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LA GRANDE. UNION COUNTY. OREGON FRIDAY. OCTOBER 28, 1904
NUMBER 57
LOOP ?
THE
Baker County Corres
pondent Wipes Uni n
Depot Clear off of
the Map.
Baker City, Oot. 2811 leaked out
tod j frcm a reliable aouroe tbat the
little steam railway between the OB
& N Union station just this' side of
Hoi Lakand tbe town of Union ia
under option at a fair price to a ayn
dioale whioh proposes to build an
eleetrlo line jd a loop including the
present road taking in tbe town of
Union, Core, blond Oity, and back to
Hot Lake. The statement ia made
tbat if this arrangement oarriea tbe
OBAN Company will move itt sta
tion from Union to Hot Lake, end
that hereafter tjaina will hare belter
how for getting a good atari for
climbing tbe Telooaaat hill. '
Theeleotrio road proportion la a
good one, aa it will traverse e rioh
farming and fruit oountry and fur
nish transportation lor all kind of
produota al obeap ratei to the nearest
market on tbe railroad. It ia a his
tory of these suburban tleotrio roads
tbat their mission an ed-jun-it
to the eteam railroads ia s good one
end furnishes the farmer in the . ir
terior with transportation cheaper
than his own teams. In level coun
tries tbeeieotrio roada are very sne
oetafulbutin billy end mountainous
seotioos they haw not yet proved to
useful or auooenaful. Baker Democrat
ente fur tbe rbange ol tne oounty seat
from OanyOn o tbe former place has
been made by the Prairie Oity oounty
seat association A meeting baa been
held and Idvenoe steps taken to bae
two petitiona in tbe field oot later
tban tbe obming month. The Ural
will be drawn after tne pattern of tbe
soeoesaful Union oounty petition end
will probably be put In circulation on
election day Not. 8tb, , Although tbe
vote cannot be taken for two yeara tbe
oommttteee In charge wish to have
plenty of time to aeenre tbe required
sixty per oent of signatures and then
some. The other pepar to be circulat
ed will 011 tor sub crlptions to baild
tbe ooorl bouse wbiob will be a dup
lication of tbe Wheeler oounty build
in . Grant Oounty News.
tbat way. He may base exaggerated
It slightly; bat not 'great deal.
There's aomethlng doing In Tbe Dallee
thee days. Dalles t'hronlule.
NOMES GOLD
OUTPUT $4,000,000
COUNTY SEAT
QUESTION UP
A renewal of the oounty eeat fight
waged by Prairie Oity end its ajner-
Seattle, Oot. 2S.-Tbe etaamahlp
Senator baa arrived from Nome with
429 pasaengere and .1260,000 in gold
dust. Paces ngers on the Senator . eey
tbat e oloae estimate of the gold oat
put (or this aeaeon baa been made, and
tbat It le believed the total amount
from Nome will be 13,000,000. In
cluding an estimate on the winter dig
glnga, it ia believed that the total year's
output of gold dust will be in exoeaa
of ta,000,000.,
Another
Railroad
Accident
Aurora, Neb., Oot' 27. An east
bound Burlington passenger struck an
oil wagon here today. . A hundred
gal lone of gasoline were thrown over
the engine, whioh was soon enveloped
In flames. Engineer. Parkinson was
taken out In a dying oonditlon, end
Fireman Lataler was cremated.
The accident occurred, at a eroselog.
The driver ol tbe oil wagon did not ob
eerve the approaohing train until too.
late to check the speed of hie team.
Tbe train waa running at e good rata
of speed, and before it oame to a atand
still tbe entire engine presented the
appearance of an inferno, smoke and
dames intermingled with steam, par
tially aoreenlng from view the - terrible
tragedy being enacted within. Many
persons rushed to the eeststanoe of the
engineer and fireman, bat' - no help
could avail againet tbe neroe beet, end
the two men were soon burned to
death.
Wheat Country
' I'll wager I aaw a hundred wheat
terms coming into and going from tbe
i city from tbe Five Mile bill jester day,'
said a Dalleaite who had business out,
Names The Guilty
Cripple Creek, Vol., Oct. 28. Bell
today swore oat a oomp aint charging
J J Neville with the murder ot JiJnes
A Uartoockv one of those killed in tbe
Independence explosion. Neville ia
thought to be at preaent in Wyoming.
GOVERNMENT
: OWNERSHIP
In Belgium about 86 per cent of the
navigable waterways are under the
direct control ot the at ate, which le al
so a lane ahareboldar iu the canals
conceded to private oompaniee.
