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Italy Claims Revolt After
Submission Made It Very
Neccessary.
ONLY COMBATANTS SLAIN
Admitting Mnny Innocent Persons
Were Slain by Mlstukc During Ex
citement, MaliUnlii Mwt Women
and Children Were Armed.
By Henry Wood, Rome Correspond
ent of the United Press.)
Rome, Dec. 29. Italy's first se
rious realization thnt she would be
able to hold Tripoli and Cyrenalca
only by their complete subjugation
was something of a double blow for
It led up to the situation which
brought down upon Italy the hostil
ity and criticism either justly or
unjustly of the entire foreign press,
If not of the foreign governments
themselves. This situation was that
of the alleged atrocities.
As was stated In the preceding ar
ticle Italy was busily attending to
the "moral and material- develop
ment of the occupied territory, and
repulsing occasional attacks from
without, when suddenly, during one
of the fiercest of these attacks and
evidently at a given signal, all of the
natives Inside of Tripoli, who had
previously submitted, rose In revolt,
. i hom.Kes In some mys
terious manner attacked the Italians
from without. By heroic euorts i"
Italians wero able to repulse the ene
my both In front and behind, but im
mediately afterwards General Cane
va Issued his orders that every native
inside of the c'ty found with arms In
bis possession be Bhot. that every
houe be searched, and that all of the
Inmates of every one In which arms
or ammunition were found, be also
executed.
It was the carrying out of this or
der that led to the reports In the en
... r....n.n on.1 American press of
lire nui"!'"'" - ,
gross atrocities and massacres of ine
native innnimiwn- m -
though sentiment now seems .to be
turning somewhat In favor of Italy,
it has not been established by any
outside Investigation Just what meas
ures of blame if any, should attach
to the conduct of the Italian army.
Italy herself Issued numerous of
ficial denials of the alleged massa
cre!", ns did also General Caneva
himself. The latter explained the
nature of his order as well as the ne
cessity of It, and it has generally been
conceded that the action he took is
the same nction that has always been
taken In such, situations In the past
and wh'ch had to be taken after the
natives had shown their treachery
and bad faith of their pretended sub
mission. As to the charges that women ana
children were, put to death, It is the
claim of the Italians that the only
women and children put to death
were those actually engaged In the
treachery tho Italluns admitting
that there were a number of such
and that they were accorded the same
treatment as the men. To tho charge
that innocent suffered as well as the
guilty, the Italians admit that this is
entirely possible because of the ex
citement, but on the other hand point
out that the Italian temperament Is
not one of cruelty. In some Instan
ces, they say. the Italian soldiers were
actually fired upon by Arab women
and children.
This sudden awakening of tho Ital
ians to the fact that they would have
to subduo the entire territory natur
ally threw the whole occupation back
onto a purely military basis again
which resulted In a step which at first
was not contemplated. This was the
actual nnnextatlon of the territories
of Tripoli and Cyrenalca the sover
eignity of which Italy had at first
been willing to grant to Turkey and
their Incorporation under the rule of
the Italian crown.
King Victor Emannucl, In signing
tho decree of annexation, pointed out
to the powers that It had been
brought about by Turkey's refusal to
make peace, Its insistence on pro
longing a useless war and the fact
that all of tha principal cities of the
two territories were then In the full
military occupation of Italy.
TIIIS FEMALK OP THE SPECTES
ADMIRES THE CASTOFP MALE
Baltimore, Dee. 29. Mrs. Lucille
Moore, former wife of Alexander
Moore, who Is now engaged to marry
Lillian Russell, the actress, today de
clared she wished Lillian all the hap
piness that was hers while she was
married to him for fifteen years.
"In being found more fascinating
than I. Miss Russell is fortunate,"
said Mrs. Moore. "There Is no man
more admired by me than my former
husband. My divorce was obtained
on grounds of Incompatibility. I still
think he Is a splendid man."
MASSACR
REACH
RULING AGAINST PACKERS
Made 4 Million Dollars In One Year
Off $11,000 C'upilal.
Chicago, 111 , Dec. 29. With the
Jury excluded the defense in the pack
ers' case continued its arguments to
day, against the Introduction of evi
dence regarding the operation of the
packers' pool in connection with th
Kenwood and Aetna companies.
It is alleged that the Kenwood com
pany was the old "Oleo OH" trust. It
was. Incorporated In 1900 with a capi
tal of only $14,000 and It made four
million dollars profit In one year.
