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EVENING EDITION EVENING EDITIOI) WEATHER REPORT. TO ADVERTISERS. Tba East Oregonlan bu the largest paid clrculatloa of any paper la Oregon, east of Port land and nearly twice the circulation In Pendleton of any other newspaper. 'Fair tonight and to morrow; heavy frost tonight. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. ,VOL. 24. PENDLETON", OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1912. XO. 7333 BRITONS SEE END OF STRIKE Labor Leader in House of Commons Sways Miners With Oratory. MEN MAY ACCEPT BILL Owners Deoklo to Abide by Kill If fi lially Eiuictel niul Strikers Will Take Referendum Vote With End Favored. London, March 27. In a final ef fort to end the coal miners strike, J. B. MacDonald, leader of the con-servative-laborites In the house of commons, today addressed the miners' federation here. He demanded that the miners accept the minimum wage bill, which was passed, and suld If the district boards failed to Incorpor ate in the measure the minimum wage already suggested, the miners could demand that parliament fix a fair figure. MacDonald has been showered with congratulations from all parts of Europe. The house of lords Is expected to pass the minimum wage bill today It will probably be approved by King George tomorrow. In the event the miners reject Mae Donald's suggestion, the government will send troops to protect tho col liers if the owners decide to resume operations. They will be Instructed to protect strike breakers at all haz ards. The operators Insist that the miners are on the verge of collapse, while the . miners insist they can continue Indefinitely. The miners are now holding a ref erendum ballot on the question of ae cepting the wage bill and it is bellev ed a favorable vote will be the re suit. All England is rejoleing at the prospects of the strike terminating bv the end of the week. The sudden turn of affairs Is due to the speech of MacDonald who painted an affecting picture of the sufiering in Scotland, Wales and Eng land. After his address the committee of miners went In conference, later arw nouncing they would hold a general referendum ballot to see If tho ma jority of the men favored an end of the strike. It is generally believed the miners will vote to accept the mini mum wage bill and the great struggle will end. The coal mine operators, in a con ference in which every big mine In the kingdom was represented, decid ed to accept the terms of tho mine wage bill, pending in parliament. CHARGES WICKERSHAM IS SHIELDING TRUST Congressman Says Taft Ad ministration Dares Not Prosecute Washington, March 27. Congress man Martin, democrat, denounced as "astounding" Attorney General Wick ersham's refusal to give tho house ln ftrmatlon, regarding the existence of a smelter trust. He introduced resolution demanding' that the house mining committee investigate tho al leged combine. Congressman Martin said: "It Is an absolutely safe assertion to say a smelter trust is in existence. The department of Justice Is protect ing it. The department does not -dare prosecute this ally of the Taft odmln lntratlon. The smelter trust is the most corrupting and reactionary In fluence in Rock mountain politics, The blackest pages of American com monwealth history were written In Guggenheim check books In 1902 and 1P06." Seattle Starts Harbor Work. Seattle, March 27. The Duwam- Ish waterway will be condemned to day as the first definite step In bar bor development at Seattle, for which $10,000,000 in bonds were voted. TURKS DEFEAT ITALIANS, SLAYING THREE THOUSAND London, March 27. Thirty five hundred slain and wounded is the estimate loss sustained by Italian forces In a severe de feat received at the hands of the Turks near Tobruk, Tri poli, according to a report re ceived here today. ROCK ISLAND IS RIOT RENT Attack of Newspaper on May or, Arouses Citizens to Acts of Violence. MOB .MEMBERS KILLED Attenit Made to Assassinate Mayor, IIuxiiH'88 Siism-ihIcI, Dynamite Threats ami Other Disorders, (all Out Regiment of Troops. Rock Island, Ills., March 27. Col onel Shannon, commanding the state militia as a result of a riot last night, says he has control of the situation. The riot was caused by political de velopments. Joii Looner, an editor, attacked Mayor Harry Schriver In his paper. The mob went to the police station und demanded that the mayor answer his enemies. He did not appear so he mob stoned the station. The police