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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-01-18
.SPORTSMEN OPPOSE
MOVE TO ABOLISH
GAME COMMISSION
lJmatiIIa County Association in Mass
Meeting Votes to Try to Block
Legislative Action.
PROTEST TO Be PRESENTED
Matter Will be Set Before Delegation
at Salem, Urging Them to do All
In Their Power TO Retain the Pre-
sent system-Contemplated Change
Is Not Wanted.

Aroused by the bill introduced in
the Legislature last week to abolish
the state fish and game commission.
members OF the Umatilla County Fish
& Game association and other sport
lovers held a mass meeting in this
city yesterday afternoon and voted
unanimously to use every influence
in their power to block the proposed
legislation.
The adjustment OF the commission
plan OF protecting and propagatlng
the wild game OF the state would be
step backward In the opion Of the
local sportsmen. After much discus
sion they voted TO present their pro-
test TO the members OF the Umatilla
county delegation and other legisla-
tors with whom individual members
had acquaintance and urge them TO
retain the present system. They are
also addressing communications TO
other game organizations OF this
district urging them TO take a stand
against the bill.
The local sportsmen are fighting
for the system and not for the in
divldual members Of the commission.
One and all gathered at the meeting
yesterday testified to the great for
ward strides made In game protec-
tion during the past four years under
the commission plan. That both the
fishing and hunting Is better now
than is has been for yearse and that
there Is "a more general spirit OF CO.
operation between the game officials.
farmers and sportsmen which Is re-
sultant In fewer violations OF the
game laws was declared TO be fact
by the men who are best acquainted
with conditions.
The proposal to substitute a county
for state system was vigorously
opposed. Under the present system.
1t was pointed out the sportsmen.
through the license fees, pay the cost
OF game protection and propagation
and are willing TO take upon them
selves that obligation despite the fact
that the entire state profits from the
game resources. However. they be-
AleNe luhb All VI bho hohoS e'oAN N"N'
pay I'm should be used for develop |
ing this resource.
Attention was also called at the
meeting to the fact that the propos-
ed plan to deposit game license money
with the state treasurer Is In force
under the present system.
with the game fields becoming
more limited through the clearing
and settling OF lands and yet more ac-
cessible by reason or the Improved
methods OF travel and with the i'm
provement OF firearms making II
easier for hunters to bag game. 1t was
pointed out that II would be nothing
less than state disaster to make
the game department less efficient.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-01-18
STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
WORKS PROPOSED IN MEASURE

SALEM. Ore, Jan. 1s.-The sem
ate killed Senator Hollis bill requir-
ing all agents OF the state land board
to be attorneys and to be required to
furnish bonds OF $1,000 to insure the
safety OF papers in their charge. II
missed OF passage by one vote.
Eleven new bills were introduced
in the house One by Representative
Thoms provides for the organization
of a state department of public works
into which shall be merged the duties
of state engineer. state water board
superintendent and two water divis-
ions. and the secretary Of the state
water board.
A bill introduced by Weeks re-
quiring electors at registration time
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-01-18
WILLIAM Russell ELLIS DIES
SUDDENLY At PORTLAND HOME

/ PORTLAND. Ore, Jan. 1S.-Wil-
liam Russell Ellis, one of Oregon's
representatives in congress from 1907
to 1911 died suddenly of hemhorrage
of the brain today. He was stricken
while attending a furnace in the
basement of his home. Physicians
were summoned but Ellis died with
out regaining consciousness. He was
65 years old.
The news OF Judge Ellis death came
to his great number of friends in PEN
dleton today as a profound shock.
The first message was received late
this morning and soon the news be-
came common knowledge on the
streets.
Judge Ellis made his home in PEN
dleton for a period OF twelve years,
coming here first when he was elected
circuit judge of the ninth judicial dis
trict and retaining his residence here
during his last service in congress
He was born April 80. 1850. at
Waveland, Indiana, and was thus not
Qulte % years Olu. NuSn i've years
old he moved to Guthrie county. Iowa
attending district school there and
doing farm work. Later he farmed
and taught school before entering the
Iowa State Agricultural college. In
1874 he was graduated from the law
department of the University of Iowa
and Immediately afterwards practiced
law and did newspaper work In Ham
burg, Iowa, serving that city as city
attorney for two years and mayor for
one.
He came to the northwest in the
early eighties settling first at walla F.
Walla where he taught school and
where on June l6, 1885 he was mar
ried to Mrs. Ida j. Stott. on March
81. 1850 he had married Miss Jennie |
b, Edwards but she died two years
later.
In the later eighties he moved to
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-01-18
INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE
NATIONAL GUARD RESIGNS
COLONEL JAMES JACKSON WITH
DRAWS WHEN RUMORS
ARE CIRCULATED

