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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1909)
U J7 n r.r CELEBRATION PUBIS S U PRI SIHCLYFf i fSH ED COLOR EVERY CONCEIVABLE COMFORT PROVIDED FORI CROWDS Entertainment of Visitors Here July 5 Is Now Provided For in Detail Practically every detail for thi Fourth of July proram. fr executive committee is concerned, was completed at last night's meet ing "f the committee. The commute? Is making, arrangements to handle the largest crowd that has ever as sembled at one time in Eastern Ore gon. From outside estimates there will be probably 10,000 people from Union and Wallowa counties that will visit La Grande on the 5th of Jul. The large tent purchased by the committee will go up on Elm street between Adams and Jefferson av enues where barbecued meat and cof fee wil be served to the crowd free. The citizens of La Grande have showed their appreciation of the work of the committee by the dona tion of their lawns for picnic parties and resting places for those who par ticipate in the celebration. Thero will also be chairs all along the streets and rest rooms for ladies and children with lavatories and toilets for their convenience. Plenty of free water will be furn''""' so that nil 111! r ti IRE OF BOTH ENLIVENS DEBATE ON LUMBER TARIFF WASHINGTON, June 23. Senators AMikh und Tillman engaged in a battle of words on the floor of the . senate this afternoon. Aid rich read a l.uler from a Vermont firm statins it tost $2.50 per thousand to dress lumber on both sid':s with a tongue and groove, Tillman arose, ami shouted it cost no more to tongue and groovy lumber than to -dress it, because-, it was done In the same op eration, only a litlle more steam' be ing required. Turning Tillman said: ''But everything the' 'eenattor from TERRIBLE CONDITIONS PREVAIL IN NEW YORK CITY Streets and Sidewalks Strewn With Suf ferers During Awful NKW YORK, June 2;!. Fourteen ai' dead and scores proatrated today fia the result of the three days of sweltering heat here.Suffering is in '"'se in the crowded tiast side where th poverty 'stricken Inhabitants are U'labl- to buy ice at the prohibitive l"i,,e of 43 cents a hundred pounds. Thousands sleep In the parks, on the , roofs and sands of Coney Island last nl8ht. It iB estimated that'fully twen lo thousand slept at Coney Island ""t night. At three this morning the LA GRANDE, ASSUME A uuy uoi ue Dotnered with thirst. i Tlo ciiy council will grant all the concession that the committee see fit to ask for. The matter of grant ing special licences for refreshment stands has all been turned over to the committee and In order to give the merchants all the benefit possible. It was decided that no special licen ses will be issued. There is no doubt but what this will be the biggest, grandest and best arranged 4th of July celebration that has ever been attempted in Eastern Oregon. Already people from two counties are inquiring about rates and traveling facilities and making other necessary arrangements in or der that they may reach La Grande on that datje. La Grande will certain ly give all due honors to the 4th of July. The committee has made a conces sion to Grider & Row to allow them to put up a merry-go-round on the Gth. If they bring It they will put It up on the vacant .lot opposite the n i f.,-. Rhode Island says goes; he is the senate." A hot exchange of .remarks followed, ldrlch commenting upoti the delay nnd urging the work ou bills to be hastened. Tillman finally declared the statement made by the Vermont firm was untrue, and that any person who ever has been in a planing mill knew it was untrue. ROM.K, June 23. Reports from Abyssinia states that King Menelik is dead. Empress Tallu Is in charge of the government. Last Night's Heat mercury mounted to 81 degrees and. kept climbing. ' '. . At no time during the nlsht were heat stricken people relieved, for the temperature was high even at midnight. Conditions on the Kastside beggar description. At every win dow a head on a pillow could