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VOLUME VI
LA GRANDE. UNION COUNTY. OR EGO M, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 16 190?
NUMBER . 58
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DEATH AND DESTRUCTION FOR MILES AROUND DISASTER
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'' Sacramento Jan 1 6-Bills, providing that
every insurance company doing business
, , in the state of California must make a de
: posit of two hundred thousand with - the
. insurance commissioners and make veri
; ' fled statement of affairs, under penalty of
forfeiture of their franchise was intro-
ductodayJ in the house.
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(Bcrlpni New Awxidatlon.
y Seattle, Jan. 16 -The weather is slight-
ly warmer this morning. There is no
' change in the fuel situation. The street
car power plants, schools and manufact
' urjTk plants are running on short allow
. anee. Many families have closed their
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r HfW JEWISH COLONY PLAN
(Scrlpps New Association )
, New York, Jan. 16. At. a meeting of
representee Jews here today the pro
jected Jewish Colony near Galveston, Tex.,
was fully discussed. . It was decided to
acquire land for settlement for Jews who
will be brought from Russia and other
countries. It was announced that the
scheme had the support of the Rotschilds
and the leading Jews of England who had
promised large donations towards the
work.
LEGISLATURE
(Scrlpp News Association)
Salem, Jan. 16 -Both bodies of the
legislature adjourned at noon today until
Monday.
homes and have gone to the hotels to keep
warm. Similar conditions prevail thruout
the state. The overland trains are three
and four days' late. Heavy snows are
reported from St. Paul to the coast with
extreme cold.
Only a few days left
to pick the big bargains at The. Fair store
SALE CLOSES ON
SATURDAY MIGHT
We have added many new
things to our list to make
it worth your while
the last few days.
LEATHER
hundred Dead
HEBREWS
: - ELECTION
COSflRMED
(Script) New Association 1
Denver, Jan. 16 Simon Guggenheim's
election to the senate at confirmed at
noon today. He spoke, thanking the leg
islators and said that he had withdrawn
from all business interests and would de
vote himself to direct interest of the state
and nation, fie declared that he is free,
untrammelled, is under no obligations to
any interest, railroad or corporation. He
favors Roosevelt's plans and will aid leg-i
islation to correct all industrial -evils.
New York Jan 16 The Smelter Trust
headquarters announces that Simon
Guggenheim has resigned from all official
relations with the American Smelting and
Refining Company, his resignation qeing
accepted. He will retire from all active
business.
BOSAH TO SO (CIO DUBOIS
Snrtpi8 New AMociatlon)
Boise, Jan 16 The legislature today
elected W E Borah to the senate to suc
ceed Senator Dubois. Borah Is an able
Jawyer. .
to
buy
IS NOW UP
We would call attention to
our boys' and girls' shoes.
As everyone knows
price of leather has
the
ad-
vanced, and having bought
our line oetore the advance,
will continue to sell at
the
old price until the line
closed out.
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Scrlpp New Awoulatlon)
lfinjrnn .latnaim .Ixnimrv IB The
city is overwhelmed by the earthquake
which happened here at three thirty Mon
day afternoon Within a radius of ten
miles practically evarv house indentr-varl
Tire broke out immediately after the quake
and completed the destruction. Business
section are a smouldering heap. Church
es, pubi c offices and hotels are gone.
Thousands are injured and the killed will
number close to four hundred. .
New York, Jan. 16 The above cable
gram received here this evening and is
the first communication the outside world
has had with the stricken city since the
terrible catastrophe. Other ' ad vices say
that loss of life was mostly to natives.
THREE HUNDRED DEAD
Now York. Jan 1 6 The tourist aeencv.
estimates that there were two thousand
Americans visiting Kingston at the time
of the tremor. Dispatches from this city
say that the city of Kingston is practic
ally ruined. The estimate of the dead
places the figure at three hundred, this
total being given as a conservative one,
Bostonjan, 10 The United Fruit Com
panyhas been informed that the mercantile
section about Kingston t including their
omces, are completely destroyed by the
fire and quake. Several hundred are
dead according to this dispatches.
London, Jan. 16 Dispatches from
Kingston are scanty and contradictory.
They indicate that the first reports of the
disaster were exaggerated but the con
ditions therj are grave. The area of de
struction extends fat miles around what
was formerly a beautiful city but now a
moss of ruins. The shocks were felt from
fifty to sixty miles distant. Tamnorarv
cables from Bull Bay say that not a single
house between there and Kingston is safe.
