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" 'K.J V , 0 '' VOL H ffi JiLIGt EO ' ! P7 iiiiij J. BELIETED THA TJAPAX WOULD AID EUSSIAX GOYEBXMEXT - IX CHINESE AFFAIR ' BDSOlJKclijlB Plague la Marichnrlan Country Said to HaTe Been Spread Purpose r Chinese to Stop Ecrachments, of Ensslans Japan Orders" Great Quantity of EJce from India An .Indication of Preparation for Open "War. - "." v. Manila, Feb. Jl8 Indications v 'that 'J Jpu umy mix in the Russian-Chinese trouble is seen here today in the an nouncement that Japan haa purchas- fed a huge amount of rice In India, It la generally believed that Japan in tends putting an army in the field to co-operate with Russia In the secur , ' ance of a treaty over the Mongolian property which expired this month. Russians Accused Chinese Vw- Berlin, Feb., 18 Professor. Skortt chenko, the Russian statesman in the Lokal Anzlger today,; charges China with deliberately spreading' - bubonic plague, in Manchuria to check the en croachments .-of Russia., He declares China deported plagne-Btrlcken vic tims from Southern China when the plague . has been an Incessant epi demic for several years arid that this section on lhe part of China' has done much to inflame community hatred . against the )rlentals in the realms of the Czar. " ''.. '' -China Will Fight. London, Feb. 18 Every Indication that China will resent the threaten ed occupation of .three of her provin ces by Russia by force of arms, is contained In notes received here from chancellors of Eurone. All helleve the Car, must show bayonets or the threat '.la fruitless. U is unofficially stated that England will second the 'United State. Some English papers chornfferlze Russia's action as vulgar aggression. . t ' Born Flairne Victims 1 Nnnklng. China. Feb. 18 Provincial ' authorities today, ordered the crema tion of all unbtfrled laeu victims n the v'llaees of Anhrl. K'ansr and Su provinces. ... s f- ' v i Boardnum-AIunn Wedding. Washington, D.; C. Feb, 18.- -At one of the most fashionable weddlnea the capital has seen this winter, Miss CAPTAIN F. E. BEATTY. Naval Offioer .In Command f of th Battleship Wisconsin. r uiiii i FORGE f Si -r ! IiGRANDITTNION COUNTY, (MEGON. Carrie Louise Munn, who was at one time reported to be engaged to Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., this after; noon became the bride of ReeinaM Boardman,, a member of one of the leading fam!lle of Boston. The wed' ding ceremony was performed at St John's Episcopal Church by the rec tor, thte Rev. Roland Cotton Smith, D. D. Following the ceremony " at the church there was a large re ception at the home of, the bride's mother, Mrs. Charles A;,, Munn, In Scott Circle. . - .' - j , Bishop Gallagher 65 Years Old. ' Galveston,; Texas,' Feb. - 18. Rt. Rev. Nicholas A. Gallagher, bishop of the Roman Catholic, diocese of Galveston, will celebrate his. sixty fifth birthday, anniversary tomorrow. He was born in Ohio" received his ed ucation in Cincinnati and spent the whole of ha early career in the ser vice of- his church in his native state. He came to Galveston as ' ad ministrator; of 'the diocese sln 1882 and succeeded to the bishopric ten years' later. ':'"'.': ' . . .. '' : , , Chicago Floods Subsiding i Chicaen SVh -afi. the last three days have ,done great damage in Illinois is subsiding. Pe-' tonlca and Des-Plaines rivers are rap idly falling. - k FAILURE OF OJIE FUSE TO WORK SATES COMPACT BJG SUM ' Oulf SeTen Hundred Taken &9t00 1 . ; Was Aar at the Tfme, ', Atlanta, Feb. 18 Dynamiting an'ex prtss safe on: the ' Southern Railway this, morning, five , train robbers ' at White Sulphur Springs Secured i;do and fled, pursued by a posse. : ; v 'Failure of the fuse attached to a large aafe, to explode, savdthe com pany $50,000 ait the explosion of the smaller safe aroused the people liv ing near the tracks so that th rob bers' took the content of the llttla safe pnd fled. They atopped the tram with red lanterns. :::: 'mLL TAFT" DEAD. Well Known Eagle at Elgin Died and t Eagle Lodge Members Monrn.' "Bill Taft.'VjIenry Baden'a prize eagle of Elgin, Is dead, Mr. Baden has spent much time and money training this valuable bird for work In the Eagle's lodge at. Elgin. It Is very much regretted by the Eagle's of La Grande1 that this valuable brrd died. . SOW PLOW OUT Snowfall Last Mght Secessltates thrt Street Cleaners Thls Morning For the first time "this- winter was found necessary, this' mornrng, to inaugurate the sidewalk cleaning plow andtStreet Superintendent Sto er. has cleared the walks of muc oi the snow which has been accumutat-. lng and was.. added 'to the extent of three inches last night;. There was little trouble on the railroad; v.'