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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-09-05
LOSES LEGS UNDER TRAIN

Aberdeen, S. D.-Jalmar Olsen. a
farm hand who came here from the
east seeking employment, is in a To-
cal hospital with fair chances for re-
covery, following an accident in
which both legs we're severed at. the
knee. Olsen, with two companions,
was endeavoring to board a freight
train, when he fell beneath the cars
ord tho train nassad ovar him
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31
INVESTIGATION SHOWS STURGIS PROJECT
CANNOT Be UNDERTAKEN BY GOVERNMENT

That the government reclamation
service cannot possibly make come
true the old time dream of the Stur-
gis project was made evident here
yesterday afternoon when farmers
from northwest of the city were Ques-
toned by Chief Engineer Davis and
other members of the investigating
board now here to ascertain the facts
regarding the West Umatilla EXten-
sion. The government could do
nothing with that project even were
it a feasible project, because the land
is all privately owned and because the
money now available for reclamation
work is barred from use on new pro-
jects.
During the afternoon yesterday a
number of farmers from Birch creek,
Mckay creek and from the north
western section were before the
board and were questioned at length
as to their work, their interests and
their desires regarding irrigation
Later in the day the cause of the
assembling of farmers in favor of the
so-called move was made known by
| viii Moore, who submitted a letter
| j. n. Burgess had written to far
mer imploring him to come before
the board.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31
Because He Cannot Explain
Some Things He Does and
Some He Don't Do.
FINDS PEOPLE ARE DULL
Still Thinks He Can Show Why He
Should Be Reelected When Proper
Time Arrives and He Has But One
Opponent. Ia

Columbus, O., Jan. 31.-"I think
that when we get stripped for the
fight and get into the arena, with only
two antagonists and their parties are
drawn upon each side, we shall be
able to show warrant for our continu-
ance in power"
This was the keynote of President
Taft's speech here today before the
republican editors before he left for
Akron.
Referring to himself, President
Taft said:
Sometimes it is lonely at Washing
Nton, because I feel it hard to bring
out to those who are really interest
ed and who have right to know,
the real reason why things are done
and why certain things are not done.
There are those who in doing
things are able to make so clear the
right they are upholding that they
don't feel the lack of general spread
of information on such a subject. But
1 am not of these.
II have lacked the knowledge that
you cannot hammer a thing into the
people too often and that reiteration
is thing that tells, in spreading any
doctrine"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31

Last evening local friends of the
West Extension took a short inning
and presented numerous arguments
favorable to the undertaking of the
West Extension by the government.
Among those who appeared before
the board were DIR. c. j. Smith, Vir-
gil Moore, George Peebler, VIII
Moore and others. While Messrs
Smith and Moore were giving their
views to the board DR.. Coe of STAN
field sought to harrass them with
questions regarding the Sturgis pro-
ject. 1t was during such a COLO
guy Mr.. Moore introduced the Burgess
letter as evidence to the effect the
entire Sturgis project move had been
inspired by those who are fighting
the West Extension The letter was
filed with the engineering board.
Today the engineers have been
making a personal survey of the ter
ritory on Birch and Mckay creeks.
Tonight they leave for Arlington
where they will meet with the people
of that town. From Arlington they
will return to Hermiston. They will
wind up their work In this county
with hearing at Stanfield The
board expects to be in the county for
! a week.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31
Stoops to Secret Meeting
With Postmasters TO Cap
ture Delegates.
CHARGES WILL BE FILED
Roosevelt Boomers VIII Charge
Stockings of Buckeye states Cities
With Political Activity - Efforts
Have weakened Him.

Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 31.-As re-
suit of holding a secret meeting with
William Howard Taft, president OF
the United States of America, the
postmasters of the principal cities OF
the state of Ohio may soon have TO
face charges of political activity.
THe discovery. that secret meet
ing between Taft and the postmasters
was held yesterday, was made today
and as a result the boomers of Colo
mel Roosevelt for the republican NOM
ination are thoroughly angered and
vow that the charges will be filed
against the postmasters.
1t is reported that at this secret
meeting the president and the post
masters arranged plans for deliver
Ing the Ohio delegation to Taft for the
nomination at the national conven'
ton.
President Taft is today much weak
ened as a result of his activity yes
terday He conferred with a num-
ber of republican editors of the state
today and briefly addressed the con
stitutional convention. He left here
this afternoon for Akron.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31
Etter Charged With Connec-
ton With Woman Textile
Workers Death.
BAIL REFUSED PRISONER
Accused Striker Declares Manufac-
turers Have Trumphed Up Charge
to Get Him Out of Their Way
Maintains His Innocence.

