La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, June 20, 1913, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextIt: r km vol. xn. , "ii nrnm Pin npp r fin UIIIOOSOO Chicago Employers' Association Will Starve Union- f A .v . ' '' " " ' " '-' "AA-vr V A i-'"- --. A' i -'v. '(' a t -I -i . a v. : : .js" -. s A-v,v 'c A- '' AAA a a- ' f Chicago, June 20 Thirty '.thousand building worker's were locked out W; 5 morning in pursuance to the Employ- ers' association avowed determination 1i i- kill ininniim in thl ffltV: ;. When i the men reported 'for work. they were f told they . were not needed; and. were v paid off. The leaders plan to maice , open shop. p -V The lockout affects more, men than ? ih other strikes of the city's history, ii Thn.1 emolovers declare freely that CAUCUS GETS DRAFT. ; 4 present Aspect of Tariff Bill Given . , t0 genate' Commltteer, ' ' ' , Whington, June 20enator Sim? ' . r W w --. 5. monk, chairman of the finance com " mittee presented . the Democratic sen- ate caucus committee a draft of the ' 'tariff bill today. Ransdale Thornton .will "Oppose the measure at' the final p passage. The attitude of Walsh, Sha- i forth and Newlandsj:';f rei: jiugar op ponents, is being closely watcnea ana "- if all oppose the bill's final passage ' result will ; be close and contrary Poindexter is ready toAsgport free ( sugar on the floor if needed. . " ... .1 S J Simmons declared he th tl p t e vo s tne caucus wouiu uevciup hid I necessary w paw to offer d resolution binding Demo- i' crats to support its final passage. Ine, caucus-wil last a ween. - . i Married 6 Days; Divorced. 1 Seattle, June 20, Commanding that many good qualities in a wife ought not to be obscured by. censure, merited , for certain conduct, Judge Smith granted a petition for annulment of marriage of a six-day bride, asked by Phillip R. Waughop. F BRITISH ROWING SYSTEM ""jv,, MADE A JOKE. witA-5p Race Ends Wtih Harvard T Ts, ' Running Away Handily. New London, June 20.dutelas8lng Yale So far that the race was hardly n .Want naddle. Harvard's four-oared crew scored another triumph over the Wn todav. winning the varsity fours bv four lengths. . Harvard freshmen :also wqn the eight by a length and a ihalf in a close contest. "The four-oared event was f owed in -a ponring rain but deSjiite which the 'batiks of the river were packed with .spectators. Secretary Daniels' of the 'navy and a party of friends viewed the race from ihe yact Molpmne- The race is regarded as a contst . :between American and British styles -of rowing, tl Is reported Avenll Har- riman snertt $50,000 to pay expens es for English coaches at Yale who have been living in Harriman's palatial vacht ' Yale alumni admitted they were dis- uTiated with the showing by the blue asserting the British -shellrigging is obsolete. , Harvard won against the Yale eight oar race this afternoon, finishing thai 'defeats begun this morning on Owl HARVARD MASTERS TALE . I en LI.JLLiJ IllJ Uliol J? '-'.fdf.. frW':v-::'- they plan to starve out th union men will not attempt to employ non union laborers Tey wil let poverty and hunger isght for them. l. Action of the marble workers on the Contjinental Commercial bank quitting because their contractors allowed non union, workers on another part of , the job participated in the lockout ! In addition to throwing 80,000 men out of work the fight' will retard, building in Chicago, stopping It -completely, for the timebeing at least, and probably for all summer. ; 'WILSON, WILL' TALK. ' Will Deliver Message Terswajlv If ............ ct a - a .i r' oviuhc sanviiwra .- - 4,'.,?"", -' 7( i Washington, June 20. President Wilson wil' deliver, personally a mes sage on' reform In currency to a joint session' of both houses Monday) if the senate concurs- in a resolution adopt-1 ed by the lower house, providing for such a session. Ascott Martyr Dying. London, June 20. Harold Hewitt the "male suffragette," who flung him- self at the head of Tracery, theBel mont entry at the Ascot gold cup race liTstill aWbut has no' chancefor .gry Physicians bear to move Recovery. Phyi him from the hospital at Ascot ; fl 8tudent ftt CambrJdge . - Hew- Pvnwla'Wictmpnt. :.-p: Chicago; JUhS 20r -Angry 'at the f;eofm(,nt wheri h tefe the stand as a witnegs m the govefHffleiit suit to! j;gsoive the Harveser trust, George W, p-jing declared he predicted to be mdicted and prosecuted for criminal violation of the Sherman act. QUEEN VICTORIA OF SPAIN1, WHO SIXTH CHILD, AND THREE IMF jy-yrggr'" ----- tv " -mm-r:tW!!l.iWmrw- aBWCTW ' "3l i wMLdddjmB. id . II t..s.. . uJL r ; 1 a.." II . if v,y . v v- - . .. .. v x vrL. .iv:.x... .tex t. Vd i j . w d : ??rT.L.. 7. dS I . In f.. r J ... tl t ' t., II If f a. A A v,. i ii zm. . il II tJi 3 .. ... ..i.. .M .... r . A if II EOT Pi ll KEPT PORTtAKi MAN ATTEMPTS TO DROWN WOMAN AT TACO- MA Bt FAILS. REAL SECRET IS HIDDEN Edwi Wi Mygott Ends tLife by Jwj- lng rom";Tacoma Bridge Alter a Vain Attempt to Throw Woman He CaUs His Wife, Over RaiUng B bJSail to Be la Portia ad Won Claims. Another. r.Tacoma June 20.