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DAILY EVEI1III6 EDIT10II I u I DAILY EVENING EDITION VnrrrnM for Eautern Oregon. sy tlM United statm Weather Obssrrer I Portland. TO ADVERTISERS, The Rait Oregonlan bai the largest paid rlrrolatloo of any papr In Oregon, eaat of I'ortland and over twlca tbe circulation to Pendleton of.anjr other aewapaper. Fair tonight and Wednesday. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER, ? COUNTY OFFICIAL PIPER. VOL.' 25. ; .,' FENDLETOy, OREGOy, TIT RSI) AY, FKBKUAKY 17, 1U. Jf STEAMER SINKS AT CONGRESS APPEARS B0USE eoE mi srm 10 111 PIER; PASSENGERS TD FAVOR LEASING M M Hi VBMEH DECLARES A Ml OFF SAFELY SYSTEM III ALASKA JLJ1U-, MB AT IRE 110 Persons Are Rescued When Queen City Goes Down in Ohio River Near Louisville, Ky. . Ycws-l Was Trjlng to Make landing When Current Dashes It Against Wharf Mot of the Passengers Were Asleep Wlien Shock Comes lifesavers Got Every One Off Boat LOUISVILLE. Ky.. Feb. 17. With 110 Mardl Qraa excursionists aboard the river steamboat Queen City, bound from Pittsburg to New Orleans, sank arly today. The vessel was trying to make a landing; when the current dashed It against the pier and stove a hole In Us side. The passengers were In a panic but everyone vs v d. Most of the passengers were asleep when they suddenly were awakened by the crash against the pier. For a time Captain Leeper and his crew had difficulty In preventing a number throwing themselves overboard. Life belts were quickly distributed but proved not to be needed, the local life saving crew getting everyone off In boats or directly onto the pier. FORMER LOCAL MAN SAYS BAKK IS NOT INSOLVENT A. E. LAMBERT IS CASHIER POW DER VALIiEY RANK WTIICH . . . CLOSE , A. E. Lambert, formerly connected with the American National Bank In this city. Is cashier of the Powder Valley State Bank of North Powder, which failed to open it doors yester day morning on account of Its reserve Wing below the legal limit. The fail ure of the bank to open was first as cribed to the. Illness of Cashier Lam bert but afterwards Lambert himself made a statement In which he de clared the bank Is not Insolvent and would be ready to open for business again as soon as a little readjustment had been made. State Superintendent of Banks Sar gent left Salem yesterday for North Powder to tnke charge of the bnnk. The capital itock of the bank Is $20,000. At the last statement the deposits were more than $50,000 and the loans more than $58,000. 11. O. Gorman la president of the bnnk. F. Vandecar Is vice president; A. B. Lambert; cashier, and John L. Kllklnson, assistant cashier. Large sums are said to have been withdrawn from the bank since Feb ruary 7, when the bank lost a suit to collect $1800 fromWI)i Huddleton on a cancelled note. The bank's dif ficulties are said to date from last July when the Mettler-Hemstead Lumber company failed, owing the bank more than $8000. Withdrawals of more than ordinary size are said to have been begun a month ago to be followed by exceptional withdraw ing last week. CAMINETTI MAY RUN FOR GOVERNORSHIP CALIFORNIA COMMISSIONER GENERAL OF IM MIGRATION ADM IT'S HE'S (X1NSIDERING. WASHINGTON. Feb. 17. Commis sioner Gencrnl of ImmlRrntion Cam Inettl admitted thnt he was runnln for the governorship of California on the democratic ticket. Ho expected to make a definite announcement on March 1. Ho snld that if he de cided to run It would not be because of friction between himself and of ficials of the administration. He de nied he had displeased the adminis tration by his recent exclusion speech before the house Immigration com mittee, but it Is certain that demo cratic leaders Insist he embarrassed the administration. TRAINS CRASH AND 60 PERSONS ARE INJURED SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Feb. 17. Six ty were Injured, five seriously. In a crash of east and west b und Frisco passenger trains at Nichols Junction early today. The west bound train sideswlped the other hurling three couches Into a ditch. Hearings on Lane's Bill Starts Be- f ( T ' J), ; fore the House Land Committee If ?i V Y f Over Coal Question. ,., e ACREAGE CHARGES PROVIDED Resources of Country Arc Under Dis cussion Deposits Best Handled ThroiiKli Putting Development In to Private Hands at Nomina) Cliargcs. WASHINGTON", Feb. 17. Hearing on Secretary of the Interior Lane's bill authorizing the leasing of Alas kan coal lands was started before the house land committee. Indications were that the sentiment of congress favors the leasing system to develop the resources of Alaska. The bill pro vides an acreage charge ranging from twenty-five cents to