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VOLUME vm. LA GRANDE, UNION COUNTY, ORE.,i FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1909. NUMBER 152. I til. M ARTHUR IS TO LECTURE HERE 1UNN1WAY IS ANOTHER BIG MAX ON PROGRAM Oregon-Idaho Development Congreits Send Names of Several Important Speakers For La Grande Congrc.is Dunulway, Speaker McArthur And Xaxton of Raker City on Tlie List Locally, Much Preparation Under way. "Hlnton N. McArthur, speaker of the Oregon house in the 1909 session, will be one of the speakers on the program to be carried out by the Oregon Idaho development' congress when it meets in La Grande this month. A letter was received this morning by Publicity Manager Fred B. Currey - from E. Hofer the chairman of the executive committee of the congress, that McArthur will be here and wiH lecture on "A Greater Oregon." This "fcit of news will be welcomed. In addition to the speaker, other lecturers were secured yesterday ac cording to the letter. Some of these are: Hon. Willis S. Dunnlway, of Portland, on the subject "A Business , man on Irrigation and P. M. Saxton of Baker City on the subject "The new Oregon Water code." Arthur P." Stover the government irrigation expert at Portland has all but decided to come and it will, not be surprising if his presence can be -announced In a few days. Locally every day sees some new phase in the matter of entertainment for the guests. The city is already known as the convention city of East ern Oregon and the commercial club must ever be up on its toes to main tain the high stand set by other or ganizations in the past. WHY for your spring or summer suit, when you can buy the newest garments from us for less money. Elegant Patterns, Faultless Tailoring Unequaled Values. A large array of patterns and styles to choose from. s. i ' 3 4 w.' 5 I v I- , V ' . t. .. "J ft V l ' y" -i ' :-. -- 1- - I LADIES HONORED. Several From La Grande Draw Places ' on Orticlnl Slate. . Several I .a Grande ladies were re elected to offices In the missionary meeting of theEasteru Oregon pres bytery of tho Presbyterian church at Baker City which closed last evening. A Baker City lady was elected to succeed Mrs. J. K. Wright Those to be given offices from La Grande are: Mrs. II. R. Manna, recording secre tary; Mrs. Kirk, box secretary and Mrs. W, S. Seeraan treasurer. CHANGE AT SCENIC. There will be a complete change in the program at the Scenic tonight. This means In vaudeville And moving pictures as well; The pictures are up to snuff and will please any audience. The vaudeville peopbs have something better than they have ever put ou be fore. Better see it, if you don't went to miss something! SEATTLE MAN ALLEGES SERIOUS CHARGES ARE FALSE SEATTLE, April 16. Frederick M. Newberry, a real estate dealer, and claiming to be a cousin of Truman H. Newberry, former secretary of the navy, ts in Jail here in default of 2, 000 bail, accused of detaining 3everal girls under 12 years in his office. They have made charges against him. Newberry says he has a wife and family at Dayton, Ohio. The maximum penalty for this crime Is life impris onment, but Newberry says It is a case of blackmail. CIS How Does $15 Look to You for a suit that you must pay $25 for in many stores. ' Why not Save That Extra $10.00? . We have spring suits from $10 to $25 but we are especially proud of that $15 suit. Come in and See Them i THE L4 GRANDE, LI TO BUTTE BIT. ENGINEERS ALREADY IN FIELD GETTING SURVEYS Central Oregon And Idaho to be Tap ld by Electric Line of Euonuou Length WM Build Thirty .Miles Out of Portland at Once Two linn dred Thousand Available Now For ' Construction Coining ' Through John Day. PORTLAND,'' Oregon. April 16. Portland will be linked with Butte, Mont., by an electric line 300 miles long acrosB the Interior of Oregon and Idalio Into Central - Montana, It la to be promoted by Portland, Butte and Baker City Electric Railroad, which has Just been Incorporated with H. C. McAllister, the nuiBter fish war den of Oregon, as president. The' first 30 miles will be built at Portland, and be extended through the John Day valley. Men are already surveying over the Cascade-mountains. Two hundred thousand dollars are available for the contsructlon pur poses, and the promoters will send en gineers out immediately. NEW MAIL SUPERINTENDENT. WASHINGTON. April 16. Frank W. Vaille. of Oregon, was today selected as-superintendent of th nw 13th divis ion railway mail srvice with headquar ters at Seattle. Salary three thou sand. Ualsc Treasurer' Bond. - WALLOWA, April 10. The treas urer of the city does not give bonds enough. Such Is the opinion of the Pitv rnuncil and at their meeting Friday night they Instructed the ordi nance committee to frame an ordi nance fixing the treasurer's bond at not lss than $2,000. FM OREGON fAi' --Aw V ' ...r. 4, ... 