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VOLUME VII.
TIE PICE
"VICE-PRESIDENT SPRIKS FOR
U. S. AT QVEBEO.
XVIk-ltates Prince of Wales Upon the
Progress Made by Canada Links
Our Nation to Northern Neighbors
No Rivalry Except In Ways of
Peace No Fortification on Bound
I ry Because None ' Necessary He
Hopes lor Widespread Peace More
went.
Quebec July 23. Vice-President
Fairbanks today delivered an address
of good will and neighborly friendship
rom the United States to the Prince
f Wales, heir apparent to the throne
of England, at the tercentenary cele
bration exercises before Champlaln's
monument. He said:
'"cflL "Tour royal highness, It la with un
usual pleasure that I bring greetings
of the president" and people of the
XTnited States, who rejoice with you
In the wonderful progress made by
the Dominion of Canada. We confi
dently believe that the United States
and Canada are destined to play a
large and worthy part In the progress
of the human race on the western
continent We have -no rivalry ex
cept In ways of peace; neither covets
r'Jt other,a territory. We covet only
-Aeh other's neighborly esteem. There
are no fortifications on our frontier,
-no battleships on the waters dividing
us. We believe, and fervently hope
there will .never be any need of de
fensive preparation. May we not on
-this theater ef " past :'ronr11cTs7iu:
"rounded now by Impressive monu
ments of peace, venture to hope for a
-widespread movement seeking to in
jure, the maintenance of peace among
-actions?
"May" we not venture to hope that
at no distant day It will become lncor-
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poruted as a part of the fixed policies
of nations to advocate measures for
the maintenance of tnternationtl tran
quility; to substitute reason for force?
Without any evidence tt decay in the
courageous manhood of nations, but
with proclamations of the great truth
that modern civilization Is not a fail
ure, we have no reason to fear that
the relations between the United
States and Great Britain' will ever be
disturbed. I beg to thank your royal
highness for a gracious welcome and
the hospitality which you tendered me
as a
representative of the United
States. I wish your country and your
people a continuance of the blessings
of peace; progress and prosperity.".
The prince was , cheered by many
thousands today; as, surrounded by an
escort of Northwest mounted police
he drove from the citadel, where his
quarters are, to 'return the visits of
the officers of the British, French
and American warships. Field Mar
shal Lord Roberta was given a great
ovation,' when he was .recognised by
the crgwds. The visit to the ships
took, up the prince's time until lun
cheon. ' ".. . ,
Pacific Coast League.
Oakland, 4; Portland, 1. -v
Ban Francisco, 2; Los Angeles, 1.
; Funeral Tills Afternoon.
The funeral of Mrs. Lizzie Bartmess,
wife of Ed Bartmess, who died at the
family home yesterday, on Rock Creek,
eight miles west of this city", took
place this afternoon from the home
of her brother, Thomas Robbs, Rev.
O. H. King officiating. The Interment
was made In the Masonlo . cemetery.
The family and relatives are greatly
shocked, as Mrs. Bartmess was In no
condition to cause any uneasiness, and
death came wtlhout warning. She
leaves a husband and six children,
and many friends. The deceased Is
the daughter of one of the old pioneer
families of the county.
""sh Baptists, ---'-"pv
Huntsrllle, Ala., July 2 J. Ad
herents of the Colored Primitive Bap
tist sect from ail over the south are
participating today In the jubilee and
dedication services at the National
Primitive Baptist Memorial Building
grounds.
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LA GRANDE, UNION COTJNTY, OREGON. THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1808.
PENDLETON CIRL
BT J EH LB
Pendleton, Ore., July 23. Crazed
because he was rejected by pretty 18-
'e"0,d EUle Ken"'on. K. Stoffle
ihot and instantly killed her early to.
day, while she was sitting at the homel
of her stepfather, E. E. Elder, of this
city. . ." " .. , '
Stoffle. who Is 24 years old. L was
pursued by posses which were quick
ly organized. . The community Is
shocked by the tragedy.' Stoffle felt
in love with the girt July 4 last It
FIVE TO DUE
Oil I BILL
ENGLISH ARE CONFIDENT
OF TAFTS VICTORY
Down In San FranelHco, RciM-exenta
'. tlve of English Firm I Making Book
and Playing Tall at Five to One
Betting Under Guise of Insurance
' . Kays tSngllnh Financiers Are Willing
to Back Convictions Willi Money
Keep Tab on Politics.
