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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-21
Ayiators Get Cold Medals.

Paris, Dec. 21.-The Academy Of
Sciences tonight announced that gold
medals for aeronautic achievements
would be awarded to Wilbur and Or
Vile Wright, Bleriot, Farman. Count
DeLambert. Latham, Santos Dumont
DeLaVaux. Voisin and Count Zeppelin.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-21
NInnY Now Elks.

Notices sent local members of the
Elks by Secretary Thomas Fitz Ger
aid state that at the next meeting of
the lodge. to be held Thursday even
ing, action will be taken upon appli-
cations from the following: c. B.
johnson. C. J. Jackson, Richard NJ.
Mayberry, Ralph G. Hessel, Adolph
l.. Schaefer, ]. l. Vaughan and w. v,
Glazier.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-21
Now Officers Elected.

Officers were elected last evening
for Pendleton Lodge No. So, A. F. &
A NJ, as follows: Ben L. Bur-
roughs, w. M: Will R. Wyrick. S.
W.; Cliff ]. Bellinger, j. W.; John
Bentley, treasurer; Joe H. Parkes,
secretary; and Charles A. Cole, Ty-
Ter, The appointive Officers have
not yet been named. The new Off
GERS will be installed on st. Johnson's
Day December 27.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-21

sold by c. E. Baker to F. R. Reeves,
late of the American Typefounders
company, and the latter is now in
charge of the west end publication.
Both gentlemen have been in Pendle-
ton today. In the future the Herald
will be published by Mr.. Reeves while
Mr.. Baker will devote his attention to
the large tract of irrigated land he
owns Immediately adjoining Hermis-
ton.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-21
Water Suit Is On.

water Suit Is On.
The hearing of the second of the
famous Echo water suits is now in
progress before Judge Bean. Though
about three days time was gained
yesterday when both sides agreed to
submit all the testimony of the first
case which was applicable in this,
several days will yet be consumed in
the trial of the case. There is small
chance of the hearing being complet-
ed before the end of the week.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-21
AMUNDSEN IN CHRISTIANA.
Says He viii Reserve Verdict Until
He Hears What Copenhagen Saws.


Christiana, Dec. 21.-The steamer
Helllg Olav, which arrived here last
night from New York by way OF
Christiansana brought Captain AM
undsen as a passenger.
Captain Amundsen. speaking fur
ther of DIR. Cook, said he saw no rea-
son 10 discredit him, Notwithstanding
his reported relations with Captain
Loose. He added that he would wait
until the verdict of Copenhagen uni
versity was announced.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-21
Victim of Italian Vendetta.

Chicago, Dec 21-Joseph Russell
was today shot ana may die. He de-
clared he had been doomed by mem
bers Of a secret society in. Italy and
gave the name Of an Italian who, he
said, had followed him.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-21
Barber shops VIII Close.

1t was announced this morning
that the barber shops of the city will
close at noon. Saturday, Christmas
day They have arranged, however,
to keep open until 10 o'clock Fri
day night instead of closing at Z as
usual
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-21
AIR EscaDes from Brakes

While it is not known for a GER
tainty, it is said that the only ex-
planat.on Of the peculiar accident is
that the air suddenly escaped and
left the train standing on a down
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-21
NeuUsy Notes
of PendLeton
Laatz is Cashier.

Henry Laatz who has been acting
as day baggage agent at the o. r. s.
n. passenger depot for the past few
months has been promoted and is now
cashier for the local office. A. L.
Pullman is the new baggage master.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-21

grade with nothing to obstruct its
progress. Swiftly but noiselessly, the
wheels began turning and it was just
going out of sight down the noun
tain when the trainmen discovered
it. AS quickly as possibl they start
ed in pursuit. but they did not dare
go as fast as the train and so were
unable to keep in sight of it.
The operator at Kamela Immediate
ly wired Meacham to look out for the
runaway train. AS soon as he re-
ceived the message he rushed out on
to the platform and the flying string
of freight cars was even them coming
round the curve into Meacham. Call
ing to some Greek laborers to get
away from the track he ran across
onto the open space in front of the
depot, expecting to see the flying cars
fail to make the curve and crash in
to the depot
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-21
Pass Meacham Like Flash.

