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MOST FANCY PRICES PAID
IN LA GRANDE THIS YEAR
jRamHcy-Oldcnberg . Company , Clone
Deals With a Dozen or More Grow.
ers Yeatorday, That W M Total Over
Twenty Carloads Slz of Slo and
Jrlcca Paid Really Encouraging
Ooiihidorlng Early Condition of Ap
ple aMrkct Tills Year.
The fanciest prices for Grande Rond
apples secured by growers this season
were realized yesterday by a dozen or
more local growers, who combined
sold over 20 carloads of fancy stuff to
the Ramsey-OIdenberg Warehouse Co
The exact price has not been given out
though the buyers announce it brush
d tho dollar mark, and in a few in
stances went above )1, thus setting a
record price for this season.
The size of the purchase Is also one
of the largest of the season, totalling
more than 20 cars. Individual sales
in the bulk, vary between 860 boxes to
J 800 boxes.
! The Keller.
Those with whom the deals were
closed yesterday by the local fruit
dealers, were Mike Carroll, 850 boxes;
C. M. Riddle and C. E. Smith, com
bined, 1700; J. M. Fraker, 1000; Jos
eph Alnsworth, 1700; A. P. Davis, S,
ft. Williamson and a few other small
'Jots bunched at a carload; the Hunter
!tal, 1800; the Rynearson and other
mall lota bring the total to a score of
ears.
, The Beat is Cone.
This large purchase cleans up the
' best of the apple crop on this side of
Hie valley. There' it one entire crop
and several half crops and leave-overs
which will keep local Shippers busy
for some time yet, but the big bulk of
1908 apples is now sold. The prices
liave been a trifle below the normal
during the winter, but considering the
extreme unsteadiness of the national
PTVe market earlier In the season, the
ale prices paid yesterday are very
satisfactory indeed. The most fancy
price paid 1n several years Is but very
little higher than the quotations on a
few of the very choice carloads sold
since the holiday period commenced
this winter.
WIdo Variation.
Since the market has settled down
to a degree at all favorable to the sell-
rs and shippers alike, there has been
a wide range in prices. Between yv
cents and $1.15 per box Is the extreme
hoth ways during the last few weeks,
according to unofficial announcement.
FIRST ISSUE
TO
GOVERNOR BRADY ASKS FOR LO
CAL OPTION LAWS IK IDAHO
Boise, Jan. 5. The first message of
Governor James II. Brady was dellv-
red to the legislature today. It urges
the republicans to fulfill all party
pledges, including the enactment of a
fdirect primary law, county local op
Jtion law, and also urges the pledge
jmade at the stale republican conven
tion that W. B. Heyburn be re-elected
iCnited States senator, be kept While
rnnt favorin? n rai'roid commission.
!.? g.v?-i.K.F recommends 'IhH cfeaii.is'
f a public utilities commission to
Stave charge of all public service cor-
oratlons. He recommended the ap-
ropriatlon of sufficient money to
fomplete the atate capltol building,
pad also for the Idaho building at the
attle exposition. ''
PARDON BUWALDAiHAKL I A PI I Al
OXCB APPLAUDED EMMA
GOLDMAN. THEN JAILED
President Roosevelt Pardon Young
Soldier Who Spoke to Enuna Gold
man Cane Caused Trouble.
San Francisco, Jan. 5. Private Wil
liam Buwalda. sentenced to five years
In the military prison at Alactraz Is
land for applauding Emma Goldman,
"queen of anarchlBU." was today par
doned by President Roosevelt. HI
original sentence was reduced to three
years upon recommendation of General
Funston. Buwalda claimed he at
tended the meeting to take notes, but
the military court did not believe him.
LID ON EVERETT.
Even Quiet Gambling: Wilt Not Bo Tol
erated, Says Uie Mayor.
Everett, Wash., Jan. 6. Mayor
Jones has issued orders to the police
that gambling In all forms must cease.
Heretofore games had been played on
the quiet.
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ARE WANTED HERE
JACK O'NEAL IN CITY IN
INTERESTS OP BIO EVENT.
Walla Walla Commercial Club Will
Run Big Excursion From Garden
City ou January Fifteenth I tlnor
ary Provide for Exlianstlve Sight-Seeing-
Trip- Palo Alto, Paso Ito
blcsr, Del Monte, and Other Notet
Cities to Be Visited.
