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1 cm evei;ii:3 ecitio:i ForenaM for Eastern Orea by t)i tutted SuitK Weather tlbuwin at Portland. DAILY EVO ECiTiO:! y" TO AD VERTISEHS. Ttw Rut Orgonln hail the largest pal circulation of tat ppr io Oregon, cut of rwUuid, and net (wire the clrcutatlua Id frudwtea of say other newspaper. Fair o.lght and Thorsday. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER NO. 8488 VOL. 26 DAILY EAST OREGON! AN, PENDLETON, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1915. 1 JL nOLBOHI TO EXTEND HI COURSE Policy of Retrenchment is Adopted Many Pioneers Will Take Part in River Celebration May 4 CITY HOT LIABLE OLD TIMERS TO HAVE OPPOR TUNITY TO TALK. OVEtt FORMER ADVENTURES. Pioneers of Umatilla, county who wish to meet old friends of the early river days and talk over the daya of long ago will have a fine opportunity, lUfjpa pt,pns unus That Onnfrart 11a May 4 and In ' ' r ' ' FOR MISTAKE OVER EXCAVATION IRK to do ao at Umatilla May and Several Positions in Schools '" he 1,ne from wl- , i ton to The Dalles. are Eliminated. i was talking yesterday in The ! Dalles with, a lady who writes far the 1 Oregon Historical society and she ln- Price is all Oity Can Pay for Digg ing the Twin Reservoirs. LATH COURSES GUT DOWN rr rrr:rjzzl M-t mi Hi mm UP in honor of the opening of the Celilo canal," say. James Miller, traveling' If Demand fur Higher ltfn Work ,,awnger ttgeut for the O.-W. It. 4s IiKTNMr, Classes WW lie Itcatored N C(J who narB toduy, -PUrn I Work Will Ik 0a- lnpnlmA u Mr. Miller with the tinned and Also physical Tralulr , celebration1 Jeffrey and Button Likely to Appeal to buiireme Court In Matter In volving Kxtra .Money Claimed Over Work Claims, Amount to Several Thousand Dollars. Because Jeffrey A Button were mis- : that he has arranged lor a special . . . v... train from Umatilla th evening ol A po icy " 3 Ma 4 for those who wish It ThU tttkeD ln their Miet l0 th, char. naciarea or low . ....... . . .. . t.nard. not because the district la In train will be to accommodate those HCte!. ot tne excavation to be done in hoard. l"l J3i rece " " to go to UmatUla but do not building the twin reservoir, of the financial .trait, but because recent C((Uo the nMt day Jne waer gy((tem lg no reMon lmnmvementa and growth In tne schools have necessitated strict I . -1 .. . . V. ,. avnntlrlidlMI In keeping with 11. policy th. board qui evening uvtiuni V.. M.niinl Irulnlnif fHlinut llftXl sear and eliminated several positions n, In the schools. Next year there will be no super visor ot music and drawing In the schools, that position having been abolished, and the Instruction In these branches will be superintended by the different teachers and the city super- omerrm irainc. puu ..... v.v, ,.,.,,- ot May & a special train will Intendent. as was done prior to the a( , m. reachlng O.-W. R. It N Co. will run a steam Wny tne city 8huuld pay more for" the lni!n to I'matllla In lieu of th motor Work than tne contract price. This (, May 4. me speemi ln gUDStance la the ruling of Circuit niatllla In time to make jU(iKe Pheloa today in sustaining a de- the trip home to Pendleton by mid- murrer In the case of the Oregon i Lumber Yard vs. the City of Pendle- Those who do not wish to go to ton et als. and in granting a motion Umatilla the evening of May 4 may to strike out several causes of action, take the westbound train leaving here in ultJr complaint Jeffrey & Buf at t:2i the morning of May i. This toD, the contractors who are repre traln will reach Umatilla In ample Wnted in this case by the Oregon time for the departure of the steamer. Lumber Yard, allege that the test pit Returning home from The Dalles tne creation of the position of supervisor. There will be as special Instructor In normal work at th high school, Pendleton about 12:30. Those wisn , make the entire trip by rail dug on the reservoir site did nut re veal the true character ot the exca vation. Por this reason, they alleged, they were entitled to further com- Pensaton than the