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DAILY EVENING EDITION DAILY EVENING EDITION TO ADVERTISERS. Vurrcart tor Eastern OWtiin, by Um United State Weather Utorrirf t Portland. Generally fair tonight anil Wednes day. The East Oregonlin hai the largest pal circulation of aur paper In Oregon, ml of Portland and oyer twice tbe circulation la I'eDdleton of any other newipaper. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER VOL. 2a DAILY EAST OEEGOXIAN, PENDLETOX, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 2:5, 1914. NO. S22t IIATIOH EMERGING F n II M DEPRESS! FEU 1W OVER Secretary Redfield Supports Wilson's Position That Conditions Are Merely Psychological. "PROSPERITY LETTERS" COME Vi'in.rrciul and Industrial Hcvital enr United suites FeeU World Wide, Conditions I east of Any Na tlcii ami Xoiv la Urst to Re.vver, Is statement. WASHINGTON, Juno 23. Strong support of President Wilson's position that the present dullness In buslncxs n'eu'ly Is psychological Is voiced In a statement by Secretary of Coin nieree Redfield. "The United States Is the last na tion to enter the world-wlJe depres sion." Redfield said. "We felt it the least and are now the first to emerge, Dullness of trade and Industry in this country Is psychological, Just as Wil son says. Heports from all sections nd figures compiled by the depart ment of commerce show this to be true. Other nations fiave suffered longer and more severely than the United States Notably France, Ger many, England, Canada and Brazil. Conditions in these countries contra dict the cause most commonly assign ed for depression. Germany Is the greatest trust country In the world. In France there are no trusts. Bra zil has a high protective tariff, yet all have suffered." Redfield said his department Is re ceiving large numbers of "prosperity letters." which strengthened his be lief a commercial and Industrial re vival is near. For the first two weeks In June, he said, the Hock Island railroad handled an Increase of nearly a thousand carloads of freight. The upproachlng harvest has created an xtraonllnary demand for agricultural implement and the market for the average priced automobiles never was , better, he added. CAN FILLED WITH POWDER IS DISCOVERED IN CHURCH 1TSH BURNS OUT OX DOMI1 SAII) TO HAVE BEEN PLANTED IJY WOMEN. HEAPING, Eng., June 23. An un vxploded bomb, supposed to have been planted by suffragettes, was found In the church, of St. Mary the Virgin. It consisted of a can filled with powder and would have done considerable da inn (re if It had gone off but the fuse had burned out. Change In Cut Name Asked. WASHINGTON, June 23. A pro posal to rename Culebra Cut. Gall lard Cut. In honor of the late Colonel David du Galllard, the army engineer, who chained the foot of the mountain there, and through his untiring devo tion to duty contracted a malady which caused his death, was laid be fore President Wilson by Representa tive Finley of South Carolina. Flnley (aid the president Instantly approved the plan. TIE FOR SPEED JUDttE. SEVERELY ARRAIGNED IN REPORT FOR MISUSING HIGH OFFICE. WASHINGTON. June 2S. Judge Emery Speer, of the United States district court at Macon, Ga., In a re port filed with the house Judiciary committee today, was severely ar raigned for misusing his high office but he was spared an Impeachment trlftl In the' senate because the com mittee believed there was not suffi cient evidenco of wrong doing to con vict him. The commlttoe requested the house to drop the chnrges. Rep resentative Volsead, of Minneapolis, republican and minority member of the sub Investigating committee, sub mitted A separate report exonerating Speer. Representative Webb and Fitzhenry signed the majority report. "Early In his Judicial career," the majority report stated, "Judge Speer ascertained the limit to which he could go before liability to Impeach ment would accrue and went as close to the line upon many occasions as safety would permit." "The sub committee regrets Its In ability to recommend either a com- (Continued on page five.) HIE mm m Oil ATTITUDE HELD Hi REBEL ENVOYS Definite Assurances Are Awaited by Mediators That Carranza Will Take Part in Negotiations. SETTLEMENT MAY YET GOME Status of Rcln-tri Will bo Unofficial Hut This Will lie no Barrier to Ar riving at Agreement Villa's Cam. palgn Is Being Watched Closely Much DciMMid UMn It. NIAGARA FALLS, June 23. The mediators are