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PAGE EIGHT LA' GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, TUESDtr, APRIL 29, 1913L PREMIUM FOB MAGPIE TOLL WING. TIN AND FLEETFOOT CLUB CAMPAIGN ON. All Members Urged to Compete With $5.C0 at the End of Year. Premium has been placed on the life of magpies and the war of ex termination commenced soon after the the Wing, Fin and Fleetfoot club was B. B. NUTTER TT3 HATE BUILT UP our Pa'nt business by awn onls the bee' grade for a reasonable price. Every can of our Paint Is re liable. It If mads of the best Whit Lead and well-ground colors, givlni a uniform coat anl spreading vail; and smoothly witnont stress or pota. These colors ' will not fad In the sun, and they cover a large sur face. One coat of our Paint is a PHONE B. 971. SIXTH ST. Retail Department Phone Main 8 For Lumber. Lath Shingles, Sash and Doors Ruberoid Roofing GEORGE PALMER LUMBER CO. Monuments I Concrete Blocks I Made In La Grande LATEST DESIGNS J Best Building Material Made In La Qraude. I KllOWIl E. C. DAVIS 1 Cor Greenwood & S Ave. 5-- I La Grande. Only Three of Those Phonographs Left Many people have taken advant age of our clearance prices on ma chines and records, and we have but three left. Call soon and select your machine at the low prices to close out the line. HILL'S DRUG STORE THE REXALL STORE started in this city at the beginning of the year, has assumed a cash baBis. Where before the many members of the club were duty bound to kill every magpie ey f nd when hunting, there is now a $5.00 premium ready for the person who kills the greatest number of the preying, carnivorous bird be tween now and December first. At the regular monthly meeting of the club last night a prize of $5.00 was hung by one of the prominent mem bers of the club in the magpie "con test." Those who enter the chances for the reward at the end of the year have but to present the heads of the "demised" magpie to Secretary A. A. be given. Somw mittens have not yot r.oog nizud the tuw Mexican govern .nent. When the rebels get through with it, jarlupp nobody will be able to rec- '?.. it rS5H LONGANECKER IN TROUBLE. Former Tri-State Umps Takes Case to FarrelL George Longanecker, who worked part of last season in La Grande as an umpire in the Western Tri-State, is having troubles. He has become mixed up with the Union association, and has taken has ct.jj l---"ra oe.re tary Farrell. IndWtif - r.ra th derision in the rru.-.ter jvlll ni a. base ball precedent. The Sporting Na-v ivrs edi torially on the Longaus Vcr case as follows: Organized baseball hr.- '-"! that an umpire U bound by -?n-tract and that in effect he is he'd un der the reserve rule the umpire nc-v cries' tit for tat and will seek a rul ing that he has the same rights as Uie player since he is under the same obligations. At least that seems to ha tfca In tli- ---Ar.l.!- A!Ayl ,!ti I Secretary Farrell or to be filed, ac cording to Umpire George Longn necker's announcement though just whet sort of a ruling the umpire seeks ia not quite clear. - Umpire Longanecker, it appears, accepted terms or had his terms ac cepted with or by President Lucas of the Union association late last year, for the season of 1913. Then President Lucas died and Mr. Mul roney was named as the head of the league in his place. In dealing with , his umpires, President Mulroney no tified Longanecker that he would have to take a cut of $50 a i-jnth un der the agreement with Mr. Lucas. Longanecker objects and appeals to Secretary Farrel, but whether he wants the full sum in his contract and a chance to work under it or wants himself declared a free agent because of the cut, is not clear at the moment. Perhaps, when the paper3 are passed upon by Mr. Farrell we shall know what he is driving ut and also, have a decision as to whether the umpire .has any rights- some- i thing that no one ever thought of admitting before. LA GRANDE BOY PROSPERS Lytton Ivanhoe Promoted to Position of Trust With Big Commission. Lytton Ivanhoe, a La Grande boy for the past year or more located in f"niment service in Panama, has '"en nrrned reporter to an interna-?'-"' ( -"nission consisting of two emminent Americans and two equally prominent Panamaians, who will se'e claims cn land adjacent to the pond and within the canal zone which ihe go' e'.r.m'".'.': des not, at the pres ent time, own Lut wishes to acquire for mi'itary Tvuposes. In addition to being t! e official reporter for that commission, which occupies the finest offices in the palace at Panama, and holds its hearing in the assemblea nacional corresponding to the Amer ican congress he is private secretary to one of the best known men on the commission. This man is professor of political science at the university of Pennsylvania, when not trotting the globe on matters of importance to the state : department The position, in addition to an increased salary places the young La Grander close to affairs of international importance and throws him in contact with men of national reputation. He is soon to have a three months' leave of ab sence on full pay. - These interesting facts were re ceived by Mr. Ivanhoe's mother, Mrs. F. S. Ivanhoe, this morning in a let ter from her son. . OREGON GRANTS VOID. Judge Wolverton Holds That Railroad Has Lost Title to Vast Areas. Portland, April 29. Federal Judge Wolverton today announced forfeiture of over 2,000,000 acres of land in Ore gon and California included in govern ment grants in 1866 and 1872, to the Oregon-California railroad because of failure on the part of the company to comply with terms of the grant. The decision came when attorneys for the railroad decided not to argue the case, which will be appealed to the federal court of appeals at once. MEXICAN OFFICERS RELEASED Washington Orders Release of Huer ta Lieutenant at San Diego. San Diego, April 29. General Pedroojeda, commanding the Huerta federals in Northern Maxico, and his 20aides, arrested by United States troops, were released today ou ord.rs , ! steamer tonight for Ensenada, from ' I whence they will proceed to Guaymas X - 1 t J i presumuuiy iu join me leuerni army in that part of Sonora. BIG MEET SATURDAY Eastern Oregon Scholastic to be Held t Pendleton This Week. Rain and snow combined have made track and field training by local school athletes impossible this week and the La Grande squad will go to the annual Eastern Oregon scholastic at Pendleton next Saturday with no more rounding out preparation than had