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- . 7 . .. f v 11 HI ii lililMj 41 ! UpWil Ill f'l- VOL 'X LA GRANDE, UNION COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1911. NUMBER 219 J t S I 11 IS 511. AVIATOR BEACHES CITY BIRDMAN READY TO T1T TT n A ITITTTITV TT A mtnwnAT HEETE ESSESTIAL QUALIFI- CATIOX FOB AVIATOR HE SAYS FrAsh From SnrreRsfnl Flight nt Vnc. cow Where Enormous Crowd At- fmAkA Dion V AVnlch Ta I.' To fiinndA Tndnr Imimlnttnir TTImtrlf r - n 1 . . ...... ' m mu k Height Attained 600 Feet " ; Charles F. Walah is ready to battle with the ozone above La Grande to morrow ana sunaay rorenoons and af ternoons. The daring birdman reach ed the city this morning from Moscow, . nigm on ' J my neiore uw largest crowd that ever filled that town, not even excepting the. Roosevelt audi- nee, there recently. Pilch f will hn pnmmFilWil from th ban grouois aiM enu mere .: It.wiu , be Mr. Walsh's aim to give the audi ence example of long graceful flights, keeping so close to the ground that iilUVTUKUl Will UQ UIQVClUiUIC ana to do tms it win m necessary to attain a height of about 500 or 500 f ?f t Higher than that, themachlne becomes dimly visible, and the driver scarcely bigger than one's hand. However, If air currents are favorable and the mo tor la In the right condition for it, he will attain higher altitudes. ..,' - Uses CoBtMaatlc'v Machine; -V ' Walsh is. something of an inventor himself. . The machine which arrived here, yesterday and is ' now' set up' at the ball grounds la really a combina tion of the Curtlss and Farman ma chines, with additional lateral balanc es of Walsh's own device. This com bination of strong points from the best machines used gives Mr. Walsh a ' his machine in hard wind currents and ifil 30 gives him lifting powers above the. ordinary. I ' can pull Ave men off their feet with the 60 horsepower engine used on the machine and with the total plane area can lift two pounds to the square foot, for the ma chine weighs about 600 and with my own weight, brings the total to 800 pounds." When he carries a passen ger the ratio of carrying space is eves more great reduced, affirmed Mr. Walsh today. ' Serve Essential Quality. . , -- I A I 1 .11. ,t iCDi iicivc id luo caacuimi 4uaiitj connoea toe uiru wau tuuay. wueu ever T lose mv erlt and nerve T shall certainly quit the game, for I am not one of those who relish a fall from an altitude of B00 to 1,600 feet. But I see scoot about In the air up there with the same possession of my nerves that I walk about your streets. When I keep my machine in such, control that the motors work well, have perfect control over the lateral balances, the rudder and the dip wings, I am per fectly safe, even though so high in the air.'' ': -.,.. -U": ,.' "' Mr. Walsh's machine is provided SUNDAY A FREE DAY Sunday i3 tol)e a free tauqua. Let everybody 1 v go out to spend the day and attend the services. Kev. Dr. GiUilan of the Methodist Episcopal church will speak at 11 o'clock and Rev. Dr. Seemann of , the v Presbyterian church in the It will be a great day, whole series. This is a magnanimous act on the part of the manaerement'and ought to mean such adVer- . tising as will produce a much larger attendance next year. " - r ''';'. The tented city is growing rapidly at the park and by Sunday the available tent space will be taxed but cook house and picnic dinner space is unlimited. with extra lateral balances which are operated by pushing and pulling. the. steering wheel Instead of the custom ary shoulder arrangement whereby i the extra safety proviso Is operated by swaying the body sideways. The pulling features allow much more speedy adjustment of the planes to meet the conditions of the atmosph-ere and air currents." ... . 1 ' "' 1 3tay lake Passengers, . If Mr. Walsh, can get plenty of run ning start room he may carry a pas senger on some of his flights, but he usually goes alone, , ; The two machinists who have been setting . the machine up today have everything In readiness for the flight tomorrow at t! n:vl 2 o'cb:k Mid the same'houis S-irtfny : ; " From 10 , to 20 minutes for each flight, is , the approximate time requir ed, and Mr. Walsh will make a. flight at 10:30 ai. m. and, 2 p. m. each day. At one time during his uty will skim over the city of La Grande displaying his perfect mastery of the machine.'". y "I am glad Ely is coming to Baker Monday," said Mr. Walsh, "and per haps he will come here Sunday to witness my flight," emphasising again that old axiom of a feather flock to gether.,; .' To Decide en A. B. C. Tourney. Chicago, 111., July 7. A final de cision on the location of the 1912 tour nanwnt of the American Bowling con gress will probably be reached at a meeting of the executive committee to be held here tomorrow. It is gen erally und'erstood that Chicago will se cure the tournament, providing . there Is no-hitch in raising the necessary guarantee fund. i- ; .; "... . . BREEZE COSES 0 HID DYING MUCH BELIEF IX SIGHT FOE THE . 