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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-05-16
5th District of
Woodmenof World
Meets at Athena
ANNUAL GATHERING To CON-
vENE TOMORROW; INITIA-
TION IN EVENING.

The twelfth annual convention OF
the fifth district of the Pacific Juris-
diction, Woodmen or the World, will
be held tomorrow at Athena and the
Pendleton camp will send up big
delegation The district comprises all
of the counties Of eastern oregon ex-
cept Lake and klamath.
The convention will open with a
session at 1880 a. m. w. H. Keen
OF the Athena camp, will make the
call 10 order, Mayor II. l. Watts will
make the address Of welcome and
Judge Thos Fitz Gerald of Pendleton
camp win make the response. Tenn
porary officers will be chosen at the
morning session and committees ap-
pointed.
In the afternoon at o'clock the
second session will Oe held. The or
der of business includes the report Of
the credentials committee, the election
of permanent Officers and delegates
to the head camp, the selection OF the
next place Of meeting, reports Of COM
mlttees and good or the order" In
the evening Joint camp meeting will
he held with an initiation followed by
a banquet
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-05-16
Lack of Funds is
Reason for Local
Team Disbanding
No ORGANIZED EFFORT HAS
BEEN MADE HERE To FL
NANCE BALL CLUB.

Though the Pendleton team of the
Blue Mountain League advanced to
first place in the percentage column
by the victory Sunday over Pilot Rock
it was disbanded yesterday by Man
ager McGarrigle and there will be
no more team from this city in the
league unless some one takes the ini-
tiative in providing proper financial
support.
Manager McGarrigle has been run
ming the team on a "shoestring'' all
season due TO the fact that no organ
lied effort was made to finance the
club. Mr.. McGarrible himself secured
about 500 but that money has been
used up and he refuses to shoulder
any more of the financial burden.
1t is estimated that about $500 viii
be needed to finish the schedule and
this amount would be comparatively
easy to raise if any effort were made
at all. The Commercial association
practically assumed this task but has
done little to date.
The team that PLAYED Sunday is the
best amateur team Pendleton has ev-
er had and would make strong bid
for the pennant. Pilot Rock. Yves.
ton and Echo are ready to complete
the season and it is now Pendletons
meve.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-05-16
QUESTION OF OWNERSHIP
OF WHISKEY BEFORE COURT
BARREL SEIZED IN RooNING
HOUSE BY SHERIFF BONE
OF CONTENTION.

Whether or not the 81 gallon bar
rel Of liquor, seized last February Ia
the Mrs. Jim Harris roomiug house
by Sheriff Taylor. was there in VIC.
lation of the prohibition law Is being
argued this afternoon before Circuit
Judge Phelps on an appeal from tho
decision OF Justice OF the Peace
Parkes, The justice held that the d..
quor could not be properly forfeited
and destroyed under the law
The principal facts i'm the case were
stipulated The raid ON the rooming
house was made on a Saturday night
and several arrests made. Those ar
rested pleaded guilty TO conducting
public nuisance under the prohibition
law and claimed ali Of the iIquor
seized except the barrel of whiskoy.
Walter Mountain, son-in-law of Mrs.
Harris. laid claim 90 that and stated
he had stored It there Tor his own
use.
District Attorney steiwer placed on
the stand this afternoon Deputy
Sheriff ]. A. Biakely who testlfled
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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-05-16
JOHN M'CARTHY
UPSET PLANS OF
EASEMENT PLOT
Irish Farmer, Walking on Beach,
Saw Boat and Notified Garrison;
Capture Soon Followed.
LEADER PROTESTED ARREST
Gave the Name of Richard Norton
bat Later Admitted His Identity I;
Easement Broke Down and Cried
When Told That Two OF COnfedcr-
ates We're Drowned.

