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

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Newspaper Page TextEVENING EDITION EVENING EDITION TO ADVEUTISKKS The Kant OreRonlan has larRnit paid circulation nv naner li Oregon, east WEATHER REPORT. Occasional rain or snow tonight and Saturday. . . "o; tlund and nearly . ,S e& r -the circulation lo PTJf- f mi other & J? paper. j.T OFFICIAL PAPER. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER. PENDLETON. OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1913 NO. 7818 VOL. 25. . . -cv V ftllfra SHIVERS IN GRIP OF COLDEST BUZZARD OF EAR 5 Traffic in Chicago is at Standstill and Other Large Cities are Suffer ing From Storm. 1,1 ANY PERSONS INJURED nriiKi-: TO ASSUME DUTIES AS TREASURER Chicago. March 21. Former Governor Burke of North Da kota will leave Chicago thla aft ernoon to assume his duties as treasurer of the United States. Tour inches of Snow Reported U Milwaukee Ulgh Wind Docs Con siderable Iuniae Twenty States Vro Grtwiod by UlUaard Crop Loss Will Amount to Million. Chicago. March 21. Twenty-one met death and five hundred were In jured In the blizzard which la raging In nearly every state east of Montana. f f th fatalities are In Arkansas, Louisiana and Missouri where- several .nnrtsri W'iOed OUt. I B crop damage Is estimated at two and a half million dollars. Chicago, March 21.-The entire middle west Is shivering in one of the worst blizzards of the winter. Wire service is crippled and street car traf fic is demoralized. The blizzard swooped down early today, accompan ied by a blinding snowfall and terrific Kales Milwaukee reports four Inches . ,w and more still falling. Street car and railroad traffic is at a John Frederick was blown from a locomotive tender and fatally injured. Mrs Mary Williams was blown under -.v. ,f f a team of horses ana badly hurt All trains from the east .. .. j -thunnr nr manv hours late. II 1 1 11 111 ." w - - "... , I. tho blizzard is lteporis luuivuit? sweeping every state east of Montana, In the northwest tne storm u sumed the proportions of a bz7.nri. Railroad traffic in North and South Dakota, Minnesota. Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois Is at a standstill and wire communications with scores of cities and towns' "in" those states are Inter rupted. It Is feared that when com munication is. restored many deaths will be reported. A. score of persons were Injured in the storm on account- of the high -wind. Twenty states are gripped by the storm and the crop damage will run into the millions. ANOTHER SUSPECT IN EATON CASE Pivnw.iitVi Maaa.. March 21. An other arrest Is expected as a result of tho mysterious poisoning of Admiral Eaton The name or tne local buspbli is being kept secret. The special grand Jury will convene next week to consider the latest developments the case. STREET CAR PLUNGES DOWN HILL; ONE PERSON KILLED; 6 INJURED San Francisco, March 21. Killing ; a car to a barn, was struck and killed one and Injuring half a dozen others during Its flight a Gerry street car in tow of another car broke away on a steep grade today and plunging wild ly down hill wrecked two other cars before It came to a stop. Carl Schutts, a member of the crew taking when the coupling broke. Police Ser geant Collins saved a score of lives by riding ahead In an automobile and warning the passengers to leave the cars ahead. The runaway car Injur ed six men who were on the Ellis street ear. SOUTHERN STATES ARE SWEPT BY TORNADO: SEVERAL KILLED KNIGHTS TEMPLAR TO OBSERVE EASTER BIG INDIAN CHIEFS : LEAVE WASHINGTON in WILL REPORT ON CURE TOMORROW To Join with the Pendleton Knights Templar In the observance of Easter Sunday, many members of the Baker and La Grande com rive in the city early Sunday morning. Reports from La Grande are that fully 75 knights will attend from that city, while Baker will probably send more than 60. The local knights have arranged a program for the occasion and will play the host to the visitors until their departure Sunday night. The Easter sermon will be preached by Rev. S. L. Grlgsby, pastor of tne I'resujienan church, who is himself a member of the order and who has held high po sitions of honor in Kansas Masonry. The services will be held in the high school auditorium and an Invitation Is extended to the public to attend Washington, March 21. -Crow In dian