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ttllttJ voi.HAfF. XXV MKMHFR OF ASSOCIATED I'RKSS LA fiRANOK. OKKIION1. KKIDAY. .ll'NK :10 ,1 ) MEM HER OF ASSOCIATED I'UKSS Xl'MI'.KIf '!) Ml DEFESI OF niEn is PCDT Xuii-Piirtisiiii Leader lias .Maruin over Incumbent in North Dakota. SENATOR CONCEDES HIS OWN DEFEAT Rural Section Pile up Vast L'nral Xi'diiins iile ip vast NuihIut of Votes for VvA y.icr, overcoming Senators' J'Jaily Lead. (Ity Associated Press) KAUGO, X. J)., Jnnu :t"l. Tli-3 dereat of Senator Mcl'umhcr, chair man of the senate finance commit- tee is Indicated In returns at j today on the rcpulill. au nomination for tlm senate. Fifteen hundred ; precincts gave .moi uiun.r o ...e whilo .yim J. Fra.ier, non-partisan candidate and former governor, had 67,541. 1 n . tHfl U rrRrri tv, iir m lau is nig a "rut sixty feet wide at the L (Br Associated Tress) base and over 15 feet deep in portions WASHINGTON. 1). C, June P.O. of the desert in Idaho. Senator McCumber, republican of. The patient ox deserves more cied North Dakota, saiil that on the face! it for the winning of the far west of early returns from the North than is generally accorded it. Mr. Dakota primary he appeared to be j .Meeker said. If it had not beep for defeated. ' this animal man's lot would have b?en "Apparently the early lead given j much harder itoing the pioneer to me will be overcome when re- work of the fifties and sixties turns ccine In fioni the country .Mr. Meeker then told or his trips precincts," said tho senator. lie across the trail in later years, sook added that he would not finally j ing to establish the pionee- trail and concede his defeat but it was learn-1 marlting it with monuments mi K'V ed that in private conferences with ! eral sates, one of which is nea' I.a repuhllcau colleagues, he had said j Grande. As a young man of ,4 he that he regarded his defeat as vii-i drove a team of oxen over th.. trail tually certain again in li0 and made anothJ.'- trip ' six years later. His trip this year rniiFiTV rin c UUUUI I I mISI 111 j , UP III THE ITEHS ITCHES 1 The question of whether "a county fair will be held or not is still a .-. ..f i,,-t Hi,. Tho rnulit.v court appointed a committee to han dle the matters about two months ago but only H." H. Weatlierspoon. Entries for the simile and double of Elgin, agreed to serve. Then at tennis tournaments are now being the last meeting two other men, I received by the secretary of the Y. Fred Huffman, of I.a Grande and.M. A., who is In charge of the William Ituckman, of lmbl.r. ere:,.urtli limi other details. The dates appointed on the board hut they have not yet stated whether they would accept the otlice or not. Until board is formed to han dle the county fair question, noth ing can be done. US ARE RECEIVE HIGHWAY . i will entitle the winner to keep the At the meeting of the state high-j cup- This cup was presented by way commission held in Portland the United Statrti National Hank Wednesday and Thursday several1 ,1(j a similar one, awarded by the matteis relative to Kastern Oret'on.j, c. Penney company, will be giv wcie handled. The stretch ;.l l)ead- e tu t10 winner ot the Junior sln man's Hill -had been let but at the Bias Arrnngeincnts are being r.iadi meeting the bills were rejected. Bsi.i ror set.uvng suitable prizes for tire on the I.oUine-Knteiprise road were ,iubie3 and it Is probable that' cups also rejected. i wm be awarded. . The overhead at I'nuhart was let. Lyl(! yvnson.-of imbler. wan last to contractors and the Wallowa llill' yeur-s winner of tho single with stretch was brought up but .is there N()rlllan Kre,,s ami eharles llingner was r.o icpresentalave irom U nir. ; winners of the doubles. All ihree couiuy ai, uus i...