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it ... . . Ijlliii! II ii llfl! I- k UN 1 O V"V V 'V v-4, -v" V VOLUME 13 . LA GRANDE, UNION COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1911. NUMBER :) 01 POSES MUST BE PAID FOR GIANTS REFUSE TO HELP FATTEN PICTURE MEN. IMPERIAL ARMY RE CAPTURES SHIP CREW lYHOLE IMPERIAL ARMY TO ; MAKE LAST AND FINAL STAND News From War :; Seeue Censored HO KILLS TWO 10 RAGE Another Postponement Caused Today by Middy Field and Rain, f Philadelphia. Oct. 21. It rained In torrents last nfght and the park Is a muddy Beat.' Another postponement resulted today. The next game will probably be Monday, the weather per mitting. ,'-,'.; r. - V "An unpleasant mercenary tinge Is being added to championship situa tion today by the squabble among the players regarding motion picture re- HALFBREED INVOKES TERRIBLE VENGE ANCE ON GIRL Sharply Today and San Francisco W8; . Tney nt to know, why they STRIKERS 00 MURDERER HIMSELF FATALLY WOUNDED IN THE ASSAULT Girl of Nineteen, a Woman Where She Lived, and a Young Man Assaulted Tilt DEFtTISIfE STRIKE RANKS DENY MEN ARE LEAVING FOR SHOPS LOCAL STRIKEBREAKERS v.; MEET WITH STIFF DEFENSE BRIDE'S TRUNK IS MISSING FLOCK POMS Come Out to Argue With Union Men 4 and Ar Hurried , Back to Stor. re t cooes Alone Xll Much of the Fiyhtlug Rk'liels Are Sold to V. ii rinhiAil t nnthon YbaMuIva Rut. tie Today. ':. S CANTON IS DOOMED. i Shanghai, Oct. 21. Belated re- S ports gay Canton is surrounded 8 by the rebels who have taken a S strong position on the hills. fc Many are fleeing from the city. The Imperial troops are erect- lng barricades, preparing for 4-.- the battle. ; . ;0 iuuuiu . ihkju tor motion picture men without sharing the receipts. . The Giants have reached an under standing among themselves that they won't pose any more unless they are paid. SENATOR JEFF DAVIS AND BMDE SHOW ANGER. Arkannsas Solon Says Men Can't Elec , tIoneer Around Ills Wife. Los Angeles, Oct. 2L With the dull care astride his "brow. United States Senator Jeff Davis, of Arkansas, with his bride is in Los Angeles today on his honeymoon. Senator Davis Is an gry because hia wife lost her trunks and wedding trouseau whllo the train was rumbling over the Rockies. Baggage men are huntlug for them, ; mvis said he aid not believe wo men should vote. "I would not stand GIRL'S OEIIF PRAYER MEETING PI::! CEDES HANGING IN : EFFIGY SENTIMENT STRONG AGAINST HYANNIS ERRING PREACHER' I ado Promises of Peace Made if the Lynching Strong Girl Forsook the fctrkebrcakers Stay Within Companj for any man electioneering around fA ha naiS. "It damned non- Halfbreed to Live Family. nun l Peking. Oct. 21. Consternation Is general In official circles because It " is reported that Admiral Saps' flag t bMd was aunk by the 'rebels, and that "line commander was captured during i.v. -....1 ttfla nasi- TTanlcnw. The Liin uuiai uhiv fall of Shanghai Is momentarily ex pected. Preparations are being made to nrotect the city from pillage. Re nrt indicate that the entire valley i from Hankow to Shanghai Is practi cally controlled by the rebels. For eign warships have been rushed to Shanghai to relieve the aliens if they are attacked, and include five British and four Japanese torpedo, boats. The American legation aays the situation is critical. " " ' .," 1 Final RKHy Planned. San Francisco, Oct. 21. Code dls nnxr :; ni U t W VI FIRE COMPANY CRYING NEEDS TO BE LEFT TO THE PEOPLE. , Nxt City Election to Carry Moracn. tuous Question for Settlement . Orovllle, Cal., Oct. 21. Inez Brooks, aged 15 and Mrs. LilUe Mulllngs aged 40 are dead, and Wm. Mulllngs, aged 19vher son, Is shot In the left leg fol lowing' a murderous attack last night by Edward Williams, a half breed at Mulllngs home In Moorstown near this city. Williams was probably fat ally wounded by Mr. Mulllngs'. hue band. The Indian was brought to the jail here today. There is talk of The murder waa due to Jealousy because Miss Inez, who was white, had forsook him and found refuge in the Mulllngs' , home. , He and Mr. Brooks, the glrVa father, lived at Cas cade. tamaU. mining. town; The In dian followed and asked to see ' the girl "and then sneaked around to the kitchen and snot her, then, shot the others." Mulllngs then grabbed a re volver and shot the Indian , who was whk ' 4 ni.nv 7 xnuna uunniug juaie w my wire." be lam. 11 oamoea uou Sum Kranoisoii sense. He said he favorer tne.recau and Uked Taft "but Wilson can beat San Francisco. Oct. 21. Reuorts Taft," he Bald; "If Taft runs the oeiu are current here that 75 strikers have ocrats will win.' given in and have returned to work, but the rumor has met with vehement denial on the part of Harrlman strlk era who say. on the contrary, that 100 strikebreakers in California have gone over to the union ranks the past few days. Trains continue running late from the eaut. mg : 1 Efllg7v Swings to Elm. Tree Wucre tke.