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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-09-20

Pendleton, Oregon, the county seat
OF Umatilla county, is located on the
main line of the Oregon Washington
Railroad & Navigation Company, ZIG
miles east of Portland
II In the junction point for two
branch lines OF the same road, one OF
which runs north through Walh
walla to Spokane and other Wash
ington points, and the other to Pilot
Rock, Oregon. A branch of the North
ern Pacific Railway. which connects
with the main system at Pasco, ter
inmates at Pendleton and trains over
this road connect with the main line
trains Of the Northern Pacific. Pen
dleton is a passenger and freight di-
vision point on the "O-W" system.
The freight terminal. which includes
a round house" etc. Is located west
of the city limits at Rieth station on
the main line of the road Pendle-
tons position, as regards railway
transportation facilities, is thus oo-
Viously advantageous.
Pendleton is the leading CONNER
cial town and natural distributing
center for eastern oregon.
Pendleton's population is about
1900. but the mercantile stocks car
ried and the bank capital and depos-
It's are on scale far In advance of the
average town of that number OF in
habitants This condition Is due to
the large scope of country surround
ing and tributary to. II. Pendletou
draws trade in some directions from
as far as one hundred and fifty miles,
and the nearest town of equal or
greater business magnitude in any
direction is fifty miles distant.
Pendleton is the trading center and
distributing point for the famous
IImatilla county wheat growing dis
trict over five million bushels of
wheat. of superior quality. are annu-
ally produced In Umatilla county, No
wheat producing land anywhere In
the world surpasses that of this coun-
~ IN fertility. In spite of the fact
that much OF the land has been pro-
ducing wheat continuously for about
thlrty-five years. no diminultion of its
fertility is noticeable.
Wheat farming on hill land. with
out artificial irrigation. Is the prin'
cipal industry of the county. The
methods employed are modern in eV-
cry way and as a rule. on n larg
scale The climate is such as to max"
combine harvesting practicable AMI
that form of harvesting machinery Is
in almost universal use.
BESIDES the wheat growing indus
try there is a large amount Of capital
invested in the various branches Of
stock rearing. Sheep. cattle. horse and
hog breeding and the subsidiary in
bn. 40 faad-
ing and fatteulng Of these animals,
are carried on commercially and
profitably Dairying is also rapidly
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-09-20
SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT
PENDLETON AND UMATILLA COUNTY

The PENDLETON ROUNDUP Is
a frontier exhibition and festival
which is held annually in September
It consists of series of contests~and
races Illustrative Of the methods en-
ployed in western stock rearing ana
the lives, both as to work and play
of the men engaged In these pursuits.
Fifty to sixty thousand people visit
the show and are entertained in the
hotels and homes Of the town. When
the population of Pendleton is taken
into consideration Conly 1900 the
magnitude of the task of entertaining
such a number Of guests is better
realized. The PENDLETON ROUND
UP is community enterprise.
ROUNDUP PARK. the tract
of land where the show is staged, in
Guiding its buildings and improve
ments is owned by the municipal cor
poration The management of the
show is in the hands of a corps OF
directors who donate their services
absolutely without pay, even to the
extent that all of the officers and di-
rectors buy and pay for the seats at
the show which they and their guests
occupy. Whatever profits are dertV-
ed from the proceeds of the show are
eynepded in Improvement Of
ROUNDUP PARK, with the idea "
perpetuating its use as municipal
park and playground.
During the evenings of the three
days of the ROUNDUP an auxiliary
entertainment. known as HAPPY
CANYON" is provided for the visit
ors in Pendleton. This consists of a
simulated pioneer frontier town of
the western Cow country" and there
visitors may participate in all the
forms of amusement and entertain
ment common to the pioneer period.
The latest addition to the improve
ment of ROUNDUP PARK Is a pub
lie natatorium built in 1915 at a cost
OF $1,000. This includes a steel re-
inforced concrete swimming pool
squipped with specially constructed
terra Gotta life-rail and scum trough.
locker and dressing rooms for both
men and women, showers. toilets.
seats for spectators. etc II is entirely
up-to-date in style of construction
and the incident of its being built by
funds supplied by popular subscrip
tion as a municipal institution for
public benefit has awakened inter
est and eliclted inquiries from all
over the United !Staves
THE PENDLETON COMMERCIAL
ASSOCIATION is an organization OF
the business men Of the town and
vicinity for mutual and community
betterment 1t has maintained it's or
ganization for more than twenty
years and scarcely any beneficial en-
terprise undertaken during that pc
riod but that has been helped. If no;
| originated, by this organization. II
/ occupies comfortable quarters in the
| center OF the business section equip
ped as club rooms for the use of its
! mem bers
A CHAUTAUQUA rs held annually
, IN Pendleton. Ideal space for audi
torium tents and camping privileges
Is provided in ROUNDUP PARK
attendance at these gatherings has
increased steadily since their initta.
'ioh and the promoters anticipar.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-09-20

Continued on Page 2o.l
The Benson signal., 1917-10-13
WESTERN.