be seen and hundrds of mothers to save their babies slept on the side walks. Mattresses were strewn on the streets until they resembled a mon ster bedroom. Many horses fell from the heat. If 111 Ull UNION COUNTY, ORE. EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS. . Sort hern California "Visited by'Sev. eral Trunnion Last Sight SAN FRANCISCO. June 23. Two severe earthquake shocks were felt In northern California late last night. Inhabitants of . several towns were awakened, but there was no damage. The tremblors were felt most plainly in Grass Valley and Nevada City." ofsSall WILL ESTABLISH EAIX AJiD SX01V STATIO.XS. Weather Bureau Seeking Address of Mountain Men. '"'. The Unitted States Weather Bureau has written to the Commercial Club asking for the address of men living near or at the head of streams at the top of the mountains near here, so that they may find observers to take the measurements 'of the snow fall in the mountains. It is the object of the bureau to establish Mountain rain and snowfall stations in all the principal mountain ranges of the country. The Commercial Club will take the matter up and find observers for the bureau. 1 . r3 Frank Mizogiiehi, secretary of Grande, is fortunate to have this treat the local Japanese colony, has rc-'j through .the courtesy of the local reived word that the . pyrotechnical Japanese, ' as no other organization day and night fireworks will arrive I or. people' can secure them. here next Saturday or Sunday. ; They j ' i- , were shipped direct from the Orient! Club Buildings Burn. through a San Francisco house to ! . '. Mr. Mizoguchi at this place. TACO.MA, June 2.1. Country club The goods is similar In quality to building of the American La.ke, four th daylight fire works that was ! teen miles from Taroma, are a. mass shown' at Porihnid din ing the Uose oC ' nshes today as. a result of a fir1 show and which was declared to be ; that, started in the 'kitchen late last the finest' ever seen in that city. 'La 'night. .The loss is $23,000.' What Are YowWortti From The" ordinary unskilledlaborcr 13 worth from $1.50 to $3.00 per day from theneckdown. If you aro capable of doing head work planning anddirectifig the work of qthers. your services are worth from$l'.0() to, $10.00 ' per day upwards. Two flty to seven dollarsa day represents the difference from a financial standpoint between the trained and the untrained worker, or In other words if your value Ilea from the neck up, or neck down. . ..... .rIa.n!. who today is down in the mire of over work and nnder pa')r with acouiBe of truining such as the I. C. S. is able to give, would become a leader in his chosenwork. If you are ambitious and willing to utilize-your spare time for advancement',, drop me aline and tell me something of your ambition and what you would like to prepare for. The I. C. 8. will meet you morethan halfway. You are pdtting your self under no onligationby writing u ami we are willing to give you every opportunity of investigating our methods and after it has been explained to you.' act on your own judg ment. Write today. Address ' J. E. Martin, Representing International Correspondence School, BOX m, IVAlLAIVALLA, WAS H WEDNESDAY, HOT IX 'FRISCO. Greatest Heat In 'Five Years Esperl- ' faced at Bay City. SAN FRANCISCO," June 23. This Is the hottest day San Francisco has temperature of the same day last the thermometer . registered 92.5. which is an increase of 32.5 over the tmperature of the, same day last yean .. AT OXE OF THREE BOBBERS STANDS GROUXD FATALLY. Eilensburg Scene of Shooting Follow ' Ing Robbery of Stores. ELLENSBURG, Wash., June 23. Posses are today searching the moun tains In the vicinity of Cleelum for the ttwo desperadoes who escaped after a third member of the gang had been Bhot and killed by Marshal Frank Halght, following the robbery of several stores by the trio at Clee lum last night They attempted to hold up an automobile stage between Cleelum and Roalyn, but the machine outdistanced them. Halght and his deputies encounter ed them at the railroad yards. Two of them ran, but the third tu . nl fired, and was killed. the Neck up? ROBBER KILLED E BiC JUNE 23, 1909. MATERIAL FOB PRO ECT WILL CONSTRUCT TELEPHONE LINE UP THE LINE AT ONCE How to Get Material to the Scene Is One o Knotty Problems J Y -' ' vo minute j i it became . vn last ulghtfhiU U'tj tiew char- Two knnu- ter Had uassed .' J Jrit lJ rv. th local representatis ieteiV American Light & Power Coi legraphed for material, and lt . 