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O, volume vni. LA GRANDE, UITI01T COUNTY, ORE., THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1CC3. HUIIBER 157 ALL FOREiCNERS III DIRE HER SULTAN SUBBOUNDED AND CANNOT ESCAPE TURKS )Ieageg from Smyra and Tarsas Say Hundreds of Frlsooera Uaie Bern - Released by Fanatics Americana la Daiger of Aaaaaslaatlan De so rljtlloa Caa Depict The Horror of , The Jlassacrei Carried a Today SMYRA. April 22. Messages from Ayaa Bay rioting la gruesome; rlotera broke into the Jail and' releaaed 40 prlaonera there, Pillaging, robbery, arson and murder la general. ' At Tarsus', 5000 ara homeless. Easily 200 were murdered by the rlotera, and 200 houses burned.., . ', ( Five American women are in dan ger of being murdred by Armenian Janatlcs at Hadjln. Miaa Lambert and missionary, aent ft teeglram today aay ing tbe town la filled with rlotera, threatening the Uvea of all foreigners. All aurroundlng vlllagea burned and a large part of Hadjln Is ablaze. ' '-. SOFIA, April 22. A detachment of Toung Turks haa crossed tbe sea of JIarmora today, and is now occupying the Asiatic aide of Constantinople, thus completing the investment of the city. It la now impossible far the Sul tan to escape and Join the loyalists in Asiatic Turkey, as waa supposed to be planned. ' ' . '. .; ' MILL TEST TBAIN. A test train composed of regula tion tonnage on new cars, will be taken over the mountains by high company officials this week. Every department and ' sub-department of railroad transportation will be inupec- ted during the trip! . All. the equip inentwill be new that the test will be made without a flaw, '" 1 : ' , . ... , . ; II' . a. II M the C6ME and FNP OUT SflLE of coorse yyD WAS . $1.50 Black and Colored Heath Bloom Petticoats 70c Something startling each day You will not be told until the next so you had better COME AMD FIND OUT what it is for Your self. ' . . I Mew Special Each Bay THE riSII FOB HATC1IEBT. ' ELGIN. April 22. Although much closer to the fine fishing of the Look ing Glass. Mlnam and lower Grand Honda than the La Grande nimrods, Elgin sportsmen have realized the necessity of keeping the supply of trout up, and accordingly made re qulstlon. of the department a short time ago for fry to place in the small streams in tills vicinity. According ly there were received from the On tario hatchery yesterday about 23,000 smal trout which were planted In Clark's and Indian creeks. CLUB CLOSES FOB SEASON. NEW YORK, April 22. The West End Woman's Republican Club holds its flrat meeting for the season to night at the Hotel Astor, The offi cers elected at the annual meeting will be Installed. C II RACES III AIR AND PARADES TOO, IS PRESENT PLAFi BERLIN, Friday. April 22. Prep arations for the international aero nautic exhibition, to be held at Frank fort next July, are fast approaching completion. . Dlrlgble airships of rig id and non-rigid patterns, aeroplanes, and spherical balloons, will be seen in flight, and facilities will be offered to visitors to make trips In airships starting from the exhibition grounds. During the exhibition there will be races and other competitions of a sporting and military character. Ex periments with aeroplanes will be carried out on a specially prepared velodrome In the grounds and there are already numerous entries. , The Zeppelin and the Parseval airships will Journey to Frankfort by air and EIITI E,!l .take passengers on excursions aiong oi IA GRAUDE OREGON PA1TEH S LIFE 1,01 1 LED FROM PIT TO AVOID SERIOUS THREATS BS . j king of Wheat World Is Speeding te Trinidad Where he Will Recuperate Denies he Is Looking After Wheat Condition Said That he Had Ke- ; celved Threatening Letters Since His manipulation Began in Pit. CHICAGO, April 22. It waa learned today that James Pattso. the wheat King, who fatally ruined scores of rich men, disappeared during the heat otfhe battle tf the pit and fled In fear of his life. During the paat few days he received many threatening letters. ' Patten denied statement he la mak ing a lour to Investigate the wheat crop." He said he waa going to the ranch of a friend near Trinidad to recuperate from the intense strain under which he ia living. ' - HUTCHINSON, Kas., April 22. Pat ten passed through this city today en route to Trinidad, Colo. He eaid the object of his flight wss to escape re porters. "; ' - ' , 1 '' ', the Rhine. 1 During the races com munication will be kept up . by means of the exhibition's own wireless tele- arrauh system and carrier pigeons. Numrous prizes have been offered. The honorary committee of the ex hibition in eludes F. Cortland Bishop, president of the Aero Club of Ameri ca: Count Zeppelin, Major Cross, Ma jor von Parseval, Professor Burley, Prof. G: Hergesell, Col. Schae?k, last year's winner of the Gordon -Bennett balloon race; Comte de la ?