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COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER
CITY OFFICIAL PAPER
VOL. 29
DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1918.
NO. 9367
RUSSIA ACCEPTS GERMANY'S PEACE TERMS
ji- ' ..... . t.i,v .
EMPIRE IS
IN HANDS OF HUNS
Pan Soviet Executive Committee. Agrees
by Big Vote; Austria Signifies Willing
ness to Conclude Separate Peace With
Slavs; Face of Europe Changed hy
Treaty; German Force Reach Jitomir
PETROGRAD, Feb. 25. The Pan-Soviet executive
committee agreed today to accept German peace by a big
vote. The bolsheviki occupied Bostoff, the Cossack
stronghold, and street fighting continues.
Austria Willing for Slav Peace.
PARIS, Feb. 25. According to radio messages from
Switzerland, Foreign Minister Czernin wired Leon Trot
sky, -"Austria, with her allies is w illing to conclude a se
parate peace with Russia," replying to Trotsky's recent
query regarding this.
Russia Impotent in Huns Hands 1
(By Ed L. Keen)
LONDON, Feb. 25. Russia's acceptance of Germany's
peace terms changes the face of Europe. It cuts 381,000
square miles of territory and fifty million population
from Russia, and cuts her off from the Baltic, leaving
her impotent in Germany's power both economically and
physically. Some papers are insisting the move is the
result of treachery but all agree that Russia was worsted
in the bargain.
Helpless Hefore ficrmuny.
rKTIC:illAI. l'c'i. '-" 'When
the world- iiroletarlat iranin to itr
Mhi. Wll reiH-w the fight. Wo ore
IvplpImM, (jrrnwiiy'H fciiejn are on our j
client." I.rnlno tohl tlie 1'iin-Htivlel. I
urging the net vptniifo of rinlii ;
terms. The 0iMisltion liettl the lit
ttluiHX woulll nuike Hn-slil tier- ;
niany's vuhkuI. The nuirtliiK last four j
hours. I
.Iltmiilr Is Occupied.
Ilerllll. I'eh. 25. The (iermiul
forces hae reai heil .litiiiulr, the prin
LOCAL ODD FELLOWS
BEST DEGREE TEAM;
Integrity Lodge No. 29 Cap
tures Prize at the Dist
rict Convention.
Integrity Jidge No. !ii captured
tho prl.e for having the best degree
team In the county Saturday at the
district convention In Stanrield which
was attended by 50 odd 1'VHows. In
competition with the teams from
Freewater. Weston, Adams and Stau
fleld the local team exemplified the
llnltlatory work In n way that won u
decision from tho. judges. Inci
dents as a part of the fruits of vic
tory the team w ill Set a trip to Walla
Walla for the Washington . grand
lodge session in June. I'ast Grand
Master Kellogg making the an
nouncement Just before the drill.
Individual prliTs were awarded as
follows: Unit noble grand. Adams
Indite: best past grand. Integrity
Indite. Pendleton; best
Freewater: best warden
best chaplain. Stunfielil.
conductor.
Weston;
I
Milton wan selected as the place for
the 1!U convention which will proh- j
Hbly lie held In Freewater
McKwen of that city
president with It. 1"
wateri vlco-presldoiif.
wa elected j
Itean of Free- ,
J. VI. ileum of j
I'endleton and Joe Uailey of Kcho
were re-elected secretary and treas
urer, respectively.
The convention lasted from 111 a.
in. Saturday to 5 a. m. Sunday and
there was "something doing" every
minute of the time. The Slnnrield
"dd Fellows proved themselves splen
did hosts. In the evening they pro
vided a IKioverized banuuet which
was served In one of the big fruit
warehouues with apple boxes as
chairs. i
Orand Master Ceorge W. Trctren
and Orand Secretary K. K. Sharon ;
were both present and all lodges ot !
the county were well represented.
