing an explosion, which threw the
fiery liquid over the man and the
room.
The sleeping occupants of the house
were burned before they could be
awakened and rescued.
WANT BOOKS OF CITY
OFFICIALS AUDITED
The official books of the city may
be audited by experts if a recommen
dation to be made to the council by
I the finance committee- is . favorably
received. This was Uie statement
j made this morning by Councilman C.
, I. Strain who is a member of tho
e'.iiiui itee and who is strongly In fa
vor of the auditing.
The books of the tlty officials have
not been audited for years, and.
wliile there is no suspicion of dishon
esty on the- part of the offic'als the
, members of the finance committee
believe that experts should be em
ployed to check up the accounts of
the city and discover any po-slble er
rors or entanglements.
To that end a meeting will be held
some, time this week with the two
Spokane experts who have just fin
ished auditing the books of the county
and it is probable that these men will
bo employed if the council accepts the
sugge.-tion of the committee.
MAST AWAKIINS TO
WKSTLKX PUOC.IUUSS
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 2S. The east Is
awakening to prosressive ideas and
only needs a leader, declared Gover
nor Aldrlch, who returned from the
Spring 1,'ike conference of governors,
where ho caused a commotion by hi
denunciation of federal Judges, whom
he charged with nuulifying ' s ate
rights. H,. sa d the western spiiil is
responsible for this awakening.
Woven Drowned.
Paris, Sept. 28. Kle'vcn persons'
were drowned and ten others Injured
by the overturning of an automobile
bus Into the Seine yesterday after
noon. The vehicle was half way over
tlie Archeveche bridge when In trying
to avoid a collision with another om
nibus the chauffeur gave his steer,
ing wheel a sharp turn. The heavy
veh'clo skidded, shot on to the side
walk, crashed into the heavy iron
raling and dropped Into the river. All
the passengers were carried down
with the exception of two or three
who Jumped, Ten bodies were re
covered. Ordered from Claim.
I'klan. CaU Sept. 28. Struggles be
tween settlers and the L. E. White
Lumber company for the possession
of rich timber lands along Alder
creek reached a crisis again when H.
3. Warren, a settler, was driven off j
claim. Warren's cabin xVUs ra2C2
tl 116 was warned not to come back.
ine settlers, who already have peti
tioned Secretarv Of thn TntArlnit WTn 1
er L. Fisher, admit that they await
witn rear tho next move of gun men
imported into the terrltnrv Rfrrt
to persuade women to leave the clear
ings ana let their husbands fight It
out alone have proved futile. They
will not do so.
Held for Shooting.
Denver, Sept. 28, A coroner's Jury
here held Mrs. Gertrude Gibson Pat
terson for the felonious killing of her
husband, Charles Patterson, a for
mer Chicago broker, hero last Mon
day. Tacomu Has Blaze,
Tacoma, Sept. 28. Fire, believed to
have been of incendiary origin, al
most totally destroyed the $160,000
plant of the Puyallup Veneer and
Mill company at Meeker Junction,
near here last night More than 100
men are thrown out of employment.
EI POISONS
HER FAIL?
Slays Parents and Sister to
Cotlect Insurance is Belief
ot Police,
IS I'UKTTi' STKVOfiRAPIIER
CV .F.V ORLEANS
Hud F-iirtifdotl in Collcotli'j Money
n Tiiieo MTiiIh",s' Deaths Ad
mits l in ! ii1tt' i! t:. Poison !lnt Dc
f'mci Sim M.J u Mistake.
New Orleans, Sept. 2S. In the ar
ret here of Annie Crawford on the
charge of poisoning Vr younger sis
ter, Elsie, a pretty rtenographcr, the
police took their first step in an ef
fort to clear up the mystery of sev
eral deaths In the family.-
Three other members of the Craw
ford family have died under myste
rious circumstances within the last 13
months.
Elsie Crawford died suddenly last
Saturday and under circumstances so
suspicious that the cnrnriT's jury had
the contents of tne ftomaoii analyzed.
The finding of cnouch morph'ne'to
kill at least two persons was follow
ed by the arrest of the .sister.
Mary Agnes Crawford, sister of the
prisoner died June 2i. 1910. ruppos
edly of acute meningitis Three
wot ks l iter. July 15. 1!10, her father
died, uraemlr poisoning being given as
the cause. On July 2J. lsin, her
mother died. In her case, uraemle
poisoning also was given as the cause.
Annie Crawford, the pr! oner, held
Insurance policies on the 1 ve.s of the
dei eased in the following sums:
Walter c. Crawford, father, JS00;
Mrs. Crawford, moth' r $41"; Mary
'cues Crawford, sister. $30(1; Klsle
Crawford, sister' 250.
She collected Insurance in
etch ease except in that of her s -ter
Klsle payment of which was with
held pending the reeeipt of the cer
tificate of death.
