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COOLIDGEGETS
ODD FELLOWS ELECT OFFICERS AT
EUGENE FOS ENSUING TEAR
BOWERS GRAND MASTER.
WUUDSIUI UCLCUAICO LLLtlLU
Coolldge, Retiring Grand Master, Is
Honored With Selection of Sorer.
Ign Grand Representative to At
lanta, Gm this Fall Delegates at
Engene Visit the University Sharon
Reelected Wheeler Deputy Grand.
Eugene, May lQ.-'The grand lodge
of Oddfellows today elected its offic
ers for the ensuing year. ' Thomas
Ryan of Oregon City, is grand master,
A. W. Bowers, of Albany, is deputy
grand master, W. A. Wheeler of Port
land, Is grand warden, E. E. Sharon
of Portland, secretary, Dr. 0. D.
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Grande, past grand master, is sover-
elgn grand representative.
and H. E. Coolldge. , or la
This afternoon the delegates visited
the university of Oregon and were
addressed by President Campbell.'The i
sessions close this evening.
- The sovereign grand lodge meets in
Atlanta, Georgia, this, fall, and :E
Coolidge's friends here this afternoon
are well pleased at the honors falling
to him. He has been a staunch mem
ber of the order, and the highest
honor that can be conferred on a
man who is a member of the grand
lodge. v-v'vV-; '7.;.'';;':
. Woodmen Elect Offivers. ,
Baker, City, May 19. George Car
michael of Pendleton, W, J. Wright of
Union and : George Smith of Elgin,
were elected delegates last night to
the state encampment of Woodmen
of the World scheduled to . meet In
Portland in July.
! Students on Wr Path, r
Pullman, Wn., May 19. To show
their resentment of $25 fines Imposed
on leaders of last week's opera house
riot and subsequent events, several
hundred Washington State college
students last night paraded the streets
and hung effigies to the three men who
preferred the complaints. : The boys
were fined for breaking up a show
aald by the Btudents to be Indecent. ,
I said by the BtudentB to be indecent. ,
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. ' THESE ARE THE HAPPY DAYS. I
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, Would Sacrifice Daughter.
Aline, Okla., May; 19. Because
Henry Helnman, leader of a band of
fanatics, wanted to sacrifice Janej
Warleld, his stepdaughter, to save the
world from the comet, mob violence
is feared here today. Helman is a
leader of forty people who declared
that the coming comet was the Lord's'
vengeance and only human sacrifice
would prevent the destruction of 'the
world. He had prepared to take the
girl's life when the officers arrived
and Interfered. The people of Aline
threaten to lynch him.
Stand in Line All Sight.
London, May 19. A line two miles
long, was waiting when the doors of
Westminster hall were thrown oen
today. This was the last chance for
the public to pass before the coffin of
Edward. Many remained In line all
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CRUISER OFF DUTY.
Cruiser Albany Will Go Into Dry Dock
at Bremerton Xary Yards.
Bremerton, , Wn., May . 19. The
cruiser Albany arrived in the Puget
Sound navy yard'from Nicaragua to
day where it has been stationed since
the outbreak of the Nlcaraeuan trouble
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last winter
dockj
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The vessel will be dry-
PICKED RURALES SENT TO PRO
TECT INNOCENTS.
Explosion Killing Many May Be Cm
clal Moment to Begin Troubled
Havana, May 19. A strong force of
picked Rurales have reached Pinar
Del Reo today. Officials fear a revolu
tionist uprising following the dyna
mite explosion wheh killed 100 and
wounded 500 In the wreck of the garri
son of massive stone." Many, of the
injured are 'expected to die.
It ia believed the explosion was ac
cldental but It Is feared the revolution'
lsts might take advantage of the op
portunty to uprise. The affair is be
ing investigated but the men trans-
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LA GRANDE, UNION COUNTY, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, MACT910.
TRANS1THF
EVENT 0CCI1
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ALL AUTHORITIES AGREE THAT CURVE 1 TAIL PERMITTED EARTH
TO MISS THE APPENDIX OF IIEAVEXLY WASDERER WILL
KNOW DEFINITELY WHEN DARKNESS COMES.
ONt GROUP OF ASTRONOMERS I STUDY , CONDITIONS FROM BALLOON
Concensus of Opinion is thut Earth Did Not Go Into Tall of Comet Until this
1 Morning,' If at nil, and thnt no Po ssihle Change Exists for a View of the
. ' Comet During Day Time Negrlcs Idle Today In Great Numbers as Re.
suit of Few Meteors Seen Lawt NI ght.