- Preacher First Met Girl Whom He Is Aeeuspd of Having Killed An topoy Deejens Shadow Against the Preacher Flock Prays for the Dead Giri.'"v .' ; BEIILIST - Fire protection Is to be put md to tbe-people of Li'Crifide' at the next city election. Through efforts of those Interested to get better fire protec tion, an initiative petition will be placed on me oa. w f found thlB mornlng In the brushed Are department, the nature of whicu. will be decided on and announced prior to the election ana me uwhuw ; A report Issued by the strikers this morning, dealing with affairs about the O.-W. roundhouse, following; "Three strikebreakers came out of the stockade! last night and started to express their opinion of unionism but thev made a hurried return somewhat the worse forwear.TAi long as they stay on company' property or remain within the stockade Ihey will not be molested, but wtien they presume to address themselves to respecting men In a manner criticising or Insulting they will surely get a short answer I LI TOILS GRABBED IN' PORTLAND RAID ON BITE THERE. Claims to Be Tool of Police but W'o man AceuRes Him of Crimes. 'U C. Elliott, erstwhile revivalist In the La Grande district of the M. E church, has come to grief In Portland according to newspaper reports and unlesfl his own statement Is further tinn nt an auto Are. truck. The lnef flclency of the present fire system was glaringly point out the other night when a small army of men had to be recruited to tug the heavy cart and hose up the steep hill to the Hill fim. It took a dlscouraglngly long time and homes could be ruined while the cart was being bumped along the ... ....j . shanghai rmiih resident streetB. A long list of: declare the Imperialists near Hankow narrow escape from extensive con suffered defeat. Two thousand men .fiagratlon through, the lack of trans are reported killed and it Is claimed portatlon faclltles has driven business the cruiser whicb joined the revolu- men to action. P. A. Foley, one of tlon had been recaptured. Peking the prominent members of the fire dispatches say practically the whole department, has been feeling ;th pub lmperlal army Is beln mobilized . 11c pulse on.the matter and finds that v- ov,aw tt la believed the large property owners are anx- 4hen they are assembled, one grand lous to have some sort of paid de ?. a a m it falls de-' naltment and an auto truck that can Tally Will UO in a vi v . sertlons to the rebels will follow and take the apparatus to fires with ex the Manchu dynasty wlH fall. treme dispatch. , V Seek to Recover Losses. "There is no doubt In my m nd tu It is reported from renin wai . i maaaiirB Bft)(, M, Foley Jeater. Cove Defeats Union. - (Union Republican.) -The high school football team open ed the season Thursday at Cove, los ing to the high school of that place by a score of 11 to 0. Although outweigh "Car repair and rip track yard is corroborated., the ! former revivalist becoming congested, with, bad order unquestionably face a prison term for his connections with the under world at Portland. Elliott, who by cars and nearly every train going out or coming in has from one to 15 In tHOB a.. re beinr renorted the . way. never was . an ordained afata vail rnarl rnm m iHslnn and nreaeher. las devoted much,. time to - l 11 . n AltlirwiiirVi lltwfllfirh-I lu . -,. -, it Bvui " v " . , t tlw lr,fflrBt9t .nmmlssion by union rftvlval throuehout Eastern Oregon ed In every position, the boys, most v .., .,.,0.h. . ,. of them inexperienced, put up a scrap -ZIS " t observ -Tr" - Z from start to .finish, holding the heav-: ler men for downs several times and conumuuo. up his business affairs here and went fiercely contesting every Inch, Elwyn g f , requested to be at a to" Portland with his family Intending ""'" r " " ,,: , meeting, tomorrow, Sunday, at 9:30 to return to La Grande aoout two . ,r.Z I o'clock at tte labor temple as in- weeks later and take'up his work in r z:: ; business is t0 b6 transacted the revlval flold , a,, countr aml o.iu I ..r.o