li&MXfiUr ',viw&s.u&: w.if&im EVENING EDITIO!) EVENING EDITION WEATHER REPORT. Light Rain or snow to night or Tuesday. largest paid etrcn latlon of any paper in Oregon, eaxt nf Port limil and nearly twice the circulation In Pen dleton of any other newsimper. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. VOL. 24. PEXDLETOX, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1912. XO. 7340 . j , ijb 7 . ' . . . -..r f -s. PLEASURE SEEKERS CARRIED OYER NIAGARA FALLS TO DEATH BY DISLODGED ICE BRIDGE Niagara Falls, X. Y., Feb. 5. Wlillo hundreds of Hlghlsocrs yctttcrday afternoon lined Hie Khorog of the river, Inspecting the huge lee bridge which has choked Uio channel and attracted thousand of visitor during Uio iist three weeks, Uio wintry itlienonienon suddenly gave way, carrying a wonuin and two men to their Ueuth over Niagara fulls. The victims are Mr. and Mrs. El dridge Stanton, of Toronto, Canada, and Burrell Hancock, ago 18 years of Cleveland, Ohio. The two men could have saved their own lives tout per ished because they would not desert the woman, who was unable to keep up the race with death to the shore. Many others barely escaped the same tragic end. Heroic efforts were made by fire U, S. IS READY TO CHASTIZE MEX1GQ 25,000 Troops Ordered to Prepare to Go to Border. Washington, D. C Fob. 5. Mili tary preparations by tho United States for intervention in tho Mexican up rising' were completed this afternoon and unleS3 President Madero gives this country satisfactory assurance that Mexico is able to protect all in terests, American troops undoubtedly will bo sent to the border. The war department has Issued or ders to have 25,000 men in the middle west, Arizona and California, pre pared for an Immediate advance. No attempt Is being made to con ceal tho gravity of the situation. Ju arez and southern Mexico nro report ed restless. Active preparations, to mass troops along tho Mexican border are being mado here today by General Wood, following resident Taft's ultimatum to Mexico, a reply to which is ex pected today. The ultimatum de mands that Mexico secure the im mediate release of fifty Americans held by the revolutionists at Ahum ado, Mex. t To reinforce the American line at El Paso, orders w'lll be Issued to the commander at Fort Whipple to dispatch a regiment of infantry and a squadron of cavalry to El Paso. It is expected that Mexico's an swer to President Taft's ultimatum, will bo received within forty-eight hour9 now. Mutineer Return to Juarez. El Paso, Tex., Feb. 5. The muti neers who were taken from Juarez by General Orozco for Chihuhua yes terday are returning to Juarez in small squads. They dropped off whenever the train slowed down. EXTENSION INQUIRY 10 END TOMORROW (Spoclal Correspondence.) Ilcrmlston, Ore., Feb. 6. Members of the Investigating board from the reclamation service are slated to be here tomorrow for tho final day of tho hearings pertaining to tho West Extension. It is to be "Ilcrmlston Day" with tho board and the business men of this town will go before the board to show tholr endorsement of the project. Unless plans are changed it will be tho last hearing by the board as by that time the . engineers will have heard from every community having a direct Interest in the extension. Today the members of the board, headed by Chief Engineer Davis, are at Stanfield to listen to objections raised by the poople of that town to tho plans for the' West Extension. Steamer In Distress. Eureka, Calif.,- Feb. 6. A wireless message says the lumber laden schooner, Iaqua, is in distress off False Point, north of Cape Mondlcino and that the steamer Katherlno is stand ing by. Chicago Has $500,000 Fire. Chicago, Feb. 5. Tho Northwest ern Malt company, one of the largest breweries in Chicago burned today. The loss Is. half a million. Six fire men were seriously Injured. WOULD DISPENSE WITn UNITED STATES SENATE. Salem, Ore., Feb. 5. Obllter- atlon of the United States sen- ate is a prominent plank In the platform of Ralph Clyde, Port- land member ot the legislature, who today filed his declaration of Intention to become a candl- date on the republican ticket for congressman from the third congressional district of Oregon. ' men and railroaders, from a bridge to rescue the party with ropes, but without avail. Tho younger victim secured tho end of the rope once and was raised to a height of sixty feet above the ice when he 'became ex hausted and fell back. This was af