'" J ;;" .Vi 7. 7':.'. 'V ( i h ir y Cj ! ! , vVykVJL AH Mi! M i ' ij f ! 1 ! l ' , -f - f IT j TIT w W VOL- XI LA' GRANDE, UNION COUNTY, OREGON. THURSDAY MAY 5, 1910. NUMBER 158 f T V Li. v. , . , U7 r 'rEyi ' A i i A J A i A 'A t 1) m OREGON SENTOR ' , . . . ........ AT GENERAL H CHCOC t Lays Bare the visit of Ormsby McHarg to this State Gives the Senate a Heart-to-Heart Talk v tacnoTQ in niQunwnR qtatc Li I UIIIU IU U1U1IU11U11 UiniL Federal Appointments offered in Ore gon for Legislators' Votes, Charged made by Junior Senator r Washington, May S.Senator Jon athon Bourne of Oregon, In the sena te today charged that a former high government official tried to tamper with the Oregon legislature by-trading federal offices for votes. "Efforts were made," said Bourne, ."to dis honor state and public servants. Dur ing a session of the legislature, with a former government official and an assistant of the 'chairman of the re- LOS ANGELES PEOPLE DO NOT WANT BIG PRIZE FIGHT Alameda County Authorities Declare , the Ring Barbarous , Los Angeles, May 5. The strong protest against the JeffrieB-Johnson fight will be lodged with the state. The Alameda county authorities,' by the congregational ' conference off Southern California, resoluted j last night against -the ' fight which they characterized as barbarous. " LEAYE FOR DETRIOT' TONIGHT La Grande Teople Will Spend Month In the East ;Pu-;. : ; This evening Henry Henson and Mr. and. Mrs. F. M. Jackson will leave for Detroit,; Michigan. Mr. Henson will represent the 0. R. & N. system and the B. of L. E. convention and Mrs. Jackqson represents '..jthe'. local organization at the 0. .I. A. meeting. The party will be absent from the city about a month. Before return ing Mr. " Hensea will , visit several points in Canada, breathe the smoke of Pittsburg,- Pa..' see' the sights at Chicago and St Louis and finally make a visit to his old home In M1b surl where the Maud mule grows and the darkles eat sorghum and hot cakes the year around. He is counting on a pleasant journey and will no doubt have It, for ; the meeting of old friends Is acknowledged to be one of the choice blessings in life.' Washington, . May 5.--Congressman Kahn of California and the commis sioner general cbnferred last night in regard to the Hindoo immigration - question. They said that the Hindoos PROTESTS ABE CHARGES ARE ENTERED- 1ADEr v ; ' - . ' ' . - TAKES FLING publican central committee, ' Hitch cock, the present postmaster general appeared and promised federal ap pointments to legislators who would disregard their pledges," Bourne pre viously had spoken about the succes sful popular government In Oregon, saying that the real test came when the republ lean . legl slature elected .Chamberlain to the senate because it was pledged. SAY PRESIDENT TAFT NOT ABLE ' TO MAKE GOOD Member of Steam Shovelers Union Get Ilim on the 'Carpet Cleveland, May 5. There ; will . be hard times ahead for President Tft if he Is ever compelled to ; go back to "Steam Shovel Opeartor" to earn a living. He is a member of the XJn- ion and yesterday he attended a ball game which, was declared "unfair' by the building trades council. Now the demand Is to be made for his ex pulsion from the union. , Formal charges against President Taft as a member of-the' steam shov- eler's ulon were incorporated In cording to Secretary Roberts of, the letter, to the union officials today, ac building , trades council. It charges faft with, ignoring the boycott against the Cleveland base ball park by at tending the game. - - FIRE ; AT BAKER CITY Carl Adler's Business is Burned . Stock Is Lost Baker City, May 5 (Special) Ear ly this morning fire destroyed .the jewelry and stationery J store of Carl Adler in. the Elks hotel building. The fire is supposed, to have originated In the furnace and little is known as to how it started. The Adler is' said to be a complete loss. should be restricted as they were in creasing greatly. They also declared the Hindoos were morally and phy sically unfit to be admitted to this country, and that they were becom ing beggars and vagabonds. AND RAIN GREE TS VISITORS FIELD AT WALLA WALLA IX DIS COURAGING SHAPE LOCAL ATHLETES ARE SHIVERING Slow Time is Expected For all Track Events oa the Ankeny Field Today -' City, Turns Out In Gorgeous Colors to Welcome the Muscle of the In lnd rnnntv I,a ftnuidfi'ii Rovs are In Good Form. f;; V"1 WALLA WALLA, MAI 6SPEC. ALPEARE WON IHS HALF MILE PRELIMINARY, THIS AFTERNOON, TIME 2 MINUTES, 15 SECONDS. HE HAD NO COMPETITION AND WAS EASILY AHEAD OF THE FIELD. CARPY WON SECOND IN THE 100 yards. ' . " MILLERING QUALIFIED IN THE - ' -.