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.VOLUME XVTTI
AMERICANS
ARE STILL
MEXICAN GOVERNMENT PRO
TESTS AGAINST THE PUNI
TIVE EXPEDITION.
PLANS OF DEPARTMENT
WILL NOT BE CHANGED
Aviators Are Subjected to Great Dan
ger, On Account of Being Com
pelled to Fly taw In Hot Pursuit
- of Two Bandits Supposed to Be
' Companions of Those Captured.
(By Associated Tress to Tho Observer)
MARFA, Aug. 21. As soon as il
was light enough this morning to fol
low the trails the American punitivo
expedition continued the bandit chase
for the third day. One column picked
up the hot trail of two bandits who are
believed to be the companions ot the
two captured lute yesterday afternoon
by Captain Leonard Matlock.
.The aviators' work is now extreme
ly dangerous because there are few
landing fields in Mexico. It is neces
sary to fly close to the ground 'and this
affords the bandits the opportunity to
fire on them. Many narrow escapes
have been reported.
Flyers leaving here today carried
Associated Press dispatches to drop
for each cavalry troop, giving them
the news from the outside world.
MEXICO MAKES PROTEST
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. The
Mexican ambassador here has been
instructed by his government to pro
test to the state department against
the dispatch of American troops across
the border and to request their with
drawal, according to a statement is
sued in Mexico City yesterday.
. NO ACTION AT PRESENT.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 The Mex
ican protest against the punitive expe
dition and the request for immediate,
withdrawal of the American forces
was made to the fctate department to
day. "Therei s. no announcement but
the indications are that the Mexican
protest will not hasten the withdrawal
of the troops who are oil a hot trail.
It is not expected that they will return
uhtil the bandits have been captured
or the trail has become cold.
ASK MEXICANS TO COOPERATE.
MARFA, Aug. 21. Colonel .Lang
home, American army commander in
the Big Bend district, has suggested
to the Mexican authorities that Gen
eral Pruneda, the Mexican comman
der, and the Americans co-operate in
pursuing the bandits.
DEATH BY IB
WAS ACITNKII OK ASSAl XT ON
KAIOIKK'S WIKE.
Body Waii'Tiiken To Seen" of Crime
and Swung tn Treo in
diurcliyaiif.
LOU1SBERG, N. C Aug. 21
Walter Elliot, a necro. alleged to
hnvjt nK-.nitltp't A (HTinnr'fl wife, w.l.
shot to death by a mob which la.tcr
took the body to tho scene of the
crime antl swung it to a tree in the
country churchyard. The mob had
taken the negro from Sheriff Kear
ney. '
President Disclaims
tPover .to Issue 'a
Peace Proclamation
( !! -oriati-d I'n-nH to TUte obcerverl
3 WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. 'The
President has not the powet to declare
peace fey proclamation, nor could he
erwent in any circunHtances to take
Mich a cour?a prior to ratification of
the form treaty by the senate.
o President Wilej.n so,wrote Senator
Fall. replyig to one of twenty writ-
ten riOestion 'hicll Senator Fall had
NEGRO SHOT TO
prvsMisBM O the confcrcnceghela og
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JLttrj Tint and Ira.-'
prisonment Tayored
Tor Profiteering
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2J.--Amond
mentg to the food control act im
posing a fine of 15,000 and two yoars
imprisonment for profiteering, were
favorably reported by the house ag
ricultural committee.
MARTIAL LAW
, IN HUNGARY
COPENHAGEN, Aug. 21. Martial
law has been proclaimed throughout
all of Hungary, a Budapest dispatch
states.
CL H. HUMPHREYS
RETURNS ROME
HEIGHTS CHOI'S GOOD EAST OF
.Mississippi wvii.it
Oelegntu to Knights of Khorussuil
Convention Surprised at
Iaiw Prices in East
C. M. Humphreys, of the U. S. Nat
ional Bank, 1ias returned from Peor
ia, Illinois, where he attended the
Imperial Council of Dramatic Order
of the Knights of Khorassan Mr.
Humphreys had the honor of being
a member of the Ways and Means
committee of the Imperial Council
and will mako a full report to the
temple here of his trip within a short
time.
Mr. Humphreys observed, whilo on
his trip, that several towns the size
of La Grande are using artesian wells
to Bupply their water and that the
system seems to be quite a success.
Particularly is this true of Savan
nah, Illinois, in wheh place Mr.
