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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1909)
UuJiy AyJJ (Mj VOLUME VELI LA GRANDE, UNION COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1909. NUMBER 200 CITY HOST iiiiu tiiprrnii. CARNIVAL OF AUTOS ARRANGED ENTERTAINMENT ISPROVIOED DAY RETLETE WITH ACTION AND CONGENIALITY. A GREAT ARMY OF AUTOMOBILES Imposing Spectacle Will be Furnished During Monday. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS. . Special arrives Sunday 'even- ing. . . . Reach Depot 8:30 Monday morning. Dalegatlon taken to break fast Auto caravan starts at 1 o'clock. Return and disband ' at 4 o'clock. Tabernacle doors . open at 7:30. A Salt Lake choir concert A starts promptly at 8 : 30. A That the small army of tabernacle choir and guests coming here tomor row night from Salt J-alu, will be :areu for every minute of their stay in this city Is plain for every min ute has been looked out for. The train arrives with the ' warblers tomorrow evening and will be run to the Sugar Factory spur. Monday morning at 8:30, the train will pull up to the de-1 pot, and then commences the day of events, crammed together to give the greatest number the greatest good. Committees at Depot. 1 At the depot at 8:30 o'clock all au tomobiles will form at the depot. From there 150 guests will be conveyed as quickly as possible to the L. D. S. amusement hall, where breakfast will be served to that number. Other au tos will take 100 of the guests to pri vate homes for breakfast, and the bal ance of the delegation will breakfast at the four restaurants of the c ity. Then at one o'clock will commence one . of the greatest automobile pa rades in the history of the city when a caravan of cars will take just as many as possible of the guests out to the fruit orchards, and up on heights where panaramic views of the city can be made possible. The auto rides will end at 4 o'clock. The tabernacle church doors open at 7:30 and the concert starts at 8:30 promptly. Urgent requests have been COEUR D'ALENE, Aug. 21. With more than 1000 lumbermen and far mers fighting the flames, the forest . fire which raged nearly 48 hours on this reservation, Is still beyond control this afternoon. Probably the loss of timber Is nearly $4,000,000, although the lumber mill owners say less. The report Is current during the day that Everell Harriman was injured, but this is said to be false, although nothing definite was learned as to hl whereabouts, or the surveying party lie is with. There was a high wind last night The fire has blackened an area that exceeds eight square mile. given out by the committees tn charge that all visitors be seated at 8:30 that there may be no unnecessary delay. With such a program La Grande will be truly at the disposal of the guests. and it is anticipated mat iiuie otner ! business wlllbe transacted. The Line of Parade. Publicity Manager Currey was but y this morning securing the promts ot tbe automobile owners of tho cltv fm the use of the autos Mondav, to t;ike the "members of the Mormon chcir over the valley. lie has secured the promise ot 17 from the city and sev eral others in the valley will b9 se cured. At 2 o'clock this afternoou IS automobile owners weve consulted uud out of this number . there vraa only one that turned the, committer down, the rest showing a proper La Grands booster spirit. . . The route that !s planned to be followed while showing the visitor the valley is through Frultdale, around to High Point View north of Riverside park, and through Island City. ' This will give them' the best view of the fruit and grain raising sections of the valley. AVIATORS MEET AMERICA REPRESENTED AT AVIATI0X CONTEST. BIG World's Famous Aviators Ready to Enter Competitive Competition. RHEIMS, Aug. 21. "Grand avia tion work," the most important event in the history of air shipping begins here tomorrow. Crafts from America, England, Austria, Italy and France, will' be competitlng for prizes aggre gating $401,000, with every kind or a machine, aeroplane, dirigibles, hot air, sperial, balloons. "All the greatest av iators of the world will be entered. Among those probably to enter to night will be Louis Louis Belroit, the Frenchman, who recently crossed the English Channel; Hubert Latham, ot England, who failed twice in a mono plane to cross the channel; Paul Tls sandier of France, a pupil of the Wright Brothers. Roger Somner, who broke the French time record; Glenn H. Curtlss. American flag defender. and a score of others. . Eight Important events are pro grammed. The chief is a $20,000 grand prize. It is expected that sustained flight and speed reocrds will be bro ken. Birth Records. Born August 20 to Mr. and Mrs. Will Ledbetter of Allcel, a daughter. Born August 19 to Mr. and Mrs. Tif fany of this city, a son. Women Good Fighters. MADRID, Aug. 21. Moorish women are Joining the riff tribesmen in at tacking the beleagured Spanish at Me lilla. The women are said to be fiercer fighters than the men. The Spaniards are resorting to bring