La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, February 29, 1916, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text17 f. . .' i, , X i- 9 i X.J.I srB AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER -- PRINTS THE NEWS THE DAY IT HAPPENS VOLUME XV LA GRANDE, OREGON. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1916. NUMBER 219 Vtfi M Gravel Roads By Union BOD OUTFIT WILL CAMPREHENSIVE PLANS DRAFT ED BY COUNTY COURT IN MAKING HIGHWAYS. MAIN ARTERIES LIKELY FIRST TO BE BUILT Gigantic Traction Engine and Power Scrapers Ordered by Court on "Sat isfaction Guaranteed" Bais Sixty Days to Try Equipment Island City Gravel Road to be Extended i Continuous Road Construction is . Plan of Court. Completing a road system that it i expects to work by this year the coun ty court of Union county today made public its intentions relative to road construction and repairs. Apparently realizing fully that the .country as a whole is intensely in terested in bettor roads, members of j v 1 1. n..4.: : tut cuuuty cuui l nave uceu pulling lit i a good deal of time of late in for- mulating a plan for permanent road j work. The present court was not organized for business last year ow-, ing to litigation over elections, until i late in the spring when time for all , .. preliminiairv rofhd wok had almost expired arid it was withTsome diffi culty that even a portion of the year's work .was handled to advantage. Beginning this year in plenty of time the court has contracted for a heavy, high-power traction engine and power graders. This road machinery has been ordered on a "satisfaction guaranteed" basis. - In other words, the court is taking no chances on ma chinery and the order has been placed with a sixty day trial by Union coun ty, before final decision is given as . to accepting it. This will give ample timo, it is argued, for every feature of the equipment to be tried out.. Permanent Crew to be Organized It is then proposed to man the new equipment with a permanent crew of skilled labor in road building, and common labor will be contracted for just so long as it comes up to a cer tain standard of. production. The in tent, however, is to organize a good crew and keep that crew with the power outfit throughout the spring and early summer. This will mean, according to the court's plain, con- j star.t traveling DacK ana iortn across this valley with the engine and grad ors, making ditches and crowning the highgways with an occasional rolling and dragging. The heavy traction rig will travel several miles a day pulling power graders and with skilled hands in i choirge of the equipment, it is the be lief that splendid results will be at once apparent. Will Haul Gravel With Engine. Should the new traction outfit prove satisfactory the county plans that the road crew and equipment will work as long as the season will permit grading, draining and crowning the highways and when the dry season comes on it is then proposed to keep the engine busy hauling out gravel. The gravel bars in the Grande Ronde iriver have long been a draw back and have caused the river to maintain a crooked course. The court wili erect gravel elevators in the riven: with permission of abutting fend owners and by using the regular gravel wagons it is found that the large engine will pull six of these wagons loaded with gravel. By us ing elevators for loading, the expense . of labor is to be reduced and the tractor and its six wagons will make trip after trip each day to the high way depositing its cargo of gravel. This work will continue all summer long, from the day it is too dry to grade until the extreme winter weather prevails. By removing gravel from the river its course will ; be straightened an admitted . im provement to land owners. Exact Location Not Given Out. Just where the court will do the first work has not been given out as yet, but it is presumed that the Island City road will be extended to ward Cove and the road from Moss . Chapel to the Pierce macadam will be graveled. Also it is probable that the '. short stretch of dirt road from the Continued on Pag 8.) .. BEG K Planned County Court Mil PLANT UP TO FARMERS TO SUBSCRIBE THE NEEDED AMOUNT OF CANNING PRODUCTS. MONEY QUESTION NOT THE CHIEF TOPIC NOW Commercial Club Assured Financial End the Moment Enough Acreage and Tonnage is Forthcoming Com mittee Now at Work Much Al ready Subscribed by Farmers. There was a good attendance at the Commercial club meeting yesterday evening and several people from the outside were present to take further stafps toward the cannery proposi tion. The committee herptoforj ap pointed to secure data and including J. A. 