East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, March 05, 1915, DAILY EVENING EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text.... ..... ; i ..' DAILY EVENING EDITIOII DAILY EVENING EDITIOII Fotmsmi for Eastern Omroa, fcy tf United state Weather Ohrr at Portland. Fair' tonight and PntUrd.iv.' TO ADVERTISERS. Th Ktit Oregoulan bit the largest paid ?lrcullloD of any paper In Oregon, Mat of 'ortlaod tod over twice tlx circulation In ' I'tudletoo of aojr oilier newapaper. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER. VOL 20 DAILY" EAST OKEGONIAX, PENDLETON", OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1915. NO. 8112 RUSSIAN FLEET PREP ARED TO STRIKE A T C6. STANTINOPLE Vessels Sighted on Way to City Great Prize is Sought by Slavs While Allied Fleets Batter at Other End of Dardanelles. coupons said TO OE SERIOUS III MEU CAPITAL BLINDING SNOWSTORM IS SWEEPING MIOOLEWESTERN STATES; TRAFf ID STOPPED MAY MEET TURKISH FLEET Whcrcattout of Ottoman Squadron I Unknown lint It I lYwiuiiicd It Has Sailed Toward Rospliorus, Probably t Engage Russian Slavs Anxious to Reach Capital. LONDON, March 6. The Russian Hlack Sea fleet, consisting of six bat- tleahlpa. two crulaera and a number of smaller vessels, la steaming along the east coaat of Turkey, Intending to strike through the Boaphorua, ac cording to Homo dlapatchea. The fleet wai declared to have been lighted off Burghas, 140 miles from Constantinople. The admiralty re fuica to confirm the report but It la known the Iluaalana are searching for the Turkish fleet, which haa dli appeared from Niagara Roads, the narrowcut part of the Dardanellea, and li believed to be steaming through the Straits of Boaphorua Whether the Turkish fleet expects to meet the Russian or la going through the atralta In tho belief that afety lira there Is not known. The lateat move of the Runalan fleet in dlcatei the Slava are engaged In a race with the Anglo-French fleet to aee which ahall first lelie Constant! nople. It Is reported that the Rus slans are endeavoring to reach Con stantinople before the allies can break through the Dardanellea de fenaes and thus gain the great prize which Russian statesmen have cov. eted from the earliest history of ths csara. Rome advices add that a French squadron has destroyed the principal forts near Bulalr, on the Qalllpoll peninsula. Crisis is Threatened According to ReportsFamine Rages Through out the Country. WASHINGTON. March 5. Admin Iteration official are anxious abojt Mexico. In the rush attending the cloning hours of the session of con gress this situation had been largely overlooked hut the state department Is devoting much time to Its consid eration now. Latest reports show con dition In Mexico are very grave and thut a serious crisis Is threatened. The economic machinery of the re public la badly crippled. This situ ation Is grcutely aggravated by a fa mine which Is now general through out the country. FIFTY MILE GALT IS ENDANGER ING SHIPPING ON LAKE MICHIGAN. TrniiM-ratum In Chicago Take Drop and Suffering Anionic the Poor Become Interwo Cliarity Ru maim Are Overwhelmed Willi Ap peal fur Aid Storm Is Unabated. COURT REFUSES TO ALLOW ERADL-Y BILL FOR S500 EFFORT TO SECURE EXTRA MONEY FROM COUNTY ENDS IN FAILURE. LOCAL SPORTSMEN WILL BE ASKED TO NAME CANDIDATE MEETING IS CALLED FOR- TO NIGHT TO TAKE ACTION ON QUESTION. Local sportsmen are to meet this evening at 7:30 In the Commercial association rooms for the purpose of endorsing a candidate for a position on the new board of fish and game commissioners. They will also select a candidate to support for the poal tlon of state game warden. Tonight's meeting will be a Joint affair with the member of the Uma tilla County Fish and Game Asocla iion and the Round-up Gun Club participating. In the absenco of President Matlock of tho association the meeting of that organization has been called by Vice President J. I Vaughan, whllo President La Dow of the gun club haa Issued the call for thnt organisation. Among the local men who have hum, nmntloned for game commis sioner are President J. V. Tallman of the Commercial Association, whose name haa been presented to the gov einor by Representative Roy W. Rlt ncr; Marlon Jack and Dr. H. S. Gar field In addition to these three H Is known