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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-24
Italian shoots in Crowd.

Santa Rosa, Aug. 24.-The entire
police force of this city aided by a
posse of deputy sheriffs, are today
seeking a strange Italian who last
night entered the ball room of a hotel
and shot ruthessly at the crowd of
dancers, wounding two. He escaped
from the crowd.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-24
American Delegate.

washington, Aug. 24.-Frank d,
of Philadelphia, has been
appointed by the state department
as the official representative of the
United States government at the In
ternational Commercial congress to
be held in Prague, Austria, next
month.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-24
CAPTAIN HAMS is
SHANINuNG OR CRAZY.

. New York, Aug. 22-Cap- I
tain Hams is either stark mad I
. or shamming. He seems to I
. have forgotten that he killed Z
. William Annis. A double Z
. watch has been placed in his Z
. cell. 1t is feared he will at q
. tempt suicide. He imagines Z
. that he must report at Fort Z
. Hamilton for duty. Z
. Yesterday he sent for his mil Z
. itary clothes, and when brought Z
. said: II have been waiting for Z
. you. You people seem not to Z
. understand that 1 have to report Z
. to Colonel Harris at noon to- Z
. day. So long; I'm off for the Z
. fort" He tried to leave and Z
. when restrained was furious. Z
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-24
Revolt Expected in Finland.

Helsingfors, Finland, Aug, "a
Russia in hurrying troops to Finland
in anticipation of a general revolt.
The mobilization is being done secret
ly. The early dissolution of the Fin
nish diet by the car is expected to
precipitate trouble.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-24
largest Brokerage Firm Quits.

Bnffalo, Aug. 24.-With a sign up
on the door to the offices at Meadows
Williams & Co., this morning an
nounced the suspension of the firm,
which is the largest brokerage house
in the city.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-24
SMOOTH FORGE:R
BEHIND THE BARS
Farm Hand With Half Dozen
Aliases Passed Bogus Paper
to Amount Of 500,
SEVERAL LOCAL STORES
WE'RE HIS VICTIMS.

Edward Wilson, John Thomas, Thom-
as Jones and w. Il. Wilson Are
Names Claimed by Criminal
Checks Were Signed by Name of w.
Il. Ruhcr, But Was Discovered 10
BE a Forgery Early Today-Bought
Goods and Took Good Money in
Change.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-24
NeDrO PhNSicians.

New York, Aug, 24.-Negro ply
sicians, dentists and pharmacists are
gathering in New York today for the
tenth annual session of the National
medical association, which will open
tomorrow.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-24
TURKS PROTEST AT
ENGLISH OFFICERS.

Constantinople Aug. "a .
. This city is in turmoil fol- .
lowing the arrest of several de- .
faulting officials of the old re- .
. for the loan of number .
ing hard time preventing the .
. mob from taking the prisoners .
. forcibly Most of the disorder .
. is due to the report that Turkey .
is negotiating with the English .
. for the loan of number Of .
. of English army officers to .
reorganize the Trukish army .
. to prevent the radicals from de- .
throning the sultan and pre- .
cipitatlng bloodshed. .
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-24
Rusher Identifies Man.

This afternoon w. e. Ruther ar
rived from Helix in response to a
telegram from the First National
bank telling Of the forgery. He iden-
titled Wilson as man who had been
working for him during harvest un-
der the name Of James Lethridge.
When the man quit work he, Ruth
er gave him a check which Lethridge
cashed at Helix with the assistance
OF H. Vogt, who endorsed 1t for him.
After coming to Pendleton the
crook wrote out the fictitious check
and remembering how Vogts name
had helped him cash the check at
Helix he made use of the name here
also.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-24

