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Ma f I i DAILY EVENING EDITION DAILY EVENING EDITIOil 1 1 , TO ADVERTISERS. Th Fait Oregonlaa bu the largest paV rlrrulatlon of uy paper in Oregon, cut of Portland and over twice the circulation ll i'endleloa of any other newspaper. III' Forecast for Eastern Orn-goa, by the I'nlttxl Stales Wmdifr Observer . at Portland. Fair tonight and Sunday. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER. 'iSft f CITY OFFICIA L PA PER .- VOL 26. PENDLETON, OREGOX, VATl'ltDAY, MARCH H, 1014. .. . ..v-V. ' 'X-. ' - . . j 5; JI i ili XO. 8139 5 LOSERS IN SEIGEL FAILURE me mm Girls Left Penniless and Many of .Them in Desperate Circumstances Through Closing of Bank. 2300 OUT OF EMPLOYMENT Store Clone Tonight by Order of (tart Whitman Says Seigel and Partners Mast Pay Full Penalty Private Secretary May Turn State's Evidence to Tell Secrets. NEW YORK, March 14. With the closing of the Selgel company tonight twenty-three hundred girls, many of them destitute, will be thrown out of work by the failure of the corpora tion. District Attorney Whitman said the failure has hit the girls harder than any other in the city's history. ."The evidence unearthed," he said, "shows that Henry Selgel and his partners are culpable. They must pay for it. We will accept no com promise. Eight hundred and fifty girls lost their savings as well as the money paid into the sick fund which was "loaned'' to the Selgel private bank." "One girl who has been employed for years, the sole support of an in valid sister, died after the- firm went Into bankruptcy. The sister should have received $100 from the fund, but rot nothing and her sister was burled in the. potter's field." The depositors of the Selgel bank, conferred this afternoon. It was re ported that five lowers by the failure had gone insane. Frank Champion, Seigcl's private secretary, Is report ed to have announced that he Is will ing to turn state's evidence and tell of the alleged diverting of money in various enterprises without authori ty being given. SCHOOL PRINCIPALS OF ' COUNTY MEETING HERE With but a single exception, fvery principal of, a school In Umtallla county from a two room school up Is gathered at the court 'house today for the purpose of discussing matters of moment In the school life of the county. One of the' matters' brought to their attention by County 'Superin tendent Young is the ruling of the Mate supcrlntedont that eighth grade pupils whose yearly average has not fallen below RO per cent shall be ex empt from the final examinations. Supt. Young does not favor the ruling but will abide by the decision of the principals. Another matter before the meeting is a proposal to bring the schools of the county together more closely In an athletic way. It Is pointed out that there Is hardly ever competition between .-the west end and east end schools and It is proposed to hold the big meets In Pendleton as the most central point. The .spelling contests are also receiving attention from the principals. The only principal absent Is" Prin cipal Allen of Nolln. CHAIRMAN OF CHILD . LABOR CONFERENCE Owen R.-.I.veJoy Is the chairman of the National Child Labor Commit tee, holding its tenth annual confer ence in New Orleans March 16-19. Members of many organizations inter ested in the subject have been Invit ed, and It Is expected that the confer ence will be one of the most interest ing. Plans for the passage of many laws in the state legislatures will bt offered. INSANE By SHOCK - MRS. PA NK HURST IS FREE RELEASED FROM JAIL IX A CRITICAL CONDITION LONDON. March 14. Mrs. Emmellne Pankhurst was re- leased from ; Holloway Jail 4 again today after she concluded 4 the seventh Installment of her imprisonment on the same sen- tence for, acts of militancy. Be- Ing on a hunger strike, the prison - physicians said she would die soon unless she ate and it probably would kill her to feed her forcibly. , At dawn today six suffra- gettes, armed with hammers, smashed the front windows of 4 Home Secretary McKenna's res- idence. They did not try to escape and were arrested and 4 rushed to Westminster police court where they were sentenc- ed to six monthi at hard labor, In record time. 4) MAX COXFESSES MURDER OF WOMAX TO POLICE CLEVELAND, O., March 14. Po lice preferred a charge of first de gree murder against Frank Sticka, who was arrested In connection with the killing of Mrs. Anna Podogll. Sticka, they said, confessed. Htlcka'a father informed the police that his son was insane and that the prisoner's dead mother formerly was an inmate of any asylum. The killing of Mrs. Podogll, who was housekeeper for the elder Sticka, was brutal. She was tied to a bed post Wednesday evening and slowly hacked to death. The Inst person a man usually learns to know-la hiinsell. '",'". ..:'."" PETITION BLOCK I STARTED TO TRY TO MP VN The proposed improvement of East Court