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PAGE SIX THE ECHO REGISTER, ECTIO, OHEGOX.4 FRIDAY OCTORETt 1, 1J0D I Perfect Time i t t i J.F.KENLY i PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER PENDLETON, OREGON A. L. SCHAEFER Successor to Louii Banziker. Jeweler end Optician Expert Wi;;h Repairing Pendleton, : : : Oregon .THE French Restaurant HOVER RftO, Prom. Strictly First Class r Elegantly Furnished Rooms in Connection. I'riv:ite Dining Par lors. BEST MEALS IN THE CITY. 63) Main Strert PfNDltTON, ORCCON GEO. KNAQQS 2 Blacksmith Wagon Maker 2 Horsliptliorliiff and General J Repair Work ..Hntlsfaotion fliiuranteed.. 5 Solicit Hliuro of your 0 patronage Ilnrkley Street, Krho, Ore. DRAYAGE We Haul Anything Prompt Attention Given to All Orders Two Wagons Constantly at Work O. G. THORNTON The Echo Drayman K3M' 60 DEARS' iitjj' EXPERIENCE Traoc Marh DriiaMi CAVRiaMT Aft. Annnt)MfltTn skefeetf-ti and lNktirlmi mr 8lfktf ssaVSrtll OMf CMHH I 1t99 hMtf HO ivtMiiioii t prhnllf p 4tntl Ci-nirmttilria. tlmu.c4lr oiutHitl 0. IMNUbOQft on i"sitits) Bieiiisi sawn i r fiiiMH es vw ewvtv tptfUti Stufke, 'tMMcltlVL oil III Sclentinc JasncricctK rtmiifl tUn ilnuerh eWunn A la. reir9 A K..ilan.lB ItlHala-taJ 1 4a. '. I ri l m I l . tin.. i i II tiaaalm.Uir, ulaiiim ( nf frivnimt Journal. Ts-rn.a, $3 y-r: Tr isiufiiu, fi. exna dismi naHisMsri Liu V mmtm He;v York A, 1.1 uis w we s w v OUUia, tOI r U WwtUlMltWta. I E.W. GATES, Ceitrictor aid Builder Estimates Furnished Jobbing and Repairing At the Hotel Echo Echo, Oregon PORTLAND RESTAURANT Frank Okamaur, Trop. Meals served at all hourt during the day. Board by the week f 5.00 We will always try to give our customers the Best the market affords. 9 VX L"i 11 . -.'a tvll ToaiTm rexx Tooswa FOB BCBO. roa acsa BUTTE MINES ALL CLOSED BY STRIKE Ten Thousand Men Quit Work and Leave Shafts. Smelters and Other Allied Industrie May Be Forced to Suspend Po lice Protect Men Who Would Con tinue Work Sheriff Threatens to Shoot if Necessary. Butte. Mont. Sent. 25. Every mine in Butte is shut down tonieht and 10.- 000 men are idle, with the prospect of 6,000 more being thrown out of work. If the suspension continues for five days the smelters and other allied in dustries will be forced to suspend. The trouble was caused by a majori ty of Engineers' Union No. 83 hsvin? seceded from the Western Federation of Miners and organized a new union. The Butte Miners' union ordered its members not to co to work in mines employing members of the new engin eers' union. The evening was ushered in with great excitement, when nearly 2,000 miners surrounded the shaft of the Csirnon mine, annarentlv for the nur- pose of mobbing 28 miners who defied me command or tne union to stop work. A detail of 15 policemen with Cantain Thomas Norton in command hurried to the scene, and reinforced bv Sheriff John K. O'Rourke, with every deputy ol his olhce at his back, succeeded in reselling the shaft mouth. Mounting a pile of timbers, the sher iff in plain language told the crowd that the officers DroDoaed to nrotapt tha oagnon minera and intimated that any attempt at violence oupon the part of ine strikers would result In shooting, It is hardlv likelv that work will he resumed before a week, and the various smelters throughout thii state mv he compelled to suspend operations. WRECK AT SEATTLE. Trolley Car Jumps Track and Crashes Into Corner Cafe. Seattle, Sept 25. Of the 80 passen gers on a big Wallingtord avenue car that was wrecked at the curve near the main gate of tre World's fair, shortly before noon yesterday, not one escaped being cut or brused or sharply shaken, but it is believed that none of the in jured will die. Frank Hull, of Taco ma, aged 4G, an Oddfellow attending the festivities accompanying the Sov ereign Grand lodge meeting, died an hour after being taken from the wreck. The car got beyond control of the motorman. attained a speed of 30 miles an hour at the corner of Fourteenth avenue. Northeast and East Fortieth street, careened, left the track and crashed into a one-itorv huiMinirat th southeast corner of the crossing, de molishing the flimsy building, splitting and wreck inir tha car and hurlinor th passengers forward with frightful force