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VOL, 24.
PENDLETON", OREGON, JIOXDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 191
NO. 7358
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TAFT TO ORDER INVESTIGATION
INTO OUTRAGES AT LAWRENCE
Requests Attorney General to Ascertain if Report
ed Brutality is True
MORE WOMEfi CLUBBED
.After Breaking Up Parade of Strikers Burly Bluecoats En
ter Homes of Victims and Mercilessly Beat Them-"
Many Females in Hospital.
Washington, ! C, Fob. 20. President Toft will order n thorougtt Investi
gation into tho Textile mill worker's strike at Lawrence, Mass., nnd tho causes
which led to tho brutal clubbing of women by tho police mid inllitia, which
ho been going on for three days, according to Congressman Victor Hcrger.
tho socialist of WIxooiibIii, who made tho announcement tills morning fc
lowing a visit ho made to tho whlto houHo.
Together with lTcsldent Tuft and Attorney General WlckcnJiani, Con.
gressnwn Ilergw went over every phase of the cane and the president ordered
the attorney general to look Into tho matter and ascertain if! federal slat,
utJ l"d been violated by tho authorities. In an offhand manner tho presi
dent raid that If reports which havo reached luni are true, that tho federal
statute liad been DroKen,
Lawrence. Mass., Feb. 2 C Brutal
ly clubbing women, as well as men,
tho police today In largo numbers re
peated their outrage of Saturday and
.added another distinctive feature for
the day to the strike of the Textile
. Mills strikers, Ignoring tho thousands
of protests from all parts of the coun
trV that have poured in bn Governor
Foss. urging him to put an end to
the persecution of the strikers. Scores
of defenseless and innocent women
were knocked to the ground-and bad
ly beaten by the bluecoats.
The trouble started in the Italian
quarter of the city when fifty strikers
were arrested, following a shooting
affray in which Carmelo Mllaz, a
strikebreaker, was wounded. --The.
police say the strikers started
tho trouble. The strikers assert that
tho police are responsible, bringing it
abouras a means to prevent a parade
which tho strikers had started.
Tho police claim that while fifteen
special officers were making their
way along tho street, that some one
rained a window In an upper story of
a tenement building and fired a shot
and a moment later another window
was raised in a like manner and a
second shot fired from it. They then
admitted that they opened fire on
every window In the neighborhood
PENDLETON TO HAVE
RELIGIOUS MEETING
Imbued with the spirit of the Men
and Religion Forward Movement, and
prepared to assist in promoting It
when it is Btarted in Pendleton, the
seventy-five boys who attended the
-Walla Walla convention on Friday and
Saturday returned home yesterday.
They report that the third Sunday in
March has been designated as the date
on which tho movement will be form
ally initiated here In this city, a num
ber of tho Walla Walla committee of
100 having announced their Intention
of being here on that date to start
tho work. Tho boys aro enthusiastic
over the ' treatment accorded them
while In tho Garden City and report
on enjoyable as well as a profitable
time. .
111 UMATILLA COUNTY
WILL BE CMBMItS FOR RE-ELECTION
At this date it seems safe to pre
dict th candidacy for re-election of
all present Umatilla county office
holders whose terms expire this year,
several having already announced
their Intention and the formal dec
eleration of the others being expect
ed soon. Inasmuch as County Judge
J. W. Maloney, Commissioner H. M.
Cockburn, and Senators J. N. Burgess
and C. A. Barrett are the only hold
overs, this statement means that in
all probability Circuit Judge O. W.
Phelpp, Prosecuting Attorney S. E.
Van Vactor, Clerk Frank Baling,
Sheriff T. D. Saylor, Treasurer G. W.
Bradley, Recorder B. S. Burroughs,
School Superintendent Frank K.
Welles, Assessor C. P. Strain, Com
missioner Horace Walker and Repre
sentatives L. U Mann and S. D. Pe
terson will all sock to retain their
present positions.
More doubt centers about the en
trance of Van Vactor than any of the
others for, although his friends de
clare he would like to be re-elected,
he Is not exactly pleased with the
prospects confronting him.. He Is a
democrat and was appointed to his
present position when G. W. Phelps
BY POLICEMEN TODAY
. .
