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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 10, 1909)
o , mm fcr in V A A -VO'vW f-Z77 VOLUME IX CITIZENS TO " TAKE A HAND REPETITION OF GOLDFIELD AND A ) CRIPPLE CKREEK EPISODE IS MUCH FEARED NINETY PRISONERS ARE MOVED TO A VACANT BUILDING. l. W. W. Recruits are Scarce Charges .Made that the Police and City . Officers axe CrneL Spokane, Nov. 10. A report is cur rent this morning, the Citizens Alli ance is forming to take a hand in the police fight against the Workers. This brings about a situation like that which existed at Goldfield, Cripple Creek and several other places which Jlett a black page In the history of the - cnjieu Ditties. The police this morning were com pelled to move ninety of the prisoners into an abandoned school house, as the city Jail 1 and county Jail would no longer held the prisoners anl it has become absolutely necessary for the authorities to renovate that pris on, especially as more suits are being filed against the city and the condi tion of the Jail will be a part of the complaint The situation is now becoming very serious. The Workers are finding some rtlfflmiltv in Rpfiirlnc mifrlrtent follow ers for the purpose of defying the po lice. Representatives of the Workers D armed with dozens cf ui6. J:Atv cnarg Ing extreme cruelty on the part of the Suits Made to "our OVERCOATS AT LOWEST PRICES. i$et Weather Jpparell WE CARRY A FULL LINE OF RUBBERS, RUBBER BOOTS.OVEB SHOES, SLICKERS, HATS, IN FACT EVERYTHING TO KEEP , DRY DURING THE WET WEATHER AT PRICES THAT ARE ; LOWER THAN ELSEWHERE. ' bA GRANDE, UNION COUNTY, OREGON. city officials and the officers of the Jail aa well as City Physician O'Shea are arousing sympathy throughout the sur rounding country. They are threaten ing to ask for the dismissal of the chief of police as well as City Physi cian O'Shea. If this done another hard fight will come up in the city council as it is well known that a goodly part of the council will take advantage of the present situation for the purpose of deposing o fthe chief and physician. A large number of recruits are expect ed to arrive today tor the purpose of continuing the fight. Some of the conservative ' members of the council are In' favor of repeal ing the obnoxious ordinance In order to reduce the expenses of the city and stop the fight. The expenses of the city in caring for so many prisoners is now becoming enormous. IUMUUK DEATH WAITSBURG HAS GRUESOME AC , CIDENT TODAY. Burns at Walla Walla Barn and Good Horse Consumed. Walla Walla, Nov. 10. Whe switcb lng this morning at Waltsburs, W. D. Flester, a well known conductor, was caught between two cars and instamly killed. He was dragged about fifty feet and horribly mangled before . he was noticed by some of the crew. Fairground Barns Burn. The barns at the fairgrounds weie consumed by fire last night at 7 o'clock and Beveral valuable horses were burn ed. The loss -will be about $tr,,00i;. No clue as to the org!ri ,bAhe five has been discovered. - Order at v ' ' . mm nx. jt v . m mm i Reduced Prices AN OPPORTUNITY TO PICK OUT UJE MATERIAL YOU LIKtf AND HAVE IT MADE IX ANY STYLE YOU DESIRE AT A SAVING Of FROM $5 00 TO $12.09. ' v . THE LOT INCLUDES BROWN, (KILN CAST, BLUE GRA1, WIU1 STRIPES AND CHECKS, INVISIBLE PLAIDS, ETC, IN BOTH LiGHT AND DARK MIXTURES. ALSO BLUE SERGES AND BLACKS. THE MATERIALS ARE WORSTEDS, SERGES, UNFINISHED WORSTEDS, CIUVIOTS, ETC THIS OFFER IS FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY, SO IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF A SUIT, YOU WILL DO WELL TO CALL AT ONCE AND CHOOSE THE MATERIAL AND LET US TAKE YOUR MEASURE. WE. ALSO HAVE A FINE LIN E OF READY TO WEAR SUITS AND Ma BALLINGERTO SUE COLLIERS ATTORNEYS NOW HAYE ADVANCE MATTER AND WILL DECIDE AS TO ADVISABILITY OF SUIT BALLINGER APPEAR TO BE SOME EMBARRASSED NOW. Secretary unable to make Reply to C!zt!s 'n ui 77 HI Huia vaoinet Session Before Doing So. ... Washington, Nov. 10 Secretary of the Interior R. A. Ballnger has placed in the hands of a New York, firm of lawyers the Glavis article on advance sheets of Colliers with instructions to proceed against the publishers l( in their estimation the charge of libel can be sustained. ' -'i '.. . Balllnger does not hesitate to brand Glavis's statements as "unfounded and the tissue of falsehood. He hopes to be able to bring Colliers before for what he believes as their reckless pub lication of a sensational article. Ballnger admits that ne is consiaer ably embarrassed at this time so ar as It concerns his ability to Issue di rect reply to the Glavis artlcHs be cause of the fact that the discussion will practically not In any vay affect the Cunningham hearing wntch will soon be held In Seattle. As soon as the Cabinet la able to meet with the President, which will probably be next week, the mater will j be taken up. It. is possible that Pres ident Taft will recommend that a reply I be made immediately: ; - , I 1 . ... 