Coal operators in central field ask
Garfield to permit raise in prices.
In battle over a negro, three white
men are dead and three wounded at
La Pine, Ala.
Ex-President Taft was the principal
speaker at the dedication of the Nc
Kinley memorial at Niles, Ohio.
Edsel Ford, son of Henry Ford of
Detroit, Mich, denied exemption from
selective service by the district appeal
board.
Three men were instantly killed and
fourth escaped unhurt when they
were hit by Union Pacific freight
train two and one-half miles east of
Van Dyke, Wyo.
Five hundred and thirty-six enlisted
men of detachment of 691 negro cav
alrymen of the regular army stationed
at Fort Huachuca, near Bisbee, Ariz.,
have subscribed to $4,000 worth of
Liberty bonds.
At Enid, Okla, eight men charged
with conspiracy in connection with
Working Glass Union and other al
legged anti-draft organizations, were
convicted, and three acquitted, in the
Federal Court. The convicted men
were sentenced to six years.
The Benson signal., 1917-10-13
SPORT.

Fighter Stanley Yoakum was pinned
under an auto near Pueblo and badly
injured.
Playing hard, fighting football, the
Wyoming Cowboys defeated the Colo
rado Aggies at Laramie by a score of
to 0.
Ty Cobb, the Detroit star, and Eddie
Rousch, the hard-hitting outfielder
with Cincinnati, are the 1917 batting
champions of the major leagues.
The untried and but slightly trained
football eleven of the Teachers Col
lege at Greeley were easy victims of
the University of Colorado men at
Boulder.
Battering down an attack that grew
in power as the game progressed, the
University of Denver won their first
intercollegiate contest of the season
from the Montana State Aggies by a
score of 33 to 7, at Denver.
Eddie Cicotte of Detroit, pitcher ex-
traordinary to the Chicago Americans,
piloted his team to victory at Chicago
over the New York Nationals by a
score of to in the first game of the
1917 worlds series, and the Sox won
the second game Sunday, 7-2.
The Benson signal., 1917-10-13
HERMIT SCULPTOR IS FOUND
Spends Time Modelling Little Master.
pieces Which He Promptly De-
stroys Upon Completion.

There has been discovered at Cape
Scott, one of the most solitary points
in Vancouver island, by the chief en-
gineer of the public works department
of British Columbia, sculptor who
spends his time in modelling little mas
terpieces from Jumps Of clay and then
destroying them, relates an exchange.
He is A. F. Whittier, and he calls
himself ''prospector." Living entire
ly alone, he has for the past two years
been carrying out lonely investigations
of mineral claims in his neighborhoOd.
His sculptor's tools are Of the simplest
kind, and it is his habit to work with
the same piece Of clay, which weighs
scarcely five pounds, but with that he
has modelled scores Of objects.
The government engineer found him
just as he had completed bust Of the
martyred British nurse, Edith Cavell.
Mr.. Whittier was about to destroy the
work in order that he might use the
clay for a miniature statue of his son,
who was recently killed. He was, how
ever, persuaded to part with the bust,
which is to be auctioned in aid Of the
Red Cross funds.
The Benson signal., 1917-10-13
WASHINGTON.

La Toilette defends himself as Con-
gress adjourns.
Many bills become laws as President
Wilson signs them.
Submarine menace reduced and in
surance rates go down.
President Wilson praised Congress
for work accomplished.
Helfin's charges unsubstantiated
and are open to criticism.
The State Department has in it's pos
session documentary evidence that
Count Won Bernstorff, the former Ger
man ambassador, not only was the dis
tributor Of a gigantic peace slush fund
in this country, but directed the oper-
ations of Captains Won Papen and Boy
Ed, the discredited and recalled Ger
nan military attaches.
The largest appropriation measure
in the history of the United States be-
came law when President Wilson
signed the urgent deficiency bill car
rying $7,758,124,OOO, principally for
war purposes.
The Benson signal., 1917-10-13
New Mexico.

