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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-05-18


Informed Head of Roman Church
That RE Would Do Everything Pos
ciblc TO Avoid Hostiities.
Washington, May 18.-President
Wilson has replied to the message
sent him recently by Pope benedict in
which the pope expressed the earnest
hope that war between the United
States and Germany would not be pre-
cipitated by the submarine issue and
conveyed the impression that he hoped
the United States might be of assist
ance ultimately in restoring peace to
Europe
The reply of the president was con-
veyed through Monsignor Bonzano, the
apostolic delegate here, who delivered
the pope's message to the White
House.
White House officials refuse to dis
cuss the ? pe's message or the reply
of the president. but in other quarters
it is indicated definitely that the eX-
change oi messages only remotely has
to do with the question Of the peace Of
Europe.
The president is understood to have
informed the pope that be was very
eager to keep the United States out
OF the war and would DO everything
possible consistent with maintaining
the honor end rights Of the United
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-05-18
PEACE RUM0R CIRCULATES
Washington Officials Place No Conf
dcnce in Report.

Washington May l8-Another peace
report was current in Washington.
1t was said the peace movement is
beginning to attain some headway and
that suggestions had been made in a
preliminary peace conference.
Great Britain would be represent
ed by Lord Hardinge, Germany by
Prince Won Buelow and France by for
mer Premier Bourgeois.
However, this latest peace report
was not credited by officials here.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-05-18
OBREGON AT MEXICO CITY
Says Conferences at Border Were Sat.
lsfactory.

Mexico City, May 18-War Minis
ter Obregon, In a statement on his
return from Ell Paso, says he is con-
fldent President Wilson contemplates
no war with Mexico.
He has so reported to President
CarranZa
General Obregon says his confer
ences with General Scott were salts
factory"
He Is sending troops north to CO.
operate with the American forces in
patrolling the border.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-05-18
Colorado Fruit Crop Killed.

Durango, Colo, May 18.-Killing
frosts Of the past three nights have
ruined the fruit crop this year in the
San Juan basin of Southwestern Colo
RADIO, according to reports here. Re
ports of damage to early varieties OF
fruit also come from Montezuma val
ley and from Pennington and Aztec
~ II
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-05-18

Winnipeg, May 1s.-Freight traffic
In Winnipeg is at standstill as the
result of strike of 400 teamsters
The men demand slight increase in
wages. wA6oh the railroads refuse to
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-05-18

Senator William E. Borah OF Idaho,
Republican, denounced the Susan b.
Anthony constitutional amendment
for woman suffrage as violatins
state rights and in a letter to an Ida
no suffrage organization, which he
read to the senate, gave his reasons
for not needing a resolution it had
adopted calling upon him to protest
to the house judiciary committee for
not reporting the amendment
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-05-18

Columbus. n. NJ, May 1S.-With-
drawal of American forces from San
Antonio, advanced base of the Ameri-
can forces into Mexico, was followed
by the slaughter Of a dozen Chinese
merchants, according to stories brought
into the Columbus bases by truck
drivers.
Hardly had the American troops left
the city, according to the truck driv-
ers, than the place was raided by a
bandit gang which had app >rently
been waiting withdrawal.
The Chinese were shot and their
stores looted.
The American commanders had not
been advised that there were any ban
dts in the vicinity. 1t had been
known that the bandits had threaten
ed with death any person who helped
the American troops in any way.
The friendly Mexicans in the San
Antonio region were panic stricken
when they learned the Americans
were withdrawing and many fed north
with the troops, deserting their homes
and property Mexican laborers who
had been working on the roads with
the engineering corps also fed north
Because of an epidemic of typhoid
at Casas Grandes, the nearest place
to the American base at Dublan, the
American soldiers have been ordered
not to go near the town.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-05-18
TURKISH SITUATION SAID
TO BE SERIOUS.

Rome. May 1S.-According TO
information from Bucharest,
the German, Austrian, Turkish
and Bulgarian general stats held
a meeting In a Hungarian town
to consider the very serious
situation In Asiatic Turkey.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-05-18
OHIO SUFFRAGISTS GET Sc
WE'RE SHOCK.

!. Columbus. O., May 1S.-Suf-
!. fragists got something of a
!. shock here
!. They went to the colored
:. women for aid in the suffrage
X cause
= The negresses told them they
+ wanted social equality first
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-05-18
Merchants Slaughtered and
Stores Looted.
BANDITS RAID THE TOWN
Attack San Antonio Following With
drawal of American Troops and
Carry Out Threat to Punish Anyone
Who Assisted Uncle Sans Men.
TROOPS DEFEAT RAIDERS.

