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Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-13
SENATE IRRIGATION
COMMITTEE VISITS
SOUTHERN POINTS
See Big Future for Agriculture in New
Fields with the Development
of Big Water Supply
Projects

The United States senate special ir-
rigation project investigating commit
tee arrived in Los Angeles at midnight
and left twenty-eight minutes later for
the Imperial valley, where an inspec-
tion will be made of proposed irrigation
there. In the party We're:
Senator Thomas H. Carter of Min
tana, chairman; F. E. Warren Of
Wyoming, w. L. Jones of Washing
ton; F. II. Newell, director of the re-
clamation service; Stephen J. Murphy,
ergeant-at-arms of the United States
senate; c. B. Eaton, official reporter;
II. j. Corey, general manager of the
California Development company, and
w. F. Holt of Redlands. O. Fl. Ensign
of the reclamation service and N. R.
Martin, district passenger agent of the
Southern Pacific, Joined the party here
to show the visitors the Imperial val
ley.
Although the hour was late, Senator
Carter saw a Herald representative.
The senator said:
''Our party wanted to visit Los An
geles for several days, but 1T was inn
possible.
"Some time ago the senate named our
committee to look over the various
government projects More than $780,
100000 has been spent on irrigation
work by the United States in the past
seven years and between $400, 900, 900 and
$500, 900, 900 will be spent in the future.
THE committee has been on this trip
since August. We have been surprised
and pleased with the work we have
seen. From what I have seen of Cali
fornia believe there is room for mil
lions of people here.
1.-THE reclamation work is broadening
out to such an extent that the United
States is now aiding settlers in irri-
cation projects as we'll as reclaiming
arid lands"
The party will go to Arizona from the
Imperial valley.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-13
EDITOR AND TONG LEADER
ARE RELEASED ON BAIL

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 12.-Police
Judge Shortall fixed the bonds today
for Tong King Chong, secretary of the
Chinese Free Masons and editor of the
Chinese Daily Free Press, and Gee
Hong On, president of On Yick tong,
at $4,000 each. The men, who have
been charged with conspiracy to muir
der Yee Fong Hong, one of the Yee
tong killed November 2, are still at
large, but it is believed they will sur
render as soon as bonds are procured
for their appearance.
Yee Vim was arraigned today on
the charge of having murdered Ow
Ying Gum of the On Yick, who was
shot Wednesday night. The case went
over till next Wednesday.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-13
TWO MEN MEET
TRAGIC DEATHS
u. S, PRISON GUARDS DIE IN
MYSTERIOUS MANNER
CLERK PLUNeEs FROM THIRD
STORY WINDOW
Roommate Of Victim Learns of Trag-
edy and Puts Bullet Into Head
and Is Found Dead with
Revolver by Side
IBy Associated Press.l

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 12.-Search-
ing inquiry into the death of Thomas
Mullaly, clerk of company B, prison
guards of the United States military
prison on Alcatraz island, and the sub
sequent suicide of his roommate, Quar-
termaster Sergeant Roy Ford, has
failed to throw any light on the double
tragedy which occurred last night.
Mullaly fell from his window on the
third floor of the stone barrack building
and was dashed to death on the iron
grating below. Ford, who was In the
room at the time, locked himself in the
company storeroom when he ascer-
tanned that Mullaly was dead, and shot
himself through the head when an ef-
fort was made to force the door.
Mullaly and Ford were roommates
and apparently good friends, according
to their comrades. The former was
seated in the company reading room
last night, when Ford appeared at the
Coor and asked TO speak to. him pri-
yately. They retired to their own
room, and a few minutes later Mullaly
was heard to cry out in fear and his
body crashed against the iron grating
below. All of the witnesses examined
declared no sounds of quarreling were
heard.
Sees Body Pass Window
Private Davis, who occupies the room
lust beneath the one from which Null
laly fell, saw the body fall past his
window. He rushed down stairs, and
finding Mullaly was dead, fastened
back to the barracks. He encountered
Ford on the stairway, and the sergeant
asked If his roommate was dead. Davis
answered that he was, and Ford eX-
claimed: "My God, what shall 1 do?'
The post surgeon was summoned,
and when he pronounced Mullaly's life
extinct Lieutenant Stedge went in
search of Ford to get his version of the
affair. He found the sergeant locked in
the company storeroom. Stedge ratified
the door, but Ford refused to make any
answer, and when the officer sum-
moned assistance to break in, a muf-
fled shot sounded from the room. When
the door gave way Ford's body was
found, with his revolver beside 1t and
q hole in his head.
When the news of the tragedy first
reahced here it was reported the men
had quarreled as the result of involved
accounts, and that Mullaly had been
hurled from the window. Col r. b.
Turner, post commandant, denied that
there was the slightest irregularity in
either mans accounts. No quarreling
was heard, and there had been no evi-
dence of i'll feeling between the men at
any time. TIE inquiry held today failed
to disclose anything which would tend
to explain the mystery surrounding
the case.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-13
MINING

