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DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON,'
MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22, 1921.
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!IA FLOODS
E DAMAGE
TO FARM LANDS
Cave Creek is Outside Banks
Flooding State Capitol and
Covering Lands About City.
IRRIGATION CANALS BREAK
AND ADD WATER TO CREEK
THREE ALLEGED CASES
OF MURDER CONFRONT
OREGON AUTHORITIES
IRISH CONFIDENT
Jess Brunn Awaits Examination
on Charge Of Killing Louis
Ragain Near Pilot Rock.
WOMAN'S TIME HONORED
PREROGATIVE SUSTAINED
BY TEUTON JURYMAN
Water,to Depth of Four Feet
Covers Cotton and Alfal
fa Lands Near . Phoenix.
U.S. AGREES WITH
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RAGAINS DEATH DUE TO WRIGHT CABIN
HER fill
FHOENIX. Aug. 22. (U. P.) Art.
zona floods threaten vast destruction
again with Cave, crerlt outside tho
banks, flooding the state 'capital and
covering farm lands about tho city.
Valuable records In the capltol are be
lieved to be ruined and tho loss Is gen
eralry believed to be half a million al
ready. - Reports Indicate water to the depth
of four feat over the rich cotton and
alfalfa lands between Phoenix and
Glendale, 12 miles awny. Irrigation
calinls, running from the Roosevelt ir
rigation dam, broke during the night,
adding their waters to Cave creek's de
structive tide. ,
Flood Waters Itc-cdo
PHOENIX. Aug. 22 (U. 1'.) The
flood is over and waters Inundating
the capltol grounds, and which flooded
the state buildings, la receding rapid -lj
The majority of the records In the
basement of the capltol were saved. A
preliminary survey following tho re
ceding of flood waters estimated the
damage at $100,00..
No IJvtw liOMt In Flood.
The residents had Ample warning of
the" rlnlng water, which reached the
peak about midnight. None fled
from the threatened district, merely
moving their belongings to tho upper
floors and sat at the window watch
Ing the waters rush by. No lives were
lost and business today Is progressing
as usual. The flood is not touching
the business district.
PORTLAND, Aug. 22. (U. P.)
Three alleged murders now confront
the Oregon authorities. In noseburg
.Dr. Brumfield is held for the murder
of Dennis Russell, arraigned on charg
es of first degree murder. Grand Jury
hearing is set for August 29. In Pen
dleton two murders confront tho au
thorities. Fred Patterson Is held in
connection with the murder of Matt
Jepson, found in a well on his ranch,
while Jess Ilrunn awaits examination
on the clfarge of killing Louis Ragulns
near Pilot Kock, late Saturday night.
Ilrunn is the only one admitting kill
ing, claiming self-defense.
PENDLETON AUTHORITIES
BERLIN, Aug. 22. (I. K. 8.,
Woman's time-honored prerogative
telling a white Jie about her age has
received the Judicial approval of Ger
many's legal savants who have sol'
emniy declared that gently kidding a
prospective bridegroom about her auc
is not a ground for divorce.
' The case arose where a bluKhinc
maiden of thirty-seven coyly admitted
before the wedding that she was
twenty-six. When the twenty-elght-year-old
husband demanded e
separation the court refused, establish
ing a new '.'unwritten law" in favor ol
the gentler sex.
Dail Eireann Holds Secret Ses
sion to Hear Sinn Fein Cabi
net's Report Their Reply.
QUARREL OVER GATE IS
VERSION OF WITNESSES
ANSWER WILL PROBABLY
That Louis Ragains, .who was, killed cabin shortly after midnight for his
some Umc Saturday night or Sunday ;Becond vi!(jt, Accordng to the Tories
morning Dy Jesse urunn at the Wright : , . A. . , .
cabin in the mountains tir Kturkov """ivors UJ m irageay. ne was
j Prairie was at the cabin twice during .angry when he entered the door.
the night is a point that has been ver-.Prunn Ib said to have apologized to
Hied by the story told by Jim Roach,
a cattleman of the Cabbage Hill dis
trict. According to Roach, he and Ragains
wont to the cabin together early In
Ragains for the hot words of the ear
tier meeting and wanted to shake
hands. This Rugains is said to have
refused.