-Vaulx, Prince Borghese, Major-General Ko- anko, chief of the Imperial Kussian Balloon Park, and Capt. Amundsen, 1 ORE STflAliCER FALLS TO IIIS HEATH OXE LOXE WITXESS TO- - SUDDEN DEATH AT II1LGABD What s Pre nuuicly a Tramp Was Ell led at HHgard-TWs MornlMg Was Seen Falling Frew a Freight Trajn Was net Bun Oter Bat Fatally In jured by Fall laqaest Held Late Tils Et sJag Xaaie is Fred JHIIler, Fred Miller, presumably a ysuug man stealing a ride on a freight train weatf Vaa almost insteajtly killed at Hllgard this morning. Exact nrtic uiars si to how he met his death may never be known, though It is possible the coroner's inquest to be held lata this evening here if possible, may fer ret out some additional facta. The moat clear-cut story of tbe killing comes from a young fellow standing in the hotel at Hilgard idly watching two .freight trains getting on the side tracks to lt No. G pass. Suddenly he saw a man falling between the cara, but rMd know wether lie fell from the top or from the coupling. : The train was stopped, but as the unconscious form lay between two tracks it is not known which of the trains he fell from. A parcel which he carried, and his hat. fell between teh rails, but he fell between the two tracks, . Though still alive, he was unconscious and after being hurried toward La Grande in charge, of Con ductor Cherry, he died while the spec- J tal "was passing Perry. , , It is believed he was on No. 55, the west bound freight., . ; The remains were at once removed to the undertaking parlors of Henry a:r Carr1, where they waa care of.. T , In one of the pockets of the man's clothes, a pawn ticket. Issued upon a watch by F. D. Young, of Baker City, on the 8th of April, was found, and also an order from an employment ngency, bearing the same date ad dressed to a Mrs. Woods, of Salisbury. Salisbury Is on the Sumpter Valley railroad. -.- :.' ; .' , On the right side of the head the scalp was torn for several irtches, and on the upper right forehead there was a severe bruise. The right shoulder is also broken, . ..Neither of the head wounds would seem, from a superficial examination, to have been sufficient to cause death. - A pawn ticket and the, note from the employment people give the dead man's name as Fred Miller, and In a cheap memorandum book indicate that he was a cook. Farther than this nothing is known of his antecedents or his manner of living. The face bears no marks of dissipation. WAST FREIGHT BATES LOWERED. KANSAS CITY. Mo.. April 22. Rep resentatives of the different railroads in Missouri, have assembled in meet ing here today to have a hearing of th railroad commisisoners of the State in their demand that freight rates be lowered. Rates are included for freight gen erally, extending to all classes and commodities, even including those ar ticles named in the maximum freight rate law which law has been enjoined by Judge McPherson of the federal court. The move is In accordance with the views of the Attorney Gen eral Mayor that the railway commis sion has the right to make reduc tions in freight 'rates, so long as they do out make a rate equal or lower than the rates enjoined by Judge McPherson- This gives the board con siderable latitude and gret reduc tions can be made on certain classes of HV'lww: compelled to obey unless they again invoke the aid or the federal courts and any reasonable rate should not be enjoined even by a federal Judge. I There will be two sections of No. j 5 this evening. The first ia 40 raln ' ntes late and the second 1:30 mlnirtes ! late. ' SJIEIXEJ1S AT CHARLESTON. CHARLESTON. S. C. April 22. To day fully 1.&00 ' Shrlnevs and their ladles bare come Jnto. the city. .The combined membership of Oasis Tem ple, of North Carolina, and Omar Temple, of South Carolina, have con tributed to the pilgrimage to Char leston for the second "reunion" gath ering of "the Shrlneis of the two States. . ',: . ..... COTTON STATES BASEBALL. JACKSON, Miss., April 22. The Cotton States League opens the sea son today and closes Sept. 6. At a meeting of the directors here, Columbus . waa welcomed . back Into the league with open arms, making the sixth club and taking the vacancy left by Gulfport. Columbus is the town succeeded by Algiers, but bsr return to the fold haa no effect whatever on the Algiers franchise. IUIICLESOISSIUC THUS ROOSEVELT GIVEN BIG RECEPTIOS Jima BY NATIVE HOSTS MOMBASA. ' April 22. Roosevelt was given a rousing reception at a spread in his honor