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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-07
Dead Woman Identified.

Detroit. Sept. THE head and
limbs of a woman whose body was
found yesterday was discovered to-
day She is identified as Miss Mabel
Millman Of Ann Arbor, Mich. The po-
lice are seeking her murderer.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-07
Forestry Professor Arrives.

Moscow, Idaho.-Dr. c. Fl. Shod-
dock, accompanied by his family, has
arrived from South Carolina to as
sumo charge of the newly established
forestry department in the University
Of Idaho.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-07
win Attcnd Biz Meeting.

John Vaughan, chief of the PEN
dleton volunteer fire department, left
last evening for Seattle, where he will
attend the meeting of the Pacific
Coast Firemen's association. He ex-
poets to be gone several days.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-09-07
In and About
Pendleton
Baby Seriously Ill.

The baby daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ross Carney is seriously i'll today.
This is the child who won the first
prize at the baby show in connection
with the last district fair.
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STATEHOOD ON
One CONDITION
Promise Made to Arizona
and New Mexico. II.
CONSTITUTION UNJUST SUIT

People Of the TWO Territories Told
Plainly They Must Not Copy Any Of
the Features of the Oklahoma Docu.
ment-Measure Now in the Lower
House Of Congress Has President
Taft's Approval.
Washington, Dec 16.-New Mexico
and Arizona will be granted separate
statehood at this session of congress,
according to Representative Hamilton
of Michigan, chairman Of the house
committee on territories, with the res.
ervation that the people of those two
territories be careful not to construct
any constitution like that Of Oklaho.
ma. There is a good chance that the
constitutions would not be approved
by the president if they should include
any Of the features of the Oklahoma
document that he found Objectionable.
Representative Hamilton is in
charge of the statehood bill and he
has introduced a measure in the house
that he says bears the endorsement of
President Taft. Following the recon-
mendations made in the presidents
annual message the bill provides that
the people of both territories shall
have vote on the constitution framed
in convention before it is submitted to
the president. If it is not adopted an
other convention must be called with
In twenty days.
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KING LEOPOLD: ; HAS.
TURN F0RHW0RSE
~
Aged Belgian Monarch Said to
Be Sinking Again.

Brussels, Dec. 16-The condition Of
King leopold, who was Operated upon
for the removal Of an obstruction of
the intestines, took a turn for the
worse. The morning bulletin was
hopeful" in tone, describing the pa
TENTS state as Stationary"
During the night he had held his
own apparently. In the middle of the
afternoon word came from the sick
chamber that his majesty had suffered
relapse and that the specialists at
/ tending him were in consultation.
/ Ex-CroWn Princess StepElanie, who
Is now the Countess 'Lonya. is due in
Brussels shortly and it is expected she
will be received by her father, from
whom she has long been estranged.
The appeals Of Princess Louise, an.
other daughter, for a final reconci1ia-
ton with the king still remain unan-
swered.
The public's attitude toward Leo
pold remains callous The people
sheer atat the report Of tie kings re-
pentance and make, Slight Of the re.
'ligious services held when it appeared
that the king was at deaths door.
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SUBSCRIPTIOn---S5.OO PER YEARIN ADVANCE
GREAT is THE EXPRESS COMBINE.

Original sin and express COM
panies have never been far apart
since Eve was created for Adams
Express company. And at this late
day when public opinion and a
sense of responsibility have got the
railroads pretty we'll reformed the
express companies are still unblush-
ing unregenerates.
Railroads know that they must
make joint rates and that they ought
to give the shipper the benefit of
the shorest line. Express companies
never thought of that. Suppose
there is an express company operat-
ing between Duluth and Chicago
and another with line from here to
Portland and from Portland to San
Franciso.
If you want to send a package to
Chicago and happen to give it to
the company that does not operate
between here and Chicago, that oblig-
ing company will send it to San
Francisco and turn it over to the
other company to take to Chicago,
where it will eventually land with
two long charges against it. It is
your fault for not being more
careful what company called for
your package.-Duluth News-Tri-
bune.,
The complaint made by the News
Tribune as to the express service
accorded that city is similar, in a
large measure, to what is handed"
the citizens of Bemidji. We have
whal is called the Northern Elk.
press" company, here, which handles
the combined business of the Great
Northern and Nj. & In. P. rail.
way companies.
While the service which the local
manager extends to the public
is the very best he can give,
and he is a very efficient official,
yet the manner in which most ex-
press is handled by the soulless
combine" from outside is such as to
cause the average Bemidji business
man to wax exceedingly wroth and
sometimes profane.
The Pioneer had an experience,
last week, which indicates the
long-haul short-haul combine. The
American Press company had sum.
mary six-column plate article on the
presidents message which should
have reached the Pioneer Tuesday
morning, if sent directly north over
the NJ. & I. railway.
Instead, the supreme dictator of
the combine sent the box around by
Crookston and we got it the next
noon-too late to be of any use to
an up-to-date daily paper like the
Pioneer.
Verify, the people need to get
together and make strenuous and
united protest against the boggish.
ness and incompetency of those high
in the management of the express
combination.
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ten KILLED. /. IN !.
Rail. DISASTER
-Four Coaches doDownFifty.
Foot Embankment.
LAND in SMALL CREEK

