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DAILY EVENING EDITION DAILY EVEIII11G EDITION TO ADVERTISERS. The Kaat Oregoulaa hii the largest paid circulation of say paper In Oregon, eaat of 1'ortland and over twice the clrculatloo In Pendleton of any other newspaper. romnwii for Earn Ore iron, by U United State WraUier Observer at roriUnd. Fair, colder, tonight; Frtd.iy fair. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER VOL. 26 DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, TIIUKSDAV, FEIiRL'ARY 4, 1915. NO. S 1 1 7 i . ' mi 11 REhEW attempts II TMMII ALU ED HE TIF HUES 1IEII I l!f THEE Kaiser Determined to Resume Offensive-Heavy Cannonading Near INieuport is Reported in Official Dispatches French Gunners are Said to Maintain the Advantage at Bethune BERLIN, Feb. 4. All the water around England and franco, Includ ing the English. cJianncL were doclar rd In Ukj war aonain an official an nouncement Ismied by Uie German ad miralty. The order become effec tive February 18. WASHINGTON, lVb. 4. Olc Jap anmo cruiser Aama U a shore on the rock near Kan Ilartalmoo Hay, Low er California, and rotably will bo j total Ions, according to a wireless rtti-ived by tlio navy U-mrtmcnl front Adinlral Howard. PARIS, Feb. 4. The . Ccrmam In Fiance, strongly relrtforced. are mak ; Ing violent attempts today to take the offensive and force back the allies' lines along the coast of Arras. Heavy cannonading around NIeu port U reported in official dispatches The Germans have resumed their work of dropping shells across the Allied lines into Furnea. ' VILLA AIII1ES HIMSELF HEAD OF - ID AFFAIRS Leader Practically Has Assumed Position as President of Republic Appoints Cabinet. REASONS ARE SET FORTH Near Notre Dame Lorette, German Infantry made an unsuccessful at tempt to smash against the French trenches lifter several hours of artil lery duelling. The French gunners are said to maintain the advantage In the region between Arras and Bethune. West of Labosse, the Germu'n artillery Is par ticularly active. Alrscouts reported that the Ger mans are preparing for another on slaught on the British positions be tween Labasse and Bethune. French shells hove worked havoc in the ranks of the German regjment convoying supply and ammunition trains In the Wovre region. At this point, the Germans have ubandoned their trln movements. In the Vos- ros region, a thaw has set in and mountain streams have been convert-1 ed into torrents. Floods threaten to ' binder operations. Explanation Heretofore Made That He Has Been I nublc to Work DD MAD EHEVI IV I All ilHlil LHIi III STATE SEIIATE Bill Repeals Preferential System of Voting 2nd Would Make Other Changes in System. SEVERAL BILLS PASS HOUSE TWO KILLED IN REVOLVER FIGHT FOLLOWING REL GUI QUARREL . MARSHALL, .Texas, Feb. 4. Mar shall was deeply stirred today when a tor-oner's Inquest was opened into the deaths-tf William BUck, an exprUst -of Bellslre, Ohio, and John Rogers, h leading Catholic of . Marshall. Black's revolver showed no shot had been fired by him, while he was struck In five vital spots by bullets following a religious quarrel. Papers Are being prepared to charge C. F. Hall of St. l'aul. Minn, with murder John Copeland, a Catholic, who ac comiwnled Rogers, In a dying state ment, charged Hall with engaging In a revolver battle in Black's room at a hotel last night George Ryan, a third Catholic, faced a murder charge for the death of Black. A'. lecture by Black on Tuesday night attacking Catholicism led to a visit from three Catholic churchmen and the shooting followed. . Hall was Black's traveling companion. Miss Sal lie Black, step-daughter of Black, Is under police guard. Friends of Hall are trying to raise a bond so he could take Black's place in deliv ering anti-Catholic lectures which have been advertised. Ryan is at liberty on $10,000 ball. In Conjunction Willi Hi Force In the soutli Now Taken Supreme Control of the (Jovernment. EL PASO, Feb. 4. General .Villa has practicully proclaimed himself the president of Mexico. He has as sumed supreme political power over the organized government with him relf at the head. Villa gave as his reason that Interruption of commu nlcutlon had made it impossible for him to work In conjunction with his forces In the south. Villa has named the following members to serve In his cabinet: Minister of Foreign Relations and