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PENDLETON WRECK DISASTROUS HEAD-ON WRECK ON N. P. BRANCH. Fireman Charlie Bennett Killed In stantly—Engines Crashed Together on a Curve In Canyon—Passengers All Escaped Injury—Caused by Mis take of One of the Engineers. Pendleton, Ore., Oct. 20.—A dis astrous head-on wreck on the Fasco Pendleton branch of the Northern Pa cific railroad occurred two miles north of Pendleton shortly before noon Sat urday. As a result of the accident, Fire man Charles Bennett Is dead, Engi neer G. W. Wise Is badly injured, while Express Messenger Pringle Is hurt about the head. The wreck occurred on a sharp curve in Wild Horse can yon. The southbound branch mixed train was running swiftly down grade to ward Pendleton and met a lone en gine, No. 1366, headed north. The en gines crashed together on the curve just a moment after the engineers saw the danger, making it impossible to jump. The engine of the mixed train was smashed to splinters, the rear end being jammed half way through the head of the freight car. Engine 1366 was likewise badly shat tered, but, as it was running back ward, it made the position of the en ginemen less hazardous. Following the wreck, No. 1366 coasted a half mile down the track before being stopped. The mixed train carried two passenger coaches well filled. The passengers badly jarred, but none were injured. Fireman Bennett was caught in the cab. both legs being badly crushed and otherwise terribly injured. He died at St. Anthony's hospital at 7 o'clock in the evening. Engineer Wise was not seriously hurt, but Engineer Howe, on the northbound engine, was struck in the head, causing him to rave sev eral hours. The wreck was caused through mis Eake on the part of Engineer Howe, he had ordeirs to take his engine north, and left at 11 o'clock, intend ing to run to the siding near Helix and pass the southbound train. Fridays the mixed train makes a side trip to Athena, reaching here at 12:30, whereas, on other davs it arrives at 10:30. was Friday. were On Howe left, believing the day ASK FOR FOUR MORE MONSTERS Navy Department Yearns for More Big Battleships. The navy department has practical ly decided to ask congress for four battleships, two of which shall he sis ter ships to the 20,000-ton Delaware and North Dakota, authorized by the last congress and already contracted tor, and the other two still larger. It is doubtless true, however, that the department will be measurably satis fied if congress consents to allow two more 20,000-ton battleships to plete, with the two already under struction, one division, It being con sidered that such an arangement is most effective. com con If such ships are au thorized there is little probability that they will differ in any respect from the Delaware and North Dakdta, which represent at present the last word in naval construction. Something of a flurry occurred in the state, war and navy departments «'hen it was discovered that the Ma nha Times on August 26 printed an al leged dispatch stating 'that the fleet hail reached the straight of Magellan. Die effect of such misinformation, ii I ' s thought, might easily have precipi I tated trouble with Japan. tt hen Admiral Evans retires, next August, Admiral Sperry will probably I ® uec eed in command of the Pacific I fleet. Refused Drink; Faces Duel. Denver, Col., Oct. 22.—According to netvs received at Fort Logan, Cap H- S. Wygant, formerly of the hirteenth infantry at that place, hut now stationed In the Philippines, has een challenged to fight a duel by Cap ain J. R. Lindsay, also of the Thir fenth infantry. The trouble started b °ard the transport „ n yed at San Francisco with both on Logan, which ar a few days ago men on board, because Cap m H ygant refused to take a drink at social gathering which both attended, aptaln Lindsay remarked that an of fleer who w °uld not drink under such «ma tions was "either a dope fiend or he hit the pipe." 7 Frank Sigel Honored. ans 6W York ' ° ct ' 22.—The dedication 4 unveiling of the statute of Franz ^ ep! at Riverside ( J P, 1 and Sixth street was made the for an imposing military and Part. drive and One Httn Parade in which 10,000 men took SPORTING NOTES. Philadelphia—Owen Moran the 120 pound champion of England, fight with Tommy O'Toole delphia. won his of Phila _J rounds proved him every way. The boys fought six at catch weight and Moran self the better fighter in Saturday Football Games. Indianapolis, Ind.—Michigan feated Wabash in a stubbornly con tested football game. The final score stood: Michigan 22, Wabash 0. Seattle, Wash.—Seattle fairly smoth ered the eleven de representing the Ta coma high school at Madison pa-k, winning 32 to 0. Coyle, Smith, Johns' iaylor and Brown were the stars. Ithaca, N. Y.—Pennsylvania state furnished a big surprise to Cornell and defeated Ithaca by 8 to 6. Cornell was much weakened on account of Captain Cook being out of the game. West Point, N. Y.—The Yale bulldog hit off more than he could chew when he tackled the West Point cadets here and at the close of the first big foot ball game of the season the stood: Yale 0, Army 0. Colfax, Wash,—The Spokane high school football eleven defeateed the Colfax high school team in score a very clean and prettily played game by a score of 34 to 6. Colfax played under a tremendous handicap. Minneapolis, Minn.