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mm mm today tomorrow -r VOLUME IV LA GRANDE, UNION COUNTY, OREGON. MONDAY. AUGUST 7. 1905 NUftSER 233 LA e'TV T H""!-- f 7 T 'f r . i ssr ' I ij Li U V iwawi: j Li v v ' I if 14 ' r; , if ii 3 V Ml I aany:;pall;;victiivi DRPADED YELLOW STRICKEN NEW EIGHT Panic Strikes Telephone Operators and j.,:r-i,rXlir0PgliOUf the State is Demoralized 'By Soripps Newt Association Fort Worth, Aug. 7.---A suapicioua case of fever ii located north of tbie pine today, the victim being one of Armour's representatives ' . from Monroe, Louisiana, The man hag been carefully screened ' aud guarded. A rigid shot gun quarantine la in foroe. The Jefferson health officer Labor this morning emphatically stated that . tli ere la not a case ot yellow fever in Texas, ' , ; MOKE CASES REPORTED New Orleans, August 7. Ta new casea are ' reported this afttrnoon. Laurent e Cary, a promiuet politician, was stricken.- Many country towns mall not received and the mail la sent back to the place of' mailing. The Government retoees to fumigate on the gronnd of mosquito. The oost of fighting the fever to the fever districts amounts to a daily average of three thousand dollars. " ' OPERATORS PAN 10 STRICKEN New Orleans 1 p m Up to one o' a. clook, six new case and aiz deaths have beta reported. All through telephone service ha been discontinu ed on acoouut of the flight of the panio ' stricken operators throughout the state. ": ';.:- EIGHT DEATHS New Orleans 3 p m At three o'clock the offioial bulletin reports eight new oases and eight deaths. ' ASSUMES CONTROL New Orleans August 7 Dr J M White, of the U 8 hospital service a- ft "it 4- , All Good Dressers Will be Intereeted in looking at the Fall and Winter suitings and overcoatings shown by The.RoyalTailort, of Chicago audNew York., We have the complete ansortment-near!y five hundred different styles something to fit all taates and all purses. The suit or over coat you buy will lie made to your measure. It will fit you. It will be stylish and it will cob you lefis than any olher correctly-fitting, right-in-3tyle dress proposition that we know anything about. We are pilling to -take, your order and assume all the risk of satisfy ing you on these points, - . . - 'sr.- .J "... -.'1 .Jiu.ul III VICTIMS eumed absolute control of ' the sii.ua tion here today, powers. Among this morning ia Arcbbiahnp Cbappelle wbo ii said to. be in a very dangerous condition. The fir it negro victim was reported this morning at ten o'clock. . PRESIDENT ADVISED , Oyster Bay, Aag. 7, 3 p m Secre tary bhaw left at 12:31. The yellow fever was the principal topic of con versation with the President. Al ready eight or nine hospital Burgeons have been sent to New Orleans and mora will be sent to aid in the work as the method of destroying the mos quitos. Great quantities of turpentine will be seoared and burning smudges will ba thrown around the hospitals. 1 Liner Quarantined By Soripps News association v Quarantine, N Y., Aug. 7. The Morgan liner Leoiroiss arrives this morning from New Orleana with ' all aboard well, but the vessel will bo de tained five dys. : ; I if !a ' n A' -if .: VI--.', .,Tiv ' .m-'-r. President Discusses Fever Peril TO THE FEVER; IN ORLEANS the : Phone System ALEXANDER ; BELL DEAD . ' Sctipps News Astocration Vahlngton, August 7. Alexander Graham - Bell, the great telephone promoter and inventor, died at the family home iu thia : city Saturday morning. - Ij , , .:: 'J ' .f , Not Receiving - By Soiipps New Association ' Oyster Bay, Aag 7 President Roosevelt received do visitors ' today. W 8 Key, an Iowa attorney attempted to visit the President wlthodt previ ous notice and was tnrned baok by the detectives Mr Ken worthy was a cam paigned daring the presidential elec tion and almply wanted to pay a social eaiil , .. t''j- Sleeps an d Eats Well , By Soripps News Association Boeeon Aug 7 Tlrwd oat by the long trip Minister Witte, slept late at the hotel R Taurine this morning and took his breakfast in bis apartments. Sight seeing In a touring oar will taks.np moat ot tba day. The party will not probably leave the hotel for Ports month until 3 o'ulook this afternoon. arriving about five. ' Witts received a number of letters and cablegrams this morning. Few callers wars permitted to see bim. Returning Courtesies J . 