La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, February 21, 1914, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textf voiiUME xm. FEARED VILLA KILLED 2 IE TWO ENGLISHMEN SEARCHING FOB BENTON ARE NOW MISSING. BENTON'S DEATH HAS AROUSED GOVERNMENT Critical Situation Developes When It Is Rumored That Villa Shot Benton "like a Dog" Without Provocation England Will Give America Time to Ferret Facts, El Paso, Feb, 21. What is fearecj, to be another cruel murder of second and third . Englishmen on Mexican soil within two days, is believed to be a serious possibility here when no, word was received this afternoon from John Lawrence aiCf 'iis friend named Curtis, I M. . Vho went to Juar Wed" iiunt for Benton, Friends fear they met the same fate Gustave Barch, an American, was ar rested in Juarez charged with being n spy and is not located. , It ia riihioreu rebels shot the three of them but this is denied. '.. Some think they have been moved to Chihuahua. Two Governments Worried. Washington, Feb. 21. "Benton the Englishman was killed like a dog by Villa," Senator Fa.ll of New Mexico, has been advised by the chairman of the EI Paso' mass meeting held last night. "It is almost certain that Villa did it purposely. There is no evidence that the English cattle Wn was an aggressor, and the murder was cold blooded." The death of Benton on Mexican soil is a grave matter. England has allowed Uncle Sam time to train facts of the death before making any de mands, and the government here is worried. Benton's death is the sub ject of strong editorials in all Eng lish papers. : Villa Is Silent. Chihuahua City, Feb. 21. Villa ar rived here today but would not dis cuss Benton's death. He is buying ammunition to attack Torreofri to morrow. KNIGHTS WILL INITIATE Large Delegations Coming From All Sections of the State. State Deputy of the Knights of Co lumbus, W. P. O'Brien will be in the city tomorrow from Astoria to attend the initiatory ceremonies that will take place at K. P. hall. At 9:30 a. m. the local and visiting Knights will meet at K. P. hall and march to the church in a body to attend high mass. After high mass the first degree will be exemplified, and the second and third in the afternoon. About 6:30 p. m. a banquet will be served in I. O. O. F. hall by the ladies of the parish. A large delegation from outside the city will be in attendance, including delegations from Portland, Baker, Pendlet Walla Walla and all points along the O.-W. No Limit to Signatures. Salem, Feb. 21. Registered voters can sign as many nomination petitions for his party as he wishes, according to the attorney general. Marie Lloyd Married. Portland, Feb. 21. Overcoming se vere obstacles, Marie Lloyd married her manager, at noon today. MOF VICTIMS jW Cove Needs a Cleaning Cove, according to information re ceived by the Observer, is in need of a general overhauling. While it is a matter of judgment as to how to proceed in the work, the good people of Cove hav a right to complain re garding conditions there, if the stories that this paper has irathered -from different, and aDnarentlv sources, are correct. The younger set in Cove has reach ed a stage in which lack of discipline is apparent. ' The dances are disor derly and liquor has become a factor in the social circles of the vounir. The statement that a saloon is run ning without a license is denied, but even under that denial them is An I admission that there is a que tion whether or not under the Hoi Rule law the saloon has any right to exist; in Cove. Because the matter has never been taken through the courts is considered by some sufficient ground for permission of the city liquor li cense 10 De issued, but this is not ground at all. It is the bounden duty of the city officials of Cove to have taken the matter into the courts after the municipality voted dry and there nave tested out the question. Such duly dally work is wroncr and the burden of the blame for social con ditions in the Cove is bound to fall ... VJUt o ,B UUUIIU W XU11 squarely upon the shoulders of the city officials. It is generally admitted that the police powers have been entrusted to a man who is either incapable or does not desire to handle the situa tion as it should be handled. ' :. When youne bovs and frills ramw.t go tj a. public dance without taking a bottle of liquor with them it is high time the people of Cove arouse them selves and recall a few officials. " Sexual crime seems also to be ram- turns of the last grand jury