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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-02-23
Ir,IiS

police make raid: arrest three cou-
pies.
Every section Of county 10 lis us
bond issue with court
Pcndlcton 20 BE- scene of ncNt G,ld
Fellows convention.
Young mems republican club ten.
tatlycly organized.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-02-23
POISONER MAY Be IN PORTLAND

CHICAGO, Feb 23.-Ch'ef o.. Poliy,
Healy received a postcard ndicatns
that Jean Crones, alleged poisoner
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-02-23
GERMANS STAGE
OFFENSIVE ON A
Is MILE FRONT
Infantry Attacks are Being Made in
the Verdun Region But fr.OCh
Report Enemy Being Held.
LOSSES SAID TO Be GREAT

1cuton prisoners Declare whole Bat
talions OF Their Forces Have Been
nnihilated-trcnch Claim To Have
Retakcn Caures Wood and Several
Trenches Ia the BOis.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-02-23

SEATTLE, Wn. Feb. 23-Murder
charges have been filed against Yee
Bow tongman. the alleged murder
er Of va Park, a.frst victim of the
tong war here. The Hop sings de-
clare Yee Is being made the goat OF
other factions.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-02-23

may be- in Portland The card was
a teunt similar 90 those received .n
New York The signature appeared
genuine, Heaiy said
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-02-23

PARIS. Feb 23.--The Germans are
staging strong offensive at Nerdun,
81 was officially admitted. Infantry
are attacking on a l5-mne front GER
man prisoners said whole battal'cns
Hate been annihilated
m, French admitted eyacuaius
Haumont forest. They claimed re
occupation Of the Caures wood, which
was evacuated Yesterday Fierce at
lacks continue In the Bois-Glvenchy
reg. H. The French recapturcd ,cS-
eral trenches
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-02-23
INlrtInnd.

PORTLAND, Feb. 23.-CSpeciaD-
club 90, 9S asked bluestem, $lo2,
SfU1 asked.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-02-23

LIVERPOOL Feb. 21.-Wheat-
~Hat no hard winter, new, lbs 10d
No spot No. l wheat in the market
I'm American terms the Liverpool price
for spot No. . is SAIL per bushel.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-02-23

BERLIN. Feb g Six miles et
French trenches north or Nerdm
have been captured headquarters
claimed. The gain was made in the
vicinity of Consenyoye and Azannas
Three thousand prisoners and much
H.utv were taken
with particularly vicious attacks the
Germans broke the French salient at
North Beaumont ana ten miles north
east Of Verdun The egeneral offenslv
,as designed to throw back the entire
French line on the Verdun front
LONDON Feb. 23 The allies have
conquered 100000 square miles ot
German Africa since the war started
il was announced in commons.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-02-23
Wheat Takes Slump
of Several Cents

CHICAGO. Feb. 2S.-(SpeciaD-.
May s122 l-2, $1.2S IA asked, July
Sis 81, S.l9 SIS.
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CONTINUED on page elght)
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-02-23

The East Oregonlan has the largest paid
circulation Of any paper In Oregon, east OF
Portland and over twice the circulation 10
Pendletoa Of any other newspaper.
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Continued on Page Eight.
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-01
STECHER SOUEEZES" MASKEDMAN"
ALMOST To DEATH; THROWS HIM
Nebraska Wrestler Merely Locks Legs About Hender-
son, Gets all Arm Lock, and the Trick Is Done; He
Used to Burst Sacks of w heat With That Scissors
Grip; Other Bouts Int crest New York Crowd.
BY DAMON RUNYON.

