DAILY EVEi:i:.G ECITI DAilYEYBlGEDIMi TO ADVERTISERS Tonight an, Toenlftv filr; contin ued cold emh'T Data. Minimum 2. minimum It. raiuf.ill nought; lnd, m.rth. light; weather clear. bs Rait Oregnnlsn has the lanccat bona fide and guaranteed paid rlrrulatlun of an; f'aper In Onun, out of Portland and b; ar tb largeat circulation In I'eudletos of any oewiptper. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPEB VOL. 28 DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, MONDAY,, JANUARY 15, 1917. NO. 9019 - V . . cf 2 ADMIRAL DEWEY, HERO OF MANILA IS SW DYING Arterial Schlerosis, Superin duced by Old Age, Causes General Breakdown; He Has Been III Five Days. JUST PASSED 79TH BIRTHDAY Death Iri Kxpctcd at Any - Moment; Admiral Took Cold Just After Christina; Had Worked In Office Every Day Vp to That Time. WASHINGTON. Jan. 15. At threw o'clock It was announced Admiral Dewey was sinking- very rapidly. , - f -iiSr WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. Ad miral George Dewey's death la momentarily ciected. The doc tor nave out a bulk-tin saying, "Dewey lias been suffering a general breakdown for the lat five day. Tliero lias been some lniinvemetit for several days and an attempted rally. It may Mucivod In otcrcoinliiK tlio de prewJon of certain organs. Last nlglit tlie Admiral slci fairly well. Ho l Irrational and show" ed evidence of a gradual decline. This morning he was very weak, llix ircncral condition Indicates lils once- great vitality may fall ut any time." Dewey took cold right after tlirtKtniaM. At two o'clock thin afternoon III" physician posted a bulletin Having; the Admiral wax "slowly sinking." He said tlie ttrlniary condition was "arterial M'hlenMlN, arreting practically -vrcy organ, ewpeolally tlie kid ney am) brain." , Admiral Ifcwvny rwently rjtle hrauvt hi seventy-nlnlh blrtlHlay. He held an office receitlon then. Secretory Daniel and other ranking naval offlcerK attended. He worked In IiIh offli-e daily un til lu tannine ill lat week. The Irfivdclan mid old aire waa the primary can hp of the breakdown. MAY RENEW FIGHT OFF ARMED SHIPS WASHINGTON. Jan. 15. A possible renewal of last; year's fight over warning Am-j forecasted. Repre sentative Carey, of Milwaukee, intro duced a joint resolution con taining a warning. THEODORE SHAFER CALLED BY DEATH Theodore William Shafer, well known Pendleton machinist, died yes terday morning about 7:30 at St. An thony's hospital following an nines from typhoid fever of several weeks. The funeral was held this afternoo'i at 1:30 at the Folsom chapel and in terment was made In Olney cemetery. Deceased, who waa Sft years old, was a native of Nebraska. For the past fourteen or fifteen years he has been living about Pendleton. He was nn expert machinist and assisted at different times many of the farmers. Recently ho hnd been engineer on the county roller on the Rleth road. He contracted typhoid more than a month ago and had been In the hospital for four weeks. The father of the deceased, Theo dore A Rhafer of cre.sawell, Ore., and a brother, are In the city. 4 WREN FREEZE 10 DEATH IN STORM WINNIPKO, Jan. 15. Four school children were found fros- 4 en to death near Cadillac, Sask The boy left school Friday In tho ntldit of a bllunrd. A sis- 4 ter, aged thirteen, went to hunt the' boys. A fourth child later left the building. All perished on the prairie. When found tha 4. older girl had the two bovs by thA arms, apparently trying to rescue them. Ovide Beschamps l. th father of the victims. SERBIANS MAKE GERMAN PRISONERS DIG I C) A M These German prisoners In Serbia are resting a few minutes from their 0. A. C. SETS NOVEMBER 17 FOR FOOTBALL GAME IN PENDLETON November 17 has been set aside on the Oregon Agricultural College foot ball calender for a game in Pendle ton between the O. A. C, team on tha one side and the Whitman, University of Idaho or University of Montana on the other, according to definite word received this morning from T. Everett May, graduate manager of athletics at (). A. C. by the special committee ap pointed by the Commercial associa tion to carry on negotiations. . Mr May writea that at one time ar rangements had been made for such a game here on ThankHglving day but, since It has been decided t meet Ore. DOE IS FORCED TO MAKE HOME NEAR RAILROAD TRACK (East Oreon'an Sp.vii'' I MBACHAM, Jan 15. Geo. HUman. an engineer on the mountains, dis covered a doe half way lietween here and Kamela. It says in the tame place, as owing to the depth of snow It can t travel. It is exhausted. Pic tures were even taken of It. On Sat urday Mr. Ilillman took feed to It. He also reports seeing a lynx about 3 milus from here. MRS. TORGENSEN PASSES AWAY AT AGE OF 79 Wi ll Known Milton Woman Siivi'inl to Heart DIxiuhc After Several Years' IIIiicms, MILTON. Jan. 15. Mrs Engel Tor- geson. uged 79 years, passed away Friday evening at 