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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1917)
LET EVERYONE BOOST FOR THE BIG CATTLE AND HORSE RAISERS' CONVENTION TO BE HELD IN LA GRANDE, APRIL 24 AND 25. ''-j&LZJ mum wiuii A AAA A A A. M . AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PRINTS THE NEWS THE DAY IT HAPPENS M in H VOLUME XVI LA GRANDE, OREGON. SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1917. jfc mmmmmmm .mm i, , -.vij JLKJ, ' T 1 ' ' '. I ' WAGED FIERCE BATTLE IS HILL NO. 304 SPIRITED ARTILLERY1NG MARKS THE CONTINUANCE OF GREAT STRUGGLE WORLD'S BIGGEST STEEL ARCH RAILROAD SPAN NEARLY FINISHFli! - - - w mmw m FRENCH CLAIM 10 HAVE REGAINED LOST GROUND Paris Believes Germans Were At- j tempting to Ascertain Whether ! French Were Preparing to Attack ' on West Bank of Meu.se Germans ' Claim French Attacks Collapsed. Paris, Jan. 27. (United Press) It is announced that spirited artillerying -marked the continued strug gle on Hill three hundred and four. French fire de- stroyed the German works. Esparge was the scene of i a heavy battle. ' Five German aeroplanes' were destroyed. j Advices indicated the French had regained prac-j tically all the ground the Germans,, took Thursday night. Paris believes the Ger mans were ntteiimtinx- to ji- Bu8lnes8 1 Destroyed and mans Wt ie atunipimg to , Five Person Are Injured. !( . r.ui whether the French j , ! V. ".' preparing V ..ttUKtlvL Pittsburg, Pn Jan. 27. (Vte'ji the West bank of the Meuse. f'.ress Grand theater, Douglas' noe company, frank: soder Depart- WILL OF ABE EATON LEAVES BIG BEQUESTS Heil (Vi 'H brii.'fc. the largest and heaviest steel arch railroad span ever built, is nearly ready for use. The bridge connects Votm jsiana an 1 sm;w tor and carries tour tracks. The steel span is 1017 feet long. Forty million pounds of steel were usod in the span and 160,000 pounds lu the Immediate approaches. The winding steel and concrete approach is nearly a mile long. BIG FIRE: LOSS F TWO MILLIONS 1 OF UNION IT FORM L The attack cost the Ger mans thousands. It is es timated one lmndrei' :ii L ment store and many other establish ments were burned today. The eastern half of a downtown 4 ..,.;.. .. 4-1.. ........ .1 .. ... . i ousiness diock was acstroyea. ine im;iu. limmibciiui wi i . , !,, j. -,,. were injured. i This is one of Pittsburg's most dis astrous fires. ! participated. The German Vev.:cn. Uerlin, via Sayville, Jan.. 21. (United Press) It is carriers have announced that repeated: five days grace J' rench attacks on Hill three hundred and four collapsed. Features of the Federal Farm Loan Act Are Explained by Various X Speakers. Eight Farmers Sign Up for Loans Amounting to $40,000. Only Borrowers Can Join and They Must Sub scribe Five Per Cent of Their Loans as Stock The statement described the battles on Combresj I eights at Mouse Bend west! f Saint Mmael. Ten Belgians were 'Shipments' Ordered Before Proposed Bone-Dry Bill Goes Into Effect Can tured jnudc. British southwest of r tt: l mi a Be Lawfully Delivered Five DiJ iu T'8 V T 7 , p Afterwards ' the Union County National Farm Loan association. That was determined at the mass According to a provision of the meeting of over fiftv farmers hiM j bone-dry bill now being considered by at the city hall this morning at 10 cap -! the state legislature, five days of o'clock. ' Dix- 1 (face after the enactment of the law The farmers approached the propo ;is given ta common carriers to deliver sition with conservatism, at the same f.iiln1 lnloxltatmK "quora imporiea unner time realizing that the association Talieci the original act, although an ardent would sprnre for t.hom SOUth of the Labaze Canal, j f'Kht was made for a 10-day period, in the way of long time loans at low Allies Are Solid I which received bitter opposition from rates of interest. T!, T, 97 iTif I 'he radical bone-dry element. If the Only borrowers can join. To organ- IjOnuon, .Jan. lUim-iCOmmon carriers have anv uncalled he, nn nwlnHnn rAnnir.. tor, i.. C( Press) Officials believe for packages after the five-day period, rowers who will mortgage their farms Rome Pctronrad and Paris !they wi" have to return them within fo a total of $20,000. This morning hold iflpntifli ' onillions 'of Pei0d f 3 dayS l the consipn-,eieht men d P to borrow ap JIOKl meiUK.U OpmiOUS Ot lns- fu-m. proximately $40,000. President Wilson's Senate Senator Walter M. Pierce sent word attacks Milittary Service sign up for the amount of stock al loted to him. P. H. Spillman, county agricultur ist, presided. Farmers from all over Union county were present who listen ed attentively to the speakers. Mr. Spillman called upon Clarke I.eiter, editor of The Observer, who explained briefly the operations of the act. The first step is the association of ten