. BASGE CATTLE DOIXG FIXE .... .... ..... .. t Winter Will pass With Little Loss to' stockibroughont County :;i'-y: ' -r,:'';" ; - George Pierce in talking of the cat the. situation said that the range cat tle ;$o far this year are doing fine although starting In the winter they were In poorer condition than in prev ious years Should be weather be as favorable the-next month or two a in, the past practicably no losses win be recorded. . ' -;.;':' ' -, '.!.'''; ' . Pnrchase Eadlatlmr Heater. With the new radiating heater In the church the Methodists will be more comfortable tomorrow. TRAIN STOPPED Bf HODBERS fflS.il! mwm ' COXGrxSSlOXAL ORGY : WILL MARK CLOSIXG DAYS OF THIS v-; - sessiox'" j....- LlOHEYi EiLLS KJ DAHGEn Many Millions In Appropriations Have Not Pafsed and It Looks Like They are In Grave NGanger Extreme Force and Power will be Required to Pass EeclprocSy Measure at This Session of Congress. ' irT session or a legislative" orgy tot the next eleven the remaining days of this session, : with scant consider ation of big governmental appropria tions isr the prospect today. Six appropriation bills carryms $100,000,000, now . pending tbe house and several other house, bills now pending in the senate will not be passed. Little consideration is be ing given the reciprocity agreement In the senate "and It looks like only drastic actioitH force it througn this session. If it is no't, Taft will call a special session. ; An amendment to the Canadian re ciprocity agreement Intended to place the tariff on an ad valorem baIs wa offered in the senate , this af ternocn by Senator Jones of Washington, siri Jones contendedevery disputed point is compromised satisfactorily. " ! ; Canadians Alarmed ;v ; : ' Ottawa, Febi 18,-Contlnued jtaik of annexation is kept alive by warr ing newspapers, and is causing con siderable tesentment among the peo ple, who do not understand the situ ation, and according to the leading supporters of the government, may place In Jeopardy the : reclprocrty measure, when it comes up for ratts caUori by pariment. ? ' - V 4 ' It is accepted that Taft's assertron that such eentlment as was expressed by Bennett. Is not true, but neverthe less considerable , feeding .has ;. been aroused I nthe Dominion and cannot now beignored. It 'la' understood that i Premier Laurier early next week will make a istatement which will st at rest forever the annexation ida. '- Three FamJIIeg Lost San Bernardino; Calif., Feb. 18 Three colonist families, including several women and children are re ported lost. In the San Bernardino . ...v... uj- iievmg mev may De m aistress. Marking another epoch in the ex pansion ot local firms and the rapid rjse in city real estate, a -deal',-was ronsumated this moraine: between A. - A. Gust, a former commission mer cnant or tnis city who has now re tired and la living at Seattle, and the Grande ' Ronde Cash' Company, which transfers the pwnership'of the big warehouse on Greenwood and Jeffer son, the two lo'ts under It and three lots Just West of the warehouse for r total of $23,000. The warehouse and Its two lots brought $20,000.: to the old owner nd the three other lots brought $3,000. The new owners will take possession at once and move from their Inadequate ' quarters a block further down. Aside from indi cating a rapid increased value of re alestate the deal reflects the constant RllQTijirARFHniiqninrnnnflnni uuu I lllllll.il UUUL. UULU l till MLU5UUU Tri RRANHF RnnnF nAQH rnniipnrjY w wiillllW4.uwilWb UIIUH U UIIII fill I ;.. SATURDAY