EVENING EDITION
EVENING EDHI01I
WEATHER KEPORT.
Fair tonight with
heavy frost; Thurs
day fair.
TO AIVE!tTISEK8.
The KaRt Oregonlan hu
the liii ecMt paid circulation
of any paper in Oregon, east
of I'ortlnnd and nearly
twice the circulation In
Pendleton - of any other
newspaper.
80UNTY OFFICIAL PAPER
CITY OFFICIAL PAPER.
VOL. 24.
PENDLETON, OEEGOX, WEDNESDAY, MAliCII 13, 1912.
NO. 7371
PANAMA CANAL IN DANGER OF DESTRUCTION!
BY AWAKENING OF LONG EXTINCT VOLCANO
TWO BANDITS KILLED BY A LONE EXPRESS
MESSENGER IN THWARTING TRAIN ROBBERY
IN DEMO
ENDS
Clouds of Steam and Smoke Arising From Diggings
Culebra Cut, Report Engineers
New York, X. Y Murch 13. A Ktatcniont that a sleeping volcano, dorinat
for many centuries, It) threatening Uic safety of the Panama, canal, Is made
in special report from Colon, published
iindcrlio Culebra cut.
Ftar of volcanic trouble had its
origin in the fact that clouds of steam
have been rising from newly turned
earth.
Every drill hole, in the affected re
gion la tested with thermometers be
fore dynamite is put in, to prevent
premature explosions.
Both Italians and Turks
Claim Victory in Battle of
Benghazi.
THOUSANDS ARE SLAIN
Homo KeportH Heavy Loss by Enemy
While. Constantinople Declares Latin
UiaH Will Number More Tliun Two
Thousand.
Home, March 13. More than one
thousand Turks and Arabs were kill
ed by Italian troops yesterday In a
heavy battle at Benghazi, Tripoli, ac
cording to an officiul announcement,
made at the war office today. The
Italian loss was placed at 29 killed
und sixty-two wounded.
The Italian commander reported
that his troops captured two Turkish
positions after hard fighting. The
Turks charged a number of times.
Turks Tell Different Talo.
Constantinople, March 13. The
government tonight published a mes
sago from Kdhem Pasha, the Turk
ish commander In Tripoli, contradict
ing the Home reports, rash a de
dared that the Turks decisively de
feated the Italians. He says the
Turkish casualties were heavy but
that the Italians lost more than 2,-
000 killed.
PILOT ROCK'S NEW
HOTEL SOON OPENS
Tomorrow evening is to be an aus
niclous one for the little town of PI
lot Rock for It will mark the formal
opening of the new hotel and the first
banquet of tho youthful though lusty
commercial club of that town. Invl
tatlons have been sent out all over
the county and a number of l'er.dle
tonluns will be in attendance at the
event.
The following Is the program pre
pared for the occasion: '
Our City's Welcome, K. P.. Cas
teel; Pilot Hock Beautiful, Herbert
Hoylen; A Consolidated Country, J. N,
Burgess; Music. Our Social Needs, 13
V. Warrington; Impromptu, Jack
Koefe; Stock Farming. T. P. Gllliland
Music; Uaby Tracts, John P. McMan
uh; Impromptu "Oh You Beautiful
Poll," James P. Neal; Kural Devel
opment, Douglas Belts; Dr. Fred A
Lieuullen, Toastmnster.
GORY FIGHT
IN
FIFTY BOYS FROM SURROUNDING TOWNS ARE
EXPECTED AT RELIGIOUS FORWARD MEETING
Indications today are that there
will be more than fifty boys between
the nges of 15 and 19 come to Pen
dleton from the different communi
ties of the county on Friduy to at
tend the Men and Religion Forward
Movement convention which la to be
held here from Friday to Sunday In
clusive. Supt. J. S. Landers return
ed this morning from Echo where he
had been last night In the Interest of
the movement and reports a strong
delegation probable from that town.
A letter from Principal Youcl of
the Hermlston schools yesterday stat
ed that tho project town would at
least send eight boys while a similar
letter from Prln. Kyle M'Danlel of
Adams Indicated an attendance of
seven or more boys from his school.
Other communities have ns yet not
been heard from definitely, but Supt.
Landers expects word today from
Stanfleld, Pilot Bock, Athena, Pma
tllla, Weston, Helix and other com
munltlcsTrom 'over the county.
