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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1905)
t v - mm news todav nil Shower and warmsa To-nl ght. mi Tuesday Shovera. la mMm E HQ 7 A lis! - VOLUME IV RUSSIANS MAKE SEVERAL ATTACKS By Scrippa News Association Tokio May 22 A report Iroro lbs hont states thai tb Raesieos have attacked several Japanese posts la the neighborhood of Llao river. Oa May 20th aa attack on Tang Shed waa re pulsed ith a loaa o! three hundred to the Russisas. ' ; SECRET SESSIONS TO BE OMITTED Scripps News Association Salt Lake May 22 The Western Fed ration of Miners opened a three weeks session heie this morning. Two band red delegates, representing all the pro dnolog states in the America and British Colombia, were present. r resident jaoyer created a surprise by removing the star chamber of cessi ons. Be declared that they worked an injury to the cause of organised labor, as campaign education was es sential to suocesr, and the secret sessions, always in the past, has I been attended by spies bited by the corpor ations who made false f reports. The public Is invited to attend all sessions Denies Jurisdiction Bcripps News Association - Washington May 23 The trial of August M Maohen, which was set (or this morning, went over until tomorrow on request of the attorneys. They will raise the question of the right of the Government to try Macben in this jurisdiction. In Bad Condition Scripps News Association New York May 22 Billy Randall, one time a well known bate ball pitch er of the Paoiflo Coaat, i waa today found on Brooklyn street in a desti tute condition from hunger and neg lect. He was sent to the hospital, aod is now iu a somewhat demented condition. Rev Father Moore is In the cityto day visiting old time friends. Father Moore la on his way home to Beverton from Ksnsas City . $2 LONG PANTS SUITS, in and fancy worsteds, siDgle prices range from BASE BALL AND BAT FREE With Boy's Suit worth $3 and over GRF AT SPECIAL SALE OF TQ AC Buys your chice of olir $12.50 silk suits THIS WEEK, ttuse suits are special M'yy values at regular prir."st ynu will find them equal to regular $15 00 a suits elsewhere. There is nothh.g c..ap about the suits ex- ept tbe price...,., vp"."!) LA NO BELLIGERENTS v IN FRENCH WATERS By Bcripps News Association ..... 8aigon May 22 Admiral Deion- quires haa just returned from a tour along the Aunam coast, where he went to inv atigate the report that a portion ol the fleet of Rojestventky bad returned and was lying off port DeAyot. Us announces thst no bel ligerent vessels bad put into aay of ths ports along the coast since May 14. Japanese Strike By Scripps News Association Honolulu, Hawaii, May 23. A wire less message from Tshslna, Island of Maul, the scene of the ootbreasTot the Japanese strikers, reports that the condition now is tranquil, the arrival of the polio and. the military rain. forcemeats from the city preventing xpummI leuewai m .i'ua iruuvia. Troops, with a number of Gatllu guns, are patrolling and tbe Japanese are camping out. The strike leaders reit erate ti promise to return to work Wednesday. v . .. Sulphite Plant Burns (By Hcrlppe News Association) I ' Applet on, Wis , May 22 The sul phite plsnt of the Riverside' Paper Company was totally destroyed by fire this morning. . Tbe loss Is estlmatsd at one hundred and twenty five thous and dollais. May Wheat Jumping! , (By Pcripps News Association) Chicago, May 22. May wheat, which olosed at ninety eight cents per bushsl Saturday, opened this morning at one dollar, and In ths courss of an hour. jumped to one dollar and three cents, May corn Las gone op to fifty eight and one balf cents per bnsbel In sym pathy. ' Russian Officers Taken By Sotipps News Association Tokio, May 22-1 1 is reported hers that a junk filled with Russian ofBoeri has been captured It Is presumed that the Russians were making a re connaisance from Vladivstock at the time of tbe capture. BOYS' Extraordinary if you have not visited our boys' suit department this sprit gt wo promise you a am prise both in point of large ashoitnjnit and reasonableness iu priee. v, Good Serviceable suits, $1.50 and $2.00. I rn For this price we have a large assort ment" in the newest styles, in pleasing patterns, values equal to regular $3 00 suits'. sizes from age 10 to 20, in tweeds, cheviot, serges and plniu and . double breasted cots, J CA a ff ; ..........H4 'O pI.UU LADIES' SILK SHIRT All Silk- Suita at Reduced Prices Uiia Week. Nrt Reserves, No Exceptions. : 3 GRANDE, UNION COUNTY. OREGON MONDAY, MAY 22.1905 SEVEN KILLED v BY EXPLOSION (By Scripps Nsws Association) Columbus. Ohio. Ma 22. Sevan men were killed and many buildings damaged by the esoloaion of a boiler of a Hocking Valley engine at one forty n re mis arternoon. "The disaster oc curred at . the - Mound street shops, where the engine bad just corns In for repairs. Fortmsn Orondy and sli hostlers were working xroond it at tbe time. : Aside from tbe foreman, tbe Identified bodies are those of Win. brown, Fred Schudtley and Jake Davis. The names of tbe other victims are un learned. 