' V i"k ' ho raitllafl nrith fan nnK '!'.
the evening, and he is said to have m'm. i,i, m'i t km aAn Vm
jbeen present whfui Brun.i and Ragains j g()in to do lt.. iB the gubstance of his
RF MADF KMjWN FR DAY!had the'r Quarrel which resulted in
uie luucr leaving me place.
Onto Causes Quarrel.
A gate loading into a pasture which
Brunn accused Ragains of having left
open Is said to have been the basis of
the trouble between the two. Hot
.words were passed by both men before
Ragains left, early In the evening,
and both men were 'angry, it is said
It is said Regains returned to the
Irish 'President's' . Secretary
Says America Approves
Claims for Separate Nation.
French Wanted for Holding; Up
14 Year Old Boy, Throwing
Him Off of His Horse
The grand old game of horseshoes
came In for its first real notice of the
Season yesterday afternoon when a
quartet of twlrlcrs from IScHo Invaded
the back lot of the Hamley A Co. gang
and measured, prowess with tho Pen
dletonlans. ,
Deprived of the services of their star
performer, and further handicapped
by strange ; grounds, the visitors
omerged from the fray with only one
victory out of 10 games played. They
had good dispositions, however, and
lost the first battle without In any
way losing their good humor.
Klrby mads high '. Individual score
of the match with DoMh a close sec
ond. Donls was pitted against Fisher,
the premier pitcher of tho west end
ers. joe Korlneck was high man for
percentage on ' ringers with nino In
four games. Klrby got 12 In six
games, making double-headers in two
Instances, ' I .
Dan Bowman of tho Mission twlrl
crs, was present at the match and Is
sued a challenge, to. tfip rHamlcy .team
to play with tho Mission team. The
Hamley team has-dotSted this chill-'
lenge with tho prbvlslon that they are
to pitch with heel, to th peg, and they
will permit the Mission players to toe
tho peg and step forward.
Hamleys will go to Echo Sunday
afternoon to play a rotiirn series. In
terest at yostorday's contests was keen,
between 150 and 200 being In attend
ance. Tho scores of the games follow:
Donls and Klrby. Homley's, against
Fisher and Summers, Echo, three
games, 23-8, 25-, 23-9. Later they
played another set, three best out of
five, which the local players took,
21-4. 23-6, and 21-5.
Tho scoond teams, Ellison and Kor
lneck, llamloys, and Samuels and
Jones, Echo, played with the follow
ing results: 22-1, In famor of Hart
leys; 18-22, with Echo winning7; and
tho other two wera taken by the lo
cals, 2170, and 21-. i
MKASinE PASSES HOUSE ,
WASHINGTON, Aug. 32. (A. P.)
'IVIth several amendments, the senate
Mil making a billion dollars available
through the waf finance corporation
lor stimulating exportation of agricul.
tural products, pasbd tho house today.
A wild west scene, that would make
the movies look tame was staged in
Pendleton and environs Saturday
night without benefit of a camera to
record It when tho police . finally
rounded up George French, n "bad''
Indian who formerly lived at Top.
pnlsh, Washington.
French, who was drunk. Is said to
have held up Francis Johnson, 14-year-old
son of Dick Johnson, at the
outskirts of town and thrown him
from the horse the lad was riding
homeward.
Following the holdup, French Is Said
to have hurled tho boy to the ground,
then he pommeled him, tore his cloth
es off, and Inflicted a cut on the boy's
shoulder. The city police received s
report of the holdup and started In
pursuit of the Indian. He made a de
tour to avoid them and entered town
by the Pilot Rock road. On being ac
costcd by Ortlcer Lyday and Fire Chief
Rlngold, ho again took flight on the
horse.
