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,DAILY,EAST OKEGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON. WKDXKSDA V, MAIcCJf 17,
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77 PEOPLES WAREHOUSE OFFERS $1 000
AS STARTER FOR COLD fy2INGS ROAD
FUND
POEM
TO
11'
AH
1
Soldiers are Massing for Invasion of
Albania Where Dominating Place
be Seized and Held.
British Commander
Denies Dresden Was
in Neutral Waters
IEs RIITlOX OF FIGHT ON' SUN
DAY IS DESCRIBED ItV
.NAVAL OFFICER.
VALPARAISO, March 17. German
assertions that the t-rulHrr Dresden!
win In neutral water when a British i
sijuadron sent her to the bottom were
c'enled uy Lieutenant Commander
Fielding of the IlrltUh auxiliary
cruiser Orama, one of the ship which
uttacked the German vessel.
"The story that the Dresden wa
bunk in neutral waters la nonsense."
he auid. "Thia can be disproved
H-Hdily by locating the hulk. Our
squadron sighted the Dresden 12
mile off Juan Fernandez. Our fast-
Milt St mri-, While ill Italy, popnlur rat cruder, the Glasgow, immediately
Clamor 1-4 In-tinlciit for Entrance gave chase, Yollowed by the Kent and
Into the War on hide of tin? Allies tir.una. The Glasgow opened fire at
Austria DMIked. jehort range. Several hut were fir-
ed before the Dresden's guna got Into
ROME, March 17. Private advlcea notion. The Dresden was running to.
BULGARIA BECOMING ACTIVE
F.HU In llulUaiw HHtiiidnc linii-t
BRITISH ATTEMPT
TO EXPLAIN ORDER
IT BE IGNORED
United States Will Tell Britain There
Will be no Recognition of Block
ade on High Seas.
i
E IS Gil 10 HE ihrOO
E 0 I
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BTEA01AU
T
CUSTOMS RECEIPTS SUFFER
Voluntary Offer by Leon Cohen Starts Ball A-Rolling;
Farmers' Committee Rejoices Over Action-Subscription
of $100,009 Waited-County Bonds to Meet the
Remainder of Expense-Present Laws Sufficient.
IVtllllUUll tllf lAfM Will I'A' IIOO.IMH)
a I Hi) ThroiiKh Kiu;laiid'H Dcara-j
lion to ( lost? F) Grrmuii Port- j
ProtcM W ill Be Sliari Order Con
trary to Prccoclc-nt.
Cold Springs Road Fund
Peoples Warehouse by Leon Cohen - $1000
2 More Vessels of
England Torpedoed
By Undersea Craft
SI BMARIXE SENDS ONK TO ROT
TOM OTIIFH REACHES
PORT CRIPPLED.
WASHINGTON, March 17. Th
from I skub Indicated that Serbia la ward the coast and the Kent iwunl stoppage of American Import from '
massing troopa In the direction of in to head It off. Before the Kent I Germany aa a result of the Rrlilxh!
opened fire, the upper works of the; order-in council, eatabllahlng af:''sfcd bv It. (). Katnhart in the Eat ()rc"onian of March
The Kent niockade
the Albanian frontier.
With the object of retaining acceaa
to the Adriatic, which she haa al
ready gained. Serbia la reported to be
determined to Invade Albania aud
denly and selxe a dominating place In
that newly created country.
Omlnoua report are coming In
Dreaden were In flamea.
fired half a dozen ahola. all taking
effect, and the Dresden ran up the
white flag.
"We stood by to take off the crew
or (iermany. win mean a
Ii-hs of $100,000 per day In customs
receipt. This waa the' estimate of
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia and
Senator Walah of Montana after a
conference with President Wilson
land Immediately afterward there
, u-u. lorrifi,- Tiil,.l,,n the nmir-lsnd Secretary of Commerce Redfield.
from Salonlca of Important Bulgar-, , , r,rpj(1,Hn ,,iunced The stoppage of exports also will
lan movements which have been ob
'served to be taking place in the di
rection of the Turko-Bulgarlan fron
tier. These movements Indicate, dla
patches state, that the Bulgarian are
massing trooiH southward toward the
Gulf of Saras.
If the movements on the part of
Serbia and Bulgaria are officially
confirmed they will be or the hlgu
est significance In the llalkans. Ser
bia for years has coveted an outlet
to the Adriatic and Bulgaria want tuj
drive Turkey entirely out of Europe
and gain the commanding place In
the Italkan states.
