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VOLUME VIII
LA GRANDE, UNION COUNTY, OREGON,
THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1909.
NUMBER 263.
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REPORT WIZARD
TO HI CANCER
FRIENDS DENY ALL
REPORTS
ACTIVITY III ILL STREET
"WILL SOON BE HEADY TO FIG11T
J. J. HILL.
OPERATION IS TO BE PERFORMED
Yonng Harrlman Safe on Way to Meet
Bis Father.
NEW YORK, Aug. 26. There were
wild scenes enacted In the stock ex
change this morning, caused by
alarming reports that the true .con
dition of Harrlmaa's health was .not
made public. Rumors said that he
had a cancer. Personal business
friends ot Harrlman emphatically de
ny this report They .Say Harrlman
will soon regain his Valth and' give
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We Want To'
TO OCR SEW FALL LINES THAT
ARE ARRIVING EVERY DAY AND
ARE NOW ON DISPLAY AT THIS
STORE.
Smart lailored Suits
WE ARE SHOWING THE PRET
TIEST LINES OF LADIES' SUITS
AND CLOAKS FOR FALL AND WIN
TER WEAR THAT WE HATE EYER
CARRIED. ALL OUR SUITS ARE
DIRECT FROM AMERICA'S FASH.
ION CENTER, NEW YORK CITY,
AND ARE EXACTLY THE SAME
MODELS .THAT ARE BEING SHOWN
IN THE GREAT STATE STREET
WINDOWS TODAY.
PRY US A VISIT
AND LOOK THROUGH THE NEW
STYLES. TRY THEM ON AND YOU !
WILL FIND ALL THE FIT AND
. ELEGANCE THAT MODERN HAND
TAILORING CAN GIVE TO A LA. .
DIES' COAT OR SUIT.
PRICES ARE RIGHT
OTHER NEW LINES FOR
GENTLEMEN'S WEAR
LADIES' COAT SWEATERS
MEN'S BOYS COAT SWEATERS
NEW DRESS GOODS
NEW TAILORED WAISTS.
PTTwT!
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Watch Our
4 Twehe Were Killed.- ,
4 BAKERSFIELD, Calif., Aug.
4 26. The official report by the 4
4 county coroner today states
4 that twelve men were killed in
4 the collision between a .run- 4
4 .away Santa Fe freight train
and a Southern Pacific switch 4
engine near Mojave, yesterday. 4
4 Engineers, and fireman of both
engines were killed, : two
brakemen, one Nevada miner
and five tramps. The tramps
4 names are not known.
WILL TflOVE OLD
nrnm PAri
uli ui urum
REPORT IS NOT PLEASING TO
BOOSTERS OF LA GRANDE.
Contract Said to be Let to More De.
pot M Feet From Track.
J. T. Mayo, at theO. It Jb N. com
pany, with hea4aarter In Portland,
returned today alter spending yester
day la the city taUrriswlng contrac
tors for the mortar of the depot back:
forty feet front the mala line. By his
talk with cement dealers ta the city.
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LOW
RMLROAD DOING EVERYTHING POS
SIBLE TO AD FAIR
SPECIAL 1RMN ON ONE DRY
FARE ONE AMD A THIRD FOR THE ROUND TRIP FROM POINTS BE
TWEEN PENDLETON AND HUNTINGTON TO LA GRANDE SPE-
( IAL TRAIN ON WALLOWA COUNTY DAY WITH ONE FARE .
FOR ROUND TRIP--ONE AN D A THIRD FOR ALL POINTS
ON WALLOWA BRANCH.
With the advertising committee and
"20,000 booster , club" working like
beavers for the exposition It would
seem that there was an end to the
boosting for the fair, But there la
no end ot the good things for now the
railroad company has come forward
and has practically granted . every
request asked by the Commercial dub
and the fair commissioners. .." '.
Traveling Passenger .Agent lack
O'Neal, was in La Grande again this
morning and in conference With the
Commercial club, stated that tbi rail-;
roan ... wouia oq snyuuag in weir
power,. , ta bring the crowd t L
Grandei . .