The new dredge that the Santa Fe
Gold Dredging Company is installing
at Golden will be ready for operation
by Dec. 1.
A strike of the miners employed by
the Albuquerque & Cerrillos Coal Co.,
at it's mines in the Cerrillos district
of Santa Fe county again threatens.
The Jack Mining Company, an Okla
homa corporation, with an authorized
capital of $4,000, was admitted to do
business in New Mexico by the State
Corporation Commission.
Mid-monthly cleanup at the Mogol-
lon mills amounted to one and half
tons of gold and silver. This does
not include the concentrates which
are shipped to the smelter.
BY strange coincidence which may
be a good omen, big strike of rich
bonanza ore was made on the Lady
Franklin group in Kingston at the very
moment almost when silver went to
one dollar an ounce.
The present high price of silver Is
causing increased activity Tat the sill
yer mines of Grant county, and prom
ises to result in a revival Of silver
mining in some of the old camps of
Sierra and Socorro counties.
The Benson signal., 1917-10-13
Montana.

The Consumers Oil and Refining
Company has removed it's office from
Billings to Denver.
Butte and Superior September out
put was 100000 pounds of zinc
against 5,80O,OOO in August.
Anaconda Copper Mining Co. de-
clared a quarterly dividend Of 81 a
share, payable November 26 to stock
of record October 20.
Interstate Oil Company, Montana
corporation, has added to it's holdings
a lease on GAO acres Of oil land in
Carbon county, Montana, without In
creasing the capitalization of the COM
pany, thus making the total holdings
of the company 900 acres.
The Benson signal., 1917-10-13
REICHSTAG MEMBER SAYS GER
MANY CANNOT FORCE U. s.
INTO PEACE.
OPPOSECONQUEST PLAN
AGAINST SACRIFICE OF MORE
MEN AND MONEY AND ASK
kAISER'S WAR AIMS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Amsterdam, Oct. 9.-"American can.
not be forced to make peace George
Goethein, Progressive member Of the
Reichstag, at meeting of the central
committee of his party, according to
Berlin dispatch.
1--WE cannot force America to pay a
war indemnity he continued. There
remains only England. But should we,
in order to obtain an indemnity of
10000, 100000 marks, sacrifice 50,0OO,-
100000 marks and another half mil
lion men?"
Germany's allies, Herr Goethein con-
tinued, were not inclined to continue
the war for pan-German plans of con-
quest, but were striving for peace by
understanding and conciliatiOn, while
the pan German clamor for annexation
was finding bad reception among
them. He asserted that the long work
ing hours and insufficient feeding at
home increased the desire for peace
among the workers and that strikes
might be expected if tie war should
be continued for aims of conquest.
Goethein said furt4er that although
the military situation was satisfactory,
there was no hope of crushing Ger
many's enemies on land. AS for the
submarine campaign, 100000 tons Of
shipping had been sunk, he asserted,
but no disposition toward peace on the
part of England was discernible. A
rationing system for foodstuffs had
not been even introduced, and no one
was able to say when the U-boat
would make England more inclined for
peace.
External pressure to force the Ger
man government to set forth it's war
aims clearly having failed on the sur
| face, internal conditions within the
empire threaten to compel the issu-
ance of a full statement of Germany's
aims. What the German leaders want,
if they are successful, will be dis
cussed in the Reichstag. The chan
cellor, Dr. Michaelis, is finding the
way as difficult as it was for his pre-
decessor, Won Bethmann-Hollweg and
he must now face the critics of the
government in the ReichStag.
The Benson signal., 1917-10-13
THE LATEST IMPORTANT pis'
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

Peru handed German minister his
passports.
American destroyer sinks German
submarine.
American patrol boat founders in
European waters.
The government has declared a
state of war in Turkestan.
Bulgarian and Teutonic troops be-
gin offensives in Roumania.
Twenty thousand airplanes for
America are under construction.
Berlin reports the capture of Sec
tion of French trenches on northern
slope of Hill 344.
American artillery is successfully
passing the severest test of all gun
nery-the barrage.
Gen. Haig is blazing the way with
his artillery for another drive through
the German lines in Flanders.
French repulse two surprise attacks
in Champagne and artillery fire scat
ters German troops on banks of the
Meuse.
Uruguay has severed diplomatic re.
lations with Germany and the Berlin
representative has been given his
passports.
British hold ground won in great
drive east of Ypres and repulse coun-
ter attacks. Total Of prisoners taken
in Thursdays battle is 4,446.
The steamer Tolo and tug Magic col.
lided in a dense fog, the Tolo being
sunk. The steamer H. B. Kennedy
picked up the Tolo's passengers and
crew.
Big gun factories are in progress
along the Flanders front with indica.
tions that the Germans, as usual, in
this form of combat, are playing the
secondary role.
The Ostend-Lille road is menaced
by the British wedge which has been
thrown close to the line, and the great
naval and airplane bases at Zeebrugge
and Ostend are in imminent danger OF
being cut off.
Secretary Bakers resume Of recent
fighting says conditions warrant the
expectation that the Kaiser will with.
draw his forces from Belgium at an
early date and that the Teuton grip
on the coast has been broken.
The German general staff has been
forced to invent new term-"hurri
cane fire"-for the terrific and contin.
uous bombardment with which the lat
est battle in Flanders was inaugural.
ed. The day when the term drum.
fire" represented the elimination OF
artillery activity has long passed.
The Benson signal., 1917-10-13
CORN CROP LARGEST IN HISTORY
Latest Figures Indicate Harvest of
3,21O,795, 900 Bushels.


