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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER - PRINTS THE NEWS THE DAY IT HAPPENS VOLUME XV LA GRANDE, OREGON - TUESDAY, FEBRUARY S, 1916. NUMBER 201 I HALT OF TO F BIG FLOOD RIVER WENT UP A FOOT DURING . YESTERDAY'S BALMY WEATHER. ' . CONDITIONS IMPROVED BY CLOUDY SKY TODAY Fears for Disastrous Flood and High Water Allayed by Coining of Frost and Cloudy Weather Grande Ronde Rising in Valley Today When Mountain Waters Come Down. . t 4 4- 4 4-4-4-4-4. g J J LITTLE HARM ANYWHERE Portland, Feb. 8. Although streams throughout the north west are running bank-full, only slight damage is reported. The crest of the flood in the Willam ette is scheduled to reach Al bany today. The stream has al ready fallen three feet at Eu gene. The Callapooia has wrought some damage at Brownsville. The thaw continues through out the northwest. Occasional rain is indicated for western Oregon and Washington and colder in the east portion to night. .J. A .J. .5. . .1. .J. .5. Tlnnirprs nf flnrtdwaters in Union county, so imminent yesterday .as to cause serious aiarm, were minimized last night by frosts and cloudy weather today. At a time when it aoamnri 1A whnlp mflRS of SnOW WAS about to melt and flood the commun ity, the danger was muzzled and to ninV Jioro is Tin critical situation. In fact it appears certain that the onmi, -mill crndnnllv Hififlnnenr JVnd that the fears entertained yesterday . r. 1 : were premature, .even sun uicte m danger from this scource, but the halt in melting has seen a mg oenent. Rivni la Ri&inflr. Yesterday'? thaw in the mountains Umr, fait nlnncr Vtp river tndav. 'At Perry the river rose at least a foot this morning and is running over tne mitDB o-f YivoaoYit rinl. it. is not. oxnect- ed to go any higher at this time due to the sudden ireeze last nignt. In La Grande the chief effect of yesterday's thaw was a swollen Deal Canyon stream that backed pu to sev onni Kn m o alin, tVio fprri t.nr v touched Uiy lm ri;t.h O nnfl nthpr streets felt the rise in tide and until the waer got back in its ngnt cnannei tnere was some little danger tnreatenea to resi- rlnr..ae in fhnr virintv. The SUroluS water is being carried off this after noon in good shape. TRAIN REACHES VINCENT. Huge Crew of Men Shoveling Ex pedition from Enterprise Talked. . One hundred and forty snow 4, shovelers, on a train ahead of the regular 32, are endeavoring to get train service into Wallowa ; county this afternoon. One hundred men left here this morning prepared to battle with slides that have occurred in the canvon in the vicinity of Mmam re cently. Shortly afternoon today, the snow train was past Vincent, and the regular passenger was pulling up De hind with 24 more men to shovel snow, Just what the situation is between Milepost 40 and Milepost 48 is not definitely known this aiternoon, dui if not worse than anticipated, the train will get by Milepost 48, and then it will have clear sailing into FROS BRINGS E v the Wallowa terminal. It is now over a week that the county has been ma rooned. That somo traveling men have got ten throueh to Enterprise from Ln Grande by team is the essence of a telephone report received here today. These men are reported to have said that the canyon is filled with slides on the railroad track side. Assuming that this meant no trains for days to come, it is reported Enterprise peo- pie are preparing a sleigh expedition to come to La Grande after mail. A. B. Cherry, a La Grande florist was , notified today to have a shipment 0 flowers ready to go out with this ex pedition. In view of the rapid progress made by the Joseph branch today towards its goal, it is more than likely that the Enterprise effort will be useless, Ihere has been a brisk demand to Continued on Page Eight) CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURER ARRIVES GLOBE TROTTER FINDS FOLLOW ERS EVERYWHERE. Prosperous Churches Found in Frigid Alaska and Torrid South and EaHt. Christian Science penetrates to all angles of the world in frigid north ern Alaska, up there under the Arctic circle, are prosperous churches of that iaitn;. the Orient, Australia, manna, the Hawaiias, throughout all the oc cidental world Christian Scientists live and worship and practice their faith ii ever-increasing numbers. so declares w. R. Rathvon, c. s. 13., , Mrs.' Eddy, but now a member of the ' board of lectureship