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voluitcix uA GfiAIIDU. UNION COTJirTY. 01120011. THURSDAY, JANUARY .20. 1910 NUIIBER 67. RAID L ANDS J UCHBQOZE FARQUAHRSON SAL ION SCENE OF SIICteFliL RAID LAST NIGHT LipR ALL - 'CONFISCATED ' i . . ' ' ,.' 1V1LL BE TRIED FRIDAY ff U'DER EW ORDINANCE Supreme ' Court Justice. ; Edward D. White, Member. of Na , tion's Highest 'Court ;; Defendant claims goods were stored before local option law Went Into effect Chief has another view oft the story Whlhkej now In Record er's oilice where It will l held un- ' :. -; .... .- - v '.: i til date for hearing. " - . ..v mm--- -rr As' a result of a raid made late last evening by Chief Rayburn, : un der the new city ordinance,' one cor ner of , the Recorder's office how con tains .about 36 gallons of an assort ment of , whiskey,., wine and brandy, taken from the saloon run bf Jas. Farquharson on Fir St. Farquhar Bon was arrested and released to ap pear for trial' Friday morning et 10 o'clock. , This is the first arrest under thej recently passed ordlrsnce and there are all kinds fo rumors afloat that it will not stand the test of the cir cuit and Supreme court. Upon conviction the ordinance pro Yldes tor a fine of ndt leas than $50 nor more than $250,, or impris onment of tro less than 25 nor more than 125 cjaja or both, at the dlar cret'Jnj off h'e-RecordjBr. and the goods coLfttea' . are to be de stroyed. , - The chief stated that Farquharson claimed the goods were stored when the local option law went into, effect last July; The Chief takes a dif ferent ' view, which out at. the trial. ' - :.-. A . if ft--, i. i f V v si;. 'V . .. Blue Mountalu . Resene. HERHAI I DHUTALCRITilE CONSPIRACY DISCOVERED SOXENSO N STAND SATS S3 BY .TESTIMONY IS NOT ALLOWED Tu i HAND 'AS 'EVIDENCE MAT BE t'SED LATER SAYS f V TRIAL JUDGE WOLERTOM George Soreuson, n the stand, tell story of how he whs forced to "dig up' Jarge portion Ms holdings -to Jin' tfit3t;?-iUlil and Binger . vHermaBnifor thetfe:!tlj( of the CHICAGO WOMAN DECAPITATED IN T GRUESOME MANNER EOBY FOUND IN SOUTH SIDE FLAT William H.. Moore. Lawyer tni Capitalist, Prominent Is Steel and Bailroads. ' IIEAI SEVERED BUT PART OF SCALP JERKED AWAY. RcTenge seems to hare actuated the crime, discovered by: other tenants in the ilat Proprietor of rooming house held by police pending an luvestigaUon Criin gruesome lu the extreme.', 4 4 ' t. . , I. l '.: rf:- IVAR AGAINST HIGH PRICES rRE&iENDUQUS WAVE CF CRUSADE ? SWEEPS IVESTWAEU tO " CEN : VER WHERE ACTION fCLLCiS THEkTXXb EGGS TO BE HOY. OTTED IX VAST DISTRICT Petitions for absUlnerg from eating ' . meat, and eggs , mider preyallcnt. , high prices circulated wltll 'great ? ' - ' ' . . ; J i,1 .i. v" popularity in United Slate Dea.. r tee meeting will he neld next Sua eoiirt is ii .i'iiwi;inH nun) huo i. iiiu . oenit v' H :! ': jiMiiited' to if piaiV ou the nHrid niehAf hehcfi in VOli by I'resldeut Clevelaurt. r . . will all come nFATH TOLL HEAVY ONE TOTAL OF TEX KILLED AND SIS- TEEJf INJURED. r Rocky Mountain region 'has disas Portland', Jan, 20.-Blnger. , Her mann, ex-commlssloner or tne gene ral land, office, waa for a roinue to day" linked with the'. Blue ; Mountain Forest Reserve conspiracy by (Jeo. Sorenson, ' and then the Court -'in-1 structed the Jury that the testimony would not be considered binding up-i on Hermann unless the Government proves a conspiracy later. The llnK, indefinite as it was, came In the tes timony, of Eorerison when he said that F.; P. Mays had made a demand upon him that he1 give up a portion of the school lands in the forest re serve In" order to help pay the ex penses of the reserve's creation. ' Sorenson had asked Mays what the expense was, contending that If he gave up one-third of his holdings, he was entitled to know who got the money coming from his lands. V llgr troMiCaJa' days. ,..LAt thjs, Sorenson tesUfl,ed,!aT-JWtoltl mm Ji was necessary u vy ocuawr Mitchell and Binger Hermann for the work being done by them In Wash ington towards furthering the crea tion of the reserve. - Denver, Colo., Jan. 20. The wreck of a run away freight train on Mof fatt road today killing three train men and injuring two, makes a total of 10 trainmen killed and IB injured in the Rocky Mountain region in the last five days. Four were killed and three Injured last Sunday near Leadville.- , Three were killed and 11 injured at Lemay, Utah, Monday. , I. Chicago, - Jan. 20.--The body., of a woman with her head severed was found at noon tpA&y in a South Side flit. LThe : police believe that she was brutally murdered. , '.'