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VOLUME V LA GRANDE, UNION COUNTY. OREGON. MONDAY, OCTOBER 29 1906 J
: ' NUMBER 293
DRAWING GRAND JURY
lii Si FRARGSCO
JUDGE GRAHAM RECOGNIZES LANDON AS DISTRICT
ATTORNEY AND GIVES RIGHT TO INTEROGATE
BURNS
(Scrlpps News Association)
San Francisco Oct. 29 With forty-five
policemen in and around the temporary
court building, the work of impanelling
the grand jury, that is to take up the
charge of municipal graft,' begun this
morning. In anticipation of the exciting
scene Friday crowd began to gather
gnarly and the police took their pssts with
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SELLS f ARM
Albert Haney la in the city hi morning
and stated that he ha sold hs farm at
the foot of Mt. Emely to Joseph Dunn of
Salt Lake City. He also stated that Mr.
Dunn will buy much land in that part of
the Grande Ronde and convert it into
monster fruit farms. Ae has purchas
ed about $15,000 worth of land and
contemplates buying more. Roy Camp
bell sold his farm to the same buyer,
and has moved his family to Imbler. Dur
ing the coming month, Mr. Haney says
he will move to Weston or some northern
Idaho town.
AN OCTOGANARIAN SPORTSMAN
(Scrlpps News Association)
Bismark, S. D., Oct 29 "Uncle Geo."
Watson, 84 years old has been elected
president of the North Dakota Sportsmens
Association. For the last twenty five
years Mr. Watson has ranked as one of
the most indefatible hunters in the state.
Previous to that time he chased game,
little and big, thru Illinois, Ohio, Mmesota
and Pennsylvania his sporting career
,8inning in the late forties. "
THINGS TO THINK OF FOR
WINTER
With the coming of the disagreeable Wintry days you'll want to think about
protection--against the elements. You'll need Rubbers, Overshoes, for men,
women and children, German Sox, Makinaw Coats and Rubber Clothingyou'll
need the bestfor that's the cheapest sort after all.
We are showing now an unusually large line of just such things made by the
best makers guaranteed to wearand favorably priced
German Sox 75: to $1.25 a pair
Mackinaw coats from $4.00 to $6.00
. in all colors, strong and durable too'
There's a host of excellent bargain
among these Winter wearables-and you'll
make a wise move to select them now
while assortments are ample and satisfying.
Make it a Doint to supply
conditions are favorable for
Phone Black 130
orders to use vigorous measures to sup
press the demonstration,
LANDON DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Judgs Graham recognized Lanaon s
district attorney and granted him the
right to interrogate dectective Burns as
a general witness but not as a bias pre
NEW CORPORATION
The La Grande Improvement Company
is a new incorporation which has just
been organized and incorporated by
Messers W. B. Sargent, Geo. L. Cleaver
and Frank Beinhoff, with a capital stock
of $15,000. The company has purchas
ed the Beinhoff property and other tracts
in the same vicinity1 near the Palmer mill,
and expect to build about thirty houses.
They are advertising for bids for four in
this issue.
LEEA ASHWELL
(Scrlpps News Association)
Chicago, Oct. 29 Miss Lena Ashwell
Englands great emotional actress, appear
ed in the Lyric here tonight as "Deborah'
in the "Shlelamite" in which she made
such a success in London.
FORRESTERS BALL
The Forresters of America have de
cided to hold their annual Thanksgiving
ball Thursday evening Nov. 29. Nothing
will be left undone which will make this
the most enjoyable affair of the season.
The Forresters have the reputation for
giving especially enjoyable dances and
this will be no exception to the rule.
Union Woolen Mill Blankets. Pendleton
Indian Robes, Buell Mills Blankets, Cot
ton Blankets, Comfortable Comfortables,
Golf Gloves and Facinators, Silk Shawls
and Wool Sweaters, Chi Wrens' Bearskin
Coats and Caps, New Cloaks and Suits,
New Millinery
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yourself while Hosiery "Todsv." felt Lined Shoe anri
buyers. Slippers.
HEARD IN THE COURT HOUSE
A divorce has been granted Orson C.
Wixon and Nora J. Wixon of Elgin.
Secretary of state F. I. Dunbar has
sent to County Clerk Gilham one hun
dred and seventeen copies of the Report
of the Board of Commissioners. Cod'iss
can be had by notifying the county clerk
Arthur Long has declared his intention
or becoming one of Uncle Sam's under
the new naturalization laws.
C H. Finn has brot suit acainst Walter
and Annie Helton to recover atternev's
fees of $50.
