VOLUME VIL
LA GRANDE, CMOS COCNTY, OREGON'. -MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1008.
NUMBER 104.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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-
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