Justice, Miguel Dlas Lombardo. Cobernaclon and Communications, Dr. Lulz De Garza Cardenas. Treu!ury and Fomento, Francisco Escudero. ICE FLOES SINK STEAMSHIP BUT CREW ESCAPES TO LAND Senate substitute Bill Allowing Wo men to Work Overtime in Canner ies During- HuhIi Season IS Adopted Irrigation Bonds BUI Is Also I'uHHcd In House, SALEM, Ore., Feb. 4. Without a indenting vote the senate passed the bill revising the direct primary law. The bill repeals the preferential system of voting and provides for an election of delegates to national con ventions, two from each congression al district and the remainder at large. FIB PMUFfEUTOIN AND SLAV 7 ES Ti ' OF IHTEiWS Tacoma Capitalists Negotiate Ex change, Giving in Part Payment Large Tract of Timber Land. OEAL INVOLVES $500,000 . O. Storey and Annotate Are New Owners Holdings of Storey Tim. ber Company, Coiiiiwtsinc About fcOOO Atres Near Tacoma, Go to W J. Furnish and Associate. By a deal that was consummated In Tacoma yesterday, W. J. Furnish and associates have sold their ipterests in the Furnish project to J. O. Storey and associates of Tacoma and in ex change have taken In part payment a large body of timber located 25 miles from Tacoma. The price Is not The law repeals the provision that the. made public but Is said to have totaled tlate pay expenses of the delegates. a sum approximately half a million It also provides that presidential ( dollars. TESTIMONY N BUR BEGUN IN E CASE IS 1 CIRCUIT COURT DISASTER OVERTAKES IOWA THREE MILKS OFF THE CHICAGO RIVER. CHICAGO, Feb. 4. The steamship Iowa. 846 tons,' of the Goodrich line sank In Lake Michigan this morning thiee miles off the mouth of the Chi cago river. 'Advices reaching here said that the 75 members of the crew made their way over the ice floes and reached land. Details of the disaster are meager. The first news was received from the Iowa's wireless by the local agents. It Is believed that the sides of the steamship were stove In by the ice. No passengers were carried. , Taking of testimony in the Richard Burke murder trial was commences at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon ,a full day and a half having been used In the selection of a Jury and the making of the preliminary statements. It is expected that the taking of testimony will continue at least through tomorrow The Jury was not finally secured un- woman In the twenties, and til nearly i:io this morning ana oniy after three special venires bad been called. The defense exercised all 12 of the peremptory challenges allowed It by law but the state exercised only one of Its six. The jury as finally selected Is com posed of J. I). Bramwell, S. W. Wat tenberger, Charles Hamilton, J. T. Lain, R. W. Brown, R. Raymond, Walter Benson, John Tompkins, Jo seph Hodgson, A. M. Winn. D. H. Schumacher and James Hartnett. Of these only Bramwell belonged upon the regular Jury list. At 4: SO yesterday afternoon the court had to adjourn because of a shortage of Jurors, the state having exercised' one peremptory and the de fenHo seven at that time, thus deplet ing the supply of Jurors on the regu lar list and the first special venire of 12. This morning the court open- would prove that Kirkpatrick was shot without having given any provo cation, while the defense declared it would show that Kirkpatrick was en tlrely at fault and that the shooting was both In self-defense and not de liberate Both sides agreed that the young Indian had driven Blllle Clifford, a Grace Maggart, a girl In the early ' teens, from Pendleton to the ranch of Fred Hobby where a dance was being held. The state contends the girls went there as unbidden guests but the de fense asserts that, while they received no formal Invitations, they understood that they would be welcome and were welcomed and escorted Into the house. The state's evidence wilt show, de clared the district attorney, that late In the night or early In the morning the two young ladles were es corted out of the house and helped into the buggy and that Ed Kirkpat rick was chiding the Clifford woman for her conduct when Burke who had been a Short distance away walked up nnd said In effect, "That's enough of thut talk." The state's witnesses will state their belief that Kirkpatrick did not hear the remark and that, when Burke again spoke, he turned. As Greeiv May Aid Servla. ROME. Feb. 4. According to In formation