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7 voloii: vin. LA GRA MK, I'XIO.V COUNT V, ORIXJOX, SATl'RDAY, FF.BIUARY l09. M MIIKIt . WARSHIPS RACE ACROSS H FAMOl'S Fl.F.KT NOW OX I.AST I,A1' OF JOIRXKY Cannon lliMni Fterewell to American Fleet uh It Start on It Homeward Journey Vessel Will Race Indi vidually to Ivslahllsli New Mark In Crossing Alluntk- Will Assemble In Hampton Road for Final Review by Roosevelt. Gibraltar, Feb. 6. With cannons if a dozen foreign warships In the harbor booming farewell, the Ameri can battleship fleet sailed on the last leg of 1U journey around the world. The ships weighed anchor at 9 o'clock iind steamed from the harbor In sin gle formation. When the stidtta of Gibraltar are passed, the single column will be broken, each ship to steam for Itself in a r-ce for the Atlantic shores to establish a new record. The engines have been thoroughly overhauled. The fleet's rendezvous Is Hampton Hoads. where It will be re viewed by President Roosevelt, who will crown his presidential service with a floating pageant. The vessels will then disperse to the different na vv vai:ds. Services to Allison. Washington. D. C. Feb. 6. The senate today held services In memory .f the late Senator William Allison of Iowa. Veto Considered. Washington. Feb. 6. The presi dent' veto of ! natlonrl census bjll. Including the veto message, was re ferred to tlip census committee by the house today. . TROUSERS ( , ij . Our first showing of i M iust received from (Qv New Yo'tii s best Fitthvj ! suit makers .. r f t Suits m These suits will give you an idea of the D1ATC style Tendencies for rRrllD Spring See the Style See the Point Ladies you Need We invite you to call the pants that give and see them. You you satisfact.on are welcome, buy or Th 1 Pnce 15 , no buy. $3.50 THE EMR- - TM F AIR maw fimx JniM.cd In Yamliill County for Ixi cut Option Violations. Mi Mlnnvllle. Ore., Feb. 3. Deputy District Attorney Corner was called t Carlton today to finish up in Justice :-i.t;r it batch of pro.xTciitlnns for vio lation of the county prohibition, law. ur. a. ii. .Morrison, a druggist, was convicted tin three counts, and fines aggregating $550 and 30 days' Imprls onment In the county Jail were Im posed. James L. Fowlle. proprietor of a near beer Joint, was convicted on three' charges and for the several of fenses was fined a total of $450 and 20 days In the county Jail. His bar tender, Philip Mullen, was convicted on three separate counts and sen tenced to pay fines aggregating $200 and 20 days' Imprisonment. All three of the defendants filed notice of ap peal to the circuit court, which meets here the third Monday in March. SEEKING HUSBANDS COCK Hl'XBRFI) C.KRMAX GIRLS COMING TO ORKGOX TO MARItY. Picture of Oregon Sheepheriler At- tractM Bevy of German "Maedchcn" Arrive In Xew York Tortny. New York, Feb. 6. Four hundred German maidens from Wurtemburg, Germany, arrived here today on the Graf von Waldersee, en route to Ore gon to find husbands. The attention of the German girls to Oregon was drawn by a picture, shown them by Mrs. Frieda Walburg. wife of an Ore gon sheepheriler. who is reported to be responsible for the migration of the girl. Culls Alaskan Delegate. Fairbanks, Alaska. Feb.-5. James! Wlekerahnm. a delegate to connreuM 1 i :ft this morning via Valdo;; Washington. IX '-. at 'the request President Itoosevelt, who wants confer with him before March 4. fo mm IN IIIUCHT 'FK1NCO C1I1XAM.AX PITS SOCIETY OX AX.XIOCS SEAT. Ity Issuing SiiliMcniu nit Arrested : CliliiHiiiMit CnuseM Commotion Wants to Mukc San Francisco's So ciety Kxpluln In Court W hat Gam bling Privileges Arc Allowed Behind Club Doors Society Lenders At tempt to Dodge SiiI)hh'iiii Servers. Uan Francisco, Feb. . The wealth ind culture of San Francisco, repre sented by scores of prominent club men and women. Including Mayor Tay lor and police commissioners, were subpoenaed by Ah Bam, a Chinese, u nested for gambling In the Asiatic club. All are endeavoring to escape service, as they do not want to dis cuss club life In open court. Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, mother of William Rundolph Hearst; Mr. H. E. Revalk, president of the Papyrus club; Mrs. F, M. Wright, president of the Forum club, and other equally prominent In club life have been subpoenaed. The Chinaman wunts to show by them what privileges are enjoyed by them behind club doors of exclusive organizations. CLF.RKS OX BRANCH. Joseph Train WIU Soon He 1 Equipped With Better Mail Service. The Joseph-La Grande branch o! the O. K. & N. Is rapidly becoming "all the same" main line. A mail clerk Is soon to be put on each, train and when this occurs, letters can be mallei on the train the same ns on, the main line passenger trains, wir. ways irom rcatello, will be the first clerk to go on. Just when the service will be commenced is not announced, though It will be soon. CALLS AH FILTHY HEATHENS KltAltl HKPRIMAVD G1VF.X ROOSIAIXT BY TI1K XFAVS, San IVniM-lsco Pacr Affirms Searatc Sc hools He Provided for Children of sialics it I'.xciiimoii IMv I'aimcit . Insult to American Morals to Allow While Children to Attend Kami School mm do Japanese Heathens, Says 1'mmt. San Francisco, Feb. The Dally News this afternoon prints the follow ing editorial on ltoosevelt's action In connection with anti-Japanese legis lation at Sacramento under the cap tion, "Busted His Big Stick." It says: "If there is anything like dignity about the California legislature, it ought to feel grossly Insulted by ltoosevelt's latest cracking of the whip, which was sent to (illicit, 'the dancing pro-Jap kid. It it Is Japan that Is offended we 'can tell her we have provided special schools for her aliens and that to compel our children to associate with vicious and diseased heathen she sends to California Is r. stinking ' offense against human health, moralil yand wisdom. When Itoosyvelt undertakes to browbeat tin state legislatures and succeeds in mak ing ridiculous Jacks-in-the-hox oj governors, a lot of folks are going t set up the big stick as a bag of wind." r.imllsli Criticise Itoosevelt. London, Feb. 6. Commenting on IlonseV'. It's attitude to ward the Cali fornia legislature on the untl-Japan-"He measures, the London Globe to day criticises him for the tone of lib remoiicliuiice. It says: "Yet the president's remonstrance! might have been more dignified, Tin teli grams have the tone of an angrx M-hoolmuster, hardly worthy of tin hcnil of a nation." Wen lib of Athletic. Poston. Mass., Feb. fi. Seldom In the history of lnlercollegl:ite iithletio in tills section has there been such u veallh of runners, lcnpers and weight hurleis of high grade as will be seen 'n Mechanics Huililing tonight at the annual Indoor games of the Huston Atjiletle association. Kelay racing will be the Important feature of the ;irogram. There will be 14 of, those events and they will bring togethei Hie crack runners of Yale, Harvard. ron. Pennsylvania. Amherst, Bow doln, Holy Cross and other big east ern colleges. . Chicago Automobile Show. Chicago, III., Feb. 6. The "honk, honk" of a myriad of automobiles, In eluding all kinds and sizes and num bers, echoed through the Coliseum and the nearby First Ueglinent ar mory today tin the occasion of the opening of the annual Chicago auto mobile show. The show Is the most extensive of its kind ever given In tht west. There nre 2"0 exhibitors, and every bit of space In the two buildings is covered by the best exhibits of au tomobile firms or by the stock of sup ply houses. The decorative features are the most expensive and elaborate ever seen here. The show will con tinue through the whole of next wepk. I.. II. Itl'SSF.LL RFTI UNS. From Spokane, Where lie Attended I he Lumbermen's Meeting. L. If. Urs-ell returned this morning j from a meeting of the Liiuibernu n'-j Assn"l.ition of th. Northwest, i . ";.- j kimi . As a recreation this : i itlon has n side degree called '' 1 m-Hoos and at It session In-" .'' , it they Ini tiated l.'-t canT!'i;:. s. L. II. Russell says It bents any! Mug in the Initiation line he ever vvitiiesn-il and as he has traveled considerably he has witnessed 'i ";'-v'ii4; iXiU-i-i.".1-!'.-'-. I this mating It whs .l. i i.l. d to lt th--, press representatives have mi upp-.ti-, (unity of becoming membi r they were not slow to embrace. hlch OCARAXTIXK It.UsC.D MONDAY. No New Cmc of Diphtheria, mill One Afflicted Are Convalescing. ' I'nlon, Feb. 6. (Special. ) The quarantine that has been most exact ing, tlotilng- schools .and,, public g-.tthet ir.gs for th past week, U . to be reused.. . Monday. vvh n tW . public schools will open. There havu been no new rases for several days, and those who were sick are all doing nicely. No more deaths are expected and things will resume their normal conditions with the beginning of the approaching week. Fever lHlleiit Itoutcd. Xew York, Feb. 6. A bomb explo sion drove a score of scarlet fover pa tients Into the street today from an Kast Side tenement where they were quarantined by health officers. The entire front of the building was wreck ed. Mystery surrounds the motive for the