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,..',- ' - ... ' " '"" f m ,-.,.- . ' . ' - . 4 DAILY EVEHIHG EDITION Forrcat for Mrn Oregon, hjr tfie I'oiUxl fcUHea Weather Ohnrrte I Portland. Fair tonight and FTlUy; (roat to night heavy In places. TO ADVERTISERS. The gait Oregon Uo hat tbe largest pall Flrrulitluo of aoy PPr Ib ursgoa, Mat ot Portland sod orr twlcs tbt clrrulatloa la Haodiatoa of say etbr oswspaper. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER. VOL 2 DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH IS, 1915. 'SO. M33 DAILY EVEHIHG EDITIOH i i ' i. i i i " " 'eV 1 I lira i, 1ST III Slavs Within Half a Mile of Bukowina After Forced Marches Through Country Deep in Snow. ENEMY'S POSITIONS CARRIED raml Duke Xhiiola Reel Move menu of III Troops Secret and Suve,N In lurrying Out Strategic I'lii n Which Takes German and Austrluiw by Surprise. - PKTROGRAD. Murch 18. Hy jnakUig forced marches through a country deeu In snow, the Russians have been utile to deliver surprise at tacks aKuliiHt the German and Aus trlHiia along both ends or the eastern buttle line, the wur offhe announced today. Officials also ronflrnied earl'er re iorta that the Herman positions In the vicinity of Tllalt In northeast Prussia had been suddenly raided and that at the aame time another lit rue force had begun an advance In force against Cxarnowiu, the cap. Hal of Bukowina. .The Russian Atrength In the Tilsit region la not known. Grand Duke Nicholas bus kept this movement In mystery, not revealing It until a audden Slav attack had been announced by the Ilerlln authorities. Russian officials say the dear's troops have succeeded in crossing the Jura river under cover of darkness and at tneked the Germans Inside the Prus sian frontier. To reach the approaches to Cxar nowlti the Russians forced a cross lute of the Pmth river. Their ap pearance In that vicinity was su sud len they caught the Austrian unpre pared and were able to reach within u mile and a half of the Bukowina capital before they were checked. Fighting- for the possession of Prxasnysx. Poland, has been tempof arlly Interrupted by floods which prevent movements by either side. Will llnrn Villages. BKRLIN. March IS (Wireless to Sayvllle.) It Is officially reported that the Russian government build ings at Suwalkl. Poland, and at oth er provincial capitals which have ftllcn Into the hands of the Hermans would be burned In retaliation for the ruthless dt-Mrutlon of property by the Russians In Prussia. The decision to burn the building followed the receipt of reports of Mnv outrages north of Tilsit. For nch village and estate burned the Hermans will burn three Russian vil lages and estates. Official dispatch es charge that the Russians pillaged. I burned and ravaged IM country in raid neross the frontier. They are said to have fled, carrying their tcoty. before the advancing Ger mans. The war office admitted the Russians are on the offensive on the 0-mtle front from Louisa to a point northeast of Prtasnysx. All Slav at tucks have been repulsed, the state ment added. 4 Even a coat of arms doesn't always hide the family skeleton. EXTENSIVE REPAIRS MAT COMPEL EITEL TO INTERN NEW IIOILKK TUBES NKCKSSAKY BEFORE G HUMAN CAN UK MADE SEAWORTHY. WASHINGTON, March 18. Rear Admiral Flxko and Roltort Lanalnj;, Councilor of tli ftaus department, Iteld three eonfAYenees In Ianslnjr's offlw Uils afternoon, after which Flsko hurried to Secretary Daniels. It Is believed they arc preparlns; a 2 1 -hour ultimatum to Captain Tide rlt'hen of tlie. cmlwr Eltel to repair his nlilp immediately or Intern. WASHINGTON, March' 18. That the German cruiser Eltel Friederlch will Intern was made almost certain today when the naval board appoint ed to Investigate her condition report ed she would . require new boiler tubes before ahe was made seawor thy. In face of this condition It Is difficult to see how Captain Thler lchen can avoid Internment. Admin istration officials scouted as absurd suggestions that British war ships outside the Virginia capea might at tempt to violate American neutrality to get at the Eltel. Insurgent Again Defeated. WASHINGTON, March 18. Anx iety for ths fate of foreigners at Pro greso and Marlda, Mexico, was in creased by the receipt of dispatches declaring the Insurgents in Yucatan have been again defeated. Rear Ad miral Caperton may bo sent to take charge of the situation. German Consul Says He Offered No Bribe to Obtain Secrets OFFICIAL IS I'MUEI UNDER Alt It KMT AT HI lATTLIv BONDS arranged. WASHINGTON, March 18. Count Von Dernstorff officially called the