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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1910)
5'.: 1 1!tV ml ,A A, u V VOL. XIV. RDSEGREETEDBY A MONSTER THREE DISTINCT TOPICS DISCUS SED IT MUCH LENGTH BY : THE SPEAKER. . - CHURCH PEOPLE ATTENDED ' With Local Churches Standing Idle, Milwaukee Orator Is Center of At traction. Last Night Talks on -the Topic iivm larve rnncipal f oints. of YIew Prohibition a Failure Wherever Tried Maine a Huge Sa- loon. " ' ;.-,''' La Grande's churches were emptied last night that the congregation might hear ex-Mayor Rose, the Milwaukee orator discuss the local option ques tion from the standpoint of a man pp po8ed to it. The lecture Is declared by many to be the best of any of the series heard 'for and. against the much mooted topic here' in this compaign. The opera house 'was filled with in tent listeners and the speaker's argu ments were easily followed due to the clear and logical manner In which they were presented.' ' ' Mr. Hose handled with remarkable ability, three, distinct topics in his lecture, One was the experience of other states and cities that had tried prohibition, the second was the Re port through the presentation of num erous 'statistics of the revenue ' ac quired by the government, both nat lanal .and local through . .the liquor traffic,'' and the amount of ' produce that was used by the liquor manufac turers and the third was the expla nation and meaning of the Home, Rule bill. : . ,,, .;-v Before delving into his subject Mr? Rose attacked in an Impersonal way, many of the people of the state in cluding some public officials for their cowardice in the prohibition issue. "The; greatest danger that faces this' country today is the fact that the vot ers are afraid to stand out in the op en and be counted In this matter. Mer chants are afraid that they) will lose the profits on the sale of a yard of calico if they allow their position to be known. They are detestable cow ards, everyone of them who will not stand out in this issue." ." . ' "I am opposed to prohibition for several reasons,", said ..Mr, , Rose. "First, because prohibition in its ev ery relation has proved to have been a complete and abject failure, second, because it inspires hypocrisy, engen ders bitterness, agitates communities and frequently converts friends into enemies.; Third, because It , strikes down important , revenues, national, state and municipal, without return ing any Just consideration. Fourth, because it narrows the marke shortening the demand for his pro ducts. Fifth, because it narrows the field of labor endeavor., and" sixth, because it strikes at the basic prin ciples of institutions of our free gov ernment and destroys the right of the individual to exercise his ; personal liberty to his natural rights. "Prohibition has never accomplish ed the purposes 'claimed for It and hoped to be secured from its practi cal application. Practically every state that has tried it has abandoned it as a failure. The only state that has retained even the pretension of prohibition is the state of Maine. Here, however, Is maintained a state liquor agency for the disposition of intoxi cants for medicinal, mechanical and art purposes, and for that fact Maine a prohibition state Is the most col ossal saloon keeper on the continent. According to a statement recently Issued by a Judge of the criminal court of that state before whom all po lice cases are' tried, there are more than 400 confirmed drunkards, and this Judge had ' advocated the estab lishment la Maine of a drunkards' farm. . " ' "Oklahoma took prohibition with I L AGRANDE, UNION COUNTY, OREGON. , her constitution, and now there is bV ;-ing' waged in that state, one of the bittereest fights In political history to reeBubmlt to the ,vote of the people at the coming election- the question of constitutional prohibition.''.- Other instances of abandonment and dissatisfaction of the prohibitory stat utes were cited, and ,the speaker launched into a carefully prepared re port in" Bupport of his contention tnat it cut down revenue, narrowed the farmer's market and affected the la bor endeavors. ; , '; "The-1 liquor traffic "for '' the fiscal ye,ar of 1910. paid Jntp' the' federal treasury $200,000.' ..The prohibitionists would cut this out entirely. The gov ernment has but two sources of rev enue.Nthe internal tax. on liquors and the tariff, If the internal , revenue is cut off. a substitute will have to be provided. Already; there is a nation wide protest against the present tar iff rates,, and . the oueation h dis rupted the Republican party. ; . , . ' Narrows Farmer's Market r .. "I stated that prohibition