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'Mi 6 "7 J. it- r VOLUME XII. liA GRANDE, UNION COUNTY. OREGON, TUESD.V V, MA i 6, 1913. NU R 263 GREAT CHEERS GREET INITIAL E T Y. M. C. A. CAMPAIGN STARTED WITH A VIM" THAT SURPRISES MOST SANGUINE. OVERSIX THOUSAND BAISEfl Four Hours of First Day, With Crude and . Inexperienced Teams in the Field, See Over Sixty-two Hundred -' Dollars Raised for New Y. M. C. A. Building Clock Moved Ahead. - ' Six thousand two hundred and eighty-seven dollars of the total of $35,000 Y. M. C., A. building fund needed and wanted subscribed in a ' whirlwind eight-day campaign in this city, were subscribed ' between 8 o'clock this morning when the open ing, gun. was .fired, and .12 o'clock noon.' The reading of the reports of the ten district committees working, was punctuated with cheering, shout ing and handclapping from some 75 members of the soliciting committees meeting for lunch and reports in the I. 0. 0. F. hall. ' Of the splendid total subscribed in four hours, by a crew of men still crude and ackward. in their methods, and meeting that line of ac tivity for the first time, all but $1500 were small lots. " There were several $25 subscriptions and wrom there they ranged up, to $1000. Enthus iasm developed like wildfire and the luncheon hour during the week will be breeding grounds for enthusiasm of the keenest sort. Men of practic ally every walk of life shouted them selves hoarse as the encouraging- re- , ports came in. At the $4,470.00 mark T. J. Scroggin's committee was in the lead, but J. T. Williamson's 'team carried off the final ' banner, for. the first half day's work by later adding an even thousand dollars to the lists, though Mr. Scroggin's committe re ported an added $500. . The shopmen's team of three men were the first to report, and while at their lathes 'this morning had raised $365 among the workmen there before 10 o'clock. I Deafning cheers greeted their an nouncements. . ; : 'A ' ' .-" - ' For ten minutes round after round of applause went up after, each report came in.. . ir- .-..i Q ;.'.. At - the close of the organization session of 10 minutes, about 60 men went to -Adams anoV Depot where the Y. M. C. A. clock is located and with V V ' r: a : n' '-j ' j Y the hand past the $6,200 mark. i, j i t- mom :t. ... Where doubt and pessimism reign ed last night among those who long for and will suDDort the campaign but fear for universal assistance confidence and determination ,: have i become king and master. Though still only hours old. the campaign has cemented a band of something like 80 men that are going to see the thing tnrougn to the end, and all came away from the reading of the first hour report convinced that work alore is all that is needed. v. "Everybody ; gives." Likewise everybody works. Such was the tone of the organization banquet for the campaign to ra'ise $35,000.00 to build a Y. M. C. A. in La Grande; and it is to be raised in just eight days be ginning this morning at 6 o'clock Last evening nearly 150 enthusias tic boosters for a Young Men's Chris tian association gathered around the well filled plates in the Odd Fellows hal where, after a hearty meal, pre pared by the Royal Neighbors, and after rousing speeches delivered by RESULT r! (Continued on Page 4) Militant Captured While Planting Bomb Against A ' Fashionable London Inn . London,. May 6. Possible destruc tion of the Grand hotel and death of many of the inhabitants, was prob ably narrowly averted at 2 o'clock . this morning when a lighted fuse at-. tached to a bomb placarded "Votes for women" was discovered at the, main entranco of the hotel. -: A policeman declared he saw ; Ada Ward, a militant, place the bomb at the hotel and she was arrested. The officer held the woman while he ex tinguished . the fuse with his foot. Miss Ward is held for trial without bail. Enroute to the station Miss Ward broke from the policeman's grasp but the officer set down the bomb on the sidewalk and overtook her. On his return with the prisoner the bomb was gone. , i , St. Catherine's church, ."al south- i BULLET CLUB FIGHT BLOODY SYRACUSE HODCARRIERS AND . " . POLICE IN FIGHT."1 Bullets and Water Fail to Quiet . Striking Laborers. Syracuse, N. Y., May 6. Striking hodcarriers and laborers in a riot. clashed