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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1910
Page
1
President Roosevelt addresses farm problems with grangers at Utica urging farmers to shape economic and social conditions through cooperative action against price fluctuations and market pressures in a national policy context.
Theodore Roosevelt addresses Utica grangers in a speech focused on social ethics and horticulture. He urges farmers to broaden life in rural areas, improve access to expert knowledge, and enhance soil, water, and forest stewardship for long term fertility and urban synergy.
A Longford essay urges making country life appealing for all and stresses farmer cooperation, church and school as community anchors, and the need for country representation in public affairs. It extols Yankee women as vital to national welfare, with mothers bearing the world’s destiny and deserving honor while fulfilling duties for family happiness.
Chief Forest Supervisor Henry Ireland arrives to lead a 15 man crew against spreading flames in watersheds south of La Grange on Rock Creek and Ladd Creek. Rangers J Sullins C S Chepain F G Thomas and others assist while a La Grande Foundry worker Clark says his cabin survives amid charred forest and widespread losses.
An abroad report notes a tense exchange between Germany and Japan with key figures involved alleged to maneuver for leverage. The dispute concerns early wartime alignment and economic ties, reflecting broader postwar power shifts.
Substantial evidence supports rumors of a German Japanese trade pact. North German Lloyd director Heinken arrived from Hongkong and left for Nagasaki to study trade conditions. An Associated Chambers of Commerce Pacific coast delegation heads to China and Japan to map Orient trade and establish relations. Heinken's visit is seen as an effort to forestall American interests in Asia.
The blaze drove families from dinner tables with no time to dress and consumed homesteads of May Martin McAllister and others. Fire nears Wilcox Lumber Company timberlands while lines of Eastern Oregon Light and Power risk outages. Baker City Union and La Grande could face power shortages if lines burn. DeSnite news delayed as crews assess scene.
The Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company is widening Cove Avenue and improving crossings at the main line and the Y near Island City. The work will greatly aid traffic on the Island City road and will cost several hundred dollars before completion.
The Observer faced a major disruption as line trouble at the Eastern Oregon Light and Power company halted the linotype from producing any type. Crews spend the forenoon locating the fault and restoring service, with hope it does not recur.
AP Paling Pacs has created consternation in the fine zone as 0 fighters in Dover O Alene are missing.
Wallace reports 32 known dead with hundreds unaccounted as fires rage across Idaho Oregon and Washington. Refugees flock to Butte as towns plan immediate rebuilding while troops and volunteers battle fires on multiple fronts. President Taft receives a grim Idaho governor Brady dispatch detailing troop deployments and fire conditions.
Enterprise reports forest fires from the Imnaha to the Snake rivers fifty miles east of town with 70 dead at St Joe and fifty missing. Troops from Coeur d Alene and Idaho state forces aid firefighting as 15 men head to Imnaha hills. a troop may arrive soon to bolster the ranger fire brigade.
New Orleans August 23 The girl Miss Mann McLaughlin, about 19, will seek conviction of murder in the first degree as she goes on trial for killing Hugh Smith a well to do man. District Attorney St. Lare says the case opens with her pleading unwritten law supported by women’s clubs funding her attorney.
Phil Estes and Bill May were arrested at Globe for involvement in a Mogolon stage robbery two weeks earlier. The gunman shot the driver and stole bullion from mines worth about $20,000, ending a sensational cross Arizona chase.
Delegates from California Oregon Washington Idaho and Montana attend the Tacoma Washington convention of the Western Federation of Improvement Clubs to discuss regional progress and plans.
Dishar ment proceeding against G. P. Harben a prominent South Dakota attorney will be taken up today in Sioux Falls. Harben is notable in politics and once the Democratic nominee for attorney general of the state.
Washington reports General Estrada unofficially pledges swift reparation for the execution of Grace and Cannon, two American engineers shot on orders from Zellaly. The insurgent victory is viewed with gratification by diplomats, signaling potential rapprochement.
Montgomery Imbbing of Omaha announces a perfected jaw device that attaches to the jaw and converts talking speed into machine motion. The inventor says the faster a person talks, the faster the machine runs, promising practical use for women's jaws.
An unnamed official plans to retire from the position of vice president to preserve harmony within the party. The move signals a transition aimed at maintaining internal stability ahead of upcoming discussions.
Taft repudiates Sherman methods and may resign as temporary chairman while Roosevelt and Taft seek harmony. Reports say Sherman could retire, Roosevelt possibly declines chair, and a third man might assume the role. Roosevelt plans a Utica speech tour as political maneuvers unfold.
Members from Massachusetts to Minnesota assemble in Anderson Indiana for the Beta Phi Sigma high school fraternity national convention. The order founded in 1898 reformed two years ago to eliminate objectionable features and modernize its aims.
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