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la (ft AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PRINTS THE NEWS THE DAY IT HAPPENS VOLUME XVI LA GRANDE, OREGON. MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1916. NUMBER 59. New Proposals Given To Railroad Executives -1 YEftR'S DELAY IH THE FIL PRESIDENT WILSON WILLING TO LET MEN WAIT A TIME FOR SHORTER HOURS RAILROADS GIVE FINAL ANSWER TO MR. WILSON EXTRA Washington, Aug. 28. The Broth erhoods late tonight confirmed the report that the strike will be called September 4th unless President Wil son's negotiations succeed by that time. This statement was made as positive and final. Washington, Aug. 28. A committee of eight railroad presidents gave to President Wilson their final proposals at 2:30 o clock this afternoon, and after a short conference President Holden announced that the executives would shortly issue a statement to the public, giving something of the pro posals made to the President. He de clined to explain further than that. Washington, Aug. 28. President Wilson planned to meet representa tives of both sides today. Railroads representatives again declared their intention of demanding arbitration and ignoring the eight-hour proposal. Unless trainmen make an unexpected move officials believe the strike is imminent within a week or 10 days. The President prepared a new pro posal of the railroads. He still de mands the eight-hour day, but is will ing to postpone putting the shorter day into effect until the Federal com mission has arranged all details and reorganizes railroad business to con form to the new plans. The commis sion's work might delay the change one year. If negotiations fail President Wilson intends to ask congress to pass a law similar to the Canadian disputes act. This averts all strikes and lockouts one year pending an investigation. He bIso will ask congress to pass a law providing the eight-hour day for rail way employes. President Wilson this afternoon made arrangements to visit the capitol at four o'clock to confer with members of the senate steering committee and will thoroughly discuss all strike de velopments. Adjournment Is Delayed Washington, Aug. 28. Senator Kern announced the senate couldn't finish its legislative program by Fri day. This has killed hope of congres sional adjournment this week. MADE QUICK RUN. Trifle More Than 18 Hours Required to Make Portland Trip. Charles McCrary left Portland at! 5:50 a. m. Saturday morning ana au minutes to 12 that night was in La Grande. He went via Heppner which registers a total drive of 344 miles to La Grande. The time given does not deduct for stops along the way for meals and refreshments from time to time. HOME FROM WILLAMETTE. Plumber and Family Returns from 1100-mile Automobile Trip. Having visited many towns in the Willamette valley, Mr. and Mrs. Nate Zweifcl and children and Mrs. Frank Bay and daughter returned last night from a prolonged automobile trip that took them over 1100 miles. On their return trip they helped a stranded party near Bonneville whose car had gone over the embankment, but with out hurting anyone. They drove in from Wasco yesterday. "La Grande and Union county shouid mark the highway more dis tinctly" said Mr. Zweifel today. "Even as far away a3 in the Willam- . ..niin wa hoarA npnnle comnlain- t:ii v.wicj " j S . f i ing about the lack of road signs in the Grande Ronde valley. It is doing the ADJUDICATION S city and county harm. , Wherever we went after leaving La Grande every avenue leading into towns big and small and out again, are plainly marked so that none need ask ques tions." HI CLERK TOOK MONEY SEVENTEEN HUNDRED TAKEN IN YEAR'S TIME Trap Laid For Arthur T. Kent and Arrest Follows Portland, Aug. 28. Postoffice in spectors declared today Arthur V. Kent, a railway mail clerk, has con- fessed to taking $1700 from the mail. Kent's alleged thefts began in Novem ber, 1915. Inspectors trapped Kent. lhey knew hundreds of dollars in currency would be on a train from Marshfield and went to Kent's home. When he returned thev searched him and found the money. Kent said he needed the I cash to make his home payments and settle over-due bills. He was arraign ed before Commissioner Blake and was held for the grand jury. 96 Again At 3 o'clock this afternoon the gov ernment instruments registered 96 de grees. New Song Makes a Hit. Thos. Hoy, La Grande's song writer, is justifiably elated over the success of his late song, "Mut and Jeff," of which 600 copies of the first edition were sold within a week in Seattle and Tacoma and it is in great demand everywhere. PHOTOGRAPH' REVIEW OF PRINCES AND POTENTATES YESTERDAY DECLARED WAR ON EACH OTHER. BUGLE ARRIVAL Through the long axis of Wiallowa county today moved at automobile speed a band of La Grande race meet