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r 'if a B)jra in p iii El f I t I f I I i i r ii 11 (i 3 : i w m si M I U M M M 1 V VJVS v. VOL. XI SATURDAY, JULY 00, 1910. NUMBER 232 111 3 j r ! i : V": .? i . 3 1 tnda e has nloa it la ; tb iday. th lourt i tnt hjee- the )avid PEPPERY PLEAS IfillCLOlG HITS SEWLIS CASE MAY GO TO JURY THIS EVESISG, ACCORDISG TO ISDICATIOSS white dog, and asked me If I could describe nlm. No, he wasn't wearing the dog. I didn't have any respect for him but I remembered what he told me, and I told them. I think It was 10 or 11 o'clock a. m. I don't remem ber the day Of the week or the month. I was not feeling well and was sit ting In the saloon." Chas. A. Vurpilat was then called to the stand. He said: "I am in Newlln's employ as bookkeeper and clerk and was on June 1. Newlin was not there on the evening of June 1. He went home at 6:30 p. m. If he had been there I would have seen him. I don't remember seeing Morgan.- I was acquainted with the In terior of the store June 1, and I don't think that a person standing on De pot street so as to look down back! f the counter, could see a person In front of the counter because there ia toilet paper, sponge racks, etc., to ob struct the view, , On redirect examination, when shown photographs, stated: "I could not recognize, it from the picture." . He recognized himself in the pic ture stating, "I don't remember Mor gan coming in and asking tor wnis unurcne-. r-v. ,ikiu w ""i Vfu iw i nonnt( uuub at,. .inw vivon k Revere D. C. Cox. an was called, and pro- grilling today as the closing features duced ordinance No. 442. series ,1910. of the Adolph Newlin case, wherein wuD bootlegging was charged. Arguments if :." were confined to tnree hours for sonii nM a. and Attorney T. H. Craw- " " ' - M ... - MWl.onened for the state. He dwelt i aioiw. on the legal point, speaking a con- At that hour coutt adjourned untu Blderable length of time without en- 7:30 p. m.. and reconvened at tnat . . .- -niio itn.nT r. H. I Hmfl with A. Newlin on the stand. T i terrag iuiu Brlll'"6 n"u,v -i i. Finn followed with a bitter attack or am the-defendant m wis ease; agea Morgan, involving the churches, and thirty-seven and live in La Grande in nrticn1arlv Gray, in a scathing grll- the part Known as : uia xown NEWLIfl DENIES PBESEHGE YarpMat, Kewlia and Several Others CUim Defendant Was not in Store When the alleged LIqaor -Trans action' Was Mde Attorney Flan Attacks Character of Detective, and Flays Reverend Gray. sum SUMY 15 USE OF THEFT OF US! SEW YORK BASK EMPLOYE IS DRIVES TO THEFT BY MIS ERABLE SALARY ViALLSTREET IS HO FRIEHQ Stealing Six Hundred Thousand and Spending it On Wall Street Leads to Downfall of Bank Clerk in Sew York Twenty.five Dollars Week not Sufficient to Keen Him from Sinning la Handling; HilUons. WPEI1 GROWS HEIUS AUD HAGGARD IXD1CATED THAT HE FEARS TO LASD TOMORROW WHES , I STEAMER IS DUE SERSDiSCLOSESEGRET Crlppen and Girl Companion Will Sot Be Allowed to Commit Salctdc (or There Is Close Guard on Them on Board Ship CaHaln Says They are Servous and Man Appears Yfry Haggard from Worry. : chine has been given a thorough try out here. The header method has al ways been the popular style for cut ting grain. It Is a safe prediction that the combine with its crew of five men will benior universally used In Un ion county hereafter, thau the head er. ' - For more than a week combines have been at work in widely separ ated fields of the valley and that all the wheat cut la good though not per haps up to last year '8 record, la com ing to be a certainty. C MABTIAL LAW IS LIKELY Governor Harmon Sees Urgency of Iron Hand In Columbus The court announced that the Town send case would not be called Am a druggist at Adams and Depot street (Continued on rage Elgnt.i PEACE IS ling. , : v C. E. Cochran followed Finn, and was Interrupted by 'the noon recess. He, too, touched upon the church A question, but in a less vindicative mood, rather, perhaps, assuming conciliatory position. District Attorney Ivanhoe finished for the state, and indications, are the case will go to the jury at five o'clock this afternoon. , v Yesterday Evening's Evidence. C. W. Baker was next cawed on th'i stand, following H. J. Rltter yeste.