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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-20
Pin in Liver 90 Years: Dies.

New York.-Miss Katheryn Roche
of Brooklyn. died in the Prospect
Heights hospital and surgical exam
ination into the cause of her mys-
terious illness revealed the fact that
for twenty years small pin had
been in her liver.
Twenty years. ago Miss Roche was
taken to Seney hospital, 1t was then
thought that she was suffering from
an ordinary stomach malady and the
doctors sent, her home. A recent OPP
Grafton was apparently successful
but the vitality of the patient was
not sufficient to carry her through
the reactionary period.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-20

New York -Rodman Law, "the
human fly" started to climb the
sixteen story Blair building in Broad
street when his ascent was stopped
at the third floor by a policeman. He
was arrested on a charge of disorderly
conduct. The superintendent of the
building said that Law tried to OBJ
tain permission to climb up the
building, but was refused, When he
essayed it anyway the police were
notified.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-20
WIDOW SUES FOR HALF
Demands Even Division of Husbands
Estate of $1,000. 900.

Louisville, Ky.-Claiming that a
wife in common law is entitled to
half of the personal property on the
death of her husband, according to
Missouri laws, Ellen j Ewald filed
suit here demanding half of the pro-
perty left by Louis P. Ewald of st.
Louis. The estate is said to be val
ued at about $2,000,000
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-20

Strictly first class chop suey and
noodle parlors. Open day and night
Tray orders a speciality. Everything
new. Under state Hotel. Phone
Main 567. Un Co. Props.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-20
Salcm cannot CritiCise.

"As tor water, | hardy think Salem
would care to enter into any contro-
yeEsy with Pendleton over this ques-
ton. The asylum at Pendleton is to
have theSsame water as that used by
the Pendleton people. At Salem, as
I remember conditions, the water for
the asylum has to be pumped from
wells. After the state had construct
ed these wells a private owner en-
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-07-26
GEN ERAL.

All grades of refined sugar have
been advanced 10c hundred pounds
in the New York market
A light sprinkle of snow fell at Carp
Lake, Michigan, thirty miles northeast
of Petoskey. Crops were damaged.
Robert Harris. drug crazed negro.
went on rampage in Tampa, Fla
and killed four negroes before he was
slain.
Farmers from the surrounding coun-
try brought reports OF frost into Chi
cago. declaring early vegetables had
suffered.
Shoes OF all grades are to be raised
dealers the automobile is to blame for
the increase.
Reports from all parts of the coun-
try. indicate that the apple crop for
1912 is likely to be one of the larg-
est ever harvested.
Two white men and four negroes
were killed in an explosion in the
mines Of the Gayton Coal Company
near Richmond, Va, recently.
The Shuberts have lost one OF their
best theaters in Chicago. the Lyric. al
thought they may be able to hold the
lease for the two years 1t still has to
run.
Clifford Pinchot has added about 5000
to his taxes In the District of Colum
bia by calling attention to the fact
that his Washington home is under.
assessed by $43.793. or forty-nine per
cent.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-07-26
WASHINGTON.

1t is now thought Congress will ad-
journ Aug. 3.
More than seven-eighths of the ex-
cavation work on the Panama canal
was completed, June 1, according to
the Canal Record.
The House public buildings commit
tee agreed to report favorably upon
the bill to increase the cost limit OF
the Denver public building to s2,000.-
600. an addition of 100000 over the
present authorization.
A bill amending the Sherman anti
trust law in many particulars will be
included in the report of the majority
members of the House special com
mittee of inquiry into the United
States Steel Corporation.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-07-26
0. . 3. c. Spends aIa SUM.

