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VOI- 23. ; PKNDIETOX. PRECOX, MONDAY, XOVEMliKU 17, 1913. NO. S03S
Wilson Investigates
Federals Following Capture
RUMORS THAT
IS GOING TO QUIT
VERA CRUZ UNTRUE
O'Shaughnessy Likewise Will Remain
at Mexico City Until Passports
Are Handed Him.
WILSON IS STILL HOPEFUL
Washington Administration Not Coii-i-erin!
Over Ousting of Hucrta's
Minister or the Interior Not Tills
(JoviniinriiOi .fflr, It In Said
lluet-tu's Finance I.ow.
WASHINGTON, Nov. Despite
rumor circulated here this morning.
H. lit definitely known that John
Lind, envoy of President Wllnon to
Mexico, In not preparing to leave
Vera Cruz aboard a battleship nor Is
Consul Canada gutting reudy to
lone the American consulute at the
Kime place,
Churge d'Affulres O'ShMUgfinessy
has not prepared to close the Ameri
can cmbuiwy ut Mexico City, In spite
of the fact that persistent rumors
.have gained headway that would seem
to indicate the situation had become
decidedly acute. President Wilson,
on the contrary. In Mill confident that
niplomacy will yet solve the Mexican
problem.
The above facta were made clear
today by the president at this confer
ence with newspaper correspondents.
Ho still believes that progress Is be
ing made 'in the directum of peace in
.M exlco.
The president reaffirmed plainly
that the stories of laud's leaving, as
well as the rumors regarding O'
Shaughnessy und Canada, who were
uild to bo uoout to take a hurried de
parture lrom Mexico, are all "lakes."
The president said that O'Shaughnes
sy would not leuvo unless iluerta
handed him his passports.
The Washington administration
w us not in the least concerned, It
was stated, ut the ousting of Hucrtu's
minister of the Interior, Garcia Aid
ape, the Incident not being consider
ed any of the government's alfulr.
Huertu, it was pointed out, has hud
Ills cash supplies from outside the
country cut otf and when the present
i ami is exhausted, it Is expected that
tho dictator's lieutenants will desert
him and notnlng will be left lor him
to do but get out in a hurry.
Should It develop, however, that
Iluerta a udmmisiiution is being fi
nanced IhroUKh underground chan
nels, It was seated, toe rebels will be
encouraged In their utlempt to cap
ture .Mexico City.
liaising the embargo on arms, it
was learned, would be the adminis
trations last step, but it was hoped
to avoid it
The president is investigating stor
ies of the wholesale execution of fed
eral pnsoncis by General Villa at
Juare.-.. should the stories prove
true, it could not be learned how the
Inlori.iatiou would affect tne negotia
tions wnli General c arrun.a.
STRIKE ON SOUTHERN
PACIFIC IS NEAR END
DIVISION' OITTCIAI.S VVIMi MEICT
IN lUT'OKT IX) AIMl'ST
TltOlIltl.K.
IKU'STON, Nov. 17. That the
strike on tho Atlantic utvislon of the
Southern 1'ucluc had been settled was
staled today ut the lica.liU.n ti is f
tho unlicd trainmen's union.
it Is understood thut the general
oftkv.s oi.' the railroad at New York
havo ordered the division officials to
meet the committee from the train
men. WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. Tho
.yrlklug trainmen on the Southern
Pucllle between El I'aso and New Or
leans have agreed to return to work
Immediately pending tho outcome of
further negotiations It was stated to
day by members' of the federal board
of mediation, l'lyans of arbitration
will bo discussed this ufternoon, It
was added.
Vltne Against Horse Thieve.
Sheriff T. D. Taylor li today In
Canyon City us a witness against J.
M. Jingles, Dan Culdon, James Clark,
lister Goff und Monrad Fix, alleged
horsed! loves. J. A. Fee Is also thoro
4LSRlstlng In tho prosecution,
AMERICAN BATTLESHIPS STATIONED IN HARBOR OF VERA CRUZ
4s:: - :
This photograph was tuken ut Vi
Mexican waters.