A legal case is being tried today at the
court house. It is S. S. Booth of Union
against the farmers and Traders Bank
of this city and is beine heard bv J. W.
Knowles who i acting a referee. Dis
trict attorney of Baker county. Lomax
ano vnas. Murpney of Baker Citv are
attorneys for the plaintiff and J. D. Slater
is defending the bank.
HfADINfi
(ScrlDP News Association!
Clarksburg, W. Va. Oct 29 At a spec
ial term of the court here today Judge
Goff commenced the hearing of indictments
returned by the Federal Grand Jury
against the Baltimore and Ohio railway
Company for alleged violations of the
interstate commerce laws namely dis
crimination against some of the compan
ies in the distribution of cars and rebating
The trials are expected to last for some
considerable time as a very large number
of witnesses is to be examined.
NINETY NINE DESCENDANTS
(Scrlpps News Association)
New York. Oct. 29 Today Mrs. Kate
Weber, yet hale and hearty celebrates
her nmtieth birthday and is receiving the
congratulations of her friends at her
home no. 1 east 1013 St. Mrs. Weber's
living descendants are ten children fifty
two grand children and thirty-seven
great grandchildren.
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CHARGES
Mew Arrivals
and Trimmings, Wool
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PASSENGER
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; OPEN BRIDGE
(Scrlpps News Association)
;! Atlantc City. N. J. Oct, 29 It is esti
mated thac sixty are dead and forty in
jured thru the Farere bridse wreck
hich ocurred here last evening.
A passenger train was crosiinir tha
hugs bridge when the interlocking device
gave way throing tha entire train with its
load of passengeis into the river. Divers
immediately tried to rescue the bodies
but not nearly all have been brot from
the bottom. -
This morning at daybreak new divers
took up the work and they are working
with unrelenting energy. As the bodies
are brot up they are held for identification
and numbered.
A derrick has been tryins to raise tha
sunken cars, in hopes that the dead bodies
would remain in the cars and thus serve
two purposes, that of raising the cars and
saving the drowned bodies. However.
the bridge could not stand the strain and
the plan had to be - abandoned. One of
the cars was raised and as it left the
water, several bodies were seen to float
from the window and start seaward. As
the tide has been going out all morning,
it is feared that many are now being
tossed about in the sea.
When all the bodies have been removed
the cars will be broken up and 'dragged
ashore.
K was estimated later in the day that
eighty are dead and sixty injured.
TMT'eause is given as being"" "failure
of the rails to lock properly after the
bridge has been opened to allow a yacht
to pass thru. There was no guard at the
rei! along the trestle to prevent such an
accident. Guards have been ordered to
keep bodies from floating out to sea.
TO THE PUBLIC
We have now in our High School Lib
rary about 800 volumes. On the 1st of
November we shall receive 200 more.
These will come from the library
tax assessed last year.
We should like to add 200 more from
the proceeds of the Pixie entertainment.
ir ws succeed in doing this I shall open
the library one evening each week for
the benefit of the public. Of course this
must be with the consent of the school
board which has to furnirh light and heat.
With the 1200 books we should be
fairly well able to satisfy the demands of
our people. The tax which must be as
sessed each year will bring us about $ 1 50.
This in addition to the proceeds of one
good entertainment would supply the
loss thru wear and tear and furnish sev
eral hundred new books each year and
thus in a few years we should have a
ibrary that would be of great use to our
young men and women.
W;ll you not assist us in making this
entertainment a success? It is your
children who will receive the benefit.
It has cost us a great deal of labor in
the past five years to get such a library
as we now have and we find that we
have a r;ght to appeal to you to help us
A large part of most men's education is
from books. Access to a good library
has been the making of many a young
man and rrany a young woman. A good
library is one of the best investments!
that a town can make.
When children came to you to sell
you a ticket give them a cheery word.
W. J. HOCKENBEBHV
HAY RACK PARTY
The Epworth League of the M. E.
church are making preparation for a free
hayrack party to be g.ven next Tuesday
evening to members of the church and
league. 0:d town people can meet the
r:g at the church and those living in the
new town can meet it at the home of Mr.
Fritz.
Mrs. D. R. Johnson, who left this citv
about three weeks ago with the intention
of making her home in Washington, hat
returned and says she will never be dis
loyal to old Grande Ronde again.
W. H. Gravet returned Monday from a
trip to Grande Ronde where he went to
purchase a winter supply of applet.
While there he purchased 200 head of
yearling tteert from Kiddle Bros., of La
Grande. Wallowa Chieftain.