SENATOR PERSONALLY
PROBES SITUATION.
Lawrence, Mass., Feb. 26
Personal lnvestle.itlnn nf fVi
Lawrence situation by Senator
Polndexter of Washington, it is
believed, may lead to a senato
rial investigation. Incognito he
came and questioned woman
who were brutally mauled by
thenoltcp H . vis.lted ,th iU
ana "leariud seven women were
held, three without charges
against them. The police would
not let him talk to the pris
oners. where a faco appeared. Many peo
ple appeared at their windows to
learn the cause of the shooting and
were fired pt by the police, according
to their own admissions.
Tho first violence was when three
strikers who were standing in the
streets, ns peaceable as they could
possibly be, were charged by the po
lice, knocked to the ground and beat
en Into unconsciousness.
This wanton brutality so angered
the strikers that in a moment ten
thousand swarmed into the streets.
Milaz was shot in thi back as he fled
and while It Is not as yet known for
sure who fired the shot, it Is believed
it will prove that the police did it, in
tho same manner that a policeman
murdered a young woman striker sev
eral days ago and for which Strike
Leader Ettor is now held in prison.
Following this scrimmage, the police
ordered the streets cleared and fifty
sinners were placed unaer arrest.
Tho nnrAfln nf ctrfkaro thAn staff.
ed, the marchers singing the Marsel
aise. The police waited until the
marchers reached Jackson street and
then charged them without warning,
felling women and men with heavy
blows from the lead tipped clubs and
trampling them under feet in their
mad rush to reach more victims. Af
ter a march of seven blocks, the
strikers dispersed and returned to
their homes.
The police, not satisfied with their
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OFFICE UK
was elevated to the circuit bench.
Opposed to him,, should he decide to
make the race, will be either James
P. Neal or Frederick Stelwer, both
of whom have announced themselves
as candidates as candidates for the
republican nomination.
Phelps Own Successor.
That Judge Phelps will be elected
to sueeeed himself is looked upon as
a certainty and the popular belief is
that he will have no opposition for
office. Homer I. Watts of Athena
has been mentioned as a possible
contender for the republican nomina
tion but It Is not generally believed
he will be a candidate. Will M. Pe
terson, chairman of the democratic
central committee, has been talked
of Borne as an opponent of Phelps but
he disavows any judicial aspirations.
Both Peterson and Mann have al
ready taken the field and they will
be opposed by Attorney J. T. Hlnkle
of Hermlston and Roland Oliver of
this city. Peterson has onlyservod
one term in the legislature but his
record during that time as a progres
sive Is being cited Sy his friends as
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THREE REBEL ARMIES CLOSING ON JUAREZ;
U. S. TROOPS EXPECTED TO CROSS BORDER
El Paso, Texas, Feb. 26. The com
bined forces of Colonels Campa, Uo
Jas and Salazar, consisting -of 1700
rebels, left Bauche this morning for
an attack on Juarez, 12 miles away.
Juarez Is practically defenseless al
though Colonel Villa, commanding
800 federals, is reported fifty miles
south of the city.
Four hundred citizensv have an
nounced that they would attempt to
defend the town until Villa arrives.
PE0 RETURNS FROM
ASYLUM FOR INSANE
Aged Umatil la Chief fo Spend
Remaining Days With
His People
Haggard and gray and bent with
the weight of his 75 years and the
mental affliction under which he has
been suffering for years, old Chief
Peo, one time strong man of the
Umatilla reservation, is back among
his people. He arrived yesterday via
the Northern Pacific from the federal
asylum at Canton, S. D., and on the
trip he was accompanied by Dr. Hum
mer, superltnendent of the asylum.
As from the dead comes the old
chieftain, for he had been gone so
long that many changes have occur
red upon the reservation since he was
taken away. He is still weak minded
but he is entirely harmless. He talk
brokenly and apparently is able to
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LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL
5 WINS 3 STRAIGHT
Having won a'l three of the games
which they played while absent, the
members of the Pendleton high
school basketball team returned yes
terJay In triumph from their tour of
Union county. As a result of their
victory over Union high school Satur
day night by the score of 40 to 25,
they have set up a claim for the
championship of eastern Oregon
which no other team can dispute.
