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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-08
LOLzz-ANK ROBBER
MAKES GOOD HAUL

Everett, Wash, July S.-A lone
bandit held up Assistane Cashier E
C. Olsen of the Bank of Commerce
shortly before the bank closed yester-
day afternoon, wounded Cashier j. L.
Lyon and escaped with a few hun
dred dollars, the exact amount not
being known.
The robber fled on a bicycle 10 the
north end of the city, and, running
from there proceeded to the water
front.
Here the satchel was found in which
he carried off his loot. Only SIS
was left in it.
Deputies and citizens are now scar
ching for the man, and blood-hounds
have been sent for.
When the bandit entered the bank
he thrust two revolvers into Olsen's
face, and commanded him to throw
up his hands.
He laid down one gun and seized
all the money in reach. This he
placed in satchel. He paid no at
tention to the few customers in the
bank. Cashier Lyon, who was in the
rear Of the building ran out the back
way and around to the front where
he encountered the robber and grap-
pied with him.
The robber shot three times, one
of the bullets passing throug Lyons
jaw and neck and making a serious
wound.
He then fled, Olsen and Lyon both
shooting at him. His hat was shot
off and it is thought that he was
slightly wounded.
The bicycle the fellow used is sup
posed to have been secreted by him
in the vicinity of the bank.
All exits from the city are guarded.
He is described as young and smooth
shaven and of medium height. He
was unmaskeG and wore a long light
coat.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-08
THUGS HOLD UP MAN
IN DAYLIGHT IN OREGON CITY

Oregon City. Ore. July S.-Linn E
Jones, of Jones Drug company, and
member of the recent legislature
was held up late yesterday afternoon
in broad daylight by four men while
he was on his way home to dinner. One
of the men asked him for somethins
to eat and some money, and when Mr..
Jones refused, he was set upon by the
quartet.
Theodore Miller came to the aid of
Mr.. Jones and the men fled. Officer
Cooke captured one of them, and
Sheriff Beattle and other officers
started on a man hunt with the result
that two of the others were landed
in Jail. One of them gives his name
as Mcfarland, another as Lafferty.
while third is plain John Doe.
The same gang has been operating
in the vicinity of Clackamas Station.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-08

st. Joseph, Mo-, July S.-Estimates
of the number of dead in the flood
in northwestern Missouri vary today
from fifteen to twenty. The fate of
five men carried away with the rail-
road bridge near Chillicothe, Mo-, is
unknown. Reports from Ptttens-
burg. which is inundated, says four
are missing.
Rescue parties were sent to the re-
lief of passengers wrecked on the
Santa Fe passenger train, which yes
terday afternoon plunged over an
embankment into the Marais Des
Cynge river near Pomona, Kansas
are stalled near the scene of the
wreck today. The rescuers are in
grave danger because the water has
practically cut them off.
Detailed news of the wreck is lack
ing. The report that the four-year-
old daughter of Mrs. Carrie Rose was
killed was confirmed today. Two
women were seriously injured and
four cars are lying in the rushing
waters, while a great gap in the track
marks the place from which they
plunged The flood situation through
out Kansas is serious. The water of
the Kaw river tributaries is rising.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-08
WOMAN HELD FOR
MURDER Of CHILD
DESERTED, SHE KILLED son
THEN ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
Mrs. Laura Mcdonald is i'm the San
Francisco Jail 10 Answer the Charge
of Murder-Married a Wealthy
Man at Age of II But is Soon De-
serted - Grows Despondent and
Kills Her Child and Then Attempts
Suicide.

San Francisco, July S.-Held on the
charge of numbering Kenneth, her
baby son, Mrs. Laura Mcdonald is to-
day in the Jail here awaiting trial.
Members of the mattresses union en-
listed themselves in the cause and ac-
cused the woman. She will fight her
case in the superior court.
AT the age of II. Mrs, Mcdonald
married John NJ. Mcdonald, a veal
thy Nova Scotia man. After living in
Mercencia, Arizona, a year he desert
ed her, leaving her to care for the
ten-months-old baby. She went to
Los Angeles, where she met Edwin
Crawford, a cook, who took her to
San Francisco where he left her
In fit OF despondoncy she killed
the child, and tried to commit suicide
by drinking poison, but recovered.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-08
Stone MINERS
WIFE TO DEATH
LURED FROM HER HOME At
MIDNIGHT BY ROBBERS
Unknown Man Appears AT the Home
Telling the Wife That Her Brother
Has Been Killed in The Mine
Stoned 10 Death Within Half Mile
of the Homc--IIusband Returns to
Find 5000 of His Money Missing aud
His Wife Dead.