a dollar and twenty-five cents an acre with an extra charge of two cents per ton on the coal mined. INDICTMENT AGAINST PRES MELLEN ALLOWED TO STANO BRIDGEPORT. Conn., Feb. 17. State's Attorney Judson quashed the manslaughter Indictments against five officials of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, but re fused to quash the indictment against former President Charles W. Mellen. The wrecks occurred at Westport, Conn., October 3, 1912, In which sev en persons were killed. Homer 8. Cummtngs of Stamford, chief counsel for the dependants, said over the telephone that he had been advised that three of the four counts In the indictment against Mr. Mellen had been nulled. The case against him now rets on one count, which unlike the other counts, does not go Into detail as to the causes of alleged negligence. Mr. Cummlngs said he would insist on an Immediate trial of Mr. Mellen. OPINION DIVIDED ON FATE OF THE IMMIGRATION BILL POLITICIANS PREDICT WILSON WILL VETO MEASURE NOW IN SENATE. NEW YORK, Feb. 17. Opinion I divided aa to the stand President Wil son will take on the Burnett immigra tion bill. Politicians predicted he would veto the measure If It passes the senate carrying the literacy test. The bill already has paased the house. Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia, chairman of the senate immigration committee, said he expected the pres ident will sign the bill If It goes through the senate with a big major ity. In this event, he said, the presi dent would consider the sentiment of the country wan with the literacy test LOCAL MAN MAY RECEIVE PENSION FROM WASHINGTON If a bill Introduced in the United States senate several days ago la paas ed, Thomas Jordan, well known young man of this city, will be placed upon the government pension bill and will receive $20 a month from the U. S treasury. The bill was Introduced by Senator George Chamberlain on Feb 12 and a copy of It has Just been re ceived by Mr. Jordan. Jordan was a member of the com pany which Pendleton sent to the Philippines during the Spanish-Am erican war In 1S98. Co. D, Oregon Vol unteer Infantry. While in the IslanJe he contracted fever and rheumatism which has left him more or less phy slcally incapable ever since. He has not been able to do a day'a woik for the past six months because of his ail ments of Philippine nriKln. His friends and former comrades have in terested themselves in hi.s behalf and the bill Just Introduced is the result GRANTS PASS WOMEN DINE Banquet U Given by I-adlos" Auxiliary of Commercial Club. GRANTS PASS. Ore., Feb. 17. One hundred and fifty persons represen tative of the LadleB' Auxiliary' of the Commercial Club gave a banquet at a local hotel. Mrs. Arthur Conklln president of the Ladles' Auxiliary, was toastmlstress. H. L Gllkey. Mayor McKinstry, Mrs E. Q. Harris. Mrs. Woodard and Mrs. Jane McKlbbon, chairman of the Na tional food sanitation committee, re sponded to toasts. A literary program also was given, 'M ss- lJM itylr 1 1F H o I r TTtir i-Trmn The fcub-committee of the commit tee of the house of representatives to Investigate the conduct of United States Judge Emory Speer of Georgia is made up of Representatives John O. FloyJ of Arkansus, Edwin Y. I RESIGNATION OF REV AKEO HAS NOT BEEN ACCEPTED CHIRCH I EDERATION BY VOTE OF 71 TO 19 TWIN'S MAT TER DOWN. SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. i -By a vote of 74 to 19. the Sun Francisco I church federation refused to accept Mut mercy, for the extermination the resignation of the Rev. Charles F. of the ,n Pendleton Is to he con Aked. pastor of the First Congrega- duet,ed ner this i'rin under the d1' tlonal church, as president of the or ganization. Dr. Aked had been criti cised by members of the federation for saying In a sermon he did not ad here to the orthodox belief regarding the virgin birth of Christ. Dr. Aked announced several days ago that he would resign the presidency. FINAL TRIBUTE IS PAID TO LATE SENATOR BACON SIMPLE SERVICES ARK HELD IN THE SENATE MCSIC AND FLOWERS LACKING. WASHINGTON. Feb. 17. Final tribute was paid the late Senator Ba con In the senate this afternoon. The Episcopal funeral service was read by Bishop Harding of Washington. Prayer was offered by Rev. Prettyman, sen' ate chaplain. The services were simple without music or flowers. WASTE OF M.000.000 ON RAILWAYS ALLEGED OTTAWA. Ont, Feb. 14. That the Transcontinental Railway company, the Grand Trunk Railway and those having charge of the construction of the Pacific coast extension failed to practice economy, and that at least $40,000,000 was expended needlessly. Is the report made by the commission