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VI6O11OUS in
YDEIIICIillll
SHOWS TEETH AT JURORS AS HE
GIVES TESTIMONY WITH
- WARMTH.
DOMINATION OVER G, 0. P.
IN EMPIRE STATE SHOWN
Smashing Wltnesa Chair with His
Ftotg and Dtnooddhg Ht Enemy
im True IfcioseveMian Style, Colonel
Roosevelt Presents Hto Story to the
yT Jury I Barnes libel Suit
Syracuse, April 21. Bringing his
lists down on the arm of the witness
kair with resounding whacks, his
teeth flashing: and Has indictments
ringing out in crisp, Jerky phrases,
Theodore Roosevelt today portraited
"William Barnes as a political boss of
the most dominant type.
After the court had - ruled that
Roosevelt must confine his testimony
to evidence having actual bearing on
the ease;t)h Colonel launched into an
attack upon his political enemy with
true Rooseveltian vigor. ' v ' -'
He "told how Barnes .inherited his
Tiold on the Republican machine in
Hew York from the late Senator Piatt,
and how foe-' -strengthened it, -how
Barnes worked with "Chief ". Murphy
and other Tammany hall leaders to
defeat legislation at Albany. He also
recounted other evidence: to prove
-the facts upon which the alleged state
ments of this suit was based. ,
SUBURBAN WOMEN UNITE
Organization of Cemetery Association
Contemplated - ,? ,
- Next'Friday evening the yLadttloj
' society of Island City will conduct n
meeting in the church In the suburb,
commencing at 7:30, for the purpose
of organizing a cemetery associa
tion. The invitation to Jittend is gene
ral, and all women interested are, in
vited to. be present.
MRS. ZWEIFEL DEAD.
"Woman of Middle Age Succumbs to
- Paralytic Stroke Today.
' "Mrs.; M. S. Zweifel, for sevtral
years a'citizen of La 'Grande, died
arly today of a paralytic stroke, the
fourth she 'had suffered .in recent
years. She was seized last Friday
and died as a result, at the home of
'Sam Lewis on Spring street.. v
Funeral "' arrangements - have not
: leen thoroughly completed on account
of absence of some of the relatives.,. ;
. A considerable family survive Jher.
The children are Nate and Walter of
this city, Reuben of Lewistown, Mont.,
Amy Sturgis of Oregon City and Ar
thur of Mahna, Ore. One brother
lives at Mollala and a sister in Fond
du Lac, Wis.
MRS. TYLER PASSES. -
Mother of' Mrs. A. R Blood Buried
Here this Afternoon.
' Mis. Roxie Tyler, aged 79, mother of
Mrs. - A. B. Blood of May Park,, who
died yesterday, was buried today. The
' funeral was held this afternoon from
the Bohnenkamp chapel with Rev. R.
1. Close pfficiating. - -
Scout Editor in City. "
"Colonel" Maxwell; tfhe . Brisbane
who presides over the Union Scout's
destinies at Union, was a La Grande
visitor today. - -r - : "
Today's- Oddest . Story X
4 La we ranee, Kansas, Apr. 21. .
4 Could this have happened any
where" else than : Kansas? f
! ' In a disscussion or tne anu-
JU wreen' IaW recently- passea vy t
the Missouri legislature only
ju ivii students out of twelve in a
journalism class at the University 4
of Kansas knewwhat a saloon
screen ' was. One of these Is
- is registered from Missouri. A In
another class of eleven senior
men only two had ever been in .
Jtm m aalnnn. . .... . . ,.f.
-J. "I helleve this percentage U fr
true of the other 1600 men ttfc
dents of the University," saya
4 prof. Marie Thorpe of the do-
partment of Journalism. . . .
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FACY GCD'IDlTlli TO
Countess Madolaine Hunyadi of . Hun
gary, God-Mother of 37 Babies
Children of Men who Have Died In
Battle. The Countess Will Pay For
the Upbringing of Her Family Of
Babies. , .
LUNCH GUEST
OLD CRONIES MEET TO BID HIM
GOODBYE
Words of Regret Spoken , By , One
; leaving and Those Remaining ..
