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LA GRANDE, UNION COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1009.
NUMBER T7.
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P1428IDENT DISGUSTED WITH
CALIFORNLV LEGISLATURE.
California's Action lu Proposing to Pax
AiU-Japancwe Measure Causes In
dgriatlon at Washington Relations
Between the Two Nations Cannot
ho Changed by Action of One State
4-RooMcvclt Said to Have Accused
(sllforniaiw.
Vashineton. Jan. 14. A wave of
disgust and Indignation Is sweeping of
ficii! circles here today following the
recipt of dispatches from Japan tell
lngof antagonism aroused by the news
tha the California legislature Is con
ulilirlnsr antl-JaDanese measures. The
Prfcldent Is reported to have Indlg
nakly declared the Calif ornians have
brtken their pledges, and that the In
trotuctlon of objectionable bills is a
combination of folly, bad faith and
inljulty. The action of the Callfor
nlats does not affect the relations of
the.two countries regarding Immigra
tion as that question Is considered
demlteiy settled.
VICTLM OF FROST.
Ddtli Claims Young Hunter and May
Take Older Brother as Well.
Jhehalls, Wash., Jan. 14. News has
reached here that Willie Fink,
aga 11, was found frozen to death,
and his brother, Henry, aged 21, near
thejbody In a serious condition, by
se&chers today. The boys went hunt
InnSaturday. When they failed to re
tuli a party started in search. Henry
sal he carried the body of his younger1
bifther a long distance, and finally
felifrom cold and exhaustion.
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FIRE IN TOPEKA
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MAT DIE OF RESULTS.
Gnosis of Poll teal Hostelry Jump From
Windows, Sustaining Injuries Ttae
Building Was Gutted.
Topeka. Jan. 14. Thirty persons
were Injured, including AW. Smith,
former republican gubernatorial can
didate, who may die, as the result of
a fire which gutted the Copeland ho
tel today. The property loss is heavy.
The fire started at 4 this morning and
the guests were Injured by leaping
from the windows. The hotel is po
litical headquarters. ,
license Operators.
Chicago, Jan. 14. After today all
operators of moving picture machines
In Chicago must be provided with It
censes, Issued by city offltcala, after a
rigid examination. Theaters employ
ing unlicensed men will be closed to
morrow. WRECK COSTLY
TWO miim KILLED AHO SILK
CARGO DESTROYED
Vancouver, B. C.Jan. 14. Silk to
the value of (1, 000,800 was destroyed
by fire, and Brakemen Porter and
Mount were Instantly killed last night
near swirt current, wnere a rreigni
engine collided with terrific force with
a Canadian Pacific silk car carrying a
V8lubl.0argory4r New York bo:i).
A negro brakeman closed the switch
after the silk train had taken a sid
ing. Fire followed the collision, con
suming four cars carrying silk, which
arrived from the orient on the steamer
Empress of China.
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STOCKTON IfJ
FLOOD'S PATH
IMMINENT DANGER OF
DISASTROUS FLOOD THERE-
Largo Section of Bulkhead In Mormon
Clianiicl Washed Away and Water
RuMhce Toward Stockton Raining
Heavily at Los Angeles Pat Two
Day Lower Section of . Stockton
May Be Inundated Before ' Night
Falls Tills Evening.
Stockton, Cal., Jan. 14. This city
stands in imminent danger of another
tlood. Last night a large section oflof the Harrtman lines in Oregon, re
the bulkhead of the Mormon channel,
near Bellota. was washed - out, and
water Is sweeping across the country
toward Stockton from the east.
The Indications are that the lower
sections of the city will be Inundated
before tonight. The tows of Linden,
12 miles east, was flooded this morn'
ing. Reports from Los Angeles say it
is raining heavily there and has been
for the past two days.
Otlier Towns Endangered.
