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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
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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.