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LA GRAADti. UftlUN COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1510.
NUMBER 219
CONTRACTORS IN
SEARCH FOR
ICR DATA
INDICATE THAT TWO FIRMS WILL
MAKE LA GRANDE BASE
OF THEIB SUPPLIES
RUM
RUMORS REVIVED
Several "Men" have adopted the
latter possibility as the most likely j
DnH a ra aoniriilnA Annuo K r KaI t
that the information sought means the
contractors are coming to Eastern
Oregon at once, or as soon as a suit
able basis of supplies Is obtained, and
that the building of the road is but a
matter of weeks and months and not
years.
In any event the incident is the
most noteworthy since the completion
of permanent surveys across the Blue
Mountains last winter and spring. The
day of electric roads and competitive
steam lines in Union count, s evident
ly not far hence.
nnv uuume a i niunniu pdiaalt
uiii iilii.i l. n lu iuuh u mil i
MENACE TO MYSTERY NOT
Identity of Men Making Inquiries uoi
Known but Thought to be Contrac
tors for Companies which Hare Al
ready run Surveys, or New Com
panics Seeking Entrance to the
Grande Roude Valley.
NORTHWEST
FIRES
DO
IN MONTANA AND IDAHO
DAMAGE TO EXTENT OF
MANY THOUSANDS
Remodelling Residence.
George T. Cochran is having ex
tensive repairs and renovations done j
to his residence, corner Washington
and First.
SOLVED YET
PHYSICIAN AND FRIENDS CAN'T
IDENTIFY BODY SAID TO
BE MRS. CRIPFEVS.
PACKING TRUST
,T
PROBE STARTS
mm mm m mm. m in urn
Rain is the Only Medium thai Can While Decomposed Body Fouud Yes-
Ul TV A. A I Mil M 1 . i
failed. The inquest will be held to
morrow. The police assert they have
sufficient evidence to prove her iden
tity. The say the fact that Crlppen
Introduced Leneve as his wife follow
ing the disappearance of the other
woman, tends to Indicate him as gull
ty.
Crlppen's Father Talks.
Los Angeles. July 16. M. A. Crlp
pen. father of Hawley Crlppen, sus
pected of the murder of his wife hi
London, and now being hunted the
world over, said he didn't believe his
son guilty. He said if his son was In
trouble he would assist him. The eld
er Crlppen said he had not received
any news from his son for several
weeks and did not know where hu
was.
OUTH
SEATTLE Y
A LEADER IN
REBELLION
ESCAPES WHEN CONDEMNED TO
DIE FOB REVOLT AGAINST
GOVERNMENT
Stop Destruction of Thousands of
Dollars Worth of Timber Through
out the Pacific Northwest Sctcrul
Towns in Close Proximity to the'
Fire.
INDICATED THAT IT WILL BE
DEEPEST YET ATTEMPTED.
Two well 11.:: .. contract,
. n r,- . i th ' t in the
United Stati..;, have secured authori
tative data relative to the geographi
cal, financial, agricultural and horti
cultural geography of Unon and Uma
tilla counties, and though the names
of the contractors are held in close
secrecy, the mere fact of their "scout
ings" after data of this sort revives
with a startling degree interest in the
prospective railroad construction ru
mors. This information has been sup
plied to both contractors through the
La Grande Investment company, and
tv, ...,KHi in wnltine with abated
L11C( "
breath for further developments iu the
case.
La Grande the Basis.
The builders, who are firms that are
closely related to large railroad in
terests, each Indicated that La Grande
is to be the basis of operations when
thp construction starts. One firm is
directly connected with a well-known tion. It is predicted to be the most
railroad firm, and the other company searching investigation yet.
has not Indicated its affiliations ex
terday is Deemed by the Police U
be Mrs. Crlppen, Friends CanM '.
Identify it, but Police Continue to
Search for Former Hasband who is
Now Hiding In London.
THEIIIES
FIGHT 40
ILLNESS SHED HIS LIFE
Members of Packing Company Hauled
Before the Inquisitors Today.
Chicago, July 15. The federal
grand jury today began probing the
meat pacJU&ff -twist complaint cases.
