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TUtwt if)- I PHONE OBSERVER YOUR WANT ADS. MAIN 37 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER - PRINTS THE NEWS THE DAY IT HAPPENS 1 PHONE THE OBSERVER YOUR NEWS.'::!:! 37 I VOLUME" XVIL LA! GRANDE, QREGON. THURSDAY, SEPTEMEER 13, 1917, Number 17. Headquarters of Korniloff Have Given up, Report Sweden Claims U. S. Also Used Neutral Cables UTEST PICTURE OF KERENSKY AT WORK I XT, V i VJ 'i If c'1 1 MUTINOUS GENERAL ' PREPAR- . ING TO GIVE IN TO THE GOVERNMENT. ''v. 1 ' Premier- Announces Sweeping Re. Forms; Military Authorities Have Control of Fronts. . WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD. PETROGRAD, Sept. 13. (United Press.) General Korniloff is prepar ing to surrender. The mutiny failed -completely, Kerensky told the United Press today. Kerensky announced sweeping reforms. He is confident of the powers of the soldiers' committees to entirely settle matters behind the fighting lines. Military authorities will be given supreme command of all fronts. He declared that Generals Alexieff and Verehofsky, now commanding the pro visional government forces, form a brilliant combination. ' STRIKEBREAKERS ARE He , added that the guilty mutineers . EXPECTED TO STRIKE, will be delivered to the revolutionary tribunal. I ' SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13. Foreign Minister Tereschenko told (United Press.) A general strike of the United Press that the government the imported strikebreakers of the was determined to punish with death United Railroads is expected mon.en the traitor propagandists. Entire tarily. (Russia will be united to prosecute the ' PETROGRAD, Sept. 13. (United Press.) Minister of Labor Skobeloff announced that General Korniloff's headquarters surrendered to the pro visional government today. It is not stated whether General Korniloff him self surrendered. LONDON ( 'Sept. 13. (United Press.) General Korniloff's uncondi tional surrender is believed imminent, according to a Pctrograd dispatch fil ed Wednesday and received here to - day. --., .- - v 1 . -; - . The provisional government has taken positions at Zmrina, Tuga and Narva to protect the capital.. FILMS SHOW PUBLIC HOW E E. 'R. Sues, of the Willys-Knight automobile factory,' gave an interest ing lecture at the -Star Theater Tues day night and showed the audience sev en reels of moving pictures of the great Ohio factories, which make the Overland-Knight cars. The films were intensely interesting and described in detail the mechanism of the Silent Knight motor, which is a licensed invention and which only' a few factories are able to use. Mr. Sues told in an interesting way the struggle of the inventor to market his inven tion in America and how finally it was given a trial by the Daimler factory in Europe and how it was finally ac cepted by the manufacturers of the most expensive European cars. Among the claims for the motor are its silence, non-carbonizatior, strength and that it improves with use. The pictures show ed the Willys-Knight factories ave wonderful organizations of machinery and efficiency. The exhibition was un der the auspices of the Galloway-Ress Company, of La Grande, whom Mr. Sues complimented in his lecture, as being "live wires." MILLS HOT TO BE KV.W YORK. Sent. 13. (United Press.) The United States grain cor poration officials denied that there is danger of the mills being forced to close because of lack of wheat ship ments. They confessed that wheat shipments now are not heavy, explain ing that the farmers are busy harvest ing and that the real wheat movement had not started. AUTOS ARE MAD OFFICIALS SAT SHUTDOWN I Insane Murderer . Lynched By Mob HILLSDALE, Mich., Sept. 13. (United Press.) A mob this morning lynched Frank Vantassel, insane, who last night killed Sheriff George Rals ton, Vantassel was penned in a bam by the mob. The structure was fired and the man's body riddled with bul lets as he tried to escape. . Druggist Arrested Adolph Newliu, proprietor of the La Grande Pharmit cy, was arrested yesterday afternoon on a charge of selling liquor without a signed requisition. He was released under a $250 bond. His case will be heard before Judge Robert Eakin to morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. jJETKUUKAD, Sept. 13. (.unu-30 Press.) Colonel Verscoffsky, com mander of the Moscow garrison, has been named minister of war, Admiral Verdislvosky has been named- minister of Marine. RUSSIANS MUST LENGTHEN LINE 200 MILES , . ' ... 