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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-10
Operators and Union Leaders
to Give Answer to Plan
of Administration Tonight.
!, UNION POLICY BODY
CALLED TOGETHER
Commission Formed Would
Make Investigation Of Caus-
es for Numerous Strikes.

WASEllNGTON, July 10,-(U, F. )---
settlement of the coal strike, yolun-
tarily or forced, Is only matter OF
days, indications were 4as operators
and miners resumed conferences here
today All eyes centered on the out@i
come of the bituminous conference. q
Harding threw bomDshell into the
conference when he proposed govern.
ment arbitration through the creation
of a coal commission, thee members
from the mine workers. tareesGeleoted
by the operators and five to be named
by the president. with power of final
decision. "The government forces no
man to work against his free will,~
Harding told the miners and opera
tors. 1T will force no employer to
violate his rights by making him hire,
fne1, The government is concerned
with affecting coal production to meet.
Industrial and transportation require
ments, and at the. same time prevent
q fuel faniinE"s s.slsss y 44ssr.
John l.. Lewis announced following
the conference with 4his colleagues
that he would notify Harding that the
meeting his organizations policy COM
mittee would meet here Monday to
determine whether the presidents plane
should be accepted. A hundred ana
fifteen members compose the policy
committee.
Harding told the miners and opera
tors, that IN the meantime during the
organization and fnnctioning of the
coal commission the old wage scale
would be effective and the men would
return to work Immediately. If the
new wage scale cannot be agreed upon
by August 10th, the president sag-
gested the present scale he continued
until 1928. He asked the two factions
to give him their answer tonight and
John l.. Lewis Immediately called a
of the miner delegates at the
conference to consider the presidents
If accepted by both miners
and operators, Harding's plan effects
a complete arbitration OF the strike,
and will bind both factions. The coal
commission would also make exhals-.
tive inquiry into the mining industry
and cause for recurrent strikes dnrAa
Ing the last ten years. Harding said
he was hopeful that in this manner.
peace in the industry could be obtains
ed. He promised to ask congress for
and appropriations to enable
The commission to carry on its work.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-10
COUNTY WILL HELP ON.
WESTON-ELG|N HIGHWAY

Umatilla county is preparing to eX-
pend $4,000 of market road money
next year on the Weston Elgin road,
according to announcement made at
the Blue mountain highway meeting
at Weston Saturday by Judge l.. NJ.
Schannep. The county court has al
so made application TO the forestry
service for 100000 for forest road
money for the project.
Union county will also cooperate in
the road move, according to Lee Tut
tie of Elgin, first vice president of the
association. Mr.. Tutle said that the
county court of Union has agreed to
put money on the road and will also
seek forestry money.
The highway meeting at Weston
Saturday did not close until nearly 5
O'Clock and much enthusiasm WIS
shown by those present. An extended
program of addresses was given.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-10
GERKING WILL CONTEND
WITH BEST AT ROUNDUP

That Braden Gerklng Is one of the
best all round cowboys the West
knows today and that he will make
riders at the Pendleton Round-Ur
ride hard to take away honors from
him when he comes here newt Sep
tember is the prediction of Albert
Peterson, president OF the Camas
Prairie Cowboys association, who was
here today.
Gerking was awarded the silver bit
presented by Helen and Gordon Pat
terson OF Boston for the best all
around cowboy. HIS versatility is
maGe evident by the number Of events
in which he took prizes at Ukiah this
year. He Is pony express rider and
a stagecoach driver. In addition TO his
ability to ride hard bucking horses.
His home is at Ritter. and he can oft
en- be seen. Peterson says. driving
six or eight-horse team over the
rough road between Ritter and Pen.
dleton.
To win the bucking horse champion
ship at IISiah July 3 and Gtrking
had 10 ride five hard buckers. one or
which was Jim Roach's Pancho villa,
"a horse well known 10 various wild
west shows A picture OF Gerking
with the saddle he won and the silver
b.t has been taken and will be sent
to the pattersons at Boston. They
became interested in the Uldah show
last year when in the company OF
Col. g. W. Furlong they visited the
little mountain town where an infor-
NAL program OF riding and ropine
was STAGED for their entertainment
Their pleasure AZ the treatment they
received was expressed In the gift oi
the silver bit
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-10
Work Is Extensive