of age and is shrewd and educat
Though he has been working at har-
vesting this summer his writing
shows that he has been an office man
in the past To Charles Bond he said
he had worked in a Boise store for
nine years.
During the forenoon he had tele-
scope and in 1t had placed much Of
the merchandise he had bought This
afternoon he told Sheriff Taylor he
had left the telescope with "Scotty"
a: the Brewery saloon. However, 1t
was found he had not done so. The
prisoner has a shrewd, knowing man.
ner and when questioned by the sher>
if inquired if the safe was the sweat
box and asked to be put inside 1t.
When arrested the rorger had a
quart bottle OF whisky which was la
belled ginger ale. He had bought
this at one of the Main street soft
drink" stands and the contents of
the bottle helped lsome in loosening
his tongue.
During the forenoon Wilson was
travelling around some with a man
named Tharp from Heppner. but 1t is
said the two did not become acquaint-
ed until last Saturday evening. This
morning Tharp lost a $500 deposit
slip that had been given him by a
Heppner bank and 1t is suspected he
was robbed by the man who is now
in Jail. However, no money was Sc
cured on the slip.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-24
sun MURDERED
BRUTAL FATHER
Awful Crime is Unearthed
by Confession of the Aged
Mother.
BODY OF MURDERED
MAN IN A TRUNK.

Samuel }. RosenbloOm Shot by Son
While Beating His Wife-BOdy
Was Crowded Into a Trunk and
Then Sunk into the River-Mother
of the Murderer Finally COnfesses
Son Is Now Being Sought for the
Crime.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-24
FIVE KILLED IN
EUGENE WRECK
Engine Of Passenger Train
Struck a Cow and Turned
Turtle Beside the Track.
ENGINEER, FIREMAN AND
THREE TRANIPS DEAD.

Cottage Grove Local Wrecked Near
Eugene-COaches, Baggage Car and
Engine In the Ditcll-Seven Were
Injured In Passenger COaches-En.
gineer Nichols Horribly Scalded,
But Lived for Five Hours in Ter
rlble Agony.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-24
Prisoner Is Foxy

Wilson is a man of about 40 years
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-31
ACCOUNTABILITY OF EMPLoYE:
The Human Factor in the Movement
of Trains.
Nav York Tribune.

New York Tribune.
That no amount of care on the part of
the officials of any transportation company
can obviate the danger of accident without
the cooperation of employees is apparent
The best rules possible for human In
genuity TO devise are of no value If they
are not followed. and there is no reason
to question the accuracy of the deduction
OF the Public Service commission, Second
district, that OF the accidents on steam
railroads reported to that body "a large
proportion of those investigated have been
caused by the failure OF employees to obey
standard operating rules or special in
structions which were in force for the
safe movement OF rains. The cutlery now
ard then made for the conviction and
punishment Of the active manage OF a
TRANSFORMATION line after an exceptionally
distressing accident would therefore seem
infreauently to have little behind it.
It is a fact too we'll known for dispute
that constant association with any danger
tends TO lessen ones sense of responsible
ity in connection with 1t. The switchman
at the lever whose action at the proper
moment is necessary to preserve the lives
OF passengers becomes in time so accus-
toned to his work that his movements
are largely mechanical, and the task be-
comes little more 10 him than the mere
shifting OF rails. The engineer, although
he knows that in case of accident he Will
be the one most likely to suffer fatal in
Jury, may take chances which would be
too hazardous for contemplation by the
ordinary man, and the same condition
operates equally in every occupation In
volving danger either to the person him
self or to those who are dependent upor
him.
Among railroad men it is frequently re
marked that it is not the new employs
who is killed, but the one who has beef
working long enough to take chance
which would not be considered by tn
tyro. The chauffeur is more likely to rui
risks in speeding than the one unfamilla
with his car. II is the old story OF IA
miliarity breeding contempt, and witt
nature as Il is constituted. In face of tn
constant demand for speed, not only o.
the highways but on the railways an
the sea. there must inevitably be the ele
ment OF danger I'm any means Of transpoT
tation. This neoessitates the greatest vlgi
lance on the part OF the operating off
cials, and there is every reason to believ
that In an overwhelming majority OF case
the men In authority are keenly alive I
their responsibilities. The difficulty. a
would be indicated by the report OF tn
commission, is in the thousands of les
intelligent employees who must be pickle
I'D wherever they may be found. and in
trusted with duties involving a ments
aIertness 10 which they haVe not bee
| trained.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-31
Personal II