Washington.-Desp an estimated
loss of 37OOO,OOO bushels during Sep
tember, the country's corn crop will be
the greatest in it's history. Latest fig
ures issued by the Department Of
Agriculture show the crop will be g..
21O, ,795,O0O bushels, and also that, de-
spite an estimated loss of 100000
bushels during the month, the spring
wheat crop will exceed last years.
Other crops approach bumper records.
The spring wheat crop will total
242,45O, 900 bushels. The total estimat-
ed spring and winter wheat yield this
year is 59,797,0OO bushels, compared
to last years crop of 639, ,8S6,OO0.
The other principal crops will be,
from Oct. indications, as follows:
Oats, $50, ,714,0OO bushels, an in
crease since Sept 1 of 47,382 900 BUSH
els.
White Potatoes ,293,000 bush
els; decrease, 8,985,000.
Sweet Potatoes 7,244, 900 bushels;
decrease, 100000.
The Benson signal., 1917-10-13
Arizona.

The mines of Globe and Miami are
getting back into operation.
In order to speed up underground
development, the Jerome Verde is to
install a large compressor.
The Gila Development Company OF
Ray encountered rich ore shoot In
the west drift on the 1O5-foot level.
Copper prices have been fixed at
23h cents a pound by agreement be-
tween the government and leading
copper producers.
The Benson signal., 1917-10-13
SERBS TO JOIN GREEKS IN FIELD
Allies to Send Army of 1,25o,0O0 in
Drive Against Constantnople.

Allies to Send Army of 1,25O,OOO in
Drive Against ConstantinopIe.
London, Oct. 9.-An allied army of
1,250,0OO men is expected to launch a
campaign against the Bulgarians and
Turks within sixty days. Constantine
pie will be the goal of one branch Of
this new international army during
the winter
An American patrol boat has fired
upon an Italian submarine, which
failed to respond to signals, and killed
one officer and an enlisted man. Sec
retary Daniels has expressed the re-
grets of the U. S. to Italy.
With Uruguay's relations with Ger
many broken there are now 42,0O0,0OO
Latin Americans lined up on the side
of the United States. Other South
Americans are expected to fall in line
in the next few months.
The Benson signal., 1917-10-13
FOREIGN.

The British cruiser Drake has been
torpedoed and sunk.
Kerensky forms cabinet despite de-
mands of Democratic congress.
Great Britain placed embargo on
supplies to Holland and Scandinavia.
The employees of the Aguilar Oil
Company, who went on strike in Mex
leo, are returning to work.
Heavy SHOWS are reported in the
Vosges and a suspension Of war activ-
tiles there may be expected soon.
The escape of an interned German
submarine from Cadiz caused a sensa-
ton. High Spanish officials have been
suspended.
Eight thousand soldiers at Gomel, in
the province of Mohilev, after a meet
ing, refused to go to the front, says a
telegram from Gomel, and have sur
rendered.
The American schooner Annie F.
Conlon was attacked by gunfire by
German submarine off the Scilly is
lands. The crew of eight was landed
safely.
The United States government has
made an inquiry in regard to the sig
nificance of the declaration by the
government of Salvador of neutrality
friendship to the United States.
The weekly report of losses to
French shipping by submarines and
mines shows that five vessels sof more
than 1000 tons each and five of less
than that size were destroyed.
Japan has offered the United States
use of cargo vessels totalling 100000
tons in return for a modification of
the American export embargo on steel
the newspaper Nichi Nichi declared.
The provisional government at Pet
rograd has decided to permit Gen.
Soukhomlinoff, the former minister of
war, who was convicted of treason, to
serve his term in the St. Peter and st.
Paul prison instead of Siberia.
The Cologne Gazette in it's report of
the address of Dr. Karl Helferich, Ger
man minister of the interior, in the
Reichstag Saturday represented him
as saying: "The question of war aims
will be discussed in the course of a
big debate next week."
The Benson signal., 1917-10-13
Colorado.