8orlpps Newt Association) i Portsmouth, Ang, 7. The . French fleet consisting of seventeen warships and cruisers bsva arrived in English watera, returning the rev-eut visit of the English fleet to rrsn.e The King and Queen are at Cowes, participating in the oeremoniea. - ! '.' ,r. Dallas Fire ( By Scripps News Aasooiation) Dallas, Tax., Aug. 7. Hre at one o'clock in the Hopkln's boarding bouss resulted in tba death of Mrs. Taylor. aged sixty,' and her , granddaughter, aged 12. Mrs. Hopkins, the propriet or, was badly burned. Secretary . By Soripps News ' Aasooiation "Oyster Bay Ang 7 Secretary Shaw arrived unexpectedly this forenoon and weal to Sagamore Hill In a hired rig to talk over one or two departmental matters with' tba President. It is understood th Secretary wishes to view tbs yellow fever situation at N Orleans. Y Surgeon G'breel Wymaa wired tba Presideat this morning of the action taken by tba citizens com mittee at New Orleans, furnishing the funds ordered, aad a large additional fores of eommiaaloned otfioert with experience in similar epidemics. TO DAY Visits President eVi Peace Commission ; Soripps News Associttlon " New Port Aug 7 The Mayflower and DolpUo left thia morning with tba Raasian and Japanesa peace com mtsalonera for PorUmouth. The fog daring the night was swept away by a strong breeaa and the day promises lo be ideal for a nea voveoa. Th ships are proceeding lehrariy and ait act to arrive tonight. ; Portsmoath, ' ' Aug. 7. Gieat disappointment is ai pressed over the failure of the peaoe anvoya to . arrive today. Preparations tor their reception Lavs all been completed, bat according to word received bera this morning, the Mayflower and Dolphin will not arrive until tomorrow morning , and Convoy Wltte Is not expected notil late In the afternoon or early this sveolng from Boston and will not be offloially received until morning, na - a-k -. . i . . praeedebuo as it Is a ranking country with an ambassador. , Japan Is being represented ia this .country by a minister. . , ,'4;,.1 - h IN READINESS T : Portsmouth,' Aug 7.--TMs olty this afternoon is arrayed In gay. banting in raadinesa for the proceedtngeHof to morrow, which will be purely formal ia an official ' sense." ?1 ; v ' ; ' iMias Myrtle Ward left Sunday morn ing for a few weeks visit ta Portland. Mies Maud Richards of Union Is in the olty today, the guest of Miss Delia Chllders. vine compositors 01 tola oflioe are nuder obligations to Mr. Peyser, press sgent for the Nat Relet Carnival Com pany, for a sice supply of , toe ortain this afternoon, . , . By Soripps News Aasooiation Baltimore Aug 7 A cablegram from Dr Kasslg of tba Zelgler relief eipedl- dltlon dated Shannon Island, off tba ooaetof Greenland, says a number of the members of tbs relief party are coming bona, ' . v : Strike Spreading (Scripps News Aseooiaticn) Moscow, Aug. 7. The strike move ment It spreading In all sections and many idle men are reported. . !; A Week of Mirth Next Monday will bo the day that begins tba week ot Fun, Frollo and Festivity. Therefore banlab dull care and be bappy. The Nat Relss South era Carnival Co., with ita big aggre gallon of shows pill present more attractions than any show traveling, Besides Its twelve Big Paid shows there will be presented twloa daily tba following frea attractions; Madam Lilyen, the human oomet, who dlvet from a pole 66 feet in beigtL complete ly enveloped In flames, into a tank containing bat 4 feet of water. . This is the most expensive free attraction in tba whole ( civilized world. The madame receive? 1500 per week. : Tan. Arakee'a Slide for Lite, an act without ita equal. Sohoena, tba Unmao fly, an act ot great endorance In which tha per former walks bead down from a plat form 6 ft high. . Besides performing soma wondsrf ol Physical Culture Acta. Every show In this aggregation Is clean, wbolssoma and amusing No thing being said or dona to offend the moat faatldloas. '. ' i The crowning feature of tha wbo'e show, is tba Daredevil. Diavol who Loops the Loop la the Stadia rande Wins I Yesterdays ball gamel resulted In ariotber victory for mt tha homft taam. The Elgiu boye did not seem to be in at the start, and as the gams progress ed tbeydid not seem . to ' develops sufficient speed to keep up. About all tbers was to , tha . game as far as either teim was concerned wasOsbura's pitching lis played the game, and that about tails the story. Score U to S ia favor ot La Grands. I Return Hdme STRIKER GAIN .