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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-07-18
UNCLE SAM EXERTS HIMSELF
TO INFORM THE TANPAnEhs

Washington,-One Of the chlef
functions of the federal government
in this country is to disseminate
knowledge. In bill after bill that
passes congress, special approprla-
tions are made for this purpose.
When an American citizen desires
information concerning industries
commerce, or agricultural conditions
of the country. his natural habit is 10
write to his congressman or TO one
of the government departments.
Seventeen thousand letters day
ore sent ont from one departments
alone to answer questions OF the TAX
PAYERS. Agents are maintained all
over che country in order tina iar-
mers and investigators may be kept
advised as to crop conditions. sc'-
entific Investigations are continually
being carried on that the farmer may
better his crops; tina health may DC
4 improved and that even the mousse
wife may reduce her bills.
! There is not an important port N
the world where there is not an Am
erican agent to dig up facts concern
ing the local market IN any hne loi
! any manufacturer.
i Constantly Uncle Sam works to IN
/ crease the information of Americans
For the first time Russia has no"
/ established a bureau to spread IN
formation for the benefit of its indus
trial and commercial life. The fact'
are not sent TO citizens. They mus
ask for them and must pay for them
An ordinary inquiry will be answer
ed in Russia for $155 if it is concern
ing an industry or conditions in the vi
cinity of st Petersburg. If, how
ever, it is in the remote parts of tn
empire it costs S2.55 This is tn
charge for injuries that require n
specal or extended investigation. Whel
this is necessary, special rates ar
quoted according to the service de
manded. This bureau has regua
subscribers who pay a contract pric
to learn facts which the America
government for nothing gives to ever
injuirer.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-07-18
SERPENTINE THESPIAN
is LONDON'S LATEST

London.-A rock python from In
dia plays an important part-the title
role in fact--in a new play produced
at the Adelphi. The orpnidian actor
is introduced in "The speckled Band"
"a melodrama adapted from Sir
A. Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes
story of the same name.
"Mystery"-that is the snakes
name-has to climb through venti-
lator into girls bedroom, and down
the bell rope, but is foiled by Holmes
in his deadly work of intended muir
der.
Coiled up in a box, the python Is
brought each evening from his own
er's menagerie in the East End to
the theater. He seems quite satisfied
with his part. which he performs .N-
cellently and never threatens to strike
for better salary. In case he Is sick
there arefive understudies ready to
take his place.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-07-18
KIDNAPPERS ERR BY
TAKING WRONG GIRL

Tacoma. Wash.-Mistaken for the
adopted daughter of Mr.. and Mrs,
Seth w. Macdonald, Margaret Faw-
cett the 10-year-old daughter of
Mayor A. V. Fawcett was stolen out
OF the mayors yard Thursday morn
ing by an unknown man, thrown into
an automobile and whisked away At
intervals until two years ago Ruth
Ruth MacDonald's mother, Mrs. Lizzie
McCabe. has sought to get her away
from her foster parents.
The Macdonald girl and the mayors
daughter, dressed alike. were playing
in the mayors yard, when big auto
mobile containing two men and two
women drove up. 1t stopped at the
mayors house; one man got out and
came into the yard, spoke to the chill
dren and grabbed little Margaret sud-
denly and rushed out of the yard
Evidently the would-be abductors
soon discovered their blunde'. for by
the time the police had arrived little
! Margaret came walking pack, her
nose bleeding and her face cut and
scratched by the rough handling. She
said they had put her out of the au-
| tomobile. Mrs. Fawcett, who had seen
her daughter thrown into the ear
was in Mysteries and the neighbor'
! hood in an uproar.
The kidnapping incident happened
a few hours before the mayor wa:
crushed in the city hall elevator. The
TIL accident 10 Mayor Fawcett hap
pened as he undertook TO step into
the elevator from the third floor o.
the city hall when the machine sud
denly started upward. The mayor
was thrown from the passenger plat
form of the elevator TO the freigh
| ,-I,tf,r,,, halpW
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-07-18
SOCIALIST VICTORY
SURPRISES GERMANS

