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OLFMEXIH.
tONG STAY IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
, SEEMS CERTAIN THINK
HIS FRIENDS.
UJENr IS JSKED FOR
Thaw's Lawyers' Ask for Privilege of
Arguing bane Bef ore ' Governor
:? jWrit irf Habeas Corpus Is Returna
ble at 11 Next Tuesday Berth Par
; ties Ep joined From Stealing Thaw.
Concord, Sept.. 13. Federal Judge
Aldrich this afternoon issued a writ
of habeas corpus for Harry Thaw
on the application of the latter's law
yers. The writ is returnable to Mid
dletown at 11 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing and it is said will insure Thaw a
long stay in Now Hampshire. SimuU
taneously with the issuance of the
writ Aldrich enjoined either side from
. kidnapping the Pittaburger. .
ifii Colebrook, Sept. 13 Justice of the
Peace Carrfcontinued today until next
Thursday the hearings against Harry
K. Thaw, who is held as a fugitive
rom justice. In the meantime Gover
nor Felker will consider the represen
tations of why he should or why he
.should not honor New York's requisi
tion. It isiot known whether he will
accept the offer of Thaw's lawyers to
submit to argument the requisition
; proposition before the governor or that
s he will give five days for the institu
tion of habeas corpus proceedings in
the eveflt of an adverse decision by
the governor.
CONFETTI STARTS FIGHT,
Pendleton Round Up Visitor Struck
by Escort to Lady Visitor.
V Pendleton, Sept. 13. (Special)
- Because a stranger here to attend the
round-up threw a handful of confetti
into the face of a lady out participat-
ing in the carnival Friday night, said
stranger was badly cut and bruised
by show case glass. The fracas oc
curred in a cigar store where the
confetti was thrown at the lady and
the gentleman-with the lady struck
the funster a terrific blow that sent
him through a show case with Berious
results. He was badly cut and slashed
by the fall but will recover.
Troopers Charge Strikers.
' Calumet, Mich., Sept. 13. Troopers
with drawn sabers charged a crowd of
striking miners here today. Srike
sympathizers on Eighth street, in
eluding a number of women, were
knocked down and trampled by horses
and a number were seriously injured.
The clash followed a gathering in the
street as a demonstration in sympathy
with the strikers. Military authori
ties prevented the success of the as
semblage. Boston Will Have "City Flag."
Boston, 'tass., Sept 13.-Bostons
quest for a city flag ended today when
the Columbus Day parade committee
received designs from a dozen artists
who entered in the competition to give
the Hub a municipal banner. An
nouncement of the winner is expected
within a fpw days. and on C,umbu3
Day Mayor "Honey" Fitz, Boston's
"singing mayor," win be in class
with municipal executives of Philadel
phia, Cleveland, New York, Rochester
St Louis and San Francisco, and will
ride in the parade under his own
colors . ; ,
OBTAINS
HABEAS CORPUS
HEARIHB WRIT
LA -
One-Fourth Of City's
Voters Have
And Last
Less than one-fourth of the prob
able voting strength of La Grande
has registered for the commission
charter election, October 1, and the
registration period closes Monday ev
ening. Of the total registered today
r-the exact number of which cannot
be ascertained until a check-up is
taken, but is estimated at 00 there
is a trifle less than 50 per cent who
are women. The comparison will
probably run about even in the end.
i Men and women who oppose the pro
I posed city charter are said to be dil
igent in registering, that they may be
.certain of a vote while it appears that
.there is a general lethargy prevalent
on the part of those who are friendly
, to the charter but do not take suffi
cient interest to make sure of a vote
and think the outcome is certain even
at this date. Every one must regis
FIRE OESTflOYS
Careless disregard for precaution
against fires result jd at noon today in
the destruction of a camping outfit
located between East Adams avenue
and Connerdale. A prairie fire of no
mean proportions, raged there at the
noon hour and was conquered only
when the fire department applied its
chemicals - to the ,. b.laze. . It appears
that the blaze which swept a large
are in the vacant territory between
Connerdale and Adams avenue, was
started by a lone man who cooked his
dinner in the dry grass near a group
of tourist campers, and went away
without extinguishing the flames. A
family of a man, wife and several
children, by the name of Stewart, lost
their wagon and all their property in
The press dispatches relative to the
opening of a township of land to entry
in Wallowa county near the Little
Salmon, are found to be misleading,
since it develops that the entire town
ship is within a national forest, As
a result, the only persons who may
file on the land in the township with
out permission of the forest service,
are those who settled on the land be
Liverpool, Sept. 13. The remains'
of Mayor Gaynor, who died Tuesday
on the steamer Baltic, were taken on
board the Lusitania this morning. The
ship is scheduled to sail for New York
at 5 this afternoon. The body was
taken to the . town hall last night,
where it lay in state. . It was escorted
to the pier this morning under a de
tachment of mounted policemen who
placed it in a resting place especially
constructed in Mortuary chapel. . The
Dody was met at the gang plank by
the officers of the Lusitania and a
guard of honor consisting of the lin
er's quartermasters. The ship's flags
were flying at half mast and the
mortuary was draped in black. There
were no crowds and no excittment
Before the body was removed to the
town hall Reverend Theodore How
ard, the Vicar of St. Mathew's church,
held a brief service according to the,
Anglican ritual; The mayor's son,
Rufus, was absent and the only per
sons present were the American cor
REPORTED LAND OPENING III
1LL0WI HAS LIMITATIONS
BAYHOR'S BODY HOMEWARD BOUND
GBANDE, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13.
