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DAILY EVENING EDITION TO ADVERTISERS. The Eaat Oregonlan has the largest paid 'Iriulatlou of any paper lu Oregon, east of Portland anil over twins the circulation In I cudieton of oujr other newapaper. DAILY EVENING ES.nON l'i,mM for EartMn Orewon hy tha) tolled States Weather Observer I Portland. unsettled. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER VOL. 27. DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1915. NO. 8636 w GREECE MAY GET INTO WAR AFTER PREMIER IS OUT Zatmis is Reported Today to Have Resigned His Position in Cabinet --Report Not Confirmed. WAR PARTY MAY CONTROL Humor. If True Moons That Greeks WW Join the Allies and March Again the Bulgarians in the Bal kan On other Hand, Diplomatic iir.uk Is Hinted. HOME. Oct 26 Premier Zalmltj of the Greek cabinet has resigned, according to rumors. If true. It I in. i the war party ha triumphed and that Greece will Immediately join Ihe allien The Grecian legation had no confirmation of the report. LONDON. Oct. 26. The Central j news hinted at a diplomatic break between Oreece and the allies ua a Doaalblllty If lireece Interferes with the nllled operations In the Balkan The note from Ihe allies' representa tives which wus handed to Premier Zalmls contained this Intimation, an ' from dag (.crman government. ., pro Athens message, to ih- Central Newt, test with a demand for a dintoiial said 1A. ROM E. Oct. 26 Making a second. raid within two days. Austrian bird- NEW YORK, Oct. 26. The feder inen threw several bomha up"n Ve- al government took charge today of I nice yesterday Slight Injuries to sev-1 the bold plot In which Robert Fr.v. eral persons are reported, but other-,fl former German army lieutenant, wise the fire was Ineffective. confessed he had planed to blow up ships bound from America to allied. LONDON. Oct 26 -Speaking la porta. !he commons, Foreign Minister Oreyj Fay and his relative "WaTtef laid the allies' offer of the Island of I Bcholts, were turned over to the fcd- iVprus to Ol-eece for participation i eral authorities on representations of I in the win had lapsed because Greece eMef nymi nf lhe rlted States' hnd not seen her av dear to help itsartt service. Attorneys for rull Serbia. .-? ' " Rneche another alleged conspirator. I refused to waive rights He will 10 AMSTERDAM. Oct. tl - Italian' Olive a hearing before the federal j aviators bombarded Trieste Sunday. ! court of N'ew Jersey. killing (wo and wounding twelve, ac cording to an official Vienna report BERLIN. Oct. 26 The allies' bombardment of Dcdcagatch destroy ed most Of the town. Resides the o- dlrr killed. 25 yvomon and children are known to have perished, accord ing lo n Sofia admission. It Is he. Ileved more are hurled In the rulnsi 3 MEMBERS OF THE WATER COMMISSION WILL BE ELECTED FACT MIST Not BE IiOST Bittf OF IN tXM JfCILM NI( RACE. p.. sc chief Interest centers In the election of a mayor and four coun-' cllmen at the coming election, the public has almost lost sight of the fact thai three water commissioners arc to be i hose n at the same time. Com missioners C. P. Strain. V. Stroble and S II KoCormmMfe are all appoin tees and by the provisions of the, charter, hold only until the people I iiiai house successors at the next j regular election. (inly one of the three men, Mr. Stroble, has signified a willingness to. Continue in office. Petitions for his nomination will probably be clrculat-' ed soon. Mr. Strain announced to- dav that he would not circulate any . - - .