Wilkeson, Wn., July S.--Lured from
home at midnight by an unknown
man who urged her to accompany
him to Black Diamond, where he said
her brother had just been killed, Mrs
George Bronco, wife of Black Dia-
mond coal miner, was stoned to death
within half a mile of her home this
morning.
Robbery was the motive as six hun
dred dollars Of the Branzo's savings
are missing. Bronco found the body
of his wife after returning home and
finding the wife and money missing
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-08

Washington, July S.-The senate
this morning passed the corporation
tax amendments by viva voce vote.
and with but few scattering votes.
The amendments were ugTeed to in
a committee of the whole last Friday
by vote of 60 to II.
Section was adopted, providing
that when any country imposes a du-
ty on goods shipped to the United
States the amount of the export duty
shall be added to the tariff rate when
BY vote of 12 to 25 the complete
tobacco schedule was adopted in the
form as originally presented by the
finance committee.
The motion that a rule providing
for the arbitrary adjournment of the
senate at o'clock tonight be revoked,
was passed, thus clearing the way for
unlimited sessions.
There was a general understanding
that a final vote on the tariff bill
should be taken by the senate today,
when II adjourned at o'clock last
evening. The arrangement for a vote
was arrived at as an alternative for a
night session.
1t is expected that the bill as per-
fected will receive practically all of
the republican votes while it is un-
derstood that probably all the demo-
Gratis with the exception of Senator
McEnery Of Louisiana, will vote
against II.
When passed, the measure will be
hurried to the house, which is ex-
pected to be in session Friday morn
ing to receive 1t.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-08
RAILROAD ARGUES
IN WOOL RATE CONTEST

Salem, July S.-Replying to com.
plant filed recently with the inter-
state commission by the oregon state
railroad commission, asking a reduc-
tion of wool rates from inland points
on the o. r. & N. railroads main line
to transcontinental points on discrim-
iratory grounds, the railroad sets
forth the water competition enjoyed
by Portland which compels the COM
pRny TO give Portland lower rates than
the inland points.
It asserts that the rates from Port
land are based on competitive con-
ditions, while the rates from the in
land points are based on a combina-
tion of Portland terminal charge and
local rates.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-08
LIVESTOCK SALES To Be HELD
DURING THE DISTRICT FAIR

If preliminary plans agreed upon
today are carried out livestock auc-
tions will be held during every day
of the coming district fair. The sales
will be very similar to those held
here upon the Market Days" held
a year ago.
At the instance of f. c. Lucas Of
Weston, the fair commissioners have
been considering the proposition of
holding livestock sales during the
fair and this morning President Roos-
evelt stated that in all probability
such sales will be held. At this time
the hours for the sales have not been
agreed upon, though they will prob
ably be held during the forenoon.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-08
kErCHELL AND LANGFORD
TO FIGHT TO FINISH

San Francisco, July S.-Articles
calling for finish fight for the mid
dleweight championship of the world
between Ketchel and Sam Langford
at Ely, Nevada, September 6. will be
signed in behalf of Ketchel tonight
with the affiXing OF the signature Of
Willie Britt, his manager. Ketchell
will receive the largest guaranteed
sum ever offered a fighter in the
United States. Tex Hall, an Ely
Mining man, will guarantee Langford
$4,000. The articles stipulate that
both men be at Ely 80 days before
the fight.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-08

1t is the intention to have the sales
conducted under such auspices that
they will be mutually beneficial to
both buyers and sellers of stock. The
sales will be advertised by the fair
board and but a nominal commission
charged by the auctioneer so that
the expense will not be heavy upon
those disposing of stock.
It is believed that the stock sales
will lend additional interest to the
livestock feature of the fair and also
induce exhibitors to bring stock to
the fair. Those having stock on ex-
hibit may offer the same for sale II
they choose. though the sales will not
be confined to the exhibit stock.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-08
SAYS MAN STOLE A
WHOLE FLEET OF SHIPS