obtained from diplomatic sources here, Greece has decided to aid Servla If another Austrian invas ion of Servla Is attempted.' Meanwhile Greece Is allowing mu nitions of war destined for Servla to be landed at Salonika without heed lug Austrian and German protests. ed with six new Jurors present but by he did so Burke opened fire, they ten o'clock this venire was exhausted nay, shooting twice, one bullet strlk- wlth the Jury still Incomplete. A third special venire of three was call ed nnd It required two of these three to fill the Jury box. lug Kirkpatrick In the leg and rang ing downward. At the time Vic Ehrhnrt and Ernest Schreckler were with Kirkpatrick and Jim Rose came The Juror dismissed by the state on from the front porch of the house at n peremptory challenge was O. K.ithe sound of the shooting and tried Goodman nnd the following were dis missed by the defense in the order named: J. D. FIckes, E. C. Anlbal, W. P. LlttleJohn, Kenneth McRae, Milt Whitman, W. T. Hwrrison, C. O. Brownell, J. A. King, J. A. Bagwell. T. R. Hampton, C. W. Matthews and O. A. Simpson. Two Stories of Shooting. The preliminary statements of Prosecuting Attorney Stelwer and Col. J. H. Raley for the defense showed that two very different stories of the shooting which resulted In the death of Rd. Kirkpatrick will be presented to the Jury. The state declared It tn dissuade the Indian from shooting further. Burke's reply, according to the state, was a shot In the direction of Rose and after that he forced the four men at the point of the revolver to walk backward to the house, where he stood threatening them. John Hoffman circled around behind the Indian, according to the state, knocked the revolver from him and overpowered him. Col. Raley for the defense stated that Burke had accompanied the girls to the Hobby place at their invitation to act as driver and, upon reaching (Continued on page five.) NEWS SUMMARY General. Gorman try to resume offensive la Frs nee. Teutons and Slavs clash In Poland, Villa assumes head of government Local. Furnish r6jert U sold to Tacoma tliiibornten. wlx will take charge. Taking of testimony In Burke mur der trial begun; courtroom Jammed. Outorf and new bridge east of Pen dleton will be built. Eastern Oregon will keep two men at laiiama.Paeiric fair at all times. Conndl starts something wliich It may Iiave to finish. electors shall be elected at large and for the voters to express a choice of candidates for president and vice president. The houae passed the substitute senate bill sllowlng women employed In canneries to work overtime In rush seasons. The senate passed the bill providing that officials leaving the state on bus iness must first file a statement of estimated expenses with the governor and obtain his approval. The house bill authorizing the governor to fill uny vacancy In the United States sen ate by appointment was also passed The house passed the following other bills: , Barrow's bill providing that a drunken chauffeur, killing a pedes trian, shall be punished for man slaughter; house bill empowering the state to purchase bonds of Irrigation districts. - 4' Tokamaru's Cargo Worth S500.000 WELLINGTON. N. Z. Feb. J. via London Tlie cargo' on board the To kamaru, one of the steamers sunk recently In the English Channel by a German submarine, was valued at $500,000. The Tokamaru was on her way from this port to London when she was sent to the bottom. The Inland Irrigation Co.. better known as the Furnish project, was heretofore owned and operated by W. J. Furnish, E. P. Marshall and R. H. Irwin. The property of the company In cluded In the sale of the company, tier la a bloody battleground, CLASH ON FIELD WEST OF WARSAW GERMANS HURL FORCES AGAINST CZAR'S ARMY Heavily Reinforced, Kaiser's Men are Making Desperate Efforts to Capt ure Poland Stronghold-Artillery Fire Continues Day and Night-Russian Advance on Konigsberg Has Been Halted-Slavs Capture Skempe. VIENNA, Feb. 4. Tlte Austro Gcrman forces derating In the Car Itathlan.s have captured 12(0 prison ers ami several machine guns In a successful assault on a strong Rus sian ixwJtlon on Uie mountain range, according to an official statement. The Russians are on the offensive at sev iral points along tlie mountains. PETROGRAD, Feb. 4. All Poland from Warsaw to the Prussian fron- IMMIGRATION BILL IS KILLED IN THE HOUSE WASHINGTON, Fr-b. 