La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, January 13, 1917, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextLET EVERYONE BOOST FOR THE BIG CATTLE AND HORSE RAISERS CONVENTION TO BE HELD IN LA GRANDE, APRIL 24 AND 23. ,. MW9 .'..v.. MTut. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PRINTS THE' NEWS THE DAY IT HAPPENS VOLUME XVI 14 GRANDE, OREGON. SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1917. NUMBER 176."' i9 I POWDER PLANTS LOSE MILLIONS fii EXPLOSIONS DUPONT POWDER COMPANY PLANT AT HASKELL, N. J. 1 DAMAGED, $2,000,000 TWO KNOWN TO BE DEAD MANY ARE STILL MISSING Incendiarism la Not Expected Ca nadian Car and Foundry Company At Kingsland, New Jersey Loses $16,000,000 of Which $10,000,000 Was Explosives Owned By Russian 'Government. :New York, Jan. 13. (United Press) Officials of the Dupont Powder plant at Haskell, New Jersey, declared two million dollars would cover last night's explosion loss. Two are known to be dead. An authentic cas uality list is impossible. Many work ers fled and have not returned. In cendiarism is not suspected. An emergency hospital surgeon found portions of bodies in the ruins. County Prosecutor Dunn announced a probe of the accident. Four hundred thousand pounds of powder were destroyed. Kingslund Loss $16,000,000. New York, Jan. 13. A statement that the fire and explosions which wrecked the plant of the Canadian Car & Foundry Company at Kingsland, N. J., Wednesday was "possibly if not probably of incendiary origin," was is sued here last night by the officials of the company. The total loss, it was said, was $16,000,000. Of this total, $10,000,000 consisted of shells and explosives owned by the '. RJ sian government. The rest was in destroyed property of the Canadian Car & Foundry Company, of which alf was covered by insurance. I5S1 NAVY SIIS TURKISH VESSELS TO ltd OF FORTY Petrograd Naval Staff Reports That Fleet of Merchantmen Carrying Heavy Cargoes to Constantinople Are Sunk and Sixty-Three Prison ers Taken. London, Jan. 13. (United Press) The Central News Agency announced that the Pctrograd Naval Staff re ported that the Russian Squadron had raided Anatolin Coast on January 6th and sunk forty Turkish sailing ves sels carrying heavy cargoes to Con stantinople. Sixty-three prisoners vere taken. Steamer Is Raided. Portland, Jan. 13. (Special) The aicamcr F. A. Kilgurn, which tied up at the Northrup street dock from San Francisco at 5 p. m. yesterday, was raided Inst night by a posse of de tectives, deputy sheriffs and harbor police, and 169 bottle sof unconsigncd liquor were seized. Whiskey in Trunk Brings Owner Grief O. W. Rust of Pendleton Is Arrested . for Violation of Dry Ordinance When Two 5-Gallon Kegs Are Dis covered. Pendleton, Ore., Jan. 13. (Special) A trunkload of whisky brought O. W. Rust, well known resident, to grief Thursday night. The trunk fell under the suspicious eye of Chief Gurdane, nrns investigated and was seized as evidence that Rust was violating the prohibition ordinance. He was, ttiere fore, arrested and will come before Police Judge Fitzgerald soon to make his explanations. The trunk ana uust arnveu uu h. 19 yesterday morning. Though every precaution had been taken to prevent any telltale order from escaping from the trunk, it attracted attention any way. An investigation showed two 5-gallon kegs of whiskey carefully wrapped in a fur coat and sweaters and packed away in sawdust and corn meal. The trunk had been brought from Utah, it is alleged. Rust also had o hand grip in which were a iuUf dozen quart bottles of -whisky. HOUSE COMMITTEE IS TO REOPEN PROBE OF THE PEACE NOTE LEAK Thomas W. Lawson Will Be Called and Efforts Made to Compel Tim to Reveal Name of Congressman Who, He Said, Told of Conspiracy to Profit on Wall Street. Washington, Jan. 13. (United Piess) The House Rules committee today decided completely to reopen the leak probe. It will subpoena Thomas Lawson, Lockwood of a Bro kerage