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LA GRANDE, UNION COUNTY. OREGON.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1G, 1911.
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ARIZONA AND NEW
j MEXICO TQ GET
U SOME FORM
BELIEVED TAFT AXD CONGRESS
lv WItL RE A (11 COMPROMISE
JSsfcheme Sow Is to Drop (Recall Fea
ture Which Taft Opposed and Rash
Bill ThMugh That Satisfies th
President Jfd Hope to Pass the Be.
call of Jndlclarj Over the Veto Op.
position. . -v ,'
Washington, Aug. 16. The house
committee on territories today appoint
ed a sub committee of five members to
(confer with the senate territories com
mittee on the New Mexico-Arizona
statehood situation with the view of
forming a compromise bill which will
pass both houses, and which Taft will
Sign. The majority of the house com
mittee first favored the bassag? of the
present bill, including the Judiciary
recall, over Taft's veto. A comprom
ise was finally accepted to assure the
territories of statehpod this session.
I The democratic senators are in cau
8us today to determine what action
they will take on the cotton tariff bill
4nd date for congress adjournment,
ftepresentatlve Underwood com
promise on tha wool revision bill pas
sed the senate last night and went to
the president this morning. His ve(o
Is expected Friday. It is believed the
uuubb win accept the free Hat bill as
n imBBea in me senate. , .
T A COMA LIKES SINGLE TAX.
County Commissioners Consider Plan
to Adopt Henqt George Law.
Tacoma, Aug. 16. Tacoma may soon
establish a Henry George sj-siem of
axatlon if the wishes of the ritv m'm.
blsstoners, who are all single taxers,
ire carried out. The commissioners
fiaim that the tax system is directly
Responsible for the remarkable pros
Jierity of Vancouver. R. r rnmmi..
feioner Pettlt will introduce a resolu-
iou in me council, probably, today,
roviamg ror the appointment' of a
ommittee to confer with city officials
;n the question with the view of tak-
ng further Bteps toward inaugurating
he single tax system within the state.
V Harvester Trust Under Study.
Washington; Auk ' 16. Should th
resolution introduced in tha hous hv
SCongressraan Foster of Illinois yester
;day, pass," a thorough lnvestleation
of the International Harvester com
pany to determine, whether it Im a
trust will be made. ' ' . .
The. resolution calls for a sneclal
committee of nine with authority' to
fully investigate. ; -
" Papke After Winner.
Chicago, Aug. 16. The orobablllties
VtrR Strnnir thof nni. Doni. tti ...
i o .a(aa n iii uieei
Ahe winner of the Tony-Caponl-Phll
3cni08soerg fight sometime in Septem.
oer. Papke has promised but no pa
pers have been signed. Caponl and
schlossberg fight Aug. 19.
Build Brldire for Winer.
(Baker Herald.)
In order to permit the fulfillment
t'f the Arkansaw minea contract with
iue iewissohns for the shipment of
3000 tons of ore from that property to.
.the big copper operators by the first
jof the year Baker county will have
,to erect a bridge over Herman creek
Jbetween Ballard's Landing and Home
Mead. The bridge has been recom
mended by W. F. Hubhler. road sup
ervisor of District NO. 18. and accord-
Ing to Judge Bascne this morning, will
be erected at once. U will be a 20
foot span bridge constructed of tim
ber, ' i ' ( t. ' ., m
In addition the county will probably j
do considerable grading on the road
between Ballarda' and Homestead in
order to assist lnthe work of trans
portation." ' .' .ij. ;
The first shipment of ore from the
Arkansaw, it is understood will con
sist of 200 tons, and the other ship
ments will follow rapidly until the 3,
000 tons Is delivered by the company.
Enormous .Sum l'aij ut (6 Losers In
San Franrlseo Shakenji. ... .
