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COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER
VOL. 26
DILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, 'OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18. 19'
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DAILY EVENING EDITION
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KILLED III I
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HOTEL LIFT
Mrs. John Kilkenny Opens Elevator
Door at Hotel Pendlebn and
Drops Four Stories to Death.
CORONER WILL PROBE CASE
II l Said Mrs. Kilkenny Had Been In
III lhaUU Had Arrived at tho Ho-
U4 Hut Few Minute Before Fatal
Accident Elevator Boy Says Wow
an Juiled lTom -'ar.
ng four stori.-s down the tle -
v . Ill
vator shaft of the Hotel Pendleton
Mr8. John Kilkenny, wife oi a prom
inent Morrow county heepman, wan
Instantly killed portly after noon
todav. She stepped out of the elec
tor car Just after It had pawed the
third floor, throwing me uuor
n,.r.iinir to the only eye
witness', and pitched out and down the
haft. The cause of her act will prob
ably never be known.
Roscoe Vaughan. one of the be"
boy. at the hotel wa In charKe of the
elevator at the time. Mr,. Kilkenny
and Henry W. Collin had stepped In
to the car from the lobby about 12:10
the former to go to the fifth floor
and the latter to the third floor.
Young Vaughan states that he stop
ped the car at the third floor to du
rbar Collin, and that, after he had
started the ear upwards again, throw -lng
the door shut meanwhile, he aaw
Mm. Kilkenny suddenly seize the door
Just before It clo,ed. throw It back
and step out. He seUed her with one
hand, he states, stopping the car wlth.
the other, but i unable to hold her.
She pitched out and .under the car
down the shaft
Young Vaughaa la unable to Kive
any reason for her act
cMme, suddenly dlxxy and ill ana
wished to get out of the car. How
ever she aald no word to him the
first he knew of her desire or inten
tion being her act in selling" the door
and thrusting it open.
That she knew she had not reach
ed her floor seems apparent from the
statements of both Mr. Vaughan and
Mr Collins. Mr. Collins states that
as the car stopped at the third floor,
he hesitated momentarily to allow
Mrs. Kilkenny to precedo him out in
case she desired but. as she made no
sign of leaving, he walked out of the
.levator. Poth he and Vaughan
agree that the car was held there an
Instant longer the two men convers
ing, and that had she been under ins
impression that she had reached the
fifth floor, she would have had plenty
if time to step out.
After leaving the car, Mr. Collins
started down the corridor for his room
but was attracted by a cry from the
elevator. Looking back he saw Mrs.
Kilkenny as she was pitching out ot
the door. He leahxed her position
and hastened to her aid but was too
lato to prevent the fall.
The body fell down- the shaft to tin
concrete floor of the basement. The
noise of the fall attracted the atten
tion of Fred Rlock, the proprietor,
and several other men in the lobby.
They hastened to the basement and
there found the body. Death had
probably been Instantaneous as the
force of the fall had broken many of
the bones of the body.
Coroner Ilrown and a physician
were. Immediately summoned. The
body was taken to the Brown under
taking parlors and H. M. Warren, a
friend of the Kilkenny family, tele
phoned the message of the accident.
Coroner Brown stated this afternoon
that he would probably hold an in
quest sometime tomorrow.
Tho deceased woman arrived in
Pendleton only fifteen minutes lfore
her death. She reached the city at
11:45 on No. 17, coming from Hot
Lnko where she had been taking
treatment, and had Just registered be
fore entering the elevator. Besides her
husband, she, Is survived by a num
ber of children.
APPROPRIATION BILLS ARE
UID ASIDE IN THE HOUSE
WAYS AM) MEANS COMMITTEE TO
FURNISH STATEMENT ON
FUNDS.
SALEM, Feb. 18. Following the
, announcement by Schuebol that he in
tended to vote against every appro
priation bill until he could ascertain
. the tolail appropriations passed, pend
ing and contemplated, the house laid
bills on tho table aggregating more
than 8700,00d and Instructed the ways
and means committee to provide an
Itemized statement of the fundB to be
appropriated. Tortcr protested against
what ho termed a hurry-up method
of trying to force through Importnnt
legislation. The committee is expect
ed to report lute this afternoon.
