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MM 5 VOL. XIV. L AGRAOTE, UNION COUNTY, OREGON. -TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1910. Number 296 ... A- V f i t : I HUT SHOW IS TIE STELLAR ATTRACTION : SPLENDID AEEAY of babies com PETE FOR ELEGANT COLD MEDALION AT FAIR. SCHOOL CHILDREN NUDE s Last Afternoon of Fair Prom Stellar Attraction for Mothers and Children l.' Tin. t.tttl TtuklM Tlfc School Students are Found at Fair Grounds Closing Hours Promise Interest, a v ' ' RAILROAD MEN STRIKE. Great Number of Employes Through out Northern France In Trouble. faris, Oct. 11 Rioting on the North ern railway lines began today although ! no attempts have been made to oper-1 1 A i t 1 1 L 1 I ate me trains, vvoramen wno Birut-it j suddenly last nignt gatnerea aDout the stations today and resented the efforts of the police and troops to dis perse them. Railroad men number 100,- 00 of Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean are considering a. walkout in sympathy with the northern strikers. The labor situation ' In France, is fraught' with serious possibilities as a result. The strike was precipitated by coal handler's demand for 'an increase of wages to a dollar a day from 6d cents. When they were refused every "em ploye Including the women ticket tak ers struck and 13,200' employes are out. ' ; ' ' ':;:;;- The government Is now transporting nails by automobile. If this falls ae- tvy'uuiea win De used. Newspapers are demanding an extra session of parlia ment to consider the strike. ; - ' n a BODIES II! IF MANGLED CONDITION TEN FOUND THIS MORNING BUT ALL HORRIBLY TORN TO PIECES BY EXPLOSION. WD Ml STARVED REFUGEES AT BOARD C. OF W. SEPARATE SEXES. ENORMOUS AREA IS ZONE OF SOR ROW FOLLOWING DATA ON 4 FATAL FOREST FIRES. English Literature to be Tausrht Sep arately After Toda Is Edict. University of Washington, Seattle. Oct. 11. After today co-eds and male students In the English literature de partment will be separated, accord ing to the announcement of Dr. F. ' Padelford, head of the department, "I find they can't do good work In the same class. Just what is the reason I cannot say," said Padelford. Co-eds are indignant at the insinuation they Interfere with the men's work, bt the men appear to be pleased with the change.' " "; --- Starkville Mine Horror Will be nush- ed Until the Fill Particulars ire naced in the Hands of Froper An- thorlHes No Chance to get Bodies to the Surface let as they were Found Two Slues From Surface. Yirgll R. Greenwood) son of Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Greenwood, prominent , ranchers near La Grande, held the lucky number and carried away the sweepstakes at the baby - show this afternoon. The lucky number was drawn from among sixty-one. 'La Grande's pretty little' babieB growing up to homely men came into their own with a flare of trumpets this afternoon at 3 o'clock. With forty five entered long before the momen- tuoua moment arrived, Interest was widespread and. little else was dis cuBBed la the homes of La Grande to day than the baby Ihow ,and its pro-i bable outcome. Fond and proud inoth- era commenced to arriye long before the appointed hour' and the striking of 3 o'clock was but the signal to be gin the drawing of numbers for the winner of the solid gold locket which was to be awarded by lottery and not on merits of looks as is sometimes the case. Mrs. A, L. Richardson, In charge of the event, was fortunate in securing a long list of ."entries" and others were added at the last moment School Children Parade. ; New and added attractions was giv en the closing1 afternoon of the fair by a march of school children at 2:30 o'clock. All the students, of the school . f nrm M in narade . and marched to the fair grounds and they were In at tendance when the baby show opened It was a big day for the babies, a big day for the mothers, and still a big ger day for the school children and the pompous high school lads and las sies too because It afforded a partial holiday. . , The entire, delegation from the . North side schools numbering several hundred marched In a body to the fair grounds, reaching the main entrance about the time that the Central and White buildings had been emptied and . the line of march started. In all over 1100 children "boke In" on the fair at one time, and with a liberal repres entation from the cradles already on hand, the building became t. pavilion . of chattering youngsters, all out in their best attire and happy as larkB. It was an auspicious last afternoon