1 inf,,,! T5T " A PETIT1I FOR ' ELECTION HEAR WATER-PROOF PETITION, TO " It EACH CITY TOMORROW A Prlltlou Said by American Light Power Company Attorneys to le Flan less Will Arrive Immediately And Must be Signed by Taxpayers at Once Perniuiient Survey to go on )Thlle Special Election Is" Being Held. V '' Word has been received by the city officials from the American Light and Water company that the petition for the water bond election, in the form approved by their attorneys, and a method (if procedure to be followed after the petition has been signed, was mailed from Chicago on the 14th.' The petition should reach La Grande to morrow. The next work to be done, in order that there may beno fur ther delay in the matter of obtaining pure water, is for the progressive citizens - of La Grande to sign the petition.! After the requisite number of voters have done tills, it will be ified with Recorder Cox, who will then pos uotices, culling an election. The election, however, cannot take place Tor sixty days after the notices are posted. ' . . In the meantime the permanent sur vey will have been completed by En gineer .tickler, who started for the had of the proposed pipe Hi.e 'lie i!ny befo're yesterday, but had to turn back on account of Enow. About Mon day, with a force of several men, he will begin the work from this end, and think hat the, snow will melt fast enough so that he may push the work to completion. The contracting company will have all preparations for actual construc tion of the system completed by the time the election Is held, and next fall La Grande children will be drink ing pure mountain water, and La Grande parents need not be in fear of typhoid all the time. The Observer has many times re Iterated the fact that the city is at absolutely no expense in holding this election, made necessary by a slight irregularity in the proceedings con nected with the former bond election. n.uh tn reupflt that every cent of the expense vlll be born by the American Light and Water company, the people who have contracted to Install the system, HANGING SCENE XT UfAl I Kl HI II PHILLiPiKG MUBOERE'l DROPS TO 0T WITH CROSS T BREAST WALLA WALLA. April 16. Juan Nicolus. a Filipino, was hanged here ut 4:li0 this morning for' killing James Brown, mistaking him for a deputy sheriff againwt whom he had a grudge. j He then filled a Filipino boy because j he couldn't find the boy'B father whose death he sought. The shooting was the result of jealous rage. The piiaoner walked calmly up the. 1 T Rtena to the scaffold. To his breast I he pressed a cross. He dropped r.iter i standling ou the trap' two minutes. ! still holding the cross U, his breast. i He confessed to Chr.uu'iu" Joyce, of '..the .1.4th. Cavalry : .-! xluninf the alioot- ing was an accident. FULTON DECLINES JOB. WASHINGTON. April 16. A tele gram from C. W. Fulton of Oregon, declining the ministership to China was received today by President Taft. MIA flLLfl If nLLfl ASYLIM INMATES ESCAPE. Two Get Away, But Third Is Injured Ju Full From Window, SALEM, April 16.T-Attempting to escape from ' the . insane asylum at midnight Wilson O. Hall, from Klam ath county, fell 40 feet from a third window and fractured an ankle. Two others escaped. They made rope of bedclothes, but the rope parted with Hall, who weighs 200 'pounds. WALLACE POKEK ENDED. WALLACE, Idaho, April 16. For the first time since the "Last Chance" saloon in Wallace In 1886, poker was stopped here by Sheriff John Mofflt, of Shoshone county. This Is the last form of gambling. TAFT HOME AGAIN, WASHINGTON, Ap. il 16. President Taft returned to the capitol today, Mrs Taft remaining la New York. EDITOR SCOTT . IS RECOCN OREGONIAN EDITOR WILL BE AM ' BASSADOR 10 MEXICO WASHING &N, April 16. Harvey Scott, editor of the Portland Oregontan will be the next American