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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-04

An agreement between the commit
tee representing the Pendleton Com
mercial association and d. FitzGerald,
representative of the Washington
Oregon Traction company, has been
reached. 1t was reached at a confer
ence held at 1880 this morning at
which the full committee was present
and likewise Messrs FITZGERALD and
Baumeister of the traction company.
This contract or engagement, which
Is given in full below, is supplement-
ary to the regular contract which To-
cal people will sign when they
pledge themselves to take $4,000
worth of stock of the traction COM
pany. The agreement sets forth in
detail what the company will do in
return for the support to be given by
the people of this city. The agree
ment embodies practically everything
asked for by the local committee.
Must Build Line.
That the agreement when properly
signed by the officers of the Wash
ington-Oregon comply will obligate
those gentlemen to do the work they
prom Sc to do is held by Judge James
a. Fee who drew the paper, That the
agreement will be signed by the Off
GERS OF his company Mr.. FitzGerald
assured the committee this morning.
He stated al the time that the Wash
ington-Oregon company is already
under contract with him to do the
things specified in the agreement that
has been drawn, 1t is expected to
have the contract duly signed by both
parties to the transaction early next
week At that time the local move
ment to raise the needed $50 900 will
be started 1t is the belief of the
committee that the money can be
raised
The following is the draft of the
agreement submitted to the COM
mittee this forenoon by Mr. FitzGer-
aid:
The Agreement.
Whereas, c. J Smith, chairman
Frank Frazier r. Alexander, Leon
Cohen T.. h. Aldrich, E. j. Murphy
and James A. Fee. parties of the first
part a committee appointed TO rep
resent the Commercial association of
Pendleton. Oregon, in securing the
construction and equipment to COM
pletion Of a certain interurban rail-
way into and from the city of Pen
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-04

Seattle, WASH Dec All perish
able freight in the yards of the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific was
cleaned up today. The officials of
those two companies declare by
Monday they will be in such a shape
as to be able to handle all classes of
freight. The Northern Pacific has six
crews working, the Great Northern
three, but these men are all said to
be inexperienced and working under
the direction of railroad officials.
Sixty five cars of coal were handled
through the local yards by the North
ern Pacific for outside points and con-
ditions appear to be greatly improv-
ed.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-04
Woman Struck With Brick.

for troops to take charge of the strike
situation at the Aetna Standard mill
today followed a crisis resulting from
the wife of strike breaker being
struck with a brick hurled at her hus-
band. The situation is critical. Sew
eral persons have already been wound
ed in the rioting in which shots have
been fired. Windsor Davis, a striker.
was shot in the leg. TWO guards were
seriously hurt.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-04

court, Mrs. Taylor through her at
torneyS, filed demurrer to this suit
and the demurrer was yesterday sus-
tanned. Mrs Taylor will therefore be
permitted to prosecute her suit in the
federal court without any interference
on the part of the courts in this state.
The case was brought in the feder-
al court originally for the reason that
the par.ies TO the suit were residents
Of different states that the property
was in the eastern distrist of the
federal court for Washington and
that the court at Spokane was acces-
sible to all concerned.
Second Victory for Woman.
This makes the second victory
which Mrs. Taylor has Won in the
course OF the several years of luga-
ton between herself ana her former
husband The other notable victory
was in the $59,ooo damage suit
brought against herself ana John
Bannister on the ground that they
had conspired together ana had Sc
cured his conviction and imprison-
ment i'm the penitenuary ON a charge
of arson one other time she won a
victory in the lower courts only to
lose out when the case was appealed
to the supreme court of the state.
This was when she brought suit
against Taylor for an accounting and
received a Judgment for $500 in the
circuit court. This was cut down TO
$500 when the case was appealed to
the higher tribunal
New Suit To BE Filed.
In addition to the case already
pending in the federal court it is un-
derstood that Mrs Taylor will next
week file another suit against her for
mer husband and viii ask the circuit
court of this county To award her
damages. 1t is not announced. how
ever upon what grounds she will seek
to recover damages from the Athena
wheat king
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-04
FROZEN TO DEATH NEAR
HIS OWN DOOR SIDE

Narivisa, n. NJ, Dec. Frozen to
death half buried in the snow drifts,
the body of John K. Spaulding was
carried home today When the
neighbors discovered the body
Spauding had been missing several
days. During a blizzard early Sun
day morning Spaulding left Narivia-
visa for his house five miles distance.
1t is presumed he was overcome with
exhaustion when but a few feet from
his own door and fell in the snow,
where he died.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-04
At Butte.