PORTLAND. Ore. Jan. 1s.-Col-
onel James Jackson. inspector gem
eral Of the national guard. rendered
his resignation 10 Governor Witty
combe today. Jackson said that
while he had no intimation he would
be asked to resign, there had been
certain rumors and he felt it proper
70 put the matter up TO WithycOmpe
for determination. Jackson is 81
years old.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-01-18
EPISCOPAL EISHOP OF THIS
STATE IS SUED FOR LIBEL
DEAN SUMMER, ON WAY TO
PORTLAND. FACES SUIT FOR
$4,000.

BOONE. Iowa, Jan, 1S.-Dean
Sumner, the newly ordained Episco-
pal bishop OF oregon was served with
papers in s5O,O libel suit brought
by John Calvin Murray. an attorney
of Maquoketa. Iowa. The libel
charges are the result OF the alleged
statement by Sumner that he believed
Murray deceived the Episcopal min
lister who married him year ago, as
to the fact that he was a divorced
man. Sumner was on a train en-
route to Portland when the papers
were served.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-01-18

ROME, Jan. 1s.-Rain in Central
Italy rendered more desolate the
scene OF the disastrous earthquake. II
Is impossible to give a definite list
OF casualties but officials still place
the total fatalities at 10000. The in
Jured will total twice that number.
AVEZZANO, Jan. 1S.-The village
of Avezzano Is a tomb. The loss OF
life In the earthquake is believed TO
be complete. No more imprisoned
in the ruins will be found alive in the
opinion OF military men in charge Of
the work OF rescue. Those who were
not killed outright undoubtedly have
succumbed to hunger and exposure.
But survivors OF the disaster are re-
naming hopeful and refuse TO leave
the ruins OF the city until their miss
ing relatives have been found. either
dead or alive. Men, women and little
children dig frantically In the noun
tains OF debris in the hope OF finding
someone still alive.
Conditions among the poor are piu-
ful. Their clothing Is In rags ana
their bodies are bruised and scared.
Most Of them have had little TO eat
for days. Many of the soldiers at
the scene OF destruction have gone
without food in order that refugees
may be fed.
Many OF the bodies recovered from
the ruins we're In an advanced stage
OF decomposition and had to be bu-
ried Immediately. Physicians are
taking every precaution to prevent
the outbreak OF an epidemic among
the survivors.
Military hospitals have been estab-
llshed in tents stretched on the out
skirts where the city once stood. Hun
dreds OF persons have been cared for
at these places.
1t Is believed that a week more
will be required before all the bodies
buried under wreckage will be re-
covered. The work OF taking bodies
from the ruins is being rushed rapid
ly
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-01-18
Lebanon to Hear Lecture.

LEBANON. Ore. Jan. 1S.-The
first OF a series OF lectures by the ex-
tension department of the University
OF Oregon will be heard in Lebanon
when Professor Sweeter will give an
illustrated lecture on the subject,
"Miscroscopic Friends and Foes Of
Every Day Life"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-01-18
STORM Off COAST Of ENGLAND
WRECKS SHIPS AND TAKES LIVES

broke up. Twenty-Five of the crew
perished. The steamer George Royle
broke in two off Cromer. A lifeboat
sent to rescue the crew, was driven
out to sea and hasn't returned. Sew
en- bodies have been washed ashore
Five of the crew were rescud. 1t is
feared the other seventeen are lost.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-01-18
Nominations Arc Made.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 1S.-President
Wilson nominated Nathanel Campbell
to be register of the land office at
Portland. and Martin Fegtly to be re-
ceiver of public moneys at Vale, Ore
gon.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-01-18
ARMIES FOUNDER
IN HEAVY DRIFTS
OF SNOW IN WEST
While Principal Offensive Has Been
Checked, Both Sides are Trying to
Force Artillery to the Front.
GERMANS CLAIM SUCCESSES
Teutons Reforming Lines In Flanders
Evidently With Intent 70 Resume
Offensive Begun Earlier In the War
Severe Fighting Reported Along
Vistula river.

