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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1910)
v a v i J i i f i i . f u : vv I pi r, i I y. vj . tr P' ' ' ' I ( i t ' ft M l i J I " " ii im -ini i-ii ,i i, , n ' ' ' l.- ' i , . " ' , 4 Vgr J : VOL. XI HILT PLUS ALL BUT ONE OF THOSE INDICTED I OX CHARGES OF SELLING LISCOR DEMUR, BECK FILES PLEA TODAY J Either Actually Filed or Terbal Notice I of Such - Intentions Presented to j ourt Attaches Prepare For Long i Term if Demurrers Are Overruled f Separat Juries For Each of The 89 Indictments. Thirty-eight demurrers, filed through attorneys this morning for defendants I In : then alleged liquor " selling peases, has again deferred the time ? when the separate defendants will plead guilty or not guilty to the charges of selling Intoxicating liquors s alleged . by the grand Jury, or it may throw Borne or all of the ca6ea out ,of the court. A postponed hour of pleading was due at 1:30 this after noon.the defendants having been given more time in which to prepare their pleas last Monday, but , the filing of demurrers, or notice of doing so, has Referred the time of action in this matter. There was one exception.; Adam Beck Pleads. i "Adam Beck of Island City, did not -.take up the formality' of filing de lnurrer. but through his attbrney en- terPrl A nlAII Af 'nnt n-.,l1a 4 iL. ... k.m,x l "t'l. .tU tilt) UVP Indictments against him. The time of trial has not been set . .' I s piea was 4nade ; when court ' convened this morning and many had ,at that time actually filed demurrers i Argument Time Uncertain. j At noon, the court could not name the exact hour of hearing the areu ments. As there are nearly forty In dictments, the arguments alone will occupy a considerable length of time, and they will have to be arranged at uch a time that It will not conflict wuii uioer cases now under way. i Preimres For Lonir Session. j The court's dais is sheltered in an alcove, and Judge Knowles has had carpenters extend the dais In such a way that he will hot be forced 'to sit In a place where no air reaches him and where testimony of witnesses is hard to distinguish. Court attaches and attorneys are preparing for .long term in the event that the liquor 'i indictments come to (sunn Var ann Vfrate charge will have to be tried se- naratelv and bv aenarnts inrtaa im ' Bl. U i as some have as high as a half dozen I indictments against them, the term fwlll tlraw out considerably, i - Demurrers Upset Plans. Early this morning. v the schedule i w a. miBugcu bk mat. me .utuenaaniB I who live In La Grande" should plead lima MMMnMul mm .L.i .L . , i , at 1:30 this- afternoon and the Elgin contingent was slated to appear as soon as the train from Elgin had ar- invea. as the demurrers are now bending, most of the Elgin defendants .did not reach the city at all and will Jcome only when the demurrers are to pe argued. '. . ' : '. HAS BEX HIXTOX CONFESSED! Cm Casadaj Be Convicted Upon EtI. dence Originating From Hinton. Ben Hinton, who caused so much 3tlr among attorneys and sheriffs last week, is still in the county Jail and will probably remain there until Mme for him to be taken to Canyon 3ity for entence, June 20, says the laker City Herald. Neither the at orneys for the defense or prosecu lon have Been him. and there is con iderable speculation as to whether t not he has made a full confession Tien speaking orthe case Sheriff ('oilier of Grant county said that. If Tinton had not already made the con asslon ,he thought he would. The case of Deputy Sheriff Casaday cho had charge of Snyder when he LA GRANDE, was taken from him and strung up. will be called Monday and there Is considerable speculation as to whether or not he will be convicted. Hinton was convicted practically upon . Jils own evidence, eight witnesses testify ing that he told them of his connec tion with the affair. . ' , Now the question , arises as ' to whether or not the prosecution has any evidence to offer aside from the testimony which can be given by the men who appeared against Hinton. Did Hinton implicate all of the men, and will his word be sufficient to warrant a Jury In sending the other men up for life for their alleged psr ucipauon m tne crime? This ques tion is causing considerable discus 8lon but there 18 no r of settling 11 unt11 the Jur7 decides. Several have expressed the opinion that -unless oth er testimony than that originating from Hinton is introduced, the jury will disagree or acquit Casaday. ' v 3 Freewater Totes Dry. ? Free water, Ore., June 14. After one of the most bitterly contested cam paigns In the history of this Uttle city, the "dry" force's yesterday won what is considered a sweeping victory; by deciding that the common council may by ordinance, close all near-beer ; sa loons," billiard halls, pool rooms and card rooms There was a total of 114 votes cast Just twice as : many as was ever known here and. the "drys" won by Just 31 . Judges of the election were Edward Bottorff, William Johnson and G. W. Crabtree. Clerks wno officiated were John Crimrains and L. W. Mitchell., ALL RECORDS DUE TO BE BROK ' EX NEXT, FALL. ;.' Eighth Grade Examination Papers Are Graded 207 Pass Successfully. Top-notch records In the number of members' of the 1910 freshman class of the La Grande high school will be reached! this fall when, according to records, one hundred eighth grade students will enter the local high school, and very likely more than mat win be registered before the fall.semester is well under way. The total number eligible to enter the high chool from the county is 207, but the estimated number who will actually participate Is 100. The eligibility list from La Grande district runs to 110. With this tremenduously large class slated to; enter the institution here! urgent needs for a new building are again emphasized and were not - a new and commodious buildina- under way, the school management would truly be In a dilemma. i Yesterday evening Miss Ruth deputized to grade the recent eighth grade examination papers, reached the! last paper of the big piH Two hund red and forty took the examination and of that number 207 passed the required standing. This Includes all sections of the county of course." IDITARIOD RUSH CEASES. New Strike of Gold Discovered Near ; Stewart City. Seattle, June 15. The rush to Idltarod has died away and steamship travel is a little above the normal gain, although there will be A steady stream of travel to the new diim Coiucldent with the death of Idltarod an Eldorado, come renorts of th strike of. a big reef of free milling Sold near Stewart City, B. C.. near the AlaBka line.. There Is much excite ment over the discovery alon the coast and the rush is on! ' . Jackson county has a newlv dianv. prea mammoth cave. It will con" 'next November. - ' ... 1FB! UNION COUNTY, OREGON: --WKDNE8DAY, JUNE GIT fff OF II IE RETBEXCHMEXT ORDERS SEXT !-; OUT FROM HEADQUARTERS "') OF MAXr RAILROADS. ISIEBEII'IIIIB Yarlous Causes Advanced as Reason tor bodden Retrenchment of De Tflopment Work. In, Middle. And j "Western States Demand for Better ; Service Is Given as One Cause j Higher Wages Also. One. j St. Paul, June 15 Railroads of the Northwest today Issued ordlera ston- Bin,nr-Lii.' ii " ' 7 . ping practically all construction work. The Northern PaHflr diuhrr ed 2,500 men," the " Great Northern 3000, the Northwestern 600, and the Milwaukee road 1200: Later the Santa Fe announced the discharge of 4,000 and the Rock Island 1500. - , ' V President Elliot bf tha Northern Pa cific said the retrenchment polic? of the roads is due to the increased taxes, wages and materials, and bet ter service demands by the . public xne increased powers of the national ana state railway commissions with reference to rates' Is also one of the items back of the retrenchment.' he said" :': -v- .,v, ; -;iOIL.;SURXERS POPULAR. Proposition of Using Them More tx ; tenshely to Be DIscusse'd. Olympla, Wash., June 15. letters have been addressed to the officials of ten railroads In the northwest by the state railroad commissioners asking that they make a suggestion as to the oate for holding a conference for the purpose of discussing the installation or on burners in . locomotives. The Milwaukee road is already - burning oil on part of its lines and the North ern Pacific has installed a few burn ers on Its switch engines. The pro posed conference will be held In either Seattle or Tacoma. OH is recom mended as It eliminates much danger of forest fires resulting from the sparks of the engines. . A scow containing 22 head of beef cattle capsized near Marshfleld and eight of them were drowned, but the others swam out . ' COLOXEL MIXGLES WITH STOK. ER OX THE STEAMER. Great Crowds Ruining to Xew Tork to Welcome1 Roosevelt. : ' Aboard Kalserin Augusta Victoria, June u. Theodore Roosevelt spent - k-.i vi iouay visiting tbe stokehold i me steamship on which he is crossing the Atlantic and he helped the stokers for a short tlm in oho.