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L . "i- . volume ra. ' ''Vy ; ' . ; ." . ' GRANDE, UNION COUNT, OREGON. SmiiDAT JUNE 2(1, jscj "''. """ . -- sss Iltli JA7TER STILL iiiiTiiti COURT TARES VITAL QUESTIOH 1 UNDER ADVISEMENT ; ".'' ACTION ONLY ONE LEFT Court Meet This Morning and Spend. J the Day In Hearing; Evidence and J Arguments Disponed of . County . ! Court, County Clerk's Regularity ') and the Sufficlttrtcy of Iho Petition-- ,j Only Thread Loft for Rocwh to At Jy, tacu His Hopes. ? Court met at 8:30 a. m. today to hear testimony In the Roesch injunc tion case. Julius Roesch, plaintiff Iv. the case, was heard. . His testimonj was a reiteration of the alleged fact contained In the complaint as to hie business, eto. . The testimony of Coun ty Judge Henry. Deputy County Clerk Ed Wright and Sheriff Chllders wae '.- lthout Interest, being a mere state tnent of their official actions In r 'iRurd to the election. Mr. Banford of HUgard, was put on the stand. He testified that he posted the election ftotlcea May 15. Sanford was com- . felled to testify to this because In the affidavit sent to Sheriff Chllders as to (he time of posting the notices, the date was left blank. ,4 Argument on evidence was begun at l:to this afternoon. Attorney Frank k Vllion, for the plaintiff, 'consumed hours, ouotlnsr RuRmrmn mthnH , tyi to uphold the contention that the injunction should be made permanent 1 Blows at Roracii. i When Attorney Wilson had finished tils arguments, the court took up the allegations of the complaint separate ly, and made It plain what his final eclslons will be. 'This-was done, one y one, until the entire Issue had sim mered Itself down, to the question of Vbether or not the fberttt was In duty bound to post the notices himself. . -'i Petition Waa Sufficient. v - . Relative to the petition for a liquor license, signed by more than 800 vot . rs, and which Julius Roesch main tains waa Insufficient, the court ruled that the petition was sufficient ; County Court Regular, , Then, picking up the allegation that the county court's actions were Irreg alar, the court ruled that they were ' tegular. County Clerk's Action Proper. ' ', "fiext came the action of the county tlerk. The allegations set up that the slerk should have signed them In per son. This the court held to be unnec essary. j The Last Thread. ! These questions disposed of, the late of the Injunction then hung by ine tho sd. that of the legality In the ictlon of Sheriff Chllders In Instruct- (Continued on page f.) (TOMAN PARINO CORN ' 1 CETH FATAL INJVRIES. ialle) Accident a Remarkable Ono j V-tsnan Lost Her Balanr While j ying a Corn, and In Ai-t lo Itr- eover Her Balance, Inflicted Trrrl ; Me Wounds oa 1 1 mrl f A triMm tvx Cornea, Bat Too Ite to Stop fkn j of Dlood la Tune. f Vallejo, Csl Juas II. Mrs. T. M. S D EC I S i ONS FAV O R P R 0 H I B S v- ,-- -. FATAL IIIK mi in I HodgmM of., this city,' ! lylnff' ner, r 1 1 Ifl n ITPr rtrtll 1 r-r t . . . . . ."T. T P rzs Hodgman of . this city,' Is .lying' near death today from a severe raior slash Inflicted In u singular accident. She was standing (n her hpmei one foot resting on a chair In the act of paring a corn, when she suddenly lost her equilibrium. In her' efforts to recov er her balnnce she slashed her left firm open to the bone from palm to elbow. In snatching the razor from the wound she. nearly severed one finger of the right hand. The wo man's cries brought assistance, but be fore the flow of blood could be stop ped, she was In a serious condition. There Is little hope fdr recovery. ; 1UCJ3 MEET STARTS. The Meadows H vtex Horse Than . Ever Bvforo on Opening Day. Seattle, June 20. the. summer meeting of th King County Fair asso ciation was started C the Meadows this afternoon for the annual 71-day meeting. A card of six horses was presented. ' II Is doubtful Is ever on the 'coast a higher class of horses has been represented on A dally program. The opening, handicap Is the feature of the afternoon. Public choices for the race will probably be Sugar Maid and Rntrenous. The abolishing of the pool sellers who formerly preyed on the women in the grandstand is a move which meets lth great favor. EXPLOSION ON BOARD THE ' ' - , OCEAN LINER ARCADIA. Paido Follows ExplotUon on Board the Hanbury-Anierkn Liner Arcadia Near the Water Front at.Phtladr. phla Ambulances lUuT 'Wounded ' to Hoiqiltala, Some fat Dangerous Condition Body of One Victim Is Found Prompt Aid Saves Ship. Philadelphia, June JO. An explo iton on the Hamburg-American liner Arcadia, arriving from Hamburg to day, set the ship afire and caused a great panic along the water front The ship carried a general freight cargo. Many of the crew were Injured. The body of a negro has been removed and he Is ths only one known to be dead. A general alarm was sounded for am bulances. When