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LA GRANDE, UNION COUNTY, OIIE., THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1009.
NU1IBER 103.
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PORTLAND, June 3. James Hill j
the railroad king has practically ser
ved notice on Portland and Oregon
last night that the Eastern and Cen
tral Oregon must look elsewhere than
to him for relief to the transporta
tion problem confronting It. While
assuring fellow guests at a dinner
given in his honor at the Arlington
lub, of confidence in Portland and
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SEATTLE. June 3. A proclama
tion calling an extraordinary session
of the legislature at 2 o'clock on the
afternoon of June 23, is written and
signed by the Govenor, who stated at
noon It will not. be formally Issued
until arter a conference with Attorney
General Bell, this afternoon. The
purpose of the special session is to
consider the report of the legislative
committe investigating the state of
fices. Govenor Hay said: "In view of the
disclosures in the administraton of
the Adjutant General's office, I am
ROOSEVELT, Thunder Mountain,
Idaho, June 3. Nobody Js reported
doad today as the result of the land
side, three miles long, and two hun
dred feet wide, that dammed Mule
reek yesterday. Roosevelt is prac
tically wiped out, and moBt of the
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DARING JAILBREAK
LOCAL LADY AID
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SOCIAL HONOR FALLS TO MRS. A.
T. HILL.
Will Assist Mrs. Benson at Dedica
Hon of Oregon Building.
Mrs. A. T. Hill of this city has been
honored with the apuolutment as one
of !'r;c special assistants to Mrs. Gov
euor Frank Benson during Dedication
Day of the Oregon building at the
Seattle A-Y-P on June 18. Mrs. Hill
today received a personal letter from
Mrs. BenBon requesting acceptance
of the honor. The assistants to Mrs.
Benson are few in number and the
honor falling to Mrs. Hill is conse
quently considerably greater. Mrs.
Hill will accept the honor.'
This appointment has no connec
tion with the city and county host
esses who have already been chosen,
and will last but one day. That day
however will, be replete with social
functions whrin tha nniiHrnl nd Bo-
clal elite of the Northwest will
mingle.
Sfafe
belief In future of the state as a wheat
producer, be said he felt his duties
lay along the line of developing the
Great Northern. Replying to the In
quiries he said he naturally was
against Btate-built railroads, but not
under all circumstances. He explain
ed that often conditions exist making
It necessary for the people to get
what they want. .
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mf a a
convinced a special session Is neces
sary to determine on some action.
Played With Matches.
SAX FRANCISCO, June 3. Elsio
Young aged seven, is in her home suf
fering agonies from severe burns cov
ering the body as the result of play
ing with a bunch of sulphur matches
in the absence of her mother. Flamca
ignited hr dresses..
Where the life is consumed in
love's sacrifice the halo takes care
of itself.
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buildings are floating.
Roosevelt is a mining town, located
on Short creek. The slide started at
the Caswell and Current placer, claims
on the side of Thunder Mountain, fol
lowing Mule creek to Monumental
river.
Lock
Jail'i
ELGIN, June 3. One of the nost
sensational jail breaks in the history
of Elgin was successfully eonsumated
here sometime last night when the
friends of Fred Wisdom, arr?sted
yesterday on Indian creek on a
charge of stealing horses in Baker
county, broke the lock on tin Jail
door and abhetred the escape of the
prisoner. No posse has been formed
and little effort will be made to cap
ture the fellow
Wisdom was brought ot Elgin yes
terday evening and incarcerated in
the city bastile, awaiting arrival of
Sheriff Rand of Baker county under
whose orders the arrest had been
made.i Presumably at 2 o'clock th'a
morntnz. the lock to the Jail was
broken from the outside by. of
a heavy bar. A friend, oi friends,
of the prisoner did the worn.
This morning Ran 1 was notified,
but he Informed tha Union county
officials that under the conditions.
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f the case was not worthy of time and
(expense in recapturo.
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TAUDEYILLE CHANGES.
New Features Slated For This Een-1
lag at The Seenlc Theatre.
All vaudeville acta at the. Scenic
change tonight. "Bill" Hall and Jen
nie Coburn put on a comedy act en
titled "A Servant in the Family." Jen
nie Cobourn does the coon part Mrs.
