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Newspaper Page TextV 6 Hi J ! L iA I A '.4 A VOL. XI LA GRANDE, UNION COUNTY, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1910. NUMBER 187 II WW. WK. TTV W ffiWi ill!!-ii' n 1 1! i -V i i f r f Li n -.it i i. 1 '3 REIE511RT GAMPAIGNS I PROGRESSIVES SHOW GENERAL VICTORY IX TWO STATES' PRIMARY YESTERDAY. LA FOLLETTJE TOGA SOUGHT Iowa Goes Overwhelmingly for the Progressive Column with Regulars Winning Three Lonely Districts Jn 1 Entire State South Dakota Strong for Progresses Though Regulars Yet Seat Governor. Des Moines, June 8 Progressive Republicans won the , first victory over the regulars, here according to primary returns today. Progressives won all but three district In the state. The -fight was centered on Judge Prouty, Progressive, and Con gressman Hull, 'regular, for the con gressional n6minatlon. Prouty won by a majority of 2,000. Regulars won in the first, eighth and ninth districts. It Is estimated that F. B. Carrol's ma- Jorlty for the gubernatorial nomina tion 1b 5,000. . ' J y ). l. Returns from 46 counties show that Warren Garst, progressive, ;ls., gain ing upon B. F. Carroll, a stand pat ter, and opponent In the Republican gubernatorial' nomination contest, at the rate of 280 votes in each county. If the gains continue, he will receive the nomination by 4,000 majority. LjJ South Dakota Progressive. . Pierre, 8. D., June- 8. Small 4re- : turns today indicate that Robert Ves sey, a progressive, la the successful nominee for governor Eagan, tad pendent Republican, ran a strong race and also clalma the nomination. Rep esentatlve Martin Burke will prob- My be nominated for congress. Pro- i "gressives claim control of the legla- -7 I latum - , ' .,,,.'.' Fight oa La Follette. Milwaukee, Wis., June 8. Wiscon sin Republicans are gathered today for the purpose of checking' "insur gency." The distinct purpose of the meeting is to plan a fight against U, S. Senator Robert M. La Follette for re-election to the senate. It is gen erally believed that Warrington's po liticians are engineering the scheme. It is understood La Follette will be attacked because he opposed Taft po licies. The meeting is expected to revive the old fight between progres sives and stalwarts. jvfc Will Train Here. waiter uurgo, tne boxer, win qo nis training stunts in this city for the coming fight with Mullln at Pendle ton late this month. The Police Ga zette carries a "full page picture of the local fighter In its current issue. Convention of Maccabees.. Kalamazoo, Mich., June 8. With tents all over the country represented by delegates, the National Biennual Convention of Maccabees assembled here today. Wrecked Steamer on Dock. Victoria, B. C, June 8. The wreck ed steamer Yucatan was placed on the dry dockB here today after being )towed from. Alaska . where, it was wrecked. . The repairs will cost at ,least $125,000, , ; ' "'. '". . " - ":' Suing for Love : Damage. Seattle, June 8.-Mrs. Ellsa Phillips, divorcel wife of John Phillips, of the Thomas Phillips Investment company and manager of the Black Carbon Coal company, Is suing Mrs. Mattie Thomas Phillips for $10,000 for al leged alienation of Phillips' affections. The divorced wife alleges that Phil lips' second wife began to openly woo him five years ago and was responsi ble for , the divorce proceedings In 1909, three months prior to the time Phillips married again.- ROOSEVELT LEAVES LONDON. Says He Expects to Be Treated Like Any Other Person at Customs. London, June 8. Theodore . Roose velt departed today for the last lap of his return. He . said be hadn't asked for and wouldn't accept any favors at New York on his return to America. "I expect to pass through the custom house like any private citizen. " I will pay full duty on every article not exempted to the g eneral public." " ; : . " X Washington, June 8. President Taft today appointed Secretary of Agriculture Wilson and Secretary of the Navy Meyer to meet Roosevelt on his return. Captain Butta, a de tective, -who was formerly, with Roose velt, will accompany them. - After Beef Trust Again. TrCutvui 7.. J., Z uua S. FrvMMcuior Garven of Hudson county, whose lone fight against the "beef trust" haa at tracted national attention, today ap plied to the r New Jersey supreme court for an order dissolving the charters of .Armour ft Co., Morris ft Co., Swift ft Co. and the National Packing Co. ' ,'' ' ... This is a new . move on Garven's part to have the companies punished for their alleged conspiracy to raise the price of meats. If Garven should win his new fight, these companies could not do business In New Jersey. Wisconsin Odd Fellows. ' r Green Bay, Wis., June 8. Wiscon sin Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows convened here yesterday in sixty-fourth annual ses sion, to remain three days. During the convention the Rebekaa assembly will celebrate Jts quarter-centenary. JEFFRIES