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VOLUME, xm. LA GRANDE, OREGON, WEDESUAY, 'MAY 13. 1014. NUMBER 285 PRIVATE PARKS , sum in hivf BEENEXEGUTED i ADMINISTRATION SEEKS, ACCU RATE INFORMATION FROM FUNSTON AND HUERT A. DRASTIC MEASURES TO BE INAUGURATED, In Case Parka Has Been Tortured, aa ' :' Reports Have It, the Administra ' i. tion : Will Be Forced to - Adopt . Strenuous Measures Funston Be lieves He Was Killed. Washington, May 13. Reports that,c Private Parks, who had strayed from Vera Cruz, fell into the hands of federal troops and was not only exe cuted but brutally tortured, promise to stir the , Washington administra tion to dtaslkaily retaliatory mea sures. .-Secretary Garrison sent in structions to Funston at Vera Cruz to put forth every effort to ascertain the exact facts concerning the fate of Private Parks. -.' Bryan asked the Brazilian minister to bring pressure to bear on Huerta for the same purpose. Funston has irftdy texpresuod .the opinion, Ui&t Parks has been executed, but the ad ministration proposed to give the Mexicans the benefit of the doubt, until the proof is secured. . Should the sinister reports prove true, Garrison, intimated plainly that the most drastic measures will be em ployed. ; "If polite and decent meth ods fail," said he,. ''we will then take our next step. If Parks was tortured. I, is an act of barbarism, whether the Mexicans considered - themselves at war with us or not." Royal Spendthrift Settles. Brussels, May 13. -The last of Princess Luise's horde of creditors, who together turned in claims to the Belgian government for approxi mately (4,000,000, debts incurred by the . late King Leopold's daughter, has finally agreed to take his propor tion of 1,000,000 offered by tfle gov ernment. All claims are to be set tled on this basis later in May. J'rincess Luise, who has been cal 1 the greatest spendthrift in Eu rope and renowed for the fact that she had more personal debts than any individual known, will have approxi-' mately $500,000 left out of her share of her royal father's estate. She hopes to get something like $2,000, 000 more when Charlotte, the aged Ex-Empress of Mexico dies. Drug Company Changes Hands. The Newlin Drug company has changed hands. Adolph Newlin who formerly tXtmed the stock has bought out his brother Robert, giving In ex change a 400 acre ranch on the south ..... . standing ..'timber cord: wood. - .. i Minora Not AUowed. Salem, Or.May, J3, Minora can't for fun, rdfog iay cards in poolrooms, even for tun, under the Oregon statutes; according tn an onlnton by Attorney General ' Crawford.. , Myatie Shrinera Elect. . . 1 - d. . -... c -it. Atlanta, May aa. if reoenca o.mvu of Rochester. New York, was today . . . : .i.i -i..4.. . v. mn. eiecxea imperm. p.. t; Shrmers, who are In session Here, t n - sA i?iinf hncf rrtt on. cub una inoriuiiic. Uiiuei uitti ffoo uii u uiaiiB aim liiuwcuu iuiiKuK i on the ranch into oacic.to uio joo oy-o tnia morning w ana tm rwunanco axMrwaraa conaw- ... ' - --m- .--.. . ... ... .,i . Two Members of CurrencyBoard ! "VidirTr: LaW i W, G. P. Harding ofBirmingham, . Ala., and Harry A Wheeler of Chi- cagp, p, to Whom President Mfils'on has !repWcohWreral Cur- has offerSdptaeef rency Reserve Board. Since Mr. Olney was to have been chairman, that place may now fall t W. G. P. Harding of Birmingham. . . . -. . . . He is the president of a Birmingham treak haa 0CCUred betWeea Mion,iy bank the largest bank between General McReynoIds and Solicitor Washington and New Orleans. Joseph Folk of the interstate corn Harry A. Wheeler of Chicago is merce commission and Commissioner president of the National Chamber of McChord, following a visit' to Folk by Commerce. re NAMED UP TO POLICE FORCE AGAIN NORMAL SIZE. Permanent Selections Will Be Made in a Day or Two. ' Temporary patrolmen have been put MM on the police force following the resig- mcnt: "That it is not a crime to re nations Monday night by the form- sist an officer, if the citizen has done er police force, and by tomorrow per- no harm or the officer has no war manent men will be put into uniforms, rant," has no relevancy or connection E. M. (Steve) Billings was switched with the facts in the attempt of the from the engineering office to act as police court to set 'aside its judgment temporary patrolman, and Art Weagle that had already been appealed, was temporarily put on the night Last Saturday one Charles Mc shift, iCorkle was tried and convicted for The past night was quiet, for which assaulting the chief of police and ra the new men were duly thankful. ' sisting arrest, the charge being for Two D. & D. patients, found on the streets were arrested because of their I liquory condition, but were', turned I i . i. . . 