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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-16
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While playing around a bonfire at
Anaconda, Mont, Monday. Pearl. the
S-year-old daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph RefSness, was burned to death
by her clothing taking fire.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-16

Phil Metschan, jr., was a passenger
last evening for North Powder where
he IL looking after busines affairs.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-16
LA GRANDE BANK
COMPLETE WRECK
Jefferson W, SCriberD Cashier,
Arrested on Charge Of En-
bezzIement.
U. S. COMMISSIONER HALEY
WILL FIX HIS BAIL

Specific Charge Is EmbeZzlement OF
2.525.35-UndersgOO That Cash.
Ter Has Practically Admitted the
Tbeft-Financial Difficulties Re-
gan Years AgO-Dlscovery Of FOrg-
cd Note Lead to Sensational Auto
mobile Race and Revelations.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-16
Greeks in a Riot.

More than half dozen Greeks
were placed under arrest tody be.
tween Elgin and the Looking Glass.
on a charge of precipitating and car
rying out riot, says the La Grande
Observer The affair took place Fri
day, but the complaint was not made
out until Saturday and the arrests
were to be made today.
TIL riot had true color, for clubs and
guns played important parts in the
demonstration, though it is said no
shots were fired. The laborers are
working under a sub-contractor NAM
ed Hamilton, also a Greek. and Fri
day afternoon they became angered
at something They carried their an
ger into action and the sug-contractor
had considerable difficulty in escap-
ing unharmed
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-16
ANOTHER BOY HUNTER
ACCIDENTALLY KILLED

Spokane, Wash, oct 16.-Clifton
Warner, aged II, is the latest victim
of a hunting trip.
Accompanied by companions he
was standing on log in the vicinity
Of his home near Colville, yesterday,
when he slipped. An instant later a
cartridge in Warmers rifle exploded
and he fell, exclaiming, Boys, I'm
shot"
The bullet pierced his heart, kill
ing him almost instantly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-01-14
NEW YORK.


Rather more than usual post holiday
quiet is reported in general trade and in
dustry, but the financial situation shows
continued betterment Reduction sales
stimulate retail trade at some cities, tut
mild weather limits seasonable distribu-
ton at the Northwest. while holding of
cotton affects retail trade and collections
at the South. Money is more easily OBJ
talnable for business purposes at large
centers.
Business in dry goods and clothing is
light. as whole. but the tone Of that
trade is more confident than a month
ago. The leather trade is quiet. with sole
leather stocks small, owing to eurtailment
Of output but stocks of hides are large.
The wholesalers are not buying freely,
out the per cent reduction in 1907 ship
ments would indicate that stocks are not
heavy.
Business failures for the week ending
JAM number 345, against 24S last week,
1S5 in the like week of 1907, 220 in
1906. 27S in 1905 and 262 in 1904 In
Canada failures for the week number "a.
as against 80 last week and 16 in this
week a year ago.--Bradstreet Report
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-01-14
CHICAGO

The HOLIDAYS brought the usual easing
on IN buslnesS activity, but the new year
opened up with the general indications
more clearly defined aud encoura giny.
Clearance sales in the leading retail lines
reflect no special pressure in tbs offerings.
particularly of heavyweight apparel. ana
the buying is satisfactory. Wholesale
branches have hurried inventories and
pre- pared for departure of road statesmen.
Some manufacturers took more time for
necessary repairs TO machinery, and the
number of hands made idle increased bur
assumptions next week will bring relief
TO the temporary depression in iron and
steel.
The annual stock taking thus far dis
closes snug conditions in both producing
and distributive trades, there being fair
profit results and no serious overaccumu-
lation of products.
January disbursements in dividends and
interest are exceptionally large, and there
IS more effort to obtain better circulation
of currency and further loosening of the
stringency. Mercantile collections in the
West remain slow and assistance is not
infrequently needed to tide over diffi-
culties. yet the default record for this dis
trict exhibits no discouraging increase in
numbers.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number Is. against 30 last week and
~ year ago. Those with liabilities over
$4,000 number only l. against Z last week
and in 1901-Dun'S Review.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-01-14
| FACTS ABOUT -:
=: THE CENSUS.


