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VOLUME Tni.
LA CRA NDE, VNIOX COUNTY. OREGON. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY S, 1900
NUMBER 70. .
fRESII FIGHT IS ON
FOUR-INCH SHOW
BETTtR C0ASTBALL
WORKMEN ACTUALLY RAZING
'FRISCO'S CITY HA Lit.;
VALLEY
IIISALOONFICHT
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
NOW IV., CLASS .n BALL.
-i-'AiAWilir (iivi (Miierhli of Metallic
JElllty RUSK IS
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in All ISSUE
RESCUE WORK IS
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Long Fight Ended at Last,
VISITING CONSTITUENTS OX
WAY TO LEGISLATURE.
Believes United Slates Senator Will Be
Elected on Flixt Ballot Also, That
tho People PasMod tho Local Option
and Primary Laws, and if Any
Chaiigcai Are to lie Made tlie People
Should Make Them No SiKxial
Alourtureg to Be Introduced by Illin.
Joint Representative Jerry Husk ar
rlvcd from Joseph last night, and af
ter spending one or two days in the
valley, "will go to Portland and thence
to Salem, when the legislature con
venes.
When asked if he thought there
was liable to be any confusion in the
election of United States senator, he
plied that he did not, and that he- ex
pected the first ballot would decide the
matter, . .
3f Special Bills In Mind.
In reference to general legislation
lr. Rusk stated that he did not have
any special legislation to introduce;
that generally thfre was entirely too
much. He recognized the fact that
there would be an attempt to change
Ith-e local option and primary laws, but
he had decided that as the people made
these laws, if any changes were to be
fharie the people should make them,
and It was not In his way of looking at
things the prerogative of the legfs-
tf J l u re to change or alter the laws as
5jmssed directly by the people through
Vi I ttW I f i . 1 1 m ari a hallauad iYta erf a u ,
till TV V. 1111 llll UI.IIVI Llll. . 1. II 1
majority of the legislature entertained
he same views and he looked for no
change in either the local option nor
primary laws.
Pan Francisco, Jan. 6. Gangs of
workmen today began raxing the ruins
of the city hall after a spectacular
fight waged by citizens who wanted it
rebuilt. Now a fresh fight is started
botween the contractors and municipal
park commission over the metallic
woman on top of the dome, each
claiming they are entitled to it.
postmaster George Hanson of North
Powder la here for today.
FIRE RECORDS
IN LA CUE
fTOTAL DAMAGE BY FIRE FOR
YEAR IS ONLY $5,290.00.
JOnly Eight Fires During 1908 and
During Seven Month of the Your
There Was Xo Lous Expenditure
"TLor the Year hi Only About Five
f .. . .
tiunurcu.
Fire Chief Joseph Jones has-filed
iiis annual report with the recorder
Jvhich will tie read at the meeting of
he city council llfis evening.
During the year only eight' firei--
avo occurred with an estimated total
Carnage of $5290.. Duirng the months
If January, March, May, June, Sep
lember, October and December, thej-e
ere no alarms. During the year th
otal expense of the department was
570.13, of this amount 1240 was paid
he several companies as their annual
Upends and $240 was expended in
outh La Grande for a new hose houss.
avlng the actual amount expended
n equipment at $126.
Fire Chief Jones hopes the city will
oon find it possible to provide a team
nd three paid men who will be
onstantly on duty. Then, with th?
id -of the volunteer department. La
Grande can be better protected than
t present. This recommendation,
owever, is not in his report, but are
Is personal views.
La Grande has cause to feel proud
f its fire boys. In not a single in
tance since the water system was in
1 ailed has there been a fire thai got
eyond control, and in very few In
lanres has there been a total loss.
MYSTERY VEILS
SEATTLE DEATH
HUSBAND DETAINED WHILE
OFFICIALS INVESTIGATE.
Wife of Seattle Candy Maker Dies In
Her Home Following; Quarrel Willi
llusluiiul Find Revolver No Trace
of Poison or Ylolciico No Bullet
Wounds Found.
Seattle, Jan. 6. Under mysterious
circumstances, Mrs. Young, wife of
James Young, a candy maker, died last
night in her apartments following a
quarrel with her husband, who is de
tained pending the Investigation. . It
was learned that a revolver was dis
covered, but no bullet wound has been
found.
