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DAILY EVENING EDITION DAILY EVENING EDITIOfl Forecrnvt for Eastern Oregrin. by the United Mates Weather Ohwmer at Portland. ; TO ADVERTISERS. , The Rtat Oregonlaa has the largest pal' circulation of a 117 paper In Oregon, east of Portland and over twice the circulation la I'endleton of any other newspaper. Generally fair tonight an 1 Friday. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER. CITY OFFICIAL PAVER VOL 26. PENDLETON OREGON, THURSDAY, HAKCH 12, 1M. NO. 8137 H SPECIAL ELECTION TO PASS ON BOND ISSUE ASKED BY VOTERS Initiative Petition is Presented the Council at Meeting Last . Night Referred to Committee. WILL REPORT BACK FRIDAY Petition is Signed by 0O Voter $40,000 Ilmd I9ue Is Wanted by Water Commission to Pay for Com jkllon of Gravity Synteni Clutugc f Pipe Responsible. Plgned by 300 voters, the Initiative petition asking for a special election at which to vote upon a $40,000 bond Issue for the completion of the grav ity system wag presented to the city council lust evening. It was referred to a special committee which will can vass the names and report at an ad journed session Friday evening. The petition asking for the present ing of a charter amendment to the voters at the same election which. If adopted, would enable the council to muke a reassessment In Improvement districts In case any court annuls the previous assessment or if for any rea son It is held void, was not presented lost evening. It was not circulated until yesterday and there were a few names lucking tq give It the necessary 15 per cent It will probably be pre sented at the adjourned session Fri day. This amendment. If adopted, Is Intended to be retroactive In order that a reassessment can be made on Jackson street. The proposed HO. 000 water bond Issue Is asked for by the water com mission to enable It to complete the rravltv water system by sumTner, the additional sum being necessary by the change from wooden to concrete pipe and by line betterments within the city. The money necessary will not ii derived from taxation, as some people erroneously believe. but from the sale of bonds which will be taken up by revenues produced by the water-system. More, raving Work. Proceedings looking to additional street paving were taken at the meet ing last evening. The grades, plans anri anertflrntlons for East Court street from Vincent to the eastern cltv limits, for Lee street from Court to the brl.Ige and for Matlock street from Court to the- new bridge were adopted by the council and second resolutions were also passed for the Rust Court and U'e street improve menU. These Improvements will also Include the paving of the triangular T,w. nf street at the end of Alta Kreet. .' . A petition signed by Mrs. A. D, Sloan and other ladles as a committee cn "a city beautiful" asking that Oartield street be cleared of hayracks and other unsightly objects kept there fc residents was reportcj upon fa vorably by the street committee and vtr.t rnmmlssloner Heathman was Instruted to abate the nuisance. The north side sewer was ordered repaired at the Matlock street bridge. The council also considered Installing new fire hydrants on Main street In asmuch as the constant use of the present ones by the street clenners wear out the delicate threndlng. These blydrants. in case new ones of dif ferent make are ordered, will be mov ed to some other part of the city. Upon motion of Councilman Dyer, a fence was ordered placed along the east and north sides of Olney ceme tery, W. K Porter was . retained na sexton and the old rates for water were put Into effect Tor the coming summer. The treasurer's monthly report was read. Other matters coming before the council are reported elsewhere In these columns. - Earth Stwx'Ic Is Recorded. C1.EVEI.AND, O., March 11. The seismograph at the observatory at St. Ignatius college here recorded an earthquake which Bev. Father Oden bach says apparently was In Japan. India or China. SUFFRAGIST WHO CHOPPED VENUS IS SENT TO JAIL WOMAN IS TAKEN OCT OF OOCRT . CRYING SHE'S GLAD SHE'S MARTYRED. - LONDON. March 12. Sen- teneed to six mcnttia hard la bor. Mary Richardson, who used a meat axe on VeloaquM'e "Ve- nus." as carried shrleklwc from court declaring she was ' glad to be martyred aa a protest against the slow murder of Mrs. Pankhurst. She pleaded guilty. She already has declared . a hunger