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4 VOLUME XTTT. GALES STRIKE TERROR TO BIG CITY CENTERS INDIANAPOLIS SUFFERS FROM TERRIFIC GALE THAT IS RAGING THERE TODAY. DEATHS RESULT FROM CROSSED TELEPHONES Indianapolis and Chicago Are Centers of Terrific Storms Lake Shipping In Danger and One Steamer Be- t lieved to Have Gone Down Crip pled Service Prevails Generally. 1 39 and the mean minimum was 29. , Indianapolis, Jan. 31. A howling The lowest for one day was 11 above blizzard is raging here. Trains are zero, and the highest was 63, making ' 12 hours late and interurban traffic tn's month similar to the months of U demoralized. Street car service JT .in rj95 "d "8- . . . , . i There is no likelihood that the tem . is nearly out of commission and wire perature will go below zero this win communication is more completely ter, because the records show that crippled than by the floods last March, all of the below zero days have come Joseph Walsh put a telephone re- in the forfc Part of this month ceiver to his eJ22i2is killed, in-' .Goundhog day is on the second day Hieatinir th seriousness nf th sittia- tion here. A live wire was blown across the telephone and telegraph, as well, as long distance service. It is very cold and the territory embraced is growing larger. -' Gale Sweep Chicago. V ' Chicago, Jan. 31. It is "blowing heavily here and a fierce gale is sweeping over Chicago. Railroad schedules are demoralized and street cars are run irregularly. Fears are felt for lake shipping. It is believed that one vessel was lost off the Lawrence avenue dock. A siren was heard before dawn but by daylight it had ceased to sound and nothing has been seen of the boat. Tug3 have been sent to in vestigate. The storm is general throughout the West. . BASKETBALL TEAM HERE Milton High Unable to Cope With the Union Team at Uinon. Handicapped by the slippery floor, which Union players understand and, visitors don't, the Milton high school team which plays the La Grande high tonight, met defeat last night and ar f rived from Union, and is quartered at the Foley today. The game to night will have an important bearing on the Eastern Oregon championship. Members of the team are:Smith, Sykes, Rink Clark Everetts and Still. . INJURED MAN SUFFERS T. M. Hughey Recovers Very Slowly From Recent Injuries On Street. Although several weeks have elap sed since T. M. Hughey, aged' 76 was run down by a team while he was crossing a street of the city, he is re covering very slowly and in, much pain. He was evidently injured more severely than at first thought, and recovery has not been as rapid as desired. BANQUET THURSDAY NIGHT Methodist Church Basement to Be Used For Luncheon. Committee No. 1, of the Commercial dub, which is the rival of Committee No- 2, which gives a banquet later, has picked February 6 as the time for Its banquet; It will be srved a 6 o'clock, charges are to be 50 cents per P'ate and the purpose is to discuss 1915 traffic questions as regards the Panama Fair visitors coming through La Grande. The business men should notify Joe Williamson at the Com Hercial club as early as possible of their intentions to attend. AN LA January Is Queer Month aimiUAK YEARS HAVE RCRN RECORDED. II Above Lowest Mark January Had Similar Records In 1903 and 1908, It Appears. January has been an unusual month in some climatic respects. The most unusual feature of the weather was that during the thirty days' there was not one perfectly clear day. Sev eral half days on which the sun shone are recorded, but not one of a full days duration. .- The precipitation was less than most people imagine Dut tw inches of ram fell during the montn. ihe snow fall too, was out of the ordinary, but eleven and one half inches are recorded. The mean temperature for the month was 34. The mean maximum temperature was w reDruary. from present indica tions ne not see his shadow and i'11 8 back into his hole, and pleas- ant weather will follow. Spring will not be delayed and plows and har rows will be in the field at an early date. If the weather should be clear on that date and the old prognostiea tor should see his shadow he will make a hasty bow and retire to his sleeping 'boudoir to reamin there until six weeks of bad weather have blown over. Whatever truth there may be in this old adage, so much is certain, that the happenings after shadow weather have always