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DAILY EVENING EDITION TO ADVERTISERS.. Tb East Oregonlan has the largest lid circulation of any paper In Urrgou, w at Portland and ortr tl the circulation la rendition tit any other newspaper. DAILY EVENING EDITION Foreran! for Eastern Orrnjnn, by the t'nltrtl State Wentber Olnrrtrr at Tort la ml. Sflf Fair tonight and Thursday. COUXTY OFFICIAL PAPER COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER VOL 20 DAILY EAST OHEGONIAX, PEXDLETOX. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1011. NO. $33.1 n GL n J D t n J S3 IE T8EH GREAT LOSS run Ml OF il in Declaration of War is Expected to Follow if Reports From Africa Prove to be True. MISER'S TROOPS AGGRESSORS Unlon Administration Is Deferring Artlon pending; Report from Cover nop of SouUiwext Afrln IHHmca- slon Ord'Y to ItcMnt invasion Ilaa I loon IsKlMsl. LISBON. Oct. 28. If official con firmation la received of reports that troopa from German southwest Afri ca have Invaded the adjoining; Portu gucst possession of Angola. It was e. pected here that a declaration of war against the kaiser would follow im mediately. The Lin lon administration la await. Ing a report trom the governor of th colony before taking action. The governor hna been Instructed to re sist Invasion. PRESIDENT CALLS OK ALL TO GIVE I YEAR JIST PAST HAS COIXTRY IX MAX Y SAYS WILSON. HANK UMATILLA COUNTY CAN MAKE SMITH GOVERNOR "Dr. .Smith will carry Multnomah county and the t-Iection will Ijo tltvUtil largely ly the vote of Umatilla county a wa? true in the primary content. If the people of Umatilla county wish to have an earnest friend and fellow taxpayer in the gov ernor's chair let them rally to Dr. Smith and give him a united vote. If they do that they will elect him. The contest may be close hut all indications point to micccm for Dr. Smith. All over the state republicans are fhx-king to his suport by the hundreds. Dr. Smith's defence of the direct primary and his denunciation of the assembly; his firm ttand fr law enforce ment and his businesslike attitude toward tate exj-f-nditures have made a wonderful iinprc?.-i.n on Ki.ple. He will be the next governor if Umatilla county stand by him ai loyally as it did in the primary." The aWc is the declaration of Claude McColI. h. campaign manager for Dr. Smith who was here yesterday f..r the purpose of arguing a case before the suim-me court. Mr. IM'olhwh is in close touch with conditions all over the state and i confi dent yir. Smith will 1m? elected. IB - I 00 CROW EU IS MICE TO SHIPS 0110 01 Jill E LI SIIIE SEEIIE OF FIERCE BATTLE Germans Seem as Determined as Ever to Capture Dunkirk War ships Shelling Kaiser's Forces. UKE INFERNAL MUSIC IS WAY GUKFIRE AFFECTS EAR ! 'PAR 15, Oct. 21 Except for a alight diminution of energy during a few hours cn' Tuesday night, there has tw-n no decrease In the furious fight ing along the Xieuport-Dixmude line. The Germans seemed as determined as ever to reach Dunkirk and appar ently were Indifferent to the losses sustained in their efforts to push for ward. The shell Tire of the allies warships have driven the Germans from two to four miles inland. This bombardment was continued today along the coast rom Ostend nearly to Dunkirk. FRENCH AND BRITISH SHELL POSITIONS OF THE E KAISER S FORCES. THEN CHARG 10,000 GERMANS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN SLAIN nrssiAX relates experiences WHILE IX CEXTEU Of llATTLKIlfXn. blessed WAYS WASHINGTON. Oct. 2S. Presi dent Wilson issued the annual Thanks giving proclamation today. In part, it is as follows: "It long has been the honored custom of our people to turn In the fruitful autumn of the year In praise and thanksgiv ing to Almighty God for the many blessings and mercies to us aa a nation The ear, now drawing to a close since last we observed our national lay of Thanksgiving, has been, while a year of dlsclplin because of the mighty forces of war and changes which have disturbed the world, also a year of special blessing to us." BERLIN'. Oct It (Via The Hacue) Having eluded 20 British and French warships and almost all of the reserve fleet, the captain of the German cruiser Emden has report ed officially that he is now engaged In harassing the mikado' shipping. He mentTorteinhe. Japanese l!ner Kamnxka Maru. bound from Japan ese waters to Singapore with a valu able cargo, aa having been sunk in the Indian ocean. The Emden alreaJy is responsible for sending about 20 British vessela