"VV V . Nj ' ' ' ULUI1E VIII. LA GRANDER UNION COUNTY, ' ORE., TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1909. NUMBER 193. rT VDiIJ inr inn riTirc ' u.,. .aasaisMta .-I 7 JL 71 i. INLAIIU LIIILO AWAIT DECISION INJUSTICE IS TO REMAIN If COAST CITIES WIH POINT EASTERN CITIES RALLY TO HELP V TERMINALS' AID. V V ' I Double Rates raid by La Grande May Remain In Force f, WASHINGTON, June 8. The as surance that he will have the support of eastern' cities in j the figlit against the proposal of inland railroads to establish new rates" and destroy the advantage tof water competition 'fen joyed by Atlantic and Pacific ports, were received by William R. Wheeler, traffic manager of the San Franc'aco Merchants Exchanged who .'will ''ap pear, before the interstate commission to present tne arguments. ' When the full significance of the Spokane rate decision dawned ; upon Pacffie i-Jasf'tei'wlnal cities, Wheeler was sent to Washington to fight against the extension, of their dis tributing business. ' v ' Atlantic Aids Pacific. , Since his arrival in the east Wheeler visited BoBton, New York. Philadel phia, and Baltimore, and pointed but to commercial organizations that they are as vitally Interested in the mat ter as the Pacific coast .cities. To day Wheeler received word that rep resentatives, of these cities will be on hand tomorrow to asslBt him. All the inland empire, La Grande, Bakr City, Pendleton and Spokane, are thus pitted against the powerful coast cities and whither the recent decision in the Spokane rate case, which would remove the necessity of La Grande merchants paying Chi-ago-to-Portland rates and then lo cal rates back to La Grande, will stand unmoved is a matter of doubt. The coast-cities have fought the measure unitedly, while the Inland empire is virtually alone In defense of the new rates. , It is a matter of dollars and cents to every merchant, shipper and buyer in La Grande. ' McCToud Strike Over. McCLOUD, Calif., June 8 Danger of trouble in McClotid. where lum bermen We. on a strike id past. 'The State militia is breaking camp f SOLDIER IS Br RI EI). E. E. Carpenter Laid to Rest With Due ' Military Honor's 'Today.' . o'rr1 . f ' '" Tlie funeral, of tdward Ei JCarpen ter was held this afternoon from the Christian -church under the auspices of Oliver P. Morton Post, O. A. R. of I J. Tolls, a representative of the A- G. Long company, of Portland, dealers In fire equipment and alarm ystems and devices, la in the city in the Interests of his firm, which sev - erl years ago, Installed a striking system here .which has never, been uccessfuL Mr. Tolla says his pur- Pose In coming 1 to get permission MM organization he has been a member during the 17 -years of his residence In La Grande. ' His laud able life's , history . was , read during the ierxiw ami, Reflected his high Btandlng in army and social clrclsa during, his long Journey through' life Nearly the entire .post members re? suonded.to the call of yesterday an wWe on hand today'' to pay the la ,'respects to the aged pioneer and civil war veteran. Deceased "s sjr vlved by sven children, six of whom live here: ":V ' ' - : . riTTBURG MAN HERE. Comes From Coast to Coast to Make Homestead Entry In Local Land Office. .-;' William Jl; H. Ogan of Pittsburg, Pa.. is: in La Grande today. He made tioinesetead entry at the, land office here. It is very rare, indeed that any one come so far to secure land and it goes to show that the land in Eastern Oregon is very much In demand. - It has been definitely "announced today that there will be no excursion train from Wallowa to La Grande on the day of the Fourth.1 But the sched ule for, the excursion train from El gin Is out. The train will leave Elgin at 8 o'clock and returning leave La Grande at 10:30. The round trip from Elgin is fl.bo Imbler 70 cente, and Alicel 50 cents. While this Is some discouragement, the committee will make the best of It. , FINE HORSES FROMfAFAti Horses will be entered in the La Grande stock show next Sunday from peoal. Trainis North Powder, Union and Elgin, ac-'tR'sws cording to notices received by Chair- mam West Blue and white ribbons) will be awarded the respective win-j nere. ' ; ' . . i With such widespread support, the afTair' will undoubtedly be the best; thing ever attempted by this city, or'.' any other community in Union coiin- ty and no doubt the, eastern half of t$e' state,' '' ."-..C i - , 1 , -'. -.. ' ' 1 , '', ,; , a Strikers Win Strike. . D ANBURY, Coon,. , June .. 