been wet, cold and dreary. MANY DEATHS MRS. GEORGE PEACH LEAVES A SORROWING FAMILY. Mrs. McAlister Body Home Several Deaths During the Week. The death of Mrs. George Peach, which occurred last night, is a sad happening. There are four children living of the six which have been born to them. The oldest iff eight and the youngest a mere baby of six months. Death came as a result of typhoid pneumonia. Mrs. Peach was Ethel Minnie Price before her marriage to Mr. Peach, and was born in the vicinity of Walla Walla, June 30, 1872. She was mar ried March 4, 1897. She is survived by her husband and the fourchildren four brothers and three sisters, sev eral aunts and uncles a,nd many cous ins. Death came at her home eight miles east of La Grande. The bodies of Mrs. D. A. McAlister brought here from Riverside for bur ial, and Mrs. George Peach, who died last night, are lying in the Henry & Carr undertaking parlors. The fun eral of Mrs. McAlister will take place tomorrow at 2 P. M. from the Baptist church and that of Mrs. Peach will be held on Monday at 11:00 a. m. from the Island City church, burial in the Peach cemetery. . The week has been marked by an unusual number of deaths and much sickness. The deaths of Melva Dool ey, the nine-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Dooley, of this city and the little six-year-old daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Baker, both (Continued on Page Four.) IIS WEEK INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER - GRANDE, OREGON, BURLESON ASKS CONGRESS Immediate Action For Acquirement Of Telegraph Lines Urged As Only Pan acea For Present Evils Washington, Jan. 31. Government ownership of telegraph and telephone lines were recommended in a report to the senate by Postmaster General Burleson in answer to a senate reso lution requesting information regard ing government ownership of public, utilities. , . The recommendations were: "The only way to afford the people complete and modern postal facilities which the government makes it a duty of the government to provide,' Veronica, Ore., Jan. 31. Putting two cartridges into a rifle that he might kill himself, rather than starve, Wesley Eastahd of Nehalem, was lost in the woods and became so weak that when he tried to discharge the gun he was unable to raise the rifle to his head. He was found late yesterday after- E Order .has been placed, it is an nounced, for. the following equipment on account of the Union Pacific sys tem lines, delivery to begin about the middle of April: Four thousand double sheet box cars, 100,000 pounds capacity; four hundred stock cars of same size as heretofore used, 80,000 pounds capacity; six hundred all-steel auto cars, fifty feet long inside, 100 000 pounds capacity. All cars have FREE MOVIES MONDAY Efficiency Pictures to Be Shown By ' Railroad Company Men. Arrangements have been made where,by W. A. Perley, here in the city with the instruction car of the O.-W., will give a moving picture show to citizens of the city free of charge in the Commercial club rooms on Monday, February 2, at 7:45 P. M. The car is on the tracks in the yards : .u. . crowds that have soutrht admission to this most interesting display of, facts concerning the great problem' ofTnZr ton .ndffiy to the m. r.i - i missioner of railways in the state of Washington and is conversant with th i,hwt fm. nnt. nnlv thfi nnclfi of the nublic. but from that of the !1nnJn no ... ,il 1 XT a io nMeiinfinff IS rauiunua 0.-5 wen. i to .. (.oh.iiia connection with the moving pic ,., w .mini, utatintirn rivin by some of the leading economists of the country, including President Had-," IMIH ley, of Yale, and the noted English A- Hockley ana Joseph btoddard, expert who came to this country to of Baker, and George Stoddard of study our railroad system. The pic-1 La Grande. The present Stoddard tures are intensely interesting and,Brtners Lumber company war in- will give the man or woman who trav-.' els behind the iron horses of speed an idea of what it means to transport , thousands of lives over some of the mountainous stretches of the west . safely and expeditiously. In view of the great amount of agi tation for an increased freight rate the shippers of this city will have an opportunity to hear irom a special agent of the company what it means to deprive a company of a reasonable profit. The great subject of this