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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PRINTS THE NEWS THE DAY IT HAPPENS VOLUME XV LA GRANDE, OREGON. '-THURSDAY, JUNl'il, 191G. NUMBER 298. y (.4 m m m pt S3 V PEACE DOVE FLUTTERS IN a n d niiMP GEORGE PERKINS CARRIES OLIVE BRANCH WITH PROM ISE OF COALITION. ALABAMA DELEGATION ? REGULAR SYRUP JAR Chicago Hums With Talk of Amalga mation Between Republicans and Progressives. Bull Moosers Will Not Insist on Roosevelt as Stand ard Bearer Says Chieftain. Chicago, Juno 1. George Perkins brought the olive branch to G. 0. P. again today. The Bull Moose chief tain greeted Chairman Hilles and then announced flatly the Progressives will support any candidate not recessarily Roosevelt who supports Progressive principles. He declared there are reports of bitter feeling be tween the camps of different candi dates. Hilles said he believed Pro gressives and Republicans will get to gether. Alabamans Much "Loved." Presidential boomers hovered about the Alabama delegation today like flies over syrup. Any man with a southern accent who said he was from Alabama, had politicians at his heels with promises of brilliant future and fat cigars. The Alabama delega tion is still on the fence, although Hughes supporters cliymed them. . Alabama is first on the roll call with a fine opportunity to start some thing. One Black Delegate Seated The committee today seated six Al abama "lily white" delegates-at-largj and seated one negro delegate in the ninth district. GIRLS IN TRAINING. Military Camp for Feminine Classes Begins Operations. San Francisco, June 1. Washing ton's women's training camp isn't such a much. A squad of girls from San Francisco's most exclusive so ciety circles went into camp here to day as soldiers in the east cantonment of the Presidio. They are to be taught how to be Amazons, and here is their daily stunt: 6 a. m. Reveille. Dress within 30 minutes. Powder, fancy hair and beauty spots barred. Uniform khaki skirt, shirtwaist, elkskin boots and campaign hat. Drill for half hour to get up an appetite. Eat at the general mess table with 260 other women, strangers. Make beds, get lunch ready for instant preparation, be ready for first aid class at 8:30. All morning learn how to wrap him dumies in 157 varieties of blindages. Noon-lunch. 1 to 4 forced marching. '4 to 6 visitors. 0 dinner. 7 assignment of sentries and inspection and 10 taps. La Grande Lodges Represented Robert Eakin, George Cochran and J. J. Broughton are the delegates who will represent the La Grande Masonic brotherhood at the coming gramd lodge sessions at Albany. Mrs. Ed. Kiddle, of Island City, will represent ; the Eastern Star. Cove People To Spokane Judd Goer, well known Cove fruit expert, and his daughter, Pauline, are vf, La Grande on their way to Spo kane on business matters. Much Snow in Mountains. Pendleton, June 1. That there is five foot of snow in the high parts of the mountains of the south end yet is the statement of District Attorney Steiwer who has just returned from a trip to the Grand county line. At one place he found the snow several feet deep and frozen so hard that it would sustain the weight of his horse. At other places the depth varies from a foot to four feet, he suites. He thinks that it will take two months of ordinary summer weather to melt the snow now in tne mountain. -h BASEBALL NOTICE. All members of the Y. M. C. A. interested in baseball are re quested to attend a meeting at the association building tonight for the purpose of organizing a baseball team nnd nlso to talk over the possibility of a twilight league. The meeting will be held in the Rest Room of the lobby at 7:30. A X i- a A TRAVEL PERIOD EAST COMMENCED SPECIAL EQUIPMENT NECKS- SARV TO HANDLE TRAFFIC. Teachers on Summer Trips, and Con vention, Drawing People to the East. An exodus of Western people to tho east and middlcwest of such pro portions as is seldom recorded, begins today. The national convention for tho Republican party at Chicago next week, coupled with Summer excursion trips by Northwest teachers, has necessitated greater equipment on the Union Pacific. No 18 when it arrives tonight, will have four special sleep ers all loaded. The La Grande teach ing staff will largely be out of town this evening, each train taking out a number during the past 36 hour.