Marathon, Tex, May 18.-A
truck driver arriving here from
Boquillas said it was reported
on the border that Major Lang
horne and two troops of caval-
ry had surrounded the Big Bend
bandit raiders about 125 miles
from the border, killing six and
capturing seventy-tive.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-05-18
WILSON REPLIES
TO POPE'S PLEA
Answer to POntiff'S Message
Kept Secret.
PRESIDENT OPPOSES WAR

Chief Executive Understood to Have
Informed Head of Roman Church
That RE Would Do Everything Pos
cible 70 Avoid Hostilities.
The Keota news., 1916-09-15
LOCALS AND PERSONALS
Items Of Interest to the People of
KeOta and Vicinity

Keota was well represented at the
Harvest Festival held at Grover on
Wednesday and Thursday. l. S. Griffin
and wife, Mrs. Della Cameron, and
John Griffin drove up in their Ford the
first day, and the following were visit
ors at the fair the last day: Mr.. and
Mrs. Earl Quackenbush, Clarence and
Walter Quackenbush, Mrs. Charles
Dinsmoor, Harley Jobbins, Theodore
Olsen, Fred Vogliotti, w. f. Scott, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Davis.
Leslie Smith and family, who have
been spending the summer with his
brother. Carl A. Smith at Smiths Lake
Place, twenty miles northeast of Keota,
went to Greeley Tuesday for the win
ter. Carl Smith followed on Wednes-
day, driving thru with his team.
Briggsdale will hold it's fifth annual
fair and fall festival next Thursday,
September 2l. The exhibits are ex-
pected to excel those of any previous
year.
Mrs. E. R. Thompson arrived Mon
day from LosAngeles. Cal, for three
weeks visit with her sister, Mrs.
Dwight Rumsey.
Mrs. Lula Allen, of Omaha, Nebr,
came Thursday for a visit with her
daughter, Mrs. George Friend, and
family.
w. j. Simms erected an 8x1O frame
milk house this week on his ranch just
east of town.
The Keota news., 1916-09-15
Friday, September Is, 1916
THINK AGAIN MR.. JOHNSON

Mr.. Jackson Johnson, ST. Louis manu-
facturer, while admitting that railroad
strike would have cost his company
5000, 600 a month, asserts that he has
been unable to get anyone to explain to
his satisfaction how President Wilson'S
course was right. Very well.
If Mr.. Johnson's factory should catch
fire would he have the fire department
stand around and argue how the building
laws should be revised or would he have
them start Immediately to extinguish
the blaze?
If a surgeon is called upon to perform
an operation to save a mans life. would
he have him first prepare thesis on the
wrong mode of living which made the
operation necessary, or should he go
ahead at once and operate?
If, to save city from destruction by
flood, it became necessary to cut dixie
and submerge farmers wheatfield,
would it not be better to do that than
argue over future methods of flood con-
troll?
In the emergency, says st. Louis Dis
patch, the President and Congress
obeyed the old Roman maxim -''Public
welfare is the supreme law" A pro-
longed railroad strike would have cost
the people of the United States hundreds
of millions and inestimable suffering
which no future legislation could have
squared. The settlement made by Con-
gress has prevented all that loss and
misery and has done no injustice for
which future laws cannot provide
compensation.
The Keota news., 1916-09-15
THE OLD GUARD COMMANDS

That the Republican party is party
of inaction as we'll az reaction is shown
by the vote in the Senate on the Emer-
gency Revenue measure. Every Re-
publican Senator, save five, when voting
on that bill, voted against:
i. A non-partisan tariff commission.
g. Readjustment of the tariff on dye
stuifs.
8. Protection against post bellum
dumping.
a. Tax on excessive profits on war
munitions.
5. Inheritance tax on swollen for
tunes-the most equitable of all taxes.
6. Increase in income surtaxes-a
small increase in the taxes of the very
rich
OF such are the leaders of the forces
that nominated Hughes, and who will be
in power in the event of Republican
success.
The Keota news., 1916-09-15

L. A. Jackson, who has been spend
ing the summer working his mining
property at Boreas Pass, near Como,
returned to Keota Tuesday to vote at
the primary election and to look aft
his property interests here. He left
via Briggsdale, Thursday. Mr.. Jack
son owns the improvements and lease
upon Section 36, a mile and one-half
northeast of Keota, but desires to sell
out, as he cannot be here to farm it
himself. He has developed water
supply, and irrigates portion of the
place.
Methodist Ladies Aid will meet with
Mrs. d. w. Schoonover on Thursday,
September 21.
Tablets, pound paper and envelopes
1T the News Office.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-08-31
SPECIAL LEVY FOR
NEW FIRE ESCAPES
One Mil Tax 10 BE Asked to Provide
Proper Precautions for
Schools, .tn~

