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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-03-30
BANDIT MURDERS TWO
PORTLAND AUTOISTS

Portland. March 3O.-Sheriff
posses and police detectives are
today securing Portland and vi
cinity, looking for q bandit who
held up an auto party last
night, and shot and killed
George Hastings and Donald
Stewart and wounded Irving
Lupton. They have found no
trace of him but found his
mask.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-03-30
AMERICAN AID FOR MEXICO IN PUTTING END
TO REBELLION INDICATED BY TAFTS ACT

near the northern border and renew
a vigorous fight.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-05-01
What's In a Nane7

Boston (Mass) Morning Globe.
Woodrow Wilson effectively answer
ed William Shakespeare's query.
What's in a name?" in his talk before
the City club during his visit TO Bos-
ton last week. when he said that in
talking with men of different political
designations he found that Democrats
and Republicans often think alike on
the fundamentals of government
He said that il reminded him of the
story OF an old lady who was very
dear. Her son. introducing a caller
to her, said: Mamma this is Mr..
Stickpin."
What name?" she asked. putting
her hand to hear. MIR. Stickpin." the
son replied Mr.. What?" she asked
again. Mr.. Stickpin." replied the son
fairly yelling the name this time.
20. dear" sighed the old lady. ITS
no use 1t sounds just like stickpiI
to me-"
And so It is when | meet a Progress
sive Republican and discuss the is
sues of the hour with him. | am offer
tempted to ask him again what he saiC
he was, and when he answers Repub
lican feel like shaking my head jus
like the old lady and replying. 20
dear. it's no use. 1t sounds just hk'
| Democrat to me-
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-05-01
State owes him MUCH
Wilson'S Splendid Record as New
Jerseys Governor.
College President. and Good One.
but He Also Proved Himself
Thorough Man Of
Affairs.

The other day In hotel lobby, in
which politicians love to congregate,
the talk turned to presidential posi-
bilities. A man from the neighbor-
hood OF Evansville brought up the
name OF Woodrow Wilson.
Il don't believe that a man who
ever make a good president Besides
what has he ever done?"
Just at that moment a travelling
man was introduced who hailed from
Trenton. n. J.
Il don't know all he's done" said
the man. Il am not at home more
than a few months a year. The rest
of the time | am SO busy l don't read
the newspapers except for weather
conditions and headlines. Out this
way the newspapers don't print much
eastern news"
But you know some Of the things
he has DONE" said the man who was
acting as interlocuter.
What has he DONE" said the man
from Evansville, a smile of victory
playing over his face. They say
Wilson was Just a college president
when he began and they said he would
never be able to put through the list
OF progressive things that he stood
for. But when the Legislature met,
he put through a lot OF things
What were they?" A corrupt prac-
tice act. that grafters are afraid OF:
a workman's compensation act. pro
/ vidlng for automatic payment for in
! turies and loss of life; reforms in rail
road taxes; regulation OF cold storage
houses; non-partisan ballots in cleo
/ tons: commission government for cit
les: a public utilities law fixing the
responsibility for law violations OF
the officers OF the corporations. Th'
bill gave commission power 70 make
rates and to appraise the physic
value of public service corporations
There were a lot more but l can
remember them went away abou
that time" But" said the man from
Evansville. The Legislature did thos
things"
You bet It did" said the ma
from Trenton. "it had tO-you see Wi
son was Governor. indianapolis Sur
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-05-01
HOW JESUS PREACHED
TO SPIRITS IN PRISON
Who They Are and the Cause
Of Their Imprisonment.
Pastor RUSSELL Explodss the Theory
That Jesus Preached to Dead hu-
n,ans In Prison-Fats Of. the Dead Of
the Titanic Disaster Pointed Out
From Scriptures.

A an ( a, Ga.
April &-While We
weep with the sur
vivors OF the "Tt-
tdnic" disaster, let
us thank God that a
better understand
Ing OF the Bible
enables US to sor-
row not hopeless
ly. Not long ago.
misguided by our
creeds OF the Dark
Ages, W e would
have asked, Were
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-05-01
Widowed on Wedding Day.

To have been bachelor, married
man and widower all in the space or
twelve hours was the unique but
tragic experience OF young man In
Belfast, Ireland, recently. Married IN
Christ church at noon. the bridegroom
at midnight became a widower, Tor
at that hour the bride died OF an
acute attack of appendicitis.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-25
MOVING sUCCEsswARD.

