La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, August 28, 1912, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextVOL. XI JJl GRANDE, UNION COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1912 NUMBER 2G0 ion or NICARAGUA IS ORDERED TOOAY FORCE OF 2000 MEN OR DERED INTO REBEL HOTBED ESTABLISHES BABE PBECE. , DENT BT THE UNITED STATES Inhesion Said to Hsv Followed Ap peal From Loyal Forces at Nicara gua In View of Fact That Rebel Forces Could Not Be Controlled--Tail Orders Trooiis Sent South. Washington, Aug. 28. At the re quest of the state department Pres. Taft from bis summer Home at Bev erly, Mass., today ordered the . ten tn Infantry to sail from Panama to Cor Into, Nicaragua. This Is the first Hue In years that American soldiers have been sent to Central America to quell a rebellion. v Colonel Henry Greene commands the tenth. , The state department's request that soldiers be sent to Nic aragua establishes an important pre cedent In America's relations with Latin republics. Early In July Nic aragua confessed her Inability to cope with General Mena, commander of the ,. revolutionary forces, and asked Amer ica's aid in maintaining peace. Hence the invasion. ;, v . JFlve hundred marines jarjnow In Nicaragua. Whan the - tenth - arrives the American force will total 2,000. The etate department thla afternoon characterized the tactics employed by General Mena, the Nlcaraguan revolutionary-leader In his campaign, as barbarous. The order sending troops to Nicaragua was so sudden that Ma jor General Wood, chief of staff of the United States army, postponed the j trip he had planned to Massachusetts, fearing hi presence would be needed In Washington. ' - Z Bi!L SOCIAL ELITE uojeciea io ENGLAND WILL APPEAL. TO THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL. NOT UNFRIENDLY ACT Hay.Pannceforte Treaty Said la Ob jection to Be Broken by Bill. Washlntgon, Aug. 28. Exception to the provision granting free tolls to American vessels engaged In coast wise trade with England through Mitchell Innes,. British charge d'af faires, was made today and filed in a formal protest against the Panama canal bill by England. The note il- vlsing that more detailed objection would be filed later, announced that England intends to take the matte: before the Hague tribunal alleging that the bill violates the Hay-Paunce-forte treaty. This does not constitute an unfriendly act. EXPOSED BY A CLEVER COUP COMMISSIONER WALDO IS SCORED BY ACTS , THIS CONNECTION NEW TORE'S "BEST" OWN BUILDINGS HOUSING GAMBLEBS Cloud Thrown on Prosecution of Ro senthal Murderers by List Publish ed by Commissioner Waldo Waldo Would Muke Investigation as Mild as Possible P bulls lied as Suspects' WOMAM SLAIN Or YOUriG MAN HO COKES Baby Show During Fair ACTUAL DATE TO BE SET SHORT PROMINENT FAMILY SON CHOKES MOTH ER OF HIS LOVE DENIED PRIVILEGE OF OOURT. I NO DAUGHTER HE KILLS v, VETERAN AT HELM nnis nniltlin Tt rnr liMllb tut DURIIilFALL . J m ...-.- DEFINITE AS! Mrs. A. L. Richardson le S.perlntend GIVEN DEMOCRATS assum nany ssew. When Confronted by Girl Whose Moth. er He Killed, Hageratown, Mary land, Man Tells Police All Wanted to Find Girl and Choked Mother to Death When Refused Her Address. Taft Going to Ohio. Boston, Aug. 28. Acompanled by Mayor Rhoads, hla military aide and Assistant Secretary Forster, President Taft motored here today from Beverly,' boarding the train for Columbus to at tend the Ohio centennial celebration. The president expects to return to Beverly Friday evening. DEMOCRATS H CIIIR New York, Aug. 28. Bitter denun ciation of Police. Commissioner Wal do was voiced today by District At torney Whitman who charged Waldo with having published the names of New York gambling houses on the po- '. lice suspect list to be a cloud In the 1 Issue In the Rosenthal murder case ! to make the various Investigations aa j mtlil as HAaotkl. I n,Z ,., 1M. , Kr v lice, objected to his attention to the Whitman will en to Mlllimnk. V. Y. I . . .... tonight to confer with Justice Goff Hagerstown, Md. Aug. 28 Confront ed here today by his sweetheart, Miss Lulah Henry, Norman MeCleary, Aged 23, broke down and confessed to strangling the girl's mother, Mrs. Nan nle Henry,, to death and