LONDON, May 16.--John McCar-
thy, farmer upset the plans for
Sir Roger Easements Irish rebellion
II was revealed at the trial today. Nc
Carly, not a secret service man, caus-
ed the knights capture. He testified
on the beach near Tralee when he
noticed a boat floating toward tho
shore He saw fresh footprints. and
growing suspicious, notified the bar
racks The police scattered along the
coast and found Easement in an old
fort He gave the name OF Richard
Norton and protested his arrest
Sergeant Hearne said that as Case
ment was being taken 10 the barracks,
he dropped a paper containing the
phrase. Await further instructions
have decided to stay Further am
munltion and rifles are needed. Send
another ship"
Sergeant Butler escorted Easement
10 a Dublin train where he broke down
hltN hNubNu WANti alEOA AAANA NAAGN WV
OF his confederates had been drowned.
A Scotland Yard Inspector testified
that Easement admitted his Identity
upon his arrival at the London sta
tion.
Mary German Identified Easement
as one OF the three men whom she
saw landing from collapsible boat
on the coast OF Ireland During the
testimony the prisoner moved about
in his seat uneaslly, stroking his hair
and beard and twitehing his head.
His syes never left the faces OF the
witnesses.
Constable Reilly actually arrested
Easement He testified that upon
searching the prisoner ne found a
German memorandum covering Case
ments recent travels in Germany.
Hartin Collins a lad driving a pony
cart which officers commandeered to
drive Easement to Tralee, identified
the defendant
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-05-16

Nine year old Herbert West is get
ting TO be a problem for the authors
ties Al any rate he provides the Of
ficers with work during duh times.
For the third time now, within six
months. they are making a search for
him following his attempt to so forth
in quest of adventure IN a borrowed
rig
Some time ago he Jared forth into
the country on foot and, at the request
OF his widowed mother, the officers
found him at farm III the country,
shortly afterwards he borrowed a
horse at the Telephone livery stables
and started out to see the world. He
got as far as the Slusher ranch at No
lin and there was stopped.
Yesterday morning ne got restless
again. Rev. j. NJ. Cornelison had
driven in from Tutuilla early in the
morning and had hitched his team
near the Neagle blacksmith shop on
returning for II at 9 O'Clock he found
the buggy around the corner with
both single trees broken and the
horses no where in sight. The boy
was near at hand and informed the
minister that his team mad run away.
John Baker, who was near at hand,
however. furnished the information
that the boy had united the team and
started to drive away when, In turn
ing the corner the buggy had hung up
with the result that the norses broke
away. They were caught arond the
corner and while Mr.. Cornelison was
securing them, the ooy disappeared
He is good looking lad, rather
chunky built and wears a neat brown
suit, the trousers being knickerbock'
era.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-05-16
SUNSET LIMITED IS
WRECKED, MEXICANS
BELIEVED TO BLAME
SPIKES ARE FOUND TO HAVE
BEEN TORN FROM RAILS
NEAR Ell PASO.

NEW YORK, May 16.-Five pas
sengers and two diner employees were
injured when an east bound Sunset
limited was derailed east of El Paso
this morning, 1t was officially an
nounced Five cars were overturned
A broken rail was the cause. The
railroads account did not mention
Mexieans as being responsible.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-05-16

SAN ANTONIO, May 19.-Car-
raDzistas today threatened to
cross the border at Douglas to re-
tTieve 5000 cattle because the
Americans refused 10 pass them
under the Mexican export duty.
The de factO troops were threat
ening TO drive back the stock
when an American force appear
ed. The Mexicans decided to re-
main on their own side of the
line.
General Davis, commanding
the Douglas forces. discredited
the reports Of an imminent clash.
Customs officials are guarding
the cattle. awaiting the veterin-
aFian inspection. Gales has sent
a protest TO Washington.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-05-16
15OPASSENGERS
FALL EASY PREY
TO BANDIT BAND
Mexican Outlaws Reported to Have
Set Car Afire Burning to Death
All the Occupants.
TRAIN GUARD SLAUGHTERED

Survivors Reach Mexico City; zapat-
istas Reported TO Have Wrecked
Another Train and Robbed Passen-
gers; Much Carranza Money is TAX
en- by Outlaws.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-05-16
Two Divorces Granted.

Divorces were granted yesterday to
the plaintiffs in the case of Della c.
Hunt VS.. Percy c. Hunt and Bessie
Hardness VS.. Jasse Harkness.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-05-16

Precinct 44-A. W Rugg garage
on Jackson street.
Precinct 45-LincOln school.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-05-16
Youth Runs Away
for 3rd Time in
Last Six Months
NINE -YEAR-OL HERBERT WEST
KEEPS THE LOCAL OF
FTCERS BUSY.