Though we are still getting bulletins
and reports based on the census of 1900,
the time has come to begin active prepare
tions for the enumeration of 1910. Bills
have been introduced covering the main
features of the next census, and an APP
preparation OF $14,000,000 will be asked.
1t is nearly FIVE years since perma-
nent census Office was established. The
maintenance of a sort of skeleton organ
ization should make for economy, system
and superior efficiency during the next
census and the tabuiation and publica-
ton of its results. 1t is proposed to re
strict the inquiries to population, agricul-
ture, manufacturing, mines and quarries.
All sorts of suggestions have been made
for particular and additional inquiries,
but while the utility of some of them is
undoubted, limitation is deemed necessary
in the interest of accuracy, speed and
economy.
To complete the work of enumeration
in a shorter period than usual, it is pro
posed TO employ $1,000 enumerators in
stead of 5000, the number employed in
1900. Thirty-6ve hundred clerks and $50
supervisors will be required, and an effort
is to be made to secure high-class men
for the various branches of the work. A
census generally brings a scramble for
patronage" each member of Congress ex-
pecting to nominate a certain number of
clerks and to use pull where the appli-
cant's qualifications are not up to the
standard. This time it is proposed to dis
regard political affiliations and to hold ex-
aminations for clerical positions tof the
non-competitive kind) under the direction
of the civil service commission. 1t is
further provided that the director may
give preference to persons of previous ex-
perience and good records in census work
While these tests do not err on the side
of strictness, the spoilsmen of the old
school are expected to find them too dras-
IL that fight against features prom
king efficiency is not improbable The
lsspe-yisors are to be appointed by the
President and paid fair salaries. They
will in turn nominate the enumerators,
the appointment Of such nominees beng
left TO the director.-Chicago Record-Her-
of9
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-01-14
TOLD IN A FEW LINES.

The Russian war department has or
dered the formation of a military auto
mobile corps, to be based on the German
model.
Pierre Jules Cesar Jansen, the cele-
brated French scientist and director Of
the Meubon obseryators is dead in Paris.
He was born in 1924.
w. II. Williams, member Of the board
of review Of Columbus. Ohio. died Of a
stroke Of paralysis. He was one Of the
best known Democratic politicians in
Ohio.
Gov Harris of Ohio pardoned William
Houck, serving life sentence on convic-
ton Of the murder Of Mrs. Sarah Hess, at
Bladensburg, Knox county.
Thomas ". Lawson Of Boston an
nounces that be is going to start new
political party and run Roosevelt for
President and Gov. John A. johnson Of
Minnesota for Vice President
Elinor Glyn, the English writer, whose
book, Three Weeks was the cause Of
her being snubbe6 By the Pilgrim Moth
ers in New York. calls the mothers, IN an
interview, ian aggregation Of dowds,
frumps and tabby cats-a lot OF breass,
less, eiab-hipped. yancakefootsd rights
Of things"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-01-14
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A battle between Tommy Burns and
Roche was arranged to take place in Dub
lin ON st. Patrick's day.
The Washington State football eleven
defeated that Of ST. Louis university by
the score of II to 0, at Spokane, Wash.
The Coney Island Jockey Club an
nouneed that improvements in it's plant
now under way viii cost at least 100000.
There will be half dozen Smiths in
the major leagues next season, the Amer
leans having four players of this name
and the Nationals two.
Elmer Collins, the Lynn bicycle rider.
continues TO add to his already enyiabe
Frenchmen as the coming worlds cham
pion.
Cincinnati has asked for waivers on
seventeen men. Provided all these play
ers are turned back TO the minors, the
next manager of the Reds sill will have
twenty-five athletes to aid him in captur-
ing a second division berth.
Tommy Ryan believes that the best
fighters of to-day are to be found in the
middleweight ranks. He has q poor opin-
ion of the "heavies." they falling far be-
low the standard Of scrappers like JEFF
fries. Sharkey, Corbett, Mccoy and Fitz-
simmons in their active ring days.
The baseball critics seem inclined to
the belief that the Bostons got all the
best of the big deal with New York. The
Bean Eaters. it would seem. should occu-
by a higher place in the race than they
have held for the past few years.
Haskins, the Intercollegiate champion.
may be barred from representing the
American team at the Olympic games.
Haskins is not an American citizen. He
was born in Australia and comes under
the same ruling as that which affects Con
Leahy and Dennis Murray, the two Irish
athletes who wanted to represent Amer
ica
In order that they may be kept in
active training for the Olympic games in
England next snmmer, a movement IS on
foot that has for it's Object visit of the
best of the Canadian athletes 20 New
York and Boston. where indoor meets
would be held. If the scheme pans out.
Tom Flanagan. John Flanagan's brother,
viii have charge Of. the party.
The New Orleans baseball club viii
erect a $4,000 steel stand.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-01-14
EPIDEMIC OF GRIP IS
SWEEPING COUNTRY
Tens of Thousands of Cases of This
Pestiferous Disease Are Being
Reported.
SUFFERERS IN MANY CITIES
Business in Many Places Is Disor-
ganized on Account Prostratiors
from This Ailment.

