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VOL. XI
JxA. UKAJNDE, UJS1UJS jOUfl'i OKEUILN. MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1910.
NUMBER 258
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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
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MRS. SAMUEL COCHRAN PASSES
A IV AT EARLY TODAY.
One of the Pioneers of the Valley aud
Highly Esteemed Always.
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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.
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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
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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