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LA GRANDE, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 1,. 1913.
NUMBER 309
HEAT
LIST
TOTAL OF 123
OHIO s VICTIMS ' ALONE NUMBER
) 25, MOSTLY INFANTS, IT
IS REPORTED.
LEADV1LLE HAS COLD' SNAP
Gettysburg In Torrid Wave and Old,
Soldiers Suffer From Intense Heat
Situation Little Relieved Through
out the Middle West Today Rain
Believed Due This Evening
at
Chicago.
, Chicago, July 1. That at least 123
persons are ' dead as a result" Of the
heat wave, which has lasted several
days, was inflicated in the reports from
the cities of the Middle West today.
Following is the summary ; of 1 the
known deaths: r. ; -
Chicago, 60; Cleveland, 13; Pitts
ATTAINS
burg, nine, Cincinnati, four; Columbus, aijen iand law. The 'measure will be
two; ; La Crosse, one; Peoria, four; allowed'.to,,rnn-;''withoufc' molestation.
South Bend, five; Detroit, 11; Grand Aether " there will.be an initiative
Rapids, seven; Milwaukee, three. Scat- measure put forward to supersede the
tering, 14. ; - Webb. bill is not decided by the Asi-
Relief from the heat wave of six'atjc exclusion league. ,
days in the Middle West came with
cloudy weather today and a rainfall
is expected tonight. " ' I
' ..- Ohio Deathhst,Is 25. , :
Cleveland,; July 1. A light ; breeze
slightly relieved the Ohio Lake cities)
toaay, dui lornea weauicr timwuuco
in the inland cities. At noon the death
list in Ohio from heat during twenty
four hours stood at 25. fourteen of
I these being in Cleveland alone. Elev
I en of the recorded deaths are infants.
1 Mercury Going Up.
I It is expected yesterday's maximum
I temperdture of a hundred and one
degrees will be exceeded today as the
thermometer registered ninety de
crees at 11 o'clock.
At Lima the mercury of one ther
mometer registered a hundred and
seventeen degrees and then exploded.
I An ice famine is rported in many of
I the Ohio cities and suffering is in
i tense. Cincinnati, Springfield and To
ledo are among the worst..
1 1 ' Leadville Freezing.
(f'Leadville, July 1. With the middle
est 'sweltering ana uoioraao expen
jfeltvzrMg record breaking cold wave,
u e mermomever ncic itsiai."
above this morning a rise of 5 degrees
over yesterday.
OLD SOLDIERS SUFFER.
Added to Great Heat Is Lack of Suf- j
fcient accommodations,
nottvahiirc Julv 1. Terrific heat
and high humidity swept the old bat
tle field at Gettysburg this noon nd
there were more than three hundred
veterans of the Blue and Gray treated
for prostration. From weakness
brought on by the blinding sunlight,
the town and battlefield are swamped
Iwith humidity' accommodations are in-
t?"ttequate to face the crowd pf nearly
o hundred thousand.
Vets Sleep on Battlefield.
All directions from the battlefield
he roads ire packed with automobiles
and other vehicles for twenty-five or
ore miles. Hundreds slept on the.
attlefield and on the streets of the
ittle town and so great was the throng
hat even the food supply is running
Short" Many a veteraffisHrohort ra-
i
lions as on the day of the battlerty-i
lv a thnnannH veterans were unable tpfc
kind sleeping "quarters'anff last night
Valked through the long hours over
Jthe ristoric battlefield.
Ice Shortage Serious
ti 1 TTnnWa to se-
lure ice fro moutside the alley the
Temporary Arrangements Made.
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i Rooms on j: the second and
fourth floors of. the new Foley 3
building will house the new of- $
fices of the O.rW. in this city.
S this . .decision , was '. reached by
? Superintendent Bollons ' but , the $
S present arrangement is only tem-
$ porary.' The company has had
Mn mind the building of its own
offices but for the present while $
$ the new arrangement of things is 4
being worked out, the Foley will
house the main offices of the new
3 officials. , Just how long this will $
remain so, is not known, but
some permanent solution will be $
$ made at once. . a ' .-. '
REFERENDUM
MOVE HALTED
ASIATIC EXCLUSION" LEAGUE
ENDS OPPOSITION. "
Probable But Not Certain That In
itiative Law Is to Be Put Up.