-"date for ImCOXnm season "ted' if "hl: pso j M.tmw xlisSs. wtin I WM aipofnton. li ine peo nU npf fit tn retain me In office I Wttfc ' . ... K.i Bmulrl mthpr ! Tl,fl nd Riime of the urnmmiir avBvuraa i n " ' - net -erve. 1 'en r.ilssloner McCormmach etated today that he is not a candidate to ineeeed himself and does not feel that he l the best man for the place because of the fact that he is absent from the city so much of the time. However, he would not any that he would refuse to qualify If elected. NEWS SUMMARY General. Food problem in Germany grow more serious dally. Knplnnatlrma may be demanded o 1. crman over .lamian romuuuw plot, (.reeve may go In wlUi allies. Ivooal. School board and hanks to teach punUs thrift CnstUlte Indian playing on Car lisle team. Contest over quarter setloii Inter rwki (anokineo. Pendleton boy with marine nl Haiti. EXPLANATION TO BE DEMANDED IN T Sharp Representations Will be Made Germany as Result of Admitted Conspiracy in This Country. GOVERNMENT TAKES UP CASE oriner Lieutenant tn kuiner's Army Turned oyer to Federal Authorl,-. lien W Await Further Action Kay ! Alleged to Have rn!irH.sci Plot to lllou Up ship at Sea. WASHINGTON, Oct. 26. sharp ri-prcM-uiations to (k'rman wftli a tleniaml for an explanation, loomed a a poSMIBfe result of tin- udiuitted eoiiMiariiey on the port of Robert I "ay :t Moat up nlil) bound to allied port. The situation Is premium tilth. Ihe possibility or another diploma tiO difficulty, in tletv of Fay's statement to New York office i that the Gor-l man secret service appro w- his plans, Fat's statement Hint he wnsj Hill mmMuJ with funtl to carry out ii- work wi be Investigated. . should it prove Ihat these funds came of .crmany's assistance in the rill follow, officials said plan. The court proceedings iit WeehiiHj ken lasted :t few minutes. Flynn served Fay and Scholtz with warrants! charging violation of federal statutes; In their attempts to destroy ships at sea. They were taken to New York.' The search for Mux Hrcltung In con- i nectlon with the alleged plot was i continued. Dr. Herbert Klnnzlc Is I j Still being held. Detectives said thai Paul Scih, nj I government witness, Informed HMffl ! Fuv had threntened to destroy one of I the largest chemical plants in this j COUDtlT so ns to Interfere with the i reduction of munitions. WASHINGTON, i it 1. II. Cenceul- ! ing the real purpose of his visit be-1 I hind u statement that It concerned labor legislation. President (lumpers of the American Federation of Labor laid before President WluMSJ today '. "f "e" f0' of , iigents to tie up the manufacture ffig nit tORS. Asked about the plot. Grrmpers answered. "I ennot tell yon anithing further than that 1 talked with the president regarding legisla tion and labor matters.'' From another source It was learn ed Ciompers not only gave the presl dent information regarding the Fay 1 plot but told of the widespread ac I tlvlties uf pro-German agents to ef I feet walkouts in large munitions I plants. 6RAMMAR SCHOOL FOOTBALL LEAGUE SCHEDULES GAME school football league will lie played tomorrow afternoon al the Hound-up Park between the Hawthorne and Lincoln schools The west end school put up 11 fine game against the In dians of the agency last Wednesday and the north side now has K. L Boylen coaching them nnd a good game is expected between the schools The lineup for the game will her Hawthorne Chllders, C; Fergu son and Spider, guards: Follett and Patton, tackles; Morse and Stevens, ends; Thompson, quarter; Ferguson and Smith, halves; Straughn. Ml. Lincoln Rigger, c; Embysk and Dags, guards; Wilson and Benney, tackles; Rugg and Struve. ends; Allen, quarter; Fell and Thompson. HaW Ngon full. The game will be called at 4 P, m Residents Flee Mexico. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. Fearing a bombardment by General Villa, res idents of Agua Prleta fled across the border to Douglas. Arlaona. according to state department advices. The of ficials fear trains moving 5000 Car ruiiirtstas from Kanle Pass might he .itlacked b raiders, so Anieticuu sol diers are patn lllng the railroad. MUNITIONS PLO Panama Canal Traffic Absolutely Shut Off by Slid' 1 J Hon Earth Varrou channel arnfch , ,! These photographs show Ihe stu pendous work ahead before Panama canal cm ugaln be opened to navi gation Thousands of tons of earth aflil louse rock slid down from Gold Bill a( ihe left as shown in the upper When United States murines land ed on the Island of Haiti September :M. to restore order. Pendleton bo ('iM-potal Thomas F. Million, a