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Ilnmlorlioiis, , Raj THE BEND BULLETIN Til 10 WKATIII0H ToiiIkIiL itnil tomorrow, fair; KuNturly wIikIn, DAILY EDITION VOL. I HKNI, DKHCHL'TKM COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH l, J017 NO. Hil RAILROADS' CONCESSIONS ACTUATED BY PATRIOTISM, DEFINITELY AVOID STRIKE ALL OF DEMANDS ARE ACCEDED TO. ACTION IS PROMISED Jin PnKl Made AXwpUlila lu Both Hlclm, I'ntll Committee Muktw AiUmwm law (ho Basis fur Hrlllrnirnt. (n United Prnai to Hi llnd Bulletin! NKW YORK, March 19. Tho rull muds hnva nmt Ihit fullest demands of lha Adamsort night hour law, and have definitely avoided llio throat- -ennd strike. Bwaynd by patriotism through lha sinking of Ihrco Amnr- Iran vessels, tho railroad managers 4'nmtnlttnn announced thn acceptance of tha trainmen's demands rathur than hamper Ihn efficient operation of railroad during tho Impending. -eriala. Tho nimllni Ion committee Inaund Ilia following "statoniniit thla mum tn k : "Wo dualrn to express our ap preciation of Ihn patriotic action of tho railroad uisnagnr's committee In puttltiK licyniid tho pcrud venture of possibility a nation-wide railroad strike. Tin' rallroadi huvn met tho demands of the Adaiuaon law, this concession buliiic secured aa the cul mination of two daya' negotiations." Tha statement oald that after th postponement of thn atrlko, no pro posal bad boon made which annmnd acceptable to both aldua, until the rallroada expressed thnlr willingness .4 to plana tha whole mnttfcr In tha handa of tha committee which da ldnd to maka tho Adamson law tha basis of settlement. Hera use of thla, It will moke no dlfferenco whether or not thn supreme court decides that 'tha law favoring tho unlom la con- Nlltutlnnnl or not. FRENCH OCCUPYING MANY POINTS IN WEST (Ilr United Vmm to th llrnd llullrtln) PAKIH, Murch 19. Tho French troopa occupied 100 towna and vil lages on thn wnatnrn front during tho Innt Ihrco dnya, It was announcod hero today. M . DEMOBILIZATION OF MILITIA CONTINUES I . (Ily United to the Bend Bulletin) WAHIIINOTON. I). C, March 19. Demobilisation of tho militia will -roDllnuo In aplto of international do volopmnnta, tho War Department an nuoncod today. Halting of muBtor lug has hcon ordered nt acvoral plucca luo ;o local coudltlonB. AFFECTS FEW MANY AT TIIK BROOKH.HCANLON PLANT AUK PUT AT OTIIKK WORK MAURI ED MEN KEPT IN UHiaiSO CAMPS. MIL Although tho Brooks-Scanlon saw in 111 closed down todny for a throe wooks' overhauling, a comparatively small numbor of tha employees will ho thrown out of work, It wni as certained today. A number are nld V Ing In thn overhauling of tho plant, Homo nro ongngoil In the construc tion of a now wnrohotisa for tho box factory, and Homo, welcoming the opportunity for a vacation, nnked 4 that they bo nllowod to onjoy tho lay off, Imitoad of holng put nt anmo othor kind of work. In the woodH.logglng is ntlll going on, tho company retaining mon who liavo fnmllleg to itipport. Timber 18 lining out and skidded, with tho Intention of having a largo amount ori hand for a heavy mill run as Boon , as tho plant la rooponed. Work In tho box factory of Tho flhovlln-Hlxon Company plant was i roflumod today, after a wook'i Idle RETREAT OF GERMANS BECOMES PRECIPITATE (Mr United I'raw IsTh llly llullrtln) WITH TIIK FRENCH AMM 1KB, March 19. Tho Oiirmon riitmal bIiiiik b 13 mlln front from niaulnns to thn Olso, la precipitate. Thu retreat com parn with that from Marno, and many prlaonara have bnnn taknn by the pursuing Krnnch force. Illcyclo troopa remain Imhlnd covering (ho roar of tho finding colli num. IN PUBLIC EYE 1, Alf.JK NUMBER OK INOUIRIKH AH TO RESOURCES AND tN- DITIONH HKKK AUK HK.VT IN TO TIIK COMMERCIAL CLUB. That tlnnd Ib constantly In the public eye la shown III a report com plied by Commercial Club Managur II. J. Overturf, giving the amount of correapondnuco hamllod through his office for February and a part of January. Throe hundred and thlr teen letters on different phases of community activity woro received during this time, ho reported. Tha following Itemization . w mado: Requests for literature, 46; Inquiries regarding business loca tions, 21; Inquiries regarding farm lands and homesteads, 43; Inquiries regarding Ilnnd schools, throe; In quiries regarding tha location of In dustries, eight; regarding labor con ditlons, 16; regarding public library, eight; In connection with the Btra horn right of way work, 69; matters taken up with tho county agricul turalist, nine; regarding road work, six; Irrigation matters, scvon; mis collaneous, f9; replies to. bulletins sent out by tho Portland Chamber of Commerce, 29. Among matters of especially vital Interest to Ilnnd and tho vicinity at tha prosont time, Mr. Overturf HbIb the location of a county