Mining engineer returns from Mexico via
Globe and Miami and says camps are
booming. PAGE
Silver Moon lease at Lucky Boy has two
feet of ore developed by Alamo Mining
company. PAGE
Leasers at Coalinga refuse 40 cents offered
by X, T. & o. for product Of wells.
PAGE
Mount Nebo Oil company of Los Angeles
has I76O-foot we'll in Juab, Utah. PAGE
Leedy makes rich strike in the Ruth mine
at Gold Roads. PAGE
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-13
TWENTY-FIVE GIRLS TO
AID IN SEARCH FOR GIRL

NEW YORK, Nov. 12.-Twenty~five
young women from the choir of St,
Peters German-Lutheran church in
the Bronx are conducting a systematic
search to find Emmet Hoffman, II
years old, who was a member of the
choir and whose strange disappearance
from her home Monday morning has
been unexplained.
Each young woman acquaintance has
been assigned to travel continuously
on a certain street car line or to search
through a particular district, while
others have been instructed to call at
all homes and business places where
Miss Hoffman might have gone.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-13
COAST

Finch eNpiates crime OF murder with his
life, and Sawyer, who had practiced
in oregon, Is hanged at Salem for
staying Prosecutor Fisher one year
ago. PAGE 10
Two men meet with tragic deaths at
u. S. military prison on Alcatraz is
land. and mystery In deaths of the
two officers is not solved PAGE 1
jail prisoners at Seattle in Starvation
strike" OF l. w. w. accept food men
at Fort George still starving PAGE G
Wants millions for its water, Spring
Valley company demands $40. 9.420,750
from San Francisco. PAGE /
Officers elected by Federated women's
clubs in convention at san Jose. PAGE 3
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-13
JOKESMITH SHUTS ELEVEN
HUNDRED MEN FROM WORK
Polish Laborer's Franks Cause Cessa-
ton of Industry at Big Plant of
General Electric Company

SCHENECTADY, N. Y, Nov. H.
Because of a practical joker, HOO en-
ployes of the General Electric COM
pany were idle today.
A Polish laborer employed in the
foundry had become obnoxious to the
coremalxers and molders because he
poured sand down their backs and
smeared their tools with grease.
A few days ago he was thrashed by
one of his victims. The joker was
discharged today and the laborers re-
fused to work unless he was rein
stated. The molders and coremakers
could not proceed without helpers.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-13
Warrlner Is Physical Wreck

CINCINNATI, Nov. 12.-Charles i.
Warriner, deposed local treasurer,
charged with the shortage of $643,OOO
in his accounts with the Big -Four rail-
road, is nearly physical wreck his
friends said today.
Big Four officials expressed the be-
lief there would be no more important
developments in the big defalcation so
far as the Cincinnati offices were con-
cerned
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-13
A. |. LAWSHE MAY BE NAMED
GOVERNOR OF NEW MEXICO

Ell PASO. Tex, Nov. 12.-Belief that
Third Assistant Postmaster General
A. l.. Lawshe will be named by Presi-
dent Taft as governor of New Mexico
has been strengthened by Mr.. Lawshe's
action in taking up his residence IN
Las Cruces, N. NJ. and his announce
ment that he intends making that city
his permanent home. He will not re-
turn to his position in Washington.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-13
SPORTS

California and Stanford universities are on
edge for the annual game of football.
PAGE 12
Stanley Ketchel will hght Jim Flynn in
Los Angeles in December. PAGE IL
All-Nationals outplay Angels at Chutes,
10 2. PAGE 12
Pomona football aggregation to play u.
s. C. this afternoon at Bovard field. PAGE IL
Athletics easily defeat the San Francisco
nine. PAGE 10
National board of arbitration adiours at
Memphis. PAGE 12
Jeffries favors California for the big fight
with johnson. PAGE IL
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-13
Taft confers on Sugar Frauds

