La Grande evening observer., January 20, 1912, Image 3

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ly.lt Is Said.
In relating the court proceedings
of the present term of circuit court in
Wallowa county, 'the Enterprise Rec
ord Chieftain tells of the strenuous
effort of the Wallowa county officers
lad. to make under a subpoena to pro
duce a witness claimed by the de
fense in one of the liquor cases to
resemble the defendant so much that
that the witness for the state was mis
taken "when he charged the defendant
with selling him the liquor, as al
leged: The testimony in the Charles D.
Graham trial turned on a question of
identity, the defense alleging that Un
derwood and Graham resembled each
other to such a marked degree that
th two men could not be told apart by
those alleged to have bought liquor.'
A hunt for Underwood was at once
begun. On the day the Graham trial
was closing the sheriff's office re
ceived word that he had returned to
Enterprise. But efforts to find him securely snuggling between the tim
were fruitless. .' bers, lay Underwood.
Sheriff Marvin became satisfied on He &n(l Hug climbed down and all
Thursday afternoon, that Underwood! na(1 a Sd laugh at the outcome of
had gone east of town to the neigh
borhood of the ranch of T. P. Coleman
a cousin, 20 miles away.
Sheriff Marvin, Deputy Sam Pace,
City Marshal Hug and Harry Notting
ham at once made up.,,a party and
they started at 6 o'clock in two sleds
for the Coleman place. The night was
dark' and sleet,' carried by a driving
wind, pelted the four men. They lost
their way repeatedly and several times
their sleighs upset, spilling them out
into the wet snow.
It was midnight when they arrived
at the Coleman ranch. The four men
separated, two going to the barn and
the others to the house. They feared
the man they sought, if he was on
the premises, might take advantage
of the darkness and slip away. Shortly
they roused Coleman and his wife and
the visitors at once searched the
house. Sam Pace got down on his
knees and poked his head under beds
and the others ransacked every cor
ner of the building, but without re
suit. ; Then Marshal Hug had an Idea.
He had noticed there was an attic
to the house. ' Pushing himself up
through the trap door he began over
hauling articles stored there. The
about 15 Inches apart. Noticing a
pile of blanket lying across these
sleepers, Hug lifted them and there,
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the hunt. Then, as soon as the En
terprise men had warmed themselves
well at Coleman's lire, they started
back for the county seat. They reach
ed the city after another cold ride at
7 o'clock Friday morning 13 hours
after they 'had started.
Knowles Passes Heavy Sentences.
Further particulars of the Wallowa
County "bootlegging" cases are shown
by the following from an exchange:
Byron Underwood pleaded guilty
to three indictments. Under the third
indictment he was sentenced by
Judge Knowles to pay a line of $350
and to Berve 30 days in the county
jail. On the first two Indictments
sentence was withheld by the judge.
: University of Oregon, Eugene, Or.,
Jan. 19. In 24 high schools of the
state, students are busy preparing
for the debates of the Oregon High
School . Debating League. According
j to reports received by LeRoy Johnson
an Instructor In the public speaking
department of the University of Ore
gon, who has the secretaryship of the
league, two of the preliminary de
bates have already been held. Tilla
mook high school deefated the Nehal
era high school and the.McMInnvllIe
team triumphed over the Woodburn
trio., . '
A recent ruling adopted by the lea
gue Is to reduce the nuiv" f judges ; i
at debates from three t fie. The
reason for this change was the need
for economizing the conductlnog of
the debates,
'As usual the final dr1--'-" 'he
league which decides tlia champion
ship of the state will be held in Vtll
ajd Hall at the University of Oregon!
During the last three years the Grants
Pass high school has "won the state
championship twice and Lebanon high
school once. . . ' J , . .'.'
The schedule of the preliminary de
bates as furnished by Secretary John
son, Is as follows: ,
VCoos Bay district February 12,
Coquille 'vs. Marshfleld at Marshfleld,
Bandon vs. North Bend at Bend,
Marshflold vs. Myrtle Point at Myrtle
Point, North Bend vb, Coqullle at Co
qullle, Myrtle Point vs. Bandon at
Bandon. V,
;outhern Oregon district Jan. 26.
Ashland vs. Klamath Falls, Grants
Pass vs. Medford at Medford.
. ' Central Oregon district Jan. 19,
Eugene vs. Salem at Salem, Eugene vs.
Albany at Albany, Salem vs. Albany,
Corvallls vs. Lebanon, Corvallls vs.
