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VOLUME VHIt LA GRANDE, UNION COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY; MARCH , 10. NUMIiEH 11. i ! i 1SIICII IS If TIGH STATE AMENDED BILL ADOPTED BY OLYIPL SENATE TODAY. Long Fight in Olympia Over Local Op tion Rill Cornea to Close Today Only Four Vote Against It Over Six Hundred Thousand Approprlat il for Construction and Maintenance of Good Roads in Washington Oilier Improvements. Olympia, March 6. The long drawn nut fight on the local option question came to a close this morning when the seriate concurred In the amendment of the house to the option bill. As oon as the document is put In shape 4t will be ready for the signature of the governor. The vote was 34 to. 4. Those voting against the bill being Anderson, Brown, Bryan, Cotterlll Cox and Stevenson. The senate passed two appropria tion bills for improvements, one of. 950,000 for the benefit of Pierce and) King counties and for the construction '. of a drift barrier near the point where White river departs from its old chan- ( nel. Fifty thousand were also appro-; prlated for the Improvement of the Columbia river between Bridgeport and Kettle Falls. The senate passen n appropriation of $820,000 for the construction and maintenance of state roads. n n w fi 7 we it We are ready to show you the very best to be bad in all men's wearing ap parel. For Style, quality and economy you need go no farther. ,: Clothing The best clothing man ufacturer supply us with our stock. Just Recieved $8.00 to 25.00 Shoes Shoes that please is the inducement that we offer you for your money. Nothmg but standard makes $2.50 to $5.00 Hats-Caps GET UNDER OUR HAT! All the verybestshapes in the. very best shades $2.00 to $3.50 Shirts WEAR MY SHIRTS and you will be up-to-date. See window disp'ay for samples of dress shirts. " Work shirts just inside 50c to $150 For Quality Official lYoclamalion Itemed. Washington, March I. President Taft this afternoon Issued a proclama tion calling the 61st congress to hold a session beginning March 15, for con sideration ot the .tariff. Cabinet Members Sworn In. Washington, March . With scarce ly any ceremony beyond a formal rep etition of the oath to support the con stitution, the six new members of Taffs cabinet were sworn in today by Chief Justice " Fluler. The cabinet room was the scene of the ceremony, in E YET PREDICTED TANANA WILL LEAD THE CONTINENT. Seventy-Five Millions in Gold is the Probable Sum of Gold From Alaska , Mines That Will Be Shipped Out Tills Summer Tanana Even Richer Than Nevada. Seattle, March 6. Predicting that the Tanana district alone will produce more gold than Nevada, and will cx- ceed the output of last year, and that Alaska will lead all gold-producing district on the American continent the coming summer, W. H. Parsons has returned from New York today. "I do not hesitate to say," he said, "that it will not be long until Alaska will be sending through this city $75,000,000 yearly In gold." .. . f vv- -i "I v ' V X '1 'f v. J: Mm'' copywght. i08 er BRANOtOEt KINCAiO tCO ALASKA mm . j .t . a' .... -n .' ft i , ,.-"Ja4,'jhj " u r. . THE ITALIAN REUEF !HM AT T fll STARTLING DISCLOSURES t 1 MADE BY AMERICAN PRIEST. Not an Uncommon Tiling for Soldier to Exact Remuneration From Those Pinned Under Debris Before Rescue Was Effected Graft Said to Have Existed in Distribution of Relief Money Formal 1iarges Laid With Government Officials. New York, March 6. Charging graft in relief work following me Italian earthquake. Rev. Angellcus Id- one, pastor or hi. Mary s uwunv church at Cleveland. O., who' lost his father and mother in the disaster, is here today preparing to make formal complaint to the state department. He is an American. He said: "The cowardice of Italian soldiers and the, police cost the life of my father. Suffering untold agonies, he lay three days, pinioned under debris. The relief corps was afraid to aid him because its members feared the fall ing walls. They talked to him three days, but made no effort to effect his rescue. I saw Italian soldiers, under the eves of officers, commit acts of cruelty which no newspaper dare print. No help was given the poor without remuneration." tw man can pass Into eternity, ' for he Is already in it. Farrar. V 1, ' V- 1 .A. ........