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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1913)
VOLUME XII. BRYAN ARRIVES AT SACRAMENTO TO QUIET JAPANESE TRUCK GARDENERS OBSTRUCT BRYAN'S PATHWAY FIRST DAY IS DEVOTED TO EXECUTIVE CONFERENCES Documents of State Secret and Valua ble Carried by Visiting Delegate of Peace Sacramento, April 28. William Jannings Bryan, messenger of peace from President Wilson to California, Arrived this morning ard was taken in the governor's automobile . to breakfast in the executive mansion. Over the morning coffee cups a ten tative plan ' was outlined in the precedent-shattering deliberations that will take place the next few' days. A handful of legislators, in cluding the Democratic leaders, were nt the station to greet -Eryat! Thorw'A Eariy .-Cmfatv Hf'i iv. was no demonstration. Those who noticed closely saw that the secre tary was especially concerned regard ing a bulging leather bag which wasn't for a moment relinquished to his attendants. It is believed to be filled with important secret docu ments and official correspondence between Washington and Tokio which couldn't be entrusted to mail or tele graph.' Up to the moment of Bryan's ar rival, no definite plans of taking up the momentous matter under consid eration were perfected. Governor Johnson, with a laugh, remarked, "I -wasn't sure Bryan would breakfast -with me." This professed doubt was quickly dispelled. The secretary's ar ' rival coincided with the hour when Japanese gardners were bringing truck to market Several times the automobile in which Bryan and the governor rode, had to be slowed down until the congestion of Japanese and LOCAL CHINESE RESTAURANT UER IS FINED $25. , Low Young Second to be Arrested for Violating Minimum Law. Further local arrests have come in the state labor department war against violations of the state law prohibiting the working of girls over 10 hours in any one shift or at the ratio of 71 hours day for the week. Low Young, proprietor-manager of the Palace restaurant, was arrested this morning by William A. Palzel, deputy commissioner ar.d factory in spector for the state kbor bureau of Salem. Twenty-five dollars and costs were attached as penalty for allow ing waitress to work over 10 hours last night The same official caused the arrest of what was then the La Grande restaurant, on similar of fense a few weeks ago. MM LI AGAIN LOT THE AHTI-ALIEN BILL CHAOS Chinese agriculturists had been re lieved. Fully a score of Japanese gathered at the station and clustered about the governor's machine when River Waterways association is en Bryan stepped in. 'deavoring to obtain concerted action . An air of intense expectancy which here in the way of signatures to a which hung over the capitol since it petition asking Portland to assist in was known the national administra- this matter. The petition is the draft tion was to take a hand in the anti- 0f the secretary of the association alien situation was decidely apparent noted, and has come to E. E. K'.Jme, in the silent crowd that gathered .to 1 who attended the Pendleton meeting, see Bryan on his arrival. At the capitol, Bryan went into im- mediate executive conference, with the governor, lieutenant governor, president of the senate and speaker of the assembly. In a statement af- terward, Bryan said: Issues Early Sentiment. "I am here to confer and not In any sense to direct, the impending matter. My pleasure will be that of the legis - lature's, and I cannot say at this time whether the conferences of the anti-alien legislation will be open or executive. I come here at the re quest of the president to look after the international phases of the situa- tion. No plans of procedure have at this time been decided upon. I may address the legislature, but if so it will be briefly. I shall stay until the matter is settled." ' Documents on Person. Bryan didn't deny that he carried with him the treaty document which will play a vital part in the pending legislation. Whlie Bryan will be the guest of the governor during his stay, he announced he would have rooms in a local hotel where he would freely meet all who wished to confer with him. " ' Bryan Meets Lawmakers. . Col. Bryan held his first conference with legislators on the alien situation j at 11:15, when both houses convened to join an executive session in the , aeoamklv ftiamhaf1 tiapli&a tllA in. t ternational features involved and hear the message which Secretary of State Bryan brings from President Wilson on the present struggle be tween California and the government over rights of states to legislate against foreigners. At 12:40 the doors were locked on the executive session and not a word leaked out as to the specific . phase of the anti alien situation under discussion. It teemed likely at that hour that the session would last all aftrenoon. Big Crowds Show Interest The gravity of the situation is evi dent, and is represented in the throngs that jammed the corridors. Members of the senate passed the crowds in dead sinlence and when the colonel himself passed In, only timid handclap of two was heard. Supreme Court Adjourns. Washington, April 28. The su preme court adjojmed today without handing down any important decis ions. ' liA GRANDE, UNION COUNTY, OREGON, . MONDAY, APRIL BETTER WATER GRANDE RONDE ASKED TO SUPPORT MOVEMENT. Up-river Transportation Claimed Benfit for Union. To Interest Grande Ronde produc ers and shippers in a better and im proved river transportation service into Portland, the Columbia & Snake and who is one of those fully con- vWhat. upper river transport.