Finally the car containing Chief of
Police W. R. Taylor, Hob Sinclair and
It, H. Inman drew up on the hill south
of town. On foot, the officers follow,
od French as he attempted to spur his
weary mount up the hill. Several shots
were fired Into tho air In an effort to
stop the Indian, and when Taylor
stumbled and fell, his companions
thought he had been shot, and thoy
dropped the horse.
French fought all tho way to the
city jail.
This man will be bound over to the
Federal Authorities. . :'. ,
Stella Williams, an Indian, was ar
rested on tho sanio charge.
INAL DRINKS PO!
. PORTER VI LLK, Calif., Aug. 22.
(II. .P.) William Alexander, sought
as the murderer of Mrs. Ermln Ilach
man when she failed to choose him In
preference to her lawfully espoused
husband, drank poison when . sur
rounded by a posso and died. Alex
ander told Mrs. Bachtuan to choose
between him and her husband and he
shot her when she chose to stay with
her husband. ' . '
LRBA.VA. III., Aug. 22. (I. N. S.)
The L'nivcrsity of Illinois is con
ducting experiments at its experiment
field at Newton, the results of which
aro said to be marvelous, according
to an announcement here recently.
The experiments deal with soil fer
tility, drainage and crop fertility,
with the use of lime and rock phos
phate. The field on which the experi
ments are helnit made was deeded t
the university in 1912 and was said to
be one of tho poorest pieces of land
iu Jasper County. It Is tho largest
soil experiment field in southern Illi
Such results, the statement says, a
were made in treating land fci
growth of crops will convince the most
skeptical that there are groat possi
bilities in improving southern Illlnolf
farm lands.
DUBLIN, Aug. 22 U. P.) The
Dail Eireann is in secret session to
hear the Sinn Fein cabinet's report on
the proposed reply to Lloyd Oeo'rge's
peace offer. It will probably not be
ready before Friday. Moknwhile Ire
land appears confident that America
sympathizes with the Irish viewpoint.
Hurry Boland, Dc Valern's secretary,
told an Interviewer that America fa
vors peace between England and Ire
land and approves the flatmg for a
separate Irish nation.
retort to Brunn's offer to forget the
trouble, according to witnesses' stories.
That RagaJns then started forward
from the door and was stopped when
Brunn. who slept on the back side of
the bed, grabbed his rifle and fired
the shot that resulted in the former's
death is the statement of the witness
es. , ;.
IN MITA11
Sffllilt
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George M. Shields and Charles
Runyan Witnesses "io'H Shot
That Ended ViptimV Lifelv
BRUNN WAS MEMBERS ;?
OF PENDLETON TRboP;
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ST. LOUIS. Mo.vAug. 22. (I. N.
S.) Great ltrltatn, France and Bel
glum will be represented at tho In
ternational First Aid und Mine Rescue
meet to be hold horo early in Sep
tember, it has been announced by the
I'nitcd States Bureau of Mines. Bel
gium and Canada have been invited
to have representatives present, but
no Information lias been received from
these countries.
The standardization of mine rcscur
methods will be discussed at the meel
whore exhibitions of mine resccc
work will bo given by competing
teams from throughout the world.
John I I.ewi8. president of Un
united Mine Workers of America and
who opposed Samuel Gompers for the
presidency of the American Federa
tion of Ibor at the recent Denver
convention, will address the meet on
the miners' Interest in Mie sufety
movemont.
Groat Britain will be represented at
the meet by Lieutenant :Qlonel J. A.
S. Fltsoii. one of Ills Majesty's mine
Inspectors, according to word received
from London. Tho Belgium govern
ment will' send E. l,cmnirc, director of
the Belgian . .National Institute of
Mines.. i
SAYS HE HASDOUBLE
FAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22. (U.