-' day afternoon and stated: "I was in Newlin'a drug store June 1, 9:30 p. m. I was there long enoupn to buy five gallons of gasoline. Vur nllate was there but I didn't see Newlin nor Morgan: Gray was not there; Worstell wasnt there or I dldnt see them. Vurpilat stated to me mai Stockholm. July 30. Men and wo Newlin was not there . I left by the men 0; nearly every nationality, color side door after purchasing the gaso-1 ana language, but animated by a com line." ' i mon humanitarian motive, the aboli' H r. Gilman. water superintend- tlon of war, met in the Swedish cap! ont wa nf nn the Rtnnd. "I was in tal today to inaugurate the eighteenth ri.Newlin's drug store about 9: 3d or Universal Peace Congress. J . Ii 1 9:45 p. m., June 1. I left the council liberations of the friends New York, July 30. Blaming the bank which employed him for, paying him a -miserable salary and allowing him to handle millions, Erwla Wider, the arrested assistant-cashier of the Russo-Chinese bank, admitted today he stole $600,000. ' He wept when he told his story. ; " He took money and securities. He said: "It was only what could be ex pected of a man getting $25 a week and handling millions. Wall street seemed safe: I played the market. I did not get reckless till I got bo deep that there was no escape and then I played -heavy,1 hoping the'' market would change It didn't and here 1 am." " FOSTERED GREAT DELEGATIOS OF BE PRE SESTATIVES IS STOCKHOLM Establishment of an Arbitral Court Is Probable Result room at 9:30. T dln't see Newlin. but I saw Vurpilat. Newlin might have been in the drug store. I went be hind the case and he was not there. I was in the store about five mln- societies now in existence In various The de of peace will continue through the first five days of next week. . ' Although primarily a convention of delegates from the five hundred peace utes. Neither Gray nor Worstell. Porter or Morgan was there. I saw parts, of the world, the congress has also enrolled representatives of trade Wallowa People So Something Sew The first, steel box car that ever went over the Wallowa branch, was the Union Pacific No. 100,000, which went out on Conductor Grady's train Friday morning. The car was one of the latest models and was a novel sight for the Wallowa county people as it was the first one that many of them ever saw. SISETEES OFFICIALS RESIGS Many Arrests are Pending for Re. , pair Grafts ; Chicago, July 30. Nineteen officials of the Illinois Central have resigned Already a, dozen arrests are ex pected as a result of the probing Into of the' car repairing grafts. Author! ties are seeking Henry Caterman, or ganlzer of the Memphis car com pany, wanted as a witness. The Mem plils company did repairing, which Is alleged wholesale graft practices There Is no trace of Caterman. Father Point, Quebec, July 30. The United Press received a wireless from Captain Kendall of Montrose to day saying, "The suspect did not sleep much last night and appeared haggard and 'worried today. ' The woman Is not as nervous as the man and doesn't experience the same ter ror."" -i ,- The dispatch indicates a guard ov er the couple has been posted to pre vent any attempt by Crlppen to sui cide, If he suspects ' he is being watched. Tronsers "Tip" Disguise " i Montreal, .Jiuly 20 Everythtng; is ready for the arrest of Crlppen and his ; companion, Mme. Lenave; when the Montrose arrives tomorrow after noon. Inspector ' Dew of Scotland Yard, has arrived here. The tug Ourka, has been chartered to meet the steamer in the stream, where Crlppen will be arrested before he has a chance to escape to the shore Captain Kendall, aboard the steamer, said today fc) first suspected them because the "son's" trousers fitted miserably, and were gathered at the waist with' safety pins. ColumbuS, July 30. Governor Har mon did a right-about-face and today probably will declare martial law at Columbus to take a hand In the street car Btrike. Adjutant General W'ey brccht has ordered the 4th and 8th regiments to this city, and the troops arrived this afternoon. Two other regiments,, the First and Fifth, are ordered to be in readiness troops followed a dispute between Harmon and city and county authori ties. . Harmon was angry because troops were called and authorities are dissatisfied because troops are not patrolling the streets last night when there were several riots. , WOODCUTTERS II DLOODLESS GOUT FOREMAS COOSS SHOT AT BY GEORGE SASH OF THIS CITY OS FOX HILL UGLY STATEQEf JTS ALLEGED Only One Ballet Fired and it Went Amiss Sash Harries to Town and Coons FI!aws Lr!t acd Causes Arrest of KU Asualters Wllae tsr-s Saw Eioo'g: Cat Ti .feet Kfr Cnvem$!a at Werta. . Mil. RO! CONGRESS Oil