Joseph NJ. Gates was talking at the
New York theater about the super
fluffy of show girls in Manhattan.
Every opening" he said, "has a
dozen show girls clamoring to fill it,
l got thirty or forty girls positions
in department stores last week. The
surplusage of show girls is due to
the fact that so many artists models
have turned to theatricals this win
ter.
"The models say there is no work
for them. Art is in a bad way. The
rich collectors buy nothing but old
masters from abroad"
Mr.. Gates smiled:
But it would be nearer the truth"
he went on, ITO say that lots Of ar
fists are failures. Even the success
es, you know, are only half or quar-
ter successes-like the young surgeon.
"'How is your surgeon son doing p
one old man said to another.
"'Oh, finel was the reply. Fine!
He performed his eleventh appendi-
citis operation last week, and the pa
tient lived three hours!'"
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-25
IN THE SECRET PLACE.

At 10 o'clock this morning funeral
services were held for little Olive
McGregor, the 4-year-old. daughter of
Mrs. George McGregor of 437 Fifth
avenue. Rev. Father NJ. F. Callahan
conducted short prayer service at
the residence.
A great many friends of the fam
lily were present in sympathy with the
mothers grief, and many others sent
flowers to express the same kindly
trait. The remains of the baby, whose
years on earth had been SO few, were
Inferred in Greenmount. But the baby,
who smiled SO often while here on
earth, is smiling still in some fair
land beyond the sun, for the life that
returns to the God who gave it" is
indestructible. We know too, that in
"His presence is fullness of joy" and
so we are very sure that, some
where, little Olive is safe and happy.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-25
A SIXTH SENSE.

Psychologists are tending toward a
belief that there is a sixth sense and
that 1t Is the most important of all
That all men receive impressions and
act upon them that do not come
through seeing, smelling, tasting OF
feeling can hardly be denied. One
meets a man or woman and gets an
impression that he or she Is homes,
OF dishonest, selfish or benevolent, ar
irtriguer or open minded and the i'm.
preston comes through some Other
than the five senses.
Then sometimes a whole community
is obsessed with one idea. It may b.
art or real estate speculation, but
all receive Impressions very much
alike. This impression is not convey.
ed to the brain by any of the five
senses yet It carries as complete ar
idea as that Of heat or cold which
is conveyed by the sense Of feeling
Such things have been called psy.
Geological waves, but psychological
wave is not perceived by any one oi
the five senses.
The theory Of sixth sense rests OF
much more substantial grounds thar
that Of "the fourth dimension" over
which there has been so much aca-
demic discussion.-Omaha World Her.
aid.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-25
A NEW ZEALAND FOREST.

The forests in New Zealand are
very fine, owing to the damp climate
and the soil. The Kauri pine grows
sometimes to the height of 1870 feet,
and furnishes large ships with spars
which cannot be surpassed. The ma
tive canoes are made out of single
trunks of these trees. Some of the
war canoes are manned by fifty men.
The blades of the oars are like spoons,
and by means of these the boats arc
made to go very rapidly. The Kauri
pine, besides being useful as timber,
yields a great quantity of gum, which
makes excellent varnish. The names
of the New Zealand forest trees would
not interest you, neither their scien-
t;fic names, nor the names given them
by the natives. What can you make
of tanekaha, mire, tortora, mai, rimu
and hutu7 Nothing at all.
There are ninety-four differen'
sorts Of ferns in New Zealand, ant
some Of these ferns are as big a,
trees. One kind has a root which tn
natives used to eat. It IL now givel
to pigs, and It fattens them well.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-25
IN "oLD FRITZs" HONOR.

