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
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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.
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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
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much worKea up over wus, ana are
demanding to know the facts, I will
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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
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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
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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. ...
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Miss Converse's., father, Frederick
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The water : has reached such
u . .v . , . , .
.height that the Ford auto plant is
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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,
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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.