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(Srattu? VOLUME XXVI MDMIIKK OI ASSOCIATED 1'ItENS LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1923. .MIO.MItDIt OI-' ASSOCIATED I'lU'-NS NUMBER 77 tor v f IF IIS RESULT IN Two White Mere and Two Negresses are Known . To Be Dead.' TOWN OF ROSEWOOD'" 1 4, IS BURNED BY A MOB Three Buildings Are Left . Standing in Rosewood; ;. Race Trouble Started in i Otter Creek. (I!y The Asst;cn(Ml Press.) OTTKIt (.'HKKK; !-'lu., Jim. 5. Two while iniii ami two negro women arc tin Known dead n ml many otlu-r v.u untiles (lit; reported is the remit u; ran- trmihlc hero lust night, Kn rly toilji y ;i t I ( use wood, t we.l v j- miles 'from lieru, t li o entire village, - with tlu exception of three huilil lnir "was burned hy the inub shortly .after daybreak. Heavy Snow Akin' to Silver Thaw and Weights Down . Wires and Poles. The hejivy kiiow of Inst nljrht and today Ik causing morn or less dam age (Ml Hie K. (. I j. Sc 1 company and upon (he lloilic Telephone ccmpuuy The hitlfr company bus over SOU eas es of trouble on and their crews arc working today with nil the vigor pos sible to restore service In place where the trouble centered. Nothing of u serious unlme has developd but thu iiumeruu.i c;yes of miiiiII I rouble J combine tovimikc the department ban. dllng that end uT the work thoroughly busy. A irinber of. new phones had bo'-'n ordered In the fiijUt l,lf.VthC (Termd while, tin t'ornpnny bk-s vid J (hln;j ar ranged to make (hy jinit.iJlaiioM, Tn kuiiii' InsinvcH thiire IvJll.Uo ih'hji iiP' caiise of the. storm's effect. , L CQAGH RESIGN IJo"' Skoet'Rcjfholtls has' -tendered his resignation as a nt'ember of the fiu-iiltv of the, la (..ranue nign scnooi anu niiiiciic vouch, , ' 0 STORM HITS THE PHONE COMPANY HMO StSa,' It is'&s cod W hand in the third .round. tUt the sitoor board has feelers ,.ul.-bjlrp,-with his aggressive crouch f - a new coach with "Skeet" ' leav- !'"B tvlc, was a surprise to his larg ing and Cecil Snow is temporarily "r and younger opponent. The first fiMing the bill. i round was. about even with Sarp be- Studcnts of I.u Grand" high srt.wli and members of thr football lcam exp,esSed sincere regret at his' nwig-1 V nation. "Skeet." alwav. a " fnvo-... anions his associates, led tho Blucj 1 and White football team to the chant-! Mionship of Eastern Oregon and had begun the work of developing the basketball men for the coining sea son, winch Cecil Snow has taken up. It is understood that "Skeet" is expecting to accept a position in an other city within the next few days, iii-ii: i.iisi- kk. l'iil!TI.,.D. .Inn. r.. The .irculti riimt .Icfulcii nwilnsi the Wc-inmc 1 ln-lrs In r. linlf million rtnilnr -hhIk nir:iin.l six l'ortland fhrtstijn Science rlMirchcs. County Records Show a Crime Increase in 1922 ' From the records of the, county month of December, and one woman -nonce officials, comparisons between was arrested, during 0 SI and 1821, it appears that the being taken in during the summer general increase in e-rime is noted charged with fc?on of liquor, in Union county as well as in other Deputy John Striker was he man r.inces. Kiiher this or else the sher-lwho escorted the fair lady lawbrcak iff nnd his deputies are growing jer to tho courthouse, more efficient with each nassinz Violations of the Volstead law year. At any ratp the total num-1 were in as-cendency as is usually the i... V,f nm,is in lfl '2 was 101. a I case since the passing of the prohi Inrger numher than during the Pre-: hition laws. Twenty-six in number, ccumg year nnd n greater number i these cases included various charges was convicted in lt22 than the year ' ranliing from possession of liquor to before ' 'he manufacture of liquor. Many lenite the fact that .in fire arc stills were captured during the past recorded on the county b.oks of jus-; year, two of them being of remark lice, the amount of money taken in able size. on the fines is conversely pronor-j Three Burglarly Cases. ZrV" "."SI On.,- three burglar case, amounted tn $:t.n.:i3 while the not toun.i , ' " '"'", nr ceeds de-rived for the county cof-'ycar which is just about the average, f. from the .r. arret, last yearjh.ee were taken to the mstitut.on . I , only ." 'TO'i.iO, which indicate ifor the insane at Pendleton, one of .. . .t .... i. i.... thn.thrm beinir a linuor case, and from I tnat ii'uBn ki.