San Francisco, July 1. There will
be no referendum on the Webb anti
This was the gist of a statement
by oiaf " Tveitmoe, president of the
league," when pressed for' an answer
From dilatory tactics of the organ-
jzat:on the imDression is growing that
n0 attempt will be made to attack
tne japanese Dill ana tne teasing
clause in it.
terrible suffering due to the scarcity
of ice through the drivers' strike, the
city officials today purchased twenty
two hundred and fifty tons and stored
it in two of the plants where' the driv
ers have struck. The city has employ
ed union engineers and firemen to
maintain refrigeration. The towns
near by have exhausted their supplies.
All ice brought in by the city will be
distributed to the public in small quan
tities. When the hospitals and the
sick have been supplied the Mayor
will make a final effort .to end the
strike.
Gotham Suffers Too.
New York, July 1. The heat wave
struck New York today and the ther-
mometer registered more than ninety.
nuirerinir on ine east siue is nireuire,
According to forecasts no immediate
relief is in sight.
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London, July l.-Athens dispatches
to Exchange Telegraph declare that
the Bulgarian garrison within part of
Salonika has surrendered, and that
the Greek government ordered the ad
vance all along the Bulgarian lines.
Servians Unload Responsibility.
Belgrade. July 1. With the plain
intent of placing at the door of Bul
garia responsibility for continued war
in the Balkans, Parliament has voted
r'n offer for arbitra-
tiftn in the Servo-BuWian territori -
al dispute. .
P.easons for Attack Given,
The official statement received to
day from the foreign office here stat
ed that the Greek foreign minister at
Athens declared the advance of the
Greek army was ordered only after the
Bulgarians had repeatedly violaton the
treatv bv crossing the provisional
boundaries recently established. The
GREEKS
OVERTHROW
GARRISON
COUftTUPHOLDS
APPROPRIATfON
FOR UGH
COLUMBIA SOUTHERN PROJECT
; APPROPRIATION WILL BE
SPENT AT ONCE.' "
M'MAHQN SUIT A FAILURE
State. Can Spend Four Hundred and
Fifty Thousand on the Project, the
Court Holding Contentions of Priv
ate Gain Are Now Well Founded
Desert Land Board Proposes to Act,
- Salem, July 1. An appropriation by
the last legislature for $450,000 for
the completion of the Columbia-South
ern project is valid according to
unanimous decision of the supreme
court of Oregon today. ; The .opinion
was given in the case of an injunction
suit brought by -L. H. McMahon of
Salem against Secretary of State 01
cott and State Treasurer Kay' to re
strain them from paying the amounl
appropriated. ; ' v"
- The court finds the legislature had
the right to make appropriation and
that the claim by McMahan that the
credit of the state is being impaired
is not well founded. " :''.; ,
. The' contention .that the work-is be
ing ildne for the benefit' of individuals
and not the state, was overruled. ',
.;" Preparations Jo immediately resume
work was made by the desert land
board, following the decision.
The Columbia-Southern project in
volves some 20,000 acres of arid land
on the east slope of the Cascades some
few miles from Laidlaw in the Burns
and Redmond country. The project
calls for state irrigation projects along
the lines adopted by the government
and is said by supporters to mean the
rapid development of arid lands in
Oregon. Districts in Eastern Oregon
will profit more largely, it is said.
by this law than the other sections of
the state for a greater portion of the
arid land of Oregon is in the Eastern
and Southeastern section. .The terrl
tory involved by this particular pro
ject is extremely arid at the present
time and the bringing of water will
make fertile a belt of sandy desert
that now is entirely unprofitable. The
general scheme of the work will be a
duplication of the government reclam
ation projects.
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imuqmr a.so u u.
notitv .Bulgaria tnai war was guinea
without formal declaration.
Wilson On Vacation.
Washington, July l.--Accompamed
by. Dr. Grayson, the president sailed
on the Mayflower for a three day bay
and river trip today. The trip is to
be very quiet and the president will
return to Washington Thursday, leav
ing Friday for Gettysburg, where he
, will address the reunion of Veterans.
