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ft VOL. XU. UA GRANDE, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1913 NUMBER 31b.' PICCHiWED ' WjH NARROW ESCAPES CAR TIPS ON FI PEOPLE; . F UR NJURED fLMRS. J. E. NELSON AND PARTY J ESCAPE DEATH BY VERY , Mils Well In Air Race SUCH IS MESSAGE DROPPED TO JOLIET, ILL. . . , POST FIRST REPORTS NARROW MARGIN. BATHER SERIOUSLY HURT I Automobile Accident Near the Fair I grounds Ends In Serious injuries to Several Steering Gear Is Blamed Bather at Oro Dell Goes Over Falls and Is Rescued With Greatest Difffi culty. , Kansas City Balloon Race Becomes In teresting to Promoters. Two accidents marked by narrow escape from death occurred yesterday (afternoon and evening near La Grande. In one, an automobile overturned in juring several, in another a man went h dm DhII dam and was knock ed unconscious by the fall, and dragged from the whirlpool below by the mos strenuous kind of rescue work by his friends. ' ! A small car driven by Mrs. John h. Nielson, 1805 U avenue, north La Grande, turned a complete turtle and pinned under it the entire load of hu man freight after the machine had zig zagged violently as the driver was passing a vehicle. The machine car eened into the fence arid back into the road again with lightning jumps and suddenly turned completely over. All the occupants were more or less seri ously injured. They are: MRS. NIELSON, collar bone broken. WALTER WALKER, a young man of this city, collar bone broken. . EMMIT WALKER, this city, badly bruised, and fears internal injuries., JACK NIELSON, aged seven, hurt internally. . ivTrrvMA WAT.KER. sliehtly bruised. Spectataors were soon on the spot Kansas City, July 5. The Kansas City Post, which passed Joliet, Ills., was the ajily balloon heard from of those which started in the race yester day at late hour today. The three bal loons making the best time and dis tance will be sent to Paris to compete in the international races for the Gordon-Bennett trophy. Protests will be, filed today aga.T'st the Kansas Cityj Post, and Kansas City 11, on ; tne ground that "both balloons took gas after the Million Population was start ed. . "All Well," Says Crew. Joliet, Ills., July 5. Kansas City Pno tho Vinllnnn whi(h- WR first of ' participants heard from in race start ing yesterday at Kansas City, dropped a. message saying all is well WARRIORS OF OLD MEET IN FRIENDLY REUNION muji.ii ii iiji gigs. fc 15 . v AKA l v 11 1 Nl, I " ;S lip. -irHL fti-:' ;r " T -- r-i ' ii ; - " i n-y. i i . -M. i . Correction Meet Starts NATIONAL CHARITIES ASSOCIA- TION CONVENES. land helped extricate thej injured peo i pie and . rush them to their homes nearby. ' 1 ,' : . ' k Witness Describes Accident. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore May wit nessed the accident from a close van tage point. He tells the most coherent story of how it happened. , "The machine was coming at fast clip," said Mr. May today, "when sud denly it started to the left, and swerv ed back again heading for the barb wire fence. Again it turned with light ning speed and about the time the center of the road was reached the rear wheel broke and then the front. This came after the car had skidded 50 feet or more, and when the turn-over came, the top saved the lives of all save the little girl who was thrown from the car. The others remained in the car but not in their own seats. "When the car struck it skidded bottom side up for 10 or 15 feet. We r Continued on Page 4) Copyright by International .News Service;.. ;: :-;-..r I Union and Confederate veterans of the Civil war are assembled beneath the same flag, the Stars and Stripes, on the battlefield where fifty years ago they foungt in deadly combat for. the principles . which each. 'then thought were ngnt. ; . - , . .i.