An epidemic of la grippe seems to be
sweeping over the country, and tens of
thousands of people are suffering from
the disease. Pittsburg reports the worst
of the city is disorganized on account
of the large number of people who have
been suddenly forced to remain absent
from their places of employment.
Factories and mills, offices and stores,
are affected seriously.
There is a notable uniformity in the
symptoms of the present epidemic,
which appears to affect principally the
pneumonia are its most common accom-
paniments, and it aggravates fully so
per cent of the tuberculosis cases. Those
most injuriously affected are persons
who before the attack were. badly run
down in their general health. In their
cases pneumonia quickly develops,
while the heart, brain and other or
gans become affected.
In Philadelphia an epidemic of grippe
is sweeping the city and whole fami-
lies are Frustrated by it. Pneumonia in
many cases is followed close upon its
heels, and last week many persons died
Of that disease. Doctors are scarcely
able to keep up with the demands made
upon them. Baltimore, too, is expert
encing an unusual amount of sickness.
Other cities where grippe has made
its appearance are Boston, Chicago, Gin
cinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Milwaukee
and New York, and reports from these
places indicate that the health authori-
ties fear that the outbreak is only at
Evans, Of Chicago, has issued warn
ing 10 the people, urging them to get
plenty of fresh air and TO exercise in
the open as much as possible. Chicago
knows the danger of grippe. for it has
been frequently visited by the disease.
In 1890 that city had 100000 grippe suf-
ferers and 112 deaths directly resulted.
In 1899 over 800 persons died from the
uiCNASC, 0hl SlAiNC tAt hlob APpOoA bAANS
of the malady the city has paid a
tribute of 2,20S lives
In New York, where the disease is
now gaining strong foothold, sixty
eight deaths resulted last week and
there are many cases scattered about
the city.
Boston is the worst sufferer on the
Atlantic seaboard. There are nearly
100000 cases there and sixty deaths
have resulted. Cincinnati has 1000
cases and the disease seems to be cpl
demic in form.
The open winter is held responsible
for the spread of the disease. Where it
originated no one seems to know. 1t
travels with wonderful rapidity. In
1889, when the grippe appeared in viru-
lent form all over the country, it was
tracked back to Europe and thence to
Hong Kong in China. The germs of
the present epidemic may have come
from the same source.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-01-14
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Chicago-Cattle. common to prime,
S4.O0 TO $500; hogs, prime heavy $500
to $4.I0; sheep, fair to choice, $500
10 $500; wheat, No. 2, Csc to $1.el;
corn, No. ,, 5Sc to 59c: oats, standard,
49c to 50c rye, No. 2, Tie to zoe; hay,
timothy, $3.50 to $1,000; prairie. $500
to $1,000; butter, choice creamery, 24c
to 29c; eggs, fresh, 24c to 2Sc: potatoes,
per bushel, SOC to 60c
Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $500
to 5000; hogs, good to choice heavy,
$500 to $40; sheep, common to prime,
$500 to $3.50; wheat, No. Q 99c to 81:
corn, No. , white, Doc to SIC; oats, No. z
white, Acc to ole.
st. Louis-Cat.le, $3.50 to 5000 hogs,
$500 to $40; sheep, $500 TO 1925;
wheat, No. ., $104 to S106; corn. No. 2,
soc to 56c; oats, No. ., Acc to zoe; rye,
No. 2, Toe to Zoe.
Cincinnati.-Cattle, $500 to $3.50:
hogs, $500 TO SHOT; sheep. $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No >, STOP to $1.04 corn,
No. 2 mixed, DOC to SIC; oats, No. 2
mixed, SOC to 51c; rye, No. ., Sic to Sic.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $3.50; hogs,
St.OO 10 9t-OOr Aneep, AZoO TO Hf.-o.
wheat, No 2, $1.03 to $1.04 corn, No. 8
yellow, Gle TO 62c; oats, No. 3 white,
Ole to 53c; rye. No. 2, soc to SIC.
Mlwaukee-Wheat, No. northern,
S1.09 to Sill; corn, No. g. 57c to J9c:
oats, standard, 49c to sic: rye, No 1,
Sic to S3c; barley. No. 2, $100 to S1!03;
pork, mess, $I2.47.
Bufalo-CattIe, choice shipping steers,
$500 to S5.75; hogs. fair to choice, $3.50
to S4.75; sheep, common TO good mixed,
$500 TO $3.50; lambs. fair TO choice,
$500 to S7.65.
New York-Cattle, 800 to 1865;
hogs, $3.50 to $500; sheep. $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2 red, S1os TO $1.07;
corn, No. ?, &C to 69c; oats, natural
white, Doe to Sic; butter, creamery, PC
to soc; eggs, western, 24c to 2Sc.
Toledo-W Wheat, No 2 mixed, S1OO to
S1.02; corn, No. mixed, J9c TO Gle;
oats, No mixed, 51c 70 SIC; rye. No.
2, roc to soc: clover seed, prime, $10.37.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-01-14
SHORT NEWS NOTES.

