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DAILY EVEIIMITIO:! Forecast for Eastern (rr"0 by lb toltrJ States Wcatfher OlsmMe a4 Portland, DAILY EVEISIIIG EMOH o n TO AJD V ERTIS ERS. The Rut Orrfanlu tu the largest paid clrculttloo o( any paper in Oregon, east of t'ortland, aul ovr twice tu tlrculaUuo la I'aouleton ol' any other newapaptr. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER VOL. 27 PROGRAM IS ALL ARRANGED TODAY FOR CEREMONIES Cornerstone of Pendleton's New Federal Building Will be Laid at 4 O'clock This Afternoon. F, A. MILLER CHIEF SPEAKER Special Chorus I nuVr tho Direction ol Frank 11. Hayes WIU IKrnL-li Mo slo Masonic Lodgo Will Have Charge of CciviuoiiIiu Will be .Memorial Kcnt fur Uic City. Pendleton's now 1100,000 federal building, now under the course ot construction, la this ufternoon having 1U cornerstone put In place with ap propriate ceremonies The program, as arranged ly the Pendleton lodge of Masons, la scheduled to begin prompt, ly at 4 o'clock, this hour having been choaen In order to permit the achool children to attend. Frank A. Miller, grand mauler of the Oregon Masonic order, arrived laat evening and will be the princi pal speaker. He will wield the trow el which will fix the cornerstone In Place. A apeclal ehorua, under the direction of F. B. Hayea, will furnish m u'slc. Additional relics and mementoeit ecured for plncement In the copper receptacle Inside the cornerstone In clude the following: n. Alexander Letter addressed to T. J. Tweedy, postmaster, with a card of his own within with nam and number of each Masonic and I 0. O F. of which ha li a member. Eureka Lodge, No. 82. I. O. O. F. Constitution and By-laws. Mrs. Ruth A. Strahorn Copy of the Ulster County Gazette, dated Sat urday, January 4, 1800. In memorial of the death of George Washington Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. List of Pendleton subscribers. Manuel Frledly Card with name. Tee Lung Kee and Wah Ting Chung The China Merchant News. Tnllman & Co Letter containing telegram, letters and clippings on the N J. Slnnott bill for thla building. Mrs. James Smith Photo of Dr. W. C. McKay. Thoto of the wreath of Grandma Townsend, mother of Mrs. Aura Ttalcy, who was the mow er of Pendleton. Itetta E. Womhaugh Campaign curd tor county coroner. i, W. J. Clark One knife. Nancy E. Despaln Sketch of vil lage describing Pendleton and short history of dry wheat lands. Sayres, The Lnrilcs' Store Lette' beads and business cards. Order of tho Eastern Star Address of Worthy Grand Matron, Jesse 8. Vert, nt the 12th annual communica tion of the Grand Chapter of Oregon. Held In Portland, June 10, 1901, to gether with badge of the Grand Chapter, O. B. 8. Daphne Circle Women of Wood craft. Margaret Cronln, O. N. Con stitution of Women of Woodcraft with two badges of the order. F. M. Oliver One penny, date 1952. Supt. I. E. Young Sealed letter. M. R. Yates Personal card and by-laws of the Cattle and Horse Rals- era' nanelntlon James T. Winter Card with name. (Continued on page five.) POSTAGE IS PREPAID ON EAST OREGONIAN ROUND-UP EDITIONS in every respect the East Ore- Ionian's Round-up editions this yea will surpass all for- mer efforts, which Is saying- much. In the size of the paper and In the character and num- ber of Illustrations, laat year's splendid record Will be surpass- ed. At the same time the en- tire show from start to finish 4 will be covered In thorough fashion, thus giving an enter- talnlng report on the eventa of 4 the three days' contests, 4 If you. have friends or rela- tlvee who cannot attend the 4 Round-up yet whom you wish to remember, order the Round- up series sent to them. All you 4 need do la turn In the namea or 4 phone them to the East Orego- nlnn business office. We do the rest. The pries Is 26 cents for 4 the entire series, postage paid by the paper. DAILY HI .00 6 PERSONS LOSE LIVES AS BLAST CAUSES GAVE-III Street Above New Seventh Avenue Subway in New York Collapses, Carrying all Down With it. TWO-HUNDRED ARE INJURED Surface