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. 1 ' i V v 4 ft ' tfi.it VOLUME X LA GRANDE, UNION COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12-1911. NUMBER 302 n, i- 1 'I 6 CLOSE TO PRESIDENT MYSTERIOUS CAUSING SENSATION IN POLICE CIRCLE iiiiniuinrn munininu rnn AIYIIUUIYbtD bHUUIUflbl TUP Armory Crowd Receives President Taft With Great Acclaim and Ado Portland, Ore. Oct. 12. There was a sensation among the police of this city today when It became known that Officer C. P. Anderson, guarding the private entrance to the armory last night fouriM a loaded 32 automatic pistol in the gutter a few minutes atfer President Taft had entered. An inves tigation Bhowed it didn't belong to the police and no secret service man has called tor it. . Having become suspicious the detect Ives ane now attempting to find out where the gun was purchased. The crowd at the entrance was close to the ; To Welcome Duke of Connaught. , Quebec, Oct, 12. The ancient city of Quebec Is In holiday dress in anticipa tion of the coming of his Royal High ness the Duke of Connaught, the new governor general of Canada, who will arrive here tomorrow morning on the steamship Empress of Ireland. At ex--'actl hljVr.oon. His Royal Highness . will take the oath of offlceTn 'the leg islative council chamber. H will at tend a dinner and a reception at Spen cer Wood In the evening and after a drive through the Illuminated streets of the city he will leave for Ottawa by special train. Memorial Tablets fox Jesuits. Rochester, N. Y. Oft. 12. With inter estlni? exercises conducted by the Knights ofColumbusofRoehesteran.il PRESIDENT WILLIAM H. TAFT. ... t ' . i " A; ':' l-' ' I 'i v s J ' l' i 1 CORYRIGMT. I90Q. Executive of the United1 States who was In Oregon last Night and Was Re ceived with Great Enthusiasm In Portland where, unknown to him, the police was Baffled with MysW ions Gun. WEAPON IS I H nrnnim 0LUU11U Trnu I LI11VI mn IUU president and the gun's position in the gutter Indicated that the owner must have been close to the president. Taft Wants Second Term. Salem; Ore. Oct. 12. -Concluding his brief stay In the Beaver state, PresI dent Taft today started for California and from 11 today until 11 tomorrow he will travel without a stop. Polltlcaly his reception here and at Portland was not satisfactory to his friends. At Portland, a large crowd saw him on the street. At the armory last night great enthusiasm was displayed. Dur ing his spech there he declared himself as a candidate fo rrenomination. vicinity, a bronze tablet was dedlcat ed today In memory of the Jesuit mis sionarles at Farley's Point, where the first church in 1656. FINE PEACHES FROM THE RIDGE. Mrs. Sam Parker presented the Ob server with some very choice peaches today,' grown n- tlte-WlMlam SJon or- orchard on Pumpkin Ridge. Mr. Sion's orchard is a sample of what a wonder. ful country that section Is. Some of the peaches were ordinary varieties while two represented a new species en tirely. Fossil Sheepman Here. Daniel C. Gillilan, a prominent shee.i man of Fossil is in the city today. His son is taking tnsatment at Hot Lake,. I BY PACH BWJS..N.V. DANIEL W. LAWLER. Former Mayor of St. Paul Is Candidate For U. 8. Senator. JOIST PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN FOR UNION COUJiTI IS OS. Different Localities of the Valley to Have Space of their Own. According to the board of directors of the La Grande Commercial Club there is every reason why this county should keep pounding away on adver tising Itself and its resources to the Middle West and East. It Is purposed to Inaugurate a new plan of advertls lag which when put up to Rellly Atkln son. of Boise and Tom (Richardson ot Portland was pronouncedivflrst .class and In the Idaho country the plan will be adopted. The Intention Is to adopt a local paper and once each month run a development section telling of the local valley', its crops, authentic sta tistics and general Information. Five thousand copies of this Issue will be ' printed and mailed to five thousand I families in the Middle. West and the ia'"" tinu to, receive this edition once every month for six months and it is bellev- ed by that time, If there is any move In them, they will have written for direct information on some one of the different communities of the Grande Ronde Valley. In the plan now In pro cess of formation every town that puts up a small share of the expense of this undertaking Is entitled to its space with black headlines and the names of the commercial club officers and In Its space will be printed all Information that Is furnished by that city. This I gives the man in the East who is at- tracted by what is said by the town a j chance to communicate directly with local people. Relly Atkinson, who is recognized as a past master in publicity work, says of htis plan: "Strange that we had never thought of that. It Is the thing. It beats the colored booklet all to death for It gives, the prospective home seieker a chance to read at first hand not only the development section of the paper but also the newspaper as Constantinople, Oct. 12. It Is feared today that the reported armistice wi'l start an outbreak among the people as the Young Turk party Is doing all It possibly can to fan the war flame. A