firm, James Reilly editor of the Wall Street Journal, Donald Mc Donald, who allegedly gave Lawson information, F. W. McKinnon a Chi cago broker, and half dozen others. The committee will call Thomas W. Lawson before it again, probably Monday, and demand the name of the Congressman who, he says, told him that a cabinet officer, a mem ber of Congrees and a broker were in a conspiracy to make money in the stock market on official secrets. This action came as the result of insist ence by the Republican members of the House. If Lawson again refuses to name the Congressman and the trio in volved in his story, as it generally is telieved he wi'l, the committee then will report him either to the House or the District Court on contempt charg- Children -Elks' Choru Number 49 ToU Will Sing In Unison, Do a Comic Dance, and Several Other StunlK. The children who will sing and drncc at the coming Elks' show, "A Night In Bohemia," are: DoioMiy Varnick, Rut'j Owsley. MaKi "fctillwall, Betty Cochran, Edna May Wilson, Beverly Tearson, Deloris Pearson, Gertrude Scranton, Phyllis Scranton, Dorothy Ebcrhard, Connie Rees, Inez Hughes, Ellen Parkhurst, Ruth Rogers, Jean Rodgers, Margaret Zweifel, Margaret Dupes, Evelyn Emahiser, Lillian Sims, Elma Bay, Kathlyn Peterson. Margaret Ellis, Gwendolyn Hall, Constance Hull, Ge neva Day, Eula Day, Elma Owsley, Marporie Logan, Marguerite Rhodes, Ruth Hill, Pearl Cyr, Madeline Jones, Marcella Berry, Merle George, Norma IVayger, Iris Hughes, Lola Snodgrass. Marion Snodgrass, Josephine Evans, Helen Jane Hall, Murl Gore, Hor- ence Dell, Margaret King, Dons Ben nett, Lottie Bennett, Beth Hesse, Thelma Daniels, Winifred Kenneda. Two of ther songs, "Hush, Here Comes the Dream Man," and "liilly. Billy Bounce Your Baby Doll will be sung by the children in unison. The youngsters have several other parts, a comic dance among Ihem. Pendleton Girls Beat LaGrandeGirls21-13 The Pendleton high school girls' defeated the I-a Grande High School girls' basketball ,team last night in the La Grande High Echool gymnasium, 21 to 13. The game was full of fouls and the ac curate work of one of the Pendleton forwards, Miss Vera Tenplc, under the basket was a biir factor in tne visitors winnine the the came. So n.uch do the La Grande high school girls think of Miss Temple's work trat they said they could have heatcn the Pendleton team with an ordinary forwarJ in Miss Temple's place. Misses Jean Smith and Edna Jones starred for La Grande. Miss Jones scored nearly all of the v local Girls points and Miss Smith got the tip-off f.om her opponent nine out of ten times. Miss Jewell Tozier, the La Grande e ach, said that she was well pleased with the girls' play. She said the teamwork displayed by both teams was above ordinary, comparing fav orably with teams of university and college women. The La Grande girls are negotiating for games with other teams. Between halves the first and second boys' teams of the La Grande high school played at 7 to7 tie hilf. Wili Discuss Y. M. C. A. Vo'k. All Y. M. C. A. high school boys are cordially invited to attend a meet ing tomorrow afternoon at ? to dis cuss methods of procedure for a fu ture Y. M. C. A. work among the high schoo boys. Rev. G. I Clark will be the leader of th edicussion, Messrs. Linden McCullouch and A. C. Hampton will also attend. A short song service will be on the program. LATE NEWS BY WIRE v . Germans AdWV British Make Advance North' of Ancre. JJci'lin,,- viaayvik', Jan. .13. (United Press) It is admitted tlieCferitish captured 'a position north of Ancre, following rented attacks in the vicinity of Serre. Ger mans held thof'main stronghold. The statement said most of Wie assaults were 'sanguinarily repulsed", Germans stormed and capfutt'tl",5lihaLsa, Koumania. They took four hundred EussiaiiusVf Many Russians were drowned attempting to cross tfi$ gtareth River. Roumanians Claim To Win Violent Battle At Monastir. Petiograd, Jan. 13. (United Press) It is announced that the Roumanians won Vlnost violent battle east of Monastir. They occupied the Teutonic trenches and cap tured three machine guns. V.