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DAILY EVENING EDITION DAILY EVENING EDITION forecast fur DuAcra Oregon by the (nltcd State vv . -in,. r nLmrt at Portland. TO ADVF.HTLSEHS. The Eaat oregonlan h the largest paid I Irrulatlun of any paper In Uregon, aaat or Portland anil over twice the circulation In I'eudleton of any other newapaper. Tonight and Wednesihiy rain; cold er tonight, fresh southwesterly winds. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER VOL. 27. DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEy 1915. NO. 8660 jfp SIGNS POINT TO AGREEMENT OVER WAR IN BALKANS Greece is Believed to Have Given Assurances That She Will Notj Interfere With the Allies. NEW PROPOSALS ARE MADE Member 0 IT! wall Cabinet Will 4tulii Meet With King t'oiwtantliic Hellenic Fiirpire Thought Rata grooi to iiMiui oft" Policy No Greek Shlw Oclard, lUlKirtcd LONDON) Nov. 23. Greece Is be-llev.-d to have yielded aufflclently to the allies' demands to obviate the necessity for coercing her. This con clusion Is baaed on an official denial that any Greek shlpa have been selx ed or held In llritiah porta or that n blockade of Greece bus been estsh Uahed. Authorities aaaume that if Orate a had not at least promlaed to refrain from Interference with the allleji In the Halkana. the atep of llixkadlng her an-' selling her ahlpi would have been taken ATHENS, Nov. 23 - Armed with fresh arguments as to why it will be hnt.lAu for f lrt.ite to resist the al- IU a.m,.nrf. Ii.nv. Cnchln nf the k ....i.im, .in ..-,., btim French cabinet will again meet Kl.ig 'onrtantlne. Arrangements for conference were completed . toduy. Coahtn Inspected the situation in Sa iontka and conferred with the Ser bian war minister, and is now ready lo make a final appeal to Greece to om.t. needed aid The allies do not lnslt on direct participation but taad pat for assurances of a "hands off" policy on the par; of Greece, no maltir how the Halkan fighting de m b H TUNNEL GUARDED BY POLICE WHO FEAR A PLOT 10 BLOW IT UP I HI Ns BENEATH CAPITOL AT WASHINGTON LETTER TIPS OFF OECTCIAIal W ASHINGTHN. ov. II, Extra railroad tunnel I i l,. . guarded the whkh runs beneath the capltol and 01 a- the congressional library and Be Bati and house office buildings to lhe :ent million dollar union sta tion. Juat wkhat caused the extra prat autlons is known only In general way but persistent rumors inuicawo the Baltimore and OMa railroad had received letters Indicating a plun was a fool to blast the tunnel and destroy the buildings around the pla.a. Hu wnntendent Keppel of the terminal company said that a watch had Iwen established to be "on the safe side." Hallway tracks throughout the east arc guarded against bomb deslruc- Cyclones Leave Trail of Death Through Sicily isiiis VI, so DEVASTATE HI .OV AND DEATH TOI I. I STILL I NKNOWV i; 'ME. Nov. 23. Cyclones and widespread floods in Sicily are re ported to have killed many. Casual lies are reported particularly heavv in Ucata, Wires are down anil de talll r lacking. Italian Confesses Crime of Burying His Victim Alive in Grave Dug in Cellar of Home B ATA VIA, tit T.. Nov. 23. -That ( be brat UltSl Matronl. in, Into send-' i onst iousness is months ago, and bur ied the body alive, was the confes sion of Tony Hollvlo, It, according lo Hie police. With a show of brutality unusual in the history of crime in New York. Hollvlo disregarded his victim's i rles and hurriedly placed him In n grave, beneath his cellar. Matronl was lhe stepfather of Hollvlo's young wife and she confessed Matronl wron -ed hr. lhe day before she married POLICE BAFFLED IN ATTEMPTS TO UNRAVELMURDER Trunk Mystery at Poriland Remains Unsolved--Difficulty is Found in Identifying Slain Man. MAY HAVE BEEN GEO, ROGERS Theory Tlmt Murdered Man Wu Fukcim- farm Hand 1- Again n rtved said u Have, i-rt Place With sTtMi ijisl Month Sonr.ii Goes on for George ItartholnmcH. PORTIAND. Ore., Nov II TIM trunk niynlery la atlll unsolved. lie-) spite