for the fair. ' :' The baby show was not without an element of politics. Oswald West, the Democratic governor if the Democrats :" Confederate Daughters. : St Joseph, Mo., Oct. f 11 United Daughters of the Confederacy of Mis souri will hold their state convention in this town during the three days beginning today.' All the chapters In the state have sent delegates. - HEW TOWHS IN 0M1GER Martial Law Will be Declared In Large . nUirlot Whm Will. ! Scene Women and Children Sent Out but Men Remain to Fight the Flames Fire Zone Is Enormous in Extent Say Late Figures. MEN AT ' NIUS IIUUUUVUUU IV I .BOIERIN: STOHEY ADDRESS TOMORROW STEWARD NEW ORLEANS ORATOR WILL AD DRESS LOCAL AUDIENCE. His Speech Is Bight to the Point and Tells His Yerslon of Laws. Starksville. Oct. 11 Ten bodies (of miners were found - today after res cuers had worked Incessantly since Saturday's explosion, In the main tun nel two miles from the entrance all were fearfully mangled. The tunnel was filled with debris and it probably will be a long time before the bodies can be brought to the surface as the rescuers' work Is further in danger from fire damp. It, Is expected the rest are dead.. Work Hereafter Secret. Several rescuers were overcome by polsonlous gases today.. Shortly after finding . the bodies, T. T. ' Wellboen, president of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company arrived and will make a personal Investigation. Following the arrival of the mine officials they decided on a policy of secrecy. It is expected no further details can be given out until a thorough investiga tion Is made and reports placed in the hands of proper authorities. Big Christian Assembly. Topeka, Kan., Oct 11 Ministers and laymen from all parts of the world, numbering several thousands, are in Topeka today participate in the New Century International convention of the Christian church. Last .year,; 50, uuo members celebrated the centennial of the church at Pittsburg, Pa., and the present meeting marks the beginning of a ne wcentury for the denomination. WEST TO MAKE ROUNDS AND ' SPEAKS TO PEOPLE AT VARIOUS POINTS. .- Warboard, Minn., Oct 11 Desola tion and sorrow reign today over a thousand square miles area where a few days before was a great timber belt of tMvlng villages. Three hund red bodies must be cared for at Rainy riven, alone, according to private ad vices. Rainy la crowded likewise with half starved refugees, many of whom are badly burned and suffering from lack" of sufficient medical treatment A rush of flames before a high wind to day threatened destruction of Rainier, Ragtey, as Ciearbrook.. Back1 firing i. the only hope. , " Women and .children were sent out and the men remained to fight the fire. Aid for the refugees which over crow Warroad " are being sent from Winnipeg. The fire tone will beplaced under martial law In the Beaudette district following the arrival of the btate militia. Calol and Clementsen are reported burned. , ' - Another Crop Report. Washington, Oct. 11 A supplemen tal crop report, giving a general re view of the situation and including; crops not covered in yesterday's re port, was issued today by the Depart ment of Agriculture. On the whole, the report shows a favorable condition. ' CRM'S HE RESOPIOTIIIS MONTH Sidney Story, for 15 years a member of the Park Board of New Orleans and father of the model liquor license law in that city while he was a men b r of the Municipal Assembly a la v which since has been adopted in other cities will speak at the Stewart to morrow night Mr. Story Is a fluent speaker and his speeches are right to the point. He ad dressed an audience In Portland this week and Bald among other things: "I desire to call your attention to section 4 of the proposed prohibition law. That section gives to every cor. ftable, sheriff or deputy, appointed through the influence of the A'J-sa loon League, the right, merely on bus ;ic:cn, to enter the privacy of your home at any hour of the day or night and search the premises- for lljuoi You can well appreciate the infamy of such a law, It is un-American, tJes potic and smacks more of Russian tyr anny '.han what we have been taught in tha tflrirlnnn land of llbertv. Pit -h A measure is iniquitious and mens mischief, blood and revolution. -II breeds cant, hypocrisy, deceit, liars, sneaks and perjurers. It brings coernment and law into coitemL, Booster D. A. R. Kokomo, Ind., Oct. 11 Daughters of the American Revolution of Indi ana gathered in Kokomo today for the state convention of the" society and will remain