East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, January 21, 1913, EVENING EDITION, Image 1

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East Oregonian : E.O., January 21, 1913, EVENING EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextEVENING EDITION - gfL EVENING EDITION WEATHER REPORT. TO ADVERTI3BB8 Tk Bart Oregon! 4ti largmt paid elrcnlo f aay paper la Oregoa. aaM ( Portland and a twfee tha elrcaUtta paadlstoii at ar aawapapar. Rata or snow tonight . er Wednesday. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. VOI 25. PENDLETON, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1913. NO. 7767 ft-. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER. S DR. HARRY LANE U. S. SENATE Procedure is Lacking in Spectacular Effect in Either Branch of Law Making Bodies, , . THREE FAIL TO VOTE Two Hoascg Will Meet Tomorrow to OinviMM Vote and Finally Declare Election Receives 28 Votes In Sen am and 59 votes In HoiiNe of Rep resentatives. State Capitol, Salem, Ore., Jan. 21. Dr. Harry Lane, democrat, was el ected senator to succeed Jonathan Bourne, Jr., at noon today in a separ ate session of the legislature, receiv ing 28 votes from the senate and 59 votes from the house. The only mem bers failing to vote for the people's choice were Senators Bean and Calk ins and Representative Meek - of Washington county. The election was lacking in spec tacular effect in either house. In the senate Lun was nominated by Miller and seconded by McCulloch. In th house Iteames nominated Lane and Hagood seconded. Tomorrow the two houses will meet in joint session to canvass the vote and at that time the election of Lane will be finally declared. REBELS LOOT RANCH AND ABDUCT WOMEN Mexico City. Jan. 21. Killing foui employes and abducting several wo men, rebels raided the ranch of J. M. Oleason. an American, near Chiaute mpam. The ranch building was loot ed and burned. Oleason's son with his wife and child, made their es cape with difficulty. WICKKltMIAM DROPS PHONK INVESTIGATION Washington, Jan. 21. Attorney General ' Wlckersham has abandoned the proposal to attack the American Telephone &' Telegraph Company or ' the Bell system under the Sherman anti-trust law, and has referred the whole telephone and telegraph sub ject to the Interstate Commerce Com mission for investigation and regula tion. The formal order to make the Investigation will soon be issued by the Interstate Commerce Commtssilon Wickersham announced. EXPLAINS HIS ORDER CANCELLING LEASES Washington, Jan. 21. In defense of his order cancelling proposed leases of eight hundred thousand acres of oil lands in the Osage Indian reservation In Oklahoma, Secretary Fisher appeared before the couse committee on Indian affairs. Fisher and Assistant Secretary Adams were questioned at length by C J. Leahy, attorney for the ousted Osage Indian chiefs. Leahy admitted that he had two cousins related by marriage to the Osafies and would have an inter est In ine assignment. One of the leases is for more than two hundred thousand acres to the I'ncle Sam Oil company. COURT REFUSES TO TAKE CLANCY'S BOND Chicago, Jan. 21. Bonds for the release of E. A. Clancy of San Fran cisco from Fort Leavenworth prison were rejected by Judge Baker of the federal circuit court of appeals. This means his release will be delayed two weeks. The court ruled that the bonds were not acceptable because ot the liability of the bondsmen, It being stipulated that the original ruling de manded an unlimited liability from each bondsman on every bond. WILSON SAYS THERE'S TO BE NO FUSS OVER HIS WASHINGTON TRIP Trenton, X. J., Jan. 21. New Jer sey affairs will occupy Governor Wil son' attention up to the .time of his inauguration. The governor discuss ed the plans today and wanted it un derstood no fuss will be made over his trip to Washington. "I don't expect to go to Washing ton until March 3. Of course I don't xpect to have a special car for the trip. 1 don't expect any friends or ELECTED TO BY LEGISLATURE PLOTTERS AGAINST MADLUO ARRESTED Washington. Jan. 21. Charg ed with plotting against the life of Madero, two supposed an archists, whose names