the efforts of the police, the Identity of the murdered man has not been estublbhed definitely, nor has any trace of George Barlholo-, mew alias Hil Hopkins, the allegd "layer, been foun ' Captain of De tectives Bttty atlll bellevea the dead man's name was John Llnnd, The : possibility that he was George Bog-! era. a farmhand who left Eugene : with 7o last month, again was en-! tertnined. PORTLAND, ore., Nov 23. The victim of the trunk murder in Port land last Friday night, who until Sllmlil v Wa" believed t have been I John Linnd of Hoston. may be a tnaa who mu known In Oregon H''rrx ""H"1'''- h" Wl the ranch o'lfor his action in refusing to perform v. ow.a..,., iirm r.ugnic inroiij carrylsw about $700 In accumulated "P Mr, cnaren, according to infor matioii received from Kugem- ves- " ' u aiuu.eu me prim - notograpna or tne victim as pul- physical handicap the babv bov would lished und Is reasonably certain thej.,.,,,. up , iInl.ril(, und ,,,.,,. man Is Kogers who worked for hire ubl. criminHi und decided , two yeurs. nature take its course, resuliing in ItoM.m Thitiry stipiiorUil. lhe infant s death, rather than to op- Mr S,-haren'B belief bears out lhejeratP Medical authorities and socio dispatches ffom Boston that John , ofUas all over the country have made I land is ullve back there. the doctor s course of action a live "The picture of the trunk victim; Isaac for discussion. eartalnly does look like Hoger?," aatd I , Mr. Schuren The victim of the murder appeared to have used second-hand clothes and I It is possible he purchased the coat from the tramp who stole the living I John I.innd's coat In Hoston, Furthermore Mr. Scharen believes; that lingers was Hajoalntad With a George Bartholomew, who two veirs i ago inn a restaurant in Eugene ar.u i whose whereabouts Is not known at trie present time by restaurant men In Kugene Bartholomew i iK-scHbi. Bartholomew Is described by Ku gene men as a huge, blackhalred In dividual with a double chin. His portillness, nis iiat-iootea. awaw.iru It P-shouldered walk and his large watery eyes are his striking charac j tetistica that tally with those of the man sought by the Portland police j He Is said by Eugene restaurant mm to have been the victims of immoral I habits. (Continued on page five.) Wheat Mart Remains Unchanged Today Poll lial i loday. Muaatt 1TLAND, .lie Nov. 23. tSp? Merchants Exchange prices !2 hid. bid. 97 1-2' a.ked: isked Chicago CHICAGO N'nv 2.1. At the i lose today, Dec. bid, May 11.06 1-8 askeii Special. I' ll. 03 .1-1 Liverpool, LIVERPOOL, N'oV II, When Spot No 2 Manitoba 12s 6 l-2d: No. S, I2s 4 l-2d; No. hard winter, old. 12s Id; No. 2 Chicago, new, lis 2d. in American terms the highest price now QUOted In Liverpool if 11. Sn per bushel. Bolivia This led to the attack in Matroni. The police dug out the the spot Hollvlo pointi d Dt As Hollvlo drugged his body from i to them victim to regained lhe cellar grave. Mutroni coiiHcioiisneas. "Tony, Ood save me" he "I couldn't see his face shrieked. In the dark" the police quoted Hollvlo as saying. "Hut I threw a big stone on top of his head and Jammed him down until he quit yelling. Then 1 threw in some dirt and stones on hlni cud pounded the ground down hard.' Allowed Infant to Die JSBaaBBaBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBaW OA Vr HASeUtSN CHICAGO, Nov. 23. Approbrlum and nraixe have been heaned nn Ihn , n..ua ..t 1 .. li ........ , fcrita. rt ...... .., n, . . ' . . 1 . . w. . 1 .n. 1 . 1. . the German-American hospital hers xn ,,.ratloi! which might have saved 1 ,h Mf f x llay ,,, joB i(,iiinger. I the deformed Infant of Mis. Anna Hid. ' I linger, who n her consent t the Doctors actli llaiselden was .,., nvnced that with its mental und Heavy Rains West of Cascades Hold Up Train for East WESTERN OHK;o STOItM- SWEPT AND WILLAMETTE HIYKH Is RISING, Kxtrurodlnary rains west of the Cascade mountains last night caused eastbound train No. 6 to be two and a half hours late arriving In Pendle- I hlo Oil... ...I 1 , ...... ' " ' 'i nun Tg-ri 'i i. mtri nrir the downpour was the hardest. The track was not washed out anywhere but mud was washed upon the track In some places and slow stravelllng was necessar. PORTLAND, ore.. Nov. 23 All j western Oregon was storm swept I yesterday. Rain Ira torrents and I winds approximating the velocity, in some sections, of a gale, wete report ed Another day of heavy rain like esterday and Sunday will precipitate the flood danger in we.