La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, January 03, 1917, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextLET EVERYONE BOOST FOB THE BIO CATTLE AND HOUSE RAISERS' CONVENTION TO BE HELD IN LA GRANDE, APRIL 24 AND 25. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PRINTS THE NEWS THE DAY IT HAPPENS VOLUME XVI LA GRANDE, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1917. NUMBEQ 167. 1. PALMER IS PRESIDENT CITY COM MISSION COMMISSIONERS MEET AND ELECT FRED B. CURREY f CITY MANAGER. , ROBERT S. EAKIN, JR. IS MUNICIPAL JUDGE Commissioner McKennin Nominated John Collier for City Manager Re tiring Manager Foley Sumbits His Yearly Report and His Weekly Re port Salary Bills Approved. The city commission, with Dr. H. S. Brownton, the newly elected city commissioner, attending his first reg ular meeting, organized last night by unanimously electing Mr. Vincent Pal mer president. J. D. McKennon nominated John Collier for city manager. Dr. Brown ton nominated Fred B. Currey, the latter receiving two votes. Mr. Currey was therefore declared elected. Mr. Currey takes office today and in a few days will announce his appointments of subordinate officers, such as chief of police, water superintendent and oth ers. Robert S. Eakin Jr., was nominated for municipal judge by Dr. Brownton and elected without opposition. The yearly report and monthly re ports of officers were read and salary bills approved. The yearly report of retiring City Manager Foley follows: Yearly Report of Manager. To the Honorable Commission of the City of La Grande. : ',-'' Gentlemen: I herewith submit to you a summary of the general busi ness of the city of La Grande, cover ing all departments for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1916. The water department has taken care of interest on water bonds and sinking fund amounting to $10,450, and in addition an estimated amount was set out for labor, material and salar ies of $9550, and there was expended over the estimated amount approxi mately $1500, which is a very good showing considering that a damage suit was paid to Howland amounting to $757.30, and in addition to this ex penditure the spillway at the Beaver Creek intake cost $743.40 to lower in order to save the dam. The bracing of the dam cost approximately $98. The expenditures of the street de partment has covered considerable area this year, in that the budget pro vided for an expenditure of $5500 and approximately $5360 was expended, which is a very good showing whnn we look over the ground and see what lias been done. The Cove road was graded in good shape to the city lim its covering a distance of one-ha'f mile; the pound property located at the end of Washington avenue was bought for $650, the same was fenced and graded; and in addition the tool house was moved from the gravel pit to the present location at an expense of $100. The sewer account as provided for by the budget and estimated at $5000, which was to cover the trunk line if the old town sewer, when finished only eost $3455.09. The lighting system account as pro vided for by the budget was estimated at $8100, and the actual expenditure for the year makes a showing of only $8067.62. On the 12-inch sewer at the subway while not yet completed there hns been expended so far $275.42, and the ap propriation called for V.. The fire department's account as shown by the budget, there va esti mated for supplies $1100 and tne actual expenditure was $945.11, ou' of which amount approximately $400 wa3 expended for new tires and batteries. There was estimated for salaries of the fire department, $2900, and the anme over-run some $17, which was for extra work; hut taking the depart ment as a whole they have miule :i good showing. The budget provided $700 for the volunteers, and tVe a.siul expendi tures are shown is $541.5 ). The budget presided $300 for the health departmen'. nH the actual ex penditures are shnwr. an $285. The budget oroviJe $1500 for the police salaries, a:,i the actual expendi tures are shown as S320.5fl which re markable decrease was caused by re ducing the force of men from four to two. The budget provided $1000 for police supplies, while the actual ex E MEN TO PUT ON SHOW It Will Be Held in Zuber's Hall Utter Part of February Dates Will Be Selected Tonight at Banquet and Plans Perfected to Make the Show a Success. La Grande automobile dealers and garage men are going to put on La Grande's first automobile show the latter part of February. It will be held in Zuber's hall. The dates will probably be selected at a banquet of automobile dealers and garage men to be held tonight at the Hotel Sommer; The dealers are taking hold of the project with enthusiasm, and plans will be perfected tonight to make the show an interesting event. Mrs. Ivanhoe Is On Executive Committee County School Superintendent Mrs A. E. 