street to the city limits with hard surface pavement will meet with a remonstrunce, a paper of protect having been started yesterday among the property owners. Just how many signatures will be received Is, of course, a matter of speculation, but members of the council, who have canvassed the situation pretty thor oughly, profess to believe that the re monstrance will not be sufficient'' strong to prevent the work. E. W. McComas, who represent considerable property on the street. Is said to be the principal backer of the remonstrance and has iV.einpted to change its plans so that the district will stop Just east of the property of Councilman John Dyer and thus ex clude the last 700 feet of the street from hard surface Improvcmont' Mr. McComas owns the property bound ing the road on this 700 feet and it has never been platted for residence lot? The assessment against it, he n.nlrtalned to the council, would be crnflscatory, and he propo'io? that It would be more equitable to mac id amte this strip. The council last evening consider ed his proposition for some time but firnlly decided to keep the plana n tl.ey are now. While they could see s .me Justice In the claims of Mr. Mc Ccnirts, they were not bh tilled that hi has acted In good 'faith, one ni the members pointing out that ho aid hs alio" iey had inipss'sd tho p'r ns ! ere tey were art uted uui there-fo.-s, knew what was contemplated eve time ago. thou il his rennet at tliL time bo ajlid it wuld Pendleton will hold her special el ection for the consideration of char ter amendments on Tuesday, April 28, according to a decision reached and ordinance adopted by the city council at an adjourned session last evening.- It is possible to hold the election one week earlier but the council decided to leave a margin In order to be assured of full compliance with the law. The petition for a reassessment am endment was presented last evening signed by 359 voters and this petition SPECIAL ELECTION ON CHARTER AMENDMENTS TO BE ON APRIL28 inns ie EXPECTED AGMtlST ALLEGED GAMBLERS Grand Jury Ends its Probe and Re port Will be Made Late This Afternoon. SENSATION MAY BE SPRUNG Evidence Secured, It Is Rumored, That lVndlcton Last Fall Was as Open as Upon Any Time During lTontler Days Half a Dozen Houses Were Operated Full Swing. . ' The end of the vice probe Is at hand. The grand Jury, , which for a week has been quietly investigating the charges that gambling, bootleg ging and postitution have been flour ishing here with police protection- will bring in' its final report late this af ternoon, according to accredited in formation and, it Is further stated up. on good authority, that Its investi gation will terminate in a number of indictments against alleged gamblers and operators of game tables. The Jury made its Becond report at 5 o'clock last evening and returned seven more indictments but none of them had to do with the vice probe. It is said. One was against James Hon der, a Greek accused of a hienous offense against four-year-old Violet Green, and another was a reindictment of Lafayette Christian of Hermiston on a non-support charge, the previ ous indictment having been thrown out as faulty. The other five indicted have not yet been disclosed because of the fact that they have not yet been placed under arrest. One of the features of the session' yesterday was the appearance before the Jury of D. C. Connell, an Insurance agent who was one of the men who went before Evangelist Bulgln with (Continued on page eight.) E. COURT ST n.en that all of .hs prKee.iip.ji thus, f.i' til en would have , ie soiie .r again, thus delaying the improvement f i me time. C imol'man Phel js state.l that ib Jectlon to the Improvement had been made to him on the grounds that the charter does not allow frse competi tion between companies. Being a new member of the council he re quested Information and was told that the people may petition for any c'ass of improvement they wish and that the council will, as in ns past, give due deference to the nlshes of the majority. To the charge made to members of the street committee by Mr. Mc Comas that at the time of the mass meeting three years ago when tenta tive bids were received, the Dolarway was blocked by collusion between the council and the Warren Construction Co., members of the council called to mind that a disinterested party had circulated petitions for both gravel bltullthlc and Dolarway on West Court and Jackson streets and that there were only three or four signers for Dolarway on Court street and none at all on Jackson. The bids at that time were $1.43 per square yard for Dolarway and $1.45 for gravel bl tullthlc. The council manifested consider able earnestness in the proposed East Court street improvement because, as one member pointed out, "It Is the worBt piece of road In Umatilla coun ty and one of the moat traveled." It Is reported that John Gagen