After listening for four hours the
judge ruled that no question was be
fore the court and ordered Veeder's
examination to proceed. ,He refused
to rule on the abstract question, of
the admissibility of evidence. Veeder
then completed his testimony and the
cross examination started.
LA F0LLETTE RAPS
FOES OF PRIMARIES
Says Popular Selection is
True Representation's
Backbone
North Baltimore, onto, Dec. 29.
United States Senator La Follette to
day arrived here on his trip of inva
sion of President Taft's home state,
and delivered an address on "The Pri
mary in Popular Government," in
which he bitterly arraigned the re
publican national committee for pro
hibiting a presidential primary.
lie said in part:
"The very backbone of true re pre
sentative government is the direct
participation In the afalrs1 of govern
ment by the people through direct
primaries for the nomination of can
didates. "The old machine politicians have
always opposed primary elections.
They opposed the eractment of the
law In Wisconsin, and in every other
state where the principle has been
enacted into statute, or where an ef
fort has been made to do so. Dear
to the heart of the machine politicians
's the old caucus and convention sys
tem. "If there is one thing more than
another that has been put to the
front In this campaign by the progres
sives, it is the demand for the election
of delegates to the national conven
t'on by popular primary elections, and
a provision by which electors might
directly express their choice for pres
idential candidates upon their party
ticket. This proposition has been op
posed by the nat:onal republican
committee, and by machine politicians
everywhere. They dread to give up
that peculiar power that caucuses and
conventions give them. They fear the
secret ballot that enables men to vote
their convictions and judgment, with
out intimat'on or espionage.
"The national republican commit
tee Is nlmost wholly composed of men
oppo.-ed to the primary principle. At
its recent meeting in Washington this
committee went on record, not only
as opposing voluntary primary ejec
tions in states where there is no law
providing for them, but by falling to
directly recognize the law In those
dates that have provided for the elec
tion of delegates to the national con
vention In primary elections.
. "The power to observe the law, or
to order the election of delegates by
tho caucus and convention system, in
violation of law was delegated to the
state central committees of those
states. It is significant that In only
one of tho eight states that then had
laws providing for the election of
delegates in primary election two of
these, Pennsylvania and Ohio, in dis
tricts only is the state central com
mittee friendly to the progressive
movement. A still more flagrant af
front to the people of states that have
enacted primary election laws gov
erning the e'ection of delegates to the
national convention, was the neglect
or refusal of the committee to recog
nize the primary election law of
(Continued on Page Eight)
If the supreme court of Oregon up
holds Jackson county In its issuance
or onds for road building purposes
it is almost a certainty that the peo
ple of Umatilla county will vote next
November on the Issuing of bonds for
a permanent highway system in this
county. If the ' bonds are voted, as
friends of the plan hope will be done,
this county will have "roads that will
be roads."
County Judge J. W. Maloney Is an
advocate of bonding the county for
the purpose of building permanent
roads and he predicts that the matter
will be placed up to the people next
JUDGE MALONEY WANTS COUNTY TO VOTE BONDS FOR
MVMHM Vaaa.. ......
SUN PRESIDENT
OF NEW CHINA
Manchu Dynasty Believed to
Have Collapsed With Late
Development. -
HIS POLICY IS PEACEFUL
Envoy of Imperials and Revolution
ists Agree to Accept Form of Gov
ernment Advised by Delegates to
Peking National Convention.
Shanghai. China, Dec. 29. The fi
nal collapse of the Manchu dynasty, I
In China, is today believed marked in,
the unanimous election or Dr. Sun
Yet Sen, as president of the newChi-
ntse republic and the acceptance by
him of the new order of affairs.
Dr. Sun was elected yesterday, only
one vote being cast against him. To-
day he announced that he would not
accept the office of president, unless
il is election be made unanimous, which
was soon brought about.
Sending a telegram from here to
Nanking, where he was elected. President-elect
Sun, stated that his policy
would be peace and a staple govern
ment. e "V,l,lrel"relueu,,r"
no will go to warming, me repuu.,ea.. lng upo migatkm now pending in
capital city. j Umatilia county.