A glance at the statement of rev.
enue and expenses of the chapter for
the year ending June 80 reveals the
cost at which the organization carries
on its great task of serving the peo-
pie. Annual memberships total S2.44S
contributing memberships $50 and
sustaining memberships $40, making a
total of s2,51S. OF this, $l23O was
remitted to the Northwest division.
leaving $1.2SS. Added to this are do
nations, contributions. sales Of msr-
chandise, interest and miscellaneous
receipts. bringing the sum to 81
lO4.57
Expenses for ex-service men were
s6O4.sS: for civilian work. s1.35I.39:
production. S1IT.O5: salaries. So
$500: auto expenses, s57.5S: station
airy and printing, s3s3.I5: telephone
and telegraph. S236.s5; postage
S9S.0S: general administration. sI4I0:
miscellaneous. Sf94.6S and suspense,
s10s.sS. showing the excess expense
over revenue to be S4.333.47.
Much Good Done
The work done by the Red Cross Is
for both able-bodied and diseased ex-
service men or civilians in either class
Roth residents Of the county and ira y
sients are served. The work done
/ falls under the following heads: Hos
I pital care arranged. dental care ar
ranged. medicinal care ARRANGED. EN-
: ployment. groceries, fuel transporta.
ton, milk, information only. loan fol
low up. loan closet, cooperation IN in.
stitutional care, cooperation viii
other agencies. cooperation with rela
tives. cooperation in child care. stats
bonus other federal action. F. p .
E.. compensation claims filed. com
pensation claims followed up. victori
medal and L. = y. B.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-10
HUGE CACHE OF LIQUOR
is LOCATED BY HOUNDS

CLARKSBURG, w. Va, July 10
Bloodhounds owned by Thomas Ever
son, deputy sheriff, are now known
as "hootch hounds" Put on the trail
of robbers who pifered the apart
ment of c. w. j. Chapman, general
claim agent of the Monogahela
Power and Traction Company, they
followed a scent to Il vacant house,
in upstairs rooms of which officers
found a complete distillery, one 'of
the largest yet found in the country
and hundreds of bottles lying around.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-10
AUTO RECOnDs SMASHED.

-rai'T-r,. CT, Iriv lo.-r. p
All records for daily automobile
travel INTO Yosemite were broten On
IuIp 2. when, s2s cars entered the
Park. which g. 100 more than the
previous high record
The heavy travel evidently was
.causea by the fact than the Tioga rad
in.o Tuoiuune Meadows and other
High Sierra country will open Gully
10 afford-nz an outiet from the Yo-
s-n1ite Valley f0r hunreds of camp
ers now arriving. Ranger stations
were suamped hv the thrush. and OK
ira men had fo be- sent 90 facilitate
the issuance ~ permits. Many of TIE
crowd took advantage ~ the cornhi-
nat on of the week end ard fh-
Fourth g Juiy fo get their first
/ gnmure of the park.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-10
K!RBY'S BURIAL TODAY;
RATH|E SENT TO IDAHO

SALEM, Or, July 1O.--The body OF
Elvie Kirby, alias James Owens, who
was hanged in the state penitentiary
here Friday for th@ staying of Sheriff
Taylor of Umatllla0 county in 1920,
will be buried in the local Catholic
cemetery today. Burial of the body
here was ordered in a telegram re-
ceived from lIirby's parents last night.
Brief, funeral services win be held at
the eraye,
The body OF John Rathie, also
hanged here Friday in connection
with the Taylor murder, has been sent
to Idaho Falls for burial Rathie's
body was claimed by Father Roache
Of the local Catholic church and w.
II. Dolan.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-10
AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF
HAWAII BEING WRITTEN

HONOLULU. T. H., July l0.--Work
on the compilation of the first COM
plete and absolutely authentic history
of Hawaii will be inaugurated within
the next few months, 1t is announced
hy the Hawaiian Historical commise
sion. which has the work in charge.
Ralph s. Kuykendsll. formerly
connected with Leland Stanford Uni
yersity, viii be in direct charge OF tha
work Of assembling and compiling
data for the new history The work
win present many difficulties. owing
to the fact that prior to one hundred
years ago the Hawaiian people had
no pritten language and much data
must be gathered from stories and
lesends handed down by word OF
mouth.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-10
FAMED ATHLETE WILL
ENTER THE MINISTRY

