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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-04-09
DUNNIGAN DECLARED MAD.
Man Who Shot His Son and Maitreat-
cd Eap1iIu MJiII Co RI AevI,,o,

ed Family Will Go to Asylum.
Black River Falls. Wis, April 4
Thomas Dunnigan the Irving farmer
charged with shooting his son and
maltreating his family, was examined
here relative to his sanity by Drs.
Cole and Krohn. He was adiudged
insane and will be taken to the Men
dota asylum. The wounded boy prob
ably will recover.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-04-09
FARMER AND TEAM KILLED.

Error in Judgment Causes Frightfu
Accident Near Albany, Mimi.
Melrose, Mimi, April A farmer
named Wessler was struck by east
bound passenger Great Northern train
No u near Albany and thrown 300
feet and almost instantly killed. He
had whipped up his horses to cross
ahead of the train and was struck by
the engine and was before he could
clear the track Both of his horses
were killed
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-04-09
ST. CLOUD ELECTS LID MAYOR.
Huah Evans Beats Present Incumbent
bv Over 400.

ST. Cloud, Mimi, April 8.-The lid
was the main issue in hot city cam
naign which ended yesterday in the
election of Hugh Evans (Rep) as
MAYOR by a majority of more than 400
over Louis Brown, the present in
cumhent The vote was the heaviest
ever cast in a city election. Mr.,
Evans. is a wholesale grocer.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-04-09
LAUDANUM CAN'T KILL TOT.
Feels No III Effects, Though Draining
Bottle Containing Drug.

Chippewa Falls. Wis, April 8.-Al-
though he drank enough laudanum to
kill two men under ordinary circum-
stances. the twO-year old son of VIE
liam Greech, at Chetek, is alive and
experiences no i'll effects from the
dose. The child drank the contents
of a bottle of the poison while the
mother was absent from the room.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-04-09

-.
escape from being run over by an
Omaha passenger train near Chlppe-
wa Falls She was lying asleep only
three inches from the track when the
train passed, and the trains rumbling
did not awake her. She stated she
had been exhausted in walking from
Milwaukee to Superior anc laid down
to rest not knowing a train was due.
John Ringwood cashier of the John
Schroeder Lumber company, fred
twice at a burglar who entered MS
home at Ashland recently, and is
thought TO have wounded him, al
though the man has not been caugF
c. J. CrilIey of Milwaukee
awarded the contract for the COZ
tion of ditch in the town of Z.
at IL IL cents of cubic yard
contract calls for 1890 cubic va
of earth. The ditch will be four al
half miles long, fourteen feet wide
at the TOP and four feet wide at the
bottom and FIVE feet deep.
On account of a lack of funds,
tion on the resolution providing
the designation Of a system OF co
HIGHWAYS and the election of co
highway commissioner was defel
until November by the board of supe
visors of La Crosse county.
Thomas Dunnigan, a farmer livir
few miles west of Black River Fal
was lodged in Jail, charged wis
shooting his son, sixteen years old,
and beating his wife. 1t is reported
that insanity is the cause. The boy IL
shot through the hips, but probably
not fatally.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20

San Francisco, Jan. 20.-Japanese
spies have been dogging the move
ments of Lieutenant James II. Wal
ker all the way from Japan to Amer
lea. While in San Francisco. even
this officer declares he was made the
victim OF Jap espionage.
|. Walker is returning to Washington
from a trip over the far east. The
Japanese evidently believed ne was
either a spy or a bearer of important
information and dispatches for per-
sons whom they wished to discover.
They picked up his trail, logged
him through Japan, into Manchuria
and the Chinese ports They took
berths on the same steamer, follow
ed him to his hotel in this city and
are supposed to have gone east with
him.
Walker had been invest eating the
reputed part of japanese in stirring
up the anti-American feeling which
caused the boycott in China. His re-
port is such that Japan would give
much to have a copy of it. This caus-
ed the spies to follow Walker in
hopes of securing copy in some
manner.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20
PROSECUREs HIS SON.
Youth Steals $50 From Father and
latter VIII Let Law Take Its

course.
The spectacle OF father offering
to prosecute his son for larceny has
been been presented here today and
whether or not to indict the boy is
one Of the problems facing the grand
jury.
Yesterday afternoon Henry Cour-
ter, the son, and two friends, Joe and
Frank Hildebrand, were arrested by
the police and they are now all three
in the county jail. Courier lives
with his parents at the Tom Means
house on West Alta street and he is
charged with having stolen $50 from
a purse under his fathers bed. Ac-
cording to the story the young man
then divided the money equally be-
tween the two Hildebrands and him
self. Later ,one of the brothers,
Frank Hildebrand, gave his $40 back
but the other brother proceeded to
make other use of his $40.
According to the story Of Courter's
father as given, the police, his son
works for good wages in the summer
time but has to be supported during
the winter season. He says he has
become tired of such shiftlessness
and is ready to see the law take its
course with the boy.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20