The game with the Union school,
the boys characterize as the easiest
of the Uiree. At no time they say was
there any danger of defeat and their
opponents would have been kept
to a much lower score if they had
have extended themselves. In this
gtmTe, Captain Jordan again starred,
shooting five baskets from his posi
tion at guard besides being a big ob
stacle to the .success of the other
team.'
Despite the account of the game
in the La Grande Observer, which
account was written by the coach of
the defeated team, the boys declare
they outplayed the high school of that
city Fridav night in every depart
ment of the game. Until the last
few minutes of play, they claim, they
kept their opponents' score down to
nine and the remaining ten points
gained were secured only as a result
of a relaxation upon Pendleton's part
when victory was assured.
The M. I. A. team was the hardest
one of three, they declare, and the
32-31 score would indicate as much
In this game they say. they had a
lead of eight points until the last few
minutes of play when the La Grande
men made nine points in rapid order,
placing them one point in the lead.
However, just before the final whis
tle Fee threw a spectacular basket,
winning the, game.
The boys are now contemplating a
tour of the Willamette valley if they
can see a way to make their ex
penses. FLOOD WATERS FOR
60,000 ACRES, ECHO
(Special Correspondence.)
Echo, Ore., Feb. 26. Flood wa
ters on sixty thousand acres of grain
'.and, lying east and north of Echo
now seems . probably, following a
meeting here Saturday afternoon by
those interested. A committee con
sisting of O .D. Teel, J. C. Hosklns
and J, W, Reese of Echo were ap
pointed to have full charge and with
power to act. E. E. Lewis of Echo,
and Jack Keefe of Pendleton were ap
pointed as assistants to this commit
tee. The committee was authorized to
begin the preliminary work at once
nnd secured the services of Attorney
A. W. Gray who will take immedi
ate action to form an irrigation dis
trict out of this tract of land, accord
ing to the 1911 law.
They have also employed Engineer
Severance of Stanfield, who will at
once make the necessary surveys.
Louis Scholl, Jr., of this place, who
Is familiar with all this tract, will
this week guide Engineer Severance
over tho proposed route of the canal,
which will be taken from the Uma-
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It Is believed the city will fall with
out much of a fight. '
Even should the rebels capture the
town, a serious clash with Villa will
surely follow.
American troops are patrolling the
border with, orders to safeguard Am
erican lives and property at any cost.
It is expected that United States
troops will cross into Mexico is any
more lives are lost on this side, as
happened during the Madero rebellion.
COMMITTEE PLEASED
WITH POWER SITE
Find Conditions Better Than
Were Represented
By Strain
I
Declaring that the representations
made to them by Assessor C. P. Strain
nnd Engineers Kimbrell and Coyle at
the last council meeting are true so
far as they are able to ascertain seven
of the city aldermen returned last
evening from Milton, near which city 1
they investigated the power site up
on which they have an option. All
are now in fvor of a thorough inves
tigation and at the next council meet
ing, the special committee will prob
ably recommend the employment of
a competent hydraulic engineer to
survey the site and to "render his ex
pert opinion.
In the party which examined the
site yesterday were- Councilmen Dyer,
Kirkpatrick, Brock, . Cole and Shar
on, comprising the special committee,
Councilmen Montgomery and Ell,
City Engineer Kimbrell and Walter
Bowman, photographer. Arriving at
Milton they were joined by Howard
Evans in whose name the filing ts
held, and Engineer Coyle of that city.
Conditions Encouraging.
According to Chairman Dyer of
the special committee, the party found
conditions even more encouraging
than reported to them. The site for
the proposed power plant is only
about two miles out of Milton up the
Walla Walla river while the point of
Intake Is but three miles farther on.
Bearing out the statement that the
accessibility of the site is a remark
able feature of the site and one which
would greatly reduce the cost of in
stallation, Mr. Dyer stated that they
found a natural grade between the
site of the power plant and the point
of intake and that this grade is so
gradual that travel over it is easy.