are with held, were arrested at Tampa, Florida, according to the state department. More arrests are expected, , MISS HELEN GOULD'S GOWN COST THOUSAND Tarrytown, X. Y., Jan. 21. Helen Gould and Finley Shepard secured a marriage license today. The cere mony takes place tomorrow. Scores of presents are arriving. The wedding gown is of ivory white satin, cut princess style, with a long court train, high neck and long sleeves. It is trimmed profusely with rare old rose point luce and cost a thousand dollars. About 75 nprfinns will attend the ceremony. LABORMEN IN JAIL REELECTED BY UNION Los Angeles. Jan. 21. Oluf Tveit nioe and E. A. Clancy, prisoners at Fort Leavenworth penitentiary, fol lowing their conviction on a charge of conspiracy to illegally transport dynamite, were re-elected to office by the state building trades council in convention here. Tveitmoe was re elected general secretary and Clancy a member of the executive board. Telegrams were sent them telling of the union's vote of confidence. VESSEL FOUNDERS WITH ALL HANDS Charleston. S. C. Jan. 21. Accord ing to Captain Hee of the Dutch steamer Pheeda a large tramp steam er foundered off Plymouth on Decem ber 26 with all on board. The vessel Is believed to have been the Ivar of Copenhagen. CENTRAL RESERVE NEEDED IN REFORM Washington. Jan. 21. Labor's view of the needed currency reform was presented to the house committee on banking by John Mitchell, former presldnt of the mine workers, former Congressman Fowler and H. C. Wills. "The needed reforms." said Fowler, "should be based on a principle of a central gold reserve, like that of the Bank of England, and under the supervision of an American clearing house." Fowler declared the plan would make every bank Independent, decentralize credit and centralize the ! gold supply. j FIRE ENGINS PUMP WATER INTO MAINS Reno. Jan. 21. Fire engines were used to pump water from the Truckee river Into the water mains to relieve a famine caused by the ditches lend ing to the city reservoirs being clog ged with Ice. Most of the residences are without water, while the business section has only a meager supply. WASHINGTON 1 OF L. OPENS ITS CONVENTION Olympla, Jan. 21. With 300 dela gntes present the annual convention of the state federation of labor open ed today. It will continue all the week. H. J. Hughes of Spokane prob ably will be elected president to suc ceed Charles H. Chase. committees as an escort, either. There will be no outsiders In our party, Just Mrs. Wilson, myself and daughters. I will stop at Shoreham hotel the night of March 3rd. I expect to con tinue as governor of Xew Jersey until I start for Washington. On account of business demanding my presence in iew Jersey I want the time be twecn the transfer of one office to another to be as brief as possible" said Wilson. LA GRANDE MEETING TAKES STEPS TO OPEN 1913 BASEBALL SEASON W. X. Sweet of Boise was re-elected to the office of president of the Western Trl-state League and L. N. Brown of Walla Walla, was chosen secretary at the meeting of the board of directors held yesterday af ternoon at La Grande. Overtures for admission into the league were re ceived from Baker and Xorth Yaki ma, the optional clause In the con stitution was annulled, the election of directors was postponed until next month because of a rivalry In the Boise camp, the' opening and closing dates of the season fixed and other matters preliminary to the opening of the 1913 season taken. This, according to telephonic ad vices received is the result of the directors' meeting at which all of the four clubs of last year were repre sented personally except Pendleton. Besides President Sweet. Director J. W. Cody and President W. F. Boss nerr of the Boise club were there. President Crawford and Secretary Brown of the Walla Walla Commer cial club represented the Garden City club, while President Grant Lincoln and others acted for La Grande. Brown carried the proxy of L. G. Frazier, who is the Pendleton direc tor, i The election of the president and secretary was accomplished in a man ner as placid as the bosom of a lak on a breathless day but when it came to