ers named by the government to in vestigate the Transcontinental. The findings of F. P. Gutellus and J. Lynch Staunton, the commissioners, were placed yesterday on the tables of the house of commons. LUMBER MILLS TO RKSl'ME. Season's Run in Washington County to Start in SO Days. H1L1.SBORO. Ore., Feb. 17. Near ly all the county sawmills will begin the reason's run within the next 30 days, the foreign demand for lum ber, as well as the local demand, caus ing orders. The mills In the count cut more than 200.000,000 feet an nually. The Commercial Club of this city Is regotiuting for the location of a large mill near the city limits, on the Tilla mook line. EF CHILD READY SALES IN Save the babies. Sufeguard the boys and girls. Give the youth high ideals of mar riage and home-making. Educate the father. Train the mother. Ennoble the home. Briefly stated these are the broad purposes for which many ladles ol Pendleton are today selling little Am erican flags on the streets and in the stores. Today is "Child Welfare Day." so proclaimed by Governor West, and nearly every city of any size in Ore rin mi I 1TIMIV- -Eg.. i From Left to Right Representatives Floyd. Webb, Webb of North Carolina and A. J. Volstead of Minnesota. Judge Speer was seriously 111 at the time of the ap pointment of the sub committee, but he said he would go to the hearings If he had to be carried, there. BITTER FLY IN W W 1 1 1 WAGED ON PENDLETON THIS A campaign, bitter, relentless and i recxion oi jjr. Pinion r . noage, ine greatest foe of the little pent in the country as well as being one of the greatest exponents of nature study. The schools and Civic club will co operate with DfV Hodge and the cam paign will be systematic, thorough ana compartlvely Inexpensive. Dr. Hodge will give his services gratis. He is at present working with the extension department of the University of Oregon, which institu tion is sending him over the state to assist the people of the different com munities. Last spring Dr. HoJge conducted a vigorous campaign In Eugene and secured wonderful . re sults. Already, the parent-teachers' clubs In fortland have secured him to carry on a similar campaign in the metropolis this spring while many other cities have done likewise. Dr. Hodge laid the foundation for his campaign several months ago when he lectured here upon the fly, actually proving that it is the most dangerous carrier of disease germs. He will be here again on March 9 and will lecture at the high school upon BOTH SIBES REST CASE IN TRIAL OF SENATOR 60RE JURY EXPECTED TO DEIiEBER ATE THIS AFTERNOON INSTRUCTION GIVEN. OKLAMOHA CITY, Feb. 17. The defense and the prosecution In the Oore trial rested at 9:50 this morn ing. The case Is expected to go to the 'jury this afternoon. Justice Clark Instructed the jury that the burden of proof rested on the plaintiff. He said the existence of a conspiracy to secure political pre ferment mlglt be proved by direct or circumstantial evidence. He directed the jury to return a verdict for the plaintiff If the jury found that Gore had bild hands on the plaintiff with out her consent or believing she would consent. Benedict gets From his better half, this advice early In the course of mat rimony: "When In douht. listen to me; when not in doubt, listen to me. unyway." gon I observing It by contributing to the fund of the Oregon Congress of Mothers through the purchase of niln ature flags. One thousand was the number of flags allotted to the Pendleton parent teacher associations for sale and. ac cording to a statement made by Mrs. J. S. Landers, vice-president of the mothers' congress at 3 o'clock every one of this supply will have brought in a ten cent piece before evening. (Continued on page five.) PENDLETON and Volstead.' One of the charges In the Inquiry concerns the property of former May or Huff of Macon. It has been In the hands of the court for several years, and the statement has been made that such estates have been dinslpated by the delays in the court. the means of ridding a community of flies. Under his direction and with the co-operation of the schools and the Civic club, the city will be thoroughly gone over and mapped by committees to ascertain the exact location of re fuge heaps, garbage cans, manure piles and similar breeding places and then, supplementary. Dr. Hodge's fly trap will be Introduced. These traps, which are very effective In luring the winged pests to prison and ultimate death, are simply made, and the high school manual training department will manufacture them and dispose of them at actual cost. Prof. Chloupek Is now making estimates upon the cost of