Twelve men arrested in Camden. ".
J., charged with stealing and carrying of
two-story house.
On account 4 the easier money market
TIE Reading Railroad Company annonnc-
ed at Reading, Pa, it would pay its shop
bands in cash. Other employees will be
paid in checks
The Bishop of london, who made such
notable visit to this country in Sep
tember is now planning TO tour Russia
and visit some chaplaincies in that coun-
try.
Officers Of the ST. Louis insane asylum
took a party Of women, suffering from
insanity in It's milGer forms, on a shop
ping tour. The experiment was found
beneficial.
Prof Oscar I.nssar. well-known der-
natologist and member Of the Berlin
university faculty. died in Berlin as a
result Of hurts received in an automobile
accident recently.
Experts have decided that the famous
St. Paul's cathedral in London. Il safe
50 long as the buildings around it are
not disturbed. and ta,1s ends long con-
troversy.
Mary King aged years. Of Philadel-
phia, in trying to kiss a fish in large
globe, upset the vessel which. toppling
over, struck her on the head, causing con-
cussion Of the brain.
Col John Jacob Aston has just spent
$4,000 for private clubhouse on his
Hudson river estate. where his guests
may play tennis as well protected from
the weather as 4hey are in the indoor
courts Of the racket club in New York.
The Salvation Army in England in the
last year has added directly Or indirectly
20,8s3 women, 1852 Of them having been
taken into the rescue homes, and no few
or than 2,764 have Turned out well
A hog weighing $40 pounds, fed in
BROOKLYN. y. Y. on beer and whisky by
sone joksrz. knocked over two policemen.
boarded a trolley car and caused panic,
and vas finally caught by a reserve force
OF twenty policemen.
A newspaper clipping forwarded By
Consul Harry A. Conant Of Windsor
states that many depositors from the
United States have been opening accounts
10 Canadian banks. and especially in
branches in that city.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-01-14
BOMB ExPLooEs IN BANK.
Mysterious Blast i'm Basement of
Kansas Cfty,s Largest Instftuffon

mysterious blast In Baeemenf OF
Kansas Cfty's Largest Institution.
The S1.000000 First National Bank
building. recently completed in Kansas
City, was shaken Saturday to its founda-
tons by the explosion of bomb which
had been secreted in a retiring room in
tie basement. Nine persons were in
jured. but none badly ENOUGH TO cause
physicians to believe the consequences
will be fatal The explosion occurred
at time when the great marble banking
room was crowded with patrons. A panic
was an immediate aftermath of the crash.
and but for cool heads many persons
probably would have lost their lives. The
afair remains mystery, and a few in
vestigators believe that sewer or nat
ural gas may have been to blame. The
majority, however, feel that nothing
short of very strong explosive, prob
ably in the form of bomb, could have
wrecked the structure so badly and
caused such a defamation. The shock
was felt throughout the city, and while
the building as whole remains intact,
the zone of the explosives effects is
large.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-01-14
HOSPITAL FIRE KILLS THREE.
scores of Patients Frenzfed by
Flames that Destroy Laundry.