San Francisco, July 23. Lloyds,
the great English Insurance firm, op
erated a "book" on the presidential
election today. A number of heavy
beta have already been laid at odds, of
S to 1 against Bryan. The betting was
done trnder-the-gahwof Insurance. M.
A. Newell, the local agent of Lloyd,
opened a book for employes upon re
ceiving Instructions from London. He
charges the regular broker's commis
sion of 78 cents on wagers Involving
(Continued on page 6.)
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Is supposed that when he called lust
the girl told him she did not desire
his company any longer. . He rushed
Into the room where she was talking
with a child of a neighbor, and fired,
the bullet taking effect In her mouth,
passing through the head and through
a screen In the window. Stoffle then
rushed from the hmi throwing V.I.
pistol Into a rocking chair. " " 'L
; Miss Kennlson was a graduate 'of
the Echo high school, and was one of
the most popular girls In this vicinity.
EVANS son
LI
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SOX OF "FIGHTING BOB"
STRIKES HIS SUPERIOR.
Chief Topic of Conversation In Ilono.
lulu From Which Fleet Has Just
Sailed Every Effort to Keep the
Matter Quiet Reported That Young
Evans Was About to Whip His Op
ponentCarter Had Previously AsT
saulted a Newspaper Man.
Honolulu, July 28. The principal
topic of conversation In' Honolulu jo
day Is the story that Lieutenant Frank
Evans, son of "Fighting Bob," struck
Commander J. F. Carter of the Geor
gia, In the face, In an altercation on
bard the ship Tuesday. Every effort
Is being made to keep the story quiet.
Witnesses of the affair say that Ev
ans had the best of the argument and
would have seriously Injured Carter If
other officers had not Interfered. The
Incident occurred shortly after Carter
had been held In court to answer a
charge of assaulting a newspaper
man. It Is supposed that the attack
by Evans grew out of the court pro
ceedings. "
GREAT FOREST FIRE.
Million Dollars' Worth of Timber Is
Destroyed.
Santa Rosa, Cal., July 28. A great
forest fire Is raging along the Coast
range, north of here. All of the range
between the headwaters of Dry creek
and Uklah arc reported to have been
swept by a wall of fire 15 miles wldo.
Campers are supposed to have acci
dentally started the- fire. Over a mil
lion dollars' worth of timber la ro
ported to have already been destroyed.
BRYAN WILL NOT TALK.
lias Nothing to Say Regarding Colonel
Guffey of Pennsylvania,
Lincoln, Neb., July 23. Bryan to
day refused to discuss the action of
the Pennsylvania state democratic
committee la recognizing Co. Guffey
of Pittsburg, as the leader, after de
nouncing O u f fey at the Denver con
vention. Bryan leaves tomorrow for
Chlcsgo. He expects to speak In Oma
ha and Eakt Aurora, III.
, F. I. Vergere, who until the first of
the year was connected with the Home
Independent Telephone company,
passed through the city this morning
cn route home to Enterprise, from
California, where he has been for the
past five months.
OLYMPIC GAMES.
Great Athletic Meet at London HUH
Attracts Attention.
London, July 23. Encouraged by
their lead over the teams of the Unit
ed Kingdom, the American athletes
entered the Olympic games today de
termined to sweep away everything
before them. In the catch as calch
can heavyweight wrestling matches
today. O'Kelty of 'England, defeated
Lee J. Talbott, American. Bruce, of
England, defeated Bambrock of Eng
land. Yunderson, a Norwegian, de
feated West, his English opponent
jaeiiijrias, Mexican, won the first
section in the preliminaries . In the
standing high jump, by five feot one
Inch.- Piatt Adams, American, was
second with 4 feet 10 Inches. The
second and third sections combined
were won by Ray Ewey, an Ameri
can, who jumped 5 feet 1 Inch,
Holmes, American, jumping 5- feet,
won first plnce In the fourth, fifth and
sixth sections, which were combined
In the standing high Jump. Irons.
American, and lallwltz. a German,
tied at, 4 feet 9 Inches tor second
place, Kerr, a Canadian, won first
place In the final heat of the 200-
meter race. Time, 22 2-5 seconds.