H
BE BLAMED IF 1
JUT BILL FAILS
President Will Not Call a Special
Session is Word Received Today
From Washington.
RISK IS TOO UNCERTAIN
WllMtn Said to Bo Favorable to Weeks
Hirc CJiiironilKe to Ia I'ur
cliaxc Measure (Jo to Conference for
10 Days Hint iiroriatiou Hills
.May Be UomHcrcd.
J WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.-There
will be no extra swslon of congress,
v.fti the word given out on the high
est uuthorlty today. It was Indicated
the president Is fuvorablo to the re
ported plan to allow the Weeks-Gore
compromise ship purchase bill to go
to conference for at-out ten days to
permit the passage in both house of
appropriation bills. Afterwards an
other attempt will be made t pas
the ship bill but if the republican fil
ibuster continues the bill will be aban
doned. It Is understool that the president
had decided It wl'l be more expedient
to place the blame for the failure of
the ship measure on the republicans
than to risk toe uncertainty of an
extra session.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 18. The
amended governnionX ship purchase
bill rushed through, the house yester
day failed to gain ground when It
reached the senate, and administra
tion leaders were in doubt as to what
would be lis fate.
Early in -the day it was discovered
tho amended bill had failed to satis
fy the recalcltrint democrats or pro
gressive republUiM. Without sup
port of either of these factions, it
ecu Id not be ;iaisd. In this situa
tion the. regular democratic leaders
realized that nothing could be done
unless some change in the measure
could be effected in conference, but
all their efforts to tend the amended
bill to conference failed.
Interest centsrc.l in the special
senate committee's Inquiry Into
charges of ouljlie Influences con
cerning the ship measure. At the
first of the hearings, Bernard N. Ba
ker of Baltimore, icrmerly connected
with the Atlantic Transport com
prny, told the committee of confer
ences with Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo. In which he told the secre
tary that 80 per cnt of foreign ships
tied up In American ports because
of the War could not be considered
ai available for purchase by the Unl
U-d states because they were piinsen-g-r
vessels. Mr. Baker also stated
that W. J. SlckK in official of the
Hiimburg-Amertcim line, had told
him he had receded orders from the
German government not to sell any
Oct man vessels !n American ports to
the United States. This testimony,
prompted the committee to summon
Mr. Sickle. Mr. Downey, a New York
shipbuilder, also has been summon
ed.
GOVERNOR WITHYCOMBE PUTS
HIS SIGNATURE TO DRY ACT
1 HIS AI.OXF. IS WORTH THE EX
PENSE OF SESSION,' HE
DIXI.ARKS.
SALEM. Ore.. Fct. 18 "It Is the
best piece of conductive lobulation
in the world," declared Governor
WIthycombe as he attached h's signa
ture to the prohibition bill. ''I heart
ily approve of Its every provision. If
the legislature does nothing else this
net alone is well worth the expense of
tho session."
The governor w.'is In a happy mood
when he signed the bill. He declared
that It gave him a real pleasure to be
able to have a put In so wholesome
mid so beneficial a piece of . work.
Munbers of tho Women's Christian
Temperance Union and other persons,
who have been ! merest d in the "dry"
Movement In Oregon for many years,
strod about h's dwk.
HAY NOT STOLEN; ORDERED
HAULED AWAY BY OWNEO
PEN LAN I) BROTHERS GET BUSY
TO FIND THiEF AND THEN
REMEMBER.
If you want to make the fur stand
up on the back; of any one of the
Tenland brothers, just yoll "Hay!"
In conequence of a recent experience
that word Is charged with a good
deal of opprobrl im to them, for the
experience was a Very chagrlnful
one.
(Continued on page eight)
PERMANENT REGISTRATION
MEASURE PASSED BY HOUSE
in u, will, now .o to ;oyi:k
Mm irrigation' MEMOR
IAL IS KILLED.
KALKM. Ore., Feb. IS. The senate
tefused to memorialize congress or
urge the secretary of the Interior to
urge an appropriation of H 50, OU0 for
expenditure In the central Oregon Ir
rigation project on condition the 191?
legislature appropriate a similar am
ount. The senate pawed the pernia
tic nt registration bill. It now goes to
the governor. The senate killed Mo
ser's compulsory vaccination bill. The
house pawned the bill aboluhlng the
uniform accountancy system und in
definitely pnetponed the bill appropri
ating $100,000 for the construction of
buildings for the medical department
of the state university.
