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VOL. 24.
PENDLETON, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1011.
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HILL
SUSPECT
HUMAN PERVERT
Believed to Have Slain Sev
eral' Others in Oregon and
Iowa.
NEIGHBORS FEARED HIM
Authorities Aro TlHirouglily Satisfied
of Guilt of Wealthy Clwkanuis
Ooiiuty Niirseryimui Prisoner l)o
ButSS Guilt.
Oregon City, Dee. 21. Evidence
that the officers who have been work
ing on tho murder of the Hill family
near Ardenwuld since Juno 9 last nay
Is subsequently conclusive has been
discovered against Nathan 13. Harvey,
the middle aged neighbor of the Hills,
arrested and charged with their mur
der. A series of crimes that has followed
the Harvey family throughout tho en
tiro present generation and that points
strongly to hereditary criminal In
stincts is one of the sensational phas
es of the case. Nearly every member
of the Harvey family who has died
within the past 20 years has met a
violent death. In several cases at
least, suspicion pointed strongly to
Nathan Harvey, the enigmatic elder
on.
Say Proof U Positive.
Furthermore, Sheriff Mass of Clack
amas county und Detective L. I Lev
lngs. who have been working on the
Ardenyald murder mystery since the
morning of the killings, say they have
positive proof that the Hills were
klllod between 12:45 and 12:50 on the
morning of June 9 and that Nathan
was at they do not yet say in the
Hill house exactly at that time.
And while suspicion was not direct
ed against Harvey until 10 -days after
the Hills had been killed, they say
they have proof that five days nfter
the murder Harvey came to Portland
and gave a firm of attorneys in Port
land a mortgage for J20.000 on his
valuable Ardenwald nuseries with the
understanding it was to be their fee
for defending him should ho be charg
ed with the murder of the four Hills.
On Night of Murder.
Sheriff Mass said that he had abso
lute proof that Nathan was in Port
land the night of Thursday, Juno 8,
and that he took the last Cazadcro
train for home. This train leaves
Portland at 12.05 a. m. and arrives in
Ardenwald at 12:25. The sheriff says
ho has witnesses who saw Harvey
leavo tho train nt Ardenwald at that
time. He says that Harvey started to
walk toward his home on tho Arden
wald road and reached the Dclk house
which is between the station and thn
Harvey and Hill homes, at 12:40. The
ax with which the Hills were killed
was lying on the steps of the Delk
place and evidently was taken from
thero by tho murderer.
Nathan 11. Harvey lives about 300
feet south of the little cabin in which
William and Ruth Hill and their two
children, Dorothy and Philip, were
killed. Between his homo and the
Hill house are two small cottages oc
cupied by Cashior Mathews of the
Wclls-Fargo Express company In
Portland, and his mother.
Lived Iionjc at Ardenwald.
Harvey has lived at Ardenwald,
which Is a small station on the Oregon
Water Power division of tho Portland
Hallway Light & Power company,
southeast of Mllwauklo, for 28 years.
Prior to that time he was in tho com
mission business In Front street, Port
land. Ho Is married and has two chil
dren, a girl 14 years old nnd a son 17.
A brother, Henry Harvey, lives on a
ranch near Gresham.
Harvey was In his sitting room
when he was arrested by Sheriff T. T.
Mass and Deputy F. A. Miles. He ex
pressed no surprlso when ho was ar
rested and went quietly with the
sheriff to the Oregon City Jail. When
placed In a cell he merely remarked:
"I ought not to be here."
Unexpected developments In the
murder case made Harvey's arrest
necessary according to the detectives
who have been at work watching him
for the past six months. What these
developments were they would not say
further than that while heretofore
they thought they were safe In mere
ly watching Harvey closely, it became
nocessnry to place him in jail.
Long List of Crimes,
Those who have been looking up
the past history of the Harveys claim
to have found an appalling list of
crimes and gruesome affairs that Na
than B. Harvey has been closely con
nected with. Fifteen years ago Har
vey's mother was shot to death by
the accused man's brother In a cor
ner room in the very liouse in which
Nathan Harvey was living when ar
rester Tuesday. The murderer com
mitted suicide. He was said to be a
moral pervert. The murderer of tne
Hills was beyond question a moral
pervert.
About 17 years ngo Mamlo Welch,
nn lS-yenr-old girl, was outraged and
murdered In the strawberry patch ad
joining tho Harvey liouse. The body
FEDERAL AN DICIVIL
AUTHORITIES CLASH
Indianapolis Prosecutor At
tacks Meddlesome
Sleuth
John McXamnra Is Sought as Witness
for Government Los Angeles
Probo Near End.
