La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, July 08, 1913, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME XIII. LA GRANDE, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1913. , NUMBER 2. hi J it I RUN ON ll SAVINGS BANK GROWS WORSE INSTITUTION CONTROLLED BY V KUHNS UNDERGOING RUN AGAIN TODAY. vk Bursting Shells Hit Near President's Yacht Washington, July 8. ;Officials of'ment 'HiV FUNDS ANNOUNCED AMPLE Institution Affiliated Wtih First-Sec. ond National Which Was Closed Yesterday, Undergoes Hard Run by . nonnaUnro Great Quantities of Cash Said to Be Available for It. the navy department said today that ho report had been received of the "near accident" to the yacht Mayflow er last week, when pieces of a shell from Indian Head training ground struck near the vessel which had Pres ident Wilson on board.. When he re turned to Washington from the cruise last week the president made no com- Frequent complaints are made by seamen of the danger to passing ships from the firing of the big guns at Indian Head but as yet no damage has been done Baker Fan Here. : Carl D. Sylvan of BaXer is here talking over base ball matters with the Moose team. BULGARIANS CONTINUE TO WIN BATTLES ISEXPLAiO COMMISSIONER WATSON INTER PRETS MEASURE. WALLOWA SERVIA AMMUNITION IS TAKEN AND RETREAT CUT OFF AS WELL. TIB MK HE TO BE HEARD JUDGE PHELPS OF PENDLETON TO HEAR TRIAL. Roumanian Army Said to Be Conild ering an Invasion of Bulgaria, Hav Four Scions At Reunion M'KENNON FAMILY HOLD GATH- ERING SUNDAY. i RECITES STORK 4V DUPLICITY AGED FROM 1 TO 93 1 it ir I At branoma mcivennvn ami ur.- child Cover Wide Range. RECALLED TO STAND AT HIS OWN REQUEST TO THE X ; COMMITTEE. )S l!?j?ti3 i-i T Four generations ranging in years from 93 to one year, were in attend ance at a reunion of the L. L. Mc 'Kennon family held at the W. ' R UOaUUCVlCI IIVHIlt? till tllC UUI1UI IUKO l04 1 ,, rVJWIJV i . . r Lamar Affirms He Had Told Lauter- ounuay. inia unusuui guuieniiK ul Effort to Wrest County Printing From Wallowa Sun Is Object. Pittsburg, July 8. Despite the an. nouncement by United States treasury officials and financiers that banking conditions are sound, the run "which was started . yesterday on the Pitts burg bank for savings, continued to day. The institution is controlled by Ing Issued Mobilization Orders for" Thursday Bulgers Now MracMtig Northward to the Omafvta River Country. Affidavit of Exemption Clause Mad'i Clear by State OfficiaL- In the oDeration of the blue skv bill I Controversv over county printing in governing corporations operating in Wallowa county will be aired in the ' & 3 SS $ ...... -,i 1 ,,.. . . i Turkey Will Regain Lost Land. V 1 G Wlif 1111 J ai 1 W uv" mm V'lVUlv WMtU llbi t vviuiiiuiiviiig .m the state many questions which have been the subject of much discussion among lawyers and business men. Tite principal question of doubt waa wheth- morning before Judge Phelps of Pen- Constantinople, July dleton. Will Marsh, editor or tne porte thjs afternoon decided to 5 Wallowa Sun is the defendant in the 3 reoccupy territory allies took $ case, his paper having been awarded t Turkey as a result of the S descendants comprised "Grandma McKennon of this city, L. L. McKen non, her son, Elsie McKennon-Leadbet-ter, and Baby ;Leadbetter, aged ona year. Those fqjir posed for pictures In addition to this quartet there were 39 others, all but two of whom were members of the McKennon family.' It was a picnic dinner filled with inter esting visiting by the family. Of the total guest list nine were children of .'i Mr. and Mrs. McKennon, and 20 were i j.l :i J bach of His Impersonations Over the Telephone and of Then Sending j Lauterbach to Morgan's Agent With " Proposition Over Steel Trust In ' quiry. the Kuhn interests owners of a major- er "investment companies," which isL,,, nnn4.v nl.;ntiniT in Wallowa coun- London Peflce treaty. This means ity of the stock in the First-Second the name by which all corporations I ix. v t TVi ' Turkey W'H fight and invade Motional which was closed yesterday 'subiect to the act are called, shou!d;ty over the 'nterPnse -5aPer- lne,. this territory. The Porte is pro. by government officials. ,file anaffidavit of exemption or thoy J county, court ot that county maae tnis, w Acording to W. 0. Jones, president should send in information required ( award some time ago but competitors ot the concern, the b'ank will be able by the blue sky act for all Invoiitment have carried the case to the courts to meet all demands made upon It. The , companies upon the " blank called a obtaining change of venue to Uinon !cl-ittinn Vina a larce amount 01 . "nreliminarv statement." Upon this . .. , , - county. Circuit Judge Phelps of Pen- lt'ii'r , ' 1 a - J wtilUnna in npornt.ia- ..Uay.f rninnffttinn ' riommisaionr ZZXi cash " "u """ " " . ""J" "----- - : - , . . . . . rtA ble securities, which it has arranged to Watson has made a statement in wricn . " w if turn into money immediately if the necessity demands it. W. S. Kuhn is at Price's Crossing Mass., at the bedside of his wife, who is seriously ill at the Kuhn summer home. He could not be reached. Idaho-Oregon Company Suffers. - Boise, Idaho, July 8. Attorneys for the State Bank of Chicago filed a pe tition in federal court here yesterday to foreclose the mortgage of $3,319, 000 against the Idaho-Oregon Light and Power conwany because of de fault in paymi.