'Ivanhoe was showered with hon ors and attentions at the State Teach ers' association. She took a promi nent part in the work of the associu tion and was honored by being made a member of the council of the asso ciation and also was chosen as a mem ber of the executive committee of ten. This selection means that she will have a voice in the selection of the officers of the association and also that in time no doubt she will herself be honored further by being selected as one of the officers of state associa tion. Mrs. Ivanhoe is at present at Salem serving on the examining com mittee of the state. Mrs. Olive Havens i To Lecture Friday The. home economics department of the Neighborhood club, Mrs. George Gilbert chairman, announces that cn Friday, January 5, at 2:30 p. m., a lecture will be given at the Neighbor hood club rooms by Mrs. Olive Hav ens, president of the Home Industry association, who is lecturing in the in terests of the sugar industry of Ove gon, Utah and Idaho. Mrs. Havens is an expert in this line and she will speak on the scientific food value of sugar and will also give lessons in preserving, jelly making, fruit canning and candy making. Mrs. Havens has an interesting per sonality and those who attend the lec ture will be well repaid. The members of the home economics committee follow: Mrs. O. L. Wall, Mrs. S. E. Bomeman, Mrs. H. A. Zur buck, Mrs. R. J. Green, Mrs. Walt Reuter, Mrs. Linn Bohnenkamp, Mrs. Gilbert, chairman. French Battleship Is Reported Sunk Berlin, Jan. 3. (United Press) The torpedoing of the French battla ship Verite by a German submarine near Malta is reported. penditures are shown as $598.18. The salaries of officials was esti mated at $4400 end the actual expen diture in salaries are shown as $4035.- 81. Supplies for officials was esti mated at $200, and the actual expendi tures balanced the account. The interest on improvement and general warrants was estimated at $4000 and the actual interest paid wn $3921.33. There was bought in bonds and war rants for the Beaver Creek pipe lino sinking fund $7586.41, and the budget provided $8000. Election expanse was estimated at $200, and the actual expense is shown as $249.50, which wn3 caused by not cleaning up the old bills amounting to approximately $71 in the 1915 bud get account where they rightly be longed. The city building account in which there was provided by the budget $1750, is balanced as there was paid approximately $1600 as a part pay ment on the installation of a heating plant, which was to cost $2325, which is about one-half of the architect's es timate. The heating plant is all in stalled, and is a first class plant, which will be of considerable saving in fuel to the city. Three sewers and trunk lines have been constructed this year costing ap proximately $20,000. Cost of mak ing water map, $252. Respectfully submitted, J. E. FOLEY, General Manager. The weekly report of the city man ager follows: (Continued on Page Three) LATE NEWS BY WIRE i . , .' . Ambassador Has Conference With German Chancellor. BY CAUL W. ACKERMAN Berlin, Jan. 3. (United Press) A telegraphic re port was cabled to President Wilson by Ambassador Ger ard, following a conference with Chancellor Hollweg. When asked what the Chancellor said, Gerard replied: "Lots of interesting things.7,'-' It is authoritatively understood that the American dip lomat and German Chancellor talked oh the Allies' un favorable reply to President Wilson's peace note. Ger man press are a unit in viewing the entente's note as only answerable through force of aims. Exports of United States Jump Over Billion in 11 Months. Washington, I). C, Jan. 3. (United Press) Exports of the United States in eleven months of nineteen sixteen, ending November 30th, jumped more than a billion and three quarters in value over the same period of nineteen fifteen. Allies Believe Conditions in Central Powers Are Serious. (BY ED. L. KEEN ) London, Jan. 3. (United Press) Authentic informa tion has been received substantiating rliie press reports that the seriousness of internal conditions in the Central Powers was instrumental in forming the Allies' decision to turn a deaf ear to peace. This information makes the Allies all the more confident that Germany's peace pleas were put forth, in the spirit of desperation despite the bombastic utterances of the Kaiser and his officials. Reports That German Raider Roams Atlantic False. New York, Jan. 3. (Reports that German submarines are not capable of laying mines while submerged and also that there is no German raider roaming on the Atlantic were brought here by the Holland-American liner New Amsterdam. Sec. Lansing Holds Half Hour Conference With Stone (BY ROBERT J. BENDER) Washington, D. C, Jan. 3. (United Press) Secretary Lansing went to the capitol for a half hour conference with Chairman Stone. He refused to discuss the. confer ence. He said he talked "with Stone, however, on the question of raising the twenty-five million purchase price of the Danish West Indies. Stone volunteered the infor mation that peace was not discussed. He refused to listen to other questions. Hitchcock Urges Note Endorsement ne war is rai3e- by tne cologne Ga- i zette today. Will