La Grande evening observer., May 14, 1917, Image 3

MONDAY, MAY 14. 1917.
LA GRANDE.. EVENING OBSERVER.
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FIFTY THOUSAND CANADIANS
ARE TRAINING TO GO TO FRONT
Fifty Thousand Men Who Saved the Day at Ypres Are
Getting Ready to Go to the Front This Will Be One of
the Finest Trained Forces in the World.
(The Canadian camps at Witley and
Bramshot, the largest in England, are
the scenes of intensive training such
as will probably be adopted in Amer
ican training camps. These camps
were visited in April for the first time
by an American newspaper corre
spondent, who describes in a series of
three articles the method3 of train'
for actual warfare in France. Con
ditions, paralleling as closely aa pos
sible those at the front, either exist
4or are manufactured at Witley.
l ne pines or uiouet mountain, over
looking the picturesque "Devil s
.Punchbowl, are just as strange sights
these days as when hanged men kicked
in the wind in Cromwells day. lop
ing which American soldiers may ex- Lping a ridge that winds for miles
. i . 1 . . U 1 1 . 1. ! .1.1 . . ..A.JAt s mnAn-
pect.)
By P. W. GETTY
(Unted Press Staff Correspondent)
through the thickly wooded or green-
tmeadowed country, a trench, with-the
Cyellow clay soil thrown up on either
Witley, England, April - 16. (By side, standing out vividly against the
landscape, zig-zags us way. jrarai
Jeling this trench and separated from
Lit by few hundred feet of waving
Mail) Canada's part in the Great
War is not nearly played. Fifty
l,thous.and brothers of the Canadians
PHOTOGRAPH OF HAROLD CHRI STENSEN, SHOWING
WON IN HIS EUROPEAN CONTES TS.
MEDALS
$pits
ARRIVES
FOR
MATCH
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ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY
POUND DANE WILL WRESTLE
FRED GUNDERSON, OF
PALMER JUNCTION.
Harold Christenscn, 190 pound
Dane who will wrestle Fred Gunder
son, of Palmer Junction, at the Ar
cade theatre next Thursday evening,
won seventy-seven cups and almost
one hundred medals as Greco-Roman
etylo heavyweight wrestler in Europe.
Following is his official record:
(Record Attached.)
Champion Wrestler of Europe. .
1st prize, champion of tKo world,
Frankfurt, A. M., Germany, 1907.
. 1st prize, championship of the
world, Vienna, Austria, 1908. .
2nd prize, championship of the
world, Dysseldorf, Germany, 1910.
1st prize, championship of the
world, Praugue, Bohemia, 1911.
1st prize, championship of
world, Vienna, Austria, 1912.
1st prize, championship of
world, Vienna, Austria, 1912.
1st prize, championship of
world, iBudapest, Hungaria, 1913
1st prize, championship of the
world, Berlin, Germany, 1914
He is one of the few wrestlers in
America today who has the distinc
tion of wrestling before any of the
Crowned Heads of Europe. In April
1911 he wrestled an exhibition match
In the presence of King Christian X,
Xing of Denmark and his Royal
the
the
the
Guests at the palace. The Danish
athlete makes many friends wherever
he appears by his clean sportsman
ship, ability and modesty. Wrestlers
of Christensen'8 type can make the
gome a fixed institution ' in La
Grande. '
In April 1916 he met Strangler Ed
Lewis at Wilmington, Delaware in a
handicap match.- The sjtrangler
agreeing to throw Christensen twice
in an hour. At the end of that time
Chris was still on his feet and the
strangler lost.
Last Fourth of July Christensen
wrestled Antone Irsa.'the 240 pound
Bohemian champion at Richmond, Va.,
taking the first fall in 17 minutes and
the second in 10 minutes.
Just prior to that date he defeated
Fred Pilokoff , the Big Finn before
a large audience at the Harlem River
Casino in New York, winning the first
fall in 13 minutes and the second in
11.
