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VOLUME XVI
LA GRANDE, OREGON. TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1916.
NUMBER 18.
Carranza Troops Desert De Facto
Government to Join Villa Crowd
VILLA SPIKII
MANY STATES
SENTLMENT FOR BANDIT CHIEF
TAIN PRONOUNCED NEAR
CHIHUAHUA.
FRIENDSHIP ALONG THE
BORDER MORE NOTICEABLE
Fact Villa ; Will Personally Lead
Army Against Gringoes Is Taken
as Inspiration for Both Carranza
Followers and Soldiers to Desert.
El Paso. July 11. Persistent re
ports that Mexicans are flocking- to
Villa s standard culminated m an un
confirmed rumor iJhat several hundred
Carranzistas withdrew from the Chi
huahua garrison to join Villa and it
is reported disorders followed.
Carranza oflicials here emphatically
denied the rumors of a revolt in the
defacto ranks. The Guerrero dis
trict is aflame with Villa spirit. .Hun
dreds of natives deserted Guerrero
villages, presumably to join tone new
army which they believe Villa will
lead personally" against the gringoes.
Motor truckers believe the entire
district is a hot bed of Villa senti
ment. Further north the native'i are
friendly, enjoying the first peace in
years.
The rainy season is now well start
ed, flooding parts of the line.
MR. CLARK GOING EAST.
Former Y. M. C. A. Secretary Going
Through La Grande Thursday.
According to information received
today, Roy J. Clark, at one time sec
retary of the Y. M. C. A. Ihere, and
.now located at Astoria, will pass
through La Grande Thursday evening
on No. 18, en route east on a business
trip.
He says in his letter he is well sat
isfied with his new location and has
been- extremely busy getting his
building organized for good work.
SHERIFF IS ILL.
. Sunburned Pate "Causing Considerable
Grief to Officer.
A thin, silk hat, and horseshoe
pitching under a boiling sun, proved
the undoing of Sheriff August Hug
a few days ago. While in Elgin at a
family reunion recently, he partic
ipated in a horsehoe pitching contest,
wearing a thin silk hat the meantime.
Mr. Hug (hasn't an overabundance of
hirsute adornment on that part of his
anatomy usually . designated as . the
pate, and ere the sheriff knew his
fate, the pate, it was found too late
ihad been blistered and sunscorched.
we is sunering much inconvenience
witihi the whole affair, these days.
CORPE PLACE SOLD.
Recent Resident of Colorado Is New
Citizen of Country.
Mrs. Jennie B. Corpe of Cove has
sold one of her farms through the
Geo. H. Currey Real Estate Agency
to C. Bertsi! a recent arrival from
Colorado, who has taken immediate
possession. '
The farm consisted of 224 acre?
with unusual value in buildings and
equipment especially adapted for the
dairy business. Stock implements
and machinery were included in the
sale. Mrs. Corpe and her nephew
Mr. Peterson expect to make a tour
of Yellowstone Park in a few days by
auto. Mr. Currey states that "there
is ample room for more such families
in Union county and Cove is to be
congratulated in securing Mr. and
Mrs. Bertsch as residents. Mr. Dutli,
the well known baker, and Mr.
Bertsch are friends of many years
standing and it was largely through
the influence of Mr. Dutli that
brought them to this country.
Hears of Relative's Death.
Fire Ohief Claude Mackey was ad
vised this morning by wire that his
nephew, Harold Mackey, aged 21. at
Bdxelder, Mont., was drowned last
night. The deceased was the son of
C. E. Mackey a brother of Mr. Mac
key of this city. No details accom
pany the information.
SPREAD NG
.PROHIBITION CANDIDATE MUST RECKON WITH . VOTE OF
:,
. i'" " ' ' J WOMEN! '.
Among- the prominent women Ac
tive in the nearby prohibition conven
tion are: Top, left Mrs. Frances E.
Beaucamp of Lexington, Ky., mem
ber of the national committee 20
years; top, right Mrs. M. E. Bar
tour of Minneapolis, pioneer worker
in the temperance movement; lower,
left Mrs. Florence Slown Hyde of
Chicago, active in the Women's Na
tional Prohibition federation, and low
er right Mrs. Frances Heald .of Ne
braska, member national committee.
IS
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THIRTY-TWO FATALITIES OC
CUR TODAY.
Total Deaths to Date Since Plague
Started Is 270.
New York, July 11. Despite prodi
gious efforts to curb infantile pa
ralysis, deaths and new cases showed
an increase of 100 percent in Brook
lyn sincey esterduy. iotal deaths are
270. Thirty-two fatalities were re
ported today in Brooklyn. Yester
day only nine died there.
Coast Is Alarmed.
