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VOL, 24.
PENDLETON", OREGON, "WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1912.
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NO. 7389
FIFTY YANKEES
HELD. MEXICO
Troubled Nation Holding U.
S. Citizens as Hostages to
, Stop Intervention.
TEXANS BADLY EXCITED
Arret by Rebels of F.I Paso Citizen
Threatens to Complicate Relations
of Two Countries Prisoner Believ
ed Doomed to Die.
Washington, April 3. Congressman
Each of Wisconsin, Is urging the state
department to investigate the report
ed capture and detention of Harry
Conklln and fifty other Americans,
near Cholax, Chihuahua. Ambassa
dor Wilson of Mexico City, has been
ordered to probe the arrests. It is
reported that Conklln and the others
are being held as hostages, In case the
United States tries intervention in
Mexico.
El' Paso Man Held.
El Paso, Tex., April 3. Complica
tions between Mexico and the United
States Is threatened by the arrest In
Juarez of Howell Roberts, an El Paso
citizen. Roberts is being held In
communicado on charges made by the
Mexicans that Roberts stole $500,
while searching the home of Jenario
Cenlceros, secretary. of Colonel
Honce, Jcfe de arm&i of Juarez.
When the news reached El Paso,
Mayor Kelly, Chief of Police Davis and
Sheriff Edwards formally demanded
Roberts' release. Colonel Honce re
fused. i United States Consul Edwards at
Juarez, interceded for the prisoner
but his efforts were unavailable. Ed
wards has telegraphed the state de
partment and also to governor Col
quitt of Texas, asking immediate ac
tion. It is reported that rebel troops
carried Roberts to Ciudad. Chihua
hua last night. His friends fear he
will be executed.
CANADIAN' NORTHERN STRIKERS
PREPARE FOR LONG SIEGE
Tale, B. C, April 3. Camped on
the hills four thousand strikers, in
cluding many I. W. W., who since last
Friday have refused to work for the
Canadian Northern raMroad, are wait
Ing developments ' today. They de
mand S3 for a nine-hour day. The
present average is 10 hours for $2.75
The strikers are building kitchens and
making provision for a Beige. , They
claim they have money enough toHast
several weeks.
Murders Sweetheart, Suicides.
Chicago, Ills., April 3. Frenzied
because a woman married his rival,
Clarence Carr, age 56,. went to her
bedroom today, cut her throat, killing
her Instantly and then cut his own
throat. He la dying;.
220 MEW MEIERS ADDED TO ROLL OF
PENDLETON COMMERCIAL CLUB LAST NIGHT
Two hundred and twenty names
were added to the roll of the Com
mercial association last night by a
unanimous vote of those present at
the monthly meeting, the new recruits
more than doubling the membership
of the club. This unprecedented in
crease Is the direct result of the
whirlwind campaign conducted re
cently by the new membership com
mittee and In appreciation of the
splendid results accomplished, the as
sociation last night voted to extend
a hearty vote of thanks to he com
mittee as a whole and to each indi
vidual member thereof. The commit
tee consisted of Clarence M. Bishop,
chairman. Leon Cohen, Mark Patton,
Dr. C. W. Lassen, Wesley N. Mat-;
lock and Fred W. Lampkln, and these
men received susbtantlal aid from
President J. F. Robinson and Secre
tary J. E. Keefe, Jr.
With the membership swelled to
more than four hundred now and a
new life instilled Into the organlza
tlon, the officers are zealous In their
endeavors to Interest each one of the
new as well as the old members In the
activities of the association. They
have had the ciub rooms renovated
and brightened so that they now pre
sent an attractive appearance and
they urge that it la the duty as well
as the privilege of the members to
make use of these rooms. Secretary
Keefe asks that all drop In, if for
only a few moments each day to read,
smoke, play pool or billiards, cards or
checkers or engage in social conver
satlon.
Much Reading Matter.
The association Is now subscribing
for a great many magazines and
newspapers for perusal by the mem
bers. Among the magazines to be
POLICEMEN CLUB WOMEN
ra.sbluc Textile Strike Einulutes Law.
reneo Outrages, In Cliurgc.
PasHiac, N. J., April 3. Brutal
clubbing of women today featured a
clash between the police and strik
ing textile workers. The trpuble oc
curred at noon while the police were
attempting to disperse a gathering of
strikers and sympathizers. The po
lice, without warning, charged the
body, paying no heed to sex.
The strikers charge the Passlac po
lice are trying to emulate the example
set by the soldiers at Lawrence,
Mass., and claim twenty-two women
were clubbed in today's trouble.
