EVENING EDITION EVENING EDITION WEATHER REPORT. TO ArVEttTISEK3. The Kast Oregon Ian ha the largest paid circulation of any paper In Oregon, east of Portland and nearly twlcp the circulation In Pendleton of any other newspaper. Occasional rain tonight and Sunday. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. .VOL. 24. PENDLETON, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1912. XO. 7331 BLACK HAND IN AHICH PLAN Congressman In Hot Speech Denounces Money Trust As Financial Mafia. SEEKS DEPTH OF VILLANY "Kiss-Mo-AH" IIoIhoii Culled a Cow ard by Fellow S0I0119 for Sneaking a Criticism Into . Congressional Record. Washington, Feb. 17. Comparing the money trust with the black hand and protesting strongly against the Aldrlch bunking plan, for the con centration of money power and the private Issue of legal tender, 'Con gressman Henry, a republican, of Connecticut, today woke up the house with a red hot speech. "It la high time," he said, "that this house should lnjuire into the black hand methods of the financial mafia. "No effective legislation Is possible, to control the ramifications of cur rncy legislation, trusts and corpor ations, until congress understands the methods of the inslduous and almost supreme money power. "Should we not know something of the depth of villany, Into which this financial mafia will descend, before we rewrite our currency laws and be fore we swallow the Aldrlch plan?" Ilolnon Called u Coward. Washington, Feb. 17. Congressman Hay, of Virginia, and Ftzgerald, of New York, In the house today. Joint ly took a fall out of Congressman Richmond Pearson Hobson for criti cism of their attitude on the army appropriation bill. Hobson was ab sent. Yesterday Hobson had a criti cism inserted In the congressional rec ord, without making a speech on the floor. Hay denounced this as "cow ardly." Trust Prolcr Report. Washington, Feb. 17 Assailing tho trust system, but refusing to recom mend logislnion to curb similar abus es hereafter, by declaring that such recommendations were solely within the Jurisdiction of standing commit tees, the house investigation commit tee reported Its probe of the sugar trust. It reported that there Is no need for big combines and said that over capitalization is resulting in tho increased cost of living. CAUSEOF UNKNOWN'S DEATH IS MYSTERY May Have Been Thrown Or Fallen From High Bluff Death came to the man, whose body was discovered yesterday by Conduc tor Cherry of the motor car, by a fall over a 300 foot bluff near liarnhart but whether that fall was the result of an accident or of suicidal or mur derous Intent will probably never be known. Coroner Ralph Folsom and Sheriff T. D. Taylor returned yester day afternoon after making an ex amination of the body, Its position and tho face of tho bluff, and they have reached the foregoing conclusion. Tho dead man's name is probably either A. J. Weaver of J. A. Morrell, papers hearing those names having toeen found on his body and constitut ing about tho only evidence for lden tlfcatlon. Tho former name was found on a pawn ticket from tho Chicago Loan office of Tortland dated Doc. 23, 1911, while the letter was the only writing in note book besides tho address of, Vancouver, Wash, un derneath. An old pipe, somo soap and a towel were about tho only other articles on the person of tho dead man. Ho was apparently about 28 years of age and waa dressed in rough laborer's garb. The head, face and hands of the man were badly cut by the sharp rocks on the face of the ibluff and tho hair is matted with dried blood. The officers are of the belief that the man was walking toward the river in tho darkness and, not know ing of the existence of the bluff, had fallen over It, they declared that there Is nothing about the facts ascer tained to preeludo the possibility of a murder. The body was brought to the city yesterday evening and is being held at tho morguo pending a more exten sve Investigation. What are tho people of E Paso, Texas, kicking for They have a lit tle excitement denied to the rest of tho country. ASKS NATIONAL BUSINESS MEET Financier Says This Is Only Way to Solve Problem , of Trusts. . CONGRESS IS DENOUNCED George Perkins Set's Progress at Stake und Says IjGglHlative Italic Too llusy Playing Politics to Relieve. Situation. Pasadena, Calif., Feb. 17. De nouncing what he termed "Congres sional playing of politics," and "with the busmess Interests of the country as pawns" with the suggestion that "President Taft call a nation wide meeting of business men for the pur pose of settling the big business prob lems