Enterprise news-record. (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Or.) 1910-1911, December 31, 1910, Saturday Edition, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text0r2n Historical Socfty Twice-a- Week Saturday Edition RECORD TWELFTH YEAR. NO. 70. ENTERPRISE, WALLOWA COUNTY, ORE., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31. 1910. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER, EWS E IS Major General Wood Declares . We Are Wholly Unprepared tor Conflict. AMMUNITION. INSUFFICIENT FOR ONE ENGAGEMENT Chief or Army Staff Insists This Country Could Not Meet Hostile . Moves of Any First Cluss Nation Coast Well Protected but Artillery is Useless and Ammunition Insuf ficient Favors Hobson BUI. Washington, D. C, Dec. 27. Before the house committee on military af fairs Major General Wood, chief of staff declared the United States is unprepared .to meet the hostile moves of first class nations. His testimony was. made public today. --. '. Ammunition at the army's disposal, he,. testified, is not 'sufficient to last through a single engagement. He explained his plan of reorgani sing the militia so a more mobile force will be ready for the field in an em ergency. ...".. He satd to the committee: "There is no use talking about our patriotism and fighting qualities, we have them. But braye men unorganized are in effective. In the Spanish was we lost about 200 volunteers In battle, but buried our thousand who died of dis ease." He said the field artillery is prac ally useless although he believed the seacoast is well fortified. '; . Wood continued: '-"If we were call ed to war tomorrow, we would be practically without field artillery or ammunition.' As far as the seasoast goes, . I feel we are well fortified. I don't believe foreign fleets would at tempt to sail irtto iany port in the face of ou seacoast fortifications un less -the' object was one of tremen dous importance." , . Wood urged the adoption of a bill prepared by Congressman Hobson pro viding for a "council of defense." He said: "At present in a matter of studying defenses we are absolute y in the air. I believe if we had fl council to consider such matters with certain powers to' act we could strip off unnecessary things and come down to a matter of men, guns, powder and shot." NEW YORK TO HAVE LARGEST HOTEL IN WORLD New York, N.' Y., Dec. 27. The work of demolishing old buildings at 34th street and Broadway preparatory to the erection of the Greely Square hotel, the largest In the world began today. The Jiotel will be 25 stories, exclusive of the basement and will contain 1600 sleeping apartments. '. The total investment for site and building is $13,500,000. Charles Taft. brother of President Taft, is one of the directors of -the hotel company, ANNUITY OF $1000 ON 1 WIDOW OF DEAD AVIATOR Dayton, O-, Dec. 7. The Wright company will settle an annuity of ap proximately $1000 on the widow and children of Ralph Johnstone, a WrigU 1 Brothers' aviator who was killed at Denver, according 'to a statement ' made tonight by F. H. Russell, man: ager of the company. Johnstone fell to death at Denver while soaring over an aviation field. WILL FILE SUIT TO - DISSOLVE ELECTRICAL TRUST Washington, D. C. Dec. 27. A suit to dissolve the alleged electrical trust will be instituted as soon as the pa pen can be drawn up, was the semi' official announcement made today. The government won't wait for the supreme court decisions In the Stand ard OH or - American Tobacco cass, now appealing, but will start a new issue. . " The electrical companies will be charged with conspiracy to restrain trade through the operation of patent laws. They are the General Electric, the Westlnghouse and several others. . Thief Attacks Officer. London, Dec. 27. Another strlk lng example of .the dangers to which unarmed policeman are' exposed in pursuing burglars was given yester day, when Policeman Haytred was fired at four times while chasing a burglar. None of the shots was eriec- tlve. When the policeman finally grappled with the fleeing law break' er, the latter pressed the muzzle of a revolver to the policeman's fore' head and pulled the trigger. The last cartridge failed to explode and the thief was taken to JalL Imoortant Meeting. St. Petersburg, Dec. 17. Grana Dukes Nicholas Nlcholaevtch. Michael Nlcholavelch and Serge MIkballovicn hare departed for Sklernewice, Rus slan Poland, vhere they will hunt v.ith nine Austrian personages, among them Archduke