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:LA GRANDE, OREGON,
TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1914
NUSlEER 190
V
III
AFFIRMS WILSON
PERSONAL GUILT CAN Hi 1ST
BEDETERC1IHEDANDPUNISHMENT
INFLICTED DEMANDS PRESIDENT
)Great Crush To Hear Address Results
From Use Of
Washington, Jan. 20. For the fifth
time since he was elected, President
Woodrow Wilson journeyed from the
white house to address congress., This
time it was his much-mooted and
much-waited trust situation that- was
the theme of his address not "mes
sage" as in former days.
Admission Heatedly Sought.
Most of the cabinet members ac
companied him to the capitol but ad
mission was by ticket, which is an
exceedingly hard way. " Each con
gressman and senator had one apiece,
and these were far too short to go
around to all who wanted to get in.
- Without any formality, the presi
dent proceeded to read his address.
Interlocking Plan Must End.
The interlocking o f the personnel
of directorates of great corporations,
tanks, railroads, industrial, commer
cial and public service bodies is the
IN PEST BED
SMALLPOX BREAKS OUT IN
PORTLAND STRUCTURE.
Those Not Vaccinated Ousted From
, Temporary Headquarters.
Portland, Jan. 20. Fearful that an
pidemic of smallpox is prevalent, city
ealth officers have closed the large
wooden tabernacle which for several
weeks has been used as a refuge for
about 100 unemployed. - The health
department acted upon orders of the
city commission, following the dis
covery of smallpox in the building.
Last night 29 submitted to vaccina
tion and others refused, the refusal
resulting in their being ousted.
ON THE LOCAL ALLEY
best Scores In Ragtime Tournament
Show Class.
The winners in the ragtime tourna
ment which just closed on the Club
alleys were not decided until a late
hour Saturday night Crowe and
yatton seemed to have a comfortable
plead, with 1171 pins for three games,
until Caylor and Scott announced that
they were out after the first prizo,
and hung up a total of 1217 pins.
This would make an average of 200
for both boys, which is very good
bowling. Caylor was high man with
M4 for an average of 215. Scott
averaged well over the 190 mark.
The high game of the tournament
went to Crow, with 259. He had
fun of ten successive strikes, and if
ke had started in Ms first frame, no
doubt would have shattered all records
-on the local skids.
UNEMPLOYED
III HIS TRUST "ADDRESS"
Ticket Plan
crux of the trust system, in the opin
ion of President Wilson. '
Seal Connections Demanded.
Discussing evils resulting from such
interlocking directorates, the presi
dent caustically attacked a group of
millionaires who, by reason of enor
mous holdings of stock in numerous
corporations, constitute virtual mo
nopolies. He virtually told congress
that it should decide whether big
owners of stock in corporations had
been compelled to elect and in which
one of them they' will exercise their
right to vote on .the conduct of af
fairs ij". ;;v."--:';,'. ; -; v;
: i fnbllc Opinion Conquers.
: ; ffsidjnt declared emphatical
ly for the creation of an industrial
commission and declared that public
Solon Fights
WithLawyer
THE KENTUCKY CONGRESSMAN
- CALLS FOR REVOLVER.
BOTH FACES CUT UP
Debate In Committee Room at Wash
ington Leads to Fight.
Washington, Jan. 20. Representa
tive Johnson of Kentucky,' and John
Shields an attorney, engaged in a fist
fight on the floor of the Distirct of
Columbia committee room today.
Both faces were cut and bruised.
More than a dozen, blows were
struck. Johnson demanded a revolv
er after clerks had separated the com
batants. ' ' " '
We Will Give Away a $15.00 Lamp
It is beautiful with its hand painted shade. It will be given in
the Observer Pennant Table Cover Contest. Whether you win-any
of the $21 worth of prizes or not you will possess . the beautiful
table cover you can make out of Observer Pennants, but you can win
a prize if you try hard enough. Read about it and see the picture
of the lamp in this paper. You must hurry if you want the beauti
ful State of Oregon pennant. They are going fast.
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cents, (to cover Incidental cost) entitles the bearer to one
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S 1ST END
opinion had, finally conquored "big
business," so that the average busi
ness man was convinced that "the
ways of liberty are also the ways of
peace and also the ways of success."
Personal Guilt Demanded.
