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PENDLETON, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1912.
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KEEPS SILENT
Refuses to Discuss Request
Made of Harpers or Wat
terson Attack.
LIKES OREGON MEASURES
Cbaagca Views Regarding Initlatire
lieferendum Dut Thinks lle
of Judiciary Attacks Symptom
Not Disease.
Detroit, Mich, Jan, 18. Refusing
to discuss the attack made upon him
by Colonel Henry Watterson, editor
of the Louisville Courier Journal, be
cause of bis request that his name be
withdrawn by Harper's Weekly as Its
choice for president. Governor Wood
row Wilson of New Jersey arrived
here today on his speech-making tour.
Governor Wilson alio refused to dis
cuss the request, attributed to him,
of Harpers, saying that he might have
something to say regarding the mat
ter later. '
Governor Wilson will speak here
tonight at a non-partisan banquet at
which Governor Oaborno will be
toast-master and will later In tho eve
ning address a democratic rally.
Chatting friendly with a number of
newspaper reporters. Governor Wil
son toay said:
"I hive come to change my views
regarding tho Initiative and referend
um. It seems to work splendidly in
Oregon and I now favor both meas
ures. "Regarding the recall, as applied
to tho Judiciary. I do not favor It. It
attacks the symptom Instead of the
disease."
MRS. GEO. HARTMAN
STRICKEN, PARALYSIS
The many friends of Mrs. George A.
Hartman In this city will bo shocked
to learn that she has suffered a para
lytic stroke at her home In Portland,
but will be glad to know that today
her condition Is much Improved and
warrants the statement that Bhe will
recover completely from the effects of
the shock. ,
Sho was stricken on Tuesday while
reading a paper In bed and her whole
left side was paralyzed. Medical as
sistance was speedily summoned and
remedies applied. In a letter received
this morning by George A. Hartman,
Jr., of this city from his father, the
latter announces that Mrs. Hartman
Id slowly recovering use of her limbs
and Is not suffering any pain. He al
so states that the attending physician
has announced the stroke a slight one
and anticipates no serious effects.
HIGH SCHOOL IS
MOVING TO ACADEMY
Work of moving the apparatus and
equipment of tho high Bchool from
the old building on the hill to tempo
rary quarters In the Pendleton acad
emy building Is now well under way
and will be completed before the end
of tho week. The academy building
has been thoroughly renovated and
made ready for occupancy.
Tho first floor of the -building will
afford room for the commercial
course and the scientific courses and
there will be one recitation room In
addition. On' the second floor will
be the assembly room, tho principal's
offtco, tho library, tho English, his
tory and mathematics rooms and two
recitation rooms.
Examinations will commence at the
high school tomorrow and will contin
ue through next Tnursaay. xno atu
dents will all be established In their
new quarters on Monday and on that
day the work of tearing down tho
structure which has housed them In
the past will begin.
Tho gymnasium on the hill will be
used as a store room by the contrac
tors and an effort is now being made
to secure the armory hall for the
high school athletes.
Morse Given Stimulants.
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 18. At Fort Mc
Phorson hospital today doctors were
forced to use stimulants to keep
Banker Morse, the convicted bank
wrecker's heart going. Hla wife Is
In Washington once more seeking his
pardon. Even If it Is granted it la be
lieved It will arrive too late.
Vancouver Unemployed March.
Vancouver, B C, Jan. 18. Van
couver Is having her problem of un
employed now. Under the leadership
of tho I. W. W., six hundred of them
marched through the streets yester
day and made demonstrations and
re planning more.
SENATOR STEPHENSON
GETS WHITEWASH COAT
Washington,' D. C, Jan. 18.
"No evidence of corruption," Is
the unanimous verdict reached
by the senatorial subcommittee
which Investigated the election
of United States Senator Isaac
Stephenson of Wisconsin which
was announced ' today. The
subcommittee agreed to bo re
port lo the full committee on
elections and privileges.
BlRDSFROI.ua 11.11.
At
Entries Arriving for Exhibit
Which Opens Here
Monday
- Birds .from all over the northwest
will be entered In the poultry show
which will open in the armory hall
next Monday. This fact is now assur
ed, Secretary Brown having received
announcement from many fanciers In
Washington and Oregon to the effect
that they would send birds to the ex
hibition here.
Three entr'es we:e received today
from a distance, George W. Speight
of Hubbard, entering three pens, W.