LEWISTON, Ne July 10.-Rav
Buker. a runner Of nation-wide fame,
holder Of the State and New Englan
two-mile record and a graduate Of
Bates College. will become pastor Of
the CONGREGATIONAL Chhrch nt oxford
Me.
During his work in the pulpit he
will not. however give up the run
ming game. He will run an exhibition
two miles az the celebration In Bel
fast. Ne. and he will also keep in con-
di;ion for the big track meet In Los
Angeles. Cal. in 1928. where he will
meet the crack runners of America
md EIrnm..
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-10
COLLEGE STUDENTS TO
WORK IN CAMPAIGN

WASHINGTON. July 1O.-U. PD
Senator Walsh, Massachusetts. DEM
ocrat, today revealed plan of en-
rolling tens of thousands of collC..e
students to carry the campaign of
democracy to the people of the Unit
ed States in the 1924 presidential
election. Men and women both will
be enrolled in an organization pat
termed after the democratic national
committee. The plan is rapidly ap-
preaching maturity
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-10
Daughcrty Gives Aid

WASHINGTON, July 1O.-(U. P.)-
Attorney General Daugherty announc-
ed today that United states marshals
would be appointed to protect trains
in the middlewest, and southwest divi-
sions, following the demand that the
department of justice furnish officers
TO protect Wabash mail trains in
Missouri, forwarded here by President
Tausig of the Wabash line.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-10
UMATILLA COUNTY RED CROSS
FACING FINANCIAL EMERGENCY;
SPLENDID RECORD OF SERVICE

The Umatilla county Red Cross,
with its splendid record of service to
thousands of ex-service men and civil
ians, is facing a financial emergency
and Immediate aid is asked of the
branches.
All are responding to the call and
Pcndleton will do her share on Satur-
day with a mammoth benefit cooked
food sale at Dodge Brothers Sales
room. The city has been divided into
three sections. captained as follows:
Section 1. all territory north of the
Imatilla river, Mrs. F. NJ Ebrel, tele-
phone 1I57-W: Section ., all terri
cory south of the river and west OF
Main street. Mrs. William Dunn, tele-
nhoue 5I2-W: Section 8, all territory
east of Main and south Of the river,
Mrs. Thomas Hampton, telephone
ppm. Each captain will have as
sistants and a house to house canvass
will be made. Anyone wishing to
make unsolicited donations may tele-
phone the captains.
Expenditure large
expenditures nnaut ny Ane nv
Cross to meet the enormous demand
for aid in this county exceeded re-
ccipts in the amount Of S4.SS3.47 dur
ing the past year. according to th'
report Of Whitfield & Whitcomb. Ger
titled public accountants. The ne
worth OF the chapter as it now stand
is hut Sl.sSt.15 while expenditure
during the coming year will probabll
be in the neighborhood OF $4,000
showing the necessity Of raising a
least $4,000 during the year. Tn
emergency demand must he met now
with the hope that the coming Rol
Call In November will provide ampl
additional funds.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-10

Investigation To
Start on Existing
Express Rates
Rates Have Not Been Changed
Since 1920; Complaints
Are Before Commission.

WASHINGTON, July 10.-(A. P.)
Notice was given by Interstate Com
merce Commission today that an in
vestigation would be instituted imme-
diately as to the reasonableness of eX-
listing express rates in all parts of the
country. Hearings will be arranged
later. Through freight rates were re-
duced ten per cent July /. Express
rates have been unchanged since
1920. A number of complaints are
before the commission.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-10
AUSTRALIAN WON MEMS
TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP P

WIMBLEDON, July 1O.-(U PD-
Gerald Patterson, veteran of the star
Australian Davis cup team, won the
mems tennis championship of the
world here when he defeated Ran
dolph Lycett, of Britain, 6-3, GA, 62.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-10
Considers Strike

WASHINGTON, July 1O.-(A. P.)-
Attorney General Daugherty today
took up the consideration of the rail-
road strike with Alfred P. Thorn, gen
eral counsel of the association of rail-
way executives.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-10
Ten Million
Dollar Rain Fell
Over Mid West
Rain Came Just in Time to
Save Corn and Other Crops;
Followed AZ Day Drought.

CHICAGO. July 1O.-U. PA
"ten million dollar rain" fell over Sec
tions of the midwest grain belt today,
relieving the forty two day drought
and saving the corn and other crops.
Crop experts said the rain came jus:
in time, II was generally u heavy
downpour.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-10
MUCH TwINE is USED.