waiting for a definite assurance that the Mexican constitu tionalist representatives will Join in the negotiations. Should they do so, the rebels having refused an armis tice, their status will be unofficial but this won't interfere with an agreement. If an understanding is reached at an informal conference between the Huertlstas and constitutionalists. It simply will be embodied In the proto col which the Huertlstas will sign In behalf of the present Mexican City government and the American envoys will endorse it as constitutionalist rep resentatlves. It Is agreed by everyone that much will depend on the success of Villa's attempt on Zacatecas. In the event of the city's capture, the Huertlstas, it Is said surely would be much readi er than otherwise to accept the best terms they can get. - WASHINGTON, June 23. Mem bers of the rebel Junta are hopeful for the first time for the restoration of peace In Mexico. They said frank ly they believed an agreement on a provisional government could be reached at the Informal conference scheduled between the constitution alists and Huerta representatives. Of ficials of the Washington administra tion are of the same opinion. It Is said there might be a few days delay In sending the constitutionalists to Ni agara Falls but as little time as pos sible will be lost. MAZATLAN. June 23. The rebels under General Alamllo are reported to have captured the town of Zapot alan, an Important position. i CAMACHO, Mexico, June 23. A rebel attack on Zacatecas will begin in 24 hours, constitutionalist officers declared. Villa's advance guard has arrived within striking distance. THIS TOWN IS ASKED TO ORGANIZE CAVALRY TROOP Formal Invitation for Pendleton to organize a troop of cavalry has been received by the Commercial Associ ation from Governor West. Six more troops are needed In the state, he points out, and he thinks this city should easily organize one. The general staff of the O. N. O. Just recently authorized the prelimi nary organization of such additional troops necessary to complete a regi ment and First Lieutenant P. J. Hen nessy of Corvallis has been commis sioned to conduct the organization. Governor West's letter Is supplement ed by one from Lieutenant Hennessy In which he urges Pendleton to raise a troop, WUklr.s Will Han. SALEM, Ore., June 23. The su preme cou.t affirmed the conviction of Lloyd H. Wllklns, senter.ced to hang for the murder uf Lou Winters, a musician, In Portland, last Octo ber. Shipwreck Claims Another Victim. RIMOUSKI, Que.. June 23. Efforts to recover bodies from the hull of the sunken liner Empress of Ireland cost the life of Diver Cossoboom, of New York, In the employ of the Quebec Salvage company. CUXHAVEN, Germany. June 23. The Hamburg-lA.merlcan steamship Queen Louise crashed Into the steam, ship Cobra, which was crowded with sightseers, whllo following the kaiser's yact Meteor In a race to the mouth of the river Elbe. A big hole was torn In the Cobra's aide. There wa a panic among the passengers but so SINKING SHIP REACHES DOCK AND PASSENGERS ARE SAVED MEDICAL MEN OF EASTERN OREGON GATHER AT SESSION LECTURES M CLINICAL WOKK OCCUPY MOKXIXti HOCKS OF CONVENTION. With thirty-five physicians from al. sections of eastern Oregon present, the thirteenth annual meeting of the Eastern Oregon Medical Society is in progress today at the state hospital In this city. The programs of lectures and clinical work have proven espec ially Interesting and educational de spite the fact that two of the men scheduled for lectures were unable to be present. The first session began shortly aft er 9:30, President M. K. Hall of La Grande calling the body to order. Fol lowing en Invocation by Rev. C. A. Hodshlre of the Methodist church, Dr, I. U. Temple, president of the Pendle ton and Umatilla County Medical So ciety, delivered a brief address of wel come. Response was made by Dr. N. E. Winnard of Heppner, ' following which President Hall made his formal address. The principal feature of the morn ing session consisted In two lectures by Dr. A. E. Rocky of Portland., His first was a clinical lecture on "Sar coma of the Left Parotid Gland," and was accompanied by an operation ori a patient for the removal of a tumor. His second lecture on "Intestinal Sta sis" was a reviw of four 'years' per sonal' exprlence with Lane's short cir cuit operation and the use of , liquid parafine and proved absorbingly In teresting to the