chief ordered the streets cleared but the officers were swept back by the mob. They then fired a volley, hitting sixteen members of the mob and kill- i g one man named Kellogg, and fa tally wounding another named Swingle. Later the mob wrecked Looner's newspaper building. As a result of the rioting. Adju tant General Dickson today ordered the entire Sixth regiment of Illinois National Guard to the scene of the trouble. Mayor Schriver told the police that today an attempt was made to as sassinate him In the city haH when a bullet, fired from the street bare ly missed him, passing through a window and burying itself in a wall Ml.itlamen were unable t3 loca'e the bl'tped assassin. With a two weeks utay probaMe, the S'xth Illinois regiment will arrivo here tonight. Further rioting Is feared tonight. Wires supplying electric Mghts to the business section were cut today and all business has been suspended. Threats are being made about the streets to dynamite the city hall if the troops are brought here. M.ii'tial law may be declared. MEXICAN FEDERALS IN FULL RETREAT El l'aso, March 27. The federal forces, commanded by Generals Villa, Aubert and Urbnna, are retreating today after four days of fighting on the outskirts of Jiminez. The battle raged all day yesterday round San Pedro ranch. The feder als had ten machine guns and three cannons and the rebels had four machine guns and one cannon. The federals admit two hundred were lost In killed or wounded. The rebels claim fewer than one hundred lost. The rebels won through General Orozco, who rushed aid to General Campa at a critical time. Both sides are exhausted and are resting and burying their dead. COMMITTEE TO PROBE INDIAN DEPARTMENT A report from Washington is to th effect that the entire Indian bu reau Is to be investigated by the house committee on expenditures in the Interior department of which Representative Graham of Illinois is the chairman. The announcement Is made that the committee has decid ed to make a general investigation of all reservations and their administra tion, that the hearings will be by the full committee and that work will be started next week. A month or more ago the commit tee on expenditures In tho interior department secured authority from the house to make an investigation of many complaints that had been made regarding the work nf the Indian bu reau. The power given at that time practically made a grand Jury of the committee and gave it authority to go wherever it desired to go at such times as It saw fit in making an In vestigations. The report indicates that the committee has decided to make a general Injulry into the af fairs of all -the reservations. Postpone Constantino Celebration. unrae, Aiarcn Z7. ornciai an nouncement has been made of the postponement till next year of the ex position and celebration In honor of the Year of Constantine, the 1300th anniversary of Constantino's victory over Paganism. The postponement will enable the committee to prepare celebration plans on a larger scale, RUMOR OF INDEFINITE WEST EXTENSION (Special Correspondence.) Hermiston, Ore., March 27. That if local rumor to the effect the gov ernment has ordered preparatory work on the West Extension Indefi nitely postponed is incorrect is stated by Project Engineer H. D. Xewell, in charge of the government work here. According to Mr. Xewell instruc tions have been received to the effect that further work be withheld until the property owner. under the ex RECEPTION TO STATE OFFICIALS OF NOTABLE DAY IN Ceremonies Attending Hospital Cornerstone Laying Are Creditable to Commercial Club That the Eastern Oregon branch hospital will be the best institution of Its kind in the United States, when completed from a standpoint of safe ty, sanitation, modern conveniences and facilities and attractiveness was the keynote' of every address made by a state official at the laying of the cornerstone yesterday afternoon. Gov ernor Oswald West, Secretary Ben W.' Olcott, Treasurer T. U. Kay, Su peintendent R. E. L. Steiner and Ar chitect W. C. Knighton, one and all, declared the local buildings will in corporate all of the latest features of Improved architecture and will afford the best home for unfortunates to be found throughout the length and breadth of the country. The state officials,- yesterday also expressed the intentions of the state toward the Institution In the future. Though the present plans provide for only two wards, they declared that would only be a matter of a few years before four more wards will be added, making the institution as large as the one at Salem and far LOCAL VETS OF WAR DENOUNCE I. W W. Denouncing the agitation of the I. W. W. in Portland as a menace to the rights, liberties and loyalty of the American people, Malabon Camp Xo. 6, United Spanish War Veterans of this city, Monday night at their ban quet In commemoration of the Battle of Malabon. 