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About Wallowa County chieftain. (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1909)
AT NATION'S CAPITAL Srand Juries Will Inquire Into the Panama Canal Scandal. NO RIVER AND HARBOR BILL Many Senators Oppose Higher Pay for President, Vice-President and Speaker. Washington, Jan. 18. Six Wash ington correspondents of out-of-town papers and a local news bureau have been subpenaed to appear before the federal grand jury and testify, pre sumably in connection with state ments appearing in their publications bearing on the Panama canal pur chase. In his special message to congress of December 15, regarding charges of corruption, the President an nounced that the attorney-general had under his consideration the form in which proceedings for libel against Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York World, should be brought. Nowhere In the government annals i has such an action been taken as I the government suing for criminal I libel. The President in his message j was most emphatic in saying that I It should not be left to a private citi- len to enter suit, and was particular j to state that he did not believe "wei should concern ourselves with the ! particular Individuals who wrote the j lying and libelous editorials, articles from correspondents or articles In the news columns. The real offender Is Joseph Pulitzer, editor and pro prietor of the New York World." An amendment in the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill Increasing the salary of the Pres ident to $100,000, of the Vice-President and speaker of the house of rep resentatives to $20,000 with 85000 additional allowance for carriages and coachmen for the Vice-president and speaker, and increases for the judiciary aggregating $328,500, pre cipitated a lively discussion In the senate. Borah, of Idaho, made a point of order against these increases on the ground that they Involved general legislation which, according to the rules of the senate, cannot be placed on an appropriation bill in face of a single objection. A treaty providing for extradition has been signed with Honduras by Secretary Root. The state depart ment baa declined to say whether or not the treaty is retroactive, but If it is the last haven of refuge for fugitive prisoners in the Western .Hemisphere has disappeared. Among the criminals liable to be brought back under the new treaty is Jons Ripllnger, ex-controller of Se attle, who absconded with some f 60, O00 of that city's funds. He Is now living in security in Honduras. The house committee on appro priations have included in the ur gency deficiency appropriation bill, a bill of $30,000 for the maintenance of automobiles for the White House. It was explained that Mr. Taft has Intimated that he would use automo biles during bis incumbency of the White House, and in order that he might have the machines at the be ginning of his administration, the Item was included in this bill. The senate committee on agricul ture has authorized ft favorable re port of the McCumber bill providing (or the Inspection and grading of grains. Under this bill national In spection and grading of grains Is pro vlded for and the department of ag riculture Is authorized o tlx definite grades. In addition to the present laboratories, others are to be estab lished at Seattle, Taeoma and San Francisco and other points. The bouse committee on rivers and harbors voted against a general appropriation bill for river and har bor improvements. The committee will report a bill providing for car rying on important work already be gun, for surveys of urgent projects proposed and for any emergencies which may arise. , Attorney-General Bonaparte will be Invited to appear before the spe cial committee of the senate, which is considering the Culberson resolu tion calling for the opinion of the judiciary committee as to the au thority of the President lu permit ting absorption of the Tennessee Coal & Iron Company by the United States Steel Corporation. With the signing of an arbitration treaty between the United States and AuBtro-Hungary, at the state depart ment, conventions of that character with more than 20 nations of the world have been agreed to. The treaty now goes to the senate for rat ification. . , - The hoiiRp rnmmlttAA nn naval af fairs has fixed the amount needed for ! - 1 . - . - 1 1 uiv uuuuieuauce 01 luw naval service during the fiscal year 1910 at 8185, 862,888, as compared with $122, 662,486, the present appropriation. j TURNS DOWN WOOLMEN Refuses Imitation to Convention at roratello, Idaho. Pocatello, Idaho, Jan. 18. Chief Forester Pinchot turned down two Invitations to attend the convention of National WoolgrowerV Associa tion, which adjourned In this city Saturday night. Mr. Plnchot's re