every pane or glass In the car was broken and the jagged pieces showered Ulton the Dassenirera. who vn tnuori one upon another in indescribable con tusion. WRECKAGE LINES GULF. Southern Coast Strewn With Broken Ships and Launches. New Orleans. Sent 25. With the list of dead from Mondav'a tronienl hurricane well above 100 tonight, every indication points to a much larger num ber of victims. Msny small sloops and launches are Ivinir wrecked on tha Gulf shore of I-ouisiana and Mississip pi, and there ia little doubt that mm. of their occupants are lost Anxiety for the ssfety of steamers bound for New Orleana during the hur ricane period on the gulf, has been re lieved. Nearly all of these vessels were many hours late, but finally ar rived at this port with the exception of the Utstein. which is four dsva over. due from Puerto Cortes. She was re- !orted today to have rone aground off Seashore light ne&f the mouth of the Mississippi, with no loss of life. Juarez Bomb Harmless. El Paso. Tex.. Sent 25. It rivl. oped today that there was no plot con nected with the finding of a supposed bomb in Juarez. Mexico. The "bomb" proved to be a small pepper box, three incnes long, an men ana a hair in di ameter, and containing a substance like parafline poured over the top. Even had it been exploded it would have done no harm. The police have arrested an American trams who hmA been sleeping on the premises of Senor Argueiiea and had been ordered away. He had made threats against Arguelles. Spain Turned Back. Oudja, Sept 25. Native reports sav that the S Danish advanca toward Ss. louan on September 20 was stopped and turned back by a strong body of Riffiana. Similar renorta war ramn during the operations at Souk Beni Si- car, wnen a numoer or ue triDeemen. fighting for the Spanish cause, were said to have deserted to the enemy, forcing the Spanish troops to retire to sienna, ineee re pons prooaDiy are the basis of a rumored Spanish reverse. Hundreds Flee In Skiffs. BiloxL If iaa.. Sent. K Ahonft RAO storm sufferers are homeless at Bayou la zfanre, near the mouth of the Mis sissippi river, and two lives were lost there. The water maa alfct tmt In the booses and the people saved their liMa ha I.LI.a klr. .-J I -- "j " ' muta am gvwuiar vb the Mississippi river. HILL GIVES PRIZES. Railroad Builder Helps try Farming Congress With Cups. Billings, Mont, Sept 27. Five sil ver cups, aggregating $220 in value, will be features of the list of prizes offered by James J. Hill, chairman of the board of directors of the r.reat Northern railway, for best exhibits at the International Dry Farming exposi tion Wllicn Will be held at Ri I nma Montana, October 25-29, in connection with the Fourth Dry Farming congress, October 26-28. Geortre J. Kvan. o-en- eral industrial agent of the Great Northern, has sent to the headnuartera of the congress at Billings a list of the prizes and the conditions under which they will be awarded. The aggregate value of all the prizes is $1,000. This award bv Mr. Hill is similar to that made by him in the case of the Omaha Corn exposition, with the exception that the cud feature is made a aDecial one in favor of the Dry Farming con gress. In regard to the cash prizes, Oregon, Washington and Montana are given me same list, thereby eliminat ing the competition of one state against another where conditions for certain crops might be better in one state than the other. BURNING LAKE STUDiEU. Adventurous Spirits Go Into Crster o Active Volcano. Honolulu. Sent 27. L. M. Hale. J Reynolds, and Earnest Moses, a nhoto- grapher, descended today into the pit of the crater of Mount Kilaueau. re m . - - r maining half an hour on the edge of a ourning mice or lava and tire. This is the first time that this feat has been accomplished. The members of the party ventured almost to tho rim of the seething lake and attempted to take photographs The heat was intense and at times the adventurers walked over partially molten areas. After comnletinir their observations, they returned safely to 1 n - - - the rim of the crater, where half a dozen friends had witnessed the descent Kilaueau is one of the larsrest active volcanoes in the world, on the east slope of Maunaloa, Hawaii island. Its altitude is 