BERLIN: Jan. 24.--Emperor Will
liam was astir early today and in
augurated the second day of the fes-
tivities in connection with the cele--
bration of the 200th anniversary Of
the birth of Frederick the Great. At
tended by the high commanding Off
GERS Of the Prussian army, the en-
peror this morning participated in u
solemn memorial service in the old
garrison church at Potsdam, where
the remains of his great ancestor are
buried.
This afternoon was devoted to pa
rades, regimental celebrations and nu-
merous other festivities. The weather.
was favorable, and the capital had
put on its gayest attire. Large
crowds thronged the streets, which
were most deliberately decorated with
flags and bunting. Leading merchants
had WED with one another in contrib
uting to the brilliancy of the display.
The decorations of Unter den Linden
and Friedrich strasse were especially
profuse.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-25
AWFUL STORY OF WOMAN
WORKER IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK, Jan. 22.-"They killed
my poor little baby; that's why I
struck. Maybe they'll kill me, too, for
/ haven't much money to live on now.
But maybe too, I'll help win this fight
and save some other poor mothers
baby, and then I'll be satisfied
Weeping bitterly, Mathilda Winn,
pale-faced and wan, today faced State
Labor Commissioner Williams, relat-
ing conditions in New York laundries.
"My husband was out Of a job" she
said, $50 I had to work in the laundry
to help him. My mother kept my baby
during the day, but I nursed it when
! came home at night.
"On Monday, l worked from noon
until o'clock Tuesday morning. Then
I rushed home, too tired to sleep and
had to go back to work from 1880
o'clock Tuesday morning until 1880
Wednesday morning. Then home and
back again at 7:3o a. m. On Wed
nesday we usually get off by mid
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-25

night. On Thursday we worked from
1880 a. m. until p. m. Friday we
got away by z o'clock and on Sat-
urdays We worked only three or four
hours.
"The first three days of the week
just killed US. The doctor told me
I'd kill my baby if kept at it, but
had to earn living. 1 used to get
home at night so tired could not
stand-and try to nurse my baby.
But had to stay at work-and kill
my child.
81 was only 18 then, but there were
girls as young as ID working the same
hours. The inspectors rarely ever
made arrests"
Under the laws of New York, wom-
en- may not work more than ten hours
daily. Other haggard women corrobo-
rated Mrs. Winn.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-25
sPOONERIsMs.

A "Spoonerism," is the name given
in England to one of those involun-
tary diversions Of words that occa-
sionally enliven conversation. As,
for instance, when the returned trav-
eler tells Of rambling up the scalps"
while in Switzerland and one knows
that he means "scrabling up the Alps"
but has simply perpetrated a Spoon
erism," so called after a canon Of
New College, Oxford, who achieved a
long and exhilarating list Of these
slips.
Some Of the more famous Spoon
eriana" are recorded in the Strand
in the form Of narrative Of a re-
turning vicar who on reaching the
station left his rags and a bug" with
a porter while he went to the refresh
ment room for "a bath of milk and a
glass bun."
During the course Of an address on
Kindness to Animals" to the local
branch of the Girls Friendly society,
he remarked that "in Piedmont, where
the sheep were SO cherished, flock
would willingly follow a showing leop-
ard" The meeting in question was
very sparsely attended, most Of the
forms in the school room being unoc-
cupied; the vicar attributed this 70
the fact that 1t had been roaring
with pain" ever since noon, and added
that as it was "beery work speaking
on empty wenches," they would close
by singing the well known hymn:
From Iceland's Greasy Mountains" +"
The tale Of his ecclesiastical mis-
haps is long. One chilly Sunday
morning he electrified his hearers by
informing them, in the course Of his
sermon, that he felt "hah-warmed
fish" rising in his bosom. To lady
whom he found in possession Of his
stall in the college chapel he gently
observed: Excuse me, madam, you
are occupewing my pie"
Among his other verbal arrange
ments was his apostrophizing Of an
amazed audience Of farmers as "You
tons Of soil;" his inimitable rendering
Of certain line in 1.-THE Burial OF
Sir John Moore" "As his horse on
the ramparts we curried;" his inquiry
as to the suitable "tax for q tipsy-
cab," and his complaint to the sta
tion master Of the continued unpunc-
tuality Of the town drain"
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-25
HOW W[GOT
CANAL ZONE
Manner in Which Roose.
veIt Took Panama Now
Comes to Light
Western Press.

Western Press.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. "a
In support of resolution calling for
an investigation of the manner in
which Theodore Roosevelt "took" Pan
anna from the Republic Of Columbia,
Representative Rainey of Illinois will
submit to the house committee on
foreign affairs, tomorrow, photo
graphs Of letters which lay bare the
existence Of a thorough understanding
between the Roosevelt administration
and the men who manipulated and
carried out the revolution by which
the United States acquired the canal
zone.
The letter is written by DR.. Anna.
dor, who later became the first presi.
dent Of Panama, and is addressed te
Senior DR.. Raoul Amador, then 4 sur.
geon In the United States army and
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-25
HOW FAR MAY THUNDER BE
HEARD.

