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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12
LUMBERMEN GAIN
VICTORY OVER RAILROADS

Washington, May 12.-Two deci-
and lumber interests Of the northwest
were handed down by the interstate
commerce commission yesterday COM
plainants against the railroads being
victorious in each case.
Many months ago the Kalispell
Lumber company and others, and the
Big Blackfoot Milling company and
others engaged in the lumber manu-
featuring business in Montana. They
instituted complaints against the
Great Northern and other lines ask
ing that they be accorded differen-
tials on the rates established in the
Spokane rate case. The differentials
requests were an average of about
2h cents hundred pounds. In the
opinions announced today the COM
mission sustains the contention of
the complainants and has issued or
ders that the differentials are to be
established by the railroads not later
than August l next.
The orders will have the effect of
causing a large reduction in rates on
all lumber and products from the
Montana mills and will afford an ad-
vantage of approximately two cents
a hundred pounds over the mills in
the Spokane group, on eastern ship
ments. Rates established are requir-
ed to be maintained by the railroads
for at least two years.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12

Washington, May 11.-Senator
Paynter today appealed for a million
and a half people dependent upon
tobacco growing for a livelihood, who
he declared, are at the mercy of the
tobacco trust. He said: "The tobac-
co combination is a commercial pi-
rate. Growers say that the trust has
divided the districts into section
placing buyer in each section, and
each grower is told that he must sell
to the trust buyers.
Pynter said the buyer explained
that the market was flooded and that
there was a tremendous over-pro-
duction so that the trust could not af-
ford to pay what the growers consid-
cred a living price. The result was
that the growers became miserably
poor in many sections, unable to OBJ
tain enough for crops to pay the bare
cost of simple existence. He gave
the brief history of the Might rider
attacks made on growers who were
bought" by the trust by the growers
who pooled their tobacco and waited
for the price to go up.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12
o. r. & n. WILL NOT
CUT EASTERN RATES

Salem, Ore, May 12.-The o. r. &
complaint of the railroad commission
that transcontinental rates on freight
over its line from oregon points east
are excessive and unreasonable, and
asking that they be restored to the
schedule in effect prior TO January l,
1907, states that it is of the belief
that the rates are reasonable and just
and will not reduce them. The rail-
road commission will take the matter
up with the interstate commerce COM
mission at an early date.
The o. r. & n. and Southern Pa
cific railroad companies also make
answer to the railroad commissions
complaint against the intra-state
rates on wool and wool products, in
which they claim that they do not
agree that the rates are excessive and
see no cause why they should be re-
duced or changed. There are no COM
modify rates on wool and wool pro-
ducts in effect on these lines in Ore
gon, and they go under the western
classification schedule, which makes
them first class on both carload and
less than carload shipments. Accord
ing to the, tariffs on file with the rail-
road commission, it is also shown that
the intra-state rates are higher in
proportion on these products than the
interstate rates to oregon to Allan
tic seaboard points, and there is a
demand for a reduction in propor-
tion.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12

the agent and were merely called as
witnesses to testify before Supervisor
Davis, relative to the charges which
had been filed against McFatridge by
McManus5 the discharged clerk. The
Gardners had no particular complaint
to make against the agent other than
that they say he is dictatorlal, auto
cratic, overbearing and abusive to his
employees.
Several of the renters Of Indian
lands, who are familiar with the con-
ditions, say the trouble between the
agent and his employees is due largely
to the fact that he made them work
instead of allowing them TO sit around
and draw their salaries, as they had
been permitted to do under previous
administrations.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12
MRS. MOORE DENIES
TAKING HAMILTON'S MONEY

Oakland. May 12.-Through the
mother, Mrs Florence Moore, accused
OF aiding in the downfall of adjutant
general Ortis Hamilton, arrested on
charge Of embezzling military funds.
gave out a statement today denying
that she had spent a cent of the en-
bezzled money. She said: Hamilton
was one of my husbands nearest
friends and connected with him in
various business enterprises. l deny
all stories printed about me. All the
money l spent was given to me by my
husband. l never accepted one cent
Of Hamilton's money" Mrs. Moore
arrived here yesterday, being driven
home by her mother in an automobile.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12

FINISHED TODAY
WASHINGTON LEGISLATIVE
COMMITTEE COMPLETES WORK
Inquiries VIII be Completed Tonight
Members VIII Begin FOrmulat-
ing Their Report TO the Governor
Only Delay VIII be in Desire of
Governor That Other Officials be
Investigated-Report Ready for
Publication on Friday.

