AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PRINTS THE NEWS THE DAY IT HAPPENS
VOLUME XV
LA GRANDE, OREGON. '-THURSDAY, JUNl'il, 191G.
NUMBER 298.
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PEACE DOVE
FLUTTERS IN
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GEORGE PERKINS CARRIES
OLIVE BRANCH WITH PROM
ISE OF COALITION.
ALABAMA DELEGATION
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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-
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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.
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FAULTY WALKS
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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
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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.
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troons won't wlthHl-nu, f,nm f..:
at Carrany.n'a rannnat TnctimJ 4.U
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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.,..
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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.
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(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.
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