Registered
Day Is Near
ter, and of course the six freeholders'
requirements can be used as a last
resort, but the cumbersome method is
a nuisance. Men and women who do
register are continually pestered with
requests on election .day to "swear in"
on Blank A men and women who did
not wake up to the fact that registra
tion was necessary, until it' was took
late. The registration period closes
Monday night and even with an ex
treme rush, the number could not prob
ably be brought to more than a thou
sand, which is just about half of the
voting strength of the jaUy. -City Re
corder Warnick, who acts as registrar,
expedites matters by taking signa
tures alone, and forwards receipts at
a later date. The registration scheme
under the new law is tedious but is re
quired, hence should be attended to.
CAMP OUTFIT
the fire. - This was probably the only
loss, although several campers were"
located uu the territory. , . For . some
time the men' in the group fought the
flames but the fire department was
needed and Chief Benhara took a crew
of men to the scene without a general
alarm.
Brandy Wine Tax Cut.
, Washington,: Sept. 13. The Pome
reno amendment, to the tariff bill, tax
ing brandy used for fortifying-California
wine at the rate of a dollar for
every 10 gallons and also for taxing
spurious wines, was stricken from the
tariff bill in the conference between
the senate and the house today.
fore it was surveyed and prior to
January 1, 1906. There are under
stood to be about 30 such settlers who
may soon make their filings and sub
mit their proofs, and thus secure title
to their homesteads,
Permission from the forest service
may be gained upon application upon
which it is established that the' land
applied for is agricultural.
respondents, the undertaker and a few
city hall attendants. . The Lusitania
reaches New York next Friday.
Liverpool, Sept. 13. The steamer
Lusitania bearing the body of the late
Mayor Gaynor, sailed for New York
at 5 o'clock this afternoon. : '
Lobby Probe Near End.
Washington, Sept. 13 A canvass of
the members of the house and senate
committees which are investigating
the president's charge concerning the
existence of dangerous lobbying in
Washington, showed that both reports
have sustained the . executive in his
charges. Former Congressman Cole
of Ohio, and Littleton of Maine, have
been the only witnesses yet to be heard
by the house committee which will
probably report next week.' The com
mittee will continue taking evidence
for another fortnight
Home. Not Hospital, For White
' Plague Sufferers Her Plan
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JtWtfW
1 t'l't, V,
ii
fWIIRODGIl the generosity of Mrs. Thomas F. Ityun, wife of the tuulU.
I millionaire dtas. touseco and street railway uiaKimte, there la soon to
1 be established at Suffers. N. V., a home for consumptives. TUe tnstjtiii
- tion Is to be as scientifically equipped sod directed as tUe most couynn.
tlonal hospital, but everything Is to be
the new Institution to lay tbe emphasis on health." (The name of the settlement .; a"d, thuve here as the .canning com
wlll be Loretta. after a daughter of Mrs. Uyau. who Is now dead. Mrs. Ryan, " pany think they will, a thousand acres
who lost a son from tuberculosis, has devoted much of her time to the whiu wilj be pianted tj,e following year and
lingua nusiiiiti, niiiLiiuiauiM uucj iiw,t- - .
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Tim Sullivan
meets Death
TRAGIC END CLAIMS BRILLIANT
POLITICIAN.
TRAiN GRINDS BODY
Famous New York Politician's Disap
pearance Is Explained. .
New York, Sept. 13. Representa
tive Timothy J.' Sullivan is dead. The
body was mangled when found beside
the railroad tracks at Pelliam Bay.