Olympia. May 12.-The legislative
investigation committee will resume
its sitting late this afternoon with J.
V. Schively, the state insurance COM
missioner in the witness chair. The
inquiry regarding the insurance de-
partment will be closed late tonight.
The committee will then immedi-
ately begin its work OF formulating a
report to the Governor. Nothing win
interfere with the immediate present
ment of the report, unless it is the
desire of Governor Hay that the COM
mittee continue to probe into some
other state department. before its
findings in the insurance scandal.
The report will comprise at least
twelve typewriter pages. and will be
ready for publication about Friday.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12
FACTS IN THE NOTED
HAMS MURDER TRIAL

Flushing, L. l., May 12.-Followlng
are some of the facts relating to the
notorious Hams trial here resulting
in a verdict Of manslaughter in the
first degree yesterday.
Captain Peter C. Hams, jr., United
States army, shot and killed William
E. Annis, advertising manager for
Recreation and Bur McIntoshs IS
Monthly, Saturday afternoon, August
Is, last, at the Bayside Yacht club,
at Bayside, L. 1.
The trouble arouse through the al
legged intimacy of Annis with Cap
tain Hams wife, Claudia, and the af-
far caused one of the greatest sem
sations of recent years in army and
socil life in America.
Thornton Jenkins Hams, brother Of
the captain, who stood near with a
revolver and prevented anyone from
interfering, was tried on the charge
of murder, through completely, but
was acquitted.
Behind the thin veil of formal in
sanity plea, the defense of Captain
Hams was based mainly upon the
"unwritten law" his counsel appealing
to the jury on that ground.
The case has involved hundreds of
persons prominent in army and social
life throughout the country.
The most pathetic feature of the
remarkable trial was the presence
of Mrs. Peter c. Hams, ST., mother
of the defendant, who sat beside her
son through much of the testimony.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12
WILL NOT LEASE
NORMAL BUILDINGS

Salem, May 12.-Though the three
state normal schools will be permit
ted to continue under state supervi-
sion during the summer, the eXecu-
tive committee of the state board Of
normal school regents decided today
that none of the equipment or the
buildings will be leased for the pur-
pose of conducting private normal
schools during the next two years
The states property at Weston, Ash
land and Monmouth will lie unused
until sold under the hammer.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12
EUGENE CHILD KILLS
HERSELF WITH KNIFE,

Eugene, Ore, May 12.-Bessie Holt,
the year-old step daughter of Peter
McCue, residing near Cresswel, is dead
today as the result of a peculiar acci-
dent. She was playing at home with
a sharp bladed pocket knife yester-
day when she fell the blade penetrat-
ing her side between the ribs. She
crawled to the side of her stepfather,
and notified him, and fell dead. The
blade severed a large artery leading to
the heart.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12
STRIKE GROWS MORE
ACUTE IN PARIS

Paris, May 12,-The strike of the
government postal telegraph and
telephone employees will not reach an
acute stage until parliament finishes
its debate upon the demands of the
strikers. The strike leaders declare
that by tonight the entire mail and
telegraph service will be tied up. This
will leave the wireless telegraph be-
tween France and England as the
only means of communication.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12
OFFICERS PICK UP MAN
WANTED FOR HORSE STEALING

Another man who is wanted by the
minions of the law has been picked
up by the local officers. He gives
the name of Joe Burns. which is an
alias, and he is wanted in Adams
county Washington to answer to the
charge of horsestealing.
A few days ago the fellow was pick
ed up by Chief of Police Gurdane on
complaint of local rancher with
whom Burns had become involved in
shady horse deal. This was set
tied up, but before he was discharged
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12

