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u '&m"' 0Q I I ii V ill 'I i DAILY EVEIIIIIG EDITKKI DAILY EVENING EDITION rz.-rjrr:r. T s.; Fereraat for Eastern Oreean, by th t'nlted States wtfr Obenrvec at Portland. TO ADVERTISERS. Tkt East OregoaUo bu th largest paid elrealstloa of auy paper In Orsfoa. tut of FoetUsd ud ever twice tbt circulation la 1'sndletoa of u; otaer nuripiper. Flr tonight and Friday. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBKK 31, 1914. VOL. 25 NO. 6337 .J i FRENCH CAPTURE STEINBACH IN HAND-TO-HAND CONFLICT connii of AHII PI10TEST 111 TAKE WEEKS -President Wilson Intimates He Does Not Expect More Than Partial Concession to Demands. America's Note Causes Stir CONFERENCE HELD IN LONDON Ambassador Page and Foreign Mln later Grey Meet to Discuss Note Former Explains That Protest If Made In Friendly Spirit to Avert Any Future Complications. LONDON, Dec. 31. England's ans wer to the United State protest against Interference by British war ships with American commerce at aea will be completed aa apeedlly aa pos sible and will be friendly In spirit This statement waa made thla after noon on high authority. WASHINGTON. Dec. II. Amert ca'a protest to England continued to abaorb official Waahlngton today. It waa officially atated It would ba week, probably months, before the negotiations would end. President Wilson Intimated he doean't expect Immediately mora than a partial conceaslon by Great Britain Ha la confident that the earliest re sult will be that England will agree to ceaae arresting American ahlpa un- lesa good grounda for grave susplc 1on ex lata. The president alao declared that aome polnta In the proteat were un debatable aa they were baaed on pre cedents which England herself had established. Other features In the note, he aald, were certain to cause delay. One of the questions which prob ably would cause lengthy dlacuaalon la the suggestion that the British contraband list be revised. Many eliminations have been demanded by the American government Govern ment officials privately say that one of the chief effects of the proteat will be to restore confidence everywhere, especially In Germany, that America really la a neutral nation. ( LONDON. Dec. 31 The admiralty lias prepared a report listing all ships carrying American cargoes which British war vessels have held up and diverted fram their Intended deatl nation to British porta to be search' ed. In each cane reason are given for the diversion. Specific accusation of Irregularity In the manifests and the Inclusion of contraband In the cargoes Is expect ed to figure extensively In the British reply to the Washington administra tion' complaint. American Ambassador Page had a long conference with Foreign Minis ter Grey concerning the Washington protest. It waa understood that Pa' explained the American position and cmphnsliwd that the note was Intend ed in the friendliest spirit and In the nope of Improving conditions which might develop seriously If Ignored. No further statement was Issued ex cept that the negotiations which had begun probably would continue for mmie time. ( ' I j r .:;:;iv;.;: I I ,yj matter. The American note to Great Britain ha overshadowed even the war developments and at a special session of the British cabinet yester- termination to have the queatlon of; day, the note was diacuaaed. It la President Wilson and VK President Marsliall. President Wllaon has expressed de- BIS REPULSED ALOIIC VISTULA Bl FORCES OF RUSSIA 1 . At Rawa River Also, Teutons are Reported to Have Suffered Re verses at Hands of Czar's Troops ARTILLERY FIRE TERRIFIC LODZ IS CITY OF WANT AND iiiccdv. TUMiCiiinc enrrrry industrial center of poy j?c fA WRECKED OOMMERCIA BV THE WAR. 17 i l Weatlier Too Severe to Allow Infan try Operation but Ffcld Guns En jnuro in long DI'Hanoa Duels Slavs Said to He Making Steady Progrrms Alno In Gallcla. America's commerce Interferred with by England brought to a aatlafactory settlement. Congress Is said to be aolldly behind the president In thla - probable the matter will not be set tled for several weeks yet as Interna tional law question will have to be threshed out. SEAMEN'S BILL RECALLED n MAY PASS CONGRESS LA FOLLETTE MEAStHE TAKEN I'ltOM PIGEON HOLE GOES TO COX FEREX CE. wiuiiivnTOV. Dee. SI. By a vote of eight to five the senate com merce committee removed the La Follette aeamen'a labor bill from its pigeon hole where It haa been alnce the lastVeasion of congress. The bill now goes to a conference and ita pas sage la oelievea