Butte, Dec. All efforts of the
striking switchmen in this city are to
be concentrated in an attempt to per-
suade the switchmen Of the Butte,
Anaconda & Pacific road TO refuse to
handle transfer cars from other lines.
At a meeting of the strikers last eve
ming, a committee to confer with the
G. A. & P. switchmen was appointed,
instructed to institute the campaign.
If the B. A. & p. men accept the pro-
posal, the Amalgamated mines OF the
great smelters at Anaconda will be
compelled to close and 10000 men
be thrown out of employment
Through the combined efforts of its
trainmasters and their assistants the
Northern Pacific was enabled yester-
(Continued on Daya 81
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-04
BRITISH POPULACE PROTEST
AGAINST HOUSE OF LORDS

London, Dec. 4.-Six mass meetings
were held simultaneously today in
Trafalgar square, and adjoining street
at which the action of the house of
lords in rejecting Chancellor Georges
budget was bitterly condemned. They
were attended by more than 100, 900.
persons.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-04
Mob Fires on Ambulance.

Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 4.-Sheriff
Armine notified Governor Harmon
this afternoon that a mob of strikers
at the Aetna Standard Steel mill had
attacked the surgeons attending per-
sons wounded in the early riots today.
Armine says shots were fired at the
ambulance in which the victims were
being conveyed to the hospital,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-04
THIEF MADE GIRL
TAKE CARBOIIC ACID

Pittsburg, Kans.. Dec. Miss Col
die Insburg was found dead from hay
ing swallowed carbolic acid shortly
before noon today Relatives charge
size was murdered hy thief who
forced poison down her throat The
g.rIs diamond ear rings We're torn
from her ears and several valuable
rings taken from her fingers. she
was alone in her home, when, IL is
state d.tho thief overpowored her.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-04
JUDGE /. ]. BEAN RULED IN
FAVOR Of MRS. NOSE TAYLOR

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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-04
FIRE DESTROYS FIXING
MACHINE FACTORY AND SHIPS

New York, Dec. 4.-The KimbaI
aeroplane plant at Moress was partly
destroyed by fire early today. Several
competed flying machines were burn
ed. The fires origin is unknown.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-04
Governor Harmon Orders
1900 Troops to Take
Charge at Bridgeport,
RUSHING TO
AID OF SHERIFF ARAiINE
Strikers Attack Surgeons Caring for
Wounded and Fire upon Ambulance
Conveying Injured TO HispitaI-
Wife of Suikebreaker Hit With
Brick-Irouble Starts at Tetna
Standard Steel Mill Plant.

Columbus, Ohio. Dec. 4.-Gover-
nor Harmon today ordered 1900 troops
rushed to Bridgeport at the request
of Sheriff Armine, to preserve order
at the plant of the Aetna Standard
Steel mill where the strike is in pro-
gress. The strikers threatened vio-
lcnce this morning and the sheriff
sent hurry call for aid
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-04
SMOKED IN RED
CAUSED FATAL FIRE

New York Dec. 4.--Threo lives were
lost I'm fire that destroyed n tcng-
mput building ON South a,rcet early
TODAY Jesse Ames lighted pipe
without getting out of bed and ignited
the bed covering. Ames was burned
tl death. Maria Brunn, living in an
adjoining apartment ana ,- . year old
child We're cut off by the flames, The
woman and child died in the fire.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-04
TROOP SHIP STICKS
IN DELAWARE MUD

Wilmington. Del, Dec 4-The
troopship Prairie. with roo marines,
and Rear Admiral Kimhau hound for
Central American waters. is still fast
in the mud of the Delaware river
near here today.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-04
Mudgc i. Rnilroad prcsldcnt.

Chicago, Dec. +.-Henry U, Nudge
today assumed his duties as president
of the Rock Island railroad. He has
been serving in the capacity Of second
vicc-president.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-04
BIC STRIKE
IS STILL ON
Officials at Seattle Claim They
Will Handle All Freight
Monday
MINNEAPOLIS MEN
TO FIGHT TO FINISH

