La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, January 21, 1915, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME XIV. LA GRANDE, OREGON. THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1915. NUMBER ML' GUI 0,1111 AI UBS S1III BLOWN UP BY FRENCH GUNNERS French Movement Against Metz, on the Other , Hand, Is Repulsed explosioh It rheims heurd m miles mi Paris, Jan. 21. Destruction of a tig German ammunition; depot near Rheims is announced by an official war office statement The explosion of the huge supplies of powder is re ported to have resulted in the death of many German soldiers A French aviator located the depot and signaled the range to the French gunners who i dropped a shell on the roof. The ex plosion was felt for miles. French $uns also demolished . German . f Hd works in the same vicinity. " v The statement says that after the depot was exploded, the infantry 1 charged and captured several of the -enemy's trenches. . Furious fighting '. is in progress between St. .. Mihiels "and Metz, the advantage alternating. . In the forest of Apremont the Btate- . - ment asserts . Germans were .driven .Lack 160 yards and' severaV1 ; t ... Frenches, taken. t : - ". " JSt Goto war. ' Rome, Jan. 21. Renewed rumors ; that Rottmahia is about to enter the iwar on the side of . the Allies is ' strengthened in diplomatic circles as the result of the reports from Berne, " Roumania, that students at the Swiss university have been notified by tele graph to Join their regu rants. , v - . Fetrograd, Jan. 21. That the Turk ish retreat in:. Caucasus has become a rout is ' reported. . Russian com manders hope to annihilate or com pletely shatter the forces' before they j reach protection. i 3Wiss Maud Cavtaes. Died at Ironside!" f fortsmen's league of that Ironside, Jan. 20. Miss Maud Cavi iiess, who has been very ill the past -two months died,.- Sunday ' morning, The funeral services were held Tues-. win ,e discussed. Mr. Leffel states 1 day at the Ironsldechurch. The but- ite m o dis8ention is heard ial was in this cemetery at 11, o'clock n . . , . . , Services were conducted by Rev. Har- a" sportemen on the proposed ac jison. : :'.'' "n ' the. legislature of placing the Miss Caviness had been an invalid money from the hunting and fishing -since infancy. , ; She was taken ' to licenses i in the general fund, as it "Portland several weeks ago and was i8 felt that such action will prove .operated on, but never seemed to i;n- detrimental to the interests' of the prove or recover from the operation. ;sportsmen of ; , . - Miss Caviness is a niece of J. L. 'Caviness of this city and was the daughter of W. P. Caviness who lives in Malheur county. Railroad Company Wins Suit . - Pendleton, Jan. 20. At 2:30 this -afternoon the jury in the casesof the National Insurance Co., and Emry Glese vs. the O.-W. R. & N. and the Sun Insurance Co., and Jap Moore vs. ) the same company returned a verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff Had r-nked for-damages aggregating mor titan $5000 for a fire which destroyed ti, Emry &. Gieae livery barn at Kcrmiston and which they alleged was started by sparks from a passing ei:gine. The case went to the- jury jnst before noon. :. u.. . ' '- OIL MAGNATES WIFE IS RUMOR THAT DEATH IS NEAR DENIED. Mrs. Rockefeller Has Been 111 Long No Alarm Felt. .' New York, Jan. 21. Off icials of the Rockefeller offices today refused to confirm the report that . Mr. Rockefeller Sr., was slowly dying of Aenemia. "Mrs. Rockefeller". ' said the office attache "has been, ill for many months but there is no cause for alarm." . . He also denied the rumor that the stork is expected at the home , of Rockefeller Jr. i Berlin, Jan. 21. French offensive p gainst Metz has been halted and rol- votj , ,u v j led back, according to a war office or homesteads from settlers who had announcement. It is added that Ger- l"1 on , " n ra time ago. mans are to open a strong offensive "This land had been withheld from en ir. the Northwest. ' Pont-A-Mousson try 12 years because of an incorrect has been recaptured and trenches lost survey but " the announcement was earlier in the week retaken, the state-. glven out last month that this ma- u IT; ne.OTenl u; mite tmt gains made yesterday: at Notredame de Lorette wer recap. tured by the French after a series of furious attacks. -" '"v.-. . .:'''-- ' V Fighting continues along' the Vis- tula river, being especially, violent in wie vicinity oi wpno wnere wie nun- sans are attempting to drive a wedge into the German lines and ; reach Thorn fortress. CLARK LIETER LOCATES. ner Ononis:: City Editor Comes - to This City. Mr. and Mrs. Clark Lieter, former ly of Portland, have' now established themselves in La Grande where Mr. Ueter will be connected with the In terstate , Sealing agency, a concern with headquarters here and doing a selling business in three or four Pa cific; Northwest states. ' Mr and Mrs. Lieter have leased the lilyod briber horn on West Mam street. ' V- ' - . Mr.