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r" -' ' " ' ' '- - . , .., .. GRANDE. UNION COUNTY, OREGON. WEDNESDAY. MAHCII 4. 108. ' ' . , ' 1 g? . ' " ' . ' - -,.,-.'...,.. NUMBER. 82. 1 5 IECe 5TFRI1IRI F nKACTFH IN nHinrHnni:dlii'Drij uni iiij'p - Ill III nriini I-TaiiI ThA ! ,-,, . : - N " noler the sum of $150 and w Ik-a.lllU ii nan rtnui t h sK'rni h s n k k rc nrm nr tc VII " . ftO uv IOIUU I n I ST" jam' A a asst. ansa I I j. - - FIREMAN GRAYBEAL IS INJURED CONSIDERABLY. While Running at a RW u, ... feed -at Uie Pilot Rook 3a,tlon . .-.. ...r.uK ,9, Tumbled n TZ? . 8"le Carr,n Wl It. vi uoaoiiead Baggage Car Many : "ours Late Now Fireman m v. 1 u, JiuirTaken to Hospital Fireman D. B. Graybeal of this city lies In a Pendleton hospital, quite seriously bruised and Injured, and Passenger engine 199 lies on Its side near the O. R. & N. maln ilne at pot Rock Junction today, as a result ?f a wreck to No. 6, the eastbound duo here at 6:45 this morning. ...ti xiiiuu mtveu many 11vs and averted one of the most dlsas trous wreck In years. wn thoi train was running at a low rate of speed. Pilot Rock Junction is four miles west of Pendleton. Striking :i faulty piece of track, the engine Plunged over on Its side, taking with it a baggage car. The car, however, as a deadhead, and consequently there were no baggagemen In It. This too, is partially responsible for the small list of Injured. Details' are meager today, but It s definitely known that the only Injuries ,tu(tiilned. beyond serious Jolts to the train crew and passengers, were those Inflicted on Fireman David Graybeal of this clly. He was taken to St. An thony's hospital at Pendleton, where tlie Severe bruises were given medical t'ft'.ntlnn. The train was In charge 'f Engineer Hlllman. who was run ulni? extra during the illness of Frank I'lke, who, had he not been laying off, v luld have been with the engine. EiikIhp Lately Repaired. Passenger engine No. 199 has only ...recently come out of the Alblna and la Grande shops, where It was fully overhauled and made new ' after its mmmm ' " to in iue uoorw ay OI The opening day of our White Carnival was a carnival day indeed Crowds everywhere-even these who came out of curiosity couldn't resist they bought srtrhd, and even pointed out to their friends the hundreds' of snowy white, dainty and lnesistable Undermuslins which are on display from one end of the store id the other. . If you have any WHITE GOODS WANTS come, if you are an admirer of dainty white goods, come-They are displayed where you can see and examine with out feeling that you are troubling yourself or anyone else. Cornel Come!! Come!!! -Only Two Days More Of Dainty Undermusl'm Selling at Magnetic Prices $1,75 Skirts $1.19 Tho lift- Thlo a 8pecial pint of attra Dainty Skirts with 16 to 1' " , faUIC Uon all day opening day. ISinch flounces of embroid- rT1 0,'Set C0VerS' ery and rows and rows of f T m nbbo" drawn embroideries and laces, em lace and tuckinff Jl 19 y and ,aC trimmed drawers and skirts in goodly lace and tucking SU9 varietyGould wrhe a pagefuU afaout th5s but won't Gome; see, you will be amply paid for 75c Gowns Wc yurtr3Uble- made with V yokes with al- oe ternaterows of tucks and C . nd!a .non ?0c HilWaUt QSr fin, torchon lace inser-C !a 25c J.50 WalSTS VDC bQ. 35c Inda Linon 30c Hundreds of yards of these Embroidered Pleated and "r I dainty materials all at front l'nen waists, special la grande. OREGON Remember You Have Only Two Days I mash-up at Cayus. In railroad clr cles today tha eniflnea haa been brand' I ed aa a "hoodoo." ' ' Wrecker on the Scene. Tha wrecker In charge ot Division I Foreman Watson and Trainmaster J. ID. Matheson, left La Grando thte i morning: Just, before 7 o'clock. As the i WrArlrlnir fmln nr. n V. ... - - - - a ....... w lull only H vvi.iyomuitijr siuw speed, it was after 10 o'clock before it reached the wreck. The train Is scheduled to ar rive In La Grande shortly after 4 o'clock tonight Correct Reports Arrive. ThU .J.H.! . .... imuuuii auumonai .aetaus were obtainable. No exact reason Is known for the wreck. The engine left the rails several rodas from the hra o ., v..... on Its 'side. This gave the engineer time to apply the brakes before the locomotive (Continued on page I.) I rnnriT iimTiii lUUIll lllirillHL1 TRIAL AT BOISE BARRACKS COMMENCED Captain of tho Regular Cavalry Ik! raeiiitf i iiurKt s of Cruelty to Enlist- i til Men lacked Them Cp In Very Cramped Quarters Without Toot! or Heller Committed Other Acts That Savor of Rusulun Dcxpotlxm Wullu Wnllii Ot fleers Hear Cow, Poise, March 4. The courtmartlal of Captain Clarke D. Dudley of the Fourteenth United States cavalry, be gan this morning at the Bolso bar racks. Dudley