P.) William Hlghtower, tho accused
murderer of Father Patrick llesllm
declares he has a double, following
the examination of a picture of men
iilaying checkers in the San Franc sco
imrk. Hq s-iw that the man ; looked
like him Duf declared he was-not in
the city at the time the picture was
taken. He implored the officers to I
seek his double. "That is the man J
they saw at Salada Boach," Hlghtower I
declares.
.Made Four Attempts
District Attorney Swart declares he
has evidence proving Hightower at
tempted four tims to abduct Catholic
priests prior to the disappearance of
Father Heslin from Culnia on August
secopd. Swart says all the attempts
were made within the three months
of the time of Father Heslin's death.
Each case, according to Swart, High
tower, used a dying friend as a lure
to got the priest away. i
ItOSEBURG, Aug. 22. (U. P.)
Under a court order. Sheriff Starmer
drew 31 names from whom the Jury
will be drawn a week from today to
try Brumfield for the murder of Den
nis Russell. The grand jury meets
Saturday to indict Brumfield and the
trial opens the following Monday
morning. - '
JiltlTAIV ACCEPTS I .YVITATtWJ
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. (A. P.)
Great Britain's formal acceptance1 of
the Invitation to participate in the
Washington conference for limitation
of armament and the far eastern ques
tions, has been received by Secretary
of State Hughes.
POST IS ADVOCATED S
N. S.)
HOOVER REQUESTS QUINN
TO RESIGN FROM BOARD
TWITE .VXD COMPANY FAIL
NEW 'YORK, 'Aug'. '22. (A. P.)
The failure of Trtppe and-Company
has been announced on the New York
9toek exchange. The firm has been
active in motor und tire shares. With
in tho last year four stock exchange
firms have fulled. One was recently
Mnstiitod, having discharged their
obligations.
PASSES 314 TO 21
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. fU. P.)
Considerably amended, but with the"
main Idea of benefitting the agricul.
tural Industry still Intact, the Mo-Nary
senate bill, making approximately a
billion dollars available under the di
rection of the war finance corporation
for stimulating exportation of agricul
tural products, passed the house 314 t"
21.' It was an administrated measure,
Placed in Senator McNary's
Tha money Is to be raised
bond Issuance,
CHILD LABOR LAW IS
F
GREENSBORO. N. C, Aug. 23.
(A. P.) Federal Judgo Boyd held the
new federal child labor law unconsti
tutional. Judge Boyd two years aso
also held unconstitutional the Owen
Keating child labor law, and the su
preme court of tho United States up
held that ruling.
MANY IFJ iKGATFS GATHER.
OAKLAND, Aug. 22. (U. P.l Ten
thousand delegates from tho Pacific
coast. Canada, and the Hawaiian lsl-
hands. lands, assembling at the open conclave
through of tho 37th annual young men's Insti
tute convention.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. (I. N. S.)
-Graft is rampant in the offices of
the federal shipping commissioners.
There Will be a "clean sweep" in tliut
branch of the bureau of navigation at.
the Atlantic as well us Pacific coast
ports, it was officially stated at .the
department of commerce.
tjperfctary Hoover has requested the
resignation of Shipp:ng Commission
er Quinn. He said he would "clean
up" she Now York bureau with a
"scrub brush"
corruption.
to remove all trai'es of
DENVER. Aug. 22. (I.
Back to the whipping post?
Judgo Lewis L. Fawcett, of the "su- I
preme court of Brooklyn, N. Y., re-1
I post as proper punishment for certain ,
j types of criminals.
Although the primary object of pen-'
al law is the protection of society fand
not the punishment of the criminal,
the Brooklyn Judge's theory finds;
lodgment m the convictions ot two
i well known Colorado judges.-
Magistrate Mlliam A. Rice, veteran
local police Judge, feels that the wh'p
ping post must be used effectively for
offenders of the wife-beating and
non-family-supporting type, but says
such a law should be hedged about by
a guarantee that the accused receive a
fair and impartial trial. He says wo
men are prone to make charges when
they themselves are often partici
pants of criminal conditions in the
home. . "
Judge Royal R. Ornham, of Greeley,
feels, that the whipping post Is all
right for' wife-heaters, but believes
that ordinary offenders should tackle
the state's rock piles not in compe
tition with ordinary labor, but in work
that helps tho state.
