La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, January 03, 1916, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textvector AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PRINTS THE NEWS THE DAY IT HAPPENS VOLUME XV LA GRANDE, OREGON MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1916. NUMBER 170 Persia Victims More Than 250 SURVIVOR PICTURES 1 SCENES ftTTENDING BLOW STRUCK BY A SUBMARINE American Diplomat Last Seen Strug gling in Seathing Water Washington, Jan. 3. President Wilson will cut his, vacation short and return here immediately, as the result of news of torpedoing boats with Americans aboard. ' Alexandria, Jan. 3. Officers of the liner Persia are positive she was a victim of a submarine. It seems certain the loss of life will be more than 250. v ; The numbers of survivors reaching here is placed at 160, including many sailors. 1 American Consul McNeely wa slast seen struggling in the water, it is reported today, and was probably drowned. Leonora Moss, an English survivor, said on reaching shore : Sinks in Six Minutes. The Peitsia sank in less than six minutes. Passengers were having luncheon and not thinking of submarines. We were making 18 knots when a dull thud came, and it seem ed but a second until the ship began to list. Those on deck rushed to life boats but the starboard boats were worthless and began to list severely. Everybody was pretty cool, but women and children were crying. Women Go Down. . Two boats were cleared and got away but the next rolled over as it hit the water." " Many women were in it. Two other boats were cleared' before the Persia sank. : . . Passengers Grouped on Deck. Passengers were mostly grouped oh deck. Waves were breaking over the stem and I was thrown into the water. OIL TANKER TO MEN ABOARD HER THROWN . . HIGH IN AIR. Craft Has Recently Carried Oil to the Allied Governments. New York, Jan. 3. One is known to have been killed, and seven are miss ing as the result of an explosion aboard the Norwegian tanker Axtec at Brooklyn dock. More than 10 were taken to the hospital.. . The tanker sank soon after the ex plosion, which had torn out her rear end and hurled men into the air. The vessel was recently engaged in carry ing oil to the allies, hence there is a belief she is the victim of anti allies' agents. CHARGES DROPPED. John Weaver Escapes Prosecution Milton "CM Case." When W. P. Leach, an uncle of the girl in question, took 17-year-old Al vina Leach back to Umapine, near Milton, he dropped what looked like serious charges against John Weaver, formerly of Enterprise, now of La Grande. It appears that the uncle pricked a romantic bubble. The story goes that Weaver met the Milton girl but about two weeks before he pro posed marriage and they have been staying with relatives in La Grande for a week. When officers located the couple, the girl's relatives Were ready to prefer serious charges, but on in vestigation found no laws had appar ently been violated, and ended the matter by taking the young lady home. The first damper on the ro mance came when the two were ar rested New Year's Eve, GRANGE MEETING CALLED. Closed Meeting in Morning and Open " Afternoon Is Program. . CD. Huffman, grange master, has announced that Pomona grange will meet with Blue Mountain grange Jan. 5th at 10 a. m. 'The morning meeting will be a closed one but in the afternoon C. H. Finn and W. M. Pierce will discuss the tax question and the public is invited to be present at this time. Only at the morning session is there to be executive business. BLOWN BITS London, Jan. 3. The British I steamer Glangely of 9000 tons w torpedoed Sunday between foix tiaid and Malta. It is reported 100 were rescued. She carried some passen gers and these are reported saved. The Japanese ship Kenkonmaru is also said to have sunk. "Wilson Doctrine" Due.' Washington, Jan. 3. President Wilson's next . statement regarding submarine attacks will . likely an nounce a "Wilson doctrine," concern ing rights of Americans everywhere. The state department said it should make no effort to minimize serious ness of the situation. "Continuation School" for Child labor i Beaver Falls, Pa., Jan. 3. Beaver ' Falls today opens a new kind of j,ub I lice school, wirh an enrr-llmer- of ( nearly 100 y-jLi"f pupils, if. is the ! "continuation school," stnne.! under . the new Pennsylvania ..h'! i labor Jaw i which makes it coirvulsory Tor m 'iP'.oyed minors, to receive at least uight nouns' educational instruction weekly. The scholars' ages are