Fresno, Jan. 14. A 3-year-old girl
fell from a raft and the mother leaped
Into the water for her. Both nearly
drowned. The opera house and seV'
eral business structures are flooded,
At the Wishon power house, In the
mountains above Portervllle, the pre
clpltation has amounted- to 15.20 In'
ches. The rainfall .is resulting in
damage to the valley at the foot oi
the mountains. The levee supporting
St. John river, which passes near VI
sail a. Is broken in three places. VI
salia is also threatened with serious
floods.
The lower portion of the town o.
forfoville is flooded, several house I
bet.: washed from their foundation I
today. Twenty-five families were res
cued on rafts. The slough running
through the city it. broken in several
places. The town of Orosl is under a
foot of water.
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BUCKLEY'S HOSE
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GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF
SNOWSTORM TROUBLES.
General ' Superintendent ' Driven to
Cover After Hard Fight With Snow-
storm Nose Froten ' During the
Struggle Worst Storm hi Years as
Far as West End of O. R. & N. is
Concerned Worst Is Over Snow
Plows Cause the Delay.
Suffering a severely frostbitten face,
General Superintendent M. J. Buckley,
turned to Portland for a short breath'
Ing spell this morning, after seven days
of storm fighting along the O. R.
N. In that time he has been able to
catch only a few winks of sleep at
time, but the necessity of securing
medical attention because of the con
dltlon of this face led him to give up
the battle with the wind and snow af
' ter the worst is over, says the Tele'
gram.
'ttevor In the nlstory of our lines
has the wind wrought such havoc as
'.t has during the last storm," said Mr,
Buckley, this morning. "We have had
practically eight days of high wind in
succession, and as fast as we would get
a stretch of track cleared It would be
gin to drift In again. Sometimes you
couldn't tell where we had been an
hour alter we had bucked our way
through. There have been storms
where we have encountered a great
leal more snow than now, but the
heavy gales that have been blowing
from time to time have been the worst
enemy we have had to face. All our
".rouble, you might say, lay between
Falrvlew and The-.plles, and we have
succeeded In getting all our passenger
trains through during the last 24
hours, though of course we are not
able to make running time. We have
?ndeavored, since .we were first able
to make some headway, to send snow
plows out ahead of everything, but the
mileage that a snow plow can . make
In a day is limited, and for that rea
son progress has been slow.
"I don't mind the nip the frost gave
me as long as the boys don't call me
'Old Frozen Face'."
Buckley doesn't know it, but the
mys are already calling him that be
hind his back.
PRESIDENT FEELS FINE.
Xo Visible Effects of Strenuous Ride
Taken by President.
Washington, Jan. 14. President
Roosevelt today showed no signs of
111 effects from his 90-mile horseback
tide yesterday. He was at his desk
early, and attended to official duties.
Army officers who scoffed at the
30-mlle tent ride as entirely unneces
sary, are alarmed today af the ease
with which- the president tripled the
requirements in one day.
Gloom at Monte Carlo.
Monte Carlo, Jan. 14. Although tho
opening of the three months' grand
opera season tomorrow has brought
many music lovers to Monte Carlo, the
recent Italian disaster has cast a gloom
over the festivities at this famous re
sort. The feature of the Monte Carlo
opera season will be the series of per
formances of the "Nitbelungs Ring."
Some of the works of Mozart are also
to be revived.
CALHOUN REVEALS DEFEN.SE.
One Juror Temporarily Accepted by
Defense and the State.
San Francisco, Jan. 14. P. t-.ick
Calhoun, the traction miR-;-. t' l, being
tried for offering to t-.'ij the board
of supervisors, revealed his defense
to!iy when counsei. in questioning tire
veniremen, tried to show the Indict
ment was the result of a plot hatched
by Rudolph S'preckles to make out a
case against Calhoun.
Joseph Dixon was the first juror
temporarily passed today subject to
challenge, but so far has been accept- I
ed by both sides.
FIND SKELETONS
ANCIENT NAX'AJO BLANKETS
SHROUDED REMAINS.
Remains of Seven Indians Found Near
Bakorsfield Ttuit Were Burled Hun.
dreda of Years Ago.