-'' POLE YAULT. Walla Walla, May 5 (Special) A drizzling rain this - forenoon put the field in slow shape and athletes stood around In bunches shivering from the cold and their teeth chatteving as though they had genuine case of Ar kansas ague, t Indications are that all" records made today will be very slow as the general opinion is that the track is in bad ehal 3 for the ev ents. ' - -p -"'' " (By Staff Correspondent) ' Ankeny f Field, Walla Walla, ; May 5 La Grande 4s distinctly ,"it" here today and , for the first time in hls rorv the dooesters are taking La Grande Into consfderation . In out lining the probable score at the close of the finals here tomdrrow. : Pre viously ' it has been Lewlston, SpO' kan or possibly EIensburg that were considered and thought of and feared, but, remembering the sensa tlonal showing of La Grande's dough ty few and small ones last year, no one this morning dares" predict the outcome of tomorrow's finals on the field here without thinking twice of La Grande"; in fact all Eastern Ore gon came in for more than ordinary consideration during the forenoon here. Baker City's weight men are considered the only fellows that can equal Heidenrlch, and Boylen of Pen dleton is the man who perhaps, may GARFIELD IS HIT STATEMENTS BY SON OF FORMER . PRESIDENT QUESTIONED Secretary Says Garfield Has Been ' Guilty, of. Making FbIsc Statements , Concerning ' the Department In structlons of Newell as Stated by Garfield Are , Denied by the Man ' Now Under Fire Washington, May 5. Balllnger on the stand today elected Former Sec retary Garfield to the Annanlas club Balllnger declared, "untrue" the state ments made by Garfield in a letter to President Taft in which Garfield declared the co-operative plan, cer tificate plan for the reclamation eer vice was approved by the senate com mittee on irrigation. In the same let ter, in another sttttement Garfield declared that Balllnger had instruct ed Newell to prepare to shortly re store lartds containing power sites, Balllnger said, that this was "unfair, untruthful." beat Pea re tomorrow In the half mile ,: ' Preliminaries Art Sifters" To the unitlated, it' might be wel to explain the process ot a large and Important track meet . Where over 300 athletes are entered It is to pos sible to pit all entries in one event against each other, hence the thin ning out process, The men pave, pre viously been assembled in seCtibnfl. All entries for the 100 yard dash are separated In groups of 10. Each group Is run separately and the vin- ners of first and second places In each group are thrown against each other in the finals tomorrow. This is true in all track events, but in the field,, each contestant is given three trials the day of the preliminaries, and the nine highest are then grouped on the day of the finals. Much depends on what is accom plished here today , when it comes to predicting tomorrow's outcome. The management has rather "got on" to La Grande's strength and consequent ly the teams from the beet town are sent against the fastest In the pre liminaries. However, taking for granted that Heidenriah, Millerlng, Carpy, Meyers and perhaps the two Boltons qualify in the various events lines Id the relay, La Grande will here this forenoon, and the team qua- have aboutthis combination tomorrow Feare will run the half mile In about 2.04 while 2.06 took it last year; Carpy will run the low hurdles in about 26, while 27 2-5 took It last1 year; Millerlng win pole vault about 10 feet, six Inches, his last. year's record.' Carpy and Meyers will each Jump more than 19 feet, which should win a place; Peare will run the high hurdles in something like 16 4-5, and the event Went one-fifth ef a sec ond faster than that last year.'': La Granfl will send into the relay to- morrow-If we qualify today-a team of practically fresh men.. Cecil and Virgil Bolton, Stanley Carpy and Ar lo Meyers are the men La Grande will send into the exciting and gruel ing race. Ts ;.- j,'.' . ' As 25 to 30 points generally win any meet here, and not calculating on any dark horses,' La Grande will f thoroughly shlhef here tomorrow afternoon, ' :: ; ; : V Miners Entombed. ;.;. Birmingham, Ala May 5. A "'; re port here ' this afternoon says that 150 miners "are entombed by an ex plosion today in a coal mine at Palo Alto, 30' miles distant, and it la re ported that all are dead. Mining In spectors are rushing to the scene. E. Polack' the grocer 1b at Hot Lake today. v;::v.:::,' ;;:'. r:',- RATE BILL IS REGULARS PLODDING AWAY UN. TIL PRESIDENT RETURNS President Does' Not Give up the Fight . and When He' and' Senators Meet , There May be Something Doing of a Heavy Nature Bill Is Looked Up on as one of Most Important Ad ministrative Measures ; Washington, May 5 Regulars are to refrain from further efforts to pass the rate bill they are working on un til the president returns from faia western trip so he can examine tho wreckage of the railroad rate bill and decide what action for the lead era to take. Indications are that there, will be some hot sessions be tween Taft and the senate leaders when they meet One veteran said he would tell the president he had no business traveling around when Important bills were threatened. DEAD 01 ItlPORTAIDE CIS1S JUDGE BEAN AND BAKER CITY , CASES COME TO END IN DE PARTMENT OF INTERIOR LOCAL CfflCE mm REVERSED In Large Batch of Cases Seat Up to Department, Only One Is Not Con firmed, and That is Merely Modi Long Standing and Hard Straggle For Victory ' During the official lifetime of the present Reglstbr and Receiver of the local land office