-- This photograph was taken at Ge tysburg just as two Union veteran a'nJ two Confederate veterans, men who had faced each other in mortal com-; bat fifty years ago, paused in their conversations as General Daniel? E. Stickles, who distinguished himself as a Union soldier, approached the (roup. Captain William Page, shown second from the left, a Confederate veteran, cried "Here comes Dan Stickles!", and the man whom-at least two of those in the group would have a half century ago considered a deadly enemy, joined tnem. i The thousands of veterans encamped here are comfortably situated ubout midway between what once was the outposts of the two hostile arm ies of Meade and Lee. Hundreds of old friendships are being cemented. Many men who have not met since the memorable day of Pickett's charge stand in groups recalling to each other the stirping days of the Civil war. LOBBY PROBE HAS RAMIFIED IMILMINST JUDGE BEN UHSO 51HHTQ-n Ml Denver, July 5.-The recall of Judge JUDGE BEN LINSEY. Ben Linsey of the juvenile court is . ...i.i.o of n advertising cir- cular sent to the voters by Dr. Mary tfSatea, secretary of the Woman s Pro tective league. Dr. Bates cnarK , juvenile court with protecting despoil ers of young girls. Few Prosecuted, Alleged. The circular purports to give rec ords of eighty-four cases wherein men and boys accused of attacking girls and charged that only 16 out of the 84 appearing before Linsey were pun ished Tor assault. Judge Linsey, who is lecturing in the east wired that he welcomed the charges but branded them as lies, saying that of the 84, 64 were sent to the penitentiary. As Linsey is the best known juvenile reformer in the country his case will attract a great deal of attention. It is believed that the fight initiated by women will be, backed by Interests opposed to Linsey. ' : " ' . .-. r,.,.:..r . ,1 W 1 1 8 I Washington, July 5. The rules com mittee of the house has a resolution ready which is so framed that all loh bies will be investigated. The com mittee has been authorized to sit dur ing recess of congress to probe every activity, which is reachable, whose in fluence is felt in congress. i . ' .One section of the resolution says: "The committee shall inquire and report as to whether money has been used and improper influence exercise.! by manufacturers to accomplish defent for nomination, or election to office of any candidate Tor the house, ano VETERANS ON .t OER 2000 ATTEND Seattle Host to Vast Gathering of Cor- . rection Workers. Seattle, Wash., July 5. How to am eliorate the condition of unfortunates who by environment or force, of cir cumstances have become - ' nublic charges or inmates of correctional in stitutes, was the chief subject to be discussed when the fortieth annual ses sion or the. National Conferenrn nf Charities and Corrections open here tonight with 2200 delegates from all oyer the country in attendance. The first session, .will, be devoted principally to addresses of welcome by Mayor George F. Cotterill and Gov ernor Ernest Lister, and responses by the delegates, Among questions that will come before the conference which will be in session until July 12, are the HISTORIC SPOT SIGNALS WIG-WAGGED FROM; ' LITTLE ROUND TOP TO ' , CEMETERY RIDGE. - GRAND REUNION CLOSES Remaining Members of .Signal Corps In Both Armies Repeate Historic Words of Great Leaders and Sing v Songs by Signal Methods Peace ' on Earth la Prayer Asked by the ; Veterans. I (Continued on Page Three.) STUTZ ENTRY S LAUREL whether any member of congress had been employed by the Manufacturers' association for any improper purpose "The committee shall alsi inquire whether the Manufacturers' associa tion, any agency or corporation, asso ciutit n or person, now maintain? or has heietofore maintained a lobby for he purpose of influencing legislation nd to ascertain and report to what ex tent and in what manner at nil and, legislation has been impropprly influ enced or iffected or prevented by reu se n of the existence of such lobby. Milwaukie Bank Held Up and Safe Rited Gettysburg, July 5. -"Glory to God In the Highest." "Peace on Earth. Good Will to Men," was wigwagged be tween Little Round Top and Cemetery Ridge to day and they were the last messages transmitted from the allied camps of Confederates arid Unionists veterans. From his position on Little Round Top, Sergeant Macy, of, Boston, sent the final message and Lieutenant Round, of Virginia, on Cemetery Ridge answered. ' ' "Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men,' Macy's message read. ...,, iv "Glory to God in the Highest,' Rounds replied. More than 100 vet erans of Confederate and Union signal corns were stationed in position early. Another Stulz Wins Second and Hud-'The first message signaled by Macy i : v son Special Takes Third. , i was Grant's words: "Let us have , . 