'Russell, C. M. Riddle and W. L. Spillman, made their report. The undertaking is looked upon with much favor. The first essential is the fact that a cannery is an industry to which this country is specially adapted. The initial cost as compared with the value of the output is much lighter than that of any, similar industry. Heavy expense in the way of machinery and other equipment is riot necessary. All these, conditions !may bo. metib? the community without straining . the country's' financial resources. One man present at the meeting last night said he would personally guarantee to provide all the money needed as soon as it could be assured that there was a guarantee of enough stuff produced to keep the institution going. The One Thing Needful. The thing needed to make the, can nery proposition a go is a sufficiency of products. Taking the fruit output, which is. already available in consid erable quantity, it was the belief that there should be in addition 500 acres of corn, 100 acres of beans and 100 acres in peas. This is what is con sidered necessary to secure a cannary in La Grande. A committee was appointed yesterday evening to secure this acreage. The committe is W. L. Spillman, C. M. Riddle and MacWood. One or two of the farmers present volunteered to plant forty acres in corn. They are induced to do this on account of the fact that the crop will he planted in summer-fallow ground and that they will have the fodder as a residue after the corn has been sold to the cannery. The com mittee will endeavor to have the re quired acreage signed up 'right away and another meeting to further con sider the cannery project will be held next Monday evening. Peterson Resigns As Chairman Pendleton, Feb. 29. Will M. Peter son, democratic county chairman for Umatilla county, today announced his resignation as county chairman, rec ommending Judge Maloney as his suc cessor. Two years ago Mr. Peterson resigned as chairman but was prevail ed upon to serve another tenmi He now states he will refuse a re-election. He has been chairman for the past eight years and is now a candidate for election as delegate to the demo cratic national convention. AVAR BULLETINS. Petrograd, Feb. 29. Turks are hastily evacuating Trebizond . or the Black sea, and neighboring cities be fore the Russian advance, a Tif lis dis patch says today. One Russian force is moving west long the seashore through Riseh, another fiorthwesit ward from Erzerum. Saturday the Russians were 50 miles from Tre bizond. Dover, Feb. 29 The Maloja was a victim of a submarine, and was not mined, Chief Officer Forbes testified today. Other witnesses failed to corroborate Forbes' story. ' Washington, Feb. 29. Secretary of State Lansing today again directly rebuked Ambassador von Bernstorff for improper publicity work. An in formal statement, declared the morn ing paper, reports dealing with con tents of Germany's latest memoran dum, were not made public by the state department, and that Lansing Man : expressed his views. Any such statement is entirely unauthoriz ed." . POSSIBLE WHEN ACREAGE GOMES DOC COOK'S WILD MAN OF BORNEO Here is Doc Cook's wild man of Borneo, who he found on his recent trip to that wild land. The doctor took many photographs, but most of them were spoiled on the long trip back. This wild man, the doctor says, is a fair specimen of the sav ages he found there. ' Mrs. Clements' Mother Dead Word has been received of the death of Mrs. Witney, mother of Mrs. Chas. E. Clements, at iRoseburg, Ore gon. During the time that the Clem ents family were residents of La Grande Mrs. Whitney was' a frequent visitor here and acquired an extended acquaintance. She was an Oregon pioneer of 1852. F NEBRASKA CHAIRMAN ISSUES STATEMENT . : Visit to Bryan At Miami Results In , Radical Statement , Washington, Feb. 29. William J. Bryan favors Woodrow Wilson's re nomination, and probably will he a member of the solid-Wilson delega tion from Nebraska, said State Chair man Thompson on returning today from a visit, with Bryan at Miami, Florida. , LARCOM FUNERAL TOMORROW Deceased Resident of La Grande Will Be Buried At 2 O'clock Funeral arrangements for inter ment of the remains of the late C. J. Larcom, who died yesterday morn ing at his home in this city, have been comiDleted. Th KArvioa will Jw held at 2 o'clock at the Bohnenkamp chapel, and Rev. C. A. Edwards will oniciaie. interment will taKe place tne masonic cemetery. MRS. SLATER, Mrs. E. E. Slater died at her home at No. 807 Penn avenue at 7 o'clock (this morning. The first indications of a serious nature were noticeable yesterday evening and a weakened condition of the heart is i the sup posed, cause of death. About a vear ago Mrs. Slater sustained a severe in jury in a fall, and although having measurably recovered from this trou ble it is believed that the injury had some effect in shortening the period of vitality. Mrs. Ldna lElizabetn Sluter wa9 among the well-known pioneer resi dents of the Northwest. She was born in East Tennessee October 17, 1835. Her parents were ' Robert D. and Agnes Gray. Her husband, Jas. H. Slater, who died about twenty years ago, was also a well known figure in the' early history of the state, having been a representative in .the lower branch of congress and in the United States senate. They came to Oregon in 1853, set tling in the Willamette valley. In 1863 they removed to Walla Walla and in 1864 they went to Auburn in f , . .. ? :iSi. i BRYAN MS WILSON FRENCH REITERATE THAT KAISER TAKES MANHULLES IN VERDUN REGION GERMANS SAY SQUEEZE TO VERDUN VIA MAHULLES . WILL CONTINUE . TERRIFIC LOSSES CLAIMED TO HAVE BEEN INFLICTED French Capture Several Lorraine 'Trenches, and Say They Witheld Verdun Attacks Safely Douumont Surrounded By French Bombard men Continues Day and Night Say Reports. Paris, Feo. 29. All Gorman attacks before Verdun were repulsed this morning, today's morning communi que said. It predicted that the day would see fresh attacks, however, all along the line. The French entirely surround Doumont, which they lost Saturday, and which has been the scene of several days of struggling. In the meantime, Germans captured the village of Manhulles, 11 miles southeast of Verdun, and are driving eastward to force evacuation of Verdun--through a squeeze north and south. Heavy bombardment north of Verdun continued throughout the night. French have recaptured sev eral Lorraine trenches. Early" German Claims Out Berlin Feb. : 29. Statements made this morning of the night's fight ing at Verdun say that Germans cap tured the small armored works north west of Doumont in the Woevre reg ion. Germans claim to have catured1 16,575 soldiers,' 238 oiicers, 68 can non and 86 machine guns in the drive. ' German Death List Given London, Feb. 29. More than 45,000 Germans were killed in the Verdun of fensive, an Amsterdnm dispatch has declared. JOHN MYERS SELLS FARM Receives $40,000 For Large Tract Near Haines John I. Myers, former Union Coun ty resident, has sold his farm near Haines. A Baker report concerning the sale says: "One of the largest ranch deals in this city has just been completed in the purchase of the John Myers ranch of 780 acres, five miles west of Haines. A. A. Fidler of Haines, was the purchaser and he will move on the ranch. He paid $40,000 of which $20,000 was in Haines property and the balance in cash. . Mr. Myers is considering going 0 Washington to reside. The deal was put through by C. H. Newton, Baker real estate deal- AGED 81, DEAD Baker county, their team beinsr the first to cross the newlv constructed Daily road. On January 5, 1866, they came to La Urande and this has been the family home ever since. In all the trying experiences of pioneer life and in the rearing of a laree and honored family Mrs. Slater holds a place that reflects the highest ideal of life and character. The surviving members of the family are Olive and John Slater with whom she has made her home in late years; James D., an attorney of La Grande; Woodson T., an attorney of balem and former member of the su preme court: Frank S.. cashier of the National Bank of Canyon Cuty; Mrs. wellie U. Neill and Mrs. A. a. Cherry, of La Grande, and Mrs. Ber tha Smith, of Portland. There are al so two brothers, George Gray of Low er Cove, and Joseph Gray of Philo math, Oregon. It is not definitely known as to the time of the funeral but unless changes are made it will be held from St.- Peters church; Thursday after noon at 2 o'clock.. ' : EXTRA DAY IS . BORN IN SNOW OTHERWISE, FEB. 29th DIFFERS , LITl'LE. What Luck Cupid Had on This Day , of1 Days Winged God, Records Only Can Show. La Grande awoke this morning to find 19168 extra day ft snow day. During the night an inch of snow had fallen and this morning a (radi ant sun shone down upon a hlly-whito valley but aside from that the extra day wasn't particular important. Business went on in the same old way, and what luck Cupid had in tho way of successful proposals, will not come to light just yet. Here are some uses to which "Extra Day1' was put: CoJumbus, O., Feb. 28. Central Ohio devotees of boxing tonight will see Johnny Griffiths, Akron- light weight, i and Leach . Cifoss otf New York, in a twelve round contest at tho State street Colesieum horo, under the direction of tho Queensbury club. v . Minneapolis Ten oivc organisa tions chose today, an unusual date, for launching a campaign against -mosquitoes, in this city surrounded by a state thiat has 10,000 lakes. It is planned to eliminate every ipuddlei in the state whore water etngnates. Dallas, Tox. Three bishops, Luthbr E. Todd of St. Louis, Walter R. Lam buth, of Birmingham, Ala., and E. E. Hoss of Muskogee, l)kla., were hore today to aid in planning the Method ist membership campaign to be in augurated in Texas and Now Mexico, March 12. Tulsa, Okla .Tulsa businessmen se lected tha flxtva rlnv in ha van, f celebrate Prosperity Day. iln addU . ; Vi, - 1 .- i if 1 w hi usual vuniivui matures, n battery of public speakers will tell Tulsa what a regular city it is. JURY KEPT IN "CLOSE ORDER" HORSE STEALING CASE READY FOR JURY. Court Oodcrs Taiismen Kept' Together Day and Night. For the first time in several terms, a circuit court jury has been kept to gether night and day during the pro gress of a trial.