La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, August 15, 1910, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextLA GUAND12 EVENING Cr3E!lVi: MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1910. PAC - - 1 r . I lib 1 J i v I av 1 i -TCMIGHT'S PRGERAM An Advertisement Answered Ess&nay. . - Diminutive Donkey 24-Hour Auto Races Parke. .A Child's Impulse Blograph. Sobs One, the Only One. Beautiful dishes given .to lady patrons of the matinee. See dis play In lobby. AfJIISSIEll lie- J LOCAL iTESS. O Eugene Good is expected home from an 'extended stay in Southern Oregon tomorrow. , V- - J ' L. N. Klecse, owner of the Electric lSght plant at Summervllle, spent Sun day In the' city visiting Mends. .visiting friends here, west to Union this morning to spend few days with friends in that city. . XI rs. Kate Nell returned to her home v In Portland this inorning after an ex pended visit with her daughter, Mrs. Fred Boich of this city, . Mrs. Fred Falconer f Enterprise, spent Sunday at the Foley. Her hus band secured the highest prices paid for Eastern Oregon wool this year. Ralph Fowler, the "pioneer" pas senger brakeman on the Pendleton Huntington run,' spent Sunday in the city with relatives and visiting friends. - Doctor . S. D.Townley, professor of astronomy at Stanford university, and .his brother. W. J.. Townley of Union, spent yesterday in La "Grande, staying .at the Savoy. . , . ' Attnmev C. A. Johns and Editor Kennedy of Baker City, -passed through the city this morning on their way home. They attended the funeral of the late Harvey W. Soott at Portland. Hon. Jerry Rusk, Joint representa tive from Union and Wallowa counties passed through the city today enroute home to Joseph, from Salem and Fort' land. Mrs. H A. Caldwell, wife of the Best Manufacturing Co's. representative in La Grande, has returned to her home in Walla Walla, after visiting with her husband here for several days. Mrs. S. N. Nelson. Miss Hattie Mc Murray. Miss Belle Ferguson and Mrs H. E. McLeod, delegates to the district convention of the Epworth 'League, went to Enterprise this morning where Aha aoaninnn commence tomorrow The Union delegates, consisting of Mrs. -Carmen and Miss Wolfe, made the trip with them. ' . ; FARMERS' BUSINESS WE GIVE PARTICU LAR MENTION TO THE BUSINESS FARMERS. WE COR DIALLY INVITE THEM TO MAKE THIS 1 HEIR BANKING, HOME. - ; .. ' .. -! ' The United States National Bank, LA GRANDE, OREGON. Herbert Coones of Cove, was in loin Grande this morning. Tom Bruce returned home today from a short trip to Elgin. Miss Maggie Coleman has returned from a brief visit at Joseph. H. C. Rinehart returned home today from a business trip to Portland. J. M. Rankin, a well-known Joserh Ite, was in the city yesterday evening B. Smith of Joseph, returned to hiB home yesterday, after a visit in this city P. C. Bramwell leaves this evening for the coast where he will spend the remainder of his vacation. Dr., J. C. Shields, D. D. of Baker City, is staying at Hot Lake for a few days. rs. George Hill of "Walla Walla went to Joseph this morning to spend a few days at the lake. W. E. Gorrle and family, Miss Ethel Gulling, and Miss Irene Murphy, re turned home today from a week's va cation at the head of the Lake." Mrs. Chas. Stacy and children. Hay ward and WITma. returned home today from a fourteen days1 visit at the Fred pnit omn t th wJI f the lake. Mrs, B. C. Hutchison and Miss Eth el McKennon returned today from the head of the Lake, where they have been camping for the past week. John Vanderpool, the popular stage driver between Summerville and Im bler, was a Sunday visitor in .La Grande, returning fhiB morning. Fred B. Currey, publicity agent for the Hot Lake Sanatorium, lert last evening for Portland, where he will transact business matters and enjoy a brief vacation. Roy Conklln, principal of the Cove schools, has returned to his home after assisting the superintendent' in con ducting the school teachers' examina tionB here last week. ; ' Hooper, the crack second baseman for the Elgin baseball team and Mor ris, the Elgin football player, spent Sunday in the city visiting friends, re turning this morning. Miss Cathey, head nurse at the Hot Lake Sanitarium and Miss Kelly, one of the La Grande hospital nurses, left yesterday for Wenaha Springs, on well-earned ' vacation. Prof. J. D. Stout returned home this morning from Cove where he and his family have "been visiting friends for few days. Mr. Stout and daughter will remain