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Calling cards, wed
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mercial stationery and
Job printing to order
at the East Oregonlan.
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER.
CITY OFFICIAL PAPER.
VOL, 24.
PENDLETON, OREGON, Fill DAY, OCTOBER i'7, 1011.
NO. 7251
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WESTON P. 0.
BLOWN
Yeggmen Secure One Hun
dred Dollars From Post
master's Strongbox.
2nd TIME IN TWO YEARS
In Haste to Ixiivo Scene, Cracksmen
Icuvo Their Toofi Behind .Sheriff
TnylofH I'oixv Busy Trying to Find
Trm-o of J!lHT9.
For thi; second time In two years,
the safe In the Weston postoffice was
blown'opon with nitroglycerine early
this morning nnd the cash contents
stolon. About J100 In coin and cur
rency was taken but the supply of
Mamps was left untouched.
This was the message received at
the sheriff's office today nnd the of
ficers are now trying to get trace of
the robbers without much hope of
success as they have but poor clews
upon which to work.
The yeggmen had gained entrance
to the postoffice, which Is on Main
street in the central part of tho busi
ness dLs'rlct, by prying open a win
dow. Tho explosion wag heard by
ninny residents of the city In the
early hours of this morning but no
Importaiituncc was attached to it and
the discovery of the crime was not
made until 7 o'clock when Postmaster
M. A. liaker went to work.
' Evidence are that tho safecrackers
made a hurried flight after securing
their booty ns they had left their
tools and a bar of soap on the floor.
The safe door had been entirely torn
off by the force of the explosion. Only
the cash drawer had been molested
and the $100 which had been taken
in after banking hours yesterday,
stolen.
Two years ago the post office was
looted In almost the same manner,
but there is no su.'.plelon that local
eharacters are the su'prlts. It is the
prevailing opinion that tho deed was
the work of professionals tramping
through the country and it is believ
ed they have put many miles be
tween them and the scene of their
crime.
ATHENA-WESTON
ROAD COMPLETED
The only three-ply macadam road
In the slate was finished during the
early pnrt of this week, according to
advices from Weston today. Tho
rond Joins the towns of Athena and
Weston, n dstanee of three miles,
and has been under course of con
struction for several months, the
farmers in t lie vicinity co-operating
with the county by furnishing l.ibor
nnd teams for the work. Dave lav
ender, former county roadmustor,
had the work In charge.
Tlie rend consists of three layers
of crushed rock rolled hard, the low
er layer being very coarse, the top
layer fine and the middle layer a
mean between the two.
.The new road makes a splendid
h'ghway and marks tho beginning
of a network ef good roads for this
enmity. It was undertaken as an ex
periment by the county court nnd
farmers and has proved so successful
that other similar stretches will be
orored In fact as soon as this road
was completed the rock crusher was
moved Ju t east of Weston nnd Is
work Is now under way on the con
struction of another mile of macad
am. Wednesday 1S5 yards was laid
this constituting a record for one
day's work.
NEWSPAPER MAN DECLARES AMERICANS
ARE LEADING CHINESE REBELS REVOLT
It Is the confident belief of C. B.
Walker, a traveling newspaper man
who was here yesterday, that the Chi
nese rebel army is officered by Am
erican solders nnd be declares that
his belief can be verified without any
great difficulty. Not only Is ho con
vinced that .subjects of Uncle Sam
are lending the movement to over
throw the present dynasty of the big
orlen'nl empiro but ho Is confident
that for tho past seven years these
officers have been recruited here and
sent to tho southern provinces of
China to drill tho slant-eyed revolu
tionists In military tactics.
Mr. Walker bases his belief on tho
fact that ho himself was offered a
commission In the Chlneso Imperial
Reform army In tho spring of 1904,
took the examination for such ap
pointment but later reconsidered his
Intention of ostracising himself from
his own country to n-s'st another raco
In its fight for freedom. It was
U. S. GRAND JURY
Starts Investigation
Indianapolis
I n
May i:esult in Dynamite Exlilblls J!c
TaUen from Iloosler Capital to
1,0s Angeles.
Indianapolis, lnd.: Oct. 27. United
States District Attorney Miller today
said he is not yet in a position to li s
cuss the McNamara investigation by
the federal grand jury here.
The grand Jury investigation is to
see whether James McNamara and
Ortie McManl&al carried dfynamite
from one state to antoher.
If it is proved that they d'd this
it would Involve them in the federal
law meshes in addition to the Los An
geles Times case.
