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Newspaper Page TextAN IKDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PRINTS THE NEWS THE DAY IT HAPPENS .VOLUME XV LA GRANDE, OREGON - MONDAY, JANUARY 10. 1916. NUMBER 17S K MR AIIO THREE NEGROES PUT Oil TRIAL THOUSANDS ' GATHER ABOUT COURT HOUSE TO HEAR ' - THE PROCEEDINGS. ' ' POLICE BREAK WAY TO TRIAL ROOM BY FORCE Notorious Shooting ; of ; Providence Doctor by Negroes, Who Claim Doctor's Wife Hired Them to Do it, Begins Today Negroes Have Been V Held Without Bail.' ; " Providence, R, I., Jan. 10. Mrs. C. Franklin Mohr and three alleged ne gro accomplices were placed on trial in Superior court here today on the charge of murdering Dr. C. Franklin Mohr as he arode with a young woman in his automobile, past a lonely spot near Nyatt, iR. I., on the night of Au gust 13, 1915. The Mohr family is wealthy r and socially prominent in the summer colonies hereabout. Mrs. Mlohr demanded a separate trial. The negroes' attorneys asked for permission to withdraw, but this wasn't eranted. The widow's attor ney sprang a' sensation, lorcing Joe Aldrich to admit he had been visiting several talesmen;1. One juror was ex cused because of this. '"":;''.';:.tX The jury was secured late this af ternoon. ; Several thousand gathered at the court house, many before day break and the police had to break a way for the defendants. ' " " . Dr. Mohr, ofri; Providence,, well Tcnown in' Newport and New York, -was murdered about 9 o'clock. He Was shot, in the head and right : shoulder and died at the Rhode Island "hospital a few hours later. ,; .: ' With Drl Mohr at the time of the murder was Miss Emily G. Burger, . young and pretty, for scleral, years his houaekeeperr. She also wsV shot in the head and right shoulder: She (recovered. Dr. Mohr arid Miss Burger were on their way to Dr. Mohr's-New-pocrt home. Their machine was oper? ated by George W. Healis, a negro, who had been in the employ of the doctor a short time. Healis. called for help and gave the police the first story of the crime. , :&.k'&vS&i:H-)-l During her ride to the hospital Miss Burger told all she could remember of the. shooting. She said that soon ' after the ear; left - Providence.. Healis complained that the motor was 'work- ing badly When the car reached the top of the hill, at the botto mof which he crime was committed, she thought ' Healis flashed the lights.,. He stopped : the machine in a soot overhung by trees, according to Miss Burger, : got out and lifted the hood. . Then, she said, there was a cwickling in the un derbrush followed by flashes and re volver shots. : Thedoctor stood up, "half turned and fell across the back of the machine. She tried to get out of the car. 1 There were more flashes and then she knew no more until .just before she was lifted into the am bulance. :- Healis' denied flashing his lights. He said he stopped at the bottom of tne incline to adjust his carburetter. He said he heard no noise nrior to : . the revolver shots and did not see' the person or persons who fired them. The negro chauffeur next morning at ; Providence, after many hours grilling in sam mj nave comessea to naving knowledge of a plot to rob Dr. Mohr, wno, ne sam, was known to be carry ing considerable money. Healis is said to have implicated an other negro, Cecil Victor Brown, who had been discharged from Dr; Mohr's employ three weeks before. Healis said that he was not m the plot. All he was supposed to do,, he is said to . have said was . to stop the car when Brown held it up between Nyatt and West Harrington. ' He, it is said, said Brown was to trail the Mohr auto on his motorcycle, which Mirs. Mohr is said to have purchased for Brown. tj,. tJ i t. . . George Daley on Earle street. Brown denied that he knew anything about . the crime and said, he could prove an . alibi. He said the reason for his dis charge by Dr. Mohr was that he had held a two-minute conversation with Mrs. Mohr in the barn of the New port estate. - In :, Dr. Mohr's pockets after the murder, were found two blood-stained envelopes addressed to Brown and containing pleas for an immediate interview with him. They were written in a woman's