After having played a prominent
part in the national woolgrowers'
convention at Helena, the Oregon
delegation returned home yesterday
morning. Since their return the
sheepmen have been unanimous in
declaring the meeting a most sue
cessful one and none are sorry they
attended.
Owing to the size of the Oregon
character df the men composing IL,
the delegation was listened to with
much respect and individual MEM
bers we're honored. Dan P. Smythe
served upon the resolutions commit
tee. perhaps the most important one
of the meet ng. and was also the
choice of several delegations for vice
president of the national association.
However, he declined to run in favor
of ]. n. Burgess, who was put for
ward for vice president by the local
delegation.
VIII Fight Burket Bill.
According to the returning sheep
men the vital topic before the con-
venton was the Burket bill, the ad-
ministration measure now before
congress. The measure provides for
the leasing of government land, out
side the forest reserves, and for the
regulation Of the same much after
the manner of the forest reserves.
The convention was almost unani-
mously opposed to the bill and ar
rangements were made to fight the
measure earnestly. A fund of SlO,-
600 was raised within a few minutes
and a strong lobby will be sent to-
Washington to lay the woolgrowers'
side of the case before the congress-
men.
Under the Burket bill as now
amended. the sheep business would
be simply put out of commission, so
the growers fear, and consequently
they are ready to make the fight
their lives against the bill. Should
the public domain be placed under
federal regulation as the forest re-
serves now are, the sheepmen declare
countless trouble would be forced up
on them and many would simply have
to quit business.
The provision Of the bill providing
for the leasing of the range is re-
garded favorably by many, but since
the bill has been amended so as TO
place the range under control of
range riders, similar to forest reserve
rangers, they all oppose the meas
ure.
That they enjoyed the trip to Mon
tana immensely and were most cour-
teously treated everywhere is de-
clared by the members of the Ore
gon delegation.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20
|RUEF'S LAST HOPE .
HAS DEPARTED
LANGDON WILL PROCEED AT
ONCE AGAINST EX-BOSS
Positive Assurance Given That the
Case Will BE Pushed at Once and
That All Chances for Immunity
Have Faded-Ruef Appears BrOk-
en- and Sullen-Like an Entrapped
Rat He Whines Out Plea for Con-
tinuance.

San Francisco, Jan. 20.-Sullen
his eyes bloodshot, his lips drawn
back over his cleaning teeth, Abe
Ruef, fighting at last like an en-
trapped rat, whined out his plea for
a continuance this morning when his
case was called in judge Lawlor's
court.
Ruef. at last, appears to feel that
his hour has struck. Dominant, dap
per, smiling. optimistic Ruef is but
a memory. Now it is Ruef the bent
and haggard.
His last hope departed Sunday
when he received positive assurances
from Langdon that the prosecution
would proceed against him and that
all his hopes for immunity complete
or partial, had failed.
Ruef, it is said, begged and wept,
but it was of no avail. Ruef will
have to again face trial and this time
1. will be fight to the bitter end.
George Keane represented the
broken boss before Judge Lawlor.
He demanded a continuance for three
weeks in order that Ruef might con-
suit his attorneys and perfect his de-
fense
Lawlor gave him until Wednesday
but intimated that more time might
then be granted. In making his plea
for time Keane attacked the prosecu-
tion charging them with bad faith to-
wards Ruef in trying him at all.
LaHgdon denied breaking any agree
emnt with the ex-boss.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20
MINISTER FLAYS
APPELLATE COURT
CLASSES ACTION OF JUDGES
WITH FIRE AND PLAGUE
Rev. p. G. Mcfarland Fearlessly and
Unmercifully OenOunces the Men
Whose Decision May Liberate
Schmitz--Declares the People VIII
Remember Them With the Earth
quake, the Fire and the BubOnic
Plague-Survived These, We Can
Survive Them.