The long train was by like a flash
and William Dahziel, the factory in
spector who was at Meacham at the
time, says the smoke was coming
from hundred wheels
Dahziel followed on down to the
scene of the wreck on the locomotive
which had stopped at Meacham for
news of the runaway. He says he
cannot understand how the long string
of cars succeeded in taking the tunnel
this side of Meacham and then negoti-
ating all the sharp curves and pass
ing over the high trestle. According
to the factory inspector the first cars
to leave the track were a car load of
lumber and one of wheat located In
the very middle of the train. What
caused them to spring out of the mid
die of the train and allow the rest
of it to proceed on half mile down
were piled to one side will never be
known. The second bunch did not
stop the wild rush and it was a quarter
of mile further down the line that
six or seven other cars left the rails
and quarter of a mile further come
the smashup in front, which stopped
the procession.
Dahziel says the first two cars to
leave the train must have shot straight
into the air for the first place they
hit was so feet from the track. There
was just one big scar in the snow to
mark this spot and when they came
down again they were a hundred feet
down the canyon. When they stopped
both of them were in the very bottom
of the canyon and lumber and grain
was left to mark their path for quar-
ter Of mile.
ODDLY enough the caboose and six
car loads of livestock were the only
ones which did not leave the rails.
Sixteen cars were totally destroyed
/ and many We're seriously damaged
I The loss will amount UP into the
! thousands of dollars for in addition
! to the actual loss sustained by the
railroad company, many of the wreck
! ed cars were loaded with high class
merchandise.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-21

Continued from Page One)
the depot getting orders when the
train without the eng ne started
down the mountain. Conductor F..
Ray of La Grande, was in charge of
the train while Eng neer Fields was
in the cab
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-21

Eeaa the East OregonIan.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-21
TRAIN WRECK WAS MIRACLE

Continued from Page oneJ
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10
Boy Caused Cherry Fire.

Testimony introduced at the cor
oner's inquest at the Cherry mine
horror at Cherry, ILL.,, tends to show
that the fire was started by Mat Fran
cisco, an inexperienced boy of Is, who
was working in the mine in alleged
violation of the child labor law.
The boys work was to push the
empty cars from the main shaft in
the second vein over to the cage run
ming to the third vein. Francisco
testified that he had pushed the loaded
car of hay that caught fire over to the
elevator shaft leading to the third
vein and left it standing close to the
blazing torch which ignited it.
Representatives of State Factory
Inspector Davies Office declared that
this testimony justified the opinion
that the child labor law was freely
violated in the Cherry mine, to the
great danger of the 500 miners en-
ployed there.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10
Youngest Travelling Man.

"Harold Banks, Chicago" is the way
it appears on the register of one
Omaha hotel, and the owner of the
name claims to be the youngest travel
ing man in the world, and he looks it.
He pleads guilty to being nine years
of age and declares that this is his
third season on the road, writes Winter
Byles in an exchange.
In order to subscribe his name on the
hotel register Harold has to stand on
his tiptoes, but when it comes to doing
business he can give points to some
of the best OF the veterans. He is sell
ing window cleaning compound and
deals with the retail trade. He has
been in Omaha three days this last
week and says his orders will exceed
$1,000.
While the young man from Chicago
is educated in the ways of the world,
he has not acquired any of it's vices.
Discussing this point, he said:
81 do not drink, smoke, chew or
earouse. l enjoy game of baseball,
but never allow it to interfere with
my business. I like travelling and have
no difficulty in securing orders. I
travel alone, pay full fare, yet I could
take advantage OF my youth and size
and get half rate. However, that would
not be quite the thing for travelling
man to do, and then I don't think the
house would stand for it."
Young Banks started in business sell.
ing newspapers on the streets of Chi
cago and made good. Then he got a
chance to sell the window CLEANING
compound in the city and did so well
that he was given territory, which in,
cludes Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota
He makes two trips a year, and saws
that this year his salary and commission
will net him $4,000. His money is sent
home and placed in a savings bank
When he gets enough to make a paw.
ment he buys a lot. He claims that
he has great confidence in real estate
and insists that his ambition is to own
a farm, well stocked with fine cattle
and horses. When he has secured this
he will quit the road and become =
farmer.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10
MONTANA NOTES.