they arrived 11 of he injured were taken off and rushed to the hospitals. In a .serious condition. When the explosion occurred long shoremen were hurled In every direc tion. Quick action of the waterfront Ire department prevent destruction of the ship. Many Fatniits. After further Investigation, It Is be 'leved that six men lost their lives as i result of the explosion on board the Arcadia today. The ship Is practically destroyed by fire. Chief Officer Kro ger was badly burned about the face mi hands while rescuing the Injured. He saved many lives. He rushed Into the flames and carried out two dead negroes and 11 Injured. At roll call this afternoon It was shown that a score are missing. Many were seen to Jump overboard, and It la believed they were drowned. Twenty-five men were below the hatches when ths ex plosion occurred, and It Is not known whether sll of them came up. Thirty ire known to have been Injured.' The tteamer, which carried much freight tettled Into the mud and It Is believed the entire Interior la destroyed. The 'Irs boats are pouring water Into the hold, but the flames have spread be yond control. Ths only explanation offered It that the explosion was caused by gas. The Arcadia steamed up ths bsy thlr morning after completing the voyage from Hamburg, an dwas near the dock at ths time of the accident. Hitchcock Declines. Cincinnati, O., June 10. Frank Hitchcock was today offered the chairmanship of the national republi can committee but declined. Bo far there Is ao aetectloa. I V ' . I death today from a sever, mnr.i,,.i, L n If 1 1 1 1 1 I I l 1 1 SI II Hill I llllllli I 1 1 If 8nu lurn " 7000 to 10.000 pounds Indicted In . singular accident. She' I f i 1 1 1 M I V AlWi f H I Hi OCEAN LINER III 1DACCIDEIIT IITE M!WUIL UUM 1 I IIUI I III Mllkl 9 II 1 WELCOMED lit TAFT AND SHERMAN IN CINCINNATI TODAY. Oration That Sounds Like National Convention Given Both Sherman and Tuft as Uie Republican Stand ard Bearers Enter Ohio City Sub- ' Committee Is Conferring on Man to ftlanage CampaignBands and Big Multitude Await Leaders. i Cincinnati, O., June 10.' The center of republican. activity has been trans ferred to here from Chicago. Today this city has ths appearance of a pres idential election time, so rreat In the enthusiasm. Taft, the presidential nominee, arrived from Washington at 8:30 and was greeted at the station by a tremendous throng, who : cheered and made a wild demonstration. ' J. S. Sherman. Taf't'e runnlnir mm. arrived from Chicago 15 minutes ear lier, with Charles Taft, and a sub committee of the national committee which confers here on the appoint ment or a permanent chairman to manage the campaign. Ovation for Sherman. Sherman and the National commit tee were given almost as great an ova tlon as Taft received. , Two bands were at the station and a carriage was pre pared for a parade through the cit The line of procession was through th whole city In a continuous triumphal march. The street were block'ed all along and everybody was out to cheer "Our next president Our Next President Cries of "Cincinnati's . president' and "Our own president" wera heard all along ths line. The crowd took up the yell of the convention: "Taft Taft, William H. Taft." The parade, led by the bands, made its way i to the residence of Charles Taft at , Fourth and Race streets. A big bunch of American Beauties were thrown Into Tart's carriage, where they were re ceived with apparent pleasure. A street hawker playing a fluto phone, near the carriage, in a moment of en thusiasm, threw the instrument Into the carriage, where it fell Into Taft's pocket The crowds and bands drew up In front of Taft's residence, where ademonstratlon lasted several min utes. The candidate bowed, smiled and waved to the crowd and then sprang out of the carriage with a surprising agility for a man of his 'site. He walked lightly up the steps. At the door he turned and again waved to the crowd. It la understood Taft is In a quandary regarding the appoint ment of a campaign manager. The Ohio contingent holds perma nent chairmanship of the national committee should go either to Arthur f Vorhys. the first Taft manager, or former Governor Myron T. Heriick of Ohio. Many members of the commit tee Insist that Hitchcock, manager of Taft's cnmpalgh for the nomination, Is not entitled to the place, but Is the best equipped man yet -suggested. The members of the sub-cntnmlttee are ,'Oeenral Powell Clayton of Ar kansas; former Governor Myron T. Herrlck of Ohio; Frank B. Kellogg of Minnesota; Charles Nagle of Missou ri; E. Hart of Iowa; Snatnr Borah of Idaho; E. C. Duncan, of North Caro lina, and Frank O. Lowden of Illi nois. NEW RECORD AT SEA. BatUmhlp Georgia Establishes New Record In Trip Booth Friday. V. S. & Georgia, at Sea, June 10. (By wireless to Unltsd Press.) The Georgia Is stilt the sea queen of ths At'antlc. - Under her natural draft. .