1 DANZIG y O GRODNO ' Occupation of Riga by the Germans forces the Russians to fall back to the next line of defense. This means, as the map shows, lengthening their line 200 miles northward to Reval at the tip of the Livonian peninsula, controlling the entrance to the Gulf of Finland and the water route to Pctrograd. Reval appgars'to be the next im portant city to be captured by the Germans, who may use both tlveir naval and land forces to do it. PEACE CONFERENCE LONDON, Sept. 13. (United Press.) Because, of the American Luxburg disclosure, Germany has de cided to cancel the Stockholm peace conference. The German agent sug gesting that the conference be held in Switzerland. PRISONERS ESCAPE, BREAK GUARANTEED LOCK George Evans and W. H. White broke the lock on a guaranteed jail break proof cage at the County Jail this morning at 2 o'clock and escaped. j They are at large. I The prisoners, arrested on charges j of grand larceny, were both awaiting trial by the Grand Jury. Evans had een held for two months for horse , stealing and White had been in a week : for robbing a garage. ! The two men broke rp an iron bed in the cell and used the parts as a lever jto break the lock. The cell was guar- : " Here Is Alexander Kerensky n his dealt, looking Russia's futur squarely in the face. . His face shows lie realizes the welfare of lluksin and perhaps of the world, rests on his shoulders. . anteed to be unbreakable. Owing to the high wind .the noise was not heard and it was not until 7 o'clock this morning that the escape was discover ed. . The Sheriff states that he expects t j A have the'men back in a few hours. ITALIANS LOSE W IN ISONZO BATTLE VIENNA, Sept. 13. (United Press.) The Italians lost 230,000 men, including 20,000 prisoners in the eleventh Isonzo battle alone, it is offi cially stated. LONDON, Sept. 13. (United Press.) Only the predominating strength of the French artillery pre vented a German infantry assault on Bixschoote last night. - General Haig reported minor operations.' German airmen bombarded- Dunkirk. ALE.XAMDE.R. FALL OF PETROGRAD WOULD BRING GERMANY HUGE GAINS y AUSTRIA- ' ! : 'nu V,IANCE. BY "IT SWEDEN MIGHT IjAND AND ALLIES. . With Petrograd In his hands, the kaiser might dictate a peace to helpless Russia which would turn Hie Baltic Sea Into a Gorman-Swedish lake, as It was before the rise of Russian power under Peter the Great. The separation of Finland from Russia would result and the Finnish independent party would line up with Oermaiiiy. Sweden would very likely .iiuer on (he side of Germany with ijc object of restoring as far uo possible Hie power in the Baltic bi ii vhich she once possessed. ' v Russia as a modern power would cense to exist and her commercial merles to the outside world would all pass through ijerman erriim y. AMERICAN TRANSPORT IS FIFTY LIVES LOST NEW YORK, Sept. 13. (United Press.) The big American Atlantic transport Minnehaha was submarined off the Irish coast, survivors arrivinir today reported. Fifty were lost. WOMEN TO REGISTER SATURDAY. Saturday is Registration Day for patriotic women,pf La Grande who wish to enlist in the service of their country. The duties will not be many or onerous. But every woman can do something and the main object of the organization and registration is to get team uniform lines. No expense is involved. All that is needed to do is to register on Saturday at either the City Hall or any of the city's public schools between the hours of noon and 8 P. M. Spend 6 Weeks In j Open Boat in Pacific IKED AB AY, B. C., Sept 13. (United Press.) The missing life bout containing the captain and .