Humphreys looked Into tfhe water
system quite thoroughly.
He also reports that hotels and
restaurants are charging about fifty
per cent less for Meals thnn they are
doing In the west and the western
delegates were quite surprised wheu
they discovered that they could get
an excellent meal for fifty cents.
In the large department stores they
could hardly believe that merchan
dise could be bo reasonable compar
ed with western prices.
Mr. Humphreys says that east of
the Mississippi the crops look fine
but thai in Montana the rcops are
burned by fire and drought
ENGLISH ESTIMATE
OK A-MKHICAN THOOPS
Heginieiit Following Tcndiing in
Peace Iay Celebration Elic
ited Press Comment.
(ly Associated Press to The Observer)
London, July 21. Tho provision
al regiment of the Amorlcna soldiers
who followed General Pershing In the
Peace Day procession was the first
sample of American fighting troop3
to march In London. Other oiganiza
tions seen here had been on their
way to the battlefields, while those
men were' returning.
"Here were tho Americans in steel
helmets, marching in companies
eight abreast with bayonets fixed,"
said' the Daily Express. "They were
as Jovial aB any wheh the procession
baited, for a time, hut whit? they
marched their faces were as Serious
and as immobile as t tin gravest oi
' graven images. They made' a pro
found impression on the on lockers
Their marching 'was Roman in It.i
iron sternness. and precision."
' "A mngnificient regiment It was."
Bald the Dally Telegraph,- "young
men all of them and tho quintessence
of the. alert and lithe .Khaki clad and
in brown steel helmets they looked
most workmanlike.
' "How niagnjflclently they march
ed, swinging past In jwrfect align
ment, with a long, easy stride, heads
held high and houlders squared,'
said the Dally News. "They are
Creeled vociferously wl htas good
cheerio,; as I ever remember having
! heard in LoDdon
There was a grim, indomitable
look about Pershing'' men,' said Ihe
Dally Sketch, ,"an effect greatly
heightened by thelc shell helmets
and it made all the more wonderful!
Hie burst of dear color which fol
lowed as their massed banners ciunr
by. Old Glories, along with the rest
held American fashion so that th
fstirlc fle- frely ond no shred ol
color 103t. Th cheering of the
crod turned at the sijht to a great
Ah', of dellsht. ..
"Exctt lor the passing of tht
massed colrs of the Guards with
thair laurelled staffs, It m the nia i
! plctrc,nue moment of te froce
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1 t- (;, Yanks'" thus ara the
'Americans affartinoately if sonifr
;Aat familiarly greet ", ald th
Morning Post iiUs story gf the pro
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PAGES LA nK'AXDK.
ARGONAUTS SAIL
IN HISTORIC BOAT
NOME, Alaska, July 14. Twenty-
nine weather bronzed explorers, hail
ing from every quarter of the globe
and bound for some piysterious gold
country of northern Siberia, left heio!
tonight aboard the sailing schooner
G'tco, once the property of Koborl
Louis Stevenson.
Fears were expressed by Nome re ii.
dints before the boat left that it would
not be able to get through Into tho
Arctic Ocean as reports received hero
ireently said the Bering Straits wjre
still blocked with ice.
Members of the ship's compnny said
they were boand for some point in a
va:l uninhabited territory lying al.ng
the Arctic shore of Siberia between
East Cape and the Lena river. They
would not divulge the exact locution
of their destination.
The party is known as the Northvr.i
Mining and Trading Company and is
led by S. L. McQuirk, a mining engi
neer of Hamilton, Texas, president of
the compnny. A. L. Johnson, another
member of the party, is vice-president.
Captain C. L. Oliver is master of the
adventure ship.
With the exception of tho destina-tiona-thorc
is little mystery about the
expedition, McQuirk said before leav
ing. He asserted that the party pos
sesses certain knowledge about the
country for which they are heading
and arc aiming to explore the section
and find what it contains. No rich
gold strikes are expected, he declared.
Thd Casco may be sent back from
the north this fall, after landing her
passengers, at their destination.
E.S.
A SEVERE LOSS
AIIM M 'Alt SI mii:i; II I.
PLKTKI.Y III ItNKD OV
com
:it Million Feet of Standing Timber ii
uImi lost No Insurance on
I'liiperty.