Joseph Roba, a roomer, says he took
the revolver from Young, who says he
did not strike her and did not see her
fall. It was learned she did not take
poison.
BLIZZARD BREAKS, BIT
SNOWSTORMS FOLLOW.
Sleighs Freely Used at Union, Where
( live Inches of , Snow Fell- Oiher
Valley Towns Snowed Under, But
I J Uio Sleighing- Mcreury Never
Touched Uio Zero Mark Here Last
Evening JonciIi Stockmen Feel Lit
' tie Alarm at Storm.
An average of four Inches of snow
mantles the Grande Rondo valley to
day. The blizzard which prevailed
TENNESSEE ENTERS BITTER
LOCAL OPTION STRUGGLE.
Strenuous Effort Made to Drive Every
Saloon IVoiu Southern State As
sassination of Curiiinck Recently,
Drove "Drys" to Dcict-ate Action-
Take His Untimely Death m War Cry
Liquor Dealers . Still Hopeful of
Avcrtlnjj Uio Wave.
Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 6. "Remem
ber Carmack!" Is the rallying cry of
the temperance forces of Tennessee,
yesterday has broken and people are wn ar Ktherlng In the capital dur
again settled down to the regular rou- ,n the first week of the legislative
tine of life with a shade more speed, I session, to demand the passage of a
'.owever. as the sleigh has displaced prohibition bill that will drive every
the more cumbersome mode of travel, a'oo. frm the state. Only three
the wagon, in many Instances. All Tennessee big cities are now left In
night long the blizzard of yesterday I which liquor can be legally sold, and
there is every prospect that before
long Memphis, Nashville and Chatta
nooga will be rendered "dry."
The assassination of Senator Car
midnight it fell rapidly from 12 above J mrack, the edltor'of a local newspaper,
IV.n l.ulntf Will Onlline Bcnclli
to the Coast Towns.
raged in this city, but broke again this
morning to permit a short but heavy
snowfall. At no time did the mercury
touch zero, notwithstanding that at
to 6 above. In the metropolis here,
less snow has fallen than In other
'ocalities. Cove records 3 inches ol
snow; Imbler, 4; Union, S; Elgin, 4
ind Summemll 4. At Union sleighs
vere drafted Into service with very
satisfactory results,' while at the other
towns, the limited amount of snow If
badly drifted in places, making sleigh'
Ing unsatlsfacotry.
On the mountain summits, to the
east and west, the downfall of snow
by a political enemy, has been made
in Issue by the friends of state-wide
prohibition. Carmack was lust year a
"a ml Id :i to for the gubernatorial norn
Inntlon against Governor , Patterson
He ran on a prohibition platform, but
was defeated by a narrow margin after
i heated campaign in which the liquor
traffic was the principal issuo. He did
not allow his defeat at the polls to end
he campaign, but kept the prohibition
luestlon to the forefront through edl-
was much greater and the severity of torlala in the newspaper of which he
the cold much worse. Trainmen re
port Dakota winters at Kamela, TelO'
(Continued from page 1.)
CENSOR RACE NEWS.
May Prevent New York Papers From
Publishing Odds on Races.
Bill Sunday, the reformed baseball
Slayer, Is afraid thugs will kill him.
id those who have heard his lectures
f e afraid they will not.
New York, Jan. 6. Legislation to
prevent newspapers in this state from
printing racing odds is being prepared
by Senator Agnew for introduction in
the state legislature. The action fol
lows a decision of the appellate di
vision of the supreme court holding
the selling of advance Information It
not a violation of the Hart-Agnew rac
ing law.
ESCAPE FROM JAIL.
Two Prisoners Dig Out of Watertille
Wash., Jail Tliis Morning.
SUITS SET
E
(Kill
Wenatchee, Jan. 6. Word was sen;
to this city that J. S. Burreil, chargiu
with grand larceny, and O. Push, whi
Is charged with forgery, escaped Jai.
at Watervllle by digging through a
rock wall. It is believed they will gt.
to Wenatchee.
SCHOOL PRINCIPAL IS MISSING.
Goes Duck Hunting and Fail to Re
turn to III Schools.
