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NUMBER 65.
LA GRANDE. UNION COUNTT, OREGON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1908,
volume vm.
DEUYIIIIUC
IB'IPIICECIF
rmsco's mayor and
COMMISSIONERS CLAS1L
Board Will Not Apitolnt a Now Chief
of Folic Until It Is Assured Tliat
Biggjr U Actually Dead Continuous
Squabble Between Kelt, Mayor and
Commissioners -Some of Blggy's
Interview Withheld as Sacred Tay
lor Assumes Iovcr,
San Francisco, Dec. 4. The board
of police commissioners will not ap
point a new chief of police to succeed
Igffy until It Is definitely established
Xlial rilggy la aeau. in vna meantime
there Is no. trace of Blggy's body. It
is rumored the commissioners have
clashed with Mayor Taylor, who as
sumes the responsibility of naming a
Atv nhlaf whan th HmA Brrlvpa.
!The commissioners are becoming
dissensions over the statement of
Commissioner Kell that Biggy handed
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disappearing. Kell asserts he told
Mayor Taylor that Blggy offered his
'resignation. Taylor denies he receiv
ed such Information.
Acting Chief Cutler who was re
ported yesterday as criticising Kell,
doubting the Interview between him
and Blggy, today denies the remarks
attributed to him. It Is reported that
Kell refused point blank to reveal all
the details of the last Interview with
j Blggy,' and states that parts of the In
terview are sacred. ,
if1 liars Blame on Telephone. ,
admitted that he Is personally re
sponsible for the orders restraining
Detective Burns, of the graft prosecu
tion, from visiting Morris -Haas, who
attempted to assassinate Heney. He
blames the poorly working telephone
for a misunderstanding of his order.
He telephoned to Patrolman Attrldge
and Charles Kelley, who were watch
! ARRIVED
I Our Full Line of New Dolls, I
I Toys and novelty Xmas goods
Will be on Display Tomorrow
F
MR
"Satisfaction or Your Money Back"
ing Haas. but they did not get the In
structlons right. A hearing of the
charges against Attrldge and Kelley
was begun last night,
W'lU Not Honor Requisition.
Seattle. . Dm 4. Governor M J
has refused to honor the requisition
f Governor Hart of New Jersey, of
Elliot Archer, accused of forgeries
amounting to $70,000. Mead examin
ed the papers presented by eastern
detectives and listened to the argu
ment of Archer's attorney. He an
nounced' that stronger evidence must
be presented to offset Archer's good
behavior here. Archer will probably
be released. '.
ARKANSAS RIVER ON '
A WILO RAMPAGE TODAY
HOUSES UNDERMINED AND
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DESTROYS OTHER PROPERTY.
Heavy Rains In the Up River Districts
Sends Arkansas River Over Us Bank
Floods Districts and Destroys
Property Pine Bluff Suffers the
Most .
Pine Bluff, Ark., Dec. 4. A flood
which carried the Arkansas River out
of Its banks today, tore away dikes
protecting property along the river
front, allowing five houses to topple
into the river. Heavy rains up the
river are Increasing the floods.
Stores and buildings near the edge
are being vacated, all goods being
taken to places of Bafety. The court
house and the Jefferson hotel are In
danger of being undermined.
CIRCUIT COURT MONDAY.
1 Two Cases Are Set for Circuit court
Early Next Week.
The State against John Mlnnick,
charged with1 larceny of a calf, and
the State against Anderson, charged
with violating the local option law,
are the first two cases to come up In
the circuit court when that body con
venes next Monday morning.
STORt
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NORTH END OF COUNTY
HAS FRUIT TREE BOOM
Great Faith ami Intecrftt Displayed by
Prominent Men of Elgin, Who Now
Own' 200 Acres of Fruit Land In
Five Years Will Have Enormous
Valuation on Large Tracts Pro-
v
motors Stake All Their Fortunes on
Suocenn of Venture -
The Elgin Recorder, In Its Issue of
today, said:
Still the fruit acreage of northern
Union county lands Is Increasing and
at a rapid rate. A deal was brought
to a clone a fow dnys ago whereby the
Jacob Long farm of 160 acres, situ
ated threo miles north of Elgin, was
transferred to J. B. Thorson and H.