-.h-i ... ..u offences were ot a n.oie inlliut ture. tjnc Woman ArrcKlefl. One man w Mi.su-d I'. I LEE MDflRISEY DENIAL HANDS SAILOR rn A KNOCKOUT ncruni rnum Boise Man Wins from Spo kane Boxer in Very Fast Event; Kid Sarp Winner Over Ted McGee. Dropping a right punchj straight from the ceiling,, on bailor Mnnnmers neck two and one-half minutes after the eighth round commenced, Lee Morrisey won the ten round welter weight event on last .night's cards. When the blow, that could bo henrd all over the building, smashed onto Sailor's collar support, he kissed the canvas and remained in the embrace of the mat for the regulation ten seconds and then- was unable to get tin for several more seconds, in fact, he was groggy for several minutes after he once more opened nis eyes and gazed on the electric lighted surroundings. The Sailor was .'uit sea during the last three rounds and Morissey landed : broadside after broadside on him, impartially ham mering his body at one time and his head at another. Although , Morrisey won he knew he had been in a struggle. Sailor wasn't in the best of condition, and if he hud been it is doubtful if he could hang the K. O. on the oBise leather Duncher. but from the fourth lound, he weakened and Iby the end of the sixth, it nppeared to ibe a question of time. Although Knocked out, Sailor Manning will find u hearty welcome whenever he comes to La Grande again. Game to the finish, capable of taking punches as well as giving them, anil smiling through every round, Sailor gave a line exhibition of courage and clean fighting. Start of right Even. Manning took the aggressive early in the first round and maintained it for the creator- part of the timo. Clever footwork marked Ms- fighting and Morrisey with his snappy, fast nunches kept things going merrily. Throughout the second, third and toutth rounds, both men ' traded punches, each getting value received, sparring consiuerauiy. uom men were -driven to the ropes several times and for the first four rounds the match was easily a draw, ; ' ltut the pace began , to ,tell : on the Spokane man and going began to get a little bit heavy in the fifth. That round Was' ikjoVrisey's by Iho, thin ness of a' haihl fSailor "attempted to uunio. hack Fin !i"tlie sixth but (Morrisey. ginj :Inj the seventh Sailor gamely hung; pa und mixed -with his-fresher omionent. . Mori-iscv's l-ntilid. The eighth started off with both' men landing strong. . Morrisey one-twoea to the body and head, Sailor crouch- I'U MIIU VWVU .upirnuu .u i ..-.. J o i right descended on. his. nccK with the I. orce . of a thunderbolt,. l Curtains for Sailor.' , t-ijl- W 'f Sarp ins front, McGCev i' i, ' Kid Sarn. Ln Grande lightweight, showed; up his Baker opponent, Ted McGee .in the; -six round scmi-fiiml. Incidentally it jiuver went six rounds for in the fourth;! one minute after the bell, McGcc's seconds hurled the towel in to save their man from f,.,.,.r uv,m.nt h,.,k "i. "' hack lamhng telling y on McGee s heart.' - Sarp s infighting was begjm. nm to wear McGee down . , In. ll,c f'"1 nl hlrd b"rP kc'P coming stronger and stronger ami soon landing a mosct at will, having a fine chace to K. O. McGee in the third Preliminaries Good. The two four round Preliminaries weie good, both ending in a draw i according to the referee. In the the best of it throughout and in the Mickey Thomas-Karl Ford opener, ringsidcrs believed that Ford should have had a decision, r.arl, yet nut (Continued on Pag, Trro) . ... . .,, from I perusing the books of the county j -heriff, it appears tl-at the ii.crcasi .in crime in this sectieii is cine 1 rt e i .to Ihjiki fl F mi (Uy The Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. The Htat depart men t officials denied the Uer lin report that Iho American Boverii liient plans to call a new reparations eonteronce. They pointed out, that the government, hud done all It can to-' wards the solution of the reparations crisis and that no disposition to force upon the Allies tlu; financial commis sion plan which Hughes Outlined In b New Haven speech was felt. (My The Associated Press.) LONDON,- Jan.. fi.