Two white rhinoceroses will be the object
of President Roosevelt's search in his hunt
ing trip in Africa, according to Major Ed
gar A. Mearns, who will him
on his journey.
1t is understood that Mr.. Francis f..
Leupp, the commissioners Of internal af-
fairs, who has resigned, will take UP lit
erary work. He was for many years a
Washington newspaper correspondent.
Policemen in Chicago are clamorlng for
an increase in pay, and Chief shippy has
recommended that salaries be raised to the
scale that New York pays, from S1,4OO for
patrolmen of long service to $500 for in
spectors. The increase would raise the DO
lice budget $4,000 a year.
A New York man who served as re-
ceiver for a looted bank has Just returned
to the creditors of the institution $4,000
which he says he got as receiver without
being fairly entitled to 1t. As soon as his
name can be learned he will doubtless be
expelled from the Receivers Union.
DR.. S. Weir Mitchell has presented to
the Home of the Merclful Saviour for
Crippled Children, in Philadelphia. as a
Christmas gift. the complete issue of his
book, "A Venture in 1777." The story is
laid in Philadelphia and centers around
the family of Colonel Markham of the
continental army, who was captured by
the British. In the preface the author
speaks of the home.
Horace z. Bixby, who. with his SO years,
is the Oldest pilot on the Mississippi, is
still at the wheel. For nearly so years he
has piloted crafts on the Mississippi. Ohio,
Missouri, Arkansas and Red rivers. He
served under Admiral Foote, who called
him the best pilot that he had ever seen.
Samuel L. Clemens Mark Twain) served
a full apprenticeship with General Blxby
and afterward piloted in the Ohio river
with his instructor.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-31
frALrs aREAr

The whole civilized world is APP
palled at the great calamity which has
been brought upon southern Italy by
a destructive earthquake.
Instead Of showing that the loss of
life and property indicated by the first
reports were exaggerated, later infor-
nation seems to disclose additional
devastation and greater fatalities than
originally estimated.
In the face OF such an awful vista
ton of nature no human ~preventives
or precautions can avail to ward on
the death-dealing blow, but relief and
rescue from further danger or ex-
posture become the immediate and
pressing task.
This work of relief and rescue is
already under way and, SO far as out
side help may be required, the philan-
thropic and humanitarian spirit of the
more favored people of the United
States may be counted On to assist.
The American National Red Gross
society has already opened subscrip-
ton lists, for the contributions to
which we bespeak liberal response.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-31
REAL RErnRMrRs Ar WoRk


The Young Turks, who are back OF
the administrative revolution in Tur-
key, have already started upon the
contamination of a program of real
reform that must occasion surprise
among the statesmen of other coun-
di~scounting the promises made and
have expected the change in the gov
eminent to result chiefly in a transfer
of the graft from the sultan to those
who have succeeded in getting control
away from him. The Young Turks
have evidently been considering their
plans for years and are o proceed
ing to put them into effect with a
vigor and promptness that are rare in
the lazy east.
Under the old regime the sultan
grew rich year by year, spent millions
and boarded others, while the re-
sources of the empire we're neglected.
The Young Turks have already in
augurated an immense scheme for the
irrigation of the valleys Of the Tigris
and E~uphrates. These vast plains,
with an area five times as great as the
fertile valley OF the Nile. have lain
waste for centuries. although there
are still traces OF the irrigation bitches
used in biblical days. Is is estimated
that the region may be brought under
cultivation and made fertile again at
a very small expense, bringing pros
perity to a section OF the empire whose
residents are now miserably poor.
The funds of the empire are at low
ebb and the Young Turks have deter
mined not only to reduce expenses, but
to also ascertain where the sultan got
his millions and how much of this
saving belongs to the people. The sui
tan is credited with having a fortune
of 1870 1000, 900, and the reformers
are asking how he got 1t and want 1t
restored IL found to have been d.
verted from the public treasury TO the
sultan's private purse, as is generally
believed. The new leaders have al
ready begun looping of expenditures
by reducing the sultan's list of per-
sonal physicians from $50 to eight
and by cutting his staff of colonies
from 500 to thirty. The sultan also
maintained at government expense an
army of spies, almost as costly as the
support OF the Turkish army. These
have been dismissed from the service,
and it is estimated hat the changes
already made will result in a saving
of several millions annually to the
government and the taxpayers.
The discharged officials, thousands
in number, are naturally talking Of a
counter-revolution, but the taxpayers
are lending such loyal support to the
plans of the Young Turks that the out
look is for permanency in the re-
forms, with the consequent introduc-
ton of Turkey into the list of modern,
progressive nations,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-31
CHEAP TALK.