4 V I 1 a-vw til 1 - H 111 1 MSV I i jf L3 HI - WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER. 10. 1909. 15 DIE YHEN IRAK MEET ONE OF THE HORRORS OF SEASON -RECORDED AT VANCOUVER . WHEN TRAINS MEET NO CHANCE TO ESCAPE AND KILLING IS SPEEDY ONE. Man Comes to the Rescue to Remote umbers from Bodies Pinned in The Mass of Wreckage. Vancouver, B. C. Nov. 10. Fourteen or fifteen persons were killed this morning In an accident which occurred on .the New Westminster line at 6:30 o'clock, of the British Columbia . & Electric Railway, v ; Running just ahead of the early sub urban passenger iwaa a heavy freight dragging in the rear a car of heavy timbers. This car in some unaccount able manner broke from the freight when about half way between Lake view and Colllngawood stations. At this point the railway climbs the mountain side and the car breaking away came tearing down the mountain and before the conductor of the Inter urban could do a, thing to warn or save his passengersthe car had struck the coach. The terrlfflc momentum of the flat car loaded with timbers swept everything from the coach level with the floor. There were twenty-five pas sengers in the carand none of them had an Instant warding in which to make their ea ape.iMotorman Thor burn yelled a warning b the passen gers as he saw the car coming and tried to leap from the platform to a place of safety, He was Caught by the runaway and Instantly crushed to death. The passengers in the car were hurled in all directions and many of them were crushed almost beyond all recognizance.. George Scott, who lives near the scene of the wreck said: "It was still dark, and when I heard the crash which was almost like a peal of thun der I hurredly lighted a lantern and went to the cenece of the wrecked car. The top of the car was torn off by the car of lumber and had forced a mass of men and women into a very small space. These In the closely packed mass who were still alive were moan ing and shleking In their pain in an awful manner and I was all alone to help them. I went to work frantically to liberate them. It. was fully twenty minutes before I could get enough of the poor wretches out from among the wreckage and then began to haul them out, both the dead and the living. It GHIEFCQUNCIL S. P. ATTORNEY WILL TAKE UP WORK OF LOVETT DUNN LL BE While Not Appointed Yet, Apparent he Eastern Oregon to Get Good Mall Ser h Slated for Place. . l! he, If Report Is True. San Francisco, Nov. 10 Peter F. Dunn, attorney general for tbe Souh ern Pacific, left today for New York where he will conduct the merger case in behalf, of the Harrlman roar! .4. He will be gone about five riwAhs and while gone will take v Uio work left by Judge Lovett when he was elected president lately. Untill his promotion Lovett was chief counsel for Harrl man Voada. While Dunn assumes the position held by Lovett, he has not yet been ofllclaly appointed, but it is so probable that It Is takenas an assured fact In road circles. was hard work and slow for some of the men were heavy. I will never for get the ghastly scene and when I had got the mass untangled I looked like I had been wallowing In blood. I then hurried away to telephone for aid and soon had plenty of help.' Broken coupling on the freight car caused the wreck. The crew left the lumber car on the main line and went in on a siding to get an empty car. When the train came out of the siding It backed up on the car of timbers and the momentum mashed the coup ling and sent the car down the main line to meet the oncoming ; coach. The entire freight crew have been ar rested by the police and will be detain ed awaiting the action of the coroner and the grand Jury. The following are identified dead: T. Bowes, Grand View; R. S. Lyons, rz:cr; J. T. vrowwer, and William Johnson, conductor; W. Stevens, T. E. Holland. George Thorn- burg, motorman; S: M. Mitchell, A. S. Wilkinson: Harry Dayton, Thomas V, Tattle, Charles