AMERICANS KILLED
BY MEXICAN BANDITS
WSAH1NOTON. Febv2.". One Am-1
erlcan was killed and two wounded ,
by Mcxlcun bandits attacklnv a pay-
hr.Jt en route to Tampieo. They were
oil company employes. The state
department has asked Carranza to
in vest (gale,
IMPOTENT
clpal city of Viilhyniu. At lEoviio. all
the Mwlal Itiissiiun army's wneral
staff hut the eoniiiiaiitler wen; rap
tured. lVriiuil on the tinlr of Itlga
Is otfiipittl. ' IKopnl ami IWHMI prison
ers wrni taUen hy storm trtmiis. Tht
t-ertiuiiis lime t'litfrttl Verkuus, l-'lll-IiiikI.
after 1 1ntent fighting.
ts Costly Ieaee.
AMSTBItDAM. Kel). I'.'.. The Vi
enna Zeitung says the Itusslan separ
ate peace is a cosily victory as the
I other allies will now war to the bitter
i end. Knslgn Kryklcnkn was shot In
the neck by a socialist. The wound
I i-i not dangerous.
SURVIVORS STILL .'
ARE IN HOSPITALS
Northwest Boys on Tusca- i
nia Under Care of Doctors i
in Foreign Ports.
... , mvi -tov I.-..K "-. e:vtv.
.. I. ,.f ll. lr.n.nrl Tns-
cania. sunk by a Herman submarine
February fi. still ale In Irish hospls
als. uccording to the war departinent
last niKht.
None of the men Is in serious con
dition and It Is expected that all of
them will he discharged from the
hospitals within u short time.
I-orty of the wounded and sick
men are at l,ondnnderry. 1H at Larhe
three at Helfast und one at Dublin.
Those at Londonderry Include:
William H. Curtis, Marshfield. r.
Charles W. Melntoch. JU'llinghain.
Wash.
l'lwurd J. J'rterman, Itend, Or.
Lester U Smith, (lalico. ore.
ieorge A. Klelrlln, Kerndale. Wash.
Rex C Orser, KoosUia, Idaho
ljiureueo X. Kiley. Seattle. Wash.
Harrison F. Hates, ruyallup.
Wash.
Wallle M. Ho.ealton. Oohnrg. 're.
(ins Johnsoh. Ueedspurt. tr,
Wilhtdm I'hrlstensen, an Francis
co. Roy O. Houston. Redding. Oil.
Ktull L. .Johnson, Mendocino, Oil.
Those at Lame Include:
Karl I. Ilinkley. (iobel. Wash.
William ii. Lee. t'hico, Cal.
Clarence c. Norgren, R. F. 1. N.x
ti, Vancouver. Wash.
Warren A. liiacknian, Oliver (Julch
Mont.
Lewis C. J 'ereii a. La mi Inal is. Oil.
Harry A. Benedict Mount Vernon.
Wash.
Louis C. Rllm. Duftir. n.
John L. InHiie, Portland, Or.
1(H) AFTO.MOUILKS Rl'ISX.
rjolOXTdX, Alia.. Vvh.
huiHlretl ami ten quests escaiM'd ilowti
flreiiM-n's ladileix w hen th New
lnr hind hotel hiirnc this morning.
A Kara ire adjoining- uhs ilestroet and
1(H) ttutonioldles hurnetl.
l'KK NICHOLAS TO UK TRII.R.
.MUCH. .y. .V Cirand Riikc
,.ioln, imele of the e-eir ami
former coimiiniidcr f ilit Russian
annii's. is t Im Irlrd by the liolsheiiki
OM rt harv of high lirtisim. Itreslau
ii'Hrts.
four Governors Will Meet
in the Chicago Congress
7 1?sw jF
-it
il
I RANK O LOWUfiN, ILL.
COV RICHARD I.MflNNING.SCAR
OOV.J A A BUNQUI5T, MINN.'
