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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09

Stockton, Cal, July 9.-Water in
the San JOAQUIN middle rivers is now
pouring out through three new breaks
over the immense reclamation districts
west of Stockton. 1t is believed the
most disastrous flood In the history
OF California is now on.
At his morning the levee of the
middle river broke. and the water is
now sweeping the lower division OF
Roberts island. II is feared the mid
die and upper divisions. never known
to he flooded before, will go under.
The dredges are unable to cope with
the situation. and the break Is rapidly
widening.
Venice island. on the north side OF
the San Joaquin, containing 5000
acres, Is being flooded from the break
yesterday. Drcdges and pile drivers
are working and It is hoped to close
the break before the next high tide
this eveRng.
Twltchell and Andros islands are
now under eight feet of water and
5000 acres Of dairy farms are inun-
dated. The upper San Joaquin ant
Merced rivers are rising and the Sac.
ramento is also high.
Men are exhausted by fighting nigh
and day for a week.
The losses will probably reach int
the millions.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
REvOLUTTONIsTS DEFIANT.
Speeches Made Openly, and Rebellious
Spirit Grows.

st. Petersburg, July 9.-Political
demonstrations are frequent and
vociferous in every part Of the city.
Other cities are as free from fear of
the government. At Moscow an Of
ficer addressed 1000 people, urging
them to support the revolution. A
detachment of police attempted to
disperse them and the people severe
ly beat them. Cossacks then scat
tered the crowd with a blank charge,
and the officer, identified as a lieu
tenant, was arrested.
All guards of mail wagons carry RI
files. Landlords are deserting their
estates and fleeing to the city. Mos
COW mutineers are being let off with
light punishment
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09

Three suits, asking in all for s12,-
62l.O9 as flood damages, were filed
in the circuit court today by Carter,
Raley & Raley and d. w. Bailey,
thereby carrying out the predictions
made several weeks ago in this paper.
In each suit the city of Pendleton
and w. S. Byers are named as defend
ants, the plaintiffs being r. E. Tar
bett, the Peoples Warehouse, and Ba-
ker & Folsom, respectively.
In the complaints considerable his
tory relative to the establishment of
the mill race is given, it being staed
that the same was constructed prior
to the Incorporation of the city Of
Pendleton. 1t is further alleged that
the city has used water from the up
per mill race to supply its water sys-
tenn during the summer, and that the
| lower portion of the race has been
| used as a sewer.
| 1t is stated that when the levee was
! erected in 1887, culvert was built at
the end of the tail race and that a
| flood gate was installed to prevent
backwater from the river from flood
ing the city. In 1903 while some re-
pairs were being made, this protect
ing gate was removed, and through
carelessness and negligence on the
part of the defendants, was not re-
] placed.
1t is further charged that the de-
PENDANTS were wantonly careless and
negligent in not turning off the water
at the headgate during the flood, and
that as result of such neglect and
the lack of a floodgate at the lower
end of the race the city was flooded
and damage was inflicted upon the
plaintiffs for the amounts stated.
The amounts sued for are as fol-
lows:
! r. E. Tarbett-Goods damaged, 49,
540.26; cost of repairs, s251.50; total,
$3,791.75.
The Peoples Warehouse-Goods
damaged, s2137.59; cost of repairs,
s3OS.95; total, s2446.54
Baker & Folsom-Goods damaged
s5723.S0; cost of repairs, $50; loss
in business. $500; total. s6373.S6.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
FIRE AT CAMBRIDGE.
Idaho Town Snffers Loss OF $4,000
From the Coal Oil Fiend.

A special to Boise on Saturday
night gives the following account of
destructive fire at Cambridge, Idaho,
where large Pendleton colony is To-
Gated:
The town of Cambridge, in Wash
ington county, today suffered a s40,-
900 loss from fire. The flames start
ed from the explosion of coal oil used
to start a fire in a cook stove by Mrs.
Lee Barley. A bucket brigade was
started but abandoned and the atten-
tlon of the citizen volunteers was dl-
rected to saving the contents of build
ings.
The principal loss was that of the
Moran hotel, estimated at $4,000
with about $1,000 insurance. Three
dwelling houses were burned to the
ground, at a total loss Of $4,000, with
about $4,000 insurance.
The livery stable belonging to Lyon
& Huddleston was destroyed. Loss
about $4,000 Insurance $500. No lives
were lost.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
Fishing Schooner Lost.