been attained last Saturday. Just DON'T GUESS Don't Guess in Buying Your Corset But be sure you get a garment of modish style a garment trat will be the correct foundation for your gown. Yoj will find -this in the smart new models of AMERICAN LADY CORSETS Designed in strict accord with the styles, they produce the fashionable low bust, long hip and back. They make figures and mark good dressers Our Stock Is at Your Service We Can Fit You Perfectly Prices $1.00 to $3.50 GEIBEL S how they will go or just when, they will go is undecided, for the reason that if preliminaries are held in the morning, a customary necessity, the team must leave at midr.'ght, break ing their rest before a hard day's work, Coach Olson is now laying plans for the best hour of departure and making the personnel of thi team. "BOX OF MONKEYS" FRIDAY Seniors to Essay Comedy Roles in Frolicksome Class Play. Next Friday evening the first school year-end festivity of the grad uating class will be presented by sheepskin seekers. It is a three-act comedy full of humor and amply filled with opportunity for the ama teur actors to give full vent to their capabilities. It promises to be one of the best attractions of its sort in local high school history. DUCHESS ILL AGAIN Second Ahodminal Operation Per formed on Duchess of Connaught. Lonc'cu, April 29. A second ab dominal operation was performed on the Duchess of Connaught last night. She is the wife of the governor gen eral of Canada, and is in a critical condition. She was operated on only a few. weeks ago. BRYAN-WILSON. (Continued from race I.) wouldn't recede from the stand he and his administration ha taken. It was deciarej pressui0 0f publ!e cpin- excluding Japanese, , in such strong terms that Johnson simply couldn't resist whether he wished to or not. Unless Wilson can set forth some stronger argument than Bryan has yet presented, there is hardly a doubt but that action directed almost ex clusively against the Japs will be taken by the California legislature. PARKISON EXPOSE (Continued Trora Page 1) ments at the state university. Fol lowing this, steps will be taken "to prohibit the legislative assemlby from making approprinliona for the col- lege, university, or other schools of higher learning, and to .abolish the laws passed by the legislature ap propriating by direct millage tax, funds for the Oregon Agricultural College and the University." Follow ing this campaign of destruction will come a move to consolidate the two institutions nnder a single board of regents and "to provide for the main tenance of a school so consolidated by a direct mill tax the rate of which will be determined later and may possibly be set higher than that of the- existing- maintenance bill." This is the new plan of destruction and of economy urged by those who are setting the referendum machinery in action on $175,000 for the state university. Many good citizens are wondering how frequently we shall allow the dic tation in educational matters, or r. man vfie is suspected of malice' of blackmail, of being the tool of the enemies of the initiative and the referendum, a man who has been dis -credited in the eyes of the state by frauds of which he could not Ji&ve been ignorant., Many good citizens are asking how long Oregon is to. be advertised as a state that hampers and cripples its educational interests through the very measures for which it has become famous. Many goid citizens who have watched the uni versity struggle four times through referendum fight on its appropria- tions are declaring that in this, its - 1 fifth fight, it shall not fignt alone. ... . vaavdu -i.w uiit . u in a uiwcsa of reconstruction by building from and upon the old. and not by an utter wiping out of the old, are lining up with the forces that support the university. Not the least of the serious eb jections to invoking the referendum is the expense to the state of ti e special election In November which ' involves. This has been estimated t from $75,00 to $100,000. The adverse advertising given to th state vill be emphasized by the fact that tlis will be the only state holding an election this fall. Oregon calling tpon its electorate to express itself oi an ap propriation of $175,000 for its state university and on a dentist bill to which few give any interest, will be a spectacle indeed to whkh the eyes of ' the: whole.' country will torn. - Al ready have Senator Bailey and others found' opportunity to warn their states against measures of such dem ocratic nature as the referendum, which have: been invoked in Oregon chiefly to cripple institutions that other states cherish with prida. And those mett and communities are cam paigning for their thousands to ad-' eertise Oregon will need to increase their activities and their funds ten fold and more or cease entirely, for a state that is not ready to give its people, young and old good education al advantages can not hope to draw good citizens from other states. That the ultimate purpose of a union of the state university and the agricultural college enters into the consideration of this referendum on the university appropriation, feeds to confusion. The question of consolida tion is one that should be fairly and squarely put, to be considered only 'after a careful investigation of the conditions in other states from which we may learn much, and a careful con-, sideration of the investigations oC commissions and committees appoint ed for that purpose. In such a con sideration it is necessary not to 1 woe sight of the fundamental difference in function and purpose of the vrri cultural college and the state uni versity. The one has its mission of training for the development of t .01,ifi -,, J, . ... ... . .V . . 'growth of commercial power. And i.il the Oregon Agricultural I College taken up its mission and well may the people ofthe state feel pride in it But equally clearly marked and equally clearly important is thn mis sion of the other, that of training men and women for the profession?, for clear sighted civic and social ser vice, for developing the spiritual and ideal forces that form the background against which is placed our civilized commercial life. And well, too, has the University of Oregon taken up its mission, as witness th men and women of high character and noble purpose who, whether in the "m, in the school, or in public life are making real Ideals of th "new poli tics" In our commonwealth. Of those men and women the state has reason to feel proud.