13 years ago, endorsed the action of Scout Young Camp Xo. 2 of Portland and the following letter was dispatched to that camp: Pendleton, Ore., March 26, 1912. Jay H. Upton, Department Adjutant, United Spanish War Veterans, Portland, Oregon. Dear Sir and Comrade: Malabon Camp, Xo. 6, United Span ish War Veterans of Pendleton, Ore gon, upon motion at the annual ban quet March 23, unanimously and em phatically endorsed the action of Scout Young Camp No. 2, of Portland, Ore gon, in the stand taKen in regards to the I. W. W. agitation, that menaces the rights, liberties and loyalty of the American people and especially their disrespect to the flag, the army, the veterans and the Institutions af filiated therewith. A. O. CARDEX. Attest: Camp Commander. VAN V. BOWMAN, National Alde-de-Cump. YOUNG CIGARETTE FIENDS TO VOTE ON ABOLISHMENT Los Angeles, March 27. Following tho assertion that ninety per cent of the school boys here are smokers, the school authorities announced today an anti-cigarette election. The fol lowing questions will be on the bal lot: "Do you favor abolishing ci garettes?" "Do you use cigarettes?" "Are you expressing your own or your parents' opinion?" Boys and girls both will vote. GOVERNOR WEST SAYS HAVE MUNICIPAL That Pendleton is working along the right line in striving to secure a municipal electric plant is the belief of Governor West as expressed here yesterday. Incidentally, it is an opin ion that is of much weight in view of the governor's experience In deal ing with public service corporations. While in the city to lay the branch hospital cornerstone the state's chief executive learned of the move now on to secure a municipal power plant and of the investigation that has been made by Engineer John T. Whistler. The governor Is personally acquainted with Mr. Whistler and expressed tho greatest confidence In his Judgment. Also in the ability of the people of Pendleton to manage a municipal plant properly. "I believe in municipal ownership when cities are fitted for It," said the governor in expressing his sentiments POSTPONEMENT OF WITHOUT FOUNDATION it nslon have signed up with the gov ernment. This is an order that might be reasonably expected and apparent ly has no particular significance. Mr. Xewell says he haH no instructions that indicate any change in the at titude of the government regarding the west extension. The report to the effect work has been Indefinitely postponed arose from the fact some engineers were recently laid off. 'S better, and making it represent in buildings alone a valuation of $1. 000,0011. . Ceremonies a Ilii'je SueccsK. The public reception which was held last night in tne Eagle-Woodman hall and which hundreds of cit izens enjoyed until a late hour, closed a day of much significance to this section of the state. The program us planned was carried out without a hitch and great credit is being given to the Commercial club committee which was so largely responsible for the success of the occasion. The attendance at the ceremonies was larger than anticipated, several thousand people crowding every avail able inch of space about the impro vised platform, many being unable to get within earshot but all sharing in the spirit of the occasion. The sun shone down warmly on the scene and only a few could secure seats, but despite these discomforts, nearly all of the crowd remained until the pro (Continued on Page 6) 'RAMROD BOB' WOULD WALK AGAINST HORSE "Ramrod Bob" has cut loose again. The man who last winter performed the remarkable feat of a record walk to Spokane and return aspires to reach yet higher altitudes of pedes trian achievement. Xow comes he forward with an offer to bet any man $500 that he can outwalk any horse In Umatilla county for a distance of BOO miles. Having established a rep utation as a champion walker among' men he now yearns to demonstrate his superiority over the , horse, which with the possible exception of the camel, is the fastest walker in the brute world. Succeeding in his ven ture, he will next probably