It Is believed the purpose of the
action !s to ascertain whether there is
sufficient evidence to sustain the
charge against McNamara, of con
spiracy against tho United States
law. All interstate transportation is
governed by strict federal statutes.
The defense secured a substantial
concession from the staetoday when
District Attorney Fredericks agreed
to examine talesmen alternately so
each man interrogated. for cause,
shall be di-po.sed of before another
is taken up. J. Hush, a farmer, was
passed for cause by the defense to
day. P.nriw Behind 1 n vo-t Ration.
Los Angeles, Calif., Oct. 27. InH
terest in the, McNamara trial today Is
centered at Indianapol's where the
federal grand jury is expected to be
gin an investigation of the raid on
the offices of the International Asso
ciation of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers.
Tho investigation was forced by
Detective Hums, Its real object being
to devise some means of getting the
alleged evidence, garnered in the
raid, to Los Angeles, for use against
the McNamaras,
If the evidence is brought here the
defense will f'ght hard against its ad
mittance, contending there is no con
nection between the dynamite and
clocks there and the Times explosion
here.
If the illeged evidence is Intro
duced here, the defense attorneys
contend that, they have many pre
cedents, to keep It out of thetrial.
The prosecution toiay main
that an exact parallel arose
In the Haywood trial at Poise, Idaho,
when the state introduced
which it alleged were planted
Judges Gabbard nnd Goddard
bombs
to kill
of the
Colorado courts, nnd one designed to
kill Governor Peaboy.
The early hour of today's trial
was devoted to hearing excuses of
forty veniremen who were called for
jury duty.
HYDE ATTORNEYS .
SHOW CARELESSNESS
Kansas City, Oct. 27. Formal ex
ception was filed today by the de
fense in the Hyde case to the judge's
decision, overruling the defense's mo
tion to quash the second venire of
talesmen pn the ground that the Jury
wheel was illegally revised.
They were so confident of the up
holding of the motion that they
scarcely deigned to question the vo
nii'eiin n and so eight prospective Ju
rors are in the box and flicy were
scarcely examined, S x of them w ill
probably be challenged.
l'reneh Aviator Killed.
Rholnis, France, Uct. 27. Aviator
Dcsparnet was instantly kl'led today
by falling several hundred feet with
his machine while engaging in army
aerial tests.
while working on a newspaper in St.
Louis, he says, that the proposition
was first broached ' to him by Lou
Denny, a West Point graduate and a
fellow Journalist. Young Denny, he
declares, represented to hint that his
uncle, General Denny, ex-Confeder-nto
officer and Spanish-American
war veteran, was Heading a move
ment from bis home in South Dakota
to recruit 600 American officers to
send to China to take control of rebel
forces organizing for revolt against
the Imperial army. Ho says ho took
tho examination under General Den
ny and was given his appointment In
the Chinese Imperial Reform army.
Mr. Walker declares ho met an
other man in Milwaukee a year or so
later who had had an experience
Identical with h's own and he Is posi
tive that the success which has
crowned the early battles of the reb
els Is duo to the organization which
American leaders have effected.
CHINESE PRES.
IS PiCLIl
Revolution General Notifies
Powers He Is Republic's
Executive.
LOANS REFUSED EMPIRE
Customs Hon-e ut I'oo Cliow Captur--l
by Koltcl.s ami Mutiny of Imix-r-lul
Sailors Is Expected to Follow
I'. S. Navy .May Go to Orient.
Shanghai, Oct. 2.'. General LI
Yuan Hung has proclaimed himself
provisional president of the Chinese
republic. He notified the foreign
consuls that everything would be
done to protect foreign interests,
during the present unrest. It is be
lieved the revolutionists will accept
him at least temporarily.
The proclamation cf the republ'c Is
the rebels' answer V the government
overtures for peace, implied In yes
terday's surrender to the national as
sembly's demands, which agreed to
terminate the revolt in consideration
of immediate drastic reforms. Li
dives not bel'tve the government's
promises are bona fide.
, Itcliel Sceure I .onus.
London, Oct. 2 7. It is said that
Chinese bankers who are here for
fundi to tide China over the present
revolution, are meeting little encour
agement while revolutionists are
getting money easily.
Xo Money for (lilnn.
Peking, Oct. 27. War loans to Chi
na have been turned down by Ani
ercan, German, English and French
bankers, and their representatives
here have been instructed not to
consider them. It is understood that
tho deci.-ion is the result of advice
from their respective governments.