-?. Re publican convention visitors and del egates ara getting under way too. Just when Dan Boyd of Enterprise leaves as delegate at large is prob lematical, but Eastern Oregon started a group toward Chicago today when William Pollman and John Schmidt of Baker passed through the. city en route to Chicago on tho.V ithcrn route. They will spend seven.. I ffeeks in the east after the'-. convention is over. Passenger traffic is unusually heavy and long distance traveling is at tho height of its strength, just now probably for the two reasons noted. Summer tourist rates became effective today and the first train to tho east will be loaded to capacity. No sooner will the Republican convention be over than the traveling public will hie to St. Louis for the Democratic convention. T. H. Craw- iford of this city will be one of these, I lie going as a delegate at large. WEST TRIUMPHS OVER EAST IN CLUB LIFE. New York, June 1. Mrs. Josiah Evans Cowies, of Los Angeles, was elected president of the General Federation of Women's club at the convention today. A .J. A A A A s COAST NAVY YARDS TO HAVE IMPROVEMENTS Provision Made to Assist Construction of Naval Craft Washington, June 1. The House this afteunoon adopted an amendment to the naval bill appropriating a mil lion to equip Puget Sound, Philadel phia, Norfolk, Charleston, Boston, Portsmouth and New Orleans navy yards to build ships, if Secretary Daniels cannot get fast work from pri vate yards. It ulso adopted the Pad gett amendment equipping the Puget Sound yard for construction ot dread naughts. Henry Ireland Dead. Sumpter, May 31. Henry Ireland, for the past nine years supervisor of the Whitman National torest, with headquarters in Sumpter, died at his home here at 3 o'clock this morning, heart failure being given as the cause of death. Yesterday he was apparently in good health and with a large number of other Sumpter people, spent the af ternoon in the cemetery decorating the graves of friends. Returning I home he retired early, but at mid night awoke in agony. Mrs. Ireland alleviated his sufferings by local ap plications over his heart and he again fell asleep. Shortly before 3 o'clock she awoke to find her husband dying and before a physician could be summoned he had passed away. He was unable to speak after the beginning of the second at tack. Mr. Ireland is survived, in addition to his wife, by two sons, Orlin an.l So ldi, and by a daughter, Miss Edith. Mr. Ireland is well known in La Grande, and has long been a prime mover in greater security to timber ire n from ties. His last visit to La Grande was to attend the meeting of the fire association. Strawberries Short at Roseburg. Roseburg, Or.. May 31. The straw berrv crop of Douglas county is far smaller than ever before, owim; to (lie cool season, and (he unusual af fliction of pests during the last y;nr. In some neighborhoods the beds of berries have been harmed so much that the owners have given up the cul ture of the berry. Douglas county is one of Oregon's earliest producers of strawberries. Ioganhcrries and I blackberries promise a heavy crop. Will Attend Shoot. I.ou Ravburn will attend the Northwest bluorock shoot at Protland next week. He has unlimbered bis l.i 1- I 11 ,.u 1-- -.. I riucnn. mevt: ami, ihi,ukh lifiiir nui PflV DED id practice thinks he is able to go some yet. DEftDMAN'S WAITE WILL I I JULY CIRH'S HILL 15 ELD IN SAFETY FRENCH WITHSTAND DEADLY GERMAN ATTACKS AGAINST THE STRONG HOLD. FAMED HILL 304 IS FAST SLIPPING AWAY Troubles With Frenchmen Chiefly Lie at Hill No. 304 Where Germans Control All But One Stronghold., I he Last Between Offensive and Verdun Proper. Paris, June li Complete repulse of the German attack on the eastern slopes of Deadman's Hill was an nounced today. Intense artillery duels continued east of the Meuse. French aeroplanes today dropped 20 shells at Thionville and Audun and f0 shells at Azannes. The War of fice declared Germans have thrown more than 75,000 fresh troops into ac tion at Verdpn the past week. French Leaving Hill 304. Berlin, June 1. .French are pre paring to evacuate Hill 304, the last lemaining fortified hill northwest of Verdun, it is officially declared. Sev eral positions on the summit are al ready evacuated. Berlin Admits Reverse. 'Berlin, June 1. The French cap tured 400 yards of German trenches southeast of Deadman's Hill, it is of ficially admitted this afternoon. East of Obersept Germans penetrated French positions a depth of 300 yards. JOINED THE ALLIES Creighton Fitzgerald, La Grande Boy, Enlists in Canadian Regiment. Mrs. G. W. Fitzgerald, of KiO-'i Washington avenue, has received a letter rfom her son Creighton, a Iji Grande young man, stating that he had enlisted in the 11th Regiment of Canadian volunteers. Among other matters the letter says: "There is a lot of nice boys here and I havo a good time. I could not sit back and see all my friends going and not go with them. I do not know when we will be sent to England, but it will not be long. (Well, mother, you cun say that your son is no coward, if he is foolish!" Creighton's regiment is at present encamped near Victoria. MASONS TO VISIT. Grand Lodge and Chapter Will At tend Commencement at O. A. C. Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis, June 1. Delegates to the Sixty-sixth Annual Convention, A. P. i ml A. M., and the Fifty-sixth Annual Convocation, Chapter R. A. M., Ore gon, will witness the graduation at O. A. C. and inspect the college plants on Tuesday, June . if they accept the invitation of H. M. Guthrie, local Chapter W. M and President W. J. Kerr. "This means that six-hundred rep resentative citizens of Oregon from practically every district of the state will visit the college as the guests of the college and the local chapter of the order," said Mr. Guthrie. "Spec ial traing will be made to bring thein over from Albany where they are in annual session. They will also be met by members of the local chapter w ho will take them on a sight-seeing tour over the town nnd up to the col lege where they will witness the grad uating exercises. Later they will in spect the College. At noon they will bo guests at luncheon of the local chapter and nothing will be neglected in the way of affording the dcleg.ite:; an opportunity to see the college and become acquainted with its working force." TWISE BY STRIKES Portland, June 1. Promptly at six this morning 10,000 longshoremen in eveiy American port of the Pacific Coast quit. Ship loading was halted at Seattle. Taooma, Portland, San Francisco, Oakland, ios Angeles and Sim Diniro. Two hundred vessels are tied up. Marine engineers may join the strike, deciding to ask a ten per cent increase. Pickets patrol the d cks. The sp.'c- ONLY FATHER AND BROTHER DENTIST TO w Y : ' i a I 1 ZJLJ&m4,nAi&L v. , Only two persons acem to take a friendly interest in the case of Dr. Arthur Warren Waite, the young den tist sentenced to death in New York today for the most famous murder since the Thaw trial. They are his brother, Frank Waito, shown on the left in this picture, nnd his father, Warren Waito. These pictures were snapped as the W'uites were leaving the courtroom in New York where Waite was tried last week. The father collapsed when a verdict of guilty was returned. 'Below, a likeness of the prosecutor against Waite. New York, June X. Arthur War ren Waite was today sentenced to electrocution in Sing Sing during the week beginning July 10th. Before the confessed murderer of ' Millionaire John Peck was sentenced, he thnnked the court for the manner of conduct ing the trial. "I am willing to give my life as partial payment for wrongs I've done to others. The only regret I have is there is nothing more than life to give them. Mv soul will go on trying to make reparation," he said. Waite was calm and displayed no emotion when sentence was pro nounced. LUMBERMEN COACHED. Mort. Advertising Is Desired for Benefit of the Business. Chicago, Juno 1. More extensive newspaper and magazine advertising is essential to the future of the lum ber industry, from toothpicks to houses,- according to every spcakei' at the Lumbermen's national conven tion here today. The day's speakers inclured" James Kelley, editor of the Chicago Herald, who talked on Pub licity, nnd the other phase of the merchandising problem all hinged on thtc same general question of advertis ing the products of the sawmills. A dozen papers on this subject in Its various forms were presented. The speakers were: E. E. Pratt, chief of the Bureau of domestic and foreign commerce; Dean H. P. Baker of the New York State college of Forestry at Syracuse, Franklin H. Wentworth, secretary of the National Fire protec tion association, Jay S. Hamilton of Portland, Ore.; Frank D. Chase, of Chicago; F. A. Good of Cowlcs, Neb.; J. R. Moorehead of Kansas City and Warren B. Bullock of Milwaukee. JUNE WEDDINGS COSTLY Cleveland Will Spend $250,000 for 1000 June Weddings Cleveland, June 1. TVo hundred and fifty thousand dollars will be spent on 1,000 June weddings in Cleve land, according to Frank Zizolman, marriage licence clerk. l,a t year there were 933 June weddings here, but with an increase in the last twelve months of one thous and in the total number of marriages, Zizclnian figures there will be at least 1.000 during the bridal month. "The average wedding here costs SiTiO," said Zizelman. "Some folk spend thousands n the ceremony, while there are others who just buy a licence and give the minister a fee. But they'll average $2f0 each, count ing florists' tailors' jewelers' and dressmakers' bills." li.il squads of police were called in I Portland, though trouble is thought ui.liKciy. Stevedores rontinu'"d at work on tho government transport docks in Sr.n Francisco, the government agree ing to pay whatever scale is agreed i fte- the strike. Two San Francisco ...mnnnioa whSf.1i Muvnr Rnlntm i beads, granted the longshoremen's demands. TRAFFIC BLOCKED ! ALONG SEAGOAST 'JAKE FRIENDLY INTEREST IN DIE IN JULY. 3 U . -- EDWARD SWANN FAULTY WALKS I COMMISSION ORDERS REPAIRS MADE AT ONCE. ! South Fourth and North Second Must I Be Signed Up Now. Owners of property with bad side 1 walks before it will be ordered by the city to repair or build as the case may 1 be, at once, as a result of a meeting of the City commission last evening. ! All commissioners were present 1 when the session took up. A petition from P. A. Foley to put in a Bowser ; gasoline tank was allowed. i A petition for a sidewalk on Wash ington between First and Cedar came I up in the way of a remonstrance from