DAILY EVENING EDITION
DAILY EVENING EDITION
Forecast for IVvtrni Orriron, hy th
lulled gUU wragirr Ohrrvr
at Portland.
TO ADVE11TISEHS.
Ths Kut Oregonlun has the largest PIJ
circulation of say paper In Ofenon, east of
Portland aud orer twice tba circulation in
Pendleton of any other newipaper.
Fair tonight; Sunday riin.
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER
VOL. 26
DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OHEGON, SATITIIDAV, FEDRUAItY C, 1915.
NO. SI 10
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Commercial Club Committee is Now
Prepared to go Ahead Wiih Work
of Securing Money.
PUNS HIVE BEEN FINISHED
Kxact Iration of Pool Nut Yet De
ckled rjxn Hut Two Places a I
Jionnd-up Turk Are Being Oonsld
erect Construction May Begin
With. Oltcw'ng of Spring.
The campaign for the mining of
the money necessary fur the building
In Pendleton of the finest public nut
atorium In the northwest Is now fair
ly under way and will be pushed vig
orously by the Commercial Club com
mittee which has for months been la
borlously consulting over plana for
securing the best possible pool at the
least possible expense.
Such a pool, the committee estl
mates, will cost about 8000. This
mount Is more than was first con
templated but, after going thorough
ly In the the Investigation of the awlm
mlng pool aubject, discussing the mat
ter with competent engineers and
others who are familiar with pools In
other cities, the committee decided
that the cost of maintenance and op
eration, which will be a fixed and
constant one, would be greatly les
ened by increasing the original ex
penditure. In other words the committee has
learned It will cost much lea to
maintain and operate a pool built ot
permanent materials Impervious to
water,, heat, steam and cold weather
than It would be to build a cheap
ol which within a short time would
,ne4 repair. From the star;;?lnt of
.sanitation and convenience the struc
ture of concrete throughout would be
Indefinitely superior to one of cheap
er construction. In the view of th
committee.
The plana for the pool have been
.completed ty J. O. Convlll, superln
tendent of parka and boulevards In
Portland, and. by his own declara
; tlon, they will secure for Pendleton a
better natatorlum than has Portland
or any other city In the northwest
; because he has taken advantage of the
mistakes made by other communities
to give Pendleton the best obtainable.
The exact location of the pool In
Hound up Park has not yet been
definitely determined, the committee
having two locations picked out.
Because of the greater amount ot
money needed to construct a desir
able pool, the committee has started
out upon a new campaign. A pre
vious campaign last summer had re
sulted In contributions from about
00 Individuals and many or inese
are now aouuiing una iuui uf.ua
their former subscriptions, regarding
It as a business proposition to build
the better pool. The committee feels
wry encourniccd over the results of
the first week's canvass and antici
pates that enough money will be rais
ed by the time spring opens to war
rant the commencement of construc
tion. The committee consists of C. M.
Bishop, chairman, George A. Hart
man, Charles II. Marsh, Q. I. La
Dow, Leon Cohen and Dr. Guy L
Hoyden.
It Is estimated that the govern
ment's Grand Canyon game refuge, in
Arlsona, now contains about 10,000
- deer.
Principal A. C. Hampton is the new
I resident of the Umatilla County His
torical Society, having been elected
last evening at the annual meeting in
the Commercial association rooms.
Mrs. John Halley, Jr., wua chosen
secretary and Mrs. Thomas Thomp
son, U. Alexander and C. M. Blah
op, directors.
The. meeting lost evening was one
of a great deal of Interest to every
one who attended. A program that
throw new lights upon the history of
this country was rendered, the prin
cipal participants being pioneers who
helped to make the history of which
they were telling. For Instance, A.
W. Nye told of the original "Happy
Canyon," for which the Bound-up
time replica was named. He told of
. the dancing parties that were held In
HUSHED
UMATILLA COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY ELECTS A. C. HAMPTON
PRESIDENT AT ANNUAL MEETING
German Raider Koenigsberg Sunk
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Thi dramatic story of the nlnkln
cf the O.'imn rslder Koen'slierg,
on the coaxt of euxl Africa, has Just!
been told by Captain Wlllett of the
lirltlsh merchant ship Xewbrldt;e.
The KornlKsberg. which was a liBht !
cruiser of about the same cluxs as the
Emden. Dresden, and OarUruhe.
mounting only 4-1-inch guns,' was In
company with a smaller German ship
when chased by the British squadron
which included, It Is believed, several
armored cruisers of the County class.