-tcrn Oregon, particularly In the WlllamHte val ley The I'nlted States weather bure iu last night announced that the ground had absorbed the heavy downpi .irs of the last several das, but that the limits of absorption had been reach ed Klvers and streams throughout the western portion of the state, ind es pecially In the Willamette valley have begun to rise preceptlbly, and the Willamette river in Portland is ear ning evidence of the rise throughout the valley. tlama ami Mm Francisco Talk. ATLANTA, da., Nov. 23. Opening of telephonic communication between Atlanta and San Francisco will be marked hv a conversation over the wire lieiween Governor Harris and Govern r Johnson. NEWS SUMMARY l.eiieral. HCrta still hold Monastir. Greece believed lo have agreed In u measure to ilctiiiuuN of the allies. Turks repulse llrltl-b cicdltlon In Asia Minor. Loral, liieips afflrssatl n Tarltrchetl- ThoattBSoa rase bj -npreme i-oiirt. .ludti Marsh liiuK nun ailam in (alfi nila turning to hanl siirfoii'. IVirnirr K'slilciil aHfS in o Wallla S-hiiI PSSSsaS w la- taken a' oaata, TURKS HURL THE BRITISH TROOPS BACK AT BAGDAD . expedition Into Asia Minor, With Ancient City asObjective, Report- ed tO Have Met Defeat. ' ALLIED PLAN FRUSTRATED iniiMtrtant Railway Threatened for a Tlmt' Hut Ottoman Honk's suvr lias) out WTil b Ten dona Hone to . - - - 11 . ...... - -. i , t i.w. - msI i . Sand Troops for Offensive Move- mcnt Dito Kg.pt BERLIN. Nov. . Ucr beating I their way across Asia Minor to with j in striking distance- of Rnsvta.i nrtt. Ish troops have been repulsed by the Turkish hordes. The Brlt.sh mm. dltliin .' 1 .... . dltlon started several weeks ago. bnt! Ha extent of the Teutonic vict;ry came to light today. One hundred I and seventy thousand men constitut- i ed the British f. rces. In it we-e! many ( anadians, Australian" and In dians. Making their way from Kgvpt they came within 10 miles of th ancient city and threatened to de stroy the Important railway line on which the central allies relied for an offensive movement into Egypt aft er joining hands with the Tuikh- in Constantinople. Several severe en gagements followed, then the Turk's forces swept the invaders back 30 miles, Insuring the safety of uag dad. The campaign which has is believed to have been gigantic plan, including march across Persia for thus failed part of a' Husslur. j junction ! with the other allied forces In Bag- dad. The Russians, however, failed to accomplish their part of the pro-, gram The German view Is that the' allies are now pIsTytog their last card I in trying to land enough forces In Greece to menace German comma-! mentions with Constantinople Chicago n.,1.1- "Meanest Thug." CHICAGO, Nov. 23 Chicago de veloped the meanest and one of Uta boldest thieves In the world when a man knocked down and robbed Mrs i Frank Kennedy of the "tag day" I bank In which she was collecting j money for the blind of the city 1 he ' robbery occurred In front 'of the j Sherman house, while hundreds were within a lew feet of the woman Even Toy Dog Has Skating Craze m i pa - WWm H asl"?