7 p m. at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. Rasmussen on Chestnut street, with whom she has made her home for many yean The deceased had been a sufferer of heart trouble for several years. She was a native of Norway, coming to this country and settling In Oregon about 17 years ago. She was preceded In death by her husband some 40 years ago and also by three children, who are buried in Norway. She is survived by two daughters and a son. who are Mrs.. H. Rasmussen of Milton, Mrs. Sorgerson of Cerlew. Washington, and S. Torgi- son of Milton. The funeral will e held this aft ernoon at 2 o'clock from the home, Kev. Allen A. McRae, pastor of the rresbyterian church, officiating. In terment will be In the I. O. O. F. cemetery, Milton. MAY BE A SAXON; SAYS HE'S A FORD NEW YORK, Jan. IB. "What Is your name?" asked IJeutenant Mur ray of the West Forty-seventh street police station last night of a pretty young woman who had been brought there by William J. cullen. house de. tectlve of the Olarldge Hotel. "J. A. Ford," she answered. "What does the '.P stand for?" Murray queried: "Jane, Josephine, Johanna?" "Jitney,' Interrupted the girl. "I'm Jitney Ford, age twenty-six. and liva at No. 102 West Eighty-fifth street "I" Manager Eurney of the hotel said she reached the Clarldge at an early hour In the afternoon and began to write letters to guests. After she hud Lbeen there several hourg she was or dered out and objected. Then she was escorted to the station. The girl was handsomely dressed in white and wore white furs. "Jitney Ford" was sent to the nlghl court. task of digging dralnaxe ditches for their captor. All the available Ser- gon in Portland on that day. the only dale open Is November 17. He ha- written Whitman twice regarding such a game but as yet has received no answer. However, Idaho express, ed a willingness to play here on that date, "if you can arrange to have that date set aalde," he writea, "I can guarantee that we will have a good game arranged for the day. It will either be Whitman, Idaho or per. haps Montana. Mr. May appreciate the attitude of the Commercial association In re sponding so readily to the suggestion of an intercollegiate game here. GOVERNMENT UPHELD Siiweme Onm Decision in Favor of I'nlted States In the ""Mall Pay Ii-vision-' 0". j WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 The su preme court has given a decision in favor of the government against the railroads In the railway "mail pay dl visor" case. It involves the nillliom the government pays for mall trans, formation. The court sustained the decision upholding the postmastet general's reduced computation and compensation plan. Will BE ABANDONED EUREKA, Jan. 16 Naval men have practically decided to abandon the Milwaukee, Only the keel and bare skeleton will be left when t. dis mantling work Is completed. They will construct a trestle from shore to the wreck and remove everything portable. TO PKOBE ATTEMPTED Ml'RDER. SEATTLE, Jan. 15. Police and de tectives are probing the alleged at tempt to murder William Colberg, aged thirty, a longshoreman, and the girl he Intended to marry. Mamie Watson. 28. They were found uncon scious In a room here Sunday. The gas Jet was open. Pulmotors revived them. Hospital attendants said they would recover. The girl told the po lice another woman, their enemy, entered the room with milk. It was the lost she remembered before lad ing into unconsciousness. Ml RDEH TRIAL TOMORROW. S.VN ANTONIO, Texas, Jan. 15. Tho trial of Harry Spnnnell, on a charge of killing his wife and Major Butler of Alpine, Texas, In July, wn postponed until tomorrow. Defense witnesses had not arrived. Every body entering the courtroom wat searched by the sheriff. All soldiers were compelled to surrender all side, arms. MEXICANS SAW AVIATORS. SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 15. A search ing party reported that twelve Mexl. can soldiers Sunday saw Lieutenant Colonel Bishop and Lieutenant Rob ertson near Sierra Major, flying over Srra Mecha, twenty miles north west of the mouth of the Colorado river. They were flying eastward I DRAINAGE DITCHES I ! bian men are In the army and most of the manual labor is done by pris-' oners of war and Uie women. ! LONDON, Jan. 15. It IS announced the steamer Minne sota sank in a collision. She! went down by the head of a lock following the crash. The! vessel was unidentified. Shei is probably a thirty two hun dred ton steel steamer, owned , by the Atlantic Transport Com- pany and registered in London. ; ! NEW YORK. Jan. 15. The Atlan tic Transport Company offices said they had not heard from London re garding the steamer Minnesota, re ported sunk in a collision. When they last heard from the Minnesota she had arrived in London from Phila delphia. She is under British registry SOCIALIST LEADER IS IMPRISONED 4V2 YEARS Carl IJebknecht, Head of AntMVar A (Citation Is Also F,velled from the German Bar. ZURICH. Jan. 15. Reriin reported that Carl Liebknecht, the Herman o. cialist leader, was sentenced to four and a half years' Imprisonment at hard labor and expelled from the bar. He led the anti-war agitation SIFTHAGETTES R.VIOEI). LONDON. Jan. 15. The police twice spectacularly raided suffraget tes They entered the woman's social political union printing office and seiz ed forthcoming Issues of Britannli. the woman's organs. They entered the flat of Annie Kenny and Grace Roe, Mrs. Pankhurst's private secretary and ransacked private papers and cor respondence. Mrs. Pankhurst said. 