DeFoggy also puts on a new part to
night. Those who attended the Scen
ic last evening came away declaring
th Swede to be one of the - finest
things In vaudeville they had seen.
Something Just as good Is slated for
tonight.
PHILADELPHIA, June 3. Employ
es of the subway and elevated car
lines struck today, Joining the plat
form men and surface cars. Gang
rioting continued at Kensington, with
a clash in which shooting occurred
between sailors from the League
Island Navy Yard and the police.
Three hundred victims, of last night's
riots are In the hospitals, and the
number is being increased. Subway
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FAIR YESTERDAY
OVER
SEVENTEEN
THOUSAND
PAY ADMISSION.
Hall Game Todiij Constitute Athletic
Features at AY-P,.
SEATTLE, June 3. Officials of the
i exposition are eiaieu ai me large at
I tendance at the opening day when
90,000 paid to enter. Yesterday 17
192 were present.
Today's programme began with a
baseball game at the stadium between
teams representing the Mountain and
Coast artillery.
WILSOH PLEADS
GUILTY AI PAYS
DONATES FIFTY DOLLARS
COUNTY COFFERS.
TO
Past Jail Imprisonment Helps Lower
Sentence Against Hinu
Contrary to premature rumors C.
W. Wilson the short change, adept,
Who is said to have swindled several
local people out of money recently,
today pleaded guilty, when arraigned
before the circuit court, and was fined
$50. He paid the assessment.
The court took into consideration,
in naming sentence, that Wilson had
already served 38 days In the county
Jail and that his past record was
evidently good. His youthful age al
so counted for blm. He received a
lecture amid the sentence that he will
not likely forget soon.
How Is This!
First Business Man. "Going to take
a vacation this year?"
Second Business Man. "No I shall
just stop advertising for a month."
THOUSANDS
CIRCUS IS COMING. (
Hugcnbeck.Wttllare Shown Will be In
La Grande July 17th.
Circus time has come, for on July
17th. the Hagenbeck-Wallace combin
ed shows will be' in this city. Llttlo
is known of the tented, affair as the
advance man has confined his ener
gies principally to securing water
rights from Water Superintendent
gi;
This will perhaps be the first cir
cus of the year In La Grande.
lines from nth to 69th streets are
completely tied up.
Special police rushed to every ele
vated, platform as soon as the strike
was. declared. Within 30 minutes
some trains were started by strike
breakers. The clash between the
sailors and the police occurred after
io men from the navy boarded a car
and yelled 'scab" at tho motormcn.
Shooting followed but ' no one was
wounded.
Tfl HEAR PLEA
CIRCUIT COURT LESS IMPORTANT
THAN COMMITTEE.
Joint Counsel Prays For Recess to
Hear Their Pleadings. '
During thsir perambulations around
the city this morning in a search for
tho few. who had not already contrib
uted to the celebration fund, the com
mittee visited the court house. Thev
found the court in Besslon, with At
torneys Finn and Cochran arguing a
case. Upon being informed of the
object of the committee's visit, the
attorneys obligingly asked for an ad
journment of the court so that tho
pleadings of the visitors might be
heard. Judge Knowles was inclined
to accommodate them, but was com
pelled to rule the committee out r.f
court because their papers were
faulty, and he also ruled that their
complaint must be amended. The
suggestions of the court were Im
mediately acted upon, and now the
Judge's name adorns the celebration
subscription list.
City Council.
When the council met last ni'iht
there were two petitions from the
reslders of the Fourth Ward, one ask
ing that Jeff Bull, the other C. J.
Vandepoel be elected to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation of
Councilman G. M. Curtis-)., Tho coun
cil deferred action for the present.
There was considerable routin.) busi
ness, auditing bills and the reading
of the reports of the officers. During
May, five arrests. were made and fines
amounted to $583.00. J. L. Mars was
awarded the contract for building the
cement walks abo-.'t the court I'uuae
for $:!99. ,
Roosevelt Moves.