far I Crushed Uke Paper Street for Ix-nglli of Two lilock. With All Il Traffic Kinks Out. of Sight lwrliig the Busiest Hour of tlic Morning, NEW YORK. Sept. 22 Swallowed up In ae canyon when the street above the new Seventh Avenue sub way suddenly opened, six persons aboard a crowded surface car early today lost their lives. Upwards of 200 passengers or pedestrians were Injured. The collapse of the street followed a dynamite blast In the subway. Seventy-eight persona were Jammed In the surface car. which was bearing them to their places of employment. Suddenly the street beneath disap peared for almost two blocks between Twenty-third and Twenty-fifth streets. Great timbers supporting the street flooding of the subway snap ped under the force of the blast while the car, the street, and Its traf fic sank slowly out of sight The ear was telescoped like paper under the weight of timbers and wreckage. The passengers were hauled out through the windows. Many were crushed. Police and firemen effected ttie res cues. Seventh avenue at 8 o'clock Is a teeming path of humanity. Hundreds of shopgirls, en route to work, were hurled Into the pit but clambered out screaming with terror. For a few minutes the canyon w'as filled with hysterical men and women, with fly ing splinters and dust clouds. Police and firemen rushed to the scene where they were forced to club back the crowd, gaping In horror over the edge of the abyss. The subway was under construc constructlon and had not been place 1 in operation. In an open letter today, W. W. Harrah, prominent local farmer,' warns farmers they are making a mistake In consigning their wheat to Portland for the reason the partial se curing the wheat in this manner ara able to use It and thus do not have to buy wheat at present. Thus they are able to bear the price and will be able to do so In the future if tho policy is continued. Mr. Harrah's letter also deals with middle west crop conditions and Is as follows: Pendleton, Ore., Sept. 22, 1915. Editor East Oregonlan: Your paper has taken a special In terest In the wheat marketa of tha world and translated the prices Into readable terms this season. I have just returned from a visit HW TO BE While here today for the purpose of conducting the cornerstone cere mony at the federal building Frank A. Miller has called attention to the subject of the local switching charge increase which Is now before the pub lic service commission of which he Is a member. The O.-W. R. & N. Co. has taken action to Increase the switching charges at The Dalles, Pendleton, Athena and Milton. At Milton the In crease proposed Is from 11. BO a car to $4 while the Increase at other points la also heavy. Feeling such an Increase should not W; if. mm SAYS FARMERS -HE MISTAKE CONSIGNING THEIR WHEAT TO PORTLAND 29TH OVER SWITCHING CHARGES EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, M CHIHUAHUA IS TAKEN BY CARRANZISTAS IN SWEEPINGNORTHWARD VILLA IS REPORTED RETREAT ING TO JOIN FOROK8 OF GEN. MAYTOHENA. WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 The Car ranzUtas have captured Chihuahua In sweeping northward through Mex ixo, according to official dispatches. Villa's forces are fleeing to the northern border of Chihuahua before the Carranzlsta onslaught. Villa I reported heading for Sonora to Join the forces of General Maytorena. DISTINGUISHED WRITER IS HERE FOR THE ROUND-UP ALBION SAWSON OF NEW YORK IS AUTHOR OF WELL KNOWN ESSAYS. One of the distinguished visitors to the 1915 Round-up will be Aldon Sampson of New York, an author who has gained a great deal of reco gnition by his literary works. He ar rived yesterday to be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. Phimlster Proctor of whom he Is a close friend. Mr. Sampson Is best known in the literary world for his appreciation Of John Milton which won for him wide spread recognition In Great Britain and this country. This contribution as well as his "Essays on Poetry" Is In the local library. Mr. Sampson and Mr. Proctor are both enthusiastic hunters and have made many expeditions into the wilds after big game. Being a red blooded man. he could not help but grow In terested In . the Round-up after the sculptor had written him about It and concluded to come out and see for himself the big show. 1000-Foot Fall Survived. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22. Charles Nlles, an aviator, dropped nearly 1000 feet during a flight at the Panama-Pacific exposition whilo above the mines building, but started his engine, which had stopped, during his drop and landed safely. He fell to within a few feet of the toof of the building before he right ed his aeroplane. to the principal wheat growing states. It has been very cool and rainy all over the middle west. Corn waa drowned out In many places and very weedy in others. Too wet and cool to ripen and much of It will be frost ed. The wheat was extra good in the very dry sections of western Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado, but In tha main wheat belt of Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois and Missouri. It was too wet to harvest the crop, much of It not being cut, some spoil ing In the shock and others growing In the stack or heating and molding in the granary. The buyers are using the govern- (Continued on pace five.) HELD HERE ON be allowed until shippers have had an opportunity to present objections the public service commission has suspended the advance until October 6. Meanwhile an Investigation is be ing made and In this- connection a hearing will be held at Pendleton Sep tember 29. At that time It will be up to those Interested to show reasons why the advance should not be grant ed. The chief sufferer here should the Increase In charges be made will be the Pendleton Roller Mills, however. Indirectly all local producers will be affected as Is also the case at Milton SI BULGARIA READY Tfl ncPI ADC H IU ULULiHU. I Reservists Are Held Awaiting a Call to the Colors Beginning of Hos tilities Expected Soon. FORCES MASS ON FRONTIER Europe Is In a State of Feverish Ex citement Ikvaune of Events in the Balkans Bulgara will Invade Ser bia Asj Soon as the Austro-Germans Strike Blow. ATHENS, Sept, 22. The Greek Cabinet tonight will consider the subject of Bulgaria's mobiliza tion. It was officially stated . "the government Is fining the new situation calmly.'' LONDON, Sept. 22. Europe Is In a state of feverish excitement because of momentous developments In the Balkans. The reports that Bulgaria has ordered mobilization have been confirmed A war declaration against Serbia Is expected before many hours. Bulgarians and Serbians, away from their native lands have been orderel to be ready for a call to the colors. Bulgarian forces are massing on the Serbian border. All railroads have been taken over for military use, General Savoff, once head of the Bul garian army, has been summoned to Sofia to again assume command of the Bulgars. The streets of Sofia are filled with shoutLig crowds of war enthusiasts. Reports from Swiss sources said Austria and Germany plan to begin a sweep against Serbia next week. In the meantime, German newspapers printed confident reports that Bui garla will invade Serbia with the first Austro-Gernian blow against the lat ter nation. ATHENS, Sept. 22. Bulgaria has mobilized 160,000 men ready for war at a moment's notice. Cavalry sta tioned at Sofia has been ordered to the Serbian border. PETROGRAD, Sept. 22. Riga and Petrograd are safe from the German war machine, officials declared, as a result of Slav victories against them at Dvinsk and because of the report ed heavy withdrawals for a Balkan drive. The official statement remain ed silent about the situation around Vllna from which the Slavs, have re treated. It Is believed the Slavs slip ped out of the German trap and retir ed toward Minsk. Southern Methodist V. 0iens. DALLAS, Texas, Sept. 22. The Southern Methodist university, com pleted this summer at a cost of more than half a million dollars, opened here today with about 680 students enrolled. A campaign Is now under way to collect Jl. 000. 