lec- ture is safety. There is another that will mean dollars and cents to the consumers of coal, for the course in- Mute' PRINTS THF NEWS THE DAY IT SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, is to put into effect the following recommendations: That congress de clare itself for purchase of the tele graph and telephone and radio com munication monopoly or of all such other means of transmission as may hereafter develop; that congress ac quire, by purchase, the net work of commercial telephone and telegraph lines, farmers' lines excepted." It is generally believed that the re port has hastened the day when the government will take control of these lines. noon and taken to a homesteader's cabin. Eastahl became lost last Monday while trailing a deer. He shot the animal and ate the venison raw until it nauseated him. He fired off fourteen of the sixteen cartridges that he had with him and saved the last two to put an end to his misery. PLACES steel underframe, as heretofore. It will be observed that the only all-steeel cars are six hundred of the special design for automobile service. Placing the order at this time involves expenditure of between five and one half and six million dollars, and may be taken as indication of the confi dence railroad people have as to the future and will of course be pleasing to lumber manufacturers too. .1 eludes instruction on fuel economy, and is intended primarily for the men who shovel coal into the fire boxes of O.-W. engines. But this expert in coal waste can tell the average man some oi meomost interesting wings about his own home, that will mean a saving to him. No charge is made for admission. It is free as the air and all are wel come. . NEW LUMBER FIRM Local Timberman Is Part of Company : , . al , v , . Baker. Jan- 31. (Special.) Arti- ? 'incorporation of the Stoddard Lumber company have been sent to ; the secretary of state, and on their 0cok poration will be elected and organiza "on perfected. The new corporation a consolidation of the Stoddard Brothers Lumber company and the Shockley and McMurren Lumber corn- Pany. f this city. It is capitalized " i"-.u.ih-i-uis are corporated uncier ine laws oi utan will be dissolved, under the new incorporation law in mis state. COMMISSION NOMINATIONS IN First Appointments Have Been Sent to Senate For Commission. Washington, Jan. 31. The nomina tions of Winthrop Daniels of New Jersey, and Henry Hill of Colorado, to be members of the commerce com- mission have been sent to the senate fo confirmation. These are the first names that have been sent in. on 0b&8tvsv- HAPPENS 1914 Whiter Job Up In Smoke HOME READY FOR OCCUPANCY . . .. BURNED UP. ' . Loss Is Partly Covered North Side Resident Builds Home On ly to Find Ashee Today. To have spent his entire time this winter building for himself a cozy and comfortable home, living in a tent the meanwhile, and then have the new home burned down just when the finishing touches were put on it, was the depressing experience of Mr. Simpson, of North La Grande,- this morning. Fortunately, a blanket in surance will protect him in the loss of the material burned, but will not recompense him for his labor during the winter. ' An alarm was turned in from box 33 this morning at 3:15, and the de-! Ipartment made a hurried run to the extreme limits of North Fir street. On arrival there the department found that they could 'be of little or no as sietance, inasmuch as the building had been almost consumed before the alarm had been sent in. They ran out 1500 feet of hose to save the tent which was built alongside the newly erected house, and other property in the vicinity. The house was the property of Mr. Simpson and had not yet been plaster ed. Painters had just begun to. put on the filling coat and plasterers were about to begin their work. Blanket, or builder's insurance, to the amount of $1500 was pn the new building and, (he actual loss is covered by thisinsurance. LIST SETTLED CAPTAIN BLAMED FOR MOVING i AWAY AFTER CRASH. Claims Monroe Would Not Have Sunk So Soon Could Have Saved More. Norfork, Jan. 31. 