naming" the directors, a storm was descried approaching. It secujs that there Is a bitter rivalry between Cody and Bossner for the HUNDREDS FLEE FROM VOLCANO! VILLAGES IN DANGER I Mt. Colima In Mexico Is in State of EmiXJon Many Livestock. I'eriwli Inhabitants Ixwviiig Their Homes In Terror Railroads Covered With iJiva. Mexico City. Jan. 21. The vol cano Colima is vomiting enormous quantities of lava, sand and poison ous gases and has sent the Inhabitants of several villages fleeing in terror. So far as known there nave been no fatalities.' Hundreds of head of live stock are dead. Railroad tracks in the vicinity are covered with several feet of lava. It is feared several towns will be destroyed. MEN ARE NAMED FOR NEWFRENCH CABINET Paris. Jan. 21. The personnel of the new French cabinet formed by Premier Briend, Polncare's successor. Is as follows: M. Jonnart, minister of foreign affairs; M. Etienne, min ister of war; M. Maudln. minister of marine. Briend will continue to act as minister of the Interior until Poln care is inauguratd. VICTIMS OF FLOOD SUFFER FROM COLD Evansville, Ind.. Jan. 21. The cold snap is increasing the suffering among the flood victims. The gen eral situation is Improving, however. The rain has ceased and the river ap pears to have reached its crest. CONVICTED MINISTER HERE ON WAY TO PEN En route to Boise, where he wiP enter the Idaho penitentiary to serve a term of from five years to life, Rev David M. Hand, the Moscow Baptist minister who was recently convicted of contributing to the delinquency of seventeen-year-old Hazel Benedict is spending the day in the Pendleton City Jail. Accompanied by Deputy Warden Thomas Jolley of the peni tentiary, he arrived this morning on the delayed local from Walla Walla and will leave this evening on No. IS. Still protesting his Innocence. Uev. Hand maintains an attitude of piety but his demeanor shows that the ex posure of his crime and the disgrace it has brought to his family has been a crushing blow to his spirit. The affair. Involving a hitherto respected minister of the gospel in the ruina tion of a girl of tender years who was one of his congregation, created one of the biggest sensations of re cent years In the northwest. NOMINATES LEE FOR IDAHO DISTRICT ATTORNEY Washington, Jan. 21. President Taft nominated William Lee as Unit ed States district attorney for Idaho. honor of representing Boise on the directorate. Bossner, it Is said, ha; the backing of the home town Com mercial club, but Cody has friends among the fans and considerable prestige to help out his aspirations. Rather than precipitate a battle, the election q( dlr-tntors was postponed until a meeting set for February 7 and 8 In Boise, at which time the making of the schedule will also be taken up. ' , Pronabjy the most Important ac tion taken was the striking out of the so-called "optional agreement" clause by which any clui) was en titled to borrow three players from a higher league. This action will make every player in the league the property of the ' Individual dubs which will profit by any drafting of be free to make a sale. Last year Pendleton had several players bor rowed from Bob Brown of Van Cou ver and Walter McCredie and Xick Williams of Portland and was forc ed to turn them back at the end of the season. Walla Walla had five of Joe Cohn's men and both La Grande and Boise were in a similar boat. Secrtary O'Gorman of the Baker Commercial club was at the meeting and announced that his city wished I to be considered if the league were to be expanded. Xorth Yakima made a simalar announcement and is said ! to be eager to grab a charter. These l matters will be decided at the Febru- ' ary meeting. j It was decided that the season! should open on April 22 and close' on September 12. HITCH GOMES TO BALK INAUGURAL COMMITTEES IN MIX-UP j IMan to Substitute a Reception for Grand Rail .May Be Abandoned Citizens Committee Passes Matter Up to Congrwdonal Commit! Ijitter Will Not Serve. Washington, Jan. 21. The plan to substitute a reception for the cus tomary inauguration ball may be abandoned as the result of a mix-up as to which committee should