1t is now very probable that steel
bridges will be built across Wild
Horse creek near Athena to take the
place of the wooden ones washed out
during the flood. When the commits
sioners first asked for bids on new
bridges several weeks ago, they call
ed for wood, However, since then
the sentiment of the court has chang
ed in favor of steel, and bids for that
material have been asked for.
This afternoon the court is consid-
ering the various bids presented, and
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09

Cleveland, July 9.-The federal
grand Jury began inquiry into the
Standard this morning.
Two witnesses were examined;
George r. O. Roberts, assistant audi
tor of the interstate commerce COM
mission, and N. N. Anspach, chief of
the Lake Shore railroad freight traf-
fic bureau. They told of the Lake
Shores tariffs as published and filed
and are expected to show the publish
ed rates were violated by the Lake
Shore in rebates to the Standard.
The instructions to the jury contain
ed no reference to Standard, but were
/ fraught with the responsibility and
Importance of the session.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
FOUR NEW STEEL BRIDGES ARE PROBABLE

it is probable the contract will be let
for two steel bridges.
Bids for the construction Of steel
bridges across the Umatilla at Echo
and Pendleton have also been asked
for, but the time for bidding is not
yet up.
Bennett, Road Viewer.
], NJ. Ferguson. a member of the
board of county road viewers has re-
signed from that position and the
court has named j. e, Bennett as Mr..
Ferguson's successor.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
End OF PLUMBERS STRIKE.
Men Returning to Work i'm Frisco at
SO Per Day.

San Francisco, July "a resolution
was passed by the Master Plumbers
association yesterday permitting its
members to take individual action in
regard to the increased wages asked
by the journeymen. This has practi-
cally ended the strike. The men are
all returning to work this morning at
the s6 wage demanded.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
CHOICE LAMBS Ss.25.
Chicago Market Is Active and Prices
Very Good.

Chicago, July 9.-Choice spring
lambs made sS.25. At IS they were
not severely sorted, as buyers wanted
them. There was free trade in good
springers at sT@7.75, with medium
grades at s5.7566.75. Culls and
throw-outs made s4.50@5.5o.
Yearling lambs were good sellers.
Some 1ndiana-fed clipped westerns
brought s7S5 and the tail ends of an
Illinois feeder at $40. The same
feeder sold his tops earlier in the sea-
son at s7.15. Yearling shorn lambs
moved largely at s6@7.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
Was Fined SO. Including Costs.

Oyster Pay, July 9.-The presidents
secret service boGyguard, James o..
sloan. pleaded guilty this morning to
assaulting Clarence Legendre, a New
York newspaper photographer, July
/, when the plaintiff took a picture of
The president and Mrs. Roosevelt, de-
spite Sloan's order to desist. He was
fined sic, including costs, and the
case was dismissed, much to Legen-
dre's chagr.in. who hoped to establish
a case for damages.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
SHOT EMORY
THREE TIMES
THE VICTIM Is JUDGE
OF A SUPERIOR COURT.
Author of "Alice OF Old Vincenncs,' -
and Son of Prominent Seattle At
torney-Enragcd Because Judge
Emory Interfered and Broke His
Engagement With the Judges
Niece.