attention of the state department to the arrest at Seattle of Consul Muel ler on a charge of attempting to buj business secrets of the Seattle Con struction and Dry Dock Company. It la understood he took the position the authorities violated international law by searching the consul's home, SEATTLE. March 1 8. Admitting thut he hud discussed the subject with John Murdock. assistant shlp-j ping clerk of the Seattle Construction Drydock Company, Dr. Wllhelm Mueller, the Germann consul, denied thut he hud offered him money to, steal records of the company that might show shipment of submarine! parts to Canada. J Mueller and his secretary were served warrants of arrest Wednesday.! churglng him with an attempt to buy! business secrets by corruptly influ-j enclng the employes of the company.) Mueller Immediately arranged bonds for his release. This is the. first time' that a foreign consul has ever been a r rented In this state. German Food .Surplus Rig. II ERNE. March lit. Germany has sufficient food to meet her needs for two years, according to W. D. Iloyde editor of the Chicago Ledger, and Horace Herr. editor of the Indlanapo iis Times, who have just returned fiom a trip through Germany. Messrs. Boyceand Herr said that Germany was only "bluffing" about a ' food shortage. WILLIAM H. BELL OF THIS . CITY IS FOUND GUILTY Sl IIOItXATIOX OF PERJURY IS CHARGE AGAINST HIM AT PORTLAND. William H. Hell of this city, waa t . millti' it ntlamritAit all twit-tlit Hon of perjury before a federal Jury.fort all around. hat GO yOU In Portland and will be sentenced to-1 think of that? Do not SUCh re- Cay, according to woru receiveu m iliV-aU'STi hrrvenrntand 1 the importance of river ulwer. an Indian girl, 124 last No- ember to Influence her testimony In the trial of Harry Redford. who was charged with Introducing lliiuor on the reservation. The Olwer girl and Harriet Luton, another Indian girl, were the most important witnesses in the trial of Redford. It was they who saw Red ford and his sister-in-law, Mrs. C. L. fwa'.in, driving on to the reservation, saw Redford stop and bury some thing in the ground and who later, Investigated and found two bottles' of beer. The testimony showed that Bell 1 had called for the Olwer girl a short lime afterwards, taken her to where she had dug up the bottles and sug gested that she and her companion bnd been too fur away to recognise the man who burled them. He gave her a dollar then, she testified. A few dsys Inter In Pendleton, he gave her four dollars and on the train go ing down to Portland for the trial he gave her $H more. Hell admitted having given the money to her but declared It was a loan and was not given to corrupt her testimony. How ever, Col. J. H. Raley of this city and John Manning of Portland, at torneys for, Redford, testified that Bell hud told them that the Olwer girl's testimony wouldn't hut-t Reu ford because she had accepted mon ey from him. Questioned on this Dolnt bv tho government attorneys, Bell declared he couldn't remember whether he hod made this statement or not, The case was tried before Federal Judge Rudkln of Spokane, who la as sisting the Judges In Portland. Col. J. H. Raley, 8. A. Newberry, supi. L. Swartilander and a number of Indians went down from Pendleton oh witnesses. CONTRACTS FOR 4 UNDERSEA BOATS FOR U. S. ARE LET WASHINGTON, March 18. Con tracts for four submarines were signed by Secretary Daniels. The largest will he culled the "Schley" and will be the first sea-jwng suo marine built for the American navy, IU surface speed will be twenty- knots and submerged speed ten and 12. On the surface It will be driven by oil engines and storage batteries under water. It will cost a million, three hundred and fifty thousand. Others are for const and harbor de ft nse. "America First" SloRan. BERKELEY, Cal., March 18. Plans for further popularizing Amer ica's scenery are belntr considered at the three days' conference of Nation al Park superintendents and supervis ors, which began here. MONEY FAIRLY ROLLS IN FOR ROAD PROJECT Farmers Quickly Volunteer Subscriptions Following Lead Set by Leon Cohen-Permanent Organization to be Formed Representing Farmers and Commercial Club Success of Plan Predicted as Certain. Voluntary subscription to $100,000 Cold Springs Road Fund. The Peoples Warehouse $1,000 William Kupers 1,000 A. F. May 1,000 Holdman Bros 2,500 B. E. Anderson 1,000 William R. Meiners 1,000 J. E. Montgomery 1,000 W. W. Harrah 1,000 Total $9,500 If there is any truth in the old adage that "money talks" then the farmers between Pen- rjiet0n and the Columbia spoke