strike." The rrosecutor expressed doubt of her sanity. Coal $57.80 Ton in North. SALT LAKE CITV. March 12 A shipment of 300 tons of Utah coal just sent to Alaska will cost $57.80 a ton when delivered. The coal Is billed to a mining com pany operating dredges north of Nome: It will be hauled overland by dog sledge from Nome. TWO ARE KILLED BY MAN WHO THEN JAKES OWN LIFE ATT EMITS TO MURDER WIFE AL SO AXI) HER CONDITION IS CRITICAL. . CHEHALIS, Wash., March 12. Tom Hardin last night shot and kill ed William Hagerman, Mrs. Artie Hagerman, who was the wife of the latter, made a murderous assault on his own wife, Mrs. Itosey Hardin, leav ing her for dead, then stepped out side the Hagerman home on lower I'Hclflc avenue, and killed himself. Mrs. Hardin Is lying at the point of death at a local hospital and is not expected to recover. . Hardin had been having trouble with his wife and blamed the Hager mans, with whom she was staying. INDIAN IN DRUNKEN RAGE ASSAULTS WIFE; WOMAN IN CRITICAL CONDITION AND MAY DIE Anderson Shippentower May Have to Face Charge of Murder-Attack Occurs Near Tutuilla Mission Last Night-Woman's Skull is Fractured-No Reason Known for Assault-Indian Says He Does Not Remember What Took Place. His brain crazed by "bootlegger booze," Anderson Shippentower, a well known young Indian, last nigh brutally assaulted his wife and is tar day in jail with a strong probability of a charge of murder being placed against him. His wife, 'Who is a dau ghter of William Barnhart, Is lying In a critical condition with a fracture at the base of her skull and with half of her body paralysed. Her chances of recovery are said to be small. The assault occurred at the hitch ing racks lust a short distance from the doorstep of the Ttutllla mission where Indian revivals are now being conducted. Shippentower had been In the city and. though he Is a temper ance Indian, got hold of some whiskey in some manner and. in a drunken condition, appeared without the home of William Wheeler in which his wife was staying He called her out and beat her Into Insensibility. He was arrested soon afterward by the Indian police and, handcuffed, was brought Into Pendleton at a-late hour and lodged In the city Jail. The squaw was unconscious for over four hours. Ir. T. M. Henderson, the res ervation physician, was summoned this morning and found the left side of her body paralyzed and a fracture of the skull at its base. She was In jured painfully in other parts., too, and the doctor is doubtful whether she will live. Shippentower declares he has no remembrance of the incident. He on- Believes it Because it is in the Bible Account Doesn't Mention Whale But Says "God Prepared a Great Fish" Answers Other Questions. Subject for tonight: "What Is Business, or the King's Business?" A.U the business men of the city art urged to be present. Subject for Friday evening: "Chris tlan Science." . Dr. Bulgln answered some questions and objections last night that had been sent him by letter.. One was, "What do you think of Jonah and the whale story?" ' "I believe H la authentic because it was endorsed by Christ and used to Illustrate his 'death and resurrection. Christ is divine, the son of God,' and BULGIN APPROVES STORY OE JONAH IN ANSWERING QUERY RE IT ARE SENT TO Brazilian Government Takes Steps to Quell Uprising-Fights Between Forces Are Reported. KIO JAXEirtO. March 12. Strong reinforcements of troops have been ordered by the war office to go to the state of Ceara where It was admitted the anti-government revolt is reach ing revolutionary proportions. The disorders are partly racial, industrial and political. They began In a series of strikes which spread until they Involved the state's whole working population. Fights between blacks and whites. government troops and strikers, are occurring dally. -Considerable loss of life is reported. The situation here Is practically quiet Martial law prevailed and a number of suspected plotters are in prison. ly knows that he was drunk and an effort is being made to induce him to Inform on the man who sold the liquor to him. According to Rev. J. M. Cor nelison, mislonary at Tutuilla. this is the second time the young Indian has ever been drunk. Once during the Columbia George trial he fell in with evil companions, drank some "fire water" and immediately became a "bad Indian." so bad In fact that he became dangerous and was bound with cords