1. ; t " ; n i relieve the night man. . . . ' - The Police Resignation. - La Grande, May 13. (To the Edi tor of Observer) -In the last issue of the Observer, in your report of the! wholesale resignation of the police force of the city, and their refusal to serve with the present police magis- trate, , your Informant, evidently through misinformation, was in er- In art a ru .a the f)(Kme are , - r--. IT , i much worKea up over wus, ana are demanding to know the facts, I will - - maice ori ntif nearly midnight as- 'an assault on the officer before he.repair shop at 108 Elm street. He Hon, Turner Over, V Grande, uZy-seeretary F. convert the sisting Officer Weagle, and , came ordered the defendant under l. 'ZillTlZZ TSZTl mimm WITH JOE FOLK NEW HAVEN SCANDAL CAUSE : OF BREACH BETWEEN MEN OF CABINET. FOLK TOLD TO LEAVE - n BY ATTORNEY GENERAL McReynoIds Says That Affair Haa Little Importance Folk Charges Secretary With Unseeming Atti tude Promises , lo Dig Scandal to the Very Bottom.. J $ FIGHT IN BRYAN'S OFFICE $ S Washington, May 13. Anger $ ed because he was unable to see $ S Secretary of State Bryan imme diately, Jacob O'Conners, dis- j missed recently as the United ? States consul at St Petersburg S engaged in a fist fight with $ Bauskett. Brvan's Drivate' secre- t $ tarv. in the ante room of Brv- an's office today. The 'combat- 8 ants were separated before sen- 3 ous "bloodshed resulted. l 4 l t t 8 WflRhincrrnn. Mnv iM An ahrii McChord and Senators Kerns and ' N orris. The meeting was held in ' McReynoIds' office, and was balled to I discuss the commission's investiga- tion of the New Haven railroad scan- dal, but the session ended in discord. I Norris .later stated that McChord and Folk left McReynoIds' office "be cause the: attorney general practic ally requested thorn to get out." 1 In discussinsr the affair Folk said: "McReynoIds' conduct was such that wo d'('n't care to remain. In my judgment 'he advanced no reason for Ua to stop the investigation. We want the whole truth of this New Haven affair, regardless of whom it hits." .. j . resisting an officer m making an ar- rest. The arrest was attempted forr disorderly conduct, consisting of i tuted the offense with which I charg- ed him.' The court found that he did resist arrest, and that was the end j of It so far as the police court was concerned. The question of tearing j down the city pound and taking out' an animal without paying the fees,' to which the defendant and one Bird j Bennett confessed in the trial for' that cause' on Monday, in no way and In a Antrre-a AntprMi IntAjjie rhnrtjfl " . .V. . ' -T against - Mcuonn. on awroay, ana ... f 1 f J i. 1 , (Continued on Page 4.) CORTEGE PUT iilTO STAMPEDE i BY FLASHLIGHT EIGHT WOMEN TRAMPLED IN CHICAGO RIOT OVER FLASHLIGHT. VERA CRUZ VICTIM IS ' HONORED BY THOUSANDS! Excessive Powder Used In Flashlight Picture precipitates Stampede in Chicago Funeral Feared some of the Injured May Die from the In juries Sustained. . Chicago, May 13 Eight women and girls were all but killed today and some may die as an aftermath 10 the arrival here of the body of Samlfel Meisenberg the Chicago vic tim of the Vera Cruz massacre. The women were trampled under foot when fan excessive explosion for a flashlight which a photographer was using to take pictures of the lying-in-state of Meisenberg, started a stampede among 10,000 gathered to pay tribute. : The accident occured in La Salle street, where the body was received. -All heads were, bared as the flag- drapped coffin, buried in flowers, 'was lifted from the special car. In the city hall the body was guarded bj marines. AH flags in the city were at half mast. Nonagenarian Dead. Mrs. C. P. Duryea of this city has received the sad new3 today of the death of her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Brandt, at Brooklyn, N. Y., on May also by his ' romances for the or 10th. She was 93 years of age. Mrs. chestra, "The Festival of Pan" and Brandt lived in La Grande for a time "Endymion's Narrative," both found but at the death of her husband, took ed on Keats's poem, "Endymion." He the remains to Brooklyn and con- m a Director of the Boston Opera tinued to live there. She leaves four . Company and is a member of the daughters and three sons to mourn Harvard Club of New York. her death. Buys 120 Acre Tract. J. . Niclot who worked several months for tho George Palmer Lum ber company and was thoroughly conversant with the good qualities of the logged-over lands of the company purchased 1:20 acre tract yesterday through Geo. H. Curry. Mr. Niclot expects to move on the place imme- diately and plans to send for his family, now in Oklahoma. Office Closed Friday. Holiday schedules will prevail In me posi-uiiicis rnuuy. irenciai . - . i t- !j 1 1 t,n nnTfrom 9 until 10 a m and Z JS .wS?eJ carries will not make any deliveries that dny. Repair Shop Opened. Wm. M. Shlpp has opened a novel .key fitting, and bicycle repairs, Idaho Is Warm. . , u:.. r.n: iro ha Tsturned from Buhl, Idaho, where she has been ,vWt- ing relatiwes. She reports. Idahon - IMISB . 