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DAILY EVENING EDITION DAILY EVENING EDITION W I AT HER Fair tonight and Wedneed n . cold er ! .night with heavy frost TrXTERDAYS WEATHER DATA. Maximum temperature, (1, mini mum, 41; rainfall. .1:1. wind. M light; weather, cloudy. TO ADVERTISER Tbe Kant Oregonlan lian the largest bona fids and guaranteed paid circulation of an; paper In Oregon, eatt of Portland and by tar the largest circulation In I'endleton of any other uetrspaper. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER VOL 28 DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 11, l? a NO. 8780 CAVALRY ENTERS DM: BANDIT LEADER NEAR BY Villa Believed Traversing the Main Highway Toward City; Quick Dash May Overtake Him. AMERICANS REPORTED KILLED Paseengers from Chihuahua Declare Onttewi Murdered Foreigner; New Vendon of How VQU W Wound, ed Is Received; Caaualtj Ut of Troopers Given. BL PA80, April ll. American cav alry was reported to have entered Dorango today. Villa la believed at Tepehaunea, traversing the mam highway leading to Durango City. Ar rival from Chihuahua brought new version of the circumstance! of Vil la's wounding. It was aald a Mexican ahot him at Guerrero after the Mex- j lean' daughter had been outraged. Ha tried to escape after ahootlng the bandit. Vllllataa took him before the wounded chief, who killed him. Paa-1 angers on Chihuahua trains also de-1 dared that the Vllllataa murdered sev eral foreigners. Including three Am ericana an Englishman, a Frenchman and a German Travelers atronglj denounced the Carranztata. They de clared that the de facto troops had stepped aside and let Villa pasa It Is unknown whether the Arrleta broth ers, commanding large rorces at Du rango. are In favor of Villa. Suppos edly they are Carranxtotas, though II has been reported they were opposed to the American expedition. A number of Salaiar sympathisers. Including two generals, have been ar rested at El Paso. Americans reported killed were Dr. A. T Ptell. Lee Undsey and Frank Woods. Herman Blankenburg, a Oar man, Donald MacGregor, British, LOn Harl, a French merchant of Guerrero, also were alleged victims of VIIHstsA Four Arab peddlers also were killed, said passengers. 12,000 Troopa In Mexico. WASHINGTON, April U.r-There are twelve thousand American soldier In Mexico, It was officially stated. Most of them are engaged In guarding the communication lines. Eighteen thousand more are patrolling the bor der only two thousand troops re main In the rest of the country. In cluding Alaska All Inquiries regard Inn the ulvlsar illty of using the mili tia were referred to the president. A duplication of the San Geronlmo dash will be neceaaary to overtake Villa now Ktve Troopers Wounded. SAN ANTONIO, April 11 Five American troopers were wounded In the fighting with Vllllstas at San Ge ronlmo. Pershing officially reported today. The following Is the casualty list: Private Brown, ahot in the cheek, back and shoulder. Farrier Melndevllle, two slight wounds. Private Bennett, ahot In the ankle. Private Garbell shot In the arm. Private Gardiner, ahot In the arm. Liverpool Market Shows Some Decline No Chicago market today (legal holiday.) Portland. PORTLAND, ore.. April 11. (Special) Merchants' (exchange pri ces today: club, bid, 91, asked, 6. Bluestem. bid $1.04 1-2, asked $1.07. liverpool Cash Wheat. LIVERPOOL, April 10 Wheat Spot No. 1 Manitoba, 13a 7d: No. I. Its Jil No. 2 red western winter, lis lid; No. 2 hard winter, gulf, lis Bd. In American terms the highest L verpool price (for No. 1 Manitoba) Is 11.11 4 r per bushel. French experts will establish a mil- ll iry aviation school with 11 aero p hi. of three type. NEWS SUMMARY General. Man and girl end liven at Walla W French holding the line at Verdun. I arranzlstaa execute ringleaders of .liiarex uprising. Local. fonuwt manager declares lendle toti o MM to name queen of itosc rVf- llvali Pioneer I innl-li farmer iwhch away. Pioneer Farmer of Finnish District is Called by Death .xr.::.vw jaiiobwon, wuj. KNOWN' RESIDENT, PASSES AW V AT ACE OF 72. Death came at 11:30 this morning to Andrew Huuhala Jaeobson. pio neer farmer of the Finnish settlement north of Havana xiatlon. It was due to dropsy and the Infirmities of old age. The funeral will be held Friday It 1 p. m. at the Finnish cemetery. Deceased was a native ol Finland but emigrated to Norway when about 18 years old. In 1871 he came to America and six years later came to Umatilla county and toou up a home stead north of Havana, being one of the first settlers in that part of the county. He had lived on that place practically all of the time since he look up the land. He wa 72 year old at the time of his death. He Is survived by a wife and eight children, William. Andy. Miriam, An na, Walter, Elizabeth, Leonard and