Lawrence, Mass, Jan. 31.-All
hope for the immediate release of
Strike Leader Etter and his chief
lieutenant, Arturo Giovaniti, on
charges of being accessories to the
murder of Anna Lapizza, who was
killed Monday night by stray bullet
during a fight between the strikers
and the police, vanished today when
Justice Chandler continued the cases
until February 8, after the men had
been arra'gned. He refused all offers
of bail.
Etter is very bitter. He said he
was not near the scene at the time
and said that the textile manufac
turers trumped up the charge.
Etter said: "Some foolish man
fired a pistol at the ground and it
struck a rock and glanced and struck
the woman. 1 was not near the scene
but this has caused my arrest.
''The employers of Lawrence have
been fooling the poor under paid and
underfed textile workers. They know
they can't fool or buy me so they or
dered me arrested to get me out of
the way. / had been warned"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31
JAPS NEGOTIATING
MEXICAN F00THOLD
United States May Prevent
Lower California
Colony

Los Angeles. Jan 31.--Information
that a group of Los Angeles men, now
in San Francisco, are negotiating to
transfer to japanese interests 5,000,-
900 acres Of land in Lower California,
for colonization purposes, was re-
ceived here today. The report, though
unofficial, is said to nave come from
the state department at Washington.
1t is said that the Mexican terri
tory involved includes 500 miles OF
seacoast, including Magdalena bay.
Twenty thousand Japanese were to
be sent to cultivate the soil.
1t is reported that the state de-
partment has notified the promoters
that If any agreement exists between
Mexico and Japan, over the transfer
the United States government will re-
sist on the ground that the Monroe
doctrine is being violated.
John Blackman holds an option or
the land in question.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31
CATHOLIC YEAR OF
MOURNING HAS ENDED

Rome, Jar. S1.-That the vatican
has actually ended the year of
mourning that was imposed for 1911
by the pope because of the italian
50th anniversary of the spoliation of
the churches of the temporal king
dom, was made evident today when
the official announcement was made
of the resumption Of the big Pilgrim
ages that come every year from all
Catholic countries to see the pope.
The announcement says the first pill
grimage viii be made in March when
a large party of AustrIans will come.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31
Brlbery Confession Rumored.

Los Angeles, Jan. 31.-That Bert
Franklin made a detailed confession
of jury bribing in the Mcnamara
cases, January II to Assistant Prose-
cutor Ford duplicating Clarence
Darrow and others, and that he will
be the chief witness for the state
when Darrow is tried, is rumored
here
Franklin refuses to openly admit
that he and Ford have made an
agreement, but he has made signifi-
cant remarks, one being that he will
never go to the penitentiary and
would not perjure. himself for any
one, etc.
Assistant District Attorney Ford re-
fused to affirm or deny the report.
The report says Franklin will get i'm
munity.
Franklin loosened up later in the
day and although he refused to
make statement, whether he had
auto with Ford on January IA as re-
ported.
Chief of Detectives Brown of the
district attorneys office, firmly de-
MED today the report that Detective
Franklin had confessed to bribery.
He would not discuss the report that
Franklin would be a witness against
Darrow.
The county grand jury will resume
its work Friday No further indict-
ments of labor leaders are expected.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31
FATHER OF ECHO
CALLED BY DEATH
Especial correspondence.) }

Echo, Ore, Jan. 31.-J. II. Koontz,
the father of Echo" and one of the
best known pioneer residents of
Umatilla county. passed away this
morning at his home here after suf-
fering for a long time from a COM
plicatlon of diseases. He was 81
years old at the time of death and
spent a greater part of his life in this
vicinity, having been engaged in the
, mercantile and milling business most
of the time
During his lifetime, he was an ac-
tive worker for the upbuilding of the
community and gave his money as
well as his time to worthy enterpris-
es. 1t was through his benefaction
that. Koontz Hall in connection with
the Pendleton academy was built. Be-
sides a host of friends, he leaves to
mourn his departure, wife and two
daughters, Mrs. Fred Hendley, for
merly of Pendleton, and Mrs. Alex
Malcom of this city
Funeral arrangements have moi
been made but interment will be in
the odd Fellows cemetery here.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31

