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DAILY EVEHlhG EDIT 12.'! DAILY EVEIIIIiG EDITION U KATHFTI T":iuh? -tri'l Tut'-vft;i , e run r sumw , n -T ' Imvjiht.. fall lr.if; wm1. n.irth hu ht . Wfj- TO ADVEHTISFTKS Tim Knit Oregon! no his the tnwtt bona fide ftud (iiArni)tfl pnld ciri iilfttlc.o of an? papvr lo Ortwm. put of l'ortittml and by far tb larictMt circulation Id t'eudltttua of aoj newipaper. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPEB CITY OFFICIAL PAPER NO. 9007 VOL. 28 DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1917. ARIZONA HAS 1 GOVERNORS, BAM NEAR Serious Disturbance Expected When Governor Hunt and Tom Campbell Seek to Get Possession of Capitol. ARMED BANDS GATHERING Supporter ou Iloth sides prepare i Mult Strong ANults; Hunt I Ilarricadcd Ui Iliilhlliur. Kefuslng to Give Up t'nUl Recount Is Made. PHOENIX. Jan. 1. With both Governor Hunt and Tom Campbell worn to perform the duties of gover norship, a, serious disturbance la ex pected when the two clash for pos. session of the state rapltol. Hunt, who claims Campbell's lead over him la due to fraud refuses to surrender the office until the recount Is com pleted, and he with armed men, nan locked himself In the rapltol. Campbell by virtue of a certificate of election intends to make the In auguration address from the capltol balcony. Ills supporters are prepar ing to make a strong fight. A party of cowboys Is arriving to fight against Hunt's miners. Hunt hasn't the backing of the democratic party, the state central committee after a hasty conference, repudiating his stand. BUILDING PERMITS TOTALLED 1198,953 Although Figure Klww Decrease 4Hcr 1915, It Year's Mum In eluded Federal Ilulldlug and 1J brary. Pendleton's prosperity during the past year is reflected in the amount of building which has been done here. There were Issued during the twelve months by Recorder Fit Gerald 241 different building permits and the to tal estimated cost of the construction work as show by the permits is 19S.. 953 00. This Is about 140.000 less than the 1915 total but. when It Is taken Into r,,n.i.l.mllnn that 1131.000 of the $239,000 totnl of 1915 Is represented by the federal building and the II brary. it will be seen that there hue been more general building Improve ments dtn-lng 1916. The largest amount spent on any one building In the city during the past yeiir was $30,000 for the new elevntor. The J 10.000 for the Toll apartment bouse ranks second. 11 y far the majority of the permits were for new dwellings or Improvements to old ones. The month of September during which the elevntor permit w.is taken out leads the list with $18,185.00 to its credit. April lends in the number of permit" S. and ' wennd In the valuation total. The following- table shows the num. ber of permits and the estimated val uation of the Improvements Month Value January 7 February 13 March 2 April 3 May 2' June H July August 17 Ffptember 26 October 27 November 28 Peeember ln Total 23 $ 2.432.0H 7.360.00 17,030.00 27.S6O.0O 12,442.00 13,570.00 16,355.00 14.710.00 4S.1SS.0D 16.874.00 17 2S0 00 4.765 00 198,953.00 MISTAKE PROVED TO BE PROFITABLE Sometimes It profits one to make a mistake, especially In these days of advancing prices Wltnesseth an ex perience of Penland Iiros., well known tranfer firm. About three montlvt ago a coll of pure copper wire wa,i shipped from Milton to the local man agement of the P. T. & T. Co. 1'h. Penlands have a standing order to de liver the telephone company's freight and, accordingly picked up the wiro. But the drayman lost It In his rounds. At least he never delivered It to the company and all efforts to trace It Yalled. Penlands thereupon paid the company for It at the market value, $10. Saturday when the Taylor Hard ware Co. was taking Inventory, the coll was found In Its warehouse where It had been delivered by mistake. The telephone company was notified and In turn notified Penlnnds The wire was reclaimed and during the time It was lost Its value had doubled. How ever, they refused to profit and sold It back nt he original price. UMATILLA COUNTY SPENT $50,000 FOR LIQUOR LAST YEAR Approximately 1 T5.000 Individual Shipment of Ik-veragrej ltecelved; (ircnt Inrmwc SIimv Passage of "Hone Dry" Amendment. It Is estimated that not less than $50,000 went out of Umatilla county during the year Just closed for li quor purchased for beverage pur poses. While the amount seems en ormous, It Is said that prior to the first of last year there were several saloons In Pendleton any one of which had annual receipts equal to that amount. Actual figures on the amount of li quor received during the year and Its cash value are not obtainable yet. However, the number of shipments of liquor can be approximated. The county clerk during the year Issued 183 affidavit books and there are 100 affidavits In each book. Not all of these affidavits have yet been re turned but It Is safe to say that ap proximately 175.000 Individual ship ments of liquor have been