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ft: J.r s v i . ' v ; VOLUME VI LA GRANDE, UNION COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 5 190? NUMBER 65 IDff EH EST TODAY SIfi(f POWER HOUSE AND DAM AT IIRA NIL I1EAI1D Instructions wired to the local Western Union Telegraph office suite that the Coos Bay country is a twisted net of fallen wji-es. Official of that company agree that three days at least will be required to get the wires in working order. Rains and floods are cause, Late last evening services were resumed outof this city and since five o'clock last evening Portland was reached by - relaying to Spokane, Seattle and back to Portland. All. tele graphic messages are accepted subject to delay. . TRAIN SERVICE There is no evidence of a Portland train stub from Umatiiia which has grown to ban old story, failed to put in an ap pearance this morning, and at nine o'clock tonight is the fi rst train scheduled from the west. The west bound trains, too, are hampered by heavy snows. This morning about four o'oclocx, last night's five arrived, and today's one, was maxked up at f:ur thirty. Pasiengets are stalled along the 0. R. & N. Freight trains are likewise tied up. Freight brakemen on the La Grande-Umatilla run wno left this city over a weak ago are still at the other terminal, and it is not known when they will return. , GRANDE RONDE HIGH A telephone message from Perry re ports that the water in the Grande Ronde river is this afternoon higher than it has been any time since IE 94. While the Grande Ronde Lumber Company is not Jp.tieularly alarmed as to the safety of fts mill and lumber at Perry, yet there re mains the fact that should the large quan tity of water now diT.rrcd at Perry, break loose, OroDeil will suffer. Late this after noon the water wu on the rise, and from present indications, the aain at Perry will j ninety minutes. 1)b iu U opened to '!n a forcer quan tity of water to pus thru. The reason for this i that seve-al bridges above the dam are on the verge of being washed out. It is very likely that by tomorrow morning, the dam will have been dyna mited. Much ice ie also blocked by the dam. As yet, however, it has not as sumed a dangerous system in piling up. AtOroDell, the ice jam is more danger.ius. The only thing that will save destruction at that place is for the ice to melt and break away gradually, as it has been do ing this afternoon. Manager Housh has had a crew of men at this point of the river all day to, if possible, avert de struction to the power house and dam. Great volumes of water have been pour ing over the dams at Perry and OroDeil since yesterday. (Catherine creek is not affected by the thaw. The ice has not broken and U..ion is not alarmed about high water. DISAVOW WAR INTENTIONS (Scrlpps News Aaaociatlon) Washington, Feb. S. A Chicago paper has wired to the Japanese minister of foreign affairs asking for the attitude of the Japanese in the present situation. The minister referred the paper to the Japan ese ambassador at Washington and ord ered Aokio to convey to the American people for the Japanese their disavowal of all intentions toward war and are firm ly of the belief that the differences are susceptible of pacific treatment. QUAKE NEAR VIENNA (Scrlpps New Association) , Vienna. Feb. 5. Prof. 'Belar bach says that the seismograph recorded an earthquake last Sunday which lasted INSANITY SPECIALIST IS MIDDLED BY JEROME (Scrlpps News Aaaociatlon) New York. Feb. 8. Dr. C. H. Wiley of Pittsburg was the first witness ca led this morning in the Thaw case. Jotiah Thaw, a brother of the prisonei, was the only member of the family present when court orjeneJ. The defendant anutrau hurriedly and sat down, precipitately, and wrote on a pad for several minutes. The Pit'sburg doctor testified that he was an insanity specialists of the Bixmont asylum in Pennsylvania. "What happened in 1905, in connection with the prisoner?" asked Gleason. "In ninteen five I was a passenger on a street car when Thaw entered and with out apparent reason, yanked the blind off the window. It was in the evening and the conductor had raised the shade." "Was the act a rational one?" ' I should say not," replied the witness. Attorney Gleason framed a hypothetic al question embodying Thaws actions pre vious to the shooting and ,the manner of ths remarks after the shooting, and later asked the witness if in his opinion a man who could committ such an act was sane or insane. "In my opinion" Jerome objected and a battle of words was on, the doctors fin ally answering, "A man who acted as Thaw did after the shooting, ia undoubt edly insar.e." "If you knew that hereditary insanity existed in the family, would you acknow ledge it an aid in this connection?" . ."Think I would," said the. expert.. Je rome then began the cross examination. He asked; "You do not know what the law cf the state provide in excuse for crime en acted by an insane man?" "1 cannot say that I do." District ' At torney Jerome then forced the witness to admit that he had formed an opinion on at Lai-' hyPotnetica' question, from what he had been tola or me Tacts in tne case and what he had observed on the car in Pittsburg in 1905, and from these 4 New Dress Skirts We have just received from New York, a lino of the late skirts, these axe beyond a doubt one of the best line of skirts on the markc-t. 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Wiley admitted ha did not know what be really is. The court ruled that all witnesses should be kept from the court room when not being examined. Pittsburg. Feb 6 Friends of Harry Thaw in this city are not surprised at the ultimation of Thaw's attorneys in regard to the insanity piea. They freely comment on his peculiarities. His acquaintances always thot Thaw "queer" and called him "Crazy Harry". The insanity ia on the father'e aide. One sister of his being in an asylum, and another was occasionally so. before she died. DEFENSE PRESENTS CASE New York Feb. 6 Scores of people tried to, get thru the police lines late last evening' to listen to Attorney Gleason presents his case to the jury. None were permitted. Thaw'e attorney spoke in i low tone and said: "I want you," addressing the jury, "To understand that the defendant stands on no other law than the statute. It has never been the case before that so many men enierea tne jury box with opinions formed. The question is can you lay those opinions aside, and weigh the