-, , Fot Style tun ft vl .... .J. v .. . -i . -.ft- .. . . S . - i,. . tew-.- Rill III I IM I . I . . I Illllllll 1 uilAM lUli D I t EXTENSIVE COMBINE IS LOBBYING IN VICTORIA, AnicrlcMii Heud CuIohnmI l'act to Ex- hauNt Caiunllan liumber and Then Mioot Ameiicttn-Growu Product to Great Height Prime Movt iik-Rc moval of Tariff on Rouh Lumber is at the Head of Alleged Combine Has Iarge Sum. Vancouver, B. C, March 6. That a combine of American lumbermen has organized and has set aside a quarter million dollars to control British Co lumbla timber, using a part of this fund In the lobby of the provincial legislature at Victoria, to get leases made perpetual, Is shown by a report reaching the hands of local lumber men today. '. The organization Is declared to have planned to enter protincutl politics at the next election and that (Tie conserv atlves and liberals are falling over each other to get their support. The head of, the firm is a well known Min neapolis corporation which has been at the front In the fight for the re moval of tariff on rough lumber. A part of the scheme Is said to be to swamp the Pacific coaat with British Columbia products, and deplete the Canadian limits, thus making doubly valuable the holdings which the same ring of lumbermen have In the Amer ican northwest Till SOLDIERS III CAPITAL VISITORS FIGHT POLICE A XI) CITIZENS. iicciiM-d at Alleued Mark of I)lre- HHct Militiamen Attack and Beat Proprietors of KcNlntirantN and Gro cery Str. Soldiers l imbic "to Cie With Them. ' . Washington, March 6. Aftfr a hi larious charge upun lunch rooms and u grocery store In the vicinity of North Capitol street last night, untold dam age was done and many storekeepers were beaten by members of Co. K, Fifth Pennsylvania volunteers, who (Heaped the police while en route to their -homes. The militiamen were waiting for a train when the fight started, because the lunch roum failed t oserve them quickly. A Hot follow ed, mid spread to adjoining shopH. The proprietor of the respective shops were helpless. After attuccklng the shopmen, the soldiers -stole goods. The police were called, but the soldiers met them at the train. Several policemen Who mounted tin- Meim of the train to make arrests were thrown off and In jured. The nilllll.'irn.n compelled the trainmen to pull out to escape the of ficers. The amount of damage has not as yet been estimated. THIAL SOON OVER. DefeiiM- ami Stale Alike Are 1'liroiih in Cooix-r Hearing;. Nashville. March 6. After .in arulnatlon of two wltivss j. n-but-tal evidence, the def.n :uid state have closed their .,- : iday against Col. Diim an t'oop-r. U iliin "'oop r and Jrhn D. hirpe. rirged with the trnir-d-r of ..T,.iMr ' .. rri v.l:. The t l--si,ij,-srgunieMs wiU'bfgln Monday. If. C. Itlni-h-dit came up from Suiii meivllle today en route to Portland to appear before the federal grand Jury In the Serlls-r case Monday. MIS MIT Miss Keller Weds. New York, March I. Mlag Jacque line, Kelley, daughter of Commander and Mrs. J. 1. Jerold Kelley, today I ; became the bride ot Joseph B. Russell, I lr4"'b'f"llotolt. a lia vermuuy . lootc place at tha home uf the bride in East 83d street. After a trip to the south Mr. and Mrs. Russell will live in Cam bridge, Mass. The groom Is a nephew of the late Governor William E. Rus sell of Massachusetts. Every one is eagle-eyed to see an other's faults and deformity. Dryden. HEAL BY MORPHINE HABIT LET inM OUT. OF TROUBLE. Working on Remarkable Plea That Defaulting Cashier of Boise Bank Was Addicted to Morphine Habit, Defense Attorneys Secure Acquittal on One Count. ' Bose, March 6. H. E. Neal, a for mer cashier of the Capital State bank ot this city, which tailed In January, 