hand and signed with a woman's name. These letters, it developed later, were inter cepted at the Mohr home and given to Dr. Mohr. Brown denied ever having received notes . from Mrs. Mohr through her son. After an all-night (frilling, Brown is said to have con fessed that Mrs. Mohr offered them money if they would kill Dr.. Mohr. He, the police say, admitted that he, Henry Spellman and George Healis planned the shooting. Spellman was Continued "on Pages Eight) DRUNK CHARGES MISSING LONG MUNICIPAL JUDGE HAS HIS STRIDE. LOST Absence of Drunk Case in Municipal Court Runs Prior to Jan. uary i IbC It 1 has now been so long since Municipal Judge Robert Eakin has had a drunk case in his cpurt that he has about forgotten his customary procedure in disposing of them. 'We had no such cases in'our court the last week of December and there has been none since the prohibition law went into effect in this state" said Judge Eakin today in going over tho drunk and disorderly charges likely to come up throughout the state. "I understand that municipal judges look at a drunk case now in the light that it required a deliberate act to get drunk; there oan be no excuse that friends bought too; much for. the victim, nor can he advance any othor excuse except that , he deliberately sought out the liquor with which to get drunk. , Under , this , viewpoint, many judges are inclined to use the full limit of punishment when such cases come before them." . :'.'., 1 Ban on Patent 'Medicines. Salem, Or., Jan. 104-Whether pat ent medicines can be used as an mtox- Seating beverage will, 'be a ruling fac tor in deciding if they can be, sold legally in Oregon, according to ; At torney General 'Brwhv:,-, "-''"' The test is whether the goods come under the head of intoxicating liquor within the meaning of the statute, ac cording to Browh.. He says that he knows that certain bitters . were hr toxicating beverages atj'one time,' but is not certain as to their' status now. He has requested the board of pharm acy to make an analysis of a number of medical preparations . to ascertain if they can be. used as intoxicating beverages. .' a','.'..- ' ' . He quotes a Georgia' decision that the sale of certain , patent medicine is unlawful because they can be used as a beverage,., despite the fact that they contain helpful medicinal prop erties, r 'iSfi'vlWi?. i'k"'" f VA formed wholesale' liquor firm was told today that it could not deal in al cohol for use of mechanicol: or any other purposes. - i . ' , LETTER WEEK PUIIS SLIGHT IN FACE OF HARM DONE, UNITY , , URGED. ! ' ; Portland Chamber Ignores Eastern Oregon Scenic Spots. La Grande expects to participate in the big letter-writing week which be ginsJanuary 17: hopes to see the plan attain its fullest possibilities in spite of the fact that Baker, Pendle ton and La Grande, not to say any thing of Wallowa Lake, tne scenic automobile routes in Wallowa county anu m uiiior cusi.eiii vicKuu i;uuiii.ic3. - nas aireaay oroKen tne pool. . - spring. ror. Jtecraie is tne head or have each, separately and collectively j'c in the so-called Trans-Atlantic pool the department of dramatics at the been overlooked by the Portland .case U. S. vs. Hamburg-Amerikanishe (University, Prof. Dosch is in. the arts Chamber of Commerce. Gomginto et al., the government charged practi- .department, Miss Young is a gradu the scheme in great detail, the Port- cally all steamship companies In the (ate, and Ash is a former student;. . ' ' land Chamber , has sent to the La North Atlantic -steerage trade will i Professor Reddie has obtained a Grande Commercial club, various ma-. combining to apportion the steer- leave of absence from the University terial with which to promote letter- i age trade among themselves in defiri- for May and June He said last night writing week. In all the literature ' jte percentages, fix rates and -drive .that the company expected to be on sent out, rortiana ana tne ixHumoia from the field competitors not in the .the circuit from May 1 until into Au highway are featured, so thoroughly J combination, thus attaining a virtual gust. - r ; mat oniy m a condescending way are- .monopoly. ' - ' - Hood River, Bend