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' 'iv V . 4 mi " ' in mi ii i u 11.1111 I JiP ' J"mW " " "' ' ' """ "" I1T."."?MX DAILY EVHIIIIG EDIIIOII DAILY EVENING EDITION TO ADVERTISERS. To East Orngonlan baa (lis largest pal'l 'rlrculatloo of any paper In Ore"", oaat of Portland and over twice the circulation lu l'andlvtoa of aujr other newapaper. Forecast for E Oregon, bjr it United States Wcatfwr OtrVTter at Portland, Probably rain or no tonight and Sunday; colder tonlrfht, COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER VOL. 26 DAILY EAST ORECJONIAN, PENDLETON", OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1915. NO. 8U3 U HOLD F II .Smoot Holds the Floor in the Senate for Over Eleven Hours in Speak ing Against the Bill. A REMARKABLE PERFORMANCE After All 'lrlit Session Seizor Yields to Ooll-ffue Republican Declare Determination to Block Uie Dili by Attempting to Wear Out Uio Democrats. Battleship Bluecher, and Admiral Who Sank Her $3 fi- GERMAIN VLARIMED Jt a. . VrtL 7i-- I , L Is AT FJIAN TV J UGH SWEEP PRUSSIA ! ! WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. Fighting , h.ird to defeat the ship purchaue bill,; republican mirnbtn of the senate con- tinned their filibuster against th measure. At z:3U p. m. mo hud been In continuous session alnce nrly Friday, with no signs of an ad lotirn.nent. At that hour three re puh'ican senators had been able to hold the lloor continuously since ten o'clock l.st night. They are Smoot. Sutherland and Lodge. Lodge relieved Sutherland at noon and Immediately launched Into a bit t?r criticism of President Wilson. "I deeply regret," aald Lodge sar untiiaMy, "the president's secretary was not present. I thing It will ba well alnca congress has been convert ed Into a mere register of the pre' den. Ill will, that there should le some risible symbol of bis authority present " Senator Wllllnms stated that th speeches made by the republican sen ators during their fight against tha hipping bill had cost over $500,000 In printing bllU and stenographers' fee-. K-nutor Barton's speech, which lasted rrore than thirteen hours, had coal $250. Olio, he raid; that of Senator I.td-e lltn.fOO; that of,Senator Gai linger jrno.f'jo and that of Senator Smoot up to 1 O'clock, 141.000. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. After .peaking continuously for li hours and is minutes. Senator Smoot t! :25 a. m. yielded the floor to his Colleague, Sutherland, in the republi can filibuster In the senate against . i kin .a Bitt'.rnriiuni in n nurL'i njw - TJurlnir the long night season. Smoot, German cruiser Bluecher off the Cer- talked constantly on the general sub ject of shipping. 3 II ..---; m,.vii-k.- isfr.:-.rrt--::CS23Z . JJ 4..., . ; V -- Kaiser is Rushing Reinforcements to Defend Konigsberg Which is Being Threatened by Armies of the Czar Move on Part of Slavs is Considered Masterstroke Tabriz Said to be Occupied After Being Recaptured From Turks. 11 - ? rT 0 J . i ii u ROBBERS IN NEW YORK RAID A D AMI l L OF DAUMQUfl WJTH $50,000 SCAPE I AT WORTH Vice-Admiral Ueatty la again & he ro In Knglund. His sinking of the I I PETKOGKAD, Jau. 30. Three great Itusxian armies are now march. Ing agalnht KoniKxncrs:, Ue capital of ICat PruMtia. The advance of a third uriny wax Indicated in today's dis piitclicH. it In striking at the Ger Kiait IIiich south of the railroad run ning from In-u-rbniv to Konigsberg LONDON, Jan. 30. The sweep of i the HuHHian armies acroxa east Prus , sia towards Konigsberg has alarmed Germany. The Kaiser is rushing re inforcements to the defense of the city according to Amsterdam and Copen 'ihagen dispatches. Unconfirmed ru I mors at Amsterdam Indicate the Ger- mans are drawing heavily from -the I armies in Flanders to reinforce Von Hindenberg. Military men in England : regard the Czar's advance as a master i stroke. H!s forces are now only 53 j miles from Konigsberg and Petrograd ! dispatches declared they are making i rapid strides. ' ' The Russians chose for their ad vance a most auspicious time. When , the Germans withdrew several corps j from east Prussia and Poland to as , fist the Austrians in throwing back the Slav advance through the Car pathians, a splendid opportunity was presented. It was Instantly seized bj the Russian general staff and two armies were rushed across Prussia. The weakened German armies, ac cording to latest reports, have not been sufficiently adequate to meet the attack. PARIS. Jan. 30. The Matin de clares it has received dispatches that the Russians have occupied Tabriz, the capital of the Persian province of Azerbijan. 