Is also - circulating a remonstrance against the proposed improvement of Lee street. aa well as the one asking for the am endment to give the city power to In crease its bonded Indebtedness $40, 000 for the completion of the gravity water system was declared to have more than IS per cent of the voting population represented upon them and by unanimous vote, they were granted. Two thousand copies of the reas sessment' amendment were ordered printed and will be distributed to the voters by the City recorder. (Continued on page 3 ) GEffiUII SETTLERS IE BE TO Colonization Plan' is Made for Central Oregon ' Where 200,000 Acres Have Been Secured. IMMENSE TRADE COMPLETED Sclieme Will Be Put Into Operation TlUs Spring, According to An nouncement by President of Com pany Lands Will Re Plared In Cultivation by Thrifty Germans. PORTLAND, Ore.. March 14. By a deal consummated today at St. Paul the Hill interests will acquire the transportation building in Chicago for two hundred thousand acres of land in central Oregon, Crook county, traded to cover a million of the thirty-five' hundred thousand dollars value of the building. The news was received by J. L. D. Morrison, from W. P. Davidson, 'president of the Oregon Wrestern Colonization com pany. Lbulfl Hill, president of tne Great Northern Is one of the principal stockholders of the company. Morrison announced that the tract acquired by the company will be col onized this spring by a group of Ger man farmers. The trade has been under way for several months. In the meantime the syndicate taking over the land has been studying the colonization problem. It Is proposed to place the land in cultivation and build ' up traffic on the Central Ore gon railroads.- - MAN WHO SUPPLIED INDIAN WITH LIQUOR IS ARRESTED THOMAS MOKEAVE IS ALLEGED TO HAVE SOLD WHISKEY TO SIIIPPENTOWER. Thomas Mokeave, notorious as a petty law breaker, is today reposing in the city Jail charged with being the bootlegger who sold liquor to Ander son Shippentower. the Indian who brutally assaulted his wife several nights ago. He was arrested last evening by Sheriff T. D. Taylor and officer John Russell after he had been named by the In.lian as the man who furnished him with the liquor which caused him to commit the crime. Shippentower for two days stead fastly refused to divulge tae name of the bootlegger but yesterday confess ed to Chief of Police John Kearney that It was Mokeave who supplied him with the "fire water." He said he gave Mokeave 75 cents for a pint bottle of whiskey. Shlppentower's victim continues to improve, according to her physician, and the chances are very favorable that she will recover from the frac tured skull which partially paralyzed her. Clteap Sport. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. March 14. Herbert Kauntlz, a blind cigar deal , brought suit to recover $39 from Charles O'Toole. The latter declares the claim is Illegal because it was a gambling debt contracted while play ing with a blind man. NEWS SUMMARY General. Engagement of Mbw Eleanor Wilson and William McAdoo Is announced. Huerta will burn Mexico City If captured by the rebels. Five losers in ScUrei failure are driven insane by shock. German farmers will be brought to central Oregon to colonize large tract of land. Joking: burglars secure $15,000 cash from Chicago firm. Villa confident that he will soon be In Torreon. : Wilson's tolls policy Is attacked by Knowland In the bouse. Loral. Grand Jury will rcMrt this pvcnln-j on vice probe: Indictments said to be certain. Thomas Mokeave, alleged to have sold liquor to Anderson SlUppentower, under mat. Special election for charter amend ments set for April 28. Prtactapla of county schools meet In here today. High school will debate tariff que. Uon with Baker March 27. Ridlnjr and driving clnb revived to afford summer amusement. Remonstrance against East Court street Improvement under way. Pendleton may Join county baseball league. local high school girls swamp Mil ton coeds. BROUGHT OiEGOII LANDS ATTACK IS MADE ON WILSON TOLLS' POLICY UNDER FIRE President Wilson was made the sub ject of a severe attack In the house today when Knowland submitted His Minority Report on the Propos ed Repeal of Uw Free Toll Clause in the Panama canal MIL WASHINGTON, March 14. Charg ing that Wilson is "advocating Eng land's cause." Congressman Know land submitted to the house a minor ity report of the Interstate foreign commerce committee on the proposed repeal of the canal tolls exemption clause. British domination, he asserted, caused the president to demand the repeal and the abandonment of the United States' logical attitude under the Monroe doctrine. :lw. "I vigorously protest.'' he contin ued, "against an attempt to . force congress, through legislative enact ment, to give a British interpreta tion of the .Hay-Pauncefote treaty, surrendering rights affecting Ameri ca economically, strategically