Switchmen at Whitefish were given a
raise of cents an hour, effective the
first of the month. This was given vol
UNFAIRLY by the Great Northern to pat
the men on the same basis as other
yards of this class.
Chief Rockboy and his band of 125
Chippewa braves are now officially at
home in their new hunting grounds on
the Blackfeet reservation and 100000
acres in Valley county of that state,
which were withdrawn to make home
for the Indians, have been reopened to
settlement.
Roy and Tommy Wiles and William
Mooring of Columbia Falls, while on
hunting trip to the summit of the
Rocky mountains, killed three goats and
one deer.
Jack Wilson, the victim of high
wayman, was found probably fatally
frozen Saturday near an old barn on
the outskirts of Woodside. Wilson ap-
parently had been drinking and had
been held up by a footpad who, after
taking SO from him, had Invested him
of his coat, trousers, shoes and socks,
leaving him lying on the ground help
less throughout the night, although the
weather was bitterly cold and the tenn
perature below zero. Wilson IS legs
were frozen to the knees and the physi-
clans hold out no hope for his recovery.
Montana coal fields in and around
Lewistown have a bright future, ac-
cording to w. R. Calvert, geologist for
the United States government, who re-
Gently completed a survey of Fergus
county and land adjacent. This coal in
few years, in his opinion, prob
ably will supplant the cheaper Goals
used by railroads in the west.
Police Captain Thomas Norton OF
Butte, is under serious charges. He is
alleged to have been too greatly inter,
ested in cases in which the Butte cleo
trio railway has been sued for damages
and that he has approached number
of witnesses and man supposed to be
a juror. He is also charged with hav
ing "shot up" the town while intoxi
Gated a short time ago.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10
OREGON sQU1Bs.

Sheriff Taylor of Pendleton has APP
pointed T. D. Sweeten a deputy to be
stationed at Umatilla.
c. B. Stout and w. w. Stevens, own
ers of the flour mill consumed by fire at
Baker City three weeks ago just after
it had been completed, announced that
they were ready to rebuild the mill if
stock could be sold to local city.
The dangerous Hall street 'Fincline, -
which almost every year that there is
any snow falling in Portland takes its
toll of human life from members of
coasting parties, late Sunday caused the
death of Anita Terra, II year old girl,
and fatally injured Frank Smith. Be-
sides these, James Wilson, Magdalena
Weber, Marie lyman, Jennie c. Boeh-
mer, Miss Boehmer s young brother, and
the small son of William H. Brandes
were seriously but not dangerously in.
jured.
Twice lured from Wilsonville, Ore.
to San Francisco by "bunco" men, los
ing $1,000 to them on each occasion and
returning to his Oregon home to mort
gage him farm for $4,000 to recover his
losses in a third trial at the swindlers
"fake" racing game, Carl DickmaT
was finally saved by J. H. Thornton
of Thornton & Son, Wilsonville bankers
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10
LATE MINING NEWS.

The annual report of State Mining
Inspector William Walsh of Montana,
shows that the significant feature of the
industry for the year is the growing
attention being given to the zinc ores
and to the study of the processes for
their treatment, several of which have
been successful and are increasing the
profits of the mines at the same time
the penalties at the shelters for the
treatment of zinc-bearing ores are re-
duced. 'FThe profit arising from this
class of ores comes from the fact that
they can be produced at lower rate
than the zinc ores of Missouri and other
distinctly zinc districts, because of the
gold and silver and other valuable
metals contained, making it a very
profitable product he says.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10
BOY LOOKED IN WITH DEAD
For Twelve Hours Alone With Dead
Mother and Father.