Denver vice president Brown of
the Denved & Rio Grande railroad.
has awarded to various car companies,
for delivery within ninety days, con-
tracts for 700 box cars. 100 stock cars.
$50 coal cars and fifty cabooses, at
cost of $1.10O,000. The box cars will
have a capacity of 100000 pounds; en-
tire framing of steel. Stock cars of
same general construction. capacity
$4,000 pounds. Coal cars to be of steel
with drop doors SO that entire load
OF coal or ore may be automatically
Jumped. Cabooses will be of wooden
construction with steel underframe.
This equipment order follows close
ly placing of the order for thirty
freight locomotives with the American
Locomotive Company of Schenectady,
N. Y. and Baldwin Locomotive Works
at Philadelphia:
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-07-26
FOREIGN.

Earthquakes continue at Guadala-
jara, Mex, at intervals, making any at
tempt to repair damaged buildings inn
possible. The inhabitants are leaving
on every train.
AT Belgrade. Servia, a plot to kill
King Peter has been discovered. The
man chosen to commit the murder has
been arrested at Cettinje, the capital
of Montenegro. On his person was a
letter of instructions from the organ
ization he is believed to represent.
The police are looking for his accom-
plices.
special meeting of the Cabinet
with President Madero was called ami
it is probable that federal troops will
Immediately be rushed to the state of
Guanajuato. where cloudbursts have
wrecked two cities and many smaller
towns. Incomplete reports declare that
probably 1000 persons lost their lives,
while the property damage will reach
s5.o0o.0oo.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-07-26
Minor Mention.

UiioT WI00htCUs
Two canning factories are now In op-
GRAFTON at Loveland.
The West canal of the Uncompahgre
project is being completed.
w. B. Monson, Doyleville pioneer.
died at his home in Ohio City.
New alfalfa hay is selling on the
Uintah reservation for IS per ton
Gunnison County Cattlemen's con-
yention at Gunnison was an absolute
success.
The assessed valuation of the city Of
Grand Junction will exceed S2,000.000
for 1912.
John w. Vandeventer. former state
statistician and Colorado newspaper
man, is dying at Minkato. Kan.
The Crowley County Agricultural
Fair Association holds the second an
nual fair at Sugar City Sept. "a. 25,
26 and 81.
Ellis, three-year-old son of Richard
Blackwood of La Sale, died from,
burns received when he fell into a tub
of boiling water.
Former Governor Alva Adams has
formally announced his candidacy for
United States senator as successor to
Senator Guggenheim.
Thirty feet of the water main OF
Canon City leading down the Royal
Gorge. was washed away by the flood
waters and number of cattle
drowned.
Philip Wehrwin, who was waylaid
on the road between Silverton and
died at the Miners Union hospital at
Silverton.
N. Esqueville was shot in the neck
by Alonzo Gomez in a quarrel follow
ing an all-night dance at the Marty NJ.
Howell ranch at Garfield, ten miles
each of Boulder.
The farmers of Morgan county
should receive in excess of 5000, 900 for
sugar beets. This estimate is based
upon supply from 1900 acres for each
of the two factories.
Frank s. Smith, president of the
board of the Denver-Greeley Valley IT.
rigation district, was indicted for per-
jury by the grand jury that has been
in session in Weld county.
From January 1 to July 20 a total
of 1912 inches of water has fallen in
Weld county, according to Govern
ment Observer Nelson Reynolds. This
is the wettest year since 1909.
Reformatory officers identified the
unknown man shot and killed in Lead
vile as Stephen Marko, convict who
escaped from the institution. No trace
of his assailant has been found.
Henry Coons. forty-four. yardman,
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-07-26
News Summary of the Past Week