Henry. Hla first wife, the mother of his children, died about fourteen years ago. Mr. Jacobson lived a quiet and In dustrious life and In his neighbor hood had won tbe warm friendship cf all the people. L BE BY THE GOVERNMENT HUl'SK ADOIT8 RIVER AXD HAR BOR Bil l. ITEMS FOR PRO POSED WORK. WASHINGTON, April 11. The tuuse adopted river avd harbor bill item for the army engineer's survey of streams In the northwest. It pro poses the following surveys: Columbia f'r.m St. Helena to deep water; Slus U, from Acme to Tillamook; Colum. bla from The Dalles to Vancouver: Willamette from Corvallls to Eugene; Washougal slough and Everett har bor, Wash'ngton. Engineers will al so survey the channel from Baker's Hay from tbe Columbia to the Ilwaco Ducks and map out the Columbia from Celilo to the Snake and from the Snake to Plttaburg landing with a view of the construction of locks and i. ins for navigation. Surveys will also be made of the Clearwater riv er from Its mouth to Oroflno. taking consideration of the development of electric power at St. Marys and St. Joe. Idaho. Appropriation for Ore gon projects already have passed the house. Fears Felt for Besieged Force LONDON, April 11. Increasing fears are felt here for the safety of ihe British forces under General Townshend, besieged at Kut-el-Ama-ra, Mesopotaml for over four month. It Is believed their supplies nre near ly exhausted. Spring floods are ham pering the advance of the relief coV umn which is within a few miles of the city. Artillery May be Used in Final Round-up of Villa LIGHT FlE.lt) AMTILUKY. The photograph shows a detuchme nt of United States Artillery in Mexico. On account of the nature of the soil and ilim ite, army officers have found Ihe movement of artillery a very difficult problem Ylgh field artillery, however, usually can proceed anywhere that the cavalry can go. It Is possible that some of this force 1 n nw pursuing the routed Villa army. RINGLEADERS JUAREZ MUTINY Three Mexicans Said to Have Re ceived Money From "Interests" Backing Diaz are Executed. PAY PENALTY FOR TREACHERY Bodies Left Lying wiiere They Fail as Warning to Others; Carranzla taa Squad Makes short Work of Condemned Men; 40 Other Are Im plicated In the Plot. JUAREZ. April 11. A firing squad of six Carranzlataa today executed Klorenz Hernandez, Jose Bournel and Nicholas Chavarrea. They paid the lienalty for their alleged treachery. The bodies were left lying where they fell for the public to view. Gavlri announced they had confessed that the Interests representing the Felix Diaz movement had paid them money to foment a mutiny at the Juarez gar rison. It was stated tnat these will be the last executions, although 40 others were Implicated in the plot. The trio slain today were charged with being the ring leaders Chavar rea formerly was secretary to General Orozco. Berlin Disclaimer of Torpedoing is Notat Washington CABINET IN SESSION BUT NO AC TION TAKEN ON THE SUS SEX CAKE WASHINGTON, April 11. The German disclaimer or the attack on the Sussex was not received when the cabinet convened today. Lacking this document, the cabinet was without of ficial confirmation of the reports thai Germany had denied attacking the Sussex. The statement that Germany had denied ever promising not to tor pedo freighters, also was uncon firmed. It was apparent, though, that the Sussex case alone Is not re ponalble for the present crisis. The Lusltanla affair and probably the whole submarine Issue will be dlspos. ed of. The administration has not , considered the Lusltanla episode as I closed since the kaiser's decree of sub- marine warfare against armed mer Chantment was announced. Such a program was declared to confllst with Berl'n's ussurances. Officials say that the significance of the recent subma rine activities lies in the fact that they indicate that Germany does not accept America's position regarding Germany's right to sink passenger ships. Mill-, lor Judgment. The Hermtston Bank and Trust Co. yesterday afternoon filed a suit against John Strahm and Dr. M. V. Turley asking judgment for $248.53 on a rromlssory note. The bank also brought suit against Dr. Turley on a note for $555.7". Fee and Fee are attorneys for the plaintiff. FACE GUN SQUAD Taxpayers of the County Will Meet Here Wednesday ASSOCIATION IXVTTES AJJ, TO AT TEND WHETHER MEM BERS OR NOT. It Is announced that a meeting ot the Umatilla County Taxpayers' asso ciation will be hel, In the Eagles Woodmen hall at i ;M Wednesday aft ernoon. The association is open to all taxpayers of the county and all are Invited to attend regardless of wheth er they have affiliated with the asso ciation in the past One of the object of the meeting will be to select two delegates to rep resent this county at the state con vention of taxpayers to be held in Portland April 22 ana which