and.Medford men- .. "The general pool agreement," the tioned. All others are forgotten. "'" government declared, "included or in ', Form Letters Drafted. ' . - dudes practically every steamshin line All this is overlooked by the La Grande Commercial club, but the of- hcials of that association deem it fact that the last straw to breaK tne British Isles and Scandinavia. The camel's back came when the club sent . only exceptions are the Russian Vol out a dozen form letters which might unteer fleet,, which was driven out be copied by the public to send to of business, and the New York and eastern iriemns, mrging tnem to spend the vacations in' Oregon. These form letters purport to name all the points of attraction in Oregon; Wal lowa Lake, the nature freak equalled only by Crater Lake,' isn't mentioned in a Bi'ngle instance; neither are the wonderful Seven Devils' mountain dis trict superior to anything the Alpian areas can boast of. - - "Portland persistently forgets we exist, out here in Eastern Oregon," said Secretary Currey in speaking of the campaign. "We don't expect Portland to boost, one town above the other outside of Portland itself, but as long as the Chamber of Commerce proposed a dozen or more form let ters to be copied,' We deem it only rignt tnat iastern Oregon get some specific mention, in view of the fact there is ample here to entertain the vacationisrts. We don't wish to de tract from what others have, but for the sake of justice, let's all get what's coming to us." :.'. With this sentiment out , of their systems, club officials today urged La Grande and Union county people to get behind the movement and incor Dorate some Eastern Oregon matter in the literature. Blanks to be filled out by letter writers, and samrile let ters which can be augmented at will, can be obtained from the secretary, WEST GRIPPED III ZERO SPELL : AIIO BLIZZARDS MONTANA CENTER OF STORM THAT SWEEPS OVER WEST- ;. ' ERN STATES. GALE AND BLIZZARD IS FELT IN GRANDE RONDE Seattle Beach Homes . Crushed by - Roclca Blown by Wind Much Dam age to Docks Entire West Feels '!' Storm' Which Sweeps Over Grande ,; Ronde Valley. During Day. . ..; ; One of the worst storms of the year is 1 gripping the " Rocky Mountain states, and nninta wst tnHv.. La: Grande got its share in the way of a gale that made the loose snow sing, Country and city travel was difficult, the biting snow whipping in true, blizzard style. . The local gale reached its height at the noon hour, but con tinued more or less fiercely during the entire day. ' .' ' ' '' ' : Theodore Mav came down this morning from his homestead .located nine miles south of La Grande. All through his section the lepth of snow flag draped. -The city greeted de is rated at five feet on the level.. On ligntedly the. fact of the Dardanelles account of the fact that. a large hum- abandonment which irelenBes Turkish jber of teams are working on ' wood leratjons' hi' the timbered country south of town, the roads are kept broken rounqea .(.u.u"" ormsn troops at ivu and traveling Is not at all difficult on telamara, Constantinople reports say. the main highways. - The British constituted a detachment noun; W1CT Tivai. . :.." ' .Although there is absence of wind the snow fall in the mountains nas -..."Sf "ZLl! snow last night as well. The rotary, No. 061, was sent over the hill today at -noon, i i Homes Crushed Like Eggs. A 'Seattle, Jan. 10. Two homes In-Al-kt Soint iwarc crushed like eggshells when huge rollers, driven by a thirty mile gale,.daBhed them against rocks. Scores of other homes are threatened with destruction, A board walk Bkirting the munici pal 'bathing beach was torn up and carried out ta sea. ' . Montana Blizzard Bad. 1 Missoula, i- Jan. 10.