oratory was much in evidence about the interior department when manderies will ar-jthe Crow delegation, which has been in WaKhington since tne lnaugurauun. made its farewells. The Indians made their farewell gifts and left for the Wf-St. I Chief Plenty Coups.' the head of the delegation, made a lengthy speech, presenting to Secretary Lane of the interior department for President Wil son, the war bonnet, which the chief brought to Washington to wear In the inaugural parade. After Plenty Coups had paid his respects to the "Great White rather," Chief Medicine Crow presented to the secretary the bead embroidered tobacco pouch. Then the delegation departed for the Indian bureau, where Chief WThite Man Runs Salem. Ore.. March 21. Silent, sullen and nervous, Charles and George Humphrey are passing their last day in the death cells of the state penitentiary. To morrow at eight o'clock they will be executed for the murder of Mrs. Eliza Griffith. Every thing in the death chamber is In readiness. Governor West reiterated his statement that there will be no executive clemency. FEARING A REBEL ATTACK, WOMEN FLEE Many Towns are Reported to be De stroyed By Cyclone Injured List Will Total Hundreds. BUILDINGS DEMOLISHED High Wind Sweep Through Arkarwa and Missouri Town In Louisiana la laterally Wiped Out Kelief Ie Be if Sent to Hoineleaj Ueldenw Storm General. Washington, March 21. The con clusions of the government health service so far as a conclusion has been reached In the tuberculosis cure of Dr. Frledmann will be made pub lic in brief statement tomorrow. Thin will be the first official declara tion of United States surgeons who have been Investigating the treat ment. "I cannot tell how long it will re quire us to determine tne reai vuiue of tho treatment," said United States Surgeon Rucker today. "I cannot predict how long our board will re fuse to feel absolutely sure in its con clusions. Dr. Frledmann may have the whole truth, half the truth, or no truth at all." In an official statement the govern ment will warn tuberculosis sufferers not to travel seeking treatment from Frledmann as he will be allowed to treat only especially selected cases. t v,..,. oQutnrn Orpcnn command- Him nresented a pair of buckskin CC lH""-' " " - . , . I ... . ... .. - . fnm. erles Pendleton, uaKer ana x- gauntieis iq me wue vi numB Grande, Join with each other each year In one of the cities in an ouser vance of Easter. Last year the ser vices were held at Baker and next year La Grande will be host. The following program will be car ried out here: 8:00 a. m. Breakfast. 9:30 a. m. Visit eastern wrc6" branch hospital. 11:30 a. m. Automobile ride. 1:00 p. m. Lunch. 2:30 p. m. Church services. 6:30 p. m. Banquet. RAILROAD STRIKE ' HAS BEEN AVERTED missioner Abbott of the Indian bu reau. Secretary Lane granted one of the petitions, which brought the Indians to Washington when he signed an au thority for the expenditure of $400, 000 of Indian funds for the purchase of cattle for the Crow reservation. Douglas, Ariz., March 21. Women and children are being removed from Cananea, Sonora, in anticipation of a rebel attack. Colonels Calles and Bra enmonte have withdrawn from before Xaco and Joined forces with General Cabral and Colonel Dleguez at Delrlo, ten miles north of Cananea, prepara tory to attack. Colonei Moreno, com mandlng the federal troops at Cananea has but three hundred men. The reb els are said to number nine hundred men. , SULLIVAN MAY GET WILSON'S PLACE CITY OBSERVES GOOD FRIDAY Memphis, March 21. Twelve are reported killed and nearly two hun dred injured, some fatally. In a torna do which last night swept the states of Arkansas and Missouri, razing sev eral towns. Four are reported dead and fifty In jured at Hoxie, Arkansas. The town was practically destroyed. Seven were killed and a hundred injured at Poplar Bluff. Missouri; one was killed and ten hurt at Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. Poplar Bluffs was practically wiped out. Indianapolis, March 21. Reports received Indicate that every section of Indiana was swept by a terrific gale. Frankfort. O. Vice was killed by a falling roof. -A sign fell at Lafayette, crushing to death Henry Walters. Shreveport, La., March 21. Five were killed and thirty injured last night In a cyclone which destroyed Saline, five miles from here with a population of two