Three persons lost their lives by fire
which destroyed one of the buildings of
the French hospital in San Francisco.
The main hospital building which held
many patients, was for time seriously
threatened. There was panic among the
patients. but they were removed as last
as possible by nurses. 1t is believed one
of the dead was the wife of Michael
Franco. The others were laundry en-
ployes. The building was a two-story
brick and was used as a laundry and
for the electric power plant of the hos
pital The fire is believed to have started
through defective iue. The loss was
more than $4,000 on the building.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-01-14
HANGED; NECK is NOT BROKEN


Youth of 20 Years Executed at
Louisville, Ky, for Three Murders.
Clarence Sturgeon was executed in the
Jail yard in Louisville, Ky. His extreme
youth was the basis of many unavailing
efforts to have him pardoned The execu-
ton was rendered unusually painful for
those present by reason of a failure of the
mechanism to work and a consequent de-
lay of several minutes while the condemn
ed man stood rigidly awaiting the end.
Sturgeon was so light that he did not
break his neck on the drop and was not
pronounced dead for seventeen minutes.
Sturgeon murdered Ira Bruner. James
Blackerly and Wifred McMichael one
year ago. He was only 10 years old.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-01-14
MOUNT ROYAL IS IN PORT.
Canadian Steamer Missing a Month
Is mt QueensfoWn

The long overdue steamer Mount Royal
put into Queenstown Tuesday and the
news of her safety was received with re-
joicing in shipping circles. She had not
been heard from in many days, having
been reported last off the Lizard Dec. 10.
Watch was being kept for her on both
sides of the Atlantic and as far south as
Bermuda. The Mount Royal belongs to
the Canadian Pacific Railways Atlantic
service. She left Antwerp Dec. Z for
st. John, y. b., and had on board 300
Hungarian emIgrants and a crew OF
about 100 men. She was first definitely
sighted of Old Head of Kinsdale. six
teen miles west of Queenstown, and was
then proceeding slowly under her own
steam. She declined the help of a tug
sent out to assist her. Trouble with her
boilers compelled the Mount Royal to put
back. She is at best slow boat, and
shortly after leaving the British coast
encountered violent gales. The vessel
battlcd with the heavy seas for a fort
night, until Christmas eve, when serious
trouble win her boilers developed. The
steamer was then in longitude "a 80 west
and latitude 43 north. The engine-room
force succeeded in obtaining a moderate
supply of steam, but the weather was
such that the captain reluctantly decided
TO make for the Irish coast.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-01-14
BULLETS AND TORCH USED.
Warehouse and Other Buildings al
Russell. He XIV DESTROYED

WafehEuseF and other Buildings at
Russell. He, KY, Destroyed.
might riders" 100 strong, swooped
down on Russellyille, KY, early Friday
morning and after overpowering the three
policemen and providing against an alarm,
dynamited and burned the two indepen-
dent tobacco concerns in the city and sew
eral other establishments, and rode away.
Three men were wounded and the tele-
phone girls and the police were held pris-
oners for nearlv three hours. The follow
ing buildings were destroyed Frank e..
Wake. tobacco warehouse, building and
contents, loss $4,000; American Snuff
Company, factory and contents loss 3d.
600; Roberts & Brown, planning mill. loss
$4,000; Alfred Underwood grocery, loss
$1,000: King & Proctor, stable; Joshua
Knowles. cottage. 1t was said that the
mob came to Russellville from the direc-
ton of Cave Springs, near where the
members are said to have had their rem
devious. All the men were mounted and
wore white caps, false boards and masks
This is the third raid which has been
made by might riders" in western Ken
lucky and comes in the face of the an
nouncement by the Governor that disorder
must cease