Beet sugar manufacturers and ship
pers have begun fight before the In
terstate Commerce Commission for
lower freight rates.
The Senate passed without discus
sion the terror battleship" resolution
by Senator Tillman. proposing that
the United States build the greatest
warship possible under modern naval
conditions, to put an end to the race
for naval supremacy" Tilman pro-
poses to name the ship the Terror"
One hundred and twenty million dol.
lars was filched from the AmericaIi
people during the last fiscal year by
swindlers who operated largely
through the mails, according to a for,
NAL report to Postmaster General
Hitchcock. This was an increase of ap-
proximately $50.000.000 in the aggre-
gate of the previous year.
The House passed the bill to create
a department of labor, the secretary OF
which shall have a place in the Cab
met. The measure long has been
pressed by organized labor 1t now
goes to the Senate.
Prize fight moving pictures became
thing of the past in the United
States, when the House passed Sen.
ate bill prohibiting the transportation
of such moving picture films between
the various states and territories OF
from foreign countries. The President
is expected to affix his signature to
the measure.
William D. Washburn, former sena
| tor from Minnesota and pioneer in the
building of the Northwest, has arrived
from Europe In dying condition.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-07-26
CORNELIUS H. HANFoRD SENDS
RESIGNATION TO PREsI-
DENT TAFT.
IMPEACHMENT STOPPED
FEDERAL JUDGE, CHARGED WITH
MISCONDUCT, IN OFFICE
% YEARS.
western Newspaper union New. servIee.

Western Newspaper Union News servico
Seattle, Wash.-United States Dis
trict Judge Cornelius II. Hanford, the
first federal Judge appointed when
Washington was admitted to state
hood, twenty-three years ago, sent his
resignation to President Taft while
the last witnesses were waiting to tes-
tify before the House Judiciary COM
mittee which has been hearing evil
dence relative to charges of miscon-
duct against him.
At the time set for the hearing Mon
day series of conferences between
the committeeman and Judge Han
ford's attorneys was begun. The pro-
posal that the Judge resign and the
hearing be discontinued was submitted
by Judge Hanford's attorneys and ac-
cepted by the committee.
Judge Hanford sent his resignation
BY telegraph to President Taft at
1890 o'clock, going in person to the
telegraph office with the message. At
the same time Chairman Graham of
the subcommittee sent telegram to
Chairman Clayton of the House judi
ciary committee telling him of the
change in the situation and recon-
mending that the hearings be discon-
tinucd.
In the spring of 1912 the Industrial
Workers of the World caused much
trouble in western Washington by pa
rades. strikes and threats of strikes,
and Judge Hanford condemned the car
rying of the red flag through the
streets.
May 10 Judge Hanford revoked the
citizenship papers of Leonard OLSON
Of Tacoma, member of the Socialist
Labor party and OF the Industrial
Workers of the World, because OLSON,
In appearing as witness for another
man seeking citizenship. had said in
answer to a question that he was not
"devotedly attached" to the constitu-
ton. Olsson explained that he was
not "idolatrously or superstitiously at
taohed to the constitution" and that he
favored abilition of political govern
ment and the establishment OF indus.
trial government.
Judge Hanford has been much in the
public eye since August 25. 1911. when,
after. he had listened to an injunction
hostile to the position of Seattle citi-
Eens In five-cent fare fight against a
street car company, he was denounced
ut great mass meeting and resolu-
tions demanding his impeachment
werc adopted.
While the meeting was in progress
crowd outside hanged in effigy a
stuffed figure labeled "Hanford."
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-07-26
WESTERN.