1 rushed to La Grande , that con ,'.'. Jem of the Beaver Creek project li -t commence at once., While the " matterlat is reaching here,' several momentuons problems will ; be solved by the en gineer, W. A. Dutch, who is soon to arrive, probabtytonight ''' ' The building of a telephone line the full distance, and decision as to how to get the material to the scene, are two of the knotty questions to be solved. The telephone line, of an In dependent nature, likely, will be built TED OFFI'JL ' ..'J. ; HELPING FiiO SAfN PRAN'ClSqO.: June 23. Barn ey Lagan. Jr., a piouiinent bufeint-ss man of this city, was shot and prob ably fatally wounded . eurly today by the Police Captain -Michael Con boy. Latum was on his way ' home when he saw a drunken Inan fall. ' ', lie stooped to pick him up, 'but Conboy, who it Is cliared, was. '.intoxicated, saw Lrtgan anci 'started for . bitn, thinking Lagan w:ib holding a man up.', Lur'au' resented the charge and started to take otf his coat to fight the captain. Conboy threatened to slioot and when Lagan approached tKHirer, Conboy fired the bullet pierc Lagan's luiigs, Conboy, wlto Is DASHES THROUGH A-Y-P GATES AT 12:55 THIS AFTERNOON Shawmut Car Ahead of Ford No. 1 Which is Now in Snowbanks In Cascades SKATTLK, June 23. Ford car No. 2, Pert Scott driving, arrived at the gates of 11k exposition at 12:55 this : iificrnooii, and won the great trans continental automobile race for a 1 trophy donated by M. Robert Guggen heim. Thousands cheered the win ner. No word has been received from the Shawmut car, which last night was seven hours behind Ford No. 2. Danked about the entrance to the exposition and along the streets leading through the grounds, there were thousands .who waited for hours for a sight of the racers. When the Ford car, dust covered aDd bat NUMBER 210. BEAVER IIEK IB TO LA CUBE Immediately. - Thero are several ways of getting provisions to the scene; by railroad' up front Hllgard on the Perry Lum ber Co' line, by team from Hllgard, or by team from North Powder. Which of these three will be decided on,' is now worrying the agent and his engineers. In any. event, things will movo right along from today and' It will not be surprising to see large crews of men actually laying the pipe along the line surveyd previously, within three weeks. A $146,000 task is no small one and much of the ex pense money will percolate back to the pockets of the taxpayers In this city. ! -a--vV. -TS arrestted, is sttill under the iufluenca of liCi'f v , -", ; I I'AdlONS STILL FIGJimC. WaHhlnsrton LeirNlature Mow lu Meeting Due to I'ltrht. OLYMPIA. June 23. Factions are seeking control of the legislature and they are still hghtnig at 2 o'clock this afternoon. It Is not likely that the special session, called together to probe' into the-scandals among the "liigliervj a" of , the administration, will' be allod together 'until a late hour in the day,. pesalMv 4 o'clock, . i "f 4 t tered from a 2U0Q mile run, flash -u J through the gates, a mighty cheer " arose. It is thought the Shawmut Is laboring through the Cascade moun tains. Ford No. 1 was delayed i i Snoiualinie puss by, snow, which Is five feet deep in some places.. ' i Slianmut Slakes Fine Showing. SEATTLE, June 23, Ford No. 2,. tthe car leading in the Ocean-tc- i Ocean auto race, was reported to have passed Is'aquah at 10:30 this morn-.; Ing, 12 minutes ahead of the Shaw- ... mut car which has made a remark- ' able gain on Its arrival. The racers 'fare expectted to reach this city about 5 noon. - HI 1 1 M A ' 1 : i i 1 n ,, i I f ? t