wild Scenes Of Panic Prevail as the
. Sleeping Passengers Attempt to
Escape From the Cars Amid the
Scene OF Death-George J. Gould
and Son Are Passengers but Es-
. cape Injury.
~ Reidsvi1le. N. c., Dec. 1e.-Before
most Of the passengers in two sleep.
ing cars had been awakened and while
the occupants of two passenger
coaches were just beginning to stir
after a nights ride the four real" cars
Of train No: II Of the Southern Rail.
way weres dashed down a fifty-foot en-
bankment from Reedy Fort trestle,
ten miles from here and twelve mites
north Of Greensboro, Killing ten men
and injuring thirty-fve other passen.
gers. H.
The cars that left the track landed
In the small creek that flowed beneath
the trestle. The widest scene of panic
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BROTHER SHEETS HAS GONE TO HIS
REWARD. ::

The press of Minnesota has again
suffered the loss of one of its bright
est members, in the death of A. w.
Sheets, owner and publisher of the
Todd County Argus, at Long Prairie,
for over thirty years. MIR. Sheets
passed to the other side, last week,
after a gallant but hopeless struggle
against the white plague"-con-
sumption.
The veteran Long Prairie editor
breathed his last at his home, sur
rounded by the members of his fam
lily, and his death was most peace
full one, as he sank into sleep and
was gone without scarcely struggle.
1t was the writer's good fortune
to have known A. w. Sheets for
several years past, and we liked him.
Like the rest of we mortals, he may
have had some slight faults, but
they were never apparent to us. He
was true and loyal friend, ever
ready and willing to perform an
act of kindness, and always just in
the treatment of what few enemies
he had made through an active
political and business life.
We are pleased to learn that Mr..
Sheets left his affairs, in splen did
condition, and that members of the
Sheets family W i'll continue
the publication of the Todd Counny
Argus.
We pause in our hustling, bustling
life to shed tear to the memory of
one whom we knew and respected.
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ter the situation.

ter the situation.
The governor said that he had not
invited the contending sides to meet
IN his office because, and only because
he had not been able to reach con
clusion himself as to the necessity OF
such conference. The railway off
Gals have told him, he said, that they
have nothing to arbftrate, that freight
is moving and that the strike is bro
ken; while the strikers have assured
him that the exact contrary is the real
state Of affairs and that they have the
advantage.
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prevailed as the sleeping passengers
attempted to escape from the cars
amid the scene Of death.
George J. Gould, the New York mil
lionaire, and his son, Jay Gould, who
were on the train, reached here on the
train bringing the wounded. The
.Goulds sustained only slight injuries.
J. R. Russell of New York, promi-
nent journalist and companion of Mr..
Gould, was badly injured IN his back
and shoulder and is in the hospital
here. -
Two trainloads Of injured passen:
gers have been brought here and
taken to st. Luke's hospital.
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Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago, Dec. Acknowledgement
$3.9o@S25; Texas steers, $3.S0@4.65;
Western steers, $400@S.3O; stockers
and feeders, s3.0O@5.10; COWS and
she1fers, s2.OO@5.4o; calves, $3.50
g. o. Hogs-Light, s7.90@8.4O; mixed,
$S.10@8.50; heavy, $8.15@8.55; rough,
.$S.15@8.30; good to choice heavy,
$s.3o@8.55; pigs, $6.9O@7 .s5 Sheep
Native, s3.50@5.50;; yearlings, s8.25@
$50; lambs, $500 8.26. -
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HOLD up CROWD IN SALOON
Robbers Get $50 Christmas Money
Ill and TWO Watches. =