from 14 to 16. Some iof them will attend two hours a day, while others will make up their eight hours by two-hour shifts. School day are Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednes days and Thursdays. I Legislature Opens Wednesday I Albany, N. Y., Jan. 3. Legislative leadens are here today for the launch ing of the 1916 legislature Wednesdav. ! The Republicans will control both houses. The senate roll shows 34 Re publicans and 17 Democrats; in the as- ' sembly, 96 Republicans, 62 Democrats, , 1 Progressive and 1 Socialist. I The upper house will retain its pres ent officers end committee chairman r-iron R. Brown oi WBtertown will continue as Republican majority leader and Robert F. Wagner of New York as Democratic minority leader. Hotel af Dallas Changes Hands. . Dallas, Ore.. Dec. 31. Henry Serr, who for the past four years has been proprietor of the Hotel Gail in this city, has sold the hostelry to J. B. Thompson of Albany, who was for merly pronrietor of the hotel. Mr. Serr and family will, go to Spokane for the winter and expect to re-eh-gafre in the hotel business somewhere in Northern Idaho in the spring. RESIGNATION REPEATED Sir Simon Positively Declared Have Quit English Cabinet. London, Jan. 3. The Chronicle as serts Sir John Simon has positively resigned from the cabinet. Opposition to conscription measures is assumed to be the reason. VACANT HOUSES ' BEING FILLED OCCUPANTS LARGELY OUT OF TOWN. Holiday Week Saw Marked InBux of '. Families Week Better Than Most Months. i New people are moving into La Grande in numbers. Real estate firms with houses to rent report, a brisk business during the past seven days. That the occupancy of houses for some time idle, does not come from a move of local people entirely, is re flected by 0-ecords in realty omces. "A big majority of the vacant houses' we put tenants into lately have been out of town people; some are railroad employes, others are not but they come from elsewhere." This is the statement of J. K. Wright, of the La Grande Investment company. . "We have filled more vacant house in the week between Christmas and New Year's day, than in any on? month of the two preceding months" he declared. SIGNS COMING DOWN. Saloon and Brewery Display Ads Being Rubbed Off This Week ; In compliance with the new pro hibition law, all brewery and saloon signs and ads must be expunged. In La Grande the men formerly in sa loon business are having their signs obliterated, and while no formal statement is made from the district attorney's office, it is understood that a reasonable number oi flours will pe given the owners and managers to get rid of the signs which were banished by law New Year's morning. MICHIGAN BOOMS TEDDY. Enough Petitions Ballot Filed to Put Name by Moosers. Lansing, Mich., Jan. S. Petitions bearing enough signatures 'tO' insure Roosevelt's name on the presidential primaries were filed- today. LANE MAY GET ERMINE Interior Secretary Talked of as mar Successor ' La- Washington, Jan. 3. Secretary of the Interior Lane is mentioned today for the post of associate justice held by Joseph Lamar, who died last night of heart failure. Today is the fifth anniversary of La mar's appointment, MEXICAN AMBASSADOR'S WIFE I i INGTON. V iJiWQ k-iilrsie ,V,,iWr''rh unit HI V vIAkt. -'-nS.I;, I Senora Marie COMMISSION I" WILL PERFECT ANNUAL MEETING TONIGHT WILL LIKELY SEE LAFKY REAPPOINTED. ' Majority of Appointees Now Holding . Office Are to Be Retained, It Is Ex : pccted, if Lafky Is Reappointed Manager This : Evening Gardner to Become President True,, uie tkvy vuiiuiuaniuu uieeui ' in anrtual session tonight complete or- ganization for the coming year will take place. In the first instance, City President J. A. Kusseil will step out,, ORGANIZATION naving served out nis second year. : registered are listed as follows: . His seat in the commissionership will , Only naturalized citizens will be per 'be taken by J. D. McKennon, recently mitted to register. elected; Commissioner John Gardner will be elected president and Vincent raimer win ue second oldest, instead same have been exhibited at the prev- of youngest, member of the commis- ious registration. - sion. If the father of an nlipn became na Com mission Faces Duties. ! turalized before he (the child) be When this organization has taken came of age, he is a naturalized citizen place, appointment of a city manager but must exhibit the father's papers or will be next in order. While nothing a copy of the same from the court is is final until