In
CAM MKT. MUh.. Nov. 17. 'Hie
copiier-iuiiie Hirlkcrs tintl imported i
Ciinineii enjnisiMl in a desperate bt-l
to near giitney toduy. wen men "
1mHi HhhM boine woiindtHl. some
prolwibly fatally. Tin' rijrlitinjt nn
still in proem thin afternoon.
SUDDENLY OF APOPLEXY
i:m (umi:s itav non:s aiti:u-
WAKDS WAS ABOl'T TO
I.KWK HO.M10 Hilt VISIT
STRIKERS ENGAGE 111 CDAL CITES ARE DEMOLISHED
FEM2S W"EB AM LEAVES RAILS
cmps w CRASHES - DOWN
!
I
Stricken with apoplexy just as she' cars up the Incline but were on tlu
was leaving her home for a visit with j smith side of the curs and escaped
her mother und sisters In Goldcndule. Injury.
Wash.. Mrs. Ella Cunningham of I The bins and cars that fell are n
this cl;v. died a few hours afterwards
liist Saturday afternoon, the end com-1 moon are burning tho debris. As
Ing nt 4:15. The funeral wus held pistanl Superintendent Dressel, Me
lli.s ufternoon ut the family resl- chunical Foreman Jackson and Con
deni e, 601 l'ost street, new Tolbert F. uction Foreman Grato are looking
Weaver of the Christian church coli-' i"!' the Work of clearing the wietk
iiucling iho services. j "Kc.
Mrs, Cunningham had always hern ;
In good health and good spirits, and J
her sudden death came as a great
blow to her family and fi lends.
Slid
hud prepared to take the morning
truln for Goldendulo and was just
ready to leave tho house for the de
pot .when she was stricken. She
turned to her daughter, telling her
that she felt, queerly, and. within a
few minutes sho was talking incoher
ntly. Physicians were called at once
but the stroke wus of a fatal nature.
Deceased is survived by four chil
dren, Clark, Grover and Gladys of this
city and Walter of Tillamook, a
iio.hcr, Mrs. Mary Demuto, and two
sisters, Mrs. Sophia Wllcoxson and
Mrs. Emma Huculcr, ail of Golden
da to.
She was born In Belult, Wis., Au
gust 21, 1S55. and came west from
that city about ten years ago. She
had lived In Pendleton about a year,
having moved hero from Waltsburg,
Wash.
The best thing about hope is that
It's absolutely free.
Stories of
. :s
' ''A',
' i'
ra Cruz and shows some of the American fighting craft which are now
H WRECK IT
l'MATIl.I.V ore Xov' 17-
(t-pec-which
ial.)A railroad accident In
one-half of the terminal coal chutes
v ere destroyed, one laborer w:is kill
ed und three others had narrow es
capes, occurred in Umatilla this
niomlne. Sanunlos Chapelos, a for
eign laborer, is the man who lott his
l;fe.
Cars were being run up the incline
! when at the entrant: of the chute
lher- was a derailment and one-half
of
the 'JO-bln chutes were demolish-
ed. une car, loaded with coal top
pled over the trestle ami fell upon
the laborer beneath, killing him in
stantly. Three other men rode the
complete wreck and laborers this a't-
Sult.H to Collcvt.
Two ii;its for collection were filed
today thioio:h Haley & Italey. The
Monarch Hardware & Furnlturo Co.