/, John Parcel. The sergeant was in a
state Of unpreparedness for such II
rough man as jon The latter has a
terrible scowl, while the sergeant was
fat and pink and cherubic looking, il
cherubs ever come il two-ton pack
ages.
Yessif Hussane, the Turk %tussler,
came as bare footed as Ruth St. Denis,
and finally toe heeled Herr Mllheln
Berner into submission. During this
bout John Parnell Dunn, the BROOKLYN
Demosthenes. lost two falls to the wrest-
tiers. John was twice pinned down
under an avalanche Of flesh and came
up looking dusty and weary.
Harold Christensen, OF Denmark,
and Terp's Harlem cafe, came on and
threw Olaf Nelson. who was
bv Joe HUMPHREYS as hailing from As
bury park. Chris was a great disap-
pointment to the ScanGinavians present
as they thought from the way Joe pro-
nounced Olaf that he might be a SWede
or a Norwegian.
"RulI- Montana circulated through
the press box after DOMINIC street
clothes and stated that the reason he
was rude to Hackenschmidt was be
cause he had another engagement in
Brooklyn and could not afford to tarry
in mixed company.
Stecher Excludes Two.
Joe Humqhries read a statement
from Stecher to the effect that the
Nebraska nan excluded Ut. ftOlleI anu
STRANGER Lewis from his recent
offer OF $500 to any man he failed TO
throw in IS minutes.
This announcement was generously
hooted by the crowd, hut it may be
aiken to mean tina Stecher will be
matched with one Of those excluded
gents somewhere very shortly.
A surprisingly big crowd was pres
emit. 1t included scores of women in
evening gowns and large number OF
male parties in high hats and condi-
ments. The box seats were well filled
with folks from Broadway and parties
adjacent. A band was in the gallery
issuing music, and it was a festive oc-
casion generally.
The Masked Marvel was the first or
the principals to appear, and he got
quite a greeting from the crowd The
Marvel has been here so long that he
is now regarded as one of us. He
wore his usual black hood. which is a
knitted h-ead-coverinG cOncealing his
head and all OF his features save n
long beak n his eyes and mouth.
stock soon followed him into the
ring. but Joe did not get anything like
the greeting rendered the Marvel. Or.
Roller and Stranger" Lewis got into
the ring attired in fashionable cuta-
way coats, and Joe HUMPHREYS deltV-
cred a long sermon in introducing them
Joe likewise introduced George Brother
as the referee.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-01

y FEW YORK. Feb. Joseph
stecher. the Nebraska farmer boy
wrestler. wound himself around
our celebrated Masked Marvel at
Madison Square Garden much after the
manner Of a boa constructor, and almost
squeezed the mysterious one right out
Of his hood. The Masked Marvel is
none other than Mort Henderson, of
course but he would have been just the
same TO Joe by any name.
Stecher took a total of Is minutes and
a fraction to settle Masked Mort and
did not seem to be hurrying himself at
that. He won the first fall in nine
minutes and so seconds and the second
in five minutes and 81 seconds
Both times Joe made his much-ad-
vertised scissors hold. assisted by an
arm lock for the first fall and by a
double wrist lock for the second The
scissors hold consists OF e~ntwining the
legs about an opponents body n then
clamping the limbs eighty together.
II seems most simple.
They say Stecher developed this hold
by straddling sacks Of wheat and
squeezing them until they burst This
seems probable, as he had the masked
person in a fair way toward bursting.
Henderson almost showed ~apopIectic
through his mask.
MarveI's second Defeat.
At the finish he had Joe HUMPHREYS
announce that Stecher is the greatest
wrestler he had ever met. Joe beat
Henderson once before in seven min
utes. It is said. but since then Hen
derson donned that mask and has been
creating a furOre around the tourna-
ment at the Manhattan Opera House.
Many people have gained the impress
sion that he is quite a wrestler, but
he was up against n champion this
time.
some 5000 or 5000 folks turned out
10 see the affair and to feel sorry for
Henderson because he had to keep be-
hind that mask on such a sweltering
evening. It must have been about 30
in the shade under that hood when Joe
got his legs around the MarveIs abb
domen.
Joe did not seem ~perturbed by the
mask. He stared curiously at the
hooded figure when he first came into
the ring, but he probably thought the
mask business was all nonsense. Joe
is a simple soul and not given to sub
terfuge. Then he reached out, clutched
the Marvel and cast him TO the floor
and forked his legs about the MarveIs
body. 1t was payday for Joseph very
presently.
Army Man Uuprepared.
In the p~reliminaries Bull Montana
was DISQUALIFIED for roughing Young
Hackenschmidt. while a large seq
ment OF the United States army labeled
Serg. Frank Lovett was defeated by
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-01
Tinker Made Seven Errors In Day
-:H:- -:I- -:l:- -:I- -:n:-
Then He Looked For Another Job
By JOE TINKER.