'PETROGRAD, Jan. 30 Resuming the offensive in the Caucasus, the Russians are driving the Turks be fore them not only In Armenia, but southward In Persia. Official dispatm es declared the Russian drlv through northwestern Persia has pen etrated within 18 mile of Tabriz, which fell into the hands of the Turks a few weeks ago. Recapture of the city is momentarily expected. Sim ultaneously another Russian column has cro3sed the Caucasian border In to Armenia, the Moslems retiring toward Erzerum. HE ASSAULTS MB BRITISH HUE HURLED BACK Furious Fighting Near La Basse is Reported in Statement Issued by French War Office. 6ERMAX 'CHARGES REPULSED Teutons, Spread Oat in Looae Forma Hon, Come on In ioe of Deper ate lire and TliouMandj Fail British Bayonet Finally CompH Kaiser's Forces to Withdraw. PARIS, JAN. 30. Furious fightln netr Lalasse was announced In an official statement Issued by the war of fit e. The German have renewed their desperate infantry assaults on the British lines, but have thus far I een repulsed with heavy losses. The btater.itnt declared that at least threi German battalions participated In the latest attacks. The fighting centerel near Clvlnchy and on ac.unt of tha NEW YORK. Jan. 30. Four auto mobile bandits entered the pawnshop of Adolph Stein, bound and gagged three clerks and escaped with Jewel ty valued at 50.000. One of the clerks freed himself as the bandits flel and telephoned the police. Fifty infectives mshed to the scene but no tract- of the bandits could be l-.tiniV. The robbers entered the store as WALTER JONES IS ON JURY THAT IXOlCTS HIS BROTHER Ix-aslng Hill to He Divided. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. No ac tion will be taken In the senate at the present aetislon on bills for leasing mun const Punuav, ana me aisaoung oi com nu souium iuhus. ocnaiui it iilil not use the of several other German war vessels, jiyers of Montana, chairman of the, JVT -K V nill''HB . ..... i time In the killing , methods ordlnar-i nave aroused r.ngianu. ,i public lands committee made this an- The Hiuecner whs one oi pecii, o .. kii-v..i t hv' noiincement. The Ferris land leasing '(( I III. Ill vtai , I rm i, v u w - - formance was lly adopted to furnish sufficient lan UI18B IU ".... . . ,u ,., , Ilrllluli I hill -.-111 , Hlvl.l, h. nlt In fa,MII nnn of the most re- smr-.eu on iMniiii-r i'u i' . . d lu ill sections will be eliminated and incorporated In another bill. n,nrWoi.l In the history of the senate coast. Hut Ice-Admiral neatly spieo. taU ,laBSase anJ the coal and so in this regard . j them and with more powerful vessels. The republicans declared early last chased them toward Heligoland. Ills fi'ght their Intention of filibustering pursuit was given up only when he, U night. The. sergeants at arms u.me within th German mine fields. were kept busy Visiting Clubs and wnere lie jeureu ins ..! - cafes, rounding up absentee members, sunk. In one raid they brought In Senator, LlPPlt. clad In Immaculate evening ..,,...-,,, mrn ., iruirtP clothes. Ho came so hastily he am MUMlHAL N. II Al ICnlUC not have time to cnange, fceveral clerks were placing Jew In the store windows. The clerks were covered .with revolvers then bound and gagged and carried to the rear; cf the store. The contents of several drawers and trays were emptied into JIM JONF.S IS HAItGKD WITH three valLses by the robbers. The loot HAVING GIVEN LIQl'OR TO inciuded thousands of dollars worth . AN INDIAN. of diamonds. As they left the store the lobbers passed several customers When Walter Jones, local drayman, but did not molest them. i was drawn upon the grand Jury and I took the oath to consider the evi- i dence presented before that body fair- ly and impartially, .he did not guess I what a severe test was to be placed upon his oath, and for that matter . the officers did not either. One of j the cases presented Involved his own brother. Jim Jones, who conducts a pawn shop on Cottonwood street, and the fact that this brother was Indict ed on a charge of giving liquor to Indians Indicates the manner In which the grand juror met the test DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN FOR 1916 IS NOW UNDER WAY WASHINGTON. Jan. 30. After a conference with the president. Wil liam McCombs, chairman of the dem ocratic national committee, announc ed the 1916 political campaign Is now on. Jl was impiiea inai ii uiciuues I Wilsons candidacy foj- renomination. H SELF DEfEIISE 111 1 E Self-defense is the plea which Gee BIng is making In the circuit court today to the charge of assault with Intent to kill Toy Tung, one of his countrymen. He does not deny that he had a fight with the other China man nor that the latter was badly cut with a hatchet but he is trying to establish his contention that Toy Yung first flourished the hatchet at him and that, in wrestling over it. Immediately after the report of the! Toy got the worst of wore his dress suit this During Smoot's talk many elept In their seats. The republicans admit their Intention to block the bill by attempting to wear out the dem ocras. In an endurance