La Grande evening observer., April 17, 1912, Image 2

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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1912.
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FOL'R THOUSAND FEET OF
HIGH CLASS PHOTOPLAYS.
I1EFINED E XT E Iff A 1 X 31 E XT
FOR ALL FEOl'LE.
"WHEN DUTY CALLS". . Putlia
A good healthy picture. Well
acted and well photographed .
"THE II A BY OF THE BOARD
, IXfJ HOUSE" ........ S. & A.
Farce comedy. Very lively.
Melvin and O'Neill, corned
singers, Thursday, Friday and
Saturday.
"HOW STATES ARE MADE".
..... ... ....... ... . . Yltagrapli
A picture set in a real his
toric Incident, viz, the race of
new homesteaders to a newly
opened tract of land."The fleet
est gets the best," The week's
surest feature.
MISS LAXGDOX IX LATEST
ILLUSTRATED SOXG
"TBOMIIOXE .TOMMY". .S. & Av
A windy trombone that can
even blow the painted music
notes off a signboard.
"THE SUNBEAM" . . . Blograpli
Truly, a splendid picture. It
reaches corners In human ex
perience which no other Jorm
of art can follow. ' '
THE OBSERVER
BRUCE DENNIS
EDITOR AND OWNER.
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THE TITANIC DISASTER.
The whole world is helplessly a-wa!l
this week because of the lpss of tin
Titanlc's fated male passengers and
hardy crow, Since the sinking of that
great Pacific liner just outside the
Golden Gate but a few years ago there
has not been so terrible a pelagic
tragedy. Despite the successes of
sharp-eyed Science, there are yet to
be discovered means by which the
presence of the boreal giants of the
north seas can be located by the mar
iner. The steafthy Iceberg betrays
his hateful presence by no sound and
creeps on through the friendly fog un
seen and unheralded till the floating
city of happy and home-expectant peo
ple rush headlong upon lt Yet how
much more awful would the wreck
have been had there been no wireless'
Even thlB, awful as It Is, could have
been so much worse. But, ns It Is. the
death list Is bewildering, so many of
prominence having gone down.
The Titanic was 882 feet long ami
if stood on end beside the highest
American structure, the new Wool-
Theatre
A Working Capita! of Over
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The substantia, Ton b hIi ' " l
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Its spirt of accommodation,
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LA GRANDE, OREGON.
CAPITAL . $ 100,000.00
SURPLUS . . 115.000.00
RESOURCES . . . . 1.000,000.00
United States Depository
worth building' In New York, itself
760 feet , high, would have overtopped
H 132,,2 feet. Besides her crew of
$00, she had 1,470 passengers...
There never comes such a disastor
as this but we remember the trapped
laborers who toll -at the. furnaces 15
or more stories under the gay anl
palatial saloon-decks, far from the
knowledge' of the doings of the world
obove them. Hundreds of them are
there for the whole of the voyage and
are the surest victims when ''wrecks
occur. Sweaty giants they are, obey
ing the orders of their superiors, ask
ing no questions, sweating on. Llk3
the chained galley slave of the Roman
triremes they are at the mercy of th'
merciless elements of their hard cir
cumstances Caged and drowned like
rates in. a box, they go to their un
timely doom.'
Like mountains the bollows tumult
ously swell;
in vain the lost wretch calls on
mercy to save;
Unseen hands of spirits are ringing
his knell,
And the death-angel flaps his broad
; wine o'er the wave.
0 sailor boy! sailor boy! never again
. Shall home, love or kindred thy
wishes repay;
Unblessed and unhonored -down deep
in the main
Full, many a score fathom thy frame
shall decay. .
On
a bed of green sea-flowers
thv
limbs shall be laid;
Around thy white bones, the
red
coral shall glow; ..
Of thy fair yellow locks threads of
amber be made,
And every part suit to thy mansion
below.
"A PINT OF. HORSE POWER."
Oliver. Wendell Holmes once asked
a scientific friend how soon it would
be possible for him td "buy a pint of
horse power at the corner grocery."
This conceit of the genial philosopher
does not seem such a mirage when we
reflect upon the new relevation In phy
sical science radium the enormous
energy and nearly everlasting poten
tiality that are stored in so small a
space. If the energy that radium Is
calculated ux exert in 100,000 year",
could be concentrated in a few days,
an ounce of radium would drive a 50
horse power motor car around the
world at 30 miles per hour; or, a gran
(less than l-30th of announce), would
raise 500 tons a mile high. Charles
Allen Hunn, editor of the Scientific
American, says, "Radium Is destlne-1
to disturb the equipoise of our leaders
of science and shake our whole sys
tem of chemical physics to Its very
foundation."
Prof. Putty brings apparatus an-1
several tubes of this remarkable min
eral to show our people next Fiidat'
night at the high school auditorium
and will provide an evening of experi
mentation long to be remembered; he
will also demonstrate the wonders of
liquid air and wireless telegraphy the
Baine evening La Grande people who
are Interested In this subject will see
It demonstrated Friday night at the
high school auditorium. It Is an ertu-
rational treat that few can afford to
miss.
A Massachusetts conductor after 52
years' service, during which time bo
traveled 1,000,000 miles on the same
run has retired. It' is perfectly natur
al to presume thut be has retired with
a competence.
A Boston woman named Swift, has
139 nieces, 79 great nephews, 52 gr3at
great nieces, six grand children, four"
sisters, three children and three slS'
ters-in-law. There's much In a name
surely,
. An Iowa farmer Is being sued for
f 10,000 breach , of promise because a
girl proposed to him. She should pro
pose to another. She might have hot
ter luck.
