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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-09-03

NEW PORT NEWS. Va. Sept. a.
Three petty officers and five sailors
OF the battleship Nebraska were
drowned by a waterspput when hur-
ricane swept Hampton Roads today.
The men were in a launch and the
light craft was instantly sunk when
the storm struck It.
The storm did great damage in the
surrounding country.
The Nebraska was anchored off
Fortress Monroe when the hurricane
struck Much damage was done TO
the wireless station and the rough
seas prevented small boats going out
TO the warShip TO render aid. The
names of the drowned men were not
learned
1t is reported here that the old
Dominion sidewheel steamer Mobjeck,
sank in the storm at the mouth OF the
York river but the report has not been
confirmed. The Mobjeck carried a
crew OF eight and. 1t is reported, had
some passengers aboard:
NORFOLK. Va. Sept. 3.-Wireless
advices state the schooner r. f. G.
Hartley was driven ashore and two of
the crew drowned
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-09-03

No more reassuring test of great
modern steamship could have been
had than was given recently By fire
that started in a lower after com
partment of the worlds biggest steam
ship, the lmperator. at its dock in
Hoboken. y. j., where it had arriv-
ed from Hamburg. The fire was con-
fined to the compartment where il
originated and although it cost the
life of the second officer of the vessel
who went into the compartment in
an effort to extinguish the blaze. and
destroyed provisions worth s15 600. il
did no damage whatever to the shin
proper beyond blistering the steel
walls of the area where the fire was
confined. The accompanying photo
graph. taken on one of the decks
shows how the firemen aided by
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-09-03
RIDING HORSEBACK
TO THE ROUNDUP

Nearing this city on the deck Of a
horse is Miss Ruth Thornton OF Spo-
kane. who set out last week to do
what few girls would care to under
take and what many army officers
have failed 10 do, namely, ride 800
miles without stopping only for food
and sleep. Miss Thornton, who is an
experienced horsewoman and who In
tends entering the Roundup contests.
left Spokane last "Wednesday. accord
ing to advices received here, and made
her first stop at Rosalia, where she
was delayed while having her horse
reshod. Unless her strength gives out
or she meets with some accident on
the road she should be arriving in this
city at any time.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-09-03

members of the ships crew, fought
the flames in the provision room by
running lines of hose down the pro-
vision well through the hatch. De-
spite the damage to the provision
room. the ship was not de-
iayed and after arrangements had
been made for repairing the damage
while at sea. the great vessel put out
on schedule time for Europe Some
idea may be gained of the immensity
Of the ship when it is seen that the
fire in the provision room burned for
about five hours, and the fire fight
ing crew only called in the city de-
partment after it was feared the blaze
would get beyond control. Millions
of gallons of water were poured into
the compartment which had the eff
feet of listing the great ship but few
degrees.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-09-03
Rad Fire In Chicago.

CHICAGO. Sept Sire which de-
stroyed the new Central Hotel at
State and Van Buren, streets caused
the death by suffocaton OF Thomas
Yates. an employe of the hotel, sent
Is firemen to a hospital overcome by
smoke. paralyzed traffic for two hours
in parts OF the shopping district and
threatened stores and theaters on
State street with destruction.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-09-03
DESERT EAGLE TRIES
To CAPTURE CHILD.

SAN BERNARDINo. Cal.
Sept. S.-Postmaster w. i.
Hartzell and DR. Harry Ham of
San Bernardino are suffering
from painful injuries they sus-
tanned when they rescued a g.
year-old baby from an enormous
eagle at San Felipe. in the I'm
perial desert.
According to Hartzell. the men
drove their automobile into n
ranch yard as the biri attacked
the baby. Ham dubbed II with a
rifle, whereupon II turned on
him. tearing his face and shoul-
ders with its beak and talons.
Hartzell also was badly hurt .
before another member OF the
party killed the eagle with a =,
shotgun. The baby was not SER ,
iously injured.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-09-03
AMERICANS FLEEING
FROM YAQUI INDIANS

DOUGLAS, Ariz.. Sept. 3.-Ameri-
cans are fleeing from the Yaoui VAL
ley northern Sonora. following an
uprising of Yaqui Indians 40 miles
south of the International boundary.
The uprising is said to be the result
OF the execution of six Yaquis who
were captured after deserting from the
sonora state troops. Americans were
warned to flee by Federal Consul
HeStetter at Hermosillo.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-09-03
PROBERS ADJOURN TILL
AFTER TARIFF Is SETTLED

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.--The over
man seate committee finished the
probe OF activities Of the manufactur-
ers as a result of the Mulhan charges
and adjourned indefinitely No fur
ther sessions until after the tariff bill
is disposed OF will be held
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-09-03
SAYS ROAD Is BEING
FURNISHED STEEL CARS

