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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1911)
PAGES LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1911. n Men's Suits and Overcoats We have received our entire new line of men and boys' fall clothing Overcoat time is here and we want to show you something extra nice in gray, brown, or black diagonals, all cut full length and ex tra full. These over coats arft rnarla to com bine style, warmth and wearing qualities and at our price they are a great bargain. Priced $10.00, $12.50. $15.00, $18.50, $20.00. Men's Suits Have you noticed how popular browns are in men's suits? We are showing a full line of browns and have one in a special bargain. It is a 3-button sack coat, vest is the new length, knee 22 inch, bottom 17 1-2. Looks like a $25.00 suit but our price is -.$15.00 Men's Suits .In brown mixed serge, the best goods to wear that you oan buy. Cut in the latest fall style and worth considerable more than we ask. Priced $16.50 Men's Suits Blue serges, always good no matter where you wear them. New line of blue serges in all sizes, 34 to 44. Knee 22 inch, bottom 17 1-2 inch. We are selling these at ... .; $20.00 Men's Suits In plain two toned effect. Brown, new 3-button sack; long cut vest, 22 inch knee, 18 inch bottom; one of the nobbi est suits we have in the stock. Vfhile this is a young man's suit it will make father look much younger if he will buy one. Our window is full of these new suits. Look at them. Priced at $16.50 Star Hats are tlie JlesL GEIBEL'S 4 ' -' " ' , ' ! . ," ' .:'' " ', 't I' JLi. ' ' - ,X,' ,.' .... - mi JO LTMAX ABOYE AXO EXPOSITO AT LEFT WHO XI XTOMGUT IN REPORTED AT WORK HERE LOCAL SHOPS SEED BUT SEYEX " MACHISISTS SOW. Local Officials Adilt-ed That Conditions ' Are arlny 'orniaL STRIKE SITUATION LOCALLY a Ion remains of tb town. The rest Is wrecked. Would Safe Son; Dies. at I American Gentle.' man Hose for Men PI? "-" 1 11 1 - lli ' -v-- riPJ'LlMIXARY TO START AT 9:15 O'CLOCK. Ljmaii-ExpoNiIto Mill Sliould GKe a Good1 Exhibition. With two fast preliminaries to fore run the main event of the evening a feood boxing ard ha.s been prepared for the lovers of sparring tonight at t!ie Steward opera house. Two fast mills are to entertain the house com mencing at about 9: 15 and immediate ly after these two events are off tho slaie, nob Lyman and Kid Exposito will mix it for ten rounds in a no-dec slon bout. These six men will doubt less give a good exhibition of the spar, ring game, and the hours have been ar ranged so that all who wish can go to IV public wedding at the fair ground and he abl; to aftend the bouts later. Seventy men at work today, in- eluding skilled and common la- $ borers. $ Seven machinists needed to at ? tain normal conditions through $ adoption of full limit working t 'days. " ? Posters at gafs to stockades notifying trespassers to keep out. Conditions in Oregon said to be $ l v aajusung inemseives in com- ?- "pany's favor rapidly. 5 Deputy United States marshals $ said to be protecting worklngmen ? Q here. Kruttschnitt compliments those Q who stay at posts. S Seventy men, skilled and unskilled, making almost normal conditions as compared with the short-hour sched ule prevalent prior to the strike, ob tains in, the La Grande shops today. Assistant Superintendent A. Buckley and Chief Dispatcher J. F. Corbett have been advised by Portland officials that much the same condition pre vails throughout the territory travers ed by the O.-W. in Oregon. ( Xearlny Xorinal Rapidly. , Prior to the strike, at least for a few weeks prior, the shops were oper ated on a basis of five days a week c Prior to the strike, at least for a few weeks prior, the shops were oper ated on a basis of five days a week or eight hour days. At that time the shop worked all told, about 100 men. By working 70 men seven or six days a week and stretching the days to 10 .or 12 hours the officials claim to at tain about the same amount of results as before. The shops here have a nu cleus of old men. The machine shop and boiler maker shop suffered the Waviest by the walk out Saturday though two machinists and their help ers are still at work. The blacksmiths remained, the car carpenters are still at work and the painters didn't go out. With these men as a nucleus it will not take long to obtain normal condi tions If new men are put on from I time to time. Within Seven of Normal. By thfl arrangement of hours pointed out above, the local officials say they can attain exactly normal conditions by the addition of seven machinists over what are, at work' today. Laborers Plentiful. Wnile the laborers almost as a body left the shops and yards Saturday, tlR're are more common labor applica tions today than the company can use. Xot only here but in other division points as well, the officials are hope ful