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VOLUME XIII. LA GRANDE, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1913. NUMBER 35 I t 8IIUCRETE. NEW PAVING, ENTERS FIELD SIMULTANEOUSLY, THE BOTTOM GOES OUT OF CEMENT FOR PAVING. LATEST PAm DESCRIBED : System Freeh Used in Oregon Today and In California Bat Is New Here Specifications Filed With City Recorder Today-Hai Two Plana, ' One Being Concrete Base Too. Exeunt Dollarway, concrete, bitulith ic, et'aL, , Enter bitucrete. , .. Lively music, professor. Now, the curtain: Ladies -and gentlemen, intro ducing for your approval, Linden-Kib-be Construction, company with bitu crete paving.,, ' The Bitucrete Construction company (position down stage, voice strong and confident.) Wc lay two grades of bitucrete paving,' and have this day f ilefr with the city recorder of. La Grande these specifications and pray that you list to us with attentive ear. Bitucrete is a near resemblance, to gravel or standard bitulithic in on instance and is used on a concret "base in another. . On a four-inch con 'Crete base we place bituminous black top surface one inch thick. The second type of bitucrete is com posed pf a three . and one-half inch gravel or crushed rock bitumen' mix ture with an inch and a half top coat. We have laid 10000 "square yards of this grade pf paving in Oregon and 40,000 square' yards of .that en tire amount has been placed in The Dalles. The taxpayers there agree it is satisfactory. California has used this grade of paving for some time and it is not a new proposition, except maybe in La Grande. This little one-act prologue to more paving competition in La Grande was iged and enacted this morning. It, is hoped that the actors have made theic propositions clear for all the facts gleaned thus far have come in letters from Pqrtland, the company headquarters as the personal repre sentation for the company has not put in an appearance to date. The Dalles and Forest Grove papers sent along with the specifications seem highly pleased with the paving and . (Continued on Page 5) BLObDSHED FEARED WHEN THE STRIKE IS ORDERED. Strikebreakers Being Imported to Dis . place Strikers. Trinidad, Aug. 16. A hundred gun men of West Virginia coal fields ar rived today preparatory to the expect ed strike of 9000 minors in Southern Colorado. Members of the United! Mine Workers of America are expect ed to strike early next week, the walk out orders being momentarily expect ed. It is feared the walkout will be marked by bloodshed. The operators are importing strike breakers. GUNMEN RUSH TO TRINIDAD MRS. G. 0. PHIPPS. he ; Refuse to Deny or Confirm Report el Wadding. BECOMES ACTIVE IN NEW FIRM ESTABLISHED. Secretary of La Grirtde Commercial Uun Resigns Position. C. M. Humphreys has tendered his resignation as Secretary of the La Grande Commercial club and the res ignation has been accepted. Mr. Hum phreys retires to go into private bus iness in this city. During the time that Mr. Humphreys has been secretary of the club, which is nearly a year, he having resigned as city recorder td- accept that post, the club assumes its portentious quarters in the Foley building and became a home for club members with reading and pool and billiard facilities. The businessmen's excursion to the Willamette valley last winter was one of the big enterprises undertaken by the club under direc tion of Mr. Humphreys. NEW COMPANY FORMS. Incorporated Institution to Enter the . . - Produce Field Here. .Incorporation of four well known men into a new produce company to be known as the Eastern Oregon Pro duce company, has been perfected an will open offices and transact business September first. It adds a. substan tial firm to the list of wholesale hous es in La Grande. C. M. SeCor for many years in the wholesale produce business, and lately connected with a local wholesale produce house, is pres ident of the new firm, C. M. Humph reys recently resigned from his du ties as commercial club secretary, aid former city recorder, is secretary of the company and Fred .T. Taylor, a contractor located at Portland, sever al years, and for the past six months making La Grande his headquarters, is the treasurer of the company. Mr. Humphreys will 'go directly from the Commercial club to the new business and with Mr. Taylor will take immediate charge and Mr. SeCor will give his principal attention to the fair, until after October, but witf be tha manager of the new firm, , ' The company will have as its San Francisco representative for shipping connections, S.. Y. Edwards, better known as "Red Devil" Cement Ed wards, who has been in t.e cement business and contracting business in i f -i t Tt. "i . 