BELGIANS TO FIGHT TO THE LAST
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THE ARMY HAS BEEN REORGANIZED
KING ALBERT IS AT
BY WILLIAM PHILLIP SIMS.
GRAND HKADQUARTER3 of the
King of Belgium, inside the Belgian
frontier, via Paris, Feb. (. Doggedly
determined not to yleJd the remainder
of his kingdom, King Albert of Bel
gium, is here on the flehtlng line
directing the movements of his re
organized Belgian forces along the
Tser river. Officers close to the king
told me their ruler never would aban
don BelKium soil. If the Germans
uKaln advance. t
"I would enter the trenches Inside
the frontier of my own kingdom and
meet the end with a gun at my shoul
der." he said. "The whole Belgian
More than nine million young trees
and 10. One pounds of seed wers plant
id on ttu r.aU'inal forests In 19U.
PRICE OF FLOUR ADVANCES
20 CENTS IN NORTHWEST
PORTLAND. Ore.. Feb. .
Flour in the Northwest ad
vanced 20 cents today. Patent
grades are selling at $7.10 a
barrel. Some millers advanced
the price 40 cents a barrel.
the valley below Barnhart in the
early days and ot how It was unanl
mously agreed to name that valley
Happy Canyon. Lot Llvermore not
only recalled the early days of the
mercantile Industry of Pendleton In
which he was engaged but he gave a
very Interesting sketch of the pio
neer experiences of Father Conrady
among the Indians of this section.
Mrs. W. B. Mays read an absorb
ingly Interesting paper upon her own
pioneer experiences as a school teach
er and Miss Mildred Berkeley read a
poem upon pioneer days. Old songs
were sung by the audience with Mrs.
Q w. Phelps leading and her father
furnishing a fife accompaniment
A very pleasant social hour fol
lowed the program, the ladles of th
AiwoclaMon serving coffee and cake.
.
The smaller nhip was sunk but the
KoenlKnberg succeeded in getting be
hind the Mafia Islands and some dix
tance up the river, where she was
completely screened by the bend of
the river, and where the British
heavier draft ships could not follow
her. They also. It appears, landed a
detachment who mounted some light
guns on the bank as a defense against
attack by a British boat expedition.
The British, however, contented
themselves with bottling up the Koen
army is saturated with the same spir-it.-
This is not the same army which
fell back, crushed, under the weight
of the Kaiser's human juKgernaut. It
is completely reorganized. It is new
ly equipped with caps and boots. The
men have had a rest, and they needed
it aft.T fighting 24 hours a day her
oically In an effort to stem the Ger
man tide flowing through Liege and
Antwerp. Today they occupy three
times as much of the allied lines aa
they occupied since the full of Ant
werp. I was permitted to remain ail
night In the Belgian trenches. Of
ficers escorted me In a tour of ad
That the appropriation for the East
ern Oregon State Hospital, In the form
advised by the Joint ways and means
committee is certain to pass both
houses of the legislature and will
probably get through next week Is
the belief of Senator J. N. Burgess
who came up from Salem this morn
ing and Is at his ranch near Pilot
Rock today. No opposition Is ex
pressed to the measures says the sen
ator and he looks for no serious ob
jection to be made.
The move for an appropriation of
$460,000 for Irrigation work la dead,
uccordlng to Senator Burgess and not
PROHIBITION BILL PISSES
HOUSE BY BIG MAJORITY
VOTE IS 58 TO MEASURE WILL
NOW GO TO THE SENATE
IX)H DEBATE.
SALEM, Ore., Feb. 6. By a vote
of Bg to 2, with the full membership
voting, the lower house of the Oregon
legislature passed a prohlblon bill late
yesterday. The measure now goes to
the senate.
Discussion of the bill preceding the
passage was brief. Several represen
tatives sent to the desk written ex
planations of their votes, to bo record
ed in the minutes. , Representatives
Louis Kuehn and D. C. Lewis, of Mul
BURGESS SAYS APPROPRIATION
FUR HOSPITAL NIL PASS BOTH
HOUSES OF STATE LEGISLATURE
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igsberg by sinking Captain Wlllett's
ffhip in the channel. They then wait
ed for the arrival of a seaplane which
flew up the river and indicated the
position of the German cruiser by
dropping smoke bombs.
