La Grande evening observer., August 20, 1913, Image 1

VOLUME XIIL
LA GRANDE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20; 1913.
NUMBER 38
DEPORTATlOfJ
OF THAW WILL
REQUIRE WEEKS
PRISONER IN CANADA TO DE
MAND HEARINGS ON POW '
ERS OP AUTHORITIES.
THAW IN COMFORT NOW
Skilled Lawyers Hurrying to Prisoner
to Dedend His Rights If He la Sent
Back It Will Be to New Hampshire,
Not New York, as Ticket Was Pur
chased In Former State, It is Said..;
By JOHN NEVIN.
Sherbrook, Auj. 20. Owing to a de
cision of the Canadian immigration
commissioners, Williams and Reynolds
Harry Thaw to be deported as soon as
he is released from jail here. Thaw's
; lawyers prefer that he shall remain
temporarily in a cell and in the mean
time they are to secure' an injunction
to prevent the deportation. .George
Carnegie, Thaw's brother-in-law, is en
route here from flew York, with Mrs.
Carnegie, and has retained Charles M.
White, the immigration law expert as
. chief counsel in the fight for the de
cision as to deportment.
Thaw is said to have the most com-
. fortable cell in the prison hospital and
declared himself that he was cheerful,
and expressed a conviction that he
would never return to Mattewan as he
can easily demonstrate that he was
never insane. Experts say that the
fight to deport Thaw or the effort to
gain his freedom will probably last for
Thaw won the first point in his fight
X VJ against taking him back to Mat
tewan, when instead of his being turn
. cd loose to be deported to American
anil hv the Canadian authorities; he
was insured the safety and shelter of
the jail tonight, at least Judge Glo
: Density has granted a "preliminary
. order of habeas corpus making it re
turnable tomorrow morning at 10:Q0
clock. , - .' . . - ..
; Prison Officiab Exonerated.
Alkflnv. Auir. 20. After an investi
Ration the State Superintendent of tl e
Prisons Jtiiey, nas aeciarea mat m "
convinced that the attendants at Mat
tewan were not responsible for Thaw s
escape. He admitted that the stupidity
of the gateman had provided Thaw an
opportunity to escape. Efforts are
being made to arrange with the Ver
mont and New Hampshire official to
surrender Thaw to-the New York au
thorities in the eveift that Thaw is de
ported from either state by the Can
adian officials. . , ,
Deportation Is Planned.
Sherbrook, Qjiebec, Aug. 20. Harry
La Grande, Aug. 20. (To Editor of
Evening Observer) I take this occas
ion to. say that in the matter of publi
city you are giving the paving ques
tion that comes up tonight that ou
are not only benefiting tne interested
property owners,- but the community
at large will in tfie' future reap a larg
er benefit from the information given
upon the subject. No one who feels
interest in the permanent welfare of
our city will question the fact that
..our paving is a strong step forward
and in the right direction, and there
are many of our citizens who in the
pasd few months have said to the writ
er, that they also would like to see
.1 JA w. that the present
. cost of paving was prohibitive and
liave asked if it were not practicable
for the council to devise means where
by this city can have laid a permanent
paving that is well within a limit of
i oc ominrA vard. with a corre-
sponding reduction in the cost of ex
? cavations, fills, cement curbs and I cir
cles. ; I have looked into this matter
j Aj iara ar a number of
cits on this coast tt have freed
themselves from the' bondage of pat
ented pavements. Among them is Sal
em, one of our beautiful cities. .
' This city has opened all their street
work to competifpn and as a result
"have reduced the once of paying from
"about ?2.2", for the bituhthic to con-
COUNCIL
MAN
POLICE FIND
NO TRACE OF
TRAIN ROBBERS
PORTLAND TRAIN ROBBED WITH
IN CITY LIMITS EARLY
IN EVENING.
ONE OF THE VICTIMS DYING
Tramp Shot and Is Thought to Be Dy
ing This Afternoon Believed That
Three Men Did the Work Big Re
wards Offered for Apprehension
Took Place Near Sullivan Gulch.