Alameda. Calf, Jan. 20.-Before
his congregation at the First Chris
tian church last night Rev. p c..
MacFarland numerically denounced
the appellate court for its decision in
the Schmitz case.
"A decision which leads hope to
criminals and which puts mill
stone about the neck of civic virtue
must be had. Justices Hail. Kerri-
gan and Cooper have won for them
selves place in history. We shall
remember them as we remember the
earthquake. the fire and the bubonic
plague. AS we have survived all
these, doubtless we shall survive
them and their decision"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20

"When / screamed White told me
not to worry" said the palefaced
witness.
"He told me not to tell my mother
Of what had happened. He said II
was a part of life"
The stiffness of the court room was
broken by choked sobs of the defend
ant.
Thaw, during the entire recital
had leaned forward in his chair, his
dog like eyes following every gesture
Of the witness, his face pale and
strained. At the climax his head
fell upon his arms and he cried out
in his agony.
The witness told Of the effect of
her story on Thaw when she first
told him.
Harry paced the floor" she said,
"wringlng his hands, pulling his hair,
biting his nails. He said White had
ruined his life as we'll as mine"
Evelyn is emitting many of the de-
tails of the story as she told 1t last
year.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20

New York, Jan. 20.-For the sec
ond time in her strangely checkered,
passion-tossed career, fragile Evelyn
Thaw took the witness stand in her
husbands defense today and told the
story of her abasement
It was much the same-story- that
she told a year ago. Perhaps it lost
bit by its retelling, In spots the
keen dramatic effect of the woman's
recital was lost by the knowledge
of the sordid sequel up to which she
was working, but in ALL it will re-
main for years, as it has stood since
its first utterance, the most stagger
ing story of refined human BRITISH
ness that has ever been cast into
Justices scales in an effort to tip
the balance.
1t is a story that the types must
refuse to print 1t is one that is fit
ter to be hidden in the musty rec
ords of the legal files than shouted
from the housetops so that all my
hear.
1t Is story that a clean man does
not care to hear, but hearing, makes
him cl'nch his fist and wonder that
such hideous inhumanity can be.
Jerome did not allow Mrs. Thaw
to tell the tale without contention.
Obstacle after obstacle was thrown
up by the state. Time after time his
swift objection plunged into the
sweep of her narrative like a bullet
had struck her, for the nonce. dumb
But In the end Littleton. like Del
mas before him, was victorious. The
court ruled with the defense, and
chatting like an uneasy animal, a
cynical sneer upon his lip. constant
ly on the alert for an opportunity to
protest the district attorney was
compelled to hear Evelyn Thaw lay
bear her life In order that her hus-
band might cheat the electric chair.
Outlining the first details of her
meeting with White she told of TAX
ing dinner with White in his apart
ments, Of how her mother was in
Pittsburg at Whites suggestion and
his expense
Then she told OF coming to Whites
apartments the next night for an
other dinner White was alone, but
the table was laid for four.
She told of Whites suggestion that
she examine his apartments, OF
reaching the famous mirror bed room
and of his offer and her final accept
ance Of the glass of wine.
She lost consciousness, she said,
When she awoke her cothing had
been removed. HWWV
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20
FAVORABLE REPORT IS MADE ON NEW
FEDERAL DISTRICT

A special to the East Oregonian
this afternoon says that the Fulton
bill creating two federal districts in
oregon. with the Cascade mountains
as the dividing line and Baker City
to be the seat of the east Oregon dis
trict, has been favorably reported to
senate by the judiciary committee.
Fulton endeavored to have the ses-
sion of court held at Pendleton once
each year, but owing to the extra ex-
pense Of such a plan the committee
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20

the most energetic threchermen ever
to operate here.
firing Of the business after so
many years of continuous service, he
Will not run machine again, but
will live on a small farm which he
owns on the river west OF the city.
At his public sale which will be
conducted at the Hill ranch four
miles west of the city, he will sell his
threshing machine, 10 head OF work
horses, farming implements and other
farm property, Sol Williams Yohn-
ka, of Rft2ville, WASH, will act as
auctioneer for Mr.. Snyder.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20
ANOTHER SEEKER FOR NORTH
Captain Amundsen Says He VIII
Start in 191O-Says Wellman's
Chances Are Slim.