fusals were based on what he termed the selfish and narrow policy of the U1FFOUD PINCHOT. association toward- the government forestry work. , Pinchot's invitations and his replies were made public here. On a final' showdown on the Chi cago wool storage proposition It .was found that the signatures to the Chi cago 'contract were 4,500,000 pounds short of the required 25,000.000 pounds necessary to insure the Chi cago market. HAVE DIAMOND JUBILEE Methodists Celebrate Birth of Church Missions at Washington, D. C. Washington, Jan. 18. In the Met ropolitan Methodist Episcopal church In this city Methodist Episcopalians celebrated with prayer and music and addresses the diamond jubilee of the beginning of the missionary movement of the church. Seventy five years ago the church Bent out its first missionary in the person of Mel ville B. Cox, who landed on the west coast of Africa In Liberia, and began the work that has now spread to all parts of the civilized and uncivilized world. president Roosevelt and Vice-President Fairbanks spoke at the cele bration tonight. Other speakers were Earl Cranston, Methodist Episcopal bishop of Washington, and Joseph C. Hartzell, missionary bishop to Af rica since 1898. One purpose of the celebration is the starting of a fund to equip in better manner the stations of the Methodist Episcopal church In Afri ca. There are six of these in differ ent parts of the continent, and the sum of $300,000 is needed to aid in the spreading of their work. Mem bers of the hurch were asked to night to contribute that sum in com memoration of the diamond Jubilee, in addition to their regular offering, CUBA TO GOVERN HERSELF Gomez to lie Inaugurated January 28 and Americans Will Withdraw. Havana, Jan. 18. On January 29 at noon the Cuban people will come Id to their own for the second time at the hands of the American gov ernment. It was on May 20, 1902, that the American flag, h pis ted after the war with Spain, was hauled down in favor of the blue-striped, single starred ensign of Cuba. The inauguration of Jose Miguel Gomez, the new president, on Jan uary 28, will take plaee at the palace at noon. Several American warships will fire a national salute, but neither United States sailors nor soldiers re maining on the islands will partici pate in the inaugural parade, as their presence might detract from the pride of the people in the return of native sovereignty. THE MARKETS Portland. Wheat Track prices: Club, 92cj red Russian, 90c; bluestem, 81.05; Valley, 95c. Barley Feed, 826.60; rolled, $282. Oata No. 1 white 833; gray, 832. Hay Timothy, Willamette Valley, fancy, 15; do. ordinary, 812; East, ern Oregon, mixed, 816; do. fancy, $18; alfalfa 812.50; clover, 812. Butter Extra, 36 37c; fancy, 33 34c; choice, 30c; store, 18c. Eggs Extra, 47 60c. Hops 1908, choice, 7Jc; prime, 9 7c; medium, 56c; 1907. 22c. Wool Valley, 1415c; ft.; Eastern Oregon, 816c, as to shrinkage. Mohair Choice, 18 19c. Seattle. Wheat Bluestem, $1.04. Oats $3233. Barley $27.60 28. Hay Eastern Washington timo thy, $18 per ton;' Puget Sound hay, $1314 per ton; wheat hay, $18 per ton; alfalfa, $13 014 per ton.: Butter Washington creamery, 3 7c per lb.; ranch, 23c per lb. Eggs Selected local, 46c i ; : j WHOLE FAIViiLY SLAIN W. L Seeley, Wife and Daugh ter, of Seattle, Killed No Weapon Found. WOMEN'S HEADS BATTERED Ladies Are In Nightrobos, Man Part ly Clothed Murder Occurs Thursday Night. Seattle, Jan. 18. W. L. Seeley, an attorney and ex-national bank exam iner for Illinois; his wife, a member of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution, and his daughter, Miss Rene Seeley, a stu dent at the University of Washing ton, were found dead in a bathroom of their home In the fashionable Cap itol Hill district at 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon. They had been dead since the previous Thursday. . The women, each of whom was clad in nightrobes, had been mur dered by being struck In the head, evidently with a hammer. There was no mark of violence on Seeley He la believed to have been partially chloroformed and then drowned In the bathtub. All three were kneel ing at the bathtub with their heads submerged in the water. The bodies were found Sunday by Guy M. Smelzer, affianced husband of Miss Seeley, and E. R. Zibbell, a friend of the family. The Dolice de tectives searched the house for the 1 weapon with which the murders had been committed, but were unable to flpd any bloodstained implement.. No jewelry or other article of value was taken from the house. Late developments ' are taken as strengthening the theory that the Plan killed the two women and then committed suicide. He had recent ly received $8000 as his share of bis father's estate, but within the past few days he had borrowed money to pay bis last month's bouse