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VOLUME vtl LA GRANDE. 5IOS COUNTY, OREGOX. FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1908. MMBER 108. I C 0 CLUB ALE OF ELKS PLAN TO PURCHASE -THE BUILDING F0RJ.I5II AND TO ' RE-MODEL IT S PLAN TO MAKE GYMNASIUM FLOOR LARGER AND BETTER Members of the Elks' Lodge Soliciting Shares Today and Will Buy Com mercial Club In. Five Days The La ' Grande Commercial club will be In a position to pay every cent of Its Indebtedness and In addition to that will pay the stockholders an In terest on the stock. Thus the club dies an honest death. This was all made possible through the efforts of the La Grande lodge of Elks who. without a practical doubt, will purchase the building for I9D00. At their meeting last night it was de cided to take this move rather than to . build a new home on the site pur chased by the lodge recently. Hun dreds will be expended on the building after the purchase is made. In this way the large structure will be con verted Into a place of beauty. Today a committee and tlte board of trus NEW ARRIVALS. New Beverly Skirts Blacks, Browns, Tans and Novelty Suitings $5.00 up New Dress Goods In wool Panamas, Voiles and novelties In striper, checks and plaids, at the yd . 50c up New Waists la beaatifully trimmed sheer New Wash Dresses In Lawns, and Toiledu checks aad solid colors THE WILL MT ITS INDEBTEDNESS tees of the Elks' lodge are canvassing for shares and before the day expires, It Is practically certain that sufficient stock will have been raised 'to float the proposition. ' ' ' . The transaction, if consummated, will mean two desirable features: gives the Elks a home at nominal cost, where the public can secure an amuse ment hall, and last and by no means least, the transaction means a clear ance of all debt outstanding against the Commercial club Itself. Not alone will the club be able to pay Its debts, return the money to shareholders with Interest, but there will no doubt be a few dollajre as a neuclus for future ac tivity on the part of the club, which Is (Continued on page 8.) lawns, lace and insertion $1.25 Bp 9 Horde Wash Sa t:i in stripos, j 54.75 up FAIR BOB EVANS BETTER. Thinks He Can Rejoin His Fleet Be fore It Reaches 'Frisco. ' t Paso Robles, April 3. Admiral Ev ans Is confident today, in view. of the marked Improvement In his condition, that he will be able to rejoin hi fleet before hi flagship passes through the Golden gate. ' ' ' "I have never failed to do anything yet that I set my mind upon." he said, "and I won't do so this time." The admiral Is under the car of Surgeons McDonald and Phillips, who state that after Evans has . had his first sulphur bath ho will respond readily to their treatment Milk Famine Averted. Chicago, .April t. The threatened milk famine in Chicago was averted today when employers met the de mands of the men by giving them $1 a week raise to be based upon the rate of wages now In force. The drivers' week Increase. ' SPEAKING AT IMBLER - AND THEREABOUTS. W. F. Amlci-Non, n. D. Hamilton and J. W. KiiohK-8 Each Address Audi ences LuKt Evening at Itiihler and Siimnicrvillo Knowles In Elgin To-dny-"-(5a!iies of Pendleton, Will Lcc. ture on Lower Freight Rates at Im bier Tomorrow Nlsht. Imbler, April 8. (Observer Special.) Stump-speaking, almost on the eve of the primaries, is the order of the day In this section of Union county. The rest of the week will see several political addresses by candidates who aspire to nomination at the primaries. In this village last evening were two addresses: R. D. Hamilton, candidate for representative from Union county, and W. F.' Anderson, candidate for nomination to the office of county cler. Both meetings were welt attend ed and each speaker laid down his In dividual platform In logical style. At Summervllle Attorney ' J. W. Knowles addressed an audience. Mr. Knowles Is candidate for circuit judge. The La Grande attorney goes to Elgin this evening on a similar mission. Talking Railroad. F. W. Gaines of Pendleton, will ad dress an audience In this place tomor row night on railroad questions. He Is working for the people's Interests In securing lower