'The only reason I can assign for the raids is Brittannia's recent criticism of the government, particularly that sec tion of the government favoring com promise peace." ATTACK EXPECTED DAILY. i. GALVESTON. Jan. 15. Passengers from Tampico said a Vlllista attack was expected dally. The bandits have seized the Monterey railroad. Ift to right: Representatives nessee; Koiien l. Henry, oniinnan. S. Rennet. New York, and Burnett M ill nni ii in inif i oltARIOUNh ! III COB ! i HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE AT WORK ON "LEAK" I a ' IrrU-. -in Si) (t) ijikSw'S H . ' n ' ( J """""C"-' r:,'1;.L; jj j ' 8t H S mmmmm' v " ' j! K B ''"fflm'l U w' ; ; . v -l.OM' - - y. 1 R i m ,.i iMMllialWWXimil iihiii I i im r -i r""" """'Tt ' , SEEKS TO y f JAPANESE PROPERTY SALEM. Jan. 15. Senator Wil bur of Hood I'.iver. introduced a bill to prevent Japanese owning or controlling property within Oregon. It is similar to the Cal ifornia law which caused a na tional dujcujision. Wilbur eaid Japanese were rapidly acquiring large land holdings in his coun ty. The bill is intended to pre vent further acquisitions. Sena ator Lewis said similar laws had been enacted in California, Wash ington, Illinois, Minnesota, Ken tucky, Oklahoma and Texaa. IIOWMAN BIIJj PASSES HOUSE. The house passed Bowman's bill amending the law regarding estraya. It also passed the Laur gaurd bill fixing the fiscal year for the public service com mission, so the business ends with the close of the calendar year. It passed the bill rais ing the salary of the Sherman county school superintendent to fifteen hundred a year and passed the Deschutes county delegation's bill regulating the time for hold ing court in the eighteenth Ju dicial district IIIH TEXT BOOK KILL OFrT3HEII Representative Tichenor of Curry and Coos counties, present ed a bill providing for the publi cation of free text books for use in all state public schools. It provides for a text book board consisting of the governor, state treasurer and superintendent of public instruction, VKTKHAXS X)NSIDEKED. Senator Smith of Coos intro duced a bill granting veterans, their wives and widows, free peddling licenses. 'worm heimbuhse ben son. The state highway commission favors reimbursement to Simon Benson for the $22,000 worth of road work he has done at his own expense in Columbia county, Protected road work amounting to several thousand dollars was discussed but it is anticipating that the legislature may create a new commission or board, the members of the present commis sion decided not to take definite action on any appropriation. HIGH INTEREST HATES HIT. With one opposing vote, the senate took a crack at the high interest rates prevailing in cen tral and eastern Oregon counties by passing Senator Pierce's bill r-ducing the legal contract Inter est rate from 10 to 8 per cent, and reducing the regular legal interest rate from six to five per cent. The opposing vote was cast by Senator Cusick of Linn and Lane . counties, a banker, who based his opposition on the statement that the reduction of the lesal rate of interest to six per cent would force too heavy a discount on county warrants. Several other senators spoke against fixing the legal rate at 5 MENTIONED IN WASHINGTON. Jan. 15. Thomas Lawson has resumed his leak probe testimony. He declared Chairman Henry" of the committee told him a cabinet member profited by rumors regarding the president's peace note. He said "he heard" McAdoo was Involved in sharing in the alleged leak profits. James c. Cantrlll, Kentucky; Martin D. (,1100 UN H irxiis; rump r. Campbell. Kansas; Irvine L Lenroot, Wt 'hii erfield. Illinois. f JJDE ANY 0M OWNING IN OREGON per cent hut supported the mea sure. "There is a portion of this state where the contract interest rate Is 10 per cent," said Senator Pierce. "Struggling farmers and stockmen are paying banks and money lenders that rate. The bill will help many who need assistance." Senator Shanks, another rep resentative of the eastern por tion declared many people have been driven out of his section by the high interest rates they were forced to pay. AID FOIt SOLDIERS' FAMILIES rRGED. The biennial report of Acting Adjutant General Wolson strong ly