He emphatically approved making
guilt personal in all suits against
trusts. "Every act of business is
done at the command or upon the ini
tiative of seme ascertainable person
or group of persons," he said, "and
these should be 'held individually re
sponsible and the punishment fall
upon them and not upon the business
organization of which they make il
legal use."
Tax Datri Confusing.
, Some misunderstanding has devel
oped as to when the first half of taxes
may be paid. The first half must be
paid by April 1 to avoid penalty. The
second half can go over until fall
but draws penaly f rom April 1.
EX-CLERK OF
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LEONARD GARVER, PROMINENT
: LODGEM AN, TO' SPEAK.
Former Senate Clerk Now Represcn
tative of Supreme Moose Lodge.
Leonard Garver, direct from the
supreme lodge of Loyal Order of
Moose, is in La Grande today and
will tonight address the membership
at the new club home. He comes as
national lecturer for the Moose and
preparations for an entertainment in
his honor has been under way for
some time. He will deliver his lec
ture during the evening, and it will be
followed by a social entertainment.
. A lanre class of novitiates will be
put through the mysteries of the
order during the progress of the even
ing, and the night promises to be an
important one in the history of the
local lodge for this is the first time
a supreme lodge representative has
visited it.
Mr. Garver is a politician of some
repute and a splendid orator. For
a considerable time he was chief
clerk of the senate, gaining that dis
tinguished office after an active par
ticipation in California and national
affairs.
They will not be issued before I
MAJOR CASSIUS E. GILLETTE
Major QUlatte, a former army ngt
i' who uncovered the harbor fraud
t 8avannah several year age and
gav up hi eommlaalon to fight graft
r In Philadelphia, I carrying en a
"campaign of education" on the Me
lean situation. Because, of hi crIV
Idem of the administration for not rec
ognizing Huerta, a bill for hi rein
statement In tha army a a colonel
ha been withdrawn, by Senator Hoke
Smith,
PUT IT UP TO
RATES FOR ELECTRICITY TO BE
, INVESTIGATED HERE.
Commercial Club Appeals to Railroad
Commission For Adjustment
Through its attorney, H. E. Dixon,
the Commercial club executive com
mittee has started an . investigation
of rates charged for service in La
Grande by the Eastern Oregon Light
& Power company. The initial pa
pers were forwarded by Mr. Dixon
last evening to the Railroad Commis
sion at Salem and it is expected that
in the due course of time attention
will be given to the La Grande situa
tion by that court of' adjustment.
In speaking of the action taken one
of the directors of the 'Commercial
club said today: "Believing that La
Grande's light and power rates are
excessive in comparison with the us
ual rates charged for similar service
in other cities of the northwest, the
La Grande Commercial club has filed
a complaint with the State Railroad
commission, setting out that the rates
charged by the Eastern Oregon Light
& Power company are 'unjust and dis
criminatory and . that there is too
great a difference between the classes
of service furnished by the defend
ant.' . ' ( :"
"When the commission orders a
hearing, the Commercial club will be
in position to show the commercial
rates now in effect in many of the
municipalities of Oregon, Washington
and Idaho.
"The club is receiving this data at
present and there is not a single in
stance reported that equals the high
rate La Grande is paying. A few
places are fully fifty percent lower
and there is no case but what a sav-
in g of at leat twenty-five percent as
I compared with our rates,
I "The club has found the following
rates to prevail elsewhere: Ellens-
COMMSSION
FOUR LOST CHILDREN STUMBLE
INTO RANGH CABIN AFTER LOIIC
PERIOD OF HARDSHIP IN WOODS
Canyonville Children, Lost Since Last
Sunday,
Canyonville, Ore., Jan. 20. After
hope had been abandoned for their
safety, four children of Mr. and Mrs,
Mathew Adams, who wandered away
from home 11 miles east of Roseburg
early Sunday morning, the children
were found today. They accidentally
came upon a ranch house in the woods
near Canyonville at 10 o'clock last
night; and there they were given food
and cared .for;'
The news of their reaching safety
. Elgin Burglar Convicted.
J. C. Ghristalnsen, city marshal of
Elgin, came to La Grande last night
with Ed Robs who was taken on a
charge of burglary in a bakery. He
was tried and received 25 days in the
county jail. He also brought a Greek
who was caught shooting wild ducks
on a state game preserve. He plead
ed guilty and was fined $58,, which
he paid. - ' V:- ' . -:"
burg, Washington, enjoys a rate of
6 cents per .kilowatt hour for resi
dence service and 8 cents for commer
cial service, while the La Grande rate
is 15 cents per kilowatt for residence
and 10 cents for commercial service.
