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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-14
PRESIDENT PLANS
FOR HIS VACATION
CHIEF EXECUTIVE or NATION
WILL TAKE DAY OFF
Not Expected He VIII Get Much
Rest-LOOIling Closely After Cam
paign Pians-Stays at Beverly Dur
ing Respite.

Washington. Aug. 14.-President
Taft has completed plans for his sum-
sner vacation at Beverly although it
is not expected that he will get much
rest. He sent a message of congrat-
ulation to the executive committee at
Chicago today. where the western
headquarters for his campaign are
being opened. Although the presi-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-14
WORKMEN ARE BURNED WHEN
NITRIC ACID CARBOY BREAKS
Men Plunge Into Water to Ease Pain
and Are Rescued BY Companions
Who EscaDe Fluid

New York.-The bottom of a car
boy Of nitric ac'd dropped out while
workmen were unloading the fluid
from a barge in the East river to a
dock. over hundred pounds of the
acid was splashed over three work
men, who, suffering from the acid
burns, ran scramblng to the end Of
the dock and flung themselves into
the river. Workmen rescued the men
from the river and they were taken
to a hospital, where it was learned
that all three were seriously injured.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-14

At meeting of the city school
board held last evening, the board ac-
cepted the bid of Ben l.. Burroughs
on fuel for use during the coming
year. The contract calls for 275 tons
of Rock Springs lump coal, at a
price of $7.SS per ton and for so cords
of red fir, four foot wood, at $500 per
cord.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-14
Paving Work Resumed.

Paving work on West Court street
was resumed today by the Warren
construction company, the labor trou-
bles which arose day before yester-
day having been adjusted. 1t is stat
ed the bitulithic sprinklers went back
to work at their old wages, % cents
per hour, but that the company is
now operating two crews SO as to give
the men relief.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-14
Threshlng Was Not stoppcd.

A light thunderstorm occurred
here about 10 o'clock this forenoon
and from reports received it appears
that a short sprinkle of rain fell over
most of the wheat belt. However, it
did not cause a suspension of harvest
ing work. II. w. Collins, manager
for the Balfour- Guthrie company,
was at Cayuse at the time of the
rain and says that upon his trip back
to the city he did not see a single
thresher that had stopped work.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-14
Contractors Move Outfit.

Having completed their work on
the big drainage ditch at Stanfield,
the Eschbach-Bru company, is now
moving its equipment to Mesa. Wash
ington, little town near Connell,
where the company has a contract for
diverting the channel of a stream.
The work is being done for the North
ern Pacific and the equipment will
probably be loaded at Stanfield today.
according to H. II. Hamlin. superin-
tendent for the contracting COM
pany.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-14
To Enter stage Coach Rnce.

Jack keefe, secretary for the
roundup, has just received letter
from c. NJ. Howard of Canyon City,
in which he says he will have Com
cord stage here to enter in the big
stage coach race at'the roundup. Mr..
Howard will bring a party of 10 or
l6 with him most of the number be-
ing prospective performers at the
frontier show.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-14
FEVER WINS WAGER WIFE.
Two Divorces Wed, While Third Has
TO paw Ret

to Pay Bet.
New Haven, Conn-Frank S. Corn
weu, former commander of the Con-
necticut naval militia, and Ebene2er
Hill Jr., who succeeded Cornwell as
commander, made wager three
months ago shortly after Hills wife
had divorced him, as to which of
them should marry first.
4 day or so later Cornwell went to
visit at the home OF Mrs. Martha
Beach at Woodmont, and there he
was taken violently i'll with typhoid
fever He was made as comfortable
as possible in the Beach home. That
was eleven weeks ago More than
once all hope for his recovery was
abandoned. Gradually the fever sub
sided and Il week ago he smiled as he
remarked.
"Eb'll win the get yet | must
overcome a big handicap"
The handicap was overcome when
the Rev. Joseph Anderson of Wood
mont casually strolled into Mrs.
Beach's home. Mrs Beach recently
divorced her husband.
The nurses and the minister were
the only ones who knew that mar
riage license had been obtained and
that Cornwell was to win his bet from
EbeneZer Hill, Jr.
The former naval commander in
sisted that he would not marry on a
sick bed, that he was perfectly able
to stand if some one would support
him. So he was allowed to get from
bed long enough to make Mrs. Beach
his wife.
81 win" laughed Cornwell Tell
E,b I'll expect him to pay, too" he
added "Now | must hurry and get
back my strength"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-14
SINGLE FLY DELAYS TRAIN.
Porter Finding Insect in His Coffee
Starts Il Row,