CHICAGO, Sept. s-The general
superintendent of the Pullman Palace
Car company. said today:
The New York. New Haven and
Hartford railroad company is being
equipped with steel Pullman cars as
rapidly as possible. When the Pull.
man company took charge OF the
roads sleepers last January IL had
no steel cars. A third of the New
ravens cars are now OF steel con-
struction
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-09-03
SMYTHE BROTHERS
SELL 10000 LAMBS

t. complete the delivery of 1900
mutton lambs sold by Smythe Bros.
to Swift & Co. Dan T. Smythe is GO
ing to his summer range above Glib
bon this morning The las: of tha
mutton shipment is being sent out
from GIbbon and Meacham.
The Smythe Bros. sale of mutton
was made in June and is one of the
very largest Individual mutton lamb
sales ever m4de by single grower in
the northwest. Most Of the lambs
were ranged In eastern Washington
during the summer and have been
shipped TO Chicago.
Smythe Pros, are not reducing their
number of sheep, but will run a larger
number than usual during the COM
ing season. They will have $4,000
head during the winter,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-09-03
STEEL CARS WOULD
LESSEN DEATH LIST

NEW YoAK. Sept. 3.-The admis-
sion that had the two express trains
on the New Haven railroad been pro-
Vided with all steel Pullmans instead
Of wooden Sleepers. the toll of death
would have been vastly less, was made
by A. II, Hartin vice president OF tho
New York Central lines
The tendency OF the steel car" he
said, rs TO leave tho track without
crumping up much In the case OF a
collision. and thus minimizing the
chances OF death and injury"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-09-03
THAW IN HANDS OF JEROME; is
HURRIED TO Immigration COURT
AND RETURN TO N. Y. PREDICTED

sHERBRooKE, Sept. s.-Justice
Hutchinson sustained a writ Of ha-
beas corpus today calling for the re-
lease of Thaw. An automobile await
ed outside the court room and as
soon as Hutchinson announced his
ruling Thaw was taken in charge by
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-09-03

immigration officials and hurried to
CoatIcook. Thaw's attorneys had no
opportunity to take further legal ac-
ton to prevent his removal. Jerome
and his associates are confident that
Thaw will be back in Matteawan in
"a hours.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-09-03
WALL OF WATER
WRECKS FRA|L
LAUNCH; 8 DIE
Three Petty Officers and Five Sail
orS Of BattIeship Nebraska Are
Drowned at Hampton Roads.
OTHER DEATHS FEARED

Hurricane Sweeps over District,
Causing Good Deal of Damage-Ite-
ports That steamer Sinks With
Crew and Passengers Aboard
Schooner Il Driven Ashore and
TWO OF the Crew Are Drowned
Seas Are Rough.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-09-03

WASHINGTON. Sept. s.-spurred
to quick action through the New
York, New Haven and Hartford
wreck yesterday at wallingford. the
interstate commerce commission start
ed a probe today Of the wooden car
peril. The members Of the commits
sion are convinced that congress will
soon pass a measure prohibiting
wooden cars on all the railroads OF
the country.
The commission began its Investi-
cation by wiring this morning to the
general superintendent of the Pull
man company. requesting a detailed
statement of the number OF wooden
cars now in service, the number that
is now being built. and the names of
the railroads using wooden cars.
Mr. McChord wired to Safety In
spector Belknap, who is at the scene
OF the disaster. as follows: Have
your men at all the meetings between
the coroner and the railroad officials
regarding the WRECK. and get all that
Is said and done. Our reports indf-
cate that Investigations are being
held"
Before leaving New Haven. BeIknan
said that the wreck on the PennsvI-
Vania near Tyrone, Pa. recently was
exactly like, the smash on the New
Haven road. but that the Pennsylva-
MA uses steel cars and not a single
passenger was killed.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-09-03
LIST OF
DEAD WILL BE
!. 21,,4O INJURED
Survivors Are Bitter In DenounCing
New Haven RaiIroad-DecIare
Wooden Cars to Blame.
WERE CLEAvED IN TWAIN

Engine of White Mountain Express
Cuts It's Way Through Sleepers.
Tossing Mangled Human forms to
Either Side-Difference in Cost of
Equipment Meant Much To the New
Haven Railroad-Wreck Cleared
Up.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-09-03
TAFT ELECTED PRESIDENT
OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION

MONTREAL. Sept 3.-Former
President Taft today was elected
president OF the American Bar asso-
citation.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-09-03
ASK GAYNOR TO RUN
AS INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE

NEW YORK. Sept s.-City Hall
Park was jammed with 5000 people
who saw Gaynor men from five bur
roughs ask the mayor 10 run as an
independent candidate for governor.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-09-03
WILL Be
MADE OF TRAIN
WRECK At ONCE
Interstate Commerce Commission
Takes Immediate Steps to Invest
igate Smash on New Haven.
WOODEN CARS MAY GO

Pullman Company Is Asked to Fur
hish statement Regarding Equip
hRnt Now Being placed on the
various Railroads - Commissioners
Confident That Congress Will Pass
Measure AbOlishing Dcath-trap
Cars from Roads.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-09-03

II man has no brains there's moth.
Ing In his head 20 cause him %
know H.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-09-03
NewSpaper Man Dies

PORTLAND Ore, Sept. S.-Eu-
gene Foster. editor of the Polk coun-
ty Observer and formerly connected
with the Aberdeen. Washington
World, is dead at Dallas of typhoid
fever.
\ kiss in the dark may be a divine
spark or it may be n mistake.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-09-03
$4,000 MEN WORKING ON
ROADS IN ARKANSAS

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Sept. st
is estimated that 10. 900 men are work
ing on the Arkansas roads as a result
of the governors designating today
ana tomorrow as good roads days. In
many cities business is supended.
Love based on pity is apt to come
out In the laundry.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-09-03

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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-09-03

TO ADVERTISERS.
The East Oregonian has the largest
paid circulation of any paper in Ore
gon, east of Portland and over twice
the circulation in Pendleton of any
other newspaper.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-09-03

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The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-02-22

The weather this week has
been excellent with the excep-
tion of Friday. The roads are
now in fine shape and the autos
of the parish are now able to
make train time"
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-02-22
TALLULAH La, FEBRUARY %, 1913
The Problem of the Missis-
sippi.
(Scientific American.)

The Scientific American in the
current issue says:
= The great flood of the Misis.
sippi River of last year-the larg.
est in recorded history-when the
letees were over-topped or car.
ried away bodily, and vast areas
of the valley were inundated, has
created a doubt in the minds OF
the public as to whether the
method of control by revetment
and construction of levees was
Z not failure. This doubt has
been freely expressed in many
letters which have been pub.
lished during the past year, in
the columns of the Scientific
American. We have made n
!. comment on these letters, many
of which suggested alternative
and supposedly better plans for
the control of the river, and our
silence has been due to the fact
that we we're making a study of
the problem from every possible
source of information, with a
view to determining for oursel-
Mes whether the present plans foi
the. control Of the river, or some
other, were the best to apply in
graphing with and CONTROLLING
this stupenduous problem.
We have come to the conclusion
that the present plan Of the army
engineers of protecting the banks
Of the river by revetment and
raising the banks by artificial
levees .to.a sufficient height to
prevent overflow, is not only the
best way to control the river, but
the only way.
If it be asked whether the dis
astrous foundation of last year
does not spell failure, we answer
emphatically No. The inunda-
tion occurred not because the
plan was faulty, but because it
was incomplete. twas also due
TO the fact that the exhisting
levees were. built only to sufi-
Gent elevation to control tie
highest fld6don record, which the
food Of last yeargreatly exceeded
the maximum flow reaching the |
enormous totaf.. Of, $500, 600. ooC
feet per second, or twelve times |
the amount of water that passes
over Niagara Falls.
The trouble with the Missis-
sippi work is not that the plans
are'wrohg, but that they have
been carried out piecemeal, and
N q somewhat happy-go-lucky
manner. The nation sh uld ap-
,ly to this greatwork the lesson
Khich it has learned at Panama.
A new grade for the summit of
he levees should be established,
aid line being well above the
'eight reached by the flood OF
Ast year; q liberal estimate
hould be made of the total cost ;
1 building levees, and of protect q
NJ the adjacent banks of the I
iver throughout the whole {
myth of the levees with revet q
'ents; an estimate should be e
ede Of the largest annual APP v
opriation of money. that could n
elIiciently expended by the Il
rst force that could be con In
ruted upon the work; and !
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-02-22