composed of 17 1 in La .Grande today to iecture at the! Deaths from the,,floocls total 28. After devouring canned sar Methodist church this evening on j dines, a negro family of eight died of ptomaine poisoning. knows'whereofhTspeaks forhehs I Hundreds fought in Arkansas City throughout tlie niglit to save personally lectured in all the points : their lives. , cited, and has seen the nronotranda I spread, not only in his native land, ! but has witnessed what he terms the j most marvelous religious movement of any time in these out of the way 1 corners of the universe. Globe Trotting His Business. Of late years, especially since the death of the founder in Boston, at which time he was present at the deathbed, Mr. Rathvon has traveled ; and lectured in numerous countries. A few years ago he and Mrs. Rath von, who by the way. is here, with him today, spent four months on such a tour, three of them on the ocean. His sea voyages have a co-incidental fea ture in that he was a passenger on the ill-fated Lusitania when she made her last Christmas voyage. Mr. Rath -1 von had been lecturing in England when the war broke out. and came home at Christmas time. When the I liner went to her. doom a few trips later Mr. Rathvon was heading for Alaska to lecture at the several churches in the fastnesses of the arc tic circle. At the Sommer hotel today Mr. Rathvon issued, through the Observer, a cordial welcome for the public to hear 'him tonight. "I assure your people," said the Denvei' man, "that we shall not attack or embarrass any one. It is a tenet of our faith that all men be allowed to worship as they please. We don't proselyte. At con siderable expense to themselves the La Grande church has invited me to lecture here tonight we don't press our services, and go only when asked to come. Our lecturers, follow, and don't lead, the spread of Christian Science. How Christian Science spreads, and how churches are established in way places, off the commercial paths of the world Mr. Rathvon explained thus: "Men already of our faith penetrate to remote districts on commercial bent. In the beginning perhaps but a single family is reading the iioston Dreoared lessons and books of the church; then others come, and neigh bors interest themselves; the teach ings are adopted by new families and in time there is a substantial colony. Cures are effected and the work goes Scarcely a man lives today who hasn't heard of a Christian Science cure, and oftentimes it is a friend or a relative who has beien healed; there fore the man is interested. "What I want to impress is that what healing we do is not accomplish by man but by God, through prayer. No effort has been made to teach our doctrine to Oriental races, and in such cases as where adoption of it by oc cidentals has taken place, the person in question is able to talk English. Our lectures in the Orient are to Oc cidentals found there." There will be no charge to hear this gentleman, who is one of the foremost men in that church. Sneaking of the large number ot men who belong, brought Mr. Rath von to the expression "Vast as the membership is, there are no great men in it, groat as the world classifies greatness. This doesn't mean that men of only common calibre adopt tho teachings, but means that we are all just common folks." FOREST FIRE LOSSES. During Year 26,763 Acres Were Burned Over in Oregon. Salem. Ore.. Feb. 8. Timber fires in 1315 burned over 20,7fa acres, do ing damage to the extent of ftft.353.fi0 the annual report of State Forester Elliott says. Besides this namatre to merchant able timber, $19,755.50 was lost by forest fires which burned houses, or chards, fences and logging equipment. There were 1255 fires of which 371 are believed to have been incendiary. Total expenditures for fire patrols and fire fighters were $118,050, snent by the state, government, individuals and associations. High OfficinI Coming. GenenO Scott of Seattle will be in Gnnde Thursdav to address the Salvntion Army, and there will be an enrollment of new members the same evening. PESTILENCE LURKS IN SHADOW OF BIG FLOOD Hundreds of Mothers and . Children are Marooned on Housetops Without a Morsel of Food Momr.Vi Fh 8 C'lnronrlnri ... F , , to Memphis to send every pnysician to cnecK tne anreateneu typhoid epedemic resulting from and sanitary conditions are bad. ren marooned in tops of buildings and some are without food. L Three weeks