contract allows. may do so by Inking the focal out of By reason of the delay which the ad- ' ditlonal work entailed, they put forth either, that position having also been j,, ,h- mornlng of Ma. ,. "T ""r.hV of th. hUth However the trip d. luxe for Uma- two other claims, the whole amounl- schoo will have charge of th. teach- till, county people will be the riae in. to several thousand dollars. i... i ni, that on the steamer Georgia Burton from judge pheips. In sustaining the con the principal may have more time for Umatilla to Big Eddy. The fare on nations of City Attorney Carter and this work the two uppen Latin the steamer will be 12 and the boat striking out these three Causes of ac- .ourses have been cut out, thus en- will be devoted entirely to accommo- tion. grants the plaintiff ten days In nbllng the Latin Instructor to take dating the Umatilla county crowd, W,ich to t ie an amended complaint. of the classes now taught By naving ueen ; ieu .v. .i .n UVK nnp.uwauii.-, nti, mai pose Tne oano wm avcuiuioiu an appeal win lie taaen irom nis rui- I Inn to the supreme court. ANGLO-FRENCH ARE HURLING ASSAULTS AGAI NST OTTOMAN By - Crop Has Not V i Damaged Say j ff in From Stanfiekf C3 f ,JATI( f, ,U It KFl RATION VISITS I'FDI.ETON TK IlKI'OltTS tilt- (TUTIJ) HERE. Turkish Government Claims That At tacking Forces Have Been Repulsed But London Denies Statement, De claring That Progress, is Being Made-Fleet Concentrates Fire on Forts as Troops Attack by Land. LONDON, April 2rDeapite the claims of success by the Turks, the allied attack upon the fortifications of the Dardanelles Is now developing along new lines wlthj troops partici pating and Is believed, to be making favorable progress. The fighting Is steadily Increasing In- violence as the French and British troops press for ward in the land operations while the warships have maintained a constant bombardment of the torts at long range as well as Inside the strait The admiralty made no comment on the claims of the Turkish government that one torpedo boat had been sunk and a second . seriously damaged In yesterday's attack. Against the Turkish claims of hav ing repulsed the French troops land ed on the Asiatic side of the Dardan elles entrance a Paris statement brought the assurances that the val ley of Fort, Kura Kleh has been oo cupied and that all: the operations are being continued with success. The Turkish statements that tne British 1 troops landed on the Gallipot! Penln-1 sula also were forced to seels shelter of the fleet was denied by the war office.. The British troops. It was as serted, are thoroughly establishing their positions. BERLIN, April. 28.t Advices freen Constantinople tend, to confirm the claims of the Turkish war office that the allied attacks upon the Turkish positions on the (Jalllpoll peninsula have failed. The British, treops, the advices stated, were force t retire and seek protection under the gune of their fleet In the gulf of Sores. The Turks were declared to have gained a distinct advantage and to have ta ken a number of prisoners. Reinforcements are being rushed to aid in repulsing the land attacks. ust to bhow that the pearh crop u. not been destroyed by the frost, a live delegation of Stanfieldites Invad ed Pendleton this morning wearing buttonhole bouquets of peach tree twigs with good undamaged young peaches thereon. The delegation came upon the mo tor car and among those In the party were C. H. Naylord, O. L. Hurd. Ralph Holte. S. Norton Bobo and Zoeth Houser. The Stanfieldites are indignant In denying reports that the peach crop was destroyed on the Fur tish project They say there is no truth ln the report and point to the condition of the fruit as the best evi dence on the subject ROOSEVELT ADMITS WITH . GREAT SATISFACTION HE DECLARED BARKES MENACE ume the principal ...... t.nw ,..in steamer, f tin emd to be u. if.ed by th. A nice courtesy In the form of an U his op n ion Judge Phelps cites tuM onTThe Khoolsi This year observation car ha. been prepared lor he clause of the contract which say. there are only four pupil, enrolled In the use of the young ladle, represent- hat the "excavating shall Include thTcioero or third year class and Ing different sections a. queens at the the work of removing all materia ne- hre; in th" V rg I or fourth year. If Celilo celebration. This car will be cessary to be moved" and he declares rUemnd for higher Latin work In- attached to a westbound O.