—Minnesota de feated Nebraska here, 8 to 5. goals from the field won the game for Minnesota. Nebraska crossed Minne sota's goal early in the first half. The feature of the game was Captain Well er s run of 50 yards for a touchdown. Princeton, tinued to roll up high scores, making 40 points against Washington and Jef ferson. Two N. Y.—Princeton con Colville, Wash—The Coeur d'Alene football team scored a victory over the local high school team here, 21 to 0. Champaign, 111.—Coach Stagg's Ma roon players received an awful shock when the Orange and Blue of Illinois went across their goal at the close of the first half for a touchdown, but Chi cago rallied and finished with their old-time swing to the tune of 42 to 6. Moscow, Idaho—Showing a surpris ing reversal of form over its game with the Spokane high school, Idaho easily defeated the Spokane Amateur Athletic club. The schedules of the various college teams has been considerably altered in the last few weeks, and, revised up to date, it follows for the rest of the season: University of Oregon. October 26, Idaho at Portland. November 2, Willamette at Salem. November 9, O. A. C. at Eugene. November 16, Washington at Se attle. November 28, Multnomah at Port land. a University of Washington. October 19, Whitworth at Tacoma. November 2, Battleship Nebraska at Seattle. November 8, Whitman at Walla Walla. November 16, Oregon at Seattle. November 21, Pullman at Seattle. Novembeer 28, Idaho at Seattle. University of Idaho. October 26, Oregon at Portland. November 8, Pullman at Moscow. November 15, Whitman at Moscow. November 15, Whitman at Moscow. November 28, Washington at Seattle. Washington State College. October 26, Spokane at Pullman. November 8, Idaho at Moscow. November 21, Washington at Seattle. November 28, Whitman at Walla Walla. Whitman College. October 25, Multnomah at Walla Walla. November 1, Whitworth at Walla Walla. November 8, Washington at Walla Walla. November 25, Idaho at Moscow. November 28, Pullman at Walla Walla. Oregon Agricultural College. October 26, Pacific at Corvallis. November 2, open. November 9, Oregon at Eugene. November 16, Willamette at Corval lis. November 28, St. Vincent's at Los Angeles. Willamette University. October 23, University of Southern California at Los Angeles. November 2, Oregon at Salem. November 9, Whitworth at Salem. November 16, O. A. C. at Corvallis. November 23, Multnomah at Port land. November 28, Montana at Salem. Says Cassie Had No Account. Pittsburg, Oct. 23.—Thomas Welch, Jr., second vice president of the Second National bank of Pittsburg, today said that Mrs. Cassie Chadwick never had an account at the bank. At the time Mrs. Chadwick is said to have deposited $300,000 Mr. Welch was cash 1er of the institution. W. The police have rescued 60 bodies have a good time without getting In to trouble. ,/Li 1 n I» ,11 WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON AND MONTANA NEWS. A Few Interesting Items From Our Exchanges of the Gath ered Sur rounding Country—Numerous Acci dents and Personal Events Place—Crop Outlook Is Good. Take WASHINGTON STATE NEWS. A nursery company of Sunnyside has secured seven tons of peach pits for their next season's planting. They pect to grow half a million trees from this lot. ■ \ From one sack of pits this season this company grew 3800 trees. S. A. Bowers, who owns a quarter section of land four miles east of Pa louse, Tias a sack containing 20 pota toes, which weighed 50 pounds. The largest tuber weighed four pounds. Christ Rukus, a Greek laborer, aged 25 years, employed in the Oregon Rail road & Navigation extra grang at Meeker's station, on the O. R. & N. railroad, four miles west of La Crosse, was accidentally shot and instantly killed by his 15-year-old nephew, unknown, recently. name T he Spokane postoffice is now doing a business of upward of $7,000,000 a year. After being arrested in Spokane, M. T. Brown, who was wanted at Taco on the charge of stealing about $2800 from the Northern Pacific depot at Tacoma, escaped from the officers. Later he was located at Bellingham, but succeeded in getting away before the officers secured him. ma He Is still at large. Dr. John A. Grose, a farmer near Starbuck, lost about $1500 by ai fire which started on top of a haystack and burned 75 tons of hay recently. Judge J. A. Taggard, who is said to have united in marriage more couples than any other man in the state, is dead at North Yakima as the result of an operation on one of his eyes. Caught by a revolving shaft in the mill of the Puget Sound Lumber pany, on the Tacoma waterfront, Thad deus H. Ward was beheaded and vestige of clothing was stripped from his body. ■ "in every George Bald, aged 65 years, commit ted suicide recently at his home at Connell. He had been sick for two weeks with asthma troubles. and had other Alleged to be short in his accounts at least $110, H. B. Messenger, book keeper for the Frye-Bruhn Packing company at Everett, has disappeared. As a remedy for the prevailing hop conditions, dealers in North Yakima have been urged to assist in organiz ing a pool to dispose of the crop for this year to the best advantages. John Price and Roy Connell, both recently convicted at Pendleton horse stealing, were sentenced to five and three years, respectively, in the penitentiary. The new 60-gallon chemical fire