contest. GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP OF RAILROADS IS ADVOCATED and still ESS! WASHED AWAY BY HIGH SEAS AI D1TORU M ALSO IX IlAXGF.K THOl SANDS OF IHHX.YHS DAMAGK IS DON K. .VriON'H NATI HAL KF.SOIHCF.S ALSO SHOULD IlK OWNED SAYS PINCHOT. NEW YORK, Jan. 30. Government ownership of railroads and the na tion's natural resources was advocat ed by Ames Plnchot In testimony be fore the Industrial relations commis sion. He said this was necessary in order to make transportation and raw materials, which he declared are the baals of industry, accessible to all on equal terms. Plnchot voiced the be lief that one of the elements respon sible for Industrial troubles was the Inability of labor to gets Its side of tho controversies fully and fairly trented in the public press. He urged the commission to Inves tigate tho general handling of news by the press associations. Plnchot said: "There are two major news fur- VENICE, Cal.. Jan. SO. A portion of the Venice municipal pier, restored after the storms of last year nt a cost vt ISO, 00 was swept away early to day by high seas. Several pilings were washed from the supports of the Venice auditorium and fears are ex pressed it will go down. Firemen are fighting to savo a number of hand some beach cottages surrounded by water. A hundred feet of the Maler pier, under construction, was car ried away at a loss of $10,000. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR. sodden fields the Germans tpread out In loose formation and charged. The I r.tish artillery shattered the fore, nost ranks but the charge was un checked. Some of the enemy pene trated the wire entanglements an I readied the outer British trenchea, but tbey were met with the bayonot and either slain or captured. In the Woerve region the war of fice try the Germans accidentally ex ploded a mine Intended to be set off utu'er the French trenches. Their own trenches were blown np, one en tire company being either killed or wounded. The enemy's force In this region, as a result, was compelled to retire to the secondary line of defens es BERLIN. Jan. JO. The virtual wiping out of an entire French Infan try regiment in the Argonne region wis reported in an official statement. "The llth French Infantry regi ment was apparently annihilated at Argonne." he statement says. "Five hundred dead were found after the enemy retreated. We captured 13 officers, 751 men, 17 machine guns nrd 10 small cannon." Violent fighting continues west of Li basse says the statement, tha Ger mans having taken two British trenches. FIFTY FAMILIES RESCUED FROM DROWNING IN FLOOD SALT RIVF.Il, ARIZONA, HOURLY GROWING MORE MENACING TO RESIDENTS. PIIOEMX, ArU., Jan. 30. With Salt Hlvcr on a rampage, 50 families in tlio lowland.H Ih!ow Phoenix were nlshlng associations, the United Press readied from drowning by firemen In and tho Associated Press. The Asso elated Press sells Its news chiefly to morning papers and tho United Press to evening papers. The United Press Is conducted by a group of young wen, who have, a broader attitude toward industrial questions and usual ly give fair treatment to both sides in its reports on conflicts between capi tal and labor, but the Associated Press, under older and more conser vative management, takes affirma tively the side of capital." 2 Burned to Death, s NORTH YAKIMA, Wash., Jan. 30. Mrs. Louis Baxter, a widow, 75 and her son, Elgin, 88. were burned to death when a fire destroyed their home In the outskirts of North Yakima. bontM. Tho flood Is Inci-enMlng In vol ume Ninety other famlUco arc en-dangvml. ANOTHER NEW RECORD IS MADE IN CHICAGO MARKET CHICAGO, Jan. 30 A new high record was established by May wheat when It closed to day at a dollar and fifty-two. July closed at a dollar thirty four and seven eighths. May corn advanced to eighty-two, a new high record. ? ,' U' ,0' ! Krand Jury yesterday. Jim Jones was. --ne aueKej assault took rlace at arretted by tho police and tried in , Umatilla where the two celestials were police court. He was convicted of j employed as cooks. The evidence giving liquor to Annie Chapman and!Show, that they had had trouble sev sentenced to pay a fine of $5rt or serve j eral times and the state's witnesses. 20 days In jail. B. L. Ballard, his (mostly Chinamen. Indicate the pris-. uttorney, appealed the case to the cir-j oru.r w ag tne aggressor. ' cnit court not knowing at that timej ne C;VSe has caused a good deal of an indictment had been returned j amusement to the spectators owing to J which would make his client a de- the various incidents arising through' fondant in that court on tne samejthr Ignorance of the court procedure charge. Sheriff Taylor this afternoon i tne orientals. For Instance one served a bench warrant upon him and ,' chinaman was on the stand and ha JOE BOHL IS ACQUITTED ON CHARGE OF POINTING GUN JURY DIXIBEKATES A BO IT AN HOI K BEFORE RETURNING A VERDICT. 