and politically. "An unparalleled situation con fronts the nation when the custodian of our rights has an agent dealing In foreign affairs, who advocates Eng land's -ause. We are left without a (Continued on page five.) Bulgin Presented Pendleton Blanket by Members of W.C.T.U. In Ad dress Last Night Evangelist At tacks Christian Science. (By J. M. CorneJLson.) In opening the service last night at the tabernacle the following an nouncements were made, and some questions were answered. Subject tonight. "The Feast of Bel shazzar. or the Greatest Tragedy of History." Sunday morning the regular ser vices in alt the churches, as also their bible schools. Sunday at 2:30 p. m. a union meet ing at the tabernacle. Dr. Bulgin will preach. Sunday, 7:30, the closing service of the revival. At the Sunday afternoon and even ing services a freewill offering will be taken for Dr. Bulgln. Dr Bulgin will leave for his next engagement In DInuba, Cal., on the night train after the service. , ' Members for the W. C. T. V. were called for last night and forty-two new names were added td that organ ization. Mrs. Shephnrd. a W. C. T. V, organizer and platform speaker of national reputation was Introduced and In appropriate and prophetic words presented Dr. Bulgln with a Pendleton woolen mill blanket. Dr. Bulgln's response was equally feli citous. In answering the lnjulry, "How do you rtkplaln the passage of scripture which says, "He that does not provide for his own denies the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. Dr. Bul gln explained that it referred to pro viding salvation for the family, and for one not to do so he would be sailing under false colors, wanting to get the benefits of religion and yet stay out side. He took occasion to urge all who have church letters put away to bring them out and unite with the forces of righteousness in the churches, because said he, Ths , Ws'' '(' p fy ' '-., 1 It 4 ' & I -&f$ ) REVIVAL MEETINGS WITH SERMON ON HUERTA CITY IF IT'S TAKEN BY REBELS SUCH EXTRAVAGANCE. SAYS SENATOR LANE WASHINGTON, D. C, March 14. Senator Harry Lane learned that the treasury department proposes bronze tablets at $600 each and window em: brasures at $1000 each for the Uort land postofflce building. This strikes Senator Lane as extravagance run ri ot. : MISS WILSON AND WILLIAM M'ADOO WILL WED IN JUKE FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT i OF ENGAGEMENT IS MADE' FROM WHITE HOUSE. WASHINGTON, March 14. Form al announcement of the engagement If Miss Eleanor Randolph Wjlson. the youngest daughter of the President and Mrs, Wilson, to William G. Mc Adoo, secretary of the treasury, wat made at the White House yesterday. By direction of the president. Secre tary Tumulty handed out a brief an nouncement reading as follows: "The President and Mrs. Wilson an nounce the engagement of thelt youngest daughter, Eleanor Randolph, to the Hon. William Giggs McAdoo." Mr. McAdoo is 60 years old and for many years has been an intimate friend of the Wilson family. He has six children, two of whom are mar ried. Miss Wilson is- 24 years old The marriage will probably take place at the White House in June. The wedding will be the 14th cele brated at the White House. The 13th was the marriage of Jessie Wood row Wilson to Francis Boyes Sayre, on November 25, 1913. - Mr. McAdoo's first wife was Sarah Houston Fleming, whom he married in 1885. , - ; Reports that Mr. McAdpo would leave the cabinet, however, and per haps become ambassador to France, were set at rest by .White House of ficials who said emphatically he was expected to remain at the head of ths treasury department. ; U. S. Express Dissolves. NEW YORK, March 14. The dis solution of the United States Express company was authorized at a meeting or the directors here. This action was taken as a result of the recent reduction ordered In express rates by the Interstate commerce commission, CLOSE HERE backsliding, quitting Christian is do ing more harm and standing in the way of more people than the avowed infidel,' for everybody knows that the unbeliever has never been in the church and knows nothing of the benefits and goodness derived there." Dr. Bulgln answered very forceful ly a question asking him his opin ion on the attitude of the New Tes tament toward divorce. He explain ed what a farce divorce was in the time of Christ, following Edershetm. the best versed man on Jewish cus toms. Christ put his disapproval on such a custom except relative to adul tery. "An Impure life which brought on divorce in the case of either part) was looked on as treason against the state for civil government began in the home, and was to be punished by death," he said. The subject of the discourse of the evening was Christian Science. Dr. Bulgln took as his text 1 Tim. :20. "Turning away from the profane babblings, and oppositions of science which Is falsely so called." "We have