Seattle, July 9.-Judge Gordon
Emory who was shot Saturday by
young Chester Thompson. died at 1880
this morning. He leaves a wife and
two s'naT children. It is believed
Thpmp on was seeking to kill Char
lotte Whittlesey.
Seattle, July 9.-Judge G. NJ. En-
ory, OF the superior court. who was
seriously II not fatally wounded by
Chester Thompson. last Saturday
night. is still in a precarlous cond-
ton. and Thomas is being held to
await the outcome of the injuries.
Young Thompson, who is n son of
VIII II. Thompson. one of the best
lawyers, most polished orators and
leading citizens of Seattle, declares
that he shot Judge Emory because
he had caused Charlotte Whittlesey,
the judges niece, to break her be-
trothai to Thompson.
The girl had Just returned from
boarding school and young Thompson
went to the Fmory home, where she
was stopping. and demanded to see
her. He was refused entrance to the
house and fired three shots at Judge
Emory, one entering his lung. one the
| thick part of his thigh and one miss
ing him entirely.
Thompson, after firing the shots,
leaped into the house. grabbed two
small children and rushed into bed
room and barricaded the door, and
refused to come out of the room until
an hour afterward, when his father
appeared upon the eoene and induced
him to come out and give himself up
to the police captain.
Young Thompson is a nephew Of
Maurice Thompson, author of "Alice
OF "Old Vincennes" ana well known
poet and writer, now deceased. His
father, Will H. Thompson, n brother
of the author, is one OF the leading
lawyers OF Seattle, an ex-confederate
leader, an orator of great ability and
a striking character.
It Is said that his mother suffered
from mental disturbances at times
and that his infatuation for the Whit
tiesey girl upset his reason. They
had been lovers ever since they were
In public school together, but the EN-
ory family attempted to break the
match which caused young Thompson
to commit the crime.
Story of the Crime.
Thompson's coat and hat were
found this morning. The coat con-
tained n box of cartridges from which
15 were missing Physicians say the
boys mind has been unbalanced by
overstudy. He nervously PAGES his
cell "Yes, I regret it," he said this
morning, as tears filled his eyes.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
FIVE PER CENT ADVANCE.
said To Affect All the Cotton Opera.
tives In New England.

Boston, July 9.-This morning an
advance OF five per cent in the wages
of the cotton mill employees Of New
England went into effect. One hun
dred sixty thousand textile workers
have had their wages raised since
carly in the year.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
HAZEN PINGREE ACCUSED.
He is Made Correspondent In Michi-
gan Divorce Suit

Detroit, Mich, July s.-Ha2en S.
Pingree, son of the late governor of
Michigan, is named as correspondent
in the divorce suit of Alexander w.
Beal, head of a coal mining ard ship
ping firm. As result it is expected
young Pingree's wife wal soon file a
divorce suit. Both women are among
the most prominent in society of any
young matrons in the city. Pingree's
mother, widow of the governor, is
prostrated by the affair.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
LIVESTOCK BILL NOW A LAW.
Railroads Have Lien for Feed Fur.
nisllcti Stock,

Washington, July 9.-The Heyburn
36-hour livestock bin became a law
June 30. when It was signed by the
president. Since that time the de-
partment of agriculture. which is
charged with the administration of
the new statute, has made preparation
to issue permits to all shippers of
livestock who care to mvaiI themselves
OF its more liberal terms The per-
mits to make shipments for periods
longer than 2s hours can only be
made by authority of the secretary of
agriculture. and those not obtaining
such permits will be required to con-
form to the old law.
The Hepburn law, of course, applies
only to livestock shipped in cars that
have no facilities for feeding In tram
sit, and which are so crowded as to
deprive the stock of rest while on the
rail. Stock that is shipped In more
modern cars. and which is regularly
fed and watered on the cars, is not
affected by this law.
The bill in it's approved form pro-
hibits any railroad from transporting
livestock from one state to another
for period longer than 2S consecu-
tive hours without unloa ding the same
into properly-eauipped pens for rest.
feeding and water and II is stipulated
that these stopping periods shall be
at least five hours in duration. In
case OF storms or on account of other
unfavorabe circumstances, shipments
may be prolonged beyond the 2S-hour
H..
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
Contracts for 500. 900 Sewer.

Brooklyn, n. Y, July Bids will
be let this afternoon for contracts to
build 100000 worth of sewers to
drain 225O acres south of Flushing.
The contract for this work was for
merly awarded to the Uvalde Con-
tracing company about year ago
but was cancelled because of an ir-
regularity.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
To Prove Thaw Dcnfcntetl.

Pittsburg, July 9.-Detectives are
working Pittsburg for evidence to es-
tablish the fact that Thaw has been
demented since childhood.
According to questions asked pros
pective witnesses efforts are apparent
ly being made to show that Thaw has
been accustomed to taking young
girls to restaurants. 1t is expected a
large number of Pittsburgers will go
to New York to testify.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
BOOKMAKERS IMPLICATED.
Said to Have Been Passing Bogus
Money Mt Seattle.

