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DAILY EVENING EDITION DAILY EVENING EDITION Forecast for Eastern Oregon, by tba United State Weather Obawwt at Portland. TO ADVERTISERS. The Kaitt Oregootan bn the Urged paid circulation of any Ph In Uregoa. eaat of Portland and orer twice the circulation Id I'sndlelun of an other newapaper. Fair tonight and Saturday. JK COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER. ! CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. v fi 2 i : VOL. 25. PENDLETON, OREGON, JRIDAV, JANUARY 00, 1914. NO. S10-2 ' v -Z JVJOsr2 7" ' ,,. . . . . a 1 ' ' - .. " . ... 7 fit . -. J - 47 PERSOHS LOST W SIB OLD DOMINION RAMMED BY VESSEL OFF COAST Many Passengers are Included Among the Lost Collision Occurs Dur ins Dense Fog in Early Morning. NANTUCKET BADLY DAMAGE? Revenue Cutters Arc Huslilng to Scene In Hope of Picking UP Sur- , vivors Who May Have Escaped in lifeboat lll-Fatcd Vessel Goes to Bottom WlUiln SO Minute. NEW YOUK, Jan. SO. Forty-sev-n are unaccounted for following the leas at 1:45 o'clock thla morning of the Old Dominion steamship Monroe. In a. collision off the southern coast of the Delaware-Maryland-Virginia peninsula with the Merchants' and Miners' liner Nantucket from Boston. Aa the Monroe carried a full comple ment f lifeboats and raft, it is hoped a few will be picked up alive but it la feared thut mwt went down with the boat The Nantucket, according to wire less messages, had its bow badly crumpled' in' the craah and though taking water. wa understood to have picked up 86 of the Monroe's com pany. Including Captain Johnson. The liner Hamilton is standing by. The revenue cutter Onondaga and several other ocean-going tugs are on the " way to the scene to assist. I The collision occurred In a dense fog. The Monroe left Norfolk for New York at 7 o'clock last evening. The vessel carried a crew of 79 and 45 first cabin passengers, and some In the steerage. The Nantucket rammed the Monroe 35 miles soutn of Hogg Island. The Nantucket was making half speed but cut the Mon roe nearly in two and It sank In SO minutes. The Monroe was 344 feet Jong NORFOLK, Va., Jan. 30. Officers of the Old Dominion line placed the number saved from the Monroe at $6 and the missing at 47. Of the saved, 31 were passengers and 55 of the crew. The missing are 23 pas sengers and 24 of the crew. The saved Include Captain John son, First Officer Hersley. Chief Engi neer John Terklns, the first, second and third assistant engineers, the oil er and the steward. Second Officer (lately was lost. Among the cabin passengers lost were Wm. Rosen, a member of the Macarla Theatrical company on the way to New York and James O'Connell of the United States industrial commission. The first wireless calls for help from the Monroe were received at I a. m. Before a reply could be sent a message was received also from the Nantucket. Connection was difficult owing to the dense fog, The survivors are expected here this afternoon. A message was re ceived from Superintendent George Upler of the federal steamship in spection service to have the survivors detained until he reaches Norfolk to conduct an Investigation. NORFOLK, Va., ' Jan. 30. Elghty flve survivors out of the 184 passen gers and seamen who put to sea here last niKht on the Monroe were landed near Norfolk thla afternoon. The other forty-nine perished when the Monroe went down like lead. The rescued included 30 passengers and 50 members of the crew. Of the passen gers not one was clad. The women wore their night dresses and the men mostly were in pajamas. A majority of the survivors are ill. It is feared some will die from shock and expos tire they have undergone. ' '"WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. "This is the first time In the company's his tory!" said President H. B. Walker of the old Dominion steamship line, com menting on the sinking of the Mon roe, "that we ever lost a passenger and the line was founded in 1867. The Monroe's life saving efficiency was J 00 per cent." NORFOLK. Jan. 30. When the col- 1 Irion came the Nantucket was steam ing at half speed, its siren sounding dismally. Suddenly those on the Nan tucket's deck saw the Monroe loom out of the fog barely a ship's length away. Captain Berry reversed the engines