-vi,..K .ye ........ . ".",uro expected to enter this ye'-ir, lam upon the table until the couilnis- i could get in touch with tho I'n'on! sion r.Hintv court Ktlgar Marvin and Krnest Johns n, members of the Wa!lo.va county court, passed thlouirh i.a (irir.de thi morning returning to their luini and described the meeting.' 0 H AttLKSTO VN. W. Va.. June I'.O Two eoir.,)aub-M tf natioiiul gmird huvo be?n neat into the Cabin er:ek and Paint creek district to stop the miners' inajch, f (Rv Asninti-d rrei'.'O l.ON'DO.V. June :;m. I'otnmtintHU are reported niding republicaitft a' Dublin, led by a tiouibr of tin Industrial Worker of the Worlr, from America. Thoy are Raid tr be receiving aid fronv Moscow. IV'V Akmji tnli-d I'ft'-ts.) rOUTLAXI). JuitH Z'j. Applira- tion for redwt ion fmrn eij:ht to five rents carfar' in Portland was mad todiiv to tli stiit- public mTvir commission by' tho Housewives Council of Portland. may savk orn i:s f TlV .a-0.i:.0 I-? -.--. YASHN'';T")N", Jnrie 3o.- A num ber of federal b"id (fi--. ordered i-lns'-rt xt intdniLibt Itul:ciit. would In? ccntiiuied under V-ed todav by thr to !!'? nreiitrttiif. n hill finall finite and snt BULLET! MS Hooverize on Water Is Order Issued by City Manager Kratz nni nnrnrn TELLS OF HIS EVENTFUL LIFE Days of J i Queers Recalled hy Speaker last Kvening: made First Trip to Oregon in 33:2.. Telling his audience of the Oregon Trail country of 70 years ago, Ezra Meeker, of Tacoma, 01 years old but st 1 11 young in ever-thing but years, addressed a large audience in The Gaidens last evening. Mr. Meeker firstt outlined the uarly history of the west and, coming to tho year 1852, the vein in which ho tvtmp went., he told of the experiences in making the tri acroj.a the ainii dlivillK a yuk(, of- oxen He told of the wa he found the country 70 years' ago and of the thousands of pioneers that passed j'ucioss the plains in that year, wear- j is being made by train and stage, i From here Mr. Meeker wean to Ha t ker todav. where he will tak.i t prom inent part in the Fourth of Jjly cele- novo not been set for the tourna ment but as soon as sufficient en tries have been made tho date will be arranped. The singlo and double ovents, lor both juniors and Benlors will take p'ece on either the csricnt or dir' courts at the Y, uiv:nriiir4 to the preference of the coiuestiints. The entrants must be members of the Tennis club or playing members that have joined this season. A sterling silver loving cup will bo presented to tho w, liner of the senior single1 totirnamontnnd three successive victories in as many years The organized farmer of the Grande Konde vilJy ill bold it pic nic in Kiversiile I'ark mi July 1, com mencing at 10 o cM-k tad continutni on. through the tfny. A projrmm witi oe held in the at tL-rnuin hih) ttvtiZhg Kveiyone is invited to i-umt ni kve l good time and mUo :cwntr)7 ft iasket luncheon. Tfi? iiti; wiJi b served c"f fe; on th yruwnds. John Yells of AliieJ, .tepiM4 irfoj :he Observer office tdi with Ok t innouncement and He ttit tht "f tre going to have a big- jwnd tv, veryone is reepjested to thfv i1 their baskets wU stoi ki-l,' aiv4 r vill guarantee theiw a r-t 1 old-fvtiv loned g(rod time.' Many noted men will e prMf among them being A. H. tif, of Ha kor, who is ex-vce pfesident of ttM National Farmer's Union, hiM V Shmmtay, of Milton, who i peiiWr of the Oregon .Farmers' Union. C. A- Spt nce, .State Grange Master, is expected to In- piesent nlthouKf K t not certain whether he vill be tww : it this time. Many local stakr will be recent Kid the Pnjrw. while not Hrranired in detail is n 'peeled to be of the best ipiality j entei taintnent- I The farmers' owanizatians, fi j Farmers Uni4'na;j tj. Grange are ARE ARRANGED faiers to. .JlIPLCI Spi-ink li nc of Lawns ami lanlens Allowed oiilv Tin-.... n-ii-u .. .. ,i;.. 