narrows the farmer's market' Last year $109, 000,000 worth of farm products were used In the manufacture of intoxicat ing beverages. v This t. business conr sumes33 1-3 per cent oithe rye-crop, 42 per cent of the barley: crop and 89 per cent of the hop erop.' ; ' - "Last year, the business paid to la bor $55,000,000 and - fed 2,500,000 mouths. It Is not .only the .men who are employed in the brewery or in the distillery .who, would be effected by prohibition, but the great army of men employed In the cooper shop, the paint shop, the blacksmith, the manu facturers of the Ice : machines, the glass blowers, and in fact almost ev ery branch of labor would be injured by this movement; ;,. , That prohibition does, not prohibit la manifest from the further fact that while the area of. population of pro hibition in the state of Oregan has been widely extended, the consump tion of intoxicants had Increased, for 1. Ccntirued on page ; t.) CLEAVER DISPOSES OF CARLOAD AT FANCY PRICE. Local Apple Grower, Now -in Iowa Meets Snccess Selling Crop. - Two and a half dollars a box is the fancy price that some of Imbler's fan- i ... cy apples are going to bring in the east this fall. In a personal letter from George I Cleaver who is in Red Oak, Iowa, this week to F. R. Bridges, of this city, Mr. Cleaver says that he has sold a car load of the Cleaver-Bridges crop grown at Imbler'a $2.50 per box. The car load, will be fancy pack of course. He also advised the grow ers in Grande Ronde to hold their apples If possible. , ; This Is perhaps the largest price that carload lots have brought tn lo cal orchardlsts In several years, in dicating that the valley ' is ' able to produce fruit which vies with Hood River's in the eastern market.. Mrs. Kersh on Trial Today. ' ; PortlBXd, Ore., Oct 24 Mrs. Carrie Kersh, Jointly charged with the mur der of William Johnson, in the Grand Central hotel, with Jesse Webb, who was convicted of murder last week, was brought to trial today. She was agitated and spent the night in pac ing her cell. The state will-use the same evidence that convicted Webb. It Is alleged Johnson Was murdered and his body stuffed in a trunk to se cure hit money. . . . , i, Snnday BaU Score. ; Portland 03; San Francisco Veifaon t : Los Angeles 62. Oakland 1; Sacrameento 4. LOCAL APPLES TO PER BOX IBS" CLUB COLONEL ALLEGED TO . Si AYE ' CALLED U. S. JUDGE "DAM CROOK AND JACKASS. . A..,;. ' COLQfiEL REFUSES TO TALK Except to Say That It Is What Can be : Expected at This Time ln-Campaign, ..... .a ,.iv UIVU vi iau 'dent to Reporters Jackass Club : Said to Have Been Instituted and Judge Installed as Charter Member. New. .York, Oct 24--Colone Roose velt today refused to deny or .confirm thd report that he had founded the Jackasa Club" and 'had Installed United States' District Judge, a ' ',. ' derson as a charter, member. Accord ing to the story, Roosevelt is alleged to have remarked that Anderson's rul ing on the World libel suit was "the ruling of a damned Crook and a Jack ass." It is said the alleged remark was made to Harry New, former, chairman of the Republican campaiga comml (- Roosevelt said ',, today, "There is nothing I can say about this matter. It la just the thing a man may expect at the closing days of a campaign. There have been other similar Instan ces. It can be definitely 'understood I will not confirm or deny any state ments made by a third or fourth par ty "regarding what I said td them1 in private conversation." ; v 1 V America II la Safe. St Louis, Oct 24 Belated advices received today indicate . the America II. is safe. A telegram stated the bal loon was seen Tuesday night sailing over Thompson vllle, Michigan, going north. This would put the balloon in a different locality than where It is being sought. .." .'.';',- ';'' All search thus tar has been confin ed to the wild in the province of Que bec where other international racers landed. " . -. V.' V Toronto, Oct 24 Last night a bal loon, possibly the America II., pass ed" over this city high up and going forty miles an hour. It Is now regard ed that the rumor alighting at St John's lake la untrue. , MINNESOTA TOWN AFIRE. Blaze Uncontrolled and Calls for Help Have Been Sent Out . Winnipeg, Oct 24 Reports ' have reached here that the town of War ren, Minn., is afire. Calls for help were sent to Crookston and Grand Forks. A. special train was sent from Thief River Falls. The blaze is uncontrolled vid wires are down. Chicago, Oct 24 Chicago baseball dom is wearing crepe, all because the Athletics yesterday clinched., the world's pennants . by ; winning their fourth and deciding game. A total of five games wero played and Chicago won only the fourth attempt Players admit that superior playing by Athletics woni Athletics batted 322 and the Cubs 234. Eighteen Athletics and 30 Cubs were fanned. The score yesterday was 7 to 2. The total attendance was 124,219. MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1MB! TORX BITS OF PAPER MAY LEAD -.