but It was too late. The Nan tucket crashed Into the Monroe am LINER MONROE - idshlp and crushed her way deeply into the doomed liner's side and then stopped, her own bows badly crumpl ed. For a moment the vessels were wedged fast. An instant later the powerful screws dragged the Nan tucked backward- and the vessel drew off from the Monroe, which began taking water in cataracts. With hysterical screams, prayer's, and cries for aid, the nlght-clar pas sengers rushed on deck. Many were hurled from their berths painfully hurt. Of those who died a majority probably didn't even have time to get out of their state rooms, so quickly did the ship go down. In the vortex surviving passengers and sailors were left struggling for their lives. Some selxed life belts and in most instances those were the ones saved. More than half of them were unconscious when dragged Into the Nantucket's boats. For two hours the Nantucket cruls ed about the spot looking for survi vors. ' At first " they were kept busy pulling - wretched men and women from the water. Then the rescues grew less frequent1 and finally they became convinced that no more of the Monroe's company remained above water. . naiMv to KaUblt, j'-w ' PAULS. Jan. 30 The FrVnch gov ernment has nuked the chamber of deputies to appropriate $40.000 fur an official representation at the Pa nama exposition. OF sine sine as bib NEW YORK, Jan. 30. Found guil ty of placing a bomb at the entrance to a Houston street tenement, Angelo Sylvestero, a member of the New York black hand gang, was sentenced to three and a half to seven years in GHLOUPEK HOME IS Sometime within the past two days the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roland E. Chloupek on West Court street was burglarized and clothing and Jewelry valued at about t$75 stolen. No clew was left by which the thief can be traced. . Mr. Chloupek, who is Instructor in manual training at the high school stated today , that he had not missed SON'S Or VETERANS WILL OPIHJSE FLAG FOR STATE SPOKANE. Wash., Jan. 30. Spo kane Camp of the Sons of Veterans has passed resolutions opposing the proposed adoption of a state flag for the state of Washington, criticising what is declared to be a "tendency to forget that this country Is a nation of one flag." Copies of the resolution will be forwarded to the governor, and to the other camps of the Sons of Veterans asking the latter to Join in a campaign against the adoption of a state flag on the ground that it tends to decrease patriotism. Roxers at Cleveland. CLEVELAND, O., Jan. 30. Seven anmteur boxers, the. best St. Louis can boast of, arrived here today prepared to meet a coterie of Cleveland ama teurs at the Cleveland Athletic club tonight. This la the fifth Interclub contest, held here this season. There will be seven classes, ranging from 108 pounds to 190. Man Auto Ice Races. COTTONWOOD, N. D.. Jan. SO. A new and exciting sport has appeared in this part of the country this winter j ill ine lurm UK ttmoiiiuuiie uii the Ice. Arrangements were com pleted today for a grand prize race to be held In the near future on Cotton wood lake. The sportsmen have con structed a race coHrse two miles long and some exceptionally fast time has been made In trials. The curves are banked with snow, but when the ma chines start skidding there is consid erable trouble in negotiating the turns. IB CITY MOTOR COMPANY WILL ESTABLISH GARAGE REMODELLED SNYDER BLOB The City Motor Co. is to be tho name of Pendleton's newest bus iness) house and It will conduct a garage and automobile agency in the Snyder brick building on Cot tonwood street, which building is to be entirely remodelled. The business will be owned and con ducted by D. H. Nelson, well known retired farmer and Frank Fairbanks. They expect to be Installed by Feb. 15. In order to make it adapted to the new business the Snyder building will be remodeled throughout. It will be equipped with an electric elevator so as to make all three floors of the build ing available for use. A modern plate glass front will also be In stalled, the owner spending all told from $4500 and 36000 on the alterations and improvements to the building. The new company will handle the Hudson car and another make which will be announced later. STRONG EARTHQUAKE SHOCK RECORDED AT GEORGETOWN KF.trmn lasts about i mix LTKS BUT WHEREABOUTS OF QUAKE UNKNOWN. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. Scien tlsts are speculating on the where abouts of a strong earthquake shock recorded last night by the George' town university selzmograph. Father Orendorff, the observer, said the rec ord began at 10:56 and ended at 11:14. Moa, than, 4,000,000 tons of ore a year are expected to be exported from Iron mines In Algeria by French capitalists who have obtained conces sions after more than 10 years of ef fort. wm hut Sing Sing. As the sentence was be ing Imposed, the store of Joseph Stella and a four story tenement in East Eighteenth street were badly wrecked by bombs. It is believed that the gang to which Sylvestro belonged perpetrated the outrages. VISITED B BURGLAR anything until last evening when he went to don a suit which he had not worn for several days. He could not find It and, upon investigation, dis covered that his diamond stickpin, Elk pin and several other articles ot Jewelry anj clothing were missing. The burglar had evidently- visited only Mr. Chloupek's room as nothing was missing from any other. PORTLAND WOMAN HANDS HER JEWELRY TO KIND STRANGER REPRESENTS HIMSELF AS DE TECTIVE MATTER IS RE. PORTED TO POLICE. PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 30. Mrs Bessie Smith, wife of C. V. Smith, a lumber exporter, living at the Selwyn apartments, handed over $1275 worth of diamonds and Jewelry, she report ed to the police last night, to an uni dentified man, who pretended to her that he was a detective and wanted the Jewelry as security for her appear ance In court. He had told her, she said, that she was under arrest as a witness against a man who had forged er husimnd s name to a check for $800 and that she must come to court with him. Mrs. Smith, who came here six months ago from England, where she married Mr. Smith, is new . to the ways of this country, she explained, and the story seemed logical to her. tie passed two nours, she said, ex plaining the situation, and after re celvlng her Jewelry, remained a half hour longer detailing the was of criminals and giving her criminal doings. light on The' total coal supply of the world recently was, estimated at 7,197.433, 000,000 tons, of which nearly 4.000.- 000.000.000 tons are bituminous. Asia having the largest Quantity , of any continent. M'DONALD AND GOMPERS HAVE NEAR CONFLICT t Miners (Enlivened by Session of Charges ation of Hurled at Head of Feder Labor. "LIAR" REPLIES GOMPERS lists Shaken ami Threat Made liut Delegates Keep Two Men Apart McDonald says Gohiihts Is "Con firmed liooze Fighter" and Puts AsKM-iates in tlie Same Claw. INDIANAPOLIS. Jan. 30. A clash between Samuel Gompers and Dun can McDonald of Illinois, enlivened the session of the United Minework ers' convention today. "I Just want to say to the delegates of this convention," said McDonald In a speech, "that Gompers has no right to a seat here. He Is nothing more nor less than a confirmed booze fighter." Gompers leaped to his feet, white with rage, and advanced on McDon ald, shaking his fist. "McDonald is an unmitigated liar, and he knows it." Gompers shouted. Other delegates kept the men apart. McDonald declared all the executives of the ' American federation were hard drinkers. "They are a bunch of reactionary and fossilized booze fighters," he said. McDonald declared that during the labor convention In Seattle, the reso lutions committee, headed by Gomp ers, made so milch noise In a hotel that his wrfe who occupied the next room was unable to sleep. After a fu tile complaint to the hotel manage ment, McDonald said he opened the door to the room and "saw a bunch sitting around a table, with Gompers at its head, howling drunk." , Gompers answered McDonald by calling him a "liar and a slanderer." He also denie 1 McDonald's charge that the American Federation Is machine-controlled and that socialists were barred from all responsible and effective positions. President Mover of the Northwest ern Federation of Miners, also de nounced Gompers. HIGHER SECOND-CLASS lOSTAGE RATE URGED WASHINGTON. Jan. 30. Plans are under way in the house for an increase in the second class postage rates. The subject has been taken up at various times by