On August 9th Christensen wrestled
Joe Steelier for the world's heavy
weight championship at Fremont,
Neb., losing the first fall in 20 min
utes and the second in eight. Stecher
recently lost the championship to
Earl Caddock. Christensen is just in
receipt of a letter from Gone Melody
of Omaha, Caddock's manager stating
he would considor him at Boise for a
match with the present champion at
an early date.
On March 15th Christensen
wrestled Europa Zbysko, Polish
big leaguer in the wrestling game,
taking the first fall in 52 minutes
the second in two minutes.
On May 4th he won the Intermoun
tain heavyweight championship by de
feating Pete1 Visser of Utah at the
Pinney theatre at Boise taking two
falls in 45 minutes.
Mr. Christenscn has been in the
United States a year and a half and
has wrestled 61 matches losing only
two.
His match with Gunderson next
Thursday evening ia to foe a - finish
contest
"who saved the day at Ypres" are h grass and here and there clusters of
here today, getting leady to carry on
the share of the burden the Dominion
has shouldered. -
Spread out over the rolling hills of
Surrey are the two greatest Ca
nadian camps in all England. Here,
in what was once a wilderness of
pine and spruce and ivy, Canadian of
ficers are drilling Canadian men to
Ltake their places in the big offensive
already under way on tne west iront.
Witley, the largest of the camps,
and Bramshot, where the raw recruits,
fresh from Saskatchewan or Nova
Scotia are drilled are exclusively Ca
nadian organizations. The few units
ot Americans nave movea on to me
front. Imperial officers are here on
ly on visits.
spirit of
barbed wire is another the "Boche's."
For a moment everything is quiet,
save for the occasional harsh cawing
pf a flock of crows. Then the sil
ence is broken by a crash of musketry
and the rattle of the deadly machine
guns a weird yell, rising from the
depths of the trench, is followed by
the appearance of ghostly figures in
gas-masks. Charging across the open
Upace to No-Man's Land into a storm
ot arming smoKe irom smuiigea, rep
resenting poison-gas, they rout the
'enemy from his trench, and go
about consolidating the position just
as they will have to do in France to
morrow. ,
There is no child's play -about the
battle. Bitter hnnd to hand encount
ers with soring bayonets, harmless
Two Men Drowned,
lone, Or., May 14. (Special) En
gineer U. S. Hansen and Frank Hab-
lett, of Heppner, section foreman,
were drowned in the turbulent waters
of Willow creek, near Morgan, at
11:30 o'clock Saturday morning, when
the engine pulling
The result is that the
Canada and a new-found efficiency but painful, are fought in the com.
va i mnlf- f miinicntinff1 trenches. The "wound-
mx. 4T, :nQf7AV nrn rflrriod iback to the "British
trained in the world permeates the Mines' on stretchers, while the raiders
mi ,iLi! 7...A..L- Ub-ft mnHtvion MrvlfinCT the COITI-
camps. ine men are iigiiuiig iui tuns-
land, but when they speak of "Home"
they mean Canada.
Canadian officers in charge of these
camps have begun a new system of
preparing the men ' from over-seas
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Oranges 2560c per dozen.
Lemons 35c per dozen.
Vegetables, Miscellaneous.
Turnips, beets and carrots 10c
bunch.
Fresh tomatoes 25c lb.
Spinach 10c
Green asparagus 15c
Rhubarb 6c
Green Peas 12 l-2c
Hot House Lettuce 30c
Radishes 5c bunch
Green Onions 5c bunch
Strawberries 15c and 20c
Celery, (California) 16c
Lettuce 10c; 2 for 10c
Potatoes 4.50?5.00
Cauliflower 15c, 20c, 25c.
New cabbage 10c
Honey 20c.
Parsley 5c a bunch.
Dry Onions 121c.
Beans White 20c .
Beans Colored 17 l-2c
Recent explorations (have led to the
belief that the coal fields of China
contain more fuel than all the rest of
the world together.
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mixed passenger and freight train No,
25 dropped through a bridge, weak
ened by high water following a
cloudburst .which did considerable
damage in this section.
None of the passengers was hurt.
Switzerland Lacks Butter.