after the former plant was destroyed by fire, the Eastern Oregon Light & Power company re- sumed operation of the plant rebuilt on the rums. The Morgan bake auxiliary is therefore in use today and though the results of the curtailed scoure of electricity has only been nominal, there will ue no further descrepancy in the service from that score, the plant is new in an re spects as tne destruction or tne oiu Pla"t was complete, - E FRUIT PACKING SQUABBLE IS FIRST TO COME UP. Litigation Involving Attached Cattlo Succeeds it on Docket. Disputes over prune packing at Union, the sum total involved being less than $40.00, constituted the ma terial before the opening of circuit court yesterday and again this morn ing. K. J. Martin of Union appealed a decision in the justice court from Union in which he had sued t. f. Lanius for hire of some packing tables, board for a man and fees for overseeing the packing. The justice court decided against Martin. De- fonrlanf T.flninc .nnonrle t Vinf. ho TYinilp a final settlement with Martin for the work done. R. J. Kitchen is attorney for Martin and iL. Z. Terrall and C. J. Shelton form counsel for the ap pellant. Second Union Case Called. The second -case to come before the court this term also hails from Union. H. S. Stevens is suing Cyrus Williams for an alleged breach of contract. It is contended that Williams had a con tract to move some of Stevens' cattlo to Idaho, but that six days after the cattle were to have been moved, a E PLAN UNION BASE COURT third party, Frank Wigglesworth at,-!"'""- """.y. . tached the cattle in question, and sold . cha, Ked . 'omnt,n I,sc1'd them to pay a debt. Damage to ! f.monK oncers at .lh. ?un Diego avia about $300 is asked from Williams bv : 'onDeam.p,' U declslon was sent to Stevens because he hadn't moved thethe President for approval. cattle on time, but the defense is that Stevens had promised to have the cat tie inspected preliminary to shipment but failed to do it, and the further fact that the cattle were mortgaged and couldn't therefore, be lawfully shipped to another state. Attorneys rp.,.,,.i ,i ir:i. un...n: .u;. 'u. , 3' Yin"':! tomnnn fter tho firs! haH rinn M th jury. LUMBERMEN TO GATHER Postponed Annual Meeting Set for Tomorrow Afternoon in This City. After a postponement or two, the annual meeting of members of the Eastern Oregon Lumber Producers' association will be held in La Grande tomorrow. Lumbermen of repute from not only Eastern Oregon mills but from Spokane, Bend Boise are booked to be present on that occas sion. The session takes up at 2 o'clock tomorrow. LITTLE GIRL IMPROVING. Yolande Scott of Canada Gaining Strength Rapidly. Little Yolande Scott, who with her parents was caught in La Grande in early stages of the present storm, mid who was operated on at the Grande Ronde hospital by a local surgeon for appendicitis, is today reported well to ward recovery. It will be remember ed that one hardship followed another in her case, even to the extent that the sleigh pressed into service to take her from the railroad to the hospital turned over in the deep snow. nnrl Arkmnsns f 'it.v hns nnnralorl . . , , ., ,1 . 1 the foods. Sewers have caved in heven hundred women and child T SAM COCHRAN SICK. Youngster Has Been Critically Several Days. HI I ! COMPLETED 'sheep; McConnel Bros., 5,000; Ten-, l"c "."a .... Master Sam, son of Attorney, and sen Bros., 2,000; Deseret sheep som- along the Belgian Coast have with Mrs George T Cochran has been bat- pany and Hostrom & Company, sev- drawn and have takon refuge in the tling with sickness. Though not parti- thousand each. In the Kinsman Kiel canal. Leaves of absence of all cularly alarming his illness, is r'tS ttSl r M M ed quite critical and necessitates con- gmjtn 5 000 and Rufinio Arrien 4,000' Copenhagen reports extreme uctiv stant attention, day and night. head ' ' . jity in the Kiel canal. German ships . , r'mt n,,i.i.ji,'ii Knioo oV, nor,. I are about to venture forth and risk PAY-UP WEEK PLANS MATURE COMMERCIAL CLUB MOVEMENT. BACKS Scheme Is to Emulate National Move ment February 21. Preparations for enrrying on "Pay up week" an institution that is na tional .and will be conducted every where the week of February 21, have been taken by the La Grande Com mercial club. Committees have been appointed to carry out the preliminary plans and exploit the 'purposes which concisely stated are that tremend