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Your Banking
No natter how small, no matter
how large The Cnltetd States
National Bank will gire it care,
ful atteitlon. This message ap.
piles to the men and the women
like.
OFFICERS
N. K. WEST, President
WM. MILLER, Vice President
T. J. SCROGOIN, Cashier.
H. E. COOLIDOE, Asst Cashier.
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SucceMful. Chamberlain's Conch Remedy
acts on this plan. It loosens The cough, re
lieves the lungs, opens tbs secretions and aids
mhM In restoring ths tTitim to hnltb
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Beginning Monday every Lady attending Thelsis Matinee will be presented
with a coupon worth 10 cents on the purchase of the beautiful china, on dis
play in the lobby of the theatre. No tickets to gentlemen or children. As soon
as you have enough coupons present them at the ticket window and get a :
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HEMES
I'MTED STATES. AUTHORITIES
ARREST COMPANY OFFICERS.
Postofflce Inspector Speaks Plainly
On The Whole Plan of Promoters.
, The Associated Press report
out the following story from
sent
New
York yesterday
United Stated postofflce inspectors
the handsome Broadway offi-
ces or the United Wireless Telegraph
comPany today and caused the
reBt of Christopher C. Wilson, presl
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dent of the company; Samuel S. Bo
gart, first vice-president, and Wil
liam W. Tompkins, president of the
New York selling agency, which, offi
cers of the wireless company say,
was formerly their fiscal agent, but
has ceased to represent them.
Chief Inspector Mayer subsequent
ly gave out a statement, in which he
charges that, although the company
bas been running at a loss, the price
of its shares have been advanced by
manipulation to fictitious values and
that Individual officers of the com
pany have sold out their stock to
the general public at a profit esti
mated in one instance at between
$5,000,000 and $10,000,000. ,
Two Are Released.
Wilson was released on $25,000 bail
and Dogart on $10,000 bail for ap- .j
pearance on July 12, when a further
bearing will be held berore a Feuer-,
al commissioner.
Tompkins was arrested at his farm
near Mahop Falls. Ta., and brought
here. He could not find $10,000 and
spent the night In the Tombs.
The specified Instances of alleged
fraudulent nse of the malls Is given
as the mailing of a letter on March
3. 1910. to Michael O'Brien, of Water
bury, Conn.
Many Buy Stock.
"There are 2S.000 shareholders of
the company throughout the coun
try," said Inspector Mayer In his
statement,' "many of whom have
placed their savings In the stock of
the company through false represen
tations made by Its officers.
I "The real assets of the company,
consisting of land stations, patents,
manufacturing plants and real estate
of all kinds, appear to be worth, at
a conservative estimate, $400,000, or
an actual worth of 2 cents a share".
I . Two million shares have been Is
sued at a par value of $10, but the
stock
has recently been nut ub
tu a
$50 a share.
"Thus," argues the
inspector. In
his statement, "by taking the last
amount quoted ($400,000 of nctaul as
sets) at $50 a share, the
stock 1
CMinia
really worth as $400,000 Is to $1,000,
000,000, or $0.0004' a share." '
Insyecor Reviews Case,
The inspector says the company
was originally incorporated as the
Amalgamated Wireless Sureties com
pany In 1904. In 1906 It took over
the assets and business of the de
funct American De Forest Wireless
.Telegraph company, which was then
running at a loss, exchanging, there
for, its own securities on a ten for one
basis. . ........
At this time, says the Inspector's
statement "when officers of the DeFor
est compar." vere secretly conniving
to abandon it and leave the stock
holders a mass of 'worthless secur
ities its stock had been forced to an
alleged value of $12.50 a 'share, or
$2.C0 above par. j
t auuiucj iLcui . in - inn htjitpttiptit
Bent out to stockholders was patents
and patent rights, $5,520,233. The af-
ar-.fa,r8 of the company were recently
audited by a firm of , licensed ac
countants, who placed the book value
of all patents at $220,233. ,
. "The officers of the company have
sold to; the public thousands of
shares, claiming all the while that
they were holding their own shares
and putting the money received from
the public Into the plants of the
company. One of tbe officers is be
lieved to have cleaned up $5,000,000
and possibly $10,000,000 , at prices
ranging from $10 to $50.
Officers Disclaim Responsibility.
None of the men arrested today
had any explanation to make, but a
statement was given out by C. C.
Galbralth, general manager of the
United, in which he said:
"The action of the Federal authori
ties will In no way affect the com-
merclal business of the company. The
difficulties In which stock salesmen
may Involve any stock company
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FOUE DRUNKS AFTERMATH OF
CIBCCS DAY.