Jack O'Neal, the O. R. N. passen
ger agent, Is in La Gran da today
making arrangements for liberal pat
ronage by La Grande people to the
California excursion that Is to be run
from Walla Walla, commencing Jan
urary 5. The itinerary provides for
visits to the principal places of Interest
In California and Oregon.
The Itinerary In brief follows:
Friday, January 15, leave Walla
Walla, O. R. & N. Co., 11:45 p. m.
Arrive Portland, 9 a. m.
Leave Union depot 9:30 a. m.
Leave Portland Union depot 10:S0
p. m.
Sunday, January 71, arrive Grants
Pass 10:50 a. m.
Arrive at Medford 12:15 p. m.; at
Ashland 1.05 p. m.; at Shasta Springs
:45 p. m.
Monday, January 18, arrive at Or- -
land, 18th street, 30 u. ni. Trip
and around I'erizelty and Ixit to t'.ie
grounds of the University of Califor
nia. Return to Oakland; entertain
ment and inncncon.
Arrive at San- Francisco 6 p. in.
Trftin will be conveniently parked for
occupancy during stay In San Fran
cisco. Tuesday, January 19, leave San
Francisco 9:45 a. m.; arrive Tavern
of Tamalpals 11:40 a. m..
Wednesday, Janaury 20, breakfast
at Hotel Falrmount.
Arrive Palo Alto 10 a. m.; drive to
Leland Stanford, Jr., University.
-Arrive San Jose 11:50 a. m. Lunch
eon Hotel Vendome; electric car ride
through the orchards of the beautiful
Santa Clara valley, 30 miles.
Arrive Pel Monte 2:30 a. m.
Thursday, Januury 21 Ereakfast
Hotel Del Monte. Carriage ride over
the world-famous 17-mlle drive. Car
riages will leave ohtel 9 a. m.
Arrive Paso nobles 8 p. m. Dinner
at Hotel El Paso De Roblt s. A visit
should be made to the new $100,000
bath house.
'j-Yiiiay, January ' zT.' "'Arrive at San
ta Barbara 6 a. m. IJreakfast Hotel
Potter. Hide during forenoon around
Santa Barbara, with stop at the Old
Mission. Luncheon Hotel Potter.
Arrive Los Angeles Arcade depot et
5:45 p. m. Sightseeing in Los Angeles
and rec( ptlon by Los Angeles Cham
ber of Commerce.
nsiiis
inniu, uni urn.
WASHINGTON INHABITANTS
CANNOT. DECIDE MATTER,
Representative Sims Introduce! Bill to
House Comniltteo on District Affairs
That W1U Make Washington a Dry
Town The Negro Vol a Big Prob
lem in Councetion With the Liquor
Movement Difficult to Iub law
by Uio People, , . , .'
Washington, Jan. 5. The project
for a "dry" Washington, which has
been urged, for years by anti-saloon
reformers and has found expression
in a bill introduced by Representative
Sims, was considered today by the
house committee on district affairs.
That the people of the national cap.
Hal will not be allowed to vote on the
liquor question is already decided.
The members all agree that the pro
hibition question is one up'on which all
the people should be satisfied, but they
say the plan to allow them to vote
would be more difficult to - arrange
than would the passage of the bill.
They also contend that sufficient hear
ings have been allowed by the district
committee for all interested persons
to state their approval or objection to
the bill introduced by Representative
Sims.. . V
If the question were submitted id 6
vote Of the people, say some of the
eommltteffmun, congress would have to
give Its sanction anyway, and, there
fore, they contend VfcKhg an the prop
osition lu useless. If tfltf committee
approves the bill Introduced by Mr,
Sims, they say. It will have Just as
much weight aa would a vote of the
people.
The population of Washington Is
r.-.aue op of residents of ao many states
and fo mtny persons who go to their
home states to vote, that the suffrage
question would be hard to handle, be
lieve the congressmen. They do not
think the ones who vote la other states
should be allowed to vote In any elec
tion that m'lght be held In Washington,
even If It were only on a local Issue.
The government clerks and em
ployes of tho District comprise nearly
two-thirds of the voting population,
and if a question of suffrage were
brought up. It would be necessary to
offset the negro vote, or the whites
and blacks would be nearly equally
divided. For that reason many of the
members of the house oppose any
movement to give suffrage to the peo
ple. They say It would be next to tm
possible to eradicate the negro vote.