"The line surveyed for a flume runs
along the county road for more than
a mile," he said, "and in only two
places does it cross any valuable land.
The plant site Is on the river but is
sheltered behind a small bluff so that
danger from a washout amounts
to nil. Down this bluff the water
would have a fall of 160 feet, accord
ing to the engineers, and It is my
opinion, that 2000 horsepower is a
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RIVER MYSTERY IS
EASILY EXPLAINED
The.mystery of the horse and buggy
in the Umatilla river at Thorn Hol
low has been cleared up and no hu
man life was lost in the accident. The
drowned animal and the buggy be
longed to Harry McRrlde, the Athena
liveryman, and both were lost when
Tom Gilkey, the driver, and another
man, attempted to ford the swollen
stream and wero carried Into deep
water by the swift current. The two
men and one of tho horses attached
to the buggy escaped with their lives
after battling with the waters, but
tho other horse, becoming entangled
In the harness and unable to free it
self from the buggy, sank to its death.
In conversation over the telephone
this morning, Mr. McBrldo stated
that the two men were en route to
Meachnm and, coming to the river,
thought they could make the cross
ing In safety but misjudged tho swift
ness of the current with tho result as
already known. He states that the
horse which escaped was the one
which James H. Gwlnn of the Round
Up association, rode during the show
last fall.
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TWO DIE IN HOTEL
- . 11 RE AT PORTLAND.
Portland, Ore., Feb. 26.
Edward Gilmore, who had been
rescued, died of excitement,
and an unidentified man was
killed by leaping from the
third floor this morning when
fire badly damaged two upper
floors of the Oilman hotel.
The origin was not ascertained.
The loss is estimated at 25.-
000. Several people were res-
cued but no others injured. .
One hundred persons were
sleeping In the building when
the alarm was Bounded.
WILL BE ACCEPTED
IF TENDERED. SAYS ROOSEVELT
LOCAL ADMIRERS
FORMING T. R. CLUB
Meeting Called for Tomor
row Night to Per
fect Plans
With the positive announcement
of Theodore Roosevelt that he will
be a candidate for the republican
nomination for president of the Unit
ed States and will remain in the race
until the national convention has ren
dered its . decision, local admirers of
the strenuous colonel today began
steps toward organization of a
"Roosevelt Club" similar to those al
ready existing in other cities over the
country. Leadership in the move
ment is being taken by Dr. I. U. Tem
ple and a meeting will be held in his
office tomorrow night at which the
organization will be perfected and a
plan of campaign outlined.
John P. Rusk, speaker of the last
house and candidate for the republic
can nomination for congressman, will
be at the meeting and will take an
active part in it. He. is a Roosevelt
republican and is making his race
as a progressive and a champion of
the things for which the colonel
stands.
TaR Still Confident.
Washington, D. C, Feb. 26. Presi
dent Taft is still confident of the nom
ination and re-election, despite Col
onel Roosevelt's entrance into the
race -rTordr to Con"""" "n ..y-.
KtnlSy? "
.Another Kouud-iip of Hoboes.
The night police made another
round-up of hoboes last night and
succeeded in putting 27 in the jail
over night. All but a few who had
been caught In the previous round
up were released this morning with
a warning but these exceptions will
be given a sentence to impress upon
them the error of repeating offenses.
Dynamite Suspect Dismissed.
Los Angeles, Feb. 26. Ira Ben
der, a union man, charged with com
plicity in blowing up the Hall of
Records, was dismissed today on mo
tion of the prosecuting attorney. Dep
uty District Attorney Horton said the
evidence was Insufficient.
WASHINGTON WOMAN
AND AFFINITY SLAIN
Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 26. The
bodies of a man and woman be-
lleved to be Mrs. John Brown
and Jack Wilson, a butcher,
were found with their skulls
crushed on a road near the
Brown home at Larchmont to-
day. The couple had spent the
evening here.
W. Brown, the dead woman's
husband denied any knowledge
of the. crime. He broke down
and sobbed when told. Ho
said Wilson boarded with them
and he considered him like a
brother. Wilson is unmarried
and Brown is 30 years older
than his wife.