hand grenades In slings. These burst 'among the tribesmen killing and injur ing seriously. Fire fighters are reported this af ternoon to be expected to control the flames when they reach backfiring. Searching parties are out for camp ers and lumber land seekers, who may be imperilled. A second fire at the Mica Bay dis trict is reported to be controlled, after doing $50,000 damage In a stretch three miles wide and five miles lonj, mostly slashing and cut over lands. Heat from the fire Is intense. A cloud of smoke Is over the country, and blazing brands are carried nearly a mile. Gangs of quenching Incipent fires. Relief for the fighting force was organized this morning. FOB COMPETITION nil Tr nT7 cm JOSEPH SCHEDULE LESS CON VENIENT TO LA GRANDE Joseph Train Will Leave Here at 1 2;H5-Main Line Changes Big Improvement ; Rumors that the Joseph train would change its schedule and leave La Grande at 6 o'clock in the morning has failed o materialize. , There has been a radical change in the schedule however, as after today the Joseph train will leave at 12:45 p. m. and ar rive in La Grande at 1:30 p. m. This is a decldely convenient from a busi ness standpoint to people visiting La Grande from the points on the branch. Visitors from Wallowa county will have practically 24 hours in La Grande to attend to business. Visitors from La Grande to Wallowa county points are not ''so favored as the train ar rives at Joseph at 7 p. m. and leaves a,t 7:15. Nor is it so convenient for those who go into the other county to fish and hunt.' They will be com pelled to stay over night in that place", where before they could go over and return on the same day. As far as the La Grande people can go and return the Bame day by the new schedule Is Island City. Those having business in Elgin will be compelled to remain, over night,, The former arrangement was as nearly equitable as it was possible to make it. Under the new arrange ment La Grande people ' planning to transact business in Elgin must take all of one afternoon, all the next forenoon and part of the next after noon to make the trip in. The new time table follows: Joseph Train Time Table. Leave La Grande for Joseph 12:45, leave Wallowa 4:45, leave Enterprise 6 p. m., arrive Joseph 7 p. m. Leave Joseph for La Grande, 7:15 a. m., ar rive Elgin 11.59, arrive La Grande 1:30 p. m. The trains pass at Island City at 1 o'clock p. m. Local time tables are growing more complicated as new trains go on, and the rapid changes made this year has made It quite difficult for local peo ple to keep abreast of the new train numbers and their exact running SALEM, Aug. 21. Penitentiary guards are 'searching today for four short term convicts who escaped late yesterday afternoon "from the brick yards, adjacent to tne prison. Three men were employed in the yards as trusties, while the fourth was a car rier. The men are Tony Williams, BAKER SPECIAL ASSURED. Schedule of Running Time Announced In This City Today. A special from Baker City this af ternoon affirms that the special train which is to carry the Baker City mu sic lovers to La Grande next Monday night, has been definitely assured, and that 105 passenger tickets have been sold. The city is much worked up over the prominence of the concert and will come to La Grande to pay an Informal visit to this place, and to enjoy the concert as well. The schedule as arranged for the Baker City special train, follows: Leave Baker City 5:30; Haines 5:55; North Powder 6:15; Union 7:00; Hot Lake 7:10; arrive at La Grande 7:25. LEI MBit nlng time of all trains, as announced after tomorrow. 12 o'clock, Pacific time, two overland trains will go Into effect on the Union Pacific, The run ning, time of al ltralns, as announced by the new time cards, follows: Westbound No. 5, Oregon Washing ton special, arrive La Grande 10:10 p. m.; No. 9. Portland Express, arrive 8 p. ni.; No. 7, Portland Special, arrive 9:25 a. m.. (no change); No. 11, Pa cific Express, arrives 5:25 a. m. Eastbound No. 10, Salt Lake Ex press, arrive 7:40 a. m.; No. 12, arrives 8:55 p. m.; No. 8 Chicago Special, ar rives 8:30 p. m.; No. 6, Oregon and Washington Limited, arrives 4:35 a. m.' The new schedule is rather com plicated and It will remain to be seen what trains will bring Portland pa pers, and as the new trains assume regular running order, fame will ad just itself to it. This new order of things is merely a better arranged schedule than the one now in effect By comparing the following' table which is the leaving and arriving time at. Portland, trav elers can readily study the main line train service from Its various aspects leaving Portland: ', John M. Scott, assistant general passenger agent for the Harriman lines, yesterday announced the chang es in the schedule necessitated by the new through limited service. Under the new schedule, beginning Sunday, trains will leave Portland as follows: No. 12, 7:30 A. M., instead of 8:10 A. M.; No. 8, 10 A. M., ,(no change); No. 6. (new limited), 6:45 P. M.; No. 4, No. 10, (new Salt Lake Express) 8 P. M. These trains will arrive in Portland as follows: No. 9. (Salt Lake Express), . 