- siasssssisiiiivvsssssssssssssi.ssssss mmmmm m ffirrr GOR.OOJV AND Of course iuu know that the skat. Ing crate has struck the country. Dancing Is now as passe as pachesi M other old fashioned games. To he striril-. up to date, you across the shlmmcrim: gracefulness ot a swan, sliatlns fad b.is bacontt must glide with the In fact Hal well estab- F- Aw Z , is working West SaysPortlandMan' Mi: SHOl'LD BE PREPARED FOR ERA OP At.KIf l l.Tl It U, DEVELOPMENT. That a great wave of prosperity has struck east and is working Its way westward ii n. contained V T'TlZ Oeorgs E. Hardy of Portland, who has charge of arranging the program I for the annual convention of the Ore gon Irrigation Congress which Is to be held at the Imperial Hotel in Port land on Dec. 2S-30. Anticipating the arrival of this greater prosperity, he urges that the state should prepare for an era of agricultural develop- nient. The reclamation of arid lands and the drainage of swamp lands are sub jects of vast importance in the state, he writes. Hope of state or federal aid is almost gone, he says, and it Is up to the people to devise some other means of developing these lands. The I ii rigatii n district plan presents a pos- sible solution, he says, and will be aiscusseo oy prominent speaaers ai , '.. u ,. 1111- iiiiiuiifi luiigirnn. ur i - - .nn tillu county to be welj represented at ,h congress. Asa B. Thomson of Ech" is l'resld,nt of the organization, FORMER LOCAL RESIDENT IS DEAD AT WALLA WALLA GEORGE II. AKBOOAST, 78 SEARS OLD. W Vn WELL KNOW N IN l'KXDLETON. George B. Arbogast. aged 76 years, former well known resident of Pen dleton, died yes'erdJy morning at the nome of his daughter, Mrs. Ella Stewart, 1129 Boyer avenue, Walla WWla. He had not been In strong health, owinir to hi; .iep fur nMnand .ears past. Mr Arbogast came to Pendieton. ,'rom Kansas and lived here for a number of yean. About a year ago he moved to Wall WhllM. He lea.c two sons, P. L. of Freewater ani henry, of Pendicler, besides his d .uehter in Walla '..'alia. The funeral will be held Wednes day mornir.g at II o'clock from the lesidence. Rec. H. K. Hichardson of ficiating. Interment will be 'n Mountain View cer.i-;ery. Amtukc HO Miles an Hour. WICHITA FALLS. Texas, Nov. 23. The first portion of the army aero corps trips from Fort Sill, Okla., to Fort Sam Houston. Texas. ended here. The fliers averaged 90 miles an hour. SACATHC DOG. lished that Msa Kitty Qordol tress has taught her prlre I ullil ig, ' Pekoe' to skate has a pair, or father two French "Pekoe" pairs of skates. fastened lo till boots. These f. r ii s. ' are tin dog. Yes - SALONIKA REPORTS SAY MONASTIR IS HELD BY Bulgarians Defeated In Attempt to Take CHy Losses Estimated at 10,000 in the Attack Made on Saturday. Invading Foe Reported to Have Been Driven Back Twenty Miles Strip 30 to 40 Miles is Cleared in Southern Serbia-British Troops Enter Monastir and Mount Heavy Guns. ROME; Nov. 23. The Serbian liaw severely defeated the Bnl-gar- at Komovo, according to flhspalrfa, ZURICH, Nov. 23. Italy has decided to send an expedition to the Balkan to help the allies, according to a Home dispatch. LUNDOX, Nov. II. Ten thousand Pulgars were killed or wounded in the tattle for Monastir, according to Sa ionika reports which divulged for the first time that instead of a reported victory the Bulgars were repulsed in the attack on Saturday. Prllep. northeast of Monastir. is re ported to be in flames, officials pre sume the Bulgars fired the town in reprisal for some Serb act. Driven fiob Babuna Pass and Prilep. the Serbs rallied before Monastir and with leckless courage turned the tide of battle The Bulgars retired five miles. It is now believed Monastir can hold out. British troops from Sa-1 W.L. THOMPSON WINS OUTIN STATE COURT OVER DAMAGE SUIT SALEM, Ore., Nov. :3 (Special. ) The state supreme court today up held Judge G. W. Phelps of Umatilla county in the case of L. E Twitched guardian ad litem for Sharon Arnold Twitchell. V8 W. L Thompson by affirming his judgment for the de fendant. The case was one Involv ing 130.000 for alleged personal In juries sustained in a collision between an automobile and a bicycle. When the jury brought in a ver dict for the defendant after the trial in the local court, attorneys for the plaintiff serves notice of appeal and argument on this appeal was Bade at the recent session oi the