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DAILY EVE!i!!!G EDIT! 311 The onvonla to fsrct Or ton's greates newmpaprr aa a selling forrw Gives Ut Its dvertlsree over win Umi cireulatkm Petudia. urn ami I mat-llla rownty of any ohe newMper, DAILY EVENING EDITION Number copies primed of xestorday's pally KdiUoa, 2,825 ' Tbla paper In me-nnrr ana audited by the Audit Duirau l Circulations. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER VOL. 31 PFSFRIATIflfllSTR . iwiiiw i nnnnmr m mr ODccnv Annor v 01 LLUI rtUUI Ho. ' Hope to Hasten Ratification of Treaty After Wilson's Warning on Prices. WILL GRASP APPEAL TO WIN CONTENTIONS Consider Statement Blam ins: President for With holding Documents, Delay WASHINGTON, Aug-. II. "Mild ' reservatlonlsts" In the senate are to day displaying new activity In an at tempt to hasten ratification 'of the peace treaty. In line with President Wilson's warning; that living; eondltl one will not ko down to stay until there la real peace. A conference has been arranged between senators favoring mild reservations and Senator Lodge, leader of the group which demands I rune reservations. The conference will meet In the hope of bringing- af fairs to a stage where they can con vince Democrats the time has come to insure quick sctlon on the treaty, Ilesontmoitt Voiced. Wilson's opponents In the senate are voicing- resentment at what they term the "scantiness" of Information which he sent to the capital In re sponse to resolutions asking for steno graphic records of the peace confer ence and other documents to throw more light on the Paris proceedings. Consider Accusation. They are known to be considering Is suing a statement to the country In which they will assert that Wilson while urging speedy ratification of the treaty. Is delaying the process by withholding; information. EGHO-PENDLETON ROAD MOTORISTS' How Is the road bctwee.i Etbo end Pendleton?" Hundreds who are planning tc cme here for this year's Round-Up are-asking that one ouestlon; sceord Inc f Will M. Peterson. Fendletsn attorney, who, with Mrs. Peterson and children, returned from a five weeks' vacation at Seaside last ven Iti Memories of that on 3 stroich linger in the minds of all whi have ever come here by auto for the bl slK.w, Mr. Peterson says. The Round-Up Is being talked of In Seaside, Astoria, Portland, every where the Petersons stopped. Every one seems to want to motor here, Mr. Peterson says, and the Echo-Pendle. ton road Is the bugaboo. The . beaches ore thronged with people. Mr. Peterson says. There are no vacant hous-ns at 8eask'e nnd "11 the hotels nre overcrowded. The In land empire, bus contributed more than usually to the sojourners at the seashore. UMATILLA CO. IAMBS AT TOP IN CHICAGO Chicago stock markets are coming Into their own egnln, according to m. ir Hmvtho shreD shipper, who returned from Portland this morn Mr Rmvtha received word from -tl.. tnv that a tminload of lambs put on th- market there yes. ...Anv.hrnuiht 517.15 a hundred. Th.v' worn shipped about ten days Hmvihn Bros., from Sloan, The price brought by the Umatilla ,, tnnilui vn ine iou uuw - r-hio vesterday. Owlntr to I recent riots in Chicago and the .v.-t.nxri rallrioad tieupL Chicago : m hut 10.000 lambs offered yester- ...... .,ii t Omaha. 89.000 were v placed on the market. The price at ' -hien,ro i thus held up to a good Th. hi packers are operating about 80 per; cont to capacity now and It Is thought that the danger shippers la past. Another tralnload will go easf tomorrow from one of their Idho ranges for Bmythe Bros. "Itlowont" imlc Announced. SARATOGA. Wjro.. Aug. 12. Sar atogas annual "blow out,'' at which fresh trout from the Platte river and ' tributaries will be served at a free barbecue, will be held September J and 8. There will be wild west sports and other entertainments. PRIZE FOR CHAMPION COWBOY AGAIN OFFERED BY MAGAZINE Police Gaxette, national scportsmens - weekly, today notified the Round-Up ! association that the Police Gaxette 1'clt, awarded to the world's champion all-round cowboy, would he offered again this year. The belt has been of fered by the Police Gaxette each year since 1912 and is evidence that the piaguxine considers the Tendleton "vorn Currency Jundled Off for ,17,500 Worth of New v- . renteen thousand five hun- worth of torn, worn, Hinted currency several bundles and ral reserve bank today, by the American National Itank, to tie replaced with nv crisp bills. The shipment was the accumulation of about three months, evidence that there Is considerable money in circulation In this city. Five dollar bila are the hardest tilt by wear nnd tear, the bind ers say. Most of those in the shipment wer-s of that ' variety. Federal reserve notes in the . shipment are reissued as such and distributed without discrimi nation to banks but ban notes are replaced rnd sent tj their home bank hv the U. 8. treasury department. S'ew bank titles are constantly belnK received 'by the liial banks as their old etii.