Rudolph, Crown Prince of Austria The highest Impor tance Is attached to the meeting. w MEASUR NECESSARY BLACK HAND BAND GIVEN HARD BLOW New York, N. Y., Dec. 27. Ignoring their threats of violence and open threats of death from other quarters County Judge Fawcett today sentenc ed Stanlslo "Pattenza, the reputed leader of the Black Hand society and Mary Raph to indeterminate sentences of from twenty-five to forty-ninq years in prison. They were convicted of kidnapping and holding for. ransom twenty days, I Michael Rizzle and Luistppl Longo, both aged eight. The children were released when the money was paid. The sentence brought consternation to the ranks of the extortionists and many are said to be fleeing the city. The judge said to them: "It Is al most unbeleivable that you held two broken-hearted children for twenty days, knowing their parents were also suffering.". When sentencing the woman he said: "You have no spirit or Instinct for mother love. It is stronger In beasts than in you." To Pattenzo he said: "You are the brains and the acknowledged king of the Black Hand society. Your com panion would have confessed if the agent of your organization had not called at the jail and told her that if she revealed the secrets she would be killed. Criminals of your type should never be permitted to land In this country. J regret the law does not permit the death penalty for such crimes." EXPERTS SECURE $3,100 FROM SAFE AT HEILIG Safe crackers blew up the heavy steel safe of the Hellig theatre, at Seventh and Taylor streets, some time Sunday night after the close of the Christmas evening performance of the Burgomaster" musical comedy' com pany, and secured $2100 in cash, says the Portland Journal. Captain Moore, of the city detec tive force says the' Job was done by experts. Although Manager William Pangle, of the Hellig, and Mrs. Pan- gle occupied a sleeping room on the top floor of the theatre directly above the safe, which was located in the Bemsnt, they did not hear a sound. Evidence of the' craftsmanship of the nocturnal visitors is the large win dow that lets in light from an alcove off the sidewalk. This window is al most directly In front of the safe and only two or three freet from it, yet the glass was not cracked. The heavy steel door of the safe was bent almost double and the firebrick and iron lining was crumbled Into bits yet not a piece of furniture was dam aged and the electric light globe only few inches from the safe door was unharmed. ,' The Hellig carried burglar Insur ance on the safe amounting to $1500 so the theatre management will lose only $600. Whoever did the Job," said Man ager Pangle today, "knew .that 'we would have our share of the receipts of the Saturday and Sunday perform ances In the safe and that we would have a large sum on account of tne holiday attendance. To make mat' ters easier for the thieves the money was all neatly tied up, the gold and silver in canvas bags and the cur rency In convenient packages. In the Interior of the safe there is a strong box In which we kept a bundle of oi l theatre programs ' dating back to the revolution. This box was not lock' ed. The contents were found scat tered all over the floor. The robbers evidently rummaged through the bun' die hurriedly and, finding nothing of value to them, threw It away.' FIVE INJURED WHEN AUTO MEETS POLE Seattle, Dec. 27. Five prominent Wenatchee men were Injured, one dangerously, when an automobile In which they were hurrying to the We- natchee-Chlcago football game skid ded and crashed Into a telephone pole on Eastlake avenue Between Nelson Place and Alder street The man most seriously injured is Nlles M. So renson, prosecuting attorney-elect of Chelan county. He Is suffering from concussion of the brain. It Is bellev ed he will recover. The other members of the party who were severely, cut and bruised, were Will Campbell, a Wenatchee business man, H. T. Wright, an insur ance agent, Dr; L. B. Manchester, member of the state board of health, and Dr. L. E. Hutchinson, official physician for the Wenatchee team, The car was driven by James Mc Bride, a professional chauffeur. He was not badly hurt. According to the occupants, the automobile was going between 60 and 70 miles an hour when It approached a sharp turn In Eastlake avenue. Fearing that It would not safely make the turn the five Wenatchee men rose to heir feet, prepared to Jump, They were saved the ' trouble, for when the car skidded they were pitch' ed out head