hundred. Sixty buildings were demolished. Relief trains are being rushed from here, MOUNTED POLICE BRIXO - NEWS OF WHALE SHIPS Detroit, March 21. One fatality Is, ... i ...kink T reported In an eignty nine gaie ...v... Is sweeping the Plate. Wire service is demoralized and great havoc Is be ing done buildings here and elsewhere When the gale struck Detroit It took off part of the roof of the unfinished hotel Charlvoix, caused the collapse of several other buildings and littered the streets with debris. Many were hurt by flying glass and falling signs. A ferryboat was stranded in the middle of the Detroit river and was herthed with great difficulty. Heavy damage is reported at Niles, Ypsilanti. rtnttin rroek. Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo and other Michigan towns. At Mount Clems a fire' followed the gale and several buildings were destroyed. PENDLETON MEN GO TO WALLA WALLA FRANCE HAS A NEW PREMIER Paris, March 21. Jean Bathou has accepted the premiership of France, succeeding Artlstlde Brland, who re signed. SCHOOL PLANS ELARORATE MAY DAY EXERCISE Baker, Ore., March 21. Elaborate May day exercises are being planned by the schools of Baker. The pro gram will be in charge of Miss Thom as, the music Instructor, assisted by all the other teachers. It Is planned to hold the exercises on the high school campus and will consist of the winding of the May pole. May sings, choruses by the glee clubs and folk dances by the little children. No definite date has been set, but the program will probably occur some time during the first week In May. COLD WAVE SWEEPS PACIFIC COAST San Francisco, March 21. Callfor nla, Idaho, eastern Oregon and east ern Washington are In the grip of a cold wave which Is slowly moving eastward, according to an announce ment of Weather Forecaster McAdoo. He Is unable to say how long the cold snap will remain or If It will leave a wake of frost blighted fields and or chards. In an endeavor to dissuade Walla Walla from the Idea of staging an im itation of the Pendleton Round-up, a delegation of Commercial club repre sentatives headed by President J. V. Tallman and Secretary R. W. Ritner, left this morning for the Garden City! and is spending the day there, con ferring with leading business men. Relative to the coming of the Pen- j dleton men, the Walla waua union this morning contained the following story: Pendleton business men. Round-up officials, etc., will be in Walla Walla this morning to make vigorous pro test to Walla Walla business men against a wild west show In Walla Walla this fall. A telegram was received by the commercial club yesterday from Roy Ritner of the fair association stating that a delegation will be here nnd ask ing that a meeting be called. Presi dent J. C. Scott of the conmteri lal as- soclatlon sent a message telling them I to come ahead and has asked business j men who wish to meet the Pendleton lans to gather at the commercial club rooms at 10 o'clock this morning. President Scott said yesterday that he did not know what the commercial club could do about It as the club had nothing to do with the fair associa tion, but that If the Pendleton people wanted to meet the business men he would call a meeting Secretary R. II. Johnson of the fair association said he would probably be present though business might call him away. . - - The Pendleton crowd will arrive about 9 o'clock and expects to return home In the afternoon. The report that Walla Walla was planning a cowboy festival of some sort has aroused considerable opposi tion In Pendleton, according to papers of that city. The fair directors have made no public announcement of their plans. but it is known they have been con sidering holding a "Rodeo," "Stam pede," "Round-up," "Wild West Show," "Range Life," or whatever It will be called. Every time a man gets his monthly gas bill he's glad that he doesn't have to buy the stuff by the ton. Chicago, March 21. Representa' lives of five thousand switchmen av erted an Immediate strike today by deciding to submit the grievances against nineteen railways centering here, to a conciliation board consist ing of Judge Knapp of the commerce court, Labor Commissioner Neill and Commerce Commissioner Clark. DeS Moines, March 21. Reports were current today that Bryan has I Offered Jerry Sullivan of De Moines the portion of assistanut secretary oi state. No