rent. In. dicating that be was in financial straits. Seeley Is an uncle of M. F. Gose, of Pomeroy, recently appointed by the governor to the Washington su preme bench. He has a brother, Charles, at Pomeroy, and another, Frank, at Hood River, Oregon. SEATTLE MAN GETS BRIDE Charters Special Train to Get Over Boundary. Portland, Or., Jan. 18. Denied a license to marry in Oregon because of the non-residence laws of this sta.te, H. R. Rood, vice-president of the Pacific Creosotlng Company, - of Seattle, chartered a special tran Sat urday afternoon aa4 went to Van couver, Wash , where he and Mrs. Edward G, Stoiber, of Denver and Paris, widow of the late E, 0. StoJ ber, were married, The bride Is said to be the wealth' lest woman in the American colony in Paris, where she has spent the greater part of the time since her husband's death. Thaw's Appeal Granted, Nyack, N. Y., Jan. 18. Harry K. Thaw will be given a trial in New York City to determine- whether he la sane or Insane, i An order to that effect has been issued by Justice A. S, Tompkins, to whom an appeal ask ing for a hew trial was made by Mrs. William' Thaw, Harry's mother M0YER LOSES SUIT Sued Colorado Executive for Dam ages as Result of Imprisonment. Washington, Jan. 18. The su preme court of the United States to day decided against Former Presi dent Moyer of the Western Federa tion of Miners, in the damage suit brought by hjm against former Gov ernor Peabody, of Colorado, on ac count of Moyer's imprisonment on the governor's orders, because of his alleged connection with riots at Tel lurlde, Colo., In 1904. Notorious Woman Jailed. Kalispell, Mont,, Jan. 18. Marion Young, badly wanted In Seattle for holding up and robbing a man, has been arrested here by Sheriff O'Con nell. She Is also wanted In Portland and other coast cities for robbery, where she operated for a number of years. Iroquois Quints Setl.d. Chicago, Jan. 18. It was made public today that after five years of litigation settlements had been made In the cases of 30 of the deaths caused by the Iroquois Theater fire. It is stated that $760 a case Is to be Paid. Black Horses for Inauguration. Lexington, Ky., Jan. 18 Jacob B. Perkins, a Cleveland millionaire, has completed the purchase of 24 matched black horses to be used by the famous "Black Horse Troop" in the Taft inaugural parade March 4. Tang Shao Yi to Negotiate Loan. Victoria, B. C, Jan. 18. Tang Shao Chinese special ambassador now in America, has been asked by Viceroy Hsu, of Manchuria, to ne gotiate a loan in America to provide for the colonization of Manchuria. TO SEND BUILDING MATERIAL Roosevelt's Man to Aid Sufferers by Recent Earthquake in Italy. Washington, Jrn. 18. An Innova tion In International relief measures ao far as Euro; is concerned will be undertaken by the government In ex pending tho $500,000 appropr atd by congress for the Italian earth quake suffer or 3. Realizing that a great need among the sufferers will be shelter. President Roosevelt has decided to send to. Italy material for me construction of 2500 or S000 sub6tautial but modest frame houses. Verbal Instructions were given by the President to Secretary Newberry to enlist the machinery of the navy department. Mr. Newberry haB al ready been able to make partial ar rangements for carrying out the or ders of the President. The bodies of the American Con sul. Arthur S. Cheney and Mrs. Cheney have been found In the ruins of the American consulate at Mes sina by the sailors of the American battleship Illinois. Arrangements are being made for the shipment of the bodies to the United States. An estimate of the dead in Mes sina as a result of the catastrophe of December 28, made by Stuart K. Lupton, the American vice-consul, on behalf of the American embassy at Rome, places the number at 90,000. SENATORSJLECTED . Elihu Root Chosen to Succeed Piatt by New York Legislators. Albany, N. Y.. Jan. As reauirnrf by the federal law, the two houses of the legislature of the state of New York met here today In Beparate ses sion to vote for a successor to Thom as C. Piatt, United States senator from this state. The votes today were merely confirmatory of the choice of the caucuses of the repub licans of the two houses, Elihu Root, secretary of state. Penrose Re-Elected. 