Portland, July 11. -Health officers
in Washington, British Columbia,
Idaho, Oregon and California, may
meet in Portland soon to discuss
means of keeping the infantile pa
ralysis epidemic from the Pacific
coast. They are gathering at Se
attle today for a preliminary confer
ence and may hold a meeting here
Saturday.
Birth Record.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Winn, 808
F street, July 9th, an eight-pound
daughter. Mother and daughter are
doing nicely, and as for the father,
his co-workers in the Barbers' union
of whidhi he is a member, have en
joyed copious first-class cigars these
days.
Salem to Aid Needy Families.
Salem, Or., July 10. With the view
of raising funds for dependent fam
ilies of members of company M of the
Oregon national guard, a mass meet
ing will be held tonight at the arm
ory, under the auspices of the Salem
Patriotic league. Ex-Mayor Lach
mund, exalted ruler of the Elks, has
issued a call to the members of the
lodge to be present and aid.
Justice George H. Burnett will pre
side, and addresses will be made by
Rev. H. E. Marshall and Rev. James
Elvin, Mrs. Hallie Parrish Hinges and
Tom Ordemann will sing. Follow
ing tho meeteing there will be a
dance. At the mass meeting the cit
izens will be asked to pledge them
selves to aid the dependent families
of the guardsmen as long as the men
must stay at the Mexican front.
EPIDEMIC
IRS
Women had their say in the Re
publican, Progressive and Democratic
conventions and will speak up when
tfoe national prohibition party meets
at St. Paul July 19 to name a candi
date for president.
With 100 women delegates, many of
them voters, the woman vote is re
garded a big factor. Women prohi
bitionists do not limit their activities
to prohibition. The presdential candi
date they support must "stand right"
on woman suffrage and legislation ef
fecting children.
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FOREST FIRE TIME NEAR
AT HAND.
4" Nineteen sixteon's first for- 4
4 est blazes have been conquered 4
I quered with trifling loss, one
4 being near tfhe Park, and an-
4 other off to the west. This em-
4 (phasizes the fact that the very
i present danger of lorest hre is
i ujfvit uawui V.CUII Mill lltlB- J
after extreme caution should be
fr exercised by all campers,
4 woodsmen and tourists. Fire
4 Warden Lowell Williamson re-
4 ports that forests are ripe for
I blazes and that timber mtor
4 ests, tilue state, government and
4 general welfare of communities
4 appeal for caution on the part
4 of the public. The forests of 4
Oregon arc its greatest asset,'
4 and it behooves the public to -4
conserve them.
4 4-
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San Francisco, July 11. Peace con
ferences between longshoremen and
employers has encountered another
obstacle when the employers flatly de
manded stevedores return to work at
wages prevailing before the walkout.
The strike committee has considered
the demand but has not accepted. End
of the trouble appears far distant.
Mediator White, who felt confident,
until a few hours ago, is still work
i"ir. Unconditional surrender is the only
terms the employers offers and the
employers' stand is the result of ac
tion of Commercial organizations rais
ing a million dollars to support an
open shop.
Robbed and Dynamited
Cle Elum, Wash.. July 10. At an
early hour yesterday morning, the
drug store of Thomas Stoves was
dynamited ,the front and a large part
of the interior of the store being
totally wrecked, entaling a damage
!of about $750. The officers claim it
LONGSHOREMEN'S WAR NO
NEARER END IRAN BEFORE
VILLAGE OF
GONTALMAISON
TAKEN BY FOE
BRITISH STORM AND
.it
FOR 1
FORT CONTENDED
SEVERAL DAYS.
AUSTRIAN BOAT SINKS
SEVERAL PATROL CRAFTS
French Lines
Barely a Mile from ,
Perrone,
Seem Ready to Grasp
.,, , . , , , . ,,. 'speeding, was urrested and fined.
That Point-lVenty.two Villages Twenty-one local drivers and one El
Taken by Allies Since the Offensive in P"1'1 was tol in -he "nt.i-
speeding campaign. Now at Elgin
Started. tho Recorder reflects considerable
bitterness because an Elgin party was
arrested for speeding in La Grande,
London, July 11. British last night claiming the alibi that they didn't
stormed and carried the village of know thev were in the "citv limits.'
Contalmaison, aibout which violent
lighting has raged since the opening the warning to all auto drivers that
of the offensive. Gen. Haig reported whenever they are under arc lights in
189 prisoners were taken. the vicinity of La Grande, they are
"Further east we stormed several pretty liable to bo in tho city bounded
lines of trenches in Manvmotz wood area.
and tho greater part of the wood is I No it's not all roses, this being traf
in our possession," he says. Heavy fic cop. You get cussed if you do and
fighting continues at Trones wood, you get it if you don't.
Germans counter attacked strongly i
at Contalmasion but were repulsed COVE CONCERT TOMORROW.
sanguinarily. The British hold the
village. Two hundred and ninety-six Washington Singer and Reader to
pnsoners were taken in fighting in (i- Concert
Mnmmetz, wood.
