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: 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.
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. ' 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'
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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
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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. ,
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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.
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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.
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