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COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER. '
CITY OFFICIAL PAPER.
VOL. 24.
PENDLETON, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1911.
NO. 7248
" JsSB5ES
REBELS RETAKE
STRONGHOLD
Conditions In China Are
Almost Unbelievable
Sailors Join Revolt.
MOTHERS EAT BABIES
ISEVOLITIOMSTS CWPTOin MANY
TOWNS AND Dltt'IiAltK MARTIAL
LAW IN ATTEMPT TO ItESTOUE
ORDER AGAIN.
Peking, China, Oct. 20. Messages
that have been received by the gov
ernment state that the Chinese reb
els have retaken Hankow and that
the lossts to the Imperial troops dur
ing the last few days fighting, have
totaled an enormous figure.
Wholesale massacres of Manchus
continue and several towns fell before
the onslaught of tho rebels last night.
IiiiMrl:il Sailor Rebel.
Shanghai, Oct 20. The crew of a
Chinese cruiser which was sunk by
the rebels here, has Joined the rebel
forces. Admiral Sah has withdrawn
the rest of his, warships and is steam
ing down the river. The rebels have
proclaimed martial law at Hankow
nd are trying to restore order.
,l:ian Hacks Offer.
Toklo, Oct. 20. Hacking up its of
fer to other foreign powers, to send
seventy thousand troops Into China
to protect foreign Interests, If neces
sary, the Japanese government today
concentrated the great forue at' Ky
ushug, in nominal preparation for tho
grand army maneuvers to be held No
vember 11. While Die object of the
movement Is apparently routine, no
concealment Is ma le by Japan that
she proposes to have a sufficient force
ready to transport to China immedi
ately and guard Japanese property if
netessa ry.
Vnront I'at Children.
Shanghai. Oct. 20. Millions face
starvation in Central China. Parents
are eating their children in tho flood
stricken districts. Marauding bands
aro in control and head tho fight for
the survival of the fittest.
Missionaries coming from the In
terior state that the situation surpass
es anything within the history of the
country.
From Iehang to the sea. a distance
of a thousand miles the valley of the
Ynngtse Is bordered by heaps of de
caying dead, wh'le the black flag and
cannibalism hold undisputed sway.
The flood-devas'.nd villages aro
overrun with starving Chinese. The
water-.-odden ground Is past all culti
vation. The rice crop ls comphje'y destroy
ed, and even U'0 grass along the riv
er bank has been utilizid for food.
Not a dog, rat cr bir-'i 'hat could be
capturcd-Jias been spared
Tho "me condition prevails In all
the valleys of Central China, reports
from the interior proclaim a sUte of
anarchy.
All trade is suspended and the prin
cipal cities will soon be In a state of
anarchy.
All trade ls suspended and the prin
cipal cities will soon be In a' state of
siege, with their Inhabitants facing
starvation.
Tho government Is unable to cope
with tho conditions.
Rebels Victorious.
San Francisco, Oct 20. The young
China a sociation, which claims to
have received secret dispatches from
Hankow, say the imperial "troops
wero badly beaten nnd lost 1000 kill
ed and hundreds wounded. Tho reb
el losses are placed at 200.
AN AUTO ACCIDENT
County Commissioner H. M. Cock
burn of Milton figured In an auto
inobilo accident fn Walla Walla last
night, according to tho . .following
story from tho Walla Walla Union
this morning":
"Last night as II. M. Cockburn was
driving his family to town In an au
to to attend the play at the Keylor
Grand a car shortly ahead of him
ran into a dog and swerved directly
across the road, stirring xup such a
dust that his light did not penetrate
through the cloud, and his machine
collided with tho otr-nr. The accldont
happened In the neighborhood of the
Old Farmers' packing house. But lit
.tle damage was done either car but for
a few broken lights and a couple of
flattened tires. As tho accident was
obviously unavoidable, Mr. Cockburn
did not Inquire tho name of the party
he ran Into. The dog which caused
all the fuss could not be found and
It is thought that ho escaped but little
the worse for his experience.
J. I Morgan III.
New York, Oct. 20. The
state of J. I Morgan's health Is
alarming financiers and rumors
that he Is critically ill are cir
culated on the exchanges. At
Morgan's house it was stated
that he caught cold Tueflday but
is now in bis usual health.
FOOTBALL PLAYER
HERO OF NEAR FIRE
Saves
Valuable Horses
From Death
Pise-over' Incendiary's Work and
lights FIumicm While Calling for
Help.