Seattle, July S.-Colonei Edward
Shannon Kirkconnell, who is alleged
to have stolen whole fleet, arrived
here today from Vancouver in charge
OF detectives who will take him TO
New York. While the exploiter for
the export shipping company charg-
ed the prisoner with appropriatlng a
large ocean-golng steamer. three mo-
tor launches, cargo of electrical ap-
planes and farm implements and
equipment sufficient to start town
site. He sold them to Honduras,
they say.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-08
COUPLE MARRIED IN
WATER TO THEIR WAISTS

Shasta Retreat, Cal, July S.-Wad-
ing to their waists in the cHill wa
ters Of the Sacramento river late yes
terday, Miss Violet Pert, daughter of
a prominent Colorado Springs fam
lily, and w. n, Lynch of Fruitvale,
Cal" Joined hands and stood for a
moment in the rushing current. Two
minutes later Mr. and Mrs Lynch
climbed out, shivering. The Methodist
minister, high and dry on land, had
pronounced the words that made
them man and wife. Neither would
tell why the marriage was in the wa
ter.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-08
WOMEN KILLED WHEN
AUTO PLUNGES DOWN Hill

Wilkesbarre, Pa, July S.-Mrs.
James Hughes Of this city is dead,
Miss Laura Cannon, a member of the
county bar probably fatally injured
and James Hughes, husband of the
dead woman, and president of the
Wilkesbarre Automobile Club. and "
chauffeur, were slightly hurt when
an automobile in which they were
riding made wild dash down Wilkes
barre Mountain.
The machinery of the automobile
became disabled as they were des-
cending a steep grade.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-08
BRING CUSHMAN'S BODY
HOME FOR BURIAL

New York, July S.-The body of
Representative Francis w. Cushman
of Washington, who died recently
of pneumonia, after short illness,
will be put aboard the Chicago Linn
tied of the Pennsylvania road tomor-
row. wrapped IN American flags. 1t
will be taken direct to Tacoma,
Wash. in charge of Frederick NJ.
Weber, deputy sergeant at arms of
the house of representatives A con-
gressional delegation of six members,
tination, will board the train at Pitts
burg.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-08
HOQUIAM LAWYER WOULD
BE CUSHMAN'S SUCCESSOR

Hoquam. Wash, July 81. S.
Brewer of the law firm of Morgan &
Brewer, today announced his candi-
dacy to succeed the late Congress-
man Cushman. Brewer stands high
in republican circles of this city. He
is a former representative Of the leg
islature from this county.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-08
INSANE MAN ATTEMPTS TO
KILL HIMSELF AND FAMILY

st. Louis July S.-Deranged from
insomnia, Gustav Krause, aged Sc, at
tempted to exterminate his family to-
day, then suicided. He tied his son
years of age, TO a bedpost, and then
beat his wife to insensibility with the
butt of a rifle.
The boy managed to free himself.
ana escape while his father was still
beating his mother. After he thought
he had killed her. Krause leaned
against the muzzle of a rifle and dis
charged it with his toe.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-08

Pattonsburg. July S.-The flood
waters began to fall today and II is
believed the crest has passed this city
A fleet OF rhw boats is working in the
water-filled streets removing the ma
rooned inhabitants from the roofs and
trees. Tents are pitched in the hills
and provisions are sent there. Doctors
are arriving from surrounding cities
and towns. The water is still ten
feet deep in the streets
over a thousand persons are shell
tered in the rescue camp pitched four
miles from the town, and four hun
dred others are on the third floor OF
n brick school house. Fifty houses are
submerged, and their contents ruined
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-08
TTIAW OUT OF THE
ASYLUM TEMPORARILY

White Plains, n. Y, July S.-Coun-
sci for Harry Thaw secured a partial
victory in the hearing to determine
his sanity, held before Justice Mills
by obtaining from the court an order
removing Thaw from Mattewan and
placing him in the custody Of Sheriff
Henry Schert, of White Plains, until
the hearing is concluded.
The hearing was adjourned until
Monday.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-08
ALBION SMITH is
INDICTED BY JURY

Salem, July S.-Albion Smith,
charged with attempting daylight
holdup of a jewlry store here few
weeks ago and later of attempting to
blackmail A. Bush, a banker, by
to kidnap his daughter,
was indicted for a former crime to-
day. on the charge Of blackmail taken
up by the federal authorities.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-08