received In the county during the year. The number was light during the first few months because many people had on hand a stock of liquor purchased be fore the state went dry. However. ty number for the past few months has been correspondingly heavy be cause of the passage of the "bone dry" amendment. An overwhelming majority of th affidavits show the receipt of two quarts of whisky, and the average Price paid for two quarts of whisky is about $2.50. Iteer is second on the list and each shipment of beer repre sented from $4.00 to $6.00. Very lit tle wine, brandy or other liquor was shipped In. WRESTLER TO KEEP HIMSELF IN TRIM Wretliag is not a matter of money making with Freddy Crabbe who l to grapple with Frank MeOarroll here on January 10. In everyday lit e he is the president of the Crabbe Clothing Co. of 8lt Lake but he like the mat game as a sport and keep himself young by the hard work re quired to be a topnotcher in the game. Crabbe has his first defeat yet to meet. In 1909 h defeated Joe Turner for the International championship and since then has won from some of the beet grapplers of his weight In the country. In a letter Just received he states that he Is not In the lea.it nervous over the coming much with McCarroll though he realizes Frank if a tough man to down, "lie has beaten some of the best men In the country," says Crabbe. "and If he la in good conamon mere snouia tie a j fast bout from start to finish." I Crabbe will arrive In Pendleton on ithe 9th and will work out In the Jost gymnasium that evening. McCarroll and his brother Ray left last evening for Ilaker where tomor row evening the former meets Charley Jost In a fistic bout. They will re turn Wednesday morning. Tickets for the MeCarrolI-Crabbe bout are on rale at the Quelle cafe and Indications are that there will be a big house. The management wishes it understood thnt ladles will be as welcome as men and that there will nothing there to offend either. EASTERN SOCIETY rt F8x HOUNDS, 4 Oil f I L ,W It i , I t x 4 fc e Following tti hounds is still one o f the chief amusements of eastern so cley folk at week-end parties at coun try estates. This picture shows the houmlH of the Piping Rock Club leav ing the club house for the chase across the snows. STRINGING BARBED WIRE IN THE BALFJ .t h. "V' : V, Qt'il 1: l '4 ljt.' -3i"' n . ',.y . zzx.Jii -i s . j '- STRINGING BARBED VJRE Barbed wire constitutes one of the chief defenses Jn trench warfare. Here French soldiers are shown string ing barbed wire before a French trench In the Balkans, outside Salonikl. ONLY HALF AS MANY COYOTES SLAIN 1916 lhlulon In Bounty Prom (3.00 a Scalp to 11.50 Probably IlcsponHlUe for Iteercaso Since 19 1V Less than half the number of coy otes were killed In Umatilla county during 1916 as were killed in 1915. At least the county paid bounty during the year on only 1020 coyote scalps whereas In 1915 more than 2300 were brought in to the county clerk's of fice. The reduction of the bounty on Jan. 1, 1916 from $3.00 a scalp to $1.6 probably accounts for the decrease In the Showing durin the past year, j Umatilla county paid a total of $1580 In bounty during the year whereas In 1915 the total paid as bounty was $7033 of which the state bore one half. In addition to the 1020 coyotes, the records show that bounty has been paid during the year on 29 bobcati and one lynx. By far the greatest number of the predatory beasts were killed In the spring. $56 coyote scalps having been presented In April and 2S9 in May. The following is the rec ord of the number of coyote scalps prew nted for bounty month by month: January 12. February 62. March 90, April 356. May 29, June 75. July 32, August S. September 13. October 18. November 42. December 3. total 1020. CUTTER PROTECTOR OF BRITISH LOST U)M)OX. .Ian. 1. The cutter I'rotet'tor lias been blown up. a IJoyri dispatch dcolarod. The .number of lives lost Is unknown. HAURY L.UDF1V8 SOX KILLED. IONDOX, Jan. 1. Captain .lolm louder, the son of Harry, the Scotch comedian has been killed at the front, it Is an nounced. FOLLOWS HOUNDS ' e ! 4 Si 4 4Vo t j (East Oregonlan Special. ECHO, Ore, Jan. I. Pinned beneath his auto In the snow where he u.d been Imprisoned for fourteen boars, Claud Sloan, prominent Echo sheepman, was fonnd this morning mile from. Echo almost froien to death. Both hands were frozen to the wrist, both feet were froien and one leg as far up as the knee. He Is in a serious condition. He left Echo about 7 o'clock last evening for him home four miles up the river. When go ing up a stdehill road about a mile from here, his ear slid In the snow and turned over, pin ioning htm beneath. The road In nut little traveled during this time of the year and no help eame until 9 this morning when Xel-mn Tavlor. a young man Urine In the vicinity, came across the upturned car as he. was driving to town. Sloan's wife had not been uneasy be cause, she though he was at the sheep ranch. In the early hours of the nlzht the thermometer was near xcro hut