-.t of $95,000 interest on bonds due April 1. ' The Chicago bank is the holder of the mortgage. Officers of the company announced ia the first move in the reor ganization and consolidation of the Idaho-Oregon Light ana rower m pany with the Idaho Traction.company operating all the interurban lines m this vicinity, xne . morvKB all the power plants, stations and the transmission lines of, the compr.ry ir. Oregon also. Normal's Registrar Resigns. Bellingham, Julyl-J. W. Clark for seven years registrar at the Nor mal school here, resigned to J. M Edson of Marietta who was appointed to succeed him. His resignation take? effect on September first. he rules that all investment corpora tions which have not dispoa.id of all of their stock or bonds or other si curi ties are subject to the new !rw. Any corporation that has stock or other se curities on hand must furnish the cor poration department a prelimi?iaiy statement. dence and arguments. To wrest the l k;.,i;., 4Vri f Via Wnllnwa Sun is the IJl IllllUg 11 1,111 WIV ' " - - -" object of the case. Loren Killed In Fall. Houston, Texas, July 8. -Lieutenant Loren Call, of the U. S. army aviation t. rn lonol nUrrneva corus was Killed in a iau iieni uci-c "that small ditch companies and other: today. Just after an apparently sue like corporations having nothing more cessful ascent the machine suddenly An ovnont-. to nav their annual taxes 'collapsed and plunged to the earth. should execute the affidavit of exemp- Call joined the army aviation corps -,on-and thus will not be subject to'cniya short time ago. His death further attention from the state in ad- makes the tenth army aviator to lose ministering the blue sky law." - Ins 1'fe- ' S paring to move immediately. ?' London, July 8. Continued Bulger ian victories are reported in Sofia dis1 patches. . fter entering Vranje and capturing a large supply of ammuni tion the Bulgars proceeded north ward to Omarvia river thereby cut ting off the retreat of the Servian troops. Peace Terms to Be Brokne. Unconfirmed reports from Constan tinople state that Turkey has de manded that Bulgarians excavate the payrolls, part of Turkish territory given '.he' not lugprded as imimnent. allies by the terms of the peace treaty. Turkish troops are said to be pre paring to take the field. Bucharis. wires that the Roumanian army be mobilized Thursday and expects to in vade Bulgaria immediately. Washington, July 8. David Lamar t the New York broker who admitted he impersonated certain congressmen Mr. and Mrs. Gaskil were the only j and others in conversations over the two of the 43 not directly connected telephone with prominent New York with the McKennon family. 1 j j financiers, was recalled by the lobby ' committee at his own request today, " In his opening statement, Lamar said ; he was satisfied to leave his fate in the hands of Chairman Overman and " Senators Nelson and Cummins. " " , "As far as Senators Reed and Walsh are concerned," he started to say, but was interrupted by Chairman Over-' man who squelched any attempt to stir friction in . the members of the com mittee. " "Lam'-thn-reiterated' he had planned impersonations of Congress men Riordan of New York and Paliwf of Pennsylvania in order to unearth . what he called a conspiracy against Conductors May Strike. New York, July 8. An announce ment was made, here that 94 per cent of the condutcors and trainmen of the eastern railroads voted to strike unless their demands were acceded to. A general increase in wages is asked. Great Majority Favor Strike. Eighty-nine per. cent of the .con ductor!:' and 98 per cent of the train men favored a strike. Over 75,000 votes were cast. The railroads pro nwced to resist the arbitration under tk. Fwlmfiii art nnd Assert that the 'anUnc of the demanded increase his friend, Edward Lauterbach. would add $17,000,000 annually to the The danger of a st'ine is MALE SUFFRAGETTE TRIES TO E MULATE JP MARTYR'S EXAMPLE. 