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Newspaper Page TextIS. 3 ' a . x v. . . : - ' ' ' " ' ' : i u I rOLUilE XVII LA GRANDE, UNION COUNTY, OREGON, .THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1912. NUMBER 23 i aAIMIL PASHA WANTS FEWER I COIICESSIJS WILL CONTUE WAR I IP ALLIES DON'T MODERATE AFFIRMS CHOLERA IS I 011X6 OCT IK TBI CAMPS present Plait Between Balkans and I the Powers Provide for Seaport tor j Servians aid Practical Iadepead- eitee for Albania Regardless of Be port! Death Bate Is Large. ' Constantinople. Not. 2L Tbe oorte f confirms the earlier reports that Inr. key has rejected the terms of the al i lies and that fighting has been or. dered resumed. Budapest, Not. 21. Constantinople reports sav the sound of guns Is audi ble at tbe southern entrance to the Bosphorns. No explanation Is given. The Bulgars bare retreated four mllees to the trenches outside the TchataIJa forts. : h Paris. Nov. 21. Constantinople r ports say that Kalmll Pasha declares the war will continue unless the al lies offer better peace 'terms, i It Is reported that Kalmll' Pasha has declared the cholera Is subsiding but eye witnesses deny this and It U reported that dead and dying are choking the streets. At Hademkeul no effort is being made to remove the sick to cholera camps and at San m grefano tne death rate among tne strcken is said to be more, than &tlj Despite all this tbe Turks are not willing to maintain peace on the baa Is asked for by the allies. Albania Under Suzerainty. Berlin, Nov. 21. Under, the ar rangement between the Balkans and the powers. Albania Is certain to be come independent but under a nomi . nal suzerainty of Turkey. . Servia gets a commercial outlet. . Restitution Promised Austria. Vienna, Nov. 21. Servia has noti ced Austria that all v restriction in Turkish territory captured by Servia have been removed and Servia is pre paring to make restitution to all It caused to suffer. Turks Blown np. Report. Sofia, Nov. 21. It is reported that a Bulgarian torpedo boat has blown up the Turkish warship, the Hamldleb and that many were killed. Peace Negotiations .Under Way. Constantinople, Nov. 21. General Bavoff. commander-in-chief of the Bulgars, and Nazlm Pasha, head of the Turks, are conducting peace ne gotiations at Hademkeul, and Hlllage near Tchatalja, but at the time re ported a Christian massacre at Jaffa is started. X (Russian cruiser is speeding there. Servians Deny Yielding. London. Nov. 21. Belgrade reports. . May that Premier Pasltch of Servia 'denies Servia has yielded to Austria on the question of an Adriatic port. , The denial is not taken seriously but Is "believed to be made to satisfy the Servian war party. 3TERGEH IS FOUGHT. Government Will Hot Permit Traffic Agreement In Kew England. Washington, Nov. 21. -Determined to prevent a railroad monopoly In New England the department of Jus tive has tentatively planned to en Join the pending traffic agreement be tween the Grand Trunk and New York New Haven and Hartford rallroats. A. special agent has been dispatched to New York to Inspect the papers and correspondence relating to tne agreement. The same Is not accepted yet by tbe Grand Trunk but if accept ed, suit will probably ronoa. ii stated that Wlckersham, has stoppcJ Federal District Attorney Wise's probe Into the practical erger to pre vent the .principals tesuiying, mm getting Immunity from the prosecu tion. Jesse Adklns. a special assist ant to Wlcke-sham. did not say whether tre prosecutions were civil or' criminal. - SCHEFPS FIXES ALIMONY. Divorced Wife Provided for When Prisoner Leaves the Tombs. ' New York, Nov. 21. 8am Schepps was released from the Tombs today and hurried to a lawyer to arrange alimony for his divorced wife. , Pills rove FataL Vornnto. Oni.. Nov. 21.-Twelve-yef-old Archie Duncan Is dead today as the result of poisonous pills given him by a boy companion. V MAUQUAM BUILDING TOF - FLES. - - ' Portland, Nov. 21. Eight stor- ies-on the Sixth street side of the Marquam building have col- lapsed and the entire structure . is threatened. It contains . the Portland Orpheum theater and hundred of offices. ' The streets are roped off and car traffic Is stopped In the vicinity of the heart of the business district - DELEGATES GO HOME. Adjournment Follows Bislness sloa and Lecture Program Set. Preparations for the comnig stats meeting of the Oregon Sunday School association In Baker April i 1-23, were laid at the business sessions of the semi-annual meeting of tbe executve committee and the Eastern Oregon brinch convention held In uli city yesterday and adjourned last night. Miss Olive Clark of Portland was e'erted