second base and the papers, still trying
70 Justify their first opinions Of me,
advised that 1 be given a trial at short.
by that time 1 was beginning to see
that had got myself into a Jam. OF
the shortstOp position I knew next to
nothing at all. 1t might be supposed
that since the shOrtstop stands but A
rev feet from the third baseman a
third baseman ought by all natural
sequences be a good shOrtstOp.
Just listen to what happen to Kan
sas Ctty's greatest kid third baseman'
when they tried him at short on the
Denver team.
The box scores the. next day showed
that l made seven errors.
1 couldn't have stopped a football.
Everything that came my way was
either fumbled or booted when the bali
didn't hit me in the face or in the
chest The more I tried the worse 1
got, and that grinning gang Of hyenas
we were playing took the greatest de-
light in rapping everything they could
down in my direction.
By the time the game was half over
I was fighting mad, and by the time
the last man had been retired and my
errors had given the game to the wish
tors, ] was crying with shame al my
hideous showing.
That convinced me that I couldn't
play either second base or shOrtstOp,
and as they didn't need a third base
men, which 1 had showed them that I
was. the inevitable happened.
/ was released. They sort Of made
it easy for me when they let me OUT
They told mt 1 had been sent to Des'
Moines. where they were in need OF
a good third baseman- So 1 ~journeyed
on to Des Moines. only to meet with
one of the most crushing set-backs /
ever could have received.
But that will keep for another day.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-01
One Star Player Nearly Makes Team
-::- -:H:- -:I:- -:H:- Six
Cobb And Mathewson Are Examples
NY FRANK G. MENKE.


TEW YORK, Feb. L-One swallow
doesn't make a summer, but one
~ wonderful ball player comes
very closes TO making a bal team
Tv Cobb n the Detroit Tigers are
an instance. Christy Mathewson and
the New York Giants Of other years
stack up as exhibit B.. Then there
were Grover Cleveland Alexander and
the Phillies as the 1915 combination
Detroit never would have been a
contender for the 1915 flag if II hadn't
been for Ty Cobb. Nor would Detroit
ever had even a fighting chance IN
any Of the past six or seven years
without the amazing Georgian the
Thillies would have been lucky to fin
ish in the first division in 1918 If they
hadn't had Alexander. When Maty
vas in the hey-dey Of his career he
was the Giant team. He kept them In
The fight and often put them ahead
with his peerless pitching.
Ed Walsh was the White SOx
team in the days when the "Hitless
Wonders" breezed through TO a WORLDS
championship. Minus Walsh the SoX
wouldn't have finished one. two, three.
Smoky Joe" Wood carried the Red
Sox 70 the American league pennant
and then to the worlds Championship
in 1912. Without him the SOX never
would have been in the battle.
OF course, these stars had help.
Their teammates hit behind them and
they fielded brilliantly, but the hitting
and the fielding would have aVailed
nothing in p%ennant chasing had it
not been for the s~cintillating work Of
that one star. He turned the tide Of
battle.
Can IL BE Trues
This is a story that is told concern
ing Miller Higgins and one Of the
rockies he tool south with him a
few years age.
The cub was an eXeitable youngster
and was always getting into trouble.
one night Higgins heard a commotion
near a little restaurant down the
street. He breezed into the crowd to
find his rookie" on the ground with
a burly waiter lowering above him
and landing Wallops ever and anon.
Hey, what's the matter hereP"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-01
Cavalry TosserS
Issue Challenge
to E. Paso Teams

The basketball team of troop c,
18th cavalry, stationed at Maria,
Tex, is hunting scalps among the
basketball teams Of El Paso. The
team won the championship OF the
first squadron Of the 18th regiment
at Alpine and has also defeate the
Maria high school
cant edward st. John writes that
the troop c team would like to
arranpe from three to five games
with El Paso teams. They desire to
make enough to pay the expenses OF
the trip. "Our team is a fast n
and we believe we can give any Ell
Paso team n good. fast game, "
writes the leader of the army team.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-01
WAUGH
BENNY CORDOVA

Fort Worth. Texas, Feb. Bobby
Waugh. Of Fort Worth, won every
round OF his IS round bout with Benny
Cordova Of Albuquerque here Monday
night. Waugh opened a cut over the
Mexican's eye in the first round which
bothered him considerably. Cordova's
gameness and ability to assimilate pun
ishment was the redeeming feature of
his work. He was hanging on at the
end.
Waugh and COrdova fought a 20
round draw at Juarez, Mex. on Sep
TENDER 20. 1915. After the bout, Waugh
created somewhat of a sensation in
sport circles by asserting that he was
told, early in the bout when he had
a safe lead. that he couldn't get better
than a draw because Hipolito Villa and
others OF the villa party had wagered
heavily on his opponent
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-01

because ne had never been 1latJeneu
and was the toughest thing the other
heayies had ever bumped into.
Tuthill had him matched with an
other colored smasher named Hill.
Well, sir, the fight came off as
per schedule, and Tuthill peeked over
the ring during the first round, laugh
ing to himself. He felt sorry for poor
Hill.
Mr.. Hill was tougher than expected.
He sailed into Gibraltar Smith, pelt-
ing him with everything ever seen,
and a lot of other sorts OF slams
never dreamed Of. For three rounds
Smith did nothing but hotfoot it
around the arena.
In the fourth session the crowd
howled for a fight. They yelled for
Smith to stand up and fight. Tuthill
yelled for him to stand I'D. but Mr..
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-01
"Beck's" Amen Corner
BY "BECK."