Tbsy will Investigate the National
Packing Company, a concern through
which the government alleges the beef
trust operated in restraint of trar",
and members of the company were
summoned today.' A number of books
V
and papers were submitted for inspec
JeLBLd.aryD.THEC C aonwt anao
Portland, July 15. Dispatches here
from Montana. Idaho and Washing
ton, and Southern Oregon state that
unless rain falls throughout the
Northwest soon, timber worth hund
reds of thousands of dollars will be
destroyed by fire. Montana and Ida
ho are suffering the worst. Big fires
are raging at, Big Creek, Idaho, Nel-'
son's siding, Dubley. Pine Creek, Car-
lin Bay, Spirit Lake, and Loon Lake.
Montana has three distinct fires on
the Flathead Indian reservation. Kalt-
spell reports a big fire in the Flat
head valley, which is beyond control.
A number of railroad tie camps are
destroyed. There are fires destroy
ing timber near Llbby. Cyro. St. Regis
and Wnlttfish. Three hundred mt .
are fighting fire at Kootenai, the Nat
ional reservation. All fires are belugJ
fought moBtly with poor success ow
ing to the drought.
The town of Naniani. British Co
lumbia. Is threatened, but unless the
wind rises, she won't be destroyed.
LABORERS
cept to say it is working for a steam
road and that the .contractors have
headquarters in New York. Mere
mention of the firm's name would in
dicate the consideration that Is due
the Incident, but at ths time It must
be held In secrecy.
Natural Deductons.
It Is fit that dreams and deductions
follow rumors and incidents of this
sort, and the fact that one of the pros
nectlvo contractors is allied with an
electric road leads to believe that the
company which at one time was
known as the Northwestern and later
was taken over by the Byllesby peo
ple, have again resumed their policy
of tapping the Grande Ronde volley
with a belt of electric wires and rails.
Knowing definitely that the contrac
tors stand, one for steam and the oth
er for an electric concern, and know
ing that Umatilla and Union counties
are the Immediate prospective fields
of operation, it becomes only natural
to deduct one plausible solution,
namely, that the Northern Pacific,
through a firm which is likely its
agent, Is reviving its policy of cross
ing the Blue Mountains Into the
Grande Ronde valley, or some railroad
allied with the Northern Pacific is
going to do it. That raises the ques
tion of the quantity of railroad al
ready having surveys in the valley. As
the prospective builders are very like
ly already operating lines in or near
Umatilla county, the list of possiblll-
. ties as to identity narrows down to
two or three.
May Still Be Another Fact
The fact that the contractors are
looking for bases of supplies, leads to
still another solutloh. It is possible
that the company which ran the sur
veys over the Blue Mountains from
Milton to Elgin, and then on through
Cove to T.a Grande, have reached the
point where construction is the next
order of husiness and that the pro
ject has been let. The letters asking
for information as to various phases
of geographical conditions may stm-
olv be the forerunner of construction.
' This would apply equally plausibly to
the electric concern now holding
property all over Oregon and Eastern
Washington, the firm known as the
Byllesble people.
MARY TO MARRY AGAIN
London, July ft,-? Authorities today
declare that they have got Hawley
Cripen, who Is accused of murdering
his wife, and MtdamolBelle Leneve
his youthful companion, surrounded
In this city. Detectives, ...wdnwhlle
are directing their energes toward as
certaining the movements of the sus
pected man at the time his wife, the
famed singer, was murdered.
Hawley. who Is suspected of having
caused her death, is a trained p..jai
clau and surgeon. Dr. Plepper. the
government analyst said Crlppen pois
oned the woman. The body had been
dissected afterwards, but Pepper says
that this was an afterthough. The
body had been badly decomposed by
lime. When found the case was at
tracting .universal attention.
Pepper said he was not sure that
It was Mrs. Crlppen's body, although
the police are proceeding on this the
ory. While numbers of the woman's
friends tried to Identify the body, they
i' m. Li- utvmr iWDWr
ROB ENTIRE CAMP.
Til
Was Condeniaed to Die When Small
Town la Nicaragua Was Taken
Captive by Msdrli Youngster had
Been a Brigadier-General la the
Revolution Doctor Who Saved His
Life Held Prisoner.