J. Myers of Portland entering ten
birds and P- senerantz of Colfax en
tering several pens.
R. W. Fletcher, treasurer of the
Umatilla-Morrow Poultry association,
returned last evening trom a visit to
the Walla Walla show now In pro
gress and announces that many of
the exhibitors there will send their
birds here the first of next week.
Frost Nips Do Not Bar.
He also br'ngs the information that
the larger number of the birds enter
ed there have been frost nipped and
that the Judges are not barring such
birds from competition. Many of the
fanciers In this county have In some
manner received the impression that
frost-nipped birds would not be con
sidered In the Judging of the- entries
and the local show men wish to dispel
that idea.
F.A. PHELPS BECOMES
HESMlSTON TREAS.
(Special Correspondence.)
Hermistoo, Ore., Jan. 18. Through
action taken by the Hermlston city
council last night F. A. Phelps, a
brother of Circuit Judge G. W. Phelps
was elected as treasurer to take the
position to which J. M. Scarborough
was elected but for which he failed
to qualify within the reuuislte time.
When the council meeting opened
-there were several candidates for the
position of treasurer and there was no
election upon the first ballot. On the
second ballot Phelps was theunanl
mous choice.
WOMAN CANNOT LIVE
ON $800 PER MONTH
San Francisco, Oil., Jan. 18. When
Judge Graham casually said he would
allow the widow of Bernard Getz, a
millionaire real estate dealer, 8800 a
month for living expenses, when she
applied for special letters of adminis
tration and a family allowance today,
she said, "Judge it will be impossible
for me and my seventeen year old
daughter, Rosa, to maintain ourselves
on that sum." Tho Judge mado it an
even thousand and still she is doubt
ful. WHY NOT DO THE
SAME IN PENDLETON
A source of revenue to the city lit
tle known to the general public is
the fine or refund charged the electric
light company for every light found
out at night during the year, which
during 1911 netted the city In the
neighborhood of $160, by a rough es
timate, says the Walla Walla Union.
This amount Is credited to the city by
the Pacific Power & Light company
in collecting Its regular light bill.
The system by which this revenue is
obtained is that whenever a patrolman
finds a light off when it should be
burning, he notifies police headquar
ters, where a small record book Is
kept. About 400 lights were report
ed out during the past year and for
each one of these the city receives
33 1-2 cents, so that the police depart
ment more than pays for the small
amount of work necessary to keep the
record.
', Flro Destroys Asylum.
Chicago, Jan. 18. Fire destroyed
the Infirmary of the Dunning insane
asylum, at the outskirts of the city,
and caused attendants considerable
trouble in restraining 1300 excited pa
tlents, none of whom were Injured.
The loss of the four-story brick bulld-
I lng was $35,000. 1
EIRE ALA!
RECOMMENDED
Fire Committee Advises
Council to Provide Mod
ern System.
TWENTY STATIONS URGED
After Consideration, Board Believes
insurance Reduction Will Pay Cost
of Equipment and Installation In
Short Time.
In all probability Pendleton wlll
soon have a modern and up to date
fire alarm system, the 'present. coun
cil seeming much more favorably dis
posed towards the oft-repeated rec
ommendation of Fire Chief Vaughan
than has been any council in a num
ber of years. At the regular meet
ing last night the council accepted the
report of the fire committee on the
chief's petition, which report advised
a system of not less than twenty box
es, a new 1200 bell and an auto chem
ical hose wagon.
The committee agreed with Chief
Vaughan that the Installation of such
a system would reduce insurance
premiums to such an extent that the
purchase price would be saved in a
short time, touring the next week,
figures will be prepared showing the
cost of the' proposed system and the
saving which would be made to the
public, and It is expected that favor
able action will follow.
Chief Vaughan has repeatedly in
the last few years urged the installa
tion of a modern alarm system but
his recommendation has always been
accorded a-cold reception until made
to the present administration and he
now has hopes that his persistence
will win.
Tho Report.
Following is the report in full made
by the fire committee last evening:
Janpary 17, 1912.
To the Hon. Mayor and Common
Council of the City of Pendleton.