The Germans had hid their ship
close to the bank under cover of some
palm groves and had covered her with
foliage. The avlatnr. however was
able to make her out and to direct
the fire of the British ships so accur
ately by signals that the cruder was
completely destroyed. ,
THE FRONT
vanced posts. At times I was within
100 yards of the German lines. The
country along the Tser Is a tragic
waste. The most dismal swamp would
be a garden of Eden In comparison.
Water covered the fields from Dun
kirk to Ostend and from the south
east coast to Vpres, crisscrossed by
roads built by both armies, and dot
ted by tiny Island occupied by the
ruins of farmhouses. The hottest
fighting has taken place for the pos
session of the roads and Islands. The
slaughter has been fearful. Number
less decomposed bodies float In tha
marshes, rotting In the mud and wa
ter. The stench Is horrible.
at any time has the plan had any show
for adoption. In the house yesterday
the bill could measure but 1J votes
out of 60 and consequently there Is no
chance whatever for any favorablo
action on the scheme.
Th bill providing for a railroad
commissioner for eastern OreRon will
be adopted by the senate unless a
change from present sentiment occura
The meuure had strong opposition
from the present railroad commission
ers and from various Portland Inter
ests but succeeded In getting through
the house some time ago. The poll of
the senato at present shows the Mil
will win in.the upper house also.
tnomah county, opposed the bill In
speeches and cast the two negative
ballots. Prolonged applause greeted
announcement of the vote. As passed
the bill prohibits absolutely the sale
or the manufacture of liquor within
the state, except for sacramental pur
poses. It provides that physicians
may administer It, and druggists may
sell pure grain alcohol for mechani
cal uses. It permits the Importation
into undlvidual households ot two
quarts of spirituous or 24 quarts of
malt liquors monthly.
Increasing use of the national for
ests by local farmers and settlers to
supply their needs for timber Is shown
In the fact that small timber sales on
the forests numbered 8. 298 In 1914,
against (,182 the previous year.
SERVIANS 10 DIE
III LAST DIE! TO
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400,000 Austro-Gen f oops
Concentrate for TV ,iptto
Conquer the Littlef I
FIGHTING FOR ITS LIBERTY
Army to LaH Man iH-tiTiiiiiicd Not
to VI-II to Knemy and Will Hold
Trenclio to the Ia.st Is Declaration
of Prim) MlnlnUT In Interview
Willi lulled PrtTM.
NISH, .Servla, Feb. 6. Still bleed
ing from its earlier wounds, Servla's
army is gathering for a heroic defense
of her soil. Four hundred thousand
AuHtro-iJerman are mast-ed abmi? the
northern frontier preparing for a
third invasion of Servla within six !
months. What is left of the Servian
aimy is determined to die in the
trenches if necessary to repel the In
vaders. This was the picture painted
by Prime Minister Paghitch. In an ex
clusive interview with the United
Press. Servla does not ask help of
other nations, he said, adding, "if
other nations offer help, we will grate
fully accept their aid. Fighting as
we are for liberty, t feel we are en
titled to the sympathy and moral sup
port of all falrmlnded nations such as
we know the United States to be."
NEWS SUMF.1ARY
General.
Germany has no Intention of inter
fering with I. 8. shipping.
Sort la n prepare to repnlo Inva
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IV'Ig'mis will fight to I.
Hour price rise In northwest.
" - Local.
Bnrkc found fuuty of man-slaughter
wtUiln two hoar.
senator Rurgew says appropriation
for State Hospital will carry.
Sturgis Wyrlrk buy Davls-Itn-rala
ramSi for 122 000.
C. C. Connor, fnli rnal oV legate to
t'jlior contention, makes report.
Shimming: pool committee starts
active campaign to ratae $8000.
Hampton chon-n president hlstorl
car- socio!) .
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Right General Villa, left. General were that Villa had been killed by
nerro, him. Villa denies this. Villa has an-
. nounced that henceforth he will dl-
Hero Is General Villa, and General reot the affairs of the Mexican gov
Flerro shaking hands. The latter Is, eminent. Mexico now has four pres.
Villa's bodyguard and recent rumors tdents.
Burke Found Guilty
of Manslaughter
GERMAIir DOES NOT
Ambassador Von Bernstorff Issues
Statement Setting Forth Objects
of Extending War Zone.
AMERICA READY TO PROTEST
Till Country Will Not Submit In Si
lence to Order of Berlin Govern
ment It 14 Intimated at Official
Washington Germany Newspapers
Cry for Blockade.