Mutiny 1'cared.
Shanghai, Oct. 27. It is feared that
the capture of the custom house at
Fmi Chow by the rebels will be fol
lowed by mutiny of the Cantonese and
the sailors who are manning the war
ships, Admiral Sas has arrived here
after escaping from Kiu Klang.
V. S. Xnvy May Move.
Los Angeles, Oct. 27. That the
Chinese revolt may cut short the visit
of the Pao'fic fleet in San Pedro
harbor is the belief of naval officers
who predict it will be necessary to
send at least a part of the squadron
to the far east to protect the lives
and property of Americans in the
Orient. The American legation has
already cabled that ships are needed.
Tvxeiry six Un ted Slates fighting
craft are to assemble at San Pedro)
November 1 to take part in the great
est Irani show ever held on the Pa
cific coast.
HSH IGULTURIST
Declaring that the site at Gibbon
j. reposed for a fish hatchery is ideal
in its conditions and that the trout
fry already planted there as an ev
por'mcnt are thriving splendidly. J.
II. Wilson, fi li eulturist at large, has
become a- booster for the hatchery
after on investigation personally con
ducted yesterday.
Mr. W'lson has been Identified with
the preservation of game fish since
1 SHI and Is one of the recognized au
thorities on matters pertaining to
this work. Upon the invitation of
P. K. Cranston, secretary of the slate
fish and game romnvssion. he came
up from his headquarters at Port
land and spent yesterday nt Gibbon.
The fish already in the nursery pool,
be declared to be in splendid condi
tion, contrary to some reports circu
lated. Because of the purity of the
water nnd the abundance of natural
food, lie characterized the site as an
lde;, one for hatchery purposes nnd
w 11 do all in his power to realize the
dream of the local sportsmen.
Men I Inter Cookiua: Class.
Logan, Utah, Oct. 27. The domes
t!c science clas es at the Utah Agri
cultural college no longer are sacred
j to women. Hnrley Greaves and John
I Short, two students prominent In
college affairs, have enrolled them
, selves in the cooking classes. Uni
formed In the regulation Immasculate
aprons they wrestle daily with the
educational gas range, making copious
notes on kitchen waste, food values,
marketing for profit and other kitch
en mysteries.
"Wo Intend to homestend 320 acres
of desert land apiece" said Greaves,
"and we're not going to starve to
death vh lo we are doing it. We
Intend to eat of en and well and we
don't Intend to got married or hire
a cook."
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Destroy Cruiser; Cripple
Another
Xcwh Censor-hip, Establi.-hcd by Latin-.
Is Proving Very DisgiiNting to
Xev.sjM iM'rdom,
London, Oct. 27. Nech'at Hey,
commanding the Turkish Tripoli for
ces, end practically all of his officers
wrr.i exterminated by the Italian
fortes in a battle yesterday, says a
message received here today, which
quotes official d'spatches to the
Ital'an government sent from the
scene of the battle.
O her messages today received from
Turin say the Italian battleship, Na
poli. sank one Turkish cruiser and
damaged another near the entrance
to the harbor at Dardanelles. The re
port is unconfirmed.
The Ital'an censorship has reach
ed r dk-uiors txtrernes. It is now
impossible i send even news of
Italian vict irie-. In the regular news
d spiuchcs. Kven commercial mes
sages are closely scrutinized by the
Itai.an government officials.
"TAPS" SOUNDED FOR
L, 0. I G.
Company L. third regiment Oregon
national guard and part of the coun
try's "first line of defence" is no
more. It has "gone where the wood
bine twlnoth" all because it has been
found impossible to find officers to
hunile the company. The equipment
has all been shipped to Portland, the
men have been given the'r discharge
and from this time henceforth com
pany L will be but a memory.
The final decision to muster out the
company was given yesterday when in
a 'phone message to Major L. H.
Knapp, Adjutant General Finzer in
structed his subordinate to take the
necessary steps to close up affairs.
The order was not given until every
possible scheme had been tried of
finding a way out of the difficulty.
In vain Major Knapp sought to se
cure a suitable man for the captaincy
of the company. Captain C. A. Mur
phy, formerly commanding officer of
the Salem company was urged to be
come the Moses of the local guard
company and he could have led it
from the wilderness and converted
it Into a first class organization, but
owing to the press of his duties as
superintendent for the state at the
branch hospital grounds Captain
Murphy declined to accept the hon
or. An effort was made to have the
company continue as an organization
but allowed to sleep in peace until
the passage of the proposed militia
pay bill. However. Adjutant General
Finzer ruled against this move and
with f-"id reasons. He urged it
would be bitter to muster out the
company and later on to organize an-
liner command here in, the event the
pay bill passes and a national guard
company is wanted in Pendleton.