-J'aiiing in a des perate effort to hurl Mrs. Ruth Fran ces Allen from a bridge in a downtown section, Edward - W, Mygott' of Port land jumped from tha tower span sus taining injuries' causing death an hour laterThe "body did not strike the water, falling on th dock beneath the bridge. .-.? V.tJtoBB - TJie woman said -Mygott 'gave he unwelcottie attantioha. i At the hos pital before he died, Mygott declared he was angry at the , woman because she left a baby at Portland. He de clared her to be his wife,, but she .de nies this declaring her husband is in New York. A note on the dead man to his "mother implores forgiveness" It said, "I am almost insane over Ruth and L0"'5"0.1!1!!0!'-.- J f Mrs. Allen declared there Is a mys tw hfthihrf thR tvatredv which she is !-. J . m .. . unwilling to make known. v i : The woman, is at the police station pending an investigation. She declares '.'Mygott forced attentions until I was driven almost to' distraction She says Mygot pursued her to Los Ange : ' les, Portland and Tacoma. As prear- TODAY IS THE MOTHER OF HER OF" THE OLDER CHILDREN Clt SUGID ID wm tlEGlOU SWEPT DUMB . - S i PIGH SES AD TIDAL WAVES DO DAMAGE-TO SHIPPING: r .AD COMMERCE, f ? 1 1 1 . lS d.M;dH', iZX'Pitt FiSHEflMEfl TOSSED .BOUT Total4 Number - of Dead I'Unkaowa Ranging In Estimates From Tw to -One, Hundred Principally N . fa$-?'-.--t Tt W4 $ -dr. roes "Inhabit ated Stricken DUtrieta ' i J x ot "-Meager petalfa Retejrej fti TtXr Y 4TallXasei June 20.-At least two negroes- are Known to be dead and 18 possibly killed by s cycjofae In this aectionfe I Fishorn j report a-; tidal waveJat Marsh island, Florida Keys and seyeral drowned. , Moat i fatalities occurred In' sections inhabited 6y the Slacks. - t I ' t w . . Meager: details- of the eyplone . are received, .ora, estimates plaqe the dead at a hundred;; f 1 1 V , , The storm came from the southeast Without warning. Fishermen attempt ing to, reach the scene but encountered immense seas. " , . , J ranged 8he eluded jhim at a Portland theatre and boarded a train. He fol lowed.' '-A v.i :-'. . DNAPPING COSTLY. Five Dollar Reward Ends Up With Life Term in Penitentiary, Salem, 111., June 20. Twenty-five yare each in the penitentiary, was the sentence fixed by a jury which render ed a verdict against Frank W. Sulli va and Ernest Harrison for kidnap ping 'oDrothy Holt last March.,-. The death penalty was asked by the state Sullivan confessed to kidnapping the girl and took her to' an abandoned mine, where he was to, turn her over b Holt for five dollars, v,, , NEW SPANISH PRINCE. Sixth Child Born ( Queen Victoria of Snnin Last S'lftlltj ( Madrid. June 20. The condition of Queen Victoria is reported to be isfactory to court physicians follow- CONCERN STUDIES THE . CONDITIONS IN LA GflANDE Gas companies 6l California . and other northwest centers are looking to La Grande with the purpose in viewj'inent.' With sufficient alleys to avoid of entering the local field. One Cali- fomia company especially, that al 1 readv owns a string of gas plant? i i " the Northwest, including some in Ore - gon, has written to Mayor Hall for detailed particulars relative to thej ! probabilities of finding a remunera - tive field here. Mayor Hall has beenj in correspondence for weeks with dif- ferent gas companies and by a process cf elimination has ferreted down to one or two companies the concerns that absolutely are not boomer con cerns but build gas plants to operate and own them with the purpose of un- loading the minute they are built; The California firm, through its, nfda'rfonf. wm'tM fn Mnvor FTnll that' -.... ' . " . towns of La Grande's population' : data already supplied him by the city i executive use two carloads of oil I monthly to begin with and if suitable 1 rales can be obtained for oil and coal Death Lurlx ; In Spring WALLOWA FAMILY POISONED IN i PECULIAR WAY. ONE MEMBER DEAD Strange Propertiea of Spring Watec n Cauae of Fatal Illness, Wallowa, Ore., June Special) One of the stranewit case of pois onuig that KM vc been known ; In many yarjf,'bccurred near Flora Frt small son of Mr. and Mrs Scott Groah also the serious i lllneasqf the father ShJlnotherr" h. -is ivi.T-l Th Groah family came to Wallow . 