PARIS. Jan. 1s.-From the Ar
gonne forest to upper Alsace. the arm
les OF Germany and the allies are
floundering in enormous snowdrifts
which block attempts to carry on Of
fensive operations Dispatches from
this section Of the western front show
ed hostilities had been checked but
not ended. In spite Of the snow both
sides are trying to force artillery and
infantry over the mountains and
through the forests. The task Is al
most superhuman
The Germans are reforming their
lines in Flanders. evidently contem-
plating a renewal Of their earlier Of
fensive. The fighting Is confined
largely TO cannonading.
The Germans continue TO shell Sois-
sons Along most OF the Aisne heavy
rain is falling.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-01-18
Amendmcnt Is Defeated

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-The am
endment to the District Of Columbia
appropriation bill providing for pro-
hibltion for Washington City was de-
feated in the senate by vote of Ss
to 40 two thirds vote was neees-
sary.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-01-18

LONDON, Jan. 1S,-From 20 to
40 are dead and several steamers
have been wrecked as result of a
violent gale which has been raging
off the coast OF Norfolk since Sun
day morning The British steamer
Penrath was driven on the rocks and
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-01-18

BERLIN, Jan. 1s.-Distinct German
successes at Laboiselle. in the north
and in the Argonnes were announced
in an official war office statement.
brilliant bayonet charge recaptured
for the Germans the trenches in the
church yard at Laboiselle which the
French recently too. and regained for
the kaiser domination OF that section
in this battle zone. Three French Of
ficers and 100 men were taken.
Fighting in the Argonnes was OF
deadly character. the statement as
serted. The Germans shelled the
enemy's trenches throughout Sunday
and then delivered an infantry charge
which almost annihilated the French
defenders Steady cannonading con-
tinues in the vicinity Of Nieuport. The
statement admits French advances
have been made northwest OF Point
a-MOusson.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-01-18
Carruth Is Nominated

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-The
president nominated Joseph Carruth
to be register of the land office at
Blackfoot. Idaho.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-01-18

SALEM, Ore. Jan. 1S.-The gov
ernor appointed Ms. Clara Waldo. OF
Portland. NJ. $. woodcock OF CorvaI-
lis and n. r. Moore of Corvallis. to
be members of the board of regents
OF the Agricultural College. Mrs.
Waldo is already a member.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-01-18

Governor Moody He was twice elect
ed to succeed himself In this position
and, 1t was while serving In this ca
paclty. that he was nominated by the
republican party as a candidate for
congress from the second district. Ho
was successful al the election and
served as representative at Washing
ton from 1898 20 1893. In 1897
while stir in congress, he associated
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-01-18

PETRoGRAD. Jan. 1s.-Severe
fighting is reported north and south
OF the vistula river in spite Of the fear
ful weather conditions. In north Po-
land the Russians have attempted to
drive home a new offensive into East
Prussia. with the great fortress OF
Thorn as the objective. To the south.
Won Hindenberg's advance against
Warsaw continues.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-01-18

to state whether or not they wish
copies Of the secretary OF states cleo
ton pamphlet was passed. 1t will
effect a saving.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-01-18
DEAD ARE SEALED
UP IN THE RUINS
Of ITALIAN TOWN
AvezzanO is a Tomb and no More
Imprisoned are Expected to be
Found Alive Under Debris.
MANY SURVIVORS WILL DIE

Conditions Among the Poor Are PIu.
ful--Clothlng I'm Rags and Most OF
Them Have Had Little 70 Eat for
Days-Soldiers Share Food With
Refugees-Hospltals Full.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-01-18

Heppner and became county school
superintendent before he received an
appointment as district attorney from
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-01-18
10000 BUSHELS BLUESTEM
GO AT $3.50 AT PORTLAND

= PORTLAND, Ore. Jan. 49,
= Ten thousand bushels of May .
= bluestem sold at a dollar fifty .
= one and similar volume at .
. dollar fifty on the Merchants, .
= exchange today. Spot bluestem .
= was dollar forty three bid and =
= club dollar forty, bid. .
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-01-18

CONTINUED on page sIsht)
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CONTINUED on page eighty
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-01-18
TO ADVERTISERS

The East Oregonlan has the largest paid
circulation Of any paper In Oregon, east Of
Portland and over twice the circulation IN
PendletOn Of any other newspaper.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-01-16
SAN JACINTO TEAM
WINS SOCCER GAME

