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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER " PRINTS THE NEWS THE DAY IT HAPPENS
VOLUME XV
LA GRANDE, OREGON FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1916.
NUMBER 192
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E. D. BRAHDEIS
H ASSOCIATE
IN HIGH COURT
BOSTON I AN WITH PRO-LABOR
LEANING WILL SUCCEED
LATE MR. LAMAR.
JAPENESE DEMANDS ON
CHINA WORRY SENATE
Resolution Introduced Which Puts
Further Pressure fn
Japan
Squarely in the Light f f ;
to America English J'.
ii Have
Seized American TratnTx.-crets.
Washington, Jan. 28. 'ibi White
House has announced the appointment
of Louis D. Brandeis of 1 on, as as
sociate justice,, succee.i"f -the late
Justice Lamar. .
iBrandeis is known to nave strong
pro-labor views. .
Brandeis was for a time employed
by league and important clients in
cluding corporations. 7dr acquir
ing a fortune, he became a free lance
and of late has devoted muh time to
the welfare of poor puj)V, taking
cases without fees. He the .attor
ney who drafted the brio' that lead
to the decision in the United States
Supreme court upholding the eight
hour law tor women in Oregon. He
spent many weeks compiling data
and statistics concerning cm ill ef
fects of overwork on women. He is
also the man who prosecuted R. A,
Ballinger in connection with Alaskan
coal deposits and claims.
ENGLISH RUSE EXPLODED.
Congress Hears Alleged Orders ,
, .Open American Mail for Secrets.
to
"Washington. Jan. 28. Senator
Walsh sprung a sensation in wading
wnat tie declared were Hntistl orders
to blockade vessels and to obtain
trade secrets by illegally opening
nun U.-BI1 limit.
' JAPAN IS WARNED. V
Resolution Introduced Which Explains
Senate's View of Aggression.
"Washington , Jan. 28. Sdnator
Sherman has introduced a resolution
declaring senate cannot regard Jap
anese demands upon the Chinese with
out profound concern, and will regard
further pressure as restrictive upon
American rights.
COMMUNITY ICE HOUSE.
Mt Glen Residents Providing Supply
on Co-Operative Plan.
Mt Glen, Jan. 28. ('Special) The
residents of Mt Glen are storing ice
on the community plan and" by this
means expects to put away enough
ice for the needs of air the people for
the heated season. All the residents
of the neighborhood are contributing
to the work and expense of putting up
the ice. The supply comes from
North Powder, being shipped by rail
to La Grande and then transferred by
Warn to Mt. Glen,
West Evolves Armored Posse Cars.
Oklahoma City, Okla, Jan. 27.
Jesse James and all that motley crew
of picturesque co-bandits who lie
buried in scattered mounds through
out itihe wild west must be turning
over and over in their graves since
.the 1913-14-15 revival of stagecoach
and express robberies has developed
along such scientific, efficient and up-to-date
lines. County officers in Ok
lahoma are going to employ armored
motor cars in hunting bank robbers
an4 train bandits hereafter. There
has been art unusual number of these
holdups this winter and the offenders
usually escaped because their horses
were superior to those ridden by the
officers. Orders have been placed with
a local firm for a number of special
steel bodies for motor chassis. The
sides are several inches higher than
those of the ordinary body and are to
be pierced by rifle loopholes. Behind
the windshield is to be a steel plate
that can be raised or lowered.
Fire at Chehalis.
Chehalis, Jan. 28. Fire damaged
the Hartman-Nathan apartmentbuild
ine and store rooms this morning to
the extent of $50,000. One of the"
firemen fell twenty-five feet and was
badly injured. The horses becoming
frightened, dashed away and wrecked
the chemical apparatus.