farmers, each of whom wishes to be a borrower. He also becomes a stockholder up to 5 per cent of the face of the loan he wishes to make. He can borrow GO per cent of the value of his property and 20 per cent of the insurable value of his improve ments, rne tarmars then elect a UNION COUNTY PIONEER'S ES TATE 13 OVER $200,m TWEin-TVO IEPHEVS AID- MCES RECEIVE $2501 EACH Dan Baird of La Grande la Left f 10M David Baird of Baker $1000, Dot toness Home and Methodist Church at Union Are Remembered Wil lamette Get the Residue. Tho will of Dr. Abe Eaton, admitted to probate in Multnomah county, dis poses of an estate in Union county, Portland and Bonton, Mass., es'. matei at over J200.000. Abo Eaton, pioneer of Union county, died in Portland last week and was buried in Union. The bequests are: To Mary h. Ea ton, widow, $100,000; to each of 2t nephews and iiiecea, $2500; to Daa Baird, La Grande. Jinrm- t n ;j Ba.rd, Baker, $1000; Belle Elaine Lon $1; Maria Board Deaconess Home, Spokano, income from $5000; Metfc odist Episcopal church, Union, income from $5000; Willamette University of Salem, Oregon, the remainder of the estate, or approximately $33,000. ; Mrs. Mary ; L. Eaton, widow, it named executrix and Amadee M. Smith of Portland, administrator. M. A. Zollinger, attornevof Tr.TtuA I, : Vt! ... ' . iiunoredB ot vilUstas Are Killed j uc.c" union tnia week in connection Villa's Lieutenant Deserts Citizens witn tho business of the estate.! -TJie , Flee to the Border. I trustees. of Willamette university are -. (named as trustees of the bequests- El Paso, Jan. 27. (United Press) ; mnde to tho Spokane home and the CurranziufHH defpatp,! Villn in a turn. . Union church. day battle at La Junta,; Chihuahua,' . Ihe Wl". dated April 20, 1916, pro Thursday, lyiucs that any contestant of the will They captured Irains used by Villa 18 to receive but $1. and yesterday Villa rallied and recap- j' Abe Eaton, known academically as tured them, according to information j Dr- A- E- Eaton, was not only a suc received this afternoon. Hundreds of cessful, self-made pioneer of this sec f illistas were killed. tion but a philanthropist even before Before the battle Inez Salazarc, I his death. Eaton hall. Willamette unl- VILLA'S ARMY IS DEFEATED Villa's chief lieutenant, deserted with fifteen hundred followers. Following the battle, it is reported versity, was made possible by a recent gift of $50,000 and Mr. Eaton's minor gifts were numerous. In recognition that Villa marched north planning to of his help Williamette universitr .. II I 1. . a I . . m t I.. T7 . . ...... " iiuinnut-rv mi me iriurmons aiuing i,en- j nw cimon a ooctor, eral 1'erHhing 8 expedition. While General Pershing is evacuat ing his field base, four hundred resi dents of Colonia Diiblun are fleeing borderward. Forty wagons arc carry ing refugees en route to Columbus. BECUN MING HIS 18 Boys Leave To night For Spokane anctress. Tins is tresn proot r Hnivprcal of the Allies' solidarity. raVOr Universal Unitedly they declare the President's views are ap-! proximately the Allies! i j i J,'tf,,s- . . ! Washington, Jan. 27. (United Russia faVOl'S all nations Press) The National Security League '. ravin"" a Sea Outlet and an unanimously voted in favor of univcr- autonomous Poland Petrotrrad foreign office said Pittsburgh system ;the Allies do not wish to crush their enemies. that he would join the association and 1 (Continued on Page Four) American Schooner Fires on Mexican Boat Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 27. (United n,i sai military service ior an male cif-j rress; me American iisning schoon- Mexican patrol boat at San Ramon point, in Lower California. The pa trol boat approached the Maryland going south through Mexican fishing water. The Maryland opened rifle fire. 'Mrs. J. Gangloff Is London, Jan. 27. (United Press)--' 80 YCarS Old TodaV The Roumanian official statement an- ' nounced that German attacks in the ' Cashin valley were repulsed after an eleven-hour battle in the snow. mans retreated southward. Ger- ,1'ionoers Are Celebrating With Her Russia Reports Victory. This Afternoon in the J. E. Home. Foley Mrs. J. Ouncrlnff. ftr fV.? vpnrs n Petrograd, Jan. 17. (United Press) resident nf l.n r.mnHn ia roUhmfimr It is announced that German attacks her eightieth birthday in the J. E. were repulsed on the Riga front. Rus-! Foley home on Fourth street this sinn gas attacks caused a name afternoon. All of the pioneers who among the Germans around Mitau. I were j,ere when Mrs. Gangloof came The heaviest bombardment was hi nave cn invited. Mrs. Julius Rocsch the Kanacen road toward ChicK, an(j Mrs. J. E. Folev. daughters of Mrs, Ethel Byrne Is Forcibly Fed First Case in United States HiMor ported Condition Is Rep v fed ' Better and No III Effects Fn in P.od. Ad Men