gine ordered several months ago by the Toppenish council has arrived. Lumber has declined in price until common dimension stuff can now be purchased from the mills in Tacoma at $13 and $14 a thousand, this being $3 and $4 below the figures quoted a few months ago. The September report of the State Soldiers' home at Orting, made by Su perintendent Willis L. A.mes to the state board of control, shows on the last day of the month 256 veterans in the institution, 37 In .the colony and 113 on parole, a total of 40G on the rolls. In a rage of jealousy, John Schwab, a young Slavonian of Roslyn, recently of en shot and instantly killed his wife and then turned the on himself, with the result that he al so died a few hours afterward. The young people had only been married two months, and report has it that the husband was insanely jealous of his young bride, and owing to her persis tence In speaking to old acquaintances, it is supposed they quarreled and in his rage he took the life of his companion. The Kennewick volunteer fire de partment has adopted resolutions questing the town council to order paratus to the extent of about $1500. Unable to get hay balers, the ranch ers of Green valley have banded them selves together, and have bought a machine which they will themselves. The ranchers In that dis trict have In the neighborhood of 1000 tons of hay on the ground, and there are no baling machines In sight. Wheat hauling from the Glade and other grain sections tributary to Mab ton is now at Its height, and there from 75 to 100 loads brought in each day. young weapon up re ap operate itr" IDAHO NEWS. Finding no signs of disturbance, finding the doors of his saloon locked the same as when he had gone to bed. finding that $800 of his own cash, all iu $20 bills, had been stolen, and that silver, gold and notes to the extent of about $1200 belonging to other peo ple had been left absolutely untouched, was the experience of Joe Garitano, a saloon proprietor of Mullan. After being out 22 hours a jury in the district court at Lewiston returned a verdict of not guilty in the case of W. H. Curry, the Mohler saloon keeper who was charged with the murder of E. A. Peterson at Kippen on July 6 last. \ Clarence DeFord was accidentally shot. In the hand near Orangeville, a few days ago while out hunting with some companions. The hand was bad ly mangled. Two hundred of the leading farmers of the Nez Perce prairie have perfected a cooperative association for the pose of handling their grain crop inde pendent of the grain companies operat ing in that section, who, they allege, have asked too much from them each year. pur While 12 men are on the eighth day of an 18-day vigil before the door of the United States land office in Coeur d'Alene, incidentally guarding the places of nearly 40 others, squatters and settling upon the coveted lands and there promises to develop later one of the most hotly contested series of fights the Coeur d'Alene land office has known. Dr. S. W. McClure, head of the fed eral sheep quarantine in the northwest, announces that the quarantine was raised in Idaho, action Idaho sheep may now be ship ped without inspection excepting at feeding points, while passing through other states. With 28 applicants for divorce out of every hundred marriage certificates filed, Shoshone county stands head and shoulders above other counties far examined in this state. The celebrated case of Steve Adams, who is mentioned by Harry Orchard in ■ï As a result of this so his testimony as his accomplice in eral murders, and formerly a promi nent member of the Western Federa tion of Miners, charged with the der of Fred Tyler, a homesteader In the Marble creek district on the St. Joe river, about August 10, 1904, will come up for a second trial at Rath drum this week. The first trial, which was held in Wallace last February, re sulted in a disagreement of the jury and a change of venue was secured for the second hearing. All kinds of wild reports are reach ing Wallace of the condition of affairs at Taft, where the Montenegran-Italian vendetta still seems to be swing. Much of the Indian land on the Nez Perce Indian reservation will remain uncultivated next year, unless the In dians make material rental charges. Charles H. Moyer of Denver, presi dent of the Western Federation of Miners, recently called at the Kootenai county jail to see Steve Adams. sev ni m in full reductions in MONTANA NOTES. The state board of railroad commis sioners, created by the recent legisla ture, has made its first order in nection with train service directing the Great Northern to establish a daylight ervlce between Havre and Great Falls. The estimated production of the Butte mines In September was 11,329, SOO pounds of copper. This compares ith an estimated production of 23, 127,240 pounds in August and 27,157, 395 pounds in July. con The decrease from the August production is 11,799, 440 pounds, or 51 per cent. George Stinger, one of known of the older residents of Mis soula county, is dead. Mr. Stinger was 78 years old, and was a native of On tario, where he lived up to 23 years ago, when he came to Montana and settled in the Frenchtown valley, cultivated a farm and the best He was successful. Three negroes, Tom Stewart, a well known jocky; Ed Donovan and Fred Brown, were drowned in Houser lake, near