-incy In mutilated ird sent to the re serve bank by other Int.-ltut'onn throughout the country. 4 GOLD SAVED FROM - ILL FATED .VESSEL QUKBNSTOWtl, Aug. 12. Five million dollars In gold bullion have been saved from the hulk of the British liner Laurentlc, mined In 1917. It la learned today. Salvage op erations are proceeding on otner vessels which were carrying gold and sliver bars and coins when sunk by the Cfermans. REVOLVER PURCHASE REQUIRES A PERMIT Complaints at the office of Roscoe Kealor. district attorney, of IgaSM- tlons of the law by hardware men and othen .firms which sell pistols and revolvers, has led to the issuance of a statement ay the office, given in the belief that the violations are due to a nilsiinderstnndlns of the law. According to Chapter 26. General laws of Oregon. 1913, It Is unlawiui for? any person. firm or corporation to display for sale at retail any pock et pistol or revolver. It also makes it unlawful to sell at retail, barter, give away or dispose of the same to any person whomsoever excepting a policeman, memter of the militia or peace officer of the state of Ore gon, unless tne person auemuung m procure the same shall have a permit for the purpose of procuring the plc- tol or revolver, signed by the munici pal Judge, or city recorder or by the county Judge or a Justice of the peace of the county wherein such person resides. - , This act also provides that the per son engaged In tile retail sales of pis tols shall keep u record of the sale and transmit the same to the sheriff of the county in which purchase s made. Chapter S77, General Law of Ore gon. 1917. provides that every person In the business of selling, leasing or otherwise transferring a pistol or oth er firearm of the size which may be concealed upon the person, shall ob tain a legal register as described m the act and make a record of the sale In the register and make a report to the sheriff. Future to report sales to the sheriff is a misdemeanor. FUNERAL OF CARNEGIE TO BE HELD THURSDAY LENOX, Mass., Aug. 12. The body of Andrew Carnegie, steel magnate who died yesterday, will be taken to Sleepy Hollow, Tarrytown, New York, for burial, on a special train. There will be no funeral services In New Tork. Private Bervlces will be nein at Shadow Brook Thursday. PKnsmxcj to visit italv. PARIS, Aug. 12 General Per shing will leave for Ituly Saturday, visiting Rome and the battlefields. He will start to the United states me first week of September. OOSPEREXrH GAINING FAVOR WASHINGTON. Aug. 12.Sentl ment favoring the Industrial confer ence between capital and labor as proposed . In the Polndexter-Kelly resolutions appears to be gaining here today. Two more senators. Pomer ene and Harrison, declared them selves in favor of such a conference show the world's championship event, i n.. t,..ii rinvntto halt is a gold and silver affair and is awarded on points The cowbov who wins It must have been entered In at least three events and tho high point winner Utkes the belt. The Gaxette In offering the belt this year notified the association that it looks on the Round-Up as the worlds greatest wild west show, DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, ENGLAND'S FUTURE KING WHO LANDED TODAY AT ST. JOHNS T- 1T . r..P it.., . s A y ' - -fA if , J1 f I ' ' I 1 if tiro- ( i ov. ViJ i i ; i I j ! I k If H . PRINCE OF WALES LANDS IN CANADA ST. JOHXS. Aug. 12. The cruiser Dragon, bearing- the Prince of Wales, entered the Inner harbor here today at 11. He landed on the government pier at noon. The Dragon, to which the prince wa transferred from the cruiser Renown. which brought him from England, -va suorted hy tSo pauntlerr Dominion, provincial and city ofloiali welcomed the prince when he landed at the govern ment pier. An the Dragon, it's escort, steamed slowly up the bay It was greeted by the cheers "of thousands and the booming of guns. Crowds In the streets were so dense that reception plans had to he radically changed at the last t minute. - Motors could not be permitted in the procession, due to the congested condition of tho streets. DISPUTES OVER RIGHT OF WAY DELAY ROADS Ijind owners between Weston nnd Milton are holding up the location of the state hlKhway by their unwill ingness to settle with the county for rirthts of way. Commissioner O. I nnnnimr nnld todav. The. camp at Dry Creek, two r.nd , half miles this sldo of milton. is In operation but the men are unable to -work to their full capacity hecauso of tho dplays In getting rights of wny. "After all tbelr clnmor for a paved highway from Pendleton to the frtatte lino had been rnswered with con crete romilts,' Mr. Puntiltilf said, "a number of theso farmers showed no willingness to cor-perato with the county In the matter of locating the road and compromising on their onm- atres. We obtnineo nnont imn rond in tho west end of tho county with nbout two rijrlit of way disputes hut the cant enders are. with some few exceptions! holding us up while thrv adjust their dumages." Tho county commissioners have made numerous trips to the east end In efforts to settle tho disputes and today some of the property owners came in to talk matters rer. The court Is anxious to get the matters sat srnciorny. for each day of'delay adds to the cost of the rond. .. . , T ...... I . u . 