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VOLUME XXV
UKUBEH OF ASSOCIATED FIIEM
LA GRANDE, OR KG ON, Friday, June 23, 39112
MEMBER OK ASSOCIATE!) PRESS
NUMBKIt 122:5
I IK FANG "W
nmorn imiv T D GOMPLET ON
rmiu mm
THIS Mil 1
IVaa For Many Years Am
! Jjassador To The United'
I states. '
WAS 80 YEAES OF
AGE WHEN END C AME 1
. j highway commission. At Hot Lake
111 Recent Years He IlaSlthero Is not sufficient yardage to
Ttiw.,, Wi. on I ill steriwaiTI,nt fii'iiR """
' For Sun Yat Sen's III-
; Fated Government
Canton. .
In
i (ll.v Associated lVesS.)
J SHANGHAI, June 23 Wu Ting
ffang, former minister to Washington
and mrflo recently foreign minister
Sir President Sun Yat Sen in the dis
rfuled southern government at Cantor.,
(tied at Canton today, says a Router
despatch.. . ; .,
Known as the most picturesque fig
ure in diplomatic circles at Washing
ton lluring his two, terms as Minister
from China to the Cnitcd States Gov
ernment, Wu Ting .Kang possibly did
niore lo cement the cordial relations
between that country and this than
anyother envoy from-the Orient, with
the; possible exception of Li Hung
Chuiig.
' Dr. 'VVu had a sharp tunguo, was
breezy, frank and unconventional, and
his keen eniirrams. even at the ex
pense of imoortnnt personages in of
ficial lifel were constantly finding!
their way into print, sometimes to! we found that it was only a foot
the embarrassment of the ndminiatra-j' thick, with more yellow clay ndt.r
tion.. He was. an ardent baseball on- noath. Piles were driven 85 feet
iliusiusl and bicycle-rider when bi-
oycliiig was 'o popular. He was a
veeeiaiian and had prodictcd ho
w.ould live 100 years.
His sympathies with the United
States dining the- Boxer uprising in
dSMW) led to his recall. Th.j intima
tion by the State Department that hi
beheading would he offensive to this,
country only prevented his summary
execution. iuring un- ir..uim.u-
times- of the rebellion Dr. Wu got!
through a message to the Ameriean
(Minister, Mr. Longer, who, with hi'imiiTh an extent that when an effort
roleagues, was in the legation com was ma,i0 to dynamite the gravel
pound, Peking, nnd whose fate was a ; lt caiU0 oul jn uiocka six feet each
matter ot grave concern to me mare
llepartmcnt. The Kmpress Dowager
anfl her advisors were dissatisfied
with Dr. W'u's -''vitics and his rc-
(Contlnucd on Page Four)
L D. S.
1
The regular quarterly conference of
1i,iin strike of the L. D. S. church
Till lie held at tile taoernacic in i.nj
Crande tomoriow ami Sunday. Pre-l
siding Ilishon Chns. W. Nibley and
Khler Iiulnn S. Wells of the First'
Council of Seventy of the church are I
expected to be in attendance. '
Mr. Nililev is well known in I.a
Crande, having long been connected,
with the Grande Konde Lumber com-,
pany as president nnd also having
resided in Perry for several years. I
The conference will lie in session;
Iwo days, meetings being held at 10
. a! m. and 2 p. m. on both days. The
meetings are open to the public.
V. S. ;OI.I Kit IS CIIA.MPIO.V
Br Assoumed Trcss
. PANDWICH. Knglnnd, Juno 23.
Walter Hagen. American professlon-
ni en If slur, won the British open i
rhampimiKliip today. The final scores
were: Hagen. and: Harms, Amerl-
can, 301; Hutchinson, AmoTlcan
Meteor Lights
y City
A meteor passed ovor La C! ramie
last evening about ft: 30 o'clock. In
a southeasterly direction, falling
piobahlv about three or four mile,
out n the valley. This was one
of the largest meteors ever seen
in this section, appearing about the
slr.e of a regulation balloon up in
the air about one-half mile. It
lighted lip the earth nearly as bright
as tn the d lytlme.