SAUCM. Ore., Feb. 18. Joint res
olution whlch'dlrecls the attorney gen
eral to Intervene In the Oregon-California
grant case now pending in tfw
United rtut-s supreme court, was
pushed by the senate.
40 DAY LIMIT COMES TO
END TOMORROW AT SALEM
SALKM, Ore.. Feb. IS. The 40
day limit for the legislative sension
ends tomorrow. Indications are that
both houses will clean up the work
so that adjournment will be taken
some time tomorrow night. A con
siderable number of bills are in the
hands of committees and many of
them will die there.
The houne refused to concur in the
cenate amendments to the Schuebel
continuation bill.
NEWS SUMMARY
General.
Kaiser U determined to continue
plan to tilix-kade HriUxli Isle.
ItepuMUwiiH will be blamed if tdilp
piirdiaxe Mil falls.
C.ernian war office admit ret erc
In Arvmiie region.
Local.
Mr John Kilkenny of Ileppner
fall to death down liot- elevator
Mia ft.
All position at Mate lioiita may
lie thrown into xliti-M.
Penlanil Brim, Mule their own liav
Indian male qiiutct make hit atjtlng the granting of divorces after
caiiipiuct-tliii;.
Counsellor of State Department
Robert Lansing, counsellor of the
state department, is the author ot
the notes to Germany and England
cpncernlng the use of the American
flag nt sea. The note to Germany,'
coming as near an ultimatum as
could bo written without precipitating
tho country Into a war, has been
I II REVERSES
ABE ADMITTED III
II
il
French Gain. Materially in the
Argonne Region Where Teutors
are Forced to Retreat.
VILLAGE OF NORROY TAKEN
Text of Note to In I ted states Made
Public at (Mruian Capital Friend
ly Tone Toward America Is Most
FOilent Blockade I1an Forced by
Fnglund, It 14 Snld.
BERLIN, Feb. IS Material Ger
n an reverses In th? Argonne district
! udmltted by Uie war office.
"The village o'. Norroy, command
Inc a hill, prevlauily captured by the
Geimans has be?n evacuated In the
face of a superior f t rce of French."
ti e statement said. "The entrench-
inmts of the French were dynamited
! fore the troops retreated. Heavy
fighting continue north of Rhelms.
north of Perthes uj about Lille and
Airaa.-'
The text of ih. ;ite to the United
States was later made public. In it
Germany firmly reiterates the deter
mination to continue a submarine
Ideckade of the j?rltUh coast. The
tune of the note In especially friend
ly to the United State. The note
says the blockade in no way is di
rected against neii-al convnerce, but
n presents solely a measure of self
dfetue Imposed on Germany against
England's methods of warfare.
PABIS, Feb. 18 Material ad
vances or the Fr-ni h lines In the vl
clnlty of Cheppy were announced by
the war office. Supported by con
cealed artillery the French were de
clared to have reared a large section
of woods ofumans. Sanguinary
flahtlnz Is reported south of Bols
Forges. French troops advancing a
quarter of a mil, the statement A.
clures. Efforts to dislodge the
French from lecently occupied
trenches failed. Artillery duels are in
progress along ha A Lone.
Kasy l)lorpi Bill Is Passed.
CARSON CITY. New. Feb. 17.
The "easy divorce" bill passed the sen
ate. It already has pawed the house.
The Mil reestablishes the law Hermit-
only six months residence in the state.
looked on as a model of forceful dl-
plomaey. lliken with the note to
England It showed, according to ex-
pelts in International law, the sym-
i nthles of the American government
in the great war. Mr. Lansing is
about fifty years of nge. having been
torn In Wntertown,. N. Y., In 184.
BE III
KAIS; . STANDS FIRM ON
ORIGINAL PLAN TO WAGE
WAR WITH SUBMARINES
German Reply to American Protest is
Received But Text of Message Has
INot Been Fully Divulged.
BRITAIN'S REPLY BLAMES GERMANY
Denial is Made That the Depression in
American Industries is Due to the
Activity of British Fleet.
