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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1912.
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BRUCE DENNIS
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VHEBE THERE'S k WILL THERE'S
A WAT..
Farmer living on the five entrances
to the city of Union, have, at the In
stigation of President Will Vogel of
the Union Commercial club, devoted 86
isji to road building this year. . As a
onsequence roads that would have
Wen Impassible as a consequence of
the flood waters there for weeks, are
really in good shape, well rounded.
fairly smooth and carry good drain
ages. Some time ago Mr. Vogel ex
aerlmented with the farmers and
found that where he asked for a day's
work with a man and team, he obtain.
d three or two and that's the way
tt went With well defined work bases
the ranchers went about to work their
Toads towards Union. Carrying this
method a little farther good roads
could be built everywhere much along
this line with an experienced road
kallder dictating the line of endeavor
f the respectve farmer, as best suit
ed for the piece of road bed In band.
It is a .splendid Idea, and worked
like a charm about Union.
THREE-YEi It HOMESTEAD BILL.
President TCSkaa signed the three
year nomesteadl&it, permitting entry
men on puttk lands to prove up their
claims in three instead of five years,
all owing Ave months' absence from
a claim each year and rodnclng the
Arcade
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l TAUDETtIXE TONIGHT.
OH EL MOHTE RANCH.
Esaanay Is the recognised ma
ke; par excellent of western
subject. Here ,1s a splendid
drama throbbing with the spirit
' of the plains, aft" featuring Mr.
Anderaoa and a atar caatl
' THE POTTERS Of THE NILE
An Egyptian industrial plo-'
ture, very InterSstlns. "
; SALKXO PHAIL
. Comedlanrvr more than us
ual ability. A laugh all the time
THE .PILGRIMAGE.
From ba poem of Helnrlch
Heine anil a distinct novelty
In aettlngsigaid action.
JACK AND JINGLES.
..... The human Interest story of a
newsboy aal bis dog., The al
eBost human' ct1ng on the part
of Jingles, the dog, will mark
. this plctum as one that will he
' long remeofbered.
GETTING fHK MONET.
A bright. ffPP comedy. One
big oontJnuWl laugh.
! WEDU
I SPECIALS
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BOILED HAM
S COTTAGE CHEESE
FRESH PREMIUM
BACON
SWIFT HAMS
STRAWBERRIES
CHEESIES
RAS23ERIES
PattKon Bros.
r (cnOCUT
. Pboa Brnmbars Mala 1 aad
Vain VO.
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AfPAAEA tn hA rtllrlVAtA1 AH llfffA
claims from eighty to forty acres.
The bill is destined to so liberalize
homestead laws as to check ihe Immi
gration of American farmers to Can
ada.' Final agreement on the Borah-Taylor
bill waa reached May 23 by houat
and senate conferees.
Secretary of the Interior Fisber.
who had been opposing the bill In
every possible way, yielded his scru
pies concerning water power sites.
minerals, timber, and cultivation re
quirements with the result that set
tiers will get their land and every
thing it contains upon satisfying the
year during settlement period. It Is
required that they shall cultivate one
sixteenth of their holdings the second
year and one-eighth of the land llie
third year. For several weeks Sec re
tury FlBher had" been insisting tint
the cultivation be placed at one-fourth
of the land but Congressman Mondell
Taylor and Ferris strenuously object
ed that such exaction would be too
heavy.
Few realize what the new law will
mean to the west generally and the
state of Oregon In particular. The
main features as incorporated In the
government they have lived three
years upon It
Those who take lands may be absent
from them for five months of each
law are: , 1
First A reduction In the period of
residence from five to three years up
on ail homestead entries, , whether
made before or after the passage of
the act
Second A leave of absence from
the land of five months each year,
the time of leaving and returning to
be reported to the ocal land office.
Under the old law leaves of absence
could be granted only for specific rea
son, a total or partial failure of crops,
sickness or other unavoidable casual
ty. 1 . .
Third The cutting In halt of the
present requirements aa to cultiva
tion. -
Just what the scope of the last men
tioned provision will be Is not shown
by the reports now at hand. Under
the enlarged homestead act of Febru
ary 9, 1909, allowing a mlxlmum en
try of 820 acres, 40 acres of cultiva
tion la required beginning with the
second year of the entry and 80 acres
the third, fourth and fifth years.
Whether 2,0 acres the first year, and
40 acres for the second and third years
will be the future requirement will
not be definitely known until the full
text of the bill becomes kaown. At all
event the new law brings a measure
of teller fully understood and appre
ciated only by those who have been
trying under the most adverse and dis
couraging circumstances to meet the
present requirements.
fcTUIS IS MY S6TH BIRTHDAY
Le Baron B. Colt.
Judge Le Baron B. Colt, who
prominently mentioned to succeed
United States Senator George P. Wet
mor4 of Rhode Island when the lat
ter's term expires next March, wa
born in Dedham, Mass., June 25, 1846
He graduated frm Yale in 1868 and
from the law school of Columbia col
lege two years later. For several
years he practiced law In Chicago. In
1875 he removed to Bristol, R.
which place has since been bis home.