Talk has always been proverbially
cheap, but the prospects are that In
Omaha talk will be cheaper yet. This
line of cheap talk is not to be confined
to the hot air variety, nor yet to the
political o~ratory which on occasions is
to be had without price of admission,
nor yet to the curtain lecture, ordi-
narily pulled off behind closed family
doors, but II is to be provided by a
January clearance sale at SO per cent
off for telephone communication by
the automatic route.
In this particular instance talk is
becoming cheaper because the State
Railway commission, which has been
given Jurisdiction over voice traffic as
we'll as passenger trafAc, insists that
the free pass must 60, whether in the
form of free trial telephone service or
free corporal transportation. In vim
dication of Nebraska's motto, Equal
ity before the law" If anyone is to
talk for nothing, everyone must talk
for nothing; and If anyone must pay
to talk, everyone must pay on the
same scale.
The only question yet to develop is
whether the reduced tariff on talk is
to be general or merely local, and
whether the people who would not
talk for nothing when trial telephone
service was offered will now pay for
the privilege under the allurement of
bargain figures.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-31
Extraordinary Backing.
Atlanta Constitution.

Atlanta CONSTITUTION.
There can be no long-felt or deeply seri-
Gus depression from financial panic in a
country whose agricultural production Is
increasing at the rate of 3SOO,0OO,0OO a year.
Nearly 5000. ooO,O 900 of new wealth was
brought up out of the ground in the year
just coming to a close, or $50 per capita on
a basis of 100, 900 population-an increase
of more than a third of a billion over the
soil production of 1907. These are farm
values based on prices paid the producer,
and the increase has come despite the
fact that cotton and hay, the second and
third crops in Importance, measured by
aggregate value, have experienced a heavy
slump in price as compared with the prices
prevalent a year ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-31

in the necessity of restoring to direct tax
alton for a large part of their revenue.
and secondly, in the fruitfulness Of rev.
enue from the tax on corporations. Penn
sylvania has been something of a pioneer
In this latter method of state taxation, and
most other states have followed her lead.
New Jerseys bondless position Is pre-em-
inently the result of the liberal income
from taxes on corporations.
AS this source of revenue for the state
treasury increases, the tendency Is to give
to county and other local units of taxation
the field for direct imports. The corpora
ton has thus come to be the greatest con-
tributor to the income of states and has
enabled the local municipal units to retain
their own revenues to an extent which was
not possible before the rise of the corpora
tlon,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-31
UNFOLDING the Country's Faith.
st. Louis Times.

Roosevelt shows one of his many sides
in his attitude toward the Hartman Salton
Sea claim. When the Southern Pacific
and the government agreed upon a plan to
divert the Colorado river back to its old
course, it was understood that the nation
would pay a share OF the cost. A hitch has
occurred. Now comes the president with
threats of another message unless the claim
is settled. The fact that he and Hartman
are not on writing terms has nothing to do
with it; the president is standing by his
word and the country's faith.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-31
TO PREVENT INVITATIONS.

Congressman Hull of Iowa has Of
fered a bill in congress making 1t a
misdemeanor to manufacture for sale
or transportation in this country "imi-
tated articles of commerce unless such
articles are so made as to show the
exact materials used in making" The
bill is a lengthy one and so broad in
it's scope as to apply to every article
of recognized as a subject
OF transportation and sale under the
rules of the Interstate Commerce COM
mission. Foods, clothing, furniture
and all articles of domestic use would
come under the provisions of the
measure.
The bill furnishes another illustra-
ton Of the distorted ideas of enforcing
pure food and anti-imitation laws, by
confusing trademarks with terms that
have become recognized as standards.
The best French peas in the world are
raised in this country, just as the rich
est English mutton chops are fur
nished by Montana-grown sheep and
the finest Scotch whisky is made at
Peoria. Pittsburg makes a French
plate glass that is admittedly superior
to the imported article and the New
England wooden mills turn out Eng
lish, Scotch and Canadian tweeds that
can not be equalled anywhere. The
Turks are said to get most of their
Turkish cigarettes from this country
and the finest Havana cigars are made
in New York.
The is entitled to protec-
ton against fraudulent attempts at
trafhcking upon an established reputa-
ton and is assured of this protection
under the trademark and copyright
laws, but there Is no occasion for at
tempting to punish manufacturers for
putting articles IN the market under
a designation that simply insures its
standard, so long as the article carries
full value and no deception is prsc-
tieed in its sale.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-31
Cabinet
Pittsburg Post.

