La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, October 13, 1916, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextKEEP YOUR MONEY AT HOME BY BUYING FROM LA GRANDE MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTURERS. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER - PRINTS THE NEWS THE DAY IT HAPPENS VOLUME XVI LA GRANDE, OREGON. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1916. NUMBER 99. WIDE-SPREAD CONSPIRACIES UNDERTAKEN UNCLE SAM'S OFFICIALS INDUS TRIOUSLY SEEK TO PRE VENT BALLOT FRAUD MANY BIG CITIES IN SEVERAL STATES INVOLVED Colonization, False Registrations, Im portations and Other Fraudulent Acts Charged Hope to Uncover In stigators Before the Coming Elec tions. Washington, Oct. 13. (United Press) The department of justice is investigating charges of widespread election fraud conspiracies at Cin cinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, Indianapolis, Terra Haute, Pennsyl vania, West Virginia, and in Colorado. The department hopes to dispose of the cases before election time. Briberv. illeiral registrations and colonization, and proposed illegal vot ing are included in the charges. The department, has learned that conspirators planned to import voters. Government officials are making every effort to prosecute the con templated frauds. PERSONAL MENTION City Commissioner S. R. Haworth is a Pendleton visitor today. Mrs. L. Hr Bramwell has gone to Grants Pass to visit with friends and relatives. Ray Barkhurst, a prominent Port land business man, was in La Grande yesterday. L. A. McAllister went to Walla Wall today to attend the merch ants' meeting. Mrs. Hattie Ralston left this morn-1 injr for Portland where she will visit I her daugnter uertrude Kaiston snei ley. The fire department was called to the North side last evening on a false alarm chase. It is believed some mis chievous boys pulled the box. John E. Crymes, Sunday School union field missionary, left last night for Albany where he attends a con ference of all Sunday School workers in thnt section of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Burns, of Brooklyn, and J. W. Simmons of Port land, who have been in La Grande on Modern Woodmen inspection, left to day for Walla Walla to continue their trip over the coast states. Joe Kelley has returned from Wa terloo, Iowa, where he visited his mother and other relatives. Mr. Kellev reports living fully as high in the mitidlewest as it is out here, but that Iowa is prosperous and her towns growing. Mr. Gilkison, of the Clover creek district out from North Powder, came . down last evening to hear National j lecturer Burns, and returned home today noon. He is clerk of the newly- j established camp of Modern Wood- men on Clover creek. . Attorney J. H. Nicholds of Baker and William Horton, also of Baker, passed through La Grande by train this morning en route to Mr. Nicholds' lodge on the shores of Wallowa lake. Dr. Patterson and Mr. Horton will join them by auto later and partic ipate in a hunt. Hughes Is In Missouri. St. Louis, Oct. 13. (United Press) Mr. Hughes has invaded Democratic Missouri with speeches at Springfield and Joplin. He plans to discuss "What 1M Dn Tf PrpqiHnnt." psnwiitllv rp. ! garrfing submarine matters. Willamette "Prexv" Installed. Salem, Oct. 13. (United Press). Dr. Carl Gregg Doney of Buckanno. West Virginia, was inaugurated as the seventeenth president of Willam ette University todny. A distin guished assemblage of educators wit nessed it. Jobs for Packers. Further proof that no one need go hungry in this vicinity if he will work is seen in the fact that more applica tions for fruit pickers and packers come into the free employment bureuu at the Y. M. C. A. than can be fi led. FIRST PHOTO OP GERMAN RAIDER U -53 WHICH The first photo of the Gorman U-boat 53, the first armed German submersible to reach the United States. The U-boat was photo graphed in the harbor at Newport, R. I., where it bobbed up Saturday unexpected and unheralded. After staying long enough to deliver a package of mail for the German embassy the U-boat shipped out of the harbor. A short time later, reports of attacks on allies' shipping off the coast began to arrive, heralding what is thought to bo the beginning of the most destructive submarine campaign of the war. Below the map shows where the U-53 and perhaps other German submarines are sinking merchant vessels off the American coast. , . v . . . i ' ' ' ' ; ' MORE DEATHS JJZIltr AUTO CRASH AT RAYflNNF ! KINSMAN ... . w ...... , . 