Mr. E. S. Norris, tho farm luiplo
mcnt dealer, surfercd a serious Iohs
from the forest Hre3 this week, lit?
farm north of Summervlle, formerly
known as the Childers place, was
completely burned over and every
thing destroyed. -The house, barn and
all outbuildings were swept away and
in addition to that thore wis a bod)
of standing timber astimted to con
tain a mi II in n feet, also burned.
There w.ib no insurance on any of the
properly and the loss is a very sov
erd ono.
Mr. MoCullum, a neighbor, on an
iidjolnin farm, ulso suffered tlu
oss of bis house; barn and outbuild
ngs.
OMSK GOVERNMENT
REPORTED WEAKER
TOK10, Aug. 21. The Omsk gov
ernment is reported to bo weaker
owing to ine iioihuviki auvanco ami (
the desertion of Siberian troops. I'
is understood that the gold reserve
and archives will be transferred cst
ward to Irkutsk.
The
NORR 5
HAS
0KOX. THUlfSIUY, AUGUST 21. I'll!) STXPAOER
AVIATOR -
13 LOST OH
THE BORDER
LIEUT. WATERIIOUSE MISSING
FROM ROCKWELL FIELD
FOR TWO DAYS.
TWO PLANES PREPARE
TO MAKE A SEARCH
It Is Not Known Whether the Missing
Man Made IKscent On the Mexican
Side of the Line, But Both Sides
Will Be Searched Was Member of
Border Patrol,
(Ily .Associated Truss to The Observer)
EL CENTRO, Calif., Aug. 21. Two
army airplanes have arrived here and
lirp nrpnnrinir n sent-eh fnt I ien,ta,t I
Waterhouse, who has been missing for
two days from Rockwell Field. It is
planned to search on both sides of the
boundary.
It is unknown whether or not Lieut.
Waterhouse descended on the Mexican
side of the line. Ho was a member of
the border patrol.
Lieutenant Waterhouse is from
Weiser, Idaho, an passed through L
Grande recently on his return from
a visit while on furlough.
WILL NOT PRESS
PITTMAN PLAN
I'y Associated 1'resn to TUv Observer)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. Demo
cratic leaders havo decided not t
press the Pittman resolution. -
DIFFICULTY AKISKS OVEU THE
SPRUCE INQUIRY.
RepreHcntalive Lea Threaten to De
nounce Roprenentattve' Frear
In the IIuuhc.
(My AnHfpf'htel Trnti tn Tho ObHtirvor)
SEATTLE, Aujj. 21. Representa
tive Lea, of California, Democrat,
charged that Representative Jamen
Frear, of Minnesota, Republican, wuf
"brow-heating and insulting" at the
congressional inquiry over spruce pro
duction. Frear was questioning Col-
t onel L. P. Sterans, an assistant of Co.
Ilisquc. Lea suid he would denounce
r rear on the floor of the house.
End of a Perfect
CONGRESSMEN
. IN SQUABBLE
(
iHSJ
MASKED BANDITS
HOLD UP TRAIN
NASHVILLE, Aug. 21. Four
masked iKindlls h ld up the Louis
ville & Nasbvillo paH(cngor train
rfom Cincinnati to Montgomery, Ala
bama, between Columbia and Pulas
ki ourly today. TJio robbers carrid
off the mall pouches. A posse Is In
pursuit. '
WHATIIEH HEPOKT.
PORTLAND, Aug. 31. For Oro
gon, fair, gentb west winds.
JUSTICE MEETED TO
SAILOR HOLD-UPS
LAREDO, Aug. 21. Word has been
received that Cnrranza police hnve ar
rested the robbers who held up the
American Bailors from the Cheyenne
near Tampico, in July.
9 An official report says that seven of
the Mexicnn bandits were put to death
by Carranza authorities. They hail
property of the sailors in their posses
ion when taken.
FOREST FIRES
ARE NO BETTER
TWO SAWMILLS IUHti:i), LOSS
OF ONE BIOLNtJ $15,000.
Dry
Creek lii'nion Quivt Last Niuhl.
and the McKenzie Sawmill
Ih Still Standing.
The firo situation around Union
county seems to bo little better, from
the reports which have coniu in today.
In the Summervillo region most of
the effort today was made' in trying
to save the William Pieper place.
wTlich has been in grave danger since
Saturday. A big fire had started on
this side of Dry creek and was head
ing for Summerville, while the maiii
fire has swept on down towards Elein
The. main stand is being taken oq
tho E. Fisher farm, next to the A. J.
