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DAILY EVENING EDITION DAILY EVENING EDITION Forecast for Kaxtrrn Oregon by the United States Weather Obsor at Portland Tonight nn1 Thursday unsettled, probably rain. TO ADVERTISERS. The Cut Oregonlan lias the largest paid circulation of paper In Oregon, eut of Portland and orer twice the circulation Id Pendleton o( any other aewspaper. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER COUNTY OFFICIAL I'AI'Kl. VOL. 28 DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1916. NO. JUDGE GARY AND STEEL OFFICERS Fl ICING CHARGES Indictments are Returned Against Them by Grand Jury After Probe of East Youngstown Strikes. LAWLESS CONDITIONS FOUND C. S. Jackson Suggests That All Roads Be Guaranteed to County; GERMAN TROOPS CANADIAN PLANT WlittK ON HARVRTFR PI ANT IS IIUIlli VM I II II 1 1 L.V I L.I 1 I L.I II 1 I J IN DTGini. PflMMfDPIArPMID m IAUUM, UUITIITOUinL ULUU iu Urges a Thorough Investigation Attain or Steel Industry Indicate lls nttanl for Right f Justice U La l.rvrs or Public In General, He dares Jury; IndJit-iciil an Outrage Ins-lures Gary. In a Idler to a local trleml. C. S. Jackson, owner of the Portland Jour ral. offer some road building ad vice, based OK the experience Mult i i mail county la havinK. One of his chief suggestions In that the work dene he guaranteed, without expend to the county, to endure for a term of years. The following In the Mr Jackson's letter: PRESS IN UPON WRECKED; 1 CITY OF VERDUN LOSES HIS LIFE IWelv or ill i acq u : re this knowledge, at some sacrifice to litem elves, and work together for Uir Is-st liilon-s of the county, then get in touch with some engineer somebody like Howlby late state rimd engi neer who knows how to build I road from many attempts -a dollar'! worth of road for every dollar spent have him advise you how best to proceed. "Resolve not to endorse any plan I Tbll will be the best Investment you that does not guarantee a full dollar's ,., ,.r mullj, f yu ,.re to spend any worth of road for every 'dollar to be ; lhinK 1(kp ., nmi,,n dollars for roads Sfent. Second: The party that bulldal I pairtlautarly If the1 dollars are to be a hard surface or even a 'metal road ' I borrowed Fifth Have your litrW - should be required to gunrantee his j "bunch' of public spirited citizens. from different parts of the county, go Jaws of Giant Nut-Cracker Closing-Score are Missing and May Also More Tightly Upon French Lines. j Have Been Lost in Explosion Regneville is Captured. j Which Shatters Nitrate Works. SECURE REST OF THE MONEY fmhstiwic Round-Up Will be Made Chief Event OTHER VILLAGES ARE TAKEN INCENDIARY BELIEVED CAUSE 0n Pacific Coast Necessary Funds Have Been Raised With the Exception of $2400 Which Now Has Been Promised. I'uris Is optimistic in Admitting Ad- series of Violent Explosions Precede i NEW YORK, March 8. Judge Gary today termed the indictment auainst htm an outrage. "There were no acta to Justify the Indictment against the United States Steel corporation, the Carnegie Steel company or any of their officers. So tai aa I know, there were no grounds lor indictments against any other steel corporations. Thla la an outran and a travesty on Justice." YOlNUSTuWN. March I. The Mahoning county grand Jury today In dicted Judge Klbert Gary and offl. cert of lx large steel companies on a ch.irge of violating the state anto trutl law. Charges of conspiring to keep down the wages of common la bo ran are also made. The Indictments are the outgrowth 01 the strike riots In F.ast Youngs town. They contain counts. No foreign government was responsible f. r the trouble, the grand Jury found Alleged guards of the Youngstown Che! and Tube companv percipltated th, riots The Indictment reports that evidence from 56:: witnesses tak en during the month showed a "law leaa condition ot affnlrs In the steel In dustry. Indlcatlna a disregard elthet for the rights of Justice to the labor ing rlitus or the public generally by Hi. iinUttX Individuals and corpora tions." 