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OREGON, 'FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 0, 190S.
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vnf.i-MJ? VIII.. I - La GRANDE. UNION COUNTY.
COMMISSIONERS
OSWALD WEST IN TIE Ell! Oil
OEPOT IJSPKIIM
ACTION ON STOCK YARDS
Can force 0, J, 4 1 to
. Depot Immediately
MAY TAKE INITIATIVE AND
. DEMAND A NEW DEPOT 1IEKE.
Commissioner West Will Be. In La
Grande All Pay and This Evening
lo Personally Inspect the Adequacy
of the Depot Futilities Intimated
That Commission Will Act If No
Citizen or local Body Dot En
couraging News.
That the railroad commission of
Oregon la determined to aid the city
and public of La Grande In securing
adequate .depot facilities, Is the en
couraging status of the depot question
In La Grande today. Oswald West,
one of the Oregon railroad commis
sioners. Is In the city today and he
will Inspect carefully all phases of the
cramped quarters at the O. R. & N.
'depot. He will be at the depot on the
arrival of the Wallowa train; he will
te there "when Nod tomes -In, and
what he sees will be reported to the
commission. The commission has met
with success In its unofficial requests
of the O. R. & N. company, and many
Improvements have been made In var
ious portions of the state without the
legal procedure prescribed by the
commission laws of the state. By
taking the matter up with the general
4.HmP'K-
Atwavz Snrnpfhinn Doina at t
the Fair Store. Get in the
habit of watching this space
Just recieved a full new line of ladies
v California Wool Sweaters
YARH OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS QOlfid AT LESS THAN
v ; ONE-HALF, PRICE
V
3omestic Saxony i
Imported Saxony
Germantown . . . .
SViic skrtn
.9Mc skein
.12c skein
Oregon Knit Wear
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65c $i.25-f.75 $1.00 $2.25
Knit .Ladles- Children Baby
Facinatcrs Shawls - Knit Carriage
Sale Price Sale Price Leggin gs Robes
23c ea. 69c ea. 59c ea. saiePrUe
$1.12
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"Satisfaction or Y
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day here. It Is believed the desired end
111 be reached without further steps
of a legal nature. No one knows bet
ter than the commission that the de-
pot facilities In this city And In all
tow mv KQfqunitti as trie rwuurg twiu
equipment of the O. K. & N. Is near
unto perfect . ,
' Will Kcyort to Conunlxnloa.
The other members of the commis
sion will listen In a few days to the
report of the commissioner who Is In
La Grande today. As the commission
laws prescribe that the commission
can Itself file the complaint. It Is likely
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MANY OREGON COUNTIES
HAV E OFFICIAL COUNT.
Oregon Rapidly Gaining Official
' Counts In Late Election Ohio Will
Gle Taft a Plurality of Seventy.
three Thousand, ' According to Late
Estimates Hlsgen Runs a Low
Score in All Reports From Oregon
Precincts. : . ,
Reno, Nev., Nov. 6. Complete un
official returns from Nevada give
Bryan a plurality of 600.
Marlon County Officially.
Salem, Ore., Nov. 6. The official
count of Marion county gives Taft 3,
786;. Bryan. 2203; Debs 275; Chafin
301, and Hlsgen 5.
Complete But Unofficial.
Corvaliis, Nov. 6. Complete though
unofficial returns .Jn . Benjon county!
are"Ti-ft 1184; Bryan 773.,
, Pendleton, Nov. 6. Official count
in Umatilla county: Taft 2336; Bryan
1569; Debs 180; Chafin 110; Hlsgen 3.
Ohio for Taft by 73,000.
Columbus, p., Nov. 6. The repub
lican state committee this afternoon
estimates Taf fs plurality in Ohio at
73.000.' "' ' - ; '
Spanish Yarn .
Shetland Floss
Ice Wool
. . 12c skein
. 7J4c skein .
. .lie ball'.
at Bargain Price?
our Honey Back"
nmuuger, after Mr. Wtst has spent
BRYAI1 CARRIED
HEVAQABY 600
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FIFTEEN MS
Fl DEFAULTER
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ANOTHER INSTANCE OF
HOW MIGHTV CAN FALL.
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Ills rnriuer in Crime StnniU Uiwea
tcwed as Yet Morse Takes Ht
PuuL-Jiment UnfUnclilURly W1U Go
to Atlanta Federal Prison Crowd
Cheer Curtis When He Leaves Court
Fallen One Was Once a Man of
Great Influence.