CLASS D BASEBALL
FUND IS COMPLETED
League Expected to Be Per
fected Here This
Week
Pendleton has completed the fund
of $2500, raised by popular subscrip
tion, for a local team in the proposed
Tri-State Class D baseball league and
Is now awaiting the action of the oth
er towns that are expected to enter
the organization, wh'lch action will
likely be taken this week, culminating
In a permanent organization at a
meeting of delegates from the various
towns, to be held in Pendleton Fri
day or Saturday of the present week.
The other towns counted on are Wal
la Walla, Boise, La Grande, Baker and
Ontario.
Messrs. Cody and Sweet, Boise rep
resentatives who have been traveling
about the towns mentioned, working
up the organization, passed through
Pendleton lost night, from Walla Wal
la. They report the business men of
that city now engaged in raising the
amount needed, with success practi
cally assured, while North Yakima re
fused to consider entering the league.
The two Boise men last night went
to La Grande, where arrangements
were to have been made and are to
day in Ontario and Baker, complet
ing arrangements 'in those cities for
local organizations.
At the meeting to be held here the
last of the week, the league will be
perfected, officials elected and a play
ing schedule made up.
A.IIst of the donors who completed
the "Pendleton fund, follows:
Fifty dollars W. G. Bogart.
Twenty-five dollars Pacific Power
& Light company, E. P. Marshall, F.
E. Judd.
Ten Dollars Olson and Johnson;
Thomas Thompson, J. N. Burgess.
Five dollars Troy laundry.
WILL ORDER BRITISH
M1NEKS U CK TO WORK
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London, April 3 Evidently believ
ing that the men erred In voting
against the accepting of the govern
ment minimum wage bill, which would
mean an end of the coal strike, the'
miners' executive officials are prepar
ing to order the men to return to work
disregarding the referendum. Mean
while more than 50.000 miners have
resumed work fend it appears certain
that many others will do the same
found on the tables are the Saturday
Evening Post, Collier's Weekly, Puck,
Judge. Life, Review of Reviews,
Technical World, Scientific Amerl
can, Popular Mechanics, McClure's,
sunset-The Pacific Monthly, Century,
everybody's, Literary Digest, World's
Work, Outlook ana Cosmopolitan
while the Oregonlan, Oregon Journal.
bpokesman-Review, Post-Intelllgenc-
er, Christian Science Monitor, as well
as the local city and county papers
and farm journals are received.
Smoker Is Arranged.
In honor of the new members, the
association last night voted to hold
a smoker next Tuesday evening, and
Joe Skrable, chairman of the enter
tainment committee, was Instructed
to provide plenty of fun for the oc
caslon. He reports that he has a
number of things "up his sleeve" for
the enjoyment of the new and old
members alike.
Contractors Are Thanked.
At the meeting las night following
the reading of the report of the spe
clal committee in charge of the ar
rangement for the laying of the cor
neratone of the branch hospital and
the discharge of that committee, Dr.
C. J. Smith, who served as chairman,
Introduced resolutions thanking Con
tractors Olson and Johnson and C. A.
Murphy, the state's representative,
for the courtesy and co-operative spir
it which they manifested in connec
tion with the celebration. The reso
lutions were unanimously adopted.
Chairman W. L. Thompson of the
transportation committee reported
last night that an effort is being made
to secure Prof. Lyman of Whitman
College to deliver a lecture on "An
Open River" here In Pendleton with
in the near future.
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VIA CKdntMbt WILoMU LA
MEIKTEI FDLLETTF WIN
Flood Puts Gas Plant Out
of Commission and Threa
tens Water System.
CAIRO STILL IN DANGER
.Millionaires Work at Sides of Labor-
era and Women Help to Strengthen
Levees Threatened Farmer' Low
i.s Staggering.
Memphis, Tenn., April 3. Over
flow water from the Mississippi river
this afternoon put the gas plant out
of commission here and it is now
feared the city water pumping sta
tion will be overflowed, thus adding
a new menace. It might polute the
city's water with Mississippi foul wa
ter. Cairo Hopeful.
Cairo. 111.. Aoril 3. With the cvont
of'the flood water not expected to ex
ceed 54 feet, the situation here this
afternoon is more favorable. It is
believed the city will be saved from
a flood disaster. The loss accruing to
farmers of this district and in the
Foot Lake district of Tennessee, is
staggering. Both districts are under
water and all seed corn has been
washed away.
Millionaires I.ahor on Levees.
Cairo, Ills., April .3. Millionaires
and common laborers are today work
ing side by side strengthening the
dykes ir. an effort to prevent the city
from being flooded by the raging wa
ters of the Mississippi river, which
threaten to burst the levees.
