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DAILY EVEIilM EDITIOri TO ADVERTISERS WEATHER Tonlehj: and Friday fmr, ,.nrimi -.1 : I ' , ' ratlM-r Imta. V jr -Tri'ra'ur". 4. mini muri. a k HII, nought, wind, north rather, clrar. The Eaat Oregontaa has the largest bona fide and guarauleed paid circulation of any paper Id urecua, eaut o( Portland and bj far the largiwt circulation la i'endletoa ef any newspaper. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER COUN riAL PAPE3 VOL. 28 DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1916. No. 8992 D.'JLYEIECMBITiO:! FEME OFFERS. HAVEREACKFD ;e HOUSE President Wilson May Offer Services in Event Lloyd George is Willing to Discuss Proposals. ALLIES APPEAR UNFAVORABLE Swiss and Spanish prjilomatlo rcsenutttve Also Call on Lansing and Announce They Have Recelv, ed A'otas. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. Ger many's peace proposal have reached the state department and were Imrae. dlately forwarded to the belligerents. Secretary Crew transmitted a confi dential memorandum guide to presi dent Wilson and Secretary Lansing Wilson's closest advisers said the president would offer hi services In event Lloyd George Is willing to dis cuss the proposals. The United State plan to keep out If the alllea are determined to continue fighting. Unofficial Indications of the allies' attitude are not encouraging. If the United States participates In the negotiations it will try to attain "permanent peace" and bring the as. surance that peace and war will be reckoned hereafter a part of man kind's common Interest." Swiss and Spanish diplomatic rep resentatlve called on Lansing and announced they had Just received Germany's proposal and were for warding them Immediately to the belligerents. It Is learned the United State ha Instituted "confidential sounding" in all the belligerent capitals. It la en deavoring to ascertain the allies' peace attitudes and is also inquiring Germany's plans. FEND AL PICKS AN ALL STAR ELEVEN Coach Virgil Kendall of the Pen dleton high school team, hag coran forward with his choice of all eastern Oregon eleven and classes It with nny all star eleven yet picked. II nays: "There Is no way In which we can determine the relative merits of the different all star selections, but I be lieve the following team would hold Its own with any alt eaotern Oregon high school team selected this year. "ITlrlch, Pendleton; quarter back and captain; Whipple, Baker, full back; Fleetwood, Bakor, halfback; Moon, La Grande, half back; Howard Maker, anil Casey, Pendleton, ends! Brown, Baker, and Ftledly, Pendle ton, tackle; Peyton, Baker, and Wil bur. Pendleton, guardB; Mlllerlns', Iji Grande, center. "This team would defeat the best collection of stars that the Willam ette valley high schools could pre duce. Comparative scores of the past season will bear me out In this utatement. I have watched high ochool football In the valley closely during the past four or five seasons and I am convinced that the eastern Oregon high schools play better ball than the valley teams." GAMES OF CHANCE AGAIN UNDER FIRE Comj)luuit Hcceived by 3ty C"nel Prom (tondy ncalerWHtrk At limey WIU Soon I"- WarnlnK. Games of chance are again under fire In Pendleton and cigar store merchants and others who are In the habit of conducting raffles, dies games, punch boards, etc., may find themselves In court. At the council meeting last even ing Mayor Best stated that a candy dealer of the city had complained that candy was being raffled off In some place In the. city to the detri ment of his business and that unless the city authorities take some action to suppres this practice, he will take the matter up with the district attor ney. Mayor Best also reported that Dis trict Attorney Stelwer will soon Issue a warning to all persons who havs been conducting games of chnnee. There Is a state law as well as a city ordinance against such games. Members of the council expressed themselves as being in favor of en forcing the ordinance, DECIDE ON NEW POLICY i ' L : " . I ; f : ;s . . - . - j s 1 ! . ''. I '..."' K ..... hi rN f A.r. PORTER v , 4HA5. H. HULPURP tOUlS A. COOLIDCE . IRE THAFI $1,000,000 INCREAS IfJ WEALTH OF THE DECLINE 111 ASSESSED There has been an Increase of 11, 393.148 In the wealth of I'malilM county during the past year. Judging from the awesmeiit figures. The a sessed valuation of the property in the county is, however, S136.COS leas than in 1916. Assessor C. P. Strain this morning received from the slate tax commis sion the assessed valuations of the public service property In this county. The total Is 110,866,693.15 whereas last year it wa over 111,000,000 However, Umatilla county's ratio this year is placed at 78 per cent where a last year it was 80 per cent, which means, that the assessed valuations are taken to represent "8 per cent of the full valuations. A table showing the comparison) of the valuation figures of 1916 and 1915 reads as follows: llibllo Utility IToperty. 