WAS IT
CASE OF
MURDER
Coroner's Jury in The
Swauger Case is Un
able to Decide-Several
.Theories.
the Willamette river exoepl the Whit
man Mission near where Wrlla Wall
now is and the mission at The Dallee.
As tbat time it waa not certain wheth
er England or tbe United States were
tbe real owners ot tbe Oregon country
wbiob then embraoed Oregon, Wash
ington, Idaho and Ibe parts of Wyom
ing and Montana west of Ibe oreal ot
the Booky Mountain. His sixty
years residence in Oregon baa witness
ed e great change.
Died At Salt Lake
EARNINGS OF
GREAT NORTH RN
New York, Oct. 88 Tbe Great Nor
thern annual report abowa net earn
ings ol 114,000,000, or IU per oent
ou tbe stick. Two millions of t bis la
charged to-isspaovemants. , The sur
plus after dividends ia ?D,J 32,000 a
decrease of 1700,000.' Th i company's
d vestments have incite jed about
ll,0O,O00.
- Married
MUBPHY-MoGABBY In tbil oily
Friday, Oct. S8. 1904, Mr Fe'er Mnr
pby and Miss Beb cos McOerry, jns
tioe of the Pease J. B. Hough officiate
ing Tbe contracting parties are both
residents of Hilgard, v
TWENTIETH jCENTURT
.
When Your Boy
Needs Cloth.es
You think too much of your boy and his appear
atice to say" "anything will do;" you think too much
of your pocket book to waste money on cheap cloth
ing. In the TWENTIETH CENTURY Clothing,
whieh we offer for your close inspection there ia noth
ing slighted but the price. We do not offr you
something, but we will convince you that you can
get more value for your money than in any other
make of boys clothing.
Pendleton, Oct.' . 28. There have
beau no developments during the In
veetlgetioa by tbe ooronei'a jury into
the ' eircumatancea surrounding the
death of Seymour Bwauger, although
aome interesting faot have been,
brought to light and aome interesting
theories advanced. There la not one
who believes in the poeaibillty of . foul
play from any source. All the evidenoe
Is conclusive that tbe death was urely
aooldental. '
No one oan be fonnd who will testify
to seeing Swauger on tbe train from the
time it left Pendleton with Bwauger on
the top of e box car. A short dlstanoe
this aide of Bingham (the body was
found a mile and half thie aide of
Bingham) Conductor Waffle, on hla
way from the caboose to the front of
the train, found a bundle, oa top ot a
oar, which haa been identified ai
Swauger's bundle, but Mr, Waffle aup
posed It belonged to aome hobo, and
having no knowledge of Swauger,
brought It into the oaboose. This wai
Friday evening. Neither Mr. Waffle
nor any member of that crew heard of
any auoldent until on tbe return trip
from Huntington Sunday morning,
Some who have heard all the testi
mony believe Swanger fell off tbe side
of tbe car and either went to aleep oh
the traok or ' undertook to walk the
track and was run over by another
train when killed. Tberewaea great
profusion ot blood at the most easterly
point where there was evidence of an
aooident. A short distance to the
west from this point was evidenoe of
the body being dragged, and leaser
amounts of blood to a point mentioned
and there waa fonud the trunk and
another great qniintlty of blood.
Still others who have heard all the
testimony, believe the man was killed
by No. 22, . by falling between oara
while walking on tbe top of the train,
and that Ibe more or In s mutilated
body was dragged Urst in one direction
end then in another until It was left
where found by the engineer of the
light engine perhaps IS hours after
falling from tbe train.
The theory that he w e ridlogon tbe
rods has been abandoned. Tbe jury
will meet tomorrow. Eaat Oregonlan.
Bait Lake, UUh.Oot. 288. W My
er auditor ot disbursements of the
Denver & Bio Orande at Denver, died
hers this morning of heart failure. He
was enroute to California oa a vaca
tion. ' . " '
WHEAT
KING
BABCOCK
Holding 150,000 Bush-:
els and Buying More
Expecting to Get One
Dollar.
fit f A Boy two pie
AJ L tJJ yon will say so
' in and see thei
piece suits, ages from 8
w r rut 1
to 14 at i ou. iney aro values,
you will say so if you will come
in and see them.
Boys Norfolk suits, belt effect 3 to 12 years at 2 25
8 00, 8 60, 4 00, 6 00 and $6 00. You can't afford to
io buy elsewhere till you see our line of boys, youths
and men't clothing.
We also have M. Born & Go's line of made to
measure samples We have Lad fifteen years exper
ience in taking measures and handling tailor made
agency business and guarantee a fit Let us show
you oui samples We do not charge express on suits .
made to measure
The Ea Grande Cash Store.
