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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1909
Page
1
In Union Oregon Mayor Law with W C T U support pushed through a Sunday closing ordinance at a special council meeting. Ice cream parlors tobacco shops and most nonessential businesses must close next Sunday with 21 age restriction for tobacco access and grocery runs barred. Businessmen plan to defy the measure asserting it will be enforced locally.
A man emptied several gallons of coal oil onto the streets from barrels in front of his premises, possibly seeking revenge for McIntosh voting for the ordinance. A. M. Krause visited Joseph on behalf of the Grande Ronde Meat company this morning.
Los Angeles on March 17 records former Mayor A C Harper returning to answer before a grand jury probing graft and misconduct. Bosses of the Tenderloin flee city. Alphonse Duranda arrested for rents in restricted districts. Nick Oswald, the political boss, has disappeared.
A Boston & Maine train with no engineer plowed into Montreal station, killing six in the waiting room and injuring many others. The boiler plug blew free, throwing the engineer from the cab and disabling the fireman. The disaster caused a tabulated loss around $100,900 with victims including a murdered child and Mrs Dixon.
The council plans to ratify appointive offices by Mayor M. K. Hall with street superintendent remaining uncertain. Expected picks include City attorney J. F. Baker, night police J. W. Walden and J. McLachlin, water superintendent H. C. Gliiman, pound master J. C. Black, engineer pump house John Allen. Marett may seek reappointment for street superintendent but others doubt it. The regular session will also decide other items.
Mark D. Rolfe of Eugene Oregon, son of local capitalist Eugene Rolfe, is believed to have suicided at the Union Hotel in New York City Friday night. He left Eugene a month earlier with 900 dollars planning a world trip. The father learned of the death by United Press and departed for New York. The boy was a high school student in Eugene.
An armed man speeds toward the Mexican line in an effort to capture Harry D Brown, the broker who vanished from his offices Monday amid debts totaling about 200000 dollars. He allegedly promised 300 percent returns and is believed to have about 50000 dollars in his possession.
Judge Hart delivered an 18 000 word charge in the Col Duncan Cooper case naming four felonies in the Carmack murder trial. The judge favored neither side and cautioned the jury as he reviewed every point raised at trial.
The first shipment of exhibits to the Seattle exposition has arrived, part of the Canadian government display from London last year. The consignment fills nine cases and showcases Canada's resources for the expo audience.
Urgent county note urges all subscribers to attend next Saturday’s mass meeting, the crowning moment for the Meadow Brook project. Final organization of farmers begins at the event and every voice is needed to push the scheme forward.
Washington March 17 Representative Serena Payne chairman of the ways and means committee presented a tariff bill bearing his name. The measure based on 8000 pages of testimony and 30,000 letters aims to raise about 309 million dollars in revenue and authorizes 260 million in treasury certificates for one year. It reduces lumber 50 percent and coal and agricultural implements on reciprocal terms while taxing tea heavily and keeping coffee free. Inheritance tax is set at 1 to 3 percent on direct heirs with higher rates for others, and sugar and printing paper duties are adjusted. The bill applies maximum rates to nations discriminating against the United States and is self-acting in collection.
A Pathfinder car begins its run toward Seattle to mark the course for the International automobile contest for the Guggenheim trophy. One of two Pathfinders left New York yesterday for Chicago and will proceed to Seattle via the planned route. The other item notes a Spokane report: the Gordon case grand jury probe was postponed awaiting a supreme court ruling on stenographic notes, with a decision expected in a week.
William Grant a prominent Wheeler County sheepman drowned near Spray Oregon while attempting to ford the John Day River his horses balked in the swift water and went into deep water. Grant is listed among prominent local livestock operators and the accident occurred March 17.
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