WASHINGTON. Feb. . The offi
cial text of Germany's warning to neu
tral shipping. Iscuixl Thursday, reach
ed Uio state dr-itaruncnt this afternoon
in a dispatch from Amhasador Ger
ard, at Berlin. It idtow- a SO mile
strip along Uie coast of Holland by
mistake was Included In the "war
one."
WASHINGTON, Feb. . German
Ambassador Von Bernstorff Issued a
statement today declaring that Ger
many does not Intend to Interfere
with American commerce by a new
blockade of England and France. Al
though he said he had not received
Instructions from his government re
garding the admiralty's order extend
ing the "war tone." Von Bernstorfl
declared Germany simply proposes to
destroy ships of the enemies.
"There Is nothing new la .the com
munication of February 4 with re
spect to the attitude of the German
imperial navy Ipward the ships of
the enemy or neutral commerce
Von Bernstorffs statement said. "It
Is absurd to describe the proclamation
as 'a paper blockade,' of the British
Isles. The communication Is simply
a statement of what has been, since
the beginning of the war, .the attl
tude of all the belligerent powers to
wards ships of the enemy.
"A few months ago the British ad
miralty Issued a proclamation clos
ing the North Sea," the statement
cofitinued, "which Is neutral waters
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Trial Ends This Morning When the
Attorneys Finish Their Arguments
Instructions are Given.
INDIAN REMAINS UNMOVED
! Irlsoner Hears Verdict Head But
I Shows no Outward Sign of Concern
j Cose Was Given to th Jury
Shortly After tli Noon Hoar To-
"Guilty of manslaughter" was tha
verdict reached by the j:tr tlib after
noon at 2:10, Just two hour after they
had retired to the Jury room. It was
2:30, however, before the Jurors filed
Into the court room and delivered
their verdict to the bailiff, twenty
minutes have been required to gam
mon District Attorney StHwer and
Col Raley for the defense,
lUvbard Burke, th-? MeiHln sat
brtweien CoL Italey and his pwnu.
He heard the verdict read by Deputy
Clerk Harry Roes unmoved. His
parents. If they understood the ver
dict, gave no. indication of the fact.
The verdict agreed with the general
oirfnlon formed by the spectators as
to what it would be.
The fate of Richard Burke is now
in the hands of the twelve men who
constatute the Jury. To them the
case was delivered shortly after ths
noon hour and they Immediately re
tired to the' Jury room.
The arguments of the attorneys
were completed by 11:30 this morn
ing and Judge Phelps Immediately
launched upon his Instructions upon
the law of the case. He advised the
Jury that It eould return any one of
three verdicts, murder In the second
degree, the penalty for which Is life
imprisonment, manslaughter, the
penalty of which Is one to fifteen years
in the penitentiary and a fine not to
exceed $5000, and not guilty which
carries with it acquittal of the de
fendant. It was necessary for the state, he
said, to prove all of its material alle
gations beyond a reasonable doubt
Relative to the wound which was In
flicted, he instructed the Jury that. If
it was not necessarily a mortal wound
at the time of infliction, the person
inflicting it could be held accountable
If it caused death within a year and
a day unless It could be shown that
death was caused by some other
agency such as negligent treatment.
The court, too, dwelt to considerable
extent upon the definition of self-defense,
explaining thoroughly what
combination of circumstances would
justify the taking of human life. Be
cause of the seriousness of the case
he went into detail In his instructions,
carefully explaining such leKnl phases
of the case as entered into It. It was
well pat noon when he turned tJie
Jury over to the bailiff.
Final Arguments.
Most of the morning was taken up
with the final arguments of the de
fence and the state. The opening ar
guments had been made last evening
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STURGIS AND WYRICK BOY
OAVIS-HARAU RANCH
Through a deal completed
here today James SturRis and
",uy Wyrick hav purchased the
Davis-Harala runch, several
miles nurthwe.t of ivmlieton
for a consideration given at
J:'3.0i)0. The ranch contains
64 acres and Is located u ml In
and a half west of the I' J.
Smith ranch now being farmed
by Sturgis Wyrick.
The new owners of the land
Will farm the Davis-H.iraU
ranch in conjunction with the
land they already have arid thn
deal gives them a total of over
3000 acres of wheat land. MOO
acres of which will be In wh-t
this neuson. They are koIok on
the assumption that with the
hlsfh price prevailing f.r wheat
It is good buhiness to farm a
extensively u possible. It Is
said they wer offered a bonu
of $2000 for their bargain to
day but declined to Uk It
Three, fourths of thn ranch was
owned by Samuel Davis and
one fourth by Arthur li.irala.