Meet To Diagnose Themselves Young Men From This Section to At tend Holt "Caterpillar" Sessions. dn charge of C. W. Bun tine. sentative in this territory of the Holt : .o.iuiaciuring company, 17 young men from this section leave tonight ;for 'Spokane to attend the annual , caterpillar school" of the Holt Man ufacturing comnanv. Tho l,.,a.. k. Carranzn Commander Reports Ameri- gin Monday and continue to Februarv nan Hannr,.! Ilo I f II:.. II 1 MO TL . . VUt v....... . v loiiowmg trom this section quarters At Colonia Dublin and Is plan to attend: Elton Heryford W T Marching Leisurly Toward Ojo Conley, Charles Buesing, Herbert Frederico. Speckhart and Clyde Bunting, of La I c'r"nle; L. B. Carter, Ray Eyros Dar- Juarez. Jan. 27. (United Press) 1 roll Fnln. I'VL.7' 8,' where the German attacks were re pulsed. Their losses were heavy. New York, Jan. 27. (United Press) Mrs. Gangloff, have the party in charge and Mrs. P. A. Foley and Miss j Mrs. Ethel Byrne was forcibly fed af i-enncua roioy win entertain tne old tcr a five-day hunger strike. She Pierce Re-elected as I resident. j peoplet A hupe birthday cake will j collapsed shortly after midnight. This Salem, Ore., Jan. 27. (Special.) , in the center of the table. is the first case of forcible feeding in Walter M. Pierce, state senator from United States history. Physicians in- Union county, va3 today re-elected as ; Although most of the cities in Ja- ?ertcd a tube in her throat and poured president of the Oregon Taxpayers' pan have good sidewalks, modern in liquid food. Blackwell's Island league. George Miller of Cove is a 'street paving is practically unknown , Hospital reported her condition bct- Cleveland, O., Jan. 27. (United Press) Problems of the advertising man wore to be met and disposed of at the convention of the Advertising Affiliation opening here today in the Hotel Static. Three meetings are !-! ...Ml .,: ""T "' -"..,,,,, wm ue eans yesterday, advertising man will be diagnosed, and tomorrow night they -will dine and listen to Secretary of the Navy Dan iels, John Kendricks Banks and C'iu. M. Schwiib. Although not associated with the Associated Advertising clubs of the World, this affiliation serves as a "district meeting" of that gathreing. Member clubs arc the Adcraft club of Canton, O.; Cleveland Advertising club, Buffalo Ad club, Rochester Ad club and the Syracuse Advertising Men's club. Cluhs from London, Ont.; Toronto, Alliance, O.J Toledo, Youngs town, Akron, Erie and Lorain, Ohio, were represented. The Carranza commander at Cnssas Conklin, of Cove; Sam Harris of Un Grandes reported that General Per-, ion; Clyde Bloom and Earl Heryford" V? i . . . 7 . "iirei; nerDert Brockman, of Wcis- lin had been exacuatcd at daybreak, er, Idaho; Paul Riggins of Baker G Troops are marching leisurely north- W. Dunham, of Cambridge, Idaho 'and ward. The next buse is Ojo Frederico. F. S. Heard, of Haines Skirmish Is Reported. Anvacu, Ariz., Jan. 27. (United Press) No word bus been recc I from the Stonehouse skirmish betwee cowboys, the Utah Cavalry and Mcxi A small detachment of troops is en route from Tuscon. Nogles cavalry is held in readiness. Nogales, Jan. 27. (United Press) Headquarters' advices said fighting I between American cowboys and the I.Utah Cavalry and Mexicans continued today. Rccnforcements were rushed. The commanding officer has started an investigation. member of the resolutions committee, ijn the empire. ter and no ill effects. Sold Votes for One Dollar. Cincinnati, O., Jan. 27. (United Press) Fifteen, including eight ne groes, pleaded guilty to a charge of selling their presidential votes. They told Federal Judge Hollistcr that the purchasers paid a dollar apiece. Two Men Killed in Alaska Snow Slide, r'iece ?f I' unoral S Woman Dies at Cove; Formerly of Halfway Mrs. William Foreman Leaves Two Small Sous and Husband. Halfway, Ore., Jan. 27. (Special.) Mrs. William Foreman of Cove died Friday afternoon after a briof illness. Mr. Foreman is the forest ranger at Cove. Mrs. Foreman leaves besides her husband two sons, aged about 4 and 5 years. She was the daughter of M n -t 1 I? I .. . r ni... . . ..w.i iiiuum ui iiaiiwav. aim in J. McFadden of Baker, arrangements will he nn. nounced later. BOISE DEFEATS LA GRANDE Juneuu, Alaska, Jan. 27. (Unitert I Press) Rescuers are hunting for the corpse of Maurice Rasnuissen, follow ing three snowslidea in the mountains surrounding the city. Benjamin Grout Boise, Idaho, Jan. 27. (Special) of La Grande, Oregon, a linesman, The Boise basketball team defeated was also killed. 'the La Grande M. I. A. team hore last The avalancho cut the power linos, night 47 to 34. leaving Douglas, Treadwell and Ju-1 - neau in total durkness. The weather ' Did you ever notice how many smil is bitter cold. hng faces there are in La Grande t