actually ordered, there suing them. seems every indication that F. J. Laf- A foreign woman, married to a citi- ky will be retained as city manager, zen of the United States, is a citizen. If that proves to be correct, the list - An American woman, who marries a of city appointees will very likely be foreigner, takes the nationality of her announced lomgni, ana put up oeiore the commission. Ardrey for Chief. J. C. Ardrey, many years ago a city policeman, but later land office official , La Grande postmaster, and of late a piano tuner, is foremost among the aspirants for chief of police. He will fo to work soon -unless the unexpected appens, and Chas. B. Oral will sur render the chief's job, his resignation having been filed some time since. Also, if. Manager Lafky is retained, other city appointive jobs will go to the following, it is expected: City recorder, Lee Warnick.' City treasurer, C. M. Humphreys. Chief of fire epartment, W. A. Benham. Waiter superintendent, L. M. Hoyt. City physician, A. L. Richardson. 'Some few jobs are not definitely de termined. A SOCIAL FAVORITE AT WASH E.-r.ery de Arredondo. REGISTRATION NOW AT HAND FOR FIRST TIME, THE PLAN PERMANENT. , IS Full Requirements Given for Benefit of La Grande Voters. Register! ' Who? Everybody. When? Today, if you wish. Where? County Clerk Wrightls of- I Why? You don't vote if you tall to register. As a special inducement to women Mr. Wright is offering an unpreced ented privilege. They dont have to give their ages! Fact. "Citizens 21 years or over do not have to state their age." reads the proclamation. This is imnsual, posi tively revolutionary, and is expected to swell the feminine vote to unheard of proportions in this county. . The registration books opened at 8 o'clock this morning are for the peri manent registration, asserts Mr. Wright. Once signed up, it is unneces sary til refrifltar ncrain axiwit. ftxr nnn of tWn reasons. 'I'hp rirat. fa in pom the voter moves from one precinct to another; the second !r. - he fails to vote once in two years. ' , Requirements of those who would Naturalized citizens must exhibit "final" citizenship roaners. unless the nusDana ana must exhibit his papers; tuo beniunation 01 tne martial re lation, if she continues to reside here, she may resume her citizenship. r oreigniDorn unmarried . women must be naturalized themselves after they become of age, or by their father t ofore tftey become of age, If married to a foreigner who is naturalized, she must exhibit his "final" papers. Any foreign woman who acquires citizenship by marriage to an Ameri can retains the same after the termin ation of marital relations, if she con tinues to reside here, and unless she make formal renunciation of citizen ship. Service of aliens in the United States Army does not, as is generally believed, imply citizenship, unless peti tion for final papers has been made and papers issued, such service elimin ating only the necessity of "first" pap ers. . Proof of filing on homestead is not fied copies of "final papers" can be had by writing to the clerk of .h court where they were Issued., it the I'liKiiiuia are lutn, . . Voters when reeristerinc must state under oath whether or not they are ituvpayci a. , : i 1. . t .' . ..' .. - -wtuura is a Driei text or the en-1 mid mw: ' . neBisiraiion o: voters opens Monday, January 3, 19i0, and closes 30 days lie preceding any General or Primary Election, or 15 days next piocwiing any special Election held throughout the county. - . 2. In registering electors, the card index system is used, and as the orig inal card is a permanent record, care snoum Be taken to keep them clean aim neat, ana use eitner h ar-lr mt a typewriter in fillini? them nmt. a. ah DianK space.? must be cor- recuy nuea in. Draw n m hh headings not used such as, male, fe male. Cross out the one not used. 4. 1 he full name of the elector must De given, viz: John Paul Jones not John P. Jones, or J. P. Jones; and Mary Ellen Jones not Mrs. John Junes, or Mrs. J. r, Jones. 5. Blank "B" on the baik of the registration card is to be used in con nection with the reirular form h.n an elector has moved to a new pre cinct and desires to re-register there, and by executing this card. t-.W,h cancels his former registration. 