1 T . Judie BOtn l"r. Mirxh believe ttiat tne enKinerm, picked out the bert routes In their surveys for tho highway nnd assert that the farmers will be aided rather than damaged by having hlRhway pa through their lands. . . -.Ti DUiMArN l I KUIU'f tv JAPANESE SITUATION, SRATTT.R. Aug. 12. Congression al Investlentlon of the Japanese situ ation in Seattle aryl-the stnte of Washington was demanded of Con gressman Johtiwin, chairman of the house Immigration committee. In res olutions passed at a mass meeting of civlo . organisations Inst night. Practically ovMy . civlo omuilxatlon In the cnmmunl'v was represented Ht the meetlntt. The nhjoct was to dls cuss .the .rapid Increase of the Jap anese population In. .the Pacific Northwest. ... i - . PENDLETON, OREGON, f - V J ? ., .. - . -Ns UNIVERSITIES IN KAHKI PLAN FOR "REGULARS"! the Mninchi district, was shot to death WASHINGTON. Aug. 1 2. Dcmobi- I Sunday by Gasper Crux, another SI ex lixatlon of all combat troops will be ! lean who Is under arrest charged with virtually completed by the last of Oc- the crime. ... , . ,. tober. Secretary Baker stated today in Duran was suspected of having stol announolng permanent home stations en sheep from the ranch of J. D. Mon . .... .i;, o hi-h tea. foster-father of Crux,. Crux and ,v.rt nverseas: . - . Baker said new "universities in the Monies ranch met Duran no was khaki ' will be maintained in dlvisl-j riding and ordered to "8mount onal' camps. In permanent camps in Barega was armed h the southeastern.department and else- when Duran advanced toward the two where, in ,.clrlr,e. civilian, to rrirard the soldiers in the permanent camps .u , ...., m the same way as a university town . ..... d .tu(JentB. .,.., .,.... . ,k. ihih Alia Btririaij I ,ar lms ca never be paid, one of (hem na( traditlina that BhoulJ bp lnRpiro,i,mHi poiv the men wno bekmK to tlutn. work- ;j(M4 fQr ,lj(rh B,mnrds in Fervice and i sound Americanism in the army and lout of it. U-t jis realise this, showing ,iur gratitude, by Our Helpfulness.'!. iono woitKEits itvrrritisx. CHICAGO. Aug. 12. llfficials of railroads centering In Chicago assert ed today that the labor situation is unchanKed and that freight nnd pas senger service is being conducted on a slightly limited scale, as has been the case since 30.0U0 shopmen quit work ten days ago. Nearly a thousand strikers returned to work yesterday. The others are still out. their council refusing to send representatives to Washington to confer with Director limes. TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1919. Fate of Mystery Craft Is Discovered When Crew Leaves British Prison BEHIJN. Aug. 12. The crew of the German submarine Bremen, a sister ship of the Deutschland, which diBoppeared three years ago, returned today to Bremen from a British prison camp, it Is an nounced. (This is the first. Intimation of the fate of the Bremen which left Germany for New London, Conn., in August, 11.) MOQRHOUSE TO DIRECT INDIANS FOR PAGEANT Major Lee Moorliouse, Pendleton's Indian authority, will direct the In dians In the coming Pageant of Port land to be presented In Laurelhurst Hi.rk on Thursday, August 21, unut the auspices of the War Camp Com munity Service. The major will go down for the affair next Tuesday night. :" ! !'! The pageant la an allegorical story of Oregon from the discovery of the state to the return of the victorious troops from the great war. It will abound In music and dancing and J. 000 perspns will take part. Major Moorhouse will have charge of the Indians and the Boy Scouts and will direct their part of the performance. The pageant will be the second this year In which Major Moorhouse has been asked to take part. He directed a large number of Chemawa Indians In the Willamette University Jubilee at Salem In June and his part in the Portland celebration will be very similar to' the other. , ' . SEVEN ARE KILLED IN FALL OF AIRSHIP BERUM, Aug. 12. A dispatch to the Ixikal Amieger from Rybnik, up per Silesia, says a large German air plane belonging to a German airship works, fell Monday morning during a flight, killing all seven of the oc cupants. Including the pilot. The accident occurred near Ratl bor. The airplane