at Cove for a few days Alex Fraser of Portland, died at St, Vincent Hospital in Portland Saturday night, and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Nice left last evening to attend the funeral. De ceased was the father of Mrs. Nice; Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Childers, Mrs, Fred Waggoner of Pendleton, Mrs Wallace Childers, Merril Childers and Don Scott, have returned from Joseph where they were camping for several weeks , Miss Elsie Couch, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. U, G. Conch, has left for Call fornla, and will enter Berkeley this winter for a four-year course. Miss Couch graduated from the La Grande high school with the class of '10, and was a prominent member of that class, graduating with high honors. ; Mr. and Mrs. George Bernle have re turned from a week's outing of a novel sort in the mountains back of Cove. They made the trip by horseback, go ing to the Little Miriam via Cove, and then over the . Big Minam. During the time they were In the hills they were completely isolated from civilization. Few ladies dare attempt this tbrilling Journey and Mrs. Bernle enjoj s the distinction of being one of the few la dles to fish In upper Mlnam wntvrs. Nebraska WW Yate Tonmrmw Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 15. Wit'i : Uv eal option the chief Issue in th-' state wide primaries tomorrow, it 1? eject ed a heavy vote will be p!' ' The endorsement of the V. S. 'hip, and gubernatorial nomlnaf- 'I be Important contests. The ".r;-" ;ack Governor Shallenberger, v' w r be hind Mayor Dahlman of O's'- ';ov ernor. Dahlman Is a demoi ..t. I'J riiilOG LU I IPDT sr ULIUI Uli SUB-GRADING OX ADAK.S AYENTE IS COMPLETED. Depot Next Street te Be Improved by Bitnlithie Pavement Adams avenue Is not alone torn up by street improvement for the steam plow commenced to tear the surface of Depot street to pieces today, . Sur face grading on Adams avenue has ad vanced to such a degree that it is merely the details that have to be done from now on, and Depot street is the next thoroughfare to be "attacked" by the Warren Construction ' company, The sewers have all been laid on that street too, which makes it possible to place the bltulifhic on that street now. This week will see practically the en tire west nortton of Adams avenue- strewn with different layers and grades of crushed rock. " EXPERIMENT STATION MAN MERE State Institution at Hermlstea Is In FUarisfclac Ca4IfJsw R. W. Allen, superintendent of the state experiment station at Hermiston, where he has to work out the prob lems of irrigation, in addition to oth er topics, is in La Grande today. He affirms the lnstituton is doing some excellent work, and that the present year has been an exceptionally rich one for tanners in that section of the state.' : '' C, B. JOHNSON BUYS STABLE. City Livery Stable Purchased by C B, Johnson This Morning. C. B. Johnson has taken over entire. ownership and management of , the City Livery Stables on fourCh and Ad ams. R. S. Clark; was formerly con nected with the ownership of the barn and epulpment. ... Band Dance Wednesday Night. There will be a ban at the Elks Hall Wednesday , night given by the La Grande concert band. Arrangements are being made for one of those good times for which the band is noted, and each member announces this will be one of the best events ever given by that organisation. FOURTH STREET TROGRESSIYE Resldeats Cirealatlng Petition to Have That Street Pawd, Too. . Petitions are out to have Fourth street paved. - The matter will offlal ly come, before the council at its next meeting, when all the petitioners names will be read off. Jhe .Fourth street residents nra .anxious to have the entire street paved with bltullthls instead of macadam, wlilch will in time have to be replaced Ty something more substantial, they argue. IIODGINS A CANDIDATE Has Declared His Intentions and Tu ners are Being Circulated. , John S. Hodglns, a local attorney, has filed his declarations of Intentions to become a candidate for district at torney in the Tenth district, the only one which elects that official at the fall election this year. His papers have been in Salem for a week, and h' papers have been circulated in Wal lowa county, and are now being circu lated In this county. Mr. Hodglns came to La Grande from Enterprise, where he was in the law business for several years. Loeb Stops Vacations. New York, Aug. 15. In order that there may be no lack of officials to