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DAILY EVENING EDITION TO ADVERTISEJtS. Tba Rait Orrgonlan bit tlie largest paid circulation of an paper In OrtKuQ, eal wf 1'ortland and urr twice the circulation la I'euiileloo of any otlier newspaper. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER DAILY EVENING EDITION Forecast for Eastern Oregon, by the Fnltcri State Weather Observer t IVrtland. Fair tonight and Hutvl-iy. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER VOL 26 DAILY EAST OKEGOXIAN, PENDLETON. OREGON, .SATL'IJDAV, OCTOJJKK 24, V.fli. XO. 8330 GILLILAND EXCUSE SHOWN TO B0ABSURD ORIGINAL UMATILLA . BRIDGE ' WH LONGER THAN SWINDLE BRIDGE BUILT BY EBERDART GIO YOU EVER HEAR OF A 530 FOOT BRIDGE THAT WAS SHORTER THAN a j FOOT FRIDGE? Plan of Orijioifi Contract , Two HJK Trust Spans 153 ft. each on Concrete Piers about 23 f I. hijh. County Judge Maloney Exposes False Defense Set Up by Gilliland-Ex Judge Condemned Through His Own Figures Gilliland Formerly De fended Change in Plans on Ground First Planned Bridge Did Not PfQvide for Approaches. 1 1 hi r r a rr'i'"'"i""Mi"i." Briae at constructed vn1r Second Contract, Thirteen 'V Btam Spn 30 ft. each en Concrete P'frs lift, hlqh . The top bridge In tlic alxne sketch represents tbo original bridge plan ni'il for I niatiUa; the sketch Just bo low the tnifM bridge hbos tlie bridge tbut wa built. The high truss bridge' according to GlIMand's figures would bavc bad a total length of 530 feet. It was rejected because It aa too short and a bridge only 390 feet long or J 10 feet shorter waa MibstlUited. Did you ever bear of anything more ridiculous? The high truss bridge 530 feet long would have eot $11,590 and It would have licen a satisfactory bridge at all limes. It Man rejected aikl a greatly Inferior bridge tlut bowmen 6ub-iiH-rved during high water was built at a co-t of $13,070. The Illustration below the bridge skctdicg gives evidences of the: pres ent conditio of this bridge which Gllllliiixl states Is the 'lct bridge In FinatilUi counuty." Tlic Illustration Is mtide from )iliotograilui taken of the bridge Iat week and as may be mvn many of tbo piers aro cracked and broken. ' This U not unnatural since tlie work was done without (By J. W. Malonoy;'County Judge) Ex-Judge Gilliland in a lung article in tlie Pendleton Tribune lias attempted to explain the notorious Umatilla bridge deal. The people should read his article and observe hU strange method of reasoning. In tho first place he states that the Umatilla county court had bar gained with Klierhart to build a trus bridge oo feet high, the super btrueturc of which was to consist of two steel spaus of 153 feet each with a south approach 111 feet Ions a north approach 110 feet long, total length of bridge .'"' feet. The cost of this bridge exclus ive of the cement piers, was to have been, according to his statement $7000 for tho steel and $5 per lineal foot for the approaches, making a total cost of the'entire t.'!0 feet of ?,120 exclusive of the cement work. A UlDU'ULOrs CLAIM. Mr. Gilliliind then makes the abounding statement that this con tract was cancelled on account of the bridge ling too short and at tempts to explain by a queer process of reasoning that the difficulty was met and the obstacle overcome by substituting therefor a bridge which lie admits is only li'.'D feet long extreme length, or in other word is 140 feet shorter than the bridge that was "loo short." This sub stitute bridge 3!0 feet long, cost tlir unty ifirtO exclu-ive of the cost of the piers. The cost of the piers, 13 in number and each 11 feet in height was $3470. In otlier words the substitute bridge 300 feet long, extreme length, cost $13,070.00. W I IK HE THE COUNTY LOST. Assuming that the piers in tbo bridge originally planned, throe in Tiuinlor, would have cost as much as did the 13 piers in tho substitute "bridge- the originally planned bridge .130 feet long and 35 feet high ' would have cost completed only $11,500. From this a very simple minded orson should le able to see the county was a heavy loser on account of this mvsterions deal. IXVYOU WANT KBKRIIART AGAIN? Forgetting for the time the question of culpability, is