Hop growers on the Pacific coast
have threatened to cease planting the
vine SO essential to the manufacture
of beer If transcontinental freight
rates on hops are not reduced.
Kansas City. Kan, is practically
without a water supply as the result
of the dynamiting OF sixteen-inch
flow pipe. The explosion occurred at
a point where the pipe runs near the
surface.
Mrs. Hiram Waite. twenty-one, of st.
Louis. her sister. Miss Nellie Ander-
son. twenty-six. and Edward s. New
lin, former sheriff Of Lyon county.
were drowned in the Cottonwood river,
at Emporia. Kan.
TIC. please the dying wishes Of his
sixteeh-year-old sweetheart, Anita Ara.
gon. Joseph NJ. Ruiz was married to
her at Redwood City, Cal. An hour
after the performance had been com.
pleted the youthful bride was dead.
Colorado ranks first in cattle, first
in hogs, first in poultry. second in
horses, second in domestic animals
and second in all livestock among the
eight Rocky Mountain states, accord.
ing to the official census bulletin Just
issued.
Mrs N. C. Womack. wife of prom;
inent physician Of Jackson. Miss, and
daughter of the late Senator A. j. Nc
Laurin. seized a charged electric light
socket at her home and was hurled
against stove and died almost in
stantly from her injuries.
Ten bodies have been recovered and
from five to ten more are believed to
be dead as result of cloudburs'
thirty miles from Lovelock. Nevada
which destroyed the mining camp oi
Mazuma and partially destroyed the
nearby camp of Seven Troughs.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-07-26
ge.t.rn Newspaper Union New. Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
COMING EVENTS IN COLORADO.
July s1.-Republican State conven-
tion. Denver.
Aug. 1.-Progressive State Convention.
Denver.
August s.-Democratio State conven-
tion. Pueblo.
August 6-8 International Council
knights of Columbus. Colo. Springs.
August 1s-24.-Internationai Photo-En-
sravers' Association. Denver.
Sept. s.-convention National Associa-
tion State Game Wardens, Denver.
Sept tcmber 6-"Sugar Beet Day IN
Denver Delegates from all sugar beet
districts In Colorado Will be In attend :
sncs and participate in special pro-
Sept. 1s2o.-san Luis Valley Fair. Ala
moBa.
Sept. 24-26.-CoIorado State Medical
:. Association. Pueblo.
Grosley.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-07-26
w rWYte<sks News from All Over Colorado

was arraigned in a Justice Court at
Pueblo charged with a statutory Of
fense. The complaining witness was
Mary Ossanko, an Austrian girl.
That the streams in Colorado ara
the property of the people of Colorado
was the decision made recently in the
District Court of Grand county, in
United States Intervention case.
Amos Roster, veteran of the OWL
War. died suddenly of heart disease at
Boulder He was sixty-eight years of
age, served three years IL the Civil
War, and had resided in Boulder TWEEN
ty-two years.
Farmers near Durango who planted
300 acres of sugar beets wholly as an
experiment are chiding each other for
not going twice as strong into the ven-
ture. for the crop is passing all expec-
tations.
The largest tract of land in the
White river forest reserve. comprising
1850 acres, will, 1t is believed by Su-
pervisor j. A. Blair of Meeker. be
open for public entry by the end OF
this month.
Free peaches, band concerts, old
fashioned speeches and good old Iowa
stories will be on tap at Palisade Au.
gust l, when the Iowans all over Mesa
county will gather and talk over old
times and enjoy the new times.
cloudburst on Currant creek,
twenty miles west of Canon City
washed out fifty feet of the pipe line
which supplies water to the city. The
city will probably not suffer q water
famine AS repairs were started at once
Governor Shafroth has appointed
twenty delegates to represent Colo
RADIO at the trans Mississippi CONNER
cial Congress which will be in session
at Salt Lake City, August 81 to 80
The delegates are: Omar Garwood
Denver: Samuel N. Wheeler, Grand
Junction; Alva Adams, Pueblo; T. C.
Henry, Denver; Jared Brush, Greeley
A. NJ. Gooding, Steamboat Springs
Clyde Lawson, Denver; L. C. Paddock
Boulder; w. A. Maxwell, Brighton; H
S. Groves, Denver; A. ]. Woodruff
Denver; Merle Vincent. Paonia; D. c.
Beaman, Denver; Frank Annis, FIT
Collins: Mrs. Mary c. c. Bradford
Denver; t. ]. Ehrhart. Centerville;
Fred G. Bonfils, Denver; D. c. Bailey
Denver; H. ]. Holmes. Glenwood
Springs, and Frank ]. Cannon, Denver
A search by deputy sheriffs in the
Mike O'Grady house. west of Evans
resulted in the finding of big faro
table and specially made card tables
In the opinion of officers. O'Grady has
been conducting wide-open gambling
house. 1O'Grady is under arrest and
says he will not assist the officers in
their work.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-07-26