rates In eastern Ore gon, and has several measures which he wants brought before the voters of the state. He was scheduled to Bpeak 'ast evening, but postponed It to give room for the candidates. ' III i PREDICT CONTINUATION UNTIL JUNK SOME TTMH. Finuactat Measare aad Bill Are Still ta ths Haade of Ooouniuena, Vara ported oa and Work Has Iliad Up Wh It Will B Wimwrf ta Onav Haas the frslua Osanoai Gives Oat laforssaftiss Pair Oa Fhwaa- Wsshlsgtoa, A art! I. It la it a Usvsa that tha drat sessioa af ra ! will ot adjoara sattt Jus I. fjpaaksr Caaaoa dsoUres that If hard veVk la dose. adJoanasBaat mar Uks place at aa earlier data, but it Is ttfllsvsd this Is hardly possible. At arsssat, Ova aparoortaaoa hUta ramaut ta fee restart, aat ataara are to Tartan HUM at lasUtattoa. Te CAIIOATES TAKE TO THE STUMP BOTH CO R SS ALL nun MAKE WIUTMAX BETTER.' Walla Walla Gives Large Sum to the Garden City University. Walla Walla, April 3. Determined to make Whitman college the "Ya:e of the Northwest," Walla Walla city and county has given the college 3200,- 000, and has started In a campaign to raise $2,006,000 for that school. New buildings have been projected that will cost $1,000,000. . Promises of large sums have been secured from cltliens In Portland, Seattle, Tacoma and Spokane, It Is said. , Clri Adopts Mao of 4 s. Boston, April 3. By ths action of the superior court at Lowell, James Butler, aged 48, legally becomes the adopted son of Miss Wllhelmlna Craw ford, a young woman of 18. Butler was raised by Miss Crawford's parents and the girl declares that she enter tains a most motherly feeling toward htm. rioontt th rilnnnrltv In their ages. . WRESTLE FOR WORLD'S ' CHAMPIONSHIP TONIGHT, The American Heavyweight Wrestler Will Face tlte Terror of Enrio on a .Mat In Chicago Tonight Ixioks Like a Square Tiling and Retting Is Lively With 3 to 1 oil the Russian -Latter Outweighs Gotch and Has Never Been Thrown. Chicago, April 3. There , certainly can be no cause for complaint on a score of "lack of condition" by the loser in tonight's mtach between Geo. Hackenschmldt, the "Russian lion, and champion of the world, and Frank Ootch, American champion. Both men are fit as a fiddle. All Inside Information has It that tonight's match la absolutely on "the square." The men will wrestle for a purse of $10,000 split, 80 and 40 per cent. The Russian is a 3 to 1 favor Ite, but at that price Ootch looks good to many bettors. , Ed Smith will referee the match. ContixuiNoiM of Two Men. Hackenschmldt Is five feet, 10 In ches In height; normal weight, 210 pounds: age. 31 years; nationality, German-Russian. Ootch Is five feet lift Inches in height; normal weight, 200 pounds; age, 30 years; nationality, German American. Referee Hodgln conducted a meet ing of creditors In the Hall-Pamon bankrupt estate today. Various mat ters of Importance to the bankrupt company and Its creditors were trans acted. ISSUE IS VEBY I1HT CONDITIONS IN PORT AC. PRINCE STILL CRITICAL BapiKMed Friend of Revolutionary Geaveral Haag Up ta Tree and Rid dled Vila Balk While ItesJdrals Keep Onsaortng for More Marlaes M ttsa Otj Reports Do Not Aotaal fleiliimsj l Afaatrw TV Maria Dally erwwlag Boldrr. rart aa Prtaca, April 3. Whits residents ara vtasnortajr for Tend leg of an arises fross tha warships m ths harbor. Assartaaa, Carman and ffYsach Mslaaas asaa tastsl that ths daagr is inw than -n rally thouabt try f nuesata rives f govara- ausls ears. Thay assert tha blacks ara a,lly growing herdsr aad mora la soil Us aad sssjaaws will sarailaly 1 VERSUS T SEA SWALLOWS 3Z SAILORS COLLISION OF SHIPS Dl'R. ING SE MANEUVERS. Tlilrty-Two Sailors Drowned as Re sult of an Accident at Sra Between a Cruiser and a Destroyer, Both Enjdbdi Ships Some Battle With Death All Night and Filially Roach raiore Twenty-five of the Crew Rewued MbtJ udged DlsUnce, Plymouth, England, April 3. Ac cording to an official .report filed to day, 82 sailors were drowned and 28 rescued as a result of a collision be tween the British destroyer Tiger and the cruiser Berwick during maneu- fara oil liia lain oi VVigiit. After fighting death all night, four sailors were rescued today, while an other