with the police today. Seven Italians were shot and six policemen seriously injured, One striker may die. Probably the , militia will i be called out to deal with the situation Which is extremely menacing. Later in the morning the strikers engaged in a pitched battle, the men using clubs and stones and the police re plying with bullets. Two more police men were taken to hospitals after ,the affray. The losses to strikers is hot known. The lpcal militia ; is called out. ';-:';V''' ''.'''''' ; ' : v V The first clash of the strike came when about 300 strikers gathered in an effort to call out workmen; em plpyed on a new building. Fifty po licemen, with drawn revolvers, .ad vanced on the mob, and when the strikers threw clubs and stones the police fired, and a general melee was precipitated immediately. ' It was in this battle that seven Italians were shot. Further trouble is expected. -j Later firemen ' played streams of water on the ranks of the strikers, but failed to dispose them A riot 'call brouarht every policeman in the city to the scene when a second fight began. The strikers, after a hard battle, withdrew. ' Golf Season Opens. Bayside, L. . I., May 6. The wo men's golf season opened here today with the annual team match between New York and New Jersey at the Oakland Golf club links. Today's match marks what is expected to be the greatest program ever arranged ranged for the Metropolitan schedule. Lowell Visits Cleveland. Cleveland, O., May 6. President A. Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard univer sity, was guest of the Harvard club of Cleveland today. He will be the chief speaker at the club banquet tonight. The distinguished educator is on a tour cf the West and plans to speak before a half dozen or more Harvard clubs before reaching St Louis where he will attend the meeting of the As sociated Harvard clubs May 23 avd 24th. ' ' western suburb of London was burned with a loss of fifty thousand. ' Suffra gettes are believed responsible. O.The Dickinson bill, granting limited franchise to women, will probably go to a vote at II tonight. Galleries and the floor were crowded when Speaker Lowther called the 'commons to order at 3 o'clock for a resumption of a two-days' general debate on the bill. . Admission to the house of commons to the public was by card only, as is always the case, but extraordinary precautions were taken to prevent the possible presence of any person, male or female, who might have come to create a disturbance. Several days ago rumor reached the sergeant at arms that a number of cdmisslon tickets were forged, and assistants were instructed to require personal identification in every case wherf there was slight suspicion. - APRIL HEAVY MORE THAN DOUBLES SAME ....... ,,.v . . 6 MONTH LAST YEAR. - Total Building Permits, for- ThU Month Over- $51,00. More than double the amount of building operations premitted in April 1912, has been .undertaken in the same month for 1913.'. With the" permits in April, 1912, standing at $23,870, April in the present year runs up to over $51,000. From January 1 to May 1, this year, La Grande property owners entered into . buildings projects .inclusive ; of repairs valued at more than $25--to the extent of $75,475. ! Of the amount all except the Methodist church and the, West-Jacobs basement are resi dence repaired and building projects '. and in the list Of new residences listed ! and now under course of construction every portion of the city draws its share. South Fourth, for the first time, enters .materially into the build ing permit books and the-North, East, West and central portions of the city, inaddition, are showing healthy de velopment in the new building lines. Of the total new homes erected,' the average is higher than for the same period last year showed about $1700 age going to ' a trifle , .better than $2000 ' each home, ; whereas the -same period last year shower about $1700 as an average outlay for new homes. The list of building permits issued , since last individually enumerated in the Obesrver, are: Permits issued up to April 15 ($13,075.00 in April).. $36,150.00 Will Rollins, repair dwell ing, East Penn . i .'. i ...... ' 500.00 M. L. McCormick, repair dwelling, Adam Ave.... 200.00 B. A. . Bennett, dwelling, East O street 800.00 Mrs. Anson, res. on Fourth 850.00 Bert O'Brien, res. Y Ave. . 