FEBRUARY IS, 191L 13EDEL REGfiUITS ACCUSES UXCLE SAM OF IIAVIXt ALLOWED FEDERAL TROOPS ; TO CROSS TOILDER Rebel LeaSer Flais that Me ' Troops Hare Been Allowed to Cros Borders and He Affirms Such Ac ' tlon Will Mean International Strife Arms Purchased and Rebels R. Crnttei Freely Throughout South. United States soldiers stationed ' on the border between California and Lower ; California, did not know It, General Simon Barthold, second in command of the insurgent forces In Lower Callf'orn la, haa been in Los Angeles for the past few days ar ranging for th purchase of guns for the use of the rebel army, glvlpg di rectlons to their recruiting officers, but more particularly discussing with the heads of the rebel Junta ways and means of carrying a successful pro test to the heads o fthe state depart ment at Washington against what he terms undue discrimination , galnst the insurgents by the U. S. soldlerj on the frontier. . Before slipping back aoross tha border into Mexican, General Ber thold gave to the United Press a rg nal story of what he. thinks will hap pen 'if the United 'states ' persists' in "making, fish of one and flesh of the other" In Mexicev .. y J ' General Berthold said:' "Internat ional complications are sure to grow out of the Mexican revolution.-, Much stranger things than that have hap pened, and let me say right here, thai is practically what will happen, un less the policy adopted by the offi cials of the United States and es pecially, of the department regarding border affairs, is altered. For ajweek I have been in Los Angeles to see it something could not be done to stop what I believe is unfaif Interference with our operations on the part of the American officials. ' , , "When General Bliss commanded that we should not be permitted to J cross the border : and purchase sup t plies I thought that was as far as tne J friend of JMaz would be permitted to go. But since then I have learned that 'j permission has been glvfn to the vitrirnu government, to mnu. tnn of Its soldiers across , Arizona into "ier vttiuornia : ana rtght here l want to say if this course ia nif growth and expansion of the firm a few years ago the firm lost heavily by fire but with redoubled energy, the managers braced against (adversity and by close attention to business and careful arrangement of ' all their affairs have been able again to move into adequate and comfortable quar ters with their growing enterprise. Gust Here This Week. A. AGuBt Is here this week and personally ' supervised the closing of the contract. Ho Intends to remain a few days before returning to Seat tle where he is now making his home. He, like so many others who mada their "stakes" In this city, is loud. In his praise of the city's rapid advance ment and the steady increase in the value of city property. v ; M SECUHED DY ' OFFICERS Id there wflj be interaatlonal trouble a plenty. "Does .the United States government expect the Insurgent garrison at Mex ican to retire into the nioi ana lex o Ung np- ithtn : pre - but man hting : will allow, the Federals to Icali? No. If I have anyf with it. The rebels will! for them at the line and : on them as soon as they j rnge. - And no doubt th cijpltate International t: nevertheless this is wha who honestly believes h for his rights would do' - Generals In Consu t 3 , Huachuahua.;' Artai, Feb. 18 Gener al Schuyler and Staff left today tor Yuma to meet General Blis3, asslsi ant chief of Btaff for confrence over the situation on the border. SEW OVERLAXD LINE Gould's Dismlsscl Stands for a w Trans-Continental Line to Frisco. : New York, Feb.. 18 BiAInd j tne ousting of George Gould from t V presidency of the Missouri Pacific the Rockefeller-Morgan lnter'estv'Li w"r urn m scnenwi rot a 'hew ir'-v'r continental line which calls for h t2roush train servi . :,t Cisco to New York over the Erie Wab ash & Missouri 'Pacific and Western Pacific tracU8. '' - . , A tlG MOYEMEST LAi:raEll AF FRISCO THIS MORXIXG ! Effort Will be Made In This. Countrj . to Have Organized" Labor Help, ; San - Francisco, Feb. 18 Effort to enlist organized labor into the cause ot the Mexican revolution is launcn- ed here today when resolutions were adopted by the San FranciBco labor council denouncing Diai as a blood thirsty enemy: to labor and mailed a copy to every' union body In 'Amerl- The resolutions urge the Unlous throughout the country to aid the In surectos and also urge them to influ ence their congressmen in the fteht against alleged discriminations now going 6n agalnBt Insurgents in the enforcement of the neutrality laws by the United States. r '-':' :; ': Army Wedding Jn New York. New York, Feb. 18.