GRANDE GROW AND WE Wl LL .L L GROW WITH l"T
VOLUME V
LA GRANDE. UNION COUNTY. OREGON. MONDAY. OCTOBER 15. 1906
' NUMBER 283
LA
SIM JOHES, AUTHOR
AND EVANGELIST DIES
SUDDEHLTTH1S MORNING
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In the Death of Sam Jones, America Loses One of its Greatest
Evangelists. Since Becoming a Mem&er of t&e MetMst
CHurch South, He lias Preached to Monstrous Crowds in
Every Large (ity of The United States. His Personal
ftagnitism Won Him f fiends Among the Rich and the Poor
re his Companions. As a Writer, He was no Less
Great. Wonderful Truths Have Been written by Sam Jones
In His Rough-shod Style.
(Scrlpps News Association)
Louisville. Ky. Oct. . 15 It i reported
thet Sam Jones, the world wide known
evangelist dropped dead on the train near
Little Rock. Arkansas.
Little Rock, Ark. Rev. Sam Jones, the
evangelist of Cartersville, Ga.. died of
heart failure on the east bound Rock
IsljK train this morning at Perry, Ark
nf The family was with him on the
train. His body was brought to the un
dertakers of this city.
The great divine was born in Cham
bers county, Ala. Oct. 16, 1847. He was
aamutea to me Dar in loot, ana married
one month afterward, but his private and
This morning, Contractor Mars com
menced excavation for the large brick
building which will be constructed on the
corner of Adams Avenue and 7th Street.
The basement, when completed, will fje
90x110 by seven feet in depth. The
plans and specifications for the building
proper have not been decided upon but
the general plan will provide for store
rooms on the ground floor and office rooms
FRENCH WRECK
(Scrlpps News Association)
Paris, Oct 15 Twelve bodies have
been removed from the passenger train
into which an engine crashed last night
while standing at the station at Epernon.
Fifty passengers were hurt, fifteen
probably fatally. The engine crew have
been arrested.
Ghe farmers
Tfationat
EMAVATi EOR MODERN
STORE AND OEEICE BUG
Capital $ 60.000.00
Surplus and Undivided Property 1 6.000.00
Liabilities of Shareholders. 60.000.00
Responsibility
Conducted under Supervision of
SAFE AND RELIABLE
Glad to continue old enstomers and pleased to meet new ones.
A General Banking and Exchange Business Conducted.
Loans made on approved Security.
Highest Market Price paid for Union County Warrants and City of
La Grande Warrants. Be sure to call on us when you have warrants
for Sale.
professional life was a failure on account
of his passion for drink. After his father's
death in 1 872 he made a profession of
religion, and in one week from that time
preached his first sermon, entering the
North Georgia annual conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church South, in the
same year. From the first his success
as revivalist was remarkable. He was
frequently called to ether places preach
ing during the first eight years of his
ministry about 400 sermons a year.
In 1881 he was appointed agent of the
Decatur orphan's home, and since that
time has given his services to revival
work in the large cities of the United
States.
up stairs. It is barely possible that the
structure will be higher than two stories,
Mr. Mars informs us that the building
will be of the most modern type through
out. As soon as Mr. Mars gets the lot ex
cavated he will have material for the
basement wall on hand and hurry the
foundation to completion. Julius Roesch
is the promoter.
ONTARIO BANK WRECKED
(Scrlpps Newe Association)
Toronto Ont, Oct. 1 5 General man
ager McGillhas wrecked the Ontario bank
according to the directors. H e admits
shortage of a million and a quarter.
Bankers of the city are inclined to in
crease this amount to half a million.
ana Tjraders
32ank
$135,000.00
United States Bank Examiners
f ARMS FOR POOR JEWS
(Scrlpps News Association)
New York. Oct 15 An exhibition of
Jewish life on farms and in the smaller
cities in the United States arranged by
the Baron de Hirsch, fund, the Jewish
agricultural and industrial aid society and
Jewish Educational Alliance was held in
the Alliance building yesterday and to
day. The exhibition was held on the roof
of the building and in the exhibition room,
where the products of the farms operat
ed by about fourteen hundred Jews in
sixteen states ware on view. Stereopiction
views showed the difference between the
dark and crowded rooms in the Tenement
district of New York and on the farms
with a view to induce the Jews to leave
the crowded section of the cities of those
pioneer Jews have done to the great im
provement of their lives and conditions of
living.