Indianapolis, Dec. 21. An asser
tion has been made that federal of
ficials have approached John McNa
mare since his imprisonment and
have attempted to have him become
a state wftriess in the dynamiting in
vestigation. The report follows the fining of
County Prosecutor Baker $30 for con
tempt of court because he beat a de
tective employed by the National
Erectors' association whom he accus
ed of "harra.-sing" members of the
county grand Jury. County Judge
Markey has ordered an Investigation
of Baker's charges.
Angeles Pi-oho Almost Complete.
Los Angeles, Calif., Dec. 21. Wlien
the federal grand Jury resumed its
Investigations Into the dynamithig
case today the corridors were throng
ed with labor leaders who are expect
ed to testify The.e included Tviet
moe, Clancy, 'Johannsen. Fred Good
rich, Stepson. Treasurer Munsey of
Salt Lake Iron workers.
Munsey remained In the grand Jury
room over an hour and then was or
dered to stay within call as ho may
be needed this afternoon.
Eleven more witnesses are yet to
be examined, it U believed the probe
will end possibly tomorrow evening.
CLOTHESLINE THIEF
OPERATING IN CITY
Housewives of the city who set val
ue upon their bod and table linens,
tho r underwear und other pieces of
wearing apparel, will do well these
days to take their washing in at
nights or else set a guard over their
lines. An epidem'e of clothesline
robberies during the past few weeks
makes such precautions necessary to
insure safety to the clean white peces
of cloth with which industrious la
dies aro wont to adorn their back
yards each week.
No less than six cases of such pet
ty thievery have been reported dur
'ng the week or so. wnilo it is more
than probable that there are many I
eases which have not beeomo general
ly known.
Tho clothe line at tho home of An
dy Hust of West Alta s'.reet has been
railed twice recently, on the first
occasion three entire lines being strip
ped of their bearings and on the sec
ond Mrs. Allen' Peterson, who stayed
at the Bust home, lo-ing many baby
clothes and ladies' underwear.
Other sufferers of similar depreda
tions are Mrs Henry Arbogast on
West Bluff street, Mrs. flarry O'Dc'.l
on West Alta, and Mrs. Rankin on
Cobble street.
Most of the cn'es reported show
that the thieves exercise d scrimina
t!on In their select In of articles from
the line, ladies' nnd children's un
derwenr seeming to be tho most pref
erable. In several in-tahees men's
underwear has been thrown on tho
ground, showing that the thieves,
whoever they are, have no use for
such raiment. Table clothes and bed
sheets have also been taken and the
ind'calons are that the work Is being
done by or for women.
FRANCE, ENGLAND AND
ItUSSIA WANT ITALY
Tarls, Dec. 21. Ambassador Bar
rere of France and stationed at Rome
has made tentative proposals to Italy
to abandon Austria and Germany at
the explrntion of tho triple alliance
and Join an entente to form a quad
ruple entente with France, England
ami Russia. This statement was made
here today. It is believed that the
plan or'ginated In Vlonna. "It Is add
ed that Italy lent a sympathetic ear
to the proposal.
was dragged across the road where it
vas found the next morning.
In Iowa, where the Harvey family
eame from, it is said that Harvey's
father diod suddenly and mysterious
ly the day after he had deeded his.
property to Nathan Harvey and Na
than's brother, Dan. Nathan Harvey
was suspected of the murder of his
father, it is said, but was never tried
ATrother brother of Nathan was
drowned in the mill pond near Mll
vvaukle 12 years ago. '
Harvoy has a bad reputation am
ong his neighbors at Ardenwald and
many of them hnve refused to have
anything to do with him for years.
There are numerous instances, snys
Sheriff Mass, where he has insulted
women and made Improper proposals
to them. Tho sheriff claims to have
the evidence of at least six women re
siding near Ardenwnld that Harvey
lms insulted them. One, it is said,
will testify that ho threatened to kill
her if she ever told anyone of his ad-j
vunces. ,
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
Saiem, Ore., Dec. 21. The University of Oregon won Its fight for
an appropriation today, when Judge Galloway made permanent the tern-
porary injunction enjolj.ing .Secretary of State Alcott from filing the
referendum petitions against the appropriation. The judge held that
many names on the petition were fraudulent, or not sufficiently genu-
lno to comply with the law. The case will be appealed.
C0USE CREEK ROAD
IS FURTHER DELAYED
County Court Mukcs Two Errors in
Procedure and Mufl Do
WorW Ovci.