4 Chicago, Dec. 16.-"We're looking
for a little easy money for Christmas,
boys, and have two blue steel bankers
that never fail to bring results. Put
up your hands now while my pal does
his turn. He's an artist In his line"
With this remark a robber opened
the side door of a West Side saloon
and stood in front of the bar while a
masked companion waited until sec
ond revolver was 1eveled at the pro-
prtetor and four inmates, two Of, them
the saloon keepers sons. No sooner
was the first robber ready for any
emergency with two weapons held in
front Of him than his companion or!
dered the patrons of the place I'd
"stand up against the wall"
~ Two watches and about $50 were Sc.
cured BY the robbers. r
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HILL GETS ELECTRIC LINES
Will Operate Inland Empire; System
Oh Pacific Coast. -

Spokane, Wash, Dec. 16.-James J!
Hill, chairman Of the board Of direc-
tors of the Great Northern road. and
Howard Elliott, president Of the
Northern Pacific, held a. conferente
with. James P. Graves, president Of
the Inland Empire system. The pur-
pose Of the conference, It is said is
the completion Of details for the Great
Northern to take control Of the In
land Empire system, which controls
electric lines running from this city
to Occur d'A1ene, Colfax and Moscow,
Ida, and several miles Of street rail-
roads here. a5
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MADRIz1 rs EEL. AIYA'S CHOICE
Picks His Successor as President of
Nicaragua. q


Washington. Dec. 1e.-The dis
patches containing an account Of the
'anti-Zelayan demonstration in Ma
nagua' were, confirmed by telegram
received at the state department from
Vice Consul catdera. From this dis
patch it appears that some of the
demonstrants were arrested by gov
eminent authorities. "
The telegram says that Zelaya has
published statement promising to
resign the presidency of Nicaragua in
favor Of Madriz,, who, as Zelaya's can!
dtdate, is not the choice Of the people
there: Mr.. Caldera, in speaking of
the demonstration the night before,
says that large crowds: surrounded the
American legation cheering the gov
eminent and people of the United
states. ~
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contracts for such materials and work
as may be necessary to prosecute and
complete, said improvements to be
paid for as appropriations may from
time to time be made therefor, not to
exceed in the aggregate $4,000, coo!
Further, that the sum Of $2,OOOOOO a
year. shall be expended on the project
until the total shall have equaled
100000
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Rearrested on Another CHARGE

Brainerd, Mimi, Dec. 16.-Paul
Fournier was acquitted of the murder
of N. O. Dahl, the jury having been
out eighteen hours. Fourier was i'm
mediately rearrested on the charge Of
numbering the daughter, Agnes Dahl.
He will be taken back to Bemidji to
await trial, having been previously in
dicted on that charge. 49, r~.'~. - se
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ESCH ACCIDENT BILL PASSES
II requires + railroads to Report casu.
@alties to Commission. I

Washington" Dec. 1s-The Esch
bill, REQUIRING common carriers en-
gagged in Interstate and foreign com
MERGE to make full reports of all ac-
cidents to the interstate commerce
commission and authorizing the com
mission to investigate such accidents,
was called up tn the house by Chair
man Mann Of the committee on inter.
state and foreign commerce and, after
being considered at length, was
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LURT0N WILL BE CONFIRMED
Senate Committee Votes to Make Fa.
VorabIe Report.

Washington, Dec. 16.-The senate
committee on judiciary voted unani-
mously to report favorably the NOM
ination of Judge Horace H. Lurton to
be an associate justice of the supreme
court of the United States: Some
members of the committee expressed
the opinion that it would have been
better to have named younger man,
Judge Lurton being in his sixty-sixth
year, but there was no general oppo-
sition to him or any criticism except
as to his age.
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FOR 70 LARGER . NAVAL MILITIA
Assistant Secretary Advocates i
&fN crease totem Thousand Men.