Principal A. C. Hampton of the lo
cal high school reports accommoda
tions in Pendleton homes for fifty
hoys nlready secured and thinks he
can easily provide for that many
more.
The banquet to the boys on Friday
in
hero today.. The. volcano is said to
The divisional engineer's report
says that in recent days the tempera
ture of the rocks has Increased and
that blue smoke has been seen.
Canal geologist declare the steam
and smoke are due only to oxidl
zation.
LOCAL BOYS INVADE
UNKNOWN NORTHLAND
James and John Bryson
to
Help Find Alaskan
Boundary
Two well known Pendleton boys,
James and John Bryson, will be
members of the Baldwin expedition
which will leave Seattle on Saturday
in an effort to locate the Alaska-Can
ada boundary through the lee covered
slopes of Natazhat mountains between
Skolao pass and Mt. St. Ellas, a dis
tance of eighty mil- s. They left this
city Monday with twenty head of
horses to Join the party in the sound
city.
As members of the expedition they
will learn something of the difficul
ties encountered by Captain Amund
sen in his search for the south pole,
for the country to which they are
bound has never been trodden by the
foot of man. Immense Ice and snow
fields, heretofore regarded as impas
sable, and glaciers, long regarded as
an unconquerable barrier, lie in their
path and the nature of their work
does not permit of any detours or de
flections from the course laid out be
fore them. When they return they
will probably be uble to tell stories
which will vie Willi those of the pole
explorers in thrilling interest.-
Another' Pcndeton boy, Frank
Pierce will leave in about a month
for Alaska, where he will join an
other party engaged In the same kind
of work in another section of the
country. Both he and the Bryson
boys are not inexperienced in the
work before them, for they have spent
two other summers In the same occu
pation. :
Plan to Save Wreck.
Gaviota. Calif., March 13 Under
Captain Johnson, plans are being
formed to save a part of the wreck of
the Bteamer Hosecrans. Two of tho
crew perished.
S 1' l-'FR A ETT 1S SWOOP
DOWN ON CONGRESS.
Washington, March 13.
Headed by the official board of
the National Voman's Suffrage
association. 400 women today
invaded the capltol and ad-
dressed the house Judiciary com-
mittee with Chairman Clayton
presiding. Among the suffra-
gettes who s-poko were Hev-
erend Anna Shaw, and Mrs.
Kent, wife of Congressman
Kent. They told why they
wanted to vote.
night will In all nrobabililv he helfl
In tho armory, the banquet room of
tho Eagles-Woodman hall being un
available on that night.
The need, value and effort of rlc-ht
Ideals is the central theme in the
program which Is as follows.
Veleome of Boys to Pendleton.
Chester Fee, toastmaster; A Boy's
Need of an Idenl, Arthur Ferguson,
Pendleton; The Ideal I Cherish, rep
resentative from Stanfleld; What My
Ideal Means to Me, representative
from Athena; What It Takes to At
tain an Ideal, representative from
Weston; The Ideal Bov. representa
tive from Pilot Rock; The Ideal
Young Man, representative from Her
mlston; Tho Idenl Citizen, represen
tative from Adams; Tho Ideal Busi
ness Man, representative from Um.i-
tllla; The Ideal Statesman, represen
tative from Echo; An Ideal City, Low
den Jones, Walla Wnlla,
Besides the toasts by the boys, ad
dresses will bo made bv John Gib
son, chairman of the committee of
one hundred in Walla Walla, and bv
Dr. Raymond C. Brooks, AValla
Walla.
Tho United Orchestra will furnish
music for tho banquet and program
and J. E. Keefc, Jr., and Charles W
Melghan will Blng.
E
Former Mayor of Portland
Agrees to Become Candi
date for Nomination.
FRAMING HIS PRINCIPLES
Declare His Changed Decision Does
Not Militate Against other Candi
da leH As They Are Already in the
l'o;ltlcul Field.
Portland Ore., March 13. Dr.
Harry Lane is a candidate for the
democratic nomination for United
States 'senator.
He announced this decision .follow
ing a conference with local democrat
ic leaders, when a petition urging him
to go into the fight was presented and
he was told that he is the most avail
able candidate of his party.
"I have reconsidered my former de
cision not to be a candidate." said
Dr. Lane. "Owing to recent devel
opments indicating a strong sentiment
among democrats tr have my name
go on the primary ballot, I have con
sented to make the race.