and the further information that percolated ! from that section when the grand jury was in session here. Mayor Wilson says he sees nothing out of the ordinary about Cove's be havior, but manv trood neonle of that section disagree with the mayor, and it should be no surprise to that of ficial to face a recall at once. Gambling is also reported. Not' open gambling, but the slv. back room games which cannot go on in e, 0 ... a small community without the nnlipn " z lln.nV 1 1 r 1 1 """"g ounie iviHjivieuge ui mem, pro- - - r- - vided the police is sufficiently alive to Understand Urhnt hi nffipn ia fnr understand what his office is for. u is up to uove to clean up and do it now. The ideal home site of the Grande Ronde valley should not be polluted with the vice that without doubt does exist there. Recall your officials if they will not serve as they should, for they were elected to protect your munity. com- j If the local saloon has no right to exist under the law see that it nuits business without further parleying. If it has a rieht to run under the law. force the owner and his help to abide strictly bv the law. Permit no edir in? over the line, and last of all pet a policeman for Cove who will make law and order supreme; get a police man who will rout the camblera and stop public dances when those dances do irreparable harm to the young. LA GRANDE WINS 7 TO 6 Pendleton, Feb. 2L (Special.) La Grande hiirh won from Pendleton last night a terrific game by the close score of 7 to 6. The team goes Milton tonight. to Mac Wood Slightly HI. Unable to be at his place of business Mac Wood. Dresident of the citv is confined to his home with a slight at atck of lagrippe. Judge Henry Improved, After several days illness due to uo w severe com county luoge nenry INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER JiA GRANDE, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1914 FARMERS DRAFT FEASIBLE PLANS TO RECIJIHI30.D0D ACRES OF RICH If J Two methods possible in: proposed drainage and dredging scheme: Create draining districts similar to irrigation districts and bond the district, resulting in completion of projects in shortest possible time. costs yo dhwr fnvri , L fSSS , i , uulsueu- x-rouaoiy eignt or 10 years. ,nia d acreage suffering from, floodwater now, 30,000 Annual , damage, $10.00 per acre, or $300,000 annually. . . . ' Estimated expenses, $200,000. Benefits, conservation of one-tenth of county soil resources. First steps that may lead to one of the greatest conservation and re clamation projects Union county has yet dreamed of, were heard in a tangi ble way today when farmers and land owners heard propounded, and dis- --------- "v.u jiiujivuilUGUf OI1U U10- CU8sed, the ways and means to drain i vast areas of rich bottom land near Union and Hot Lake, and to save overflow of the bottom lands near the Elgin cut. Farmers of this territory met this afternoon at the Commercial club to trtf up first discussion of the matter. GTS. Norris, who has been the mov ing spirit up to this Doint. Dronosed the two feasible methods that may be used in realizing what will bring vast sums of money to the vallev an nually. At two o'clock 30 Drominent far- mers were in attendance and the audi ance grew until it was verv renre- sentative. At press time no final action or recommendations had been made. One plan which the farmers have heard discussed is to bond, exactly as for irrigation, creating districts and with the money in one batch pro ceed with the work and hurrv it to ! completion. One argument against this plan is- that the work onnnnt f"" v,o num dllllUb he nrnmiilo-ntol h,,f o f, n,L , x " u J. vi lllwilllia UA 1- . ..... eiu.ii year on account or high water, nnici, Another course open is t'o create the liofrifn anil nn 4.1.- i. J; districts and pay for the cost by di- rect taxation on the land in the dis- trict. This would nermit exDendi- ture of certain sums yearly, and pro motion of the dredging and draining piece by piece until finished. When no work remained to do, even though the specified time had not elansed. the taxation would stop. It is estimated that 30,000 acres of land are flooded yearly at a loss of $10 per acre at the very lowest fig ure. By direct taxation this land could be made to nay $1.00 TJGF ACTA 1 - ' for a period of ten years, which time Of JHfly STH Complete explanation was triven to-I - - day to the spray of blood thajtVrim- j auiieu me intersection or r lr and Jel- 5 A confession o-iu.n i n, ;,, jail this