12 Mar 1910
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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1910
Page
1
Engineer Darley reports Meadowbrook has a far greater flow than early estimates. In high flood years the planned reservoir could fill within ten days, while ordinary floods would also fill it in about ten days. He emphasizes the irrigation project will not lack water once completed.
Berkeley California March 12 The interclass and college track championship meet of the University of California will be held today. Flood stage notes and water projections for Blue Mountains mentioned but not central to the event.
The circuit court jury in the State of Oregon vs Seeley returned a guilty verdict for theft of a revolver from Mr Stillwell of this city. Seeley will be sentenced Monday at 9 o clock. The Jones case in Union began with jury selection this afternoon for a bootlegging charge with Cochran and Cochran representing the defense.
After a sixty day battle with blizzard and hunger four of six men who rowed from the Farallon wreck on January 7 reach Seward aboard the tug Tahoma. The others survive at Kodiak. Survivors Gus Swanson Charles Peterson Albert Bailey Otto Nelson endured frostbite and lived on whale oil and dried fish in Afognak and Karaluk straights before rescue.
A Sunday service crowd enjoyed strong singing and preaching as revival meetings at the tabernacle continued. Johnson's address and Friday's strongest meeting kept momentum. $65 was raised for the Ames family in a love offering. The evangelist stressed courage and moral bravery, urging brave men to stand for the right in the ongoing spiritual conflict.
Vancouver Victoria B C March 12 indoor track and field championship of Vancouver Island will be decided this evening. The entry list includes the best athletes of the province.
Bishop Henry Spellmeyer of the Methodist Episcopal Church of St Louis was found dead in his hotel apartment in Trenton. He had come to preside over the New Jersey conference sessions and was born in New York in 1847.
A person attempted to remove a swallowed table fork after suffering throat pain. The fork was inserted in the throat to examine tonality, causing muscle grip and the fork to tear the esophagus during the incident. There were no services on Monday.
The Portland report states David Eccles millionaire of Salt Lake is en route to surrender to authorities. Indictment returned in Oregon includes three men already arrested and officers Frank M. Spurtluff Fred W. Atkinson W. M. Green of Oregon Lumber Company in a broader case.
Louis Paulhan says he will not leave America for a while unless the Wright brothers injunction is upheld. His lawyers filed an appeal and he hopes to fulfill engagements by flying in New York.
Sioux City on March 12 hosts the district’s top amateur athletes for the evening meet. Letter carriers and postal clerks will run a relay against police and firemen, with several novel events planned alongside the regular competitions.
At a Manila conference on March 12 many medical men advanced that beriberi, the feared Islands disease, stems from the practice of polishing rice which removes the outer covering rich in phosphorus. They said the disease is not infectious.
Meat prices rise as strikes deepen hardship. In Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, 48 hour ultimatum to arbitrate set by strike leaders. Charles P. Neill expected to report to Washington as federal intervention hoped to end the impasse. Striking workers threaten broader action with reports of car stones and plant closings at Disston Law Works.
Coroner reports Thomas Mc Laughlin brother in law of the President died yesterday by suicide. Physicians cite cerebral hemorrhage after several months of illness.
Grand wedding plans unfold in New York for Harriet Daly daughter of the late Marcus Daly and Count Anton Sigray a Hungarian noble scion. Daly reportedly possesses a fortune of seven million and the ceremony is slated soon after Lent.
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