-. eling coal Into the furnaces. Later he lormaily received - first and second class passengers . ' " ; New York Ik Mecca. ' New York, June! 15. Thousand' ,- arriving today to Join in the welcome of Roosevelt Battery Park will be the mecca of the crowds and carpen ters are erecting stands there. Mayor Gaynor will receive Roosevelt and welcome him home. . - ' ; The parade proposed has been aoanaoned, as so many . wanted to H' that " take a day for It -" iicvnn5 siana. STflK HOLD Ml DUTL IS GLEAn POL MOST EXPLICIT STATKMEXT OF - FOREIOX POLICIES THAT SECRETAltT HAS MADE. TUFT PIS HT CONGRESS f ExecutJve Statehood Bill. Is Hurried Along Bj President In Statement to Congressmen Hnox Says Admlnls. tratlon Is Anxlons to Have Court of Arbitration Established at Once Hague Suggested. . .... ICY it . ' V 'u ' l ' i th8 most lnifl'ant speeches yet made 'Clrcilt Court Here Aftirmed Bv Su. h ki., ' al.h .m. rnr Ti-r. xcJ Philadelphia. June 15. In one of by the Taft cabinet members, Secre tary of State Philander C. Knox de clared) the establishment of an Inter national court of arbitration was prac tically assured. He made the speech , . -irev,iu at the commencement exercises of the I Wm. Shaw brought suit to enjoin T. University of Pennsylvania and his N. Proffett from interfering with the utterances are regarded;as the. most; .'water in the ditch, and Judge J. W. Important recital of the ' admlnlstra- Knowles ruled In favor or the plaln tion '8 attitude on foreign relations , tiff. Proffet appealed and this week made since the former senator became j the supreme court handed down a de secretary. , . ' ; iclslon upholding and affirming the He declared that the present adnih j lower court. ; . : ' , - ; lstratlon had carried America's for- i j'V '"" ' ": '"" ; ';"'' kbsu hujivico ii nicr. luan any oiner administration.. Speaking on the! subject of 'SniHt snd purpose of American iitfomacy' he. said. "The llriited States has uni?6rmly exhaust ed every resource to adjust Interna tional difficulties.". Then he recited1 the efforts of this country to make the Hague tribunal a real arbitration court, and said he be lieved these efforts1 would soon result in the' establishment of such a court Referring to the existing relations bei tween this country and ' China, he Bald: "America diplomacy Is marked by regard for China's right and sov ereign power. We are related to r policy of peace." Taft Drives at Congress. Washington, June 15. Before golns to Marlette. Ohio, where hewlll de liver an address at the anniversary o' the founding of Muskingum academv this afternoon and also 1 receive aq honorary degree, President. Taft in formed several members of congress that he will Insist upon a passage of the New Mexico-Arizona Btatehood bills before congress adjourns1. This may prevent adjournment next week as planned. EXPLOIT FAIR AT FAIR COM3IISSIOX HOLDS IM. PORTA XT MEETIXG LAST NIGHT. VV Step Taken to Have Careful And : Thorough Exploitation Sooii. Systematic and energetic explolta- tation of the coming county fair In this city will be commenced Immedi ately. This action was decided upon at a meeting of the entire board of managers of the Union County Exposi tion association last evening. Spp. tary Fred B.Currey of tbe Inter- county association being one of thn attending. The interest taken by the board is but a reflection of the wlde epread support given the fair bv eryone In the county.. Many matters of. considerablA im. portance were threshed out the meeting but the chief 'noln of , session was the decision t to com mence at once a systematic" publicity fampalgn that will end In every man, 15, 1910. woman and chili la Union county knowing all tha details of the many attractive feature that win be pre- J sented during the w eek. ' , Hew OWner Ads Par. Last evening a lady advertised for work In the Obs-rver and gave her address at theSommer house. Sev eral answered tae ac. last night and more came this morning, but the lady gave the wrong address, for the Sommer house kaew nothing of her. The clerk la that hotel called up the Observer before noon and 'said "for pity sake call off the people who are worrying us about an ad. that ap peared in last evening's paper. We pnone calls : for that woman all morning, and one long distanco call came In from Hilgard wanting her." ine Observer is the advertising I BM!u!' .'h".l'rl.0l"..rf.l"r.!