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j v NUMBER 19. ) volume vin LA GRANDE, JNION COUXTT, OREGON. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1908. " '--N't'1 .,.''' f j ) 'x ir . rv. s v . r-, v. I " i SO h . ' , j M ; - i 11 Y V J 1. 'S TH1VT FIGURE IS burh auto to kill COflFEREtlGt OF i0AV,D tcCLES S I TO BE REDUCED !Ci m BUB'S PdWERSil " I SANTA ROSA AUTOIST TO I -V COST OF COLLECTION AND RECEIVERSHIP TO BE ADDED Us Far as Ascertained, Liabilities of c..vnndid Bank Are Such That owr . , t . . , They Compare With Asset $7.70 eio Gatch Will Repay Those vr - .t- - - Wronged After Insolvency as Far as jstble -Stockholders WW - Lose' Everything. Less than 77 cents on the dollar will be paid to the depositors of th Farmers & Traders National bank. This Information is obtained from Uio dlapatch from ' Washington, based on figures obtained from the report of Examiner Oatch. The bank has aa wpts. 1166.231. while the' liabilities, as far as ascertained, are $213,515 By dividing the assets by" the liabilities the ratio of paying powers can be learned. Tills is a little more than 77 cents on the dollar, or as $7.70 Is to $10 at the date' of report. The short age to date is $47,281, considerably more than first reported by The Ob server. Before the cost of making required collections, the cost of settling up the estate, and the cost of conducting the ' (Continued on page 8.) Before Inltmate Friends and Negh bore He Will Born Expensive Auto Is a Hoodoo to Owner; ' : Santa Rosa, Cal., Oct. 22. J. L. Up pold, a prominent business man of this city, has Invited his friends and neigh bors to a bonfire on Main street on election night, when he will burn his red touring car, which has brought him bad luck. He expects by thus de stroylng the machine he will kill the hoodoo which he thinks is associated with the car. He says every time he goes riding in his auto something goes wrong. He is not sure anything will come out all right. When the fire Is at Its height he will run the machine Into It. JAPANESE PLAN AND FOSTER A NEW SCHEME, HE AND OTHERS BUY ENORMOUS NEVADA RANCIL CARS IN ABUNDANCE. Great Northern Will Have No Shortage Tills Season. Car Seattle, Oct. 22. J. M. G ruber, gen eral manager of the Great Northern, is here for a semi-annual inspection, and says the road will be ready to swamp the shippers with cars if they ask for any. The company hag 20, l 000 cars on the road. ,r To Bring Heads of AU Powers To gether for a- Conference on- Prob lems of the East is New Scheme- Would Be Master Stroke for Ja pan America to Head the Confer enceTo Form Alliance Similar to Anglo-Japanese Treaty. Toklo, Oct. 22. A convention of all powers Interested In the far east,-to be headed by America, England and Japan, for the discussion of Questions in the far east, and for the possible formation of an alliance between America, Japan and England along the lines of the Anglo-Japanese treaty was proposed today by Japanese statesmen, , . The sentiment , for the convention has been cryataltelns the past wiek It becs.me known' today that several officials of the cabinet expressed them selves to the high officer's of, the American fleet as earnestly desiring such a conference. One Japanese of ficial Is quoted as having said he favored "Open discussion of the east- W1U Put 100,000 Head of Sheep and ' 60,000 Head of Cattle on New Farm r Cost One Million. Ogden, Utah, Oct 12. A deal was closed today by which a million dol lars In cold cash will be paid for the biggest ranch in the Intermountaln region. The purchasers " are " David Eccles, M. S. Browning, Joseph Snow craft anl Adam Patterson, all Ogden capitalists. They obtained title, to the famous Sparks-Harrell ranch In Nevada, covering hundreds of square miles. The owners will put 100,000 head of sheep and 50,000 head of cat tle on the ranges. . Ill 1IIIC III THE HEAR EAST BOSNIA AND HERZEGO- ; J Vina scene of revolt. Austrian Insurrectionists In Two Coun- , trice Attack Troops Guerilla Tac tics Adopted With Telling Effect , All Balkan States WIU Be Involved la the TaW'0. Thinks Agent AU News Censored Cloeely Taarlua Is 111 From Worry. SUSPENDED CASHIER IS RELEASED ON $5000 BAIL TI M LOST SEiRCHISE PARTY: BELIEVED TO BE OS FUTILE TUSH (Continued on page 8 ) . . , .A.S..A.A..J.UA...JLX.A.J. AAJiAAAAAAlAAAAAAitiiitA ,I,J,A .. 