D R . G E O . L A R K IN
D a n ti $t.
Office over First N at’l Bank
Both Phones
BALLINGER'S CLERK I
SPRINGS SENSATION
FOREST FIRE SWEEPS
MINNESOTA TOWN
ELECTION CAUSED STIR.
Claim s Letter of Exoneration
SPECIALS
Citizens Appeal to Governor
W as Prepared by Interior
for Help and Militia Is
Department for Taft.
Ordered to Rescue.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Ballln
BEMIDJI, Minn., May l l - W o o e i
ger Plnchot investigation was enllv-
and
children Spent Sunday la Bern-
emed by publication of a statement at
Idji’s
smoke-filled churches praying
tributed to F M Kerby, a stenograph-
for
rain
or seme other act o f nature
er in the office of Secretary BaUln-
to
save
them, their husbands and
ger, to the effect that the President’s
lathers
aad
their homes from impend
latter of September 13, 1C09, exoner
ing catastrophe.
ating Secretary Ballings/^ was sub-
Although battled desperately by
■taatlally prepared for the President's |
hundreds of cltlsena, soldiers and for
signature, by Assistant Attorney Gen-1
est rangers for hours, a forest fire
eral Lawlor( P( the Interior Depart
tour miles wide slowly encircled the
m ent '
•
town, threatening Its complete de
Kerby asserted also that Balllngei
struction.
\
PHYSICIANS A SURGEONS
himself reviewed and revised his own
The
clHtens
of
th#
city,
convoked
letter of exoneration before the draft '
hy the Mayor, addressed an appeal to
want to the President and that all oi ■
Governor Eberhart for help.
the preliminary drafts used in the
in First N at’ l hank building
The Governor at once, by telegraph;
preparation of tbs letter were burned
Both P h on e«/'
appointed Forestry Commissioner An
In a grate in the Interior Department
who was in the city, comman
aa tha suggestion and under the sa>
WASHINGTON^). CM NEWS drews,
der of all militiamen in Northern Min*
arvlalon of Don A. Carr, Mr. Balltn-
The House committee on library has aesota.
Andrews immediately or
gor’a private aecretary. Kerby drew favorably reported the Humphrey bill
dered Company I, Minnesota National
tha lnfarence that the Lawler draft authorising the marking of the old
Guard, from Crookston. Company H,
had been adopted by the President 0rfeg6h trail, and authorises an sp
of Bemidji, went early to the' scene,
O STEO PATH «
essentially as hla own; that Mr, Bal feropriation of $25,000 as the Govern
under
their own command.
Graduates Of A . S. O. at Kirksville, Mo linger and hia legal adviser had there
ment's contribution toward the cost of
Increasing volumes of smoke pour
fore virtually prepared the exonera
Office on Main Street,
the undertaking. The bill is amended ed into the town all dag Sunday, and
1 blk. S. o f depot
tion which Mr. Taft had issued over to permit the Secretary of War to re
at night it was nearly suffocating.
hla own signatura. _-------- —
ceive contributions from any source In the churches it was impossible to
Both Phones: iM utnal............ No. 9-9
/B elL................. No. 861
to the fund.
Custom Pointed Out.
see the lighted pulpits from the rear.
The
Federal
Government
has
taken
The fire originated about seven
D R . J . H . W IL K E N S ~ It was further pointed out, both at
steps
looking
to
the
negotiations
of
a
milss
south of Bemlc.Jl,~!n the heart
tbs White House and by Attorney*
O S T E O P A T H IC P H Y S IC IA N
trade
treaty
with
Canada.
It
is
offi
of
an
unpopulated
forest It has been
MeMt
Ule. Ore.
B r u c h offloe, Newb«r| General Wlckersham, that a compari
O flce (Mae floor u Commercial Club
son of the Lawler draft and the Presi cially announced that Secretary Knox smouldering In the muskeg soils.
Tuesdays. Thursday* and Saturdays.
dent's letter would show that the in- has sent a communication to the Brit
Hours, t a. m. to 5 p. m.
'
Consultation and Examination true.
foranoe o f the Kirby statement was ish Ambassador here transmitting to California Clttea Rocked by Quaka.
the Canadian Government a formal
H o m e Ptien* S l u e l a S
unwarranted.
LOS ANGELES. Cal., May 17.—Tbla
proposal
that tariff negotiations be city and surrounding towns were vis-
Mr. Wlckersham alluded to the prac
Ited Sunday by a aeries of earthquake
tice common In the Government de Instituted as Soon as possible.
The adoption by the Senate of a ■hocks that frightened many people,
partments o f subordinates preparing
DR. JOHN S. RANKIN
letters end documents for the consid long and short haul amendment to the but did little damage beyond breaking
eration o f their superiors and their railroad bill will result, it is believed, dishes, destroying houae ornaments
I SURGEON
use by them in whole or In part aa in hastening the final vote on the and cracking walls of the lighter class
measure and make easier the task of of fixtures.
they might see fit.