Falls City, Lebanon vs. Falls City,
Springfield vs. Junction.
Columbia River district Tillamook
va. Nehalem. already held, Seaside vs.
Astoria latter part of January, Mc
Mlnnvtlle vs. Woodburn already held,
Tillamook vs. 'McMdnnvllle, Jan. 19.
The Eastern Oregon district has not
sent In their schedule as yet. Each
high school has two teams, which
makes possible a debate at home on
tlie same night that the other team
is revealing its views in the town of
one of its rivals.
. These figures represent the proportion of fires
caused by defective electric wiring and keroseno
lamps respectively,
They are taken from the annual report of the
Oregon Fire Relief association.
, Out of 2G6 losses during the ast year, one waa
directly traceable to defective wiring; sixteen to
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Charles D. Graham, previously tried
and found guilty, was sentenced tot
pay a $100 fine and to serve 20 days
in the Jail.
The charges against William Wade
and Lon Bright were dismissed. .
In the case of L. A. Jackson the
cash bond of $500 was declared for
feited. .
LABOR
EDUCATION
JOINT CO-OPERATION UJiltiED AT
THE DALLES.
Organizations and Schools
Work Together.
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The Oregon state Federation of La
bor before adjourning Its state con
vention at The Dalles endorsed the
"Oregon System" and state support
of education in the following resolu
tions:
"Hoping to obviate the belief of
some people that the labor men are
opposed to the educational interests
of the state, the federation unani
mously passed the following resolu
tion: Whereas, the Oregon System of gov
ernment by the people, Is deeply cher
ished by the great majority of our
citizens, so long unrepresented In the
halls of legislation, there have been,
and is now, urged proposals to amend
or change' laws for various al
leged objects and purposes. Almost
invariably the changes proposed em
anate from known enemies of these
laws and are designed to render them
of no effect.
Fundamentally the Oregon system
was designed to protect the popular
or common Interests of the people
of the state from the encroachments
of private, special or privileged In- i
tcrests. . The success of this design I
haB been such that it is a paramount
public duty further to unite the pop
ular Interests upon1 a working basis
for the best use and safest develop
ment of the people's government.
, In view of this need the Oregon
state grange, some years ago, Invited
the co-operation of organized labor,
and together these two great common
Interests have successfully acted In
more than one noteworthy ambition.
. The same method should be extend
ed to Include the state school system
and all educational Institutions sup
ported by the state. It should in-;
elude all those Interests essentially
common In their nature, the promo
tion of which inures to the public
rather than private good. Therefore
bo It
Resolved, that the Oregon State Fed
eration of Labor, in regular conven
tion assembled, does hereby suggest
and invite the getting together of the
representatives of the common Inter
ests of the state including particu
larly the state grange, State Federa
tion of Labor, University of Oregon,
Oregon Agricultural College, State
Teachers' association, and the Farm
ers' Union, and such state officials
as are directly connected with these
interests, for the mutual discussion
and promotion of closer ecquaintance
and co-operation for the common good
under the Oregon system.
Kesolved, That a committee of
three be appointed by the president of
this convention, the duty of which com
mlttee shall be to act for this body in
conveying the purport of this reso
lution to the individuals and interests
converned and for arranging such
meetings or discussions as may de
velop therefrom."
President Daly appointed R. A.
Harris of Salem, W. A. Marshall and
Edward J. Stack as the committee to
promote the co-6peratfon plan.
Mr. Harris, who is the state print
ing expert at Salem, fathered the res
olution. He thinks the Oregon edu
cational Institutions will eventually
be compelled to depend upon the labor i
federation and the state grange for
their support, and that the co-operation
plan would in time do away with
City School Items
At assembly Monday morning, after
.playing a few selections on the new
graphonola, announcements were
made as to the order and time of the
exams for the semester, which took
up the rest cf the week. : 1
-' '.
Although most of the pupils made
grades and were Informed of the
fact, reports have not as yet been
arranged. ' . .. ... ' '
Rev. S. W. Seemann Is booked to
address the students at assembly next
Tuesday morning. '
A goodly number of grade and high
school pupils at the Schubert muBi
cal entertainment Wednesday evening
greatly appreciated the production and
were only sorry It was not longer.
the "trading" on the part of the state
Bchools in order to get appropriations
and legislation.
.The federation endorsed the Esch
bill which proposes to prohibit the use
of poisonous sulphur In the manufac
ture of matches.
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