relative of Col. J M. Bentley. was in Ihe thick of the fighting with the rebels. This morning the East Oregoninti received from Corporal Million the following letter accompanied by a picture shewing the rebel dead and I list of the wounded American ma rines Cape Haitian. Haiti. Oct. IS. Itlt. To the Editor of the East Oregonian: Dear Sir: Your paper has been j much liked hy the 6th company ofi marines here, as they have been reading all about the Hound-up and, the most of them want to see the! next year's Round-up show and a fewj want to make their homes In the west The marines did much good work here September 21. 1 9 1 u. It was u hot dav hut not too hot for the ma rines. Forty -one men of the I. S. S. Connecticut guard held about 406 rebels back from 8 a. m. till 11 a. m. till the Uth, 11th and Mh compan ies arrived on the firing line at 11 a. m. There were ten marines wound ed, none killed, and 63 rebels killed, nnd nt 2:30 p. m. the 3rd battalion of the 13th company opened fire on the fort west of the town. They fired six shots In the fort and killed 100 rebels. Total of the day's fighting. 10 marines wounded. 163 rebels kill ed and about 500 wounded. Will close this time Yours truly. CORPORAL THOMAS F. MILLION I'. S. M C 5th Company., Cape Haitian. Haiti. Care Postmaster, New York. N. Y. The miTiin Wounded. The list of American wounded 1 as follows: H. P. Young, private, 13th company: V F Schropp, private 13th ----- . KF ftgathVflaflhaa!9NBaiSaflE9! LllflLWgaZ ' hl""'W "A HH 4"NB " sSstniti' -gff-"- IflPAl DflV PflCDFIDAI mi II 0 ih 1 nr riH m . MAPI1MF POMPANY WAaINM iiimiiiiL UUITII mil. Iinu 111 IIIL : . RECENT EjGHTJG IN slid Down from Gold HHI to tlie Left. out PVff J liiiy Id Itcrmli rou Isiai piissan DhOtO and compleftly Blot ked the: every dai from the mud rising In the canal, which was 300 feet wide at; bottom due to thf pressure of the this point. The lower picture show? ""ft ,ne side of the cut .. , . . , , Th,i 'ength of the closed passage the dredgers at work keeping clear ;V(v .t when Mt II opened to the narrow passage which permits a, a width o ii. MsJ navigation will row bout to get through. This fills be resumed company; 0. w. strout. corpora! 11th Company; J Coacy, private 13th com pany; O. K. Jorden, private 13th company; Vincent Gage, private. Con necticut detail; li ( Slussener, Con necticut detail; F. Rrandle. private, Connecticut detail The fighting occurred three miles south of Cape Haitian. Wheat Makes Slight Drop in Chicago Pit CHICAGO, Oct. At the close today, hid; May J1.02 3-4. (Special! SI. 00 i-S Dec. Portland. PORTLAND. Ore., Oct. 28. (Spe cial) Prices at the Merchant's Ex change today, club Kg hid; asked, bluestem. 9: bid. S3 M asked. IJyrrpool (Yrwterday.) LIVERPOOL. Oct. 16. Wheat Spot No. : Manitoba, lis 5 Did; No 3, lis id; No. 2. hard winter, lis 3d: No. : Chicago new. lis Id. In American terms the .Liverpool prices for the highest grade of wheat la 11. TR 1-5 per bushel' Taken to penitentiary. PORTLAND, Ore., net. 26, F. M. Lemonn. former aaleamanager cf the I'nlted States Cashier company, sen tenced yesterday in the federal court to one year and ten days on McNeil s Island, waa takeu to the penitentiary today. An Obtshop n sister III. KOrlTl.A.vu. ore., net :6. Arch- UNDON. Oct. !(. After u sever tlshop Alexander Christie was ealed al days of confinement Premier As to Austin Minn, because of the se- ,iuth was atle to attend a cabinet rieus illness of his sister iesion. I in. - Reichstag Will Take up Matter of Food Supply CRISIS I ( ED in (,o ERN.MFNT IS (.i;o IN(. Mori; SKRIOI s DAILY. COPENHAGEN, Oct. With Germany facing a food crisis, repre sentatives of all parties in the Reich stag are to meet tomorrow with Chancellor Hethmann Von Hollweg to discuss the difficult problem of feeding Germany, according to con rldentlal information from Berlin Th s news is taken to Indicate an ex tremely serious situation In view o' Ihe allied reports of food riots In German cities, coupled with the Ger man admission the government has taken over