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TODAY'S .. NEWS - TODAY V.N . ... Fair tonight . M tuvuvl Tomorrow warmer. i& I UJ t It i Li 11 1 LFti f: lU) n ifrh rl f i r, rv; .-' 1 VOLUME V LA GRANDE. UNION COUNTY. OREOON, TUESDAY. APRIL 10, 1906. NUMBER 131 GRAND JURY RETURHS II1EIII PREPARE (Scrlpps New Association) Portland. Or., April 10 Th federal grand jury at midnight returned indict--ments involving over a dozen defendant charged with conspiracy in . acquiring timber lands' in Southern Oregon, by fraudulent means. The accused are . . ...i , and Eastern state. Their identity, how aver, is kept a secret until the arrests are to be mad. MAWfCOOD TEMPLARS (Scrlpps News Association) - . .. ,., , Waterville, Me., April 10. Th forty ighth annual session of the ' grand lodge of Good Templars of Main opened her this morning at Modern Woodmen' hall. The meeting will last two days. The at tendance is unusually large. " iierrera IRAIK (Scrlpp New Association) San Francisco, Cat. April 10 Battling Nelson left for Catalina this morning where he will , remain several day. When he return he will go into training for tl coming battle with Herrera May 11th. AbeAtelland Kid Herman both arrived and will begin training immediatly UVCRAKIE REPORT. (Scrlpps News Association) Washington April , 10 The House Comn.ittee of the Interstate Commerce Committee today authorized a favorable report on the bill allowing the Central Canal and Irrigation Company to take water from the Sacremento river for Ir rigation purposes. ' ( on nnnnnai rKuruoHL (Scrlpps New Association) . New York April 10 Th tanthracit operator met this morning to prepare a counter proposal to present to the miner this afternoon. ' Th conference adjourned after a brief session and will meet again Thursday. Aim KLONDIKE DISCOVERED (3crlpps News Association) ; BilUngham April ,10 A remarkable discovery of gold on Orca Island near Billingham ha been , mad. Th or is of th mountain variety and lie in a low grade, almost in plain sight It is esti mated that th hundred million ton t of or will be valued at a quarter billion dollars. Th deposit i a nval of th Treadwell deposit in Alaska. fears mmm BY PEOPLE H AS ROBBED TH Shoot Dowie When He Sets Foot Here " says Enraged Zionist. (Scrlpps New Association) Chicago, 'April 10 Apostle Dowie. weary and worn from hi long journey. arrived this morning. He is thin and to enter upon his serious battle. A great throng of people greeted him with cheers. catcalls and demands to show himself. As th train draw into th station Dowie announced that he would not go to Zion today but tak th matter directly to th court for adjustment He said. "1 am a peaceful law abiding citizen, and have been wrongfully deposed from my prop erty, I do not car to engage in a fight ir. the streets of Zion. I say that my prop erty In Zion belongs legally to me and not to th church." Dowis is staying at a hotel pending developments. A deputy tried to serve a writ on Dowie, in a suit brought by Dr. Wm, G. Stearns, an expert of insanity, who alleges that Dowie refused to pay him hit bill of $200. Th deputy was ordered arrested by Dowie's followers. The police detain ed th deputy and after examining his credentials he was released, but it was then too late to serve his writ H. L. Burdette, formerly the acting commissioner of health of Zion Zion city, and deposed by Voliva. addressed a sting ing indictment to Voliva accusing him of being a traitor against God, Christ and the christian people, and against th grandest leader that wa ever raised up to lead a religious organization. Ha calK ed Voliva a "Trickster, corrupt in politics and a falsa prophet" Dowie . retired after a bath, in order that he might re cuperate from th long journey he had just completed. Voliva is at Zion city and says that Dowie remained in Chicago because he didn't car to be snubbed in day light "He prefers to await darkness when he will be able to say that his hos tess weieomed him," it a quotation from Voliva... "I H ahoot Dowi when ' ht set foot here" shouted a fallen Zionist at noon to day. "My wife and children hav been starving for three months and h ha four hundred dollars of my money. When 1 tried to get it he gave m two dollars." Such people a these it is that make Dowie fear assassination. They hav suffered at his hand and he know they are all worked to a high pitch of hatred POSILAfiD GETS WkOHG MAH - (Scrlpps News Association)- San Francisco, April 10. Photographs of the man arrested by the Portland police on Saturday on suspicion that h was the man wanted in theTortorici case, were received today by Captain of De tective Burnett It was seen at a glance that it it not the man desired for the murder of Vilardo and a telegraphic order for his release was sent to Portland. SOUTHERN LEAGUE CPEJIS (Scrlpp New Association) Atlanta, Oa., April 1 0 Th season of th Southern League of Baseball Clubs opens tomorrow with games in this citv and Birmingham The local team will play her today against th Montgomery team, while th Birmingham and Nash ville team will play at Birmingham, Ala. DEATH RATE IS GROTK EAITHflll GRAND MILLINERY: OPENING and SPECIAL EASTER SALE THURSDAY, FRIDAY AMD SATURDAY On these three days, which also throws open to the public our new annex, the most commodious Ladies Ready-to-Wear Garments andJMillinery Department In Eastern Oregon, we will show a full line of THE LATEST EASTER NOVELTIES in LADIES READY-TO-WEAR-HATS bought for our Easter Opening and comprising all the later creations in TRIMMED SAILORS and Pattern Hats, also a full line of Street hats in prices and sty les to ?uit every purse and taste. Come everybody and bring your friends. .,;4 Music and Cut Flowers on Saturday 50 LADIES' DRESS SKIRTS No two skirts alike, bought for this open- ing sale and worth from $12.50 to $22.00 I $8.00 to $12.50 Ladies here is a skirt bargain which will interest you. They come from one of the best manufacturers and as stated no two skirts alike, 250 Men's Cold and Silver $1.25 and $1.50 Shirts, special $1.00 for three days only. . We fully believe this is the largest ship ment of shirts ever received in La Grande and unquestionably the largest assort ment of colors and patterns, 250 shirts, 250 different patterns. Rembmber choice for Thursday, rriday and Sat- ""ay $1.00 SPECIAL EASTER NECKWEAR 25c. 35c, 50c and 75c. - Farmers Phone No. 27 City Phone Black 1301 mm .