1 Harrlsburg, Pa., Jan. 19. Boies Penrose will again represent the state of Pennsylvania in the United States senate, according to the votes of the two houses of the state legls- . lature, cast here today. He Is a resident of Philadelphia. This will be his third term In the senate. Election in Connecticut. Hartford, Conn., Jan. 19. By a vote of the two houses of the state legislature, cast today, Frank Q. Brandegee wU again be the Junior senator from the state of Connecti cut. BARBER IS VERY EXPENSIVE Man Who Shaves Presidential Beard Paid $1000 Yearly. Washington, Jan. 18,, The reeom mendation of the auditor for the navy department that congress pro vide more clerks for his office has raised some question concerning the employment of William B, Dulany. Pulany for several years has been President Roopevelt'B negro barber. Last March he was appointed a "spe cial accountant" in the navy auditor's office at a salary of $1600 a year, but continued to serve as the Presiden tial tonsorlal artist. It Is reported the appropriation committee of the house, at the instance of several members who want to "get even" with the President, will investigate the matter and ask why the navy au ditor's office should pay for his dally shave. China Will Not Clutnge Policy, Pekln, Jan. 18. Prince Chlng, president of the board of foreign affairs, has assured the American and British ministers that the dismissal of Yuan Shi Kal means no change in Chinese policy, but bitterness has arisen between the British and Jap anese representatives here on account of Japan's refusal to Join Great Brit ain In her representations to Prince Chlng. The British position Is that Japan acts in bad faith, while the Japanese legation explains that It agreed to concur In the opinion of the majority and that a majority of the ministers favored the taking of no action in this direction. Want Votes in New Vork. Knw York. .Tan. 18 tmlltaf n . some extent meir strenuous English Bisters, the woman suffragists of New York state began tonight at Yonkera a vigorous two weeks' campaign, covering the state as far up as Al bany. The movement will wind up In two large meetings in the state capital Intended to Impress the state legislators with the strength of the movement. They will be h&ld Janu ary 25 and 26. Wreck Kills 21; Injures 89. Glen wood Springs, Col., Jan. 18 Twerity-one persons were killed and 30 injured, many of them seriously, ' In a head-on collision between a : westbound passenger and an east-! bound freight on the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, between Dotsero and Spruce Creek, 22 miles from Glen wood Springs, at 9:30 o'clock Friday night. Thornton Halns Held Not Guilty. Flushing, L. I., Jan. 18. After deliberating for 22 hours and tak ing 16 ballots, the jury acquitted Thornton Jenkins Halns of the mur der of William E. Annie, who was shot dead by Halns' brother, Cap tain Peter C. Halns. The first ballot stood eight to four tor acquittal. ROOSEVELT'S ainu the rijuiNALf rlUSEUM .... - - v h ?i !" NATION A liMtH T.TTTOT'fiTT tho n.vnaoretf hunt S. vj, Africa is entirely a private at-f-lr- " takes on somewhat of I nn official character now thnt It Is known that the Smithsonian Insti tution Is to benefit from the enterprise. The Smithsonian Institution is under tbe direction of the United States gov ernment. It was founded under a be quest of an Kuxllsliinnn, .1 nines Smith son, who died In Italy In ISM. It Is administered by a board ut the head of which Is lie president of the Unit id States, although the practical bend of the Institution Is the secretary, who has always been a man distinguished for scientific acquirements. The first secretary was Joseph Henry, noted for his epoch making discoveries. The present secretary Is Charles D. Wal cott, former head of the geological sur vey. To most visitors to Washington that part of the Smithsonian Institu tion known as the National museum proves of groat Interest, and Its mil lions of specimens are viewed by thou sands of persons every year. One of the Important departments of the In stitution is a bureau of ethnology, and nnother Is the library. The work of the institution as u whole embraces a brond field of scientific und historical effort.' Professor Walcott, who Is a native of New York state, fifty-eight years of nge and a graduate of Hamilton col lege, has innde nn International repu tation by his achievements In geology nnd paleontology. Twenty years ago he made a special study of the Cam- J. A LP IN LOIUNd AND CIIAISLE9 D. WAL- corr. blnu rocks and fauna of the United States nnd prespnted the results of bis researches to the Intermit tonal geo graphical concrete In London. Since then his services In scientific matters have been In frequent demand, and he Is the author of numerous works In his chosen field of research. Some time at;o on unnamed donor made a contribution to. the Smithso nian Institution for the purpose of ob taining natural history Heclmen8 from Africa. Last summer Professor Walcott learned that the president would be nreeuhlB to having several representatives of the Institution uc company him on his hunt, so it was decided to Join forces. Three repre sentatives of the Smithsonian Were delegated to uccompauy the president and his son Keriult, each having some special qualifications for bis Individual part