-W. R. there can , b. no ambiguity in that c eaiT he classes will be restored. N. si-ecia! from The Dalle, to Port- c ause. "The language !. so plain and Th. n,,.inntin nf tMcero and Virgil land and will still leaves two venrs In Latin, the to the rose city following the ceremo lementary work and Caesar. ( mes at Hlg Eddy and The Dalles. R. E. Chloupek, head ot the de- partment of manual training, made a urn nimorti request of the board to extend that U U vruyyi Afl ik the vouna: ladles simple that a It. he says. child can understand FRENCH ARMORED CRUISER IS SUE lit THE ADRIATIC FOR C0 TRACK MEET department to four years, adding farm forging. He pointed out tnai inn city, being In the heart of a farming .xmimunlty, should oirer mis course , Practically all members of the board were Impressed with his argument SELECTION'S COME AFTER TRY but decided that at this time the ex- OVT VESTEKHAY AETEK tcnslon cannot be afforded. The cost NOON AT KOUSD-VP. of adding the two years In Iron work would be about 1900. Eventually the The results of the tryouts at th. broad hope, to build a separate Round-up grounds last evening for building on the high school block for tne choosing of the track team to rep houslng the niunual training depart- resent Pendleton High school in the mcn, dual meet with Walla Walla are M It was decided to continue the work follows: In playground Instruction and physl- ino yards Peters, Selhert. cal training both In the high school 6o yards Bowman, Gordon, La- and grade schools. Tne election u. tourene or scioen. teachers for the next year was practl- 220 yards Selbert, Peter., ii.. ..mi.,io hut another meeting Relav Selbert. Boylen, "It would have been a perfectly simple matter," he goes on to say, "for the contractors to have required a qualification of the language 'all ma terial. so that the contract would have provided for all material such as disclosed by the test pit, or for all earth excavation or the like. It Is entirely possible that other contrac- (Continued on page eight) AUSTRIAN SI'llJt ARINE IS IE MEVEI TO HAVE SENT VES SEC. TO BOTTOM. PARIS, April Jhe French ar mored cruiser Ledn Gambette was torpedoed and sunk. Monday night in' the Adriatic, off Otranto, It was an nounced. The attack is presumed to have been made by an Austrian sub. marine. It Is not known how many of the crew perished. The minister of marine believed that some were saved. BERLIN. April 2. An Austrian submarine sank the French armored cruiser Leon Gambette In the Adriat ic, an official report from Vienna stated. Only part of the vessel's crew of 725 were sevad. Some men's Idea, of progress is to stand and watch others go. backward. DEPUTY SAVES KEERO FROM THE VENGEANCE DF A MOB MAX ACCUSED- OF ASSAULT NAR ROWLY ESCAPES BEING LYNCHED- IN TEXAS. T. K. FINISHES ORDEAL OF. EX AMINATION, BRANDISHES FISTS OFTEN. SYRACUSE, April 28. Evidently relishing the opportunity to admit that he declared Barnes a "menace" and that he should be in the same party with "Chief" Murphy of Tammany ball. Roosevelt today completed the "ordeal" of undergoing a cross exam ination. Roosevelt put in another morning of speechmaking which he appeared to enjoy thoroughly. He frankly, and emphatically admitted he had deliv ered i speech in 1914 in which he said Barnes was a "menace." When the speech was read to him he admitted he had declared that Barnes and Mur phy oupht to be in the same partx. Once while Attorney Ivins was quoting various passages from one of the colonel's speeches he took the copy from the attorney's hand . and read it himself with true platform oratory. Ivins declared the colonel had ag BALLINGER, Tex., April 28. Aft