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LA GRANDE, UNION OOUNTY, OREGON. H; SATURDAY; PEBRUARY 25 19) 1
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New York, Feb. 25 It is generally of years, It Is not likely tha there will
believed now that the first excite be much wage cutting,-It is said,
nent of the rate decision has died Vlth . these encouraging" reports
away-Tthat the railroads won't pro- emanating . from traffic headquarters.
wa ogamst tne interstate commerce stocks resumed the normal earlv in
commission's decisions. Aso, that ev
erything will soon be adjusted.
;j- Improvements to Continue ,
' : Just how the report started is not
known. but It comes, authentic, from
headquarters and says that the roads
will carry out projected improve
ments. There will be no fight for high
er, freight rates either. To meet, the
current obligations the companies will
retrench In various ways as the Tall
roads have slemed contracts with most
of their employes coverin a long term
the day and labor leaders throughout
the country 'have lost - their 'fear that
- wages would drop and that men would
be laid oft ''. ' -.
Conference to Decide Definitely
Chicago, Feb. 25 Executives and at
torneys for the western railroads are
expected to-meet here next wee!: to
decide upon what ' action : they will
take regarding the decision of the
commission,. f...,:
Indications are that it will be ac
cepted without a fight. '.: ,
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JOSEPH
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LA GRANDE RENEWS EFFORTS TO
, GET DESIRED RATES
Baker, La Grande, Pendleton all Join
Mb Distributive Rate Fight
The establishment of rural route
number one out of Joseph, Oregon,
has been ordered by the post office
aepartment, according; to a telegram
from Senator ' Jonathan Bourne, Jr.,
received this afternoon by Receiver
Colon R. Eberhard, who aj an attor
ney of Joseph,' prior to his appolnt
ment here,' had charge of 'the effort jo
secure the route. The telegram states
that seryice will be established; by
the department as soon M '.practicable
during the current fiscal year, which
ends. June 30, 1911.
.. It Is probable that an'examlnatlon
under the civil service for the posl-
: tlon of carrier will be ordered within
a comparatively short time.
The route extends eastward from
Joseph, runs to the extreme southern
part of Prairie Creek, doubles back
the full length of the plateau having
that name, on the east side, crosses
the northern end of the same- and
then takes in quite a portion of up-
' per Alder slope, ending at Joseph
postofflce.
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TAFT CONSIDERS ADVISAMLITI
OF DELAYING CALL. .
Probably That Month's Tlme W ill
be Given to Organization.
REID TO QUIT
Reported that John Hays Hannon Will
Succeed the Ambassador.
London, Feb. 25 A report Is cur
rent in government circles that John
Hays Hammond, the bosom friend of
President Taft will soon be appointed
American ambassador to Great Brltlan
to succeed Whitelaw Reld, who Is now
at bis home near San Francisco.
San Francisco, Feb. 25 Reld's pri
vate secretary, over the phone, said
Ir Hammond Is going to be appointed
Reld would surely know something
about It, intimating It was news. 'W.
Reld was Indisposed and personally
unable to answer the phone.
Washington, Feb. 22 Preeld, nt
Taft today considered the suggestion
made' by Champ Clarke and Oscar Vn
derwood that .30 days.be allowed. .
IntervetVt between iho end y? this
congr;ss pnd the calling .of an 9.ci
session;;.. .,.'':";:'- . .: .'''"''''.. :'
'Thev pointed out th-it a cer",-H
amoun'i c' rime must X given to re
organliii.'cn,; either h.f0fe "or u'r
the sessti n convenes. If the extrC'iV
slon t called , tl win probably, be
April
' V. UNDERW'OOD.
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ROTARY WORKS FOB TWELYE
HOURS TO RESTORE CLEAR
v , TRACKS AT suaraiiTvc- V
Alabimi ConBrtmn Wh Will
Hd Ways nd Miana CammKtM
PfflGEfl Til
ueavy snowstorm Accompanied by
.TiB8 vioys aji une anif Sidings
at Kainela So That Freights Could
not Leave Mala Line to the Summit
East Bound Passenger and Mail
Train Delayed Farther West Too. .
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Two freight train
plowe-out and in service for the"flrst
time thte winter were firmly cement
ed on the main line tracks at Kamela,
the summit of the Blue Mountains
last night and this morning and over
land traffic was stalled from 11 o'clock
last night until H Vclock this morn
ing. The first need of the rotary snow
plow was an ftrgent one. The machine
was sent out early last evening arid
though valient work was done it was
Impossible,, to move two freight trains
at Kamela. The trains had to pass
there, and two had to get on a siding
to allow No. 10 the fast mall and fi h
jEstbound .passenger, ,to go by at
that point. Fpttunately for the pas.
sengcTs tm No. 6, the delay, was occas
ioned at other1 points, ioo, on account
Df an engine going dead, and the train
was held but an hour or so at Ka
mela. It reached here at noon. '':
Sidings Snowed Under,
, 0 by Amrlcan Prew Anoclatlon.
ments of the last two or thre years
from ; the United States', to wwitrn
Canada," he said, "the Indications are
that there will be a very marked move
ment of people. The prospects that
there wilt be a very marked move
ment of . people. The prospects for
crops In the west are very bright; ow
Ing to theCfact. that the late fall en
sbled the farmers to get a large
amount of land ready for spring crops.