Waco. Texas.-One fly delayed a
Houston & Texas Central passenger
train, caused the arrest of Pull
man porter and influenced at least
six passengers to threaten to sue the
company for damages.
A south bound train found the
Pullman car which it nightly picks
up, locked, the porter missing and
angry passengers execrating the COM
pany and everything in general.
A hurried investigation showed the
porter an hour before asked for
cup of coffee at nearby restaurant
found fly in it, started row with
the proprietor and was locked up for
disturbing the peace, leaving his car
neglected
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-14
Grouse Season Opens.

The grouse season opens tomorrow
and many hunters in this vicinity are
anticipating some good sport. Reports
on the quantity of grouse this sea-
son are varying. Some hold that be
cause of the rain which has been eX-
ceptionally heavy this year, the
grouse are not so plentiful as on for
mer seasons, while others maintain
that this wet condition has had no
material effect upon the game. At
any rate, there are many sportsmen
who will take advantage of the sea-
son and go out 10 secure some of the
birds.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-14
Moving DAY.

NJ. r.. Chessman, city editor of the
East Oregonian and its sporting au-
thority is off duty today while en-
gagged in the task of moving house.
Henceforth Mr.. and Mrs. Chessman
will occupy the Switzler cottage at the
corner of Water and College streets
and which until few days ago was
occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Alex
ander.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-14

At the police court session this
morning Judge Fitz Gerald had the
pleasure of listening to the tales of
two men charged with being drunk,
who We're given jail sentences, and
one who faced n drunk and disorder
ly charge and was required to pay the
city $40
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-14
SEATTLE TEACHER
DROPS TO DEATH
ON MOUNTAINSIDE
Miss Helen Hunt Victim of Horrible
Accident as Mountain Climbing
Party Tons Pinnacle Peak,

Tacoma. Wash, Aug. 14.-Seized by
dizziness as she gazed down from the
summit of Pinnacle Peak, Miss Char
iotte Hunt, aged 80. a Seattle school
teacher, suddenly pitched into space.
Her body was picked up by other
members of the pleasure party 500
feet below in Paradise valley. 1t was
carried to the railroad in a pallet of
a!penstocks and blankets. Nearly ev-
cry bone in the body Nad been bro
ken The other women, unnerved by
the accident were carried down the
mountain by the men. Miss Hunts
mother lives at Tama Iowa.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-14
Newsy Notes
of Pendleton
Captured u Porcupinc.

Elmer Turner, chief rooter for the
Buckaroos, made the capture OF u
porcupine today and the animal is be-
ing exhibited at the Oregon market
on Main street. The "Porky" was
caught over near the Sturgis home on
the north side of the river.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-14
New Sultan Annroyed.

Bate Morocco, Aug. 14.-Sueceed.
ing his brother Mulay Hafld, who alb
dicted the throne. Mulay Yusseff to-
day was officially proclaimed sultan
Of Morocco.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-14
PLAN
FOR PARTY CAMPAIGN

Oyster Bay. Aug. 14.-Plans for
the progressive campaign were dis
cussed here today at conference be-
tween Roosevelt, Senator Dixon and
George w Perkins. Roosevelt an
nounced ne expected to stump in SO
states, but details were not announced.
Roosevelt begins his longest western
trip with speech at st. Paul on La
Dor day. II.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-14

"F'lorence Lawrence"-"Not Like |
Other Girls"-today at the Cosy"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-14

At the cosy" today Who? Flor
ence Lawrence.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-10
THE CENTENARY or GAS.