Springing the first of the sensations
of the Mabel Warner forgery trial,
District Attorney Van Vactor late yes
terdav afternoon suddenly demanded
that the defense produce three more
alleged wills of J. w. Young, other
than the four that have previously
made their appearance. The result
OF the demand was as sensational as
the demand itself The defense pro-
duced one of the wills" refused to
produce another and demanded that
the state produce the third.
The will" produced was placed In
evidence and was found to be writ
ten on a piece of tablet paper with a
lead mcneil. Its most peculiar fea-
ture however, was the fact that IL
was dated November 90, 1909, ap-
proxmately four years after the death
of J. W. Young and that it was sign
ed by f. d. Watts and b. B. Hall as
witnesses. Watts has been Mrs
Warmers chief opponent In the fight
over the estate and B. b. Hall has
always been one of the chief witness
es against Mrs. Warner. By the
terms of the "will" all of the Young
property in Weston and $4,000 was
to go to Fred Young, brother Of Mrs
Warner, $4,000 to the wife of FREQ
young, and the balance of the estate
to Mrs. Warner.
The "will' which the defense ac'
cused the state Of having in its pos
session is the one which appeared
some time ago as mo. s" and t.
which the names of J. B. Perry ant
C. c. Hendricks were affixed as wit
nesses. The one which the defens'
refused to produce and which will
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31
MANUEL
ACTIVE
Ten Thousand Royalists Cross Portu-
guese Frontier.

Lisbon Jan 31.-Ten thousand
royalists are reported to be march
ing from the frontier to join the thou
sands of strikers at Moita Evera OPP
orto. Despite reports, the strikers
deny that they will cooperate with
the royalists Business is practically
at standstill Martial law has been
proclaimed here and the labor fed
Grafton headquarters has been sur
rounded by troops More than 500
labor leaders have been Jailed.
The governor at Moita, was killed
by mob last night. The govern
ment asserts that the royalists pro-
vided the strikers with 100000.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31
PORTLAND MAN BEATS
WIFESAND SUICIDES

Portland, Jan. 31.-After beating
his young wife over the head with
a hammer so severely that she may
not survive her injuries, Charles E.
Brown, a grocer residing at 126 East
29th street last night committed sui
eide by blowing off the top of his head
with a shotgun.
Mrs. Brown was removed to hos
pital and is in such a critical con-
dition that she cannot relate the par
ticulars save to say that they quareled
last night and that her husband in
his fury picked up hammer and beat
her with it.
Brown was about rs years of age
and his wife was five years his junior.
They have one child.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31
FIRST SENSATION OF MABEL Warner
TRIAL IS SPRUNG BY PROSECUTION

BE known as mo. Z" is said to bear
the names of Peter West and Louis
Hunziker, both deceased, as Witness
es. Both No. and No. Z, it is said,
make Mrs Warner the principal heir.
Where these alleged wills cam efrom
has not been explained as yet.
Case Still Drags.
Very slow headway is being made
in the case despite the fact that a
session was held last night. Only a
dozen of the seventy witnesses subp-
oenaed have been placed upon the
stand and all have been called upon
to identify certain documents, which
procedure with the conflicts of the
attorneys is responsible for the slow
ness which marks the trial.
Defense Scores Point.
A point was scored by the defense
this morning when Dave Lavender
who managed the Young estate before
the death of the owner, declared 9
letter produced by the state and pur'
porting to have been written by
Young to his niece, Mrs. Nora Watts
not to be in the handwriting of Young
and not to bear his signature.
However, his testimony was not al
in favor of the defense for he de
clared the wills" on exhibit maxim,
Mrs. Warner the keir to be, in hi
opinion, forgeries. Lavender was OF
the stand during the most part o
the morning and was called upon t,
examine q considerable number o
documents 1t is expected that h
will>be recalled when the defense ha
its innings for the court refused t
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31
CANADIAN IRISH WOULD
FIGHT HOME RULE

Winnipeg, Man, Jan. S1.-A volun-
tary agreement to return to ireland
and take up arms against the Irish
government if the HON erule law is
passed, has been made by 100 Irish
natives here. They bitterly condemn
Home Secretary Churchill for con-
senting to speak in favor of home
rule in the district where a genera
ton ago his father fought against
self government for Ireland"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31
MANCHUS AGREE TO QUIT
Two Million Dollars Annually for
DepOsed Clan.