-v-The. Lterlin cor respondent of the. Central News says that he le irncd "that In accordance with a requeHt by the Htdtl-sh Wedncn day. the fulled states Kovernmcnt in tends to call an International confer enec In W'a.hlnKton next week to con shier the reparations deadlock." Under the tutelage of Cecil Snow, the Ln Grande high school bas ketball team will ' open their in terscholaslic season , against Union hiirh. school Saturday, night, in the high school-gymnnsium. i La Grande is looking for a tough game as re ports from Union indicate that me Mnroon and White will have a team this vcar that will be stronger than any they have had since mill. The first team probable lineup will be Owen Price and Bemurd Hummelt at forwards; Glenn ' Mct- calf,. center and captain, and Floyd' Smith and Joe i' unk at guards, i'rice, in his first year of first team 'bas ketball is improving rapidly ana Humntclt, who played on the Rupert team last vear who wore runners-up to the state champioits.ifis. consjdi eiti by many as bcipg on thi .best high school ntf n - in 1 Uifioti (ounty. Metcnlf, at center, is a veteran who is showing up well this year and likewise is Smith. Funk, formerly of Enterprise, is improving rapidly. Others Close Behind. La Grande this year is fortunate having enough good material to make the first team men hump to hold their places. Changes are be ing made in the lineup weekly and not a man is sure -of his place from one game until another. Five ntcn, practically as good as the regulars, will be in uniform. Saturday night ready to take tip the battle at the slightest letting-up of any of the first stringers. Bob Garrity, nnd Ray Lynch, both lettennen, Tigj Larson, center, and Clifford Blok - . - - rrr: (Continued on 1 age f.ight) UtKLINIU HOOP ARTISTS PREPARE FOR UNION GAGERS DELINQUENT TA Only Six and One-Half Per Cent, of Total'.Taxes in Union County J Remain Unpaid. ; I f "The tax pnyment records In Union county for this year arc equal or possibly better than in any other county in the state' was the opinion exuressed bv County Tax Collector Dexter McIIroy to the Observer to-1 day. "Out of a total ot f l 0,;zh.u due in taxes for the year, only $f0, 0UJI.07 are still delinquent in the county." ; A little less than six and one-half percent remnins delinquent which is a much better record than at this time last year and despite the much talked nltmit "tightness" of money. the taxes are being paid rapidly. The I five nercent interest penally is in vogue and taxes are still coming in, reducing the total delinquent day by day. . . Cijicopal Church People In vite Community to Meet in Mall to 'Meet Church Head. This evening from X' until 1" o'clock a reception will be held In Honan hall by the members, of thu lOptscopal church, and -the commun ity is niuiU cordially Invited to at tend. - The hlsbnp hirt met a number of I.u (ri'ande. peoplu .during his short .stay tn tlu: diocese, and his popular II v In . unite, pronpumjed. but ih yet hi event ban been tla(ined whereby a jrcnerul get-together neetlng ronld be hehl whore the t(1genral public could meet 1 this gontlomnn who Is In head the lOplseopaf clinrch eisl of the Cascade mountains. Music und refresbulentH will bo served anil tho two hours wtll bo spent 'lit . a . iniost pluaunt meeting of 'church . people-1 and- 'townspeoido with 1 Itcv. Mr. ltemhiglan. , ; With tho convening of tho statei,i legislature scheduled for Monday, January 8, senators and reprcsenia- tives from Eastern uregon are icav ing tonignt. lor tne state cnpiitoi ju - i ;" nn 3rn?qninji UU . L UUUnLLIII are making preparations to leave Sen linU Southern Italy. IHsly'P land other Mdcstions-.uro on the pro very shortly for their forty . days, j,J1((ocki who has been in ill hea Hi ,.,,, for Iconstdcriittort ilt ihti fourth ' ...s.o Two Union county legislators nro leaving for Salem this evening. 'Rep-In mspntntive and Mrs. A. It. Hunter, uf Union county, and Senator liruce I Dennis, of Union and Wallowa coun-l jties, will leave for Portland tonight, thence going on to the Capitol City, J THE RELAPSE L I ED WARP ' 1 ' I HAVE HERE A UST Or ( 7V A FEW Or THE THING5 1 You SAiP I Could oeT ' AFTer CHRisTmas- S L SHELL OUT J o rt MURDER CASE III LQUISAHA BEGUN TODAY (lly The Associated Press.) 11ASTUOP, Ui., Jan. 5. An lnvi:( UKatlon In open court of Die maskid hnnd depredations and the kidnapping and slaying of Watt Uantel, and T. Ilk-hards, Mer ItouKU citizens, wax started heforn Judge l''red I. Odom, In tho district court. Tho JuilKe warned against disorder und intimidation of witnesses. One of La Grande's-Popular Ladies Fails to Recover from Anaesthetic.' Falling to recover from an opera tion Mrs. Ilessle II. Hopkins passed on very suddenly at 11:30 o'clock to day. While her relatives, ami friends realized that thu operation was oulle serious, it was never suspected that she would not rally from the anaes thetic. This she failed to do. proh ably because of a ever hemorrhage yesterday. 