NEGRO baseball players are barred
from organized ball and they are
now planning a negro "big" league
of their own with clubs in Chicago,
Indianapolis, Pittsburg and Kansas
City. "Rube" Foster, known as the
"Black MathewsOn," expects to
handle the Chicago franchise.
JUDGE ". W. MCREDIE, owner of
} The Portland club of the Coast
league, has been a strong advocate
of a real Coast circuit, taking Van
couver and Seattle into the present
Coast league. The judge will doubt
less be peeved at the announcement
of Walter McCredie, his nephew and
manager of the Portland team, that
the day is coming when Portland
will break away from the Coast
league "and 60 where it rightly be-
longs-into the Northwestern" Wal
ter also predicts that Salt Lake will
not support Coast league ball as
well as it did last year and that it,
too, will have to be cropped by the
Coasters.
z x x
DOLBY WAUGH made up for his
mediocre showing against Benny
Cordova at Juarez last fall by hand
ing Benny a walloping at Fort
Worth on Monday night. After the
Juarez fight. which was a draw,
Waugh stated that he was told early
in the fight that he couldn't win"
because certain prominent Villistas
were betting on his opponent. Bobby
asserted then that if he ever got an
other chance at Cordova on American
soil he would win easily.
< x <
PENNY PALMER, the young Mex
lean lightweight who sometimes
gives his home address as Tucson,
appears to be making good in the
east. Otto Wallace, of Milwaukee,
has been tOuted as the coming light
weight champ IN and the fact that
Palmer shaded him in his home town
makes it evident that Benny is no
SLOUGH himself.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-01

TOM JONES, Jack Curley and the
Willard handlers took strong
exception a year ago to the comment
in The Herald about the lack of
class on the part of Wizards spar
ring partners. They pointed out that
Jim Savage was really a wonder"
and referred to him as the "mOst
clever of the heavyweights" and so
forth. But time seems to prove the
assertions made in The Herald.
Savage bumped into Charlie Vein
ert, a young heavyweight, in New
York last week and Charlie had Jim
helpless from the first round. Saw
ages seconds tossed the sponge into
the ring in the seventh round.
y = =
DENVER fight promoters are
strong on making offers that are
never accepted. Now they are offer
ing $4,000 for a 2O-round bout be-
tween Johnny Dundee and Charlie
White, to be staged in May. Some
Of these Denver promotions are re-
minders of the stories of the "cham-
pionship" battles that were to be
staged at Juarez-and were not.
GEORGE T. STALLINGS has been
reengaged as manager of the
Boston Braves. The new owners
have apparently been very generous
with the contents of the purse but
whether they viii be as generous in
letting "the miracle man" have full
charge of the team remains to be
seen.
JOE M'GINNITY has had his share
) of hard knocks in the baseball
world since he left the New York
Giants. He was still the "iron man"
when he led the Newark club in the
Eastern, now the international,
league and had a bit of money when
he went to Tacoma and bought the
franchise Of that club in the North
western league. Report has it that
Joe has dropped over $4,000 in three
years there and now Bob Brown,
brother Of the former Tucson mag
nate, wants to have Tacoma dropped
from the Northwestern league.
Brown, who owns the Vancouver
franchise, suggests that Vancouver,
Seattle, Spokane and Butte will
make a mighty nifty four-club cir
cult.
COAST league baseball magnates
are scrapping Over the salary
limit. After Frank Chance signed to
manage the Los Angeles club, he
announced that he couldn't get a
good team on a salary limit of $4,000.
So the Los Angeles, Venice and San
Francisco clubs are advocating an in
crease while Portland, Salt Lake
and Oakland are bucking. The
trouble is that some Of the stronger
California clubs want major league
ball, which Portland and Salt Lake
cannot support.
LIGH SCHOOL will have to defeat
the Feldmans in Wednesday
nights game in the City Basketball
league series if it expects to stav in
the championship race. But the
Feldmans are going to be a mighty
tough proposition for the Tigers and
it looks as though the photographers
will be favOrites over the students.
It's the best midweek game sched-
uled so far this season and should
draw a big crowd.
\ =
NEW ENGLAND league, one of
the famous circuits of organized
ball, is no more. There was a time
when the New England ranked as
n of the leading circuits Of the
minor organization but during the
past four or five years it has been
s6idding and the end was foreseen
last wear
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-01