Gas lighting has for so many years
been widely supplanted by electric light
ing that 1t may seem almost startling to
be reminded that the former dates back
only a hundred years. It is true that
much attention TO the subject Of infam-
mable gases was. manifested by scien-
lists as long ago as the middle of the
seventeenth century. The great Dun
donald made some not unsuccessful ex-
periments at lighting his own house
with gas in 1887, and in 1892 William
Murdoch lighted with gas his own house
and office. But it was not until 1912
that the invention became commercially
significant, when the Gas Light and
Coke Company Of London was char
tered. That was the beginning Of pub
lie gas service.
1t Is interesting to recall that, like the
makers Of other inventions, the pro-
jectors Of gas lighting were the butt of
incredulity and ridicue Sir Walter
Scott and-of ali men!-Sir Humphry
Davy Joined cOnspicuously in the hos
tile chorus. When Murdoch was before
committee of Parliament seeking the
charter Of a hundred years ago he was
asked If he really meant TO produce Il
light without wick, and when he
answered in the affirmative saying that
he had already done So the sapient legis-
lator retorted. You are trying to prove
too much"'
The next year after the granting of
this charter Westminster Bridge was
lighted with gas. But it was not until
1888 that the houses Of Parliament were
illuminated by that means, and even
then the experiment was deemed so I'M
certain and dangerous that network of
water hosepipes were stretched through
the houses for fear Of accident All that
seems amusing now, and 1t is, as much
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-10
SCHOOL TEACHERS POLITICS.

Miss Grace Stracban, president or
the marlborough Teachers Association,
seems TO be the stormy petrol or the
educational world. Wherever she Is
there is trouble-for herself or others
1t was only recently that the project to
collect fund of 100000 or so for her
from teachers in the schools here be-
cause Of her services in connection with
the equal pay bill had to be dropped
because il came into conflict with the
regulations of the Board OF Education.
Now in Chicago. where she is a candl-
date for president of the National Edu-
cation Association, she is accused OF
being the beneficiary Of "Tammany
methods" and of playing crafty politics.
1t is reported that she has the support
of the book trust lobby" and that Mrs.
Ella Flagg Young, superintendent of
the Chicago schools, withdrew from her
faction because political influence was
brought 10 bear on her in Miss
Strachan's behalf. There is even a
story Of letter from Mayer Gaynor to
Mayor Harrison urging Miss Strachan's
claims.
The "book trust lobby" "Tammany
methods" bosses lining up the school
teachers" padded rols'-why, reports
of the proceedings Of this school teach
ers' convention read like those of a hot
day at Baltimore. 1t has been the aim
of the people of this city for many years
to keep the school system out of. poll
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-10
NLw YORK FROM THE SUBURBS

The death rate OF New York has been re-
duced one-halr since 1866 But then most o.
the visitors In New York manage TO get back
home before they die Cleveland Leader
Though this is usually looked upon as IN
grateful world there are times when this view
appears at fault \ New York sepv tender
saved a person from drowning AMI his en-
ployers gave him half day OF In recognition
OF his bravery. --Providsnee News. 40
San Antonio's ny-kinins contest resulted IN
the death Of only S.15T.oo0 Mes WAY ts4t h
not fly per capita for New York CITY. We
know san Antonio can do better than thaL-
Houston Post
Somebody or other on The New York Times
has been saying that the gangsters Of thar 'oNH
are not pogoniate. Must be true. for even
body admits they not little snaFsN
Charleston News and Courier.
Mock Duck Is In the Jug is headlihs y
a New York paper, referring to the inoaTee'A
of the most celebrated tong man in chinssos.nn
And we assume that Mock Turtle 10 u Wv
Rochester Post-Express.
The New York City Commissioner OF Coz
reetion. Patrick A whitney. wants the Soaiu
OF Estimate and Apportionmsnt TO appropss
S. 900 900 for an outht of model prisons--a H,.
reformatory somewhere in the country. q "e
workhouse on Riker's Island, q penitsnt'aSy -
Harris Island. an annex to the Tomes. We" Ssr
ems iai and SO on. With all these nail,, IN
York would have the finest prison syssen. :,
the world Il is claimed. II would eoeIGs' %,
have a pretty miserable system OF oas'nssi,.e-
honest common folks. who continue assrg
specting struggle with the cost OF LIVES
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-10
MRS. BAYNE GETS S265, 900
Cousin Of Theodore Roosevelt
Comes Into Big Estate.