1908, was acquitted on the charge of forgery after a trial of five weeks. In dictments of five other cases of a similar nature, remain against him. For a period of five hours before the Jury retired, the defense counsel argued the case ot his client. Inter spersing at frequent Intervals, vehe ment denunciations of the board of di rectors that was In control when Neal made the alleged defalcations., Bank Expert Trimmer was roundly denpunc- ed by the attorney.: ! ! t ; XrlUnS Defense. rh6 primary grounds for asking for acquittal was that Neat wus a mor phine eater and wus not liable for whnt he did. . HOGS LOCATE FIEND. Seattle, March 6. Trucked to his homo by bloodhounds, George Elliott Is In Jail hire today after an all-night search by officers for the assailant of Mrs. Otto Rnseburg, who was last 4 night criminally assaulted' near the town of Duwamlsh and left lying near the acr tracks. Elliott was captured at the home of his father, a rancher, and a neighbor of the woman, at 3 this morning. He Is now awaiting identification. Elliott surrendered without resist ance and lodged In Jail. Mrs. Upseburg, the wife of an em ploye of the Georgetown car barns, was attacked, gagged, assaulted by a man she met near the railway tracks near her home. Her condition Is critical. I L UTTEO iff SMOOTH SKIN ALL THROUGH MARCH You can face the harsh, blustering winds of March without fear of chapped or roughened skin if, once or twice a day, you will apply a little of NEWUN'S CULEM CURE This is a splendid preparation for keeping the skin soft and smooth. It pleases everyone who tries it because it dees what it was made to do Detter than anything else. It is pleasant to use and its softening and healing effects are quickly apparent. No one can afford to be without it at this season. The com fort and satisfacti6n oS using it is worth a lot more than it cost. Price 25c. NEWLIN DRUG STORE LA GRANDE, OREGON BJLI1E III CRI? OF SMI MANAGA1NO EDITOR OF BALTI- - 1 . MORE SUN AMONG THE DEAD. . United Wireless From Ilalthnoro to Washington A r firms Worst Storm la Years Now Raging In Baltimore Damage In the Vhiulty of BoMlmore) Is Two Million Dollars Death List Will Grow When Wire Sen Ice Spreads News, Is Belief. By United Press wlrclctts, via Wash lug ton, from Baltimore, March . Two persona are dead, one of thcui Oakley Haines, Managing Editor of the Baltimore Sun, tlie leading dally ot tliat city, as the result of one of the fiercest storms experienced in yeara here. Owing to Ute strength of Uia gale the death list lias Increased, with prospects of more deaths to be report ed when wire communication Is re stored. . The damage Is conservatively esti mated at $2,000,000 In the vicinity or Baltimore, Champ Clark Is 50. Washington, . March 6.- Champ -Clark of Pike'' county, Missouri, demo cratic leader In the house of represen tatives, and one of the fwe men wlio are making the history of the times In America,",- will tomorrow receive the congratulations of his congressional colleagues and Missouri friends upon attaining his 69th birthday. The Mis souri statesman, who Is now, next to "Uncle Joe" Cannon, the leading fig- : ure In the house; was born In Ander son county, Kentucky, on March 7, 150. and was' originally, christened-'-James Beauchamp Clark. The "James" he lost early In life, and the "Beau champ" was shortened to "Champ"by his Pike county associates. The future -Solon accepted this trifling with his " name in a spirit of pious resignation, and ever since he has signed oil offl clnl papers as plain "Champ Clark." ' NEW BAHBER SHOP. Christiansen Brothers Will Ojien Toil- sorinl Parlors. , Christiansen Bros., are.arranglng to open a three-chair barber shop in the room being vacated by Jeweler H. W. uuoiii, on jtunui m venue, tnrm tlnnsen Is well known here, having, worked In several of the stlopa here for the past two years. " Wrong conduct Is far more power ful to produce erroneous thinking, than erroneous thinking to produce wrong conduct. J. S. Kleffer. X't
