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FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1009 THE ECHO REGISTER, ECHO, OREG02T, PAGE Til I. El J Perfect Time t "MIDI . V J. F. KENLY PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER C PENDLETON, OREGON A. L. SCHAEFER Successor tt Lonii Hunziker. Jeweler and Optician Expert Watch Repairing Pendleton, : : : Oregon THE French Restaurant BOYCR HI tO, Praps. Strictly First Class Elegantly Furnished Rooms in Connection. Private Dining Par lors. BEST MEALS IN THE CITY. 633 Main Sired PENDLETON, OREGON ; GEO. KNAGGS : J Blacksmith Wagon Maker IIorNlmhoeinfr and General Repair Work ..Matiitfnction Guaranteed.. Solicit a Share of your ) patronage f Ilut-kley Street, Echo, Ore. 5 DRAY AGE We Haul Anything Pron.it Attention Given to All Orders Two Wagons Constantly at Work 0. G. THORNTON The Echo Drayman n YEARS' r 'EXPERIENCE 'f tyDPBKNRI Traoc Marks DCSIONO COWVRMMTO Ac. AmM MnHtnf akatrti and daaanptlmi vat antral, aaractaitt our ohmou fraa vhathar aa ItiTaiiiifvn ta probably patantahfa. ronmnnk lion, ,t riMI, NMiBilanl lal. MAmBMf 00 Pataua ant fraa, itMaat atranrr for aarumicpalania. Hatanta taan thn.ua a Mann at Cu, taaalvs qamai aaf tea, hunt ch.nra, la Iba Scientific Amrican. A feandamnal IlliiatrataS ak1a. ? arraat ft u!alii of anv f-tantiua biarnal Taraia. Ma r : t .or monUia, Si. ud by ail wawaJtian. KUNN Co."'- -New Tort Bribes OOloa, tMttU Waaat&alun. tt C. E.W. GATES, Cutractor hi Builder Estimates Furnished Jobbing and Repairing At the Hotel Echo Echo, Oregon PORTLAND RESTAURANT Frank Okamaur, Prop. Heals served at all hours during the day. Board by the week $5.00 We will always try to give our customers the Best the market affords. PCLL TOGETHER FOR ECHO. PULL TOG ETHER FOB ECHO, DIVISION OF SUM VEXING PROBLEM Claims on Reclamation fund Double the Amount Available. Supervising Engineers and Secretary Ballinger Gather at Portland for Conference on Apportionment Eleven Millions to Be Disposed Of No New Projects Encouraged. Portland, Aug. S. An apportionment of the reclamation fund among the va rious government irrigation projects for the year 1910 will not be determin ed until Secretary of the Interior Bal linger holds a further conference with the officials of the reclamation service today. Mr. Ballinger yesterday held a preliminary conference with these offi cials, at which were present the super vising engineer of thesis divisions into which the entire reclamation field is divided. There is to be apportioned for these projects about $11,000,000, but the demands for funds aggregate an amount fully double that available. The conference, which was an execu tive one, wai held in the offices of the reclamation service in the Beck build ing. There were present all of the di recting and supervising officials of the service. In sddition to Mr. Ballinger they were: F. H. Newel, director; A. P. Davis, chief engineer; O. H. En sign, chief electrical engineer; D. C. Henny, consulting engineer, and the following supervising engineers: F. E. Weymouth, Idaho division; I. W. Mc- Connell, Central division ; H. N. Sav age, Northern division ; C H. Swigart. Washington division; L. C. Hill, Southern division, and E. G. Hopson, Pacific division. "Today's conference was only pre liminary and there is nothing definite to announce regarding the probable ap portionment of the reclamation fund. for the reason that final conclusions were not reached," said Mr. Ballinger last night. "The various supervising engineers presented their demands for funds with which to carry on the work undertaken by the government, durinor the ensuing vear. These re quests will bl considered further st an other conference which will be held to morrow. It will not be until after to morrow's bearing that I will be able even roughly to determine how the funds for this work shall be expended, "From the fact that the demands for money far exceed the amount of funds that will be available. I find it will be a difficult job to decide on any appor tionment that will satisfy all. Oregon has not been receiving its share of the proceeds from the sale of public Isnds within its borders, as contemplated un der the reclamation act. To see this state next year receive more nearly its share of this fund is another prob lem with which I am confronted, espe cially in view of the increased demands coming in from other sections of the reclamation field." GENERAL STRIKE CALLED. Open Secession Reported in Many Communes of Spain. Bayonne, France, Aug. 3. With all trades unions in Northern Spain de claring a general strike todsy, and with several communes in Cstalonia having proclaimed a republic, condi tions in Alfonso's kingdom are any thing but satisrsctory. While the