that several of the local sportsmen have been urging Dr. F. W. Vincent to permit hla name to b used. The doctor, however, haa re fused to become a candidate. Mr. Tallman Is not an avowed candidate but ho has told some of the sports men he would accept If hla appoint ment la desired by the different local Interests. fcndlcton la not tho only town having a candidate for the position, however, as La Grande sportsmen are boosting for S. D. Crowe of that cltv and enterprise sportsmen out for Dr. C. T. town. , . In addition to game commission er the newly created position of tate game warden la also to be filled. There Is strong local sentiment In favor of Secretary a K. Cranaton ot the Commerclaly association for this place. Mr Cranston served for two years aa chairman of the state fish and game commission and local men believe he la well qualified in every way for the place. College 'Wrestlers Ut Meet ANNAPOLIS, March 6. Middle and Yale wrestlers are to meet on the mat here tonight , are Hockett of ttiat Having failed, It Is said, to Indue the legislature to raise his salary, G. W. Bradley, county treasurer, this week at the regular term of the coun ty court made an effort to secure ex tra money out of the county for his services In collecting the 1913 taxes. He presented a bill for $500 but the court promptly and unanimously re fused to allow It. The treasurer's present salary Is 11200 a year and was this same am- CHICAGO. March 6 With a Minding snowstorm raging and a E0 mile gale sweeping Lake Michigan, Chicago today la facing what prom ised to be the most serious storm of the winter. Shipping on the lake Is endanger ed from the high winds. The snowfall la continuing unabat ed and the temperature has dropped so low us to cause great suffering among the poor. Officers of the city charities de partment and the charitable organ izations of the city have been swamp ed with applications for help. The storm Is general throughout the middle west. In Nebraska, South Dakota and Iowa snow has been falling for 24 hours and rail road traffic has been seriously Inter fvrred with In many localities. ALLIED FLEET NOT CHIEF CITY OF MOSLEMS Turks Said to Have Informed London That no Defense of Constanti nople Will be Made. 2 Radly Injured. LO.S ANGELES. Cal., March 5. Frank Williamson, 18. was fatally and Miss Bens Hartmun. 26, was serious ly Injured when a Salt Lake railroad train crashed Into their motorcycle. Lawrence I Reapiiolntcd. SALEM, Ore., March 5. Arthur Lawrence of Portland, was reap pointed state printer by the board of control. His salary la $1800 a year, which Is fixed by statute. R. A. Harris, under the old law, received $4000 a year. William Plimpton, secretary of the depart ment, received $2000 a year under mount before the duty of collecting the old law, and Mr. Lawrence has taxes was Imposed upon hla office suggested to the board that he should Inasmuch as there was extra work continue to receive that salary, or and more responsibility, It has been more, If the board sees fit to allow Mr. Bradly'a contention that his sal- it. ary la Inadequate. Mr. Bradley . made two trips to Salem during the meeting of the legislature and it is said sought to have a bill presented Increasing his salary but could not secure the endorsement of the Uma tilla county delegation. j The discovery of the bill for $500 among the other bills was the first Intimation thut members of the court had that he Intended to ask for ad ditional emolument. When the tax collection waa taken from the sheriff and given to the treasurer, the coun ty court permitted Mr. Bradley to secure a deputy for the entire year and hire additional' help during tax collection time. ! WM wrecked by an explosion. In the opinion of the members of It la now generally accepted the court this additional help Is suf- that all the men entombed by flclent to take care of the tax col- the blast have perished. lection, leaving the county treasurer 4 with the same duties he had prior to 14444444444441 the time the tax department was puij in nis ornce. Iiy William Shepherd. LONDON, March 5. Constantino ple will not be bombarded. The old Turks have sent word to England that If the Anglo-French fleet suc ceeds In battering Its way through the Dardanelles and steams toward Constantinople they