Seattle, July 9.-The discovery was
made this afternoon that the book
makers at Meads race track are sus-
pected of handing out thousands of
dollars of counterfeit coin to winners.
Secret service officers have already
$4,000 bogus coin in their possession.
Wholesale arrests are expected.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
MEAT PRODUCTS
POISONED FIVE
Unexpected Evidence Comes
to the Fore Against Chicago
Packing House Methods.
SECRETARY WILSON
VISITS THE PACKERS

The Packers Solicited the Conference,
Which Resulted in a Hot Time, Fol-
lowed by Impenetrable Gloom
Which Surrounded the Packers as
Each Left the Conference Bearing
Copy of the New Federal Statutes
Relating to Experimentation Sug-
gcsted Needed improvements.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
NEW PLAN FOR DESTITUTE.
Tents VIII Be Erected for Rental, on
Icased Grounds.

San Francisco, July 9.-Mayor
Schmitz today authorized j. w. Lake
to lease sites in the vicinity of Mar
ket and Laguna streets, for the erec-
ton OF tents for the purpose of hous-
ing destitute families. The plan is to
provide homes for worthy people who
are able to pay small rentals, and re-
move them from relief camps. Lake
had been executing the plan on his
own responsibility.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
Cotton Mill Wages Raised.

Providence, r. l., July ALI cot
ton mill employees were granted a
raise in wages today. The advance
affects $4,000 cotton mill employees
and is graded according to the wages
the employees have been receiving.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
LETTER CONTAINED THREAT.
Demand on Chicago Italian for Three
Hundred Dollars.

Chicago, July 9.-Salvatore Soras-
ino, an employer of Italian laborers,
has received a letter declaring If he
does not pay $500 to members of a
society when accosted by man ask
ing for a cigar, he will be killed. The
letter is signed, "Fianca Della Neva.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
CONFERRING OVER THAW.
VIII Try TO Prove Him Guilty OF En-
ticinS Young Girls.

New oYrk, July "a number Of
attorneys visited Thaw this morning.
His wife remained over an hour.
Attorney Garvan was in conference
over an hour with DIR. Mcdonald, an
alienist employed by the prosecution.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
Solicitor Appointed.

Ovstrr Bay. July 9.-The president
has appointed Charles Earl as solici-
Tor in the department of commerce
and labor. He is at present attorney
in the department of justice.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
Investigating Life Insurance.

Trenton, n. j., July s.-The special
committee of the state senate ap-
pointed to investigate life insurance
in New Jersey, began a series of meet
ings in the senate chamber today.
Among those who will be called upon
to testify are David p. Fackler, actu-
airy of the Insurance department of
New York, and David o. Watkins.
state banking commissioner and the
presidents of several New Jersey in
surance companies. 1t is not suppos-
ed the irregularities disclosed will
equal the sensational exposures
brought about by the New York in
vestigation, but 1t is expected that
many needed reforms will be brought
about and legislation effected that will
provide for more close scrutiny of the
insurance companies doing business
within the state.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
Death OF Congressman Adams.

Chicago, July 9.-Congressman
Henry C. Adams of Wisconsin, died
at the Auditorium hotel this morn
ing.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09

Chicago, July 9.-Five persons in
different families were poisoned the
police say, by meats which the butch
ers say was brought from the stock
yards packers.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
Piano Warehouse Burned.

Cincinnati July 9.-The Woodman-
see piano warehouse was destroyed by
fire this morning. Loss, $4,000.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
BOARD OF TRADE WINS.
Ownership in Posted Quotations Re.
taincd i'm Other Cities,

st. Paul, July 9.-The United States
circuit court of appeals today upheld
an injunction against a Kansas City
firm, holding that the Chicago Board
of Trade does not lose the ownership
of quotations when posted on black
boards in other cities.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
Oil Hearing Postponed.

st. Louis, July 9.-The oil rate
hearing was resumed before the rail-
morning. and adjourned until July 10,
at Kansas City.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
THREE DAMAGE
SUITS BROUGHT
PendIeton and W. S. Byers
Made Defendants in The
Amount Of Sl2,621.
ACTIONS HAVE ORIGIN
IN THE RECENT FLOODS.