morn nThv . ZL BrZ? make, nerl tL , w makes perfectly clear what was from Tntiimru R hi. ,) January 6 to this morning, a deep a.owi, uii wic iiiuiuiuK January mystery. , On the morning of Janu- um uic Hiuiniiig ui dnu- ary o ne mtersectlon was found to .!. . . . POOLS BLOOD CONFESSION PRINTS THF NEWS THE DAY LANDS ' Pn, DUt pay for P? f might possibly be required to do the work. The sum needed would be raised with little effort in this way. There is little' question but that the scheme will eventually work out the best course to cover seems to be the only question. It must be picked from the two mentioned. The plan involves dredging and the straightening of the Grande Ronde river just south of the Elgin cut. This would reclaim hundreds of acres of tynd that now yearly suffer heavily and sometimes lay idle because of overflow. That in the main ia tha part that Elgin is working for and the citizens are interested and really enthusiastic, offering bier subscrip tions to start the work. The proposition calls for drainino- vast areas of land near Union. The scheme as it now stands, subject to change, is to nut in a flood imto int above Union and guide away what water tne creek cannot handle in its regular course, and leading the new stream around the foothilk from Un ion to the Point and reentering the creek at Lower Cove. The swamp lands near the foothill would be dmin- ed, the creek prevented from flooding us aajacent lands on the.regular creek bed, and furthermore, allow drainage of the Hot Lake tule land, impossible i - " v.v. ' with the creek running over its banks Inn nrtw as now Irrigation Also Possibbo. To continue the reclamation, it would be possible under similar plans to proceed with irrigation on the Sandridge by using water from the Grande Ronde, tapping at Oro Dell. This is a new development which the farmers are likewise discussing. The whole system represents one of the greatest reclamation schemes : yet dreamed of in this county its possi bilities are said to be almost limitless, With nn VlOflW l-mron rn artr rna arm . --' . j uuiuui - HHJ wits ocv,- tion. ON SHEET EXPLAINED TODAY OF PRISONER nresenpB wn ovnlninori ti nu. .... . .......... . . . ... iiuint; department had slight clues to work with and last night nabbed and ar- 1, 7 . Z , , " ? " u"8" V"1'1 Clf'm8 , J whcn P''fi9Sed for cxPla"ation' that he h t two local men in a fie-ht 1 local men in a ngni over card cames str k nir them over , reareri. a nnnrpr nnmor w.rt r'nnin,, the head with rocks, and Teft them for ! tne head with rocks, and left them for dead - at least he thought one of them.:' . . . . "u- ie u" mi uau iuur- IT HAPPENS reled, began to fight, and the assault resulted.' i A fine of $100 was placed against Conley. The assaulter left town imediatolv. hut Hriff ..., only to be arrested. OREGON TIMOTHY POPULAR Seed Grown Here Commands Fancy ..ices in Auadiewestern States. . Timothy seed prown in ' r-n'j Hondo valley commands th t .u. and in fact a premium in tho t;i... - w..w VMUU IJI V producing sections of Minnesota, Wis consin and Illinois. This was learned by C. M. SeCor who took three car loads east this winter tnr t... Uregon Produce company of this city,' u win, returned yesterday. In addition to placing the timnthw - --rf "Vft .at top prices, various ntha t.j - - . - ....... W BUB stuff was disposed of. H nM carloads of apples, finding the market good for fancy stuff especially. The apple market is srenerallv trnn ery where for fancy stuff. Some car loads of potatoes were moved, at a very low figure however. Money is loosenino- lin In f Via A.Di t - o r vtiv cnoi,, factories are resuming thai. j throughout Michigan especially, fac- iury oraers are coming in better than for anv tima in x ... ... u.eni, ui ten months. "Bankers Mr. SeCor. "are lookW lin onH dieting looser money at once." i JUDGE BENNETT IN TOWN Ha. Been1 Building Political Fence. an. . 