boosters. True to the spirit of the times, there was a decided military air about the noisy march from Jo seph to Wallowa, and as the proces sion invaded and captured towns and villages, there was left behind a well- defined and sharply pitched imprint ot the dates of the La lirande racing meeting early in September. Five automobile loads of La Grande boost- am vnali f mm an i n ri irfa H n rr rocf at Wallowa lake Sunday left the lake every hamlet, town and city, - pro - gressed homeward. Some will reach home late this afternoon, other not un til later tonight. BUGLERS COMMANDEERED. Joseph Musicians Taken Through County to Sound "Alarum Joseph, Aug. 28. (Special) Jo seph hotels and restaurants this morning served breakfast to the La Grande race meet boosters. The in vasion of the southernmost city in Wallowa county was rather brief but effective. After the hungry men and women in the party had assuaged their vicious appetites, the managers commandeered a group of buglers for active service the balance of the day, With a flare of trumpets the caravan honked into the Enterprise road and was ofl. ENTERPRISE CAPTURED. La Grande Man and Enterprise Mayor Scouts for Boosters. Enterprise, Aug. 28. (Special) Before Enterprise housewives had their breakfast dishes tucked in cup boards, the La Grande boosters reached Enterprise on a mission of ex ploitation this morning. Mayor Hy att was requisitioned and met tne del egation with Enterprise hospitality. Sam Haworth, La Grande commis sioner, was discovered, and Attorney Dan Loyd and others fell in with the procession and the visitors called on the various merchants of Enterprise, leaving good wishes and incidentally the dates of the big race meets here next month. The buglers from Joseph (Continued on Pa 8.) WHO I nmmt . or 1 S: . ... :- PRINCE NICOLAS Left to right (top) Royal family of Austria, on whom Roumania declared war Sunday, showing Archduke Charles, heir apparent to the Austrian fhvnnp. his rarettv wife and children, and Emperor Franz Joseph. Tsar of Bulgaria, who is expected to aeciare Hull msr nn Roumania within 24 hours, i Below 1 Kine Victor Emanuel of Italy who declared war on Germany 1 much-loved son. Immediately above, ; Prince Nicholas, head of Greek army, wmcn 18 ill precttiiuuo vuiiuhiuii uj late upheaval. CHICAGO WHEAT DROPS EIGHT CENTS BUYERS IN t FRENZY Chicaco. Aucr. 28. Wheat prices I dropped seven to eight cents toclf.y. Traders are trenzied. ine Rou manian war declaration and strike news caused the break. At noon September, December and May wheat were eight cents below Saturday's close. Wheat buyers for immediate mills, and for Portland and other outside dealers, and of whom there are many in town right now, haven't as a rule been advised of the great slump in Eastern wheat prices. "We pay any thing the farmer asked," one buyer said half in earnest today before the Chicago conditions became known. The Kiddle interests went to buying this mornine on the closing basis of Saturday but it is very likely that if the bearish attitude of the Chicago market runs into tomorrow, that a sharp slump will strike the Oregon market too. It is reported this afternoon that the local price is off eight to ten cents. Struck by Locomotive. F. Craft, foreman of the paint gang on the O.-W. R. & N., while walking 1 DECLARES S Roumanian King Follows in Footsteps of Italy ' Who Has Declared War on Germany-All Balkan States on the Alert London, Aug. 28. Berlin today officially announced Rou mania lhad declared war on Austria Sunday. The Kaiser intends to hand the Roumanian Ambassador his passports today. The Germn Federal council meets 'this afternoon and probably will declare war on Roumania within 24 hours. Bulgaria and Tur key are expected to issue similar declarations and' the French foreign office announced Roumania has declared war on the central powers. Roumania acted after a meeting of the Crown Council and King Ferdinand last night. The Roumanian army has 600,000 men. Bulgarians must leave Greece to protect the northern Bul gar frontier against the Roumanian invasion. ..." Rome, Aug. 28. Italy declared war on' Germany Sunday. Italy r.nd Germany have been drifting steadily toward war. The declaration became inevitable when Italy recently sent troops to Saloniki to co-operate in 'the campaign of the entente allies on the Macedonian front, as Germany is directing the opposing forces and has troops on this battle line. ; v Italy's position in regard to Germany has been an anoma lous one since Italy withdrew from the triple alliance May 23 of last year and declared war on Austria. Although by this act she arrayed herself against her former allies, Germany and Austria, she remained officially at peace with Germany until Saturday. HUGHES RESTING ' IN ESTES PARK BEAUTY OP LANDSCAPE