Kansas City, Dec. 6.-FOr IL hours
throughout the coolest night here this
season, little Earl Campbell, two years
old, was locked in an apartment in Kan
sas City, Kan, alone with the dead
bodies of his father and mother, both
slain with the weapon found in the dead
mans hand. The child's plight was
discovered by neighbOrs who had been
disturbed all night by his crying and
finally investigated, Forcing. the door,
they discovered that Joseph Campbell,
80 years old, had shot and killed his
wife Saturday night when neighbors
were at theater. The couple had quar-
relied frequently. The position of the
bodies showed Enthusiastically that it was
q case of murder and suicide.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10

in Standpoint has been changed to De-
cember 10 and II.
The North Fork river, which flows
past Murray, through a rich agricul-
tural and timber country and into the
main Occur d'Alene river near Enaville
and is 80 miles long, is higher now
than at any time in II years.
While the parents were away the
other evening the 4-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Mansel Gordon, living on the
west side of Lake Occur d'Alene, was
burned to death.
The plant of the Lewiston Tribune
was practically destroyed by fire late
Friday afternoon. The fire started in
the basement and spread so rapidly
that little could be saved. The plant
was valued at $4,000, and light in
surance was carried.
The nd was clamped on tight than
for months in Wallace, Sunday, by order
of Mayor Walter H. Hanson. Not a
place in town where liquor is sold was
open all day. For many months the
saloons have been doing big Sunday
business. The order was wholly unex
pected.
Word received from z. A. johnson
president of the Nez Perez & Idaho
Railway company, who is in Chicago
states bond issue of $125,0O0 has beer
sold to Chicago capitalists and the road
between Nez Perez and Vollmer will
be completed at the earliest possible
date.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10
TOPROTECTFORESTS
ASSOCIATION STARTS MOVE
MENT FOR BEST RESULTS.
Vice President Sherman Presides Over
Senate and Speaker Cannon in the
House-Usual Preliminary Planning
By Leaders of Factions is Lacking
Old Rules Will Prevail.

Washington, Dec. 6.-At noon Mon
day the first regular session of the 61st
congress convened. Vice President
Sherman presided in the senate and
Speaker Cannon in the house.
There have been few sessions in re-
cent years for which there has been so
little planning among members. Ordin-
arily, Speaker Cannon and Senator Aid
rich, who speaks for the majority of the
senate, have a program at the begin
ming of session, but this year they
have none, or, if they have, they are
not talking about it. They are waiting
upon the president.
By common consent apparently all are
holding back until the presidential
recommendation are received.
Even the "insurgents generally ex-
press a willingness to wait upon the
White House before attempting to form
ulate plan of action. This is true
both in the senate and the house. They
manifest much interest in the forthcom-
| ing message, but say that until it is re-
ceived they will be unable to form any
plans.
They are avowedly irreconcilable in
their attitude toward the speaker and
Senator Aldrich, whom they hold respon-
sible, the one for the house rules and
the other for the present tariff.
There is practically no prospect of
amending the rules of the house in
this session, and indications are strong
that no general effort will be made in
that direction.
The principal interest in the outlook
concerns the possibility of railroad legis-
lation.
Much interest is felt in the Nicara-
guam situation, but the general DISPOSE
ton is to permit the executive branch
to deal with it without interference.
The attitude of Cannon toward the
provisions of the tariff law relative to
print paper and wood pulp is giving
some concern.
Representative Campbell of Kansas
will introduce a resolution asking for an
Investigation of the sugar trust.
The opinion is quite general that New
Mexico and Arizona will attain to state
hood before the close of the session.
Representative Campbell of Kansas
will introduce resolution asking for ar
Investigation of the sugar trust.
The opinion is quite general thai
New Mexico and Arizona win attain tt
statehood before the close of the session
Efforts will be made to get through {
postal savings bill and merchant
marine bill, but both will be opposed.
Both houses adjourned almost imme
diately after converting on Monday, thu
senate on account of the death of Sen
ator johnson of North Dakota, and thu
; house because of the deaths of Repre-
sentatives DeArmond of Missouri, ant
Lassiter of Virginia, all of which havt
occurred in the recess.
Mr.. Thompson, who succeeds Senate
johnson, was sworn in, also McCredi
and Mr.. Monkey, the one the successo
of the late Representative Cushman o
Washington, and the other of William
Lorimer of Illinois, elevated to the sen
ate.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10
NEWS OF The WORLD
SHORT ITEMS FROM ALL over
The ENTIRE GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