- -j The body was found by persons living in the same house and who identified the ; woman as Anna Fur long." A part of the right ear and a portion1 of the scalp remained con nected with the neck, evidently hav ing been torn off when the head was severed. The body haa been dis emboweled and presented a horrible appearance, .' Tillie Tayjor, ? proprietor of the house In which the murdered woman was an inmate is being detained by the "police, who have the theory of jealousy : or revenge as the princi pal motive for the crime. This Is based on the appaling brutality that accompanied tbewux,ler v .V'.M;vk:; .;.,-'".':. , -i ; William Id ,; Moure, lawyer, capitalist Biiit tit;iMiif'r ('onevt thi,J principal rW lift' " f VtlU'lli;i'V HfWlf UlHItll UtV ('l!fhr' I'illlttinO .!f '' ; -X if i- .mi mi am v i). V-a. r "i-'iru u m'i i-.- ''.tvHiiNiiHn; Mint to other :; i-u ter; Off for Old Home. V : A. T. Hill, the druggist, leaves to night for Indiana to visit his father, whom he has not seen in 20 years. VALET JONES di: COVERED THROWS NEW LIGHT ON ARREST OF GOTHAM LAWYER. Murder of Millionaire Rice conies to life agala by the story. PRESIDENT SAID TO BE ON TOP OF SITUATION. . Ohio delegation for one will not bow take ( orders from Joe. Washington. Jan.' : 20. President is done with Speaker Joe Cannon, and terete'flfipsr, tha yiaheB of the President - must carry more weight that the demands of the "House or ganization," . according to the;. gene ral Interpolation of an announce ment today. The Ohio delegation Isued a state ment declaring It, recognized Presi dent Taft as the "Party leader" A member of the delegation stated this means members from Ohio will not take any more orders from Cannon unless O K'd by the President To Divide a Big Ranch. & LOST M SNOWDRIFT W. A. Breed the Walla Walla chick en fancier who is to judge the chick ens on exhibit at the annual chicken show shelves, has been snow bound below Walla Walla, consequently there has been no start made on the matter of judging the fowls. Tele phone messages from the marooned judge aay he will come to La Grande this evening and comulete the judg ing before Friday night. , . ARMED BURNS, SAM BERGER. FRANK KOTCII, DOCTUR ROLLER AND V OTHER WORLD-FAMOUS MEN TO APPEAR HERE y APPEAR ON NEXT THURSDAY AFTERNOON Anselcs. Cal., Jan. 20. Active work will Boon commence on the dl vision and sale of the celebrated 70 000 acre El Sobrante de San Jacinto ranch, near San Jacinto. The prop erty was recently sold to a land com . pany, which paid about a million dol lars for it, and will divide the ranch Into small farms. Senntor Bailey on Program, r Rochester, N. J.. Jan. 20. Senator Joseph W. Bailey, of Texas will de liver the annual address at the 33d annual meeting of the New York (. LADIES GET LICENSES. Two local ladles Join ranks of nlm rods and get permits to hunt That feminine nlmrods exist in La Grande is evidenced by the fact that two hunting licenses have been is sued by County Clerk Wright fo 1910. The applicants who were given the papers were Mrs. Frank Leavitt and Miss Leone Wade, both well known in this city. One or two 11 censes a year" is usually the extent of the fair semes' " propensities for hunting. : " Sell New Edison Stork. - i New York, Jan. 20. Three million of the recently authorized $10,000,000 of new capital stock of the Common wealth Edison Company will be of fered at par to stockholders of record today.' Payments are to be made In (MM Galveston,. Texas, Jan. 20. "Val et" Jones, wanted In connection with tha-murder ofW illlara Morris Rice the. Iew' York capitalist for connec tion with which Albert T. Patrick', the famous Gotham attorney . Is now serving, a life sentence, Is reported found..; ; ."- ;; .,:-:,,.-V:: . : Jones' whereabouts has been dis covered by a brother of Patrick who has been . using indefatigable efforts to free the convicted man. Jones is reported tov' have agreed to make a confession which will clear Patrick of participation in the crime. James J. Jeffries, world heavy weight champion . fighter and now prftnlng hlm&elf for the- coming combat with J. J. Johnson,' the coon, on July 4th, next, will appear at the Steward Opera House the , 27th of this month, with a galaxy of world famed men, according to brief but explicit Instructions received this af ternoon for J. Court by, D. H. Stew ard. Jeffries will be headed Port- landward, and will stop off here for the day, spending the afternoon In his theatre attraction and going on to Portland at night Others With Him. : With the terrible fighter will be such men as Frank Gotch, now fain ous throughout , the world as the greatest wrestler of his time. BeBldes James Jeffries and Frank Gotch, the two leaders In fighting and wrestling, the troupe comprises Sam Berger, boxer; Dr. F. B. Roller and "Farmer" Burns, wrestlers, and John Hannanson, champion ; bag puncher of the world. , : , Frank Gotch, the Iowa giant, cham pion wrestler of the world, will give an exhibition with "Farmer" Burns, after which he will offer the follow ing purses on the terms mentioned In each: $230 to any 160-pound .wrest ler who will stay with him five, min utes; $250 to any 175-pound wrestler