Gentlemen: We, your committee,
to whom the within petition was re
ferred, hereby recommend the instal
lation of an up-to-date fire alarm sys
tem, at once, consisting of not less
than twenty (20) boxes to be distrib
uted in and about the city of Pendle
ton at different points to be desig
nated by the chief of tho fire depart
ment and the fire committee. The
installation of such a system will ma
terially reduce the Insurance rates;
about seven per cent in the business
district and about ten per cent in the
residence district, so that the system
will pay for itself in a short time, be
sides giving added protection. The
striking apparatus now in use is to
be applied on the purchase price of
the new apparatus. We would also
recommend the purchase of a 1200
pound fire bell, the be'.l now In use
to be applied on the purchase price.
And we also recommend that in the
near future the city of Pendleton pur
chase an auto chemical hose wagon
to carry at least 1000 feet of hose,
which will still further reduce our
insurance rates. We find that much
smaller towns than Pendleton have
such a system in operation .and same
has proven very successful.
JOSEPH ELL,
JOHN DYER,
CHAS. COLE,
Fire Committee.
Bortolctlo Has Yellow Fever,
Washington, Jan. 18. Yellow fe
ver has attacked Commander Levi C.
liertolette, commanding the American
gunboat Yorktown, which for the last
10 days has been protecting Amer
ican Interests In Ecuador. The cable
gram stating that the officer -had
been stricken gave no details.
X. M. Legislature Called.
Santa Fe. N. M.. Jan. 18. A call
for a meeting of New Mexico's first
legislature, for March 11, was issued
today by Governor McDonald. Bal
loting for a United States senator be
gins ten days after the body convenes.
INDIAN AGENT SUPERINTENDS SHIPPING
THREE MILLION
Major E. S. Swartzlander, agent
upon the Umatilla reservation", re
turned yesterday from Llnd, Wash.,
where he has been at work checking
shipments of flour purchased by the
Indian bureau for use in various parts
of the United States.
The Indian bureau is under con
tract to take 3,000,000 pounds of flour
from the Portland flouring mills com
pany and the shipments are being
made from Llnd. The Portland com
pany also had the contract for sup
plying the Indian bureau with flour
last year,
"So far we have shipped out 1.800,
000 pounds of flour," says Major
INCHU CLAN k
WILL ABDICATE i
Meet Tomorrow to Decide
With Majority Favoring
Surrender.
U. S" FORCE WEARS CHINA
Revolutionary Troops Dispatched to
Attack Peking in Case Eniperor and
Family Should Decide Not to Give
Up Throne.
Shanghai, Jan. 18. Final decision,
whether the Manchu throne will ab
dicate will come tomorrow at Peking
at a general meeting of the Manchu
clan. It is said a majority of the
Manchus favor surrender.
U. S. Troops Near China.
' Peking, Jan. 18. The force of Am
erican troops, recently dispatched
from Manila to act as guards along
the American section of the Peking
railroad from Tang Shan to Lanchow
are due to arrive at Chin Wang Tao
tomorrow on the transport Logan.
Prepare Attack on Peking.
Shanghai, Jan. 18 Carrying 4,
000 republican troops chiefly infant
try and cavalry, four transports, with
similar detachments, are preparing
to depart for -the same, place. The
movebent, it Is said, presages the re
publican's advance on- Peking In
case the Manchus refuse to give up
the throne.
Yiian's Assistant Executed.
Peking, Jan. 18. Huan Tui Pong,
and his three accomplices in the plot
to assassinate Premier Yuan, today
were strangled to death by the public
executioner here.
LOCAL SHOE MAM
BECOMES A BENEDICT
Albert Eklund. proprietor of a
Main street shoe store and shoemak
lng shop, was married at La Grande
at noon Tuesday to Miss Rosa" E.
Bell of Coffeyville, Kansas. The
ceremony was performed by the
Methodist minister of La Grande at
his parsonage and the event was a
surprlsa to all save a few close friends
of the contracting couple.
Mrs. Eklund is a cousin of Mrs.
Llna H. Sturgls of this city and vis
ited in Pendleton for a time last
summer. After visiting here she re
turned Coffeyville and a few days
ago came west to meet her future
husband at La Grande.
Mr. and Mrs. Eklund will make
their home for the present at the Ho
tel Pendleton but within a short time
win take up their residence at 711
Cosblo street.
-MORE THOOPS WANTED "
AT STRIKE CENTER
Lawrence, Jan. 18. Charging that
the cotton mill strikers are planning
to dynamite the mills, officials of the
companies today demanded that Gov
ernor Fo.-s send two regiments of
state guards additional here and de
c'arj the city under martial law.