The expenses of the Pendleton
school district during the school year
Of 1908 and 1909 amounted to to-
tai of s35.619.92. This is the
of Clerk Livermore, recently made to
the district and filed with County
School Superintendent Welles. The
total expenses for last year were s32,-
069.43.
The expenses of the district were.
segregated as follows:
Teachers salaries, 1,051.24.
Fuel and supplies, $2,S16.40.
Repairs and janitor, SO, 1885.
Principal and interest on bonds and
warrants, s3,6SS.6S.
Insurance, $414.90. -
Clerks salary, $500.
Library books, $3.50.
All other expenses, $1,912.7O.
According to the clerks report also
there are 1712 persons of school age
in the district. OF this number s21
are males, and S91 females.
The total number of teachers en-
ployed in the public schools was 33,
of which five were men and 2S were
women. Five school houses were
maintained and nine months Of school
were taught.
The report shows that the number
of books in the school library is now
1852, 315 having been purchased dur
ing the year.
Three Private Schools.
The clerks statement also shows
that there were three private schools
conducted in Pendleton during the
year. The Pendleton academy con-
Quoted a nine-month term, the Pen
dleton business college an eight
month term and the St. Joseph's
academy a ten-month term. These
three schools employed three male
and IL female teachers. The total
number of pupils enrolled in the three
schools was 1863, of which 142 were
males and 221. females.
As an indication of the amount of
taken by the voters in the
conduct of the schools it is noted that
in addition to some of the directors
and judges and clerks of election,
there were not more than four or
five citizens present when the report
was read. The total number of voters
in the district is 716.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-08
BELGIAN CREW WINS
THE HENLEY REGATTA

London, July S,-The Belgian crew
representing the club of Natique de
Grande of Ghent today won from the
Jess college, Cambridge, in the final
grand challenge cup events of the
annual Henley regatta, The Bel
gians covered the course in seven
minutes and eight seconds.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-08
ARRANGE FOR
THE FUNERAL
Body of the Late Congress-
man Cushmaa Expected in
Tacoma Monday.
WILL BE MET AT BORDER OF
STATE BY OFFICIAL ESCORT

Friends Of the Late Congressman
Meet I'm Tacoma to Arrange for the
Funeral-Legislative and Military
Escort VIII Meet the Body as 1t
Crosses the State BOrder-BOdy
Will Lie in State and the Public
Funeral Will be Held on Monday or
Tuesday-Brother OF the Deceased
Man Fastening From Alaska.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-08
ISSUE YEARS
SCHOOL REPORT
Figures Of the Clerk OF the
PendIeton District Show
Expenditure of $4,000.
REPORT SHOWS 1912 PERSONS
OF SCHOOL AGE IN DISTRICT

Total of 33 Teachers Are Employed
in the Public Schools, All But Five
Of Whom Are Women-Five
Schools Are Maintained for Nine
Months-315 Books Are Purchased
for the School Library During the
Year, Making a Total OF 1852
Three Private Schools Are Also
Maintained I'm the District.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-08
DEATH LIST
IS GROWING
Water Continues to Rise in
Flood Districts of North
western Missouri.
SANTA FE TRAIN WRECKED
AND RESCUE PARTY STALLED

Estimates of the Number of Dead
Vary from Fifteen TO Twenty-Fate
of Five Men Who Are Carried
Away With Bridge Is Unknown
Passenger Train Plunges Over
An Embankment Into the River
Rescue Party Is Gut Off and Is in
Great Danger-Water I'm the Kaw
River Tributaries Rising.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-08
AMENDMENTS
ARE PASSED
There Are But Few Viva Voce
Votes Against the Corpora
ton Amendments.
TOBACCO SCHEDULE is
ADOPTED IN ORIGINAL FORM

Senate Prepares TO Take Final Vote
on Tariff Bill and Hasten 1t to the
House-Bill As Perfected Is Ex-
pected TO Receive Practically All
of the Republican Votes-AIl DEM
ocrats, With One Exception, Are
Expected to Vote Against the
Measure-Motlon for Adjournment
of Senate Tonight Is Defeated.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-08
MILLIONAIRE ESCAPES
JAIL ANOTHER DAY.