OWjCrlARLU 5.WH1I MAN, N.A
At least fo
go rl-liors
f import
ant states will be among the dele
gates to the National Service t'on-
!t,Ti'UH to be held in Chicago next week
uimer ino auspic
under tho auspices of the National
Security Lea mi e. Resides ; over nor
Lowden of Illinois, ihere will ho Gov
ernor Richard 1. Miinninu of South
Carolina, Jovernor John A. A. 1 li r,n
quist of M innesota. ami Charles S.
Whitman of New York.
LAYETTE WORKERS
MEET WEDNESDAY
The first meet ing o!
ers will be held Wedm
at two o'eloek In the
loum of (he high sehn
lavette work
sday afternoon
Dtmieslie Art
d. All parent
tt achers jicojile and ot he rs
ale urged to attend Tin
are for the relief of Re
French refugees a nd t he i
gent.
iut erestcd
garments
uian and
ecu is ur-
HAVE UNTIL APRIL 1
TO MAKE RETURNS
Portland, ore.. Feb. RUs.
I'M it or Hast ( u-egon la 11 : I
I would be glad if von would an
nounce In your paper that the time
for filing income tax returns has luen
extended from March I to April 1 .
RMS. This applies to the returns of
hid iv id it a Is as w ell as com Tat ions.
In a con vernal ion wit h some Cm at il-
la county residents today I was in-,
formed that the impression pic vail- !
there that the extension applied- only'
to corporal ions.
While it is desirable, of course, that
all returns be filed with a- little de
lay as pos-Ude, this extension of time
may be taken advantage of by those
who are unable to make their returns 1
on account of not having received
their blanks as promptly as nsanl.
Thanking- you for our consider; -t
ion. and wit h regards and 1'vM
w ishes. I am
Sincerely yours,
MILTON A. MI1.I.KR.
GERMANS PLAN
UPRISING OF
Feels it Would Create Dan-
r-j.. i 4 X
gei'OUS oltUatlOn tO IveaiV
of Allies in the West.
! PROPAGANDA LETTER
IS MADE PUBLIC ;
I -GOldman and Jtferkman KjO-
W i
operating With Hun
Spies Abroad.
i MOW VOHK, IVh. 25. ,h,lm 1H--i
Voyt former editor of Ih? ,jh Im -m-frkan
dircftod the tiei-man ct' forts to
laiiiirh a revolution in Ireland a-oi'(l-Jiik
to letters lie wrote, it in aiinoiiiieed
Krtay. lie cluinis all the eredit for
tlm uiisiut-esslul urins shipment to
Ireland, saying Sir Jlouer t'a-seinent
had no more to do with it than the
"man in the moon." lie deserilx-d
the hi" J'einii means of eoininiiiilea-
tion and fold how an intereeled
jneHsjiHi.' from llerlin lKtray'd the
4erniin landing; of urins in Ireland.
He blames Casment for the reliellion s
failure and says ;ermuiiy furiifshetl a
Hood sum of money for the work.
i (ROBERT J- IJKXIjKR.)
AVAHINGTOX, Feb. G.-niiuny
haw launrhof a determined effort to
rjiu.se a Spanish upriKinir unt swin;
the Spaniwh army to the Ti-utmis, now
that Russia is t-Iiminatt-'l. i-ici'inu ny
feels this will create a dHnuer.UK situ
aliun to the I'fur of the allies in the
west. American military offieers to
day permit the publication of a pro
paganda letter (lennany is circulat
ing in the Spanish armies. In nddi
tmii, flcrmaii asrnt.s lire Roekinti" to
.split, the army and commercial men.
letters show John Ievoy. former el
ltr .f the suppressed Jaelic-Ameri-ctm
directed tlic ;erman attempt to
ship arms to the Sinn-Feiners. lOmnui
fioldman and Uerkman are apparently-
coitperatinsr Ith the (b-rman
sides ahroaad. The letter to t he
Spanish troops pan tiers their vanity,
and seeks to show it is ignoble to re
main in the barnu-ks while ot her
armies are winning flory. It hints
the (lernian officers are ready to as
sist in war preparation.