Rerlin.-Another socialist victory
at Friedberg some three weeks ago,
has aroused the greatest political .eX-
ctiement Germany has seen for years,
because it was here made plainly evil
dent that many National Liberals vot-
ed for the socialist candidate. That
the radicals join hands with the So
cialists is now taken as a matter or
course. but that also the voters OF
/ the National Liberals have gone over
to the enemy shows how bitter Is the
/ feeling among the people against the
II present government.
The public is so embittered over the
'Blue-Black Bloc" which is now the
ruling factor in Germany and Prussia
over its financial legislation and lts
general reactionary policy, that sup
port is being given and will continue
to be given on all hands to socialist
candidates as the only means of de-
finitely scattering it.
How many more defeats will be
required. asks the National Zeitung
before the conviction is arrived a
that a change of system is an abso'
lutte necessity? Whether the polic'
Of the Liberal parties Of helping thu
socialists with the object of under
mining the power of reactionaries will
benefit themselves is anther matter
The ground they now relinquish IL
favor of the socialists will be recover
ed with great difficulty, and there !
possibility that after the genera
election next year there will be tn
! extreme Conservative and Agrarial
| parties on the one side Of the Reich
| stag and extreme Radicals or social
lists on the other, with the cente
! again predominant through being i
| position to form majority wit
either the right or the left, as tn
| occasion may demand.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-07-18
EIGHT PAGES.

other flags, patched and wind beaten
may appear at the mastheads OF the
various buildings, at least until New
Mexico and Arizona are admitted Of
ficlally. when all departments will be
supplied with new flags of As stars.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-07-18
NORTHWEST LEAGUE.


Seattle. July 17.-Jensen held Ia
coma to three hits and won by score
Of to 0. Vancouver's errors did not
count. Rockenffield's play at second
was the feature. Score:
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-07-18

Score: R.HE.
Cdhlallu '''''''.'.' '.'....2
portland .................
Batteries-Lively and Thomas:
Knapp and Fisher.
Break Even.
san Francisco. July 1.-THE Seals
and the Senators broke even in a
double header here and in Oakland
today. The locals took the morning
game in Oakland, to 0. Sacramento
won, to 4, in a 12-inning struggle
here in the afternoon. A violent DEM
onstration was made against Umpire
Van Haltren at the close Of the Sec
ond contest. He had called Danzig
safe in the first half of the 18th and
the run won the game for the visitors.
Friends rushed him away before any
Of the angry throng reached him Bo-
die made his 21st home run of the sea-
son in the morning game The score:
First game r. II. E.
san Francisco .......3 0
sacramento ............O l
Browning and Williams; Whalen
and La longe.
Second Game r. II. E.
sacramento ..,.........5 D l6 2
san Francisco ............. A II 2
Fitzgerald. Baum and Lalonge;
BARLEY Miller, Stewart and Berry.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-07-18
Oakland 2. Portland I.

Portland, Ore, July 17.-Portland
lost the final game Of the series with
Oakland today by the score Of 2 to !.
on the throw in. after Lively's hitch
in the fifth inning, Olson hit Wares
who was between second and third.
The ball caromed to the grandstand
and. when retrieved. Wares had scor-
ed and Lively was on third A single
served TO score Lively. Knapp. in the
eighth went to first on an error and
made the circuit Of the bases on a
double and single which followed.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-07-18

Daily East Oregonian by carrier,
only IS cents ~er week.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-07-18

Mems oxfords cheap at A. Eklund's.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-07-18

Jensen and Lewis; Maston, Nc
Camment and Byrnes. Umpire
Frary.
Spokane Takes Two. {.
Spokane. July 17.-Seattles two
crack pitchers, Zackert and Chinault,
We're unable to stop the Indians today.
BY hitting both effectively Spokane
was able to win two games by deci-
sive margins. In spite of the heavy
hitting and wealth of incidents in each
game, both were played in rapid time
The first took an hour and SO minutes
and the second about the same, being
called at $50 to permit Seattle to
catch the traian. Cartwright got six
hits in he wo games, one a triple.
| Scores:
First game r. H. E.
Seattle 9
| SPOKANE ...''S II
Zackert, Henkle and Hemmenway;
Holm and Shea.
| Second game r. II. f.
! Seattle E. ...........2 6 2
spokane ............. ...''o
Chinault and Hemenway; Kratzberg
and Brooks.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-15
BENEFIT FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE

For the first time in the history Of the
atre ticket speculation the men will have
women as competitors. The occasion will
be the suffrage presentation of Just d
Wife" by Miss Charlotte Walker. at the
Belasco Theatre on Monday evening for the
benefit OF the Woman Suffrage party.
Mr.. Belasco is giving his theatre and Miss
Walker her services in behalf of the suf-
frage cause. and every penny of the re-
cepts outside of actual running expenses
will be turned over TO the women.
Every day and evening this week women
will sell tickets in front of the theatre In
competition with the regular ticket specu-
lators, and at the regular box Office price.
Those who do not get their tickets in ad-
vance Will be able TO get them without
paying a premium-that is if they are not
sold out before Monday. March 81.
No difficulty will be experienced In locat-
Ing the women ticket sellers as they will
be indicated by satin bands worn dag
onally across their coats.
The Actors League. associated with the
Woman Suffrage party, continues to enroll
ms mbers, among the more recent additions
being Bruce McRae, leading man for Char
lotte Walker; Dodson s. Mitchell, Robert
Robson, Marshall Stuart and Mr.. and Mrs
Henry 3. Stiman, the former stage man
ager for the BelasCo Theatre Others arc
Amelia Gardner. William j. Kelly Edmund
Breese, Frederick Burton and Ieola NJ.
Rucher
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-15

political work OF the league IN the autumn.
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Batch win have
box party. including among others Mr.
Forbes Robertson.
The patronesses are Mrs. Archibald Alex
ander. Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch. Miss
Ethel Barrymore. Mrs. George Bonner. Mrs..
John Winters Brannon. Mrs. Walston Hill
Brown. Mrs. Wendell T. Bush. Mrs Francis
HigSinson Cabot. Mrs. Herbert 8 Carpen-
ter. Mrs. Emanuel Eirstein, Miss Maxine
Elliott. Mrs. John H Hammond, Mrs
Stuart Henry. Mrs. Robert G. IngersoL,
Mrs. Richard irwin Mrs. Martin ". Little
ton. Mrs Philip Lydg, Mrs. Clarence Mac
KAY. Mrs. John Z. Milholland. Mrs. Fred
erick Nathan. Mrs. Samuel Cntermyer and
Mrs. EgertoD Winthrop. jr-
Those who will appear IN the plays are
Miss Helen Ashley. Miss Janet Beecher,
Miss Ruth Holt BOucicauit, Miss Kate
Carlyon. Mrs. Harriet Otis Dellenbaugh,
Miss FoIa la Toilette, Miss Margaret Nc
Kinney. Miss Beatrice Robertson.
Miss Molly Pearson. Miss Alison Skinner
Miss Evelyn Weldon. Alexander Classy.
Robert Mckay. Eric Maturin and Nontagu.
Rutherfurd.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-15
ACTRESS CONFERTED.
Mss Barrymore to appear an
Suffrage Benefit.

Miss Ethel Barrymore has come out for
suffrage good and strong and TO give evil
dence Of her firm conviction that women
should have the ballot has cabied TO Charles
F'rohman III London. asking his permission
10 take part in three plays Miss Beatrice
Forbes Robertson is arranging 10 be given
for the cause.
Miss Maxine Elliott is showing her dis
position to help swell the treasury 81 the
Equality League for Self-Supporting Won
en- by giving the use of her theatre for
these plays. which are 10 be presented on
Thursday, March 81. at els o'clock.
The plays are Before the Dawn" by
Miss Bessie Hatton, Of London. whose
father Is a well known politician; "A Wom-
ans Influence" by Miss Gertrude Jennings,
who has created a new profession for
women in England. that of writing political
plays 70 he given wherever elections are
being held: and How the. Vote Was Won"
by Miss Ciceiy Hamilton and Christopher
ST. John. Miss Hamilton, whose father is
a member of Parliament, wrote DIANA CT
DObson's.' and Mr.. St John compiled Ellen
Terry's memoirs.
The money raised will ne used for the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-15
URGE NJ ALL SUBSIDY
Manufacturers Shoe Sombre
Tierc of Merchant Marine.

