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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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'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.