Following the recommendation of
Fire Chief William E. Ringold that
additional fire escapes be added to
the city school buildings, a one mill
special levy viii be asked by the school
board this fall. No special election
will be necessary.
The proposition was brought up by
Councilman Claud Penland, who ask
ed what was being done in enforcing
the new fire escape ordinance City
School Superintendent A. T. Park at
this point spoke TO the council upon
needed fire precautions at the schooi
buildings. The additional equipment,
according to Mr.. Park, would entail
an expense of $500 a building,
Councilman Joe Ell. chairman OF
the fire committee. announced that
an inspection would be made this
week of the buildings and report
made to the council at their next
meeting.
Mayor Best stated that a figure OF
$50 each on escapes had been given
him. Superintendent Park declared
that the escape which this amount OF
money would buy would be unfit for
small children to walk down. Mr..
Park obtained figures on the work
from several western and eastern
plants.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-08-31

The PendletOn Sheep Company has
been working night and day getting
the sheep from the mountains to Mea-
cham for loading tomorrow morning
in anticipation Of a strike. Tomorrow
was the last possible chance for them
to be received for shipment by the
railroad. A special train of sheep will
be sent over the O-W. to Pendleton
and then over the n. P. to Frye and
Co. in Seattle. This train supplies
much of the meat to the Seattle pop
ulation. The sheep were purchased
from the j. E. Smith Livestock COM
pany and to get them to Meacham in
time for loading has been a hard mat
ter Dan P. Smythe Of the Pendleton
Sheep Company will leave tomorrow
morning to load a card of sheep at
Milton for Gibbon. Mr. SmHthe did
not expect 10 ship the sheep for at
least two weeks but the impending
strike has caused this action at this
time
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-08-31
TRIAL JURORS FOR
SEPTEMBER PICKED

A trial jury for the regular fall
term of the circuit court, which opens
on Sept. IS, was drawn this morning
by Sheriff Taylor and Clerk Sailing.
1t includes thirty-one taxpayers, TWEEN
ty-five of whom are farmers.
The following are those drawn:
Claude Sloan, Echo, farmer: George
w Ellis, Albee, farmer; d. W. Olin-
ger Milton, merchant; o. f. Smith,
Milton, farmer; Charles Gerking.
Athena, farmer; Samuel Pambrun,
Athena, farmer; Herman Rosenberg,
Pendleton. farmer; L. I, O'Hara, Wes-
ton. merchant; II. d. Lamb, Freewa-
ter farmer; Sanford Stone, Adams
farmer; F. A. Baker, Stanfield, farm
er; John Dyer. Pendleton, merchant;
Ed Dupuis. Nolin, farmer; c. F,
Ames, Hermiston, farmer; Albert f.
Warren, Helix. farmer; c. J. Ward,
Stanfeld farmer; William Grigsby
Pendleton, farmer Ross Carney, PEN
dleton. merchant; Carl Marshman'
Freewater, farmer; Thomas Heddle
Pendleton farmer; Charles 5. Wilkes
Helix. farmer: II. Q. Earnhart, Pen
dleton, farmer; Carl NJ. Hemphill, Pi-
lot Rock farmer; Harry Huber Mil
ton, farmer: John F. Gentry Hold
man. farmer: Fred f. March Weston,
farmer: c. w. Steen, Milton, farmer:
II. r. Lee, Milton, farmer; w f, Mil
Ter. Milton, miller; H, f. Hit, Hermit
ston. merchant, and II. Il. Lorenzen,
Pendleton, farmer.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-08-31

Freight and express which will not
reach its destination by Saturday
night is being refused by local rail-
road agents today by reason of the
impending strike and there are nu-
merous other preparations being MADE
for the carrying out of the strike or
der Monday
Should a strike occur enc of the
most serious local consequences would
he the interference with the shipment
of sheep At this time the heavy
shipment of sheep commences. Ship
ment of the 1915 grain crop would be
stopped The supply of coal in PEN
dleton at this time is not very large
but, with the present weather. little
is needed. Merchants will be handl-
capped by DELAY in securing their
fall stocks but the food situation is
believed TO be all right for the time
being
There seems to be prevailing
opinion in Pendleton IN railroad cir
cles that there will either be no strike
or the strike will be a consequence OF
only a Tow hours. One conductor this
morning declared that he was certain
that if the strike were called it would
not last more than ten hours. After
this time drastic measures would be
taken and the railroad officials would
be forced to submission he declared
He seemed to believe that whatever
legislation was made would be favor
able to the trainmen as the govern
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-08-31
SIGNS
ORDINANCE PASSED
COUNCIL HAS FULL DISCRETION
TO DECIDE UPON LEGAL
ITY OF BANNERS.

The revised city electric sigr ordi-
nance which was introduced at the
meeting Of the city council Wednes-
day, August 20 in its original form,
was passed last night The ordi.
nance is the same as the first ordi.
nance prepared by City Attorney J.
Alger Fee, Jr.. except that instead Of
the street committee passing upon the
sign. the council as a whole will have
the final jurisdiction. The revised
ordinance applies to signs already up
as well as those which are TO be put
up in the future
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-08-31
STRIKE WOULD PARALYZE THE
LOCAL SHIPMENTS OF SHEEP;
FOOD SITUATION is ALRIGHT

ment has been favorable to the train
men for the past two years but have
been unable to benefit them until a
strike should be called.
A Mr.. Reynolds, a conductor on
the Milwaukee road from Tacoma
who has been representing the con-
ductors from this section at Washing
ton. y. c.. is expected through PEN
dleton today. on his return home.
The gasoline famine will not occur
for a week instead of three days. L.
B. Dewitt, local manager of the
Standard Oil Co, stated that he has
supply of gasoline to last week
but only enough distillate to last for
three days. The report of an i'm
pending gasoline famine brought an
unpl ecedented business to the com.
pany today.
In connection with the strike the
local Northern Express company to-
dav received the following telegram:
Account impending strike ship
ments Of perishable matter, also live
stock. must be refused which cannot
reach destination by Saturday night,
September End This refers to busi-
ness destined to points on our line,
as Well as to offices of connecting
companies
F,ease see that this information is
giyer to all employees interested and
noetify shippers concerned.
Yours truly,
NJ. c. HALL, Supt.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-08-31
OREGON MILITIAMEN
HOME IMMEDIATELY

= SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 81
= General Bell has announced that
= all Oregon and Washington in
. fantry regiments would be re-
= turned to their mobilization sta
= tions Immediately.
= SAN ANTONIO. Aug. 3t.--
= General Funston has announced
= the following troop movements
. as a result of the threatened
= strike. The First Missouri to
= st. Louis. the Third Missouri 10
= Kansas City, the Fifth CalifOr-
. mia to San Francisco, the Fourth
. Maryland to Baltimore, the
= Third New York to Buffalo, the
. Fourteenth New York to Brook
= lyn. tine seventy First New York
= to Manhattan. The first units
= move tonight.
A a 4 4 4 a a 4 4 q = q q = q
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-08-31

crooks, plckpoekets and weary will
lies Of the underworld will have a.
poor chance for operation in PEN
dleton during the Roundup, septem-
her Il. 20 and 2S. In addition to the
regular Pendleton police force ana
specials there will be a large delega-
ton OF wearers of the star from all OF
the principal cities of the northwest
A number of Portland, Seattle, Spo-
kane, Boise and Tacoma detectives
who are familiar with the faces of
most of the crooks in the northwest
have written President T. D. Taylor
Of the Roundup that they will be
hero to assist in keeping order
In addition to the police and detec-
tiyes the annual convention of the
North Pacific Coast Railroad special
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-08-31
SPECIAL AGENTS AND POLICE
OF NORTHWEST RAILROADS TO
CONVENE HERE AT ROUNDUP

agents and policemen will be held in
Pendleton during the three days OF
the show This is the first time that
the special agents Of all Of the roads
have held a convention here but each
year there have been gathered here
a number of representatives of the or
der. This accounts largely for the
absence of crime in the city during
the show. The announcement that
the northwest Sherlocks will be am
ong those present has had a tendency
to cause the crooks to move else
where.
Secretary George L. Ryder of the
organization has written Secretary
Charles II. Marsh asking that seats
and accommodations be set aside for
25 men during the three days Of the
show.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-08-31
EMBARGO SENDS HOG
PRICES SKYWARD
Chicago Market Jumps TO S11.4O Per
Hundred Pounds - East 81. Louis
Prices Are Highest Since 1858.