ter he had been separated from the other two victims. The whirlpool rapids are today be ing watched for the bodies. NEW ROUND-UP DIRECTOR. PAUL SPERRY. Who Takes Place of J. II. Gwinn on Board. DECIDES ON DEATH AS WAGE OF HER SIN New York, Feb. 5. Having decid ed, as i-he said, that It Is true, that "the wages of. sin Is death." the runaway wlfo of M.'llionaire Llppen- ard Suydam, who created a sensation last month by eloping with and mar rying Frederick Nobel, a plumber, yesterday carried out a suicide pact with her penniless husband, their dead bodies being diseover-jd by the beautiful young woman's mother in their apartments. .They had Inhaled Today, with only members of his Immediate family attending, the fu neral of Nobel was held and his body burled In the family plot in the com etary. The body of the young wo man was sent to Philadelphia this afternoon for burial. Shortly after the discovery of the double suicide, Walter LIppen Suydam, the deserted husband, was notified and soon arrived on the scene. Ho was greatly affected by tho tragic end of h's wayward wife of but a few weeks ago. He was so excited that on leaving tho house of death he recklessly ran his automobile about the city until he finally ran down a mall carrier. He picked up the injured man, rushed him to a hosiptal and left orders that no expense be spared in saving the fellow's life. It is believed he will re cover. DATE SET FOR TRIAL (' OF ALLEGED DYN'AMITERS Eos Angeles, Cal., Feb. 6. The trials of Ira Pender and A. B. Maple, charged with conspiring to dynamite the Hall of Records building, will be gin February 13 it was announced today. At the same time a new trial for Pert Connors will begin. The Conners jury disagreed. Royalty Reaches England. Portsmouth, Feb. 6. King George and Queen Mary were given a noisy welcome on their arrival here today, from their Durbar trip. They have been away nearly three months. Ac companied by four warships, the yacht Medina steamed through a double line of the home fleet. After a thirty-five minute stop here, the party proceeded to London. LABOR LEADERS PLEAD NOT GUILTY TO DYNAMITE CILVRGIi Log Angeles. Cal.. Feb. 5. Tviet moe. Johannsen. Clanev and Mtinsev. the labor leaders, pleaded not guilty to Indictments charging them with conspiracy In the Times dynamiting tortay arter Judge Wellborn had over ruled their demurrer. The trial date will be set tomorrow. PnOTO SHOWS CLEAR MAN. Rival In Love Admits Perjury to Send Other Fellow to Penitentiary. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Influenced by a moving picture, John Gates of this city made affidavit that he had sworn falsely against Charles Jack of Traer, Iowa, who was convicted of attempted extortion on Gates' testi mony. The men were rivals In love. Jack was sent to prison two years ago and parolod out last October, af ter aervlng twentyone months. r ; .'yf V :.' v jr: t i SETTLERS TO GET RELIEF Graduated Payments Seem Assured For Umatilla Pro ject After Long Delay. NEWELL GIVES HOPE Mectiinc of Project Wutcruscrs Called to Make Change In Contract So As to Permit of Action May Affect Payments Now Duo for Water. (Special Correspondence.) Hermiston, Ore., Feb. 5. The fol lowing letter has been received by tho secretary of the Umatilla River Water Users' association In regard to the graduation of the water right pay ments on this project: Washington, D. C. G. H. Upthegrove,. Secretary, Umatilla River Water Users' As sociation, Hermiston, Oregon. , Sir: Your letter of Januarv 20 en. closing- copy of petition which has oeen mailed to the Secretary of the Interior requesting the adoption of a system of graduation of navments f.ir the Umatilla Project has been re ived. The matter Is now under consider. atlon by this service with the view or submitting to the department at an early date a draft of public notice which shall permit of payments for the water right to be made in gradu ated annual Installments. Yours respectfully, F. H. NEWELL, Director. The engineers who are now at Her miston called the directors of the Umatilla River Water Users' togeth er Saturday evening and asked them to call a special meeting of the stockholders on the project in order to make a change in the contract with the Secretary of the Interior, this contract reads that the payments must be mado in 10 equal payments, therefore, in order to have a gradu ated system of payments this contract will have to be changed. The board of directors