For ehapped hands, face or lips, Pot
ter's Toilet Cream is unequaied. Price
Csc. Telephone $50 and 375 and have it
delivered. Potter Drug Company.-Adv.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-01

-
yelled Higgins, jumping in and res
cuing his player.
HE hit me first" yelled the waiter,
pointing at the rookie" 81 amt gonna
let anyone throw things at me"
Did you throw something at him.
asked Higgins.
cub. 1T was punk stuff. He wanted
me to pay for it: 1 wouldn't and in the
argument 1 threw it at him"
Gets the Truth Gradually.
Was that adjust some rice?' de-
manded the Cardinal manager.
We'll, the rice was in the form of
a pudding" reluctantly admitted the
cub.
what's the use Of getting peeved
pudding at your said Higgins, turn
ing to the glowering waiter
Rice pudding, hey?" snarled the
waiter. We'll. femme tell you this,
mister. That guy is telling only half
the truth. He's right; it was rice
pudding that he threw at me but he
failed to tell you that the pudding
was in a cup. And 1 amt the kim OF
a guy that's gonna let n bum ball
player lam me on the knob with a cup
of pudding without giving him a
whaling"
bouquet for D~reyfuss.
Billy Murray, business manager FOR
the 1915 Newark Federals, has this to
say concerning Barney Dreyfuss, the
Pittsburg magnate.
II worked for Barney for many years
and in all my career I never met a
whittier. cleaner man to do business
with. The impression that exists that
Barney is a tightwad is in
the extreme.
Barney Dreyfuss is as liberal a man
as I've ever known. His motto is
Get results and don't mind the eX-
pense.' And he has lived up to the
motto"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-01
JUST AN EARFUL
& Tad
& Tad

r TARRN TUTHlLL managed a big colored fellow in Denver some years
4 for sprints.
The guys name was Gibraltar smith. He said he "A nicknamed that
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-01

Worlds Almanac, full information
concerning European War, National
defence, and statistics concerning any
thing o wish to know. Phone 663,
Ell Paso Book Co, Mills Bldg. It's
Handy."-Adv.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-01

Our assortment OF ivory Brushes.
Combs and Mirrors is very complete.
Let us show You. Potter Drug Co.
Phon 356-S75. 101 S. FL Paso St-Adv.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-01

nellly went back to third base. OF
course; and they decided to give me
u second. lnasmuch as 1 was
90 e5ILScuy sreen hand at the bag
sn9 DIDN'T row what to do. I looked
3au Ihere; In fact, they said I wouldn't
10 al all So they dragged me off
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-01

smith pursued the even tenor OF his way"
The referee finally caught up to him and yelled. Hey, Smith! What's
the matter with your Why don't you stand up and fight
Smith turned a bit and, still srmtng piped. FEET BROUGHT ME
IN HERE. FEET TAKE CARE OF ME-"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-01

Worlds Almanac for 1915. Just out
n l,aso Book Co., Mills Bldg. IT'S
Handy Phone 66S.-Adv.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-01

w YORK. Feb. 1.-One swallow
doesn't make a summer, but one
wonderful ball player comes
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-01

NEW ENGLAND league, n of
the famous circuits of organized
ball, is no more There was a time
when the New England ranked as
n of the leading circuits of the
minor organization but during the
past four or five years it has been
sHidding and the end was foreseen
last year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-06
Requiring Heating Test Now.

light has so .rgely displaced gas as
an i1luminant. while the employment
of gas for cooking has so greatly IN
creased in this city that the public
service commission has decided to
change it's methods of making gas
tests. 1t will now require the COM
panies manufacturing gas to submit
their product to a heating as well as
lighting test. Heretofore the re-
quirement has been that gas shall
have % candle power
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-06
Riot for Food in COLOGNE.

Basel, Switzerland, March 6.-Trav-
elers from Cologne state that food
riots broke out in the market place
there yesterday. They say that wo-
men, who regarded the prices as too
high. make violent manifestations and
that the police charged the crowd, a
number of persons being injured