San Francisco, Aug. 16. Practically
all of the Insurance arising from the
earthquake "and fire here of 1906 are
now settled and the underwriters' re
ports Just Issued, show a total of
(163,713,330 paid out. Within the last
few days 'a number of satisfactions of
Judgments have been filed and the
calendar is nearly clean. Victims of
welching companies, however, are not
dohe. They have banded together to
force such companies to pay" , their
claims, or go out of business.
Al 1DUS1AE;
HCEBTfilf:
SEERS AT CHICAGO FORECAST i
STRUGGLE IJT SIX MONTHS '
Various Phases of Ehilroad Wage Con
troversy to Cause It. r
Chicago, Aug. 15. Special) In volv-.
ing tens of thousands of employes of
American railroads a great Industrial,!
strike is almost certain to come with
in six monthB, say labor leaders here
today, unless the managers of the rail,
road liaes agree to a complete remold
ing of conditions under which the men
In all branches of the services iabti'.
Representatives of the road do not
deny that the outlook Is grave and
both sides admit that should such a
struggle come the Pacific coast will
witness the beginning of the struggle.
The preparations for the battle are
already under way. .';
" The new combination of the Indus-.
trial forces, eathered under the lend.
ershlp 6f the railway employes de
partment of the American Federation
of Labor and known as the "system
federation" was organized during the
last six months. It has precipitated
what railroad men and employes alike
admit is a crisis., -. . : :
Each "system federation" will rep
resent a different railway system. For
y tars the agreements between the rail
roads and various branches of the em
ployes have been expiring on differ
ent dates of different years. In this
way the railroads were protected from
a general strike and when one of their
department went on strike the work
could be shitted to another department
which ' was under contract not to
strike until its agreement had expired.
Under the eystem federation scheme,
however, all unionists on any one sys
tem will make their agreements to ex
pire on the same date and year. This
will make general strikes possible and
labor leaders predict will give oppor
tunity for enforcement . of their de
mands with a greater prospect of suc
cess ." . - " "
( i Butterflies Darken Skies.
Redding, Cal., Aug. 16. Butterflies,
no thick that they bscure the sky,
are Infesting the forests between Bur
ney and Montgomery creek. The, in
sects which are about an Inch In
length are progressing southward. It
is f-elleved they are the product of a
great hort of army worms that , de
scended on Siason recently.
ANflUfiL SESS10E3
FOLLOWING IRl ItlllBTI
velopment "' league today re-elected
Theodore Wilcox, of Portland, presi
dent and chose La Grande as the meet
ing place of the next convention.
' Among the vice presidents are Bruce
Dehlilg, La Grande. Dan Smythe of Pen
dleton and William Bocunson, of Baker
City, it4 on the executive committee.!
RpsnhitlniT Mitiilnmtiinp the reforen
dum against tile" SWte educational ap
propriations were aaapted. The con-,
vention adjourns tonight Today the
delegates launcnea on a gooa roaas
campaign. v
Astoria. Aug. 16. (Special) La
Grande triumphed over a large list of
opponents today" and landed the 1912
convention of the Oregon Development
league which will unquestionably bring
snch railroaders as L. W. Hill, presi
dent of the Great Northern, Howard
Elliott, president of the Northern Pa
cific, and a galaxy of state boosters and
northwest empire builders, to the Eas-,
tern Oregon metropolis at that time.
The signal victory1 for La Grande came
at the end of a speech of welcome by
Bruce Dennis, editor of the La Grande
Observer, who in a short but pointed
addcessupresented the development
congress in session here with a warm '
invitation. Over a large list of other!
runners up for the same honor; the
convention voted La Grande by a sub
stantial margin. - J
The session of the Oregon Develop'-'
men league Is Invariably, the signal for;
the gathering of a large coterie of
prominent men, men not 6nly promi
nent In Oregon, but in the northwest
and the nation. This is the first year
out of several annual sessions that Mr.
Hill and Mr. Elliot have failed to be
present oftentimes James J. Hill, tho
empire builder, makes It a point to be
present and address the delegates.