three days. The Hoosler organization has taken up the work of placing markers at the graves of all revolutionary war soldiers burled In the state. The markers are supplied by the government . Hitchcock to Speak., Kansas City, Mo., Oct 11 Postmas ter General Hitchcock is on the pro gram for an address tonight before the convention of the Southwestern Postal Association. His speech will deal with postal affairs. The conven tion includes representatives of all branches of the postal service In Mis souri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Okla homa and Arkansas. COAST DEFENSE CARDINAL PROMISED BY SECRETAR1 COAST MUST FIRST BE PREPARED IS ASSERTION. can get him there, was the man who J pulled the string that4 told the whole story at the baby Bhow. It was he who pulled out the winning number. Politics and Carnival Tonight While the older folk will ben their special energies on the attention to the gubernatorial candidates in the city today, and tonight there will nevertheless he plenty of fun and frol ic, for the fair gates close tonight at an hour which the ' populace alone shall name. If it takes until morning " to work off the fair spirit, the lights - win he found burning at that time. , With not a single drop of rain to mar the progress the fair has been un commonly favored. The attendance has been such as to Indicate that all ex penses will be met promptly and with a small surplus on hand. However u . will require the final accounting to determine this. Band concerts, danc ing, carnivalism and politics all will , cave their inning tongni for the reason that, being an aibltrary ri'ecMire, with all the offens'.veneirs of the rtnVest despotism, it cannot and never w 11 be enforced, as It lacks the backfns. of sound, healthy public sent'inent" HELPS WHITE LABORERS. Canadian Government WDI Not Toler ate Asiatics on Railroad Work, Victoria, Oct. 11 Much significance Is attached today to the action of Pre mier McDrlde who turned down the application of the Grand Trunk Pa clflc .railroad to permit importation of Asiatic labor to work on construe tlon of a new line through British Co lumbia. The railroad officials pointed out that there was an alleged short age of labor. Premier McDrlde decided otherwise and Intimated there were plenty of whites wanting work and they probably would make permanent I citizens. ; . , FINDS CATHOLICS ALL EVIDENCE WILL BE BROUGHT OUT AT TRIAL, f Famous Case Commencing to Assume World-Wide Interest Again. BENEFIT Docks Could Not Accommodate Ships Wanted by the Const Now. Seattle, Oct 11 Interviewed today after his return from the navy yard Secretary of the Navy, Meyer said: have come to the coast to look into the preparations for a proper system of coast defense. Before It can be done however; care must be taken that this coast can maintain a fleet Your pres ent docks would not accommodate halt the ships of the navy. We cannot divide the Atlantic fleet before 1912 when your new docks will be complet ed, and probably not then." Myer said he was an ardent advocate for a Pacific coast defensive system. SAYS THAT HIS CHURCH WILL BE COUNTRY'S SALVATION. Grafting and Divorces are America's Greatest Sins ne Says. . ; New York Baptists. , New York, Oct 11 Baptists of southern New York, including this city began their annual session today In North' Church, west Eleventh street, .and will remain three days. New York, Oct. 11 Cardinal Logue, the Catholic prelate of Ireland, In a public statement today upheld the Diirpoee of the Roman Catholic church by declaring that the catholic church, because of Its fundamental teachings, to be America's salvation. He said, "The church strikes at the very root of things tending to bring about na tional decay." Intimated grafting by public officials and the divorce, he said, were Ameri ca's besetting sins. Agalns such evil influences the church always waged warfare. Logue's prediction Is scouted unreser vedly by Charles Aked, a prominent paBtor of the Fifth avenue Baptist church who said: "Even Catholics ad mit they are strongest among the Ig norant For centuries the Catholic church has been an unrelenting foe of educational liberty." London, Oct. 11 Dr. Harvey H Crinnen will soon be brought to trial for the murder of his wife, Mrs. Cora Crippen, known on the stage as Belle Elmore. The sensational case which has aroused the interest of the peo: pie of two continents, is set down for the criminal sessions opened today Some days will be occupied with min or hearlnn before CrlDDen and his alleged accomplice, Miss Ethel Len eve. face the bar of Justice, but it is probible the case will be called about a week from today, Oct. 18. The evidence admitted at the in quest was considered very strong, the weakest link in the chain of evidence being the Identification of the body supposed to be that of Crippen's wife. Experts admitted that there was noth ing to identify the rains as those of the doctor's acress wife, and were unable to state positively that the body was that of a woman.. The coroner admitted that the body was unusually num.