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CLAIM MADE THAI COUNTIES IN OREGGN
CAN NOW VOTE BONDS FOR ROAD BUILDING
If a Salem story which appeared in
the Portland Oregonlan of Saturday
is correct, then the county bonding
amendment is now operative and
counties may proceed to rote bonds
for constructing good roads without
faking for further legislation. The
story under a Salemdate line is as
follows:
The amended section 10 of Article
II of the state constitution, as passed
by the people of the state at the last
general election in 1910, is sufficient
in Itself to allow counties to vote on
the question of bonding for good
roads and that the only place that
Jackson county failed in bonding for
$1,500,000 w'as tho form of proced
ure, rather than from the necessity of
further legislation, are some discov
eries that have been made at this
late day in connection with the opin
ion of the supreme court in the fa
mous Andrews versus Neil case.
Tacked at the end of Justice Bur
nett's extensive opinion in that case
were three very brief specially con
curring options from Justice Bean
and McBrlde and Chief Justice Eakin
or the majority of the court.
In these specially concurring opln-
TELLS GOVERNORS
HE MAY BE DRAFTED
Expresses Hope That Prim
aries May Select
Candidates
New York, Feb. 26. Former Pres
ident Roosevelt has announced that
he will accept the republican nomi
nation for presiddential candidate.
The announcement was made last
night from his offices here.
Active work of lining up delegates
favorable to his candidacy began in
earnest today and hardly had the ink
dried on the letter written to the
eight governors who urged him to
enter the race, until Roosevelt head
quarters were opened here In the
Metropolitan buildins, Oliver Car
penter, one of the shrewdest politi
cians in the state, in in charge of the
headquarters.
Friends of the colonel think he will
begin a personll campaign Wednes
day when he arrives here from Bos
ton. It is reported that he will soon
start for Phoenix, Ariz., where his
son Archie Is studying, and will de
liver speeches en route.
Branch Roosevelt headquarters will
be opened immediately in Chicago,
San Francisco and other western
cities.
One of the features of Colonel
Roosevelt's letter is his wish that the
presidential preference of the people
be expressed through direct primar
ies. Roosevelt's letter to the governors
was remarkably brief and foilows:
"Gentlemen: I deeply appreciate
your letter and I realize to the full
the heavy responsibility it puts upon
me, expressing as it does carefully
considered convictions of men elect
ed by popular vote, to stand as the
heads of their several states.
"I absolutely agree with you that
this matter is not one to be decided
with any reference to the personal
preferences or Interests of any man,
but purely from a standpoint of the
interests of the people as a whole.
"I will accept the nomination for
president if it is tendered me and
I will adhere to this . decision until
the convention has expressed itj pref
erence." The letter concludes, saying he
hopes the people will be given ' a
chance to make the choice of their
presidential candidate by direct pri
maries. MORE ARRESTS MAY
FOLLOW GOLD FIND
Salem, Feb. 26. Governor West to
day refused to give out anything fur
ther regarding the confession of Con
vict Barrett, in connection with the
Humbolt steamship $57,000 bullion
robbery of 1910.
With twenty five pounds of gold
recovered from a place" near Lyons
where Barrett had burled it, it is ex
pected at least five men will be ar
rested for complicity.
These include two Caviness boys,
of Eastern Oregon, both of whom are
in prison now for felonies.
Jimmy Whealon was Indicted as a
fence for the thieves.
Ions, it is held that Justice Burnett
reached the right conclusion in hold
ing that the Jackson county road bond
vote was ineffective, but at the same
time they express the opinion that tho
county can, by a local law submitted
at a regular election, provide for cre
ating an indebtedness and the Issu
ance of bonds for the purpose of
building permanent roads.
These opinions verbatim are as
follows:
Bean, J. (concurring "I concur
in the result of this opinion, but do
not give my assent to the following
expressions, namely: "it Is clear,
however, that until the legislative
power of the state has declared that
an election shall bo held on a partic
ular kind of question, no decision of
such a question can be worked out
In that manner.' This would appear
to assume that no enabling act has
been passed.
"And, further, 'the legislative pow
er of the state has prescribed with
great detail a manner of electing
public officers and by the initiative
and referendum system and leglsla-
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