. Boston, Jan. 1 6 The steamer Dewey
sails today with miscellaneous cargo for
Kingston. '
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London. Jan. 19 Thirty soldiers were
killedbythe collapss of the military hospital
at Kingiton, Jimaica. yertorday. When
the earthquake cam these men ware all
in the hospital and the tremor caused the
collapse. No officials of the hospital were
killed but Major Heads and many others
are seriously injured. Captains Young and
Constantine of the Royal Steam Packet
Company were killed.
FIRE DECREAS'NG
The fire which has been racina since
the quake is decreasing, but light shocks
still continue and many buiidincrs which
were shaken loose and a4-Jiut knocked
down by the fir6t heavy shock, "are now
ailing because of Ihe Decisional shocks
hat are occu ring toliy. The Colonial
officer in this is preparing to send relief
from neighboring British colonies,
Hamburg Jan. 16 The American linen
the Allegheny and Prince Joaquin sail
Friday and Satuarday, rasoectfullv. with
supplies for Kingston.
It is officially announced that Sir James
Ferguson the wall khown Englishman
was killed.
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The Commeroia! Club committee, ap
pointed to assist in brincina f ul to this
city, hat appealed to the 0 R & N man
agement for mors coal and today received
wire from General Superintendent
O'Brien, saying that it would be imposs
ible to ship coal to this point at present.
The company it all but out of coal itself
and for several dart there will be no mora
DIPMENI
smiiN(ORPORVTion imdes (aiuda
.Sim pp Now Aaawinoon)
Detroi: Jan 16 The United States Steel
Corporation has commenced the building
of a city on the Canadian side of the river
belo w Sandwich. A sUel plant which will
cost $25,000,000 and employ 6.000 men
will be erected. The harbor faclliti hava
been thorougnly invesitgated and found
ece!;ent and the corporation ' will build
gr.n ore docks and coal storage faci
itaes.
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The coldest yet' Such it the announce
ment of Weather Observer W. A. Worsted.
La Grande and vicinity was hit bv a cold
nap eat ly last night which ended at sud
denly as it came. . About eight o'clock, it
came on. and at 10 o'clock the' mercury
dropped to 2 degrees below zero and half
an hour later, it fell another point, ' Their.
suddenly, the thermometer went up and
by eleven o'clock, it was four degress
above zero. From fourabevethe mercury
fluctuated to five and six above during the
morning.
COLD IN PENDLETON
The thermomator according to the
Pendleton Tribune registered eight degrees
below zero night before last.
; WHITMAN CLOSED
Whitman college is practically closed
onaocount of the fuel famine in Walla
Walla. ' - '"
Q0LD AT NORTH POWDER
The cold snap which has held forth
farther northwest has flnnaliy worked its
way southward, and now eastern Oregon
is well in its grip. A special to the Ob
server from North Powder tayt that at
that place ti below zero wat experienced
last night.
. KAMELA HAS'RECORD " '.
The coldest place in Eastern Oregon, et
far at reported, it at Kamela, the summit
of the Blue mountains, where ' 1 4 below
was registered twice this week.
; TWO AT UNION , ,
Two below is the coldest, lowest drop
at Union. This was last night.
v ' COVE .
Cove, lying in its secluded spot was the
warmest of any locality in the Grande
Ronde valley, registering last night, zero
weather.
REBIKflH'S INSIAUATlOfl
The Crystal Lodge of Rebekahs last
evening installed the following officers:
Katura Pr cs. N G; Ada Fower, VG: nilev
Cox, Roc Sec; Fin See, Susan Mcllroy;
l reas. Mrs. J A Arbuckle: R S to N G.
Mrs. Harding; L S to N O.Mrs. Farouha-
son; R S to V G, Mrs. Brasel; L S to V
G Mrs. W A Worstell; Chaplin. Katharine
Oates; Conductor, Mrs. Wines: Warden.
Mrs. Blythstone; Inside G, Mrt. Buck;
uutside U, Jasper Anderson.
The out going Noble Grand. Mrs. Frak-
er, and the Incoming Noble Grande, both
entertained the lodge with brief addresses
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Or will cheerfully refund your money
I have never had patient that was not fully
satisfied with my glasses
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Washington, Jan. .16. Representative "
Foster of Vermont today defended Pretl
dent ' Roosevelt's' Japanese policy. He '
sought to justify centralization and the ;
right of the general government to make'
treaties guarantees, g foreigners tne same
rights in the schools and lourte of our land, ls
that propecty holding cit lens enjoy.
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Morristown. Pa.. Jan 16 Five train
men were killed by the explosion of
locomotive boiler,at Bridgeport today,
caused by low water. ' Engineer Blanke
miraculously i scaped and refuses to dit
ouk.e th matter et this time., ' .- '
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London, Jan. 16.-Mr. Kioka, the new
Japanese Consul for New York tailed for
hit pott on the While Star Steamer Arab
ic today. r .
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