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If . I li 1M VOL. XI JxA. UKAJNDE, UJS1UJS jOUfl'i OKEUILN. MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1910. NUMBER 258 UV I I M I KOREA TO JAPANESE BOLDEST INSTANCE OF SHUF. FLING POLITICAL CARDS IX MODERN HISTORY. REVOLT ALREADY TALKED Japan Said to be Ready to Suppress Any Uprising That May Break Out. . People Have Been Subdued by Soldiery A Gigantic Game of Freezeout Americans Greatly In terested In Future Actions Treaties All I VI I CUl Tokio, Aug.; :: Independent Ko rea today became the' kingdom of Cho Sen. Without outward hitch the hermit kingdom was annexed to Japan. In unofficial circles, however, come ru mors of discontent and threats of re volt in Seoul capital. Annexation was made against the will of Koreans, af ter Japanese colonists had been pour ed into Korea by thousands and peo ple subdued by soldiery. It was a gigantic freezeout with Japan dealing and Russia playing with her and Chi na protesting, but was too weak. Jap anese statesmen announced Korean treaties will be recognized for a time. This was probably done to appease the United States whose citizens enjoy many privileges under Korean trea ties not allowed by Japanese trea ties. It is acknowledged that Russia was acquainted with every detail of Ja- s I MRS. SAMUEL COCHRAN PASSES A IV AT EARLY TODAY. One of the Pioneers of the Valley aud Highly Esteemed Always. . ;.. . . . i I Ml. Death this morning removed anoth' er land mark of local, pioneer days, when Louisa Jane (Ruckman) Coch ran, wife or Samuel Cochran, 170& First street, this city, died at 8:40 a. m. Mrs. Cochran had been ill for some time and confined to her bed for the past month or so. Death, however, was sudden, as she succumb ed to heart trouble. She was born December 28, 184j. near Agency, Iowa. On November 29, 1866, she was united in marriage to Samuel Cochran,, with whom, in the year, 1872, she came to Union county, Oregon. She leaves her husband and three children, Mrs. Mary W. Copple of Corvallls, Oregon, and -Charles E. and George T. Cochran, of this city. In 1865 she joined the Christian church at Bladensburg, Iowa, and has been an active member and sincere worshiper since that time. From 1872 until 1879, the family lived on what is known as the Sandridge In this valley. Then one year was spent in Califor nia, and eight years at Hood River. Oregon. Since the spring of 1909, she has resided In La Grande. She also leaves surviving her, one ister. Mrs. Elizabeth Connolly of Ag ency City. Iowa, and two brothers, George W. and Thomas M. Ruckman, of Alicel, Oregon. The funeral services will be held Wednesday. There will be a simple funeral service at the family home on First street at 10 o'clock a. in. The remains will then be t.aken to the family lot In the Summerville ceme tery and a short service will be held t the cemetery at one o'clock, p. w. 1 I pan's plan regarding Korea at time of Russo-Japan convention concerning status quo in Manchuria. Toklo newspapers have an extra edition today. The general tone of the press is that Korea had fulfilled her destiny as a nation and that Japan la ready . to crush out any revolution at hand, or aid, financially and com mercially, Koreans with'others. Jap anese 'policy of meeting force with Impressive persistence was never bet ter shown. Early in July Viscount General Terauchi arrived ijj. Seoul. He soon suppressed the press, censored the cables so that little was known that was going on until Japan was ready to take over the government. SALT PALACE BURNS. Noted Building at Salt Lake Is Des troyed by Flames. Salt Lake. Aug. . 29. Famed Salt Palace of "our lake," with the pavil ion was destroyed by fire, which is believed to have been "of incendiary origin, today. The entire city fire de partment fought for ten hours, before the fire was controlled. The bicycle track, which was being used for a race meet benefit, was Injured. ' Bicycle riders and carpenters are working on a temporary track fo tomorrow's con test. FIRE SITUATION WESTERN AND S0UTHI'N ORE. GON BENEFITED BT SHOWERS General Condition Throughout the Northwest Is Much Better. ' Medford, Aug. 29. A drizzling mist and a lack of wind is putting an end to the-forest fires. If ..no wind comes up, the situation will be controlled in 24 hours. Favorable reports come in from all districts, Better In Western Oregon. Portland, Aug. 29. Rain yesterday and last night, with promise of more today, has caused a great Improve ment in'' the forest fires of Western, OiegcTn and around Mt. Hood, In southern Wash. It is expected that the troops will soon be recalled. From the Mt. Hood district, reports say the flames are subduing rapidly. Spokane District Improved. Spokane, Aug. 29. Fire fighters have practically quit fighting and are patrolling the St. Joe district. The critical stage la passed and conditions are rapidly mending. The Dayton. Wash., fire Is now under control. It burned $25,000 worth of timber. Forty-FIve Burned. Washington, Aug. 29. Associate Forester Greeley today wired that 45 fire fighters were burned in the Northwest fires. Five men in two crews are still missing. The dead were all temporary employes of the government. East Lincoln Is Flooded. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 29. East Lin coln is Isolated by flood today, due to a sudden raise in Entrpe creek. Th streets are submerged five fee; homes are flooded .and persons are compelled to flee. It is feared that lives were lost, but none were re ported at noon today. It rained eight inches during the night. Directors to Eat. The Fair directors and the enter tainment committee are to meet to morrow evening for a C:."?0 o'cloci dinner. All members oftheHe com mittees should be present as Import ant matters will come up for settle ment at the same time the pleasure? of the dinner are being enjoyed. IMPROVED BY SHORT RAIN HUNDRED THOUSAND GREET ROOSEVELT If! DENVER TU DAY COLONEL ENJOYS CHUCK WAGON FEAST-ADDRESS LIVE STOCK MEN WITH STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER TALK ON CONSERVATION-STATE CONTROL OF THE RESOURCES BITTERLY ASSAILED BY THE SPEAKER. SUBJECTS HANDLED. State . control, power sites, coal land, neutral ground, rec- lamation and forest service 4fe were handled without show of tear by Ruubevcii iu ieiiver speech. He advocated: Im- mediate stop of wastes or re- 4 sources, immediate develop- 4fr ment of power sites and re g sources, leasing of coal lands 4 and general development that will, not deprive "those who y come after us" of their Just 4 rights. $ Denver, Aug. 29. A presidential 8a lute of 2a guns was given today, whn Colonel Roosevelt arrived., here. . A hundred thousand visitors were gath ered to welcome him, it being ,the big best crowd 'since Roosevelt left New York. Atnoon the Colonel was a guest of tfie Denver press club. Later he was escorted to Overland Park where he was guest of honor at a "chuck wagon" dinner. , Real . chuck wagons with two old cowcamp cooks prepared and served the feast In gen uine round-up style. Afterwards he went to the auditorium in the heart of the city, and was the guest of hon or and the principal speaker at this afternoon's session of the Colorado Livestock Association. After the speech there he was scheduled to ad dress a special session of the Colo rado legislature, and after that he was rushed back to the auditorium to speak before the veterans of the Spanish-American war. Tonight he will be the honored guest of the Live Stock Men at an Informal .banquet. This country has shown definite signs of waking up to the absolute necessity of handling Us natural re sources with foresight and wmmon. sense. The Conservation Question has three sides. In the first place, the needless waste of the natural resour ces must be stopped. It Is rapidly be coming a well-settled policy of this people that we of this generation, hold the land in part for the next genera tion, and not exclusively for our own selfish enjoyment. Just as the far mer is a good citizen If he leaves his farm Improved and not impaired for his children, and a bad citizen if he skins the land in his own selfish In terest, so the natlona behaves well if it treats the natural resourc.es as as sets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not im paired in value, and behaves badly if it leaves the land poorer to thone who come after us. In the second place, the natural re sources must be developed, promptly, completely, and In orderly fashion. It is not conservation to leave the natur al resources undeveloped. Develop ment Is an indispensable pnt of the conservation plan, the forests, the mines, the water powers, and the land itself, must be put to use. Those who assert that conservation proposes to tie them up, depriving this generation of their benefits in order to hand them on untouched to the next, miss ths whole point of the conservation idea. Conservation does not mean- depriv ing the men of today of their natural rights la the natural resources or the land. All it means Is that we of this generation shall so use our rights as not to deprive those who come after im of their natural rights , in their turn. In the third place, so far as possible, these resources