to All a vacancy as chairman of ;he elementary department aui' Dr. L'.ownton of La Grande succeeds l r. Stevenson, foimerly of La Grande s an executive committeeman. Vice President E. W. Harrington of Pilot Rock presided at the meeting yes t.erdiiy. i T. 1 V I fi, . J 'San Francisco, Nov. 21. While the police of the state were on the look out for Thomas Franey and Michael Mullln, supposed escapes from - the military prison on Alfatraz lBland. the fugitives were hiding under the infan try barracks. Driven by hunger to come out of hts hiding place Mullln was captured. He directed the offi cers to Franey, who was dragged out from under the building near death from privation. Hosing Too Strenuous. Boise, Ida., Nov. 21. Harold Kahn, high school student, Is near death here today as the result of a rather strenuous fraternity Initiation. Kahn was a neophyte in tb "K. V. A." club at the Boise high school, and in the Initiatory services he was covered with collodion. The substance was then set afire on his nude body. The chances for his recovery are slim while several of the hazera are fac- Inn arrest. . over Polar Dash Grief i 'If all that was told by Dr. Freder- ick A. Cook at the U D. S. tabernacle last evening is true, then Is he the, most abused and the most vltlifled , man who ever claimed a world-wide attention and bis rival, Rear-Admiral Robert Peary .Is the blackest arch- villain ever acclaimed by a hero-loving public aryl Cook actually reached the north pole. " v ; . ' 'Requesting his audience to sit as a jury and listen to this testimony re garding his dash for tbe north pole the noted explorer related his story step by step, answered the charges made against htm by Peary and hurl ed counter-charges against him. All this made an impression upon his Jury and it Is certain that the verdict if given, if It did not exonerate 'him! of the charge of faking and grant bis claim, neither would it deny him the title which he claims and bestow it without question upon Peary. Among, the charges which he made against the latter was the deliberate attempt to murder him by stealing tbe whole of his supplies valued at $25,000, In order that he (Cook) might never live to report the success of his quest. He accused his rival of accomplishing the then by inducing the man whom he (Cook) had left In charge of his supplies to turn over the station upon promise of medical relief and a return to America. He also charged Peary with being an un natural father, declaring he had put two Illegitimate children ashore up on an Ice bound Island 'Without food or other necessaries of life. He de nounced the naval explorer as a man actuated in his polar expeditions pri marily with a desire to enrich him self and his associates In a million dollar fur trading corporation and declared that, had Peary made an honest effort, he could have reach ed the pole ten years ago but that it was more profitable not to do so. He Intimated strongly his belief that Peary did not reach the pole, declar ing that as soon as his rival learned of his own success through tne -3-qulmaux, he sailed at once to Labra dor and sent a -wireless announcing his discovery.- He also stated that bis own observations were at this Lab rador point and that Peary had fui; access to them for a week. Furthermore, fce charged that Peary and his supporters had con ducted a systematic and expenslvs campaign to discredit him. He de nounced three experts of the Nation al Geographical society for their de cision In favor of Peary declaring the society was no more national thin is the National Cash Register company ni.it thai anv man could be a Roo- grapher in It for $2 per. The three BOMB CARRIER IS Nil INSANE; STILL VICIOUS BRAIN IN THE NORMAL FORM PRONOUNCE PHYSICIANS ' snsBsaaaasai WILL SUFFER FOB A- MISOB INFRACTION 0NLT Police and Physicians Are Treed" In HandUnr Los Angeles Woald-Be Dynamiter Who Threatened to Blow ... ap.tfty Hall Is Still After XeWspa. ". pen and Newspaper Men. Los Angeles. Nov. 21. Carl Reldel bach .the would-be blowerup of the central police station is not insane, according to James T. Fisher, a neu rology expert and Dr. Cbas. Carter, the police surgeon. The disposition of the nrlsoner Is undecided, but car rying concealed weapons appears to be the strongest charge against him. The case of IReldelbech is nuzzling the physicians and police. He declar ed the newspapers lied about him and he said he fashioned several bombs to blow up newspapers and also Infernal machines to tie to' the hands cf every newspaper man be could capture. The police assume the man may have a confederate they declaring that no one-handed man