Office over Bank o f Newberg
the
conferees who will attempt to har
Almost simultaneously with the pub
Both Phones
monise
the difference between the
lication o f the Kerby statement Attor-
B. O. Cracker la Dead.
Senate
and
the House. This is the
ney-General
Wlckersham
sent
to
the
TACOMA
Wn., May Id.— Benjamin
♦ oeoeoeaeoeoeoeoeoeoaoeoeo
Ballinger-Plnchot investigating com consensus of opinion expressed by David Croeker, for 30 year« promt*
mittee, then in session, a copy of the Congress leaders. --
neatly identified with business inter-
The indictment against Governor C.
Lawler draft, accompanied by a letter
eats and known throughout the state
to Chairmen Nelson, in which Mr. N. Haskell, of Oklahoma, In the town as an able politician, died Sunday at
Wlckersham declared the document let Indian land oases, will be pressed
had been overlooked in sending the by the Department of Justice, accord
papers requisitioned by the committee ing to a decision reached by Attorney-
General Wlckersham, after a confer
at the request of Attorney Brandéis.
ence with President Taft. It is the
White House Makes Denial.
plan of the department to have a Jury
Office in Union Block
President Taft, over his own sig pasa on the matter early In June.
Washington officials of the Depart-
nature addressed s long letter to Sen-
ator Knute Nelson, chairman of the ! uent of Agriculture and Commerce
Balllnger-Pinchot investigating com- nnd Labor have a sharp sense of the Thousands View Coffin While
^ T T O R K E T -A T -L A W
mittee in which he declared that Law- need of something, no one knows Juvf f
Lying in State at West
erl did prepare such a letter as Kirby what, to stop the flood of emigration
CLARENCE BUTT.
minster Hall.
■aid, but that he did so by the Presi that ia flowing on its way from the ■
W ill practice in all the courts o f the dent’s specific direction. When he re Western United States Into Canada
state. Special attention riven to pro
The Administration proposes to take
bate work, the writing o f deeds, mort ceived it he found, he seys, that it
LONDON, May 17.— Developments
gages, contracts and the drafting o f all was not what he wanted to issue, the matter up seriously.
At
s
conference
between
President
i
b
lo
w in g the death of Edward VII and
H ral papers.
and hs wrote the letter himself in
Newberg, Oregon. the form in which hs desired it, using TaftTprbminent Eastern Senators and th« »coession oi George V. absorb at-
KF1CE — Second Floor
from Lawler’s draft only one or two a number of Western Senators, in- te®Gon in England,
ank o f Newberg Building.
eluding Heyburn and Borah of Idaho, j T*1® funer»l of King Edward, which
general statements.
and Piles and Jones of Washington, w111 u k ‘ PUce May 20th, will be tha
“ Back Dating” Explained.
the railroad bill, the anti-injunction mo#t »«pontn« ceremonial the British
The President goes still further and measure, ths statehood bill, if possible ; c*Pltal has ever witnessed. Thirty
takes up the question of the “ back- and the public land withdrawal meas thousand soldiers will line ths streets
daUng” of Attorney-General Wicker- ure were agreed upon as a revised leg »hen the procession passes. When
sham’s summary of th« Olavls charges Islstive slate and all of the Senators I f u n e r a l procession starts on, sv-
to which Attorney Louis D. Braudels present pledged themselves to vote !
t » ® e®1-
London will come to
s standstill for ■ quarter of an hour,
has drawn attenUon. Mr. Taft says for those measures.
•nd all public houses will be closed
that the attorney-general’s letter was
while ths procession is passing.
W . W . Hollingsworth & Son In fact "back dated,” and that this
ROAD S ROUTE OUTLINED
Roosevelt to Be Among Kings.
also was done by his specific direction
Funeral Directors dc Embalmers booause time did not permit embody Boiso A Western Will Enter Oregon
Bx-Prssldent Roosevelt, who was
ing the attorney-general’s saalysis and j at Ontario and Continue Westward. named as special envoy of the United
Calls Answered Day or Night
PORTLAND, Or«.. May 17.—With ' »tates to attend the funeral, was pre-
notes la th« opinion. He therefore
Both Phoney
directed him to embody In a written the arrival In Portland of John E sen tod to King Oeorge soon after his
N e w b e rg ,
O re .
statement such analysis and conclu Burehard, of St. Paul, dsfiatte Infor arrival in London on Monday. Mr.
sions as ks had given, file It with mation became public as to the build Roosovolt, as 8pecial Ambassador, will
the record and date H prior to the ing of the Boise A Western Railroad, occupy a place with ths visiting mon
data
of the opinion, to show his de- as ths east and west branch of the arch« in ths funeral procession and
Carpenter and Contractor
sislon was fortified by his summary Hill system In tapping Central Ore also will attend the burial at Windsor
The best o f references
The procession to (Westminister
of th« svidencs and sf his conclusions gon.
f urnished.
Entering ths state at Ontario, the Hall yesterday for the lying-in-state in-
tharefrom.
Boise Western win build In s north eluded King George aad all the for-
E. A . ELLIS
westerly direction, through Malheur I eiga sovereigns on horseback, aad the
Ohle Tests New Primary Law.