Dne fire saved another last night
when Harry Krehs. star freshman
guard on the high school football
team, while return ng home from the
big bonfire held la t n;ght to arouse
enthusiasm for the game with Walla
Walla today, discovered the approach
to the barn at tho home of E. F.
Avcrill ablaze and saved that struc
ture and the three horses In it from
inevitable destruction by prompt
work Had it not been for the bon
fire young Krehs would not have hap
pened along .when he did and had he
not made the discovery at that time,
nothing could have saved the barn and
Its contents.
The cau e of the fire is not known
but Mr. Avcrill Is inclined to mipute
it to Ineendiari m because of the fact
that there Is no sidewalk along tho
street upon which the npproch leads
and for the further reason that that
entrance to the barn Is never used.
Attacks l'.iinies Willi Bucket.
Young' Krehs v:n returning home
from the rally about 11 o'clock last
night and when opposite the Averlll
barn, which Is located "on the corner
of r.lufr and Lilletd' streets, noticed a
bright blaze. 1'pon investigation he
found that tho approach to the barn
was In flames, which were gaining
rapid headway. Realizing that no
t ine was to be lost he rushed Into
the yard, found a bucket nnd faucet
and began extinguishing the fire a
lie called for help. Aroused by his
yells, Mr. Averlll hastened out and
helped to put out the threatening
flames.
The fact that the door of the barn
was securely tied with a rope, where
as a hook has always been used for
fastening it. lead Mr Averill further
to believe that the fire was not acci
dental. His own horse nas not In the
barn at the time but the race horse
of Clarence Adams and two horses
belonging to his brother were and
would certainly have perished with
she building.
CALLED BY DEATH
X. W. Potwlne, formerly a resi
dent of -this city, and father of Rev.
W. E. Potwlne, once rector of the
Church of tho Redeemer, passed away
at his home in Riverside California,
on October 9, death being due to lum
bago and a general breakdown of life
forces. This was the message receiv
ed In a letter from Miss Ida E. Pot
wlne, daughter of the deceased; by
Mrs. F. A. Campbell of this city. Tho
body was cremated and tho ashes
sent to Connecticut for burial. The
deceased man was 87 years of age at
the time of his death.
Mr. Potwine was born in East Wind
sor, Conn., in 1825 and spent tho
greater part of his active nnd useful
life In his native state. He came to
Pendleton an invalid in 1893 to live
with his son who was then rector of
tho parish of tho Church of the Re
deemer, and moved with him to Hon
olulu, when hjs son accepted a new
chnrgo In Hawalla. After seven years
residence there he returned to the
coast locating in Riverside, where ho
spent the last year of his life. He
was a man of singularly sweet char
acter, just and upright, devout and
charitable. He was a life-long ami
loyal member of the Episcopal church
and made many wadm friends dur
ing his stay in this city.
Auto Driver Killed.
Sioux City, Iowa. Oct. SO. Rilly
Penrce, driving a Colby racing car at
a mile a minute pace on the south
turn of the Woodland Park track, was
ins;nntly killed last night when his
machine crashed Into the fence.
Tearce was on a practice spin In prep
aration of the race meet. A bursted
t're Is supposed to havo been the
cause.
I'tnli Women Name Ticket.
Salt Lake, Utah, Oct. 20. Twenty
thousand women of Salt Lake City
practically will put a ticket of their
own In the field at the primary elec
tion October 24 ti select candidates
for municipal offices.
FORMER RESIDENT
PROSECUTION j
DODGES ISSUE j
"
Venireman Challenged As
Biased ---Thought Gas
Caused Times Explosion.
0NE
OPPOSES DEATH
TWELVE MKN IN M'XAMAP.A .11
i:y iiov rxTii. ,u im;k REN
ders opinion on three i'n
ier challenge.
I.os Angeles, Cal., Oct. 20. Ry In
terposing a challenge against Venire
man O. W. Allams a socialist, fram
ed on both his objection to circum
stantial evidences and h's belief that
gas caused the Times explosion, Pros-:
editor Horton, for the state In the
AlcNamara case, sidestepped an actual
framing of the issue .as to whether
ven'remen havim - opinions us to the
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qualified for Jury service.
Tile s'ate attorney insisted that Ad- ,
situs was biased because he admitted i
he couldn't convict a man on eircum- I
stantial evidence. Tudgo Bordwell
reserved hi- decision in the master.