On' October 4th, the opening; day
of the exposition, special rates . wll
go into effect on the Q. R. 6 Nfrom
Pendleton to La Grande and from
Huntington to La Grande . and all
points -between the places of one,fr
and a third for the round trip and
it carries with It a stopover In La
Grande of eight days.
These rates will also be in effect
on all points between Joseph and
DUTCH TO THE FRONT.
Engineer' Dutch Left This Morning
With Wagon Load of Supplies.
Another wagon load of supplies left
this morning for the Bearer Creek
pipe line! Engineer Dutch went with
the load on horse back to personally
see to the starting of the work. More
men will be taken on as fast as they
show up so that the work can be
rushed to completion as rapidly as
possible.
Mrs. Davenport Files Suit
NEW YORK, Aug. 26. Charging de
sertion, Mrs. Homer Davenport wife
of the famous cartoonist, brought suit
against her "husband for a divorce,
and demands an ' alimony of $600.00
monthly, and $750 counsel fees. In
filing the answer to the suit today,
Davenport said he left his wife Jan
uary 14, because of her nagging dis
position. He said that she was ex
tremely jealous and offers to give her
$250 each month It she will keep away
from him.
15 KILLED IN ACCIDENT.
Thirty Men . Imprisoned in Mine in
Old Mexico.
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 26. Rescuers
are today endeavoring to release
30 miners Imprisoned 1500 feet below
the surface in the Lapaz mine at Ma
teahuala. According to advices 15
men were instantly killed at the bot
tom ot the shaft when the cable to
the cage broke yesterday, and de
scended on them crushing and maim
ing the men. "
Thirty were In the cage when It
dropped, and some were killed. Men
are pinned by the wreckage, who
cannot be rescued before late tonight.
Latham Breaks Record.
RHEIMS, Aug. 26. Flying In a
monoplane this afternoon Latham, an
Englishman, broke Paulhams record
yesterday for time, and distance. The
flight was sensational. .
According to unofficial figures, La-
;La Grande on the branch.
And that Is not all that the rail
road granted. On Wallowa County
Day a special train will be run from
Joseph to La Grande and will stop
and pick up passengers at all points
along the line and the fare on this
day will only be one fare for the
round trip. The price of a -ticket
now from Joseph to La Grande one
way will bring the Josephites to La
Grande and take them back on Wal
lowa County Day at the Union county
exposition:'
The special will arrive in La
Grande at 10 o'clock a. m. and will
leave La -Grande for Joseph at 11 p.
m. This will give-the visitors here
on that day 13 hour to take In the
exposition." : ' '
.The' special train will carry IS
coaches and from the good work that
is being done they will all be filled
to the guards. ' '
The railroad company is certainly
doing all that is desired in the way
of special rates and trains.
tham'e time was two hours and thir
teen minutes.
"Crimes" Tonight
Teeming with hair raising thrills
and sparkling with bright comedy,
the "Crimes of a Big City" will open
for three nights at the popular Pas
time theatre tonight While the -play
made a decided hit in the east last
season, it has never been presented
in the west, and has but recently been
secured by Mr. Curtiss for his regu
lar road season.
It has a strong love story, sur
rounded by dramatic climaxes and
should please the usual full bouses
that nightly greet the Pastime stock.
BEET SUGAR SUPPLY GONE.
Beet Sugar Supply Exhausted la La
Grande Markets.
Beet sugar made by the Amalgam
ated Sugar company's factory in La
fGranJe is exhausted In the loca(
markets. It will be impossible to se
cure any more of this sugar until the
factory starts to running in the fall.
Will Know Fate Soon.
OLYMPIA, Aug. 26. The fate of
John H. Schlvely, State Insurance
Commissioner, who Is on trial before
the senate charged with irregulari
ties in administration In hU office,
will be decided late this afternoon.
O. C. Israel, attorney for Schlvely,
resumed his argument this morning,
and Is expected to take the entire
morning. Assistant Attorney General
Lee closes for the state this after
noon. ,
Ship Abandoned at Sea.