Milwaukee. Jan. 2O.-Captain Ra-
old Amundsen, the intrepid Norwe-
gian explorer. today announced that
he will make a trip for the pole in
1910, that the trip would be one a
different route but on the same line
as Nansen's and that he did not think
that Wellman stood any chance with
his airship in ever. solving the mys-
terry of the north.
'The atmospheric conditions are
such as to make Wellman's airship
expedition almost impossible" he
said. "He has not one chance in a
thousand.
Il shall make my start in 1910
from San Francisco and will work
north through Behring Straits. 1
will receive no aid from the Norwe-
gian government"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20
Porter, V. Strobe, L. L. Rogers and
j. Guderian.
POLICE HUNT TO RANARCHIsr.

Think F'edher's Story OF Plot 20 Blow
Up Battleship Is Pigment OF Fertile
Brain.
Rio Janeiro, Jan. 2O.-The police
are still searching for Jean Fed
her, the anarchist who is alleged to
have been mainly implicated In the
plot to blow up an American battle
ship now in the harbor.
His capture is expected at any mo-
ment and with his arrest It is believ-
ed several suspects will also be TAX
en- into custody. The New York po-
lice declare their belief that the al
legged plot is a mere flgment of Fed
hers brain and that he told the story
merely to gain notoriety.
No Orders Issued TO Hurry.
Washington, Jan. 20.-No orders
have been issued by Rear Admiral
Pillsbury ordering the fleet to hurry
its departure from Rio de Janeiro.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20
RET|RES AFTER 50 YEARS AS THREsH|NG
MACHINE Man

After a career of SS years as a
threshing machine man, Joe Snyder.
the pioneer who resides four miles
west of Pendleton on the Umatilla
river, will seh his threshers, horses
and farming implements at public
auction on Friday, February s. and
will permanently retire from the
business.
For the past eight years Mr.. Sny-
der has operated threshing machine
n Umatilla county each year, making
perhaps the longest runs of any ma
chine in most of that time and is
known all over the county as one Of
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20
Umatilla Men Initiated.

Four Umatilla county men were
among those initiated into AL Kader
temple of the Mystic Shrine on Sat-
urday night at Portland. They were
Elmer Snyder of this city and Ralph
Stanfleld, Otis McCarty and Allen
Thompson of Echo. A class of so
from different parts OF the state
was initiated into the Mystic Shrine at
that time.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20
Convicted Briber Dangerously Ill

San Francisco, Jan. 2O.-Louis
Glass, vice president and general
manager of the Pacific States Tele-
phone company, convicted of bribery
and sentenced to five years in San
Quentin, has been removed from the
county Jail to Lane hospital, where
he is lying very dangerously i'll with
pneumonia.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20
Frenchman Says War Is Inevitable

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New York, Jan. 2O.-Alexander
Ulnar, the eminent French journal
list of LPetite Journal, which has
daily circulation of 1,250,00O, de-
clares that war between the United
States and Japan is certain.
WAR between United States and
Japan is inevitable. 1 do not know
how soon, but It cannot be averted.
at will not be long delayed. II
will be a bitter struggle and in the
end the United States would win. but
not until there has been much blood
shed, treasure lost and much suffer-
ing undergone.
"You see the United States cannot
begin to make preparations of any
magnitude for the war. The moment
that Japan becomes alarmed at the
extent of Americas preparations for
the conflict she will declare war"
Ulnar returned from Washington
today, where he had a long confer
ence with Roosevelt
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20
Rows Arm Is Broken.

This forenoon the little son of John
Barley. who lives on the Rugg ranch
above town. fell from a porch and
broke his arm. The injured boy is
about 10 years of age and fell in
such a way as to break both bones
in his arm He was attended by DR..
w, G., Cole.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20
HALL-MAYs CASE.
Former EmplOye of Butte Creek
Company Tells OF Easy Way He
Made Money.

Portland, Jan. 20.-Irwin wilkes
a former employe OF the Butte Creek
Land & Livestock company, was the
only witness this morning in the
Hall-Mays case. He testified that
while he worked for the Butte Creek
concern it was suggested to him that
II he took up a claim and secured fl
nal papers, the company would pay
him 5000 for 1t. All Improvement
work on the claim to be done by the
company. He did so and got the
money. He declared that the $500
was paid him by II. Hendricks. Hend-
ricks is a co-defendant in this case.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20

turned II down and Baker was named
as the regular location for the court
Congressman Ellis will introduce a
measure in the house making Pende-
ton the Deat OF the federal court and
1t is thought that owing to the enor-
nous business originating on the
Umatilla Indian reservation that the
Ellis bill will prevail. 1t is thought
Congressman Ellis can make a show
ing sufficient to change the senate
bill to make Pendleton the seat Of the
court.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20
School Examinations This Week.

