La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, April 23, 1908, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textt VOLUME vu. ... . y . v." ; , : ; ' IA CRAXDR.' UNION COUNTY. OREGOX. THURSDAY, APRIL 83, 1008. . 1 1 I PHI HHP Tft llinntllnirn'milili i l i I n T asg" "" L in I UnNIIL III 1 him Innae. with u'V, I I I I ' I I I I 1 1 1 ' 1 11 J I 1 1 I I O O I "k I 1 1 ill PUBLICITY BY BOOSTING OVER 3,330 WERE SUB- . - SCRIBED IN ONE HOUR, -A a Result or the Effort of Tom Rlch ''; to Form Live Boost Club in This City, Business Men Coma to .. .the Front, In Commendable Manner ; .Last Night and Pile Up Over Thirty, f, three Hundred Dollars for Tills Pur. pose Oreat Address bjr the Booster ; ' Imperative That ChUdren C Helo oost ;- ' : ' Xa. Grande was primed and shot off tlaat rilght by Tom Richardson, man ger of the Portland Commercial club, following; an earnest, straight from the shoulder discourse, in- which he . Said down the dire need of conserve : lve advertising and the means by J" which It can best be prbouredi he at tacked the Durse strings of tha bunt. 3iess men present Figuratively speak ''Stig, gold was heard to ollnk noisily, ; land before his campaign for boost s -.funds was closed the roll showed $3, . 350 dollars subscribed. This amount Is to be paid In monthly Instalments : for 12 months. - The- La Grande Na tional bank was the heaviest subscrib- , er, with ISO per month, but the Amal gamated Sugar company promised to 4ake up the matter with the head of fices, and until then, would pay 125 -monthly. The remaining 12E will" nn doubt be forthcoming. ; ; After Still More. i A special committee was appointed, on motion of Mr. Richardson, to camp - n the trail of the business men who -wore not there, and to bring the total rsubscrlptlon up to $6000 for the year. A Remarkable Man. Tom Richardson Is a remarkable -.man. Those who heard him listened ., "intently for great truths were coming ; from the mputh of Oregon's king of boosters. He laid stress on the great importance, of securing the co-operation ot school children in all boost : movements. "Make every man, woman and child (shout, for Oregon, for Union county and for IX. torande," he said, "then '.you will get results. Every child, -every man and Individual In this city ubhoald be as proud of the fact that he : lives in La Grande, as he prides his Ihlghest fancy. . "Get the children writing letters to eastern friends,1;! he advlsod. "But rfirirt tell them, acquaint them, and In struct them thoroughly In what' the resources of the county are. To do this business men should at frequent intervals speak to the various rooms -In the city's Bchools. Get Good Secretary. '"The Importance of having at the "head of this movement a new man, is -paramount There is money in this city, and there Is boost; but what you ' need Is a head a leader. Get a live, rM,,,ll,l,,111"1""" WHY NOT BUY GUARANTEED CLOTHES DOXT BE SATISFIED WITH ORDIXARY CLOTHES, XfHEX tOUB MONEY WTLL BUY A ROYAL TAILOR SUIT, LEGALLY GUARANTEED TO HOLD ITS FIT AND STYLE UXTIL WORN OUT. 1 Think what Such a It prows to yon that yon win get months of extra wear oat ot your Suit and you'll have Uie MUlsfattion ot knowing yon are n-ell droswd every tl'ne yon wear It " W take all tlie reapopMblUty of fitting' you. If you don't way It's the best fitting; Jbeat looking' Suit you ever woredon't . take It. THE ROYAL TAILORS ARE THE ONLY TAILOR8 IN ' AMERICA WHO GIY A GUARANTEE UEGALLY DRAWN 1 t AND SIGXTED WITH EVERY .SUIT THEY tMKE THAT IT ' wriABSOLUTELY HOLD- ITS STYLE AXD FIT UXTIL -.worn our.' ..'V- nTr::-'v ; ' a FIVE UUNQRED NEW jsUTIS Jt) SELECT FROM J Jt$Q - TUC - Cil f D i cTlDC ; V : , to r Mil- J fllll, Jl certain . "But, beware of fake ' secretaries. They are numerous. To get a man who. will not squander the money on Irresponsible methods, requires a good salary. Albany, Eugene, Medford. Roseburg and Grants Pass have all Passed the tentatlva itan In this mil. ier ana are securing results." . Space forbids publishing all the strong arguments ' presented ' by Mr. Richardson, but tha subsequent action of the meeting In raising the sum named, testifies to the reception which the address received. . ' ' " ' Campbell Speaks, Briefly, President Campbell of the Bute university," spoke of what'Eu gene Is doing. Healso touched, upon the . appropriation question,- laying forth several Important reasons why the state cannot afford. In the face of the notoriety that has already been secured by the attack on the appro priation by granges of the state, to wreck the institution at Eugsne. ' Following the addresses, and a pop ular song, by the L. D. 8. quartet, the (Continued on page 8.) 