It Is declared that the most success
ful suffragettes at the Lansing ((Michi
gan) legislative session were not -the
window breaking but the heart break
ing kind.
An Oregon girl with two wooden
legs is to be married, but she. didn't
run her legs off trying to catch a hus
band '
The kaiser is afraid the Panama ca
nal will not be large enough. It cer
tainly will not be if he and John Bull
try to get through at the same time.
Kipling gets $1 a word for every
thing he writes. It Is a good thing he
doesn't get $2 a word or he would be
wanting to run for president.
Honduras is a great country which
can accommodate two revolutions re
volving in different directions at the
same time.
Every little suffragette movement
has a brickbat all Its own.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
April 17. ' ' .
1G89 Governor Andros fled to the cat
tle, Boston, for safety.
1754 The French captured the Vir
ginians, erected a stronger fort
and called it Fort Du Quesne.
(Pittsburg.)
17G3 First newspaper in Georgia, th
Georgia Gazette, issued at Sa
vannah -
17SC Walter Forward, secretary of
the treasury in President Tyl
er's cabinet, born in Connect1
.' cut. Died in Pittsburg,. Nov. 2t,
1852. ' '
1790 Benjamin Franklin died in
Philadelphia. Born in Boston.
, Jan. 17, 170G.
1837 Joseph Anderson, revolutionary
soldier and United States sena
tor from Tennessee, died in
Washington, D. ' C. Born
' New Jersey, Nov. 5, 1757.
1856 Quebec became the capital
Upper and Lower Canada. .
In
of
1892 Alexander .Mackenzie, forme'-!
Canadian premier, died. Born
Jan. 28, 1882.
1907 William J. Bryan declared In fa
oor of the initiative and refer
endum. 1911 France rushed troops to Mor
occo to queli a rebellion nmong
the tribesmen.
"TIUS IS MY UTll BIRTHDAY."
John D. Prince.
John Dyneley Prince, professor o
Semitic languages at Columbia uni-j
verslty and one of the foremost, phil-1
ologlsts of America, was born in New
York City, April 17, 1868. He Is a
great grandson of the late Reverd"
Johnson, the Maryland jurist and at
one time United States minister 1o
Great Britain. Professor Prince was
educated by private tutors and later
took a course In Semitic languages at
the University of Berlin. Prior to
Joining the faculty of Columbia unl-
two.,,, ,,v unu Utll titlHV IICU IIJ auii'ii
Hopkins university and New York un-'
Iverslty. In 1S8S he was the represen-l
tative of Columbia university on the
expedition to southern Babylonia sent
out by the University of Pennsylvania.
In addition to his reputation as an
educator Professor Prince is well
known for his Interest In public af
fairs. Fight for Nebraska Tete Ends
(Continued from page 1
the presidential preference vote in ei
ther the Republican or, Democratic
party. The names of Taft, Roosevelt,
and La Follette will appear on the
Republican ballot and those of Wilson
Harmon and Clark on the Democrat1';
ballot
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state and the Taft people, while hope- for the senate. S. R. Barton and'W. they have ever. made.:. They are plan
ful, are not making any definite A. Prince, both of Grand Island, are ning to nominate a full state ticket,
claims, their chief reliance rests on
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the possibility that the Btrength of
Senator Liatoiiette may draw neaviiy
from the Roosevelt vote. The Roose-
velt managers, on the other hand, are
confident that neither Taft nor La
Follette will head off a solid delega
tion for the former President. I
On the Democratic side there is also
little basis for a clearcut and readilv
defensible forecast on the presidency.
The Clark managers appear to be the
most optimistic. One' interesting
phase of the situation is the position
or William Jennings Bryan. Mr. Bry
an is named as . a delegate on all the
tickets, as a special honor, but Ms
friends are a little apprehensive that."
with all the radical strength split be
tween Clark ad Wilson and the con
servative Democratic vote banked sol
idly behind Harmon, the Ohio mai
may possibly win on plurality and thus
give to a smiling political world f.he
spectacle of Mr. Bryan going to Balti
more instructed for ilarmon, whom he
bitterly opposes.
The contest fo the United States
senatorshlp is arousing considerable
interest... Senator Norris Brown, re
publican, whose term will expire next
Marcn Is a candidate for re-election.
His opponent on the republican side
ls Congressman George W. Norris or,
the Fifth district. The contest be-
tween the two is closely connectel !
with the republican preseldentlal race.
Congressman Norris Is one of the'
recognized leaders of the Republican
"Insurgents" in the House and an out- j
spoken opponent of President Taft and ! I
his policies, while Senator Brown Is on
friendly terms with the president.
The Democratic aspirants for Senator
Brown's toga are former Governor
Ashton C. Shallenberger. W. H
Thompson, of Grand Island and Willis
E, Noed of Madison.
All the present representatives in
Congress are candidates for renomin-
auou -wiwi m exception or Norris ofi;
the Fifth district., who Is a candidat
Springt:Styis1
In
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the Republican aspirants for the Fifth
district nomination; and R. D. Suther-
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land Is the Democratic candidate.
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Governor Chester H. Aldrich Is a'dlstrlcts- .
candidate for renomtnation. Two! .
Democrats are contesting for the gu
bernatorial nomination
In addition to the governorship the i
state.-offices for which nominations!
will be made are those of lieutenant!
envprnnr p.porpfnrv nf ntntp nuditm '
state treasurer, state superintendent
of public Instruction, attorney gener
al, land commissioner and railroad
commissioner.
To add to the complex political slt-i
nation In Nebraska, the Socialists of!
the state are planning this year .o
wage the most aggressive campaign ,
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