library here, tho publication of a tourist road map of Contra) Oregon, and tho pro motion of tho potato industry In this section. MANY SEEK PLACES IN CITY'S SCHOOLS Morn Tlinn MO New Applications Itemlvctl, tn llo I'smmhI On by Directors Next Thursday. With moro than 160 new applica tions for teaching positions in Bend on file, tho local achool board will havo a wide field to chooso from whon tho mnmhors moot Thursday night to elect a touching staff for tho coming school year. Twenty now applications wera filed this morning, and more are expectod boforo tho mooting of tho directors UTAH COURTS UPHELD Power CompimlcM Must Pay for I'sei of Government I.nntl, Decided. (11 United Pro- to th Bond BulUtln) WASHINdTON, D. C, March 19 Tho supremo court today upheld de cisions of the Utah courts enjoining powor companies from operating on government land without paying tho rates proscribed by recent laws. The government demand for tho accounting of moneys mado by the companies In quuatlon, was granted. PUSH BUILDING PLANS Definite Outline of Gym Cost Expect ed to llo Mado Tomorrow. Another mooting of the building commlttoo of tho Ilnnd Athletic club was hold this afternoon, with still nnothor scheduled for this ovonlng, the commlttoo hopes to be able to Btibmlt dofinlto figures and plans at the ganoral mooting to be hold at the Emblom club tomorrow night. The gathering Tuesday evening Ib for the goneral public, and a largo turnout Is desired. BEND PROMINENT LOSS S S I HUGE EXPENDITURE IS DIRECTED. I'mtloVnt Authorize Speeding l'p of Hhlp Building Program Fate of 24 Men lu Doubt Mna Muy lie German Prisoners. (Ily United Pro- to th IVend Bulletin) WASHINGTON, D. C, March 19. President Wilson today authorized Secretary of the Navy Daniels to use tha $116,000,000 appropriation to spend up tho ship building program. Tho action Is held to be closely con nected with tho sinking of the throe American steamers by German sub marines, and followed an hour's con ference belwoon tho President and Secretary Daniels. It was Indicated that the Navy Department may com mandeer munitions factories through the country. May summon Congress. Offlcluis predicted today that Pres ident Wilson will immediately an nounce tho course of action which he intends to tako as the result of Germany's latest affront on the high seas, the sinking of three American steamers. Some bcllevod that ho would cal la sosslon of Congress for an Immediate consultation, while others believed that he might em power the Navy Department to use the emergency fund to pursue a more aggressive policy of ship protection. Secretary of State Lansing conferr ed with the President this morning over Consul Frost's reports of tha sinking of tho American steamers. "The situation Is tea serious to dis cuss," was Secretary Lansing's Btato- niunt afterwards.- - -.. Hlilp's Pupcrs Found. A cablo received from Consul Frost at Quoonstown, conveyed tho fear that, Captain Ilorum, and nine sea men from the American freighter Memphis are prison:- aboard a Ger man submarine. Tho captain's boat was found this morning with every evidence of having been hastily abundoned. Tho ship's papers were found In a biscuit tin In the bow. 24 MIHSING ARK LISTED (Br United Prcaa to Uw Bond Bulletin) LONDON, March 19. American consular roports today showed 24 mon missing from tho three Ameri can steamers submarined. Captain Bormum, four Americans and four foreigners from the steamer City of MomphlB, and 15 men from the steamer Vlgllancla are among the missing. The crow of the tanking steamor Illinois were saved. E IiAl'RGAARI) DKLKGATKH WORK ItOOHTINU FOR $0,000,000 ROAD IIOXD INHl'K TO LOCAL COM MKRCIAL CLCH. That Bend will bo made tho head quarters for the publicity campaign to ho conducted through Control Oregon for tho $6,000,000 road bond Issuo, was the intelligence, brought back to Bond by Fred N. Wallace and H. J. Overturf, who wore lu Portland Saturday attonding .the mooting of the legislative publicity committee. At the meeting, the state was divided Into groups Of coun ties, to facilitate the publicity work, and Representative : O. Lnurgnard bocauso of his knowlodge of thin soottou, wnB given charge of tho greator portion of the Central Oregon district. In turn, Mr. Laurgnnrd delegated tho work to the Bond Commercial club, making this city tho hoatlqunr tors for good roads boosting In Cen tral Oregon. Ab a Blda Issuo on the road ques tion, a communication has boon re ceived by the Cpmniorclnl club, ask ing that ropresontutlvea of tho club and of tha county court bo In Port land on March 81 to attond a moot ing of tho Northwest Tourist associa tion, In regard to the expenditure of the $46,000 appropriation to be de voted to tourist advorttslng. 