would be able to put together ' the contrivance captured with Reldelbach. The man will be taken to Blooming tomorrow to locate a cache where he says he has a great quantity of explosives. experts he said were personal friends of Peary. i - - In spcakg of the report of the Dan!th savants, he declared tiiey had 1 nr. ..1,1 !, kA MAA. -11 . V. n pole but had stated that, with bs ob servations, necessarily more or less Inaccurate from a scientific stand point, and without the word of any other white man to support the claim they could not declare positively that the pole had been reached. However, he pointed out the fact that they had not withdrawn the degree conferred upon him or the medal presented, as proof that they did not believe him a faker. Other Explorers Credit HI. In support of his claim, he declar ed that thirty arctic explorers, in cluding Captain Rauld Amudaen, Cap tian Baldwin, General: Greeley, the late Bear Admiral Schley and others of note and in fact every- living arc tic explorer except Peary, granted the truth of bis claims, His account of the trip was intense ly interesting despite tbe fact that he Is not a trained public speaker. His story was one of hardship and peril almost unbelievable Dr. Cook described his going to the arctic regions, the establishment of a food suppjy station, the first long win ter night of four months and Its hard ships and monotony. He told of his selection of men and dogs for the dash to the pole, and of the methods pur sued In traveling over the anow ana Ice. The (first stages of the trip were comparatively easy, he said, as game was plentiful and dogs and men had plenty to eat. He told of the reduc ing of his party and of the return of the Esquimaux, who established pro vision caches every 50 miles, to be used by the men whon Dr. Cook re turned. Within 100 miles of the pole he again reduced his party, taking with him two Esquimau boys, two sleds and a sufficient number of dogs. The party then made the last part of the Journey in trips of ten miles per day. The party would travel 10 miles, select a camping spot in a bank of snow, and then preparations for the night or "sleep" would be made The dogs were unharnessed and tied to blocks of Ice. The Esquimau boys then built a round-domed snow house of blocks of Ice. In which the party was to sleep. The dogs were the nfed one nound of pemmican, a prepared beef and tallow, equal In nutriment to fivo pounds of fresh beef The men then went Into the snow house and two of them crswled Into deerskin sleeping bags and went to sleep, whlie the third melted snow and Ice over a thin blue flame of pe troleum under pressure. Aa soon as the Ice was melted, usually a period Details TEST SIGNALS ANNOUNCED. That proper tsts be given the new fire alarm system dally. Fire S Chief Benhara has announced the following rules: At 7 a. in. and 8 p. m. two taps will be sounded as a test. dn case of a break in the elec- trie wires, the alarm system si- tomatlcally sounds once. At the recall, (ire out. two taps will be sounded. Other than these signals, any other taps of the bell indicate fire. : of over an hour, the sleepers were awakened for a, drink of water after whlcfi. afl ata 'pemmican, ending the meal with a cup of hot tea. Then all turned In for 10 hours' aleep. The next,, snrnlng a, similar meal was served and all drank enough water to last throughout the day. With two meals a dayi a trip of 10 miles over the snow, and Ice in temperatures far below ttbe freeslng point and with 10-hcrs , "sleep" In snow houses, which had to be built anew every ."sleep." the party proceeded to the northward, aping due south accord ing to the compass, which was at that time pointing to the magnetic pole, far to the south of the little party. ... Shadows of Equal Length, . After what seemed an almost end less time the party came to a point where the sun did not rise or set, but remained at the same altitude In the sky tbe entire ' time. With the sun In th's poniton the shadows were the same length the entire day and the party knew that it had reached the axis of the. earth. In speaking of the observations taken and the two days' stay at the top of the world, Dr. Cook said: "After we reached this point w stayed two days. We looked around for evidences of others having been there and found none. There was no life, nothing, but snow and Ice. We did not find" a pole upon which to han our hats. From all the obser vations I am fully convinced that the pole. Is nothing but a vast moving ice field over the northern sea. With the sun at a height of not more than 12 degrees and Invisible a greater part of the time. It 'lis almost