handle the rush of European tourists, Collector Loeb has ordered that no va cations be given to the customs men of this port after today, until Novem ber 15. Vabel Hlte Going Blind. New York, Aug., 15. Owing to ser ious trouble with her eyes, which may result in, blindness, Mabel Hlte, the actress wife of Mike Donlln. the base ball player, has Indefinitely postponed her engagement at the Comedy Thea tre, originally scheduled to begin tonight n DERIS IS IIEHE il RELATIVE OF NOTED EXPLORER LOCATES IN THIS CITT He and E C Moore Buy the C, V Baker Tailoring House. P. Andree, a cousin of the explorer, Andree, who'was lost in the artlc re gions in 1897, while attempting to reach the North Pole, has come to La Grande from New York to locate in the establishment formerly owned by C. W. Baker. E. C. Moore of this city is partner with Mr. Andree and they will conduct a tailoring business at that place. Mr. Andree has been in the tailor business for twenty-five years in New York. E. E. BRAGG AND DAUGHTER WILL GO INTO INTERIOR OREGON. Three Handred Mile Journey Flanned te. Commence Tomorrow. A Juncket that will involve mazam alsm, timber cruising and entail some real communing with nature, will be commenced tomorrow mornings when County Superintendent E. E. Bragg, and hiB daughter, Miss Zoe, a popular student of the local high school, will commence a Journey to the John Day country. They will make the trip by horseback, taking . a course . of 150 miles in length going and the same coming back. They have no definite time to return in and will proceed slowly at first, that they may be har dened to the task. Their final des tination is the western half of tha John Day county, and while away Mr. Bragg will locate on some land. A timber cruiser win accompany them. V Falling from a wagon hauling sand '.o the city, a nine-year-old son of Mr. tnd MrB. C, J. Eaton. corner North Fourth and Lake streets, was InsUnv ly killed at three o'clock this after noon. The little fellow was riding as pastime with Incoming sand loads and as the wagon Jolted, he fell from thq seat beside the driver, an 1 strik ing on his head, broke his necfc tlo?o up to the head. Doctor Hubbard was i called, but he was dead long before j the physician reached him. . He was taken to the home of Mrs. Johnson by Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. D. KlBeverldge, and the physician called. The accident was so unfor tunate and bo sudden that the parents are simply grief-stricken. LEWIST0N1 TRAGEDY ENACTED TESTERDAY AT LEWISTON TRAMWAY llagh Laterty Shot and Killed by the Housekeeper. 3 Lewlston, Idaho, Aug. 15. Hugh Laverty, a mining man. was shot and killed yesterday, by Ernest Thonini. the keeper of the house at the Tram ray. Thomas claims that he and Laverty left yesterday and went to the cabin In the woods. He says that when they reached . there, three men 1 BUY KILLED Itll FALL Fill LOAD IIR 1 r; i ! n9 r: op AND BACON A HAMS AND BACON 1 ' i: Fffl(0)(cWsi8 I opened the door. According to Thom as, one of these men handed him a Ehotzun. and then at the point of a rt yolver, ordered him to shoot Lavi -ty. t'ngnteneo oy tui, 'tiivui t. he fired the shot, The, body whs l'ound shortly afterwards. " BALLINGER EXPLAINS IT Saving What We Have, He Says, Is . Conservation. Klamath Falls, Ore., Aug. 13,"We have got to be frugal and economical, we have got to use sense in handling our resources, which we have. That's all there is to conservation," said Ballinger today. ."I believe it would ue Bare to say mat mere is oniy n small proportion of western people who. are public land criminals and disposed to take advantage of the fed eral government. Wherever they are, they believe in the right enforcement of the law, and the prosecution of grabbers, and also the protection of the law should be given the honest man who is seeking his rights under he law." ' Officers In Trouble. ' Guthrie, Aug. 5. If state officials obey the governor's order Issued to day to move to Oklahoma City they will be charged with contempt of lourt. If they rebel the order of the of flees will be declared vacant. The case Is pending In the supreme court, which has forbidden the removal of the capital from Guthrie to Oklahoma City. ,'-v, .. Killed nnder Falling Walls. Toronto, Aug. 15. Fourteen men are known to be dead, and fully fifty are burled by the falling of a concrete wall at Messena, N. Y., according to a dispatch recelvgd here. The rescued are trying to tear away the ruins and sove