000 through the south as a permanent endowment for the Institution. ' Parkers Make Complaint. WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 Repre sentatives of Chicago packers orally complained to the state department against England's crippling of Ameri can commerce. A written complaint will be submitted later. The legal aspect of the prize court decision con fiscating millions of dollars worth of American meats was discussed as well as general remedies. Bank Messenger Robbed of 12000. NEW YORK, Sept. 22. Vincent J. Maloney, a messenger of the Chatham & Phoenix National Bank, was held up in a Harlem street by two men and robbed of a satchel containing $:000 in cash and a number of checks. Maloney was seriously Injur ed. The thieves escaped. NEWS SUMMARY General. Bulgaria expected to declare war against Serbia. Six killed when New York street collapses. Local. Happy Canyon oicns tonight and fun will run riot. Ideal weather, big crowd and fine show promised for first day of Round up. Kx-.luUre Yoakum of this county dies. Cornerstone of federal building to be laid this P. M. New York literary light arrives for Round.nn. IN AGAINST ERI kt . - ' r- SEPTEMBER 22, .5. 3 Q OFFICIALS INDICTED IN C0NNECTI01 EASTLAND DISASTER COXSPIILU'Y AND CRIMINAL CARELESSNESS CHARGED BY GRAND JIRY. CHICAGO, Sept. 22. Indictments for conspiracy and criminal careless ness in connection with the disaster to the steamer Eastland, in which ?12 perished, were returned by the federal grand Jury against six steam ship officials and two federal steam boat Inspectors. Those Indicted on both counts were: George Arnold, president of the Chicago and St. Jo seph Steamship company; Williatt. Hull, vice-president; Walter Steel, secretary and treasurer; Harry Peder- scn, captain of the Eastland: J. M. Ericksen, chief engineer; Charles Eckliffe and Robert Reid, Inspectors. Walter Greenbaum, president of the Indiana Transportation company, was indicted for criminal carelessness. In dictments also were returned against both the Chicago and the St. Joseph and Indiana companies as corporati ons. CHAMBERLAIN SAYS E SESSIONS IX PORTLAND MANIPC' LATED FOR SELFISH KEA. SONS, CHARGE. PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 22. Charg es that the waterpower conference, which is in session here, has been cleverly manipulated In the Interests of selfish waterpower Interests were made by Senator Chamberlain in an address before the conference today. Chamberlain pointed out the speak ers' program included many United States senators who signed the mi nority report opposing the Ferris wa ter power bill, while he was the only one who signed the majority report Senator Walsh of Montana spoke fa voring the Ferris bill. Senator Smoot of Utah spoke strongly in opposition. Charged With Robbing Bank. DUBL'vJL'E, Iowa. Sept. 22. Charg. ea witn emoezziement 01 me lunas 01 1 the Dubuque National bank. George! J. Homan, its cashier; Joseph Har- ragan, vice president, and Charles Seige, teller, were arrested here on federal warrants. About J20.0O0 is! involved in the alleged peculations of the three men. .n Enterprising Son. SUPERIOR. Wis., Sept. 22. Willi. nm Rcickenberg. Sr., is suing his al leged precocious young son for !2. 000 damages on the allegation that the son stole the father's wife away. The youth is further alleged to have Influenced the elder Reickenberg's girl wife, to elope with $350 family funds. Canal Slides Serious. WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 The earthslides on the Panama canal near GoldhiU are much more extensive than was reported at first and prob ably will tie up the waterway for at least ten days. This Information was received by the war department from the acting governor of the canal zone. Chicago Market up Five Cents Today For September Wheat An advance of almost five centa oc curred today In the Chicago market for September wheat, the closing price being 11.06 1-8. Portland pri es show no change and