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LA GRANDE, UNION COUNTY, ORE.," THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1909.
NUMBER 175.
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CilANCL METHOD
0 ADVERTISING
UHI0H COUHTY
LOCAL. PAPERS WILL BE MEDIUM
Of PUBLICITY
BETTER FRUITS
WbstKUK A1 STAR WILL BE
SEJiT TO THE EAST.
Plans of Advertising Adopted by Club
That Is Feasible.
A new policy regarding the attain
ment of publicity for LaGrande was
begun at last night's meeting of the
Commercial club when it was decided
to use the local papers for distribu
tion among houieseekers. The plan
is to buy from each paper weekly
subscriptions to the amount of $10.00,
and to se.nl to prospective settlers
whose letters seem to warrant it, one
of the papers forya period of three
months. This will give the club an
opportunity to furnish 800 inquirers
with ordinary-every-day unvarnished
Information regarding our city and
our resources that could be given by
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TO THE COAST
I TO HAVE FINGER IN
HARRIMAN'S ROAD PIE
SAN FRANCISCO, May 13. Follow
his Investment of $10,000,000 In Cali
fornia securities, J. P. Morgan is com
ing to the Pacific coast this summer,
according to announcement today. It
is believed the visit has a significant
bearing upon the stupenduoutf.finan--ing
being undertaken by Harriman
for a railroad system. Harriman Is
going to Europe in the near future to
bring back $30,000,000 in foreign capi
tal for his roads. It is understood
Morgan Is interested in this plan.
ORDERS COAST ITINERARY
TAFT'S VISIT TO ALASKA
WILL HE A THOROUGH ONE
IVIrkershmn of Aluska Will Outline
Trip F.r President Taft When He
Comes" West This Sumnirr.
WASHINGTON, May 13. Taft to
day requested Delegate WickeiEham
of Alaska, to prepare immediately a
complete itinerary, of the presidential
trip to the coast this summer. The
president says he wants to make the
trip thorough, starting at Seattle, an!
visiting all the big cities of Alaska. '
. Aatotnobiliiig: to Baker.
Trying to emulate the time of the
Thomas pathfinder car. Will Church
and .A. V. Andrews today started for
Baker City in Mr. Church's Ford. They
anticipated no difficulty en route.'
IMM
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no reasonable amount of letter writ
ing, .
While specially prepared booklets,
circulars and other commonly used
means of advertising a conrraunity are
'good, there Is always the danger of
giving the reclpents of . such matter
the feeling that our drawbacks are
glased over and our advantages ex
aggerated. . Every day happenings,
j facts about our crops, or fruit ship
ments, and in our civic life are tcld
in every Issue of the local papers, and
readers will feel that they are getting
the truth, plain and unvarnished.
Then, If they decide to come to this
section, they' ' will" do so with the In
tention of staying.
THOUSANDS OF
KERN RIVER SURGES OVER TEN
THOUSAND ACRES WHEAT LAND
KKKERSFIELD, Calif., May 13.
hundreds of farmers along Kern
river, who have been working night
nnd day to prevent Inroads of water
and ihe inundation ol their lands,
today gave up the fight andrelinqulsh
ed to the triumphant fioodw aters.and
ItUiOO acres of wheat anil barley
lands. A few in desperation, are si ill
iiuhting the flood, but b.e.iks In the
I'ver levees occur hia.-!? under the
piffipiu-e of water. '
S UNDATED
A Free Trip For a Maiden Fair
To Rose Show
FESTIVAL QUEEN" DOMINATION' BALLOT.
I hereby nominate
for La Grande's Queen at the Portland Rose Festival, June 7 to 12.
(Signed) '. ..
Deposit this vote at either newspaper office before Saturday
noon, May 15.
After the routine business of audi
ting bills etc., was finished at the
Commercial club meeting last night
a matter of great Importance to the
city was taken up. The club has had
built for the Portland Rose Festival
parade a gorgeous float, typical of the
resources of La Grande and vicinity.
To get the greatest possible good out
:f the publicity obtained by partici
pation in the Rose Festival, it is
netessary to have a queen, who will
be sent to Portland at the expense of
the club, and who will r'.de in the float
during the parade.
It is also planned to form a march
ing escort of La Grande visitors at
: the rose show. To the end that, the
necessary impetus be given the move
ment so that balloting for the queen
may be finished before the date ueces
; sary for her to leave for Portland,
. plans were discussed this morning be
.tween Publicity Manager Currey, of
. the Commercial club, and representa
tives of the Observer and the Star,
relative to nominations for queen, and
the balloting which will follow.
