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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSEK ER FRIDAY, MAY 28fc1915. WOMAH FALLS page two. 0 0 :; 1 TRAGIC ACCIDENT' MOURNED BY MANY. ;. Expert Rider AttemptH to Save Husband Is Drowned. . Caught in the spring torrent in Joseph creek, Mrs. Sylvia Tippect, wife of J. H. (Jidge) Tippett, was drowned Sunday afternoon while try ing to save her husband from the stream, remarks the Enterprise Cheftian. Her body was recovered yesterday and is now on the way :o Enterprise, according to word . re ceived this morning by Mrs. S. T. .Tippett. She did not know where the body was found. Full details of the tragedy have not come from the- canyons, as none of the searchers have returned, and there is no telephone , reaching to lower Joseph creek. From the . re ports sent out; it seems that Mr. and Mrs. Tippett had been for several days at G. W. Salladay's seven or , eight miles from their home east of Joseph creek and near the state line. They had been fishing. Sunday afternoon they started home and came to the ford near Bob Hag kin's place, a mile above where Jo seph creek empties into the Grande Ronde. The creek was still a torrent, and Jidge concluded to ride in to see if his horse could make it. The ani mal was swept off its feet and ho fell into the rapid stream. His wifn, a splendid rider, rode into the creek and tried to throw a rope to him. It seems that was the last he ever saw of her. .The current carried him down stream and out of sight, and some distance below he was washed against the bank and crawled out. He hurried back to the ford, but no trace of his wife was to be found. His search proving fruitless, Jidge hurried up the creek to send word to his relatives and to those of his wife. A messenger was found who rode to the home of J. T. Steen, Mrs. Tip pett's father. But no one was there. The family had cone to Enterprise, their daughter Mrs. Goldie Tippett, wife of Guy Tippett accompanying them. Mr. Steen was going to Wal lowa with horses for the sale, to re turn to take in the circus with ' his family in Enterorise yesterday. The messenger rode on to the C. L. Hartshorn . ranch, frcni where he telephoned to.. J idge's parents. Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Hytjjl.t in Enterprise. They did not know Sunday evening that Mr. and Mrs. Steen wero in town, so the latter did not learn of the drowning of their daughter until Monday morning.' Then S. T. Tip pett and Mr. Steen went in Henry Bauer's automobile to Chico, where they got horses and pushed on down the Chesnimnus and Joseph creeks. A telephone message from S. T. Tippett reached Enterprise Tuesday evening from Asotin. He said the searchers had been along the creeks and the rivers clear down to Asotin, but had not found the victim's body. As she was plunged into Joseph creek only a mile above the Grande Ronde, and as all streams there are out of their banks, it was apparent the searchers had a ., disheartening task. Jidge Tippett and Sylvia Steen were married in Enterprise Saturday January 23. A week before Guy Tip pett and Goldie Steen were married here. Jidge is one of the most cap able and deserving young ranchers of the county. . He has grown up in the stock business .. and has a fine start.' His wife also was familiar with the business, as she had lived vmost of her life in the range' country. Here parents have suffered ono mis- fortune after another during the last two years, and this last loss is the most severe blow of all. Expressions of sympathy for them have been Did the Letter Blur When Yoj Read Last Evening's Paper? Consult HEACOCK If at any time in one year 1 can improve your vision, no extra charge is made for the changing of lenses. If your mountings get broken, I will repair them for you without cost. You Have Only One Pair of Eyes Take Them to Heacock HEACOCK EYESIGHT SPECIALIST 3rd Floor Now Foley Bldg. II RADIANT UNIVERSAL. Study the points of construction. 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The stove is nickled-trim-med, the oven door is white porcelain. It has everything that could be ex pected of or on a stove, and is one of the aristocrats of the stove family. SOMETHING FOR NOTHING -THEY SAY IT CANT BE DONE BUT HERE IT IS Thi us is a $ 65o0l .Ran We will sell it for $58.50 and give FREE with each Range as long as they last a $25 Kitchen Cabinet or a $25 Ly Buggy. heard on all sides since the news of the tragedy was brought out. A remarkable incident connected with the drowning was a dream Mrs. W. P. Warnock had Saturday night. She told it to Mr. and Mrs. Tippett and to other friends on Sunday, sev eral hours before the message came from Joseph creek. . She dreamed that she saw Jidge and his wife thrown - into a swift stream, and that Mrs. Tippett was swept away and drowned. Mrs. War nock saw, . particularly, a woman's blue hat, floating down the stream. Mrs. Guy Tippett says that her sister had such a hat and wore it frequent ly when out riding. . QUINTET MUSICALLY EFFICIENT Team Swept to Death in Chesnimnus; CreeK. During the rains the Chesnimnus creek was high. On the afternoon of May 18th Edward Rambaud and Prank Marr were crossing the creek. The horses became frightened and backed up into the current, turning the wagon over and throwing the two men into the creek. With a great deal of struggling The Schuman Quintet brings to the thev reached shore. But the two , Chautauqua a genuinely new idea,, tnat horses were tangled in the harness js presenting "sympnonic concerts and were drowned. The horses were with a company of only five musi swept down the current for about Icians each an artist. By carrying a three miles, when thev were swept specially constructed reed organ the on a sandbar. The total loss was wind and reed effects are produced about $500. !Rnd with the piano and stringed ln- struments the effect is unique and For Sale, Five Acres Notice surprising. To add interest the quin to Bidders. 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