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DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, ipi4.
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Refugees From Mexico City Declare
That Residents are fleeing From
Scene in Great Numbers.
LEADER HEADS 50,000 MEN
Only Few Constltatlonallst Soldiers
Ilem4n to Guard the City Gener
al Obrcgon ud Ills Army Are
Mainline to Giro IUUle to Villa
Bnt Wlierea bouts Unknown.
. VERA CUUZ. Not. Villa was
-expected to enter Mexico City Sunday
night, refugee from the capital ar
riving her declared.
Ilia force tu now laid to number
60.000.
Refugee declare condition! In Mex
ico City could not be worm. Thou
and of residents, they ald, were
fleeing and only a few conatitutlonal
lat soldiers remained to guard the
city.
General Obregon's main amy had
cone undoubtedly to give battle to
Villa but Ha exact whoreubouu was
unknown, It was aald.
The fear that General Zapata's
troops would arrive at the capital
firm and cause trouble was respon
sible for the Immediate advance on
Mexico City. Villa declared that he
had received assurances from Gen
eral Blanco.the new commander at
Mexico City, that he would support
him.
EL PASO. Nov. 11. A . general
movement of Vllllstaa from Irapuato
and Quertaro to Mexico City la on.
Twenty thousand soldiers and a hun
dred cannon already have started to
the capita!. Railroad comm-mleaMosj
was still Intact. The Valllstas ex
pected to enter the capital Sunday. No
serious resistance Is anticipated.
ALL WHO ARE AFFECTED BY
WAR TAX MOST HAVE STAMPS
COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVE
NUE IX)R ORIXJON SENDS
OUT NOTICE. -
Letters are being received here
from Milton A. Miller, collector of
Internal revenue for Oregon, notify
ing purtlea liable under the provisions
of the federal net to Increaso the In
ternal revenue that they must mnke
application for epcclal tax stamps to
him or Incur the penalty provided by
statute. The following business men
arc affected by the act:
Hankers, for each 11000 of
capital employed $ 1-00
Brokers who have not paid
as bankers 30.00
Pawnbrokers 60,00
Commercial brokers 20.00
Customhouse brokers 10.00
Commission merchants, who
have not Paid as commer
cial brokers 20.00
Proprietors of theaters, mu
seums and concert halls:
Seating capacity not over
250 25 00
Seating capacity over 250
and not over 600 50.00
Seating capacity over 600
and not over 800 75.00
Seating capacity over 800.. 100.00
Proprietors of circuses 100.00
Proprietors or agents of oth
er exhibitions or shows for
money 10.00
Proprietors of bowling alleys
and Millard rooms, for each
alley or table 5.00
Dealers In tobacco (manufac
tured tobacco, snuff, cigars
and cigarettes) exempt
when annual receipts not
over $200
Manufacturers of cigars:
Annual sales not over 100.-
000 cigars 3 00
Annual sales exceed 100.-
000 and not exceed 200.000 6.00
Annual sales exceed 200,-
000 and not exceed 400.000 12.00
Annual sales exceed 400.- .
000 and not exceed 1,000,
000 3000
Cable advlcoa t oday show
Liverpool wheat market still
stands at nine shillings eight
pence, the quotation that has
been In vogue for several days.
Reduced to bushels the Liver-
pool price In American money
la $1.41 per bushel. .
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Ml 0 CHANGED
STATE VETERINARIAN TO
GO TO BAKER COUNTY TO
HELP STAMP OUT RABIES
AM, DOGS WILL K MUZZLED TO
PREVENT FURTHER SPREAD
OP DISEASE.
BAKER. Ore., Nov. 21. W. H.
Lytle, state veterinarian, will be sum
moned from Portland at once by Dr.
F. T. Not to assist In a country-wide
campaign to stamp out rabies In the
outlying districts and to cooperate
with the city of Baker In Its mus
cling campaign. Farmers will be ask
ed to m utile their dogs except they
have them out hunting coyotes.
This action by Dr. Nots Is the result
of a letter from Dr. Calvin 8. White,
state health officer, telling of the
spread" of rabies all over the state.
The letter of date of November It,
Is as follows:
"The examination of the brain of
the dog revealed the presence of Ne
gri bodies. I want to thank you for
these photographs an they will, In fu
ture, make valuable reference to the
present epidemic. We have it now
practically all over the atate. We are
administering two Pasteur treatments,
une from Grant county and one from
Clackamas county and have ordered
one for a child who was bitten yes
terday In Marion county."