1916 ase.sed val $10, 866, 693. 15 1916 full valuation... 13,931. 65". 00 1915 assessed val 11.053.633.23 1915 full valuation... 13.S17.041.00 Assessed val. decrease. 186,940.13 Full val. Increase 114,576.00 Other Property. 1916 assessed val $37,924,138.00 1916 full valuation... 48,620.664 00 CHRISTMAS VACATION WILL BE ONLY 8 DAYS THIS YEAR The annual Christmas vacation of the Pendleton schools will be of eight days' duration only thl year, accord ing to a decision reached by the school board last night. School will close on Friday evening. Dec. 22, and will reopen on Tuesday morn ing. January 2. As to whether or not the school teachers should draw their salary during thl vacation Is a question the board has not yet determined. The teachers believe they are entitled le It owing to the 'advancing prices ct all conimmodltles The board decided last evening not to determine the distribution of the funds for the next year among the TOWARD THEIR EMPLOYEES - JULIUS R05ENVALP i "j K c henpebschott : ; Here are five of the managers and representatives of great industrial cor. porations who met the other day In an attempt to formulate a new policy for dealing with employes. A. K. Porter represented the Shredded Wheat company; Julius Rownwald was there as the controlling factor in the great mall order house of Sears, Hoebuck k Company; Chas. H. Hul burd represented the Elgin National Watch company; F. C. Henderchott spoke for the New York Edison com pany, perhaps the largest Edison lighting company, and Louis A. Cool idge represented the Tnlted Sho Machinery company. Mr. Henderschott said the tima had come for all great corporations to have a vice president whose sole work would be to look after the wel fare of the employes. E BUT 1915 assessed valuation 37,873,706.00 1915 full valuation ... 47,342.132.09 Assessed val. Increase. -50,432.00 Full val. increase 1.278,532.0V All Property. 1916 total assessed val. $48,790,831.15 1916 full valuation 62,552,321.15 1915 assessed val. ... 48,927,339.00 1915 ful valuation.... 61,159,173.01 Assessed val. decrease. . -136,507.85 Full valuation Increase 1 393,148.00 O.-W. pays Heavy Tax. The property of the O.-W. R. & N. Co , in this county is by far the largest of the public utility properties. The total assessed valuation of O.-W. property in the county Is placed at $9,176,345.10 by the state tax com mission. The company' main line trackage is assessed at $50,700 a mile, the branch line to Walla Walla at $35,100, the Coyote cutoff at only $15,600 and sidetrack are assessed at half the valuation of the main lines they parallel. The Northern Pacific, Pacific Pow er & Light Co., Pacific Telephone A Telegraph Co., two express compan ies and Hermiston Light Co. are among the other public utility prop, erty owners In iie county. different department until a speciul meeting In January. It did, how ever, grant the request of F. H. Young, instructor in the commercial department, for a new Burroughs adding machine, for a new.selfstarter Remington typewriter and for four business magaxlnes to be used as sup plemental textbooks. Recommenda tion of other teachers wer not con. sldered last evening. The board decided to permit of a readjustment of the schedule for the manual training department. Under the new arrangement, which will go in effect the second semester, there (Continued on Page 10.) COUNTY VALUATION BRITAIN LOOKING FOR A LONG WAR Xrw (Wnernment Intends to Create orrico All Indication Point to Continuation of KtrutrKlr. LONDON, Dec. 14 Bonar Law announced that the new government Intends to create ministers of food end labor. He wild the government bad taken action in the cn.f of Cap tain ltluikie of the steamer Caledon ian. The GennaiiB captured Blalkie and threatened to execute him for ramming a submarine. Britain Is preparing for a long war. Law moved a vote of credit for four hundred million pounds. He said the dully was expense are over twenty seven million dollars. The vote of credit since the war began total eigh tem billion, seven hundred million dollars. He said the peace proposals had not arrived. Regarding the proposals Law said: "I cannot discuss them now but I will repeat Asquith's statement, there must be adequate reparation for the past and adequate security for the future." TELL OF PITIABLE STATE IIH Economic Cenditions Frightful as Result of Continued Revolutions Say Americans. Jl.YKEZ, Dec. II. Vlllistas have again cainured Saota Rosa lia,, aouth of Chihuahua. Three hundred CarranalsUu garrisoned the town. There 1h continuous) skirmishing' on the Mexican Central railway at Oritz, thirty miles south. The main VUliKta arnr la believed naeaea went of Chihuahua. ' ., (WEBB