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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 13, 1911)
MA. til VitSMT n ill ! VOLUME XL WHY A ' i i IGr T O T?((& ;.A 1 BED ASHORE : 1048 KEIIGEBS CllOT BE REAGHED BY LIFE SAVERS Kunning Surf Keeps Help Back-- 'Death to Attempt Rescue-Await the Turn of the Tide Portland. Ore, Nov. 13. With two of the crew washed overboard by a terrific surf which washed clean over! the steam schooner Washington 100 yards off shore near Northhead, near the mouth of the Columbia river, the chances for rescuing 48 others, aboard the ship are doubtful. A gal is blowing and it Is raining. Lite savers from Point Adams and Cape Disappointment dare not, ven ture out but are trying desperately to shoot a line to them. . , The ship left Portland Saturday for San Francisco, and struck Peacock ' Spit yesterday. All night long she kept up the fight. Sh.e is a lumber schooner. " v , Fires Out People Helpless- It looks (like many, if not all, aboard j the Washington, will perish. Flreg are out and they are helpless, A gale is' MACHINE WRECKED AND HE WAS 80MEWIMT HCET. Wilkin Six MIlesHIs Ultimate Goal When Ship Drops. Pasadena, Nov. 13. Aviator Rogers is suffering a slight concussion of the brain as a result of hl8 125 foot fall when his aeroplane was within six miles of the ocean, his goal. It Is ex pected he -will recover In a few days, but his machine is a wreck. He lias crossed the continent without mishap thus far. New York, Nov. 13. The city is reek ing with putrid garbage and the situ ation is menacing the lives of tens of thousands. The streets and alleys are piled high with filth and only ten wag ons are operating and these are ac companied by a patrol wagon full of police. The condition Is the worst in the city's history. Striking garbage collectors control the situation and , Claimed Check wag Raised. A man named E. Schiebler of Ron- dowa elalms that a check which he signed and left the amount to be filled in by George the Greek. He says he got $5.00 and the check was raised to 20.00. No arrests have been made late today. Schiebler was in need of change and did with the Greek what he had often done with C. Wilson, the proprietor of the Blue Mountain hotel, where lie made his headquarters. : Seattle Most Die. ' Richmond, Nov. 13. The supreme court of appeals today refused to grant ROGERS DAZED REQ V GRANDE ; UNION COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1911. blowing the ship toward the rocks of the head, and live savers wilt, shoot a line as soon as it Is within distance hoping to rescue ttosm by the breeches buoy. -. . ' . r : ' v . . People Huddled in Cabin. Several passengers weie en route from the races at Spokane. : This afternoon the gale dropped to 30 miles from 48. Through glasses the passengers were seen once in a while m a -half demolished cabin wher: they had taken refuge. It 1 unknown whether others have perished as there is no way of speaking. to the vesset, Two tugs' are standing by just outside th8 B""f within, a mile of the wreck but cannot approach! The beach is rocky and several cliffs makes It ail most sure death for those aboard if she 'strlkos thf rocks before the buoy is rigged up to her. - ELS FIGHT SUBURBS OF NANKING SCENE SLAUGHTER. OF Yuan Urges Emperor to Abdicate Im f mediate!'. Shanghai Nov. 13. Fighting hand to .hand among piles of dead and 'burning buildings which the rebels fired to hide their movements a battle is on in the Nanking suburbs. The issue is doubt ful. The rebels are determind to avenge the recent massacre.' They occupied Che Foo without re sistance. Peking reports say that Yuan ig urging the emperor to abdicate if the rebels guarantee bis personal safe ty and give him a life pension. ' will not return to work, they say,' un til they win their point. East aide conditions are almost intolerable, but the mayor is standing pat. Three thousand pounds of carbolic acid were scattered through the dis trict suffering the most and more was distributed today. ' . Public sentiment favors the strikers partlcluarly as an epidemic is feared. another trial to Henry Beattie, Jr., the wife murderer. Only th governor now stands between him and the electric chair on Nov. 24.