1700.00 Emma A. Grady, res. 2nd St 8500.00 Nate Zwieffel, res. Adams. 2800.00 L. M. Hoyt, res. Cedar St. . 2200.00 M. E. Church' board, new j church, Fourth & Spring 22,000.00 Geo. Ball, res.. Fourth .... 3500.00 Ray Baum, res. M Ave.... 400.00 Total for April $51,725.00 Total for year to Aril 30 75,475.00 Surrender Was Costly. , . London, May 6 Cettinje dispatch es sar the surrender . of Scutari by Kirg Nicholas may cost the sover PERMIT MONTH eign hii thrcne. RESTRICTED V CE ZONE II iCBOEVIL COMPLETE ELIMINATION OF THE "DISTRICT" URGED IN . . CIVIC REPORTS. LOW WAGES CAUSE SIN Commission Appointed in Chicago to Investigate Crime and Vice Re- Sports Back' Today, the Restricted District is Feeding Ground for Vice Wants Schooling for Parents. v Chicago, May 6. Absolute annihi lation of Chicago's red light district which it intimates is recruited from womer who exist on starvation wages is the central recommendation of the preliminary report by the . Chicago city, council's vice committee,' which was appointed last October and which report was made public today. The reports hold plainly that employers of underpaid women are responsible tor tneir aowniau.- it recommends a special inquiry into the subject of low wages, and their relation to prostitu tion. ' ' ' ' ' The report also favors appointment of a city housing commission for in vestigation of tenement problems and education of parents so they may properly instruct children in prob lems of sex. ' ' '' ", The report says in part: : "The existence of a segregated dis trict furnishes - an open market for white slave traffic. ; Commercialized vice has no rights that .ought to be respected or conserved. Segregation doesn't Segregate, nor regulation regulate. Abundant evidence is furn ished that efforts in - Chicago and alsewhere to restrict " the : business within a given zone, always resulted in spreading it, to other districts." Knocked Down by Automobile. Miss Nora Arbuckle, a senior in the high school, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Arbuckle, was knocked down ad shoved along the pavement last evening when she was struck by an automobile rounding the corner at Adams and Depot. Fortunately Miss Arbuckle escaped injury though seriously endangered and greatly frightened. -VS'--:, A'- ' - COWBELLS ON SALE FOR FIRST OAT It won't be cows coming home at dusk to be milked it will be ball fans that tinkle cowbells next Tues day afternoon. A shipment of cow bells, nearly a carload of them it seems, has been imported by Presi dent P. A. Foley for the opening of the Western Tri-State league in this city , next Tuesday and every fan is urged to buy a cowbell with which to impress the visiting Braves from Yakima that a bunch of loyal fans WOOL TAX AMENDMENT IS KILLED Washington, May 6. An amend ment offered by ' Representative Sharp to put a 20 per cent tax on raw wool was defeated in the house this afternoon in a viva voce vote. Wool, pulp paper and wheat were under dis cussion in the tariff debate in the house during the day. A score of CALIFORNIA If ADOPT A POPULAR BILL INITIATIVE MEASURE WITHOUT LEASING CLAUSE LIKELY. TO BE CRAFTED. By Presenting " Initiative Measure Sharpest' Opponents to Leasing Clause in Webb BUI May Inculcate Their Pet Ideas in Discriminating . Against Japs in a New Bill. Sacramento, : May 6. The Demo crats of the legislature ; headed 'by Senator Sanf ord are . . discussing a plan' to place a new anti-alien,' law be fore the people by means of the init iative. ., The Democrats who have in cluded the leasing clauses in every anti-alien bill thew have introduced, now say they have decided the leas ing clause should not be included, and that the initiative plan is to eliminate this feature of the Webb bill which is awaiting the governor's signature. It is not believed at the capitol that the announced plans will be carried into effect. , ' Congressman Counter Moves. . Washington, May 6. Decfaring California undoubtedly exceeded her rights in passing the land law dis criminating against Japanese, Con gressman Britten, of Illinois, intro duced in the house a resolution today proposing the departments of . state and : justice; co-operate to test the California law in the