BERLIN. Feb. ig.The official
text of the German reply to the Am
erican protest sgalnst the blockade
order is being withheld from the
press, but summaries give evidence
that the kaiser's government standa
firmly on its original intentions. The
fcitlgn office takes the position that
Germany is within its international
rights in ordering the sinking of mer
chantmen because England has re
fused to lift the embargo on food
shipments Intended for German ci
vilians. The note is couched in
friendly terms, hut points out that
the allies bought unlimited supplies
!n the United States and that abso
lute contraband is being exported
from America' to roth England and
Trance.
The note explains that Germany
U anxious that there be no mlsun-j
del standing or disagreement with
the United States and pays a tribute
to the friendly relations now existing.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. Great
Britain's second and complete reply
to the American note of protest,
which on December 28 last asked for
an early Improvement In the treat
ment of Ameri.'ii:i commerce by thei
British fleet, was made public last',;a) f((r jn.ll;niraUn (ATluan
nipht by mutual agreement between lans ... . .
(the state department and the British
I foreign office.
j The note, add.-essed to Ambassa
; dor Paee by Sir Edward Grey under
oaie oi reorunry u denies mat me;
depression In American industries is,
INDIAN QUARTET MAKES A
HIT DURING CELEBRATION
BARNHART BROTHERS RENDER
SONG IN NATIVE TONGUE
THAT PLEASES.
"Barnhart Brothers, Indian male.
quartet." How would that look as a
home product vnunvllle headline?
Those who attended the patriotic
social given yesterday by the Chris
tian Endeavor ot the Tutuilla church
on the reservation declare It would
not only look well but that It would
sound well, for vhe four Barnharts,
William, Jim, Anlrew and Albert,
sang a quartet in i';ie Nex Perce lan
guage to the audience yesterday and
It was the hit of the occasion. It yas
a native song and, t,ur.g by the Indians!
in their own tongue. It provoked such
et.thUKiasm that tne visitors from oth
er tribes took co;'es of the song
bsck with them.
The social as n whole was a huge
success, the program on IJncoln and
Washington bointf unusually good.
The program w.13 followed by refresh
ments, 153 people, nearly all Indians,
bo.'ng served with col foe, sandwiches,
orr.nges, bananas, tipples and cake.
The campmeetlng services at Tu
tuilla closed at 3 o'clock this morn
ing with a lunch which followed a
prolonged tempo-n.-.oe rally and pro
gin m of farewell addresses. The 25
adult Indians ind six children, who
were visitors from other reservations,
did not go to -ed at all, leaving at
tho close of tho meeting for Pendle
ton to catch the early morning train.
The services n:; a whole were very
successful, six iv members being
ac'.dd to the church and nil of the con.
gregation enjoying a good social time
as well 11s hoarli helpful sermons.
Three freshmen explored the Icy
waters of the varsity mill race be
cause they refused to honor the edict
of the student body. Personal fights
became common. The upporclassmen
met In Joint session yesterday and
drew up a resolution which, after
much discussion, was adopted this
morning.
due to the activity of the British
fleet, and sugg33ta among other
causes the shortage of shaping fa
cIMUes, the consequent diminution of
the cotton trade find the destruction
by submarine nines "laid by the en
emy indiscriminately" of many neu
tral vessels.
Retaliatory Measures Threatened.
After giving x lengthy detailed an
swer to the charge that American
thlpg and cargoes were being unduly
detained, the communication con
ta'ns in its con :lud'ng paragraph the
announcement that Great Britain in
tends to take retaliatory measures
against the German submarine cam
pa'gn against caomy ships, but does
not reveal their mture.
Conceding that foodstuffs Intended
for the civil population of a country
are not contraanl, the British gov
ernment points cut that in any
country In whlcn there exists such
tremendous organization for war as
now obtains la Germany, there Is
m clear division between those
whom the govo.nment Is responsible
for feeding and those whom it Is
not."
BLOCKADE OF BKITISII
1SLKS NOW IX FORCK
Gloomy Drlting
Harbors.