-&!ig through a moderate beam of sea, the Oeorgla In a speed trial south from Cape Flattery. Friday averaged U.0J knots were hour on a nine-hour run and ll.Of knots under a forced draft on a four-hour run. This rec ord beats ths builders' trial speed of the ship, though on the run Just com pleted the Georgia waa more heav ily loaded, and was drawing three feel eight Inches mors water. No othet battleship In the navy has squalled this record. IN GRANDE RONDE LEADING FHCITGltOWER GIVES PROMISING FACTS. After Giving Figures Tliat Are Con clusive I'roof of the Valley's Fertile Fruit Soil, the Writer Affirms Only One-Fifth of Fruit Soil Is Now Cul tivated Resume of the Crop of the Post and What is Expected for This Season. . (By Karl J. Btackland.) The Grande Ronde valley has tor many years constituted one of the leading fruit sections of the Pacific Northwest and like a half doxen riv als, to. Importance, Is rapidly Increa ing In both the output from her older orchards and ths acreage of new ones. . . . For the season of 1908 we expect to market nearly one and a Quarter mil lion pounds of Blng, Lambert Royal Ann, Oregor and Black republican cherries; 6000 crates of strawberries, 3000 crates raspberries and 2000 crates blackberries; ' SO to 40 carload; of the different kinds of plums, pears and prunes for shipping "purposes about 400 tons of Italian prunes for drying; six to eight thousand boxes peaches, a few grapes, apricots quinces and nectarines; S00 carloads of No. 1 apples for shipment, and quantities of crab apples, etc., for vin egar purposes. The above crops will come, main ly, from the orchards planted eight years ago or more, and represents only about one-fourth or less of the pres ent acreage. , The total number of cherry trees now planted number over 15.000. or about 850 acres, full stand; 12,000 pear trees, IS. 000 peach and plum trees 27,000 prune and nearly 200,000' apple .trees. Planting orchards "on -a Veal com merclal scale has only Just begun, a ever one-fourth of our present total acreage has been put out the two last planting seasons and much larger or- taard enterprises are now In contem plation than ever before. The quality of the fruit grown here la, on the whole, equal or superior to that grown In any other locality and In some lines we lead or beat the world. Our cherries of Just ordlnsrv packing for market have regularly received awards of 100 points (or perfection) at every fair where ex hibited and Etackland Bros, of Cov hold gold medals from all the last in ternational expositions. Our plums are also unsurpassed; In -apples an.', pears with modern Intensified meth ods end care In growing, grading and packing, wa equal or excel! moat othet sections with a large numoer of thi most desirable varieties, of which most if the late plantings here consist. As to yield per tree or per acre, and egular crops, or total yield per acre 'or a scries of five or 10 years, wi 'enow of no other locality anvwhnr. iquallirig ours. When It comes to returns and mone) tblnlned for certain crops, the wh.ili las been very satisfactory, as tin 'arge orchard plantings or tbo Ian few years must convince any oni Numerous Instances of fancy price are on record which will show what has been and can be done. Boms years ago ths writer, acci dentally, had 140 boxes of Bpltxen burg spples, moat 4 -tiers pack, bal ance 4-tler, sell late In February foi ?J.I7 per box. f. a b. shipping point. The apples Were grown on 14 olC trees standing II feet apart There fore, at the fabulous rate of 14400 per acre. The crop of Royal Ann and Repub licans In the orchard of John Msrtln at Cove, from 14 to 17 year old tree for several years brought him at the rate of 11640 to 2; per acre. Three- fourths of an acre of Jocunda straw berries yielded for flvs years from 211 to 814 crates per season, that sold for from 11.80 to 12 per crate, al home. One smsll patch of the splen did strawberry owned by Oscar Lund of Cove, ths second season yielded at the enormous rate of 140 crates (24 quarts each) per acre, that sold for 81.70 per crate at the patch. Red raspberrlf yield Immensely every year ana turn off 7000 to 10.000 pounds per acre; blackberries, Logan' berries and dewberries do almost as -well; ail berries bringing splendid prices, for the laHt seven years, regulnrly. averaging pver 82 per 24-pound ciutv at home,-, Records of 830'j to JBOO per acre In come fiom 8 to 12-year-old apple or chards are numerous, in splto of the fact that the Ben Davis and Gano have constituted the varieties. While 1.4T acres of Rome Beauty apples, 10 yt-ar old trees, last year yielded 700 boxes, packing fruit that, by buyer, sold for 81225 f. o. b. Cove; 84 trees, 14-year-old trees of the Hyde's Kirnr. last ,r yielded 600 boxes, that at a lumped price, sold