Continuing to play the hard Iast
game which they have shown all sea-
SON the san Jacinto senior football
team defeated the team representing
Alamo, Friday afternoon by score OF
to 0. The score does not really lndl-
cate the superiority of San Jacinto over
Alamo. san JacintO could have run up
a dozen points. But, as in previous
games. the boys preferred to develop
team work and they frequently delio-
eratelv kicked the ball away from the
Alamo goal and passed the ball around
Unless some of the older boys at La
mar and the other schools get out anu
NAV soccer il does not look as though
any team will be able to stop San ia
cinto and that this team Will almost
surely cop the banner emblematc OIL
the championship which has been hung
I'D by The Ell Paso Herald. Brockmoi-
Ter. captain. captain Coy Friend,
Fuller, Ralph Carberry and Laurence
Sheav all played a splendid game for
San Jacinto. None Of the Alamo players
showed much.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-01-16
Popular Belief That
Cannonading Brings Rain
Disbropen By Scientists

London. Eng. Jan. 16.-English
scientists have again been compelled
to assure the public that neither the
smell of powder nor me conclusion OF
sl1n-fire has the slightest connection
with rainfall From several sources II
had been asserted that the heavy and
persistent rains recently experienced In
Southern England and Northern France
wore attributed TO atmospheric disturb
ances produced by artillery fire at the
seat of war.
Like the supposed influence OF the
moon upon weather, the popular be-
lief that powder brings rain is base
less" writes q scientist in the Times
About four years ago the First Lord
of the Admiralty was gravely asked
in the House of Commons whether ne
would instruct the fleet to carry out
its heavy gun practice at some oJner
period of the year than in the middle
of harvest time, when the resultant
heavy rains may cause serious loss, TO
the farming community. Inc idea II
absolutely without foundation. EXper-
iments made i'm America and on tbs
continent show that in dry weather no
amount OF concussion has the slightest
effect i'm the production Of rain.
AT the present time there is one fact
which should at once dispose Of the
cherished theory There is no reason
for thinking that gun firing at the
front is more violent than it was in
the earlier stages Of the war. The rain
should, therefore. have commenced
shortly after the outbreak Of the war
As a matter of fact, nothing OF the
kind took place. In August and Sep
TENDER the rainfall was much below
the average.
AT Shoeburyness. where big guns
are being tested almost daily.year in
and and year out. the average annual
rainfall is smaller than in any other
part of the United Kingdom"
Cur buttermlIk is smooth as velvet.
as good as cream and far more digesti-
Bile. Eel Paso Dairy Co.-Adv.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-01-16

The candidates are therefore. requested
to quietly dispense and repair 10 lhslL
various homes and give the porter at
the Imperial Il chance TO qWeep out
Board for Cuba.
That Cuban party is CARING mount Gu
tun1 daily. It began as a small eA-
r1lrsfOn Of two or three persons, 5ut
since it became noised about that JG.n
]. McGraw has acquired cluster OF
golfing instruments and intended AK
ing a crack at the game. numerous
others insisted on going 2long. zap
tain Huston, Charley Flynn, DOC IN
Law Mr.. and Mrs. 1IcGraw, Mr. and MIS-
Christv MathewsOn. and NIr- and MIS-
J. Honus LObert are among those VINO
are leaving for Havana to see that
gOlfinE done
AS for us. we feel about Mr.. Nc
Graw's golf playing much as ne lell
about Harry McCormick's first baslng-
one dav when the Giants were either
'wav ahead or way behind their op-
ponents. McGraw beckOned to the hand
some pinch poker.
You're going to relieve Merkle az
first base. Harry" said Mr. McGraW'
"and I'm going home, I can stand lot
anything but seeing you play urs'
base
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-01-16
RACE BREAKS SOUTHWESTERN
RECORD FOR INDOOR HIGH JUMP