Immediately upon "receipt of the j -The decision is in accordance with
news of his election, eight thousand the law as I have understood it," says
troops were dispatched to Nanking to Judge J. A. Fee who is attorney for
protect the officers of the new re- the Byers company in the suit now
public to be. j pending between William Caldwell and
Tang Shao Yi and Wu Ting v.Fang i that company. "For many vears the
today agreed to accept such form of ; trend of decisions has been in this
government, which the national as-j direction. The' decision has no espec
sembly. which was to have been call- )al significance in connection with
ed at Peking, might. have selected It local cases and wi'.l not affect the
li thought that It will either be a HmMiase In which the Byeri company Is
ited monarchy, or a republican form concerned."
of government. It. R. Johnson's View.
While the present negotiations, for In much the same vein comments
a settlement and restoration of peace j Attorney Roseoe R. Johnson who has
are under way tho armistice between : been much interested in water litiga
the two armies will be extended. j tion. In an Interview today Mr.
Premfer Yuan, who is reported to : Johnson recalled other decisions In
be on "sick leave," is known to have : recent years indicating the tenement
tendered his resignation, but it was of Uie court to be leaning towards
refused. He fears that he will
assassinated.
Jii mi n IJeeogiiizes i:elel.
Toklo, Dec. 29. Replying to Wu
Ting Fang's demand that Japanese
support be withdraVn from the Man
chu dynasty, the Jap foreign minister
tr.dny Issued a statement declaring preme court and the Brsument was
thnt Japan's policy of interference!1 forth tnat riFiariatl riBh BhouM
was never intended tn momo in fn. ! be 1'mitod in that riparian owners
vor of tho mnn,h ti, ,1 !
ie monarch. The general
trend of the answer is that Jnnnn
wont use her influence in the future, i
against the rebels. I
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SPOKANE'S 1IEI.FX GOULD
REXOUXCES.M ARRI AGE
Los Angeles, Dee. 29. Charging
that she was made the victim of a
strange, baneful Influence, Mr.
Margaret Armstrong, well known as
the "Helen Gould of Spokane." today
emerged long enough from her self
imposed seclusion of fourte6n days to
'n truct her attorney to file a suit to
annul her marriage to George Howell
a wealthy mining man It is report
ed she is a wealthy and shrewd bus
ness man at Spokane.
"I'm still Margaret Armstrong and
not the wife of that man," she cried.
"The marriage ceremony is all there
Is between us and I want my Spokane
friends to know this, because I want
to go back to them."
IJnd Moros Disarmed.
Washington. Dec. 29. Anxiety in
the war department was relieved by
a cablegram from Governor General
Forbes of the Philippines, confirming
tho press reports of the success of
General Pershing's attempt to dis
nrm without bloodshed troublesome
Moros who had sought refuge on
Mount Da jo.
election If the supreme court ruling is
favorable.'
"It is my belief." said the Judge to.
day, "that a 1500,000 bond lsue will
make permanent highways out of all
the main trunk roads of. the county
and will build such new bridges as
will be needed."
"The bonding plan has this advan
tage that It provides permanent high
ways before they are paid for. The
payment will be made gradually dur
ing a number of years and so will fall
equitably upon the future generation
as well as upon the present. The
future will get good from the perma
nent highways and should help meet
rtKMANtnllHIIiHWAYS IF SUPREME COURT
GIRL MAY HAVE SUICIDED
lllcliehon Defense Shown That a Lady
Purchases Poison.
Boston, Dec. 29. A trump card
for the defense of Reverend Clarence
Virgil Richeson, charged with the
murder of Miss Avis Linoncll, was
played unexpectedly today when Dist
rict Attorney Pelletier admitted that
Eugene Levitan, formerly a Cam
bridge druggist showed him records
that proved that some girl had been
sob gome cyanide the day before Miss
Llnnell died.
Levitan says the girl looked exact
ly like Avis Llnnell and gave a fic
titious name and address. The de
fense will try to show that the girl
committed suicide by this new evi
dence. RULING WONT EFFECT
LOCAL WATER SUITS
Pend letOfl LaWYCrS EXDCCted
'
OUpreme lOUrl
ACIIOfl
-
Tnou h admiUlng that the ruling' of
the ,upreme coun in the case of Cav.
iness vs. the La Grande Irrigation
'company Is far reaching in that it vir
tually abflishes riparian rights, law
yers who are especially interested in
! irrigation questions express no sur-
prise over the decision and say that
the ruling will have no special bea
ar
bc-:lne att tude it now takes,
A very important ruling was made
by the court when Will R. King was
a just'ee and he read the opinion. It
was in the case of Hough vs. Porter
and was appealed from Lake county.