crease to Ten Thousand Men.
Washington, % Dec. a16. Assistant
Secretary Winthrop Of the navy de.
partment would Have the naval militia
increased from $500 to 10000 and
placed on the same footing with refer.
ence to the navy that the land militia
occupied toward the army. ~.
:, He was before the house committee
on naval affairs and advocated an in.
crease Of $4,000 over the estimate OF
100000 made by the department. He
expressed the opinion that in time OF
war the naval militia should be as
available for service on the seas as
the land militia is on land, a view
which accords with bill by Chairman
Foss, upon which the committee acted
favorably in the last congress-. -
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HIRED MAN FOUND GUILTY
one Conviction IL I esdbster Muirde,
> Case. ~

Mankato, Mimi, Dec. 1&-Frank
Smith, the first Of the %quartette in
dicted on the charge of numbering the
late H. J: Ledbeter to be tried, was
found guilty by the jury Of murder in
the first degree, as charged in the in.
dictment. ~
= Smith made No outward sign when
the verdict was finally read. ...-..-:.
The trial Of Mrs. Grace Ledbeter,
another Of the, four indicted, has now
begun Although the state had not
expected to commence 1t until Dec. 81
the defense insisted on an immediate
trial and the court court granted it.
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Duluth Wheat and Flax.

5 f.: Duluth, Dec: 15.-wheat-ro arrive
and on track NO: / hard, s1.11M; No.
i; ! Northern, $1.11%;l! No. 2 Northern,
$1:oe q Dec s1.09; May, s1.1oak..
Flax--In store, $1.91; on track, ST.
l's17A;; to arrive. $1.ssh; Dec, s1.s1;
May, 1881. II
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NO ACTION BY THE GOVERNOR
Minnesota Executive II Doubt Abou'
Strike Situation, IT, &

st. Paul, Dec. 16.-1f Governor Eber
hart invites railway officials and strik
ers to meet in his Office and discuss
arbitration it will be an indication
that his private Investigations have
satisfied him that strike conditions
still prevail. - 6
If, however, he does not issue thai
invitation within day or two it viii
be a practical announcement by ths
governor that he sees no way to bet
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Chicago Grain and Provisions.

y Chicago, Dec. 15.-wheat- Dec,
$1.12h; May, $1.10B@1.10A; July
99Ac. Corn-Dec., 61Ac; May, 65%
. @65Ac;. July, 65Bc. Oats -Dec.
!, 43 We; May, 44bc; July, 42A @42%c.
Pork-Jan., .s2190; May, $21.67A.
Butter Creameries, 27@34c; dairies,
s25@Soc.. Eggs-2oK @3okc Poultry
Turkeys, TIC; chickens and springs,
r12kc. -..-.-. .-.
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TO IN IMPROVE PROV E THE: MISSISSIPPI i;
Bill by Tawney Provides for 1Expendi-
ture of $20,o0o,oO0. Il

Washington, Dec. 16.-Extensive i'm
provements of the Mississippi river
between St. Paul and st. Louis are
contemplated in a bill offered in the
house by Representative Tawney of
Minnesota. The measure is. similar
to one presented by Mr.. Tawney in
the Sixtieth congress. It authorizes a
direct appropriation of 100000 and
contemplates an ultimate expenditure
of $20,OOO,OO0 for the Improvement of
the stretch Of the river indicated along
lines approved by the chief engineers
of the war department.
The bill provides that the secretary
Of war may enter into contract or
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: St.'PauiSEive Stock.

st. Paul, Dec. 15:-Cattle-Good to
choice steers, $6.75@7.5O; fair to good,
55s5.oo@6.75; good to choice COWS and
heifers, $4.25@5.26; veals, s5:5o@7.5o.
Hogs $S0O@S.25. Sheep-wethers,
$4.75@5.25; zsyearlings, $e.25@Ioo;
spring lambs, $700@7. so. i
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TRAIN ROLLS TWENTY FEET
Goes Over Steep Embanknent, But
Few Persons Are Hurt.

Des Moines, Dec. 16.-CChicago, Mi.
waukee and st. Paul train No. Z was
wrecked at Bagley and several per.
sons were injured. The sleeper and
chair car turned completely over and
rolled down a twenty-foot bank. En-
gineer Soccer is missing, and is be
teved to be buried under his engine
The train was running at sixty miller
IN hour when the wreck occurred, q
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ONE KILLED; SIX INJURED
Seven Boys Scattered for Blocks
Along Railroad Track.