By an opinion handed down today
by Judge G. W. Phelps in the case of
Higby Harris vs. .Umatilla county,
which was in the circuit court on a
writ of review, the county court will
be forced to do over again certain
work done towards securing the
Cou-e Creek road, near Milton, peti
tioned fo by one group of people and
remonstrated against by another.
In sustaining the writ. Judge
Phelps upheld two of the alleged er
rors in the proceedings of the county
court, namely, that the court did not
fix a time and place for the county
road viewers to meet before proceed
ing to lay out the road and that the
surveying work done by J. W. Kim
brell, as deputy for County Surveyor
Geary Kimbrell, was not legal be-
cause tho court's order specifically
de Ignated the county surveyor. Both
of these errors were conceded by
Judgo Fee, who, as attorney for the
petitioners, has been aiding the coun
ty. .
Judge Phelps' opinion on two oth
er alleged errors, however, was In fa
vor of the county. Plaintiff con
tended court did not comply with the j
law oy pofciing nonces in a pumic
place because affidavits stated that
they had been posted "in plain view
of the public.
Judge Phelps ruled that the pur
pose of the law was to notify the pub-
re and that a notice in
"plain view of i
Jght to be -in'
the public" certainly ou
a public place." honored through being selected to a
Harris also claimed that tho road ' J"e8PnsihIe position at the league
laid out was not the one petitioned : hediuurters. University City, St.
for because it did not touch on of Lou' Miss Boyd Is preparing to leave
the- Intermediate points mentioned in ,or st- Louls to take up the work
tho petition. However, tho Judge )hore and wl" 6et away within a few
gave his opinion that inasmuch as the j day-
termini of the road were the same!, r man' months past Miss Boyd
as in the petition and the general l1? been u zealous worker in the A.
course the same, the error was not an1 she 1,as bec'n the leader in
sufficient to make tho procedure void. 1 th Iocal chapter. Though regretting
the viewers simply using their own
j judgment in laying tho road in
the
most advisable course
The matter is now again in the
hands of the county court and to pro
ceed further with the road, the er
rors upheld must be corrected.
nnPTArrmr tlll I
rUolUrrlut WILL
I I IP Ma a '
UAWL y Hill IllflYX
liril L. L. VIL.IL A I O
Owing to the fact Christmas comes
on Monday this year there will be two 1
will be observed as usual by the local i
pestal people. Fostmaster J. T.
Prown announce,! nH:iv lht th r I
dieton office will be open only between i
the hours of 9:30 and 10:30 each 1
forenoon. Owing to the holidays there i
will be no carrier service and those
expecting Christmas parcels must call
jorthojn atthe postman's window at (
Th. ri!Etn. -l
. . ....to . u.ni ia nun i;ii 4JII
at the local postofl'ice and tho stamp,
general delivery nnd register' windows
face lines of patrons most of the time.
King Kills Rig Came.
Delhi, Dec. 31. Three tigers and
three rhinoserous have been killed by
King George, who is hunting in Nepal.
Only 2 More Days
Have You Done ALL Your
Christmas Shopping?
If Not. GET Oli THE J03!
WINS APPROPRIATION
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TENNESSEE GOVERNOR
BECOMES A CONVICT
Kenteiices Self to penitentiary In Or
der to Study Conditions of
Suite ITisoners.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 21.- In or
der that he might study prison con
ditions at first hand, Governor Hoop
er, newly elected chief executive of
Tennessee, yesterday sentenced him
self to a term of two days In the state
penitentiary.
Luft night the governor occupied a
cell alongside criminals of all classes.
Early this morning he was roused out
with the other prisoners, rushed
through the days preliminaries of
washing his face and hands in a tin
pail of water, eating his breakfast, of
regulation prison fare, from a tin
plate, after which he was put to work
and treated as the most lowly convict
In tho prison.
This melodramatic act on the part
or tne governor was the outcome of
his campaign promise to be more care
furin pardoning state convicts, whinli
was the one thing that enabled him
to
defeat Governor Patterson, who
was charged with being too lenient
with the prisoners, many of whom
were liberated during his term.
MISS' IDA BOYD GOES
Tfl IIMnCDCITV AITV
IU UrilVLnollT 01 1 Y
Miss Ma Boyd, prominent local wo-
man and enthusiastic worker for the
American Woman's League, has been
' "i'i""""eui win t ixe her
av.vay frorn Pendleton other members
i ui me mague teel gratified over the
'appointment of a local member to the
: pi sition in question.
) There Is also rejoicing in Woman's
League circles over the victory of E.