Sullivan was well known among his
thousands of friends as "Big Tim";
He disappeared from the home of his-
brother about August 31 and at the
time of his disappearance had but a
dollar in his pockets, having been at
his brother's resting and seeking a
cure for nervous breakdown. , '
Bowery Mourns His Death.
New. York, Sept 13. Vew York's
famous Bowery is hard hit by the
news. Here Sullivan was best loved.
Thousands of residents in this section
profited by his generosity.
The body lies in a morgue at East
Twenty-sixth street and was identified
by Lawrence Mulligan, a half brother.
He suffered a mental and physical
breakdown a year ago.
Lay In Morgue Long.
Sullivan disappeared early on the
morning of August 81 and the em
ployes of the New Haven railroad
found the corpse where it was evi
dently thrown by a train. For twelve
days the body lay in the Forham
morgue unrecognized and not 'until
it was sent to the Bellevue morgue for
interment in the potters field, was it
recognized by a policeman named
Barney O'ConnelL
1913.
si?
iW J'fc.
eliminated that savors ot tbe bospttaror
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LITTLE BRIEF
1913 ASSESSMENTS NOT SERIOUS
LY OBJECTED TO.
Last Day of Complaints at Hand and
Few Have Been Registered. ' -
j . . y'fr' : '
Throughout the present week it has
been established that the.-1913- assess-
; .. .."
ments have met with general favor.
This evening the board of equalization
adjourns after having been in session
all week to hear complaints against
assessments in this country, and
meets again Monday to act on these
complaints.
Extremely few have filed objections
and those only in minor details.
Telegraph Cable Sixty-Two Years Old.
Washington, Sept. 13.-With the gi
gantic navy wireless towers at Arling
ton, Vs., humming messages that are
picked out-of' the air thousands of
milea away by ships and wireless sta
tions on land, navy officials and sci-
MURDERED BIRL
New York, Sept 13. Basing the
identification by a birthmark upon the
shoulder, Francis Day, a Brooklyn
real estate broker, was positive that
the decapitated body found on Cliff
side was that of his sister Antoinette
Day, aged 22. The police are inclin
ed to accept the identification. Day
told of his sister's acquaintance with
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NUMBER 59
EXPERIMENTS
WITHGAHNERY
PEAS
ORDERED
OREGON PACKING COMPANY TO
I TEST OUT DESIRABILITY
OP PEAS HERE, .;
BIG
CANNERY POSSIBLE
If Canning Peaa Thrive In This Val
ley on Ten Acre Experiment Farm,
One Thousand Acre Property b to
Be Planted to Pea the Following
r .,.lfer and Cannery Built at Once.
: Experiments with canning peas,
that, if successful, will mean the es
tablishment of a big cannery in this,
city within a year and a half, will bi
commenced in Grande Ronde valley
next spring through instrumentalities -of,
the Oregon Packing company.- D.
M. Clark, local representative for the
Portland concern; has been authorized
to lease 10 acres of ground for ex
periment purposes. Already the La
Grande Investment company and Wal
ter E. Pierce have set. aside an at-re of
Aground each and the other eight acres '
will be selected from widely different
localities, that the entire valley may
tested out
If can:ng peas, grow
t ... , -
yiw vimuiwj muuk ud duvii as lb la ucr
tain the crop will thrive in this val-
ivy.
' Contrary to the usual custom the
company will not necessarily depend '
upon contracts to supply the peas, but
will, themselves either buy outright
or lease about 1000 acres of land and
cultivate the peas themselves. In this
way it is claimed, the industry will be
much more satisfactory, if possible at
all, than through the contract plan so
generally used and not always with the.
be8t re8lt- " the company can make
! 1000 aces pay, individuals could do
(the same, and a long stride towards
' divefsif ied and BmaU tract ffinf 06
x. , l . ,
It is possible, though not established,
- that the factory would handle other
.things beside peas, as the by-products
of the local orchards would give a
wide, range of 'supplies for canning
purposes.
The entire scheme depends on the .
success with which peas can be grown.
If conditions are suitable, a large up
to date cannery is assured.
entists today remembered i that Just
62 years ago the first successful cable-was
completed between England
and France. The great station at Arl
ington already has communicated di
rect with Gibraltar, - Eiffel ' Tower,
Guantanamo and Cuba. The station is
in daily communication with the last
two mentioned places.
MYSTERY CLEARS
a young physician who graduated two
years ago at Long Island college for
physicians and surgeons. In August
Day declared that the members of the
family had learned that Antionette
was facing motherhood. Just . two'
days before, the finding of the corpse
at Cliffside the girl disappeared. The
police are searching for the physician.