- Whra court opened today there
were twelve nun i the jury box,
three under cha'lenge, until Judge
Kordwell decides whether veniremen
believing dynamite or gas caused tho
explosion, bin otherwise without an
opinion, can serve.
Venireman Mcintosh a retired ba
1 er was next challenged by the state
le cause he said he could not convict
a man when the death penalty was
involved. Judge Bordwell al o re
sen ed - hit decision in this instance.
Erii'! Decker, one venireman
passed by tho defense, was excu ed
today because he was opposed to the
dentil penalty.
". It. Manning, a farmer, and F.
I). Green, a rial esta'e man became
vl g ble for jury duty and were pass
id by the state and defense.
Th'.re will be no se s'.on of court
tomorrow, as Judge Uordwell wants
to read over the records before de
ciding on the challenges.
STRIKE NEARS END
Chicago, 111., Oct. 20 International
Secretary Kramer of the Blacksmith's
union declared ho had unofficial in
formation by the strike leaders of the
Illinois Central railroad, that a set
tlemene of the strike is impending.
He said it is understood that it is only
n question of threshing out conces
sions, before an agreement, ending the
strike is reached.
Honmiwl MeNainnra's ltoliirii.
Springfield, 111-.. Oct. 20. The
State Federation of Labor conven ion
adopted a resolution demanding the
return of J. J. MeNamara to Indi
ana for a fair and impartial trial and
expressing the sympathy of the con
vention and its sincere belief in the
innocence of the McNamara brothers
of tho charges against them.
Oregon at Seattle.
Seatt'e, Oct. 20. The battleship
Oregon arrived hero today, prepara
tory to leaving for Pan Diego and
Mare Island, where she will take on
amunitlon.
COMMISSION PLAN CHARTER WILL SOON BE
READ' FOR PROGRESSIVE LEAGUE'S APPROVAL
The commission government char
ter has been drafted, most of the
sections have been acted upon by the
charter making committee nnd the
full draft of the charter will be sub
mitted to the members of tho Progres
sive league within p short time. At
that timo the work of the charter
making committee will be reviewed,
such alterations will bo made as are
desired and Initiative petitions then
placed In circulation with a view to
getting the proposition on the ballot
at the December election.
As it now stands the proposed char
ter calls for a mayor and two com
missioners, tho mayor to draw a sal
ary of $1200 per annum and each
commissioner $1)00 per annum. The
regular terms of all officers shall be
six years. However, this is a provi
sion that will be up for change when
the leaguo passes upon the matter.
Sentiment within the committee
s ands about evenly divided as to
whether tho terms shall be six years
or whether they should bo shorter in
duration nnd the matter will not be
finally decided until the league itself
takes action.
The charier ns drafted calls for
placing the control of all city affairs
in the hands of tho commission of
three. Specific duties are assigned
to each man nnd he Is made supreme
within his department. Each man
names all the subordinates under him
'
ASK ARREST II CASE
OF SEN. STEPHENSON
Shields Must Go
Committee
Before
I. Tool or 1 lines, Who Collected. Slush
I'iiikI for I.orimer ami Maybe
Stephenson.
Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 20. Affairs
In the investigation into the election
jot Tinted States Senator Stephenson
took
i sensational turn today when
j Chairman lliyl.urn, of the investiga
tion committee ordered that a vW r-
rant be drawn immediat- ly for the
airest of Robert J. Shields, of Su
p i inr, Wis.
The warrant was requested when
Shields refused to answer or obey an
order of the committee to appear be
fore it for examination.
Shields was brought into the lime
light of publicity during the investi
gation of the election of United States
Senator William Lorimer of Illinois.
During that investigation he was
engaged in traveling about the coun
try and securing affidavits, favoring
Edward Hines, who was the chief col.
lector of the Lorimer slush fund and
who may prove to be the same with
reference to the case of Senator Ste
phetison.
When the warrant is served, Shields
wl'l be brought before the committee
ui del- guard if necessary.
TAFT MEETS INDIANS
Sheridan, Wyo.. Oct. 20. Visiting I ,
ked him to pension a widow of a
Crow brave, who was killed by a po
liceman, formed a novel feature of
l'nj-ddont Taft's homeward journey
t rainy.
President Taft visited the towns of
Sheridan, Gillette and New Castle to
day and will spent the night at Con
gressman Mondell's home in New
Castle.