Miss Crawford, according t p dire
off cials. admitted to the district at
torr.e that she gave her .-ist-r. 'lis'.,
morphine, but did i: by mistak" a
she 'ntende,! to give her calomel :tnd
s.da. .
Johnson Not Broke.
Chicago, Sept. 2S. Jack Johnson's
mother laughed when told that Jack
was broke. She said he had $150 000
In a bank here which he would not
touch, and that he always lived on
tlie country, wherever he was.
The Commission Plan In Des Moines
Commissioner Mac Vicar Says iian I- Adapted to Small Cities Also.
In a letter to Judge S. A. Lowell of
tlrs eity. John Mac Vicar, member of
the Des Moines commission and the
superintendent of the department of
streets and publ.c Improvements,
heartily indorses t e commis ion
torn of c vei ni.ient. He dec lares i!v'
plan shoul 1 wi rk well i.i small clt .
a weil as in targe plaeis and i .il -:
ttent'i.n to the fact that when tin
idea was f rst suggested !n Oi s
M litn s .t was opposed on the ground
the plan would not operate well in
a city ns large as Pes Mo'ncs
The following statement regarding
'tie operation of the plan :n Do
Moines was given by Mr. Mac Vivar
and will be of local Interest:
Tlie government of our city, under
the Des Moines, plan, has been char
acterized by Increased efficiency and
facilitation of the city's business In
a'l departments. Selfish ward inter
ests have been ignored, and the de
mands and needs of the public gen
eral public receive first consldera
tion. Improved bookkeeping and ef
ficient auditing have stopped many
leaks. The city's expenditure have
been kept within its Income. The
tax levy is slightly decreased. Tho
city receives Intere-t on all deposits
nnd takes cash discounts whenever j
"possible. Monthly un.l annual de
tailed and comprehensive reports are
promptly issued and circulated. This
has resulted in a lessening of the
expense for the conduct of the city's
business In what we term tho
"working fundi" (not trust or per
manent funds) in the sum of $1S0 -000.00
during 1908 as compared with
1907, under the old plan of govern
ment. The seoond year shows the
administration within its Income on
a smaller tax levy than that of pre
vious years. It should be explained
here that deficits are from time to
time Incurred to meet cost of street
paving abutting property belonging
to the United States and city govern
ments, and othef" properties which
aro exempt from taxation. These de
ficits are met. as provided by law,
from the ' levies made the year fol
lowing. The Des Moines plan of government
has not entirely eliminated politics,
but It has Improved the brand of pol
itics. So long as the people elect city
officials. City government must, to
TA T IS AGAIN
TERRITORY TODAY
Speaks on Relation of the
Government to Country's
B
usmess
Council Bluffs, Iowa. Sept. 28.
c-'rc-l !i;,i Taft Today Invaded Iowa
and h.. .nhui" sit territory of
ex-f'on-'i'e sman f'mlth.
Tlie pre ident intimated that he
was well pleased with his reception
in V'- n-as and that hi received a
" 1 li v :i-:n t welc .:n in the Jay
l.ti'. U sU:c .'.an he anticipated.
In his address on the relation of
Hie government to the business of th"
country, the pre-ldent classed the
four most Important points, the reg
ulation of railroad rates by the inter
state commerce commission; enforce
ment of laws forbidding unlawful
combination: tariff legislation, effect
ing chiefly the manufacturers of this
country and a proper banking and
currency system.
lie stated that the government had
made good progress and remedying
unreasonable and discriminating rail
road rates and recommended that the
c:.es affecting interstate commerce
be put under direct control of the
'department of justice.
Speaking of the prevention of un
lawful competition, 'he president de
fi tide 1 the existing laws and upheld
the recent tru t decisions of the Unit
ed Stat s supreme court.
un the tariff question, Mr. Taft
declared that th... business of the
country depended on a protective tar
iff, but that he had coine to believe
that the tariff is tor) high and needs
fixing.
ALASKAN (-nvKllXOI! TO
Miinr PKiisinnvr taft
---
Juneau. Alaska, j'ept. 2. Territor
ial Governor Walter Clark, of Alaska.
today ;.nnoui:ced that he will go. to
Seattle. Wash., next month to meet
President Tai't.
He said: "I want to talk to the
resident about six important laws
that ought to be passed by congress
:'r the good of this county."
Luiul Ciiire-s Oikmis.
Denver, Colo., Sept. 2S. The fir t
public lands congress ever held in
the United S ates opened here today.
It was called by Governor Sliaf froth
of Colorado, in the interest cf western
states. Jt will last three days. Dis
poslt'on of water power-, irrigation,
forestry and conservation will be dis
cussed some extent be a political proposition.