foremost, some of them landing 50 feet away. The ar whirled around, breaking off a telephone pole, snot across the stand and crashed part way through a wooden bulkhead where it over' hangs Lake Union. Fire In Mens, Mena, Ark., Dec. 27. Fire which started early yesterday - destroyed property In Mount Ida near here to the amount of $75,000. Eight business buildings were destroyed. JAPS PLAN TO MINE OF Manila, P. I., Dec. 28. The alleged discovery of a conspiracy among' Jap anese to place mines fn Manllai har bor and blow up the American war ships in case of war between tho two countries is persistently rumored in military circles today. Although General Duvall has said that the search of Japanese homes for explosives was unsuccessful, it is re ported that explosives were ftiund and also maps showing that Japanese spies had a thorough working know ledge of the harbor and fortifications and had planned carefully where, and how to place submarine bombs iij the harbor. This is causing much excite ment in military circles as it is rejinrt- that Duvall has threatened J to court-martial any officer who tells the alleged facts. '-i The story leaked from civil author ities who aided in the. search. According to a current report today papers have been discovered , that Identify the Japanese secret agents In the Philippines. It . is reported tiiat acting on this information a number of arrests have already been mtide secretly. Reports say the Japanese have been smuggling explosives into the city for months. . ' ' It is understood a careful search of the principal Japanese colonies is be- ng planned by army officers. It is believed the military authorities are attempting to cover up Japanese ac tivity in the island and at the same time are weeding out spies. Denied at Washington. Washington, D. C, Dec. 28. War department officials aenjefl that offi cial advices concerning the discovery of an alleged plot of tne Japanese to mine Manila harbor had been receiv ed. The army officers, however, are f the opinion that the Japanese have been working secretly In the Islands inpe the war with Russia. The particulars as far as they can bo learned Indicate that the Japanese plotted placing the mines near the naval anchorage. These were to be connected with shore batteries. Mili tary men privately admit the prop osition is serious. ; . ... ; y DISEASED ASIATICS IN CALIFORNIA ILLEGALLY Sacramento, Cal., Dec. -' 28. That undreds of Asiatics, mostly Hindus, are illegally In California and that the state has failed to provide funds permit the employment of phy sicians to search out the diseased ones and have them deported, was the as sertion today of a prominent member of the state board of health. The federal government is willing to aid In the deportation of the undesirable liens if only a report by state offici als can be secured.- The principal ailments of the Hin dus here Is hook-worm and trachoma. ACTOR-AVIATOR CHOSES PATH OF LOST BIRDMAN Dover, England., Dec. 28. Robert -orralne, the actor-aviator, flew from Shepper Island In the North Sea to day In an effort to win the Deforest prize for the longest flight from England's shores to France or Eel- glum. Lorraine took the course flown by Cecil Grace, the English av- ator believed to have been drowned In the channel last week while at tempting the same flight. The ma' chine must be English built to win the $20,000 and the aviator must be a native Englishman. BANK PRESIDENT I PROPHESIES PROSPERITY New York, N. Y., Dec. 28. Unusual prosperity Is predicted for 1911 by Orion Howard Cheney, state super intendent of banks, based on the con dltlon of the banking business of New York state. He Is preparing a report showing the condition of the state banks. He says when banks are pros perous other business will flourish also. WANT TEACHERS FOR THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Washington, Dec. 28. A special ex amination for teachers in the indus trial schools of the Philippines Is be ing held today In all parts of the country under the direction of the United States civil service commission.- Teachers In carpentry and forg ing and machine shop practice are In great demand, according to the com mission. GOVERNMENT PREPARING TO DEFEND AUSTRALIA Melbourne, Australia, Dec 28.