Stamps worth $3,000,000, collet tod
by an Australian nobleman, arc to.b
sold shortly in Paris. ;
Indications Are That Prices
Have Beached Lowest Level
and Are Now Moving Upward
Washington. og. 22. (I. N. s.
H'gh tirlcps ase nere tt stay, W. Jeti
Lnuck, one of the leading economisti
of tho country, made this statement.
The good old days when Mr. Common
Citizen's income met the living Costs
withont a stretch of imagination Or
strain of pocktbook are gone, ;never
to return, he declared. The return to
normalcy niears a return to thej condi
tions of 1919-1920, but not to those of
1913 and 1914. according to this econ
om st. Indications are that prices have
reached their lowest levelj and are
now moving upwards, the economist
stated. Accurding to Lauck, who is
cosulting economist for the railroad
unions and tho I'nitcd Mine Workers
of America, neither can any Import
Ant reduction in the general wage
level be anticipated.
Lodged in Jail KilleiWilJh
Not Talk; Officials f"Dojlitr
Some of Story as- Toltf
' : ' :-:'v t -1 ;
, Louis Ragains, about 3( years o
postmaster at McKay, was shot a uct
killed Sunday . morning at . 'lSi&O, -
Jesse Brunn at W'rlght'a cabin, ; 'lir,
miles southeast of Pendlelotw .; Tf'
body of Ragains was moved to theV un( '
det taking establishment of Brown and ;1
Brady . Sunday morning at the sums' J
tlm that Brunn was brought here for.
Incarceration In the county jalu ;;."--y'ti ,
A plea of self defense is put forwadV i
by Brunn who declares that )iis owilj
life was threatened by Ragains just b-v -fore
the fatal shot was fired. Theul-r
let. from a 30-30 caliber- rifle; struck ;
Ragains just below the Junction of th j '
neck and the body, la little to th Jfft, '
and its course was slightly down-f'ard,
Ragains died instantly. It la thought! f
that tHe Jugular vela was severed.;;.'-- f - "
Two Are -H'itttrartc -" "
The shooting Is Mid to have been ' ;
witnessed by two other tnett fchd wef i
in the cabin at the time; ' thtf ara? ;
George M. Shields and Charles Ruftt
yon. The accounts given by the threa I :
men to Deputy Coroner J, P.. Brady
and Deputy Sheriff Wes Spears agTJ
that Ragains was the aggressor In that
action that immediately 'preceded (bf
shooting and resulted in his death, ' J
According to the stories Of th flirc
survivors of thfe tragedy Ragains Tiad 5 '.
appeared at the cabin early Saturday-
evening and he and Brunn had a quar. ?
rel In which hot words were passad,):
Ragains leaving shortly afterwards-. A ft :
few niinlif.iu . ft.ir mMnl.ht : k, k&
turned, and he was angry, according'
WASHINGTON. Aug. 22. (U. P.)
j Four hundred fully armed marines
fare on the high seas enroutc to the
I canal zone where they will guard the
United States lntcrc.'ts in Costa Rica
during the Panama dispute over the
Coto territory, now held by Panama
troops, but which the United States
told Panama belongs to Costa Rica.
The db-patch of tho marines is merely
a precautionary measure.
CHARLESTON. W. Va., Aug. 22.