effectively today when without solicitation they began follow ing the lead set yesterday by Leon Cohen and pledged them selves each to duplicate his of fer of $1,000 to the Cold Springs road fund. Holdman Bros, did better still with a $2, 500 subscriDtion. ' At noon today the sum of $9,500 had been pledged to the road and not a man had been urged to give. Practically speaking it was a voluntary ef su ts show that neoDle under- utri&iit itiica nu inn iu wnc advantage of them? Up to this time there is no formal organization handling the proposition of a river road and no particular set line of ac tion has been adoDted. But there is unbounded sentiment; for the road and it is generally conceded that the plan out- jneJ by R, Q. Eamhart W a d Uh h t start f, . . ,.... , L ' 11.:.. t r : i l : u ; unties muv hik- v uinn snui t lime tne LOIU bpnngS people intend to put the matter Up to tho PnmmarKial Plnh with a view to forming a permanent working organization repre senting the farmers and local businessmen. It will be up to v","",1."c,c ,UI . '"Itlon If a way can be adopted so oth more aenmieiy aeciae upon a WORK OF EXCAVATING FOR SWIMMING POOL UNDER WAY SUPERINTENDENT IS NOW THE CITY SIX! RING NE CESSARY LABORERS. IX E. P. Matthews, who will superin tend the construction of the public swimming; pool, arrived In the city last night, and will probably com mence the excavation of the pool this afternoon. He has been securing men for this work this morning, and If things can be managed the work will commence as soon as the Imple ments can be secured at the place of construction. Mr. Matthews was recommended by J. O. Convlll, super intendent of parka and boulevards In Portland. The local swimming pool will bo as large that of Portland, but It will be built In a more modern manner, and with better equipment. There wJU be & concrcto platform about the pcol and the dressing rooms will al so be equipped with concrete floors and necessary furniture. A lattice work will be constructed about the grounds and pool and If possible a grand stand for onlookers will be constructed. A specification of the bids will be made In a couple of days. The exact cost of the pool is not yet known, but It Is estimated at IS000. Girl Kills Lover. MOUNT VERNON, Wash., March 18. Following a lovers' quarrel at East Stunwood, Mae Aagexedp, killed Blrdeen Peterson! an emplrfye of the Bulck company and afterward swal lowed wood alcohol. She was remov ed to a hospital in a serious condition. line of action and to put their , r program through. With 10 per cent of $100, 000 pledged before a formal start has been made it is held the full amount can be raised without great difficulty. The farmers will be expected to bear the chief part of the bur den but businessmen will also be aked to aid the enterprise. r.ctter Tliiui Railroad. One of the most enthusiastic to"co boosters for the road from Pendleton to Cold Springs landing is W. W. Harrah. prominent local farmer and director In the Tristate Terminal Company. Mr. Harrah . has given much attention to the subject of han- dling grain by modern methods and Is unqtialifledly for a hard surface rcad. "Some peojile In the past have wanted a railroad in that section but railroad would give no relief," says Mr. Harrah. "we must make sure of getting the competition from the rivet; and In my opinion the way to d this Is through means of a pub Its road and a public dock. "The road to Cold Springs will be a great tning ror ireigm ana IOT passenger travel. We will have ai f,ood cletnr.oa.?.. t0. V tlmes and the river trip will be beau tiful In the summer time. It will be; possible for tourists to make an Ideal trip from the Columbia to Bingham Springs "Freight will go both ways over the roail anA go tne towns as WPn as the farmers will be benefited. 'Walla Walla has the right idea : and alia ' huilt a road from Walla Wi to Wallula. This county should d! the same to Cold Springs. "Those nearest the road should contribute most toward Its cost. I have land that will be affected and I will Increase my $1000 subscrlp- rs win do the same. NEWS SUMMARY General. Russians make forced marehea and deliver Wow agnlnst German and Austrian. United States Is studying; interna tional prohlem closely before sending protest to allies against blockade of German coast, Gorman consul arrested in Seattle on charge of bribing to get business secrete of Seattle boat-bulldlng con cern. Chinese problem grows menacing. Jaan has been warned by United Statoa not to violate Integrity of Chi na, Bombardment of Dardanelles su rended while awaiting arrival of ex !cdilioiinry forces. Local. Voluntary fnihscrlptions for Cold Springs road reaches $9500. Mother and aunt fight In court oyer child. W, II. Hell convicted of attempted! subornation of perjury. j Michael RreitliaiMK passes away, i Work on excavation of swimming oot Is started. lilot Hock- defeated Pendleton In first game of pre-sea win." Mast Servo Sentence. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., March 18. The federal circuit court of appeals sustained the decision of the lower court sentencing Maury Dlggs and Drow Cnmlnettl to McNeil's Island prison for violation of the white Slav law. The case will be appealed to tho supreme court of the States. United; Fight for Custf of Child Haioi Unusu rea' MOTIIKK AMI AI'XT AltK tl'P(!S KII T(l-t:ACII OTIIFIt IX IXK'AL COURT CASK. One of the moHt Interesting cases brought In the local courts for some time. Involving the custody of a 12 year old girl with the mother and aunt opposed to each other, was filed this morning. The circumstances re sulting In the case are very peculiar, several unusual elements entering In to It. The mother of the child. Mrs. Jen nie M. FarrenB. and her husband. J. S, Farrens. this morning petitioned the court for a writ of habeas corpus to require John T. and Cora B. Dow ell to produce the body of the child, literally speaking, In court. Judge Phelps Ixeued the order, requiring the child to be produced at 10 o'clock to morrow morning. The Farrens in their petition al lege that the child Is being 'unlaw fuily Impriwoned. detained, confined and restrained" by the Dowells whom they allege, claim to be her It gal guardian but who have no legal claim upon her. However the bals of the claim ol the Dowells is found in two deeJs of adoption filed with the county clerk a few days ago but not recorded for the reason that such Instruments are not known In. this state. The deed were executed In Missouri which, it is " " ' "! 17 " "e union which provides for such Instru ments. By the first deed, executed In May. 1912. the father of the child. Thomas C. Charleton, gave to his b'-other. John I Charlet';n and his wife, the care and custody of t':ie child. The deed relates that In Jan uary. I'jiiJ the father of the child re cured a divorce from the mother and was given the custody of the child by the court. The second deed, filed In Harris m county. Missouri, Nov, 23, HI 4. re cords the transfer of the custoij' of the Child from the Charletons to the Dowells who are residents of Milton. Thus the principal question becomes whether or not the deeds of adoption, as executed in Missouri, are legal here. The mother of the child lives at Weston but formerly lived at Milton and Is a sister of Mrs. Dowell. The chl'd. it Is said, never saw her mother from the time che was two years old until last fall and now refuses to live with her. Peterson and tishop repre sent the Farrens and S. D. Peterson the Dowells. Gorman Hydroplane Wrecked. LONDON, March 16. The wreck ing of a German hydroplane off the Danish coast la reported In a tele gram . from Copenhagen to the Ex- "lw Telegraph company. It is Mid that the crew of the airship was rescued by Danish fishing boats. Joffre, Genius of This Is one of the rarest photo-1 graphs taken In the war. It shows General Joffre. commander In chief of the French, giving an order 00 the battlefield. General Joffre does f i i is a J 7 Jhinese Situation Overshadows Other Diplomatic Tangles INITKIl KTATKS SOTXDS IVAILV-' IX TO JAPAN AGAINST DOMINATING CHINA. WASHINGTON. March 18. The . Chinese situation loomed more men-1 acing today than America relation! with the European belligerents. her "next friend." Aa China has I of Protesting Against Blockade cf applied to the United States to force! l prman f A3tt Japan to relinquish her designs on inC Uerman L0S51. China's territorial Integrity, America! has unoffoc'ally explained to Japan x,r; :;trrx;,PBOBiEM complicated one er the United States will be Joined by j Lngland and Russia In formal pro-' tests to Japan could not be learned. All Bryan would say was "we are watching developments." Other of-j ficlals also were non-committal. j Officials of the Japanese embassy! Ins'st that much of the present trou- ble is being tttrred up by German agents In China. The general opln ion In diplomatic circles Is that while America. Russia and : England have noiif'0,1 Toki thr rhlnas Integrity n.uct l-e respected, no official report has vet been given out. "Ktop Watch" System KxHudcd. WA.