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PENDLETON, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JAN,"' . g 10, 1012.
NO. 7318
VOL. 24.
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RUSSIANS DIE
BY
THOUSAND
Starvation and Scurvy s Pre
vail While Officers Steal
Relief Supplies.
MILLIONS LIVE ON WEEDS
A'ewsnaoer Correspondent Travels
Through Famine Stricken Proy.
luces ami Brings Out News Which
Government IIus Rigidly Suppressed
London, Jan. 10. Hundreds of
thousands of peasants have perished
of starvation, millions of poor are In
dire distress, many are living on
weeds, and scurvy and typhus ara
prevalent In the eastern Russian pro
vlncea. The horrible conditions were
made known by' a United Press cor
respondent who has Just returned
from a trip through that country
Russia la using a strict censorship to
hide tho conditions. The failure of
crops is the cause.
Crops entirely failed in eight
provinces and-partially in twelve. En
tire villages are' feeding o ntanbark
weeds in some sections and the poor
many times follow priests through the
streets crying for sacraments to the
dying, on account of the starving
conditions.
Tho Imperial government Is trying
to alleviate the suffering, which Is
yond its powers, and but little aid
reaches the real needy, owing to of
ficials' grafting.
To add to the horror It Is a severe
winter. A number of villages have
been stormed by starving mobs and
ransacked.
RUSSIANS AID REBELS
Engtuml Fears Russia Will
Northern China.
Annex
London, Jan. 10. Active Interven
tion by Russia, aiding the rebels to
establish a republic in Southern Chi
na, is forecaster In Tien Tsln cables
today causing the British foreign of
fice uneasiness, because it Is reported
that Russia stipulated that Mongolia
shall become independent, which
means that Russia would practically
annex Mongolia.
It is believed England is communi
cating with Japan, to see if Russia's
alleged plan, regarding China will be
allowed, to go through.
SOMEBODY
AS
PREVARICATED
FRANCE DEFIES GtmdANY
Seats Minister Over When
Threatened War.
Kaiser
Prouty Heads Commission.
Washington, D.' C , Jan. 10. Inter
state Commerce Commissioner Prouty
was elected chairman of the commis
sion for a year, succeeding Clements.
Rlcheson Restless.
Boston, Jan. 10. Rev. Rlcheson
spent a sleepless night and a doctor
who was called at dawn, said he is
suffering from nervous indigestion,
but is not serious.
IS THE "CANNIBAL"
TOO ENLIGHTENED?
JUDGE WILLIS BROWN
COMING TO LECTURE
Pendleton people are again to hear
.an address by one of the nation s fa
mous men when on next Tuesday eve
ning Judge Willis Brown of Salt Lake
City mounts a local rostrum to ful
fill an engagement made through the
Pacific Lyceum Bureau and under
the auspices of the high school.
Judge Brown Is to Utah what Judge
Ben Llndsey is to Colorado and he is
hardly less renowned as a judge of a
juvenile court and a savour of boys
than the famous Denver man who
spoke here last year. He has a fund
of personal anecdotes gathered
through his long experience in deal
ing with so-called Incorrigible chil
dren and the audience Is assured of
an address entertaining as well as in
structive when he speaks here.
Or Did He Not Need Money
He Now Begs of
Children?
Weston Report Tells of Refusal
Touch Supiwsed Hoodoo Rlng
Olliers Earn Money Moving Snow,
to
Lorimer Says Deneen
quested Him to Run
Re-For
Senate; Deneen Says No.
SENATOR GOES ON STAND
Declares That Illinois Speaker's Haste
in Dropping Gavel Held His Major
ity Down Says He Did Not Want
to Be Candidate:
Washington, Jan. tj 10. Renewed
Paris, Jan 10. Virtual defiance of
Germany, which for years has been
his foe, was seen today in the as
sumption to the minis-try of foreign
affairs, by Theophile Dolcasse, for
mer minister of marine, who succeeds
Minister Deselves. ' .
Dolcasse, on account of his port
folio, marks his first real resumption
of power since 1905 when - Germany
virtually forced his removal from the
ministry by Germany's threat of war
otherwise.
CARNEGIE TESTIFIES
BEFORE COMMITTEE
JUDGE RULES IX FAVdR
OF ACCUSED PACKERS
Chicago, 111., Jan. 10. The govern
ments efforts to connect Armour and
other packers with individual parti
cipation in the alleged conspiracy to
restrain trade, sustained a sharp set
back today. When Judge Carpenter
ruled that their letter, peering nota
tions and the signatures of three pack
ers, was not admissible as evidence.