1 "S!, jfvNANTUCKET I " " " T ' " " Bayonnc, Oct. 13. (United Press) The strike situation here is growing constantly worse. Last night's riots resulted in one killed nnd at least a score hurt. New Jersey militiamen back from the border helped dis perse the crowds. Today the police advanced into the Hook and Gridrion districts and cowed the Standard Oil strikers. Many have been arrested for sniping. A man's corpse was found tod.iy with a bullet hole in his head making the third death since righting began. MISS BATES WINS GOLD MEDAL High Honors Won by Elgin Contest ant at M. E. Church. , - Miss Anna Bates, competing against seven other aspirants for the honor, won the grand gold medal con test at the Methodist church last even ing. She will, because of her signal honors, be eligible to compete in the diamond medal contest at Pendleton next week. The contestants, each and all, made splendid showings and it was difficult to pick a winner. Hughes' Special at Seattle. Seattle, Oct. 13. (United Press). Scores of honking automobiles greeted the Women's Hughes' special this of ternoon. A band led the delegates from the depot to the theater. German-American Women's club members greeted the delegates here. Sign At Welcome Gate. A handsome sign, welcoming strangers to the Y. M. C. A. for baths, plunges and recreation, has been hung up on the welcome arch at the depot by Secretary King. The frame is neat, large and catchy, and will be a guiding hand to Y. M. C. A. pat ronizers. Trial Nearing the End. The case of Morgan vs. Johns went to the jury this afternoon nnd court will next take up the litigation of Caster and Forsstrom vs. J. E. Hall. The Grover alias HaiJand sentence was postponed this morning until to morrow at 9 a. m. when Judge Knowles will pronounce the punish ment for conviction of polygamy. MELVILLE BID LOWEST BY $14 J. Melville's bid on the city heating plant job was found to be $14.00 low er than others, by a committee ap pointed by the City Commission, and yesterday evening closed up a deal with the low bidders. As soon as the bonds are properly executed the work of building the heating plant will be- gin. Mr. Melville's bid was ?2,3S3.00. Public Docks Engineer Here. G. B. Hegnrdt, engineer of and sec retary for the Commission of Pub lic docks at Portland, and G. L. Hurd of O. A. C, are at the Foley to re main over tomorrow and will be glad to discuss bulk handling of wheat with anyone interested. U. S. Ship Halts English Vessel. New York, Oct. 13. (Special) The American destroyer Sterret over hauled the British steamship City of Madras off the Ambi-ose channel light ship and brought the vessel back to Staten Island la:;t night after it ha 1 ignored the war vessel's signal to stop when leaving quarantine. It was said at qua'f.ntine late lat night that the City of Madras would be permitted to sail today. She wa:i forced to turn back because she failed to obev the destroyer's orders. j - 9 . .. A tlantic Coast Baked For Possible J2444444 U-53 LINGERS NEAR Newport, Oct. 13. (United Press The radio station here has received a report that an unidentified steamer sighted the 4 German submarine U-53, which I is supposed ta have created so much havoc to shipping, off 4 Nantucket shoals at 7 this 4 morning. 4 4 4 4 j. .j 4 Washino-ton .Oct. 13. (United Press) Secretary of the Navy Dan- lels has announced that an American DR. WIRT AT THE "Y SUNDAY The first meeting for men to be held this year at the Y. M. C. A. will bo next Sunday. A very interesting and profitable program has been arranged. The meeting will be in charge of the Religious Work committee and will represent the start of their efforts for the coming year. It is the intention of the committee to only hold meet ings when it is possible to get a speaker of the same renown as the sneaker for next Sunday. The com mittee expects to conduct its Gospel Team work to some extent as was done last year. The speaker for Sunday, Dr. Lincoln Wirt, of Boston, Mass., is without a doubt one of the greatest speakers on the lecture platform today. He is without a peer, many of the critics say, and the fact that he has consent ed to speak at the Y. M. C. A. without charge, makes this opportunity one that the men of La Grande cannot af ford to miss. Dr. Wirt was permitted, to pass freely through the jealously guarded military zones, receiving many courtesies from both civil and military authorities in five of the countries at war. He spent three years in the Arctic region and has de livered his lecture on The Conquest of the Arctic over a 1000 times. C. P. Ferrin will be the soloist of tho meeting and an effort is being made to have the Y. M. C. A. choral society give a number. FRIDAY, THE THIRTEENTH Only Occasion of Its Kind This Year Occurs This Date. If things went wrong today, and the iinx Was