4. Tle Im migration bill was killed in the house when snpNrters of the measure fall nl to muster a two-thirds vote nec essary to carry it over tlie president's elo. Transfer Cliange Ousted PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 3. Many East Side residents requesting that the former transfer system be restor ed. General Manager Hlld, of the Por tland Railway, Light & Power Com pany, announced that the old arran genment. In effect before the Decem ber change, will be resumed. The old system will be put Into ef fect at once that East Side passengers may transfer to the West Side of the river to reach various points. Wilson Changes Envoys. WASHINGTON. Feb. 4. nuval West, an attorney of San Antonio, soon will be sent to Mexico as the personal representative of President Wilson, It was reported. consists of all of the capital stock of the Inland Irrigation Co., carrying with It over 6000 acres of Irrigable lands, with a water right from the Furnish ditch for the same and be tween 5000 and 6000 acres pasture lands not irrigable, all of which prop trties are turned over clear of encum brance. Mr. Furnish and associates have taken over all the holdings of the Storey Timber Co. at Tacoma In part payment for the Irrigation project and have succeeded to the manage ment of the same. The Storey Tim ber Co. owns and consists of about SO0O acres of fine timber lands about 25 miles from Tacoma. tributary to the Milwaukee railroad, together with the necessary railroads, logging equip ment, saw mills and equipment, v It Is understood that Mr. Storey Intends to move to Stanfleld and give the pro ject, which Is admitted to be one of the best In the state, his personal at tention. Mr. Storey is said to be a man of affairs, with much ability and unlimited energy. J Mr. Furnish, Mr. Marshall and Mr Irwin have retained all their person al holdings of lands on the project, and In addition to this Mr. Furnish has holdings under the V. S. project, the Hlnkle ditch and the Courtney ditch. Mr. FurWsh and Mr. Marshall are also extensive owners of Umatilla county wheat lands. On account of their extensive hold ings it goes without saying that they will continue to take on active In terest In the development and welfare of the county. The deal was engineered by Mr. Schiller B. Herman, a timber man of Portland. Mr. Herman has success fullv closed several big deals Involv ing large amounts, Official dispatches from the front reported that the Germans are mak ing furious attacks along the Bzura river. North of the Vistula river, sanguin ary' fighting preceded the capture by the Russians of Skempe. Southwest of Warsaw, Russian avia tors have been raining bombs upon the German" concentration camps with deadly effect. The ' RuHsian general staff admits that the Germans have been heavily reinforced and that their artillery fire continues day and night west of War saw. Severe losses on both sides are officially reported. A victory for the Russians around the Vistula river has aroused consid erable enthusiasm here. It was ta ken to Indicate the resumption of the Russian drive on the Prussian fortress at Thorn. The army of the grand duke took Skempe, half way between LIpnow and Slepre, by an Infantry onslaught. The Germans retired In the direction of LIpnow which they still hold. A German force south of LIpnow, along the Vistula river, has been re pulsed, It was announced, LONDON, Feb. 4. The Russians have abandoned their march upon Konigsberg, according to advices re ceived here. It was stated that the Slavs encountered superior forces of the enemy west of Pilkallen and were forced to halt their advance. Southeast of Insterburg, on the way to Konigsberg. the Russians made desperate efforts to cross the Angerap river at Darkehmen. but, despite heavy losses, the Germans re pulsed them. Northeast of Inster burg, the Russians encountered an unexpectedly large force of Germans which had concentrated west of Pilkallen. EASTERN 0RE60N COUNTIES WILL KEEP MAN AT EXPO AGREEMENT IS REACHED AT MEETING HELD YESTERDAY AT BAKER. . Each of the five counties Interest ed in putting In an eastern Oregon exhibit at the .Oregon-building of the Panama-Pacific exposition will keep a man at the booth for four month recording to an agreement reached yesterday at a meeting in Baker. Secretary C. K. Cranston of the Pen dleton Commercial association, who