He. was elected to the Rhode Island
legislature In 1879 and two years lat
er became a Judge of the United States
district court. S.'nce 1884 he has been
on the United States circuit bench,
Judge Colt contested the last senator
ial election In Rhode Island with H
P. Llppltt who v elected to rucreed
Senator Aldrlch, and his friends ex
press cunfldence that he will be ic
republican ct-ndida'.e for Senator We'.
mpre'a seat la the legislative seisiun
next winter.
UNION GREETS
40 VISITORS
SHORT NOTICE RECEPTION I
WARM ONE.
Music, Speeches and Informal liutlier-
Ings Make Merry Evening.
Union hospitality Is a hard thing lo
beat or even emulate. Imagine a band
being rallied from dinner tables and
assembled down town ready to play
a selection In 20 minutes' time. That
Is what the folks at Union did last
night . t
Katherine creek's wild rampage cobI
several farmers dearly this year, and
drowning out acre after acre of small
grain; yet on the other hand, semi
arid land lying near the turhulent
stream that haa not produced enough
to pay taxes and upkeep for several
years Is a waving field of verdure. It's
a queer disaster that brings nobody
good.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
June 26.
1807 Conference of the Hmperor
Alexander and Napoleon near
Tllalt.
1841 Geo. Alexander Macomb, who
defeated the British at Platts
burg In 1S14, died in Washing
ton, D. C. Born In Detroit Ap
ril S, 1T82.
1844 Thomas W. Door, leader of the
Dorr rebel I on In Rhode Island,
sentenced to Imprisonment for
life, but afterwards pardoned.
1850 Railroad Jubilee at Burlington,
Vt, celebrating the union of the
lakes and the Atlantic by rail
road through Vermont
1862 The seven days' battles around
Rlrhmoad began.
1870 Abdication of Isabella II of
Spain.
1872 Earl of Duffertn assumed office
aa governor general of Canada.
1876 Rev. Francis Xavter Krantbauer
consecrated In Milwaukee , as
Roman Catholic bishop of Qreen
Bay.
139 Sir Samuel Leonard Tllley, Can
adian statesman, died. Born
May . 1818.
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An even 40 men and women Interest
ed in a proper exploitation of - the
Chautauqua which open next Satur
day for a ten-day session yesterday
coning participated In an enjoyable
lurk Includl.i t Cove and Unli n
ii t5e Itinerary. The Cove stop was
sit it on account o: tne li'ur r.u'. at
Union open armed delegations recelv
ed the visitors, band music, an elegant
fed, speeches 1 1 welcome and In
fi r.el'entertalnirei't was the order.
TV.'rugh some or rslgbt, the Union
'Ration was i' apprised of the
;;uavan's approach until 24 mluutcs
before the first car pulled into Union
at 7:30 and President Will Vogel and
his diligent lieutenants prepared a
copious luncheon, assembled the band
and by telephone methods managed to
get half the population out to bear
the program of music and speeches.
Mr. and Mrs. Ferrin, Mrs. Oeddea, W.
K. Davis and F. C. Bramwell and Miss
Bramwell entertained the Union peo
ple for a half hour.
, J. D. Cllltlan, 3. Piatt Jones and
J. H. Rudd told briefly of the Chautau
qua's purposes and plans and W. T.
Wright of Union responded, all speak
ing from automobiles with a large
audience present. A storm hurried the
conclusion but a happy, well enter
tained and Joyous crowd scooted home
ward with high words of praise for
the Union crowd, voting them not only
clever hosts but rapid ones. - It Is
doubtful if a warmer reception could
have been planned In a week's notice
than was accorded In 20 minutes'
preparation.
NOTES FROM THE LABOR WORLD
The referendum vote on the pro
posal to hold a convention of the
League of Pattern Makers this year
resulted In Its defeata, but the same
question will be submttted to the sub
ordinate unions next year.
A minimum rate of 6 1-2 cents an
hour has been fixed for women em
ployes In the tailoring trade In Great
Britain. Apprentices or learners are
to receive wages of from 75 cents to
$3.12 a week of fifty hours.
The San FranclBco Labor Council
will ask the American Federation of
tabor to urge congress to take steps
to build a national highway at a cost
of $500,000,000 to the end that the un
employed may be furnished work.
Any person In New South Wales
taking part In a meeting of two or
more persons to instigate, aid or con
trol a strike or lockout, where the
strike -will deprive the public of a
necessary commodity, Is loable to Im
prisonment for twelve months.
The Rocky Mountain Association of
the United Mine Workers of Amerlcs,
embracing four northwestern districts
and four districts of Canada, and rep
resentative of 61,200 coal miners! was
formed at Butte, Mont to advocate the
use of life saving apparatus.
The Brotherhool of Railway Train
men hopes to establish a home for
the aged and Infirm members In Cali
fornia A atte has been obtained In
the vicinity of Ben Lomond. Santa
jOrua Vinty, and an effort is being
made to get money for the erection or
suitable buildings.