must be kept for th" whole people, nnd not handed over for II! t exploitation to single individuals. We do not intend to discourage individual enterprise by unwsely diminishing th?. reward for that enterprise. On t'-K contrary we believe that the men o exceptional abilities should have ex ceptional rewards up to a point when tn-j rewaru oecoines aisproportionatf to the service, up to the point where tie abilities are used to the detriment of the people as a whole. Thus oir consistent aim is to favor the actual settler the man who'takes as much of the public domain as he himself can cultivate, and there makes a perman ent home for his children who come after him; but we are against the ii'an. no matter what his ability," ,vtio iries to monopolize large masses )! public land. State aud Federal Control. Now, to preserve the general wel fare, to see to it that tholghts of the public are protected, and the liberty of the individual secured and encourage ed as long as oensistent with this wel fare, and curbed when It becomes in consistent therewith, it is necessary to invoke the aid of the government. There are points in which this govern mental aid can bet be rendered ly the states, that is, where the exercise of state's rights helps to secure popu lar rights; and as to these I believe In state's rights. But there are large classes of cases where only the auth ority of the national government will secure the rights of the people; and where there is the case I am con vinced and a thorough-going believe: in the rights of the national govern ment . Big business, for Instance, li-. no longer an affair of any one state; 'big business has become nationalized, and the only effective way of controll ing and. directing it, and preventing abuses in connection with it, is by having the people nationalize this con- ' trol In order to prevent their beinc f exploited by the Individuals who nave nationalized the business. All com merce on a scale sufficlenty large to warrant any control over it by the government is nowadays inter-state or foreign commerce; and until this fact Is heartily acknowledge and acted up on, by both courts and legislative bod ies, national and state alike, the inter est of the people will suffer. In the matter of conservation. - I heartily approve of state action where under our form of government the state, and the state only, has the pow er to act. I cordially Join with those who desire to see the state within its own sphere, take the most advanced position in regard to the whole mat ter of conservation. , ' Water Tower. Take the question of the control or the water power sites. The enormous importance of water power sites to the future industrial development of this country has only been realized within a very few years. , '.Unfortunately, the realization has come too late as re gards many of the power sites; but many yet remain, with which our hands are free to deal. We should make It our duty to see that hereafter the power sites are kept under the control of the general government, for the use of the people' as a whole. The fee should remain with the peoplo as a whole, while the use Is leased on terms which shall secure nn ample re ward 'to '.he lessees.' which shall en courage the development and use of the water power, but which shall not create a permanent monopoly or per mit the development to be anti-social to lie in any respect hostile to the pub lic pood. The nation alone has the power to do this effectively, and It I for this reason that you will find those corporations which wish to gain im-j efficient control on the part of the public, doing all that they tan to se cure the substitution of state for nat ional action. There is something fairly comic lu the appeal made by many of thesa men In favor of state control, win. you realize that the great corpora tions seeking the privileges of devel oping the water power In any given state are at least as apt to be owned outside that state as within it In this country, nowadays, capital has a nat ional and not a state use. The great corporations which are managed and largely owned in the older states are those which are most In evidence in developing and using the mines and water powers and forest of the new territories and the new states, from Alaska to Arizona, i have been great ly Amused during the past two months at having arguments presented me on behalf of certain rich men from New York, and Ohio, for instance, as, to why Colorado and other Rocky Moun tain States should mA no a thai water power sites. Now these men may be good citizens, according to their lights, but