of speedy adjustment that will bring conditions near the normal again. Protection for Workman. La Grande officials have nothing to do with the company policies and con sequently do not admit or deny the report prevalent that several deputy United States marshals are in "the city. Men who keep close tab on de velopments assert there are several here hut are not visible to the public Notices Keep Public Out What curious folk have attempted to gain admission to the stockade to day were denied the privilege if they could read English. Huge signs at each gate .warned the public to not trespass on threat of punishment through recourse to law. No pickets are kept at the gates by the machin ists though pickets are posted at vari ous points. Neither does the com pany maintain guards without the gates, depending on the large posters to accomplish the same purpose. All workmen who remained at their posts hav? today received complimen Mrs. E. A. Mansuy lost her .life today while attempting to rescue her five-year-old son who played too. near tne flood. Both were drowned. Several dead were found three miles telow town. ,( - , Dam Was of Concrete Buffalo, N. Y Oct. 2. Austin, Prnn , the scene of Saturday's horror, lies in the va'ley of Sinnomahonlng Brook, famous as a trout stream On both sides of the town, the hillsides are faMy steep and the valley itself :s modern. . The dam was modern and was con structed of concrete. It was consid but the people paid little heed owiti; to the fact that long residence below it in safety had made them feel secure. The dam across Freeman's run wat dynamited In January, 1910, when it was feared a heavy flood was going to cause it" to give way. Only a small section was blown away, however, and It relieved the water pressure and aar. ed the town at that time. The dam im pounded 250,000,000 gallons of water. When this was repaired later two small cracks appeared before the dam filled but as they were closed by AhJ Immense pressure of water, later w little attention was paid to the defect. . Sorrlvors Agree on Details. Keating Summit, Pa., Oct. 2. Si,. vlvors of, the Austin flood here today f tell the same story concerning the .red one of the safest in Pennsylvania lnorror- 1 nfy 8ar tDe waier Dum fro until a vPar Bn-rhn it. ... ! the dam without warning, and a solli ; -v I 1 A w A m i. llt J J ll. ... found WP9k. It WHO tti..lvlv nnatr-: B"eel' 0U 1CBl U,n rUUeQ UUW" lM tary telegrams from Julius Krutt schnitt at Chicago. ed then and no further uneasiness was felt. The defects, however, toda are held responsible for the catastrophe. Therocent heavy rains did their work and the pressure of stored waters proved too much and the flood and thousands of logs stored above rushed down the little valley, wiping out Aus- uu uutl me IiUie ocLiiciutiiia !eluw 11, and with them the lives of hundreds ot their inhabitants. While not paralleling the Johnstown town flood it recalls that calamity In which more than 4,000 persons were killed. At Johnstown too, there had been warnings that the dam was weak, tie valley at terrific speed, carrying eu erythlng before It. Houses were pick- ed up like straws and whirled undeM neath where they were ground to bits. Those caught In the torrent had es chance to escape. Large numbers of those who were where they were engaged In housed hold dutlts with no thought of dangdj Those who escaped death by drowning were crushed to death by the timbers and debris that followed the first gi gantic wave. ' AUSTIN HORROR UNDER PROBING ' fContlnued from Page One.) Many lost all or part of their families. Cement Walk Alone Left Only one cement walk two blocks Ten reasons why you should invest in Cove lands Land is selling at one-half Its real value. It is particularly adapted for fruits and vegetables. Strawberries will net from $100 to $400 per acre. Raspberries will net $100 to $300 pe racre. Blackberries will yield $100 to $300 per acre. Five to ten-year-old Cherry traee net from $50 to $300 per acre. Flue to ten-year-old Pear trees net from $50 to $600 per acre. Five to ten-year-old Apple trees net from $40 to $400 per acre. ' $250 invested today will return $10,000 In ten years. . . .... DAVIS Sc FOYE will treat you right. ; Further Information upon request . DAVIS & FOYE Room 3, Ioley Bid?., .La Grande. Oregon INSURANCE FARM AND Core Hotel Core, Oregon FRUIT LANDS Growing I N OUR BUSINESS, shows that still more people are opening accounts with us. We are daily adding new names to our already long list of depositors. There is a good reason for this. It is this: they have found that the road to wealth is by way of the bank account; and that we, by our uni formly conservative methods, our courteous treatment of our cus tomers, our steady increase in strength, have proven that this is the place to open that account. United States National Bank