pier to stay' 15 minutes. John Hannanson the chamulon bag puncher, .Is said to have an inter esting and unique act. He has ap peared on a number of the prominent Eastern vaudeville circuits, : Jeffries work consists principally In sparring with Sam Berger, well known in eporfdom, and shadow box ng, all of which will give the ,La Grande bugs a splendid opportunity to see the big fellow In action." . The news of these men's coming has set the fans wagging and little else is being discussed. State Bar Association, which opened here today and will be continued to- quarterly Installments, the first due who will stay with him eight minutes morrow. - Feb.,1. . - ?d $250 to any heavy-weight grap Postal Savings Rank Bill. Washington, Jan. 20i Senator Car ter, author of the postal savings bank bill, is determined to make a hard fight for the passage . of his , pet measure, despite the opposition of Aldrlch, Penrose and other powerful senators. Carter has lately been in vestigatlng affairs in the Canal Zone but will hereafter devote much of hla time to pushing the postal sav ings bank. INJURED IN DIRE DANGER Philadelphia, Jan. 20. Insisting In his belief that a number of bodies are still burled In the debris of the Ellis building where 500 factory girls were trapped by the fire yesterday afternoon, Fire Chief Baxter Is today personally directing' the search of the ruins. ,'V,. .. Five bodies have already been taken out, and reports from hospi tals, to which scores of Injured girts were taken, indicate- that at least a half-dozen fatalities will be added to the list. During the night atji effort was made to secure a poll, of the missing girls. Denver' Jan-. 20. Moving westward by leaps "and "bounds," the cruaada . started ;Jn Ohio, against high food $ ' prices reached ;th vclty. ,Next Sun- r lay afternoon, hundreds of Denver Union labor men will assemble to .' sign a pledge to foreswear the use ; of meat and eggs for, 30 days. The leaders In the movement here ? confidently declared today r; the be lief that they will be able to 'compel Colorado butchers ' to ; cut the ex isting prices. They e say J.Sunday'3 meeting will launch a boycott that within a week will extend through out the state. - Thousands Alroady Signed ' ; Omaha. Jan. 20. More than 5009 people in Omaha have already sign ed the anti-meat pledge. : Leaders of the ' local ' movement to break high ; meat prices predict, that befor night an mazing port'jf h, of the iclty'a population will be 60 day vegetari ans. :?;. ;':'":.' ' Other Nebraskans Follow SulL ; Reports from other Nebraska , ct- .V ij'j , Indicate that . the crusade U finding hundreds of supporters. A mass meeting of many towns has been called. Labor unions are as suming prominent places In' fight. Abstaining In Pittsburg. - Pittsburg, Jan. 20. A mass meet ing will be held tonight to protest against the high prices charged for Jneat - aud other food commodities Pledges to abstain from meat will be circulated among those who at tend. ;: ' v v-;:;",:, ,r:V'-; r. . Dealer Vn tot Aid. L Chicago, ::' Jan. . 20. Scores of un ions here today are considering ta general forswearing of meat and egg owing to" the prevailing high prices. The boycott against eggs and meat Is ' spreading throughout the mlddla west with great rapidity, and tha butchers : are imploring the great packing firms to come to their aid with a general reduction' of whole sale price. Action by local unions will affect nealy half a million con sumers, and will endanger the great retail Chicago butcher trade. V Manchester Tnlfy. San Francisco,' Jan. 20. Coast members of the Manchester Unity, an old English organization from which the American Order of Odd Fellows had its origin, are holding a convention In Oakland today. . MOTHERS LOVE UNAVAILING To Save Pittsburg. l4 Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 20. Pittsburg will take part In the National Lay men's Missionary Movement , during the meeting there beginning this ev ening. It Is expected that the Smoky City will contribute liberally to the). scheme of national evangelization. . Colorado Boomers Meet. : Colorado Springs, Colo., Jan. 20. Discussion, of Irrigation , and dry farming, as well .as other toplca. and "boost ' talks" v occupied thlt morning's session ' of the Colorado; State Realty ! Dealers' Association. f New York, Jan. 20. Arthur Shlb ley,' who was shot at High Bridg v arte recently Dy , an un Known as sassin, died today despite tho moth er's heroic efforts to save the child by the transfusion of her own blood to his veins. The child failed to rally, v i, .' . T :: I,- , v.; ;.. Suffragist's Campaign 4 - Albany, N. Y.' ; Jan..; 20. Womaa suffragists and "antla" are beginning to gather In force today tor an on slaught on the state legislature.' lira. Belmont and Mrs. Mackay will take a . prominent part In the campaign for the ballot. . 0 1 . i