'ne hundred and fourteen persons connected with the corporations were Indicted. LAST WORD 6IVEN BY IE work for a term of years, without any expense to the county. Third: To se cure this service at reasonable cost a 'l unch of those who are to pay for these roads, should 'get together' and lames of Teuton" forces; HeuM Artillery Duelling Continues on Roth Ranks of the Meuse; French ( lalm low tiaJiis Made, Fire; liainc- still Raging And May spread to storage-houses; Kntire I'lant May Is- Demolished; Most of Men Bettered Escaped. studiously to work. In touch with your engineer, carefully selected -no cheap fellow and determine upon a well matured plan, determine where tho post themselves, so that their KHOW-1 fnftm should bo built, with the view of lenge will be a barrier to the success-L, ..,.. ,1...... , ,i. fruitful use to the Interest ot the people who are mill to pay for them the workers. ful scheming of contractors, and a fa vor, or protection, to the county. You Cantlot get results without alertness and knowledge on the part of the pub. lb spirited citizen. Fourth: When a the consumers- not always taxpayers. RKRIJN, March g. state (But today said ten cannon, 3, 277 men and 1st officers were captured In last night's gains, the largest since tin- battle of Ver dun began. West of RegncvUJte, the Germans stormed a front of three and a half utiles for a gain of nearly two miles. NIAGARA FALLS March 8. One man was known to he dead early to day while a wore are missing in a fire -till burning in tho plant of the XI. j agara Klistro-Chenitoal smiany. It To make the 1916 Round-up the chief attraction of the Pacific coast this fall was one of the big proposi tions discussed at a meeting of the board of directors with Wm. Mc- Murray, general passenger agent of the O.-W. R. & N., and Mr. Robe.-, Burns of the passenger department. la the rooms Of the Commercial As-1 soclation this morning. Datld Owing to the wide and favoraDie b. L. WORK WILL BE RUSHED AHEAD First I nit of IMam Will be Concrete Building on lst Itm-hased Opposite like Round-up .raiid.ta.iul ; Equip ment Will be Installed for Kart- iperatlon. (Continued on page five.) LONDON, March I Capturing He- Homer I. Watts Re-elected Mayor of Athena; Sunday Closing Ordinance Beaten (Bail Oregonlan Special. 1 Chnrl t-t.tti.-v, Aa. Ifanfe I - Al the John 1 most spirited election ever held in Athena, Homer 1 Waits was yester day re-elected as mayor, three eoun- llmen were chosen and the proposed s Kirk, 143. W. P. Little- Xew Subscription-. Nelson , . tSOn Hurm ruths . . IM -i.oi.ii with an explosion shortly be- j publicity which the Round-up has re-lE p. Tuttoch MO fore midnight. Twelve or fifteen other I ceived during the past six years and is;' F. sarauehn too Violent blasts followed In quick sue- j tne fact that there Is no other bigj Amount to be raised, $2400 j ctwdon. The city rocked like an attraction on the coast this fall, the With all the money raised excepting earthquake i no poroviae plant was board of directora felt confident taJOl 4t and the Commercial Club hav- blown to nieces. t nine O'clock llliS nrti.-nl.ir uhniv eniilrl mnHA ml.. . u . .. i. . irnevllle mil arivan. me on the Wnevre ' . . , . , " - "'S i"c oi urturiu. me pi.J ,hJ JZ he 1 , Cermin,ornJ,lt " "" f pi'bt etp," gTe drawing card K properly adver-, remainder, actual work on the con- n,M r l elu. 'i more t shtlv I ,lo"s ,,u" lU", T,,ov "P' tised throughout the east. All trans- struction of the first building for the V.M.T? tod.v Terhr rpJrned the ' new " rapidl continental lines are thts year bending j Blewett Harvester Company's plant capture i f KeengAille"nhan7tohand,'d S,orttKC "US- S""Uld Sf I ,helr energie8 tOW"d securln th,was started here this morning. The fXml ffoTX wraelJad houses i Wbw" Mor'' ho"- expl0si' tourlst travel for the Paclfic coaat " work will be rushed as swiftly as pos- . ,, , , , ons demolLslUnc the entire plant are the European route is closed and the sible aa t0 t tnP - ln DlJ. Berlin also announced the capture ot, ' . . ... . s,ulK lo Tl ,nP company in po- ..,.-. .ro.c imim. .ou smon to turn out a large number ot The company a.