of the day," George Perkins, the New Yjrk financier and former right bower of J. Plerpont Morgan, today reviewed the present business and political situations. He stated that his trip across the country had convinced him that there is a lack of confidence in the present business program. "The feeling seems general that the dissolution of corporations Is not the solution of the trust problem," he said, and stated that some other means must be "found to cope with the situation. He said that congress Is playing the game of politics too hard for any re lief to be expected from that quarter. Mr. Perkins declared that much progress is being held up on account of presidential politics. WALLA WALLA GIRLS BEAT LOCAL CO-EDS In whnc Is characterized as the fast est and most scientific basketball game ever played by girls In this city, tho Walla Walla high school co-eds last night In the Armory evened up scores with the local girls by defeat ing them by a 12 tj 10 score. At no tii.io was it possible to predict the onutcome so clowly matched were the two teams and it was only by converting two more fouls into goals than did the locals that the Harden City maidens were nble to come forth victors. Four field baskets were secured by each team while tho visitors made four points from fouls to the home team's two. In the first half, the Walla Wallans took the lead, the score standing 8 to 4 in their favor when the whistle blew, but in the last half, the Pendle tonians were nble to make six while their opponents only registered four. Miss Ruth Wise, coach of the local team, expressed herself as being en tirely satisfied with the showing made by Iter team last night. "They never played better." she said, "and there is but little difference between the two teams. The Walla Walla girls were stronger than when we met them before but even at that they wore no better thnn we were. Both of us have a game apiece to our credit and we are botn satisfied." Following the game, a dance was given by some of the students in hon or of tho visitors and an enjoyable time was had. teddy .m., to bkcojik WALL STREET FIGURE New York, Feb. 17. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., who has been work ing for a carpeting firm In San Fran cisco, today admitted that he might become a member of the Wall street firm of Bertron Grlscom and Jenks. He Is hero on a vacation. GoniCTs Wants Now Judgt. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 17. A let ter has been received by labor lead ers here from Samuel Gompers, stat ing that he is considering asking for anotoher Judge to try the indicted Iron workers, because Judge Ander son released Detective Hums, on a charge of kidnapping John McXam ura. ' FOUR KILLED IX A HEADOX COLLISION'. . ' Ft. Wavna. Tnd.. Vnh 17 The Chicago Limited on the v Pennsylvania today collided with a wreck train near Larwlll. Four workmen fn the wrecker were killed and ten others in- Jured. The dead are: P. Welgand, Frank Holtman, E. Stump and August Bailey. The latter two were burned to tloath. ELKS MINSTRELS BEST FINANCIAL SUCCESS OF AIHY HOME TALENT EFFORT-PROFIT $500 With a net profit to the Elks of not less than $500 for the two nights entertainment the Elks Minstrels Jut gave by Pendleton lodge Xo. 288 will go down In history as the most successful Bhow, financially speaking, ever given in the city. For the two nights the total receipts reached the sum of $700 and according to Carl-Cooley, business man- ager for the show, the expenses will he In the neighborhood of $200. So there will be a half thousand as velvet for the local lodge. The nearest approach to the Elks Minstrels, as a money maker, was the Commercial club gymnasium show given some years ago under the direction-of J. R. Raley when the "Sady Girls" were the big feature. The sum of $420 was netted from that performance. MEXICANS RIOT, EL PASO Madcro'H Consulate Guarded by United States Troops, El Paso, Feb. 17. United States troops are guarding the Mexican con sulate here today as a result of a demonstration against Mexican Con sul Lloyento, because he insisted on the release of the American soldiers who accidentally invaded. Mexico Thursday. Leon Martinez is under arrest, charged with Inciting riot. Jaurcz Is tranquil and a federal force is en route from Mexico City. Reports of numerous clashes In northern Mexico are still coming- in. PAX A. MA FORTS TO UK XAMKI) FOR GREAT MEX "Washington. Following the decis ion of the war department that the forts along the Panama canal zone shall be named for men famous in American and Panamanian history, a