gov ernment on the one hand sends out re assuring dispatches to the effect that it has the revolt in Barcelona and neighboring districts thoroughly under control, on the other hand it admits that it hss seized the telegraph and telephone lines in the Biscayan pro vinces, in an effort to keep the revo lutionists and strikers from communi cation with each other. This conflict of official reports, taken with the fact that the municipality of Palamos has declared itself free and independent, lead unbiased outsiders to believe that the revolt is anything but suppressed, and that while revolu tionists may be cowed in Barcelona itself, they are waiting in small bands in the hills for more reassuring times, and will then reassert themselves. Suffering at Acspulco. Mexico City, Aug. 3. A dispatch from Acapulco state that severe shocks continue. All the buildings that re main standing are uninhabitable and many are suffering from lack of shelt er. Tents and temporary shacks in which people are sheltered are inade quate. Local authorities have sworn in a number of citizens as special po licemen, aa the force of gendarmes is insufficient. There has been some loot ing. Feed, clothing and medicine are urgently needed, but thus far no relief steps have been taken. Calhoun Juror Accepted. Saa Francisco, Aug. 3. The first juror in the second trial of Patrick Calhoun, president of the United Rail roads, on an indictment charging him with bribery, which is now in the third week, wsa temporarily passed yester day. After more than 1,560 talesmen had been summoned to court, and a largo number interrogated, Thomas Gaiasford, a master plumber, is the first man accepted by both sides sub ject to peremptory challenge. Alabama First at Income Tax. Montsromerr. Ala.. An-, i Tha bouse of representatives vaatenia unanimously ratified the proposed in come tax amendment to the Federal constitution. The senate will vote oa tha questioa of ratification Wednesday. MOTORMAN IS BLAMED. Evidence Shows He Pan by Switch Near Coeur d'Alene. Spokane, Wash., Aug. 3. In the collision of two passenger trains on the Coeur d'Alene & Spokane railway Sat urday afternoon, two mile west of Coeur d'Alene, 12 persons were killed and 102 injured. About 60 of the lat ter sustained only slight injuries and are not in hospitals. Motorman Campbell, of the wrecked train, who was reported sroong the dead last night, is alive today, but it is thought it is only a'mstter of a few hours until he dies. He was badly mangled in the vestibule of bis car, and is barely breathing. Campbell stated tonight that he un derstood his orders were to meet the other train at a siding five miles from where the collision occurred. It is learned from an official who de clines to be quoted that Motorman Campbell, of the wetabound train, the extra which was wrecked, had orders from the dispatcher to pull out of Coeur d'Alene and to take a siding about three-quarters of a mile out. in order to allow the regular eastbound train to pass. He passed that siding, either forgetting his orders or imagining he could make the next siding, about an other mile ahead. It was between the two sidings that the collision occurred. ACAPULCO IN RUINS. Destitute Inhabitants of Mexican City Face Famine. Mexico City, Aug. 3. A dispatch from Acspulco todsy states that 73 dis tinct shocks of earthquake have been felt there since the first shake Friday. The city has been destroyed and the in habitants face a famine. During one of the shocks a tidal wavs engulfed.the harbor and a number of lives were lot Chilpancingo also has been practical ly destroyed. What the earthquake of Friday failed to do was accomplished by the stronger one Saturday, which either leveled or rendered uninhabitable every building in the two places. All the markets at Acapulco were destroyed in the shocks of Saturday and the country people are afraid to take in more produce to the town. People are camping in the public squares and hsve no food. The buildings standing are being leveled by dynamite, as they are little more than tottering walls. During the heavy shock Saturday the water in the harbor receded 33 feet, and then rushed back, covering the docks and piers, causing considera ble damage. The people are suffering from exposure. The tents in the pub lic squares and streets do not keep off the heavy rains that fall at this season of the year. Funds are being rsised in Mexico City to relieve the distress of Guerrero. In Mexico City Saturday the shock was besvier than any other yet experi enced. So far as known no lives were lost in the last tremor. REBELS DECLARE REPUBLIC. Don Jsime de Bourbon to Lead Revo lution in Spain. London, Aug. 3. Quickly following messsges received here early today that Spanish troops