Twenty-two villages, all highly
fortified llilave been captured since the
offensive began ten days ago.
Peronne, barely n milo from the
French lines, is almost within grasp,
Paris has reported the Germans
launched a powerful attack northwest
cf Verdun this morning, occupying a
few trenches, but were later ousted,
Paris stated Germans entered 200
yards of French trenches at Lor-
mine.
Austrian Shin .inkn Ront.
Berlin, July 11. (Wireless to Say-
ville) Four and possibly five arm-
ored British patrol boats were de-
stroyed by an Austrian cruiser off
Otranto, the Austrian admiralty has
jinnmiruiH All thn milrnl bnuR unnW
three burning after the boilers ex- j Ixjndon, July 11. An order pro
ploded. hibiting carrying of fire arms
The Novara could only rescue nine throughout Ieland has been issued.
British sailors from the crews. The Lord Lansdowne has announced to the
prisoners said there were five patrol
boats in tine group. r
' FIRE IN CLOSET.
Mrs.
J. A. Lindenburg Discovers
Blaze at Early Stage.
(Because the ludy of tihe house,
discovered a slow fire in some cloth
ing in a closet in the upstairs of her
Home, before the blaze attained any
magnitude,, the fire department had
but little trouble this afternoon end-
ing the fire before serious harm was
done. A little child in the house had
been hunting for a doll in tho up-
auuiin j-uums ami - mrs. Xjinocuourg
thinks probably the little one obtained
possession ot some matches, iho do-
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the blaze with hand chemicals.
M . a a
,w. v.u..
.i
i evrograu, juiy ix. vien. nruiiion
has captured more tihun 271,000 Au
trians and Germans since the bogin-
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' up in splendid fashion under the m-
was the work of some frenzied drug-, tensive drilling and vigorous life in
user, us the cash register was not the open air, writes Adjutant General
disturbed, while one eight-ounce bot- George A. White, now captain of
tie of morphine and two eight-ounce Troop A. cavalry, in a letter today to
bottles of cocaine had disappeared Governor Withycombe.
from a part of tho store not damaged ; "If the opportunity presents itself,"
by the blast. The explosion awakened continued White, "I am sure that all
the city and it is claimed that two will give a good account of themselves
men were seen running away from in any situation that may be present
the store, and they are believeed to ed."
have set the blast. to hide the theft: Touching the financial and property
of the drug. sides of office administration in con-
nection with his department, the ad
Lutheran Sunday School Picnic jjutant general says that a total hal-
" I ance to the department's credit on
The annual picnic of tho Lutheran June 28, amounted to $5.1,000. As
Sunday school and Parish Society will the appropriation for a two vear per
Ve held at tho park Thursday. Owing iod amounted to $155,000 the balance
to other gatherings there during the for the final six months was in ex
week the day was changed from the cess of the appropriation for that
time originally planned, to Thursday period.
so as not to conflict. A car will leave . Major Wulter W. Wilson was desig
from the comer of Depot and Ar- nnted by the adjutant general to con
ams Avenue between 9 and 11 for fre- duct the affairs of the office during
quent trips and at 10 from the north White's absence. 'All property ac
end of Second street. Lunches will counts berwern tho state and the Uni
be brought by ail and served on one ted State will be adjusted by the end
long table at noon. 0f this month.
POOR POLICEMAN;
HIS LIFE'S HARD
GET CUSSED BECAUSE HE DID
AND DIDN'T.
Two Elgin Parties Look Upon Speed
Law in Directly Opposite
Viewpoints. ,
I All is not rosy pathways, this busi
ness of being policeman, more es
' pecinlly traffic cop. During the Chau
TAKE tauqua the police department was
scorned y outsiders tor eniorcing tlve
speed limits and in the same hour ud-
I braided for not doing so. A leading
r.lgin lamily drove to town in a ncw-ly-'purchased
automobile. They want
ed to drive out to the Chautauqua but
when they got into the maelstrom of
autos they decided they didn't know
enough as yet about running an au
tomobile. They complained to the po
lice tlutt speeding was permited to a
degree where an uiwdhooled auto
driver was shuntered aside. They
missed the Chautauqua.
Then there cumo to town the same
day another Elgin auto -party. . In
crossing tho O.-W. tracks this party,
The police department has authorized
Cove, July 11. Wednesday July 12
Mrs. Joceiyn Konerts ot Washington,
D. C, who is visiting here, will give
a two-part concert for the benefit of
the Cove Cherry fair. Her first num-
bers will he readings and the last
music. Mrs. Roberts is a skilled mu-
sician and a splendid reader, and
Cove looks forward to an exceptional
program. She has already been
, heard here and in" such numbers as
she has appeared, her ability has been
marked and greatly appreciated. The
program win De aunounceu in aeuui
tomorrow.