ffQro In nn VrBnplRPO HOO .u. a , uoo Tumor ' " ' KCUL OUUIO UUHU-' i......, Minister Tin Tchang Is preparing to Tchang is prepanng . carefUr cadvass of the land 20,000 Imperial troops against men. .'All realize the city the rebels In an effort to retake Han-1 disaster In not having ' : .some arrangement for transporting Censor AH News Items. . . i tu8; cpecially at nlglht. and the auto trucks have been found so satisfactory In the deepest Kina or mud that there Is little question but what all taxoayers will vote for It. Whether the city la to maintain a man Goodbrod and Barker bore the brunt of the defensive work, breaking up several of the plays before they cros sed the line. - Quite an ovation was given the boys oh their return, the high school crowd showing their loyalty to a fighting team whether they won or lost. s ortered n;fc'BCfl' adjoining territory. He failed to rs stand that the federation wins .... , . . . ,.. I rooms its strike even money and that tho shon employes are back at work In side of two weeks at six to four odds. "Engine No. 300 died on account of leaking fire box last night. "AH trains are reported from one to eight hours late.' BUYER GETS HORSES. Pekln. Oct. 21.-r-The strictest cen niiin nver nil revolutionary, news was established today by the Imperial government! - . V Otflcral Nws GWen Out. Toklo, Oct. 21. Official confirma tion of the' press reports that the Chi nese rebel army has gained a big vic tory and compelled the retreat down Kthe Yanetse river of the imperial forc- is after a battle north of Hankow. I was given out today by the war of- Elgin Orchard Production. (Elgin Recorder.) - ; : , V--,- 8. A. Chappelle is harvesting the ap- Portland Stables to Be tBhancd wMh uieB on the 20-acre, tract of Henry Grande Ronde Horses. Hut. about three miles from Elgin, on Pumpkin ridge. He has 12 pickers and at the fire station continually or have more than one man with some other arrangement than the auto truck Is what must be decided upon before the vote Is taken." ; ' One carload of first class horses, a half carload of good mares and a half carload of mules hve been purchased this week In and about La Grande by George Long of Portland. V They were shipped out today. " The shipment is for the Hawthorne barns at Portland. four packers employed, and is Han dling about 00 boxes dally: The crop is a full average in quantity and the quality is excellent. Mrv Chappelle and Dr. Whiting have a five-year lease on the orchard, which has yet two years to run. . ,v - flee. Ceanty Union Meets. (Elgin, Recorder.)- -There was a county meeting of tbe Farmers union at the Eagles' hall in this city last Saturday, at which busi ness matters were discussed. We had the pleasure of meeting two acquaint Robbery at North Powder.. (North Powder News.) House- breakers entered the Owl sa loon last Friday nlgtt , and carried away about $20 worth of goods and money. The theft was discovered by the proprietor when he opened up the building In the morning following. J. W. Crawford was Informed of the crime and succeeded In capturing one i ances. Messrs. Huffman and Davis,' 0f the culprits near me rauroaa irvn ,.v B!rolnst the Wen-1 south of .town. The man gave his way commission bill at the last ses- , name at Don Peterson and was caught Ion of the legislature. Also we parti-; with the goods. When arraigned be- c'pnted, upon invitation. In the chick-, fore J. IR. aiclren ne pieaaea gumy m dinner, and tried to keen up with to the crime and was taken over to Brother Davis but failed Inglorious- La Grtnde to nwalt action of the court, , FULLS 30 FEET F ROM HIGH LINE L. C. Pratt, junior member of the had taken, temporarily, firm Black & Pratt, real estate deal ers, fell 30 feet from the high line of the beet BUgar factory this morn ing and miraculously escaped death when he landed with his 230 pounds avoirdupois In a beet flume. 