will meet Tuesday evening and Issue the call for the special meeting at once. The people on the project are jubi lant over the fact that the graduation of the water right payments seems now to be an assured fact, lust what the system will be is not yet known, but it is supposed that It will effect tho 1910 payments which are delin quent this coming March. ASSAULT CASE IN : HANDS OF JURY Attorneys Johnson and Skrable, Who successful! v defended Viihol Warner last week, were again pitted against the state today in a contest over the freedom of C. L. Montgom ery, a young man charged with as sault with a deadly weapon, the de fendant being the men alleged to have hit Ong Tong, a Chinaman, with a dish in the Boston restaurant nn uvt- day of Round-up week last fall. The case was given to the jury at 2 yciocK mis arternoon. The state rested its case on the testimony of two Chi swore that Montgomery hurled the dish that struck their countryman and upon that of Chief of Police John ivearney wno declared the defendant admitted the deed shortly after he was arrested. The defense sets up the claim that the missile was thrown by the night cook of the restaurant Instead of by Montgomery, the de fendant himself and Qus Manos tes tifying to that effect. Ong Tong appeared in court this morning with a large plaster on his head where the dish struck. The blow fractured his skull and he laid in tho hospital for a long time trembling between life and death. Even now ho Is unfit for work and his physician thinks he may yet die from the injury. WILL PROBABLY DISMISS INDICTMENT AGAINST WILDE Portland, Ore., Feb. 5. It is ex pected ttint the remaining Indictment against Louis Wilde, charging him and W. Cooper Morris with the em bezzling of 112.600 from the defunct Oregon Trust, and Savings bank will be dismissed. Judge Kavanaugh Is sick today and District Attorney Cam eron ald he would not take up tho matter until he is well. Cameron wants to try Wilde but apparently believes the case won't hold in view of Wilde's acquittal on an instructed verdict of a similar charge. 3 Italian Shi Founder. London, Feb, 5. Unconfirmed Con stantinople dispatches say that three Italian transports have foundered off Sum Tobruk and Taormlna. No fa talities were mentioned. i WARIER IS After Three Hours Delibera tion, Jury Clears Her of Forgery Charge. j- VERDICT IS A SURPRISE Woman Receives Her Freedom hi Matter of Fact Manner District Attorney Intimates Sex of Defend ant Prevented Conviction. Mrs. Mabel Young Warner Is not guilty of uttering a forged will as charged i:i the indictment against her. .Such was the. verdict of the twelve men who heard the testimony of tho trial last week" and it was reached a iter little more than three hour-) of deliberation. The case was consigned tij their hands shortly be fore !l o'clock Saturday evening and ttn minutes before the midnight hour, they rc-turn d with a verdict acquitting the defendant. Although considerable surprise was fcit that Mrs. Warner should be ac quitted, the general opinion being that the. jury would disagree, the greatest surprise w'as expressed that a verdict could be reached in so short a time. When shortly before 12 o'clock, Judge Bradshaw was notified that the jury was ready to report, tho little crowd which had stayed up In anticipation of a verdict was divided in its forecast of the announcement and even Mrs. Warner, confident as she expressed herself of an acquittal, seemed Just a little fearful lest the verdict would not justify her confi dence. She received the reading of the ver dict declaring her not guilty calmly bu: there was a look of triumph in her eyes as she shook hands with every one present except Dr. Watts, not even overlooking Judge James A. Fee, who has been her foe in the courts for many years. She declared the verdict fulfilled all of her pre dictions. First liallot 8 to 4. According to reports, the first bal lot cast 'by the jury after it had re tired showed eight for acquittal and fr-ur for conviction. The next divis ion, it Is said, Indicated eleven for acquittal and one for conviction at which status it stood until the one dissenter was won over to the con clusion of his fellow jurymen. The opposing attorneys, in '"com menting on the case, all speak highly o the manner In which Judge Brad shaw of The Dalles conducted the trial. Both sides declared the in structions to the Jury very fair. Messrs Johnson and Skrable, who represented the