- Lieter was for many years' city editor of the Portland Oregoman, and retired last fall. . Leffel Meets With Bakerites. : Game Warden. W. E. Leffel went to Baker this morning upon invita- which the action of the legislature and) pending bills of interest to the sportsmen of this section of the state Rev. Close Improves. . Sunday morning Rev. ' R, E. . Close experienced a nervous breakdown at the close of the servicetat the Baptist church. He wag confined to his home for' several days and was much im- provei after the rest. He was to conducted the funeral services ,: . .. . tu w a, 8t the P18 church today, but due another breakdown last evening he was unable to do so. - His physician states that he will be muon better in after a few days of quiet The reg ular services will be held at the Bap tist' church Sunday and Rev. Close will probably be in condition to take charge. - ; . v - ; Ironside Snow Bound. Ironside, Jan. 20. A heavy ' an .w which fell ilasti week pleased- the farmers for the outlook of the com ing year. There is now 8 inches of snow imt there is not good sleighing. On Thursday 1 and - Friday v a heavy wind raged through the valley, pilling snowin drifts from three to six feet, vHle other places are almost bare. Earl Van Buren returned from Ba ker on Thursday with a load of freight for Walter Hinton. He re ports the roads almost impassable be tween Bridgeport and Malheur City. ' ' ,- , Adam Paul Married. , . A recent issue of the San Francis co Examiner announced the marriage of Caitain A. M. Paulof this city. The item saya: r - V .-, .( - 'XJaptain Adam M.- Paul, a mining operator of La Grande, Oi-e., 74 years rid, was . married to Mr : Kate Ca rothera at her home, 2417 Stuart St., Berkley last evening. Mm. Caroth ere is 67 years of age and a widow. I'aul is a widower. They ar; . old friends, and their mam:r;o did not come as a surpirse." SQUATTERS FILE ON ENTERPRISE: LANDS ; thirty-one claims opened ! to entry and ten are i taken first day. , SQUATTERS FIRST TO PRESENT APPLICATIONS Good Land Near Enterprise, Held Up For Year, Now Open. This morning at ,9 o'clock the 31 townships of overlapping claims near Enterprise in Wallowa county, were thrown open to entry and the local land office allowed1 ten applications voy had been Corrected and that the . . ,. . - . i tand wouId ta t"rown Pn "! settlement by the public. Nearly Ma nd is goodl farming soil, Applications for homesteads in other parts of the district were filed m0rnihir by David L. Johnson. morning Enoch Pearson and Joseph H. Otanain, of Wallula.,. Wash.; Geo. F. Bibee, Baker, and Hans P. -Mikkleson, Dur- kee. . ' Daughter is Born. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. George M. Hibberd, at Seattle, Jan. 21, a daugh ter. ' Mother and daughter are doing nicely, according to a telegtsm re ceived today by Mrs. Perry Oliver. . TOWNS AND CITIES IN ITALY' WHERE EARTHQUAKE KILLED THOUSANDS, AND FAMOUS MAR- ; CUS -7- .':V'jaor aI-tVc' I 'tessajurr: piA.wftra "t This map shows the area in Italy where thousands were killed in the earthquakes which radiated from So ra end Compobasso, January 13. A scorn or more towns were almost wiped -out and in one,' Avezzano, it is believed 9,000 were killed out of a population of 10,000. The tower of Marcus Aurehus was damaged, but the Coliseum, St. Peter's and other landmarks were not injured. The circles indicate distances in miles from the centre of the disturbance.- ' - TELEPHONE COMPANIES At . Elgin, Cove and Summemlle there is again but one, telephone ex change serving subscribers in the community, the connection of the long distance wires of the Home Independ ent Telephone Co. into the local switchboards of the Co-operative com pany at those places having been completed today. The Home com pany 'withdraws its exchanges there, effective immediately, and all per sons having connection with a local exchange board there will have to be come subscribers to the service of the Co-operative company. As a result of this action, it is how! possible for all subscribers of the j chief of the Home Independent sys Home Independent system, from their tern. SENATE RESTS IN TRIBUTE TO ITS FUESIDEIIT LAIR THOMPSON'S FATHER PASSES AWAY AT ALBANY LAST NIGHT. CONTINUING APPROPRIATION V PLAN MAY BE ABANDONED Alhough Minority Report is Heard it is Not Likely That House WiU Act on it Matter Made Special Order of Business AU Continuing Appropriations May Vanish. ' - : .Salem, Jan. : 21. Opposing the sweeping policy of aMindooing all continuing appropriations (for state boards and those institutions not in cluded under the - millage tax, was voiced in the house when the Ways and Means committee reported favor able on the Schubel bill repealing all laws applying thereto. Smith of Klamath - represented i a minority report that the bill pass but not to become effective until Janu ary 1, 1917. The majority report (was adkpted and consideration of the mer its of the bill will be made a special order of business, w ' The senate held no business ses sion, this ' morning. It met and im mediately adjourned until 2 - o'clock this afternoon out of respect for the president of the senate, Lair Thomp son, whose father died last night at Albany. i AUREHUS COLUMN DAMAGED The Marcus Aurelius column, is one of the famous points of interest- in Rome. It is a dorlc column, extreme ly imposing, and was erected by Mar cup. Aurelius in 161-180 A. D. The statue is composed of twenty-eight blocks of marble, its bas relief de picting the victory the emperor won in Germany.