Portland, May 12.-It developed to-
day that the alleged injustice Of the
law is responsible for the suicide Of
r. F. Shepard, a resident of the east
side. While he was living in Colora-
dc Springs h bought a mare for two
dollars from j. T. Fair, who got the
animal from the pound.
The original owner brought suit
against Shepard, and after long liti-
CATION the court in Colorado decided
that Shepard must pay dollar day
for the use of the mare since he
bought her.
Judgment of a thousand dollars
was presented to him for payment.
Shepard wept, but agreed to make
payments in small amounts.
He had paid twenty dollars when
he disappeared April 80. He went
to Sullivan gulch in dependency
and committed suicide with a pistol.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12

he was recognized by Sheriff Taylor
as filling the description of a man
wanted at Ritzville for horse steal
ing. He was therefore held and Sher-
iff Coss of Adams county, arrived
this morning to take possession of
the prisoner. He proved to be the
man wanted and will be taken back
to Washington this evening.
Burns is accused of having stolen
three horses, and according to Sheriff
Coss, the Officers are preparing to
show where he sold the animals af-
ter having stolen them.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12
DETECTIVE ACQUITTED
OF KIDNAPPING OLDER

San Francisco, May 12-Luther
Brown the head of the detective bu-
reau Of the United States was ac-
quilted at noon today on the charge
of kidnapping Fremont Older, man
aging editor of the Evening Bulletin
When the verdict was returned
Banjo eyes-kid," a tenderloin char
acter, clapped his hands and was fined
fifty dollars.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12
SELLER OF CLEVELAND
LETTERS TAKEN TO n, Y

San Francisco, May 12.-Broughton
Brandenberg, whose sensational flight
from New York following the publi-
cation of the posthumous Cleveland
letter ended in his arrest here three
weeks ago, today left for New York
in custody of detectives accused of
grand larceny by trick device. by the
New York Times, to whom he sold
the famous Cleveland letters.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12
DEATH TRAP
DISCOVERED
Secret Tunnel Leads to Old
Well, Where Four Human
Skeletons Are Unearthed.
WILL SURPASS FAMOUS
GUINNESS MURDER FARMS

Officers of MaripOsa, California,
California, Make Startling Discov-
cries on Farm of Late George Nc
Coy-Pcople Known to Have Mys-
tcriOusly Disappeared i'm That Sec
ton Years BefOrc-Is Home of Late
Bachelor of Strange Habits-Crimes
VIII Perhaps Prove the Most Re-
markablc I'm History of West.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12
SMALL POX EPIDEMIC
IN STATES CAPITOL CITY

Salem, May 10. b. Miles, city
health officer, reports from four to
six mild cases of small pox now quar-
antined in this city. The situation is
so serious the city council at last
meeting appropriated twelve hundred
dollars to fit up a pest house.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12
No MORE BASS
FOR COLUMBIA
PROTEST OF FISHERMEN
NEEDED BY DEPARTMENT
Columbia River Fishermen Protest
Against Placing of Any More Bass
i'm Columbia River-Say That They
Destroy SalmOn-PrOtest is Con-
veyed TO Bureau of Fisheries by
Senator Chamberlain-Ruling Fav-
ors Fishermen.

Washington, May 12.-No striped
bass will be placed in the Columbia
river owing TO the protests of salmon
fishermen conveyed to the bureau of
fisheries by Senator Chamberlain.
Commissioner Bowers ruled: that
the bureau has decided it to be unwise
to place the salmon industries of the
Columbia river in jeopardy through
the transplanting of new fish whose
influence cannot be foretold, hence
striped bass would not be introduced
into the Columbia, or any of its
tributaries"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12
PORTLAND MEN ARE
At OLYMPIA TO-DAY

Olympia, Wn., May 12.-Business
men of this city gave hearty well
come to the excursion train with 76
prominent Portland business men
when they arrived from Aberdeen this
morning. The train was met by a
committee, headed by Mayor Harris
and the majority were taken through
the city on a special car.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12
Spokane Girl TO Wed.