the weather moderat ed during the night and an Inch of snow fell. Sloan Is now at his home under the doctor's care. BIG GRIME DECREASE UNDER "DRY" REGIME Arrestd in 1816 Only 88 as Compared With a Ttotal of 1440 During 1915; December Has Iargest Number. Conclusive proof that prohibition does lessen minor offenses such as drunkenness rind disorderly conduct Is furnished by a comparison of the police records of the past year and of the year 1915. During the year Just closed there wee 8S6 arrests made-by the Pendleton police where- the total for 1915 was 1440. The decrease has been approximately 73 per cent. December had the greatest number of arrests In the monthly record of the past year, the total beinir 67. The 1 iesest month in 1915 was 2SS In September. The smallest month in mifi was August with 11 arrests and the pmallest in 1915 was February with 62. A comparison of the arrests of the post two years month by month fol lows: ! Month 1915 1916, January 103 2 3 February 52 23! MaToh , S4 31 April 10S 46 May 151 16 June 105 23 July 1 1 4 31 August ,...107 II Septemher 2S8 63 October 99 28 November 100 . 33 December 130 67 Total 1440 3S6 ECHO IN IS PINNED UNDER CAR 14 IIS BADLY 11 4 - i X THREE INCH EXCESS PRECIPITATION 1916 The year 1916 ended with an excess preciptltation in Pendleton of almost three Inches, due largely to the heavy snows of the first part of the year and in December. The official rec ords show a total preciptitatlon of 16.92 inches during the year whereas the normal Is but 14.12. The month Just ended was marked by nine inches of snow and the total precipitation was 2.11 Inches against 1 51 normal. The maximum tempera ture was 68 on Dec. 2 and the mini mum one above on Dec. 29. There were six clear days seven partly cloudy and 18 cloudy. Snow fell on eight days and rain on six. The following is a comparison of the monthly precipitation with the normal: Month 191 January 2.73 February 3.12 March 2.53 April -....1.28 May 1-09 June 1.28 July . 41 August .09 September 22 October 68 November 1.38 December 2.11 Total 1692 Normal 1.59 1.49 1.62 1.01 1.46 .9 .45 .43 .89 1.19 1.51 1.51 14.12 PENDLETON HAS 1704 CHILDREN OF SCHOOL AGE There are 1704 children between the ages of four and twenty in Pen dleton, according to the census report Jut completed by C. K. Cranston. The school census Is generally accepted bv statisticians as representing one-fifth of the population of a town. Upon this basis Pendleton would have a population of approximately 8500. The school census shows a slight in crease over lost year, the total chil dren enumerated last year being 1667. However, there were ellminatd from the census this year about 100 resi dent pupils of the Pendleton schols who are enumerated in other districts. , The school census Is taken as a ba- sis for the per cap'ta distribution of state and county school funds. NEW YEAR MAKES QUIET ENTRANCE The advent of the year 1917 was most quiet and peaceful one in Ten dleton. In fact the new year was more decorously greeted this morn ing than probably any. new year that ever broke on Pendleton. The fact that New Year's eve fell on Sunday combined with a dry town made the usual celebrations out of order, (inly throe arrest. were made by the police compared with nineteen a year ago. A few bells were rung, a few whistle blown and a few f recrnckers'were ex plodvd In China town That was all. nil mums n uw in (WEBB IJMUJm.) Kh PASO, Jan. 1. In the biggest battle in point of number of men en gaged since Villa regained his powor in northern Mexico, the Villlstas de cisively defeated a column of govern ment troops sent by Murguia to ha'; the northward progress of the bandit forces. PENDLETON AND COUNTY BASKING IN THAT IS UNPRECEDENTED Wheat, Wool and Hay Bring Highest Prices; Banks Bursting With Money, Abundance of Houses Unknown; Business MUCH INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT DURING THE YEAR Now Harvester Plant and Addition; Woolen Mills Have Added New Ha. chinery; 935,000 Grain Elevator Built and Others Planned; Xew Tke ater a Certainty; library Building Finished; IOO.0OO rVderal Ba414 Ing; Hound-Up Most Suocwwful Since 1812. Pendleton and Umatilla county have reason to look upon the year 1916 as a notable one In their history, for it has brought an unprecedented pros perity. Wheat and wool, the two big staples of the county, brought price not dreamed of a few years ago. Hay, too, brought a top figure. The year was a good one from a climatic stand point and the crops in the light land sections were better than for many years. The banks are bursting with money. The last statement Issued by the banks at the call of the comptroller of cur rency showed that the aggregate de posits of the two banks In Pendleton amounted to over $5,500,000. Even the little bank In Pilot Rock has over $236,000 on deposits, or over $150,000 more than It ever had at a similar time any other year. There has been an abundance of work for everybody. ' In fact Jobs have been more plentiful