this the calibre of a man that you would want at the head of tlie county court for the next four year during which time doubtless manv more steel bridges will be erected. Mr. Eliorhart is still in the bridge business though he has not huilt any bridges in Umatilla eountv since Mr. Gil liland retired from office, and in the event of Mr. Gilliland's. election will doubtless appear upon the scene nuain offering his oxiert sn vices to the county court in drawing plan, submitting bids, writintr contracts, and superintending construction of all contracts awarded 1o him. 0 1 LLI LAND'S CHANCE OF FKONT. For the past three year, or since the public was firt informed, oi this Umatilla deal, Mr." Gilliland has souht to defend himself and tlie old court with the claim that the bridge as oridnallv planned provid ed for no approaches. As will lo seen in his article of defense he ha now changed front since we have produced the records to show that. hi original defense was false. T? not this action in itself enough to condemn him The public should noUlose eiarht of the fact that this bridge as com pleted can bo duplicated for not to exceed $7,000. If a like bridge is desired at any time T am ready to enter into a lind to fulfill this promio. NOT A COOT) BKTPGE. Hie nerve of ex-Judge Gilliland is manifested in his statement that the Umatilla bridcro is the lest bridce in the eountv. ITe knows as well aa anybody else that no reputable engineer would design such r, -trneturc for such a location. The attention of those who have not had am opportunity to visit this hridge is called to the pictures pub lished in this isuc of the Fast Oret'ouinn. As mav le seen it is in n vorv had condition nnd is in need of repairs at the present time. The According tl.n romr.nl u-ftrl- in tliU bridge WHS $3400. Yet it i o( t,lc afflr' was not of sufficient imimrtanco to the eountv court to require nnv tora, during an engagement between -hntv t,1 fbeir favorite hnWe builder was Permit- he Russians and the Germans be- ted to complete his contract in a very inferior manner. I N . - J , . , ; : . ts : y:, S -J !- ;w:.-----i. fj"iJ--j f . J i I . -: ' r-i"--;.-. : ' f :-. . i v 1 I t. , .... V'rT' :..). -4:v i .. 1 (fr-l?2iX1Z-9&. t .... ' . 1 'I " W ' ' - ' i ;: xv- - 5',..,,, .... . : x-, , .- . , . - !' ? L """ ' :- '.:"!.s,:"U?iS-- - -H..JF i : . , . 2. - SpS- hcclflcatJoiM ainl Contractor KlK-r tle sum of $7000. That Uic bridge hart iiicrv1cU his ovvn work. Judge can be erected for such a stun Is stat- Maloney today offers to give a bond ed by c. II. Martin, county engineer, to reriKlueo tlic $13,070 bridge for and by CJeary Kimbrell, county sur-J county judge, if you wish to rebuke, Charht II. Marsh. veyor. If you wish to l Indicate gnebj siieJi a betrayal of tlie county and swindles a.? the I'nmUIU county bridge ' aid In seitiring a bu.lne aOnilnls deal, vote for T. I. Gilliland fori t ration of county affairs Tote foe KAISER 11 NEAR E 1 ME 1 l'KTKOGHAD, Oct. 21 How near ly the kHlwr escaped capture in the flKhting al'out Warsaw was" deicrilie'l today ly wounded Ilusslan Kfldli-rs who have been brought ba;k from the front. The stories, however, lack, ed confirmation. The wur office permitted the stories to be published but refused to guar antee their accuracy. The fact that among the captured German was sn unnamed general who was said to be generally attach ed to the kalaer's staff, was regard ed as tolerably good evidence that his majesty was In the eastern fight ing cone. According to the current version one of the czar's avla-1 Come See the Proof In his statement hist evening ex-Jude Gilliland sought to show the Umatilla bridge was built by the county by "days work' and not by contract. To show'the untruthfulness of his statement tho East Orcgonian has a photograph of the contract that was drawn, signed by T. P. Gilliland and Horace Walker. Anyone desiring to see this evidence that the bridge was a con tract bridge and built in violation of the law may do so by call ing at the East Orcgonian office. 