1 r. i . . . j cngiand, uermuny ana uniiea states. , Mr. Edwards will look cfter the San t Francisco connections for the orient and other points and makes of the firm a big contender in the wheat and ' grain buying business of this valley. CffSsT SULZER WITHSTANDS ATTACK Open Doors In Demand COMING CONFERENCE DEMANDS ASSISTANCE. BEDS ARE CHIEF ITEM Coming of Delegates Next Week De , Bands Co-operation. ' Men and women of La Grande, who can entertain one or more delegates to the big Idaho-Oregon Methodist con ference here next week, with bed and breakfast, can help La Grande be a gracious host by notifying Rev. E. B. Fyke at once to that effect. The church' is going to entertain all the delegates, and there will be several hundred of them, with luncheons and dinners at the new church but beds and breakfast facilities are going to he in demand. The hotels . will accommo date wany but there must he a general opening of doors in private families. The membership of the church cannot handle all the delegates and friends of the church interested in having La Graade treat the guests with a style befitting the city can be of great' at 2 in the matter." The magnitude of the conference is generally underestimat ed, --.v. - BIG PAYROLL COMES. Biggest Number of Families in Rail road History Here Paid.- With the payment of salaries for the month of July, the O.-W. has sent the biggest sum of money to La Grande for distribution on the 16th of the month today that has yet come. The addition of the many offices to the di vision headquarters has swelled the usual amount, and the three brakemen order for freight trains has also in creased the payrolls. San Francisco, Aug. 16. It will be wife against forjner affinity with the husband's fortune hanging in the bal ance between freedom and the peniten tiary when the Diggs trial 'is resumed Tuesday. If the apparent plans of the defense are carried out they will have Mrs. Diggs on the stand. It is patent that the men witnesses for Diggs thus far have failed to shake, or even seriously mitigate the damaging volume of testimony of Marsha Warrington and Lola Norris. The defendant as a last resort, is re lying upon his wife to come to his aid with testimony. The wife's testimony, unless the defense changes its plans, will be a pathetic effort to show that The company will handle cement, hay, grain, flour, wood, coal and fruits but only coal and wood and feed will be sold in small lots. Flour will be han dled in carloads alone. All commodi ties' trade in a produce house will be handled in addition to a general brok erage in wheat. The Gust building of Greenwood and Jefferson, will be the home of the company. , In addition to the above lines of bus iness it will do a general forwarding and storage business. MRS. DIGGS MAY DE USED : TO SAVE HUSBAND'S FATE THREATS MADE TO UNSEAT KIM GO UNNOTICED CONDITION OF MRS. SULZER IS : ADMITTED TO BE EXEREME LY CRITICAL. ' HONOR m GENERALLY Situation In Albany Changes Little - Except That There Is Hourly Be coming More Dangerous of a Physi cal Conflict Between the Two Exe cutives Now Doing Business In the State. By John Kevin. . Albany, N. Y., Aug. 16. Governor Sulzer continues in possession of the executive chamber; while Lieutenant Glynn, who signs himself, "Acting governor," is discharging all guberna torial duties, and is upheld by most of the state officers and many sources are exerting pressure to have Glynn forcibly eject Sulzer from his strong hold at the capitol, but Glynn refuses to engage in the unseemly wrangle. It is predicted that the dual gov ernorship will continue a long time al though undoubtedly Glynn's position is the stronger. The leaders of the two factions are discouraging the talk' ot violence but their followers are threatening and it is feared riots will mark the dispute. Information as 'to the condition of Mrs. Sulzer was refused. . Sulzer's private secretary this aft ernoon denied the exact condition of Mrs. Sulzer's being suppressed. He said,, "She is very sick and cannot sleep without opiates." she attempted to hold her husband waning affection.nd that her threat of prosecution frightened him to the flight with the two girls. CHERRY SEASON WANES. Twenty-five Cherry Pickers Return From Cove This Morning. That cherry picking at Cove is about finished is indicated today with the arrival of a crew of about 25 cherry pickers employed in the cherry belt the past few weeks. G. G. Stackland, who is in the city today from Cove and is of the best known owners of Cove, said today that the picking season will be brought to a close within a "few days.. READ THE CHARTER. In this issue of the Observer is a section of the proposed city government by commission char ter. Sections of it will be run from time time to fully con verse ctxJu . - with t'l.j sailtfit faeu of the new government scheme. A section is printed to day on another jfcge. Lodge Meets OnEagleCap ENTERPRISE TO PEAK IS NOVEL AFFAIR DUE HOME' SUNDAY Many Prominent Knigts Make Inter eating Journey to Peak. Enterprise, Aug. 16. (Special) Tomorrow night one of the most novel pilgrimages ever undertaken- by - a lodge in Oregon will come to an end with the return of a large group of Knights of Pythias ' members from Eagle Cap, said to be the highest