will flee to Asia In order to save the historic city from destruction. This statement waa made by a high official of the British government. It waa learned from other sources by the British government that the Islamic Turks will flee as soon as tt.e al'led fleet passes the Dardan elles narrows and the capital will b surrendered. Rumors were current that the Russians will be permitted by the al lies to take possession of Para, a su burb of Constantinople, but that the Dardane?Ies will be declared neutral Dlspetciies from Liverpool predict ed th t wheat will take an unpreced ented drop In price as soon as the strait Is forced. TURKEY IS LEFT TO FIGHT ALONE HER ALLIES REFUSE TO GIVE AID DARDANELLES DOOMED TO FALL HIGHLANDERS WIN INTER TEAM BOWLIKG TOURNAMENT KAISTRS DEFEATED LAST NIGHT AND SEE HOPES GO A-GLIMMEJUNG. IVisco Has New Lalor Temple. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., March 5. The formal opening of the new Labor Temple, the home of the San Fran cisco labor council, will take place tonight when the council will assem tlc in the building for the first time. The building has been open for In spection since last week and some of the unions transferred their head quarters there during the present week, but the opening will not come until tonight' The building la one of the most complete labor assembly structures In the country. It cost more than $150,000. Salute the bonny Highlanders. Led by Clan Chief McMonies they have won the lnter-team bowling tourna ment which haa been the chief in door sport attraction of the winter. When the Kaisers last evening lost their last battle of the tournament to the Allies by the scant margin of seven pins, they also lost all hope of overcoming the lead which the Scots had piled up. However, the Kaisers not onlj have the consolation of taking sec ond money out of the tournament but their leader, Loren Hoover, came forth as winner of the cup put up by Herman Peters for the bowler mak ing fhe best Individual record. He beat out the two other stars, Pat Mc Devltt and Fred Book, by close mar gins and, as all three were in the match last night, there was some ex citement. McDevltt made the top score for the three games last even ing, making 623, but Hoover made 604 and kept his lead. Book got a bad start and made about the lowest score that he made In any of the matches. The final outcome of the tourna ment gave- the Highlanders. 25.853 for the 30 games, the Kaisers 25,885, the Allies 25.670 and the Shamrocks 25.329. Members of the Highlanders' team at the finish Included McMonies, Harve Hanavan, Jake Myers, Clark Nelson, Walt Waggoner and John (Contlnned on page Ave.) Earthquake Rocks Two Towns in Italy STRONGEST FORTS GUARDING THE STRAIT ARE SLOWLY YIELDING Anglo-French Fleets Pouring Terrific Fire Into Defenses-Austria Refuses to Send Her Warships to Attack Enemy and Germany Reported to Have Refused to Send More Gun ners to Help Turks Hold Remaining Fortresses Against Assault. LONDON, March 5. The allied fleets of France and England made further progress today In the at tempt to force a passage through the Dardanelles and were reported to be battering the forts Killd Bahr and Chanak, two of the most powerful defenses In the strait. Dispatches from Athens declared that the reply from the gunners In fort Chanak Is becoming weaker and that the fall of the fort Is expected within 43 hours. Fort Namaxieh, one of the strong est In the chain of forts. Is betn made the target for a terlrflc fire. Its guns are evidently being served by Germans. Dispatches from Bucharest declar ed that both Germany and Austria have ignored appeals from Turkey for aid. It is aaserted that Austria has refused to send her fleet to at tack the allied warships from the roar, thus creating a division, and that Germany has refused to supply the Moslem defenders with more gunners. 