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TODAY'S NEWS TODAY - , ' 7a !-. Occasional lixht snow tor, i he 1 ' - ; n.ilt,l Tomorrow fair. - ' ' ' " VOLUME V LA GRANDE. UNION COUNTV. OREGON. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23. 1905. NUMBER 45 W dive President Roosevelt f u!I Power to Construct I tte Panama (anal. "1 1YJWFAIY UrtI lUiV v i r ft JScripp Newe JUaoclatlon) ' I Washington Dec 23. Congrets . it . criticizing the Canal Commission, as . cumbersome and extravagan and jjt lost iikeiy w wupt Sgliuun" in ' ffiaaureaccording to the president' ra- Commendation, which will abolish the commission and give him (th president) power to build the canal ' & - . : .' RESULTS Of CAIVESTOS MISfCRTlINf - - 4 New York, Dec. 25 Henry Kuiper, of palvsston. Texas, who claims that he WM Worth CKA nnr) kfnr tha ftWtfV,M . flood, which he says wiped out his for tune, was deported today on the steamer Colorado, Kuiper says that he became a ' naturalized American citizen In 1885, and that he had a hardware business In Gal veston. After losing his money; he 're turned to his home in Antwerp, Belgium. 5ut failing to prosper there, and wishing .. to return to the United States, he hid on Z the steamer St. Andrews, whitfv arrived 4 hers last week. Ha was caught, and, f The Grant County News Jacking proper identification . paper, was deported ae a stowaway. MAT HOT LOSE , j , W JJ(Scrippe News Association) ., Chicago,' Dec 23. It is reported In financial circles that the stockholders in Jthe Walsh bank-will be fully reimbursed. iU is said that Walsh has given assurance that If he la personally ; allowed to direct the properties now being held as tecuri ' ties that he would be able to protect ml against loss. v- pi VI it ,.',. , ; KSXf CHRISTMAS i Before our readers receive another is sue of the Observer, Christmas for 1905 will have been a thing of the oast. " We can all congratulate ourselves on the fact that at no period in our previous history has the financial condition. bean better and brighter ahd than now. In no county in the state will there be a greater proportion" of happy homes as far as the material wants of this'life are concerned, than in Union county. ' We wish you all a merry Christmas. -. . . ' : iWU SUSTAINED j (Scrlpps News Association) Portland, Ore. " Dec? 43. The circuit court judges today jnamincvs!y sustained the will of the late Amanda.- ,Red who bequeathed one and a half fnlltlon 'dollars to found an institution in ttjis ,city. The will was' contested by Callfei?flaneir. T tv.' ; , . ,. ,V . nil I ft mm PRESIDENT (Scrlpps News Association) ' '.' Washington, Dec,J23. ;PresidentPooier, velt hat planned to spend Christmas quietly with the family. ) Presenta will.bt, distributed in the morning and will eittier take a drive or a ride in the afternoon. In the evening the family' will dine and Congressman Longworth, who il engaged to Mist Alice, will be the guest , of honor. ' "' YflAI AND nRKTfK v reports men working on a . coal mine in that county that so far as developed gives encourage ment of being good body of coal. The tame number states that a body of first class "asbestos hat' been found in that county. ' ,'-, 11 . i ,0; , HEAVY SNOW HI MfW MEXICO . El Paso, Tex, Dec. 25- there are three feat of snow between Carrizzo and Santa Rosa, N. M.k on the prairies, and Rock, .island train train ' frpm the' . East ' are snowbound. The plowt are at Work." THE SANTA CLAUS SPIRIT BY J. D. G1LLILAN . , . . Not so many years ago the simple folk of the Teuton ic and the -Norseland were taught that Santa Glaus, Kris Kringle, St ; Nicholas, : or the same sprite under - some other name, was the tutelary saint who ruled the day and the season when the Christian world ' celebra- ' ted holy mass in honor of the Christ child. This demi god assumed the form of a; man, old and bearded, and " with a jolly look, well filled 'sleigh and eight tiny rein-. ; dekr, flew from ' house-topi to house-top throughout , Ghristendom, visiting only the good boys and girls, put ting more pr less into the gaping 'stockings suspended -by the old fashioned fireplape. v." ; " . It was a -pretty legend, and so nearly true that no one . reports serious injury having been done to his faith by 'believing it "wholly. ' Unconsciously it was a prophecy and its annual fullfilment perpetuated from age to age, race to race, clime to clime,'' creed to creed; or no creed; ' nevolent intentions, kindly ; ministrations '. growing," spreading, deepening the spiritual idea, materalizing in to kind deeds. ' The world has been learning,- "li is more blessed to give than to receive." : . i ' The Same'Santa: Claus of "the German " forest, 'and 1 village'of the" Norwegian Jjord dnd hamlet is the heart. .riow heating in the breasts of parents benefactor Christian, Jew" or infidel-each vying with the, other in T unselfish act3' toward any weaker member of the race. .JacoblRUs,; theNewYork philanthropist says Santa Claus is the spirit that inspires him to dd good. -1 Long live that spirit! When each' possess it, each will hive a Merry Ghristmas every day. ,. , TRIED THE WRGIiG MAS (Scrippe News Association) . Ewing. Qa. Dec 23 Negroea last night tried to mob the manager of the turpentine still at this place. The man ager barricaded himself and killed five negroes and wounded two negresses. POlKr APPROVED (Scrlpps Newt Association) Washington Dec. 23 The President hae written to the Secretary Wilson his approval of the regulations and charging feet for grazing on the