Resenting this, the strikers say the
mill owners merely plan to make the
situation appear worse than it is In
reality.
Mayor Scanlon sides with the own
ers and has wired the governor to
send more troops.
MINERS RECONSIDER THEIR.
ENDORSEMENT OF SOCIALISTS
Indianapolis, Jan. 18. Prohibited
by Its,, constitution from favoring any
specific political party, the United
M'ne Workers of America convention
today adopted a substitute motion
advocating independent political pol
icy instead of endorsing the socialists,
as It did yesterday.
POUNDS OF BREADSTUFF
Swartzlander, "and I will have to
check out 1,200,000 pounds more. The
flour goes to all parts of the country
and some as far east as the Carlisle
Indian school. As tho flour is ship
ped I take samples from the various
lots and the samples are sent to Chi
cago for Inspection as to quality."
The task of superintending the
flour shipments falls as an extra duty
upon Major Swartzlander and has
made him a very busy man during
the past month. He has mado four
or five trips to Llnd In connection
with the work and will return to that
place again within a short time.
IS SAVED; WAR
WITH CL'BA POSTPONED,
Washington, D. C. Jan. 18.
Announcement was made today
at the white house that Presi
dent Taft Is of the opinion that
the United S'.ates will not find
it necessary to Invade Cuba, as
the latter government has been
able to practically assure him
that it is fully able to solve such
difficulties as may have arisen
there.
BRYAN RENEWS FIGH
T
GUFEEY
Says His Presence on Com
mittee is Insult to
Quakers
Lincoln, Xebr., Jan. 18. Despite his
efforts to oust Colonel Guffey, of
Pennsylvania, from membership of
the Democratic National committee,
at the committee meeting ,ln Wash
ington last week, William Jennings
Bryan returns to his attack on Guf
fey In the Commoner today.
The article says:
"When the reader reviews the his
tory of the contest he is not sur
prised that the democratic party finds
difficulty in conducting a successful
national campaign under the leader
ship of a committee that can insult
the democrats of Pennsylvania by
forcingupon them such a man as Guf
fey, "Some of Guffey's strength came
from committeemen representing the
same predatory influences that are
backing Guffey. These men menace
the democratic party's success."
TACOMA WOMAN CHASES
AND CATCHES A BURGLAR
Taconia, Jan. 18. Grappling with
a burglar and leading in the chase
which finally resulted in his arrest.
Mrs. Sidney T. Palmer, a prominent
club woman, had an exciting experi
ence yesterday afternoon. Returning
home after a brief absence, she found
evidence of the visit of a burglar and
started to telephone when she met the
intruder descending the stairs. Seiz
ing his coat tails with one hand she
tried to close the front door with the
other, but the burglar squeezed
through and ran, with Mrs. Palmer In
pursuit. A block away a crowd of
school boysjoined in the chase and
the thief was forced to take refuge in
a barn. Mrs. Palmer summoned the
police while the boys kept guard and
the officers found the burglar's feet
sticking out of a barrel Into which he
had dived head foremost in his mad
flight and was unable to extricate
himself. About $400 worth of Jewel
ry which he had thrown away while
running was recovered, The prisoner
gave his name as Charles Kauffman
and admitted the crime.
CONNOR & CO. BUY
0'DELL CIGAR STORE
A uslness change of interest oc
cured here yesterday when Harry
O'Dell sold his Main street cigar store
to W. J. Connor & Co. Mr. Connor
who Is to manage the business in the
future and is now in possession of
the store, is from Hoquam, Wash. Mr.
O'Dell who purchased the business
from R. W. Henneman a year ago Is
intending to go to Alaska.
JURY SECURED TO TRY
FAST CURE SPECIALIST
Port Orchard, Wash., Jan. 18. The
jury to try Mrs. Linda H. Hazzard, the
fast cure specialist, for the first de
gree murder on account of the death
of Miss Claire Williamson, a wealthy
English spinster who died under
treatment, was completed today. Four
special venires were necessary. The
opening statement for the state was
made this afternoon, by Special Pros
ecutor, Frank Kelley of Taconia.
WHITE HEADS UNITED
MINERS OF AMERICA
Indianapolis, Jan. 18. White was
reelected president of the United
Mine Workers today over Tom Lew
U, a former president.