So taps has been sounded for
company I
HONOR CONVICT SAVES
Lll'K OF FATHER
lieno, Oct. 27. Racing against
death, thirty four miles over a rough
country in his warden's automob le,
Herbert Christif, a convict nt the
Car-oil penitentiary, reached this city
in time to clasp his father in his
arms and the joy of the mooting
probably saved the sick Iran's life,
physicians say. ConstaV'.e J din
Christie, the father. was stricken
Willi lung congestion.
The family gathered about him and
the man, delirious, called for the miss
ing son who was serving a term for
embezzlor.'cnt, while city clerk here.
The mother phoned to Warden Ba
ker and the warden allowed the con
vict to take his auto and go alone.
WHITE HinnoNKiis IN
1(1 lilt l'AMIID MIIAVAI KKK
Milwaukee, Oct. 2 7. Though fam
ed for beer, Milwaukee today heart-
i'y welcomed the delegates of tho
Women's Chr stian Temperance
Union convention, which assembled
todav for the thirty-eighth annual
nieoCng. Some saloons even closed
their doors to honor tho white rib
boners. Schooner Bums.
Valdez, Alaska, Oct. 27. The gas
oline schooner, N. & S, owned by
Captain Alexander Singletary, took
fire last night, tho blaze threatening
the destruction of. the municipal
wharf at which she was lying and in
which a quant ty of dynamite is said
to be stored. While the 'vessel was
nb'azo from stem to stern a line was
attached and the schooner was towed
to a safe dis ance whore she burned
to the water's edge.
J. N. Burgess, senator from this
county, went to P. lot K ck th s morn
ing to look alter his sheep interests
GOyffiNL Jf 10 FINANCE
GIANTS ARE HQW AT WAR
Steel Trust Officials Resist Suit to Force Dissolu
tion of Their Billion Dollar Combine
MONEY NIGS HOLDJNMNIGHT CONFERENCE
New York Stock Exchange Becomes Spasmodic With
Announcement of Hostilities, and Bears Show
Disposition to Gobble All Offerings.
New York, Oct. 27. Summoned to (
appear in court to show why the r
billion dollar combine should not be
d ssolved, because it is a trust, the
steel kings are determined that they
will not be ou ted from the throne
of power without a fight.
The giants of finance met last
night in J. Picrpont Morgan's home
and did not leave until early this
morning. Francis Stetson, general
counsel for the steel corporation, in
di.-cusslng the dissolution su't said:
"We know just where we stand and
with what we rre charged and we
will act accord ngly."
United States Marshal Snowden is
here to serve the individual defend
ants with summonses. He was al
ready served E. H.'Gary, J. Pierpont
Morgan, and John D. Rockefeller
and is now trailing Andrew Qarjiegie,
Charles M. Schwab. Geo. XV. Perkins,
K H. Gary, John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
Henry C. Frick, Charles Steels,
Charles Gayley, Wm. H. Moore, J. H.
Moore, Edmund Converse, Percival
Roberts, Jr., Daniel J. Reid, Norman
B. Reim, P. A. B. Widener and Wm.
P. Palmer.
The opening of the government's
fight to dis-olve the steel trust had
Its effect upon the stock exchange,
at the opening of the market today.
United States steel preferred started
four points lower than yesterday's
closing price, but covering by the
boars later caused an advance.
The government asks not only the
dissolution of the United States steel
corporation, but for the dissolution of
all constituent or subsidiary compan
ies which are alleged to have com
bined in violation of the Sherman
law to "maintain or attempt to main
tain a monopoly of the steel business."
Thirty-six subsidiary corporations are
named as defendants.
The action of the government is
the most sweeping ever undertaken
under the Sherman anti-trust law. It
demands that the combination of tho
companies which make up the United
States Steel Corporation and subsi
diaries, be declared illegal and that
they all be dissolved; that all the
companies be prohibited from paying
dividends to the steel corporation;
that nil individual defendants be en
joined from continu'ng the existence
of the trust; that tbo stock of subsi
diary companies be distributed in
such manner as to prevent a continu
ance of the trust and that the leas.'
of the Hill ore lands be cancelled,
because it fo-ters monopoly.