SCANDINAVIANS 4
GROW WEALTHY
GERMAN WAR ORDERS EN
RICH EVEN CLERKS. K
Own Sales and Middlemen for Other
Neutrals Overfloods Coffers,
BY CHAS P. STEWART
(Copenhagen, Jan. 6. (By Mail)
Scandinavia is enjoying a tremen
dous war boom. It is mare or less
common to Sweden, Denmark and
Norway, but so far as appearances
go, it is most pronounced in Norway,
Sweden has' sold to the belligerents,
esperiully to Germany, immense
amounts of raw and finished products
including war munitions, though
these latter sales ware countenanc
ed iby the Swedish government. Den
mark, being separated from) Uer
many only by an imaginary line in
stead of a stretch of mined and dan
gerous water, has done still better.
The lion's share of the war business,
however, has gone to Norway.
The Norwegians have profited, to
some extent like Sweden and Den
mark, by sales of their own goods to
the belligerent nations, especially to
Uermany, but it has -been as middle
men that the bulk of their business
has been done. Norway was the
world's third maritime nation when
roke out. English ranked
first, Germany second. England
still ranks first but even the British
mercantile marine has suffered heav
ily firom the destruction incidental to
war. German's merchant shipping has
been out of commission altogether
since the early days of hostilities.
This was Norway's chance.
Compared with Norway, America's
war . boom has been a small affair.
This is speaking relatively of course.
In actual dollars and cents the Eu
ropean struggle unquestionably has
brought more money to the United
States than to any other country.
Comparatively Norway has been the
big gainer. That is, the Norwegians
aire richer by the struggle to the ex
tent of about $200,000,000 in actual
cash thus far. -. To properties they
already owned there has been a value
of approximately ek much more.
This is on a basis of a population of
2,500,000.
An addition of $80 ;per capita to
Norway's wealth In n voor .,,?
half has been felt emphatically; ft
nas meant a doom such as the old
-world has not seen hitherto in histro-
Jc times. Millionaires have been
created wholesale. Many of them
ar millionaires only in kroner a
krona being in the neighborhood of
27 cents but a jump from nothing,
m 18 months, to a fortune of $250,000
to $270,000, which has happened in
hundreds of cases, is not so bad. The
old shipping firms have profited in
actual millions of dolars. The newly
made are mainly more clerks in
shipping houses or working officers
of ocean going craft who were able
to command a little credit and branch
ed out in business for themselves.
Numbers of the newly-made mag
nates have never owned a ship. They
have brought vessels in course of con
struction or invested merely in char
tars and have been able to transfer
either their unfinished craft or their
charters, so apid was the increasa
in' the demand for bottoms at huge
advances, sometimes in the course of
no more than a few days; War tax
es have been high, but profits have
been so much higher that the taxes
have hardly been felt. The Nor
wegians count on being the. world's
aecunu maritime power wnen the war
ends. Only England, they believe will
lead them. Neither do they believe
their boom will burst with thp nt.rn.ir.
Shipbuilding, with the exception of
warships, has been' practically at a
standstill since fighting began, they
point out This means, rthev ,sav. that
the supply of vessels has not been kept
upi in proportion to the world's in
creasing demand. Moue than this.
emphasis is laid on the fact that there
has been, first and last, a heavy de
struction of ocean-going qraft by
mines and submarines, adding great
ly to the shortage the world, already
feels and will feel still more keenly
with the Post-bellum revival of in
ternational trade.
Finally, it is arc-ued that the shins
which have simply been laid up in
port because they dared not sail the
seas, are slowly deteriorating from
disuse and will be more and more
nearly worthless the longer the war
lasts, it will take years, the Nor
wegians maintain, to restore an equal
ity between the supply and demand
for ship?, for purely commercial pur
poses. During all these years Norway ex
pects to continue gathering in huge
profits, dwindling, perhaps, as time
progresses, but gradually reaching a
shtisfacta-y normal, without any
violent shock and with the Norwegians
finally the world's second nation as
traders on the seas. The recent in
flux of cash money has had its effect
in all lines. The shipping trade has
left it most but mining, manufacturs
and every other line of industry has
been enormously stimulated. An
average of a big new development
company daily is floated in Chris:-
lania. Industrially lie Scandinav
ian countries have been kept back
Continued on Page Eight)
ALLIES DRIVEN
AND VIML FIGHT L
Rome, Jan 28. Allies are evacuating all of Albania, except Avlona, on the
Wast coast of Albania, and the immediate hinter land. Austrians and Bul
garians are approaching Avlona from the North and East and official dis
patches indicate that one of the most important battles in the Balkan strug
gles may begin within a fortnight.