BEING HIS OWN DENTIST IS
CAUSE OF AGED MAN OYING
COPPER WIRE ISED TO PULL
TEETH RESULTS IN l!IK)l)
POISONING.
Pulling two of his own teeth wltn
a copper wire was Indirectly the cause
of the death of an aged man by the
name of Summers out from Kamelu.
Blood poison set In and death en
sued, the dead body of the man hav
ing been found In his lonely cabin
day before yesterday by Frank Han
ion. For some time prior to his
death acquaintances had sought to
Induce him to come to a local hos
pital for treatment but he not only
refused but commanded them to go
away and leave him alone.
Very little is known about the de
ceased man as he lived almost a her-
mil's life since the time a few years
ago when he took ud a homestead
en some poor land near Kumela. He
refused to associate with his neigh
bors, his only companions being his
horses and chicken. However, he
was something of an electrical genius,
had many electrical devices about the
premises and hud his log cabin light
ed with small Ineandesccnts.
So far b is known he had no rel
atives. The body was burled jester-1
day nt Kamela. Besides his home-
stead he owned a timber claim on
the reservation.
IVttott sees sifent Ship.
BUXTON. Ni v. 21. A stranee
ftamlilm, believe,! to be a British
warshln. whs seen cruising off the
end of Cape Cod. She refused toi
answer slKnuls from the marine ob-
kervatory nt. Highland Light.
WOUNDED ENGLISH TROOPER,
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I . . v yl r-ri iwm
TURKISH ATTITUDE
IS IIHW Tl
I). S. SATS DECKER
At Same Time Commander of Cruiser
Tennessee Declares Firing on
Launch Was Not Hostile Act.
FULLER REPORT IS AWAITED
Administration Will Mark Time Uo
' til Complete Details Have Been Re
ceived Regarding Incident at Smyr
na Turkey Will be An Wed to Give
Its Version. .
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. "The
net of the Turkish batteries in firing
on a launch from the cruiser Ten
nessee In the gulf of Smyrna was not
a hostile one but was unfriendly."
Secretary of the Navy Daniels ad-
mltted this afternoon that a state
ment of the incident from Captain
Decker of the cruiser contained a de
duration to the above effect.
It was said that nothing further
would be done In the matter until a
full report had been received from
Captain Decker and from Ambassa
dor Morgenthau at Constantinople,
Secretary Tumulty stated later that
Decker had reported that the shot
was not Intended as a hostile act but
that Turkey would be asked to give
a version of the affair.
NEWS SUMMARY
General.
Gigantic buttle In eastern theater
of wr attract more attention now
titan cai!italim In Belgium and
Its nee.
Villa will lx In Mexico City tomor
row. It tti expected.
German Ik'IIcycmI to plan to launch
oil-fillet! I Hire's, M't (hem afire and
t.urn allies out of trendies nr Dix-
iiiikIc,
Turkish act In firing on launch
from fuller Tcniie-sscs was unfriend
I j but not hostile.
Harvard defeats Vole In annual
KUirc by score of 35 to 0.
Local.
Umnlillii county taxpayer Increase
nMCv-cd valuation of own
trillion anil half.
property i
Pendleton 1 1 i v I lo"s to La Grande
Tirt time in II jenrs,
Tjiii die us re.Milt of pulling own
t' ctli.
I'lour shipment for Belgian grow
ing. County court will finish IVndliton
to Milfoil liUKiuliim,
Eteht
lior-es bum with Ijnilirt
bum,
FROM BELGIUM, BEING FLACED
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LA GRANDE WINS A GAME .
FROM PENDLETON FOR 1ST
TIME IN FOURTEEN YEARS
VICTORY COMES YESTERDAY ON
' GRIDIRON IlY SCORE OF
SI TO 0.
For 14 years La Grande high school
has been trying to Jefeat Pendleton
high on the gridiron but not until
yesterday could the trick be turned.
But, playing In their home city, the
La Grandera made a good Job of their
ultimate triumph, overwhelming the
Pendletonian 14 to 0.
