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r t.rto.u""-"- Ifiii VOLXI LA. GRANDE. UNION COUNTY, OREGON, SATUEDAY, MAKCH 12, 1910, STMBEB 111 fll SUPPLY M GREATER Till REPORT imm WATER IN TEN DAYS to mum :3A5GEB OF LAtE OP WATEB FOfiEYEB ELDQJfATED BY THIS -Engineer Darley brings dowa word fhat his measurement of Meadow. ,," 1rooy show all former estimates of ; flood waters underestimated In high water ears the reservoir will ilU la les rthau ten days. the Blue Moan tains knows that flood stages exist for more than that per iod, regardless of how little snow there Is In the hills, and that there will sever be a shortage of water for the project Is made certain. Actual figures relative . to the amount of the flow, will be obtain able as soon as Mr. Darley finishes his measurements and compiles the data. ' - ',. Berkely, Calif., March 12. The In terclass and college track champion ship meet of the University of Cali fornia will be held today. SEELEY GUILTY SAY J URORS That Meadowbrook has a far greater flow than was at first estimated and that the local Irrigation project will Bever run short of water, once it is tfinlshed, are some of the features in a brief message brought to La Grande last night : by Englner Darley, the .man In charge of the preliminaries rfor the local project He has re turned to Meadowbrook again to com iplete his masurements. The statement follows a series of measurements taken during the flood water stage, asd some at the lowest tttage last summer. While all the figures have not been compiled in a 'table, the engineer has aready deter aniaea that at orinary flood stage not sucft as has occurred this year X? reaaoV. ?f the unusually heavy Bnowfall-ithere is enough water com ing out of the head of the streamto fill In 10 days the monster reservoir that Is planned for construction at Meadowbrook. In years like this the huge storage tank would be filled In much less time than 10 days, but un der ordinary flood stages, about 10 days would be required. , .Anyone familiar with conditions In UNION UP TODAY. LONG FIGHT WITH IIER CREW CF WRICKED TESSEL SAFE AT LAST IS THE 8TRUGGLE FOB LIFE LASTS OTEB SIXTY DATS SERVICE TO m SUNDAY GIVEN tER TO THE HEN SUFFERING FAMILY COLLEC . TIOX AM0UHT8 TO SUM OF $C5 Seeley will be sentenced next Mon. -. ' . v ' ' ' - - day moraine; at 9 o'clock. The circuit court Jury which heard the evidence In the case of the State of Oregon vs. Seeley, charging theft of a revolver from Mr. Stlllwell of this city, today brought in a verdict of guilty. Seeley will be sentenced next Monday morning at 9 o'clock. Jones Case np Today. . "With the completion of the Seeley case, the trial of C. . W. Jones of Union was commenced. Jones is charged with bootlegging and a jury to hear the evidence Is being selected this afternoon; Several are over from Union to appear as witness as soon as the jury is completed. Attorneys Coch- raniA Cochran are handling the case! ship's. for the defense. , Four o f six survivors from wrecked Farallon come to Steward today ' Men suffer untold hardship la their struggle to get to land Boat sank under the weight of the Ice and : snow, r"v' -"I. " Seward, March 12. After 60 days' battle with snow blizzard and hunger four of the six men who rowed from the wreck of the steamer Farallon on January 7, are Bafe In Seward to day and the remaining two are safe at Kodlak. The four men were brought here by the tug Tahoma, which has been searching for a month. They are Gus Swanson, Charles Peterson, Al bert Bailey and Otto Nelson. The survivors were found at Afognak In Karaluk straights. The second day after leaving the Farallon, their boat sank under the weight of the . Ice and snow with which it was coated, but the men managed to reach Kodiak Island ter ribly frostbitten. ; Here they found a camp of a trapper, whree they stayed. They lived on whale oil and dried fish and suffered Incredible, hard High school sight brings forth ex j eellent singing, good preaching and - Interesting meeting In general- Tomorrow wDl see three services, commencing la the morning Be ' some of Johnson's address. ' Home to Roost There will be no services on Monday. . SwJlows