Italians Prepare for Assault.
Italians are fortifying the city against attack. Avlona is on the straight
of Otranto, directly east of the Italian toe. It is reported that Austrians will
shell the city with their fleet now near the Adriatic and a terrific naval 'battle
with the Italian fleet also in the Adriatic, is extremely probable.
. Vital Battle Shaping.
Within 10 days the teutonic occupation of the entire Balkan peninsular,
except Greece, will be complete. Allies are determined to Hold Avlona like
! Saloniki because of the great strategic value as a basis for further cam
i paigns. Italians are evacuating Durazzo, directly north of Avlona, and on the
j Adriatic too. It is announced that Austrian occupation of the port is hourly
I expected.
Austrians are moving toward Plannif to unit with Bulgnrs moving west
ward to the "Albania district ' .
J Saloniki Assault to Be Delayed.
i Officials believe teutons have abandoned the proposed Saloniki assault
until Avlona is attacked. Greece has long wanted Southern Albania, hencs
the teutons expect to take that point and have it ready as additional peace
offering and it is generally admitted that the success of the venture will
have political effect on King Constantino's attitude.
NEW CLEAN N6 PFEOGESS BEGINS
First consignments of the 200 car
loads of wheat which will be 'cleaned
by the La Grande Flour mills, and re
loaded in bulk for shipment to the sea
board where it will in turn be put di
rectly into ocean-going boats, haivo
reached .La Grande. II. C. Oliver,
freight agent for the O.-W. is here
now, looking after details with Agent
J. H. Keeney. The plan is a new one,
introducing as it does bulk wheat
shipments and one-location cleaning.
The O.-W. has been searching foiH
some time for a suitable place in
which to clean this wheat It found
no elevators west of Denver willing to
NEW SETBACK
SEVERE CHILL ADDS TO
COMFORTS TODAY.
DIS-
Archduke Karl Constantly at Emper
or's Bedside, Say Reports.
London, Jan. 28. Franz Josef, em
peror of Austria, has suffered a severs
chill, and is growing weaker and de
pressed, a. Copenhagen dispatch re
ported. Archduke Karl is in constant
attendance at the bedside. '
Little News O' The Day
StPaul, Minn. Jan. 28. Horse rac- J smHCk. She went to sea last night to
mg on ice was a feature today of the 'uump garbage and encountered a ter
Northwest Outdoor Can-nival that will ,.;h otm-m sii tiir nr.A
last until Feb. 5. Purses aggregate
$2,000. Horace Irving is, sponsoring
the race program.
La Fayette, Ind. Jan. 28. Chicago i.-jnt. Program of Music, Readings and
and Purdue indoor tracks teams are , Speech Making,
to meet hare today in the first Biff i Lj '
Nine meet of the season. Mt. Glen, Jan. 28. (Special.)
. There was a very large attendance at
W innipeg, Man. Jan. 28. Drys and the meeting of the Mt. Glen literary
wets were today in the midst of tho held yesterday evening. In addi
campaign preceding the vote to be tion to the assemblage of local people
taken on. prohibition in Manitoba, at there was a big load from La Grande,
a general election March 10th. jThe program included:
o ' iiv t nn t , . i Singing Joseph P. Price and com-
oupcuui, ry is. ami. crt, iuck union
of Indianapolis and Billie Miskie of
St. Paul, heavies, are to meet in a
ten round no decision go here to
night. Fulton Gets Chance Tonight
New Orleans, Jan
28. 4Banring
accidents, peevish nromoten
and
other justly famous slips 'twixt cups
and hps, Fred Fulton, Minnesota
Giant, will mix here tonight with
Porky Flynn over the twenty round ;
route. It is Fulton's first genuinu
opportunity to show what he's got. '
If he can scramble Porky into de-'
feat, he'll probably get that long-'
deferred chance to commit assault ,
on the Kansan who holds tight to the ,
neavy line.