Portland, Aug. 20 Although dozens
of officers have searched Portland and
vicinity, no trace has been found of
the masked highwaymen f.ho at 9:15.
last night, held up the passenger train
on the Oregon-Washington railroad,
No. 12, within the city limits of Port
land. . j' '
The authorities are inclined to be
lieve that three men participated in
the hold-up. Joe Barfon, the tramp,
who was stealing a rida on top of one
of the Pullman sleeper?arid was shot
by the highwaymen in hiS effort to es
cape, is still alive but the chances for
his recovery are slight. , ' v.
A reward of $1,500 for each one has
been ' offered for their apprehension.
The hold-ups were absolutely ool dur
ing the holdup. . No clew to their iden
tity could be found today. . -i
It is not known how much loot was
obtained, but some reports have it that
less than $100 was taken. The men
made no effort to rob the express car.
It is agreed that the Soo train was a
poor train to attempt a robbery .on.
The train was stopped near Sulli
va's gulch by the hold-upmen who
climbed aboard the engine and covered
the engine crew while others went
through the tr.tn. The fireman was
shot at but not hit. ..
Thus, who was eantured yesterday at
Coaticooke, Quebec, will be released to
day because tne commitment. uci
irregular. He will be immediately re
arrested again, however, and surren
ifeml tn the immiirration officers.
Then, unless he produces a ticket to
Detroit, which he claims to have, he
will be deported over the same route
by which he entered Canada.
Thaw will take this route back to
YTamnahire. not'New York, and
the battle of his -extradition to New
York will still remain to peiqugnt in
the New Hampshire courts
crete at.91 cents. This last April that
city let a contract of nearly 50,000
yards at 91 cents; excavation at 45
.cents and cement curbs at 30 cents. '
Compare this with curbs, and some
of it rotten too; let here at 60 cents,
h fiivlpa at 6S cents ner foot.
and yet these same curb builders, will
and have done private wor tnai cu
nloe tin with a Dublic-let contract and
mucn superipr in iiiubu v u !
which open competition compells.
I append hereto a letter from the
city commissioner, of Chehalis, Wash.,
showing that city has the courage to
throw off the yoke of oppression and
exploitation and are pa'eng their
streets at $1.00 per yard.
I will ask the reader to follow close
ly the statement contained, in this let
ter. It shows clearly that the terrible
expense of patented paving as they
have experienced it was not justified
and that the cheaper sjibptitute,
"Warrenite Pavement most unsatis
facactory." ' " '
t will add that from many sources I
hiv information that at any time it
may be found desirable so to do that
concrete paving can be surfaced wa
any of several preparations of bitur
mpn pnntinff. .
Another reason why we must op
pose patented paving here is that I
(Continued nn Page Eight.)
DISCUSSES
tie
REMOHSTRAWCE to
111
Pioneer of
1865 Passes
DEATH CLAIMS GRANDMA LAN
MAN LAST NIGHT.
CROSSED THE PLAINS
One of the Settlers of Early 60' Suc
cumbs to Old Age.
' A third feminine member of the bri
gade that crossed the plains in the
60's to locate in Union county to die
within the present week, passed away
at Summerville last evening at 9:30
when Grandma (Elizabeth) Lanman
died. She crossed the plains in 1864
from Indiana but spent year with
relatives, in Boise and came to Union
erjunty in 1865. ' Since then she has
made this valley her home and reared
a family of seven children. Two oth
er children died and some time ago her
husband, William .Lanman passed
Irway.. Thos to survive her. are Mary
J. Woodward, of Nevada; Abraham,
of Montana; Martha J. Parker, of Isl
and City; Basha, of Summerville; John
of Summerville, Elisa-Patent of Ba-
ker. and Chester, of Summerville.
The funeral arrangements have not
Deen completed tnw ancrnuun. .
Tennis Champions Win Again.
Newport R. I., Aug. 20. Maurice
McLkughlin and Thomas C. Bundy re -
luinea me national cnKmpiuimmp
tennis - ClOUDies toaay dv ueieauiiK
Clarence Griffin and John Strachan in
three straight sets. All the players
were Calif ornians. , ' ;
Harrison Made Governor.