-r-With (wind blowing 60 miles and -mercury 'flirt ing at zero, western' Montana is grrpped in the worst blizzard of re cent years. -..The wind broke a num ber of windows in the University of Montana and classes were suspended. POOL SUIT DISMISSED. " War Has Done That Which Govern men Sought to Accomplish. - Washington Jan. 10. The supreme . court, has dismissed the Trtmsntlantic Steamshi(p pool case, declaring the war . engaged in the steerage traffic be tween the United States and Europe north of Cadiz, Spain, including the continental , line whicfh . commenced after the pool was formed, and which, twice ruined and forced to reorganize by the unfair and oppressive practices of the combination hereinafter set forth, persists today In an Insolvent Portland with the Baker players and condition as the Uranium line, the sole - is now connected with the Ellison surviving independent." White system. She is a member of When a line outside the combina-1 Delta-Gamma sorority. Mr. Ash Was tion advertised a steamer's sailing prominent in college dramatics and is date, one of the lines in the combin- now in Pendleton. He is a member ation would advertise the" sailing of of Alpha. Tau Omega fraternity. an (opposition steamship about the same day and at lower rates, it was charged. These were called fighting ships., Usually the rate was'$l lower. If -the outside line reduced, the fight ing ship would cut again until both vessels sailed at a loss. The loss to the pool lines, however, was distri buted among all members; This sys tern is said practically to have wiped out all competition. ;.-. , In pleading that the .pool be in cluded under the , Sherman act, the government said: "It is' insinuated tfliat (permitting combination between steamship lines would somehow tend to build up an American merchant marine. Waiving the irrelevancy of the point, how could It, when these defendants are already combined to destroy new competitors -7-the crovemment 4eiiHr impotent to prevent their doing so?': . MDSLEM CITY BAY VVHEtl HER h' 'V a a a Mh. m a& a. I iitin L'lll I1ILUD II I GULUItnO WIN STORT OF ALLIED WITHDRAWAL - FROM GALUPOU REACHES ' ' BERLIN' PORTE ORDERS CITY DECKED OUT IN FLAGS Ten ; Thousand British Troops Sur rounded by Turks Is Reported Re ceiyed Today Sofia Bombarded by Aircraft and Much Damage Done' 'to the Place Is Rumored. Berlin, Jan. 10.- -(Via: Sayvifie Wireless Station) . -The1 greatest Turkish victory since the war. is re ! ported from Constantinople. These fare made preceeding as a result of three days ' of .fierce fighting the Allies' -withdrawal from Gallipoli. y ' Transport and Men Sunk. V - v The artillery sank an Allied trans port filled with , soldiers. , Enormous batteries were taken. . Moslem City Celebrates. ' Constantinople made a festival oc casion . of the event. The city is forces for services elsewhere.: ? ; I . ' .'.' Turks Surrounds Rrltlnh. .' I Berlin, Jan. 10. -Turks have sur- I; i.. .. ,, . ? Vl li j ( jr"T K i.i'j I Essen, and damaged other buildings. , . Sofia Bombarded. Saloniki, Jan.' 10. -French airmen have bombarded Sofia and' consider able1 damage- was wrought it Is re- porrtoov . i v f ' EXPLOSION KILLS THREE. . . One Man Saved Because He : Wa Late to Work. ., 1 ' :-:,'V.fV - ---,-' ...Jil'."-;.-: Wilmington, Jan. 10. Three were killed in an explosion in a small pow der house adjoining the Dupont plant this morning. The fourth escaped be cause he was late1 to work, s A strict investigation is proceeding.. . Three men were blown to atoms. The shock shook towns ,. for miles around. , :,( ,:'T ;: . ;. -. CHAUTAUQUA TEAM FORMS. Oregoniahs Will Join With Ellison-' White People. , . Eugene, Jan. lO.-rProfessor A. F. Reddie, Professor Dosch, Miss Janet Young and Ralph Ash will compose 'a comnanv that will nnnpnr nn the , Ellison-White Chautauqua circuit this While Professor Reddle Is not at liberty to give out the program at this time, it will be in connection with the Shakespeare Tercentenary which is being celebrated all over the coun try at this time in honor of Shakes peare. ' .;.'.