H. Weatherspoon, who were already
owners of a 100-acre tract of fruit
land.
The Jacob Long farm Is conceded
to be one of the best tracts of land In
this end of the county, and Is known
to be an Ideal ploce of ground for
frutlralsing. Of the tract 115 acres
ire under cultivation and an add!
ional 15 acres will be placed under
cultivation at an early date.
The Long tract Is situated just across
the road from the 100-acre tract
which Messrs. Thorson and Weather-
spoon purchased some time since, and
most of which has been set to apples.
The owners are alteady In charge of
their new property and will com
mence the work next spring of piepar
parlng ,the land for apple trees. In
the Spring 70 acres will be set to po
tatoes and the ground thoroughly cul
tivated during the summer, so that it
will be In first-class condition for the
trees by fall. Arrangements are also
being formulated whereby nearly the
entire tract will be Irrigated from a
large spring located on the place. The
tract Is situated within a short dis
tance of the O. R. & N. '.Ine and the
owners expect to erect a large storage
house next season, where next year's
crop of potatoes will be housed until
shipping time, and which In after
years will be used for a fruit storage.
The newly acquired, tract places
Messrs. Thorson and Weatherspoon in
possession of over 200 acres, all of
which will be producing apples, and
other fruits within five years at a pro
lific degree. v Both gentlemen are op
timistic as to the outcome and confl
dently expect large' profits from their
investments which by the time the
orchards are In bearing will represent
a large sum of money. Mr. Weather
spoon stated to a Recorder represen
'.at'.ve that he thoroughly studied the
motions In northern Union county,
in-1 x& thoroughly convinced that no
sretinn of the northwest offered better
opportunities for fruit land Invest
ments. He says he will stake his rep
utatoln, his labor and his capital on
the outcome.
The operations of Messrs. Thorson
and Weatherspoon In this section Is
going to have a telling effect and will
be the prime factor In starting a fruit
land boom, such as has never been
witnessed In Union county. The fact
that they are Investing large sums
is already offering incentive to others
to follow in their course and ere an
other year passes by we will have wit
nessed plans formuluted for the set
ting of thousands of acres to fruit. It
means a new era for northern Union
county and one that will bring addi
tional people and wealth.
Carlisle at Denver.
Denver, Col., Dec. 4. Denver will
be afforded an opportunity to se the
Carlisle Indian school's football team
In action tomorrow, when the eastern
redskins will play the eleven of the
UHverslty of Dnvr. This ! th flr-t
time that a football eleven represent
ing an Important eastern college has
come to Denver, and a large crowd
will witness the game. The Denver
players do not expect to defeat the
redskin, but hope to be able to keep
the score down.
ODD fflC
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PARTY AT LEAST
RICHARDSON AVOWS IT IS
GEORGE" OR CAKE FOR HIM.
Before a Group of Politicians Last
Evening Representative Richard
son Takes Stand That Brands Him
as a Real Representative Patton is
Organizing Statement No. 1 Caucus
Preliminary Skirmish In Reality
Over Proposed Caucuses.
RepreBentatlve-elect Stephen F,
Richardson Is known to entertain a
view of the coming senatorial squarble
which will in a comparatively .short
time attract the attention of the na
tion's political eye, which heretofore
has not been made known through the
press at least, and that Is, that If "un
desirables" break up the present slate
which places Governor George E.
Chamberlain, democrat, In Une for the
United States senate, he will not vote
for any other man than H. M. Cake.