Chambers Encyclopedia, in its arti-
Gle on Lightning" says: "The dis
tance away of the flash can be esti-
mated by the time between flash and
the beginning Of thunder, every 5 sec
onds being equivalent to 1 mile; 80
seconds or 10 miles is the greatest
observed interval at which thunder
has been heard" Other reference
books say 15 miles; and this is, we
believe, the prevailing popular opin-
ion. 1t nearly agrees with, and is
probably founded upon, the statement
in Arago's well known work on thun-
der and lightning-the highest au-
thority of its time-that De l'Isle once
counted 72 seconds between the light
ming and the thunder. This, says
Arago, is the greatest interval re-
corded in the annals of meteorology,
and is 90 seconds greater than in any
other case with which he was ac-
quainted.
1t is rather rarely the case that
the flashes in distant thunderstorm
are so spaced that one can tell GER
tainly to which flash particular peal
of thunder belongs; hence the diff
Guilty of testing the above figures.
Such an opportunity was, however, re-
Gently presented to well known Ger
man meteorologist, DIR. R. Hennig,
while he was visiting summer resort
on the Baltic. From his bed one night
he observed the flashes of thunder
storm far out at sea at intervals of
several minutes. The thunder was
faint, but distinctly audible. On
counting seconds" he found that
from eighty to ninety seconds and up
ward elapsed between lightning and
thunder. The maximum interval was
96 seconds.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-25
WHERE WAS GEORGE7

Prof. Harry Thurston Peck is foe
to the hide-bound and pedantic gram
marian-the type that declares "To-
morrow is Monday" is wrong.
Prof. Peck rebuked the hide bound
grammarian, at a studio tea in New
York, with story.
"a lady," he said, chad a rather
dissipated husband, and one evening
she said to friend:
az wish I know where George
was!"
"The friend, professors wife, said
primly:
az presume, dear, you mean you
wish you knew where he is?"
"'No, I DON'T, said the lady. q
know where he is. He is upstairs in
bed with bloodshot eyes and terrible
headache. I want to know where he
wasl"
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-25
New York's 400 kow-
lows to British Royalty

Western Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 24.-Our vice
regal visitors, the duke and duchess
of Connaught, and daughter, Princess
Patricia, and suite faced again today
a varied program of social engage
ments interspersed with sight seeing
trips about the city. Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt will give luncheon to
the royal party today and tonight
Mr.. and Mrs. Ogden Mills have ar
ranged dinner to be followed by mu-
sic. Tomorrow night the visitors ex-
pect the duke will go to the opera.
The duke will leave for Washing
ton tomorrow morning for visit with
President Taft.
Yesterdays luncheon was at the
Reid home and Roosevelt was guest.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-25
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.

The Socialist party has inaugurated
a campaign in St. Louis to incorporate
the recall into the constitution Of Mis-
souri.
George A. Neeley, the new repre-
sentative in congress from the Sew
enth Kansas district, is brother-in-
law Of Governor w. r. Stubbs.
The Consolidated Republican clubs
Of the United States, an organiza-
ton of negroes throughout the coun-
try, has declared for the renomina-
ton of President Taft.
Woodrow Wilson, governor Of New
Jersey, will be speaker at the Wash
ington day dinner to be given by the
Kansas Democratic club in Topeka
Feb. 22.
Frank S. Katzenbach, former mayor
Of Trenton and for many years
prominent figure in New Jersey poll
tics, is mentioned for the Democratic
nomination for vice president.
Mary Godat Bellamy, the only wom-
al hbthiDci VI tuc VI wy
oming, is reported to be the leader Of
movement to have the vacancy on
The bench of the supreme court Of
the United States caused by the death
of Justice Harlan filed by woman.
In Illinois the congressional district
conventions to elect delegates to the
Republican national convention at Chi
cago have been called for April II.
The state convention to elect the dele
gates at large will be held two days
later.
The Republican and Democratic ma
tional conventions are each to have
1,074 delegates. A Republican candi-
date is nominated by = majority Of
the delegates, therefore President
Taft needs only 53s votes for renomi-
nation. The Democratic national con-
vention nominates president by =
two-thirds vote, therefore the win
ner in that convention must secure
716 votes.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-25
GuGcENHEIM DIVORCE CASE UP