IxMter f ound hi California.
i I evo 's letter was found on
the
premises of Lawrence Dclacey when
.the latter was arrested in California
for conspiring to free the interned
tierman Consul Ueneral riopp. It
: blamed America for the failure of the
: plot through giving England the in
formation received in raiding Igels of
j fiee at New York. It said Germany
'ordered him to deal directly with the
Germans in America m engineering"
the rebellion. The letters involving
Uerkman and CoMman were from a
Hindu now in 1'erlin seeking- to oraa-
nize a Hindu revolt in collaboration
with .the German loieign ouiec. ii
as us i ii'i h mil ii ii n .'nil it in i "i i iv-
movement and supplied a code for
cabling purposes.
r.KITlNH AR M I LI
Ai "i i i ;
Lt NIi 'N.
in iimr ra ids
ImP.
on Hi
There were
I'.ritish front. 'u
the French f
ut. ar;illeiy Is active
where the America n
a i mm no i a iui i e. nviv i m- .-a ii i vi iv .i ii
Tanners are aiding the 1-rencn: also
in th" Chanipanne region and upper
ANace. Flench laids were success-
ful north id' Ailetie. The liritish in
Moopotamia occupied Khana-lhi-
i'ayat. are tmw within ten miles of
Hit. ou the Muphraies west if Hag-
tlad.
SPANISH ARMY
AMERICAN STARTING OUT TO PHOTOGRAPH ENEMY LINES
d' the aeroplane bod is ;
o-s to phot, uraph them f
ns are r. Kularly e I mg o
rutan
A men
PARITY P
$10,000,0
FOR UM..HLLA COUNTY
The wheat jjrice for the comlnKlwa prohibitive, and assisted in mar-
harvest has been fixed at the came
flKure us lu.vt year, $2.-0 per bushel
Chicago and the I.'nlted Stales ship- -(flowers who were penalized in
pin? board has granted such a rate freight rates because they live far !
by water from northwest points to away from the places named as pri
New York that inland empire farmers mary markets, after the ships upon
win virtually oe on a parity v.im
those lining Chicago as a terminal,
The water rate fixad is $3.50 per;
ton and it is estimated that this ar-
rangenient will make a price of S:'.11
at Portland or Seattle. I-ocal farm-
ers will be charged with the local
rate to tidewater, eight and a half
cents per bushel and other charges of ;
various natures.
At the Farmers Union office today
! trw1!i-t,ti...l ..-oil .... nr.,-,.,.-,. t I, .ni?
farmers will receive IT cents more
for their wheat than they did last
year. The local price is fixed at
something like $2.04.
Ten Million I-ossible.
fin a basis of a five million bushel
crop the price fixed would mean over
it was roughly estimated that our
crop, or considerable more than dou-
ide the normal price received for the
crop of the county.
The I'ortland Journal's "Washing -
ton corresponoeni gives neriiert
ten million dollars for Umatilla's
price granted the northwest, with
Hnni(,
lira se also for Senator .Mc.Narv
and none for Julius liarnes, head of
the grain corporation.
The Journal correspondent says:
"Wheat growers of the northwest,
successful at last in securing a mar-
ket on an equality w ith growers In
other parts of the country, have Food
Administrator Herbert C Hoover es -
pecially tod thank for the recogn!-
tion they have gained.
Mr. Hoover earnestly took up their
cause after the shipping board had
named an ocean freight rale w.h it'll
WASHIN-C.TO.V, Feb.