by other Indians to pre vent him injuring someone. He was a member of the church at Tutuilla ond also of the temperance society but recently had not been attending owing to the fact that he had moved to some distance from the church. II had moved down nearer the church, how ever, to attend the revivals. The case is one for the federal court and he will be given a hearing this afternoon before I. S. Commissioner Newberry. FATHER OF 5 PASTORS DIES. Jih-I O. Jameson, of Monmouth, Ill, Expires at Aire of S2. MONMOUTH, 111.. March 12 Joei O. Jamieson died here, aged 82. He Is survived by Jive sons, who graduat ed from Monmouth college. All of them are United Presbyterian minis ters. One grandson Is a minister and a granddaughter Is a missionary . In Egypt. never made a mistake. He knew what he was talking about. It Is our own Ignorance that makes us doubt. God sent Jonah. God prepared a grout fish, not a whale. So there you are." "Don't let what you don't know influence and prejudice what you do know. Some person told me today that. the reason be didn't unite with the 'church was because the Preaby- Pill 0(11 TROUBLE terlan minister and family went to dances. Ignorance and prejudice go together. The minister and family in question never did any such thing. Their names may have been seen in an Invited list of guests. There Is no perfect church and never will be, but a line Is drawn In these matters, and when the church stands for morality, men are against the church and will take up any slight thing to criticise It The church of Jesus Christ In all the (Continued on page I ) RTLl DIES ' I Ml! Dill 9 . A - , Shingle Strike Ends. RAYMOND. Wash., March 12. After a conference lasting far Into the night between W. T. Boyce of the department of labor, J. O. Brown, president of the' timber workers' union, K. K. Case and other mill op erators, the strike of shingle weavers which had been In force at Willapa Harbor since February 18, was called oft. ALASKA Pi. i Bill WASHINGTON, March 12. Presi dent Wilson signed the Alaska bill tills afternoon. WASHINGTON. March 12. The Alaska railroad bill reached the pres ident today. He Is expected to sign it this afternoon, using the same pen with which the signatures of Speaker Clark and Vice President were put to the rneasure. IlockhlU to Get Moore's Job. Washington, March 12. It was re ported that W. W. Rockhill, ex-minister to China and ex-ambassador to Russia, would be named to succeed John Bassett Moore as counsellor for the state department. PARDONS NOT SOUGHT VXIOX MEX WILL SERVE CLEMENCY ASKED LATER WASHINGTON, March 12. Executive clemency for the 23 union men convicted at Indian- apolis for conspiracy to trans- port dynamite, will not be asked at this time. This announce- ment was made by Senator Kern after President Wilson intimat- -ed that in no case will he inter- fere. Labor leaders through the country' are flooding Kern with messages aRking him to act. He decided it was unwise until the iron workers began servin their sentences. HAL PATTOV EXTKRS RACE. Salem State senator Aptres to Rail road Commission Seat. SALEM, Ore.. Mach 12 Hal Pat ton, state senator from this district announced that he was an aspirant for the republican nomination for state railroad commissioner. Mr. Button is a Salem mer hant and has a wide acquaintance. Frank Miller, chairman of the commission. Is a candidate for re-election subject to the action of the republican tarty. NEWS SUMMARY General. Fire at Portland does damage along waterfront estimated at more than 9 !, 0041,000. Alaska railroad bill Ih signed by President Wll.son. Torreon will bo attacked by aero pianos says Villa. Chamberlain would investigate al leged utterances of Ambassador Pago in 1ondon regarding Monroe rioctrlno and Panama canal. Troops are sent to Interior of Bra zli to liandlo uprising. Two white wtmen believed to have been raptured by Chinese bandits, local. . Anderson Shtpentowor, young In dlan, almost murders wife while eras ed, with whiskey, in Jail awaiting trial. Pendleton franchise in Western Tri stato league is surrendered foe lack Pendleton stands chance of snir. tas freight division when cutoff is built. Petition lor water bond election filed with eonneii. City may have to pay foe Jaotson street pavement it amendment falls of passage. Clean-up day named for nett week. Grand Jury returns Indictments but not against gamMora. IlluVt for uew Pendleton hotel ad vertised for. : Personnel of new fire companies fixed. 