today. He waa cheered three minutes when he arouse to make a brief .speech. His hunting plans will proabably start to morrow. ' . "There are so many evidences of civilization everywhere that I am be ginning to be skeptical as to the exis tence of a jungles' said Roosevelt. He will see antelopes and ostriches with in a day, and soon have line practice on smaJi ganr s the plana of the par ty were changed today, so Roosevelt can spend a week hunting out the Ka pitl plains, where he will camp. VIRGINIA STATE LEAGUE STARTS. RICHMOND. Va, April 22. The Virginia State League starts games for the season today. The season will end Sept. 12th. " :; ; pi iisd i nniniiT ILIIflU LUUUUUI RACE UP SIDE OF L AUTOMOBILES CHATTANOOGA, April 22. Chat tanooga's great mountain climb up the historic Look'out Mountain occurs today. Great preparations were made by the Lookout Mountain Automobile Club for the entertainment of a large number of visiting automobllisls. The contest has been given the support of the Chattanooga Chamber of r Com merce and six handsome trophies have been donated by the large com mercial and social organizations of the city. The program Includes con tests for seven different classes of stock machines and a free for ail. Lookout Mountain stands over 2, 000 feet above the city of Chattanoo ga, and the climb will be from bot tom to the summit, a distance of over four miles. The course Is re plete with "hair-pin, triple "S" and "W turns, and Is pronounced the ,viBt ;dJJjgewis aad dSnVuU to ltmb ever scheduled. Part ef Committee Gone. A portion of the committee that will endeavor to persuade Portland capi talists to take stock In the locsl ir rigation project, left last evening for Portland and the remainder will go this evening. FOR PLEASURE DDERU HOUSES iir Ic DEf.wib DEMAND FAB GREATER .'' THAN TBS SUPPLY KOVT While Homeseekers Are Locating Here Rapidly, Few Boosts f Sod ? era Styles Ca be Beeered Oaa Firm Has Fear Calls la One Day Aad Ca Tlli Sen ef Them Kaay Beatable Baste Ar Ket Equipped Wllh Bet Features.1' There 1 a serious dlrla of modem houses on the lease list la this city' according to real estate men who ara almost dally called upon to supply ' modern houses for housekeeping.' Fa milies ara coming to La Grande and with but few exceptions are looking for modern homes in which to live. if only temporarily. The list of houses at hand without modern conveniencea Is also limited, though there Is no great famine for that style of accomo- . datlona. One firm today had tour calls for modern houses and waa un able to point to a single unoccupied residence that could fill the demands. Notwithstanding that Several new homes are going up, or are about to take shape, none are built for the pur pose of leasing and It is doubtful if the supply will anywhere near meet the demand for the next several months. If all rentable houses weia supplied , with modern conveniences, the difficulty would be alleviated lu a great measure. The expense neces sary for the Installation of such equip ment Is not great and when once in, the rent would-be Increased 15. per cent at . least, say those those ; who give study to such matters. : If the Influx to La Grand waKiies as it ha during the past two weeks soma one with an eye for business will do well to build several modern cottagea at once. Homeseekers looking for good locations quickly grasp the fact that La Grande Is the place to come, but they must have house accomoda tions and as practically all who have come so far are well-to-do men, they want the best to be had. many urARiurc IllIMI IILI1IUMUJ VALE RAILROAD FACILITIES WILL BE BEHFARSEO SGQK SALEM. April 22. The railroad commisison will hold a meeting ut Com stock, May 1 to determine the fairness of demands of the people of Curtln for a depot and better trans portation facilities to that point. The Southern Pacific officials say Cnrtln ia a small station, if they practice stop ping at all such points, It would be disastrous to the public' A hearing will be held at Salem May 11 regardlug the double dock chutea for loading double decked cara on the Harrlman lines In Oregon. Th commission will also take np the mat ter of better depot failItls,Ht Vale, which is a terminus of the Malheur Valley railroad, a branch of the O. R. N. HEARD LINCOLN SPEAK. Mrs. Schllke reports that subscrip lin ar$ twining' 1a ireirtentiy and -Vo the Lincoln Farm Association, that Mrs. C. I Pierce, who has heard Lin coln speak, telephoned in this morn ing that she wishes to contribute to the fund for his memory, end wilt take out a membership. C. P. Ferrin is transacting busiuesa In Union today. 1 ! .AM . -4swk. 1m- I ' X 1 I