- . ' . . The company's : circuit will be the largest on the coast and will comprise 10 states going as far south and east as Texas. . All. of. the coast and the western states, with the exception of Colorado, are included : ' Miss Young was srraduated from the University in 1913. Since then' she has aDneared at the Baker theater In MRS. CRAWFORD MOVES. Pioneer Boarding House Keeper Goes to Pilot Rock Junction. After having conducted popular boarding houses, principally oatron ized by railroad men, for a decade in this city, Mrs. D. C. Crawford has moved to Pilot Rock Junction. ' For the past seven years she has been lo cated at 1434 Adnms avenue where she was always recognized as a' pleas ant and efficient landlady whose table was always crowded with satisfied boarders. The possibilities at Pilot Rock Junction were seized a few days ago and there she will make her home hereafter. Frankie Crawfoid-Char-heneau accompanied her to remain, a week, assisting in getting ready by the 15th when the Junction becomes a termlnaL , . , . LETTER HEADS A FARMER'S FRIEND UNIVERSITY HEADS POINT TO 1 VIRTUES. Farm Name and Stationery Good for Any Rancher He ' "Y Contends.' ' ' ' . The Oregon farmer can ' swell his annual receipts by using . good print ing and by occasional advertising in the weeklies of his county, says D. W. Morton, dean of the new school of commerce of the University of Ore gon i ; A farm letterhead should carry the name of the farm,, the name of the owner,' the location of the farm, and perhapB a small picture of some fea ture of the place, says Dean Morton, who regards the farmer as a business man with a substantial investment up on which he should make every effort to pay interest. ' ".v..-. :- .y.vi-. "It gives a farmer a certain busi ness standing if he has a neat letter head of good stock, and it improves the value of his farm to have a name and something of an individuality, he said. - There, is some initial ex pense in having a picture taken and a cut made, but . the publisher of tho nearest country paper will attend to thA Hntnii .nH firvsni will Hn hm printing oreasonaibly, - t; "If the farmer raises highclasir urn mats, 1 his letterhead may . contain a picture of a prize animal with its rec ord; or if he has a stock farm,- a pic ture of a bunch of stock; or if he has ttiA-hMfc .hniisn ar barH in th n.io-h. i borhood, a picture of that; or a ture of a grove or a stream Is usually effective on stationery.- There are few Oregon farms not worth naming, and few that do not provide something , worth a permanent , picture. , ."Advertising, rates. ;are very, low in. Oregon country papers, and a farmer at a coat of from 10 to 30 cents may often sell a horse, a second-hand ma chine; or some other 'thing about the placo he- does not: need by putting - a small advertisement, in-, his . weekly paper. ' , , , , "A farmer's advertising should of course conform to the best' advertis ing standards;, it 'should: , be' Very den nit e and absolutely truthful.' Hill Prill Hill I , - IlkVVII if PREPAREDNESS TO GO TO THE . . . . ,,. PEOPLE. . First Effort to Enlist Support to be Made In Speech. Washington, Jan. 10.Preslknrt Wilosn expects to take his prepared- ness program squarely before the peo ple and ask their moral support. The first appeal is expected in an address soon. - The .White House stated today the president expected the internation al situation to clear rapidly, and then he will concentrate his efforts In na-' tional defense which faces 1 . an' em barrassing situation in congress. It is reported the (democratic cenlfral states opposed the program and floor leaders are not lending support. 7: Formal announcement of the settle ment of tine Luisatania controversy is expected within a week. After a 15 mfnute confidential conference with Secretary Lansing this morning. Am-' bassador Bernstorff -frankly' hinted the belief America will be pleased at the outcome of the situation. - SETTLEMENT ATTEMPTED. Strikers and Officials Dicker , Peace at Early Hour. for Youngstown, Jahi 10. The State Board of Mediation is seeking to Settle ,the strike of Bteel workers. The Tube company officials have attempted to reopen , the plant with BOO workers. Militiamen, ' except two companies, were removed from the scene of the strike. The grand jury has started in vestigation of the riot Three hundred negro strike breakers aw coming from Chicago, ' Over 400 were arrested and held in r improvised bull pens; Gungs are clearing debris resulting from riots and fires. . . . ' New Offensive Started. Paris, Jan. 10. Germans today be gan a violent offensive in Champagne, following bombardment by Asphyxiat ing shells it is officially announced. 