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VOLUME VIL LA GRANDE, CMOS COCNTY, OREGON'. -MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1008. NUMBER 104. , ' ' 1 110 HOPE TO PROLONG LIFE OFTOTTEIC IIIS1IT0TI0II STAHLEY WANTS HIS ATTORNEY FINV HAS THE. - . PROCEEDINGS IN HAND. No Long Any Hope for the Com mercial Club Building Must Go on that out of Its death will be born new. club and a new athletic associa tion, each separate from the , other. This le only one solution to the knotty problem. Other business, men have IhlptlAM nlh. nat ... Hiif It remains to be seen what will be done with the club building when It Is put under the auctioneer's hammer and Action Delated. It la through the solicitation of F. the Auctioneer's II ok and Be Sold I . Meyers, cashtar of the La Grande to IUgliMt Bidder Mortgage lor $3000 Is at Bottom of the Fore closure Citizen Have One Year to Redeem the Building In. National bank, that the foreclosure proceedings have not been brought before. The Instructions for such ac tion come to him from Mr. Stanley many months ago, but he deferred The La Grande Commercial club has turning the matter over to attorneys, seen Its last day, under existing con- believing the business men might take dltlons, and the building now stands ' action tending toward eventual solu- foreclosed. Foreclosure proceedings to recover a mortgage of $3000 held by L. C. Stanley of Chippewa Falls, Wis., and overdue Interest which wiU ..amount to approximately $200. p. This deplorable state of affairs fol lows a halflhearted burst of enthusi asm several weeks ago, when' mass meetings were liberally responded to and many logical plans for the main tenance of the Institution .were ad vanced. But after proposing these many schemes and many of them would have worked out with proper support, activity ceased. To carry to success some plan of salvation to the clubfrfyUed to materialize. From time to tlirie the membership committee 'passed among us," but after weeks of hnrd work It Is found that the con census of 'opinion Is that the preaen organization Is better off dead, and tlon of the situation, thcrely appeas lng the. clamor from Mr. Stanley, who Is converting his Interests In Union county Into cash as fast as possible. Last Frldny the matter was. given over to Attorney C. II. Finn, and he now has the foreclosure In hand. It Is hard to predict the future out come of the club and the structure In which It had its homi. There Is no doubt about one thing, and that Is that La Grande will have a commer cial club regardless of what comes. the Cavinera water case today and it, keys and the markings on packages. Is possible he may not be able to turn the matter over to the sheriff tonight, but this will be done either tonight or tomorrow. His papers are made out and the formal foreclosure will take place within 24 hours at the most. Under the foreclosure laws, th club has one year to redeem the prop erty In. IS Kll I FAIN Tin UIUUI.U iii unit MYSTERY SVRROCNDS , THE BRUTAL MURDER. Nothing was disturbed but money and Jewelry packages. The officers be lieve Bailey admitted a friend Into the car and that the latter struck him on the head with a hatchet when his back was turned and effected the robbery and left the train at Newtown. A re ward of 11000 has been offered for his capture. II III" OMccrs Today Making Up a Lint of Bailey's Friends ' to Learn Who Might Have Filtered the Car as s Friend and Then Used the Hutchel Death Was Droit With a Shnrp WeaiHn Nothing But Jewelry and ' Money Packages Were Disturbed. Kansas City, March 30. Officers to- lay vlxlted the home of O. A. Bailey the VeI!s-Fargo- messenger, who wa: murdered In his car on the Santa Fe train yesterday, between Newtown ant Florence, Kan. They sought a list oi the murdered man's acquaintances In order to find a trace of any whe might be out of employment and whe mjunT i mr lillllMUl LIIL EXCITEMENT AMONG THE NEW YORK ANARCHISTS. BETRAYER OF WOMEN DIES III ELECTRIC Ili REPEIITEHT rage. But out In Wyoming TO men were killed by a mine explosion. That was murder by mlneownera." . There Is no question of this. Today, I might have entered the car under on the streets and about business places, some logical scheme