forest resarve. TWO SURVEYS AT ENTERPRISE , Enterprise, Or, Dec 23. Two turveyt have been made through Enterprise the last few days, one on the south tide of the Wallowa river; the other one on the north tide of the river. The survey ex tends to Joseph. x : TO BE miFn IIVILV 'T a m m mm t m AMI WAI V RECOVER APPOINTED (Scrlpps Newa Association) , v , . Akron. Ohio, Dec. 23. The Akron Oat Company with John R. Walsh as principle stock holder 'went into the hand of a re ceiver thjtf morning. . Tha plant will con tinue in operation. ''. ' NO HEWS There is absolutely pothing new in rail road circle this week The 0.,R. .4i N. has the floor Union Republican. ' ,'. f .. i-'ii t " i rt 1 1 i ull Friday and Saturday "i RIOTING IN MOSCOW St. Petersburg Dec. 23. A Moscow message say that " all of tha artillery batteries' mutinied ' today. Barricades have baen erected ,on Tverskala etreet which the Revolutionists are , holding while they are making repeated attacks on the police, the Cossacks and Dragoons. The troops are using machine guns. .. .-, - 5t. Petersburg, Dec. 23. In a number of, factories, which are working here, the employes refuse to leave. The govern' ment has the situation well in hand, in Moscow conditions are practically the same at they were. Strong guarda are petroling tha street . and . the machine guns remain loaded and in commanding positions. .-Troops surrounded the school house this morning where a ' number of workingmen were barricaded. Tha work men returned the artillery fire but were forced to aurrender. Smal) conflict! in the streets are numerous. 'half army mutined T Berlin, Dec. 23. The papers are out with as extra edition, which . says that General Linevitch hat telegraphed to St. Petersburg that half of his ,army which 'a over one quarter ,of a million of 'men. Hat mutmieq and that he le powerless to prevent excessee. , """" '"Oil TO ETERSBORO" ' St. Petersburg. Dee. 23. It is reported that thousands of Lithuanians have in vaded the province' of Vitebsk and are engaged . in sacking and burning the Russian-Polish estates.;. ' ' ' The revolutionists expressed determin ation to seize St. Petersburg and the Warsaw railway and annex the Reliteso and Lutsin districts to the Lithuanian re public. '..'. 10DOE Of EAGLES AT NAMPA V; Naftipa, PeS;' 2 1 A local aerie of Eagles was 'organized here, last evening with about 60 'charter 'members. ,The team work was, don by members pf the order irom r-ocaieiio. a large delegation was present from Boise, Mountainhome Wfciser."-"' ' ' -,' and tor fRun exhibit,: ,,' . 'C M. and G.b. Stackland of Cove last week received a diploma from the jury of award for gold medal for fruits exhib ited at the St. Louis exposition. Yester day they rewired two diplomat from the Lewis and Clark fair, one for a gold medal for cherries, and one for honorable mention for fruits. 'These diploma w I be handsomely framed and will be brou.h over with an exhibit of fruit by Messrs Stackland and exhibited at the North western Fruitgrower Association which (Scrlpps News Association) jWathington, Dec 23. It it announced f rim the office of the Interior Department that the reputed disappearance of S. A. D. Puter and Horace MeKinley, the notoriout land fraudert, will not cause any oost- pdnment in tha case of Congressman Binger Hermann. , At it wat expecUd the government, would use hest men as their principal witnessed many thought the case would have to be postponed in case they were not found. IK Fuirs mm MAT 101 (Scrlpps News Association) ; , Bakersfleld, Calif., Dec. 23. It is now thought that Charles Ehle, who ia at the hospital suffering from wounds which are thought to be self inflicted, it not W. A; Davidson, the missing Kentucky official as' wat tupposed. but It' probably a faker. He tells a sensational story to the effect that while in a toilet In the Capital hotal at Frankfort, Kentucky, he overheard conversation which he says contained ' statements which would clear Caleb Powers 6f the charge of murdering Gov ernor Goeble. & (la. l Eiiaias: i . nil.... a Ti ITt- 2 j rl n .JTV wuyvi r. inurwn rust or la vranue elected the . following officers for ' the voir iQrtA ' Vl. .ft.rnnA t W 'rtll,,. Commander;; J., fcWa!kersSen. Vice; Wm Thompson Jr. Vice; G. W. Alleni Quartermaster: Wm Burnett, Chaplin;' L W. Faulk. Officer of th D,y; J. W. Davis, 'officer of the ' Guard f Edward Carpenter, Surgeon . Col. Gsd. B. Currey : and Frank Kilpatrick were elected as delegates to the state encampment next . summer. TOMT ' i ,;" There will be Christmas trees and exorcises at the Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist and Christian churches tonight under the auspices of the respective Sun-' day schools. The friends of the churches are cordially invited to attendt f ' - -. ' - . : Vfj f),1 fi ;,i jv. r'wnicxAA AC -iMCrAA Vl iWIJi I .HM3WIJLJU sr ' - sr Lies: in buying early and in buying . I:uy:'3oon 'and secure ad vantage or : uncomnion arsortment. Eearjy biiyersget choicest pfcKing. Buy before some one 'else gets just the article 'Vou fl would have most preferred. Our Holiday Goods are here and there's goods among them that will please you. 'I You will ' get them1 at right prices, too. It's right prices that's going ; to make them. go quxkly. - , tbll ET "CASES, FANCY HAIR; CLOTH and TOOTH BRUSHES, B00K STATIONARY ITEMS, POCKET' BOOks, PURSES, JB1LL BOO S, SLAVING SETS, CIGARS, CLNFECT'ONERY, BIBLES, AL BUMS, CHRISTMAS CARDS, etc : Newlin Drug Co. : La Grande, - Oregon.! convene in this city January 3d.