Such Indeed may prove the case next
year. Their absence this time was oc
casioned by unexpected business af
fairs. 'V- . '.- ' ; . .' , ;
The La Grande movement was first
set on foot when Publicly Manager
Slough of La Grande commenced a
systematic series of letters to the dele
gates who were to attend the Astoria
convention this year, and It came to a
successful climax when Mr. Dennis of
La Grande presented the verbal Invi
tation, 7 v;
That bringing the Development con
gress to La Grande next year means
one of the biggest publicity assets La
Grande has attained In many years Ib
conceded by all, In view of the typo
of men who attend. Not only will Ore
gon send a big delegation on that oc
casion but the event will draw from
railroad centers' of the United States
as it has always done.
DEXMS ISVITES COXTEXTIOX.
Warm Welcome Extended" by La
, Grande Editor lu Short Speech.:
Astoria, Ore., Aug. 15. (Special)
Appearing before the Oregon Develop
ment league here today, Bruce DeunU,
editor of the La Grande , Observer,
pleaded for La Grande In her efforts
to gain the next "meeting of the con
gress." Mr. Dennis said in part: '
'To meet on such an occasion as
this by no means an often experienced
pleasure, and today we owe this splenr
did city of Astoria a debt of gratitude
which can only be paid By the swel
ling of tho heart of the true westerner
who always knows when he Is well
treated; ; " J: : J i
"It is refreshing to meet under these
pleasant circumstances, the different
men from over the state when State
ment No. 1 is not thought of, when
the Initiative " and ; referendum , Ife
peacefully slumbering, when no one
is' trying to be governor, and when
people are not worried over the pos
sibility of single tax.,, ' ; )
"I see before me many adherents of
the Oregonlan. a like number of tlll
cums of Jackson of th'e Journal,' and
a large sprinkling of Carroll admir
ers. And the nice feature Is that we
AT ASTORIA .
HiETO bl GRANDE
arm oil hr In .
onmmnn rnnao' wt
are here to devise ways and means of
helping thousands of people while at
the same time we help the grand state
in which we all take pride in claiming
citiisenshlp, .
"I want to say that Delllnger, Gatt
ke and John Day and the rest of the
Astoria boys will be remembered by
this assembly oh, pardon ' me, by
this gathering for the gopd time they
are showing all of us. ..
"But, candidly, it seems to. me the
mission of this league Is far reaching,
so much so that , Us V permanency
should never be Questioned. We, as
citizens of Oregon, have had" Intrusted
to us by nature the great undeveloped
area which Is destined to become the'
nation's strong box, as It were; we
are, in a way, custodians of the fu
tures of thousands of people; for, by
our direction, many young people of
the east will take the old-time Hora'ce
Greeley advice and come west. They
will couitJ; 'because "We insist upon It.
. "Thla being true, there Is a heavy
responsibility upon , each member of
this league, and I would impress upon
ydti" the Importance today of - tho
GYefifer Oregon Development league
rroriing down all sorts of fakes and
demand'in'g absolute truth In the liter
ature' issued by every community and
every corporation.
; "The result id never good If a man Is
attracted' to Oregon by1 false state
ments; it' is never goOd If a citizen
comes here oh advice that he can clear
a thousand dollars an acre from some
product, when such Is nOt' the truth;
It is never a good policy to urge peo
ple to come to a state to enfgage In
fancy farming,' anyway. I mean by
fancy farming that which requires a
specialist to do successfully. v
"What we need most of anything Is,
rTrst, to adopt strict censorship upon
all literature of get-rich-quick land
companies and other companies that
are here only to graft , the public.