- - Powerful Influences will be brought to t-ear on the gover nor. ' Stangs Arrire From East Mr. and Mrs. August J Stang and two children have arrived to make this their future home. They will live in the Cleaver home this winter. Mr. Stan is a Wisconsin lumberman who owni extensive Interests here. Men of Affairs in .- ---si HUW , Postmaster G. when completed years and has seen the city grow dozen business houses to a city Has seen the postofflce receipts Has seen city carriers placed at' Has seen a $65,000 appropriation United States governmtent! ', . Has seen establishment of government postal savings bank here; Has seen the La Grande postofflce become the depository for mon ey order funds trom 35 postofflces in this section. Has seen several large enterprises added to the city's list including,; The George Palmer Lumber company employing 300 men; The railroad company payroll grow to $f0,000 per month; Has seen large sugar factory plant put in operation with a good sized payroll; . 't .. .' "With the several largo enterprises now under contemplation the city will have doubled Its population in the next five years," said the postmaster today. ' . TERRIBLE TORNADO flWD COLD KILL DOZEN AND CRIPPLE LAKE SHIPPING IN THE nfllDDLEilESI STORM FELT HERE. r I' . ' A touch of the mlddlewestern 4 storm was felt in Union county when the valley was swept by a bitter cold blizzard. Moderated weather today Indicates the snap & is broken. s' ' Chicago, Nov. 13. A score are dead, and igreat suffering prevails as the re sults of a violent storm which swept PACKERS FACE PRISON SENTENCE Chicago, Nov. 13. Ten meat trust ment expects to prove its case through barong are today facing a fln6 of $5,000 testimony of 13 prominent railroad and a year la Jail as the result of al- men subpoenaed today to take the wlt legod monopoly in restraint of trad aa ' nesa stand when the trial opens the result of nine year8 of Investiga- Among the defendants are Louis Swift, tion by the government which calls them to trial here under the Sheiman antl trust law Nov. 20. The govern- Union County M. Richey and the , federal building as it will look Mr. Richey has been a resident of La Grande for 27 from a small village of leeg than a of 6,000 people. doubled in the last six years; i work berer" ' 'v :, v-v : " for federal building made by the' the middle west during the last two days. Property damage is estimated at 1150,000, and It is zero weather. Re vised reports of the tornado indicate that perished in Wisconsin and on the Illinois border as a result of Sat urday's tornado. . Several lake vessels are beached. The storm is the worst in the history of this section for years. Three per ished at Chicago of the' Intense cold, and the hospitals, are filled with oth er victims. It looks Ilka shipping will be tied up for week on account of , the cold. Edward Swift, Ogden Armour, and Ed- ward Morris. They have plead not guilty. M 11 ELECT OT NEW NOMINATING MEA SURE CALLED UN CONSTITUTIONAL prominent Ft AW ' With at Least Ten Democrats and as Many Republicans for National Con. Tontlon Delegates aud Presldontiul Electors, Voters Will Get the Right to Vote for-but Oue of All Candr. dates. ' . lu answer to many appeals from cli ents and in behalf of the bemudded public at large, Attorney T. H. Craw ford, nromlnent in democratic state politics, today explained in a state ment to the Qbserver the legal version of the law pertaining to this election of national convention delegates and the nomination of aspirants for presl deotial electors, This new law will be trjed out at the April primaries un less something happens In the Interim to the law and it is th opinions of republicans and democrats alike that the law Is unconstitutional and Is t disfranchisement of the vtter in Ote gon. .-v.- . : :'CT' ;V Niext April Oregon's delegations tu lumber have spent millions In adver the republican and democi-atic conven tlaing their various wares and whWe tlons will be elected and the prealdien-t lumbermen admit that some of these tjal erec'br9 ;win:?bomliiiyiea."ror2l- dvrtieemwMeiyhe trutlv nd are isach party fet that time." Explaining resultanf othO tlme'a progress, they in detail th workings of the new, do say that there is unlimited imagi. law and characterizing it as a viclom, -nation in their publicity and stoutly statuteAttorney Crawford explains; "I am often called upon to answer a number of inquiries concerning the law for the election ot delegates to the national democratic and republican conventions. The primary nominating election law as enacted by a vote of the people in November, 1910, and found In Session La ws '1911, pages. 