-;- Germans Believe Allies Have Blocked Peace Plans. Amsterdam, Jan. 13. (United Press') German editor ials expressed practically' the unanimous Relief that the Allies note blocked the present peace plans. The Berlin Lokal Ansiegcr says: "The Entente note destroys our last peace desire. The Allies are waging a war of con quest." The Tages Zeitung says: "Our enemies are striving to destroy Germany as a trreat power." The Tageblatt said: "The replv blocked every peace path." DATES FOR AUTO S SET FOR EARLY GREAT PLANS ARE MADE Exhibition Will Be Held in Zuber Hall Nominations for Officers Are Made Meeting for the Election Will Be Held Next Friday Night. At a meeting of automobile and motorcycle dealers in the Y. M. C. A. building laht night the dates of the automobile show were set as March 8, 9 and 10 an) the place of exhibition as Zuber's hall. The nominating com mittee named the following officers to be voted upon at a meeting to be held in the Y. M. C. A. Friday evening be ginning at 7:M0: Fred J. Holmes, president; Jay Van Buren, vice-president; Hal Rees, secretary, and George Richardson, treasurer. Other men may be proposed for office at the Friday night meeting. The show committee is composed of B. C. Hamilton, chairman, Hal Rees, Al Daniels, George Richardson and Frank Hilton. The details of the show such as the drawing for space and po stion and the program for the even ings will be left to this committee and the officers. Music will be given each evening from 8 to 10. THE WEATHER Portland, Ore., Jan. 13. (United Press) The weather forecast follows: Fair tonight and Sunday: wanner in east portion; east winds. MY FIRST HUNTING TRIP IN THE WILDS OF OREGON Descriptive Article By Deputy Game Warden Depicts Exhilarating Incidents of Chase and Stalk (By Deputy Warden J. W. Walden I for turning back to camp. We ran of La Grande, in the Oregon Sports- j into a huckleberry patch that had man.) been wallowed down by the bears, and I came to Oregon in 1.SKI1, and if 1 1 not knowing the country I did not remember rightly it was in October , want to venture out alone, so followed of the same year that I took a trip my partner back to camp in safety, over the Wallowa country with a ' We held a consultation behind closed friend. We went ba;k on what was j doors, and decided to go in another di then called Howard Meadow, reaching rection and see if we could locate some there on a Thursday, about 1 p. m. jdoer. It was about tho middle of the We camped in n log cabin which had afternoon now, but we struck out east been built by some former hunter or j and climbed a hill that seemed to me trapper. Everything was up to date; i as though it were two miles high. We in one corner was a bed made of : came out on a bald ridge which we slender poles with a mattress of frag- followed back about a milo. About rant fir boughs; at the other end was this time my friend came to the con a fireplace, while in the center of the elusion that we hud gone far enough room stood a roughly hewn ' as we had a heavy strip of timber to table made of a tamarnc tree, pass through on the way bnck to camp and the regular hunter style of chair, ' and he said he preferred to pass namely a couple of cracker boxes. I through it in daylight. So wo sat After we had unpacked, we proceed- j down on a log to watch for a deer cd to get something to eat, after ' and to rest a little, which we washed our dishes in hunt- We had been there but a few min er's style by turning them bottom-' utcs when we hoard a noise that secm side up on the table. Then we got our Ud to come from a canyon to the south trusty guns and knives and started: of us. My friend heard tho noiHC out to rustle some game, and about about the same time I did and started two miles north we found deer, bear J to talk about camp, and right there I