Embryo reformers are wjnt to cry
out for the clmiminati. n of politics
from our city elections and tell us
that city government is purely a bus
iness proposition. Iti that they are
m'staken. Web ter defines politics as
t :.e science of government, and dis
iinguishes between good and bad
i 'Mties. Wh.le business ethics must
: e observed in certain phases of c'ty
government, yet eity government is
in re than a business proposition. It
is not n corporation organ'::ed for
profit, but for the purpose uf pro
tecting life, health and pr .perty.
earing for the education and to sonic
extent, the morals of the community.
In tho selection of municipal offi
c'tls. we have coin,, to realize that
the fir t consideration is to secure
not only "go,., men'- but capable
men. It is said thu it Is easier to
be good than to be efficient. What
a municipality needs in her city of
ficials is men who ttnderstand how
to run a city's busii.:ss and who aro
sufficiently political to know how to
x-nter to the need of tlie communi
ty. The tondem of alt new MUnie'iin'
carters is t? Ircn v numWl. ;!
e"'ive officials and center the re
sponsibility in the hands of a few.
To demand full publicity and a care
ful checking of accounts and bal
ances Jlore than one hundred mu
nicipalities have adopted commis
sion government and as many others
aro working to this end. New York.
Buffalo, Pittsburg and other large
cities are demanding a simplifica
tion of their city governments.
Many learned students of munici
pal government oppose commission
government because it combines to a
great extent the legislative and ex
ecutive branches of our government,
but those who have had practical ex
perience in municipal government
realize that what a state legislature
leaves to u municipal body In the way
of legislation -s so meagre i..ui the
foundations for our government are
not In any way endangered by com
bining tliese limited functions. The
legislative functions of a municipality
can properly be likened to the pow
er of a board to frame by-laws in
order that its business may be done
In an orderly manner.
ITU FLEETS
TURKISH AND TRIPOLI COASTS
TURKEY WEAKENS; TOD
Thirty Thousand Italian Troops
comed--Pope. Sanctions
Belligerent
YOUTH TRIEO ON
Charged with holding imnroner in-!
tercourse with seventeen year old
Evelyn Hugh, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Jake Rugh, and of being the
father of her unborn babe, Charles
Wortman, a young man of this city,
is today standing trial in the circuit
court. The legal charge against him
is fornication, which is defined as im
proper relations with a giii between
the ages of 16 and 18.
Most of the morning was spent in
seeur ng a jury for the case and this
afternoon the sta'e ha- been submit
ting its evidence. Up until press
time the girl and her mother had been 1
on the stand mid had given the sub-
stantial testimony upon which the i
charge. .5 based.
The girl testified tnat the defend- !
ant had seduced her last May after!
an acqu lintance-hip of several weeks j
and that he is the only man with
w hom she had ever nad improper re- j
lations-. The mother told of how she
lu: i guarded her children from temp- i
tatinp.fi. of the au nt.on paid to her I
daughter by young Wortman and of
her discovery of her daughter's con
dition. In the course of her testi
mony she declared the temptations to
a young girl are greater in Pendleton
than in any city on the face of the
globe and that, consequently, she had
always been exceed.nbly watchful of
her children lest they fall in the ex
isting snares.
Both mother and daughter broke
down and wept under the sharp ques
tions with which Attorney Dan P.
Smythe sought to weaken their story.
From tlie quist'on of the cross-examination
;t Is apparent that the de
fense will attempt to prove that the
girMiad been morally lax prior to her
acquaintanceship with the defendant
.in. I had hi u guilty of improper con
duct with o'her young men, both In
I'end'eton a,nd in her former home,
Athena, and that the mother had r.p
pl.ed to the police officers of the city
for assistance in keeping the girl in
at n'sht.
Tlie prosveutng witness and her
parents have only lived in Pendleton
about a year, coming to this city from
Athena. Tile father is employed at
Byers mill, while ...e mother works
ii-a laundry.
Attorneys Carter & Smythe are de
fending Wortman, while District At
torney Van Vactor and W. C. E. Pru
itt, lus assistant, are pro-ecutlng.
ALLEGFD BUNCO
M IS JAILED
Accused of working a "sk.n game"
on II. H. Wcssel, the well kit ,v:i
Court street clothing man, 'J. A.
Schui;: is now in the city jail pt tid
ing tlie i'ni- of J ist.ee l'arkes from
Walla Walla, when formal complain:
will be made agamst him.
Scliultz it is alleged, obtained
merchandise from the Wese store
under false prtenses. Several days
ago he purchased a bill of goods there
and. according to thtj pt-noyictor, de
.lui ed ' h'.n employer. J, H, Kin, a
well known farmer, would telephone
In to vouch for his trustwortliine s.
Soon a message was received over the
phonej the speaker representing h.m
self to be Mr. King.