COLUMBUS. O.. May 17—Ohio’s Canyon to a point dlreetly east of Queen Mother and royal ladles in car-
new primary law, under which the Malheur Lake. From that polat two j rlages.
Septic tanks built after the
party primary elections for the nom surveys have been made for a continu-1 Thousands passed through Weatmln-
latest approved methods.
ination
of candidates on Republican atlon of the llae.
j liter Hall to look upon the coffin.
Sewer and Tile W ork. W ell Digging
and Democratic tickets are held the
Bend will in all probability be ths The body of the Iste king was not ex
Yamhill County Abstract Co. same day Is having Its first practical junction point for the new line with ’ posod to view. The people saw only
test today. Senator Dick, who Is s the Oregon Trunk Line, the railway ths coffin with the official regalia
J. H. GIBSON, Mgr.
candidate for re-election, will abide owned by the Hills, and which Is rap- and heaps of flowers.
by the result of the primary, but the Idly creeping toward the heart of Ore-
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The only Abstract Book* in
other aspirants for the Senstorship gon by way of the Deschutes River,
Indians Ready to Yield.
YafishOl County
and for state offices have decided to
SANTA FE, N. M„ May 1«.—The
McMiNNViLLt.
O regon
await the conventions, as they are
threatened uprising of the T soi
Angora Goats Sun Wild.
permitted to do according to the law.
SPOKANE. Wn., May It.—Travel Pueblo Indiana at Taos, N.
ers through the mountains at the head pears to hs at an end.
GO TO THE
Mafl-Dog Costs Thousand.
hi Slate Creek, s short distance from Mills states the National
LOS ANOELES, May 18.—Because Wallace, Idaho, report of having seen to Taos has been ordered to return,
a mad dog got lato a valuable herd of upon numerous occasions s flock of
United States Attorney Francis C.
cattle at San Jacinto today and bit Angora goats that has forsaken the Wilson telegraphed from Taos that
a number of them, several thousand ways of civilise A >n entirely and be the renegade Indians have volunteered
dollars worth of Use animals hsd to come as wild and hard to approach to surrender themselves on ths bench
ho killed
as mouatala sheep.
warrants which they have been
For All Kinds o f
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ilsttSf.
New Air Record la Made.
S o c ia lis t s M a s t.
H AR D W ARE
MOURMELON. France, May 17 —
CHICAGO, May 1«.—With 126 dele J
200 Bakers
Daniel KL%st, ths Belgian aviator, gates representing all parts of th e ! DBNVER, May
N ..C . C or. First s e « C o lto # « S t s .
broke the world's record for sa aero Ualted Stets« In attendance, ths So- ¡ bakers, employed In 21 bakeries kora,
plane flight with a passenger, remain elallet party opened a five-day Nation- «trunk for an incroase la wags«. Four-
J.
ing In the air for 2 heurs sad 61 min al Congress la Drill Hall, Masonic t««a bakerlos have signed
utes.
Temple.
seal#.
DR. A . M . D AVIS
j
HIS. W H S
*
FUNERAL CEREMONIES
OF EDWARD IMPOSING
A ll our Ladies' Suits, Long and Short Coats marked down
to coat to close o u t
Ladies’ Oxfords, odds and ends but all new and up to date
lasts, in P atent Tan, Gun Metal and Kid.
$2.00 Values
$2.50 Values
$3.00 Values
$3.50 Values.
These are .genuine bargains as they are all good lasts but
we have too many and must close them o u t
Odd lots Slippers for children at co s t *
Red Cross Shoes 60s a pair less than regular price for a
short time only.
J . C. PORTER & CO
Money Saved by Trading
A t Baird’s
AH Standard Calicos........................................................ .......... .
5c
A ll Dress Ginghams, 12 l-2c Values, h ero... f t ....... ........ lO e
Lawns and Dimities 12 l-2c and 16c values a t............................. 1 6 c
54 inch All Linen Dress Goods at....... ............................... ........GOc
Big Assortm ent o f Embroideries 16c values a t ........................ ..lO e
Ladies’ Shirt W aists extra good values fo r..........$ 1 .0 0 to $ 1 .7 0
Ladies' Black Embroidered Petticoat an extra good one......$ 1 .7 0
Ladies’ Black Taffeta Silk P etticoat.................................... ....$ 0 ,0 0
SH OES
-to
Ladies' O xford Shoes special value fo r.................. $ 2 .0 0 tv $11.00
Men** and Children’ s Shoes at a saving o f___ lO to 2 0 p e r cent
G R O C E R IE S
Y ou will always find good fresh groceries
here and you can save money by trading
at Baird’s.» W e run our own delivery
wagon and deliver all orders promptly.
Phone us your orders and let us try to
please you.
BOTH
PHONES
E . C. B A I R D
i
W . P. PLEASANT
G eneral C ontractor
Pioneer Hardware
Store
B. M O U N T
Parlor Pharmacy
E. W . HUDSON
Registered Pharmacist
Old Time Remedies
and Private Receipts
We put up the Old Time remedies with the same
skill and care that we use in Ailing the doctor’s
prescription.
Try us on this w ork; we know how and can give
you the beat results. Our drugs are pure, our
prices as low as can be, high quality considered.
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