NAIROBI, June S,--Roo- ". -.'It and
hs party left here th!c- aftoraoou oa
u Kt-ucial train i'o. Kijabe, 1 miica
vrtuwest. wheva thty will visit the
Atneriiaa mlss;.i. litter t.n pp.rty
wll Hart for Sot'!: b' caravan.
Taking pleasures as they come Is
happiness; running after them is
misery.
ADiOURN COURT
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J. H. O'Neill will meet with the presages a promise of adequate fa
Commercial club and the celebration cillties for bringing over a large con-
committee tonight to dlacuBS the mat-,
ter of ' excursions from the Wallowa
county on the Fourth. There has
been considerable difficulty In getting
the O. R. & N. to promise equipment
for an excursion and at one stage
It looked very much as If they would
or could nothing for the city in that
way. The visit of Mr. O'Neill, how-
ever, is encouraging, and it id hoped '
An unexpected explosion of a dy
namite charge yesterday afternoon
almost blew to atoms, a man named
Joe Vartelany, an empolye ' of the
George Palmer Lumber camp. ; It
eeeras the fellow was atemptin to
blast out a tree on the spur line n ?ar
the camps, but as the charge did cot
go off pa planned, Vartelany went
back to rearrange the blast. The
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SACRAMENTO, June 3. Govenor
Gillett has received only one dispatch
from Adjutant General Lauck ,ln
charge of the mllttia sent to hold
riotous Italian lumber strikers in
check n the McCloud district. The
SAN FRANCISCO, June 3. Tram
pled to death by an nfuriatd horse,
vhlle his wife looked on and unable
o render help, was the terrible fate
of Andrew Bonner. Bonner, who
drives a laundry wagon, arose at 5
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BE TUPLES JAN UNDER TOOT
Just To Remind You
WHEN MONEY is s care general stagnation sets in with,
its resultant disasters to every line of business, to every
profession, and every wage-earner. It is therefore to your
Interest to help make money plentiful in Oregon yy Bltnply
keeping it here. The sworn statements of life Insurance
companies on file with State Insurance Commissioner S.
A. Kozer, Salem, Oregon, show that '
was sent of OREGON for life insurance premiums in th '
past live years -
is the total returned here to pay death lossess and dm
dens In the same five years. , '
is the net amount drained out of Oregon In 5 years for
life insurance premiums- sent to enrich, Wisconsin, New
York and other states by making THEIR home companies
the custodians of these trusts funds from Oregon. Does
anyone doubt that the commercial supremacy of New
York is due to the centralization of the Insurance assets
in that market, more than to any other one factor? Mors
money Is handled by the Insurance companies than all
the transportation companies In the country, and it s th"
centralization of these Immense accumulations In one lo
cality that makes that locality the seat of the financial
. empire.
It is the personal Interest of every citizen of Oregoa
to use his Influence that Life Insurance be bought of
QrCgOuJjfC and tae money kept m Or68;011 for Oregon'
development.
Home Office! Corbett Bldg, Portland, Oregon.
A. L. MlUs, L. Samuels, Clarence 8. Samnels,
President General Manager Assistant Manager
$10,023,33100
3,l.'2,9i:.X)
$8,870,419.00
. Will
tingent.
As told In the Observer some time
ago, the celebration committee wilt
buy an immense canvas top instead
of building an arbor for the exercises
on the Fourth. This will be lasting
and may be used on many public oc-
casslons when an arbor would be
both expensive acd Impracticable, The
canvas will be ordered tonight ;-
act cost him hia life, for unexpected
ly the entire charge exploded, blow
ing the uufortunate:;sian to pieces.
The funeral waa held at Elgin ..to
day, as no relatives are known, or
could be found. ;
' ''Dynamite Joe" is the name which
the deceased bore among his fellow
workmen. ' Except for the fact that he
is about 40 years old. nothing la
known of his past life or his hbtory.
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dispatch is from Dunsmuir, 80 miles
from camp and said the rumors of
mobolization of angry Italians were
thick there. ; One hundred thousand
dollars are at the disposal of the
(troops to quell the disturbance.
o'clock this morning, and went to
the stable to teed hia horse. His
wife was startled later by the screams
and rushed but. She Baw her hus
band under the hrose's feet. . He died
at the hospital.
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