Is charged with cru elty to enlisted men. '. It la asserted he locked UD soldiers In A roll an im. thatthey had to stand for 48 hours without relief or food, and that he compelled enlisted men to stand in view of the public ' with placards about their neck, Btatlng, "I am a bad boy." Officers from Walla Walla and Van couver are on duty at the court martial. - - aw SF 1 I I OFFICER UNDER .IHIIUI.U UIUMUI bll 111 UIIIU UUIIUUL. mo uaramier aid recelv from I Ifllllllli Z FUMES TRAP HUNDREDS AND IK THE PANIC TEACHERS CHILDREN ARE TRAMPLED UNDER FOOT . " Impossible to Ascertain Exact lumber Figure at One Hundred and Tweniy Cleveland. O., March 4. Nearly 75 children and a Janitor are known' to be dead and scores of children are in jured as the"' result of a fire In the Colllnwood school building here this morning. ' ' One hundred children were trapped on the third floor of the big building when tha flames burst out. There was no way of escape and many were buried in the debris when the floors fell. ' .. It Was first rumored thnt nnlv Him. children were burned. It has since been estimated that the number Is 75. Thirty bodies have been taken from the ruins late in tho afternoon. It Is Impossible to secure accurate figures because of the confusion. Emergency hospitals have been hurriedly ' thrown together In build ings near the burning school house, and the Injured children are being cared for there until the ambulances can take them to their homes or to the hospitals. XiunlK'r of Dead Increasing. It Is believed that over 100 children lo' ?h,,r llm;, Firemen are working desperately 'to recover' ladles beiore the crumbling walls fall. Homes near the scene have been " turned' . injo morgues. A house to house canvass will be necessary to fix the number of dead. It may reach 150. A great pne or Doiies He In the doorway of .. of Dead but Bulletins, Place the - FIve - - More Lives In Danger the school. Frantic mothers, as well as the firemen are In great danger If the walls fall. Three Hundred In liulldlng. The fire started at 10:80 this morn ing from ; an overheated furnace. Three hunilred children wero in the structure taj, the time the fire broke out. The classes were reciting and the children started out quietly, but turned into a panic at the sight of the flames.' There was a terrible crush at th doors, and as usual in such cases, the weaker ones were trampled upon In the mad frenzy to escape. ! - i , Carrie Wiley and Grace Fisk, teach ers, were crushed to death In an ef fort to keep order. ' ' Children Run Into Finnic. Fire ladders wore too short to reach the third story. The children became Insane with Xear and ran into the flames. ThBj Cleveland fire depart ment raised ;the aerial ladder and saved many. s Superintendent Framer closed the Lake Shore shops nearby, and pressed his men Into rescue work. Walluee Upton, was fatully burned while saving the children. He saved 18. . Herbert E. ChelCcrger. aged 13, was saved, nd ttald afterwards "I dived down the stairway and over a mass of children to the door. Some one pulled me out," , What liuUetliw Say. . At 1:30 99 bodies were at the Lak Shore morgue. Five women and the rest children. : At Two O'clock. At 2 o'clock 110 bodies were ac counted for. The estimuted dead number 125. At 2:12 O'clock. At 4:12 o'clock this afternoon 132 bodies have been taken out of the (Continued on page I.) rn ilLil TAKES STAND CXJpiT HOLDS NIGHT SESSION LAST EVENING. Testimony in BartleU Trial Bubstaa- uaiiy same m Given In l'Vufacr Trial Only laocjiUon la Tluit Given b GardlnltT, Who Testified That He Keeeived Money mjkI Tliat Bartlett Took Half Trial Boon to Flnisli Bartlett on Uio Stand. The Jury rimnlnw. flol Seamon, La Grande. H. H. Huron, Summervllte. Tony Hempe, Union. Q. I. Wade, Sum'mervllle. 1 Wm. Fine, Elgin. E C. Reese, Cove. Wm. Wisglesworth, Telocaaet G. W. Johnson, Union. . F. E. Hall. Union. 8. N. Filcker, Union. Jack Wrlirht. rnv 4 At 4:30 yesterday Dlstitct Attorney F. 8. Ivanhoe opened the case for tht state. His statement of the case from the state's point of view was short anil to the point. He promised the Jury that he would show that Bartlett and Gardinler had planned to force the gamblers to pay tribute to thera upon threat that they would use thelrlnfl lu rinnmi HI l Grande, and that 'he state would produce evidence to prove that Bart lett and Gardinler did receive from the gamblers the sum of 5 1150 and that thia sum was divided . between them. - '' Attorney 8amuel White, for the de lense. followed and cautioned the Jnr to be careful and not allow the hU... ment of the case aa m1 hv th. n trtct atorney to .confUBe them when mey came to hear the evidence. He then asked the court to hold a