4.400 feet and tha eircum. xerence oi its crater is about nine miles, with a deDth varvincr from 700 to 1.100 feet denendimr unon the level of the molten lava. Violent eruptions occurred in 1797, 1844 and 18t!6, and since the latter date there have been several outbreaks of lees severity. ENGINEERS TO YIELD. Settlement of Miners' Differences in Butte In Sight. Butte. Mont. SeDt 27. Although no delimte statements have yet been made bv either side, it develoneH lata toniflrht that there ia nlauaihla nrnanapt that the differences existing between the Brotherhood of Stationary Enein eers No. 1 and the Butte Miners' union may be settled, and the miners will re turn to ineir work at the various prop. erttes before tomorrow morning. It ia known that certain overturaa have been made to the engineers by the omcers oi the miners' union, and it is Quite Probable the engineers will maka certain concession which will be ac- pteable to the minera. Whether tha concessions will be permanent and whether they will involve a return of the secediag engineers to the Western rederationofMiners.it was imnnaai- ble to ascertain. The adjustment will be reached, it ia Delieved. without brwmnir tha minintr companies into the controversy, either aa aroitrators or because oi their influ ence, and it is highly probable that there Will be not hire for Tharlaa Mav. er, president of the Western Federation of Miners, to settle when he arrives. Omaha Strike Nears End. Omaha, Sept 27. Chances of end ing the Streetcar emnlovea atrika seemed favorable tonight President Wattles, of the car company, after a meeting with the municipal otiicials tomorrow, will mske a plain state ment of whst conditions wi uhi be ac. ceptable to the company. The strik ing employes, he says, will be given sn opportunity to sccept his conditions. In a disturbance just before the rara stopped running for the day, James Murphy, a conductor, was knrwkad down and seriously injured. Launch Sinks, 80 Drown. Victoria. B. U.. Sent. 97 M.ii ad vices from the Orient tell of a ship div aater on the West river of South China, involving a loss of 80 lives. The Isunch Wo On, from Weichu for Ho Yuen, on August 11 cspsied three miles from her destination. Tha !. dent was caused bv the at Twenty of her 100 passengers were saved by swimming and by clinging to wreckage. The Chinese authorities at Weichu charters 1 a steam latinfh which proceeded to the scene to recover the bodies of the victims. Madrid Denies Defeat. Madrid. Sent 24. Tha D.m is either unwilling or ur.ahla t. ;Va a statement of the Spsnish casualties in the latest fighting with the Moors in Morocco. The news of a Spanish de feat received at Paris is discredited here, and the government declares the Spanish victory incomplete It is an nounced that the tribesmen are expect ed soon to ask for peace. It is known that tho loss has been heavy. It ia said 400 were killed on each side. Johnson's Will ( Found. St FsuL Sept 27.-U was teamed today that Governor Johnson had left a will bequeathing all his estate, which probably wiU aggregate $25,000 to his DEATH AND RUIN FOLLOW STORM Dixie Land Is Devastated by Tropical Hurricane. Forty-Eight Lives Lost and Other Fa talities Rumored Miles of Terri tory Are Laid Waste and Crops Ruined Property Loss Will Reach Into Millions. New Orleans, Sept 23. At least 48 livea were lost in tha tranipai hurri cane that swept thia part of the coun try Monday and Monday nicrht It ia reported 50 others oeriaiied in I .n lira Terre Bonne parish, but this report oas no oeen connrmeo. The property loss is far heavier than was first, believed and will run well into the millions. Miles of territory have been laid waste and crops have been practically ruinea. Shipping inlets was sugar mills of all kinds in the bayou destroyed. storehouses. and dwellings at Houma and other villages were badly dam- aged. Ibe damage at Grand island and Chaniere Caminada was heavy, but no lives were lost The crops on that isiana were totally destroyed, for the water swept across two or three feet deep. The orange groves were whip- pea c.ean or fruit and foliage, hun dre s of trees being uprooted. The first messsge from the islands wss received today when the mail stesmer Grand Island