Friday night the indoor high jumping
record for the southwest was broken at
the Y. N. c. a. Billy Race of the School
of Mines, broke his previous record OIL
i've feet four inches by a full inch.
Biliv. who is probably the smallest man
I'm this end Of the country who tries
the high jump, now holds the record
both indoors and outdoors. Billy broke
the southwestern record outdoors in the
meet at Mesilla Park last spring Win
a lean OF five feet nine inches.
His Jump at the "Y' Friday night
came within a half inch Of the outdoor
record before he broke it and stamps
him as the greatest jumper ever pro-
duced in the southwest. Billy has &C
quired the rolling form Of jumping used
nv Beeson and HORNE, the wonderful
California Jumpers, and it is principally
through his being able to perfect this
form that he has been able to make
the records he has.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-01-16

moving pictures-which by the way
viii hardly be worth printing If the
negro is the winner Willard, I pre-
sumo. will get little or nothing out
side of the chance at the title. If he
can make good and win over the negro
the entire purse will not amount TO
anything in comparison with what ne
can make in the next few years IN
the show business. So he is gambling
1otbin9 really against a chance to
make an immense pot Of money. VINO
can blame him? I can't
Lacks Fighting Instinct:
Rig less has everything in a phys
zeal way that could be desired. He has
given a fair account Of himself for one
SO little experienced in the game. lie
has never met a first class tlShtel,
however and predictions as to what M. ne
may accomplish in the Johnson paILiS
are simply a matter Of conjecture ana
From what little I have seen. Of hin, him
he apDears to lack the fighting instinct.
T., IocaI contests he has shown no
argressiveness at all, and as Johnson
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-01-16

fights along the defensive almost en-
tirely the affair may develop into
question which man can stand On his
feet the longer 1 can't picture john
son chasing an opponent or carrying
the fight to him And Willard has
never yet been guilty of forcing mat
ters in a match even when opposed TO
the veTiest dubs.
Willard Carries Best Wishes.
Willard may prove a surprise, but
he has not done anything so far in ms
career to lead one to suspect as much-
Jess managers are apparently the
only ones who entertain the opinion
that the excOwbOy has chance 10
win the championship. II, as they
promised when the match was first
announced, Willard had met and de-
feated even one of the leading con-
tenders he would go into the ring on
March C with the public confidence.
As it is all he can hope for in that
men In general. And that won't help
him any.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-01-16


Ivory Hunter Arrives.
,sirister Dick" KinseIIa. the famous
scout of the Giants. arrived mere as
per advance notice in this column, aho
was soon in executive session Win
John J. McGraw. ~ ,
snorfed when questioned about IN,
matter. it is believed that the rumor OF
hin, 4-oinc to the Yanks is what you
might call n canard. still he ana no.
state the purpose of his call, and as
man must have some object IN aoan-
donino SPRINGFIELD, Ill. for New YORK
at this season of the year, calaIu
is as good as anything
Dick threw some light on a couple
of the recruits he has dug up Tor lhe
Giants the past few months he say
HollOweIl is n young lnfielder from lIlS
Three Eve league. who is just as SoOu
q hall Dlaver now as Heine Groh was
when the scout had Heinrich at Decatur
Moreover, Dick declares that Mar
shall who comes from Davenport OIL
the Three Eye, is a spIendld yOuI!7
catcher Dick does not specialize IN
tal players. but if he did backsJops
would probably be his long suit. he
dug up Charley Snyder for the Car
dinals Harry Smith and Arihur w IL
son. for the Giants, and kept Breshahah
from trading WinEO away from st.
Louis in the days before the chnglhs
Mr.. Ebbets Comes In.
We are pleased to record a great
moral victory Mr.. Charles Santa ClaS
Ebbets. the squire of Fl tbush. has
finally drffted alongside with INSECT
Ianeous cargo of costly mOmentoes IOr
the members Of the New York ana
BROOKLYN chapters. Baseball Writer'S
Association of America, and in conse-
ouence thereof Mr.. Ebbets ana MS
baseball club win receive such abuse
as they may prove themselves worthy
of next season.
It seems that Mr.. Ebbets has good
aIibi for his long silence. He has so
many HOLIDAYS i'm mind that he got
christmas confused with Valentine Day
and he did not become apprlsed OF ms
error until he heard US paging him in
these columns Then he got busy and
sent out velvet hats. derbies, tiles,
canes. etc. in great protuslon, Iha am.
YOU. Mr. Ebbets. AIS well that ends
well.
Harry y. Hampstead, president of the
Giants has returned from q hunting
trim ut George StalliuEs's place in
Georgia Mr. Hampstead was mem
her OF Jim Gaffney's famous party of
baseball officials and writer's. and ne
reports that while the Boston bunch
may be able to win National league
remnants. and worlds series. ana other
things like that. they are tail enders
when it comes to the great American
pastime of drawing poker.
The New Nank Secretary.
To quiet the minds of the many ap-
nlicants we beg to state that the new
owners of the Yanks say they viii not
announce the name Of the secretary
/ or business manager, until next week