for 8900 here., . Our Blng and Lambert ; chnrri.. from three orchards In Cove have net ted the growers 10 cents per pound above picking and packing exoenae on the average, for the last three ed! for most of our white cherries. Royal Ann, Centennial, etc., at 4o to bo per pound, delivered, here. With practically no pests to eon tend with, most of them never having maae an appearance here yet having tne brightest, cleanest and healthiest looking fruit trees ever seen to grow, an almost Inexhaustible soil, and the records and conditions above stated. II Is no wonder that the Grande Ronde valley Is rapidly expanding Its fruit Industry as less than 5 per cent of the best fruit land is planted yet PEiWOFF THANKS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FOR FAVORS. President Roosevelt Clowe Vp 61kop ana runs Down Angling Panplier. nana. tweretary Loeo and Asebrt ant will Keep Feet Todcr Desk During the Vacation Teddr Had a "Corking Time Daring His Term of ouiee as President. Washington, June 10. President Roosevelt accompanied by his wife and daughter Ethel, and son Quentln. left Washington at :16 this morning tor their annual summer visit to Ovs. ter Bay. The president waa accom panied to the depot by a crowd of of- flclals and friends. He was guarded by secret service men. Secretary Loeb and Assistant Secre tary Latta. remain at the White House to be chief poo-bahs "until the presi dent returns. A friend reminded th. resident that he had earned e, vaca- lon. "Don't waste any sympathy on me." he president replied. "I enjoyed every -ninute of my term In office. My thanks are due ths American people. not theirs to me, for ths opportunity I had to serve them. I have hvd a per fectly 'corking time." Birth Record, Born, to Mr. and Mrs. A. B. In this city today, a daughter. OUGHT TO BE THE IT on uii ol every citizen to so live and act that his fel- f low citizens u ill esteem him for his Joodness, i his kindness, and his usefulness. The principles of ; ; ood citizenship should constitute the code of rules for every kind of business whether public or - private. ; f This applies particularly to the tini business, be- ; ; cause, owing to the limited knowledge of the qualities ; ; of drui by the teneral public. It follows that the 're- If li ability of the drus.lst is the chief juarantee cf ;: t toodscr::e. HILL'S DRUG STORE . ' .,,'. .( -.'. I J-a Grande BID ACCEPTED BY TilE BOARD CONTRACTOR SLATER WILL COMPLETE SCHOOL BULBING. At a Meeting of the School Board Last Evening Several Bids Were Opened, But Mr. Slater's Was the Lowest Full Asolpnmcnt of Teachers to the Various tirade n t, Three School ' Building or the City Was Also M4da ..Last Night.; Two thousand four hundred slirhtv. one dollars and fifty cepta Is the sum to be expended on Improvements ot Grande, according to the bids present-, ed to and opened by the school board at Its meeting Jast evening. The flgnre name Is one presented by Contractor ' J. I Slater and It means the comple tion in detail of the upper floor of the brick building in North La Grande. The school population has Increased In so large numbers that all available school room Is needed to give ad.iquu.te seating room for t pupils. Other Bids In. Aside from the bid presented by Mr. Slater, there was one from 3. 3. Clan cy at 12490. This was the next low est bid. Still others wore offered by Louis Wright at 82750 and Splker Bros, at 88270. Teachers Asnlgned. Aside from disposing of the matter of bids for the completion of the school building, the board made lie assignment of teachers for the com ing school year. In the first rrsde In the Central building. Mrs. Stella Ingle will be the teacher; In the sev- ond. Miss Lydia Hug; In the third. and fourth, Mrs. Ellratteth Sutflni In the fifth, Miss Mary Harris; In the sixth, Miss Ruth Bush; In the seventh. Miss Byra Kuhn; In the eighth, Rob ert WUkerson.. . ... In the Whits- Building. , ' " Fifth grade, Manuel Snider; fourth grade. Miss Susan McIIroy; In the sixth. Miss Helen Vehrs. i In the Fourth Ward. First grade, Mrs. Nellie Nelll: first . and second. Miss Gertrude Blever: sec ond, Miss Nell Toung; third. Miss Elix. abeth Burnell; third and fourth. Mute . Qusle Fisher; fourth. Ella Blakei firth, Miss Elisabeth King; sixth. Mm Emma Pickler. Hlffh School. V M. J. Mansager, Alice McKlnley and Pauline Helllard. I Los Angeles Dooming Taft, Los Angeles, June 20. Los Anretee started the national campaign today when the whistles of 250 local manu facturing plants joined at noon In a great "prosperity blast" Banners bearing the words "Taft and Bher-' man" were strung across the mala streets, while campaign buttons wars distributed liberally. The first meet j Ing will be held tonight wben the re Geddes, publicans gather to ratify ths nomi nees. e lUPplVF.SS AND r.l nnv t . t Oregon MMatMMM4 844w2W444; V