Two score friends and co-workers
of Commercial :. club - circles in La
Grande todny paid fitting homage, to
AVIUerwveteH'.n. club wo"fiWnd
premier booster who leaves in a day
or two for Portland to make his
future home, when a luncheon . was
servod at the . Sommer grill in Mr.
i'Collier's honor. Mr. Collier expressed
his deep regret at leaving La Grande
and other- speakers touched upon the
universal regret in La urande at the
departure of a mail who. consistently
has been aligned with-forces for the
city's . advancement commercially,
morally-and otherwise. :
Fourteen years ago tomorrow Jonn
Collier and Mac Wood incorporated
the Golden Rule company. For a few
months previous to that Mr. Collior
had operated a men's furnishing store
in a small room, in the Huntington
building and Ms.: Wood had a little
store two doors away in the' same
building.. The .two agreed to; go into
bumness together and for - several
years the two men were the moving
factors in that concern. Eight, years
ago. Mr. Collier sold out his stock in
the Golden Rule company and .with
Charles Clements and others formed
the People's store--eight years - gao
tomorrow.
Mr. Clements expects to go to his
ranch after having beeiv connected
with business activity for half score
or more years.
Mr. Collier has three or four car
loads of stock and fixtures ready to
ship to Portland tomorrow or the day
after, and' will himself go to fort.
land immediately to superintend the
opening of . the store at Eighth and
Alder. J. C. Brill who came to La
Grande recently t affiliate him
self with the People's stere, . is to be
a member of the new firm in For;
land, to be called "The Peoples' com
uar.v. 1 Mr. Brill has already gone :o
Portland to look after details there.
For years Mr. Collier has been knit
ted to the commercial club continuous-
lv and when the club slumped the far-
therest, others forsook it but Mr. Col
li rr remained on the 1:V .. ihe chn
tauoua association hss seen him act
tively interested hi its lite and it was
only !ast year thnt Mr Ctl.ier turtii
his j ortion of tne worn
cessor. ,
"er to a 111-
Cathedral Draws Fire.
i Berlin, April 21. Owing to the fact
that the French have mounted guns
and cannon,, near the Raeimi cathedral,
Germans have been compelled to again
bombard1 -the position, the war' office
announced. - Is stated . shells ware
fired directly at the .cathedral. JB
newed bombardment at Rheims.to-
tfether with attacks direcM by French
at iPTIrty, -between: the Jleuse and
Moiselle' and about Meteeral, repre
sented the !hiaf activity of the "war
"--All attacks : at these points'
were repulsed with heavy losses it is j
stated. ' '
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FOB BIG FLEET
PROPOSED CRUISE BY ATLAN-
Tir pi ipf TOia ouuurD vi
DISCOURAGED.
SLIDES MAY HALT THE . ..
Atlantic fleet program
Official at Partam Admit They Cant
Guarantee Absence of SHdes k4
Dreadnaugh'a will not Likely c
: Sent Through the Channel Pro
posed to 8rd a Few Smaller Vw
els. 3 ' "
; Washington, April 21. More cold,
water has been thrown on the plan"to
have the Atlantic fleet'pass through'
the Panama canal on the voyage to
San Francisco,' Puget n Sound and
Hawaii, when it was : nnounced
through the war department that Pan
ama authorities could give no guaran
tee that there w(ll be no further slides
in the canal. i
"This follows reports that the canal
is not deep enough in some places at
present to permit the dreadnaughts to
pass, as a result of which definite in
formation was . asked of . Governor
Ooethals.
The announcement made it appear
extremely likely that the propoed visit
may. be abandoned.; As stoppage of
the slides cannot be assured it is stat
ed a. part of the fleet might pass
through the canal and the remaining
vessels may be cut off.
FIRE BOOKLET OUT
Children's Story Depicts Dangers of
. Forest Fires
V&MXinZ; Aprir 21. State School
authorities throughout Ottcgon iei
co-operating with the State Board of
Forestry and Oregon Forest Fire As
sociation 111 carrying forest , fire les
sons to public school children before
1915 danger season opens. Over seven-
to public school children before the
ty thousand little booklets are beinjr
distibuted containing a story entitled
The Friends of the Forest" written
by E. T. Allen, which weaves into at
tractive story form, with a boy and
squirrel as heroes, the age-old preva
lence of Are in these states, the strug
gles of the trees for. self-preservation
and the interest of men and
children in our forest resources
MANY ATTEND FUNERAL
La Grande Residents' Pay Respects to
Memory of Pioneer -Many
La Grande people are in Cove
this afternoon attending the funeral
of the late M. B. Rees, who died sud
denly yesteday morning. Several auto
loads of people crossed the valley to
be present at the funeral services. -
'-.? .' Leaves Property to Wife
Pendleton, April 21. The entire es
tate of the late Frank P. Round is
left to his widow, Carolyn Round, and
she is named the executor -of the will.