Dunne Leads Suffrage Parade.
Chicago, July 1. A monster parade
to celebrate the recent suffrage vie
tory took place this afternoon. More
than a thousand automobiles were in'
line, Governor and Mrs. Dunne lead
ing the parade. Every suffrage or
ganization in Cook county took an
active part.
OR
NEAR
SALONIKA
Savant Brings Message
About Stars That Can
Be Understood By All
"Can you make an audience; of mat
and women unversed in even the rudi
ments of astronomy understand! some
of the heavenly wonders in a brief ad
dress?" . .
This query was fired today at R R.
Baumgardt, globe trotter,, savant, lec
turer and wizard of the stars and! ott
er sciences.
"Yes, even the children' wilT under
stand my lecture if in mv lecture
tours I contribute anything t the
public platform it is that faculty of
making the laymen understand scien
tific subjects, and you can say to your
readers and to patrons of the chau
tauqua that they will understand the
stars and the heavenly bodies after
hearing my lecture' tonight in a way
to make them reverence the heavens
even though before this they have
seen nothing there but the twinkling
stars.". .' ,i ; ;.-
Prof. Baumgardt is the bisr attrac
tion at the chautauqua tonight' and
tomorrow night This evening his
lecture deals with the stars and to
morrow night with the fjords of Nor
way. . He is of Swedish and English
descent, has lived with the fjords and
iraveiea arouna tnem: ne has won
such fame with his astronomical lec
tures that he is today staff lecturer
in the famous art and science, insti
tutes of the country; for instance, he
officiates as a staff lecturer in these
institutions: Brooklyn institute, Drer
SEEK PENSION
NEW PENSION LAW INVOKED IN
THIS CITY.
Scope of New taw for Women With
Children Under 16 Is Wide.
Five women of Union county have
applied for benefit under the
widow pensions law. Four of these
have received their first orders for
county warrants and one application
was filed yesterday by a mother of
four children and remains yet to be
acted upon by Juvenile Judge J. C.
Henry in whose jurisdiction the mat
ter falls. One applicant- had three
children, three had one, and one had
four. All are widows and filled all
requirements necessary to obtain the
benefits. That the indigent fund will
not be materially relieVed by the new
law is indicated by comparison of the
five who have applied. One of the
total number had been receiving in
digent fund money, which now stops.
Every, woman who has one or more
children under the age of 16 and
whose husband is either dead or is an
inmate of some Oregon state insti
tution or by reason of physical or
mental disease is wholly unable to
work, and whose support and the sup-
port of whose child or children is de
d(jnt whol, or tl upon her
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labor, shall be entitled to the assist
ance of the provisions of this law,
Subject to certain provisions every
woman who is hereself and all of
whose children are wholly dependent
upon her labor for support shall re
ceive from the public moneys of the
county in which she and her child or
children reside the sum Of $10 per
month for one child and if she have
more than one residing with her.
$7.50 per month for each additional
chlid.
Every woman who is herself only
partly responsible and whose children
are partly responsible for their living
upon any income other than wages
earned by the mother shall be entitled
to as much aid as will make for the
mother and children the sum of $10
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MR. B. R. BAUMGARDT .
the well known lecturer on travel, art,
r.innca and the history of human civiliza
:ion: globetrotter; one of the best known
ipeakera on the American lecturo plarforra
el institute at Philadelphia,' Mechanics
institute of Portland, Maine, Ameri
can Institute New York,' Buffalo art
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EXPERTS' AID
SMITH AND M'COOL GO TO VAL
LEY POINTS.
Weed Problems and Other Questions
Call Men to Farm District.
Farmers are finding In C. L. Smith,
O.-W. horticulturist, and M. M. Mc
Cool, O. A. C. agriculturist, who are
at the chautauqua this week, mei who
bring a panacea for Union county
farming problems. This morning with
J. D. McKennon and his car as the
host, both these experts wer.5 taken
to Alicel where a knotty problem of
weeds is confronting farmers, and
they saw in these men the means to
obtain some method of combatting
them. While at Alicel today, the lr.en
were called to other parts of the val
ley and everywhere there is a great
deal of interest by farmers who have
particular problems to solve that ex
pert minds can help solve. Tomorrow
is a banner day for the orchardmen.