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Irish Denied Fire Arm.
'
Lords.
EXALTED RULER
LLOYD MAXWELL OF IOWA DE-
, FEATED
Boston Selected As Meeting Place of
( H. I . (. rl
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Baltimore, July 11. Edgar Rightor
ot New Orleans, was elected grand
cxated ruIer of tho- Elkfl ovep loyd
1 Maxwell ot Marshaltown, Iowa.
Boston was selected as the next
reunion in 1918.
DAN PATCH DEAD
Minneapolis, July 11. Dan Pabch,
the world s f nates pacer, died today at
; Savage, Minn.
Oregon Troops Feel Fine
I Salem, July 10. The Oregon troop
distributed along the border are in
first-class condition and are shaping
H
GOVERNMENT
INSPECTS THE
DEUTSCHLAHD
AMERICAN NAVAL OFFICER
GOES INTO BOAT TO
LOOK FOR GUNS.
ANOTHER SUBMERSIBLE
NEARING RIO JANEIRO
Allies Will Bend Every Effort to
Have Uncle Sam Declare the Super
Submarine Is Not a Merchantman,
England Says "Potently a War
ship."
Baltimore. July 11. ' CuDt. Hudhoa
of the American navy boarded the
ueutsctiland this afternoon to in
spect her for armament. The man
ager of the Ocean Transportation
company gave the commission, and
Captain Koenig agreed. The inspec
tion was made at the instance of
English and Frendhl embassies who
declare it is improper to harbor the
snip as a merchantman. rJnglund and
France will exort every effort to pre
vent the United States recognizing
the Duelschland as a Merchantman
and will do all possible to prevent op
orations of the Bubmersibles, tlhie em
bassies declared.
The British embassy has declared
uny submarine is potently a war
ship. British Consellor Barckley told
tho American officials this.
Rio Janeiro, July II. An official
newspaper has declared a sister ship
to tha. super-submarine Deutschland
is crossing the Atlantic and will ar
rive here within 10 days. The state
chancellor received the notification.
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Suit to Postpone Hearing.
Salem, Or., July 10. Because of
an injunction issued by Circuit Judge
Galloway the public service commis
sion has indefinitely postponed a hear
ing which was to Ihsive been held at
Bend tomorrow, July 11, with rela
tion to the Central Oregon Irrigation
company.
Complaint was filed against the
company by the Central Oregon Irri
gation Company Water Users' as-,
sociation, it contending that the com-'
pany's water service was inadequate.
The Irrigation company brought pro
ceedings in the supreme court chal
lenging the jurisdiction of the com
mission, and the court held that it
had no jurisdiction over the matter
In the first instance. In view of tha
decision the company began proceed
ings in tho circuit court and tihJo cse
will now unquestionably go to the su
preme court no matter what the de
cision of the lower tribunal, j i - v
Elks Have Plans for New Home.
Centraliu, Wash., July 11. Tho '
new home committee of the Centraliai
Elks yesterday received from Stevens
& Stevens, Seattle architects, tenta
tive plans for the new $45,000 build
ing to be erected on property be
longing to utws Elks in this city. The
plans call for a three-story brick
building, 60 by 120 feet in size. The
basement will contuin a swimming
pool, gymnasium and bowling alley,
wliile tho first floor will contain a ban
quet hall, lobby, billiard, card rooms
and lounging rooms. The lodge hall
will bo located on the second floor ex
tending through tho third floor. The
balance of the, second and third floors
will bo taken up with sleeping rooms.
WILL SUE THE STATE.
Baker County Claims $15,000 Due
From Forest Fund.
Baker, July 11. The matter of
collecting $15,000 alleged duo Baker
as its share of the receipts of national
forest moneys, the members of tho
county court yesterday, after confer
ring wiih District Attomev Godwin.
decided o bring suit against the sec-
rotary of state to recover the amount.
Mr. Godwin, who has made an ex
haustive study of the legal phases of
tho situation, believes the amount
can be collected.
ail jopun pounn. si Xouoiu 3i)j
federal law of i908. which provides
that one-fourth of the receipts of na
tional forests go to tho road and
school funds of the counties in which
they are located. It is claimed that
instead of making distribution on this
basis, tho secretary of state made dis
tribution on the old 10 per cent basis,
by reason of which Kaker failed tr
get the amount rightfully due by
about $15,000. OBher Eastern Oregon
counties similarly affected by the law,
it is undertood, will take similar ac
tion. 1
Judge Mesick and Commissioner
Welch and Ritter recently went to
Salem and presented the county's
claim, which Mr. Olcott refused to
entertain, holding that distribution
had been made in accordance with tha
federal and state lnws.