schedule has been drawn up showing the new nomenclature. The military reservation at the Pacific terminus of the canal will be named Fort Grant and Fort Amador, the first for the former president of the United States the second in honor of the first presi dent of Panama, who died May 2, 1909. The reservations at the Atlantic ter minus will be named Fort Sherman, Fort Randolph and Fort DeLcsseps the first two In honor of the generals Sherman and Randolph, the third in honor of Ferdinand DeLestscps, pro moter of the Panama canal, who died December 7, IS 94. The batteries on the Fort Grant res ervation will be named as follows: Batteries Newton, Merritt, Warren, Ruell, Rurnside, Parke, all of whom were officers in the U. S. army. The batteries at Fots Sherman, Randolph and De Lesseps will, also be named after noted regular army or volunteer officers. Her Story Is Contradicted Philadelphia Mrs. A. H. Dew or, Philadelphia's fencer, asserted that the baroness was fully informed on all the points of the game as known in the United States and that she had been fairly' defeated. To give the for eigner a last chance Mrs. Dewar has issued another challenge. Two-thirds of the tin used in the world- la supplied by the Malay states. FEDERAL DRAGNET CATCHES ALLEGED FRAUD PROMOTER WELL KNOWN IN PENDLETON R. H. McWhorter, erstwhile head' of the Inland Telephone company, with headquarters at Pilot Rock, and who may bo remembered by many lo cal people because of some sensation al speeding on Main street when he sought to get Asa B. Thomson to a train one evening, is now In the tolls In connection with tne DeLnrm op-1 iiuuon. no was fined in the police court for hig excessive speed, Tho following story concerning Mc Whorter is from tho Oregonian of yesterday: With tho surrender yesterday at Seattle of R. H. McWhorter of Taco ma, secretary and trust officer of the Oregon & Washington Trust com pany, subsidiary corporation of the Columbia River Orchard company, the federal dragnet around the promoters of this alleged spurious concern was drawn closer. McWhorter also is secretary-treasurer of the Washington Orchard Irrigation & Fruit company. Ho surrendered himself to United States District Attorney Elmer E. Todd, of Seattle, on complaint of Henry D. Temple, postoffice Inspector who charged him with using the malls to defraud. McWhorter was animportant wit ness in the bankruptcy hearing in connection with the irrigation com pany in the federal 'court one week ago, and at that time declared that ho had no official knowledge of the many transactions carried on, being more of a dummy officer than the confident of either DeLarm or Biehl. He gtrve as. his opinion that the Co lumbia Orchard company had been organized simply to defraud the bond holders and creditors of the other concerns. Discovery Wednesday of the ac counts, lists of bondholders and cor respondence of DeLarm by Receiver Louis P. Sichlor of Seattle, Is said to be the most Important development thus far of the investigation into the companies. RUMOR EMPRESS SUICIDE Chinese Hail Yuan as a Second George Washington. Pekin. Feb. 17. Unconfirmed ru-mo;-, which Is doubted, says the dow ager empress, broken hearted, has suicided. Yuan, Washington II. Nanking, Feb. 17. Dubbing him the second George Washington, the national Chinese assembly today tele graphed to President-elect Yuan, U hasten south to confer with the re publican leaders in view of a speedly Installation of the new order through out the empire. President Yuan has cut off his queue. WOMAN'S YOUXG SISTER EI.OPES WITH HUSBAND "Xella Is My Valentine, Yon Are the Goat," I Mossage to Wife. Chicago, Calif Leaving a note to his wife which read "Xella is my val entine, you are the goat," L. L. Sher wood, a solicitor eloped with his wife's sister, X'ella Stillwell, a pretty seventeen-year-old auburn-haired girl who came from Oregon Xew Year's day to make her home with the Sherwoods. At the bottom of the sheet was written this farewell message, "Xella and I love each other dearly and are going away to live in heaven, never to return, so good bye." Xella was banished from the Sher wood home a week ago by Mrs. Sher wood, who accused the sister of try ing Co steal her husband. Xella liad often in the presence of her married sister begged Sherwood to run away with her, but Mrs. Sherwood attached little Importance to the girl's propos als, which she presumed were made in. Jest. MOTHER POISON'S DAUGHTER; -MISTAKE 4 Pasadena, Feb. 17. Poisoned by her mother, who gave her strychnine, believing it quinine Miss Agnes Johnson, age 19, beautiful daughter of a weal- thy contractor here died today. She was a soprano soloist at the First Rintlst olinMi T.not 4 night she contracted a cold and the mother gave the poison by mistake. 