meeting will be made up of two representa tive from each county In the state. Douglaa Belts is the president ot the taxpayer' association of this county and Manuel Frledly, ecretary. LEWIS TO BE CHAIRMAN OF DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION MARSHALL SLATED TO BE RUN NING MATE OF NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT. WASHINGTON. April 11. Marsh all will be the gunning mate of the democratic presidential nominee and James Ham Hon Iewls will be tem porary chairman of the democratic national convention. according to prospective arrangements of demo cratic leaders gaterlng today for Thursday's conference with the stats chairman. Some opposition to Lewis was manifested. The democrats want two Indiana senators elected and fig ure that Marshall's name Is needed tn aid them. Wilson Banquet is to be INon Partisan Held Saturday Eve , Plans for the coming Wilson banquet have been changed so as to have the affair on Saturday 4 instead of Friday evening as an- nounced last night. The banquet will be held In the Eagle-Wood- man banquet room and there will be seats for 400. An Interesting program Is be- Ing arranged, consisting of mu- sic and a few talks, the chief address being by Hon. M A. Mil- Ier of Portland who will speak on the subject of the Wilson administration and its achieve- ments. 4) The banquet will cost 75 4 cents a plate and reservations n ay be made with any one of the committeemen, W W. Har- mh, Wesley Matlock arid H G. BIydenstein. It '. desired that those who wish to attend notify some member of the committee 4) so that accommodations may be arranged accordingly. It is planned to make the banquet a non-partisan affair and a general invitation Is ex- tended to all supporters of Pres- 4 ident Wilson to attend. The banquet will be for women as 4 well as men and numerous local 4 women are planning to partlci- pate. if ft fJye Military Training Camp 4 WASHINGTON. April 11. If the time ever comes when the women of America are called upon to follow the example of Mollie Pitcher, heroine of the Revolution, they will be ready. In order to make sure of that they are preparing to open a military instruc tion camp at Washington. D. C, May 1 There women and girls will be in structed in tactics, cipher communi cation, wigwagging, wireless telegra phs, scientific cookery, first aid to the Injured and other subjects of use in war time. Women and girls prominent in so 'iety. in army and navy life and in booth state and national political cir cles will attend the school. Among those prominent in the pro ject are: Miss Ruth Hitchcock, Mrs. m r I : V Vk. mm xtBWr'UI i 1 9aT w- w-i pa I sksewsm 5Jra1,IW Ss?b vsl M 4 ""zaoaatft IB Bw M Pendleton Has Good Chance of Naming Next Queen of the Rose Festival at Portland Pendleton not only has a fighting ( name but a mighty strong chance c: naming the next queen of the Tort land Rose Festival, providing the citl leus of the town get back of their candidate, according to R. p. Rich ardson, manager of the festival queen contest who is here today conferring v.lth the publicity committee of the Commercial association. AH of the Portland organisations v ho have candidates in the field are "scared" of the outside candidates. tvvrv:. film soviet. James M. Thompson, daughter ot Speaker Champ Clark, Mia Caillo Hoke Smith, daughter of Senator Hoke Smith, and Miss' Mary Wilcox, a great-granddaughter of President Andrew Jackson. The women will wear a uniform oi blue flannel blouse, khaki skirt, brown boots and the cavalry type hat of brown felt They will live in tents, each of which will contain five cots, five dressing tables and five small mirror. The camp will be guarded at night by picked men from the Washington police force The camp of the national service school, as it Is called, will be in a ten-acre field giv en for the purpose by Senator Fran cis Newlands of Nevada. The field 1 near the fashionable Columbia and Chevy Chase clubs. lie states, and they have reason to be because the festival association has placed them under a handicap. Port-! land merchants will not be permitted to give out votes with purchases for 'he reason that this would be unfair to the smaller cities, the volume of business done by Portland merchants being so much greater. The Portland organizations must pay cash for their votes at the rate t a dollar a thousand. Pendleton and other towns have the same privil ega and. In addition, will have the otes secured from the merchants. The votes in the newspapers may be last for any candidate without cost. Mr. Richardson and the local com mittee held a meeting this morning and are holding another this after noon. Their plan is to have the mer chants purchase ballots at the rate of a dollar a thousand and give so many with a dollar purchase, the proportion