- The order came last 'evening when the fist day's trial of. James Childors and iL. Burke, jointly charged with stealing four horses, came to a close. Judge Knowles ordered the men to keep to gether for the . night and among other things, to refrain from read ing the Observer which might carry news of the trial, A battery of law yers fought the case. , Unless plans miscarry the case will go to the jury this evening some time, the defense being well along With its share of the testimony at the noon hour. STEAMER IN TROUBLE ' Bandon Jetty Spells Woe For Steam er lurrying Hay Cargo Marshfield. Feh. 23 Tha ofnn.. Fifield struck a heavy sea crossing the Bandon . bar this morning and swung against the jetty. She is now lying on the beach, a big hole below her waterline, and probably will be a total loss. A Crew Of 21 and four naginmuri escaped uninjured.' Thn Eiigtnrhi-nnk company is the owner. .A huge sea flung a water-soaked log ashore breaking a leg of William Kay's. The boat had a cargo of hay. MILLS INCREASE PAY v Aberdeen Announces ' Increase In . Wages Beginning Tomorrow Aberdeen, Feh. 29. Several lum ber, mills today announced increased wages beginning tomorrow. Four log ging camps 9hut down for many months, will be started early In March, and 500 men will .be employed. The camps opened are the National Lum ber company, Hoquiam & Cedarville, Aberdeen Lumber & Shingle com. pnny, Humptulrps and Preston Keefe Camp, and the Aberdeen Coast com pany: 7 v . " ' ' lo in in A FRENCH BOA! WHEN I? SANK ABOUT NINE HUNDRED IN . SAFETY AT MALTA AND , GREEK COAST ."" AUXILIARY CRUISER 0NCE IN CA0ST-SEA TRAFFIC Details Meagre and Real Cause of Disaster Unknown Probable that Boat Carried Men Bound for Sa lonika Submarines Known to Be Active in Mediterranean. Paris, Feb. 29 The French auxiliary cruiser Provinco carrying 1800 men sank Saturday in tho Mediterranean, tan offtViul statement isaidl : today. Eight hundred and . seventy wore saved and it is feared nearly 1000 drowned. Boats are now continuing . the search for other survivors. Four hundred landed on the Greek Island of Melos, nd 296 at Malta. . The . Province probably carried troops for Salonika. It is likely she snnk between Malta and the Greek west coast. Dispatches didn't state whether she was submarined, mined or met with an accident. . ; v!, It is known submarines are active in the Mediterranean. This boat is believed to be a Palaral liner' form erly in trans-Atlantic service and re cently taken over for admiralty duty. She was an 18,000-ton boat and was 600 feet long. ' ' " Election Battle Over Race Problem. St. Louis, Feb; 29. After a stiff legal flghUfijrinst the holding of an election oil the! subject, St. Louis vot ers today are deciding by ballot wheth er negroes here shall be compelled to live within resideivtSa disfcrifcts se lected for them. The Segregation bill, as the plan is called, would prevent whites and negroes from living in the same bocks and would compel white persons to move from their homes in blocks the majority of whose residents . are negroes. Negroes would be pro hibited from living in blocks in which the majority of the Residents afro white. Should segregation win, negroes and white interests . opposed to the proposed law, will attack it as unconstitutional, they said today, on the ground that it. is discriminatory. DOUBLE TEAM ARRIVES. Union High Boys and Girls to Play . Here this Evening. ' With the scalp of La Grande's first game at Union at their belts, and de termined to wrest another this even ing, the Union high school team which is contending for the Eastern Oregon championship arrived this morning. They were accompanied by the Union high school girls who play the Y. M. C. A., girls, in connection with tho boys' game at the high school gym. The girls will play the first tonight, alternating halves with the boys. . The Y. M. C. A. girls will lineup as follows: . Guards, Alice Spencer, Anna Warren, Verda Graham, ' For. wards, La Verne do Lashmutt, Roma Jacopson, Marie Love. Center, done Smith. , STUDENTS TO DO STUNTS. Merchants to Get Advertising in In dustrial Parade tFriday. One of the most novel and original stunts to be pulled off in La Grando for some time will be the In dustrial parade conducted under the auspices of the Athletic association of the high school Friday noon. Plans are being made whereby nearly every business firm in town will be repre sented by one of tho high school boys in this parade, the main object of which is to advertise the merchant. Originality is the key note of tho af fair and each boy twill try to make his display or advertising the moat original and attractive. Placards, signs or sandwiches will - be worn and the dress mndo to coincide with the advertising of the firm repiesent- ed. For this advertising the merchant will pay a small sum for and in turn not only receive the advertising but will be given a ticket tor every zoe expended, the tickets being for tho basketball game between 'Baker and La Crande on Friday evening. That the parade will be a success -is assured as the merchants are tak ing to it like a duck takes to water and the boys in charge of the parade are going to give the advertisers their money's worth besides giving them their tickets to the game. :