stealing $40 from his victim and then going to Washington to seek the girl. Mrs. Henry, MeCleary "told the po- ORGANIZATION SATURDAY WHitfS POLITICS. I Progressives and Democrats to Have WeU Org nixed Clubs Soon. COLONEL IN VERMONT. Progressives Anxlois to Make a Gool Showing in Barometer State. Montpeller, Vt, 'Aug. ' 28. Colonel Roosevelt la coming to .Vermont to morrow to begin a three days' speech making tour of the state. He Is sched uled to deliver his first speech tomor row at Bennington and later he will be heard at Rutland, Burlington, Mid . dlebury, St Albans and several other df the principal cities and towns. In view of the long-time reputation of Vermont aa the "barometer state" in presidential campaigns, Colonel Roosevelt and his followers are nat urally anxious that the Progressive party shal make a good showing In the state election here next Tuesday. The same Is true of the Republicans and Democrats. All parties are send ing their best spellbinders into the state to aid In the close of the cam paign. The Progressives hope to make 6 big cut in the normal Republican plurality, even If they do not win the election. With few exceptions, Ver mont's normal Republican plurality of 25,000 has been followed by a Repub lican victory In the nation in Novem ber following. If the third party suc ceeds in materially reducing this pl ur ality next week it will be accepted as good omen by Colonel Roosevelt and nis adherents. - RealUtn the fight they hare ahead of them, the Republicans are redou- Frtends of Woodrow Wilson in Jnion county bave cinched their po lltloal belts and next Saturday even ing are going to form a Woodrow Wil son club In this county that Is aimed to be a parent organization of similar clubs in all towns of Union county. With the formation of this series of clubs, presidential politics Will warm up perceptibly and continue a stirring series of local campaigns for mastery In the fertile Grande Ronde valley. The Woodrow Wilson club '-'a La Grande la still In the embryo its ac tual: birth will occur next Saturday and Immediately after that other clubs In the county will be formed with the Idea In vtewf later cementing thtse individual clubs into a central organ ization. , Though in no sense a part of the regular Democratic Central comml' tee, it will work In conjunction with and probably under the direction of that body of Democrats. The meeting Saturday night is to be thrown open to all friends of the New Jersey executive. who has been assigned by Governor DIx to conduct the graft prosecution. Commissioner Waldo refused to an swer Whitman's charges but announc ed that later in the day he would make-public another list of names of owners of disorderly places. : The list gives the names of , the owners and agents of buildings rent- I ed foirgamblhrg1 housas and other re sorts. This list, according to infor- II ..l...! ...! . ... ..II... 1 ; ;uhuuu uuituuou at jiuuvt) uftiuijuar ' ters today, contains the names of men In high social and financial circles.' That the district attorney would use' the list for purposes of prosecu tion after the ownership of the Il legally used property has been estab lished, was made known by a repre sentative of the district attorney'. r! and wanted htm to stay away from the hijuse. Georgia Democratic Convention. Macon, Oa., Aug. 28. The Demo cratic state convention of Georgia as sembled here today to rttlfy the re sults of the recent state primary and to frame a party platform. Delegates from every county of the state filled th auditorium when the convention was called to order at 10 o'clock this morning. Commltts Crime at Night. , , Recently Mrs. Henry sent her daugh ter to Washington to visit relatives. August 15th MeCleary demanded Uiat the mother give hhn her daughter's Washington address.' When refused MeCleary waited until night and then returned and reiterated, his demand. Again she i'aeed to give hfm the ad dress and he choked the woman t death. . - ? . ' "' . Finding the girl's address In the house he started to Washington where he was arrested on suspicion. Until confronted today by Miss Henry, Me Cleary had denied all knowledge of the affair. He is a member of a prom inent Hagerstown family. ' Union