a remarkable ma jority of cases decided upon by them has been upheld and affirmed by the department and commissioner. A list of decisions handed down by the land office department at Washing ton in response to appeals taken from the Register and Receiver here. reached the local land office last ev ening and shows that aside from the encouraging feature that relative to the number , of the gases confirmed, that ome of the best legal light in Washington and Oregon la practic ing before the. local office. v ; , ( ' Two Cases. Hard Fought In the Instance of two cases, did the government put up a strenuous struggle, The first case heard after Colon It,' Eberhard too the oath of office as .receiver was that of The United fitotea'''ya.Th wrtfitoUt'.ColdS Receiver and affirmed, ... . . ...... - . .' i J.IjiwHt'llfld 'Wlnlnr 'mill. n. W TlaUon Aiming ana ..Mining company or ua ker ' City, The case was taken hold of by the government with remark-' able vigor, but the register nd re ceiver dismissed the case. It was appealed, and as the appended list shows, was doomed to defeat in the department where the dismissal was confirmed. 'V. ., ' Another case that attracted unusu-! al attention In the legal circles of the Pacific northwest was that of the United States against Judge Heary J. Bean. In this case the Interior Department displayed such vigor in prosecuting the Pendleton judge on charges of neglected water righta; and after having taken testimony for a solid week the case went Into the hands of Register Bramwell and Re ceiver Eberhard. The local ' officials decided in favor of Judg Bean and against the government again and after months of study the department confirmed the locaL-offlcials. '. The list of cases handed down by the department In the batch received last night, follows: : ' .:-': - United States vs, Levi Wilson, mod ified and remanded for further hear ing. ; J. A. Burleigh of Enterprise attorney for defendant. Oliver T.' Mosier vs. Elizabeth Wal ker, entry held for cancellation, and affirmed on appeal ) to Secretary of the Interior. Eugene Harris, attor ney for plaintiff and J. C. Hurapool, attorney for defendant, both of Walla Walla, Wash. '. ... ;v ..';, The United States vs. John W. Ras mus, entry held for cancellation and affirmed : on appeal before the com missioner. Sam E. Van Vactor, ot STEALER ARRIVES V1TH RARE SI'ECII W1 SOUTH San Francisco, May -5 The steamer lars ' for the . Smithsonian Institute. Albatros,. which completed a " two year's cruise of the South Seas yes terday, has arrived here. It has spe- clmens valued at thousands of dol- RAID DENS IF mmwm DISTRICT ATTORNEY IS AFTER WHITE SLAYE TRADE2S kk::ee cf arrests today One Slaver Turns in All of the Men Dealing In the Nefarious Business. ' Tells of a Stockade Where Girls are . ftortoiwd maA fuM I.lkft so Mauv - Dumb Brutes Shocking Conditions Said to Exist.. New York, May 5. District Attpr- ney Whitman's staff is preparing to raid the stockades where the "White Slaves' are kept for exhibition to ; purchasers. The existence of these stockades was revealed by Harry Le yinson. a confessed slaver, who told the names of the men and women who keep them and the exact loca tion A number of arrests are plan ned and before night It is expected that the raids will be made. It is said that if eight of the expected Taids are made, said arrests will in clude "higher ups".who furnish mon ey for the traffic in young girls. Ileppner .attorney for defendant. "The .United States vs. Charles Han sen, entry hold for cancellation and affirmed.' C. II. Finn, attorney for defendant. , 'V , , The United States' vs. Judge Henry J. Bean, dismissed for decision of the Lowell' had Win ter smd VI W. Iiallv of Pendleton, "attorneys for deftud- , ant.: :.'.vliv-: 'V.-'-.?. vV;, Rosa J. Bloom ya'. John Bloom, held for cancellation and affirmed. ; Joseph F'tzslmmons 78. Douglas Miller, held for cancellation and af firmed. ' . The United States vs the Ancora-; Ashland Gold Mining and Milling company, dismissed by . decision of the Register and Receiver and affirm ed. McCulloch and McCulloch, at torneys" 6'f Baker City,' appeared for the defendant ' 1 ' ' New York Will' Lead Washington, May 5. Unofficial es timates of the population as compu ted by the census officials show the State of New York first with 8,86G,77fi Pennsylvania second, Illinois third, Ohio fourth and TexaB fifth. j' TEDDY, CAVORTS;-WITH KING Tarn Rojsl Pulnce Into Playground For the Children ; Christlania, May 5 Theodore Roose velt and King Haakon have made hits with each other and liked each other so well that court ' formalities have been done ; away , with. RooBevelt spent much time today in the nursery with Prince Olaf, who is a spoiled child. There is a holiday throughout the country today in honor of Roose velt, who lunched with the American Embassy this afternoon and delivered hia speech "International Peace" be fore the Noble Prize Commission at the National Theatre. Tbe steamer on its cruise caught fish, made soundings and explored ocean beds.: Captain A-C. McCormick of the U 8. N., was in charge. 7, r