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A All fOMCADTC DrnilrFh Lot 1 $4.50 Wool Blankets, Our entire stock of Cotton ALL LUWrUAl J KCUULCU Blankets cut into three prices, , 8ale prIce so hurry and get the Blanket Lot 1 $2.00 Comforts, sale t Bargains of the season: . 53.69 a pr - : tf-f CO pnrlt Lot 1 All 41.00 and $1.25 av.ll Cotton Blankets go at 'm" lmmmmTmmmmm Lot 2 $.50 to $7.50 all-wool Lot 2 $2.25 Comforts go at RQf 3 WY 'if A - r Blankets go at OVC a l $1.79 each m jr Lot 2 All $1.50 and $1.65 Lot 3 $2.50 Comforts, sale DVD Blankets go at nc l $JJ0 3 Pf ' Lot 3-J10.00 and $12.00 . " Union Wool Blankets go at Lot 8 $1.85 and $2.00 Heavy Lot 4 $2.75 and $3.00 Com- Cotton Blankets go at forts, sale price . FQ OJ? ' 52.29 each $8.35 $jm a pr sWasajjjBsssjaBBjasBsasssja I Why Not Keep Warm These Cold nights n HOT SHOTS Jo Cold VJenther Satisfaction or your money back The Store That Undersells The Rest To Improve Ohio River. Louisville, Ky., Oct. 22. Several hundred Influential citizens of six states Pennsylvania. West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois ongregated today at the Seelbach for the annual convention of the Ohio Valley Improvement association. The sessions will be occupied with discus sion of the Important problems con nected with the securing of a nine-foot stage of the Ohio river from Pittsburg to Cairo, III. The gathering Is the largest and mont Important In the II years' history of the association. Never before has the Ohio river boon ut so low a singe as It has this sum mer. or remained at a low stngo for uch a length of time, nor did the agl- tHtnrs of the slack water system hnvc such a good argument In favor of the nine-foot stage to Cairo. The Ohio river has been placed, by the direct agvnts-of the congress of the United States, at the head of all rivers demanding Improvement by the federal government. The fact that the two dominant par ties are committed to the work of Improving the rivers makes It alto gcther likely that the next session of congress, no matter what the outcome of the election this fall, will see the passage of appropriations sufficient to carry out the plan of the Ohio River Board of Engineers, who have recom mended improvements such as.wll ef feet a nine-foot stags all the '.year roond. London, Oct. 22. Open warfare has been In progress In Bosnia and Herze govina for 10 days, and scores have been killed, according to information brought to Montenegro by, an agent of that country. About 120,000 troops were attacked by . Austrian ' insurrec tionists In the annexed territories and the fighting still continues. The guerilla tactics adopted by the Insurrectionists are proving effective. The Austrian, government Is rushing reinforcements to the scene. Owing to a strict censorship by the AuHtrlans, true conditions are unknown. Anarchy , exists In the eastern and southern sections of the annexed ter ritory. An agent is trying to learn what course England will pursue in the event that Hervl and Montenegro declare war against Austria. He says the action of Austria amounts to an att(MiM4.iiarjrfvrlj?e- Bosnia and Her xegovlna Into submission by force of arms. Tito people will never submit to the annexation. .The agent says he Is convinced the war will Involve all the Balkan states. Czarina In iMYiou Condition St. Petersburg, Oct. 22. Unless the czarina the mind, according to Information con- eyed to the czar today by physicians. The czarina has been reduced to a nervous wreck by the terror of the revolutionary violences. She Is suffer ing constantly from hallucinations. For days she has refused to utter a word. ', - t . SURRENDERS TO THE FED