LABORER FATALLY INJURED
Five Others Seriously Hurt in Collis
ion at Celilo.
Canada where he has been looking
The Dalles, Jan. 28. One laborer . after his father's farm. Ha was ac
was fatally injured and fjve were companied by an uncle who will take
seriously hurt and others bruised by . charge of the Peter Allen place, Mr
being caught between a freight and Allen having gone to Southern Cali
some outfit cars at Celilo in a blinding fornia on a mission for the L. D. S.
snow storm. The eight outfit cars; church.
were crushed and a fire started which j Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Lock, of San
was extxinguished with great diffi- Francisco, are visiting relatives in Mt
culty. Glen, Mr. Lock is an engineer.
TO LAST
I
handle the immensV quantity until tho
Kiddles took hold of it They are
now equipped to do the work, and it is
likely the beginning of a plan that will
be permanent. ' The wheat is coming
from all' points in the northwest, and
the scheme' of cleaning is to reduce
freight rates by removing surplus
weight. Then too, the saving on
sacks is very material amounting to
about 10 cents each. The . work of
cleaning will continue for at least 00
'days, and carload after carload will
be sent to the mill with sacked wheat,
and leave for the east With hulk
.wheat ,. ' ....
GATE
ROCKS FATAL
GARBAGE SCHOONER CRUSHED
TO PIECES.
Not Believed Any of the Eight Aboard
Escaped.
Sun Francisco, Jan. 28. Eight are
believed to have perished when the
steam schooner Aberdeen was dashed
to pieces on jagged rocks at the en
trance to Golden Uate.
Life savers are certain none of the
men escaped. The Aberdeen was used
in the Oakland garbage service,
but formerly was a Seattle fishing
ouirklv wnt. to niives.
..
MT. GLEN HAS A "LITERARY"
pany.
Reading David B. Stoddard.
Duct Mamie Black and Nellie Gar
rick. I Poetic Reading L. M, Jenson.
I Solo Joseph P. Price.
Three 'minute '. talks in foreusn
languages Tongo Tongue, by Joseph
hpiker; Danish, L.-.M. Jenson; Hoi-
land, Estei
Wright; Swiss, fred
Zaugg; Mowery, (New Zealand) by
Mr. Chadwick.
In addition to these addresses each
of the speakers also sang a song in
the respective foreign tongues.
After the meeting Mrs. Greiner of
Mt. Glen entertained the La Grande
visitors in a very acceptable manner,
A supper was served and various
amusements were provided, furnish
ing the visitors an evening of great
enjoyment.
j The Mt. Glen Literary Society will
j hold regular weekly meetings till
i further notice on Thursday evenings.
; Ernest Zaugg has returned from
THREE-CORNERED
CONTESTS HELD
ORATORY AND STORY-TELLING
PROMOTED.
Imbler WIIK. Send Three Teams
Against La Grande M. I. A. This
..." ' .Evening. ,T
Oratory,, story-tolling -and physical
agility in the fil. I. A. Btakes at Imb
ler and La Grande will be matched
tonight ' when teams , representing
these three branches : of ' endeavor
within the church meat at the Amuse
ment hall beginning at 7 o'clock.. The
basketball nhase of It, ,4s Jiart .and
parcel of that whiph has been"' going
on for some, time within the county.
A magnificent loving cup will be
awarded to the team winning it three
out of fiv-seasons.
