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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-01-21
Columbia Rose Six
Feet at Umdtilla
Today; no Danger

= UMATILL-A. ore. Jan. e1.--
= lSpeciau Rising TO the extent
. of six feet within a few hours
= today the Columbia is causing
= some uneasinyss here though
= no damage has been inflicted
. and probably none will occur
= The ice jaru above Umatilla is
= broken and the ice has been
. lodged against the jam below
= town The dam below town can
= be seen from Umatilla and at
= times the water seems 10 all be
= backing mp Then there will be
= a break and the ice will flow
= through. At 8 o'clock this af-
= ternoou the river was falling
= little The water was then at
= quite a distance from the Harry
= Dryer home facing the river.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-01-21

ATHENS. Jan. 2l,--After a two
days bombardment, the Angio-French
souadron has silenced the forts at
Portololagos. Bulgaria, and landed
troops The landing party returned
10 the ships after a reconnaissance
which showed superior forces of the
Bulgarians nearby.
sofia officially reported the bonn
bardment Of Portolagos and Dedau-
ghatch but did not mention the land
ing Of troops.
Constantinope reported another
squadron sheled the Turks on the
Gulf OF Saros. Though Salonih re-
ported heavy damage at Dedaughatch
sofia announced there were no cas-
nalties
Ayiators directed the Saros oom-
hardment. Constanunople reported
a cruiser was struck twice and with
drew burning
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-01-21
NEWS SUM MARY
General.

General.
villa reported captured. stories
are contradictory and not entirely
confirmed.
Spain and sweden holds worlds
attention in present European Situa-
ton.
Local.
Man sleeps ON while bed burns.
Uncle sam prevents Keith from
getting parole,
Local merchants will observe Pay
up Week
Dance ordinance provokcs much
discussion In city.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-01-21
FORTS SILENCED
BY FLEET AFTER
A BOMBARDMENT
Allied WarshipS Shell Bulgarian
StronghoIds Troops are Landed
But Ordered Back to Vessels.
AvIATORS DIRECT GUNNfRS
Turks on Gulf of Saros Are Also
Bombardcd - Sofia Announced
There We're No Casualues--Super-
lor Forces Bulgars compel Land
ing Party TO Retreat.

PARIS, Jan. 21.--King Nicho-
las has appealed TO the allies 70
rush aid to Montenegro ana
avert the annihllatiOn of its
army. The request was trans
mittcd through Italy and asks
for supplies of food and artillery
and ammunition.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-01-21

AMSTERDAM, Jan. 21.-Offi-
cials believe the kalser's Bel
Grade address hlntcd the immedi-
aic beginning of an Egyptian in
aston.
We've had IA hard fight which
will soon spread to other fields,
w. said.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-01-21
nv WITT,fAM q. SHEPHERD,

by WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD,
CUnited Press staff Correspondent)
SALONtKt Dec, 11-Our amhul-
ance rushed down the mountainside
at French chauffeur speed, and into
a valley behind Hill No. GIG which
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-01-21
Dollar Per Bu. Paid
for $1,000 Blu. Part
Club and BlueStem

At price Of 81 per bushel sale OF
$4,000 bushels Of wheat part club
and part bluestem, was made here
yesterday by Bissinger Bros. to the
Pendleton Roller Mills Local prices
on club today range from g6 TO gS
cents though there is little selling
The Portland and Chicago markets
are up today
CHICAGO, Jan Special
May $3.50, Sl32 IL. July St.23 I-s,
SI25 SIS.
PORTLAND ore. Jan Csprct.
aD-Club $i.06. ElIo. b.ueteu
$lt3 L.. Sll6.
Liverpool
LIVERPOOL Jan .p Wt#a-
spot NO. 1 Manitoba. ll. I-sd. Su.
3. les 10 l-2d. No. 3. l2s z 1-2d. So.
. hard winter. now 3s lFd
In American terms tho highest
Liverpool price is now S..0t per bush.
ell
PORTLAND, Ore. Jan 2l-f From
three to five million bushels OF north
west grain are held between Chicago
and New York because of lack NJ
railroad facilities, exporters declared
The railroad does not favor Pacific
shippers because they are not regular
customers Most or the grain aaH
CONSIGNED TO Europe ana ships are
waiting at New YORK 90 receive fhs
cargoes. One exporter De- paying
thousand dollars a day dcmurfaga.
China yearly sends $4,000 worth
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-01-21
Rebel Chieftain Said to Have Been Caught by
Carranzista Leader--Other Reports Declare
Capture Has Not Been COnfirmed--FOIOwers
Executed, Says Story From Ell PasO