4 . L-i,; .' f'.. wilHIC IU L UUlliUUlU XU" i Unless tho order issued by City Manager Kiatz this morning ivstrut ing sprinkling: lawns and !rr:".iiu: is rescinded within a day or two, pro- .lueu .i.t u- ' j ...... . obey it, lawns and flowers are doom-' erf to destruction by the hot winds, that usually sweep over thi city in ni' t- . i .... j I.Mr, krntz could not he located to-, day but it is believed that Ins order, was due to the amount of water com- niK uuwii iium Leaver mrv u.'v ui.- failure to repair numerous leaks in the pipeline, many of which are caused by boulders rolline" on the pipe line during the spring ir.-.inth., when the snows melt, giviii'r so'iie trouble every year. Mr. Kratz's order stales that lawnh can he sprinkled only three' diys a week. Houses with "Ven numbers can use water for this purpes? -j:i Monduys, Wednesdays and Fridays, and those with odd numbers on tues days, Thursday and Saturdays. Sprnklng will be prohibited on Sundays, accoidng to the or .lor of Mr. Kratz. ' No penalty whatever is mentioned in his older and whenie;' ur im" there is an ordinance providing penalty f. r disobedience could not be learned his afternoon- As soon ns.it he.Mni' known thi.-1 morning that restrictions on sprinkl ing would be ordered objection was voiced by people who were assured this sluing that there would be pie ty of water, and who, in con eie eiv started lawns, which may now burn up- Recent announcements' by Mr. Kratss, as well as other citv official -indicate that there is more than enough water to supply several cit ies the size of I.a Grande available and this indicates that the present order has been necessitated only by fuilure to have the leaks repaired. ( Hy AfsnrinU'd Pr'.s.) pnnTI AND. June 111). Private rhools in Orogr.il will be prohibited if an initiative measure to amend the section of Oregon's laws making edu cation compulsory receives the ap proval of voters next November. The initiative petition, which is fostered by Scottish Kite .Masons, obtained '"", 01,10 signatures in two days. The amendment provides that ev ery child between the ages of eight and '1H years must attend n public school under penalty of the parent or guardiah being guilty of a misdemeanor- Exceptions are made for u:t.i U..D;nullv itnttl.lo In Httrn.l. cum...:.. ,......., ,-, those that have compieieu in.- eo;..... T ., ' .:i 1 .. h., f or three miles' from school, accord in ntres and those leceiving priv ate instruelion, provided that such children must report emtj V months for examination by a school official. .'The act would take effect September 1, 1!2H. GOING WAR ON PRIVATE SCHOOLS BEGUN SAYS LAilS IISULTEQM ALL. I'l'esitlt'lll (if I'laVCfs' I'lllit ,. , , . ... I'eciares tiiai uamniiii iooi leu'HiniT aim v arous inir f.s not Prevalent. WASHINGTON, June 30. Clark rifimth nrni.li.nt nl the Wiishine- , American ball club, today criti- clz,,(1 rem!irks o( JU1K0 l.andls in u ,.,,,.Ilt ,..,, l0 the N(.w Yrk lm(, ,tust011 Amisvtc:nl ,cams, deelar- ing that he considered Unidls' re- .......,. ,,,, i,... ,, ..i bootlcg or curous, dire, ? ' . , , ,.1,,.,.,, ,f When the big mountain type Union Pacini locomotive 71. M went through yesiei day with train No. 24, f i on Portland east, it m.tde its lust iip pearatH e on this division, according to U.