postmaster-general and congressional committees, and today Chairman Moon of the house committee on postoffices, an nounced that the committee on Feb ruary 9 would hear all Interested per sons with a view of gaining light on legislation contemplated to obtain more revenue from the great bulk of second-class mail. NEWS SUMMARY General. Fortw-Bcven persons perish when Dominion line steamship Monroe goes down after being rammed by Nan tucket. Menilx-r of Mack luiml in New Yorjv la sentenced to Sing Sing. At time sentence is pronounced, bomb wrecks tenement and store. Strong earthquake shock is record ed at Georgetown observatory but whereabouts of quake is not known. Daring woman rushes through building warning tenants that house is an re and all escape. McDonald and Gompers In near fist fight in convention of miners at In dlanaMlls. Gompers defends his as sociation from attack anil makes de nials of charges against himself. Growth of Poi'tluiiil and the North west warrants regional bank in form er city says scakcr at hearing today. Trial of Porter Charlton for mur dering his wife Is lmstponcd until June to allow judges to make Investi gation of story told by defendant. Chief engineer of power plant at Walla Walla dies from result ot elec trical shock received when he Is mak ing repairs. Local. Dave Nelson and Frank Fairbanks to open garage In Snyder building-. Supt. lenders conducting examina tions for apiolntment to naval acad emy. Nine Jurors sign verdict for plain tiff In Smiley vs. Temple case. Home of R. E. Chloupek Is- bur glarised. Ottke seeks damages front Frank Pedro for dog bite. Water board takes steps to secure money to complete gravity system. Roll of honor for public schools given oat. BUI 2 APPLICAHTS IE EXilH United States Naval Tests are Held Under Directions of Superintend ent Landers. With but two applicants present. Supt. J. 8. Landers of the Pendleton public schools is today conducting the examinations which will deter mine tentatively the young man to receive the appointment to the U. S. naval academy from the second con gressional, district of Oregon. Irwin Rand, son of John L. Rand, promi nent Baker attorney, and Clarence L. Carson of Hermiston. are the two young men taking the examination. : The test plan is one adopted by Representative N. J. Sinnott to de termine the fitness of the applicants. He appointed Supt. Landers chairman of a board to administer these exami nations an. made them open to any young man in the district under the age limit. Examinations were held last week at Klamath Falls and the papers or the applicants 'there will be sent here for grading. The one re ceiving the highest grades will be named the principal, the second high est will be named first alternate and so on down. Though receiving the appointment, the principal will be re quired to pass the entrance examina tions of the naval academy before he can enter. Failing the first alter nate receives his chance. The applicants are being examined in geometry, algebra, arithmetic, ge ography, history and grammar. Grades in punctuation and spelling will be given from the papers in the other subjects. The examinations will continue through tomorrow and it will be necessary to hold a night ses sion tonight. BBABD TUG STEPS MOHET HEEOED ON About $40,000 Necessary in View of Chairman--Change in Pipe Line Plans the Chief Cause. That the plans of the water board for raising the additional money need ed for the gravity system are still ten tative was stated today by J. T. Brown chairman of the board. Thus far the only action taken by the board has consisted in instructing the chairman to consult with the finance committee of the council upon the subject. Such a consultation will be held soon' and more definite plans determined upon It is Mr. Brown's view that about $40,000 will be needed. That additional money will be need ed for the new system has always been stated by the members of the water board. The need of additional money has been apparent, they say, ever since the change was made from a wooden to a concrete pipeline. At the time the big bond Issue was first authorized It was the intention of the board to lay a wooden pipeline. The change to concrete pipe not only in creased the cost of the pipe line ma terial but also added to