' New Tork, Nov. 6.--C. W. ; Morse,
until a few months ago an lice king
and prominent In the financial world.
a this morning sentenced to 15
years in prison. The sentence in the
case of Alfred Curtis, a former pres
ident of the tank of North America,
was suspended. The men misappro
priated funds of the bank andfalsl
fled the records. ' .
Morse and Curtis aro:e la the
Tombs prison at 6 this morning, ate
a hearty breakfast and appeared In
court at 8. ; Mrs. Morse greeted, her
husband calmly, neither showing any
emotion.- The greeting of cunts Dy -
his wife was different, as she Is a: Gompers defended his course In sup
complete nervous wreck. ; ,. porting Bryan and declared he will
TakcM Sentence Unflinchingly. (answer his critics from the floor of
Morse did not flinch vJhen the sen-' the convention. ., A hot fight is ex
tenee was passwd. . His .tee .'allowed pected at Denver. .
lttle expression, as with his wife and
counsel he conversed In the marshal's
office until nocn, when he returned
to the Tombs.
Morse will serve his time In ' the
federal prison at Atlanta, Ga. '.. ' j
Was Power A.nong Rich.
Morse ranked among - the richest
ani most poworfuUmon. la 2Zw York,'
In tne summer of last year he reach
?d the height of his career, when hej
jofctrolled practically all ., the coas-i
wise steamship lines on the Atlantic, j j
n was directcr and president of
many big companies, and belonged to
the Metropolitan, Union League and
University cjuba. His home 'was 8
Fifth avenue palace.
. Cnrtis It Cheered.'.
Curtis was cheered by hundreds us
he left the piistofflce building where
the court is located, with his wifei
and hurried home.' ;
Leniency for Curtb.
Judge Hough, in passing' sentence
declared Curtis was under the Influ
ence of a stronger mind. He said
Curtis' efforts . to reform condition?
were blocked by tne mum buuiik
board of directors. ' , (
' The room was crowded when th
Judge took his seat When 1 he an
that If the pending report Is so urgent
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Jonathan Eourne. senior United tes senator from Oregon, who ,
Is on Ms way eat to spend two eoks with President-elect William
Taft lie Is a puost of local lea Jin,,' republicans of La Grande today.
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WILL NO TBE A SEEKER
- FOR HIS OFFICE AGAIN.
Is Ou His Way to Denver Where a
Hot Ughl Is Espected Will Aiwtver
Ills Crltles iVom floor of Dciuer
Contention Other Labor Organis
ations Agree Gompers Overstopijod
Authority in Bringing Federation
. Into tfko Limelight. '
Washington. Nov. 6. Before leav
ing today to attend the annual con
vention of the American Federation
of Labor at Denver, President Sam
uel Gompers declared he Is no candi
date for re-election. ''
"I am not a candidate for re-election."
said Gompers, "but if I am not
active as president, I shall take, my
position la the rank and file of labor."
John W, Hayes, grand master work
man of the Knights of Labor, which
is not affiliated with the federation,
declared today that Gompers and his
associates exceeded his authority In
Tomorrow's KaMorn Games.
Harvard vs. Carlisle Indians
a
t Cambridge.
Yale vs. Brown at New Ha
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' Pennsylvania vs. Lafayette at
Philadelphia. ; V-':
t :. Plnceton vs. y Dartnouth ' at
New York City.
Cornell vs. Arnherst at Ithaca..
Annapolis vs. Vlllanova at An
napolis. - " '.-..:'''. V
West Point ys. Springfield T.
8. at Wes Point -: , . , ;
.', Minnesota vs. ' Wisconsin , at
Minneapolis'.. ' . ' '
Michigan vs. Kentucky State
at Ann Arbor. . ' .. ;
Tennessee vs. Vanderbilt at
Nashvilln. V ',."'''
Georgia Tech vs. Auburn at
Atlanta. ., " ; '
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KauMM Rank CXtwco.
Arkar.aas City, Kas.,Nov. 6.
Th Cltlren & Farmers State
bank, regsirded as one of the
strongest In this section, closed
today pending an investigation
by examiners. There Is no ex
planation. ..
CONCOCT A NEW DKINIC.
Old Soldiers Mlt Glnr ami Pure Al
culivl With Telling EffM-t.
Loa Anneloa. Nov.
inneloa, Nov. . Jamaica. In
I tne JaWt iiiuM MUtu UiHik
41 k
of the woods. Officials of S&wtelle,
where the old soldiers home is locat
ed, have learned the soldiers purchase
enough ginger for 20 cents to get a
lag lasting JO days. They are trying
to stop the sals. ,
It is claimed the drink Is killing oft
the old soldiers at a rapid rate. They
mix the glngor with pure alcohol.