JuAlges are keeping the score of
the story-telling and oratorical con
tests which go hand in hand with the
basketball league games. At,, "the
close of tho season these wilt be an
nounced, and are ehmnators for tho
big field day to be held in La Grande
May 15. Stake : : ponnants will be
awarded the winners. In the mean
time some very interesting contests,
showine marked ability in speaking
and story-tellingj'ire being brought
out . . . I,-
The trnneular wriitesU aib In
charge of D. B. Stoddard, SUBerin-
tendent of istake for the M. i,i flr. ana
Evelyn Rosenbaum, president pf the
L. M. I.' A. and these two are presi
dents of the entiro league. Harvey
La r sen also of this city is general M.
I. A; manager of contests.
!
Gibes of Scribes Made Solons Modest.
Washington, Jan. 28. The gentle
gibes of the heartless scribes in the
house and senate press galleries, tho
scribes aver, aire responsible for ibhe
almost total absence fr.om.tnis year's
Congressional directory ' of the once
numerous annual crop of. tutobloirra-
phers of "self -jhade"Sfclqnav,, Mighty
tew oi ine extraordinary large num
ber of new congressmen, this ' year
dwell unon the dava in The log cabin
and the haraampa ,'iojr eany youm.
Some men wnotormeny took mucn
space-to. tell about themBelvej now
viuor Btinction ,&y Jtoiny to wib w
Minority Leader Mann made ''one
mistak'- in his brief description of
hirnsUf. He w."ia. "James R. Mann,
Ttcpublcan, T of "Chicago, was bVra'.ltf
18b6. elected tu the Fifty-fifth and
Buscei ding congressts, Member . . of
tho Banking aAd Currency .Cotrmilt
tee.".. This las statement got Into
the ' pi oof sheets of the directory, but
the committee makers did not put Mr.
Mann on the B. & C. committee. . ..
;.Here is a notable sample of brev
Hy: .
"Thaddeus H. Caraway, Democrat
Jonesboro."
This is a whole story of the life of
the . Representative1 of the First dis
trict of Arkansas as told by the mem
ber himself in the directory.
The member from the Fourth dis
trict of the same State says of him
self: .
"Otis Wingo, Democrat, of De
Queen, member of Sixtythird Con
gress, re-elected to Sixty-fourth Con
gress." ' -
There is another brief sketch in the
directory which records modestly the
story of the rise to political fame of
a 'Western Senator.' The story was
first told with more regard for detail.
Then somebody gave, him a "hunch"
and he beat ihe jokesmiths to it by j
a neck and stopped tne proois ana
now three lines tell the story.
Colorado has a delegation in the
House that reads like this: Representr
ative Ben Clark Hillard "was born in
a log cabin on a farm . eight miles
north of Osceola, Clarke County, la."
Representative Charles Bateman
Timberlake: "His boyhood was spent
on a farm." :
Representative Taylor: "Spent his
eaHy life on a farm and stock ranch."
Probably the most interesting nar
rative of one's self in the directory is
that of James Harvev Davis of Tex
as, "Cyclone" Davis, as he is tech
nically known in the nomenclature of
political explosives. Mr. Davis takes
I up some space to tell about this
matter as follows
"Tn .Inhntinir tha monev ouestion
'with Gen. Watt Hardin in 1802 at the
Capitol Buildinfr in Frankfort, Ky.,
,he was reported by the Cincinnati In-
ouirer and Chicago papers ns 'Texas
Cyclone,' under which title over half
of ma mail is now received.."
' The final triumph is recorded ns
follows: '
"Was elected to the Sixty-fourth
Congress with the Hon. Jeff Mc
Lemore (chosen to fill a temporary
vacancy n3 colleague, receiving some
200 votes less than his colleague, an
alleced penalty for not having al
ways been a 'collar' Democrat, and
hevily scrnt'"hed by rabid antis.''
The "colleague" to whom Cyclone
Davis refers adds a bit of spice to
the TexaB delegation chronicles, "Jeff
McLemore," as he signs' himself,
rdeuds guilty to having been born
"on a farm two miles west of Spring
Hill, Maury county, Tenn." He adds
that the event occurred on "Fridnv,
the 13th of March," and "who's afraid
in a Btorm."