been doing Just what Paul warned us not to do," he said "Lest any one say that I don't under stand and don't know what I am talk ing about, I will say I have given this matter 19 years of thought and study. I have read all the books sent out by that society, and have taken the time and trouble to attend for four months the lectures in Boston, and heard Mrs. Eddv herself, and 1 have read the book of Science and Knowledge at least 40 times and say what I do out of the fullest knowledge of the facta, and with no- ill-feeling In my heart toward anyone who be lieves In Christian Science. Rut as a minister of the gospel, when I was or dained t pledged to uphold the truth, and to protect the bible, the founda tion of our faith, and I fully believe that whatsoever Is not of God Is sin. - Dr. Bulgin before beginning the body of his lecture laid down these questions for Christian Science to answer, and said: "If these cannot be answered we must cither give up (Continued on page five.) SUNDAY NIGHT TO BURN 110 Dictator Believed to Have Inspired the Statement-Revolt of Federals is Put Down. MANY SOLDIERS EXECUTED Protests Sent to Wilson Against Lift ing Embargo on Aim and Am - nitlon Foreigners Threatened . Efforts to Be Made to Release prisoners at Ft. BUss. MEXICO CITT. March 14. "Hu erta. intends to bum Mexico City If it is captured ' by the rebels, which seems inevitable.". ' ', ' This was the statement of a prom inent Mexican in the dictator's confi dence.; .It. wag taken for granted he had the information from Huerta himself. ' Many were killed at Jojutla, in the state of Morelos, as a result of a mu tiny of soldiers at the federal garri son. They revolted because their ' pay was in arrears. Four lieutenants leading the revolt killed the garri son's commander. General Alatrista, and several officers and civilians. Some of the higher officers escaped, rallied the loyal troops and defeated the mutineers after a hard fight. They -executed those who were not killed In the battle. Federal officers have received Bry an's acknowledgement of ' President Wilson's action In raising the embar go prohibiting the shipment of arras ' and ammunition. Many foreigners have received warning letters written on black bor- . dered stationery. It is believed they were written by a fanatic or a Joker. WASHINGTON. March 14. Sec retaries Bryan and Garrison and At torney General McReynolds are con sidering whom to- Send to resist the attempt to secure the release on ha beas corpus of the ' Mexican federals . who, driven" across the border, are new held prisoners at Fort Bliss. It was agreed an extremely dangerous precedent would be established if the attempt at release succeeded. In the meantime, McReynolds directed the district attorney at Houston to" repre sent General Bliss against whom the proceedings will be directed." It is expected the case will go on the court's appeals to the supreme court. Attacks the Income Ta,x. NEW YORK. March 14. A suit asking that the Union Pacific railroad be restrained from filing an Income tax statement this year and from pay ing the 1913 tax was filed in the United States district court here by Frank Brushaber, a stockholder. Brushaber alleges the income tax law is unconstitutional. BASEBALL ENTHUSIASTS TALKIX6 COUSITY LEA6UE PENDLETON MAY ENTER WITH . OTirER TOWNS FOR SUN. PAY" GAMES. Since Pendleton has surrendered her franchise in the Western Tri state league, baseball .enthusiasts have commenced again to talk about organizing a county league and It la very probable that Pendleton will take a berth In a league comprising Pilot Rock. Weston. Athena and other towns. The schedule will Include Sunday games only as in the days' of the RJue Mountain League. A local committee from the Com mercial association Is now consider ing the matter with the fans In the small towns and something definite will develop soon. The smaller towns are eager for such a league and Pendleton seems ready to tak semi-professional or amateur ball rather than none at all. The action of the Pendleton club in drawing out of tho Western Trl state bids fair to disrupt that Ieagie. according to reports being received from the other three cities. A dis patch from Baker has It that the bus iness men of that city are for fol lowing Pendleton's action and that sentiment haa taken such a slump that the campaign for fund has been stopped. Vale and I.ewlston are both Mn considered as substitute fee Pntlw ton but the nearness of ths mton's opening makes It doubtful whether either of these towns could be lined up. Pendleton's withdrawal Is givln the city anything but desirable adver tising, many of the papers of tho,' northwest taking advantage of the situation to get out their hammers. Had the withdrawal been made som weeks ago so that the other c!th could have acted accordingly. th city would not be held blamsblt, ac cording to th general verdict. 1 1 1