- TO ARREST OF MEN WASTED ; L LOS ANGELES. ! ' TO Samples of Taper With Writing on Them Foond la Fulton Street Hon ' Will be Compared with Handwriting i of Mao Sought for Dynamiting the ' Times BuIldlng-rDetlsiTe and Sen satlonal Developments Expected San FrancUco, Oct 24 New and startling developments are coming to light today in the Tlmeea dynan : case. .Samples of ', hand writing found on torn bits of paper in the rooms al leged to have been f occupied by P. A. Perry alias Smithy, on Fulton treet In this' city are In the hands of Writ ing experts today and are being pre pared for identification Samples and handwriting of men . under suspicion will be handed to Detective Burns when he returns from Portland. The writing is blurred but the writing can be Identified provided the handwriting of the man who did it is found. The hand that wrote the Initials O. A.-T. near the typewritten words, "I will do It," left sufficient clews. It Is predicted sensational and de cistve developments will soon take place.:.. , . v..1;. , ; Burns is in Portland worfc'.n on a clew 'a that city. , Jilted Girl Sues Sheriff. Paterson, N. J., Oct 24 A novel case listed for trial at the civil term of court, which opened today is the suit of Miss Marie Antonlette against former Sheriff Frank J. Van Noort, She asks $1,000 as a balm, because the sheriff, let her recreant sweetheart Carlo Carrutti, get out of prison, . Miss Antonleotte alleges that she became engaged to Carruttt in Italy, and that her lover, having come to America, sent for her with the prom ise of. making her, his ilfe. Soon at ter her arrival Maria and Carlo quar reled because the latter had grown . a moustache, and Maria sued Carlo tot breach of promise, securing a ver dict of $438.82. Unable or unwilling to pay, : Carlo . went to Jail and sube- quently Van Nort released him. Maria, deprived both of the money and a full measure of revenge, sued the sheriff. ; Officers on Long Walk. : Washington, Oct. 24 Officers of Uncle Sam's army who chose to en gage in a fifty-mile hike rather than a ninety-mile horseback jaunt, start ed out today on their , long walk. The route to be covered lies over the Mary land hills,, and the officers will have several stiff climbs. Mack's players each get $2,052. and Chance's $1,325. - : - ' w Players Given Oration. Philadelphia, Oct 24 The Ath letics were given a tremendous wel come when they returned to this city today. . A' great crowd was at the sta tion and ' the playera were . -and hoisted to the shoulders of. the crowd and paraded through the streets. At least a hundred thousand persons attended. y mm 1910. - . . i 1 i "i i FLORENCE BURNED IP. - Smah Una In Lane Count 'Sail-ra H'avDy From Fire 'Satirdiij.' ' . Kuc'feue, Ore., Oct, 24 T1 bu: r.(;s3 f. rtion of the town of r loret.ee in-Irue county was fireswit yester day, and damage at least $75,000 and v-xlf bmall iusuranee. It eu tea with a &deau blacks'mlth show a n o. uucertaiu origin. Six si.rB;tuli;i, iuilu.ung the Western hrtel ail two iicrc1 hndise stores . were consuiueil. Absence of lud prevented soiead t3 un'nce section. ' loses two Valuable mares. N. K. West Sustains Second Loss of : Valuable Animals Saturday night The second' beat": standardrbred Clyde mare owned by N. K. West died at the West ranch, Commonwealth farm. SatM - which a week before killed the b'eet Clyde mare on the ranch'. Both horses were standard bred and worth con siderable money each. ' - (fiAMBERLAIN PASSED TtU ) (.J Accompanied by Manning, Tcr Will Tour Union County Tiei-Li. . U.ited Senates Senator Go uge-?i Cbambrlain passed through the jclly this morning on his way ' to Haker City and tomorrow morning' he ;i and John Manning will reach hero to n,ikj a whirlwind tour of the valle. Attor ney T, H- Crawford, Walter M. Pljerce aod rthers will accompany thV.yaii' Jkste and Mr. Chamberlala ouf the Junket and speeches will be hel-j to-, sorrow night on the streets! " , ' r - Hang Crlppen November 8th, London,' Oct 24 Dr.'Dawley Crlp pen was today sentenced to hang on November 8. After Alverstone fixed the date definitely, Benton vllle pris on was assigned as the scene for exe cution. ; ' ' ' WITH WOUNDS STILL i FRESH DIETZ CHILDREN BEG MONEY. Public Sympathy With. Defendants In ' Noted Wisconsin Case. Milwaukee, Oct 24 Still bandaged, from wounds received at the hands of