In southern Alberta .the fall condi
tions and the unusual snow fall dur
ing the winter practically assure a
good crop of wlntsr wheat" -r :
Mr. Dennis had Just' returned from
Great Britain and ; Europe where 'he
spent two months arranging for. the
extension of the organization .dealing
with. Immigration from England and
the Continent Jo western Canada He
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Salem, Feb. 23 With the vefd fit I an emergency clause
the Rogue River fish bill at midnleht commission bllL
Governor West ended the most stren
uous campaign of axe weildtng ever
conducted by an Oregon' governor. A
total of seventy-two bills were vetoed
and a total of $618,874 was lopped off
the legislature's aroprlatlona, Prac
tlcally every bill raising the salaries
of, county and itate officers was ve
toed. Among tha bills vetoed are the
four good roads' bills which the gran
ges secured amendments to and watch
were satisfactory to the grangers ana
their representatives' when they wer:
iBmi. Anotner bill vetoed was one
killing the bill to elect a railroad com
missioner from Eastern ' Oregon ; an-1
other regarding the Morrtson estate
In Lnion county. ' " ' .
Forest Commission, Bill a Law
Among the . bills allowed to stana
and which la now a law as it carrrea
i the forest
In reference to the last named bill
It can be stated that the natural re
sources of Eastern Oregon and the
Blue Mountains will " be vastly bene
fitted b( measure. It provides taa
chief r '. ' authority to appornt
deputf .. ,ave police power to
act a prevent careless" at-
tentj f and forest horrors. M.
B.jf , if, the Palmer Lumber
cotf . l p expressed hla delight
t; 'ge of the bill for It will
gf , ;.bermen an. opportunity to
f prevent fires but It will
fire teak out. The cost of maln
talnlnjthe patrols will still fall on
the1 lumbermen, ' but the big tlmbei
tracts will not be the only beneficlar
tea by my ' 'means. Residents of the
mountain districts will be abetted In
their fight by the aid of the big lum
ber concerns. ' '
PORTLAND MURDERER FOUND.
Beandette Wolf Found In India After
Many Years' Search for Him.
Portland,, Feb. 25 After a world
wide search since 1891, Burdette Woir
who shot and killed his sweetheart,
Bertha Morton, when he escaped on
a steamer owned by a relative a few
hours afterward. y has been located
in Cslcutta, India and will be brought
bock to Portland for trial on a mur
der charge.
Wolf was formerly a law Btudent
nore r.rd was prominent socially. He
shot the girl because . her parents
niv.e her reject him.
BOXING COSTS DEARLY
Many Prominent Portland Men Will
bo Indicted for Allowing1 Boxing.
Portland, Feb. 23 Scores of prom
inent men of this city are fadn in
dictment by the grand' Jury, which be
gan an Investigation today of the live
ly mill held last night at the Com
mercial club at a banquet, given ths
Pacific Coast printers .'congress. Bua
Kcrugcr of OiikUr.d And Lee Ward or
Portland were the pugilists.'
was clogged ' for 12 hours. The ro
tary .had the severest kind 'of a time
In getting things Tightened.
, This . ! the first time this year
that the snow has become a menace
to traffic and though the road was
clear this afternoon a. heavy wind
storm can eaBily undo what the ro
tary corrected during the twelve hours
1'. was out.
tiH-now was so. deep at Kam :1a , homeseekers from both' Great Britain
that it jwas impossible to get , the ' and northern Europe this year will be
freights' la the lear and the main line'! very x:large; Over " l.OoO arinllea'Mnnn
were received In Great Britain for the
100 farms which were prepared last
year' to be settled this spring under
the Canadian Pacific Railway's policy
of providing "ready-made farms." As
a result of this demand in Great Brit
ain the company 1 Is preparing 300
ready-made farms for settlement next
y:ar. - .
Regarding reciprocity between Can-
: llrtfl anil tha ItnHoA on i- i-.
- Big- Immigration , nlg declined to express any opinion,
Chicago, Feb. 23 (Speclal)-The saying that of course this was more
emigration of 200,000 people during or less of a political question, but he
1911 from the United States to the volunteered the statement that the
western provinces of Canada, .which signing of the treatby by Canada and
waB predicts by J. S. Dennis, man-. the United States could not fall -to
ager of the land. Irrigation and tim- have a marked effect upon land values
ber interests of the Canadian Pacific j in western Canada, in view of the
Railway of western Canada, from re-. fact, which is now generally r cognlz
ports to him when In Chicago from ed, that the only large area of land
agents of the company, will exceed available for homeseekers was locat
the r cord of any previous year.. "Ev-Jed In the western provnnces of the
en when compared with the move- Dominion.