The new gold dredging boat OF
the Evans syndicate of Denver was
launched at Breckenridge.
The Farncomb Hill Dredging Com
pany declared a dividend of per
cent on 100000 for the month of An
gust.
Lessees at the First National mine
in Iowa gulch have recently made a
rich strike on the bottom level of the
shaft at a depth of $50 feet.
Park county reports that high price
of silver and lead has started small
boom, and by July 1, 1918, every mine
in the district should be working.
The Benson signal., 1917-10-13
GENERAL.

Money to pay German spy passed
through several American banks.
Fifteen persons were injured, sever
al seriously, when two passenger
trains on the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st Paul railroad collided at Colmar,
Iowa.
New York states oldest resident,
John Sweeney, died at Cortland. He
was born in Ireland 1O5 years ago.
Anna Robinson, formerly Countess
of Rosslyn, died in the Manhattan
State Hospital on Wards island, New
York.
E. P. Ripley, president of the Atchi.
son, Topeka & Santa F6 Railway Com
pany, looks for quick finish of the
world war.
Evidence of a new I. W. w. plot to
overthrow the government of the Unit.
ed States, which may result in the
immediate internment of 100000 mem
bers of the organization was placed
in the hands of Chicago federal Of
ficials.
Secretary McAdoo, en- route to the
Pacific coast on Liberty Loan speak
ing tour, telegraphed Vice President
Marshall and Speaker Clark urging
them to invite all members of the Sen
ate and House to devote the next three
weeks after adjournment of Congress
to speaking to their constituents on
the subject of the new loan.
Thousands of American avitators to
drive the Germans from the air and
hurl destructive bombs into the Ger
man trenches were promised in an Of
ficial statement by Secretary of War
Baker outlining the nations plans for
aerial warfare. More than 10000 air
PLANES provided for in the $640,O00,-
600 aviation bill are now under con-
struction in the United States.
Exposure of the State Department of
Bolo Pasha's activities in this country
resulted in a reopening in New York
of the state attorneys inquiry into the
Vaccinations of the spy with former
Ambassador Won Bernstorff to bring
about separate peace between Ger
many and France early in 1916.
Nearly 800 telephone girls who re-
Gently organized a union in Seattle,
Wash, have voted almost unanimously
to go on strike Oct. 19 if their de-
mands for increased wages and inn
proved working conditions are not
granted.
The Benson signal., 1917-10-13
Wyoming.

In the government draw only few
miles east Of Lander, the land has all
been staked.
The Midwest Refining Company has
completed it's 56,000-barrel tank in the
Pilot Butte field.
The Carmania, with reservation
holdings, has a new standard rig on
the track at Lander.
The Reserve Oil Company now has a
rig up on the eighty acres in section
27, in the Pilot Butte field.
The Benson signal., 1917-10-13
BEEF EXPORTS SHOW INCREASE
Food Sent to Allies in September
Gain $5.OOO.OOO.

Washington. = August exports of
wheat, corn and mineral oils decreased
to marked extent while exports of
oats doubled and fresh beef recorded
a 500 per cent increase, the Depart
ment of Commerce announced. The
bulk of shipments went to the allies.
Breadstuffs to the value of $45,000,-
600 were exported during the month,
an increasee of $10,00O,000.
The Benson signal., 1917-10-13
HOW'S This =?

We offer $4,000 for any case Of catarrh
that cannot be cured by HALLS CA
TARRH MEDICINE. HALLS CATARRH
MEDICINE is taken internally and acts
through the Blood on the Mucous Sur.
faces Of the System.
Sold by druggists for over forty year6
Price 75c. Testimonials free.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
The Benson signal., 1917-10-13
Y!x75 All Makes Of TYpewriters
Cash and installments. AL guaxan-
UNbNT teed. Ribbons. Write rs.
OAv~l Western Typewriter Sales Co
- 1027 Chanpa st., Denver Cola.
Matrimonial CamoufIage.

Bride-You don't mind my wearing
this complexion mask nights, do you,
dear?
Groom-Oh, surely not; It's your not
wearing it days that's getting my goati
The Benson signal., 1917-10-13

Noted Mason, "a, Dies in London.
London-Sir Edward Letchworth,
grand secretary of English Free Mas
ons, died in London. He was "a years.
The Benson signal., 1917-10-13

New Hotel for st. Paul.
st. Paul is to have a new skyscraper
hostelry on the site Of the old Magee
hotel.