The fortunes of the game were a
surprise to everyone. All of the dope
Indicated that the battle would be a
low score and hotly contested affair
Inasmuch as both teams had fallen
before Baker high by the same score,
IS to 0. Only in the first quarter,
however, could the local boys threat
en the La Grande goal at all. After
that it was Just a case of keeping the
score against them as low as possi
ble. !
Returning on the early morning
train, the local footballlats had few
excuses to offer for their defeat
They admitted they were not playing
In form but declared they could not
cope successfully at all with the plays
i Coach Reynolds had worked up for
the Union county boys. They gava
the principal credit for the victory to
Conkey, the La Grande speed mer
chant. Ha played one of the best
games of his career, they say, and
refused to bo stopped without yard
age. La Grande used the forward pass
successfully and made big gains both
through the line and around the end.
In the first half three touchdowns
were scored and two goals kicked and
In the second half two more touch
downs and two more goals were add
ed. Pendleton finally resorted to the
runtlng game. Brock and Boylen are
given special credit by La Grande re
ports, while Hunter. Conkey. Huff and
Larsen are mentioned paticularly
among the La Grande eleven.
TOTAL FLOUR DONATIONS
NOW REACH 65 BARRELS
SUBSCRIPTIONS CONTINUE TO
COME IN FOR REIJEF OF
THE BELGIANS.
Still the subscriptions to the flour
shipment for the starving Belgians
are coming in to the Commercial as
sociation committee. The total at
2:30 this afternoon reached 5 bar
rels. H. O. Ulydenstein has received
n letter from the Nortwestern Miller
which Is promoting the capalgn.
statins twat the railroads do not want
to receive the flour until after De
cember 1. so that there will be plen
ty of time for the local campaign.
Amons; the new subscribers to the burned to the ground. The fire oc
sh!; inent nre the Peoples Warehouse, curred between 11 and 12 o'clock and
one b::rrrl, Oorge C. Baer & Co.. one nothing Is known as to the probable
barrel. Chris Bredlng one anil a half
barrels. Carl Hansen, two barrels,
John Dnnd one barrel, C. P. Strain,
two sacks, and Jerry Cronln, one sack.
IN A CART AT FOIKSTONE
Ttj -vrr
T(l
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SE11S HI
EI BAR ES AIID.
ICE OUT ALLIES
Huge Quantities of Crude Oil Brought
up Which May Convert Flooded
Area Into Sea of Flames.
ARTILLERY DUEL CONTINUES
Weather Conditions Remain Bad for
Infantry MovemenU German At-
' tempt to Build New Trenches Is
FruHtrated by Bis; Guns of Allies
Latter Have Ik of Fray.
PARIS, Nov. 21. A German plan
to attempt burning the allies out of
their trenches In northwestern Bel
glum was suspected. It was certain
they have provided themselves with
large numbers of huge barges and
vast quantities of crude oil. The be
lief was they Intended to fill the
barges with oil and launch them on
the flooded area between Dlxmude
and the coast. The barges, burning
to the waters edge, would let the
oil run out and as the oil would float
the whole region would be convert,
e'd Into a great sea of fire.
The fighting In the north today was
mostly artillery. Weather conditions
continued to be frightful.
Under cover of their bombardment
It was reported that the Germans had
made repeated attempts to construct
new trenches. The fire of the allies
was so hot, however, that the kaiser's
troops were forced to abandon their
attempts. Their losses were said to
have been heavy.
The allies had the best of Friday's
arillery fighting all along the line In
Belgium and France, according to a
Bordeaux war office communication.
From Nleuport all through the
Alsne district a duel between the big
guns raged today. Everywhere, It
w as said, the story was the same and
the' French are optimistic over the
results.
8 WORK HORSES BURNED IN
FIRE AT S. COLD SPRINGS
ANIMALS BELONGING TO R. O.
EARNH ART PERISH IN MYS
TERIOUS BLAZE.
Eight work horses belonging to R.
O. Earnhart were burned to death
last night when the barn on the lat-
ter's place on south Cold Springs was
origin.
The barn was the property of W.
J. Furnish owner of the ranch, but
the horses and equipment in the barn
belonged to Mr. Earnhart. A quan
tity of feed was destroyed with the
barn.
SEYMOUR NARROWS BEING
FORTIFIED BY CANADIANS
HEAVY GUNS BEING PLACED TO
GUARD AGAINST GERMAN
CRUISER RAID,
PORTLAND. Ore., Nov. 21. The
fortification of the Seymour Narrows
the northern passage to Vancouver.