This will be disheartening news to the
Fulton and Wilcox factions who are
making strenuous efforts to forestall
the will of the people of Oregon by
placing In the United States senate a
man other than the popular choice of
the whole people of the state. In
making this statement before a group
of politicians yesterday, Mr. Richard
son did not Infer that he would vote
for Cake except under a condition that
would require him to cast his vote for
some other man than Chamberlain.
The representative-elect Is at Perry
today knd could not be brought Into
communication ' ' '
Organiser Here.
Representative-elect H. D. Patton
of Salem, who returned last evening
from Joseph' In company with Joint
Representative-elect Rusk, was In
eastern Oregon for divers reasons, the
principal pne of which was to organ
ize a caucus before the legislature
meets to devise means of procedure.
While Patton Is an avowed candidate
for speakership, he realizes that there
is much organization to be done first.
Regardless of the fact that he Is a
candidate, he will make strenuous ef
fort to sign up a majority of legisla
tors to go into a statement No. 1 cau
cus. It tney tail m mis mere win oe
no caucus by the statement element,
but the crucial hour for work will
come on the floor of the house, after
having enlisted democratic members
This In the rough. Is the plan ad
vanced by Patton.
His Success Here.
In Union and Wallowa .counties, he
procured favorablo promises, but as
yet no actual tlgnatures. Messrs.
Richardson and Rusk ' have both re
quested more time to think It over.
The Antls Plans,
When Representative Beach was In
La Grande recently he, too, was seek
ing caucus signatures, but for the anti-
statement element. The slate la to
get 27 anti-statement men into a
caucus and select an anti-statement
No. 1 speaker and the official router
of the same faction for that matter.
Either one or the other element Is go
ing to fall, that Is apparent, and which
of the warring factions gets the- cau
cus, will have much to do with subse
quent legislation. The senatorshlp la
not Included In these advance skir
mishes. Rk'hnrdxon Makes Assertion,
It was In this connection last eve
ning that Richardson Is ' alleged to
have said that If by some hook or
crook' the will of a majority of the
people of Oregon Is to be defeated,
then he will carry out the wlsen of
the majority of Oregon repvb'i.-vns by
voting for Cake, the chc!.-.? of the re
publicans at the sprlnj primary.
Cosgrove No Better.
Paso Robles. Dec. 4. The condition
of Governor-elect Cosgrove of Wash
ington continues to show no Improve
ment Today he shows the effects of
his Illness plainly. His physicians
are recommencing constant attndance
of a trained nurse. The. patUnt In
sists upon his wife attending.
111 REPREStifl
VERY LOW HATES.
TranHContlncntal Lines, Will Reduce
lares for Seattle Fair.
Seittle, Dec. 4. After giving a rate
of . ISO for the round trip from Mis
souri river points and SL Paul to the
Seattle exposition. The Transconti
nental Passenger association has now
made what Is considered an extremely
low rate from Chicago, Peoria and St.
Louis. Word was received today from
A. M. Cleiand, general passenger agent
for the Northern Pacific, that round
trip tickets, good from May 25 to
September 30, will be as follows: From
Chicago, $68;. Peoria, 150.15. and St.
Louis, $68.25.
OBSERVATION CAR MAKES
ITS FIRST-APPEARANCE
PALATIAL FURNISHINGS AND
COMFORT CIUEF FEATURES.
No. 1 and No. a Will Hereafter Carry
Is Great Improvement Buffet Car
to Be Taken From These Train
Fine Furnlxhlngs.
A thing of palatial beauty and real
comfort is now provided on all west
bound trains that pass La Grande In
the morning. The first observation
car, "Ben Tomond," since the service
was instituted, passed through La
Grande today. It Is half standard
sleeper and half , observation. Thts
last named part of.lt resembles an
ordinary buffet car, though . more
roomy and more elegantly finished.