-W. authorities. The biff engine, while a splendid engine and the last wo id in the construction of locomo tivps, is not suitttl to this section n.s it was built to be used on the roadj trom Ojriien to t heyennu, to wnicn it is well suited. It Is do-.ibtl'ul if a locomotive of the 7iSi-0 tj pe will ever be used on this di i..nn as they aie not buiit to over coipe the conditions on thi s Ktrelcn of road- Tho 7000 will proljaoly not le used oi the Ocdon-Cheyenne stretch for some time but will likely bo tried out on many other railroads as it whs on the O.-W. (luring the pa-t week. At a meeting of the Union County Realty Hoard today noon at the Sura, nicr Hotel tho matter of spi inkling two of the roads coming into town the island City road entrance anil at North Spruce street being the two roads un.icr discussicn. Arcordin: to members of the board the road have not been pioperly taken care of and in one case, one of tne roads wa' sprinkled but once since it was built. Residents in ttit district are prac tically smomereu in uus t oiiring me II FROMDIHSION WANT STREETS WATERED HERE summer and one man asserts Hint1 ' '' '""it " " his house, which was once white, is according to tint new lull of fare now taking on the dust color faster, which the company issued Thursday than it is possible lo clean the walls.' cl'PPmg Ihe tarifl on ham and eggs In fact, the residents ill this district from i. to hi) cents, state that the dust is very near un-' 'he company has also announce I bearable l a '"-cent combination plate service, ' At the meeting today it ws an-l'"ich will include a meat or fish o nnunccd that a committee would be'ler and two veg. tables. . ,,,. ,, , ,, I ri" -. ' lb., mr.trt-r lo the CIIV comm SSIOU and see what action could be taken on the problem. ethics of the organisation but no def - The board also inscusscii several illlte action was llllien on any oi ini questions, ent. Six members were pros- BYE BYE TO SEE THE 4 myt x :VCb- ' : HECKER TAKES; IffiS uinrim r mnisu mm ioo tens 01 now ne inieu i .ow-, ker, wlto wanted to J'lan II(l-U SELF DEFENSE IS EXCUSE OFFERED liowker also . Fired some Shots, Siiys 'ontlitiil Slay er; ISowker made Liuye a Ikeker. (Hy Associated Pra) OKKCON CITY, Juno :tu Kussn! Honker went on tin? stand in his own defense today and admitted that ho killed Frank Ilowker in h quarrel when llecker refused to full.) in with llowker's plan to hold up : a man from whom they weie ml purchase 15 cases of whiskey. ! Ho testified that Ilowker was dnu-j erossins him and lunged at hiin. j The youthful dol'endant then added thut "ho was a bicner man than 1 am and I grubbed my gun and shot." j Ile'eker added that Ilowker also! rired 8,H,tH- ! Tho government has a 250 mile trap ll'io through Oillimn, Morrow and Umatilla counties, extending from l.ono liork to beyond Meach- . J. Williams, assistant- inouogist oi urn predatorv animal division of tho U. S. biological survey who has re- turned Irom the reKion. Four trap-1 pers an, working the line and male ARE SLASHED SAN FKANCISl'O, June 0. The cpst of breakfasting in dining cars opeiatc.l on trains of the Southern i .it' new win m-njiiie uiicl 'tivn on lulu I tlVC Oil .JUIV 1. COt'AINF. IN SOCK PA 1IIS Arrested here uoon his nr ' rival from Merlin, Henry Furlong, an F.nglishman. was found to have n large quantity of smuggled cocaine iif. his sock. FOLKS Ill J-v- v-f iid t,' msn Mr p i h r mt h I 11(11 L,IUL IU A LOIS ONE EATING COSTS NOSM B SURE VijK THAT HE MAk-E5 ( f-r" A r A eoo j'4,:'i'- (l!y .noriaifd Vruns.) i CHICAGO, June 30. Of jficials of twelve railroad sys- tems, all parties to disputes l over farming out shop work j announced their purpose of cancelling- all contracts if