Meanwhile the agltutlon In Italy
continues In favor of the Italian gov
ernment casting Its lot with the al
lies in the war. The feeling against
Austria la undoubtedly growing, es
pecially In the northern province.
Antl-Austrlan demonstrations wero
anain reported today In a number ol
up.
downward and disappeared."
The Dresden was sunk on Sunday.
After IU eecape from the battle off
the Falkland Islands, ships of both
Ilritaln and Japan had been seeking
the cruiser but It succeeded In evad
ing them.
HOMAGE IS PAID TODAY TO
PATRON SAINT OF IRELAND
WKRIN(i Till: GRKF.X IS FASH.
lONARIJ-: IX KKKPIXO ST.
PATRICK'S DAY.
4,I will be one of 100 men to jiivi .$1,000 each to raise $100,000 for a
mm surface roail to ( oM jiriii-r tinder the terms of the jl;in mijt
13.
hat's all."
This voluntary an.l unsolicited offer on the jart of Loon Cohen,
owner of The Peoples. Warehouse, was made tinlav ami etarts the ball
rolling toward the bir Mibs-rition needed if Tinatilla eountv U to pet
in line to secure th Ix-nt fit of the ojien Columbia river.
The offer bv Mr. Cohen wiw made to the East Oretronian during the
fort'iusm and when the news va r-ommunieated to the fanners' cnu
mittee that has lecn at work on the problem it caused miltounded joy.
"That is the hu.-ine-i," said J. K. Montiioinerv. wcreta'rv of the Cold
lng most of his attention to the, Spring eoniinittee. "If a IVndleto,, men-bant' can afford to rive $1,
blockade and the international tjues- . .i i i -n i . i- i i u i
Hons growing from it. The attempt M '" T'il wl" w" ' ' little to him 1.cronallv Uraus
of Hrltain to Justify Its action and j it is the consumer who jiavs the freight the farmers certainly can af
the request that the United states ford to snlwrilio when the road will mean so much to thoui in lower
consider the blockade aa parallel tojw,oat rM(. pCr,allv I will stlbseriU' a thousanl dollars to this
fund any time otH I taliove farmers generally will do the same. It is
UJl to US to JJft llXSVj
j nean a reduction In the world's con
sumption of American cotton by 30,
OUO bales a week. Wilson Is deVot-
Pendleton Is all Irish today. All
I other nationalities are forgotten while
nu.n ruin, hut .,vernment officials St. Patricks Day. the great Hibernian
Insist, however, that there Is no holiday, ia being observed and due
cause for alarm and no danger that' homage paid to the patron saint of
there will be any change in Italy's
determination to remain neutral.
Negotiations are being continued,
it Is raid, by Prince Von Buelow. th
German ambassador, to
Austria to voluntarily cede
her territory to Italy
Italy's neutrality.
SOLUTION TO DIFFERENCES
B-TWEEN CHINA-JAPAN NEAR
.AGRF.FMF.NT HAS HF.F.X RKACIIF.D
HIT DFTAILS OF IT ARK
YKT FX KNOWN'.
the Kmerald Isle, Everybody on the
street Is "a wearln' of the green," Im
itation shamrocks, green carnations
nnd green neckwear everywhere pro-
persuadoj laimlng that due cognlxance has been
some of I taken of the " 1 .ill ol ireiunu.
In return for At the Catholic church masses were
celebrated at 7 and 9 o'clock this
morning and at the latter mass
Father Joy of Athena delivered the
panegyric to St. Patrick. Services will
be held this evening at 7 o'clock In
,he same church.
A number of festivities will mark
this evening. Public dances will be
held In both the Eagle-Woodman and
the Moose hall, while at the Catholic
rectory the Knlghfi, of Columbus will
give a literary and musical program.
LONDON. March 17. The Japan
ese foreign office Issued an official
stutement today announcing that a
satisfactory solution Is in sight over
the differences between Japan and
China. This news was contained In
a dispatch from Toklo to the Central
Newa Agency here. The basis of the
aettlement la unknown.
Japan's' demands regarding the
atatua of Chinese territory on the
Shantung peninsula haa caused pro
tracted negotiations between Pekln
and Toklo. The situation haa been
closely watched by the American atate
department because of fear that the
"open door" policy In China might be
In. danger.
the action of the north during the'
civil war will be Ignored by the ad
ministration. The I'nited States will flatly tell
England and her allies that this)
country does not and cannot recog
nize the right of any belligerent to
establish a blockade on the high seas.