The greater share of the people
ho were-' fortunate enough to wit
ness tlil-s manlfi'statlou iff natnre's
firewc ks, were altesdhn the Kelly's
Comedian" Is Th CsrHeas sad for
few mi. tbe l'.Mr. ere
CHURCH
CONFERENCE
l t 1 'J
ON BRIDGES
Highway' Department Re
ports That llot Lake and
Teloeaset Overheads Are
Beim? Built in Good Time.
Work on the ovorheads at Hut
Luke and Telocnse Is being com
pleted In excellent timer, consider
ing the difficulties encountered, ac-
cording to Christ Fauerso, engineer
the job and the structure proper
wag put iu place in record timo,
be said.
"We were unable ,io . work for
three nnd a -half; months on account
of the long winter and the railroad
company-held, up the work 'approxl.
mately a Jnionlh because rffter the
public service. commission had given
the.lr approval It was necessary to
wait until the railroad company cave
us permission from its Omaha office
to go -on the 'right of way." he
said. "JOxflojitlng for this It would
have been completed last fail. Tho
delay caused by th railroad com?
pany made our starting work on
tlje structure so slow that the con
crete was not old enough' for the
fill when winter came. ;
"At Teloeaset . similar ronlltlons
wore 'encountered. Teloeaset Is at
the apeu of a hill, there being a .
grade Trom either aide. Aside from
the delay caUBed by the railroad w !
uuna auer marling worx mai
would have' ,to .drive piles, whlcl.
was not anticipated. The. yellow
ieluy that : was eucountenvi is not
dependable and after striking grovel
deep, five to each column on each
pier." On hotK bridges all the teams
Uiat can be efficiently worked are
being used now to -complete the
nils, conditions being such that more
equipment could nut bo used. .
At North Powder, whore the over
head was completed last year, Mr.
puuerso gHiu, everything went ac-
corning to the highway commission's
plans nnd the till was nearly com- 1
Pclcd , last fall, heavy frost result-i
tn the gravel pit freezing to I
BULLETINS
(Hv ANnoclslrit l'rfs.)
PKRRIN, 111., Junu 2n. Two
more bodies of men slain In yes
terday's inino battle woro recovered
from a pond noar the inino tuday.
"TOKIO, June 23. .The Japanese
cabinot today decided J;ipai( shall
evacuate Siberia. Thu derision ht:s
been reforreil to the Imperial dip
lomatic council.
SEATTLE, Juno 23. Tho Power
schooner ot lienors Ilrotucrs was
wrecked In tho lco In okhotsk'-i si.a,
off the Kamchatka peninsula. Siber-
la. Juno 2. The crew of 10 vrs.s I
saved. I
SALEM, June 2:i. Arguments on
appeal of Dr. Ilrumfleld. sentenced
to hang for the! alleged murder of
Donnis Itussell, near Itosebiirg-. are
being heard by the aupieuie court
ioun
rOUTLAND. June 23. Livestock i
wan steady today and em;s were
we;.k wlille butt or wiut steudy.
Wheat was to $1.15.
Up The
Bright As Day
denly appc.ired. The meteor was i
bright yellow in color and left a
trail of smoke and different colored
sparks behind lt. When It struck
the earth, no sound was heard, but
an unusually bright flare was pro
duced. Apporontly the meteor had :
practically burned Itself out by the
lime It lilt the ground. It traveled
at a relatively slow speed for n
meteor and was In the. ntr so as i
to be seen from The Gardens for :
about thirty seconds.
No report h"s been recilved from
outlying districts as to exactly whero '
it felt or wlfelher tt was burned
, rorppletely out by the time it reich-
- ,ed the earth
Gompers is
Elected Again
Ameriean I'Ydoratioii nl' La
bor Will Meet in Fort
land Next Year.
(Uy Asoeia'"d I'ress.)
CINCINNATI, June v2!!. Samuel
Gompers was todny re-elected prcsi-1
dent of. the Amciiran Federation of,
l.abor on a unanimous ballot.