Peking, Jan. S1.-It is again re-
ported that the Manchu princes have
agreed to permit the emperor to alb
dicate. They fear a rebel advance
would mean absolute downfall. 1t is
understood that the terms of sur
render provide annual pensions of
$2,000,000 to the imperial clan and
protection of Manchus is guaranteed.
The only thing that is preventing
abdication Immediately, it is said, is
the squabbling amongst the Manchus
over what each things should be his
share of the 100000 which the re-
publicans are willing to pay.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31
HAS READ BIBLE 21 TIMES.
Delaware Station Master starts Anew
ON Genesis.

Georgetown, Del.-Finislling the
reading of the bible for the twenty
first year, George Messick, &c years
old, stationmaster~ Tor the D., NJ. &
V. railroad at Georgetown, has ach-
ieved the unique distinction of being
the champion bible reader of the
state, and he has started on the twen-
ty-second reading. Messick first
commenced to read on New Years
day. and ecah succeeding day read
a certain number of chapters until
the book was completed. In the
course of years the time has not been
quite sufficient in each year to COM
plete the reading, but he always be-
gan again promptly, generally some
time in January.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31
Every Person Believed to
Know of Dynamite Con-
spiracy to be Quizzed.
WILL DELAY INDICTMENTS
Grand Jury Today Busy Investigating
Mcnamara Defense Fund-F'rank-
lin Reported to Have Confessed,
duplicating Darrow and Others.

Indianapolis. Ind, Jan. 31.-The
scope of the governments investiga-
ton into the alleged country wide dy-
namiting conspiracy was materially
widened today when it was announc-
ed that subpoenaes Will be served on
all persons who are thought to have
had any knowledge whatever of the
McNamaras' guilt
This means that the federal in
quiry will last two years more, at
least, and also probably will delay
the return of indictments.
The fund raised by labor for the
Mcnamara deferse, occupied the
grand jurys time today.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31
SEA CLAIMS 1876 LIVES
i AND 325 SHIPS IN 1911
Most Serious Disasters Were Loss of
Arlxadia and Foundering of the Pere
Marquette Ferry No. is.

Washington.-The sea claimed the
lives of 1876 persons with 325 Ameri-
can vessels during the fiscal year of
1911, according to a summary of loss
es published in the list of merchant
vessels of the United States just is
sued by Commissioner Chamberlain
of the bureau of navigation, Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor.
The loss of sailing vessels, princi-
pally by laundering, resulted in the
death of 10 persons; with steam ves-
sells 81 lives were lost.
The principal disaster during the
year was the foundering of the steam
er Arkadia, which sailed from New
Orleans for Porto Rico with 81 peo.
pie on board and never was heard
| from.
In the laundering of the Pere Mar
quette ferry No. IS on Lake Michigan
l27 persons were lost. In all Is!
steam vessels We're lost.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31
.LOR|MER WITNESS
GUILTY OF PERJURY
Detective Burns So Declares
to Investigating Com
mittee

Washington, Jan. 31.-On the
stand before the Lorimer investigat-
ing committee today, Detective Burns
testified that he was employed by the
committee to investigate the testi-
mony of Charles MCGOWAN, Lorimel
witness.
He dropped the case in October, he
said, because the committee found the
cost of investigation too steep.
Burns said he discovered that Nc.
Gowan had perjured himself and ad-
vised the young man to return from
Toronto and admit it.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31
AGED MAN WHO WRONGED
CHILD GOES TO PRISON

Portland Ore, Jan. 31.-Derome
Wood, the 65 year old music teach
er who plead guilty to statutory Of
fense against fourteen-year-old
girl, whom his son married later to
protect him, left for the penitentiary
today for an indeterminate sentence
of from three to fifteen years. Pro-
ceedings to annul the marriage with
the son have been started. The son
admitted he wed the girl to save his
father.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31
PANTS FALL, FIRING A HOME.
Match i'm Pocket Is Struck Off by
Knife. Its Comrade.