impossible to take observations with any degree of accuracy. We did ' not have the stars with wb.lab.to correct our time we did not have the ordinary things which are ordinarily used In making observations. All we had was the sun to tie to. We made the best obser vations we could and determined our position as nearly aa we could, and I am' fully convinced that "we were at latitude 91. longtltude 0. With the pole only accessible at certain times of the year, and in a vicinity of vast fields of moving Ice, one can never determine Its location to pin-point No one ever has, and no one ever will. It can be approximated and that la all that is necessary." Return Trip Hardest. Dr. Cook told -of the return trip, which he said was much harder than the! northward trip. On this trip tbe party lost Its way, and falling to make connections with the food caches left by the returning Esquimaux, waa sev eral times face to face with starva tion. Dr. Cook described the second long northern night apent In a small rock cave, and then told of his ro turn to the starting point to find that his provisions, valued at $25,000, had been taken by Rear-Admiral Peary, JOH3S03 ENTERS PLEA, Says He Did Not Smuggle Necklace t into America. Chicago, Nov. 21. Jack Johnson pleaded not guilty to smuggling a $6,000 necklace into the country, be fore Federal Judge Carpenter. He was given three weeks to file a de murrer. He did not plead to tne white slavery charge. REPORTER: ATTACKS IOWAX. Taooma Hotel Scene of Fatal Assanlt on a Guest Tacoma, Wn Nov. 21. "Shorty"' Lawson, a Sioux City, Iowa, man, was beaten over the head with an Iron bar In the hands of James Mader a news paper man in tbe lobby of a hotel here ana is believed to be fatally in jured. It Is alleged that Mader was trying to rob Lawson of $70. Both men arrived last night from Portland. REGISTER TRIAL STARTS. Jury Selected to Hear Charges Against National Cash Register Co . Cincinnati, Nov. 21. A full Jury has been selected at the trial of the National Cash Register company. The organization Is charged with violating the Sherman ant-trust law. "Jones" Not Liked. Seattle. Nov. 21. Tbe name "Jones" has palled on Charles Rutgers Jones, and he seeks to have It changed to Charles lEutgers DeRapalJe. His pe tition Is now beine considered by the superior court Explosion Kills Japs. Toklo, Nov. 21. Twenty sailors were badly wounded In an explosion of gun powder In a magazine of the ; cruiser Nlsshtn. Half of the Injured will not survive. LABORITES DISAGREE IM HOCKIII DEAL TROUBLE AND DISSAT ISFACTION ARE AP: PARENT ; M MA NIG AX IS RECALLED TO STA3TD BT THE PROSECUTION Witnesses Today Press Tarioas Cities and Towns Tell af Incidents la the History of the Ironworkers' Cm sade Inner Circle Handled the Or gauUation's Fands. Indianapolis. Nov. ii. Serious dis agreements are suspected among the 47 laborites on trial here. It Is re ported the defense is aiming to block the testimony of H. S. Hockiq. ousted secretary-treasurer of the Interna tional Ironworkers, on account of Indications that Hockln Is a traitor. - George Cumston, of Pittsburg, and a former ironworker, testfled that during the Ironworker's strike in Kansas City in 1906, W. J. McCain, one of the defendants, offered him a Job of "putting non-union workers on the bum." He replied he did not need the money. Samuel Meyers, a Denver reportsr testified that Henry Legleltner, one of Ue- defendants, told( him 'The inm-r circle handled the organization's funds," which the government alleges were used to defray the expends of the dynamltlnga. Other witnesses detailed the Kan sas City bridge blowup In .. Aua jst, 1910. James Vaughn. ' a watchman. testlled he put; John HcNamara off the premises of the Armour company artnr tne Driage blowup. Ray Smyths is still In oustody, his botpumen not appearing. . .McManlgar en fftan Again. Ortie McManlgal resumed the stand and continued a description of tht dynamiting. Ha declared that he en gineered them under the direction of officials of tbe Ironworkers associ ation. ' McManlgal said ha usually rode In smoking cars when carrying nitro glycerin and named the railroads he had ridden over from June, 1907, un til he ' was arrested. '-. Conley Funeral Indefinite. . This - afternoon the family of the late Ed Conley have tentatively set next Sunday at the date of the fun eral. They are awaiting relatives from, the east, and the funeral may be de-l layed that long. Philadelphia, Nov. 21. The 44th convention of the National Women's Suffrage association opened today with a mass meeting at Independence square. Fire speakers were talking at the same time. The programme