Later court allowed the admission of
other documents, which tend to show
declaration, that he become a senator-j that a mutual agreement existed, re-
riXKERTOXS SEARCH FOR
ANOTHER ROBBER SUSPECT
San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 10.
Search that Is being made In Califor
nia by PInkertons for Albert Ander
son, who is wanted for alleged com
plicity in the robbery of the bank
at New Westminister, 1 yet unpro
ductive, according to reports to the
Plnkerton's headquarters here. Offi
cials won't talk except to say the man
has not been arrested.
Three Doomed Men Saved.
Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 10. Only
one of four men sentenced to hang
Friday at San Quentln will die on
that day. The unfortunate is Mark
Wllklns a convicted wife "murderer.
The others were reprieved or given
life sentences.
While the Reverend sometimes
and at othertlmes Professor David
John Henry Allen Zambo Swackhan
ner, self-styled ex-cannibal, is going
about Pendleton advertising the high
pinnacle of enllghtment he has at
tained and Incidentally begging school
authorities to authorize him to Invade
the public schools to dispense some
of his accumulation of alleged wls
dom at ten cents per scholar (the
money to be forced from the schol
ars) In order that "he may himself
buy more wisdom," a good story
comes from Weston where he so
journed for several days and which
throws a slightly different light on
his particular brand of enlighten
ment. According to the story, the negro
In question was approached by a
well known Weston man who for
merly resided In a southern state and
hud some knowledge of the many su
perstitious legends harbored by a
large proportion of the colored popu
lation of that section. He asked the
"maneater" If he was superstitious
and was to'd that he. the cannibal,
was "too enlightened" to believe In
signs.
The Weston man approached Rev.
or Prof. Swackhanner and held out a
skull and cross bones ring, the story
goes, telling him that he secured it in
some unaccountable manner from a
grave yard and on leaving the grave
yard had met four darkles to whom
ho- offered one dollar If they would
touch the ring. Three of them de
clined and the fourth touched the
ring, he told Swackhanner, and im
mediately dropped dead.
The Weston man then Is said to
have offered the enlightened Rev. or
Trof. Swackhanner a dollar if he
would touch the ring. The latter
promptly declined the offer.
This Is the same Rev. or Prof.
Swackhanner who is bemoaning his
financial embarrassment and seeking
alms while other able bodied men
about the city have been earning mon
ey shoveling snow during the past
several days.
ial candidate at the urgent request of
Governor Deenen of Illinois, who de
nies it, was made here today by U. S.
Senator William Lorimer. when he
resumed the witness stand before the
senate investigating committee.
Lorimer in' relating the details of
the 1909 turmoil in the Illinois as
sembly, said he had agreed to sup
port Governor Deenen for senator
and everything was arranged to elect
him when Deenen. withdrew, because
he feared that Lieutenant Governor
Oglesby would not treat the Deenen
faction right. Then Governor Dee
nen, Senator Lorimer says, persuaded
him to run and he did so.
"On the night of March 23, Gover
nor Deenen urged me to become a
a candidate," said Lorimer, "I ob
jected, because I was a member of
the house committee on deep water
ways and I hoped to get some deep
waterways legislation through con
gress, Roy West was ' ambitious to be a
senator, but I told him I would not
support him. I suggested as candi
date, Congressman Boutell Loudf and
Rodenburg of McKlnley."
Regarding his own election he said
If the speaker had not dropped the
gavel and declared him elected when
he received 108 votes, he would have
received 150. That day 102 votes was
a majority.
garding the method of doing business.
ENGINEER ON STAND
IN COMPANY'S BEHALF
Says Dan Smythe Fell
fore He Climbed
on Train
Be-
Motion by Railroad to Throw Case
Out of Court Is Overruled by Judge
Local witnesses Have Returned,
NS III SECURITIES
UAVE BEEN LOST IN
MAY
FL
IS
-
Te!js How He Started in Business
. and of Plans When Ho Sold .
to Trust.
Washington, . Jan. 10. Summoned
by subpoena after he had refused to
testify voluntarily, Andrew Carnegie
appeared before the Stan'.ey commit
tee, steel trust probers, today.
Chipper and smiling, Carnegie took
the stand, carrying voluminous docu
ments. He told how he started the
iron business in 1861 and the next
year borrowed $1,500 000 from the
Third National bank and started
building iron bridges. "That was my
start," he said.