Many casualties occurred among the
fishing fleets in the North sea during
the recent storm
At Pittsburg, Kans., Saturday, Miss
Goldie Ingberg was murdered and
robbed at her home.
j. p. Morgan has bought Mr.. Ryan s
stocks, thereby securing majority of
the shares of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance society.
Reports from many points in Oregon,
Washington and Idaho indicate that
Sunday was the worst early winter
day for a decade or more.
Rev. Henry j. Drumach, former presi-
dent of the St. Ignatius college, died
of uraemia in his apartments at the
college building Saturday.
Announcement of the opening of the
machine shops at Spokane and other
points along the line of the Great
Northern railway, closed since the be-
ginning of the switchmen S strike, is
made.
Four men were arrested in Collins
vile, ILL.,, recently, charged with par
ticipating in plot to kidnap the three
young children of l.. F., Lumaghi, a
former mayor of the town. They are
held under bonds of $4,000.
A general increase in wages and a
betterment of general working condi-
lions will be asked of every railroad in
the United States if the attitude of
the great brotherhoods of railroad en-
ployes is carried out.
All hope of the survival of the pas
sengers and crew of the Isle of Man
steamer ELAN Vannin was abandoned
Monday when portions Of a steamer Is
upper works and small boats picked
up on the banks of the Mersey were
identified as belonging to the missing
vessel. The ELAN Vannin carried 12
passengers and a crew of 81 men.
The government has decided to ap,
peal to the supreme court of the United
States in the case of Fritz Augustus
,Heinze, the big copper magnate and
former president of the Mercantile Ma
tional bank of New York. Heinze was
indicted under charges of having mis-.
appropriated the funds of the bank
There were 16 counts against him.
An electric railroad from the Metal
inc country, Washington, to connect wi
inc country, Washington, to con
meet with the Idaho & Washington
Northern, and run throgh the rich agri
cultural and mining districts in the
vicinity Of Erie, B. c., is proposed to
be built within the next two years
according to reports made by the engi
neers who are now engaged in making
surveys for the projected line.
w. A. Clark, formerly United States
senator from Montana, has returned ia
New York from tour of Europe. He
left his family in Paris, which his, wife
is fond of, in order to hasten compile
ton of his mansion at Fifth avenue and
Seventy street, for their occu
,paney. It has been under construction
seven years. Already its marble-and
bronze exterior looks-for New York
twice it's age, while workmen still
.throng its interior. When finished il
will be one of the most expensive
American homes ever put up.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10
IDAHO ITEMS

A new bank at Kamiah is reported.
Saturday was a gala day in White
bird as the engineers employed by the
Gilmore and Pittsburg Railroad COM
pjany were entertaining. A baseball
game was played, the engineers meet
ing the Whitebird team.
Because of bad roads a famine in
irewood exists on Nez Perez prairie
and farmers are pulling fence posts and
cutting them for fuel. There has been
a scarcity of frewood on the prairie
all fall and the price of wood has risen
to $40 a cord.
A farmers institute will be held in
Grangeville January 26-29.
Gambling in every shape which comes
under tie ban of the state law must stop
at Standpoint, This is the ultimatum
issued to the saloons and gambling re.
sorts by the city council.
The date for the farmers institute
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10
Roosevelts Get Big Bag.

Nairobi, British East Africa, Nov. 90.
Colonel Roosevelt and R. /. Cunning
have arrived at Naivasha on October 20
from an extended hunt. They were de-
lighted with their experience, and Col.
Roosevelt said he and Kermit were
proud of having got their elephants,
and especially proud that each had shot
one when unaccompanied by such ex-
perienced hunters as Cunningham and
Tarlton The skins of the elephants and
the skulls and bones were brought in
by porters.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10
Big silver-I,ead Strike.

What is described as the biggest sill
ver-lead strike in the Kootenai for
years, has been made at the United
mine in the Ainsworth (B. CO. district,
one of the two properties held by the
Highland United Mines. The find is
described as practically a straight 20
feet of good milling ore, cut into at
the 20O-foot level. A double compart-
ment shaft has been sunk 200 feet,
and the 20 feet of ore is at the bottom
of the shaft, where station is being
cut to cross-cut the vein.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-10
Pope's Brother Is Postmaster.

Angelo Sarto, brother of Pope Plus,
has arrived in Rome and will spend the
Christmas holidays at the vatican. Not
withstanding that his brother became
pope, Angelo maintains his position as
postmaster in the village of Grazio,
province of Mantua, .Lombardy, where
he has been employed for nearly 40
years.