MILLER.) EL PASO, Dec. 14. American min ing men' affidavit describing the terrible Mexican economic conditions as a result of the revolutions ha been sent to Washington. The state ment ald: "The once beautiful city of forty thousand persons at Guann Juato is reduced to fifteen thousand by theravage of disease and starva tion. The death rate Is seventy daily I have seen women begging on the streets die from lack of food. I counted ten dead one hour. They were carried on sheet iron stretch ers. I saw a man executed for steal ing a blanket. Four prominent mer. chants were shot who refused to ac cept flat currency. "Sanitary conditions are beyond description. Peons unable to get clothes wear grass and corn sheaves tied with cords. Convent sisters suf fered a fate worse than death. The troops sacked the church and placed a bull ring and dance hall there." The miner swore the government troops appropriated twenty-five car loads of corn sent the famine suffer ers. The government controlled th food supply and sold the corn for three dollars a bushel. United States authorities refused to reveal the miners' names. They said they Intended to return to Mexico later and the use of their names might en rage the Mexicans. THREE BRITISH VESSELS SUNK liOXnOX. Deo. H. Uoyds announced the Rritlsti steamers llarlington, llarioy and Saint I'r tisla were sunk. The crows wore lost. TWO CENT DROP IN WHEAT PRICE CHICAGO, Dec. 14. (Special to the E&st Oregonlan.) Range of prices today has been as follows: Open. High. Low. Close. Dec. $1.53 1.54 Vi 1.62 1.53 4 May $1 67 1.68 1.65 1 66S Portland PORTLAND, Dre., Dec. 14 (Spe cial.) Merchants' Exchange bids to day: Club, $1.40; bluestem, $1.43. Liverpool. LIVERPOOL, Dec. 13.Spot wheat was quiet today with No. 1 Northern Manitoba quoted at 17a 6 J ($2.55 per bushel); No. 2 hard win ter, 16s lid, a gain of Id. I 000.000 More Men Wanted. LONDON. Dec, 14. War office supplementary estimate provides for an additional million men of all ranks for the year ending March thirty first, nineteen seventeen. Thl makes a total of five million In a twelve month period. W IS NEW PRESIDENT OF THEME Upper House Passes Immigra tion Bill With Literacy Test by Vote of 64 to 7. FAVORABLE "DRY" REPORT Houhe committee ALs KeuorM Oo Suffrage Bill Without Recommen dation Pood Investigation Act Gets; Favorable Report. WASHINGTON. Dec. 14. Senator Wilfred Bautebury of Delaware was elected president pro-tempore of the senate. The senate passed the immigration bill with the literacy test by a vote of sixty-four to seven. President Wilson once vetoed it on account of the literacy test- The house Judi ciary committee favorably reported the nation-wide prohibition bill and reported the suffrage bill without recommendation. It favorably re ported the food Investigation act Representative Raker of Califor nia is author of the suffrage resolu tion. Both the suffrage and national prohibition bills must pass the house and senate by a two thirds vote and be' ratified by a three fourths vote of the states. The Raker resolution provides in section one: "That the rights of Uni ted States citizens to vote cannot be denied or abridged by any state, on account of sex; section tow, congress to have power, by appropriate legis lation to enforce the provisions of this article." The Webb prohibition amendment reads: "Section one. The sale, man ufacture, transportation and import ation Introducing )lejora In ike Uni ted State and all its territories. Is forever prohibited. Section two: Congress and the states have power independently and concurrently to en force this article by all needful legis lation." Sllruxsby Appeal Dismbsed. LONDON, Dec. 14. Lords dis missed the appeal of E. H. R- Slings by of San Francisco, who Is seeking the estate of the late Reverend Charles Slingsby for Teddy Slingsby, their alleged son. RAIDS STOCK EXCHANGE 6 4 V NEW YORK, Dec. 14.--Mrs. Claud it Wheeler, who Is legally separated from her husband, Albert Gallatin Wheeler, is stilling searching tor him today to serve a warrant for his arrest, following an unsuccessful raid on the New York Stock Ex change. Mrs. Wheeler and two dep uty sheriffs appeared at the Exchango but they were not permitted to en tor The deputy sheriffs possessed warrants for Wheeler's arrest because HIGH SCHOOL HAS A POLICE FORCE In order to put an end to the van dalism and petty thievery which has been going on at the high school, the student body officers have organized a police force. Mhm Alta Mentzer secretary of the student body, is the chief of police and she has twen'y detectives, ten of either sex. None of the twenty knows the Identity of any of the others. Recently a number of student have lost personal property at the high school and the only theory that ex plains the loss Is the presence of a cleptomaniac In the school. Several student