THERE SURPASSES ALPS. Cost of High Living in Estes Park Also Surpasses Rest of the World. Estes Park, .Colo., Aug. 28. Chas. E. Hughes is vacationing here today in a beautiful mountain park bounded on the west by a score of peaks 13 and 14 thousand feet above sea-level. There is nothing jif the European Alps to equal this region in scenic beauty. Here the Republican candi date will indulge his well known love for mountain climbing. Hotel keepers and ranchers in this Rocky Mountain National park are duly grateful to Mr. Hughes for the advertising. Es tes park, the name of the postoffice, formerly was the name of all the sur- roundinc thousands of acres, but since Uncle Sam reserved the territory for a people's playground it is ofncia ly I. LJ p the Rocky Mountain Na , . Government reports show that it is annually visited by more people than any other national park. The Young Men's Christian association, one, of the first to recog nize the advantages of the region, has (Continued on Page Eight) on tho track near the watertank in this city Wednesday at 1 p. m. was struck by the locomotive on passenger train No. 6 and his right shoulder was fractured and other injuries were re ceived about the body. He was taKen to tho La Grande hospital tho same evening. North Powder News. Myrtle Wood Interests Amonir the many resources of the coast country which Fred. B. Currey witnessed and studied while in Coos Hay last week, few interested him more he says, than the myrtle wood industry, which the people there will exhibit at the state fair. So interest ing in this art-industry that leading moving concerns huvo pictured the process whereby the myrtle is given its wonderful polish. Mr. Currey also found oats nine feet high producing unbelievable yield. Prisoners Escape Jamestown, N. D., Aug. 28. Three alien convicts from Seattle en route to New York for deportation jump.d from the federal prison car near ban born and caught a west bound freight leaving Sanborn. They escaped. FOES FIGHT Berlin, ' Aug. 28. Dispatches say Germans declared war on Roumania this afternoon. ' - Bctlin, Aug. 28. Austrians and Roumanians clashed at the Sieben burger frontier a few hours after war was declared and it is announced the Teutons captured many prisoners. Military critics declared Italy's dec laration of war on Germany will in fluence the military situation. Sofia dispatches said: "Allies are evacuat ing all northeastern Macedonia before the Bulgarian advance. Bulgars are driving British to the base on the Gulf of Orifina. Various Fronts Reviewed. London, Aug. 28. Paris has an nounced French repulsed attacks against Fleury. Potrograd has an nounced Russians captured wood3 near Halitz and captured an Austrian field post at Stochoed. They continued driving the Turks in the Caucasus. Gen. Haig reported British have pro gressed east of Deliville woods and captured trenches near Moquet farm. ( Germany Fails to Prevent Break ; T.nnAnr, Ann- 97 Rnfn Ho. ( ciared war on Germany the latter country had exerted evory effort to- induce her to remain neutral, send ing to Rome as an ambassador Prince von Buelow. The prince for some time averted war between Austria and Italy, and when he saw a rupture was inevitable, took steps toward preser vation of an official peace between Germany and Italy. He negotiated a special agreement under which, in case of war between Austria and It aly, Germany and Italy pledged them selves to respect the properties and lives of their respective subjects in each other's domains. According to unofficial reports from Europe. Italy's allies were dissatis- fied and at tho Paris council of en tente powers in February last, asked the Italian representatives why their nition was not at war with Germany. Italy already had agreed not to conclude a separate peace and at the Paris conference sanctioned the plan for a permanent high council of the entente powers for conduct of the iwr.r. The increasing co-cperation among the entente allies and the ne cessity for bringing into service It aly's surplus of troops, generally brought Italy into such a position that it became evident a declaration of hostilities against Germany was cer tain. The first overt act in this direc tion occurred shortly after the Paris conference. February 2!), Italy rc auisitioned 34 of the 37 German steam ships interned in Italian ports to neip meet the pressing needs of the allies for shipping facilities. Other indications of approaching war have been observed in recent weeks. A German court ruled that Italy and Germany were actually, though not formrlly, at war. It was reported unofficially that Germany had taken chi.rge of tho defense of Trieat. A more definite indication was the severance last month of the commer cial agreement providing for mutual Continued h Page Eight) .i ... :