(U. P.) Lack of a leader at the head
of an armed demonstration against the
martial law proclaimed sometime ago
in the Mingo mine industrial section,
is holding the force of armed miners
Concentrated st Marmot, 11 miles
away. Inactive, according to authori
ties. The authorities are prepared
for what they believe will be a re
sumption of the bloody fighting ol
iCE
TREATY SIGNED
, A Chicago company has put on the
market a crawling yard crane. This
is the ordinary locomotive crane made
more useful by applying to it the me
canical locomotion used by war tanks.
It can turn around in any one spot or
In the circle of a radius equal to its
own length. i.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. N. S.)
The white house formally denied the
reports that Secretary Mallon h'ad're
signed. following the xlrteat of. the. tux
revision program at the hands of con
gress. The reports were circulated
that the secretary was greatly uis
pleiiKcd, bet the white house denies
knowledge cf any such an attitude on
the part of the secretary.
to the witnesses, and he threatened '"tot
.get" Brunn. ' ' ' i . --
Brunn. in h s story- to .the officers,
declares that Ragains had entered, tb . ;
door and was coming toward him
when' he .'reached - out,:, secured r; hlsjl
rifle, and fired the one - shot which
ended Ragains' life.- The shot wis flr--t
ed from the bed, Brunn declares. '-' ,;
Surrendered YolunlarJIy ':
Shortly after the shooting. Shields '
saddled a horse and rode to the"WeSU
gate ranch a distance of about 1$' '
miles, where he telephoned to the au j
thorities here and gave inert dired" ;
Hons for finding the place, Brady and .;
Spears received the tdesrage shortly j
after 3 o'clock and got started to the '
scene of t'he. shooting at 5 , o'clock.,.
Thf- urrtvrri at lha Mhln -a t . . 9 ft '
i o'clock after a hard drive Over the 1
j stiff' grade up tho mountain.
The body of RagainFj lying abop li f
the middle of thp one-room cabin,"
alongside of w-hlch a repeating tthot
gun' was found, and tho thecemen,"
r.rumii -Shields and - Runyon ' -were
there. Brunn gave himself up volun
tarily and declared Ihat he. hof tflr
i save his own life. The ' cabin waj. '.
plainly furnished, a bed, a COoltstdveV
a .bench, and some shelves along one' ,
side of the room being the only fufoK.
ture in the place,:- ; ,. j;....-;. ; 1
Itrunn Refuses to Talk . ,': .
Questioned at -the .jail,. CJtlitn slxi '
he; b.id no; statement to make conocrn j
ing the tragedy. He aid he , Is 3fl ' ,'
Continued on page t,, '.
THE WEATHER
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Reported by .Major Lee Moorhouie,
observer.
Maximum, S2.
Minimum, 00. ' . .
Paromoter. 2.S0. .
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BERLIN, Aug. 22. (U. P.) Lorlng
Dressel, the American Charge D'Af
fuJrs. told Chancellor Wirth -of Ger
many, that America wants peace with
in a fortnight. The Relchs.ag meets
before the end of August, when all
parties, excepting the communists, ex
pect to consent to signing the Ameri
can treaty.
TACOMA. Aug. 22. (A. P.) Mrs.
Illlsm H. Stuhbs. wife of a local ho-
ol proprietor, is being detained by the
police suspected of being Maude
Moore, wanted In Knoxville, Tenn., for
the murder of DeUoy D. Harth. an
automobile dealer, September 8, 1919.
The girl is said to have jumped a . $10,.
000 appeal bond after being sentenc
ed to 20 yoara Mrs. Stubbs denies
that she Is Maude Moore and declares
she will he released when two men en.
route from Knoxvill arrive to Identify
hr.
APPROVES REPRESENTATIVE
ATLANTIC CiTY, Aug. 22. (A. P.)
President Harding looks with favor
on labor's request for a representation
at the d'sarmamenl conference to be
held in Washington. Samuel Gompers
said today nt the opening meeting of
the executive council of the American
federation of labor.
A bird sanctuary for great black
backed gulls has been established in
Lake George, Nova Scotia,
TODAY'S
FORECAST
Tonight' nd
Tuesday lair,
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