8. The strike of the united hatters was ended today, ( t Connecticut,., Massachusotts, New Jersey, strikers winning a co:n plete vlctoryi f 'Strike called off, when fridf 22 facfofles against! Vhich a strike was declared five months ago, signed agreement with the execut've board of the union. j from the city officials to make the old contract ood. He says his firm is now postlve that they can '.nstall j the system so that It will perfectly 'perform the wbrk expected of It; and that they have never asked for any money on the old contract, and do not Intend', to do ao unlesa they can j make good. ' :. ; 58 S i BRANCH MAY BE - THINKS GOVERNMENT AGENT WILL FILE REPORT TO UNCLE SAM Thomas H. Parker, Chief Ranger of the Whitman National Foreet',' return ed Saturday from a; trip a'cng the route of the Beaver Creek; pipe line, where he went with Engineer Plckler jin order to gather dataa on which to make a report to the government of the amount of timber, ' etc., which will be used In construction arrl f?ll d to clear the right of way. Mi. Parker will forwatd his report to morrow. In regard to the ncuvunt of (imber It will be necessaij' to cut, he. haid that the majority is lwlge r je pine, with a little yellow pine, he yellow pine trees,-however, are Scattering along the six miles o'. right ef way through government land land will be easily avoided - r v ' 5 For three' years the forest service as protected a territory some five miles; square for the benefit of La Grande, and the water is absolutely pure. Mr. Parker sayo that all along .the streams which furnish the liow there are springs of the purest wa tr bublingiout of the banks,' and t)iat In his estimation no ' city ' any CIRCUIT COURT DRY AFFAIR TO DATE The arguments in the case of Lee vb. Carroll are being made this after noon. The possession of certain town lots In North Powder is at issue.; v Tha case of Halveraon and Phoenix Insurance Co. yb. th.e .0.' R. & N., Jo fcephlne Graybill vb. O.. R & N. and the O. R. & N. Vs. O. F, Cool id ge, were cpntlnued for the term. , The case of J. R. McLarln vs. M. F. - Wilcox, where , church property ENGINE 199 IN Sl'LIMEHED ' CARS ' ' DROUGHT 1 - RACK FOR REPAIRS. ' ' Mail Car And Tender Will be Sent to j . e i-A!l)liia' Shops. ' '( , .; .-' IS , "i, 'i;- )J: r, : ; ; Engine Nd. 199. which went lrt the ditch taking mail, baggage and ex poess car and f three coaches with ft atj Korth- Powder Saturday morning, IsJ in' the thej local shops undergoing repairs.' .The .baggage car will also be! repaired here while the mall ear ar)d the tender Will be sent to Alblna. They' are pretty badly smashed tip, bitt will undergo a speedy 'repair and the "hoodoo'' engine will again be In use ;; 4 TAPER SCARES U0RSE. Fluttering . Sheet Starts . Delivery none on Short Dash. : , Startled by, a piece, of paper which blew .across his breast, the brown horse driven to one of the meat carta belonging to the Grande Rondi Meat Company broke his bridle this morn lng and made a quick run to the barn No damage was done. :."'. : . '. ; ..-..'.'. .: Cass ll U 4 VA JU TAPPFD JNY TIME &E i S place Jias an opportunity as good as ours to obtain a plentiful supply of the bqst of water. In addition , to the proposed intake, the government will give permission to the city to tap another branch at any time It is needful, and will enlarge the reserva tion so that the territory drained hv this second branch will be protected from Btock. ; ' , '.".."'-";, .: It 1b his belief that all the neces sary red tape will be uhwdundandtttat actual construction, as t far na the forest Service Is, concerned, nniy be gin by the first of July. '? ' Mr, Parker is of the oplniiu thai at least a third of the pl'ie 1 ruuy ba hauled in from North Powder over the old Daley road more advantageously than from here. The grades U1 not be so heavy, and less road const.ruc jtibri will fca necessary. In a few days he Vrlir go over the : North PowrtVr route with a. representative of the contractors, and it may be that some of the material will be unloaded at that place. ' ;'.'' -;'-.-'. V '-' v ' ; , at North Powder la a,t issue, was set for Thursday. j.Vi'i.;, (.' . Friday the case of Walter Nledner, ,.,.... bank , vs. Turner Oliver, to recover . on bank stock, was set for trial. The Eltiier Christiansen ease' Is due" to follow the present one and it !a possible that a jury may be drawn tonight' v;: ','.; ;;; . OAKLAND MAN DEPORTED FOR ? 0R0S MISDEED, ' . alt Tanked" And Forgot Where' He i Left .His Mainstay. v ' VANCOUVER,. B. June 8--ne-ca,use Richard Williams,! of Oakland, California, pawned his wooden leg for a flask of whiskey, he has been or dered deported. - He reached Vancotnv er 10 days ago and got drunk. When taken to tha police station, Willlatna forgot what .became of his) wooden leg. . It was missing. Since then It was learned that he pawned it for liquor. ! -; 'V;,v.v; ,,. fow Is This For Oregon I , Jaseph Barton, of South Baker, holds the record for making sol' p:o duce quickly and it is douhU'ul if even . Luther Burbank :m 1 1 ouyote with Mr. Barton. : On .'