medical men. ; - Clinical lectures on "Paranoia'', by Supt. W. D. McNary and "Genral Paresis," by Dr. A. E. Tamlesie. both of the state hospital with material furnished by that institution, ' are to be features of the afternoon session. The shooting of ex-Mayor Stewart of Copperfleld kept Dr. W. L. Parker of Baker at home and robbed the so ciety of a lecture on "Some Observa tions In an Obsterical Practice." Dr. Leo W. Chilton of Canyon City, scheduled to speak on "Mesenterlo Cysts," was also unable to be present. HOME COMPANY HOLDINGS MUST BE SOLD IN 2 DAYS CONSOUDATION WITH BELL SYS TEM MAY (TOIE AS RE SULT OF RULING. PORTLAND. Ore., June 23. With only two days remaining for the Am erican Telephone and Telegraph com pany to sell Us holdings In the Home Telephone company of Spokane as In structed In a degree for the govern ment In the recent antl-trust prosecu. tlons, the presence In Portland of G. E. McFarland, president of the Pa cific States Telephone and Telegraph company and H. D. Flllsbury, Junior. Its general attorney, appeared signifi cant. The company's representative.? are here to secure a modification of the decree which will allow the Bell company to take over the Home company of Spokane. In deciding against the Bell interests. Federal Judge Bean decreed among other things that the Bell Interests should sell t'.ielr holdings In the Spokane Home company before the expiration of DO days unless the Spokane citv council should decide to allow a con solidation of the two systems. Yes terday the council by a vote of four to one decided to authorize the pro posed consolidation and McFarland and Pillsbury immediately came to Portland. HOME RULE HILL IS NOW IN UPPER HOUSE LONDON, June 23. Lord Crews Introduced the administration's Irish home rule bill In the upper house of parliament. Harvard Prodigy Gets Degree. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.. June 23. The youngest student ever graduated from Harvard will be William James Sidis, 16, when he receives his degree this week. He completed the work last year, but was declared too young to receive a degree. Minimum Wage Fixed. OLYMPIA, June 23. A minimum wage for women laundryworkers was fixed at 39 by a conference consisting of representatives of the ' employers, employes and the public. far as learned no fatalities occurred. Many of the terror stricken throng on the excursion craft clamored from their own vessel upon the Louise's deck. The Cobra began filling quick ly but the crew stood by the pumps and kept the water down while the vessel ran for the nearest dock, which It reached In nn almost sinking condition. CZAR AND HIS FAMILY IMPERILLED BY DYNAMITE PLOT 1 H '' 'Xe - i . t . " At his mother's knee is the Czare vltch. heir to the Russian throne, and surrounding the Imperial pair are the four princesses of the royal house, all of whom have been repeatedly men aced by nihilistic assassins. Czar NlchohWthe czarina and their children narrowly escaped death when an unsuccessful attempt was made to dynamiU the Russian impe rial train, upon which the imperial BE PUT INTO WASHINGTON, June 23. Relying j on the V. S. supreme court's decision i in the lnter-mountain rate case thej interstate commerce commission pre- pared to put in effect sweeping re- ductlons in transcontinental freight, rates. The complete power of the' CRACKSMEN ROUTED ' BY CONSTABLE . VANCOUVER, B. C. June 23. With more than 120,000 in the safe, and the doors of the strong box hanging by shatter- ed hinges after an explosion of nitroglycerine, Police Con- stable Clarkson gave battle to three robbers and in a pistol duel routed the cracksmen who attempted to rob the bank of 4 Nova Scotia at Mission. 4 Poverty Vows Upheld. WASHINGTON. June 22. The United States supreme court upheld the legality of the "poverty vow" of monks and nuns who sign away their property rights In favor of their re ligious orders. The court held that these vows are not against public pol icy. Ashland has voted $175,000 bond? to develop mineral springs and bath on a large scale. NEWS SUMMARY General. American titxler "wanders from lines at Vera Cruz and his where abouts Is unknown. Funston takes precautions against an attack by Mex icans. Secretary Redfield says business de pression of country Is near an end and lie predicts commercial revival soon. Posse hunts hills for Ed Usher, wnntcI In connection with shooting of ex-Mayor Stewart of