evidence as it is developed. The defen dant killed Stanford White. He believed that it was an act of providence; that he wes guided by the same power. The defendant killed Vhi'.e. but did not know the act was wrong, because he had been suffering from mental unsoundness. We will show to you, mental unsoundness in the family. There will be witnesses on Continued on Page 2 YEARS THREATEN PORT POWERS BEFORE THL i MAIN i i (Sir ups New Association! Georgetown, Ky., Feb. 5. Knocked abtut like a rudderless ship on a storm swept sea, Caleb Powers, Kentu-.ky's most r.o.ed pr saner, was called into court today to again stand trial for alleged com plicity in the assassination of Governor William Goebel, seven years ago. Owing to the crowded docket the tnalAill prob ably bedeferred for several moflnis, when a special term of court will be convened to try the case. Powers has been triec for the crime charged against him just three times. Twice juries voted to send him to the pen .tentiary for life, and twice the verdict was reversed by the court of appeals. The next jury condemned him to die on the scaifold. Again the court of appeals cams to h s rescue and set the find ng of the lower court aside, and remanded him for a new trial. When he was arrested he did not have a dollar and public sentiment was agax.st him: but when the legislature appropriat ed SlOO.l'OO to prosecute Powers and those indicted with him, his friends went to vork to raise funds to assist him. It has been said that every prominent Re publican in the United States has yn tnbuted 'o the fund for his defense, and among them are mentioned the names of President Roosevelt, the late Senators Quay and Hanna and Secretary Taft. "crlpps News Aaaociatlon) Portland, Feb. 5 Portland ie threat ened with the greatest riood in u,,,. years. The Willamette rose three feet last night the water is at 16 or 6,$ feet above danger line, with the water rising rapidly. The weather bureau predicts that it will reach nineteen feet by to morrow, and twenty-one by Friday. The lowlands about the city are ftooned and lower, decks submerge.. Basements along water front are filled with water. Floods have torn loose the public bath house and sailed it down the river, All streams in the state are out of their banks or rising rapidly. Many bridges on the 0. R. St. N. have been carried away and that company's tracks in thik city are completely covered. The . Southern Pacific is blocked by slides in many places. Scripps News Association delayed. Portland, Feb. 4. Deep snow in East tent Oregon is causing a heavy loss of stock. Many flocks are threatened with entire destruction, because food is ex hausted, Portland is again a cake of glary ice, the rain freezing as it falls. Up river points report the greatest floods In years are pending in tha Willamette coentry. Heavy rains are falling over the Will amette valley. t Lewiston, ;daho. Feb. 6. From two to three feet of snow cover the northern portion of Idaho. Cattle are reported dy ng by the hundreds. BLIZZARD IN THE EAST New York, Feb. 6. While the western coast is suffdring by floods caused by melting snow and rains, the eastern cities are experiencing much cold weather. New York City is in the grasp of a blizzard, with a gale blowing. The central portion of the city is cut off from the rest and the sufferings of yesterday will be increased by the two feet of snow which fell last night. Chicago, Feb. 6.- Heavy snow has blocked tralric and interfere with com munications. Goodrich, N D., Feb. 6. An unknown woman and five children we.e frozen to death list night. Buzzards and gales are prevalent. Cnicago, Fob. 6. -Tho heavy storms extond .'roin the Atlantic to Nebraska, tne greatest intensity 'itmg in tho mid-Atlantic and Now Lngland slates. Trains are delayed several hours in all parts of Wis consin and Minnesota. California trains are five ,nd six haiir3 late. Pcrdioton Fab. 4 -It is reported that 1500 sheep bglunging to A. Smyth 64 Son, were drovned in the Willow creek corra's in Morrow county, in the high water of this week. Dan Sinythc. who has been al Walla Walla attendirg t'.ie stockmen's meeting, received the news by telephone from his father, A. Smythe at Arlington, yesterday It waa reported at first that 2000 eheep haan drownad hi it latar maauoaa from Arlington placed the number actually dead at 1600. The circumstance of the loss art not known at the wires are now down. Other losses are thoeght to have been mi mm, vtnmbj mm many wi miv sheep ranches and corral are in the can- yons and would be In danger in caw of unusually high water. On the W. &. C. R not a train ha been run sine the slides commenced last week. It was stated in Pendleton yester day afternoon, that service would pro bably be resumed Wednesday or Thurs day. Most of the trouble on that line I north of Helix and crew of men are now working on the repair. ' TO SUCCEED SENATOR ALCER (Scrlpps Nwa Aatoola(lon) ' Lansing, Mich., Fab. 6 The Michigan legislature reassembled today after a two weeks' recess out of respect to tha memory of Senator Alger. The first business of the legislature will bt tha lection of a United State senator forth unexpired portion of Senator Alger's term, which will end March 4, 1907. The choice will probably fall to William Alden Smith, who already ha been elected for the full term beginning March 4. UNCOVER CRAFT IN SCHOOLS (Scrlpps Newe Association Albany, N. Y Feb. 6 A peciflo charge of grafting in the board of educa tion in New York city, was made in the state senate today by a resolution intro duced to provide for an investigation. . 10 INVESTIGATE N. P. (Scrlpps News A iclatlon) Washington. Feb. 6. Senator Heyburn offered a resolution in the1 senate this afternoon calling for the appointment of five senators to investigate the reorganiz ation of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, with a view of having congress repeal tneir charter. A PIPE-DREAM Wednesdays Democrat contained a pipe-dream, in regard to tho probability of the removal of division headquarters of the O. R. &. N. from La Grande to Baker. After the completion of the big brick roundhouse and other buildings which are now under construction at La Grande at a cost of thousands of dollars, no doubt tha first thing the O. R. & N. will do will be to abandon them and establish their division point, machine shops, etc., at Baker City. Haines Record. A CURE ! 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