WASHINGTON, July 10.--Approxi-
mately 200,000000 pounds of binder
twine is used in binding the small
grain crops of the United States each
harvest season. according to the De-
partment of Agriculture,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-10
CATTLE PRICES STEADY.

PORTLAND. July 1O.-(A PD-
Cattle steady, calves fifty cents higher,
hogs twenty-five cents higher prime
light $11.75 to $12.25; sheep steady;
lambs 80 cents higher, spring lambs,
$40 to $11; eggs steady. butter firm,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-10
MEXICO OIL PROPERTY
THREATENED BY BANDIT

NEW YORK, July 1O.-(U P.)--
According to a radiogram to Wall
street journal Bandit General Gofo-
zave has invaded the royal Dutch
camp at Corona and threatened to
blow up the pump lines and stations
unless he gets 5000 pesos today
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-10
1o4 Passenger Trains on Mis-
souri, Pacific Line Taken
Off Because of the Strike.
DAUGHERTY MET WITH
RAILROAD COUNSEL
PicketS Are at All Shop Gen.
tiers; Work for Most Part
Silent But Effective.

CHICAGO, July 1O,-(U. PD-The
strike crisis passed today. The rail
roads ultimatum for the mems return
on unchanged footing expired. Pick
cts are at all shop centers. Rail-
roads, feeling the strikes pinch, are
making strenuous efforts to operate
with strikebreakers.
Pickets active in many towns of the
central west, are doing their work for
the most part silently, but effectively.
In Aurora ILL.,, eighteen hundred
strikers marched around the shops in
an endless parade. Troops were on
active duty in some places, at others
they waited for word to preserve, or
der. Peace officers are apprehensiVe
of flares in shop centers, One bright
spot was the APPARENT disposition of
signalmen and clerks to postpone their
strike, emulating the example of
maintenance of way men.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-10
D.~IIast Night

Henry Ulrich. AGED ~. died last
might near Meacinm. He Is survived
by his brothers. Prank. VIII and Dee
Ulrich uf this city. Funeral services
wiii be held tomorrow afternoon al ?
O'Clock from Brown and Brady chapel.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-10
One Picket Permitted

OMAHA, Nebr.. July 1O.-U. P)-
Judge Woodrough, of the federal dis
trict court, today granted the Bur
lington Railroad a temporary injunc-
tion against picketing by six federated
shop crafts on strike. One picket is
permitted at each shop
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-10
101 Trnins Stonped

ST. LOUIS, July 10.-(U. P.)-The
Missouri Pacific railroad gave strike
conditions and the coal shortage, as
the reason for discontinuance of 104
of it's regular passenger trains.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-10
New Low Levels Of Mark Casts
Shadow Over Financial
Situation in Europe.
| MORATORIUM ASKED
FROM COMMISSION
English Press Asks Hughes to-
Again Try New Diplomacy
and Attempt to Save Europe

PARIS. July 10.-CU. P)-With
the German mark at new low levels
and Germany facing a financial col
lapse. that nation looks to America
and England to bring pressure to bear
upon France for alienation of the re-
parations demands. The German fl
nancial mission. Secretaries Schroe-
der and Fischer, conferred with the
reparations commission this afternoon
regarding the requested maratori1m.
Plea To U. s.
LONDON. July 10.-(U. PA
plea to the United States to call con :
ference TO save Europe's civilization
was made today by the London ally
Express. The newspaper foresees
Germany's peril equally imperlals all
Europe. The Express said Secretary
of State Hughes inaugurated Ameri-
cas- New diplomacy at the Wash
ineton disarmament conference and
greatly succeeded and urged the Unit
ed States to try new diplomacy"
again and save Europe
Damage Not Paid
LONDON, July 10.-(U. PD-Lloyd
George told the house of comm ons.
today that reparations received from
Germany thus far have failed to pay
for actual war damage in France and
Belgium.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-10
THE WEATHER

Reported by Major Lee aToorhouss.
weather observer.
Maximum So
Minimum 50.
Barometer 2s.72.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-10
JULY AND SEPTEMBER
WHEAT S1.12 Y TODAY