The boy was located this afternoon
at the Shumway ranch near Echo and
will he returned.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-05-16

LAREDO, Texas, May Mexican
bandits burned to death $50 passen
gers in one car and wiped out tbs
guard who We're guarding a train with
nearly 1000 aboard at Ayusco, neal
Mexico City, it was reported. survi-
vors were reported to have reached
Mexico City.
Earlier report said that five Mex
leans were killed. An American
named Hill was robbed of $500 in gold
when Zapatistas wrecked a train be.
tween Palma Gonzales and QueretarC
Friday. No Americans were injured. Al
We're robbed except Charles Douglas
1t was believed that the reports refer
to different wrecks,
William ROsendale of Chicago, has
arrived at Eagle Pass with details of
the wreck. He reported that $25, 900
in silver was taken from the express
car and the Carranza paymaster rob-
bed Of $4,000 in paper. Rosendale
took refuge in private car belonging
to Douglas which the bandits did not
modest. He said that Douglas had
twenty million dollars of the new Car
rama currency. A burned trestle
caused the wreck, The engine and ten
Ger plunged into the gap but the main
part Of the train remained on the
rails. The Zapatistas Immediately
swarmed into the train shouting viva
villa. They fired at the windows, and
then lined up and robbed the passen-
gers. A coal car took the survivors
to Celaya. They fled further when
fighting was reported at Chamaeuero.
WASHINGTON May 16.-As a re-
suit Of Scotts report, cabinet members
believe that satisfactory agreement
with Mexico probably has been reach
ed. The Mexican crisis probably will
simmer like the German situation
Only time is needed to completely
clear up the border issues Scott was
convinced that Obregon was com
pletely satisfied with the American
army's status regarding the punitive
expedition. The papers have been
to the president and his ad-
visors and included a transcript of the
Scott-obregon conversations.
This indicated a desire on the part
of Carranza and Obregon to cooper
ate with the Americans. The Tam
pico situation, however is causing un-
easiness. Scott said that Obregon
was first suspicious, fearing that Am
ericans intended to remain in Mexi-
co. Obregon left Ell Paso however
convinced that Americas only object
was to suppress banditry. He agreed
to many military movements which
will aid the Americans, including
sending 10000 Of his best troops to
patrol the Big Bend and Parral dis
tricts,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-05-16
GERMANS READY
TO LAUNCH NEW
ATTACK ON RIGA
kiel Fleet, Including New Super
dTeadnaUghts, are Reported on
Way to the Russian Port.
TROOPS BUSY

Great Activity Is Being shown By
Land Forces; Drive Is Anticipated;
Italians Also Preparing for Great
Offensive Against the Austrians
Near Trent.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-05-16

MILAN, May l6.-Countess Maria,
Lamia, noted opera singer, is under
arrest today on a charge Of espion-
age made by Italian authorities. She
ls member of one or the oldest fam
ilies in Venice.
Countess Labia made her operate
debut in Germany twelve years ago
under the auspices and protection OF
the kaiser, whose admiration Of her
created sensation In Italy. Until
the war began she frequently sang
in the Komlsche Oper In Berlin where
she was patronized by the crown
prince, who seemed 10 have supplant-
ed his royal father in her affections
Countess Labia sang in the Man
haitian Opera House, New York, in
the fall and winter OF 1908, under the
of Oscar Hammerstein
Her dark Italian beauty and excellent
voice made her a fayorite, but
quarrel with Hammerstein caused her
to refuse ever to return. She was then
twenty-three years old, and she de-
clared that her sole ambition was to
be a singer as long as she llved--that
her only loves were her voice and her
Venice,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-05-16

LONDON. May Is.-Copenhagen
reported that the Germans are pre-
pairing to launch a sea and land cam
paign against Riga. The Keil fleet. in
Guiding the latest super dreadnaughts,
have sailed for Riga Won Hlnden-
burg's forces are manifesting great
activity.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-05-16
Wheat Market Closes
Higher Than Yesterday

CHICAGO, May 16.-(Special to the
East Oregonian) Range of prices to-
day:
Open High Close
May .,$1.15 $1.l6h $1.16k B
July ...$1.16 s1.I7A Ol.17kA
Portland.
PORTLAND, Ore. May l6.-(Spe-
ciaD Exchange prices to-
day. Club. SO bid, 81 asked; blue
stem, $l.O4 bid, S1.O7 asked.
Liverpool.
LIVERPOOL May Wheat
Spot No. l Manitoba, 13s (s1S9 S-5
per bu.); No. 8, no stock; No. north
ern spring, 12s sd: No. western win
ter. lis sd (sI69 As per bu.)
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-05-16