JAM 2t-Consul he
word regarding reported villa Herrera
dnie uuh the il reported
Chihuahua
official
lie place Il was reported participated
der Of
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-01-21

Ell PASO, Jan. 21.-General
Herrera, commander Of the Car
ranzistas in Chihuahua, wired
there was no confirmation Of the
story that villa had been cap
tured. This followed an an
nouncement by Consul Garcia
that villa was being brought to
Juarez for execution. Officials
admitted that Villa probably was
not captured.
Meanwhile a new revolution at
TOrreon is progressing, with many
killed. Four thousand Villistas
and Zapatstas are reported to
have declared the lives Of Car
ranzistas and Americans will be
forfeited. They seek TO name
Felix Diaz "a president. Argu-
mendo is leading the revolt.
Among the captured bandits Is
reported to be Carlos Lopez who
led the massacre on Americans.
There was no confirmation of
the report that he and fifteen
Others confessed their guilt and
were executed.
The commander at the Juarez
garrison received a message
saying villa had been captured,
but this is also unconfirmed.
Executions without mercy
were the order OF the day at
TOrreOn. 1t was reported 100
CaETanzistas were shot before a
marhiRe gun squad southwest Of
TOFreOn after Americans were
warned to quit the district
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-tU. P.
Eighteen Mexican prisoners, alleg
ed participants IN the Santa Ysabe
will be publicly execute
at Chihuahua tomorrow. Ell Pas
the state department Tn
evidence against them is unknown
No confirmation Of the report tina
villa has been captured has been re
ceiyed Officials do not believe
because such reports have been cir
culated a score of times recently.
Ell PASO, Texas, Jan. 21.-Genera
Francisco Villa. with band of 5
men, has been captured. He is be
ing brought to Juarez and will b
publicly executed at the race trac
there, according to statements mad
by Carranzista officials. His follower
were all executed Immediately afte
their capture. says one report.
Located Near san Geronimo.
The capture was made by Carran
zis.as under General NJ. Aarque
commander Of the garrison at Tecolo
.eehnic, says dispatches. Villa wa
located near san Geronimo, 32 mile
west of this place. San Geronimo
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-01-21
rn InNc.tIgntc Nliik Ratcs.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2l-A ma
tinnal investigation or interstate rates
on cream and milk was announced by
the interstate commerce commission
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-01-21

MOntcncgrin~ Begin Retreat
ROME, Jan. 2l.-The M0ntcnc-
.rins are retiring toward Scutari.
They are constantly clashing
with the pursuing Austriane.
The army Of Essad Pasha. for
mcr Albanian King, has arrived
40 SCutari to join the Montene-
2FinS.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-01-21
ZOUAVE BAND PLAYS WHILE THE SOLDIERS BRAVE DEATH
CORRESPONDENT HEARS LIVELY AIRS IN THE TRENCHES

stopping place There. in the early
evening General Baillaui, whose
brave troops nearly all OF them
Zouayes had fought their way to
kriyolak and had there tried 60 re-
lcnntinnnA ON narn fnnrN
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-01-21
ILLINOIS FACES
SERIOUS FLOODS
FROM BIG RAINS
Many Towns are Inundated and
Rivers Continue Rising at Rapid
Rate-HundredS are Homeless.
WATERS SWEEP INTO CHICAGO

South Part of City suffers-Cicero is
Under Water aEtfis Residents are
MarOoned-One Man is Drowned
Other Sections of Middle West Re-
port serious Condition.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-01-21
Report Of capture Cnnf1rnnei.