and elk track in plenty. This was the decided that he was no hunter and first time I had ever been in a bear j should have been at home, but I did country, and I felt somewhat nervous, not voice my thoughts, thinking that but I soon realized that I was not the only one who felt afraid, for my friend kept insisting that we were looking for deer and not for bear, and was COVERNDR NOW HAS POWER TO VETO SINGLE ITEMS OF LAWMAKERS Chief -Executive of State Says He Doesnt Intend To Use It Because He Kxpects Legislature To Be Reason able. Salem, Jan. 13. (United Press) Governor Withycombe today asked Attorney General Brown to render an opinion as to the" single item veto amendment to the state constitution. He said: "I do not expect to use the single item veto. I simply want to know what power the amendment gives me in the event of an emerg ency. I expect' the legislature to be reasonable and pass no bills requiring a fractional veto. I am heartily in favor of it as a preparedness meas ure." Attorney-General Brown gave his I opinion that the Governor had power .now to veto single items in appropri ation bills if des'red. The same pro cedure is to be followed as in vetoing entire bills. Attorney-General Brown also an nounced it would not be necessary for him to go to Washington to argue the minimum wage law before the Supreme Court. Yesterday he re ceived a telegram requiring him to arrive in Washington .Tuesday. He arranged to have Felix Frankfurter, instructor in the Harvard Law School, appear instead. I might be able to get him to stay - there till I could investigate the noise. (Continued on Page Seren) ADMINISTRATION IS TOE AT AN EARLY DATE Plans Are Now Being Made to Recall the Militia As Border Guards Be fore March 1 General Pershing Will Withdraw Before the Recall of the MiUtia. Washington, D. C, Jan. 13. (Unit ed' Press) It is announced that the administration plans to. withdraw the militia as a border' guard before March 1. Action will be taken after General Pershing leaves Mexico. His withdrawal is scheduled at an early date. , Pendleton1 Boy Injured. Pendleton, Ore., Jan, 13. (Special) A collision between an automobile and a little runabout operated by a Smith motor almost resulted seriously Thursday evening for Waldon Byers, 13 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Byers. As it was he sustained severe minor injuries such as torn ligaments of the arm and numerous bruises and sprains. The boy was making his maiden trip in the new motor-driven vehicle which is the first of its kind to arrive in Pendleton. It had been ordered for a Christmas present but had just ar rived. Railroads Give Rates to Convention One and One-Third Fare From All Roads In Oregon, Washington and Idaho Granted Exhibition. Baker, Ore., Jan. 12. (To the Edi tor of The Observer. We are pleased to advise you that all railroads oper ating in Oregon, Washington and Ida ho have made a rate of one and one third fare on certificate plan for the fourth unnual meeting of the Cattle & Horse Raisers' association of Oregon, to be held in your city on April 24-25, 1917. These rates are effective from April 20 to 25, going, with a return limit to April 27. You, of course, understand that under the certificate plan the passenger must take a re ceipt from the agent -when he pur chases his ticket, and this receipt en titles him to a return passage at one third of the regular fare. General Freight Agent H. E. Louns bury, has notified us that he will ap ply regluar exhibition rates on all shipments of livestock that may be forwarded to I-a Grande for exhibition purposes during our meeting. The shipments will be way-hilled at Tegu lar tariff rates to La Grande and re turned free to original point of ship ment. Among the seakera that have agreed to be with us on this occasion are George C. McMullen, of Kansas Citv, Missouri; A. 1). Dunn, of Wapa to.'Wash.; Prof. E. L. Potter, of Cor vallis, Or.; Governor James Withy combe; T. W. Tomliiison, secretary