outrage. ) NEGROES FROZEN STOK.MS IX SOl'TH IMS- ASTHOCS TO DA UK ICS. ltcMrts From Storm licit Brought to St. lyoais Kiiy Twenty-Six Are Iciul From KsMMtire, St. Louis, Feb. (. Reports from, the storm belt In this and adjoining states ay that 26 have perished during the last few days on account of the ex cessive cold temperature and bllzxards. !f the number dead most were poverty stricken negroes, who were unpre pared to met the galen.' They died from exposure. SCHOOL BOAipt MF.KTIXG. Monthly Session Last Night Bills . Audited Routine Work. The monthly meeting of the school board was held last night. Salary and current, bill) were audited and order ed paid. ' ' ' . There wfls no petition before the board calling for a special school elec tion to build u new hih school build ing. Snpt. 11. P. Hockenberry's monthly. report shows an average enrollme.H of 925, with an average attendance of X74. During thj month there were 07 students who were neither absent nor lardy, whi. h sM'aks well for the general health of this community and the general interest of both student nnd parent In our public school. Inning the month there were six parents who visited the sehoul, and three directors. If about 60 of the parents of high school students would visit the high school another mouth would not pass by without petition being presented to the board for a new building. ..... I, ... -Wl' .Mcl'urlaiiil-llyland Articles Signed. San Francisco, Feb. 6. Packey Mc- Farland and Dick Hyland have signed to fight at the Mission arena February to We Try to Satisfy Customers Our ever increasing business seems to gnify that we are succeeding in satisfying our 'trade. We consider that satisfying a customer is of more import than im mediateprofit. . Besides providing the very best service we install every convenience that a drug store can contain. This te astcrc where trading is a pleasure. If we have not had the pleasure of serving ycu we hope to haye it soon. You'll find our prices as low as right quality can be had for anywhere MWim --DRUG-STORE; LA GRANDE, OREGON HICHTY VESSEL READY FDR USE $nT:k to xoiirit .iutr : ' SYCCESSFVI.LY ItXCHF.l. Great Crowd Assembles to Wlliicsa lui IMtfing Sight of Dropping the Dela ware Into the Ocean From Dry dock Is One of the Dreadnuiight T)l lo Be Built ami Uiuim-IicU by tlio Government Nearer Finished Thau in Rtxrnt Instances. Newport News, Va., Feb. 6. In the. presence of an Immense crowd of en thusiastic spectators, the giant 20,000 ton battleship Delaware, which will take rank among the mt formldabla fighting machines afloat, wag success fully launched today from the yards of the Newport News Shipbuilding it Drydock company. . Shortly before the hour set for tha launching, while the wedges were be ing driven In to lift the weight from the ground to the greased ways, the naming party made Its way through the crowd and ascended the. launching stand. The sponsor, Miss Anna P. Ca hall. bf Brldgevllle, Del., received an ovation, r.s did also Governor Simeon 8. Pennewlll and Secretary of the Navy Newberry. The party were escorted to the platform by C. B; Orcutt, pres ident of the shipbuilding company. All being ready, the signal was given for the launching. As the great hulk swept down the ways to . meet the rippling water of the James river. Miss Oahai: broke the traditional bottle, of wine and named the ship. , v-!' The Initial plunge of the battleship was greeted with a deafening shout from the great " crowd, '."mingled with the booming of guns and the screech ing whistles from the swarms of small craft assembled in the liver. The band struck up "America," and simultane ously a flock of carrier pigeons were released. The Delaware Is nearer completed than has been liny ;arshlp of the I'nlted States navy at the time of i launching. She Is a sister ship of the i Xufth Dakota, launched recently Ht Qulncy, Mass. These two battleships will bo the first of the Dreadnunglit type to be udiWd to the Cnlted State Land Fraud Hearing Set. Muskogee. OklB., Feb. 6. The !nt.i of hearing the alleged land fraud oasi1 was set today for March 1. Governor' ' TT " ...t... ....... InlnlnJ In tht j.j.n.' Jcll-ll, ..mm ...... nectlon by the grand Jury Inquiry, wru granted a delay. He left for Guth-'le. New York, Feb. 6. Leslie M. Shaw, former secretary of the treasury, de clared before the Merchants' congress last night that Japan could place 200. 000 fighting' men In Hawaii within u month. He pleaded for a merchant marine, subsidized by the government. ?"!: i i i r ('.' S". in it ii vs. : i - -J