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CITY OFFICIAL PAPER
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPEB
VOL. 28
DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, MONDAY,, JANUARY 15, 1917.
NO. 9019
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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
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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
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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
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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