night session, as he was desirous of getting through with the case as soon as pos sible. Judge White then ordered an Intermission until after supper. The first witness called after supper was Hayburn. Mr. Rayburp was the city marshal at the time the charges were made. His testimony was sub stantially the same as given In the (Continued on page I.) urvHiBir POSTOFKICE DEPARTMENT TO VNDEUGO EXAMINATION. House Committee on ExieiHllturca to Take Vp Mutter of Alleged Mlsap. lire""- r'-vcwmcal Cunds to Railroad to Carry Mails Cliur Hint Seventy Million Dollwrs Were Illegally Obtained Trouble Appur cut la Venezuela teases, . ! Washington, D, C, March 4.r Rep resentative J. P. VVanger of Pennsyl vania, chairman of the house , com mittee expenditures, today promised a searching Investigation of the charge that the postmaster general pays the railroads millions annually, to which hey are not entitled. The Investigation Is based on a statement by Llciyd";6f Missouri, that the railroads of the Country wrongfully obtained $70,000,000 since 1880, on account of improper computing of the weight of malls. " Trouble In Caracas. Caracas, Venesuela, March 4. The silence of President Castro In official news to the United States, may niske a display of force to arbitrate. American claims are thought to presage intended rcslstencc. Advisers think the attitude Is unwise. Decisions adverse to Americans are expected in the Venezuelan court. CnriHMiters May Strike.. Relllnghom, Wash.. March 4.' Con tracting carpenters have announced that they will not sign another closed- shop agreement with the carpenters' union when the nresent mnin,.i plres April 1. A strike will undoubt edly result. ' Aged Indian Dead. ' Rainier, Ore., March 4. Mrs. Julia Ruby, an old Indian woman, died here late yesterday, at an age of 111 years. She was a member of th Tnm. water tribe and was the mother of 14; PROBE CHS I"" ......,.,,.,: rrescrmn It There is no more vital question to be considered in the family than that of the compounding of the doctor's prescription. There should be no half way methods re garding prescriptions. We use pure drugs, compounded lust "according to the doctor's orders." HILL'S DRUG STORE La Grande m . at Orecror TO BACK WATER Asks CAKE TO I.ST ONE MAN E.VTER RACE. Fearing the Ucpublh-ans Will Let aa Antl-SUtenient No. 1 Man Jump to Ahead, Should He and Cake Remain In the Field as Advocates of That Issue Candidate tTIten Wants to Quit Cake Cannot See It That War and Stars In tlie Game. Oregon City, Ore., March 4. W. S. U'Ren, so-called father of the inltla tlve and referendum,, who announced his candidacy for,Unlted States Sena torshlp from Oregon to succeed C. W. Fulton last week, has Issued an open lfttnr In Ia .' Z. T-T. Cake, also an avowed statement No. I man, and a leading republican candi date, to withdraw from the race with him and leave the field open so that statement No. I republicans could cen ter on some one candidate and not be split on two such men. Ho mentions Judge McBrlde, Ben Selling, T. B. WIN cox. ana i. h. Bingham as possible candidates. Cake Not Willing. Cake docllnes to accept the U'Ren proposnl, 'The letter comes to me as a surprise." he stated today, "but: I rnust decline' U'Ren's proposal . to withdraw from the race." . "Cribbed" Ills Oration. Des Moines, Iowa, March 4. A nov el situation has developed In connec tion with the state prohibition orator ical contest, to be held tonight at Os- Lkaloosa, through the confession of H.' II. GUI, who was selected to represent Mornlngslde college, that his oration was "cribbed." Gut Is one of the lead ers In the students' temperance move ment and president of the College Pro hibition Oratorical association. He won easily In the contest for first place in the ranks of the Mornlngslde col lege "dry" orators,, and his later pub lic ocnfesBlon that his oration was pla giarized created a sensation In college circles throughout the state. Meyer to Address Nnxbys. , ' New York. March 4. Members of the New York State association ' of Postmaster are thronging the Hotel Astor todaywhere the annual spring convention Is In progress. The meet ing will extend through tomorrow and will conclude with a banquet at which Postmaster General Meyer I1I be the leyero A guest of honor and principal speaker,. . , ' '. ; ; ' : i " ! Clothier Close Scwlon. ?' New York', March 4. The National Association of Clothiers, which hast been in session at the Hotel Astor since Monday, closes Its annual con vention today. Leading wholesale clothing manufacturers, representing . an annual production valued at IJ00. o i onsi 1 4aaa).a A ence to close gambling In the city 0f 'fsSMSMtKSfMtt fttttttttSjlifi M4WWV.SW ,t;faHiir.-riarij:r: