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LA GRANDE, UNION COUNTY, OREGON.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1910.
XUMIK
II Ei ILK
INCREASE IN
INCREASE IS SEYEX YEARS OYER
EXTIRE PREVIOUS HIST.
OBY STRPIUSIXG.
raving, Tast Extension of Water
Mains, Cement Walks, Better Streets
and Record Building Period Only
Some of The Phases of l'JIO Ap
plied Commercially to This City
fire luap Anon s Important Date
.Regarding City Improvenieats.
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FIGURES 1 IMS.
The fire map contained twenty-
tnree sneets or pages or the city
proper, showing number of
buildings in classifications as
follows:
250 Commercial buildings.
195 barns and stables (private). .
477 dwellings.
THE 1910 MAP. '
: Map contains 29 sheets of city
proper and shows buildings as
follows:
312 Commercial buildings.
336 barnB and stables (private.)
$19 dwelling houBes. ..
155 dwellings outside of . fire
;man on account of detaached
and scattered locations. .
Total dwellings In November
1910. 1074. .
"Commercial buildings" referred
to above includes churches.
schools, livery barns, mills.
shone, and factories within, tho
the city's borders and refers to
the buildings only and not to
the commercial occupancies or
enterprises In unmer stories.
The towns of Perry, Hot Lake.
Island City, Alicel, are com-
bined With thA Ta Cr-Anda man
Total increase In buildings . er-
ected la seven years Just past,
.125 per cent. .
OTHER 1310 DATA.
A total of seven miles of water
mains have been laid this year
according to Water Superintend-
ent Gilman. Seereeated. the
! record-breaking extension
reads;
One mile and a half 18-lnch pipe.
Four and one-half miles 4-inch
, nine.
Three-quarters of a mile of I0r
Inch cast pipe. ' ;
Nine hundred feet of six Inch
ptoe. -
One thousand feet of 2-inch dIdo.
i Three thousand feet of surface
pipe.
Eleven new fire hydrants have
i been placed.
i Paving Work Accomplished.
I Taurine tfiA ranr fha Mtv haa 4
i accomplished paying to the fol-
lowing extent:
T).' ...il.lf .Ann . . -C
j unuiunic oisu square yaras on
Depot: 1532 sq. yards on
Chestnut; 16,132 sq. yards on
Fir street: 19,075. sq. yadra
Adams Avenue.
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Macadam 14,717 sq. yards on
Adams avenue.
Refuting and jetting at naught the
tory of the census enumerators,
omes facts and figures from the Un-
erwrlters fire maps, recently com
peted in this city and which show to
"he minutest detail, the building ac
tivities of the Dast seven Yearn In Tj
Grande and the fact is disclosed that
ihe increase in growth of La Grande
n buildings in that time reaches 125
ier cent
) With such a splendid showing, the
ity can, by virtue of facts, laugh at
vhat the census will probably say
very one of the 1074 house In La
rande is occupied and a great many
It more than one family. If the cen
sus will show only about 6,000, which
conceded to be the figures yet to
e given out. then the flre.map a bit
J real and actual autnoiity 'will
land sponsor for the assertion that
ie population of La Grande Is nearer
iOOO than 6,000. Be that as it may, the
larvelous expansion of the city In
&e past seven years stands as a per
manent monument to the consistent
teady and always extending record
mis city.
Where other cities have grown by
ans and bound for a dv nd thpn
illen back to the old rut of retro-
fesssion, La Grande has plodded on
eaany, and the banner year of 1910
hich fades into history tonight, has
ENT VARIED
beea but an example a sllgthly ex
ageratetKexamole we must admit
but nevertheless a sample of La
Grande's growth. IUtakes booms to
make Stanfields, Renos , and Gold
fields, but It takes years of steady
and persistent aggressiveness to ac
complish what La Grande. has accom
plished In Its last decade in history.
The fire maps which are compiled
about every five years are authentic,
thousands, yes millions even, are in
volved In their accuracy. ... The facts
which will be shown by the 1910 map
are startling .In their scope. 'One
hundred and twenty-five per cent In
crease In the last seven years over the
city's life previous to . that date,
means something.
CITY'S IMPROVEMENTS MAM.
Paving of Course Pre-Emlnently lo
.the Foreground Other. Things.
Citizens of La Grande can look back
with pride at the accomplishment In
city beautiflcatton and sanitary im
provement. - The tabls above, shows
the number of water main extensions,
the cement wallfs lafd this year .have
simply been phenomenal in extent;
the paving accomplished marks " the
beginning ot an era of street improve
ment that has only just been launch
ed, Walla of course there" la not data
to corroborate this assertion, the Ob
server fee's safe In' gloating over the
tact that no city in Oregon, outside
of Portland tan commenc e - to show
totals in as many various lines of city
Improvement as La Grande. The
realization of the fond dreams of the
park promoters 'is but another Item In
this class of improvements.
THIS TEAR'S BUILDLVfc.
Scores of Cozy Little Homes Hare
Hone up In Remote fcectlons.
, There is nothing at hand, without
expenditure of a great amount of time
to determine precisely the number of
residences erected this yean-One fact
is self-evident however, that the re
mote sections of the city have seen
scores of small but cozy homes erect
ed and are now inhabited by, working
people. True, a half dozen residences
costing thousands, have been erected
during the year.. but In numbers of
course, the workingman's home pre
dominates In numbers. The Fred. L.
Holmes residence, the W. ,K. Jones
residence, the Zuber apartment house,
the Scriber, Lund. Lincoln and Gar
rick homes are but a few of the
many places built 'during the year.'
It Is useless to reahearse or parade
the fact that every house built for
renting purposes, was leased long be
fore the carpenter had left the place.
BUSINESS DOSE OS ISCREASE.
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Buying Public Increases Its Tenden
cies Toward Luxuries This Year.
Basing its authority on a careful
canvass of the leaMing business men
of this city, The Observer estimates
the' amounts of increased local busi
ness this year over last year at 33
per cent The canvass shows mater
ial increases in all instances but two
and in these two exceptions the trad
ing of last year wa8 so big that in
1910 the, figures break only, slightly
ahead of 1909. From ten to fifty per
cent Increase Is where the statements
read. ' V ,
Several important factors enter in
to the proposition. In the first place
last year'8 business was so "bumper"
that in practically every line of bus
iness, all past records were knocked
to smitherins, yet when all the books
are closed this year, an increase of
last year's business that indicates
the amount of circulating money in
this city will be shown. The small
business houses have thrived well.
The canvass discloses that the buy
ing public has not alone spent its
dollars on necessities of life, but
luxuries too have been- dabbled with.
In this respect 1910 surpasses other
years by figures. The big department
stores ail show a growth in business
over last year's record showing. Tet
the small houses have bigger per
cent increases to show.
Bobbers Show Speed.
' Marysville, ,Kan8., Dec. 31 Four
yeggmen who robbed two banks and
escaped in an automobile from a has
tily organized posse today are be
ing sought by a sheriffs posse. The
first blew open the vault, of the Cit
izens State bank at Vat.erville and
took a sack of boney. From there
they went to the Watervllle state
bonk and dynamited the safe. The
explosion attracted the -watchman
who gave the alarm. Seizing the mon
ed In sitht the robbera Jumped Into
a waiting automobile .and whizzed out
of town. The bank report a loss of
six thousand dollars.
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TWO NOTABLE EVENTS OF 1910, THREE DEMOCRATS .VHOSli. Gl.V
. BERNATOIUAL SUCCESSES MAY HAVE. NATIONAL EFFECT AN 13
' TWO AUTHORS QF WORLDWIDtJ RENOWN WHO WERE AM0N1
THE YEAR'S DEAD.' . "
LABOR ATTACKS
JAILING OF SEATTLE EDITORS
TAKES AS BASIS.
Want Injunction and Contempt Laws
In Washington Pu-medied.
Everett, WTn., Dec. 31 Basing their
action on the sentencing of the" edi
tors of the Seattle Star to Jail for
contempt, because the Star criticized
the use of the injunction by Judge
Gilliam, the Everett Labor Council
is on record today as denouncing the
contempt law and top frequent use
of the injunction rights. The resolu
tions adopted declare the punishment
for criticisms of a court decision In
violation of the right to free speech.
They urge the adoption of a law tak
ing away from the judiciary the right
to punish for contempt committed out
side the court rooms.
Summerrnie People Wed.'
William F. Chattln and Miss Elsa
Baker, both of Summerville, are to
be married this week. They were
granted a license this morning by
County Clerk Ed. Wright Both are
well known Summerville people.
-SHOOTS FORMER nCSBASD.
Ia Trouble Over Daughter, Woman
Shoots Former nosband.
Tacoma, Dec. 31 In defense of her
two year- old baby girl, over which
she and her husband have been fight
ing since their dirorce recently, Mrs.
S. G. Harold, 13 South J. Street, shot
and probably mortally wounded W.
R. Williams,' who with a companion,
named Sidney Marks, is accused" by
her of entering her home and at
tempting to kidnap the baby. Will
lams Is at St Joseph's hospital and
the woman was arrested.
The police are searching for Har
old whom she says awaited the men
in sn automobile outside. The wom
an iclares th?y entered the bouse,
and she secured a revolver when
they attempted-to secure the baby
and In the struggle Williams was
shot . . -
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JOHN 10ISSIT
FALLS WITH AEROPLASE ASD IS
; HORRIBLY CKIJSHED..
Lead Daring Life Flew From Paris
' to London Recently.
. New' Orleans, Dec. 31 John B.
Moissant, the daring California avi
ator.' who made the famous , flight
from Paris to London,' was killed In
. Two views of Moissant In flight
The lower one was taken from a boat
as be was crossing the English chan
nel on his Parls-to-London flight
an aeropfane accident hero today.
His death makes the third during
December. Others were Cecil Grace,
MEETS
DEATH
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the English aviator. Marquis Pualla
and Alexander Laffon, the French
man. , vVj..-
MolBsant't machiue capsized while
100 feet in the air, &rA dropped h!w
to the,, ground. T' ' Jent occur
red affliarapon, . . -,es from this
city. People wh were witnesses noti
fied tia e hospital and an ambulance
was pushed to : scene of the ac
cident He ..was '.Ive when help ar
rived but died euroute to the nosplt
al. He- was badly crushed. He bad
started to alight to copete for the
MIchelin cup. '' -'
Aloissant led an adventureous Ufa.
jBefore becoming an aviator he. took
a prominent part- in the tempestu
ous ' affairs at Nicaragua. He waj
once a planter in Salvador and Inci
dentally, a leader lu the gun powder
politics of the three Central Americaii
republics .. -v' ' J . ....
' t 7 Son Doesn't Know Fact,
Los Angeles, Dec. 31 Stanley Mols
sant, aged 15, son of John Moissanl,
came to Los Angeles several iays ttza
to attend the aviation meet He was
accompanied by Borton Weyl and the
latter's wife, who is a sister x( the
dead aviator. The youth went on a
trip to 'Mount Lowe today and docs
not know of the tragedy. The boy Is
a student of the military academy
at San Rafel, Calif.v .
... Taboo on "Rough StuffV, j
Portland, Dec. 31 Noise attendant
to all crowds will be allowed to
night, but confetti, ticklers and noise
making apparatus are tabooed to
night according to Chief 'of Police
Cox today! A double police guard will
be on duty on ,down town streets. All
saloons witl be closed promptly at
midnight An effort is being made to
make, the celebratloa as orderly si
possible. . . " ; 'v
San Francisco,-. Dec. 31 "Freedom
for all but license for none," Is how
"San Francisco will be allowed to
celebrate New Year's here tonight
Nearly 00 policemen will be on the
streets to guard. The . feature of
merrymaking will ' be the midnight
promenade on Market street It Is es
timated at' least 150,000 visitors will
be in the city tonight
Astoria. Dec. 31 No extra police
here.
Victoria, Dec. 31 Victoria cele
brates In the same old English way,
The town will be noisy all night
Vancouver, B. C, Dec. 31 The sal
oons will be closed at 11 o'clock to
night, so those who celebrate by
drinking will be compelled ' to ' get
their supply before hand. It is ex
pected there will be a' noisy time.
Spokane. Dec. 31 Ministers . will
combine with the police tonjght In
patroling the downtown districts to
prevent undue revelery, Tables in the
big restaurants are at a premium.
All downtown cafes are reserved
tonight. In nearly all it was neces
sary to pledge $50 for champagne
before the seats were reserved.
SCOUT REPORTED SOLD.
R. L. Kitchen of Richland Said to
Have Purchased Union Weekly.
, Union, Dec. 31 (8peclal) It Is re
ported here today that W, A. Max
well, pioneer editor of the Union
Scout, haa sold his plant to R. J.
Kitchen, formerly editor of the Rich
land News. The sale has not been
officially announced, but Is said to be
practically closed up.