RICHEST
MARRIED
(Scrlpps News Association)
Essnu. Germany, Oct 15 The religious
ceremony or the marrying of Bertha
Krupp and Lieut Von Bohlen, occurred in
the chapel erected on the Krupp estate
for the purpose. The Emporer of Ger
many was present but despite his pres
ence simplicity was the keynote to the
whole affair. .The bride wore a lilac crepe
-de chene gown. Only two pages were
used in bearing her train. The Kaiser
waited with theattenkents in the uniform
of thefield marshal. At the conclusion of
the ceremony the Emperor kissed the
bride on both cheeks. A simple wedding
banquet followed. The Kaiser proposed
the bride's health and after an eloquent
speech dwelling upon the long friendship
between himself and her illustrious father
Following the banquet the bride walked
up and placed a wreath upon the head'of her
great grand father, who was village black
smith and , whose "imithy" yet stands
among the great Krupp works.
PRESIDENT CASTRO VERY III
(Scrlpps News Association)
Caracas, Oct. 15 President Castro is
said to be very ill, in fact so ill that he
can neither move nor speak. It is thot
that his chances for recovery are slight
and that in case of his death a revolution
is inevitable.
THE WHEREFORE
Why do you snub Jinks? An honest
heart may beat beneatb a ragged coat."
"I know, I know. But an honest heart
accompanied by a garlic breath cannot
beat unchalldnged upon my premises, my
friend."
MINERS ENTOMBED
(Scrlpps Newe Association)
London, Oct 15 Eighty miners are
entombed as a result of an explosion at
Wingate. Twelve bodies hve been, re
covered.
It is now known that there were two
hundred in the mine at the time of the ex
plosion, and it is feared that the death
list will reach fifty.
At two o'clock twenty-four bodies had
been removed from the Durham mines.
Thirty others were rescued alive.
MAXIM CORKY HAS
SAILED AWAY FOR NAPLES
New York. Oct. 15. Maxim Gorky, the
Russian novelist and Socialist, has sailed
for Naples. He will write his farewell
impressions of America, while on the At
'antic, uorky declined to express any
opinion on America.
TWO HUNDRED CARLOADS
Six thousand tons of school supplies
were distributed among the public schools
of Chicago last week. One has no con
ception or this vast amount until he goes
into a little detail and even then it is very
vague. Some idea of this enormous sup
ply in the way of books, erasers, crayons,
etc., can be had when you are told it
would fill 200 freight cars making train
one and one-half miles in length, or if
thrown together on a large pile it would
be as high as the Masonic Temple of
Chicago, over two hundred feet high.
SALT LAKE
RAILWAY
(HANGES
(Scrlpps News Association)
Salt Lake Oct. 15 Today a deal was
consumated which will place the tra ns
portation business of Utah as on a fiew
basis it removes the Mormon
church intirely from railway interests.
This is brought about by the aa Is of
Salt-air pavillion and the Salt Lake and
Los Angeles railroad to a New York
company, which styles itself the Electric
Construction Company of New York. The
sale included sixtsen miles of steam rail-
" I niMMlym w Mil KIWM LAM
properity erected by the Mormon church
but which was i ecently sold to the street
railway system' which is owned by the
Harriman interests. The new company
proposes to erect a great hotel at Salt-air
and make it the Cony island of the inter
mountain region. The price paid for the
property is not given to the public at this
time.
1 he Oregon Journal of yesterday contains
a picture of Luke Ferguson of. this city
and the engine which he manipulated with
a cool hand during the recent wreck near
Durkee. The article calls him the first
Oregon man to win a Carnegie hero medal
Among other things the Journal says:
Engineer Ferguson is a native of Nev
ada, 50 years old. and has worked on the
O. R. & N. system at the Dalles and La
Grande for about 20 years. He was
formerly engineer for the government in
construction of the jetty at Yaquina bay,
and is typical western man.
In all his career as a locomotive engi
neer he has been regarded as a careful
intelligent man, and his foresight and cool
judgemt on this occasion prove that ne is
a safe man for an emergency.
When the accident occurred he was
making an extra trip on the passenger
engine, as the regular engineer was en a
vacation. Engineer Ferguson is on a
freight engine, although he ie an extra
passenger engineer, and Is on passenger
service much of the time.
TRIAL AI
f
IS
"nrlpps News Association)
Findly, Ohio, Oct 1 5. The Standard
Oil case opened this morning. The state
continued to prove a connection with the
Standard and subsidary companies. John
O'Brien, superintendent of the Buckeye
Pipe Line company was called and he
asked to be excused from testifying, upon
the grounds that he might incriminate
himself. The court ordered O'Brien to
answer the questions.
NEW HOPE FOR DYSPEPTICS
Osteopathy does not scout either the
presence or importance of all such causes
in the development of dyspasia; but Os
teopathy has found a new and a more
constant cause than any single one of
these foregoing; end the Osteopathic
message to dyspeptice who in great
numbers are failing to get permanent re
lief from the old-time treatment of such
old time causes is that a judicious ap
plication of Osteopathic skill to the prob
lem will more than likely solve it and
work out a cure.