Carnegie wag very verbose and
dodged pointed questions by saying
he left much of his work to his man
agers and he declined to discuss any
thing that he 'was not absolutely sure
of. Most of his testimony was verbal
treatises on phllosopny, economics,
etc. IC
Asked concerning his p'.ans when
he sold out to the steel trust, Carne
gie said: "If I had remained (n the
EQUITABLE VAULTS
CANNOT BE OPENED
Late Estimate Places Dead
at 7 and Money Loss
$20,000,000.
Down Fire Engines Pump Water to
Co"l Ofr Debris and Hundreds of
Laborers Clear it Away Under Eyea
of Army of Detectives.
New York, Jan. 10. Recognizing
that there is serious danger of the
walls of the Equitable building col
lapsing and crushing the American
Bank building, nearby, the police this
afternoon ordered all tenants out of
the latter.
New York, N. Y., Jan. 10. The fate
of securities to the total value of ap-
steel business I would have built a proximately two billion dollars, today
plant at Conneaut, Ohio, which would ! is causing much speculation In the
have astonished the world and abso
lutely crushed all competition. Char
lie Schwab said he could build a plant
that would save J 10 per ton on man
ufactured steel tubes. I told him to
go ahead."
(Special to East Oregonian )
Portland, Ore., Jan. 10. Engineer
Peterson, ihe only eye witness to Dan
P. Smythe's fall under a Northern
Pacific freight train, took the stand
in the $60,000 damage suit against the
railroad today. He declared he fell
before he climbed on to the car, ap
parently stumbling as he -reached out
for the ladder. - Peterson snatched
Smythe from under the wheels, he tes
tified. Many witnesses from eastern
Oregon are here in connection with
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ine aDOve uispaicn lens oi me yiK-
Ani inn in n.t p,..i,.I gress or a case in wnicn renuie.uu
lin did not plead guilty in Judge Wil- l'eol,le are much interested, the plain-
11s' court today. Instead Attorney Le-i UIt e,ns very pri.miiieiii.umi
TEDDY OFFERS TO
ACCEPT NOMINATION
Compte Davis filed a motion to set
izen. It a'so tells of the failure of
aside the information against his clt- tne railroad company to non-suit the
ent and Saturday was named as the case- ror- accoraing to ur . j. ennui
time for arguments. Franklin de
nied that he intended to plead guilty.
and County Clerk Frank Saling, wit
nesses in the case who arrived home
Following ihi ivlthrimwoi nf p.m at noon, the company attorneys an-
Governor Gage, as counsel for Frank-i nounced last evening that they would
lln. who is charged with bribery of a 1 enter a motion to tnrow me case oui
juror in the McNamara case, it was
reported that Franklin will plead
guilty. Gage would not discuss the
matter other than to say that his fee
was too small.
SCRFEN TO SHIELD
LONE FEMALE JUROR
IS
FLOOD NOW FEARED IN LOWLANOS
Seattle, Wash., Jan. 10. Mrs. Retta
Doddridge, the only woman on the
jury that is hearing the manslaughter
case, will sleep behind a screen In
the same room with the eleven men
on the Jury, under a ruling made by
Judge J. H. Ronald today. Mrs.
Doddridge will have the attendance
of a woman bailiff who will occupy
an adjoining couch. This arrange
ment was made when counsel for
Joseph Blanchl, a city detective on
trial for killing a prisoner who at
tempted to escape, objected to the Ju
rors being separated. The attorney.
of court on the grounds of insufficient
evidence to constitute a case: The
announcement was made at the con
clusion of the plaintiff's testimony,
and It is evident that the court over
ruled the motion and allowed the case
to proceed.
According to Mr. Saling, Smythe
testified that the engine of the freight
train failed to whistle a warning be
fore it got under way and started
ith Such a violent Jerk that his hold
on the car as he attempted to swing
abourd was broken. The railroad
company is basing its defense on Pe
terson's testimony, he says, and fur
ther claims that a warning whistle
was- blown.
New York. N. Y., Jan. -0. That
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, in speak
ing at the Aldine Club dinner last
night, stated that he would accept the
presidential nomination "if asked to
do so," is the declaration made today
by several New York newspapers.
All attempts to reach Colonel Roos
evelt today have failed. Lawrence
Abbott,, editor of the Outlook, how
ever Issued a denial.
Mr. Abbott said:
"Colonel Roosevelt wont make any
statement concerning the Aldine Club
dinner, which was a private affair. No
representatives of the press were per
mitted to attend the dinner and none
took down what Mr. Roosevelt said.
I am certain that none of the guests
or club members repeated, for pub
lication, the purport of his remarks.
The statements are unfounded."
Jubilee. Singers Tomorrow.