4 Sa 2'f,.3 4 i REV. CLARK TO STAT.' A special meeting of the membership and congregation of the Prosbyterian church was held on yesterday morning, and as a result iRev. G. L: Clarke, who has been serving the church since October 1, 1914, has ac cented the call extended to hirn some weeks ago by the church to become the permanent pastor and his installation as such will.be held as soon as, possible... . A A- MAKE APPEAL A A A A A A A A BULK GRAIII METHOD V BE E FARMERS' UNION ADOPTS RESO LLTION CONCERNING PRO- POSED METHOD. t I HIGH GRAIN SACK PRICES BEHIND IT OM-Fashione4 GraBary - May B : AdeptedsRcwriutiOM Lookbiff To jvard That End 'Passed at AmwI ' "Meeting of Farmers', Unio Her Saturday Afternoon. The imnortant business DroDosal receiving attention at the Saturday afternoon session of the Union Coun ity Farmeri' Union was the adoption nf A Manltitinn wYllM. in m1Tt . Ifl fit hereafter handle grain in bulk and Uiub do away with .the expense of sacks. The resolution simply voiced the approval of the union in this mat- ter. - Details are to he carried job 0 ER pic-i'ator' . ,' ' . I The price of sacks has advanced to - 8u5l pneethat some means of s ; kp"k " ""T . -. i"?"' s Sacks are now ootedt 10 '1-2 cenU, was considered the next thing to pro hibitive. ' The plan to loiiowed win s isr each farmer to construct on his own premises a granary of snfflcient ca pacity to house his cwn crop. This movement is to be supplemented with . . . ..... a , i -.l . m tne construction oi grain elevators ox : sufficient size to handlo the shipments : from railway points, t v Nearly all. the shipments of grain eastward from vartons sections of entrn Otreo'an are eo'mtt in the ears in bulk, and it seems that this system I ill il 1 1 m 1 i. as tthe most economical and expedi- it! iln Mu mlfh flui Avnrhltant,. expense oi sacks as well M the inconvenience of handling at thresh-: rtr tlma. Slniia ths sdnntliin of the resolution Sajturday it li. 8 to ted that two or three farmers "oi the vallsy: have already placed orders for ma terial for granary constuotlon. ' Election of Offices. ' ' :The Saturday afternoon session of the Union countv division of . Htm Farmers' Educational and Co-operative Union of . America, was the an nual meeting at which time officers were" elected for the ensuing year as follows! ', - - President, W. J. Case, of ? Alicel. (Re-elected.) j - Vice President, J. D. Woodell, of Imbler1. ' , i Secretary-Treagurer, ' Mrs. H, Mc Goldrlck, Imbler. (Re-elected.) Conductor, Everett -Wnlsinger, Al icel. f Doorkeeper, A. Wiealty, Elgin. Chaplain, J. M. Gilkeson, ' North Powder.- ; Exeeutivo Board, John Welts, Imb ler; W. O. Parks, Elgin; I. E. Chen ault, La Grande. FEARED FAVORITE SUFFERED. . Grandma Sends Heavy Comforter to f Grandson in Haiti. j Rochester, N. Y.( Jan. 10.--Fearing the Government did not provide suf ficiently warm clothing for her favor ite grandson serving in the United State Marine Corps, an elderly lady today brought a fleecy, handworked comfortable to the . local recruiting . station of the sea soldiers and re quested Sergeant George S., Fyn more to forward it to him. "Poor Fred may be shaking and shivering with cold just like the sol diers in Europe," she told Fynmore, "and thin comfortable will be just the thing. YouH send it to him, won't you?" - ISergeant Fynmore assured the old grandmother that it would be a priv ilege and a pleasure to do so. Bat when he forwarded the package "to Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, -wher4 the grandson is now serving, he enclosed a note explaining that the old lady had worked hard in an endeavor to have the comfortable finished in time to come as a Christmas present and that he didn't have the heart to dis illusion her about the need for such things in Haiti. , -' "But," he added in the note, just by way of encouragement, - "sometime when yourre serving in Alaska 111 get her to send you a cake of ice." ' HENDERSON IS BACK Cabinet Member's Resignation Either Refused or Withdrawn. London, Jan. 10. Arthur Hender son appeared unexpectedly at today's cabinet session after once resigning. It is assumed he. either has -withdrawn his resignation or it was re jected. v . : . '