statement was obtainable whether Sullivan will accept. r ... -T Riot in Zion. Zion City, Ills., March 21. Two elders were severely beaten and sev eral other Zionites slightly injured when rioting broke out between the followers of W. G. Volva and employes of the Cook Electrical plant. WOOLMEN WIN VICTORY IN FREIGHT RATES; TARIFFS WILL BE LOWERED This is the quetest afternoon in Pendleton trade circles for many years for literally the city is "closed up tight." In accordance with the de cision to observe Good Friday In com memoration of the death of Jesus Dawson. Y. T., March 21. The first word from the whalers frozen In along the shores of the arctic was re ceived here from mounted police re turning from the arctic coast. The schooner North Star is wintering at Atrhlsnn Point: the Teddv Bear off Christ, all of the business houses of yjctoria Land; the Hosie H- at Bailee every description locked ther- doors i jsian(j and the Stelnmaster at Shingle Point. The Leffingwell yacht Argo, for Banks land on a copper prospect ing trip, Sprung a leak and was forc ed to put in at Apayoochlck for the winter. ' , Salem, Ore., March 21. After a continual fight, begun five years ago by the slate railroad commission, Ore gon woolgrowers today won a victory by obtaining from the railroads in the state a reduction of over 45 per cent tained the time the fight started. A formal hearing was held today. The commission will Issue an order to all railroads in Oregon compelling them to file new tariffs effective May 1st. The reduction affects all wool shipped in carload lots from points In Ore- bji the clock Was striking the noon hour and until three o'clock this aft ernoon there was stillness a.nd Idle ness absolute In the city's mart. Only the courts and public offices continued on their daily routine for the occasion Is not a holiday by law. The schools, however, are joining in the observance as all closed their doors at noon. Many people gathered this after noon at the Episcopal church where special Good Friday services and mu sic has been prepared. Though the morning was clear and bright, the afternoon is gray and a fplt frnm tim rt time. It is safe to say that this Is the first Good Friday In many years that has seed I.. I44""" of snow. . In freight rates on wool than 4hat ob- gon to Portland AUTO GOES OVER BANK; GIRL DEAD San Francisco, March 21. Miss Lulu Adams is dead and Deputy Pub lic Administrator. W. J. Hynes was se riously Injured and two others slight ly hurt when an auto In which they were returning to the city from a beach resort toppled over an embank ment. The machine was going twen ty miles an hour when the steering gear broke. James McElroy, an in surance broker who was driving, was arrested on a manslaughter charge. OATH IS ADMINISTERED TO KING CONSTANTINE IN GRECIAN CAPITAL Athena, March 21. The oath was I ceremony being brief and simple. Lat ., .j c-i ,.o.l er the king left for Salonlkl. He will ' return next Thursday with the body tine In the chamber of deputies, the 1 of his father. LOSS OF LAMBS HAS BEEN SLIGHT TACOMA TEAMSTERS GO OUT ON STRIKE Tacoma, March 2i. behiandliig ah increase In pay and the recognition of the union, teamsters employed by the Tacoma Truck company went on strike today. The men demand an increase from the flat rate of sixteen dollars and twenty cents per week to two dol lars and seventy-five cents per day with time and a half for all work af ter 6 p. m. The strikers claim the walkout Is but the first of a series to force union recognition and all team sters In the city will be Involved if the demands are not granted. CHILD CAN'T DRESS OX $12,000, WANTS TWENTY New York, March 21. Twenty thousand dollars yearly Instead of $12 000 Is the sum needed by Helen Dewltt, a 15-year old heiress, "to keep up appearances," according to the showing made in court by Joslah II. Dewltt, te girl's uncle and guar dian. The court granted the Increase. The child's spring outfit wiH cost 80Q ftlono. PewlU declared, , STANDPATISM IS DEAD SAYS BRYAN LUMBER TLANT DESTROYED BY FIRE HALFWAY TO ILWE A $7000 HIGH SCHOOL Further reports received In Pen dleton from the sheep camps where lambing Is under way are all of an encouraging nature. They show that while some losses have occurred they have been light being apparently but little more than the normal losses. That the losses are very light In his camps