Strikers Want to Cause Walkout on
Butte, Anaconda & Pacific So AS
to Close Big Smelters - Strikers
Claim Ranks Still Firm Despite the
Stories TO Contrary-Two Freight
Trains Moved Across Montana Yes
terday.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-04
AGREEMENT REACHED BETWEEN LOCAL
MEN AND THE NEW TRACTION CUNIPANY

years years from date hereof. to have
and secure from water power to be
developed for electrical purposes (not
IRON the Northwestern Gas &c Elec-
tric company electricity, transmitted
and used over the wires ami in opera
non Of said street and interurban rail-
way. and to bring and convey, or
cause to be conveyed, into the city Of
Pendleton, for sale to be used for
Sating and power purposes general
", said electric power and current.
And said Washington- Oregon
Traction company further ag:ecs,
from time to time, to continue the
construction ana equipment OF said
street ana interurban railway until
not les than fifty miles Of such
street and interurban railway are
completed and n operation D. elec-
tiirity from such developer watc.
power, and thereafter on its schedule,
'i;er such water power is developed,
as herenDefOre provided, for elccu t.
c3t purposes. save and except in such
cases, and in all instances where said
Washington-O Oregon Traction COM
pany shall be hindered or delayed by
strike, storm, fire, the act of God, or
other unavoidable acts or accidents
of deterring effect, in which cl,e. or
cases, the said Washingr "a Ore ,on
TrIt ton company shall haze an cx-
teation Of an additional period of time
equal to the period of such delays for
the fu,i'llment of the foregoing oil.
tations.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-04
VIII Contract for Power.

Il have arrangements with the
Washington Oregon company that viii
insure all Of that companys power
for this city If it is wanten None OF
our power will go to Walla Walla.
We will leave that field to the North
western company and win confinc our
selves to Pendleton and Umatilla coun-
ty We will be ready within few
days to make contracts for power
with local people and with the city.
We will guarantee to furnish the city
electricity for lighting purposes at a
price at least 20 per cent lower than
II IS now paying for that service. We
will bring this electricity from our own
plant to be developed on the Walla
WalIa river and we will guarantee to
have the current here within two
years"
This is the substance of statement
made last evening by d. Fitz Gerald,
Of the Oregon Washington traction
company. 20 the committee which is
representing the Commercial associ-
alton. IT was made following Mr.. Fitz
Gcrald's return from Walla Walla
where he met the stockholders of his
company and laid before them some Of
the things which he and the people Of
this city desire from that company.
The session of the committee last
evening was the first held since the
return Of Judge James 4. Fee from
Portland At the session last night
the committe was formally organized.
Or. C. J. smith was elected chairman
upon motion of Judge Fee and Leon
Cohen was chosen secretary. Every
member Of the committee was present.
rs well as Messrs Fitz Gerald and
raumeister of the traction company.
Al the close of the discussion last
night Mr.. Fitz Gerald was asked to
draft in the form Of n contract tho
things which his company is willing to
do and the contract was drafted dur
ing the forenoon today by Mr.. Fitz
Gerald and Judge Fee.
VIII Have Director.
At the meeting this morning Mr.
Fitz Gerald agreed to amend tho
agreement given above so as to make
il provide that at least one director in
the company be chosen from among
the Pendleton stockholders. He says
two directors viii be named from am
org local people.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-04
AGREE TO ELECTR|FY LINE WITHIN TWO YEARS
Fitzgerald Has Deal With Company That nsures Entire Pow
er Supply for This City and County

Six Miles of Car Line Park
Years-Fify Miles of Intcrurban
to Contract
andL iced Ia
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-04

Continued on page S.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-04-02
STEWART GOES INTO
BUSINESS.

George M. Stewart, the man
who perfected the Seattle post
office making it one of the best
regulated offices in the United
States, and who, after he had
accomplished the work, was con-
spired against by local polite
ians and whose head was chop
ped off by the president at the
request of Senator Samuel H.
Piles three months before his
second term expired, has become
the head of a large real estate
concern in Seattle, which has
commodious quarters at ZIG
Cherry street.
AS president of The Realty
Owners Syndicate, Invest
ment Bankers, ZIG Cherry strset
his transfer from political to
business life has made no change
in his hustling abilities to sue
coed, and his many friends will
doubtless be glad to hear that
his efforts in making business.
along new lines have so far been
very successful.
AS head of a company who
possess an undertaking with
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-04-02
TINKERING WITH THE
TARIFF.
TIL Z,

Congress is now endeavoring
to revise the tariff law, which
has held the boards in the Unit
ed States since 1896 when the
Dingley tariff bill became law.
Within the past three decades
the tariff of the United States
has been frequently revised and
at each revision some member of
Congress and especially in the
house of representatives has
gained almost everlasting fame.
Pig Iron Kelly, Samuel Randall,
John R. Morrison, William Nc
Kinley and William Dingley, all
made everlasting fame for them
selves by tinkering one way
no the other with the
tariff while in the house of rep
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-04-02
A PROMINENT AFRO
q CAN DIES.