PAT IA VLYIfi
WRITES TO OLD FRIEND AT
MUSKOGEE ABOUT STORY,
La Grande Booster Manager Who Dis
appeared From Seaule and Was
Thought Dead or Mysteriously Dls.
appeared, Writes to Oklulionia From
San FranciMco Says Ills Death Re.
port Was Onerally Exaggerated
lias Gold Property.
A Wichita, Kan., paper prints the
following . of , deep Interest to La
Grande people: :' . .. m
Muskogee, Okla., Oct. ti. Recently
a report was circulated to the effect
thatPat Lavey, former; president of
fuBkogee, had committed suicide in
the west. . The rumor spread to San
Franlcsco, where it reache the ears
of Mr. Lavey himself, and since he
feeling very much alive he hastened
to Indite a proUt W4ils frimd...Cap.
tain Ira L. Reeves of Muskogee, In
A'hlch he declares In the memorable
language of Mark Twain that the "re
port of his death Is greatly exagger
ated.". -
Mr, Lavey protest against his
earthly enrcer having been shortened
unknown to the party most interested
Is as follows: ' "
"San Francisco, Cal,,.'
"October 12, 1908. '
' "Dear Captain; R Is true that I
left my hotel In Seattle, Wash., and
that I was suffering with a bad arm
at the time, but I was drinking noth
ing stronger than water, because the
surgeon had forbidden any drinking.
Desldes I have not taken a, drink of
whisky since I left Muskogee, and
"I left my hotel early la the eve
ning Instead of at 2 a. m. From the
hotel I went to the home of my physi
cian and from there down town, where
I met an old friend who was on his
way to Mexico for what he said was
to be a two weeks' trip. He Insisted
on my . accompanying him. The
steamer for Ban Francisco and Los
Angeles was due to leave port In lesfe
than 30 minutes, so 1 called a me;eu
ger boy and sent word to the hotel
people. to store my stuff until my re-
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By use of your telephone and our
free delivery system we are almost as
near to you as thnugh we occupied
the adjoining building. , .
We' are developing this portion of
our bus'nef g nil ti.u ti.tsi atid
new and permanent friends by the
prompt and satisfactory way, we hun-1
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If you can't coma,
portion of our stock
sent to you. , If it's a
will both send for it
medicine.
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HIS SECRETARY JOHN Cr
ALSO HERE FOR THE DAY
EAST TO PLAY GOLF
Secretary of Republican Leape
Comes With Bourne - and Young
DOUBTFUL ABOUT SUP-
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POSED SPECIAL SESSION.
Affirms All United States Looks to
Oregon In the Matter of Modern
LeglHlation On Ills Way to Spew
Two Weeks With Taft at Hot Springs
Senator a True Booster of the"
. First Order Comments on Value of
Nevr Laws. ; . '
J. United States Senator Jonathan '
Bourne, acoompanled by his privat
secretary, John C. Young, and seCre-. :
tary of the Oregon State Republican
league, Charles B. Merrick, arrived
this jnorning from Portlund.
Upon reaching the state several
weeks ago from Washington, Senator
Bourne promised his friends that he
would return to La Grande before re
turning east. He is now on his way
to Hot Springs, In Virginia, where ho
has been Invited by Mr. Taft to spend, '
the t. two weeks with h!m, piaylng
golf., Senator Bourne' states that both
have promised not to talk politics dur
ing the entire period, but to have a
nice, quiet little vlblt '
Senator Bourne was not so sure that
an extra session, would be called im
mediately following the Inauguration,
but this matter would be duly con
sidered during the closing weeks of
the ap'pronehlng congress.
In. the matter of our new law, enti
tled the "Corrupt practice act," Sen
ator Eourne expressed his utmost sat
isfaction and then praised at length '
Oregon laws In general. . He remark-'
ed that the first few weeks he was
in Washington,, he received over ,100
Invitations to speak on the Initiative
and referendum and the direct pri-
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these, invitations came from New Jer
sey.; ' ." .-' :"' "' "
In his enthusiasm, Senator BoMrno-
stated that In his opinion the advanc
ed position that Oregon has taken wjll
result in securing more population of
the desirable kind than all of tho
money that t bIng spent along ad--
vertlslng lines. ' 1 :
Senator Bourne Is tjulte a booster
himself, and he is of the opinion that
the next few years Oregon will see?
such development following the elee-
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