Knife. Its COmrade
Altoona, Pa.-While preparing to
retire John Wood a milk dealer, hung
his trousers in a clothes press. In
removing s- arment subsequently,
Mrs Wood knocked the trousers from
the hook and as they fell knife in
pocket truck and ignited a match,
also in the pocket, setting fire to the
trousers.
The family was just about asleep
before Mrs. Wood detected smoke and
aroused her husband. A sheet of
flame igniting the inflammable ma
terial in the basket where the baby
was asleep.
Mrs. Wood seized the child and
fled, while Wood tossed the burning
apparel into the basket and tried to
trample it out with his bare feet,
which were painfully burned. Unsuc-
cessful, he rushed the clothes to the
bathroom and extingufshed the blaze
| in the tub.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31
VIOLET BUELERS VICTIM
MUST FACE GRAND JURY

Chicago Jan. S1,-Charged with
contributing to the delinquency of
Violet Beuhler. the 15-year-old girl
who left her home in Chicago and
went to New York for him, Charles
McClain. a waiter, has been held un-
der $4,000 bonds to answer before the
grand jury
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31
LUMBARD POOR AND EIGHTY.
Formerly Sang Patriotic Songs That
Made Men Enlist.

Chicago, Ill.-Jules Lumbard, the
singer of patriotic songs during the
civil war, is living here in dire pow
erty. He is eighty years of age.
Fifty years ago he and his brother
Frank toured the country singing
THE Battle Cry of Freedom, They
made famous all of George p. Roots
songs. They made "The Battle Cry
of Freedom" so great an instrument
for the inspiration of patriotism that
Abraham Lincoln once said at a
public banquet:
Let me tell you that two men
and they were not military men-by
their singing have got more men to
enlist in the United States army
than fifty times one hundred and fif-
ty of our best recruiting officers ever
addressed"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31
BILL AGAINST TIPS PASSES
KENTUCKY LOWER HOUSE

Frankfort, KY, Jan. 31.-A state
anti-tipping law passed the lower
house today by vote of SO to 7, with
the following emergency clause at
tached: Whereas members of the leg
islature are paying out money in way
of tips, an emergency is therefore de-
clared to exist and this bill shall be-
come a law as soon as signed by the
governor.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31
MAN EXTOILS HORRIBLE
REVENGE FOR BLOW

Martinez, Calf, Jan. 31.-Posses
are today hunting the marshes for
Antoine Costanza, who chopped his
brothers wife seventeen times with an
axe and drove knife through her
five year old son and shot at her
husband, in revenge for blow from
his brothers fist The woman and
child will probably die.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31
Baden Powell Arrives.

New York, Jan. 31.-Welcomed by
an escort of eleven American Boy
Scouts, who bore a welcome message
from President Taft to Lieutenant
General Baden Powell, founder of the
boy scout movement, arrived here to-
day from England.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31
Morrison to Testify.

Washington, Jan S1.-Responding
to an Indianapolis grand jury sum-
mons, Morrison of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, with two trunks full
of records, left here for Indianapolis
today.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31
welcome Cardinal o'ConneI.

Boston, Mass, Jan S1.-Thousands
today welcomed Cardinal OConnel
upon his return to the United States
from Rome. A parade accompanied
him from the wharm to his home.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31
4 KILLED; 76 HURT IN
FALLING MINE CAGE

Danville, Ills, Jan. 81
) Four men are dying and sew
) enty-six are seriously injured
) as a result of a mine cage
) dropping 200 feet, near here
} today, when the engineer lost
) control of the machinery. The
fatally injured are: ID. S. Con-
} ners, Joe DeptreauX, Camille
Ferrier, and an unidentified
miner.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP
BILL INTRODUCED.

) Washington, Jan. S1-Con-
gressman Berger, socialist, to-
day introduced a bill in the
house providing for govern
ment ownership of railroads,
Telegraph and telephone lines
and express companies engaged
in interstate business. 1t pro-
vides purchase by condemnation
of the properties. the govern
ment to pay for the securities
with government bonds.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31

Maybe, after all, a war would be a
good thing, of thereby the country
would get rid of an apparent surplus
of colonels.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-01-31

The need OF more judges is great
IL measured by the desire of aspiring
lawyers.