- r STRENG (By Soripps News Areociatlon) Helena Aug 7 The telegraphers of the great Northern railroad made a distinct gain Ilast night, wbea the conductors ot the Rocky Mountain division In their meeting determined hereafter to refuse to take train orders over the telephone or move trains by "flag orders" Also owing to the faot that another fieight wreck has occur red on the Great Northern : and that mrm uuita anoeAeafut lr Induolng the atrluk breakers in leav ing their positions, gives them hope of winning. There are practically no other developoaenta. ' Woth wrecks were due to defeotive tlangea but erved to delay tratfio a nnreber of hours. Paoiflo trains sre all from four lo five hours late. St Panl Aag 7 The atatement by General manager Horn of the Northern Paoiflo today says that rapid progress toward a normal oonditlon la blng made and that on every division eighty per cent of the age its positions are being filled and that seventy per sent of the operators positions are filled and that the engineers '' chairman denies the published statement that the engineers bad offered their services At the telegraphers headquarters al thia Is discounted as an assertion ot little basis. f Kin Responsible I By Scripps Newa Association Cowes. Eng., Aug.. 7. Tba week's yaohtlng races opened with ' dull weather. The presence of the King it rer ponsible for the ' presence ol the large faablouable crowds. BATH REQUISITES Everything for the bath of the quality you ought to have at the price you ought to pay. Ve Bell quautities ol bath supplies, because we keep what people want, and make the prices right. . " Sponges Bath Brushes If the opportunity to choose from an ample aeaorment, or if the saving of money is an object to you, we expect to TuruUb you bathiug supplies, f 1(newun DRUG CO. : ICE CREAM SODA ? It will pay you to walk a " block to get the best Ice Cream Soda It better THAT 'the best pure cream and is the Prescription Druggist "ELIEvk 1 is rv 1 A AVI v(?,a. Lxrockpiard BOTrlv: : TOOK ; (Soripps Newa Association) Wooster Aug 7 The reading, of th disposition of Major Morton waa con; tinned. The testimony waa Taggart abowed no sign of intoxication the week be waa In the hospital at Ft Leavanawortb at the time ha alleged bis wife by conspiracy had '.him con tin ad there on a falte charge of alcholisni. The cigarette .qaeation cam ZwMt aiated be was not acouatoiaea to ladies in army olrclea smoking them after dinner ; . and did not remember ever teeing Mrt Taggart tmoka. " . . In the army said the witness "Many officers drink socially as do men ' in civil Ufa bot the bablt Is becoming that Intoxication ia looked down upon and discountenanced. Taggart'a treat meat of his w ife should be a model for every man in the world" The ; prinulpal reason given In tba pot with reference of the ; goaslp of oaptain Taggart's confinement was that tba post commander wauted to keep . him where he would not talk, since leaving West Point Taggart had been in the habit of taking "ordinary prescription' which was whisky straight Be wan most usually locked up in the com mis slonera oBlee In the hoapilal I knew -ot but one other rase when a patient had the tremens. WooBter Ang 7 'I would never consent to have my boys enter tba military service" said Mrs Tetrgart to day. "There Is too much drinking In the army. I have bad no plana for tba boys regarding their professions wbea grown. It is ut a question of drink In moderation, bnt to the army, the temptiou to drink to excess Is too grea' Toilet Waters Superb Soaps, costs no more. We are jared than ever to stop your thirst and TIRED FEELING. : ;i crushed fruits and pure ,'rups. Our ice cream is made from best. Let us show you. HI LA GRANDE, OR i H tic V ,.-..iS'-