The Complaints Recite the History OF
the Byers Mill Race and the Levee,
and Gives the Alleged Cause for the
Flooding of the Business Part OF
Town and Residence Portion Con-
tiguOus to the Observation-Disclosures
Allese Negligence by Both Byers
and the City.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
Wife Murderer Executed.

Boston, July 9.-Half crazed with
fear, John Schidlofski was electro
cuted this morning in the Charlestown
prison. for uxoricide.
Fishing Schooner Lost.
Halifax, July s.-The fishing
schooner Stanley Joseph, captain
Isaac Ellis, was lost with all on board
In n Storm near the Grand Banks.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
GREAT FLOODS
IN CALIFORNIA
Believed The Central Portion is
Confronted With Most Dis
astrouS Flood in its History
RECLAIMED DISTRICTS
ARE RAPIDLY SUBMERGED

Some Portions Are Under Water for
the First Time i'm Their History
Two Islands Are Beneath Eight
Feet OF Surging Flood-The DAM
ages VIII Aggregate Millions OF
Dollars-Dredgcs and Piledrivers
Are Almost Helpless-High Waters
Are Coming From Upper Country.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
Furnished Copies of New Law.

The conference was apparently un-
pleasant to the packers. All were
gloomy at its close, and each carried
a copy of the new federal law, the
provisions of which it is believed, the
secretary made clear to them After
Wilson had gone a committee of pack
ers for the purpose announced Sc
cret meeting of the packers.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
Story of the Crime.

The man who goes out looking for
trouble usually meets 1t half way.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
FEEssaAL GRAND
AFTER STANDARD
Proving That the Standard
Company Profted by Re-
bates From the Lake Shore,
RAILROAD OFFICIALS
TESTIFY TO THE JURY

General Oil Trust Hearing by the
State of Missouri Resumed, But
Postponed Until July 10, at Kansas
City-New jersey Investigation In
to Life Insurance Began Today at
Trenton Roosevelt's Personal
Guard Fined $40 for Beating a Pho
tographer- Reporter at Oyster Bay
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09
Wilson Visits Packing Houses.

Chicago, July 9.-Secretary Wilson
visited the stockyards for personal
inspection today and conferred with
the representative packers. The pack
ers solicited the conference, which was
short. but lively. The secretary would
say little, saying his business was
merely to ascertain how many inspec-
tors were needed at each house to en-
force the new law. The packers re-
fuse to comment at all.
The packers are aggrleved because
Wilson criticized them for their
"grudging spirit of economy" before
visiting the plants.
Wilson suggested to the packers a
number of improvements.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-07-09

The season Of bargains Is always
here for the person who reads the
advertisements closely.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-04-18

hands, as the building is collapsing
and the fire is within half a block.
Fire in the vicinity of the Palace
and Grand hotels is rapidly approach
ing these buildings, and all present
indications are that they will fall a
prey to the flames within a half hour.
The Valencia hotel between 18th
and 18th streets, on Valencia street,
five story frame, toppled over into
the street burying many persons. Two
| houses on 14th street near Valencia,
were wrecked, killing two persons.
| The fire department houses were dam
aged so badly it was impossible to
| get out the fire apparatus. A lodging
house on Seventh street, between
Howard and Mission entirely collaps-
ed It is on fire and rs to so people
are believed to be buried in the fam
ing ruins.
At 22nd and Mission the dry goods
store of Lipman Bros. is on fire and
threatening the entire block.
At 18th and Valencia there is a ere
| vice in the street six feet wide. The
sidewalk is torn up, the street car
tracks badly twisted and traffic is at
a standstill
| Many persons are seen on the street
suffering from injuries.
The fire which has been raging in
the vicinity of Fourth and Stevens
streets has gotten beyond control and
| leaped to the Winchester roomfne
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-04-18
A Thousand Lives Lost.

Kansas City, Apr. (Bulletin)-
At 9:15 this morning the Postal Tele-
graph Company here received the
following information: 1t is reported
that thousand or more lives were
lost in the earthquake at San Fran
cisco. Both the Postal and Western
Union Telegraph buildings in that ci-
ty were destroyed. disastrous fire
is eating its way up the south side of
Market street, and at last accounts
was within three blocks of the Pal
ace Hotel. The water mains were
burst, and the fire department was alb
solutely helpless. Business was entire
ly suspended.