4 . She Is tho wlfo of George Hopkins, owner of the Hlue Mountain t'ruum cry, and is onu .of the most beloved, women of this clly. Her sterling j worth, known best. . to , her close friends, causes Hie shock of her sud den, death to he received this after noon with the dc pest sorrow through out i the vlty. tfhe vun AS years, of age. The fa in lly she lea vet Includes the husband and children Horburt, Julia ami Klizabelh who have t In most profound sympathy of the en-tl"k-oinmiHitt5 . ,r ', .The remains' will be forwarded, to morrow evening to Oregon, , Illinois, the former Ioiimj of the Hopkins fam- tlr, f)i- jiiirliij. nilill l)ie.nl. ;; ursttop pa fiirhil- Mr. Hopkins will uc- AD00CK TIv ' WEI) ON JANUARY D ' Bishop Paddock, formerly bishop of tho Knisconnl church of Eastern Ore gon, is to he married to 'Miss .lean AHIri,, nf N,.w Yni-k flilv. on Tues- i.m, ....... nil. The .ceremony wjj take? place in one of the chapels ; tn Cathedral of New York 'In the latter part of January they ;eXpt.t.t t() leave for tile Mediterranean : unn nnniiim in iiia mini in jivinD. nurMhia DIES SUDDENLY ,ior some time, i n -u . ,anr.ual meeting of the Oregon thnm- for his resigning at Ilishop of I'.ast- llcr of Conimerce which will bo held n Oregon, experts to legain hisin I(.tm today. A program of ' former gooil health while in tnei, u ,,: u,, i,,. ,,.i,i i. n, south. ,! Pendleton Commercial .Association Miss Aitkin wits a Sunday school ,,)Ul ,, nllil vct been designated teacher in one of Bishop Paddock s't(1 attt,1( , a 'delegate from here. paiishcs about twenty years ago. Thp nu,t,tin)r will require the en- 'tire dav. , A spcealt of- welcome and twi'.iai: mi:n pkuikii. (Hy The Associated Press.) VKTOUIA, Jan. 5. Twelve men nerc lielleveil t Imve irr Kbed when the lmmlmltm Steamer Alaska wrevked, pitdi ably Tuexlay night off tlu? vast iHast or VamtMtw'r Isluiul, uc eniillug in news ttMlay. Smuggled Weapons and Ammunition ; Seized in Nipponese Den; More Ar rests Held Likely. PORTLAND,' Jan. 5. A store of smuggled firearms and ammunition, sent from Japan to local Japanese, was discovered yesterday afternoon by n combined possu of ipolice and customs agents, who rnided the es tablishment of G. ()ki, 209 Second street, states the Orcgonian. . More than 70 high powered auto matic pistols and largo caliber re volvers and Severn! boxes of ammu nition was seized. Oki was taken to jail on a charge of receiving and concealing smuggled property. Federal officials refused to com ment on the case, beyond admitting tho arrest of Oki and tho seizure of arms. How widespread the plot may bo is left entirely to conjecture. De tuils of customs inspectors ure now at work on tho case and arc , at tempting to discover how the arms were shipped into America. The current opinion is that the arms were smuggled for commercial pur poses, probably for. sale to other Japanese. ' State!,;' Chamber of Com ' merce is Meeting in Port land Today ; Land Devel . opment to Come Up. . , ' - The development of lands now un- nvnl in rit-iiiriin Inml u.l I In mnnt ,eT1M that await for li 'solution, ,iti CUSHn .of co-operative .marketing response in tho morning session will be followed by election 6f new directors! nnd. hy the report of J. W. tlrcwriv . exeeutive-. socretary of tin organization. - At the forum '.luncheon nt noon tendered the meeting by the Port land Chamber n. Commerce H, 'H. Corey, public service commismoner, will speak on tho subject "Hailroad Hcvcloprni'Tii in Lentral (Oregon, nnM Kit on Watkins, contrreKsmnn-eleet from the third congressional district, will speak on "What Congress Can Do I-or Oregon." Officer will be elected a1 noon. (our problems will be discussed in the afternoon session. W. 1). B. ftfSEAlS . PLOT REVEALED IN ROSE GITY Hudson, secretary of the .Oregon Oe- .State Development Program.' A lisrussion on land settlement will be Icil by C. S. Hudson, President of the First National bank of Ilend. "Co operative Marketing" will be discuss ed by J. O. Holt, manager of the ugene I' ruit Growers' association, and "Publicity" is the subject which L. I'. Jiiuuls, editor of the Lorvallis Gazette-Times, will introduce. Considerable interest in the propo-. sal of Portland to get behind a move ment to assist fanners in their mar keting problems has been expressed in Pendleton, nnd men who tire stu dents of the problem are awaiting the results of the meeting with some anticipation, states a Pendleton pa-pe?. i un nun, nci i .