San Francisco, July S.-An-
other day of respite before his
term begins was granted John
A. Benson. the Millionaire land
owner, who is under Jail sem
tence for a years imprlson-
ment for defrauding the gov
ernment out of valuable lands.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-08
EARTHQUAKE SHAKES
ASIATIC CONTINENT

Paris, July S.-Brief dispatch
: es indicate a terrific earth
quake which rocked the entire
Indian peninsula and southern
; portion Of the Asiatic continent
early today. The first shock
was in the vicinity of Rawral
Pindi, and extended to the Chi
traI district where many build
; ings were leveled.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-07-08

No man need be idle in Baker City.
says the Democrat.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-01-26
THE MIKERITES
IN THE OEELMG

The Mike Fisheries are scheduled to
arrive on Friday and they will play
their first game with the locals on
the following day.
Eddie Fernandez expects to break as
good as even with the visitors in the
first game and would not have heart
disease were his bunch to trot out win
ners.
He says that as a team the All-Ha-
walls are superior to tine aggregation
which bucked up against the Spalding
wonder-workers. One thing is GER
tain if the homesters are going to win
a game it viii be the first one played.
| Then the miraculous Reach nine will
| be caught short, to use a racing term
and the diamond is apt to remind some
! of the players of the undulating vaga-
ries of the vastly deep
The town is preparing to take in the
game en- masse Already the devoted
peanut is being gotten ready for the
slaughter, likewise the aunt and grand
mother of the office-boy.
Soares and Reuter- are working to-
| gether like a charm and the remainder
of the Honolulu nine are in prime con-
dition and feeling as skittish as two
! year-olds.
Mike Fisher and his galaxy of base
ball stars will be strenuously greeted
at the wharf, though whether the re-
ception will take the form of a luau
at the dock has not as yet been defini-
| tely decided on.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-01-26
BENEFIT CONCERT
SATURDAY NIGHT

On Saturday night the Kaahumanu
Society will give a concert and dance
for the benefit of the society. This
society was founded solely for benevo-
lence and is composed mainly of Ha-
waiian women for the purpose of help
ing one another during sickness as
well as defraying expenses in case a
member dies.
The concert on Saturday night will
be under the management of Ernest
Kaai. Some old time Hawaiian songs
will be rendered, and a good old time
is expected.
The patronesses are: Mrs. Kekaani-
auokalani Pratt, Miss Lucy Kaopauu
Peabody, Miss Wahineikaili Kahoalii,
Mrs. Kulamanu Allen, Mrs. Kamaka
Stillman, Mrs. Paakaiulaula Bush, Mrs.
llikealii Aud, Mrs. Harriet Townsend,
Mrs. Mary Adams, Mrs. Emma Alma
Nawahi, Mrs. Kahaawelani Kahea.
Mrs. Edgar Henriques, Mrs. Geo. H.
Robertson, Mrs e. A. McInerny.
Tickets fifty cents and can be had of
the members or at the door.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-01-26
IN
DAMAGES CASE

Judge Andrade this morning rem
dered an oral decision in the case of
Humphreys VS.. Road Supervisor Com
mings and Manuel Mello, in which
damages in the sum of $500 were
claimed.
This is an old matter, dating from
the time of the funeral of the late
Prince David Kawananakoa. The COM
plant was that the road supervisor
and his men, in order to clear the
way for the funeral procession, had
cut and despoiled a fine ponciana tree
belonging to Mrs. A. S. Humphreys.
The fact of the tree being cut was
not denied, out it was contended in
defense that the tree was an obstruc-
ton to traffic and that the removal of
its protruding branches was a mat
ter within the authority of the defen-
dants.
Judge Andrade decided, in brief. that
the branches of the tree in question
were an obstruction, and that the road
department, for which the defendants
acted, had the right to cut them down
Appeal will be taken by complaint
to the Circuit Court.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-01-26
FINED A DOLLAR
FOR CONTEMPT

Captain e. Wircchueit was fined
81 by Judge Dole for contempt of court,
he having been brought from San Fran
cisco to answer that charge. w. l..
Stanley appearing for him showed that
the alleged contempt was due largely
to circumstances of respondents occu-
patton After sentence District AT
torney R. w. Breckons objected to the
small fine, claiming that at least $40
or SIS should have been imposed to
cover some of the expenses of the
United States. The court refused to
go back on its tracks. There was
discussion of the question whether
contempt of court was a civil or
criminal offense, Breckons holding 1t
was criminal, contrary to the view OF
the Attorney General of the United
States in the case of the labor leaders
lately sentenced.