At the head of this article will be
j found a nomination ballot, and sub
! stantially the same form will be found
in tomorrow morning's Star. , All that
; is necessary iff to cut out one of these
. coupons. All in the name of the lady
you desire to nominate for La
1 Grande's queen at the rose show, sign
the coupon with you ' own name and
! deposit It at either of ths newspaper
F
amousC
The Thomas car once around the
world and the winner of the New
York-to-Paris race and now finding
the path for the Guggenheim New
York-to-Seattle race In July, arrived
this noon from New York via Boise.
Its arrival was touted in advance and
when it dashed up Adams avenue to
the Foley hotel, where the men In
charge took lunch, the streets were
lined with Interested sightseers., Well
rl Vu nl'iu Mfee ituu tue strenuous
uses of its former trip around the
world its subsequent Journey from
New York here, the car is a spectu!
t bohoid Indeed. '. HuvriiadH crowd
ed around it, anxious to learn all they
could. The monster 60-horsepower
ROOSEVELT CRITICISES TOLSTOI
NEW YORK, May 13; Roosevelt, in
the current number of the Outlook,
says: "There wsa but one point In the
platform of either party In 1908 which
contained any menace to the peace of
the world. This was the plank In the
Bryan platform demanding immediate
exclusion by law of all Asiatic labor
ers, therefore Japanese. Coupled with
'his was the utter mean'ri-,leBd pi. ink
abou: unvy, which howeve , ir.umded
to convey the impression that we
l ought to have a navy only for de
offices. The name will be printed in
the following issue. These nomina
tion blanks will be carried in the pa
per today and tomorrow; In the Star
tomorrow morning and Saturday mor
ning. Saturday evening and Sunday
morning papers will contain a full
list of all nominees to date. . The bal
loting will begin ' Monday morning.
The lady having the highest number
of votes at the close of the contest
Will be sent to Portland at the club's
expense. The ballots will be left at
several places, to be announced later.
In order that the whole state may
obtain .permanent benefit from par
ticipation in the Hose show parade,
moving pictures of the pageant will
be made and used In the lectuie room
of, the Oregon building at the Seattle
fair. , The floats of each section will
also be photographed separately, and
colored slides made from the photos
will be used in the same manner as
the moving pictures. It is very prob
able that the float will be sent to
Spokane during the sesions of the
National Irrigation Congress, and that
the La Grande band will participate
In that parade. The proposition of
sending the band and float was made
to the club some time ago. by tht
traveling representative of the Board
of Control of the Irrigation Congress,
and the idea received much favor at
last night's meeting. That, however,
is not definitely settled.
ar In
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machine honked about 1 o'clock and
took its departure for Seattle via
Meat-ham. Athena and Walla Walla.
LochI autoists met the car out In
the valley and escorted It to La
Grande but at Walla Walla an ela
borate banquet will be tendered the
men tonigt. , .
In the big machine were the driver,
j George Miller, who was Schuster's
! mechanic on the round-the-world trio.
which was won by the hardy old vet
J eran which is now laying out the trail
for the world's famous race; Clarence
Eaton, the mechanic; L. W. Redding
ton, the well known war correspond
ent who Is laying out the trail, and
' the official photographer, who has
fenses of coasts That is merely a
defensive navy, in other words, quite
a useless navy,"
1 , Criticizes Tolstoi.
Roosevelt discussed Count Tolstoi,
saying wherever his Influence was
felt it had been for vll. He explains
that if the reader is strong enough to
d'aci Climate, something good -uu be
got from Tolstoi's writings, but he
makes clear his opinion that weak
persons will" be Influenced by the
areat 1 ussian author.
BALDWIN ESTATE
FINALLY SETTLED
IQW GETS AK EVE N MILLION
FOLLOWING A COMPROMISE
LOS ANGELES. May 13. A million
dollars will be paid Mrs. E. J. Bald
win, widow of "Lucky" Baldwin, as a
result of a compromise she effected
with other heirs. Her legacy Is un
der the terms of the will was a sma'l
part of his place in San Francisco,
and was heavily mortgaged. It was
worth $30,000. She threatend to bring
action to break the will, the compro
mise resulting. Attorneys who ar
ranged the compromise will be paid
$100,000. The estate will be divided
between five heirs.