deputy, sheriffs, in defense of their homes, Mjra and Clarence, children of John DIetz, defender of Cameron Dcm, arrived here today ' to raise funds for the defense of their father, mother and brother who are charged witfc the murder of Deputy Sheriff Oscar Harp, who was killed during a recent siege around Deltz' cabin. Their appeal for funds met with Instant approval and this means there will' be a hard fight to exonerate the family. Letters from Eau Claire, Wis., near the scene of the Cameron Dam war fare affirm that public sympathy is entirely with the Dletz family. Work men are rallying to the support of the defendants and sufficient money will be subscribed without especial solicitation to carry the case to the highest courts In the country. Stenben MonnmenL Y Washington, Oct . 24 German American societies all over the coun try will be represented at the unveil ing of the Steuben monument here at the end of the month. Congressman Richard Bartholdt, of Missouri, is in charge of the arrangements. Con gress appropriated $50,000 for the memorial. , Dolllver's Successor Unnamed. Des Moines, Oct. 24 Governor Car lo! formally announced today that he would not appoint a successor to the late Senator Dolllver. The legislature will meet In January and will make the selection then. NUMBER 07 mum i IDE 11 ill BE. CASE AGAINST1 STANDARD OIL TO BE TRIED AT THIS TEI13I OF . FEDERAL COURT. : IDliPolLIIilQSEPS One Thousand .Five JInndrcd l and Tf.cM;nign Counts Against" till " Trust Will b$ Threshed Out at the ; Present Term, Though Probably Not . Until November Some Timer-Fines - That May Be Imposed Total $33,.' 480,000. ,' ;- 'vir''vi ''V'v ; Memphis, Tenn,. Oct 24 There is a-; possibility 'that another big flna mav' W imposed upon the '6U "trust If the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, is found guilty of. accepting conces-.-sions amountlag (oVebatjs, as charg-', ed in an Indictment of, 128 counts to' bev tried during", the -'term of federal court opening today at Jackson. If proved, tbs penalty would involve a maximum fine of $30,480,000, exceed ing in amount the famous 'big fine" of Judge Landls, which however, never found Its way to the federal treasury. Postponed from term ' ,i to term, through the cunning of the oil trust's . lawyers, the case against the oil com pany has been hanging fire since the Indictment was returned by a federal grand jury at Jackson four years ago this month. The counsel for govern ment have also at times took part In, the policy of delay, but now the pre-slaiflg--jttdg.haa expressed .'a deter-' intnatlon to finally sottlo the Issue". Although the court convened today, it is likely, that the onuses will not be reached before about the ninth of November, as a number of minor criminal cases must be disposed of during the first half of the session. It is understood that District Attor ney Casey Todd will represent the In terests of the government, assisted1 by a number of specially appointed attorneys selected from the best legal talent 'of the country, Mr. Todd is the youngest attorney ever entrusted with, a case of such importance, but he has made an enviable record as a prosecu tor, and will have the assistance and advice of a number of older heads. He will, endeavor to secure the imposi tion of the maximum fine, exceeding $30,000,444, but the minimum fines on all counts, if sustained, would aggre gate the respectable sum of $1,500,000 The Indictment of 1528 counts is bound in book form, measuring four teen inches in length, eight Inches in width and five inches In thickness, and weighs eighteen pounds. - , The oil company will be represented by John S. Miller, Alfred D. Eddy and R..W. Stewart, of Chlcago,"w!th a number of associate counsel repres enting the Tennessee bar.,In case of a defeat in the Jackson court, the oil company, will of course file an appeal, as it did In the case of the $29,000,000 fine assessed by Judge Kenesaw Moun tain Landls, which was set aside by a higher court y Yesnvnlns In Eruption. , Rome.Oct 24 Mtv Vesuvius erupt ed today. At least ten were burled In the muddy streams that ran down, the mountains before they could escape. The roar of the volcano is heard for miles." .' - . .. v.' NEW RESIDENCES GOING UP. Cottage and Lots Purchased and; Rest dence to go up on U and Spruce. Brent A. Bengston has purchased through the La Grande Investment Company the brick1 cottage and two lots located on the sorner of Spruce and TJ. avenue. Mr. Bengston has al so purchased the four lots on the west of the same place from Robert Orr and he expects to build a modern five room cottage. This Is a very dastr abls location for a new residence. i i