of the American National Livestock as sociation, Denver, Colo.; E. B. Weeks, of Kansas City, Mo., and Ephriam Barnes, of the United States national forest service. Communications received daily in dicate that the attendance in your city will be at least double the attendance at any previous meeting. l ours truly, S. O. CORRELL, Secretary. Harry Thaw Improves Mother at His Bedside Philadelphia, Jan. 13. (Unitod Press) Thaw's mother announced her intention f taking a suite of robins in St. Mary's hospital and remaining at the bedside of Harry Thaw until his preliminary examination is romp'otod. It is reported the New York district attorney is seeking to make alleged co-conspirators confess and turn itate's evidence. Thaw is mui-h det er this afternoon. Portland Police To Stop Prize Fights Portland, Ore., Jan. 13. (Unitod Police announced their intention of halting further attempts to hold pri,o fights here. Following the Madden Bronson fight Inst night, police seized the boxing glows and declared them under weight. Arrests were threat ened. Gloves were held as evidence BIG CRUISER GOES ASHORE HUMBOLDT H L. S. S. MILWAUKEE ATTEMPTS AND RUNS AGROUND TO RESCUE SUBMARINE NOW LIES FOUR HUNDRED YARDS OFF SHORE Attemps Are Being Made to Rig a Breeches Buoy To Save the Crew Fog Is Dense and Coast Guards Say the Position of the Warship is Per ilous. Eureka. Jan. 13. (United Press) The cruiser Milwaukee, while attempt ing io rescue tne submarine H-3 went aground at the entrance of Humh.tt.it Bay early this morning. She lies four hundred yards off sh"ie, considerably inside the f ir.it breaker line. , Attempts are being made to Hoat a line from the beach and to rig a Ireeches buoy to save the crew. Coast gunrds declared the warship'i rosition perilous. Fog is dense. Seamen said the Milwaukee caught a surf pull when she ventured clo-e in shore and rapidly rushed aground. Isaac Gale, Pioneer of Union, Dead Heart Trouble and Complications the cause Mr. Gale Is the Father of Mrs. W. J. Townley He Was Aged 85. Isaac Gale, 85, pioneer of Union, died in that city about 5 o'clock last night from heart trouble and old-age complications. Mr. Gale is the father Nof Mrs. W. J. Townley, wife of the Union county commissioner, and of Fred Gale of Portland. He came to this county from Wisconsin 25 years ago. The funeral will be held tomor row morning at 11 o'clock from the La Grande Presbyterian church. In terment will be in the Union cemetery. Mill Man Enters Furnace; Is Burned Springfield, Ore., Jan. 15. (United Press) Milton Bally, aged 40, super intendent of the Fischer-Boutin mill, was probably fntally burned today. He entered the furnace while cold and was cleaning it. He stacked ashes be tween himself and the door. The steam pipe burst. He was trapped. He buried his faco in the ashes to pre vent breathing the steam. Boiling water literally cooked his 'egs and back before fellow employee -escued him. New Corporation Is Established . G. Blydenstein & Co. of Pendleton Purchase the West End Chop Milt There and Will Erect Big Ware house. Pendleton, Ore., Jan. 13. (Special) II. G. Blydenstein & Co. is the name of a new corporation formed here and which has purchased the West End Chip Mill with the intention of con tinuing the chopmill business and m addition manufacturing the Blyden stein self-rising flour and dietary flour. The new company is composed of A. Michael, George Peebler and H. G. Blydenstein. In the immediate fu ture the company will erect a ware house, 20 by 40, on the railroad track adjoining the chop mill. The com pany will make a specialty of chop ping hay and thoro is a possibility ot a further enlargement inier us uio company's cereal business grows. Express Company's Bonuses Distributed. Each employo of the American Ex press compnny in I-a Grande entitled to tne oonus aistriuuieu vy uis vum pany as a Christmas gift has already received his bonus, in each case amounting to a month's salary.