plan the event. The citizens' committee passed the matter to the congression al committee but the members say it is not up to them. Trenton, X. J., Jan. 21. "If an in augural reception Is held my wife and daughters will be there." This was President-elect Wilson's answer to reports that Mrs. Wilson and their three' daughters would take no part in the reception on the day of the inauguration. "I merely asked." added Wilson, "that Mrs. Wilson and our daughters be excused from handshaking. It will be hard on them to stand in line all the afternoon and I see no reason why they should." Wilson characterized as ridiculous the reports that the. Inaugural ball was abandoned because Mrs. Wilson feared the guests would dance the turkey trot, the bunny hug and -the Texas tommy. BRANDT WILL TRY TO LIVE DOWN PAST St. Ujiul. Jan. 21. "I have come to Minnesota to forget the past and make good in the future." This was the declaration of Foulke E. Brandt, recently pardoned by Governor Sul zer of Xew York, after serving six years of a thirty-year sentence for burglarizing the home of Mortimer Schlff, a Xew York millionaire. Sen ator Xelson of Minnesota promised to look after Brandt's future. SAYS MOVING PICTURES KEEP STUDENTS SOBER Xew York. Jan. 21. Moving pic tures are helping to keep Cornell stu dents sober, according to the report of Theodore Tweston, proctor at the university. Evenings now spent at the "movies." he says, formerly were more generally taken up by carousals. Tweston also reported that under graduates were no longer allowing a false college spirit to overcome their j good sense, and realize that an in toxicated student is a disgrace to the university. INJUNCTION PUTS DAMPER ON STRIKE New York. Jan. 21. The striking garment workers are disheartened as a result of Justice Greenbaum's in junction preventing picketing about factories and shops. Leaders admit a settlement is not in sight. ENTIRE i,iTY MAY BE WIPED . OUT BY FIRE; FLAMES RAGING Winnipeg, Jan. 21. For 12 hours the business section of Fort Saskatch ewan has been swept by fire and It THREE LABOR LEADERS ARE ER RAILROAD FIGHTS SNOW TO KEEP LINUS OPEN Everett. Wash., Jan. 21. With snow falling in the Cas cades, the Great Xorthern rail road is keeping the main line over the summit open with difficulty. Trains are late. BRIGANDS HOLDING WOMAN FOR RANSOM Rome, Jan. 21. Mrs. William Mansfield an American has disap peared. The police insist that bri gands are holding her for ransom and that her husband will soon receive their demands. Xew York, Jan. 21. Professor William Mansfield, head of the col lege of pharmacy of Columbia Uni versity, is alarmed over the reports that his wife has disappeared at Salo. Italy. He said he heard from his wife four days ago. PRETTIEST Nl'FFR AGIST WILL LEAD BIG PARADE Elaborate Phil Are ImA for Demon stration In Washington March 3. Washington, Jan. 21. Miss Inez Millholland. of Xew York City, desig- nated as "the most beautiful girl in the suffrage movement," is to lead the suffragist parade March 3, it was announced today. Wearing the livery of a herald of medieval times, Miss Millholland will go down Pennsylva nia avenue ahead of a woman's band which in turn will lead a troop of "petticoat cavalry." Arrangements were made also to have several hundred striking women garment workers from Xew York and Baltimore march in tatters and rags behind a-float depicting the injustice of the "sweat shop" system. OPPOSITION ARISES TO LINCOLN MONUMENT Washington. Jan. 21. Bitter opdo sition to the bill Drovidine for the plwilnn nf n 12.012.000 monument to I the memory of Abraham Lincoln U threatened when the measure is ta- ken tin in the house. The bill ai-. ready has passed the senate. It pro- vides for the erection of a statue and Greek temple on the Mall near the Washington monument, and its oppo- nents are trying to substitute for it a plan to construct a memorial high- way from Washington to Gettysburg. Hankers Sent to Prison. New York. Jan. ,21. Two days and three months respectively in the pen itentiary were given David A. Sulli van and Brice R. Shears, prominent bankers convicted of grand