ROHAN CATHOLIC (ttURGI
(Scrlpps News Association)
Chicago Oct. 29-The new Garmn
Catholic Church of St. Nicholas was for
mally dedicated at Evanston to-dav. It
stands in Ridge Avenue South of Main
Street, is gothic in style and cruciform in
shape. The outside material of the ed
ifice is brown pressed brick with huff
colored stone trimtransrs. It cot o.n
000 and will seat 750 persons.
MOODY IN PENNSYLVANIA
(Scrlpps News Association)
Philadelphia. Oct. 29 Senator Knn
presided at a large republican convention
here today at which Attorney ueneral
Moody was the principal soeaker. Thar.
re two republican Gube.-natorial tickets
in the fie d here. Mr. Moodv acting on
instructions from the P-esident sooke in
favor of the candidature of Mr. Penrose
RECOVERS fROM OPERATION
Lynn Lawrence who underwent an
operation recently, was discharged from
was performed by Dr. Volp and was a
vsry delicate one. Dr. Moormlestar nf th.
Volp & Moormiester firm also performed
an aperation on Christ Jack last wsek
with successful results.
A URGE
ferlpps News Association)
Evansville. Ia.. Oct. 29 All preliminary
surveys etc in connection with the monst
er dam about to be constructed across
the Mississippi were completed today and
it is expected that the actual construction
works will commence immediately.
When constructed the dam will furnish
a force which will generate 211.600
horse-power, much more than Niagara
does at the present time. The dam is
being promoted by a syndicate aggregat
ing $30,000,000 in capital which has
already spent $60,000 in preliminary
surveys etc. A great many difficulties
had to be overcome in promoting this!
project.
The government had spent $5,000,000
in building a canal for navigation of tho
river past the rapids opposite Keokuk, la.,
and the new water power scheme would
necessitate-the. overflowing of this great
national canal. Nevertheless Congress
was induced to look with favor on the
undertaking, as the promise was mads
that, altho all the Federal work in tha
neighborhood would be drowned out. new
ones would be constructed without cost
to the nation and that $4C,000 a year
would ultimately be saved the govern
ment in the cost of operating its canal.
The work will give employment to the
thousands of men for a considerable
time.
POWER
hah
security!
from serious throat and lung troubles depends oil two things: first, securing
the right remedy; second, us.ng it in time. We are confident that the rem
edy most certain to give prompt and satisfactory results in the curing of
coldt and cougha it Newlin't White Pine Expectorant.
A FAIR PROPOSITION
you are apt to have a cold thit season. A cough will result and you wilt
want to cure it as quickly at possible. We want you to try thit remedy
with the understanding that if it fails
have your money back. Price 25 and
NEWLIN DRUG CO.
La Grande, Oregon. .
JOI BARE
10 PRISON
EORllfE
"'V'.,
Observer Special)
Enterprise, Oct. 29 At eleven o'clock
Saturday evening the Jury in the cats
wherein John Bare was charged with tha
murder of Brick Johnson returned ver
dict of Murder in tht second degree.
This afternoon at on thirty Judge
Eakin sentenced him to life Imprisonment
in the stats prison.
James Dorris, who killsd Chas. 0.
Simm was placed under four thousand
term of court. It is thot that ths present
term will adjourn this afternoon.
C. J. Qordan, of Elgin, has been com
mitted to the county jail in default of
paying $500 bond. Last wsek he was
arrested on a charge of assault with at
dangerous Weapon and held over to await
action of the Qrand jury and placed und
er $500 bond by Justice of the Peace
Gilmore of Elgin.
Gordon had been temoorarilr takinr
charge of a saloon at Minam when a man
named Johnson entered and started a
little disturbance. He was ordered to
leave by Gordan and on failing to do so,
the later seized a shot gun and made as
if to shoot him. The arrest followed. The
prisoner affirms that ths weapon was not
loaded.
EXHORTER'S LICENSE GRANTED
The last ' Quarterly conference of ths
M. E. church decided to grant Mr. Jasper
an exhorter's license and Rev. Meredith
accordingly hat turned the certificate
over to Mr. Jasper. The first sermon
which he will deliver under the privilege
to preach, will be at Island City next
Wednesday evening in ths absence of
Rev. Meredith. He was formerly cap-'
tain in the Salvation Army.
E. P. Schow well known In this city
where he lived many years is now em
ployed in the land department of the
Southern Pacific at San Francisco.
Recorder D. H. Proctor has moved his
family from his farm in Fruitdal to this
city and will make La Grande his winter
home.
to give entire satisfaction you are to
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