1 COT JEWELS SAX FRANCISCO POLICE HA VE CLEVER SWINDLER George E. Llttell, the - Most Darin? and Cunning Swindler on the Coast. Plays on Woman's Love and Then Robs Victims Got Nice Sum From a Seattle Woman Secret Service Men Find He Worked Similar Game lu .Other Cities. San Francisco-, April 2S. George E Llttell, said to be the most daring and cunning confidence operator In' the country, appeared before United States Commissioner Heacock today for ex amination for removal to Seattle foi trial on a charge of Impersonating federal officers. . - ' , - :" ' Llttell was arrested in Oakland a week ago on complaint of Mrs. Jose phine Daubney of Seattle, from whom he secured $740 while representing hlmsel fto be In the federal service. Llttell, according to secret service men, has made a trade of wooing women and getting money and Jewels. Women are said to be relating to se cret service men In New Orleans, Chi cago, New York,, Boston, Denver and 8an Francisco, facts of former swin dles of this nature. Union Draws Color Line. ' , Jackson, Miss., April 23. The Far mers' union of Mississippi, one of the strongest bodies of Its , kind In the country, has gone on record as oppos ing the admission of negroes to mem bership or of having any affiliation whatever with organizations of col ored farmers. HM.MMM.g Guarantee Means VftL $45.00 a ,t- ii worn LAND CITS LOWER HOUSE IXDULGES i IX BITTER DEBATES. Southern Land Grants of Oregon Is Topic of Most Bitter Fight In Tills Session of , Congress An Amend ment Introduced to Protect Inher ent Purchasers Enemies of - the Amendment Say It Woul dLet Il&r rlmaa Out on tbe Valuable Grants. Washington, April IS. One of the bitterest fights in this session of con gress occurred in the house today over the SrinntfAVt flf tH HliitU an1otnw Instructing the attorney general to in stitute a suit to wrest the land in southwestern Oregon from the Bar- rltnan Interests, which are alleged to navs violated restrictions under which they received the grant . The land lies along the Oregon- California railroad an dthe grant was made in 186. Representative Ford ney " of '' Michigan, introduced V an amendment to protect the "Innocent purchasers," Including inhabitants of the small towns and 45,000 acres pur chased by lumbermen. This amend ment Is savagely attacked, the charge being made that it would operate to let out E. H. Harrlman. ' Asleep Seventy-Eight Days. '-' Los Angeles, April 28. This Is the 78th day of continuous sleep of Mrs Beulah Hawkins, and physicians havt ?iven up hope of ever awakening hei by artificial means. Nature will bi mowed to tdke Its course. There h no change In the condition of th woman, except a slight variation Ir weight MURDERER SWUNG TO A TELEPHONE POLT Free Trial Taken From a Bud Ma in tlio Sklililoo Mining Camp In N vala When a Mob OvenniwiTS U Deputy Sheriff and. Guards, an Swing to Telephone Polo a Ma Whntllad Committed Murder Sui . day Victim of Mob a General Hoi Character. . ' Rhyollte, Nov., April 23. A mob r :he Bklddoo, Nev., mining cam' ynched Jos. Simpson, last night,' . jambler who shot and killed Jam .Vmold Sunday. Simpson was beln ield a prisoner In a vacant bulldlii; Tuarded by a deputy sheriff an uard. The mob swooped down earl 'ast night secured the prisoner an within 10 minutes his body was hanr 'ng suspended from a telephone pol. Simpson was a hard character. Bur lay he went on a rampage and, aftc ittacklng Cashier Dobbs of the South rn California bank, went to Arnold'; thop and In a quarrel killed him. Fire In Belllngliam. "Belllngham, Wash., April 23. Fire supposed to be of Incendiary origin lestroyed the Independent Asphal' olant this morning and by burning '.he wires carrying electricity form the lower plant of the Whatcom County Hallway company, shut off the cltj it all power, and traffic Is paralyzed N'ot until noon were street cars an many of the Industrial concerns abl to proceed. The lou was about tS, 000. Naval Officers Entertained. Los Angeles, Cal., April 23. After three days of continuous round of so