ous amount of money will be put in circulation if everybody pays part or all of his bills that week. The movement is not local but national 's alrca"y l"lee r years The men who have the exploitation in charge include Frank Conner, Haskell, Hurley Richardson, J. McCarthy and F. B. Currey. COURT MARTIAL ORDERED. San Diego Officer Charged With Fo menting Discord. Washington, Feb. 8. Secretary i Garrison has announced that he has j acnea h uecision to courtmartiai j nirrr iiniz re nmnrrv d Lusitania Case Assumes More Hope- I ful Prospect Is Report. ! Washington, Feb. 8. Tho White i House has announced the diplomatic Nation arising from the Lusitania ' torpedoing, look hopeful This fol lowed a conference of the President and Secretary Lansing. TORPEDO BOATS ACTIVE. Russians Said to Have Inflicted Dam age on Turkish Boats. Paris, Feb. 8. Russian torpedo boats sank forty Turkish sailing ves sels, and bombarded three nava.1 con vict yards on the Anatolian coast, dis patches said today. , TEMPORARY CAPITAL NAMED. Town Northwest of Mexico City Is Cnrranza Headquarters. Washington, Feb. 8. Queeretaro, 110 miles northwest of Mexico City ss named the temporary Carranza capi tal, the Mexican embassy is informed. After the republic comaletely organ ized the cnpital will be established at Mexico City. New Warehouse for Salem. Salem, Or., Feb. 7. Announcement has been made by the firm of D. A. White & Sons that they have com pleted plans for a brick and concrete warehouse to cost approximately $4000. COMPANY COAL TO MEET CALL IN CASE OF EMERGENCY, RE LIEF PROVIDED. . No Danger of Coal Famine Prevails in Face of Company's Policies. There is little liklihood of a coal famine in. La Grande, regardless of what thaws and subsequent floods may bring forth. Realizing that if pre cautionary methods were overlooked trouble might follow, the O.-W. has issued an official communique to the effect that should coal ' dealers run short, a car or cars of company coal will be turned over to their disposal. Because there is confutable coal stored up for the company's use, the order issued by Superintendent Bol- lons precludes liklihood of any serious inconvenience from tho lack of coal. Wholesalers and others are taking advantage of .the shipping facilities afforded now to replenish depleted stocks and to lay up enough to carry the city over a protracted period of blockade should one develope when the snow really begins to move. NYSSA IS FEEDING CENTER 'Pacific Livestock Company Buys $41,- 000 Worth Of Hay For Cattle hpBn ' l.inL' wintered in the Nvssa 'district, more this year than usual 'Among those who are feeding sheep this winter and who will I do ' thohir lambing here are: Hub Ward, 8,000 .man has 8,000 owes that will begin Sent. Four Zeppelins and a 'timi,in .Vw.t. FBhnmrv in. His'fiock of taubes have reinforced the lambing camp is two miles west of I'Nyssa. The Pacific Livestock company is said to be feeding 8,000 head of cattle this winter in the territory between Nvssa and Ontraio. The company t bought $44,000 worth of hay with which to feed their cattle. This concern l-Wna more cattle than any one concern in the United States. Their cattle are scatered through Oregon and Calif- Ex-Steward Takes Own Life. Eugene, Or., Feb. 7. Scott Ininan, who had been out of employment since coming here from Portland several months ago, committed suicide by jumping off the Ferry street bridge into the Willamette river Saturday af ternoon. He and his brother-in-law, H. L. Burt, had gone to the river to see how high the water was and while Burt was a few feet distant, Inman climbed on the railing and jumped. He leaves a wife. Inman was steward on the river steamer Bailey Gatzert for a number of years previous to coming to Eugene. Rabid Cows Are Killed. Monmouth, Or., Feb. 7. Three dairy cows, owned by a farmer near Falls City, were recently killed be cause they were infected with rabies. Four weeks ago the cows were mtten by a mad dog and from that time on were watched until the symptoms of the disease appeared, belore being shot. TO INCREASE STOCKYARDS. Facilities at North Portland Will Be Enlarged. Portland, Ore., Feb. 8. Only bad weather stands in the way of tho im mediate beginning of construction work on the Portland Union stock yards. The capacity of the yards will be increased at least 25 per cent this year to meet the great growth of business. A new administration building