'Survivors of the ill fated Monrofe, tammed by the steamer Nantucket, are doing well. Hilda Thacker, an actress, and Mrs T. J. Woods, of Norfolk, are still very ill and fears are entertained for their recovery. , The revised list shows that 19 passengers and 22 of the crew perished. Officials of the Old Dominion line blamed Captain Berry, of the Nan tucket, for backing his ship away from the Monroe after the collision " ? n tu T"'" where he was after the crash came nd left the two vessels together the Monroe would not have gone down on and more lives could have been saved. ELEVATOR BADLY INJURES MAN With a part of the lower right jaw together with four teeth crushed out, a long right-angle gash on his head and another in the left upper part of the forehead, Wm. Hammock, a tem ster of this city, was brought to Dr. Richardson's office this afternoon to have hia wounds dressed. He had just delivered a load of gravel to the Grande Ronde Meat market and was in the building watching the elevator. When this descended he looked down into the shaft and the platform caught him between the floor and the elevator platform. The skull does not seem to be fractured, but the wounds on the head, about eight Inches long and the lacerated lip and smashed lower jaw will be of a most painful nature. The lip hnd to be sewed on both sides and the flow of blood from tne broken bone wag persistent. He showed re markable nerve and scarcely winced when the stitches were made. The accident happened at 3 o'clock. MONROE S DEAD -NUMBER 200 FIRSTS OF POUTIGUL LIFE SHOW UP EARLY APPROACH OF COMING CAMPAIGN BRINGS POLITI CIANS TO LIMELIGHT. PRESENT ENCUMBENTS GENERALLY AMBITIOUS Few Men, Other Than Thoee Holdli. Office, Have Taken Positive Stand On the County Job Questions The Clerkship May Be Hotbed of the Race Minor Parties Talk Tickets. Politics of a county and district complextion is being gently siirerd in a preparatory way to a busy cam paign before the primaries. Up to date few candidates have broken loose with avowed intentions and de clarations, but th time is not far hence when the starter's gun will bang and of course the political sprinter who gets on the mark first will at least have the longest period of exploitation. Those who enjoy the distinction of being first on the mark includes a portion of the pres ent incumbents in county offices, and probably, pne jor two others. I R. Snook is contemplating entrance, for the county clerkship, for which posi tion Ed. Wright, present incumbent, is also an avowed candidate for re election. In fact it is the clerkship that the chief political noise is now about. W. W. Randall is, and has been considering the race in a casual sort of a way but has not come to any definite conclusion. If other candidates ere out for this same office they have not made their little doff of skypiece to the body politic of the state. The demo crats, so far as known, have no can-, didates for the clerkship, and if the three enumerated run all of them . republicans it should develop a pret , ty sort of race. Party lines are almost nil; albeit a great portion of the candidates will designate a party relationship, and avoid the independent route later, but as far as a party ticket is concerned, there will be little of moment unless the progressives decide to put a tick et in the field. Local Bull Moosers aver with considerable vehemence that this will he done. But it is a safe prediction that it will be a mat ter of individuals rather than real party-presented candidates all down the line. To have no party affilia tions means independent race in the general election. Prohis will probably not have a com plete ticket in and the ETAOIN plete county ticket, nor will the soc ialists. Both of these parties will have some candidates in the field. Present Incumbents Ambitious. Almost to a man the present in cumbents in office are either going to declare their candidacy at once or have such a step seriously in mind. Circuit Judge J. W. Knowles is finishing up a six years' term and is going to run again, as a republican. Neither republican nor democrat has yet put in an appenrance as an op ponent to the highest judicial honors in the district. There will be no squaring away for the political test of strength in the now office of coun ty attorney. The term expires this year but District Attorney Ivanhoe, from whom the county attorneyship in developed, is a republican and Gov ernor West is a democrat, the rela tionship being shown because the gov ernor fills by appointment all county prosecutor jobs until 1916. Poor chances for a republican. Q. E. D. This little bit of politicat jugglery (Continued oo Page Eight.)