-. JUDGE KNOWLES AFFIRMED. " preme Court This Week Judge Knowles has been affirmed In a decision relative to' a dispute over "--f uuvu ucai J.1U1LU v rOWUBr. TIllllllLTl STILL ALIVE THOUGHT TO BE HURRVlXG TO AMERICA AT THIS TIME. Announced That Woman's Head Wa Crnshcd Before Drowning. , Como Italy, June 15. The police here are convinced that Charlton, husband of the murdered Mrs. Charl ton,. whose body was found In a trunk at the bottom of Como lake, . and which has become an ' international affair, has. sailed for America and that the rumors of his reported death in conjunction with the death of his wife, are wrong. "r Wireless messages have been sent to the captains on the steamers Ver ona and Virginia, requesting them to aetata the man suspected of wife mur der. Witnesses say ihy saw Charlton after the clls(ovv f,f the murder. New York potlce have orders to await the arrival of the boats. I Is also , believed that the Rus sian held here as a suspect, Is Inno cent and his speedy release J In ex pected;. "' ;.;.:'';. : Another discovery which clears u V In a measure, the manner of Mrs Charlton's death, Is that the police an nounce a decision of the physicians to tne effect that her skull was crushed before she was placed In the trunk. This isa contradiction to the belief that she was simply placed In the trunk and allowed to suffocate. La Grande Boy to Wed. An Interesting piece of news comes In the announcement of the engage ment of Miss Lelta A. Cowell to Alvah Durj'ea. Miss Cowell is a very pretty girl of the blonde type, tall and ex ceedingly graceful. She has resided in Fresno for the past fou r or five years and during that time has en deared herself to a large circle of friends because of her ner. Mr.,Duryea is a very estimable young man ,n the employ of : the Southern Par fio .nmnanw ... wu- j ding will be an ,vent of this month.-: ' Mr n , ' l ' : Mr. Duryea Is a son of Mrs: Carrie P. Puryea who resides at 1910 Second street In this city and for many years he was In the employ of the O, R. & machine shops here, . NUMBER 193 PIE FIGHT 10 i chiiif nnriRFn COVERXOR GILLETTE TAKES :SIDDEX BUT DECISIVE AC TION THIS AFTERXOOX. . Willi FIGHTERS FISliEl eral Webb to Take Immediate Ac- tlon to Have The Fight Stopped If Courts Won't Grant Injunction Then r I-f.l Code. . ' ' Ban Francisco, June la. It is learn- 'A , f tv, ;w:v ed ,ate this afternoon that Governor Gillett has communicated with Attor ney General U. S. Webb asking him to take steps to stop the Jeffries Johnson prize fight. ' The governor said later In the af ternoon that he had communicated with Webb toward preventing the fight. In five close-written pages, he wrote to parties Interested in th fight conveying to them the same Informa tion. ; : ' The governor expresses strong opin ions against the fight and calls upon . Webb to secure a restraining order from the courts to prevent It. In case the courts won't grant the Injunction thftj. governor tells Webb to proceed against , the flfeuiers and promoters under the penal code which makes prize fighting a felony. '.':;; .' He assures Webb of the Governor's co-operatica.. ;.v . , The news, has created an excitement In San : Francisco such as has not been equalled Infa Iocs time. ' ' Owl Bank Shortens Hours!, New York, June 15. New' York's , "owl" financial Institution; the Night and Day Bank, In Fifth avenue, will hereafter have shorter business hours the hew schedule going into effect to-: day. It has been : found that New Yorkers are not such night hawks as was'expected, and that after midnlgh. there Is practically no demand for th services of a bank. . , ';, " Since the bank was started in 1906 it has been open to depositors during " the entire twenty-four hours with the exception of Sundays and legal holi days, thus maintaining , a .standard uniiiue among the banks of this city. A close' watch, however, has been kept on the amount 6f business done after the regular banking hours, running from 9 to 3 o'clock, and the directors have come o the conclusion that there Is so little demand'on the bank after midnight that they have decided to close at that hour. The bank here- ' after will open at 8 in the morning and' close at midnight. r The safe de '' posit company will also observe tho same hours of business in the future. INTERPRETER BRIBES IIIXDUS. $ '-'' J 1 turn.' .1 Mlslntnrets Answers Ujwn Their ; ';. Refusal to Pay, ;,'.. SeattlevJune 15. In affidavits filed by sixteen Hindus for re-examination for admittance into this country, E. S. Jelly, Jr official Interpreter, of the , Immigration department, i Is charged with demanding bribes of $1000, and upon the refusal of the Hindus to pay ho misinterpreted their answers to the questions a?d! they were rAf.,ao admittance to this country. ' V. At The Alrdoine. : ,:.. ; "In Old Kentucky" will be seen for the last time at-The Alrdome tonight. Mmv Cnmiillmont. k.... 1 1 ce.ved V "Mr Z lZyZ .u. . u wmpany on t creanao e way In which tw have put on thl.' difficult bl - ' Tomwrw n'Kbt wIIl open '-TrW a play that is one of the pret lest piece, of play writing ever done : . - s ever gone, ; Spr'lngfleld has a big new gasoline street roller. ' 0 new a8llne