The iamentable state OF the American
merchant marine and the possible remedies
for il made the theme for dinner whore
enthusiasm boiled up frequently Ia can,-
paign heat when d committee of one hun
dred members Of the National Association
of Manufacturers Toasted and talked last
night at the Knickerbocker. The sneakers
one and all clothed the shipping problem
In robes Of 1gurative language of a SOM
bre and depressing hue. and agreed. almost
without exception. that the one remedy 10
be tried was the mail subsidy in the form
embodied in Congressman W. E Hum
phrey's bill. which is now hidden In the
secret places OF the House Of Representa-
tives.
Congressman Humphrey himself described
the evil case OF the American shipping in
dustry with profusion Of details. and con-
tributed his testimony to the belief that
this country would find It's next war o., the
Pacific.
"All events of the present" he said. lin
dictate that our next contest will be on the
Pacific Ocean. What would happen II II
should come, let US say, with Japan: We
are as helpless to-day on the Pacific as
was Russia when she clashed with that
empire.
Japan has $50 vessels fit for transports;
we have on the Pacific six merchant ships
and four or five antiquated transports
Japan has on her ways fifty merchant yes
sells under construction. We have none
and have had none for six years. Japan
can carry 100000 troops a. one time easily;
on the Pacific we could not carry more
than 10000. Japan could land $4,000 troops
in the Philippines III thirty days and 1000
in Hawaii; We could not get 10000 troops
ready 10 embark on the Pacific Coast In
that time. We would then have no trans
ports TO carry them, and II we had the
transports we would have nothing but cruis-
ers to meet the battleships OF Japan.
I'VE could not put 5000 troops In the
Philippines in q year. And let me say TO
those who say that Japan would not declare
war with us if she had just cause that they
sadly underestimate the spirit and the
strength Of those men OF the East. ! do not
prophesy a Japanese war; 1t would be a
fearful calamity, but ii is we'll to be pre-
pared, for that IS the surest preventive"
Henry Clews agreed with the other speak
er5 that the merchant marine was in bad
way, but declared his preference for the
admission of foreign ships free to American
registry to any subsidy system. John Bar
rett, director of the International Bureau of
American Republics, urged the mail sub
sidy outright and the development of an
express steamship service to South Amer
lea at once. James Watson, former Con-
gresham from Indiana, denounced the free
oship plan as a fallacy and argued for the
mail subsidy.
I'VE get $s,0oonno annually from the ocean
mails he said. I'VE ought to put back
into the ocean mail service what we get
from H. and tho problem is half solved"
The meeting passed resolutions fsvoring
Congressman Humphreys bill. II. a.
Tompkns, chairman of the committee. and
James L. EweI1. of the National Associ-
alton Of Manufacturers. also spoke.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-15
HIT ORAL BETTING.
1gnc7c Introduces Bills Rec
commended By Hughes.
GBy Telegraph 70 The Tribune. !


Albany, March l4.-Three bills DESIGNED
TO prevent oral bookmaking, In accordance
with the recommendations Of Governor
Hughes, were introduced tonight by Sena-
tor George B. Agnew, of New York. They
were drawn after consultation with AS
sistant District Attorney Elder. of Kings
County. who has prosecuted many cases
under the original Agnew-Hart laws, and
the various church societies which sup
ported those measures before the I.egis-
ature.
The first bill includes oral bookrna king
within the prohibition Of the law The
second declares any person or corporation
maintaining any Enclosure or place" in
which gambling Is done with his. its or
their consent TO he guilty Of misdemeanor
The third repeats a section OF the OLD law
which exempted from the operation Of the
penal statutes trustees and directors of a
corporation conducting a disorderly resort
In explaining the bills Senator Agnew
said:
The Court OF Appeals, in a recent de-
ciston, has declared the law passed two
years ago does not prohibit oral book
making IL consequence. the handbook
men throughout the State OF New York
have become Dolder In their enticing bust
ness, and it has seemed necessary slightly
TO amend Section es5 Of the penal law
The second bill was drawn In accord
arCe with the recommendation OF one of
the principal prosecuting officers Of the
State Of New York. and is TO enable the
law TO be more easily enforced.
The third bill repeats q portion of the
law which was overlooked ny the Legis-
lature of two years ago, when the anti
racetrack gambling bills were passed"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-15
AFTER BIG FORTUNE
Mapy Nee York Claimants to
South african Estate.