- engaged In the : the new fields to be opened. harvesters for the c omlng summer manufacture of nitrate, a by-proauti . The members of tne board went ! for imwdcr fstmtianie-. Officials are over all the nlans for the comine ex- " , . . . ' ... unable to is,timate the number of hlbltlon in September with Mr. Mc- Forges. which Pans admitted yester day. Twelve miles southeast of Ver dun Is Fresnes, also reported entirely'! The company has purchased the va- . cant tract of land opposite the Round. : up grandstand and has plans all per- Merarland, 155. 10, H. n rorth- Harold William M.I?od. ington, 110. R. W horse I Those elected are Little John, McFarlaml and McLeod. For treasurer the race was between Sunday closing ordinance was beaten Mack Johnson and F.rnest Zerba, Zer occupation of Regneville or of thi French positions in the Cumieres woods. Severe bombardments were MOB in the building, but they were Murray and Mr. Burns and the it-jfectec for getting into shape for man- lalieist to Is- 100. Their escape uation was canvassed through poisonous gases was mnsid- and everything points liy a majority of 75 votes. The balloting for mayor resulted as follows: Fnr DaVId Teiylor. tttt For Homer 1. Watts, 177. a mujoritv of 56 for Watts, who Is the present mayor. For councilmen. the vote stor follows: ot 157 to ha being elected by a vote I vote of 139 for Johnson. B. H. Richards was elected as city I recorder by a vote "of 236. The Sunday cosing ordinance, which I conformed in a general way to the j state Sunday Closing law. was de I feated by a vote of lit against, til I I ut lor Ihc ordinance. Ware (a dark ,.,. -M-loNi miraculous. The plant contain- l.iggest shows and biggest crowds ev- was called unimportant It is thought,"' """ r '" " " .? , J , . , Possible .he French merely withdrew,"' '"'rerorm. the minds of any one present at this . . offleers of the company cvnressed . meeting but what thts could and which stands on low unit soggy ground in the Meuse river from all sides j ufac.,,lrmg v,, The first unit of the to one of the ,,,., ., koiihi- e. offleers of the company cvprcwd the ttellef the fire was Incendiary. I would be done. M i II. Is II Win l I. si. ,V- IXG in su roi; ri;i tonic DECRRR. W V8HIXGTOX, March S. The nkerican governn t "III not warn rttlsen against traveling on armed liners, icganllcss of what action Is taken in the pend ing controversy, it was author!. Iatiel Sswel ted at the state de partment this afternoon. WABHIXQTON, March t, -Aiubas- sa dor Bernstorff todaj handed Sec retary l.tnsiug a nicmorandum on the 01 rued liner ciHitroversy . fully explain ing the reasons for the decree order ing submarine- to torpedo armed bel ligerents without warning The allied violations' of International law neces-t-itated the decree, the memorandum said. Knghiuo was namcil a spe offender ii sum America had ac- I noWledgad the violations. Il asserts Oermany'i willingness to operate sub marines under naval warfare rules provided England will make conces sions regarding arming merchantmen mo! cease her blockade. The memorandum declared Fug. bind s blockade was contrary to Inter national law because It kept neutral trade from German ports and mads the export of German goods Impos sible, The blockade hampers trade (Continued on Page Bight.) Chicago Market is Down Slightly Today CWCAQO, March (Special.) May. opening II, U 3-4. closing, $110 7-s, July opening. $1.10. closing. $1 Ox 7-1. Portland. PORTLAND, ore., March S - (8pe clal) Merchants' Exchange prices today, club, 93 bid, 5 asked; hlue stem. 9H bid, $1 03 naked. Liverpool. LIVERPOOL March 7 Wheat "pot No. 1 Manitoba. Ms $ l-3d; No I, 14s 3d; No. 2 hard winter, gulf, 12s ld No 2 red western winter, 13s In American terms the Liverpool price for spot No. 1 Manitoba Is $2 14 pet bushel. IpSenators in the Big Fight j SEN. BORAH - IDAHO SEN. LLWI5-ILLINOIS w al! LiiMkaaWMaJB ill -tfifii I in aau SEN. STONE - MISSOURI. SEN, GOPE - OKLAHOMA (" ' ..... K, iSm V Mm A a loop. PARIS, March S. Heavy artillery j duelling continued last night on both hunks of the Meuse. a communique; said. The situation north of Verdun! is unchanged. The canonnadlng isj the heaviest northwest