"My changed decision does not mil
itate against other candidates, as they
are all In tho field, and I shall not
be able to have any- matter printed
In the state pamphlet before the pri
maries. I will frame my declaration
of principles at once, so my petition
can be circulated in the necessary
number of counties before March 29.
"If I receive the democratic nomi
nation I will go out and make a vig
orous campaign, covering all parts of
the state. I will tell Just what I stand
for when I file my declaration, and
there will be no doubt as to my mean
ing on the issues of the day."
Dr. Lane, alter deciding he would
not be a candidate a week or more
ago, had settled down to his office
wdrk again and it was supposed the
primary field would be left without
a candidate from Portland. But a
number of local democrats feeling
that the sentiment for Lane was so
strong that further effort should be
made, becan the circulation of peti
tions resulting in the reversal of the
former mayor's decision.
Among those in the committee
waiting on Dr. Lane were Chairman
Bert 13. Haney of the democratic
state committee. Chairman H. B. Van
Duzer of tho county committee. Pres
ident George I. Smith and Vice Pres
ident F. S. Myers of the Jackson club,
F. C. Whltten, H. M. Esterly. Seneca
Smith, Robert A. Miller, F. T. Berry
and Frank Lee.
TO ENFORCE NEUTRALITY
Congress Kxiiecled to Empower Tuft
to End Mexico War Shipments.
Washington, March 13. A bill em
powering President Taft to declare it
a violation of the neutrality laws to
ship arms into a friendly country
through a port of entry, when that
country Is facing a rebellion, is ex
pected to be rushed through congress
as a result of a conference held here
today between President Taft, the
senate foreign relations committee,
Secretary of War Stimson and Attor
ney General Wickersham and a dele
gation from Texas.
It is declared tho bill is made ne
cessary by conditions at Juarez, where
n number of shipments of arms have
been made from tho United States in
to Mexico for tho rebels" use.
It is reported the government had
been advised that the revolution is
a plot, backed by some of Mexico's
richest men, to restore the Diaz re
glmo and possibly former President
Diaz himself.
I..V FOLLETTK ENTERS
XORT1I DAKOTA FIGHT
Washington, D. C, March 13. De
termined to take the stump in North
Dakota, Senator La Folletto, accom
panied by his wife, is today speeding
westward to get Into tho presidential
primary fight there.
Ho left hero last night against his
physician's advice. Ho has almost en
tirely recovered and he flatly charges
that Colonel Roosevelt broke faith
with him.
Pitney Is Confirmed.
Washington, March 13. Despite
tho flood of protests Maplon Pitney of
New Jersey, was confirmed by the
senate today ns associate Justice of
the United States supremo court
Pitney was alleged to have a "cap
italistic mind." Labor bodies through
out the United States bitterly protest
ed when President Taft announced
his nomination.
E. M. Burt, tho rapid sketch artist
whose work in the windows of the
Peoples Warehouse last year attract
ed considerable attention, la over
from La Grande.
SENATOR
E
Textile Workers Accept Terms
of Increase Offered By
Mill Owners.
EVERY DEMAND GRANTED
Lowed Paid Workers to Get liaises
of Twenty Per Cent, While inched
Salaried Will Be Given Five Per
Cent More.
Lawrence. March 13. The end of
the great Lawrence textile strike came
fit 11:30 o'clock today when the J
strikers' sub-committee ami aunced
that they would accept the wage in
crease offered by President Wood of
the American Woolen company.
It was announced that the strikers
gained practically every point for
which they contended.
The lowest paid workers in some
reses received a 20 per cent increase
an 1 the higher paid workmen propor
tionately less. The increase notices
will be posted Friday.
Tlie notices read as follows:
"Employes formerly receiving nine
and one-third cents hourly are given
Increases of two cents hourly. Those
receiving from nine anfl one-half to
ten cents hourly, are given an increase-
of eleven !id three-fourth
cents. Employes formerly receiving
ten and eleven cents will receive an
increase of one cent hourly. This
same increase is given those who for
merly were receiving twenty cents
per hour."
All Job workers get a flat increase
of five per cent. For overtime, they
get a rate of time and one quarter.
. k These same terms, it Is learned this
afternoon, probably will ' be applied
to the entire textile industry in New
England and New York, afecting
400.000 workers.