Mr. Johnson was one of the attorneys
who argued the ca-e before the su-
should bo allowed title to only such
I water as they had put . to beneficial
US!L , , ,
Through the decision given by Jus-
tice Burnett in the Un'ion county
case just pa-sed upon the court comes
close to this position. The language
of the decision to which all members
j of the court save Chief Justice Eakin
j assent, shows plainly.that the senti
ment of the court is for abolishing
ripar an rights, except insofar as such
rights apply to water that has been
put to beneficial use. In the view
(Continiued on page eight.)
HUNDREDS APPLY
FOR ONLY 25 JOBS
Portland, Dec. 29. Several hundred
hungry men, who have families, eag
erly lmed up at the city hall today
for the first twenty-five jobs on the
Mt. Tabor road, which tho city gave
out to aid the unemployed under the
recent council appropriation of $10,
000 to aid the idle.
Twenty-five men were chosen and
then the names of others were taken.
Mbnday between one hundred and
200 more will go to work.
There are 5000 men with families
Idle" in the city at present.
the cost. It is impossible to provide
a good permanent highway system
through of funds raised hy regu
lar taxation."
In discussing the matter- today
Judge Maloney also called attention
to the abundance of labor at this time
and to the fact that should a perma
nent highway system bo provided vir
tually all the money will be expend
ed in Umatilla county In the form of
wages.
Should it be decided to take up the
county bonding plan in Umatilla
county the matter of a bond issue
must first be submitted to the peo
ple and endorsed by them through a
majority vote.
fiES ROBBING
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TEDDY IS PLEASED WITH
TREATY ABR0GATI0N-BUT
Thinks Congress Should Have Sub
mitted Matter i The
Hague Tribunal.
New York, Dec. 29. Discussing the
abrogation of the Russian treaty. In
the Outlook today, Colonel Roosevelt
approves congress' action but declares
he bel.eve. that a matter so serious
should have been submitted to The
Hague, that a decision on the inter
pretation of the existing treaty m ght
have been rendered first.
He said: "I heartily approve the
action of congress in abrogating the
Russian treaty.
"Men mu-t vote and act on a sit
uation, actually confronting them
and in this actual event the congress
men had only two alternatives. They
had either to abrogate the treaty or
a low the government to subm t to a
continuance of conditions which
wou)d eventually have become intol
erable, to our national respect, and
represent a continual wrong, especial
ly to American citizens of the Jewish
faith, but still I believe that in so
serious a matter it would have been
well to have first endeavored to se
cure a decision from The Hague
court on the interpretation of the ex
isting treaty.
"I am confident that the decision
would have been in our favor. It
would have enabled Russia to retire
from her untenable position with good
grace and with no 10"s of self respect,
an object always to be held in view
when dealing with foreign nations."
MANY MORTGAGES
ARE BEING FILED
Unusually heavy is the crop of
mortgages of the past few weeks, ac
cording to Recorder Ben S. Burroughs
in whose office these documents are
plaSl on fiie. In fact the recorder
declares there are mor instruments
of this nature being filed at the pres
ent time than for a long time, hardly
a day passing that there are not a
half dozen or more placed on rec
ord. However, this phenomenon is
not taken to indicate that the people
rif T'matiila fonntv are hard pressed
to "make ends meet," many of the
mortgages being executed by ranch
ers whose prosperity is unquestioned.
Purchases of additional land for
wlvch funds are lacking is attributed
as one of the principal causes for this
unusual number of "plasters" and
there is apparently no fear felt that
many foreclosure procedings will be
Instituted in consequence.
DYXAM1TK IXVKSTIG ATOHS
STOP TO DRAW Til Kill PAY
Los Angeles, Calif., Dec. 29. To
day's session of the federal grand
jury was stopped long enough to al
low the jurymen to collect their pay.
after which the alleged dynamite con
spiracy was again taken up for in
vestigation. The halls of the federal building
were lined with labor men who had
been summoned, but the only witness
to be called before the jury was De
tective Parks, who was arrested at the
time that Connors, Maples and Bender
were taken into custody on charges of
attempting to destroy the hall of rec
ords. WOMAN'S TIIKFT FROM TIUKF
LEADS TO LATTEIfS ARK EST
Portland, Ore.. Dec. 29 Entering
the police station today to secure a
warrant for the arrest of a woman
who he said had decamped with $1500
of his cash, Morris Goldberg was
himself arrested on a warrant charg
ing him with the embezzlement of
$1600 from the Max Morris jewelry
firm, for which he worked in San
Francisco.