IN COURT. Fighter Mast Stand Trial for not Paying Old Gambling Debt Nevada City. ; Cal., June 8. After losing the first round in a legal bat tle before the superior court, James Jeffries must appear in court here, June 15th, to defend himself In a suit filed by Messrs. Stout and Miller to recover $5,000 on an alleged gam bling debt, contracted in their place of business in 1906. They declare the fighter gave his note and since has refused to pay. CHARGES AGAINST LORIMER, Illinois Senator's Case Taken up in the Senate Today. . Washington June 8. Formal charg were brought before the Senate today in connection with the bribery caseo In the Illinois legislature when the charges in. the form of a memorial were presented by Clifford Bane, of Chicago. Bane is president of the Illinois Legislature Voters' league. The memorial embodied the confes sion of White, the details of the charges, and was referred to the proper committee with no comment. PLAN L0G AUTO TOUR. Distance of Trip Will Reach Nearly ' Two Thousand Miles. : One of the longest, if not the long est automobile tours ever attempted by a La Grande automobile owner, will commence next Monday, when D. H. Steward, proprietor and manag er of the Steward opera house, leaves by automobile for interior Nevada. The distance, which he will travel is about 1,800 miles, and much of It will be. through a region that ft anything but prairie land. " The first lap of the trip wlll .be to Boise and unless the understudy of John Cort loses heart or finds that the trip will be too stren uous," he will set out from the Idaho capital for interior Nevada. Mr. Stew ard has been over the road and will not be handicapped by lack of knowl edge of the topography of the dis trict in which he Is to make the long Journey. ' - T , Mr. Steward will be accompanied y Mrs. Steward and grandson. TAFT REFUSES TO Washington,. June 8.- President Taft today refused, to order the re moval of the Twenty-fifth infantry, colored, from Fort Lawton,' following the alleged attack by a negro troop er on Mrs. J. W. Redding recently. The president's refusal followed the presentation of the demand for re moval by Senator Jones. The presi dent declared that the removal of the troops upon unproved charges would not be fair to" the community as it would require witnesses. He also In structed Secretary of War Dickinson to begin a rigid investigation at once to ascertain; the identity of the of- Seattle, June 8. Bledser, the ne- SPECIAL LIVE STOCK TRAIN. New Service Will Be Inaugurated oa , O. R. ft N, Jane 21. Beginning June 21st the O. R.' ft" N. will inaugurate a livestock train ser-' vice between Huntington and Stock- dale. These trains will leave Hunt ington on Tuesdays, and Saturdays and 'run on the following schedule: Leave Huntington, 9 a. m.; pass Baker City, 12:45; arrive La Grande, 3 : 30 p. m.; leave, 4:00; arrive Umatilla, 1 a. m.; leave Umatilla, 2:00; arrive The Dalles, 8:00; leave, 8:30; arrive Stockdale, 3:30 p. m. fv. Sell Btorlc Land, v ; ; : New York,' JunM.Iiha"'which for" more than 200. years hai been the pos- sessibn of one family was" sold at auction loaay.Dy the heirs of Lewis Governeur Morris. The" property con sisted of nearly 200 lots in the Bronx. MAY RUN EXCURSION. Special Train May Be Chartered to Go to Joseph Sunday. A movement is on foot to run an excursion to Joseph next Sunday when the locals meet the Joseph team. El-. gin will play at Enterprise that day and the two towns from this county f will make up an excursion train If ' possible. i TZ Z n ' . ."f ' ey v.uu uqu ucaeis suoscnoea ror some time ago, are being cashed in today and new ones are being sold by a committee from the executive committee of the Chautauqua asso ciation. Natty window cards are also bc'.rg placed. Will Build New Home. ' f Dr. R. L. Lincoln will 'commence construction tomorrow morning of a modern cottage-bungalow on Main av enue in West La Grande. This will add to the list of many new houses that have gone up In that section of the city this Beason. MAY CHANGE COURSE AGAIN. Planned to Have Two More ' Bridges In Canyon Abandoned. The county court Is considering the advisability of doing away with two bridges near Blackflat," below Hll gardv by changing' the grade already there. This was found to be a very plausible solution of the situation near Perry last year when " bridges were done away with by the construc tion of , a new grade , and . changing the course of the river. J. M. Selder, of Cove, and Commis sioner Galloway of Elgin, are In the city this afternoon and with County Judge Henry they will go up the can yon this evening to inspect the pro posed project. ; . Tonight the entire county court and Road Superintendent Campbell leave for Portland, not on official matters alone but partly to 'witness the Rose show. COLORED REflJE TROOPS ilT SEATTLE gro trooper suspected of attacking Mrs. Redding, confessed today and aM . ; . - . - 8a,d. h Th Oman's ? tower Up was , bitten off. Saturday night, before the screams of her son frightened the Intruder away Resi dents near the fort last night went to the home of a. negro woman named Whittier and threatened to lynch ber unless she ; left town..