Is suing I. S. Sims for $125, alleged
to be due on a note and S tl : r 5 on account.-
The Pendleton Cash Market
I. j suing W. P. Hcnedlct for a total
of J.120 on alleged debts to plaintiff,
II. 11. W'cssell and F.. W. McComas.
p.OY TKIFS SCICIDK VVIIEX
PAIIKNTS SEND HIM TO SCHOOL
I'OUTLAND, Ore., Xov. 17. lie
cause Ms parents Insisted that lie at
tend school Instiiol of being em
,'ilojed with a nillliiierj- xiV-.'rn, Ver
ne y Enirlek. 13, shot and slightly
i-"iiiulc(l himself. The bullet grazed
his loi'chcud.
Firemen on Strike.
LAW HENCE, Mass. Nov. 17. The
firemen employed in locnl textile mills
struck today. There are but 450 of
them but should they stay out long
the mills will have to close, throwing
9D,vuv operatives out or work.
Executions
of Juarez
mm
1A
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KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
INITIATE LARGE CLASS
With I'iO visiting members from
other councils in attendance, Pendle
ton Council. No. 16 73. Knights of Co
lumbus, held its annual initiation yes
terday afternoon and concluded a red
letter dav with a liannnet in Hi- ovo.
nine. Forty-seven initiates from all
limits of the county were conducted
Into the mysteries of the order during
the afternoon, the ceremonies taking
place in the 1. O. O. F. hall. The
first degree was put on by the Walla
Walla council, the second by the Pen
dleton council and the third by the
La Grande council.
Front Ii Grande alone came fiftjr
Knights to be present for the occas
ion nrul the Walla Walla council sent
thirty. Taker sent a delegation as j
did Tho Dulles. Portland an 1 other.
cities.
Tl:e 1 nniim-t wns served by the la
dles of the Catholic church In the
M.ii'-e hail and was a sumptous one.
During the course of the bamiuet. u
progrrm was rendered and toasts were
responded to. Among the features on
the program were orchestra selections
by the I'nlted Orchestra, vocal solos
by Eugene Molitor and Prof. Madaller
or Da Grande, a vocal duct bv Miss
Scheer and John Gegen, a violin solo
by Francis Bragg nr.d a recitation by'
Mis Nadine Ulukely. F. J. Quintan,
who presided at the head of tlie table,
called for numerous toasts and ainom;
those responding were the following:
Bishop O'Hellly of Baker. Father Mur
phy of Wallowa, Father Marshall of
Paker, Father Drlscoll of La Grande,
Father Campion of Condon, Father
Wand of Haines, Father Sheehan of
Bend, Father Walsh of Huntington.
Father nurgan of Pendleton, Deputy
O'Brien of Portland nnd District Dip
uty Jack Peare of Ui Grande.
A glass bottle-blowing
lnvnnti-ll In finrmiiTiv Via
machine.
a speed
of 2000 bottles an hour, equal to the
wora oi expert giassoiowcra.
of
by Rebels
SAID TOJ PET
REBEL GENERAL VILLA IS
KEEPING ORDER; GARRANZA
MAY GO TO JUAREZ ALSO
E'ght More Prisoners are Reported
.. r
tO Have Been ExeCUted But
mander of Rebels Denies Rumors
-Says One Killed Trying to Escape
r
ki. iMin v..v it 1-iu..
.... . , ...... .,. .v.. vi... . uia
CAPTURED CITY IS
N keeping excellent order In Juarez 1 formed under the written agreement "" g seniencea to iwen-
the city captured from the federals on ! roprinted in Dr. Best's article of Sat-! V ye In the federal prison at Mc
Saturday after an early morning as-' "rday. Tlie records have show n this -e" Is'and. according to a message
sault. ; clearly and there has been no attempt, rece,ved here from Portland. Judge
He has chosen his municipal .m-" hide the fact." Robert S. Bean who sat on th
cIhU from among the citizens with j The' "rluln again that Engineer bench during the trial, passed tho
Jose Velarde as mayor. The port has Kelsay made his first survey, under . sentence-
been opened for importations. Gen-1 tlle direction of the water commission, j The Jury brought In a verdict of
eral Carariza is expected to transfer, for a Prf,ssure P'Pe line and. later second degree murder, the evidence
ills headquarter to Juarez. 'when the commission decided to use In the case being entirely circumstan-
Vllla today repeated his denial that '
eight more prisoners were eecuted
though one man, he said, was killed
w hile attempting to escape.