the problem 01 distribu tion and price regulation. CONCRETE WORK IS BE6UN ON NEW LIBRARY BUILDING OLSON AND JOHNSON. CONTRAC TORS. BEGAN POURING THIS AFTERNOON. Olson and Johnson started cor.. 1 Crete work on the public library build- 1 ing this afternoon when they began' pouring for the concrete retaining wall being erected on the side towards the river. The contractors now have I a crew of 17 men at work and the! Job ,ll be carried through to com- I pletion aa speedily as possible. The work of excavating for the basement ! ia not entirely finished and the forms 1 for the basement cannot be built un til this la done, according to Super intendent Nelll. At the state hospital the work on the new wing ia progreaslng swiftly. The outside plastering is all com pleted and a start haa been made on the Inside plastering. The roof la be ing painted and two of the floors have been tiled. viuiUi Wc u he Out. Wm of land CLAIM INVOLVES A QUARTER SECTION TITLE TO VALI'ABLE LAND SKAR MKACHAM TO BE SETTI.KD BY P. S. OFFIOi;. Much Interest is being taken by stockmen of the county in a contest claim to a quarter section of land near Meacham, preliminary evidence having been taken here yesterday be fore Justice of the Peace Joe Parkes. The ( ase was postponed yesterday aft ernoon until Saturday that an addi tional witness might ne called in for the contestant. Circuit Court Re porter Beckwlth took 160 pages of testimony yesterday and this, with the additional testimony expected to he taken on Saturday, will be sub mitted to the United States land of-' flee at La Grande for adjudication. The contest claim was filed last June by Willis Burchltt. a stockman of the Meacham country, against the heirs of Durance C. Owen Owen is alleged to have filed on the claim in September. 1909. It Is claimed by the contestant that the laws applying tc ihe taking up of claims have not been complied with. The defease, on the other hand, avers that the land is non-tillable and that all the regu lations applying to grailng land have been carried out and the land, there- fore should revert to them, Rurchitt claims there are 2d acres of fertile soil on the claim, that '.his has not been fenced nor cultivated, nor have the defendants at any time lived upon the land aa required by law. Rogcoe I. Keator. attorney for the contestant, attempted to estab lish yesterday the alleged fact that other stockmen, said to be friends of Die defendants, were interested in thei land and that one of them had made an offer to spend 1. large sum of money to keep the conteetant from gaining possession of It. ' It was al leged that the defendants srouM therefore be able to clear a neat little sum by selling the land later to these stockmen for grazing purposes lions and avers thne vvery rwaftlre ment has been carrid out In accord-' anc with law, that the land is not fit. for cultivation but Is essentially e-rnz-! ing lund only and that the contestant Is Dying to ?et H for his own use. j The witnesses called yestenlay hy' thl contestant were Willis Purchltt. YV. H. Deal k Keller. J. B. Mar ple and Charlie Darr. The witnesses put on by the defense were Jessie Brunn. Dos Owing, Frank Roach. Jim Roach, Ren Thompson, George Spearman, Sarah McFarland and Harney O'Gara. Raley and Raley 11 e representing the defendants. LATE B, F. M'ELROY WAS AN EARLY DAY RESIDENT HERE HELD POSITION As is SSOH OP UMATILLA tot NTi IN 1880. B. F McElroy, wh.. died in Port land Sunday, was an early day rest-' dent of Pendleton and was assessor of Vmatllki county in 1880. He came here from California two years priori to that time and was a Pendleton resident for rj? years. While here he I was engaged in farming though he lived in town. f, Ten ears ago Mr. McElroy moved to Cambridge. Idaho. He was taken ,ck three years ago with Brights dis ease and from that time remained an invalid until his death. Children of the deceased are Benjamin F. McEl roy of Cambridge. Mrs, Grace Lea- ' VIR Portland. J. J. McElroy and Mrs j Fay Klme of Westfall. Ore. A dau-1 ghter Ruth is dead. The body was brought here for bur ial and the service was held at 2 o'clock this afternoon from the FoL scm chapel. Rev. H. H. Hubbell. pastor of the Christian church, con ducted the service. EASTERN 0RE60N TO HAVE DAY AT PRODUCTS EXHIBIT NOVEMBER 5 IS DATE SET AT PORT! .AND WHEN SECTION WILL BE HONORED. November S will be "Eastern Ore gon Day'' at the Land and Produ.