defendant, are mod est in their victory but declare they were satisfied as to the outcome af ter the second day. District Attorney Van Vactor declares he labored hard to secure a conviction and intimates that the fact of the defendant being a woman might have had considerable to do with his failure to win. Tho Closing Pleas. In the defense's closing plea to the jury, Johnson declared emphatically that there were only two issues In the case, namely, "Was 'the fourth will' a forgery and did tho defendant know it to be a forgery when she executed It?" All other evidence, he said, bearing on other "wills" and ac tions in connection with them had no bearing upon the issues except to show the intent and state of mind of Mrs. Warner, and the judge in his instructions, bore out tho attorney's contention. District Attorney Van Vactor in closing his case, admitted that tho defendant had lived with J. W. Young and that her uncle might at one time have intended tlint the property should go to her at his death, but, ho maintained, there had been a break In the relations between the two when twelve years before the old man s death, tho defendant left home and went on the vaudeville stage. Trial Expensive One. The long trial was one of the most expensive in the history of the local court. It being estimated to have cost the county $2000. FIVE SEATTLE MEN" INDICTED FOR RANK WRECKING Seattle, Wash., Feb. 5. Warrants were served today on five prominent Seattle men, following the return of sealed Indictments by the fedoral grand Jury, in Fairbanks. Alaska, which has been investigating the fail ure of the Vrashington-Alaska bank there, which the Indicted men sold In 1909. before It busted. They are W. H. Parsons. Vice President Dex ter ot the Horton bank; John Schrams, a banker; F. E. Barbour and E. L. Webster. If a revolver trust should be form ed that would raise the price of re volvers to $100 each, society might be benefited. ACQUITTED WOW jCTOR IS GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER FOR STARVING SPINSTER FOR HER WEALTH Port Orcliurd, Wash., Feb. 5. After being out twenty hours, tho jury last night returiK'd u verdict or manslaughter against Lindu IJurflcld Hazzanh tho woman doctor, fast specialist, and sanitarium owner, for the death ot Miss Claire Williamson, a wealthy English spinster, whom It I alleged Dr. Hazzard starved to death artcr fche liad crsuadcd the English woman to will her prK'rty to Dr. Hazzard. An appeal Is to be taken to a high er court and pending arrangements for this, the woman is in the hands of Sheriff Howe and her attorneys are arranging for her release on bail in the amount of $20,000. Several ballots were taken before a unanimous verdict was reached. The first ballot resulted In five for first degree, murder, four for second JWOKEX STATESMAN'. rt!f (Si , j s 4 4 I 4 i ?4' 5 v yt SENATOR It. M. LA FOLLETTE. Whose Iiness May Force Withdrawal as Presidential Candidate N1ANCHUS ARE OUT; ANARCHY IS FEARED Peking, Feb. 5. The last stage of the peace negotiations is practically completed here today, with the an nouncement that the republicans have agreed to permit President Sun and Premier Yuan to govern China joint ly until the people could elect a president. This followed the empress dowag nger's edict instructing Yuan to as sist the southern republicans in the formation of the republic. It is now believed that hostilities will cease immediately. Many Man chu princes left Peking today, but their destination was not announced. It is believed the edict was ma terial'. hastened by Washington dis patches which stated that Germany and the United States were seriously considering means to end the Internal Chlneses strife. The fact that the dowager commis sioned Yuan to aid In the organiza tion of the republic has led to the belief that she received advance in formation that Yuan will be chosen president by the people. Fear Anarchy. Shanghai, Feb. 5. Now that the throne is practically deserted, there is great fear that anarchy through out the empire will follow. In the largo cities the banks are employing a large number of Europeans to guard their vaults and the foreign patrols are doubled. HOVSE REFI SES TO SUSPEND RULES TO DISCOURAGE T. R. Washington, Feb. 5. Congressman Slayden of Texas, today moved that the house suspend its rules and pass his resolution, that the "senese of the house Is against a third term for any president." The resolution is aimed at Colonel