An entertainment of unusual excel
lence is promised Pendleton people
tomorrow night when Williams' Jubi
lee Singers present their program of
jubilee, plantation', camp meeting, ne
gro comic, cabin, river, sentimental,
ragtime and sacred songs, negro mel
financial district of this city, as that
amount of valuable papers were kept
in the various vaults which were In
the Equitable Life Assurance Society
building which was yesterday destroy
ed by fire. It Is possible that the se
curities may have been destroyed In
the vaults, although many believe
the strong boxes were proof against
the flames and heat, unless spontane
ous combustion occurred. The actlv-
! ities of Wall street are seriously ham
pered by the absence of the securities.
The list of securities locked in the
vaults, which' cannot be opened for
several days, Include the following:
Kuhn, Loeb company, one hundred
million; William Ried Company, one
hundred million; Thomas Ryan, one
hundred million; Gould vEstate, one
hundred million, Harriman Estate, one
hundred and twenty-five million; Au
gust Belmont and Company, one hun
dred and fifty million; Mrs. Russel
Sage, fifty million. Equitable Trust
company, fifty million. In addition to
this the vaults contains assets of the
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
Railroad companies, of stupendous
value.
One dozen fire engines of the city
department, are today pumping away,
pouring great volumes of water into
the ice coated ruins, preparatory to
a systematic search for dead bodies,
which are under hundreds of tons of
debris.
At least seven persons are known
to have lost their lives In the fire,
while it is probable that many more
perished, as a large number of build
ing employees are missing.
It is Impossible to secure at this
time the actual amount of the mone-
nillisa anA liillnhloa OTlri Mnsil selpp
ti. Th t,nn vcMn tm,re,i Knir- I tar' lss. ut it is variously estimat
wvno. " ' " I - AAA AAA OA AAA AAA
land, Scotland and Wales, is herald- ;cu . V ' " '
ed as being a first class attraction and
A force of three hundred and fifty
the Christian church people, under laborers are today engaged in clear.
!,. it 1 rnmlmr feel that '"K debris from the streets about the
th in tnr n. front for local destroyed structure.
people.
TWO BVRXED BADLY IV
WALLA WALLA EXFLOSIOX
Walla Walla, Wash.. Jan. 10.
Burned from head to foot with por
tions of the flesh on his arms, legs
and throat gone and large blisters all
over his body, R. L. Nutting, proprie
tor of a suit pressing club on West
insisted that the law prohibiting the Rose street. directly north of the Cen
seDaration nf liirnra in mnror ....! tral fire station, lies In his bed in the
h mmnllori with in thn lotto, a,, ,.i Eureka lodging house near death's
Jected to th Idea nf a cron riMvMinJ door, while his father, H. E. Nutting,
the 1urv room. Jude rtnnni ...m ! Ues in a similar condition in his room
Lost Man Living Who Looked Upon
First ITesiilent is Dying.
Washington. John .Lane, the last
man living wno say ueorge wasn-
ington's face, Is dying at his home
here of paralysis and old age.
Lane was only a small boy when
the body of Washington was moved
from the old tomb at Mount Vernon
to its present resting place near the
historic mansion.
During the removal the casket was
opened and the boy Lane was lifted
to look at the wonderfully preserved
"The Chinook la come!"
Pendleton people retired to their
beds last night with that happy
thought and for the first time In a
week their dreams were not troubled
by visions of bursted water pipes and
the horrible nightmare of the plumber
and his wage. When they arose this
morning they said again, "The Chi
nook Is come," for the first breath
that fanned their cheeks when they
BteDDed outdoors was warm and
springlike and promised a melting of
the snow that has covered the coun
try for several days.
So warm was the night that the
thaw actually started while the peo
pie slept and today the white mantle
has been slowly giving way oerore
the onslaught of the Chinook. Roof
ridges soon began to appear, while
from the eaves the gentle dripping
tells of the doom of the snow. As
the' snow becomes loosened on the
sloping roofs, many small slides occur
but no Injuries or damage have been
reported In consequence.
Farmers are generally rejoicing be
cause most of the moisture will be
retained In the ground for the crops.
There Is considerable talk among the
more nervous of the possibility of a
flood, but according to those acquaint
ed with weather peculiarities of the
mountains no danger Is' to be antici
pated from the ravages of the valley
creeks so long as present weather con
ditions hold, but in event of a warm
rain of "any duration In the near fu
ture there w'H be so much superflu
ous moisture In the hills that the nor
mal escapes will not suffice to carry
ltto the low lands, and rousing floods
may result If the present Chinook
continues long enough to clear away
all snow gradually, there will be a
comparatively small rise of water.