4, 5 IV' . COUNTY TREKKERS TO GATHER JULY 23. Exercises to Be Held During the Fore noon of That Date. At Cove, on July 23, the Pioneer association of Union ocunty will hold ! Bfl PPw WfCT A4f''ll oil IV I hi- 1 a v 'm 4 i 4 & - r ' . i Gust H. Marinas, a Greek laborer , Phillips sustained a dfomjh ..... lipped through the coal chutes yes- j a wrenched spine. Mrs. D. F. bimtn terday at the coal bunkers while he' a passenger was badly snaKen ana V. .T. Allen was was oreaKing a cog in tne cnu, m. u. u, u. -""-" - - f h b , putting the branch telephone lines on struck the tender of the locomotive arrested on the susp.c on of h.s Being m taking coal with considerable force drunk. An empty. wh.sKey rms was At the Grande Ronde hospital today lie found in the vestibule ot tne car. recovering rapidly irom . scaip II, Copyright by International News Service. ' . . . i i: tda rvialo miffrnfrifit. who duiine the , 4; oorordimr to an- This picture snow - ... ia us annual h.c..b c trv J D ' race for the Ascot gup, one or England s most imporuim. 4....k nouncement made by ecrey 'tt,e'dasned out on the track and flourishing a revolver demanded one of the Slater, after consultation wim Hismount. The iockey. however, gept on going committee in charge of a suitable ! daw. , leaa.ng j knocked down Bnd b(jd,y trampled. The suffragist The exercises, details of which w.H, and .X iSDired by the action of Miss Emily Davison, the militant soon be mad. known, w,ll ed fr0'm in urie, ,he teMivl W m she interfered with the King's in tfco fnronoon so as not to coninci.wno u.cu ,m... n.,u horse during tne running ui u iomuus. Greek Laborer'Hurt. Street Car Runs Away. Vancouver, B. C, July 8. Travel ing down Commercial drive at an es timated speed of 40 miles an hour an interurban car jumped the track and crashed into a building demolishing the front and smashing'.every window in the structure. Conductor John "It was a Wall street plan," Lamar continued, "designed to bring Lewis Cass Ledyard and associates out into the open." 'Many men before now wanted to get him. It was a game of duplicity on their part as well as mine and want ed to give them an open and shut case so they would have to come into the open so I used Lauterbach's name and then wanted to give them pre pared evidence that Lauterbach lied. They fell for the trap. I felt certain Ledyard knew it was I who was talk ing, not Palmer. My ear and Brown's was so attuned that I could hear him wounds and bruises. Governor Backs Maoyr. Ci .. 1 T..T.r Q flnvomnr Wpfit tO Oil. CM, umj v....-... , , irW .wired Mavor-Anderson of The lauteroacn ana aem mm uu;u partnership with the Morgan company except the president. I knew my man and knew his nature. Then I went to lovori nhnnf two hours at Elfi-in ves-, the law would be enforced, .me euy terday when a freight was derailed in ; council held up the Mayor' appoint the heart of town. ' ments. ' PANKHURSTS AND AMERICAN SUFFRAGETTE IMPRISONED ing the forenoon so as rrcigni ueiays rasw-nger. " "IT" " t Ti wn..M thrA T..l o Ci XTI,. Tlnlloo anvinir hn WOllIfl mOKG WaVOl S p ...v.. J amination by the Senate lobby com mittee yesterday, admitted he had approached Lewis Cass Ledyard, of counsel for J. P. Morgan, with the statement that he represented Speaker Clark and Senator Stone, but had done so at the direction of David Lamar. Lauterbach had denied on direct ex amination yesterday that he had made such statements to Ledyard. Lauter bach 'then testified on direct examina tion that he went to the late J. P. Morgan with the resolution for in vestigating the steel corporation, not for the purpose of "shaking him down" but solely with the idea that if Morgan would personally ask Lamar to stop tne resolution the broken relations be tween the two men would be restored. Lauterbach denied on direct exam ination that he knew of Lamar's per sonations of Congressmen in telephone conversations with Wall street leaders and that his proposal to stop Congres sional investigation of the steel corp oration was to have, the corporation make certain rr.'orms which would make an investigation unnecessary. It London, July 8. Screams of defi ance were hurled at the London au thorities today when Sylvia Pankhurst and her daughter, Emmeline, and Zelie Emerson an American suffragette, were given prison terms. When Mrs, Pankhurst was arrested last night she fiercely resisted the police. The court demanded that Miss Pankhurst give bond for good behavior but it was refused. Three months' sentence was imposed. "I won't stay in jail," she reason to be loyal then try us." orreamed. "You can't keen me there other addressed to Lever said: "If . v if I will start a hunger strike." Miss had been as loyal to us as i.ancasnire Emerson was sentenced to a month at is to the King, this would never have hard labor. She was convicted to happened." rcsistinar an officer. She afterwards paid a heavy fine and was released. Valuable Treasure Burned. Horwitch, England, July 9. Suff ragettes early today burned the resi dence of Sir. W. H. Lever. Many rare pictures and tapestries were destroy ed. The loss exceeded $100,000. , Notes Found In Ruins. Two notes were found about the ru ins, one addressed to King Georgei read: 'Wake up, government, give us Tlr, you (Continued on Page 4) with the cherry show.