Follce Agree That Circus Contingent
Unusually Decent
Four, more or less drunk, is the
aftermath of circus yesterday! These
four are not attaches of the circus,
but vIsItiLg boys and men who
over-estimated the weakness of liquor
and "came to grief as a result. As
for the hangers on to the Campbell
Brothers' circus, the police depart
ment agrees that the usual army of
criminals and nifty fingered crowds
that usually follow in the wake of
a circus, was entirely missing. Close
scrutiny was maintained by the po
lice until, the show had gotten but of
(town, ' but there was. nothing off
shade as far as members of or trail
ers to the circus was concerned. The
crowd is unusually well behaved.
Glenn Ryder, an Indian creek lad,
came up from Elgin with a .crowd of
four others, and this morning awoke
up in the city Jail, later paying a $5
fine before Recorder Cox. He affirms
that he was not intoxicated, but to
expedite matters and permit his re
turn on the morning train, paid a
fine.
Clyde Brown was arrested for b-
ing drunk and disorderly during ths
night.
Brown was fined $10. He stated
that he desired to work on the
streets .even , though he had more
than sufficient money on bis person
ir nnv iha flna Thfl 'phqTi !q nnnr In
safe keeping with the recorder and
after the fine Is expired, will be i
given the cash again.
through unauthorized -statements are
well known to every one who ever
built up a business In which the sale
of stock is a factor."
Arthur M. King, counsel for the
United, said tonight that for several
months the Postofflce Department
has been harrassing the company. He
attributed the prosecution to the dis
content of certain stockholders who
might have been unfairly treated by
other stockholders who had no con
nection, he said, with the company.
Christopher Columbus Wilson, pres
ident of the United, is a financier of
the self-made school. He was born
in Mississippi In 1S45 of Irish descent
and never had more than three
months schooling. He became suc
cessively a cotton farmef, a banker In
Denver, a miner and finally a pro
moter of wlreleRS securities. He lives
at the Waldorf Astoria when in New
York.
Ira Wright and. wife of Arvada.
Colorado, are in the city looking for
a location.
Cli
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Notice.
To any person owning or occuplng
any building or premises, you are
hereby notified to remove in ten days
all wooden awnings and porches and
signs suspended over any sidewalk in
the city of La Grande, Oregon, provid
ed that electric signs .that are prop
erly suspended may remain,
J. A. MATOTT,
lOt Street Superintendent.
ivsaxweli Wins
Thrills followed thrills as speeding automobiles shot around the
course of the Ingleside Race Course, on April 24th, in the second and
final day events of the successful meet promoted by the members of
Islam Temple of the Mystic Shrine.
Thehonors of the day were diyided between Barney Oldfleld, with
, his 200 horsepower Benz machine, and C. O. King, with his Maxwell
30 horsepower stock car. Oldfleld lowered his previous record of one
mr.lt 51 5"6, wh,ch 18 a new coast record 'or the circular track.
With the exception of this performance, Oldfleld had to take second
place in the list of racing honors, as the world's champion met defeat
In both the five and fifteen mile handicap 'events, and in both races
King and his Maxwell were the victors. In fatt, King proved the
surprise of the meet, driving all of his races with much udrTent end
taking the urns with his car as close to the tence as did Oldfleld. In
5 ?iL S,haDdicap: 01dfield drove 11,8 Kno ' to the utmost,
from KiJ? Mnf T 00trvDS and he could not t the lead away
from King. Not only in the handicap events did King and his Jtfax-
Jav thrflvSft0fnthVr8t rder' but ,n one of tne fit events oTfhe
day, the five mile race for cars costing from $1200 to $1600 which was
one of the bestmatches of the meet -
KinJSsT oAitnhnve,mlle.h,aondlcap was as f0ll0W8: Maxwen,
S? finished Sir l nVA'' Chal-ers..West, 4.49.30; Auto
i? rth' vnd the Knox car- Barey Oldfleld driving fifth.
J. B. Whiteman & Son
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is going to be disappointed when the five
acre tracts we have been offering you are v
all gone, and they are, all but two.
We have some fine buys in residence :
lots at $125.00 each; $25.00 down and $5.00 a
month. Better Investigate these.
Bell Phone, Red 801 ' Independent 262
LA GRANDE Inv.CO.,
Foley Hotel Bid., v La Grande
IIENDR1GKS & HALL
Painters, paper hang
ers, decorators. Esti
mates furnished free. -
Ceddes Grocery Building
Phone Ind. 1431
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