- The police atopped the demonstration. The Im provement -club's meeting last night resulted It, demanding that the -war department remove the troopa. .. The Whole City la arouand. Cnlnnal .Mil. ler, 'cotnniander of the reglmtnt, aays that the whole troop should not be blamed for the acta of one man. FARM DOUBLES IN TALUE. Purchased for Fob Thousand, and In the college of liberal arts and scl OTraer Refused Eight Thousand. ' ences of the university, Miss Blanche Perhaps never In the history of real Zurcner la the only one who has at estato in Union county haa there been ;jtalned anything like a perfect record a mora rapid advance In the value of ,a ne'' ,our 7&T' coarse. In every property than that which occurred BtuA 8h has taken ,her marks ranga to an 80-acre farm la La Canyon 1 between 90 and 100 on a 100 per cent in four, weeks this spring. Five haste. i v wMki Tjin..oi.Mi ti n Miss Zurcher - la (mm Nlnn. i. ,v uu6.u-uuvi wwuu nesii company sold an eight-acre farm to w. r, riuier or. xaaima, ana com- mencinai ia scientific avutem nf irri.'4 Yakima, and com: gation to . the large alfalfa' fielda ' . --wj ww Mtv 1V UVUItD 1LS ' value in four weeks. He purchased WM 10 aouwe K ".later M dnMed $9,000. Not 'with-; atandlng that the price had doubled in rMr. weeks he refused the profered 8Um. ThlB is but one Incident nhmv. ing the rapid rise in land values in Union county. ; . ',.- . '. Vassar Girls WttI Wed.' " Poughkeepsle, N. Y., June 8. A can vass of today's graduating, class of Vassar college shows that a majority l- " " " Ul of the fair students expect to marry tlater th " mf th "LbItas th' June as soon as they find a maa altogether' 7 " 0;Jr drahi i. r 'I .I A an Increase of $9,690,063 over nonnc t" LLl" nounced a determination to become "old maids." More Western Wheat. J Winnipeg, Man., June 8. It is con- Bervatlvely estimated that this year th area of devoted to wheat growing in the prairie provinces will be 8,600,000 acres or between 12 and 15 per cent more than last year. Of this total, 4,600,000 is in Saskatche wan alone. Of oats there will be 4, 500,000 acreB, slightly more than last year; of barley about 1,000,000 acres and of flax about 600,000 acres, nearly double the acreage last year given to this grain. Less.tnan ten per cent of the arable . land of Saskatchewan Is now under cultivation. " Think They Have Murderer. MIddleton, Ohio, June 8. The police have arrested a man believed to be Joseph Wendllng, the missing Janitor, suspected of the murder of Alma Kel lar, of Louisville, Ky., today. The Louisville authorities are en to Identify the man. New Parliament Sites. ' London, June 8. The first parlia ment under King George began work today. The Liberals are keeping their promise announced of their, willing ness' to postpone th campaign against the house of lords until the king be comes familiar with his duties. It Is believed, that the truce will not .last a month. ' , , ; : ". . Hill Sees. .. .. St. Paul, Minn., June S. James J. Hill of the Great Northern,' comment ing on the railroad situation - today said that the people will suffer if the railroad Is not allowed to increase its rates. He Bald that the roads need the Increased facilities but there waa no hope of raising the necessary millions under present conditions. l MISS DREXEL MA III ED, 1 Royal Wedding Solemnised In West- " tnluNter TliU Mnmtnir. : , , London, June 8. Misa Margarite Drexel, daughter of Anthony Drexel I the Philadelphia millionaire, was mar- riou ioaay 10 uuy Montague Finch Hatton viscount of Maidstone, and T "d helr to the EarI of W,nchel" el. The ceremony was performed at Bl Margarett,.8 churca WeBtmlna. ter. Miss Drexel has had princes and viscounts in great numbers seek ing her hand in inarriate during the past two years. , : J "Girt Has Ferfeet Record. Lawrence, Kan., June 8. Com mencement day at the University of Kansas has brouglit to, Lawrence to day the usual number of fond papas 1 and mammas to see their young hope-f fuls launched UDOft v thm worlH . - consiaeraoie proportion or tne gradu ating class Is composed of ihe sons and daughters of farmers, and the records of the university show an in creasing interest in higher education upon the part of the. Sunflower state I aerlculturlnta. at th 2 5nn ntudonta r- -. , . whHe "he has made an exceptional " ""r biuuici la called a "grind." "word in her studies, she.is not what la rallert A "erlnA " Rho flni Jm tor 9tner things besides ' her books il '. "".. , r neld R Place on the Sophomore Social ' present th. Mcretary of the All-Senior, clasB. , She Is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.