CHICAGO, Jan. 24.-The matrimon.
iai difficulties Of William Guggenheim
Of smelter fame came up before q
Chicago judge again today for 80.
luton. Mrs. Grace Guggenheim, first
wife of the New York millionaire, is
seeking to have set aside the decree
Of divorce granted to her in 1901. The
case has frequently been before the
courts of Illinois and New York since
the first Mrs. Guggenheim, after her
husband had married again, discov-
cred that she was not legal resi-
dent Of Illinois when she obtained her
divorce from her husband. She now
makes this plea .he basis for a suit
to have the divorce declared null and
void and her rights as the wife of Mr..
Guggenheim restored.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-25
LETTERS DEMAND RICHESON
PAY THE DEATH PENALTY

Western Press.
BOSTON, Jan. PA letter threat
ening the governor and his council
with violence if Rev. c. v. T. Richie
son is pardoned is in the hands of
Governor Foss. 1t was mailed to
Lieutenant Governor Robert Luce,
head of the present governors coun-
Gil, which acts in an advisory capacity
in connection with all pardons,
fetosr, which is signed "Jus-
tice," also demands the pardoning Of
Silas Phelps, the Monroe bridge muir
6crer, 10 whom Governor Foss recent.
ly refused clemency. The letter says
in part: "Phelps must be saved and
Richeson must die. If Phelps is kill
e0 one man will be shot. If Richeson
is saved from the electric chair, two
men will be shot. Beware of the
Black Hand"
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-25
BOBCAT RUN OVER BY
TRINIDAD STREET CAR

TRINIDAD, Colo, Jan. GA huge
bobcat, measuring more than three
feet in length, met death under the
wheels of a street car about three
miles south of this city last night. The
animal had been driven from the hills
by hunger.
He was observed on the track by
Motorman Earl Toller and was blinded
by the glare of the headlight. The
animal ran headlong into the car and
was ground to death.
This is the first time in the history
of the county that bobcat has ven
tured so near to civilization. The
haunts of the animal are in the hills
in the isolated portions of the county
Denver Times.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-25
Lloyds Smell a War in
Not Far Distant Future
Western Press.


Western Press.
LONDON, Jan. 24.-The activity
of the Italian war vessels in the Med
iterranean and the Rea seas is caus-
ing an increasing uneasiness in ship
ping insurance circles. Several large
insurance firms have been affected
during the last two days at Lloyds
In this connection. A premium Of 6
per cent is accepted to cover the risk
of an outbreak of hostilities between
France and Italy in the course Of the
next four months and, although there
is no apparent reason for such an oc-
currence, a premium of per cent Is
paid on the risk of an outbreak of
war between Great Britain and Franco
and Germany within the next six
months.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-25
GETS LIFE IMPRISONMENT
FOR MURDER OF HIS WIFE

OREGON, ILL.,, Jan. 23.-In court
room crowded with serious spectators,
many of whom had known him as a
boy, DR.. Harry Elgin Webster was to-
day sentenced to life imprisonment at
Joliet penitentiary by Judge Farrand
for the murder of his wife, Bessie
Kent Webster.
The judge said that in view Of the
pleas of attorneys and Webster's plea
of guilty he would not inflict the death
sentence but would inflict an even
greater punishment: "that Of impris-
onment for life and hard labor"
Webster who through the pangs OF
fear and anxiety had been reduced to
a state bordering on complete mental
collapse received the sentence with a
sigh of relief.
AS Webster was locked up in his
cell after being led from the court
room he seemed to have regained
some of the composure that marked
his demeanor shortly after his arrest
"God knows l did not intend to
commit such a horrible crime" was
all he would say. 1t is believed that
Judge Farrand's sentence will dis
pose of the case.
Attorney Erwin stated that he had
been prepared to ask reopening Of
the case on question of the sanity
of the defendant if the court had SEN
fenced him to death, but no further
steps in the case are now expected.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-25
FEED ANTELoPEs; WANTS PAY.

ORDWAY, Colo, Jan. 22.-Colonel
John Hester, farmer who lives ten
miles north of Sugar City recently
asked damages of the state to the
amount Of $3.50 for hay which he
claimed the antelopes devoured during
the recent billiards.. A game warden
made an investigation and claiming
that there were no traces of antelope
in the vicinity of the place refused
to enter the claim. The warden
stated that there were no tracks of
anteiopes in the snow, and that he
had seen none in the vicinity Of the
farm.