The fight aims nt the very exist
ence of the great corporation and the
entire legal machinery of the govern
TAFT EATS WITH
FACTORY EMPLOYES
Milwaukee. Wis., Oct.
-Joining
f r the oo
asion, KiOO factory, store
and shop workers
and t mployers
lunched with President Taft at a
unique luncheon here today. The
pnsident also visited the city schools
lie will arive at Chicago tonight
and meet five members of his cab
inet. During his three days' stop
there several important conferences
will be held.
PROGRESSIVE LEAGUE MEETS TONIGHT TO
PASS ON CUSSi PLAN CHARTER
At 7:30 this evening the members'
of the Progressive Non-Partisan Mu-j
nieipal League will moot at the city
hall for the purpose of listening to'
the report of the charter draf.ing.
committee and of passing upon the;
work of that body. j
The charter is all finished and now
awaits tho approval of the league. I
The final touches were given last eve
ning when a session lasting until 11
o'clock was hold in the office of.
Judge S. A. Lowell." At that time it
was announced by the league chair
man that a, session of the entire
league would be hld this evening.
Prom indications the session to
night will be an Interesting one as
there is more or less difference of
opinion as to what should go int
Hie charter. Many are objecting t
the six year term provision for all
ment, under Jacob Dickinson, former
secretary of war, is directed against
the 37 subsidiary corporations each
with its millions which are manipu
lated at the will of the coterie of
money kings who are at the head of
the steel trust.
Mr. Oa'. chairman of the board
of directors of the steel tru-t is this
afternoon holding a conference with
Mr. Morgan. He told newspapermen
who approached h'm before the con
ference that he could tell them noth
ing at that time, but would probably
be able to give them "something
good" later.
Will i-'ffort CampnlOT.
Washington, Oct. 27 The gov
ernment's suit against the Steel trust
will figure in the presidential cam
paign and the endless political fig
ures are attached to it, is the general
opinion here.
The democratc claim the credit of
forcing the administration to act
through the Stanley democratic
house Investigating committee, which,
has been investigating the trust.
They charge that tha republicans
are endeavoring to head off the Stan
ley findings, while the republicans say
it is just evidence of this administra
tion's s:ncerity in trust busting.
Dickinson in Charge.
Chicago. Oct. 27. Att'y Dickinson,
who will handle the steel trust bust
ing fight, is here today and denied
that he will confer with President
Taft regard'ng the suit tomorrow. He
said he did not know what the trust
would do, but reeal'ed that Morgan
and Gary last month said they be
lieved the combine was legal and that
the government thinks otherwise.
MOVING PICTURE
MAGNATE MURDERED
Los Angeles, Calif. Oct. 27. Wil
l.ab Selig. president of the Selig mo
tion picture company was probably
fatal'y wounded and Frances Begg.
general manager of the local com
pany's branch, was instantly killed to
day by a Japanese gardener, Frank
M'jimatsu, who ran amuck in tho of
fice of the company at Edcndale. a
suburb. The Jap has been arrested.
Th officers wore holding a confer
ence when the Jap appeared and
fired shots at them without warning.
Was lMejwirins to Kxteml.
Denver. Oct. 27. Colonel William
Selig, who was shot in Los Angeles
today left here Wednesday morning
for California, af'er complet ng ar
rangements for one of the largest mo
tion picture studios in tho world. He
had a large company of actors nnd
actresses playing at Canyon City, Col
orado. Washington Rate Ruling.
Olympia, Wash , Oct 27. The now
j railroad rates for Washington will be
j the same from all centers, with no
difference in the ca t or west, ac
! cording to an announcement of tho
j public service comm sslon. Rates
will be made only on distance and
tariff basis.
the officers and that section may lie
changed. The charter as It stamks
also provides that a mayor or com
missioner must not only be a local
taxpayer but also a freeholder. ThU
section was objected to by some of
the committeemen on the ground
that many merchants and other bus
intss men are not freeholders though
they have heavy iutensts here and
pay big taxes. However the commit
tee voted last night in favor of tho
fioeholdor clause. The Baker com
mission charter provides that any
taxpayer may hold office while tho
Spokane and Portland charters do not
call for any property qualifications
for an official.
All members of t '-. Progressive
league will be eligible t-i the meeting
this evening and a fu'l at' n lanco ta
akod for by the chalf riu b as to
insure representative action.