Table Fork San Francisco, March 12. Bridget Brady is recovering from an opera tion today for the removal of a table fork which she swallowed yesterday. She was suffering from a aore thoat and placed the handle of the fork in her troat In an effort to examine her tonsils. Muscles gripped the handle and the fork slipped down the esophagus. ECCI.ES VIIL SURRENDER FEDERAL AID PA1CEA' STRIKE AT FiilLAEEIKIA COT EE SETTLED Vancouver Games , Victoria B. C March 12. Indoor track and field championship of Van couver Island, the first of the kind ever held, will be decided here this J tQ Q BesBlona of evening. The entry list Includes the tne New . Jersey conference. He was best athletes of the province. born In New York In 1847. Methodist Bishop Dead. Trenton, N. J., March 12. Bishop Henry Ejpellmeyer of the Methodist Episcopal church . of St Louis was found dead In his apartments in the hotel today of heart disease. He came I GRAND DISPLAY I SPRING MERCHANDISE Aadies Suits, Millinery, Aadies Coats, Waists, Jhoes, Jkirtf. Wash goods' Silks, Corsets. Press (joods fiosery, and Accessories. Silk Presses &)e have just received a choice tine af these popular dresses, all the leading colors, materials Jaffaty, Pongees, and Cancels, Shirt-Waists , too have received a large shipment of waists which are placed on saie for Saturday, values to $ J 91? two aollars on sale Saturday at, Tailored-Suits ; ' Bey one a doubt we hate the choiciest selection of suits you can exaectto find, jiere you will find all the late materials, Styles and at such sersonable prU ces, that you cannot afford delay buying, a perfect fit guarenteed- ' For Stile. JflE FAIR For Stiles ' 5.S TO POET. ""LAUD TO GIVE SELF UP Friday . night's meeting was the strongest to date In the revival meet ings in the tabernacle. The praise was Indeed pralseful. Prof. Gray and his magnificent choir never sang bet4 ter. The high Bchool was present en -masse and In addition to the In spiration imparted by their presence and participation in song enlivened the program by their notable yell, Oregon Lightning" and Nine Rah's to Johnson and Gray. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. L. Cleaver sang "The Inner Cir cle.",' Ames Family Remembered The Ames family were especially; remembered m prayer. The audience joined In a sympathetic love offering to the family and $65 was provided for them. The evangelist spoke with a proph et's unction from 2 Kings 5:2. "He was a mighty man of valor." That Is, be was a brave manl Nothing so intterest an dattracts as a brave man. A coward hates a coward. Brave women are admired. A woman may be so timid as to cling to a table to escape a mouse, or to search be neath the folder or dresser In dis cover the man In hiding, but there is something in her brave heart that responds to bravery. Courage has our commendation emulation, admi ration and several other at Ions. It was in Carrie Nation. She delivered the goods. Physical courage without moral courage is not worth a snap A yellow dog comes along the road and a boy grabs as though he were reaching for a rock and the dog sticks his tail between his knees and makes the dust fly. He . does not stop to see if the boy has thrown the stone. There are a great, many yel low dog Christians in the world When a work like this begins and the devil makes a grab like he was after a rock they hit the path and make the dust fly, but when success Is gained they hang around and say "See what we have done?" We need brave ministers, politi cians, mayors, judges, officers who love the right;, men who are not afraid of the smell of powder; men who will stand and fight for life, for death, for the right. We must get down to business and fight the. devil as brave, men . There Is not a city in this country that does not need to be taken down to God's bath house and have the hose turned on it and cleaned up. A mighty conflict is on. , A brave man can count for more under the banner of Jesus Christ than any where else. , Men line up for God and the right. Think twice before you cast your influence against God and the right In the great conflict A White' L!.v For Two I abominate that double standard of virtue