er a, mob had plu-ed a noose about the neck of Early Young, a negro. who attacked Clara Hood, a white gravated the libel alleged by Barnes girl, Deputy Sheriff Crews mounted by repeating the charge after the a sonn bor ami Dleided with the' Present bill had been filed.' At this ,.. j .,if i,r hi. .ri..l Roosevelt smiled broadly. On ocoas ions when his counsel 'objected tp th. mems prevauea ana tne negro was v-iread, of cmain gpeeches, Roose ken to jaik Later the mob gathered . velt caught their eyes and voluntarily again and advanced toward the jail,! pantomimed "let him answer." Then ' he was plunged into a reply before they could signal in the affirraative or. negative. , ii was ntiuwritii s iitwi iriuiiesiuuui mob poundeed at the front door, day not ony during the time of his Crews spirited Young out a rear win-cro8a examination, but when redirect dow and fled with him to an un bearing tins of gasoline and kerosene, and shouting they Intended to burn' the prisoner at the stake. While the' kawn hiding place, tu&ined ln an uproar. The town re- The Wilhelm as She Looked in Drydock (Continued on page eight) HOARS REPULSE GUI DRIVE 1 LINE 111 FLAHDERS Ikit are Still on the Offensive AJCB& Whole Front That Guards Seaport of Calais.. will he held tomorrow evening which time the balance of the selec .,in h mn.le. There will be a number of changes to announce. NEWS SUMMARY General, 1 Anjrlo-FrwH-h troop. advance against Turkish forw at Uio Dardan lliw while floe shells fortification from the sea. Local. City not to pay contrators' ntHtake In bidding on rcscrrolra, rules .ludco Phelps. Otto Kline, Round-up trick rldor, sustain, broken neck. Tax commissioner to meet tax I layers hero Saturday to determine value. School board to retrench; positions abolished. Smythn Bros. Ml coarse wool al high price. Many old pioneer, will participate In Celilo celoliratlon. Boylen. Peters, Curl, Latourelle or Bowman. 440 yards Curl, Boylen. 880 yards Curl, Boylen, Mlnnls. Mile Mlnnls, Read. d tumo Selbert. Bowman, Russell. High Jump Huey, Colesworthy, Myers. Shotput Russell, Frledly, Bowman. Javelin Mlmms, Hargett, Russell, or Gordon. Discus Brown, tJlrlch. 59n hurdles Huey. Gordon Russell. 120 hurdles Myers, Huey Russell. Pole vault Osborne, Gordon. This list Is not altogether completo but these are the men that will prob ably go to Walla Walla. Eighteen men and the ooach will make th. trip. Marshflold Attorney Suicide. MARSHFIELD, Ore., April 28. Attorney J.' T. Hall, 6, promi nent In legal-circles here, sui cided by shooting himself through th. head last night. I DALLES-CELILO CANAL IS OPENED FOR HAIA1I0N TODAY CELILO, Ore., April 28. The Pal-lcs-Celllo canal eight and a hall m ice long, built by the government ut a cost ot four and a halt millions mi opened to navigation today. Th. steamer Inland Empire from the up per Columbia and the steamer J. N. Teal from the lower river passed through the canal and locks. The ca nal opens th. Columbia to navigation for a distance of 160 mile.. . v . v --''! "i " J ' tl , , .t. - - yJt ltJv vV'' -. -' H ,' tr - - -f ''1 ' - - . x r-i , ,.: I 43y-'.?- . .--i-T -v- - - ' ., r -j V ..11 ... " ! e. ; n m 1 Otto Kline,. Fancy Rider is Killed in (New York City WKIJj KNOWN ROVND-UP PER FORMER BREAKS NECK WHILE WITH CIRCUS. ALLIES.. PRESSfXa FORWARD Fn-nrl, a BrWsh Mikl, Dcmwm Effort t. Ranis limi . When (jtvntans Madr Their Ynx BJs; Anulw-Kalwr fvrc Are Itiortefei Be teafeen4as;. LONDON, April 28. A Gorman charge agaiast a sectlo ol the allied line, held by th. Belgians In, lUn- ders, In which the enemy waa thrown oack with enormous losses, is report- ea In dlspatchee from. th. Belgian army headquarters. It .was evident the Germans are still on the ef tensive along the line guarding Calais. French and British are pressing forward in enormous numbers, endeavoring to regain the ground lost A German, attack was made last night. It was preceded by the spreading of asphyxiating gase. along the Belgian., front The Belgians stuffed cotton lt their nostril, and lay close to