reached this city. It was feared before the arrival of the boat that hundreds hsd lost their lives. In the tropical storm of 1903 no less than 1.500 nennla drowned on Chaniere Caminada. PLOT AGAINST PRESIDENTS. Bomb Is Found at Meeting Place of Taft and Diaz. El Paso. Tex.. Sent 23. The riia. covery tonight of a bomb in a reai. dence in course of erection in Juarez, across the border in Mexico, caused a sensation. The authorities were notified and 19 workmen were placed in incommuni. csdo. It was first reported the bomb WSS found in the rear Of tha milnmi house, where President Taft and Pni. dent Diaz are to meet October 16. but this was later denied by the authori ties. The residence of Cam i I In A where the bomb was found, is a block from the customs house, where the meeting of the nresidenta ia tn taka place. A visit by President Diaz to Arguelles, who is a close personal friend of Diaz, waa thought nmhuU. Colonel Corella, commanding the regu lar army in Juarez, says the object was a small piece of dynamite. It WSS not more than a nuartar nf a stick," he said. "It probably was thrown there by a revolutionist some months aeo. when arrests wera hxina mace or tnese people." ROBBERS SLAY SIX. Thieves Murder Whole Family in West Virginia for Loot, Bluefield. W. Va.. Sent 23 An an. tire family of six neraons waa mnml. ed and the bodies of all but one of the victims were burned with their home at Hurley, Va., early today. I he motive evidently was robharv as the owner of the house, an aired , . j , woman known as "Aunt Betty" Jus tice, was generally supposed to keep a large sum of money in the nlsre. Mrs. Justice, her son-in-law Cenrva aieatiowg. nis wire and tha r thraa .. . . children were the victims. Meadows' body, badly mutilated, was found in the yard. The half T burned hndiaa nf tha t. women and three children were foonri beneath the debris of the house, each body bearing evidences of munler ha. fore the house was burned. The thieves are su noosed tn hava secured the $600 which "Aunt Betty" always carried on her person. Squadron Tests Speed. Honololu. Scut 23. Wirel eaa ra. ports from the armored croiser squad ron of Admiral Sebree received here touight state that seven of the cruisers took part in the full power run off the Island of Maui. The warahina under forced draught for four hours and the dispatches ssy no breakrioama of any kind occurred. According to a wirelens report received this after. noon, but which has not been nffi-i.ii confirmed, the West Virginia larf in tha speed tests and made an average of al most Knots an nour. Rear Admiral Clark til. Fremont 0.. Sept 23. Rear kA. miral Charles E. Clark, United States navy, who commanded the battleship Oregon during the Spanish-American war, was taken seriously ill today. When the war broke out the battleship Oregon was in Pacific waters. The vessel was ordered to hurry to Cuba, and Captain Clark took the big fight ing machine around the Horn at full speed all the way. The voyage waa a most conspicuous feature of the war. Strikers Stone Trolleys. Omaha. Neb.. Sent 23. Riota ra. suiting from the streetiar strike re sulted In aeriona iniur tn nina man last night Two of toe injured are motormen who were struck with WHAT Better opportunity do you want to make money? Did you ever stop to think that you can buy a piece of the Famous Umatilla Ranch at the right price and on good terms, and that it is sure to make money? Come in and let's talk it over. E. P. CROARKIN, Agt. Echo, Oregon yjpy T Ssp T n fl a v? no n i. w. VJ . . LJ" ' it. I an IV II . K. N.STANHFI.li. Vice Prealdont R. B. HTANKtEI.lt. Cl.ler NOMA liUl'fcKU. Atelauot Caahlar BANK OF ECHO ECHO, CAPITAL STOCK $25,000 FULLY We sell New York Exchange payable at any place In the United States. We solicit the Banking Business of this Locality. 2 The Louvre Near Beer, Soft Drinks, Cigars, Tobacco, Tropic al Fruits, Nuts, Etc. A Share of Patronage Solicited. Bert Lonenecaer, Prep. Corner Htii ail Dnpoat Streets 0 O o o 0 Hotel Echo M. H. GILLETTE, Prop. THE BEST THE, MARKET AFFORDS ALWAYS ON THE TABLE ' 0 0 Give me ooocooeecooosoc.eeooeoeo09o When in Pendleton don't fail to stop in at the NISSEN IMPLEMENT CO. 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