Washington, Aug. 20. The presi
dent has appointed Francis Burton
Harpison of New York, to be the Gov
ernor General of the Philippines.
DICES CASE WILL GO TO
' JURY LATE THIS BFTE
San Francisco, Aug. 20. Woman's
inhumanity was a striking feature of
the Diggs trial, during the closing
hours of the arguments to the jury,
here today. Women who had heard
the confeVion of shame of Miss War
rinjrton, smirked and shrugged their
well-gowned shouldeis, during the
BABY'S ENEMIESTHE SKEETER.
3
- Remonstrances will 'be filed tonight (
It appears on spring aireev uiBuiar as
is involved from r ourtn street to
Washington a distance of three blocks
The remonstrance will not apply on
Spring from Fourth west and the re
monstrators on East Spring claim to
have plenty remonstrators to present
to the council tonight to balk the work
there. - - ' " . ?
"-The original promoters of paving on
Spring had meant to deal only witn
the territory from Fourth west to Oak
street. ' However, a few were anxious
to have the whole street to Washing
ton avenue included and the result will
probably be that the job will end with
Fourth afreet U tne remonstrators
have the -number of objections that
they claim. The majority has always
ruled and it will not require much ef
fort to fjnd out tonight if the paving
is to be on the whole street or only a
nnrflnn nf it.
There is every indication that the
plan of procedure outlined in the Ob-1
server last evening will be followed
22 tftsVe
over to rhe street committee. Tcmor-
low nit'ht the paving men will enter!
into verbal discussion of their respect-1
ive paving ojaore uiu piF'
ers on Spring street, who will be urged
tn attend that meeting and cast ; their ...
vote after the discussions are ended.
The word has gone out to paying
contractors that such a plan is in store,
and some cr tne paving coniraciora
have filed their bids today and will
rppear in person this evening or to
morrow some time and take up the de-
oute tomorrow night in person,
Renresentatives of 'El Oso and bit-
ucrete paving are here this afternoon
preparing their bids
Irene Vickera Dead.
: I,
Trans VlplrAm. amd 18. for some
time a resident of this city, died at the
' wred Gaskill home yesterday. The
funeral will taKe place tomorrow anu
hurial will be made at tne isiana uiy
ceemtery. The deceased has been ill for Among the many students and grad
about three months, coming to Mrs. uates of U. of O. whom Prof. Straub
Gaskill a"bout three weeks before her met today is Attorney J. D. Slater, who
death. I
Mrs. Chandler Visits. ;
Mrs. Chandler and baby of Baker,
are visiting with H. A. Bodmer and
Mrs. Stella Ingle.
summing up of the defense. They nod
ded their anoroval to the defense by
Attorney Delvin's impeachment testi
mony and mocking intonations as to
her character. Prosecutor Kocne pre
rpHeri Delvin in ft scathing arraign
ment. The case' will probably reach
thujury before night. s
Evan In Baltimar Amrloni
WotnenFond
ofU. of 6.
REFERENDUM VOTE TO DRAW
" " MANY WOMEN.
LOCAL GRADS FOUND
J. D. Slater Meets Instructor of 35
' Years AgoJohn Straub. 1
' Women are united in defense of the
university i appropriation, that has.
force1 to referendiim at the No-
P0 I the
institution's fate hangs, according to
Prof. John Straub, veteran instructor
at University of Oregon, who is in
La Grande today. His purpose Here is
to organize the University of Oregon
ihimni and alumnae of that school, In
thi8 cjt, 80- tnat consistent work in
deenge rf the 8Chool may be carried
out. Prof, straub contemplates re
maining here for at least two or three
days, and will get the 16 or 20 gradu
ates of that institution' together be
fore leaving.-
n npoxAn . nrhn ia a itm Snaf 11a in f Vila
1 nave yei WJ una we iiroi woman
1 ' . iL'
fight," declared the professor today.
,"The women have adopted -our uni
'vAroitv' an their aloiran and the work-
ingmen are realizing that the school.
. is their school for there is no tuition
requirements it is iree to tne
and women who want college training
and instead of opposing the appropria-
nun, wjr o m v v.
rinos wiu oui ..c.i;.