prepared for the gathering provides for many novel and attractive features. Witherspoon Hall, where the most of the sessions will be held, has been handsomely decorated for the occasion. The six star Bag, conspicuous at tbe former conventions of the organizations gives way this year to the ten-star flag, the four new stars representing the states of, Michigan, Kansas, Oregon and Arizona, which adopted woman suff rage amendments at the recent elec tions. A fine array of talent has been ob tained to address the various meet ings, conslstln gof prominent men asd women who have become famous for their devotion and labor along different lines of human activity. The meetings will vary in character from a great outdoor rally In Inde pendence Square on the opening day to a Thanksgiving service on Sunday afternoon In the Metropolitan opera house. All of the evening sesslns are to be open to the public. Tbe men enlisted In the equal suff rage cause will have their innings on Friday evening. The session will he In the entire charge of the National Men's league for Woman Suffrage and men only will appear on the pro gramme as speakers. A special programme has been pre ADDED Fll I IliC ."HTC MET 9 :,..., 1 . NEW CONTRACTS ON O AVENUE REDUCE EX-' CAVATION. PRICE CONTRACT FOB PAVING FOURTH IS LET LAST NIGHT Compared te 60 CenU for Filling O Is Contract Bid for 10 Cents Par Cable Yard oa Fosrth Street The Council Fixes Municipal ElectUa Details Last Night Material reduction of tha rn.t r making fills where the present street sunace is , oeiow city levels, marks tbe letting of a contract to the War ren Construction company (or tha 40-foot Davlnff of Fourth last night at the council meeting. In, addition to this huge drop, a new contract was entered lno on the O street project betwen Fourth and First that makta material reductions both in excavation and fllllnv n. Fourth atreet the filling quotations are iu cents per cuoic yard, earth exca vation 50 cents, cement gravel $1.00, solid rock $1.60 and paving $1.47 Vs. On O street the renewal of the old oontract was brought about by tha failure to find cement gravel on the hill that Is to be cut down, as waa expected. The reductions make -excavations 65 cents where it was 89 cents and filling 60 cents where It was 70. In this particular Instance, the paving company had to excavate the top of the hill and fill In the bot tom so that tha haul was consider ably le- han a block, for the greater portion of the work: The usual grist of Improvement, work was carried oa -: at the session, Including assessment ordinances, and notice of assessments. Thi coming 'citVeleciioii was han , died in the passage of an ordinance', creating the Judges and clerks and similar detail matter. The officials of the election will be: ' First ward Polls at court house Judges: Don Turner, Wall Lane and W. N. 'Monroe.-. Clerks: E. Kammerac and Thornblll, . ---f; Second Ward City building polling place Judges: Stoner, Els worth and O. F. Coolldge. Clerks: Lameroux and Mackerj Third ward Polls unannounced at this time Judges: Penington, Hilts ', and W. D. Orandy. Clerks: Havis, Hill and Hamilton. . Fourth ward Polling place In Ged des store Judges: Ladd, Logsdon and Miller. Clerks: W. A. Thomp son and Kockenspcrger. - E IS HAILED pared for the Independence . square rally this eevning. The original Woman's Declaration of Rights will be read, and Mrs. Charlotte Pelrce, the only living signer, will be present and be formally presented with a bou quet of flowers. The programme for the Saturday evening session will be conducted en tirely by the National College Equal SuffrageLeague, of which Dr. M. Car ey Thomas, president of Bryn Mawr college, Is the head. Two debating teams made up of young women col lege students will engage In a debate on the subject of equal suffrage. The election of officers of the asso ciation for the ensuing year Is a sub ject that is already exalting lively dts cusslon among the delegates. Rev. Anna Howard Shaw of Philadelphia will be a candidate for re-election to the presidency and will be seriously opposed for the first time during the eight years she has held tne office. The opposition has centered upon Miss Laura Clay of Kentucky as their candidate. The supporters of Dr. 6haw profess to feel no fear over the rerult of the contest . The Sunday afternoon thanksgiving service in the opera house will prob-. ably be the largest Indoor suffrage meeting ever held In this country. The background of the stage will be a huge world map, showing the pro gress of the suffrage movement npto date. All the suffrage territory will (Continued on Page 4) cf I U:IUU . , .