larceny. FOURTH ANNUAL POULTRY SHOW IS OPEN TO PUBLIC IN TAYLOR BLOCK With hundreds of full-throated cooks crowing their greeting in a hundred different keys from the rau cous notes of the Cochin to the shrill siren of the Bantam, the fourth an nual exhibition of the Umatilla-Morrow County Poultry association was opened this afternoon in the Taylor block, corner Main and Water streets. The opening attendance met the ex pectations of the directors in charge, the children of the Hawthorne and Field schools being among the first i to Inspect the btrrts. The show is all that was promised In advance, and promises to be the best all-around exhibition ever held here. The number of entries runs fai into the hundreds and among them are birds that have captured ribbons all over the northwest and some that have taken honors in eastern exhibi tions. Almost every variety of poul try known to this country has its rep resentatives and vie with each othei in attracting the admiring glances ot the spectators. Judge Purvis, the noted Idaho fan cier who scored the birds at the ex hibition last year, has arrived to as sume the same responsibility again is feared the entire city will be con sumed. The city Is on the Canadian Pacific near Edmonton. ED FROM LEAVENWORTH Leavenworth, Kan., Jan. 21. Their bonds properly signed, W. J. McCain, and Bert Brown of Kansas City and W. E. Reddin of Milwaukee. convict ed labor leaders, left the federal pen itentiary toaay. Warden McCiaugh ery treated the trio to a fine dinner before their liberation. CHOPPED DOWX POLE TO AVOID POLL TAX "Oh, TlUs English !" Cried the Ger man When Clerk Tried to Explain. . Xew York, Jan. 1. An Indignant holder entered the office of the tax receiver in Jersey City yesterday aft ernoon and said to Clarence Miller, a clerk: vYou charged me $1 pole tax last year. Here you charge me $1 for pole tax again this year. I have no poles in my yard. I chopped down the only pole I had in my yard last year. My wife hangs the washing on the roof to keep from having poles In the yard." Mr. Miller explained that he was taxed on his poll, and said: "That sort of tax ' bears the ex penses of the elections. You go home and tell your wife she can have all the clothes poles in her yard she needs and there won't be a cent of fax on them." "Oh, this English:" burst out the taxpayer, a German. . "It is getting me all mixed." POWERS POSTPONE ANSWERING TURKEY London, Jan. 21. Constantinople dispatches say that the meeting of the national assembly to consider Tur key's reply to European powers' note containing suggestions for peace in the Balkans has been postponed un til tomorrow. London, Jan. 21. King Peter ot Servia is seriously ill, according to Sofia dispatches from nervous ex haustion. TALESMEN MAKE ALL KINDS OF EXCUSES Los Angeles, Jan. 21. Excus es varying from a proposed world tour to the necessity of working on a ranch to offset prospective financial deficits, resulting from the recent orange freeze in Southern California were made today by the pros pective jurors to try Clarence i Darrow charged with bribing Darrow per Talesman Bain. sonally queried several of the talesmen today, paying particu lar attention to their opinion regarding union labor. and commenced upon his work this afternoon. The large room in the Taylor building is ideal for a poultry exhi bition. The commodious lower floor and the balcony affords ample spac for the arrangement of the coops without crowding, a feature that Is appreciated by the spectators. Tonight, a special provision has been made for the entertainment ot the crowd. Between the hours of 7:30 and 9 the United Orchestra un der the leadership of Frank D. Car ruth will give a concert and there will be a drawing for prizes in which every spectator may participate. Th following is the program which the orchestra will render: 1. War March of the Priests Mendelssohn 2. Selection from Faust ...Gounod 3. Evening Breeze Langey 4. Stilt Dance Keith 5. Lost in Idleness Macbeth 6. Barcarolle from Tuleit of Hoff man Offenbach 7. Amaranthus Gtldei 8. Funeral March Beethoven 9. Stephanie Gavotte Cxibulka 10. National Emblem.