there Is no business underway in Pendleton, un less It be consignments. Chicago. CHICAGO, Sept. 22 (Special.) At the close today, Sept. 11.08 1-S; Dec. 95 3-8; May S. Portland, PORTLAND. Ore.. Sept 21 ISpeclal.) Bid prices today: Club, S3 1-2; bluestem, 89. Ijvorpxiol (Yesterday) LIVERPOOL, Sept. il. Wheat- Spot, No. 1 Manitoba, lis 10d; No. i, lis 9d; No. S, lis 7 1-Sd; No. 1 north ern Duluth. lis 4d; No. 2 red Weaterr. Winter, 10s 3d; No. 1 hard winter, lis 10 l-!d. In American terms the Liverpool price for Spot No. 1 Is $1.72 per bush el. (in b OLD DAYS TO BE LIVED AGAIN III FRONTIER STYLE Happy Canyon Opens Tonight and Everybody is Promised Fun Galore --Early West to be Depicted. PROGRAM TO BE THRILLING Committee Will Not Announce In Ad. vance What Stunts Will Be, But! Their Word for It That It Will be; IlHmflil tt Vntr.rtjalnm.nfT.i(i 1 Will Bo Thrown Away, Happy Canyon opens tonight. That simple statement may not be of prime significance to the outside world but to the thousands of resi-jv The spectators at the Hound dents and visitors in Pendleton it Is . up are now assured of plenty a message brimful of joy. It means that the little "frontier village. where King Fun reigns, will start Its annual mad-merry career this even-1 ing to continue through three other! nights before subsiding again into eaceful and quiet repose. j Those who saw the first Happy Canyon last year were crazy about its original ideas for entertaining. Those who see It this year will be plumb delirious, according to those few who are on the Inside of the ar rangements. The program will, in a general way. follow the lines of the 1914 Happy Canyon but It will be different, too. and there will be more , of it. I The doors will be thrown wide open at 7 o'clock and at 7:30 the 1 band will strike up concert tunes which will continue until the pro-: gram in the street begins, about 7:50. During the band concert Miss Doris Reber. queen of the Round-up will sing and later she will sing in cow girl costume from horseback. The street program will begin with the dashing up of the stage coach tl-ith tVia nioil aA U o .""J. ouu iiiuiiev lur charirf I Theh lntereSt, . U : Promising a continuance of the perfect wit, tP f ?6 COmMee "end, with thousands of visitors al- a?i , L , T adVanCe, "Teady here, with the greatest assem- act nature of the program for such .i . v . j . ,, , . ,, blage of cowboys, cowgirls and Indi an announcement would spoil the sur- ... j , . nrio. n.t.ii. . . t 1 ans ev?r gathered In the west and prises which are in store. However, I , . . L, thev mi ,k. -,... 'Preparations complete for an exhl- be bucking horses, bulls and burros . V,,.,., ", ,, . . to be ridden, there will be a horde of ,!, n; . "si 7" r, ,L,: nf ,t'i. in v . . . , or stunts, there will be painted In- dians to dance and yell, there will be plenty of comedy stuff, there will be singing and most exciting of all there will be a fighting steer that day show ever stac'd at the parlt' To" will make the animal used last year mOTrow Pendleton and Vmatilhi seem tame. The new terror of the countV da' at the Round-up and the Canyon is larger, and wilder than the . dlrcctors have planned to make It late lamented brute of 1914 and has such tnat t0 miss " tu regret a greater width of horn. These . il for a lif"time- horns were capped with silver balls! For one thing the best bucking yesterday to prevent the animal im- j hors's In the Round-up string. In. paling a cowboy or two. cl"ding Long Tom, Lightfoot, Angel. The aftermath of the show will be Hotfoot. Casey Jones and Speedball. a dizzy one. The "Red Dog" Is a gay wil entered in the contests to old place this year with Its roulette morrow and it is pretty certain that wheels, faro banks, poker tables. more buckarooes will bite the dust prize wheels and decorated bar. It tomorrow than on either of the suc is twice as large as last year and c'i'ng days. Some special feature there will be room for everybody who s'unts have also been provided for the wants to hazard a Ten Buck