courts. He asked the judiciary committee to re port on his resolution. Sayer Family Employed. Washington, May 6. Senator Lane. has announced the ' appointment of James V. Sayer and wife, Julia Sayer, to positions in his office at salaries of $2250 and $1440 annually. When asked which will be his secretary, Lane said, "Let them settle that be tween themselves." Sayer is a news paper man of Portland. Mr. Sayer was in La Grande in the interest of the commercial club in terests a year ago and made an in teresting speech while here. live in La Grande. Fifty cents buys a cowbell and a seat to the ball game, and over a thousand cowbells will be tolled Tuesday-afternoon. They aro on sale today, at Foley's Cigar store, Van Buren's Cigar store, O'Connell's Cigar Rtore, Jolly's barber shop, and Young's candy store. School children under 12 years of age will be admitted for 10 cents on the opening day, according to a presidential edict issued today. 1 - Democrats are favoring the proposi tion to adjourn the house for at least a month after it passes the tariff bill, that members may . have a vacation while the measure is being considered in the senate. . It seems' that a ma jority of the members favor the plan. After the tariff, only the currency bill will be pending. .- UNION RANCH HAND STRUCK WITH AN AXE MURDEROUS ASSAULT MADE ON WILL HUTCHINSON'S 1 HIRED MAN. " ' MIDNIGHT ATTACK BRUTAL ';'. :'r' '"' -i ' '-' ;"';r;' iv'';r;'i.;v'V V V V. : ,.'"''' ;' .' m-m ' ...;'; -'j.' T: , Bedclothes Hacked to Pieces in Dark p ness While Victim Slips Away to HelpStranger Can Be Iden- tified Says Victim, Who is Former ' Klamath Falls Man. Union, May 6. (Special) Murder ous assault was perpetrated on Lee Thompson, a nephew of J. A. Farley of this city, Sunday night when a stranger entered the' Bleeping room of young Thompson about midnight and commenced a fiendish chopping of the bed in which Thompson lay. Thomp son, about three weeks ago left Kla math Falls, and came here to work on the Will . Hutchinson i place -and it was in that ranch farm house that the assault took place. He caught a passing glimpse of his assailant and after receiving .. two severe ; '. gashes from the axe, slipped from the bed and made his escape while the stran ger hacked ferociously at the bed not knowing his victim was gone. A ; deep wound on the arm, one on the shoulder and other slight bruises were sustained by Thompson before he made his escape. . : : v He was forced to go a mile to a neighbor and sinking in a faint, at the doorstep, was unable to give an. alarm. He was taken to Union and given medical attention early Monday morning. He soon recovered s his composure sufficiently - to tell his story. ,s About midnight, Thompson says,'a man walked into his sleeping . room and remarked: . - "I am going to work here, where can I sleep?" , Thompson showed him to a suit able place, and the fellow scratched a ' match as though to pick his way to the bed. .Taking advantage of the light in the room, Thompson scrutin ized the face carefully and can iden-; tify the man, he says. Almost in stanly however, the man whipped put an axe and struck at Thompson. Hampered by bedcovers, he was un able to dodge the blows and two deep wounds were inflicted before he got -out of bed. r In the inky darkness that followed the flicker of the match, the fiendish chopping of the bed was con tinued and the clothes were cut and slashed to pieces. The assailant later escaped. . - . . So convinced is Thompson that he' can identify him, that good susplc- '. ion has been formed of the identity of the man. , ' .. Sheriff Hugg was not called to the scene until yesterday, afternoon and spent last night on the scene in fruit less search for clews. He has re turned to Union today and is still working on the case.- In his prelimin-; ary investigation ne . round ; that Thompson is a man well liked in his home town and has made a favorable impression in Union and says ' he knows of no reason why the assault should have been made upon him. Y. M. C. A Boosters Here. Dr. F. TV Notz and Will Ellis, two of Baker's Y. M. C. A. boosters and W, S. Boys, who superinteded the construction of the Baker building were among those who enlightened La Grande people on the benefits cf a Y M. C. A. la vnlnc. V '.r-3r-i-tv;r