Lafayette, Ind, Dec. 1s:-one boy
was killed and six we're injured when
bQbsled on which they were coasting
.col1ided with Wabash passenger
train. j,
The coasters were scattered for a
block along the track. The sled was
reduced to k1ndling wood. Il
Frank K1umpe, Jr., aged seventeen:
was found on the pilot of the engine.
They boy who. was plotting the sled
Jumped and escaped injury. - -
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GRAIN AND PROVISION D| PRICES
p MinnsapolIs Wheat.

'@ Minneapolis, Dec. 15.-wheat-Dec.,
ST. May, s1:IoA;a July, s1.o9%. On
traek-No. f. hard, ,$1.12k @1.13; No.
I North fern, SIP @1.I2116S'; No. North
ern, $110@I1ok; No. 3 Northern,
$1.O9@I091b,. w
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BOMB THROWN AT BISHOP Of,
Attack Made on PreIate in Lisbon
-' Fails of Object.

Lisbon, Dec. 16.-The anniversary
Of the revolt of the seminaryists was
marked by the throwing of a bomb at
the bishop of Braganza. The bishop
was not injured. -. .azs
No particular significance is at
tached to the act. s
Evening star., 1909-04-18

Continued on Third Page.)
Evening star., 1909-04-18

fish, perhaps, have passed at the nanos
Of the bureau OF fisheries. Were Uncle
Sam not interested in the conservation OF
the white and yellow perch and the shad.
for which the Potomac river Is famous,
the fish stalls in the market and the
anglers hook would provide but scant
supply OF hnny food for Washington ta-
bles.
At Bryans point. Md. directly across
the river from Mount Vernon, and at Bat
terry Island, near Havre de Grace, Md.
the bureau OF fisheries maintains large
plants where white and yellow perch. and
shad later in the season, are Matched
from eggs which the government en-
ployes take from the living fish. in the
spawning season, and hatch out into mil
lions Of live hsh without injuring the
mother fish in any way. When the fsh
hatched at these places are large enough
to take care Of themselves they are ship
Evening star., 1909-04-18

now, are beginning to realize the vast
value of the work of conservation the
bureau is accomplishing. 1t Is one of
the most valuable of the several con-
servation movements that have been in
the public eye so much in the past few
years. At that. though, the fish cultur-
lists complain that the fishermen down
the river catch most Of the fish that would
come up to the spawning grounds IL they
only had chance to escape the perfect
gantlet of nets that stretch across the
lower Potomac. The Bryans point sta
tion is directly on the spawning grounds:
hence, it would be but taking from Peter
to pay Paul. to move farther down the
river. This discouraging condition is al
leviated In a measure by sending govern
ment boat down the river after spawn at
stated intervals during the season. But the
slaughter Of the shad and other fish con-
tinues. When the government spawn
takers visit a fisherman's boat they pur-
chase merely the spawn and allow him
to keep the fish and bring 1t up to market.
in Maryland 1t was necessary for fisher
men to have a license before they could
ply their nets In the river. The law
was in force two years and was then, it
Is claimed, dropped for some reason. At
present it is. apparently, obsolete.
-.
When The Star reporter visited the
Battery Island station. near Havre de
Grace, he found the large force of men
under Supt. ]. p. Snyder busily arranging
for the opening Of the white perch sea-
son and concluding their work with the
yellow perch. The work there Is precisely
Evening star., 1909-04-18

tin pan used for that purpose. With
out any delay. a buck. or male perch.
was dipped up from the live-box and
his spawn expelled into the same pan.
The whole was then shaken up slightly
for a few moments, a little water added
and $4,000 more perch were ready to
go to the glass jars in the hatchery
The spawn-takers are sturdy.
weather-beaten set Of men, who seem
to be thoroughly interested in their
work OF stopping the determination OF
the great perch and shad industries.
They live In tents throughout the season,
right along the bank of the river. The
tents have wooden floors, double thick
nesses Of canvas. stoves, beds, carpets
and not q few 1uxuries. They eat at the
mess-hall, directly behind the hatchery.
and, IL they receive the same kind Of food
that Capt. Harron SO Hospitality set be-
fore The Star reporter at noon, they
live we'll indeed.
In the beginning no little difficulty was
experienced with the old river fishermen.
who looked upon the work Of the fish
culturists as nothing but piece OF
= 'tarnal foolishness." But even they.