Copperfleld, Agreement In mediation depends upon attitude of reliels, It Is said. Local. Pendleton will gain by Stokano rate decision. Eastern Oregon medical society meeting here. Baseball Booster Day set for Fri day, Beautiful Indian girl succumbs to tulicrctiloAls. kv. West authorizes Pendleton to raise troop of cavalry. Ivrcparatlons for Pioneer Day at chautauqua being made. Marko convicted of assaulting ho tel manager. I N RATE D INS 10 party was returning to the capital frim a visit to Bucharest, Roumanla. Twelve lives were lost among the passengers of a mall express that pre ceded the Imperial train and explod ed the dynamite that was intended to wipe out the entire ruling family of Russia. The ' Russian government In accordance with their usual custom, tefused to admit that any attempt had been made on the life of the sover eign. EFFECT SHORTLY commission over interstate rates and a consequent early drastic reduction on "long haul" freight to Spokane. Salt Lake. Butte, Billings, Reno and other points between the rockies and the Pacific coast, are considered the main outstanding points in the su preme court decision. Rose Reaches Far Alaska. FAIRBANKS. Alaska, June 23 Planting of an Oregon rose bush sent here by Queen Thelma of the Tort land Festival, was the opening feature at midnight of the annual festival of the midnight sun. The midnight baseball game was played after the rose planting cere mony. The celebration will continue with masked parade, public entertainment and dance. Miss Anita Nedals, queen, will receive the rose bush. Randon Bartender l suicide. BANDON, Ore.. June 23 Jack Brown, a bartender, was found dead In bed In his room over the Bandon Bar. with a bullet hole in the back of his head. When found. Rrown had a revolver clasped In his hand and the door was locked on the Inside. PLEADS WITH KING ON BEHALF OF MILITANTS 4 , 1 T T?Wr' 4" Miss Mary Bloomfleld, the young suffragette, who created a scene at King George's court by pleadng with him to stop the forcible feeding of suffragettes. posse wniiic KILLS FOR 111 III GOPPEBFIELD CASE Ed Fisher is Wanted in Connection With Shooting of Former Mayor Stewart Yesterday. EX-OFFICIAL MAY SURVIVE One Bullet Penetrates Kidney But Physicians Say Stewart Has C'liance Wounded Man I Taken to Baker Ho-spiuil Flher Alleged to Have Grudge Against Mayor. COPPERFIELD, Ore., June 23. Sheriff Rand and a posse were in the mountainous country between Cop perfleld and Homestead today search ing for Ed Fisher for the bhooting of H. H. Stewart, deposed mayor of Copperfleld. Fisher, who Is a brother of the Copperfleld mar shal, disappeared about the time of the shooting Monday. He Is known to have had a grudge against Stewart claiming the latter circulated stories injurious to his character In which the name of a woman was mentioned. Stewart Is at a hosptal at Baker. Physicians said he had a chance for recovery- One bullet penetrated his kidneys. PIONEER EXERCISES WILL OPEN CHAUTAUQUA WEEK COMMITTEE MAKING PLANS TO HAVE CELEBRATION A BIG SUCCESS. With the date of the Chautauqua drawing near, the local committee is making special efforts to make the Pioneer Day exercises which will in i.i'gurate the week of entertainment, a big success. Pioneers of the county are to be the guests of honor and this morning special tickets for presenta tion to pioneers were received. , Any old resident may secure one by. ap plying to J. M. Bentley, president of the Umatilla County Pioneers' So ciety, or C. E. Roosevelt, local repre sentative of the Ellison-White peo ple. Col. J. H. Raley, scheduled to make the address to the pioneers, will not be able to be present at the exercises and the committee will In a few days announce his substitute. Another in teresting feature of the exercises will be a pictorial review of the Panama canal in the bulding and this will be free to everybody. The pioneer exercises are to be hold at 7:30 on the evening of Ju'y 4 .it the chautauqua tent. GOVERNMENT WILL KEEP UP SUITS TO REGAIN R.R. LAND EFFECT OF SUPREME COURT DE CISION NOT TO INTERFERE, IT IS SAID. WASHINGTON, June 23. Despite the supreme court decision against the "outsider" who sought to invali date the Southern Pacific's patents In California ol lands worth approxi mately half a billion, that they might file on it, it is stated the government wouldn't drop the suits to recover the Midway and Coallnga properties held by the