30 feet below the car on which he was hang ing when he lost his footing, He was rushed to the hospital where exami a position known as weighing in beets at the factory and while Jthtt train was run ning along the high line he was hang ing to the car, but In some way slip ped and fell to the ground where he struck In a flume. He recovered con sciousness soon after Dr. Molitor had turn and his friends here heard little of him until Portland papers told of his sudden downfall, v Elliott had many warm friends hero j and they hang tenaciously to the ex- minister's statement that he was em ployed by Chief of Police Slover in the ferreting out of white slave traf fic at Portland. , It is possible that such developments will yet be Bhowu but at present a gloomy aspect is put on his case by, the story of one of the defendants resulting from a police raid on a 'joint" in the restricted dis trict. Elliott Is accused of having par ticipated in Immoral and degrading practices. One of his accuters, a den izen of the under world, affirms El ljott offered her $85 a month to be come a regular fixture- In a certain dive. Elliott contradicts this assert tlon Baying the scheme was a ruse to get evidence against the traffic, yet other Information from Portland says he confessed first and then' changed his plea determining to fight it to finish. The recital of what la alleged to have been the practice of the wo man' defendant and her eo-called col league, Ellltot, was bo vile that the court room had to be cleared In re spect to decency. He acquaintances here trust that the affair has been ex nggerated and that Elliott was in real- ' Hyannls, Mass., Oct. 21. That sen timent of residents here the home of Miss Llnnell is strong against , Rewrend Rlcheson Is shown by au -effigy of the clergyman swinging to an elm tree near the Baptist church where he first met the girl.. He was "hung" last night after the regular prayer meeting where 100 prayed the girl be forgiven if she had committed any sin. . '.- ' The girl's reputation had been '., blameless until she met the minister. Mrs. Llnnell. theonother, Is convinced i that the preacher is Insane. Rlche-1 . son remains taciturn In his cell and; Miss Edmands. is, prostrated.-Her . father ald the Edmands family - will ' stand behind the minister until he Is : V- proved : guilty. Rlcheson quit Mlaa' Llnnell and became ''engaged to Miss" Richeson, a wealthy heirness. ' , Rlcheson was arrested yested yes-; terday charged , with murder in con-' nection with the Llnnell death thought ' at first to have been a auiclde. - ' Was Soon to Be Mother. , ' f ' Boston, Oct. 21. Haggard, his nerve gone, "Rlcheson , today , Is helplessly : watching from his cell the authorl- ties unearth facts of Miss Llnnell' murder. The police say he wanted her removed as an obstacle to his marriage. An autopsy revealed the gfrl was to have become a mother. Insanity will probably be the plea u the minister's guilt Is proved, as hi friends assert he has shown unbal Janced mentality previously. v . Rlcheson Will Tell siorj. . Cambridge, Oct. 21. Rev. Charles V . Oroff will occupy the pulpit of the Emmanuel Baptist church tomorrow in Rlcheson's place. Rlcheson will give a formal statement to be read In church tomorrow. , Evidence which he claims will hang Rlcheson, the accused divine, was un- i earthed here by Chief Inspector Du gan who declared positively he found a girl friend of Miss Llnnell who told him AvIb lunched with the minister Saturday afternoon a tew hours be- , fore death. This would complete the final link In the web of circumstantial -evidence. Said Ho Would Be Talks Neverthe-' less, at Civic Forum Last Night. . Mr Tmtt lins been located In Lai tv n ntnnl nlo-lnn wnrltlntr In the ln- rushed to me nopni uciC - -w - -o " nation shows his Jaw was fractured. Grande a few months and has become ( teest of the police. Ilia family Is still . . . . ' i In .i.oInfo ond anoint rlrclfiS.I in T1ismt several term knocKea out ana ranuua """ m "" ..i. i. tni,.HM miRialn. TTow h and has beon prominently connectf-dl Elliott owns considerable property r with less than Instant death with the effort to have a militia com- including a cottage on First between Is something of a miracle. Mr. Pratt pany established here. " Mn'n and Washington. TEDDY CANT KEEP STILL. New York. Oct. 21. Theodore Roos$ velt didn't keep silent as was expect- ed and as Is reported he said he would V tr mnv At th civic forum last night and declared he believed "We have f been wise In giving great power ta nni. indfeg." and added, "but I be- Ueve that it. like any other power, . ran ha PTentlv abused and that it is a power which hasn't been permanent-? ly alienated from the people., ' SCORES KILLED IN JAPAN. ! Powder Mapiztne 'Explode Killing Many of the Workmen. , Toklo. Oct. 21.--A terrific explosion o fthe great Meguro powdor niaguzln0 tnflnv lcHlpd senroa' of workmen, and. mnnnrlnri . mnnv ', Thrt mnenilnO W8S full of men when the crash came and the entire structure was blown to pieces. : .