to the bottom. Recently- the allies announced that some TO vessels had been detailed to seek and destroy German cruisers en gaged In such work. LIVERPOOL Oct. Like "In fernal music mixed with fire and smoke" Is the way Jinn Siatclukl who Just reached here from Russia descril.es the sound of gunfire that he was forced to listen to for eight een hours while lying in a hollow place in the field directly in the cen ter of a battlefield on which Rus sians and Germans were meeting. SUtclru-ki. who lived in America, went to Russia at the outbreak of the war In an effort to find his fath er and get him out of the country. He could not find him and he was re turning towards the German lines when he ran afoul of a battle. He was In Vie midst of bursting she)". before he knew it. He found a sort of dugout which the Russians had I BERLIN. Oct 21.. via The Hague. j The war office this afternoon admit ted that the fighting in Belgium has been desperate in the past few days and that the number of casualties has teen tremendous but expressed confi dence that the German coast cam paign would succeed ultimately. "The enemy haa offered a sfubborn resistance." it was stated, "but has lost enormously In opposing the ad vance of our troops." From Vienna came the charge that Servians were butchering non-com batants and burn'ng and looting buildings. 30,000 Wounded and Captured According to Correspondent-Gain by Kaiser at Outset Was Due to Sheer Weight of Numbers But After Troops Had Crossed River They Were Unable to Entrench so as to Hold Their Positions-Allies Artillery Plays Havoc Along Lines and Germans are Forced to Retreat When Bayonets are Brought Into Play. BELIEVING BANKER HID INJURED HIM, MAN SHOOTS ATTORNEY" FATALLY WOUNDS MILLIONAIRE AND THEN SUICIDES. STEL'BENVILLE, Ohio, Oct. 2i. Charles Gllmore, an attorney, shot and probably fatally injured Dorham J. Sinclair, a millionaire banker, at the latter's office In the Union depot building. After the shooting. Gll more committed suicide. The police say that the shooting re. suited from Gilmore's hallucination that Sinclair had injured him. 2 DAMAGE SUITS FILED AS . RESULT OF HERMISTON FIRE SIR ILK UP cilciru RETREAT COM 13$ OF GERMAN'S BE SLOWEIt AS THEY COLTHOMPSON SAYS COUNTRY MUST PREPARE FOR WAR RESIST RUSSIANS. STANDARD Oil STEAMER, BRINDILLA. IS RELEASED VEW.L TAKEN BY BRITISH IS ALIXWED TO RESUME ITS VOYAGE. HALIFAX. N. 8.. Oct. II. The Standard Oil steamer Brlndllla, flying the American flag, whose seizure by the British cruiser Caronta was made the occasion of a protest by the Unit ed States to Great Britain and a de mand for the steamer's Immediate re lease, was formally released yester day by the Canadian authorities. After certain necessary repairs are made to the Brlndlllu's engines and she taken on a supply of coal she will resume her Interrupted voyage to Alexandria. Will He lnng War. STRATFORD, England, Oct. it The serious time of the war, said Lord Charlea Beresford, in a pev here, would begin when the Germans w-ere forced over the frontier nn J were In their own country and with their own base of supplies. This wis rot going to be a short war, Loid Charles added. NEWS SUMMARY Growing out of the fire that de stroyed the livery barn and content made to support a f:d piece and heor fcmry c Cetse in nermiston on laid down In it. He said he laid there! ,uIJr ,wo uit tor damages vere f.r eighteen hours while the battle fi!'J toJar against the O.-W. R. & raged about him. ' C. n hoth instances the Insur- The noise was terrific.- he said. ' " 1 . ' uir nam ana consents wrre neia. were parties to the suits. One suit Is entitled the Sun Inaur-! r,wting ance Co.. of London. England, and strongly. ' Entry A Geis vs the Oregon-WaaV ; u r t'1 tn' Germans any ir.cton Railwav Navigation Co. .inl'h'r ,iaJ resumed the agpressive the otrr th Not orial fir Tnuran"! '-tiiiut. lignum wi.rtu j.us- over me but all the shel'.s passed nj I was uninjured." I Slatcinskl. when the nie rf the 1 . . guns ceaseJ crawled out of the ho.e and made Ms way to the German lines. He was arrestoJ several times but finally managed to make his way, through. PETROGRAD, Oct. "8. Snow the war office admitted, was interfering with the czar's offensive in Russian Poland by delaying transport move ments. As a result, St was said, the Herman retreat was less rapid than at first and the kaiser's troops were the Russian advance more :! ; mm i , ' : -' '-' -V f t i t il ' ! :t ! '4 i vj I , J I At a meeting of the executive com mittee of the Navy League of which Col. Robert M. Thompson Is tnair man. a statement was issued in sup port of the position Just taken in congress by Representative Oscar Gardner of Massachusetts, that tht United states is wholly unprepared for war. and should begin to g t ready Co of Hartford and Jacfc Moore vs. an5 ana Austrians was reported stm ; ior me possibilities or it in tne luture. 