-talpprNew Asroefatlon) " " Rockvill Centre, 11. April 10 Som month ago Mis Ester Marvin took a course of training as A nurse and when she had passed her. -examinations, she was asked to look after Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Rhodes, of Hempstead, whom eh had known from childhood. Both war ovr eventy-flv years old and very sick and feeble. She nursed them night and day, and seldom left their house. She expected only a small rein- bursement, but was dumbfounded when by the term of their will, which wa re cently filed for debate, she received bonds and property worth nearly $70,000. Since then all sorts of proposition of means for investing her fortune have been mad to her, ' from "staking'' a mining scheme , promoting a company for the manufacture of bal loon.. She has aiso. received score of letter containing proposal of marriage. OR REVOLVER PRACTICE Last night about eight fifty. Fred Ryner, day bartender at th Sommer House Cafe, want wrong and started in to clean out th place. His method of procedure was to shoot th figures out of th wallpaper in the cafe. This slight diversion on th part of Ryner was objected to by Land lord Murphy, but while Mr. Murphy was expressing hi view regarding indoor pistol practice, Ryner did a little war dance and placed th pistol In clos proximity to Mr. Murphy' waist tin. Finding that did not hav any particular affect upon hi advisor, he proceeded to bat him over th head a coupl of times with th still loaded pistol. Som say that both Rynsr and th pistol wsr loaded. Ryner was arrested and placed in th city jail. This afternoon h wa arraigned befor Justice of Peace Hough where he waived xm idation. He was placed under bonds to th amount of $300. BOTH lit JAIL (8crlppa New Association) Lot Angeles, April 1 0 Rev.'Jame R. Wyli, a former Methodist minister, and Mrs. Fannie M. Green, war held for bigamy in th justic court Both ar in jail unabl to giv bail Wyli threaten th lif of his wif who twor to th com plaint Thsy wer arrested whilt) on their way to Mexico. MOTHER ' HER SOU (Scrlpp New Association) Los Angeles, Cal.. Aoril 10. After re peated attempts to kill her son, Mrs. Kate Kaymond finally succeeded in disposing of him today. Immediately after th killing she locked herself in a room and attempted suicide by turning on the cat. Th fm lylivesatU Hollywood, a fashionable suburband hav a handsome home. Sev eral yaar ago sh tried to chloroform her son, but failed, and it was not until this morning that, sh succeeded.. - ' GRAIN MARKETS . (Sorlppe New Association)' .; . j Chicago, April 10 Wheat opened at 78. closed at 7B; com opened at closed at 46: oats oDensd . at R 1 UT closed oljj'.. , . (Scripps News Association) Naples, April 1 0 All efforts to leant the number of fatalities in the various villages tiat suffered by the recent erup tion of Mt. Vesuvius has failed. The death list is rapidly growing. rony nin sorrow -war rouna villiag of San QiuseoD. Five wer taken from the ruins of the church which collapsed under the weight of th ashes. Two hundred bodies and sixty injured' wer found in th streets of Otanjus Great numbers ar missing. Four more bodies have bean tsken frnm th ruins. Many children ar among th dead. Th surrounding villages end cities ar being deserted as the ashes cover them. : The violence of the ruDtion di this morning. The showers of ashes hav ; lessened, although lava is still flowing slowly. A further search In the coiapsed church at San Guisappe has revealed a total of barely 200 uoJIes. Seventy were taken to the hospital in the town of Nola. COlffTY OfflCER snow t (Scrlpps New Association) Roseburg, April 10Experts hav. been employed to go over the 'county , offices, especially th books of County ' Treasurer G. W. Dimmick who has a. shortage of $4,400. This amount is mostly covered by floating checks, and it is expected th shortage will be made up immediatly. The loss is probably due to carelessness in bookkeeping. There ar several tax receipts in th sheriff office that hav bean lowrd in value, but thatwpBtfvaay that it is not the work of . th county treasurer. j WHAT'S j BETTER THAN ! books' Nothing Is more conductive to edu- 5 cation and to the developemont of the better elements of human nat- I ure than the reading of C00D BOOKS. Encourage the young folks to form a reading habit by I supplying them with WHOLESOME LITERATURE. We have the cream of the book world. Any book you wish we I have or will get for you. In some Z instances we can afford you a sub- S stantial saving on the cost. In all instances the price I ,will be as low as can be had. Here are some of the I late ones. Yolanda, byMajor; Nedra, by McCutcheon; ! The Garden of Allah, by Hickens; Reptiles; Outside the 5 Law; The Man of The Hour; House of 1 000 Gandles. I A full line of the celebrated Butterick patterns just arrived and ready for your inspection. Ladies don't forget THE DELINEATOR I .' Mi j ;jji; lu ll L j NEWLIN DRUG COMPANY La Grande, Oregon. iiiiitim.......