After chase that covered several
states and lasted many weeks, Samuel
Isen. Russian immigrant suffering
from what Is declared to be leprosy,
was found at Buffalo, N. Y. He has
been isolated.
The cost of the discovery of Amer.
lea was $1,000, according to ledgers
just found at Palos. Spain, containing
facts concerning the outlay made by
Christopher Columbus on his expedi-
tion to the new world.
The last gap in the construction of
the Mississippi Power Company's dam
across the river at Keokuk, Iowa, has
been closed and for the first time in
Its history the Mississippi is throttled
at one of its widest points.
Joseph Epstein, an attorney, and an
uncle of the lawyer who conducted the
winning fight for the freedom of Mrs.
Rene B. Morrow, is made the defend
ant in charges before the Chicago Bar
Association duplicating him in a con-
fidence game.
Philadelphia's new city public bath
house at Tacony is completed and
ready to be turned over to the authori-
ties. but it cannot be used for a year
because in the construction of the
building somebody forgot to make pro.
vision for water supply.
A prisoner in chains for twenty
years, with his parents his jailers. ia
said to be the strange experience OF
an insane man who was received as 2
patient at the Dixmont asylum In
Pittsburg from Indiana, Pa. The au.
thorities of the asylum admit that he
was shipped to them In a rough pine
box from his home in Indiana county.
The woolen firm of Goodman Broth.
ers, New York, found shortage of
100000 in their books thirteen years
ago and swore out a warrant against
their bookkeeper, James Fisher, who
had the power to sign checks and had
much to do with the firms finances
They have never caught the man for
he left his house by the back door
without coat or collar as a detective
called at the front entrance and from
then the police got no trail of hin:
until few days ago, when the two
Goodman brothers, riding in Broad
way street car, saw man whom they
decided was their missing bookkeeper
They had him arrested. The prisoner
said he was Thomas Fisher, a liquor
dealer. He admitted that he had
worked for Goodman brothers, but
said that he was brother Of the man
for whom the police were looking. A
detective. however. positively identi
fled him from photograph as the
missing bookkeeper.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-07-26
SPORT.
WESTERN LEAGUE {

George L. Cochran, third-baseman
for the champion Cheyenne Indians.
has been signed by Dale Gear for To-
peka in the Western League.
Jack Johnson has given out the in
formation that the ban which the New
York boxing commission had placed
on him Is about to be raised. In proof.
Jack showed letter from Billy Glib
son. manager of the Madison Square
Garden. Five bouts are promised John
son If the ban is lifted. First he must
agree to meet Langford and Jeanette.
Then he will have matches with Pal
zer. Burns and Flynn. All are to go
ten rounds. and Johnson is to get $751;
900 for each match.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-07-26
Moffat Road to ne Sold.

+. Derver.-The Denver, Northwestern
q Pacific railroad. known as the Moi
tat Road, will be sold under the ham
mers to satisfy the overdue $3,500.000
bonds held by Eastern bankers, accord.
Ing, to the statement made In Denver
financial circles. It 10 reported that
the Union Pacific railroad is to be the
purchaser. A representative OF that
road is said to have accompanied the
bondholders on the recent inspection
trip over the road.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-07-26
Live Stock.

South Omaha. K Cattle Market
steady to easier; native steers, $3.50
@9.50; cows and heifers, $3.75@7.4O:
Western steers, s5.O0@sOO; Texas
steers, $4.50@6.00: range cows and
heifers. $3.00@6.00; Gamers, s2.75@
4.25; stockers and feeders, $3.75@6.75;
calves. $4.o0@7.75; bulls, stays, ETC.,
s3.75@5.75.
Hogs-Market strong to SC higher,
heavy. $7.00@7.25; mixed, s7.O5@7.25;
light. $7.o0@7.40; pigs, $6.O0@7.00;
bulk of sales, $7.o5@725.
Sheep-Market steady; yearlings,
$500 @ $50; wethers, $4.25 a 4.s0;
ewes, s3.75@4.2o; lambs. $6.75@725.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-07-26
Eastern Produce.