Those who have already been exe-
cuted were punished for treason, he
said. It has been unofficial- con-!
firmed, however, that they included
Colotiel Contreras and Captain
tlllo of the federal garison.
Villa is understood to be planning
the immediate resumption of the at
tack on Chihuahua city ngainst which
the rebels' have been operating- for
some time but where hostilities were
suspended last week for a descent ..'n
Juarez I
Federal prisoners today were em-!Th"nl Hollow, for extra blue prints
ployed in digging graves for the men'a,ul tor services as a witness In the
killed in Saturday's fighting. Some j condemnation suits,
of them.-it was said have asked per-' Klllot Work for City. '
mission to join the rebels. They prob-' As for the charge that the com
ably will be allowed to do so. mission Is paying a ma $200 a month
MEXICO CITY. Nov. 17.
Admiral j
on Hintze. the German minister ;
here, culled on the commander of
the German cruiser Uuernberg. now '
in Mexican waters, to go to San Bias
und take off refugees from Topic
which he heard is In danger of at -
tack from the rebels. -j
NOGALES. Arizona. Nov. 17. The :
proposed rebel attack on Mazatlan
nn pusiiiuiieu looay. au is reported ,
quiet on the west coast of Mexico in I
dispatches received here today. No !
word has been received from Vivto-1
ria. the capital of the state of Ta-'all of the pipe leading from the j To protest against the raiding o!
maullpas, where It is reported a but- j springs to the gate house, has sup-, the as.-essed valuation of I'matilU
tie is likely. General Carranza and j erinti-nded the excavation along the county, both In defense of his own
Hale held no further conference to- j rock bluffs for a distance of S0OO feet j estimates and as a representative of.
,,ilv- ! and all other work which has not been ' the Pendleton Commercial assocla-
j contracted. I'nder our contract with tion. Assessor C. P. Strain Is in &-
LAI!ED), Texas, Nov. 17. Suffer-1 Mr. Kelsay. he is to have a compe- 'em today to meet with the state tax
Ing dreadful hardships on the road, j tent engineer on the job as an lnppec- commission. L'pon learning the In
300 American refugees, half of whom i tor and his man is Mr. Zeidlharh. t-T.iions of the Commission, the board
w ere women and children, arrived ; Last year the work w hich was done ! -t managers held a meeting Saturday
yesterday at Monterey, according to i under the supcrintendency of Mr. El- -'trnoon and empowered the usses"
messaires received at Laredo. The j Hot was done at a cost of $1.45 a yard i to repiesent them in remoiutrat
party is traveling from Torreon to j where as the original estimate was -fc' against the proposed increase,
this city. One child died on the way j $2. ou. This year the work has cost 'i hey ako named. W. J. Furnish Dr
and one was born. The United States ' -a a yard and we expect to do' C J. Smith, T. C. Taylor and George
government is paying the expenses of. all of this work at Thorn Hollow at a; Hartiu.in. Sr.. now residents of Pin-
the party.
Wall Collapses: II Dead.
CEP AH HAP1DE. Nov. 17 Eleven
are dead and one is dying as the re-
suit of a collapse of a rear wall and
floor of a building In the course of:
construction for Lyman brothers.
NEWS SUMMARY
:
reMrted 1
General.
Captured eily of Juarez Is
quiet.
Problem Wilson Imestl-mtes stor-1
les of wholesale executions by General :
Villa, the relH-l iimuandor.
John l.lnd will iut leave Mexico at'hor-s were secured from A. P. Cool-
his time.
Strikers and gunmen at Calumet'
engage In fight. i
Strike on Southern Pacific Is ended
Ijocal.