8WELTERI0 EAST. Tu Deaths Occur In New Yd De. spite KelM of the Day. ; New York! July 7. Ten additional deaths from heat are reported at 1 o'clock this afternoon. , At Boston six suicided from, the heat craze today. All were found dead In their beds. Th temperature is lower here this afternoon and a brisk southeast breeze is bringing relief to the cities of mil lions after the killing beat of the past few days. The total deaths to date are 158. ',' The weather bureau at Washington predicts low-T temperatures over the entire country tonight and Saturday. Chicago, July 7. Cooling breezes faded at noon and the cty is again welterlnjr . Five died during the forenoon. , r ' , Philadelphia, July 7. Fifteen were dead here at noon. - Baltimore, July 7.Eleven dead at noon today. . . r ' ' Boston, July 7. Ten are tlead In this city as a result af today's heat. AT CHAUTAUQUA. ' day for everybody at Chau- take his picnic dinner and evening, the greatest day of the CIS. ill IB CLOUD ACCUSED OF HAVING A HAND IN ALASKA , LAND GRAB. SAID TO HAVE "FIXED" IT WITH PRESIDES! Girl Discovers Postscript Attached to Letter to SPcretary Which Explains How Guggenhelms Got Control of Controller Bny Holdings Will In Tcstlgate the Proposition, It Is ' cut .Washington, July 7. That Charles Taft, brother of the presid-ent was the means whereby the Morgan-Guggenheim Interests Induced the president to grant them the Controller Bay lands which gives the syndicate a strangle hold on rich Alaskan coal fields, is the gist of a story circulating In official circles today. ,;. The story resulted from the inquiry by Miss M. F. Abbott, who 'asserted J that Richard Ryan, representing that Guggenhelms, obtained rlght 'to thet controller bay. She asserted - she found' a postscript of a letter from Ryan to Ballinger,. who was then sec- t retary of the interior, in which Ryan says he talked to the president but made no Impression and then had,. Charles do the Job and no further ob jection to the claims was made there after.. , , . The charge will undoubtedly be in vestigated -.J'. College Swimmers to Compete. New , York, July 7. The outdoor championships of the Intercollegiate Swimming: association are to be held at ShepBhead bay tomorrow and the outlook Is bright for ; some excellent performances. Ten colleges, "includ ing Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Princeton and other big colleges of the ast, are to be represented in the competitions. Ml Chautauqua week's first serious ob stacle cropped out and was speedily torn down again late this afternoon when word reached La Grande from Boise that De Witt Miller; the humor ist, slated to talk tonight is critically ill. The news was, delayed about 24 hours, but with well-known determi nation the management solved the problem by securing Charles F. Walsh the aviator, Walter M. Pierce and oth ers to take the rostrum at the park tonight" Mr. Walsh will briefly tell of L T San Fraoclsco, Cal., July 7. San Francisco Is rapidly filling with dele gates and visitors to the forty-ninth annual convention of the National Ed ucational association, some 30,000 of whom,' representing - all branches of educational work from the kindergar ten to the university, will make this city their mecca during thtel coming week. ' The national headquarters were opened this morning at the t Francis hotel by Secretary Irwin Shepard of Winona, Minn., who, with a large force of assistants, will be In continual session save during the sleeping , hours, until . the delegates hape gotten into working order the first of the week.