In the enterpi'liio. Although the Smithsonian institution Is to get the benefit of the additions to scientific lore accruing from the Roosevelt hunt, no part of the cost of the' hunting trip U to come out of the funds appropriated each year by the government. The Institution has a fund of $800,000 entirely separate from the allotments by congress, and from this sifurce In part the money for the hunters Is to come. The president and his son will pay their own exr reuses, and the institution will outfit the expedition and defray the expenses nf the three scientists and the guide. No estimate has been made of whai the total cost will be. It Is stated thut while the Institution frequently pays large sums pf money for specimens It does not expect to piucliase the Roose velt collection. It expects to get the zoological, botanical and other speci mens free of charge save for the cost of outfitting the expedition and the traveling expenses of the naturalists ind guide. The big gume which tha jr7 . YV 1 1? 1 , t I K1 IiUNT i .3 vV -1 r. TMVj, WA SH lNiTOM president will kill' will be given with out charge. The youngest member of the Smith sonian representation on the trip la Edmund lleller, a graduate of Stan ford university, class of 1001, a thor oughly trained naturalist, whose spe cial work will be the preparation and preservation of specimens of large ani mals. Mr. Heller Is about thirty years of age. Ills former experience, when associated with D. O. Eliot and Mr. Ackley of the Field Columbian mu seum In collecting big game animals MAJOR XDOAR A. MP.AItNS, U. B. A., B TlllED. In the same portions of Africa which Mr. Roosevelt will visit, will be a val uable asset to the expedition. Mr. Hel ler has had large experience In ani mal collecting In Alaska, British Co lumbia, the United States, Mexico, Cen tral America aud South America. In the year 181)8 he mude a collecting trip of eleven months to Galapagos Is lands, starting from San Francisco. He Is an enthusiastic collector as well as a well equipped naturalist. He hi nlso the author of scientific papers on animals, birds, reptiles and fishes. At present ho Is nsslstunt curator of the museum of vertebrate zoology of the University of California. Another member of the delegation, J. Alden Lorlng, Is a field naturalist whose training comprises service in the biological survey of the depart ment of agriculture and In the Bronx zoological park, New York city, as well ns on numerous collecting trips through British America, Mexico and the Unit ed States. He Is about thirty-eight years old. of ardent temperament and intensely energetic. In August, Sep tember nnd October, 1808, he made the highest record for a traveling collector, having sent to the United States Na tional museum tvtn well prepared spec imens of small mammals In the three months' Journey from I-ondon, through Sweden, Germany, Switzerland and Belgium. The other representative of the Smltuflonlnn" Institution who will ac company the president la Major Edgar A. M earns, medical corps, U. S. A., re tired. Major Meurns will be the physi cian of tho trip. He has had twenty five yenrs experience as an army doc tor and Is well known as a naturalist and collector of natural history speci mens. He is a dead shot. Major M earns is about fifty-three years of age and is the oldest member of the party. For this reason perhnps be has the honor of having charge of the Smithsonian portion of the delegation. While each and every one of the party. Including the president's son Kermlt, official photographer, has special du ties assigned him, all will naturally act together in many respects, and It Is anticipated that the scientific results of the expedition, In view of the un usual opportunities offered, will be of much value. An Adventurous Explorsr. Some BtrniiKo ndventures have been experienced by Erwln Clarkson Gar rett, University of Pennsylvania man, who with two native servants recently penetrated the Jungles of Borneo. II was the first white man to do this. ' ';. Mr. Garrett wan X Sk heavily armed, but ' 1 had no occasion to I1HM ll I tt mina f$f 'bough there werw S " . times, he declared. 7 When ha hml tn ! up nights and be on the lookout for the treacherous Dyaks, who infest the for-j ests of Borneo. There were time. he snld. when Dutch K. C. OAHUETT. troops went through the dense forests "armed to the teeth." but never be fore, he added, had a white man made ' Ihe trip alone. During the Filipino in- i surrection Garrett served In the regu lar army In the Philippines aud mude , a careful study of the bublts and char- ! acter of tho natives. Horrid Thing. "Why do you hate Mr. Wendell aof the sweet young mother was asked. "The horrid thing refused to kiss my baby because he was afraid ot latching something." Houston Post i i i t