7 rence8 Throughout This Section. Unwilling to publicly analyze the )litical situation as he has fo.mH u political situation as he has found it, ior tne reason that he might not see the - situation- as - it reallvi." ImIm Bennett veteran' democrat candidate for democratic nomination to the of fice of , governor, and socallerf rfio. durber of the. democratic program in re irovernorshin. is In l. r.,.nj. dav. Ho ha tji j ,!he convention was heid a half cen now headed toward his home in The Dalles. "The situation suits me." nnirl the judge today to his friends and til licums here. "However, I am not prognosticating, for I might find that men who promise they are for me, might accidentally not vote for me at the primaries," whimsically ventured tne old war horse. COURT CASES HURRIED . . Monday to Be a Judicial Holiday Throughout the State. . Tom Mylin was acquitted late today by the jury on the rape charge. He must serve his former jail sentence however of nearly a year. The case of the state vs Tom Mylin has progressed rapidly and this morn ing the attorneys for the state and defense presented their arguments to tne jury. . , , Dan Helley who was charged with larceny in a dwelling pleaded guilty " - ra I r. J and then requested the court to with- J . 1- .. 1 IT. 1 1 1 1 1 draw the plea. He then pleaded euiltv to the charee of simnlo lar ceny and the fine of 60 days in the county jail was imposed. The case of Pheiffer vs. the O.-W. is scheduled for Tuesday. There will be a court holiday on Monday owing to the fact that Washington's birth day falls on unday, in which case, the following day, according to. the statute is observed as a holiday. REWARD FOR MURDERERS. Seattle, Feb. 21. Lewis Hill has offered a reward of $30,000 for arrest of the bandits, dead or alive, who last night held up a Great Northern train near Bellingham and killed two men. Every outlet from the pass Is being guarded. Many are Joining in the hunt and it is believed they will be .... ...... ... P'"rea DCIore "'Km tail. . mucn " and J1"' w Bk Prior to In the morgue awaiting word from i .1 i rt.ativcs. . - tJ . I unniB vui Kni. Rev. A. j. Adams 8 nble to be out again after a short but severe illness. NUMBER 217 NEW EMS IRKED WHEN KNIGHTS COME REMARKABLE SESSION HELD IX LA GRANDE BY DISTRICT . ORGANIZATION. LESSON OF FRIENDSHIP RANKS AS STELLAR EVENT Jubilee Dates, Doklea and Remarkabl Exemplification of rank of Pg Make Convention Noteworthy, and. Banquet Bring. Out Speeches En. terprise Entertains Next. Epoch marking in three respects, the fourth annual convention of the eleventh district of Knights of Pyth- ias was held In La Grande last night. ? Tf 'n three divUion' tO-wit: in amnlituda and marnlf..l of the exemplification of the rank nf 11 lntrucln ! th ""t time ii fc8tern Oregon the dramatized les page introducing for the first time in eon of friendship.' and secondly, be cause therpBveption marked the in stitution ETthe first Knights of Khor assan temple "in Oregon, outside of Portland. Both phases of the Pyth ian epoch were stellar in importance. Tne tni P' ihe third phase was the fact that y B y a tor the '"""dation of the order, and the golden Jubilee 'played important parts in the Dost- ' prandial speeches. Furthermore Grand Domain officers from three states were in attendance. The .; Wallowa train brought 127 Knights, about 60 of whom were also I tyros. Orion, Kinsman. Blue Moun- ' I tain and the Enterprise lodges were j extremely well represented few con- jventions in the past have equalled i e attendance. Baker, Pendleton j and otner lodges throughout the state, along with Red Cross lodge, swelled the number in attendance to more than 200. . , , , Rain Spoils Parade. A drizzling rain was falling when, the train "arrived and it was im practicable to take the regalia from nuder roofs. Led by the La Grande hnnd tv.. vii,t. onn .. eA th r-itv'a hnuino.. j -.- u uuuibua Uiouwm H11U disbanded for sunner. Convention Is Remarkable. The convention convened in - - v.. ....... vviitgiicu . .11 uua hall with District Deputy Dixon pro- I . ... ... Rex siding. ' He turned the lodire over to the rank of Page, and Wallowa's splendid team took charge of the ini tiation of a class of nine novitiates in Red Cross lodge. With that precise, remarkable and beautiful exemplifica tion of the work, for which Wallowa is famed, centering around nlHlled floor drills, the Wallowa team took the novitiates through the steps of the rank of Page. Then it was that the added features came, for Enterprise lodge presented, for the first time in Eastern Oregon, a dramatized lesson of friendship, taking the convention back to ancient Syracuse where was enacted the marvelous incident of friendship when Pythias staked his life on fidelity and loyalty of his good friend Damon. The. incidents leading up to the incarceration of Damon, Tin aeatn doom, his liberation with Pyth- ' ai "t bye visit with to Syracuse where he arrives at the m . , . very moment the headsman was to iL. t... death doom, his liberation with Pyth- . un acteu out ana tne Deautuui lines (Continued on Page Four.)