1 th ivran-n-.thlnrtni. TT.ii.ti. m, n progress w uncut decisive results. i Navigation Co. The insurance cm-jTh' Austrians were declared to have ! i.jn- in th firmt !( .v. f., j, I faliwl in their effiTts to cross the San. WOMAN DROWXED WHEN K V&ZXZJ jsTtl or tne poucy carried upon tne con-i " w s of the bam. white Emrv A!on rir ln everal places. . owners of te contents, ask for General. Iortugal await official rrMl re garding rumored Invasion of noutb eM African iHWKrwUons by GertnaiM. If true, declaration of war may follow. Germana are driven back across Vkit rUT with great liKse. NIiiort and lUxmude line? Is still sevne of terrific battle. Loral. Annual Teachers' Iiistltiitc oten tomorrow. Hermlston fire results In big law- suits. Handcuff king" breaks Jail easily. Umatilla county can make Siniili go"rnor, declare McColloch. UPSETS IN AMERICAN UKE COMPANION ItlMlll) tXtVN Ktlll S HIT 1113.11' IS HE WI1X, IUXXVEIL S I Si., that b ir.g the alleged am ount of their damage over and above; i the $150 paid by the rnsurance com-j I panv AUert Anderson will build a bridge aero Jump-off-Joe creek near Mer lin for IH99. ak The other Insurance company j for 1Oj. the amount of Its) ANNUAL TEACHERS INSTITUTE WILL OPEN IN CIH TOMORROW li(y on the Moore, owner for $H'I. bui'ding and Jack of the t-uilding. asks Raley ft Raley filed ! TACoMA. Oct. IS Mrs. Charles Wood, a cMk at fi Lakeside Golr club, was drowned in American !ake'l',h actions. j early today wh'.le crossing in a canoe' Plaintiffs h;irze that the fire was. a ALBEE AND COMMISSIONERS ARE RETAINEO IN OFFICE This is part of what he had to say "It requires three years to build a dreadnought and many years to make efficient naval officers and seamen. It requires several months to make a H-inch gun and from three to five years to make an efficient seaman gunner. It takes one year to build a submarine, and many years to train a ihmarine crew. "If war should threaten five, ten or fifteen years from now time to prepare for that crisis. Chaos 1 LONDON. Oct, 2i. The Germans have been driven back acrosa the Tser river, loMing 16,000 killed and 30,009 wounded and captured, according t the Rotterdam correjon-lent of the Daily Mall. "Probably never before In the en tire history of warfare." said the Mail's correspondent, "hare combaU been fought with such eqUAl fierce ness. The Germans crossed the Ter under the most terrific machine gun fire. In the fact of this they pushed their lines by sheer weight of num bers to the west bank of the shallow stream and there secured a foothold. But they could not dig themselves In sufficiently and after the allies had shelled the entire front, British and French charged the Germans with the bayonet, "Many were slain before the Ger mans, unable to stand the steel, yield ed their positions and retreated to the other side of the stream where they now are entrenched. It was learned that the Teutons drowned by hundreds in the Tser and both banks of the stream were said to be covered with corpses and the wounded whom it was impossible to rescue owing o the murderous fire of the artillery. PARIS. Oct. 28. "Our troops." said an official statement this after noon, "have maintained all their po sitions and have been able to advance their' lines north and south of Ypres. "The German offense is decreasing in violence, especially between Nleu port and Arras. All reports Indicate that the enemy has suffered enor mous losses in killed and wounded. "The allies have also captured a great many prisoners. "The determined night attacks of the Germans north of the Alsne havo l-een repulsed as have similar aasault tbout Craonne. "Our troops continue to advance In the Woevre district.'' Referring to the eastern theater of the war. the statement said that bloody fighting between the Germans and the Russians Is ln progress in a forest between Radom and Koxlen ice In Russian Poland. Optimism tinged the statement throughout. All along the line from started from sparks and hot cinders failing from tV.e railroad company's engines which were careles'y