where lambing Is under way Is stated by J..E. Smith, one of the heav iest growers of the county. Nor has Mr. Smith heard of anyone else who has suffered much -from tho flurry of snow night before last. Out at Pilot Rock where some of the Smith com pany's sheep are wintered, lambing has not yet started and so no harm has been Inflicted. However, the sheep are being fed as the range grass became covered with snow. It is un derstood that the lambing season has not yet started on the Cunningham company's big ranch. Lazy people ought to be transform cd Into rivers; then they could stay In their beds. Baker, Ore., March 21. Plans for a union high school at Hnifwav have been drawn by Architect M. P. White. It will be a modern, up-to-date one story frame building of three rooms, two rooms being used for the classes while the third will be for laboratory work. The walls will be plastered throughout and the finish of the wood work will be selected lat er. The building will cost about $7. 000. Bids will be called for its con struction In about a month. HOSPITAL IS NOW HALF COMPLETED Baker. Ore.. March 21. The super structural work on the new hospital has been completed and Contractor Monterastelll hns moved his outfit to Tendleton to be used In the construc tion of the cathedral there. The exterior work on the hospital being finished complete about half the contract. Work of finishing the Interior of the building will be push ed ahead as soon as the weather will permit. Des Moines, Iowa. March 21. Standpatlsm is dead, declared William J, Brj'Bn at a banquet here last night. The orator dwelt on the fact that he believed the highest accomplishment of the present administration would be the restoration of what he termed the spirit of the forefathers to the In stitutions of' the United States. ' "You cannot cross .the United States," declared Mr. Bryan, "without passing through a state which Is gov erner by a progressive democrat. Illi nois has just placed one In office. Ohio elected a progressive at the last election, as did Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri, and you came very near to filling out this list of western states by electing one here in Iowa. "Just a day or two before I left Washington a new United States sen ator arrived. He was a progressive democrat from New Hampshire. All the members of. the cabinet are pro gressive democrats and the leader in the senate Is John W. Kern, for whom six million progressive democrats cast their votes for vice president a short time ago. More than this, the senate of the United States has been made progressive and the new rules of that body enable the majority of the party to control." After a man has fooled around a few years and failed to hit the nail of success on the head he breaks into the chronic knocker class. Seattle. March 21. Fire caused thai destruction of the two hundred thou sand dollar plant of the Pacific Lum ber and Timber company near Latona It is believed the fire started from a torch used by a workman in the yards. BIRTH CERTIFICATE n NOT FAKED HE SAYS San Francisco. March 21. In be half of Dr. W. W. Fraser of Weaver- vllle. Cal., who figures prominently in the Siingsby changeling cases, a demurer was started today In Judge Dunne's court. It will be argued April 2. The demurrer In Fraser'a case objects to all the statutory alle gations. He Is charged with falsifying the birth certificate by means of which the child of another Is made to appear as the true heir to the great estates held in Yorkshire. England, by Lieutenant Charles Henry Sltngsby. POPE'S CONDITION BELIEVED CRITICAL Rome, March 21. Vatican physi cians admitted today that heart fail ure might attack the pope unless he rallied from his present weakness. Since being stricken with Influenza It Is said the pontiff has been listless and inactive. BAKER DRUGGIST SHOOTS MAN WHO IS TRYING TO BREAK INTO STORE Baker, Ore., March 21. Plnney Currey, son of Dr. H. E. Currey, pro prietor of a drug store, shot and se riously injured a man thought to be John Carroll of St. Maries. Idaho, early today. The victim, it is alleged, was trying to break into the back room where Currey was sleeping. Currey fired through the glass door, a distance o only a few feet and his poor aim alone saved blowing the man's head off. His left eye is de stroyed and the victim will not be I able to talk.