RIGHT Of WAV FOB CUTOFF SECURED BY COUNTY COURT NEW BRIDGE EAST OF CITY WILL BE CONSTRUCTED As PLANNED. The right of way for the cutoff to the new bridge to be built across the Umatilla Just east of Pendleton has been secured by the county court and the bridge and cutoff will be built as Manned, according to Information then out by the court today. The land for the right of way was pur chased from Mrs E. W. McComas at Stork Is Expected. . BERLIN, Feb. 4. The stork is ex pected to visit Crown Princess Ce cllie In a few weeks. Arrangements have been made for a special train to hurry the crown prince from the front at Verdun for the event. To Assume Duties. CHICAGO, Feb. 2. Rev. Herman Toxe, recently elected Episcopal bishop of Spokane, left Chicago to as sume new duties. New Submarine for United States Navy represented Umatilla county, brought j back news of the- arrangement this "nc tne protest made by the tax morning and this afternoon is before ravers' association, a number of the county court to get approval of those wno opposed the cutoff most the plans as laid. vigorously have been taken to the According to the schedule as ad-,"7ne of ,th ' ?r.op?, cut0" nd tn opted yesterday. Umatilla' county wlllj "pUln'd t0 th'm- Thl h" r keep a man at the fair from April "" Change of sentiment inas- 1J to June 15 and from October 15uch M ,the m,n nd "Wakea no to December 4. Malheur county will lona ,0 h of th. work. A keep a man there from February 15 ,0,I f out 5i00 yard, of dirt will to April 15 and from June 15 to Sep- " m?vd but mosof w'" tember 15. Baker county has been J?0' 71 f, '"..V assigned from February 15 to April ' - 15 and from October 15 to December , ; . . 1 wuugc .uarsn swifu mat in I i , " . y? H)' v v XT VI h i 4. Union county will send a man from April 15 to June 15 and from August 15 to October 15 and Wal lowa county from June 15 to August 15 and from September 15 to Decem ber 4. Th!s schedule will keep two men at the eastern Oregon booth at all times and three1 rart of the time. At the meeting yesterday Secretary Mea- cham of the Baker Commercial club was unanimously agreed upon as the man to Install the booth. bridge. reduction In the amount of steel from this fill will about pay for the cost of making the cutoff. Before Judge Maloney resigned the court had decided upon the new bridge and the cutoff on account of the dangerous condition of the turn to the present bridge and because the present bridge, la -not a, ae.one. ; 0 "? lit I ik&JKia"&$ OEMOCRATS ARE UP IN AIR OVER SHIPPING MEASURE MEMBERS AT STANDSTILL' EFFORT TO'sTltAlGlITEN OUT QUESTION. IN CITY'S DEATH RATE OURIHS 1914 LOWER THAN AVERA6E PENDLETON HOLDS RKCORD WITH SINGLE EXCEITKIN OF WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON. Feb. 4 cratlc members of congress are at a standstill In their effort to straighten out the complications In the govern ment shlri purchase bill. Efforts are In progress to muster sufficient votes to prevent a recom mitment of the bill to the hostile senate committee. One vote Is lacking. Michigan Oxocntloii. DETROIT. Mich., Feb. 4 Repub lican county conventions for the elec tion of delegates to the spring con vention of the party will be held to morrow throughout Michigan. The The submarine torpedo boat L-l, one of the largest of Its kind ever built for the United States, photograph cd after It had been launched at th e Fore River Shipbuilding Tarda. Mrs, Elizabeth Scott Daubln, wife of I state convention will be held a week Lieutenant Freeland Daubln, comma nder of the new vessel, was its sponsor. from today at Grand Rapids. Pedleton's death rate during th year 1914 was lower than tho average death rate in unv t.u in th uiinin Demo-''11 "1 single exception of the sliito or Washington The total iiumlier of deaths here wa. M and this number estimated on a hitst of "O'lii p.iimlii tlin makes slightly Writ than 19 in one thousand. According to u, report Juwt snbrnir ted by the bureau of thu census this percentage Is lnWer than th percent age of almoMt nil the large cities of the country. The uvrr:i for th lare cities rtms frorn II to 17 per cent. The city of Memphis, Tenn , hat a death rate of 2) per thi.ui.ind. Seattle makes the moat favorable showing of any large city, th" HeuttU rate being 8 4 per thousand Taking the United Htutes us a wh'.l the death ratn Uxt year os It t pf thousund.