Washington. Aug. 20 Tim Spellacy
of Los Angeles is picked by the Wash
ington end of the California democracy
to be the primary choice to contest
the governorship with Hiram Johnson
next year. Spellacy can afford to
make the run, he is considered strong
with the people at the south who
habitally roll up big majorities for
the progressives, and he is expected to
retain in the north the leadership of
his ticket scoredt the polls in 1910.
That Gov. Johnson will be re-nom
inated is the opinion of Representa
tives Stephens, Bell and Nolan, pro
eressives. and indeed the whole Call
fornia delegation here. Reprrenta
tive Knowlnnd, a regular republican
who at one time hoped to succeed Sen
ator Perkins, ud.niU that the chances
DEMOCRATS SUPPORTING SPELLICT
liiio. Hie :
GOOD PROGRESS
; WITH MEXICAHS
HUERTA SENDS SEVEN-THOU1-.
SAND WORD REPLY TO '
UNO'S REQUEST. , '
E BEADING IS W
Huerta Thought to Be Sparring for
Time by Send'ag Long Message te '
President Wilson Conference With
1 Chairman Baesn of Senate Foreign 1
Relations Committee Called for To
day. Washington, Aug. 20. Strong indi
cation that Emissary John Lind will
succeed in hisV mission of peace, i
seen in . the receipt of a 7,000-word
installment of Husrta's reply to Lind's
representations.' It will take all day
to decipher the dispatch, but it is now
known that time is asked, in which to
consider the president's proposals. ;
Certain government officials profess
the opinion that Huerta is sparring for
time. Lind says that Huerta is great
ly interested and is anxious for addi-
tlonai information. The wording of
the reply is said. to indicate that Ha- '
$' is seeking better terms but at the
same time is keeping the negotiation!
in progress until he decides whether
he will res'.rn the' presidency or not;
r Owing to. Huerta's latest communi
cation, President Wilson will arrange
today for a conference with 'Chairman
Bacon, of the senate foreign relation
committee. . Under circumstances l)e
wishes to emphasize the decision there
will be no removal embargo 'against
shipments of arms to Mexico. The
president belives this will inflame anti-
Americanism. .
Mare Island b Liked. :
Washington, Aug. 20. Once more
the rosy dawn of hope is unfolded
before the eves of Representative Cur
ry of the Mare Island district; Secre- ..
Ury, Daniels, comes home to tell him
that if the island ia geologically
strong enough, and the channel easily
enough deepened, and the wnoie or tne
scheme practicable, the new naval dry
dock for the Pacific coast shall be lo
cated on- the island, alongside the pres
ent navy yard. . ;
. Daniels says he hopes tnat tne scien
tific tests soon to be made will prove
that the island is the proper place for
the dock. He inspected the site, waa.
pleased with the landscape, and now
the engineers are to find what it will
cost the government to construct and
maintaithe improvement there. At
the same time a survey 13 planned for
points on San Francisco bay.
attended the school in "78 and 79.
Prof. Straub has been at the Eugene
school for .85 years, and Mr. Slater
was a student there when the profes
sor first came to the school. Jack
Oliver, Ray Logan, Howard Davis,
Herbert Hanna, John Hodgin, Ed. Jas
per, George Gilbert, Alice McKinley
and Naomi Williamson, 'are, other , of
the gradutes of the school who, make
their home in La Grande. ' .
are all in favor of the re-election of
the Johnson ticket. Representative
Curry is the only dissenter from this
view, although the democrats won't
talk about it.
Representative Ba.'.er believes that
the only possible chance of defeating
Johnson is through an alliance of the
Taft republicans with the democrats,
such as occurred last .year. In that
case Spellacy is considered the moit
availiable nominee. Fred Kali of Bal -ersf
ield, will be opobsed by the labo .
interest, and J. B. Curtain is not tak en
seriously.. Bell is permanently out
of the running. J. B. Davis, newly in
stalled as collector at San Francisco,
would not accept the responsibility of
,beating the governor. So Spellacy
seems to be marked for the job. '