Williams Buy,-Wash, May 19. Ual
ley's comet may lose part of Its tail
and perhaps all of It, according to RL
rector Frost of the Ycrkes obsen atory
today. He ; said thnt the tall still
showed In the easten ekles, after the
comet passed the sun disk. He de
clares that its presence there when It
was., supposed to' have passed to the
wesf means , one of three things t thnt
the curvature of the tall, having grown
so great, may be due to the earth's
attraction; that while the head has
passed and' the tall hast not, the comet
may be lost, Its tall making the. ca
pacity left Ix'hlnd; or that the calcu
lation may lie wrong and that It has
not passed., v", ,
' Lick .Observatory, Calif May 19.
Up to daylight this mornings earth
had not passed or entered into the tall
of .Halley's comet unless It passed
through this forenoon, Director Camp
bell affirms, the tail will hot sweep
the earth at all. He said he would
not know definitely until tonight
whether or not the earth passed
through the comit This evening, def
inite observations can be made.
Campbell said there Is no possible
way to observe the comet in the day
time. The director stated further that
Professor Lueschner's figures were
correct as Issued yesterday afternoon
through the United Press, as far as
the transit of the sun was concerned,
but owing to a curve in the tall, earth
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I was uittue iuio iuuiuiiik.
Other Scientists Corroborate.
' Princeton, N. J., May 19. The earth
did not begin its passage through the
comet's tall until 8 this morning,, ac-'
cording to General Norrls Russel,
professor of astronomy at Princeton.
He said the tall was curved and that
he could aee it at three this morning
but that he could not see when' the
FREE STEREOPTICAN GOOD
ROAD LECTUitE TONIGHT
Government Good Road Expert EI
d ridge and Judge Leonei Webster of
Portland, will tonight entertain the
public of La Grande at a Good Roads
meeting to be held in the Isls the
atre. Good roads pictures,, of the
best in the country, processes of mak
ing them and the results of the mak
ing will be shown on the Bcreen in the
most effective manner. Both good
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earth passed through the tall on ae
on account of the day light.
Spent Night In a Balloon. -,;
Berlin, May 19. Fifty-two scien
tlsts today alighted from a balloon in
which they had spent the night in
ordfj to observe the .earth's passage
through the comet.'- They observed
no perceptible change, in the atmos
phere as a result of the alleged con
tact of the earth with the comet tail.
V No Change at Portland. .
Portland, Ore., May 19. "As far as
we could ascertain the passage of Hal
ley's' comet last night didn't affect the
meteororgical 'conditions In the least"
said Edgar Beals of the weather bur
eau here today, ,;'...,:...'.'"."'',', . . ; . -', .
, "We had men on during the time the
tall enwrapped the earth but nothing
out of the ordinary was noted. It is
cloudy today over a large part of Ore
gon, Washington and Idaho, and
slightly cooler, but this Is ascribed
to usual changes In atmospheric con
ditions and not to the comet."
Toklo Machine Gets Picture. "
Toklo, Japan, May 19. Both" tele
scopes of the Toklo astronomical ob
servatory were enabled to give scien
tists a photograph of the transit of the
comet across the sun last evening.' No
affect on the atmosphere was noted.
' N'cgrocs Scared Idle. " ;-
New Orleans, May 19. Twenty-five
thousand negroes or tna south are
idle today.' They are scared at the
sight of .meteors last night. ; :
"V Schooner ; In Grief. -
Newport. Ore ;' May 19. Engineer
Hastrof and two members of the crew
of the steam schooner J. Marhoffer,
arrived today . bringing the news of
the destruction of the vessel from
fire Wednesday afternoon and death
of some of the members of the crew
from cynosure following the abandon
ment of the vessel twenty miles north
of here. ':'rf :i
' Relief has been sent for Captain
road promoters have been having the
veryt best succesB everywhere in the
state. Automobile people especially
are showing interest and no doubt
many will attend this evening.
The La Grande band will herald
the commencement of the meeting this
evening and every business man and
citizen who has the Interest of good
roads at heart, is urged to attend as
the lecture is absolutely free. .
Peterson and his wife and nineteen
members of the' crew, encamped on
the beach. , ; ' ' :
ROESCH GIYEX HOXORS.
Jfephew of Local Man Glen Cnusual
. Mark of Distinction. .
Annapolis, May ; 19. Midshipman
Herbert Roesch of Pendleton, will get
the honor of having his name en
graved upon the cup offered by the
National secretary of SonB of Rev
Olutlon for excellence In DracUcal ord
inance." Roesch won the Individual
championship at the national matches
held last year.