JAGGED GAPE RACE
One of the North Atlantlo Traps
That Mariners Dread.
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ROCKY, FOGGY AND DEADLY.
This Qrsy, Grim Msnsoe to Vessels
That Come Within Resell of Its lee-
bergs, Qalee ane Wild . Currents le
Cite ef the flreveysrds sf the Oeeen.
In Harper's Magasloe George Hard
tug desert bee Cape Race, that menac
ing point of Newfoundland that Is a
terror to ths mariners of ths north
Atlantlo coast: ,
Every great trade route of the world
has In season some peculiar danger to
navigation which brings disaster to
vessels plying Its lanes. In ths north
Atlantic, for ships bound east snd west
over the busy northern route, the par
ticular menace Is Cape Race. In this
neighborhood there Is so extraordinary
conjunction of perils. Fog. Icebergs,
submerged rocks, northeasterly gales.
a sbeer snore snd singularly treacher
ous current create a large possibility
of catastrophe.
Cape Race Is a bluff. Jagged bit of
coast scarcely provided with strand,
and a multitude of submerged rocks
are scattered from the breaking water
at the foot of the cliffs ss far to sea
as the Virgin rocks, which outlle nine
ty miles. The polar current "which
runs like a river" past the gray cape.
Is so variable In tbe direction of Its
flow that It may race southwest st
one time and flow northeast at anoth
er. Jn tbe spring and early summer
and often as late as the fall Xf the
year Icebergs come down, with the
ourrent and lie sluggishly off the coast
bidden from tbe sharpest eyes of tbe
ships' lookouts in tbe dense accumula
tions of tog.
It is the fog. almost' continuously
raised by contact of tbe polar current
wltb the warm waters of , the gulf
stream, which for centuries has made
menace of this cape of evil name.
There Is little relief from It It Is so
contluuoURlv prenent Indeed, that tbe
cape foghorn la frequently blown for
hundreds of hours at a stretch.
Tbe route of tbe transatlantic lines
from American ports runs past a bun
dred miles to sea. and It la the vessels
that go sstray in the fogs off ths best-
en track which come to grief and give
the coaHt Its grewsome name. In s
single month so Atlantic liner, crowd;
ed with pssseogers, snd four tramp
stesmers were totally wrecked with
in twenty mflee of one another. And
snce ashore a craft has smalt chance.
Tbe stupendous cliffs, with deep water
to their Jagged edges snd expotied to
tbe swells of the opes ocean, have al
lowed but one vessel of the seventy
that bsvs been wrecked, there In the
past twenty years to be refloated.
Tbe craft on the rocks Is furiously
pounded Ur pieces, by the., first heavy
The Regulus. a tramp steam
er of near 2.000 tons, utterly vanished
with the whole ship's' company be
tween dark and dawn, leaving her pro
pelled flaed In tbe cliffs twenty feet
shore ses level, where It remains to
this dsy.
Stesmers have gone so close to tbe
cliffs In tbe fog that the fishermen on
tbe Jjeads, unable to even discern sn
outline of the blind craft bare clearly
beard that psnlc on the bridge when
the captain reversed tbe enplne room
signals and In the same breath ordered
the lifeboats manned. After, that they
hare listened to the churning of the
screw, to the orders from tbe bridge
snd to the gradual departure of tbe
vessel from her dangerous position.
Once, st s point beyond range of ths
fog whistle, a fisherman beard from the
fog not only tbe orders to reverse tbe
engines snd man the lifeboats, buta
loud command to one of tbe officers to
guard the liquor. Vessels often slip
past In the mist themselves unseen.
their presence, peril and escape from
4isaater told only by voices coming
muffled from the obscurity st ses.
Sometimes skippers send boats ashore
to Inqulretbe way, but often they go
by In care free ignorance without the
faintest notion thnt they have escaped
catastrophe by the miracle of a hair's
breadth.
"I heard a feller go by today." said a
fisherman of Chance cove. "I allowed
he'd fetch up on Fish reef by tbe sound
of his course and waited to see, but be
skipped ber. and a close skim too!"
It Is a coast to beware of. Tbe bet
ter It Is known the more It Is feared.
Tbe skipper of a New Tork-St John's
liner, for a moment at a losa for a
reckoning In tbe fog. took no chances,
but instantly turned tall and headed
for tbe open sea, where be In? for six
days waiting for tbe fog to lift.
It Is no wonder tbe deep sea shipper
shakes In his sea boots when tin- fng
captures him in s trem-hemm enn fttt
off tbat const. Home of me ruinl
hulls of bis forerunners In predicament
serve as landmarks for off shore flher
men, snd on tlie wind c.t barren of
ths heads. In smives iiiitrkeri ty cross
es raised by klndlr hand and snugly
stowed awny for pm1 nn-1 nil In the
little graveyards of th,- settlement. He
tbs bones of butnlroO" nf men who
have been cast up by I be sea.
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