Nanaimo and Victoria, against a pos
sible Invasion by German cruisers
was progressing rapidly, according to
C. S. Lindsay, a steamship agent of
Juneau, who passed through the Nar
rows on Wednesday. Lindsay de
clared at least 50 big guns are being
mounted on either side of the Nar
rows, which are heavily mined and
that he counted no less than 13
squads of from 25 to 50 men who ap
parently had their station at the ar
tillery emplacements.
OH Strike Made.
TACOMA, Nov. 21 That an Im
portant oil strike has been made near
Tenino Is the claim made by oil ex
perts and announced in extra edi
tions of newspapers.
NEW HAVEN, Nov. 21. Harvard
defeated Yale this afternoon by the
score of 36 to 0. What was expect
ed to be a close game developed into
a route of the Yale eleven.
In the first quarter by a succession
of line drives Harvard scored six
Yale was unable to score. In the
second Yale was played off Its feet,
HARVARD ROUTS YALE IN GAME
AI NEW HAVEN, WINNING 36-0
mffi VALUATION OF
; Air IN COUNTY IS
RE THAN $37,500,
EASE OF A BOLT FOUR AND
-.IIREE-TENTHS PER CENT
HAS BEEN GAINED.
The assessed valuation of the prop
erty In Umatilla county Is over a
million and a half dollars more than
last year exclusive of the property of
public service corporations and the
peculiar feature of the Increase Is that
the major part of It Is not from new
property or from higher valuations
Imposed arbitrarily by the county as
sessor but comes from the Increased
valuations placed upon the property
by the property owners themselves.
The assessed valuation of the prop
erty in the county exclusive of the
public service property last year was
approximately $30,000,000 and this
year it Is over $27,500,000. an Increase
of about four and three-tenths per
cent The three tenths per cent about
represents the new land and proper
ty subject to taxation, according to
Assessor C. P. Strain, leaving a four
per cent Increase Imposed by the tax
payers themselves. This results from
the new law requiring all property
holders to give In their own valua
tions and swear to them, and proves
that the taxpayers of this county as
a whole have acquitted themselves
honestly.
What the valuation of the property
of the public service corporation In
this county will be, this year has not
been determined. This Is fixed by the
state board of equalization which has
reported only tentatively to Assessor
Strain who Is now protesting against
this tentative report Last year the
board adjudgej Assessor Strain's val
uations to be on a basis of 77 cents
on the dollar and this year the tenta
tive ratio it assigns to this county is
75.
In view of the four per cent in
crease in the valuation this year As
sessor Strain feels that Umatilla
county's ratio should be 81 and he
Is so contending to the board. The
final ratio fixed by the board Jeter
mines the valuation which will be
placed upon the public service prop
erty. Last year this class of proper
ty in Umatilla county was assessed
at approximately $12,000,000. mak
ing the total assessed valuation of
property in this county $47,730,000.
Not until the county ratios are de
termined by the state board of equal
ization will the apportionment of the
state taxes be made. Inasmuch as
the county courts must make their
tax levies at the December meeting,
it is expected that the board will
make its announcements within the
next week or two.
MACADAM ROADWAY WILL BE i
FINISHED TO WALLA WALLA
I IMPROVEMENT BETWEEN GAR
DEN CITY AND PENDLETON
SOON TO BE COMPLETED
'
Within another year Tendleton will J
be connected with Walla Walla by a
macadam roadway over the entire dis
tance. If the plans of the county court
are carried out. In the budget upon
which the tax levy will be made is
one item providing for $100,0ti0 for
roads and bridges. Out of this fund
the court will appropriate enough to
complete the macadamizing of the
road between here and Milton. The
distance of seven miles between Wes
ton and Milton Is yet to be Improved
and Judge Maloney figures this can
be easily done within a year.
. At present the road Is completed al
most to Athena from this city. With
in another month the short stretch
between Adams and Athena as yet un
improved will have been completed
with funds now on hand. Once the
road between Pendleton and Walla
Walla, the principal thoroughfaro In
the county, is completed, the court
will commence the permanent Im
provement of roads In other parts of
the county.
No Sorc In rirt llnlf.
OORVALL1S, Ore.. Xov. 21. The
first half of the O. A. C.-U. of O
lootimii game cutlet! witiiotit a score
by eltlicr side.