issue a challenge to any "ship of the desert" to compete. for the hiking champion ship of the animal kingdom. "Ramrod Bob" is now in Athena, from whence he casts forth his bold defi. He wishes it understood that he Is not 'ead, although he has passed a winter of sever hardships. Never theless, he reports he is still alive and kicking, and, by way of showing the world that he is still an animate part of it, he would wager five hundred shining silver cartwheels that Uma tilla county does not contain the horse that can outtravel him. He awaits an answer. p.oniKs or 53 mink VICTIMS ARK RECOVERED Welch. W. Va., March 27. Fifty five corpses of the miners entombed in the mine of the United States Coal and Coke company at Jed, three miles from here, were recovered at dawn today. Rescue parties are con tinuing their efforts but it Is believed that all men remaining in the mine are dead. John Laing, Inspector of Virginia mines, declared that eighty five men are dead. PENDLETON SHOULD POWER AND LIGHT PLANT upon the local issue, "and I feel that the business men of Pendleton are ca pable and practicable enough to en sure the success of a municipal elec tric plant. The fact that the city has long conducted its water system and is handling it successfully indicates that the people are also ready for municipal ownership of electricity." The governor 19 a strong advocate of state regulation as a remedy for monopoly and believes that effective results may be obtained from such a course. Regulation Is far Dreferahle to unrestricted monopoly and he says that with the electric merger now in effect In Portland the peoplo of that city will have to look to regulation for protection. However, he takes the view that regulation is not as satisfactory as ownership when mu nicipal ownership can be under prop er conditions. S. -f FRAUD 0 PRESIDENT Many Districts Have Ballots and Contest Is Farcial No Xew York, March .27. Former President Roosevelt was snowed un der by President Taft in the New York primaries yesterday. Presi dent Taft secured eighty-three dele Kates and Colonel Roosevelt seven! There Is a general denunciation of the primaries, which are declared farcial. The Taft forces fear the primaries will be held again. Govcnor Dlx Is today considering a demand on the legislature to enact remedial laws.' Up to the. last minute yesterday, Roosevelt men fought to have chang es ordered on the ballots and as a re sult the printer was unable to sup ply ballots In time. In some districts there were no ballots at all, while in others sample ballots were used. The general sen timent is for another primary. B. E. Odell "came back" in the Xewburgh district, badly defeating Hamilton Fish, Jr., a personal friend of Colonel Roosevelt. The general vote was five to one in favor of President Taft. President Taft won wherever his supporters made a fight. . Colonel Roosevelt's nephew. Douglas Robinson, was overwhelmed in the Oneida, district. WANT -PENDLETON IN NEW BALL LEAGUE Representing the Boise Commercial club which Is fathering a move for a tri-state baseball league to be com posed of Boise. Baker, La Grande, Pendleton, Walla Walla and Xorth Yakima, X. W. Sweet of Boise is now in the city. He arrived yesterday and since that time has been meeting With local baseball enthusiasts and business men to lay the proposition before them. The Boise plan for a tri-state league in class D has already been put up to Baker and La Grande people and has been accepted by them, says Mr. Sweet. The plan is to divide gate re ceipts, each team taking 4 5 per cent w hile the remaining ten per cent goes into a general sinking fund. Receipts of the holiday games will be pooled and the traveling expenses will be equalized. The three large cities. Boise, Walla Walla and Xorth Yaki ma, i are to have six games each week and the three smaller cities three gmes each. An admission of 50 cents is)to be charged for admission. no extra charging be made for the grand stand. The teams entering into the league are asked to raise $2500 each for ex penses at the opening. A forfeit of $500 Is required from each team and each team will be limited to $1200 per month salary expenses. Whether or not the local fans will take up with the tri-state league plan remains to be seen. It is sug gested by Sweet that the Commercial club take charge of the affair and he vs. under' the impression this morning a meeting would be held this evening to consider the plan. How ever, no call