Those famlllai with floods In the
making under local conditions, state
that there Is every element to create
excitement but the warm rain, as In
the more remote portions of the hills,
and In sheltered . canyons, fro:n two
to four feet of snow are stored away
which will not give readily to the Chinook.
the law must be applied to twentieth
century conditions and allowances
must be made for conventionality.
He held that the use of the screen
to provide privacy for a woman Juror
did not constitute a separation of the
Jury and this arrangement was made.
as a result of a gasoline explosion
caused by spontaneous combusion in
their prcssery about 3:30 o'clock yes
terday afternoon, the explosion being
heard for blocks and shaking all near
by buildings.
WILDE CASE SET FOR
s TRIAL NEXT FRIDAY
Portland, Jan. 10. Presiding
Judge Galons today assigned the
Wilde embezzlement case to Judge
Kavanaugh. The trial starts Friday.
The drawing of a Jury to try the San
Diego banker for the part he played
In looting the Oregon Savings and
Trust bank will be difficult Attor
ney, on whom an attempt was made
to assassinate at Salem, says he will
appear to aid in Wilde's prosecution,
BEATS ROBERT CHAMBERS
Maybelle Glllman Corey Haa Nearly
Finished Her Books Nearly,
New York. Mrs. W. E. Corey, who
before her marriage to the former
president of the United States steel
corporation, was Mabelle Glllman,
the actress, sailed on the Amerlka
for her chateau on the outskirts of
Paris.
With her was her friend, the Bar
oness von Holleran, who has been
visiting in New York. When asged
what progress she had made with her
book of advice to girls 'who Intend en
tering the theatrical profession, Mrs,
Corey said
"I have been able to do hardly any
writing. In fact, the holidays have
Corbett to Sue Johnson.
Chicago, Jan. 10. Jas. J. Corbett,
In Boston, and S. H. Fraxee a local
theatrical magnate. In hot statements Interfered so much that I have only
published today deny Jack Johnson's written three pages. There Is too
charges that they tried to induce him much noise and unrest In New York
to day down in a fight. Corbett prom
ises to bring a damage suit
SAW FACE OF WASHINGTON.
The greatest danger from the fire
today Is that of the soaked and ice
kiden walls will be hurled into the
streets by the force of expanding ice.
President Giblln, of the Mercantile
Safety Deposit company, who was dra
matically rescued from a vault dur-
I ing the fire, is today reported to be
' improving and may survive the in
juries he sustained in the fire.
Seventy-five detectives have been
' assigned to guard the vaults of the
financial concerns in the buildings.
Enormous crowds are watching the
ruins.
Cold at Minneapolis.
Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 10. Tho
features of the first American presl- temperature is twenty-one below zero
dent. ! here and a 30 mile gale Is blowing.
FIVE MORE CONFESSED CRIMINALS ARE
GIVEN SENIENCES IN DISTRICT COURT
for one to sit down and think overceny of sheep and who were Induced
Ideas." to plead guilty to the charge of simple
Five other prisoners Indicted by the
grand Jury were this morning given
sentences by Circuit Judge Phelps fol
lowing their pleas of guilty to the
charges against them. Two will go
to the penitentiary and three will
serve out their time In the county Jail
providing they do not pay the fines
imposed upon them.
J. D. Manley, the man who con
fessed to a number of forgeries here
last September, received the most se
vere sentence. Judge Phelps sending
him to the penitentiary for an Inde
terminate length of time, not less than
two years nor more than 20.
William Spanglcr, who obtained
money under false pretenses from a
local Chinaman, also drew an Inde
terminate sentence of from one to five
vears
Harold Smith and O. F. Hotell, the
torn men whn wern Indicted fnr lar,
larceny, were sentenced to pay a $100
fine each or to spend fifty days In the
county Jail. They have not yet rais
ed money and are still In jail.
Jim Roach, who only escaped fac
ing a murder charge or some other
almost as serious by the failure of his
revolver to explode when he had
placed It against the abdomen of a
Umatilla "bartender and pulled the
trigger, escaped with the lightest
sentence of all because the grand
jury only Indicted him on a charge
of carrying concealed weapons. He
was sentenced to pay a fine of $50 or
serve a 25 day jail sentence. He Is
still in Jail.
Of the eight men indicted by tho
grand jury, seven have thus far plead
guilty and received sentences. The
other, Ed Montgomery, who is charged
with assault with a dangerous wea
pon. Is still Indisposed to plead guilty
although the officials believe he will
before his case comes up for trial.