PERTH, Australia. Aug. 26. The
first officer and thlrteeu of the crew
of the bark Gael bound for Portland,
Oregon, was abandoned at sea during
a storm. The survivors report that
Captain Meteyer and the remainder
of the crew were probably lost or
are unable to reach land.
4 ' Preparing Statements.
4 WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. 4
4 The Interior Department are
4 today preparing a statement of 4
4 the Cunningham coal land ca-
4 ses demanded yesterday by 4
4 Taft. It Is reported that Pin-
4 chot, who has been supporting
4 Glavls In the latter's effort to 4
4 have the Cunningham claims 4
4 investigated before the patents A
4 were Issues, has been request-
4 ed to present his side of the
4 controversy. ". '
4 4
CLAIMS SHE IS
VIE Of 1ICHT
WOMAN IN PORTLAND CLAIMS TO
BE WIFE OF AVIATOR.
Says She And Orvllle Wright Were
-''Jtoriei ! 1897.
PORTLAND, August 25. A, woman
claiming to have been the wife of
Orvllle Wright the famous , aviator
is in Portland today making prepara
tion tor the educatio ot her son Les
ter, aged 11 years. She says it is
Wright's child. She has s supported
the boy by doing house work and nur
sing. She said she received com-,
municatlon from Wright in which are
expressed his willingness to share
the expense of eduactlng the boy. She
claims to have married Wright in
October; 189T She was .Ada Millef
of Central City, Nebraska. j
She said she was told by Wright's
uncle that 'Orvllle was dead, and af
ter two years she married. BeBIiev
lng herself widowed, she married J.
R. Carson in Vancouver, Washington,
later they separated.
Mrs. Carson said: ' ,
"I was only fifteen when Orvllle
married mes We wedded against the
mltter opposition tof our parents. He
was only a lad, and I a mere girl.
One year after the marriage, Lester
was born. Later Orvllle left me, and
his uncle told me he was dead. I
considered myself a widow for a rear
and tried to support myself and child.
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There's No
Need of
HEADACHE
at least no need of enduring them,
Yet eighty-six people out of every '
hundred have headaches at least at.
occasional Intervals. We can offer
offer you a prompt and certain rem
edy in onr
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. A remedy that will cure a splitting
headache or relieve neuralgia In from
20 to 60 minutes Is worth knowing
about and remembering. We believe '
it to be an absolutely certain cure In
practically all cases and for all kinds
of headache.
PRICE 25c.
NEWLIN DRUG COMPANY
LA GRANDE,
T II T
HOW III SEATTLE
TEAL OF PORTLAND
MAKES HIT
PRAISES PINCHOT'S WORH
PIN CHOT NOT IN FAVOR1 OF
FIGHTING IN CONGRESS. ,
TEAL QUOTES PBESiOENTS SPEECH
Nothing But Conservation to be Dls
cussed. ' - :
SEATTLE, Aug. 26. Praising ther
work ot Plnchot and urging Taft to
stand. for him, using the so-called
"Water, Power Trust" as example of
evils of the present system, ot giving
valuable rights, Joseph N. Teal : of
Portland, and a member of the Joint
committee; of the conservation, made '
ths "Key note" address at the open
lag session today, .
He did not mines his words. -, He
said the moral Question Involved a
to whether the heritage of the peo
ple was to be saved, "Quoted Taft'a
speech ' at ' the ' governors conference
last December In whlc'i the prcst
dent,, praised Plnchot and said that
he favored the conservation.
SEATTLE," Aug. 26. With Glfford
Plnchdt, chief forester and chairman
of the National Joint Conservation
congress on the ground, with the
leading conservation authorities from
all parts ot the country, the first Na
tional Conseravtlon congress looking
to the establishment of Wide govern
mental policies opened today In the
auditorium at the exposition
grounds. Following the Irrigation
congress and the'. Trans-MlssIsslppI
congress matters of deep interest to
the west will be discussed. Congress
will mark the establishment of or
ganized force for the purpose ot con
serving the nations; natural wealth.
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I
ORE.