HARTFORD, Conn, Nov. 12.-It be-
came known here tonight that Presi-
dent Taft on his trip from Washington
to Philadelphia last night discussed
with Attorney General Wickersham
many phases of the so-called sugar
trust frauds in New York city. The
conference, it is said, had largely 10
do with the recent decision adverse to
the government, rendered by Judge
Holt in the United States court of New
York. 1t was practically decided to
anDeal these cases.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-13
FOREIGN

Prosecutor grillsA Nine. Steinheil, who is on
trial in Paris for alleged murder of hus-
band and stepmother PAGE
Liquor question regards relation of labor
and saloon will not be discussed at con-
vention of A.. f. of L. at Toronto. PAGE
Hurricane does great damage on Jamaica
island, especially at Kingston. PAGE II
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-13
SOUTH CALIFORNIA

Throop Institute president declares he
viii never sanction formation OF secret
societies, and says athletics must be
free from all taint Of gambling. PAGE II
Large attendance at Sunday school con-
veution which completes work at
Riverside. PAGE II
Students object TO taking examinations
- Long Beach high school and MI key
holes with plaster OF paris. PAGE II
Slate for school board appears in field at
Santa Monica. PAGE 13
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-13
eaxnor swears He Spent Nothing

ALBANY, N. Y, Nov. 12.-William
J. Gaynor, mayor-elect of New York,
filed a statement with the secretary of
state today in which he swears he did
not expend any money to further his
election.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-13
Admiral to Be Relieved

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.-Rear Ad-
miral Eugene H. Leutze, commandant
of the Washington navy yard, will be
relieved November 16 on account of
age. He will remain in command of
the office until his successor is Sc
lected.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-13
INDEX OF
THE HERALD'S
NEWS TODAY
FORECAST

FORECAST
Eos Los Angeles and vicinity: Fair
Saturday; light frost in the morning
back from coast; light north wind.
Maximum temperature yesterday, &c
degrees; minimum, 40 degrees.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-08-10
INDIVIDUAL BLAME.

1--WE put the responsibility for q
mans conduct on himself. Our peo-
pie responded so splendidly that police
court on Monday morning never saw
more than dozen drunks from the
whole city Of 10000 people"
This statement was but recently
made by Sherburn Becker, the form
er Boy mayor" of Milwaukee. 1t is
interesting Tor it presents an idea that
is held by many people-that each
man should be personally responsible
for a temperate life.
It is undoubtedly true that in Am
erica this subject of individual re-
sponsibility has been neglected. The
censure has all been for the saloon
man while the individual who patron
izes a saloon to excess has been treated
with too much leniency. As a general
rule a man who gets drunk is fined
about s5 if he is punished at all. His
offence is usually regarded as a light
one and is often excused with a smile.
Yet a man who gets Crunk and
then appears in that condition upon
the streets or in any public place is
a dangerous individual He is liable
to be quarrelsome and may pick "a
fight. He frequently carries a gun
and uses it on whoever chances to
cross him. The court records are full
OF stories telling of crimes committed
by men when they are intoxicated.
But not only is a drunk man dam
gerous to public safety. He is often
a loathsome sight and his appearance
is. especially disgusting to ladies'.
In order to make the punishment
really fit the offense a drunk man
should be fined s25 or $50 instead OF
IS, or he should be held in Jail for
from 10 to 20 days instead of for but
a few hours while he is SOLDERING up
This is not written in defense of the
saloon business. The saloon business
is low calling and few men of real
ly good motives follow that business.
But it is Il fact that in fixing the
blame for the misery that comes from
liquor too much blame has been
placed upon the liquor dealer and not
enough blame upon the individual
who patronizes his establishment.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-08-10
TIE HANDS OF AGE.

The hands of youth are smooth and
beautiful,
And round, and finely formed, and
white and cool!
But have known two old and twisted
hands,
With knotted veins, and fingers bent
with work,
No grace of form is left TO those worn
frames
Wherein the hidden grace of life doth
lurk.
But thin, and cramped, and old, they
on them bear
The scars of those who toll and strug-
gle much.
The patient strength of all the earth
is theirs,
And tenderness untold in their touch.
The hands of youth are white and soft
with ease,
But God hath clasped such twisted
hands as these.
Sperry in Smith College
Monthly.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-08-10
HERE AND THERE.