Columbia George gets '20 years In
prison.
One nian killed ami three have
narrow estiie in I'matilla wreck.
Assessor Strain at Salem to protest
agninst raising of valuation of county
property.
Commissioners reply to lr,
ItostV
i harjios.
Mrs. l'.lla iniuningliiiin and llujli
lloss. agil residents, iss awny.
I'nlvorsity of Oregon xxllt do exten
sion work, hero this wrvk.
Knights of Columbus hold big initi
ation here.
Pendleton will play Walla Walla
Friday.
Measles geto all but one. pupil of
-country hciiooi.
MEMBERS OF WATER INDlAfJ GIVEN
COMMISSION REPLY TWFHTV VPAR5
TO BEST'S CHARGE
Extra Money Paid Frank Kelsay Was
e r t ti r I
Tor txira worn iney ueciare-;
Elliot Works for City.
"If Ir. Best should amputate the
font of a patient and then later flnJ
it necessary to amputate the leg at
the knee and again higher up, the one
case necessitating three 'operations,
would his charges be the same as they
would have been had the first oper
ation been all required?"
This is the answer of other mera-
i h, r" of tne water comm'88,"n to th
'charges made by Commissioner Best
Com-(Saturday that Engineer Frank C. Kel-
i ?n?Z
A b, f"re state1 in thl8 paper' tney
i freely admit that the sums paid to
) Engineer Kelsay during the past five
! veais have not been all for work rer-
- -
cement pipe and construct a gravity
line, It was necessary for him to make
an entirely new survey Inasmuch as
tlie first line followed up.
the river,
while for a gravity line, a hydraulic
(fade Is necessary"- t'nder the direc-
tlon of tn commission, the engineer
alaf' ran a Une to tne XTth Fork
Por-jwn.Pn lhat stream was considered as a
possible source of supply. It is not!
reasonable, they contend, that any en-j
gineer would run three surveys for
the price of one. 4They did not expect
It, they say. and paid him the extra
money readily. They also paid him
extra money for services in. locating
the lines of the land purchased at
when, under the contract, this man
should draw his pay from the engi-1
neer, the other members brand the
statement as deliberately false. T. P.
Elliot, the man referred to. Is hired
directly by the commission as its fore-
man on the work at Thorn Hollow and
' has no connection with Mr. Kelsay,;
they state. "Mr. Elliot is no more in j
'the employ of Mr. Kelsay than is any!
man we have employed at the springs"
declared Chairman Will Moore. "He
was ntred by tne commission as a ;
foreman to superintend the work j
w hich the commission reserved for it-
self. He has directed the laying of!
saving of 25 per cent over the original
estimates. That Is why we are doing
it ourselves and w hy we have em-
l.e.eu a n i u i i'e leu i man as it'renian.
We pay him the salary he can com -
'"and any other place for the reason
that U has been our experience that;
; .i cueap man is cusiij. .
Regarding the figures submitted by,
! Dr. Hest regarding the payment of sur- !
veyms' expenses from Taeonia. the
commission admit that they paid
i such charges "It Is a customarv rro-
co'lure." tiicy say. "when surveors
are lint to lie had in the immediate:
vicinity " J
I As f.r the charge that Chairman
.Moore paid Jl,. for a team of horses
that is worth not more than $75. the
commissioners explain acnin that the
"v with the understanding that, if uf-
tor ;b dais use. they proved satts -
factory, he w ould be paid $17.'. and,
if not, tie would lie paid for their use.
Marion Jack, member of the com -
mission and a well known farmer, de-
rl:ireil it Is kis tielW.f lh:it t-. l...i.....u
J - nui.-. c
were worth $175 and the
commls -
1 slon paid It. Moreover, they declare1
their belief that they cannot at this '
time secure such horses for u cent j
less. Also they Intimate that the:
cause of Dr. Rest's dissatisfaction with
the bargain lies In the fact that the
commission did not purchase horse
from hltn or allow him to make the
purchase.