for main taining a commercial club, pure and simple, are being discussed. At this early date, just what will be done Is a matter of conjecture. Action Taken at Once. , Mr. Finn has been occupied with guise of friendship and then did the fatal work. The officers are convinced that the messenger was killed by a blow with a hatchet and believe that the robbery of the express safe was the work of an old railroad man, who was familiar with the work and the S5 I LADIES' SUITS e ,77ie Newest New York Creations In Ladies' Suits are coming in by every express and if you have any suit wants a visit to our Suit Department will convince you that the BEST SUIT IDEAS of the se&sof are represented here. is a well known fact that the most popular styles, as a rule, cannot be determined upon until the season is somewhat advanced Here we have an advantage enoyed by no other suit house in the countyHaving a resident buyer in New York we can, and do ge, the latest and, as a rule, the styles which Fashion Centers approve as t THE CORRECT STYLES. Suits in the new Blues, Tans, Browns, also in Black and Navy, item $15.00 up , LADIES' JACKETS In plain and striped Coverts in fitted, semi fittinj and box backs, in colors. Black, Tin Qrayar.d Novelty NUurei $5.50 Up NEW TURN-OVER COLLARS Large assortment of Linen Turn-overs in eye let, and plain embroidered ffctd, some ex cellent values 15c Up 85c Child's Shoes 49c BARGAINS IN SHOES THIS WEEK $2.00 $2.25. LADIES' SHOES $1.50 Misses' Shoes 98c in black and colersd V ci Kid, turned tole, also the oputar Foot Form shoes in:ludd. $1.38 in Oxford and high shots with wait and timed soles, special this week $1.35 . $2.00 Boy's Shoes $1.58 $2.75 VouAs Shoes $1.98 in Box Calf. Valour Calf and Vici Kid in Eat and Blucher cats $3.50 Men's Shoes $2.89 $5'00 Men's Shoes $3. in Box Ca'f. Valour Calf, Vici Kid. Patdnt Colt and enameled Calf at special price this week. Police Have a Suspect Who Comes Close to Filling AU Comers of the Clue as to Who Threw the Bomb Last Saturday, When Death and Mutllutlon Followed One of the Victims Horribly Mangled Identify Him by Ills Voice. New York, N. Y., March 30. Fol lowing the arrest of Alexander Berk- man, New York police hope to fusten '.he responsibility for Saturday's bomb outrage on New" York anarch' Ists. Berkman has served IS years In the Pennsylvania penitentiary for at tempting to assassinate Henry , C. Frlck, and later gained notoriety as being the common law husband of Emma Goldman. He is now editing an anarchist paper In New York, Berkman will be taken before 611 verateln, one of the Injured, and an attempt made to see If the latter can Identify Berkman by the sound of his voice. Sllversteln, whose death 'was reported Saturday, and who Is totally blind, minus ono arm and a foot and his body perforated with wounds, can not live, say his doctors. A card on the bomb-thrower's per son bore Berkman's name and the city police theory Is that a youth re ceived Insplrlatton from the anarch ist leader. Today anarchists and so clallsts are clamoring for Commission er Bingham's resignation. They Insist that Saturday's trouble was the re suit of the police attempting to apply St. Petersburg methods to New York's unemployed. Many speakers do nounced the attempt of Bingham to solve the question In this manner. Attell Is Favorite, San Francisco, March 30. Friends of Abe Attell are heavily backing the little fellow to win the decision over Battltn Klnn . -"--- row night There la a great deal of Nelson money In sight, however, as admirers of the Battler believe that his great weight advantage will more than counterbalance Attell's superior cleverness. Nelson will weigh In' at 132 pounds at 6 o'clock, while Attell will tip the acales at 123 pounds. The fight will go IS rounds and will be pulled off by Sam Berger's Washing ton Athletic club. The fighters will get 60 per cent of the gross gate re ceipts, to be divided 0 per cent to the winner and 40 per cent to the loser. Ml Li S PRESIDENT CHESTED tlllETTi IlilfS C0SFESS1DK lEFOfl DUTH ELECTROCUTED FOR BK-, . - ' TRAY1NG GRACE BROWW, After One of the Moat Outrageous Crimes Against Parity of Woman, Chester Gillette Finally Walks to His Death In tlie Electric Chair- Governor Hughes Considers . So called "New Evidence" Criminal Confesses to the Act. ' V Tote on Bond Issue. Newark, N. J., March 30. Stock holders of the Butte Electric & Power company met here today In special session to vote on the Issue of 15.