Rain Sweeps
LONDON. Feb. 18
The A it V Kot
for the 0penin of . the German
Mockade of the BrItlsh Wea in lta
BANDITS HOLD UP TRAiN ON
S', P. BUT SECURE NO MONEY
LOS ,ANGELES, Cal.. Feb. IS.
Three unmasked bandits last night
ht Id up the northbound owl train on
the Southern Pacific at Saugis, a few
mlies north of her. but did not
ti.ln a cent. Unable to gain entrance
to he mall car, they brandished their' 4J0 and imports 123. 823. compared
revolvers freely but no one was in-lwlth J59,51,10S i.nd 822. 41$. SSI re
juied. They fled at the approach ot spectively for the week of February
Constable Fred Opper. I 6.
STATE HOSPITAL JOBS M
BE PLACED ON SPOILS BASIS
Every position at tho E.isiorn Ore
gon State Hospital, from superintend
ed to stable cleaner, will be mado a
political Job under the direct control
ot the governor and thi
who Influence him if a
the senate becomes a law. The bill
will pass the senate by one vote It Is
s;ild and if through coercion house
numbers are made to stand for the
measure the foundation will be laid
for a very extensive state political
machine.
At the present time the state Insti
tutions arc hum'lel by the state
beard of control Ahlch consists of the
povernor. secretary of state and state
treasurer. This board selects the
head officials of the institutions and
loaves to thosemen the task of choos
ing their own subordinates and em
pie) cs.
The story of the effort now under
way In the senate is told in the fol
lowing story from Salem to the Port
land Journal:
Mad with pow?r, the captains of
the senate steam roller will make a
strenuous effort during the rusn
war on British merchantmen, dawn
ed cold, wet ani gloomy. A driving
rain swept the British harbors, but
neither it nor the threats of the)
kaiser halted shipping. British mar
iners apparently were not greatly af
fected by the -submarine menace.
Everywhere in England, supreme
confidence In the British navy was
expressed.
I: was expecVl that losses would
ccme to Britain's merchant marina
at a result of the German blockade,
bee these will he considered merely
a a part of the iron game of war
Private advices from Berlin sta'ad
100 submarines a.v available for
seivlce against England and that
German shipyards are working day
fend night increasing the strength of
the undersea flotilla. It was declar
ed that all these vessels are of th
latest and fastest type and that they
vlll be able to remain away from
their bases for three or four weeks.
So far there has been no sign of in
terruption in' channel shipping.
LIVERPOOL. Fe - IS. The White
Star liner Adriatic ai rived from New
York. She did not encounter sub
marines or other ht!Ie warships.
AMSTERDAM, Feb. IS. Berlin
advices state the ka'ser has returned
to the capital from the eastern front
and will go 1mm 'diately to Wilhelm
sl-.iven to confer w:th naval officials.
It Is expected the kt-lser will keep In
close touch with th submarine block-
f Continued on page eight)
Trnde Balance Continue-.
WASHINGTON. Feb. H. Foreiga
tr;'de for the wek cnled February II
netted the United States a favorable
balance of S30.3S0. according to re
turns from the 13 principal customs
districts announce I by the depart
ment of commerce. Compared with
the preceding weoit, this was a d-
0b-Kfpas " tne fannce or .si3.i.
Exports last vee-c were $54.1 SC.-
ht l'rs of the closing d.iys of tho legis
lative session to torn tho state, lock,
stock and barrel, over to th- politi
cians for the purpose of building tho
politicians' mist dangerous toU!caI machine that
bill now InjthM state has seeii tn'many a day.
Every state institution Is tj b
turned over to th.n. The st-ue boar. I
of control is to no riado a figurehead.
Two members of the board win bo
mere puppets, pl.i-ed In official posi
tion by the people of the state to as
some responsibility und direct thw af
fairs ot the state Institutions, but now
w.th their authority taken away.
This Is to be accomplished by sen
ate bill 197. introduced In thu uppT
branch of the legislature lu'e yester
day afternoon by Senator n Folle't
and Wood et al. It Is reported thtt
the "et al" stands for 14 uthr sen
ti is. who d'd not out their name tl
tho bill but who have been lined up
t support it. Tlili will annum th
bill's passage In th- seriate,
Given Govenii-r Sole orr.
The bill takes from tho board of
coi trol. consisting of th governor.
(Continued on page five.)