Roseburg, Jan. 6. George Sawyers,
principal of the Oakland public
schools, in this county, is mysterious
ly missing. He went to Red Bluff,
Cal., shortly after Christmas, on a
duck hunting expedition. He failed
to return to reopen his schools Mon
day. Friends and his wife fear he was
accidentally killed.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC-UNCLE
SAM FIGHT LONG.
Famous Suit to Recover Possession ol
Southern Pacific IyUiid In Southern
Oregon W.U Sfart March First lie
fore Judge Wolverton In Portlund
Long Case.
Portland, Jan. 6.- The preliminary
Daring of the Southern Pacific rail-
ad's demurrer in the big suit Ir.
a hich the government seeks to regain
us.-i-sslon of Oregon land worth in
;'he neighborhood of $60,000,000, be
gins March 1, before Judge Wolver-
on, in the United States circuit court
it Portland.
Fifty years ago the government
granted the Oregon & California rail
road, which is now the Southern Pa
cific, land in all parts of Oregon. Nos
the government wants the land back.
It will be a hard legal battle.
was the editor. It was his devoted ad
vocacy of the temperance cause, de
clare his friends, that led to his tragic
deatH In'a "duel on the streets of Nash
ville. Now he is being hailed as a
martyr to prohibition, and a state
wide law prohibiting the manufacture
and sale of liquor is urged as the most
fitting monument to his memory.
Despite reverses they suffered in the
first conflicts with the liquor element,
the leaders of the temperance army
ire confident that public opinion will
force the present legislature to pass a
prohibition law.
It is alleged that the prohibition bill
vlll have more than the necessary 17
votes In the senate, and that nearly
two-thirds of the members of the house
are state-wlders, or will eventually be
brought to that way of thinking by the
force of public opinion.
The liquor dealers have not yet
Cincinnati, O., Jan. 8. J. Cal Ewlng,
president of the Pacific Coast league.
which has been raised to cIhhs AA. in
a designation by tho national commis
sion yesterday, will outline to fellow-
magnates of the west the enlarged
privileges conferred on the league by
tho change. It means the strengthen
ing of the coast tonms in Portland, San
Franclsco, Los Angeles and Oakland,
and any other city which is added to
the league.
KETCHEL VILL
FICHT JOHNSON
DRAWS COIXR LINE
EXCEPT WITH CHAJIPION.
Kctchcl Publishes Signed Statement at
Grand Rapid to the Effect That He
Fears Not Johiwon Nor Langford,
Either No Other Coon Ilvs pt "Mr.
JohiiKlng.'
Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. .
Ketchel announces in a Bigned state
ment published hero today that he is
thoroughly willing to fight Jack John
son, the colored heavyweight cham
plon of tho world, but bars all other
negroes.
"The fact that I am willing to fight
Johnson Is proof that I am not afraid
of Langford," Bnys Ketchel in his
statement. "Langford ' must whiD
fighters I have defeated before I will
flghtdilm.A
SURVIVORS DEVOTE TIME
TO MINISTER TO LIVING.
saved from the impending fate of pro
hibition, and the botle between the
"wets" and "drys" will be fought to a
Ininh. Opponents of prohibition assert
that the attempt to make the Carmack
murder an Issue is absurd, and thnt
the assassination of the former sena
tor whs due to personal differences
ind had nothing to do with the liquor
ontroversy.
OPIE REID IN FIRE.
Springfield, Mo., Hotel Burned, But
All Gucftts Fxnpcd. v
Springfield, Mo., Jan. 6. Fire, start
ing In the Baldwin theater this morn
ing, destroyed the building, : and left
the Colonial hotel and the Nlxen build
ing partly ruined. The tola! loss iif
250,ooo. ; ? - '; '
Ople Reld, the playwright, was
mong the guests in the Colonial who
escaped. Six firemen were slightly In
lured. The origin of the flr In unknown.
Rome, Jan. . The Italian ship
Bayern, chartered by American Am
bassador Lloyd Grlseom, and laden
with supplies furnished by American
relief money aud contributions, will
leave Civitavecchia tomorrow for Mes
sina. It will go down the Calabrian
coast, dispensing supplies. Court phy
sicians today informed. Queen Helena
that a complete collapse was Inevita
ble unless she desists from working
among the quake victims.
The queen is extremely nervous.
She Ignores the physicians' warning.
Grave fear is expressed concerning her
physical condition.