- Easy courses have not caused Miss Zurcher's success. She chose Latin and Greek for her major studies and has specialized In the ancient languages, . Got Your Share. New York, June "8. Dividends al- MAKiIm tllnkllMltJ .4 A. V J t A. It i the 8ame mh a year ago, the-addl- tion being due to resumption of pay ments of Increase by industrial and other corporations. Of the amount distributed $42,676,758 represent di vidends and $42,300,000 interest the large Increase In note and bond issues fully accounting for the latter. In the subjoined summary will be found the most Important changes in dividends:' American Cotton Oil com mon, Northern Texas Electric, United States Shipbuilding- common. , United Dry Goods preferred, Washington Rail way and Electric, Wisconsin Cen tral preferred, American Radiator common, American Tobacco, Butter Ick, Qulncy Mining. United - States Steen common, Chesapeake and Ohio. Italy In Mourning. Rome, June 8. Southern Italy Is today a scene of sorrow and suffering following the earthquake felt at Cala bria, Capania and other towns yes terday. , The dead at Calatle, San Sossia and San Sele number 50 and J other towns have -dead which will probably bring the total to 75. The . list of wounded Ib enormous and this , gave rise to the rumor that hundreds were killed. ' The hospitals Improvised shelters are flUed with injured., No one will enter a building for fear of another quake, ; . ... v r. ; " "The hurricane which followed the trerablor . Is reported to have . killed six In one locality.. , . Slow movement of government ma chinery is holding back relief and Increases distress. . . . , Women's Golf Tourney. Noble, Pa., June 8. Play commenc ed today In the championship tourna ment of the Women's Eastern Golf association at the Huntington Valley County club. Eighteen holes a day for four days constitute the stiff pro gram before the fair golfers. 2 SECRET TRUE BILLS FQUrJD TOTAL OF FIVE BILLS HAVE NOW BEEN RETURNED BY PRESENT GRAND JURY. fiORTH POWDEfl CASE OVER Jnry Ont bat an Hour In Deciding In Favor of Church in McLaren vs. North Powder JL E. Church Case not Believed that Present Case Will End Before Tomorrow Afternoon, ., - wpmuv; m w nana. Two secret true bills were returned by the grand Jury this forenoon to give spice to the otherwise rather dry session of the circuit court. Taia is five bills, true and not true, that have been returned since the grand jury convened, and as the nature of the two found this morning is un known the usual amount of specula tion is rife until services are made and the bills can be announced. North Powder Church Wins. . After being out but an hour or so,, the Jury, la the case- of McLaren thO Jury it ) agalBt tne , hrrt, . . . . ' - . ' " - ""-"- - of the church. McLaren brought suit church. The churoh established the defense that the Institution was not pw foMn fiVow itUcwm. elu ed to W. R. Klvette In payment for the lumber. N. ,T. Hart of Bakef City, W, B, Sargent f La Grande and At-1 torney Anderson of Haines ' repre sented the church. ' A. E; Standley was called to the witness stand in his own Interests r Immediately after the afternoon ses- Blon of court was called. He Is suing the O. R. ft N. for $10,000 in damages, and Attorney Jno. S. Hodgli Is hand ling his case. The railroad company is represented by Cochran ft Cochran and A C Spencer. It Is presumed that, the case will sot be given to the jury until late: tomorrow, though some ' legal 'points may come , up to spell a speedy end. to the case. WILL MEET AT BAKER, Baptists to Hold Convention In Baker June 9 to 11. The Grande Ronde BaptiBt associa tion .will hold 'its normal convention in Baker City, June 9-11 and many prominent speakers from all over the state will be present to address the meeting, says the Bake,r City Herald. The sessions will be held in the First Baptist church and will begin Thurs day afternoon, and continue' until Sunday evening. The district Includes Union, Wallowa, Baker, Malheur, Grant and Harney counties . and a large number of delegates will be in attendance. The keyword of the convention is. "Forward," and very interesting sessions are anticipated. Among the prominent speakers will be Rev. : C. A. , Woody, of Portland; Leonard W. Riley, president .of Mc Mlnnville college; Rev. F. C. Redfern," Btate Sunday, school organizer; Rev. Fred C. Parker, Pacific coast evan gell8t. . : - Eastern Star Session. ' , Burlington, Vt., June 8. Vermont Grand Chapter, Ofder of Eastern Star, opened Its annual session today. Sea Cops Save Seals. Seattle, Wash., June 8. Police of the sea will patrol Alaska waters this summer and attempt to break up seal " poaching, which threatens to deplete the number of the clever animals. A revenue cutter fleet detailed by the government will take up its head quarters at Juneau this week or next and will exercise a cloBe guard over the seal grounds until nxt October,