ENGINEER
FERGUSON
HONORED mi
DAY
RSi
NEW RA1I ROAD FOR THE WEST
Sen pin Newe Association) -Chicago,
111. Oct 16 At a meeting of
the Chicago Joilet and Kansas City Rail
way company here today it was decided
to increase the capital stock from $1,000
000 to $12,000,000 of which $2,000.
COO be preferred. Tne meeting author
ized $10,000,000 bonds. The increase
was sanctioned for the construction of a
new independent route between Chicago
and the Missouri river, and it was an
nounced that the company had arranged
for right-of-way and terminals at Chicago
and Kansas City.
ANOTHER DAMN FAMILY
The rnicUus to another Damn family
was created In this city yesterday when
Justice of the Peace Joe Parkss joined in
the holy bonds of matrimony J ohn Damn
and Miss Fanny Stem, both of this
county. Neither the fcther, mother, nor
sister of the groom, nor even the Damn
dog were present during the performance
of the ceremony. Pendleton Tribune.
HEARST WANTS RECOUNT
(Scrlpps Newe Association)
Bath N. Y. Oct. 15 Hearst today said
that if elected governor of the state of
New York ho will continue to seek a re
count of the New York City mayoralty
vote and that he hopes a legislature will
elected which will recount.
CIRCUIT COURT,
Judge Eakin returned this morning from
Salem where he spei.t Sunday. ThH
afternoon the arguments in the indict
ments against J. C. Smith and John Klein
were argued and the Judge at the con
clusion stated that he would decide upon
the indictment tomorrow morning at 9
o'clock,
THOUSANDS
(Scrlpps News Association)
Chicago, Oct. 1 5. The Interstate Com
merce Commission, investigating the al
leged rebating in favor of the grain deal
ers by the railroads contained testimony
today which offers to show that Cook
county is in the grasp of the trusts who
are operating a criminal conspiracy to
control the grain market It summoned
additional witnesses, including W, S.
Jackson, the former president of the
board of trade; Geo. Marcy, president of
the Armour Grain company. H. H. Carr,
a dealer, testified and tearfully denounced
the combination, and presented two books
which show the names of seven thousand
men who are practically ruined by the
secret boycotts and freight discriminations.
BANKRUPTS
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SEHATOR
BURTON IS
Washington, Oct 16 The Supreme
court of the United States ha ref used to
grant a new hearing in the case of United
States Senator Burton of Kansas, who
was convicted of receiving bribes.
Senator Burton was convicted for prac
ticing law before the post office depart
ment while united States senator and
must now serve a six month's term In the
jail of Iron county Missouri, and pay a
fine of five hundred dollars. The sen
tence was imposed by the 'ederal court of
ob tHii. i ne supreme court e denial of a
rehearing today removes all possibility of
Burton's legally escaping punishment.
Joseph Ralph Burton, Republican, of
Abilene. Kansas, was elected to the
United States Senate to succeed Lucien
Baker, Republican, and took his seat
March 4, 1901. His term of service will
expire March 8. 1907.
Burton hear j the desision of tne su
preme court at home and said, "It is not
my time to t." " He notified the attor
ney that he wished to be sentenced aa
soon as possible.
HIS TROUBLES MULTIPLY
An editor of a Western, exchange re
cently began worrying how he would get
his shirt on over his wings after retching
paradise. An envious contemporary
sarcastically observed that his difficulty
would likely be in finding how he could
get his hat on ovar his horns. Guy mon
(Oklahoma) Herald.
KICKS TRAMP UNDER WHEELS OF TRAIN
Salem. Oct 14 A man who gave his
name as John Detka was fatally injured
yesterday while the overland was passing
at the intersection of Twelfth and Court
streets. Hs died five minutes after hav
ing been taken to the hospital. As he
was bsing taken there he asserted that
he was riding on one of the Pullmans
and that he wan kicked off by the porter.
Detka wae accompanied by George
West a knight of the road, who also was
stealing ride on the same coach. He
missed his partner when reaching the
depot and he together with night officer
Buslck went to see where the man was,
and he was found lying across the track
in front of the rapidly advancing sesond
ssction.
An ambulance was sent for and the
man wae taken to the hospital.
He was of dark complexion, weighing
about ,1 60 pounds and was five feet six
inches tall and about 20 years of age.
"Titewadd would like to take hie money
with him when he dies."
"Oh, no. He's too good a business man
for that"
''If he could take anything with him - he
would put his money In ice." Courier
Journal. 6uaranteed to give sat-
e
e
DRUG CO.
SEWED