4 A. J. Biehl, secretary, and H. H. Humphrey, attorney, of the Columbia River Orchard company, waived pre liminary examination Wednesday and were held to await the action of the federal grand jury, which is in ses sion. Many of the Investors in the bonds and oUier securities of this cor poration reported to United States District Attorney McCourt yesterday and gave testimony before the grand jury which is inquiring Into the ope rations of this concern. That indictments will be returned against Belhl and possibly McWhort er. who was arrested yesterday at Se atile, is regarded more than prob able, judging from the nature of the testimony that is being volunteered by victims against the officers of the company under investigation. Doily since the announcement was made that the orchard company had gone into the hands of a receiver, in vestors in bonds have appeared before tho federal district attorney with tes timony which serve. to show that the operations of the orchard company were at least irregular when the lim itations of the government postal reg ulations are considered. As has been announced, It is the intention of United States Attorney MeCourt to make a thorough investi gation of the operations of several al leged snide real estate and promo tion agents with a view to determin ing whether the postal laws have been transgressed. When violations of this statute are disclosed from this inves tigation, prosecutions will follow. The extent to which the pending inquiry will proceed' depends entirely on the limitation of the activities of the federal grand jury now In session. The life of this jury expires March 2, and It is already has Its hands full with other business if It completes Its work In time for adjournment. OREGON MEASURES IRK OE SENSELESS FOLK THIS TAFT Progressive Laws, Originating in This State, Rapp ed With President's Approval VOTERS ARE DECLARED Wickersham Speech in Interest of Taft, is Full of Ridicule of Popular Government La Follette is Still In Race Teddy's Old Foe Dons War Togs. St. Louis, Mo.. Feb. 17. Progres sive policies, particularly those for judicial reform, were called "insen sate" in a speech, endorsed by Pres ident Taft and delivered by Attorney General Wickersham before the City club here this afternoon in direct in terest of President Taft's renomina tlon. Mr. Wickersham sarcastically re ferred to the initiative and referend um as "postal card lawmaking" and declared that popular legislation and direct primaries destroyed the dignity of office, resulting in "driving from the field the class of men formerly thought most desirahle those the of fice seeks, not those seeking office." He said in part: "There has been much nonsense concerning the so called usurpation of power by the fed eral judiciary, in pronouncing laws of state legislatures or congress un constitutional. "The very, nature of our written constitution implies that representa tives of the people can exercise only the powers conferred upon them by the constitution and the judiciary must necessarily judge void, an act which is not authorized by the consti tution. "This does not suppose the super iority of judiciary legislative power, it only supposes the power of the people Is superior to both and that where the will, on legislature, stands in opposition to the will of the pow er, declared in the constitution, judges .'uht to be governed by the latter. "I am in entire sympathy with the reasons that led to the enactment of laws, providing for the nomination of candidates by direct election, -but the system, by which laws are made by postal card and by popular petition, tends to destroy the office so as to make it unattractive to those who might otherwise even subject them selves to the scramble of the primary in order to reach, the field of public usefulness." In conclusion h recommended longer terms and more salary as a means of bringing better men to the bench. Lit Follette Still hi Race. Chicago, 111., Feb. 17. That Unit ed States Senator Robert La Follette will not retire from the republican presidential nomination race; that he had never thought of such a thing and that Wisconsin will send a solid La Follette instructed delegation to the republican national convention, are declarations made here by John I. Lane, chairman of the LaFollette Republican Club of Wisconsin nnd Senator La Follette's campaign man ager. Mr. Lane