La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, January 06, 1914, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextLA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER PAGETinC AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER - PRINTS THE NEWS THE DAY IT HAPPENS VOLUME XTTT. LA GRANDE, OREGON, TUESPAY, d ANUARY 6, 1914 JOJMBER178. TUESDAY, JAKUARY 6, 1914 m inni OF troops is LATEST PLAH IF SHERIFF RAND WILL SEND A DEPUTY SHERIFF TO EN FORCE LAWS AT COP ' PERFIELD. SAM WHITE RELIEVED OF OFFICE BY MP. WEST Only Minor Trifle Hinges In Deal To I -' Take Troops From Copperfield at Once iNo dosing of Saloons in Huntington If Rand Will Enforce Laws, West Will Remove Troops.. !put into effect a stringent sanitary .., jcode providing for safety from yen- .. ' ' . , jleral diseases of inmates and patrons nunungion, Jan. .-ai. eariy ena,.. 8UCce8sfuUy recommended that to ine cuiiurct .t a-L i a. -i-i. :i itary rorces ana Baser county seem- eu near r.iu uiiemuuu, us tuc icauibi. , " XJ. -MA U hrfn. held ZJZEfl They have progressed to a point where the sheriff has agreed to ap point a jeputy Bheriff to take charge oi" . ipperfie'.d, doing away with the -necessity of martial law. The only hitch ifi over the manner ofpaying the deputy. ' There will be no at tempt to cfose the saloons here. Peace Offers Made. Salem, Ore., Jan. 6. In a message to Sheriff Rand of Baker county, Governor West offered to withdraw . . . the national guard from. Baker coun- ty, if the sheriff will agree to co- ( operate in suppressing alleged vio lations of. the liquor law and disor derly houses in Baker county. - As a pledge of good faith, the gov-i ernor requested Ranfi'-rto' '""appoint Special Agent Snodgrass as deputy T - It V 'contrast to the : ejnbrOglio over sa: would pe no opposiuon totne . assist in the work. . , contrast , i i by tfte saloon men or any one else The, governor removed from the loons, comes, the news that Copper- that there wou)d be. general sup military staff Samuel White of Port- field wants a Presbyterian church. port for movement by the town land, judge advocate general of. Ore- 'wilfiam Baird of this city, who a ftw as a whole. .:, con militia, because he alleged he had taken sides with those opposed to the governor's law enforcement. Judge White was formerly of Baker. Copperfield, Jan. 6. No liquor re mains in Copperfield an the own is ' quiet. Colonel Lawsori left Captain Metcalf and special Agent aouuh in charge, with seven guards oVer the town, when he went to Hunting ton yesterday afternoon with the re mainder. The militia is expected to return here Wednesday afternoon and will then, be retained until theses-1 tablishment of civil government. Att what time this will be done is not. made known here today. The town is very quiet. Huntington la Indignant. Huntington, Jan. b. Aitnougn "'for the needs of the littie community Huntington officials are indignant, the , now is in a state of martial presence of the militia is not going w create any disorder, and the officials profess to be in perfect accord with any effort to enforce the law. Mayor Is Exasperated. F. A. Bubb. mayor of Huntington, seemed exasperated when told of the intent to declare marnui mw m "-" ington, but he said that if it was Governor West's he would not oppose it and would do everything in his power to assist the military authori ties to see that there was no physical resistance to any order that might 1m issued. The saloonmen of Huntington, how- . Avar .winrl that they would fight th issue throueh the courts. They . . 77! "J.,. Tn. here have not yet heard from Mr. n. onmn'few hotheads who dviMd physical resistance and who Pittsburg Has Morals. Board SOCIAL PROBLEMS HANDLED BY COMMISSION. NEED LIGHT PARKS Paid Agent Is to Operate . Morals Commission In Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 6. One of the matters before the new city council at its regular meeting today was the appointment of a new .Morals and Efficiency board commission, as pro vided by an act of the 1913 legisla ture. It will comprise a director at a salary of $3000 and six other mem; bers, three of whom may be women, ' The first committee served from April 16, 1913,' to December 9, when it made its final report to the council and asked that it be relieved from further duty. In its final report was a recommendation for immediate elimination of the 65 disorderly hous- :es, here when it completed its worK ;It had reduced the number from 247 J the sale of liquor in the houses be prohibited. found twenty girls ' will g t0 enter a different Me 8nd h6lp- and -de an exhaustive study of segregation which . finally led to the recommendation that the district be wiped out. Along other lines it recommended that "street walkers" and mashers be suppressed; that any child born out of wedlock be granted the rights of a legitimate child; that all public parks be well illuminated; that the churches and schools be used as social centers and that women's clubs should devote their attention particularly to 'promotion of the single standard of I ' morality idea. Ba j 6.