nersistent. blame it to the I fact that this is Friday the 13th of 'October. Upon no other occasion this year does Friday fall on a 13th day. UPSET COMMERCE AND m0 - 'P WEST DOIMT TOQPEDOEO ii STAPH. NO ,T OOPS DOE D U -Boat Stations destroyer flotilla is scouring the At lantic coast, hunting suspected naval bases said to be maintained by bellig erent nations. Admiral Mayo, commanding the Atlantic fleet, ordered tho destroyers from Newport yesterday to search the coast north to East Port, Maine, near the Canadian border. Mr. Daniels said: "There is no reason to believe any belligerent is maintaining a base . on this shore. During last year when- j. ' ever sucn a Dase was suspeciea we ai T.wavs ordered destroyers to hunt it.' Officials believe Canadian, Ameri- j can and Spanish shipmasters may be i sunnlvini? helHcrprent vessels At. spn. ! It is reported the justice and treasury department agents are co-operating i in me neuron WINDOW-BREAKING WAR MUST STOP An epidemic of window-breaking, fire-alarm pulling and box glass breaking, and other depredations to private and city property has been go ing on for some time within the city nnd authorities are taking stringent means to stop it. A handsome reward ha3 been posted today by City Mana ger Foley in an effort to overcome the campaign. Boys with bean shooters are said to be largely responsible. War Bulletins Berlin. Oct. 13. (United Press) Vienna dispatches said the Italian Is- onzo drive has failed. Austrians blocked repeated assaults. Cadorna has wasted his ammunition and failed to make gains. British and Serbian Macedonian attacks were defeated. Petrograd, Oct. 13. (United Press) It is admitted Germans have tem porarily occupied a Russian trench southwest of Bubnor. Russian coun ter's were successful. The Dobrudja situation is unchnnged. , Paris. France. Oct. 13. (United' presslTi,itish aeroplanes raided the Mauser works at Ollendorff and dropped five tons of projectiles. There is violent artillerying on both sides of the Somme. German Prisoners Taken. London, Oct. 13. (United Press) j bp'tween' Ouedecourt ai.d I-osbouefs north of the Somme and captured ISO prisoners. They repulsed Oerman at tacks north of the Stuff redoubt. Fourteen British raiding parties en tered trenches nt Yprcs nnd Armen tieres and inflicted causualties. They returned with prisoners. MAP OP HER COURSE Salem, Oct. 13. (United Press). Mrs. C. M. Matlock of Salem, was in stantly killed while riding in an au tomobile driven by Mrs. L. E. Weeks. They collided with a machine driven by Christian Aim of Silverton, in a dense fog on the Silverton road. Mrs. A. M. Matlock and daughter Eilen, aged two, of Dallas, sustained cuts and bruises, Josephine Matlock witnessed her j mother is death. Mrs. May Ivie of Salem, and other occupants of the wrecked machine were unhurt. HURT ' 'Accident MRS. JUDSON IS BADLY Exact Details of Portland Haven't Reached City Except that Mrs. Victoria Judson, mother of Dr. Dora Underwood, was run over oy a Portland auto driver yesterday noon on a Portland street. no definite word has reached here of the extent of the injuries. Mrs. Un derwood left last evening for Portland not knowing when she went how bad her mother was hurt. The automobile! passed completely over Mrs. Judson, who was visiting her brother, Kooert E. Menefce of Portland, according to information received hero. Mr. Pomeroy Out Again. With his head eiy carefully band aged up, Milton Pomeroy, who was struck by an automobile recently, is so far improved that he can leave the hospital. OFFICERS W. C. T. U. ELECTS Mrs. Thornton Re-Elccted County President of the Union. Mrs. Para Thornton of I,n Grande ,.l,.twl KO i.lol tho ITninn ( w r t i! L.et at . fho L""' ." v'- R "- conclusion of the county convention Other officers chosen include: Mrs. S. D. Wcatherspoon, Elgin, vice president; Mrs. Alice McMillan, Union, recording secretary; Mrs. I.. E. White, La Grande, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Belle M. Wright, Union, treasurer. Considerable routine business came before the meeting. FIRST AID NOW WITH FIRE TRUCK A very complete kit of first-aid mu - , '11 I .r.Zt f. ' i V iXs and cuts as been .received : L ' S ' , n,X ,.? ,u Amn,, frr.ci int Th(, ka wiu ,)6 carrod on the fire I tnlck ao lhllt if any one is hurt at u ( irc fil.st aiu will always be available. The department has received three copies of Red Cross instruction books, which the members will study and be conversant with first-aid details. Red Containers Required. Housewives frequently forget that rpfl containers or labeled bottles are requ"' "V law tor nandiing gaso line. Grocers nnd others who handle gasoline, not