.loti'lay after noon he planted radishes in his gar den and the next Frlda eventiitf they were up; he also planted a lawn on Tuesday and the next Sunday the grass was peeping through the ground in nice shape. The old Willamette valley, noted for sio lECFiDRII leiisons ficm Eastern Oregon, City Herald. ' titer i all. Baker 'taffies fct Walla Wali.u The iuy8trtous ,Mr. , -Raffles. who has established QUlta a, reputation ns a quick change artist,, and , who was recently captured' Poitland while doing his.etunt for tjf tiournal. will trythe same scheme, at Alalia Walla for the Morning .Union, In all prob abilities he", will not last long in so small a town.; , - ' Hard Work 'on Program. The sports , committee, for., the (ounn of July celebration , is hard at work arranging a program, that will ecllpBe all previous record for sports on the Fourth. Arrangements . have practicdlly been completed for one or two races with the hose team from Wallowa and one with the team from Elgin provided the executive commit tee can secure the special train over the Wallowa branch. TTft V' '?.'-. .11 ID) ifaces ii ' The bakers of the city, Herman Roesch and Fred Dutli, haye-announced that they can no longee aellbread at a less price than five cents a loaf. They assign as a reason .' for their ' action that flour "has advanced so j in uch that they are unable to make la' living profit at the old price at jwhith tickets were sold, j : , -'-;' ' ' " Special Agent Here. A M t of thJ r&l jand offlM , hM0 tran8actlug DU8l, ne8s in the local land office. He Will leave tomorrow. - PORTLAND, June 8.20.000 voters railed to go to the polls yesterday, with a result that Simon was elected mayor by a plurality not exceeding 4fl00. The new charter was decisively defeated and the McKenna Excise and the Gohtenberg Amendments were its Tegetatlon, can tafi PORTLAND I-;- tyorth Powder Ih lM Uight .NORTH POWDER, June 8. (Spec- iai; jwo ooys presumably trampn. utiiween uw ages oi n ana 19. broke i into thA l.inrtw ,. u..linem- an '"ey were loagea in jail. last night and stole a watch ahd sv-They wlu be brought to La Granae ; eral other small trinkets After .com- tonight; AH the goods were recov- mining the theft they weni lo the'Iered. ' ',V ' - Two girls who have been making their headquarters , in La Grand3 of late went , to Joseph recently, "and, according ; to reports coming from there, shot up town In fine shape. They imbibed freely of the flowing bowl, If the reports are correct, and while they escaped from the Jre c( I the officials there and came to La Grande last night, the boys In thai IEV POLICY I ACL 15 HI TO ENGENDER MORE "GET" HEED COMPANY COMMERCIAL. CLUB FEED SET - FOR MONDAY JflGIIT. Waat Alt Members te Rely Wleli Destinies, Tee. nrniTin illlj At a meetjng of the Merchant Association, held last night in the' banquet room of , the: Model restaur ant, announcement wj ade of a similar, function, of d i,;lv, I ' ' club membership, for -next Monday night. , As in the merchants' meet' ing last night every, fellow paid for v his own meal, and the same plan will be followed at the club supper. , During the past year the club haa accomplished a great deal of good. ' but most of the work lias Jbeen done by the board "of managers. ; ' ' H ;' President Collier says' that a ntw policy will be followed In the future, Sjnd the membership will be asked to more actively engage in the various projects to be undertaken during tha coming year. A. reiort of the past year's work will be1 made by Mr. Col lier, and afterward .he will outline tha plans, purposes and objects to the " next season's work, j ', , " . ' The board of managers has not ob jected to doing work for the club, but ' they feel that more enthusiasm will 1 be engendered and consquently good be engendered and consequently good f tivltles of the body Is general among the membership, instead of being con fined to-the few; .-'.. 'fi ,.;-;'t; t;, LIQUOR LAWS DEFEATED r'U ' ;'' V::.".-V' ": ;.''!:;:.-'.V'-'' lost : By a maioritv f voter ratified the Broadway Bridge project The Madison street bridge is to be constructed at the present site as against the Market street site. The entiri Republican ticket was elected. . : ' ' ' . ' , . hotel, ' where they were found this tnorning. The goods were found 911 case were not so fortunate ani will be put on trial tomorrow at Joseph for violating dlvious ordinances. The girls are not exact strangers, having' drifted In some time ago. A few daya ago they were sent to Joseph to work in a restaurant by a local employment agency which believed the girls were honest In their search for work.