-. . Thld officers expect that all records for attendance will be broken by. the present convention. A vast army of visitors i already here and every ar riving train Is adding hundreds to the crowd. All of the teachers anet loud In their praise of the local arrange 1 ZIsiii!!eLed HANGS ON ROCK OFF A SHARP POINT: NO LEAK. PAMC BEIAKS OUT AS SIMP STRIKES HOCK PILE Other Boats Harried to the Rescue This Afternoon to PuH Ship Off With High TIP Sot Believed Possible- Passengers Attempt to Jnmp Over board but Are Frustrated by the v . Seamen. . "'. ' San Francisco, July 7. A telephone message to the marine exchange to day says the steamer Santa Rosa, wUh 290 passengers aboard is on the rocks between Point Conception and Argual-lo.- The steamer President was bellev ed to be in the vicinity, but a Ban Diego message say the United States wireless station on Point Loma talked to the steamer Santa Rosa and though she is on the rocks she is not leaking. All passengers aboard are safe. There are no other boats standing by this forenoon. ' , -Help Comes Later. This afternoon two lumber schoon ers and one oil steamer are standing by and the steamer Curaca left San Pedro this morning to transfer the passengers and bring them to Los An geles. A dense fog caused the ground Ing. jt:; ;;r ; :. y Piissni?ers Panic Strlcl"tn. ( All boats' have hawsers on the steam ship .and with the coming of high tide, attempt will be made to pull her into deep water. Marine men doubt whether It can be done. When the ship was oeached at down, padeugers were panic stricken and It was with much difficulty that the crew kept some from, Jumping overboard, ac cording to wireless dispatches." The steamer i 300 feet from shore. M his experiences" In the air, explaining how the flights are made and some of the sensations coming to an aviator while at the wheel. Hon. Mr. Pierce will hold the platform for about a half hour with one of his , interesting speeches and still others will occupy the boards. . Thus an 11th hour obsta cle was overcome with fine style and the chautauqua crowds will hear a program of quality this evening. Mr. Walsh's reputation as an aviator and Mr. Pierce's renown as an oTator In sures & "well pleased audience. St ments for handling the visitors and for their entertainment. Each train is met by members of the redeiptlon committee, who pilot the visitors to the headquarters for ' registration or assignment, or show them to their rooms if accommodations have been wlcured in advance. The: business sec tion of the city Is decorated with flags and bunting and signs bidding the N. IS. A. welcome are displayed everywhere. The first general session of the as soclatlon, In the GrWek Theatre of the University of California, will not be held until Monday afternoon, but the convention will ae preceded tomor row by meetings of standing commit tees and several of the affiliated or ganizations. At the formal opening Monday afternoon addnesses of wel coma will be delivered by Governor Johnson of California, Mayor McCar thy of San Francisco and President Wheeler of the University of Califor- nla. Response for the visitors will he i made by Dr. Elmer E. Brown, late! United States conimissioaer of ttlu cation and who is soon to enter upon hlavDew duties as chancellor of New York university. Mrs. Ella Flagg Young of Chicago, president, of th , association, will preside at the ses sion and delivtr th& opening address. Dr. David Starr Jordan, president of' Leland Stanford ? Junior university will be another noted siaker at the initial session. From an5 vi(wDoint the program rr University Library n ) successful conventions in the uniuiyomBi of the organization. Aside from this, howewr, the convention Is likely to prove of more Interest to the member ship than any of thM annual meetings of recent years. For several years the membership has been aligning it self Into two rival factions, whose dif ferences came to thtel surfadet at the Boston convention last year. Since it.; tr;r c!r?i loom ing blacker and blacker and all the signs now point to a , bitter storm which may greatly affctet the future of the big teachers' organization. v It will be a fight against the "old order" led by the combined forces of the teachers of Illinois and New York, The main issue, and the one which Is expected to bring up the most serious opposition. Is the pro posal to abolish the national council which is vested with the power of recommending appropriations and fix ing the exreidltur6 of funds. The so called insurgents charge that the council has fought against progres sive methods for the association and it Is also .hinted