had been repulsed in a collision with revolutionaries at Barce lona, came a report that the insurgents in thst city bad proclaimed a republic. Color is lent to the report by other dispatches emanating from Cerbere on tbe Franco-Span ibh frontier. These tell of a continuance of fighting between the troops and revolutionaries in Barcelona, showing the government has not gained control of the insurg ents, as censored dispatches stated. Officials of the Spanish government st Msdrid and other points have- con tended for several days that the rioting was the work of anarchists and social ists. Thse claims are challenged by a message received yesterdsy from Barcelona by way of Cerbere. stating: "Nine thousand armed revolutionar ies have formed a committee of public ssfety. A meeting of Carl is t leaders has been held at Figueras, and the ar rival is expected of the pretender, Don Jaime de Bourbon, in order to place himself at the head of thejebllion." Cigarettes Under Ban. Minneapola, Aug. 3. The cigarette is an outlaw in Minnesota. The new state law prohibiting their sale went into effect Saturday, and it is now il legal to put them on the market. The cigarette market assumed a peculiar phase in the closing hours. The price varied, and was as unsettled as tbe stock market after a flurry in Wall street. In the evening there was a shortage in popular brands at some cigar stores, and sent up prices Re ports came from other sections of fresh supplies, which caused a rash there. Alaska Road Is Operating. Cordova, Alaska, Aug. 3. The first ticket was sold and the first regular passenger train made its run yesterdsy on the first ail-American railroad in Alaska, the Copper River & Northwest ern. The passenger fare charge is IS cents a mile. Fifty-three miles of track have been completed and placed in operation. The tracks will reach Ticket river in October. At present 4.000 men are at work on the construc tion of the road. Ship With 3,000 Overdue. Durban, Natal, Aug. 3. Some alarm has been created by the non-arrival here of the British steamer Waratah, from Sydney, for London. She left Port Natal July 26, and since then has not been seen by any vessel. 4 search has been instituted tor her. The War atah has 3,000 persons on board. A BRIEF DAILY REPORT ON THE WORK OF CONGRESS Tuesday. August 3. Washington, Aug. 3. The complete collapse of all important opposition to the conference report on the tariff bill wsa evidenced today when the senate agreed to vote on that measure at 2 o'clock next Thursday. Half an hour after unanimous consent had been given for that course a disinclination on tbe part of senators to speak brought an early adjournment until noon tomorrow. The lack of interest in the proceed ings was evident. This was caused by an agreement of Western senators to vote for the conference report and to correct the hide and leather schedule by mesns of a concurrent resolution to be acted upon separately. The form of the concurrent resolution was agreed upon at an informal conference in Aldrich's commitee room. Instruo tions are given by this resolution to the enrolling clerks of the senate and house to change tbe language of the provision reducing duties on boots and shoes and harness. Mondsy, August 2. Washington, Aug. 2. Tariff legis lation has been delayed again by the hide and leather question, and the con ferees were called together once more today. Western senators will compel further changes in the bides and leather schedule. These senators com plain that tbe leather schedule as ar ranged by the conferees with the ap proval of the president, is unfair to the states interested in protected hides. It was agreed that some action must be taken to conciliate them if the conference report is to bo adopted. Saturdsy, July 31 Washington, July 31. Tbe house to night sdopted the conference report on the tariff bill, 195 to 183. Twenty Republicans voted against the report and two Democrats for it. Payne appealed to his Republican colleagues to stand by the bill, saying that if they wanted to drive their party into chaos they would vote against it. But he said it would be a delusion to vote against the bill upon the idea that the Dingley rates would be continued. "We have revised the tariff and have taken off unnecessary dutis," said Payne. "Not all along the line generally, but in our revision of the tariff be have revised the tariff down ward and yet we have held the scales so evenly that we have done no injury to any person or sny industry in the United States. "These rates increase the revenue from customs less than $4,000,000. The corporation tax is estimated to produce $26,000,000 and tobacco $9, 333,333. "The Dingley law, during all its period of existence has provided ample revenue, and