PICKS TifT'S
TIL CABINET
NEW YORK TRIBUTE SAYS ITS AN
NOUHCEMENT IS A FINA LONE
New York,' Jan. 5. The Tribune to
day prints what it claims to be Taffs
final cabinet slate, as follows: Phil
ander Knox, secretary of state; John
J. Mitchell, president of the Illinois
Trust & Savings bank, Chicago, sec
retary of the treasury; Frank Hitch-
cocjc, postmaster general; George von
Meyer, secretary of war; William Loeb,
commissioner of commerce and labor;
R. E. Ballinger of Seattle, secretary
of the interior; John Wilson, t-cre-
iar ''of agriculture. The ailormy gen
eralsl.ip is not mentioned.
L. C. Smith has received his new
Ford of modern make. He has been
showing the little beauty to his friendp
today and will be willing to explain
the new feature to those who are Interested.
TO
JISIWBIT
LA GRANDE MAN IS
UK ELY TO BE ONE.
Influential Men of the Pacific North
went Engaged In Lumber BusIiicm,
Will Vlxlt Washington En Maw
Conservation Problem Will Be the
tlilef Object of Visit Will En-
. deavor to Retain Duly on Lumber
Personnel Announced. .
Seattle, Jan. 6. A delegation repre
senting the lumber Interests of the en
tire Paciflo coast, including loggers,
lumber and shingle manufacturers,
leave for Washington this week to dis
cuss with Chief Forester Glfford Pln
chot the conservation problem which
is playing an Important part in mak
ing up the tariff schedules. They wtll
give the ways and means committee
additional data concerning the lumber
and shingle Industry.
The personnel of the delegation Is
not . completed, Efforts' . are being
matoe to induce prominent and Influ
entlal men In the industry to go to
Washington, and fight for the reten
tlon of the duty on lumber and ehln
gles, D. E. Sldnner of San Francisco,
president of the Port Blakely Mill
company, Is chairman of the Pacific
Coast Lumber tariff committee.
Prominent, lumbermen of this city
have heard nothing' of tho details re
garding the trip, and whether it hot
eastern Oregon is to be represented by
a man outside of Union county or not
remains to be seen. As the largest
mills Jn this lection of the state are
located within a few miles of this city,
It Is mora than probable that when the
personnel of the delegation referred
to In the Seattle dispatch, Is an
nounced, some La Grande man may be
included. , . -' : " .
"BI STICK" TO TEDDY.
Montana Scout Send the "Real Quill"
to Hl IIlghnewH, RooHevelt.
Red Lodge, Mont., Jan. 5. Lee Cory,
the well known cattle man and old-
time scout of eastern Montana, today
expressed to President Roosevelt a
big stick" of genuine Irish Black
thorn. It is four feet long, weighs 20
pounds, and resembles the big sticks
In the cartoons of the metropolitan
with elk horn, elk teeth, and coverings
of deer skin. .
TO
lijieiE
WOULD SUSPEHO EXECUTIVE BUS
liS; WHILE COURTS DECIDE
Olympia, Jan. 5. In the event that
Cosgruve changes his mind at the
eleventh hour concerning his trip to
Olympia to take the oath. Governor
Mead has a plan, It Is reported, to
carry the controversy to the legisla
ture to determine who Is governor.
The plan proposed Is to urg! the leg
islature to authorize suspension of
executive business In the governor's
office such as signing of land dee'
Issuance of notarial commissions r.Ti
other duties where the prope- t- .'htK
of many Individuals mluM involv
ed, and that the attorr' - . . lal be in-
strurted to start v.arranto pro-1
e,Une In W .f-r .rn,-f f e. !
lermine ho Wnre'TegaT acting gover
nor. If the plan Is carried out there
will be no formal demand upon Mead
for the office by the lieutenant gover
nor and the records will contain noth
ing that In future years might be
cited as showing that two men cn
gaped In an unseemly row over the
executive chair.
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II
JACK LONDON IS ILL
rAMOl'8 AUTHOR WILL
ABANDON WORLD TRIP,
Roat Suark W1U Not It Take Aroand
tho World Write to llctarn to Ilia
'Frisco Homo Soon, '
San Francisco, Jan. I. Mrs. London
In a letter to friends at Berkeley, de
clares her husband, Jack London, the
author, Is sick and will abandon his
world voyage in the boat Snark. The
novelist underwent an ' operation at
Sydney. He will return to California.
HEARING ON SATURDAY.
