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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1907
Page
1
Ippi News Associate reports on religious dispute or stance involving Poligany and Mormonism, presenting a brief note on differences or affiliations. The item notes positions or claims without sensational detail, reflecting a concise newspaper blurb style. The readable text emphasizes the named parties and their relation within a historical context.
Sea r Albert J. Hopkins of Illinois endorses Smoot noting the Mormon church is undergoing radical reform. He praises Smoot as an apostle of higher Mormonism who fights vice and polygamy, while asserting qualification for patership rests with the constitution. In Paris, La Belle Otero marries Rene Webb at the American Consulate and Madeleine ceremony. Serenita Otera debuted in Barcelona and Paris. she is 58 on Christmas Day.
The long vanished steamer Ponce docked at Bermuda on January 11 badly disabled after severe storms. She was towed to port by the steamer Wable with no deaths reported among crew or passengers.
The article notes a push to recruit white labor to Southern states over coming months while Italians settle in mill towns. Rapid new mill construction outpaces local labor growth and families are enticed to move for steady work. With a looming 16 million bale cotton crop, hundreds of thousands more field workers are needed to meet production targets.
Astoria Jan 11 A new company is formed to dredge the Columbia River bar where sand holds iron and gold in large quantities. A government geologist reports iron could pay for mining. Dredging starts today using electricity and a magnetic separator.
Conley is jailed charged with running a school for teaching youthful messengers to use cocaine opium and other drugs. Authorities found several drug packages on his person and expect the selling druggist to be arrested soon. Investigations reveal widespread depravity among the messengers connected to the concern.
Lancaster Pa Jan 11 The warehouse of S B Moss Tobacco Co was destroyed by fire this morning. The blaze ignited a neighboring cigar factory which was also destroyed. The loss will reach a million.
Archbishop Montgomery of the Los Angeles Catholic diocese died yesterday afternoon in San Francisco after a lingering illness. The church leader had been hospitalized for some time and was widely mourned by clerics and parishioners.
Delegates from conductors and brakemen on the O R and N along with Portland and Starbuck lodges depart for Chicago to meet L H Harriman regarding the eight hour day as part of Harriman lines. The Portland group joins La Grande representatives for a personal conference with Harriman planned early next week. A 50 day deferral in Portland set the terms for participation and adherence to the Chicago decision.
A stay of execution was issued for Howard Banks, a Black man sentenced to death for the murder of a Black youth named Eliza. The stay follows an appeal to the Court of Appeals, preventing today's planned execution.
Tin mica tungsten and spodumene are now produced in large quantities in the Black Hills. Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co uses mica for its Denver plant and ships the other new minerals east.
Montgom ery archbishop of Canmio has died after a long church career in California. He started as secretary to Archbishop Alemany in San Francisco and rose to co adjutorships before leading the California diocese. He supported the League of the Grass and abstinence efforts. His death prompts funeral rites in St Marys cathedral with Bishop Gonmary to preside.
Ventura County power system water supply destroyed by the recent flood. Authorities fear the limited water for gas and electric plants will run out before night, plunging the city into darkness and fuel shortage.
Denver dispatch reports Philip Stewart refused the General Land Office commission. In Gannon City Joan McGarvey aged twenty two faces execution before midnight for the jailer murder at Grand Junction amid burglary escape attempt. Governor declines intervention, citing capital punishment.
Los Angeles dispatch reports John S Schirm president of the Grand Gangan Lime and Carnent Co under arrest on charges of receiving concessions from the Santa Fe authorities. This marks the first arrest following a grand jury investigation into rebates and related improprieties. Other arrests are anticipated.
Chicago January 41 Judge Going of the municipal court warned reporters to curb sensational trial reporting in the Johan Fox case over the murder of Miss Emily Miller. He said abuse of press liberty harms the public and that reporting has caused more harm than the crime itself.
Rear Admiral Evans commands a squadron of battleships off Guantanamo including the Missouri, Kentucky, Alabama, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, and Maine as midwinter maneuvers prepare off the coast. In about four days the flagship Connecticut leads other ships to Cuba to join Evans’s fleet for Atlantic fleet exercises.
New York Jan 11 Scripps News reports December saw incorporations in Maine New York New Jersey and Delaware with over 1 million in capitalization totaling 259.5 million up nearly 100 million from last year. The month exceeded November and October and was the highest for the year.
Four prisoners overpowered Jailer Gilpin at night, bound him, and stole his keys, money, and revolver. Captured later were PB Bevere and Sidney Davis, with Kin Parker still at large after the disturbance left three dead near the scene. A 100-man posse pursues Parker, known as a deadly, unreturned foe.
Walter S Bogle, 26, son of Crescent Coal Mining Co president, was found dead at his parents home with a bullet wound to the head. The father claims suicide. police doubt the weapon shows signs of a recent discharge and no motive is stated by the family.
Rev H N Nellor resigns after nine months as pastor of First Congregational Church. He may accept a call to the Congregational Church at Genesee Idaho, plans to depart for Genessee in the morning and return in about three weeks with his family if the position seems suitable.
The mint directors purchased one hundred thousand ounces of silver at 69 565 with delivery set in Philadelphia. The State department notes Japan's government inquiry into a possible Japanese training squadron visiting San Francisco.
The Senate approved a bill granting a service pension to all survivors of the Mexican and Civil Wars. The action was reported from Washington as of January 1.
About six thousand Jews gathered at the Albert Hall under the English Zionist Federation to advocate Zionism. Lord Rotshshopchild presided with speakers including Samuel Zanguill H Bishopshiem and others from commercial and financial circles. Resolutions pledged to secure a publicly raised, globally secure base in Palestine as the solution to the Jewish question.
Senator Hans Brough turned over dispatches to the Interstate Commerce Commission complaining of coal shortage in the Northwest. One message from North Dakota says no coal has been in sale for a month.
A steamship carrying 922 Javanese, due January ninth to Salina Gratiani A, has not been sighted. Authorities fear the vessel encountered severe storms and is lost at sea.
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