have lost money, a total of over $4.00 having been reported stol en in the past week, one student has lost two pairs of overshoes and a girl yesterday lost a macklnaw. Illl M KITS FELLOl'i WORKER BLOWJI HEAD Serious Injury Inflicted With Probable Skull Fracture Act Follows Altercation. (East Oregonian Special.) RIETH, Dec. 14. About 2.30 a. m, while car inspection crew were work ing on a freight train that had just pulled into the yard Inspectors H. B. lieyers and Albert Buchle became involved in an altercation about the work done and Meyers struck Buchie blow on the head with his hammer inflicting a serious Injury with prob able fracture of the skull. Buchle staggered to the depot and fell In the doorway where he was immediately picked up by other employes and taken to Pendleton hospital by Yard master Nelson as quickly as possible and th sheriff's office notified. .Meyer disappeared down the track When he realised the gravity of the deed committeed and has not been seen - since by any one here. CALIFORNIA MURDERER IS KILLED BY POLICE POSSE BAKERSFIELD. Dec 14. A po lice posse shot and killed E. Notoli of Calian, following the murder of Mrs. D. Benidln, a boarding house keeper. The posse hunted Notoli for eighteen hours, and hunted through miles of sagebrush. $ IN SEARCH FOR HUSBAND r1 MRS .CLAUDIA i of failure to pay Mrs. Wheeler $300 a month alimony. Last April Mrs. Wheeler Invaded the Union League Club, where her husband was staying but this raid, too. was a failure. Mr. Wheeler has obtained an attachment on her hus band's Stock Exchange seat and thl will be sold under the sheriff's ham mer shortly, becoming the first stock exchange membership recorded :u having been Sold In this fashion. SuuinaniiG Is Aground Off EureKa Entire Crew on Board H-3 Be lieved to Have Perished or Too Badly Injured to Help Themselves. ENGINE TROUBLE IS CAUSE EUREK A, Deo. 1 1. Submarine H-3 ran aground this morning outside Humboldt bay. Watchers believe the superstructure la breaking up this afternoon. II is feared the crew will perish. Lion tenant IL R. Bogusch and IL F. Zemke are aboard. Ilesnry breakers are pounding. Toe submarine tnoeed about like log. Eureka life vers were nnabte to got close, but are attempting; to shoot line aboard. It Is be lieved the sailors are so badly Injured they are unable to help themselves on account of the trr rlflc seas. The fog is very bear? and the submarine's outlines arc dimly discrrnod. The U-S had engine trouble at Astoriav It I feared the engine collapsed. The Monitor Chey enne ran Inside the breakers at tempting rescue. The coast guard got dose en ough to the subanarine this afternoon to shoot line, but no body aboard attem pted to seise the line sod make It fast. That caused the ttrlief the whole crew is injured. The tide Is coming to. It Is hoped the vessel win wash ashore and be stranded when H recedes. IS TO BE 7 1 -2 MILLS The Umatilla county tax levy for state and county purposes next year will in all probability be 7 1.3 mills, the same as last year. This forecast is based upon a computation from ths figures representing the total assess ed valuation and the total amount oi money to be raised. County Clerk Baling was this morn ing notified that L'matilla county' share of the state tax would be $122, 316.50 or about four and a half per cent of the entire state tax. Assessor C. P. Strain was notified that the public service property in the county is valued this year at $10,8S,693.15. The arrival of these figures mad possible the computation of the prob. able levy. The total assessed valuation of all property in the county is $18,T0. 831.15. The budget recently adopted by the county plus the amount of the state tax is $339,416.50. The counts will have a balance on hand at the end of the year of approximately $18,000 and w ill receive about $15,00i from other sources than direct tax ation. This leaves a little more than $336,000 to be raised by tax and a levy of J 1-2 mills would produce a little le.-w than $336,000. It may be necessary to make the levy 7.6 mills Oty Total 2t .. The amount of the l'matilla coun ty share of the stale tax Is about $13,000 more this year han lat, th.j amount last year being about $109, "00. The budget provides for about $7000 more for road purposes bat these increases are ahoot offset by the reductions made In other pluc If the county ami sate 'ax levy is ftved at 7 1-2 mills, the total tax 0:1 Pendleton properry will be 26 1-i mills. The city levy W 10 mills an I the school district levy s milU. Thi total levy last year was 24 mills. CROWDS ANXIOUSLY AWAIT ALLIES REPLY Ihitin Wwqwper Offli-ew rr Sur. rounded by Throngs Who Stay I i All Night Long. HERNE. Dec. II Crowd 'id up all night around the FUrlln ne pipers, awaiting the allltut' reply o the peace proposals. Popular ln'rr", and excitement were onab i'd. in