(Special-In that months ago organized a Sunday , school class ithere and now" has la- flourishing class of about 30 ' mem- bers, has received an offer from Sam Aklin, Copperfield merchant and; also owner of the townsite, of a lot and $50 if the' Presbyterian, church will in his town. The offer was mnH nn the assumDtion that other nnoDCQcin n hckq enp a rm m iiiMM u ii i n nu u i u II n uiiuiiuii Copperfield citizens would aid in the the Geo. H. Currey real estate agen work and add to the fund. cy, exchanged the same for the L. B. Rev. Ward W. MtcHenry, pastor of Moe highly improved ten acre tract .i. tjwion mvh ViBre. said in May Park. This was formerly toda that a iarge church would not Copperfield as there are yrnytB of his denomination ,. av nn(1 other O0ints near the little town, but he said that it thnt n Rmall chaDel naa - -- . jwould be built there, enough to care law.. Mr facHenrv said that there was a genuine demand, for a church at Copperfield and that the movement was instituted by those citizens who are not connected with the saloon' in- terestg He said that information Industrious Biddy Gleans GoldNuggets Let the chickens do the work, may become the slogan in South ha Grande, for instead of laying eggs get a new leas j : .. - , away In Her craw xor vn ... I n.,t tn tn the fable, the valuable fowl paid tt penary with her life. On killing ton Mm. Nitt dis SIX DYNAMITE SHIPPERS GET 1 COURT OF APPEALS REFUSES RELIEF TO 24 OTHER DEFENDANTS. . TVIETMOE AMONG THE 6 TO BE GIVEN NtW TRIALS Insufficient Evidence Said To Have : Prompted Retrial Orders for Six of the Indianapolis Dynamite Cases Challenges of ; Error Overruled By Court of Appeals. Chicago, Jan. 6. The United States circuit court of appeals has granted Hiram Johnson, running mate with appeals to six of the union men jjheodore Roosevelt on the progres convicted at Indianapolis for megaHy v t m announced transporting dynamite. ' It denied1 retrials for 24 others. The retrials were granted to Olaf Tvitmoe, James Ray of Peoria, Richard Houlihan of Ch cago, William.McCain of Kansas, Fred Vherman o'f In'diana, d William Bernhart of Cincinnati. - jn rever8mg the convictions of the 3x the court held, the evidence in the case wa8 insufficient. The cases ' were remanded to the lower court 'for reil-iai The courfc overruled all Challenges of error alleged By the defenBe attorneys, J ...' - ' . Portland Storm Ceases. Portland, Jan. 6. Storms which have prevailed since Saturday, sub !J.J 1.. .-J sided early today. from the little town, was that there! BOUGHT IN MAY PARK. .. , ' K Ed. Ayers of Elgin, Exchanged His . Farm for Choice 10-Acre Tract, . ' , ra. J tnree mues norsn pi - jwrui, wv as the Sam Parker farm, tnrougn the Wm. Hall tract. Mr. Hall was the first. man to improve a' tract in May Park. He recognized the ex- cellent soil and blazed the way that others mignt iouow, vuj- are many prosperous homes on what . iormeny was wuu vw Governor Will Investigate. Houghton, Michi, Jan. 6. Gover- nor Norris has began a personal in vestigation of the Copper strike sit uation, with this city as a headquar ters. He conferred with . Sheriff Cruse this afternoon. In Her Craw covered four beautiful pieces of gold in the craw of the hen, nuggets that had been worn smooth and shiny by the grinding process in the craw. There is much talk over the discov ery in that portion of town and some are thinking of going into the chick en business on a large scale. There is bound to be gold in the venture which ever way one takes, for eggs are legal tender even at moving pk tare riiowa. 1 HI JOHNSON TRIPLES ON SENATE PLANS REFUSES HIMSELF DESIRE TO RUN FOR SENATE BY AGAIN BEING GOVERNOR. THINKS PARTY BEST SERVED IN OWN STATE Ambition To Become United States Senator Spurned By California Progressive' Who Thinks He Can Best Serve His Party By Remain ing In Governor's Chair. Sacramento, Jan. 6. Governor his candidacy for re-election to the office of governor. . The governor has sacrificed his personal ambition and desires to be a United States senator, but he said he believed the interests of the pro gressive party in California would be best served by his running for gov ernor. It is taken to mean that he will reserve the right to become a senatorial candidate at the next op portunity. . SIR GARDEN SAFE England Is Not Contemplating His emoval .From Mexico City. : London, Jan. 6T The British for- . .... i elgn office denied tne story wiaeiy circulated in the United States that Sir Lionel Garden is about to be re moved from England's Mexican le gation.. "There is no truth what ever in the report,"..' it is stated. officially Copyright, XM, by the Paaama W" Wi FIGURE OF ENTERPRISE CROWNS HUGE TRIUMPHAL GROUP AT THE PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION, SAN FRANCISCO, 1915. T IHB above photograph represents "Enterprise," a detail of the sculptural