the length of the line as it is now a pressure line. It Is also pointed out by Mr. Brown that since the project was first taken up It has been necessary to do much work In town on account of street pav. Ing. On a number of streets new mains have been laid so as to have geed mains under the pavement. At this time the board is planning to lay a new main under East Court street from Mill street to Webb if that thor oughfare is paved. The present pipe on that street has been in use for 23 years. X'ntil recently it was the hope of the water commissioners to get along with out asking the people to vote any fur ther bonds. Under tho charter the board can sell $15,000 bonds on Its own initiative and can incur a war rant Indebtedness of $10 000. In this way $2 5, On ti could be obtained and special accommodations might be ob tained for the balance. However with the contention against the water pro ject It mifcht be difficult to secure money that way and It would also be more expensive and bank loans draw eight per cent Interest whereas bond money costs but five per cent. Con sequently It Is more than probable that the people will be asked to vote a bond Issue covering the amount needed. WILL VOTE ON $110,000 BONDS FOR HIGH SCHOOL EUGENE. Ore.. Jan. 30 The peo ple of Eugene will be given a chance on February 20 to say whether or not they want a new high school this year. The board of education has ordered a special election for that day to vote upon the question of the Issuance of $110,000 in bonds for the erection ot a building upon a block of land bought a year ago. DARING m SAVES MAN! IN BURNING HOUSE 7 Rushes From Top to Bottom of Five Story Tenement Awaking Oc cupants Who Make Escape. BELIEVED ALL ARE SAFE Mm. William Massover in Early Morn Ing Hours Prove Herself Heroine Firemen Give Her Full Credit for . Averting . Tragedy Throe Fire lighters Are Injured. CHICAGO, Jan. 30. Barefooted and In her nightdress. Mrs. William Massover, early today ran from the bottom to the top of a southside five story apartment house, pressing elec tric buttons and warning her neigh bors the building was burning. The firemen believed that all escaped safe ly and gave Mrs. Massover the credit of averting a shocking tragedy. . Two women, and one child are un accounted for but It is thought they got out and took refuge with friends. No bxl I ps were found in the ruins. - Three firemen were hurt fighting the flames. The house is known as "Babies' Row,'" because children al ways swarmed the entrance. The fire is attributed to spontaneous combus tion from i rubbish heap in the base ment. The loss is $300,000. If mirrors portrayed us as others see us, we would never use them. TO SECURE MODE HEW VATER SYSTEM - MVLTI-MIl.LIOVAIRE Sl'GAK MAN OF HONOLULU, DEAD SAX FRANCISCO. Jan. 30. Wil liam G. Irwin, multi-millionaire su gar planter of Honolulu, died at his home here. At the bedside -were his wife. Mrs. Fannie Ivers Irwin, his daughter. Mrs. Charles Templeton Crocker and her husband. Irwin was 76 years old. TRIAL OF CHARLTON IS P0STP0NE0 UNTIL JUNE JUDGES ORDER INVESTIGATION OF STORY' TOLD B WIFE MURDERER. Como, Italy, Jan. 30. The trial of Porter Charlton, an American, for wife murder was ordered postponed until June. It is understood the post ponement Is due to the court's beliel of Charlton's declaration that his wife was sexually abnormal and pos sessed of a dual nature. Sensational revelations are expected from an in vestigation ordered by the Judges. The sentiment is with Charlton. Charlton is a son of former Federal Judee Charlton, a classmate and inti mate friend of Taft. Mrs. Charlton's badly mangled body was found in a trunk In lake Como. He was extra dited to Italy from Hoboken. New Jersey. SAMUEL GOMPERS DEFENDS FEDERATION FROM ATTACK INDIANAPOLIS. Jan.- 31 Samuel Gompers. president of the American Fed. 