those Imprfsoned.The men killed J were working ori a wall "which was ln: tended as the foundation for a power house. Without warning the wall gave away, falling on the men. A score ' were injured and taken to Cornwall, Ontario, and Ogdensburg, N. Y. It Is believed that 50 people are under the tons of concrete. Johnson Before Committee Sulphur, Okla., Aug. ;17. Former District Attorney W. B. Johnson,' who entered a protest when indictments against Mansfield, McMurray . and Connish were quashed, and who was dismissed from office for this action, tnd reinstated 15 minutes later, wa crlled before the committee today. lie said: "During he eight years I was Uni ted States District Attorney, '5,000 indictments were returned in my court, and only one wad investigated. That one was against McMurray, Mansfield and Connish. I was called to Washington In August, 1905. As sistant Attorney General Russell was kept busy writing for nine days for McMurray to appear. . ' Crell Lyon was present , Johnson stated, after protest, that he returned home and received telegrams dismis sing him. Fifteen minutes later an other telegram came reinstating him. But his successor had time to dismiss the indictments. Nightingale Dead. London, Aug. 15. "Nightingale, the queen of nurses," who died Saturday PREMIUiYi HAMS' will be burled la Westminister abbey. She was born to the sepulchre la state and escorted with a great mili tary cortege. '.' , Makes Fifth Lap. Amiens, France, Aug. 15. Leblaa completed his fifth and next to the last lap of his 438-mile race today when he arrived here. He left Boual at 5i20 a. m., and reached here at 6:20. Ed Wright is a business visitor la' Cove today. Marriage License. ' License to wed was granted to Franklin W. Severs and Mildred ) Parkeri of Cove nif I A , - SHARK PRODUCTS. Even the Bones Are IWul, the Spinei as a Walking Stiok. Products obtained from the shark are both numerous and valuable. Shark fins furnish a Jelly that makes a delicious soup, If one. may credit the statements of those affecting that deli cacy. There la an excellent market for this jelly wherever Chinese are to be found. The shark's . liver gives a splendid clear oil excellently adapted for the lubrication of the parts of watches, clocks and fine guns. This oil It held In some quarters In as high esteem as Is the oil obtained from porpoise and dogfish liver, long claimed to be the finest of animal oils. Sharkskin is of much value. It Ua of a beautiful burnished gray or bin-' lab color and at first glance looks llk finely grained leather by reason of tha tiny prickles plentifully set one way J There are so many of these, prickles,; Quite invisible to the naked eye, thai the effect afforded by the dried skln is one of rich beauty, a quality than makes It particularly valuable for th manufacture of shagreen. It Is em ployed, forp many decors tire purposes ' - Eytjtie bones of sharks are useful,' Thejiplpe Is In constant demand by the irmiiofacturers of curious walking; stltUsl'bey pass a thin malacca oc, steel rod through the polished and round vertebrae, and the result is a cane that sells for a high price. The shark spine stick is a great favorite In Germany.-Harper's Weekly. BULL BAITING. A Brutal "Sport" That Was Popular In Formsr Days. The principle of bull baiting was ex tremely simple.. A collar was fasten ed round toe bull's neck, and by this the bull was attached by a rope to a stake. The rope varied from nine to fifteen feet In length and therefore ai lowed the bull but little movement The audience was accommodated in a circle or "ring." The bulldog's duty was to grasp the boll's nose, and when be had succeed ed in obtaining u grip be was required to maintain bis bold, despite the ef forts of the Inrger animal to dislodge blm. The bull awaited the attack with lowered horns, which the dog songbt to evade by crouching toward the head of his, opponent. Sometimes the bull managed to get his horns nnder ori Into the dog, which was then thrown high Into the air. . Writers state that dogs bad been tossed up to a height of thirty or forty feet The dog, if be survived, would "retire hurt" On the other band, cnceJ the dog. which was trained to grip only the nose, obtained a hold his adver sary would have little chance of sha ' Ing blm off. The bull would whirl t dog In the air and struggle frantica ' to wrench his nose free from the t rtble grip. When, from sheer exha tlon. the dog dropped clenr of the bi fresh dog was sent Into tbe ring.