"He is a bachelor and a newspaper
man." says he.
"Had but little schooling," write3
STOLEN MONEY
RECOVERED BY
II OH HOTEL
NEWSBOY GETS AWAY WITH
- GOODLY PORTION OF THE
SUM STOLEN. . ,
WOMAN'SJIP send?
v POLICE ON THE TRAIL
Senstional Attempt to Escape After
Arrest Frustrated Believed New
York Gang Recently Arrived, Exe
cuted the . Escapadip Yesterday
Money Fountain a Hotel.
Chicago, Jan. 28. Police raided the
West Side hotel and captured five men
and three women, and recovered $7,
800 of the $15,000 obtained in a dar
ing holdup in the Jake Stahl bank
yestorday when four boys rode op and
took tne loot away. j
Newsboy Gr.bs jiooty,' .
A woman's tip brought about the
raid. When the officers jumped into
the quarters of the alleged bandits.
they hurled a box containing currency
from the window. A newsboy seized
it, according to the police.
With drawn guns .the police sur
rounded the building. Two bandits.
handcuffed, attempted to escape when
they reached the Criminal court build-,
ing. One dived at the officer's feet
and the second butted him in the
stomach. They ran 'but were over?
taken.
The gang' is believed to have re-
cently arrived from New York i
Near Proximity of Circuit Court Ses
sion Causes Activity., v
! Motion day was a Ibusy one todayT
Judge Knowles heard a long grist of
legal business prepratory to the com
ing term of .circuit court which con
venes a week from Monday. -
"THUMBS, toOWIN," SAYS JUDGE
No Clemency from Judge Stevenson
. . .....
.in wrwr- h Ihi.ii Zn nn I I i n mil .111 ". 1
Portland, Jan".' 27. Bootleggers who
came before Municipal Judge Steven
son need expect nothing save heavy
fines and in aggravated offenses jail
sentences. - 7'
Ju4ge 'Stevenson established a
precedent yesterday. ' He fined P.. H. '
Swabb, manager of the Shasta hotel,
$250 for selling two qquarts of beor
and a half pint of whiskey. This was
followed by a fine of $200 on Charles
Thornton, proprietor of Thorn's
place, 115 North Third street, and a
fine of $100 on Henry Oakley, an .
employe of Thornton's. ..
V'Drunknesses is to be treatod as
a 'misdemeanor in this court in tho
future," declared the ljudge this
morning. ''Boaltlogging is ojliothor
matter. The very fact that the pro
hibition .law is being broken is not
so serious as the effect the poison
the bootleggers sell for whiskey has
on the human system. Heavy fine
and stiff sentences will be waitng from
now on. Everyone has had ample
time to adjust himself to the new
condition."
. DRYS WIN VICTORY.
Railroad Companies Don't Have to
Turn - Liquor Shipments Over to
Draymen.
Portland,- Jan. 27. Railroad com
panies need not deliver to transfer
men shipments of liquor consigned to
individuals via the transfer companies.
Circuit Judge Kavanaugh ruled last
nght, dismissing the application of
Rudolph Wilhelm for a writ mon-
damus forcing the Southern Pacific
to turn over to him 25 quarts of
beer consigned to J. P. Ryan of 55
north Ninth street. Tho decision was
based on the position that. draymen
because the v do not operate on fixed
routes between fixed points are not
common carriers within, tho prohibi
tion laws.
The decision, in the opinon of
friends of the dry law, closes one of
the best channels for bootlegging
devised .to defeat prohibition meas
ures. It. P. Hutton of the Anti-Sa-loon,
league, said that in Iowa a de
cision allowing draymen to receive
liquor shipments on the order of tho
consignee made illegal sale of liquor
easy. .
Jeff McLemore, "because of his aver
sion to teachers, and as a pupil he
never saw the inside of a school room
after he was 14 years old."