I'oj-tUoid, Oregon, was chosen fov
the next convention, in October, IMS'
C. A. IJnrnos, organiser of the
Oregon Co-operative Gnuln Growers,
w is in La Gruiido yesterday for a
short time' and left this mornlug
for Wallowa county points on org;
izrttton work. Mr. Hanies reports :
that mueh nroKreds in beinK made
thin year an I tlint the utwwlHtitin
is lulling un a Iuibo how liushelaKe
of ;w!i it.
' In t'matllla county wo wore able
to do less Inst your than In other
Oregon counties becauso of the
fanurH belnK divhled," Uarnca tat
ed. "Our work this yuar' In that
co i uly hMowh that the farmetH who
Wfiro skeptieal last ydir are now In
favor of the co-oporatlvo inarketinR
plan we present tot them. A week's
work resulted in 2uO.U0n uhhImIh
Ibeini; siRned up there and within
u.ni,. i,,,,,,,,
tha bushelage in that county to
0,er 1.OUO.U00.
..go Buccessful lias the association
ueen tm,t th(.ae fnuers, us well as
;,rn,m n other counties who failed
1 10 lotn the organization last year
becu use thev wan tod t o see it in
surersHful operation, huve no more
objections to joining. While we
have not been making active eanvis
In ITtitnn rmititv u rt linvn nritiinil
FARMERS FAVOR
CO-OPERATION
WO.000 bushels signed for hero nl- Dr. ' J. L. Ingle will leave La
ready." ' (Jrando tomorrow evening by auto,
In WalloMi county 'Mi-.' na-!nes- buunil" lor- Los - Angelov, .whore he
will address Several"' mdnlinga of i will first attend the National Osteo
farmors this week 1,'nd. Tomorrow patblCj Association-, convenlbin and
he will attend a griln growors'1 in coinpanv with his wife.
'mooting to bo held in the court
n .- . ....
house at Kntcrnr so. w i e no is .
ttpeHktnff In Wallowa today. At these
meetings ho will attempt to work
nut a plan of local promotion, sim
ilar to that used last year, doing
away with a great pait of ihe or
ganization expense.
TAKLNG- PLACE
OF HIS BROTHER
ur:n:. e rv... r m.... lot;.
i 'Michigan, -Mf in- l.a Ciranoe anrt is tem
! porarily taking the place of his bioth
i cr, R. I). Crowe, general manager of
'.the Home Independent Telephone com-
fliiung the latter s illness. He will
be in I a Grande for about a week.
lr f'rmvf. t inti'l t iwt Vl'ilh 111
l.ll, in ll.n llmn Imlnnemlent
Telephone company. Ho is a banker
in .Manisti.iue.
i
,, , ,r n i '
mm
PORTION OF
1 111 ni Tnn 1 if
UHNAUA iUUAY
Two Provinces jllit Hard
With Huge ijoss of
Fit. pert f.
SOME LIVES ARE
KNOWN TO BE LOST
Town Looks as Though It
Had Been lh niinited At
ter Passing of
"veloiie.
(Cy ASO-;tteU
MANITOBA, June
6:!.-A
storm
HWt pl Manitoba todn.v, killin at least
two and injuring chubs, i. cause"
damage estimated at 1 hundreds of
thousands of dollars- Portage Ia
............... .. ........... ... .
Prairie looked as if the jon had bccnl
dynamited.
(IH- AssoclNled i'l'ei..) ; . .
SASKATOON, Snsk-,: June
Emergency wires strung cast of here
todsv carricil word of ' u storm of
cyclo-i- proportions which swent east
ern Saskatchewan and Manitoba last
night, snappirg telephone and tele-irni'-'i
"oles. levelling crops and r'W
i'nrt- l.'iildings.
Only meagre dcUilc are available.