5 S ACTION BEND IS CENTER OF ROADS MOV nmn ADAH EIGHT HOUR LAW gbandsuccess mm QONSTITOTIONAL HUNDREDS TAKE PART IN FESTIVITIES. Dining Room at Pilot llutte Twice Killed to ('apaolty Korbea Hon ored for Work In Hali-m Htrahorn Tells Plans. Festivities which did not come to a close until after 4 o'clock Sunday morning, marked the formal opening of the new Pilot Butte Inn, begin ning 12 hours before. Decorations of flowers and potted plants, ' with beautiful floral pieces presented by prominent hotels In the northwest, added to the beauty of the spacious hotel rooms. Hundreds of guests were present, the dining room being twice filled to capacity from S to 10 o'clock In the evening, while at least 100 couples took part In the dancing which followed, excellent music was furnished by theWlley B. Allen Jazz band, of Portland. Forbes Is Honored!. -During the course of the evening A. Wblsnant called for silence and announced that the occasion had been chosen as appropriate for the pre sentation of s gift to a Bend citizen. Continuing, Mr. Wbisnant told of bis observations when In Salem lSBt win ter and of bow Representative V. A. Forbes, of Bend, pushed House bill 63 through by organizing the House In committee of the whole and ob talnlng the substitution of section af ter section preferred by him to the bill which bad already passed. For bis efforts In obtaining the passage of House bill 135, creatltg Deschutes county. Mr. Whisnanf said, Mr. Forbes' friends were presenting him with a watch and chain. Concluding, Mr. Whisnant prophesied a brilliant career for the Bend man Inthe state and national legislatures. ' ', In acknowledging the git. Mr. Forbes spoke of the spirit of Bend which would obtain for the town whatever the people went after. He then Introduced Robert E. Si ra horn, who after offering his congratula tions on the new hotel went on to speak of the railroad and other de velopment possible to Bend. "Tha thought uppermost In my mind tonight," Mr. Strahora said, "Is to gratefully applaud the splendid (Continued on page 3.) STAGE SET FOR T RECORD CROWD EXPECTED TO WITNESS GEORGE-BURNS COX TEST AT HIPPODROME PRE LIMINARIES WILL BE FAST. - Groomed like race horses, and as confident as the reports given out by political managers before the day of election, Billy George, weighing 158 pounds, and Farmer Burns, hold er of the light-heavyweight cham pionship of the Pacific const, weight 173, will stop upon tho canvas floor tonight at the Hippodrome in what promises to be the hardest ring con test ever seen In Bend. Both men are confident. Burns figures that he Is a better man than any of the opponents who have met George since he came hero, and be lieves that he Ib sufficiently acclim ated to meet the handicap of altitude which has proved to be a stumbling block to several of George's adver saries. Not a small amount of comment has come up over the School-Gilbert go, which Is expected to bo the fast est preliminary match ever staged in Bond. . Fans are expecting School to uncover evorythlng he has or any thing that he may have been holding back tn former goes here. Gilbert, it Ib said, has been training more vigorously for this match than any other he has engaged In under local cover. Gilbert Is still the popular favorite In local boxing circles. The Hoke-Blkerlght go also prom ises to develop Borne spectacular fea tures In ring circles. . Both men have been working out hard for the go. Little is known of Bikorlght as a mlt porformor. Indications are that the crowd will be a rocord breaker and the Bond Athlotlc club management has made sufficient seating accommodations for a big gathering at tonight's matches. Special seating arrange ments have been made for ladles, ac cording to Manager W, L. Doudlah. MATCH T BY SUPREME COURT BALLOT WILL CONGRATULATE THE RUSSIAN DUMA (Br United Preu to the Bend Bulletin) LONDON, March 19. Pre- mler Lloyd George Indicated today that be will move Tburs- day that the British government - congratulate the Russian Duma on the establishment of the new regime. He characterized the revolution as "One of the bind- marks In the world's history." BABY GIRL IS LITTLE DAUGHTER OF THEO DORE TWEET BADLY INJURED, BUT WILL RECOVER ACCI DENT UNAVOIDABLE. - Stepping from behind the auto of Charles Boyd, where she was playing. Irene, the three year old daughter of Theodore Tweet, was run down in front of her home in Lytle addition early yesterday afternon by an anto driven by A. L. Saye. The little one sustained severe scalp wonnds. and bad bruises on the body and legs, but although her condition was at first considered critical. It was be lieved today that she had an 'excel lent chance for recovery. She Is be ing cared for at the Bend Surgical hospital. According to Mr. Boyd, an eye wit ness of the affair, the accident was unavoidable. Mr. Boyd's