HUSDREDS IS MAS HUST Fellow Runs Amuck, Killing Mother and Others Quincy, 111.; July 30. A hundred members , of the Massachusetts nat ional guard, and fifty Quincy police men are engaged In a man hunt today for Louis Rastella, who yesterday ran amuck, killed his mother, shot; Ih E. Hardwlck to death and wounded three others. It Is believed Rastelll Is vio lently Insane, and will do further damage unless killed. The police have orders to kill him on sight. Morgan in the council room on the and labor unions, churches, civic and same night. It might have been July philanthropic societies and education- 1 that I saw Morgan first in the al institutions. It was originally Iji council room." V tended to hold the eighteenth congress E. B. Morelock was called. In this city last year, but It was post "I was In Elgin" about six weeks Pned on account of a strike which during March and April. I met Mor gan in Bader's saloon. He came and talked to me, about the 20th of March, I believe. He came and sat down be side me. asked me if I lived In Port land, stating that he was a defective. That was about the gist of the con- threatened to develop Into civil war, Among those scheduled to deliver addresses are Baroness van Suttner of Austria and Signor Moneta of Italy both recipients of the Nobel peace prize; "the eloquent . Senator La Fon taine, of Belgium, Joseph G. Alexand- c - . ... n . r l , . . . versation. I left for Portland and er ungiano. aan rrot. vju.uu. m P then came back. I never told anyone Germany. of the conversation at that time. Topics to be conMdered during the That, was the first time I remember congress Include the effect of the of seeing him," when he told me he probable establishment of an arbitral was a detective. I didn't give him court of Justice; the possibility of an much thought and he didn't have the International agreement for the Uml- appearance of ja detective. He repeat- tatlon of armaments, as foreshadowed ed that he was a detective and I In former President Roosevelt's No asked him what he was on. and he bel address; the immunity from cap answered he was after some guys In ture of merchant ships at sea during this covnty and expected to make a time of war, a measure that would do stake out of It. I am not a detective away with necessity of Jiaval protec and I 'had no. mutual admiration for tion for commerce, and therefore himi T didn't havi- a very; exalted greatly reduced' armaments; the re opinion of the man. The' first thing moval from the category of war of I knew a lot of 'boys' or saloon men questions of national honor, and the were Indicted. 'Bovs'. Is a rommon growing demand for treaty provisions , hrase for saloon men. They asked J pledging the nations not to take ter- me if I remembered a man with a ' rltory from each other by conquest. ' DOWSFALL OF SPAS1SII DYSAS. TY SEEMS FORESHADOWED P0PERECALL5HIS COMBINES SHOW INCIO POSTED WHEAT CROP AT MADR ID EXCELLENT .'.. .j- -'-- : j vij ' rw"?'" j?v ftift. BKUSSELS IS GATIIERISG PLACE FOR GOOD ROAD BOOSTERS Best Method of Constructing Roads Belli? Told by Europeans . THOUGH SOT IT TO RECOKD CROP OF . 1909, ARE FISE .'.'.. '. ' ' Brussels,, July 30. America Is ex ceptionally . well represented among the delegates who are here today to take part in the second annual Inter national Good Roaaa Congress. The congress will be officially ,,. convened tomorrow and will continue Its delib erations and demonstrations through ail of the coming week. Among the American organizations represented are the United States Department ofj Agriculture, the American Automobile Association "and the American Road Builders' Association. , r ' i";;:- Twenty-six nations are represented in thej congress, which was organized for the purpose of securing, transla ting and. distributing information con cernlng the best methods of road build Ing and maintenance. Last year's congress, the first, was held In Paris, and was attended by more than 2,000 delegates. The King is manifesting much In terest in the convention and will give a reception to the delegates.' He is a trained engineer and has invented a material for roads which is said to withstand admirably the wear of au tomobiles. President Samuel Hill, of the Am erlcan Road'; Builders , Association, says that America is further behind in respect to highway construction than any other civilized nation and that It ranks with Turkey In this re spect. He places the responsibility for this condition on