- Ac tive preparations for the government's establishment of defense forces - on the soundest footing in a short time are under way. It was announced to day that the government Is planning to train at least 100,000 boys, between the ages of fourteen and twenty, in the military art, probably beginning In July. The government will soon order the equipment and clothing necessary for the new departure. Observe Mewrtna Anniversary. Rome, Dec. 19. special masses were said in all the churches of Rome today In memory of the hundred who perished in the earthquake by which the city of Messina was de stroyed, today. It Is the second an niversary of the disaster. IS ' Puerto Cortez, Honduras, Dec. 28. That two thousand rebel troops have gathered ready to attack Tegucigala is reported here today. Federal of ficials say the revolution which has threatened for months will start soon. Preparations to repel the attack on the city are being made and troops are being moblized. The rebel army has been drilled for several weeks near Cape Craclas. Lee Christmas, the American adventurer who played an Important part in the former revolutionary movement and who has lead armies in Honduras and Nicaragua, will share the command of revolutionists with former Presi dent Bonilla who started the trouble. Gunbont for American Interest. ' Washington, D. C, Dec. 28. The United States gun-boat Yorktown ar rived at Amapala, Honduras today. She was sent to investigate the con ditions and protect American Interests In the event a revolutionary outbreak occurs. Americana Lashed. New Orleans, Dec. 28. A special dispatch to the Picayune from Puerto Cortez, Honduras, says William Bar ber of Kentucky, and two other Am ericans, were seized by Honduran po lice and Boldlers, thrown into Jail and brutally lashed with whips, afterwards deported on the Honduran gunboat Tatumbla to Guatemalan territory and landed penniless in the forests. According to an affidavit made by Barber and corroborated by witnesses the dispatch says he was taken by po lice to Puerto Cortez while walking along the street and ordered to go with two other Americans also In cus tody and bury a dead Honduran pau per. Refusing to do as he was told, Bar ber, who was foreman of a bridge gang ,on the Honduran railroad, was taken to Jail surrounded by soldiers with fixed bayonets, beaten over the head with clubs and lashed with whips the other two Americans being treated likewise and the three were then taken to the Taumbla and transported to Guatemalan territory and Bet . down In woods without food or money. CROSSED ELECTRIC WIRES CAUSE DISASTROUS FIRE Chicago, Dec. 28. Crossed electric wires were probably responsible for the fire which caused the death of thirty firemen In tfco stockyards last Thursday, according to testimony brought out at the coroner's Inquest today. Paul Lufka, the night watch man, said the flames first came from the second story where the wires en tered. No other cause was discov ered. The sudden Illness of a juror cut the Inquest short, which was post poned until January 8. VOTERS BY HUNDREDS PLEADING GUILTY West Union, Ohio, Dec. 28. West Union's hotels are overflowed today with citizens of Adams county wait ing for a chance to plead guilty to tho charge of selling their votes. Wagon loads of indicted voters poured Into the city during the day. As fast as their cases are called they pleaded guilty, were disfranchised for five years and given a small fine. It is expected the grand Jury now In ses sion will return 160 more Indictments before tonight. Already 750 have been Indicted. SUFFRAGETTE DIES OF ALLEGED ILL TREATMENT London, Eng., Dec, 18. As a result Of alleged hardships she said she was forced to endure in prison where she was sent for participating In the re sent suffragette raid, Mrs. Clark, sis- ter of Mrs. Pankhurst, the suffragette leader, died today at Brighton, her heme. Previous to her death she told of how the officers fed her coarse food and were cruel and gave her no comforts. When she was released her health was impaired and she became ill. Quiet in Capital. Washington, Dec. 27. Christmas Monday in the national capital was as quiet as Christmas day. President 'Taft surprised his staff at the execu tive office by appearing there for an hour In' the morning and reading his mall. Secretary Nagel and Secretary Meyer called on the presldont In the afternoon the president and Mrs Taft drove around the city, calling at the residence of Admiral Dewey. Sec cetary and Mrr. Nagel gave a dinner last night in honor of Miss Helen Taft Attempts Suicide. Chippewa Falls Wis., Dec. 27 John Chrlstlansand Jumped 40 feet from a wagon bridge into Chippewa river yesterday