to be derided among themselves. How. I ever, this will not prevent anyone I else from purchasing votes outright and casting them for the local candi date. Valituble piiNUSty Idea. j There are at present 10 candidates I from Portland and seven from outside j points. Besides Pendleton, the fol- lowing cities have put up candidate?: Kugcne. Albany, Salem Corvallls, Or egon City and Klamath Falls, making I a total of seven candidates outside ot Portland The candidate receiving the highest I number of votes will be crowned queen and. in addition, the city or or- ganixatlon electing her will be prlvil I eged to name the king of the testi I val. The twelve next highest candi dates will be maids or honor. Only I six of these can come from Port land, leaving sue of the seven other ! cities sure of representation. I The Rose Fetival will provide a j special float for every randidate out . side of Portland and guarantee to spend not less than 1100 on this float. The float will be built to advertise I the community which It represents, i Thus If Pendleton has a float. It has l t n NgfMtM that It would be nia'l.' to advertise the ltound-up Movlnc pictures will be taken of all parades (Continued on Page Eight.) FRENCH LINE IS HOLDING VERDUN DESPITE DRIVES City Will be Saved if Present Furious Assaults of the Germans are HeW in Check. TEUTONS LOSE OVER 100,000 Crown Prince Is Delivering Mtkkl Blows Along Front of Six Mx?ea; liquid Fire Helps in Attack; at Some Points the French Are Forc ed to Fan B. LO!CDON, April 11. the savage Genoa furious counter !, tf French are chocking the crown prince's strongest blows afajwt Verdun today. Tile French conn tor offensive rival that of the Germans against Deadman's HUk . where the smash nan reached It highest power. All official re ports indicated that the desper ate French reatstaane la breaking up the Gorman offensive. The battle has narrowed to a three mile front and has Increased , greatly la Intensity. PARIS, April It, It Is officially estimated that the oerman losses at Verdun have been more than 100,000. The Verdun line was still held today under the most tremendous blow in history. Wave after wave of Ger mans were thrown agamst the line on a six mile front northwest of the cit adel. Twenty thousand Germans have been killed or wounded In the last two days The French losses were admit tedly heavy it was announced that three German corps have lost half their total strength since the begin ning of the battle. Attacking with tTtruffr fire, the Ger mans captured fragment of trenches on a ridge east of Deadman's Hill last night Elsewhere the Germans were repulsed. Bloody figntlng resulted from the Teuton attempt to recap ture lost ground south of Douaumont. They were heavily checked and thrown into disorder. French artil lery prevented the use of flame throwers there. A terrific bombard ment thundered at Douaumont, Vaux and Woevre all night Artillery and infantry fire routed the German who were debouching from Crowds Woods. The belief is growing that Verdun will be saved if the French success fully can resist this assault. The bat tle hourly has grown more violent since Saturday. It appears that it soon will culminate in a grand Ger man assault on both banks of the Meuse The Teutons charged Deadman's Hill. In mass formation. They be came confused and lost In the barren ravines. When the unit were demor alised, concealed French guns sud denly opened fire. Tne attack halted, wavered and then fell back Scores of high explosive shells were dropped on the huddled masses, biting great holes in the confused crowds. Similar bloody scenes were enacted between Haucourt and Bethlncourt. On the eastern side, however, tne ravines of fered a shelter to the advancing Ger mans and they captured a line ot front trenches. BERLIN, April 11. Thirty-six thousand Frenchmen have been cap tured since the beginning of the Ver dun attack, it was semi-offlcially an nounced. On the west bank of the Meuse the Germans captured ten square miles of territory and a larger area on the east bank. Countering the French statements that the evac uation of Bethlncourt was a strategic move, a semi-official news agency published a copy of a french order alleged to have been found on the bat tlefield, urging the commanders to hold Bethlncourt at all costs. It was reported that the British made grenade attack south ot St Eloi. It was claimed the .ittack was repulsed. MAN AND GIRL DIE BY OWN HANDS IN A WALLA WALLA HOTEL NOTFS ij-:ft mo hint OF pvt. POttOM UBKD HV WOMAN RJBTOliVMR BY MAX. WALLA WALLA, Wssh April 1 1. - The result either of a miirder and suicide or a double suicide, th - hodisg or Mary Hawn. ll, und C i. Frailer, ibout 4$ or 50 re round on l-1 in a room In the Grand Hotel last evening The girl had been lead (Continued un Page Eight