1 C.11U . ..w - - : -ually warm for this season of the year, Mrs. Selgrist Improvea.; . . : fico and Sinnott is acceptable to them through the Geo. H. Carrey real es Mrs. Herman Seigrlst improving from the standpoint of service. ' tata agency. Mr. tman after at- .,in... nrk f mhi-v I - - - The crisis is believed to have been reached last ni?M. ' Miss Converse to Wed Morgan Jts Miss Louise Converse, ' daughter of Frederick S. Converse ofBoston, the well-known composer, is to . wed young J. P. Morgan, the grandson of J. Pierpont Morgan, and heir appar ent to the house of Morgan. If this young' man's father, who is now head of the Morgan house, piles up 7ssa,, ;.:rrfl ' r j l f v :.v .n - f 0 - y. N ' i i miArtAir nnrl nneatAt n m A A kn rr i. T the Morgan firm will 'become an in-1 latitution as powerful as some overn- j .t j . i.!.!. 1. j . uate this summer. ... !, i 4.1. w j i Miss Converse's., father, Frederick 0 - . . ' Si I nnVAI'lA io null tnnwn an m " poser from his operas, "The Pipe' of Desire," presented at the Metropoli tan Opera House in New York City , several years ago, and "Sacrifice"; CASTING FOR A j . , , DEMOCRATS OF SECOND CON. I GRESSIONAL DISTRICT LATE Turner Oliver of La Grande and ' Harvey Graham of Baker. ( While Democrats in the second dis- Met have no hope of electing a con- S-sman over N. J. Sinnott, yet ny of them feel they should have a candidate ior uongress on ine mck et. The time , has elapsed for any name to anoear on the ballot hence it is a case of writing in names server he said today many letters had I been written him from different parts oi the district urging him to accept, Jams Harvev Graham: of Baker. VU - - also being mentioned: And there re . quit a few Democrats in this part of the dUtrict who state openly they are Sinnott men Decause mere is no- nope of Democratic success on this of- Mr. Oliver, although admitting tho I y ' (Continued on page 8.) ; ; p m'JT 7 7 X " wi buildings . In the inundated !LTk' L 'ST,r'mim.oisirlct?l. is principally mttS about to be married does the same,' t,.. Vl.iJT.. 1 DETROIT HIT BY FLOOD All LOSS IS HEAVY HUNDREDS HOMELESS AND OTHERS MAROONED BY IN. : . UNDATIONS. FORD PLANT FLOODED AND BUSINESS HALTED Two Days of Rain Swells Rivera la Michigan Crap Losses Reeh ' Million In That Section Electrical Storm Converted Into Heavy Rata and Windstorm. Detroit, May 13. Two are known to be dead and a million dollars lost to farmers and property owners, as the -result of the two days' storm that ,had Uen "ning had in hand with a prolonged rainiaii. xne electrical storm wWoh struck farther south lecti - mMltv. Hundreds Are Homeless. . ' In Detroit alone, hundreds of fam- . ilies are homeless,, but the flood wa ters have ; not raised much havoo . . . ? maone m,jtnef nomas ut can arise.. - . - - .( 'av I , , , . , The water : has reached such u . .v . , . , . .height that the Ford auto plant is - flooded. : Parks and manufacturing plants between the Ford factory and the river are in more serious condi tion. 1 BURL SICKLE DEAD. Son of. Prominent Union Rancher Dies of Spinal Troubles. ; ('Union May 13. (Special) Burl Sickle,, aged 12, died here of spinal troubles yesterday. He was the son of a prominent rancher living neaa here. Burl had been ill since the first . of the year, and suffered much pain. The funeral was held this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the family residence 1 about one mile from Union. Beside 1 the parents, he leaves one sister, younger than he. NEW OFFICERS INSTALLED. Banquet Follows .Turning . Moose Reins. - Over of ! , New officers were installed into of- tcea of the local Moose lodge last evening Following the installation a banquet of more than ordinary scope was JP khoth.... "" their places last evening were: past dictator, IV, A. f oiey; aictator, ah- (?us Stewart; vice dictator, Abo outer guard, " v-Colorado Party Locate. l".V Mi rival jjarS naoei vauuiui, , ovcu. .t- from Colorado, leaves in the morning to spend wveral weeks on " - ber Co's logged-oyer lands, purchased tending we neaa camp i m. . A., as a state ae egawana oepiy from Colorado, wlU Join her.