Answer Carranza. t . J Washington, D. C, Jan. 3. (United Washington, D. C, Jan. 8. United preSs) American members of the Press) -The very existance of neutral Joint Peace commission will present nations is becoming difficult, Senator j to presj(ient Wilson their recommen Hitchcock declared in urinjr the en-! datio fol. ciennjng up the commis dorscment of President Wilson's note, j sions sessic,ns iate thjs afternoon. "I realize," said he, "that there may Before seeing the president they be two opinions on the president's win jraft an answer to Carranza's r-5-suggestions, but I do not believe there jectjon 0f the troop withdrawal proto is any objection to endorsing the ac- cot tion itself. Nations are far apart, j ' The step of the president ii As fi'-rt Wreck Victims Itecovered. to bring them nearer. to bring them nearer." For the fourth time the senate re fused to vote on the resolution endors ing President Wilson's peace note. , Will United States Stay Neutral? Berlin, Jan. 3. (United Press) The question whether the Unite 1 NEW CITY COMMISSIONER WILL WORK FOR BEST INTERESTS OF LA GRANDE Dr. Herbert S. Brownton, newly elected city commissioner, took his seat for the first time in the city com mission last night. Asked by The Observer to make a statement as to his policy aa com missioner Dr. Brownton said: "My chief aim is to havo the city govern ment of La Grande run in an econom ical way and for the best interests of all of the citizens. Further than thnl my aim is to advance the city in every possible way. I was requested to run for the position and shall endeavor to do the best possible for all." Dr. Brownton is a native Oregon ian, having been born in Portland, where he received his early education and schooling. He took a medicn! course in Portland and postgraduate work in San Francisco. Ho has been practicing his profession of dentistry since 1897. He has been a resident of Eastern Oregon for 1G years and outside of three years spent in New Mexico, has been a continuous resident of this state. He came to La Grande four years ago from Canyon City, Grant county. Dr. Brownton has taken an active interest in civic affairs. He is a di rector of the La Grande National bank, president of the library board, j States intends to remain neutral or whether President Wilson is playintj ! fnr thn navMintnlFiml mnirwnt tn enter i Sydney, N. S. W.. Jan. 3. (United Press.) Seventy bodies of victims of the Clermont wreck were recovere 1 many others are missing. Five hun dred thousand dollars '.'amage. "The wind whistled at me and I whistled right back at it," said Ray Wl Logan today. and one of the official board of the M. E. church. He is married and has a family of three children, two sens and a daughter. Dr. Herbert S. Brownton. V" ' ' I BIG DYNAMITING CASE IS NOW ON TRIAL IN T W.Bourke Cockran as Chief Counsel for Defense Is in the Spotlight Thomas J. Mooney la Alleged Lead er of Gang Who Blew Up Prepared ness Parade. San Francisco, Jan. 3. (United Press) With W. Bourke Cockran oc cupying the spotlight as chief coun sel! for the defense, the second trial resulting from the Preparedness pa rade dynamiting here began in the su perior court today. Thomas J. Mooney, alleged leader of the four men and one woman ac cused of having plotted to place the bomb which exploded in the midst of paraders on July last, killed ten per sons and injured 50, was on trial for his life. The presence of Cockran has drawn the attention of the country to the tnul in much the same way that Clar ence Darrow's activity in the defense of the McNamara brothers drew the country's attention to that trial five years ago. Following the conviction in Septcm- her of Warren K. Billings, first of the five alleged conspirators tried, Cockran, noted New York lawyer, volunteered his service to the defense. He will serve without compensation, according to officers of, the (Interna tional Workers' Defense leiigue which is conducting the defense. Indicted with Mooney as a co-defendant is his wife, Rena Mooney, a music teacher and strike organizer, Thomas Mooney, leader of the defend ants, was active in spreading strike propaganda and had planned to cause a general strike of United Railway platform men here a short time before the fatal Preparadencss day parade. It was alleged by the prosecution that the bomb had been set to explode at a time when non-union employes of the street railway lines would pass tho poinf wherc bomb had been placed at Stouart and Market streets but that a delay in the start of the parade upset the plans of the dynamiters. The defense declares all the defend ants are innocent and are victims of circumstantial evidence. Mooney sur rendered to the police after , reading newspaper statement that he was im plicated an the crime. He was stop ping at a summer resort at that time. The case has been featured by sev eral alleged confessions which were later refuted. A number of photo graphs taken on the day of the Pre paredness parade are held by both sides as evidence. The trial opened