people who live on Cedar and else where west on Washington. The board walk was taken out some time ingo and the cement has not been put in u onir the lonir axis of the nroD- erty making a bad break in sidewalk service to a populace community in West La Grande. The matter was re- I i erred to the manager with instruc tions to notify properly owners of , bad walks ail over town, that repairs .must be made. i In the matter of North Second and I South Fourth re-assessments the i commission agreed to give all prop ' trty owners on those streets one week to sign up under the Bancroft act. ! A resolution in the matter of re funding a fine of $5.00 to G. L. Pier son was defeated. Piersou was ar ' rested and lined for attacking Troy ' A. Welper. ; A resolution to buy general fund warrants issued after June first with 'Leaver creek sinking funds was passed. ; Bills for the past month wore ro.td and considered. I CONVENT GIRL WEDS. Army Officer (Jivos I p Service to Be come Business Man. Garden City, L. I.. June 1. Love for the convent girl he met in Paris ca"ord Robert. Breckenridge Steele of New York and I.cj:-,'"e to abandon his career as an army officer ann i-c-cuinu a New York business man. Miss Dorothy LonifP Stevenson, the gnl, a daughter of Mr. nnd Mrs. Stevenson of this city, and Mr. Steele were mar ried here today. Miss Stevenson's romance began in Paris two years and a half ago. She had finished her studies at a convent and wns making a tour of the continent when she met Mr. Steele, who had just ended his course at the United States Military academy at West Point, N. Y. He i a son of Mr. It. Rrcckenridgc Steele, of Louisville, K.y., nnd is a member of the Brcckenridgc family of that state. That meeting in the French capital resulted in a change i in Mr. Steele's arrangements. ACTION BE TROOPS NOT TO BE WITHDRAWN DECLARES THE WHITE HOUSE. MISSTATEMENTS IN HIS NOTE TO BE RIGHTED Contentions Set Up By Mexican Gov ernment AVill Be Denied in Note To Be Sent About Tuesday Insinua tion To Be Made That Carranza Did Not Co-operate. Washington. Jim., i A " ' " ' " - JllllllV..... troons won't wlthHl-nu, f,nm f..: at Carrany.n'a rannnat TnctimJ 4.U - " -V.JHVU., bllC administration will inform Carranza oi rejection ot his request and cull attention to misstatements of facts about the' Mexican situation. The note will deny Carranza's claim Mex ico didn't know Americans were crossing the boundary until days after the Villa hunt was sturted. It will declare Generals 'Scott and Obregon uiuu i, agree not xo send second ex peditions after the Bouquillas raiders. It Will dnilht.lnRR inaimmtn fni.,.. . .. L (. II didn t co-operate or else Langshore's cApeuiutm wouia nnv-a encountered patrols during the drive south of iig ocnu. The President's absence tomorrow will delay consideration of the note until Tuesday. General Funstohiiwued alfitatemeiit ' at San Antonio toduy, declaring no ugrcement was ever reached by the Scott-Obregon conferences. BRANDEIS NOW JUSTICE. Washington, June 1. After a stub born and prolonged fight that rocked the whole political complexion of the United States Louis D. Brandeis was confirmed in the senate this after noon by a vote of 47 to 22 to be as sociate justice of the Supreme court. The confirmation was a complete vic tory for President Wilson. GRANT BILL PASSED. Washington, June 1. The Senate this afternoon passed the Oregon-California land grant bill with all amend ments Senator Chamberlain asked for. Senator Borah incorporated an amendment lowering the residence time from five to three years for each claim. ValvelvsH Pump Man Here. J. JL Meredith, representing a valvcless pump, is in the city from Portland today transacting business and calling on his old friend Charles Noyes. Initiation Toinght. Modern Woodmen of America ex pect to take n class of initiates through the mysteries of Woodcraft tliiG cveninir. Imnnr'nnt. hiiflmous w coming up and a good attendance 'r. desired. Tells of Earthquake. Mrs. Jacobs of South La Grande has received a letter from her daughter, who lives at Cambridge, Ida., that the recent earthquake shocks were felt there with considerable severity. One of them was so sharp that it stopped the clock, the letter says. Fruit Situation Fair Claiming that, though backward, the fruit situation in and around Cove is fairly encourairinir. II. L. I.ovan an.) wife of Cove were in the city today on business. The frosts did not spread the damage first feared to be true. Firemen Find Diversion Winona, Minn., June 1. A munici pal factory was opened here today, ll is operated al the fire department ! ,v firtfiyn. durimr snare hours. New imparatus is manufactured, the city financed the factory. V " . V V V V (ONTEMIT MAY BE CITED Washington, June 1. Follow ing a conference of the Presi dent and attorney general, it is lenrnod contempt proceedings against the Standard Oil direc tors, for alleged violations of the Supreme court dissolution decree, may lie brought. 4. A
