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About La Grande morning observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1901-1904 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1904)
1 .0 OBSERVER; VOLUME III LA GRANDE. OREGON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1904 NUMBER 270' llA" GRANDE EVENING CHIEF JOSEPH DEAD Famous Ncz Perce Warrior Dies of Heart Disease ;,. (Observer Special) Spokane, Se t. 23. Chief Joseph, the fam ua Nez Peroe warrior, is dead. Be had poor health for some time. He waB sitting by the camp Are on the Colville reservation Wednesday after njor and was seen by the Indians to fall from bis seat to the ground. When lifted It was found that he died of heart failure. Henry M Steele, In dian agent at Nez Pilem, sent a roesB ent er with the dispatoh to the Spokesman-Review and the inessag4 was tele. - graphed from Wilbnr tonight. Fortune Came Too Lite Sterling III. Sept. 83 T. B. Cabby died today a pauper. Shortly after death attorneys arrived to notify bi m that ne was heir to $200,000. News From The Plains Those of oar readers - who orosaed the plains in ox wagons and lived in Oregon before rail rojds or the Pony express have not forgotten ' with what Interest news frun the i. ululua was awaited As a reminder to suoh and a revelation to later comers was clip from toe Salt Lake Des-ret news a reprint from its old files published in 1859. . From the Plains. By letter, from Captain Sterensun, dated at Wood River, July 11th, we loam that his oompauy, which was organized an the 21th of June, consisting of 285 persons with 50 wagons 87 yoke of oxen, 11 oows, 5 horses and 3 males were en onmped at that place an 1 were repair ing their wanons a a the extreme hot weather had tendored it necessary . to reset many of the tires, Noar I rairle Creek they met Mr Stoddrrd and son from this city on their way to Michi gan and who reportot they had met Beokwith'B train at Chimuov Rock on the 26 of June Itwifleid & Smith's train atRattlosnake (Jn ek: th - Church train so called 25 miles below that creek; taman's and rUmlcnrt train at tlaffalo Crck. Keslin's company was a short distanoe ahead of Stevenson's all iiettng along first rate. Elder Stenhoase is with Stevenson's company. JAPANESE TAKE ANOTHER FORT By a Desperate Effort Succeed in Capturing ! Height to west of,- Port Arthur J Murderer Confesses . Chicago, Sept. 23 The confession of John n, Smith, charged with coldblood ed murder of Hans Peterson, a store kveper, led to the arrest today of John N Leonard and Harry lirown aa parti cipants In the hold-up. It is olaimed that "Jock" Brings, already under arrest, fired the fatal shot Polloe eaV they now have the I gang of hold-up-, responsible for many reoent criminal schemes In Chioigo. A Bankrupt State Jaokson, Mis , Sept. 23 Home days ago it was announced that the treas ury of Mississippi contained only 52 oents. It is leariifd (bat the state's ready money now amounts to only 20 oents, two limes, Kankors of the 00'inlry are refusing to bay Mississippi bonds, . ' - Tokio.Sdpt. 21 Icis repirted tha 'hejapanesa have taken a fort on another height to the went of Etaee han which whb carried by a desperate assault. . The Japanese have sinoe re--isted all efforts of the Roesiacs to recapture it, '. Butti of these heights overloik Port Arthur, offering excel lent gun positions which materially weaken the RuKsian defense. " RUSSIANS REPORT CASUALTIES St. Pneisburg, Sept. 23 A report received today tat"s that' eioco Sep tember 2, the Russian omualties at Poit Arthur have been 11 nffioers kill edaml23 wounded, 308 men killed nd 760 wounded aud 45 RnsBian cannon lijjve b.wft ruined by the Jap. aneae nre. . OTHEIt RUSSI vN LOSSES St. Petersburg, Sept. 23 Kurr.pat kin reports 'urther under y- sterday's date that there is no change in the situation about Mukden and adds: THE BARGAIN STORE A new and handsome line of A raericau '' built i " ' : .::?::' , PATTERN ' HATS E M Wellman & co A.dams Avenue. ' S il l 1 d'ohu aU of the ennmvoompleted. have moved from Benlapudiu toward Haaytaul in order to penetrate north of Dating Pass. Indications are that the enemy is endeavoring to flank our left.' , , . . .. ' 'Our losses at Daliog Pass Monday were one ofSoer killsd and 10 wound ed, three men killed and 45 wounded The extent it the Rusian losses at Liao Yang were 54 officers killed and 267 wonnded : 1801 soldiers killed and 12,023 wounded." . .. CRUlSEkS REPAIRED St, Petersburg, Sept. 33 Captain Oladnt has arrived from Vladivostok wilh a message for the czar. He re ports the three Russian oruiaers wblob escaped the Japanese fleet, sgalu in good repair and ready to prey upon contraband commerce. Fresh soldiers are going forward to the Far Eatt at tho i ate of 8000 daily This numbs.' will be increased as soon as Lake Baikal difficulties are- sur mounted and the railway around it President Returns Washington, Sept. ' 23-Preslrtent Roosevelt and family arrived at the White House this eveulm from Saga more where they hare been spending the summer. ' Horse-shoers Organize Portland, Sept.-' 23. Oregon horse shoera will organize They will then ask the sia'e legislature to pnsB a bill authorizing tho appointment of a state board of hoiserhoers' examiners. Got Together . After mnc'a worriment the Pemo- oratic Convention of N Y at Sarotago nominated a full rotate tloket wilh David O Ilorrlck at the head for Gov ernor. Q6R PALL STYLES Seven Lives Lost , , Wins Pennent Boise City Sept. 23 The infnut team In the league olinohed for the season of 1904 at Riverside park yeiler day afternoon by winning from Spok ane. . r Anxious For Rates CLASSED SIX STATES Suggestion that Work Center in Doubtful Ones (Observer Special) Boston, Sept. 22--A dispatch from Harwich, Mass,, tells of the loss of the schooner Elvira J French on the Jersey coast. Seven of the orew of nine met! were lost. The engineer and one of the ere olung to the wreckage four days and , three nights and were rescnod by a passing schooner. . .. - (Observer Special) Liverpool, Sept. 23. The streets leading to the steerage offices of the trans Atlantio steamship, companies were biooked today by thousands of emigrants, clamoring fur a last ohmo to get to Amerloa for $10, the reports that the rate war wag over being gener ally believed. The White Star Line steamer Baltlo, whlob Bailed today, took over 200010 emigrants and many were leit behind for lack of accomoda tion. The American Line steamer Merlon, whloh also sailed today, was filled up wltb the last 110 batch for Philadelphia. , , . ; , ., Scandinavians predominated, but there was a fair sprinkling of British emigrants. New York Sept. 23 Judge Parker arrived hers today to consult the earn ptign manager1.' He held long roi- lerencea wilh Senator Gorman, Chair man Taggart and other prominent deniooratio politicians.' Represents-. live Cowherd chairman oi the oongres- sional committee . urged the impor- tanoe of decreasing the republican majority In the bouse and made an appeal lor inoreased funds to oarry out bis line of : work, Herman Rid-, dtr editor of the New York Blaau Zei tuog suggested that the work be con centrated in the six doubtful states whloh belaid were New York, New Jersey, Ccnneotiout, Indiana-, Illinois and Wisconsin. , . "-h . A car of Concord grapes arrivod at Spokane yesterday from Ohio.. It may seem strange, but grapes from this section have been shipped into Mont ana anil In to tho Dakotas. - ' ' , OSTdOPATHY TREATS CHILDREN Even the simplest machine requires occasional o erhaoling, that loosened Dolts may be tightenod, wornparta replaced, and the oorreot relations of the parte preserved. 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