wi!l be constructed to house company of ficials and commission merchants. New sheds will be built to shelter the animuls. These will be located north of the present ones and will shelter 25 per cent more cattle, sheep and hogs than can now be accommodated. Phone Service Restored Carlton, Or., Feb. 7. The snow which has covered the ground almost continuously since December 31 last is fast disappearing. Ihere has been no sleet and no damage has been done to orchnrds or to electric light or tele phone wires. Last Tuesday and Wed nesday no telephone service was had with I'ortinnu Decause ci trouuie in and near Portland, but Saturday ono line was open by wtiy of Salem. Hay is getting quite scarce and prices aro higher than they have been in some years. No loss of stock has been re ported with theexception of a few sheep mid goats. One-.Man, One-Door Cars Opposed. Spokane, Wash., I'cb. 7. One-man streetcars which have recently been introduced on several of the runs of the Washington Water Power com pany have drawn a protest from tho Central Labor council in the form of a resolution to carry the matter to the state public service commission It is the claim of the labor body that I the one-man cars are not safe GREAT BATTLE IN THE NORTH SI GERMANS PREPARE FOR DASH FROM KIEL CANAL SAY RE PORTS. MONSTER GUNS ON SHIPS BACKED BY ZEPPELINS Prospect for Titantic Test of Strength in the North Sea Looms Big Today Reports from All Points Indicate that Battle Is ProposedEnglish Said to Have Fleets Ready. Condon, Feb. 8. A mighty battle , (believes. Dutch rumors that Ger- mans are preparing for a dash, and j corroborative reports from othor sourCBS strengthened the belief. i ... . flotilla in the Kiel and it is assumed they will accompany , the warships making the sally. It is reported Germany's dread naughts are equipped with seventeen inch guns. Zeppelins have torpodo tubes. The English fleet is reported ready. Prince Oscar Hurt. . Berlin,-feb. f8. (Wireless to Say ville.) Frlnce Oscar, fifth son of the Kaiser, was slightly injured in the head and thigh by shrapnel, it is semi officially announced. Kitchener's Successor Disucssed. London, 'Feb. 8. Lloyd-George, and Lord Derby are mentioned today as possible successors to Kitchener if the lattter resigns. Authoritative confir mation of the rumors that Kitchener will quit is unobtainable. German Raids Successful . Berlin, Feb. 8, (A German nir squadron raided the station of poper inghe, and British camps near Dix mude, it is officially announced. Tho British fliers engaged them, but tliS teutons returned safely. Two small pieces of conquered trenches were lost in heavy fighting south of Somme last night, but were reconquered ntftei counter attacks. Misses Mail 3 Days. Troutlake, Wash., Feb. 7. The win ter so far has been the hardest ever j experienced by settlers in this section since 1884. This winter the mail car riers between White Salmon, Glen wood and Troutlake have experienced great difficulty in making their trips by'stage and for several days had to go out on horseback and even then they did not get through with the mail. The mail due here last Wed nesday, Thursday and Friday did not get through until late Friday night, because the roads were blockaded with drifted snow, the drifts in places be ing 10 feet in depth. Sale of National Forest Timber. The Forest 'Supervisor at Albany, Oregon, has just opened bids for 1,645,000 feet of timber on the Sant inm National Forest. The Albany Lumber company of Albany were the successful bidders. The timber is located on the Sant iam River in Sec. 17, Tp. 10 S. R. 6 E. W. M., and consists of 1.432,000 feet of Douglas fir, 108,000 foet of western hemlock, and 105,000 feet of red cedar. The advertised unices were $1.55 per M for Douglas fir, $1.70 per M for red cedar, and 50 tents per M for hem lock. , Two bids wore submitted, one by D, S. Livesay of Woodburn, and, the other by the Albany Lumber com pany. Tho latter submitted the high est bid at the rates of Sl.fU per ftl for Douglas fir and red cedar, and 50 cents per M for hemlock. J l J J J , TO BE HELD LATER. The Charity Ball, which was t to have been held February 9th ! 3 nnd was to have been one of n ! the strong social events of the 4 ? year, hns been postponed on nc- 4 4 count of weather inclemency un- 4 til Inter. Date will be an- 4 nounccd as soon as committee 4 4 decides. 4 4 I ' 4" 4" f Je J If