Justice Gavegan approved yesterday the
report % Charles l.. Hoffman, as referee, to
pass on the accounts OF Robert 3. Roose-
welt, tr, as guardian for his daughter, Mrs.
Olga Roosevelt Bayne. wife OF Or. Joseph
Breckenridge Bayne. OF Washington. The
account shows that Mrs. Bayne will receive
S265.0O0 from the estate OF her mother,
Mrs. Grace 6. Roosevelt who died in 1894.
Mrs Bayre Is q cousin Of Theodore
Roosevelt. Her mother left the estate in
trust for her daughter until she became Of
age. Mrs. Bayne was twenty-one years old
on April and now IS entitled 10 the prin.
cipal.
The property which Mrs Bayne receives
includes the house at No 26 West SD
street, $4,000 in bonds, $500 worth Of
silver and jewelry valued at s2,s9i.
Mrs. Bayne was married on November Is
last, and the accounts hled with the court
show some expenditures from her estate in
connection with the wedding Her trous-
seau cost $1,000 and the wedding supper
1864 Five lockets cost 1915 and SIPS was
spent for music. There was a dinner dance
al Chevy Chase that cost SS7 and SIS was
distributed in tips at the wedding supper.
Mrs. Bayne paid So duty on a wedding pres
ent and drew $1,000 in cash. The Rev. J. II
Prescott received 500
Mrs. Bayne's living expenses from July,
1911. to April. 1912, amounted to 1885,.
Mrs Bayne has also inherited $500. 900 from
her grandfather, Lorenzo c. WDodhouse,
and 100000 from the estate of .Irs Ste
phen s. Cummns
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-10
HEADS MUNICIPAL LEAGUE
William Dudley Foulke Again
Chosen as President.

Los Angeles, July AT the annual meet
ing OF the National Municipal League tc-
day William Dudley Foulke was reelected
president Jane Adams, OF Chicago;
Camillus G. Kidder, OF Orange, ". j.
President A Lawrence Lowell OF Harvard
University; George McAnneny, OF New
York, and Charles Richardson, OF Phi!a-
delphia, were reelected vice presidents
Among the new vice-presidents are J.
Horace Mcfarland, OF Harrisburg, Penn;
James NJ. Thompson. OF New Orleans, and
Dudley Tiboits, Of Troy, ". Y.
Ten Years OF Commission Government
was the subject OF an address by William
B. Munro assistant professor Of govern
ment in Harvard University. Professor
Monro said that out OF two hundred cities
which have adopted the plan. more than
half are OF less than 5000 population %
nifty American cities Of more than 10000
only six have sanctioned ths idea, and Of
twenty-five cities OF more than go oco, not
one has put it into practice.
Commission government said Professor
Monro. adjusts itself nicely to direct legts
lation, nomination reforms and the short
ballot As shortcomings Of the commission
plan, he pointed out that the charters did
not always lay sufficient stress on the
merit system of appointment, and they
rarely gave sufficient attention TO business
provisions.
Clinton Rogers Woodruff, secretary OF the
league, in an address, said: Whatever
may be the ultimate form OF American
government, this much now can
be asserted with a fair degree OF positive
ness: The double chambered municipal
legislature must yield to the single cham
bered one elected at large
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-10
THE NEW CHAIRMAN.

In choosing Mr.. Charles D. Hilles,
President Taft's secretary, as chairman
of the Republican National Committee
the subcommittee, acting in cooperation
with Mr.. Taft, wisely followed the prece-
dents set I'm the campaigns Of 1904 and
1908. In those years the rule was estab-
lished of putting the management or the
campaign into the hands of personal
representative Of the candidate, chosen
from among his official family or official
associates. The chairman OF the com
mittee in 1904 was Mr.. George b. Cor
telyou, originally President Roosevelt $
secretary and at that time member or
his Cabinet In 1908 Mr.. Frank IL.
Hitchcock. then First Assistant Postmas-
fer General. who had conducted the cam
paicp for Mr.. Taft's nomination. became
the natural choice for the Craftsmanship.
This year Mr.. Hilles has had most I'M
portant part in directing Mr., Taft's sue
cessful canvass for denomination and
his election as national chairman nat
urally follows.
The Republican party, at least mas
broken definitely with the tradition
which used TO bestow the Craftsmanship
of the national committee on an active
party leader Republicans have recog'
nized the disadvantages Of a system
which to a large extent subordinated the
candidate TO the campaign manager. In
1899 the national committee actually
elected and sought to force upon PreSi-
dent Harrison q chairman with whom
he was not in personal or political SYM
patby. He protested, and the first Sc
lection was finally cancelled and another
made which General Harrison could ap-
prove.
Under modern conditions the nominee
is the controlling influence IN Presi-
Dental campaign. He must make bis
own fight TO degree which would have
been considered anomalous twenty years
ago and he must be in constant personal
touch with the agents who are in charge
Of the party machinery. It is entirely
suitable, therefore. that the chairman Of
the national committee should be per
sonal friend and associate Of the candi-
date. rather than a party leader with
possibly conflicting policies, interests and
associations.
The remarkable success Of the Repub-
lican campaigns of 1904 and 1908 con-
firmed the wisdom Of the change Of plan
effected when chairman of the Cortel-
you type replaced chairman Of the type
Of Quay or Hanna. The direction Of a
national campaign to-day requires some
what different talents and training from
those which We're effective years ago,
for the public is reached by other
methods. Mr. Hilles is admirably fitted
to succeed, as Mr. Cortelyou and Mr..
Hitchcock succeeded, and his selection
will be approved by Republicans every
where as the best which the sub-com-
nittee Of the national committee could
have made. 1t will guarantee cam
paign management in entire accord with
President Taft's high political ideals and
with bis personal wishes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-10
HERE'S ANOTHER,