of Verdun. Thet Germans are believed preparing to at-! tack the two hills. Infantrymen re-1 mained ln the trenches northwest of; Verdun while the Germans shelled; the French positions. "East of Maison De Champagne,' we recaptured trenches which the en- New Head of Commercial Club Says Question of Securing Quarters Should be Supreme ing on Ash street This building will he 150 by 60 feet. The concrete -ork Is to be done by L E. Twltchell and preliminary work la now underway. C. A. Lansdowne. of Spokane, has charge of the work for the companv and his first step on arriving here this morning was to take nut the necessary building permit. Under the plans formulated by A. R. Blewett. head of the company, the entire tract of land will eventually b brought into use. The company's of. flee, surrounded by a grass parking will be located at the corner of Court ! and Ash streets. When needed a con crete building will be erected on Court , .,.JBe . -;ui came ..e.o.e ...r '"' similar to the one now being That he (securing new and up-tu-datf quar- j evening was a claim or Hot)" irom ten one of the principal issues of his I Mrs. English of Walla Wala for In administration w hs the inaugural j Juried alleged to have been sustained ... t 11' L- U,. ..Ait i,nal. I V... .. I , . j K..M, llers Mniinu wi it. nr. e- I UJ h laii innq iii .-e.,,- to , i , , Along the M.inheulles railway sever- dent of the Pendleton Commercial aa I CahyoD last fall. The claim was pre- C.erman attacks broke dow n under soctauon wno tooK onrae last evening. , sented ln a letter irom Juuge s emy took M' !k oV prls- rtille lire. S.P. WOULD MAKE A He declared no sufficient reas lets for postponing this needed any longer. The house committee, which is in vestigating the matter of new quarters, reported through C. P, A. Lonergan, that there is a possibility of securing quarters now occupied by another club during the early summer. It was also reported that the Knights of Co lumbus stand ready to lake the pres ent quarters and to buy. probabh. the present furnishings. Damage (lalm Pt gee Sited 'ne of the matters of Importance letter from Judge S. A n ex- Lowell w ho is actini; for the Walla J iction I Walla f rm of Rader & Baker. The letter set oUt that the woman was i is in- probably permanently injured in the The matter managi shoulder to the bi gatlon. Junior Commercial t tub At the urgent request of referred con structed fac ng on Ash street. The I company's warehouse will be located j south of the first unit and the foun (dry will be built on the southweit corner of the tract. Thts arrangement will leave a court in the center which will house the assembling sheds. For this year these sheds will be tempor ary in character. As soon as the first hulld!ng is uf- J. rnd C, . P Dr I Boyden, w- 'Continued on page eight.) WOU.lt RELINQUISH Al l, I I MM TO OKI t.O -WASHINGTON LANDS, WASHINGTON, March S. For a consideration of ten million dollars, the lputhern Pacific today offered to relinquish all claim To the Oregon California gran; land. J. P. Hlair. general counsel for the railroad, made the offer to the house public lands committee Re pointed oul the rail road now caltni the right to remove- timber, worth from tniriv to fifty millions, but Is willing to compromise to avoid further litigation Commercial Association Accomplishes Much Good Work During the Last Year Commercial aoaoclatlon to the con munlty, just let him peruse the sun marjr Ot achievement.- of the organic lion during the past year al contains In the annual report or Secretary i ficiently completed the companv will begin installing its equipment so as to get into early operation. Though the time is short it will be sufficient to permit of the constructing of 27 Blewett harvesters for the owning season. The companv has much ma terial now on hand .it if-i Snrtlcin.1 is appointed to work I r,lan, and ,h , w( vh,plM,t, hr 1 at once. linanHal rnm.