group, the "Nations of the West," wmen win crown the Arch of the Setting Sun at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Sun Francisco, site side of the Court ef the Sun and Stars to the Arch of the Uislng Sua, crowned by the composition "Nations of the EnsL" The group Nations of the West" 1 designed by Messrs. A. StlrHtv Calder, Leo Leutelll and Frederick G. R. Both. China Enters ....... r . London Marts BRANCH BANK TO BE ESTAB LISHED AT ONCE. ENVOY IS ON WAY America to Be Visited and Likely New York May Get One. Pekin, Jan, 6. It became known today that the establishment in Lon don of a branch of the Bank of China is to be one of the missions of Chon Chin-tao, special envoy of the ministry of finance, with the rani: of minister plenipotentiary, who leaves ?!yrtly for England, Europe and the United States. At the time of his recent appointment it was understood than Dr. Chon was going abroad to negotiate for a recrudescence of the 130,000,000 currency reorganization loan which the revolution of 1911 upset. Now it seems that this . is to be but one of his many duties. The organization of a branch in New York, city is also discussed, but no decision has been reached official ly. However, this will.be done soon or late, but London will have the honor of receiving the first foreign branch of the Bank of China. It is understood that Dr. Chon will look into the New York situation- while he is in America, and that the future date of placing a Manhattan depart' ment will depend upon his after he returns to this city. report Novel Career Ended. London. Jan. 6. Dying at the ago of 90, Elijah Linley, who for 70 or more years was parish clerk, Buleote, Nottinghamshire, left the fallowing record which was filed as pait o his v ill today; duir 1,100 graves, ofT.ci rted at 400 weddings and 1,500 b l i tems, tolled the funeral knell fir four British sovereigns, and rang the .rimes for 14,000 services, one be'.f :th each hsnd and the third wit'i ! his foot. He difd In the same cot Itsge in whici was born; tf - Pacific Interna'tional ExpoeiUon Ce, 1915. This arch will be on the oppo SEDEfffl-FI 1 1 FERRY 515 RESCUED RAILROAD WORKMEN BRING STORY OF FRA ZIER DISASTER.' . OKLAHOMA VICTIM LIST REDUCED BY FIVE TODAY Frazier River Claims Seventy-Five f One Hundred Men On Ferry Trying To tVosa Swift Stream Few Swi To Shore Through Current Oceaa Horror Made Less Severe. Wlnnepeg, Jan. 6. That 75 labor ers were drowned Saturday while try ing to cross the Frazier . river near Fort George, British Columbia, u reported to the immigration official! today by Angelo Puglies, a railroad worker Vho has just arrived here from the scene of the disaster. Th men were ferrying across the stream ', when the barge'' sank under them. One hundred men were on the fer- ry, one iof whom wa's Pugliea. Ho' said the craft became unmanagable 'and sank. Some swam ashore but the swift current made swimming nearly impossible. The men wer dashed to death on the rocks anu carried through the rapids. Twenty. five men were rescued. A majority were railroaders. New York, Jan. 6.-Rescue of five more' survivors of the Ukianoma which sank at sea Sunday night, is reported by wireless from the Booth liner Gregory. The men are Fred Booth, George Johnson, ,W. Haaht, John Kossick apd Jacob Swanson. The rescue brought the total' saved from the bo6t up to 13 and reduced the numbeor of lost to 27. . The quin tet, with six others, got off in a life boat and were at the oars when they were picked up by the Gregory. The other -six man had drowned, when the boat turne :! ? r but five climbed aboH.' T'r-1.': raid that when Hie Oklahoma broke in two, another life boat filled with survivors was afloat, but he did not know how many men were in it. MRS. CASEY'S FATHER DEAD P. Maloney, Portland Pioneer, Passed Away This Morning. Tonight Mrs. W. H. Caaey will leave for Portland in answer to m message received this morning stat ing that her father, P. Maloney, died at 12:30 o'clock. The deceased was or:e of the well known men of the coast having lived in Portland many years. .He was 75 years of age. His children are: Mrs. W. H. Casey of La Grande, Mrs. Thos. Hulme, J. C. 1 Maloney and P. R. Maloney of Portland, and T. E. Maloney of Spo kane. ... The funeral will probably be held Thursday. Bryan In Nebraska. Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 6. Secretary of State W. J. Bryan, is due here today for his much heralded address be fore the monster commercial meet ing in Lincoln. Soon after his ad dress tonight Secretary, Bryan will leave for Chicago where he addresses the real estate association there to morrow evening. .. : Americans Visit San Paulo. San Paulo. Jan. 6. The American "commercial expedition" arrived here today and for four days will remain. The America business men (were very cordially received and were also shown every courtesy by local mann fnptnrera to whom they applied f.r I permission to inspect the factoriae, nd eUblUhmT' i (Ootaued on Pag Bight.)