-iiuy im niei'sit-Kmi i'v--- - - -- , . velopmcnt board will talk on "Thu''K lr the trouble site about foul Jess W Mar d Returns To Eastern Country Looking just as hig as ever and ho had very little to say regarding capable of downing douhlo his weight his former profession, in wildcats, Jess Willard, one-time Jess Willard is sontu man. Hu heavyweight pugilistic champion of stands so high in the air that the or the world, passed through La Grande idlnary pedestrian is dwarfed by corn last evening on his way east after a;parison and when he' enters an or snjuurn in Tacomn, where he appear- tlinaty door, the same pedestrian hI .d ii. some exhibition matches. Jess! ways experts to see him stoop to get ii'fuu'd to make any comments oiwn under. Of course, It isn't quite that .vhi'thcr he would chall.'iie.' tun tori- bail but. just tho same, from head to Mt vlnii...i. .. ..i,.e-.;. '.!s.:( !r. U1UV.0I, Jest, is 1.0 pigmy. J , j - - ' - . . KELSOGRASH Coroner - Elect . Announces That An Investigation ' Will Be Made, i'.' TWO DEAD AND 20 MISSING IS REPORT Tlans for Construction of Permanent Bridge Are Being Made; Will Take ; Two. Months to Complete. (My Tho Associated I'rctis.) . ' r. KKKSO, W'ttMi., Jim. IV. l our ' nt the missing in the bridge (lls iinster were l(Hiite tinlay anil oho . , unkleiitirieil iiiuii wits mltled to tin list, iimking u tut ul missing or , twenty, in addition Ui, two known ileail. Those liK'iitet) were: thus. T Siiniliiilxt, mill employe, und the v tlirw eh lb hen of Kmit ilohnsoii, Caliroi'iilu eonlruftnr, (tmpplri tiHlay iiiillett up a eoat whirl, they ' thought wus pulled nir of n biNly. KKI.MO, WusbhiRlon, Jun, 6. An InvuHtlgutlon to fix tb6 reHiiouslhlllty - for the death of two unknown victims of the ertuUiing WedncHday of the oki t'owllla Itlvcr hrldge.wlll bo held, uc- . cording to an announcement today by acting Coroner Van Note, who will assume the office of Coroner Janu ary 8. , Meantime the river Is being drag ged by J'ortUind police grapplers and crews of local men for the recovery ot the "3 mlMalng. , onitruetlon of a tempomry trcstla to connect the parts of the new hrhlK Is being planned. Tho comtlouon ot the rumalntng spun of the permanent new structure will tako two jnonlh. according to the state bridge englnec. A diver stated that .he saw a crump led body plhneiFm n'maeblno" under the .surface of the '( 'owlltz fiver VeM ' lerday. This wiIh t lie- basis of the re port that an unidentified body hint been, found. -.! WINTER PLAYS Tl Short! Circuit Puts Fire . Alajrm Systeili Out of Or-dor-; SnW Falls to Depth of Six Inches. Fnllinu. in flakes the size of big - buttons, snow covered the city of La Grande this morning to a measured depth of six inches, the storm begin ning about midnight and continuing without abatement until about eight o'clock, with intermittent flurries of snow coming through the day after that hour. The thermometer hovered about- freezing point and during tho day, the snow melted at times nearly as fast as it accumulated.. Thelfiro department, usually -non-, committcnt about the doings of the weather, nrc cussing the snow in a gentlemanly manner this morning for with its coming, grief was showered on them in great portions. About three o'clock this morning, snow cov eted wires became crossed and short circuited, that resulted in the brcak- ing-uP of the fire warning system, took the joy out of life. . rord Loses vtneci. ; Fire Chief Murchison mounted hia trusty flivver and started out scare-h- o'clock. All went well for awhile ami then, in endeavoring to manipu late a corner, the car swerveu slightlv in tho slippery snow and tho rear wheel collided with a tree. The only damage that resulted was the scratching of the hulk on the tree and a bent axle. ' The trouble was not found until the day well on iU course and the incessant ringing of the vibrators in the fire-alarm boxes were a source of excitement and amusement to residents of the city for some time. WIII-:.Vr M.i::T.. (By Associated Press) roii'l'I.ANH. Jan. - Wheat -was l. ID to I.4I today. - IK ON GIT! -A