ERAL AUTHORITIES TODAY. Financial Clerk of Portland Foetofttoe Hears Complaint Filed Several Days Ago Four Thousand involved." ' Portland. Oct 2$. Charles A. Straus, the suspended cashier of the Portland postofflce, , In hearing the complaint, charging him with embe-. -. alement. which was filed' " In ' federal court, surrendered to the federal, au thorities today. He was released on $5000 ball. The charge Is, that Mr. Straus, as financial clerk, failed to i;rn over remittances for stamps and othsr sums received from the post--masters throughout the state, amount ing to $4000. - - - .i A AAA. leaves soon on a sea voyage to Mediterranean she will lose her 1L111TE HOLDS DESTINY NEITMB CRN WIS WITHOUT . " THE MORMONS . F LL ORDERS IF T H IS Ell BESIOEHTIHL CANDIDATES PHE PARE FOR THE EHO . Denver, Oct: 22. A canvass of the probable electoral vote for president by John ' E. Osborn. former goverrtor of Wyoming, now in charge of the branch headquarters of the national -democratic committee here, has de veloped an interesting political feature that the Mormon vote of Idaho, Utah and Wyoming might determine the election. The electoral votes of Utah, Idaho and Wyoming are absolutely In the keeping of the Mormon hierarchy, according to Osborn. It . should be made clear to Joseph Smith and other Mormon leaders that It Is rea sonably certain Bryan will win If the Mormon church can be depended up- . on to throw tne weight of Its Influ ence to him. . Osborn says these votei were thrown to McKlnley over night to defeat Bryan by agreement ' betweun .the church and . Mark Hanna. "The church gives , Its vote to the party showing the winning qualities." said Osborn. Giving the republlran party the states conceded to It, with New York and Wisconsin.' the republicans would have a total of five short of a major ity, according to figures here. Giving the democratic candidate the con ceded democratic states snd others In the republican column, the total would fall eight short of a majority. In either of these event the Mormon vote may decide. HUME NOT DROWNED. Salmon King LUre, But Ills Root Is i Total Wreck, Say IUKrts. Point Pleasant, W. Va., Oct. 22. Referring to Roosevelt's letter to Sen ator Knox, In which the president said Bryan has not mado plain his views on the labor questions., Bryan said to day, If the president desired Informa tion, nil he had to do was to read I Pryjii's labor day speech In Chicago. Bryan -will reply at length to Roose- icii .-.n- LTjnn uuiiyi-iru matlon of the report that the gaso- addresses today and yesterday In West jine schooner Enterprise was wreck- Virginia. 1 He will start tomorrow for ,d and that'll. D. Hume, the salmon New Tork. - kng of Rogue river and the owner and Taft Off for Indiana. crew were save$ and brought here to- Clnclnnatl. O., Oct 22. Taft- left' day. At first It was thought Hume Marshfleld. . Ore., Oct. 22. Conflr- tn Michigan Carried by Taft. . Chicago, Oct 21. A straw vote Michigan, conducted by the Chicago Record-Herald. Indicate Taft will car ry Michigan', by a plurality of from MOO to 100.000. Few maxims are' standpoint. true from every here at 7 this morning and spoke at Lawrenceburg. He. will spend three days In Indiana. His throat Is im proving. ; . Aurora, III.,' Oct. $3. Taft declared that If It Is being, re ported that busi ness men are giving orders to be filled In case he la elected, and not flUed In case of Bryan's, election, It- As only another Indication that the election of Bryan will not restore confidence. He tpoMii to a Mg crowd. and members of the crew of the En terprise had perished when the boat ' struck, a bar while trying to ' enter Oold Beach. . ' Famous -Ship lor Honeymoon. Lpp don, Oct $0. Rome dispatches; say. the fitella, polare,,, the ship oa which. th., duke of Abrjsal made his m)ra'or.a famous Arctic expedition.' la uaderewlnf extensive,, renovation, probably for the hontnon trip af ter tils dukelets weds Kathetine El-kins. i ' ' 5 mtjii.j..Aj.,u,AiAtwt?t ' w-,.Tr"""-'"