3:8l P. M. (Later) To more bodies bve been Identified and are tboea of Edward Hand and Jobs Blrimingham The unidentified is a Polish laborer. The other workmen were Injnrsd. Worse Than - Reported " ' By Scripps News Association. Berlin, May 22 The Berlinger Tsgeblatt aaye that the Injuries re oelved by tbe Empress Augusta Vic toria when she fell down stairs at Weisbadea yeaterdav are mora serious than war at first reported. Tbe paper declares that she sustained a sprain of tbe right ankle, and open wound In tbe right foot, and. Injury to the knee rap aa well as a wound on tbe bead. - ' - i. Russian Vessel Sighted By Borippe News Association Hong Kong May 22-A , Russian orusier, accompanied by a transport which was heavily loaded, was sighted off Hainan StratU beaded West today. Killed ? At lib Office Bcripps NswiTAssoclation Savannah, Ga.. May 21 D 8 Berry, former state representative and a pro minent lawyer; waa shot and killed at the door of bis office here today. There is no olue to the ajayer or to his motive. Seize Russian Vessel. By 8oripps Nws Association Chefoo, May 22 A report from Port Arthur sss that a Japanese frce of one hundred men aelzed the Russian stesmer Kazan Saturday in ths bnrbor of Port Arthur, on the ground that the stesmer wss a war vessel. . 5C Values in SUITS CO (f At this price we 8h0Wt thi9 8pripg some values which we never have teen able to offer t lest than $3.60 to $4 00. We have them in Cheviots and -tweeds; neat and dressy and built to wear. . ; WAIST SUITS SITUATION GROWS MORE DESPERATE By Scripps News Association Chioago Ma 2f The failure of peace negotiations in the final stare Ol tbe teamsters' strifes lends s kitii-r aspeottotbe conditions todiyl Tbe City aod oourtry ar. preparing armed loroes wbtca now number. Hire lb saod five hundred, :bis with ihn in. tentton of being In readings to oops with any renewal of violenoe, or spread of dissatisfsotion to a vastly . larger number of men. Pract cally all ne gotiations for peace are off Both sides are adjusting themselves for an even more determined struggle. Sheriff Barrett and Mayor Dunne reiterate their determination to call for troops tbe moment that their forces are un able to quell disorders, Ths drat movemeut toward a spread of the dreti teamsters of tbe Edwaid Hies Lumber company struck beosuse sever al ol their number had been discharg ed for refusing to deliver material to tbe unfair depaitment stores. This is thong t to be the beginning of a moveuent to tie np tlb building oper ations in Cbicgi. " r, ,. ,y 8TEIKE BREAKERS ARRIVE ,! - 10 a m-Thirty teamsters of the Rit enbonse, Embree Lumber com pany walked out tiiia morbing rather than make deliveries to the boycotted oonoerns. .The early trains brought oat, hundred and fifty strike breakers from Indianapolis and Cincinnati. Another additional consignment is expected this evening. Joseph Cviols mistaken lor a strike breaker wuile on his way to work this morning, wss essulted at tbe intersection of Jack, son Boulevard and Jefferson street and was seriourly injured. Bis as sailants took $76 00 from him. biz man suspected of tbe orime have been arreted.v ,, CONTEMPT CASES CONTINUED Frank Voolker, a press feeder, was snot and badly wounded during the night as a result of an enoounter with deputy sheriff Fitzgerald. The con tempt hearings before Federal Judge Kohlsaat in the Injunction cases wars again continued this morning, pending ine closing np of the preliminary hearings before Master In Chancer Sherman, wbiob is ezpeoted to occur tnis afternoon. CAN GET TBOOP8 QUICKLY Mayor Dunn today talked with Gov. ernor Oeenen by telephone and said that the Governor assnrod him that it would take but two hous to plsce state troops In the streets of Chicago, in case the mayor mad the reaneit. A call of two hundred more policemen was made today by Chief O'Neill. A mob of several hundred this afternoon made an attempt to do bodily barm lo Harry Thompson, a union teamster, who accidentally ran down Mrs. Nellie McCarthy on Adams street, seriously injuring ber. ' The polio were on hand and suocseded In rescuing Thomas. ANOTHER ATTEMPT President Shea and the secretarv of the teamster's district roonoll met at. toroeyLevy Mayer at the letter's ( of- nee this aftei noon and