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: While The Tribune uses a nicely In
Judgment by consigning TO tho waste bas-
ket any letters from its readers not in ac-
cord with It's policy It continues TO invite
them by such editorials as that IN to-day's
issue under the heading. The Boilers
Call"
It expresses surprise that the peoples re-
sentiments occasioned at Chicago are not
dying out, after the usual manner. They
will not. The people will not soon forget
what was done to them at Chicago In the
words of Boss" Barnes, who seems to
have your hearty support. the people at the
primaries were suffering temporary aber-
ration OF mind when they voted for Roose-
Welt. They are due TO suffer another at
tack this fall Their leader has been
travelling for days 10 find an issue to ex-
cuse his entrance into the contest" Many
days ago his followers found their excuse
at Chicago. As they are at least honest In
their convictions. such terms as boiler
radical. etc, may not tend to make them
feel less vengeful. and they carry no
stigma
AS The Tribune does not treat it's readers
to the opinions OF It's letter writer's unless
they be favorable, It can continue its abor-
tive attempt to create a favorable impress
sion to its political policy through its edi-
torials +. w. DEARBORN.
THE Tribune has printed number OF
letters--it has not received many-op-
posing its course in this campaign. and
one or two of them have been almost rs
foolish as the foregoins.-Ed.l
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-10
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

"A beautiful bit OF martial color was
added to the scene that day." writes a
woman from Rome, land those who were
as fortunate our party, TO be In tbs
Belvedere Court, saw a fine company of
peace soldiers In the persona OF the new
Swiss Guards, who took the oath OF al
legisnce. l call them peace soldiers, be-
cause, despite their uniform, metal breast.
plates, feathered helmets and all, they
carry no weapons save the long spears,
which we were told are 10 be used only
for defence Even at the distance from
which we viewed the ceremony We could
tell that they were body of gentlemen"
A man entered a drug store very hur-
riedly and asked for a dozen two-graln
quinine pills.
do you want them put in box SIR"
asked the clerk, as he was counting them
out.
''Oh. no; certainly not" replied the Gus
toner Il was thinking or rolling them
home. Youths Companion.
The programme for the celebration OF
the procession OF the Blessed Sacrament,
which will take place at Vienna on Sep
TENDER IS in connection with the Eucharis-
tic Congress- has already been published.
1t indicates that the ceremonies will Guido
I'm grandeur anything OF the kind that has
ever been seen In that city. The place
selected for the mass will be I'm front OF
the great arch at the Imperial Palace on
the very top OF which will be the altar.
choir of one thousand voices will take part
I'm the service, and the instrumental music
for the Tie Deum which will follow will
be furnished by the msssed bands OF ten
regiments,
II know Charley enjoyed being a dele
gate at the convention said young Mrs.
Torkns
HOWE?
Il heard him talking In his sleep, and
some OF the language he used was exactly
the same as that which he employs at
baseball game. Washington Star.
The provisional programme OF the com
ing International Congress on Hygiene and
Demography, to convene in Washington In
September, recently issued, is a pamphlet
OF one hundred pages, printed in French,
English and German. and contains, in adj
dltlon TO the programme Of papers and
addresses, a list of the officers and the