The department of agriculture eX-
poets this years beet sugar crop to
total more than 100000 tons, the
greatest on record.
A speed of 46 miles an hour is
claimed for a Detroit motorboat to
which additional propulsion is CIV
en- by an aerial propeller
To aid in the study of high volt
ages a short experimental transmits
sion line has been built in Sweden
adapted to operate at 100000 volts.
Some 1000 Servian women have
been practicing with rifles several
months, with view to helping SOL
diers in case of war.
Lord Kitchener has had a good
many narrow escapes. There was an
explosion of a mine at Chatham.
which permanently injured his right
eye. At the battle of Suakin a hos
tile bullet broke his jaw. He frac-
tured his leg shortly after his arriv-
al in India, Once, in Palestine. his
surveying party was attacked by a
horde of fanatical Moslems. Kitch-
ener had nothing but his cane to de-
fend himself with, and when the tus-
tie was over he turned up covered
with blood.
The cost Of filtering water by the
slow sand process is given as follows
in the 1907 report Of the Lawrence.
Mass. water board. During that year
1.19S,O95,S79 gallons were filtered at
a total cost Of S11.54492, or about
s9.6S per 100000 gallons. The
itemized cost per 100000 gallons
was: Removal Of ice and snow,
$4.94; scraping, $1,455; sanding, $s7;
washing and conveying sand. S1Si9:
filter maintenance and extras, 1885,;
care of grounds, s0.524.
The ancient version Of an answer
attribuated to various persons in our
time was as follows: In a biblical
examination a student was asked,
''Who was Esaw?" He replied, "Esau
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-08-10

wealth, are mighty destructive to q
city's reputation one paper emit
ting such outrageous sentiments can
do more to injure San Francisco,
morally and commercially, than can
be offset by thousand Portolas
Brick and stone are not the only
things that enter into the making Of
a city; the character of its citizens
counts for something, and that char
acter is very frequently gagged by
the tone of the press. San Francisco
can't afford TO be misrepresented on
the issue of, the graft prosecution
This is entirely true. San Fran,
cisco cannot afford to tolerate graft
ing by the high or low From the
injuries inflicted by the earthquake
and fire san Francisco is rapidly re.
covering. It is springing forth as a
greater and better city than ever ana
is arouslng the admiration Of the
world. But the glory of the rebuild
ing has been marred by the ugly tales
OF dishonesty that have come from
the city ana the San Francisco press
has made the situation worse. They
have caused many people to believe
that San Francisco is full of corrup-
ton and thar the people do not care.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-08-10
FINISH THE CANAL.

General Marshall. chief of engineers
severely criucises congress for failure
to appropriate money for the COM
pletion Of the Cello canal. The work
could be finished within three years,
he says, if money were but available
for the completion Of the work But
when the money comes in driblets
much Of it must be expended in main-
tanning work that has already been
completed. At the rate work is now
progressing it will take 90 years to
finish the Cello canal.
This is the same course the govern
ment took with reference to the ca
nal at Cascade Locks. For 15 or 20
years congress appropriated small
sums for the work and at the end OF
that time the task was but half COM
pleted. Then a contract was let for
the completion of the work and it was
finished within three years. Had all
Of the work been carried through with
the same speed with which it was fin
ished the Cascade Locks canal would
probably have cost about half as
much as it did.
Congress should profit by the ex-
perience of the past and vote suffi-
cient money for the completion Of the
Cello canal. 1t would be economy to
do so and in addition the inland en-
pire would quickly gain the advan-
tage Of an open Columbia river.
At this time the outlook for western
river and harbor improvements seems
blue. The rivers and harbors COM
mittee will be dominated by men who
imagine that the Ohio river and the
great lakes are the only important in
land waterways of the country. They
will neglect Columbia river improve
ments unless the northwest delega-
tions force them to take notice Of this
section.
At the next session Of congress the
senators and representatives from
Oregon, Washington ard Idaho should
go after an appropriation for the
completion Of the Cello canal. They
should get It even II they have to
sand bag Joe Cannon and the COM
n1ittee chairman and take the money
by force.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-08-10
CALIFORNIA AND OREGON