carried S.000.000 In Ukrainian money and a sack of Russian money. Former Finance Minister Witousky of the West Ukraine republic was a paasenger. The plane was on its first trip. Its destination was Podallen, but a land ing had been planned on the Qallclan side of the border near Tarapol. An official announcement says the airplane was shot down by Polish border troops. The crash occurred while crossing the Polish frontier. Papers Forged. SALEM, Aug. 12. Two state war rants and a check drawn by the state industrial accident commission, on all three of which the name of the payee hod been erased and a new payee ev idently forged, turned up in the of fice of the commission Friday and steps were immediately taken to trace the forgeries to their source. The two warrants were originally drawn in favor of Harry R. Ciff, and George M. Sekoll, Portland physicians, for services rendered in connect'on with attendance upon Injured work men under the provisions of the workmen's compensation act. One of the warrants was for $63 and the oth er for $10. : The check was originally made out to LeRoy Jllake of Portland in the sum of $14.13. Tt is the suposition among mem bers of the commission that the war rants and check were stolen from the mall after having been delivered by the postman. Vhe warrants were both cashed on the Portland public market and the check was cashed at .ne".Mt. Mood betel in Pcrtlajid. MEXICAN RANCHKH. SI SPIXTFI OK TMKFT. IS SHOT TO 1KATH WALS FIX BURG, Colo., Aug. 12. Martles Duran. a Mexican rancher of I Francisco Barega. another employe of I men. ur n t ....... I Rareea and fired at him Th. V, ,1 1 nareKR ami VJ passea wmw .." -- r-rii declared he shot in self-defense. RUMANIA WOULD FOR RETURN VIENNA. Aug. 13. The Rumanian cabinet, according to Kiu-harest re ports have resolved not to evacuate Rumanian troops from Budapest until the entente redeems concessions made to Rumania In 1S16 for her entrance Into the war, Romanian forces -are occupying west Hungary under the pretext of suppressing bolshevik plots; it Is learned. IMockado lifK-d. ' The allied blockade against Hun gary was removed today and Ameri DEALERS Parting: With $100 Mild Compared With Dumping: 71 Quarts of Home Brew The 1100 fine assessed against G. p. "Soapy" Smith yesterday afternoon by County Judge Marsh was not half as hard for tfmlth to take as the tank of destroying the 71 quarts of home made beer taken from bis place. Aft er two deputy sheriffs had- be come sufficiently dampened by the exploding beverage as they pulled corks off the bottles,. Smith was called In to officiate and presided over about 50 bot tles of the brew as It went through the sink. Smith discovered that his beer has a "kick" with each cap that he pulled off. Walls of the sher iffs office were occasionally " sprayed by the amber fluid and occupants of the room received several showers of the extract of malt and hops. WEALTHY WHEATMAN DIVORCE DEFENDANT Emil Timmerman. wealthy ' Helix wheat grower. Is made defendant in a suit for divorce filed today by his wife, Mrs. Mabel Timmerman, who charges him with cruelty. Among her allegations are that he cursed and called her vile names, kicked her off a chair, slapped her face and hit her with a broom. She alleges that Timmerman owns real property valued at $65,000 and she asks an undivided one third in terest in this. She asks an order of the court restraining him from dis posing of any of his property - and for $1000 attorney's fees, $20 wit ness fees and temporary alimony of $100 a month. She asks the restora tion of - her maiden name, Mabel Spauldlng. 8. D. Peterson Is Mrs. Tlmmerman's attorney. DIRT FLYING FAST ON CABBAGE HILL GRADE Six miles of the highway up Cab bage Hill have been torn up and the work. Is In various stages of grading. County Roadmaster R. EJ. Phelps re ported today. There are new camps and more horses being added con tinually and "dirt Is flying fast." The county hopes to have a major part of the rood graded before snow stops operations In the fall. A small grading camp will be es- tablished at Meacham next week, un- der a sub contract. The crew will contain seven or eight men and twice that number of horses and will work from Meacham to a point one mile this way. The crew will do grading only. Work from the Dry Creek camp near Milton Is progressing slowly, ac cording to Mr. Phelps, due to rights of way not' having been obtained. LODGE ARGUES FOR NATION UNFETTERED WASHINGTON. Aug. 12. Ameri ca, independent, can be of greater service to the world than America "fettered'" by the league of nations. Senator Iyodge. Republican leader, acssrted In a senate speech today. Ixidge said "By meddling In all the differences which may arise among mankind, we simply fritter away ur influence and injure" ourselves to no good purpose. We shall be of far more