died or the Injuries sustained during the collision. All told, 33 deaths have resulted from the acci dent. Mlsjudgment of the distance caused the collision. Tammany Conventions. New York, April 3. Democratic assembly district conventions will be hold today, It Is likely that the pro ceedings will be carried through with out a hitch, In accordance with the Tammany program. . FUSION NO CO SAY POPS KEEP IN THE MIDDLE OF POLITICAL ROAD. Popullxt Convention Adopts s- Plat ' form Along Clean-Cut Line No Change for Hybrid Politician With Them PoMiU Savings Bank, Par-i-1h Post, Public Isuid Legfclntlon and Ownership of Public Utilities Among the Features. St. Louis, Mo., April 3. The popu list party haa had enough of fusion. In a platform adopted today they de clare for the old "middle of the road" policy and Independence from all fu sion entanglements. The platform declares for the aboli tion of the national banks and tsu ance of money direct from hte govern ment to the people. , . The populists claim their platform Is one which will drive the hybrid pol iticians from their camp and leave none but "Simon pure" populists In the organisation. Other features are ' postal savings banks, parcels post, parcelling public land direct to the settler, government ownership of all public utilities, em ployers' liability law and the Initiative and referendum. OUGHT TO BE THt HAPPINESS AND GLORY of every citizen to so live and act that his fel low citizens will esteem him for his goodness. IT his kindness, and his usefulness. The principles cf good citizenship should constitute the code of rules for every kind of business whether public or private. This applies particularly cause, owing to the limited I of drugs by the general publit. it follows that the ro- t liability of the druggist good senieo. ..aeW a,.. , a. ,.. M m i r HILL'S DRUG STORE I La Grande SACRIFICED LIFE TO HELP SISTER TAKES POISON AND GIVES HER SISTER THE INSURANCE. St. Louis Has Remarkable Case In Ma rie Lehman, Wlm Counted Her Days ' , to Bleet Requirement of Her Life Insurance Policy To Suicide Within the Year Meant Loss of Money The Year Up Yesterday and Today She Llca Cold In Death. St Louis, April 8. For on year Marie Lehman, 38 years old, counted the days which must pass until she could kill herself and leave a helpless Invalid sister with 31000 Insurance : money. A clause In the policy provld- . . ea that If the holder committed ml r cld within the year, the policy be came void, but self-destruction ' after that would be no bar to collection of the money. Her year expired yester day and last night the woman killed herself by taking carbolic acid. Went Virginia University. Morgantown, W. Va., April 3. -Tha baseball nine ot .the Carnegie School of , Technology, at Pittsburg, will be tha j opponent of the West Virginia unlver I slty squad In Its first game. of the sea ' son tomorrow afternoon. The sched ( u!e as a whole Is the best arranged by the State university for many years. . JOHN MITCHELL MEANS , ' TO STAY WITH PAPER. Former President of the Amerkua Federation of Miners In Cousultatlosr Wlth President Today It Is flak! That Ho RcfuHed an Offered Position as ComniUKloiier to Investigate Pan ama Labor Condition Talks About Labor Class.' , t. . ' v, ; - Wasnlngton, D. C, April 8. Ex Prcsldent John Mitchell of the United" Mine workers, conferred with the pres ident today. It la said he declined ait appointment as commissioner to Inves tigate the condition of labor In Pann ma because of his plans to establish a paper in Indiana. ' .' , ."The laboring man will vote re gardless of party affiliation," de. dared Mitchell toduy. "He is no longer afraid of being called a mug wump and he will support a ticket best calculated to give him the legis- ' lotion he desires.. ,The laborers are' studying personalities . of candidates rather than their creeds, and I will support the candidate most friendly. " A cockerel Is a ;nale bird less than a year old. . ' '' to the drug business, be-1 knowledge of the qualities aV Is the chief guarantee of z lrllSE0 Orezca mjy aaa skat has) Uetksa 1air, ta tkJal L .' ' iTflllttTfTTIIftttftflttllllMIIMIIIIMIIIIMIlir j