Both above and below Cairo at sev
eral points the river. is. fifty ... miles
wide and is completely swamping the
low lands.
Farmers say it will require years
for the bottoms to dry out sufficiently
to be tillable.
The loss of wheat and other grains
will amount to millions and all Beed
corn has been lost.
All last night citizens In all sta
tions of life worked at filling bags
with sand and sariying them to the
levee walls.
Women assisted the men by baking
break and making coffee for the toil
ers.
Today several houses and barns
swept down the current past Cairo,
but it is believed the occupants had
escaped.
Seepage has let considerable water
Into the city but so far a flood has
been averted.
More than two hundred women and
children have been sent from the city
on a special train but the majority of
the women refused to go, preferring
to stay behind and help their hus
bands save the city from the threat
ened destruction.
The steamer. Three States, has re
turned here with $15,000 worth of live
stock which was picked up along the
river.
The condition at Hickman, Ky., is
critical, that town being flooded by
ten feet of water. More than 2000
ore homeless and all railroad service
has been abandoned.
Troops Ordered to Cairo.
Springfield, 111., April 3 Cairo is
llng guarded today by a company of
the state national guard, ordered
from here by Governor Deneen in re
sponse to a request from the Cairo
municipal authorities.
After breaking of the levees of the
Mississippi river, the residents of
Cairo clammored for troops, fearing
the local police were unable to cope
with any violence or vandalism that
might result.
130 on Ship Perish.
Perts, Australia, April 3. One nun
dred and thirty persons are believed
to have perished in the wreck of the
steamer Koombia today in a typhoon.
E:mer Storle, well known young
employe of the Holt Manufacturing
company, arrived In Pendleton this
morning to spend tne aay witn rcia'
tlves end friends.
TWENTY-SEVEN THOUSAND BUSHELS WHEAT
SOLD FOR EIGHTY CENTS PER BUSHEL
. Twenty-seven thousand bushels of
wheat, going at a price of 80 cents a
bushel, changed hands at Athena yes
terday afternoon when the wheat was
purchased of the Preston-Parton Mill
ing company by J, W. Maloney, man
ager for the Farmers' Union Grain
Agency. The wheat was held over
from last year's yield and is stored
in the milling company's warehouse
at Athena. It is club wheat and the
consignment that was sold Is from
the ranches of several farmers in the
vicinity of Athena. It was sold to
Each Probably Secure Entire
Wisconsin Delegations to
Nominating Conventions.
T. R. IS NOT MENTIONED
President Taft Overwhelmingly Beat
en in Home State of Progressive
Opponent While Clanm Clark Is
Not Conceded Even One Delegate.
Milwaukee, Wis., April 3. With
Senator La Follete leading President
Taft by more than two votes to one,
and Governor Woodrow Wilson of New
Jersey, having won a majority of the
democratic delegates over Speaker
Champ Clark, advocates of the "Peo
ple's Power" movement see nothing
today but success.
Complete returns show a victory for
Dr. G. A. Bading, the non-partisan
candidate for mayor over Emil Sel
del, the socialist incumbent, by 12,-
S64.
Indications are that Senator La Fol-
lette won the solid delegation to the
republican convention in Chicago.
.Supporters of Governor Woodrow
Wilson claim twenty-two out of 26
delegates to the democratic conven
tion at Baltimore, and will not con
cede that Champ Clark has the other
four.
Returns from the rural districts are
coming in slowly and it is doubtful
if the entire vote will be counted be
fore tomorrow.
State Senator Blaine, leader of the
La Follette forces, said that reports
from every district indicate La Fol
lette carried the state by a larger plu
rality than ever before. Some dis
tricts show four to one In his favor.
..Considering that there was no ac
frtV speaking in La Follette's favor
and the campaign cost was only about
$10,000. the results are certainly sig
nificant.
1 41 Follette Pleased.
Washington, D. C, April 3. "I
have received a message from my law
partner," said Senator La Follette to
day, "saying I won by a vote of four
to one.
"I understand a certain candidate
was not in the race at all. The vote
Is not a surprise, but the ratio is.
"My victory is all the more grati
fying because I have not made a
speech in Wisconsin for four years.
"The Wisconsin delegation gives me
a total of thirty-six votes. Watch
things from now on."
Senator La Follette will leave
Washington for the west late today
and Is due at Chicago tomorrow. From
there he will go to Nebraska for a
five days tour of that state.
Both Claim Majority.
Washington, April 3. The Taft
political bureau today claims that
274 national delegates are pledged to
Taft, against 30 for Colonel Roose
velt and 10 for La Follette. With the
Wisconsin delegates pledged to La
Follette, he passes Roosevelt and
jumps into second place. The Roose
velt bureau claims 62 delegates for
him and says he will control 112 of
the other delegates already chosen.
WILSON AND T. R. WILL
BE IN ILLINOIS TOGETIIEI5
Chicago April 3. Colonel Roose
velt, candidate for the republican
presidential nomination, and Gover
nor Wilson, candidate for the demo
cratic presidential nomination, will
be in Illinois Saturday in the Inter
ests of their respective candidates.
Roosevelt Is now on a three days
speaking tour of Ohio. Kentucky,
Maryland and West Virginia and will
arrive In Chicago Saturday. He will
board a special train and tour Illi
nois. He will speak In seven cities
that day. Monday he will make a
dozen more speeches. Governor Wil
son will pass Friday and Saturday in
Illinois. Ho will make a speaking
tour of the states and make an ad
dress In Chicago Saturday night.
Three is a crowd when one Is do
ing all the buying.
the milling company by the growers
and the price at which the wheat sold
yesterday is a substantial advance
over the price paid for the wheat last
fall.
Incidentally, the 27,000 bushel sale
yesterday makes a very fair sized late
in the season sale and the price paid
shows the present strength of the
wheat market. There are predictions
that the market will become even
stronger than at present and in con
sequence there should be Joy In store
for such growers as may huvj held
their wheat.
,0N WAS FAKED
Murderer of Dr. Knalie Was
.Sett When Slio Wax Slain.
Vennsacola. Fla.. Anril a. Thai
the alleged confession of Seth Nicho
las, the seaman who declared to thp
Portsmouth, N. H., police he was
guilty of the murder of Dr. Helen
Knabe, in Indiananolis. is a false
hood, and was created from a sup
posedly Insane mind, is shown by the
records of the United States auxin.
ary cruiser Dixie', which prove that
wnen .icnois said he killed Dr.
Knabe he was aboard the Dixie out
on the high sea.
SMALL DOG CATCHER
HAS A BODY-GUARD
Prize Fighter Will Attend
Resentful Owners
of Canines
to
Accompanied by an ex-prlzefighter
who serves in the capacity of body
guard, Harry Hart, the most noted
dog catcher in the northwest, arrived
in Pendleton yesterday and last night
made his first raid on unlicensed ca
nines, as a result of which 26 yelping
quadrupeds were Incarcerated In the
pound at the Oregon Feed Yard this
morning. Six of these have since
been redeemed by owners and others
are expected to be saved from an im
pending doom through similar inter
ference. 7
Hart is a small man in stature and
avoirdupois and makes no pretension
of being a "white hope." Many times
during his long career as a profes
sional dogcatcher, he has been rough
ly handled by owners of pets which
he had captured and many more times
he has been threatened with violent
death or disfigurement. On his pre
vious appearance in Pendleton he car
ried a revolver for protection but
since - experimenting with a pugilist,
he declares he would not do without
one.
"If a man comes at me to eat me
up," he says, "all I have to do to get
up in my -wagon and' leave the rest
to my partner. He couldn't catch a
dog in a thousand years, but, believe
me, he can fight some."
Accepts Permanent Position.
Hart announces that he has accept
ed a permanent position with the Ore
gon Humane society and in hls new
capacity will catch dogs in all of the
cities of the state.
He Is operating here with a wagon
and catches the unlicensed dogs with
out the assistance of anything but his
gloved hands. He is adept in his bus
iness and seldom is bitten by an ani
mal. ,
Theodore Cramer Is Dead.
Theodore Cramer, well known for
mer Helix resident, died last night at
the county hospital at 10 o'clock as
a result of cancer of the stomach. He
had been taken" to the hospital two
weeks ago in a very serious condition
and had been sinking ever since. He
leaves three children, Walter, Rosa
and Lillian, all of Helix, and other
relatives In Council Bluffs have been
notified of his death. Funeral ar
rangements have not yet been made.
MABEL WARNER
NOW
F
That her father Is not onlv alive
but will arrive in Pendleton as soon
as the spring work is done on his
Wisconsin ranch to assist her in her
fight for the Young estate was tiio
sensational statement made yesterday
afternoon by Mrs. Mabel Young War
ner, who last Saturday offered the
seventh will for probate. Recently
Mrs. Warner announced the receipt ot
a. letter Dumortlnsr to come from her
father whom she believed dead for
the past twenty-five years but at that
time she declared she was not con
vinced of the genuineness of the let
ter. ' Now she says a second letter
Just received together with a pho
tograph has removed all doubt that
the man supposed to have been in his
grave for a quarter of a century is
really alive in Cadott, v isconsin.