(Jolt farm. The fire was quiet the
first part of the afternoon, but about
3 o'clock a light breeze began blowing
which was starting the fire into action
again. .Should the fire jump the plow
ed ground on the Fisher place, tho
fire-fighters who have returned to
their homes, will be called again.
Only the farmers in this district1
were working this afternoon. Thu
far, the Dave McKen.ie mill has been
saved.
Ih the Elgin country there- are also
several fires and the Wisdom mill, 1'.'
miles southwest of Elgin, was de
stroyed some time Tuesday evening.
Another sawmill belonging to the
deputy game warden on Indian creek
on the past mountain, has been do
stroyed, wit.h a loss of $15,0(10.
Early this afternoon another fresh
fire had started in DealV canyon bach
of La Grande. People living in the
districts which arc endangered by the
fire are making frantic efforts to get
their places insured but the fire com
panies have refused while danger lurk
so near.
Day
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ft
AMERICANS ANJ
6ERKANS I CX.SM
COI'KNIIAGKN, Aug. 21. -A'col-llslon
hetwyon C.ornwin and American
sallour Tuesday, at NeufahrwasB.r,
resulted in tlifl 'Wouudiitft of several
civilians and one V,eriuun seaman, a
UaiulK dispatch states. '
CROWD BLOCKED
CAR MOVEMENTS
LOS ANGKLKS, AUK. 21. a
crowd oi 500 striko sympathizers
blocked (he passago of street cars
and jeered nnd stoned tha crews
They wero dispersed by tha police.
TO
l'OI.IXV KNtilNKKIt'H HUCOM
MK.XDATIO.N O.N 1NTAKH.
CoiniiiKsiiinerH Auri'e to Allow
I'arliluK of Cars mi Ailuiiu After
lttlMIU'HN IIOUIV.
Tho first doflnlto slop toward Im
provement of tho city's water sys
tem) sinco the city put a special on
Klnoer on tho job was taken last
nlcht at tho inootlns of tho board
of city commissioners, when they de
cided to proceed 'With the bulldiiiK
of lliu now dam whl-li tho cliKlneer
recouimeudiHl bo Installed at the In
take on llenver Creek. L. C. Kelsey,
tho eiiKluoer, Is expected to arrive In
(ho city again In u, few days and by
the time ho Is here to suprviso the
Job the materials and supplies nec
essary for building the concroto dam
will bo taken to the lutnko. The pros-
oiit dium allows a Kroat quantity of
water to got away every day and It
Is tho opinion of the engineer thnt
tho new dam wilt help tho situation
very materially.
Improve Septic ,Tnnk.
Tho commissioners also decided to
ko ahead with tho installation of n
chlorinntun plant at the neplio tank,
which will salisly tho objections of
soino of the families living1 along tho
Irrigation dllrh Into which tho tank
discharges that tho HowritKO Is dis
charged from tho tank in such con
dition ii to bo very offensive. The
Installailon of tho chlorlnator at the
tank will reiiulro the construction of
n concrete basin 10x20 feet and ti
led deep und a small house to pro
tect the chlorinating plant. Tho work
on this will ho commenced at one.
HI rift I'kvIiik Onlerixl.
A .petition from clthtens living on
M avumio linking that a hard surfuco
paveiiieni bo laid down from Fourth
street to Cedar street was granted,
and another petition Raking for simil
ar work In Ilia alley bolwoen AdaniB
ami Jefferson avenues from Clmst
ii ii t. lo Fourth street was granted.
Tliu clly atlorney was Instructed lo
rreutn linnmvoiiMUit ditrlcts for tho
pel ronminro of his work.
I'lirkliiK J tub' Chniiged.
A ullghl allonitloii in the reront
parking ordinance, passed to keep
utrs from reiiuilnng parked on Ad
iiiiih avenue for a longer period th.in
thirty minutes was made upon the
Presentation of a petition from a
number of liuxincHs men ond citizens
asking thnt the rillo bo changed so
us to allow cars to bo parked
AiIiiiiih after business hours and for
tierli.ilx Imieer t Ii II ii half an hour, If
Idoslred. Parking of cars on sld
slreets aft.'r night has been found to
icsiilt In loo ninny thefts of ar
I lelea from cars and even of tho curs
IheinselveS.
MinWrrs Meet lloanl.
A delegation from the Ministerial
Asaoclutiim cume- hufoio tho Ixiai
(Continued on I'aoo Hlx.)