Roosevelt. It Is evident the regulars wouldn't fight the reso lution when Minority Leader Mann faived his right to control the oppo sition debate. Congressman Xorris, an insurgent then took" charge of the opposition. On a vote the motion lost 89 to 59. ONE KILLER AND TWO HURT IN OVERLAND WRECK Sacramento. Feb. 5. West bound Overland Limited, number one was ditched at AppYgate today. Engi neer Charles Brown is missing and Fireman Clark is badly injured. The engine turned turtle. One brakeruan wts hurt. Xo passengers were re ported Injured. PHILIPPINE DELEGATES INSTRUCTED AGAINST TAFT Manila, Feb. 5. The republican Insular convention, to elect delegates to the republican national convention In Chicago, met today. The fight is over the proposed endorsement of President Taft for renomlnation Many outside provinces have sent delegates instructed to vote against Taft. Manila is solidly for the pres ident. It's a long time lately between "crises" In the SO cent republics up south. degree murder and three for man slaughter. At no time did any Juror vote for acquittal. Manslaughter Is punishable, under the Washington state laws, by a pen itentiary sentence of from one to twenty years in the penitentiary; a jail sentence of one year; a fine of one thousand dollars, or both the latter. IA FOLLETTE IS III 1 Will Leave For Rest in Eu ropeFriends Are Alarmed Washington. D. C, Feb. 5. (Bulletin.) With his health ut- terly broken and his friends ur- gent it Is possible this afternoon that Senator La Fol!ete will withdraw as a candidate for the republican nomination. ' Washington, Feb. 5. Broken down by his campaign for the republican presidential nomination. Senator La Follette announced this morning that he had cancelled all dates and will leave Immediately for a two months' rest in southern Europe and then re turn and resume his western tour. Friends Urge Withdrawal. Washington. Feb. 5. (Bulletin.) At a conference of friends of Senator La Follette thLs afternoon, it was de cided that the state of his health Is so a'arming that his friends must step in and take practical charge of him and an announcement was draft ed by them of his withdrawal as a candidate' for the republican presi dential nomination. Senators Clapp and Bristow and Walter Houser, La Follette's cam paign manager, drafted the an nouncement. Among the others tak ing part in the conference and decid ing on this action, was Senator Bourne of Oregon. The announcement had not been submitted to Senator La Follette late this afternoon and will not be for mally given out until he approves of it. It is po.-sib'.e he may veto it. May Mean Teddy's Candidacy. Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 6. Discuss ing the possible retirement of Sen ator La Follette, John Fackler, chair man of the Ohio Progressive league, today gave out a statement, saying that if La Follette's illness would cause his retirement, the progressives could then turn to Colonel Roosevelt, who he says wouldn't refuse the call. PROGRAM TO HONOR CHARLES DICKENS In honor of the centennary of Charles Dickens a short program is to be given at the public library at 8 o'clock Wednesday evening, that day being the centennary of the birth of the great English novelist. The centennary program which is being arranged for the occasion will be given by students of the high school. It will consist In a biographi cal sketch, a review and a reading from "Christmas Carols." Along with the program will be exhibited pictures of Dickons, speci ally bound volumes of his works and ether articles of interest. Some ex cellent things along this line are in the possession of local people and will be displayed at the library Wed nesday evening. Miss Lotta Fleek, librarian, is seeking further exhibits of this sort and says that people who have anything that will be of Interest are requested to tender them to tho library for the occasion. MRS. MOORE MAY APPEAR AT TRIAL or TIMOTHY Redfood, Calif. Feb. 5. Announce ment that Mrs. Lillian Moore, widow of Millionaire Moore, would appear at Chauffeur Timothy's preliminary hearing tomorrow on a charge of Moore's murder, was made today. She is suffering front nervous prostration. The authorities believe her presence is necessary to clear up several con tradictory statements regarding her whereabouts the night Timothy and Moore fought a duel. Moore told the police she was riding with Timothy. Timothy declared she arrived on the scene later.