Harvard scoring 16 more points
to
their nothing.
In the second quarter Coolidge of
Harvard dashed 90 yards o a touch
down. In the third quarter Harvard
scored another touchdown, kicking n
goal. The score then stood 29 to 0.
In Hie last quarter Harvurd scored
another touchdown and kicked a coal.
ATTEIITI TIIS
TO EASTERN PIAIII
AS BATTLE RAGES
Slavs and Germans Clash in Gigantic
Struggle Which May Turn Tide in
European War.
WARSAW IS !.!Ai;i OBJECTIVE
RnwlsiM Claim to Have Stopped Of
fens4ve Movement Between Vistula
and Wartlie Rivers Kaiser's
Troops Suffer Enormous Loss la
the Fighting-.
FETROGRAD, Nov. 21. The war
office announced tfiat the German at
tempt to inarch on Warsaw by break
ing through tlte front between Kielce
and Hadom had totally failed,
BERLIN, Nov. 21. With hundreds
of thousands of men engaged, a bat
tle was progressing today between the
troops of the kaiser and the cxar In
Russian Poland.
The war office announced that as
;et the battle has not reached a de
cisive stage.
With the development of this gi
gantic battle today, attention Is now
centered on the eastern theater; of
the war.
The feeling was evident here am
ang military men that the outcome of
the entire conflict depended largely
cn the developments In that field.
It was admitted that Warsaw's cap
ture was the main objective of the
German offensive to the eastward.
Military officialdom was quietly con
fident that the Germans would suc
ceed. PETROGRAD. Nov. 21. The Ger
man offensive movement in Russian
Poland, between the Vistula and the
Warthe rivers, has been checked, the
war office asserted this afternoon.
The fighting was said to be of tha
bloodiest character.
Explosion mines planted by the
Russians on the banks of the Biura
river were declared to have cost an
enormous number of German Hves-
Survivors of the explosions, horses
and men, were plunged Into the river.
The bed of the stream had been filled
with entanglements and while the an
imals an! men struggled in the w
tT, the Russians, concealed, 'opened
fire. But few escaped alive, it was
said, and these were captured.
Owing to the severe weather the
German losses In the present cam
palen In the eastern section were said
to be far heavier than when the kai
ser's troops Invaded Russia before.
This is was stated, was because the
ground Is now frozen hard and does
not allow the Invaders to "dig them-
j selves In" and they have been com
j pelled to fight in the open or behind
: such natural defenses as the country
affords.
The Russians. It was stated, were
prepared for the present conditions
and their sappers were provided with
tetrol to thaw the ground thus en
abling them to entrench as effective
ly as if the season were summer In
stead of an intensely bitter cold win
ter. ELECTRIC LIGHTING PLANT
IS NOW ASSURED FOR HELIX
WALLA WALLA COMPANY WILL
COMMENCE WORK WITHIN
SHORT TIM E.
HELIX. Ore.. Nov. 21 At last, and
rf'.er several fruitless endeavors, He
lix Is to have un electric light plant.
Representatives from the Freuler
Dyer Engineering Co. of YVull.i WolU
tiive Interested loeal capital in this
enterprise nn I will cotnmei.ee work
within a short time. U Is the inten
tion to add an i P:-'lt In the sprint?
!th a capacity of four tm dally.
.. i.i.o, iii !.. ii meat adv intage t'
evervone In this locality.
The proposed light plant will consist
of a 2J horse power crude ol en
title wi'kh UI drive !t 20 horsepow
er generator, which wi'I be nniphj to
furnish light and power for the needs
t.f this loealltv at present. A stor
age battery will also ) Installed. '
as to insure day and nUht eurrent.
The plant will be so arranged as to
allow additional capacity being add
ed ns the needs of the city r.-1'ilre It
The streets will tie wired In the most
U-to-date manner and el-trl- '-r-k-e
will lie available f.-r everyone In
this Immediate locality. The servlen
will equal that of the larger cltl-s.
taectrle Irons, washing marhlnes, va
cuum cleaners, motoM Hiid cooking
utensils can be operated.
It Is the Intention of this nw com
I any. should the city officials sre,
to Install 13 street lights nt Mis nom
inal cost of 113 P'-r month, or II
each. Including Installation nn ni
t nance, which in unquestionably ths
cheapest street lighting sHm that
iv n be secured.