according to the terms of that instru
ment filed yesterday afternoon. The
estate consists of the residence prop
erty of a house and two lots 6n South
Garden street, valued approximately
at $2000, and notes and accounts val
ued at $2807. The will was made May
7,1901, in the presence of E. J. Murphy
and E. D. Boyd. The daughter ef the
deceased Onez Annetta Nash, - Clarks-
ville, Mich, and the son, Francis Leroy
Hound,, believed to be in California,
are left the nominal sum of one dol
lar each. : .- .. '.
SUITABLE
ALLIES LAND TROOPS
VICINITY
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r' Constantinople. : April 21. Twenty
thousand Anglo-French, troops are re -
ported to Have landed near ' Enos.
Strict censorship' has been established
by Berlin' from the' Dardanelles and
operations ; are believed to be in pro
gress there.
' Italy' Action in Balance.
Rome, Aprir 21. Open rupture be
;rretary TJcAdco
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U7...Y. : . , n ot
of the treasury William G. McAdooJfore made by treasury officials about
nnH finfrniir nf ti, TrI.i, .rnhn,.he National City Bank, that there
Skelton Williams created a sensation
when they attacked the methods of
munagment of the famous Riggs Na
tional Bank of Washington D. C. In
a statement issued from his office Mr.
Williams made a bitter -attack 011
Charles ' C. Glover, - president, and
other officers of it Frank A. Van-
derlip, president of the National City
.Bar.k of New .York, the largest bank
in the..United States, is a director, in
the Riggs,- and is believed to have a
financial' interest in it. Bankers have
FIRE AIMED AT
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MEXICAN AEROPLANES SAID TO
HAVE COME NORTH.
Report of the Incident Held up for 12
Hours by War Office.
Washington,. April 21. Secretary 0
War Garrison has announced that he
has received reports from Gen, Fun
ston of a Mexican aeroplane firing up
on Brownsville. .. Details of, the re
port won't be made ' public for 12
hours, the secretary said. He refused
to explain his reason.
Despite optimistic unofficial an
nouncements of tfhe incident the ac
tion -of Garrison in withholding de
tails. is interpreted as indicating the
affair might be of a serious nature.
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! tween Italy and Austria is regarded as
limminent by Senator . Carafa. The
I senator-declared that negotiations be-
tween the two governments are now at
a'-stands'till and that he. expected an
outbreak at any time..' Prince ; Von
Beuloy, the German ambassador, is
declared to have made preparations to
leave Italy.
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DARDANELLES
Leads Dank Ffcht
' C.GLOVER.
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ZIARLES
was some teenng against Mr. vanaer- the ones first used' said the re
lip. At any rate, they fear a contro- port. "Lack of organisation and pro
versy between the big bank and the pration would account for most of
treasury.. - ' , the hardships that prevailed at first
The attack on the Riggs bank was Absolutely nowhere did there seem tt ;
carried so far that the controller an-, be any wish to niake conditions any ...
nounced he would not sanction the harder ormore disagreeable for the
use of it as the depository of funds prisoners than was necessary." ;
of national banks outside the capital, On the "Royal Edward," Jackson
Financiers and bankers wait with in- found 1400 Germans, some of the
teretto learn whether or not the prisoners were locked below decks at --
trouble will develop into a fight be-
tween important
financiers and the
treasury officials.
RACE SLOGAN IS
SOUGHT BY CLUB
SELECTION TO. BE MADE FRIDAY
FRIDAY EVENING
Public Invited to Suggest Suitable
.- Slogan for Club's Permanent use
In Advertising Campaign ;
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4 REWARD FOR SLOGAN
4 : Five dollars in gold will -be 4
4 given to the Union county eiti-
! zon who can think up the best 4
J slogan for the motorcycle races. 4
Suggestions should be mailed to 4
the Observer before Friday 4
4 night, properly signed, and 4
4 judges will be named to make 4
4 the selection, Brevity will be a 4
4 dominant factor in determining 4
4 the winner. 4
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Wanted, a . , slogan for the - La
Grande . Motorcycle race meet; . -
Next Friday night the Motorcycle
club will meet to decide upon a slo
gan ,and in order to get the best pos
sible phrase, the club has invited the
public to suggest something along
that line, and anyone who has slo
gan, short, convincing : and to the
point, is asked to mail it to the Obser
ver, Friday evening, care slogan con
test. The purpose is to retain this slo
gan permanently and for that rea
son it mustb e the best. To make this
slogan- synonomous with the motor
cycle races each year as is "Let or
Buck" for the Round-up is the purpose
or the club s directors.-
Trial Postponed.