new army corps at Salonika threat ens to march upon Constantinople 1f peace with Italy Is concluded. Am 1st Ice May Be Lastlug. IRome, Oct. 12. Berlin reports today I -'.w 'L Sty imnii UUUIl I I Ml ILL Bn rm nr U Uhtl hh ffUILII IIUL 15 EI S m VICTORY EVIDENT II TT NECK AND NECK RE TURNS C AUSE WOMEN TO CHEER. : OUTCOME STILL MUCH IN . DOUBT OVER SUFFIEACE. Lust Precincts to Hear From Expected to Swlnir Over for Womn of Call 'fornla Severe Jolt Administered In Incorrect Returns from the South Believed Majorities Will Come. San Francisco, Oct. 12. Worn suffrage advocates got a Jolt this noon when it was learned 8 ' 4 l of a thousand votes had br V returning the Santa Be' as. suf- At 1 p. m.: the ote frage 114,036; again.. , at noon the election returns inu .ed that the woman's, suffrage question may yet win. A majority now of less than a thousand against It and 658 precincts have yet to be heard from. With less than 300 precincts through out the state t ohear from the majority against woman's suffrage was reduced very materially by noon today. There la hardly any doubt but that the remaining districts will give the suffrage amendment a majority and make California a leading suffrage state. Reports keep piling up the ma jorities for the Initiative, referendum and the recall amendments. Wallowa Lumberman In Town. J. F, Ravenscroft, connected with the Mlmnaugh Lumber Company of Wal Iowa transacted business here last night. He Btayed at the Foley , and conferred with George A. Ayiers of Lincoln, Nebraska, who was In the city today. ' ? LA GRANDE ItEMEMBERS GREAT EXPLORER . 8 , Schools of the city rested apace, financial dries were at $ ease, the circuit court wheels s S of Justice ceased grinding, all 3 In commemoration of the day SJ S when Christopher Columbus V 3 landed on American soil. The observance Is the first of Us kind in Oregon, and was made a reality by the members of the ? last legislature. Through the $ ? country the observance has been ieven more marked than In ? ? La Grande. '. The post office and the land . S offices could not find and cause 3 3 for closing their respective 3 i doors, however, as the presl- ' dent has not ordered it should 4 be a national holiday. i . . , JS3S- 1 well. From It he will form an opinion that no colored booklet could form. I am very much impressed with the Idea and we wll use It In our work of devel oping the Southern Idaho country." that the armistice which will soon be declared officially, are generally credit ed throughout Italy, although Jhe Ital ian government will neither affirm nor deny the report. The only official statement made by the government today Is that Lobruck won't be ceded to Germany aB a Naval base. AMOS PARKER WILDER. American Contul at Shanghai, Who Reported Chinese Floods. SUCH IS VERDICT OF STRIKERS IN CALIFORNIA. Conditions In Wyoming and Nebraska Reported by Secretary. San Francisco, Oct. 12. Strike con ditions on the Harriman lines In the west, constitute the basis of Secretary Scott's report today to a meeting of the shopmen's federation. A report from Wyoming and Nebraska was re ceived showing that . engines were breaking down and the shops are de pleted of sufficient working tdrce and the officials of the .company are trying to do the strikers work la order to keep things going. " , " V Cars In Demand. Sacramento, Cal. Oct. 12. A short age of cars for shipping fruit Is ser iously threatened on the Southern Pa- CALBRAITH P. ROGERS "i try ? . s ,4 .-: - . r iM-i ".ft :'.-. I V- Ac,' v ' i ii nAiMtMefc. ' . T ftm i, mm' CAR SHOHU INJURES FRUIT Photos by American Press Association. Daringr Aviator wuo Is Breaking Rico rds In.lils I'lkht Across the Contin ent. Abot, leaving Jfew York on' this Flight, and Below the Farewell Scene With Us Wife. SPECIAL COOK FOR I'llRA IEHRE IIEtl DANGER OF MISTRIAL MADE VERY PLAIN TO ILL 0E PR'aSPECTr E JUROR ; ILL BECAUSE OF FOODS.; Hpecial Cooks anrf Medical Attention 1 : Provided to Koei Jurymen In Good Health During Lougr Trial at Los 1 Angeles Veniremen Can Exires ? Prejudice Against Unions If Asked.' Los Angeles, Oct. 12. Satisfied with Judge Bordwell's ruling that venire men can be questioned regarding their prejudice either against or for labor Unions, McNamara's counsel spent thu day framing up questlonsf that would safeguard McNamara from labor ene mies without the use of preemptory challenges. j; Danger of Mistrial Great. . Danger of a mistrial In the McNa mara case was overpowerlngly shown i by the lawyers, today, when Z. J. HI- att, one ot the veniremen, under deten I tion, pending examination, got sick. He I hlamd it o the restaurant cooklns wlth gult that from now on the men wiu have thep cooking done by m mnart.nl nnrtr fonil tlPV Wilt ft-lflfi hft fc D J' VV tut VUU f - - provlded with doctors when they need them. ; ' ' " Nearly very man that .Is now tteld for examination i is middle aged and It Is plain that the length of time that It will take to try the case, will make the danger of illness and consequent mistrial all the greater. There was no procedlng because this Js a holiday. so say the leaders who assert that there are now six hundred bad order cars in . the Oakland yards; 450 ' at Sacramento and 150 at Rosevllle. V AND AVIATION SCENE. -S' r lit, ., t t ' ' " Pot