Opposition to the crafts system of
organization. In the American Feder
ation of Labor caused the adoption
of a resolution instructing delegates
to the American Federation of La
bor to urge a complete form of in
dustrial organization.
MeNanwira Reward Fnds.
Sacramento, Calif.. Jan. IS. An
other McXamara reward went glim
mering today when Controller Nye re
fused a request for $10,000, offered
by the state for the conviction of the
McXamaras by District Attorney
Fredericks. He was collecting for
Detective Burns also. Nyo said the
offer was illegal.
PROBE POINTS
AT LAB0RI1ES
Indianapolis Grand Jury
Summons Many to Throw
Light on Conference.
McNAMARAS ARE LAUDED
Invelgators at Los Angeles Are to
Learn of Disposition of Dynamiter's
Defense Fund More Startling De
velopments Are Expected Soo.
Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 18. Sev
eral subpoenaes for witnesses whose
names are withheld, were issued to
day by the grand Jury investigating
the alleged dynamite conspiracy.
It is reported that the witnesses are
expected to throw light on the labor
conference held here last May to ar
range for the McNamara . defense
fund.
Ortie McManigal was given anoth-
er short examination today.
Mother Jones Lauds McNamaras.
Fresno, Calif., Jan. 18. Upholding
the dynamiting activities of the Mc
Namara brothers who are now in San
Quentin prison. "Mother Jones," aged
80, a member of the United Mine
Workers, addressing the State Build
ing Trades Council, said:
"Some of you howled with the mast
ers against the McXamaras, but I
pray God may give us more men like
those two boys." -i
Mother Jones said she has seen
scores of coal miners murdered under
her eyes In disasters where faulty
protection was provided and she wish
ed she were a man so "I could have
dealt .out Justice ' with my own
hands."
Will Follow Defense Fund.
. Los Angeles. Calif., Jan. Rumors
that Bert Franklin will appear before
the grand Jury when it resumes the
dynamite probe this afternoon, were
freely circulated today and it is also
said that the disposition of the Mc
Xamara defense fund is being inves
t'gated. It is reported that District
Attorney Fredericks will reach Los
Angeles from Indianapolis before to
morrow. His deputies refused to dis
cuss the report. It Is rumored that
with Fredericks' return Interesting
thing will start.
SENIOR GIRLS AND
BOY SOPHS BEAT
Before an enthusiastic audience of
students, probably the last games that
will ever be played in the old high
school gymnasium were pulled qXf
last evening, the different classes fur
nishing the participants. In the
girls' contest, the seniors demonstrat
ed their superiority over the Juniors
by emerging with the long end of a
22 to 8 score while in the boys' bat
tle the sophomores trimmed the fresh
men by the score of 12 to 8.
Starring among the girls who mix
ed in the fray was Miss Muriel Saling,
the senior forward, whose basket
throwing called to mind the days when
Hazel Rader captained the girls'
team. Tho boys' game revealed a new
shining light In Cecil Hampton, a
freshman, and his showing last night
warrants the prediction that he will
be holding down a berth on the regu
lar high school team with a little
more practice.
With the commencement of activi
ties preliminary to the construction
of a new high school building, the
old gynasium will be turned into a
store house for materials, and the
high school authorities are endeavor
ing to secure the Armory for use by
the school as an athletic hall during
the remainder of the winter.
30,000 CHINESE IN U. S.
UNDER FALSE PUETENSES
Fresno, Cal., Jan. 18. That 30,000
Chinese are now in the United States
under false pretenses of being mer
chants, Is the charge made by A. E.
Yoel, secretary of the Asiatic Exclu
sion league, in a report to the State
Building Trades convention here. Ha
asserted that 9000 Chinese arrived
last year. He reported that except
the Ja'paneso women, who come as
"picture brides" but who are really
hero as common laborers, the Japan
ese have quit coming.
HOLLAND ALARMED OVER
ILLNESS OF YOUNG QUEEN
The Hague. Jan. 18. All Holland
is alarmed over the Illness of Queen
Wilhelmlna, whose condition is re
garded as serious. Her husband has
been recalled from a hunting trip. Al
though the birth of an heir Is still
expected, it was stated that her con
dition is so delicate as to make the
event abnormal now. Her only child
is a girl. In case of the queen's
death, the throne wou!d descend to a
foreigner.