the, state legis latures, the federal government being impotent In the "matter. , An erring aim of a. revolver, fire paces tdlstant. Is alone responsible for sound, Umb and body , of, Fcwaan Janies Coons, who hm charge ? a wood-chopping crew en the Krelger company ranch on Fox Hill. Coons waa shot at. white dismounting from his wagon this morning at 8:30 o'clock by George Nash, who has relatives in La Grande, but the bullet failed to bit Its mark and except for some powder burns In Coon's face, there is nothing to make lasting the efrects of tho escapade, Nash Is In La Grande today and at' noon warrant for bis. arrest was Issued from th district attorney's' office.) NasVcuiae toL Grande immediately after Ahe shoot- ' lag. - - The scene was witnessed by two menbut they did not hear the con versation between Coons and Nnsh: Coons Bta.tes that Nash , was in the habib of demanding pay for his work before Coons could audit the accounts and have the company issue the checks. This morning he was ac costed for his money again and Coons told Nash that If he would pile a cer tain heap of wood, he would pay him then. This, Nash is reported to have refused to do, and Instead, told Coons to dismount from a wagon In which he was riding. '--, Whipped Out Revolver. While Coons was dismounting, Nash is said to have whipped out a .38 six shooter and fired one shot. It missed. In the meantime A. Benson and James Palmer, two woodcutters werea short distance away and saw the , shooting but did not hear the conversation. The Iweapon was re moved from Nash's hands and he im mediately started for La Grande. Nash and Benson came to town, soon afterwards and had warrants sworn out. Benson, who was with him sta- : ted this morning: "I believe Nash Is partially insane." Nash ia reported to have said this morning to Coons: "I have been wanting to kill you for some time." ' ; ' , Apparently there has been not pre-' vious trouble between them. Recalling of Ambassador to tRome Precedes Suncio's Recall Average Thus Far in Widely Separate Fields Is About 87 Bushels. Rome July 30. Monslgnor Vfco, papal nuncio to the Spanish court, was recalled this afternoon by the Pope. The action followed the recall of Ambassador Emllio De Ojeda from the' Vatican, by King Alfonso, r This completely severs relations between Spain . and the Vatican, ' The open rupture foreshadows the downfall of the Spanish dynasty. The recalls are the result of a long fight over the question whether the state and valley this year and though the fact church should have equal powers. Al Two phases of harvesting wheat are becoming undeniable facts the past few days and they are to combine mechanisms for harvesting small grains in Union county and what is perhaps more Important, the crop as far as harvested. Is proving Itself to be of a rare high grade and that the amount is running between thirty five and forty bushels to, the acre. There are six new combines In the AGED LADY MASHES OaE Enterprise Woman, Fair and Snstalns Severe Injury. , Burton Answers Sharply Cleveland, O., July 30. Replying to a statement' Iri a Cincinnati newspa per quoting "Boss" Cox as referring to him as, a "rusty pinhead," Senator Burton today declared that Cox is no gentleman and did, not know how to talk. Cox Is bitterly disappointed be cause he could not nominate his choice for governor and is now taking out his spite on those who would not take his orders, said Burton. He closed his remarks by stating that the Enterprise, Ore., July 30. Mrs. Fay. . an elderly resident here, fell tr.d lit- : erally mashed her nose yes.erday. evening. She was watking wh a. grandchild over a board sidwaiV. when the child stepped on the end of a loose board. The elderly lady trip ped over the board, falling prone and striking fairly on the nose. That member was literally flattened and -necessitated the immediate attention of a physician. No other injuries were f sustained. ' ; Whites and Blacks are Mixing Things Austin, Aexas, July CO. Desperate lighting is going on between the whites and blacks near the city of Palestine in this state today. Govern or Campbell has ordered the Texas time had arrived for the people of ranger sto proceed to the st mt! of 1b not generally known in La Grande, ' Ohio to refuse to submit to the tactics j' war at once and disarm everybody, but the rioting continues. , :yi ijw fense favors supremacy of the state. this Is the first year that the ma-' of a man of Cox's character. 1 . I