G. Lewis over the peonle who no
seeking to prosecute him for alleged
i me mans in connection with
hl enterPHses. While Lewis was
.under Indictment most of tho in!,-
misuse of the mails in connection with
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"'"ueisnip retained faith in his in-
tegrity and they now point to his vin-
jdiration as proving the soundness of
I their judgment.
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HID l OIt LEAGUE BASEBALL
Seattle, t .
.n . '.. nen tile
UeSon 31
noon, Fielder Jones 7nrLl i ,
of tho Chico Whit'e ?
w i! be e'ecte i nr-.l if, Am0ricans'
f iv .rablo report win
bid VlZat
ei season.
Rules Against Parkers
Ch'cairo iw T V
to,Lv ml eeru'nm
. ... . 1 oeei oar-
""i proceed when he de
nied a motion of the defense, that two
of the seven counts of the Indict
ment be dism'ssed. The defense took
exception to the ruling
In Which to
Shop Before
Christmas
If you cannot decide
what to give, look over
tho advertisements in the
East Oreffonian. You will
find pift 8iipestions in to
day s paper for
every
member of tho family
THE EAST OHEGOX
IAN IS AX EXCEL
LENT GUIDE TO
XMAS SHOPPERS
'REPUBLIC
NOV ASSURED
Premier Yuan Agreeable If
He Is Named
President
Rebel Envoy Olijexbs to TIiIh I .'ulcus
Regularly .Nominated und EUvtod
By People.
Shanghai, Dec. 21. Declaring that
the abdication of the Chinese emper
or and the establishment of a republic
is the only means by which the Chi
nese may be appeased, Tang Shao Yi.
representing Premier Yuan, at the
peace conference, said:
'"Pekin is unaware of the depth of
popular feeling. Although some
what prepared, I was astonished to
find such a change In attitude from
patient forbearance to that of dog
ged determination. It appears too late
to save the empire.
Premier Yuan was willing to con
cede the rebeis demands for a repub
lic, provided that he be selected as
the f.rst president.
Wu Ting Fang refused to accept
the recognition of the republic on
these terms, but says if the premier
concedes the republic. Yuan will be
nominated and would be almost cer
tain to be elected.
Sues to Soeure Wages.
J. F. Stockwell today commenced
suit against William Smiley for a bal
ance of $83.40 alleged to be due for
services in harvesting the defendant's
1911 crop of broom corn. Plaintiff
cltes 1 hat he has a lien on crop which
;he asks to be dec,arC(1 a first Iien ani
lunnermore ne asks that the property
be placed In the hands of the sheriff
I , sale aml tnat ,ne rroceeds be used
J Ml"erai?nt or tne cIa. He asks
a'1,lltlun 25 aUo"iey fees and $2.20
iccuiumg iees. itaiey ana lialey are
his attorneys.
WORKMAN KILLED
BY FALLING TIMBER
Portland. Ore. John W. Parling, a
plumber employed by the William &
Boggs firm of plumbing contractors,
and who was working in the new Lip.
man Woif hnilrlfn, or Fifth and
Washington, was almost instantly kill
ed when a heavy timber fell from the
fourth floor of the building striking
him on the head.
SELF MUTILATED PK EACH Ell
MUtDEIt SUSPECT KECOYEK1XG
Bo-ton. Mass.. Dec. 21. Rev. Clar- i
ence g" Kleheson, suspected
"..dm, cusper-ieu or
murd"'ns Miss Avis Linnell after!
ci1u?ing her downfall, who yesterdav i
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"'""""s aiiempieu 10 emasculate
Insplf ln his CPl1 ln the county jail,
is today re tin.S easily and attending
i'"j--icius oeneve mat tneir opera
tion was successful and that the man
wilj recover.
The prosecuting attorney, who has
charge of the case against the min
ister. Is of the opinion that he will
he ready for trial January 15, but the
surgeons stat that this is Impossible.
It is indicated that the ministers
act will be the basis for the defense
to plead insanity, when the case Is
brought to trial.
RUSSIAN AND PERSIAN
TROOPS ARE FIGHTING
leueran. nee. i. xamiz dispa'cli
Mttt '"lous Anting is pro.
cre-sinc between 1?nsi:i n n Mil Pr.
sian troops there.
Kasbin reports sav 4000
Russian
troops are ordered to move on Te- j
heran tomorrow, unless the Persian
parliament agrees to d'smlss Treas- j
tier Shuster.
PORTLAND RRANCH POST
OFFICE SAFE RULED
Portland, Dec. 21. Post office
station A on the east side waj brok
en into and robbed of $1000 in cash
and ?o0o in stamps and some regis
tered mail during last night. The
safe crackers knocked the combina
tion off the safe. People rooming
above the office heard the no!se but
believed the employes were sorting
Christmas mail. No clews can
found.