Weiser, has a residence rate of 10c;
Corvallie, 'Oregon,- has a 10c rate;
Klamath Falls, Oregon, a 10c rate;
McMinnville has a much cheaper rate
than La Grande, 12c for the first 10
watts, 10c for the next 10 watts, and
7c for the next 10 watts. Marsh
field has 11 cent resident rate and 8
cent business rate; Boise has a resi
dence rate up to 20 watts of 12 cents,
for the next 10 watts 9 cents and a
commercial rate of 9 cents; Twin
Falls has a resident rate of 11 cents.
"The Commercial club will have a
mass of rates when the time comes
and will be able to make a showing
that v. ill secure a radical reduction in
local lighting and power bills."
FRENZIED FINANCE CAME
NEW AND CLEVER PHASE TO IT
High and frenzied financial pro
jects may have a new exponent in a
man giving his name as Frank Mc
Collough, enroute from, and bound No
where, but in the meantime "buying
horses." McCollough is now in the
city jail awaiting the outcome of a
coup to obtain money last night by
what is characterized as bogus checks.
P. A. Foley cashed a check for $20
which McCollough presented last
evening after having posed as a
horsebuyer during the day. The
check was cashed, but shortly after-
wards suspicions were aroused and in
vestigation disclosed tnat tne cnecK
was worthless. Before McCollough
was rounded up some eight or nine
(Jollars had been spent. The rest is
held In official hands for the pres
ent. - ''.,
McCollough' tells various stories.
He inquired yesterday of Dr. P. A,
Charlton as to the best place to buy
horses, saying he had purchased two
but wanted 40. He stated he had ret-
J ative in North Yakima.
Clever Check Game Suspected.
When arrested the prisoner had
evidences in his pockets of long trav
Found-Suffering Intense
reached here today. . They, were of
fering extremely from, cold and hun
ger when the ranch home was located.
Hundreds of farmers have searched
for the children since the alarm was
given Sunday night, when the little
ones failed to return after going; to
the woods near by in search of pitch.
They were soon lost ' in the dens
forest i
BUSINESS CHANGE ANNOUNCED
F. Wllhelm Sell Tailor Buine
WIU Be With Toggery.
A business change was announced.
hifh ?'"W"h,lmT Mil. hi
tailoring busbies in the. New F6ley
building to Wilson Brothers, proprie
tors of the Club Tailor shop, and. Mr.
Wilhelm will be associated in the fu
ture with The Toggery.
Duck Hunter Fined.
Angelo Tsatsos, a Greek, , was fined
$50 and costs amounting to $58, in
the justice court for killing a duck
on - the South Elgin game preserve.
The season is. closed on birds of this
character, by tjie .federal amo law
that went biti Viiect on the 15th of
January. -, He pleaded guilty and paid
bis fine." The p.'in was als? con
fiscated an i. turned in to the commis
sion. Onca a year all ch arms
taken from mrn vr hunt illicitly are
sold at auction. ; The gun waa a mod-;
ern Winchester and iu valued at ?2t)
or more.
Contingent Fund Grows;,
Chas. A. Walters and Ed. 'Fields
contributed to the city's contingent
fund I this morning by order of the :
municipal judge.' They were charged
with having imbibed too freely- and
were fined $15 each.
et. Meal tickets only partially used,
and purchased up and down the Pa-'
cific coast from Mexico north, which
the police presume are- products of
a clever pen game, were found on hi3
person.'
He said today he- hails from no-
where.
queer Letter found.
Among other personal belongings
was a letter written in this city and
signed by "Frank Baker," addressed
to Frank McCollough at Huntington,
wherein "Frank Baker" incloses a
check on a local bank along with a let
ter saying it was part payment on ac
count. Chief Avant presumes that
with this letter, written by himself,
and addressed to himself it would be
an easy matter for McCollough to
identify himself in Huntington end
obtain more easy money. The arrest
has brought out earmarks of a check
game of long standing.
. Don Kennedy, a lumber man, was
arrested last night on a charge of
having robbed his pal's roll and dis
posing of some of his wares in it
He was arraigned before Justice A.
C. Williams and was bound over on
$500 bail which he couldn't liquidate,