19 23, in paragraph (c) of section 2 at page 21 provides: "Every qualified vo ter shall have the right at such nomi nating election to vote for one person and no more, to the office of nation al delegate for his party, and to vote for the nomination of one aspirant, and no more, for presidential elector as the candidate of his party." ; Now,! Oregon ig entitled to five presidential electors, and assuming under proper apportionment that Orgon will be en-j titled to 10 delegates to the democratic national convention, we will thus have at the next primary election, the elec tion, by the democratic voters of the state at large, of 10 'delegates to the national convention, and the nomina tion of five candidate for presldetlal electors. Each of these delegates, as well as each of these presidAIal elec tors holds, or fills, an independent of fice, the same as each' supreme Judge of the 'state. , "Now each qualified democratic elec tor of the state has a constitutional right to vote for an incumbent to each of these offices, ust the same as each qualified elector of the state has the rfght to vote for each supreme Judgs of the state to be elected at any elec tion. The same reasoning applies to the election of delegates to the repub lican national convention and to the election of republican presidential electors. By section 1, Art II of th constitution all elections are declared to free and equal; by Section 2, Art. II of the constitution, in all elections not otherwise provided by the constl tutlon all qualified electors are enti tled to vote at all elections authorized by law; by section 16, Art. II every qualified elector resident in his pre cinct and registered as may be re quired by law, may vote for one per- (Con'UnnfKj on Pg Eight.) NUMBER 1G OIE3 iX.TT EUiEBlIi! I'm CHARGE ADVERTISEMENTS OP SUBSTITUTIONS ATTACKED . SIVE CAMPAIGN OF fwqri JiBjaaioa ! advertising is ordered CoUNumers of Lumber to Be Tol In ' Advertising .Where Lumbermen Claim Substitution Concerns Arc la Error Resent Attack on ' Lumber " by False Charges by aTalers of Lumber Substatutes. ' Admitting as a premise that many, substitutes for lumber are legitimate and the nasult of progress of the times, members of the Northwestern White Pine Manufacturers' associa tion who attended the third Quarterly meeting of the association in this city Saurday, have gone on record as com- batant, against the policy of substitu tion concerns in an effort to halt what, lumbermen cfiim the illegitimate at tack on lumber and its present day usefulness. During the past years, lumbermen say,- cement companies, patent roofing, concerns and . many other companleg that manufacture ar tlcles intended to take the place of aver that when substitution compan ies claim lumber , has been relegated to the useless shelves in all depart ments and all uses;- the substitute people are going beyond common sense. : Thig theme was almost solely, dis cussed at the meeting Saturday, Steps (Continued on Page Eight) FDR BURGLAR LOSS SUSTAINED BI MR. LOVE IS OFFERS REWARD Inventory Discloses Losses at First I'a - der.Estlmated. REWARD OFFERED BY LOVE. , ;:v . , v., H. T. Love haa posted a reward 1 of 250 for the return of goodi 3 t- stolen from his store Friday night The total loss is about $900. The Jeweler today ordered .publica- tion of the reward as named. , ' i . . '. !"' Losses sustained by H. T. Love last Friday night were even more exten give than at first estimated. A cursory Inspection of the place Saturday morn ing led to the belief that about 700 '; had been looted from the place the night before by burglars who effected " an entrance trom the rear but an in ventory of stock taken yesterday hows that the losg has reached fully $900. Much of this was new Christ mas stock Just unloaded in prepara tion for the holiday trade. As yet the police have lttlu to work on but a , diligent search, z Msg maintained and the fact t at a big re ward ia offered will spur authoritle In other towns to more concerted ac tion. i