87 BODIES ARE TAKEN FROM MINE HINTON, West Va.. March 5. Eighty-seven bodies were re covered early today from the Laylund mine number 3 which I FLORENCE, Italy, March 5. Re-S ports today from Bologna and Leh horn said that strong earthquake shocks were ftlt there at 8 o'clock lust night. So far as known today there was no damage. The residents are said to be panic-stricken. Inasmuch as the last legislature restored the tax collection I PT QC MERCHANT SHIPS lo the sheriff. Mr. Bradley will doubt. WCIUmAHl OmfO SENDS PRICE OF PIPE UP less lose his assistants aa soon as tht law goei Into effect. Netherlands Plnoca Embargo. LONDON, March 5. Reuter's cor respondent at the Hague telegraphs that a royal decree has been Issued prohibiting the exportation from The Netherlands of sheep, chicory in ev- GALVAMZED ARTICLE INCREAS ED 20 PEH CENT IN T1US COUNTRY. in Local people as well as those ery form, canned meat, and various th hef northwest are . . ... ,, . . now paying In the form of higher moat products. COUNTY WILL START WORK TOWARD BRIDGE AT ONCE prices for galvanlxed pipe the pen alty for lack of merchant ships. When the Panama canal was first opened the rate on galvanized pipe to the Paclfc coast by water ws 88 cents per hundred whllo the rail rate wa.( 65. Since that time due to the shortage of ships the water rate was BERLIN CLAIMS FRENCH ATTACKS ARE REPULSED BERLIN, March ' S. French at tacks from the Ypres to the Vosges mountains have been repulsed and In the eastern theater the Russians hav suffered heavy, many prisoners be ing taken by the Germans, according to an official statement. Fighting has been resumed west of Warsaw and south of the Vistula af ter a lull of ten days and British at tempts to take the Lorette hills have been repulsed, the statement adds. LONDON, March 5. The Austri ans have evacuated Cicrnowltx undet a severe Russian bombardment, Bucharest dispatch says. NEWS SUMMARY 3 RELIEVED DEAD IN HOTEL FIRE MINNEAPOLIS, March 5. Three persons are believed to be dead and seven were in jured, two seriously, In a fire In the Astoria Hotel. Twenty persona were carried from the building by firemen. The miss ing are Mrs. Helen Smith and two unidentified transients. The loss is $50,000. DESPONDENT OVER ILL-HEALTH ANDREW HUBBARD ENDS LIFE III II OF HIS SON-IN-LAW ENDS HIS LIFE WHEN HIS INSURANCE COMPANIES FAIL R. W. FEENEY TAKES POISON AXD PASSES AWAY WITH IN SHORT TIME. nilvnneeil to H rents. CTT FROM PRESENT ROAD EAST Now cm. lhe word to plumbing OF CITY WILL SOO. BE UNDERWAY. house that no freight can be ac cepted In New York for shipment The county will start the work of 0, the docka ,8 so heavy the : -k sin. 1 making the cut from tho present ships uvnllable are wholly unable to General. Turkey Is h'ft to lier fate by Ger many and Austria. Six German submarines salt! to liavo county rood Just east of Pendleton linndle the business. to the river, preparatory to building e have been notified that no a new bridge, at once, and Instead of Height will be received for shipment doing the work by contfact, will do prior to June 1," says C. P. Dellea- It by day labor under the supervision mer, representative of Crane & Co., of the county engineer. This action who la here today. Consequently was decided upon at the regular shipments now must be by rull and tiieetlng of the court which adjourned quotations are being made on that last evenlnir. basis. Two bids for making the cut were Another factor that Is contribute received but neither was satisfactory '"g 10 nigner prices on pipe is to the court and It was, accordingly, fact spleter. used In galvanizing pipe decided to do tho work bv dav labor. Is used for war purposes and the It Is expected that the work will cost Prll'e has doubled since the war. about $3000 although an. accurate l,rlc 01 gaivanuea pipe nas estimate cannot bo maoe until It la hus fur risen 20 per cent, due chief- learned how much cement gravel Is to lhe ,nclt of s,,i t0 handle bus- nAiinter,1 Arlvurlluman) fnr hMa lliess through the Canal. for the construction of the new bridge I . . will be commenced at once. Several ' Dnl Meet. other new bridges, under contempla j HANOVER, N. H.. March 5. Am- tlon during the past year, will also be hert and Hanover college athletes built. compete in a dual meet today. Fartliiiiinko shakes two towns In Italy. Russian fleet on way to Constanti nople. May meet with Turkish Reel. Allien will not liomhanl Constanti nople according to London. Conditions In Mexico City said to bo serious. Storm ragea throughout the mid- dlCWCMt, LoesJ. Andrew Hubbard, despondent, sent bullet through brain. County Treasurer Ttradley asks tourt for 500 additional salary. SKrtmen to nteet tonight to do eldo upon