supreme court in this city. The attorneys for the plaintiff contended that Judscl i Phelps had erred 'n refusing i juryi challenge made upon the ground that the juror was a patron of the American National Hank of whi b the defendant is president They al so contended that, even though th defendant used every possible effort to avoid the accident after he had discovered the boy. that he was neg ligent in not huving observed the i ben- tie-ore. These were the two principal points in their argument. Transports are Forced to Quit Landing Troops LONDON. Nov 21. Tha; the al lies are attempting to land great forces for a tremendous nw offen r:ve at the Dardanelles was lr 'test ed by Turkish official statement. This reported that several tr.ms'-erts tried to land troops near Art Itursu. but were driven off aa waa a torpedo boat later Heavy artillery firing v. as reported. Mothers of Nation Will Make Plea to Stop War in Europe NEW YORK. Nov. 23 Cries ef ;he nation's mothers feeling for the an- g u Ish hum: e s m,. thers. soon will erh, i of the mothers ,,f the world, and di In the white house in a peace plea ! rector ,,f th. movssneai Iieliew it perhaps the greatest organised move-' will result in the greatest Isssfraph ment ;hus far undertaken. The wo-' le bombardment the pre-ui. mi bus men's peace party sent out to real-: ever experienced. dents and vie presidents of women': clubs throughout the country 1" telegrams in which thu urged th. members to wire the White House to plea that the president call a con- SERBIANS lenika arc awarming in. nig guns havs : been mounted and the defense streng. j thened. ATHENS, Nov. 23 Repulsing the Bulgars, the Serbs have regained the I Veles-Prilep front in southern Serbia, . said a Serbian official statement The Serbs made a counter attack after a ' desperate rally before Monastir and , drove the Bulgars hack 20 miles. This tarttally restored the Serb line and at places the right wing Is in touch with the French before Veles. It also clears a strip from 30 to 40 miles wide in southern Serbia. BERLIN, Nov. 13. The Austro German invaders in Serbia have add ed 95UO prisoners to the vast total, it was officially announced. Fifteen hundred were taken north of Mltro vltza and northeast of Prlstina. The remainder were taken during the Bulgar advance southeast of Prlstina. The Bulgarian invaders are advancing victoriously southeast of Prlstina. GERMAN ATTACHE IS NAMED DIRECTLY IN GERMAN SUPPLY PLOT BOY-ED OF THE GKRItAM KM. HASSV ALLKt.LD TO BATE BEEN a CONNPiIt u v. NEW YORK. Nov. 23. Naval At tache Boy-ed of the German embassy was named directly in the alleged Hamburg-American line plot to sup Ply German commerce raiders. With a jury selected, Assistant Attorney General Wood in outlining th said Hoy-ed claimed that a fund of mree quarters of a million had been deposited with the firm of Essen st KuIIenkamp. of this amount ll)0.- ' w; nt to San Francisco for eoaat activities. A deposit was made in August. M4, by a "higher-up' whom Wood said the government wus unable to identify. WASHINGTON GRADE SCHOOL TEAM FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS '.KIDIUON (VAIUtlOBS i l LM HONORS IU-X'.U sf. v It -TOIiloi g HKASOIf, The Washington grade sen ,. I fool ''sil team claims the championship j .n the Pendleton grade league. The team, captained by Balfe rir'ch has j not been defeated during UN s i.,ti I '-he last twn games won were from , the Midgets by a to 0 scor, .in. I ! from the Hawtho-ne teap . 13 p. I n " lArx 111 am. It la claimed hag , i ( fused to play a scheduled thus forfeiting it The nine-up of the Washington team is a- follows: Left end, F. Snyder: let tackle. A. I'lrlch; lift guard. Amoureaux; center, Heck, right guard. Mculle- right tackle, Hose, right end, Perkins; quarter, N. Snyder, right half. Btaekard left half. Newts, n fullback, it l lra. b, subs Parkaa and 1 Hue. ference of n-utrul nations t" savd the war The pleas will h bj the Damt Mrs Mem oitrihuteil