and negligently handled, according to the complaint. : w ith Al lander Ixl'h. the club's in structor. Ijeith s recuej uncon scious but it is thought he will reoov-' I The c.iroe vertu-ned and when' Manager Bert Finney of the Amen-! can lake hotel, heard crie. he went! sIm to c-t War Tai. to the scene and arrived Just as Mrs-' KERNE. S :tzerland. Oct JS T'.e Wood was sinking for the last tim Swiss government is preparing an Vi- The body was recovered but ail er forta to revive her proved unavailing. PORTLAND. Ore . Oct. 2S The Complete returns from yes- Urday s recall election aimed at Mayor Albee and Commis- sicners ' Brewster and Dieck. fhow that they were retained in office by a substantial vote. Majorities against the recall tte as follows: Albee. 1S.1O0; Die .-k. C6I1: Brewster 1102.) now is me. Xieurort t() Arra, u was jeclared. i tht fnrv at tht I'.crmnn n ft art- av.i and anarchy still prevail in Mexico, diminishing and the United states army is pitifully . ..11 v.- at the point of exhaustion from their tremendous but futito efforts. North and east of Ypres, between' j Cambral and Arras, It was said that ' t h olHAU u n rM .,lvin..n : ftn Inflict. includes the question of race purity.!. v,,,. , ,.J.,. ,v, A violent night attack In the vlcln- I 1 'small for a country of 100,000.000. people j I "National defense not only include j j the Monroe Doctrine and the neu- j tralitv of the Panama Canal, but also j 1 -iue la 1 bill for presentation to par- " ' ' !i:i.rnt to meet war expenses. j e)4) e AAA Tomorrow will see the opening of the annual teachers' Institute or Umiitilla county. The first session will begin at 10 o'clock n. m., lasting until 2:30 p 111. when n 10 minute recess will be taken. The session will then contin ue until the completion of three more number. Among the noted educators to he pri'xi'ht tomorrow, during the day session, nre L. R. Aldermun, superin tendent of the city schools of Port land; M. S. Plttnmn of the Oregon State Normal School at Monmouth; p. L. Griffin of Oregon Agricultural col lege nt Corvallls, and Marl Ruef Hof r, principal of the Chicago Play ground trnlnlng school. Tin- program for the day Is as fol lows: 1 Tluirl,v, Oct. S. 191 f. 10 0-k A. M. Opening exercises; Invocation. Rev Tv F. Weaver; Music; address of wel come, Hon. Stephen A. Lowell; re sponse, Prln. W. C. Howard; piano solo, selected. MU Mae Poulson: "Industrial Clubs.'' F. L. Griffin; "Captains in Calico," M. S. Pittman. 1:30-1:45 p. m. Music; "Slave Song." Tresa Del Rlego, Miss Irmalee Camplwll. 1 : 4 5-3: SO Section Work. 3:30-2:40 Recess. 2:40 "The Creole Lover's Song." Dudley Muck, Mrs. r. R. Atkins; "The Reorganized Playground. Marl Ruef liofer; "Motive ror Productive Work." L. H. Alderman. In the evening Muvnard Lee Daggy of the Lyceum Bureau n lecture at trie fM school auditorium on "An:.! Saxon Grit." Mr. Daggy's lecture will be preceded by "Sliulert's Serenade' and "The Shepherd's Morning Sons" by Kupene Molltor. REFUGEES FLEEIXG FROM ANTW-RP TO HOLLAND The American policy of restiicting oriental Immigration Is justified not only on the economic ground of pro tecting the American standard of liv ing, but by the law of eugencie th-it the mixture of diverse races always results in a degenerate, mongrel race, "The Monroe Doctrine is only h strong as the United States navy, and the day Is dawning when race purity will also depend on the United Suites navv." ity of Craonne was reported to have been repulsed. JAPAN WILL INCREASE ITS FORCES IN CASE OF NEED 1 t 4 nil z ; v ;Vi'7iv,,';r?' ! !.:!' ill- ,1-r ii ii '1 - K-. i '.it i.t. v f A - f, .' ,- ' j AMERICAN LINER LOADED ! WITH COPPER IS HELD UP . I5MY X X VY WII ft BIT I.X. rM)i ik i.aik.i: hi im;i:t II I. BE AI.I.OUI D. WASIlINMTi N. Oct. 2 The statt? department was adxised bv the Uni- j ted States consul at Gibraltar that the I American Iin r Krooriland. c.t r ry i 11 j a cargo of copper from New York f I Naples and Creek ports Was being J held at Gibraltar. No details were 1 tlven in the cablegram. TOKI' Oct 2 TIN' iMHtle.ll tl- xparis..i of the armv and r.ivy. that (Japan ri.ight be able to act fpib-klv . In event of an emergem-v. a urged i by Premier okutn i at a l o eim ,f 1 party leader tonuhf j It ! expecte.l thlt tllH new budget Will prol.e !',.r the larkje-.! Ilill 'ir fund In years. t Cop: right by International News Fen ice.) ONLY 47 MINERS DEAD IN EXPLOSION AT R3YALT0N ROYAl.ToV. 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