Los Angeles, May 12.-Announce-
ment is made today of the engage
ment of Harriet c. Holman, daugh-
ter of d. Holman, of Spokane, Wn.,
to Julius r. Black, former president
of the California State Realty Fed
GRAFTON. The date of the wedding is
not set, but is believed to be in the
near future
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12
TAKING EVIDENCE IN
MUSKOGEE LAND CASES

Tulsa, Okla, May 12.-The govern
ment began taking evidence today in
the cases involving the town lot frauds
at Muskogee, for which Governor Has
kell was indicted, but dismissed with
out trial. Nine witnesses appeared
before the federal grand jury.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12
OHIO RIVER BOAT
CAPSIZES, DROWNING MANY

Pittsburg, May 12.-Three bodies
recovered and between 20 and 25
known to be missing, is the result of
the Yawl being capslzed on the Ohio
river last night. The river is being
dragged for the remains of the miss
ing
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12

Butte, May I'm. ]. Rath is held
in the Jail here pending the return
to Spokane to be identified as fugi-
tive from Washington, by H. ]. Sisk
Spokane postal clerk. who says
Rath forged a money order for thirty
dollars.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12
Not Body of Medford Man.

Sacramento. May LIT was defi-
nitely determined that the body found
in the Sacramento river Monday night
was not that of l.. w. Fisher, the mis-
sing Medford, Ore, rancher, who dis
appeared several weeks ago.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12
SELECT AMBASSADORS
TO TURKEY AND RUSSIA

Washington, May 12.-President
Taft today nominated Oscar Straus
to be ambassador to Turkey, and VIM.
Rockhill, the present minister to
China, will be ambassador to Russia.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12
D|SRECARDED.
HIS ORDERS
Washington Dispatch Gives
This as Reason for Major
McFatridge's Removal.
CORRESPONDENT SAYS HE
WILL BE TRANSFERRED

Dispatch Asserts That the Agent Gave
Dissatisfaction In Administration Of
Indian Schools OF Reservation-EI-
nanclal Affairs OF Agency Are in
Good ConditiOn-Business Men OF
Pendleton viii Fight for Reten-
ton of McFatridge-May Send a
Representative TO Washington.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12
DEPOSED SULTAN PAYS
S10,OOO,OOO FOR LIFE

Belgrade, May 12.-Ten mill
lion dollars is the price paid
by the deposed Sultan of Tur-
key TO save his head. The re-
port says that Hamid author
lied Envoy Bey. the young
Turk leader to draw that sum
from the foreign banks.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12
SENATOR H|E5r :
BIC COMBINE
Paynter Says a Million and a
Half Are at The Mercy of
the Tobacco Trust.
TELLS OF METHODS TO
CONTROL TOBACCO PRICES

Senator Calls Tobacco Combination
Commercial Pirate-TeIls of Their
Methods of Dividing Districts Into
Sections and Putting But one Buy
er In the FieId-Prices Are Thus
Held DOwn-Says That Growers
Become Miserably Poor - Tells
History of Night Riders.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12
Fire in AleNandrin

Washington, May PA fire is
raging in Alexandria, across the river
from this city. At noon the loss was
half a million and the fire was still
burning.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12

Jackson, Miss. May 12.-Charles
Bats Galloway, bishop of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church since 1856, died
here today.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12
WE'LL DRESSED MEN
HOLDUP SEATTLE SALOON

Seattle. May 12.-Armed with
handkerchiefs as masks. two
well dressed men held up the
Australian bar at midnight,
lined twenty patrons up and took
from them seventy dollars, and
seventy-flve dollars from the
till.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-05-12
HARSH LAWS
BRING DEATH
Colorado Man Suicides Be-
cause Legal Decision Goes
Against Him.
DESPONDENT BECAUSE OF
HEAVY PAYMENTS DEMANDED