sought ;to re vive the peace negotiations which haa been broken off, and given a set back by the action of tbe teamster's iolat oounoll Saturday night. . FIVE APPOINTED As the conclusion of a conference with tbe mayor, it is announced t'uat a committee of five will be appointed to tbe- teamsters council toniabt to act with president Shea and Beed in conducting peaoe negotiations for the settlement of tbe strike. Tbe committee will meet with the mayor tonight. Beed said that ha had submitted a new proposition to tbe mayor, and that hs considered the prospects of pesos good. DIPHTHERIA AMONG THE "HELLO" GIRLS By Scripp New association Seattle May 23 An epidemio of diphtheria threatens thr.e bnndre telephone operators, due to Infected transmitters. Twelve girls now have tbe di'eise. The health boird hss DATER CONFIRMS MINISTER BOWEN (By Scripps News Association) Washington May 22 Ex-minister Bowen called upon . Secretary Taft this morning and left additional p ipers bearing cn the Bowen-Loomls controversy. It (a understood that Bowen bps suggestel' that Loom is produce ths stubs to bis check book. sod that this might throw soms light npon the subject of the alleged money transsctions with the asphalt com pany. John Q Oater, correspondent for the New York Herald, at Caracae, admitted to Secretary Taft today that Bowen talked with him regarding Loomis and tbe charges against, biro He said that tbe stories regarding Loomis were common gossip in Cara cas, .i ; POSrPONE.- DECISION w Tbe president hss decided to post pone bis deoision in the Bowen-Loom ls controvsrsy until aftr tbe arrival of William Russell, late miuUter to Columbia, who was formerly secretary of the legation at Caracaa. Russell ts wanted as a witness and will probably not teaoh Washington for two weeks. WILL RENDER TWO REPORTS Scripps News Association Fresno, Cal., May 22 As a result or me stand taken by tbe Cumberland Presbyterian, the church paper for organio union, resolutions have hann tntrodnood asking for the removal of smss uiark as editor. Tbe resolutions went to the committee. A report of tbe special commutes' on organio union will come up late this afternoon. There will be two reports. The minority will ciaim tnat tne vote la the presbyteries was not constitutional. It la 'verv probable that the majority vote will oe adopted. , Loses His Suit Scripps News Association Ohicago May 22 Dr L C H Zeigler today loss ths .suit against ilia Mo Vickers estate for one hundred tbou sand dollars, claimed to .be due for professional services to Mrs Harriet O MoViokers, widow of the theatrical man who made a large, lorluna in Chioago. Mrs Me Vickers Jid in California and wss attended by Dr. Zeigler, who is sn osteopath. Jod Cutting ordered that Zufgler file a bill for a reasonable amount. Today's ' Grain Market By Scripps Nsws Association Chicago, Msy 2i The Quotations of grain on the Chloaeo stock exohaoira today were as follows: Wheat opened at W.B9 and closed at 1.01: corn opened at 10.53 and olosed at 0 66?: I oats opened at 0.30 and closed at Tackle That Tickles It does a fisherman good to look over our fine line of fishing tackle, this yrar it is larger and better than .ever. It contains a number of brand new things that you will want to add to your equip, ment as soon ad you see them ard it doesn't cost much to add them when you get them here. Our stock of reels, flies, lines and rods afford an oppor tunity for everyone to tit, up a good outfit at a very reasonable cost. . Wheather you think of buying or not we will be glad to have yon . see what is new in the' way of anglers' goods. NEWLIN NUMCER 174 ATLANTIC MAKINGH SPLENDID TIME By Scrlppi News Association : New Fork, May 22. Three etesmers report by wireless telegraphy that (bey sighted the American yaoht "Atlantic Saturday night, alx hundred miles miles due Fast of .Sandy Hook. She was needing East and was making seven aod one half knots ier honr. . To have reached that point, she most have averaged a little more than eight oois per noor since the - time she made the start. - GIFFIN S HOGAN UNDERTAKERS FUNERAL DIRECTORS The only Exclusive Undertaking Parlors In La Grande Scientific Embalming ; Licensed in Oregori and Montana. , . Experienced Lady Assistant Our office b always open ' . Phone mi Office in Lewis Building, ; I opposite Soiniuer House PROPER PLACE I To bring your uJy friend or your wife and fumily to secure the best refreshments ia . . ... . . SELDER'S CANDY STORE , . The best candy , . The beat Ice Cream , ' The best equpped candy . : ; r.: store - i : .-; . The best Soda Fountain ' in Eastern Oregon 3 DRUG CO. ordered all tbe transmitters dis.afeot ed. ,. . . .. ' . . rxssweV 2mi