Dr. Jlnrgm-et Ingio. wuo una ueen
i. ....in i. t. i.i.. .....I
umm u i...v.u.- ... v...... ......
who will join him In Los Angeles,
will enrol :n.r a ast gram ate
course In the ( ollnge of Osteopathic I
I'hvsli ians mid Surgeons at that city,
The -entire trip will bu niado in
the doctor's auto. Ho pluns to
reach Pendleton and spend Satur
day evening tin Ve, going on to Port
laud on Sunday. In the Willamette
valley ho will pick up several osteo
pathic physicians who will nccoin-
panv him on to Los Aimolos to nt-
tend the national convention. ,
In August Dr. Ingle and his wife
will return -to Portl ind to nttdnid
the Oregon Osteopathic assoi'lntloll.
of which Dr. In kIo Is president,
thence coming on to La. Orundo.
whero both ho nnd Mrs. Inglo will
rOSIllllU tlieil' practice
This Is tho
"t vacation Dr. Ingle has hud III
"I V' yc"r-
OR. INGLE If L '
TAKE VACATION
IT LOOKS LIKE A NICE JOB FOR
Two Die in
Mob Attack
West Virginia vStrikehreak
its Attacked This
Miirninsr.
(Ur Ansoclatrd Trdsst
CI.AltkSBUlU;, W. V., June il
Two men were killed and a deputy
sheriff suffered a broken arm and a
doten other persons were slightly in
jured when a mob attacked an inter
urban car carrying non-union mintrs
and officers of the Hudson Coal com
pany, B-unrded by deputy sheriffs,
iiom mis city to the Lewis mine near
Reynoldsvillu this morning. Tho mob
stopped the car, pulled the trolley off,
and swarmed aboard. Two attackers
wcie shot as they crawled through
windows. The mine was opened on
tna open snop basis Monday.
LEGION WILL
PICK DELEGATES
lnc wcnl American Legion an-"
noullcOT (hHt their first meeting in'1"" ''cttor ns you journey east from
July, on tho night of July 10, three
delegates to the American Legion
Dl.l. f ... t. i . ' . ....
ointu VOiiv, -niniii q ne nCI( at mOi i v.uin-n iiiitiit-i vn-m
Dnlles on July 27-28-21) will be select-'1"1' correspondingly down the lire,
id. The membership' at present is! The fruit crop is very good all ov
not enough to appoint three dele-i" 'ho stst.', especially in regards to
gates but a drive is on to increase the straw berries and the piospects for
momhcriihip and it is meeting with! prunes. Cherries arc about medium
success. Ihe desired membership is'". 'he essifin section and mo not
very nearly reached nnd the nost i i nuitc so good in western Oregon. Ap
confident that the drive will meet
with success. - ,
Tho Ameiicnn legion' Hood Hivci
Post No, 21 will hold their Second An
nual Mount Ilool Climb -on Juy 10
and the local pust is intending to en
deavor to send a delcgnto to climl
with them. This wil he taken up out
side the regular meeting.
EREETRIMS
K any pioneers of Union county
want to take a camping outfit to Bit
k(,r an( pnj cm)illK tri ,uri
th .. (lf i . I.,.i1.,r,,ii. nm,i,
the 4th of July celebration, provision-
will bo made to tiansport their euuip
ment anil return it. T. H. Crawford,
President of the Pioneer Association,
largely through his own purse, will
provide the transportation in the
event that there is a considerable
nun.ber waul to gu. It Is apparent
that this rather heavy expense could
not ,ne
undertaken for iust two oi
three people but if a group desires to
go they should notify either Mr
Crawford or A. W. Nelson at the Aii
Club. The plan outlined is to have
such parlies bring their cuuiumcnt
to the Ad Club headminrters n c av ot
two ln'fore the 4th of July, the exact
details of which will be annoiiK-eil i
later. A truck to haul ths
heddini'
etc., will be provided.
NURSIE
TO BEPROVIDED
GROPOUTLDQK
HERE IS BEST
IN THE STATE
.Recent Bains I leljH'd Ma
terially iu Briiifriug't-'rops
Out in (Hood Shape.
The general conditions, in regards
to crops and other phases uf agri
culture, arc much better in the Ultte
Mountain district than In other patt
of Oregon. The ruins that have been
erpcrienced in 'hasten! Oregon are
local and while the Oinnde RncIejX(ulilir ,,1- 'I'riirum WiwM-iv
valley and other ndiacent vallevs were 11 ul" ' ' J 1,)(1l,h "
bsking beneath a down pour that
means good clops, the rest of the
state, was anxiously looking for ruin.
