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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1909
Page
1
Circuit court today hears Summerville whisky and gambling cases as 14 defendants were arraigned. Attorney T H Crawford filed demurrers in all defense cases before pleading. The local option law is held invalid by the court, with supreme court findings awaited in Roesch vs Union County.
Nashville court testimony details Col. Duncan Cooper recounting the encounter with Carmack. He says Carmack reached for a revolver after a remark about a coward, confirms Robin Cooper’s count of shots, and notes a 1883 bill he allegedly diverted funds from.
Owen Moran, English featherweight, issues a challenge to Abe Attell for a third bout after two draws. Moran posts 6000 dollars to bind the match as preparation for war is cited as a path to peace.
A violent tornado swept eastern Arkansas on February 24 killing fourteen people and injuring many more. Fisher in Poinsett County suffered the worst damage with eight deaths, while six fatalities occurred in Woodruff County. Torrential rains accompanied the storm and communication lines were cut.
Norfolk Nebraska reports a fourth blizzard in three weeks halting rail traffic through northern Nebraska and southern South Dakota. Trains to Rosebud County are stalled and telephone lines are crippled. Northwest traffic suffers as telegraph and rail facilities fail due to the storm with similar conditions from Portland to Denver. In Denver three men are confirmed dead and a fourth near death from exposure with many missing while an estimated two hundred thousand sheep perished.
Attorney Miller for Standard Oil attacks indictment in second major suit against the company. Government accused of using the Elkins act as revenue driver rather than legal vindication. The case involves a fine of 29 million 240 thousand dollars and seeks a unit to measure offenses for conviction.
Cheyenne reports attendance at the dry farming congress on February 24 was higher than the previous day. The note mentions Billings, Montana, likely hosting the next congress location.
In Los Angeles on February 24 E J Lucky Baldwin has suffered a relapse and is reported low today.
Twelve men trapped forty feet below ground by a North Trunk sewer cave-in near the exposition grounds were rescued after a night of digging. Relatives watched as rescuers broke through to the entombed workers who were then taken to hospitals for treatment.
Robbers entered the Wells Fargo Kapress office at the Santa Fe depot in Hutchinsyga Kansas and killed agent Jeage Haymaker after he refused to open the safe. They cracked the safe and took a large sum of money. Police suspect the thieves sought a specific consignment.
Representatives from across the country gather in Atlanta for the first national prohibition convention by the colored race. Delegates plan to attack liquor production for black communities and push for a southern prohibition wave, with white leaders and black clergy and doctors speaking over the next three days.
Havana reports Cubans celebrate the start of the war against Spain that led to independence with unity amid factional tensions. In Matanzas a large statue honoring a famed patriot and sculptor Silvio Buemi is unveiled beside the harbor, with ceremonies and public tributes.
A quoted line from E A Storrs on patriotic virtue and the accusation of treason, reflecting a moral framework that equates loyalty to country with high virtue and condemns betrayal as a grave sin. The excerpt discusses the weight of love of country in moral judgments.
In San Francisco on February 24 Patrick Calhoun jury gains its twelfth temporary member. Thomas Lockwood a dawnmaker was accepted this morning as the final temporary juror.
President Roosevelt and daughter Mrs Longworth and Ethel Roosevelt arrived in New York to attend the funeral of 8 D Robinson, a nephew. Taft joined the party at the church of the Holy Communion where the burial ritual was read.
Washington observes a pronounced cessation of social activities for Lent with few events aside from inaugural festivities, shaping the capital’s social calendar for the next 40 days.
In Chicago the steel trust price reductions have expanded labor needs with about 1590 workers employed for a thousand tons of rails and previously idle furnaces reopening. The report notes rising demand as the trust moves to undercut independents. In San Antonio Harriman downplays NY reports on declines and predicts market effects will appear later. He warns, Do not put that in the paper.
Washington Feb 24 The House defeated the Senate amendment to raise the president’s salary to 200000. By 411 to 168 Cannon voted aye. The House adopted conferees’ report on the legislative executive and judicial bill cutting the secretary of state’s salary to 8000.
The Presbyterian Brotherhood convention continues in Pittsburgh with wet weather and increased attendance. Several thousand delegates are in the city for the second day of meetings.
President W. W. Finley of the Southern Railway will address the Macon Chamber of Commerce annual banquet along with other railroad officials to discuss industrial and commercial conditions in Macon Georgia.
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