SO ALLOWS
At this time, however, the suffici
ency of the constitutional amendment
providing for county bonding is not
clearly known. It la contended by
some that the legislature must first
pass an enabling act before such bonds
can be sold. Jackson county, how
ever has proceeded to vote a bond is
sue and the circuit court upholds the
action. The matter is now up to the
supreme court and an early decision
is expected. As soon as it is given the
local friends of permanent highways
will very likely get busy if the bond
ing amendment is held to be operative
as it stands.
SYSTEMATICALLY
EMPLOYERS
for 3
tO HAYES TRAPPED;
FACES PRISON TERM
Marked Coins Prove Undo
ing of Ice Company
Employee
Ed Hayes a well known young '
man of the city, Is today staring a
penitentiary term in the face as a re
sult of the startling discovery that for
three years or more he has been steal
ing money from the till of the Pen
dleton Ice &.CoId Storage company.
He has been arrested and admits his
guilt and this afternoon was placed
under s!d bonds by Justice of tho
Peace Parkes. '
Money in small sums has been
missed from the company till for a
long time but it was not until the last
month, or since Earl Gillanders, one
of the partners, has been keeping the
books,' that any effort has been made
to uncover the cause of the almost
daily disappearance of several dol-
lars. No suspicion was directed at
Hayes and the members of the firm
were as much surpr'sed as any one
yesterday when, by the assistance of
a spy and . marked cotns, they fixed
the responsibility upon tho young
man.
It -is impossib'e to estimate with,
any accuracy the amount which he
has stolen during his operations but
Messrs. Kopittke and Gillanders be
lieve his stealings will total over a
thousand dollars'.
Was Former Employe. ,
Hayes has been in the employ of the
Pendleton Ice and Cold Storage com
pany at d'fferent times. He had
worked for the former owners of the
business before Kopittke & GIKanders
purchased it three years ago and dur
ing the past year has been retained
by the latter gentlemen several times
as driver of a coal wagon and col
lector. It was while employed there
that he became acquainted with the
habits of the bookkeeper and with the
secret of the till, and taking advan
tage of this knowledge, he would let
himself into the office by means of
a pass keep at noon while the office
men were at lunch, reach through tn
opening at the back of the cash
drawer, take .therefrom a few coins
and depart.
Spy Detects Him.
Yesterday Clarence Kearney, a for-
mer police officer of the city, was
stationed in an upstairs room of the
Bowman hotel, the windows of which
commanded a view of the office of the
ice plant. During the noon hour
Hayes was detected entering the of
fice and was at once suspected. The
coins had been marked and; when he
spent one at a picture show tho of
ficers had their evidence complete.
The remainder of the coins and the
pass key the young man threw away
in the rear of the barroom of the
Hotel St. George, having become sus
picious that the officers were watch
ing him.
He was arrested last evening by
Sheriff T. D. Taylor and a formal
complaint was made against him to
day. Money MNsed Long Time.
How it was that he had succeeded
in his operations for so long a time
without detection has been the sub
ject of much discussion on the street
today. As a matter of fact, accord
ing to Mr. Gillanders, the shcrtage
has been missed for the past three
years but former bookkeepers were
reluctant to inform their employers
fearing lest they should be suspected
or accused of lax methonds.
However, when Mr. Gillanders took
charge of the books and began to
not a constantly recurring shortage,
he began an investigation. He chang
ed the lock on the door and on the
cash drawer into which the day's re
ceipts were deposited but still the
shortage continued at intervals of two
or three days. Most often there were
sums from a dollar to three dollars
missing, but on the thirteenth of the
present month, the till was short ten
dollars.
Drawer Xot Unlocked.
The proprietors could understand
how a thief could gain entrance to
the office by means of a pasa ke,v but
they could not understand how the
lock to the till, which was a compli
cated one. could be unlocked. Final
ly they discovered that by crawling
under the desk, a person could reach
into the drawer from the back and
secure the money.
This discovery prompted them to
mark the coins and set a watch.
Toung Hayes is a well known
young man of the city, having spent
almost his entire life In Pendleton and
heretofore, has- always borne a splen
did reputation for honesty. The dis
covery of his crime has been a great
shock to his friends as well as to hi
relatives.
YEARS
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