these little devices, which fastened on the edge of a garbage can or stationed near a refuse pile, will catch millions of the germ car riers. The education of the people to the dangers in harboring the inoffensive looking housefly will be an import ant part of the campaign and the ne cessity of cleanliness In the homes, barns, stores and yards will be empha sized. With the purpose of further ing this end, most of the graduates of the high school will, this spring, write their theses upon civic Improvement. RECORD VOTE EXPECTEO IN PRIMARIES IN SEATTLE NOMINATION OF HIRAM C GILL CONCEDED 17 CAN DIDATES ON BALIiOT. SEATTLE. Feb. 17. In spite of a slight drizzle. Seattle probably will roll up nearly a record vote at the primary election In which 47 candi dates are on the ballot, nine of whom are out for the mayoralty. It Is gen erally conceded that Hiram C. Gill, recalled from the mayoralty in 1911. will be nominated. Two will be nom inated for mayor and these will fight it out. The final election Is on March 3. BODY IS IXU NP IN RIVER. Coroner I.eaxes ;rants Pass to Make I an Investigation. 'GRANTS PASS, Ore.. Feb. It!. Deep mystery surrounds the finding of the body of a man floating In an eddy of the Rogue river near the mouth of Taylor creek, below the Galice mining district. A deputy sheriff and Coroner Truax left to make an investigation of the tragedy. There is a theory that the body may be that of one or two persons who dis. appeared lust December. One of i..ra ! was Ed Sappe. a, young miner. The I other was John A. Spaulding. a Weal thy lumberman of Seattle, who left Roseburg December S for Grants Pass to investigate timber holdings In southern Oregon. His relatives havej not yet heard from him. MORGAN'S ASSOCIATE DIES. John H. Harjos. Paris Banker, Vic tim of long Illness. GRASSE, France, Feb. 17. John H. Harjes, who for years was a partnet In the banking house of Morgan. Har jes & Co.- of Paris, died. He had been ill for several weeks, and mem bers of his family were summoned from Paris on Friday. Mr. Harjes retired from active bus iness In 1903. SPRING Michigan Mine Owners Alleged to Have Employed Guards Which Used Firearms Freely. WOMEN DOING PICKET DUTY Wot Not on Mine Iroperty, Declares Witness. But Were Ordered Away Guards Alleged to Have Stoned Them and Beat Tlu-m With Sticks on December 11. . HANCOCK. Mich.. Feb. 17. That gunmen in the mine owners' service fired on women strike pickets was as serted by Mrs. Selma Helppla. a wit ness before the congressional com mittee Investigating labor conditions In the Michigan copper country. "It happened December 11," she said through an interpreter. "A num ebr of other women and I were do ing picket duty for the striker in the Houghton county road. We were not on mine property but deputies or dered us away and then shot at us. When we fled they stoned us and chased after us, beating us with sticks. Six women were . knocked down." Strikers wives were numerous at the hearing. MOB TAKES NEGROES FROM ;TRAIN;0XE IS LYKCHED HERNANDO. Miss.. Feb. 17. Stopping an Illinois Central passenger train in the woods near Love Station. Miss.. 50 masked men held passengers and train crew under cover of revolv ers while they forced Sheriff E. V Nichols of De Sota county, to turn over to them two negroes accused of wounding J. K. Ingram, a wealthy mill owner near Byhalla, Miss., sever al weeks ago. The negroes were John son McGuIrk and William Phillips. When the sheriff and his two pris oners disembarked, the mob permit ted the train to proceed, while they marched the handcuffed negroes to a trestle. Preparations were being made to lynch both, but the pleadings of Nichols in behalf of Phillips, against whom it Is stated the evidence Is Blight, were effective and he was returned to the sheriff. A rope was placed around McGulrk's neck and he was forced to leap from the Driage. The mob then disappeared. mm MEN RESCUED FROM RIGGINGS BY LI FESA VERS ORLEANS, Mass.. Feb. 17. Four Ice-covered corpses and four barely- living men were found by life saver lashed to the rigging of the caivian bark Castagna. stranded on Cape Cod bar. Rescuers fired a line aboard but when It was seen that nobody on the vessel was capable of working the breeches buoy they put out in a lifeboat. Even after revived the sur vivors were unable to talk coherently NEWS SUMMARY General. Steamer sinks In Ohio river after striking pier but passengers are taken safely off by llfesavers. Ijirco vote being east In Seattle primaries. Commissioner Immigration t aml nettl will enter ra"e for governorship of California. Gore i-ase goes to jury. Prediction made that lresident I Wilson will veto the Burnett Immigra tion bill because of literacy tost. Congress apears to favor leasing system In development of Alaska coal lands. Two die in fire in lUmerly bxlin house. j Final honors paid late Senator Ra-; eon In senate. Trains crash In Missouri and BO per- sons are Injured. Kmnt nonr law noes not appiy i police or firemen declares state su preme court lu opinion. Witness declares gunmen fired on women during wpi-vr "irlke. Local. Child Welfare Day in Pendleton Rinrkni by e ot nmny UtUe nags Jim Dupuis is federal prisoner and held under S'.'OlM) bonds. CamiMilgn to make IVntUctoti fly less city to be prosecuted ligorounly this spring. "Billy" llayward preaches doctrine of physical cducutlon to std-nts and parent. Bulgin to be here- Thursday; substi tute until Uten. IVndleton bein considered a home for military academy. O. A. C. Glee Hub here tonight. Rill introduced lu U. S. senate to give local man peusion. NO. 8117 TWO DIE MR MAM IIIJIED III FIRE III LODGING HOUSE Bowery Rooming Place is Destroyed by Blaze Tenants are Cut off from the Exits. EXPLOSION WRECKS ROOF Fireman Who Rescue Woman Is Among- Thone Injured Man With Baby in Arms lit Found in Rains' People In Upper Floors Fled n Roof Jost Before It FeH la. NEW YORK. Feb. 17. Two per ished and several were injured while dozens narrowly escaped in a Are which destroyed the Bowery lodging house. Exits by the stairs were cat off and the tenants on the upper floors fled to the roof where they waited nnclad In the snow until Bre men rescued them. While rescue work was in progress an explosion either of dynamite or gun cotton blew a section of the roof off. Fireman Killbride and a woman he had saved were hurled to the street and seri ously injured. The body of David Barani was found In the ruins with James Frano. 2. In his arms. He evi dently died trying to save the Child. DUPUIS IS MDICTEO BY FDRTLAKD FEDERAL JURY Jim Dupuis, proprietor of a Cotton wood street pawnshop and for many years a thorn in the side of the offi cers, is today a prisoner of the United States and is being held under $2000 bonds pending his trial upon an in dictment recently returned against him by the federal grand jury la Portland.- U. S. Deputy Marshal Ful ler made the arreet this morning up on a bench warrant and, being unable to furnish the bail, be is now in the county Jail. He will be taken to Portland later. The exact technical charge against him is not known here inasmuch as the warrant was issued from Port land and the bonds fixed there also. However, the case against him is known to grow out of the Columbia George murder trial last fall when Dupuis. as a witness for the govern ment, proved instead a witness for the defense by testifying, as Prosecu tor Everett Johnson thought, falsely A number of witnesses from this city appeared before the grand jury in Portland about ten days ago and from the questions asked them., it is be lieved that the charge against him la perjury. It was in Dupuis' shop, according to the testimony of a number of wit nesses in the murder trial, that Col umbia George drank liquor with Toy Toy, Andy Bamhart and possibly others on the morning of the murder He was called by the prosecution to answer the question as to whether or not the accused Indian' had not pawned a bridle at his shop on the morning of the murder. It was from the money thus secured that George bought the alcohol, the prosecution contended. DupiAi, hojver. testified that the bridle was pawned some time before and further testiffled that he did not remember that the accused man had been in his shop that day. Dupuis has been regarded for year by officers af the ringleader of a group of bootleggers who furnished Indians i with liquor, but. If guilty, he has al I way been a little too shrewd to allow I himself to be caught. EIGHT HOUR LAW OOES NOT APPLY TO POLICE, FIREMEN ! STATE SW'REMF CO WIT SAYs ' THEY RH NOT LABORERS, BIT OITKVRS. j SALEM Ore.. Fc! j tha t'h; firemen anJ 17 -Holding policemen of Portland are not laborers but offi cers, the supreme court d-'i:ired the state elKht hour law doe not apply tc them. Mayor Altn-e who theoret ically was confined in Jail on a com plaint brought by State 1-abor Com missioner Hoff was ordered released from custody. Kdltor Die In Snowdrift. CARD1EN CITY L. I. Feb 17-- Kdlt or E. N. Townsend of the Nusui't County Republican, was found fro en to death in a snowdrift In fron of his home. He was an elderly man and In poor health. It Is bllel he fell exhausted while fighting th Mlziard. Klag Albert Injured. BRUSSELS, Feb. 17. King Atbart was thrown from his horse and his left arm broken.