Senator Walsh, an expert In Interna
tional law, was outspoken in his dis
cussion of the orders. He did not
believe the administration should
mince worda In voicing Its protest'
against the policy, which he declared I
was contrary to all law and prece
dent.
LONDON. March 17. The British
steamers Atalanta and Fingal have
been Mrpedoed and one of them sunk
by a German submarine, the admir
alty announced this afternoon.
The first vessel was torpedoed on
Sunday but tearhed port badly dam
aged. The other went down of I
Xorthcuiiiherland. six members of
the crew drowning.
The remarkable prowess of Ger
many's new secretly-designed sub
marine was demonstrated in a strik
ing manner by the torpedoing of these
two vessels. The Atalanta was struck
off the coast of Innlsturk. Galway,
Indicating the submarines have
cruising radius of 300 miles. The ad
miralty refused to accept" the theory
the Germans have a secret base some
where on the British coast which
confirms reports current for some
time that new submarines have been
equipped for a dash across the Atlant
ic if ordered to do so.
Thia latest exploit of the Kaiser's
ships, revealing this phase of war on
merchantmen, has stirred great In
terest throughout England. The At
Atalanta'a crew was saved after bring
ing the damaged ship Into port. The
Fingal's crew was less fortunate, only
24 being rescued. The dead Include
the chief mate and the stewardess.
Ill
FETE
CJTV TOO
E OF SAFETY
All who are Able are Leaving Mexican
Capital for Vera Cruz Trains are
Furnished Them.
PROGRESO CONDITIONS ALARM
ROUND-UP PICTURE IS 0
EXHIBITION AT BIS FAIR
j What the Plan Is.
! The Cold Springs road plan as pro
) posed by It. O. Earnhart. president of
the Farmers Cnion of I'liiatilla coun
ty, is that a hard surface road he built
with money raised by subscription and
by a county bond issue. It is estimat
ed the total cost will approximate
1500,000 and a subscription equal to
20 per cent is desired, so as not to
place all the burden upiyi the entire
county. Those who subscribe will be
allowed to pay In 10 annual payments,
Interest not to exceed six per cent.
The plan outlined by Mr. Earnhart
calls for a hard surface road from
Chilean Paors ITotcst.
VALPARAL0. March 17. Chilean
..... .i ( o 1 In s-kl-lntr tVlA nntria
.u,.,-, a.c " '"""' v""r7" , Cold Springs landing to Tendleton and
Ion that both British and German . .. ..
rhlps violated Chilean neutrality In
Wl
the recent naval engagement result
ing In the sinking of the German
cruiser Dresden was less than 4 00
tally that the government make it
the matter of representations to Eng
land and Germany. According to the
press the Dresden was less than 400
yards off the surf line when It was
fired upon.
A man argues with a woman not
because It does any particular good
but because of the pleasure It affords
her.
for a spur road leading from some
point on the road eastward to connect
with the Wild Horse highway. This
idea in the spur road is to give ad
vantages of the river freight rates to
Adams, Athena, Weston, Milton. Free
water and to the farming country ad
jacent to those places.
By raising 20 per cent of the cost
of the road from those who will be
most directly affected it Is argued
the road can be built under practical
ly the same terms that would have
been possible had the Brown road bill
been adopted by the legislature. The
remainder of the cost of the road will
be borne through a county bond Issue.
Cnder the law such a bond issue can
be put up to the people at a special
election providing a sufficient petition
calling for that action is presented the
county court. The bonds will be paid
for by taxation upon all the property
of the county, including towns, such
as Pendleton, that are exempt from
ordinary road taxes.
The Celilo canal will be open May 5
and water transportation will be In
vogue In the near future. Owing to
the magnitude cf the work it will beiMr. Meacham
Impossible to get the Pendleton-Cold
Springs road built in time to handle
the coming crop. However, by prompt
work it is believed the move can be
carried through so as to have the
road finished before the harvest of
1916. It Is contended the road will
reduce the freight rate on wheat from
two to four cents a bushel, which
benefits would soon compensate for
the cost of the road.
I.L DO (iOOD DEAL TO ADVER
TISE FRONTIER SHOW AM
' ONC, VISITORS.
Defeat of InMircc-nt by (ferranzbrtJM
AdU to Danger, According to Word
from Consular Agc-nt Sillinutn
Carranza pronil-- to Send &ui!t4
to Mexico City.