11 SIGNS THREE DOCKS ARE lit JOYED ANO 2 VESSELS $370,000 WORTH TANGO HALTS CONGRESS. So Senator Ken) on Tells Church Con ' gregation in Phlladelptiia, PHILADELPHIA, March 12. Sen ator William Kenyon, of Iowa- thinks that members of the senate and the house of representatives . spend too much time tangoing, going to dinners, receptions and theaters to give their work the consideration it deserves. The senator's views on this matter were enunciated in the course of an address to the congregation of the Fairhill Baptist church here. Oil VILL OE M Ell General Villa Prepares for Advance on City- -Foreigners Will be Given Chance to Leave. MEXICO CITY, March 12 Villa having announced an Intent to drop bombs from, an airship Into Torreon, Huerta Sent orders to the garrison's commandant today to furnish facili ties for foreigners to leave Immedi ately. It is understood he acted at the re quest of Washington. Fighting Is In progress in the vicin ity of Torreon. but the wires are cut and few details are known. Charge D'Affalres O'Shaughnessy was told bv Huerta that 2000 rebels captured the tow-ti of Corneros and two passenger trains and one freight near Torreon. CHIHUAHUA CITr, March 12. Villa was entraining troops and guns today for Torren. He had 38 can non and 225 home made shells for each of them. "We are ready for Torreon," he tolj correspondents. "If the gunners are careful of their ammunition, we have enough to blow the town off the map. I will take 5000 men with me." He intimated, he might start this afternoon. CITY MAY HAVE IF In connection with the rea.ss njent measure that is being submitted to the people for a vote in the near future parties favoring the move un derway assert that if the amendment is not adopted it is very probable the city of Pendelton will have to fight a suit brought by the Warren Con struction Co. to force the municipality to pay out of city funds the amount still due to the construction company for paving in front of the homes of James Johns and others on Jackson street. It is also pointed out that the city might be defeated in such a case and I'endleton has an excellent chance uf securing the freight division when the Coyote cutoff Is built and the mat ter will probably bo decided by the railroad officials within a few weeks. Work on the construction of the cutoff was started yesterday . when neveral carloads of equipment belong ing to Twohy Ilrot. was unloaded at Coyote. This in substance was the news brought to the city yesterday after noon when President J. D. Farrell. Vice President and General Manager O'Brien and other officials of the O. W, R, A N. C. arrived here by special train shortly before I o'clock. They ATTACKED n in IK PFNni FTilN HAS RHflNHF FHR !' I m IWLk I Wl 1 III IV Will IllVb I VIII I SECURING FREIGHT TERMINAL! OF WHEAT ID Flames Discovered Early This Morning and Gain Great Headway Before Apparatus Arrives on Scene--Asphalt Burns Like Oil-Sailor Injured in Fall But no Other Casualties Reported-Many Have Thrilling Escapes Grain loss Fully Covered by Insurance. PORTLAXD Ore., March 12. Fire originating in a quantity of wheat chaff on Columbia dock No. 2 this morning destroyed three docks, the coaster Cricket, aad spread to the Royal Mail steamer Glenroy which was loaded with wheat and lumber. The loss it is estimated, will exceed a million dollars. Twelve thousand tons of wheat and barley stored on the dock and in the Glenroy were a total loss, the value being 1375,000. The Cricket was cut loose and drift ed against Montgomery Dock No. 1. which was saved with great difficulty. I: was then towed to shore where it burned to the water's edge. The Cricket was owned by a San Francisco company and' had just docked, loaded with asphalt, which burned like oil. Officer Sneeden at 4:10 this morn- CHAMBERLAIN WANTS MORE INFORUATIOil ON SPEECH ITTERAXCES OF AMBASSADOR PAGE ARE SUBJECT FOR INQUIRY. WASHINGTON, March 12. Senator Chamberlain introduced a resolution In the senate today calling on the state department for the text of a speech made by Ambassador Page at the as sociated chambers of commerce, Lon don, in which he was quoted as hav ing said "the Monroe doctrine simply means America would prefer no Euro pean government to gain more land in the new world." Chamberlain professed deep inter est In the statement attributed to Page in the same speech to the effect that he "wouldn't say America constructed the Panama canal for England, but the consideration that the British would profit most through its use had added greatly to the pleasure of build ing It." The senator's resolution called for Information on which this statement was based. TO PAY FOR thus be forced to pay public money for the private benefit of Mr. Johns and others. There is a supreme court decision that bears almost directly on this point and the ruling has never been changed by any subsequent de cision. In the case of "Jones vs. the City of Portland." decided October 23. 