that the 'expenditures have been rjfeblessly and Imprudent ly made. ' ' , PORTLAND I KILLS HIMSELF AFTER FATALLY IWOiDIXG WIFE. In Family. Squabble, Man Becomes Enraged and Shoots. Portland, July 7. Apparently en ranged because his wife compared him unfavorably with her former hus band, Christopher Darrow, aged 45, a carpenter, shot and fatally wound ed her, and then blew; out his own brains at their home on Northrup street. The tragedy was witnessed by a thre8-year-old sou who was crying "Mamma, poor mamma," when the police arrived. The wcma willdie. ' Bowing Regatta at Portland, I Portland, Ore., July 7. The biggest event of the year for oarsmen in this section of the continent was Inaugur ated here today with the opening of the annual regatta of the North Paci fic Association of Amateur Oarsmen. The races are to extend over two days and will include senior single. Junior single, senior double,' Junior double and four-oared events. ' The contests take place over a straight away course of one. and one-half miles. The participation of some of the best oarsmen of Vancouver and Victoria gives the regatta this year a strong international flavor. 1 UCK OUT RILEY RILEY MONDAY. James Whitcomb Riley, the pastural poet, will bo out Rileved here next Mondav eveniiifr nt tho Drinn- tauqua grounds when Judge J. D. Flenner, Riley reader, aunears before tht fJhfl.nLn.nnna .niidifin with a program of far more than passing value. The v uoiso juage is conceded to be exceptionally clever with Riley's verses and the management has secur- v ea mm on recommendation of some of the best men and naners in the countrv. He reads Rilev excen: tionally well. Amoner men who endorse him hii?hlv. are several well known to La Grande. Senator Bor- ah, of Idaho;Prof. Adrian, who appears in teachers' era institute work in this city, are among them.; It will be a Riley hour, pleasant and instmcti ve. . ' EI1P Eli PACE DECIDED . . . FRENCHMAN . TAKES A FAT PURSE FOR PERFORMANCE. MXE LAPS CONSTITUTE 050 MILE CONTEST U AI3 Sine Stages Taken Successfully A "Black Horse" Entry Wins Last Lap But Is 'ot op to Total Stiles Exe cuted! by Army Officer Fifty-Ehrht . Hours of Flight Is Inquired for the Tour. ' ' ' : Paris, July 7. ttneign the French army, sailing under the nama of Anrira nAanmnnt inAtkv, wnn the European circuit race by flying Its last lap from Calais to Vincennes, 153 miles, In three hours and 25 minutes. There were nine stages In the 950 mile race. Conneau's lapped time was 58 hours, 38 minutes and 54 seconds. His actual flying time was 23 hours 22 minutes and 39 seconds. His prlze9 will total more than 150,000, Including $40,000 given by the Paris Journal. Vidaret won the last stage of the race from Calais to Vincennes this morn ing: and Garros wa second in the grand total of points. To Protect the King and Qireen. ; Loudon, July 7. Recuperated by a week's rest at Windsor after the cor onation and attendant ceremonies, the king and queen started today on a tour, that will last until near the end of the month and ' will embrace all parts of the kingdom. The royal visit to Ireland is first on the program. The visit, will be confined to Dublin and vicinity and will (extend over four days, beginning tomorrow and lasting until next Wednesday. On the last named day their majesties will leave Dublin for a three days' visit to Wales which will be made historical by the Investiture of the prince of Wales at Carnarvon castle. The stay In Wales will by followed by . the royal visit to Scotlandt On all the railroads on which the royal party will travel un usually elaborate precautions are be ing taken to protect tho royal train. The royal train will be. drawn by two locomotives ; with expert Wiglneers, and a complete staff of railway ex perts and .electricians accompany the train for immediate action In case anything shoud gol wrong. A' pilot engine, is to run a quarter of an hour ahead of the royal train, and after Its passage all tracks are to be kept ab solutely clear. t COYE WAXTS A GAME. ' " Cherry Day Promoters Want Drawing ' Cord From La Grande That Day V The Cherry day features at Cove are to be aujracutod ou .July 19- w the presence of the La Grande ball team if wishes of the Cove show people are fulfilled. They will be, too, as' the team here Is anxious to combine ball with pleasure and not .only ' see the Cove cherries on the big day but play hall nn waII.