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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1909
Page
1
American battleship fleet leaves Gibraltar for the Atlantic on the last leg of its world voyage. Cannons boom as ships form a single column en route to Hampton Roads for final review by President Roosevelt before dispersing to navy stations.
Deputy District Attorney Corner prosecuted cases in Carlton. Dr Morrison the druggist was convicted on three counts with 560 dollars in fines and 30 days in the county jail. James H. Fowlie near beer proprietor faced three counts with 450 dollars in fines and 20 days jail. Bar tender Philip Mullen received 200 dollars in fines and 20 days jail. All three appealed to the circuit court meeting here the third Monday in March.
Four hundred German maidens from Wuert temberg arrived in New York aboard the Graf von Waldersee en route to Oregon to find husbands. Mrs. Frieda Walburg, wife of an Oregon sheepherder, is cited as responsible for the migration after showing the maidens a picture.
San Francisco February 6. Prominent club leaders including Mayor Taylor and police commissioners are subpoenaed by Ah Sam, jailed for gambling in the Asiatic club. They seek to dodge service to avoid public discussion of club life and privileges behind closed doors. Phoebe Hearst and other club figures are named in the action.
San Francisco Daily News editorial denounces Roosevelt action on California anti-Japanese measures with phrases about providing separate schools for Asians and asserts white children should not be forced to mingle with Japanese. London editorial also criticizes his tone as schoolmasterly and undignified.
The Union report states quarantine will be lifted Monday February 6 and schools and public gatherings resume. No new deaths reported. existing cases improving with the week starting.
A bomb exploded in a Lower East Side tenement, sending about a score of scarlet fever patients into the street. Health officers had quarantined the building, and the front was wrecked as mystery shrouds the motive.
A plan to place mall clerks on each RK N passenger train is advancing. My. Mays from PROitelie will be the first clerk assigned. Exact start date not announced but service is expected soon.
Alaska delegate James Wickersham plans a meeting in Washington D C at President Roosevelt's request to discuss matters before March 4. The call comes from Fairbanks as part of ongoing federal affairs.
Tonight at the Peston Athletic Association meet the program features 14 events with top runners from Yale Harvard Penn Pennsylvanian Amherst Cornell and Holy Cross. Relay racing stands out as the major attraction drawing Yale Harvard Pennsylvanian Amherst and other eastern colleges.
The annual Chicago automobile show draws crowds to the Coliseum and nearby Armory with 250 exhibitors. Cars of all kinds fill both buildings, along with lavish decorative features, in what is billed as the most extensive display yet. The event runs through the next week.
Journal records Tt H Rossel returning from a Tambermptt association gathering in the Northweet ipooe kone with brief mention of site degre and induetion line. Press representatives did not have access to membership opportunities at the meeting and left with limited details.
Reports from the storm belt say twenty six people perished from exposure during extreme cold and blizzards. Most victims were poverty stricken Negroes unable to seek shelter, with harsh conditions spreading across St. Louis and surrounding states.
The school board met last night to review the monthly report. Hockenferry notes an average enrollment of 925 with an average attendance of 914. 507 students were neither absent nor tardy. Six parents and three directors visited, and there is interest in petitioning for a new high school building if 40 more parents visit next month.
Packey Mc Farlind and Dick Hyland have signed to box in the Mission area February. The match arrangement was announced from San Francisco with plans for a February bout.
Newport News Virginia February 6 a vast crowd witnessed the launch of the 20000 ton battleship Delaware from Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock. Miss Anna P Cassall of Bridgeville Del and Gov Simeon Pennwll and Secretary Newberry attended as the ship slid into the James River after the wine was broken. The Delaware is among the first big Drandnaught type ships to join the Navy and will be joined by another sister ship built at Quincy Massachusetts.
Muskogee Oklahoma February 6 hearing date for alleged fund fraud caves set for March 1 Governor Heckell indicted by the grand jury inquiry granted delay He left for Guthete New York February 6 JW Leslie M Shaw former Secretary of the Treasury told the Merchant's congress that Japan could place 200000 fighting men in Hawaii within a month and urged a subsidized merchant marine program by the government.
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