Stirring scenes marked the close of
the strike Tho thousand strikers
gathered in a dingy basement and
sang patriotic songs.
The strike lasted sixty-one days,
during which time 20,000 workers
were out and It cost them $1,450,000
in wages and the mill owners $1.
000.000. The expense to the city of Law
rence for special police, was $75,000
and the cost to the state for militia
was about $200,000.
During the struggle a relief fund,
amounting to $65,000, was raised.
Five hundred men, women and
children were arrested for rioting and
half of these paid fines. One woman
and a boy striker was killed.
COAL STRIKESEEMS SURE
Anthracite OiH'rators Refuse All De.
nands of Mine Workers.
New York, March 13. At a confer
ence held today, operators of the an
thracite mines refused all demands
made by the mine workers and sug
gested a renewal of contract with
the same terms as at present, slight
ly modified.
The miner's representatives said
they were not authorized to act with
out the consent of a convention, and
it Is generally believed here that a
general strike, will be called in April
unless the operators voluntarily re
new negotiations.
Should the strike be called. all
eastern anthracite mine workers will
be involved.
J. B." Kennedy returned this morn
ing from an overnight visit to his
ranch.
IS. It. PAYS LARGEST
TAXES; Sit 1,711
O
The largest tax payment in
the history of Umatilla county
was today deposited with Sher-
iff T. D. Taylor by the O.-W.
II. & X. company. The exact
amount paid is $111,714.22 and
this amount Is $3.44S.S4 less
than the amount levied against
the company's Umatilla county
property as the discount for
prompt payment aggregated
this- latter sum.
T0 property of the O.-. II. &
X. company In Umatilla county
Is assessed at something over
$14,000.00 on the basis of $65,-
000 a mile on its main line and
$40,000 on Its branch line. Tills
gives Umatilla -county little
more than one. eighth of the
company's total property in the
state, which fart serves as an
Indication of the Injustice to
this county which a law divert-
lng the revenue from public ser-'
vice corporations into the
state treasury would be.
AW N
Slays One With Wood Mallet and Then Takes Dead Des
peradoe's Gun and Shoots Other
San Antonio, Texas, March 13. Two Iwndits, who attempted to rob a
west lxniikl Southern Pacific sscnger truin near Sanderson this morning
were killed by Samuel Trousbcll, the express iwwM'ngcr.
The robbers boarded the train at
Dryden, covered the engineer with
revolvers and forced him to stop the
train. They then detached the mail,
express and baggage cars and ran
them down the track two miles.
One of the desperadoes covered the
engineer while the other started to do
the same with Trousdell, who seized
CLEANUP ORDERS
ISSUED BY OFFICERS
Authorities Tour City
Order Health Pre
cautions and
As a result of an inspection trip
through the business section this
morning by Dr. I. U. Temple, city
physician, and Chief of Police John
Kearney orders are out for a spring
clean-up and for sanitary precautions
that will insure cleanliness and health
during the summer months.
Much attention was given by the
health officers to restaurants, butch
er shops, grocery stores and other es
tablishments handling foodstuffs.
All open swill barrels must go and
if restaurant men keep slops on hand
they must be confined in tightly cov
ered galvanized cans. This was one
of the orders given and it is the pur
pose of the officials to see that it Is
observed. This morning all local
restaurant men agreed to the provis
ion with one exception. He objected
on the score of expen.se and .asked to
bo allowed to keep his slop within his
building, rather than in his back
yard.
The objection to the open swill
barrels arose from the fact such re
ceptacle become an abomination dur
ing the summer months because they
attract flies and are 111 smelling. It
is the purpose of the health board to
put them out of business this spring
so as to see If more satisfactory con
ditions cannot be obtained during the
hot season.
"It is now time for a general spring
clean-up crusade for the entire city,"
says Dr. Temple. "If the annual
cleaning-up day is to be observed as
usual It is time for action to be tak
en by the clubs that have handled
such affairs in the past. A thorough
clean up before the flies are on deck
will do much towards 'swatting the
fly.' It is also well for householders
as well as business houses to ratron
ize the garbage men so as to have
slops and debris removed punctually.
Get your places cleaned up and keep
them clean."
The woman of the hour is the one
who says she'll be ready in a minute.