-, finn tho rnlnmhia will hrino" greater returns to the local producers than now come through railroad ' transportation. .The letter from the association to Mr. Kiddle inclosing the petition which can be signed at : the Commercial club follows: . j Ed. E. Kiddle, Island City, Ore., Dear S-ir: At the Fourth Annual '. ., , . ,f the Co. ' ...! .i Smh'.c River Waterways Association 1ns. il li. Fomi'eton, Oregon, April 14-15, -ho .ijestion of continued operation of rjtn river boat service upon 'he Co- lJmbia and Snake rivers wai quite thoroughly discussed. "he convention decided as a ve.uilt ot these discussions, to promote a conference with the citizens of l3ort- (Continued on Page Eight.) WAYS T AN UNCONSCIONABLE TIME DYING, WW - ' 'H WmmZM FR I ! f li lt V . llli 1 1 1 111 ill I .. A W THEORY VO Weekly- conference with correspondents brings forth statement. GUARANTEE CLAUSE GONE Bill Which President Will Hare ' Drafted Will Represent Views of He and Friends in Both Houses Correspondents Hear His Opinion on Panama Canal Is Still Open One Washington, April 28. There will be a Wilson currency reform bill and it will represent President Wilson's views on what is needed to place the monetary system on a solid basis. The president and his friends of both houses of congress and financial ex- ' , .. .... , ot th?.b,lL : , It is certain when the bill is corn- pleted, it will not carry any guaran- tee bank deposits plan. . , , Panama Tolls Undecided. The president has indicated to the correspondents that he wourd retain an open-minded frame on the Panaris canal tolls. The president is watch ing the Sacramento developments carefully and expects California's sober judgment to precent any em barrassment to the federal govern ment on her attitude on the alien situation. - The president's views on the tariff are unchanged today. These facts were set out in the weekly conference with newspaper men. 8yk in Philadelphia Ledgor. 28, 1913. Amundsen in The Fram io ROALD AMUNDSEN. Duwovarer of ths South Pol Now Lecturing e Hit Exploit (BY BURTON K. STANDISH) 1914, Captain Roald Amundsen, dis coverer of the South pole, will leave , San Francisco in his good ship Fram on one of the most daring expeditions ' made has ever tempted the fates by taking. In an effort to pierce the thousands of miles of frozen wastes , that lie across the north pole from . American to European waters, Capt. . Amundsen will deliberately let his ; vessel be frozen in the floes in the northern ' Bering straits, to drift j across the north pole into the Euro I pean Arctic regions and then south ward until ne reacnes a climate that will melt him loose from his icy prison. For four years until 1918 the in trepid unraveller of the secrets of the far south and north expects to be ice bound, isolated from the rest of the world by the impassable floes that have their birth in the land of per petual cold. And all that will connect nect him with the civilized world that he will have left behind, the world that has showered him with great honors for the daring things he has done, will be a wireless outfit, high upon the mast of the Fram, that will day after day send out its brief log of progress. Whalers, prowling through the ice jetted waters, tramps daring a swift venture into the .north, may pick up the messages from the air. On this slim chance does Captain Amundsen hope- to keep his where abouts before the world. The exact route of the Ice floes which sweep across the Arctic is be lieved to be along the coasts of Can- continued on Page Three.) BE TREATED New York, April 28. Admission that he has sold the rights of the alleged tuberculosis cure was made by Dr. Friedmann today. Morris Eisner of Eisner A Mendelsohn who purchased the rights, and Dr. Fried mann are drafting the final papers. "The main contingency upon which I agreed to enter this arrangement said Dr. "Friedmann, "was that the poor persons should be treated free. ( I' - 5 1 FRIEDMAN!) INSISTS POOR SHALL NUMBER I5r) Ijstius . APiin " an m m v k- 1. H Si STRONG ARMY SAID TO BE MARCHING ON SCUTARI. TO ATTACK CITY. Austrians Refuse to Discuss Scutari Situation Longer' but Send Big Army it is Reported to Capture i City From Montenegrins Who Cap I tured the City From the Turks Recently. ' . ' j Berlin, April 28. To wrest Scutari from the Montenegrins, 10,000 Aus trian troops are marching on that city according to a Rome dispatch. It is declared the Austrian fleet has already left Tieste . to harrass the Montenegrins. Details are lacking. '. surrendered the city to Montenegrins, has proclaimed himself king of Al bani, according to messages received here and it is further reported he is. marching on Tirana at head of 40,000 Turks intending to capture the city and formally proclaim himself king. Envoy Voices Objection. London, April 28. Formal opposi tion to the demand of Montenegro, that she surrender Scutari was made to the conference of ambassadors by ' the Montenegrin envoy today. He characterized the attitude of the pow ers toward the capture of the city as unjust And unwarranted. PASSENGER TRAIN TELESCOPED Several Injured, Some Fatally, When Passenger Hits Worktrain. r ; Quincy, Mass., April 28. Several were injured, some probably fatally, when several coaches on a passen ger train on the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad were tele scoped in a collision with a worktariil. Two coaches were overturned. SEATTLE BLAZE FATAL Hotel Fire at Renton, Seattle Suburb : This Morning.' - Seattle, April 28. Mrs. Loda Skill man, aged 30, and her five year old son, were burned to death, and Wil liam Canfield probably fatally burned in a "fire which completely destroyed the Central hotel at Renton this morning. , FREE OF ALL COST That provisions is hi the contract and it is also understood the first insti tute shall be opened here." Alaska Marshall Nominated. Washington, April 28. The presi dent sent to the senate the nomina tion of Iwis Erwin of Alaska to be United States Marshall of the Fourth District, Alaska.