value to the world and Its peace by occupying, so far as is possible, the situation we have occupied for the last 20 years and by adhering to the policy of Washington and Mon roe." Lodge denied this means a policy of American Isolation. That, he. said. Is no longer possible because the Unit ed States became a world power at the time of tho war with Spain. "Nobody," he said, "expects to Isolate the United States or make it a her. mit nation.. EVACUATE OHLY OF CONCESSIONS can truard Is withdrawn frontier. from the Ienisiid Food Ships. PKRIJN. Aug. 12. Chairman Gre gory of the American food commis sion in Budapest, today sent a demand j to the Rumanians for immediate re- i turn of confiscated HunttHriaa food, ships. It Is learned here. Such action was declared necesiry to prevent; starvation in Budapest, which is al-( ready practically Isolated. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER NO. 9811 OF WHOLESALE FOOD TAKE SHARP DROP SINCE OPENED ON HIGH PRICES Gov't Reports August 11 Show Marked Decline in Vegetables, Meats, Fruits. increasesIn MARK COMPARATIVELY FETV Change in-' Wheat' Standard Demanded to Protect Growers Against "Fraud" WASHINGTON. Aug. 12. Whole sale food dealers are beginning to make reductions !n the prices of veg etables, dressed meats and ' fruits, government reports today show. With the campaign to reduce thetilgh cost of living in full rwing. comparisons of quotations of July 28 -with those of August 11 show a marked decline. which commenced after the attack en unjustified prlc-s began. Potatoes have been cut from SO cents to $3.40 a barrel since July !. according to quotations which the bureau of markets collected. Meats Dowrk Slashes In prices of dressed meat range up to five cents a pound for pork loins. Cutting has alsp. been extended to beef. Blr drops are nd "ceable in quotations for Boston, New , Tork, Philadelphia and Chicago. : A few price Increases are shown for some grades of meat, but figures In dicate that a downward trend to gen- oral And that increases are excep tional. , -Increases Few. For meats. - 18S comparisons were made. In 107 of the comparisons price cuts were found. Increases to taled 60. while In 25 comparisons there was no change. In vegetables and fruftn the pro portion of price cuts was greater. The cuts numbered 22 and Increases only S. while n- change comparisons were limited to one. ' Some of the vegetables and fruits which have been- depressed in price are, onions, which dropped t cents a hundredweight' In New Tork. Se cern In Chicago, and peaches. i cents a carrier cf six; baskets In New Tork 25 in Baltimore. nd' 75 Trt " Chicago.. Watermelons and canta--loupes dropped considerably. Asks for Secret Service. , ''. WASHINGTON-, Aug. 11. Presi dent Wilson asked congress for au thority to use the secret service In running down profiteers and f ooa hoarders and for an appropriation of' $175,000 for the work. . - Would ClMnee Wheat Scale. A demand for a change UV wheat ' standards which -are "defrauding" . farmers was made by the senate riculturat committee m a statement which a majority of the committee. including Democrats, signed. The committee action was the result of V protest from farmers throughout the nation who fear they will suffer." heavy losses thai year. T Protection for Groirera, '. While approvins efforts to reduce, the cost of living the committee el pla'ned that farmers' interests must be protected. Hundreds of millions of bushels of wheat have been shriv eled by heat, it was stated, and so cannot, under the present grading rules, sell for more than 1.60. Mill ers, however, plan to gather this grain and make tt Into high grade flour to sell st prices based on No. t wheat, the statement said. "At this time we will insist on a change in the wheat standards so as to protect every grower of . wheat," . the .committee announced. .'Pre- -ducers are defrauded and consumers receive no" benefit. Paris Fashions Same Day.. LONDON, Aug. ll.--Testerday's Parisian styles? Tea, Madame, here they are, but If Sou can wait about halt an hour, we will have today's styles In." r -r. This Is what customers of a- London department store de luxe, will hear shortly. As soon as the government will grant permission, department buyers wll fly to Paris three times a week to round up the latest styles. Buyers wil!' leave London via aeroplane In the morning, make the round of the fashion shops and boulevards, and re turn in the afternoon of the same day. laden with the latest In frocks, hats. hosiery and boots. GIANT SEAFLAXK FALLS. LONDON, Aug. 1!. The giant sea plane "Felixstowe Fury." while turn ing up for a flight to Capetown. South Africa, scheduled for today, crashed to the ground off Fellxatone yester day, killing one of the erew. The other six members escaped. mum Tonight aad Wed, falA , u 00 H