Ambas sador to Mexico, succeeding David B. Thompson, acordlng to reports. This will probably not be announced offi cially for several days. He will go on the slate of diploinutlc appointments, hanging scene THE STARTING GUN. SEATTLE. April 16. Mayor ' Mc Clellan of New York, was presented with a gold mounted revolver, with which he fired the shot starting the great o ean-to-ocean auto endurance race on June 1. Dick Hennescy, who two years ago j lived here but is now located at " Starbuck, is in th city today from I Hot Lake visiting friends. Mr. Hen-.! nesey is taking treatments at the san- j ZED TERRIBLE HOLOCAUST RESULTS FROM FIRE SAN FRANCISCO, April 16. Six men dead, and eight seriously In jured, and it is feared at least 15 more bodies are in the ruins of the St. George, a tenement destroyed by fire this morning. Four bodies has been recovered. A victim giving his name ns Charles C. Cartwrlght. who says his brother lives near Salem Oregon, Is believed to be dying. The building Is a fire trap. A pro test was made when it was built after the fire, as it was filled with tiny rooms, when t lie lire siarieu some had no chance to escape they were burned up like rats. The narrow halls are quickly filled with struggling bodies. Several drop ped from effects of smoke, unable to (li d their way Out. The building was k frame structure and burned like tinder. Three firemen are crushed OD SAN FRANCISCO. Calif.. April 16. said "Big Jim" Gallagher, chalrma Fred nlchols, one of the boodling and 0f the old board, gave him $4,000. former supervisors to whom Immunity when he rom.jU(je)i his story he was wa. granted, today took the stand In ; oTer wfco h,nd. the Calhoun trial, recited how his , vota was purchased for the overhead j him without gloves. He w.a sub trolley franchise by Calhoun, he jected to a severe cross examination Ill AMERICANS AMONG THE CHRISTIANS SLAUGHTERED Racial And Religious Mars Raging In Minor Occasioned by Cprlln(r In Turkey Germany, England An America . Mill Intercede Meagre Dispatches Say Americans Were KIL led OAicm Resign to AtoM The Axe. WASHINGTON, April 16. Twf Americans were killed In rioting Adana, acording to a cablegram from Ambassador Lelshman, at Constantly ople. Many homes at Adana wera pillaged and burned. A racial war Is slowly spreading throughout Asia Minor. . CONSTANTINOPLE, April 16. Six ty Armenians and a German Inter preter of the British consulate were killed today at Adana, Asia Minor, by fanatical Mohammediaua who have de clared war against Christians. The uprising is believed to be a re sult of the revolt at Constantinople. Germany and England will udoubtedly , Interfere. t'. OFFICIALS RESIGN. ATHENS, April 16. Tewflk rasp resigned as Grand Vizier of Turkey to day when he heard troops advancing toward Constantinople from Salonlca, ; Member a," tr '.'henew cabinet ex pected to resign. . YOCNG TURKS ARE INSTIGATORS. 8ALONICA, April 16. Two' battal ion of soldiers are marchlilg against--Constantinople today determined to over throw the new regime and place Vounk TurkeB in power. The' move ment was inspired by Young Turka who were driven from here by the ne regime. ; Abmed-Riza, the deposel president of the parliament has arrived hare and has begun organization of a pro visional government, which will so.) be proclaimed. PORTLAND'S VOTING STRENGTH. PORTLAND Ore. April 16. Port land has 34, 472 reglstred voters, a shown by registration books, which closed last night. , There are 1134 Republicans. 21' Democrats and 107 miscellaneous. IN SAN FRAN by the walls. Eight small buildings adjoining were destroyed. Total property loss two hundred thousand. Olllcer , W. F. Kruger, by his bravery, saved several by rushing Into the burning build ing and dragged them out At noon 40, lodgers were reported missing, with a bare possibility that some of them are living, though it is doubtful. ' '." Wreckage df nine buildings Is still fottf. ulihiuli fli-umnn hnva ltfell IilaV- laiuc. amin .... .... . .... .w . - j lug streams all day. Rescue parties j have been retarded, flames cutting ' them off from where the bodies ara burled. It Is unlikely that more bodies ; will be recovered for hours. I'ntil then accurate figures an dead, are un known. Bodies recovered so far ara charred beyond recognition. IIILII MEMBER TESTIFIES 4 - i jr.- - ' i1 i i .'. J