WASHINGTON, March 17. A gen
eral exodus of foreigner from Mexi
co City is In progreMy
AH who are able to leave are pre
paring to go to Vera Crux and large
numbers of foreigners are already on
the way to the Mexican seaport town.
Both Villa and Carranza have been
requested to furnish trains for the
transportation of foreigners and not
to interrupt the Journey from Mexi
co City.
American Consular Agent SIHiman
advised the state department that he
is greatly alarmed over the conditions
at Progreso as a result of the defeat
of the Insurgents by the Carranxistaa.
Foreigners he said, were seeking
safety in American warships. Both
Carranza and Villa have promised to
aid foreigners who want to leave
Mexico City. Carranza. he said, ha
promised to forward Red Croaa sup
( lies to .the Mexican capital.
IMPROVED RflAO NEEDED .
TO HOLD GRANT CO. TRADE
News was received by the Commer
cial assoiatlon this morning from W.
E. Meacham, secretary of the Baker
Commercial association, and repre
sentative of that county at the Pan
ama exposition, that the Round-up
picture has been received and Is now
on display. Mr. Meacham states that
"It looks good and will probably at
traot a good deal of attention since
there is nothing like It In the expo-
Kithtn ' llo sfnfpa that thA nlrflir
will do a great deal of effective ad-! """hern part of the county and see
vertising for the Round-up next year. ' u od r"ad Provided
, . i trom Pendleton to the Grant county
In his letter to Secretary Cranston If fh(t nPPHpn, rn,, n.
proved Pendleton is going to lose
I'KI H SI PERVISOR rilGES GOOD
ROAD FROM PENDLETON
TO COUNTY LINE.
"Pendleton people should take in
creased Interest In the roads In the
Plans of Britain's Great Battleship
GERMAN AVIATOR ATTACKS
STEAMER; 1 OF CREW KILLED
ROM It IS DROPPED FROM OVER
HEAD DECLARES CA1TAIX
OF ENGLISH CRAFT.
SOUTH SHIELDS, Eng.. March 17.
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SPEED OCMONS GET AWAY
IN 300 MILE AUTO RACE
TWEXT-OXE CONTESTANTS EN
TERED FOR GRAND PRIZE
AT VENICE, CAL.
VENICE. Cal., March 17. Twenty
The steamer Bloode arrived here cne PeAl demons, contesting for
today and reported she had been at- honors In the Venice grand prtx au
tacked by a German aviator in a tomoblle race, started shortly after
Taube monoplane. The aviator drop- l on SOO-mlle endurance' contest
ped a bomb, killing one of the' Eurant In a Chevrolet -was sent
Bloode's crew. j away first. The others followed. Av-
tator Martin dipped over the spec ta
il Is no pleasure for a man to do tcr M th 8,art WM made- Scoren
as he pleases until after he gets mar- wer hurt wnen tne wlnd Dlew down
rled and then he can't. a core b-rd-
ecain in a Chevrolet dropped out
at the eighteenth lap because of ra
diator trouble. Eddie Pullen was
forced out at the start by a defec
tive engine. At the JOth lap RIcken
bacher waa leading. Ruckstall was
second, Klein was third.
Grant In a Stutt went Into a ditch
in the !5th lap and lost five minutes.
s'.ates that the grain
bins are now finished and the thresh
ed grain is now on display. He
slates that there will also be an at
tractive display In the agricultural
building of grain from this section of
the country.
tiade from Grant county because Hep.
pner Is building a road that will give
Grant county people easier access to
Heppner than they now have to Pen
dleton." This Is the declaration of J. T. Hus
ton, road supervisor at Ukiah who
has been here today. Mr. Huston be
lieves that a dirt road to Uklah Is suf
ficient If It Is kept Improved. He de
clares that a hard surface road from
Pendleton to the Columbia river will
aid the southern part of the county
through bringing down the freight
rate.
"Without boasting." Mr. Meacham
writes. "I can truly say that eastern
Oregon has as good. If not a better,
display than any other section of the
state." It Is expected that Oregon
will get a great deal of advertising
from the fair, and Mr. Meacham says
that eastern Oregon witl be In the
front.
The exhibits are being completed
every day and in a short time every-j it requires long years of practice
thing will oe in a good shape for tne i to enable a man to fall In love and
exhibition, he writes. There Is plen
ty on display at present to keep peo
ple occupied, and with the addition
of new exhibits things will soon be
well filled up.