Helatlve to the charges that cer
tain bills were not itemized before
payment, the commissioners call at-'
tentlon to the certain bill submitted
by Dr. Pest on Sept. H tor expenses
(Continued on page five.)
I IILI1 1 I ILnilU
Columbia fienrw SpntPnrprl at Pflrt.
land by Federal Judge Robert
Bean Who Held Trial Here.
60ES TO FEDERAL PRISON
Itedman WIU Ii sent to McNeil'
Island to Serve 111 Sentence Was
ttonvk-ted of Second I)ogre Mur
der for Killing .Vsed Squawv 11m
Served Prison Term Iiefore.
Columbia George, two-time mur
derer, who was convicted last week
by a jury In this city following a
nine-oay trial in the federal court.
i ,
j Mat. and the penalty for conviction
on this charge In the federal court Is
a sentence ranging from ten years
to life. In giving him twenty years.
Judge Bean practically imposed the
maximum penalty on Columbia
George, inasmuch as he Is 51 years
old now. During the trial, he testl-
fled he was 75 but ail of the govern
ment records show that statement t
to
have been false
j in returning to McNeil's Island the
Indian once again becomes a convict
j i un Institution with which he la very
familiar. Once before, when convict-
ed of the murder of Anna Edna, he
was sentenced for life imprisonment
th-re but was pardoned about three
years ago by President Taft. HU
previous sentence oh a similar charge
precluded the possibility of the judgit
imposing the minimum penalty, and
as the slayor of Ti-mot. it is doubt-
less that he will live the balance of
his years within the confines of the
prison walls,
j
STRAIN WILL. PROTEST
AGAINST HIGH VALUATION
j "
.. AssKSSOU tiOKS TO SAI.E.M TO
FIGHT PKOIt)SEI KAISE IX
IMATILIV COIXTY. '
1
. land, but still extensive property
holders in this county, us Ueksulcs
j to the meeting of the eommijv;un.
.uiuruuig lo me stateniei;l nur'o
' t As.--e.ssor Strain Saturclj
it ....!
U-on represented to the coin:nlssi..i.
'il.it the property uf I'malitU count
ia now assessed at only b. cents o!!
the dollar whereas the law renunes
a full value assessment. Assessor
Strain contends that he has made n
100 per cent ussesMiieuc us nearly u-i
Possible and cites numerous install.
ces where, tho pure huso price of a
l-inc o' property bad coincided or
Marly so with nia assessed xa.uallv t.
Ilo:(s. he M.itcJ. Ik l a.-s. .sMng al
an awrucc puce of IT; a h-ad. ami
it i. ielievcu that Ui.s i., un ev-u
great-r value than sales will fhu.
Mr.
unn a.ti tliute.j th, proiosed
increase to the action of tho O.-W.
jl! ,c N, iniupauy. statin,' that tho
! company lias ha I men ut work for
the p.ua c.ir compiling fuun-a to
1 show that the company proprly U
being us-i-teed at a higher vulaatlou
1 1. ti i...i,.,ri,. w. o...
..i.iii "i... -...j it. .i.v .VUllli
. I m.itill.i county property, exelu
sive of the property of public servle
corporations, tlie valuation of w hich
is lixe-l by the state cotiimu-sion, t
this year as.M-s.sed ut sotiii-thlng over
$Jii.ioii.ooo and the Uxpujeis. Thi
ear. upon that Valuation, they will
he required to pay Into the s'atu III
taxis ubout $.' lu.oou. If. as Ccntm I
ed, the u.s.essmeiils uiit now beln
made upon a fij per nut Valuation.
Il can rvaully be seen that thU coun
ty, under a 100 per cent viluutlon,
would be reiulle. t(, pay on. in than
$300,000 Into tho state, Th-rrr.
the :U.tiwn lu of material inUrtJt
to ever y tux payer.