Many persons who lived in
Washington during it's territorial
days and since it has been a
state, will regret to learn of the
death of Rudolph Il. Scott, the
we'll known, Afro-American of
Spokane, where he resided for
the past twenty-five or more
years. In the early history of
the state he was quite active in
Republican circles and was al
ways familiar figure about
state conventions. He for four
or more years held a deputyship
in the internal revenue depart
ment and was stationed at Osso-
yos Lake, which lies northwest
of Spokane on the boundary line
between Washington and British
Columbia. He was subsequently
appointed Chinese inspector of
this district and held that posi-
ton something like eight years.
Mr.. Scott had a warm friend and
supporter in the person of Mrs.
John A. Logan, who was respon-
sible for his government appoint
ments. He was a member of
the Grand Army of the Republic
and was always prominent at
the various encampments held
by it throughout the Northwest.
For the past ten years he has
been interested in various min
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-04-02

resentatives of Congress and it
is now up to Representative Sc
reno Payne to pluck eternal
fame for himself from the 61st
Congress by tinkering with the
tariff, which by the way, seems
to be much in need Of either him
or some other 'igit" doing
whole lot of tinkering with it.
Mr.. Payne's predecessors, who
headed the ways and means
committee, chisled their names
in the archives of this govern
ment in such a manner that
though they are dead yet their
memories will live on and on
until time will be no more and if
he Payne has the right kind of
stuff in him he will follow in
their wake. The ideas of the
average citizen are very vague
as to actual tariff revision, but
however vague their ideas may
be they do know that whenever
the tariff on certain articles is so
high that a similar foreign art
icle cannot compete, for an ex-
ample coal and lumber as in the
Northwest, and yet the owners
of the foreign product pay their
operators as much or more to
produce the article as the owners
of the protected article pay their
operators, then they know that
the tariff, especially as to that
article, needs revising. In the
state of Washington there are
extensive coal fields and hum
dreds of operators are employed
in putting it on the market. A
similar state of affairs exist in
British Columbia, which is sep
arated from the state of Wash
ington with only an imaginary
line. Miners in British Col
umbia get as good wages as the
miners in Washington and yet
coal sells for a third more in
Washington than it does in Brit
ish Columbia and the British
Columbia fuel is completely
driven from the markets of this
country. The same is true of
lumber and under such circum-
stances it seems an imposi-
ton on the working-man to con-
tinue high protection on those
commodities that simply make
the rich richer and the poor
poorer.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-04-02
AMERICANA JAPANESE
NUPTIALS.

A white woman Journeyeu
from California to Seattle to
marry a Japanese with whom
she had become enamored and
she was accompanied by her
mother and father, the latter
though bitterly opposing the
match, coming to see that his
daughters honor was protected
and that she be honorably mar
ried to the man. Before leaving
California the mother and
daughter were hooted and jeered
at by hundreds of men and boys
at the stations and the newpa-
pers let loose a trade of yellow
journalism as though another
step toward the much talked of
japanese war with the United
states had been taken.
Throughout Oregon and Wash
ington the yellow journals con-
tinued their sensational reports
of the approaching nuptials as
though the japanese was a bah
Don instead of a man. In the
Northwest are to be found hum
dreds of white girls married to
Japanese, Chinese and other
darker races; in the Northwest
are to be found hundreds of men
of refined and intelligent famil-
les married or cohabiting with
Indians, japanese, Chinese and
other darker races. In the
Northwest these misceg-
enation matches between
white and colored persons
are by no means uncommon and
why then all this hullabaloo
about Miss Emery marrying
Aoki? With all due respect to
Miss Emery and her family it is
very doubtful if she is a whit
more intelligent than the Japan
csc she has married. After the
yellow journals had done all they
could to make a mountain out of
a mole hill then DIR. Math-
ews. that champion of pulpit
sensationalism, broke out and
announced that he was opposed
to such matches. Had he and
others of his kind have preached
such doctrines when he was in
the South there perhaps would
not be the millions of half caste
children in the South that there
are the results of white men CO.
habiting with black women.
The difference between the
white women of this country and
the white men is that when
the women decide to cast their
lot with men of a darker Race,
they generally marry them
while the men raise hell about
the woman doing the honorable
thing and yet they proceed to do
the same thing but by the most
dishonorable ways.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-04-02

ing projects and it is said his in
vestments were quite successful.
He leaves a wife and a number
of children to mourn his loss,
and chief among then are two
sons, both men, who have taken
courses at the University of
Washington.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-04-02

Who has been named by Governor Hay as
adjutant general of the state militia, to sue
coed General Otis Hamilton whose commits
sion has already expired. Col. Lamping
halls from Seattle and stands high in local
military circles. 1t will likewise be remem-
bered that when President Roosevelt visited
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1909-03-30

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