Urging
PROFITEERING IS THROTTLING
NATION DECLARES MTlfBER
the passage of his "labor conscrip- mobilization. Three fourths of it is1 -i rpi U'n r-ny
tion" bill. Senator Jlefumher declar- I being wasted now." He said over six SUSpeCteCl. 1 lie Snip Car
ed "Capital and labor and the bolshe- million men in the United States ' rie(J 136.
viki of America, the profiteers." are I were not doing remunerative labor: rp ' r 1- Kcirro n nf
threatening the nation in its hour of (and (Jiiii.i)nii mors should be obtained! I IlG TCSCUe WOTK Degan dt
trouble. This profiteering is "en- I by substituting women in certain lines rlnwn fishinpr Craft. Sailors
government." He warned the Amer-
jean iieojile would lie heard from if j
the evil is not corrected. He cited
Hop Island as a capitalist ic bolshe vi
kism and the attitude of the shipyard
labor, especially on the Raciffc coast
which he charged is '"shamefully and
disgracefully slack iiiK"' as an ex
ample of working mens bolshevik ism.
lie charged iompers is unable t
handle the laboring men who are in
the grasp of unscrupulous leaders.! i, , ...
The bill requires the registration of 1,,Mth ,itM ,l,K,,t hrouiht l" "ll pnd
;in males IS to Si ears old; it classi- the Ilft "f J"hn 11 hmS time resi-
fies them by occupatiins; authorizes jdent of Fnuitilia and once one of he
railing any class into war work with 'best known anil mot prosperous
iiieral pay; dees not require drill or
u in i ((miis. mm noes inn i u len ere on
employment and riuht to contract for
labor.
Neel For Sliips Imperative.
"Never before have we so needert
ships. Never before has the cause of
demoeraev. the cause of these very la
borers needed ships as today. Tho
very life of t he cause depeVids upon
ship construct inn. Rut what's union i
in uur oomg in mis ia n ic 4 in 1 no snip-
y;trds its slacking shamefully. After
th Hog- Island site was purchased by
capital and the foundation laid on
graft, is it natural Urn the super-
structure should be ot the same fab-
rie. Fvery act. eontraci and expen
iliture has been wildly extniwit: t.
We have human energy to win th
ii -an piio'omap
f li.1 A tcerie 1 )
ANS
: cA r crop
' xhalinir the facts which showed the;
Justice of the contention of those;
h men iney orumaiiiy uriirnu i":
been taken by the government. !
"Chairman Hurley of the shipping,
beard comes In for a share of thanks, j
also, because when the whole matter 1
was laid before him he took a broad ;
view of it. a nd readily agreed to apply j
the remdy In the form of a reduced j
freight rate. It was a new question
(n him and it develops that whm he
letter
first sent .Senator Mc.Nary
ii. .; .... til r.H frAii-hl rutA Via had
not been fully apprised as to what
this involved.
"He had been told that this Just
about covered the cost of carrying
; the wheat to the Atlantic seaboard, SI, J OxlI o, fCD. 11 IS
' and he naturally supposed that in Kplipyed todaV that 102 DF
offering to carry it at cost he was UC1IC cu tuuaj ?
making a fair offer. When he learn- lSneu.
, ed later on that such a rate meant ScenS Of indeSCrlbablC
' that no wheat would be shipped by . . . . - - .
; water; that the railroads would thus tierOlSm in We taCe Ot SeFIOUS
i be given a burden thy ought not toQflflc Continued to &rriVC 3S
, war; mat norinwesi 3fiwers wouia
be diseribinated against to the extent-
of the freight rate if the ships are not
used for wheat: and when It wua
pointed out that the ships and wheat
ihoth owned by the government, the:
! logical thing to tlo is to put the wheat j ST. JOHNS, N. F., Feb.
i in the ships and send them across or TPnH'V 51 1 Tvi Vfl rS Wfrf
. the water to meet the war needs of - 1 0 0"iVUI& wcic
the nation, Mr. Hurley saw the point, removed frOHl the Wrecked
"Senator Charles L. McNary also ! f mo- Trinyiol ti,-rior if Vlif
1 plays an imitt.rtant part in this little .Steamer r lOI , VUlCIl It Hit
drama of the wheat. The Oregon the TOCKS near Cape KaCe
senator was a schoolmate of Herbert ,. orrln V Thp l'PllPrl 1T1-
I'. Hoover at Salem. Ore., and they , , , ? ' , . covu?"
met last year in Washington on the ClUded the Captain and IirSt
basis of old chums.'' jofficerS Several bodies
i war and win quickly, hut it needs
'form.