Believing the estate to be worth $50. ooo, 90
Morris Hoffman. Of No. 70 West Il5th street,
and /. D. Posne-, rabbi OF the Fifth
Street Synagogue. Jersey City. have start
cd an investigation of the will OF George
Hoffman, who died in 1895 at Johannesburg,
South Africa. He was a brewer who left a
fortune IN mines, land and cash which
with ircrementS and accrued interest II is
understood Is valued to-day by the Chan
Gerry Court of England at the large sum
mentioned.
Information that the estate must be set
tied this year came to Rabbi Posner, whose
wife Is a cousin OF the dead brewer. from
Mrs. 6. l.. Levy, OF London. another heir
Rabbi Pos.er first heard OF the Will sew
eral years ago. and believed that some
OF the heirs were concealing the facts from
him in the hope that the fortune would be
divided among a few persons. AS the rabbi
is an elderly man. he persuaded Morris
Norman. whose grandfather was a brother
OF the millionaire, to contest the settlement
of the estate in behalf of the New York
heirs
Morris Hoffman IS q member OF the firm
OF Hoffman & Marks, OF Nos &c and Is
Washington Place. He said yesterday that
he had retained Mrs. Sophie Mayer. a New
York lawyer, TO press tie claim in the Eng
lish court. Mrs. Mayer stated that she had
no doubt as to the legality OF the claim. as
1t was understood by relatives of the mill
ionatre that he had neither wife nor chill
dren at the time of his death
Norris Hoffmans mother said Yesterday
that She was married TO the dead brewer S
nephew, Aaron. il the city of Wloclawck
Warsaw, Poland, and often heard her fus-
band and her father-in-law speak of their
wealthy relative, who was born In the same
city and went TO South Africa when A
young man. But she and her husband
came TO New York in 1855 and lost track
of him.
The other claimants TO the fortune in
New York are Michael Hoffman, of No 10
West 1l5th street; Mrs. Israel Schultz of
No. 100 East 15sth street; Mrs. Ray
Michaels, OF No West l16th street; Mrs.
Fanny Lasky. of Pleasant avenue, Harlem:
Mrs Minna Fabian, of no. Il East l0Sth
street, and Mrs. A. 3. Levy, of No. 1855
Manhattan avenue, Brooklyn.
With the proverbial optimism of heirs,
some OF those who expect to share the
millions of the South African brewer
have already planned how TO spend the
money. One favors an airship in which
TO take trip to Europe and another will
nave a splendid hat and gown with an
automobile of a color TO match
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-15

for Il while, will give some lectures on
Wild Animals / Have Met and then you
will find, when winter comes, he will have
to go to the Canal Zone or South America
Until-welI. perhaps two and nalf years
from now" And here Mr.. HapSood paused.
and every one laughed heartily.
one woman, who said she lived in Cali
fornia was anxious to know what the
speaker thought OF President Taft's han
ding OF the forestry case.
Well he said, II was one Of Mr.. Taft's
most enthusiastic supporters during the last
campaign. and l never had more of d jolt
than at the developments since this case
came up.
The trouble with Mr.. Taft. and the rea-
son ne has got into this lamentahle state,
is that the people who play golf with him
and who dine and lunch with him are those
that influence him.
Now. Mr.. Roosevelt, for example, would
see Mr.. Aldrich one minute and Jacob Riis
the next; Uncle Joe Cannon on one phase
of a subject and Lincoln Steffeus, maybe,
on the other. He looks at both sides OF
60 with the Roosevelt or the conservation
side"
In rehearsIng the Banlnger case and the
principles upon which II rests Mr. Hapgood
II marked:
Mr.. Roosevelt is a complex man. and II
is not always easy TO know whether he
does things because of conviction or a de-
sire for popularity. But on the question of
the conservation of national resources there
never was shadow of a doubt. If there
was one thing he did care for 1t was that.
lie made practically only one request of
Mr.. Taft. and that was that one man
should be retained in the Cabinet TO guar
antee the future prosperity OF the country.
Mr. GARFIELD was the man. But il soon
became evident that President Taft and
! Mr. Garfield held different ideas on the
matter. so 1t was delicately intimated 10
Mr. Garfield that SO long as this difference
of sentiment existed it wasn't exactly fair
to have him remain"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-15
OF FASHION
OnIy the Suitable Is Noe Con-
sidered MOdish.

on all sides one hears the remark that
styles We're never more interesting, more
sane, simple and beautiful than they are
is the latitude In choice. Hats can be or
any size and shape and yet be In style:
gowns may be long or short. directoire or
peasant in line. and so on throughout the
entire list of the wardrobe.
Instead of desiring a radical change from
year TO year, the American woman IS tend
ing more and more TO keep hold of those
things that were pleasing and becoming.
modifying. them, perhaps, according TO the
fashion and the time. and adding new little
touches as the fancy pleases. To follow
fashions for their own sake alone, and