- 000,090 30-year ( per cent bonds, se cured by a mortgage upon the proper ties of the company and Its subsidiar ies, the Madison River Power com. pany and the Montana Power Trans mission company. The purpose of the issue Is to liquidate the floating debt and provide additional working capital. Dcdion at Ely. Ely. Nev., March 30. Half the pop ulatlon turned out to give Dedlon, the French entry In the New York-Paris race, an enthusiastic send-off. Dedlon Is at present third. The Italian car Zast, was send at the last report when it left Goldfleld Saturday night, Tho American car Is first, and Is now nt sea en route to Valdex. "So More Pearl Buttons. New York, March 80. As a result of the failure In the supply of fresh water mussels, the "pearl" button factories of New York are finding It difficult to supply the demand, and many of the plants may be forced to close down. Many Drill at Work. Ray Logan Is In receipt of a letter from J. T. Beardsley, who Is superin tending the Columbia Gas & Oil com pany's development at Malheur, which states that 1 discovery drills arc at work and that prospects for success are good. Prices of stock are advanc ing, says the writer. Auburn, N. Y., March 80.' Chester. Gillette, the young slayer of Grace r) ....... t .1 - nit'' lette's and whom he betrayed, deserted and finally killed, paid the penalty this morning In the electric chair. Gover nor Hughes heard his last appeal for a review and commutation of sentence Saturday, when he listened to the evi dence of additional witnesses whom the attorneys for Gillette said threw a new light on the case. All day Sunday the governor studied the matter over and announced Sunday night that he ' would do nothing to stop the execu tion. ; ' ' " ' Confsenrs to Crime. Almost with his last breath the boy confessed to his spiritual adviser, Rev. Henry Mclllvarey, and Prison Chap lain Herr'n, that he was guilty of the crime. Mclllvarey refused to glv the details of the confession, which was oral, but said It bore out the charges of the prosecution. ': As the boy wa . i- . i w ii . . , -r i. aiiBiiyeu ill mv vilttir lie VKIIVU MVlll varey to the chair and said: ."Tell mother that I am prepared to meet my God." In a calm voice, h con tinued, "Tell her I have no hard feel Ings against any one and am only filled with sorrow for what trouble I have caused her and others, , Good bye." . ; Maintains Ills Nerve, . ' Gillette entered the death house at 6:12 a. m. Hla face was ashen, but he was not nervous and walked to the chair unassisted and settled In a com fortable position with a sigh of relief. Chaplain Herrlc recited the J 3rd psalm. Gillette sat with bowed head until the conclusion, when ha made! the statement to Mclllvarey. The cap was adjusted and the switch turned on. A current of 180 volts was ap plied for 30 seconds. Only one con tuct was made and at 6:30 he was (Continued on page I.) INDEPENDENT BLUE 32 3fe PACtriC STtTCS BUCK 1301 ; i LA GRANDS, OREGON SOCIALIST FIltFS HIS PRESIDENTIAL GUN, to''. D. Haywood Stirs Vp Dust In Chicago Speech IOHt Night In At tack t'pon Roosevelt, Gooding and' Others Excuse Man Who Threw Honibn New York and Illumes the Mlneouners for Montana Catastro pheLaunches Ills Candidacy. Chicago. III., March 30. W. D. Hay wood, of the Western Federation of Miners, took occasion to criticise Pres ident Roosevelt, Oovernor Gooding snd other public officials In a speech delivered here lest night. Incidentally, Hsywood launched his boom for his candidacy for the presidency of the United States on the soclsltstla ticket. Resolutions were Introduced and passed calling for the withdrawal of troops at the Treadwell mines. In peaking of th bomb throwing In New York, Haywood said: "When some poor deluded mortal Is trying to take by fores what by Jus tice belong to bin, w call It an out- FOR THE SIGK ROOM There is no time when the really proper art icles are so essential as when illness oomes to the home. 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