Ell PASO. Texas, Jan. 21.-Offi-
eials Of the American Mining &
Smelling company received a dispatch
saying that villa had bSen captured
near san Geronimo, in western Chi
huahua.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-01-21

The hunt for villa began following
the massacre 40 miles west Of Chi
huahua on January 10 OF II foreign
ers mostly Americans en- route TO
Cusihuiriachie to reopen mines at
that place owned by an American
company. Villa is supposed to have
actuated this massacre in revenge for
American recognition OF Carranza.
His chief lieutenant General Jose
Rodriguez, and several other villa
chieftains were captured some days
ago. They were summarily executed
and their bodies displayed at Juarez
across the line from Fl Paso. Texas.
as a warning to other opponents OF
the Carranza regime
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-01-21

CHICAGO, Jan. 2l.-The rainfall in
Chicago the past day has been III
inches In Kansas City, 2.24; at Keo-
kuk 142. A heavy lake wind backed
the water into sewers and inundated
blocks in South Chicago The village
of Cicero is marooned. More rain is
forecasted The Vermillion river is
flooded one man slipped on the icy
bank and drowned
Ottawa. Illinois, reports scores Of
houses flooded. Thousands Of acres
OF land are inundated in Illinois. An
ice gorge is holding back the worst
floods in the Illinois river and up
river points are damaged.
JOLIET, Jan. Thousands are
homeless ana parts of the city are un-
der from four TO eight feet Of water
following continuous deluge. NJ
casualties have been reported, The
damage is estimated at 100000.
Families were rescued in rowboat;
and hurried to hospitals and fire sta
tions
PHOENIX, Jan. 2l.-Fifteen per
sons are marooned on an island al
Winkelman, which has been partially
destroyed by floods, Four are miss.
ing. Seven wera rescued from thC
strong current
Los ANGELES. Jan. 21.-Tht
! floods have almost entirely subsided
in southern California and repair
work is being rushed. Acres of rich
land are smeared with mud and lit.
tered with debris
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-01-21

China yearly sends $4,000 worth
ot peanuts % the United States
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-01-21

Continued on page rour)
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-01-21
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
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-05

Don't you know any one whom you'd like
to have up for week or SO to keep you
company"
Gather blushed as he had not blushed
for months, and stammered quite in his
old manner.
"Oh, don't think so" he said; "but
it's great of you to think of it,.
The idea, however, evidently grew
within him, and at lunch he approached
it timidly.
steve" he began, "about what you
said-about having some one up here to
visit me, to visit us-do you suppose that
it would be proper for me to have some
some ladies'"
Langley grinned in spite of himself
"Why, sure" he replied; "that is, Of
course, if they are properly chaperoned.
"Whom were you thinking OFF,
"Well," he said slowly, but with his
usual directness, "there is a girl named
Margaret Hillyer. She is an instructor in
the Teachers College, and l have known
her for years. If could ask them,-if it
would be all right think she and her
mother would love to come"
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few duties, and he performed it with scru-
pulous regularity. On one occasion, how
ever, Langley had letter. to 60 in
haste.
"Any letters to post, John?" he asked,
and after much fumbling Gather produced
thick envelop of the house stationery.
Langley showed it into his pocket with
feigned carelessness; but, once in the car
and down the hill, he took it out and read
the address with perfect shameessness.
1t was inscribed about as he had thought:
Miss Margaret Hillyer.
The address was the Teachers College.
Langley put the envelop back in his
pocket and chuckled. The name was all
that he needed and with the address it
fitted his picture perfectly.
NO other clues came for long, long
~ time; but in the meantime he was
working with Gather.
John, he said one day, "could you
possibly use this gray suit? I'm sick and
tired of it, and if you don't want it I'm
going to throw it away"
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Gather looked at it with wistful eyes.
THAT would be fine, Steve" he said
simply, "if you don't want it.
AS a matter of fact it was London
suit and almost new, and it transformed
Gather beyond belief. AS clothes often
do, it seemed to work inward. 1t gave
Gather an entirely new air when he met
the guests who came to the house, and he
cared for it with religious tenderness. He
had formerly retired to his room when
people arrived; now he came modestly
into the foreground. He even added a
big checked cap of his own volition, and
Langley beamed on him with pride.
The riding lessons, moreover, became a
fact. Gather would never make real
horseman. but he learned to sit old Ben
with tolerable ease. He and Langley took
long country rides. Gather began to take
on strength and color and an upright car
rage Occasionally they met parties of
Langley's friends. and Gather began to
establish faint friendships. He never in
truded. He was, unconsciously, IA flat
tering listener, and when he could forget
his shyness he had an unexpected dry wit.
As for Langley, no one can pursue a course
of studied kindness for months without
some development He thought of Gather
as man, and Gather actually became Il
man.
1t was not, however, until late in the
fall that his plans reached their fulfil
ment.
John" he said one morning, with APP
parent casualness, "I'm going down to
N,u, H. Won for tho Vola- pri pocto IN game
and then I'm going to the city. I'll prob
ably be gone couple of weeks. and it'll
be deuced lonesome for you up here.
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Langley's enthusiasm was hardly
feigned.
"By all MEANS" he replied. "Write
them to-day
"She would like it better than anything
in the world, Gather said, "for she is very
fond of the country, and almost never
gets to it. You see, her family was very
we'll off once. Her father was head of a
department at Brunswick when | was
teaching there; but he died, and now she
has to earn her own living. Even in sum-
mer she has charge of a vacation school.
"But could she get OFF," asked Langley
practically.
"Oh. know she could, replied Gather.
You see," he explained, "she knows all
about this place; l have written about it
so much She calls it my little heaven,
and she calls me the bookworm.'7
The lines around Langley's mouth
frightened little.
write them to-day" he commanded;
and Gather did.
The answer came in due time. Miss
Hillyer had succeeded in getting leave
of absence to visit the "little heaven"
With her mother, she would arrive a day
or two after Langley left
TT had been long time since there had
been girl in his house, and Langley
entered into the preparations with far
more zeal than Gather. He had new cur
tains hung in the guest-rooms, unearthed
and polished some quaint brass holders
for bedside candles, and gave Mrs. Dart
special directions about hot water, which,
his experience suggested. women used in
unbelievable quantities. He even con-
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dinners. He saw now where they had
gone-to that girl.
And with that thought there arose, nat
urally, a mild curiosity as to the girl, a
curiosity that grew deeper. He could not
conceive what kind of girl mild little
Gather could hold in interest for all of
those years, and ransacked his brain for
recollections of Gathers college life. He
could remember very few, although he
knew that Gather came of good people.
His father had been curator of the college
museum, and a man much like Gather
himself. His sister, however, had been
quite beauty. When Gather senior had
died penniless, she had married man
with money whom Langley despised.
Perhaps it was she to whom Gather was
writing; but that did not sound probable.
One did not call ones sister "girl O. mine.
So Langley pondered on Gathers ro-
nance until it became to him almost
reality. He could actually see the girl; he
could see her with certain reflected af-
had wished to expose Gathers pitiful
fabrication, he determined to foster
it. If it lay in his power, and he
thought that it did, he wished to have
Gather continue to be in her eyes the
man he had painted himself. He
doubted whether he could change
Gather himself, but he knew that he
could arrange his setting.
RUT about the girl herself his social
knowledge was too exact to fur
nish any illusion. He knew from
the start that she could not be of the
dashing, fox-hunting type the letter
would seem to imply. Langley pic
tured her, with faultless precision, a
little mouse of girl, an honest,
solemn little soul of girl, the
daughter in a professors numerous
family, teacher, a secretary, or a
brave little person struggling for her
living. To such as that Gathers lets
tiers of outdoor life and horses and
hunts and society girls" would come
like the life of a fairy prince. To her
they would be as real as they We're to
Gather himself. 1t was too golden
story to be rudely broken, and Lang
ley was not the man to break it.
But still the days went on without
any interchange of the secret which
these two men possessed. Langley
went out as usual, and seemingly
paid no attention to Gathers mild
occupations. Gather apparently spent
most of his time over his books, and if
he wrote any more letters, he did not
leave them in Langley's desk. There was
only this difference: that Langley heard
Gathers questions now with new in
terest, answering them with painstakine
minuteness. For, if Gather must fab
ricate, he was resolved that the fabri-
cation would be good one. He had Il
sort of professional pride in making il
exact.
steve Gather asked one day, what
is the best cure for spavin?"
To which Langley replied:
"If any one tells you that he has cure
for SPAWN, tell him he is liar"
But, pursued Gather, "if horse ha6
a SPAWN, could you tell it right away:
Would it fool any one?'
Langley pondered.
"Well," he said, with laugh, "if q
horse had two spavins he wouldn't limp
Some years ago Jake Shuttle had II gray
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MAGAZINE SECTION for March s, 1916

sidered importing lady's maid. 1t was
not, however, until the morning of his de-
parture that he sprang his coup.
"John, he said, @when your friends are
here want you to play the host. 1t is up
to you to give them the time of their lives,
and while I'm away want you to use the
place as your own. The horses are in the
stable if you want to use them, and boy
will come up from the garage to drive the
car. Mrs. Dart has instructions to take
orders from you. It's up to you, old boy"
Gather said nothing, and Langley hur-
ried on.
"Old man. he said, not unkindIy, "the
great trouble with you has been that you
have never had chance to run things for
yourself. You have never been on your
own initiative, and am going to put you
on it now. You are to be the master here
for while If Miss Hillyer and her moth
err aren't comfortable, it will be your fault"
Langley said it and ran; for Gather
showed signs of breaking down.
1t was with the utmost difficulty that
Langley stayed away for those two
weeks. He was growing old, he unused,
for he found that it made surpris-
ingly little difference to him whether
Yale beat Princeton or Princeton
beat Yale; and New York actually
wore him out. He longed for his
hedges and his poplars, and most of all
he wanted to look ut Gathers guests.
But he knew that, no matter what in
structions he might give Mrs. Dart,
with the first sight of him Gather
would sink back into his air of de-
pendence; so he stuck it out. Gather
wrote to him with religious fire.
quency, giving minute reports of the
farm. With malice aforethought,
Langley had instructed the foreman
to go to Gather for orders; and when
the garage boy had asked about buy
ing new tires, Gather had written in
pitiful frenzy.
Decide it yourself" had been
Langley's laconic reply.
TOWARD the end of the second
week Langley received snapshot
photograph. The operator must
have been Mrs. Hillyer, for the pic
ture showed a serious-looking girl in a
tweed suit, and beside her Gather
wearing broad grin.
The grin was what most helped his
resolution, and it was not until the
night after Miss Hillyer's departure
that the lights of his car lit up his
hedges and poplars. Once again he
saw a light in the library, but this time
Gather did not stay over his book.
Steve, you grand old rascal!T he
shouted, as he came leaping out into the
stable-yard. "How are you? Everything
in the world has happened to me-.
With Langley, however, the forces of
habit were strong. He felt of the radiator
and then turned out his lights.
you didn't burn the place down,
see, he replied. did your guests have a
good time?"
"Time!" exclaimed Gather. "Just wait
till tell you
He followed Langley into the house.
and there in the library stood plate of
sandwiches, jug, and siphon.
Il made these myself said Gather.
holding out the plate. Langley took one.
"You must have taken lessons, he said,
looking at it. "Are you going to keep
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-11
Hamstringine the Parcel Post.

There is something for farmers to
Judson C. Welliver in Farm and Fire
side:
Probably the biggest thing the ma
tional government has done for the
farmer since the establishment Of the
rural mail delivery was the creation Of
the parcel post. 1t is quite unneces-
sary to tell people how much the parcel
post means to them, especially to the
farmers.
But determined effort Is afoot to
strike down the parcel post in its early
stages Of growth, by hamstringing it
with regulations and restrictions. Tho
whole country, especially the rural
community, needs to understand and to
take measures to save this splendid
facility.
The parcel-post legislation provides
that the interstate commerce commits
sion shall, on petition Of the postmas-
ter-general, determine rates, condi-
lions, regulations, weights Of parcels,
etc, for the parcel-post service. That
is. the interstate commission is vested
with authority to fix rates and condi-
tons Of transportation for the rail-
roads and express companies, and in
these cases anybody may appeal to it
to exercise its authority. The present
parcel post rule limits the weight Of a
parcel handled by post to so pounds.
That is the maximum that Uncle Sam
will handle. However, if the postmas
general wanted to increase the
maximum to 100 pounds. he could, as
the law now stands. apply to tho inter-
state commission for authority: and. If
it permitted, there would be nothing in
the law to prevent.
We hear lot about trafficking from
farm to table by parcel post. but the
fact is that a crate Of eggs weighs over
so pounds; so does a bushel Of potatoes.
Either Of these units would be barred
until the limit could pass so pounds"