Due to absence of Officers Weagle
and Eberhardt' yesterday evening the
trial of James Childers accused of sell
ing liquor to an intoxicated person,
had to be postponed until today.
EIIGUIIID I
SUITABLE CARE
AMERICAN INSPECTION OF
. CAMPS AND SHIPS MADE
PUBLIC TODAY ,
THOSE INTERNED SEEM , f
GENERALLY SATISFIED '
Some Critici Filed Agalast air
land by laapecttoa However, aa4
Goverameat .Baa Premie d . CM
Be Remedied 8ttaatiB m WW
SantUry and Satiafactory.
BY CARL ACKERMAN.
' (United Press Correspondent) -Berlin,
April 8. (By Mail to New
York.) England on the whole treat;
the Auatro-German prisoners she has .
' interned as good as could be expect- "
ed under the circumstances," accord- .:.
.' ing .to a report made to U. S. Am-.'.
1 bassador Gerard by John R. Jack
son, an American, who visited Eng
lish prison camps. The sanitary
conditions in some of British' camps v
were bud, Jackson reported. The Brit. :
ish 'commanders promised ' him, he.
said, .that these conditions would ,be j '
Improved. i (
On February 1, Jackson: reported,,' .
England had interned 20,900 Germans ,
and AustnanB. These men were con-
fined in 13 detention . camps and 011 .. .
.'nine ships. Generally speaking, the
.food and health of the prisoners was,;
": good, according to the report to Am- .
basador Gerald, r ' . - 1 ''
.) The Germans 1 complained prlnci-s
f. pally of the monotonous bill of fare;.
.' and of their treatment after arrest,
r Jackson . reported. ' Several Germans .
brought f j-om South Africa swore they
en insuitea ana xoooea, wnui
others ' testified that they owed
their lives to Bttish soldiers who pro- :
tectod them -from. Mobs in France, .
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from the frdnt to Great BriUin. v.
The new camps are better-than
night, he said. This caused some ner- -
vousness," because of the fear of Ger-: -
man attacks. In the camp at Strat
ford, in the eastern part of London,
Jackson declared the prisoners were .
permitted to have their own govern;
ment, The men elected a '"Serbate"
members of - which were given cer
tain authority over other prisoners.
At Dorchester the' German non-..
commissioned. , officers have seperate
rooms, while the men are generally:
housed in stables, lofts . and other
rooms of the barraebks, 1 Jackson, re-;
ported. ''This camp was one Of the
most. 'nnfinfnf1 T viMtAd ' A man who
T made himself famous by attempting
to escape in a box was there. After
two weeks confinement he was grant- .
ed the same liberties as other pris
oners. Pictures of the German Emper
or, and German flags, were hanging
in the rooms.
Jackson reported that the. worst1
conditions were at Queens Ferry, Dor
chester, where 2200 Austro- Germans
were interned,
.. ; The general - atmosphere of this
camp was th mest depressing of alt
those I visited" he reported. Thougk
the. camp had been occupied for five
months, little had been done to im
prove the.' general . conditions. The
buildings were those of an old . ma
chine shop. . The roofs are of glass.
and there are many leaks. The floors
are of stone and cement, and as a
rule the wooden beds are raised but'
a few inches. There were no special:
accomodations for the better class
prisoners, though many had been al
lowed to build a kind of tent around
their beds to protect themselves from
leaks and draughts. Most of . the
prisoners themselves seemed- listlss
and not inclind to make much effort to
improve conditions." ,
:' Suramerrille People Here.;;' '.,.
3i M. , Amsberry and son, HtV M.,
a . Z. :.:....' . :. m. '
were, m jrora pummerviiie looay. 1 ney
were accompanied by Mrs. R. F Ams-
Middies Harvard Tennis Match . .
AnnapolU, Apr. ' 21. Tennis of
Havard University and naval academy:
met today for their ' first annual
spring Journey " - , ' ;