Whether or not he is living will be
the subject of much speculation local
ly until the mystery Is cleared, inone
whn holtpve Mrs. Warner to be a
fraud artist of colosal calibre profess
to believe that she is surpassing ner
former self in audacity by securing
a man to Impersonate her dead fath
er. Others who are less harsh in their
judgment of her are inclined to be
llev that her storv may be true and
that her father In flesh and blood
may appear to take up the fight of
his daughter. All agree, however,
that the appearance of a man repre
senting himself as the supposedly dead
man will make complications which
are likely to cause uneasiness to the
accredited heirs and Involve the dis
putants In another legal embroglio
Indeed, Mrs. Warner declares em
phatlcally that developments will fol
low her father's Arrival which will ab
rogate all previous court decrees in
OUNDLONG LOST FATHER
the long fight.
JAPAN
WANT
WAR WITH II. S?
Senator Asks Mexico to Ex
plain Alleged Magdalena
Bay Deal.
DEMANDS INVESTIGATION
Congressman Sees nig job for Am
erica if this Country Attempts In
tervention and Believes Japan
Would Aid Mexico.
Washington. April 3. Discussing
a resolution offered by Senator Lodge
that Mexico be requested to make pub
lic at once the details of the alleged
Japanese plot to secure a military
base in Magdalena Bay, Congressman
Needham of California today said to
the United Press:
"There is absolutely no justifica
tion for Japan to attempt to get a
coaling station in North America. If
Japan tries to get a foothold here in
time of peace, the United States
should investigate.
"In the event of ultimate American
Intervention in Mexico, possibly Ja
pan will take sides with Mexico, If
Japan is really endeavoring to get In
to Magdalena Bay, seeking an excuse
to clash with the United States.
"We might find a big Job on our
hands, if we tried to straighten out
the Internal affairs of Mexico."
Madero Denies Deal.
New York, April 3. In a tele
gram to the United Press, President
Madero of Mexico, emphatically de
nies that Japan has made any ar
rangements with Mexico, whereby a
Japanese colony will be founded on
Magdalena Bay.
FIVE WORKMEN BURNED
IN EXPLOSION ON SHIP
San Francisco, April 3. Five men
are suffering from severe burns to
day as a result of a gas explosion on
the steamer Rose City, owned by the
San Francisco and Portland Steam
ship company. The vessel was in dry
dock for repairs. All fires were ex
tinguished but unknown to the work
men, gas caused by a slight oil leak
age, gathered and resulted in an ex
plosion which almost tore the ship
from the stays and scattered the
workmen in among the machinery in
the boiler room, In a sheet of flame.
Miss Railer Athletic Star. 1
Miss Hazel Rader, former captain
of the girls' basketball team of the
Pendleton -high school, and who is
now a sophomore at the University of
Oregon, was captain also of the
Kappa Alpha Theta team which won
the championship In the sorority
league. She is also mentioned as a
prominent contestant for a place on
the co-ed team which will meet the
University of Washington.
SATISFIED SHE HAS
M. R. Young, the father of Mabel
Young Warner, was reported to have
died in the Good Samaritan Hospital
of Portland twenty-five years ago.
Mrs. Warner, at that time Mabel
Young, was attending a sisters' school
here and was shown a newspaper
clipping telling of her father's death.
She never entertained a doubt of its
authenticity, she says, until two weeks
ago when she received the first letter
signed with his name and telling her
that he had read of her third trial
on a charge of forgery.
Subterfuge Proves Truth.
Yesterday in telling her story to
an East Oregonian representative, she
declared she had answered the letter
and had employed a subterfuge to as
certain whether or not the man writ
ing the letter is really her father.
"I remember the last time I saw you,"
she says she wrote, "you drove out to
the ranch In the morning and you
were leading a gray colt." I remem
ber when we last saw each other" is
the way she says the letter reads, "but
It was evening when I drove to the
ranch and the gray colt I was leading
was a bay horse."
"No other person in the world
could have made that correction." she
said in commenting upon it," and It
is proof conclusive to me that my
father is still alive. He also sent me
a photograph of himself and it is un
mistakable." Holds Uncle Responsible.
Asked to account for the report of
his death and his long silence, Mrs.
Warner stated her belief that her
uncte, J. W. Young, had caused the
article to be printed in the paper for
the purpose of deceiving her. "My
father writes," she said, "that when
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