July wheat closed at SIP IL, Sep
tember at the same figure and De-
cember at $1.13 IL today. Satur-
days closings were SLIP. $l.10 5-S
and $1.1S is respectively
Following are the quotations rcceiv-
ed by Overlook & Cooke:
Wheat.
Open II gh Low Close.
July $1121a $I13% $1.11H $1.12 e
Sept. 1.1O 1.12A 1.10 l.l2ls
Dec. 1.13h LAG 1I2ts 1.13 e
Government Report.
Condition winter wheat, II; spring
wheat. S37; total. 1873.
Production winter wheat, $50 mil
lion; spring wheat, 24S million; total,
S17 million.
Corn. condition S51: production.
2, $50. .OO0.0O0.
Oats. condition 74.4; production, l.
1S7, ,0OO. 600.
Report about as expected on wheat
and corn and bullish on oats.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-10

DAILY EDITION

The East oregonian IL Eastern Ore
gon's greatest newspaper and as a SELL
Ing force gives to the advertiser over
twice the guaranteed average paid cir
culation in Pendleton and UmatilIA
county Of any other newspaper.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-11-02
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE III, SECTION 4, OF THE
CONSTITUTION, PROPOSED BY THE ACT OF
1922, CHAPTER 20.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT SUPPLEMENTING
THE ABOVE BY PROVIDING FOR AN INCREASE
IN THE NUMBER OF DELEGATES FROM BALTT-
MORE CITY AND DIRECTING THAT THE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS OF ELECTIONS SHALL FIX THE
DISTRICT BOUNDARIES OF SIX LEGISLATIVE DIS
TRICTS FOR SAID CITY.
This amendment supplements the above mentioned
amendment proposed by Chapter by providing that each
of the six districts of Baltimore City into which said city
shall be divided under the terms of the amendment pro-
posed by Chapter shall be entitled to the number Of dele
gates to which the largest county in the State shall be
titled and also by providing that in the General AS
semb at the regular session of 1922 fails to fix the bOun
diaries of the six legislative districts of Baltimore City,
shall be fixed by the Board of Supervisors Of
Elections of said city, who shall give adequate notice of
the such boundaries to remain until altered by the
General Assembly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-11-02
FOR FEWER ELECTIONS AMENDMENT
AGAINST FEWER ELECTIONS AMENDMENT

PROPOSED BOND ISSUE FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL PUR-
POSES IN GARRETT COUNTY
AN ACT TO EMPOWER THE COUNTY COMMISSION
ERS OF GARRETT COUNTY TO BORROW $4,000
FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL. PURPOSES PROPOSED
BY THE ACT OF 1922, CHAPTER 466.
AN ACT to empower and direct the County Commission
of Garrett County to borrow money the credit of
said county for the purpose of erecting public school
buildings in the County of Garrett and heating furn
ishing and equppng the and to purchase
denim real estate for the erection of the same and for
the purpose of repairing and heating public school build
lngs IN said county, and to issue bonds for the payment
of said money and to levy taxes upon the assessabe
property of said County to redeem such bonds and pay
the interest thereon, the Board of County Commits
soners of Garrett County provide by direct levy
essay funds therefor and to refer such question to the
voters of Garrett County.
Section L. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland That for the purpose of erecting public school
buildings in the County of Garrett and for the purpose of
heating furnishing and equipping the and for the
erection of the and for the purpose of repairing
heating public school buildings in said County, the County
Commissioners for Garrett County be and they hereby
authorized empowered and directed to borrow money
the credit OF said County to amount not exceeding Sew
entytVe Thousand S750OO Dollars, and to issue coupon
bonds therefor the said bonds to be in the of Five
Hundred Dollars ($500 and One Thousand Dollars
$4,000 EACH and to be signed by the President of the
Board of County Commissioners for Garrett County, and
cOunersgned by the Clerk of said Board with the corpo-
rate seal of said County Commissioners attached every
bond ssued said bonds to be dated the first day of july
1928 and to bear interest at rate not exceeding five per
centum annum payable semannually the first day
of January and the first day of July each and every year
until maturity thereof and the said bonds shall mature as
follows Ten Thousand Dollars (S0OOO) thereof on July
l. 1929 and annually thereafter the of Ten Thousand
Dollars ($1OOOO in every year until all of said bonds shall
have matured. a
Section 3. And be it further enacted That the said
County Commissioners for Garrett County shall levy an
nuay the assessable property of said county tax
sufficient to the interest upon said bons and in the
year 1928 they shall levy the of Ten Thousand Dollars
($1OOOO to meet the first maturing bonds issued and an
nuay thereafter the said County Commissioners shall levy
the assesSabe property Of said County the of
Ten Thousand Dollars $10OOO for the payment of such
bonds as annually mature until the maturity of the last
bonds by this Act authorized to be issued.