th ground. The Ger mans thinking them overcome charg ed en masse. When close to the al lied line the Belgians opened, fire. The German line staggered and thea retreated. In. disorder, leaving great piles ot dead., behind. Advice, inchoate that despite the great strength ot the German line to the north, and. the northeast of Ypres, -H is wavering under the repeated as saults being directed by the French and British.. The allies are determin ed to recaptiue St. Jullen which waa lost when the Germans made their first rush The French, are carrying forward most. extensive operations on, the Brit ish, left. PARIS,. April. 2.8. Report. oX the capture of several lines of trenches In side the Belgian frontier and a con tinued, advance of French force, were contained in semi-official dispatches from the front,. At one point alone the Germans were declared to have lost Sin, killed. The entire line ot trenches from which the French were driven in, the early Xprea fighting have been retaken. VIENNA. April 28. A general lull throughout the AustrWvn front is re ported by the war office. Ia several sections there has been, heavy artil lery exchanges, but no troop move ments. BSP.JJN, April J8. AU attempts of the British to recapture the lost ground in Flaodrs have failed, an official statement asserted. Beyod making sweeping claim of a repuUe of all British attacks the statement gave no details of the fighting on the line from Ypres to the sea. , Otto Kline, champion ,of all cow loy trick ridoin and one of the mxt popular performers who ever ap peared at the Round-up. paid with his life for his reckless rid ng a few days ago in Madison Square Garden. New York, when he fell from his horse and sustained a broken neck. This is the message received today hjr H: W. Collins, exhibition director of the; Round-up. Kline was staging the wild west features of the Barnum A Ha ley cir cus and only a few days ago wrote to Mr. Collins to tell of h coming en gagement at Madison Square Ganten No details of the accident have been received. Kline made his initial appearance In Pendleton at the 1913 Round-up and his wonderful agility on horse back was one of the most papular fea tures of the exhiblt'on. He was se cured for a return engemnt last year and the directors Intended con tracting for him again this year. Per sonally he was one of the best liked of the paid performers, combining a pleasant personality with clean con duct. The news of his death ws heard with real sorrow by his friends here. PARI?, April S DeUiU of the fighting in Flanders were lacking in an official communique today. The allies oonti.ttfi. progress north of Ypres, It was stated, while the Ger man, are suffering severe losses both in men and munitions. v 'V R i i y. -y-.-Cr- .VaW . ..... , .. r- . The Kron Prln. Wllh.lm, a Ger man converted cruiser which ran In to N.wrort News, Ylrglnla, w. In terned Monday for the rest ot thi This makes two German re. CHICAGO MARKET CLOSES AT HIGHER POINT TODAY CHICAGO. April 28 The close of the market today was: May tj 7-1 bid; July S" 1-2 bid; Sept. 2 1-4 bid. PO RTIiAND. Ore., April H. Blue stem 31 1. 3 and club 25 1-3. were th. prices today on the Merchant.' Pit-, change. WIhiIci lUiM-k Iturn. ST. PAUL. Minn , April 2L A block t the business dlstrlrt buiind.-ii 1 st venth, eighth, Vab i.h and St. r-tr streets, burned lute last nlKht. Sev en firemen were Injured Thi dara age Is It00.0"9. SMYTHE COARSE WOOL 10 irccM on oi ncniTo a L&U ULMIO H Dm ULIflLL 1 FOR FOUND being the Eltel Frledrloh. The pho tograrh show, the stern view et the Wilhelm after the vessel was dry 1. now at N.wport N.ws, th. oth.r docked for repairs. war. Last evening Smythe Br,v. of Ar lington sold their Arlington coirs, wool clip to Alox Livingstone of the. i American Woolen Co., for a price, that Is known to be between li and ST cent, p.r pound. Th. snm wool; ...,M fr c.ir a"5'i Th a' nit.-! i; ilin'S not ni.i i in-lu a:'rfoi ll.l.'lll t'vuti.lji of ,.!. It Iml'l'le th fin. wool .or th. Smyth. coarse waol. Pro. runu!i oils et ! ! r