1 IrrVlJiTUCf j 1 u r " 1 , ...... f ' -'ijeei. 4 " ---4 I . :-i Kill j he will probably be arraigned Mon day. The case against him Is said to be a strong one. several witnesses witnessing the offense, j George FleU-hcr. Too. I Another alleged bootlegger taken I into custody today was George Flet cher, well known colored cowboy and buckaroo. He was indicted by the I grand Jury on a charge of giving a ! pint' of alcohol to Johnnie Nasheny. j A case was also- filed in police court ! ntralnst him but has not been tried yet j Fletcher. Tom Llghtfoot. Martin Olson. Hugh McConneii. cnaries nan sen alias Charley Thompson, and SI J hud been asked the hour of the al leged assault. While he was studying his answer, another celestial from the roar of the room came to his aid. "lito" he called out. Another Chi naman stood before the clerk to be sworn and. after the oath had been read to him, he nodded his head af firmatively. "Do you know- read to you?" Judge Thelps asked. "No" he answered. "Get a chicken Tho acquittal of Joe Bohl and the rnrslng of three sentences were the lno dents of the circuit court yester day afternoon and this morning. Ar thus Gulliford. convicted of stealing rattle, was sentenced to the peniten tiary from one to ten years but his at- Jtorney has been given thirty days In wh ch to prepare a bill of exceptions vpon which the motion for a new trial ji based Lewis Vnrgus. Indicted ys I terday by the grand Jury on a charge What he i uuiinnn ironi me iiprnus- lon rroouce & supply lo., was ar raigned, pleaded guilty and waived 'Continued on page eight.) Tate, all indicted for bootlegging, j .1AXI AHY BEST were transferred from the city Jail to EXPORT MONTH the county Jail this morning. All ex- j ' j cept Fletcher have been convicted In ! the city court and all will be tried in tho circuit court. Several, too. will be taken by the federal authorities so that they will get a triple dose of the law. and cut its head off and let him swear l""" ,or n jesieruay anernoon. ne was given irom one to soveo years in the penitentiary. Douglas McDonald, who had been brought i down from Athena on a charge of ' carrying concealed weapons and who had been Indicted, also pleaded gull- and was sentenced to pay a fine cf 350 or to go to jail for 35 days. It would be Interesting to know what has become of the nice old gen- j tleman who used to call tho automo I bile a "horseless carriage." PORTLAND. Ore., Jan. 30. January was the best export month in Portland's history. One million, eight hundred and seventy thousand, one hundred and sixteen bushels of wheat have been shipped abroad, most- ly to Europe, valued at over two and a half million dollars. , MEASURE Gil UN TO SIT ON J T IS KILLED Bohl's trial took place during tne afternoon. He was accused of point ing a gun at John Thompson of Gll bon during a dispute over some ealves and a pasturage bill. The evi dence did not show conclusively that h pointed the gun and the Jury, aft er deliberating about an hour, re turned a verdict of acquittal. Mexico could rid itself of various candidates for the presldono by sub jecting them to a lltervy test. NEWS SUMMARY SALEM. Ore.. Jan. 30. The senate killed Lnngguth's bill giving women the right to sit upon juries. The sen John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who has; have him tell all about the strike In Me pNvoUsiy h(ui passed the bill but sumed much power In the manage- the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, . . ent of his father's enormous for- He, disclaimed responsibility there. " s votd to reconsider It. The tunc, was one of the most Important pleading that his father controlled house rerused to reconsiuer renwu-s witnesses before the United States only forty per cent of the capital bill allowing veterans of the civil and Commission on Industrial Relations stock, and therefore he could not dl- Mexican wars exemption of 31000 the other day. Of course, members erect the management of the corpora- from taxation, cf the commission were anxious to tlon. The house received 1 new bills. The senate voted to Postpone the bill abolishing the de partment of weights and measures In connection with the state treasurer's office. Senator Smith, (Coos and Curry counties) introduced a resolution to submit to the voters a constitutional amendment exempting vestiel rfiris (General. Republican keep up fllllntxtrr against shipping bill In the M-natn. i a ri I assaulw of German agalnnt indefinitely lirltlsh two, ho iv r.-pubd. HummImii advancing through prtia ttla. alarm tho German. I.o-ul. Brother on grand jury that bullet Jtin Jonetf, alleged hooilafrgcr. Gee Itlnir phd self (-f ( at. sault ra' tered at Oregon ports, from taxation. I Gulliford M-ntenrri to p-n mm fit except state taxes. ' tt. jonrv