-ts Show in Portland and thli section of the state will be well represented there Cmattlla county already has an exhibit In place at the ahow. one of the dupllcatea of tha exhibit sent to the Panama-Pacific fair having been sent down. The o.-W. R. N. company an nounces the following dates for the sale of reund-trlp fare and a third tickets October 18. November 4 ano November 11 The return limit la seven dais from the date pu I hue CARRANZA READY WITH A MILLION TO BUY LEADERS New Chief Executive is Said to Have Offered Villa Big Sum to Leave Mexico Immediately. AMNESTY WOULD COME LATER Rebel 1 emler Would Be Allowed to Return and Live In Mexico tn Safety-other It evolutionary Ijoad era Will Be Offered Money to Hefp Influence General Villa. EL PASO, Oct. J6 Carransa la trying to buy off his ancient enemy. General Villa, and his revolution, It was learned from those close to tha new chief executive Carranza wiU offer Villa a Quarter of a million dol lars to leave Mexico immediately. He will assure, him amnesty latej- and permit him to return and reside tn Mexico in safety. Then he will offer the other revolution. r le idera a lib eral sum If after inducing Villa to leave, they follow it was said Car ranaa will not hesitate to spend a million dollars In thli way. ON FLANDERS FRONT IS TWICE WOUNDED - . ti DILL DARBY, FORMER LOCAIi MEATMAN, Is RECOVERING I ROM HI LI.LTs IN BODY, 'Bill" Darbv. former mentciirrr a! the Central market in Pendleton and wno.r.as been fighting with rhe Ca nadian troops tn France km ... wounded twice, onee In the arm end once through the thigh. However, he is recovering and plucMly says ha iii soon oe oacK a the 1 The flfst news that Darby had beetl fcouh4l s received here to. day by James Boddy, fflnd and fel low workman of the wounded soldier. On a card written from the Eng lish hospital Darby said "How is everything? I have Just got back from the trenches. Had a lively time but its H 1. I am wound ed twice, in the arm and through the thinh. but will soon be better and back at the front. Will write again soon. I am leaving here for home to morrow. I haven't been home yet They sent me straight to Franca from Canada. J. W. DARBY. C. E. F. Warthingston W. Weedon. Northamp shire. England. Darby left here for Canada shortly after the war started and Joined a Canadian regiment, going to the front. BANKERS WILL HELP TEACH THRIFT AMONG PENDLETON STUDENTS WILL COOPERATE WITH Sll(i. BOARD IN SHOWING TOCTHB HOW To BATH A decision to eonBate iih the local banks in teachm thrift 1 h school children, the voting of an r propriatlon to enulp further th pla grounds of the three ward B and approval of the plan to send students of the domestic science an I agricultural departments to Dermis ton to act as Judges at the Hog m 1 Dairy show were the principal ma' ters that marked a special meetlnx of the school board last evening The thrift develnpmg plan re eii. i hearty sanction from the beard Th teachers and b'iard will encnurag the pupils to ssve their peuni, an I the banks will receive them ,, , ,,, , savings accounts for the pupils The appropriation for the ola . around apparatus amounted to tit With this money the board will pur chase rings, trapciee slides awing 1 and other equipment to make the playgrounds attractive. Eight girla from the dormwtlc sci ence department will be sent to th Hermtaton ahow to help in judging the cookery and needlework and Die boys from the stock-Judging u will pas upon tha merits of the tta k exhibited there. Th student hai not yet bn named. Th board also dlacuawd super flcially the budget for th OggalnJ lear and mi Thursday evening will held another special meeting to go