ROME, May 16.-The Austrians
have abandoned their advanced posi-
tions at Roverto, evidently expecting
a strong Italian offensive at Trent.
Villages have been cleared OF non
combatants. Three hundred thou
hand Austrians are concentrated on
the Trentino-Tyrol front.
The Austrians are dragging guns
into the mountains and constructing
rock barriers. The Italians are inn
proving their positions at Roverto.
Artillery is wrecking the Austrian de-
fenses as fast as they are constructed.
A communique detailed that the last
two months Of operations, including
the recent IsonzO offensive, prevented
the Austrians from reinforcing the
Germans at verdun The Italians have
captured 100 men. two field guns. II
machine guns and destroyed Is aero
planes
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-05-16
DAILY EVENING EDITION
10 ADVERTISERS.

The East Oregonlan has the largest bona
Hde and guaranteed paid circulation Of any
paper 10 Oregon, east OF Portland and By
far the largest circulation Ii Pendeton az
any other newspaper.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-05-16

CONTINUED on page ioJ
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-30
IF HUGHES SHOULD QUIT

If Justice Hughes resigns to take
the republican presidential nomina
ton, will President Wilson name
Frank P. Walsh as his successor on
the supreme court?
That he will is the report seeming
TO emanate from quarters close to
the White house. The president has
shown in the appointment of Louis
ID. Brandeis his conviction that the
supreme court needs judges who are
informed on social problems In his
work as the head of the industrial
relations commission, to which he
was appointed by the president, Mr..
Walsh showed that he possesses a
fund or information on these matters
second to 10 man in the country. He
is, moreover, a lawyer of recognized
ability and his work at the head of
the commission showed that he is
possessed IN singular degree, of that
much-deSired thing-the judicial tenn
permanent The approval of congress
has been placed on the work of the
industrial relations commission by
the recent authorization of the print
ing and distribution of 100000 copies
OF the commissions report.
Mr.. Walsh took an active part in
the Wilson campaign in 1912 He was
at the head of the social service bu-
reau at the democratic campaign
headquarters. He possesses the pres
ldents confidence to high degree
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-30

carried that county by a substantial
majority and won his election.
In the year 1912 that district gave
Mr.. Roosevelt IA, 1874 votes and Mr.. Tart
1920 votes, making combined oppo-
sition vote of 25,354 to 21,955 given
for Mr.. Wilson, making a republican
majority of 1899. Notwithstanding
that, Mr.. Brown was elected to con-
gress.
in that same year, Notwithstanding
the fact that Governor Hatfield ran
considerably behind his ticket, ne car
ried that district by 2,463.
In 1914 Mr.. Brown had plurality
of 1851 votes and the progressive vote
was 1896, leaving Mr.. Brown with a
majority of only 65. In the county of
Preston, where Mr.. Brown lived, in
1908 the republican majority was 2,14l
on the vote for representative in con-
gress. In the election which has re-
Gently taken place. Mr.. Wood, the dem
OcratiC candidate for congress, was
beaten in Preston county by only LOO,
and so there was in the district sub
stantial democratic gain in all the
counties except probably two.
One of them was the county of
Berkeley, where Mr. Bowers, the re-
publican candidate lived, and ! have
no doubt in the world that when the
other house of congress comes to in
vestigate that question it will find
ample reasons why that county hap
pened to slump to prevent the demo-
cratic party from getting the splendid
advantage which they would have had
by virtue Of the popularity of the pres
ent democratic administration
In other words, MIR. President, it
can be easily shown that the official
vote in two counties in that district
was not a fair expression of the senti-
ments of the voters, and that at least
unfair means were used to exc out the
meager majority of about 400, which
is now being paraded as a sign of a
democratic slump. The truth is that
even if it were fairly obtained, the re-
turns from the Second West Virginia
district show falling off in the re-
publican majorities-a district nor
mally republican by over 1000 went
republican by about 400"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-30
A PROFESSIONAL SOLDIERY II
NOT THE SOLDIERY OF HI.
MANITY,
BY Congressman Clyde II. Tavenner.
L,nnr.ntnd from tho Con a |