- lfi members of the Japanese steamer Kotchira Maru, arrived - after six weeks spent on the Pucific Ocean. Tho vessel was wrecked July 27. " . Portland Visitors Registering on Monday at the Imperial Hotel, Port land, were as follows: J. F. Corb9tt, Mrs. John' E. Hilary, H. L. Lyon, of La Grande; H. J. Baughman Bnd wife, Miss B. M. Pettigrow.'Mr. A. M. Run nels, of Joseph, and Al Daniel, of La Grande. WILL ADDRESS REICHSTAG ON LUX BURG DISCLOSURES. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 13. (United Press.) Chancellor Michaelis will ad dress the Reichstag Friday on the Lux-burg note disclosures. BERLIN, Scpb. 13. (United Press.) German airmen did not intention ally attack the allied hospitals, it ' officially stated. a WOULD GAIN, EITHER BY THK CAPTURE OF PBTROORAIJ. AND VO- JOIN GERMANY AGAINST THE BERLIN. Sept 13 (United Press) Under strong Russian pressure the German cavalry withdrew from Mor itz and Neukipen, it is officially stat ed. work and co-operation along RUSSIANS FORCE BACK GERMANS SAYS OTHER NEUTRALS ACTED IN SIMILAR CAPACITY FOR GERMANY. . Affair Not Considered Diplomatic In cident as Far as United State Is Concerned. WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.( United Press.) Sweden's reply to 'the United States exposure of the Luxburir af. fair was delivered orally to Lansing by cnarge de' Affairs Akerhielm. who submitted the Swedish explanation. Sweden is not obliged to make a full formal answer because the affair is not considered a diplomatic incident as far as the United States is concerned. Sweden contends that Minister I. wen acted without official knowledge or luxburg's language when the Ger man . messages were . transmitted through Stockholm, adding that other neutrals, including the United States had acted in similar capacity for the central powers. Charge d'Affalrs Akerhielm dtclar- ed tho American minister at Turkey used the neutral cable rights to send and receive messages. WATER SUPPLY LI DRAINING OF BEAVER CREEK RESERVOIR STARTS " " At a meeting of the City Commis sion last night a full report on the con dition of the Beaver Creek water sup ply was submitted by the delegation of business men who made the inspection trip. Tho report states that the sup ply on hand behind the dam is stag nant and unfit for domestic use and recommends that the water be re leased and the reservoir cleaned. A report submitted by City Health Of ficer A. lh Richardson, stating that the water was entirely froe from typhoid germs wag also read. On the strength of the report tfw - Commission has decided to release the impounded water at once and return to the use of the direct flow of Beav er Creek until the reservoir could b cleaned and repaired. ; On the complaint of the chief of po lice the license of Spencer to give public dances in Zuber Hall was re-' voked on the grounds that the dances were not properly conducted. A controversy between Chief of Po lice Rayburn and E. W. Eastman was given a hearing and the matter was turned over to City Manager Curroy for investigation. The valves in the Beaver Creek res- ervoir were opened at noon today al lowing the. impounded water to dram off into the canyon. City Manager Fred Currey estimates that it will take three days to drain the lake, during which time the city water will be the same as at present. When the reser voir is dry the water from Beaver Creek will be turned into the mains and La Grande will again enjoy good water. 5000 ME NWILL QUIT TOMORROW IN SEATTLE, IT IS ANNOUNCED. SEATTLE, Sept . 13. (United Press.) Despite the settlement of the wage controversy with the Govern ment Adjustment Board, metal and building trade unionists voted a strike today rather than work with the lum ber from the 10-hour day mills. This means that 5000 shipyard car penters quit tomorrow. J. G. Brown, nresident of the International Shingle Weavers" Union announced today. Seventeen; thousand metal trades workers will strike within three days, he declared. PROB 10 GOHSSIOII Will SHE