anto was stopped in the middle of the road, and to pass, Mr. Saye was forced to turn to the left, going at a low rate of speed. At that Instant, Mrs. Tweet called from the house to her daugh ter, and the child stepped directly Into the path of the oncoming ma chine. She was struck on the head by the fender, and hit by the wheel as she was thrust to one side. Mr. Saye stopped the car within eight feet, and a friend riding in the car Jumped out and picked up the- child. Mr. Saye Immediately speeded off in his auto, returning with a physician. EXPRESS DELIVERY FOR CITY NEARING Defining of Limits Will First Go Through Public Service Com ' mission, Causing Delay. The promise of early action In re gard to the starting of a city delivery and pick-up service by the American Express company. Is contained in a retter received this morning by H. J. Overturf, secretary of the Bend Com mercial club. The letter was writ ten by G. B. Vlets, superintendent of the Oregon-Washington division of tho company. Mr. Viets states In his letter thut whtlo the matter is being pushed. It will be difficult to fix the date at which the new service will start, as the matter of the limits of the dis trict In which the delivery will be made, must first be submitted to the Public Service Commission and pass ed on favorably by that body. This, he intimated, might take from 30 to 60 days. MUSTERING OUT IN CHICAGO IS STOPPED ' (By United Prow to the Bend Bulletin) ' CHICAGO, March 19. Mustering out of militiamen through the cen tral military department, has been ordered discontinued, It was admit ted here at headquarters today. BRITISH DESTROYER IS SUNK BY GERMANS (By United Preu to the Bend Bulletin) LONDON, March 19. German de stroyers sank a British' destroyer in the straltB of Dover yesterday, and torpedood a second,' the admiralty announced today. The second ves sel was not seriously damaged. HURT BY AUTO SIX JUSTICES BACK THE MEASURE. PRECEDENT IS MADE Right of Congress to Legislate on Wage Questions Allowed Valid ity of Measure In Doubt Since the Last of August. (Br United Pros to the Bend Bulletin) WASHINGTON, March 19. The supreme court this afternoon held the Adamson eight hour law consti tutional, by a decision of six to three. Justices Day, Pitney, and Van-! devanter dissenting. The opinion said: "There was authority begot-, ten of public interest," in Congress passing the law. It waa held that Congress has the right to legislate wages, and formally reversed the de-; clsion of Judge Hook, of Kansas City, Chief Justice White,, and Justices; Holmes. ' McReynolds, Brandels, Clark and McKenna signed the ma jority opinion. '" Case Long Drawn Out. ' "The railroads attack on the Ad amson measure declared It waa "hot' s regulation '.of . commerce,"-not the -result of legislative judgment but an experiment "whose success would be determined by future Investiga tion, and as depriving-the railroad of Its liberty to make contracts and. Its property without due process of: law." They held it to be a wage messare, which Congress "had no right to enact" under the constitu tion. ' The government contended the law was not a wage law, but an houra-of-service act; and that, even if It was ' a wage measure Congress had the', right to pass It under the commerce-, clause of the constitution. ' - The case had its inception when -Congress passed a law late last Aug ust, when railroad brotherhoods threatened . to tie up . the nation's railroads, declaring eight hours to, be a standard day's work and pro- ! vidlng that pro rata, overtime should , be paid for work done after the first eight hours. This section formed the real basis of. attack for the rail- roads. , Strike Averted. '. On March 29, 1916, the four brotherhoods the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Order of Railway Conductors,.thethe Brother hood of Locomotive Firemen and . (Continued on last page.) TO PROBE LEAK H. M. PARK AND J. P. NEWELL APPOINTED BY DESERT LAND BOARD TO SOLVE TUMALO IR RIGATION PROBLEM. SALEM, March 19. To ascertain the cause of the leak in the Tumalo Irrigation reservoir, H. M. Park, of the State Bureau of Mines, and J. R. ' Newell, of Portland, hove been nam ed by tho Desert Land Board. Mr. ' Newell Is to receive $26 a day and expenses, while actually employed in the investigation, while Mr. Park agrees to make the preliminary geo logical Burvey of about 30 days for $460, to pay the expenses of himself and the surveying party. The board agreed to entar all new ' contracts tor sale of lands on the Tumalo project under the law which passed the hut legislature, carrying an emergency clause. Under the new law, contracts are to run for 20 ; years Instead of 10, and Interest Is ' to be paid at tho rate of five Instead of sta per cent. . NAMED I