isuch action would aid in ; averting a strike. C!UCA(;, June 30. Lcadt-rs of the railroad shop men whose members are tn the veie ot a nuiional Mrike today flouted the authority of thi V. S. railroad liihor buard and refused to heed its summons for a conference with railroad executives. The boaid exercised its legal alli')r ily and ordered two ul the lead ers suspended, H. M. Jewel, head of six shop craft unions, and 'Wnuithy liealy, head of the sta tionary firemen and oilers. i'.k oruer 01 me two lenders was issued" after the boatd said that it convened its hearing and received long statement from Jewel denying the boaid's right to compel him to u'i prMt. Only three of the ten union leaders summoned had' responded, but ul! taihoads weie represented, ' (Hy AHsociutea Press) nilCAC;;), June ;10 K. i- Crable, neao oi tne maintenance ot way brotherhood, announced that he woul I unlrl in iiliinnim . (tin uiribn ,...H LD.,.wl f l..r tU. l.wU....l I i. ' ouo. .Mr. Crable announced that meet ing of the executive council of thi; maintenance of way brotherhood would he called in Chicago July :l to consider the situation tnat was devel oped by the federal inquiry today. Ho made this concession, he said, on ussiiiance ef the hoard that the i ... T . " ' t',!M" al an Uma . ,h"1 '"creased living costs Wlll'l-ll 111 I'll It TVlit tllllli.H.ti.onwinl The announcement : a. ----- "! "f.,,e ""'"I which yesterday "' th threatened railway L""sl!i, fo1 "W'"K tno H o f the shop n' t0 8tr,k! tu'"'rw- i ity ftfiBiicmif-n rrt'Hsi WASHINGTON, June :(). The White House today announced thi,: the railroad labor hoard has full mil complete hacking of the 'government. Ihe statement said that "the board is nhe government, when it speaks.'1 (Hr Associated Tress) DU1I1.IN, June ;Hi insurgents occupying the Four Courts surren dered at 10 o'clo-k this mornin'f. The surrender pieceded the hoisting of ! while flag over the building, which was burnin One bundled and thirty, headed h ,a pne:t, majchod out. Koiy Uuin- 1 nor, loaifer, is reporti-d prison!'. An (explosion occuned at noon scattering . a shower of legal documents. ' Free Slate Iruups turned their at I lenlion to meetings In outlying part.- J of tl'o city, taking uji positions in i dozen buildings and fortified them The city is beetimiug a hug4' fortress, ! Hin id i oils of snioers are firin:: al- ; most constantly, imicusing the pert ! of the people. Trie instn gents uccu : pied the town hall of Kathmias, a suiurb ot I uibiin. 1 I' - It T. Jn tie :0. Mrs. SnmiU'l ' llaiii s, of this city, is seriously iil' and the dortois pi onotmre her fundi-j :, tion quite dangeious. Her son, Clint j llayncs, of l.n Gi ande, hns been nr. j her bedside most of the week, as we.il i as her daughter, Mrs. . J. .Skiff, oft Union. She has been ailing for about s a week, her condition becoming more serious each day. - (Vh. and Mr. Ha.vnes colebrated INSURGENTS MM OCCUPY FOUR COURTS PIONEER LAD! I in urnu IP III III II I ' hcInn' 11 1' otiicial mqinrv. 11 JP 1LL!.IAPAHlf OR Iheir WUh wed-iing anniversary n-(l..,Mi f Astoria, by Wultor GrHhitm, cently. They an among the oldest- w(lo jriny; ht th man to Astoria, pion-ii in the valley, having coiirv Wi)S i,,k,.n io custody lv Im in the Grande lUmde valley from Ar-i Mli,,fcltjnn illH,ector Hov J. Norene, kamaa in M7 W.G.T.U. SAYS ! OFFICIAL 0. 1 fiKATTI.K, Jun t.yt t!it federal Prohibition offlcia' Were In- tonltato durinif the Republican dtalr convention he'd in -Ovh&lis' an Jane 19. made ty Major lUInin J. cf fc'er.ttle wero deplcd Itl ft foitMl stnicmcnc jiui)iiaiic .