ns a regular line but oc casionally as accommodation to their patrons, must use red containers or be subjected to heavy fines. Con sequently if customers will send the required sort of container, trouble will j be avoided. j Underwood Funeral Postponed. Because a son couldn't reach here from the east in time for the funeral to be held today, tho body of the Inte N, .T. Underwood will not be buried until tomorrow at 2:30 o'clock. The son is on the way to La Grande. HOIS SPEECH HEARD PROGRESSIVE SOLON IS SUR ROUNDED BY UNION COUNTY MEN ONCE BULL MOOSERS. BURNING ISSUES OF THE CAMPAIGN HANDLED WELL Mexican Policy, Broken Pledges, For- ( eign Policy, and their Issues Bis cussed by Nebraska Progressive Be fore Biggest Audience of Its Kind in Years. Before the biggest i.udience that has been out to a political speech in La Grande since tho days of Colonel Roosevelt and Bob La Follette's ap pearance here, United States Senator George W. Noras, Nebraska Progros sivo, l?.ot night supported ex-Justice J0hnrles Evans Hughes for President concise line of argument and statements. The setting of the speech was distinctly an amalgamation of old-time Progressive leaders of tins county with Republican generals. Mr. Norris was introduced by A. S. Geddes, one of tho foremost progres sive workers this county has; R. J. Green, who liko Mr. Geddes once was Progressive committse chairman, Hugh McCall, Progressive state com- imiueman, uruco uenms, watiaco Trill, Progressive leader of . Wallowa county and other well known Bull Moose who bolted Republican ranks during the grand snlituu in 1913. j either sat on tho platform with the i speakor or were interested listeners' from the. audience.. Mr. Nornis Md to tfke an early train out-"and therefore wbefcan his npeccn early and quit early, tie found time, however, to touch upon several of the important issues of the campaign. The Democratic secret Senatorial and House caucus was bitterly flayed by the speaker. Ho said: "The caucus is the greatest known instrumentality for party control and the Democrats have employed it mo3t vigorously. In secret, without record, the members are bound hand and foot, lit is min ority rule. Twenty-nine men and sometimes fifteen control the liberty and happiness of one hundred million people. Broken pledges occupied a consid erable portion of the speech. "The Democrats violated all their pledges save one the enactment of the Un derwood tariff the country suffered 1 because they didn't violate that. They ' violated the pledge to let the Inter state commerce commission regulate the sale of stocks and bonds by the railroads one of the greatest evils in railroading today. They violated their trust pledges: they violated 'eir pieoge m gei their pledge to get rid of useless of- ! "ccs and, instead, create new ones A fillnrl tl,nm ,i( and filled them with 'Deserving Dem ocrats' as Bryan would s;.y, without attention to civil service rules; there are more offices now than any time in 25 yews; they violated canal toil pledges; they violated the two-term pledge; they violated, every day, their, pledge to protect American citizens) abroad. Mexican Policy Attacked. "As for the Mexican policy, it hai been one entirely of letter writing. Every bandit in Mexico has no respect for Americans, and kills Americans without fear and Carranza's men have killed mote than any of them. Women were outraged and men slnin and absolutely not a Mexican pun ished. They killed our soldiers hut un : ! 1 r I - ',,; f' f viv. ,j , fVIUIIIIi: 11 WUIIiJ I'lV.tilU UL1 VLU ( I -arranza s command, not to send them rr,e but ""'j- 1'am.l'ts are .' P."1 ,at ,aW a,u . l.he ""'! '.ve exPed" ilron.niis accompnsncd Homing. The guard on the border is being changed in n way no nitny critic has dreamed of. New men are sent down to relieve those who have become somewhnt accustomed and efficient, and the only gain is that profited by the railroads for raw guardsmen only nre allowed on the border. When the troops become acclimated ant lr.n-n snmoiliinnr nbout their duties they are sent homo. This fiasco on the border will cost $100,000,000 and tio good accomplisheci Villa nncaught and bandits unpunished. Underwood Tariff Raked. "Had Democrats violated their pledge for a Democratic tariff how much better it would have been! Dur ing the tirst ten months of that tariff we lionc-ht abroad, instead of at home, $101,000,000 wo:h of goods and our exports decreased Sl.Vi.OOO.OOO which means a loss to trade and commerco of S'HiO .000.000. When the Under wood tariff had run 10 months, milltt were idle, a half -i..iion people were jobless but then the war broke out, (Continued on Page Four) BY BIG CROVD