Plonwr of Seattle Dead.
8eattle, Dec. 31 Mrs. Arthur Denny
widow of one of Seattle's founders,
died yesterday of a protracted illness
aged 58. She was a member of the
first party who landed on Alki point
In 1851. She was born in Nashville,
Tenn. The funeral will be held to
morrow. Enormous Citrus Combine Formed.
Whltter, Calif., Dec. 31 A citrus
combination, representing $4,000,000
worth of (property and the annual
cifurus outpdt of $1,600,000 Is bnlng
formed today by ranchers In the La
Habra district near this city. , The
object of the association Is to protect
the citron products under the asso
ciation's brand. . '
RECORD CROP
OF FIT III
PAST YEAR
FRUIT SHIPMENTS FROM COCSTI
STILL ODER WAY AD
II LI lit NS Bit;.
NEW ORCHARD AREA LARGE
w Orchards Given Inception In
110 Overtop Thousand Acres,
. Cottt of Planting Orchards Runs ,
, Into Thousand Potato Coming
it vr.u in Tnts vsney en
, erul ReilcM of Crop oud Orchard
Data.
ESTIMATED FRUIT CROP
Known fruit shipments from
Grande Rond valley towns, and
egtlmated shipments to dean up
the output durlnjc the next thirty
days, are complied by. District
Fruit Commissioner Judd Geer.
of Cove and County Fruit In-
apector Still well a. follows.
Cherries.
Cove ., ..' 25 cars
Union .... t. 8 cars
,La Grande ......
Total Estimate
8 tars
k....l cars
Prunes.
Cove ..... '. . .'30 cars
Union ....... .. 8 car
Scattering (.. . ........ 5 cars
Total' . . .. . . . . . .43 cars
" Apples. " '
Cov ..... ,,..110 cars
Union .... 75 cars
La Grand 300 can
Imbler ......... ...... 60 cars
Elgin 27 can
Total ..572 cars
Total cam fruit shipped 6S6
Thea estimates are based on
(figures compiled lata in Novem- ...
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: SEW ORCHARD AREAS
' This' Next.:'.
Tract ; Year Spring
Zlmmerle, Cove...... 80 120
Thronson, Imbler ... 50
La Grande Inr. Co.... M . '410
C. S. Williams .......40 - 80
Cleaver & Bridges . . . 60 , .
Doctor Lilly ........ 40
Williams & McCall .. 20 80
Elgin vicinity .'-$0 144 '
Miscellaneous . -, ... .M ' 50
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Total 340 ..' 874
Grand total of orchards given
inception In 1910. 1214 acres.
Cost of buying trees, prpa'r-
tng ground and planting, $22,000.
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Outstripping all other years, due to
unusually favorable climatic condi
tions and Increased acreage, the fruit
output of this valley looms up In en
couraging proportions for the year
1910. All the fruit is not shipped out
yet nor will It be for the next thirty
days, but the table of estimates above
Is authentic so far as it deals with
shipments made from fruit centers
on December first, and augmented by
careful estimates by men who are in
close touch with the shipments.
Elgin and Imbler Increases.
Two years ago the Imbler and Elgin
shipments scarcely figured In the to
tals for (he county this year the ta
ble tells a different story. Yet at El
gin the output Is still from home orch
ards; the commercial orchards have
yet to mature.
It Is fpretty much an old story to
local people; all this about the mar
velous increase In fruit lands, but it
is also a story worthy of repetition.
How Imbler land shot up from $200
per acre six years ago to its present
rating of $500 to $700, Is but one
phase of the fruit development this
year that Is sweet music to the loy
alists' hearts. '
Other Crops Finally Prolific.
Wheat this year almost reached the
million bushel mark, and Is bringing
lucrative and renumeratlve prices to
the growers. Potatoes, related to and
with direct ratio to the amount of In
creased fruit orchards, has come to ,
be a staple produtt of the valloy, and
In place of producing about enough
for home consumption, carload after
carload Is being shipped out this fait
and winter, .'Alfalfa has been culti
vated to a reater extent and with
n ater profits, through butter know
ledge of how to handle the crop, Thfl
hay products of this valley ruu to big
figures, and the piwt year h" seen a ,
material increase ' In the uiiusber of.
n res ana wim total acreage output.
Rarley and nats fleld acreogfts have
(Continued on Pago Seven.) '