CHICAGO, Aug. SI.-The live
stock embargo has sky rOcketed
the hog market. Choice hogs are
eleven dollars and forty cents per
hundred pounds. This Is the
highest price since 1855. Other
meats are jumping. Kansas City
hogs have reached eleven ten.
Fast St. louis hogs are held at
eleven forty five, the highest
price since eighteen sixty three.
The Missouri, Kansas and Tex
as railroad has put an embargo
on all freight except government
ammunition. The Chicago and
Northwestern has placed an en-
barge on peTiShables and explo-
sjveS.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-08-31
Xeterans Hurry Home.

KANSAS CITY. Aug 3t.-Hun'
dreds of Grand Army veterans have
left the reunion ana hurried home.
They feared railroad strike might
maroon them. The Union station
was thronged New Pork, Pennsyl'
vania. Ohio, oregon. Washington and
California delegates we're the first
that departed
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-08-31
MlIson Tcrm. Icgislnted.

House Leader H.tchiu and Chair
man Adamson Of the house interstate
commerce committee last Yesterday
afternoon framed legislation which
they believed would avert the threat
ened strike. In effect it would provide
by law almost exactly the terms of
settlement which the president offer
ed the brotherhoods and the railroad
president and which the bretherhood=
accepted
The legislation takes the form n a
bill simply fixing an eight-hour day
for work on railroads, with time AMI
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-08-31

c. p. strain. A. ]. McAllister and Or.
+. J. Sommerville were last night ap-
pointed by Mayor Best to the library
board and the appointments were con-
firmed by the council They will take
office Sept 7,
Because of the fight over the libra
rianship, considerable significance at
taches to the appointments, The sup
porters of Miss Sabra L. Mason, the
present librarian, interpret the ap-
pointments as inimlcal to them and
their cause.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-08-31
NEW LIBRARY APPO|NTEES ARE
SAID TO OPPOSE MISS MASON
Strain Reappointed by Mayor and MAllister and
Sommerve to Succeed Mrs Berkeley and Mrs.
Owen; Council Confirms.

The appointments are made for
three years. MIR. Strain succeeds him
self and the other appointees will sue
Ceed Mrs. Norborne Berkeley and Mrs,
A. ]. Owen. Mr.. Strain has been one
of the board members opposed to the
retention Of Miss Mason, Mrs. Berke-
ley was one Of the champions of Miss
Mason and Mrs. owen was neutral,
having been absent from the meetings
at which the situation came to a crisis,
If the two new members are opposed
to Miss Mason, as her supporters claim
then the opposition will have a ma
jority of seven to four
ladies Refused Admittance.
The appointments were made last
evening before there was anyone, ex-
cept city officials, present. Several
ladies, among them Mrs. Lima H. Stur-
gis, chairman of the board, and all of
them supporters of Miss Mason, had
arrived at the city hall at 1880 and de-
Continued on Page 8.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-08-31
OUTLOOK BRIGHTENs.

WASHINGTON, Aug. S1.-Of-
ficlal Washington refuses to be-
Iieve that a strike is unavoidable.
Il is generally expected that con-
gress will pass the eight hour law
law. GarretsOn said: "If such a
law passes. wen flash the words
OF a satisfactory settlement to
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-08-31
THOUSANDS MAROONED
IN THE NORTHWEST

PORTLAND. Aug. Silt is esti-
mated one thousand travellers will be
marooned in the northwest in event Of
strike. over thirty thousand would
be marooned elsewhere on the coast
Thousands are leaving Los Angeles
The Great Northern Pacific has ar
ranged to run the river steamer Bailey
Gatzert to Flavel. to bring the Hill
liner passengers to Portland If the
trains are halted.
1t takes an all round hustler to
make both ends meet
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-08-31

Charles L. Montgomery and w. D.
Az. Jones of Portland motored from
Wasco to Pendleton yesterday. They
left early this morning for Weiser,
Idaho.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-08-31
NEWS MARY

General.
Strike outlook appears brighter
Roumanlans sweep Transylvanla.
Oregon mllitiamcn home immedl-
ately.
Local.
Library board appOintees made.
Strike would impair sheep ship
ments.
Special levy may be asked for fire
escapes. go.
Special agents and police TO hold
convention here.
Annual postal receipts show rs per
cent increase.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-08-31
LADIES ARE OUTWITTED

supporters of Librarian Barred From
Caucus and Action Taken Before
They Enter RoOm-Mayor Best Cor
raled After Meeting and Warm Con-
troveIsy Ensues-FIght to Continue.