I'OU.Ml-n WASHINGTON
OFFICER MI ST FACE CHARGE
Olympia, Oct 20. Former High- 1
way Com mi sioner Joseph Snow of,
Spokane, must stand trial for grand
larrt ny. by embezzlement, as a result
of losing his appeal in tho supreme
court. He neglected to turn over a
$2100 balance remaining from $10,
ooa paid the state by the Chicago,
Milwaukee and Puget Sound Rail
road company for the right of way
through Snoqua'niie Pass.
I,ahor Call Iiiio1.
Washington, Oct. 20. The official
cnll was issued today for the annual
convention of the American Federa-
tion of Iabor, to be held at Atlanta,
beginning the thirteenth day of next
month.
and the approval of the other mem
bers for such appointments is not re
quired. An official continues at the
head of a certain department as long
as he Is in office unless the people at
an election select him to be the head
of one of the other departments.
Among other duties, the mayor
will have charge of tho police de
partment and of the city finances.
Commissioner No. 1 will among other
duties have charge of all street work,
while commissioner No. 2 will anion
other things havo. supcrvl-ion of tho
water department. Some of the char
ter making committee are in favor
of continuing the present water board
In power for two or four years until
the gravity water problem bay bo
worked out. However, the charter as
drafted calls for eliminating the wa
ter board and concentrating all au
thority in the paid commission of
three men. As such the charter will
go before the people unless the draft
Is altered ut the coming league meet
ing. At this time it seems probable that
the charter committee will complete
Its work so as to submit the same to
tho Progressive League at a meeting
sometime next week Owing to the
fact there are but about 10 days re
maining In which the charter must bo
completed and Initiative petitions pre
pared, circulated and filed, it is ne-
ccssary that all possible haste be made.
12 Miners K'illetl.
Hibernla, N. J. Oct. 20.
Twelve men were drowned to
day In the Wharton Steel com
pany's mine. They were caught
by a flood which was caused
by water breaking into the mine
from an abandoned working.
The bodies have not been recovered.
MINISTER MURDERS
YOUNG GIRL
Pastor of Fashionable
From Hiding Place
WOIM DIES WITH RIVAL'S
Purchase of Deadly Poison Ending Woman's Life,
Traced to Suspected Young . Wearer of Cloth -Trial
Begins On Expected Wedding Day.
GOVERNOR W1I.SON
A I'll: It NO.MI N AT ION.
Trenton, X. J., Oct. 20. Fol
lowing an address in Somer
set county today and a politi
cal rally in Essex county to
morrow Governor Woodrow
Wilson will have for a tour of
the west, includ ng Wisconsin
an l Texas. Governor Wil on is
now out openly fur the demo
cratic presidential nomination.
ROMP PICTURES
DRAW FULL HOUSES
Packing the Grand Theater to the
juors for several hours last night,
shifting audiences saw their first
glimpses on a moving picture screen
of scenes which were familiar to them
through attendance at the Round-Up
l: st month. So great was the crowd
that culled for tickets that many had
to be turned away and many others
crowded Into the aislts and in the
rear of the room where they stood
during the whole of the performance.
The crowd that saw the pictures
last night was an enthusiastic one
nt.l flurliKr urtme n t ri i 1 1 1 -.1 r innment
' linu-nr,in n,i an outlaw-
many yells were shouted at the silent
slrugglers on the screen. Since the
pictures have been arranged for ex
hibition, they are much better than
when first shown here to the direc
tors, the continuity of the action be
ing splendid. While the bucking
pictures were universally pleasing,
Brisco's battle with a steer while at
tempting to bulldog it, was unani
mously proclaimed the feature of the
films and one of the most sensational
mo(ion pictures ever exhibited
NO GAME TODAY; RAIN
GIANTS "IN BAD"
Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 20. -Wet
grounds caused by more rainfall again
caused the , postponement of the
fourth game of the world series to-
! day. The park is a perfect sea of
mud
This postponement makes it prob
able that Manager McGraw, of the
Giants, will send Mathewson to the
mound tomorrow to pitch the game.
It is be'ieved that Plank will pitch for
the Athletics.
Giants la Bad.
New York. Oct. 20 The New York
National Giants are decidedly "in
bad'1 with the National Baseball com
mission, as a result of the conduct
of Manager McGraw and First Base
man Merkle in last Tuesday's game
on the Giants' field. Charging that
each of these men had u-ed abusive
and Incorrect language toward the
umpires, the commission has sent of-
ficial communications to them, noti-
fying the manager that a repetition of
his conduct would result in his dis-
barment from the games of the world
series and assessing a fine of $100
.... i ., ,
tiiinri .uvi iwe aim wircaiciiing mm
" i with disbarment from further play
ing in the present championship con
tests. COAST I.KAGVE HEAR-
ANNOI XCES RESIGNATION
San Francisco, Oct. 20. Judge
Graham, president of the Pacific
Coast Baseball league, resigned to
day. Press of Judicial business nnd
feeling that he had served his time,
ns the league head, are his reasons.