- The top of the monu ment is reached by climbing 190 steps. T On the . summit is a medi aeval statue of St. Paul, placed there by Pope Sixtus V. The to-rl height of the monument is 1371 feet own instruments, to call any person having a Co-operative telephone at Cove, Elgin or Summerville and for all telephone users at, those places to reach all subscribers of the Home and Pacific systems that can be reached by .telephone, by the payment of the usual prescribed toll rates in effect before the interchange of business in this manner. Calls are placed in the usual way. . The actual work of making the con nections and looking after the many details incident, to such an import ant item of telephone engineering fell to Mr. McCalister of the Co-operative company, and Fred) G. Henning, wire con CITY LIEN PRIORITY SUIT AGAINST CITY VALIDITY OF CITY IMPROVE MENTS HANGS IN THE OUT COME OF THE SUIT. TRUSTEE FOR BEAVER CREEK FUND LIKELY Need of Trustee Pointed Out by Au. ditor in His Report, , Priority of mortgages i over city liens, and visa versa, will be threBhed out in foreclosure - suit brought by attorneys for Mrs. Johanna Gang toff against the city, Upon the outcome will depend, largely, the validity ol improvement hens held by.. the city r gainst large sections of property. Mrs. Gangloff took a mortgage on some Sixth street property several years ago and the interest was paid to her regularly but none of the 51, 60 principal was paid.- Lus-. year the party who gave the mortgage, va cated and left the taxes unpaid. Now Mrs. Gaturloff has paid the do'.inquent taxes and wants to foreclose but finds a city lien for : street improvement against it The city contends the im provement lien is prior to the first mortgage, and to test out tms conten tion is the purpose of the suit W. U. Sargent handles the interests of Mrs, Gangloff. ' The procedure in this case occupied considerable attention at the weekly meeting of the city commission lant evening. ' . Recommendations made by the au dit report filed by C M. Lockwood after he had exported the city books, to the effect that a trustee , bo ap- (Continued on Page 6.) iSt !fel Will' mm itc r I I- lit, til ,r w K h km.. Li ORDER 610 SEflTTLEfll EN MILLION TO BE SPENT IN BUYING RULROAD " ' , V , COACHES. .,, ' RUSSIAN CCKSUL ASSERTS' DEAL HAS BEEN COMPLETED Employment - for' . - Large Nuaber f Men Seen In Big Order: Placed Seattle for Cars to Be Used m Trana-Slberiaa Railroad , Fifteen Thousand Cars la toe 'Order. - ' Seattle, Jan. 21. N. BoiroUvlanaky, Russian consul to this city, issued an ' official statement today that an or der for 15,000 railway cars had been placed by the . Russian rovwmmer-.t with the Seattle Car ft Foundry com- - pany. Officers of the company would not confirm the statement entirely but admitted that there had been negotia tions with the Rusttan government. The rolling stock, it is said will b designed for the Trans-Siberia line, and will cost more than $10,000,000. If true, it will mean the moiov- ment of a large force of men as it is reported that the order is to be rushed. ' - ANOTHER SOLON ETTE. ; Roeeburf Lady May Become Member 1 of the State Senate. Boseburg, Or,, Jan. 21. Indkatiotv ara tVis afternoon that Miss KaHmryit Clarke of Glendale has been isleeted : senator from Douglas county to fill ; the vacancy there. .', She. is leading-J. W. Perkins of Roseburg and the vote ; is about complete. ; She will be tha second woman member of the fenata BOUNTY BILL PASSES. t Increase -for Eastern Oregon - Coyote -Bounty is Passed. - Salem, Jan. 21. The house. passed today a bill increasing the bounty on coyotes dturing this year from . $1.60 to 3.00 and1 allowing a bounty, of : $1.00 on seals and seal pups. East- : ern Oregon delegations asked for the increase on . coyotes because - of the prevalence of rabies. ( SELLS WHEAT LAND. Mrs. Eva Andross Disposes of 200 .: Acres to Guy Glen. A portion, a triangular deal in real estate and personal property recently consumated in this valley, interested Mrs. Eva Andross of Portland, who returned today to her home after spending two weeks here the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harris. She sold 200 acres of ner wheat ranch to Guy Glen, realizing $100 per acre for it. Judge Knowles Presides in Baker. Circuit . Judlge Knowles went to Baker this morning where today he presided at a session of the court of that county in a case in which Judge Anderson was not qualified to act. Judge Knowles will return tonight in : order to be here for the first "motion" day which is effective tomorrow. BLACK SKL- L MANY CASES FOUND IN VIENNA IS REPORT. Precaution Taken to Keep it from Reaching the Army. - Rome, Jan. 21. Vienna dspatches . have brought the startling news that' 150 cases of black small pox have been discovered in the Austrian cap- ital. - Extreme precaution to prevent a spread of the disease to the army his been taken. ' ' PCX