Several days later Mr. Wessel grew
suspicious and communicated with
Mr. King, only to learn that the mes
sags had been "phony." Yesterday
Schultz came back and purchased an
overcoat valued at J27.50 under the
impression that ho had not been
found out. However, the officers
were notified and he was arrested la.-t
night 'jy Officer Kearney.
4 Killed by llomb.
Guadalajara. Mexico, Sept. 2S A
terrible explosion of rockets and
bombs In a crowded church here to
day resulted '.n the deaths of four
persons and serious injury to 15 oth
ers, and cast a shadow of gloom over
the merrymaking attending the com
ing of Madero to this city. Of the
wounded many were so seriously
burned or trampled In the panic that
followed the explosion that they may
die.
BLOCKADE
LATE BEEIEVE POWERS
Start for Fron-War Wel
Italian Government's
Actions.
London, Eng., Sept. 23. With four
Italian battleships, three cru.sers and
a fleet of transports, bearing 30,000
TtaTan troop-, sailing off the coast of"
Tripoli today, British of f icialdom
hourly expects to rece.ve advices that ,
Italy "has landed her forces in the dls
r"td country and that war with
Turkey started to acquire the new em.
p're.
A second expeditionary Italian
squadron sailed from Spezia last night
and it ..s belie .-ed that this fleet Is be
ing sent to establish a blockade of
Turkish seaports, prcbably to prevent
tlie further embarkation of Turkish,
troops for Tropoli.
Advices from the various European
capitals indicate that the powers
have abandoned all hope of peace be
tween the two bel.gerent southern
counti ies. and will henceforth exert
the'r efforts to prevent the expected
war from involving other countries,
which is considered the. gravest dan-,
ger brought about by the dispute over
Tripoli.
Turkey Weakens.
Constantinople. Turkey Sept. 2s.
Indications that war between Italy
and Turkey' w.'l be avoided if Turkey
has not already gone :oo far in her
refjsal of Italy's demands, are begin--ning
to iipp-ar here today
The purte i.5 now .reakeninar stncf
it has h.-rn determined that the pow
'.:s will not interfere, in Turkey's be
half, wh'eh .t is believed was the ex
peetaiion of he Turkish government.
Tod 'iv the eahiner conferred and
after the meeting an official an
nouncement was made to the effect
that Turkey has decided to make ma
terial conces-Ions to Italy, provided!
the latter country will respect Tur
key's territorial integrity.
It is however, considered as er
tremely improbable that the Italiaa
government will consent to the con
trol of the disputed territory' remain
ing under the Turkish government,
eminent.
Italians Welcome War.
New York. N Y., Sept. 2S. A cen
sored dispatch received here today
from Rome says that Italy has ad
mitted that the landing of forces In
Tripoli, by the Turkish government
yesterday, was an unpardonable de
t in nee of Italy's stand in the dispute
and that a great majority of Italians
will welcome war. More than ninety
per cent of the reservists- have re
sponded to the government's cail to
colors.
Italy Aeccyiits Defy,
n-nie. Italy. Sept. IS. a Stampa.
a semt-offic:al newspaper, tod.iv de
c la res that Italy will use the landing
of a few hundred Turkish troops' in
lrlpoh yesterday fro,,, the transport
Dema. as cause f war. Officials
h-'.ve r.f.iscd to comment on the
s'orv.
Pope sanctions ituv's fove
K.;,::e. ept. 2S.-The pop t'oday
-n o ai v end..,,, ,0 Italian expe
:.:'!"" !'.','' thn 'cupation of Tripoli.
I his wnl maim-i..!!.. .,
"'.' -iu wie govern
m .n Preventing tho great strike
;'' I"-.'.-, which is being planned b
the s Hialist-.
Mn-t Protect Italians
Vienna, sept. Js.-Austr'ia ha
iuietly , T
at, c tizens in Turkey, must be pro
tec ted it Jurkey wishes to retain the
sympathy of the powers
iTencli Cruisers Sail. ..
Paris. France, Sept." 2S. For the
purpose of protecting French inter
ests in Tripoli, the government has
"I'd.red the cruisers GambetU and
K. nan to the Tripoli L.oast and tho
vessels sailed todav.
Peace is Hoixiess.
Berlin, Germany. Sept 2S. Though -praetieally
all hope of a peaceful set
tlement of the dispute between Italy
and Turkey has been abandoned the
German ambassador ;lt Constantino
ple is still seeking some way to find
a basis for an agreement between
the belligerent countries. Two Ger
man warships have been ordered to
the c-a-t of Tripoli to protect German
interests.
Fight May go to Pmida.
London. Sept. 2x. After agree-
ing not to fiKht in England, police
c urt proceedings against Jaclc John
son and Wells, were dismissed today
This means the big fight Is off and
may probably go to Paris.
Attorney J. W. Henslelgh of Echo
is transacting business in the city today.