with suicide Intent. He went under the ice and came up 200 feet down stream at an airhole. He grabbed the Ice and crawled out, He went home and said that the cold water made him feel so much better that the 'desire tq die had left him. Girl Accidentally Killed. Swing. Mo Dec. 17. Rosa Mc Cor. 11 years old daughter of Edward McCoy of Clarence, Mo., was shot and Instantly killed at the home of her grandparents yesterday when a gun, which her uncle, Ben Tredmore, was cleaning, was accidentally disc ha rg MILITIA RESCUES Clarksburg, W. Va., Dec. 38. Es corted by a company of militia Wil liam Furby, a negro, was brought to the Moundsville penitentiary today. He was rescued from a mob by the militlal after having spent the greater part of the night locked In the vaults of the Wells Fargo express company at a railway station in Weston to pre vent a lynching. He Is accused of attacking Florence Anglln, a white girl. The Anglln girl Bays Furby attacked her while she was returning from the dairy on her father's farm last Sat urday night. While she struggled, he dragged her fully 300 yards, and following the attacks he was in the alleged act of strangling her when a railroad flag man came running to her rescue. The negro ran to a horse tied nearby and made off, but the animal fell, throw ing the rider. His shoulder was dis located and he was captured. 1 'REXC1I AVIATORS KILLED IN ACCIDENT Paris, Dec. 28. Marquis Marie Paulla and Alexandor . Laffon, chief pilot of the Antoinette school of av iation, were crushed to death today nder an aeroplane just after they had taken to the air for a speed flight from Paris to Brussels, trying for a 20,000 prize offered for tho fastest passenger flight over this course. The crushed bodies of the famous French aviators were vlowed bj hundreds in the morgue this after noon, soon after tho news had spread that they had been killed In an aero plane accident while attempting to fly from Paris to Brussels. Laffon's body was horribly crushed. His wife, who witnessed the fall, is prostrated. Tho machine turned over twice in falling and struck on top of the pas sengers. MILLIONAIRE ARRESTED ON FUGITIVE CHARGE San Francisco, Cal.( Doc. 28. B.' H. Bibb, a millionaire lumberman of San Francisco, has been arrested as a fu gitive from justice according to As sistant District Attorney Cotton who so Informed Judge Lawler today when Bibb's case was called in the superior court. Bibb Is charged with having sold a piece of real estate twice. He failed to answer the case six weeks ago when called Into court. Since then he was arrested in Washington, D. C. - SENATOR GORE EXPECTS TO SPEND LIFE IN SENATE Washington, D. C., Dec. 28. Sena tor Gore, of Oklahoma, moved by the printed stories that ho Intended resigning today definitely declared he would not retire and that he expected to spend the rest of his life in the senate fighting graft and grafters. The senator said sineo his charges of fraud In connection with the Indian lands he had been the target "for vitriolic abuse and fake charges." And the resignation story is part of the scheme to embarrass him, he Bays. LORIMER WHITEWASH WILL CAUSE FIGHT IN SENATE Washington, Dec. 28. Senators In terviewed today believe that the white washing of Lorlmcr in the recent brib ery scandal Is due to cauBe a fight In the senate. Many senators, among them Bever- idge, is reported to be spending his vacation studying the testimony tak en by the committee preparatory to the clash. Bcverldge said today he has not decided whether he would submit a minority report. . Senator Frazler, of Tennessee, Is al. so expected to take exception to the report clearing Lorlmer. ALASKAN MINER KILLED IN SEATTLE SALOON BRAWL Seattle, Wash., Dec. 28 Billy Marks a miner who recently returned from Alaska was shot and killed In front of tho Avenue Saloon this morning, Kdward Groogln was arrested In con noctlon with the affray. It Is reported they had quarreled In tho saloon and were ejected by the bar tender. The next mamont a shot was fired. Demand Investigation. Washington, Dec. 28. Demand will be made on congress, It Is said for an Investigation of the wireless telegraph situation throughout the United States. Letters are being sent to members asking that the matter be taken up. The charge that conspiracy was set on foot to destroy the United Wireless Telegraph com pany because Its present oflcers would not surrender $6000 worth of stock. Favor Partnersliln. Hf T.oiiln Dec. 28 