I'KO.MJNKNT MV.S OI" TJIK STATU
AI(E AU'I'NKU.- '
Claim Is Made of l-'silure to fating
u'nh Caniif llreN VYhiU 0
On Mojiilt Hmal.
!: A.-'p- i I'rp'Jpi to Th h.iervr)
I'OUTI.ANIi, Aug. 21. LJton Wat
I kins, dp-puty fi'ilerai distri'o attorney,
nan filni infpprniukifpn charging lr. W.
1 .1. FenSin, K p. .1. 0)1. 1'rys, of Corval-
; lipt, Ibiy 1. Jiip'oIpk, deputy 0illector of
; customs in'ortland, Bird
ler, manager f a hjg departrpjaint
I K'pr,'5. thii they liJ: a raipjii fire burn
pjing in the (1 gon iud onaPTon- on
CITY PROCEEDS
BUILD
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CHARGED WITH
FIRE NEGLECT
NUaI HKIi 278
USIMEl
OF TIMBER
SWEPT OVER
FOREST FlItES LEAP OVF.Il TOP3
OF TALL IT It TUBES
NEAK ALBANY.
MILLIONS OF FEET
OF LUMBER DESTROYED
Several Hundred Men Aro Fightinir
the Flamea If Warm, Dry Weather
Continued, Damage Will lie Much
(reatei' Hammond Lumber Com
pany Endangered.
(tty Associated Press lo Tho Obsorvur)
ALBANY, Or., Au(j. 21. Millions
of feet of timber have been destroyed
by fires which leap over tho tops of
tall fir trees. A tract of timber 2000
acres in extent has been swept over by
a fire two miles cast of Albany.
If tho presnt warm weather and
winds continue there will probably bo
a much greater loss to the Hammond
Lumber company.
FOR LABOR OAY
AIRPLANE STUNTS WILL VHO-
V1DE THRILLS l'OU AI-U
Various Coinmitleeri Husy Arranging
For the Hig Kvenln Staged
During the Week.
Members of tho f urious committees
are busily engaged In posting litho
graphs and placing advertising cards
and posters announcing the various
events to be staged here during tho
week beginning Labor Day, September
1. Of courso, the big day will bo on
Monday, for that Is when the special
program of events will ho held at the
Fair Grounds, also it is the first ex
hibition of the army flyers, and the
opening of the big street carnival.
Both of those attractions will bo here
the entire week however, nnd labor
men, feeling that they have provided
attractions of exceptional Interest to
citizens in this section, arc widely ad
vertising tho events. The committee?
expect to complete the advertising
work by next Sunday night.
Regarding the flights made by the
airmen who are positively going to bo
here, the following news item from a
Washington paper, where they wero
giving exhibitions, furnishes Interest
ing rending:
".Just to show that falling in a para
chute several thousand feet in no wny
dampened his natural Irish nrdor,
Sergeant Cadden maliciously remark
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FEATURES
V 11 III LUI lllt IltrilfMII OllllllHU IIM11
'he was going to clean up on the pilot.
First he lands me in a graveyard and
then in a pig pen.' Hut his remark'
was tempered with a grin nnd thfl
pilot still seems to be in good physical
condition, so Sergeant Cndden's threat
does not seem to bo carried out.
''Dropping in the Watkins para'
chute, which is a prize-winner be
cause of its safety, is not the sort of
a thing done by most of us after each
meal, but Sergeant Cuddcn seems to bo
embarrassed by the fact that peopl
insist on admiriirg his nerve and grit
for performing the feat, liin first
drop was made Saturday aftenmny,
when he landed in a most suggestive a.
place, the graveyard, being brought lo
town by an. ad to. Nothing Haunted, ho
again made the parachute flight he
same evening. The wind swung liim -from
side to side and in circles as hf
hung a mere spect at the end of 0
rope attached to the yards of silk thnt
make up the paru-hutc. Opening al
'most immediab'ly, tho paruchut9hun
for 1 mrynent or two, mong toward
the groutuf orjy slowly and then scorn-
jng to arh another strata olnir, il
descend I n.oreVnpTd1f bringing Cad
dento tV g found no the other Ode of
the landing field i'9a po pen he
says,. After Tadden has marie aff
andi0 fhrulot of the plnfte, Lieut.
IVavt. did some breath-taking stunts.
I. fa $ ''"k'cldtMni, the. Im.lniHn turn, the no0
dive, and other .O.inta which the un initiated
called flip-flop. Mail? poo'
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