naturally enough their special Interest obscures their tCon ttaueT on r age ElgntT" WILL URGE TARTT PLEDGE" HASTE IN LEGISLATION. Kansas Will not be Radically Inxnr gent Tomorrow Is Belief. Beverly. Aug. 29. President Taft Is not overlooking a possibility of demo c ratic control of the next house, With such a possibility in view he U work ing out a legislative progrmme for the coming short session. ''It will in clude platform pledges of the re publican party. The program, It U understood, will be very short and every preparation made to get the biggest part of the legislation passed between December 5 and March 4. A special message to congress urging haste in handling leg islation, Is being considered, accord ing to reports. Taft Is anxious to bring' about harmony between the In surgents and regulars as the program otherwise can not be put through. Kansas May Go Conservative. Topeka, Aug. 2t. Despite the fact that the Insurgents control Kansas, It is predicted that Kansas republicans at tomorrow's convention, will adopt a conservative-progressive platform. Reported resolutions will ask for a revision of the tariff, and endorse the good points In Taft's administration, will approve unqualifiedly for Sena tor Bristow, Congressmen Madison, and Murdock, Insurgents. New Studio Chair. The Hitter photograph 'studio today received a handsome, new chair. It is especially designed and finely carved. It Is a massive piece of furniture and the kind that is found only, in high grade galleries.. ' Blir Horse Sale. One hundred percheons, clydes nnd shires, will be sold at public auction Tuesday, September 27, at Enterprise. E. A. Anderson and George Wagner, the owners, are planning on a bl? success of the sale and many local horsemen will participate in the sales Goe to Los Anirclcs , Ff.nart Ingftl, a University of W1h consln student, who has been employ ed at the Palmer mill the past Bum pier, left tot evening for Los Angeles. where he will remain Indefinitely. SHORT SESSION MESSAGE IS DOGTOn CRIPPEH PLANNED TO SUICIDE NOT EXPECTING ARREST HIS GRUESOME SCHEME MIS CARRIED, SATS NOTE IT! 15 MIES Letter to Leneve Found In Pocket Of Doctor Crippen When He Was Arrested by Inspector Dew Letter Affirmed his Money was Gone and His Conscience at Unrest Prays to It Forirlvn hr Inev. " London, Aug. 29. Scotland Yard Inspector Dew testified before Magis trate Marshall today that Dr. Crippen had planned to suicide, just before the steamer Montrose arrived at Can ada, where Crippen was arrested with Leneve, Dew said when Crippen was arrested at Father Point, he had the following note- addressed to Leneve la bis pocket: "I cannot stand the horror through, which 1 have gone evinry night. Any longerri hav made up my mind to jump overboard tonight. I see noth ing ahead of me. My money has run" out. I know I have spoiled your life. I hope some day you will forgive me." Crippen did not expect to be arrest ed when he penned the epistle. The night he intended to suicide he was arrested. , At the hearing today Crippen was formally charged with the murder of his wife, and then' remanded to Jail. He will plead September 6, DEATH OF COUNSEL'S MOTHER IS PARTIALLY RESPONSIBLE Grand Jury Retained and Will Com ineitce Deliberations Tomorrow. Pending liquor cases and what oth er indictments may be ground out by the present grand Jury will not be tried this week as contemplated, but are set for September 12. Court con vened this morning on the cull of Judge Knowles, but was forced to ad journ again on account of several pot ent factors. Attorney C. E. Cochran, counsel with C. H. Finn in all the li quor cases pending, ia mourning tho death of his mother, jyhlch occurred this morning, and out of respect to the bereaved attorney, court was adjourn ed. ' . v-y The grand Jury is held today pend ing arrival here of Foreman W. J. Townley, who was detained in Port land and could not reach La Grande this morning. The grand Jury will proceed with its inquisition tomorrow morning and remain lu1 session until all Is finished. In this way the call ing of the grand Jury will be of no avail. It Is presumed that true bills in one of the two cases will be re turned immediately but one prospect ive bill that Is likely to be Investiga ted Is the charge of Jury packing pre ferred by the Btate with Adolph New 1 in as prosecuting witness against W. A. Worstt-ll and Frank E.'Gray; pas tor of the Baptist church here. It U freely admitted that the grand Jury, will ! given the evidence and a? the lower rourt dismissed the case, there h much speculation as to what tho grand Jury will do. circuit CDunris ADJ0UR1IED