No More Rescue Work.
Catania, Jan. 6. With the exception
of troops, Regglo Is evacuated today.
and by tUe end of the week only sol
diers will remain at Messina. Little
further effort will be made to recover
the bodies from the ruins. , The great
est work now necessary Is among the
refugee camps. .,j . r ,
Ships on Final Lap. '
Port Said, Jan. 6. While every fa
cility for early departure is being of
fered the American battleships from
the fleet, ordered tp Italy, the jressels
were delayed laBt night by coaling.
They did not leave until early today. v
i Coiwul Lupton Alive. '
Washington, Jan. 6. Ambassador
Grlscom has cabled the state depart
ment today confirming the fact that
Vice Consul Lupton survived the Mes
sina disaster. He has a letter written
by Lupton, dated January 8, saying:
It is practically impossible to tele
graph the department any Information
from here. The bodies of Mr. and
Mrs. Chaney were burled under tons
of debris at the consulate. It will take
a week's work by 200 men to reach
them. 4nXy 10,800 people are now in
Messina." i 1
Th Chaney referred to was consul
at Messina.
Ar von Heblrf' to ihnt rnlnHn
to buy Oregon made products?
VALUABLE DOG SHOT.
Hunting Dog Owninl by IKH Jackson
Fatally Shot by Some One Today.
ASK FOR RETRIAL.
Government Attorney Ready to Argue
Caws Before Land!.
Chicago, Jan. 6. Assistant District
Attorney Wllkrson appeared before
Judge Landis today and asked for a
retrial of the Standard" Oil $29,000,000
fine. The case is to begin at 2 this
afternoon. Landis said he Is ready.
Attorney Miller, for the Standard Oil
company, said he would not be ready
until Monday.
A valuable hunting dug belonging to
Dell Jackson, was the target for some
man with a mean disposition today.
The animal was able to drag ltaelf to
'lis master's home in this city. A bul
let wound In the hip had done the
business. Dr. Charlton was called to
administer chloroform to end the suf
fering of the faithful animal. Mr.
Jackson mourns the loss as the dog
was credited with being one of
best dogs of Its kind in the state.
"Nenp Boer" ('line.
Augusta, Ga., Jan. 6. Nearly 200
dealers in "two-per-cent," a brewery
product, are directly Interested In the
test case of the "near beer" tax which
comes up today. A heavy tax has
been imposed on the dealers In the
"near beer," which beverage is largely
will In Georgia under the prohibition
regime, and the test case will have an
Important bearing on the traffic. The
enrgia brand of "near beer" looks
Ike beer, tastes like beer, smells like
beer. Is made by the breweries and is
put up In beer bottles. Yet it is
claimed that it contains less than twe
per cent alcohol and therefore do.:t
not Intoxicate.
Heyburn In Hotrc.
Boise, Jan. 6. Ser.n'-r Heyburn ar
rived from WashinjrK.n today In the
Interests of his candidacy for re-
the election. He found all opposition si-
lvne-d.
Decision Today.
In the case of Roy Oliver vs. Eich
enberger, a a result of a dispute in a
settlement running from August, 1906.
through 1907. Oliver sued for $193.
90 and received a verdict for $120.15.
FJIenHburg Pioneer Dead.
Ellensburg. Wash., Jan. 6. Martin
Mehan, aged 72, who came to Kittitas
valley In the seventies, and one of the
oldest settlers,, dropped dead pf heart
.disease this morning., . 4 ' h.
THE YEAR OLD
AND THE YEAR NEW
We think it well to begin the new year by express,
ing our appreciation of the good will and patronage ex
tended to us during the year that is past.
Our relations with our customers have never been
so satisfactory as during the past twelve months.
We have hied as never before to pitncie the in
terests of those who trade with us and we have substan
tial evidence that our efforts have net been in vain.
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
terests 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 wkhes for a healthy, happy and prosperous NEW
YEAR.
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DruQ
Co.
La Grande, Ore.
American Suppliea Will Bo DisMiwed
Along Southern Count Tomorrow
Regglo Evncuutco" Except for Sol-
r
lier McHMiua to Bo Deserted lu
Week Xo l!oio to Suve Moro Vie
tlins Queen Helena In ITecuriou
Physical Condition, Say Physicians.