6. Blank "A" is to be used only be fore boards of election, and requires Qualifications of Voters. .7. Any citizen of the United States oi wie age years and upward who shall have resided in the stave during the six months preceding an election, is entitled to register and vote at such election. Also any elec tor who may complete his residence during the period in which the roo-ia. j ters are closed or who may attain the age of 21 years, may register during the period of 30 Havs the closing of the registration for the election at which he desires to vote, but the Clerk or Registrar shall en- aorse upon the registration card in ( red ink these words: Qualified to vote (month) (day) ....(year). 8. roreign born persons: All per- sons i . v ,aiien paients, no matter at what ago oorn m a loreien country of v,,,o to uus country, are aliens unless the naturalization laws of the 1 united -States have been complied !xnejwerj)ythemseh-es afterthey Continued on Page Eight) COAST RAKED BVBADWItlD DEATH AND DESTRUCTION LEFT : IN WAKE OF PLANETARY WINDSTORM. HOUSE LIFTED FROM , MAN WHO IS UNHURT San Francisco Shipping Suffers anil Communication Is Crippled Lum ber Loads Swept From Ships Like . So Much Paper Electric Sign . Killa One. San Francisco, Jan. 3. One death, and a dozen injuries is the toll of tho terrific windstorm last night. Henry Chilson is dead as the result of a falling signboard. An electric sign : crashed from the top' of a fifteen story building on Market street, in juring a woman and barely missing ' others.- - , Several steamers broke loose from their moorings. Loads of lumber were whirled away like papers. . Communication is badly demoral ized. ' - " "-'V; House Demolished; Owner Escaped. The wind blew a house awav. leav ing Henry Worte', the owner, standing; amid the ruins, uninjured. A great many freaks are reported from the wind storm. '-j Planetary Flirtations Cause. San Jose, Jan. 3. Solar pneumonia,. resulting from triangular flirtations" of Venus, Uranus and Mercury, pro duced a terrific windstorm which swept California last night, according, to Director Richard of the Santa Clara observatory. He said Saturday's earthquake was also the result of planetary influence. uie savers in i rouDie. . Seattle, Jan. 3. Life saving cutter. 'Snohomish has wirelessed . she is ashore in a blinding snow storm ten miles from Seattle." Later efforts to reach her were unavailing. yv ., , Light rain this morning, followed by a modified chinook, has settled the overabundance of snow in Union county today. Marked moderation In the climate presages early disappear ance of 'the surplus of white. - Shovelers Put to Work. A crew of men were sent to Bacon this noon to reduce the danger of. snow troubles on the side hill there. The thaw makes it easy to , work down the drifts on the hills which might cause trouble in the way of slides. : flOIHEu, BABE II Sacramento, Jan. 3. A bomb hurled through a window at the home of Peter Apostolo killed three Italians, and injured another. The front of the house was completely blown out. the bomb landed beside Mrs. Apos tolo who was holding a baby. She screamed and thrust the dynamite into the stove and the explosion did mot in jure herself or child. Gasoline Schooner Disabled in Storm Marshfield, Ore.. Dec. 31. With her engines disabled and in a waterlogged condition, after four days of buffeting in lerrmce etu, me Ka9uMne scuwner Enterprise of Astoria, was towed into this nort this mornintr by tho Adelinn Smith. The vessel left Astoria Sunday tor waldport with a general cargo and oil. Arriving off the Alsea bar on Monday heavy seas prevented her crossing in, and the craft put down her anchor and rode out the night in a storm that almost swamped her.- J!.arly Tuesday the anchor chain parted and the craft was inside the first smother of breakers before the engine was started and she pulled out to sea going 20 miles off shore. At this point the vessel began leak ing and the engine room was flooded!' ' With power lost a canvas bag was rigged for a sea anchor and the boat drifted with the southwest wind. Distress signals were sent out, but Captain Parker soys they were un heeded though several vessels passed. The Yaquina coast guard was unable to be oi assistance because of the heavy seas thtt prevented the launching of a boat. The crew ran out of food and water, and the members were almost frozen from the cold wind and the seas mat continvaiiy nroKd over them. On Thurw.'oy no less than five yes- wcitj oinniKU, OVIlie came witn- in one mile, but paid no heed td the disabled Enterprise. At I o'clock this morning the Willamette, southbound ' from Portland, answered and gave fW. yessel a line. Inter tranrferring thj tow to the Adeline Smith, bound in here from San Francisco.