BY Congressman clyde II. Tayenner.
Reprinted from the Congressional
Record of May 3. 1850
It is the custom of the Navy league
and similar so-called defense leagues
to sheer at the citizen soldiery. With
| loud acclaim they decry its efficiency.
But what does history say? 1t tells us
that the citizen soldiery has been eff
cient enough to establish liberty
| wherever it has been established and
| to dethrone oppression and tyranny
| wherever and whenever it has been
| dethroned.
| 1t is true that at time George Wash
| ington lamented the rawness OF his
| troops. But what soldiery other than
a citizen soldiery would have left its
bloodstained footprints in the snow
and ice at Valley Forge? Who believes
professional soldiery would have left
| them there? The raw, unframed troops
of George Washington, the citizen SOL
diery that followed the father OF our
country, were efficient enough to de-
| feat a vastly superior force of highly
| trained and efficient professional
troops. A citizen soldiery is simply
the soldiery of humanity. while pro-
| fessional soldiery has even been the
| soldiery of the eXploiters of the hui
man race. When the cause is suffic-
iently worthy, when humanity has
been oppressed to a point where it can
stand oppression no longer, all the
militarism in Christendom will not be
able to resist a citizen soldiery. One
may as well talk of resisting the tides
of the sea as to resist a justly pro-
! voked citizen soldiery.
| A professional soldier will fight for
any cause, whether it be right or
wrong: that is, well-trained, highly
efficient professional soldiar will. He
will turn his gun upon his own coun-
try-men. They have even been know
to turn their guns, at the command OF
a superior officer. upon defenceless
women and children. Throughout the
ages the professional soldier has beer
used principally as a prop for estab
lished wrong, and to hold labor IL
subsection for exploitation by the rich
and powerful. But citizen soldier
will volunteer only when he approve:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-30

democratic government If you think
you're not sufficiently American step
out and walk. There'l be somebody
ready to foot the bills.
We're going to have a preparedness
parade. Why not tariff parade? An
anti-tariff parade, a workmen's COM
pensation hike? A child-labor parade
An anti-child labor parade? A parade
for the uplift of the drama; parade
for the eight-hour law for railroad
men; parade for winning ball
team; parade for the completion of
the bridge; parade for cabaret in
cafes; parade against cabaret in cafes.
parade for better police protection;
parade for more shopping, parade for
better streets; parade for efficiency.
parade for ward politicians; parade
against word politicians; parade for
warm weather, parade against it:
parade for rain: parade for dry
spell: parade for home rule; parade
for prohibition; parade in honor of
Irish patriots; parade against them
parade for the U-boat sentiment; par
ade against destruction of armed mer-
chantmen; parade for municipal
docks parade for narrow minded
Docs: parade of the unemployed in
favor of no-work; small parade in IA
vor of it; parade for anti-vivisection;
parade for the ship-purchase bill; par
ade against it; parade for Bryan; par
ade for Teddy; parade for Hughes:
parade for Root; parade for all of
them; parade against them; parade
for the government in general; parade
against il; parade for pacifsts; par
ade for alarmists; parade for German
sentiment; parade for sympathy with
the allies? Just one long parade for
anything and everything.
And after we've worn out shoe
leather and given more work, we'll go
back to our own bushes and find that
we've got to start all over again. We
must have our relaXations, and parad-
ing is becoming popular. It's not
nearly so bad fad as it is useless,
says the St. Louis Times. The New
York hike. for instance, wore out
shoes, gave 200 bands something to
play for, filling thousands of columns
in the newspapers, gave energetic
photographers and garrulous dema-
gOgues something to do, and then be-
came a part of our fanciful history.
By the way, why haven't the paid en-
thusiasts suggested parade foc
peace? Why?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-30

Five community center songs, es-
pecially designed for school house
community forums, have been brought
together for the use of the Grover
Cleveland forum of Washington, D. c.,
of which Miss Margaret Wilson is
honorary president, and copies may
be obtained from the commissioner of
education, department of the interior,
Washington, D. c. Two of the songs
are entirely new, having just made
their bow to the public at the Grover
Cleveland forum One is called It's
a Short Way to the School House."
and is sung to the air of "Tipperary;;
the other, entitled "Neighborhood, is
sung to the air of Die Yacht am
Rheine" The others are: The Eel
lowship of Folks" song of neighbor-
hood, sung to the air of Drink to Me
! Only With Thine Eyes or Aud Lang
Syne!" Heart and Hand" and This
Good Common Ground
These songs all emphasize the sig
nificance of the school house as the
common meeting place. In the words
Of one of them:
Wen strike that fine old chord
A song of Neighborhood."
All five songs were written by E J.
Ward, specialist in community organ
ization of the bureau of education.
They are unsuually we'll adapted to
the communal singing that has be-
come so popular feature of the neigh