The rear platform, which resembles
General Manager J. P. O'Brien's car,
from a standpjnt of finishings. , The
railings are polished brass, and give
more than ordinary room on the plat
form Itself. Comfortable chairs and
settees stand on the platform, which
is roofed over by an extension of the
car roof. This service makes No. 1
a splendid train, being equipped with
standard and tourist sleepers and din
ing Icar In addition to the observation
car accommodations. The buffet car,
used by men only, has been discon
tinued on this train.
The same service will be maintained
on No. 2, the train which reaches here
from Portland In the evening.
An All-NIght Bank.
Philadelphia, Dec. 4. Despite the
general belief that the Quaker City
goes to bed at 9 o'clock, Philadelphia
Is soon to have an "owl" or all-night
banK to accommodate litotra io i''
about during the night watches. The
new Institution will be conducted on
the continuous plan and xwlll' have
counting room and offices In the
northwest corner of the Bellevue
Stratford. It will have a capital of
xsno.ono and number among Its stock
holders and . promoters, treorge
Boldt of the Waldorf-Astoria, and the
Bellcvue-Stratford,' and Laurence Mc
Cormlck. Directors In well-known fi
nancial Institutions In this city are
nlso among the backers.
Grand ball FrlCay evening at Elks'
hall.
THE WAY OF CURING PAIN
First: Drug it away; Second: Coax it away by the appli
cation of heat. Heat relieves almost any pain, a d when it
will answer H is the better remedy. Every home should
contain a
HOT WATER BOTTLE
Heat can then be applied anywhere, at any time and in the
most effective manner. If the bottle be wrapped in a wool'
en cloth it will remain hot for hours. There are few
things a home can contain that will be more useful than
this modern convenience. Those we have are made of the
highest quality of Para Rubber, will lost for years and cos
but lit tie
Newlin Drug Co.
La Grande, Ore.
4 IIICTUEIITS
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GRAND JURY DISCILRGED;
NUMBER OF BILLS UNKNOWN.
Small Batch of Bills Given to Sheriff
for Service Four Indictments Now
Against Officer -Raymond Cun
ningham Subject of One Indictment
Charging a Statutory Crime WW
Not Make Known Xu Bills UntU the
' Victims are Caught.
The grand Jury, after being In ses
sion one day, completed Its labors and
filed Its report before Circuit Judga
Knowles this morning and wer dis
charged until some time In February
prior to the session of the February
term. '
Four true bills made public were
returned. How many others there are-
Is not' known nor may not be until
the parties are In the custody of th
officers. '
, A true bill was returned against
Raymond Cunningham, charging bin
with a statutory crime.
Four Indictments were returned
against J. B. Officer, one charging
him with the larceny of a watch, an
other for not returning a rented gun;
another for the larceny, of ' a phono
graph; another for a suit case. ,
CHILDREN ESCAPE DEATH.
Blind, Deaf and Dumb Children of
Boie School Ewapr Fire.
Boise, Deo. 4. Forty-four deaf
dumb and blind children, attending
the state school here, and living In th
old Central school building, had a nar
row escape from death at 7 o'clock
this morning, when fire attacked tha
latter building while they were being,
marched from the third floor to their
breakfast on the lower floor.
The children left the building In
perfect order and not one of them wa
Injured. It', Is said that If the fir
had started while the children wer
sleeping, many of them, would hav
perished.
The fire started on the third floor
and burned downwards. A defective
flue Is supposed to be the cause.
One part of the building was occu
pied by state officers. The record
were damaged by water, while the to
tal tuna is siu.vuv. - ..,-
The building was a three-story
brick. ' "' .' '
To Wed Chinese PupIL
New York, Dec. 4. One of the most
novel weddings ever witnessed in this)
cosmopolitan city. Is scheduled to tak
place tomorrow, when Miss Belle Le
roy, a refined and accomplished young
white girl, 'who has for some time
acted ns a missionary and teacher In
Gotham's Chinatown, will become tha
bride of eKe Sing, a Chinese washer
man of 24 Mott street. The full Chi
nese marriage ceremony will be used
to unite the loving pair. "
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