1 n 8 VESSELS M 10 131 SHIPS IIAUTKKKO WITIIIX 21 HOI KS TO GO TO Kl'KOI'KAX POUTS. IMMENSE THRONG HEARS WEST AND BOOTH TALK IN PORTLAND Governor Has Documentary Evidence to Try to Prove Candidate Acquir ed Timber Lands Fraudulently Booth Denies Allegations. (Continued on pair four.) REQUEST FOR SEATS FOR 1915 ROUND-UP RECEIVED Though the 1914 Round-up-Is hard ly more than past, already reserva tions are being mudo for hotel ac commodations for the 1915 show. Robert M. Uetts, manager of the Cor nucopla Mines company of New York, writes from Cornucopia, Ore Kon, to the Hotel Pendleton asking that four rooms be reserved for a party of New York men who want to see the big frontier ahow. "Some friends of mlno from New York." he writes, "wish to take In the Round-up next year, and aa I want them to have the best of Im pressions of tho west I am wrltlnf curly to secure accommodations. If you make reservations this far In ad vance, I would like to engage rour rooms with bath, and If any of the rooms have private sitting rooms, this would he hotter still. If a de posit is necessary, or will aid In ee-1 NEARLY 10,000 VOTERS IN THIS COUNTY REGISTERED fore Warsaw, reported tne presence of German officers apparently of ex alted rank. A Russian cavalry divi sion charged toward the point Indi cated, breaking through the first Gorman line but delayed by the sec ond line. This gave the members of the supposedly imperial party time to escape In automobiles. Nearly ten thousand Umatilla coun- nripl C PflNinCRFn - ULLUIUul lu uunuiuhiiku ty voters are registered for the No vember election, the count, completed last night, showing that the total of all parties who have qualified as vo ters Is 9 7 S 5 Of this number a little more than half are registered aa re publicans. The democrats show a oinslderable proportional gain, being less than 2000 behind the majority party. The prohibitionists are third strongest numerically and the social ists crowded the progressives out of fourth place, NOW A PART OF GERMANY C.rilMW CAVALUYMEN WEAK INIPOUMS OF 1UXGIAN AKMY SAYS LONDON. LONDON, Oct. 24. German caval- tlalirlun nnl- rvmen nre now- wrn"6 minutes and then Iiooth closed the dehate. He denied West's statement that his company had an alliance w th Weyerhauser or Hammonds, the rillroajs or ;my other Interests. PARIS, Got. 24 The Germans' PORTLAND. Ore. Oct. 14 Eight demanded an armistice todav in the i Vesse'- hav ''n chartered to carry . , . , .J , . .iKraw and flour to Europe within the Ihiacourt refcion to bury their dead . v,,.- i . .w - ' hist 24 hours. Dealers assert that but the French refused to grant it' every bushel of grain In the north- anl the fighting continued with In creasing violence. The Germans, declared an official statement, continued to advance north i f Dixmude and in the reRion of La hasse while the allies were advanc ing east of Nieuport and in the re gion of Laugemarck and east of Ar mentleres. Elsewhere, it was said, the Wttle front remained unchanged. west could le sold in one day if the holders desired. TROUSERS OF VICTIM ARE USEO TO IDENTIFY ROBBER f,r,n Bhowlng that Belgium Is con Th fn.vi i- ... fcj aidpred to be permanently a part of Parties: Republican 5091,'democratsj the kaiser's territories Jhlfll'!tt,t" 3169, prohibitionists 464, socialists ' "cnt was made today In 26 1. progressive 20S. lndonrndont 298 . sfallment of uie oiu.m. . ..." miscellaneous 297. Total 9785. Tills Is by far the largest registra tion In the history of the county, the reason of course being the addition of the womnn vote. Almost a third! .. . . ' mat Ion bureau's series or eje wu ness' stories from the front. The bureau spoke of this proceed ing as "Inexcusable." TORTLAND, 're., Oct. 24. (Spe cial.) Governor West and R. A. Hooth met lust night at th ;td Ilel lig theater in a Joint U's:.iss'.o.i of the methods by which Iiooth ac jolrad his timber lands nnd his fitness lor the orfice of United State enl-.