peak in Oregon. While on the sum mit the plan is to administer the third degree to several members. The jour ney's plan, and its possibilities are told from Entnrnriim. hnf. thsra nra no wiroless stations in that country the progress of the trip and its in cidents will not be known until the pilgrims return to Enterprise. Inci dents relative to "tile trip are told thusly:- : .. , '-. . '. They're off for Eagle Cap. -After many days of preparation and discussion the Knights of Pyth ias expedition is under way. The in-1 dications Thursday morning before the start were that nearly 50 men were to make the trip. The number on 1 the committee's list was over 40. ,v - . . . . An advance sauad danarted WaH nesday morning, with lodge parapher-t nana and general .; supplies. Those who went were F. A. Clarke, J. J. Bauer, Jr., and Arthur M. Pace, and William Hayes. Mr.' Bauer led tlie way. Mr.' Hayes followed leading tho pack horses, and Mr. Clarke rode but of town as the rear guard, Mr. Pace followed after, a few hours later. Ev erybody on the street knew what the pack outfit meant and no one let it go by without some shouted saluta tion. So it was a very cheerful get-a- way. : Thursday morning came the grand start of the main army. The commit tee in charge of the whole program is A. C. Miller, Carl Roe and T. M. Dill. They assigned . the various men to' their respective squads and in the af ternoon there was a great gathering of frying pans, pots and kettles and blankets at the opera house. The committee, made all arrange ments for pack horses, and did a good deal in the way. of getting sad dle horses. . Members who had their own horses, however, needed no assist ance of this kind. The party expected to camp at the base of Eagle Cap Thursday' night, Tents will be set up, . tho ;. various squads will prepare supper, each form ing one mess. . Then will follow an ev. ening of fun and jollity. There are entertainers enough ,in the lodge to guarantee there will be no dullness. A photograph and a great bundle of records went along on one of the pack horses to give variety to the program. An entertainment committee will help Tontlmiert in Pmp Rlzht. Another change in the parcels post : laws went into effect Friday. This is ! the change regarding rates whereby ' a 20-pound package is carried to any point within 150 miles of posting for 24 cents. The new law will effect all material within the first and second zones, which cover all the territory within 150 miles of La Grande. La Grande postal authorities say that j NEW PARCELS POST LAW IS UNUSED IN LA CHANDE KANSAS OASES BY THIRSTY FOLKS MANY FAMILIES RUSHING TO ' WELLS TO AVOID WATER ' " ',: X..- FAMINE. I-,.,: . Situation From Heat Wave In Kansas Becomes Hourly Worses-Few Wat ering Holes , Surrounded Trains Carry Water to Dried-Up Sections f the Stato Situation is Wotse. Kansas City, Aug. 16. This is tht 13th day that Kansas has been swelt ering in such terrific heat V Many of the towns are practictlfy forced to suspend business operations and there is no relief in eij&ht Reports fro) over the state show'that temperatures are around 108.. Springs everywhere are drying up. The trains are loaded with water en route to many localities which are practically without wate?. tn some sections the inhabitants have lk '.heir homes .and camped around such wells as still hold the liquid to cool their sufferings. , Showers In Kansas. ; Showers slightly relieved the suf fering in Kansas, Oklahoma and Mis souri today. v but they - were inade- . uate to break the backbone of the mercury which is climbing rapidly this afternoon. Practically every crop in this sectin is burned up. - Chicago In Heat Belt. Chicago, Aug.i 16. The thermomet er registered 93 at noon and is climb ing two degrees hourly. .Chicago is: facing one of the hottest afternoons ot the summer. Many prostrations are reported. The heat extends through Illinois. Indiana, Missouri, Iowa and Wisconsin. " . One Killed as Car Turns. Seattle, Aug. 16. Mrs. Rose Win chell aged 40, was killed and Mrs. An na Phelps was seriously injured today when a car driven by Chas. Gams of Tacoma, left the road near. Allentown and ran into a stump overturning. Both the women lived in Chehalis. Carnes was slightly injured. H. D. Williams, the fourth occupant of the car, escaped uninjured. JOHNSON IS MATCHED. Pelky Willing to Meet Colored Scrap- per in Paris Says Report . , San Diego, Aug. 16. Arthur Pelky will fight Jack Johnson in Paris ac cording to an announcement made by Pelky's manager, Tommy Burns. It is announced that he had expected the) challenge sent for Johnson by Jim Pratt the Paris promoter. as yet no special use has been made of the new rating but as eoon as the people become familiar with is work ing principles, it will become one of tho most prompt systems of postal de livery. In the lar'ger cities the de partment stores are making use of the new law in the delivery of mail orders to suburban points. . .. , , ;