possiuie u icoun of amending the London "safety at aea" treaty. STATE HEALTH ROARD HAD - E9 JURISDICTION IN CASE WILLIAM H. JONES, WELL KNOWN FARMER, IS DEAD PIOXEER DIES LAST NIGHT FIXERAL PROBABLY WILL BE HELD SIXDAV. UNIDENTIFIED SHIP SUNK BY MINE IN NORTH SEA LIFEBOATS ARE OFT SEARCHING FOR SURVIVORS ANOTHER WKECK RETORTED. LONDON, Doc. 31. A large uni dentified steamship hit a mine and sunk In the North Sea today. Lifeboat are searching for survi vors off Flamborough Head. " , The washing ashore of many sol dlera helmets Indicated another wreck off Port Cawl, Wales. Causing an unexpected grief In the community that haa long been tun home, William II. Jones, prominent pioneer farmer and merchant of this city, died last night shortly before midnight at hla home on Lewis street. Death waa due to chronic nephritis and heart trouble of which he. had been a sufferer since last spring. Not until the pant two days, however, had he been confined to his bed and few of his many friends were-aware of the serious nature of his affliction. The funeral will probably not be held until Sunday in order to give time for the construction of a vault on the family lot In Olney cemetery. Deceased was born In Wapello county, Iowa, December 15, 1848, and waa thus just a little more than 66 years old. He was one of nine chil dren. He came to Oregon In 1871, locating in Umatilla county. For two years ho clerked In a general store at Weston and afterwards for eight years followed the occupation of farming. He was foreman of the Reese, Jones & Sturgls ranch and also took up government land, com prising homestead, timber and rail road lands, which ho developed. Aft crwards he engaged In the hardware REMOVAL OF HEALTH OFFICER IX CLACKAMAS COIXTV HELD ILLEGAL. - SALEM, Ore., Dec. 31. The su preme court handed down a decision granting a review of the Judgment of the state board of health in removing J. A. Van Brakle aa health officer of Cluckama county. The court held the board had not the authority to re move the health officer because of Ineligibility but that the complete remedy was through an action at law provided for in the "Statutes. The board charged incompetency. Van Iirakle contended his removal was due to his being an osteopath. PETROGBAD, Dec. 31. The Ger man have been repulsed at several points on the Vistula and Rawa liv ers it was reported here. There was little Infantry fighting aa the weath er waa too sevese but long range ar tUlery duels ragged fiercely. In Gallcla the Russians were mak ing steady progress, driving the Aus trians farther into the Carpathians. Apparently they were determined to clear the way for an Invasion of Hun fary. Farther west the Russians had wrested certain positions In East Sa- kilos from the Austrian forces, cap turing a number of machine guns. The fighting In trans-Caucasia waa growing fiercer. A big battle was in progress In the vicinity of Sary- kamyah where the Turks had been heavily reinforced. North of Sary kamyah, a strong Ot toman force waa repulsed by Cos sack, losing hall Its .number. VIENNA. Dec. 31. The war office declared that a Russian attempt to force them Into the Carpathians had failed. It was asserted the danget of an Invasion of Hungary was re mote. The Slavs were said to have undertaken a surprise attack on Ua losk Pass but were surprised them selves Instead and heavily defeated Austrian artillery was reported as commanding all the practicable routes through the mountains from ths northward, while crack Hungarian regiments dominated most of ths heights. By KARL VON WIEG WITH THE GERMAN A LODZ. Dec. 21. (Via Th ana London.) Lodz, the gre&C n ufacturlng center of Poland, Is a City of want and misery. Beautiful young girls are offering; to sell themselves Into white slavery with the hope of gaining food and shelter. Lodz haa a population of 300,000. Its factories are closed and 150,000 men and women are Idle. Food short age has resulted In appalling condi tions. v Bread is selling at 30 cents a loaf. Great crowds stand for hours In front of baker shops waiting for a chance to buy the little that Is of fered. They fight for the food dol ed out to them. People say the Russians, who re treated from the city before the Ger man advance, stripped it of supplies. The suffering is relatively greater than anywhere In Belgium. The Germans are now occupying Lodfor the third time since the war began. It was little damaged by gun fire but Industrially and economically It I a wreck. The German general who Is the military governor