FACILITIES ARE INADEQUATE
(OMMIISSIOX HOLDS HEARING
AT SALEM TIMS AFTERNOON
O. IL & . Our of Railroads Siiid to
be Slack in lis Fueilkie For Haul
ing Slock.
SALEM, May 13. The Railroad
Cominisison is today considering the
reasonableness the Inter State Wnol
rates, and also whether the Southern
Pacific, Corvallls and Eastern, and O.
Tl. & N. roads have provided adequate
facilities . for shipping stock, and
whether there is enough double deck-
(ed shutes for loading double decked
cars.
Pastor W, H. Gibson will preach at
the Iowa school house on Sunday af
ternoon at 3 o'clock.
taken nearly 1000 photographs on the
trip and expects to exceed that mark
by the time the car finishes its jour
ney 700 miles farther west to the coast
city. He snapped thtt crowd at the
Foley.
"We le't New York promptly at 12
o'clock March 20," stated Mr, Red
dfngtou today. , "and have so
far covered 3800 miles. Although
the trip has been a hard one we did
not experience any real difficulties un
til we reached Wyoming. Our troubles
negan in that state as there are prac
tically no roads there, and during one
week In the state we made but 174
(Continued on Page, Four.)
WITH LARGE SUM
OLD DEBT WILL; BE MADE GOOD
IH HEM FUTURE
WASHINGTON. May l3.--Senalor
Chamberlain today took action, cal
culated to Induce prompt jiajmer.t t
$191,000 due Oregou from the govern
ment for money expended by the
state in raising volunteers for the
civil war against the Indiana.
Oregon's claims were successfully
prosecuted by a Washington law firm
in court claims, but an Hppio.nlalion
is neceRpary before ths stare can get
the money.
Chamberlain has written Represent
ees Haw ley and Ellis to urge im
mediate action towards the insertion
of a claim in deficiency in approprin-t.i-iu:vli)l
thlsseBsion. : . .,
tiOVEltXMEST; KOBREIl.
Ileybiirii of IdulKi IHsclo-es Sciimi
tioiiiil Scries of Fraud.
WASH I NOTOX, May 1 3.---former
RepresctiUUve 1 fey burn vf al;ilio to
day told Taft the Koveiunient whs
robbed by means of 'fraudulent witch
ing sugar the past 20 years, to his
knowledge. He staled, that 18 years
ago he was a member of. the commlt-
teen to investigate custom bureau
and discovered flagrant evidence of
bribery and corruption.
Carl Townley a merchant of Elgin,
is In the city on business.
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THE SEASON'S
DAINTIEST
OXFORDS
Trim footwear is the key to good
dressing. Our Oxfords are unex
celled in both style and quality.
PETERS
DIAMOND BRAND
OXFORDS
flALVB FOIL US BY,
WM1
THE
LA GRMDE, ORE.
STRAWBERRIES
AT COVE WILL
BE FULL CROP
EARLY BLOOMS ALONE WERE NIP
. PED BY FROST
ALL AGREED
(UU JlERllY FARMS I'MTKU 19
THEIR DECISION.
Will (rwk Canjon, Thv Strawberry
District, Unharmed.
COVE, May 13. (Special) One of
the principal growers of Mill Crealt
Canyon, which la the chief strawberry
district or the upper valley ,-jmys fhat
the crop in this vicinity Is so fnr
uninjured.
E. B. Covers, a well known grower.-,
when seen today by an Observer rep
resentative said that only a few of
the early blooms had been injured.
He also said that If every oui of
the earlv blooms was killed It would
have no material effect in the r rop. .
An inspection of several of t!i
principal berry farms of thia locality,
including the places of Ben and Frank
De Parde, T. J. De Barde, VVilltiiiu'
Jerden; J. A. McNeil and R. Wade la-dicatt-a
.that iireeout-teurs of fa!lu:
u'V f.ioundk'Hs,, the cold weather &u
far. .having doue'Xno appreciable dam
age. .
Iill'L OLD A(E.
When 10:t Year Old Quit Heavy
Work For His Fnnillj Rocker.
RENO. Nev., May 13. When Ster
ling Arnold, a fanner here reached
the age of 103 yesterday, he ceased
heavy work and his eldest son, aged
80 took his father's place In the field.
His wife, who will be 100 next month,
has also quit housework. Arnold was
born in North Carolina. He used to
bacco all his life, but not intoxicant.
We have tnem in all col
ors and all sizes.' They are'
wonderfully snappy and at
FAIR