note. 0Pning show. Jim JIassey has prom The big dancing pavilion is ready to lsed t0 bestride one of the long horn receive hundreds of couples and then ed Mexican steers, something that has there will be plenty of amusement on nvr been done at a previous Round -the street, too. The "shute the up- O'her features, equally as exclt shutes" will furnish all the sensations ln&. hav oeen planned for tomorrow of sitting on the back of a bucking Rnd 'hose who are waiting for th broncho. Sharkey will be on exhl- last two Ja' will miss some of thn bition for those who want a close-up b,9 of the 1915 Round-up. view and well, what's the use. Come The cowboys and cowgirls, who am out and see what there is to see. ;to be contestants at the big show, are I entering up rapidly now. The hun- A. M. E. Centennial Convention, jdred mark was passed at 10 o'clock MILWAUKEE, Wis.. Sept. 22. The i hls morning and every hour was annual conference and centennial bringing dozens of new ones in. Tha convention of the African Methodist total number of actual contestant Episcopal church opened here today will number more than 200. The In for a five day session. Bishop Ben- dians have responded ni"re m ii. n.t, jamin t. Lee. Wilberforce, O., Is pre- siding. In the 500 delegates are many negro educators and Journalists well as churchmen. 9 4 Men Killed. PORTLAND. Ore.. Sept. 22. Four men were killed at Gal- brnlth station, near Portland when a Southern Pacific eleet- ric train collided with an auto- mobile truck on which they were riding. The dead: Charles Gage. 4S, operator of the truck: John Mlcek. B0. a farmer; Ze- gll Parrlnger and Gib Bustnn. The men were Instantly killed. The truck was demolished. The train was going at a high rate of speed. Evidently the orcu. pants of the truck did not see It approaching. Fair tonight and Thursday. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER NO. 8607 THOUSANDS HAVE ARRIVED TO SEE STUNTS OF WEST Famous Epic Drama Will Be Great est, Ever Staged and First Day Promises to be Immense Success MORE THAN 1 00 CONTESTANTS Cowboys and Cowgirls arc Arriving la Largo Numbers to Take Part In Ureat Show Special Feature Stunts Have Been Provided for First Day Plenty of Music. 3 Bands Are Secured. , 0f music In spirit with the pro- gram, for all arrangements) are complete for music from three bands, whose main asset is vol ume. Fred Earle, who has had charge of the band arrange ments, announces that there will be two visiting bands of twen ty pieces each, one from Elgin with L. B. Tuttle as director and one from Milton with F. S. Simpson directing. These twt bands with the Round-op band of twenty-five pieces. composed of Athena and local players, wilt furnish the music during the three days of the Round-up. The Milton band will arrive in the morning and start the music and the Elgin band wilt ! arrive on No. 17 Thursday. e Already, Let 'er Buck. Tomorrow afternoon at this time ) will see the 1915 Round-up under 1 Tt-:.w .1 . . way. bition of the sports of the range and cowcamp, the sixth successive stag- '"S of Pendleton's epic drama of the i West cannot but start toward another 0 The exhibition tomorrow, the direc tors promise, will be the greatest first 'v than ever before unci their ari li " and wardances will be of the big delictus to the "tenilerfeei " The advance sale of II. kets Is xtill continuing with a rush mid will pan the mark of the 19 1 I show. Them I every Indication that u I. inter crowd than was here lat war will be In the grandstand and bloaeher tomorrow. Friday and Saturdav. A Kreat manv , of tourists are coming In from e.-ist- ,ern states on their wav to the Puna- ma-Pacific fair. ! Among the contestants entering up ! today lire the following, and they will wear the numbers opposite their names: I I Vem MfOlnnl Jackson Hole, Wvo. 2 - Hurt G.illirr Casper, Wy'.. i3 Peggv Warren. Hamilton. Vnnt. 4 Hnrv Warren Ffimllton. Mont. ( J 0. Ranks Nye. Ore. I II. If. Matthews, I'klah. Ore. 7C. K. Runyan. Pendleton, Ore. O. A (Continued on par rlv.) 1