there is no doubt this law will do the same for another 12 years." Washington, July 31. After three hours' discussion the senate passed the urgent deficiency appropriation bill, including $25,000 for the president's traveling expenses, appropriations for executing the tariff bill's provisions, reducing the salaries of five judges of the new Customs court from $10,000 to $7,500 per annum, and reducing the salaries of other Customs court offi cials. There wss a large attendance when tbe bill was taken up. Friday, July 30. ' Washington, July 30. Entering upon the last stages of its considera tion by congress, the tariff will aa re ported by the conferees wss submitted today to the bouse by Chairman Payne aid ordered printed in the Congres sional Record. Discussion of the con ference report will begin st 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, the indications be ing that a day will suffice for its adop tion. Thursday, July 29. Washingon, July 29. Bowing to President Taft's ultimatum as to gloves and lumber, the Republican tariff conferees brought their work to a conclusion this afternoon, signed the report and tomorrow will submit it to the bouse. Two tentative agreements one reached yesterdsy and the other the day before were repudiated by the president. The bill as it now standi will have the president's hearty ap proval. President Taft gets the two things upon which he insisted in addition to free hides and radical reductions in the duties on manufactured leather the existing rates on gloves and lum ber at $1.25 a thousand. Wsdnesdsy, July 29. Washington, July 28. The confer ence committee finished its work to day, but Taft is displeased and msy not stand for the agreementgs, which are: Lumber, rough, $1.40 a thousand feet Tbe bouse rate was $1 and tbe senate rate $1.60. The senate differ entials were adopted, making lumber planed on one side dutiable at $1.90; two s des, $2.16; three sides, $2.62 S, and four sides, $2.90. The senate Safety Device Ordered. Washington, Aug. 4. All American steamship companies were directed to equip the boilers of their vessels with independent waterfeeds by October 31 next in a decision of Assistant Secre tary McHarg, of tbe Department of Commerce and Labor. If at the time indicated all such vessels are not so equipped, tbe companies affected will have their licensee revoked. It is pointed oat that this will reduce to a minimum the danger of explosions. rates on lath and shingles, which were higher than the house rates, also were adopted. Votes were taken on rough lumber at $1.25 and at $1.50, but no agree ment could be reached except at the $1.40 rate for rough, with the senate differentials on finished lumber. Gloves were made dutiable at rates considerably in advance of the duties fixed by the senste bill, which for the most part were tbe same aa the Ding ley rates. The print paper rate was fixed at $3.76 a ton. This is only 25 cento less than the senate rate and $1.76 more than tbe house rate. It is expected that this rate will arouse the ire of the house committee which investigated the wood pulp and paper question. Hides were left on the free list, con tingent upon the adoption of the house rule authorising the conferees to go below the house rates in fiting the rates on leather and leather products. If the report is laid be for the house on Friday, according to present pro gram, it will be taken up Saturday. Accepts Ksyes' Resignstlon. Washington, July 31. -The resigna tion of President Reyes, o( Colombia, was formally accepted today, according to a dispatch received here. Reyes wired bis resignation to the president of the senate from Hamburg. He will remain abroad indefinitely. His mes sage to the Colombian senate reads: "1 irrevocably resign all future claima to the presidency." Reyes' term had four years yet to run. Since he has been at the head of the government there have been two attempts to as sassinate him. His health baa broken and with the people showing a disposi tion to support him no longer Reyes decided to resign. Two Men Marked. Washington, July 30. Gifford Pinch ot, chief of the Forestry service, and F. H. Newell, director of the Reclama tion service, are equally aware that Secretary Ballinger is anxious to force them out of the Federal service, or at least reduce them from their present positions of power to places less im portant and less influential. But they are assuming different attitudes toward the secretary of the interior. Mr. Pinchot has donned his warpaint and feathers and intends to fight; Newell hss assumed a psssive attitude and will await a decision by the president, who is the final arbiter. Mrs. Longworth Would Fly. Washington. July 31. Mrs. Nichol as Loi.gworth, daughter of ex-Preai-dent Roosevelt, has become an enthusi astic a pout aeronautics. Her attend ance upon the trials of the Wright aeroplane is almost constant, and now, it is said, she is determined to make a flight herself, not in the aeroplane, though it is said she even expressed her willingness to do that, but in a bal loon. A. Holland Forbes, of New York, acting president of the Aero club of America, wbo is now in the city, has promised to take Mrs. Longworth up. Utah Company Loses Lands. Washington, July 30. Atlo.