'ration of Labor, defended his or ganization and its executive council in a speech before the convention of the United Mine Workers of America, against charges made by Charles H. Moyer, president of the Western Fed eration of Miners; Duncan McDon ald, of Illinois and others in the con vention. Mr. Moyer charges that if the copper strike In Michigan should be lost. It would be due to the Inac tivity of the executive board of the Anurican Federation of Labor. Mr. Gompers asserted that it would be impossible to levy an assessment for the copper mine strikers of Mich igan and denied that the organization is "reactionary, fossilized, worm-eaten and dead." and that the executive council 1 made up of "boozeflghtera." Powder Magazine Explode. GENOA. Italy. Jan. 30. A powJer maaazine of the nearbr fortifications 1 exploded killing five soldiers And one j civilian and seriously injuring nine others. CITY'S GROWTH SHOWS NEED REGIONAL BAN Washington, Idaho, Western Montana and Oregon Does Most of Bank ing Business With Portland. NORTHWEST MAKIX6 STRIDES President A. L. Mill or first Na tional Bank of Portland la Chief Speaker Before Hearing -If Reserve Rank is Needed, Government Should Help He Declares in Speech, PORTLAND. Ore , Jan. SO. Presi dent A. L. Mills of the First Nation al Bank and the president also of the Portland Clearing House was the prin cipal speaker today k at the regional bank hearing before Secretaries Mc Adoo and Houston. At the conclusion of his address, setting forth Portland's claims to a regional bank, In answer to questions by McAdoo how Portland would over come the currency acta requirement for a capitalization of four million dol lars when the northwest can only pre sent about two and one half trillions of capital. Mills replied: "I believe it is almost an insupportable obstacle but If we are able to show we are so situated as to need a reserve bank then the government should help us." Mills stated that letters received from bankers in Washington Idaho, western Montana and Oregon, showed that most of the banking business Is done with Portland. In his address Mills aald: "Nature has set apart the northwest to be a district by itself. If it la not qualified to receive a regional bank of ita own, there la no doubt it soon will be in the future." - . Mills presented figures which h said showed Portland's industrial and financial supremacy in the northwest. CHIEF ENGINEER IF POWER PLANT KILLED BY CURRENT ROY SHINX OF WALLA WALLA, DIES FROM EFFFXTS OF 25.000 VOLTS. WALLA WALLA. Jan. 30 Roy Shinn. chief engineer of the Pacific Power & Light company's plant In this city, died in St. Mary's hospital early this morning, as the result of a shock he received in the sub-station on Sixth street shortly after 11 o'clock lust night. The city was thrown in darkness for over half an. hour in or der that his associates could remove his body from an oil switch rans former upon which he had been pln lcned by 25.000 vaults of electricity. He had been cleaning the switch connecting a high power line from the river plant and undoubtedly be lieved the line was dead for he picked up the loose end. The wire was charged. He was drawn to the appa ratus with Irresistible force and with such quietness that Electricians Hughes and Crevellng who were working about 20 feet away did not realize what had happened for sev eral seconds. They heard a buzzing noise as the current burncJ Into his body and looking around they first thought that he was leaning over th transformer to clean some lower part. NOTES FROM HOT LAKE. HOT LAKE SPRINGS, Jan. 30. (Special) Pendleton continues to send Its quota of sufferers from rheu matism to eastern Oregon's noted health resort. Those to arrive during the week were Mrs. J. J. Wodnege. Charles C. Peterson. F. S. and C. C. Creel, Wm. Kononen. A. C. Snider, .Caroline Rosenberg. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Schons and C. O. Kinehart. Miss Rosenberg was up to speml the week end with her father who m here for treatment. BABIES AND CHILDREN ARE EATEN SAYS MISSIONARY CANNIBALISM EXISTS IN NEW GUINEA TO ALARMING EX TENT AMONG NATIVES. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 30. Rev. H. A. Malley. a young Congregational missionary who arrived on the liner Ventura from the Antipodes, assert that cannibalism still exists to a largi degree In New Guinea. Babies an l little children are the principal vic tims, according to the missionary, who also brought details of the death of the German explorer. Werner, In the Jungle wilds or the Island. "The fact Is startling, but true." he said, "that nine-tenth of the pris oners held by the British government in New Guinea are confined either for murder or cannibalism."