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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1909
Page
1
The Commercial Club board plans to call all water subscribers in two weeks to form a permanent organization for the La Grande irrigation project. The goal is to incorporate and start the project, with 14 000 to 156 000 acres involved on the La Grande side. Meetings in Utterim precede the main session, with Sandridge a potential factor.
Urgent telegrams reach F. B. Bramwell as David Eceles invites him to Ogden for Sunday talks on water assurance and irrigation that could decide whether the Union county sugar plant remains or is removed. The proceedings mark a pivotal moment in the area’s future industrial history.
Salem reports that J. B. Clarke principal of Scotts Mills school was exonerated by a Silverton jury after a mother accused him of beating her child. Doctors testified the boy showed no injuries. Directors and public sentiment backed the principal.
Oregon Idaho Development congress convened in Boise for a two day session to push a Boise to Coos Bay railroad. The plan seeks state aided railroads with bond funding and a constitutional amendment to be voted at the next general election in Idaho and Oregon. Prominent speakers include Col. C. E. S. Wood and Do. Chapman. Delegates from Oregon and southern Idaho arrived.
Mrs M W Beekman widow and her four children were burned to death when their home seven miles from Bakersfield, Alabama, burned early today. The mother and children slept as the fire started. origin unknown. Bodies not recovered.
An executive committee of five students and three faculty will govern the conference with a president and secretary from the student group. Age limit set at 24, eligibility rules tighten, and four year athletic careers mandated. The initial eastern Oregon conference aims to unify bona fide student contests under tighter governance and closer school alignment. Bragg presided as temporary chairman with G. M. Mickelson as secretary. delegates from Pendleton, La Grande, Ontario and others seated.
Seattle bakers in the Master Bakers association discuss raising bread prices. At the meeting, several favor boosting the price of 25 loaves to one dollar, noting that one dollar now buys eight loaves. The decision on a price hike will be determined.
In Washington the democratic filibuster against the sundry appropriations bill ended at 1 am. Representative Tawney said the house would not adjourn until 3 am as punishment, and adjournment was finally taken at 3 30 this morning.
Pendleton Feb 26 J M Scarborough a Hermiston merchant found a man's head near Umatilla Butte two miles north of Hermiston. Believed to be W H Hedberg Cumberland Wis who disappeared August 8. Hedberg, 60, carried about $1000 in checks. Evidence suggests murder for money. body dragged into sagebrush south of Umatilla.
A prominent Portland publicity man, Tom Richardson, will address La Grande citizens at the opera house Monday night. The notice urges all to hear him as he has helped build Portland and the state and may share insights from other communities.
Salem notes a condemned man Yo Timmons was hanged at 12:40 after a day of legal proceedings. He weighed 140 pounds and survived the fall briefly before breath returned through the gap then ceased. The crime involved a brutal attack on Wise's throat while she lay in bed.
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