- but insisted nevertheless that the remains were undoubtedly human Physicians who will testify at the trial of Crippen frankly say that they will not be able to swear that the mut ilated remains were those of a woman, all Indications of sex having been re moved, but they will assert that the remains were more likely those of a woman than a man. Several women friends of the actress will testify that she had a peculiar scar and physicians will swear that a mark found is now carefully preserved by the court offi cials, will be Identified by several people as similar to the hair of Belle Elmore. ' One of the most damaging phases of the evidence against Crippen will be the testimony of physicians that by ocln was found in the body and proof that Dr. Crippen had previously pur chased a quantity of this drug from a London chemist. The varying stories told by Dr Crtonen after the disappearance of his wife, the infatuation of the phy sican for his typist. Miss Len eve, and their flight to America will all be PII! ft SACRED TRUST Bowerman Promises to Let Prlmar Law Alone If Elected Governor People 'Give Him Very Warm Welcome and Cheer His Brief Speeches Rushed to Perry and Back Again At Fair This Evening Again. ' Political enthusiasm, fomenting, iu this city the past few days by the gathering political lights of prominent men and promise of still others com- lng, remain corked up until the noon, hour today because the . west bound train was late. West came In from. the east and' so did Bowerman, knd when they did come things politic loosened up properly. Jay Bowerman, the Republican stan dard bearer for the state or Oregon was whisked, away Immediately after the tram reacnea nere or a ubiob- UUU VI llIUUHVuq W mg W ' " " " ed a splendid audience of mlllhands and met a large number of them per- ... eonally. -' .-'. , , ; ' ,".' '.; Just nam Jay. ? Kin aAAraaalnir vnil todftV 1 COmO iM Mr Ttrvw. erman to the Palmer mill people.' My father worked at the lumberman's , business and I too have worked at It and other vocations, earning enough moner to insure my education. ; Be cause I am jUBt a plain Individual with tne us 01 luoor viuoeij uira I have a warm place In my heart for the laboring man. I shall advocate x enforcement of all labor laws now on the statute, and shall promise if elect-, ed not In any way to Impair legisla tion that will be a benefit to the labor ing man. . . ' ' : V' Not Tamper With rrimary. .... ... . .. Mm - , . J m. "Neuner snau i u eiecieu, utj cate or permit to be advocated' any tampering with the primary or direct nomination statutes which were put on the books by the people of Oregon. I shall firmly support the statute which the people of Oregon placed on. our dooks ana you tuu tcov that the primary laws shall not be mo- icbicu ujr urn. "While acting governor I opened the way for bringing competitive bids . into Salem, reducing the expense of maintaining public institutions." His convincing argument served up in plain Jay fashion, was heartily ap plauded. , ' - Away went the automobiles for Per- rv and there too the working men were addressed and met personally. West la xown too. a Oswald West, the Democratic nomi nee, came In from Ontario witn Mr. Bowerman both had visited the fur thermost Eastern points in .tne state yesterday and democratic hrethern in this city assumed the reins of cam paign when the candidate reached here. Mr. West's itinerary calls for ad dresses at the Sugar factory and the round house before night comes. Mr. Bowerman too plans a similar visit Both at Fair Tonight Both men, rivals though they are. will be at the fals- crounds tonight. where they will he guests of honor. and hundreds of people will go by to meet the men personally. It la not be lieved that they will make any at tempt to hold addresses this evening. (Continued on page Eight) i rt.i j j ' ' jtrguiucu vuunuucu, St Paul., Oct 11 C. Severance, rep resenting the government, today con cluded his argument In" the Union Pa cific merger case.