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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1908
Page
4
The la Grande Evening Observer lists United Press Telegraph Service daily rates, postal details, and display advertising prices. It notes penalties for unsigned pieces, urges signed submissions, and discusses local notices, rates per line, and historical remarks on Oregon rail and road development.
A quotation extols labor as the essential force behind human progress, transforming savagery into civilization, turning deserts into cultivable land, building cities and ships, and delivering wealth, comfort, and abundance over want and misery.
A Baker City dispatch quotes differing views on Mayor Johns as a law enforcer and potential governor candidate. The report notes his alleged openness to public sentiment, ties to gambling policy, and contrasts with Brown’s hard enforcement stance. The wheat shipment to Portland marks a regional economic note.
Grande Ronde Electric manager Fred Housh reports that unless a rescue is found to restore operation at the Cove plant, the entire system may shut down within 16 days. He notes Sheep creek input is rising but Morin Lake water loss is from a leak tied to heavy season activity and winter conditions.
Fred Russell a Dorena, Oregon lumber dealer, praises San Francisco’s recovery walking Market Street. He notes rapid Palace Hotel frame installation with seven derricks, and crews replacing fire ruin in under two years. Russell’s San Francisco home and Dorena mills cited.
Arrival and departure times for trains at La Grande listed for westbound Portland Special No 1 arriving 9 25 a m departing 9 30 a m No 6 eastbound passenger mail and express arrives 6 45 a m departs 6 60 a No 2 eastbound Chicago Special arrives 8 06 p m departs 8 10 p m No 6 westbound passenger mail and express arrives 0 56 p m departs 10 p m Elgin Branch leaves La Grande at a m and arrives in La Grande at 5 80
A large turnout from Union County attended a day of feasting and joint installation of officers for the G A R post and the W R C. Gener Goodbrod presided in the G A R ceremony naming I W Faulk as Commander and George Jacobs as S W with other posts filled. In the W R C post Oliver P Morton No 37 officers installed include Mrs Ellen H Crosa as President and Mrs Anna Roevelt as Secretary among others. The musician was not appointed.
The project described as the Palace will take about a year to 18 months to complete. It will occupy the same site but rise higher, becoming a skyscraper rather than the old world famous hotel. In Dauphin County court, one of five conspiracy cases against Huston, Sanderson, Snyder, Mathues, and Shumaker will be first to be tried with a strong defense team.
Harrisburg reports that the capital graft cases are set to start next week, with high profile proceedings anticipated as prosecutors prepare evidence and defense teams file motions in the statewide inquiry.
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