-i-meiiis, j At the Commercial Club meetin.' last evening the subject of the Blew i ett factory was one of the' big topics : for consideration and there was much rejoicing over the success of the en terprise. As chairman of the solicit ing committee J. V. Tallman reported that ail but $2t"ii h.i.,1 been pledged the company and said the committee WOtlld continue ts work until the firll amount is raised. In order to permit the BleWettl to go ahead with their Construction work the club passe, I i - dertaking. however, helongs solely to - this year and hence. Is not included - in the list of achlevments for 1915 I The following summary rrom the sec- '. retary s r--p rt will be interesting: h'nini; Gill Re elected Mayor of Seattle SEATTLE March S. Hiram QUI was re-elected mayor yes terday by a majority of $6000 Practically complete returns give OKI 34.671. Orlffltht, 2S.9SIS K Cranston, submitted '..ist to the members. The report was sur prising even to many of the mem here and evoked a great deal of cor, gr.tl ulation for the officers and club ltight ROw the association is en gaged in securing for the city a com bined harvester plant and last night made the guarantee that started the During the rear the association has , taken an active and more or less prominent part in most of the enter- on-. prises of a public nature which have the j been proposed or considered by the i people of i'endleton. The foil 'Wing list or subjects have received official attention: (Continued on page six ) NEWS SUMMARY Another Good Roads Meeting to be Called Here Next Week spurs to the factory rail facilities. The locati Plant is such that these ac datlons may be prov deil ,,t Ver nal expense. The papers proudlng for POtntiOtI of the company with 000 capltaluatlon were I (nsd evening and tod a for trd d lem. Pascifle to build is to proi ids of th J, F. r.ohinson president the General l Judge ter Sad 9fflclals of big I stool COnOjMtRrni arc trrillctcd b grand I Jury in Ohio German fonts, are Isviun'ug to pit-.- in on Verdun. ! Canadian plain is wrecked; one man is killed: other mu-'tc SEN. REED - MISSOURI 5tN. JONES - WASH. Th aenat hi th f the rtllled Stale . an important WSJ nieiuber! f gured i fight over the question 'if tbn. recognition of the German right to torpedo armed merchant vessels with- lout warning. It was 'resolution which the the other day after a Senator stone, who is the foreign relations i senator Gore s senate tabled bitter debate chairman of anitnltteo. said he disagreed Willi President Wilson. Ii . al. on g round broken on new bar Teeter limit in city. chicicinent. ol Commercial iis.. ilsllon iu ItU shown to Is- notable. inother good n ails meeting to io uillitl to hear nil plans. Good Roada Association, before leav ing for Portland today made the fol- 'owing announcement; "I have arranged with the commit tee for another good roairs meetin : for some day next week, after my re turn from Portland. At this meeting we are going to have a Mgger repre sentatlo than at the last and we are going to ask all these people who have substitute propositions to com, out In the open meeting and spread their cards out on the table Let them give the people Chance to see Just what their proposition Is, discuss It and think about it the same as we have with the proposed bond Issue bond issue on the people We ar- open to conviction and if there is aa? or..- or any set of men or organisation that has a better plan or a better system we are anxious to hear the fu'l (totalis concerning it We are going to put our bond issue plan before the people fairly and Sipiarely on its mer its and leave the people to deci le whether or not they r.ivor this sys tem Of bulld og good roads or wheth er they favor sonic other system 01 whether they are opposed to goo i roads altogether. "At this meeting next week we ex OPEN CHALLENGE IS OUT FOR HORSE-SHOE CONTEST pastime that is experiencing a rvi in this count; Come n -w .1 i k I ') dreth and Grant Khrhnrt , r thla I with an open ctialleng. P m,..-i i one at pitching horeaohnm The, not confine their chal'ei g. to the !.. ders of the county It take in t terntof) i,-t the flaaptef he Chlldlelb ihap .not 9 it their ill BjftM 1 r ,. I i I,, ml consequently the Iron cast tha' Il InUOd on Page Three.) i for them j shiws pll.- i the stakes,