Youth Arrested l4ut Evening Arraign.
, ed Before Stewart Today.
The young man arrested yesterday
afternoon charged with sodomy, was
arraigned before Justice Stewart this
morning and date of preliminary hear
lnr set for Saturday at 10 o'clock. He
gave a fictitious name to the police.
He lives at Kamela, where h has al
ways been a respected fellowHl real
age Is 17 years.
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OFFERED FORSALE
ADDED FAITH IN JOHNSON-JEFFRIES
FIGHT,
Behoved in Fighting Circle
Today
Tliat Jeffrie is Seriously Consider
ing Feasibility of Fighting Coon
Johnson Ex-Champion la Plnctpal
owner of Vernon Arena Fifty
Thousand Dollar Offer Appear Too
Strong to Withstand.
Los Angeles, Jan. S. Jhe probabil
ity of a fight between' 'Jeffries and
Johnson, the coon, is strongest today,
through the announcement that the
Vernon Arena club, of which Jeffries
Is the principal owner, is for sale. It
Is believed the offer of $50,000 to
fight the colored man is being serious
ly considered by Jeffries.
It Is reported that James Coffroth,
the San Francisco fight promoter, will
probably buy the club. Jeffries has
repeatedly announced ho wljl never re
enter the ring until he was offered
Johnson. Now Jeffries is not talking
but thinking,' wondering If he could
get In condition again.
10 ARENA IS
THE YEAR OLD
AND THE YEAR NEW
We think it well to begin the nevj year by express
ing our appreciation of the good will and patronage ex
tended to 15 during the year that is past.
Our relations with our customers have never been
so satisfactory as dumg the past twelve months.
We have tried as never before to prtmofe the in
terests of those who trade with us and we have substan
tial evidence that our efforts have noi been in va'm.
In the coming year we shall maintain the highest
standards of pharmacy, the highest quality of goods, the
finest possible service and, as in the past, place the in
tererls of our customers above our own, believing that
in the long run we thus promote our own interests best.
Thanking all our friends and customers for favors
shown, we extend to each our kindest regards and our
best wishes for a healthy, happy and prosperous NEW
YEAR.
Hewlin Drug
La Grande, Ore.
SNDVSTORM III
4HMI0I
GRANDU HONDH EXTERIENO- .
INQ 6HARP WEATHER.
Six IiH liea of Snow in Saletn at Nooa
Today Billiard prevalent . In, La
Grande Not General Lit Grande
Rondo Valley Covo and-: Iinhier
Cold But Quiet Willamette Valley
Stoc kmen Will PecJ Snowstorm
OUicrwiMO Not Very Harmful.
Salem, an. I. The heaviest, snow
storm in years Is falling in the Wil
lamette valley today. There are six
Inches of snow at' Salem at noon to
day. The stockmen will feel the snow
but otherwise It la not harmful.
The record-breaking blizzard today
In this city is not general over the val- '
ley, as Elgin and Union appear to ba '.
the only communities that have any
thing bordering on the blizzard nature.
Tho other communities report heavy
snowstorms with little wind to make
weather conditions unusually disagree
able, ' i
Cohi at Cove. ' .' u
Cove, Jan. 5. (Special.) With fotir
Inches of snow covering the ground
Cove has . been extremely dull today.
There Is no disagreeable wind. ,. The
thermometer was lower at noon thaa
at any similar hour during the pres-
ent winter. ,
; ;, No Wind at ImbW. ; ;
Imblei, Jan. 6. (Special.) Thera
I no wind in Imblor today that can be
rated a a blizzard. A heavy enow is
falling over this section of the valley,
but Is not molested, once It touches the
ground. The only discomfort Is the
Cold which is quite severe.
Incessant Blizzard at Elgin.
Elgin. Jan. 5. (Special.) Elgin 1 .
In the throe of a snow ind wind storm J
today. The wind has been blowing
Incessantly since early morning, with
no sign of abatement. . The thermom
eter has not fallen to an alarming
point. -,y,yt
Albany In Grip of Storm, ..-j " .
Albany, Ore., Jan. 5. This city I
In the grip of the worst snowstorm in '
years. Snow began falling early thl
morning and reached a depth of six ;
Inches. A north wind Is blowing.
Illtesard In Portland...' '
Portland, Jan. 5. A typical eastern. ,
snowstorm Is raging In Portland to
day, blinding pedestrians and interfer-
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