in Superior Judge Frank P. Dunne s chambers. Distric Attorney Charles M. Fickert, and a corps of deputies represent the prose cution while Cockran and Maxwell McNutt, represent the defense. Congress Discusses New Railway Bill Washington, D. C, Jan. 3. (United Press.) Judge Chambers, United States commission on the Mediation Conciliation board, has been requested to prepare an amendment to the pro posed railway bill to give the courts the right to interpret and enforce tho awards of the Board of Mediation and Conciliation. The fight in the house over the pro posed investigation of the leak to Wiall street of the peace note took n most sensational turn this afternoon. Bennett, of New York, named Bernard Baruch as one of those from whom Wall street got the information. He said it is rumored that Baruch sold short on a rising market thirty minutes before the note wus made public fifteen thousand shares of U. S. Steel. Cadet Band to Give A Concert Tonight Entertainment Will Be Given in the High School Auditorium Followed hy Dance at Rex Hall. The O. A. C. Cadet bund will give their concert tonight in the high school auditorium. A dance at Rex hall will be given at about 9:45 to which patrons of the concert and the public is invited. The program is an excellent one nml the band itslef is ono of the best ever sent out by the college. The public should take ad vantage of this opportunity of hear ing the well-known performers. Fol lowing is the program: March Militaire "Preparedness". . Duio (Continued on Page Eight.) LOU RfflMI IS APPOINTED NEW CHIEF OF POLICE CITY MANAGER CURREY AN NOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR TO ARDERY. MAN WHO HELD POSITION SIX YEARS WELL KNOWN Recently Rayburn Has Bee Serving , on Pendleton Police Force and Is Highly Recommended by Mayor Best of Pendleton New Chief Is Champion ' Trap Shotter of the Northwest. Lou Rayburn was appointed chief, of police and started in work this morning. He succeeds J. C. Ardenr. resigned. City Manager Currey telephoned Ruyburn, who has been serving on the night police force at Pendleton to be on hand this morning, and when Rayburn reported he was immediately put to work, and his appointment an nounced by Mr. Currey. Kuyburn is well known to the peo ple of La Grande. He was chief of police here for six years from about 1903 to 1909, serving for six yean when the city marshnl, or chief of po lice, was elected by the people. He came to La Grande in 1899 from Cle Ellum, Washington, where he had been railroading. He was sectivi foreman at the La Grande yards for four years before being elected chief of police. ' Is Crack Shot. Rayburn has more than a local repu tation r a crack shot, . He won at . JortlafM lost June the championship of the northwest in trap shooting. At Christmas at Pendleton he took part in a shoot, winning nine turkeys and three geese which he donated to the poor of the city. He would probably have won more if a limit had not beea placed upon him at the shoot. Mr. Rayburn has adopted as his motto in the police work of La Grande: "Treat every one alike," and he has given instructions to the other members of tho force that money, high standing in society, religion and politics are to make no difference in the enforcement of the law. Mayor Best's Letter. Mr. Rayburn was highly recom mended to Mr. Currey by Mayor Best of Pendleton, who wrote Mr. Currey the following letter: "It is with regret that I turn over to you Mr. Lou Rayburn who has been in my employ during the past twe months. He has proven himself an efficient officer and perfectly trust worthy, a man that has the courage, to do and perform his duty regardless of friend or foe. But our loss is his gain. I am always glad to see any worthy man pushing to the front and especially in this instance since he is returning to his old position and home, of which I have heard him speak many good words. You both have my best wishes for a very prosperous and fruitful 1917." Allies Report Many Foes Are Captured BY HENRY WOOD. Paris, Jan. 3. (United Press) During 191fi the Allies captured 582.-' 723 Teutonic prisoners, according te figues published today. Russia led m captures, taking 400,000 Austro-Ger-mans in the twelve months just ended. Other captures were by the French, 78,r00 Germans, including 2fi,000 it Verdun alone. British, 40,000. Italians, 5'2,2f2 Austrinns. Sarruils forces at Macedonia cap tured 11,175 of Bulgars-Turks-Ger-mnns. (ioniums Report Advance. Berlin, via Sayvillc, Jnn. 3. (Unit ed Press) The advance of Germae patrols to the third French trench in the forest of Priest on the western front was off icinlly bulletined today. Twelve prisoners were taken and de fensive works destroyed. Elsewhere on the front artillery at tacks wore reported on the Mcuse sec tor, j The occupation of Barsocl Topisl, Roumania, by the Germanic forces was announced by the war office. Gen oral Mackenzen reported the capture by hand to hand fighting of the towns of Pintecesti and Mera, on the Mfl cevul and four hundred prisoners.