recommends that the state pro vide for the support of depend ents of the enlisted man while he Is in service. Adjutant General Wilson points out the hardships imposed on the families of many sent to the border with the mi litia. "The pay of enlisted men Is In adequate to provide any measure of support for dependents." points out the report.. "It seems reasonable and Just that the state should make provision and in the future take care of the depend ents of the man patriotic enough to enlist themselves in the mili tia In response to the call of duty without leaving them to the mer cy of charity." CLUB BIDS UP IN PORTLAND MARKET CHICAGO. Jan. 15. (Special to the East Oregonlan) Range of pri ces today: Open. High. Low. Close. May tl.854 $186 J1.S5 tl.8t July 1.494 150 I1.48H l.Vt Portland. PORTLAND, Ore.. Jan. 15. tSpeci al) Club S1.C1; bluestem $1.67. VIENNA MAN INVENTS WAY TO MAKE CLOTH OF NETTYE FIBER Reports to Washington Say Samples Show That Substitute for Cot ton Haa Been Found. WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. Perfec tion of a method for making cloth out of the fiber of the stinging nettle, it is claimed, may make Germany and Austria independent of cotton Im ports. Reports to the department of com merce, telling of the invention of the method of Dr. Ritchter of Vienna, say that samples of the cloth prove that fabric produced from the nettle fiber can be used for any purposes to which pure cotton fabric heretofore have been put. 'ISTORFF AND til LAWSON TESTIMONY Committeemen asked Lawson whether he intended to Involve Lan sing. He replied, "I have held the names of Lansing and the German ambassador out. until now." He said he heard the names of Lansing and Bernard Baruoh mentioned. Poster, Illinois-. Finis J. Garrett. Ten I'lisin: Willi. mi r nniinT he uuuni ml! ACT CONSTITUTIONAL Declares Nothing in Act Limits Application to Purely Com mercial Vice; Diggs-Camin-etti Conviction Affirmed. DAY READS THE DECISION JiLHtices White. McKenna and Clarke Dissent: Juwtii-e Mclteynokl Dona Not Participate in Ruling. WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. The so preme court held the Mann act appllei to noncommercial vice. They upheld its constitutionality and affirmed tha conviction of Maury I. Dlggs and F. Drew Caminettl. charged with a vio lation of the law when they took Lola Norris and Marsha Warrington to Re no In March 1913. Dlggs serves two years and is fined two thousand. Caminettl eighteen months and is f:ned fifteen hundrjd dollars. Justice McReynolds did not parti cipate in the decision, on account of teing attorney general In the White case now pending. Chief Justice W hite and Justices McKenna ami Clarke dissented. Day read the de cision. He said congress plainly had the right to regulate the transporta tion of passengers In Interstate com merce and forbid the transportation of women for Immoral purposes. He said there was nothing in the act lim iting it to commercial vice. 10,000 CAHISTAS ARRiVE AT TORN WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. The state department learned that ten thousand Carranzis tas have arrived at Torreon from the south. It is officially hinted the Mexicans are ready to occupy the territory Per shing evacuates when he with draws. EVERY AUTO HAN IN CITY TO COOPERATE I Kulcr In Cars and Acceseoties To-ntix-r With Repair Men Jot a HniiiLs to Make Auto Show the Big ;i and Bwt Ever. L.rr.. auto dealer In the city, every "in o handles tires and automo bile accessories and every auto repair nan in Pendleton has been enlisted in the movement to stage a record automobile show at the Happy Can yon pavilion early In February. The ready and enthusiastic response to the li.ea assures a show that will be characterized by the usual Pendleton success. The committee In charge made the rounds Saturday afternoon and met with not a single refusal to co-operate. Other business men of the city, too, are ready to encourage and aid the show. The automobile men are going to give liberally of their cash as well as of their time toward making the first ennual auto show of Pendleton the best ever held In a small city In the rorthwest. They are now negotiat ing with men who have had experi ence In staging such shows and ex pects to announce some of their plans In the near future. DANIELS PLANS 10' FIGHT HIGH PRICES V. Ill Fipilp Nnvv Yards to luillil fme Third of M Mill- and Kiipplb- But Mav Take llo-r Entire ProdiH--lion if Miiiilaturvn k Kxhor bitant Prhv WASHINGTON. Jan t V --Secretary l'anlels told the house navy commit tee he plans to eipilp the navy yurd to build one third of ail shll'B and manufarture a third of all neeewtary munitions. In event nianufw turers demand unreasonable price lunili will have the yard build two thlrd of the supplies. n event eihnrbl. ' n- price are asked the inrds will 1 nil everything onnnrM ournci HOLDS