T .... , -
Awakened Worl;cr. Open Fire and a
General Fitrht is Precipitated
Mary Mannerlng Said to he Engaged
Again
New York, July 15. Unless Mary
Mannerlng. the actress, returns to
New York soon, her friends fear they
will be congratulating her on a sec
ond marriage. Dispatches from De
troit announced that Miss Mannerlng
is engaged to Frederick Wadsworth,
the millionaire, who began proceed
ings for a divorce Monday. Miss
Mannering is divorced from James
Haekett.
NOT SCRAP REVIVED AT
BEVERLY
THIRTY JAILED
L
FOR
YNCHINC
NEWARK POLICE PREPARED FOR
ALL EMERGENCIES
Lynching of Yonng Detective Proves
To Have Far Reaching Results.
Newark, July 15. Confined in cells
and denied the privilege of outside
communication. 30 prisoners are at
the Newark Jail for alleged partlclpa
tion In the lynching of Detective Eth
erington. Each prisoner was exproin
ed seDaratelv. Many have been bornd
over to the grand Jury for a hearing
Despite the outward calm there Is an
undercurrent of bitter feeling and the
police are maintaining a close watch
to prevent trouble.
Retire Southern Pacific.
N'ew York. Jnlv 1.. Retirement c
the preferred stock of the Southe.i
Pacific Company, was effected today
The holders had the option of accept
Ing $115 per share In cash or $20 In
cash and $100 per share in 4 1-2 per
cent bonds, or to exchange the pre
ferred stock for common, share
share.
WREN SENATOR
DICK DISCUSSES APPOINTMENT
Beverly, July 15. The Balltnger-
Plnchot controversy crept into the
councils at Beverly today when Sena
tor Dick, of Ohio, called on the presi
dent to urge the appointment of Dr.
John Holmes as head of the bureau of
mines. Rallinger opposed the ap
pointment of Holmes, believing him
friendly to Pinchot. Dick and the
president went over the matter thor
oughly.
The committee representing the
movement for the celebration of the
centennial of pence between English-
speaking nations, Invited Taft to par
ticipate in the exercises at the Can
adian boundary line in 1912.
Taft and Teddy Invited.
New York. July 15. Roosevelt and
Taft will speak from the same plat
form at Knoxvllle, Tenn., in October
Roosevelt today accepted an invlta
tlOn of the manager of the Appalach
Ian Exposition to deliver an address
October 17. A week later Taft ad
dresses the same exposition.
Third Term Boom Starts.
The third term boom for Roosevelt
was started today by Former Ambas
sador Thompson, who represented
this country In Mexico. He called on
the Colonel and said that newspaper
men in the west say there Is an unde
niable sentiment In the west for such
a move.
Cleveland, Ohio. July 15. One man
is dying and two are seriously wound
ed as the result of a battle with three
bandits, and forty members of a con
struction gang on the Lake Shore rail
road, when bandits attempted to rob
them near North Olmstead today. The
laborers were paid off last night.
Before dawn bandits entered the
camp and were robbing the bunkhouse
when four laborers, sleeping outside,
opened fire. The bandits fled, after
wounding three. A sheriff's posse Is
out In autos.
LONG WAY TO BUY LAND.
British East Africa Resident Comes
to La Grande to Invest Money.
19 years of age and a Seattle High
school boy. erstwhile brigadier-general
in the Nlcaraguan rebel army, will
arrive home tonight, thanking his
lucky itarB that his head and h!sbody
are still keeping company. Hit fath
er and mother are now residing at
Muklltee, and came to Seattle today
to meet him.
Sands was captured and sentenced
to death when Madriz' army took the
town of Principals General Irias, Ma
drlz' leader, held a court martial and
sentenced the boy to death. Just about
that time he fell 111. and Dr. Burghelmf
a Houston, Texas, physician, was cal
led, The doctor refused o treat him
unless the general paroled the boy.
This was done and the youth left the
country on orders. The doctor Is now
being held prisoner, compelled to ad
minister to sick soldiers.