of the Lodz dis trict, hopes that when the railroad connecting It with the. frontier has been repaired and communication with Germany re-establlahed, the present terrible situation will be lm proved. nrmi o nrp pa n in ua c im Min ANITA ALHII'lll I1UUI I 1 1.1 1 mm iimiij un U U 111 II L. LUUI mi iff 111 AAlin IAT TH Alltl UW IN Hllil IU liAIN HIT POSITION IN ALSACE Fighting Rages From House to House as Gallic Troops Charge Again and Again in Endeavor to Beat Back Op position of Teutons-Kaiser's Forces are Last Driven Out and French Occupy Town. MACHINE 6UNS Oil HOUSE-TOPS POUR IS F'UnDEROUS FIRE Germans Blow up Two French Trenches on Wednesday But Fail to Take Second Line of Defenses-Center and Right of Allies is Point of Battle in Today's Operations in France. WIFE OF FORMER TREASURER OF THIS COUNTY IS DEAD New York Club Sold. NEW YORK, Dec. 31. The New York American league club was sold to Colonel Jacob Rubbert, a million aire brewer and captain T. L. Hus ton of Havanna, Cuba. IMMIGRATION AMENDMENT' VOTED DOWN IN SENATE WASHINGTON. Dec. 31. Py a vote of 34 to 26 the senate voted down the amendment to the Immigration bill, admitting to the I'nited States fugitives from political, religious and ! lulu racial persecution, whether they could j Cambridge Pass the literacy test or not. SIRS. MARY YATES PASSES AWAY Si DDEXLY YESTERDAY AT WALLA WALLA. Mrs. Mary Yates, . wife of Sam B, Tatea, former treasurer of Umatilla county, died suddenly lost night at 11 o'clock at her home. 320 Juniper street. Walla Walla of congestion of the lung, according; to news received here. She had been HI for three months but her ailment was not con sidered serious. Last evening she suddenly became worse. Mrs. Yates was 53 years of age. She wn horn In Illinois Twenty-two years aeo the family moved to Milton whe'e after eight years they came to Pendleton, rema'nlng nine years. While in Pendleton. Mr. Yates was county treasurer. Five years ago they went to Walla Walla. Mrs Yates Is survived bv her par ents. Mr. and Mrs . John H. Parkes of Missouri, her husband, and six children. Herbert A. of Okanogan: J. E. of Portland: Elmer H. Hono- Stanley. Walla Walla: Cecil C. Mass. and Mary K., of PARIS, Dec. 31. The capture by the French of Stelnbach in upper Al aace waa officially announced. A war office atatement said the town was wrested from the Germans after a desperate battle during; which both sides lost heavily. The troops fought literally from house to house, the Germana resisting fiercely, rak ing the French murderously with rifle fire and volleys from machine funs mounted In windows and on house tops. ' This struggle raged for hours. Be fore they gained a- foothold In the town Itself, the French made repeat ed, bay o il siirg ea.' Again and again the Germans beat them back. Final ly, through persistence,' courage and heavy sacrifices the French were re warded and, the streets were entered. From then on the progress was alow but steady. Machine gun squads kept forcing; their way through the thor oughfares, dislodging the enemy. j The victory was declared highly Im-J portant as It opened the roads to Altkirch and Mulhausen. An official statement said the fighting was practically confined to day to the French center and right The Germans were reported to have blown up two French trenches north of Slllery on Wednesday night and then tried to take a second line of de fenses. These the French held In the face of a series of savage bayonet charges and finally repulsed the assailants. forces driven back to -the secondary line of entrenchments, while north of Meshilles-Hurlus a number of trench es had been taken by the French. Slight Gallic rains were renorted In the Argonnes. The weather, It was stated, contln- A m n K A K&tAAH . I. . It... M the sea that operations were practical. ly suspended. Marconi Now a Senator. ROME, Dec. 31. King- Victor sign ed a decree making- GugUelmo Mar coni, the Inventor of the wireless, a member of the Italian senate. NEWS sur.ir.iARY General. French capture Stesnback la Alsace after severe hand-to-hand fighting;. Consideration of America's protesC will be) completed aa speedily as possible. Germans reported to have been re pulsed by RiiMtlans along VlMtola river. Loral. W. 1L JoncK. pioneer farmer and mrrehajiu dies at home here. City will try to foreclose liens against Jackaon Mrcet property. Mrs. S. R. Yates, formerly of thH North of Beause. the official com-city, dies In Walla Walla. municatlon continued, the German City engineer laid off to cut