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TWO WOVXDF.D IX Dl'EL
FOIGHT I5V MISTAKE
Portland. Dec. 21. Frank Kelly, of
Missoula, Montana, where his wife
and children live, is dying today and
Policeman Charles Hewerson is ser
iously wounded In the groin as tho re
sult of a pistol duel they fought last
night.
They met near Kelly's room on Hall
street. Each mistook the other for a
highwayman and they emptied their
revolvers.
For a time tho police believed Kel
ly the famed red haired bandit of Ta
comn, but today they found that he
has been working here, in a trusted
position for 5 months.
FORGET TREATY TROVRI.ES
FOR A RRIEF PERIOD
Washington. Dec. 21 President 1
T:ft cabled his good wishes to the
C7. v of Russia today, the occusion be-
n N'eholas day in Russia. The czar
replied cordially.
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TAFT URGES
MANY ACTS
In Message on Treasury
Condition, Outlines Need
ed Legislation.
BANKING SYSTEM UPHELD
Kecomnioiid.s Extension of Postal
Savings Hunks, Parcels post for Ru
ral DiMrifW. and Government of
I 'ana ma by President.
Washington,. D. C, Dec. 21. Pres
ident Taft sent a message to congress
today on the financial condition of the
treasury, needed banking currency
reforms and departmental questions
which the message said the finances
stood close to.
The message referred particularly
to monetary-reforms, declaring that
tho monetary commission's report
would be presented to congress in the
near, future.
Referring to the central bank plan,
the me sage says:
"It is unfortunate that the wise
and undisputed policy of maintain
ing unchanged the main features of
the banking system rendered it Im
possible to introduce the central bank
for the central bank would certainly
be resisted and the plan in which it
could have been Introduced probably
would have been defeated. For the
f'scal year, ending In June, the ordi
nary receipts, exclusive of postal rev
enues, were $701,372,374 and the dis
bursement 9, $634 147.907. '
He urged prompt action on the
monetary commission's report and
legis atlon to govern the Panama ca
nal zone, advocating government
throughjfcihe. authority .teihe presi
dent', the enactment of a employers'
l ability bill, the extension of the pos
tal savings banks and the enactment
of a rural parcel post law which he
snyt. would benefit business and all
the people.
Referring to the army reorganiza
tion bill, the president says he favors
an army service corps and opposes
any plan which would interfere In
the centra principles and detailed
system in the staff corps, concluding
that he favors the exclu-ion of local
federal officers, of the nation, from
; ..,.
in classified service.
Abrogation complete.
Washington. Dec. 21 President.
Taft returned th's morning from New
York and immediately arter reaching
his office he signed the Joint resolu
tion abrogating the Russian trea'y as
adopted by the senate and hou-e Sec
retary Knox was the only cabinet of
ficial present when the resolution was
signed.
1st BASKETBALL
GAME TOMORROW
Tomorrow night in the h'gh school '
gymnasium the first interscholastic
game of basketball of tho series
which will decide the champ'onship
of eastern Oregon, vvi'.l be played, the
contesting teams to be those repre-
senting the Pendleton h'gh school and
Columbia College, Jr , of Milton. Last
year the local school captured the
championship by going through the
season without a defeat, and although
two of that star quintet were lost by
graduation, the boys have hopes of
duplicating their record of this year.
Uoylen. the whirlwind forward and
captain last year, and Art Jordan,
one of the famous Jordan brother
guardu, both finished their high
school careers last spring, but Chap
man, forward, Houser, center, and
Cliff Jordan, guard are all back in
the game. In addition, Sturdlvant,
star forward two years ago. is in
school afa'n and will probably be in
the- regular rneup, while Fee, Strain
and several other speedy substitutes of
last year, are showing great form and
will be strong bidders for team plac
es. Columbia College has always turn
ed out a splendid basketball team and
reports from Milton are to the effect
that this year is no exception, so tho
game tomorrow night is arousing
much interest.
EX-PRESIDENT MORALE'S
NAIH5ED INT SAN DOMINGO
San Domingo. Former President
Morales, with some of his followers,
landed on tho east coast of San Do
mingo. They were at once taken
prisoners. They will be brought be
fore a court on n charge of conspir
acy. The country Is quiet.
Favors IVnslon Rill.
Washington. Dec. 21. Penator
Prown of Nebraska. sne;ikinir t.idav
on tho Sherwood $1 a d:iy pension
bill in the senate, sai l its pnsoage
would bo an appropriate CluUUuas
gin ror the Civil war veteran.
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