-r. rie theater was jammed tj the deer nnd thousands were luined aw.i;-. The crowd wi3 jvi-tUan, dueling or hissing, whenever state ments in favor or against the'r man vjta made. Booth talked the first half hour, devoting the first few minutes to an attack on the governor and charging him with being a "Jury fixer" in the land fraud prosecutions In this state. He stated that his company had; acquired a million acres or land in Its operations in this state and said the title to a very small percentage had ever been questioned. He made sweeping denials of all the charges West made In previous addresses. The governor confined much of his talk to reading of documentary evidence in nn effort to prove the Booth-Kelly Lumber company, through connivance of Booth, obtain ed timber claims by fraudulent meth ods. The governor charged that aft er the Booth-Kelly company obtain ed great timber holdings from rail road land grants it connived with the ratlrond company to build a road in- AFTER 55 DAYS LONGEST SESSION IX HISTORY COMES TO l.X THIS AFTERNOON. LONDON, mans have NEGRO IS ARRESTED SHORTLY AFTER ENTERING HOME OF C. I. .MILLF.il. j Hardly more than a half hour aft i er he had robbed the residence of ) Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Mitler at 715 Gar- I den street, a big negro was In the ! police station vehemently denying hbi Oct. 24 That the Ger-j guilt. But the trousers on him surrendered at Kiao branded him a liar and a thief for SURRENDER OF KIAO CHAU SAID TO HAVE BEEN MADE WASHINGTON. Oct. 24. After the longest session in its history, both houses of congress adjourned sine die shortly before 3:30 this afternoon. The session lasted 56 7 days. Ohau was asserted by some Japanese i they were Mr. Miller's trousers. Th newspapers Today, according to an n'n will be given a hearing this aft unofficial news agency report from i ernoon before Justice of the Peace Toklo. Parkes. The message did not profess to! The quick, cuffture of the marau have any confirmation of the report-j 'er was due 'to Officer Alex Manning. I Mr. and Mrs. Miller ha.i left their house about 6:40 last evening to TliP "eve witnesses accounts cover. tn tlni,r and bv secret rates shut curing tneso nceommonauons, I win '" nuc ui inc couniy is developments nlv up io uciuvrr n be glad to send It to you on receipt 1,1 Pendleton, the total registration ' Iul j many details duplicate prevl .ul y.ur reply." I '" tlll cl,.v of all parties being 2827. ous torles. out others from operations In that district. West spoke for an hour and S'.'ven NEWS SUMMARY IVeiicli steamer Ashore. LONDON. M, 21. Tlie French steamship Marie llcnrlette. crouded viith wounded soldiers. Is a.-liore oft t'H Barrleur, east or t'liorlxmrg, 1 iiiiiir, u-mniiiiir io a iiHsssji"i rt to -a picture show. K-:urtitiig about S 30 they found their '.tout door wlda open and nearly all of th.lr clothes Rone. Thinking that some of their irienus had been playing u Jok.! up- (irtienil. I'rench refuse armistice to tier mans ami fighting In northern lYamv continues. Kaiser said to have liecn m-ar cap ture beforo Warsaw by Russian sol diers. Immense throng- listens to West Booth deltate in lVrtland. ieivsl from Lloyds station on the mem, tney mailo a search thrniiuh Isle of Wight. j th house beforo Mr. Miller tele- j It Is understood the wxmwled were honed to orfl,''' Manning at hU on tho way from the hattleflel.U in ,m.- . ! northern France to the Isle of Wight ltn a ,,WM-"rlption or the t,,ien It was not known whether or not the C10ln,n". Mr- Manning l.pgan his Mario Henrlettc's pocltlon was dan- 8earcn- 1,8 h.id not reached th po- liocal. Absurdity of (iilliland's explana tion of bridge deal exposed by .ludge Maloney. , Black burglar Is caught half hour after crime. Big registration shows democrat maUe big proportional gain. Round-up reservations for New York party already nuide. gerous. LANE COMING TO CAMPAIGN FOR SENATOR CHAMBERLAIN lice station before Officer Hcheer gave him a clew, telling him that n lady on Water stret had telephoned that a negro had walked Into her house with a bundle which he want el to leave but that she had ordered him out. Thev secureif n ilexirlp tlon of th ! afterward i iffleer Manning m.i.re- hended a eoloreil tnjii on Main street who was wearing a pair of cor. duroy troiis.-rx sm'h hp, Mr Miller hiul lost. The rmin n t.ken t tho police Ht.itic.n and Mr. Mllh-r aujri moneii. He Identified till trouuera t (Continued on pag. fiv ) PORTIAND. Ore., Oct. 24 Senator Lane li scheduled to ar rive tonisht to campaign In be ll, tlf of Senator Owimbrrlatn and other democratic candidates. 4)