Roesch Is a nephew of Julius Roesch,
of this city, and has numerous friends
here who will be elated at the news
of the unusual honor conferred on the
young marksman.
WICKERSHAM AGAIN CANDIDATE.
Will Fight Guggenheim Interests and
Hopes to Be Reelected.
Juneau, Alaska, May 19.- -James
WlckerBham, delegate from Alaska
and anti-Guggenheim, announces his
candidacy for reelection in a message
from Washington. He Bald he would
run because of his unalterable opposi
tion to the Guggenheim domination In
Alaska. . . . . ;'.
(LARK WIRELESS WILL BE HERE
SOON.
Stations at Baker City, Pendleton and
' Boise Also.
The Continental Wireless Telegraph
and Telephone company, which is In
reality the Clark people, will soon
erect a wireless station In La Grande,
according to District Manager T. Dur
ham, who 'Is in the city today. Mr.
Durham says the apparatus for sue-
cessfully sending messages overland
has been perfected under Clark pat -
ents and now the company enters the
field on a. commercial basis guaran
teeing service in connection with the
wire companies. . .
There is to be no delay in ihls sta-
tlon for within thirty days it is in
tended to have it In operaton. Not
only will La Grande have a station but
there will be one at Pendleton, Baker
and Boise thus giving service to all
of this Interior country.
"It has been the dream of every
wireless concern to successfully com
municate without wires v overland,"
said Mr, Durham. "For some time it
has been possible to accurately tele
graph over water without the use of
wire, but the land problem was' not
so easily solved. , , "
l "Until communication . overland
could be assured the wireless business
was not a success. Under the Clark
patents this Is accomplished. ' Not one
day of a week when atmospheric con
dltlons are Just right,' but every day
and at all hours of the day and night
Storms do not affect this service and
with the Instruments we have there
is yet to be the first failure recorded.
There la a great field for wireless, but
ft must reach a sound business basis
Just as the old wire companies have
reached and the Continental company
is standing on that ground right now.
Mere claims would count for: little.
but . we purpose erecting a station
right here In La Grande so that peo
ple will see the advantage of the
great Improvements In telegraphy."
STATIOPn
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NORTH POWDER DRUGGIST AR
RESTED ON CHARGES OF
SELLING WHISKEY.
Man Alleged to Have Purchased the
Whiskey Is Not Here to Tcst!fy Bat
Wife and Brother Claim He Got
' It at Drug Store and that It Was
"Good" Whiskey Defease Denies
Allegations Saying Mm Was R?.
fused.';-.:".
; Charges of selling liquor in North
Powder were preferred against L. B.
Russel, a druggist of "North Powder,
this morning when Mrs. Curtiss Dal
ton of North Powder, swore out a
complaint against the druggist, and
Curtlsa Dalton, husband of the com
plainant, is named as the man who
bought the fiery liquid. Russell was
arrested ( early this morning and
brought to La Grande where this
afternoon at 1:30 o'clock he was ar
raigned before Justice' of -the Peace
Williams on bootlegging charges.
Husband' is Missing.
' Curtlss Dalton was supposed to be
present today to act as a witness for
the state, but though nerved with a
subpoena,' has not made his appear
ance, In fact is said to have gona
east on this morning's train.
, v State Has One Witness. ,
The state, represented by Attorney
C. E. Cochran, has one witness, a
brother of Curtlss JJalton. . Grant
Dalton Is his name. He says he saw
his brother buy the liquor at the
Russell drug store, and after the pur
chase he tasted of the contents . of
the bottle and pronounced the con
tents first class whiskey. ;
It was on the statement of Grant
Dalton that the case of the state was
made up. ' ; ,
; VVith the defendant, Clyde Scheurer
and others, the defense set out to
Prove, at the conclusion of the state's
' case' that Dalton had come In to the
'drug store on the afternoon of Frl-
day the 13th to ask for liquor but had
been refused and ordered out of thJ
bouse. The case will likely be con
cluded late this evening.
HALL WILL
USED
B0LL0NS ! GIYE PERMISSION
USE OLD " STRUCTURE.
TO
Club Successful In Securing Use of Old
. Exhibit Hall Again.
The Union county exhibit hail will
stand practically where 'It. Is. This
decision was reached today at a con
ference between Superintendent Wil
liam Bollons and a committee of com
mercial club people. The structure
will be moved back a few feet, from
where It now stands, but otherwise
will be used for the Same purpose and
In the same way ash eretofore. !
; The decision ends a long piece of
dlBpute between the company and tha
club, In which the club kept asking
for more time, and finally gained the
permission Bought. '.
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