'peace.": Round replied with Lees Tacoma, July 5. Driving at an av- words: : - , : . erage of 65 17.100 miles an hour, Jim "Duty is the most sublime word in Parsona in a Stutz car won the inter- our language," city century race for non-stock cars Vets Break Camp. . , at the Festo speedway, today. Cam- Gettysburg', July 5. Great conges-, eron, in another Stutz finished second, tion prevails here today. Officials Hanson in a Hudson Special, won charge that the reunion is experienc third. ' Just before the race Governor TACOMA RACE SETS GOOD MARK FOR AUTOS. - Lister took a spin around the track with Hugie and was ovationed. . Bryan Takes a Hand. ; Los Angeles, July 5. Word reached here today that Secretary Bryan has started an investigation of the deten tion at Guaymas, Mexico, of Leon Morrison, of Los Angeles. Morrison's mother appealed to the state depart ment when she received word that her son, who is on an automobile tour of Mexico, was seized and placed in jail. Bryan ordered the Mexican ambas sador Wilson to investigate. ing difficulty in moving the crowds -away. It is believed that the last vet erans will fee unable to leave before tomorrow. The breaking up of the camps is well under way. $50,000 Fire at Portland. Portland, July 5. Fire of an un known origin today destroyed the en tire plant of the Multnomah Trunk and Bag company, at Kenton, north of the city limits. The loss is estimated at $50,000. Several million feet of lum- , her was burned. Portland, July 5. A highwayman entered the First State bank, of Mil waukie, a suburb of Portland, this af ternoon, and at the point of a revol ver, held up C. H. Zanders, the book keeper, who was alone in the bank securing four hundred dollars. Chief of . Police Reed and an armed posse are in pursuit. The highwayman was about twenty-one, and unmasked. He compelled Zanders to scoop up a large sum in a sack but in his haste to es cape dropped all, but a sum estimated to be about four hundred dollars, on the floor. It is believed that the high wayman took an automobile for Portland. HOME'S M RACE REALISTIC ADD HUMOR-FILLED BULCARS KEEP LOSING FOOTHOLDS Belgrade, July 5 Dispatches receiv ed at war office tonight report Bul garians were repulsed with heavy loss when they attempted to invade Servia at Zajecar, a town on the frontier. Many prisoners were taken by the Servians. Salonika, July 5 After heavy fight ing the Greek troops today expelled a Bulgarian force from the town of La hama on the railroad between Salonika and Serres. Tlje position is consid. ered important. Vienna, July 5. Official sources de clare that in the return for conces sions made by Bulgaria in the war indemnity Turkey has agreed to re main neutral at present in the Balkan conflict. Sofia, July 5 After two days of fighting during which the Bulgarians and Servians lost heavily, the war of fices advised that the Bulgarians hope to capture Koprulu today. ra f f J "Did you ever go to a hoss' race? If you have you have a fairly good notion of what is going to happen when 1 get on the platform tonight. Tell patrons of the chautauqua that if they like a horse race they will get their money's worth to . night. You know it is like this: Edison invented the moving picture, and then perfected the scheme with a talking apparatus that told all about the picture as it went along: well I had a patent on that proposition long before Edison did, but the moving picture tonight will be in the imagination of the audience and I am the talking machine." This little monologue came from Walt Holcombe of Nashville, Tenn., this morning when from a cool pillow claim to fame is this same speech to night Holcombe's horse race. In it come fun and humor furious- , lyand though he doesn't admit it in his room at the Foley he t.0,d j himself , he throws in some philosophi- somcthing about the nature of his caj lines occasionally just to give va speech tonight at the chautauqua. . Mr. riety. Five thousand people heard him . Holcombe isa humorist, of course, hasj in Nashville and insisted he give it: gained great renown but his chief again too. t