Mr. Meacham says "that for the
money spent Oregon has accomplish
ed more than any other state." There
is a sufficient supply of grain at pres
ent but there still remains room for
all the fruit that can b sent, since
It is hard to keep It after shipping to
far.
light on his feet.
HARRY THAW DIRECTING
HIS CASE FROM TOMBS
STRENUOUS FIGHT TO OAIN HH
FREEDOM IS NOW BEING
WAGED.
No greater shock has been admin
istered the Germans In this war than
the news of the other day that the
Queen Elizabeth, the greatest battle
ship ever built In Europe, one with
eight fifteen-Inch guns that shoot
more than twelve milca, had arrived
nt the Dardanelles and was batter
ing the last defenses of. the Turkish
empire In Europe.
This wonderful ship has stood out
of range of the best guna on the
Turkish forts on the Dardanelles and
yet been able to throw her tons of
steel Into forts that had been thought
Impregnable. A Week after she be
gan the bombardment, supported by
some other forty ships of the British
and French navies, she had silenced
most of the forts of the Dardanelles,
and It was considered only a ques
tion of time when she would reach
the Bosporus. But long before then
It was predicted the sultan and all
Turkish officials will have fled to
Asia. Thus the opening; of the Bos
porus and the Dardanelles to Rus
sian commerce will have become ono
of the greatest feats of history.
This great ship there are five In
her class nenrlng completion, the
Wnrsplte, Valiant, Barham and Mal-
Gcrmans to Have- St. Patrick.
SEATTLE, Wash., March 17. The
German flag will be ringled with the
flag of Erin tonight In the Joint cele
bration here of St, Patrick's Day. The
German-American societies met wit
representatives of the leading Irish
societies recently and decided to par-
1 ticipate in the ceremonies honoring
Ireland's patron saint. Teutons and
Rga Is of 27.000 tons displacement. Germans will celebrate with proper
She is 650 feet long with a beam of service during the day and tonight
ninety-four feet, and a draught of banquet and ball,
twenty-seven and a half feet. Be-
sides her great battery of eight flf- Kansas Farmers Confer,
teen-inch guns, she carries sixteen NORTON, Kans., March 17. More
six-inch guns, twelve anti-aerial 12- than 500 farmers attended the agrl
pounders or four-inch guns, four cultural conference for northwestern
three poundsrs and four submerged Kansas which opened here today,
twenty-one lnh torpedo tubes. She Speakers were furnished by tho agri
cost about $12,500,000. cultural college.
Blessed are the meek, for they are
never expected to rise to the occa
sion.
NEWS SUMMARY
General.
British attcnn to explain German
blockade will be Ignore! by tlte Unit
ed States.
Serbia Is prcarlng to Invade At
ban la.
Two more stcaiuers art; sunk bj
German submarine.
Foreigners fleeing Mexico City.
Local.
The roopJes Warehouse with $1.
000 offer heads Cold Springs road
subscription.
Dr. Uusttoil II. Conwell delivers fa
mous lecture for 5103 time here.
Evans and Shannon fight fifteen
rounds to a draw.
Eastern Oregon exhibit at fair
right al the front.
Pendleton docs homag-e to St. Iat
rlc-W.
NEW YORK. March 17. From the
Tombs, Harry Thaw is directing per
sonally the next moves to be made In
the legal fight to establish his sanity
and gain freedom. According to th
present plans. Attorney Stanchfleid
I will ask Judge BIJour on Friday to
postpone the hearing on Thaw's pe
tition for a writ of habeas corpus M
Permit his counsel to submit aupport-
lng affidavits and briefs. If It is
j granted, the court will be asked to set
a date within a month for a trial by
Jury.
San Franc-lsoo's St. Patric k's Day.
SAN FRANCISCO. March 17. Th
biggest celebration of St. Patrick's
Day San Francisco has ever known la
in progress here today.
The Panama Pacific Exposition set
aside the day for special ceremonies
at the Tower of Jewels, In the fair
grounds and these are being partici
pated In by representatives of all the
Irish societies In the, Hay city.
At the City Auditorium. howevr,
the principal ceremonies will Ukt
place. The most eminent speaker of
the Irish race whom Han Frano!.'-
ran boast will participate In tho pro
gram at the Auditorium and thl v.
ring a grand St. Putrlck's Day bail
ill close the day.