Bakersfleld, Cal., Jan. 14. -Wrapped
In costly Navajo blankets of an
cient make and design, the skeletons
of seven ' Indians unearthed on the
Miller and Lux ranch yesterday, have
been brought to this city. Naturalists
believe tho bodies were burled 100
yeurs ago.
Bequest for City.
Hannibal, Mo.. Jan. 14. A special
election is being held here today on
the proposition to Issue $5000 tn
bonds to build a new cly hall. A site
for. the proposed edifice was provided
for In the will of a wealthy woman
resident of Hannibal, but unless the
new halLJs erected at once, the prop
erty will revert to the heirs.
TILLMAN'S REQUEST FOR 1KVERT
IGSIIOS WILL HOT BE UEEDEO
Washington, Jan. 14. It Is not ex
pected that Senator Tillman's request
that the senate Investigate the charges
made against him by President Roose
velt in connection with Oregon land
grab, will be heeded. No members of
the committee on privileges and elec
Hons are willing to stsrt the inquiry.
The committeemen are under the Im
pression that Tillman was square in
his dealings. Even if Roosevelt's
charges are true, there was no viola
tion of law.
Good Rouds for Utah.
Salt Lake City, Jan. 14. A move
ment for the general Improvement of
the highways of Utah was launched
today at a good roads convention In
this city, at which delegates ' were
present from all over the state.
0cii Shop Saturday Morning.
Gus Bengelsdoiff will be at his shoe
wnnn Minimi; TTlOrr'T". rciJv t.. .... .,1 ;
his patrons again.
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OIE TO TO DEFEAT CHAMBERLAIN
Salem, Jan. 14. When the legisla
ture reconvenes on Monday it will
consider Governor Chamberlain's ve
toes of the last session. The antls will
make eevry effort to pass several of
the vetoed bills over the governor's '
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NEW rilASK IN RECENT CAR-
MICUAEL CRIME CARNIVAL.
Methodist Preacher KUled Poor Car
penter and Mutilated Body In Effort
to MUlead Authorities Was Then
to Suicide Thut Hi Wife Might Get
the Insurance Money Companies
WU1 Refuse to Pay Their Policies
on These Grounds.
Burlington, Iowa, Jan. JLi. That tha
life Insurance companies refuse to pay
Mrs. Carmlchael, widow of tha minis
ter who murdered Gideon Browning,
a carpenter, In a little Methodist
church at Columbus, Mich., on tha
theory that the murder was a part of
the husband's plot to commit suicide
so the widow could receive the money,
Is the belief of Sheriff Moore. The
sheriff Is from Port Huron, Mich., and
passed through Burlington today. He
Is returning to Michigan with Carmt
chael's body.
Moore believes, ' Jste,kllI-
Browning to give ffL '
he himself was the victim, so tTT"
widow could get the insurance On his
lite. . The sheriff says he has good
reasons for thinking so. ; "
SENT GUN IN CAKE
Bold Jail Delivery Nipped In the Bud
at Loa Angeles.
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Los Angeles, Jan. 14. A hold at
tempt at jail delivery was discovered .
today when R. E. Watson, a farmer
of Norwalk, Cal., confessed he sent a
revolver and seven cartridges In a
cake to F. J. Humelyv the San FraW
Cisco solicitor, now in the county Jail
accused of forgery. He said Huiielyv
planned to kill two turnkeys and make
his escape, steal a sloop, go to Hon-,
duras. Had the plan been carried out
SO prisoners would have been lber-
ated. '',,-.'
Drowned in Willamette.
Oregon City, Jan. 14. Charles Mid
land, foreman in the mill of the Wil
lamette paper plant, was drowned this'
morning in attempting to cross , the
Willamette In a light skiff, which
struck a floating Ice cake and cup-
J... t u,. t-ioxu i wm uiiuix lor Luc
body.
head, to weaken the statement men
who were Interested in the bills, s
they will cancel their pledges to vote
for Chamberlain.
The first ballot on the senatorial
contest will be taken at noon Tuesday.
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