Examinations for the close of the
first term OF public schools will be
held in all the buildings this week.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20
EVELYN TELLING
HER STORY AGAIN
Worst Recital Of HideouS In
humanity Ever Cast in JUS
tiCe'S Scales.
A WIFE's TRAGIC ABASESIENT
FOR HER HUSBANDS LIFE

For Second Time I'm Checkered and
Passion Tossed Career, the Fragile
Wife OF Harry X. Thaw Tells the
Story That the Types Must Refuse
to Print and That Is Filter Hidden
I'm the Musty Legal Files Than
Cried from the HOusetOps in an
Effort to Tip the Scales OF Justice.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20
Edmund G. steadman.

Edmund C. Steadman, banker,
newspaper man. poet. critic, broker
and good fellow, died at his home in
New York Saturday night at the age
of 75. Steadman has produced a
number of volumes of poems in late
years.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20
POTLATCH COMPANY SELLS.

UmatilIa Lumber Company Takes
Over Stock and Business I'm This
City.
The Potlatch Lumber company.
which has conducted a large lumber
yard in this city for the past two
years. has just sold its stock and busi-
ness to the Umatilla Lumber COM
pany and will withdraw from the
field here.
G. H. Probett, who has been man.
ager for the Potlatch company here,
has purchased an interest in the new
company and will be manager for
that company.
The new company starts out with
the promise of a good patronage and
solicits a share Of the trade.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20
TWO CENT FARE LAW is
UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

Philadelphia, Jan. 2O.-To-
day the state supreme court
declared an undivided opinion
that the cent rate law was
unconstitutional Immediate
ly after the decision, the Penn
sylvania Railway announced
that 1t would resume the old
passenger schedule.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20

London. Jan. 20-The report that
Admiral Arthur Moore has been or
dered home from the China station
was practically confirmed today. He
is expected to take command of the
channel fleet when Beresford resigns.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20
PERARD CASE IS
HEARD BY JURY
Sheepman on Trial for Theft
Of Sheep and Altering the
Brands.
HEAVY SENTENCES FOR
PAYNE AND KELLY.

Boys Get Three Years I'm Penltentlary
for Robbing Drunken Man
Judge Also Adds Lecture TO Sem
tence-Walter Davis Pleads Not
Guilty - Shull Loses License and
Draws Heavy Fine-Wlllie Hosllns
Fined $50 and Costs.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20

Discuss Fertilization of Coos Bay.
Portland. Jan. 20.-The defense OF
the Coos Bay country will be the sub
ject of conference between the
board Of United States army engin-
GERS and Captain Walter Lyon, Of
Coos bay, and the delegates from the
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20

Kaiser TO Corfu for His Health.
Berlin, Jan. 2O.-The kaiser is con-
templating a trip to Corfu for his
health.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20

The residents of North Yakima are
rebelling at the high prices charged
by the laundry firms.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20
EAGLESON'S REQUEST
WILL NOT BE GRANTED.

. washington, Jan. 2O.-The
. resignation of Surveyor Gem
Q eral Eagleson of Idaho, reach
. ed here today. His request to
. remain during the balance of
. the term will probably not be
. granted. A further conference
. Of senator's is to be held.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20
JAP SPIES DOG
OFFICERS STEPS
Lieutenant Walker Had a Re-
port Which They Hoped to
Secure.
HIS EVERY MOVEMENT
FOLLOWED ON LONG JOURNEY

Walker Was Sent by U. S. Gov
ernment TO Investigate Part Jap
anese Had in Stirring Up Anti
American Feeling Which Caused
the Boycott I'm China-Spies Pick
ed Up His Trail, DOgged Him
Through Japan Into Manchuria
and Chinese Ports.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20
WILL FIGHT THG
BURKET MEASURE
WoOImen Raise Big Fund to
Advance Their Interests Be-
fore Congress.
OREGON DELEGATION is
PLEASED WITH CONVENTION:

Return Home With Happy Memories
and Some HOnOrS-WOOlmen VIII
Go After Burket Bill Which Seeks
to Place Government Grazing Land
on Regulations Similar to the For
est Reserve-DecIare This Bill VIII
Completely Kill the Business.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-20

Rain or snow tonight or Tuesday;
cooler
Sunrise, 1925; sunset, 1859.