-ney General Wickersham announced yester day that the Utah Fuel company, a subsidiary corporation of the Denver & Pio Grande railway, had settled pend ing government suits for recovery of illegally acquired lands by paying $73, 000 cash and reconveying to the gov ernment 800 acres of coal lands, ap praised at $40,000. The attorney gen eral stated that a rigid investigation would be made into the company's own ership of other lands. Montsna Lands Open to Entry. Washington, July 29. Over 213,000 seres of land in Montana that had been withdrawn from the public domain dur ing the Roosevelt administration was thrown open for entry today by tbe De partment of the Interior. The land was withdrawn because it was alleged that a powerful combination had been formed to grab it for water power pur poses. The land will be subject to settlement about the middle of Novem ber. Old Landmark to Go. Waahington, Aug. 3. The district commiMsioners today received bids on the contract to tear down the Anacos tia bridge, which is one of the historic landmsrks of tbe national capital. It was over this bridge that John Wilkes Booth sped his horse to escape from the city the night he shot Lincoln. The old bridge bas been replaced by a handsome new structure, connecting Waahington proper with the suburb of Anscostia. Checks Water Grab Washington. Aug. 3. To frustrate the attempt on the part of combina tions to seeuro control of the water power of the country end to carry out the policy of the administration for the conservation of tho nation's natural resources, approximately 42,000 acres of land for waterpower aites were tem porarily withdrawn in Colorado, Mon tana and Utah, by Acting Secretary of tbe Interior Pierce today. Shoup Statue at Capitol. Washington, July 80. A marble statue of the late Senator Shoup, of Idaho, is soon to be erected in Statuary ball in the capital bo Iding. Tbe statue is the gift of the state of Idaho, and was delivered at the rapitol building todsy, but will not be unveiled until next winter. Tbe ceremonies will then be conducted by tbe senate and house. THE WORLDS GREATEST SEWiNS MACHINE LS I If? Mr DIIMMIMfS If too want rtthereVMwetlnfflhattte, Rotary 1 BbutUenraHlncleThmid Ckai iitach) Hewlug WrtoMne wrlla to THI HEW KOMI 3IWIH0 MaCHIfti COMPART Orange, Mau. Uaar anrlna machine arc rnada towll marrilaai at aualiir, bui I ha Maw UeaU it atada lo waaa. Our guaranty m mat out. afcM by Mlhertseal feelera eaUf. Pendleton Furniture Co. Pendleton, Oregon A. C. CRAWFORD U. S. Land Commissioner Ilermiston, Oregon F. It. DORX, M. D. Ptiysk'lan and Surgeon. ECHO OREGON DR. ALEXANDER REID Physician & Surgeon Echo Phone Black 74 J. FRANK SIIELTOX, Attorney at Law. ECHO OREGON LODGE DIRECTORY. Overland Lodge No, S3, 1. O. O. F Meets every Saturday evening In the Odd Fellows' hall on Dupont street. Henrietta Rebekah Lodge No. tt, L O. O. F. Meets second end fourth Wednesdays of each month ia Odd Fellows' hall. Umatilla Lodge No. 40, A. F. at A. M. Meets first and third Saturdays of each month In the Masonlo hall oa Dupoint tttreet. Fort IlrnrMla Tamp No, T7S, W. O. W. Meets first and third Wednes days of each month In Odd Fellows hall. CHURCH DIRECTORY. , ..Methodist Cliuri-h Sunday school at 10 a. m.; preaching at 11 a. m. and 7 p. m,, every Sunday. VOn RALE. Duy IprjiiI blanks at the Echo Rg;lter office. Aro yon Rending the Register to your friends? FOR RAI.K. Old newspapers fur sale at this office, 26 cents per 100. For sale. A two horse-power (rasolino engine. It is a cood ono and can he mhti running at any time. For particulars call at this office. Qet your printing nt the Regis ter office, where lliey print things right. Typewriter ribbon for Kale at the Register office. WONG LUNG Laundry I have purchased the Sam Woe Lung Laundry and refitted it up and now ready for business. 1 so licit your family washings no matter how small or how big. I guarantee all my work. Leave your order and 1 will come and get it and return iL GIVE ME A TRIAL The friends of this paper will please hand us in news items when they are freoh. We prefer not to publish a birth after the child is weaned, a mar riage after the honeymoon is over, or the death of a man after his widow ia married again. t a XlPtasra mseifXl