the floods were thereby reduced
three or four feet in height, it
would be necessary to sacrifice
no less than teven thousand
square miles of country, or the
area of a good-sized State.
Another favorite scheme con-
templates the diversion of the
Mississippi, or Of a large portion
of its flood waters, by means of
sub-channels, or canals" exca-
waited on one side or the other of
the river. This suggestion also
fails to appreciate the magni-
tude of the problem. Elf such
channels were to be cut, they
would have to be leveed in ex-
atty the same way as the river
which they are intended to re-
lieve. To produce any serious
dimuputiOn in the height of a
river that was passing down
1900, 900, 900 cubic feet Of water
per second, it would be neces-
sary to divert from 100000 to
900, 600 feet per second; which
means that an artificial river
would have to be excavated and
leveed whose flow would be from
two to three times as great as
the whole flow of the Niagara
River.
The Proposition to straighten
out the river by cutting through
the bends is impracticable for
the reason that while the more
rapid flow would relieve the
flood in the districts thus affect
ed, this relief would be obtained
at THE expense of the districts
lower down the river. Tie
swifter cOrrent of the fiood water,
due to the shorter course, would
necessitate corresponding in
crease in the height of the levees
in the lower sections of the val
ley.
AS to the important questio IL
of financing the work, the sim
plestand most effective plan, of
course, would be to do with re-
gard, to the Mississippi as we hav'
done at Panama; make it nat
ional problem and provide tn,
whole cost from 1.-THE nationa
treasury. Hitherto the Govern
menthas put up so much money
so much has been contributed by
local levee boards; and in one
case, at least, the State has made
appropriations. 1t is not sur
prising to learn that Col. Town
send designates such conditions
IS amounting to practically an
absence of system" Says he:
I'VE have just simply been wait
ng, each one doing the best he
,ould-the levee boards have
been doing their work, and the
district engineers have been do
ng whatever they could with
heir funds, and it has heen a
lappy-go-lucky method of bust
less.,
We behave that the most sat
sfactory way of financing the
reject wsuld be for Congress to
reat the improvement of Amer
cas- greatest river as a national
Undertaking; make the neces-
airy appropriations; abolish the
ystem of individual boards and
lace the execution of the work
nder the One-man control of the
rmy. Next to this the best plan
ould be one of joint Federal and
tate appropriations, in proper
ons to be determined by the
'cal advantages secured; with
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finally the execution of the work
should be placed entirely in the
hands of the army engineers with
Col. GOethals in supreme and
unhampered control.
Such an estimate of the total
cost of a completely leveed and
revetted Mississippi River has
been made by the army engineers
under the Mississippi River Com
mission. The total expenditure
would be almost seventy million
dollars for the levee work and
about ninety million for the re-
vetment.
Is complete control of the Mis-
sissippi River and 1.-THE absolute
prevention of disastrous floods
worth the expenditure of one
hundred and sixty million dol
lars? The Scientific American is
decidedly of the opinion that the
money would be we'll spent. In
the first place, the completion of
this work would afford protection
t. $4,000 square miles of land.
The increased value of the land,
lue to protection. is shown by a
statement of Col. Townsend, pres
ident of the Mississippi River
Commission, who has recently
testified before tie Committee
on Rivers and HarbOrs in the
House of Representatives that
twenty years ago, when he was
first stationed in the st. Francis
Basin, land i'm that vacinity could
be bought for dollar or two an
acre, whereas today it is worth
anywhere from twenty to fifty
dollars and even one hundred
dollars an acre. Furthermore,
there is the humanitarian con
sideratiOn that this work would
prevent the great loss of life and
destruction of property which oc-
ours when the river breaks loose.
And finally there is the consider
alton that the completion of this
task will constitute a great nat
ional work Of engineering compar.
able, in its magnitude and bene-
ficient results, with the execution
of the Panama Canal.
We will now proceed to discuss
the criticisms of the present plan,
and the suggestions of alternative
schemes of control, which have
been made in the many letters
referred to above. 1t has been
stated that the whole principle
of levee building is wrong; and
this for the reason that the matter
brought down in suspension is
deposited along the bed of the
river, which is continually being
"aised, that this necessitates
of the l.vees which must
60 on indefinitely. As , matter
Of fact, what takes place is this
when the floods come DOWN the
deep pools are secured out and
the material is deposited on the |
shoals farther down tie river,
,susing a temporary raising of |
lie bottom at these points. As
The river falls, the action is re-
7ersed, the lars are scoured out
md the sand is deposited in the
next pool. Careful surveys for
several decades show that not
My has there been no raising of
ne river bed, but the cross-sec-
ion of the river has sligetly in
reased,
AS to the proposal to control
he Mississippi by building vast
eseryoirs near the head waters
the river and its tributaries,
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-02-22
OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
FIFTH LOUISIANA LEvEE DISTRICT
Talulah, La, November 18th 10.
TRESPASS NOTICE.

All parties hereby to
depredile in
Fifth Louisiana
oil the Carroll Madison
thereon said 20
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-02-22

and particularly described a
thoty of Blanchard being ans
said Board of Commissioners under provision of the
decision of Supreme Court Of louisiana rendered
A. D. 1911.
.... J. T. MCCLELLAN
N. H. LEWIS, President GARD Ell Commissone,,
Secretary Fifth Louisiana Levee Diaa.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-02-22
We Guarantee Every Rambler
for en- Thousand Miles

the conditions of guarantee u M eue u each
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