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LA GRANDE, UNION COUNTY, OREGON, .THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1912.
NUMBER 23
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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'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
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'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
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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
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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
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