down center was repulsed and the kaiser's experaes. Walla Walla. (Continued on paga eight) JAPAN CHARGED WITH HOLDING UP AMERICAN SHIPS IN PACIFIC WASHINGTON, Dec 31. Serious Interference with American commerce In the Pacific is charged against Ja pan. A prominent member of the Pacific coast congressional delegation was au thorlty for the statement that Japan haa been holding: up American ships In the Pacific in a manner similar to that employed by England In the Atlantic. TreBldent Schwerln, of the Pacific Mall Steamship company, was the complainant and has filed a prelim inary statement of his caso with con grew. Schwerln claimed the steam ship Manchurlawas held up and de tained 43 hours" Ho declared practi cally every other liner In the Pacific Mall service ha been Interfered with. Patroness of Poor Distributing Baskets INI 1 ;rvv J f 1 ais -,.' ; ' . .it,. " '-;'v' :.a Grry---" 7 J she I AC SDN STRFFT RPSII1FNT!! WDD ESCAPED ASSESSMENT FACE SI Kva uoom, commanaer-in-cnicr or the salvation Army in America, pnoitigrapned on Christmas day as was dlstrlbut'ng baskets filled with Christmas dinners to the poor fam lies of New York, Suit will be started at once by the city to foreclose the street Improve ment liens against those Jackson street property owners who escaped payment of the original assessments by a supreme court decision but who are now held liable under a reassess ment. Last evening City Attorney Carter requested authority from the council to proceed with legal measures and the authority was promptly given Mm by a resolution. The city attor ney stated that the property holders Involved have ignored all of his com munications and that he understands the matter will be fought out In the courts. The filing of the foreclosure suits will undoubtedly again open a bitter legal fight such as was fought nearly two years ago in the circuit and su preme courts. It Is probable that the supreme court will again be the final Judge. Having opposed the Improvement of Jackson street, James Johns. Will Moore, Frank Frailer. Frank Neagle. A. Zeuske Dave Gordon and others objected to the paying of the assess ments levied against their property when the Improvement was complet ed two years ago last fall. James Johns, acting for himself and the others, opposed the attempt to fore close the lien, losing out in the cir cuit court but winning In the su preme court. The fight was made chiefly upon the grounds that the Warren Construction Co. enjoyed a monopoly under the procedure of the city council. Judge Phelp upheld the city and Mr. Johns appealed Though the supreme court upheld all of the material contentions of the o'ty. It reversed the decision of J'ld'; Phelps upon the grounds that there was an error In the description of the assessment district. Flock C having been culled Hlock . City Attorney Carter petitioned for a rehearing on the grounds that the trivial error de ceived no one and was Inconsequen tial inasmuch as a plat on. file show ed exactly the boundaries of the dis trict. The petition was denied. A year ago the citizen of Pendle ton by a large majority adopted an amendment to the charter permitting the council to order a reassessment In any Improvement district where the first assessment was Invalidated by reason of errors In proceedings. It was un amendment growing out of the Jackson street suit. Since the passage of the amendment, the city attorney and other leading attorneys have held that the amendment Is re troactive. Accordingly the rlty coun cil ordered a reassessment In the Jackson street district and Hens wers again docketed against those property owners who refused payment before. It Is these Hens which will now form, the basis of the suit to be file J. May He Lion 2alnst (cemetery. The old knotty question of wheth er the city could place a lien amln"t the old cemetery on the north side for street Improvermnts cam up again last evening. Despite contrary opinions. City Attorney Carter de clared that there must be some wav In which a lien could he placed aealnst the property, and th coun cil held up the payment of the ment to give hint time to consider the mntter further Vnder the terms of the original deed by the late Mr Aura M. Uuley, the plot of ground W'is given as a burial ground fr-ver Title Is vested In lrut-e but tb-V have no money with whl"h to m'-t tnxe charged aK.'ilnt the property If a I'cn U derlared against tf-n prop erty It will have to be sold and whether this can b done iiikIt lh" terms of the original grant In the question.