- The presence of numerous army officers in;. full dress uniform gave a brilliant set ting to the .wedding in the Church of . the Heavenly Reit today, when MIbs Nancy Evelyn Harris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs William Hnnnitnn Harris, wan marrbA .- T.tAiiiAnan, John M. McDowell, U. S. A. Lieuten ant McDowell belonging .to the Fift, Infantry, now stationed at Platts- hurg, N, Y, ; V:-' .;r'V; s ; '".-. Gates' Hnrrjlnar East - El Paso, Feb. U- A speclal train 'bearing Charles Gates, son of John Gates is hastenlug east for ah oper ation for blood poisoning. It Is en route, to. New York. ; ' j i v " PROPERTY MOVES RAPIDLY One Firm Establishes Record for the Turning Ownership of Many Lots City propfeirty has been moving rap idly so far this year, affirms the t.a Grande Investment company , , whic has turned more small lot salts in the past mpnth than any similar period In several years. The demand and sup ly are both brisk and sales are .be ing madVwlth regularity : , v. XEW GROCERY STORE Candy KHchen Sold to Men Who Will Open Grocery Store Soon. Leonard Chrlstlanson has sold' Kandy Kitchen on Adams avenue his Price & Cnmmings and they will open a grocery store In the place about March 1st. The store Joins the Christ iansen barber shop. , The buyers are well known locally. Li'Ill SIuPiiTIi? VJiTH REDELS l i , l ? i - I i i I i.j ij i i i i t 1f" r- I i 1 1 H I 1 1 ! hi l " r'v 8 IXDUSTIUAL WAR LI-CV, Dit; o CALIFORNIA OVER STREET SPEAKING CIIDIX.WCE In .RaIu and Snow Storm Army of Two Hundred Industrial Worker of the World are Marchlna as Lat Resort to GaSa lluir Dctlnaoit-i After EIuf Thrown lrom Tra.'Ti j May he Joln'.asr Insurectos. 1 ' Dunsmuir, Calif., Feb. 18 A car load of special police is here await ing the arrival of 200 I. W. W. who are marching across the mountains Into California afer being thrown off all trains. In a heavy rain and sn. w storm, the Industrialists were encamp ed last, night at Stelnruau. They has been twenty-fcyr hours itdoXit fou. Precaution 'is', being taken to see that there is no- raid here when men ' reach . this ' pr,: They are en Lroute to Fresno altttuili ft. is rum ored they t ealty intrnj to ro u :.:-'x-. lco'- to help tho revolutionists. " .' Preparing. the Boclpile.' ; Fresno; Feb. 18 The rockplle is tij Ing iput into shape in the Jail yard here and all precautions posaib: j hava been taken to give the Industrial Workers a good fight when they com here to fight against the antl-spea:. ing ordinance. The I. W. W. men are from Portia nd and Northwest 'towns ' and met thetr first barricade, when they struck Asn land yesterday. They were detralnea but forced an outgoing freight tram to take them on" " '.'.'.;v,;. Chico Alarmed -Chlco, Calif., Feb. IS Grout ey,.ir. ment la prevalent here today at tn nimor that the i. W, W. will stop, he'-e first Company A of the Second reriment ot C. N. G. Is under secret orders for a service call ; Morrison Case Ended. Messages from Saleia indicate that Senator Oliver has secured the pas sage of a bill to quiet the title to the land Involved by the escheat pro ceedings against the heirs of John Morrison, If the bill is signed it will end Utlgatin over that property. Engineer TheWn's Mother Dead. The demise of "Grandma" Thelsen at" Mount Augel occurred this week. The deceased Is survived by several children among them Engineer Pets Thelsen of this city w ho went to Port land a few days ago." ' 1 SAMUEL T RAYBUnN. 8pkr of the House In Texas Is Only twtntynine Yesrs Old. f L..,:-- y ' J .. . v- .... ... ..... L - V