In .tho Ui untie Konde vauey the al
falfa crop is very good and the wheat
is looking better than ever. A goo.i
average crop is expected all over the
statt but here it will probably be
greater than the average. The crops
j P'tland. Umatilla county has a good
U'lop while Wasco has but a fair sUmd,
'..ml t... .Il ...1.... t
parently an over tiie male, the s'liml
fruits are doing well. Tho Pear crop
in Cent'-al and Southern Oregon was
rinmnrrod somewhat by the late
spring. A poles nnd other fruits are.
I-eUipif will in the Iflrnndo Konde
valley. .
About the onlv leal dnmn-o to the
sto'-k situation is in Central Oregon,;
where during the April storms large1
nimliors of sheep wero lost. In sonic
bands the loss amounted to 110 per
"ent i-ith a small lambin senSon.
Dcnile this the wool has sold ns high
as 4(1 cents and in snlliim, Jietwcan.ii
and .'!! cents jn niost sections.
Labor Council Hacli ' .
Its Semi-annual
Election Thursday
,T. C'.' Murphy Kli-cted IVi'sldenl ;
Hull Hill lOndl'iised; .Meuiliei-H
I'Slvor Clllirh'l- Allleiltlllietlt, .
Tho La (Iraiide Central Labor
Council at a meeting held last eve
ning elected officers for tho coin-
l1'" - ' "i months. J. C. Murphy wus
elilcted president, Hubert Collier
vlce-preaid'jnt, 11. Warinholiz, seero-t'iry-ti-easurer
fund C. 10. Lant., A.
11. Shannon anil Stanley It. (layman
trustees.
Various bills now before congress
worn discussed and endorsed among
which was the Hull bill for utlli.n-
Hon of arsenals and munition fac
tories for tile lill'llllfuetlirH of poser
timo nocessllles. 'J'lie M'lsele Rlioals
offer of , Kurd . wus also enilorsed.
The proposed i-hartei ainendliietits
were diseased. Those present wre , fu. ,, w' f , ;
ill favor of them and they were la I tl.K1 (,v,, n , B,thin Rcvt,n .,
md.- for further discussion nl '' ,(lf the mine. Some -were hanged. "om
next nmettna It was t ie opinion W.,M.C bu,.nw .when tht. minc Whh firiMl.
or the members that the amend- thti s were Iwuten to death, and the
mollis are necessary n order lb :'t mjurily f,.l before tho scores of bul
tbe cily may be able to find ravor- k.u 1(,url(J im,, them ,
able niurke-ts for any bonds il might , ; , )
want to Issue iu connection
with
Improvements lu the future
MIMH IS Ml. I. I'D
Ml'LI.AN, Ida.. Juno 2:i
Kd
Lake, aged 4ll. miner, Is lleiul, Ulld
his partner . William MrCulloiigh, Is
ill a hospital at Wallace, Idsllll. as
tho result of an accident In Hie
Hold Hiinier mine near here Ihurs-
day. Asphyxialion Is believed to
have caused Lake's death.
La Grande Team The
Best In
The lntcnneunttiin BtiKthaM league
dtrccloiH, compoHfl of tcnins front I.a
(Jrarule, Cove, Kljfin, -raker, Union
ami llninc, met in Union last even
ing, ti. T. Hunt, of linker, I.loyd
Carter, of Cove, J. Chandler, of Kltfin,
.Ir Spencer, if Union, and 1 IccLoi :
Mrlnnih and V- C. Cicwm, of I, a,
(itandc, were it 1 1 in attendance.
Maine wa Tint represented by a dele
gate bt;t telephone emmnunicution wn.s
niacle with her m'anauer.