county's corps Dt bouncing babies up to two years of age will be put on parade, as it were, during the county fair. Mrs. A. L. Rlchardsou who so successfully engineered and superintended the shows the past two years has been assigned the task of again arranging the baby show. Tha precise date Is not fixed but It will be during the week of the fair. The arrangement at the fair grounds this year will make the baby show much more convenient and the huge grand stand will afford ample room for the little tots. In years past the mothers and babes have been crowded luto small quarters but the adequate fa cilities at the fair grounds this year will remedy that obnoxious condition. However, even before the date Is an nounced Mrs. Richardson will wot- i BANCS LOCALLY DATE YET TO BE SET - BT ITINERARY MANAGERS Appeal to Get Commoner Here Daring Campaign Time Meets With Snccess and Itinerary Includes Speech la This City Local Democrats start Movement to Get Hint Here. W. J. Bryan, the great Commoner la coming to La GramH Just when the Demorcatlc war horses do not know, but he is coming, and by that bit of Information they pin their faith. La 1c to see and bear (he Nebraakan while the dominant figure In Democracy Is touring the West on a nolltlcaj rum. come entries for the big event. Lib- palgn. Walter M. Pierce was sd vised eral prices will be hung upito the lo- yesterday through National Cimmlc cal youngsters. CONFESSION SHEDS LIGHT DYNAMITE OUTRAGES AT ; RENCE EXPLAINED. Rich Kill Owners 'to Be Pro sec a ted for Participation In Plot PENROSE A BLACKMAILER IS ! CHARGED -IT COL. ROOSEVELT Oyster Bay, Aug. 28. That Senator Boise Penrose was guilty of blackmail when he declared to John D. Arch- hold In 1904 that the Standard Oil company had better make an addition al contribution to the republican cam paign fund If It wished to avoid dif ficulties In "certain matters" was the declaration today of Roosevelt "What - ,.v,.-; -' 'I ". T ' " '- titled he did, ; he should be ousted from the senate. Roosevelt's letter to Senator Clapp, contradicting the testimony of Arch bold before th senate campaign con tribution Investigating committee, will he mailed Sunday. Referring to Former Secretary William , Loeb, ' tho colonel said: "Until Loeb came here the other day on his own initiative I bad not seen or communicated with is the difference,", asked the colonel, aim for six months. But when Pon- "between Penrose's statement and f- "- "V""" ""' . s .. leu n was nis auiy to come nere sna forts of the VHce in the New York M me H( wm uk, the fni graft scandal T If Penrose actually demonstrate that I did nothing India made such a statement, as It was tes-' creet." Lairier Is Optimistic. . Ottawa, Out, Aug. 28.- At a lunch eon today to visiting financiers and legislators at the Chateau Laurler, Wing their efforts this year to main- Wilfrid Lanrier, former premier of " tain the normal Republican plnrallt". Because of the significance which thst plurality has been shown to hare with respect to the result la Norembst , throughout the country, the Vermont Republicans have received the assist nce of ths national organization to considerable extent Canada, presumably having In mind the Panama canal treaty, pointed ont that Canada's differences .with the United Sttes had always been settled during the laat hundred years without resort to arms, saying that bad arbi tration was better than successful wsr." WORD MADE EXTRA SHERIFF Boston, Aug. 28. The police ad mitted this afternoon that Ernest Pittman, a prominent textile mill own er, made a full confession before he committed suicide as to the alleged plot on the' part of New England mill owners to "plant" dynamite to dis credit the Lawrence textile strikers a few months ago. It Is stated that Pittman ended his Hf because District Attorney Pe)le Uer .Ignored pleas to drop the prose. It is stated by th police that Pittman and three other prominent mill men decided to "plant" the dynamite and Pittman is said to have bought tho ex plosives and . given . them to John Green to take to Lawernoe where the dynamite was exploded. - ;WflI Presecite Owners. . .Boston, Aug. 28. Flat charges that ths New England, mill owners con spired to "plant" dynamite in the strike at Lawrence, by the textile workers a few months ago to discred it unionism, were made here" today by District Attorney Pelletier who an nounced his determination to prose cute every mill owner Involved in Uc alleged conspiracy. ''j Pelletier' admitted that Ernest Pitt man of tb W. W.. Pittman company, one of the largest textile mill con struction companies in New England, who committed suicide yesterday, had conferred with htm earlier In the day. teeman W. R, Kjnj of Portlaud thH 1 the editor of the Commoner is going to be In La Grande and the date will be announced and La Grande Is now on the Itinerary. The effort to get Mr. Bryan to La Grande came when' local Democrats took steps to equal the success of the county fair people in bringing Roosevelt and through y Walter M. Pierce went before the high tribunal that' controls the degtlnjes of .Bryan's LAW , course while In th. West. They ob tained definite assurance that Bryan Is coming for- a well-timed speech. The Democrats have been told that It Is to be no five-minute platform af fair, but that he ! to be able to go Into political topic with deliberate nees and detail. Interest in Bryan's coming Is not confined to the Demo crats by any means however, but er ery school boy has a yearning In his heart to hear the great Nebraska, to witness the genial smile and to listen , to the deep-rooted loglo and be en tertained with what Is generally term ed the best oratory of any - public man In the United States today. The dato of Mr. Bryan's coming Is awaited with' interest ' ? Dike Ends Toronto Tlslt -Toronto, Ont, Aug. 28. As the con cluding feature of his three days' stay in ' Toronto the Duke of Connaughc ' held a review of the Boy Scouts at the Canadian National exhibition this afternoon. Tonight His Royal High ness, accompanied by the Duchess oV Connaught and Princess Patricia leave in a special train for the West Their trip will last until October and will take them as far as the Pacific coast Portland, Ore., Aug. 28. Governor West today demanded that Attorney Evans accept his appointment to suc ceed ths ousted official. District At torney Cameron ty the end of three days or decline. He will appoint some one elss K Evans does not accept date for sheriff, as state agent tn the cleanup campaign. , West late this afternoon said he would glv Evans three or four days mors to decide definitely if he would accept the. nomination to succeed Cam eron, whom West ousted rest-day He had previously demanded that the Hs wants to begin as Tics probe ' attorney accept or decline by tonight tomorrow and bar. someone la charge ! H r0M"T1 fUr m ta of tho crand jurr. West has appoint ed Tosn, Word, ths Democratic candl- gating all circumstances in the ease. which led him to believe that Eranf was Justified In not accepting at ones. Oklahoma Democrats. Oklahoma City, Okla., Aug. 28. This city was today the meoca for the Democratic leaders of Oklahoma At noon a mass convention assembled to ratify the nominees of the recent primary and adopt a platform. Earlier la tho day tho new state coram ttteo met and completed Its organisation Stat Chairman Harrell was elected for a term of two years without op position. ' Accused Aldermen Re-El eeted. Detroit, Ang. 28. Lata returns in th eleotlon here show that eight of the 17 alderman accused of grafting have been re-nominated Lake Superior Mining Institute. Houghton, (Mich., Aug. 28.---The 17th annual meeting of the Lake Superior Mining Institute began here today and will continue until the end of the week. Dally sessions are to be held for the discussion of mining methods, uniform mining . laws, .worklngmen's compensation, sa'ety appliances and other subjects. Between sessions tho members will visit ths various mining ranges In this vicinity.' " Benedict Family Resales , . sNmsjBssnssaB -Elmira, N. T Aug. 28. The ll'h annual reunion of the Benedict fam ily, comprising the descend ants of Thomas Benedict, who ' cams- over from England tn the early part of tho 17th century and was ons of the foun ders ot Danbury, Conn., was held to day at Grove Park tn this city. Many members of ths family asoclatlon were In attendance, tncludlng several frasa distant places. . )