Cloughen, an American, took second
Diane? PrtmK m4M ,t,4A .v- .,.
'' In tha preliminary heats of the 110-
meter hurdles, heat one was won by
Healy, of England, In 15 4-5 seconds;
Garrets, of America, won heat two In
16 1-5 seconds; Greening, of England,
won the third In It 2-5 seconds; heat
four was Won by klley of Ensland.
and heat five by Rand, American, In
15 4-5 seconds. .
Heat nine was won by Ahem, of
England; heat ten by Forrest Smith-
son, Portland, Ore.; heat 11, by Hus
sey, of England. In 19 4-5, seconds;
heat IS by Klnlhan, of England, In
16 4-5 seconds; heat ft by Howe, of
America, In 15 4-5 ecconsd; 14, by
Shaw,' American, 15 3-5 seconds.
O'Kclly, In the heavyweight wrest
ling, defeated Gunderson. Barrett de
feated Nixon for the bronze medul.
"Hungary defeated Bohemia for the
championship team fonclng with foils.
Smlthsnn's time In the hurdles was
15 4-5 seconds.
III
FEDERAL GRAND JURY GETS
BUSY IN WINDY CITY.
A Lot of "Oct Rk-h Quick" Concerns
Indicted fiald to Have Swindled
Customer Out of Immense Sum-
Jury Also Coca After Dealers In White
Slaves Rock Island and Illinois
Central Come In for a 6hare of the
Good Things. -
Chicago, July 23. The federal grand
jury today Indicted 28 -alleged "get
rich quick" concerns for alleged fraud
ulent use of the United States malls.
The charges are that the concerns at
tempted to defraud clients out of an
aggregats of 36,000,000.
The grand jury also Indicted 28 per
sons accused of selling white people
mto slavery. Two Indictments were
returned sgalnst the Rock Island and
the Illinois Central roads, for alleged
violation of the anti-pass law.
Miss Vivian Isbell, of Fort Morgan,
Col., arrived In tha city this morning
to spend the summer with her grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Johnson
of this city.
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HILL'5 DRUQ JT0KE
LA GRANDE, OREGON
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NUMBER S3
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STANDARD OIL NOT YET
v CLEARED OF WRONGDOING)
Govenunent. Will Apply for Rehear.
lg In the Case Remitting In the Bltr
Fine Will Proceed to Prosecute
With Vigor Every Cae Against Oil
. Camiaa!wrwmaaM f . win
Tried First Includes 1300 Countit.
Chicago, July 23. United Statea
District Attorney Sims, who prosecut
ed the Standard Oil case,. today gave
out the following statement: .
"The government will file a petition
for a rehearing In the Standard Oil
case before the circuit court of appeal
within 80 days.- If that petition l
denied the government will push the
prosecution of all rasos against the
Standard Oil company. The fight ha
Just begun. It Is supposed that Elms
received Instructions from Bonaparte,
as he announced yesterday he 'could
make no announcement until he had
consulted tho attorney general. Tha
first new cases to be laken up will be
those In Tennessee. The trials are to
be held In Jackson, Tenn., November
8. These cases Involve 1500 counts.
and will be prosecuted by special
Counsel Wilkinson
T
IS OMEIffl
YOUNG GERMAN CONFESSES
TO KILLING III9 AUNT,
Had Planned Crime tor Months la Or
der to Get Woman's Money, 91600,
rUre Sweated Him to Get Confca
sloo Tells AU Revolting Details oC
Murder Burled Plunder In Lmx4y
' Locality .First Claimed to Be Vic
tim Himself.
Peterson, N. J., July 23. After
having been In jail several hours, and
severely "sweated" by the police,
August Eberhardt a former employ
In a New Tork grocery store, late thl
afternoon confessed that he had lured
his aunt, .Mrs. Otlllls Eberhardt, and
her daughter, Ophelia, aged 20, to thl
country from Austria and deliberate
ly murdered the woman Sunday night
In order to get her little fortune of
11600. He told all the details of the
crime, which were revolting. He
says he burled his plunder a mile and
a half from the scene of the crime,
In a lonely section of Hackensack, N.
J. '
Eberhardt was taken there this af-
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