Then we need to encou'ragothe people
of. the east and middle west to come
here and ; till the soil. Without the
latter Oregon will continue to be look
ed upon by many as the mecca for
the get-rith-qulck swindlers. t ';
"Instead of giving bonuses and
franchises to Corporations that in turn
water their stocks heavily and unload
them on an innocen public, it is our
duty as Oregonians Ip this organiza
tion to throw our strong right arm un
der the bian who has located on s
piece of land and Is doing his, best , to
make good and raise his family, v ,
; "Make the surroundings of the
small farmer and the. homesteader as
pleasant as possible; put in his mouth
the sweet carroll of contentment, and
you have made a big stride toward
developing the state we all love so
well, For he is the man who will
make Oregon In the end; he is the
man, when once on his feet, will as
sist In paying the tax, whereas the
promoter who asks for special privi
leges will milk the great natural do
main and then go to a foreign coun
try to spend bis money.
"It Is said a young man came out
to this country jri search of a home
stead. He got It and In writing home
after having lived on It for some time,
said: "An Oregon homestead Is a
great thing. Uncle Sam betg you 160
acres of land against f 14.25 that you
will starve to death In less than five
years.' . ' '"
"When we find an earnest home
steader the thing to do Is to help him
In every way possible. Instead of
taking stock in the wildcat corpora
tion bet a few dollars that the man
who is wrestling with the virgin soil
will make good.
"Now, gentleman, I see before me
many familiar faces and I believe thai
every man within tUe sound Of my
vok'8 tg anxious., ll the next De
velopmrut League meeting in Eastern
Oregon, and 1 believe you want to S
it meet in La Grande, the center of
population and transportation of East
ern Oregon. I ana authorized by myj
people to extend to you a tnoat .c6f5'aH
welcome. . Our sister cities, Baker on
tha .south and, Pendleton on the" west,
will help 'us en terUfft 6u aiid '
Ueve It will do you good ft nter the
bunch grass country, where Cta Vlm&s1,
blow the softest, where the crops. if
largest, where the honey Is the sweet
est, where the cooing of the babies la
the dearest and where the maiden's
eye is the clearest.
, "We want you because you will en
Joy the (freedom of our mountain coun
try a half a mile in the air.
"We want you for It will bind the
breach ever existing which teaches the
WUlamette valley is selfish and un
mindful of the great empire beyond
the mountains. ;
"Why, friends, do you know what a
(Continued on pagt 6.)
HIM SCHEIE
vFRUSTlTED
LOG AND ,ItDUXDABOUT ROUTE
10 OAI (MF1DECE.
Local Contractor Mps Cleter Scheme
to Be Fleeced In the Bud.
New wrinkles in the manner of gain
ing confidence of stranger and clever
attempts to fleece the stranger out of
$23 are shown by the capers cut by a
man named C. E. Sweet who came to
La Grande this week from Nampa,
where1 he left a bad reputation and
some worthless checks. His scheme
to get money by his wits came near be
tug a success and was surely unique
In all Its phases.
Two days ago he approached George
Waggener claiming he had fallen heir
to a little sum of money, that he. had
been located at Nampa but had been
transferred to La Grande where he had
a "passenger brakeman's run." that he
desired a home and wanted Mr. Wag
genor to quote prices on a plan sketch
ed in pencil, which he carried . with,
him. Mr. Waggenor became Interested .
at once and for about two hours dis
cussed plans and prices and In the end
closed a contract fomhe construction
of a house to cost $2,350, on some lots
on Adams avenue. The original
sketch was discarded when Mr. Wag
genor showed some sampIes"of his owni
work and plans, and Mr. Sweet said he
would adopt the new plans In prefer
ence to his own which his wife had O.