Harris. Injured: T. B. Jepson and one un known man that is unconscious in the hospital. All of the killed were men ? ' Probe Into Fire Rates. Chicago, Nov. 10. Inquiry Into the sentiment among busines men aa to the advisability of the state of Illinois undertaking the regulation of fire In surance rates has been concluded by the commission appointed by Gov. De- neen, and the investigators met In Chicago today for an executive ses sion, at which they will complete plans for the hearings which are ex pected to develop fro underwriting and rao-mnklng experts the facts for which the commission is seeking., ELECTION EXTREMELY SMALL VOTE BEING BALLOTED. Apparently Less than a Hundred Votes Will Be cast In All. Voting on the proposition of the re funding of the $20,000 bond Issue aue this fall on the old water Bystem and the lsue due in 1912 1b progressing slowly today and Indications are thut less than 100 votes will be polled. As far as can be learned It Is thought the refunding will carry. The refunding of the bonds due in 1912 Is simply a bus iness proposition as the bonds are to be Bold at a lower rate of interest than they are now bearing. The polls will close at' 7 o'clock thlj evening aud tho vote counted. j SAID THAT FIRST SECTION OF NO 8 WILL COME EARLY. An effort i being made to get an earlier train here from Portland car rying mail, than now comes In the evenlng.The first section of No. 8 is the train which will be changed If the , present plans nature. It runs empty or nearly ho, carrying only equlpemnt for. the mail train headed west. Port I land mall la carried bjr the empty equi 'roent, however. The' plan is to give j Eastern Oregon better facilities by i having this train carry early morning roall out of Portland, arriving here ' about five or six o'clock It Is said, un officially that this can be done. W1TH0LTAD0 EARLY MAIL IS POSSIBLE NUMBER 16 MIND DEATH SAYSpIAN MRS STETSON EXPLAINS HOW TEE SCIENTIST HEALING EFFECTS ABSENT PERSONAGE. SEEMS TO LOSE HER SOUL DURING ABSENT TREATMENT Deposed Christian Sclentbjt Explains To Mother Church What Mental A8saslnatIoa Means. New York, Nov. 10. ''Mental aBslna tlon" is charged today against Mrs. Agusta Stetson, the deposed CbrltIdD scientist, in a report made to her mother church at Boston by MrB Maud Klssam Babcock. a farmer student Mrs. Babcock makes the allegation that Stetson attempted to meta'ly mur der her by system similar to the so called "absent treatment'' the de scribes the mental attack as flaring she was at' her home at Cedarhnri: sleep ing peacefully In a perfectly ncrmal state when suddenly she began vo ex perience a freezing sensatioa. She paid that "her heart fluttered, luminous waves rolled towards me and covered me and the faces of many deul people appeared before me.Mrs. Stetaon'B blue eyes were all around the room and It seemed that my bouI went out of my body." Mrs. Babcock Bays she stagger ed to the bath room aud took a hot plunge bukthatyhe wiW not-grt warm nor.eveu feel the eFeds of the warm water. Banker Suicide Still Dark. Nainpa, Idaho, Nov. 10. Until the state bank examiner arrives totnoi row conditions of the Mldleton state bank are not attainable. F. Jordon of Cal ifornia has been appointed as the new cashier. . - ' J.: I Ocheltree the former cashier left a letter explaining that he has been carrying his own worthless pa per and that he had become tU-ed ot trying to cover up this fact from the directors. ;'; ' JUDGE FEARS Mme. StelnhlU Threatens to Be Ind!s erect Hereafter. Judge Catches the Drift of Her Threat And Bocks Up Quickly. Paris, Noyember, 10. "I am becom ing angry. Don't exasperate me any longer, 1 have been defending myself cautiously because unfortunately I am obliged to, but If you drive me to It I will cease to be discreet." This was what Madame Stelnbeil hissed this morning. Justice Devalles evidently an derstood what the woman meant for he immediately changed his line of tactics. It is believed that there are great ios Blbillties of a Bcandal breaking out at the trial of Mme. Stelnhell which 1 might possibly bring disgrace upon the French nation through the conduct of some of the officials high In the government If the woman should take a notion to tell all that she knows , Ot her attempt to rule the nation through her lovers In high places, the French, court today Is "between the devil and the deep eea." They dare not .press the case too hard, is the belief ot thej populace. " - AN EXPOSURE , . o.