Governor-elect Woodrow Wilson of Now Jersey, de olnrp lAnt nlffht before the Amert can Home Economic association that a nnrtnernhln between the statesmen and the students of political science In entirely feasible. He said that ne realized that this often had not been the case before. Italians Drink Polsnn. New York. Dee. 27. After drink lng punch, believed to have contained wood alcohol, two Italians died yes terday In North Bergen, N. J. Four others are In a critical condition. VESSEL LOST III PACIFIC Wreckage and Lifeboats Tell Tale of Another Ocean Dis aster. STEAMER LEAVES PUGET SOUND PORTDISAPPEARS St. IHmiiiIs, Loaded With Coal ana Manned by Crew of Fifteen, Not Sighted After Passing Cape Flat tery Loft Victoria November 21 for Mexican Port Fat of Crew In Unknown Wireless Brings First Definite News. Victoria, B. C, Dec. 27. A wlre- css from the steamer' Tees, stating they had found a cabin and two life onts from the missing steamer St. Dennis, which formerly operated be tween Victoria and northern British olumbla, In the neighborhood of Clayoquol, is taken as confirmation that the ship has been wrecked. She carried a crew of fourteen men, Captain Davis. . Their fate Is un- nown. , . The ship left Vancouver November 8, and passed Cape Flattery, Novem ber 18, and passed Cape Flattery No vember 21.' Since then nothing has ien heard of her. She was loaded withcoa 1 and Mexi co was her destination. The St. Dennis was a steamer of 16 tons gross, and was 161 feet long. She was owned by, the Bosco wllz Steamship company of this city. Score Reported Wrecked. Vineyard Haven, Mass., Dec. 27. Scores of hulls of wrecked vessels have been driven on the rocks on the coast near - Martha's Vineyard and. Nantucket shoals according to mari ners who reached here today. Eight wrecks near Cross Rips alone are reported. A two-masted schooner was sighted at Half Moon shoals and an other on Handkerchief shoals. Others are near Stone Horse, Pollocks Rip and Great Point. ROMINENT CITIZENS GUILTY OF FRAUD West Union, Ohio, Deo. 27. Thir ty-five of the moBt prominent citi zens of Manchester, Ohio, were ar-, raigned before Judge Blair here to day on charges of having - bought votes. The charges are the outgrowth of the investigation into the alleged electln frauds of Adams county. All pleaded guilty and were punished by small fines. The men left Manches ter in a body and were cheered' as they left for trial A telegram has been received from Governor Harmon, saying he would appoint a special committee to con tinue the Investigation of the frauds -when the legislature meets. West Union, Ohio, Deo. 27. Char ges that votes purchased by one par ly wero stolen by another before they . could be cast were made to Judge Blair today during the hearings of In dictments growing out of the alleged election frauds In ' Adams county. Voters from the infirmary who had been paid six dollars to vote the re publican ticket were kidnapped and given ten dollars to vote the demo cratic tluket, It was alleged. ' . ROOSEVELT DENIES ' TAFT SUPPORT .TALK NowYork, N. Y., Deo. 17. "Al! ' talk of me supporting Taft in 1911 Is most absurd," said Roosevelt today In reply to the story that he and Taft had reached an understanding re garding the , presldentllk.1 possibility two years hence. The colonel continued, saying noth-' ing like it nad been discussed and as serting he had never talked to Taft concerning It. Students to Protest, St. Petersburg, Deo. 17. A deputa tion of students from Odessa arrived yesterday to protest against the de cision of the government to expel students of the University of Odessa because of the recent disorders there. The students say that the official ver sion of the affair was untruthful They say that the students did not fire a shot, but merely broke win dows. They declare also that a judi cial inquest Into the affair and a search of the precincts of the univer sity did not disclose any firearms and that the reports of the examining doc tors did ' not certify to the wounding of any policemen, , Butte Team Defeated. Butte, Mont., Doc. 27. The debut of the Maroons, Butte's representative basketball five, was made last night when they were defeated In a fast name, 30 to 25, by Company F team of Portage, Wis. The locals were out classed In the lightning team work , of the visitors, but put up a surpris ingly good game for their first ap pearance this season, and for most of tho flrnt half kept pace with tho Tla ltor In scoring baskets. ed. V