ONE TRIAL FOR 10
ALLEGED DYXAM ITERS
Indianapolis. Ind., March 13.
Judge Anderson today over
ruled tlie defendants' objections
and decided to consolidate all
the indictments and hold one
trial of the 46 alleged dynamit
ers. October 1. Ortie McMan
igai and the McXamaras won't
be tried. This will be the larg
est single criminal trial in the
history of the United States.
UMATILLA COUNTY DEMOCRATS WILL
HOLD IMSS F1EETIN6 HERE MARCH 20
With a mass meeting to he held j
here Wednesday evening, March 20, ,
and to which every registered demo- I
crat in the county is Invited, the
Umatilla county followers of Thomas
Jefferson. W. J. Bryan, Woodrow Wil
son et al will get together in a
gathering that promises to be one of
the big events of the local campaign.
Xot only will the coming meeting
be a gathering of the clan from Uma
tilla county but prominent democrats
from over the state will also be urg
ed to come. In fact invitations are
already out for the democratic sena
torial candidates. With the entrance
into the race of Ex-Mayor Harry
Lano of Portland there are now Tour
men In the field for the democratic
senatorial nomination. They are
Walter M. Pierce of Hot Lake. O 1".
Coshow of Roseluirg, Senator Mill
Miller of Lebanon and Dr. Harry
Lane. County Chairman Will M.
Peterson this morning addressed let
ters to all these gentlemen urging
a wood mallet, struck the bandit on
the head and killed him instantly.
Trousbell then took the dead bandits
guns and killed the other one. l
The train was then coupled up and
proceeded to Sanderson with the dead
outlaws.
Much valuable registered mail was
in the mail car and $10,000 was In
the express car.
Twenty-One Passengers Hurt
When N. Y. Central Falls
Into Hudson River.
WOMEN PROVE HEROINES
Tear Their Clothing Into Strips to be
Used as Bandages by Physician Who
Benders First Aid Although Also
Injured.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., March 13.
Twenty-one were injured on the
New York Central eastboWd Twentieth-
Century Limited which Jumped
the tracks at Hyde Park, six miles
north of here this morning. The five
rear coaches were derailed while the
train was traveling rast. A broken,
rail caused the wreck.
Eleven persons were seriously hurt.
Tlie five cars crashed through the ice
into the Hudson river and were
three-quarters submerged in the wa
ters The occupants, many in their
nightclothes, were imprisoned until
they broke the windows and crawled
out. The fact that the cars were
steel is the only thing that prevented
fatalities.
Women tore their clothing into
strips to make bandages for the
wounded and Dr. Warnhuis, himself
badly injured rendered first aid to
the others who were hurt.
Beach Nei York City.
New York, March 13. Many with
out their personal effects, the victims
of the Twentieth Century wreck, ar
rived here this afternoon.
WYOMING ELK ARE
NOW IN OREGON
Huntington, Ore., March " 13.
(Special ) A carload of wild elk
headed by "Teddy Roosevelt" and
comprising the finest herd ever ship
ped from Jackson Hole, most famous
elk country in the world, will arrive
in La Grande tonight and leave for
Joseph tomorrow. Thousands of
people have gathered at southern
Idaho and far eastern Oregon stations
to view tho animals. Members of
Elks lodges are particularly interest
ed in the great undertaking. Pendle
ton lodge contributed to the fund
necessary for the transportation. The
biggest bull elk ever shipped has
been dubbed "Roo.velt" because of
his perganaelousness and teeth grit
ting habits and is the self-appointed
protector of the herd, standing guard
day and night at the door of the car.
them to attend the local gathering.
It is understood that Mr. Pierce will
be here, even should the other can
didates fail to come, and that he will
launch his campaign with a" speech
setting forth his political ideas.
As to tlie local grogram at the
meeting, plans are not yet complete,
according to Mr. Peterson. However,
it is proposed to hold a banquet fol
lowing the meeting so as to lend a
social side to the affair.
"No effort will be made to bring
out party candidates and the gather
ing will be in no sense an assembly or
convention for the purpose of making
nominations," says the county chair
man. "The meeting will not be made
up of delegates from the various
precincts but on the other hand all
the registered democrats of the coun
ty will be asked to come. AnyAn,j
wanting to run for office will be urg
ed to do so but no effort will bo
made to select candidates or adopt a
slate."
TRAIN GOES
THROUGH ICE