for male and female. Girls require of young men the same purity of life they exact from you. Parents, If you turn yoru children loose at ten ten they will' be la hell at fifteen. Have a Cerfew Law and enforce It. A great day la in store for tomor row. Hours are 10:30 a.'' in., S p. m. and 7 p. m. The theme for the men's meeting Is "When the Chickens Come Will not wait for irreli w We up to authorities Portland, , March 12. The indict ment again st,t,hei Eastern Oregon Ium bertnen,! returned Thursday, included in addition, to the three men already arrested here, David Eccles, million aire of 'Salt Lake, who. today Is re ported to be on his way to, Portland to surrender and Frank M. Spurtluff, Fred W, Atkinson, W. M. Green, all officers of the Oregon Lumber com: Panlhan to Fight New York, March 12. Mons. Louis Paulhan, whose aeroplane flights in this country will end today unless he succeeds in upsetting the lnjunc tlon recently gained by the Wright brothers announce , that he will not leave America for a while. HIb law yers have taken an appeal in his case and he hopes to be able to keep en gagements In fly In New York. Metff at Sioux City. Sioux City, la., March 12. All of the best athletes of this district are scheduled to take part this evening In the first amateur athletic, cham pionshlp meet., Letter carriers and postal clerks will compete against police and firemen In a relay race, and there will be several other novel events, In addition to the regular card. ' v . niGU PRICE OF MEAT ADDS ' TO' THE SUFFERING THES3 Minor riot occurs tod" 4 . ' -y and several can v' . . l ' .e stoned by strikers Forty. eight hours given to car company 'to negotiate before every union ma in Pennsylvania wltf he called oat In sympathy. Philadelphia, March ll Federal In tervsntlon In the street car and gen eral BtrIk,U considered the only hope1 for peace.. Every attempt to have the question settle! amicably appears to have Tailed. Charles P. Nelll, the commissioner of labor, is expected to arrive soon and report to Washington. Strike leaders last night sent out an ultimatum that unless the street car company consents to arbitrate In 48 hours, every Union man in Penn sylvania will be called out. Meat Prices High Retail prices of meat here today; , range from five to , ten cents per pound higher than the. normal and thousnads of striker's ' families are suffering. , The dealers predict an other advance Monday.. Other com modities are expected to follow. ' Strike leaders claim that a num ber of men at tho'DIsston Saw Works - went out today. ' . It Is claimed the plant will be closed by night. Minor disorders occurred throughout the day and some cars were stoned. Pretention of Berl Bert. Manilla, March 12. Many medical men In attendance at a conference hero have advanced the opinion that berl berl. the much feared disease of the Islands, Is due to the practice of polishing rice. Polishing removes the outer covering which contains phos Toft's Relative Suicides. Pittsburg, March 12. Thomas Mc Laughlin'', a brother-in-law of the President committed suicide by shoot ing, according to the coroner today. McLaughlin's death occurred yester day and physicians reported "Cere bral Hemorrhage" as the cause. Hej has been 111 for several months. A l Daly Girl to Wed Son. New York, March 12. Extenslre preparations for the marriage of Har riet Daly, daughter of the late Mar cus Daly, and Count Anton Slgray are in progrei stoday. The Count It a scion of one of the oldest fabmlliot of Hungarian nobility. Miss Daly ha a fortune of seven millions. The porus. The disease Is said not to be marriage will tako place' shortly af lnfectuouB. ' ter Lent . . - - - ! AVOID SULE BABY FOOD You insist on having your own f ood 'fresh. Be as careful about tho baby's food. Owing to their delicate composition many of the infant foods are greatly affected by age, and may become positively injurious. We take pains to keep these foods fresh, and if you buy here you can be certain of qpality. A hint is as good i as an argument. ; 1 We are just as careful to have our drugs fre&li ' and pure as we are in the matter ofbaby foods. MemUnBrn-iCo. T 1 l 4, , VT 0v . V si