-HINGTON, March 4. Agree ing to the conference report on the na val appropriation bill the senate ex cluded the Taylor "stop watch" ef ficiency system from any navy de partment work. The senate also agreed to the conference reports on diplomatic, legislative. Judicial and ex ecutive appropriation bills. DARDANELLES OPERATIONS AWAIT COMING OF TROOPS'?: ROMRARDMKNT IS SUSPENDED UNTIL F.. PEDITIONAUY FORCES ARUIVK. LONDON. March 18. The Anglo French bombardment Of the Dardan elles and Smyrna forts has been sus pended pending the arrival of the French and British expeditionary for ces, according to dispatches from Athens. Mine sweepers, continue to cperate Inside the strait under pro tection of the warships. The Queen Elizabeth and other ships wh'ch have been bombarding Gailipoll are report ed anchored at the entrance of the strait. Airman Jums to Death. LOS ANGELES. March 18 Frank' Stites. a Los Angeles aviator, aged 20 fell 300 feet in an "air well" at; a motion picture city near here.! Jumped from the aeroplane when SO; feet from the ground and died front) his Injuries shortly afterward. the French Army not often pose for photographers and ' h dld not ln thla Ctt8- Th Ph'- Riapner ncre got near him and at an opportune moment snapped him. lltEO STATES IS I TIE AS FACTS ARE SHI 'America to go Slowly in the Matter Allies Tke Position Th7 Have K laMLnlMxl ljong Itne fcjocluule Whkh Neutral 'VtuntrloM Are Hound to Reme't xj-1 Nature of Protest Not Vet Ix-cidod Upon. WASHINGTON, March IS. Wall egal experts of the state depart- "ent examined law and precedents. the administration marked time In " International altuatlon growing from the allied blockade of Germany. The allies took the position they j have established a long range block ade of the kaiser's country and neu jtial countries are bound to respect it : as an "air-tight" blockade which the . law makes proper. Ihji raises a new point which Wilson desires to clear : up before he takes further steps In the negotiations with Great Britain. The president and his advisers have decided to send a protest to England and France, based on the claim of these countries that they naTe a right to stop any German-owned or German-manufactured cargoes wher ever encountered. The exact nature of the protest, however, may not be cided before the end If the week. . waa admitted me declaration 01 France and England that they will confine their operations to the Eu topean theater of war is a conces sion to the United States but admin istration officials say that does pot go far enough. "We are moving through an un chartered sea." said a Wilson advis er, "how far we may go with our protests must be .thought out care fully before a vital step la taken. There is no real cause for haste at the present. No goods, except cot ton, are on the way to Germany, and this already has been assured an un interrupted, passage. It la not Re lieved that Britain will offer inter ference with American shipments now at sea or being loaded." H. SCHOOL GIRLS ORGANIZE TO KEEP DUILOING CLEAN OUNG WOMEN ELECT OFFI-CEIt- CALL THEMSELVES II. S. CIVIC CLUB. Tendleton high school has a new club, this time of girls instead of boys. The glrU organised yesterday for the purpose of keeping the school building clean, and to eliminate writ ing and scratching on the walls and woodwork of the building, under the name of the Civic Club of Pendleton high school. The election for offi cers of the club was held yesterday afternxn. resulting In the choice of the following officers, who will serve for the remainder of the school year: Hester Proctor, president; Ma Anderson, vice president; Merle Best, secretary, and Madeline Buifjess( ti easurer. HIBERNIANS OF HEPPNER KEEP ST. PATRICK'S DAY The semi-annual social gathering of the Hibernians of Heppner yester day was an occasion which all of the Inhabitants of the town and coun tryslde. regardless of nationality, cel ebrated, according to the Pendleton la as who were present. The hospi tality of the order and of the city was manifest at every turn and th local people declare they had one of the best times In years. C. P. A. In. rgan, Frank Downey and Jack Sul livan represented the local KnWht of Columbus at the fete while Mrs. W. D. Humphrey, Joseph Payant, Rob ert Barney, S. Whipple, Frank Hayes and R. W. Fletcher, members of the United Orchestra, were prest-nt t- furnish the music. Credit Is all well en ugh until tfj hill collector begin to come around. Persian Cabinet (Julu. TEHERAN. March It. The Persian cabinet has rwlgnd. This action was said to be due to controversies in the policy of the government In regard to the recent Invasion of Persia by British, Turkish and KunaUfi tloops.