Unscball ha been rather Mack
both L' n inn and. IlaintH but at the
meeting lint eveninif, ludh team.1 nijc
n if U d their intent iorn of reiiiaiiiin
in the b airue fur the Reason. Union
r fiuriiiir on having; a real team in
the fit Id within two weeks nnd
Unities i al-o takinir .steps to better
Iwt ninw,
'Ihe iIxt fivr team are j ineil In
t de'e: m. tint inn t brat l.a l ramie,
whn unreal k to b)v th Ujh4 team ill
'he Irauuie nt nvcu-nt. . mlUf wmw -
ii'l t(vnicncc b mK1
BLAME LAID
Oil OFFICERS
M. MILITARY
Drunken Moh Said To Have
Started Troulile J n
.Illinois
NUMBER OF DEAD
STILL UNCERTAIN
Cause Further Bloodshed
Is .Statement of .State Di
rector of Mines.
Uly Aflxoclftti'd I'r.-s.O
WACKF.OAX. 111., June 23
(iovernor Small today received
telegram from Cel. Hunter, rep- I
rcscntative of the adjutant gen
erul at Perriu, placing the blame,
for the massacre on Williamson
county officials for fulling to ask
for troops when they could not
handle tho situation. '
(Uy Associated rrcs.ij
PI-j.lKIN, III... June 2.1. State
Hector of .Minis Mcdill, ihere
inakiiii, nn official Investigation,
advised (iovernor Small that to
send troop now might cause fur
thcr trouble. , .
(lly Assu.-tnl.-f l'rSH.)
WASiriXCTON, June 2. A
declaration that those rrxpoiuibla
lor the sunt hern Illinois mine dis
orders should he prosecuted to Ihe
fullest extent of the law wns made
1 1 day; by Secretary of Labor
Davis 'i a statement after con
sultation with the president.
Illy Axam-lnti'il Press.)
MARION, III., Jurio"''Kl. Sheriff
Tlinxton of Willinmsmi county today
reioited to the governor that tho sit
uation is well in hand and that there
is no need for tioops. .
(Hr Assootatod Proas)
SPKIM.l-'lM.l). .June IM'jbili
.ation uf the national t;uard companies
in Chicugo, Delnvan, Mount Vernon,
S.i1 Danville and Cairo was prac
tically completed this morning.
PKKKIN, 111., June 2:1 Official in
vestigation of the mine war in whicH
between 27 and 43 were killed, began
teday in response to an insistent de
mand from Governor l.cn Small for
action by the local nuthorlties, .
In the Pen-in hospital aro eight
wounded men, only one n miner ami
six of them are believed to bu fatally
wounded. There weio nine, but one
died.
A miner told the Associated Press'
correspondent that he had seen IS
bodies thrown into a pond with rocks
around their necks Thursday. A'hout
20 imported winkers ore missing.
Checking tho rioath list has proved
almost impossible. The (Victims, all
hill lllrno i.f ll.,.irt in,nn.l...l 1
WAUKKGAN, III., Juno 2X '
Twonly-four men aro known to huv'
been slain Thursday in rioting b?-;
tween sli iking coal miners nnd non
union men at lleirin. 111., Cnrloa
lilack, adjiilant general of Illinois, re
ported to Governor l.en Small at S
I ,,',.o. k Thnrwduv i,!,rl,l Thi ik.
j first lepoit the governor had received
- ,,,, the trouble from Adiiiliint fleneral'
llbu-k.
Adjutant Uluck '.ortcd to the gov-
( Continued on rage Four)
League Now
when II. McInn'iH of Gr-'inde left
the room to Ulephoim to llainu.
While he was jjone the dclcgatm from
the other cities bctfnn to talk about
the chances to beat l.a (it nude, not
knowing W. C Cvewa, the other dele
gate from La (Jrnnile. Mr. Crews ank
ed Ihe ileleuiUe-i if they didn't think
that I. n (iiande had u jrood team. The
icjApniixe was in the fietrativp liut n;
any rate the Pirate- Hie tied for tcud
niship in the league and official fiff-
iniun - s shtiw
that the team ih hittniL'
with eight men battinir over
thri-e Imnrfrcd.
) ToniKht and.- SuKi,
Jtf'Ji'- , , $J 4 .