Blight Experts Coming.
There is sweeping over this valley
with alarming rapidity a 'particular
sort of blight which local people do
not understand and tomorrow this
blight is to receive a seriou? setback
when five or six men versed in the
business, appear at the chautpuqua
and if requested will give public dem
onstrations about blight. These men
are Prof. H. S. Jackson, H. S. Miller,
H. M. Williamson and Frank W. Pow
er, of Portland, Hood River and other
western Oregon points. The local ag
riculturists will also assist.
Orchardmen are coming from Im-
bler, Cove, Union and nearby points to
hear these men at the afternoon lec
tures. It will be a treat to the orch
ardmen for they. are surely pressed,
an(j
some of them, for methods
schemes to fight blight.
Troublemakers Arrested.
Paris, July 1. Twelve officials of
the General Confereration of Labor
were arrested here on a charge of in
citing soldiers to disobedience and de
sertion. The police recently raided the
labor headquarters and confiscated a
number of books and ppers.
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THATGOIITEMFT
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FORAKER'S PRESIDENTIAL CAN
DID ACY SUPPORT IS DUG
' 1 UP AGAIN. ' , , '
CANNON EXPRESSES VIEW
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Political Centers Agog With Rumors
; -w and Charges in Klrbj-Mulhall Ca
v ' ---Namea of Prominent Baltimore
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, MTn Sought to Bring Them Before
Insidious Lobby Probe Committee. -
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Watson Issues Admissions r, - ?
Indianapolis, July 1. Former .
Congressman Watson , has, pub-
3 'lisned an open letter admitting V
S he represented the National Man- ;,
S ufactiirers' . association at th'e--.
s, special session in 1909 in obtain-
ing a tariff, commission. '.'.Herds- .
$ nied the Manufacturers' associa-
tion financed his campaign. 7'
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Washington, July 1. Following the ,
receipt of a telegram from John , Kir
by, president of the National' Associ- s
ation pf Manufacturers that he could '
not appear before the "insidious lob-'
by" committee without losing the pas- v..
sage money paid at San Francisco to
guarantee his sailing ; on . a steamer ,
for Australia, Senator Overman,
chairman of the committee, has wired
the federal marshal at San' Francisco ,
to admonish Kirky that if he, sailed
he would be in contempt of the senate
which is a punishable offense. Kirby
planned to leave San Francisco to
day.' '.'"' ,
Overman is preparing to follow up ' .
every angle of Mulhall's charges of
corrupt lobbying. He will seek out the
names of Baltimore men representing
the ten different organizations who
favored Foraker, of Ohio, for the pres
idency in 1907. These ten will be ask
ed searching questions on reasons for
supporting the pretensions of the for
mer senator.
Senate lobby probers have decided
to finish the investigation on wool
and sugar and dodge Lovett-Angles
of their probe before beginning an in
vestigation of the charges of Mulhall,
that the American Manufacturers" as
sociation used great sums of money
to corrupt legislation.
Cannon Is Outspoken,
Danville, Ills., July 1. Uncle Joe
Cannon mentioned in the Mulhall lob
by charges, commented sharply on the
Baltimoran's allegations. "I have not
had time to reaA Mulhall's statement
in full," he said, "if he "has been do
ing for ten years the contemptible
work he admits, I would not believe
him any quicker than I would other
blackmailers."
Nolan Fans Fire.
Washington, July 1. Congressman
Nolan of California jumped into the
midst of the commotion stirred up by.
the corrupt lobby charges by Martin
Mulhall when he announced that the
house will tomorrow introduce a res-
i.lution requiring the production be
fore the congressional assembly of ali
books, records and office documents
of the National Manufacturers' asso-
ciation for which Mulhall charges he
The resolution was drafted after a
consultation with leaders of the Amer
ican Federation of labor.
Explosion Ends Fatally.
Minneapolis, July 1. Claude Clem
ents and Sam Gillesby were cremated
here today when the automobile in
which they were riding overturned,
causing the gasoline tank to explode. ,
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