Under date of August 4, the Press
Association carried the following dis
patch from San Diego
"By an approximate vote of -four
to one, the bond election to appro-
pirate $1,25O,OOO for the eonstruc-
ton of a system of highways in San
Diego county was carried at the polls
yesterday. With the completion of
this system, Can Diego county will
be in possession of a network of
roadways second to none in the west"
Think Of it! a single county, and
not a rich one, either, appropriating
a million and a quarter dollars for
public highways! And only one of
several counties making similar ap-
preparations.
That's the way things are done in
California.
In Oregon the mossbacks have a
fit when the state appropriates a
hundred thousand dollars for a high
way to make accessible the worlds
greatest natural wonder, and so Sc
cure the expenditure of millions in a
great national park, and invoke the
aid of the courts to prevent the ex-
pendture.
A million and a quarter for local
roads in one county is not too much
in California!
A hundred thousand for a state
and national highway is too much for
the mossbacks of Oregon!
Could anything illustrate better the
difference between the two states? Is
it any wonder the progressive people
of both southern and eastern Oregon
want to secede and leave the siluriar
section to vegetate by itself in peace
Southern Oregon.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-08-10

range and left his stock to shift for
themselves. Mr.. Maverick, on hu-
manitari2n grounds, and believing i'm
plicitly in the honesty of his neigh
bors, refrained from branding his
young stock. The undegenerate
stockmen, however when they ran
across an unbranded animal on the
roundup would cry, "There's one Of
Mavericks, let's brand it," The word
became popular, and its originally
limited meaning was broadened and
enlarged by constant use throughout
the cattle ranges and mining camps
of the frontier. If man was un-
pronounced in his opinion on any
subject, it was said "He holds Nav
erick views"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-08-10
SAN FRANCIsCO's MISTAKE.

Some Of the San Francisco papers
have followed very questionable cours-
es with reference to the graft prose-
cutions Of that city. Because Calhoun
was a big man some Of the Frisco
dailies profess to believe that he did
no wrong and they are against the
prosecution, though Of course they do
not show their animosity openly
Commenting upon the situation in
San Francisco and referring to the
coming Portola festival the Los An
geles Express recently said:
zone thing we especially hope. That
is that there shall be, until after the
festival at least, suppression Of the
Calhoun press. Those newspapers that
preach that graft and boodllng is all
right, provided It is done by men of
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-08-10
DENTISTRY IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

At the international dental con-
gress which will be held at Berlin in
August the subject of dental treat
ment for school children will be
given special prominence, and emf
nent specialists from Germany, Swe-
den, Belgium and Switzerland will
tell of the methods that are success
fully used in the schools of their re-
spective countries.
England and the United States have
been slow to adopt school dentistry.
Germany has done more than any
cities have established free dental
clinics for school children. Profess
sor Jassen of Strasburg has the hon
or Of having started the movement
and the work has been in progress in
that city under his direction, for sew
en- nor eight years. So deeply i'm
pressed with its success is the NUM-
cipality of Strasburg that a $4,000
building has been erected for the
service of treating the children. The
general improvement Of the children's
health is evident.
A national commission in Germany
has completed an investigation of the
teeth of school children and soldiers
and reports that diseased teeth are
the most common of all diseases,
that the physical and mental devel-
opment of children is injured by such
teeth, that the improvement Of these
conditions is possible only by the in
PRODUCTION of dentists into the school
and army and that it will be neces-
sary to found state dental hospitals
-Snokesman- Review
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-08-10
ORIGIN OF SAYINGS.
LOg-rOlling.

An American slang expression for
mutual assistance rendered by per-
sons in power to the detrlment Of the
general public. The English "You
scratch my back and I'll scratch
yours" and the Scotch Cav me,
cav thee" are approximate equiva-
lents. In its original sense, log-roll-
ing is a sort of mutual-help festival
akin to the quilting bees an husking
bees. When a backwoodsman cuts
down trees his neighbors help him to
roll them away, and in return he
helps them with their trees. The
phrase was first applied as a slang
metaphor in politics. A and b, for
example, are congressman, or assem-
blymen, each has bill to pass. Each
agrees to support and vote for the
others bill. They are log-rolling for
each other. Furthermore, neither
we suppose has any interest or belief
in either bill, but wishes to gain the
help Of the promoters for some
scheme Of his own. He and the pro-
moters are log rolling for each other.
Maverick.
A word originating on the cattle
ranges Of the far west, and first
used as name for unbranded, and
therefore ownerless cattle. One Sam
Maverick went from Massachusetts to
Texas, where he entered into the bus
iness Of stock-raising. After buy
ing several herds he neglected his
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-08-10

was hairy man who lived in the
wilderness. He wrote fables and sold
the copyright for mess of potash"