8:15 A. M.; No. 5, (new limited), 8:30 A, M.; No. 11, 6:30 P. M.', No. 7. 8 P. M.., (no change.) of Yamhill county, forgery, one year and a half; Fred Relslngton, Washing ton county, larceny, one year and a half; Frank Weyer, Gilliam county, larceny, one year; Clarke Davis, Co lumbia county, larceny, one year and a half. They escaped through the tall grass when the guards were not watching. Returning' the train will leave La Grande at il:30. , Gardner to Come Soon. W. F. Chase the noted Portland landscape gardner, will be in La Grande next Wednesday to glre fig ures on the Riverside park improve ment. If his figures are accepted, the work of improving the place will' start at once. Mr. Chase is the man who laid out the splendid new depot park at Eugene and did other feats of un artist in this state. Rumors that the O. R. & N. Is go ing to build a park near the depot, has led the park association to the statement that the ladles of that or ganization will lend aid with all 'pos sible force, 1 nthls movement. COIIIT ESCAPE GUARD BARNEY OLD FIELD WINS. . Takes 25-Mite Race With a Bern Ha. . chine This Afternoon. INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. 21. Barney Oldfleld in a Dent machine captured the 25-mile race this afternoon on the motor speedway, thereby capturing the first trophy to be offered to drivers. Heretofore the trophies have been of fered to makers of the machines. LCCKY APPLICANT BEAD. Holder of No. 61 In Flathead Laud, : Killed Coder a Freight. SPOKANE. Aug. 2L Frank Kelly of Spokane, who drew 61 tn the Flat bead reservation drawing at Coeur d'AIene, recently, was killed under a Northern Pacific train this morning. It is believed he was riding on a freight and fell. His number entitled him a fine quarter section of land. nnrninriiT in I rlitbllltlll HLL SLEEPS IN HAY STACK BECAUSE FARMER IS UNHOSPITAL. Presidency of Great Northern no Aid to Him In Th Case. GREAT FALLS, Mont, Aug. 21. A hard hearted settler last night re fused to shelter Louis W. Hill, son of James J. Hill, who is President of the Great Northern, the young man was forced to spend the night in a hay? stack. Hill was making a trip from Helena to Great Falls in an auto which stuck in the mud near Fort Shaw. He trudged many miles seek ing help, and found a settler, who said he was too busy to leave the house. When he said he was a presi dent of a railroad, the settler became skeptical, and refused him lodging. C. & G. W. Sold at Foreclosure. ST. TAUL, Aug, 21.- Representing J. P. Morgan, the financier, Fred II. Gardner and George W. Stevens today at foreclosure sale, purchased the Chi cago & Great Western railroad for $12,000,000 Morgan paid the secre tary of state a personal check of $9G,047 for articles of Incorporation, the company will be reorganized with capital stock of $96,000,000. WAIT HERE FOR lOUR FRtENDS THE HOME Of QUALITY OCR CONSTANT EFFORT LS T 0 MAKE THIS A STORE WHERE THE IDEA OF QUALITY IS AT ALL TIMES PARAMOUNT. IN SOME LINES OF BUSINESS THERE MAY BE GOOD REASON FOR HAYING A VARIETY OF GRADES NOT SO IN THE DRUG LINE. WHEN DRUGS ARE NEEDED ONLY THE BEST WILL DO. ANYTHING LESS THAN THE BEST IS DANGEROUS. WE CARRY THIS PRINCIPLE OF QUALITY THROUGHOUT OUR ENTIRE STOCK. IN SOME LINES, LIKE BRUSHES, WE CARRY, THE FINER GRADES WHICH CANNOT BE FOUND IN THE ORDINARY STORE. NEWLIN DRUG COMPANY LA GRANDE, ORE. LEAVE YOUB PACKAGES TO CALLED FOR PUT F1CHT TO BE RtOPE CONGRtSS DRAWS . BIG CROWD SEATTLE CONSERVATIONISTS BALLINGER HOME TO BE SCENE , OF FIGHT. PR0M1HEHT SPLAKEHS TQ ATTCKO Fight SEATTLE. Aug. 21. Delegates from Utah, Oregon, California, Idaho, Mon tana and Colorado, now in this city to attend the First National Conser vation Congress, which will be held -here AuguBt 26, 27, 28, say that they intend to take up the BallInger-Pla-chot fight started at the sessions ot the , National Irrigation Congress In Spokane, and thresh the entire mat ter out In this, the home city of Secretary Richard A. Balllnger. Although officers of the Washington. . Conservation association, under whos auspices the Conservation Congress will be held will make no statements, It is understood that they are trying: hard td prevent a repetition of th Spokane fight It la the general opln Ion that a clash between the followers of Gilford Plnchot and R. A. Balllnger Is inevitable, and that any session In which both sides endeavor to put the congress on record as. for or against either the Balllnger or .Plnchot pol icy is bound to be a stormy one. ' Plans are being made here to re ceive at least twenty-five hundred, delegates to the Conservation Con gress., At entative list ot speakers haa been prepared, among whom are the following: Senator Chamberlain, : of , Oregon v Joseph N. Teal, Chairman of the Ore gon State ConBeravtlon Commission ; W. K. Kavanaugh and E. F. Saunders of St. Louis; Senator Dixon ot Mon- (Continued on Page Eight.) USE OCR PUBLIC TELEPHONE BE WE DELIVER FREE TO ANY PART OF THE CITY.