Almost anybody who reads the news
papers can sit down with a paper and pen
Gil and build a cabinet for the next presi-
dent of the United States. All that is re-
quired is a knowledge of people who bulk
large in their various professions and con-
sideration of those who. like F. II. Hitch
cock, have performed notable services for
the party, such as running a steam roller
Cabinet making for persons who have moth
ing else to do is almost as interesting as fit
ting together one of those cardboard
puzzles. Among the nine cabinet offices 1t
is almost impossible not to guess at least
one, and so every person who has nothing
else to do is making his little guess. Quite
a harmless occupation, assuredly.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-31
THE NATIONS NAVAL RATING.

The Navy Year Book" compiled
by the clerk of the senate committee
on naval affairs, gives the United
States second place among sea powers,
being second only to Great Britain.
The classification will cause much dis
cussion, as the author of the book
makes the rating by considering only
the number and displacement of
armored ships, and it may be argued
with much force that many other ele-
ments enter into the power of a navy
which. II considered, would probably
rank the United States third or even
fourth in the list of naval powers.
The strength of the navy does not
depend upon the number Of battle
ships nor the amount of m carried,
but must be based on the ships, their
guns, GOLFERS, number of men and
their experience, together with def
mite adherence to a program of de-
velopment and a fixed policy OF naval
construction. On this score the rating
of the United States is far from high
as each congress makes or mars the
plans of the naval chiefs and may al
any time adopt a course that would
reduce the American a v down the
list.
AS il stands today. our navy II
doubtless equipped to meet any
emergency that may arise requiring
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-31
STATES WITHOUT DEBTS.
commemorative that Have Not MORT
gagged Future.
Wall Street Journal.

wa % SoAA
Pennsylvania enjoys the distinction of be-
ing out of debt. Although not standing
alone in this respect among the states, It
is worthy Of mention in an era when pub
lie indebtedness in national and municipal
lines is piling up at a rate which creates
a sense OF m%isgiving in the minds OF many
conservative people.
There are ten or more states whose rec
ords show an absence OF bonded debt.
These include Illinois. Iowa, Michigan.
Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio.
Oregon and West Virginia. The last named
state has, however. outstanding against It
undermined claims of some millions OF dol
lars I'm connection with the Virginia debt.
There are fifteen other states which, ac-
eording to the latest available figures. have
a benefit debt OF less than 100000.
Two main reasons for conservatism in
debt creation by states and for their sue
cess in meeting obligations are found. first
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-31

1t has been discovered that the pri-
vate secretary to the new governor of
Nebraska went through an apprentice
ship as a newspaper reporter in Grip
pie Creek in its boom period. That
ought to equip him thoroughly to sift
out the bomb throwers and pistol
toters from among the throngs that
penetrate to the outer walls of the ex-
ecutive ONCE.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-31

There are other legislatures besides
Nebraska's in which the democrats
have majorities. Mr.. Bryan might
try to persuade the democratic legis-
latures In Colorado, Indiana, Missouri
and the states constituting the solid
South to shear the speaker of his COM
mittee appointments, If a powerless
speaker is good for Nebraska, why not
for the other democratic law-making
bodies?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-31

its service in actual war. what lie yet
required is that congress should es-
tablish a fixed program Of %appropris-
tions from year to year that will main
tain the present standard and EN-
cheney. There should be no extrava-
gance at one session to be onset by
pa rsimony at the next.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-31
Our Paciac Naval Base
Philadelphia Bulletin.

IHIIdUSIpIHd buIIVNIH'
Four hundred marines are going as a
garrison to Hawaii, where extensive work
in building Notifications and creating a
great dry dock and supply station is under
way. The government seems at length to be
waking up to the fact that this archipelago
needs development and protection. Five
per cent of the money that has been spent
on the Philippines would have made Hawaii
an impregnable naval base, whose value
to the Pacific coast would have been
enormous for many generations.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-31

The London News tells how Carrie
Nation pointed her finger at a Dundee
%barkeeper and told him that he sold
poison and was a naughty man. Is 1t
possible that Carrie is qualifying for
admission to the M~ollycoddle clubP