DEATH TAKES AGED
UMATILLA RESIDENT:
, "
sm.(1J
He die. at tho county
hosjtital wliere he had been for sever
al ears. His t-xin't ae is not known
but he was near
Twenty-f i vt- ears or more ao he
owned Und .-o;:t h of I'endleton and
was rngag'd in the sheep business c-x-teilsi
el . He was e. united w ell-to-do
in those tlas but ia'er he met with
-erses vliM li stripped him of alt
ius j , j-
i-perty.
He is survi
who live m .-';
thi Taker
funeral arr.ii;
made,
.
T, .. r, ,ii;y t
an. I i:ii;;:t 1
,1 b;
t n
The
Pari
ha vi
daughters
body is at
rs and r.o
et been
Ik,
t 11"
i" stated around
I'ther iiian lift--.
.s
1
ti
1.
1
"-T"imirV.lfctT
r w ith h:;
Ida r-' ho! 1
l.HMI'I.I
n; d ' w m
on a
of th-
TREACHERY IS
SUSPECTED IN
VESSEL'SWRECK
Hun Agents Believed to
Have Fixed Compass
Throwing Ship off Course
FORTY SURVIVORS
ARE REMOVED TODAY
Steamer Hits Rocks Near
Cape Race Yesterday
During Gale.
fishermen battle the moun
tainous waves in small dor-
I washed ashore. Ireacnery
aboard the Florizel is be
llieved to have caused the
! wreck, as it seems impos
sible that Captain Martin,
one of the best known navi
gators, would take his ship
, 15 miles off the course. It is
believed the compass was
"fivorl " dot-mrm ncrpntI nrp
&LLU. aiXC ectvcio
joining in
the seemingly impossible
I task of getting the survivors
!ashore.
UNFAIR COMPETITION
13 CHARGED AGAINST
38 MID WEST FIRMS
Federal Trade Commission
Files Complaint; Bribery
Methods Used.
WASHINGTON. I eh. 2r. The fed
eral trade commission inlay filed
complaints against iiH middle west
comvriw.' alleging unfair cominHUloii
methods.. They charge the firm-- with
-ti fling: and Mipirefsin:r tinniH.-lUion
through the laxish entertainment of
competitor-' employes, secret pay
ment or money u eiitItes o-f cn-o-iiihs
ulm might thrlM. hny geKls
from the enmtiie- finite, and in one
li;-tainv. with the adulteration of iho
'in pel i tors" chkIs.
SPRING DRIVE IS
NEEDED IN AMERICA
t FKKI (;. FKRG1S -N 1
AMI'.IIli "A N FK'tST, Feb.
America need-; a spring drive .tr hm
to aid the army put over the p'.n. '1
she must give German... lb r oil;, w .
and nun are m-t vaoio mg a bo n tb
Germans. The r- learning -ill in
wartime t ricks. i ut from here. -.."ea
S"e;iii l l-'Ser to the tM'il. h s
than tho trenches seem fo the M!.
erica ns at home. Its evident. ben
that war 111 u! no-a n as nun !i to l h.
. H.lg'-S PI A ! I I f ! e l it 1 file ;1 I lg S I '1
Frane,. the ,Mii , ; f r'efe n.-e b-iti.; th.it
the former are spared the .l.iri.;. r of
raids and demolition. Holding a
freight car in the nmiitrv village of
Ameriea today tu i be refleet-'d in the
front line trero-hen tomorrow , w hen
the men of that village tint v (
standing on the firing1 st-. Freight
conK"Mion home mean d bt . ,1,4
suppins shipp.d h-re. The imI
short a e 1 d.-l j 1 riir the ... i no ,f
suppl ships.