1 - y county 'nearly a month ago andA ,f tied on the Will Martin ranch O't Prairie, two miles from Bk., i A spring on the place fumishte water for domestic purposes. They had been living on the place for about .two weeks vhen Mr, 'and Mrs. Groah be came 'violently iff Dr. T. M. Ciil- more of Flora, wad summoned and cholic-and dUcouraged from a four pronounced it areehie poisoning. Af-J yer iUnM from which aha wa juat ter ten days of intense suffering they commencing to show signs of recovery became better, about that time the Mrs. S. L. Knight, aged 33 years, took son became ill in similar manner. The the city marshal's revolver and blew parents removed to Flora? placing the', her brains out last night. City Mar child in Dr; Gilmore's care, but he, hal J. C, Chriitenaen la the dead wo, . was past all medical aid and died FrKflnan's .father, and after , coming day. Ak9Mim his dfM on towtl f EJ; "This case also .brings to UghtiS9.8.1 poisoning of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Bell lP7'vor ' . on he same place a year ago. , One' had en ?tayng with her parents of evening after driknijr a. nm&f- of-6 Sh,le "f ttom f P" milk; which had been-in a erock nd, eratJ?ns nd'in that " fmed c" placed in the spring all day before css he weapon., For four years being used, they became very sit.k she has been seriously ill and fnends Their case, too, was thought to have n ittsT1 o other fcaVse for the been arsenic poisoning. It was the im- fatel th melancholia. The shoofc pression around the neighborhood that ing occurred near midnight . v some one had placed arsenic in the Three children .arm, along with milk. Mr. and Mrs. Bell partially the hu8fnd' wel1 tawn Elgin dray recovered and are living in Flora. ,man' Th eldest child is 14 and the With the poisoning of the Groah i family the theory that someone placed poison ior ineBe..s ana nasexp oaea now're"sponsible for the trouble. There is also an impression among many that a posonous weed 1 contaminates the, j Water, ! "" ing the birth of a sixth child, a son sat-J.Five of the. Royal children -are Hying, x ne tourtn was smiporn, the company will be all the more.irt- ciincd to look further into the invest- tearing up pavement on tod large a in, investment or ?tu,uuu 10 ? i o.uuu i ... .... ; would install the plant and put it in working order. The president writes that gas will supply a family of three i to five with fuel for cooking and ilium ination at a cost of $3.00 to $5.00 monthly. They will ask for. a fran chise that is fair to everyone, if they Fhoulc decide to invest here, and in tend to make the investment perma nent. "for", writes the president, we j are not boomers but if we enter your field, will intend to stay there; We would need about 400 subscribers at i . : the start to insure an expense-meeting revenue." he concludes. i , ..... .... . Mayor ilall has several letters from MwinanSaa tmf nnna Itava imnnftt,.l esseJ vui.,ru...uU ""w ....... , him ar. has the Frisco concern and he will forward at once all the data he ran dig up for them. : KILLS i-i Xd' 'iy:d"d ?; 'i'rf ifAV-'-v.i tioiiitfd- iniisoin !f.;di 'Xlr-' tti LONG ILLNESS CAUSE U2LAN-. ..;f FAMILY, V-fn FATHERS REii'OLVETI IjEED rthU ChrUtI.ne. EeWnu flif Home ickljr 5!0fhtr .--w - Awaits Him and Flnda Gun With j Whieh to ' Kill Heraelf Leave i Many Cloea Relative" to Mourn Her Death. 1 m uJt ;;:.iH. ; Elgin, June 20. (Special) Melon; youngest auuui u. iui, j"o'i- : , , T ,.; i. .it- n tha . d and a we number of near throuthout VniQtl . Fjr 'more than three years her con: wag dubioUs fcut of ate monthg . . . irnor0Vement and h?ir mother, Mrs. J. C. Christensen has been assisting in the nursing of the woman and during the past week . '.jnHd better. 1 The noise of the revolver, woke the family to find her gasping in death. The complee list of immediate rela- tlve surviving Is; husband and three; children, Mervil, Mabel and Everett, father and mother, brother Elmer, sis- tera,vMrs. Morelock and -Maggie C. Hughes. . DEMANDS MORE HEADINGS Representative Denounces Wall Street and Clearing Houses as Well. ; Washington, June 20. Demanding the money trust probe be resumed Representative Neeley, of Kansas made a speech in the house. , He denounced New York stock exchange , and Cleiaring House association in bit ter terms. He charged the publicity bureau of the Morgan company with opposing a renewal of investigatin of the financial conditions and urged the passage of the Henry bill giving con gress inquisitorial power over banks. ." .V Woman Wants to Fly. . s Loa "Angeles, June 20. Mrs. Flor ence Siedelt, Twenty-eight, made an .. . ... ...... . . attempt at tne uriiiun rarn avmwuii field to qualify for a pilot's license to- j day. If she receives her license she will enter the hydroplane contest on the Great Lakes. . . ThaT.es river.