Berne, May 14. Switzerland, one of
the greatest dairy countries in the
O.-W. R. & N. I world, is practically without butter.
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Butter and Eggs.
Butter Fancy creamery, 46c, 90c
Ranch butter 40c, 80c
Flour and Feed.
Bluestem Flour $3.60
Royal Patent $3.55
Jersey Cream $3.55
Best of the Best (patent) $3.55
Invincible $3.60
Upper Crust $4.05
Snowdrift $3.90
None-to-Equol $3.55
Sea Foam $3.50
Best of the Best (straight grade)
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Flour ip 10-lb. Sacks.
Graham, Germs, Whole Wheat and
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Yellow corn meal 65c
Chickens and FowL
Ducks Live, 18c
Turkeys Live, 2022c
Geese Live, 1618c
Hens Live, 16 18c
work like madmen, blocking the com
municating trenches and getting their
Lewis guns into position,
i Ths is a new phase in the training
:this sham-warfare under typical con
ditions and Canadians back from the
front declare that already it is show
ing erood results.
Another thing the Canadians in the
Surrey camps are trying for the first
time is a new system ot Bayonet iignc
mi? in the trenches. The old and the
French system was to feint with the
bavonet. draw the Hun off his guard
and then luncre overhanded at his
chest, ... Today the Canadians lunge
strnight from the hip, dropping the
butt of the rifle and bringing up tne
point of the bayonet sharply if they
miss.
"Go right out after him" is the new
command to a Tommy learning this
phase of the fighting, and it appeals
to the Canadians more than any other
form of battle. "Go right out after
him" is a sort of watch-word around
'Bramshot and Witley anyway it's
symbolic of the Canadian spirit.
These Canadians today are different
from the first over-seas contingent.
And those that came with the' first
call have changed too. In 1914 and
11915 the complaint among the Brit
ish officers was that while the Ca
nadians "fought like the devil" they
were not well-disciplined and were apt
to run wild. Today the same old dash
and fearlessness is there, but the Ca
nadians are doing something even
7 . . - ,,i j rr.1
ton ore uselul tor tne Ainea cause, urcj
are making records daily as tne Dest-
disciplined, best trained units of the
British arm.
Canada and Britain and the Allies
can thank Bramshot and Witley for
this new-found efficiency which has
added to the most fearless fighters
they possessed the quality of disci
pline. A new system of intensive
training, recently instituted, is malt
ing the Canadians the equal of any
troops in the world.
There s a secret about this system
they got it from the Boche.
Wool Held For Fifty Centa.
Pendleton. Or.. May 12. (Special)
An offer of 45 cents is not enough
to tempt Umatilla County wool-growers
yet. That figure was quoted to
thfi J. E. Smith Livestock Company,
of Pilot Rock, for the 1917 clip, but
was lefused. None of the growers or
the section has sold and it is under
stood thot they will wait until shear
ing is over before letting go.
One of the larger growers is under
stood to have intimated that he would
consider 50 cents. Shearing has just
started in the Pilot Rock section and
will continue for several weeks.
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Best heavy beef cattle . .
Ordinary to good cows. .
Bulls 5.007.50
Best light beef steers . .10.0010.25
Best beef cows 7.758.25
Best heifers 8.009.00
Best butcher bulls ... ..... .7.00(5)7.35
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Special Train From Wallowa.
Train 31. due at Wallowa at 3:30
n. m., will be held at that station an
hour May 17 in order to enable pas
sengers from Wallowa and inter
mediate points to board the train to
attend the Gunderson-nnstcnsen
wrestling match on that night in La
Grande. Mr. Gunderson is from
Palmer Junction and a great many
men in the mills are coming in to see
the match, which is the reason the
railroad has made this concession.
Sheep.
Best lambs 9.00(3)10.00
Wethers 9.00
Ewes 7.509.00
Spring lambs 12.50
Recruiting Age Raised.
London. May 12. (Special) The
war office announces that the volun
tary recruiting ago soon will be ex
tended to men up to 50 years of age
both single and married.
The announcement expresses th
hope that those who come forward will
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