cial duties of a formal aaiure. Admiral Thomas and 250 of his officers threw off sill "fuss and'feathers'. today and went out on an informal automobile spin through (he beautiful' foothill towns near the city. The trip included Pasadena and San Fernando valley. Luncheon was taken at the Annadale NMf' AFTER HI HOLER ABE RUEF CLAIMS TO . BE TARGET FOR BOMB. Following the Attempt on the Life of Ex-Supervisor Gallagher and the Destruction of His Oakland Home, Comes a Story From Ruef That the Bomb Throw-era Are After Him Thought to Be a Crank Who Plans to KM Off AU Alleged Boodlera. ... San Francisco, April ' 23. Abe Ruefs life has been threatened ac cording to a story by the ex-boss. ma nuiMutttui, viMiiiuM nuuivuiawiv after blowing up of Gallagher's horns yesterday In Oakland, leads to the be lief that some crank has decided to do away with the graft regime In , this city. . -: .." Ruef and Gallagher are no longer friendly, Gallagher giving the prose cution all the aid he can, and Ruef Is lining up with the higher tips. The Gallagher affair is , causing much apprehension among other ex supervisors who have testified in the graft trials. ' Attempts Gallagher's Life. Oakland, April 23. The mystery o '.he attempt to bio up the home an person of James L. Gallagher, chief witness In the prosecution of the graf cases In San Francisco and the for mer go-between for Abe Ruef, hat hot yet been cleared up by the police The entire force of detectives in Oak land is employed on the case, and sc far there have been no results. Crowdt of people are about the house all day. The front of the house Is efefctually wrecked. . - TWELVE HUXDRED ADDED TO LAST NIGHT'S SUM nio Special CominlUee Wlilch is Can vawtlng the City to Double the Sub Hcrlptlon of IjBt Evening for Boos ler Purposes, Meets With Groai Smyiras More Plucea to Hear Vnm and Subscriptions Coming Easy Everjbody EnUiuslastlc. Twelve hunJrtid tlollart subscrlbet 'n addition to the which wert alsod last night, and "seVtrnl pre Incti to hear from," is the highly1 in ouraglng repuft the special sollcltlnt ommlttee ptbinted last evening, re ports at S o'ClUek this afternoon. Early today, when th virus ot en thuslasm injected, last evening wt Jtlll active. Messrs. F I. Mvai-s.' .- W. Scrlbsr, Oeorge Stoddard and Ma Wood commenced a i-anvana tn Am- )le tbe amount raised last evening fo boosting purposes. There luck an .'ortune thus far has been of extrem' loy to those who believe In boosting Their object is to raise the subiUflP tlon to 8(000. and this sftoftniin i tands at 34600. And they will sue eed. The gentlemen who are Inolud id In the committee are Indlvduali who will not rest until their goal I reached, and Judging from today'; luccess, they will not have so tre mendous a task as might be thought Here Is a crisis where th busine men have arisen nobly and will stan( shoulder to shoulder In the movement united, and Imbued with one aim to give the county resources th right kind of publicity. MORE ELECTRIC LINES. WUlamette Valley to Be Gridironcd With AddJUonal lines; ? Portland, AprU 13. Work Is . to commence, next week on the exten sions to th present line of th Ore gon Electric company, which will lay a network of 101 mile of new track In the Willamette valley within th 5K!lEB Ure northwestern portion of Orn from Eugene to Columbia, and from Tillamook bay to the Willamette river In direct touch with Portland. : New lines will cost 310,000,000, and the capital of the company has been In creased, to meet it. George Barclay Moffat. William a. White and A. C. Bedford are handling the financial end of the deal In New York city. . The Interurban roaa extension will open up some of the richest dairying and fruit country In Oregon. HORACE KNAPP HOME, , Accounts for Action ot Pet Dog Whk-h i StMrted Worry Yesterday. Horace Knapp is horn again and all the anxiety occasioned by peculiar circumstances pertaining to his trip In the mountains are cleared. ' This morning he returned to his hom. t Bouth La Grande and account for"thslB' lted of horse stealing by a unusual behavior of tha do, which heretofore has' never tett, by saying that he had whipped the animal and it had gone home. He was somewhat surprised to learn that th dors api pearance tn South La Grande yester day without his master occasioned much worry, 'J . ' - PAID FOR VOTES MANY SUPERVISORS ON STAND IX FORD CASE Dr. Charles Boxton on the Stand to Complete His Story Relative to tlte Boodle Board's Action In the) Over head Trolley Affair Many Ex-Sn pcrvlsor Say They Would Have Voted for it Anyway, But That Gal Inghcr Paid Them AU. San Francisco, April 23. When the T. L. Ford trial opened this morning, Or. Charles ' Boxton, ox-supervlsor of the old boodle board, again took the itand to finish his testimony, his story being uncompleted yesterday when court Bdjourned. Yesterday Daniel ' Colcrpau, Max Hemlock, James F. Kel)ey, , , Har ?l!'Jfyr.'