1S99. to be found at pages 512 to 520 In 35 Oregon Report?, the supreme court of' this state speaking through Judge! Robert s. Bean, now Judge of the fed (Continued on page five.) were out upon a semi-annual Inspec tion and after a stop of an hour In th city the special pulled out for a trip over the line east of this place. "We are not yet prepared to make an announcement regarding where the freight terminal will be," said J. P. O'Brien while here. "We will be here again within 10 days or two weeks and will have the chief engineer al ong. At that time we will go all over the situation and see . if sufficient ground for the yards may be had here. It will be neceasary to provide AMENDMENT A (Continued on page five.) BARLEY LOST ing discovered flames between th. Glenroy and the Columbia dock. Ha turned in an alarm and then help4 the watchmen fight the fire. Open draw bridges prevented rwX dy arrival of the apparatus. A flra Doat reached the scene quickly and made valiant efforts to auench th fire. The grain was the property of M. H. Houser, whose loss is fully cover ed by insurance P. L. Samuels, a sailor, fell down the hold of the Glenroy, dislocating a shoulder. No other casualties ars reported though many had thrilling escapes. Thirty-one Chinese sailors were taken in charge by the immigra tion authorities. Columbia Dock Xn t. mil vnnt. ' gomery Dock No. 1 w ere destroyed tt gether with the warehouses adjoin ing. The heroism of the crew' of the har bor patrol and Engineer Jaeckel and Officer Webster probably saved many . lives when the' crew of the Cricket Jumped into the water when the as phatt flamed up. " ."" The flames were extinguished dur. ing the middle of the forenoon but the department was still deluging the ru ins to prevent a possible recurrence of the fire. The tow boat Henderson and Dixon manned their pumps and pour ed water into the Glenroy. The fer rles Mason and Webster at adjoining docks. left their silos for th ntH. side of the river to seek safety. WHITE WOMEN BELIEVED PRISONERS OF CHINESE ENGLISH GIRLS MJSKIXG AFTER KAXmTS SACKED VILLAGE. LONDON, March 2. Besides Dr. Froyland, a Norwegian . missionary, who was killed by bandits when they sacked Lao Hokow. China, two young women, the Misses E. 3. Black, at tached to the English Inland Chin mission, are missing according to dis patches. It Is feared the bandits ei ther killed or carried them away prls. oners. Talk of rnrmllse IT)o1. SALEM, Ore.. March 12. Frank Sloane. secretary, and H. F. Marbto, consulting enninrer. of the Paradks Irrigation dlMrlct. organized in Uma tHIa county for the Irrigation of about 7.000 acres, were here ronsultlsg with the state engineer about detail of their project. They expect soon t be ready to submit detailed plans f the project to the state engineer for approval, and when this Is done. Mr. Sloane said the district would ready to b bonded for the reqnlrta amount to construct the project. CITY WILL HAVE CLEAN DP DAYS ON MARCH 19-28 AGONS WILL RE E3nI.OYS3 TO HAUL AWAY REFUSE FROM LOCAL nOMES. Thursday and Friday of nrxt w-eek, March 19 and 20. ari to be "Clean-up Duys" In Pendleton. Following the annual custom of setting aside two da. In Mdrrh for a general collection of gar bage, refuse an! rubbLsh anJ th hauling of It to ' m dumping grounds, the council, upon thn .request of the Clvlo Club, lust evening named the ltth and 30th. On these day the city will hlrs teams and wagon and will haul away gratis all rubbish and othnr debris which reIdents .sack or box and place along street curbs. The practice of having rlraa-up days has proved a popular on In the past and Is ths mean of get. ' ting rid of much dirt and making the city cleaner and mors sani tary. It will also assist greatly ,1q making ths anti-fly rampalgq easier.