Helena, recently while duck hunt ing. There were no witnesses to the accident and the first known of their drowning was when the upset boat floated ashore. The bodies have not yet been recovered. Dr. O. Y. Warren, for 10 years at the head of the state asylum for the in sane at Warm Spring and twice repre sentative in the legislative assemblies of Montana, died at his home in Butte. Dr. Warren was one of the best known physicians and insanity experts in the west. OREGON SQUIBS. In an attempt at highway robbery on a Southern Pacific train, near Sein men, recently Charles Fink was killed and William Hemrick and Fred Mason were wounded. The robbers escaped. Portland is now assured of two of the largest and most modern packing plants in the country. Swift & Co. was assured some time ago, and now announcement is made that Schwarzchild & Sulzberger, the great Chicago packing firm, will also build a large and up-to-date plant the peninsula in Packing Town. William Sawyer, who has been The plant of , . . . _ con ' vieted at Pendleton of the murder of Jack Monee, will appeal to the su preme court. Sawyer was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 15 years In the state penitentiary. on HEINZE 0{JT OF BANK HE IS NO LONGER PRESIDENT OF THE NEW YORK BANK. Clearing House Committee Examined Several Banks of the Association and Decides to Lend All Aid Neces sary to Ward Off Any Danger of In solvency. The New York clearing house mittee announces that the Heinze, Morse and Thomas interests had been eliminated from the banking organiza tions of New York city, and in the light of this fact, the clearing house association announced its readiness to lend all necessary aid to any of the banks which have been under suspi cion, the clearing house investigation having established their solvency. It is believed that this action will prevent any crisis in New York bank ing circles. William H. Havemeyer, one of the directors, the presidency of the hftitionul Bank of North America, succeeding Alfred M. Curtis, resigned. Tt is understood that the Mercantile National bank will undergo a process of slow liquida tion. com has been elected to At. a special meeting of the board of directors of the Mercantile National bank, Seth H. Milliken was elected president of the bank, to succeed F. Augustus Heinze, resigned. At the same time, William Skinner and Gerish H. Milliken were elected additional vice presidents, Gerish Mil. liken being added t» the board of di rectors. The clearing house committee met with the directors of the hank and the two boards were in session for about four hours. Later William H, Sherer, manager of the clearing house association, on behalf of the associa tion, gave out the following state ment: "A committee of the clearing house has examined the several banks of the association that have been under criticism, and finds them solvent. The clearing house committee has decided to render them such assistance to meet their deposits as the committee may deem necessary." Neither the members of the board of the Mercantile bank nor the clear ing house committee would add these announcements. The statement of Mr. Shearer is, however, taken to mean that the clearing house mittee is perfectly satisfied with (he reorganization of the Mercantile Na tional bank, and will see that the bank is enabled to meet any crisis that the wide,ly published story about its dition, following the collapse of the Heinze corner in United Copper, rnay force it to face. to (inn con After the meeting of the Mercantile National bank directors, E. R. Thomas, one of the directors, announced that, he had disposed of all his holdings in the Hamilton bank to a syndicate composed of men interested in the bank. This action had been expected. Milliken Rich artd Influential. Mr. Milliken, who heads the list of officers of the Mercantile National, is one of the best known York's capitalists, some time a member of the board of directors of the bank, man and a member of the firm Deering, Milliken an officer or director of a score of northern wool companies and southern cotton companies. He is well known in business circles and is said the choice of the clearing house elected today. William Skinner, who was elected of New He had been for He is a rich of & Co. He is lo he com mittee to the position to which he vice president of. the hank, is presi dent of the William Skinner Manu facturing company, and is a director in a large number of railroad companies, including the New York, New Haven & Hartford. was Arrest Nevada Postmaster. Searchlight, Nev„ Oct. 22.—Post master W. B. Atwell has been arrested on the charge of embezzlement, statement prepared, Atwell that his shortage to the government in $5700, Postal Inspector Riddleford says that the discrepancy in Atwell's accounts will reach a much larger flg Atweil was also local agent for the Sarchllght Western Telephone company and the Searchlight Light and Power company. In a admits II re MINES AND MINING. The old Pilot Bay smelter near Nel son, B. C., built in 1890, Is being torn down, much of the machinery being used in the Blue Bell mine. The Hewitt Mining company, operat ,ntr ,hfî famous Hewitt mine In Brit Ish Columbia, has decided to adopt the electro-cyanide process invented bv John R. Parks of Spokane. The nro cess is said to save 90 per cent of values.