candidate for stale commis sion. Hoover wins Individual bowling championship. Bridge east of city to be built at once. Rabies among coyotes not a myth, says state veterinarian. PORTLAND, Ore., March 5. Ralph W. Feeney, superintendent of the Horticultural Fire Insurance company and of the Oregon Mer chants' Mutual company, both of which concerns were taken over by tho state department this week for Insolvency, committed suicide at his home, 14S1 East Rurnstde street, yesterday morning about 7:30 by tak ing strychnine. It is said that the business reverses of his companies had made Mr. Feeney despondent and he had threatened a number of times to take his life. Mr. Feeney hud been engaged In the Insurano business In Portland for a number of years. The Horticultur al Fire Relief company and the Ore gon Merchants' Mutual company, the two concerns of which he had been superintendent, were placed In the hands of a receiver Monday. He was about 59 years old. Besides his widow, Mr. Feenej leaves a brother,ln Oxford, O.; a sis ter in H.trrlsburg. Or., and a daugh ter, Mrs. Archie Leonard of Portland. Despondent over 111 health, Andrew Hubbard. 48 years old, yesterday af ternoon committed suicide at the home of his son-ln-law. J. E. Perigo, at Campbell station by shooting himself through the head. He fired the shot about 2 o'clock but death did not re sult until about three hours later. Mr. Hubbard had been living with his daughter and. son-ln-law since the death of his wife about two years ago and recently had been sick. Tester day afternoon Mrs. Pen?o had Just stepped out of the house for a minute when she heard a shot. She rushed back in and found the prostrate form of her father. A wound back of ths right ear and a revolver lying by the side of the body told the story. De ceased left no written word that could be found. Coroner J. T. Brown was notified as soon us he was dead and sent for the body. Besides Mrs. Perigo, de ceased Is survived by two other dau ghters, Mrs. Cal Davis of Pomeroy. Wn.. and another daughter In Ken tucky, as well as two sons, Cleveland and Chester Hubbard of Oklahoma Funeral arrangements will not be made until Mrs. Davis arrives from Pomeroy. Imoortnnt Question Considered. WASHINGTON, March 5. Wheth er railroads may deviate from the In terstate Commerce Commission's rule requiring a fixed form of accounts, in order to comply with various state regulations on the Fame subject. Is being considered by the Interstate Commerce Commission today. RUSSIANS STOP ENEMY AT THE DNEISTER RIVER PETROGRAD, March 5. The ad mission that Austro-German forces seriously threatened to force a cross ing of the Dnelster river at Halits at one stage of the present campaign in eastern Gallcla. was contained in an official statement. The enemy's right wing Is still five miles from Halltz, but the menace has been re moved. Early In the week the Aus- tro-Germans had a numerical super iority In that district. By forced marches they attempted to seize the railroad connecting Stanislau Halits, with Lemberg, but The Russian commanders Immedi ately rushed additional troops to the threatened points and the Russians are now in sufficient force there to prevent another movement against the railway. The battle In east Galloia contin ues along a 20 mile front. The war office asserts the enemy Is being re pulsed at all points elsewhere In Ga llcla and In the Carpathians the Rus. slnns are declared to have assumed the offensive with great vigor. The value of all the gold produced In the United States from 1793 t January 1. 1914. Is estimated bv the and j United Staets Geological Survey at were; $3,549,799,400; the value of tho ill- thrown back with heavy losses. ' ver at $1. 709.617,400 6 HAN SUBMARINES SUNK BY BRITISH SINCE THE WAR STARTED, ADMIRALTY STATES LONDON, March 5. Following an announcement today that the Ger man submarine U-S has been sunk In the English channel, the admiralty stated that six of the enemy's un dersea boats have been sent to the bottoh since the beginning of the war. The announcement of the linking of the V-t said that the crew had been cuptured. LONDON', March J. Captain W'y. att of the aleamer Alston reported t' the admiralty that ho believed his vessel rammed and sunk a submarine In the Englli'h channel on Saturday.