He was elected president In 1909.
Nottingham AlMiinlouod.
Portland. Ore., Oct. 20. Notice has
been sent to the San Francisco board
of marine underwriters by the own
ers of the schooner William Notting
ham of complete abandonment. The
Nottingham was towed in'o the Co
lumbia river Sunday last in a help
less condition.
IS ACCUSATION
Boston Church Dragged
in Home of Fiancee
Boston, Mass., Oct. 20. A sensation
such as this city has not experienced
for ages, came with a shock today
when Kev. Clarence Virgil Richeson,
pastor of the fashionable Emanuel
Baptist church of Cambridge, was
placed under arrest and charged with
murder in the first degree, in connec
tion with the death of pretty nineteen
cr old Avis Linnell, who died in a
bMhrnoin in the Young Women's
Christian association in this city Sat-
urday of cyanide potassium poison
ing. '
The first theory accepted as an ex
planation of the death of the young
woman, was suicide, but when a drug
gist at Newton came forth with a
statement that he had sold a rjuan
tity of the poison to Reverend Riche
son, only a few hours previous to tho
girl's death, an Investigation was im
mediately started. The police com
pleted their investigation today and
placed Richeson under arrest.
Druggist Hahn, says that Richeson,
whom lie has known for many years,
cam to his store 0"4ober 10 bought
the cyanide for a dog and then cau
tion' d the druggist to remain silent.
The accused minister was dragged
from the home of Miss Viola Ed
mands, in this city, whom he had
planned to marry October 31. He had
1 ecu secluded in the home of his fi
ancee since the death of the Linnell
girl, lie was arraigned this morniing
and entered a plea of not guilty to a
charge of murder in the first degree.
His trial has been set for October 31,
the day he was to have married.
Miss Linnell and Richeson had been
engaged to marry and the first inti
mation that the girl had that she was
not to be the wife of the minister,
was when she read the announcement
of the coming wedding of her lover
to the Edmand girl. This was a few
hours before her death.
About this time Miss Unnell start
ed out to take lunch with Richeson.
What conversation took place between
them, during the time they were to
gether, lias not been learned.
She returned to her apartment anl
seemed to be well pleased, despite tha
published announcement of the com
ing wedding of Richeson and Miss Ed.
niands. At 11 o'clock her friends
heard peculiar sounds emitting from
the bath room and on entering found
the girl dying. Her feet were In the
tub and a package of the poison' was
found on a table in the room.
The girl's mother has made a state
ment to the authorities that the girl
took the poison, thinking it medicine
and intimates that she has reason to
believe that the minister was respon
sible for the mistaken idea on the part
of the girl.
Reverend Richeson is charged with
displaying a spirit of cold blooded in
difference over the tragic end of tho
young woman. According to Miss
Linnell's mother, friends of the girl
o; realising that she was dead, tele
phoned to Richeson informing him of
her death.
Without any sign of emotion, he is
said to have replied:
"Well, why do yon call me?"
Reverend Richeson occupied his
pulpit as usual last Sunday and seem
ed not In the least affected by the
death of the girl. After the church
services were over, he went to the
home of Mi-'s E lnians, where he prac
tically hid until his arrest this morn
ing Miss Linnell came to Boston from
her home, at Cambridge, only a short
' , at thp !1U!tir,,st,(m of
KrwreI(, ukhoson, according to tho
presumably to study
1
i music.
Frank Carter, a member of Rev.
Richeson's church, staunchly defends
the minister and says that another
person was with the girl when she
died and that he can prove that a
man. not now- suspected, is the guilty
one and that he will be brought to
ju-tico before long.
Richeson says ho Is Innocent and
said: "I will face the ordeal as
bravely as I can."
M!ss Viola Edmans whose wedding
plans were so abruptly broken, soon
inherits about ha'f a million dollars
from her grandfather's estate.
Lovesick Youth Suicides.
I.o-s Angeles, Oct. ;0. Brooding
over Ivs parents' objection to his love
affairs, and coming marring. Walter
llartung. age 23, city passenger agent
for the Banning Stenmslvp company,
committed suicide with a shot gun
today. The name of the girl in tha
case could not be learned.