.i Edviard Walsh, iX-iuperviors, all testified. AU re ported that they were In favor of th iverhefld trolley ordinance and would have voted for it whether money was ?old them or not. All admitted that 3upervtRor Gallagher had paid them 'or their vote. I . , . Wife' Murderer to Hang. ' Sparta, ; Ga., "April S3. Porter Cooper, a negro who killed his wife ast month and was given an Immcdi ite trial, convicted and setenced to leath, will b barged tomorrow hooper after crushing hls'wlfd' ku'l with an arfi dui, v.,. k "t t,J uie . uuuy, evered th Bead and lower limbs rom the trunk. He Is said to hv. placed the fragments In crocus sacks, juried and fired his house to conceal i me evidence. In the cot room h made" a full confession. i FUGHT TO BE THE every titli en to so IT Jlow clH'cns will esteem him for his oodnesI his Klndncs, and his usefulness. The prln&lpcsor tood eiuzensnip should constitute the code of rules for every Kind of business Thlsappiies particularly fto the dru business, bo cause, owln to the limited lwowlt6it pl iwquallUes of druis by thefencral public. It follows that the re liability of the druiilst Is the cWcf guarantee of good service. ' ; "," ' v ' ' 7 HILL'S DRUG STPRE H La. Grande DEAL IS FOUND GUILTY BY III JURY OUT SIXTEEN vV HOURS BEFORE AGREEING, R. W. Deal ot La Grande la Found Guilty of Horse Stealing Before Umatilla County Jary DoUbecaw for It Honrs Before Ileavhhig Verdict Will Appeal for New Trial la Out on Bonds Argaiamt Early la May. - . ; ; - " . '- Pendlsten, April 24. Observer spe cial.) R. W. Deal, lh pipoeM.' rssi- aent ot union countv. ni thW Jury which wu out th ia tmuM Ut last evening th Jury went: Into retirement, and commenced to ttallot at nc. After th first thnt - nr taken th you stood to Jt for. eoib vlctlon, Later on th vata tnt it a for convlcnw, and this morning b came1 unanlmoj, xt I ' o'clock th foreman reported a verdict of guilty. The horse which Deal is accused or stealing was the property of Ed Hal ley ot Union county. Th theft waa made about August last year) and th horse was found at Salem recently. Mr. Deal Is said id have taken th ani mal and aold It..;. , , , v. ' p ' ' Following a change of venue th. trial was heard here with F..S. Ivan hoe of La Grande, as prosecuting at torney. .,;'. ( ;:- Appeal for Retrial. ', A motion will be tiled by the de fense tor a new trial. ' Hence, if the motion is denied, the sentence' will hot be pronounced on Mr. tDel until early in May, for the arguments in the new trial wilt not be heard befora the supreme court 'until the first wee In May. Mr. Deal Is out on bonds. The mjUmunu iMte-Ut-can be )m posed Is seven years, CONFESSED TO THEFT, Officer Made . No Mistake 5ii Goods Located. .Smith, the box 'car thief, confessed yesterday afternoon to having en- V : tered .the box car and taking there from. He Informed the officers whem the rest of th booty could be found" and this morning 0'?!or McLachlln went to the designated spot and sue-' ceeded in finding three grain bags full ; i ot tadte'shoe. .Smith 1 still n th; . " r'ty Jnlt wltlng the tunhtt ctSf..''T . i . - . ' " " W th officer. , v, President Alexl Angry. - C . ort au Prince, April 33. AlthougBT 1 affairs iq Haytl are tranquil at nres-.' i ent, hostility again. -the gove'rnm,. C , T. , I ,n.cr.w!fl "y Bnd . th9. bettir: class of citizen ar hoping for lritii- ' ventlo by the United BMiir.fa fhjt . Is attempted President Alexis, dectare; he will saturate the.Wand'wIth-blo-d :. of foreigners on. ihn inland "tv,; , i r w may send mf a Kilrl'" htlsaid 'tJ i inmi no, , put i . wont1 alon," ,'i-.T ' W A'W HAPPlhiESS AND CL(?RY; li ve and act that his f$ J whether public or private. jfi.-i:,U:i,y:r Oregon ' to ' . ..." i 11 1 if H t M.M.M IMMMMMMI Mft uouciud, next thr rear. It will out th tw iiiiummnmimiinmm