POOR OLD HORSY! WfS ERF'S your RUNtrrr?
MORRISON ESTATE BILL VETOED
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BY GOV
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WEST
Salem, Feb. 25, (Special) Gov- jernor but Its doom came at a late
ernor West last night vetoed Senato. : hour ,a8t, nlng
Oliver's bill quieting the, title to the "Thamnvarnnr,a n . ..
' The governors veto puts the meaa-
Morrlson estate In Union county ure back where lt wa8 0n th(J Btrenftn
throwing the case out of court ana of the reputed heir's actions, the spce-
forblddlnz the state to escheat the
property as It has been endeavonng
to do for the past year or two. Sena
tor Oliver was Instrumental In having
the bill passed and put up to the gov
lal representatives of the state. Coch
ran & .Cochran, will apply for a -mlBsk.
-.n the grounds that the heirs
have practically admftted thelrclalm
was erroneous, through their petition
for a quiet title.
BIT
EREARIi AT E1GII DODOES
SALEllON
DAY
. Destrlbutlve rates for La Grande
and commodity rates out of Portland
to La Grande will be urged beforethe
state railroad commission at Salem
next Mor-dayr- andU though. Attorny
Oliver who -has had the matter in
hand for the city,' will not likely ap
pear in person when the Joint hear
ings are made, the city's interests wlli
be cared" tor nevertheless. Baker, La
Grande and Pendleton will seek the
same issues. , ' - '
Practically a Rehearing.
The same issues were brought un
at Baker some time ago boiore the
commission. nat was 'n 'ha time of
the O. k. & N., and the -jommisslon
has decided tnat it could not consist
ently make an ord- n the O.-W.
which succeeded the O. H & N that
had boon fought by the predecessor.
This desirable rate 's T"atly needed
In this city, agree all the business
men nnd much in teres centers in
what the commissioners will do with
the case. The commodity rate from
Portland to La Grande la important,
out pemnps .ore so Is the sougnt
after privilege of dlstrlbutativB rates
out of La Grande. . - , '
Will
(Hair-raising escape: from what
could be, nothing less than, death for
groat numbers riding on No. 17, the
west bound passenger; this morning,
pK.wnery.raia( ioaa
of people near Bacon, k new elding,
udt; far frotri Unloln station. Engine
No. - 214, .Engineer Gardner" suddenly
tM& i, ... . . .. . .
ich- me runs ana stopped tne train
with terrific suddeness. One set of
trucks Jumped the rails, and headed
toward " the bank. Km the opposite
side of the track was a deep ana dan-
.uw n uivu wg cuftiug
would have plunged most likely had
the strange freak of tortuno guided
the pilot of the unruly engine In an
other direction. V ' . r
; y Passengers In Panic.
The sudden stop and the dangerous
and precipitous canyon so near the
track drove the people aboard into a
temporary panic and many of them
were paralyzed with fear.
Fortunately for all concerned, of
course, the accident was trivial and
after the first spaBm of fright had
been dispelled by a feeling of ease,
the engne was righted as rapidly as
possible. ' i
rfiQwuiertwti i cmcago Tnbun.
ANNUAL REPORTS WEST ELECTS A
FAVORABLE B SUP!
HOT LAKE SANATORIUM COMPANY
HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING
SCHOOL FOR FEEBLE MINDED IN
XEW HANDS
Last Year Best In Hlntery of Instltn. i rroclamatlon' Issued Today Settln
....... a virillllts ' lUtl,
Hot Lake, Feb. 25 (Special) The
annual meeting of the Hot Lake Sana
torium company, was held yesterday.
The annual reports were made, show
ing that the year 1910 had been the
most satisfactory yet experienced by
the Institution.
i Improvements Under Way.
Contemplated Improvements were
discussed and the work for the ensu
ing year was outlined in some detail.
Senator P. A. MacDonald was elect
ed director for the next year. Other
Aside March 1 as Letter Day.
Salem, Feb. 25 Dr. Frank Smith,
of Salem, has been appointed super
intendent of the state Institution for
the feeble minded by, Governor WeBt
to succeeded Harry B. Yekers, former,
ly of Pendleton, who has resigned.
Colonist Day Proclaimed
Governor West Issued a, proclama
tion today settlngMarch 1 as Colonist
day. Citizens are requested to wrrte
Utters east, setting for the advan
tages of Oregon.
Another Divorce Granted
The string of divorces emntofi fM.
Important matters were discussed rt' ' mrn,n? when
lnn.,M "iEru Carlock was given legal Bepar.
omelentfk. .g... ! atlon from O. R. Carlock.