than the seekers for Jobs and farmers were often hard put to secure enough men to handle their crops. The problem of the empty house Is unknown In any of the towns of the county. In Pendleton the demand for houses and apartments has far ex ceeded the supply and as a result rents are abnormally high. New houses have been built by the score and two new apartment houses have been put up and yet many people are forced to live in shacks or content themselves with a room or two in some other person's house. Merchants report business unusu CUPID'S RECORD HARD PUT TO 207 MARRIED; Whatever handicap the high cos! of living was to Dan Cupid during th-: year Just departed was more than overcome by the general prosperity and leap year traditions, judging from the official record of his achievement; in the county clerk's office Durmt the year 1916 there were Issued if 1 Umatilla county 207 marriage It- ' censes against 199 during the year 1915. : However, the god of marital discord was also on the Job stronger thai, ever, the equity docket showing 10! divorce suits instituted during th' past twelve month, whereas in th--preceding year there were hut 10: such cases. A study of this sam docket shows a steadily growing tend ency for unhappy wives and husband' to take their differences into court. Thus in 1911 only 60 divorce suits were filed in the local court, in 191 i; there were 65, in 1913 there were 81. in 1914. 95. in 1915, 102. and in 1916. 07.. September, which has been the leading month of marriages in Umatil la for a number of years, dropped to second place this past year, beini nsed by December. The four licenses HAD INCREASE IS . SUM IN RECEIPTS OF POSTOFFICE An incren.-c of more than $()"! is shown In the loc.il postofflce receipt? during the year just closed over the year 1915. The total receipts for 1916 were $32.5'.'1.71 as attuinst 2S. 518. 14 in 1915, a difference of $4 "73 -57. December as uual was the largest month and showed a marked increase over the business of either 1914 r 1915. The biggest gain over las: year was in March when the receipt totaled $3162 6 as against $.i;67.3S last year. The Christmas business this year and the December business In general set a new record for local postal receipts. The following are the receipts of the years 1915 and 1911 by month. ,u prepared by the Pendleton postuflicv PROSPERITY Work for Everybody; Empty and Collections Never Better. ally good and collections never better. Many axe rib prohibition as one of the chief reasons for the betterment of collections. The Christmas trad es tablished a new record for the merch ants. There has been no little Industrial development and expansion during the year. For instance the Blewett Harvester Co. fast spring built a fa tory here and is now building an ad dition. The Pendleton Woolen Mills have addded much new machinery, the Farmers' Union Grain Agency has built a $35.0OD elevator in Pendle ton and plans to construct others soon in different parts of the county. As the year came to a close money was being raised for a new $30,000 Presbyterian church and the building of this new church home is a certain ty. Money is also being raised for a r.w $30,000 theater for road attrac tions and there seems every reason to believe that this project will ma ture during the early part of 117. The new $100,000 federal building and the new $35,000 connty library build ing have been occupied during the year. The 1916 Round-Up was the most successful from a financial and show standpoint of any since the record Round-Up of 1912. Pendleton, too. enjoyed the distinction of having fur nished the queen to reign over the other two big Oregon festivals of the year. th. Portlssd Rose festival and the Astoria Regatta. Altogether the year which has Just passed brought a bountiful budget of blessings to the city and county. A BUSY, ONE 44 BEST DIVORCE 109 SEPARATED issued on the last official day of tb year gave the month a total of 24 or one more than September. June, the far famed month of weddings, sonK to sixth place las year. July had th record for divorce suits In 1916, hav ing a tut.l of 17 to its credit. It must no; be supposed that thera wers 101 divorce suits granted during the year, for some of the suits bava been d s- missed and others are still pending. I j Tha follow.n gtable show the number of marria.-K licenses isued and number of divorce suits insttiuted month by nivnth through the year: M. D January 14 ( February . . . . fc 1 1 i March H April 30 9 May 15 11 June tS I July 1 II August 13 3 September 23 I October jl 7 November 21 1 December 24 Total 207 10 1915 I tlH J.munrv i 2.3.7' t J.HtM) Jl February 1.791.01 2.H3 24) March . 3 267. 1 3.HJ '11 April ,i4i) lit 2,91 1 11 May 2.019 63 2,330 44 June 2 237 J 2,l5 14 Julv 2. 470.07 2.44 II August 2.162.4 2 .'.! If September .... i 1H8 34 2 27 1 October 2,907.11 3,114 It November 2.435 09 2.64 74 Ieeenit-r 3.111 6 1 113 14 Totals IJS.SII It $12 111 71 $24.(14 II ' I tn r-ii e $ 4 Oll.it 4J t 4 if 0