Bought Horse That Had Been Ia
ken from the POund-Uses Her for
Some Time-Case Goes TO the
Courts-Decislon Demands Pay
ment of Dollar for Time the
Horse Is Used-Comes to Portland
Suicides While Despondent.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-02-16

How difficult it is TO pick out truth
or fiction from apparently straightfor-
ward recitals of the actions of animals
is well shown in a communication sent
to one of our foreign exchanges by a
man who lays claim to long expert
ence IN breeding game birds. He stat
ed In all seriousness that only two of
his pheasant hens had hatched out
seventeen Of the eighteen eggs placed
under each one in the nests. 1T is a
curious fact" he continues, that both
hatched off on the same day, and each
hen Immediately killed thirteen out Of
her seventeen live chicks by pecking
their brains and laid them in a row in
front of her, each exactly in the same
way. shall be glad to know whether
such singular case has ever been
noted before"
So shall /; but, at any rate, in this
case at least, thirteen was an unlucky
number for both the chicks and their
Forest and Stream.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-02-16
THE WRONG NOTE.
Mozart's Outbreak at an Opera Per-
formanee at Marseilles.

Mozart's Outbreak at an Opera Per-
formanee at Marseiles.
Mozart, being once on visit at
Marseilles, went incognito to hear the
performance of his "Villanella Rapita."
He had reason to be tolerably well
satisfied till in the midst of the princi-
pal aria the orchestra, through some
error in the copying of the score,
sounded a D natural where the com
poser had written D sharp. This sub
stitution did not injure the harmony,
but gave a commonplace character to
the phrase and obscured the sentiment
Of the composer.
Mozart no sooner heard it than he
started up vehemently and from the
middle Of the pit cried out in a voice
Of thunder, "Will you play D sharp,
you wretches?"
The sensation produced in the thea
ter may be imagined. The actors were
astounded, the lady who was singing
stopped short, the orchestra followed
her example, and the audience, with
loud EXPLANATIONS, demanded the ex-
pulsion of the offender. BE was ac-
cordingly seized and required to name
himself. He did so, and at the name
of Mozart the clamor subsidized and
was succeeded by shouts Of applause
from all sides.
1t was insisted that the opera should
be recommended. Mozart was installed
in the orchestra and directed the
whole performance This time the d
sharp was played in its proper place,
and the musicians themselves were
surprised at the superior effect pro-
duced. After the opera Mozart was
conducted in triumph to his hotel
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FOOD FOR THE SEINE.
An Incident Of Whistler's Student
Days In Paris.

An Incident Of Whister's Student
Days In Paris;
The early scenes in "Triby" have
shown us the hilarious squalor Of the
student life in Paris when Whistler
joined the studio that Gleyre carried
on in succession to Delaroche. 1t was
the Bohemia barely modernized, Of
Murger's novel, and the shifts to
which these raw recruits in art de-
scended furnished Whistler for life
with some Of his raciest stories Once
when an American friend unearthed
him Whistler was living on the pro-
ceeds OF a wardrobe One hot day he
pawned his coat for an iced drink.
Invited once to the American embassy,
he had to borrow POynter's dress suit.
But the best story of these frolicsome
days arises from the eternal copying
In the Louvre. either on commission
or on spec" which kept them alive
between remittances Whistler's chum,
Ernest Delannoy, had done a gorgeous
replica Of Yeroneses Marriage Feast
at Cana" that took when framed the
pair of them to carry it. They tried
it on every dealer db and down both
sides Of the Seine until the first price
of 500 francs had dropped with sew
eral thuds 60 100, then 20, then 10
then 8. Suddenly the dignity Of art
asserted itself.
On the Pont des Arts they lifted the
huge canvas. "Un." they said, with
great swing, "deux, trois-v'lan"
and over it went into the water with
splash. Sergents de vile came run
ming, omnibuses stopped, and boats
pushed out on the river Altogether
it was an immense success. and they
went home enchanted.-Pa Mall Ga
zette.