K.'d because she bad lived In a similar
house In Missouri. "My wife ; liked
these old plans but I am sure she will
.prefer yours," said Sweet in his pre-
Hminary warmup." We have decided
to build us a little home while we are
here and I can pay for the construc
tion of the same with $1,500 when the
place is finished and the rest in rapid
Installments. I do business In a hurry
so you better close up the contract and
I will give you a check for $200 to bind
the deal." This was done after con
siderable discussion of the subject, and
Mr. Waggenor, confident of a good
piece of work in sight, drew up the
contract. The two then started down
town, with the understanding they
were to meet this morning and agree
on specifications. On the way Sweet
carelessly drew out a check In his own
favor issued by a Nampa firm on a
Nampa bank. The $200 check he had
used to close the contract was also on
a Nampa bank. Mr. Waggenor pon
dered the cashing business a moment,
and decided it was not best to give the
stranger the money. "Well. It Is Im
material; I can either have Mr. Zuber
cash It for me or take It to Pendleton
where several know me. I have no
friends here to Identify me." Hon ever
he did not approach Mr. Zuber with
the check. . '
In the Interim Mr. Waggenor dis
covered that tho lots on which he was
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IIJF1T0I ILS
ME BIOTHS
BLOODY SCENES EN
ACTED IN THE XIV
ERPOOL STRIKE
EXTRA SESSION OF rOXXOXS'".
" FRAUGHT M ITII EXCITEMENT
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Labprltes lu House Scream' at Hem
8ecreUry Churchill Bloodshed In
stltuU's Bitter Feeling Women and
Children Clubbed In, Riots In Liver
lool by Policemen Labor Is Anger,
ed at Authorities.
FLOUR SUPPLY GOXE.
Llvernool.
lers today notilied the ciy au-
thorltles that thev are imnM. rt a
Insufficient flour to last two more 3
days. Coal and grain supplies are "
exhausted. " ' ' a
Liverpool, Aug. 16. Today brought
ho cessation of the strike rioting hre .
Order was restored temporarily after
the Infantry troops had fired a volley.
Then the cavalry charged. Two riot
ers were killed and the mob d'spsrsed.
Thousands of freight handlers are now
awaiting orders to strike and the situ-,
ation la growing worse. .i'.
Extra Sessions Talks Strikes.
London, Aug. 16. Complying with
requests of the board of trade. Premier
Asquith today convened the cabinet In ;
extraordinary session to discuss the
strikes which are now racking all
England. It was unofficially statod
that the government wHl summon thev
royal engineers to operate the rail
roads If the cabinet does not succeed
In avoiding a general strike.
The war office Is preparing for vig
orcius action. The strike of amalga-,
mated railway employes which will tie ,
up all the railroads, will be declared
tonight, it is feared. In varloua strikes
over 200.000 men are out In the various
:'y of England.
Wild Scenes In Commons.
Pandemonium reigned In the house,
of commons today following the ap- '
pearance of Home Secretary Church- ' '
ill., Laborltes shouted and demanded "
why the police was allowed to' club "
women and children 1n the Liverpool
riots. When Churchill 'said he could
do nothing until order was restored
George Lanibury shouted. "I don't
know whether you want the people's
blood but I never knew a more blood
thirsty lot than these policemen who
are beating down defenseless women
and children in the streets.""
Brltton Seeking Match.
; San Francisco, Aug. 16. Jack Brit
ton, a Chicago lightweight, and. well
recommended from tho windy berg. Is
the latest possibility for fight promo-;
ters here. Brltton went eight round
to a draw with Packy McFarland. ' Ho
Is now In San Francisco looking for a
match. ' ' '., . 1 .. ... '
Graft Cases Jolted.
, San Francisco, Aug. 16. To consid
er the advlslblllty of asking for a re
hearing of the trolley franchise graft
cases before the supreme court, Judge
William P. Lawler and District Attor
ney Flckert and Assistant District At
torney Berry today will hold a consul
tation. V:'1 ,; v'";"' - ; r-
The writ of mandamus granted by
the district court of appeals directing
Lawler to dismiss the Indictments
against Patrick Calhoun, Tirey Ford
and other United Railway officials who
are charged with bribery In connection
with . the overhead trolley franchise
will be served today.
Judge Lawler cla'med his delay In
trying the cases was an exercise of
good Judgment which the appellate
court held was meaningless. The
trials were put over 06 times In 65
days. " ,