railroad. The government view was the ruling out of "outsiders" claims didn't necessarily mean It couldn't recover tracts which after the patents had been Issued, proved mineral bearing. The lands are esti mated worth a hundred million dol lars. Brick manufacture is being estab lished at Sisters. PERDLETOU GAINS Pendleton is in line to profit con siderably by the decision of the su preme court In the Spokane rate case. All the rate reductions granted Spo kane are applicable here as well says W. J. Clark, chairman of the Com mercial Club transportation committee who is well Informed on freight tar iffs. In the Spokane case the commerce commission granted zone rates some what similar to what has since been established for the parcel post. There are seven zones and the reductions In the rates from the various eastern points to Spokane are as follows: To Spokane from Missouri rivet foints, 4 per cent. SEiipnii if UIIES; LOST His Fate May be the Same as That of Private Parks Who is Believed to Have Been Executed. MEXICANS JEER AT OUTPOSTS Feeling Between United States Sol dlen at Vera Crna and Followers of Huerta Continues to Grow Utter AuUtoriUes in City Give So Detail of Midn Man. VERA CRUZ, June 2.-L Relieving tlie Mexican federal are planning to .provoke an engagement. General Fun ston took step to prevent a dah If IMwwible. His first action was to re. fuse the Mexican commanders .re quest that the American train which daily connects with the Mexicvn train to Mexico City, be bent as far ma Tcm bladers. At this point it conld easily be amb-jfthed by Mexicans. American outposts believe the Mexicans are seeking an excuse for trouble. VERA CRUZ, June 23. Another United States soldier is missing from Vera Cruz It Is feared he has met the same fate as Private Parkes who wandered outside the American lines shortly after Funston and his men landed and never being seen again, is believed to have been killed by tha Mexicans. The military authorities have not made the name of the second man public. When the American sentries cn outpost duty shouted questions concerning him to Mexican pickets they were answered by Jeers and ep ithets. Friction between the outposts is unquestionably Increasing. WASHINGTON. June 23. General Funston reported the disappearance of Private Heinrtch Thobe of the ma rine corps while doing outpost duty outside of Vera Cruz. Thobe aban doned his rifle and ammunition. Thobe recently was in a, hospital where his mental condition was under observ ation and Is said to have been acting queerly, threatening to run away and return to the United States. Funston jaid a search for him was In progress. REPLY OF PRESIDENT TO PERKINS BEING AWAITEO HARVESTER COMPANY OFFICIAL TAKES EXCEPTIONS TO WIL SON'S VERSION. WASHINGTON. June 23 Politi cians are awaiting with much inter est the president's reply to Georg w. Perkins' statement last night calling in question the president's version of the directorship held by Thomas D Jones, one of the appointees to the federal reserve board. In the harvest er company. In a letter to Senator Owen, Perkins said Jones owns a sin gle share of the harvester stock, pur chased to qualify htm as a director, a post he accepted to assist In withdraw. Ing the company "from a control which had led it Into acts and prac tices which brought it under criticism of the law officers of the govern ment." At the time Jones Joined the har vester directorate, Perkins maintains "there absolutely was no division In the board on the subject of the com pany's practices, so that Jones could not have entered it to Join any par ticular faction." Perkins" statement congratulated the president on getting Jones for the board but says Its author resents his "attempts to secure confirmation by the senate by making confirmation ments that are in no way warranted by facts." BY RATE DECISIOH To Spokane from Mississippi rlvff Points. 10 per cent To Spokane from Chlcuno territory, 14 per cent. To Spokane from Detroit territory, 15 per cent. To Spokane from Pittsburg terri tory, 20 per cent. To Spokane from New York tcrri tory. 10 per cent. To Spokane from New Organs ter ritory, 28 per cent. After the commerce commission granted the new schedule their work was set aside by action of the com merce court. Since thwn the com merce court has been almllshnl and the supreme court now miy the In terstate commerce conmilsxlon ww right In the action It took. imiiuLiiu