Borne, Oot. 2ft Tbe arrest of the
head ol a peasant league on oharges of
swindling, aroused tbe village of San
Plervernotioe, with Its 3,000 inhabitants
ITALIAN PEASANT
: LEAGUE IN RIOT
William H B.boook, the '-wheal
king of Walla Walla the wealthiest
raaoher a d wbcitgrower In Washing
Ion tbe man who bss converted Iboo
sandi of acres of barren waste land
into valuable produoing traete pre
dicts 'one doll r a bushel wheat" bt
lore next spring.; Mr, Babeook la pro
bably one of tbe shrewdest termer
in the W't is tborougqly oonversant
to tbe point of riot. In .ttemptin. to u. " ' . ....
lan, a conflict oo I J
liberate the too used man,
curred with carbineers. Three aoldlers
were Injured. Beinforcemente dle
persed tbe mob.
OUR GOLD 10
BE EXPORTED
New York Oot 28 Indloat one point
to heavy exports ot gold from this
country to Parle and Berlin before the
year's end. One estimate plaoee tbe
amount at not less than 120.000,000. -.
The new Russian loan la believed
to be the cause of the probable outflow.
French bankers, it ia aaid, have not
ifled Berlin, whl-bia heavy debtor
to Franoe, that, loans aggregating
many millions of franos will have to
be met within the next 60 days.
oountry and never makes e turn un
less be makea money, rbie year he -.
haa raised nearly 160,000 butbela of
wheat in Eureka Flat Walla Walla
county and on his large tarms in Dou
glas oounty Waauington. Ha has nut -
sold a bufhel of this season's crop as
he is almost aasured tbat by holding
until early spring be will be eble to
get 1.00a bushel for bis wheal, '
Instead of selling , Mr. , Baboook ia
even buyibg wheat for speculation. .
The other day be purebesrd 60000
burbels in T.c ma and It is under--.
stood tbat. ne has purchased smaller
lots from various farmers ol . Walla "
Walla oounty He says be will-not ,.
atop baying as l nr W e edat-mejfie.
good for be IHievee-lie o.U olen - up
a quartor ol a nr M'nn dollars- from
wheat before April 1906. ' - - -
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DRUNKEN TAR
MAKES A HIT
London, Oot. 28 There was a re
markable demonstration bare Ibis
morning in favor of tbe United States
It was all over a drunken lar from
tbe eruiser Olympia. Tbe aailor was
arrested by a pelioeman the onlook
ers say needlessly, aa he was giving no
trouble. The sailor resisted end both
be end the pohoeman fell sad the
sailor's beadwea badly out. A orowd
of several hundred persona 'gathered
and demanded the sailor'a release.
Other polios oame to tbe scene, and
tbe orowd wbiob continued to looresee
aoouatd the polioe of brutality and
hooted them.
Suddenly Ibe boots gave way to
obee ra for th e United Steles and
the American navy.- They continued
increasing iu volumne until tbe po
lioe station was reached, where a big j
foroe of officers was neoeaaary to seat- j
ter Ibe orowd.
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We have been doing busi
ness in this town for 6 yean
In that time the town has
nearly doubled in population
During the same time our
business has increased FIVE FOLD. In other words
oar business has made a great deal more rapid increase
than the town has. There are dozens of reasons for tnia
all of which you will peroeive if you begin buying drug
store goods of us. In the first place we had a thorough
training for pharmacy. In the second place we bad ex
ceptional opportunities for learning the practical side of
pharmacy in a successful drug store of the highest stand
ing. In the third place we have kept our eyes open and
attended to business until we know the demands of thq
people of this town.
A. T.
Prescription Druggist
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La Grande, Oro
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Stop That Shivering
And save that Coat
75th. Birtidiy
The Bev. A. Bade will celebrate bis I
76th birthday on Nov. 8th by votiog i
for Booeevelt and Fairbanks. I
Bev. Eads passed through Orande
Bonde Valley in Ibe fall of 1144 as an
immigrant, with b(s father's family I
enroute lor tbe Willamelle valley.!
There were then less tban four thou- j
sand American settlers in Oregon, all
in ine Willamette vaney ana not a
bouse between the Missouri river and
If our horse needs blanket and we
hare the best assortment in the valley to
)!" a I ii blankets at all prices.
New stock just received sf
MEN'S OLOVE3
Workinmen's high grade gloves. Thin
is a new line with us and we are proud of
our se.eotion. Oal' and see them. Har
ness and saddles made to order. Winter
robes just received. Second hand sewing
machine for sale oheap.
E. Chnstoffcrson
Harness and Saddles
La Grande, Oregon
aaJ coming tutu ..