for a meeting has yet been made. According to Jack Keefe, secretary, the local fans in the main are supporting the move to con tinue the Blue Mountain league. MRS. C.B.WADE WILL WORK FOR SUFFRAGE Mrs. C. B. Wade, formerly a resi dent of this city and who was prom inent In women's clubs and social cir cles during a long residence here, has come up from Los Angeles to Port land to assist in the equal suffrage campaign in Oregon this fall. The secretary of the Portland Woman's Club Campaign Committee of Port land states that Mrs. Wade will be sent over the state wherever needed to Interest the women In the coming campaign. Chinese Pirates Wound Americans. Peking, March 27. Dispatches re ceived here today by the American legation say that Philip Hoffman of Ohio, and A. N. Sheldon of Califor- pia were seriously wounded by pirates while exploring the gdrges along the Yagntso river, March 23, but are re covering rapidly. Two parties of mis sionarles. including four Americans, are leaving Mansu. The road to Pe king is hazardous and much anxiety 1 1 felt. . J . , DELEGATES TAFT, IS CHARGE TEDDY DENOUNCES METHOD RESORTED TO Declares Tammany Never Attempted Such Flagrant Tactics Fort Wayne, Ind , March 27. Col onel Roosevelt today charged that the Xew York primaries were a wholesale fraud and farcial. He said the result is not indicative of the feel ing of the rank and file of New York. He said he would take up the matter in detail in his Chicago speech to night. Colonel Roosevelt said: "The vote was not the real vote of the republican party. Outside of Xew York? city the primary was a farce. Inside the city it was a, great er farce. . "As it is, one-fourth of the dele gates chosen are straight Roosevelt men. Of the remainder, the major ity, those elected in New York City have no more claim to sit In the state convention than if they were sent there by Tammany Hall. They were elected by worse methods than Tam many ever employed. "At Chicago tonight I shall show why the men chosen in the New York primary do not represent the party and why no action of theirs ought to be taken as representative of the republican party or binding it." Medial McCormick, a Roosevelt supporter, roasted the Taft men for what he called political grand lar ceny in Xew York. He intimated that a contesting delegation will be sent to the New York state republi can convention. Speaking in Fort Wayne today, Colonel Roosevelt said: "If the Indiana people decide against me in a contest similar to that in New York, all right If they are for me, I will object if bosses take them away. If they are for me and the bosses make the contests go against me, I shall have a great deal to say." Continuing. Colonel Roosevelt said: "In New York, by foul means, the bosses tourned a majority for me into a lhajorlty for my opponent. The same propsltin is in Indiana. We won a clean majority of delegates in Indiana but they threw out 200 men, giving the opposition my majority." ONLY 11 MORE DAYS LEFT TO REGISTER Several Hundred Voters Are Yet Missing From Books With only eleven more days in which to register, the registration books at the court house still lack several hundred names of containing as many as they did at the last pri mary and Clerk W. G. Sutherland is urging the delinquents to appear be fore April 9, on which date he will close the books. Up until this after noon a little less than 3400 voters had been registered, whereas two years ago 3721 had been entered upon the books at the primary election. At the general election, 4163 were register ed so it Is apaprent that there are many entitled to vote who have not yet appeared to qualify. ALLEGE GIRL CONFESSES TO COMMITTING MURDER Los Angeles. March 27. The hear ing of Viola Varver of Tacoma, charged with the murder of Edwin Edge, was continued to April 8 today on request of the prosecution. It Is alleged the girl has made a complete confession to District Attorney Fred ericks. Pupils to Raise Spuds. Los Angeles. March 27. Trying to break the potato famine In southern California, the children of a score of city schools organized Potato club9 today. Back yards and school gar dens will be used and each child will receive the result of his own labor. NEW MEXICO HAS 2 STANDIWT SENATORS Santa Fe, N. M.. March 27. (Bulletin). Thomas B. Catron of Santa Fe, and Albert B. F;ill ' of Three Rivers, were elected United States senators tiom New Mexico today by the state legislature. Both are standpat- ters.