-tdnitusm; (, Imit "itl tnt ttVt STRIKE BE AVERTED B IHE U.S. Mct'liny; 1 1 1 i 1 1 4 licld Today in an Et'tVt to Hlock Wa'lk- 'lit. LINE EXECUTIVES ALSO SUMMONED , Little Infi'iTiiption of 'as si'iiycr and JNt :i I L TralTk I'lxiii'ctcd lim', ii.' Walk out Conies, at Outset, In regards to the threatened walk out of the shopmen on nulioads all over the United States set for Sat urday, July 1, at 10 o'clock in the morning, Charles Roberts, assistant division superintendent of the O.-W. announced this morning that" the O.-W. authorities do not anticipate that the strike, if it is carried out, will have an immediate effect upon the passenger, mail and express train schedules in this section. Outside c.f that statement, watchful wuiting is the order of the day for the O.-W. officials on this division. DKTHUIT, June ISO. Although members of the International liroth eihood of Maintenance of Way .Km pioyes and Railway Shop Laborers have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a strike no strike order will be is sued until after the meeting of ilw railway executives and union official. with the United States railroad labor bourd, that begins at Chieairo Fridav. This whs announced late Thursday by is- I-, ttrahle of Detroit, president of the brotherhood. Mr. G ruble made the announce ment after Hp had received a tele gram from thu labor board citintr him to appear before that body, in common with the beads of nine other railroad unions and the railroad exe cutives. He declared he "interpreted the board's order to mean that tho railroads are oidercd to maintain tho present vfairo.rato in effect until af ter completion of the meeting, as well as ordering the chief executives of tho various organizations to hold their members at work." (Ry AHMOdfitcd Press)' CHICAGO, June :i0. Intervention by the federal government under tho authority of the transportation act, created to maintain the orderly course of the nation's transportation nrter ies, loomed Thursday night as tho final hone of averting the threatened rail strik e of 400.000 shopmen, and possibly half a million moro railroad worker, Their ultimatum to the railroad ex ecutives rejected, chief executives of the six shon craft, unions, which have called n strike for 10 a. m. Saturday and the leaders of four other union now pulling a strike vote, prepared ThurMlav night to obey the summons of the United States railroad labor boa'd to nnnear in a federal investi gation at 2 p. ni Friday. , Wirfi the union heads were 'sum moned the executives of T. railroads, charged by the employes with illegal v contracting simp work in violation of the board's order, one of the threw mnslions on which the shopmen havo been casting strike ballots for tho Inst, two weeks. Other railroad exe rut ives of the 201 class 2 roads In the country al.o were asked to bo pi esent. Developments of the strike situa li'in came in rapid sequence Thurs day. International presidents of the sW shop unions announced telegrams authorizing their membership to walk out Saturday morning. The labor board immediately recog nizr l a threatened interruption of tmrtV and acting uuon the authority of the transportation act issued a ci tation to the st t ike lenders to eomo before it for official inquiry. ASTOIUA. Ore., Juno HO. Tho ailor wlio Mcmdav 'scaped from the linzmx Mum, a Japanese Htcamef (lying at the port ot Astoria ter- ; minals. was rapt ur d at John Day, liefofe bom be will later be given a bearing which Is expecte'd to re suit In his deportation, . '':(;i.IIFIM IIF.-FI.F.CTFO. KF.W YOKK Simon tiuggenheini, nii-suleut, ard othe.p officers of the Anietiean Uefiniow .vi!M!i. 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