Hearing of the Grande Ronde Val
ley as a fruit prqduclng center, Miles
R. Hotchkiss of British East Africa Is
In La Grande today inspecting local
orchards with, a view of buying land
In this valley. During his travels he
heard of the productiveness of this
district and Immediately came here to
hear and see first hand what Is really
being done In this locality.
CLOUDBURSTS IN
CALIFORNIA
Maneuver at Gettysburg.
Gettysburg. Pa.. July 15. Gettys
burg's famous battle field again re
sounds to the tramp of soldiers, but
the gathering of boys In khaki today
Is for the purpose of peaceful prepa
ration for possible war. Beginning to
day the Joint maneuvers of the militia
of the eastern states will be held In
this vicinity. Troops are here or will
come later from Pennsylvania, Dis
trict of Columbia, Delaware. New Jer
sey. Maryland and Virginia, thus unit
ing the sodlers of the North and the
South In one great camp.
SAN BERNARDINO VALLEY VISI
TER BY HEAVY RAINS.
AMERICAN VERY CRUELLYTREATED
Washington, July 14. It is believed
Nlcaraguan affairs are coming to a
head, and that the United States will
interfere, following stories of the mis
treatment of William Pittman. an ,
American engineer, held captive by
.Madriz. Besides reports of cruelty re
ported today. American life and prop
erty is threatened.
Actions on the part of Nicaraguans
since the war began has given Amerl
ca ample cause for official action.
Denial but a Musk.
London, July 15. Commenting on 1
Germany's recognizatlon of Madriz as
president of Nicaragua, the Morals
Post declares Germany's attitude is
tantamount to the repudiation of the
Monroe doctrine. The Post, quoting
thp hltrhpRt Oei'man authorities, but
withholding names, outlines the situ
ation as explained previously by the
United States. Then Germany's atll
tude suggests a guilty conscience. It
says. Though officially denied it is
rumored that Germany's assistance to
Madriz Is not given for nothing but
rather with expectation that the
Kaiser would get a coaling station In
South American waters.
Latest reports say that Madriz vlo
lated oledKes regarding Plttmiin's
treatment.
Miners Flee to Safety Leaving nil
Belonging In Flood's Path.
San Bernardino. July 15. Cloud
bursts in the San Bernardino moun
tains have caused heavy damage to
mining properties, according to to
day's reports. In Holcombe Valley
torrents swept down canyons com
pelling many miners to flee with the
loss of their entire camping outfits
One cloudburst at Whitewater washed
out the Southern Pacific tracks, and
delayed the trains half a day. No lives
are reported lost.
SL SnlthlnN Day.
New York. July 15. Old St. Swih
In. according to an ancient traditioi.,
controls the weather for fo"' (lays
alter July 15. and you can te 1 wha
fort of weather he Is going to ecrve
nu by what he favors us wi'h today
The method of forecasting n as fol
io" t-:
S. Swithin's Day. If thou ra'n.
to. forty days It will rciain;
St. Swithin's Day. If thou be fair
For forty days 'twill rain nan mail .
BONDS NOT SETTLED
Bids Opened for Union School Build-
ing but no Action Taken
Late this afternoon there is no def
inite decision aB to the sale of the
Union High school bonds. The bids
In hand had been opened by County
Treasurer Frawley, but on account of
the fact that the bond market la a
little off color. It Is uncertain Just
what will be done with the bids. They
may be turned down as being too high.
Saengerfost at Sioux Fals.
Sioux Falls S. D., July 15.-Norsa-
men and Norsewomen, descendants of
ancient Vikings, Invaded Sioux Falls
today In such numbers that the reg
isters of local hotels read like a Who's
Who In Scandlhoovla. The occupation
of the city Is for the purpose of hold
ing the annual saengcrfest of the
Northwestern Norwegian-D vnlsu
81ngers' Association, an organization
of the sweet singers of North D 'tota,
South Dakota, Minnesota. Iowa.
Many of the leading soloists r.f ths
country will be heard.
To Found Baptist College.
A call from the Baptist Union of
Great Britain to aid in the establish
ment of ;a great Baptist college at
some central point in Estrone, the
Dev. J. A. Vining of London Out., re
signed his Canadian charge today. Af
ter visiting Moscow anil other p r'trS
he will return to the Dominion la
raise funds to endow the college