declared that the Wiscon sin candidate would keep up an ac tive campaign until the nominntons 30 YOUTHS ATTEND RELIGIOUS MEETING As the date for the Men and Re ligion Forward Movement conven tion in Walla Walla draws nearer, the number of local boys between tho ages of 15 nnd 19 who will attend the last two days is growing and it is now estimated that there will be more than thirty in the delegation which will leave here next Friday. Rev. Nathan Evans declared this morning that tho high school will send ten, the Methodist church six, the Episcopal church six, the Presbyterian church at least four, while the Christian and Baptist churches and a number of private persons intend sending several others. Rev Evans this morning received a letter from J. W. Gibson, chairman of the committee of 100 in Walla Walla, asking for the names of all Pendleton boys who will be present on next Friday and Saturday be sent In by Tuesday In order that provision for their entertainment may be made. Rev. Evans, therefore, requests that all boys Intending to make tho trip nt tify him by Monday, and he wishes to impress upon them also the ne cessity of purchasing their tickets by the 22nd in order that they may get the special rate. TO DE INCH close in the national convention. Regarding the future of La Follette and the progressive movement In other states, Mr. Lane said: "My observation in other states, lead me to conclude that the move ment is not unlike that in Wisconsin and it will manifest itself in the na tional republican convention, in a determined effort to nominate Senator La Follette. "This movement Is to go until the will of the people Is written in our laws and constitution." Teddy's Foe Dons War Togs. Xew York, X. Y., Feb. J 7. With more than one million dollars in ne gotiable securities, which he has earned by the practice of law during the past fourteen years, stowed away as an anchor in case the political storm might threaten to sweep him away, Frank Black, former governor of and congressman from Xew York state, and whom Colonel Theodore Roosevelt prevented from securing the gubernatorial nomination in 1904 is back in politcs today, avowedly gunning for Colonel Roosevelt. He is just now directly after the scalp of Cornelius Collins, former state superintendent of prisons, one of Colonel Roosevelt's chief lieuten ants and until recently undisputed boss of Rennsselaer county. STRAIN FIGHTS PLAN UNJUST TO UMATILLA At Salem Meeting Opposes State Collection of R. R. Taxes Returning this morning from Sa lem where he attended the meeting of the assessors of the state held in cenjunction with the tax committee of the legislature and the state tax commission, Assessor C. P. Strain ex presses himself as fairly satisfied with the results obtained though he differed with many present as to the policies to pursue in some instances. At the outset of the meeting As sessor Strain led the opposition to approval of all the; measures submit ted. He opposed a blanket endorse ment of all the bill proposed and es pecially fought the proposed amend ment which looks to paving the way for giving to the state government all the money raised from the taxation of railroads and ither public service corporations. Such an amendment aa that will be left to vote of the people next fall as result of action taken by the last legislature. Assessor Strain opposes the amend ment for the reason that such a change would work a loss to Uma tilla county and other counties which like Umatilla have considerable rail road mileage. It would work for the benefit of Multnomah. Mr. Strain opposes the amendment on the ground scch a change would tend to invite extravagance by tho legislature. By action of the recent meeting bills will be submitted the people pro viding for the exemption from tax ation of all household and personal effects; for the exemption of credits of all classes, thus abolishing the tax on mortgages: for an income tax and for an amendment to the inheritance tax. Chinamen Are Celebrallni. Shortly after seven o'clock last night, the local Chinese commenced upon their week's celebration of tho advent of a new celestial new year. Fire crackers were exploded until tho devils had been scared away after which the celebrators retired Indoors. All day today at intervals, the sound of drums and tom-toms has issued from the houses in the. Chinese quar ter, signifying that the slant-eyed In habitants of the city are still makng merry. Would It be high treason to sug gest that possibly the Monroe doc trine is not so wise a thing as most people suppose 1 1