Chicago. = Butter. steady; creamer-
les, 23@25c; dairies. 21@24c.
Eggs-Steady; at mark, cases in
cluded. 15h@16kc; ordinary firsts.
Ice; firsts. TIC.
Cheese = Steady; daisies, 1910
15%c; twins. 15Ac; Young Americas,
15M@15&c; long horns, 151s@15%c.
Potatoes-Firm; Illinois, zoe; Kan
sas and Missouri. 7S@75c; Tennessee,
soc; Virginia barreled, s2.60@2.65.
Poultry-Alive, firm; turkeys, 12c:
chickens. lac; springs. 1s023c
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-07-26
English to Increase Navy.

London.-Winston Spencer Church
III. first lord of the admiralty, in In
Producing the supplementary naval ap-
preparation Of $5.000.000 in the House
Of Commons. said the direct cause of
the increase was to be found in the
new German navy law, the main fea-
ture Of which was the increase in the
striking force Of ships of all classes.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-07-26
antI.saIoon Victory.

Washington.--A -Anti-saloon interests
won victory before the Senate ju-
dietary committee when Senator Cum
Minis was authorized to report favor
ably bill giving to dry states power
to intercept shipments of liquor for
wet territory. The bill to be reported
Is a combination of the Kenyon-San-
ders bill.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-07-26
Bow Wins uRroncn Contest.

Gunnison.-Date Scott, a nineteen
year-old boy. won the broncho busting
contest at the Cattleman's Day cele-
bration. which closed after two days
of festivities. ending with a midsum :
mer ball OF the Gunnison County
Stockgrowers' Association.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-07-26
Vote $4,000 for Seed.

La Junta.-The Industrial Associa-
ton has voted $4,000 for the benefit of
the farmers who wish to purchase
seed for spring wheat. crop which
has been found to be one Of the most
profitable in many sections of the val
ley.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-07-26
Pueblo Man Missing.

Pueblo.--John Eason, fifty years old.
stone mason, who lived alone in the
west end of the city. has been missing
several days, and the neighbors fear
he has met with foul play.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-07-26
lmmodest press causes Crime.

Chicago Clubwomen Of Chicago
have started crusade on tight skirts
which are constructed with the sole
idea. they declare. OF displaying tho
feminine charms.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-07-26

Los Angeles.-The bribery trial OF
Clarence s. Darrow has been unexpect.
edIy halted by the serious illness Of
Juror l.. A. Leavitt. Just before court
convened Monday telephone message
was received from ETmonte that Leav-
lit had suffered severe attack of ap
pendicitis.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-07-26

A party of British and local scien-
lists who have been exploring the fos-
sill beds at F1orissant have unearthed
the fossilized bones of hand and fore
arm of a human being which may
prove to be the missing link which
Darwin describes.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-07-26
Golden Has Double cloudburst.

Golden.-Over two miles of c. & s.
tracks, several small bridges and prac-
tically all the wagon road between the
forks of the creek and Golden were
washed out by ten-foot wall of water
which swept the cahon following a
double cloudburst
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-07-26
Lonsment Harvesting Wheat.

Longmont.-Theh harvesting of fail
wheat has commenced here. w. F. Da-
vies. west OF Longmont. was the first
man to get his binder to work. The
end OF next week will see thousands of
acres cut and ready for the thresher
The average yield will be forty-five to
fifty bushels an acre.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-07-26
weld County Woman Candidate.

Greeley = Republican women of
Weld county are taking more than
usual interest in politics this year and
have decided to be represented on the
county ticket by Mrs. Isabella Church
hill as candidate for superintendent OF
schools.